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+{"content": "Pondicherry (), officially known as Puducherry () (French: Pondichéry), is the capital and the most-populous city of the Indian union territory of Puducherry.[2] The city is in the Puducherry district on the southeast coast of India and is surrounded by the state of Tamil Nadu, with which it shares most of its culture and language.[3]\n\nPondicherry Municipality consists of 42 wards. Wards 1–10 are north of the city. Wards 11–19 are in Boulevard Town and remaining wards are southwest of the city centre.[4]\n\nThe history of Pondicherry is recorded only after the arrival of Dutch, Portuguese, British and French traders. By contrast, nearby places such as Arikamedu, Ariyankuppam, Kakayanthoppe, Villianur and Bahour, which were colonised by the French East India Company over a period of time and later became the union territory of Pondicherry, have recorded histories that predate the colonial period.\n\nPoduke or Poduca (a marketplace) was a Roman trading destination from the 3rd century BC.[5] Poduca has been identified as possibly being Arikamedu (now part of Ariyankuppam), located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the modern city of Pondicherry. The area was part of the Pallava Kingdom of Kanchipuram in the 4th century. The Cholas of Thanjavur held it from the 10th to 13th centuries until it was replaced by the Pandya Kingdom in the 13th century. The Vijayanagar Empire took control of almost all of the south of India in the 14th century and maintained control until 1638 when they were supplanted by the Sultan of Bijapur.\n\nIn 1674 the French East India Company set up a trading centre at Pondicherry and this outpost eventually became the chief French settlement in India. The French governor François Martin made remarkable improvements to the city and its commercial ties, facing at the same time strong opposition from the Dutch and the English. He entered into extended negotiations with the sultans of Golconda through the intercession of several roving French merchants and doctors who were in favour with the Sultan. Trading in jewelry and precious stones which had become highly fashionable in European courts was one among many activities. Five trading posts were established along the south Indian coast between 1668 and 1674. The city was separated by a canal into the French Quarter and the Indian Quarter.[6]\n\nOn 16 January 1761, the British captured Pondicherry from the French, but it was returned under the Treaty of Paris (1763) at the conclusion of the Seven Years' War.[7] In 1792, Venant of Durfort, son of the Count of Civrac, was made governor of Pondicherry, thanks to his uncle Emmanuel-Félicité, Duke of Duras, who had been made president of the Compagnie des Indes in 1788. After an outstanding military career in Europe, Venant fought hard to destroy all revolutionary hopes in Pondicherry, as republican ideals coming from France were threatening the economic stability of the region. He took great care to maintain commercial relations with other European powers in the region. His links with England were strengthened through his marriage with Catherine Browne of Kilmor. Venant died in July 1792 and was buried at Our Lady of Angels in Pondicherry.[8] The British took control of the area again in 1793 at the Siege of Pondicherry amid the Wars of the French Revolution, and returned it to France in 1814.\n\nOn 18 March 1954, a number of resolutions were passed by the municipalities in Pondicherry demanding immediate merger with India. Some days later, similar resolutions were passed by the municipalities in Karaikal. The resolutions had the full support of the French Indian Councillors, who are popularly known as Ministers, and the President of the Representative Assembly. These Municipalities represent roughly 90 percent of the population of the French possessions and they called upon the Government of France to take urgent and necessary measures to give effect to the wishes of the people.[9] The Government of India had made it clear that the cultural and other rights of the people would be fully respected. They were not asking for the immediate transfer of the de jure sovereignty of France. Their suggestion was that a de facto transfer of the administration should take place immediately, while French sovereignty should continue until the constitutional issue had been settled. Both India and France would have to make necessary changes in their respective Constitutions. All this would take time, while the demand of the people was for immediate merger without a referendum. The Government of India was convinced that the suggestion which they made would help to promote a settlement, which they greatly desired. They would gladly enter into negotiations with the Government of France on the basis suggested.[10]\n\nOn 18 October 1954 in a general election involving 178 people in Pondicherry Municipal and Commune Panchayat, 170 people were in favour of independence and eight people voted against. The de facto transfer of the French Indian territories from French governance to the Indian union took place on 1 November 1954 and was established as the union territory of Pondicherry. However, the formal de jure transfer of territory agreement between France and India was signed on 16 August 1962.\n\nThe topography of Pondicherry is the same as that of coastal Tamil Nadu. Pondicherry's average elevation is at sea level, and a number of sea inlets, referred to as \"backwaters\" can be found. Pondicherry experiences extreme coastal erosion as a result of a breakwater constructed in 1989,[11] just to the south of the city. Where there was once a broad, sandy beach, now the city is protected against the sea by a 2-km-long seawall which sits at a height of 8.5 m above sea level. Whilst there was an early seawall made by the French government in 1735, this was not \"hard structure coastal defense\" so much as an adjunct to the old shipping pier and a transition from the beach to the city,[12]\n\nToday, the seawall consists of rows of granite boulders which are reinforced every year in an attempt to stop erosion. As a consequence of the seawall, there is severe seabed erosion and turbulence at the coastal margin, resulting in an extreme loss of biodiversity within the critical intertidal zone. Whenever gaps appear as the stones fall into the continually eroding seabed, the government adds more boulders. Pondicherry's seawall has also caused beach erosion to migrate further up the coast, to the fishing villages in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu to the north of the city.[citation needed]\n\nIn 2012, the Ministry of Power inaugurated the Smart Grid project in Puducherry.[13] Farming around Pondicherry include crops such as rice, pulses, sugarcane, coconuts, and cotton. In 2016, the Pondicherry State Government Employees Central Federation presented a status paper on the fiscal and social crisis in Puducherry to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The report stated that a \"combination of a staggering debt, stagnant tax revenues and rampant misappropriation of funds has throttled the economy of the Union Territory\" and called for measures on a war footing to \"deliver good governance and end corruption.\"[14]\n\nThe climate of Pondicherry is classified by the Köppen climate classification as tropical wet and dry (As),[15] similar to that of coastal Tamil Nadu. Summer lasts from April to early June, when maximum temperatures may reach 41 °C (106 °F). The average maximum temperature is 36 °C (97 °F). Minimum temperatures are in the order of 28–32 °C (82–90 °F). This is followed by a period of high humidity and occasional thundershowers from June till September.\n\nThe northeast monsoon sets in during the middle of October, and Pondicherry gets the bulk of its annual rainfall during the period from October to December. The annual average rainfall is 1,355 millimetres or 53 inches.[16] Winters are very warm, with highs of 30 °C (86 °F) and lows often dipping to around 18–20 °C (64–68 °F).\n\nAccording to the 2011 census of India, Pondicherry had a population of 244,377, with 124,947 females and 119,430 males. Pondicherry had an average literacy rate of 80.6% with male literacy at 84.6% and female literacy at 76.7%. In Pondicherry, 10% of the population was under six years of age.[2]\n\nThe majority speak Tamil in Pondicherry. There is a community of French people and a number of French institutions such as the consulate of France in Pondicherry, the French Institute of Pondicherry and L'Alliance française.[19]\n\nThe Union Territory of Puducherry comprises two districts, Puducherry and Karaikal. Puducherry district comprises Puducherry region and two outlying administrative units of Mahe and Yanam. All four districts bear a strong resemblance to the colonial French rule of the ancient times.[20] All the Municipalities and the Commune Panchayats in the Union Territory of Puducherry function under the Administrative control of the Local Administration Department.[21] The Puducherry Municipality under the Puducherry District comprises the erstwhile Communes of Puducherry and Mudaliarpet with its headquarters is in Puduicherry. It has a total of 42 wards spread over an areas of 19.46 Sq. km.[22]\n\nThe administrative building of Villianur, one of the communes of Puducherry\n\nThere are two proposals by the Puducherry government, firstly to merge Pondicherry and Oulgaret municipalities, and upgrade the Pondicherry municipality into a '\"municipal corporation\", and secondly to upgrade Villianur and Ariyankuppam commune panchayats into municipalities, which would increase the Pondicherry region's urban area around 155 km2. of the total 292 km2.\n\nPondicherry is connected to Chennai via the East Coast Road through Mahabalipuram.[23] There are daily bus services from several main stops from Chennai. The Pondicherry Road Transport Corporation runs buses within the city and it runs Volvo buses to Chennai and to various places.[24] The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation operates Volvo air-conditioned bus services from Chennai to Pondicherry.[25]\n\nPDY/Puducherry (Pondicherry) is connected by train to Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai, as well as other important cities such as Kanyakumari, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Bhubaneshwar, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and Mangalore.[26][27] Moreover, VM/Villupuram Junction which is at a distance of around 24 miles i.e.40 km(both by rail & road) is connected to several other Indian Cities.[28]\n\nPondicherry Airport is located at Lawspet, an Assembly Constituency in the union territory of Pondicherry.[29] It has direct flights to Hyderabad,[29] Bangalore operated by SpiceJet Airlines.\n\nPondicherry is a tourist destination in South India. The city has many colonial buildings, churches, temples and statues which, combined with the town planning and French style avenues in the old part of town, still preserve much of the colonial ambiance.\n\nWhile the sea is a draw for tourists, Pondicherry no longer has the sandy beaches that once graced its coastline.[citation needed] The breakwater to the harbour and other hard structures constructed on the shore caused extreme coastal erosion and the sand from Pondicherry's Promenade Beach was permitted to disappear entirely. As a result of the city's seawall and groyne construction, the beaches further up the coast to the north have also been lost. An enormous deposition of sand has accrued to the south of the harbour breakwater, but this is not a commodious beach and is not easily accessible from the city.\n\nBut recently, the government has been taking steps by constructing a reef and re-dosing sand. The sea is accessible by a small patch of land at the Promenade Beach (Goubert Avenue).[30] Moreover, the beach is one of the cleanest in India and has been selected for Blue Flag certification.[31]\n\nThe Sri Aurobindo Ashram, located on rue de la Marine, is one of the most important ashrams in India, founded by the renowned Freedom Fighter and spiritual philosopher Sri Aurobindo.[32] Auroville (City of Dawn) is an \"experimental\" township located 8 km north-west of Pondicherry.\n\n\nPuducherry Botanical Gardens is located south of the New Bus Stand. Chunnambar Backwater resort is situated 8 km from Pondicherry, along the Cuddalore Main Road. This tropical resort is flanked by a creek on one side.\n\nArulmigu Manakula Vinayagar Devasthanam on Manakula Vinayagar Street is a Hindu temple, which houses Lord Ganesha. Sri Manakula Vinayagar Temple was in existence before the French came and settled in Pondicherry i.e. before 1666.[33]\n\nSengazhuneer Amman Temple at Veerampattinam village is one of the oldest temples in Pondicherry, which is about 7 km away from the city centre. The car festival conducted in mid-August is famous in Puducherry and other neighboring states. The festival takes place on the fifth Friday since the commencement of the Tamil month of 'Aadi' every year from the date immemorial. The temple car festival is the only one where the head of the state pulls the temple car right from the days of the French rule.\n\nThirukaameeswarar Temple is one of the ancient temples located in a rural town called Villianur (the ancient name is Vilvanallur, from \"vilva marangal niraindha nalla vur\"),[34] which roughly translates as nice with archery trees is located about 10 km away (towards Villupuram) from Pondicherry. This temple is renowned as Periya Koil \"Big Temple\". The prime god is Lord Shiva and the prime goddess is Goddess Kokilambigai. There are other Hindu gods such as Murugan, Vinayagar, Thakshanamoorthy, Perumal, Bhramah, Chandikeshwarar, Natarajar, Navagrahah, and 63 Naayanmaars.[citation needed] The pioneers[clarification needed] in this temple say that the age of this temple is about 1000 plus years. It is thought to have been built by one of the Chola kings. There is also a huge temple pond. The Ther Thiruvizha (chariot procession) is celebrated at this temple.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8563447594642639}
+{"content": "Is there an opposite to life, or not? Plato believed the soul to be more important than the body because he believed the soul retained knowledge of the forms from before birth, rather than knowledge being gained through bodily senses. Hereafter, page number. it is a self-mover, a veritable principle of life. Dr. Flew was certainly not alone in his struggle with the concept of the natural immortality of the human soul. Is he right? Its middle-period classification puts it after “early” dialogues such as the Apology, Euthyphro, Crito, Protagoras, and others which pres… ��㄁p�����0� Plato wrote approximately thirty dialogues. The word “hell” is used 54 times in the Bible. The soul is immortal, Plato tells us, because. So only that which moves itself, because it does not abandon itself, never stops moving. This argument that the soul is immortal leads us to believe that Plato would argue that because all that dies has a beginning, and the soul is immortal, the soul therefore has always been in existence. However, this deduction would only be a speculation as the philosopher chose not expand on this matter. through the argument, voiced by Plato’s main character Socrates. Rather, it comes as the result of the soul “returning into herself” — an inward turning of awareness. Thus when death attacks a man, the body may die, but the immortal soul retires at the approach of death and is preserved safe and sound, and truly exists in another world. Is this always so? Because death and life come to be from each other and the soul is not scattered as a result of death, the soul must be immortal and there must be life before and after death. The problem, according to Plato, is that which part of the soul dominates the others differs from person to person. If that were true, then the soul would need some place to go when the body dies—which brings us to the common conceptions of heaven and hell. Why does Plato think that the soul is immortal? The Phaedo is usually placed at the beginning of his “middle” period, which contains his own distinctive views about the nature of knowledge, reality, and the soul, as well as the implications of these views for human ethical and political life. Deep within, Plato says, one experiences a field of life that is pure, eternal, immortal, unified, and unchanging. Plato Each of the above proponents of the immortal soul doctrine had one man in common. It's considered the incorporeal essence of a person, and is said to be immortal … Fourth Argument for the Existence of the Soul. For instance, there is: reason, which guides. Following contemporary Greek religious belief and Socrates assumption that everything is involved in an eternal cyclical process, Plato naturally understands immortality (and pre-existence) of the soul in terms of reincarnation. In particular, he introduces the idea of a three-part soul/self constituted by. The idea of the immortality of the soul is nowhere in the Old Testament, unless one deliberately distorts the account of Enoch's translation and the witch of Endor. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul. Plato calls this state wisdom. The Ring of Gyges story poses the problem of. The truth is a completely different scenario. Our Reason Tells Us So. Socrates wrote nothing. For this reason, Plato called the body the prison of the soul. According to Plato, the soul doesn't come into existence with the body; it exists prior to being joined to the body. In such a way, Socrates stresses that the soul is immortal and the body is just a substance, which the soul gives life. As a supposed student of Socrates, Platoagreed that the soul is immortal and separate from the body. Plato elaborates his concept of the soul (the Greek word is psyche) in his later dialogues such as the monumental Republic and Phaedrus. O… The soul, Plato tells us, has distinct parts, each of which has a function. Quoting Cullmann's paraphrase of Plato's \"Phaedo\": The soul confined within the body belongs to the eternal world. Yes, it does. Three predecessors heavily influenced Plato's thoughts on metaphysicsand epistemology, Heraclitus (c. 540 B.C.–480–70),Parmenides (c.515 B.C.–449–40), and Socrates (470B.C.–399). The flight of the immortal soul toward an incredible vision of pure celestial being, Plato describes in the Phaedrus. Because of this compulsory immortality for mankind, Athenagoras concluded that wicked people have no choice but to live forever in the eternal misery of hell. He believes the Bible. Bearing in mind that the soul has to be re-born after it dies, Simmias and Cebes are forced to acknowledge that it must continue to exist after death. Hence, the soul is immortal. The conclusion then is that because we can recognize/remember the Form of ‘equality’, our soul existed before our bodies, and consequently it will exist afterwards. � �=ْ�F����2c�c ��)�Vj˖l�#���Q(:�@��@6M1b>c�6bc?e�d3� He is giving a paraphrase here of what Plato wrote. Likewise just as death comes from life so must death return to life again. In the Phaedrus, Plato … Concerning the origins of the idea of the immortality of the soul, Vine already gave us some hinds above: this belief comes from Greek philosophy, expounded especially by two of the chief Greek Philosophers: Plato and Socrates. Since the moment of death is the final separation of soul and body, a philosopher should see it as the realization of his aim. ��F&?atS�Q�i����w�:ΰĘ�I�J�F��� He is analyzing and condensing what Plato wrote. At the same time, this difference between the soul and the body makes them absolutely different because the soul brings life, while the body brings death because, if the soul is immortal, then the body is doomed to the death. Plato draws an analogy with sleep. These include the argument of affinity, recollection, Forms and the law of opposites. Commentary The Theory of Recollection is laid out in more detail in Plato's Meno, and the discussion in the Phaedo alludes to, and seems to assume prior knowledge of, this earlier discussion. ��31�L�����������>��G��5�g;��H5Z��Pb� a׋8I�c������Q4`��m�n�4��4|,_�,����Gm)��4�)�nD��d���l>����,�xq'�Ͻ�w�yC/�`/��:��x���6�]6�i2 �A��G�i� �5 ��4X����)s��z�q sV ]l��ѭí�M��3�����h�����ljϒAwqMx��}κ�o�h��,M�Ȗ/0����Il�z4���٘&���*�nJ��8�����8�*�q��� �#� %�G� a���,��,�|c���r�,�q�,� ��h,e�@�nцm��RG�x��6��Ҁ����!h���x*�ֶnQ�m?Xڠs{ֵg}���e�`����a`Ul΄��Y�Ѭ. That belief is based on the false premise that each of us is an immortal soul living in a physical body, and when the body dies, the soul continues to live. Only fragments remain of the writings of Parmenidesand Heraclitus, including some contained in the dialogues ofPlato. During my account of the argument, I will discuss examples illuminating some details necessary to understand both the argument and Plato’s ontology. Discuss with close reference to Phaedo 102a-107b. Nominal Christianity has absorbed heaven, hell, and purgatory from Greek mythology and the philosophy of Plato, who propagated the doctrine of the immortal soul in his Phaedo. Sounding a whole bunch like reincarnation, Plato believed the soul exists within a body until that body dies. That means, man does not need grace in order for his soul to live forever. Finally, I will end with a discussion of Plato’s ultimate conclusion: that the soul is immortal. The Bible makes clear in a variety of passages that the soul is the immaterial part of a human being that lives on beyond this earthly life. Plato's depiction of his teacher is ourprimary source of evidence for his philosophy. Plato thought this to be true because of his Theory of Forms. Plato, though not the first to assert the doctrine of the immortal soul, he was definitely the most eloquent one. [2] For a full exposition and defense of Plato’s argument, see Brown’s excellent article “A Defense of Plato’s Argument for the Immortality of the Soul at Republic X 608c-611a” in Essays on Plato’s Psychology, edited by Ellen Wagner (Maryland: Lexington, 2001), p. 297. Parmenides argued thatthere is and could be only one thing, Being. “All soul is immortal. In Phaedrus, he states that the soul is without internal parts and hence immortal, whereas in Republic, he states that the soul has a complex structure and conflicts between three parts―the reason, the spirit, and the appetite―hence this theory is called Plato’s Tripartite Soul Theory. The Concept. It is translated from several different words with various meanings, as indicated below: A tradition held by the Catholic Church that teaches people who are not good enough to be worthy of heaven, but not bad enough to deserve hell, suffer in an intermediary state until their sins are purged. So whenever soul takes possession of a body, it always brings life with it? If the soul was the opposite, it may be dragged down to Hades. Reason —Our divine essence that enables us to think deeply, make wise choices, and achieve a true understanding of eternal truths. Unlike the body, the soul is immortal, so it will survive death. The Phaedo is Plato’s attempt to convince the reader of the immortality of the soul using four main arguments. Remember what Cullmann is doing. Soul. 31 times from the Hebrew “Sheol,” which means “the grave”, 10 times from the Greek “Hades,” which means “the grave”, 12 times from the Greek “Gehenna,” which means “a place of burning”, 1 time from the Greek “Tartarus,” which means “a place of darkness”. By calling them ‘philosophical’ arguments I am distinguishing them from arguments which are based on empirical research, like research into near-death experiences, and from arguments which rely on premises taken from a particular religious tradition. �W��h|J'�21��>Y\\�A��lJ��Mj��-��H`/m�> ���DV�v;���29'���$U��[Q�/��ް��/g�RZ�i����u�����0�ҋi>��;�MWj(��=�OD4� �o@ It then sets up house in another body. He believed the soul was eternal. @���V�3n��/B�n��T�u�xP��U৳��q����Y:�Y떐Md���$і��B��R:Y.� �NBv�)8�dń��B�,��t�3r#��v:��1M��ޭ��=� �u��R5�!��4O��I��0E� 'P?�)E����;=�׉{����A���ޓ��n����_���!�A���9r�qG6omrl*{�?�ټj� Socrates provides four arguments for believing the soul is immortal. Plato believed that the soul was immortal; it was in existence before the body and it continues to exist when the body dies. For that which is always in movement is immortal; that which moves something else, and is moved by something else, in ceasing from movement ceases from living. However, he upped the ante a bit. Plato’s main argument for the immortality of the soul is found in his Phaedo. Of course, most spiritual people view the soul as emphatically more definitive than the scientific concept. The purpose of the philosophical life is to free the soul from the needs of the body. PLATO’S ARGUMENTS FOR THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL IV: THE INDESTRUCTABLE DEATHLESS ARGUMENT (FROM PHAEDO 105C-107A) Then tell me, what must be present in a body to make it alive? �͝#�f����@�,�P�_�4����6����������3�^Ўđ�Eב�R�`��������x��,u����Y)ߔ�����F�ϼ8��� Considering Plato taught Aristotle, this indecision might have influenced Aristotle as a philosopher, there is certainly logic and similarity between this uncertain thought of a separate immortal soul, and Aristotle’s thought of form being immortal and the soul not. (I say “natural” because human beings uniquely possess an immortal soul by nature. Of course. Plato is the classical source of philosophical arguments for the immortality of the soul. Cullmann, incidentally, does not believe that man has an immortal soul. Sleep comes after being awake and being awake comes after sleep. ��nUW{'��8 U ͝�Ds2�k�M4�K�F� �%��F�������Mrх�-����k�3bΌI�t�Dž� ���s@��;F�������L���r��l�lW�;ǝ��w\\��0��� pPۏ�:�kT�:��[W��:W�\\�^���U�Đ&e�O��B/Q��=��FUs �եO$9O+�. Phædo or Phaedo (/ ˈ f iː d oʊ /; Greek: Φαίδων, Phaidōn, Greek pronunciation: [pʰaídɔːn]), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. But Athenagoras was not the ultimate human source of the immortal soul doctrine. Plato - A Dualist View Dualism - Plato was a dualist, meaning he believed in two separate entities when it came to body & soul Plato suggested that the soul is immortal while the body is mortal, at the end of life the soul is set free from the body The soul's destination is… When the arguments are completed, Plato has Socrates issue a … The human soul is certainly immortal. Request your free book today and learn the truth about Hell. �>��#��dYYygV��賯�t��/���Y:��=�1�˷�#��`��t�`#+e�i�]R�j�?�l�E^�Q��6V��ix�5\\҄D��;�S;nm�g����Y�c��5[�e����u0gq�6��� �ض�9��B����%������%_|� ��KVjnZaL}�NZv�Ι�Q��E���\"��MG��c/��,;Q�KMٳ�a���VkL�i��Cr���|Ԕ����S�����5��@�i!M�֛�ۖ�͂��!��#���!�����xL`a��Cv9c,�C�L8�D�&�%l2��Xq�ɵe&�|wA��r���$}�&qš��>��7/�1ll Even after this explanation, Simmias and Cebes are not convinced that the soul is immortal. The resurrection had always been a part of Christian doctrine, but Aquinas put new focus on it to explain how Christianity believes both, on the one hand, that the soul is immortal and immaterial, and on the other, that the body is a necessary part of a human being (not just a corpse dragged about by a soul).\n2020 the soul is immortal, plato tells us, because", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9983825087547302}
+{"content": "(123)456 7890 [email protected]\n\nWhat You Need To Know About A Cricket Match\n\nCricket Match\n\nCricket is a popular match-up between two sides of eleven players each on a cricket field in the middle of a flat-made oval ground with either a wicket in front of each batsman or a boundary in the middle of the field. Cricket is the game of the century, a match that has been played by a number of different countries since the beginning of the world.\n\nCricket is played as a one-day match, which means that each player on the field will play for only an hour, and many matches are played in less than an hour’s time. In a five-day match, players may spend up to an hour playing.\n\nEach team of eleven players has fifteen players. When you hear the word ‘match’, you can assume that there are fifteen players involved. However, some matches can have more than fifteen players; they can also have more than eleven. These teams are known as ‘triple A’ teams.\n\nCricket is played with two umpires watching the game. The two umpires are known as the fielding umpire (FEN) and the batting umpire (BAU). The fielding umpire will signal to the batsmen when they are out, when a ball hits the bat or any other obstruction in their way. They will also let the batsman know whether they have been out or not.\n\nThe batting umpire will signal to the bowlers when the ball has been hit on the boundary line, whether it was hit on the boundary or not. They will also let the bowlers know if they have been out or not. Finally, they will tell the batsman when the ball is over the wicket.\n\nBefore a cricket match, the umpires take a number of factors into consideration before deciding who will get to bat first. First of all, the team that has the best batsman in the group or is able to take the most wickets is usually given the first option. However, some tournaments are decided after a toss, where the team with the best bowling is always given the first option.\n\nThe next consideration that the umpires take into account is the team that has the best outfield players in the match, as well as the ones who are able to bowl a match-winning spell. If one team has a better outfield player in comparison with the other, then the match will be called off early, especially if the batsman cannot make a hit.\n\nOnce the team that has batsmen in comparison to the bowling team has enough wickets, then the match will be referred to a review. At this point in the game, if both teams agree, the batsmen can strike for another delivery and try to bowl out the other team, or vice versa. If neither side is able to successfully strike, then the batsmen should exchange wickets, and the review again.\n\nWhen a match is being reviewed, the bowling team will always take first priority, since it is the most important part of the match. The review of a match can last a few minutes, so the batsmen need to be aware of all aspects of the review process, as they might be required to give some form of explanation.\n\nWhen a match is called off due to a match review, a team is not out until the end of the second day. If no new matches are scheduled, then the tournament has to be stopped. This is because there are certain time constraints that come with the review process.\n\nA batsman will need to be alert during the review, so that they can communicate with the bowling team or the batting captain about any aspect of the review. The captain will need to call off the review as soon as possible, so that the umpires get back to the field, ready to resume play.\n\nA review is the best way to ensure that a game is played at its fullest and that all players are allowed to do their jobs without having to worry about unnecessary delays. It also allows for everyone to concentrate on the main objective, which is to win the match and put on a good show.\n\nLeave a Reply\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.651625394821167}
+{"content": "Speaker Bio\n\nHilary Weaver-Robb is a software quality architect at Detroit-based Quicken Loans. She is a mentor to her fellow testers, makes friends with developers, and helps teams level-up their quality processes, tools, and techniques. Hilary loves to help train folks in API testing and automation, using static analysis to inform our testing, and has always been passionate about improving the relationships between developers and testers, and evangelizes software testing as a rewarding, viable career.\n\nShe runs the Motor City Software Testers user group, working to build a community of quality advocates. Hilary tweets (a lot) as @g33klady, and you can find her thoughts and experiences in the testing world, at g33klady.com.\n\nFor a list of Hilary’s talks, please visit: https://g33klady.com/talks/", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993894100189209}
+{"content": "Print Post\n  • Negative conflict, when processed and resolved and the relationship reconciled, can become a positive turning point for stepparents and stepchildren. Tweet This\n  • Considered together, quality time and “prosocial actions” were the top two positive turning point responses (out of thirteen), which accounted for one-third of the positive change moments reported by now adult stepchildren.  Tweet This\n\nThe difficulties between stepparents and stepchildren make for sensational headlines, funny movies, and intriguing children’s literature. But helping both parents and children discover love when life hands them Plan B should be at the top of the agenda for family educators, ministry leaders, policy makers, and therapists. And, given the prevalence of blended families in America today (from local communities to the Whitehouse), these same influencers should study what helps stepfamilies turn the corner toward health.\n\nBuilding on previous research, researchers asked adult stepchildren with a positive relationship with their stepparent to look back over time and examine what moved their relationship toward positivity and health.1 Instead of asking adults or children in the throes of merging their families what made them happy or felt good, they asked young adult children, who had the advantage of hindsight and years in their blended family, what made a difference in their relationship, then categorized the responses and analyzed them. Family professionals can consider these “turning points,” as the researchers called them, prescriptions for building healthier blended families.\n\nBeyond Expectations\n\nNever underestimate kindness. What the researchers called “prosocial actions” included behaviors like giving gifts, engaging in acts of kindness, and communicating positive messages to the child. When stepparents repeatedly engaged in these actions, adult stepchildren reported that ultimately, they were transformative for the relationship, especially when stepparents went above and beyond what the child expected or anticipated from them. \n\nAs we suggest in our book Building Love Together in Blended Families (by Gary Chapman and Ron Deal), the full impact of these behaviors won’t necessarily be immediate. It may take years before either the stepparent or stepchild can look back and say that any given action was a “turning point” in their relationship. But ultimately, such steps can result in great gains for blended families.\n\nThe study, also, found that the element of surprise made a difference. When the stepparent did something unexpected for the child, she or he felt loved, cared for, supported.2 For example, one specific positive turning point uncovered in the research occurred when a stepparent talked about or to the child as if they were “my own.” It showed the child their worth to the stepparent. Over time, positive emotional experiences like this can relax the heart of the recipient, in this case a child, and open them to deeper trust and connection.\n\nIt is worth noting that children did not always immediately relate to this language, nor did they reciprocate and speak of their stepparent as “their own.” Nevertheless, the research suggests they internalized the stepparent’s desire for them, which seems eventually to have softened and opened their heart. \n\nQuality Time\n\nSpending quality time with someone communicates that you value them and gives you a chance to build memories together that help give definition and shape to your relationship. This was supported by the research. Examples of positive quality time turning points included having fun together in a family group or one-on-one activity, making meals together, traveling, and engaging in side by side mentoring moments (like teaching a child to drive). Helpful conversations about life and relationships sometimes made a child feel supported, especially when they included words of encouragement from the stepparent. Even the first blended family vacation resulted in a 30 percent increase in positivity with the stepparent.3\n\nStepparents should enter the parental role of disciplinarian slowly and cautiously.\n\nBut here’s an important insight. The researchers discovered that quality time rarely occurred early in the family journey because of conflict, which is common during that phase. Who wants to spend intimate time with someone you don’t like, or at least, don’t know what to do with? Quality time, especially meaningful one-on-one time, becomes more likely as children age into late adolescence or adulthood when the relationship has had time to solidify and become more positive in general. \n\nConsidered together, quality time and what the researchers called “prosocial actions” were the top two positive turning point responses (out of thirteen). They accounted for one-third of the positive change moments reported by now adult stepchildren in their stepparent relationship. \n\nThe impact was especially true when stepchildren felt uncertain about their relationship with their stepparent. That is, when they felt distant from the stepparent, but the stepparent went out of their way to surprise them with a gift or stand up for them in a social setting, the action made a significant difference in the relationship. One takeaway for stepparents then is this: leading with love, even when uncertain about the relationship or it seems out of balance, has the power of being a turning point for good.\n\nThe study identified many other less common and less impactful, though still important, turning points that contributed positive changes for the relationship such as moving into a new house, developing holiday traditions that held meaning for the family, and surviving a crisis together. Even stepparent-stepchild conflict was found to be helpful when resolved (that is, when reconciliation occurred after a conflict).4 But actions that clearly expressed love to the child were the highest reported and over time seemed to hold the most positive impact. \n\nWe should mention that not all well-intended behaviors produced a positive change in the relationship. Some occurrences had a neutral impact, according to the adult stepchildren, while a very small percentage actually had a negative impact. The reminder here is that not every stepparent effort will bring about positive change. The vast majority will—eventually. A few will not. Encourage stepparents to love anyway, because over time they build undeniable evidence of their heart and desire for connection. The cumulative positive impact far outweighs everything else. \n\nKey Takeaways to Share with Stepparents\n\nBased on these research insights, we can encourage stepparents with the following list of “best practices”: \n\n•  Loving extravagantly and faithfully over time ultimately moves steprelationships in a positive direction. These behaviors require little time, skill, money, or effort, but have significant impact. \n\n•  Unexpected, surprising actions speak loudly and are hard to miss.\n\n•  Quality time is tough to orchestrate early on in blended families because the tension surrounding family integration makes it uncomfortable. Be measured in the beginning of your family journey and increase your quality time efforts as relationships prove ready for it.\n\n•  The positive impact of speaking someone’s love language is not usually felt immediately but becomes more evident over time. Even after experiencing a positive shift in their feelings toward a stepparent, a child may not reciprocate their love until sometime later.\n\n•  Stepparents should enter the parental role of disciplinarian slowly and cautiously. Focus first on building friendship, trust, and love, then move into boundary setting and setting rules.\n\n•  Negative conflict, when processed and resolved and the relationship reconciled, can become a positive turning point for stepparents and stepchildren. It builds resilience and a perceived sense of value to the other.\n\n•  Taken as a whole, everything from simple, everyday behaviors to “above and beyond” actions powerfully communicate authentic love to a child and have strength to improve the quality of the relationship.\n\nEditor's NoteAdapted from Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart by Gary Chapman and Ron L. Deal, Northfield Publishers (2020). Used with permission. All rights to this material are reserved.\n\n1. Dawn O. Braithwaite et al., “‘Feeling Warmth and Close to Her’: Communication and Resilience Reflected in Turning Points in Positive Adult Stepchild–Stepparent Relationships,” Journal of Family Communication 18, no. 2 (January 2018): 92–109.\n\n2. Ibid., 97–98.\n\n3. Ibid., 98–99.\n\n4. Ibid., 99–100. Though “reconciliation/problem solving” was less common as a reported turning point, it had a positive effect. Taking the time to resolve conflict moves hearts toward emotional safety.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6103415489196777}
+{"content": "\n\n\n\nAbout The Bill\n\nThe volatile relations with China and alleged espionage of intellectual property made the US uncompromising in its pursuit to retain the top spot as the hub of innovation. The US has even set up a National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), and the current Task Force Act is an endorsement of the same. \n\nThe NSCAI, co-chaired by Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Alphabet (Google’s parent company), and Robert Work, the former deputy secretary of defence, is a congressionally mandated, independent federal commission set up last year. The objective of this new task force act is to establish a national resource that would accelerate and strengthen AI research across the U.S. by removing the high-cost barrier to entry of compute and data resources. \n\nThe success of which would democratise AI research outside of elite universities and large technology companies and will give academic researchers the tools needed to advance AI far into the future. This, in turn, would give colleges and universities an edge to remain competitive in AI.\n\nThe creation of the U.S. Government-led task force for AI was initiated by Stanford HAI earlier this year in March. The Stanford researchers called for a nationwide collaboration from academia, government, and industry to establish a National Research Cloud. \n\nNow it’s up to the Congress to contrive a plan with the help of technical experts across academia, government, and industry, as to how the U.S. can build, deploy, govern, and sustain a national AI research cloud.\n\nWhy Does The Bill Matter\n\n“As AI and ML become increasingly core to all of our lives, the National AI Research Resource Task Force Act of 2020 is an important part of ensuring that the internet remains open and accessible to all.” \n\n-Jofish Kaye, Principal Scientist at Mozilla\n\nSmaller organisations do not have the resources to replicate the successes of larger organisations. We witnessed last month how Uber was forced to wind down its AI labs due to unfavourable circumstances. The R&D aspect of AI doesn’t look commercially viable in the short run, hence the smaller research groups will have no other way than to rely on the APIs released by the likes of OpenAI.\n\nvia Emma Strubell\n\nSince 2012, AI has made remarkable progress on a broad range of capabilities including object recognition, game playing, machine translation, and more. The training cost increased over time for state-of-the-art deep learning models starting with AlexNet in 2012 to AlphaZero in 2017. According to a study conducted by Allen Institute, there has been an overall increase of 300,000x, with training cost doubling every few months. An even sharper trend can be observed in case of NLP models such as BERT and more recently with OpenAI’s GPT-3.\n\nCompanies like Google and Microsoft have invested massively in developing new models. They even own the data centres that are used for cloud computing. But to those who have to buy to build, it’s an uphill task.\n\nThe cloud computing cost of some of the widely used models, as can be seen above, depicts the harrowing tale of individual researchers who cannot afford to toy around with their models. Innovations are indifferent to financial hassles. Now with the Task Force Act, the US government is determined to unburden the researchers of their initial hurdles.\n\nThe post AI For All: The US Introduces New Bill For Affordable Research appeared first on Analytics India Magazine.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8468107581138611}
+{"content": "Dielectric Characterization of Thermally Aged XLPE High Voltage Cable Insulation\n\nType : Article de conférence\nAuteur(s) :  A. Hedir, M. Moudoud, N. Benamrouche, F. Bellabas\nAnnée :  2016\nDomaine : Sciences des matériaux\nRésumé en PDF :  (résumé en pdf)\nFulltext en PDF :  (.pdf)\nMots clés :  Crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE), insulation, thermal aging, dielectric properties.\n\nRésumé : \n\nThe widespread use of crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) as insulation in high voltage power cables may be attributed to its excellent electrical, thermal and mechanical characteristics. However, this insulation may undergo crucial degradations when exposed to the various constraints, which leadto its general weakness. During its operating under service conditions, the cable is in permanence subjected to thermal aging which can provokes an irreversible alteration of the cable insulation properties. This work presents an investigation on the changes induced in the dielectric and electrical properties of athermally aged XLPE cables insulation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9991825222969055}
+{"content": "Damage, injuries as Vamco hits Vietnam\n\nStorm Vamco barreled into Vietnam on Sunday, damaging buildings and injuring at least five people after wreaking devastation in the Philippines.\n\nThe storm made landfall on Sunday morning with winds of up to 90 kilometers per hour, according to media reports, uprooting trees and blowing the roofs off houses and schools.\n\nVamco is the latest in a series of storms that have pummeled Vietnam over the past six weeks causing flooding and landslides that have killed at least 159 people and left 70 others missing.\n\n\nVamco has weakened since hitting the Philippines as a typhoon with winds of up to 155 kph, but state media said it had still caused significant damage, though details were not immediately available.\n\nAuthorities evacuated nearly 650,000 people from seven coastal provinces to higher and safer ground before the storm hit to try to reduce casualties.\n\nAgriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong told the VNExpress news website he hoped the precautions would minimise the storm’s impact.\n\nVamco caused severe damage in the Philippines, causing flooding that affected more than 340,000 people.\n\nPhilippine authorities said Sunday the death toll had risen to 67, though floodwaters are now receding, giving hope that the worst could be over.\n\n\n\nTopics: Storm Vamco , Vietnam , Philippines , Nguyen Xuan Cuong , International Federation of Red Cross , Red Crescent Societies\nAdvertisementSpeaker GMA", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9587625861167908}
+{"content": "Libra - In Relationships with Everything\n\nby Guru Rattana, Ph.D. - Issue #197, September 22, 2012\nPlanetary Alignments\nUsing the Planets as Guides and Gurus\n\nIn every issue I explain the dynamics of the impactful planetary alignments, which offer us invaluable insights into what is transpiring in our personal and collective lives. Mix all the planetary energies together, as they dance through us and the Universe, and we have the formula for a quantum shift in consciousness, and a major turning point in human history.\n\nCollectively, the bottom line is that if enough of us are able to shift our inner reality from one of conflict to one of peace, together we can create a collective field and energetic foundation for a new operating paradigm on Planet Earth.\n\nPersonally, the bottom line is about upgrading our level of consciousness, so that we can witness our current challenges from a higher perspective, and find resolution in the heart. Our task is to constructively embrace, use, and integrate the highest expressions of all these energies to empower ourselves. How we relate to ourselves is the key to creating an evolutionary shift in how we relate to each other, Mother Earth, and the Divine.\n\nRepresenting archetypal universal forces, the planets are our guides and gurus. Astrology helps us understand the unfoldment of evolutionary change, and gives us the tools to define the specific energies we are working with. Kundalini Yoga offers us a powerful technology to align with the ever-evolving Universe, and to grow and transform ourselves and our lives. First, I will interpret the significance of the current planetary interactions, and then I will suggest how to use Kundalini Yoga to take advantage of the energies that are awakening and brewing within us.\n\nRelationships, Polarities and Peace\n\nThis is an important moment for Libra. Saturn (the heavy taskmaster) entered Libra July 22nd, 2010, and remains there through October 5th, 2012. Libra doesn't like heavy, so Saturn's shift out of Libra into Scorpio will initially be a relief. I say initially, because Saturn in Scorpio is going to present us with another set of challenges (see next issue). Whatever sign Saturn occupies, it obliges us to operate within the limits of physical reality, and to abide by natural laws. Saturn, one of the 'get real' planets, intensifies the dynamism of the on-going Pluto/Uranus square, which involves 7 intense wake-up calls in 3 years!!\n\nRelationships are the major theme of Libra. Libra's symbol, the scales, indicates the subtle dynamics at play to achieve balance in all types of relationships. The first and pivotal dynamic is finding and maintaining our internal balance. For our inner scales (mind and emotions) to achieve balance, we have to access and operate out of our neutral mind. Saturn in Libra grinds us until we are able to operate from our neutral space in our interpersonal relationships. To do so, we must consciously cultivate a peaceful relationship within ourselves - between the two polarities of our soul.\n\nIn Libra territory, relationships, and various themes and interpretation of 'masculine and feminine', are hot topics. I invite you to observe the nature of these conversations. Below I offer some ideas that can help you monitor the nature and depth (or lack thereof) of these discussions.\n\nTwo Universal Polarities\n\nThe Libra archetype brings our attention to how we humans relate to, and express, the two universal polarities, which are often referred to as masculine and feminine. Some of the discussions concerning the relationship between the masculine and feminine include the following topics:\n\n  1. The problems created by patriarchal economic, political and social structures, that have destroyed the environment, exploited the precious resources of Mother Earth, concentrated wealth in the hands of a few, structuralized poverty, denigrated the status of women, and erased the Goddess/feminine principle from the definition of the Divine. We need to focus on how to correct these imbalances.\n  2. Women's rights and empowerment, the role of women in our society and gender equality.\n  3. Dysfunctional codependent relationships between men and women, and how the conflict between the sexes can be resolved.\n  4. The reintroduction of the Goddess archetype into our personal psyche and collective consciousness, and how the feminine/feeling polarity can be integrated into the consciousness of both men and women.\nOff the Mark Conversations\n\nSome of the commentaries on these topics, that appear to me to be off the mark, superficial, and disconnected from obvious reality include the following:\n\n  1. Blaming men in general is not fair, accurate or useful. Both men and women suffer in an inequitable system.\n  2. Focusing on victimization and blaming nails us deeper into the box of fear and anger, and supports the current power structure.\n  3. Claiming that men step aside, and that women take over major political, economic and power positions verges on fanatical fantasy. Men and women are here together on Planet Earth. We have to, and should want to, collaborate to get out the mess that we have both, in our unconscious state, created together.\n  4. Concentrating exclusively on the feminine, women, and feelings misses the reality of the interactive dynamic between the two polarities in both men and women, and distances us from our ultimate goal of experiencing inner and outer peace.\n  5. Many interpretations of 'feminine' and 'masculine' are rooted in misunderstandings about the true nature of these universal energies, which are NOT gender specific. Anyone who has a mind expresses 'masculine'. Anyone who has a physical body and emotions embodies the 'feminine'. Both polarities are integral components of both men and women.(1)\nThe Issues are Wholeness and Consciousness\n\nThe inner and outer dynamics of, and relationship between, the two universal polarities as expressed in both men and women, are deeper and more existential than some of our superficial definitions and interpretations. Fuelled by anger, rage, inner discontent and lack of self-worth, some positions unintentionally serve to perpetuate the structural violence, and keep us in the fear and struggle mode.\n\nThe most fundamental problem that plagues both men and women is that we are at war within ourselves. The cause of our inner war is the dysfunctional and unconscious expressions of, and relationship between, the two polarities of our soul - our masculine/mind/ awareness polarity and our feminine/emotional/feeling polarity. The existential challenge facing both men and women is how to transcend our internal battleground, and experience inner peace and self-love.\n\nWhat is up for examination is not a simplistic 'resolution' of gender issues, the take over by women, the reinstallation of the matriarchy, or substituting Goddess for God. The basic issues for both men and women concern doing our inner work so that we can:\n\n  1. Experience WHOLENESS AND PEACE within ourselves,\n  3. ELEVATE OUR CONSCIOUSNESS to our heart, so that we can actually feel compassion for ourselves and each other.\nIdentity Crises\n\nIn terms of gender, both men and women suffer from our respective IDENTITY CRISES. In our quest for equality and fairness, we have identified ourselves as persons. In wholeness and awakened consciousness, men discover the essence and gifts of their embodiment as a man. In wholeness and awakened consciousness, women discover the essence and gifts of their embodiment as a woman.\n\nWhen both men and women discover compassion in their hearts, attitudes of power over, and victimization and power struggles between, the sexes won't compute in our psyche.\n\nAs we become more whole and authentic, our superficial fantasies about ideal, storybook relationships are going to be less important to us. What is really interesting is the synergistic alchemy between empowered men and women. When we embody the universal dance of polarities within ourselves, our partnerships can quantum leap in quality, meaning, and satisfaction. Most of what we once considered 'issues' will become non-issues. We will be able to deal with our planetary and relationship challenges from an awakened, heart-centered consciousness.\n\nElevated Expressions of Both Polarities\n\nThe openings symbolized by the planetary alignments create the space for us to release ourselves from old habits of being victims, complaining about our problems, and faulting (someone else, the system) for them. We are awakening to a critical truth - Our personal and global problems are rooted in the dysfunctional expression of BOTH the male and the female polarities. They manifest as a result of:\n\n  1. not connecting with and acting from universal truths (male polarity), and\n  2. from acting out our emotional anger, rage, sadness and fear (female polarity).\n\nThe result of both dysfunctions is exploitation, greed, abuse, and wars.\n\nDominated by our rational/dualistic mind, we have lost touch with the elevated expression of the male polarity - our neutral mind. In our neutral mind, both men and women have access to the truth, to the qualities of peace and non-judgment, and to the support and guidance of the Divine.\n\nWithout access to our neutral mind, both men and women remain internally conflicted. When we do not operate from our neutral mind, our feeling polarity invariably expresses in dysfunctional ways. It feels ignored and abused, and goes underground into our subconscious, where it creates more conflict, confusion, and havoc.\n\nTo find peace within, both men and women must access the higher conscious expression of both polarities. In our neutral mind - elevated male polarity - we are not tempted to compromise the truth for wealth, position, or power. In our relaxed feeling polarity, we are not emotionally reactive and upset - we flow with the unfoldment of life and respond with grace and kindness.\n\nAries Full Moon and Cardinal Grand Cross - September 29th\n\nThe Aries Full Moon highlights the self in relationship (to everything else). Thus our touchstone is ME - How am I reacting? Am I able to maintain my center and self-focus and not be pulled off balance by external forces?\n\nThis Full Moon is energized by a grand cross in the cardinal signs, which amps up the effects of the Uranus/Pluto square. Complex and compelling, this planetary alignment offers another opportunity to radically shift our perspective, paradigm, and direction in our lives. As is always the case, a more profound and elevated level of awareness is required to truly understand and integrate the lessons we can learn.\n\nThe Gift of Womanhood by Guru Rattana, Ph.D.\n\nThe Gift of Womanhood offers every woman a profound formula and transformational techniques for liberating her psyche, and reveals a groundbreaking approach to women’s empowerment.\n\n\n\nKundalini Yoga - Access and Anchor in Neutral\n\n\n  1. access our neutral mind,\n  2. anchor into our body feeling awareness of the peaceful quality of neutral, and\n  3. awaken to the natural rhythm of your feeling polarity, feel your breath as it breathes in your body.\n\nBetween exercises, take time to tune into the neutral space in your mind. Experience that this peaceful space is always available to you. As your body feels the peaceful nature of your neutral channel, it will begin to relax and let go.\n\nFeel your skin breathing. Be with the rhythm of your breath. Focusing on the rhythm of your skin breathing will awaken you to the peaceful natural flow, of both your emotional and physical bodies.\n\nDaily Sadhana\n\n\nA minimum set includes:\n\n  1. Tune in with Ong Na Mo Guru Dev Na Mo.\n  3. Chair pose for 2-4 minutes.\n  4. Sat Kriya for 3 minutes\n  5. Long Sat Nams, and of course\n  6. silent feeling awareness between the exercises. and at the end of your practice.\n\nAn easy kriya is \"Preparation Exercises for Lungs, Magnetic Field and Deep Meditation\", on pages 122-3 in Transitions to a Heart-Centered World 2nd Edition.\n\nIf you prefer guidance, there are over 70 streaming video classes on Guru Rattana Online. The Libra/Air Sign classes awaken the neutral mind. The Cancer/Water Element classes work with feeling awareness and the emotional body.\n\n\nReferences and Footnotes\n\n(1) Discussed in depth in my latest books:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.555321455001831}
+{"content": "Science & Tech\n\nCoronavirus Could Kill 22 Lakh Americans, Warns Study\n\nLondon:  In the absence of a vaccine and drastic measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the disease may kill as many as 22 lakh people in the US and over 5 lakh in the UK, according to new projections by London’s Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.\n\nThe study predicted that in the absence of control measures, as much as 81 per cent of the population in the US and the UK may get infected during the course of the coronavirus epidemic.\n\n“In total, in an unmitigated epidemic, we would predict approximately 510,000 deaths in GB (Great Britain) and 2.2 million in the US, not accounting for the potential negative effects of health systems being overwhelmed on mortality,” said the study.\n\nFor the study, the researchers applied a previously published microsimulation model to two countries: the UK and the US.\n\nThe results of the study prompted both the US and the UK to ramp up efforts to suppress the epidemic.\n\nIn fact, the researchers concluded that a strategy of “suppression” would prove to be more effective than “mitigation” in reducing deaths and preventing healthcare systems being overwhelmed.\n\nA strategy of “mitigation” focuses on slowing but not necessarily stopping epidemic spread — reducing peak healthcare demand while protecting those most at risk of severe disease from infection.\n\nThe “suppression” strategy aims to reverse epidemic growth, reducing case numbers to low levels and maintaining that situation indefinitely, according to the study which modelled the impact of different non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the number of deaths and the healthcare system.\n\n“We show that in the UK and US context, suppression will minimally require a combination of social distancing of the entire population, home isolation of cases and household quarantine of their family members,” the study authors wrote.\n\n“This may need to be supplemented by school and university closures, though it should be recognised that such closures may have negative impacts on health systems due to increased absenteeism,” they added.\n\nThe researchers, however, noted that while the experience in China and now South Korea shows that suppression is possible in the short term, it remains to be seen whether it is possible long-term, and whether the social and economic costs of the interventions adopted thus far can be reduced.\n\n“Our Report 9 on #COVID19 shouldn’t be a surprise, but its not an easy read. This virus is just too severe. Flattening the curve not so different from containment,” one of the study authors, Steven Riley, said in a tweet on Tuesday.\n\n\nRelated Articles\n\nBack to top button", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7131916880607605}
+{"content": "News. Debate. Community. Levers for a better democracy.\nPhoto courtesy RepresentUs\n\nYoung and determined: Early youth vote surges in 2020\n\nStunning early vote totals continue to resonate as we inch closer to Election Day. As of Oct. 23, more than 5 million 18- to 29-year-olds had already voted in the 2020 elections, based on data from Catalist. More than 3 million of those early votes were cast in 14 battleground states.\n\nOf course, the pandemic gives a number of reasons to vote early or by mail, like less social contact. And many states have made mail-in voting easier.\n\nBut those factors alone cannot explain the surges we are seeing in at least two states, Texas and Georgia, where the early in-person voting line has been eight hours long at times. There is a huge increase in Colorado, where all registered voters have automatically received mail-in ballots for years. Nothing seems to stop younger voters' determination to choose the leaders they want this year. Youth have been predicted to make a significant impact on the outcome of the election in these swing states. Early vote figures seem to confirm that prediction.\n\nKeep reading... Show less\nNews. Community. Debate. Levers for better democracy.\n\nSign up for The Fulcrum newsletter.\n\nFormer felons in Florida still fighting for voting rights\n\nOpaque felony voter laws another young-voter hurdle\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has changed elections across the country, putting a new focus on the diverse, ever-changing and frequently opaque laws that govern how we go to the polls. It's a muddled landscape of rules about who can vote, where we vote and how we vote. Some of the most confusing laws are for individuals with felony convictions. In more than 30 states, they simply can't vote while still on parole. In others they can, but often only after fulfilling certain requirements. These rules are often unclear and not well-publicized, leading many, including many young people, to wonder whether they are eligible to vote.\n\nAfter having a considerable difficulty sorting through these laws ourselves this summer, the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement decided to learn what younger voters knew about felony voting laws. We found more than half of those aged 18-29 misunderstood convicted-felon laws. About one-third (37 percent) correctly identified whether people with past felony convictions could vote in their state and only 53 percent correctly said individuals who had committed misdemeanors could still vote — something which is true in all states.\n\nKeep reading... Show less\nAriel Skelley/Getty Images\n\nTo get young people to vote, try helping them\n\nI'm often getting questions about why young people won't vote. Some don't think young people will turn out, even though they're obviously interested in politics. There are questions whether people under 24 do anything beyond protesting. There are strong assumptions behind these questions. I usually respond by asking whether those who doubt young people's interest in voting have actually offered to help.\n\nData shows we aren't doing the things that would launch people in their 20s into civic engagement and voting. Only 3 in 10 people under 30 were contacted by any campaign as of October 2016. Our recent analysis shows we don't actually even encourage every eligible student to become a voter while in high school, and half these students don't learn how to register. In short, we don't invest enough in growing voters.\n\nKeep reading... Show less", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6699775457382202}
+{"content": "What is Compassion Fatigue? An absence of Hesed?\n\nWhat is compassion fatigue?\n\nHesed is often translated as loving-kindness, but it also encapsulates mercy, loyalty, and even compassion.  Hesed seems to be the ideal way that we should think and care about others, particularly our patients.  In a world that is more jaded by the day, Hesed seems to be less and less common.  What is more common now is something called Compassion Fatigue.  Today we will discuss exactly what Compassion Fatigue is and ways that we may be able to combat it’s evil forces.\n\nThe Physician Philosopher Portfolio\n\nAs part of this website I plan to follow my success in increasing my net worth and gaining ground towards becoming financially independent.  I want to be as transparent as I can to allow people to see how this can be done via a real person who is making real decisions (good and bad).  The … Read more\n\nShould I go to medical school?\n\nShould I go to medical school?\n\nIt is a common question asked by those thinking about going into the field of medicine, “Would you go into medicine again if you did it all over?” Sometimes they ask, “Would you tell your son or daughter to go into medicine?”  Today we are going to look strictly at the financial aspect of this decision.\n\nShould I Invest Pre-Tax or Roth for my 401k?\n\nShould I invest pre-tax or roth for my 401K?\n\nIf you are reading this site, then you have likely come across other websites geared towards high income earners. The vast majority of them will tell you to invest your 401k/403b money in a traditional (pre-tax) manner. The reasons for this are many, but let me lay out the opponents argument before I tell you why I prefer a ROTH contribution to my 403B:\n\nPay off my student loans or invest?\n\nSometimes the head and the heart just can’t agree.  Paying off debt provides more peace of mind than making more in the market investing.  The math doesn’t make sense, but what is the point of wealth if you aren’t content? What does your head and heart think/feel?\n\nModerately Frugal: Wealth without Wellness\n\nretirement plans\n\nQuite possibly, this should have been my first post.  A significant portion of this blog is going to be focused on building wealth and my personal journey to get there.  Being a philosophy major in undergrad, this begs the question:  What is the purpose of obtaining wealth?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8507215976715088}
+{"content": "Longevity Briefs: How Your Partner’s Genes May Affect Your Health\n\nPosted on 8 January 2021\n\n\nWhy is this research important: Understanding how our environment interacts with our genetic makeup to affect our health is important. It allows us to better understand what predisposes an individual to a disease, and how that disease can be prevented. It’s easy to miss the fact that the people with whom we surround ourselves form an important part of our environment. This raises an interesting question: how does the genome of the person you choose to share your life with influence your own health?\n\nWhat did the researchers do: In this study published in Nature Human Behaviour, researchers used data from the UK Biobank to analyse the genetic variation, health and lifestyle traits of 80,889 heterosexual couples of European ancestry. 105 complex traits (meaning traits influenced by multiple genes) were chosen. They then used a statistical model to find associations between each individual’s traits and their partner’s DNA.\n\nMany associations are likely to occur due to attraction between individuals with similar traits, rather than the genes of one individual affecting behaviour in the other. For example, a non-smoker may be less likely to form a couple with a smoker. In an attempt to account for this, researchers ran computer simulations of combinations of individuals in their dataset, in an attempt to estimate how much of the observed association was actually causative.\n\nKey takeaway(s) from this research: Around 50% of the traits measured showed some correlation with the partner’s genes. The researchers estimated that of these correlations, around 25% were causative to some extent. These included some dietary traits, time spent watching television, susceptibility to mood swings, and smoking habits. Associations such as height were not deemed to be causative, which lends confidence to the study’s simulation approach.\n\nThe fact that these associations exist is really not surprising, but it is interesting to see a scientific study attempt to quantify the extent to which an individual’s genome can influence their partner. There may also be public health implications once genome sequencing becomes more routine. Disease prevention and management may one day be informed not only by the patient’s genome, but also by that of their partner.\n\nTalk to Our Oxford Researchers\n\nRecommended Products\n\n\nEvidence of horizontal indirect genetic effects in humans: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00991-9\n\nFeatured in This Post\n\nNever Miss a Breakthrough!\n\n\nCheckout the Gowing Life Store\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9916008710861206}
+{"content": "Connect with us\n\n\nWhy Winning a Seat at the UN Security Council is Nothing to Write Home About\n\n9 min read.\n\nThe UN Security Council is not a club of equals. The ten rotational non-permanent members of the fifteen-member Council, including Kenya, do not pose a serious threat to the five veto-holding permanent members – though membership does give the former the illusion of being influential.\n\n\n\nDownload PDFPrint Article\n\nThe Kenyan government has been congratulating itself for securing a seat at the United Nations Security Council, perhaps believing – mistakenly – that such a “privilege” will somehow allow it to influence security issues affecting the African continent and will bestow on Kenya some kind of legitimacy that it did not enjoy before.\n\nAfter Kenya was voted into the Security Council last month (after beating Djibouti in a second round of voting), the country’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Rachel Omamo, stated: “Kenya will [now] have an opportunity to shape the global agenda and ensure that our interests and the interests of Africa are heard and considered. We now have a voice at one of the most important decision making forums”.\n\nKenya has now joined a long list of countries that eventually hold membership in the Security Council, which is rotational except for the five countries that have permanent seats and veto-holding power, an arrangement that was made by the victors of World War II, who assigned themselves permanent status in the Council, ostensibly because they could be most relied on not to start another world war. The Council consists of 15 members, of which 10 are rotational non-permanent members elected for two-year terms. The non-permanent members may have a say in decisions made by the Security Council, but the ultimate decision rests with the five permanent veto-holding members, namely the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China – also known as the P-5.\n\nThe UN Security Council is not a club of equals. The ten non-permanent members of the Council do not pose a serious threat to the P-5, though membership does give these countries the illusion of being influential. In fact, one might even say that Security Council resolutions amount to little, and are acted upon only if all of the five permanent members agree on them unanimously. Disagreements within the P-5 can stall and even stop resolutions and decisions from being implemented.\n\nSo non-permanent status has little or no impact on important security-related decisions. The only countries whose opinions matter are the P-5. And the P-5 can make unilateral decisions with only cursory or tokenistic reference to the non-permanent members. So, in essence, nothing moves at the Security Council without P-5 approval.\n\nLet me give you just a few examples of how ineffectual occupying a non-permanent seat in the Security Council can be.\n\nThe Security Council did not intervene in Rwanda to prevent a genocide\n\nRwanda was elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council in 1994, the very year a horrific genocide took place in that country. The UN Security Council did little to prevent the genocide that ravaged the country and left at least 800,000 people dead. There is speculation that France (a P-5 member) did not want to interfere in the conflict; in fact, Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame has often accused France of being party to the genocide, a claim the latter has denied.\n\nOn its part, the United States had a hands-off approach towards conflicts in Africa, having burnt its fingers in Somalia the previous year when 18 American soldiers were killed in Mogadishu during a so-called humanitarian operation, and so it looked the other way when Rwandans were being slaughtered. Meanwhile, Rwanda, the non-permanent member, sat back and watched the genocide unfold before the world’s eyes.\n\nSo if the role of the Security Council is to prevent crimes against humanity and war crimes and to promote peace, why is it that it failed miserably in preventing mass killings in a small African country? In fact, why did the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations, which takes instructions from the Security Council, withdraw troops from Rwanda just when the country needed them most? And why did Kofi Annan, the head of UN peacekeeping at the time, order Roméo Dallaire, who was in charge of the peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, to not to take sides as “it was up to the Rwandans to sort things out for themselves”? (Annan later explained to the journalist James Traub that “given the limited number of men Dallaire had at his disposal, if he initiated an engagement and some were killed, we would lose the troops”.)\n\nIn his book Shake Hands with the Devil, Dallaire talks of being extremely frustrated with his inability to convince the UN in New York to allow him to take actions that could have saved lives, if not prevented the genocide from taking place in the first place. In fact, prior to the genocide, when Dallaire informed his bosses that militias were gathering arms and preparing for mass killings, “the matter was never brought before the UN Security Council, let alone made public”, according to the writer David Rieff, author of A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.  \n\nThe UN’s tendency to flee a country experiencing conflict or disaster is very common, as many Rwandans will attest. As génocidaires roamed freely in Rwanda, UN officials were busy packing their bags and catching chartered flights to neighbouring countries. And the UN Security Council members, including Rwanda, remained mum.\n\nThe UN Security Council – and by extension, the UN as a whole – has lost its moral authority over other human rights issues as well. For example, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in New York (where the UN Secretariat is based), Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, issued a memo to all UN staff asking them to refrain from participating in the demonstrations, ostensibly because as international civil servants, they were expected to remain apolitical and neutral. Maina Kiai, the former UN special rapporteur on freedom of assembly, condemned the Secretary-General’s directive, saying it was “conflating the right to protest and racial equality with political partisanship”.\n\nThe Black Lives Matter protests occurred when the United States was experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The pandemic, which has the potential to become an international security issue (economies that suffer high levels of unemployment and inequality tend to generate disaffection and political unrest, which can sometimes result in armed conflict), has yet to be discussed at the Security Council.\n\nThe Security Council did not impose sanctions on the US and Britain for going to war with Iraq\n\nThe UN Security Council did absolutely nothing to prevent the United States and Britain from going to war with Iraq in 2003. In fact, the United States went ahead and invaded Iraq in March of that year shortly after making a rather unconvincing argument at the Security Council that Saddam Hussein was harbouring weapons of mass destruction. (No such weapons were found in Iraq.) Yet no member of the Security Council (except France, which made an impassioned plea against the war) had the clout to force the United States and Britain not to go to war.\n\nEven though the then UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, declared the war “illegal”, as it did not have the unanimous approval of the Security Council, there was nothing much he could do. And despite widespread anti-war protests around the world, President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair went ahead with their misguided plan, which some estimate cost more than 600,000 Iraqi civilian lives. Further, the Security Council did not vote to impose sanctions on the US and Britain for waging an illegal war for the obvious reason that the countries waging the war were part of the P-5.\n\nIronically, but not surprisingly, a decade earlier, in 1991, the Security Council had imposed sanctions on Iraq for invading and annexing parts of Kuwait.\n\nThe Security Council has failed to protect civilians caught in conflict\n\nNow let’s go to peacekeeping, the raison d’être of the Security Council. Currently there are 13 UN peacekeeping missions around the world, mostly in African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, South Sudan and Western Sahara. However, as the case of Rwanda shows, there is little evidence that the presence of peacekeepers significantly reduces the threat of conflict in these countries or protects civilians.\n\nThe UN’s largest peacekeeping mission is in the DRC. Since 1999, MONUSCO, the UN’s stabilising mission in the DRC, has deployed thousands of troops to the country. Yet the DRC, arguably the world’s most mineral-rich country, remains the site of much poverty, conflict and human rights abuses as militias and the Congolese army fight to control mining areas and extract taxes.\n\nHuman rights organisations have for years raised the alarm on human rights violations, including rape, committed by both the army and armed groups, but the violence and abuse doesn’t seem to stop. It is estimated that millions have died as a result of resource-based conflicts in the country. The mineral-rich eastern part of the country has also been described as “the rape capital of the world”, where sexual violence is systematically used as a weapon of war.\n\nThe question arises: Despite a large presence of peacekeeping troops in the DRC, why are civilians still not safe? Could it be that some peacekeepers might in fact be party to the conflict? Scandals involving the illegal sale of arms by UN peacekeepers have been reported. In May 2007, for instance, the BBC reported that in 2005 UN peacekeeping troops from Pakistan had been re-arming Congolese militia (whom they were supposed to be disarming) in exchange for gold. A Congolese witness claimed to have seen a UN peacekeeper disarm members of the militia one day only to re-arm them the following day. The trade was allegedly being facilitated by a triad involving the UN peacekeepers, the Congolese army and traders from Kenya.\n\nUN peacekeepers in conflict areas have also been reported to have sexually abused or exploited populations they are supposed to be protecting. An investigation by the Associated Press in 2017 revealed that nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers had been made in troubled parts of the world. (This number could be a gross underestimation as the majority of victims of sexual exploitation or abuse do not report their cases.)\n\nPeacekeeping missions have also been reported to have underplayed the scale of a conflict in order to prove that they are doing a good job of keeping the peace. When Aicha Elbasri, the former spokesperson for the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), reported that UNAMID and the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations routinely misled the media and the UN Security Council about crimes, including forced displacement, mass rape and bombing of civilians, committed by Sudanese government forces in Darfur, the UN failed to investigate her allegations. It only carried out an internal inquiry after she resigned in protest in 2013 and when the International Criminal Court (ICC) ordered the UN to do so; to this day the UN has not made the inquiry’s findings public, contrary to the ICC’s demand that such an inquiry be “thorough, independent and public”.\n\nElbasri later publicly released thousands of emails, police reports, internal investigations and diplomatic cables that exposed the failure of the UN to protect millions of Sudanese civilians under its protection.\n\nThe P-5 have a vested interest in the military-industrial complex\n\nIt is not lost on many people that the P-5 have a vested interest in wars in faraway places because wars keep their military-industrial complexes running. The weapons industry is huge, and countries that supply arms and military equipment would not like to the threat of war to fade away.\n\nWhen wars occur in far-off places, arms manufacturers have a field day. Wars in former French colonies in Africa keep France’s military industrial complex well-oiled. Wars in the Middle East are viewed by British and American arms manufacturers as a boon for their weapons industries. If there were no wars or civil conflicts in the world, these industries would not be so lucrative.\n\nIt was no surprise then that Donald Trump’s first official foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia, which has been buying arms worth billions of dollars from the United States for decades. Arms from the US have kept the Saudi-led war in Yemen going. The connection between arms sales and the arms manufacturers’ silence on human rights violations committed by countries which buy the arms became acutely visible during that visit. This also explains Trump’s lukewarm response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.\n\nThe Security Council has put no pressure on the United States – which contributes almost a quarter of the UN’s budget – to rethink its policy towards arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other countries. On the contrary, the UN’s campaign in Yemen, for example, is not about ending the war, but raising donations for the millions of Yemenis who are suffering as a result of Saudi-led bombings.\n\nMake the Security Council more representative\n\nThe UN Security Council was established 75 years ago at a time when countries went to war with each other, and when Western powers had experienced severe physical and economic destruction and the loss of millions of lives. However, today’s most deadly wars are being waged by insurgents or terrorist groups, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which have become transnational. The Security Council is not equipped to handle this new threat. New forms of international cooperation are required.\n\nIf Kenya wants to have real influence in the UN Security Council, it should lobby for the Council to be expanded and be made more representative and democratic. Countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America (regions that hold the majority of the world’s population), must demand to be included as permanent members. Permanent membership should be allocated to those countries that have no vested interest in the weapons industry and which have not waged war in other countries since the Security Council was established in 1945 – countries that are genuinely committed to world peace. No country should have veto powers. Maybe that would make membership in the Council more democratic and meaningful.\n\nHowever, even if this happens, membership might not amount to much as long as the UN’s purse strings are controlled by a few rich and powerful countries which can sway other countries to vote in their favour and as long as some members have an interest in ensuring that their military-industrial complexes remain operational for a long time. Kenya, being a donor-dependent country, can therefore easily be influenced by rich donor countries. This is how the world, including the Security Council, operates.\n\nRasna Warah\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload PDFPrint Article\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis was not the case in 2017.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe more things change, the more they remain the same.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n\nDemocracy for Some, Mere Management for Others\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy for Some, Mere Management for Others\nDownload PDFPrint Article\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThose are the boss’ options.\n\n\nContinue Reading\n\n\nUganda Elections 2021: The Elephant Website Blocked Ahead of Poll\n\n\n\n\nUganda Elections 2021: The Elephant Website Blocked Ahead of Poll\nDownload PDFPrint Article\n\nDear Readers/Viewers,\n\nFor four years now, The Elephant has been one of the premier online sources of news analysis in the East African region with a fast-growing readership across the African continent and beyond.\n\n\nWe have further ascertained that the directive to do so came from the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) and was implemented beginning 12 December 2020, when we noticed a sudden traffic drop coming from several providers in Uganda, including Africell and Airtel. A forensics report, which provides technical details on the blocking, is available here.\n\nWe have written to the UCC requesting a reason for the blocking but are yet to receive a response.\n\nThe Elephant wholeheartedly condemns this assault on free speech and on freedom of the press and calls on the Ugandan government to respect the rights of Ugandans to access information.\n\nWe would like to assure all our readers that we are doing everything in our power to get the restrictions removed and hope normal access can be restored expeditiously.\n\nAs we do this, to circumvent the block, a Bifrost mirror has been deployed. Readers in Uganda can once again access The Elephant on this link.\n\nThank you.\n\nBest Regards\n\nJohn Githongo\n\nContinue Reading", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6521387100219727}
+{"content": "Study notes\n\nThe Cognitive Approach\n\n  • Levels: AS, A Level\n  • Exam boards: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, IB\n\nThe idea that humans conduct mental processes on incoming information – i.e. human cognition – came to the fore of psychological thought during the mid twentieth century, overlooking the stimulus-response focus of the behaviourist approach. A dominant cognitive approach evolved, advocating that sensory information is manipulated internally prior to responses made – influenced by, for instance, our motivations and beliefs.\n\nIntrospection – a subjective method predominantly used by philosophical and psychodynamic approaches – was rejected in favour of experimental methodology to study internal processes scientifically.\n\nThe cognitive approach assumes:\n\n  • The mind actively processes information from our senses (touch, taste etc.).\n  • Between stimulus and response are complex mental processes, which can be studied scientifically.\n  • Humans can be seen as data processing systems.\n  • The workings of a computer and the human mind are alike – they encode and store information, and they have outputs.\n\nThe Study of Internal Mental Processes\n\nUsing experimental research methods, the cognitive approach studies internal mental processes such as attention, memory and decision-making. For example, an investigation might compare the abilities of groups to memorize a list of words, presenting them either verbally or visually to infer which type of sensory information is easiest to process, and could further investigate whether or not this changes with different word types or individuals.\n\nTheoretical and computer models are proposed to attempt to explain and infer information about mental processes. For example, the Information-Processing Model (Figure 1) describes the mind as if a computer, in terms of the relationship between incoming information to be encoded (from the senses), manipulating this mentally (e.g. storage, a decision), and consequently directing an output (e.g. a behaviour, emotion). An example might be an artist looking at a picturesque landscape, deciding which paint colour suits a given area, before brushing the selected colour onto a canvas.\n\nFigure 1: Flow chart highlighting the role of mental processing defined by the Information-Processing Model\n\nIn recent decades, newer models including Computational and Connectionist models have taken some attention away from the previously dominant information-processing analogy:\n\n  • The Computational model similarly compares with a computer, but focuses more on how we structure the process of reaching the behavioural output (i.e. the aim, strategy and action taken), without specifying when/how much information is dealt with.\n  • The Connectionist model takes a neural line of thought; it looks at the mind as a complex network of neurons, which activate in regular configurations that characterize known associations between stimuli.\n\nThe role of Schema\n\nA key concept to the approach is the schema, an internal ‘script’ for how to act or what to expect from a given situation. For example, gender schemas assume how males/females behave and how is best to respond accordingly, e.g. a child may assume that all boys enjoy playing football. Schemas are like stereotypes, and alter mental processing of incoming information; their role in eyewitness testimony can be negative, as what somebody expects to see may distort their memory of was actually witnessed.\n\nCognitive Neuroscience emergence\n\nThis related field became prevalent over the latter half of the twentieth century, incorporating neuroscience techniques such as brain scanning to study the impact of brain structures on cognitive processes.\n\nEvaluation of the cognitive approach\n\n\n  • Models have presented a useful means to help explain internal mental processes\n  • The approach provides a strong focus on internal mental processes, which behaviourists before did not.\n  • The experimental methods used by the approach are considered scientific.\n\n\n  • It could be argued that cognitive models over-simplify explanations for complex mental processes.\n  • The data supporting cognitive theories often come from unrealistic tasks used in laboratory experiments, which puts the ecological validity of theories into question (i.e. whether or not they are truly representative of our normal cognitive patterns).\n  • Comparing a human mind to a machine or computer is arguably an unsophisticated analogy.\n\nRelated Collections\n\n\nAdvertise your vacancies with tutor2u\n\n\nFind our more ›\n\nAdvertise your teaching jobs with tutor2u", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9982089400291443}
+{"content": "Artículos Científicos\n\nCollaboration among disciplines and UEPs is essential to improve their teaching and research profile. Case Ecuador\n\nLa colaboración entre disciplinas y UEP es fundamental para mejorar su perfil de docencia y de investigación. Caso Ecuador\n\nJan Feyen\nCatholic University of Leuven, Bélgica\n\n\nUniversidad de Cuenca, Ecuador\n\nISSN: 1390-6143\n\nISSN-e: 2477-8893\n\nPeriodicity: Semestral\n\nvol. 11, no. 2, 2020\n\nReceived: 08 October 2020\n\nAccepted: 03 November 2020\n\nAbstract: University development in Ecuador was relatively uncoordinated; it was not until the early 1970s that further progress was enshrined in the national education plan. Even then, hardly any attention was paid to research. Additionally, the political, social, and economic development in the following decades, along with the fairly autonomous and uncoordinated landscape of university development can be the cause of the fragmented and mediocre educational and research level of Ecuador’s UEPs[1], at the beginning of the 21st century. It was not until 2008, with the creation of the new constitution, that higher education and research were increasingly being effectively directed, evaluated, and starting to bear fruit. The limited funding of university education and research, resources that are more likely to decrease than increase as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, and the continuing fragmentation between institutions may delay the ongoing rise. Based on an analysis of indicators of higher education and research, and Ecuador’s UEP ranking at the international level, some strategic measures are proposed that can initiate improvement of the performance and efficiency of Ecuador’s higher education and research profile. Especially cooperation within and among institutions and the pursuit of interdisciplinary oriented education and research, preferentially in collaboration with various social actors, are considered the leverage for turning Ecuador’s UEPs into entrepreneurial higher education institutes and will assure that the institutions provide better support to the society.\n\nKeywords: Universities and polytechnic schools, research, fragmentation, overlap, inefficiencies, cooperation, collaboration, entrepreneurship.\n\nResumen: El desarrollo universitario en Ecuador estuvo relativamente descoordinado y no fue sino hasta principios de la década de 1970 que el plan nacional de desarrollo contempló un mayor progreso en esta área. Sin embargo, apenas se prestó atención a la investigación. Se piensa que lo anterior y la evolución política, social y económica de las décadas siguientes, y el avance bastante autónomo y descoordinado del panorama universitario son la causa del nivel educativo y de investigación fragmentado y mediocre de las UEP1 de Ecuador a principios de Siglo 21. No es sino hasta 2008, con la creación de la nueva constitución, que la educación superior y la investigación se dirigen y se evalúan cada vez con mayor eficacia y comienzan a dar sus frutos. Pero el finaciamiento limitado a la educación y la investigación universitarias, los recursos que más probablemente disminuirán como resultado de la pandemia Covid-19 y sus secuelas, y la fragmentación continua entre instituciones, pueden demorar la actual tendencia de mejora universitaria. En base de un análisis de una serie de indicadores de educación superior e investigación, y del ranking internacional de las UEP ecuatorianas, el presente trabajo propone una serie de medidas estratégicas que pueden iniciar la mejora del desempeño y la eficiencia del perfil de educación superior e investigación de Ecuador. Especialmente la cooperación al interior y entre las instituciones y la búsqueda de una educación e investigación de orientación interdisciplinaria, preferentemente en colaboración con diversos actores sociales, se consideran el punto de partida para convertir las UEP de Ecuador en institutos de educación superior emprendedores y asegurar que las instituciones brinden un mejor apoyo a la sociedad.\n\nPalabras clave: Universidades y escuelas politécnicas, investigación, fragmentación, superposición, ineficiencias, cooperación, colaboración, emprendimiento.\n\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic hits hard, not only in terms of health but also economically. The pandemic outbreak started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Although, there are suspicions that the virus had been in the shadows out of sight for some time. Today, it is an ongoing global pandemic. From the outbreak until the 1st of October 2020, the virus claimed worldwide 1,037,528 deaths, and the countries with the highest infection rate are the US, Brazil, and India, respectively. Many countries around the world are trying to cope with this pandemic. Each in its own way based on its level of development, economic, and financial situation. Developed countries that put public health above economic recovery are more successful in this than economically emerging and developing countries, and countries like the US and Brazil that give priority to the economic revival. The money that is increasingly spent on healthcare and the stagnation of the economy during the week-long lockdowns led to a drastic deterioration of the country’s economic and financial situation. Less developed countries are, of course, the hardest hit, and in those countries, the fraction of the population that struggles to make ends meet at the end of the month rapidly increases. How long it will take to get out of this crisis will depend on the development of a vaccine and how long it will take for the economy to recover. According to the World Economic Forum, the revival of the economy, depending on how hard battered, will take 2 to 5 years. The financial resurrection to the situation before the coronavirus outbreak may last up to 10 years.\n\nIt is to be expected that the mass diversion of public resources to healthcare and financial support for the population and affected economic sectors will negatively impact higher education, as well as the country´s national science and research systems. The post-Covid-19 sustainability of universities will be of concern, and a lot will depend on the extent that the subsidy level of the public institutions can be curtailed. Certainly, most public universities will be confronted with a budget reduction in the coming academic years. Because of the adverse economic conditions, it is to be expected that in particular, research will be most hardly hit; initially, institutions will try to keep the multitude of teaching programs afloat. Also, according to Baker (2020), universities around the globe risk facing the loss of a generation of researchers. Because likely, many graduates will not find a job in line with their educational profile, and it will become even hard for the most brilliant graduates to obtain a Ph.D. or Postdoc grant. There is also a growing concern among Ph.D.-students and postdoctoral scholars that future posts will dry up as the universities struggle to balance their books. Subsequently, it can be expected that the number of academic staff under contract, following a downsizing of the government allowance, will be curtailed. Job cuts will be disproportionately felt by junior researchers, including recent graduates, as well as early career and mid-career researchers. The situation might even be getting worse because the current economic crisis will also hit donor organizations and the private sector, who under normal conditions co-fund research projects and offer doctoral and postdoc grants (Naidu & Deli, 2020).\n\nDespite the immense magnitude of the health crisis and its impact on everyday life, we, unfortunately, cannot trample on the spot but have to go on. But how should this be addressed? We can wonder if the government, Ministry of Education, the senior managers, governance committees, and university administrators will be able to put the higher education institutions back on the rails, realizing that they never before have been confronted with such a recession. The recovery of the sector from the Covid-19 pandemic will require better restructuring. According to Devinney & Dowling (2020), the current crisis offers a unique opportunity to correct the strategic mistakes universities and policymakers have been made in the past. Both these authors are of the impression that most public universities are neither focused on intellectual-capital nor information-dissemination institutions that help the economy and society navigate the future. The aforementioned is noticeable in Ecuador, where the government, the public, and the private sector make little use of universities for providing sustainable social, economic, and ecological solutions. The classic organizational structure, whereby each university and faculty within behave and function as independent entities, certainly does not stimulate the cooperative organization of lectures and research between disciplines, whereas, the problems the community struggles with are increasingly interdisciplinary. Universities and faculties run their own business, leading to duplications in teaching, research, infrastructure, among others, shortly to inefficient use of public and private financial resources.\n\nTypical for public universities is that they need as many administrative as academic staff to deliver an ever-greater array of courses and social programs, a tendency strengthened by the governmental demands for closer and closer alignment to politically motivated compliance structures. In public universities, one often wonders who is in charge, the ever-expanding administration, or the governance body. Seemingly, one has completely forgotten that the administrative weight has profound implications, and any downturn in revenues will worsen this. In summary, academic staff finds themselves increasingly engaged in activities that do not make them better teachers or researchers. For sure, it is to be expected that the recession in public funding caused by Covid-19 will increase the pressure between the academic community and the administration. Undoubtedly, this situation will enhance the competition between and within the institutions rather than collaboration.\n\nMaybe it is true what Richard Rumelt[2] states. He points out that many universities of today accommodate a multitude of conflictin1g demands and interests, and it is the piecemeal approach that is putting so many institutions at risk in the wake of Covid-19 (Devinney & Dowling, 2020). According to Rumelt, universities urgently need to focus energy and resources on a few pivotal objectives whose accomplishment will lead to a cascade of favorable outcomes. Furthermore, he suggests changing the classical academic thinking and operation of HEIs to a truly disruptive and entrepreneurial approach (Eisenberg, Gann, & Yoon, 2019). Turning the crisis into an opportunity will not be that easy, and many universities will likely not embark on it until it is too late.\n\nWith this article, the author tries to formulate a series of inspiring ideas, some will presumably call these unrealistic ideas, that could serve as a breeding ground for the discussions, ultimately culminating in a thorough renewal of Ecuador’s university system. The points of view in this manuscript are mainly based on the author’s experiences with the Universidad de Cuenca and the Ecuadorian university system. The author was actively cooperating with the Universidad de Cuenca in the period 1992-2007 assisting in the formulation of research proposals and their achievement with funding from the VLIR‐UOS program[3] for Institutional University Cooperation. In parallel, the author gave constant guidance to Ecuadorian doctoral students in Belgium. After retiring from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2007, the University of Cuenca invited the author as a visiting professor until the end of 2019. During this period, he also gave numerous lectures at other universities in Ecuador. The author of this paper was the first foreign professor invited to join SENECYT’s national Prometeo program, in which he served four years. Today, the author is still active as a reviewer of Maskana, a scientific journal of the Dirección de Investigación of the Universidad de Cuenca. The submission to this journal of scientific articles by academics and researchers from different universities allows the author to keep abreast of the scientific development of the institutions to which the authors belong and the scientific quality of the authors.\n\n\nEcuador’s HEI system encompasses public and private universities, although the distinction between both was not that clear in the past as it is today since the Catholic Universities of Quito and Guayaquil received as much as 65% of their budgets from the state (CONUEP, 1992). Today, still eight on a total of 27 private universities are co-financed by the government. Three of the public institutions are the oldest, the Universidad Central de Quito[4] founded in 1826, followed by the Universidad de Guayaquil and the Universidad de Cuenca, both founded in 1867. By 1950 Ecuador counted 8 universities, 6 (75%) public and 2 (25%) private. The number of universities increased to 29 in the period 1950-1993, an increase of 262.5% (the public universities increased from 6 to 16, an increase of 167%, and the number of private universities rose from 2 to 13, equivalent to an increase of 550%). By 2008, the number of universities increased from 29 to 68, or an increase of 134.5%, 27 public (68.8%), and 41 private (215.4%) institutions, respectively.\n\nThe exponential growth of public and private universities in the period 1993-2008 is visible in Figure 1, which depicts the evolution in the number of public and private institutions since the foundation of the first university in the country. The period with exponential growth is characterized, amidst a vacuum of central government influence and authority (Zabala Peñafiel, 2017), by budget difficulties, politicization and privatization of the university system, and parallel to this a decline in academic standards. Similarly, for this period, the sources of comparative information on universities and their functioning are limited, hindering, even making it impossible to evaluate the higher education systems’ quality and efficiency (Jameson, 1997). As an offshoot of the new constitution in 2008, President Rafael Correa in 2009 ordered CONEA[5] to evaluate the institutional performance of all UEPs.\n\nEvolution of the number of\npublic and private universities since 1826 .\nFigure 1.\nEvolution of the number of public and private universities since 1826 .\n(Sources: CONEUP (1992), Jameson (1997), CONEA (2009), Ponce (2016), SENESCYT (2018), and SNIESE (2020))\n\nThe UEPs initially considered CONEA’s assessment as a government effort to curtail the autonomy of the HEIs. The institutions interpreted the top-down evaluation as a backlash to the HEIs’ autonomy in Latin America acquired following the Córdoba reform of 1918. This reform restored the freedom of the universities, allowing them to define their curriculum and manage their budget without interference from the central government. However, Correa’s government intended to call a halt to the uncontrolled growth of low-quality HEIs by subjecting them, both private and public institutions, to a critical and uniform evaluation. The screening of the HEIs resulted in the closure of 14 universities in 2012 because they were not able to implement the requested changes. The second process of evaluation and accreditation in 2014 suffered significant wear due to the frequent readjustments made in the technical instruments used in the evaluation (Zabala Peñafiel, 2017). Thereafter, the evaluation and accreditation process improved, and the institutions adopted stepwise their operation to the new evaluation criteria, which in 2020 resulted in an overall improved screening of the HEIs. In 2020, according to SNIESE (2020), 355 higher education institutes are accredited and operative in Ecuador, of which 61 UEPs (34 public and 27 private; 6 institutes are ranked in category A, 26 in B, 16 in C, 4 in D, and 9 institutions were not evaluated). Among the non-evaluated institutions are the four public centers of excellence in higher education[6] stablished in 2014, under the presidency of Rafael Correa. Besides the 61 accredited universities, there are 294 certified college[7] active offering undergraduate programs in arts, pedagogy, business, tourism, nursing, agriculture, technology, among other fields, encompassing 146 public (49.7%), 136 autonomous private (46.3%) and 12 private, with co-funding of the government (4%).\n\nAll universities, public and private, are subordinate to CES[8], an autonomous entity of the Ecuadorian government responsible for the planning, regulation, and coordination of the National System of Higher Education. CES’ executive body is SENESCYT[9], which is in charge of the elaboration, execution, and evaluation of policies, programs, and projects. The Secretariat is assisted by the council CEAACES[10] whose main task is the evaluation of UEP’s performance; the name of this council was changed to CACES[11] in 2019. However, the current situation has been preceded by a long and bumpy road of institutional changes. As Salazar (2013) points out, the first step towards the institutionalization of science and technology was taken in 1979, late when compared to most other Latin American countries. The law of the National System of Science and Technology (SNCT[12], 7th of August, 1979) led to the creation of CONACYT[13] with its responsibilities: the definition, the formulation, the guidance and coordination of development policies and applications of science and technology in line with Ecuador’s national development objectives. As a consequence of CONACYT failing to meet expectations, nor that of its financial resources, the government decided in 1994 to replace CONACYT with SENACYT[14], a Science and Technology Advisory Council (CAST), and FUNDACYT[15], the foundation fostering research and technological innovations in universities, research centers, and scientific and technological services via grants. In the absence of the desired results, CONACYT was reactivated as the governing body of science and technology, leaving the execution to SENACYT, and FUNDACYT disappeared from the scene. Starting in 2008, the law of Nacional Science and Technology was adopted as the law of National System of Science, Technology, Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge (SNCTISA), whose objectives are: “to generate, adapt and disseminate scientific and technological knowledge, and to recover, strengthen and enhance ancestral knowledge”. This led to the birth of SENESCYT in 2010, the governing body of policies that have to do with science, technology, innovation ancestral knowledge, and higher education.\n\nParallel with the exponential expansion of universities, private institutions in particular increased in the period 1998-2011; the student number at the undergraduate level went from 235,000 to 591,000, an increase of 151% (Fig. 2). The increase in student enrollment before 2006 was primarily noticeable in private institutions, less than in public universities since the government, for economic reasons, withdrew its resources from the later which led to a rise in the registration fee and the organization of cost-billed degree programs. This situation resulted in a growing elitism in public institutions as well, in contradiction to the longstanding tradition of free higher education. The new constitution in 2008 proceeded in the re-establishment of the people’s right to education by abolishing the registration fee for public UEPs. Not surprisingly, from then onwards, the population of university-bound students further increased. The strong increase in student numbers was however halted by the introduction of an entrance exam and by limiting the number of seats. The main objectives of the admission aptitude test were to limit the bulging enrollment, to verify if students were prepared for university, and to identify what discipline most suited the enrolling students (Van Hoof, Estrella, Eljuri, & Torres León, 2013; Edenfield, 2016). An indirect reason for the introduction of an entrance exam was to elevate the university education quality gradually. However, according to Haney and mentioned by Edenfield (2016), a drawback to the entrance exam is that it can negatively affect student’s preferred field of study by forcing them to study something that the government requires. The decline in enrollment from 2011 onwards, according to Barrera (2018), is mainly the consequence of the standardization of the admission exam and more importantly the consequence of the lack of seats at public universities.\n\nof undergraduate enrollments.\nFigure 2.\nEvolution of undergraduate enrollments.\n\nFollowing Augusto Barrera, a former head of the National Secretariat for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT), the lack of spots is responsible for at least 40,000 young people being left out of university enrollment in the last decade, notwithstanding that the new version of the constitution in 2008 guaranteed free admission.\n\nWhile the first universities in Ecuador primarily trained priests, as time evolved, students were trained in the law, philosophy, and arts. Still today, the majority of students entering the universities predominantly select a field of study in Social Sciences and Humanities, such as law, business, education, and social sciences. Ecuador used to have 49 law faculties, turning out over 60,000 lawyers (Correa, 2012). Not surprisingly, so many lawyers are active in the public sector. In many universities, the rector and his/her entourage, as well as the deans of almost every faculty are assisted by a lawyer. Foregoing explains to a great extent the complex functioning of Ecuador’s public administrative services and public institutions, slowing down progress and clarifying that the national reality is mediocre. Following the adoption of the new Organic Law on Higher Education in October 2010, an impulse was given to the university sector to train students in other areas than Social Sciences and Humanities, to train the students in what the country needs to fulfill its social expectations of the 21st century. Training students in science and technology was correctly considered a precondition for economic and social development. The country sought from 2010 onwards to encourage careers related to hard sciences and technology. For that reason, it was decided that four new public universities and more than forty technical and technological institutes should be created (de la Vega, 2017). As verification of the change in the attitude of universities and the stimulation of new generations of students to select a study curriculum in Exact Sciences and Engineering, Natural and Environmental Sciences, and Life and Health Sciences, the title registration of graduates in the period 2013-2019 was analyzed (SENESCYT, 2020). In this period, 862,559 students of public and private higher educational institutes graduated. Figure 3 depicts the output of the analysis indicating that still, 62.95% of the graduating students possess a degree in Social Sciences and Humanities, only 2.79% in the area of Natural and Environmental Sciences, 15.72% in Exact Sciences and Engineering, and 18.34% in Life and Health Sciences. It is already a change when regarding the situation before the new constitution. René Ramírez (de la Vega, 2017) states the results are meager, especially given the fact that public universities were awarded a higher budget for each student enrolled in an engineering degree than in social sciences, business administration, or the law. The ongoing distortion in the field of study choice of the bulk of students culminates in the paradox that a country with an undeveloped productive sector follows a pattern of career choice more typical of post-industrial society (de la Vega, 2017).\n\nThe establishment of postgraduate programs in Ecuador’s higher education institutes is of more recent date. The first programs established are at most 30 years old. The creation of postgraduate programs was, on one hand, considered as a way to generate funding and, on the other hand, providing graduates with higher knowledge and expertise, able to tackle the wide range of problems society faces. It is obvious that parallel to both those reasons, a postgraduate degree strengthens a person’s curriculum and helps him/her stand out amongst those who did not obtain such a qualification. Besides, one is more likely to attract a job with a higher salary possessing a postgraduate degree, giving the feeling that the time and money invested in the postgraduate program was worth it. Furthermore, a postgraduate degree enables one to continue for a doctoral degree that ultimately permits one to embark on an academic career. Finally, it is also positive for the university because to be in the position of organizing a professional and/or academic postgraduate program the organizing university needs to develop the professional capacity and infrastructure. Ultimately academic postgraduate programs form the basis of the research profile of higher education institutes.\n\nThe data in Figure 4 depicts the evolution in postgraduate enrollments, according to Ponce & Carrasco (2017) and . (Senescyt,2020) Both sources provide the total percent rate of the age class 25-30 years that enrolled in a postgraduate program in the period 2001-2019. The percent rates were converted to the number of postgraduate enrollments using Ecuador’s population\n\nregistration percentage, in the function of the scientific field in the period\nFigure 3\nTitle registration percentage, in the function of the scientific field in the period 2013-2019\n\nPyramid[16].From this figure, it is clear that the postgraduate enrollment strongly fluctuates between 10,000 and 25,000, and seemingly is recently in a recession, likely due to the economic recession. This figure also illustrates the contradictions in the consulted datasets. They are present even within the datasets of the same administration and illustrates the fragmented approach within and among institutions. Also, the contradiction in the used public data might have negatively affected the conclusions of this manuscript.\n\nEvolution of postgraduate\nFigure 4\nEvolution of postgraduate enrollments\n\nIt is not far from the truth to say that graduate-level education is relatively immature in Ecuador because the main focus was and still is on undergraduate education. An additional reason explaining the meager focus on graduate-level education is likely due to the low training level of university teachers (de la Vega, 2017). A decade ago, not all university professors had a master’s or doctoral degree, and it was an exception. Only 23% possessed a fourth level training, and only a few were active in research. The new constitution in 2008 was a wake-up call for universities to stimulate the young generation of teachers to improve their capacity by pursuing an academic grade, preferably at an institution abroad. The law even stipulated that professors without a master’s degree in 2017 would be degraded in rank. Besides, for a university to be considered a teaching-research institute, CEAACES (2012) stipulated that at least 70% of the tenured faculty should possess a fourth level or doctoral degree. The objectives stated in the law were well thought and in-line with the country’s intention to accelerate economic development by connecting science to economic and social development and to ensure that the universities become the engine of new ways of change. Whereas this was a correct vision of the law, what was unrealistic was the timeline set out for the universities to make it happen, considering that the main focus in the universities, particularly in public universities, remained on teaching. Even today, as stated by Van Hoof et al. (2013), full-time faculty members have a heavy teaching workload as compared to international standards, equal to an average of 20 credits/hours a week. The high teaching workload is not only the consequence of the increase in student numbers but can, to a certain level, also be explained by the government’s rule of limiting the number of students per class, for pedagogic reasons. As a consequence, it is not uncommon that professors have to repeat the same content of the subjects two or several times. Furthermore, the high teaching workload is most probably also the consequence of the faculty’s autonomy. Faculties structure the study curriculums independently from each other; consequently, they organize similar subjects separately. Taking into consideration the preparation and follow-up time for classes, the time dedicated to administrative meetings, among other activities, it is evident that little time and motivation remains for research. Luckily, the situation is slowly improving, although the majority of academic staff (69% on average) are on a contract, while at a long-term basis in an unstable and not motivating situation, often subject to unrealistic requirements of the law and institution. Figure 5 presents a few characteristics of the teaching staff for the period 2015-2018. Whereas 64% of the academic staff possesses a master’s degree, only 9.9% hold a Ph.D. Gender-wise, the rate evolves between male and female academic staff towards a more equal ratio, in line with the ratio between female and male students.\n\nIt is impossible to present, in an accurate way, the time and energy staff invest in research. It is customary internationally for the characterization of the quality of a researcher, research group, or institution, the spinoff in the number of research papers published in peer-reviewed journals as a benchmark. The research level and quality of Ecuador’s UEPs was determined based on the total number of scientific documents registered in the Scopus database. Scopus is the largest abstract, research paper, and citation database, founded in 2004 by Elsevier. Figure 6 depicts the ranking of 52 Ecuadorian UEPs, grouped per evaluation category (CEAACES, 2020), in function of the total number of publications registered in the Scopus database, since the registration of the first institutional article. The number of registered articles depends on the age of the university and its research capacity. The six universities in Category A produce the most peer-reviewed articles even though there is a significant variation between the first ranked, the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), founded in 1988, with 2610 registrations in the Scopus database, and the last ranked institution in this category the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (UES), founded in 1993, with 679 registrations. However, both these universities are private institutions, and both have the same age, produced USFQ 3.84 times more peer-reviewed research documents than UES, indicating that the research policy and strategy of USFQ are considerably more effective. The Universidad de Cuenca (UC) and the Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN), both ranked in CEAACES Category A, are equally old founded in 1867 and 1869 respectively, but possess a different record in the Scopus journal database. EPN produced 1.92 more publications than UC. The difference is most likely because EPN is a polytechnic school while UC is a full-fledged university, whereby some disciplines like social and human sciences possess a different publication policy resulting in the registration of fewer peer-reviewed articles in the Scopus database.\n\nMain characteristics of the teaching staff\nFigure 5\nMain characteristics of the teaching staff\n\nBased on the Scopus database, the record of peer-reviewed articles is lower in the 26 universities in Category B, varying between 0 and 1779. The average record of registered publications for this group is 479, whereas the average publication record for the universities\n\nRanking of the UEPs per\nevaluation category in function of the total number of institutional\npeer-reviewed documents (books, research papers, conference proceedings)\nregistered in SCOPUS\nFigure 6\nRanking of the UEPs per evaluation category in function of the total number of institutional peer-reviewed documents (books, research papers, conference proceedings) registered in SCOPUS\n\nin Category A is 1793, 3.75 times as high. In Category B are six universities ranked with zero registered research papers, respectively, two public institutions (UPEC and UEA) and four private universities (UIA, UDH, UTEG, and UCG). The latter illustrates that universities with a low to moderate production of peer-reviewed papers, but a relatively good score on the other three evaluation criteria (academic efficiency, organization, and infrastructure) of CEAACES evaluation system, can reach a score justifying their classification in Category B. The institutions in CEAACES evaluation Categories C and D are research-wise less productive, and the 16 universities in Category C possess in Scopus database an average record of 55 peer-reviewed articles, varying between 0 and 289, and 127 registrations on average for the four universities in Category D, which vary between 0 and 254. It is evident that the record of peer-reviewed articles registered in Scopus of the 4 in 2014 created universities, Yachay Tech, IKIAM, UNEA, and UArtes, is lower. Yachay Tech achieved a registration record of 662 peer-reviewed articles in 6 years or 110 publications on average per year, IKIAM realized a total of 213 peer-reviewed publications in Scopus or 35 registrations on average per year. UNEA and UArtes offering 3rd and 4th level training in education and arts are less successful in the development of research activities leading to research papers publishable in peer-reviewed journals. The score for UNEA is at ave1rage 12.3 registered publications annually, while UArtes so far failed to get one peer-reviewed article registered in the Scopus database.\n\nWhereas the number of registrations of peer-reviewed documents in the Scopus database offers a good picture of the research capability of Ecuador’s UEPs at the international level, it fails to measure the scientific productivity at the local and regional scale. It does not reflect the scientific productivity of the older generation of professors and the upcoming generation of junior scientists, with limited experiences in writing research papers, nor does it offer a correct image of the investigative capability of disciplines like arts, social and human sciences (Villavicencio, 2014). This group of the academic community still disseminates findings by priority in institutional, national, or regional scientific journals. Unfortunately, the fragmentation of the scientific publications of Ecuadorian UEPs in institutional and regional journals makes it impossible to compile an accurate picture of the scientific productivity of the institutions based on locally published books, monographs, and articles. Such an exercise would require the analysis of many journal databases such as DOAJ, Latindex, SciELO, SAGE, JSTOR, JURN, among many other journal databases.\n\nAnother parameter often used to characterize the investigative capacity of an institution is the number of patents generated as a spinoff of ongoing research. According to the statistics published by Knoema Corporation (2020), the Ecuadorian list of patents is far from impressive. It varies from 4 in 2010 up to 34 in 2018. Camana-Fiallos (2019) is even more critical by stating that the creation and the invention of patents by universities is far from encouraging.\n\nA frequently heard comment in the corridors of university institutions is that the financial support from the government for higher education and research is seen as the main reason for the modest quality and research performance of the majority of universities and polytechnic schools. Despite the decision to increase the budget for higher education to 2% of GDP in the new constitution, funding for the public institutions only increased from 0.8 to 1.62% in 2009 (Figure 7). Given the ensuing economic recession, government allocation gradually declined to 1.3% of GDP in 2017, and given the Covid-19 pandemic, government support for higher education is expected to decline further. In reality, the public universities spent less than the assigned grant at the beginning of the calendar year because of the late transfer of the last installment. The institutions cannot spend this tranche, which equates to approximately an annual repayment of 15% of the allowance. Government investment in R&D, a budget not exclusive for UEPs, was low and remains low, ranging from 0.33% of GDP in 2012 to 0.47% in 2019 (Fig. 7). And like René Ramírez, economist and former secretary of SENESCYT expressed it: “We have nothing in science, so we asked the universities to spend at least 6% of their budget on research” (de la Vega, 2017).\n\ninvestment in public and co-financed private UEPs and R&D as a percentage\nof the gross domestic product\nFigure 7\nGovernment investment in public and co-financed private UEPs and R&D as a percentage of the gross domestic product\nJameson, 1997; Lara & Nuñez, 2014; SENESCYT, 2019; The World Bank, 2015\n\nAs can be derived from this short description, the higher education policy in Ecuador underwent many changes. The shift in 2008 from being considered a good of limited access to a public good, meaning a change to free-of-charge access to higher education, can be considered as one of the major policy changes. The reform process initiated by Rafael Correa involved a complete remodeling of the government administration in charge of the regulation, coordination, planning, and accreditation of higher education. The reform process of the higher education system was complex and initially could not count on the cooperation of all actors. The new policies were regarded by the higher education institutions’ as a curtailing of the institutions’ autonomy, explaining the passive attitude of the institutions in making the recommended adjustments. Besides, the reform process suffered significant wear due to the frequent changes in policy, executive bodies, and the readjustments made in the technical instruments that support these processes. Notwithstanding, that from 2008 onwards the public spending on higher education as a percentage of the GDP increased, it did not really lead to an improvement in the expenditure quality of the institutions. As stated by Zabala Peñafiel (2017), the money and spending by the higher education system are still primarily used in maintaining existing offices instead of improving their principles, academic and organizational paradigms, as well as their quality principles.\n\n\nBothwell (2020a&b), in her analysis of THE [17]. Latin America University Rankings 2020, concludes that in comparison with the HEIs in the US, Europe, and Asia, Latin American universities, in general, face a bleak picture, and it is expected that the ranking of Latin American universities might further decline due to the Covid-19 crisis. The ranking of Latin American universities uses the 13 performance indicators that underpin THE World University Ranking, but the weight of the indicators is calibrated to reflect the characteristics of Latin America’s universities. The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment), research (volume, income, and reputation), citations (research influence), international outlook (staff, students, and research), and industry income (knowledge transfer). In 2020, THE ranked, at the global level, 1400 universities across 92 countries[18]. None of the Ecuadorian universities appear in THE World University Ranking, because of the overall low performance of Ecuador’s HEIs or because Ecuadorian universities did not produce the full set of information required for the quantification of the 13 indicators on which the ranking system is based. However, nine Ecuadorian universities appear in THE Regional University Ranking of Latin America. The Latin America Regional University Ranking comprised a total of 166 HEIs. Brazil has the largest group of universities in this ranking, namely 61, followed by 30 Chilean HEIs. There are 23 Colombian and 22 Mexican universities included in this ranking. The number of institutions retained in the Latin America University 2020 ranking is much lower for Ecuador (9), Argentina (8), Peru (6), and Venezuela (2). Finally, just one university in each of the countries: Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay appear in the regional THE ranking. The first ranked and highest performing institution is the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The 9 Ecuadorian universities retained in this ranking are the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (ranked 56), Universidad de Las Américas (ranked 99), Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, and the Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (all in the 101-125 rank), and finally the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja and the Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ranked 126+).\n\nOne could criticize that THE University Ranking system does not produce a correct picture of the university ranking at the global and regional levels. However, when using, for example, the QS-ranking, a ranking system very often used by the HEIs, more or less similar results are obtained. In comparison to THE Ranking System, the QS Ranking[19] is based on six metrics, namely: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, ratio international faculty, and international student. In the top 200 list of the 1002 ranked universities, only 6 Latin America universities appear, respectively the Universidad de Buenos Aires (rank 74), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (ranked 103), Universidad de São Paulo (ranked 116), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (ranked 127), Tecnológico de Monterrey (ranked 158), and Universidad de Chile (ranked 189). Only 4 Ecuadorian universities appear in the list of 1002 ranked universities at the global level, namely the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito (rank 751-800), and the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (rank 801-1000). The QS ranking system clearly illustrates that only a small group of Latin American Universities, primarily Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, and Mexican universities appear in the top 200 QS Ranking list. Analysis of THE and QS ranking systems reveals that, although limited in number, the better Ecuadorian universities are ranked low, confirming the meager picture of the Ecuadorian university system at the international level.\n\n\nThe worldwide corona pandemic disrupts society, with schools and universities across the globe forced to adapt activities to the new situation of social distancing, and students have been affected in their progress by the lockdowns. It is to be expected that the higher education institutions at the start of the new academic year will be confronted by a series of new challenges, just to name a few: How should the public universities respond to the expected budget cuts for at least the coming years until the country’s economy recovers? Should lecturing return to the traditional face-to-face mode, or should lecturing move to a mix of online learning and classroom teaching? Should we restart the laboratory and fieldwork as before or remodel the way research was conducted? How can we catch up with the general slowdown in education, research, and intellectual progress during the corona pandemic? Should we go back to the situation before the Covid-19 crisis once a vaccine is amply available, or should we use the current situation to reimagine the university? The authorities and the academic community as a whole will be confronted by this and other questions. It is up to all of us to react creatively by reorganizing the way things were done before the crisis. Not only should we respond creatively but also move quickly, which is not a general notion of universities. As stated by Temmerman (2020), it is a widespread custom in universities that the meetings, discussions, and the preparation of policy and procedural documents, can take months before a new policy comes into effect. However, the current crisis does not permit lengthy discussions, procedural steps, and certainly is not an excuse for the authorities to delay doing things.\n\nEcuador’s public universities face an estimated budget cut of 10%, and since the majority of the annual budget is used for staff payment, it is to be expected that the university to making ends meet as a first step will not renew the contract of primarily junior non-tenured academic staff. The administrative staff will be in a safer position, given the dominant bureaucratic character of most public institutions. A question that arises first is how 80 to 90% of the annual budget is used for staff payment? If this is correct, little money is left for the modernization and maintenance of the infrastructure, nor the implementation of new initiatives. Could it be that the institutional policy and management over the years has resulted in the over-appointment of administrative, technical, and academic staff? Or could it be the consequence of the excess in the start-up of graduate programs? The enormous fragmentation of services at different levels within the institutions as well as the regulations of SENESCYT are likely another reason for the overpopulation of staff. As an example, the directives of SENESCYT require that for pedagogical reasons, the number of students per auditorium should be limited to a maximum of 30 to 40. The latter and the fact that the faculties mostly function autonomously means that different faculties, for example, appoint a professor of mathematics or philosophy, and that, depending on the number of students, the instructor will have to repeat one to several times his/her class, especially in the first and second year of the undergraduate program when the number of students attending the same course is large. The autonomous functioning of faculties and many services also means that there are duplications in the areas of administration, infrastructure, and equipment.\n\nIf, because of the current crisis, academic staff under contract is discarded, and the pre-crisis timetable of lectures in the different faculties remain, the consequence will be that the staff that stays on board will be confronted with an increase in teaching workload. With the previously given, should not the UEPs first reflect how they could reduce the already exuberant teaching load of the academic staff by redesigning study programs, stimulating the cooperation between faculties, and the administrative services? The collaboration between faculties should thereby not only be pursued from an economic point of view but also to stimulate the development of and strengthening interdisciplinary learning. The problems society faces daily become increasingly more complex and interdisciplinary, and solutions should not only address the technical side of the problem, but also the interaction with the multitude of social factors present in society. Another reason why the teaching load of lecturers might further increase if no appropriate measures are taken will be due to the restrictions emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, namely social distancing limiting the number of students that can attend a class at the same time.\n\nA positive aspect of Covid-19 is that online teaching modalities came to fruition. The method of online teaching is not new, and the technology of the last decades made it possible that the initial version of education at a distance whereby lecture material and assignments were exchanged by mail completely changed to an interactive online interface. This was even true for industry and business employees’ online learning and training, retraining, and for updating skillset purposes, and this since the early 2000s. In university environments, the use of online teaching surfaced much slower. According to Garcia, Arias, Murri, & Serna (2010), the majority of teachers in higher education teach the way they were taught, through didactic, lecture-based teaching in a classroom setting, where the material taught is passively adsorbed by the students. The sudden rise of Covid-19 meant that many professors overnight were forced to teach online, and despite their weak capacity for online teaching, they did, of course, with varying success. A prerequisite for online teaching is that the lecturers receive training in the method and the technology of distance learning, that the study material is adapted to the new way of communication, and that interaction with the students is guaranteed (Gregory & Salmon, 2013; Andrews Graham, 2019). Educational providers of online teaching are increasingly entering the higher education marketplace. It is a must for the universities to make a quality online provider available and to organize advanced courses in how to teach online successfully. An important advantage of online teaching is that it enables the lecturer to experiment more in pedagogy and get instant feedback and the associated technology enables the lecturer to have a better idea of students’ progress (Bower, 2006).\n\nTo speed up the switch from the traditional face-to-face classroom to online teaching, academic staff of different disciplines should work together to develop in different educational fields novel online courses. They should encompass online video lectures, downloadable textbooks, practice exercises, tests, and creative materials. Also, they should aim at keeping students engaged and the development of thoughtful question sessions to stimulate the student’s self-reflection, revision, and social negotiation (Yang, 2008; Ahern, 2017). To do so requires the cooperation between specialists in pedagogy, the technology of online teaching, and a group of professors, eventually belonging to different faculties but teaching the same material. Having a quality online course permits the subject can be taught simultaneously to more students than the current capacity of the majority of classrooms. Courses can even be developed in collaboration with professors at other universities and made available to lecturers and students of several universities, even those not having the capacity to design and develop online course material. Online education and the availability of digital course material facilitate the regular adaptation of the course material to changing social questions and problems.\n\nThe implementation of online teaching implies that students possess a laptop and have stable WiFi access. Furthermore, it is necessary that the online teaching alternate with classroom sessions to maintain the face-to-face interaction between the lecturer and the students, and among the students. Communication and social contact are, in addition to the online learning of the study material, important. The classroom sessions can be dedicated to the discussion of course material alternating, for example, with project work eventually in cooperation with industrial and social actors. Diversity in the form of education is and remains a necessary component, and it is important that in the classroom sessions sufficient attention is being given to the social process of learning, implying social interactions and learning of social norms. The main advantage of blended teaching, whereby digital and face-to-face teaching alternate on a fixed schedule, when well-planned and organized, can reduce the teaching load of the academic staff. Also, a reduction of the teaching load can be achieved to make, for example, for the online question sessions appeal to teaching assistants (e.g., master and/or doctoral students) as to expose the future generation of docents timely to online teaching-learning situations (Badia, García, & Meneses, 2017).\n\nA reduction of the teaching workload of the academic staff, that urgently ought to be pursued, will permit the mid-age career and younger generation of the academic staff to engage in research. Similarly, to teaching, research is an essential component of a university or a technological school. Higher education institutes evolving from the old teaching-alone institutions should change to entrepreneurial institutions, requiring that parallel to the teaching profile, the university develops a performing research profile that culminates in the production of high-quality research output and patents. To make it happen, the university should develop policies facilitating the collaboration with the public and industrial sector. Additionally, the collaborating parties must have a common consensus based on a clear understanding of how both parties can create synergies and derive value (Eisenberg et al., 2019). For the public and private sector to be interested in collaborating with universities, the university ought to give evidence of possessing high-quality performing research units. Whereas in the past, a productive research unit could be a one-person business, today due to the complexity of the problems and the high associated costs of equipment and infrastructure, strong research groups have to be in place, preferably composed of various professors and research assistants, supported by either a master’s degree course or a doctoral program. Collaboration with other research groups at the national and international level is essential and will assist a research group to create research with impact. And here too, for example, to reduce the travel costs, the role of online discussions and meetings is becoming more important every day.\n\nAn additional advantage for a university possessing quality research groups is that they have the skills and capacity to generate funding through the formulation of winning research proposals at the national and international levels. Also, it will open the possibility of working with the public and private sector to formulate joint research projects. The availability of research projects will not only permit improvement and further development of the research infrastructure but also most importantly enable the hiring of more staff. If an institution today possessed this capacity, they might not have been forced by the Covid-19 induced budget cut of the government to modify staff’s contract from full-time to part-time, or even to end contracts. Certainly, in today’s crisis, it would be a benefit for UEPs possessing research resources which could partly be used to balance the restrictions on government allowances. Of course, the primary objective of research remains the generation of knowledge, problem-solving, and the contribution to the generation of innovative developments.\n\nWhereas before the coronavirus crisis, teaching, research, meetings, consultation of books and journals in the library, etc., took place in the university accommodation; today a strong shift towards online communication, teaching, learning and discussion, and working from home has surfaced and is becoming normal. It is evident that classroom teaching, laboratory, and field research within the university facilities should continue to the possible extent and that the synergies and trade-offs between teaching, research, and knowledge exchange are guaranteed, and should even come out stronger from this crisis. And why should not the universities use the crisis as an opportunity to proactively respond to the challenges and shoulder their responsibilities to demonstrate their commitment to society? As reported by Yong (2020), universities in the 21st century should be characterized by high-quality teaching, participation in learning, academic research, and innovation. Given the increasing ups and downs in the world, universities should stand up and be leading society safely ahead. Universities, although something they are not used to doing, should use the coronavirus pandemic to take up social responsibilities. For example, in May 2019, 12 universities from 9 countries founded the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate at the Tsinghua University (China), in response to the global challenges presented by climate change (Yong, 2020). Similar initiatives around specific aspects of the society can be taken at the national and regional levels, given universities at this level have the capacity and the will to collaborate. Let us hope that the coronavirus crisis will be a wake-up call for the public and private universities to work together to be capable of providing society the support it needs to make progress, not only for a few but for the entire community. Is it not a moral obligation, taking into account that both, the public and private UEPs are funded by the public, either via the government or partially via the income from registration fees and endowments given by private donors?\n\n\nWill Covid-19 enhance the collaboration within and among the UEPs, as leverage for more efficient use of the limited public resources and improvement of the institutions’ commitment to society? To achieve this objective, as highlighted in this manuscript, the Covid-19 associated move to online teaching must go beyond the technological change but also strive towards the inclusion of concepts of dialogic pedagogy and interdisciplinary teaching, whereby theory and languages from more than one discipline must merge to study a central theme. Both these aspects need to be considered to adapt the learning process to the changing challenges of society. Achieving this is a complex process, which requires cooperation between the lecturers of different disciplines, either belonging to one or different universities. If the implementation of online teaching is well planned, including the merging of similar courses across faculties and even institutions, the lecturers’ teaching load might drop. This will enable the academic staff to invest a realistic proportion of the weekly workload into research. To upgrade Ecuador’s research profile and to assure that the research addresses the problems of society, one should realize that research is no longer a one-man activity. It requires the presence of several high-functioning research groups in an institution, either linked with other research groups at the national and/or international level and even with the public or private sector. By linking research, and why not education as well, to social actors, the institution as a whole will be able to simultaneously improve its societal commitment image.\n\nAnalysis of the publication record of the public and private UEPs revealed that overall, as compared internationally, the Ecuadorian universities possess a poor publication record. Only nine universities (15% of all institutions) possess a Scopus document record of more than 1000, and only two universities (3%) a record larger than 2000. Research is very young in the country, and most journal articles registered in the Scopus database were published after 2000. The smaller institutions only possess articles registered in Scopus published in the period 2010-2020. This type of research is visible at the international level; at the national level exists a multitude of institutional and other journals, reflecting the strong fragmentation of research, the limited appearance to the outside world, and impact on society. The current moderate funding level of the public universities, the distribution of the resources across too many institutions, the lack of collaboration within and among institutions, and the anticipated decline in funding due to the Covid-19 pandemic implies that Ecuador’s scientific and innovative image will remain moderate for at least the next 10 to 20 years, and that progress of the country’s economy and welfare primarily will depend on technology imports. To accelerate the progress in research and its impact on society, one could consider evolving a limited group of universities with government support into undergraduate and graduate teaching-research institutions and the mass of smaller universities with a weak research profile into undergraduate educational institutions. 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+{"content": "Puppy Vaccination Schedule\n\n\nHow Many Vaccines do Puppies Need?\n\n\nWhat Age Do Puppies Get Rabies Vaccine?\nRabies is usually given at 16 weeks old then at 1 year old. After that - every 3 years.\n\n\nHow Often Do Puppies Need Bordetalla? \nThe vaccine Bordetalla is to prevent your pet from getting Kennel cough. The vaccine is short lived. They recommend giving bordetalla every 6 months, however, there is no reason to give your puppy bordetalla unless its constantly being exposed to the virus. If your pet goes out to public places or boarding facilities where alot of animals come and go such as: puppy preschool, dog obedience classes, dog parks, doggie daycare, dog shows, being admitted into the hospital for surgery etc...then it's a good idea to keep your pet current on bordetalla. Also, most grooming places will require your pet be current on the bordetella vaccine before they will let you make a grooming appt. \n\n\n(2) Examples of Recommended Schedules \n\nExample #1\n8 weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks then Rabies\n\n\nExample #2\n6 weeks, 10 weeks, 14 weeks, then Rabies\n\n\n\nAre Puppy Vaccinations Really that Important?\nYes, absolutely! The Vaccines that are injected into your puppy actually \"teach\" the immune system what the disease organisms looks like. This gives your puppy a huge advantage because once the body is familiar with these organisms it can create what's called \"anti-bodies.\"  These anti-bodies are awesome! Anti-bodies basically act as an \"army\" that will go to war for your puppies immune system and help fight off those Life Threatening diseases. Vaccines also helps decrease the diseases in the overall dog population. If you don't vaccinate your puppy, you ARE leaving them Completely UNPROTECTED & therefore at SERIOUS risk. If they come across any of the common deadly diseases, their body WON'T be prepared to fight ~ So their chances of survival are slim.\n\nDisclaimer: We are NOT licensed vets. DO NOT try to diagnose or treat animals based off this or any other information you find on the internet.  If you pet is having any kind of medical issues, please seek professional treatment from a licensed vet who is trained and set up to handle such matters.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6898146867752075}
+{"content": "类型：5爱体育英格兰足球超级联赛 A2155-2155792 地区：大家乐官网发布：2021-01-16 13:22:22\n\n\n万人棋牌游戏women. It can often make or break a relationship and women view the moment as the next huge step in a relationship. It's a huge step and one that guys don't necessarily understand the importa\n\nat life is about much more than their title or what they're making.25周年聚会时，每个人都经历了艰辛有失落、有失望，道并未如划想象。随年龄增大，人始明白，头和工作生活小的部分。But while our perspectives on what ml everyone what you plan to do and talk about your goals. Tell friends, employees and employers your intentions and you won’t want to let them down. For example, if you want to go to the gym eve\n\ndaring designs.她现在自己的作品很自，并且打算尝试一些更加大胆的设Speaking on her website, Ms Siskin, said: 'When I realized that food coloring could be added to the side-of-the-box recipe, I felt an immediwhere even very small premature babies are taken out of the incubator to be skin to skin with their parents as much as possible,” notes the text.文章提到“瑞典教授尤韦•爱华德来到丹麦的维伏尔（H\n\noredom, lack of confidence in the project, lack of self-confidence, and feeling overwhelmed. Once you know the reason, it’s a matter of finding things to remedy it and cut your procrastination oht-Kampff机器则包能戴在朵上的装置，它以测量皮肤温度心率反应和瞳孔扩程度等。The team’s fictional speculative device is set against an online dating backdrop and is designed, in theory, to determine how the\n\nntion by posting the snap of the happy couple on Imgur (I’m sure Sam appreciated that!) and Sam and Ruby have since become internet superstars. They might not have gone to prom together but they\n\n日出或日落Send texts, emails or handwrite a brief note of friendship, love or gratitude to a friend.给一位朋友发封有关友谊爱或感的短信邮件或手写张简单的便条。De-clutter a messy home or work area.收拾下乱七八糟的家或nce of because we tend to do it more often than women. Men introduce a romantic partner to our families, not always because we feel it's time, but often because it gets them to stop asking about t\n\nsitting at your desk, stretch your toes back towards your ankle, do heel raises, or stretch your calves. Women’s Health has helpful diagrams of stretches heel wearers should master. 由于长期“当女性朋友穿高跟鞋参加商务会时，在坐下以后就以把你的双脚从鞋子里解放出来”在真正有必的时才穿高跟鞋大大减小你患高跟鞋引起的健康题的能，如踝关节伤，早期骨关节炎和其他关节问题5. STRETCH YOUR TOES AND FEET TO MINIMIZE PAIN.\n\n万人棋牌游戏etecting empathy will become a major component of future communications.“大家把这这个装置作为例子，用来构建一情绪测成为未来沟通主要组成部分的世界“We take inspiration from the sci-fi film \"Blade\n\n\n\n\nCopyright © 2015-2020 [万人棋牌游戏]   网站地图Inc. All Rights Reserved.\n\n\nXML 地图 | Sitemap 地图", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5565598011016846}
+{"content": "SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online\n\nvol.14 número8Modification of a Constitutive Model in the Framework of a Multilaminate Method for Post-Liquefaction Sand índice de autoresíndice de assuntospesquisa de artigos\nHome Pagelista alfabética de periódicos  \n\nServiços Personalizados\n\n\n\n\nLinks relacionados\n\n\nLatin American Journal of Solids and Structures\n\n\nLat. Am. j. solids struct. vol.14 no.8 Rio de Janeiro ago. 2017 \n\n\nAnalysis of Structural Crashworthiness and Estimating Safety Limit Accounting for Ship Collisions on Strait Territory\n\nAditya Rio Prabowoa \n\nDong Myung Baeb \n\nJoung Hyung Choa \n\nJung Min Sohnb \n\na Interdisciplinary Program of Marine Convergence Design, Pukyong National University, South Korea\n\nb Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, Pukyong National University, South Korea []\n\n\nA series of analyses are carried out to predict the structural crashworthiness of a ship during a collision. The numerical configuration is verified by structural simulations based on a laboratory experiment wherein a penetration test is considered as the experimental reference. Comparative observations of structural behaviour are carefully conducted to ensure the reliability of the present method for conducting large-scale collisions. At this stage, the proper procedure and configuration for structural calculations subject to accidental loads are determined. The second stage addresses the calculations for various side collision scenarios. The simulations consider a double hull Ro-Ro passenger ship being struck at various locations, and the overall behaviour of the side hull along the longitudinal axis is observed. The main study considers the target location and striking speed to obtain adequate data related to crashworthiness criteria, i.e. the internal energy and extent of damage. Finally, the criteria of various scenarios are summarized. Further calculations comparing the results with a safety factor are presented together with a consideration of structural behaviour to estimate the safety limit within the confines of strait territory.\n\nKeywords: Collision phenomenon; penetration test; target location; striking velocity; crashworthiness criteria; speed limit\n\n\nCurrently, there is growing public demand for reductions in the risk to human lives and pollution at sea, as well as to minimize the damage caused by ship accidents resulting from impacts or accidental loads, namely collisions. Shipping safety and marine pollution are inextricably linked, and the protection of the environment from major disasters caused by ships sinking is rather complex. Efforts to protect the safety of ships and the sea environment are generally divided into two classes: active and passive methods (Törnqvist, 2003). Active methods assume that navigation equipment, crew training, and traffic control systems can prevent accidents from taking place, whereas passive methods attempt to minimize the consequences by, for instance, enhancing the crashworthiness of hull structures or improving rescue operations. Several studies have been conducted on decision making and detection methods related to collisions as an effort to improve ship safety (Zhang et al., 2015a, b). Collisions between ships and collision accidents with bridges have also been considered (Perera and Soares, 2015). Ship safety following a collision accident event is bound to the collision phenomenon according to the external dynamics and internal mechanics (Minorsky, 1958). The external dynamics concern the global motions of the ship during the collision event, whereas the internal mechanics focus on the volume of the damaged material. In ship-to-ship collision events, the impact energy is mainly absorbed by large structural deformations on the struck ship. If the outer shell of the struck ship resists the penetration of the striking ship without the inner shell rupturing, damage to passenger cargo can be minimized in a Ro-Ro passenger ship and oil spillage and flooding can be avoided in a tanker carrier. This concept has been applied in several pioneering studies, namely those of Lützen (2001), Bae et al. (2016a, b), and Prabowo (2016a, b). Furthermore, the influence of the external dynamics on ship safety following a collision accident is very significant. The international certification institution and classification societies Det Norske Veritas (from Norway) and Germanischer Lloyd (from Germany), collectively known as DNV-GL, introduced the critical collision speed into ship collision analysis (DNV-GL, 2013). The importance of this factor was strengthened by the collision phenomenon theory of Minorsky (1958), who found that ship speed is included in the external dynamics and contributes significantly to the collision calculation results.\n\nThis study is a continuation of the assessment of structural behaviour in ship collisions by Bae (2016a) and Prabowo (2017a-c) which expands into observations of the damage tendency and speed analysis in certain regions. The location and speed are considered as the main parameters in order to evaluate crashworthiness criteria in the event of a collision between two ships. The extent of the damage to the side structure after the collision process is summarized into statistical data that can be used to estimate the critical scenario. Finally, an alternative procedure for collision analysis is presented together with predictions of the double hull condition after impact.\n\n\n2.1 Fundamental Basis and Pioneer Work\n\nTo consider the external dynamics during a collision process between two objects, the defining parameters must be determined to enable realistic research scenarios to be constructed from the actual situation. This step is applied using a simplified concept, as given in Fig. 1, which is built according to the Cartesian coordinate system. The nomenclature includes: X = the longitudinal (x) axis of Ship A, Y = the transverse (y) axis of Ship A, 1 = the 1-axis of Ship B, 2 = the 2-axis of Ship B, c = the contact point between Ship A and Ship B, α = the angle between the X-axis and the η-axis, β = the angle between the X-axis and the 1-axis, ξ = the normal direction to the impact surface, = the normal force to the impact surface, η = the tangential direction to the impact surface, Fη = the tangential force to the impact surface. The external dynamics of ship collisions determine the action during the collision process. According to Newton’s Third Law, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.\n\nFigure 1: The coordinate system used for analysis ship-ship collision (Zhang, 1999). \n\nThis means that in every interaction, there is a pair of forces acting on the two interacting objects. The size of the forces on the first object equals the size of the forces on the second object. When external dynamics control the collision process, the reaction on the ships structure is referred to as the internal mechanics of ship collision. Internal mechanics are the effect of the external dynamics and some main parameters from both the struck and striking ships. The main reaction that will occur is absolute damage to the ships’ structure. In a collision event between a rigid striking bow and a deformable struck ship, the side structure of the struck ship will experience deformation, destruction, or penetration. The deformation and destruction of the struck ship may include tension of the shell plating, crushing of the transverse frames and longitudinal stringer, and crushing of the bottom of the decks. The resistance of each component can be calculated by summarising all resistances, including the total resistance and dissipated energy. An initial deformation of a side shell plating using this analytical illustration is presented in Fig. 2. The case where a striking bow impacts the centre of a shell plate with boundaries at the adjacent decks and transverse frame is considered for further calculation. The distance between the two decks is 2b. The illustration also implicitly states that the rupture and failure contours during and after collision are highly influenced by the design criteria of the ship, especially the width of the double hull.\n\nFigure 2: Illustration during a striking bow hit a side structure. The illustration is adopted from (Zhang, 1999). \n\n2.2 Design Criteria for Ship Structure\n\nThe structural design of ships carrying dangerous goods or passengers must satisfy the Oil Pollution Act (OPA) of 1990 and equivalent International Maritime Organization (IMO) requirements. Although passenger ships do not carry dangerous goods or pollutants as their main cargo, human lives are unacceptable casualties in any collision accident. The primary safety requirements are to arrange a double bottom of a required minimum height and double sides of a required minimum width. In this context, the height requirement for the double bottom is essential in grounding accidents. Nevertheless, accounting for side collisions, the required width of the double sides will be reviewed. OPA and IMO require that the minimum size of the wing ballast tank and double bottom or void space is not less than the value given by Equation (1) (Rigo and Rizzuto, 2003) and Equation (2) (IMO, 1996).\n\nw = 0 . 5 + ( D W T 20,000 ) ( m ) or w = 2 . 0 m , whichever is the lesser . The minimum value of w = 1 . 0 m . (1)\n\nh = B / 15 ( m ) or h = 2 . 0 m , whichever is the lesser . The minimum value of h = 1 . 0 m . (2)\n\nF x h c x ρ c x g + p d n x ρ s x g (3)\n\nwhere w is the width of the double side, DWT is the deadweight of the ship, h is the height of the double bottom, B is the breadth of the ship, f is safety factor, hc is the height of cargo in contact with the bottom shell plating, ϱ c is the maximum cargo density, g is the standard acceleration of gravity, p is the maximum set pressure above atmospheric pressure (gauge pressure) of pressure/vacuum valve provided for the cargo tank, d n is the minimum operating draught under any expected loading condition and ρs is the density of seawater.\n\nThe spaces required by this regulation may be dispensed with, provided that the design of the tanker is such that the cargo and vapour pressure exerted on the bottom shell plating forming a single boundary between the cargo and the sea does not exceed the external hydrostatic water pressure, as expressed by Equation (3). The accidental limit state of this paper is determined by the integrity and performance of the struck ship’s structure. The structural design criteria relate the structural integrity to performance. For ship collisions, the design criteria are based on limiting the accidental consequences of structural damage and environmental pollution, as well as ensuring that the main safety functions of the ship’s structure are not impaired to a significant extent during any accidental event or within a certain time period thereafter. The structural performance of a ship against collision or impact load can be measured by the energy absorption capability and maximum penetration in an accident. According to previous work (Wang et al., 2001), the design acceptance criteria may be based on the minimum distance of cargo containment from the outer shell and ship speed above which a critical event, for example breaching of cargo containment, happens. The design results must satisfy the requirements that cargo tanks/holds are not breached or will survive an accident (e.g. collision and grounding) and the ship will not break apart.\n\nThe influence of speed is vital in the event of collisions between ships and in collisions between a ship and a bridge. A survey of international bridge projects (Pedersen et al., 1998; ISSC, 2006) concluded that a risk analysis required the selection of a design collision scenario such as ship speed to measure collision severity. According to this conclusion, the cost of safety measures become important when control options are exercised to reduce the risks associated with collisions and groundings. Ship speed and other factors, e.g. traffic lanes, are also defined as ship operator risk options and societal responsibilities. In terms of speed, the ship’s design can be assessed by calculating the probability distributions of kinetic energy when sailing with a known displacement and speed, and the hull’s crashworthiness is estimated for a given area of navigation (ISSC, 2006). These references indicate that ship speed is closely related with damage level in the collision process, and so a proper assessment is required to ensure the safety of ships passing through certain traffic lanes. From another perspective, the safety of traffic lanes is the responsibility of society, and so ship speeds should be regulated. The influence and effect of safe ship speeds in certain regions should therefore be assessed and determined, especially in terms of collisions and other impact-accident phenomena.\n\n\n3.1 Setting and Configuration\n\nAn experimental study by Alsos and Amdahl (2009), which deals with hull damage in ships, is re-conducted as a verification of the numerical methodology. Although their experiment addressed grounding impact, it is considered good enough to use as a reference for ship collisions and ice-structure interaction. The concept of the experiment involves the forcing of an indenter in a stiffened plate model. The plate target consists of three components, namely the plate, stiffener, and a hollow frame; the properties of these components are described in Table 1. During the experiment, the indenter penetrates the plate to a depth of approximately 0.25 m while the plate is supported by the hollow frame. This experiment is re-performed using the finite element codes of ANSYS LS-DYNA (ANSYS, 2017). The idealized model of the stiffened plate is built and implemented using fully integrated Belytschko-Tsay shell elements. The indenter is set to move to the centre of the plate with a constant velocity of 0.6 m/s. The mesh size of each component of the stiffened plate is successively set to 10, 15, and 25 mm. The results in terms of the crushing force and extent of damage will be compared with the experimental results.\n\nTable 1: Material properties for the stiffened plate (Alsos and Amdahl, 2009). \n\nMaterial type Component Material grade K (MPa) n εplate εf σY (MPa)\nA Plate S235JR-EN10025 640 0.22 0.003 0.35 260\nB Stiffener S235JR-EN10025 760 0.225 0.015 0.35 340\nC Hollow frame S235JR-EN100210 830 0.18 0.01 0.28 390\n\n3.2 Results\n\nThe calculation results are discussed in this sub-section. The damages in the actual experiment and in the numerical calculations are shown in Fig. 3. The damage in the numerical study shows that the highest stress was experienced by the stiffener during penetration. This component experienced high stress concentration on the lower part (denoted by red in Fig. 3b) which caused folding in this component along the plate.\n\nFigure 3: Extent of damage on the stiffened plate. Folded stiffener in (a) actual experiment (Alsos and Amdahl, 2009) is found match with extreme stress contour as shown in (b) numerical calculation. \n\nThe numerical study gives satisfactory results when compared with the actual experiment. The stiffener experienced folding along the plate due to continuous penetration by the indenter. The next comparison examines the force fluctuation during penetration. The results from the actual experiment are presented together with the numerical analysis given by varying the mesh size of the model. The force fluctuations in Fig. 4a indicate that the actual experiment and numerical study have a similar incremental tendency, although there are some differences in the magnitude and position of the peak point. The element length ( le ) of 15 mm produces good similarity with the actual experiment. The gap between the peak points in the two studies is less than 25 mm, which is very small. The contribution of the element size to the numerical calculation affects the structural responses, including the energy (Fig. 4b). Larger elements produce a greater response. However, the similarity of the force and energy tendencies with 15 and 25 mm element sizes explicitly indicates that the effect of element sizes larger than 25 mm will not be remarkable. The overall observations in terms of several crashworthiness criteria, i.e. extent of damage, force, and energy, show that the present methodology for conducting numerical analysis is satisfactory, and can therefore be implemented in further collision analysis.\n\nFigure 4: Structural response in crushing process of the stiffened plate: (a) force and (b) energy. \n\n\n4.1 Engineering Model\n\nWhen a collision takes place between two ships, we denote the struck ship (Fig. 5a), in which the target location is determined, and the striking ship (Fig. 5b), whose bow penetrates the designated target points on the struck ship. The main dimensions for these ships are presented in Table 2. The struck ship is augmented by deformable characteristic, and the striking ship is idealized as a rigid body. The ships are modelled and discretized with fully integrated Belytschko-Tsay shell elements. The mesh size should be small enough to capture the major deformation contour, but sufficiently large to ensure a practical calculation time. Ratios of element-length-to-thickness of between 5-10 (Törnqvist and Simonsen, 2004) are considered in this study. When a collision takes place, the two ships interact. Therefore, a general steel-steel friction coefficient (μ) is implemented in describing the contact.\n\nFigure 5: Models of the involved ships for collision analysis [10]: (a) the struck ship (fore end) and (b) the striking ship. \n\nTable 2: Main dimensions of the involved ships. \n\nDimension Struck ship Striking ship\nDeadweight (ton) 683 t 7906 t\nLength over all (m) 85.92 m 144.50 m\nLength between perpendicular (m) 78.00 m 19.80 m\nBreadth moulded (m) 15.00 m 5.60 m\nDepth (m) 10.40 m 10.20 m\n\nThe deformable model (the struck ship) is augmented by a steel material, which is idealized as plastic-kinematic (ANSYS, 2017). The rigid body (the striking ship) is modelled with a rigid material that shares fundamental properties with the deformable model. The properties of both material models are presented in Table 3. In the collision process, the displacement on the struck ship is set to be fixed at the centreline. The fixation is applied at the end of the model on the transverse frame. At this location, the axial displacement of the shell plating is restrained.\n\nTable 3: Mechanical properties for deformable and rigid bodies. \n\nMechanical properties Deformable model Rigid body\nDensity (kg/m3) 7850 7850\nYoung's modulus (Pa) 2.1 x 1011 2.1 x 1011\nPoisson’s ratio 0.30 0.30\nYield stress (Pa) 4.4 x 108 -\nFailure strain 0.20 -\n\n4.2 Scenario Arrangement and Defined Collision Model\n\nIn the present study, the target location and speed of the striking ship are taken as the main parameters. The objectives of the main study are as follows: first, to produce reference data from a series of collision analyses, and second, to analyse the resulting data and conclude a speed limit for both ships according to the operational territory. To achieve these purposes, a series of analyses is carried out using more than 30 collision scenarios. To manage the large number of scenarios, the present work is divided into two phases, namely observation on crashworthiness criteria and a discussion of speed limits. All results are used in formulating our conclusions and recommendations in the final part of this paper.\n\nThe target location is determined along the longitudinal axis of the ship’s hull. The coordinate of the target point in each region is the same in terms of the vertical axis: 10.25 m from the baseline. As for the longitudinal axis, the distance between target points is also the same, and 25 target points are deployed to define 25 collision scenarios. The target location is illustrated in Fig. 6. During the collision, an approximate speed of 12 kts (6 m/s) is used. To assess the speed of the striking ship, four regions of the struck ship are classified (see Table 4). In each region, four applied speeds for the striking ship are considered (from 5-20 kts (approx. 2.5-10 m/s) in increments of 5 kts) to observe the capability and behaviour of the struck ship’s side structure during impact.\n\nFigure 6: Illustration of the defined collision scenarios for each study: (a) target location and (b) striking speed. \n\nTable 4: Division of the struck ship’s hull and double hull spacing for each target point. \n\nRegion Point number Width (m)\nAfter end 1,2 1.5174 - 3.1313\nMiddle 1 3,4,5,6,7,8 0\nMiddle 2 9,10,11,12,13,14,15 1.5000\nMiddle 3 16,17,18,19 2.4979\nMiddle 4 20,21 3.4108\nFore end 22,23,24,25 3.0812 - 3.5026\n\n\nThis section presents the analysis results of a finite element simulation. The presentation of results is divided into three main sub-sections, namely: collision location, striking ship speed, and overall discussion on speed limits.\n\n5.1 Phase 1: Target Location\n\nThe analysis in this section was conducted to observe the effect of collision load on the ship’s hull in terms of the longitudinal direction (or x-axis, according to the Cartesian coordinate system). As mentioned in the previous section, 25 target points were assigned on the side hull of the struck ship. The different structural preferences in size and arrangement produced nonlinearities in the calculation results.\n\nThe structural crashworthiness of the side structure is summarised in Table 5. As well as a finite element simulation, a statistical analysis was used to determine the tendency of the data. The statistical results indicate that the global data exhibit a high variation in terms of the internal energy, which matches the characteristics of the side structure. The internal energy represents the amount of energy needed to plastically deform the entities involved in an impact. In extreme situations, such as collisions, grounding, and explosions, the energy is not only used to plastically deform the target structure, but also to destroy it. As stated above, this tendency satisfies the correlation between the energy and structural arrangement. The energy in the middle regions has a larger magnitude than at the aft and fore ends, which indicates that the middle regions are harder to destroy during a collision.\n\nTable 5: Calculation results based on study of the target locations. \n\nLocation no. xcoordinate (m) Internal energy (MJ) Damage extent\nTearing [outer shell] Disp. (m) Tearing [inner shell] Disp. (m)\nLength (m) Width (m) Length (m) Width (m)\n1 -39 8.559 3.345 1.350 2.249 1.687 0.389 1.749\n2 -35.75 9.120 4.207 1.932 2.249 0.000 0.000 0.500\n3 -32.5 5.958 4.091 2.836 2.249 0.000 0.000 0.000\n4 -29.25 7.254 3.725 2.481 2.249 0.000 0.000 0.000\n5 -26 7.317 3.234 0.501 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.000\n6 -22.75 4.258 1.680 0.408 2.249 0.000 0.000 0.000\n7 -19.5 9.172 3.092 0.370 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.000\n8 -16.25 9.202 3.346 2.429 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.000\n9 -13 9.335 3.227 2.425 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.750\n10 -9.75 10.047 3.594 2.474 1.999 0.851 0.094 0.750\n11 -6.5 9.887 3.592 2.335 1.999 1.091 0.093 0.750\n12 -3.25 9.627 3.839 2.483 1.999 0.735 0.102 0.500\n13 0 9.628 4.076 2.486 1.999 0.850 0.093 0.500\n14 3.25 9.677 2.992 2.687 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.500\n15 6.5 9.794 2.718 0.556 1.749 0.000 0.000 0.750\n16 9.75 8.599 4.802 1.215 1.999 0.000 0.000 0.750\n17 13 9.889 5.731 1.223 1.866 0.000 0.000 0.746\n18 16.25 9.498 5.025 1.159 1.622 0.000 0.000 0.541\n19 19.5 10.349 4.536 1.661 1.499 0.000 0.000 0.500\n20 22.75 10.894 4.746 1.269 1.399 0.000 0.000 0.700\n21 26 8.613 5.204 1.721 1.394 0.000 0.000 0.279\n22 29.25 6.833 3.760 2.503 1.749 0.000 0.000 0.250\n23 32.5 7.392 2.732 3.389 1.749 0.000 0.000 0.250\n24 35.75 7.702 3.014 3.245 1.749 0.000 0.000 0.500\n25 39 4.537 2.213 0.734 1.749 0.000 0.000 0.250\nMean 8.526 3.701 1.835 1.910 0.209 0.031 0.521\nStandard error 0.346 0.191 0.182 0.051 0.091 0.017 0.074\nStandard deviation 1.729 0.957 0.909 0.255 0.453 0.083 0.372\nSample variation 2.991 0.916 0.826 0.065 0.206 0.007 0.139\nConfidence level (95%) 0.678 0.375 0.356 0.100 0.178 0.032 0.146\n\nThe trend in the internal energy along the side hull is shown in Fig. 7. In these specific regions, the middle region were found harder to be penetrated than other regions. This trend is obtained because in ship design, the middle regions are designed to be stronger than the aft and fore ends to counter the maximum bending moment which occurrs in this part. Major fluctuations occur at the aft and fore ends. At the aft end, two target points produced remarkable differences, with point 1 displaying a tear in both shells and point 2 only suffering some displacement of the inner shell. This result is influenced by the arrangement of the side structure at the aft end, where there is a region without a double hull (denoted as the middle 1). Point 2 is closer to the middle 1 and suffered only minor damage to the inner shell after the collision process. In the middle regions, the collision produced relatively stable results in terms of the energy. Verification of the energy summary per target is presented in Fig. 8, which shows that the middle structure has a more uniform response than other regions. The tendency of the force fluctuation is shown in Fig. 9. The crushing force is defined as the amount of force experienced by the target structure during penetration by the striking ship. Besides its similarity, the average crushing force of the middle 2 is higher than in other regions because, in this location, the double hull width is the lowest (1.5 m). During penetration, the striking ship pushes back the inner shell. Therefore, the force graph of this region shows an incremental tendency until the end of the collision. This phenomenon validates the global result in the location study (Table 5), which indicates that the inner shell in this region got displaced in range 0.5-0.75 m.\n\nFigure 7: Internal energy characteristic along ship hull in longitudinal direction. \n\nFigure 8: Behavior of the internal energy during penetration per target location. \n\nFigure 9: Fluctuation of the crushing force during side collisions. \n\nHowever, at some points on the aft end and middle regions, notable results occurred. The displacement of the outer shell exceeded the width of the double side structure, indicating that the inner shell was also displaced or even penetrated by the striking ship. At location number 1, the displacement exceeded 1.5 m, whereas at locations 2-8, no damage to the inner shell was detected because there is no inner shell in this region. If the outer shell is breached by any striking object, the extent of damage to passenger cargo near this area can be immense. The damage to the inner shell was dominated by displacement, while tearing was also found at locations 10-13. In this area, direct contact between the cargo and the striking ship is inevitable. After collision, the displaced inner shell is likely to deliver a vital blow to any cargo. Another critical situation is expected to occur along the middle region (locations 7-20), where the highest deformation is 0.75 m. Despite this result, the global structure reaction along the side hull is good during a collision with a striking object with speed 6 m/s, as no sporadic fatal damage occurred on the inner shell. The tendency for tearing damage on the inner shell only occurred in five locations, with tear lengths greater than 1 m in only two locations or 8% of total scenarios. It can be initially concluded that the possibility of fatal damage during collision with a striking speed of 6 m/s along the side shell is less than 10%, with the highest likelihood of tearing and displacement on the edge of the aft region where passenger cargo is unlikely to be placed.\n\nThe interaction between damage extent on the outer and inner shells is presented in Fig. 10. This shows that damage to the outer shell tends to reduce from aft to fore end as the width between the outer and inner shells increases. However, the tendency for damage to the inner shell increases at the middle region and reduces toward the aft and fore end regions. This result matches the safety characteristic of the fore end, where the double hull size is the widest among all regions, and no displacement of the inner wall was observed during and after the collision process.\n\nFigure 10: Interaction of element displacement at the both of shells. \n\n5.2 Phase 2: Striking Speed\n\nThe striking speed is considered to be a major parameter in terms of the external dynamics. Several striking ship speeds are reviewed to determine the influence of this parameter during impact at different locations. The main considerations are taken from structural crashworthiness criteria, i.e. structural displacement and internal energy. The structural displacement in Fig. 11 shows a tendency for the outer shell to experience more damage than the inner shell at all striking speeds in the case of side collision. This result satisfies the design criteria against accidental loads for ships, where damage (in this case represented by displacement) to the inner shell must be minimized during a collision.\n\nFigure 11: Tendency of the structural displacement on double hull structure against several striking speeds. \n\nThe lower extent on the inner shell indicates that less damage is experienced by this component, as the major damage has been absorbed by the outer shell. In assessing the displacement to the inner shell, a 15-kts collision speed (approx. 7.72 m/s) produces a displacement of 0.5 m. This value can be used to make a rough estimation that the ship’s cargo may be deformed or displaced from its initial location. The results presented in Fig. 9 describe the extent of the damage to the fore end region, which has the widest double hull space of the struck ship. The displacement of 0.5 m is already considered critical in this study, as this collision model may occur to other regions that have lower double hull spaces than the fore end. Beyond this point, side collision with a striking ship moving at 20 kts (approx. 10 m/s) results in immense damage, with the outer shell suffering displacement of over 4 m and the inner shell being displaced more than 1 m. Confirmation of the energy characteristics at each striking speed (Fig. 10) show the good correlation between higher energy being produced at higher collision speeds.\n\nAs can be observed in Fig. 12, during low-speed (5 kts) collisions, the resulting energies are similar at the aft end, middle region, and fore end. Based on this study, the low-speed category is defined as 0-5 kts (approx. 2.5 m/s). After exceeding 5 kts, the internal energy starts to diverge, but close similarity remains in the middle and fore end regions. Significant damage occurs in collisions with a striking speed of 15 kts (approx. 7.7 m/s), as the gap between target regions is quite significant with differences estimated at more than 5 MJ. At this speed, the middle regions, which are designed to endure bending and shear loads, still show a degree of similarity. This statement is supported by the detailed internal energy results for each collision model at various striking speeds. The most remarkable energy needed to destroy the double hull structure is observed at the middle 2 region (Fig. 13). The overall results indicate that the middle regions retain higher resistance capability than other regions. The results in this figure also indicate that the energy for all collision models in this sub-section is strongly correlated with the collision speed. Higher striking speeds will produce higher magnitudes of energy. Similar results are also expected in terms of the force experienced by the double hull in the collision process. As presented in Fig. 14, the aft and fore end regions produce less crushing force when the striking bow impacts the double hull structure. The tendencies of the energy and force are easier to observe when the striking speed is deployed as the input parameter instead of the location. The results indicate that the structural behaviour of the double hull varies along the longitudinal axis for an idealized passenger ship. The implementation of the transverse framing system is believed to be the main cause for this tendency. The pattern of webbing and main frame in the double hull structure is considered to be non-uniform.\n\nFigure 12: The internal energy of all impact scenarios in study of the striking speed. \n\nFigure 13: Increment progress of the internal energy in collision process. \n\nFigure 14: Fluctuation of the crushing force for each region by different striking speeds. \n\nThe results of this study indicate that hull strength is a satisfactory characteristic for the resistance capability of the middle regions against an impact load. The strength and structural response of the observed points on the middle regions have to be similar, because a remarkable gap in terms of strength may affect the ship’s response when experiencing dynamic loads, e.g. sagging and hogging. The striking speed of 15 kts is considered to be the limit at which the struck ship remains stable following a collision. Even though the middle regions behave similarity until 15 kts, at a speed of 20 kts, the internal energy shows large gaps in the behaviour of all regions. Considering the extent of damage in Fig. 11, the results of the internal energy support the tendency of the displacement level of the outer and inner shells after collision processes. Higher speeds produce greater damage and more internal energy. At the same time, immense damage in the form of displacement is associated with the high energy levels of a 20-kts collision (approx. 10 m/s). Collisions at this speed should be avoided at all costs; otherwise, after-collision disasters such as capsizing, sinking, or even explosions will produce marine casualties (IMO, 1972) in the form of deaths of the crew and passengers, abandonment of the ship, material damage, and severe damage to the environment.\n\n5.3 Phase 3: Overall Discussion of the Present Results and Existing Safety Factors\n\nThis study has assessed several crashworthiness criteria during ship collisions. The scenarios refer to a collision incident on the Sunda strait territory approximately three years ago. In this instance, a T-collision occurred between two ships, producing remarkable structural damage on the side structure of the struck ship, i.e. passenger ship (details can be obtained from Bae et al., 2016b and Prabowo et al., 2017a). This strait is a major voyage route in the southern seas. The main destinations along this route are Fremantle (Australia), Jakarta (Indonesia), and Singapore. The Sunda strait connects two main islands of Indonesia, namely Java and Sumatra. Ro-Ro passenger ships dominate the route from Merak to Bakauheni, which runs east-to-west. These routes inevitably lead to crossing situations, which may result in impact incidents, i.e. side collisions. The high possibility of crossing situations causing collisions is detailed in the Collision Regulation (COLREGS) (IMO, 1972). Considering the data produced by our numerical analysis, we estimate a speed limit for ships passing through the Sunda strait. Such regulations can be implemented by Indonesia, as the strait is in an exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which allows a country to conserve and manage natural resources, such as by protecting the water environment from pollution due to various causes, e.g. collision incidents (National Government, 1983; Patuzi, 2015; IMO, 2008).\n\nBased on the results in the preceding sub-sections, speeds of 0-5 kts tend not to cause any displacement of the inner shell after collision. The displacement of the outer shell is less than 0.6 m at these speeds. During a collision in this speed range, damage to the middle 1 region, which does not have an inner shell, is still considered safe, as the displacement in the outer shell is not remarkable. At 10 kts, the outer shell is displaced by more than 1.5 m, but the inner shell exhibits a similar displacement to that at lower collisions speeds. Confirmation of the internal energy shows a reasonable pattern, as the energy in each region is not scattered significantly. The location study in sub-section 5.1 found large-scale damage at only three locations along the side hull. The safe condition is maintained when the striking ship is moving at 12 kts. However, above 15 kts, both the outer and inner shells suffer large displacements and are subjected to high energies. The structural crashworthiness at these two speeds is considered remarkable, and such collisions should be prevented. To compare the results with a safety estimation, the recommended safety factor for impact load (Rosato and Rosato, 2003) is applied. The safety factor is a ratio between the yield state and the working stress. The yield state is considered to be the failure state, which occurs during the 15-kts collision, and the working state is determined as the 5-kts collision (i.e. no major damage to either shell after collision). To expand our observations on this factor, the 10-kts collision is included for comparison. The internal energy represents the capability of the structure to resist penetration perpendicular to the experienced stress/force (Bae et al., 2016a, b; Prabowo et al., 2016a, b; 2017a-d). Therefore, the magnitude of the internal energy is used to assess the safety condition of the structures against side collision loads. The results of the striking speed and comparison with the safety factor are presented in Tables 6 and 7, respectively. The results for the middle 2 and 3 regions are calculated, as these regions are located in the middle ship area which experiences high bending loads and are stronger than the middle 1 and 4 locations, which are near the aft and fore end regions.\n\nTable 6: The internal energy for different regions subjected to various striking speed. \n\nSpeed (kt) Internal energy (MJ)\nAfter end Middle 2 Middle 3 Fore end\n5 1.31 1.63 1.21 1.31\n10 6.39 6.89 7.04 4.92\n15 13.02 17.18 16.54 9.34\n20 22.11 33.88 30.40 19.49\n\nTable 7: Calculation of safety factor and comparison with the proposed factor of (Rosato and Rosato, 2003). \n\nLocation Calculated factor Load type\n5 kts 10 kts Static short-term Static long-term Repeated Variable change Fatigue Impact\nAfter end 10 2 1 - 2.5 2 - 5 5 - 15 4 - 10 5 - 10 10 - 15\nMiddle 2 11 2\nMiddle 3 14 2\nFore end 7 2\n\nBased on the presented calculation results in this discussion, most components of the 5-kts striking speed fulfil the safety factors. The 10-kts speed matches the static short-term load, but does not satisfy the impact load factor. Although also included in the static long-term load, this load time does not satisfy the collision load characteristics over short periods of time. This comparison indicates that only the 5-kts striking speed adheres to the proposed factors. However, it is not feasible to apply this speed limit in all conditions when a ship uses the Sunda strait. The 10-kts speed satisfies the factor representing the characteristic of collision load (static short-term load), and can therefore be used as the upper speed limit when crossing situations are expected to occur. Serious attention should be given to navigational instruments and the role of the communication tower in both ports to observe voyage conditions on the strait. During certain dangerous situations, e.g. bad visibility due to fog and limited manoeuvrability because of the local topology, the lower speed limit of 5 kts is strongly encouraged. This should be implemented by ship crew, port communication tower staff at the Merak and Bakuheni ports, and weather/meteorology/geophysics monitoring staff in observing and monitoring voyage activities on the Sunda strait. In forming considerations based on absolute safety, the safety of the limiting design should be calculated using a safety factor. There are no hard and fast rules in setting a safety factor. As the occurrence of ship collisions is very nonlinear, the most basic consideration in applying a safety factor is the consequence of failure. There are five additional conditions to be taken into consideration: (1) variation in structural arrangement along the ship’s hull; (2) variation in double hull performance; (3) effect of stating material strength properties; (4) type of loading (static, dynamic, etc.); and (5) overall concern for human safety.\n\n\nThis study provides sufficient data to determine a speed limit along a specific international shipping route. The study was performed using finite element simulations that to calculate various defined scenarios based on the impact location and striking speed. The first phase was to observe global reactions along the hull of a ship subjected to a side collision. This study was followed by a second phase in which we obtained information regarding the structural response at different striking speeds. The magnitude of internal energy and extent of damage were calculated and assessed as representative of crashworthiness criteria. After conducting these two phases, the safety factor of the structure was calculated. As part of an overall discussion to determine a speed limit, the shipping route, collision regulations, international maritime territory classification, and existing safety factors must be considered. There are two main remarks about this study. First, the load type was considered in assessing which impact load safety factor was used for the main comparison. As an additional parameter, the collision characteristic was also applied, with the static short-term load safety factor chosen. The impact load was used to determine the lower limit, whereas the short-term load was applied to assess the upper limit. The assumptions used in calculating the safety factor can be substituted for other parameters related to the applied stress/force and the internal energy. However, the substituted parameters should be closely related both mathematically and physically, e.g., energy and force are related structural responses. Second, based on the analysis and assessment of the crashworthiness criteria in terms of the internal energy and extent of damage, it can be concluded that the recommended speed for the strait considered in this study is 5-10 kts when a crossing situation is expected to occur. Higher speeds can be used during clear conditions (good visibility and manoeuvrability) and when no crossing situations will take place. For crossing situations in clear conditions, an operational speed limit of 10 kts can be applied. However, in bad weather when vision and manoeuvrability are restricted, the speed limit should be reduced to 5 kts.\n\nIn the case of collisions involving significant nonlinearities, this study can be considered as an adequate reference for other impact analyses and calculations. 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+{"content": "ATJA Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:01:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 2019 ATJA President’s Update Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:59:25 +0000 2019 ATJA President's Update ]]> BOD Meeting Minutes 2018 Sun, 14 Jul 2019 16:51:49 +0000 BOD Minutes 2018 ]]> October 2018 Newsletter Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:17:01 +0000 View the October 2018 newsletter here.\n\nMajor Principles and Attributes Of Traditional, and Traditionally-Based Jujutsu Systems Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:44:02 +0000 Major Principles and Attributes Of Traditional, and Traditionally-Based Jujutsu Systems \n\nAndrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.\n8th Dan Jujutsu, 6th Dan Judo\nResearch Professor\nUniversity of New Mexico\nChair,  Traditional Jujutsu Division of USJJF\n\nMajor principles and attributes of traditional, and traditionally-based jujutsu systems include:\n\n  1. The extensive use of Japanese terminology in the dojo.\n  2. The use of traditional Ways and Practices (e.g., etiquette, attire and other protocols) in the dojo.\n  3. The study and practice of Jujutsu as a combat art, which includes BOTH offensive and defensive techniques, strategies and tactics. Most Western, or Westernized systems focus primarily on self defense,  and many also stress competition for medals and trophies.\n  4. Finally,  genuine Japanese or Japanese-based systems include both offense and defense in equal measure. Such an emphasis serves to characterize the combat origins (Koryu Bujutsu) of many traditional systems.\n  5. The inclusion of talks and lectures in the dojo that speak to principles, history, philosophy, and the like. In Traditional Systems that stress the Budo aspects of the art this is considered quite normal. A big proponent of this approach was  Jigoro Kano, the Founder of Judo.\n  6. The wearing of proper attire on the mat. This may include a hakama (in some systems), where appropriate, and the avoidance of numerous patches that serve to advertise commercial interests  (a System Patch and a patch denoting a Teaching License are acceptable). For men,  the wearing of a shirt under the gi is NOT acceptable while on the mat. In genuine Japanese Systems, proper attire for training on the mat forbids the wearing of a t-shirt under the gi.  This is a key differentiating surface characteristic between genuine Japanese systems (and Japanese-based ones) and their various Western Jujitsu/Jiu Jitsu manifestations (note spelling).\n  7. The practice of the highest levels of hygiene, and the wearing of zori from the dressing room to the edge of the mat,  are a major requirement in traditional systems. Also,  the wearing of a clean gi is of paramount importance in the dojo.\n  8. In traditional Japanese systems, the correct spelling is Jujutsu. This is based on the Romanization of the Japanese language (Romaji), the system adopted by all Japanese martial arts including Jujutsu, Judo, Aikido, Ninjutsu, Bujutsu, Karate,  Jojutsu,  Goshin Jutsu,  and Kenjutsu, among many others. In Romaji “Jutsu”  means art or craft. “Jitsu” actually means reality or truth. Therefore, a system that claims to be Japanese-based (or authentic Japanese) and spells its art as Jujitsu, or Jiu Jitsu,  is to be considered suspect and is clearly not a genuine Japanese-based art but,  most likely,  a Western,  or Westernized adaptation or invention. Romaji was initially developed in the latter part of the 16th century and officially adopted by the Japanese Government in the early 1950s.\n\nFor beginners in search of a jujutsu dojo to study in, I propose the following categorization as indicated below. This categorization  explains  what the different spellings actually mean, and the type of jujutsu/jujitsu/jiu jitsu they practice.\n\n(i) Jujutsu:\n\nThe correct spelling for genuine Japanese,  or Japanese-based systems. Jujutsu stresses both offense and defense, character development and the acquisition of Japanese Ways and Practices. This spelling is based on Romaji, a system used by all genuine Japanese, or Japanese-based systems.\n\n(ii) Jujitsu:\n\nThe commonly used term for Western, or Westernized systems that are, to a\n\ngreater or lesser degree,  disconnected from genuine Japanese Ways & Practices. Their primary emphasis tends to be mostly self defense, while some also include sport competition.\n\n(iii) Jiu Jitsu:\n\nA term coined in Brazil that refers to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.  This is mostly a wrestling-type art that incorporates a number of jujitsu skills  and techniques that are legal in sport competition. Primary emphasis is sport competition,  although some Jiu Jitsu systems also include self defense (e.g., Machado Jiu Jitsu).\n\n  1. In traditional systems, while sparring is strongly encouraged/required in training, competition for medals and trophies is NOT. Combat systems don’t adapt well to competition rules, and training for competition must, of necessity, focus on teaching only those techniques that are legal and safe in such a context. As a consequence, in Sport Jujitsu/Jiu Jitsu, for example, combat techniques are rarely taught and, as a result,  these often wither away and die.\n  2. Kata and set routines are an essential component of all Traditional Jujutsu Systems. Kata and set routines introduce and reinforce the application of key principles and, as such, they are an essential aspect of teaching offense and defense safely. Kata and set routines,  however, are ONLY a starting point because effective self defense and combat training require much more. See item 10 below:\n  3. Bunkai (fighting applications). To truly prepare students for both offense and defense,  instructors initially employ Kata as a foundation, before moving into fighting applications and/or set routines,  under more realistic conditions. This is where the real training for combat and self defense begins to take shape. Fighting applications build on most of the principles found in Kata, and apply these in both offense/self defense contexts under more realistic conditions.\n  4. Traditional Jujutsu (most systems but not all) is mostly an Internal Art that is grounded in several key principles. These principles include:\n\n(i) The activation and application of internal energy (Ki)\n\n(ii)  The use of the Principles of Deception (Damashi)\n\n(iii)  The use of improvisation (Principles of Sokkyo)\n\n(iv)  The application of multiple internal and external sources of energy (Principles of Shuchu Ryoku)\n\n(v) The joining (and re-direction) of own energy with that of the assailant (Principles of  Aiki)\n\n(vi)  The development and application of breath power (Principles of Kiai)\n\n(vii) The development of a strong fighting spirit (Principles of Shin)\n\n(viii)  The application of the Principles of Kuzushi, especially to Rikiten (lit. breaking  point).\n\nThe term Kuzushi1 actually means to “destroy” or to “pull down”. In the martial arts we use the tem to refer to the process of off-balancing an assailant in order to gain a more advantageous position when applying a technique. The fact is that a person who is off-balanced simply can’t resist, or fight back, as effectively.\n\nThere are two ways to apply Kuzushi. The former, which requires the use of muscle, strength, speed and force is associated with External Systems and is often employed by street fighters and sport competitors. This is not a method that I recommend because such an approach relies on strength, as in meeting force with force. Instead, Kuzushi in Internal Systems is achieved using more subtle methods that rely on deception, action and reaction, joining and re-directing of energy,   improvisation on the fly (Sokkyo), and the simultaneous combined application of multiple sources of energy which we call Shuchu Ryoku (focused power).\n\nAn aspect of Kuzushi which is not often discussed is the principle of Rikiten (breaking point). Rikiten is often difficult to achieve by using muscle, strength and force because the assailant (Uke, in this case) is often aware of what’s going on and is then able to resist. In External Systems such resistance is often dealt with by forcing Uke into some degree of off-balancing, before applying a technique, such as a throw, to take him/her down. In Internal Systems, however, off-balancing is easier to achieve because Uke is often “tricked” into an off-balanced position. The application of Shuchu Ryoku then takes Uke to Rikiten, and the final technique simply overwhelms him with the application of multiple sources of energy.\n\nThus, our ultimate goal in Traditional Jujutsu is to execute technique with fluency, timing, coordination, control, AND relative ease, by using mostly internal principles to achieve Kuzushi.\n\n  1. Sen Sen No Sen: Taking the initiative and controlling Uke. This is accomplished by setting up Uke and luring them into attacking. The key component of Sen Sen No Sen, however, is the fact that Uke is manipulated and controlled by Tori into believing that a real opportunity for attack actually exists. It doesn’t! This principle is based on another form of deception (Damashi) whose purpose is to “trick” Uke into making a false move. Such a move places Uke in a weakened position which opens him/her up to an effective counter attack by Tori. This is an advanced principle most often taught, and employed, in Internal Systems (as in Traditional Jujutsu) in order to achieve psychological, and physical off-balancing, before applying an actual technique, or techniques, against Uke.\n  1. Traditional Jujutsu Systems, in addition to stressing both offense and defense, also serve as vehicles for character development, and for the acquisition of broader goals that focus on mutual welfare and benefit. Thus, as Budo Systems, they are also about the perfection of character, the development of social responsibility, loyalty, honor, self control,  and personal empowerment, among others.\n  2. Traditional Jujutsu Systems are mostly an outgrowth of earlier systems (mostly Bujutsu Systems that focused exclusively on battlefield combat skills) from both the Early Classical Period (circa 900-1602), and the Late Classical Period (circa 1603-1868). However, we see evidence of the transition from Bujutsu styles to Budo forms of Jujutsu as early as 1860, if not slightly earlier, so we may safely assign the date of the emergence of Traditional Jujutsu Systems to about this time (late 1850 or early 1860, that is). Also, we may assert with some degree of confidence that by about 1930 (give or take), Traditional Budo-style Jujutsu Systems had established a secure foothold in Japan, and even began to spread to other countries (e.g., Europe and the United States, among others).\n\nOf note is the fact that by 1882 Jigoro Kano’s early Judo and Morihei Ueshiba’s Aikido (developed mostly from Daito Ryu Aiki Jujutsu in the early 1920s), were among the first Japanese arts to reflect such a transition from Bujutsu to Budo, and the incorporation of key Internal Principles.\n\nBoth educational,  social  and especially political considerations made such a shift (from Bujutsu to Budo,  that is) a necessity during this period in the latter part of the 19th century,  and systems that accomplished this transition successfully were able to survive and grow. However, many Koryu Bujutsu Systems (old battlefield combat arts) failed to adapt, and either faded away or “retreated” to obscurity in small family dojos around Japan.\n\nThe traditions and techniques embodied in such Koryu Bujutsu Systems (and some Budo systems as well) are celebrated in Japan today in annually-held festivals and battle recreations. Such festivals keep alive and help promote many of the old fighting ways of Japan.\n\n1 Internal Systems also employ various psychological techniques to deceive the assailant/enemy before setting them up for attacks and counter-attacks. These are discussed in greater detail elsewhere by the author in his book, “Jujutsu: Traditions, Ways & Modern Practices” (2017)\n\nV4.1, September 29, 2018\n\nTransitioning from Judo to Jujitsu Wed, 19 Sep 2018 01:18:41 +0000 TRANSITIONING FROM JUDO TO JUJITSU\n\nYou’ve been an active judoka and now you want to learn jujitsu. It’s easy, right? After all, judo\ncame from jujitsu, so how hard can it be? It turns out that in certain ways it is an easy transition,\nbut in other ways, your sport judo orientation works against you and you need to learn to do\nthings differently.\n\nJujitsu is a method of defending yourself from an attacker using techniques that developed over\ncenturies and proved effective in combat. When Japan made a conscious decision to become\npart of the modern world, duels and other forms of personal combat became obsolete.\nHowever, the Japanese did not want to lose the martial spirit that was an essential part of jujitsu\nand other combative arts. Jigoro Kano developed modern judo as a safe practice of jujitsu to\nretain that martial spirit. Sport judo was then developed. Sport judo remains an excellent\nmethod of exhibiting that martial spirit. You know firsthand from your judo matches how\nessential that martial spirit is to success.\n\nInterestingly, while the martial spirit remains the same, techniques that proved effective in\ntraditional combat required modification to maximize their effectiveness under sport judo\nconditions where rules determined how points were scored and to keep participants safe. These\nmodifications, while essential for winning in judo, make the techniques less effective in combat.\n\nYou want to learn jujitsu, the combative art, not what I call “judo-jitsu,” sport judo techniques\nwhich were already modified from their original jujitsu techniques being modified yet again in an\nattempt to be effective for self-defense.\n\nRemember the three parts to every judo technique: kuzushi (off-balancing), tsukuri (entry), and\nkake (execution). First, we get our grip and pull (or push) our opponent (or use our grip to\nextend our opponent’s pull or push). That’s our kuzushi. Then we move ourselves into an\nadvantageous position and hold our opponent tightly. That’s tsukuri, and our opponent now is\nready to be thrown. Last, we use all of energy together with our advantageous position to throw\nour opponent, or at least maneuver the opponent onto the ground. That’s our kake. Usually, to\nwin the match we need to extend our advantage in subsequent groundwork.\n\nWhile these three parts of judo techniques — kuzushi, tsukuri and kake — derived from jujitsu, in\njujitsu their expression is quite different. If you don’t understand these differences and\nrigorously practice them so that they become an essential part of your art, you are practicing\njudo-jitsu, not jujitsu, and not taking advantage of the centuries of development that went into\nthe original jujitsu techniques.\n\nLet’s see how each of these three parts of the technique were applied in the original jujitsu. Let’s\nstart with kuzushi, or off-balancing. When we are attacked, the attacker’s momentum provides\nthe kuzushi. (While there are ways to preempt an attack and use that preemption to cause our\nopponent to provide all the kuzushi necessary, those are advanced techniques that will not be\ndiscussed in this article, although the principles are the same.) It is essential to the jujitsu\ntechnique that we maintain kuzushi throughout the entire technique. If we seek to grip or\notherwise hold our opponent tightly, we disrupt all of that nice kuzushi that our attacker so\npolitely gave us. To paraphrase Princess Leia in “Star Wars: A New Hope” when she was a\nprisoner on an Imperial Star Destroyer and talking with Darth Vader (who had a black heart but\nlacked a black belt), the tighter we grip our opponent, the more he will slip through our fingers.\nThe major reasons that attempting to get a tight grip on an opponent in a combat situation\ndecreases our effectiveness are as follows:\n\n    1. When we grip a moving opponent, we stop the opponent, even if it’s just for an instant\n      and we have to restart the kuzushi with our own effort, which gives the opponent an\n      opportunity to resist or respond.\n    2. When we grip the opponent, the opponent feels and instinctively reacts to the grip, which\n      makes our technique more difficult. If the opponent has had any martial arts training,\n      that instinctive reaction may become a trained response, which we definitely don’t want!\n    3. Getting a firm grip on a moving opponent (especially one without a gi or someone in\n      short sleeves or, even worse, shirtless) can be difficult.\n\nTo get an idea of how difficult this can be, have a bare-armed friend punch the air at full speed\nwhile you stand to the side and in front of your friend (i.e. right next to where the full speed\npunch is directed) and try to grab your friend’s rapidly moving arm at the wrist. You not only will\nsee how difficult it is to grab a full force attack, but if by some chance you are able to grab it,\nnotice how it stops your friend or at least gives your friend’s body a big jerk. Your friend\ndefinitely will be aware of your grab. After the grab, you will have to use a lot of muscle to get\nyour friend moving again in the direction of the punch, and your friend will have an opportunity\nto resist. Your friend may choose to do so, though often attackers in the dojo don’t resist and\njust hang in the position that the defender left them in, so that the defender will have a chance\nto practice. While often helpful during training, this is not representative of an actual combat\nsituation. If, instead of grabbing, you smoothly block at the wrist with minimal deflection while\ncontinuing the forward motion of the attacking arm, your opponent’s reaction will be much less\n\nInstead of grabbing, we blend with our opponent’s kuzushi throughout the entire technique to\nkeep that person moving as we enter and execute our throw. This blending provides a virtual\ngrip that is stronger than a physical grip since our opponent cannot resist when we give him\nnothing to resist. Put more succinctly, our attacker gives and we accept, not force.\n\nNext is the tsukuri, or entry into the technique. Instead of gripping our opponent tightly to allow\nus to enter into the technique, in jujitsu we maintain the opponent’s kuzushi and use that\nkuzushi to drive us into our entry. In other words, as the opponent attacks, we maintain and\nassist the opponent in traveling in the direction of the attack and mesh with the speed of that\nattack to enter into the technique. Just as properly aligned gears mesh perfectly without\ngrabbing, we maintain the opponent’s kuzushi so that we may mesh with that force.\n\nLast is kake, or execution of the technique. Instead of using all our muscle and energy, combined\nwith the advantageous position we have entered into during tsukuri to force the person to the\nground, we use kuzushi that we have striven our utmost to maintain to drive our entry and\nsmoothly transition from entry to execution. Kake is the natural extension of kuzushi and tsukuri\nto drive the person to the ground. When properly performed, we do not feel the person’s attack.\nRather, we are accepting the attack and continuing it to allow that movement (with our help, of\ncourse!) to drive the attacker into the ground. Because it is the opponent’s kuzushi we are using\nmeshed with our own tsukuri and kake, it takes no muscle or effort on our part, making our\nopponent’s size and strength irrelevant. This make sense, since actual combat has no weight\nclasses and referees. If we need those, the technique is not an effective self-defense technique.\nIn fact, in jujitsu it is a misnomer to call our attacker an opponent, since we are not opposing\nanything. Instead, we are assisting the attacker in going in the direction of the attack with all of\nthe energy brought to the attack until the attacker, quite naturally, meets the ground in what is\noften a quite violent collision of the attacker’s own making!\n\nObviously, there is much more to this, and in future articles I will seek to further explain how to\nproperly use kuzushi, tsukuri and kake in performing jujitsu techniques.\n\nRemember that judo has developed into a well organized martial art of its own that is separate\nand distinct from jujitsu, the martial art from whence it came. While many judo and jujitsu\ntechniques share the same name, because the arts are different, the techniques often are quite\ndifferent as well. Consequently, our judo reactions that are effective on the mat in a match may\nlead us to dangerous defeat in self-defense situations. Jujitsu most definitely is not judo with\nsome concepts to be added to our judo, Rather, jujitsu is a separate martial art with distinct\nconcepts that have evolved over centuries, and these critical differences hamper judo’s\neffectiveness in a combat situation. For self-defense, then, do not fall into the trap of using judojitsu;\ninstead use jujitsu, which has proven practical in actual combat situations.\n\nby Hal Zeidman\n\n2018 ATJA Judo Nationals Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:17:36 +0000 View the event gallery. ]]> What Is Traditional Jujutsu? Origins, Derivations and Modern Applications by Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D & Linda Yiannakis, M.S Mon, 14 May 2018 18:32:14 +0000 “The sword was to be far more than a simple weapon; it had to be an answer to life’s questions”\nMusashi – Eiji Yoshikawa\n\nWhat is a Martial Art System? A Definition\n\nMartial art systems are more than simply collections of techniques. For example, Koryu (ancient) systems have (i) a history and traditions; (ii) a lineage of Headmasters or Soke; (iii) are internally consistent in that they have principles that cohere and work together in the application of strategy, technique and generation of power; (iv) have specific combat strategies (heiho) that complement their system principles; (v) have guiding philosophies and an ethical code of conduct, and (vi) have a system for teaching and transmitting their deeper levels of knowledge (through shoden, chuden and okuden forms, for example). So, to be defined as a system an art must possess more than a list of techniques.\n\nThe literature (Cunningham, 1996; Draeger, 1973, 1974; Mol, 2001) suggests that for a system to be considered “traditional” it must originate, derive or be embedded in one of the following three categories below:\n\nGroup (I): Pure Classical Systems\n\nPure Classical Systems trace their origins in Japan as far back as the 9th or 10th centuries but did not begin to be reliably recorded as systematized forms until the 15th or 16th centuries. Included among the earliest systems are Daito Ryu, Takenouchi Ryu, Tagaki Ryu, Tenjin Shinyo Ryu, Kito Ryu, Sekiguchi Ryu, Seigo Ryu and Yoshin Ryu, among others.\n\nGroup (II): Classical Systems with Hybrid Branches or Derivations\n\nThis category includes Pure Classical Systems which underwent various merging and/or variations/distillations prior to, or after the 1868 Meiji Restoration (which saw the end of the Samurai Era). One example is Tenjin Shin Yo Ryu which was blended from Yoshin Ryu and Shin No Shindo Ryu. Thus, included in this category are examples of Classical Hybrid Systems that underwent further development in the pre Meiji Period as well as the “modern” era (post 1868).\n\nGroup III: Modern Era (Post Meiji) Classically-Based Systems\n\nModern era classically-based systems were introduced or developed after 1868. Such systems are anchored, or have strong ties and links to one or more classical systems and traditions (or classical hybrid systems) through philosophy, principles, etiquette, dress, goals, Japanese terminology and methods of training and dojo practices. Traditional Judo (not Olympic or modern competitive judo) can be described as a classically-based modern era (post Meiji) hybrid martial art whose origins are primarily Kito Ryu and Tenjin Shinyo Ryu Jujutsu. Ueshiba’s Aikido is another such example. We would also add in this group various Western modern (Gendai) jujutsu systems that attempt to adhere faithfully to various classical traditions and hybrid forms. These may also be considered to be traditional systems and fall in Group III of our classification system.\n\nWhile the primary focus of all traditional jujutsu systems is combat and self defense (no rules) we must include the philosophy, principles, strategy, etiquette, dress, goals, Japanese terminology and methods of training and dojo practices in order for a system to qualify as traditional. We see it as a total package that reflects a merging of technique, strategy and theory/philosophy and traditions. And, because of the mostly deadly nature of the techniques contained in such jujutsu systems no sport competition is possible, nor is it encouraged (unless we are prepared simply to teach only those techniques that are legal in competition, which ultimately leads to the deterioration of the original parent system).\n\nSome Modern Applications\n\nIn the modern era (post 1868), and especially after World War II, traditional jujutsu systems have inspired and/or given rise to a number of modern derivatives whose primary focus is competition, self defense, modern day combat, and the like (see diagram). These forms of application are not to be viewed as traditional jujutsu systems because in their application they include only a portion of the parent system, or systems, that they come from. They are to be viewed as pieces of a larger picture. If they eventually grow and develop into “total packages” that are internally consistent they may be eventually viewed as “systems”, complete unto themselves. However, such systems are not to be confused with traditional jujutsu systems which seek to adhere to their articulated philosophy, strategies, Japanese terminology, dress, and the like, as we’ve identified below in our list of Eight Major Characteristics of Traditional Systems. This of course does not make such modern applications less valuable or worthy of study. On the contrary, they are designed to reach specific objectives and address specific goals such as handgun disarming, developing competitors, self-defense and the like. These are valuable skills and objectives and serve important needs for society. We just can’t call them traditional jujutsu systems.\n\nJujitsu (note spelling) for combat, sport and self defense has clearly defined short term practical purposes (e.g., handgun disarming techniques for police officers) and is often taught in modules of short duration (3-12 weeks, for example). In sport jujitsu the training period and competitive life of the athlete may last several years, but even this phase comes to an end when the athlete’s competition days are over. Either way the path is a very short one, and the goals are practical and narrowly defined (e.g., competition and winning medals and trophies).\n\nTraditional systems, on the other hand, are seen as lifelong paths of study whose goals go well beyond combative, sport or self- defense applications. In addition to combat and self defense such paths stress personal growth, the development of personal insights and understandings, the activation of inner sources of power (e.g., psychological empowerment) the development of self discipline, honor, rectitude and loyalty, and the perfection of character.\n\nBelow, we list eight major defining characteristics of traditional jujutsu systems:\n\nEight Major Characteristics of Traditional Systems\n\n1. They fall under one of the three categories stated earlier in this paper. That\nis, they are pure classical systems; they are classical hybrids or they are\nclassically based.\n\n2. They have clear or at least identifiable lineages.\n\n3. They possess a history and traditions. These include the use of Japanese terminology.\nFor example, practitioners of traditional systems practice in what they call dojo, not gyms or studios; teachers in traditional systems are called Sensei, not Coach; techniques are referred to by their names in Japanese to maintain and convey as much of the original intent as possible. This may also include such details as the spelling of their systems with a “u”, not an “i” as in “jujutsu” and not jujitsu, ju-jitsu or jiu-jitsu. In fact, today most traditional systems spell their name with a “u” and this is also seen in bujutsu, kenjutsu, ninjutsu and taijutsu.\n\n4. Traditional systems have clearly defined philosophies, dojo practices and etiquette. For example, jujutsuka in such systems dress in a manner that reflects their Japanese origins and/or traditions (no fancy patches or advertising logos on their gi, and for males, the wearing of t-shirts under the gi is not permitted). Jujutsuka in traditional systems typically wear only one or two patches (and some systems have no patches at all) that help identify their system/organization and/or possibly a licensing designation (e.g., a menkyo patch). Traditional jujutsuka always wear zori to and from the mat out of respect for the dojo and for their fellow practitioners.\n\n5. They employ traditional principles in the practice and execution of technique and strategy. These include the study of concepts such as ma-ai, irimi, sen, heiho, and others.\n\n6. They promote and license their jujutsuka in a manner consistent with their origins and/or traditions. That is, some employ the Renshi, Kyoshi or Hanshi system in combination with or without modern2 conventional ranking systems (kyu and dan grades); others also license their practitioners using the menkyo system in combination with modern conventional ranking.\n\n7. Traditional systems possess a theoretical/philosophical/technical and strategic basis\ncontained in written transmissions (Densho) that are handed down from Soke to Soke. In the modern era we no longer employ scrolls unless we practice one of the original pre-Meiji Classical Ryuha (or their classically-derived hybrids) which have been handed down from one Soke to another. However, modern day classically-based systems, if they are to be defined as traditional in nature, also possess modern day Densho which lay out the theoretical, philosophical and technical foundations of a system. These may be located on websites, in books and in various other modern day data storage and retrieval formats.\n\n8. Traditional systems serve as lifelong paths that, in addition to combative skills and\nstrategies, stress higher goals and values (e.g., honor, responsibility, rectitude, loyalty and the perfection of character) and aim to take the student beyond the skills and techniques of fighting. The long term goals of such lifelong paths therefore require a long term commitment to the art and its ways and practices. Typically, practitioners of traditional systems stay in the art for most of their lives while participants in sport jujitsu (as is also the case with modern sport judo) often quit when they are no longer able to compete.\n\n\nIn summary, for a jujutsu system to be considered “traditional” it must originate, derive or be embedded in one of the following three categories:\n\n(i) Pure Classical Systems.\n(ii) Classical Hybrid Systems.\n(iii) Classically Based Systems.\n\nFurther, classical jujutsu systems comprise more than a collection of techniques and fighting strategies. Traditional systems possess theoretical, philosophical and strategic foundations which are handed down from Soke to Soke and serve as the guiding and strategic principles of the system. Therefore, we do not consider modern jujitsu derivations that focus solely on sport, defense or combat applications as traditional jujutsu systems even though their techniques may derive from traditional systems, because they are often devoid of a classical guiding philosophy, theory or principles.\n\nBackground Sources\n\nCunningham, S. The Root Arts of Judo. <>, 1996.\n\nDraeger, D. F. Classical Budo: The Martial Arts and Ways of Japan\n(Vol II). New York, Weatherhill, 1973.\n\nDraeger, D. F. Modern Bujutsu & Budo: The Martial Arts and Ways of\nJapan (Vol III). Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1974\n\nHenshall, K. G. A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters. Tokyo,\nTuttle, 1988.\n\nLowry, D. In the Dojo: A Guide to the Rituals and Etiquette of the\nJapanese Martial Arts. Boston: Weatherhill, 2006.\nLowry, D. Bokken: Art of the Japanese sword. Ohara, Back Belt\nBooks, 1986.\n\nMol, S. Classical Fighting Arts of Japan: A complete Guide to Koryu\nJujutsu. Tokyo, Kodansha, 2001\n\nMusashi, M. Book of Five Rings. New York, Overlook Press, 1974\nSkoss, M. Jujutsu and Taijutsu. <htttp://>,\n\nWatson, B. N. The Father of Judo: A biography of Jigoro Kano.\nTokyo, Kodansha, 2000.\n\nYoshikawa, E. Musashi. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1995. Translated by Charles S. Terry, p. 595\n\n1 Most traditional systems (though not all; see Danzan Ryu Jujitsu, for example) spell jujutsu with a “u” and not an “i”. In this paper we adhere to this distinction and use the term jujitsu when referring to sport jujitsu, self defense or combat jujitsu applications. In this regard we adhere to the Romaji classification for the romanization of the Japanese language which specifies that jutsu means art while jitsu means truth (see Henshall).\n\n2 It should be noted that pre-Meiji systems did not use the modern conventional ranking system of kyu and dan grades.\n\n• The senior author may be reached at\n\nAcknowledgment: We wish to thank Carl Hayes and Ben Bergwerf for valuable suggestions and comments.\n\nV5.0, February 7, 2010\n\n\nAndrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.\nFounder and Soke, Wa Shin Ryu Jujutsu\nResearch Professor, University of New Mexico\n7th Dan Jujutsu (USJJF)\n6th Dan Judo (USJJF)\n\nLinda Yiannakis, M.S.\n4th Dan Traditional Kodokan Judo (USJJF)\n4th Dan Jujutsu (USJJF)\n\nResearch Professor, University of New Mexico\nV5.4, 11-20-2009\n\nThe True Meaning of Ju in Judo and Jujutsu by Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D & Linda Yiannakis, M.S. Mon, 14 May 2018 18:30:16 +0000 The term “ju” in judo and jujutsu has several meanings and they reflect both the intent and context in which the term is used. We can list of course many literal meanings for ju such as gentleness, pliability, softness, yielding, adaptability, and so on, but to get at the true heart of how it applies to both jujutsu and judo we must read or interpret both context and intent as it applies in the martial arts. The intent in judo and jujutsu is NOT to execute technique gently or softly but with determination, true spirit, maximum effectiveness and, of course, minimum effort. Thus, a good jujutsuka or judoka executes technique with fluidity, timing and control and to the untrained eye this may look like gentleness. However, to uke it feels like hell! But there is more.\n\nIt is important to mention at the outset that ju possesses both offensive and defensive dimensions. Ju does not simply mean “yielding and redirecting.\n\nIf that were the case jujutsuka or judoka would only be able to apply their skills after they are attacked. Ju as applied in judo and jujutsu also has an offensive component.\n\nIn offensive applications, for example, tori initiates the attack by kicking, striking or using combinations. Ju in such contexts speaks to the ability to demonstrate the necessary amount of physical pliability (e.g., fighting relaxed and loose) and, even more importantly, psychological and strategic flexibility. The second dimension of ju, which speaks to judo or jujutsu’s defensive applications, is about “yielding and redirecting”.\n\nA classic example in Japanese martial art history of the adoption of ju as a guiding principle in jujutsu comes to us from the story of Akiyama Yoshitoki. Akiyama gained his insight into ju when he noticed how the branches of a willow tree bent under the weight of snow and were able to\nlet the snow slide off and spring back without breaking. He named his jujutsu style Yoshin Ryu (Willow Spirit School) after grasping the implications of his observation (Skoss, 1997). Yoshin Ryu later became one of the root arts of judo through Tenjin Shinyo Ryu.\n\nOther classical bujutsu schools utilized the saying, “When the enemy comes, welcome him; when he goes, send him on his way”, a reference to the idea of flexibility in the concept of ju. (Draeger, 1997)\n\nJu has several layers of meaning and many Westerners are only exposed to the surface features associated with ju. Thus we practice our martial art thinking that ju simply translates into “gentleness” or “yielding” to an attack as though this is the only combat response that we use in jujutsu or judo. Let’s not forget that we also initiate attacks.\n\nThis meaning (gentleness or yielding), however, is only one in a complex and multi-layered system of meanings. In some ways the layers of meaning associated with ju are like the terms “ura” and “omote” in kata. Ura refers to the inverting; the underside; the aspects of technique and strategy which are hidden from immediate view, while omote is the public or demonstration version. However, the omote version only serves to display surface features and principles but not the complete combat applications. The term ju is analogous to this distinction but has even more layers of meaning associated with it. Many Westerners are rarely exposed to the “ura” aspects of their system, or to the multiple layers of ju in their judo or jujutsu.\n\nA central feature of the defensive dimension of ju involves more than just yielding. It also involves redirecting the force applied against you. This entails preventing the force of the opponent from reaching you, and while maintaining your own stability, turning his momentum or force back against him to deter or defeat him. Success in this application of ju requires the use of strong centered action with power generated from the hara, the understanding of rhythm and alignment with your opponent’s movements, and the perception of the transitions from one movement to the next made by the opponent.\n\nA classic reference to ju in martial arts is “Ju yoku go o sei suru” – loosely translated as “Softness controls hardness.” Jigoro Kano reportedly interpreted the meaning of this expression from the Tao Te Ching which says “Reversing is the movement of the Tao.” He saw in this a natural law in which the act of yielding can be made with strength. Thus yielding does not imply weakness. (Draeger, 1997)\n\nThe idea of mind-body coordination is also implicit in ju. Ju carries the expectation that through diligent training, the body becomes “soft” or pliant to the mind. The body will be able to do what the mind envisions. This was an important concept in several jujutsu systems, including Tenjin Shinyo Ryu. Students in the early years of martial arts training often experience bafflement and frustration because they know what they are expected to do but cannot make their bodies cooperate. The unity of mind and body requires pliancy of both through long term practice.\n\nAs with many principles in Japanese martial arts, ju finds expression in the personal-social arena. We may see uses of ju in debate or discussion, for example, when an opponent seeks to attack or impose his view on you, and you deflect or turn that attack back against him. Ju is also applicable in verbally volatile instances where leading the participants to common ground (alignment) may serve to defuse the situation. It may also be seen when a speaker employs psychological and strategic flexibility by taking the initiative and attacking the opponent in ways that confuse and place him, or her, on the defensive.\n\nJu also has philosophical aspects which are beyond the scope of this paper to address.\n\nJu as it applies to judo and jujutsu has FOUR key dimensions:\n\n(i) The first dimension speaks to the notion of Psychological Flexibility; that is, the ability to perceive and read a situation quickly, without preconceived notions, and be able to switch mental plans of action without preplanning or conscious effort. Being able to think fast on your feet, and switch quickly and effectively from one technique or strategy to another is, therefore, a key component of psychological flexibility. However, having psychological flexibility does not necessarily mean that one can act on it. Of necessity, students must train diligently under conditions that compel them to both think (psychological flexibility) and act quickly (strategic application of techniques).\n\n(ii) The second dimension of ju speaks to Strategic Flexibility in combative situations (or contest). Strategic initiatives require a high degree of psychological flexibility and adaptability if a jujutsuka/judoka is to respond/act quickly, appropriately and efficiently in a fast-changing combative situation. Examples of strategic initiatives include initiating attack (Sen), evasion, joining, countering,, luring an opponent to attack (Sen Sen No Sen), and the like.\n\n(iii) The third dimension speaks to the way a technique is executed when effective kuzushi is applied, especially when an attacker is taken through to the teetering point (rikiten) before being thrown, or immobilized. Let’s call this Technique Efficiency. When a technique is executed with good kuzushi, timing, fluency and control it does appear to the untrained eye that this is indeed the way of gentleness because the action requires minimal strength and certainly NO brute force. This is maximum efficiency with minimum effort (the efficient use of energy), as Jigoro Kano would have it. There is no question, therefore, that when an assailant, or opponent, is effectively off-balanced to the teetering point it takes little effort to throw, or neutralize them with a strike or kick. This is technique efficiency that utilizes the principle of ju.\n\n(iv) The fourth dimension of ju speaks to the notion of Physical Pliability.\n\nDr. Sachio Ashida (sensei to the senior author) would always remind us that if we played judo stiffly and rigidly, relying on muscle to defend or execute technique, it made us less efficient, it often served to telegraph our technique, and after a couple of minutes of action we’d be exhausted. He constantly advised us instead to learn to play relaxed, to move with good fluency and to avoid meeting force with force. “Meet force with gentleness”, he would say; “yield and redirect”; “attack and reverse when you feel their strength”; “turn their strength against them”. Thus, physical pliability speaks to the ability to play loose and relaxed, and to initiate, yield or redirect as the situation demands.\n\nIn summary, we see ju as applying to the concepts of:\n\n(i) Psychological Flexibility\n(ii) Strategic Flexibility\n(iii) Technique Efficiency\n(iv) Physical Pliability\n\nWhen employed in combination these four principles enable tori to reach a high state of mind-body unity and it is this state that best exemplifies the true meaning and application of ju.\n\nCunningham, S., Personal communication to L. Yiannakis\n\nDraeger, D., Modern Bujutsu & Budo, Weatherhill, Inc., New York, 1997\n\nSkoss, M., “Tenjin Shinyo-ryu Jujutsu”, in Koryu Bujutsu, Diane Skoss, ed.,\n\nKoryu Books, New Jersey, 1997\n\n\nAndrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.\nFounder, Wa Shin Ryu Jujutsu\n6th Dan, USJA Jujutsu\n5th Dan, USJA Judo)\nLinda Yiannakis, M.S.\n4th Dan Judo (USJJF)\n4th Dan Jujutsu (USJJF)\n\nResearch Professor, University of New Mexico\nV5.4, 11-20-2009\n\nSelecting A Jujitsu Dojo by Hal Zeidman Mon, 14 May 2018 18:28:57 +0000 Why have an article about selecting a jujitsu dojo in a magazine read by experienced martial artists, judoka no less?  The answer is that there tends to be a greater variety of both jujitsu schools and reasons for studying jujitsu.  It’s important to select a school compatible with reasons for studying jujitsu.  Only with careful thought and analysis will the martial artist find a school offering the expected experience.\n\n\n  1. Why study jujitsu?\n\n  2. Is the school’s style compatible with reasons for attending?\n\n  3. What are the sensei’s teaching style and qualifications?\n\nPossible reasons to study jujitsu include:\n\n  1. Self-defense\n\n  2. Exercise\n\n  3. Development of character\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrinciples of Warm-up for Judo and Jujutsu by Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D Mon, 14 May 2018 18:27:48 +0000 Importance of a Good Warm-Up\n\n\n\nIntroduction and Rationale\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(I)               Helps the body achieve a state of readiness;\n(II)            Stimulates circulation and helps elevate body temperature;\n(IV)         Helps develop coordination and good timing.\n\n\n(I)               Concentration/focus\n(II)            Heightened level of body awareness\n(III)         Mind-body unity (internal harmony)\n\n\n\n\n Stage I: Attaining Body Readiness and Concentration/Focus\n\n\n\n\nStage III : Stretching, Loosening and Developing Mind-Body Unity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Increased energy levels\n2. Higher level of motivation\n3. Concentration and control\n4. Increased confidence\n5. Increased coordination and timing\n\nThe student will also report feeling:\n\n6. Stronger\n\nThe Principles of Sequencing, Progression and Specification\n\n\n(i)The Principle of Sequencing\n\n\n(ii) The Principle of Progression\n\n\n\n\n(iii) The Principle of Specification\n\n\nUsing Light Calisthenics in the Warm-Up\n\n\nSummary and Synthesis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Meditation (1-1.5 minutes)\n\n\n\nActivity (examples)   Physical Effects Psychological Effects\n1. Meditation Physical Readiness Concentration/Focus\n\n\n\ntheir own for about 20 minutes several times a week\n\n\nAndrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.\nFounder, Wa Shin Ryu Jujutsu\n6th Dan, USJA Jujutsu\n5th Dan, USJA Judo)\n\nResearch Professor, University of New Mexico\nV5.4, 11-20-2009", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8682412505149841}
+{"content": "Question: Does A Flagpole Have To Have A Light?\n\nDoes a flagpole have to be a certain height?\n\nSome cities have limits on the height of flagpoles.\n\nIf you have questions, consult our in-house experts….Selecting a Flagpole.Height of FlagpoleMinimum Flag SizeMaximum Flag Size25 ft3ft x 5ft5ft x 8ft30 ft4ft x 6ft6ft x 10ft40 ft5ft x 8ft8ft x 12ft50 ft6ft x 10ft10ft x 15ft6 more rows.\n\nShould you fly the flag in the rain?\n\nThe U.S. Flag Code addresses the rules for flying flags, rain or shine. It is specific on what to do in the case of rain. The United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, states: “The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all-weather flag is displayed.”\n\nWhat do you do if a flag touches the ground?\n\nDoes the flag have to be destroyed if it touches the ground? Answer: Care should be exercised in the handling of the flag, to protect it from becoming soiled or damaged. However, you are not required to destroy the flag if it touches the ground.\n\nCan you leave American flag out at night?\n\n\nIs it disrespectful to hang an American flag on a wall?\n\n\nHow do you dispose of an American flag at home?\n\nAccording to the U.S. Flag Code, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning”. While this is the preferred way to dispose a flag, it can also be dangerous.\n\nCan the American flag be flown at night without a light?\n\nAccording to the US Flag Code, all American flags should be displayed from sunrise to sunset every day. Lowering the flag at night is an ultimate sign of respect for Old Glory. … You can keep your flag flying 24-hours if it is properly illuminated during all hours of darkness.\n\nHow do you illuminate a flag?\n\nIdeally, each fixture should produce 150 lumens with a narrow beam. In addition, the lighting fixtures should be installed around 3 feet from the flag pole and aimed at the ball at the top of the pole. This arrangement will allow the lights to spread and illuminate the flag itself, no matter which way the wind blows.\n\nWhere should I hang my flag on my house?\n\n\nWhat does an upside down American flag mean?\n\nFlying a U.S. flag upside down Displaying a U.S. flag upside down is “a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property”. … See “4 U.S. Code § 8.Respect for flag”. It has been used by extension to make a statement about distress in civic, political, or other areas.\n\nWhat is proper illumination?\n\n“Proper illumination” is a light specifically placed to illuminate the flag (preferred) or having a light source sufficient to illuminate the flag so it is recognizable as such by the casual observer (Americanism Commission)\n\nWhat are 3 things you should never do to the flag?\n\n\nWhat are the 3 types of lighting?\n\nThere are three basic types of lighting you should layer in a room in order to accomplish this:Ambient or general lighting.Accent lighting.Task lighting.\n\nWhat is the best flagpole light?\n\nBest Price. Product. Sunnytech 3rd Generation Solar Power Flag Pole. Customer Rating. … Product. LBELL Solar Flag Pole Light. Customer Rating. Number of Lights. … Premium Choice. Product. Vont Solar Flagpole Light. … Product. TOTOBAY 30 LED Solar Power Flag Pole Lights. Customer Rating. … Best Choice. Product. Deneve Solar Flag Pole Light.\n\nCan the American flag get wet?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8601706027984619}
+{"content": "August 20, 2019\n\nPlanned Parenthood forfeits federal funds over abortion restrictions\n\nOne of Planned Parenthood’s government revenue streams has officially dried up for now. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) confirmed Monday (Aug. 19) it would not abide by the Trump administration’s new rule that prohibits federal family planning funds for organizations that perform, promote or refer for abortions. The\n\nDon't Miss Out!\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7177480459213257}
+{"content": "Hyperledger in the Blockchain World. What makes it different from other solutions?\n\nOf course, everyone has heard the words Ethereum and Bitcoin. As part of the blockchain world, they have attracted worldwide media attention. In general, blockchain technology has gained business interest due to its decentralized, unchanging and transparent nature. Other notable projects in recent years include the Hyperledger.\n\nWhat is a hyperledger?\n\nHyperledger is an open source project for blockchain and related tools hosted by the Linux Foundation. It was established in 2015 and aims to develop cross-sectoral blockchain technologies. Hyperledger does not support cryptocurrencies and does not represent a cryptocurrency network or a traditional blockchain.\n\nWhat is Hyperledger for? The project intends to facilitate developers, and businesses are working to adopt a blockchain. Provides the necessary standards and infrastructure to develop and implement blockchain solutions in various industries.\n\nDepth of Hyperledger\n\nThe Hyperledger project can basically look like a house with open source development tools and libraries and modular frames under a flat roof.\n\nOne of the most widely used digital notebooks is called Hyperledger Fabric. It is an allowed blockchain infrastructure that plays a fundamental role in creating applications or solutions with a modular architecture.\n\nHyperledger Besu is an Ethereum client designed for corporate use for both general and specific use cases of authorized networks. The next framework, Hyperledger Burrow, works on smart contracts and represents a complete binary block chain distribution that supports EVM and WASM.\n\nHyperledger Indy can work autonomously or even work with other blockchains. Indy is designed specifically for decentralized personalities. The easiest to use modular distributed platform is called Hyperledger Iroha. The framework includes a role-based authorization model and multi-signature support. Iroha was developed for digital asset management systems and is used to manage identity and serial information. As part of the Hyperledger system, there is no cryptocurrency here.\n\nThe digital book Hyperledger Sawtooth offers a modular architecture in which smart contracts can set operating rules for applications without knowing the basic design of the system. Sawtooth uses the Python programming language and simplifies the placement and storage of the final program.\n\nHyperledger applications compared to other corporate solutions\n\nLet’s look at the differences between traditional web portals and blockchain-based solutions. The former lacks speed, security, and tracking, while the blockchain offers advanced operations and advanced security provided by smart contracts and encryption. Especially when it comes to Hyperledger dApps, they stand out for their ability to manage complex workflows in a matter of hours.\n\nThere are several key differences when it comes to unauthorized blockchain solutions and allowed Hyperledger applications. Unauthorized blockchain solutions involve zero regulation, allow anonymous cryptographic identities, and generally represent social systems in a shared book. Fake tracking is code based and transactions cannot be changed.\n\nHyperledger applications are both public and private systems where workflows are controlled by regulators. Participants in hyperledger applications can be real and identifiable, and operational identities can also be tracked.\n\nIn general, Hyperledger provides distorted data exchange and cryptographic verification of contract terms and transactions. A toolkit is rich in platforms and frames that can be selected according to job characteristics. Finally, the solution application will help integrate databases, increase performance and scalability, minimize fraud risks, protect sensitive data, and facilitate ROI.\n\nAreas ready for hyperledger reception\n\nHyperledger has already entered many areas such as supply chain management, retail, healthcare, FinTech, IoT, banking and manufacturing. Companies using the technology include Walmart, Amazon, Nestle, Visa, Maersk, China Postal Savings Bank and others.\n\nTo start your enterprise innovation through the application of Hyperledger, you need to choose a competent Hyperledger development company that will design a custom solution to cope with the problems in your business.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9317284822463989}
+{"content": "Trump Hints to Meeting With Putin to Discuss Nuclear Treaty\n\nTrump and Putin, Putin and Trump\nPresident Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)\n\nPresident Donald Trump discussed the possibility of holding a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the November 3 election. NBC News reported that aides have researched potential opportunities for the two men to meet, with one possibility as early as next month in New York. The summit would be to discuss mutual constraints on nuclear weapons. One possibility would be by extending New START, a nuclear arms treaty between the two countries that is set to expire in 2021.\nNew START, a 2018 agreement between the United States and Russia, imposed strict limitations on the countries’ abilities to amass nuclear warheads. If it were to lapse, scientists and politicians in America and Europe fear it could renew the nuclear arms race between the military giants.\nThe State Department announced last week that Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea would be meeting with Russian Federation Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov later this week in Vienna to continue negotiating an arms control pact between the two countries. Billingslea, representing the Trump administration, has indicated he hopes a future nuclear weapons agreement will include China, which has been building nuclear weapons.\nPeople familiar with the discussions in the administration said President Trump hopes to impress with a very public showing of his ability to make a deal.\nHowever, other White House officials have cautioned the President against a meeting with the Russian leader, as President Trump is widely perceived as being too cozy with President Putin. The officials warn that Trump’s eagerness to meet could encourage Putin’s efforts to divide and weaken Americans.\nSince 2016, United States intelligence officials have warned the public that Russian-linked misinformation campaigns have been attempting to manipulate American voters After their private meeting in 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, President Trump announced that he believed Putin’s claim that Russian internet users were not deliberately spreading false information to confuse and deceive American citizens. The Helsinki summit brought President Trump plenty of attention, but much of it was negative and he was accused of being manipulated by Putin.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9711026549339294}
+{"content": "How Do You Tell If You Have A Tooth Infection Or Sinus Infection?\n\nWhat antibiotic is for sinus infection?\n\n\nAmoxicillin usually is effective against most of the strains of bacteria..\n\nCan a tooth infection cause a sinus infection?\n\n\nHow long does a sinus toothache last?\n\n\nDo roots of teeth go into sinuses?\n\n\nHow do I know if my toothache is a sinus infection?\n\n\nHow can I get rid of a tooth infection without antibiotics?\n\n\nDo I need antibiotics for sinus infection?\n\n\n\nBut there are some things you can do to try to speed up the recovery process.Drink plenty of water. … Eat foods with antibacterial properties. … Add moisture. … Clear the sinuses with oils. … Use a neti pot. … Ease facial pain with warm compresses. … Use over-the-counter (OTC) medications. … Get a prescription.More items…•\n\nDoes a throbbing tooth mean infection?\n\n\nWhat can trigger sinusitis?\n\n\nWhat teeth connect to sinuses?\n\n\nHow do I get rid of sinus pain in my teeth?\n\nHome remediesStay hydrated. Drinking plenty of water is key to relieving sinus congestion. … Steam. Breathing in hot, moist air can help to open your nasal passages and relieve sinus pressure. … Sinus flush. … Limit decongestant nasal sprays.\n\nWhat does sinus toothache feel like?\n\nConversely, if you’re experiencing a sinus toothache, you’ll probably feel discomfort in several teeth, particularly the top molars (or back teeth). A toothache that’s accompanied by sinus problems usually includes some or all of the following symptoms: Pressure or tenderness around the eyes or forehead.\n\nCan you have a tooth abscess and not know it?\n\nHow Is an Abscessed Tooth Treated? While pain and swelling are common signs, you may not have any symptoms. That means the pus pocket has found somewhere to drain. If you don’t have symptoms, your dentist could spot an abscess through X-rays at a routine exam.\n\nHow do I know if I have a tooth infection?\n\n\nCan sinus cause lower tooth pain?\n\n\nWhat gets rid of sinus pressure?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7044928073883057}
+{"content": "Experts Question if Artificial Intelligence Will Protect Man-kinds’ Best Interest\n\nAre Robots Equipped With the Ability to Make Ethical Decisions?\n\nUtilizing robots and intelligent reality software in the workplace has altered and enhanced the world as we know it, but to what end? The questions that arise in conversations when discussing robotics and intelligent reality are very similar, usually surrounding the ethics and decision-making capabilities of the intelligence. Robots are being utilized to oversee and optimize processes, but do they have the ability to decide what is best for man-kind before acting?\n\nOver the past 5 years, the merging of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) has grown tremendously and is expected to continuously rise, eventually transforming the workforce as we know it. The impact of the introduction of thinking machines to the labor force has been major, especially in the manufacturing and healthcare industries.\n\nArtificial intelligence has improved productivity, shortened supply chains, and increased automation in warehouses, contributing to the popularity of smart factories. The automobile industry has begun the production of smart cars, while the healthcare industry is utilizing robots to test diagnoses and revolutionize treatments, empowering innovation and promoting growth.\n\nIndustry experts predict 50% of all manufacturing companies will be using AI in some form by the end of 2021\n\nHumans created machines to think, observe and resemble human behaviors, allowing the machines to learn an algorithm and gain the ability to respond to situations as if it was second nature to them. But are the machines morally equipped not to harm humans or able to understand their capacity as machines? Robots have modernized society and embody the power to enhance the world as we know it, but are they capable of correcting and eliminating harmful behavior or adjusting to societal standards?\n\nTechnology companies are in a race to the top competing for the title of “most innovative,” while some businesses have encountered backlash due to the entities that have access to the software. Microsoft Corporation faced widespread criticism as they bragged on working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to assist the agency in “processing data on edge devices or utilizing deep learning capabilities to accelerate facial recognition and identification.”\n\n\nMicrosofts’ CEO Satya Nadella addressed the concerns in an internal memo to all employees ensuring the company isn’t working with the U.S. government on any projects related to separating children from their families, but they are working with ICE to support its’ legacy mail, calendar, messaging and document management workloads.\n\nMicrosoft president Brad Smith requested for governments worldwide to develop and adopt laws to regulate facial-recognition technology. Concerns continue to rise globally as countries like China rapidly introduce facial recognition to monitor public spaces, with analysts estimating an increase of 100 million surveillance cameras, adding to the 200 million already in place.\nSmith suggests pushing for the ban on using facial recognition in ways that harm political freedom or enable discrimination.\n\nHe also implanted principles that will guide Microsoft in how it develops and deploys facial recognition technology. The principles are:\n\n\nLimiting a robots competencies may hinder the purpose of innovation, however creating a predictable, transparent thinking machine could be a solution to a question surrounding ethics. If the persons in control of the robot understand its’ limits, this may reduce and eliminate the concern of foul play or human harm.\n\nThe National MBE Manufacturer Summit 2019\n\nJoin the Atlanta MBDA at the 4th Annual National MBE Manufacturers Summit 2019 to experience the trending technology and innovation! Our conference participants will have the ability to fully engage and lay their eyes on technological innovations ranging from automation drones and robotics to augmented and virtual reality. This is your chance to be among the first to interact with cutting-edge technologies and expose your team to fresh ideas.\n\nNOAA Visits Atlanta MBDA Business and Advanced Manufacturing Centers\n\nThank you SquarePac LTD for hosting Angela Carpenter from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Joe Robertson, Atlanta MBDA Centers’ business advisor, during NOAA’s recent visit to the Atlanta MBDA Business and Advanced Manufacturing Centers. We appreciate your support in allowing us to provide assistance to help you grow your company!\n\nSquarePac is your one-stop source for custom returnable packaging and material handling solutions.\n\nBased in Atlanta, GA. SquarePac has assisted companies since 2013 in shortening their supply chain and helping them save money in their logistics process.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9988764524459839}
+{"content": "fur - choose a jigsaw puzzle to solve\n\nFur is the hair covering of non- human mammals , particularly those mammals with extensive body hair that is soft and thick. The stiffer bristles on animals such as pigs are not generally referred to as fur. The term pelage – first known use in English c. 1828 (French, from Middle French, from poil for \" hair \", from Old French peilss, from Latin pilus) – is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat. Fur is also used to refer to animal pelts which have been processed into leather with the hair still attached. The words fur or furry are also used, more casually, to refer to hair - like growths or formations, particularly when the subject being referred to exhibits a dense coat of fine, soft \"hairs\". If layered, rather than grown as a single coat, it may consist of short down hairs, long guard hairs, and in some cases, medium awn hairs. Mammals with reduced amounts of fur are often called \" naked \", as with the naked mole- rat , or \"hairless\", as with hairless dogs. An animal with commercially valuable fur is known within the fur industry as a furbearer. The use of fur as clothing or decoration is considered controversial by some people : animal welfare advocates object to the trapping and killing of wildlife , and to the confinement and killing of animals on fur farms.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9869983792304993}
+{"content": "Vintage 1950s Navy and White Polka Dot Day Dress\n\nWho doesn't love navy and white dots on a summer day!?  Lightweight cotton blend (either a rayon or silk blend) with a classic white polka dots on a navy background.  White cotton trim including a bell-bow accent at the base of the v-neck.  Fitted bodice with a semi-full skirt.  Unlined.  Side metal zipper.  The original belt is included.\n\n    Label:  none\n    Fabric:  Cotton blend\n    Circa:  1950s  \n\n    BEST FITS:  XS  (see measurements)\n\n    CONDITION:  Overall very good - excellent.  The dress shows light, normal wear, with no specific issues to note other than a tiny hint of color bleed right at the underarm seam.  Priced Accordingly.\n    Shoulders:  14.5\"\n    Bust:  up to 35\" \n    Waist:  up to 25\"       \n    Bodice length:  15\"\n    Skirt length:  24\"\n    Arm circumference:  11\"\n\n  • CARE:\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.655448317527771}
+{"content": "BREAKING: Hundreds of homes without electricity after POWER CUT\n\nHundreds of homes in north and east Manchester have been hit by a power cut.\n\nThe black-out began at around 4.15pm.\n\nElectricity North West said 522 customers have been left with no power.\n\nThe situation could continue until around 7pm.\n\nEngineers are on their way to work on a fix. The power cut is affecting homes and businesses with an M40, M10 and M11 postcode.\n\nThis covers areas in Miles Platting, Moston and Newton Heath.\n\nIn a tweet, Electricity North West said: “We’re receiving a high number of calls from #M40 & M11 areas of Manchester, reporting loss of power.\n\n“This is currently affecting 522 properties and engineers are on their way to the area now.\n\n“Updates will follow shortly.”\n\nA list of affected postcodes has been published. They are:\n\nM40 7WN, M40 7LZ, M40 7NB, M40 7ND, M40 7WG, M40 7DA, M40 7LH, M40 7LJ, M40 7LL, M40 7LY, M40 7SH, M40 7WA, M40 8EE, M40 7PS, M40 7UE, M40 8ED, M40 7NW, M10 8DR, M40 8DR, M40 8DE, M40 8EA, M40 8RR, M40 7FW, M40 8BS, M40 8DA, M40 8DB, M40 8DD, M40 8DG, M40 8DH, M40 8DJ, M40 8DL, M40 8DN, M40 8DP, M40 8DQ, M40 8DS, M40 8DT, M40 8DW, M40 8DX, M40 8DY, M40 8DZ, M40 8AZ, M40 8BA, M40 7EE", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9780078530311584}
+{"content": "All Activity Madness! - All ActivityenWhat do bottles and labels look like?ok, so since this time I was inspired to gather all of the years, notes, photos and FINALLY am done (thanks to many people!!!!.), 16 Jan 2021 05:02:30 +0000A Vast Similitude Interlocks AllI opened this bottle and felt completely drawn into it's salty depths. And then....I spilled the motherfucker all over me. So I am going with it. The initial saltiness is a constant threadline through the scent as it settles. It's somewhat sharper opening eventually settles into amber, verging into vanilla, and the whole time there is a tinge of salt surrounding it. When I read about different notes the deep dark ones (patchouli, oud, etc) always seem compelling on paper, but my nose says that aquatics are where it's at. I really adore this one.Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:31:07 +0000It Was Just a CatInitial application is a burst of dry amber. It dries down quickly to a powdery golden amber, and wears very close to my skin. Smells like my big ginger boy asleep on my lap, keeping me warm. Lovely!.Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:13:01 +0000Pumpkin LatteReview for the 2011 version. I already have a decant of the Pumpkin Latte Hair Gloss and really enjoyed it, so once I found out there was a perfume oil as well, I was eager to try it out. It's a very sweet coffee scent, but weirdly enough I'm not getting any pumpkin. Basically every other note is present in this, especially the espresso, cinnamon and vanilla bean. Throw is kind of low on this, but the wear time is pretty good at least! I may try out a newer year version to see if the pumpkin is more prominent in it. If you have the hair gloss, this makes a great compliment for it. However, they smell pretty different to me. The hair gloss has more pumpkin and the overall scent is stronger, while the perfume oil has no pumpkin to me and is faint.Sat, 16 Jan 2021 02:12:49 +0000Devil's ClawIn the bottle: Sharp, incensey and smoky. Wet: Tangy, dark yet fresh at the same time. A lot like a smoky single malt scotch. Dry: Totally smokey scotch, kind of a combination of Islay and Speyside single malts. After a few minutes: I still feel like I'm smelling Ardbeg, my favourite single malt whiskey. After first hour: I'm getting more of a Gaueko smoky vibe from it now, just a touch greener and fresher beneath the smoke, minus the lavender, of course. A touch of incense too. If I met someone wearing this I would throw myself at them. After two and a half hours: A note of sweetness has crept out through the smoke. After 5 hours: The smoke is mostly gone, leaving a sweet greenness and a hint of cured tobbacco. Final verdict: I don't need any more Bpal, but if I found a bottle I would probably snap it up.Sat, 16 Jan 2021 00:01:28 +0000<![CDATA[Peppermint & Pine]]>I have been wanting a nice pine scent that doesn't go too powerful or ends up smelling like pine sol, and I was hoping this, with the peppermint, would be a good scent. Sniffing, I do get the pine and peppermint. On my skin, like all peppermint notes, it disappears and all I have is pine.. and it is just too much for me. Sadly this was a miss. Might be good for laying, as said above, but I amp the pine and just isn't for me.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:32:20 +0000All Hallows Chaos: Pumpkin Spice#5 In the bottle: Something vaguely sweet and herbal. I want to say reminiscent of scents where I thought I'd identified a myrtle note, but I can't say for sure that's what it is. On my skin: Wet, it's much darker and sharper -- not overtly offputting or unpleasant, just a stark contrast to the scent in the bottle. As it dries, however, it becomes... almost indolic. I'd tell you pumpkin spice oud and new leather is a possibility here. I have to say, I am not a fan.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:51:03 +0000Can't access cartFYI, for BPAL website issues, your best bet is to email the customer service team: answers@blackphoenixalchemylab.comFri, 15 Jan 2021 18:54:38 +0000Baby’s First BallistaI love Haloes, so this seemed like a safe bet and I was right. This smells very similar in the bottle and on my skin, with the oak and vanilla being pretty balanced. It's maybe a bit on the sweet side as it dries down, until I'm mostly left with vanilla sugar and a whiff of oak (skin chemistry differences are so weird). It doesn't last very long on my skin at this point, so I'm hoping the longevity will improve as the oak and vanilla age. Compared to Haloes, I actually find this a bit sweeter? Haloes is kind of dolled up with the floral, fruit, and spice notes, whereas this is more straightforwardly vanilla. Haloes makes me feel kind of haunted and otherworldly; in comparison, this makes me feel classy and put-together.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:46:45 +0000Gingerbread and LeatherTester decant received as a frimp in a swap. So excited! In the decant: Yes, just like the description. Gingerbread and leather and extra clove and tobacco. It's very spice-forward in the vial, but the leather and tobacco aren't exactly missing, just a little quieter. On my skin: Wet, it's gingerbread and tobacco. I miss the extra clove. As it dries, however, the other notes start to come out. The tobacco note has the most throw on me, followed by the gingerbread. The clove and leather are detectable closer to the skin. And then -- wow! -- it shifts so it's clove-heavy gingerbread over leather. There's a touch of tobacco, but at this point, it's really just a touch (and I say this as someone who usually amps tobacco). The vibe is very much sexy gingerbread. Sexy and a little bit dangerous. Gingerbread that gives you naughty thoughts in the middle of wearing. When I read the initial description, I'd originally written this one off as tobacco-containing scents tend to become all about the tobacco on me. But this is very much about the spices and leather. I may be heading over to the Lab site right now to add a bottle to my cart. (Is today payday? If today is payday, I'm definitely doing that.)Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:42:12 +0000Suck It 2020Very boozy cherry in the bottle, like almost straight up homemade cherry brandy cherry. The cherry sticks around wet on skin for me for all of about two minutes, though and quickly turned into an almost excessively floral apricot. There's something sour to it that reads to me almost like an oudh, and sadly it doesn't work with my skin chemistry at all. I loved it in the bottle, but my skin hates it something fierce. It would be a gorgeous dark, boozy cherry with a twist if it stayed true to the wet scent, but the drydown on me is murder. After half an hour I can't even get the faintest hint of cherry just a weird sharp/sour floral with a hint of apricot.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:39:00 +0000Can't access cartI was finally able to do it by switching to a mobile device! Thank you so much!Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:10:09 +0000Artist's EntranceToday I was craving leather. Blind bottled this last year and I wasn't sure about it, but today it's my jam. Clean, bright leather (my favorite perfume note), and clean, ever-so-slightly spicy fir. Unisex leaning toward masculine or \"tomboy\" 😏. So thankful for the Liliths for bringing me back to BPAL after a long hiatus. I look forward to reading her adventures each year, and I'm finding all kinds of treasured scents now.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:42:37 +0000Lavender and White Chocolate Madeleines WinterIn the decant: White chocolate and buttery cookie first, with lavender coming in after. On my skin: Wet, it's so very much buttery -- and just a touch almondy? -- cookie. As it dries, the white chocolate and lavender both come out, adding depth and complexity to the scent. It stays pretty true after that, slightly sharp lavender and sweet white chocolate over a buttery cookie base. As someone who is not the biggest fan of lavender or cookies as perfume notes, this is surprisingly nice. The combination of notes is really well balanced, so it's not overly sharp or sweet or cake-y in any one direction. Definitely, if the notes call to you, this is going to be a winner -- and even if you'd discounted it before, trying it out might pleasantly surprise you!Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:43:27 +0000Can't access cartAre you on the computer or on a mobile device? Have you tried refreshing your window? Have you tried with a different browser? (i.e, Firefox, Chrome)Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:39:43 +0000Suck It 2020This is different from the regular Suck It. It does smell a bit darker, but I wouldn't have guessed \"boozy\". The cherry does manage to stick around on my skin, instead of it getting sucked up immediately. However, it ends up smelling a bit more artificial than regular Suck It. I think the apricot ends up changing how the cherry is perceived by my nose, rather than being another element that I can smell. As for cherry lovers, it still smells wonderful when it's wet. I think it would make an amazing atmo. It just doesn't work on my skin, and I feel like it's different enough from the regular Suck It to justify having this bottle in your cherry collection.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:37:59 +0000To a Wreath of SnowIn the decant: tobacco, lavender, and ambergris. On my skin: Wet, it's predominantly tobacco flower and lavender. As it dries, there is a phase where the ambergris becomes more prominent, but it doesn't last long and fades back again within several minutes. Eventually, however, it creeps back out to be a skin-close note in the scent, whose throw is still dominated by tobacco flower and lavender. I never do get detectable oud, which is somewhat unusual for me, but I also tend to amp tobacco in all its forms, so it could well be that I'm missing the oud for that. If the notes of this call to you, I think this is likely to be a winner in its delivery.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:27:29 +0000Marshmallow SnowThis is sweet... and lovely. Sniffing in the bottle, there is this sweetness... but hard to pinpoint what it is, it is a mix of herbal sweetness and candy sweetness. On my skin, the marshmallow sweet part comes out but then there is that \"other\" sweet note.. and for the life of me, I have no idea what it is...herbal for sure, but then not! It softens up and I don't get marshmallow per se, but it is a very nice sweet scent. It is gentle and not crazy. I see it as a relative of Snow White.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:27:04 +0000The RoseIn the vial: the sap of the broken green stem and the reddest of luscious roses are one heady entity that makes the head spin with what you’ve done, (stolen roses are sweetest)- but how can you regret anything so beautiful? On me, wet: Running away from the forbidden rose bush, the greensap fades more to the flower nw: if this is the stolen rose from the Beast’s garden, the scent on my wrist is proof of my guilt, even if it was an act of love for another- there is no disguising it, it will give me away. The Beast caught up with me purely by following its trail, so strong is the throw. On me, just dried: So Red the Rose – pure, pure absolute of Rose abducted from an enchanted garden where I had no right to go; to be, to pluck After 15 minutes: the rose -still absolute- has softened somewhat, not so sharp, the stemsap is still there as a highlighting contrast as green does to red After 30 minutes: the rose is still calming down, and calming me down too – the green stemsap has largely faded, the rose having been stolen half an hour back After 1 hour: the rose too has fled, escaped, a ghost rose left on my wrist, haunting me After 3 hours: not even a phantom rose anymore Verdict – Even though this is not a long lived scent (on me) it is so luscious that I buy it in a full bottle again and again, and just reapply. It really is an extraordinary creation with the sharp green against the velvety full bodied rose.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:55:14 +0000Can't access cartI added a bunch of perfumes to my order, and now the drop down menu for the cart won't scroll down to let me hit Check Out! I can't even edit my cart to take some off! Does anyone know how to resolve this?Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:06:03 +0000The Cherry-Tree CarolReceived a partial decant of this in a swap. I'm pretty stoked to review it because I loved the idea for this scent but shied away from getting a bottle or decant of it myself. In the decant: First, it's sugary red cherry, then an undercurrent of cherry wood. The longer I sniff, the more I can detect a myriad of stuff swirling in the background. When I recapped the decant after sniffing -- before I actually applied the oil to my skin -- I caught a whiff of rose petals and what might be powdery myrrh. On my skin: Wet, it's cherries and berries, backed by cherry wood. As it dries, it becomes a lot more about rose petals over cherry wood. Then the resins come out, and it's rose petals and powdery frankincense over a cherrywood base that's gone greatly into the background. In this stage, at least, the resins are very powdery on me, to the point where I almost sneezed -- twice! -- when sniffing my arm. If I had to guess, I'd say it's the frankincense and maybe myrrh making the powder and the amber amping it up on me (amber plays that way with my skin chemistry). Fortunately, the phase of overwhelming powder dies down quick, and I'm left with rose over soft resins over cherrywood. I can't swear to you that there's zero trace of cherries or berries, but if I didn't know the scent description, they are not notes that I'd call to mind from sniffing the settled scent. Once settled, it reminds me of... a Marchen I tried once, with rosewood as a note. (BRB, going to look it up....) Ah, lies. I'm thinking of The Little Wooden Doll, which is rose-infused amber and sandalwood. It's not quite the same, but the general flavor of rose gracing the resins and woods still holds. The Cherry-Tree Carol is quite different than how I imagined it would be on me, but still lovely. And, really, I shouldn't be too surprised, as my skin chemistry has amped the notes it tends to amp and has eaten the notes it tends to eat. It may well turn out to be decidedly different on someone else. (I think there's still enough in this partial for someone else to test, so I most certainly will be passing it on for someone else to enjoy.)Fri, 15 Jan 2021 05:14:23 +0000Gingerbread ZombieAlways fun to be the first!! I LOVE this! I am a fan of most gingerbread scents and this one does NOT disappoint! Sniffing in the bottle, I get gingerbread.. nothing else, and it is very good. Like a cookie, but not overly sweet. On my skin, I get the gingerbread, a hint of mint and chocolate. Not getting vanilla, but that could be what it keeping the gingerbread note from being too.... baking spice. If that makes sense. This is so good. If you are worried about it being too sweet or too ginger-y, it isn't. It has a nice, dry baking quality to it. It has medium throw on me. After a bit, I get mostly the gingerbread and a touch of the chocolate. This is gourmand to me. Very comforting scent. I wish it had more throw because I can't stop sniffing my wrist! LOVE this!Fri, 15 Jan 2021 03:56:26 +0000EgleIn the bottle: Powdery fresh green and fruity. Wet: Fresh green, resinous, some sort of greenish floral with a hint of wood. The fairy tale is Egle, Queen of Serpents (which I am not familiar with), but I'm not sure if I detect any Snake Oil in the blend. Dry: Fruity, berrylike, but still quite green. After a few minutes: It reminds me a bit of Yew Trees. Hmm, maybe this is a hint of what I might be smelling: \"As she commanded so it came to be: and now the oak, ash and birch are the strongest of our trees, while the willow to this day will shake at the slightest whisper of a wind for she quaked before her uncles and gave away her true father.\" This is really, really good. A bit mossy now, with sweet green wood. Half an hour in it's starting to fade. Just checked the forum reviews, and there are notes listed: Ocean water, hyacinth petals, star jasmine, and fir. The fir is quite outspoken, which is the way I like it, while the flowers are more submissive. The ocean water must be the freshness. After first hour: A faint green, powdery fresh sweetness with a definite smooth, soothing coniferousness. After two and a half hours: A hint of sweet fir. After 5 hours: A hint of sweetness. Final verdict: I like it, but I can't decide if I want to keep it.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 03:22:05 +0000<![CDATA[Sandalwood & Lily of the Valley]]>No additional scent description.Fri, 15 Jan 2021 02:26:49 +0000Coraline JonesHoney! I get honey at first, but a nice honey, not cloying. The grass comes out a little bit but it's not too sharp. Generally clean but not super soapy, with a light berry smell, not like grape, but dark youthful berries. It's okay, doesn't grab me, but then again most skin musk or berry scents aren't my speed. Still I'm shocked the fruits in this don't go sour, so it's got that going for it. I think if you are into these notes you will love this! Youthful and sweet.Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:53:11 +0000", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8113816380500793}
+{"content": "5 tooth-friendly veggies to plant in your garden\n\n\nVegetables grow with distinct nutrients that encourage optimal oral health and contain vitamins and minerals that can help strengthen teeth. And because they are rich in fiber, veggies can help stimulate saliva flow. Increased levels of saliva can neutralize cavity-causing acids and wash away bacteria before they hide and spread in mouth crevices.\n\nIf you’re planning to tend a garden this year, consider planting the seeds for a healthy smile with these tooth-friendly veggies that taste good, too. Happy gardening!\n\n\nThe abundance of calcium in spinach can help protect tooth enamel, strengthen your jaw bones and the bone that supports your teeth, and help prevent tooth loss. Spinach needs about six weeks of cooler temperatures, so plant it before the last spring frost.\n\n\nWith a full helping of vitamin C, broccoli helps strengthen gums and other soft tissues in the mouth. It also goes a long way toward helping defend against gum disease, gingivitis and tooth loss. Plus, broccoli provides a substantial amount of calcium that helps fortify bones and teeth.\n\nSweet potatoes\n\nSweet potatoes aren’t just tasty - they also contain vitamin A, which helps keep mucous membranes healthy and encourages quick recovery from mouth problems like cuts and surgeries. Similar to broccoli, the vitamin C in sweet potatoes encourages healthy gums. Be careful not to overwater your sweet potatoes!\n\n\nKale packs a powerful punch (and a hearty crunch) of calcium, folic acid, vitamin A and vitamin K. Not only can a vitamin K deficiency negatively affect your mouth’s healing process, but a healthy dose can help block substances that break down bones.\n\n\nCarrots have loads of vitamin A, which is critical for the formation of healthy tooth enamel. They also have high levels of fiber. Snacking on some crisp carrots after eating a meal can wash away food remnants, helping to prevent cavities. Make sure the soil isn’t too heavy or your carrots may end up oddly shaped.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7329146862030029}
+{"content": "Cults and Rituals\n\nviews updated\n\nCults and Rituals\n\n\nChoice and Aims. Whether they practice Igbo , Yoruba, Akan, or other West African traditional religions, believers take part in remarkably similar rituals—just as one finds similar rituals among the many denominations of Christian churches or among the various sects of Islam. During the years 500-1590—and in the present day—West Africans could choose which of the several gods and cults best suited their needs. Thus, even the people of a single culture group might worship different gods.\n\nChoosing a Deity. Believers want to influence the intentions of a divinity in order to secure protection for themselves, their families, and possessions; to obtain blessings of spiritual, emotional, and material plenitude; to give praise and thanksgiving to the gods when such blessings are received; or to appease any gods who might have been offended. A pressing personal or familial need might influence one’s choice of which god to worship. While some gods are considered expert at healing a particular illness, others might be inept at the same job. While one god might be reputed to be especially attentive to prayers and sacrifices, another might be considered intransigent and uncompromising and thus would be chosen only when he or she is considered the only one capable of solving a particular problem. For example, the Igbo lightning god, Amadioha, and the Yoruba lightning god, Shango, are often considered powerful but temperamental deities. While ordinarily kind and gentle, they can be extremely exacting in their demands both on themselves and on devotees who wish to emulate the intellectual and moral clarity with which the gods are associated. Among the Igbo , diviners and healers (Dibia) take as their deity the god Agwu, known as a master or custodian of knowledge. Like Esu among the Yoruba or Ananse among the Akan, however, Agwu is also a trickster god, who can reveal or hide knowledge from those who seek it.\n\nCults. Other professions also have their own patron gods. Some gods are perpetual patrons of certain trades, so that anyone belonging to a trade guild automatically gives allegiance to its god-protector. Among the Yoruba, Ogun is the patron god of metal fabricators, such as iron smiths, and those whose trades indirectly depend on the use of metal equipment, such as hunters and warriors. Such an allegiance did not require a professional to venerate his patron deity exclusively.\n\nSecret Societies. Throughout West Africa, there are “secret societies” that impart specialized knowledge exclusively to selected members. Unlike cults, these groups have both secular and religious functions.These groups are often custodians of important historical, literary, and professional knowledge that is essential to a community’s understanding of its origins and how it governs itself. Initiations into these “secret” societies are often conducted in monastic seclusion and may include instruction in theology, history, politics, economics, law, medicine, and military strategy. The best known of these societies were founded in the capital cities of Benin, Ile-Ife, Dahomey, Nri, Mali, and Ashanti. Groups such as the Egbo Society among the Efik, the Ogboni among the Yoruba, and the Ngbe (Leopard) Society among the Igbo performed public functions such as collecting taxes, recording titles and deeds, serving as legislative advisers to the king, and sitting as panels of judges or juries. The Leopard Society was renowned for its expertise in mortuary science, its administration of mourning and burial rites, and its ceremonial drumming. The activities of the Egbo Society included maintenance of the Nsibidi (an ideographic form of writing believed to have been secretly learned from the Igbo ), knowledge of which was crucial for clerical purposes such as the keeping of public financial and judicial records, as well as religious practices. The Leopard Society’s symbol is mboko, a Nsibidi sign symbolizing the arrival of death.\n\nPersonal and Communal Gods. Some gods, known as chi or ikenga, are personal gods, but most other gods are communal. Thus, a family, clan, or entire ethnic group might have one or several gods that all the members of the group worship, either individually in times of individual need or collectively in times of communal need. In each case sacrifices and intercessions to the gods are mediated by\n\n[Image not available for copyright reasons]\n\npriests, who often also know how to practice divination in order to discover the nature of the problem (or blessing) so that the appropriate sacrifices can be made to the appropriate gods.\n\nGender Influences. Some gods are regarded as either male or female, and therefore often attract worshipers of the same gender. While clerical duties were often—but not necessarily—gender specific, nearly all West African religions did not develop rigid gender roles. Quite often men dress as women to worship a god presumed to have or like feminine attributes; and women dress in men’s attire and play leading roles in the worship of deities believed to be masculine or to prefer masculine attributes.\n\nFamily Tradition. History and tradition also play a major role in one’s choice of a god and cult. If one comes from a family that has always been devoted to a particular deity, the youngest members of the family often continue the tradition, especially if the family has experienced some sort of success. Worldly attainments are considered indications that the gods to whom one has professed allegiance have been attentive to one’s needs. It is therefore not only natural but also prudent to continue the same ritual practice rather than risk offending the gods who have helped the family in the past by choosing a different, and perhaps rival, deity or deities. (Rivalries—sometimes for reasons known only to the deities themselves—are not uncommon among West African gods.) A woman who marries into another family may also develop relationships with the gods of her husband. Yet, even after marriage she may be expected to return to her father’s family annually to participate in a festival to the gods of her paternal clan.\n\nAttracting Followers. A god may gain followers by various forms of revelation such as sending a signal to a person in a dream or by troubling the prospective believer until he or she consults a Babalawo and discovers that the misfortune or illness is caused by a god who needs the sufferer’s attention. African traditional religions are not evangelistic, however, in the sense of proselytizing to gain converts.\n\nAncestral Practices. Ancestor “worship”—or, more accurately, veneration—is practiced in nearly all traditional West African religions. The spirits of the ancestors—especially of those forefathers and foremothers who are believed to have lived exemplary lives, as measured in terms of success in family life, wealth, and longevity—are considered active and functioning members of the community. In a society where individual and collective memory was preserved orally, elders were respected as bearers of the communal knowledge accumulated from a distant past and capable of providing insights into the present and the future. For the ancestors, death was not so much a departure from the world of the living as a change of status within the social group. Their continuing spiritual and emotional relationship to the group is possible because in most African belief systems there is no sharp separation between the dead and the living. In fact, a dead ancestor is often referred to as the living-dead. These ancestors are believed to be in positions of guardianship and authority over the living. They must therefore be treated with honor and respect, an extension of the traditional values of respect for the elders and honoring the wisdom they have gained with age. The living-dead have achieved still more wisdom through association with other spirits in the abode of the gods. Yet, no known ancestral spirit commands as much respect as any of the gods. The power and authority of the ancestors seem to be derived from the gods. That is, ancestral spirits exercise influence within a certain domain (farming, fertility, or the arts, for example) according to, but never against, the will of a god with power over the same domain.\n\nLibation. The living honored the ancestors by pouring a libation (paying homage by giving them the first “taste” of drink before the living consume it), by offering them sacrifices of kola nuts, chickens, goats, or cows (and in some rare but known cases, human beings—usually criminals or condemned war captives), and by thinking and acting in ways of which the ancestors would have approved. The authority of the dead over the living gave cohesion to the kinship group and often functioned as law and moral authority, as well as enforcing social and cultural norms of behavior.\n\nFuneral Drumming. Among all West African peoples, the death of a member of the community is announced by “talking” drums that communicate information such as the name and age of the deceased; the names of his or her parents, children, and next of kin; and his or her village. This information tells the listeners where and by whom the loss must be most acutely felt and therefore those to whom condolence visits are due. The talking drums celebrate the life of the dead, thus flattering and soothing his or her spirit for a safe passage to the realm of the ancestors. Failure to undertake this passage could mean that the departed would remain as an angry or mischievous wandering and homeless spirit to plague its family and community. After firearms began appearing in West Africa in the fifteenth century, gun salutes began to be used when an important person died to warn evil spirits trying to thwart the deceased’s passage to the land of the spirits that the dead man or woman was a distinguished person and should be honored.\n\nWelcoming a Returned Ancestor. Sometimes an ancestor returns to the land of the living through reincarnation in one of his or her descendants. When such an event is believed to have occurred, it is announced by masquerades in which the living portray notable ancestors. According to Chinua Achebe, “The masked spirits who often grace human rituals and ceremonies with their presence are representative visitors from the spiritland and are said to emerge from the subterranean home through antholes. At least this is the story told to the uninitiated.” These masked “spirits” are only symbolic ancestors. “But this knowledge does not in any way diminish their validity or the awesomeness of their presence.”\n\nMagic. Magic was an important element of traditional religions. Magic could be used to do good or harm and was considered effective against or on behalf of the living, the spirits of the dead, and the gods. While sorcery may be considered an intentional use of magic in ways immoral or illegal, witchcraft is usually believed to be beyond the conscious control of the person said to be a witch or wizard.\n\nWitchcraft. While someone claiming to be a witch or wizard may describe in dramatic detail the processes by which they perform acts of witchcraft, from an objective or external perspective these actions do not exist, except as psychic states or mental activities. While some witches may, for example, claim that at night in their sleep they transform themselves into owls or cats and roam about dispensing poisons into the bodies of sleeping victims, there is no way of establishing the credibility of such claims. West African beliefs about witchcraft during the years 500-1590 were quite similar to those of European and American cultures during the same period. The fear of being a witch or the victim of a witch was enormous. Families took great precautions to ensure that a family member did not become a witch or a target of witchcraft. Some people, however, exploited the general fear of witches for their own gain.\n\nSorcery. In contrast to witchcraft, sorcery is a process through which an individual or group consciously forms and executes a plan to employ magical powers to hurt a real or perceived enemy. While witchcraft relies almost exclusively on beliefs and the psychological effects of fear, claims about sorcery can be objectively and factually investigated. Sorcerers often developed and employed poisons (often manufactured from bark, grass, or the venom of poisonous snakes). While a person could unknowingly become a witch, no one could claim to become a sorcerer unknowingly. In fact, only a person with a knowledge of medicine and pharmacology could plan and execute an act of sorcery.\n\nHealers. Such experts are usually known as “medicine men,” but in fact, both men and women practiced benevolent and malevolent sorcery. Although they were largely viewed as healers who attempted to help their patients, some of them diverted their skills to harm others in pursuit of personal ends or those of the highest bidder, with little regard to the moral intentions of the patron or the consequences of the action. Medicine was sometimes dispensed as charms or amulets, with ingredients such as herbs and sacred objects—including pebbles from the sea or shells or Homs of certain animals. These charms and amulets were believed, when properly employed, to target one’s enemies or to thwart similar charms aimed at oneself. Casting a spell (or curse) on one’s enemy was another well-known method of sorcery. Only an expert at magical procedures was considered capable of activating the supernatural processes required to make a spell work. The psychological methods used by a Babalawo or Dibia to manipulate individuals or groups were also considered magic. This kind of magic might be used to make a person fall in or out of love with a particular suitor, or to convince the group that certain untruths were truths.\n\nDivination. Divination is aimed at truth telling or knowledge acquisition. Truth and knowledge were considered properties of the gods and considered accessible to humans only through the intelligence with which the gods willingly endowed humans. Divination was used by individuals whose profession was the pursuit of disinterested or applied knowledge. These experts were known by various names in different places, including the Babalawo among the Yoruba, the Dibia among the Igbo, and the Aduru among the Akan. These people were often considered medical experts as well, because they typically had knowledge of herbs and the body. The Dibia and the Babalawo were initiated into the service of gods believed to be masters or custodians of knowledge (the Igbo deity Agwu or the Yoruba deity Esu). They were also required to have mastered the science of medicine (Ogwu) and were expected, for a fee, to employ this knowledge in healing the sick or to share their skills with other healers.\n\n\nAlso known as Afa, Ifa is the name of the Yoruba god of knowledge and of the rigidly defined and complex system of obtaining knowledge from Ifa through divination. A person consults Ifa on an occasion when he or she needs to make a significant decision, whether about a personal matter such as marriage or a political enterprise such as war. The Babalawo (“father of secrets”), a diviner and priest, consults Ifa by manipulating sixteen palm nuts, which form a large handful. He begins by holding them in both hands and then attempts to pick them all up in his right hand. If one nut remains in his left hand, he makes a double mark in wood dust on his divining tray; if two remain, he makes a single mark. Four such marks made in a vertical column constitute one half of a figure, and each half has sixteen possible forms. Following the ranking recognized in Ifa, and reading from left to right rather than from top to bottom, these sixteen forms can be presented: 1111, 2222, 2112, 1221, 1222, 2221, 1122, 2211, 1112, 2111, 1121, 1211, 2212, 2122, 1212, and 2121. The second half of the figure, marked in a parallel vertical column, has the same sixteen possible forms; and as they may combine with any of the sixteen forms in the first half of the figure, there are a total of 16 times 16, or 256, possible complete figures.\n\nA Babalawo can arrive at the same 256 figures more quickly by a single toss of a chain of eight half seed shells, but this method is considered less reliable. He holds the chain in the middle and casts it on the ground so that four half seed shells fall in a line on each side. A seed falling with the concave inner surface upward is equivalent to a double mark. Having arrived at the correct figure, the Babalawo recites a verse associated with the particular figure that is relevant to the client’s problem. The verse prescribes a sacrifice that will ensure a desired blessing or avert an impending misfortune* During apprenticeship, a Babalawo must memorize more than a thousand Ifa verses, at least four for each of the 256 figures, and he continues to learn new verses from his colleagues throughout his life. A Babalawo can also answer “Yes* or “No* questions by making two tosses of the divining chain and observing which has the higherranking figure. Babalawo are consulted not only by worshipers of Ifa and the other deities but by Muslims and Christians as well.\n\nsource : William R. Bascom, Ifa Divination Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969), pp. 4, 40-42.\n\nMasquerades. Among the Yoruba and Igbo , there are various forms of masquerading, including the Egungun, Gelede, and Epa. In general, masquerades such as the Egungun (literally “bone” or “skeleton,” that is, a man risen from the dead) are ceremonies that pay tribute to the god Amaiyegun, who is believed to have taught humans how to protect themselves from Death by wearing masks and other costumes that disguise their humanness. The Egungun masquerade has a hierarchy. The “elder egungun” is a person from the oldest age grade and may perform duties such as the execution of legal orders. The “trickster egungun” entertains spectators. The “children of egungun” are teenagers. Women may participate in Egungun rituals only if they are clothed as males. They are not supposed to know the identities of the masqueraders, and even if a woman recognizes her husband or son, she is not supposed to reveal such knowledge to others. Whereas an Egungun ceremony may require absolute secrecy about the identities of the masqueraders, Gelede and Epa are less serious about hiding the participants’ identities and are generally more playful. Gelede and Epa masqueraders may wear costumes that expose some parts of their bodies, including the face, arms, or feet.\n\n[Image not available for copyright reasons]\n\nPossession. Possession is believed to occur when a nonancestral spirit or a deity enters a person’s head, thereby taking control of the body. Such a person is spoken of as a “horse” or “mount” of the possessing spirit or deity. The spirit or deity may speak through the mount’s voice and thrash around in the person’s uncontrollable body, pleading for some form of attention or demanding a sacrifice, while predicting curses and evil that may occur if its demands are not met. At other times, however, the spirit or god may announce blessings and good fortune that will come to the mount or the initiates of a god. Not every deity “mounts” its adherents, and some do so only at special festivals where a “mouthperson” has been chosen and prepared ahead of time for being possessed. This preparation may take the form of fasting for several weeks or eating a special diet, abstaining from sexual intercourse, or shaving of one’s head (to “clear” the head so the god can “mount”).\n\nPrayer. There are many forms of prayer, including prayers of praise, supplication, propitiation, and repentance, as well as pleas for intercession. For each deity there are usually prescribed liturgical hymns and chants that priests or other followers of a god must recite during a ritual. Drums are also used to summon the gods and ancestral spirits. Morning and evening are the usual times for prayer. A particular day of the week may also be dedicated to prayers to a specific god.\n\nSacrifices. Today, and for the most part in the past, sacrifices are ritualized. Even when a ritual is called a “human” sacrifice, a person need not be killed. Instead a symbolic execution is enacted. In some cases such rituals are reenactments of what is believed to be an actual sacrifice of a human ancestor in the mythical past. Among the Akan it is believed that when death strikes a member of the royal family, the “bones” of the dead are restless and hungering for life until appeased by the shedding of blood, the symbol of life. Therefore, Death must be fed the blood he wants quickly, before Death strikes another member of the family or clan. In most cases a cow, a goat, or a chicken is slaughtered to appease Death.\n\nOracles. Usually consulted only in times of crisis (as when a decision has to be made about waging a war), an oracle is a powerful spirit housed in a shrine, usually a grotto, far from the living quarters of a community. An oracle is considered an impartial spirit and trusted ancestor able to ascertain the truth and the best course of action. For example, if the oracle rules that the cause is just, war may be prosecuted with the implicit understanding that victory is likely. If the oracle determines that the reasons for war are unjust, however, victory is not guaranteed, and even if the war is won, the people who initiate it may bring a curse on their descendants. An oracle may also be consulted in order to determine guilt or innocence in disputes among individuals. Once again the oracle, unlike human judges, is considered impartial. The priest who speaks for the oracle is usually removed from the lives of ordinary people in the community. A person of upright character, he or she is often unmarried or a widow or widower. Moreover, the oracle is believed to “choose” its priest, not the other way round.\n\n\nWade Abimbola, ed. and trans., Ifa Divination Poetry (New York: NOK, 1977).\n\nChinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (London: Heinemann, 1987).\n\nAchebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays (London: Heinemann, 1975).\n\n\n\nWilliam R. Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969).\n\nUlli Beier, ed., The Origin of Life and Death:African Creation Myths (London: Heinemann, 1966).\n\nNorman R. Bennett, Africa and Europe: From Roman Times to National Independence, second edition (New York: Africana, 1975).\n\n\nW. Walton Claridge, A History of the Gold Coast from the Earliest Times to the Commencement of the Twentieth Century, 2 volumes (London: John Murray, 1915).\n\n\n\n\nDiop, Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, translated by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi, edited by Harold J. Salemson and Marjolijn de Jager (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Lawrence Hill, 1991).\n\n\nJacob U. Egharevba, The City of Benin, Benin Law and Custom, Some Stories of Ancient Benin, [and] Some Tribal Gods of Southern Nigeria (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprints, 1971).\n\nEmmanuel Eze,ed., African Philosophy: An Anthology (Malden, Mass. & Oxford: Blackwell, 1998).\n\nMarcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, Le Mythe Cosmogonique (Paris: Institut d’Ethnologie, 1965).\n\n\nJohn Iliffe, Africans: The History of a Continent (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).\n\nA. H. M. Kirk-Greene, trans., Hausa ba dabo ba ne: 500 Hausa Proverbs (Ibadan, Nigeria: Oxford University Press, 1966).\n\n\nJohn Mbiti, Introduction to African Religion (London: Heinemann, 1975).\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9172331690788269}
+{"content": "Cognitive distortion and taking up space.\n\n\nCognitive distortion and taking up space.\n\n\nMy brain is spinning with thoughts and conversations over the past weeks, the culmination of almost a year’s worth of introspection and mourning.\n\nI looked through the journal section of your blog and noticed you haven’t really written lately,” a friend noted. No. I haven’t. I’ve been afraid, frankly. With some good reason and probably with some over-​reaction. But sharing myself this year has resulted in so much pain that I’ve been trying to close myself off. Unfortunately, I still have hope in the depths of my soul, which means I’ll always try again. It’s wearisome.\n\nWriting is how I process things like grief and rage and even intellectual exercises of dissecting beliefs I once held. But when I’m ashamed of what I have to process…when I’m ashamed of what I’ve experienced, put up with, ashamed of who I am…it’s hard to process that in any way. I fear being seen as manipulative, attention-​seeking, self-​centered, thoughtless.\n\nI fear that I am nothing but toxicity, poisoning the people and relationships around me simply by existing in their vicinity. I am too much. I should not be allowed near others.\n\nThis image requires alt text, but the alt text is currently blank. Either add alt text or mark the image as decorative.After voicing similar things to my counselor this morning, I was given this sheet of paper. My eyes quickly scanned the headline and my heart dropped a little bit.\n\nChecklist of Cognitive Distortions.”\n\nTears began pricking at my eyes as I began to read. She began pointing out — with great compassion and kindness — which behaviors she’s seen me exhibit the most strongly in the six months we’ve been meeting. It seemed to be all of them (with the possible exception of number one, and only because I’ve spent the last seven years of my life carefully cultivating nuanced thinking). Numbers two, seven, and nine stuck out to her in particular.\n\nIt’s hard not to view most of my life as a dumpster fire, even though in many ways I know that’s not entirely true. It’s hard not to look back and see myself as weak, conniving, selfish. It’s hard to be taught that who you are as a person is deserving of eternal torture, and then to try to walk away from that towards the truth that all have intrinsic worth.\n\nIt’s so much easier to see other people as whole and worthy and wonderful. But I can’t see myself that way. “What makes you different?” my counselor asks. And I don’t have the words to explain that I just am different. Others are kind and thoughtful and caring, and they deserve understanding and forgiveness and support. But no one owes me any such thing. No one is obligated to me. And I have no right to expect anything from anyone. Especially a listening ear, time, presence, energy, or affection.\n\nEarlier this week, the topic of our discussion in group therapy was “what makes people stay in abusive relationships?” To my shame, I had so much to say, to confess, to share. But I kept burying my face in my hands and apologizing — for talking, for saying too much, for taking up too much space and time. I could hardly look at the other women in the room, even when they were full of nothing but love and support. One of my fellow group members finally shook her head sadly and commented, “Sharing helps you — and it helps us. That’s why we’re here.”\n\nRather than being comforted, I grew panicked. I was taking up more room, drawing more attention to myself. How could I possibly make myself smaller, more insignificant, less noticeable?\n\nA common refrain continues to resound in my brain:\n\nI am too much. Too much. Too much — and not enough.\n\nI don’t know how to overcome this. And even writing it all out is sending me into a panic spiral. But I don’t know what else to do.\n\nI exist as a fat woman in a world that finds me repulsive, in a world where I am praised as more of me disappears, no matter the reason. I cringe when sitting next to someone in public, lest Too Much of Me spills out of the space I’m allotted. I move for everyone in my path, and excuse myself when I walk past someone even when I’m not in their way. I walked past them, they acknowledged my existence, and I must excuse myself for interrupting their day for even the split second they locked eyes with me. I do everything I can to will myself to shrink for the comfort of those around me.\n\nSometimes,  I’m told, my body is “redeemed” by my pretty face and uh, you know, as they look pointedly at my chest.\n\nThis sparks the fear born of violence against me.\n\nI don’t know when I became a space to be filled,” Reagan Myers remarks in the video above, and I nearly sob from the relief of being understood. I can’t help but think of the shadowy hands and mouths of abusers long since forgotten. The person who assaulted me in college, tipping me backwards into his lap and leaving hand-​shaped bruises and phantom kisses along my jaw. Violence I’m afraid to speak, afraid to believe, afraid to own or share, that lurks behind every corner and in every room and almost every memory. And of course, the catalyst to my involvement in the domestic violence shelter in the first place: the man who raped me, who knows where I live and is only a few short minutes away from my door.\n\nMy body is a memorial of many wars. I know, because the ghosts of my enemies continue to haunt me. And it seems only a matter of time before I am a battleground once more. That���s not even saying anything about the war I’m waging against myself.\n\nBelieve it or not, I’ve spent so much of this year in silence. Not because I have nothing to share, but rather because I feel I have nothing worth sharing. I feel that I am not worth sharing, or being, or doing. Just as I must contain the fatness of my body and the violence I’ve absorbed, I must also contain my identity and experiences and thoughts and desires and fears and and and. And all of me.\n\nI take up too much physical space. My existence invites the violence of men. My words ripple through my circles where I take up more space. My need for human interaction and affection burdens all who know me, so I do my best to never ask unless I’m reaching for knives or pills. And even then, I usually don’t reach out, because isn’t that manipulative? Isn’t it cruel to say, “I want to hurt myself to feeling something, I want to die, please, I can’t be alone right now, it’s not safe”? How can I put anyone through such a thing. How selfish can I be. How petty I am.\n\nMy counselor and I started an exercise a few weeks ago that was nothing short of pure agony. I was to list negative thoughts that I have, then write rational responses to those negative thoughts. I cried. None of the responses feel rational. Don’t you know my heart is deceitful and desperately wicked? Don’t you know that I am incapable of good? Don’t you know that I must decrease so Christ can increase? Don’t you know that who I am as a person is an affront to the supposed creator of the universe?\n\nBut is that even fair? Am I allowed to trace my problems back to the faith I held so dearly for so long? Am I shifting the blame? Is this some sick sort of “coming to myself” that the Bible predicts will happen to all prodigals? Now here is a rational thought I can believe: no. There is no compelling evidence for either supernatural realms or beings.\n\nThat seems to be where the rational thinking stops. Because while I’m not religious, I still know more concretely than I know anything that who I am is a dangerous toxin to anyone I meet. That my existence, the space that I take up in the physical and ideological world, is wasted space meant to be filled and overridden and consumed. How can there be any argument against this? The poison of me runs through the core of my being. It is what it is. No one owes me any kindness, and therefore I should expect none.\n\nAnd now I have the worry of this being viewed as fishing for compliments, airing dirty laundry, manipulating people into caring about me by saying they shouldn’t. I don’t know. I don’t know how to exist and grieve and rage and hope without interfering in the lives of others or making myself seen or heard or felt. I don’t know how to be okay while I’m in existence, and I have no other tools available to me to figure this out.\n\nI’m so tired. I’m so very tired. \n\nPosted in Fat Girl,", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8393179178237915}
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+{"content": "Acts Of Betrayal In Hamlet\n\n774 Words4 Pages\nThe play of Hamlet by William Shakespeare is full of many acts of betrayal. One such of these acts is when Hamlet goes against the wishes of his father’s ghost and debates on whether or not he should kill Claudius. Not only this but he also is extremely cruel to his mother and hurts her feelings which were also against the wishes of the ghost. He wanted Hamlet to avenge his death without hurting others along the way and almost everything Hamlet did in the play went against that. Hamlet’s first act of betrayal against the ghost of his father is one that stretches throughout the entire book. Everytime that Hamlet has a chance to kill King Claudius, he hesitates and ends up not even doing it until his final attempt. The first time he has a chance…show more content…\nThe ghost even gave him specific instructions on that telling him “Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive/against thy mother aught” (pg. 25, l. 19-20). The ghost could not have said it any cleared to him to leave his mother out of this whole situation and just focus on killing his uncle. Hamlet thinks t his mother needs to be taught a lesson as well though so he criticizes her on this new marriage. He exclaims to her “the funeral baked meats/Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables” (pg. 12, l. 10-11). In his mind, the marriage to his uncle was much too quick and she should’ve waited longer to remarry. His father had been dead for a very short period of time and she already had moved onto a new man. None of this seemed right in Hamlet’s eyes. This is just one of the many things Hamlet says about this but his mother takes this to heart and gets strongly offended. Later on when Hamlet puts on the play Mousetrap, his mother takes even more offense to how he was indirectly referring to his uncle the entire time. In a private conversation with Hamlet after the play, she tells him “Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended” (pg. 72, l. 9) with father referring to his uncle. Anything that Hamlet did against his uncle his mother took that as an attack on her as well. This was her new husband after all and whatever he felt she felt with him. This attack was a way of him hurting his mother but in more of an indirect way. Even though it was not directly against her, it still hurt her and that was still against the wishes of the ghost of his father. There is many example of betrayal of trust in this play but Hamlet betraying his father’s ghost may be one that is not as well noticed. Yes his father may be dead, but he is still given a mission of just killing his uncle without harming others and not to harm his mother. This is something\n\nMore about Acts Of Betrayal In Hamlet\n\nOpen Document", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7689468860626221}
+{"content": "Provide your email for confirmation\n\nTell us a bit about yourself\n\ncountry *\nprovince *\n\nwhy we ask about location\n\nPlease provide your email address\n\n\nTo share your thoughts\n\nDon't have an account?\n\nLogin with email\n\nCheck your inbox\n\n\nDidn't get a link?\n\nSign up\n\nReady to get started\n\nAlready have an account?\n\nSign up with email\n\nBy signing up you agree to Rappler’s Terms and Conditions and Privacy\n\nCheck your inbox\n\n\nDidn't get a link?\n\nJoin Rappler+\n\nHow often would you like to pay?\n\nMonthly Subscription\n\nYour payment was interrupted\n\n\nYour payment didn’t go through\n\n\nHouse panel warns NTC of contempt for not allowing ABS-CBN to keep operating\n\nThe House committee on legislative franchises warned the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) it may be held in contempt for not issuing media network ABS-CBN the provisional authority to continue operations.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, May 5, House panel chair Franz Alvarez said the lower chamber has the right to issue a show cause order against the NTC if it would give in to pressure from Solicitor General Jose Calida.\n\nCalida warned the NTC on Sunday, May 3, that only Congress could grant franchises to public utilities such as broadcasting companies for them to operate in the country.\n\n\"With the legal opinion of the Department of Justice and the authority given by the House of Representatives, there is no reason for ABS-CBN to discontinue or stop their operations until we make a final decision,\" Alvarez said.\n\n\"If the NTC chooses to succumb to the pressure of the Solicitor General, and disregard the commitments they gave under oath, we reserve the right to call them before Congress and explain why they should not be held in contempt,\" he added.\n\nAlvarez and Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano earlier wrote a letter \"enjoining\" the NTC to grant ABS-CBN provisional authority so it can continue operating pending the renewal of its franchise, which already expired on Monday, May 4.\n\nThe House panel on March 10 already held its first hearing on the bills seeking to renew ABS-CBN's franchise. During this hearing, NTC Commissioner Gamaliel Cordoba told lawmakers they would \"most likely\" release the temporary permit to ABS-CBN.\n\nBut in a complete turnaround, the NTC ordered the media giant to stop operations on Tuesday. Justice Secretary Menardo Gueverra said the NTC's cease and desist order against ABS-CBN is \"immediately executory.\" (READ: 'Grave abuse of power,' senators condemn NTC flip-flop on ABS-CBN)\n\nCayetano is yet to issue a statement on the closure of ABS-CBN.\n\nCongress has only itself to blame\n\nBoth houses of the 18th Congress had, for months, sat on the bills renewing ABS-CBN's franchise, with the Senate holding its first hearing on February 24, and the House on March 10\n\nPresident Rodrigo Duterte and Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano – running mates in the 2016 elections – had repeatedly accused ABS-CBN of unfair media coverage during the polls.\n\nCayetano had said the House could not just rush hearing the ABS-CBN franchise bills, saying enough time should be given to all parties to argue for or against the renewal. He previously said a provisional authority from the NTC would have been \"sufficient\" for the ABS-CBN to continue its operations.\n\nBut for administration-allied lawmaker Joey Salceda, legislators have no one else but themselves to blame for giving the NTC the opportunity to order ABS-CBN's closure.\n\n\"My position on the matter has always been clear: It is the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress to determine whether a broadcast network should be granted the privilege to operate, and whether that privilege should remain,\" the Albay 2nd District representative said.\n\n\"The NTC action should serve as a warming to Congress that if we do not do our job, the Executive will do it for us, step into any existential void, fill in any power gap guided only by its own narrow worldview of what constitutes national interest,\" Salceda added.\n\nOpposition lawmaker Edcel Lagman said past statements of Cayetano, Alvarez, and Cordoba on the NTC's issuance of the provisional authority \"were all part of a charade.\"\n\n\"Even the Executive, through the Solicitor General, has objected consistently to such solution. The NTC's cease and desist order against ABS-CBN's operations dated 05 May 2020 confirms this travesty,\" Lagman said.\n\nHe then urged the House leadership to prioritize the passage of the bill that would renew ABS-CBN's franchise, citing the need for more credible sources of information as the country continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n\"While the Congress is in session and during the effectivity of the cease and desist order, the House of Representatives can prioritize the enactment of the long-pending franchise renewal to which there is no formal or credible opposition,\" Lagman said.\n\n\"The shuttering of ABS-CBN is even more tragic because the public, now more than ever, needs and depends on its broadcast information as COVID-19 continues to rampage,\" he added.\n\nAko Bicol Rep. Alfredo Garbin, for his part, said: “This is a complete turnaround, we want fairness and equity. If NTC provides provisional permit to other networks with expired permit why not it will not be granted to ABS-CBN? The power to issue a franchise to ABS-CBN is the exclusive domain of Congress to deny or approve it. But we are questioning the complete turnaround of NTC.”\n\n“One thing, franchise is considered as local bill. Senate could not act on it because it should be the Congress needs to act on it before they could take acttion. Because of this supervening event, we will force to conduct public hearing to tackle the case of ABS-CBN,” Garbin added. – with a report from Rhaydz Barcia/\n\nMara Cepeda\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5559611916542053}
+{"content": "Tuesday, 15 June 2021\n\nGalaxy Formation\n\n   The study of galaxy formation and evolution focuses on the formation of the first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time, and the process that have generated the variety of structures observed in nearby galaxies. Galaxy formation is triggered with the small fluctuations in the initial density distribution. Edwin Hubble created the first galaxy classification scheme known as the Hubble tuning-fork diagram, which classify galaxies into ellipticals, spirals, and barred spirals. The disk galaxies likely formed first, and then evolved into elliptical galaxies through galaxy mergers. \n   Elliptical galaxies are among some of the largest known thus far. Their stars are on orbits that are randomly oriented within the galaxy. Mergers between large galaxies are regarded as violent. On the other hand, the disk galaxies evolve in isolated environment. The secular evolution process due to the bar or spiral arms play important roles in the shaping of the disk morphology.\n\nParticipants of Galaxy Formation", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000061988830566}
+{"content": "A rope joint is one which is used to join two instances that you want to keep a constant distance apart, no matter what other forces are acting on it. With a distance joint, you can get \"joint stretching\" where the two fixtures will separate and behave strangely should too much stress be put on the joint, however the rope joint does not do this and will not stretch any further than the maximum defined length. When you create a rope joint the two instances should already be created and have a fixture assigned, then you define the two anchor points in room coordinates. The first anchor point is connected to instance 1, the second anchor point is connected to instance 2 and the distance and the maxlength argument sets the maximum length constraint on the joint. The image below shows how this works:\n\nAs you can see, the anchor points are specified as room coordinates so care must be taken when defining them, especially if the instances are being created at the same time as the joints rather than being placed in the room through the room editor. You should also realise that the joints are created independently of the size of the sprite of the instances or the fixtures they have attached. So, if you create a rope joint somewhere other than the origin of the instance, it is still valid and will constrain the two instances relative to the position at which it was created. If you set the \"col\" value to true then the two instances can interact and collide with each other but only if they have collision events, however if it is set to false, they will not collide no matter what.\n\n\nphysics_joint_rope_create(inst1, inst2, w_anchor1_x, w_anchor1_y, w_anchor2_x, w_anchor2_y, maxlength, col)\n\nArgument Description\ninst1 The first instance to connect with the joint\ninst2 The second instance to connect with the joint\nw_anchor1_x The first x coordinate for the joint, within the game world\nw_anchor1_y The first y coordinate for the joint, within the game world\nw_anchor2_x The second x coordinate for the joint, within the game world\nw_anchor2_y the second y coordinate for the joint, within the game world\nmaxlength The maximum length that the joint can \"stretch\"\n\n\nInteger (index of the joint)\n\n\nvar mainFixture, o_id;\nmainFixture = physics_fixture_create();\nphysics_fixture_set_circle_shape(mainFixture, sprite_get_width(sprite_index) / 2);\no_id=instance_create_layer(x+300, y, \"Instances\", obj_Rudder);\nphysics_fixture_bind(mainFixture, id);\nphysics_fixture_bind(mainFixture, o_id);\nphysics_joint_rope_create(id, o_id, x + 50, y, o_id.x - 50, o_id.y, 300, 0);\n\nThe above code creates and defines a new fixture and then creates an instance of \"obj_Rudder\". The fixture is then assigned to the instance that is running the code as well as the newly created one and a rope joint is created between them. Finally the fixture is deleted as it is no longer needed.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9025324583053589}
+{"content": "Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc|ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell|ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet. Originally denoting the consonant /h/, its sound value in the classical Attic dialect of Ancient Greek was a long vowel , raised to in hellenistic Greek, a process known as iotacism. In the ancient Attic number system (Herodianic or acrophonic numbers), the number 100 was represented by \"\", because it was the initial of ''ΗΕΚΑΤΟΝ'', the ancient spelling of ''ἑκατόν'' = \"one hundred\". In the latter system of (Classical) Greek numerals it has a value of 8. Eta was derived from the Phoenician letter heth . Letters that arose from eta include the Latin H and the Cyrillic letter И.\n\n\nConsonant h\n\nthumb|Eta in the function of /h/ on an Attic red-figured calyx-krater, 515 BC. Amongst the depicted figures are [[Hermes and [[Hypnos]]. Inscriptions: – .]] The letter shape 'H' was originally used in most Greek dialects to represent the sound /h/, a [[voiceless glottal fricative]]. In this function, it was borrowed in the 8th century BC by the Etruscan and other Old Italic alphabets, which were based on the Euboean form of the Greek alphabet. This also gave rise to the Latin alphabet with its letter H. Other regional variants of the Greek alphabet (epichoric alphabets), in dialects that still preserved the sound /h/, employed various glyph shapes for consonantal ''heta'' side by side with the new vocalic ''eta'' for some time. In the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum, the letter shape was reduced to a \"half-heta\" lacking the right vertical stem (Ͱ). From this sign later developed the sign for rough breathing or ''spiritus asper'', which brought back the marking of the /h/ sound into the standardized post-classical (polytonic) orthography.Nick Nicholas (2003), \"Greek /h/\"\nDionysius Thrax in the second century BC records that the letter name was still pronounced ''heta'' (ἥτα), correctly explaining this irregularity by stating \"in the old days the letter Η served to stand for the rough breathing, as it still does with the Romans.\"\n\nLong e\n\nIn the East Ionic dialect, however, the sound /h/ disappeared by the sixth century BC, and the letter was re-used initially to represent a development of a long vowel , which later merged in East Ionic with instead. In 403 BC, Athens took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H (even though it still also had the /h/ sound itself at that time). This later became the standard orthography in all of Greece.\n\n\nDuring the time of post-classical Koiné Greek, the sound represented by eta was raised and merged with several other formerly distinct vowels, a phenomenon called ''iotacism'' or ''itacism'', after the new pronunciation of the letter name as ''ita'' instead of ''eta''. Itacism is continued into Modern Greek, where the letter name is pronounced and represents the sound /i/ (a close front unrounded vowel). It shares this function with several other letters (ι, υ) and digraphs (ει, οι), which are all pronounced alike. This phenomenon at large is called iotacism.\n\nCyrillic script\n\nEta was also borrowed with the sound value of into the Cyrillic script, where it gave rise to the Cyrillic letter И.\n\n\n\nIn Modern Greek, due to iotacism, the letter (pronounced ) represents a close front unrounded vowel, . In Classical Greek, it represented a long open-mid front unrounded vowel, .\n\n\nUpper case\n\nThe uppercase letter Η is used as a symbol in textual criticism for the Alexandrian text-type (from Hesychius, its once-supposed editor). In chemistry, the letter H as symbol of enthalpy sometimes is said to be a Greek eta, but since enthalpy comes from ἐνθάλπος, which begins in a smooth breathing and epsilon, it is more likely a Latin H for 'heat'. In information theory the uppercase Greek letter H is used to represent the concept of entropy of a discrete random variable.\n\nLower case\n\nThe lowercase letter η is used as a symbol in: *Thermodynamics, the efficiency of a Carnot heat engine, or packing fraction. *Chemistry, the hapticity, or the number of atoms of a ligand attached to one coordination site of the metal in a coordination compound. For example, an allyl group can coordinate to palladium in the η¹ mode (only one atom of an allyl group attached to palladium) or the η³ mode (3 atoms attached to palladium). *Optics, the electromagnetic impedance of a medium, or the quantum efficiency of detectors. *Particle physics, to represent the η mesons. *Experimental particle physics, η stands for pseudorapidity. *Cosmology, η represents conformal time; dt = adη. *Cosmology, baryon–photon ratio. *Relativity and Quantum field theory (physics), η (with two subscripts) represents the metric tensor of Minkowski space (flat spacetime). *Statistics, ''η''2 is the \"partial regression coefficient\". ''η'' is the symbol for the linear predictor of a generalized linear model, and can also be used to denote the median of a population, or thresholding parameter in Sparse Partial Least Squares regression. *Economics, ''η'' is the elasticity. *Astronomy, the seventh-brightest (usually) star in a constellation. ''See'' Bayer designation. *Mathematics, η-conversion, see lambda calculus *Mathematics, the Dirichlet eta function, Dedekind eta function, and Weierstrass eta function. *In category theory, the unit of an adjunction or monad is usually denoted ''η''. *Biology, a DNA polymerase found in higher eukaryotes and implicated in Translesion Synthesis. *Neural network backpropagation, and stochastic gradient descent more generally, η stands for the learning rate. *Telecommunications, η stands for efficiency *Electronics, η stands for the ideality factor of a bipolar transistor, and has a value close to 1.000. It appears in contexts where the transistor is used as a temperature sensing device, e.g. the thermal \"diode\" transistor that is embedded within a computer's microprocessor. *Power electronics, η stands for the efficiency of a power supply, defined as the output power divided by the input power. *Atmospheric science, η represents absolute atmospheric vorticity. *Rheology, η represents viscosity. *Oceanography, η is the measurement (usually in metres) of sea-level height above or below the mean sea-level at that same location.\n\nCharacter encodings\n\nGreek Eta, Coptic Ayta\n\nMathematical Eta\n\n\nSee also\n\n*Hurricane Eta\n\n\n{{Reflist Category:Greek letters Category:Vowel letters", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5407110452651978}
+{"content": "Archrival Competition\n\nTarget Throw: In this event athletes will throw a tennis ball into a bucket at certain distances away. The entire length of distance from the bucket is 20 m and all athletes that are competing in this event will start 5 m away from the bucket. An athlete has three attempts at each distance and must make it into the bucket on one of those attempts to move on to the next distance. All athletes who make it at the 5 m line will advance 1 m and this will continue at each meter or until all athletes except for one have been eliminated. If two or more athletes make it to the 20 m line all athletes get three attempts at the 20 m distance and whoever misses first will be eliminated from the competition. The same rule applies if there are three athletes left in the competition when 20 m has not been reached. If one athlete beats everyone at a certain distance they are automatically the winner. The rest of the athletes would be competing for second and third place. If only three athletes make it passed a certain distance then they would keep moving up until there was one athlete left in the competition. Also if there are two or three athletes left in the competition they may all choose to do a final rival at that distance. When a final rival is in play all remaining two or three athletes who play until there was one person left in the competition. The advantage will be given to the athletes who make it in the bucket on their first attempt. If all remaining athletes make it on the same attempt or not make it at all the final rival will reset at the same distance.\n\nQuick Throw: All the same except the starting distance is at 10 m and the athletes have to run around the short track (50m) and then release the ball while in motion within a 5 m zone. Athletes cannot stop before they throw the tennis ball and they must be in the designated zone or the throw will not count. Also, the distance around the track may get shorter as athletes progress to the next distance.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9981050491333008}
+{"content": "Zeptomoby.OrbitTools.Track Namespace\n\n\nPublic classAcquire\nClass to encapsulate satellite-to-satellite, satellite-to-site, and site-to-satellite acquisition.\nPublic classApsis\nClass to encapsulate data associated with an orbital apsis.\nPublic classAzElTime\nClass to encapsulate satellite azimuth and elevation information at a given moment in time.\nPublic classCircularBeamProfile\nClass that describes a beam with uniform circular density.\nPublic classHorizonMask\nDefines a section of the sky which is not viewable.\nPublic classLatLonTime\nClass to encapsulate latitude/longitude pair and a time.\nPublic classNode\nClass to encapsulate data associated with an orbital node.\nPublic classPassData\nClass to encapsulate satellite AOS (rise) data, LOS (set) data, and MAX (maximum elevation above horizon) data.\nPublic classPassSegment\nDefines a segment of a satellite pass.\nPublic classPeriodInfo<(Of <(<'T>)>)>\nClass to encapsulate a time period and associated \"content\", which is a list of type T. The period start and stop times are rounded to the nearest second.\nPublic classSchedule<(Of <(<'T>)>)>\nClass to manage a list of sorted time periods, and provide information regarding which periods overlap in time. Each time period has optional \"content\", which is a list of type T.\nPublic classSolar\nUtility class used to provide Sun-related data.\nPublic classStation\nAn Earth location that supports sky mask capability.\nPublic classTrack\nThis class contains the top-level methods that comprise the core functionality of the OrbitTools Track Library.\nPublic classUtility\nClass containing miscellaneous utility functions.\n\n\nPublic interfaceIBeamProfile\nInterface that describes a beam of arbitrary cross-sectional shape.\nPublic interfaceIMask\nInterface used to define mask parameters.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9942479133605957}
+{"content": "| Reference | Downloads | Github\n\nIs it possible to switch from Window to terminal and vice-versa (linux)?\n\nI have an experiment during which experimenters must interact with the machine to tell if the block was either valid or not. Instead of using psychopy.gui, and its dependencies, I would prefer to use the “inquirer” library inside the linux terminal (GitHub - magmax/python-inquirer: A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces, based on Inquirer.js (, which works pretty well (I use it in the beginning of the experiment to record subjects information).\nSi the question is : is there a known way to switch from the main Window (considering it is in fullscreen mode) to one another window, say the terminal, and, once the interaction has ended, give hand back to the main Window so that the experiment can continue.\nI hope I am clear enough.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5439302325248718}
+{"content": "The Trial of the Chicago 7 ★★★★\n\nA re-telling of the events following the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago told from the correct historical perspective. Sorkin revels in both the miniscule detail and the personal relationships whilst Keaton and Rylance steal the show. Thoroughly enjoyable despite another appalling performance from Redmayne.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9871652126312256}
+{"content": "Creative Block With A Forest Scene\n\nHey y’all, I’ve been working on a forest scene and I’m having some creative blocks with it. Heres a quick screen shot here:\n\nI really feel like there’s a lot more I could do to improve it but I can’t think of anything.\n\nI’m thinking more foliage meshes would be good but I’m having issues thinking of what kind of foliage to make for a pacific northwestern temperate forest.\nI’d really appreciate any ideas, input or critiques. Thank y’all very much :slight_smile:\n\nThings that could be improved:\n\nAssets - They are generally ugly, very stiff, and look super low polycount. They are failing about being realistic or stylized.\n\nLighting - The lighting is both flat and splotchy, doesn’t do anything to establish a mood or atmosphere.\n\nComposition - There is no focal point, or points of interest. Very visually noisy. Randomly shaped terrain, with randomly placed assets. It doesn’t look like any thought went into the placement of assets or how the scene was constructed.\n\nOverall - I don’t know if you are going for realistic or stylized, but the scene is failing and both. Some more deliberate artistic and design decisions need to be made.\n\nThe assets are purposefully low poly, preventative measures to save performance. I can up the poly count but I feel a bit shaky about that. I think the lighting looks splotchy because of all of the cast shadows from the foliage. The palette is meant to be a bit dichromatic, since the game is being played through a dog’s eyes. Also how does one establish a focal point in a scene such as this? Should there be one everywhere the camera looks? (That question sounds sarcastic but I swear it isn’t.)\n\nIf you want to save on performance, the number of assets, draw calls, and transparency/alpha are going to be much, much, more heavy on performance than significantly bumping up the triangle count.\n\nLook at some photos, concept art, and other games to see how to make a good composition for a wooded scene. Try to figure out some sort of foreground, midground, background to give the scene more depth. A path or creek can give your eyes something to follow. But even some flowers to add color, or an interesting rock, or cliff. Try to figure out some sort of detail and story telling you can do with the environment.\n\nOk so I changed up the assets quite a bit, upped the poly count and tried to place them in a way that seem more natural and realistic. I added the large boulders as the focal point with that trail to try and draw the eye to it, and as far as I know there’s not much I can do about the engine’s lighting without using c++ (although if there is something I can do I would LOVE to know (again, that sounds sarcastic but I swear it isn’t))\n\nThe Trees are overused and the forest looks overall very chaotic. Have you ever been to a forest? Fern mostly doesn’t grow in a single plant, but in a “bush”. I recommend looking at pictures of a forest and working from there.\nYou have exactly 4 assets: small Grass, Fern, Tree and Rock. You need to increase your asset pool to get more variation.\nThe Ground is very randomized (probably through noise) but at the same time very planar. Add some hills and pits.\nYou should also work out the trail. Trails are mostly even because they are manmade, but your’s is uneven like the rest of the ground.\nI suggest to search/create different textures too, since the textures are too bright for a forest if you ask me.\n\nThere are several types of flowers, but they are a bit hard to see since the textures are a bit bright. The trail is a bit of a confusing mater for me, trails are man made but this is supposed to take place in the wild; outside of man’s reach. I may have to ultimately scrap it, but it does help composition I think. Thank’s for your input, I’ll definitely put it into practice :slight_smile:\n\nOk, so I added some hills and more dynamic range in the landscape, I tried to make the flowers look more prominent by darkening the grass textures. I centralized the ferns with each other so that it looks like they all grow as a unit or like a bush. Also I ended up deciding to scratch the trail since it just didn’t fit into this setting. And I sparsed the trees out quite a bit\n\nQuite a good job mate!\n\nMy comment is that your randomization for trees is pretty low, they are all look the same, which makes your scene basically ‘machine-builded’. I suggest you to make more non-grown-yet trees, and randomize them with variety of length and types. (this can be a mixed-type nature forest which can include up to 4-5 tree types).\n\nYour stone meshes are also looks fake because we can see the splash-mixed geometry like one stone is located inside the other. I suggest to build more complex stone meshes out of these you have in the scene.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8430001735687256}
+{"content": "eliminate a fuction\n\nHi all…\nAfter that i have called a fuction…how i deactive it?\n\nYou can break out of loops, but not really functions. What is your use case?\n\nYou can put a boolean check in your function to decide whether to move forward, or destroy the UObject that’s performing the function (which may end in a pending kill without terminating execution), or just rewrite your logic so that you don’t have to kill your function execution.\n\ni have my fuction on the screen…a timer.\nNow i have to eliminate it… how can i?\n\nI need more information to help you. Could you post some screens? Of the blueprint/code and its implementation in the game?\n\nMaybe you have called a recursive function, be aware not to loop ad infinitum…\n\nthanks i resolved with my fuction…i have created a boolean variable that go off when i finish and deactive the fuction…thanks to all :smiley:\n\nYou can also use Timers for this if you want:\n\nThese may give you more control over your functions and can be useful at some points (:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9868494272232056}
+{"content": "The importance of liming with New Zealand’s leading expert in soil fertility, Hamilton-based Soil Scientist Dr Gordon Rajendram (PhD).\n\nWaikato-based Soil Scientist Gordon Rajendram PhD is considered one of New Zealand’s experts in soil fertility. He is committed to helping New Zealand farmers get the most out of their soil so that their farm can work more proficiently, be sustainable while still increasing the farm profitability. Dr. Gordon Rajendram worked at AgResearch, Ruakura Research Centre, Hamilton.  He has developed two field calibrated soil tests (N & S) which are used for agronomic advice in NZ and his work on leaching has been included in the Overseer nutrient model.\n\nA lot of farms in New Zealand’s Hill Country have alarmingly low pH soil levels. There has been more emphasis on fertiliser at the expense of liming. However, both can be achieved within the farmers budget if a long-term plan is put in place says leading Hamilton-based Soil Scientist Dr Gordon Rajendram (PhD).\n\nGordon says that generally pasture species do not like low pH soils as there is increased Aluminium in the soil solution which retards root growth, which in turn leads to less growth of herbage on top.\n\nMAF’s recommendation is for soil pH to be between 5.8 and 6.0 based on the dry matter production.  “The ideal pH is around 6.2 if you take into account quality of feed, more clover growth, greater earth worms (which aerates the soil), more calcium in the diet, and phosphate less tightly held by the soil,” comments Gordon.\n\nBecause of the cost of flying lime on Hill Country, a lot of farmers are put off from trying it. Lime is normally $20 – $35 per tonne, cartage is typically ~$20 -30 per tonne, but flying is ~$120/tonne.  “There is not enough in the farmers’ budget when normal hill country farm fertiliser and lime budget is ~130/hectare/per year,” says Gordon.\n\nNormally it takes 1 tonne of lime to lift soil pH by 0.1 unit, but it much depends on the Cation exchange capacity (CEC) of the soil. A low CEC soil, such as a sandy soil, requires much less lime to lift pH by 0.1 unit.\n\nThe problem with New Zealand farms is that farmers are not applying lime because of the above, so many soils are getting very acidic (< 5.5 pH), with soils getting down to as low as 5.0 pH.  This has a significant detrimental impact on pasture production and clover growth, which ultimately leads to animal performance.\n\nThe solution lies in having proper soil and pasture testing as without testing you cannot know what minerals needed to be added to your soil and in what amounts. Otherwise it becomes a guessing game.  Expert advice is needed at the right time, with a plan to address the issue within the budget allocated.\n\nIf these steps are taken, there is enough in the farmers budget to both lime and fertilise to reduce soil acidification. \n\nAbout The Soil Scientist\n\n\nContact Gordon:\n\n\nPhone: 021 466 077\n\n\n\n\n\nContact MediaPA:\n\nPhone: 0274 587 724", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8659430146217346}
+{"content": "On Crypto Art and the Aura\n\nAnother co-authored article on NFTs—“The Afterlife of the Aura” out on the Atheneum Review website.\n\nThe “aura” is what makes the experience of viewing Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in the Louvre, or his drawings at the Met, different from looking at their images in a book. It is inseparable from the viewer’s visceral reaction to the physical traits of the work: variable pressure of the crayon on paper, the thickness of impasto brushstrokes or their glossy translucency, the weave of the canvas showing through the loosely applied imprimatura, the mutable effects of light playing on the surface at different times of day. An artwork’s aura is also the source of its financial value, the reason the original Mona Lisa is worth more than a reproduction. But if the original is destroyed, there is nowhere physical for the aura to reside. The aura’s abstract, symbolic nature is then revealed, and it becomes possible to package, market and sell the aura in the absence of the original. The destruction of the original allows the NFT to monetize the aura, imposing on it the form of financial value. As Daystrom explain:\n\nValue has become increasingly fungible, diluted and unstable in our evolving metaverse and there’s a tremendous spike in user demand for exclusivity. NFT assets provide this exclusivity and create an entirely new online value system that was previously unimaginable.\n\nBut an “aura” is not a material thing. Does it necessarily perish along with its physical incarnation? Perhaps it was not destroyed so much as transubstantiated, reborn into a financialized afterlife where it is no longer subject to mortal decay. Like BurntBanksy, Daystrom make a plea for authenticity, not a protest against it. But authenticity is no longer a quality of the original artwork, contingent on the artist’s touch or painterly gesture. Authenticity is now a quality of the NFT that represents the original, and the only authenticity available today is statistical uniqueness. Yet people remain sentimentally attached to the old distinctions between authenticity and image, original and reproduction, reality and representation. The cries of fear and loathing at the prospect of destroying a Basquiat drawing (albeit not a great one) or a Banksy print (albeit one of an edition of 500) are not naïve defenses of the artwork’s lost integrity. They are inarticulate but nonetheless passionate protests against the postmodern condition. No wonder the word “deconstruction” where simple “destruction” would have sufficed was so triggering.\n\nRead the entire article HERE", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9827478528022766}
+{"content": "what is work\n\nAnd there’s constant pressure to move along that path faster, since the road is getting crowded. Work refers to an activity involving a force and movement in the directon of the force. In physics, work is defined as a force causing the movement—or displacement—of an object. Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words? Focusing on the unseen means imagining solutions that don’t yet exist for needs that haven’t yet emerged. Poems reflecting on work, responsibility, and the end of summer. . But the future of work shouldn’t simply engage employees in a one-off re-envisioning of their work and work processes and practices, moving the organization and workers from a before state to an after, at which point they return to routine execution mode. Only redefining work itself has the potential to expand value for companies, customers, and workers. Work quality is the value of work delivered by an individual, team or organization. Work and energy (part 2) Conservation of energy. We go to work, we finish our work, we work at something. work, labor, travail, toil, drudgery, grind mean activity involving effort or exertion. his lot would be years of back-breaking toil drudgery suggests dull and irksome labor. Read More. too tired to do any work labor applies to physical or intellectual work involving great and often strenuous exertion. Instead, the creative, imaginative identification and solution of unseen problems/opportunities will be their primary work. In its simplest form, it is often represented as the product of force and displacement. Work definition is - to perform work or fulfill duties regularly for wages or salary. The same can be said of moving people into an adjacent part of the organization that hasn’t yet become subject to automation or moving a few standout workers into management or product design positions. This information can then be used to design new products and business models, making the digital twin engineer a critical bridge between an organization’s product and its sales and marketing teams. The Right To Work principle--the guiding concept of the National Right To Work Committee and the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation--affirms the right of every American to work for a living without being compelled to belong to a union. In the United States, Deloitte refers to one or more of the US member firms of DTTL, their related entities that operate using the \"Deloitte\" name in the United States and their respective affiliates. To work is to survive, and the details of how difficult or debased work can be are evoked in the title poem and the poem 'Growth' (each the book What Work Is) . A typical conversation centers on a handful of options for companies: using AI and robotics to automate routine tasks and eliminate as many workers as possible; reskilling the workforce so employees can efficiently do other routine tasks that haven’t yet been automated; or augmenting the workers so they can perform more of their routine tasks faster and more accurately. The amount of traveling in between doesn't matter. She explores the implications of changing technologies, and the new strategies they enable, for individuals and their institutions with a focus on the Technology and Education sectors. Audio. already exists in Saved items. Work-study is financial aid program to help college students get part-time jobs. Can we realize untapped opportunity by redefining work? In the case of a constant force, work is the scalar product of the force acting on an object and the displacement caused by that force. Taking action against systemic bias, racism, and unequal treatment, Key opportunities, trends, and challenges, Go straight to smart with daily updates on your mobile device, See what's happening this week and the impact on your business. If the force is constant, work may be computed by multiplying the length of the path by the component of the force acting along the path. Work and the work-energy principle (Opens a modal) Work as the transfer of energy (Opens a modal) Work example problems (Opens a modal) Work as area under curve (Opens a modal) Thermal energy from friction (Opens a modal) What is thermal energy? Work is about the exercise of our practical wisdom and virtues to bring this about. Octavius volunteers at the local animal shelter walking the dogs on the weekends. Email. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. the business of managing a hotel. has been saved, What is work? It implies a major organizational transformation. Digital twin engineers create these virtual representations to test how Internet of Things-connected products operate and interact within their environment throughout their life cycle. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'work.' Amen. Send us feedback. Medical expenses to treat your injured or ill employee. In an age of artificial intelligence, that’s not merely a philosophical question. Now, you may be thinking: What’s different about this? Even apart from current worries, the goodness of work is deep in our culture. Then again, why would workers exercise these muscles? There are many examples of companies trying to give employees space for unstructured, creative work through initiatives designed to fuel passion, spur innovation, or improve engagement. From Poetry Off the Shelf August 2011. Synonym Discussion of work. It’s worth repeating that redefining work is a goal, not a process—the intent is not to create another rigid process or management theology in your organization. Many companies are stuck on a path that makes that value hard to see. She received a BSE in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and an MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden. And while acting like owners and focusing on value creation may also imply changes to compensation and reward systems, no extrinsic reward or perk can compete with the power of connecting with people’s intrinsic motivation when the goal is to have individual workers acting with latitude to the company’s benefit. They may improvise around a process, tweaking their behavior and interactions with tools to see if they can do it faster or with better results for the current conditions. Work. A solid foundation of good work habits sets a precedence of efficiency, productivity, reliability, and teamwork. View in article, For more on the concept of skills versus capabilities, see John Hagel, “Mastering the learning pyramid,” Edge Perspectives, November 28, 2017. Email a customized link that shows your highlighted text. This is radically different from the biblical concept of work, which is laden with theological significance. For more, read the article by William D. Eggers, Amrita Datar, and Jenn Gustetic, Government jobs of the future, on www.deloitte.com/insights. If we can creatively answer it, we have the potential to create incredible value. As companies begin to identify the need to redefine what work is, they will find they also need to redefine how they think about where work is done, how it gets done, when it is done, and who will actually go about doing it. 1. Levine was the man, he suffered, he was there. “Work” can be done both inside an official job and outside a job! It’s not about adding employee suggestion boxes, 20 percent time, or innovation/entrepreneur centers to the work. He has served as senior vice president of strategy at Atari, Inc., and is the founder of two Silicon Valley startups. his occupation as a trained auto mechanic calling applies to an occupation viewed as a vocation or profession. Simply select text and choose how to share it: What is work? If you focus on efficiency, each successive round of gains becomes harder to eke out. to receive more business insights, analysis, and perspectives from Deloitte Insights, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, The digital banking global consumer survey. an editorial job with a good deal of drudgery grind implies labor exhausting to mind or body. What would motivate them to make the extra effort and potentially take on extra risk when they have been expected, even rewarded, for letting them atrophy in the past? 'Nip it in the butt' or 'Nip it in the bud'? John Hagel (retired) was the co-chairman for Deloitte LLP's Center for the Edge with nearly 40 years of experience as a management consultant, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. While automation can be a key to freeing up the capacity of the workers to do this type of work, it’s not about simply automating workers away or augmenting with technology. What is the Right to Work principle? (Opens a modal) Work/energy problem with friction (Opens a modal) This article is featured in Deloitte Review, issue 24, Create a custom PDF or download the issue. One way to measure the output of work is by the amount of value created. This type of passion is unfortunately rare in the workplace (less than 14 percent of US workers have it), in large part because the tightly structured processes and command-and-control environment of most large companies discourage it, often explicitly. A fatuous question, it may seem, with unemployment such a pressing national concern. Learn a new word every day. He found that people are most likely … Social login not available on Microsoft Edge browser at this time. . Work is about bringing something into existence or into actualization. Even with technology—especially with technology—it’s a game of diminishing returns, and competitors are chasing the same efficiencies, often using the same technologies. Being able to address problems and opportunities in a flexible way is key. To prepare for disasters, they use predictive models to help plan how to allocate resources and adapt quickly to the ebb and flow of traffic. We all have these human capabilities. The reality is that our long-held views of what constitutes work are reinforced and amplified by institutional structures far beyond the individual. Problem identification and solution approaches are often used with the intent to fix a process, correct a deviation, or remove an inefficiency, with the goal of feeding back into more structured, tightly defined work, where loosening the structure is only a temporary means to move the process forward. Google Classroom Facebook Twitter. 2Reskilling people to do a different type of routine task or to use a new technology to complete the same tasks doesn’t fundamentally change the problem for workers or capture the potential for companies. Test Your Knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the way. synonym study for work 1. The word work is more general than “job” – whereas “job” is a specific occupation/profession, “work” refers to general efforts and activities done to accomplish a goal. Is work good or bad? They coordinate with stakeholders in the public and private sectors to conduct scenario analyses and assess the feasibility of proposals, and stay up to date on advances in their field through integrated microlearning tools and attending peer meetups and conferences. In virtually every large public and private sector organization, that approach holds: thousands of people, each specializing in certain tasks, limited in scope, increasingly standardized and specified, which ultimately contribute to the creation and delivery of predictable products and services to customers and other stakeholders. Maybe working out? and MBA from Harvard University. before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2, before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1, 14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2, Middle English werken, worken, from Old English wyrcan; akin to Old English weorc, Middle English werk, work, from Old English werc, weorc; akin to Old High German werc work, Greek ergon, Avestan varəzem activity. Part of redefining work is defining it in such a way that it cultivates questing and connecting dispositions and helps individuals discover and pursue the domains where they want to make a difference. And there’s constant pressure to move along t… Death benefits, like funeral costs, if a worker passes away in a work … Distance is typically measured in meters. What are energy and work? What if we shifted all workers’ day-to-day time, effort, and attention away from standardized, transactional, tick-the-box tasks to instead focus on higher-value activities, the kind machines can’t readily replicate? Previously it was difficult or impossible to take work home and so there was a clear line between professional and personal. Moreover, it’s an opportunity to shift the future of work conversation from one based on fear and adversity (institutions versus individuals) to one centered around hope and opportunity (in which both institutions and individual workers win). Conflating trafficking with sex work can be harmful and counterproductive. Edgar sweats in the sun most days as he does manual labor. In the age of artificial intelligence, the answer to a more optimistic future may lie in redefining work itself. The practice's work centers on transforming the organization, workforce, and HR function through a comprehensive set of services, products, and world-class Bersin research enabled by our proprietary Human Capital Platform. Without bringing these human capabilities to bear on the work of problem-solving and solution development, the work may change but companies won’t realize the potential of this opportunity to refocus their most valuable resources. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (\"DTTL\"), its network of member firms, and their related entities. Deloitte Consulting LLP's Human Capital practice focuses on optimizing and sustaining organizational performance through their most important asset: their workforce. Redefining work around human capabilities, Job of the future: Mobility platform manager, Job of the future: Criminal redirection officer. Using enabling technologies and their knowledge of human behavior to achieve superior outcomes, CROs work with low-risk and nonviolent offenders who are allowed to live at home and go to work instead of being housed in prisons. More to the point, why aren’t many companies recognizing the opportunity to engage employees in work that creates more value, individually and operationally, and may be future-proof? Redefining work means identifying and addressing unseen problems and opportunities in the work, for everyone at all levels, at all times, including and especially at the frontline. That means sustained creative opportunity identification, problem-solving, solution development, and implementation—work focused on continuously creating more value to internal and external customers, suppliers, partners, and others. Work is ready, today, for your organization to redefine it. A way for workers to effectively identify and address unseen problems and opportunities is to cultivate and use their human capabilities to do the identifying, solving, implementing, and iterating activities (see figure 1). Work-life balance is a topical issue due to the increased amount of technology that removes the importance of physical location in defining the work-life balance. Most companies do this, which is understandable given the pressures they’re under. If it’s a choice between human or machines to do the kind of work that requires compliance and consistency, machines should win every time. They are all working. Despite being lined with colorful billboards advertising “growth” and “innovation,” or declaring they’re “customer-centric” or that they value the “employee experience,” the traditional value creation path aims inexorably toward cost-cutting and efficiency, marked along the way by quarterly signposts. Mobility platform managers (MPMs) oversee a city’s integrated transportation network, ensuring the seamless movement of people, vehicles, and goods. 2 A task or tasks to be undertaken. What Work Is is a collection of poetry by Philip Levine.The collection has many themes that are representative of Levine's writing including physical labor, class … Accessed 2 Dec. 2020. In thermodynamics, work performed by a system is the energy transferred by the system to its surroundings. View in article, John Hagel, John Seely Brown, Maggie Wooll, and Alok Ranjan, If you love them, set them free, Deloitte University Press, June 6, 2017. A force of 20 newtons pushing an object 5 meters in the direction of the force does 100 joules of work. Work, in physics, measure of energy transfer that occurs when an object is moved over a distance by an external force at least part of which is applied in the direction of the displacement. Vocational rehabilitation if your worker needs ongoing care to help them get back to work. In addition to monitoring time served, CROs equip offenders with the necessary skills, resources, and behaviors to successfully rejoin society and prevent recidivism, and use historical and real-time data through AI and analytics-based tools to inform action plans. See Deloitte Insights’ Future of work collection. See something interesting? 'All Intensive Purposes' or 'All Intents and Purposes'? Fundamentally changing the work people do is tremendously challenging. We do rapid prototyping. They may use imagination in drawing analogies from other domains, intuiting interactions and relationships, and seeing potential solutions that had remained obscured. Work and energy. her family considered medicine the only proper pursuit métier implies a calling or pursuit for which one believes oneself to be especially fitted. In physics, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement. It’s something to pay the bills, or something that defines us. If you get this right and find ways to unleash more value creation, you might benefit from hiring more workers rather than looking to replace people with bots. Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). her work as a hospital volunteer employment implies work for which one has been engaged and is being paid by an employer. For instance, they may employ empathy in understanding the context in which a customer uses a product and encounters problems. In addition to traffic efficiency and minimizing damage to the environment, MPMs are responsible for public safety, accessibility, and equity within mobility systems. Ranging from jet engines to shop floors or even entire factories, they make it possible to virtually see inside any physical asset that could be located anywhere, helping to optimize design, monitor performance, and predict maintenance. Which word describes a musical performance marked by the absence of instrumental accompaniment. In addition, conversations around the future of work often only intensify pressure to stick to the old path of chasing efficiency and cost reduction. See Terms of Use for more information. Discover Deloitte and learn more about our people and culture. job, day job, profession, work, line of work, line of business, trade, employment, position, post, situation, business, career, métier, vocation, calling, craft, skill, field, province, walk of life. Solving “nonroutine” problems, and seeking fresh opportunities, should be a large and expanding portion of a workload, not a small piece of a larger traditional work pie. work may apply to any purposeful activity whether remunerative or not. It doesn’t have to be this way. It requires cultivating and drawing on intrinsic human capabilities to undertake work for fundamentally different purposes (see figure 2). A suite of digital tools helps CROs monitor each offender’s physical location, proximity to other offenders, and drug or alcohol use, as well as ties to community, family, and employment to ensure compliance with program requirements. Work, in sociology, is defined as the carrying out of tasks, which involves the expenditure of mental and physical effort, and its objective is the production of goods and services that cater to human needs. Finally, focusing on costs reduces the ability to address new opportunities and risks missing the biggest, and rapidly expanding, opportunity to create more value. Delivered to your inbox! How to use work in a sentence. years of travail were lost when the house burned toil implies prolonged and fatiguing labor. A podcast by our professionals who share a sneak peek at life inside Deloitte. Companies will need to consider how to cultivate the capabilities of curiosity, imagination, creativity, intuition, empathy, and social intelligence. View synonyms. “Work.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work. Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Fortunately, work that demands creativity and improvisation and rewards curiosity will likely be more stimulating and motivating than following a process manual. The angle measure is defined as the angle between the force and the displacement. When you hear the word, \"Work,\" what is the first thing you think of? Since the dawn of the industrial age, work has become ever more transactional and predictable; the execution of routine, tightly defined tasks. During daily traffic, they visualize data, monitoring demand and supply across various modes of transport, using an AI-powered system to optimize routes and pricing, intervening when human judgment is required. The problem? Of course, many workers today engage in some of these activities. Work quality is a common consideration in managing the performance of programs, projects, vendors and individuals. They may use curiosity and creativity in choosing and using tools to explore root causes and gather and analyze information. Play Episode Lines for Hard Times. Maybe sitting at a desk? Copy a customized link that shows your highlighted text. from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil from Oxford University and a J.D. Here we learn what work and energy mean in physics and how they are related. Assuming needs and aspirations are indeed limitless, every employee could be working to create more and more meaning and value. Force and Displacement The distance (or displacement) in work is the distance from the start point to the end point. As part of Deloitte LLP, Maggie draws on her experience advising large organizations on strategy & operations to engage executives and practitioners in the Center’s work. The problem? Many companies are stuck on a path that makes that value hard to see. Technology can increasingly do that work. By creating an environment that draws out worker passion, employees will be more likely to begin exercising and developing their human capabilities as a means of having more impact on the challenges that matter to them. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting. A work habit is any one of the behavioral, ethical, and practical elements applied by employees in contributing to job performance standards that meet company guidelines. The following are common types of work quality. Criminal redirection officers (CROs) help reduce prison populations by refocusing criminal justice on reformation and rehabilitation. Organizations that can cultivate and unlock that passion will tap into the intrinsic motivation of their workforce. What made you want to look up work? The force is a measure of the mass of an object times its change in motion, or acceleration. W. Ulrich: Recent work by Dacher Keltner at UC Berkeley on the dynamics of power is fascinating in this regard. A means to a means to a means. It also helps you improve communication, eliminate excuses, boost accountability among your staff, track time and attendance, and grow your business. Mathematically, work can be expressed by the following equation.where F is the force, d is the displacement, and the angle (theta) is defined as the angle between the force and the displacement vector. Focusing on costs, particularly through headcount, and the speed of standardized and tightly defined processes actually makes people less efficient because these routine tasks and processes are ever less relevant for helping people deal with the growing number of “exceptions”—unexpected needs and events that fall outside of existing processes and standard offerings. Please see www.deloitte.com/about to learn more about our global network of member firms. In physics, the equation for work is W = f x d. This means work equals force times distance. Department of labor Making $35,000 as a bricklayer would most satisfy which of these personal benefits of work? Work, as an idea, is both familiar and frustratingly abstract. CROs have regular virtual check-ins with their charges and other stakeholders, using gamification to encourage prosocial behavior and help offenders achieve goals. The opportunity to redefine work isn’t about skills; in our view, skills are too narrow. Instead, seek to minimize the number of routine tasks that workers must perform, and maximize the potential for fluid problem-solving and addressing opportunities to create value for customers and participants at all levels of the organization. We promise it won't be a chore to read them. A fourth common conversation considers who will do the work and where, but the discussion is often couched in terms of shifting the same routine tasks to others so labor costs can be reduced.\n\nBack To School Gifts For Students, Leo Tolstoy Short Stories In English, Black Panther Fight Scene For King, 1rk For Rent In Indiranagar Bangalore, Purple Loosestrife Control Beetle, Kelly Keen Coyote Attack, Frenzy Shark Movie Cast, Yeast Bread With Dried Fruit,\n\nLeave a Reply\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6783640384674072}
+{"content": "Antique Smoked Glass Mirror\n\nAntique Smoked Glass Mirror is the type of glass mirror which is different from the standard silver mirror. This is because it provides a quiet reflection, while making a stylish statement. This color reflection is ideal in many design environments, creating a smooth and smooth atmosphere, unlike the sometimes subtle and bright nuances of traditional mirror glass. Also known as a gray mirror, a smoked mirror is a regular glass mirror with added color. To create a smoky appearance, a mixture of metal oxides is added to the glass when it is in a state of fluid and heat.\n\nMany Melbourne homeowners are unsure of the difference between smoked mirrors and black glass mirrors. They are actually the same thing. Both refer to the charming elegance of the gray mirror. Look at the different ways in which this unique type of mirror can be used. Whether smoking sheets are spectacular or functional, smoked colors always add special wealth to space. Smoked Antique Mirror Glass Sheets UK in general can add a touch of elegance and light to the room. Through dimmable in a small room, the area can make it look bigger. Because it is considered “neutral” in the decor it immediately matches the furniture of different styles.\n\nHowever for your bathroom or kitchen, you can consider Antique Mirror Glass Tiles UK. Color and texture is an amazing style to make the room personalized and unique. When you redesign your bathroom or kitchen, many people think of things like paint colors, floors, cabinets, and tables. You can go with mirror glass tile, especially as it mixes textures and colors in a very versatile way to add pie to redesign projects. One example is that if the owner of the house has more than one bathroom, this glass box can be used to give the mirror an artistic way. Or simply, he could design a slab for a unique tile, or make an attractive decorative entry for a bath or cage.\n\nFor your bedroom design, you can consider to choose bedside Antique Mirror Glass Table Top. These tables are a great addition to every bedroom. It looks great in a room full of eclectic furniture. These types of nightstands are available in a variety of styles. Some of them come with some drawers. The other models come with the main surfaces and some shelves. Choose the style that best suits your needs. If you are constantly reading in bed, it is likely that the shelves are the perfect choice. If you lose a lot of storage, consider a model with a drawer. Measure the space you want to place before shopping to make sure that the model selected fits your space.\n\nIn general, this type of furniture may be less expensive, so be sure to choose something you love. In the case of online ordering, be sure to ask about the packaging policy to make sure that what you receive does not damage. With the right choice, you will definitely love the beautiful addition of mirror glass to your room. Antique Mirror Glass Toronto is one of the great options.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6656535863876343}
+{"content": "Can You Hallucinate From Lack Of Sleep?\n\nIs 2 hours of sleep better than no sleep?\n\n\n\n\nIs 5 hours of sleep enough?\n\n\nWhat’s the longest someone has slept?\n\n\nWhat happens after 48 hours of no sleep?\n\nAfter going without sleep for 48 hours, a person’s cognitive performance will worsen, and they will become very fatigued. At this point, the brain will start entering brief periods of complete unconsciousness, also known as microsleep. Microsleep occurs involuntarily and can last for several seconds.\n\nHow many hours of no sleep before you hallucinate?\n\n\nIs being tired like being high?\n\nA recent study published by the University of Chicago links sleep deprivation to junk food cravings and higher total calorie consumption. The cravings you’re likely to experience when you’re sleepy may be similar, the study says, to the munchies typical of marijuana-toking stoners. According to study lead Dr.\n\nWhat happens after 36 hours of no sleep?\n\n\nCan you hallucinate from stress?\n\n\nWhy can’t I sleep even though I’m tired?\n\n\nDoes lack of sleep cause hallucinations?\n\nLack of sleep Not getting enough sleep can also lead to hallucinations. You may be more prone to hallucinations if you haven’t slept in multiple days or don’t get enough sleep over long periods of time.\n\nDoes lack of sleep make you feel high?\n\n\nIs sleeping late but getting 8 hours bad?\n\n\nIs it OK to pull an all nighter once?\n\nAbsolutely. You can do it anytime you want to. Even four times a week doesn’t hurt as long as you are in an elevated mood and are enjoying your time in intended company and doing exactly what you want to. All nighters don’t hurt much.\n\nCan my body shut down from lack of sleep?\n\nA recent University of Pennsylvania study shows that sleep deprivation causes the brain to bounce back and forth between sleep and consciousness, sort of like when electricity flickers during a storm. And all it takes is one sleepless night to trigger this shutdown mode.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9547401070594788}
+{"content": "Undue pressure or moral obligation: religious gifting and undue influence\n\nResearch output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review\n\n3 Downloads (Pure)\n\n\nPurpose: This paper aims to stimulate discussion on how best to protect individuals from undue influence when gifting to religious institutions in England and Wales. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on the law relating to undue influence in England and Wales and draws from the literature regarding gifting to religious institutions and accountability of such institutions. Findings: This paper identifies that more needs to be done to protect individuals, so as to ensure they are gifting to religious institutions using their own free will. It highlights that although the law attempts to define undue influence, there is little guidance on where the line between persuasion and coercion lies. The paper recognises that religious institutions need to do more to adopt safeguarding policies and that the Charity Commission ought to better support such policies by creating a single point of reference. Practical implications: Steps need to be taken to prepare a cohesive set of principles that religious institutions of all denominations can follow to ensure they protect themselves from being accused of undue influence, as well as safeguarding individuals from abuse. Originality/value: There are limited studies that consider the dichotomy between religious gifting and undue influence. This paper adds to the existing discussion and considers ways in which individuals can be protected. The author is not aware of such considerations being directly contemplated as resolutions to this issue.\n\nOriginal languageEnglish\nNumber of pages11\nJournalThe Journal of Adult Protection\nEarly online date4 Feb 2021\nPublication statusE-pub ahead of print - 4 Feb 2021\n\nFingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Undue pressure or moral obligation: religious gifting and undue influence'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.\n\nCite this", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8227084875106812}
+{"content": "The impact of the knowledge economy on inclusive development in Morocco: Analysis and comparisons\n\n\n  • Abdelkader EL MOUTAOUKIL Université IBN ZOHR, Agadir\n  • Sofyan OUMANE Université IBN ZOHR\n\n\nknowledge economy, Development, Economic performance, Comparative analysis, Morocco.\n\n\nThis research paper is part of the development of economy; it presents the contribution of the knowledge economy development in Morocco. A new model adopts a development strategy based on four fundamental pillars: Economic Incentives and institutional regime, education and human resources, national research and innovation system and infrastructure of information technology and communication. Through this brief, we develop several types of analysis to assess the economic situation of Morocco in a comparative framework.\nThe objective is to assess the level of the four components of the knowledge economy in the context of developing countries (in particular, Morocco). To do this, this article proposes to examine first, the economic situation of Morocco in a comparative and descriptive framework. Then, the second step is to assess Morocco's capacity in terms of the knowledge economy. In the end, the final step deals with the link between the indices of the knowledge\neconomy and development in the context of the Moroccan economy.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9564801454544067}
+{"content": "Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:54\n\nOPINION: Bending the arc\n\nWritten by\nRate this item\n(0 votes)\n\nGeorge Floyd died at the hands of police officers one ago yesterday. His death set off a wave national protests in a nation that had been locked down for two and half months. The reaction to Floyd’s death and the summer of protests and riots that followed laid bare the divisions in this country. It also began movement toward a racial reckoning that’s long overdue. \n\nFloyd’s death followed years of video-taped deaths of unarmed Black men at the hands of police and white vigilantes without any accountability. Minneapolis, where Floyd died, erupted almost immediately. Cities across the nation followed. In places like Raleigh, businesses already shut down from the pandemic were looted and vandalized.\n\nThe country quickly fell into two camps. Most people focused on the injustice of police brutality and the continuing string of deaths of Black men. Republicans and conservatives, though, focused on the riots and protests that raged all summer. Black Lives Matters was countered by Blue Lives Matter. \n\nActivists on the left demanded police reforms. Activists on the right demanded a crack-down on protests. Progressives worried about the lives of Black people. Conservatives emphasized protection of personal property. \n\nThe division laid bare conservatives’ fallacy about race. They do not believe that discrimination against African Americans exists and they never have. Instead, they emphasize individual behavior. In their world, only individuals can be prejudiced, not systems or societies. In relatively recent history, they denied that segregation was discriminatory and they fought integration. They’ve consistently opposed efforts to improve voting rights and civil rights. Today, they do not see the deaths of Black men as evidence of systemic racism, but as the choices of individuals. \n\nAnd that’s the nut. Conservatives do not worry about police killing African American men because, in their world view, the cause is personal. Deaths result from either a single bad cop, or, more often, the poor choice of the victim. They don’t see patterns. They see incidents. \n\nThey ask, “Why didn’t Andrew Brown stop when he was told to do so?” not “Why was Andrew Brown so scared of police?” And they never ask, “Where are all the videos of unarmed White men being assaulted or shot by police?” They compare the grievances of a group of people who share a skin color and are disproportionally victims of police brutality to the grievances of a mob of insurrectionists trying to overthrow the government based on a lie. They are pushing back hard against a the tide of history.\n\nThe response to George Floyd’s killing was a cry of anguish and anger to a situation that had been simmering for decades. Cities erupted like they haven’t since the 1960s. And like the 1960s, conservatives see the problem as people attacking private property, not as a collective reaction against oppressive authorities. Instead of addressing the root causes of the problem, they are focused on trying to prevent reactions like the one we saw last summer. They are increasing penalties for destruction of private property and protecting people who run over protesters.\n\nOn civil rights, conservatives have been consistently wrong. They are, as Buckley described, standing athwart history, yelling “Stop!” But history won’t stop and the murder of George Floyd will bend the arc of history a little more toward justice. And 50 years from now, conservatives will once again look back and see how wrong they’ve been.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6119495630264282}
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+{"content": "Stonehenge, near Amesbury in Wiltshire is an ancient stone circle which is considered among the wonders of the world.\n\nWe offer you the opportunity to explore this ancient landscape and discover Neolithic everyday objects and tools.\nStonehenge 1\n\n\n\n× How can I help you?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995132088661194}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Flower Symbolizes Congratulations?\n\nWhich flower symbolizes death?\n\n\nWhat animal represents change?\n\n\nWhat gift symbolizes new beginnings?\n\nLotus flowers push through dark and muddy swamps to rise above the water and blossom. This is why they’re considered a symbol of new beginnings, and it’s why this bracelet is called a “healing” item. It combines beads, crystals and lotus charms in several stacks of bracelets that can be worn together or separately.\n\nWhat can I say instead of congratulations?\n\nCongratulations synonymsfelicitations. Congratulations! Well done! … kudos. Credit or praise for an achievement; glory; fame. … good-for-you. An exclamation of encouragement. … congrats. (Informal) A short form of congratulations. … compliments. … way-to-go. (Idiomatic) an expression of congratulations approval. … good work. Advertisement.best wishes.More items…\n\nWhat is heartiest congratulations?\n\nHearty congratulations is the correct answer. Hearty is a noun, used in a warm and unreserved manner. It describes the sincere and heartfelt gesture. It corresponds to anything strong and substantial. While heartily is an adjective used in context of thorough or vigorous expression, sometimes, for expressing sincerity.\n\nWhat is short for congratulations?\n\npluralNoun. 0. 0. (informal) A short form of congratulations. interjection.\n\nWhat color flower means congratulations?\n\nWhile orange and yellow are always good colors for congratulations, you can also find gladiolus flowers that in red, green, purple, and pink. Orange Roses: Remember, orange is enthusiastic. These are energetic flowers that convey feelings of passion and excitement.\n\nWhat flower symbolizes support?\n\n\nWhat symbolizes a new beginning?\n\nA Phoenix is a symbol for rebirth/new beginnings.\n\nWhich flower means love?\n\n\nWhat flower means pain?\n\nMarigoldRegion or cultureFlowerMeaningMallowConsumed by loveMarigoldPain and griefMayflowerWelcomeMeadowsweetBeauty, happiness, peace, protection104 more rows\n\nWhat color of rose means death?\n\n\nWhich flower symbolizes evil?\n\n\nWhat is the flower of hope?\n\n\nWhat flower signifies new beginnings?\n\n\nWhat flowers symbolize friendship?\n\nThe alstroemeria is the flower most representative of friendship, so you will find it in many friendship bouquets. This flower also symbolizes good fortune and prosperity, so it offers double meaning. Yellow roses are symbolic of friendship and happiness.\n\nWhat flower means peace?\n\nPoppiesPoppies traditionally symbolize peace and the end and remembrance of war, and this may have partially come from the fact that the flowers grew over the fallen bodies of soldiers who fought in the Great War in Northern France.\n\nWhat is a symbol for change?\n\n\nWhat color symbolizes new beginnings?\n\n\nWhat color roses are for congratulations?\n\nRedRedLove, Beauty, Courage and Respect, Romantic Love, Congratulations, “I Love You”, “Job Well Done”, Sincere Love, Respect, Courage & PassionRoses ON SALE Now!Dark PinkAppreciation, Gratitude, “Thank You”Light PinkAdmiration, Sympathy, Gentleness, Grace, Gladness, Joy, Sweetness24 more rows\n\nHow do you wish congratulations?\n\n\nWhat does a lotus flower mean?\n\n\nWhat do colors of roses signify?\n\n\nWhat color of rose means love?\n\nRed rosesRed roses are often considered the universal symbol of love. In most places around the world, everyone knows that receiving red roses—whether it’s one or a dozen—is how you say “I love you.” This rose color meaning conveys deep affection, such as desire or longing for your significant other.\n\nWhat flower symbolizes accomplishment?\n\nIrises are a symbol of hope, courage, faith and admiration – perfect to cheer on or congratulate a friend on a big accomplishment. Peruvian lilies signal friendship and devotion.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995446801185608}
+{"content": "Colin Gorrie\n\nLanguage and linguistics online\n\n\nAll resources are free except those marked with the 💰 icon.\n\nCommunity: Friends of the Schwa\n\nIf you'd like to meet other people interested in linguistics, you may be interested in our Discord community called Friends of the Schwa (invite link).\n\nCourse: Language and Thought\n\nI teach a linguistics course aimed at people with no prior background called Language and Thought. This is a live, cohort-based course that places linguistics in conversation with philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and cognitive science to answer the question: Are the limits of my language the limits of my world? 💰\n\nCourse: Language Construction Workshop\n\nI teach an introductory conlanging course called Language Construction for Beginners every few months. This is a live cohort-based course, where we learn about the basics of linguistic theory by rolling up our sleeves and building languages from scratch. 💰\n\nWant more?\n\nI write a linguistics newsletter! It also includes exclusive course discounts.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9997260570526123}
+{"content": "Arrowhead found in Monroe backyard hints at Connecticut's ancient history\n\nPhoto of Jordan Fenster\n\nXue Davis was planting dahlias in the backyard of her home in Monroe when she had what she called “a ‘no-way’ moment.”\n\nThere are a lot of rocks in her yard, and at first, she thought the object she had dug up was just another piece of slate. Then she realized, “it clearly had been worked by human hands.”\n\n“My first instinct was that it must have been a replica,” Davis said.\n\nAs it turned out, the arrowhead she uncovered was older than Connecticut itself, preexisting modern society.\n\nIt was made and used by some of the first people to walk Connecticut’s woods, approximately the same time as the birth of Jesus.\n\nProjectile points vary in size and shape. While larger and heavier projectile points are referred to as spears or darts, smaller and lighter ones are commonly called arrowheads or arrow points that are associated with a bow and arrow.\n\nThe arrowhead Davis dug up is estimated to be anywhere from 1,200 to 2,700 years old.\n\n“I guess for these projectile points, especially the ones that are so old, we don’t know very much about the people or specific tribes,” Davis said. “We don't know what they called themselves.”\n\nDavis is a scientist by trade, a neuroscientist working at Yale, but she turned to Sarah Sportman, Connecticut’s state archaeologist, for more information.\n\nIt’s not that uncommon to find ancient arrowheads in Connecticut, but the kind Davis unearthed is not usually found in this part of the continent. Sportman identified it as a relic of a culture known as the Adena.\n\nThe Adena, named after the site the culture was first identified, are known as mound-builders. They were centered around the Ohio River valley, though they did have extensive trade networks.\n\n“We don't have a great handle on whether people from the Midwest were coming this far east, or if it was just ideas and goods that were coming through trade,” Sportman said.\n\nSo it’s possible the arrowhead was knapped and shaped near the Ohio River, traded from person to person, and used and lost millennia ago, only to be dug up by a Yale neuroscientist as she planted dahlias.\n\n“That’s the part of it that I think I’m most enamored by, holding it and looking at it, thinking that a person did this, they made it by hand,” Davis said. “It connects them to me in a way. Your imagination can run wild in thinking about how their experience was so different than ours, and what is the human experience going to be like 2,000 years from now.”\n\nThough Connecticut may not often be thought of as an archaeological mecca, Sportman said the oldest artifacts in Connecticut are older than Davis’ arrowhead by an order of magnitude.\n\nIn 2019, a site in Avon was uncovered that put any projectile point to shame.\n\n“It was found through a development project for a bridge,” Sportman said. “It is very deeply buried, and we have a radiocarbon date for 12,500 years ago.”\n\nWhether or not the Native American tribes that inhabited Connecticut when Europeans first arrived in the 1600s bear any relationship to the people who used Davis’ arrowhead is an open question.\n\nWhen Davis’ arrowhead was made, is “what we refer to as the early woodland period here in Connecticut,” Sportman said.\n\n“The modern groups are the groups that are around today, and that were around at the time of colonization, they may not have been exactly the same a couple of thousand years before,” she said.\n\nAs for the first people in Connecticut, such as those who inhabited Avon and the rest of the area 12,000 years ago, how they may or may not be related to the people who used Davis’ arrowhead is not known.\n\n“Those are still some of the questions that archaeologists are researching,” Sportman said. “Trying to figure out those identities and how these people are related is really complicated. It's about looking for similarities in the material culture, in the ways that they made their stone tools and their pots and things like that, and trying to figure out if there are similarities in different areas, and maybe those were related groups of people sharing ideas.”\n\nThere is not much evidence left.\n\n“All we have to go on is the material that people left behind, and most of the time, with archaeology, you’re dealing with people's garbage,” Sportman said.\n\n“It's the stuff that they left,” she said. “Their broken pots, and their broken arrowheads and the things that they didn't feel were worthwhile to pick up and take with them.”\n\nDavis’ discovery led her on a bit of an internet journey. She discovered a robust trade in antiquities, collectors of projectile points willing to pay hard cash for a piece like hers. It’s not worth much, though, “maybe 20 or 30 bucks,” she said.\n\nThat fact is bittersweet for Sportman. Trade in antiquities makes preservation more difficult.\n\n“In this part of the country, it’s not as robust as it once was historically. In the 19th and first half of the 20th century, it was rampant, but it still happens,” she said. “If you go on eBay and other places like that, and auction sites, you'll still see collections of artifacts up for sale.”\n\nOn the other hand, “a lot of archaeologists actually got their start as children finding arrowheads and fields and things like that. That's what got them interested,” she said.\n\nDavis agreed: “I actually find it hard to imagine that it wouldn’t spark imagination to find something like this.”\n\nThough she is excited about her discovery, Davis is not tearing up her lawn looking for antiquities. She lives in “one of those ’60s raised ranches,” and believes it’s unlikely the dirt had not been disturbed over the last few centuries.\n\nAlso, the Pequonnock River runs through her neighborhood, and the arrowhead may have traveled downstream.\n\n“Over the last 1,000 years, who knows? Maybe the course of it ran through my yard,” she said. “I don’t think I'm sitting on top of a deposit of arrowheads.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8997020125389099}
+{"content": "Website Manager\n\n***Early Bird Registration for Fall 2021 Opens June 28th***\n\nHumble Atascocita Baseball Association\n\nEquipment Regulations\n\nBaseball Bats\n\nAll bats used in HABA League or Tournaments must meet the following standards:\nPlease note, HABA will be transitioning to PONY and USA bat standards.\nThe bat standard will go into effect in the Spring of 2022.\n\nTo find PONY's official approved bat list, which is in accordance with USABat, click here.\n\nCurrent Bat Rules(until Spring 2022):\n\n  1. In ages 6U-13U, bats with the BPF 1.15 stamp OR the new USA Baseball stamp (on the transition area between the barrel and handle) are legal, regardless of weight and composition. *Approved USABats must be used in PONY Tournaments*\n  2. 5U Bats must use Tee ball bats only\n  3. Bats cannot have the word \"softball\" anywhere on the bat.\n  5. 15U and above must use a NFHS (high school) legal BBCOR bat\n\n  1. 5U-6U use Level 5 baseballs\n  2. 7U and up use standard baseballs\n\nContact Us\n\nHumble Atascocita Baseball Association\n\nPO Box 3936 \nHumble, Texas 77347\n\nEmail Us: [email protected]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999130964279175}
+{"content": "Understanding Fractions\n\nThis Understanding Fractions lesson plan also includes:\n\nStudents explore the parts of an orange to develop an understanding of the addition and subtraction of fractions. The concept of representing parts of a whole by dividing an object into smaller pieces is experienced in this hands-on activity.\n\n17 Views 97 Downloads\nClassroom Considerations", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999759197235107}
+{"content": "Palmistry Guide & Reading Bonnerdale Arkansas 71933\n\nThe Function of Palmistry In Bonnerdale AR 71933\n\nPut simply, palmistry is the art of analyzing the physical functions of the hands to interpret character qualities and forecast future happenings. Chiromancy evaluations are classic: Equally as our ancient ancestors stared right into the night skies and created effective communications between the activities of the earths and events here on Planet, palm readers observe just how the hand’s qualities link to higher motifs. Occult traditions are based on the heavy axiom” As above, so below,” and within palmistry, the palm is as necessary seen as a microcosm of deep space.\n\nWe’re deep-diving into the subjects you’ve constantly wondered about.\n\nWhile I urge you to create your very own interpretations of different creases and shapes, acquainting on your own with historic conventions can help you create an abundant vocabulary that applies to any kind of querent (that’s the individual looking for responses from an analysis).\n\nHistory of Hand Analysis\n\nPalmistry has early beginnings in many areas. According to Brahmanism documents and lots of mural relics in India, palm readingy was preferred in old India.\n\nPalmistry additionally has a long history in China, because the Zhou Empire (1045– 256 BC) even more than 3,000 years back.\n\n\nThe Ultimate Palm-Reading Guide for Beginners\n\n\nFascinated in brushing up on the divination technique of hand reading, or palmistry? Knowing exactly how to review hands takes method, however our hand reading overview from palmistry specialist Kay Packard makes the art of chiromancy appearance simple.\n\nReading Your Hand Forming\n\nIn the practice of palmistry, palm shape offers understanding into individuality qualities and usually correlates with the 4 elements: fire, air, planet, and water, Saucedo states. Each of these components stands for a different character profile. To evaluate hand form, you’ll intend to look at the proportion of the palm in connection with the fingers.\n\nFire hands: Remarkable for a lengthy hand with short fingers, these characters are troubled, anxious, and cozy.\n\n\n\nPlanet hands: Feature a square palm with brief fingers, and tend to be based, sensible, and a rationalist.\n\nRemember that hand kind doesn’t constantly refer your astrological account you might be a water sign according to astrologist near Bonnerdale Arkansas 71933, but your hand shape may suggest you’re an earth indication. Duality is definitely okay here.\n\nMaintain four major lines in mind\n\nThe most basic way to understand palm reading is through four primary lines that every hand has. While a variety of lines likely traverse your palms, it’s the following 4 that pro readers focus on one of the most:\n\nHeart line: Found on top of the hand; suggests your mood\n\n\n\nLine of stability (additionally called your Fate line): Comes up through the facility of the hand, starting at the end of your hand and running toward your center finger; shows how you feel concerning the life you create\n\n” The total shape of a line whether it’s bent or right, says just how versatile that component of you is,” claims Saucedo, who additionally authored Handful of Stars: A Palmistry Manual and Hand-Printing Set. If you have an extremely rounded heart line that looks like a fifty percent circle, Saucedo claims that would indicate a very nurturing, open, and emotional nature. If your heart line is right, after that you might be a little bit a lot more protected or self-preserved regarding your feelings.\n\nThere are additionally crucial differences to keep in mind in between straight and curved head lines. An extremely curved head line indicates creative thinking, while a straight head line indicate someone who is really reasonable and likes logistics “black and white, yes or no,” says Saucedo.\n\nOne common misconception Saucedo is fast to point out is that in spite of popular belief, the life line has nothing to do with your lifespan. Instead, it has more to do with exactly how good you really feel concerning your life. “If it discolors out, it’s simply an item of your life where you may seem like the carpet was taken out from under you,” she claims. “But it does not indicate you’re sick or anything like that.”\n\nThe Love Line the Longer the Better\n\n\n\nIf the love line is long, he/she will possibly be a great lover wonderful, understanding, and charming.\n\nThe Occupation Line (Fate Line). Find Your Career In Bonnerdale AR.\n\nThe profession line or fate line is the line that stretches from the wrist to the middle finger. It shows one’s ton of money and profession.\n\nThe Head Line.\n\nIf you have a. Brief line (ending near the facility of your hand, as revealed right here): You’re a fast thinker who reaches conclusions with no hemming and hawing.\n\nLong, straight line (expanding across the hand, towards the pinkie): Assess a lot? You commonly find on your own mulling points over (and over) prior to coming to a decision.\n\nLine that splits in 2: Delicate to others, you can conveniently see a person else’s perspective. This implies you might change your point of view from time to time.\n\nRELATED: Here’s What Takes place to the Coins You Toss in Fountains Long, bent line (running down towards the bottom corner of the hand): You’re a thinker that can envision several possible results or techniques to any situation.\n\nThe Heart Line.\n\nIf you have actually a. Long, straight line (finishing listed below the forefinger, as revealed here): You’re a logical, analytical thinker who constantly takes into consideration others’ sensations, and individuals appreciate that regarding you.\n\nShort, straight line (ending in between the middle and index fingers): You require your liberty. You reveal your love via activities greater than words.\n\nLong, bent line (arcing up and reaching the base of the center finger): Your interests and needs drive you, and you uncommitted who recognizes it.\n\nPalmistry Guide & Reading Bonnerdale Arkansas 71933Brief, rounded line (arcing up and ending concerning a half inch below the base of the middle finger): You are booked and like little teams to huge ones. You open up in individually settings.\n\nLine with two or even more X’s at the outer hand: You have actually experienced a deep personal betrayal.\n\nLine that divides in 2: You have a practice of putting your emotions on the back burner to meet others’ demands.\n\nWhen you assume about palmistry, there are likely a few lines that promptly spring to mind the head line, the life line, and the heart line. Ideally, every person finds out from their heart line that it’s not concerning just how they are accepted, but how you approve on your own.”.\n\nJust how do you tell if you are going to have youngsters?\n\nLocate your youngster line. Make a fist with your right-hand man. Look on the outer side of your hand, near the pinky. The number of lines you have will be the variety of kids you produce (the line linking the finger to the hand does not count as a youngster line). Of program, personal selection, contraception and success or failure to drawback up with a person will additionally have much more concrete reasons to do with how many children you end up having.\n\nCan my hand lines alter with time?\n\nYes, certainly the lines in your hand modification with time. As an example, the size of life line of your hand indicates how healthy and balanced you are, and your health and wellness can most definitely transform with time depending upon your age, degree of task, and so on\n\n. Don’t puzzle palm reading with psychic abilities.\n\nThink of hand analysis as a language in which you and any person else can come to be well-versed. This is essential to keep in mind, due to the fact that Saucedo says palm reading is typically merged with psychic powers and, truly, one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. “Anybody can read hands it’s all visual and concrete,” she claims.\n\nAnd below’s what you require to know regarding numerology Helene Saucedo Palm Visitor and Author Astrology Spiritual Health and wellness Our editors independently pick these products. Making a purchase with our links might gain Well+ Good a compensation.\n\nObjection of palmistry typically rests with the absence of empirical evidence sustaining its efficacy. Scientific literature commonly relates to palmistry as a pseudoscientific or superstitious Psychologist and kept in mind skeptic Ray Hyman I began reviewing palms in my teens as a way to supplement my revenue from doing magic and psychological shows. One day the late Stanley Jaks, who was a professional mind reader and a male I respected, tactfully suggested that it would certainly make a fascinating experiment if I intentionally gave analyses contrary to what the lines suggested.\n\nSkeptics typically consist of palmists on lists of claimed psychics that exercise cool reading. Cold reading is the method that enables visitors of all kinds, consisting of palmists, to appear psychic by utilizing high-probability guessing and presuming details based on signals or hints from the other individual.\n\nAlthough some Christians condemn palmistry as a kind of prophecy Jewish Christian customs are mostly ambivalent about prophecy in general.\n\nWhile some details techniques such as necromancy astrology are condemned by scriptural writers, various other methods such as desire analysis spreading of lots, and using Urim and Thummim During the 16th century the Catholic Church condemned the practice of palmistry.\n\nThere is a long tradition of practicing palmistry within both Jewish Christian mysticism and some experts, such as Comte C. de Saint-Germain, have actually suggested that the Holy bible does not oppose it.\n\nNonetheless, Islam strongly condemns prophecy in all forms and thinks about palmistry haram The Quran states that “You are forbidden to seek knowledge of your fate by divining arrows” (Surah Al-Ma’ idah 5:3).\n\n\n\nPalmistry Guide & Reading Bonnerdale Arkansas 71933", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.872994065284729}
+{"content": "Cover image of Change Academy\n\nChange Academy\n\nLearn how to create a healthy mindset, sustainable habits, and a lifestyle that you love (and that loves you back). Brock and Monica are seasoned pros with decades of nutrition and fitness expertise and coaching experience. Together, they turn the tricky business of behaviour change into an approachable even enjoyable project. Whatever your age, your level, or your goals, this podcast will get you moving steadily toward success.\n\nWeekly hand curated podcast episodes for learning\n\nPopular episodes\n\nAll episodes\n\nWarning: This podcast data isn't working.\n\n\nPodcast cover\n\n44: How to List Better\n\nTo-do lists, checklists, scorecards can be great tools to keep us on track. But they can also seem like an overwhelming task themselves. Or worse yet, they can become yet another way that we judge our own abilities or self-worth. In this episode, we show you how to create a list that suits you and your goals. We also explore how to structure that list so it can keep you on track without being a constant reminder of how much work you have to do. Takeaways - When used well, lists or scorecards can help us manage our time, accomplish our goals, and track our progress. - Make sure your list doesn’t have more on it than you can reasonably accomplish in a given time frame. To-do lists aren’t just for work and chores. - Make sure you also include things that are fun and rewarding on your list. - Scorecards are more effective if used to track the things you want to do and not just the things you want to avoid. - Bonus takeaway: Whether you are keeping a to-do list or a scorecard, include a note about why each task is important to you or how you will benefit from it. Lab Experiment - If you have an existing to-do list, make sure it has only things you really plan to accomplish. Remove the dead weight and make a list that seems doable and important to you. If you don’t have a to-do list, start one by listing the tasks that you really want to get done this week. - Next, add the fun activities you have planned (or would like to plan) to the list. - Now, choose three new behaviors that you would like to adopt and add those to your list. - If the list seems too long or feels like a bummer, move items around, change the wording or remove items that lack meaning until you have a list that feels doable and energizing.\n\n\n11 Jun 2021\n\nRank #1\n\nPodcast cover\n\n43: What's Holding You Back?\n\nSome of our goals or objectives require us to master a range of different skills. You’ll probably be naturally stronger in some areas than others. And sometimes, in order to reach our goals, overcoming or strengthening a weakness is essential.  But it's not just about forcing yourself to work on the things that are hard for you. In this episode, we focus on identifying areas where you need more support--and seeking out resources that can help.\n\n\n2 Jun 2021\n\nRank #2\n\nPodcast cover\n\n42: Cues and Prompts\n\nIn this episode, we’ll teach you how to identify and dismantle unhelpful cues and also build some helpful ones.  We all have cues in our lives that prompt us to carry out certain behaviors, like putting a seat belt on when we get in a car, grabbing snacks when we sit on the couch to watch a movie, or pouring a glass of wine when we change out of our work clothes. Some of our cue responses are good (like seatbelts), and some are not so good (like snacks and alcohol).  Many of them probably developed over time without our conscious intention. We can, however, deliberately create cues in our lives to help us make decisions and perform behaviors that will benefit us.   Takeaways Bringing conscious awareness to our cued behaviors can help us break them. If we’re trying to break a bad habit it can be really helpful to eliminate or modify the cue as well as the behavior.  Purposely introducing new behaviors that are anchored to already existing behaviors can give us a nice head start. Introducing a level of fun and gamification to this process can make it more effective. Lab Experiment For the next week, see how many cues or prompts you can spot as you go through your day. Jot them down as you come across them on a notepad or in your note-taking app.   At the end of the week, review your list. How many of your cues are triggering helpful behaviors and how many are triggering unhelpful responses?  How can you use this information to dismantle unhelpful cue/response cycles? You might choose to eliminate or modify the cue. Or you might choose to replace the old response to that cue with a new one. \n\n\n21 May 2021\n\nRank #3\n\nPodcast cover\n\n41: The Power of Positive Illusions\n\nHaving a firm grip on reality is usually seen as a sign of good mental health.  But social scientists have discovered that happy and successful people routinely overestimate their skill, talent, and chances of success. In fact, that may be one of the secrets to their success. In this episode, we explore why being overly optimistic is not a cognitive defect that needs to be overcome but a constructive trait that we can cultivate. Takeaways 1. Being willing to believe that you’ll beat the odds can make it more likely that you will 2. When you believe you’ll be successful in the end, it’s easier to cope with (and even learn from)  setbacks. 3. Reflecting on past successes can be a good way to bolster your optimism about the future. 4. Optimism doesn’t save you from having to do the work. But we’re usually willing to work harder for something that we believe we can achieve. Lab Experiment 1. Think of a goal or result you’d like to achieve.  2. Visualize what it would feel and look like to achieve it. 3. Picture yourself taking the steps required to make that dream a reality. (If you can’t clearly picture what those steps are, spend some time figuring out what they would be.)   4. Allow yourself to feel confident and optimistic—and let that optimism fuel your determination to do the work.\n\n\n7 May 2021\n\nRank #4\n\nMost Popular Podcasts\n\nPodcast cover\n\nSpring Break (Extracurricular)\n\nMonica and Brock are taking a brief Spring Break but we will be back in May with brand new episodes.  In the meantime, this is the perfect time to go back and relisten to some of our previous episodes - in particular, the series about the \"Eight Things to Make Changes that Last.\" You may also find it helpful to download the Lab Notebook at https://changeacademypodcast.com/notebook See you all soon!\n\n\n14 Apr 2021\n\nRank #5\n\nPodcast cover\n\n40: Changes We'd Like to Keep\n\nA year ago, virtually every aspect of our lives changed profoundly: How we eat, shop, work, socialize, exercise, etc. These weren’t changes we chose but changes that were forced on us.  Now that we are beginning to imagine life returning to something more similar to pre-pandemic, we have some decisions to make. Are there new habits that we’ve adopted that we might want to keep? Old habits that we don’t want to return to? What’s clear is that we DON’T want to do is miss this opportunity to make a conscious choice. Takeaways For better or worse, the pandemic forced us to reassess/reinvent virtually every aspect of our lives. There may be things that we adopted over the last year that actually worked better for us. It’s worth pausing before we rush back into our pre-pandemic patterns to consider how we might want to return. No matter what we choose, we are likely to be happier and more fulfilled if we make those choices consciously. Lab Experiment Select an area of your life that you were forced to reinvent during the pandemic and will now have an opportunity to either revert to the previous stays quo or not. Make a list of all of the ways that the change benefited you all the ways in which the change did not benefit you. Think about those pros and cons in the context of your values. (Is convenience more important to you than consistency for example? Is quality more important than quantity? Is supporting local business more important than getting the cheapest price?) Decide what you’d like to do once your options are open. Will you go back to your original status quo, stay with your current status quo, or design a third option that works best of all?\n\n\n9 Apr 2021\n\nRank #6\n\nPodcast cover\n\n39: What's Your Default?\n\nBehavioralist Schlomo Benartzi defines a default as “what happens if you do nothing.“ If we’re too busy, distracted, or fatigued to make a choice or decision, the default wins the day. And because we’re often busy, distracted, or fatigued we want to be careful and intentional about which defaults are operating on our lives. In this episode, we’ll show you how to do that.  Takeaways Some default mechanisms are imposed on us by society, employers, software, etc. Others we create and implement for our own benefit. Like habits, default mechanisms can be very powerful--both in ways that serve us and ways that don’t. Because defaults are often somewhat invisible, we may not always notice them. But it’s important to be aware when a default is operating in our lives. Defaults represent the path of least resistance. But does that path (still) lead where we want to go?  Lab Experiment  Option 1: Step 1: Identify a default mechanism that is currently in place in your life (whether it’s one that you designed or one that was put in place by someone else). Step 2: Ask yourself: does this path of least resistance lead somewhere that I want to go? Step 3: If not, how can you disable that default mechanism? Option 2: Step 1: Identify a goal or outcome you want to create. (For example, saving a certain percentage of your income, not reading emails during certain hours, eating more vegetables).  Step 2: Ask yourself: What default mechanism can I put in place to make that happen? (For example, setting up an automatic savings plan, changing the settings on your email client, or subscribing to a produce delivery).\n\n\n31 Mar 2021\n\nRank #7\n\nPodcast cover\n\nOffice Hours (Extracurricular)\n\nIn this extracurricular episode, we invite you to listen in to a group coaching session that we held recently with members of our year-long Weighless Program. The strategies and insights that came up in this session can be applied to any change you are working on.  And if you think you might like to work with us in the Weighless Program, be sure to listen to the very end for a special offer for Change Academy listeners.  (The next group begins on April 9th. Details are here https://weighless.life/enroll.)\n\n\n28 Mar 2021\n\nRank #8\n\nPodcast cover\n\n38: How Do You Want to Engage?\n\nIn the last episode, we talked about deciding which thoughts deserve our energy. But once we've decided that a situation deserves our attention, we need to decide how we want to engage with it. The words we use to describe (even to ourselves) what’s going on in our lives or our heads can make a big difference. Takeaways The language that we use when we think or talk about a situation can affect how we engage with it We may want to approach different situations with different language or attitude. Just because it works for someone else doesn’t mean it's right for you. Make sure you are choosing an approach that suits you. Trying on different approaches to the same thought or situation can help you find one that works best. So don’t give up after just one try.  Lab Experiment Choose a situation or thought that you’ve decided deserves your attention and write a few sentences about it. Then, see if you can pick up a tone by asking yourself: What verbs are you choosing? What metaphors are you using? How do these make you feel? Can you think of other language or metaphors that create a different feeling? Does that feel better or worse? Decide what way of engaging serves you best and start to use that language in relation to this situation.\n\n\n19 Mar 2021\n\nRank #9\n\nPodcast cover\n\n37: Choosing Your Thoughts\n\nNot all of our thoughts deserve our attention or energy. Some can safely be dismissed without further examination. But we often allow unworthy or unhelpful thoughts to take up a lot of real estate in our brains--and this can negatively impact how we feel, what we do, and ultimately what we accomplish. In this episode, we talk about why it’s so important to choose which thoughts you give your energy to. Takeaways With all the thousands of thoughts going through our head, we are bound to have some that stick in our craw and that is OK.  Thoughts on their own are harmless. It is what we choose to do with them that creates negative feelings and emotions.  When we feel strong emotions like regret or shame over our thoughts we give those thoughts more energy and power over us.  Managing our thoughts takes time (like most meaningful change) but taking that time can free our mental energy to make progress on our goals instead of just thinking about them.  Lab Experiment Next time you notice that a thought is causing you stress or discomfort, write that thought down. Step 1: Ask yourself: Is this thought verifiably true? (If you said it in public, would everyone agree that it is true? Step 2: Ask yourself: Do I have anything to gain from continuing to entertain this thought? Is continuing to think about this going to make me feel better or help me make a better decision?  Step 3: If you decide that a thought does not deserve your energy, make a conscious decision to put it down. Use whatever imagery works best for you: pick up the remote control and change the channel, pluck it out of your mental garden and throw it in the compost, pick up the cosmic scissors and cut the string, or make up your own. But whatever image you choose, take a moment to really act it out in your imagination.  Step 4: Decide what you want to think about instead and spend some time cultivating that thought.\n\n\n9 Mar 2021\n\nRank #10", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9890660643577576}
+{"content": "Jupyter Notebook - Is it possible to execute 1 or more QCAlgorithms?\n\nIn my research, I would like to record the results of my Algorithm runs in a table so I can get a sense for how well the algorithm is performing during different time periods.\n\nWhile I can do this manually, it would be so much better to automate this via a Notebook.\n\nIf the answer is No, is there a way to do this via python in some other way?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9893027544021606}
+{"content": "Trajectory control of robotic systems under constraints and uncertainties\n\nIn this section we consider the research of mobile robot motion control for complex composite piecewise smooth path which is  the task to be resoleved in robot movement in the workspace with predefined trajectory of a given piecewise smooth functions.\n\n The problem of robot movement in the workspace on the prescribed trajectory with respect to a given unsteady external environment has also been solved.\n\nThis type of roblems arise in developent of robotic systems operating under the presence of moving obstacles, i.e during the movement of the robot in the transient external environment , in the planning of movements in multichannel dynamical systems, when building systems of coordinated control group of mobile objects, as well as the development of systems for  moving objects tracking.\n\nTo illustrate the efficiency of the synthesized algorithms trajectory a control model has been  selected for a wheeled mobile robot . As a plant a mobile robot is a multiple nonlinear dynamical system.The  problem resolved by the control system of the mobile robot is to establish control actions providing predefined displacement of the center of mass in the workspace.\n\nThe solution of these problems is based on the useage of differential geometric methods of nonlinear control theory. The technique of multi-channel systems analysis and synthesis procedure of control algorithms provides a solution trajectory problem as a problem of stabilization relatively smooth segment of predefined  trajectory model, such as lines and circles that build the desired path of movement with fixes waypoints.\n\nManagement approach that is used in the research , provides a nonlinear transformation model of the robot system to the task specific coordinates. This approach alows to reduce the complexity of  task to  control multi-channel to a number of more simple tasks to compensate  linear and angular deviations ,followed by  usage standard techniques to find adequate stabilization of nonlinear control laws .", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993864297866821}
+{"content": "Once two instances with physics representations have been bound by a joint, this can be deleted again at any time. Normally this will happen automatically when one of the two instances is destroyed, or when the room ends, but there are times when you may wish to do this manually. In those cases you would use this function.\n\nIt should also be noted that whenever an instance that is part of a gear joint is destroyed, the gear joint should be deleted using this function before any of the instances involved in forming the gear (but the remaining joints will be deleted automatically), for example in the destroy event of the instance.\n\n\n\nArgument Description\njoint The index of the joint that you wish to delete\n\n\n\n\nvar reactionForceX, reactionForceY, reactionForce;\nif shipJoint\n    reactionForceX = physics_joint_get_value(shipJoint, phy_joint_reaction_force_x);\n    reactionForceY = physics_joint_get_value(shipJoint, phy_joint_reaction_force_x);\n    reactionForce = sqrt((reactionForceX + reactionForceX) + (reactionForceY + reactionForceY));\n    if reactionForce > 2\n        shipJoint = -1;\n\nThe above code checks to see if the variable \"shipJoint\" holds a joint index and if it does, it then calculates the force being applied to that joint using the two constants. Finally, if the total force is greater than 2, the joint is deleted.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.520710289478302}
+{"content": "At yesterday’s central banking confab in Jackson Hole, Fed Chairman outlined what the Fed can do to further juice the economy. The initial reaction from the stock market was positive, with the S&P 500 jumping 1.7% on Friday. But in a sign of the treacherous road ahead, the bond market was unimpressed. Bonds sold off yesterday and the benchmark 10-year Treasury Note yield rose to 2.65%, the highest since August 13. Yes, folks, it’s going to get complicated from here on out.\n\nThe priority, of course, is minimizing the odds of a new recession. The central bank’s big guns have already been fired in that pursuit, and so expectations for monetary policy are falling, and rightly so. But there’s more to do, if and when Bernanke and company are persuaded that it’s time to act (again). As the Fed chairman explained yesterday, the remaining levers include:\n1) additional purchases of government debt and other securities to lower long rates.\n2) launch a new rhetorical war on the price of money by talking tough on promising (threatening?) to keep short rates low for a longer period than the market anticipates at the moment.\n3) reduce/eliminate the already meager 25 basis points the Fed pays to banks for reserves.\n4) Hike the Fed’s inflation target as a further incentive for banks to lend money instead of sitting on cash.\nBased on Bernanke’s commentary, buying more debt and talking down long rates are the preferred lines of attack for rolling out a new round of quantitative easing. Cutting Fed funds to zero and/or raising the inflation target, by contrast, are apparently off the table, at least for the moment, according to the Fed chairman. On the higher inflation target option, for instance, he explained:\n\nsuch a strategy is inappropriate for the United States in current circumstances. Inflation expectations appear reasonably well-anchored, and both inflation expectations and actual inflation remain within a range consistent with price stability. In this context, raising the inflation objective would likely entail much greater costs than benefits. Inflation would be higher and probably more volatile under such a policy, undermining confidence and the ability of firms and households to make longer-term plans, while squandering the Fed’s hard-won inflation credibility. Inflation expectations would also likely become significantly less stable, and risk premiums in asset markets–including inflation risk premiums–would rise. The combination of increased uncertainty for households and businesses, higher risk premiums in financial markets, and the potential for destabilizing movements in commodity and currency markets would likely overwhelm any benefits arising from this strategy.\n\nBut dismissing a higher inflation target seems premature at this point. For starters, inflation expectations have been something less than stable lately. As we discussed earlier in the week, the market has been anticipating falling inflation for the years ahead. Scott Sumner lays out the reasoning for raising the inflation target:\n\nDraw a 2% trend line for core inflation from September 2008. We are now 1.4% below that trend line. Shoot for getting back to trend. I know that doesn’t sound like much stimulus, but given the slack in the economy it would actually take pretty fast [nominal GDP] growth to get 3.4% core inflation over 12 months. Or 2.7% over 24 months.\n\nMeantime, there’s the question of whether the bond market is set to throw a new wrench into the machine with higher long rates. Ultimately, the goal is to raise interest rates generally, but for the right reason: higher economic growth. The rise in the 10-year Treasury yield yesterday, by contrast, was spurred by worries that the Fed may still be reacting to macroeconomic events rather than making headway on getting in front of the challenge.\nUltimately, it’s all about the broad trend, and on that front there’s still reason to worry, as the latest data point reminds. Yesterday’s news advised that GDP for the second quarter was revised down sharply. The economic numbers generally are still weakening. The double-dip risk isn’t yet absolute, but it’s rising. Next week we’ll have additional information to digest. The highlights:\n* Monday: personal income and spending numbers for July\n* Wednesday: the first look at the economic trend in August via the ISM Manufacturing Index update.\n* Thursday: weekly jobless claims report will be closely watched.\n* Friday: the big number for the week is the government’s employment update for August.\nOn the employment outlook, the consensus forecast among economists is a net loss of 100,000-plus in nonfarm payrolls, according to What more do you need to know?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6782599687576294}
+{"content": "Having The Concise Explaination “Fashion Trend”\n\nIn the case of style traits, there are not any rules to follow as every style is dissimilar. However, certain frequent parts emerge from the preferred fashion developments that we observe at present. The first ones are represented by clothes, footwear, makeup and accessories. In its every day use, the phrase style means a novel appearance outlined by the style enterprise as what’s fashionable at that second. While we may have a general idea of what’s fashionable or not, it is still tough to outline a pattern.\n\nIf you have any issues about where by and how to use hot women sport clothes, you can get hold of us at our own webpage.\n\n“Fashion” itself was derived from the Latin time period “fasci”, which means dress. These had been the primary tendencies that had been seen within the European nations within the late eighteen lots of. The French had been well-known for the primary trend traits in the late nineteenth century. They adopted many fashions, for instance, carrying their lengthy skirts with narrow collars, trousers with button-fronted buttons, long gowns with high collars, tuxedos, and so forth. By the top of the nineteenth century, these style developments had grow to be fairly conventional.\n\nDressage was launched in France in the late nineteenth century by Louis Comfort Lindsay. This was the first rodeo to undertake dressage. The word, “fare” means “action” and due to this fact these traits promoted the usage of motion sports activities like horse riding, polo, shooting, cycling, running, golf, tennis, swimming, judo, surfing, and weightlifting. A couple of years later, these sports and different adventure sports activities took a major role within the rise of girls’s suffrage motion. The rise of those sports activities gave birth to the time period “fashions”.\n\n“Fashion” is a word that’s used very loosely, in accordance so far. It is often associated to the clothes or to the way of dressing. The actual development has been happening for centuries and nowadays it is sort of as ubiquitous as “tea-occasion”. There are trend tendencies according to tradition and age, in accordance with region and country.\n\nThe classical interval witnessed many style trends. Fashion for this interval was dominated by the ephemeral tendencies. These included jewellery, clothes, and accessory use. Among the items turned extra in style in the course of the renaissance period. Crucial characteristic is using jewels or gemstones.\n\nFollowing the Second World War, there was a decline in European fashion traits. It was a result of the restrictive measures implemented by the occupying forces. However, following the top of the struggle, issues began to alter. Clothing was one among the important thing options and shortly thereafter jewelry was connected to it. Jewelry became part of all the style traits.\n\nThe that means of the word “trend” has a unique meaning nowadays. Just a few decades ago, males’s vogue was a part of all the vogue. Men of all age groups adopted the styles that have been best suited for his or her age. Today, vogue for girls includes a significant a part of your entire trend business. The that means of the phrase “pattern” for ladies is completely different from that of men.\n\nTrends might be described as a common aspect of the vogue industry, which is necessary to be observed. A development can have varied impacts on the manufacturing prices and profitability. It is feasible to create cost-effective methods to watch the modifications in vogue trends by the usage of evaluation and pattern forecasting.\n\nThe which means of the time period “trend” for women can be described as an accepted tendency for a specific merchandise or design which usually lasts for a time period. It could also be a model new style development or a modification of an existing pattern. It is essential for any firm engaged within the fashion trends to investigate the changes within the vogue tendencies that are happening and to draw up the required methods to swimsuit the altering demands and tastes of the shoppers.\n\nThe meaning of the term “trend” for women and men is kind of comparable. They’re both required to grasp the modifications taking place in the vogue traits. There are many ways to investigate and predict the future developments. For example, fashionable films and different types of entertainment often comment on the present trend developments. Fashion reveals are another widespread medium of analyzing and predicting the future developments. It is crucial for corporations engaged within the business of manufacturing shopper goods to analyze and predict the changing trend trends.\n\nTrends are continuously evolving and altering consequently of fixing tastes and desires. As an example in the sphere of automobiles, it is essential for vehicle manufacturers to develop new designs and new methods for attracting the mass market. The evaluation of the current fashion trends can provide the idea for designing new merchandise in a way that the product meets the expectations of the market. 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+{"content": "Tools and Artifacts\n\nDNNF: Deep Neural Network Falsification\n\nDNNF is a tool for applying falsification methods such as adversarial attacks to the checking of DNN correctness problems. Adversarial attacks provide a powerful repertoire of scalable algorithms for property falsification. DNNF leverages these techniques by employing reductions to automatically transform correctness problems into equivalent sets of adversarial robustness problems, to which these attacks can then be applied.\n\nLinks: [Github] [Documentation] [Video]\n\nDNNV: Deep Neural Network Verification\n\nDNNV is a framework for verifying deep neural networks (DNN). DNN verification takes in a neural network, and a property over that network, and checks whether the property is true, or false. DNNV standardizes the network and property input formats to enable multiple verification tools to run on a single network and property. This facilitates both verifier comparison, and artifact re-use.\n\nLinks: [Github] [Documentation] [Video demo]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998850226402283}
+{"content": "Präsenz/Presence → Design DepartmentHMKW Berlin\n\nApps of Crisis\nBA Grafikdesign und Visuelle Kommunikation 12d/13k/14 × Prof. Rasmus Giesel\n\nTimofey Katerinko\n\n\nThe mobilization of a backup in a time when cracks show show in the foundation of the essential workforce was the basis of the concept of NewOrder. Instead of blandness the students chose to target their peers with a bold language and brand essence that went way beyond a job portal. (Group project)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993963837623596}
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+{"content": "Become an eChai Member\nYou’re reading an eChai Interview, an insightful and candid conversation with Entrepreneurs — a publication of eChai Ventures.\n\nCricHeroes - The Cricket Network\n\nWhat is CricHeroes?\n\nCricHeroes is an app for the local passionate cricketers of the world. It allows you to score your local cricket match and broadcast scores online just like an International match.\n\nTell us more about your team ?\n\nAbhishek Desai:\n\n- More than 25 years of experience playing amateur cricket!\n- More than 12 years of experience building technology products.\n- Computer Engineer, Product Manager and Co-Founder of DIGICORP\n- Former College Cricket Captain and active cricketer for life.\n\nMeet Shah:\n\n- Professional Cricket Player\n- Played for Gujarat Under-23\n- CCO of CricHeroes\n- Active cricketer for life\n\n\n- Stakeholder and Technology Partner.\n- Building technology products for startups and companies since 2004.\n- Team of 75 people consisting of Developers, Designers, Product Managers, QAs.\n- Offices in India and USA.\n\nHow did you come up with the idea ?​​\n\nCricHeroes was born out of a personal struggle. We are a bunch of passionate cricketers, who play cricket every weekend. We call our little club SVCC i.e. Spring Valley Cricket Club. \n\nNow after finishing a day’s play, we sit together and discuss that day’s games. The discussions inevitably become very passionate. In Cricket, stats are everything. Without stats, most of the discussions are empty talks. Amazingly people do remember many stats but they possibly can’t remember it all. \n\nSo one day, this idea struck, why don’t we start scoring our matches to identify real heroes of the game. When I thought over it more, I realised that this is a pain point for many such local cricketers like myself. That became a start of what is known as CricHeroes today.\n\nWhat problem are you solving ?\n\n- Most of the non-BCCI matches in India are still recorded on paper. There is an immense opportunity to create a digital platform to replace paper-based processes here.\n\n- Since scores are kept on paper and in many cases not at all, large amount of data is lost every single day (and thus unrecognised talent) at amateur cricket level.\n\n- Fame comes easily to International Cricketers but not to amateur cricketers (> 50m), who are the real heroes of the game.\n\n- Hundreds of local cricket matches get played every single day all around the world and there are millions of local cricketers sharing same passion but there is not a single platform connecting them all.\n\nHow does it work ?\n\nCricHeroes provide extremely powerful but very easy to use scorekeeping app for everyone on major mobile platforms.\n\nApp works for individual matches as well for tournaments. Each recorded match has a professional-grade scorecard with all the required graphs and stats.\n\nIt builds a network on top of all data (teams, players, matches, tournaments, scores, etc.).\n\nIt recognises heroes of the matches / tournaments and give them ability to share those achievements in their social settings.\n\nIt generates Cricket Profile of each cricketer automatically.\n\nIt provides updates / news of local cricket. Promote the culture of sport in society.\n\nIt allows cricketers to share photos, videos and updates about their matches to the world.\n\nIt allows teams to follow and arrange matches with other local teams.\n\nWhat is your target market ?\n\nLocal cricketers and Local Cricket Tournaments of India and the world. \n\nWhat is your competitive advantage ?\n\n- All competitive solutions are positioned as just Scorekeeping apps. Most of them have been created by individual developers for fun.\n\n- None of them wants to leverage the data they have collected and build a large network of amateur cricketers i.e. no larger vision.\n\n- Popular solutions like is having too much functional-debt now, which will be harder to overcome in foreseeable future.\n\n- Platforms like CricBuzz and CricInfo are mainly for professional cricketers. Nobody is thinking of local amateur cricket which is far larger than professional cricket.\n\n- It is an ideal platform for talent hunters for tournaments like IPL.\n\nHow much time did it take you from conceptualization of 'your venture' to actually launching it in the market ?\n\n4 months\n\nHow do you plan to market your product? What are your customer acquisition strategies ?\n\nPlanning to cover as many tournaments as possible in Ahmedabad first. We have naturally grown to other cities like Surat, Jaipur, Mumbai and even Madurai.\n\nWe are relying heavily on word of mouth to acquire new customers (i.e. tournaments and players) as of now. Also doing touch base with our existing contacts in Mumbai and other cities. Would like to exploit these two strategies as much as possible before jumping on to costly alternatives.\n\nWhat is the revenue model ?\n\n- We are creating a large network of passionate cricketers. Contextual ads can be an obvious revenue stream.\n\n- Create various marketplaces like selling and buying cricket equipments, customised t-shirts, booking grounds, etc.\n\n- By selling the white label package to schools, colleges, clubs, tournament organisers and associations. They get their special page on the CricHeroes platform and additional features such as download scores, manage matches etc. \n\nWhat do you want to achieve from this? What is your larger goal or vision ?\n\nWe want to recognise the real HEROES of the game of Cricket, who according to us are the Local Cricketers. They don’t play cricket for any money or fame but for the love of the game and they play with equal if not more passion. I believe it is our duty to recognise and reward them.\n\nWe also want to create a “culture of sports” in India around local sports and cricket is just a start.  \n\nWhat sort of support and feedback are you looking from the community ?\n\nI really want eChai community to help me spread the word. As CricHeroes is free for players and tournament organisers, there is no reason for them to not use it.\n\nI also want the community to give me feedback to improvise the product. Please visit or download apps to know more.\n\nShare feedback Or Ask questions Or Discuss\nSign in to comment\nJatin Chaudhary @jatin10\n\n@Abhishek - How you were able to get early traction for CricHeroes?\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\nHey Guys,\nSorry for delayed replies. Somehow didn't get email notifications.\n\n@Jatin10 - We scored Gujarat Inter College Tournament in Oct 2016 and word started spreading from there onwards. We scored the tournament for free so there was nothing to lose for the organisers. We incurred some cost but it was worth to get that initial traction and validation of product. So far most of the growth is via word of mouth only.\n\nNeel Shah @neelnshah\n\nWhile it's an in-house product, what would be the estimated cost of developing the same..?\n\nFree scoring for now means zero revenue... What's the burn rate and what keeps you afloat?\n\nDo you plan to develop a similar product for other sports? The same name might not apply...\n\nAvailable across India or in specific cities?\n\nLike school erp models, the difficulty is to get users to use a new medium and technology... How do you ensure that?\n\nWhat if one creates a profile and keeps uploading score every Sunday? Is it all gully matches or only specific tournaments that can be scored on the app...\n\nTo share my stats, does one need to have the app or there's a website too?\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\n@neelnshah Let me answer one by one :)\n\n\nA. Well, it is not an inhouse product. CricHeroes was a separate venture from day one and paid Digicorp for its services! The development is a continuous process and can't attach cost to any particular module. So far we have spent > INR 50L in development.\n\nQ. Free scoring for now means zero revenue... What's the burn rate and what keeps you afloat?\n\nA. Average burn rate is around 5-6L a month as of now not considering the marketing cost. We have private investment to keep us afloat for some more time and now looking for more.\n\n\nA. Not in near future.\n\nQ. Available across India or in specific cities?\n\nA. Across India and some other countries too.\n\n\nA. The inherent value of the product is very strong. Not only it has multiple benefits over paper-based scorekeeping but it is 10x easier to use as well. So early adoption is slightly easier for us.\n\nI have explained this in some detail in following article.\n\n\nA. More than 95% of all our matches are tournament matches. That means they are legitimate matches done with proper scoring. Apart from private tournaments, we have GCA (Gujarat), BCA (Baroda), SCA (Saurashtra) and MCA (Maharashtra) official matches as well now on our platform.\n\nQ. To share my stats, does one need to have the app or there's a website too?\n\nA. There is a website and you can see and share your cricket profile from there. Here is one as an example.\n\nMihir Parmar @Mihir3031\n\nHow you ensure that the data in profile of user on CricHeroes is not fake?\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\n@Mihir3009 Most of the matches scored on CricHeroes are tournament matches scored by an authorised scorer. That provides them credibility.\n\nIndividual Matches - we keep scanning them every single day every hour to make sure they are not practice matches. We have also created some algorithms to help us find fake matches quickly.\n\nHanuj Tilwani @hanuj_t\n\nHow are you promoting yourself in the market these days?\nWhich would be the best marketing medium for your product according to you?\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\n@hanuj_t Trying following traction channels for the same\n\nViral Marketing - Building some inherent viral features to get organic growth.\n\nSocial Ads / SEM - Spending some amount every month on Google, FB, Twitter and Instagram for paid acquisitions.\n\nSearch Engine Optimization - The website is extremely SEO friendly and getting us good traction organically.\n\nBusiness Development - Tie ups with associations like GCA, BCA, MCA and SCA are helping us a lot to increase credibility in the market.\n\nSales - Approaching tournament organisers directly in various regions by cold calling.\n\nStill figuring out the core channel based on data we gather from above channels!\n\nI recommend reading the book \"Traction\" for understanding above better.\n\nAditya Dave @aditya-dave\n\nIf Cricbuzz enters the same market segment in short time than what USP would you have to excel in the competition\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\nWe are working on the engagement features now as scoring part if pretty much mature. The strong network effect in next 3-4 months will be our moat against the competition.\n\nnitin tyagi @nitin-tyagi\n\nHi Abhishek,\n\nFirst of all thank you so much for providing us( On behalf of all Cricketers) a platform to showcase our talent, specially to our parents (Pun Intended).\n\nI was just curious and wanted to know more about Cric heroes as few years back, I was also thinking to start my own app related to sports but due to some personal challenges was not able to proceed further. I Tried connecting you over LinkedIn & Twitter and also searched you on Insta :D.\n\nSo my question\n1. How cricheroes is generating revenue as most of modules are free for users?\n2. Which are the best performing region and your future plan to promote CricHeroes?\n\n\nAbhishek Desai @abhishekdesai\n\nHey Nitin, so sorry for the delay in getting back. I didn't get notification for this comment.\n\nYou can connect to me over twitter @abhishekdesai or\n\nWe are generating revenue from tournament organisers and players right now. It's a freemium model so we give bunch of features for free and charge for certain advanced features. Visiting our website may give you some idea about those features.\n\nLet me know if I can be of any more help.\n\nJatin Chaudhary @jatin10\n\nHow did you get the early customer for your startup?\n\nKrishna Shah @KrishnaChoksi\n\nHave you changed any strategies during Covid-19 pandemic?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6536413431167603}
+{"content": "Uncomplicated Definition Essays Plans – What’s Needed\n\ntoday15. Dezember 2020\n\nshare close\n\nDefinition essays provide more than the dictionary definition. The following step is working with literature sources. Attempt to find as many dictionaries as you possibly can and discover a chosen word there. Write down all variations in definitions. Do not forget to say the synonyms, antonyms, and origins of a phrase. Origins needs to be seemed for in varied encyclopedias. Try Critical Analysis Essay to understand how the word’s that means and vacation spot have been modified through the years. Typically it is a good approach to seek out words with the identical root in different associated languages (Scandinavian, German, Danish for the English language). Watch if a that means has changed during adoption.\n\nAsk someone to let you know what worries them, what concept they wish to understand. If it would curiosity you, you can also make a research on this idea and write your definition essay. Furthermore, the truth that it’s important to present your definition to your shut person will drive you to do it even better.\n\nCore Criteria Of Define Essay Described\n\nPhysique Paragraph 1: Historical past and Origin of the Word. Explain why you suppose the teams defined the phrase that method. Conclusion: Rephrase the thesis statement and make a larger statement about the time period in your conclusion. This type of paper includes writing a proper Critical Analysis Essay Outline clarification of 1 particular word. It is important to observe that that is an essay, which implies you most likely cannot choose a simple term that may be described in just a few words.\n\nA definition essay is a sort of a tutorial writing paper, which takes minimal half of a page and appears much like an in depth dictionary explanation however a bit more prolonged. It’s not so sophisticated as it may appear at first sight but my link if you happen to really feel that it is onerous for you or you’re restricted in time, chances are you’ll get a assist from skilled writers on any sorts of assignments, any subjects.\n\nShow the essay to others for suggestions. Get buddies, peers, and members of the family to learn the essay. Ask them in case your definition of the word is evident and simple How To Write A Critical Analysis to observe. Pose questions about whether your points appear properly supported and effectively developed within the essay.\n\nHave a say: you definitely have some life experience and specific social and cultural background. That`s why it`s vital to choose an idea for your definition essay that pursuits you and you’ve got experienced it. This Critical Analysis Essay can make the writing of definition essay simpler. Write how you understand the that means of the phrase and what factors made you percept it in such method. Share your information and primarily based on it give your personal definition.\n\nDeciding Upon Swift Products For Define Essay\n\nAfter a specific matter is chosen, it is essential to conduct research. No less than three reputable sources are needed reminiscent of encyclopedia articles or books on the subject. Once the author of the essay feels confident in understanding the topic, it’s essential to type a thesis assertion. The thesis statement introduces the topic Critical Analysis Essay Outline, offers a very transient definition, corresponding to that found in a dictionary, and can also present a cause why the subject is being defined in the essay. Once a stable thesis is written, an overview must be compiled with all of the facts to be included in the essay.\n\nProlonged definition essay topics enable the writer to utterly outline and explain the which means of a subject in their very own phrases. When writing an extended definition essay, it’s best to give examples and experiences related to the subject to emphasise its that means.\n\nGeschrieben von: Megabyte\n\nRate it\n\nVorheriger Beitrag\n\n\nLengthy Sleeping American Sleep Affiliation\n\nEven calm actions like puzzles or an grownup coloring guide could cause your mind to affiliate the mattress with actions that you pursue while awake, which can affect your capability to drift off at evening. Research signifies that a couple of quarter of menopausal women have sleep problems extreme sufficient to influence their capability to operate through the day. You’ve heard time and time again to show off electronics an hour or so earlier than mattress because these devices emit […]\n\ntoday15. Dezember 2020\n\nÄhnliche Beiträge\n\n\nБренд Мистер Бит – топовые симуляторы\n\n\ntoday14. Juni 2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6477572321891785}
+{"content": "Jul 04, 2020\n\nThe composite key (if I am understanding it correctly) is the Master Password. I had a serious problem with my Window's user profile. Without getting into that story, I decided to reset my PC. All my files are in tact. However, for whatever reason I can't open my keepass database. Keeps saying composite key is invalid. KeePass.exe runs the KeePass Password Safe program. This is not a critical Windows component and is safe to remove or disable. KeePass Password Safe is a free software for securely storing password. The program uses encryption and a master password which may be combined with a key file in order to protect the stored passwords. KeePass, why and how to use it effectively. Almost every other month a major website announces that their user database has been hacked. As Lifehacker pointed out, KeePass would have helped you keep relatively safe in case of websites getting their user info stolen. May 21, 2020 · KeePass Password Safe stores passwords in encrypted database files that can only be unlocked by a master password or key file, or both. It's open-source freeware that runs in Windows versions from\n\nNov 19, 2018\n\nLet KeePass create the key-disk and thus the key-file You can also make KeePass to create the key-disk for you. This way, KeePass will create a file pwsafe.key on the disk you specify. Select the key-disk drive. Screenshot below shows we have selected USB drive G: as key-disk to store the key-file… Documentation and FAQ - KeePassXC KeePass is a very proven and feature-rich password manager and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with it. However, it is written in C# and therefore requires Microsoft's .NET platform. A key file is a file containing random bytes that can be added to your master key for additional security.\n\nKeePass Password Safe - Free download and software reviews\n\nAssuming you have a strong password to open the file, you may assume the KeePass file is rather safe (also see the tip of @gertvdijk at the bottom), however: If the time to attempt to hack the file is unlimited, everything can be hacked A location that is (potentially) publically accessible to others is not a good idea, Dropbox or other clouds Using KeePass to serve SSH keys - Mendhak / Code Jul 28, 2019 KeePass | Yubico KeePass is a light-weight and easy-to-use open source password manager compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and mobile devices with USB ports. KeePass enables users to store passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which can only be unlocked with one master password and/or a key file. KeePass Reviews 2020 - Capterra Pros: I can store my keepass file on the cloud meaning I can access my passwords from anywhere. The password generator is a great tool as I can generate extremely strong password or pass phrases and then store them without having to remember. but you can also have a key file or link access to your Windows account. - Built-in password", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9602566361427307}
+{"content": "What is Affinity Fraud?\n\nAt the beginning of Side 3 of Grand Funk Railroad’s 1970 Live Album, Mark Farner shirtlessly tells the audience this (edited for clarity):\n\nBrothers and sisters, there people out there that look just like you, or maybe your brother…but they’re not. And when they hand you something, don’t take it. Don’t take it, okay?\n\nNow, Mark was referring to the kind of party supplies that might circulate at a rock concert in 1970, but he also could have been talking about affinity fraud almost fifty years later.\n\nAffinity fraud targets people who are members of a group, and uses that group identity to lure victims into the scam. Some of the most common targets are religious groups or church members, people with a shared ethnicity, or those who have served in the military. The con artist will be a member of the targeted group, or will claim to be, and attempt to recruit others to help bring in more victims.\n\nGenerally, these scams take the form of phony investments or Ponzi schemes.\n\nThere are a variety of ways to identify affinity fraud. Here are a few things to look for:\n\nIs the person offering the investment using membership in your group as his “in?”\n\nA shared identity can be a great way to build community, but remember that the human tendency to trust those we see as similar to ourselves can be used against us. Just because someone claims to be a member of your group doesn’t mean they are. There is no physical barrier to lying; “I’m the same as you” can be uttered by anyone, whether it’s true or not.\n\nAre the investment materials (brochures, flyers, etc.) filled with symbols or phrases familiar to your group?\n\nA con artist targeting members of a church might festoon his written information with symbols or scripture (some even go so far as to imply that the “opportunity” has been sent from above). On the other hand, a scammer going after veterans might use flags, ribbons or eagles. Humans are emotional, and we respond strongly to symbols, but be cautious around any kind of investment offer that seems to be hitting those symbols a little too hard.\n\n Are the promised returns extremely high, or is the investment presented as guaranteed or having little-to-no risk?\n\nReal investments carry risk. There is always a non-zero chance you will lose some or all of your initial investment. An investment presented as “risk-free” or “guaranteed” is always going to turn out to be a scam, because that’s not how investing works. Any investment promising double-digit returns is to be taken with a grain of salt.\n\nDo the returns hinge on you recruiting others into the fold?\n\nThat’s a Ponzi scheme. You will lose all of your money.\n\nIs the broker licensed to sell investments?\n\nNever invest through an unlicensed broker. Whatever your (or your group’s) opinion of regulations, licensing requirements, or government in general, anyone selling investments without a license to do so is breaking the law. What other laws is this person willing to break? What about the ones that make stealing illegal? And don’t fall for excuses like, “I’m not licensed because the government doesn’t want your group to have access to this amazing opportunity,” either. That’s just someone stoking your emotions to goad you into action.\n\nThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a nice PDF available for download that goes into more detail about affinity fraud and how to report it to the SEC.\n\n(However, it doesn’t contain a single reference to Grand Funk Railroad. You gotta read my articles for those.)\n\nOne Easy Rule for Avoiding Investment Fraud\n\nI read about a phony investment scam recently. This one didn’t even have the sophistication of a pyramid or Ponzi scheme. The pitch basically consisted of this: “Give us $800 now, and later you’ll get up to $3,000 for being an early investor.”\n\nI’m not even sure how much detail it went into beyond that.\n\nAnd sure, it’s easy to spot such an obvious scam…from the outside. But real people fell for it. There was something about the approach that sounded appealing and legitimate. I say it all the time: nobody is 100% immune to fraud.\n\nStill, I wasn’t going to write a whole article about this particular scheme because there really wasn’t anything to write about, but it did make me think, “Is there some kind of basic rule that people can use to filter out schemes like this?” The victims were approached with an (alleged) investment opportunity that sounded good, sent their money, and never got a dime back.\n\nAnd there it was: they were approached.\n\nThey weren’t looking for something to invest in. Somebody approached the victims, out of the blue, with the promise of large, guaranteed returns.\n\nLarge, guaranteed returns are suspicious enough, but think about how investing really works in the real world: unless you’re a venture capitalist, nobody is ever going to simply approach you out of nowhere with something to invest in. If you want to invest for profit, you’ve got to find your own opportunities. You can hire a firm to help, or strike out on your own, but there’s never really been a case where, “Hey stranger, give me money and I guarantee you’ll get all of it back, many times over, in return” has turned out to be a legitimate offer. People don’t just share money with strangers. They don’t even share it with friends most of the time.\n\nSo here’s your one easy rule:\n\nBe very suspicious of any investment opportunity where you did not initiate contact.\n\nThis touches on affinity fraud, too, where someone will use shared membership in a group to build trust in order to sell fraudulent investments. This often happens in churches, where a member of a congregation will present materials relating to an investment that later turns out to be nothing more than a scam.\n\nYou can ask other questions, too. Is the person selling this investment licensed to do so? Does the offer make sense vis-à-vis how the world actually functions? Why are you, of all people, being given this opportunity? Are the promises being made just a little too amazing? Is the seller hitting the “I’m just like you” note a little too hard? Is there a shadowy, mysterious “they” that supposedly doesn’t want you to know about the investment? Are they talking about “guaranteed” returns?\n\nAll of these questions can help you filter out an investment scam, but if you stop at the point a stranger is making a too-good-to-be-true offer, you can avoid fraud from the outset. It doesn’t apply to every case (because nothing applies to every case), but it’s a pretty good start. If someone is presenting an out-of-the blue investment opportunity, that’s your first red flag.\n\nTell Your Parents: seniors lose $36 billion every year to financial fraud\n\nimage-criminal-fraud-01Jerry Seinfeld used to do a great bit about aging. The not-very-funny paraphrased version for our purposes today is that, when people get older, everything gets smaller—the meals, the houses, their bodies. Everything except the car, which just get bigger.\n\nBut there’s another thing that gets bigger as we get older, too: the target painted on our backs. The elderly lose an estimated $36.4 billion every year to fraud. That’s the size of entire sectors of the U.S. economy.\n\nCNBC ran a story on the subject recently, and it’s worth a read. The important thing is to stay involved in your parents’ lives and talk to them about the realities of financial fraud and the fact that they will be seen as marks simply because of their age.\n\nGreasy telemarketers, lottery scams, the old “grandchild in danger” telephone scam, get-rich-quick schemes (Iraqi dinar and Vietnamese dong currency peddlers, I’m looking at you), phony investments and affinity fraud (where the scammer uses affiliation with a church or other organization to appear trustworthy)—all of these target the elderly. It’s important to talk to your older family members and friends about the dangers, and take action where needed.\n\nAdditional resources are listed below:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7010736465454102}
+{"content": "Liam James Collins: Breaking Free From Limiting Beliefs Is the Key to a Meaningful Life\n\n·3-min read\n\nWhat would you do if you had unlimited courage? What would you be doing instead?\n\nAlso Read | Shamus Goss: Celebrating His Success by Giving Back to the Local Community\n\nStanding in the way of us pursuing what we truly want is often our limiting beliefs. These beliefs we have either developed during our childhood, or in more recent years that give us a distorted view on our reality.\n\nAccording to Liam James Collins, co-founder of The Coaching Masters, an online academy that trains and accredits other life coaches worldwide, breaking free from limiting beliefs not only makes us better entrepreneurs and leaders, it also allows us to create a rich and meaningful life.\n\nAlso Read | How the Dr Jose Ramirez Method Is Changing the Way Patients View Oral Health\n\nBring awareness to your limiting beliefs in order to transcend them\n\nWe all have limiting beliefs, however once we bring awareness to them and understand how they are limiting our progress, we can move forward to break them down and replace them with empowering beliefs.\n\nLiam uses a 6-stage process when helping people break free of their limiting beliefs: identifying the limiting beliefs, recognizing that it is just a belief, challenging your own belief, recognizing the damaging consequences, adopting a new belief, and finally putting this new belief into practice.\n\n“To progress to a state of success, we must break down limiting beliefs. One significant thing to note here is that beliefs are very strongly held opinions. They are not facts. This is because they are not true for everyone, even though they may be true for us.” shares Liam.\n\nChallenging your limiting beliefs is the most critical step\n\nLiam identifies the stage of challenging our limiting belief as one of the most critical steps in our journey as an entrepreneur. “Beliefs are only strong if they are built upon a foundation of truth, and we want to disturb and disrupt this foundation by casting doubt over the truth.”\n\nThe reason why this stage is one of the most challenging is because as humans we crave certainty. Often this means an unwillingness to accept beliefs as simply opinions, rather than truths.\n\nEmpowering beliefs vs. limiting beliefs\n\nEmpowering beliefs are beliefs we have about ourselves that are positive and accurate. These beliefs help us move swiftly and easily towards success, happiness and fulfilment as we take positive action more easily.\n\nLimiting beliefs on the other hand are things we believe to be true, however they hold us back and keep us feeling stuck. They often have us feeling powerless and unable to take positive action.\n\nLiam explains “We all have limiting beliefs. However, we can break them down and replace them with something a lot more empowering. This is a vital thing to do because our limiting beliefs are the number one barrier that stands between us and taking the necessary action to be successful.”\n\nOnce entrepreneurs bring awareness to their limiting beliefs and go on to transcend them, they become unstoppable and go on to pursue unlimited opportunities. These same tips have helped Liam build a multiple 7-figure coaching business, the Coaching Masters, of which he also teaches his students enrolled in The Coaching Masters programs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999740123748779}
+{"content": "Morgan Stanley\n\nMorgan Stanley is more than a leading financial services firm. With offices spanning 43 countries and talented, passionate people bringing excellence and integrity to everything we do, the firm is truly global. Throughout the firm’s history, diverse and talented individuals have worked together to develop our new ideas and ground-breaking financial products for the benefit of clients.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998830556869507}
+{"content": "Go Back\n\nKey #4 for successful ePRO selection in your ophthalmology clinical trial: Consider the method of ePRO administration\n\nPROs in ophthalmology trials can either be self-administered by the patient or the responses can be collected through an interview, administered by the investigator or site personnel. They both present advantages and drawbacks that can affect the responses provided by the patients.\n\nSelf- administered ePRO presents the following advantages:\n\n  • Prevents interview bias and avoids the need for additional training for interviewers.\n  • There is less coordination required, as patients may complete the questionnaires on their own time and do not require any specific appointment to be made. It allows for patient autonomy.\n  • For aspects that explore satisfaction or personal feelings, self-administration allows for more privacy compared to an interview setting.\n\nPROs for patients participating in ophthalmic trials may necessitate an interview mode because of potential visibility limitations. If the population skews more elderly, there may be additional dexterity limitations or technology difficulties. However, there are limitations with using an interview mode that include:\n\n  • The Interview bias that may impact the validity of the data. The presence of an interviewer can be distracting to respondents, or interviewers can vary in their ability to appear or sound neutral, listen, aid recall, and to record responses. Careful training and monitoring of interviewers can minimize this, but completely removing this bias is difficult.\n  • As interviews involve social interaction with another person, it can lead to respondents taking social norms into account when responding, resulting in potential social desirability bias (the desire of respondents to present themselves in the best possible light). This can result in the over-reporting of desirable behaviors, and under-reporting of undesirable behaviors.\n  • Interview requires standardization of the interview process and additional training for the interviewer may be required, which will need to be anticipated in the study timelines and budget.\n\nInterviews do have some advantages over self-administration such as interviewers can control the order of the questions administered, while patients may change the order and adjust their response accordingly in self-administration. Also, an interviewer can re-direct respondents back to the topic of relevance if they stray off it, probe to elicit relevant information, and utilize a range of techniques to prompt memory, while in the self-administration setting the respondent alone has to judge whether the information they have recalled is relevant to the question, and how best to respond.\n\nSelecting the method of questionnaire administration should take into consideration what the preferred method would be for the patient, to encourage the most accurate responses, and how to reduce potential biasing effects. This must happen early in the questionnaire selection process, as it may have important implications in the research methodology and on the validity of the results of research.\n\nCeleste Sage, Clinical Project Manager @Kayentis\nEstelle Haenel, Medical Director @Kayentis\n\nDiscover more on successful ePRO selection in your ophthalmology clinical trial:\n\nFollow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our latest videos:\n\nLast update : 1 April 2020\n\nfollow us\n\nDownload our brochure", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8710392117500305}
+{"content": "NASA monitors a building-sized asteroid crossing the Earth’s orbit\n\nNASA monitors a building-sized asteroid crossing the Earth's orbit\n\nNASA detected an asteroid potentially approaching the Earth’s location. The said asteroid comes as big as a 100-foot tall building.\n\nNASA reported that it is currently monitoring an asteroid that could pass by the Earth’s location any moment now. The agency called named the space rock as 2020 JP2.\n\nNASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) handles the monitoring for the approaching asteroid. The center currently keeps details on the observed 2020 JP2 progress.\n\nDetails on 2020 JP2 asteroid\n\nResearchers from the center describe the approaching asteroid to be 102 feet in diameter. The center safely described 2020 JP2 as an asteroid as big as a building.\n\nThe researchers added that the asteroid travels the Solar System with a speed of 19,000 miles per hour. It is traveling through a specific track of orbit around the solar system.\n\nUpon their study, the NASA CNEOS developed a diagram showing details about how the 2020 JP2 moves across the Solar System. Based on the diagram that the center created, the asteroid is traveling across an orbit that occupies a wide space within the Solar System.\n\nThe orbit that the asteroid moves across reaches as far as Mars’ location. 2020 JP2 orbit also brings the asteroid to the plane where Jupiter is located.\n\nAs the asteroid continues to travel along its orbit, it also crosses the path of the Earth. That is exactly what NASA currently monitors as based on its track, this time 2020 JP2 crosses the planet’s trajectory.\n\nAsteroid crossing Earth’s orbit not a risk\n\nHowever, NASA assured the public that the potential crossing of 2020 JP2 does not pose a serious risk. The agency stated that should the asteroid crosses the Earth; it will not reach the planet’s ground.\n\nThe asteroid could burn up upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere. The space rock is expected to explode mid-air and will not reach the planet’s ground.\n\n5 things you need to know about Asteroid 1998 OR2\n\nNASA also said that the 2020 JP2 is not big enough to create a damaging impact on the Earth. Yet the agency assured that based on the asteroid’s track, it has no chance to collide with the planet.\n\nNASA stated that the 2020 JP2 will cross the Earth’s orbit but at 2.8 million miles distance. That is equivalent to 0.02969 astronomical units.\n\nNASA did not release any update on the asteroid’s track. 2020 JP2 was expected to pass by the Earth’s trajectory yesterday. 2020 JP2 is likely to pass by the Earth’s path again on April 21, 2196. It will go at a 26 million miles distance which is equal to 0.28194 astronomical units.\n\nImage courtesy of urikyo33/Pixabay\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9997102618217468}
+{"content": "Connect with us\n\nEast Asia\n\nThree key steps in Kim Jong-un’s diplomacy\n\n\n\nNot long time ago, Kim Jong-un, the supreme leader of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), had been dubbed as the “little rocket man”, and DPRK was called the “rogue state” by the U.S. President Trump alongside some media in the West. Yet, now Kim suddenly becomes one of quite popular strong leaders in the world, though deep suspicion still exists. Accordingly, it is necessary to discuss the rationales behind Kim’s turnarounds from his “die-hard” pursuit for nuclear weapon to his recent vow for denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula. Three statements are clearly seen as the essential departures which are actually the key to understanding of Kim’s diplomacy.\n\nFirst is Kim Jong-un’s New Year address. Spoken on Pyongyang TV in January 1st 2018, he held out a rare olive branch to his sibling but hostile South Korea, offering talks over sending a delegation to the Winter Olympics in February. Kim was unusually conciliatory in declaring his wish “for peaceful resolution with our southern border.” Yet, Kim was as tough as usual to warm Washington that North Korea’s nuclear ambitions were now complete and the launch button was “always on the desk in my office.”Although he stressed the nuclear weapons of DPRK can’t be negotiated away under any conditions, Kim at once added that the nuclear program was only for self-defense and serves to deter the U.S. from starting a military adventure.”\n\nTrue, Kim surprised the world when he said “North and South (Koreas) must work together to alleviate the tensions and work together as a people of the same heritage to find peace and stability.”When two Koreas marched under a united Korean flag into the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic, IOC President Thomas Bach delightedly declared “the Games can send a powerful message of peace to the world.”\n\nOf course, we can’t expect that Kim made a turnaround overnight in his foreign policy and security concerns. The peaceful result of the Winter Olympic did make contributions to the peace and harmony of the Korean Peninsula and East Asia. Second is more significant as during March 25-28, Kim made an informal visit to Beijing where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping, followed by a series of secret talks. According to China’s news release, Xi and Kim reached the consensus that the traditional friendship between the two sides has been established personally and cultivated meticulously by the elder generations of leaders of both parties. Kim admitted that it is a strategic choice of the DPRK to continue and sincerely develop friendship with China under the new situation, and it will remain unchanged under any circumstances.\n\nIn a response to Xi’s call for the final denuclearization of the Peninsula, Kim stated that it was the DPRK’s consistent stand to be committed to the realization of denuclearization on the Peninsula, which was in accordance with the will of his grandfather Kim Il-sung and late his father Kim Jong-il. In light of this, the DPRK is determined to transform the DPRK-ROK relations into a relationship of reconciliation and cooperation and hold summit between the heads of the two sides. He even promises that the DPRK will have dialogue with the United States and hold a summit between the heads of the two countries. If the ROK and the US respond to the DPRK’s efforts with goodwill, and create an atmosphere of peace and stability while taking periodical and synchronous measures for the realization of peace, the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved. In short, the DPRK would like to enhance strategic dialogues with China during the process with a view to jointly safeguarding the peace and stability on the Peninsula.\n\nThird and equally important is Kim’s address on April 20that the 3rd Plenary Session of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK. He declared that the DPRK has decided to stop nuclear and missile tests, make all-out efforts to develop economy and improve people’s livelihood. China immediately welcomes the decision made by the DPRK and insists on achieving the denuclearization of the Peninsula as the established policy of Chinese government. In the meantime, China once again stressed that all relevant parties can join hands to take concrete actions and make their own efforts to achieve the lasting peace and common development of this region. It meant China will continue with its positive and impartial role to this end.\n\nNo doubt, Kim’s address on April 20 can be perceived as the historic turning point in DPRK’s version of economic reform and openness modeled on China’s inspiration. He went on calling for DPRK actively to have exchanges and regular dialogues with neighboring countries and international community as well. Although it is too early to say that Kim-Trump summit would lead to any specific results, we can expect that the two leaders of the DPRK and the United States would be able to seize the time and present their positive and constructive meetings to the world. In terms of the classical diplomacy, both the DPRK and the United States have demonstrated their keen interest in having negotiations with each other. As long as they persuade each other with necessary compromises, the positive end would come out.\n\n\nContinue Reading\n\nEast Asia\n\nTaiwan: The First and Oldest ‘Thorn’ between China and the West (part 2)\n\n\n\nIn the first part of the article, we noted Taiwan has returned as one of the thorniest issues in the US policy toward China under the Biden administration. Almost five months have passed but the new White House is yet to completely formulate its China policy framework. But as they say, the proof the pudding is in the eating. In April third week, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent to the Congress the US Strategic Relations Act of 2021 passed by 22-1 vote. The Act is filled with references to “closer US ties with Taiwan.” The Act, as expected, angered Beijing which accused Biden administration of hyping up the China threat theory.\n\n\nFearful of China attacking Taiwan anytime now, a leading US political news magazine recently pitied President Biden for he might become the first president to be thrust upon with the decision to go to war to defend Taiwan. “If a war breaks out over Taiwan, Biden may be forced into a decision no American president since 1979 has wanted to make,” the magazine observed. A similar concern was the focus of a Washington Post report within the first week of Biden coming to office, i.e., “the dragon has woken up and Washington should engage with it.” The newspapers’ national political correspondent Olivier Knox wrote: “President Biden hasn’t been in office for a full week, but already faces questions about one of his most solemn duties: when, why and under what circumstances he might send Americans into combat.”  \n\nIn fact, from the Trump era onwards the US mainstream media (MSM), the State Department and the Pentagon – all have been consistently building up pressure on the White House to provoke China and take action against “the dragon.” On its part, the White House has increasingly sent out signals “it is prepared to send military into situations where there is high probability of combat.” Dangerous yet true is overall consensus in the US for quite some time demanding “aggressive toughness” as against the so-called “cringing appeasement,” should China commit a “strategic miscalculation” in the SCS or in the Taiwan Strait. On the other hand, “wolf warrior” statements and periodic military-strike threat to Taiwan from Beijing have been only adding fuel to the fire.\n\nLet’s recall a short chronology of the US statements and actions over Taiwan in order to ratchet up pressure on Beijing. In part one of the article, we have noted two visits to Taiwan – both “first” since Sino-US normalization of ties in 1979 – by the Trump cabinets’ highest-level officials in September last year; ahead of the two visits, the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, had lunch with Taiwan’s top official in New York, James K. J. Lee. Craft-Lee meeting was described in a section of the US media as “historic” as it was the first time such a meeting took place since China seat at the UN was passed on from Taipei to Beijing in 1971.\n\nFurther, in last December, John Ratcliffe, the director of the US National Intelligence wrote in the WSJ: “As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president. If I could communicate one thing to the American people from this unique vantage point, it is that the People’s Republic of China is poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since WWII.” Ratcliffe’s article was described by some as aimed at “setting the scene for a post-Trump administration.”\n\nFor limitation of space, let me cut to the chase and fast forward to the latest of President Biden’s actions which tantamount to undermining the “One China” policy without openly challenging Beijing but increasing the risk of conflict. Last week, a Democrat and a Republican member of the House of Representatives together moved a bill which would rename Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) as Taiwan Representative Office. According to the bill, it is time for the State Department, for the Congress to take action to elevate relations with Taiwan. Remember, three months ago in March, a similar provocative step was taken by the US ambassador to the archipelago nation of Palau, John Hennessey-Niland. During his visit to Taiwan, a first in 42 years by a sitting envoy, he by mistake referred to Taiwan as “country.” Of course, no clarification or apology to China was offered. \n\nInterestingly, ever since the Carter administration normalized the US-China relations in 1979, on the issue of “One China” policy successive US administrations have all pursued a policy of strategic ambiguity(emphasis added). It has been an open secret and Beijing is not oblivious to the fact that the US understanding on “One China” policy is as good as fiction. Feeling helpless, Beijing so far has been compromising as long as the US does not cross China’s three Red Lines: Taiwan formally declaring independence; Taiwan acquiring nuclear weapon; an “outside power becoming too cozy” to Taiwan. John Culver, who served CIA for over three decades monitoring movements in the Taiwan Strait and retired last year, reckons “Beijing has made clear it has three ‘red lines’ that, if crossed, would see China go to war tomorrow.”\n\nPresident Biden and his “team China” have been relentlessly issuing statements in order to heighten tensions between the mainland and Taipei. As recently as in April, the Secretary of State Blinken dared Beijing by saying “it would be a serious mistake for anyone to try and change the existing status quo by force.” Without specifying when exactly the Chinese government is going to push reunification by force, Joseph Hwang, a professor at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan, said Beijing is waiting for an opportune time. The current lull is “is the quiet before the storm,” Hwang mulled over looking lost.\n\nInviting Taiwanese envoy to Biden swearing-in should not be viewed as one-off diplomatic move aimed at provoking China. Instead, and in fact, uninterrupted continuity in escalating tensions between China and the US even as Trump exited and Biden entered the White House on one hand, and China relentlessly mounting political, economic and military pressure on Taiwan, on the other hand, have turned the Taiwan Strait into potentially one of the most vulnerable military conflict hotspot. As an article in The Diplomat observed hours after Biden delivered his 100-days to the joint session of the Congress: “The Biden administration entered office at a critical inflection point for the United States. President Biden inherited a world order and in particular an Indo-Pacific region that is undergoing profound change with China’s rise and an ongoing geopolitical shift toward Asia. Within this broad expanse, the Taiwan Strait is increasingly a critical military flashpoint.”  \n\nFinally, the purpose of a series of top government officials’ visit to Taipei, top US diplomats referring to Taiwan as “country” by slip of tongue, for several months on continuing presence of the US naval aircraft carriers in SCS and in nearby waters closer to the Taiwan Strait, and the latest attempts to create vaccine “friction” across the Taiwan Strait – all these actions are gearing towards one common goal, i.e., to elevate US-Taiwan relations as Washington prepares for conflict with Beijing. As NIKKEI Asia reported it last month in its ‘Politics’ columns, headlined: “US vows to approach Taiwan with clarity and resolve.” The influential Asian political newsmagazine from Tokyo further stated: “A comprehensive American strategy on China under President Joe Biden’s administration is still in the works, but Washington has promised to approach Taiwan issue with ‘steadiness and clarity and resolve’.” \n\nThe US Senate Foreign Relations Committee sending a bipartisan bill to the Senate floor in April, sponsored by Senators Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Misch (R-Idaho) respectively, is being described by some critics in US as “the most important piece of legislation regarding US policy toward China in the Congress.” Implying it to be one of the most belligerent bills, Beijing’s China Global Television Network website condemned the bill as the US Congress “declaring Cold War on China.” Referring to Taiwan-related content in the bill, the CGTN said: “The bill contains several misleading statements about the US policy on China’s Taiwan region.” China’s official Xinhua news agency reported that the Act stipulates that the US government shall not place any restrictions on the ability of US officials to interact with Taiwan. The Xinhua cited Michael D Swaine, a scholar of China securities Studies, as saying: “the Act epitomizes the worst errors of the new Washington consensus on what a rising supposedly means for the United States and the world.”\n\nContinue Reading\n\nEast Asia\n\n\n\n\nOver three hundred and fifty years ago, when the West lost its first war with China over Taiwan, the technological level between the two sides was fairly even. But the Dutch, then the most dynamic colonial power, paid a heavy price for misbelieving “China might have invented gunpowder but we possess superior guns.” Today, the world is witnessing China’s rapid rise and the US is in decline. The question is, will Taiwan once again bust the Western (aka US) superiority myth?                                                                         \n\n\nIn 1662, the West fought its first war with China and lost. The Sino-Dutch War, as it is called now, was fought when a Chinese admiral dared the Dutch East India Company to give up its little under half century ‘rule’ over Taiwan. The defeat resulted in the island falling under Chinese rule for the first time in history. It is not so important to know it was China’s first great victory over Europe’s most dynamic colonial power. In the words of the Dutch historian, Tonio Andrade, what is more significant is the first Chinese victory over the West broke the myth of Western superiority as it had been achieved on the basis of “Chinese advantage in strategic and tactical culture.” (Emphasis added) The Chinese victory also broke another myth which the Western historians held on to until as recently as in 1970s, i.e., the Chinese might have invented the gunpowder but didn’t know how to use it as weapon, Andrade, the author  went on to add.\n\nFast forward to the present-day tensions in the Taiwan Strait. As China embarked on the path of Reform and Opening-up, relations between Beijing and Taipei too started improving in the early 1980s. Seen as a remarkable political development on both sides of the Taiwan Strait in 45 years, the KMT government in Taipei declared in 1991 “an end to the war with the People’s Republic of China on the mainland.” However, since the election of Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000, political headwinds in Taiwan have been moving in the opposite direction to Beijing. Alarmed by Chen’s backing of demands for Taiwan’s independence, Beijing was quick to pass anti-secession law a year after Chen was reelected in 2004.\n\nIn 2016, following Donald Trump’s victory in US and the victory of Ms. Tsai Ing-wen as Taiwan’s president respectively, Beijing’s fear of Taiwan declaring itself an independent country has reached unprecedented levels. In fact, Beijing is feeling seriously threatened by the US role in creating conditions for Taiwan to declare independence. Immediately upon assuming office, President Trump held telephone conversation with the Taiwan president – something which no other US had done in the preceding forty years. This was the beginning of a new trend in US-China relations and which grossly undermined the “One China” policy.\n\nDuring the past decade (between 2007 and 2019), the US warships made over one hundred trips through the Taiwan Strait. No wonder Beijing has been describing Taiwan as “the most important sensitive issue in Sino-US relations.” According to New Strait Times, in 2020, the year of Coronavirus pandemic, the cross-strait faced its worst crisis in the past two decades. Without denying that the PLA fighter planes crossed maritime border with Taiwan, China however dismissed Taipei’s claims of “incursions” by the mainland. Beijing even maintained its warplanes, bombers and anti-submarine aircrafts “conducted normal exercises on September 18 and 19 respectively and that the median line never existed.”\n\nHowever, according to experts, the median line is the unofficial airspace boundary between Taiwan and China, and was demarcated by US Air Force General Benjamin Davis Jr. in 1955, before the US pressured both sides to enter into a tacit agreement not to cross it. Media reports originating from Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore claimed the forty or more PLA incursions last October, were prompted by two US top officials visiting Taipei during August-September period last year. “U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach arrived in Taiwan on Thursday for the second visit by a high-level American official in two months. The first visit was by the US Health Secretary Alex Azar in August 2020.” The visits by Krach and Azar respectively were first highest-level US Cabinet visits to Taiwan – in gross violation of the US commitments to China – since the US switched formal relations from Taiwan to Beijing in 1979.\n\nThis year, especially within hours following President entered the White House, the new US administration lost no time in announcing “our commitment to Taiwan is rock-solid.” Two days earlier, the State Department invited and officially received Taiwan’s unofficial ambassador in Washington to Biden’s inauguration – the first envoy from the island present at a presidential swearing-in since 1979. Both the statement of commitment to Taiwan and the presence of Taiwanese envoy at the presidential inauguration respectively were interpreted by strategic affairs experts in Washington and Beijing as moves to provoke China towards making a strategic mistake leading to military conflict.\n\nFurther, Taiwan has returned as “thorniest” issue in US-China relations under President Biden – since perhaps it is easier to violate “One China” policy than to either rally European allies against China or to announce a decisive Washington position toward Beijing. As President Biden gears up to embark on his maiden in-person visit to shake hands or bump elbows with his European allies, the US administration has further escalated tensions over Taiwan. Last Sunday, a bipartisan contingent of three US Senators – Tammy Duckworth and Christopher Coons, both Democrats, and Dan Sullivan, a Republican – briefly visited Taiwan on a US military aircraft.  According to media reports, the Chinese Defense Ministry described the visit as “extremely vile provocation.” Reuters citing Chinese sources said China believes that “Biden administration is challenging one-China principle and trying to achieve the so-called goal of ‘using Taiwan to control’ China.” \n\nExperts in Beijing point out, Biden is accelerating the pitch of what started under Obama and was intensified by Trump, i.e., to use “the US economic and military might to pressure Beijing and force it to accept US hegemony in the region.” Elsewhere, first the joint statement following Biden-Suga summit in April and then in late May the statement released after the summit meeting between European leaders and Japan’s Prime Minister Suga, are being interpreted as “belligerent stances towards Beijing initiated and encouraged by President Biden.” The EU-Japan post-summit statement called for “peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.” Similar to several moves initiated by Trump and Biden challenging one-China policy, the EU-Suga joint statement too is the first time that Taiwan has been included in such a statement. \n\nA scholar in Tianjin, who writes a column for, the daily online Mandarin version of the Financial Times, thinks Biden has intensified the so-called Thucydides trap. In a recent article, he has actually put forward a solution for Beijing to not only avoid falling into the trap, but also steer clear of having to choose between using force to reunify with Taiwan and being forced into military conflict with the US by striking first. To sum up Li Yongning’s rather long thesis, he prescribes that China fight out Thucydides trap with economic growth and people’s prosperity. To prove his point, Li flashes the example of de-escalation of hostility between China and Japan. Remember until a few years ago, heightened tensions between the two over Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands. Of late, especially since the middle of Xi Jinping’s first five year tenure, belligerent provocations between Beijing and Tokyo have almost ceased.\n\nHow did China under Xi achieve this? According to Li, Xi’s strategy to strike peace and tranquility with Japan was simple and practical. “China’s GDP exceeded Japan’s in 2010 and by 2019 it became 2.8 times more than Japan’s, which put an end to Sino-Japan competitiveness. Likewise, once China achieves one and a half times or twice bigger GDP of the USA, the China-US competitiveness will be rendered as joke,” Li contended. In 2017, in PPP terms China had already exceeded the US economy. Li cited a Brookings Institution report which predicted China’s GDP will cross America’s in 2028. “Once China reaches there, higher GDP will act as shock absorber for all Sino-US conflicts,” Li wrote.\n\nContinue Reading\n\nEast Asia\n\nChina’s know-how on becoming the oldest society in the world\n\n\n\nchina bicycle\n\nFor decades, China had a “one-child policy” that permitted families to have only one child. A few years ago, this restriction was changed to a “two-child policy”, and now the Chinese government has allowed the Chinese people to give birth to three children.\n\nThe main reason for this is the concerningly low birth rate and the impending demographic crisis. China is still the country with the largest population (1.41 billion), but UN forecasts indicate that India will soon surpass it, since India has a much higher birth rate.\n\nStatistics show that last year approximately 12 million babies were born in China, which is the lowest birth rate China has had in many years. For instance, in 2016 when the “two-child policy” was implemented, the number of newborns reached 18 million.\n\nChinese demographers argue that it will be difficult for China to boost birth rate in the near future because the number of women in the reproductive age is decreasing. This was caused by China’s “one-child policy” that was in force from 1979 to 2015.\n\nChinese families could give birth only to one child, and many families chose to “spend” this quota on a boy, since in China boys have traditionally been valued more than girls. If a family were told they were expecting a girl, the mother would often decide to have an abortion.\n\nThis caused an unexpected outcome – the number of men exceeded the number of women. Although it was not allowed to find out the sex of the baby during pregnancy, there were several ways to do so which lead to numerous late abortions. That is why currently there is a disproportion between the number of men and women in the Chinese society.\n\nAs a result, modern China is overproducing men and is in a grave lack of women. Statistics indicate that there are 35 million more men than women – leaving many men with no chances of finding a spouse.\n\nMoreover, the beliefs and values of the Chinese people have also changed over the years, i.e. many women wish to pursue a career first and only then to establish a family. The recent years have seen a rapid decline in marriages in China.\n\nThese trends are particularly prevalent in Chinese cities, leading demographers to predict that the gap between the situation in cities and the situation in the countryside will only widen in the future – people in the countryside still prefer larger families, while city dwellers have a hard time giving birth to a single child.\n\n“Now, we are allowed to have three children. The problem, however, is that I don’t even want one child,” a user of the Chinese social media network Weibo wrote in his account.\n\nMany are asking the question – will the “three-child policy” change anything if the “two-child policy” wasn’t able to do so? That’s why people are happy about the government’s decision to provide other incentives and motivations in this regard.\n\nFor example, education costs – which were twice as high in two-children families – will be cut, people will see additional support on tax and housing issues and working women will be granted more rights. In addition, the government also has plans to educate young Chinese people on the issues of marriage and love – now, state propaganda will not only deal with shaming the West, but also teach people how to love correctly and “make children”.\n\nThis leads to believe that the Chinese government has taken quite a peculiar approach to identifying mistakes in their previous policies, but it isn’t truly admitting these mistakes – as is the case in all authoritarian regimes. If the previous plan fails, simply improve it a bit and relaunch it anew.\n\nThe “one-child policy” has led to one-and-a-half generation where there are six people from the non-working population for each person in the working population, i.e. the person’s parents and two sets of grandparents. This is the Chinese Communist Party’s know-how.\n\nContinue Reading", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6378108263015747}
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+{"content": "Who is Salvador Dali\n\nSalvador Dalí\n\n\"Every morning when I wake up, I experience the greatest joy: namely to be Salvador Dalí ...\" This egocentric statement came from the Catalan, who was addicted to fame and gold and had painted a lot and talked a lot. His favorite subject: How to become a genius. His conclusion: \"Oh Salvador, you know now, if you play the genius, then you will become one!\". His megalomania knew no bounds.\nSalvador Dalí is one of the most popular artists in the world, known for his decadent lifestyle, his mustache, his provocative attitudes and his bizarre, surrealist images.\n\nThe artist Salvador Dalí, his real name is Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, was born in Figueras (north of Catalonia) in 1904. His parents had given him the first name Salvador \"the savior\" because, in their opinion, he was chosen to be a savior of painting. The threat of abstract art or academic surrealism up to Dadaism and all other anarchies should be faded in with his art.\n\nSalvador Dali's childhood and adolescence\n\nHis parents adored him and read his every wish from his eyes. He was the absolute ruler of the house and a chronically spoiled child. 1921-1926 he studied at the Art Academy in Madrid. Until 1927 his works show the influence of French Cubism and Italian Futurism. He is also based on Dutch painting of the 17th century. In addition, Salvador Dalí deals intensively with Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis. In 1927 he painted \"Honey is sweeter than blood\", which heralded Dalí's development as a surrealist painter.\n\nDaydreams in school.\n\nDalí came from a family of storytellers who glossed over their origins to make an impression. Following the family tradition, Dalí designed his own mythology and decorated his childhood anew with color, intrigue and gloom. The school performance was rather poor because he preferred to deal with daydreams. When he was six he wanted to be a chef. With seven years Napoleon and finally he decided to become a genius in order to be admired in the world.\n\nAt the age of twenty, Dalí devoted himself to literature and devoured a large number of books, including the most important works of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. From then on, his pictures appeared to illustrate Freud's studies of psychoanalysis. Dalí did not have an innate style, rather he cultivated his own style, based on the nonconformism and sensitivity, both of which arose from his childish mind.\n\nDalí and the Surrealists\n\nIn 1928 Dalí was in Paris for the first time, where he was introduced to the circle of surrealists by his compatriot and also an important artist, Joan Miró. A year later, Dalí moved to Paris and established himself as the most important member of a surrealist artist group. The surrealists used painting as a means of expression for psychoanalytically founded theories. Dreamlike, unconscious, absurd and fantastic are characteristics of literary, visual and cinematic surrealism. By 1929, Dali had found his personal style that would make him famous - the world of the subconscious that is brought back during our dreams. Images of burning giraffes and melting clocks became Dali's trademark. His great technical ability allowed him to paint his pictures in an almost photorealistic style.\n\nThe paranoid-critical method created by Salvador Dalí represented the manipulation of conventional images either through breaking up or through decay. An equally important discovery added that what is known as \"paranoid\" or \"double images\" is, in Dalí's words, \"The Representation of an object which, without the slightest figurative or anatomical change, is at the same time the representation of another object. \" These ambiguous images are paintings like: The invisible man, the invisible man, The endless Enigma, the endless riddle, or the famous, soft clockwork in the painting called La persistencia de la memoria, the persistence of memory. He called it \"hand-painted dream photos\" in which hard objects become inexplicably limp and soft.\n\nSalvador Dalí in the USA\n\nIn 1933 Salvador Dali had his first solo exhibition in New York. A year later he visits the USA for the first time, the trip was made possible thanks to a loan of $ 500 from his friend Pablo Picasso. Dali spent the years of the Second World War permanently in the USA. There he had a number of spectacular exhibitions, including a large retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But he got even more media attention by playing the role of the surrealist clown. He earned a lot of money and therefore got the contemptuous nickname \"Avida Dollars\" (greedy for dollars). He became the darling of American high society and celebrities such as Jack Warner and Helena Rubinstein let him portray him. In addition to painting, he got involved in other activities such as the fashion designs he made for Coco Chanel or a film with Alfred Hitchcock.\n\nSalvador Dalí in Spain\n\nAfter Salvador Dalí returned to Spain in 1948, he turned mainly to religious and mythological subjects and thereby professed his belief in Catholicism. In the early 1970s, Dalí worked intensively on three-dimensional works and experimented with holographic collages. The feature that appears in almost all of Salvador Dalí's works is the beach and it has its origins in a Catalan fishing village called Cadaqués. This picturesque town, with facades in brilliant white, was an important source of inspiration for Dalí. His family spent there every summer and Dalí had been in love and infatuated with this place and its surroundings from a young age. It was kind of his childhood paradise. Cap de Creus is the name of the peninsula with the easternmost point of Spain, where the pretty town is to be found and depending on the time of day and sunlight, numerous animal figures, faces or other curious objects appear in the surrounding rocks by the sea. The rock is pierced by the north wind and looks like individual oversized, perforated pieces of cheese. Dalí saw the landscape as \"a grandiose geological delirium\". In 1929 he wanted to move to Cadaqués with his lover, but his father disagreed with this relationship and arguments, he contacted all local hoteliers in Cadaqués to ensure that none of them would rent a room to his son. For this reason, Dalí bought a small \"barraca\" (fisherman's hut) in 1930 near Portlligat, where he and Gala had lived for over 40 years. Today the house is accessible as a museum and the visitor gets a slight inkling of the wild, obsessive years Dalís in which he initiated private gazettes to give space to his hedonism.\n\nDalí and his muse Gala\n\nWith the Surrealists he met the Russian Elena Diakonova, better known as Gala. Gala became the longtime partner, muse, inspiration and obsession of the eccentric artist. From then on, Gala determined the life and work of Dalí, who allegedly had never been with a woman before and had a rather crooked relationship to sexuality. In 1935 the two married in a civil ceremony and then in church in 1958. Gala drove him on, regulated his business, and she taught Dali “how to get dressed and not lose your money all the time.” The master thanked him in his own way: in his paintings almost all of the female figures, Madonnas and even Jesus Christ carry them Facial features of Gala.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8285099267959595}
+{"content": "Triggr Health And The Digital Fight Against Addiction\n\nDrug addiction is similar to many other chronic diseases in that it can be treated, but relapse does happen. This doesn’t mean the treatment has failed, any more than an asthma attack in a patient treated for asthma means their treatment did not work — it simply means the treatment plan needs to be adjusted.\n\nTraditional treatments plans include either inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation and therapy, but new tools are emerging to help people who suffer from drug addiction to continue with their treatment and even prevent relapse. Can a smartphone app help prevent relapse?\n\nRecovery Requires Support\n\nDrug addiction doesn’t always start with hard drugs. In many cases, it starts simply with the abuse of prescription medications. Of the 75 million Americans who experience pain that requires medication every year, 8.5 million of them develop substance abuse problems due to their pain medication. The number of painkiller prescriptions has nearly tripled to 219 million over the last 20 years, and the number of substance abuse cases has risen accordingly.\n\nThe key to recovering from an addiction is constant and unyielding support from others, because the trigger that causes a relapse can sneak up on people. Programs like Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are designed to provide some of that support, by connecting individuals with a sponsor and bringing together like-minded individuals who are going through a similar recovery journey.\n\nThe problem with programs like these is that once a member leaves the meeting, often their only contact between sessions is their sponsor. The sponsor is a great source of support, but they are only one person, and a wider support base is necessary to facilitate recovery and prevent relapse.\n\nIntroducing Triggr Health\n\nTriggr Health is an app designed to specifically help individuals through their recovery journey. First, it tracks the days the user has been sober — providing an active updated count that allows each user to set personal goals.\n\nIt also connects users with recovery coaches, who can guide individual users through their toughest moments. Triggr encourages users to check in with the app every single day, and if more than a day has gone by between check-ins, the coaches will reach out.\n\nTriggr is unique in the growing world of health-related apps in that it doesn’t just encourage good behavior by creating accountability — it uses machine-learning algorithms to help predict behavior patterns. If a behavioral trend is detected that indicates a relapse could happen in the future, Triggr’s coaches can reach out to the individual or the patient’s external care team to alert them.\n\nThis app is the first in what could be a line of applications designed to encourage recovery by preventing relapse. The predictive algorithms help the app reach out when a user might need support, before they even realize they need it. The CEO of Triggr Health has designed the app to reproduce motherly intuition — that gut feeling that mothers get when they realize something is wrong with their children.\n\nSmartphones are a great way to stay connected with sponsors and support, but until now, they couldn’t tell you when you needed help the most.\n\nCurrently, more than two-thirds of adults in the United States own a smartphone. Medical apps that provide more than basic answers are still in their infancy, but apps like Triggr Health could potentially alter the way substance abuse recovery is handled. It will never be a replacement for traditional care, but when paired with therapy or inpatient/outpatient treatment, apps like Triggr could make it easier to recover from drug addiction.\n\nDownload Triggr for iOS (Free) or Android (Free).\n\n\nKayla Matthews\n\nKayla Matthews is a Pittsburgh-based tech writer contributing to MakeUseOf, The Gadget Flow and Smart Hustle. Follow her on Twitter to read her latest posts!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9215050339698792}
+{"content": "IQ and voter turnout\n\nThe hunt for some socially desirable attribute that correlates inversely with average IQ continues. Electoral participation didn’t strike me as a particularly promising candidate, but one entrusted with such an important task must leave no stone unturned, and so I continue to kick the rocks.\n\n\nSeveral sites simply report actual votes cast as a percentage of the voting-age population within a state. In the case of felons or the mentally incapacitated, that’s not too problematic–their numbers proxy well for the size of the double-digit IQ population, and they are distributed across the country roughly accordingly. But it is flawed because it doesn’t account for the presence of non-citizens. In a state like California, where more than one-fourth of the population is foreign-born, the state is artificially dropped near the very bottom in terms of voter turnout, which tells us little about the relationship between intelligence and how likely people who are able to vote actually are to vote.\n\n\nMcDonald gets around these problems by coming up with the size of each state’s voter-eligible population. He pulls the foreign-born, the incarcerated, the mentally ill (contingent upon law, as the rules vary from state to state), and half of those on parole (an estimate arrived at through reports from the Department of Justice) from a state’s total 18 and over population, then compares that figure to actual votes cast for the highest office in contention on the ballot.\n\nCrunching the numbers confirms the expected. Voter turnout as a percentage of the voter-eligible population and average IQ correlate at a statistically significant .65 (p<.000001) at the state level. Average IQ alone thus ‘explains’ 42% of a state’s voter turnout. That is a strong relationship for the social sciences. Put in another way, it suggests that for every one point increase a state’s average IQ, voter turnout should increase by nearly 4%. This brings to mind the words of Fredo Arias-King, adviser to former Mexican President Vicente Fox:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs Hispanics come to account for one-third of the total US population, which the Census now estimates will happen before mid-century, the country’s average IQ will decline from an estimated 97 or 98 today to between 93 and 95, similar to that of contemporary Argentina or Romania. So there will be two forces working against high voter turnout–a less intelligent, less civically-minded public, and a larger Hispanic population more resigned to a prodigious, corrupt government. The linear equation created from the simple regression presented above suggests that nationally voter-eligible turnout will fall from 61% today to just under half (49%) by 2050.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9988568425178528}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: How Do I Increase My Participants On Google Meet?\n\nCan we add more than 100 participants in Google meet?\n\nUnlimited number of meetings Invite up to 100 participants to a meeting.\n\nIf you’re using the free version of Google Meet, anyone you invite will need to sign in with a Google Account to join the meeting for added security..\n\nHow long can you stay on Google meet?\n\n60 minutesGoogle Meet time limit: Free accounts can go beyond 60 minutes until March 2021.\n\nHow do you add more than 100 participants in zoom?\n\nCan you host more than 100 people on Zoom? Yes. You can add more than a hundred people on Zoom by subscribing to one of Zoom’s paid plans and not all paid plans on Zoom offer the ability to host meetings with over 100 members (without an add-on).\n\nIs Google meet any good?\n\nAn accessible and affordable conferencing tool Google Meet is affordable, user-friendly, accessible, and protected by a solid security framework. Overall, it’s an all-round good choice for small to midsize businesses.\n\nHow many participants can be on Zoom?\n\n100 participantsHow many participants can join the meeting? All plans allow up to 100 participants by default in each meeting (up to 1,000 with Large Meeting add-on).\n\nHow do I join a zoom meeting for the first time?\n\nWeb BrowserOpen Chrome.Go to join.zoom.us.Enter your meeting ID provided by the host/organizer.Click Join. If this is your first time joining from Google Chrome, you will be asked to open the Zoom client to join the meeting.\n\nHow do I see all participants on Google meet?\n\nSee Everyone with the Google Meet Grid View Extension Normally when you are in a Google Meet video conference, you can only show at most 4 people at a time. You do this by clicking the three dots button in the bottom right corner and choosing “Change Layout”, and then selecting the “Tiled” view.\n\nIs Google meet free now?\n\nGoogle Meet has extended the availability of free ‘unlimited’ video calls (up to 24 hours) on its platform until June 2021. … Prior to the latest development, Google Meet video calls were available for free to Gmail users until March 31, 2021. That extension was announced in September last year.\n\nWhy can I only see 25 participants on Zoom?\n\nGallery View displays up to 25 participants per screen by default or up to 49 participants per screen if enabled in the settings. The active speaker is highlighted in Gallery View. If there are more than participants than the per-screen limit, an arrow displays next to the icon.\n\nHow do I hide myself on Google meet?\n\nHow to Hide Yourself After Joining a Meeting on Android. When you are in a meeting in Google Meet on Android, tap on the screen once to show various options. Tap on the Camera icon to turn off your camera and hide your face. Tap on the same icon again to unhide yourself.\n\nWhy can’t I present my screen on Google meet?\n\nIf you’re not able to present in a Google Meet video meeting, you should give your browser access to record your screen. Why is the meeting window displayed when I present? Select a new tab when you present or a new tab. If you present the meeting window, an infinite mirror can occur.\n\nHow do I show my screen on Google meet?\n\nPresent during a meetingJoin a video meeting.In the bottom-right corner, select Present now.Select Your entire screen, A window, orChrome tab. … Select the content you’d like to share.Select Share.If someone is presenting, confirm that you want to present instead.\n\nIs there a limit on Google meet participants?\n\n\nHow do I see all participants in zoom?\n\n\nWhat is the difference between Google Hangout and Google meet?\n\nGoogle meet is provided to the users under GSuite whereas Hangouts is available to anyone having an email account on Gmail. The features are more customized towards which customers they are built for. Google meet is more advanced with more features which you will understand as you read through the rest of the article.\n\nHow do you share your iPad screen on Google meet?\n\nHow to Share Your iPhone, iPad and Android Screen with Google MeetTap the ellipsis (three dots) button in the top right corner of your screen.Tap Present Screen.A menu on your phone/tablet will pop up to indicate where you’ll share your screen. Select Meet.Apr 23, 2020\n\nHow do I give control on Google meet?\n\nUnfortunately Google Meet does not have a built-in option to give remote control over to another person. Thankfully Google has provided an incredibly simple tool that can be used right along with Google Meet to accomplish this. That tool is called Chrome Remote Desktop.\n\nHow do I make my Google meet bigger?\n\nHow to change the resolution in Google MeetOpen a Google Meet and click the menu button at the bottom-right corner.From the popup menu, select Settings. In the resulting window, change the Send resolution from 360p to 720p and then change the Receive resolution to 720p as well.Click Done and you’re set.Jul 7, 2020", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.901075005531311}
+{"content": "At just 24 years old, Valentina Sampaio has already cemented herself as a top voice and face of the transgender community. After being rejected by a clothing company for their campaign in 2014 for being transgender, the Brazilian model didn't give up on her dreams. Three years later, she would become the first transgender model to appear on the cover of Vogue Paris as the face of the publication’s March 2017 issue.\n\nThat groundbreaking moment was followed by many others, including appearances on the covers of Vogue Brasil and Vogue Germany. Sampaio became the first transgender model for Victoria's Secret in 2019 and made her SI Swimsuit debut in 2020. SI Swimsuit spoke to Sampaio to kick off Pride Month--the worldwide celebration that takes place every June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots--to hear her feelings on breaking barriers and what she hopes to change in the fashion industry.\n\nWhat does Pride Month mean to you?\n\n\"It is much more than a day to celebrate love; it is a date to be proud of being able to be who you are without fear or embarrassment. It is a time to remember that we are all equal and have equal rights, equal access and respect, an important mobilization to raise awareness among the world population about the importance of inclusion, equality and the fight against LGBT phobia.\"\n\nYou've broken many barriers as the first openly transgender model for major brands and publications. How does it feel to be a groundbreaking model?\n\n\"It filled my heart with joy and hope because it was a step toward more inclusivity. I believe the grace and support of God have always guided me since I was a child. That faith keeps me going every day. Even today, sometimes it feels like a daydream.\"\n\nWhat's still on your bucket list career-wise?\n\n\"I am committed to grow and continue to push boundaries for both myself and anyone who faces discrimination.\"\n\nWhat changes do you hope to see more of in the fashion industry?\n\n\"I believe there is enough room in the world for all of us to exist in our own unique way -- as long as there is respect and humanity. I would love to see people, brands and companies be more open to fearlessly embracing the trans community with compassion and respect.\"\n\nWhat message would you want other young transgender people to know?\n\n\"I always look, live and dream beyond apparent challenges. Always be your true self and fearless. You're all special and unique.\"", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8684622645378113}
+{"content": "The Trump-Putin Meeting and the Fate of the Earth\n\nAny truthful way to say it will sound worse than ghastly: We live in a world where one person could decide to begin a nuclear war -- quickly killing several hundred million people and condemning vast numbers of others to slower painful deaths.\n\nGiven the macabre insanity of this ongoing situation, most people don’t like to talk about it or even think about it. In that zone of denial, U.S. news media keep detouring around a crucial reality: No matter what you think of Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin, they hold the whole world in their hands with a nuclear button.\n\nIf the presidents of the United States and Russia spiral into escalating conflicts between the two countries, the world is much more likely to blow up. Yet many American critics of Trump have gotten into baiting him as Putin’s flunky while goading him to prove otherwise. A new barrage of that baiting and goading is now about to begin -- taking aim at any wisps of possible détente -- in connection with the announced meeting between Trump and Putin at the G-20 summit in Germany at the end of this week.\n\nBig picture: This moment in human history is not about Trump. It’s not about Putin. It’s not about whether you despise either or neither or both. What’s at stake in the dynamics between them is life on this planet.\n\nOver the weekend, more than 10,000 people signed a petition under the heading “Tell Trump and Putin: Negotiate, Don’t Escalate.” The petition was written by RootsAction to be concise and to the point: “We vehemently urge you to take a constructive approach to your planned meeting at the G-20 summit. Whatever our differences, we must reduce rather than increase the risks of nuclear war. The future of humanity is at stake.”\n\nA war between the world’s two nuclear superpowers could extinguish human life on a gigantic scale while plunging the Earth into cataclysmic “nuclear winter.”\n\n“Recent scientific studies have found that a war fought with the deployed U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals would leave Earth virtually uninhabitable,” wrote Steven Starr, a senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility. “In fact, NASA computer models have shown that even a ‘successful’ first strike by Washington or Moscow would inflict catastrophic environmental damage that would make agriculture impossible and cause mass starvation.”\n\nThe Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists explains why, since last year, it has moved the risk-estimate “Doomsday Clock” even closer to apocalyptic midnight -- citing as a major factor the escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Russian governments.\n\nSo, the imminent meeting between Trump and Putin will affect the chances that the young people we love -- and so many others around the world -- will have a future. And whether later generations will even exist.\n\nI put it this way in a recent article for The Nation: “Whatever the truth may be about Russian interference in the U.S. election last year, an overarching truth continues to bind the fates of Russians, Americans and the rest of humanity. No matter how much we might wish to forget or deny it, we are tied together by a fraying thread of relations between two nations that possess 93 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. Right now it is not popular to say so, but we desperately need each other to enhance the odds of human survival.”\n\nIn that overall context, stoking hostility toward Russia is, uh, rather short-sighted. Wouldn’t it be much better for the meeting between Trump and Putin to bring Washington and Moscow closer to détente rather than bringing us closer to nuclear annihilation?\n\nUnderstand the importance of honest news ?\n\nSo do we.\n\n\n\n\n\nClick to donate by check.\n\nDonateDonate by credit card\nDonate by Paypal\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7939959168434143}
+{"content": "Browse Listings\n\nSam Ali\n\nAlternative // Dublin, Dublin\n\nOriginally from London, England, Sam Ali began playing the piano when he was just three years old, and music has been an integral part of his life for as long as he can remember. On his ninth birthday, Sam’s family left London for Dublin, Ireland. Although he had spent most of his summers with family in Ireland, this was a big change for Sam, and it marked the beginning of some truly hard times…\n\nAfter a long and difficult battle with cancer, Sam’s mother passed away when he was just fourteen. Rather than allowing this to mark the end of hope, Sam was determined to persevere. He began to dream big; allowing his mother and his relationship with her to become a powerful influence on his song-writing, and his life in general, as he continued to develop himself both personally and musically.\n\nWhen he finished school, Sam enrolled in Ballyfermot College for Performing Arts in Dublin, where his musical journey took a significant and worthwhile detour. Over the seven years that followed, Sam firmly established himself as the lead singer and frontman of TouchWood/Where Buildings Fall. During this time, Sam and the band undertook two separate journeys to America and an Irish festival tour, including well-received appearances at the Oxegen and Independence festivals. Now, Sam is beginning a new chapter in his journey, trying something a little bit different and going out on his own...\n\nWith music of gravity, lyrics of sincerity, and a voice that captures a genuine and powerful emotion, Sam Ali is an artist that seemingly everyone can relate to. Dealing with complex and far-ranging themes from the uncertainty of life, to the excitement of surviving each and every knock-down, Sam succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry which is primed and ready for any listener to jump into and explore. From track to track, Sam makes every attempt to take both himself and the listener on an exciting conceptual journey: A journey which is not to be missed.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9191281199455261}
+{"content": "A trusted Expedia brand\n\nBook a car in 3 easy steps\n\nFind great deals\n\nAvis car rentals in Bali: All you need to know\n\nThere is no better way to see everything Bali has to offer than by getting behind the wheel of your Avis rental car. Don't waste your time waiting for the bus or hailing taxis to go to the sights. Having your own vehicle enables you to go to the locations you want to see the most, when you want. Make your upcoming getaway to Indonesia more enjoyable with an Avis rental car.\n\nWhy drive with CarRentals.com?\n\nWith all there is to do in and around Bali, you'll be wanting to explore more than just the block your hotel is on while on your visit. Whether you have to try that new cafe across town or try some of the local hot spots, you'll need your own set of wheels to take in as much as possible while on your trip. Whatever you end up doing in Bali, if you want to get the most out of your time in the city, having your vehicle is key.\n\nCarRentals.com works with many of the most dependable rental car companies. The first rental car company to be located in an airport, Avis has over seventy years of providing cars to travelers from all over. With over five-thousand locations all over the world and a diverse fleet of cars, Avis is sure to give you a great experience from start to finish.\n\nFrequently asked questions\n\nHow do I get a Bali Avis rental car at a great rate?\n\nWe strive to get you the best price, no matter when you reserve your car. However, reserving well ahead of your trip can help keep spending low. Make sure to not add an additional driver and go over the mileage policy to avoid any unexpected fees.\n\nDo I need to bring anything special when I pick up my car in Bali?\n\n\nHow old do I have to be to rent a car in Bali?\n\nMost suppliers in Bali require that you at least be 21 years old to rent a car. Some rentals, especially higher category vehicles, may have an additional fee if you are under 25. Make sure to review Avis's policy to know what the total cost is for you.\n\nWhat kind of Avis rental car should I get for my trip to Bali?\n\nThat all depends on your needs and what activities you want to do in Bali. Economy or compact vehicles are easier to park and ideal for short commutes. If you are traveling with family or friends, then a mid-size vehicle or SUV will have enough room for all of you and offer a more comfortable ride. Those looking for a touch of luxury on their Bali trip can choose the premium category for a car like a Mercedes C-Class or Audi A4 or similar.\n\nIs insurance required when you rent a car in Indonesia?\n\nMany countries require driver's insurance. You may be able to pay for interim insurance through Avis. Otherwise, as a United States citizen, you can also book Collision Damage Coverage with CarRentals.com at checkout. Many major credit card issuers (MasterCard, Visa, American Express and Discover) usually provide some coverage. But many of them have restrictions, like not covering larger vehicles, like trucks or SUVs. It is best to find out exactly what your credit card will cover and how much before you head to Bali.\n\n\nAvis, like several other rental car agencies, requires a deposit upon reservation. The sum can vary based on the size of the car. Make sure you have enough available your credit card to put down a deposit.\n\n\nAvis and most other rental car suppliers provide you a full tank. At CarRentals.com, we recommend returning your car with a full tank of gas. To avoid any added expenses, it is best to find a filling station before you bring it back to Avis. Stations close to airports or car rental places tend to have higher prices.\n\nWhy should I get unlimited miles?\n\n\nDoes Bali Avis offer one-way car rentals?\n\nAvis and many other rental car companies typically have one-way drop-off. If you elect one-way drop, be aware there is ordinarily an additional charge.\n\nBook today for great rates\n\nWith so much to do and see in Bali, having the keys to your own ride lets you explore at your own pace. When you're ready to see more of Indonesia, you can drive when you want to, without trying to signal for a taxicab or sign up for a ride-share.\n\nBefore you head out of town, book your Avis Bali rent-a-car and visit all the items on your itinerary at your leisure. Go with CarRentals.com and speed along the highway in Bali, Indonesia.\n\nAvis Locations in Bali", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8972578644752502}
+{"content": "A change to Oregon law that might open doors for the wrongfully convicted\n\n| Feb 9, 2020 | Appeals, Post-conviction Relief |\n\nThe United States justice system stands to protect the people, but it is far from perfect. During criminal trials, sometimes the court finds an innocent person guilty. This type of mistake has an unspeakably devastating impact on the people on the receiving end of wrongful convictions.\n\nWhen someone is wrongfully convicted, they are imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit. Prisoners have the right to ask for a review of DNA evidence relevant to their case, but this process is long, arduous, and often they find their review requests denied. But a recent amendment to the law that guides the appeal process now makes things easier for prisoners requesting them.\n\nThe amendments made to post-conviction DNA testing\n\nThere are several laws that guides the DNA review process, all of which were reviewed by the Oregon Senate in 2019 through Senate Bill 321. The amendments focused on correcting gate-keeping language in the original law and changes the overall process for evidence processing in criminal court cases.\n\nThe previous law left evidence gathering largely at the discretion of the court system and some courts were hesitant to lawfully order labs to follow any specific protocol. This law gives a new mandatory procedure to forensic evidence labs. Now, if key evidence in a criminal trial has a DNA profile that doesn’t match the accused, this DNA profile is submitted to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) to find the identity of the perpetrator. This was not a mandatory step before this amendment.\n\nHow does this change things for wrongfully convicted inmates?\n\nPreviously, inmates who was petitioning for DNA evidence testing needed to provide assurance that this DNA evidence would prove their innocence. If the petitioner could not supply a compelling enough reason for the evidence to be tested, then they could be denied.\n\nBrittney Plesser, a staff attorney at the Oregon Innocence Project explained it perfectly: “You were sort of required to prove innocence to be able to prove your innocence through testing.”\n\nWith the new statute taking effect in 2020, the standards for DNA testing have been changed for all pending and future criminal trials. Inmates that were convicted prior to this statute taking effect can now request post-conviction DNA testing that adheres to this higher standard of evidence processing without having hard proof that it will prove their innocence.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6333967447280884}
+{"content": "AUTHOR=Giannandrea Fabrizio, Paoli Donatella, Lombardo Francesco, Lenzi Andrea, Gandini Loredana TITLE=Case-control study of anthropometric measures and testicular cancer risk JOURNAL=Frontiers in Endocrinology VOLUME=3 YEAR=2012 PAGES=144 URL= DOI=10.3389/fendo.2012.00144 ISSN=1664-2392 ABSTRACT=The etiology of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCTs) is poorly understood. Recent epidemiological findings suggest that, TGCT risk is determined very early in life, although the available data are still conflicting. The rapid growth of the testes during puberty may be another period of vulnerability. Body size has received increasing attention as possible risk factor for TC. To clarify the relation of body size and its anthropometric variables to TGCT risk, the authors analyzed data from 272 cases and 382 controls with regard to height (cm), weight (Kg), and body mass index (BMI; kg/m2). Overall, participants in the highest quartile of height were more likely to be diagnosed with TGCTs than participants in the lowest quartile of height, OR 2.22 (95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.25–3.93; adjusted; ptrend = 0.033). Moreover, histological seminoma subgroup was significantly associated with tallness, very tall men (>182 cm) having a seminoma TGCT risk of OR = 2.44 (95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.19–4.97; adjusted; ptrend = 0.011). There was also a significant inverse association of TGCT with increasing BMI (ptrend = 0.001; age-adjusted analysis) and this association was equally present in both histological subgroups. These preliminary results indicate that testicular cancer (TC) is inversely associated with BMI and positively associated with height, in particular with seminoma subtype. Several studies have reported similar findings on body size. As adult height is largely determined by high-calorie intake in childhood and influenced by hormonal factors at puberty, increased attention to postnatal exposures in this interval may help elucidate the etiology of TGCTs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9811606407165527}
+{"content": "Friends scattered across Turkey meet at ‘online’ iftar dinner\n\nFriends scattered across Turkey meet at ‘online’ iftar dinner\n\nFriends scattered across Turkey meet at ‘online’ iftar dinner\n\nA group of friends who live in Turkey’s different cities and are unable to get together due to the novel coronavirus outbreak have met during an online iftar dinner, breaking their fasts together.\n\nFrom canceled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the world are weathering a solitary month of Ramadan, fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers.\n\nDuring Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and then gather around a family or community meal each evening of Islam’s holiest month, which began on April 24 in Turkey and will end with Eid al-Fitr festivities. The evening meal where the fast ends until the pre-dawn meals is called “iftar.”\n\nBut this year, the fast-spreading novel coronavirus threatens to dampen Ramadan with many locked in their homes in self-isolation.\n\nThus, Muslims across the world are trying to find ways to spend Ramadan with their loved ones despite the COVID-19.\n\nIn Turkey, a group of friends held an “online” iftar meal via platforms that have videoconference features.\n\nSeda Uğural Sapcı and her husband Mert Sapcı, both doctors, and their friends have got together with their friends, who live in different cities, and enjoyed a Ramadan feast via online communication.\n\n“During every Ramadan, crowded iftars are held and everyone wants to see their friends and relatives. We came up with this idea since we missed crowded iftars and were unable to meet with our friends due to the coronavirus,” Seda Sapcı told state-run Anadolu Agency.\n\n“Even though it was held on an online platform, it was great, and we held our iftar, drank our tea and had a conversation like we were at the same table,” she said.\n\nSapcı also said that all participants to the videoconference held their iftars at different hours due to the time difference.\n\n“It was psychologically helpful for us,” she said.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9370508790016174}
+{"content": "Fujiwara no Onshi (藤原穏子)\n\nFUJIWARA no Onshi/Yasuko (885 - February 9, 954) was a daughter of FUJIWARA no Mototsune. Her mother was Princess Soshi (a daughter of Imperial Prince Saneyasu). She was the second consort of the sixtieth Emperor Daigo and biological mother of the sixty-first Emperor Suzaku and the sixty-second Emperor Murakami. Her alias was Gojo no kisaki.\n\nShe got married to Emperor Daigo and became a nyogo (a consort of an emperor) in 901. In 909, she was given the rank of Jusanmi (Junior Third Rank), then officially became the second consort of the Emperor by royal edict in 923. Emperor Daigo transferred the imperial throne to his successor in 930 and immediately after that, he passed away. Emperor Suzaku ascended the throne. In 931, she became the Empress Dowager. In 946, she became the Grand Empress Dowager when Emperor Murakami ascended the throne. In 954, she passed away at Shoyosha in the Imperial Palace. Her age at death was 70.\n\nAlthough she gave birth to the Imperial Prince Yasuakira, he died very young and her grandson, Prince Yoshiyori also died at the age of 5, however, she officially became the second consort in the same year when Imperial Prince Yasuakira died, then she gave birth to Imperial Prince Yutaakira/Hiroakira (Emperor Suzaku) and Imperial Prince Nariakira (Emperor Murakami) in succession and became a mother of the Emperor for 2 generations, which strengthen the foundation of a blooming regency government. Neither Emperor Suzaku nor Emperor Murakami had an empress, she remained the only Empress in the Imperial Palace during her lifetime. When Onshi/Yasuko became the consort of the Emperor, the post of the second consort was created and it became mainstream after that.\n\nThe Imperial mausoleum is located in Uji no misasagi (the Uji Mausoleum) (present-day Kohata Nakamura, Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9955678582191467}
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+{"content": "Palmistry Guide & Reading Bessemer Alabama 35020\n\nThe Feature of Palmistry In Bessemer AL 35020\n\nSimply put, palmistry is the art of examining the physical attributes of the hands to interpret personality qualities and predict future happenings. Chiromancy analyses are time-honored: Equally as our ancient ancestors gazed into the night sky and produced effective communications between the activities of the worlds and occasions right here in the world, palm readers observe exactly how the hand’s qualities link to better themes. Occult practices are based on the mystical axiom” As above, so below,” and within palmistry, the palm is appropriately seen as a microcosm of deep space.\n\nWe’re deep-diving right into the topics you’ve always questioned.\n\nWhile I encourage you to create your very own interpretations of different folds and shapes, familiarizing on your own with historical conventions can help you develop a rich vocabulary that applies to any type of querent (that’s the individual seeking responses from a reading).\n\nHistory of Hand Reading\n\nPalmistry has early beginnings in many areas. According to Brahmanism records and several mural relics in India, hand readingy was preferred in ancient India.\n\nPalmistry additionally has a lengthy background in China, because the Zhou Dynasty (1045– 256 BC) even more than 3,000 years earlier.\n\nThe initial relatively systematic job of hand reading in China appeared in the Western Han Dynasty( 206 BC– 9AD). It was considered to be a component of the physiognomy.\n\nThe Ultimate Palm-Reading Overview for Beginners\n\nKay Packard, the founder of the American Academy of Hand Evaluation and author of Your Life Is In Your Hands: Practical Hand Reading for Purposeful Living, explains the fortune-teller party method.\n\nFascinated in brushing up on the divination technique of hand analysis, or palmistry? Understanding how to read palms takes practice, however our palm reading guide from palmistry specialist Kay Packard makes the art of chiromancy appearance very easy.\n\nReviewing Your Hand Forming\n\nIn the practice of palmistry, palm shape offers understanding into individuality characteristics and typically associates with the 4 elements: fire, air, earth, and water, Saucedo claims. Each of these aspects represents a various character account. To assess hand form, you’ll intend to look at the percentage of the hand in connection with the fingers.\n\nFire hands: Notable for a lengthy palm with short fingers, these individualities are agitated, anxious, and cozy.\n\n\nAir hands: Tend to include a square or rectangular palm with lengthy fingers, and have personalities that are versatile, intellectual, and curious.\n\nEarth hands: Include a square palm with brief fingers, and have a tendency to be based, sensible, and a realist.\n\nHand kind doesn’t always match with your astrological profile you might be a water indicator according to astrology, however your hand shape might suggest you’re a planet sign. Duality is definitely all right below.\n\nKeep 4 significant lines in mind\n\nOne of the most fundamental method to recognize hand analysis is through 4 main lines that every hand has. While a variety of lines likely traverse your hands, it’s the complying with 4 that pro readers take note of the most:\n\nHeart line: Situated at the top of the hand; shows your emotion\n\nHead line: Found listed below heart line, at the facility of your hand; indicates mentality\n\nLife line: Situated under heart line, goes around your thumb shows vigor\n\nLine of security (additionally referred to as your Fate line): Shows up through the center of the hand, beginning at the end of your palm and running toward your center finger; indicates just how you feel regarding the life you develop\n\n” The general form of a line whether it’s curved or directly, claims exactly how adaptable that part of you is,” states Saucedo, that likewise authored Handful of Stars: A Palmistry Guidebook and Hand-Printing Package. For instance, if you have a very curved heart line that looks like a fifty percent circle, Saucedo claims that would indicate a very caring, open, and emotional nature. If your heart line is directly, after that you could be a bit more secured or self-preserved regarding your feelings.\n\nThere are also crucial differences to note between straight and rounded head lines. An extremely curved head line indicates creative thinking, while a straight head line factors to someone that is really reasonable and suches as logistics “black and white, yes or no,” says Saucedo.\n\nOne typical misunderstanding Saucedo is fast to direct out is that regardless of prominent idea, the life line has nothing to do with your life expectancy. Instead, it has more to do with exactly how good you really feel about your life. “If it goes out, it’s simply an item of your life where you may seem like the rug was drawn out from under you,” she claims. “Yet it does not mean you’re unwell or anything like that.”\n\nThe Love Line the Longer the Better\n\nThe love line is the line stretching throughout the hand directly under the fingers. The love line mirrors sensations, responses, and emotional control in the area of love. The longer and straighter it is the much better.\n\nIf the love line is short and straiht, he/she has little passion in expressing love or romance.\n\nIf the love line is long, he/she will probably be an excellent fan wonderful, understanding, and romantic.\n\nThe Job Line (Fate Line). Find Your Career In Bessemer AL.\n\nThe occupation line or fate line is the line that stretches from the wrist to the center finger. It mirrors one’s ton of money and profession.\n\nThe Head Line.\n\nIf you have a. Short line (finishing near the facility of your palm, as shown here): You’re a fast thinker who reaches final thoughts without any hemming and hawing.\n\nLong, straight line (extending across the palm, toward the pinkie): Evaluate a lot? You usually discover on your own weighing points over (and over) before coming to a choice.\n\nLine that splits in two: Sensitive to others, you can quickly see another person’s point of view. This suggests you may transform your viewpoint now and after that.\n\nRELATED: Below’s What Occurs to the Coins You Throw in Water fountains Long, bent line (running down towards the bottom edge of the palm): You’re an innovative thinker who can envision lots of possible end results or techniques to any kind of circumstance.\n\nThe Heart Line.\n\nIf you have actually a. Long, straight line (finishing listed below the index finger, as shown below): You’re a sensible, logical thinker that always considers others’ feelings, and individuals appreciate that regarding you.\n\nShort, straight line (ending between the center and forefinger): You require your liberty. You reveal your love with activities greater than words.\n\nLong, bent line (arcing up and getting to the base of the center finger): Your passions and wishes drive you, and you uncommitted who understands it.\n\nPalmistry Guide & Reading Bessemer Alabama 35020Short, bent line (arcing up and finishing concerning a half inch below the base of the center finger): You are scheduled and choose tiny teams to big ones. You open up in individually settings.\n\nLine with two or even more X’s at the external hand: You have actually experienced a deep personal dishonesty.\n\nLine that splits in two: You have a habit of placing your emotions on the back burner to satisfy others’ demands.\n\nWhen you think of palmistry, there are likely a few lines that quickly come to mindthe head line, the life line, and the heart line. (The large 3, if you will.) Although some individuals may desire a hand reading to address their a lot of burning romantic questions, like when they will lastly discover love and if they need to do it online, or if their tricky companion is actually ripping off on them when they will ultimately make love, the heart line simply shows “love design.” Packard says: “How you like to associate to various other individuals, and exactly how you desire they ‘d associate with you. Preferably, everybody picks up from their heart line that it’s not concerning how they are accepted, but exactly how you approve on your own.”.\n\nJust how do you inform if you are mosting likely to have youngsters?\n\nFind your child line. The number of lines you have will certainly be the number of kids you generate Alabama 35020, (the line connecting the finger to the hand does not count as a child line).\n\nCan my hand lines alter over time?\n\nYes, obviously the lines in your hand change with time. As an example, the length of life line of your hand shows exactly how healthy you are, and your health can absolutely alter with time depending on your age, degree of activity, etc\n\n. Do not confuse palm analysis with psychic capabilities.\n\nConsider hand reading as a language in which you and any person else can become fluent. This is essential to keep in mind, because Saucedo claims palm reading is often merged with psychic powers and, really, one has nothing to do with the other. “Any individual can review hands it’s all aesthetic and tangible,” she claims. “I’m not obtaining details from spirits or anything. I have actually just learned the language from the lines on your hand.” And now, you have actually obtained the foundation to start doing the same.\n\nAnd right here’s what you require to recognize about numerology Helene Saucedo Palm Visitor and Author Astrology Spiritual Health and wellness Our editors individually choose these items. Making a purchase via our web links might gain Well+ Excellent a payment.\n\nCriticism of palmistry typically relaxes with the lack of empirical proof supporting its efficacy. Scientific literary works usually concerns palmistry as a pseudoscientific or superstitious Psychologist and noted skeptic Ray Hyman I began reviewing hands in my teens as a way to supplement my earnings from doing magic and psychological shows. One day the late Stanley Jaks, that was a specialist mind reader and a male I respected, tactfully suggested that it would make an intriguing experiment if I intentionally offered analyses opposite to what the lines indicated.\n\nSkeptics typically consist of palmists on listings of alleged psychics that exercise cool analysis. Cold analysis is the method that allows readers of all kinds, consisting of palmists, to show up psychic by utilizing high-probability thinking and presuming information based upon signals or hints from the other person.\n\nAlthough some Christians condemn palmistry as a kind of prophecy Jewish Christian customs are largely ambivalent regarding divination generally.\n\nWhile some particular methods such as necromancy astrology are condemned by biblical authors, other techniques such as desire analysis casting of whole lots, and the usage of Urim and Thummim Throughout the 16th century the Catholic Church condemned the practice of palmistry.\n\nHowever, there is a lengthy tradition of exercising palmistry within both Jewish Christian mysticism and some practitioners, such as Comte C. de Saint-Germain, have actually suggested that the Bible does not oppose it.\n\nIslam highly condemns divination in all kinds and thinks about palmistry haram The Quran states that “You are forbidden to look for understanding of your destiny by divining arrows” (Surah Al-Ma’ idah 5:3).\n\n\n\nPalmistry Guide & Reading Bessemer Alabama 35020", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9558287262916565}
+{"content": "Regions facing COVID-19 lockdowns: The potential for remote working\n\nCities and capital regions have the highest capacity for remote working.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected regional economies in OECD countries with a significant and unprecedented severity. Widespread measures of social distancing to contain the spread of COVID-19 have required many workplaces to remain shut. While lockdowns practically forced many people to stop working, others were able to continue their activities from home. In this context, not all regions were equally prepared to adapt to remote working and therefore mitigate the economic disruptions due to the lockdown. The extent to which jobs are amenable to remote working depends on the nature of the tasks carried out by workers, meaning on the type of occupation. In turn, occupations that can be performed remotely are not evenly spread across space, with some places being able to shift a much larger share of employment to remote working than other places.\n\nThe share of jobs amenable to remote working varies greatly both between and within OECD countries (Figure 2.1, panel A). For example, while 50% of the employed people can potentially work from home in Luxembourg, only 20% can do so in Colombia. Within countries, there is, on average, a 15-percentage point difference between the regions with the highest and lowest shares of employed people that can potentially work remotely. This difference reaches more than 20 percentage points in the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, and the United States, driven by the much higher potential for remote working in those countries’ capitals. In general, capital regions have the highest potential for remote working, with rates that are 8 percentage points higher than the respective country average.\n\nThe potential for remote working is also higher in more densely populated areas. Using the “degree of urbanisation” to distinguish different types of settlement for European countries, cities – defined as local units above 50 000 inhabitants with a population density of over 1 500 inhabitants per square kilometre – have a 13-percentage point higher share of jobs amenable to remote working than rural areas (Figure 2.1, panel B).This city-rural gap is particularly significant in Croatia, Finland, Hungary and Luxembourg, where the difference is larger than 17 percentage points.\n\nThe skill requirement of occupations correlates to their amenability to being performed remotely. As a result, the share of the employed population that can potentially work remotely across regions reflects the skill composition of the local workforce. Figure 2.2 illustrates this relationship across regions by plotting regions’ levels of potential remote working (vertical axis) against the share of workers with tertiary education (horizontal axis). The trend line shows that, as the share of workers with tertiary education increases, the share of jobs amenable to remote working also increases at a similar rate. However, there are some exceptions. In some countries (e.g. Canada, Spain or Turkey) all regions appear below the trend line, indicating that the share of jobs amenable to remote working in these regions is lower than expected given the education levels of the workforce. On the other hand, regions in other countries (e.g. Germany) tend to be above the trend line, indicating higher rates of jobs amenable to remote working than expected from the skill composition of the workforce. While these differences require further analysis, the industrial composition of the regional economies might play a role.\n\nOECD calculations based on the American Community Survey (ACS), Australian Labour Force Survey (LFS), Canadian LFS, European LFS, Turkish Household LFS, Turkish Statistical Institute and Occupational Information Network data (accessed in April 2020). Data for Colombia are based on Colombian Household Survey estimated by Cardenas and Montana (2020).\n\nSee methodology to estimate the potential for remote working in Annex C.\n\n2018, large regions (TL2).\n\nCardenas J. and J. Montana (2020), “Possible effects of Coronavirus in the Colombian labour market”, Documento de Trabajo d’Alianza, EFI – Colombia Cientifica.\n\nDingel, J. and B. Neiman (2020), “How many jobs can be done at home?”, Becker Friedman Institute White Paper, March,\n\nEurostat (2013), Urban-Rural Typology,\n\nOECD (2020), “Capacity for remote working can affect shutdowns’ costs differently across places”, OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19), OECD, Paris,\n\nMetadata, Legal and Rights\n\n\n© OECD 2020\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8064146041870117}
+{"content": "HLTAID006 - Provide Advanced First Aid.j\n\nHLTAID014 Provide Advanced First Aid\n\nGuaranteed Success\n\nThis course is delivered in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines and applies to all workers or members of the community who may be required to provide CPR or advanced first aid in the event of an emergency, until the arrival of medical or other assistance.  \nProviding effective, lifesaving first aid interventions requires instruction and practical training.  This is especially true when it relates to potentially fatal illnesses and injuries, such as those that require cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), severe bleeding, multiple casualty incidents etc. These situations carry a risk of further injury to the casualty and the first aider and it is imperative that training occurs to be able to know what to do when confronted with a real-life incident.\nThis course aims to develop the skills and knowledge and most importantly the confidence, to coordinate and manage the response, and provide advanced first aid in a challenging environment, in order to preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, and promote recovery.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9926709532737732}
+{"content": "Kashmir: Behind The Vale\n\nKashmir lies at the edge of India’s borders and at the heart of India’s consciousness. It is not geography that is the issue; Kashmir also guards the frontiers of ideology. If there was a glow of hope in the deepening shadows of a bitter Partition, then it was Kashmir, whose people consciously rejected the false patriotism of fundamentalism and made common cause with secular India instead of theocratic Pakistan. Kashmir was, as Sheikh Abdullah said and Jawaharlal Nehru believed, a stabilising force for India.\n\nWhy has that harmony disintegrated? Why has the promise been stained by the blood of rebellion? M.J. Akbar, the celebrated author of India: The Siege Within, Nehru: The Making of India, Riot After Riot and The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity delves deep into the past for the roots of Kashmiriyat, the identity and culture that has blossomed within the ring of mountains for thousands of years. He records Kashmir’s struggle in the century to first free itself from feudal oppression and then enter the world of modern India in 1947. Placing the mistakes and triumphs of those early, formative years in the perspective of history, the author goes on to explain how the 1980s have opened the way for Kashmir’s hitherto marginalized secessionists. Both victory and defeat have their lessons; to forget either is to destablize the future. Kashmir and the mother country are inextricably linked. India cannot afford to be defeated in her Kashmir.\n\n\nAdd to Wishlist\nAdd to Wishlist\n\nBook Details\n\n\n\n\nMJ Akbar\n\nReading Period\n\n14 Days\n\nISBN: 978-8174362506\n\n\nThere are no reviews yet.\n\nBe the first to review “Kashmir: Behind The Vale”\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8562177419662476}
+{"content": "US Election 2020\n\nThe US Election and the Impact on Gold\n\nGold has experienced a tremendous rally in 2020 and is currently around 25% up on the year so far. With just a few hours to go until the US election results, there is no doubt that the outcome will play a major role in shaping the international political and economic landscape during these extremely uncertain times. But how will this impact on the price of gold?\n\nWe know that monetary and fiscal policy, as well as international political tensions have traditionally been key drivers of precious metals prices, so let's look back  at the impact of previous presidencies.\n\nHistorical presidential impact\n\nCarter and Reagan\n\nWill the next President be a Jimmy Carter – who saw a 326% increase in the gold price, or a Ronald Reagan - who saw a 28% decrease? Perhaps that’s not a fair question. Since Nixon ended the convertibility of the US dollar to gold in 1971, the gold price had largely been rising, but despite falling under Gerald Ford, it soared under Ford’s Democratic successor.\n\nGeopolitical events such as the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, combined with double-digit inflation in the US saw the gold price surge to $850.00 per ounce (up 539% from the price at Carter’s inauguration 3 years earlier).\n\nBy the time Carter left office, the gold price had retreated to $566.75, 326% higher than the day he became president. Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, saw the gold price drop to $284.25 in early 1985 (an almost 50% drop from his first day in office) as the US appeared to be in a much stronger position economically. At this point, the US economy was well into its recovery (following the earlier recession) and formal negotiations had reopened with the Soviet Union, following the apparent success of the ‘rollback doctrine’.\n\n\nWhen Obama left office in 2017, the gold price was 40% higher, and the silver price was 50% higher, than the day he took office in 2009. The gold price ranged between $849.25 and $1,895.00 during Obama’s 8 years in office, while the silver price ranged between $11.32 and $48.70. During this period, gold experienced significant volatility, and offered significant potential for investors to realise healthy returns.\n\nConcerns over the US Debt Ceiling in 2011 caused the gold price to surge to $1,895.00 (122% higher than the day Obama took office) as some people feared the US government could default on its debt. The silver price also rose to $48.70 (330% higher than Obama’s first day in office) in April 2011, as retailers suffered shortages of silver bars and coins – this is in line with a noted historical pattern of silver rallying quickly and sharply shortly after a gold price rally ignites.\n\nView Silver Price Charts\n\n\nThe US-China trade war, events in North Korea and the threat of military action following the assassination of the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, have all led the gold price to increase under President Trump, but it’s the coronavirus crisis that has really caused the price to surge.\n\nOn 6th August this year, gold hit an all-time high of $2,067.15, 72% higher than Trump’s first day in office, as investors flocked to safe havens to assess the impact of the coronavirus crisis and the effects of quantitative easing. Silver is now trading at over $20/oz, but hit $28.89 on 1st September 2020 (71% higher than the day of Trump’s inauguration).\n\nView Gold Price Charts\n\nDoes it really matter who wins?\n\nThe polls are currently suggesting a Biden win, but does it really matter for the gold price? Gold has long been regarded by many as a long term investment and safe haven asset. As the global economy attempts to navigate through and recover from the devastating effects of COVID-19, many analysts believe that demand for gold will remain healthy regardless of who is in power. According to Luca Paolini at Picet Asset Management, ‘political risk is high, the dollar is weakening, interest rates are rock bottom, so gold is attractive.’ \n\nThe Royal Mint Limited is not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide investment advice and nothing within this article should be construed as investment advice. 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+{"content": "You may not even be aware of heat sickness until you get dizzy and collapse.\n\nShare story\n\nOne of the biggest dangers of being active at this time of year is overheating. When you’re making that final push in a race, or just having fun during a strenuous run or bike ride, you can overheat without realizing it.\n\nThis is not simple dehydration or the need for electrolytes; though of course that contributes and even causes both conditions. The danger is because when the body temperature rises to a point where it can’t get quickly get rid of too much heat, it can lead to organ and brain damage; even death.\n\nIf your mind is totally focused on your activity, you may not even be aware of the situation until you get dizzy and collapse. That’s why it’s important to know the symptoms, not only for yourself, but to help others who may be in danger without knowing it.\n\nSerious overheating is marked by two stages: heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Exhaustion can usually be cured by drinking water or other liquids, resting in the shade and being wet down with a damp cloth or spray bottle (don’t pour water on someone with heat exhaustion; that can be too big a shock to the body).\n\nHeat stroke is when body temperature passes beyond mere “exhaustion.” It can happen quickly. Heat stroke is a medical emergency that requires immediate and urgent medical care. The body’s temperature control may no longer be able to function, and the result can be organ failure, brain damage and even death. Here are symptoms of both conditions:\n\nThe person with heat exhaustion will be uncomfortable and may be dizzy. Their skin will feel cool and clammy; but their forehead may be hot, as if they have a mild fever of 100-101. Their conversation and mental state will be normal, though they may be more cranky than usual. This condition more often affects those who aren’t used to hot temperatures, such as someone who normally lives an air-conditioned life style suddenly spending time in hot areas like Southern California, Arizona or a desert environment. If you feel uncomfortably hot, get into some shade, loosen your clothing and guzzle liquid — preferably a sports drink with electrolytes. Keep resting even after you feel better; it takes time for the body’s internal temperature to return to normal.\n\nThe person with heat stroke will have dry and very hot skin. Blood vessels expand to help dispel the heat, making the skin flush red. Lips may be swollen, but the eyes will seem sunken. A body temperature above 103 indicates heat stroke, rather than exhaustion. The person may not be coherent; they may not be able to speak normally and their speech may not make sense. They will seem confused and can also have hallucinations. Vomiting and being unable to stand or walk normally are additional symptoms.\n\nUnlike exhaustion, where the condition improves with the drinking of liquids, the heat stroke victim may not even be able to swallow liquids; and drinking doesn’t make symptoms go away. The heart rate may be elevated, and breathing may be shallow and fast. They may lose consciousness.\n\nWith the emergency of heat stroke, there may be an urge to immerse the victim in cool water. DON’T! Cool water will make the blood vessels constrict; thus slowing essential dissipation of heat. Call emergency medical care immediately; if there’s no cellphone coverage, have someone go for help.\n\nThe best solution is, of course, prevention. Don’t push yourself too hard when it’s hot outside, and don’t let anyone with you do it either.\n\n— — —", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8727366924285889}
+{"content": "How to manage someone older than you\n\nmanaging someone older than you\n\nWorkplaces across the nation are experiencing a very different kind of organisational chart and management structure than in previous decades. \n\nWe have the younger — often hugely ambitious — generation skyrocketing through the ranks (I was once one of these). This results in rising young managers potentially overseeing teams that include people who are much older than they are. \n\nYes, there is a stigma attached to the different generations. However, the reality is some people are more ambitious than others, and regardless of your age or your position, there is a culture of respect that should be adhered to.\n\nManaging someone older than you can be difficult at the best of times. If you find yourself in this position — or think you potentially may be in the future — here are some things to consider to make the situation less stressful and more productive for everybody.\n\n1. Acknowledge their previous experience\n\nThey may have been in a much more senior role in another workplace but were made redundant.\n\nThis may cause them to feel some resentment about your relative youth.\n\nHowever, if that was the case then you would be very strategically smart to understand the amount of experience and wisdom this individual has — and have them as an internal ally (or even mentor). \n\n2. Understand their contentment\n\nPerhaps they are not as ambitious as you and happy to remain where they are.\n\nThis may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone wants to run teams or climb the corporate ladder. Often people like their routine and are happy to be led by people as long as they feel their work is valuable — and valued.\n\nBest you don’t hassle or pressure them to be more like you.\n\n3. Show them respect \n\nThis is a very simple rule — and one you most likely were raised on.\n\nRegardless of your position, you should respect those older than you and make sure your team does the same.\n\nYes, we should be respecting everyone, however, you need to make an effort to understand the older generation may think or speak differently to you, and act accordingly.\n\nThis may simply mean keeping silent in a group setting and speaking with them privately about issues. \n\n4. Address their fears\n\nIt is common for those older than you and below you to fear your decisions or even fear losing their job and be replaced by a fellow ‘younger worker’.\n\nThe problem with fear — whether it is justified or not — is it most definitely will cause conflict.\n\nThe best way to address this is to keep lines of communication open at all times and observe their language and behaviour.\n\nA simple meeting one-on-one can put them at ease… and before you know it, they are your biggest ally.\n\nAny new role can create anxiety, none more so than leading a team of people who happen to be all older than you!\n\nJust remember in 30 years from now this could be you. So if in doubt, consider the adage ‘treat others as you would like to be treated’ and you should do well.\n\nNOW READ: Age is no barrier: Why Australian businesses need to give older workers a fair go\n\nNOW READ: What’s the average age of a successful Australian startup founder? And how do we fare against the stereotype?\n\n\nNotify of\nInline Feedbacks\nView all comments", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5278139710426331}
+{"content": "How do you write a thesis statement and an outline?\n\nTo create an outline:Place your thesis statement at the beginning.List the major points that support your thesis. Label them in Roman Numerals (I, II, III, etc.).List supporting ideas or arguments for each major point. If applicable, continue to sub-divide each supporting idea until your outline is fully developed.\n\nHow do you write a thesis statement step by step?\n\n\nHow do you start a thesis introduction?\n\nStages in a thesis introductionstate the general topic and give some background.provide a review of the literature related to the topic.define the terms and scope of the topic.outline the current situation.evaluate the current situation (advantages/ disadvantages) and identify the gap.\n\nWhat is thesis introduction?\n\nThe introduction is the first chapter of your thesis or dissertation and appears right after the table of contents. It’s essential to draw the reader in with a strong beginning. Set the stage for your research with a clear focus, purpose and direction.\n\nHow important is the introduction of a thesis study?\n\nThe introduction provides the rationale for your dissertation, thesis or other research project: what you are trying to answer and why it is important to do this research. The introduction should also indicate how your piece of research will contribute to the theoretical understanding of the topic.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8862645030021667}
+{"content": "\n\nA business leader with the desire to rewrite India’s real estate story, Hiranandani is credited with changing Mumbai’s skyline. In an e-mail interview with ASHA RAMACHANDRAN, the industry chamber’s new president set out his vision as well as expectations from the forthcoming Budget.\n\n\nQ: At Assocham’s centenary celebrations you unfolded the chamber’s vision of “Looking beyond 100”.Can you please elaborate on this vision?\n\nA: Growth must be equitable, which means there should be equal and more opportunities for everyone. For any country or economy to prosper, growth and inequality cannot be treated separately. The universal provision of basic infrastructure for all is fundamental to increasing the productivity of the people and businesses alike.\n\nIn the next five years, Assocham as a leading industry body will strive to bring about an equitable growth model to resolving poverty, skilling, economic disparity, etc. The five core priorities for addressing equity at the economic level are a) creating adequate employment opportunities b) providing ease of doing business environment c) ensuring food and water security d) bringing women power in GDP and finally e) doing business with responsibility.\n\nQ: What sectors, in your opinion, should Assocham focus on in India’s stride towards a 5 trillion dollar economy?\n\nA: The ambitious target laid down by the Government is desirable and very much achievable. There is a dearth of undertaking a series of bold fiscal measures and not just sops in the sectors which are labour-intensive and capable of generating higher per capita income.\n\nAs a result, the cascading effect will be rise in GDP growth, inclusive of new employment generation. For the Indian economy to grow at double digits instead of at 5 per cent currently, a major kick start with policy and economic reforms needs to be granted on priority to sectors like housing and urban infrastructure, which will gain momentum for 269 allied industries.\n\nAdditionally, sectors like MSME, tourism, education and textiles can be key growth catalysts. The set of path-breaking proactive reforms by the Central government will be useful in steering the economy in accelerated growth direction.\n\nQ: While India has done much in the infrastructure sector, a lot more needs to be done. How do we achieve this?\n\nA: Infrastructure development not only creates employment but also holds the potential to increase consumption, attract investments and thus give a boost to the economy. India needs to focus on its burgeoning need to attract investment into infrastructure development sector to achieve its ambitious target of becoming a 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2024.\n\nInfrastructure financing in India faces several challenges, right from high cost of capital to shortage of long-term financing due to asset-liability mismatch. Infrastructure, considered to be the backbone of the economy, is finding it difficult to fund new projects due to limited availability of capital and liquidity with the banks/NBFCs and banks’ sectoral limits.\n\nTherefore, alternative funding avenues need to be worked out. Firstly, it needs to encourage privatisation by constructing a financial bond market, which runs for five years and moves assets into a 20-30 year bond/InvIT to ensure constant capital flows or create a sovereign bond market.\n\nThere are two more ways that the Central government can think of financing the infrastructure projects. The first step would be mobilising funds through disinvesting in profitmaking state-run companies, while the second step would be reviving private participation to fill the financing gap.\n\nQ: What ails India’s economic growth, which has seen a steady downward slide, particularly in the current fiscal?\n\nA: Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) are the backbone of the Indian economy, generating nearly 70 million jobs through a network of 30 million units and manufacturing more than 6,000 different products. MSME is a liquidity-driven sector.\n\nThe liquidity crisis arising out of structural policy reforms in India has led to choking of liquidity supply in the MSME, which brings the sector’s growth to a grinding halt. There are delayed payments not just from private organisations but also several government organisations, which is alarming and needs immediate curative measures to ensure its revival.\n\nOne of the major concerns for the MSME sector is the availability of capital at a lower interest rate. Though the government has approved the continuation of credit-linked capital subsidy component under Credit-Linked Capital Subsidy-Technology Upgradation Scheme (CLCS-TUS) in February 2019, so far only Rs 338 crore has been released. However, under Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE), 5,46,127 credit facilities have been approved, amounting to a guarantee of Rs 33,381 crore.\n\nGovernment e-Marketplace (GeM) organisations like Common Service Centres (CSC), Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) are responsible for bringing MSMEs on digital platform and for providing them digital identity. Though the Central government has been taking a lot of initiatives, there is an urgent need to design a comprehensive integrated policy to promote skill development and credit availability for expedited growth.\n\nQ: What are your Budget expectations? What suggestions has Assocham given to the Finance Minister for her Budget presentation next month?\n\nA: Tax spectrum: A widespread expectation of a significant relief to the middle class, which is a very powerful consumption catalyst. The exemption for income tax-payers may be considered at Rs 5 lakh per annum without strings attached, along with other saving and stimulus measures like liberal deductions on the interest rates on housing loans.\n\nThe highest slab for income tax return should be 20 per cent and the lower slabs could be 5 and 10 per cent. While we appreciate the fiscal constraints of the government, leaving more money in the hands of the middle and upper middle class could prove to be a game-changer in reviving consumer demand.\n\nAlong with the impact of corporate tax reduction, which would be seen after a lag, the combined effect would be stellar. Eventually, a pick-up in consumer demand would play out in the form of higher sales realisation, resulting in increased revenue for the government. As regards manufacturing, it is a smart move on the part of the government to woo global giants in electronics and other areas in the backdrop of US-China trade war.\n\nThe focus on electronics, manufacturing and exports, is in the right direction. Reduction in corporate tax, bringing India at par with competitors would be a great pull factor for global investment into Indian manufacturing. Besides, laudable policy efforts on Ease of Doing Business should continue and issues like enforcement of contracts, getting state and local permissions be dealt with in coordination with the states.\n\nA big and continuous push to infrastructure, encompassing roads, highways, ports, airports, railways, telecom and energy must be the way forward. The latest report of the highlevel government task force identifying potential investment of Rs 102 lakh crore in the next five years is an ambitious measure. Some of the ensuing initiatives are quite ambitious and would be test cases.\n\nThe NITI Aayog plan for introducing 150 private trains should be given the top priority. The Rs 50 lakh crore investment only in the Railways would have a huge multiplier impact on a range of sectors like tourism, exports and manufacturing.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9587002992630005}
+{"content": "Ride Type : \n\n\nStart Date : \n\nEnd Date : \n\nRiders :\n\nGeorge, Saurin, Giry\n\nDistinguished Gentleman's Ride\n\nThree folks from TLW were able to make it to this awesome ride. Not just a ride but also a charity and awareness event!\n\nA Decade of Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride\nThis year’s world wide event marks the 10th year anniversary. At The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride is for a purpose.\nThe focus is on gentlemen who have been dealt a tough hand in life. In particular, raise funds for cutting-edge research into prostate cancer, mental health and suicide prevention programs, as part of the mission to support men’s health globally.\nThe Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride is an event where self-expression flourishes, personalities drive fashion choices and ride in dapper style!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995133876800537}
+{"content": "18 January 2021\n\nBrief History of Medical Devices and Regulations\n\nAs early as 2000 to 5000 years ago, many of the ancient civilizations used tools such as forceps, knives, scalpels, saws, lancets, needles, trocars, cauteries and knives for several medical procedures. Scalpels were used to make big incisions across the abdomen, and clean, precise incisions on the arms, neck, and legs. Punctures in various parts of the body were made using needles. Hooks held up blood vessels and skin, and, lifted and moved tissue during a medical procedure. Hand drills were used to remove parts of the skull to access the brain, to either cut out portions in a lobotomy, or to remove dead tissue from the body. Forceps, an extremely versatile tool during surgery, were used to grasp or position tissues, immobilize blood flow, and hold skin together while adding or removing stitches. Suturing techniques used crude forms of needle and thread. Early procedures included tracheotomy, amputations, bloodletting, cataract surgery, bone surgeries, removal of bladder stones, trepanation (making a hole in the skull), organ removal etc.The earliest instruments used in these procedures were made of stone, flint or obsidian, and later on from metals like silver, gold and bronze. \n\nFrom about the 1st century CE to the 17th century, most medical procedures involved treatment of injuries of soldiers at war on the battlefields, or the ailments of the very rich. Devices were used to treat battleground wounds received from arrows, knives, sabers, guns and cannons. With the formalization of the scientific method in the 17th century such devices became more prevalent. Many medical devices were manufactured by doctors or small companies and sold directly to the public with no government standards or oversight for safety or effectiveness. Hospitals were created as a place where soldiers and patients could be treated by doctors with access to specialized equipment and care. Universities began teaching science, medicine, anatomy and medical-related topics. Medical knowledge and know-how continued to expand and evolve. Advances were made in the areas like ophthalmology, optometry, prostheses, catheterization with devices like syringes for removal of cataracts, eyeglasses, metallic or wooden artificial limbs and metallic catheters respectively.\n\nIllustration from Antiseptic surgery; its principles, practice, history, and results. By William Watson Cheyne, 1882\nIllustration from Antiseptic Surgery; Its Principles, Practice, History, and Results. By William Watson Cheyne, 1882\n\nThe 1800s was a groundbreaking era for medical devices, therapeutic and medical inventions and the development of modern medicine.  In 1867, Joseph Lister published his “Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery“. This was one of the most seminal and pivotal moments in medical science that would ultimately lead to cleaner operating theatres, more successful outcomes and higher survival rates of patients. Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch identified “germs” as the cause of many diseases around the world. In the 19th century, devices such as the stethoscope, the hypodermic syringe, the ophthalmoscope, the electrocardiogram, hearing aids, the kymograph and nitrous oxide as an anesthetic were brought to market.  In addition, drugs such as quinine, aspirin and cholera vaccines were also discovered, significantly changing health outcomes of the public. The design of devices such as forceps, knives, scalpels, saws, lancets, needles, trocars, cauteries and knives continued to evolve with the use of materials like steel. The 20th century saw an explosion of medical devices and procedures that included the cardio defibrillator, hip and knee replacements, heart surgeries, laparoscopes, dialysis machines, infusion pumps, insulin pumps, balloon catheters, disposable catheters, disposables, the iron lung, heart lung machines, inhalers, prostheses, cardiovascular devices, respirators, ventilators, and implants such as stents and pacemakers. The growth of medical devices has been exponential in the last 100 years.\n\nChart of Global Medical Device Market Growth in US Dollars\n\nMedical Device Regulations\n\nAs the use of medical devices and medical equipment grew in the 19th and early 20th centuries in hospitals and doctor’s offices, larger volumes of devices were being produced and sold. However, there was a paucity of any control or regulations of medical devices. Most regulations were drug related. It was not until the mid-20th century that several countries started implementing medical device-specific rules and regulations to ensure the safety of the general public. These regulations were completely separate from the drug-related regulations. Before World War I, several countries attempted to establish their individual, regional regulations.  Most of these regulations were either included in or buried under drug regulations. Post-World War II, there was a need to establish a separate regulation for medical devices to ensure safety for patients and public health.   By the 1980s, there were specific pre-marketing approval requirements in most Western EU countries and the United States, but requirements varied from country to country and region to region.  In the 1990s, an initiative was undertaken to harmonize these regulations and requirements by introducing conformity assessment procedures, with collaboration and representation from countries around the world.  \n\nRegulations and standards continue to evolve and change with the changes in technologies, continued need for global harmonization, and changing user and societal needs. The current applicable and enforceable standards are shown in the figure below.\n\nTimeline of current enforceable Medical Device regulations and Standards.\n\nStay Connected\n\nFor occasional updates on trainings, conferences, and news articles, join our Email List. 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+{"content": "Menu pricing can seem daunting. It’s a numbers game based on restaurant food costs, calculating plate cost, and then setting a menu price to maximize margin.\n\nBut successful menu pricing is so much more than this. There are other factors you need to consider including your market, your clientele, your brand, demand for your concept or cuisine, your competition, and ultimately the perceived value related to your unique selling proposition (USP).\n\nIn this post, you’ll learn how to price a menu by considering all factors that determine your position on a price continuum. At one end, you have the lowest price you can charge while still making a solid profit, and at the other end, you have the highest price the market is willing to bear.\n\nRead on to learn more about this continuum and how to price a menu in four simple steps.\n\nHow to Price a Menu: Your 4 Step-Process\n\nMenu pricing may seem daunting at first, but by following a few simple steps you can come to the right price for your restaurant.\n\nSteps 1 through 3 are all about crunching numbers. You’ll learn how to calculate your target menu price by considering plate cost and target food cost percentage only. At this point, no other extra factors, such as your market or perceived value, are factored into the equation.\n\nIn Step 4, you’ll review factors like perceived value and USP that determine roughly where you fall along the price continuum. We say “roughly” because determining your position is not an exact science and involves some subjectivity. By getting an idea of where you fall on the spectrum, you’ll be better equipped to price your menu and make adjustments as you see fit.\n\nDetermine Your Target Menu Price\n\nHere’s a three-step process to calculate your targeted menu price. Thanks must go to Roger Field’s for providing the template for this section. In Roger’s book Restaurant Success by the Numbers, he explains how to cost menu ingredients and then price a dish using your targeted food cost percentage.\n\nStep 1: Calculate Plate Cost\n\nPlate or recipe cost is the cost of a single dish and includes the cost of all the ingredients that go into making it.\n\nTo calculate plate cost, read our blog, How to Calculate Plate Cost, for a step-by-step guide or check out xtraCHEF’s Recipe Management Software to start automatically calculating plate costs.\n\nStep 2: Determine Your Targeted Food Cost Percentage\n\nAlso known as the maximum allowable food cost percentage (MFC), this is the food cost percentage that you cannot go over if you want to remain profitable. To calculate it, you’ll use this formula:\n\nMFC = 100 – ( (Labor costs + monthly overheads + profit goal)/ total sales)).\n\nMost restaurants will obtain an MFC that’s unique to them, though it’s not uncommon to achieve a percentage of between 28 and 35. For our example, let’s assume your MFC is 32%.\n\nStep 3: Determine Your Targeted Menu Price\n\nThe final step is a simple calculation. Take your plate cost and divide it by your targeted food cost to get a targeted menu price for your item. For example,\n\nFood cost: $2.20\n\nTargeted food cost: 32%\n\nTargeted menu price ($2.20/0.32): $6.88, or $6.90 or even $6.99, rounded up.\n\nMaximize Profits: Where Do You Fall Along the Price Continuum?\n\nNow that you have your targeted menu price, it’s time to look at the other factors that influence your menu price and allow you to charge more or less, effectively moving you up or down the price continuum.\n\nStep 4: Determine Your Place Along the Price Continuum\n\nFactors that can influence the price include:\n\n  • The perceived value of your restaurant\n  • Whether you have a unique selling proposition\n  • The market and their willingness to pay\n  • The demand for your product\n  • The competition and what they’re charging\n\nPerceived Value of Your Restaurant\n\nmenu costing\n\nPerceived value is how diners perceive your concept, which includes your food, atmosphere, service, ambiance, decor, etc. The higher your perceived value, the more you can charge and vice versa. To increase your perceived value, create a strong USP. Speaking of which…\n\nUnique Selling Proposition\n\nYour USP is the aspect of your restaurant that differentiates you from the competition, increases your perceived value, and allows you to charge a premium. Your USP can be anything that makes your restaurant unique—from your service, menu, and ambiance to your decor, location, and food presentation.\n\nFor example, maybe your restaurant is in a beautiful location with amazing views that customers will happily pay more for. Or, perhaps your restaurant is known as the top Mexican restaurant in the area, with food, music, and decor that beautifully captures an authentic experience. Or maybe, just maybe, you have the best service in comparison to other restaurants. Any of those features may be enough for you to charge more for your food.\n\nThe Market’s Willingness to Pay\n\nDepending on the type of food you serve, you may have more or less flexibility in setting menu prices for your restaurant. People are more sensitive to the price of commonly available items, called commodities in economics terms, than they are to more niche offerings.\n\nA typical example of a commodity food item is a burger. Generally speaking, there is an upper limit to what people are willing to pay for a burger. Admittedly this may differ depending on where you live and whether you have a USP, which justifies a higher price-tag.\n\nPlate Costing\n\nBut, even with a strong USP, some customers may struggle to discern if that burger is genuinely worth the extra money. As a result, most burgers and other commodity items are priced from low to moderate on your price continuum.\n\nIf the market is only willing to pay $6.00 for your burger, you cannot charge $6.99 or even $6.90. You’ll have to drop your price and forfeit some of your margins or risk having sales drop as customers choose to eat at other restaurants.\n\nThe Demand for Your Product\n\nAs a restaurateur, you can use demand-based pricing to set a price based on how in-demand your restaurant is. The higher the demand for your restaurant, the more you can charge.\n\nmenu pricing\n\nFor example, a restaurant that is fully booked months in advance can charge much more than one that isn’t. Similarly, if your restaurant is located in an airport, you have a captive audience. It’s unlikely they’ll leave to get food elsewhere if they’re hungry, which equates to a higher price tag.\n\nThere are a variety of ways to increase your demand, the obvious one being to use advertising to get more customers. The other way is to make sure you have a strong USP.\n\n\nWhat’s the competition charging? Looking at restaurants that have a similar concept and seeing what they charge gives you a guideline to follow. But just because your competition is charging a certain price doesn’t mean you should charge the same. As you saw, if you have a strong USP, a higher menu price is often justifiable. On the flip side, the opposite is also true.\n\nMenu Pricing and Beyond\n\nMenu pricing is so much more than calculating your cost and factoring in your targeted food cost percentage.\n\nIf you want to price a menu accurately, you also need to factor in variables like your market, perceived value, and demand.\n\nOnce you have a firm handle on menu pricing, you can then focus on menu design, dish placement, and having the right mix of high and low margin dishes to hit your targeted food cost.\n\nRequest a demo to more about how xtraCHEF can help you with menu pricing.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.613774299621582}
+{"content": "Friday, September 6, 2019\n\n\nwith Elisabeth Oar cello\n\n\nW.A. Mozart: Divertimento in E-flat Major, K. 563\n\nGideon Klein: String Trio (1944)\n\nAnton Arensky Quartet in A minor, Op. 35\n\n\nThe Arianna Quartet opens their 2019-20 series with a concert spotlight on the genius of Mozart, the remarkable imagination of Gideon Klein, and the artistic achievement of featured alumna, guest artist, Elisabeth Oar.  Mozart’s regal Divertimento for string trio kicks off the season, showcasing the lyricism and shimmering beauty of Mozart in one of his most celebrated and heralded masterpieces in all of classical music. Gideon Klein’s enthralling String Trio, written in 1944 just before his tragic death, takes us inside the mind and spirit of this young brilliant composer, a talent taken far too soon who was destined to shape and impact the music of the 20th century.  UMSL alumna Elisabeth Oar joins the ASQ in Anton Arensky’s soulfully rhapsodic quartet gem for violin, viola and two cellos, a seldom heard work that finds its inspiration in the rich, expressive depth of the Russian tradition.  Come kick off the St. Louis concert season with the ASQ!\n\n\n\nFriday, November 1, 2019\n\n“Sound Spectrums”\n\nwith Alexandre Dossin piano\n\n\nFranz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage “Vallée d'Oberman”\n\nJohannes Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87\n\n\nThe ASQ is thrilled to welcome virtuoso pianist Alexandre Dossin back to the Touhill for an evening devoted to three unique sound worlds, set for piano solo and piano quartet.  Mr. Dossin begins the evening with one of Franz Liszt’s most intimate and personal works, the seldom heard “Vallée d'Obermann”, a masterpiece inspired by Etienne Pivert de Senancour’s novel of the same title, that explores eternal philosophical questions of the human psyche.   Brahms’ ruminative and autobiographical tour de force, the Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60 follows, depicting a world of staggering beauty juxtaposed against personal struggle.  Mr. Dossin and the ASQ round out the evening with a performance of Dvorak’s beloved Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.87, a work of arresting strength and heartfelt intimacy, and with a healthy dose of Gypsy panache that all comes together to create an electrifying listening experience!\n\n\n\nFriday, March 6, 2020\n\n“American Fantasy”\n\nFrederick Tillis: Spiritual Fantasy No.12\n\nReena Esmail: String Quartet (Ragamala) (2013)\n\nAntonín Dvořák: Quartet in F Major, Op. 96,  “American”\n\n\nIn a program dedicated to the boundlessness of the American spirit, the Arianna Quartet performs three quartets that showcase distinct and diverse soundscapes inspired by American experiences. The ASQ leads this program with Frederick Tillis’ Spiritual Fantasy No.12, an exultant and contemplative jazz and spiritual inspired work that embodies the sound of Tillis’ unique American perspective.  American composer Reena Esmail’s mesmerizing string quartet “Ragamala” follows, exploring the layered textures of the Indian tradition of raags, where free explorations and elaborations of singular musical ideas evolve into transcendent expressions of time and space.  Dvorak’s celebratory “American” Quartet rounds out the evening with a fusion of sounds inspired by Native American drumming traditions, African American spirituals, twittering birdcalls from the American Midwest, and Czech folk music tradition.\n\n\n\nFriday, May 8, 2020\n\n\nFelix Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3\n\nJohn Corigliano: “Snapshot”\n\nLudwig van Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132\n\n\nIn their season finale, the ASQ presents works that promise to thrill, chill and fill your heart with the personal perspectives of three masters of expression that capture the breath of the human experience.  Mendelssohn’s quartet, Op. 44, No. 3, opens with grandeur and nobility, and sizzles with the virtuosity of a musical master at the pinnacle of his powers.  “Snapshot”, John Corigliano’s poetic miniature for string quartet, reflects upon the combined simplicity and complexity of a moment captured in time, in memory and imagination.  Finally, the ASQ concludes their season with Beethoven’s glorious Op. 132 quartet, a work unparalleled in its depiction of fragility, power and the wonderment of the human experience.\n\n\n\n\n\nUMSL Music Department\n\n\nConcert Series\n\n\n7:10 P.M. Pre-concert talk\n\n8:00 P.M. Concert", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8953680396080017}
+{"content": "Letter to Senators Regarding Bill C-15\n\nThe following is the text of a letter sent, by both e-mail and physical mail, to represent the Edmonton Interfaith Centre’s position regarding Bill C-15 to the four Senators that represent Alberta in the Senate of Canada:\n\nDear Senators Black, LaBoucane-Benson, Simons and Tannas: \n\nIt has come to our attention that Bill C-15 is currently before the Senate. We want to encourage you to pass it.\n\nThe importance of this Bill cannot be overstated. As we understand it, Bill C-15 asks the Government of Canada to examine all laws to discover where any prejudice towards indigenous peoples may occur and change those laws so that they conform with the requirements of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.\n\nThis quote is from a summary statement, “Bill C-15 would affirm UNDRIP’s application to Canadian law, to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with UNDRIP and provide a framework for Canada’s implementation of UNDRIP. The principles set out in the bill are a benchmark for Canada’s conduct going forward.“\n\nIndigenous people in Canada have suffered for many years under laws that seemed reasonable and necessary at the time. These laws have proven to be arbitrary, discriminatory and prejudicial. Acknowledging the injustice of these laws requires the passing of Bill C-15.\n\nWe also understand that a full 60% of Canadian people support this bill and want you to approve it so that discriminatory laws can be corrected.\n\nIt’s a national embarrassment that Canada, known for its fair-mindedness and support of Human Rights around the world, would be treating its own indigenous citizens so poorly. This problem has to be fixed.\n\nPlease support working for the right thing to do, freeing indigenous people from the oppressive laws that have caused them considerable harm and suffering for so long.\n\nVote to Pass C-15!\n\nThanks for your consideration,\n\nGuy Blood, President, and the Board of Directors of the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education & Action", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8338710069656372}
+{"content": "How often do you water Thai basil?\n\nThai basil plants need at least six hours of direct sunlight to flourish. Water weekly but keep the water off the leaves; water from the base. Over-watering will cause the leaves to yellow and drop, and under-watering will make flowers and buds suffer, so it is important to attain a balance when watering Thai basil.\n\nHow often should you water Thai basil?\n\nBasil Plant Care Tips\n\nWater regularly – basil likes to stay moist and requires approximately 1 inch of water every week. Water deeply at least once a week to keep roots growing deep and the soil moist. Basil growing in containers will need more frequent watering.\n\nHow do I know if my basil is overwatered?\n\nOverwatered basil will show signs of wilting. You might also observe leaves turning yellow or dark brown, and this could be dangerous.\n\nWhy is my Thai basil dying?\n\nRoot rot is another common reason for droopy basil plants. Rot is a water-borne disease generally caused by improper irrigation or poorly drained soil. Let the soil dry slightly between watering, but don’t allow it to become bone dry.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Is Thai food high in sodium?\n\nHow do you take care of Thai basil indoors?\n\nThai basil plants are fairly low maintenance when grown indoors.\n\n  1. Water containers when the potting soil is dry to the touch. …\n  2. Avoid getting water on the foliage when watering the plants. …\n  3. Fertilize plants every 4-6 weeks using a water-soluble fertilizer at half strength.\n\nWhat can I do with too much Thai basil?\n\nMy favorite thing to do with Thai basil pesto is use it as a sauce for rice noodles. That’s pretty much instant Thai gratification. It’s also great as a brown rice stir-fry sauce and makes an incredible dipping sauce for spring rolls, and it’s pretty killer by the spoonful, too.21 мая 2015 г.\n\nHow long does a basil plant live?\n\nUnder perfect conditions, Basil plants can grow for up to 6 months in the ground, and up to four months in a pot.\n\nWhat does Overwatered mint look like?\n\nSigns of Overwatering\n\nAn overwatered mint plant has yellowing leaves, weak stems and appears droopy. It’s also more susceptible to diseases such as mint rust, powdery mildew, black stem rot, verticillium wilt, leaf blight and white mold stem rot.\n\nWhat is the best way to preserve fresh basil?\n\nHow to store basil in the freezer\n\n  1. First you need to clean and dry the leaves.\n  2. When the leaves are completely dry, place them on a cookie sheet, again single layer and place in the freezer for about two hours. …\n  3. Another way to freeze basil is to make Pesto.\n\nAre coffee grounds good for basil?\n\nIf you start to see flowers at the top of your basil plant, pinch it off. … You could either buy some plant food or use coffee grounds to fertilize with instead. I use coffee grounds with great results, and the only time I have used a store bought plant food…it killed all of my plants soooooooooo….\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Best answer: Are green or red Thai peppers hotter?\n\nHow long does Thai basil last?\n\n1 week\n\nWhy can’t I keep basil alive?\n\nMake sure your plant is grown in well-drained soil, standing water will damage the plants’ roots, but more to this later. Light: Basil loves light, and require full sun. … Space: Growing too much Basil in a small pot will make the whole plant likely to die off, make sure you give your Basil plant enough space to expand.\n\nWhat can I use instead of Thai basil?\n\nNo problem! Some recipes call for Thai basil, a pungent variety that can be hard to find in grocery stores. To duplicate its flavor, use common “Italian” basil and add a few fresh mint sprigs to the recipe.\n\nDoes Thai basil die after flowering?\n\n\nCan you root Thai basil in water?\n\nYour basil cutting can then be placed in a glass of water on the windowsill where it can get good sunlight. Use a clear glass so you can watch your basil propagation grow roots. Change the water every few days until you see root growth, then leave your basil propagation roots to grow to about 2 inches (5 cm.) or so.\n\nNoodles & Rice", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9839423298835754}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Does Screaming While Pregnant Hurt The Baby?\n\nWhat happens if you cry during pregnancy?\n\n\n\nWhy do baby kidneys swell during pregnancy?\n\nFetal hydronephrosis is swelling of a baby’s kidney caused by a buildup of urine. This can happen while the baby is still in the mother’s uterus. Doctors often find the problem when a woman has a fetal ultrasound during pregnancy. Urine normally travels from the kidney down a narrow tube to the bladder.\n\nCan crying and stress affect unborn baby?\n\nPregnancy can bring with it some stressful days. The occasional stress will not do any harm to your baby. However, if you have chronic anxiety and stress, it can cause your body to produce cortisol, a stress hormone. This hormone can be passed on to your baby through the placenta.\n\nHow should a husband treat his pregnant wife?\n\nEncourage and reassure her.Ask her what she needs from you.Show affection. Hold hands and give hugs.Help her make changes to her lifestyle. … Try to eat healthy foods, which can help her eat well.Encourage her to take breaks and naps. … Some women may want less sex. … Take walks together.\n\nCan getting really angry cause a miscarriage?\n\nStress can’t cause a miscarriage directly. Chronic stress can affect your pregnancy in other ways, and there is limited evidence to suggest that it may exacerbate some of the main causes of miscarriages.\n\nCan sitting in hot water cause miscarriage?\n\nClaim: Taking a Hot Bath Can Cause a Miscarriage The problem with hot tubs (or hot baths) is related to an increased body temperature overall rather than submerging your abdomen. Allowing your body temperature to get too high during pregnancy has also been linked with neural tube defects and is not recommended.\n\nIs it safe to go to a funeral while pregnant?\n\nPregnant women should avoid attending funerals Being at a funeral won’t cause these things to happen. However, the emotional stress that death brings can be a cause for concern.\n\nIs yelling bad during pregnancy?\n\nYelling, shouting or fighting can be inimical for the mother. Stress may lead to cramping, headaches, nauseous and sleep apnea. It may also lead to premature labour. Arguing while pregnant, in the first trimester, can lead to depression and irritability, as well.\n\nWhat are the signs of a healthy baby in the womb?\n\nBelow are the signs of a healthy baby during the early stages of pregnancy:Movement. A baby starts moving after 5 months of conception. … Normal Growth. There are several ways to measure the growth and development of a foetus. … Heartbeat. … Position At the Time of Pre-Labour. … Weight Gain and Belly of Expecting Mom.\n\nCan a stressful pregnancy affect the baby?\n\nDuring pregnancy, stress can increase the chances of having a premature baby (born before 37 weeks of pregnancy) or a low-birthweight baby (weighing less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces). Babies born too soon or too small are at increased risk for health problems.\n\nCan babies feel when Mom is sad?\n\nA new study published in the journal Psychological Science has found that babies not only pick up on their mother’s stress, they also show physiological changes of their own that corresponds to their mom’s stress. It’s not news that emotions are “contagious,” say experts.\n\nHow do you know if your baby is stressed in the womb?\n\nHeart rate abnormalities that are signs of fetal distress: Tachycardia (an abnormally fast heart rate) Bradycardia (an abnormally slow heart rate) Variable decelerations (abrupt decreases in heart rate) Late decelerations (late returns to the baseline heart rate after a contraction)\n\nWhat food can abort a month pregnancy?\n\n\n\nCan getting angry harm my unborn baby?\n\nIt is believed that being continually angry during pregnancy can cause the following complications: The baby may have a low birth weight. Premature delivery. Unfavourable effect on baby’s temperament (more prone to irritability and depression)\n\nCan yelling cause a miscarriage?\n\nCan too much stress cause early miscarriage? Answer From Yvonne Butler Tobah, M.D. While excessive stress isn’t good for your overall health, there’s no evidence that stress results in miscarriage.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5188594460487366}
+{"content": "Featured post\n\nA walk in the Park\n\nThis blog is dedicated to everyone who has struggled with Community Medicine. Through my posts I hope to simplify and demystify community medicine. The emphasis will be on clarifying concepts rather than providing ready-made answers to exam questions.\n\nFeedback is crucial for the success of this endeavour, so you are encouraged to comment and criticize if you cannot understand something.\n\nIf you want a topic to be discussed sooner rather than later, please let me know via\n\nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Community-Medicine-for-ALL/429533760433198  \n\n[Alternatively, you may join the group communitymedicine4ALL: \n\n\nTwitter: @DocRoopesh\n\nA single example may not be able to explain 100% of a given topic, so multiple examples may be provided to explain different parts of a single concept.\n\nIf something doesn’t seem right:\n\na. Write to me about it (at commed4all@gmail.com), and\n\nb. Cross check with another source (textbook, expert, etc.)\n\nI hope that my exertions will make your experience with community medicine seem like a “Walk in the Park”\n\nNote 1. Those who wish to contact me on facebook are requested to kindly send a personal message introducing themselves along with the request. This will help save time and effort of all concerned. Please do not expect me to visit your page to try and identify you/ your areas of work/ interest, etc. It is common courtesy to introduce oneself to another when interacting for the first time. I am merely requesting that the same civil courtesy be extended here, too. Henceforth, I may not accept any friend requests/ requests to join the group on facebook unless accompanied by a note of introduction (except when I already know the sender).  \n\nNote 2. Please understand that this blog (and the corresponding facebook page/ group) is maintained in my spare time. I have a full time job, and am available to pursue these activities only after regular working hours (after 5 pm Indian Standard Time). However urgently you may wish to receive a response from me, I will be able to respond only upon returning home from work (I am offline the rest of the time).\n\nNote 3. Please mind your language when interacting with me/ in the group linked to this blog. Rude/ offensive language will result in expulsion from both my friends list and the said group.\n\nEnhanced by Zemanta\n\nGeneral approach to Clinico-Social Case Discussion\n\nDisclaimer: This article is primarily intended for my students. However, it is of a general nature and may benefit others as well.\n\nBackground Information:\n\nClinico-social case presentation is an essential part of practical examinations in Community Medicine. There is no nationally accepted Clinico-social case format- variations exist between universities and between institutions within universities. Therefore, this article will not attempt to provide a harmonized clinic-social format. Instead, I will highlight key points students must bear in mind with respect to clinic-social case discussion.\n\nKey Messages:\n\nStudents must be familiar with the format in use in their university/ institution.\n\nStudents must present both clinical and social (and environmental) findings in the case assigned.\n\nRegardless of format used, from an examiner’s perspective, the objectives of conducting clinic-social discussion generally include:\n\n  1. Assessing the ability of students to obtain a reasonable history and perform focused examination\n  2. Assessing the ability of students to arrive at a reasonable diagnosis/differential diagnoses\n  3. Determining students’ ability to identify issues/problems in the case\n  4. Determining students’ ability to link/relate issues/problems with clinical/social/environmental factors\n  5. Determining students’ ability to identify the levels of prevention that have failed in the case of specific issues/problems\n  6. Determining students’ ability to offer a reasonable plan of management/solution for the major issues/problems\n\nOf the above, #1, #2, and #6 are generic skills, while the others are more specific to Community Medicine. With respect to #6, the approach is different from that in other clinical specialties.\n\nIn the examination, students must provide evidence that they possess (most of) the abilities listed above.\n\nI will discuss each of the above points in some more detail below.\n\nClinico-social case format\n\nIt is important that students are familiar with the Clinico-social case format used in their institution/university before the commencement of the practical examination. All examinations are conducted with a strict time limit. Therefore, it is important not to waste time trying to recollect the format during the examination. Often, students are expected to present the social findings before clinical findings (locate the clinical issues in a social context).\n\nIn the larger scheme of things, the format does not matter as long as it includes all important elements.\n\nCase findings\n\nStudents must collect all relevant information within 30 minutes or so, leaving time to write the case sheet. With respect to case findings, the following points must be borne in mind:\n\nThe order of collecting information does not matter- one could collect social and environmental history first to establish rapport, before proceeding to collect clinical history.\n\nStudents must seek verification of information to the extent possible- do not accept whatever is told at face value, and try to cross-check everything before writing it down. Similarly, one must seek confirmation of clinical information during physical examination- both should agree with each other.\n\nWhere one discovers a discrepancy (either during history or examination), the same should be clarified with the patient/bystander and resolved before writing in the case sheet.\n\nIt is preferable not to mechanically ask questions to the patient/bystander without regard for relevance to the case at hand- this will waste time and not benefit the candidate in any manner. Simultaneously, important information pertaining to the case should not be omitted.\n\nIn patients with a chronic Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, COPD, etc. a conscious attempt must be made to determine the following details regarding the disease:\n\n  • How it was diagnosed- accidentally, or due to symptoms/signs? Was there a delay in diagnosis? If yes, why?\n  • Initial treatment- lifestyle modification/pharmacological therapy advised? For what duration? Was the patient compliant to treatment? If no, why?\n  • Subsequent treatment- was treatment changed? Why? Was the change indicated/justified?\n  • Current status- what is the current status of the disease/condition? Is it under control, and how do you know (evidence of the same)? Have complications developed?\n\nThe ultimate purpose of this activity is determining if there were deviations from the expected course (of disease/treatment). These deviations will form the focus of discussion, and must be actively searched for- the more deviations one identifies, the better. Failure to identify issues may result in the examiner deciding the direction and breadth of discussion with the student having no possibility of guiding the same.\n\nEnsure that the history and examination are coherent- there should be no contradictions between the two. Similarly, if a problem is discovered during examination although it was not mentioned during history, revise complaints to include the physical finding(s).\n\nEnsure that the diagnosis is aligned with the presenting complaint(s), history, and examination. The diagnosis should logically follow from the presenting complaints, and explain all complaints.\n\nTip 1. Once you have arrived at a diagnosis/ differential diagnosis, go back and review the presenting complaint(s). Try to identify possible differential diagnoses from the presenting complaints- the final diagnosis should be one of the differential diagnoses.\n\nTip 2. Only state a diagnosis you can defend based on your knowledge and case findings. Remember, it is not the diagnosis, but how you arrived at the diagnosis that is being assessed.\n\n\nPrior to the discussion students are advised to do the following:\n\nIdentify key points in history and examination-these should lead to the final diagnosis\n\nPrepare a summary of history and examination- sometimes there won’t be enough time to present the entire case\n\nAnticipate potential questions that may be asked (based on diagnosis, issues/problems identified, etc.) and prepare responses for them. The following are frequently asked questions:\n\n  • Why do say the diagnosis is _______? (Here, you must provide the reasoning and justification for your diagnosis.)\n  ��� What are the levels of prevention that have failed? (Here, you must list each issue/problem and specify the level of prevention- primary/secondary/tertiary- that has failed, and why you say so.)\n  • What would you like to do for this patient/ How will you manage this patient? (Here, you must provide suggestions/solutions to address the main issues/problems mentioned above. It is desirable to respond by specifying suggestions/solutions at the individual level/family level/community level. Similarly, describe various levels of prevention as appropriate.)\n\nI have not specified it here, but students are expected to present a clinicosocial diagnosis, not merely clinical diagnosis. Therefore, it is advisable to practice framing a clinicosocial diagnosis before the examination. I will discuss how to frame a clinicosocial diagnosis in another article.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9893598556518555}
+{"content": "English / ქართული / русский /\n\nJournal number 3 ∘ Lasha Arevadze\nEstimation of Government Spending Multiplier in Countries in Transition\n\n\nThis paper examines theoretical and empirical approaches for estimating government spending multiplier for Countries in Transition, among them the focus here is Post-Soviet Countries (CIS countries). Government spending multiplier is low in developing countries, mainly it is caused with high debt level and weak institutions of those economies, CIS countries are not exception of these features. The paper studies the effects of government spending on CIS economies and how this effect depends on economic conditions, such as public debt level, cyclical position of economy, currency regime and etc. \n\n Keywords: government spending multiplier, CIS economies \n\nAcknowledgment: I would like to show my warm thank to Professor Iuri Ananiashvili, who is my supervisor at the department of econometrics at Tbilisi State University. Also, I wish to present my special thanks to Professor Temirlan Moldogaziev and Professor James Monogan from University of Georgia (USA) for their comments and beneficial revision of the article. \n\n1. Introduction\n\nThe main purpose of this paper is to investigate evidence about fiscal policy (spending side) efficiency in CIS countries (Common Wealth of Independent States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan). Limited numbers of publications are available for developing countries on fiscal multipliers. Actually, the shortfall of relevant evidences about developing countries stems from the data limitation. Moreover, time series on main macroeconomic variables are nonstationary and serial correlation is a serious problem.\n\nThe paper studies the effects of government spending on CIS economies and how this effect depends on economic conditions, such as public debt level, crisis time and exchange rate regime. In order to evaluate effects of spending shock to economy two stage model is applied in the paper. On the first stage, exogenous spending shock is identified and on the next stage its effect to economy is assessed based on fixed effect panel data model. Spending multiplier is not constant and it varies across policy environment, spending effect is stronger in crisis time, however, there are opposite cases as well. Also, bad fiscal time measured in GDP/debt ratio influence negatively on multiplier effect, as well as in case of currency peg regime the spending effect is stronger. The paper contributes to literature on fiscal policy in CIS economies by identifying government spending effect across different policy environment. \n\nAfter global financial crisis in 2008-2009 and the boost of Bubble on the assets market, we face sequential boost in the literature as general and about fiscal policy efficiency in particular. Interest among economists is due to unprecedented huge fiscal stimulation packages proposed by national governments for recovering their economies. In principle, the total amount of anti-crisis package was $2.18 trillion or 3.5% of world`s GDP. Existed literature about developed countries shows high efficiency of fiscal policy, i.e. high multipliers. In contrast, despite this boost in literature about developed countries, the developing countries still remain as a periphery of researches about the government spending multiplier and CIS countries are not exception.\n\nThere is no “the multiplier”[1] and the effect of government spending varies with economic conditions. The size of the multiplier is affected by crowding out effect of private consumption and investment, if this effect dominates, then multiplier is small and sometimes it can be negative. However, the effect varies in response to the economic situation. During economic and financial crisis fiscal policy is more efficient than in expansion, as there is  scarce liquidity during recession while government spending shock address this constraint. As well as literature shows spending multiplier is high in case of fixed exchange regime. Government spending shock results in higher interest rate, if financial market is open then it causes appreciation of local currency and export is declined in case of floating exchange regime, however, in case of fixed exchange regime government purchases foreign currency to defeat local currency from appreciation and there is no trade off in terms of export.\n\nOne of the stylized facts on multiplier is that it is smaller in developing countries. This means more crowding out effect of government spending in less developed countries. Also, in case of advance economies there is no or limited difference between government consumption and investment multipliers, but the multiplier effect of government investment is higher in developing countries. Another stylized fact is that in case of high public debt level, fiscal policy can be contractionary for economy and vice versa fiscal consolidation can be expansionary as consolidation results in lower risk premium of a country because of the lower debt burden. To sum up, the size of government spending multiplier is not unique number for a particular economy; moreover, its size is affected by various economic conditions.\n\nPost-soviet countries have experienced one of the turbulent economic environment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, on the way from socialism to market economy the size of government declined substantially, they have experienced financial and currency crisis in 1998 and 2008, as well as there was wave of currency devaluation from 2014 in CIS countries, what is effect of government spending in those countries and how it contributes to GDP under such a turbulent economic environment is a main research question of this paper.\n\nIn literature various econometric models are applied for identifying government spending multiplier, among them VAR model (such as Ilzetzki and others (2009)) and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model (DSGE), (such as Blanchard and other 2002) are widely used. To evaluate government spending multipliers which vary across economic conditions such as crisis time, currency exchange regime, debt level and etc. In the paper two stage linear estimation technique is applied to identify government spending shock at the first stage and to evaluate conditional multiplier on the second stage.\n\nThe remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 reviews existed literature on identification issue of spending multiplier especially in developing countries. Section 3 briefly describes theory and methodology for estimating government spending multiplier, Section 4 presents data, Section 5   describes results from two stage fixed effect model for 12 CIS countries; Section 6 concludes. \n\n2. Literature Review\n\nLimited numbers of publications are available for developing countries on fiscal multipliers. Actually, the shortfall of relevant evidences about developing countries stems from the data limitation in those groups of countries. Moreover, time series on main macroeconomic variables are nonstationary and serial correlation is a serious problem.\n\nDespite those limitations, there still exists some analysis for developing countries and various econometric models are applied. Researchers have to work out a new manner to isolate fiscal policy shock in developing countries. This shock should be unanticipated and not related to the current economic situation, otherwise private agents, who internalize government budget constraint in their intertemporal constraint, change their behavior and estimation will be biased. One of the contemporary studies for the sample of 102 developing countries on estimation of government spending multiplier was applied by Kraay in 2012. Best of my knowledge this is largest panel of countries such analysis is applied for, because of data limitation, Kraay (2012) in his paper use instrumental variable procedure for determining fiscal shock. In principle, he uses a debt reimbursement as an instrument of government spending shock. Kraay tray to address problems related to policy anticipation and independence from the current economic situation by the assumption that debt reimbursement is determined in advance and it is not related to the current economic situation. Moreover, as Kraay shows, only 20% of the total loan is disbursed in the first period and 17% in the second year and so on. Resulted from this evidence, Kraay claims that disbursement of particular loan is predetermined, but as in developing countries loan is one of the basic sources to finance expenditures, then it can be a good instrument of government spending. In this group of countries, Kraay applies his analysis, on average 16% of expenditure is financed at the expense of loan taken from multilateral and bilateral official creditors. But this strategy cannot be taken without careful judgment. Firstly, Kraay has conducted this analysis about 102 developing countries, but approximately 84% of those countries use foreign debt as a significant source for financing government expenditures.  Hence, if we follow Corsetti`s analysis about fiscal multiplier, most part of developing countries are below -6% critical threshold of negative budget balance (i.e. net borrowing).\n\nThe multiplier identified by Kraay varies from 0.38 to 0.42; which is fairly lower then multiplier for developed countries. However, there is a question about the multiplier calculated by Kraay; is it really unconditional multiplier i.e. multiplier in normal times? If we take into account the fact that most of the countries, Kraay applies his analysis, use loans to finance its expenditure, it is a conditional multiplier in case of high indebtedness. As other studies show fiscal policy is less efficient in case of higher debt, and then we can claim that the multiplier identified by Kraay in developing countries makes difficulties to interpret as multiplier in normal times in those countries. Moreover, the size of multiplier is affected not only by debt level but also, the source of debt financing matters. The rest part of this section deeply review some stylized facts in the literature on government spending multiplier.  \n\nEffect of debt level and its composition on the size of multiplier  \n\nThe indebtedness level of a country effects on the size of the fiscal multiplier and it is higher for countries with low levels of debt (Corssetti, 2012). Initially, when the public debt level is not very high government spending and private consumption are positively correlated, but when the debt level reaches a critical level they move in the opposite directions. The motivation of this argument is that a high level of debt is accompanied by a high interest rate because of higher risk premiums, especially in developing countries. Consequently, the crowding out effect dominates and fiscal policy efficiency is small. Furthermore, if the Debt/GDP ratio is above 50%, then fiscal policy is strongly unproductive; the long run multiplier in this case is -2 (Ilzetski, 2009). This once again means that to finance government consumption at the expense of taking debt is not a good deal. It is obvious that we face strong crowding out effect, which can be result of expectation about future consolidation and higher taxes, i.e Ricardian equivalence holds.\n\nThere exists some evidence about the strong crowding out effect of private investment due to public expenditures financed at the expense of domestic loans from banks. For instance, Emran and Farazi (2008) showed that if governments in developing countries take loans from  banking sector, then each $1 (taken from a bank) caused a reduction of private investment by $0.8. This evidence emphasizes the liquidity constraint in developing countries. Moreover, Gupta et al (2005) argues that a 1 percentage point increase of expenditures financed through domestic loans causes a reduction of the potential growth rate by 0.75 percentage points. The argument is that if deficit is financed through domestic debt, then it amplifies inflation, which negatively effects on growth.\n\nIt should be mentioned that the source of financing matters for the size of multiplier. In particular, debt financed expenditure causes an increase in private investment in developing countries; if such expenditure is financed through tax then it has a negative effect (Miller and Ahmed, 1999).  Miller and Ahmed (1999) analyzed the effect of source of spending on crowding out effect on investment and show that debt-financed expenditure crowds out investment if it concentrates on social security and welfare, but expenditures on communication and infrastructure crowds in. As for tax-financed expenditure, we face a negative effect on investment if it is spent on infrastructure.\n\n This idea is also supported by the analysis of Barro (1990), He states that tax-financed government expenditure causes a negative effect on GDP. Moreover, if it is productive spending, then it balances negative tax effect and causes a positive impact in the economy.  While argument in favor of debt financed expenditure shows a liquidity constraint in developing countries. A government provides additional liquidity to economy by taking loans instead of tax based expansion. However, we should not forget the discussion about critical level of debt and its negative impact on the effectiveness of public expenditure.\n\nComposition of Government Spending\n\nTo determine the size of the fiscal multiplier is equivalent to identify when it crowds in or crowds out private consumption and investment. Existing literature about the effect of fiscal policy on investment can be summarized as follows:  government capital expenditure in developing countries crowds in investment, as private and public investment can be considered as complements, while government investment is not more effective than consumption in developed countries. The last finding fits the traditional view of crowding out effect of government spending due to higher interest rates. However, evidence about developing countries is a non-traditional view, which is more powerful under non full employment condition. However, the magnitude of this effect depends on the structure of spending. For example, Sadeghi et al (2013) in their panel analysis about developing and developed countries show that the elasticity of private investment with respect to public investment is positive and significant (0.31), while it is 0.18 in developed ones. Moreover, private investment elasticity w.r.t. other type of expenditures is negative and lower than in developed countries, i.e. crowding out effect. Those authors conclude that in developing countries public investment is more efficient because private agents face a liquidity constraint, and interest rate differentials. However, there exist some other evidences which do not support this idea. For example Hasan (1960) states that in developing countries public investment has a long run nature (infrastructural projects, irrigation and other) and it has a low effect on current output and it contributes to inflation. The paper by Hassan (1960) is only a theoretical discussion, but recent empirical evidence from the IMF suggests that public spending on investment has positive impact on the economy, not only in the short run, but also in the medium-run; Estevao and Samarke (2013) in this paper estimate investment multiplier as from 0.2 to 0.7 and from 0.42 to 0.92 in the short-run and in the medium-run, respectively, in case of central American developing countries, while non-productive expenditure has a negative impact on those countries. As for the type of expenditure, the empirical evidence about developing countries shows that cutting expenditures on investment can be more harmful in the case of economic downturn relative to cuts in current expenditure.\n\nDevarajan et al (1996) showed that in the case of developing countries, current expenditures positively effect on GDP, while capital expenditures have a negative influence for the panel of 43 developing countries over 20 years. In their model, they also account for the total level of government spending; hence, in their model a one dollar increase of capital spending automatically means a dollar reduction in current expenditures. But in other models which do not account for total level of expenditures, then as Devarajan et al (1996) claim, the strong positive effect of capital expenditure can be a reflection of level effect of expenditure and not the relative advantage of capital over current expenditure. Actually, Miller and Ahmed (1999) do not control the total level of expenditure in their linear fixed effect estimation for 23 developing and 16 developed countries. Their result is more informative and different than the previous evidences. In principle, they showed that if expenditure on transportation and communication is financed through either taking loans or tax, then it has a positive effect on investment for developing countries, but we have zero or a negative impact on investment in developed countries.  However, if the government spends money on social security and welfare, it crowds out private investment. The work by Miller and Ahmed (1999), however, does not say anything about the gross effect on GDP due to different types of budget outlays.\n\nIn case of developing countries full effect of government investment is not reflected in multiplier. Kraay et al (2013) claim that higher  share of expenditure on investment does not mean that it is automatically resulted in the higher asset accumulation in developing countries due to inefficiency and waste. This analysis is supported by Kneffer and Kanck (2007). Moreover, Gupta et al (2011) numerically showed that a significant part of public expenditures on investment are not reflected in productive investment in developing countries. For example, in case of low income countries the share of capital stock adjusted with efficiency criteria is 30.1% of GDP, while the raw share is 71%. This finding magnifies our intuition that due to institutional rigidities, the spending on productive assets is not effectively used in those countries. Furthermore, the income share of adjusted public investment in GDP is lower (0.14 instead of 0.25), but because of downward adjustment of public investment by efficiency criteria, then marginal productivity for low income countries reaches 0.88, which is too high. Moreover, it is slightly higher than the marginal productivity of private investment (0.71).\n\nTo sum up, as it was previously stated in the analysis by Ilzetzki  et al (2010), the government investment multiplier is 0.6, which is significantly much higher than consumption multiplier (-0.19) in developing countries ; the paper clarifies that with 95% confidence level we can say that the efficiency of government investment is higher than the consumption multiplier in those countries. Moreover, the multiplier effect is further eroded with inefficiency.\n\nFixed Exchange Regime versus Flexible\n\nIn his paper, Müller (2012) identifies government spending multiplier as 0.75 under a floating regime vs. 1.2 under a pegged regime. The difference is significant but not as large as  in other works. For example, Petroviḉ et al (2014), for a panel of 10 emerging European economies show that the spending multiplier under a pegged regime is 1.31 versus 0.03 under fixed exchange regime. Moreover, Muller finds evidence against the traditional Mundel-Flaming channel; in this standard framework, government spending under the flexible exchange regime causes appreciation of the domestic currency and additional crowding out of net export, but in this evidence we face no deterioration of net-export. This means that there are other channels for making the difference between fiscal policy efficiency under fixed and flexible regimes.\n\nThere is no strong convention among economists about fiscal policy efficiency under fixed and flexible regimes. One cohort of economists for example, Corsetti et al (2012) claim that increasing outlays from the budget causes an increase of the interest rate. As a result, it causes currency appreciation, but if then monetary authority desires to fix the exchange rate, then it should increase money supply, which is additional stimuli for an economy and because of this we would expect a higher multiplier. But as other studies show, the real world is not so simple and we should investigate the effect of fiscal expansion under a fixed exchange regime and its interaction with other conditions of an economic environment. For example, Bonam and Lukkezen (2013) show that when a country experiences high sovereign debt risk, then currency devaluation is expected to the response of fiscal expansion. As a result, the monetary authority will have to tighten monetary policy in the case of a fixed exchange regime. Consequently, we face a higher interest rate and stronger crowding out effect of investment and consumption, hence a lower multiplier under a fixed exchange regime instead of the big stimulus predicted by one group of authors. However, Bonam and Lukkezen (2013) argue that there is a room for fiscal policy when its effect is higher under a pegged than flexible regime, even if we introduce sovereign risk in our analysis. For example, expansionary fiscal contraction holds only in the case of a fixed exchange regime only in the short run. Hence, if sovereign risk is high and fiscal authority consolidates, then it reduces the risk premium and stimulates an inflow of capital, which causes appreciation of the domestic currency. Under the peg, however, monetary authority intervenes and we do not face crowding out effect of export. This last finding once again emphasizes the importance to account existed economic environment during discussions on spending multipliers.\n\nThe difference between multipliers under fixed or flexible regime is also determined by degree of capital mobility. Riguzzi at el (2015) find that the output multiplier is lower (0.71) if capital markets are well functioned, relative to the case when capital mobility is limited (1.44). The intuition is   that when capital mobility is limited then to the response of fiscal expansion exchange rate appreciates, but if capital mobility is limited, then the degree of possible appreciation is lower and as a result crowding out effect of export is minor, hence multiplier is higher. If we account imperfect capital market in the developing countries then this factor would have a positive effect on the size of spending multiplier. Moreover, Kraay (2012) show that in case of developing countries there is no difference between multipliers under fixed  or flexible regime, because if financial market aren`t well functioned then there is no appreciation of domestic currency and no necessity of intervention. Hence, financial openness negatively effects on spending multiplier as well trade openness causes the lower multiplier. \n\nEffect of openness on the size of multiplier\n\nThere is abundant empirical evidence about the relationship between openness and the effectiveness of fiscal policy, for example,  Corsetti et al. (2012), Ilzetzki et al (2011) and etc. Also, Karras (2011) conducted analysis for 62 developed and developing countries and show that fiscal multiplier is decreasing function of degree of openness. For example, when openness is around 10%, then multiplier is too high (1.39) for this group of countries, but if openness is 50%, then multiplier becomes 1.05 and in the very extreme case when openness is more than 100% then multiplier reaches the lowest level (0.61). If the degree of openness is high, then the significant part of purchases by government are concentrated on imported commodities and the impact of policy on the domestic economy is limited. Above mentioned findings can be summarized with the table I.\n\nTo sum up we face significant variation of fiscal multipliers across various policy environment, the above discussion supports Corsetti`s idea that there is no “the multiplier”. Consequently, in this paper we analyses government spending multiplier by accounting policy environment, as it is suggested by Corsetti and others (2012).  \n\nGovernment spending multiplier in developing countries\n\nThere exists a significant evidence gap in the literature about the size of the spending multipliers in developing countries, while it is widely researched for advanced economies. Nevertheless, some evidence about fiscal policy efficiency in developing countries still exists. For instance, the short run multiplier for developing countries is 0.4, (Kraay (2012)); while it is higher and close to one in the developed countries (Corssetti, 2012). As a result (see, table I\n\nI), first  stylized fact from literature about developed and developing countries is that fiscal policy efficiency is higher in developed countries.\n\nThe basic reason why empirical evidence about developing countries is scarce is in lack of precise and long time series data for government spending as well as for other relevant variables to estimate fiscal policy efficiency. Due to this, for example, Kraay (2012) uses different methodology to estimate the multiplier in developing countries. In principle, Kraay in his paper uses an external debt reimbursement as an instrumental variable of government spending, because this variable is well accounted by the World Bank for each country and it is strongly correlated with government spending in developing countries. \n\nTable I. Summary of literature on fiscal multipliers.\n\n\n\nImpact multiplier\n\n\n\n\nDeveloped countries[2]\n\nPerotti (2005)\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRomer and Romer (2008)\n\n\n1.2 (one year)\n\n4 (cumulative)\n\n\n\nRamey (2008)\n\n\n\n\n\nGov. spending\n\nJohnson, Souleles, and Parker (2006)\n\n\n\n\n\nTax rebates\n\nIlzetzki and Vegh (2008)\n\nHigh income\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nBlanchard and Perotti (2002)\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nCogan and others (2009)\n\n\n\n1.2- 1.5\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nDalsgraard, Andre, and Richardson (2001)\n\n\n1.1 -1.5(one year)\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\n\n1.7-2.6 (one year)\n\n\nEuro Area\n\n1.2-1.9 (one year)\n\n\nElmendorf and Furman (2006)\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nCorsetti and others (2012)\n\n\n\n\nTwo step model\n\nGovernment spending\n\n\nDeveloping and emerging economies\n\nKraay (2012)\n\n102 developing countries\n\n\n\nIV estimation\n\nGovernment spending\n\nIlzetzki  and others(2009)\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nIlzetzki (2011)\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\nShen and S.Yang (2012)\n\nDeveloping countries\n\n\n\n\nGovernment[3] spending\n\n\n\n\nGovernment[4] spending\n\nPetrovic and others (2014)\n\nEmerging European economies\n\n\n\n\n\nGovernment spending\n\n 3. Theory\n\nIn this section, I review different theoretical approaches to identify fiscal multipliers; i.e. what they are and why they vary across different theory. Ilzetski and others (2012) claim that there is no “the multiplier” and it varies across different policy environment. Therefore, I will review key drivers of the size of multipliers resulted from the different economic environment and finally based on theoretical discussion; I will formulate two stage procedures for estimating government spending multipliers, similar to the model developed by Ilzetski and others (2012).\n\nThe simplest definition of a fiscal multiplier is that “it [spending multiplier] is the change in output due to a change in fiscal policy instrument” (as cited in Chinn 2013). Algebraically, it is ∂y/∂x where y is output and x is a policy instrument. If we wonder about the immediate impact of a policy, we should calculate the impact multiplier (i.e. ∆Y/∆G), but in most cases, especially when we try to calculate fiscal multiplier based on quarter data, we should calculate a cumulative multiplier:\n\nMost of empirical evidences about multipliers use not only Yt (GDP) as an endogenous variable, but also, researchers try to investigate how a change in fiscal policy is reflected in changes in consumption, investment, current account balance, exchange rate and other macroeconomic variables (Corssetti, 2012; Petroviḉ, 2014).\n\nI begin the discussion about the fiscal multiplier from the perspective of Neoclassical Synthesis. This theoretical model is characterized by Keynesian properties in the short run and Classical properties in the long run. As a result, as prices are sticky and cannot adjust quickly in the short run, fiscal policy is efficient and the multiplier is larger. Nevertheless, we expect no permanent effect from the change of fiscal policy as we use properties of Classical theory in the long run (Chinn, 2013).\n\nThe government spending multiplier is close to zero in Neoclassicists` approaches, as they assume no nominal rigidities. Moreover, this theory predicts a negative fiscal multiplier if taxes are distortionary.\n\nFinally, as a New Keynesian model uses inter temporal optimization, it is close to Classical approaches in its predictions, but additionally the model uses the assumptions about nominal and real rigidities. Due to these last extensions, fiscal policy has an effect on output in the short run (Chinn, 2013). Fiscal policy is not secured itself from a negative spending multiplier if expenditure is expected to be financed at the expense of taxes in the future; this is reflection of Ricardian equivalence (Capet, 2004).  An expectation that taxes will be higher in the future erodes consumption and investment today and output decreases consequently, so there is a negative spending multiplier.\n\nIn order to estimate multiplier in practice at least two conditions must be satisfied for government spending shocks, it should be unanticipated by economic agents and contemporaneous exogenous. Moreover, there is no “the multiplier” and it varies in relation to the economic environment. First of all cyclical nature of government spending matters.  If government spending is acyclical, then the requirement of contemporaneous exogeneity holds. But we still do not have a guarantee that fiscal policy is unanticipated.  Empirical literature about the cyclical nature of fiscal policy can be summarized as follows: fiscal policy is acyclical or counter cyclical in developed countries and mostly pro cyclical in developing ones (Ilzetzki, 2008). For example, the measure of the cyclical nature of government spending is 0.61 for developing countries and -0.11 for developed ones based on GMM estimation. Kraay et al. (2013) make a distinction between discretionary fiscal policy and automatic stabilizers and claim that in the case of developing countries, both of them are pro cyclical; automatic stabilizers are ineffective in those countries to smooth fluctuation of output. Moreover, they state that the procyclical fiscal policy is a reflection of constraint on financial resources, and also, sometimes it is politically motivated. Kraay points out that during the post crisis in 2008, the developing world and their governments had a better fiscal stance and they had a tendency to  more counter cyclical policy then in the pre-crisis period. Theoretically, counter cyclical policy is optimal, as increase in government spending relaxes liquidity constraint in economy in case of recession and its effect is stronger. Hence, recommendation is that government should increase spending in crisis time and reduce it in boom. In contrast to last argument about the advantages of counter cyclical fiscal policy, Hemming (2002) advocates that contractionary fiscal policy can be expansionary. Hence, fiscal consolidation causes a positive response from the private sector. The basic reason is that consolidation, in particular, if a country faces high public debt, causes reduction of risk premium, and as a result, the crowding out effect will be lower after consolidation and fiscal policy recreates power. Moreover, if low and negative fiscal multiplier is tendency in developing countries, then pro-cyclical fiscal policy seems rational for those economies; moreover, if they have problems related to solvency. For example, if a particular country increases its expenditure in bad times and the multiplier is negative, then it causes an additional reduction in GDP due to counter cyclical fiscal policy. Based on this discussion pro cyclical fiscal policy takes advantages in the case of developing countries mainly during recession. Debt level is main reason why counter cycle fiscal policy is not optimal in case of developing countries, high debt level bears positive and high risk premium from investor’s point of view, hence, if public debt is high then better strategy is to reduce government expenditure. In addition to low multiplier in case of high level of public debt, if it is financed through domestic loan then the multiplier is lower than if it is financed through foreign loan. Intuition is that if financial resource is scarce within country then additional financial resource from  abroad provides additional liquidity to economy and crowing in effect of government spending is larger.\n\nNot only debt composition matters in terms of size of multiplier but also spending composition is important, in developing countries public  investment is more efficient then government consumption, as public investment has complimentary effect and crowds in private investment, as a result effect is stronger.\n\nIn case of fixed exchange rate multiplier is higher, as expansionary fiscal policy provokes expansionary monetary policy. However, situation changes if capital market mobility is low. Higher government spending financed with  debt causes higher interest rate that can be reflected in inflow of financial resources from abroad, it pushes exchange rate up, and monetary authority has to increase supply of money to reduce interest rate differential. But if capital mobility is low then there is no pressure on    exchange rate and no necessity for monetary expansion as a result no additional multiplier effect. \n\nBased on empirical strategy described below size of spending multiplier will be iterated with different macroeconomic conditions. \n\nEmpirical strategy\n\nThe existing literature on government spending (or consumption) multipliers are mostly concentrated on identification issue of discretionary fiscal policy shock, i.e. the unanticipated part of government expenditure and its effect on output, private consumption, exports and many other macroeconomic variables. To identify the unanticipated part of government outlays is a principal requirement for precise estimation, especially for the research concentrated government spending multiplier based on VAR (vector autoregressive) model. In order to identify the unexpected part of government consumption SVAR (stochastic specification of VAR model), models make some linear assumptions about fiscal policy rules, and the rest of government spending can be considered as the unanticipated part. But as Ilzetki (2010) points out, there is no guarantee that the unexplained part by econometric models cannot be predicted by private agents; this is common across other papers based on the conventional VAR estimation developed by Blanchard and Perotti in 2002. But if the fiscal shock is predicted by private agents, this causes changes in their behavior and we cannot estimate the efficiency of fiscal policy precisely.\n\nThere are also a few papers, for example, Ramey (2011) which use extraordinary shocks in the economy which cannot be anticipated. For example, Ramey uses war time expenditure  in the case of the USA to predict the  government spending multiplier. Ramey argues that military expenditures in the case of the USA were properly exogenous shock. Other findings notify us about that the  exogeneity assumption about war time requisition is ambiguous. For example, Ilzutski (2008) in his paper argues that war time can be predicted in advance by individuals. The reason why it is problematic is that when we want to predict exogenous fiscal shock there are two basic requirements. Firstly, as we already said, fiscal shock should be unanticipated and secondly, shock should not be related to the current economic situation. Without ambiguity it can be said that wartime requisition is absent from the current economic situation. But it can be anticipated by private agents, because war cannot be started immediately. Moreover, the main reason why the model proposed by Ramey contains potential problems is that it requires a long time series, For example, the analysis by Ramey is applied over a long period of history of the USA and it covers a war time in Vietnam as well  in Korea. Such long data is not  available for most of other countries; moreover, those wars were out of the territory of the USA and these war times were not related to a significant reduction of capital in this particular country. Of course, this is not the case in other countries where the result of war was an extraordinary destruction of capital. Those are the main drawbacks of the model proposed by Ramey; at least it is too problematic to apply this model for other countries besides the USA.\n\nAs we say, the basic requirement is that fiscal shock should be contemporaneously exogenous, hence, fiscal stimulus should not be driven by the current economic situation. Because of this,  researchers have to make an  assumption about the lag in which fiscal policy can react to contemporaneous change in the economy. In normal times, of course, this lag is just one year; as the fiscal authority works out a new budget plan within one year intervals; but more problematic is that what happens during sudden and sharp downturn or boom periods. Most researchers who use quarter data claim that one quarter  lag is quite relevant in this case; i.e. fiscal authority needs at least one quarter to adjust its initial budget plan. The assumption that fiscal shock is contemporaneously exogenous is difficult to apply in the analysis which are based on annual data; in this context contemporaneously exogeneity means that the fiscal authority does not make any adjustment in the budgetary plan during one year. As Corsetti claims, a one year period as an implementation lag is relevant if there is no extraordinary case; for example, as this was in the case in the global financial crisis in 2008.\n\nThe second part of literature for identifying fiscal multiplier is based on New-Keynesian DSGE models. Structural models are not sensitive to assumptions required by VAR model, but they still bear some restrictions. The main assumption is related to price setting behavior. DSGE framework follows Calvo type price setting; according to this, one part of prices on intermediate goods are rigid in the  short time period, but some part of prices are free to optimize to the response of change in the economic situation. For example, Christiano, Eichenbaum, Rebelo (2009) in their paper for identifying the spending multiplier makes the assumption that 0.85 parts of price are rigid. And only under such exaggerated assumption they make a conclusion that the fiscal multiplier is 1.05. It is obvious that the size of the fiscal multiplier identified by DSGE models is sensitive with respect to the assumption about Calvo type price setting; if prices are less rigid then DSGE identifies a smaller multiplier against higher rigidity when the identified multiplier is close to Keynsian multiplier, and it is not a big surprise in the case of high price rigidity.\n\nMoreover, there is no convention among economists about fiscal policy rule, which is one of the basic equation in DSGE framework  (Batini et al, 2014);  in principle, we observe different modelling of fiscal rule in different papers; this can be a potential source of variation of the fiscal multiplier itself.\n\nThose problems related to conventional VAR and DSGE models is amplified by data limitation in the case of developing countries, this is a main reason why we have little empirical evidence for this group of countries. As we face lack of convention in estimation procedures and huge variation among calibrated multipliers is tendency, Batini et al (2014) provide a new model for estimating multiplier under data limitation called “the bucket approach”. This model is basically an “analytic guess” about the fiscal multiplier. The multiplier under this model is a simple weighted average of scores assigned to particular state of country (openness, rigidity of the labour market, level of automatic stabilizers, fixed or flexible exchange regime, level of government debt, effective expenditure/revenue management), but the authors allocate this measure of multiplier to three different intervals, hence, it gives us interval estimation and not point estimation of the fiscal multiplier. Unfortunately, except its simplicity under data limitation, this model has no theoretical background.\n\nFinally, we can say that each type of model, i.e. VAR and DSGE models cannot be used without pros and cons, and we need deeper analysis of specific application of those models to determine when the identified multiplier by economists can be obtained without any significant bias. \n\nAs it is stated in many papers, for example Perotti (2007), Muller (2012) the conventional VAR models proposed by Blanchard and Perotti (2002) are unable to predict fiscal shock, which is perfectly discretionary or unanticipated. Perotti`s argument is that most of the papers use one quarter implementation lag which is too short for fiscal policy to be implemented in this period, because of long implementation lag it can be anticipated by private agents. This idea is tolerated by Muller et al (2012). They proposed to add predicted government spending in model. Due to this, we can reduce the risk of anticipation. This approach is practically implemented by Corsetti (2012) for OECD countries when he uses composite leading indicator as a proxy of predicted GDP in his two stage regression. As long run time series  about predicted GDP or government spending is not available in the case of developing countries, then economists will have to work out new ways for predicting unanticipated fiscal shock, for example, Kraay use instrumental variable estimation  (but as was discussed, his approach is not free from problems).\n\n\nCorsetti, Meier, and  J. Muller (2012) suggests  a two-stage model to identify fiscal multiplier. This model tries to solve omitted variable problem which is the main problem in conventional VAR models. In principle, they put dummy variables which describe the economic environment in the model, such as: currency peg dummy, crisis dummy, the state of the primary balance of budget, public debt level.\n\nThe objective on the first stage the model identifies fiscal shock which will be orthogonal to other developments in the economy, i.e. exogenous shock of government spending. At this stage this model assumes that the fiscal policy rule can be described with past information on the economic environment. In principle, the explanatory variables at this stage are: trend variable, two lagged values of government spending (gt-1, gt-2); two lagged value of real GDP per capita (Yt-1, Yt-2); public debt/GDP ratio (bt-1); peg dummy (pegt-1,i); the dummy variable which shows the level of the primary deficit (straint-1,1), crisis dummy (crisist-1,i). But as it pointed out in other papers fiscal shock which is generated through fiscal policy rule  can be anticipated if the rule is based on only past information, and public expenditure can be predictable in this case. Due to this Corsetti and others try to control future development in the economy by introducing composite leading indicator (clit-1,i) which is used as  a proxy of predicted GDP. The dependent variable is government spending per capita in t period.\n\nStage (1) \n\n  Gt,I ii *trendti,1 gt-1 + βi,2 gt-2i,1 Yt-1 i,2 Yt-2iclit-1,Ii bt-1+ ρi,1 pegt-1,1 + ρi,2straint-1,1 + ρi,3 crisist-1,1t,    (I) \n\n\nAt the second stage, this model uses fiscal shock and its lagged values as explanatory  variables (μhatt,I, μhatt-1,I ,μhatt-2,I ,μhatt-3,i) generated from the first stage regression. Also, interaction between fiscal shock and dummies which describes economic environment is applied (μhatt,I*dt,I            μhatt-1,I*dt-1,I , μhatt-2,I*dt-2,I , μhatt-3,I*dt-3,I ), as well pure effect of dummy variables on the dependent variables is considered (dt,I,dt-1,I,dt,i-2,dt-3,I ). The dependent variable can be firstly, GDP per capita, as well as, consumption, investment, export, exchange rate and many other macroeconomic variables.\n\nStage (2)   \n\n  Xt,i =ai +kitrendt +qixt-1,I iμhatt,I + ξ2μhatt-1,I + ξ3μhatt-2,I + ξ4μhatt-3,I1(μhatt,I*dt,I )+ τ2(μhatt-1,I*dt-1,I )+ τ3(μhatt-2,I*dt-2,I )+ τ4(μhatt-3,I*dt-3,I )+ω1dt,i+ ω2dt-1,i+ ω3dt,i-2+ ω4dt-3,I t,   (II)\n\nCorsetti and others (2012) use this model to estimate the spending multiplier for OECD countries, based on annual data. In this section I am going to apply this model for CIS economies. The main limitation is the lack of sufficient data; I use annual data from 1991 to 2016 on GDP per capita (current USD), instead of dummy variable of bed fiscal time which is defined based on primary balance in the original paper, I use GDP/public debt threshold. Also, the data about composite leading indicator is not available for those groups of countries, and instead of this, I use a one year forward lag value of the trend component of GDP. \n\n4. Data\n\nIn this paper government spending multiplier is estimated with two stage linear model. On the first stage government spending shock is identified based on the fiscal policy rule as it was described in empirical strategy, fiscal policy rule is determined with public debt level, budget balance, currency peg regime, and crisis periods. Detailed description of those variables and their sources is given in the table II.\n\n\nTable II. List of variables\n\n\nData source\n\nLog of per capita GDP\n\nWorld Bank database, World Development Indicators: GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$) World Development Indicators. Data is available from 1992 to 2015, in total we have 290 observations\n\nLog of real per capita government spending\n\nWorld bank database: World Development Indicators, general government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) is used together with per capita GDP to reconstruct per capita government expenditure, data are available from 1992 to 2015, in total we have 288 observations.\n\nGeneral government gross debt (as % of GDP)\n\nIMF, Data is available from 1992 to 2015 only for Russia and Ukraine, also, data on debt is available from 1995 to 2015 for most CIS countries. In total we have 256 observations for 12 countries\n\nFinancial crisis dummy\n\nTakes on value of 1 during financial crises, and 0 otherwise, when one of them Systemic Banking Crisis (starting date) Currency Crisis,Sovereign Debt Crisis happens. The data comes from IMF Working Paper \"Systemic Banking Crises Database: An Update\"  by Luc Laeven and Fabian Valencia (2012) which is available from 1992 to 2012 ,            In total we have 262 observations for 12 countries.\n\nBad fiscal times dummy\n\nTakes on a value of 1 when lagged public debt exceeds 100 percent of or alternatively time when General government net lending/borrowing (Percent of GDP) is less than -6%. Because of limited data availability on General government net lending/borrowing, we have to use public debt threshold for determining bed fiscal time. The 100% threshold is taken by Corsetti at al. (2012) for advanced economies, but 60% threshold is more prudent for CIS countries.\n\nPeg dummy\n\nCarmen M. Reinhart database: Exchange rate regime classification, annual, 1946-2016, (http://www.carmenreinhart.com/data/browse-by-country/ ) is used  as a peg dummy variable\n\nData is available from 1992 to 2015, in total we have 288 observations.\n\n\n5.Results and discussion\n\nOn the first stage 12 individual regressions were run and residuals (spending shocks) were identified. Residuals from the first stage linear regressions are government spending shock, i.e. part of government spending that cannot be explained by fiscal policy rule.\n\nOn the second stage initially unconditional multiplier was estimated, hence, the model was estimated without putting dummy variables on economic condition in it. On the second stage firstly unit root test was applied for logarithmic value of GDP and as it was predicted non-stationarity was detected with Im–Pesaran–Shin test, but first difference of ln(GDP) is stationary. Hence, on the left hand side dependent variable in our model is growth rate of GDP. Unconditional fixed effect model predicts that coefficient of impact of government spending over growth rate of GDP is 0.045, however, this cannot be interpreted as multiplier, because the multiplier is level change in GDP from 1 dollar change in government spending; as the average share of government spending is 15% in CIS countries, we can say that 0.045/0.15=0.3 is unconditional government spending impact multiplier for CIS. Hence, one dollar government spending shock cause 0.3 dollar increase in GDP, this coefficient is quite close to multiplier identified by Kraay. First and second year lag multipliers are insignificant, on the third year impact multiplier is negative and significant, as a result cumulative multiplier is smaller than impact multiplier, this finding suggests that government spending is significant contemptuously, but close to neutral in the long run.\n\nTable III. Second stage regression analysis\n\n\n\n(model 1)\n\n\nDebt level\n\n(model 2)\n\n\n\nFixed vs. flexible exchange regime (model 3)\n\n\nRecession vs. expansion\n\n(model 4)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock -1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock -2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock-3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock*debt dummy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock1*debt dummy1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock2*debt dummy2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock3*debt dummy3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebt dummy \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebt dummy -1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebt dummy -2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDebt dummy -3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock*peg dummy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock1*peg dummy1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock2*peg dummy2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock3*peg dummy3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeg dummy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeg dummy 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeg dummy 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeg dummy 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrisis dummy[7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrisis dummy 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrisis dummy 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCrisis dummy 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock* crisis dummy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock1* crisis dummy1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock2* crisis dummy2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpending shock3* crisis dummy3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n One of the core question in our model was how economic environment effects on the size of multiplier.\n\nEffect of public debt level\n\n60% of debt to GDP ratio was taken as a threshold to analysis effect of government spending when it keeps low level of debt versus higher level of debt. When the debt/GDP ratio is less than 60% (low level) then impact multiplier is 0.35[8]. Coefficient of interaction between government spending and debt dummy is not significant contemporaneously. Hence, impact multiplier at high debt versus low debt  is not different. However, coefficient of first and second year lags of interaction variable is significant, but signs of those coefficients oscillate. Hence the model doesn’t provide enough evidence to conclude that fiscal multiplier is smaller in case of high debt versus low debt level in the case of CIS countries, probably, it happens because of low frequency of sovereign debt problems among those countries in data.\n\nCrisis and spending multiplier\n\nI defined crisis as negative deviation from HP trend of GDP, hence the negative output gap, while positive deviation is expansion. Government spending impact multiplier in crises time is 0.13[9], this is significantly smaller than unconditional multiplier. Coefficient of interaction variable of government spending and crisis dummy on impact is not significant; hence, impact multiplier is not different across crises versus non crises conditions. However, the previous year multiplier in case of expansion  is positive and significant (0.0363), this means that if government increases expenditure in crises time then it will have negative effect on GDP in the next year (negative multiplier is 0.24). This evidence supports the idea on expansionary fiscal consolidation. Hence, if government will consolidates budget in crises time it has expansionary effect on GDP. Alternatively, I defined sever crisis as negative one standard deviation from HP filter. In this least case impact multiplier in non-crises time is 0.28 while coefficient of interaction variable is insignificant too.\n\nCurrency regime and the size of multiplier\n\nBased on Carmen M. Reinhart database on currency regimes I have applied interaction between currency peg dummy variable and  government spending shock to assesses variation of multiplier in flexible versus fixed exchange rate regime. Impact multiplier in case of fixed exchange rate regime is 0.33, but model failed to identify different impact multiplier in case of flexible exchange rate regime. However, government spending shock has smaller effect in case of flexible regime versus fixed regime (multiplier is smaller by 0.23) after one year when fiscal shock is implemented, probably, this means that monetary expansion channel needs time to react on fiscal policy changes.\n\n6. Conclusions or Implications\n\nThere is scarcity of researches on government spending efficiency, and developing countries are not exception. This paper analyses government spending multiplier in CIS countries. Main challenge for economists to measure government spending multiplier is to identify spending shock which will be unanticipated and contemporaneously exogenous. This paper use two stage linear model approach , on the first stage spending shock is identified based on modeling fiscal policy rule, and on the next stage spending shock is used as policy variable to estimate multiplier for the panel of 12 CIS countries.\n\nGovernment spending unconditional multiplier identified in this paper is 0.3 for CIS countries. In principle, the multiplier is close to other estimates for developing countries. It shows that 1 dollar unexpected increase in government expenditure is resulted in increase of GDP by 0.3 dollar. As a result there is no evidence of expansionary effect of government spending in CIS countries.\n\nTogether with unconditional multiplier the paper also identifies spending multiplier across different economic condition. As model shows there is evidence that in crisis time government expansion can lead negative consequence to economy, it supports the idea on expansionary fiscal contraction. According to the model there is no evidence on variation of multiplier across debt level, while model estimates smaller multiplier in case of flexible exchange rate regime versus fixed regime. There is no strong evidence on lagged effect of government spending, hence, cumulative multiplier (long run multiplier) is not higher then impact multiplier which is close to 0.3 for the panel of CIS countries, as it was expected spending multiplier is low in this group of countries and this estimation is close to empirical evidences for other developing countries. To sum up based on the evidence of two stage models for CIS countries; fiscal authorities from those countries should not expect significant effect of government spending shock to their economies, in addition, there is evidence that fiscal consolidation contributes positive response of economy in crisis time in those group of countries.\n\n\nBatini, Nicoletta, Luc Eyraud, and Anke Weber, (2014). “A Simple Method to Compute Fiscal Multipliers”, IMF working paper WP/14/93.\n\nChriastiano, Lawrence, Martin Eichenbaum, and Sergio Rebelo. 2009. “When is the Government Spending Multiplier Large?” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper 15394\n\nCorsetti, Giancarlo, Andre Meier, and Gernot J. Müller. 2012. “What Determines Government Spending Multiplier?” IMF working paper WP/12/150\n\nEstevao, Marcello, and Issouf Samarke, (2013). “The Economic Effect of Fiscal Consolidation with Debt Feedback”, IMF working paper WP/13/136.\n\nIlzetzki, Ethan , Mendoza Enrique G. and VÃegh, Carlos A. 2013. \"How big (small?) are fiscal multipliers?,\" Journal of Monetary Economics,vol. 60(2), pages 239-254\n\nIlzetzki, Ethan, Carlos A. Vegh. 2008. “Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction?” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 14191.\n\nKraay, Aart. 2012. “Government Spending Multiplier in Developing Countries.” The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 609\n\nPetroviḉ, Pavle, Milojko Arsiḉ, Aleksandara Nojkoviḉ. 2014. “Fiscal Multiplier in Emerging European Economies.” Fiscal Council of Republic of Serbia Research Paper.\n\nShen, W.  Shu-Chun S. Yang, and Luis-Felipe Zanna .2015.“Government Spending Effects in Low-Income Countries”, IMF working paper WP/15/286\n\n[1] Corsetti at al. 2012. “What Determines Government Spending Multipliers?”, International Monetary Fund WP/12/150\n\n[2] All those multipliers are taken from IMF staff paper note about fiscal multiplier (2009)\n\n[3] Source of expenditure is domestic debt\n\n[4] Source of expenditure is external debt\n\n[5] Coefficient\n\n[6] t-test\n\n[7] 1 –in case of expansion and 0- in case of recession.\n\n[8] Elasticity of GDP w.r.t. government spending is divided by share of government spending in GDP 0.0529/0.15\n\n[9] 0.019/0.15", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9636154174804688}
+{"content": "Chat with us, powered by LiveChat Business Education with Cannabis Based Majors in Universities Assignment | acewriters\n\n10 pages with a couple of sources. MLA format.\n\nUnformatted Attachment Preview\n\nRubric Group Assignment\nBusiness 1\n100 points\nPurpose of Assignment\nAssignment Steps\nDevelop​ a minimum 3,500-word (10 pages) proposal in which you explain the importance of\nmodel for this new division.\nInclude​ the following:\n\nyour product or service.\nDescribe how the division addresses customer needs and achieves competitive\nmission and vision.\nresponsibility, and ethics.\nStudents gain experience conducting an internal and external environmental analysis for their\nproposed new division and its business model. They will also gain valuable experience in\nconducting a SWOTT analysis for their proposed division.\nConduct​ an internal and external environmental analysis for your proposed new division and its\nbusiness model.\nDevelop​ a SWOTT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should\nconsider, at a minimum, the factors below.\n\ntrend, and include it in your table.\nInclude the SWOTT table in your submission.\n○ External forces and trends considerations:\n■ Industry Changes\n■ Legal and regulatory\n■ Global\n■ Economic\n■ Technological\n■ Innovation\n\n■ Social\n■ Environmental\n■ Competitive analysis\n○ Internal forces and trends considerations:\n■ Strategy\n■ Structures\n■ Processes and systems\n■ Resources\n■ Goals\n■ Strategic capabilities\n■ Culture\n■ Technologies\n■ Innovations\n■ Intellectual property\n■ Leadership\nIdentify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.\nCritique how well the organization adapts to change.\nDiscuss the primary internal organizational considerations for the development of a\nstrategic plan.\nDevelop​ the strategic objectives for your new division of the existing business in a balanced\nscorecard format in the context of key trends, assumptions, and risks. The strategic objectives\nare measures of attaining your vision and mission. As you develop them, consider the vision,\nmission, and values for your business and the outcomes of your SWOTT analysis.\n\nIdentify marketing and information technology as part of the strategies and tactics\nsection of the business plan.\nDevelop at least three methods to monitor and control your proposed strategic plan,\nbeing sure to analyze how the measures will advance organizational goals financially\nand operationally.\nDetermine the best possible options for evaluating the strategic plan.\nExplain the ethical issues faced by the organization, summarize the legal and regulatory\nissues faced by the organization, and then summarize the organization’s corporate\nsocial responsibility.\nShow, in this section, the possible implications of the triple bottom line (people, planet,\nprofit) on the strategic plan and its implementation.\nFormat​ your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.\n\nOur essay writing service fulfills every request with the highest level of urgency.\n\nerror: Content is protected !!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000079870224}
+{"content": "Tags Guitar from inside\n\nTag: guitar from inside\n\n\nGoogle doodle for the 94th anniversary of B.B. King\n\nSpectacular Doodle illustrated by Steve Spencer and animated by Brooklyn Nayeli to commemorate the 94th birthday of B.B King, the iconic \"King of Blues.\"\n\nHow to imitate other instruments on guitar\n\nIn this video David teach us how you can make your guitar sound like a bagpipe, like a violin or like a cello, among others.\n\nPlay guitar with Google doodle\n\nThrough elgoog.im/guitar/ you will find the google doodle dedicated to Les Paul. With it you can play the guitar using the keyboard of your computer. Some...\n\nWhat happens if you submerge a guitar in water?\n\nToday we have another video from Rock and Play, a highly recommended Youtube channel, and specifically, one in which we can see what happens...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7193540334701538}
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+{"content": "Exhibits I might skip, part one: Gallery 400's \"Observer Effect\" | Bleader\n\n\n\nSign up for our newsletters Subscribe\n\n\nThe press release that landed in my inbox this week for the group exhibit \"Observer Effect,\" up at UIC's Gallery 400 through March 9, brought to mind a series of blog posts by former Reader managing editor and current contributor Jerome Ludwig. These posts ran under the title \"Books I won't review,\" and consisted of hilariously misguided pitches.\n\nHere's Gallery 400's opening paragraph:\n\nObserver Effect examines how artworks incorporate processes akin to the scientific method as a means to examine and understand specific phenomena that exist in the world. Each artist’s idiosyncratic approach of observing and understanding his/her distinct subject matter reveals the artist's own subjectivity through this process, and discloses how each artist, the observer, is part of what is being observed.\n\nHuh? But never mind. Further down they explain it all:\n\nIn Observer Effect, curators Carrie Gundersdorf and Lorelei Stewart reveal how keen observation and investigation are parts of artistic practice and how that practice is often imbued with the subjective. That subjective element is an effective artistic tool. Observer Effect proposes to reveal just how useful that tool is, and the dynamic relationship between artist, process, and artwork.\n\nAh. Artists look carefully at their subjects. They have reactions to what they see. It all goes into the art. Eureka.\n\nThen there are the descriptions of each artist's work:\n\nRather than a rigid scientific approach, John O'Connor's methodology involves invented systems that produce drawings that are more reactive to data than they are to concrete representations. His process is haphazard but not aimless—relying on chance and reassessment.\n\nWith a highly interdisciplinary approach to art-making, Steve Roden investigates source material through self-invented restrictions, though always leaving room to make intuitive and reactionary decisions.\n\nThe large-scale drawings of Jorinde Voigt exhibit a particularly human perception of the natural world through subjective algorithms and diagrams that create a visualization of data that suggests temporality through spiraling and crossing lines—more reminiscent of documenting esoteric experience than rigid schematics.\n\nThe curators reach a conclusion:\n\nThe basics of the scientific method—asking a question, conducting background research, offering a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis in an experiment, analyzing the data, and drawing a conclusion—offer a pathway both to understand our changing world and to reflect on the new forms of thought necessitated by it.\n\nWhat new forms of thought? Maybe the exhibit makes that clear, but I don't think I'll get there.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6374491453170776}
+{"content": "Gender Equality\n\n\"Women are the key to eradicating poverty. The roles they play in their families and communities make them the real facilitators of development. Whenever there is progress for women, the whole world benefits.\"\n\nBan-Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General \n\nThe Problem\n\nMuch of Africa is governed by patriarchal society, and even when it is matriarchal as in Malawi, traditional lore is often overlooked in favour of men.  Malawian women traditionally do not have much, if any, decision making power in the household.  They have multiple roles making demands on their limited time; gathering water and firewood, cooking, cleaning, caring for family members, growing the food crops.  Typically, but not always, men are responsible for growing the cash crops and income generated may be spent on things do not directly benefit the family.  Women may not be allowed or encouraged to participate in the management of finances or income generation, yet when women generate their own income, it is usually spent on family welfare.\n\nIn many cases women are more disadvantaged due to reduced access to productive assets, rights to land and support services, resulting in female-headed households tending to be poorer in general than their male-headed household neighbours.\n\nWomen are also faced with the increased household burdens of caring for sick family members, while often being sick themselves, struggling to produce enough food. \n\nTraditionally women have little or no voice.  Where husbands are more liberal, or are absent, the women may be shy and unconfident about making decisions and making their voice heard.  In some areas it is neither common nor encouraged for women to take on leadership roles or speak out on household or community issues.\n\nThere are gender imbalances in education as girls often drop out of school earlier than boys, as they are required to help with the multiple and time consuming household duties. This compounds the problem of lower female literacy, especially in rural areas. \n\nDue to high levels of illiteracy amongst girls and women, they are less able to protect themselves from sexual exploitation. Combined with female physiology, and women’s lack of power to negotiate sexual relationships, especially in marriage, women are more vulnerable to the impact of HIV and AIDS than men. \n\nFor these reasons, it is important to empower women so that they are able and allowed to meet their potential as full and equal citizens, being as economically and socially productive as they can.\n\nThe Solution – NASFAM’s interventions\n\nIn this context NASFAM is focused on prioritising the important role that female members can and should play in their communities as the involvement of women makes good business sense for smallholder farming productivity.  Female membership is currently 36%, and female leaders 30%, but the ultimate goal is to have female representation mirror national gender statistics of women, at 51%.[1].\n\nNASFAM’s gender participation strategy focuses on the following activities;\n\n  1. Equitable Gender Participation: NASFAM prioritises equal participation of women throughout the NASFAM system.  Women are encouraged to become members and to actively participate in their local Committee activities, as well as putting themselves forward for leadership positions.  Female role models are used to encourage participation of women, and to ensure support from within the NASFAM system, Association leaders are trained on equal gender participation and how it translates for the roles of men and women.  This is further supported by the HIV and AIDS sub-Committees whose role is to endorse and promote more equitable gender participation to the broader membership. \n\n  2. Functional Literacy and Basic Business Skills: Illiteracy is a national problem that is more prevalent in rural areas and is thus impacting on social and economic productivity of smallholder farming communities.  Illiteracy is higher for women (56%) than men (31%)[2], which compounded by lack of confidence, prevents women from fully participating in the development of their family, farming business and community.  NASFAM runs a comprehensive training programme, which focuses on literacy, numeracy and basic business skills for all members who are partially or completely illiterate.  While the training is offered to both genders, by default attendance tends to be 65% women as men are often embarrassed to admit their illiteracy.  The increased confidence that comes from literacy training helps to increase female participation in NASFAM.\n\n  3. Livelihoods for Women: Women are often not able to access productive assets and yet evidence shows that income earned by women is spent on household welfare. NASFAM works with a proportion of female members, particularly female headed households, to help set them up in sustainable income generating activities so that they can farm as a business and support their families.  Some of these women may have benefited from the functional literacy training.\n\nThe implementation of these project activities is facilitated by the support activities of;\n\n  1. Farming as a Business Concept: The “Farming as a Business” concept underpins all NASFAM programmes, and in this case supports the Gender programme by increasing knowledge on gender roles and equal gender participation which make good business sense for farming productivity. \n\n  2. NASFAM Radio Programmes: NASFAM produces a twice-weekly 30 minute radio programme, aired nationwide helps provide members, and the broader community, with information on the role that equal gender participation can play in governance and increased farming productivity.\n\n[1] Source: Government of Malawi 2008 Population Census\n[2] Source: National Statistical Office of Malawi, 2004 data for rural literacy", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7349942922592163}
+{"content": "MV3202 Introduction to Computer Graphics\n\nThis course introduces you to computer graphics -- its powerful capabilities, a history of its technologies, as well as up-to-date developments to its far-reaching potentials across the consumer, industrial, and military domains, and how to achieve these potentials. You will learn about the principles of hardware and software used to create computer-generated images, about basic rendering and raytracing, 3D graphics programming in OpenGL, lighting and shading, textures, and scene graph architectures. MV3202 prepares you to design and implement 3D graphics simulations and to understand the theory of modern graphics rendering. The course is intended for students who have taken a basic course in, or have recent programming experience in, a programming language such as C++ or Java.\n\nLecture Hours\n\n\nLab Hours\n\n\nQuarter Offered\n\n  • Winter", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9959216117858887}
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Predicted.\n\ncalculation of the power draw of dry multi–compartment ball mills\n\nMay 6 2004 . 879.4. where. Kwb – Kilowatts per metric ton of balls. D – Mill diameter inside liners in meters. Vp. – Fraction of mill volume loaded with balls. What Is the Difference Between Kva and Kw?\nWhile both kVA and kW are units of measure kVA is a kilo volt amperes and kW is a kilowatt. Both the kVA and the kW are units used to express power. Weg Electric Motors Specifi ion Guide\ncontinued growth electric motors remain one of WEG& 39;s . P kW = 0.7457 . P HP . P HP = .34 P kW . In this case the outputs of the above . resistance is calculated by multiplying the line voltage by the . milling machines crushers. . Ton long . 000 023. Ton short tn . 000 . Tonne metric ton t . Specific mass.\n\n\n0.49 2. Kilowatts. BTU/ Hr. 34 3. Kilowatts. Watts. 000. Pounds of Water. Cubic Feet . Tons refrigeration BTU/ Hr. 2000 . HP x 746. V x %EFF x PF x .73. Amps when. “KW”is known. KW x 000. V x PF . MOTOR FULL-LOAD AMPERES.\nEnergy Basics Jan 9 2020 . In classical physics terms you do work on an object when you exert a force . James Prescott Joule 8 8- 889 who first calculated the amount of . Since the watt is such a small unit power is often measured in kilowatts KW . . The term horsepower implies the amount of muscle a particular engine has.\n\nA Laboratory Investigation of ball milling - American Institute of Mining THE trend in ball milling has been toward mills of larger diameter . He calculated ball paths as though they were parabolas of . He stated that horsepower for the most efficient operating speed is . The entire motor output does not go into crush- ing. . for the 9-ft. mill than for the Sft. size and fewer kilowatt-hours per ton.\nAlternative Energy Concept Plan - San Bernardino Community . kWh Output for 200 kW PV System . . Blended cost of electricity is calculated as $ 0. 4/kWh and for natural gas as . chillers are expected to operate at 0.5 kW/ton at night which will save energy . CHC has over 00 motors in sixteen buildings being analyzed. . 2x 00 HP with VFD with bypass and NEMA Seven Trust.\nManufacturing Cost Analysis of 00 and 250 kW Fuel . - levels considered for this portion of the project were 00 kilowatts kW and 250. . inverters which incorporate a separate direct current input/output I/O port for . motor spin-up which may also damage the motors if the voltage sag is extreme. . ball mill. 0 hrs . Coat Anode. Membrane. Coat Cathode. Transfer. Substrate.\n\nA power based approach for the selection and comparison of ball . Apr 9 20 8 . The hypothesis is a lifter& 39;s face angle drive a ball mill& 39;s grinding . Mayor de San Marcos 992 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL . This equation determines the mill& 39;s energy requirement excluding motor transmission losses. . Table 2- Power effect of Lifters Type of Lifter kW per Ton Smooth 40 Low 20. Cement Formulae While every care has been taken in compiling this Cement Formula Handbook. version 2.0 . ball mill-Ball Weight and Surface Area. 97. 3. ball mill . Clinker output kg . Grinding ring activated by 0.2 kW motor . 60 Nm3 /tonne. 6.0-7.0. 4 . kg/cm2. 0005.8 mm WC. pa. 0. 02 mm WC. W. kW. 000 W. HP. 746 W. Module2 - Rod and ball mill Power Draw Mill Grinding Kilowatt . Aug 3 20 5 . power draw of operating rod mills and ball mills in the plant. There is no prerequisite . A motor has an output rating of 000 kw. What is the . Calculate the power draw per short ton of rods in the mill kw : r. kwr = .07 D0. . This rod mill will draw approximately 694 kw 93 HP at the pinion under the given.\n\nball mill POWER - Page of 2 - International Cement Review\n\nWE HAVE A ball mill IN COMBI MODE FOR CEMENT GRINDING . . IF WE CALCULATE THE SHAFT POWER WITH 28% FILLING IT COMES TO MORE THAN 2600 KW WITH 2 0 T . SUPPLIER HAS GIVEN A ball mill MOTOR INSTALLED KW OF 2600 ONLY. . F Grinding media weight tons. How to Convert Kwh a Year to Kw? Use the following equation to convert kWh to kW: P kW equals E kWh divided by t hr . Power is measured by kilo-Watts while kilo-Watt-hours are a measure of energy. ball mill Motor Power Draw Sizing and Design Formula Apr 5 20 8 . Model : Mill dia in meter and power draw in KWh/metric ton. Model Input Model Output. D Mill diameter inside liners in meters Wet Overflow Discharge Kwb Kilowatts/ metric tonne of balls . HP Drawn by Mill Pinion.\n\nBasics in Minerals Processing\n\nSize reduction. BASICS IN MINERAL PROCESSING. Technical data sheet. ball mills. Standard. Std. Approx. Motor. Mill size m . Geared/Gearless %TCS hp/kW. Cement mill notebook - SlideShare Jan 7 20 5 . CEMENT INDUSTRY Cement Mill Notebook QATAR NATIONAL CEMENT . 3.2 Calculation of the Critical Mill Speed: G: weight of a grinding ball in kg. w: . liners in a cement mill increasing of the mill output 5% and decreasing of . 9.0 t/h Mill power input qm = 44 6 kW = 6000 HP Motor power input.\n\nPRE Post:m25 grade rcc weight vs cubic meter\nNEXT Post:pe2501000 jaw crusher with ce gold\n\nPachonijmegen Deck\n\nGold Refinery Equipment\n\ngold refinery plant machine price\n\ncyanidation process for gold extraction", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9996277689933777}
+{"content": "Publish with us\n\nFollow Penguin\n\nFollow Penguinsters\n\nFollow Hind Pocket Books\n\nFive audiobooks to listen to when anxiety strikes\n\nBooks and stories have long been responsible for lulling us to sleep after the sun sets, pulling us out of the bog of anxiety we house in our minds. They transport us, not just from our real-life settings to exciting fictional worlds, but often from a state of mind that is in complete disarray to one that is composed, ordered and well informed.\n\nInsomnia is often the result of stress, and even our body’s immunity suffers the consequences of our mind. Knowing how to be poised and in control of a situation, despite the circumstances, is a strength we all need with the global situation post-2020. Since we are in a time when we have the shadow of a lockdown constantly looming over us, audiobooks and eBooks have become a welcome alternative to the old bookstore or delivery services that may be unavailable sometimes. Here’s a list of some of our finest self-help books available as audiobooks that will pacify panic and have a profound impact on the mind.\n\n\nLife's Amazing Secret Audiobook\n\nRead by the Gaur Gopal Das himself in the form of a conversation between him and his affluent friend Harry, this book answers the fundamental questions about life’s purpose in the form of a light-hearted, thought-provoking easy read.\n\nWhether you seek lasting happiness, strengthened relationships, your true potential, to do well at work, or even what you can give back to the world, Gaur Gopal Das’ Life’s Amazing Secrets will speak to you and guide you on your journey with its precious insights on these areas of life.\n\n\n\n\nVenerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, born into a prominent Hindu Brahmin family, was only six years old when he began having visions of a mysterious mountain peak, and of men with shaved heads wearing robes the colour of sunset. At the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school and set out to find the place of his dreams. What was stranger than the visions was the fact that at the end of his journey, he mystically did find himself in that very place.\n\nWhen his parents found him and brought him home, he continued to feel a strong pull towards spiritual life. This audiobook has been read by the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi himself and is a profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker of enlightenment. Running Toward Mystery explores the vital importance of mentors in that search and the experience of meeting exceptional teachers like Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa along the way.\n\n\nThe idea behind laughter yoga is simple yet profound. A practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter is based on scientific studies that have concluded that such laughter offers the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. These benefits are delved in depth in Laughter Yoga, a book based on this new trend that has gained a lot of popularity worldwide.\n\nThis comprehensive book by the founder of the laughter yoga club movement, Dr Madan Kataria, tells you what laughter yoga is, how it works, what its benefits are and how you can apply it to everyday life.\n\n\n\n\nIn today’s challenging and busy world, don’t you wish you knew how to quieten your mind and focus on yourself? In On Meditation, renowned spiritual leader, Sri M, answers all your questions on the practice and benefits of meditation. With his knowledge of all the various schools of practice and the ancient texts, he breaks down the complicated practice into a simple and easy method that any working man or woman, young or old, can practise in their everyday lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating Life is an honest expedition into a realm that teaches you how you can be a master of your circumstances and make your life a celebration. If there is a guide to finding happiness, it is this!\n\nThe universe has bestowed limitless powers and infinite siddhis upon the human consciousness. Along with being effective and successful in the personal and professional spheres, the purpose of human life is also to ensure the complete blossoming of the individual consciousness. In Celebrating Life, Rishi Nityapragya shares the secrets that can help you explore your infinite potential. He offers an in-depth understanding of how to identify and be free from negative emotions and harmful tendencies, and how to learn to invoke life’s beautiful flavours-like enthusiasm, love, compassion and truth-whenever and wherever you want.\n\nMore from the Penguin Digest", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9563907384872437}
+{"content": "1. O\n\n    Finding my Phantom 3 Standard after \"rth\" accident\n\n    Hello everyone I just started a new youtube channel to post my drone videos on and the rest of my travel blogs I made beforehand and more to come! Here is the first video and it was my first flight with the Phantom 3 Standard. If you enjoy travelling and drone videos make sure to subscribe...\n  2. J\n\n    Broken P2 at a loss\n\n    Hi, I crashed my P2 from approximately 60 foot. The battery died towards the end of a flight. It hit so hard it knocked several components off the main board. I started by replacing the main board. However once powered up it just beeps Motor 1 and Motor 2 flash red lights Motor 3 and Motor 4...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9259728193283081}
+{"content": "problem the Euthyphro Problem. This is the problem\n\nproblem that I learned about, which made me wonder if that is how we think about majority of the times was the Euthyphro Problem. This is the problem which questions that if an action is wrong because God forbids it or does God forbids it because it is wrong? So may have thought that the right answers to questions of moral principles are known from God and his will. The name, Euthyphro dilemma, comes from Plato’s Euthyphro dialogues and from Euthyphro one is left with the struggle of giving an explanation to why God’s commands are authoritative. Man cannot provide for his simplest physical need without a process of thought. No perceptions or instinct will answer that for him. It is only because man has a will- that is, because he has desires, passions, wants, inclinations, or in short, because he pursues ends or objects of desire- that any distinctions of good and evil ever arises in the first place. Things would acquire the status of being good and evil only if someone- anyone- cares about them one way or the other. Reasons tells us what means we can best use to achieve our ends, but the ends themselves are determined by the will. Some metaethical views that I learned about are naturalism which says moral properties are part of the natural world, and can be reduced to natural and non-ethical properties. Non-naturalism says that moral properties cannot be reduced to non-ethical parts. A theological belief is discussed known as supernaturalism, that is a force or a power other than man or nature. However, in general the five sections discussed about metaethics and views of metaethics, views such as, cognitivism and non-cognitivism. Cognitivist theories say moral claims are expressing or attempting to express true or false claims about reality, whereas non-cognitivists do not think moral claims are attempts to describe reality.Concepts that are important:Non-cognitivismCognitivismNaturalism- says moral properties can be reduced to natural and non-ethical propertiesNon-naturalism- vice-versa to naturalism, therefore they can’t be reduced to non-ethical properties. Supernaturalism-Relativism- relativists do believe when someone makes a moral claim they are expressing a belief they have about reality. They say moral judgements express beliefs about something relative and are not objective or universally true. Metaethics- is the subject that deals with the meanings of ethical terms. Cultural relativism- says moral judgements express beliefs which describe the cultural beliefs of the society. Moral realism- says moral values are true regardless of what individual thinks. Individuals may acquire knowledge about what moral truths are. And moral values are not determined or even dependent on the individual. Moral values merely describe actions in nature as either good or bad. Quasi-realism- accepts moral claims project emotional attitudes as if they are real properties, G.E Moore- taught good can’t be redifined to be something like, pleasant or happiness. They can only be described as morally good or bad but can’t themselves be the essence of moral goodness.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9158321022987366}
+{"content": "Login | Register\n\nHow to Become a Reporter, Correspondent, or Broadcast News Analyst\n\nBachelor's or higher degree, plus work experience\n\nPersistence is a valuable trait that journalists need when pursing a story. Obtaining the details can be tricky; especially when those involved refuse to comment.\n\nMany employers prefer correspondents and reporters who have a bachelor's degree in communications or journalism. Most applicants have worked via an internship and may have previous work experience from a newspaper or TV station.\n\nWork Experience\n\nOften, employers prefer workers who have obtained experience through internships or from working on school papers. College students often seek numerous internships through a variety of new stations. Students gain opportunities to follow leads, work on stories and create a portfolio featuring their best on-air appearances or writing samples.\n\nEducation & Training\n\nApplicants commonly have a bachelor's degree in communications or journalism. Others may have relevant work experience or their degree in a related subject such as political science or English.\n\nBachelor's degree programs in communications and journalism involve studying journalistic ethics. Additional techniques for conducting interviews and researching stories are included. Certain programs may include the following classes: economics, English, liberal arts, history and political science to prepare students to cover stories from a variety of perspectives.\n\nJournalism students may enjoy classes in programming, coding and multimedia design. Content is becoming more popular via mobile devices, websites, an on TV. Learning how to develop stories by incorporating graphics, audio, data and video can dramatically enhance the overall presentation.\n\nCertain schools offer graduate programs in communications and journalism. These programs provide students with a bachelor's degree in a different topic to become journalists.\n\nSkills and Qualities that will Help\n\nCommunication skills: Journalists need to be confident reporting the news both in writing and verbally. Superior writing skills are essential for all kinds of media.\n\nComputer skills: Journalists should feel comfortable using broadcast related devices and editing equipment.\n\nInterpersonal skills: In order to conduct interviews and create contacts, reporters need to build solid relationships with numerous people. They need to communicate effectively together with news directors, editors and journalists.\n\nObjectivity: Journalists need to report the news facts without adding their bias or opinion to the story.\n\nPersistence: It can be difficult at times to get the facts of the story. When individuals involved refuse to provide comment or be interviewed, journalists need to respond persistently in order to pursue the facts.\n\nStamina: Journalists often work in an exhausting and fast paced setting. It is important that reporters can keep up with the extra hours of work and travel required.\n\nHow To Advance\n\nAs more experience is gained, correspondents and reporters are able to advance by moving from small news companies in towns or tinier cities to relocate to larger metropolises. Job opportunities with larger markets commonly lead to higher paying and more challenging roles. Correspondents and reporters may become news directors or editors.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9672316312789917}
+{"content": "How does the epigenetic clock work? And is it possible to change the ticking rate?\nCredit: Image courtesy of Babraham Institute\n\nAgeing in humans (and animals) can be seen as either an inevitable process of wear and tear or as an inherent biological programme by which the lifespan of each species is more or less predetermined. Recent research has shown that DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification which alters how DNA is read and expressed without altering the underlying sequence, can show age-related changes. A sub-set of these modifications are so accurate that chronological age in humans can be predicted +/- 3.6 years from any tissue or fluid in the body (Horvath S. 2013). This is by far the best biomarker of age available and is referred to as the epigenetic clock. Interestingly, analysis of DNA methylation can also provide information on biological age, which is a measure of how well your body functions compared to your chronological age. For instance, people suffering from fatty liver disease have a faster ticking clock, while centenarians have a slower clock.\n\nBut, how does this epigenetic clock work? And is it possible to change the ticking rate? Researchers at the Babraham Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute have now identified a mouse epigenetic ageing clock. This work, published today in Genome Biology, shows that changes in DNA methylation at 329 sites in the genome are predictive of age in the mouse with an accuracy of +/- 3.3 weeks. Considering that humans live to approximately 85 years and mice to 3 years, the accuracy of the mouse and human clocks (better than 5%) are surprisingly similar.\n\nUsing the mouse model, researchers also showed that lifestyle interventions known to shorten lifespan sped up the clock. For example, removing the ovaries in female mice accelerates the clock, something that is also observed in early menopause in women. And interestingly a high fat diet which we know is detrimental to human health also accelerates the ageing clock. Remarkably, researchers were able to detect changes to the epigenetic clock as early as 9 weeks of age, bearing in mind that the lifespan of a mouse can easily be more than 3 years, this represents a massive reduction in both time and cost which the researchers believe will accelerate future ageing discoveries.\n\nTom Stubbs, PhD Student in the Reik group at the Babraham Institute and lead author of the paper, said: “The identification of a human epigenetic ageing clock has been a major breakthrough in the ageing field. However, with this finding came a number of questions about its conservation, its mechanism and its function. Our discovery of a mouse epigenetic ageing clock is exciting because it suggests that this epigenetic clock may be a fundamental and conserved feature of mammalian ageing. Importantly, we have shown that we can detect changes to the ticking rate in response to changes, such as diet, therefore in the future we will be able to determine the mechanism and function of this epigenetic clock and use it to improve human health.”\n\nDr. Marc Jan Bonder, postdoctoral researcher at the European Bioinformatics Institute, adds: “Dissecting the mechanism of this mouse epigenetic ageing clock will yield valuable insights into the ageing process and how it can be manipulated in a human setting to improve health span.”\n\n\nWith further study, scientists will be able to understand the inner mechanistic workings of such a clock (for example using knowledge about enzymes that regulate DNA methylation in the genome) and change its ticking rate in the mouse model. This will reveal whether the clock is causally involved in ageing, or whether it is a read-out of other underlying physiological processes. These studies will also suggest approaches to wind the ageing clock back in order to rejuvenate tissues or even a whole organism.\n\nProfessor Wolf Reik, Head of the Epigenetics Programme at the Babraham Institute, said: “It is fascinating to imagine how such a clock could be built from molecular components we know a lot about (the DNA methylation machinery). We can then make subtle changes in these components and see if our mice live shorter, or more interestingly, longer.” Such studies may provide deeper mechanistic insights into the ageing process and whether lifespan in a species is in some way programmed.”\n\nThis research was funded through grants provided to Prof. Wolf Reik by the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BBSRC), the Wellcome Trust and the EpiGeneSys and BLUEPRINT EU Networks of Excellence.\n\nSources: Babraham Institute\n\nResearch Reference:\nThomas M. Stubbs, Marc Jan Bonder, Anne-Katrien Stark, Felix Krueger, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Oliver Stegle, Wolf Reik.Multi-tissue DNA methylation age predictor in mouse. Genome Biology, 2017; 18 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s13059-017-1203-5", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9970933794975281}
+{"content": "Most Read\n\nBarack Obama Just Eviscerated Trump's Entire Pandemic Response in One Tweet Without Even Mentioning Trump's Name\n\nNational Archives\n\nAfter providing misinformation in several press conferences and briefings—including deadly inaccurate medical advice—President Donald Trump's response to the global pandemic is drawing criticism from around the world.\n\nNow with the Trump administration's push to end social distancing efforts in order to boost the economy—and profits at Trump Organization businesses—experts in public health and epidemiology are urging the public to make good choices despite the GOP backing Trump's play.\n\nA new expert entered the conversation Wednesday. Only this expert knows how to be a President who thinks of the well-being of the people of the United States over profits for big businesses.\n\nPresident Barack Obama shared an article detailing the public health crisis playing out in the United States largest city right now on Twitter Wednesday morning.\n\nObama captioned the post:\n\n\"These are the burdens our medical heroes already face in NYC. It's only going to get harder across the country.\"\n\"Another reason to maintain social distancing policies at least until we have comprehensive testing in place.\"\n\"Not just for our sake—for theirs.\"\n\nDespite never mentioning Trump, many saw the post as a clear indictment by the 44th President of the 45th President's failure to properly address the global pandemic.\n\nSome offered their own solutions, like encouraging people to use telemedicine.\n\nOf course, Trump does have his fans who will attack anyone who doesn't show proper fealty, including someone offering medical help during a public health crisis.\n\nBut the majority of responses were decidedly not fans of President Trump's pandemic performance.\n\nPeople asked for guidance from former Presidents during this time of unease.\n\nAnd one person suggested the type of social distancing that would benefit people the most.\n\nExperts in public health and infectious diseases recommend social distancing for all people, frequent hand washing, wiping down with antiseptics of frequently touched surfaces, avoiding touching your face when you are out in public and self isolation or quarantine if you think you have been exposed to the virus.\n\nWhile the Trump administration and their Republican allies are pushing people to return to work, for schools to reopen and for business to return to normal by March 30, people need to decide whose advice will protect their life and the lives of their loved ones.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.507561445236206}
+{"content": "Product Media\n\nCuerpos de agua (Water Bodies)\n\nProduct Number: 9781425846695\nIntroduce students to the concept of water bodies with this Spanish science reader that features easy-to-read text.\n\n\n\nThis book teaches important scientific topics and vocabulary terms including freshwater, saltwater, swamp, bog, wetland, marsh, reservoir, evaporation, precipitation, and more. Nonfiction text features include a glossary, index, and detailed images to facilitate close reading and help students connect back to the text. Aligned to state and national standards, the book also includes a fun and engaging science experiment to develop critical thinking and help students practice what they have learned.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9996532797813416}
+{"content": "May 2021\nSystematic Workflow - Manage work the way you want\n\nDoes your work always run smoothly? TeamNote helps you build, systemize, and manage workflows effectively while keeping everyone on the same page. It gives your team the ability to create action, assign requests, and approve tasks quickly and smoothly. Thus, it helps streamline business and stimulate productivity and growth. \n\nApril 2021\nEmpower Event Communication with TeamNote\n\nHosting a business event can be a daunting task. Making it successful is even more challenging. Having TeamNote on-hand during your event can offer a level of reassurance and security. \n\nHere are three strategies for organizations to maintain information security in the hybrid workforce\n\nWhich instant messaging app offers the most comprehensive privacy protection? And which is the best team chat app for your company?\n\nnew year\n\nThroughout the past year, digital transformation is what we’ve talked about the most in the new normal. Despite the unknowns of 2021, the new normal is not new anymore and we learnt that businesses need to always be prepared for the unprecedented challenges.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999265074729919}
+{"content": "What is the highest and lowest temperature on Neptune?\n\nThe average temperature on Neptune is a brutally cold -373 degrees F. Triton, Neptune’s largest satellite, has the coldest temperature measured in our solar system at -391 degrees F.\n\nWhat is the maximum and minimum surface temperature of Neptune?\n\nScientists have defined the “surface” of Neptune as the region where the surface pressure is equivalent to the pressure on Earth at sea level. The temperature at this “surface” is approximately minus 346 F (minus 201 C). The planet’s average temperature is minus 353 F (minus 214 C).\n\nWhat is the average high temperature on Neptune?\n\n\nHow hot and cold can Neptune get?\n\nNeptune has the wildest and strangest weather in the entire Solar System. It has huge storms with extremely high winds. Its atmosphere has dark spots which come and go, and bright cirrus-like clouds which change rapidly. Neptune has an average temperature of -353 Fahrenheit (-214 Celsius).\n\nREAD  Question: What race has been on Earth the longest?\n\nWhat is the highest and lowest temperature on Uranus?\n\nspeeds on Uranus range from 90 to 360 mph and the planet’s average temperature is a frigid -353 degrees F. The coldest temperature found in Uranus’ lower atmosphere so far is -371 degrees F., which rivals Neptune’s frigid temperatures.\n\nWhy is Venus called Earth’s sister?\n\nVenus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth’s “sister planet” because of their similar size, mass, proximity to the Sun, and bulk composition. It is radically different from Earth in other respects.\n\nWhy is Neptune so cold?\n\nMost agree that Neptune is the coldest planet due to its proximity to the sun. The sun produces most of the heat that helps planets regulate their temperatures. Neptune is so far away from the sun that it does not get enough heat to melt the ice caps that form on the planet.\n\nWhat are the 15 planets?\n\nPlanets in Our Solar System\n\n  • Mercury. Mercury—the smallest planet in our solar system and closest to the Sun—is only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon. …\n  • Venus. Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. …\n  • Earth. …\n  • Mars. …\n  • Jupiter. …\n  • Saturn. …\n  • Uranus. …\n  • Neptune.\n\nWhat is the hottest planet in the universe?\n\nPlanetary surface temperatures tend to get colder the farther a planet is from the Sun. Venus is the exception, as its proximity to the Sun and dense atmosphere make it our solar system’s hottest planet.\n\nWhy is Neptune so hot?\n\nThe energy that Neptune makes has been found to be very high. There are several ways in which astronomical objects make energy from inside. The first is by thermonuclear fusion, the way a star makes energy. Another method is by radioactive material within the ground, the way a planet makes energy.\n\nREAD  Is the dermis the thickest layer of skin?\n\nWhat is the warmest temperature on Neptune?\n\nIt is here on Neptune, just below the upper level clouds, that pressures reach between 1 and 5 bars (100 – 500 kPa). It is also at this level that temperatures reach their recorded high of 72 K (-201.15 °C; -330 °F).\n\nHow long is 1 day on Neptune?\n\n0d 16h 6m\n\nIs Neptune all water?\n\n\nWhich is the coldest planet of our solar system?\n\nNeptune, being the eighth planet in our solar system and therefore the one furthest from the sun, has the coldest average temperature (around -214°C).\n\nWhat is the hottest and coldest planet?\n\nShakeel Anwar\n\nName of Planets (Hottest to Coldest) Mean Temperature (Degree Celsius)\n1. Venus 464\n2. Mercury 167\n3. Earth 15\n4. Mars -65\n\nWhat is the coldest place on Earth?\n\nDespite all the changes the world has undergone in the past several millennia, the coldest place on earth remains Antarctica. A recent discovery revealed that tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s ice sheet reached temperatures of minus 100 degrees Celsius — that’s minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit — in the winter.\n\nLike this post? Please share to your friends:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8962221145629883}
+{"content": "The Midland\n\nOur Most Minimal Key Solution.\n\nDesigned as a second iteration of the key hook we introduced back in 2015, the Midland has everything you need in a minimal key management solution, but nothing you don't. It's milled from a solid block of titanium and has exactly zero moving parts, making it the most minimal key solution in the TJB Carry line.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9711332321166992}
+{"content": "A Challenging Cement Plant Move\n\n\n\nUTC Delivers to Landlocked Paraguay\n\nUTC has a team of logistics experts specializing in moving cement plants anywhere in the world, no matter how complex the job. They spent 15 months planning, organizing, executing, and successfully delivering a complete plant to the Port of Asuncion in Paraguay. The cargo was comprised of oversize, overweight breakbulk and container shipments collected from countries on five continents.\n\ncement plant 3\ncement plant 2\ncement plant 4\n\nThe client contracted with UTC because they had complete confidence in UTC's ability to manage this type of job in a remote section of South America. As is customary for any CAPEX or OPEX project, UTC's team carefully studied the processes, infrastructure, and resources available. They went to the region and, together with their local partner, visited and selected the most suitable port and terminal for the chartered vessels carrying the cargo.\n\nMonths Planning\nLength of Paraguay River\nParaguay's foreign trade conducted via river\n\nRisk assessment and contingency planning were required to mitigate issues that could arise during the project timeline. Conducting this operation during a pandemic posed more challenges as it limited resources, travel, face-to-face meetings, and routine cargo inspections.\n\nParaguay is landlocked, and the most common and economical way to reach Asuncion port is to transport cargoes via barge from deep water ports in the gulf of Rio de la Plata up the Paraná and Paraguay Rivers. This route spans some 800 nautical miles (about 1500 km). The Paraguay River is the second major river in the Rio de la Plata Basin. Unlike other rivers in the basin, the Paraguay River has not been dammed for hydroelectric power, leaving it navigable for a long distance, second only to the Amazon in terms of navigable length on the continent. For this reason, it is seen as an essential trade route for landlocked countries such as Paraguay and Bolivia.\n\nIn-depth risk assessment identified challenges early on\n\nOne challenge was water level fluctuations on the river, which can cause disruptions to traffic during the dry season. The dry season set in during one segment of the project, and two-way traffic on the river was interrupted, leaving only one channel clear for movement. Approaching barges in either direction had to stop and wait for clearance to move through the open lane. While waiting for permission to continue to Asuncion, the water level receded further, and another barge transiting through the channel got stuck and blocked the only navigable route. Traffic came to a grinding halt in each direction.\n\nThanks to a detailed risk assessment plan, UTC had anticipated and was ready for the situation and quickly employed a shallow draft tug that cautiously moved the convoy of barges towards the final destination. In case it became necessary to offload the cargo before reaching Asuncion, an alternate port had been identified. Fortunately, this strategy did not have to be implemented.\n\ncement plant 5\ncement plant 6\n\nRodrigo Chittoni, UTC Vice President Central & South America Projects, recounted the group's mounting challenges during this leg of the trip. \"The last barge was projected to take four days to transit to Asuncion. In actuality, it spanned three weeks as the convoy had to move slowly. Fortunately, due to the team's preparedness, they could shift plans based on rapidly changing river conditions. These occurrences, along with restrictions caused by COVID, posed challenges. Based on careful risk assessment early on in the planning stages, UTC's team of professionals responded to changing conditions to keep the cargo moving. Focused, in-depth planning is critical for a long term project such as this one. It is not something that just happens; it is strategically thought through and developed based on experience and knowledge.\"\n\nThis project showcases UTC’s extensive expertise and ability to manage OPEX and CAPEX jobs in remote areas when faced with multiple adversities. Large cement projects have successfully been completed in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Mexico, Panama, and Costa Rica.\n\nIndustry Insight ✔️ News Briefs ✔️ Project Showcases ✔️\n\nGet all of these and more when you sign up for UTC Updates", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7129826545715332}
+{"content": "June 14, 2021\n\nOrdinary Vegan Podcast #36: Vegan Cooking & Essential Ingredients For The Vegan Pantry\n\nMost of my podcasts are centered around nutrition and the value of a plant-based diet to help you live a long, healthy life, but today I want to get back to the basics. \n\nWhen you first begin experimenting with a plant-based diet, it can be confusing. What are the essentials to buy? How do I  properly cook those essentials? And what foods are needed to keep your family healthy and energized?\n\nThose topics are also helpful for anyone who has been practicing a vegan diet for some years because slowing down and re-evaluating how we do things can improve our approach to a plant-based lifestyle.\n\nIn today’s podcast, we learn what vegan essentials we need to stock and techniques to properly cook those essentials.  \n\nWe also explore cooking with fresh and dried herbs.\n\nHerbs add flavor and brightness to any meal but maximizing that flavor is something that most of us have never been taught. In this podcast, we will learn the difference between delicate and hardy herbs and how to store, prepare, and cook with those herbs. \n\nLast but not least, today we visit Ordinary Vegan’s kitchen not once, but twice and create two of my favorite breakfast recipes; Vegan Fried Egg with a runny center and my favorite Mediterranean Vegan Omelet. \n\nThere is much to cover, so this will be Part-1 of my series on vegan cooking. Please make sure you come back for more.\n\nThanks so much for listening and for being part of our healthy community.\n\nIf you have a chance, please leave a rating and review on iTunes and please subscribe. iTunes works in mysterious ways, but the more ratings and reviews the podcast gets, the better the visibility the podcast receives.\n\nDon’t miss any of Ordinary Vegan’s recipes by signing up here.\n\nYou can also join our health and wellness community on Facebook. There are over 317,000 active, vibrant community members waiting to embrace you.\n\nFinally, many people in the wellness world are turning to cannabidiol, commonly referred to as CBD Oil from Hemp, for its powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-anxiety effects. You can now purchase safe and effective plant-based CBD Oil made from Hemp on Ordinary Vegan. Link here.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998217821121216}
+{"content": "Does Sparkle Mod Podge Dry Clear?\n\nWhat can be used instead of Mod Podge?\n\n\nIt’s about the closest you can get.\n\n\nDoes Mod Podge really take 4 weeks to cure?\n\nMod Podge takes a very long time to cure; around four weeks, depending on humidity and coat thickness. … If you don’t let [the Mod Podge] dry completely between coats, your project can end up more sticky and may bubble a bit.\n\nIs Modge podge a good sealer?\n\nMod Podge can be used as a glue to adhere fabric, paper and other porous materials to nearly any surface. … It can be used as a sealer that protects acrylic paint, decoupage, stain, fabrics and much more. Dries clear. It’s a finish that is durable, smooth and fast drying.\n\nCan you speed up Mod Podge drying?\n\nSet a timer for 5 minutes (I use my phone), place the craft on a flat non-metal surface, and go over the surface of the craft slowly with a hairdryer set to medium speed and high heat. I personally leave off the dryer nozzle and just make sure I am consistently slowly steadily moving the hair dryer.\n\nHow do you fix Mod Podge mistakes?\n\nHow to Fix Streaks in Decoupage GlueLightly sand the streaks with 400 grit sandpaper. This will not destroy the finish, but just polish the clear coat. … Don’t use decoupage glue as a top coat. … Apply several thin coats, rather than one thick coat. … Always use a matte finish. … Use a foam brush instead of a bristled brush.\n\nDoes Mod Podge dry clear on pictures?\n\nLet me give you the short answer to the question “does Mod Podge dry clear?”: YES! Mod Podge looks milky in the bottle, but when applied properly, it dries completely clear.\n\nHow do you make clear Modge podge?\n\nTo make a jar of fake / homemade Mod Podge you need 1 cup of glue and 1/3 cup of water. These proportions are perfect – don’t mess with them. Other internet recipes for homemade Mod Podge abound but they are TOO WEAK.\n\nCan you clear coat over Modge podge?\n\nCan you spray clear coat over Modge podge? It won’t happen if you use a clear acrylic sealer on top like Mod Podge spray or Minwax Polycrylic.\n\nHow long does it take for Mod Podge to dry clear?\n\nWhat is cure time for Mod Podge (how long should I let it dry)? It feels dry within an hour, but I wouldn’t hang up a project or use it until it’s been dry for 24 hours. For Hard Coat, the recommended dry time is 72 hours.\n\nHow do you use Mod Podge with sparkle?\n\nFor a simple and quick finish, apply a smooth, moderate layer of Mod Podge Sparkle to the decoupaged surface. If additional glitter effects is desired, brush on additional coats allowing ample dry time between applications.\n\nCan I use Elmer’s glue instead of Mod Podge?\n\nThe verdict: you can use Elmer’s Glue to decoupage. The finish seems less shiny than Mod Podge, but I like it. A spray of clear laquer will help protect it, but you’ll still want to keep it out of the weather. When the end of the school year rolls around and your kid brings home that half-empty bottle, give it a try.\n\nHow long does homemade Mod Podge last?\n\nBecause you have made your Mod Podge out of natural ingredients, you will need to store it in a cool place, such as a refrigerator. Use it within a week or two.\n\nWhat’s the difference between Modge Podge and Elmer’s glue?\n\nThe short answer to Mod Podge vs glue is that when it comes to decoupage projects, Mod Podge or other decoupage mediums are far superior to white glue recipes. Decoupage mediums have more ingredients than ordinary white glue, including sealers and different varnishes, making them better for long lasting projects.\n\nDoes Modge Podge dry clear on glitter?\n\nOnce the second layer has dried apply another layer of mod podge over the glitter and let it dry. This seals in the glitter so it won’t fall off the object while you’re using it, and it’ll keep its glittery shiny finish if you used the glossy mod podge.\n\nWhich Mod Podge dries clear?\n\nThe Mod Podge matte product will dry clear with a matte finish, meaning it is not shiny. The Mod Podge Gloss, however, will add a layer of sheen to your project. Be sure to use the right Mod Podge product for your project to insure that your Mod Podge dries clear with the finish you want for your decoupage idea.\n\nWhy did my Mod Podge dry white?\n\nA: Mod Podge dries clear, but it can dull the shine on items that are supposed to be blingy, like crystals and glitter. If the rest of the art is cloudy, it should dry with time. If there’s any glitter on the piece, you’ll have to deal with the dulling as any decoupage medium would do the same thing.\n\nShould I use matte or glossy Mod Podge?\n\nGloss is shiny – very reflective of light. Matte is flat. The way that these Mod Podge formulas work is nearly the same as wall paint in terms of the sheen and how it is described.\n\nHow do I get a smooth finish with Mod Podge?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8126394748687744}
+{"content": "Can employers make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory?\n\nNational/World News\nVirus Outbreak-Viral Questions-Employers-Vaccines\n\nCan employers make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)\n\nCan employers make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory?\n\nYes, with some exceptions.\n\nExperts say U.S. employers can require employees to take safety measures, including vaccination. That doesn’t necessarily mean you would get fired if you refuse, but you might need to sign a waiver or agree to work under specific conditions to limit any risk you might pose to yourself or others.\n\n“Employers generally have wide scope” to make rules for the workplace, said Dorit Reiss, a law professor who specializes in vaccine policies at the University of California Hastings College of the Law. “It’s their business.”\n\nRules will vary by country. But the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has allowed companies to mandate the flu and other vaccines, and has indicated they can require COVID-19 vaccines.\n\nThere are exceptions. For example, people can request exemptions for medical or religious reasons. Some states have proposed laws that restrict mandating the vaccines because of their “emergency use” status, but that may become less of an issue since Pfizer has applied for full approval and others are likely to follow.\n\nHow employers approach the issue will vary. Many might not want to require vaccination because of the administrative burden of tracking compliance and managing exemption requests, noted Michelle S. Strowhiro, an employment adviser and lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery. Legal claims could also arise.\n\nAs a result, many employers will likely strongly encourage vaccination without making it mandatory, Strowhiro said.\n\nWalmart, for example, is offering a $75 bonus for employees who provide proof they were vaccinated.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5649510622024536}
+{"content": "Select this search icon to access the search form\n\nMain menu\n\nFacebook Share\n\nWrite for Rights 2020: You're already changing lives!\n\n    Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 10:45\n    Photo Credit: \n    Photo by Ryad Kramdi/AFP via Getty Images\n\n    On or around December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Amnesty International supporters around the world take part in our biggest global day of action, Write for Rights, in solidarity with individuals and communities whose human rights have been denied.\n\n    Despite the challenges with COVID-19 restrictions, thousands of supporters across Canada made their voices loud this year. They organized an incredible 206 virtual and household events or took action on their own, and sent more than 75,000+ letters, emails, solidarity messages and tweets from Canada alone! \n\n    Write for Rights 2020 participants collage\n\n    You're already changing lives - thank you! Here are some recent updates from Write for Rights 2020, as well as one from 2019: \n\n    Khaled Drareni, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    Khaled Drareni, Algeria\n\n    Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni, jailed for covering protests, has been conditionally released! He’s shared his thanks to you:  \n\n    I want to thank everyone who supported me and who supported the prisoners of conscience because your support is essential for all of us.\n\n    We continue to call for all charges against Khaled to be dropped. A hearing to have his file examined by the Supreme Court was scheduled for February 25 but rescheduled to March 25.  \n\n    Thank you so much for your dedicated efforts and support for Khaled’s freedom during Write for Rights 2020! \n\n    Nassima al-Sada, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    Nassima al-Sada, Saudi Arabia \n\n    In January, women human rights defender Nassima al-Sada received a prison sentence of five years with partial suspension of two years. This means that she should be released in early June 2021, but we are continuing to demand her immediate and unconditional release. She's a peaceful activist and shouldn't be behind bars in the first place.  \n\n    On Friday, February 12 our colleagues from Amnesty Netherlands handed over letters of solidarity received so far for Nassima to her son Mousa. \n\n    He asked to share his thanks with you: \n\n    “I am overwhelmed. My mom will love all the letters, it will mean so much to her and she will be amazed by all the efforts put into this. I was also surprised that some letters are addressed to me too. One woman wrote ‘And for you I send a mother’s love’, so sweet. I thought first that I would make a selection of them to read to my mom but seeing these bags I realize she will want me to read each single one of them! A huge thanks to all of you for your solidarity.” \n\n    Popi Qwabe and Bongeka Phungula, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    Popi Qwabe and Bongeka Phungula, South Africa \n\n    Earlier this month, Popi’s sister, Lihle, and Bongeka’s cousin, Mdu, visited the Amnesty South Africa office to receive your solidarity letters. Our colleagues reported that Lihle and Mdu appeared completely overwhelmed with gratitude and support. You can watch the thank you video below!\n\n    You can also hear more from Popi and Bongeka’s families in this VICE video released in early February. \n\n    Jani Silva, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    Jani Silva, Colombia \n\n    Jani was forced into hiding in early December following increased threats to her and her family. In late December, she and her family were forced again to move to a new undisclosed location for their safety.  \n\n    We are continuing to campaign in solidarity with Jani and other earth defenders under attack in Colombia. Please stay tuned for next steps in the campaign this spring. \n\n    Idris Khattak, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    Idris Khattak, Pakistan  \n\n    On January 28, 2021, the appeal for Idris to be tried in a civilian court instead of a military court was denied. Military courts in Pakistan notoriously shun transparency, due process and human rights. Very little information has been shared with his lawyers or family about his case. His whereabouts remain unknown; however, it has been recently disclosed that the espionage charges against him relate to a meeting between Idris and a diplomat in June 2009, well over a decade before his abduction. \n\n    Idris remains at risk of an unfair trial, a lengthy prison sentence or even the death penalty. \n\n    ACT NOW: We've issued a new Urgent Action for Idris’ case here.  \n\n    Melike Balkan and Özgür Gür, METU Pride defenders, Write for Rights 2020 case\n\n    METU Pride defenders, Turkey\n\n    The December 10, 2020 trial for the METU Pride defenders was postponed to April 30, 2021. Please watch for updates as we get closer to the date.  \n\n    José Adrián, Write for Rights 2019\n\n    José Adrián, Mexico (Write for Rights 2019)\n\n    José Adrián, who at age 14 was arbitrarily detained, beaten and mistreated by police in Mexico, has signed an agreement with the government for him and his family that includes supports such as medical care, psychological care and scholarships. Thank you to all everyone who has been part of the struggle to achieve justice for José Adrián!  \n\n    We will continue to share Write for Rights updates as we receive them. In the meantime, if you wish to continue to change lives right now, check out our current campaigns in the Winter Activism Guide!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9303457140922546}
+{"content": "2 - Army Technology\n\nGlobal Defence Technology: Issue 17\n\nAs the eco-efficiency trend continues around the globe, we investigate the US DoD’s plan to reduce the military’s reliance on fossil fuels.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9955757260322571}
+{"content": "Dr. Jonathan Carey is a graduate of Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine. He maintains a private general practice in Webster, NY and has been a transition consultant with PARAGON Dental Practice Transitions for 12 years. He is the Senior Transition Consultant for the State of New York and is a 2 time PARAGON Consultant of the Year award winner. Dr. Carey takes great pride in helping his dental colleagues successfully achieve their practice transition goals.\n\nCorporate Dentistry’s Impact on Practice Sales\n\nBy Jonathan S. Carey, D.M.D.\n\nThe debate about big corporations taking over dentistry is certainly not a new one. Corporations and dental-management service organizations (DMSO) have been around for decades. The discussions about how these entities will affect dentistry and the sale of dental practices have been going on just as long. I’d like to address the top-four myths that most of these “doom-and-gloom” discussions revolve around.\n\nMyth No. 1: New graduates are in so much debt that their only choice is to join a “dental chain.”\n\nMany new graduates are indeed choosing to work for a “dental chain” for obvious reasons such as: guaranteed salary, benefits, student loan assistance, etc. These are all great reasons. However, many of them choose to leave these jobs to buy their own practice once they’ve gained enough experience and saved enough money to do so. This is because they realize that in the long run they will be far more profitable owning a practice themselves. Fortunately, these jobs can also help them do that in as little as one year! Sounds great, but how do they do that? See the busting of myth No. 2 below.\n\nMyth No. 2: Young dentists can’t get a loan to buy a practice.\n\nThere are indeed some young dentists that simply can’t get a loan to buy a practice… yet. However, many of them can now, and with the right amount of time and planning they all can eventually. Dental lenders are still offering 100-percent financing plus additional working capital for practice acquisitions. The size of the practice that a young dentist can afford will obviously vary, but they can still get loans for practices – even large practices.\n\nIt just depends on their personal financial situation, productivity and liquid cash assets. Maintaining factors like low rent/mortgage payments and car payments is essential. A young dentist should also eliminate all revolving credit card debt because lenders hate that! Their productivity should come close to matching what the seller is producing or at least what the buyer is expected to produce after accounting for any post-sale seller production. Lastly, while they should make sure all student-loan payments are paid on time, they should focus more on saving cash than on aggressively paying down student loans. Lenders place much more emphasis on liquid cash assets than they do on student loan balances. A good amount of cash to shoot for is 10 percent of the purchase price of the practice, but that’s not necessarily a requirement.\n\nJobs at dental corporations can help a young dentist achieve all of this by typically paying a good salary plus production bonuses and allowing a young dentist to be very productive right away. After all, they’re usually taking over for another young and productive dentist that just left to buy a practice!\n\nMyth #3: The corporations are taking over.\n\nDental corporations and dental-management service organizations (DMSOs) aren’t going away any time soon and have certainly gained some market share in dentistry over the years, but they haven’t come close to taking over. In fact, there have been some that have gone out of business because they couldn’t maintain patients for reasons such as high dentist turnover, high staff turnover and poor quality of service.\n\nMyth #4: The solo practice will be a thing of the past in 5-10 years.\n\nI personally think that there will always be a place for the solo and small group practice. Dentistry is a very personal and service-oriented business, and there will always be plenty of patients seeking out and staying with practices that can serve them on a personal level.\n\nThe traditional model of buying a dental practice (working as an associate right out of dental school/residency and eventually buying that practice) has certainly changed, and dental corporations and DMSOs have played a part in that. However, there are plenty of great solo practices to buy or small group practices in which to become an equal partner. If you are considering practice ownership, you should consult with a reputable transition company to help you navigate the process. It may not seem easy, but great things rarely are!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7745338082313538}
+{"content": "Category Archives: psychology\n\nEdge Computing Inspires Human Edge Cultures\n\nedge computing\nImage by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay\n\nEdge computing acquires accurate data quickly\n\nEdge computing consists of IoT devices gathering data closer to the edge of the network. The advantage here is two-fold. First, the accuracy and quality of the data improve the closer it is collected to the source. Second, data is processed more quickly as it need not be transmitted to a central hub for processing. According to an edge computing article by Brandon Butler, doing computing closer to the edge of the network streamlines the flow of traffic from IoT devices, allowing organizations to analyze important data in near real-time.\n\nScientia Potentia est!\n\nKnowledge is power. Edge computing like digitalization is about increasing the speed of data attainment and processing, i.e.,  knowledge acquisition. The strategy is quite simple. Gather relevant information as quickly as possible to expedite the response to fluctuating markets and shifting customer needs. Efficiently responding to changing market and client needs is valuable. The ability to foresee changes and already have systems, services, and products at the ready is priceless. Market prediction is the difference between industry leaders and followers.\n\nThe human obsession with speed\n\nI attended an inspiring impulse talk on edge computing by Igor Grdic, Country Manager, Central Southern Europe, Vertiv. In his presentation, Grdic mentioned the basic physics equation: Time = Distance / Speed.  Distance cannot be shortened in the physical world. Physics proves that if you want to decrease time, increase speed. Speed is often praised and rewarded. “Time is money!” “Can’t waste time!” Humans know this formula solution all too well.  Late for a meeting? Drive more quickly. Need a coffee fix? Go through the drive-through instead of parking and going inside. I am guilty too. Even as a barefoot runner, I too want to reduce my time by becoming faster.\n\nHuman efficiency = Shortening the human distance\n\nNeed something from another department and don’t know anybody who works there? After filling out a few forms and sending multiple emails, you may get what you need in a few days or weeks. Know someone who works in that department? Within a day or even hours, you will have what you need. Efficiency between humans is not about increasing speed. It is about shortening the human distance. Digitalization is revolutionizing the way we conceptualize the equation: Time = Distance / Speed. And it is about time! Edge computing shows us that by shortening the distance at which data has to travel, more information can be acquired, processed, and utilized. More importantly, information gathered at the edge is more reliable and relevant. Edge computing decentralizes processes.\n\nWhat can leaders learn from edge computing?\n\nCompanies outfitted with the latest in technology and utilizing edge technology will become more efficient to a certain extent. As the access to technology becomes more accessible, processes used to improve human relationships between co-workers and customers or players in your supply chain will become the game-changer in competitive markets. Trust and relationships improve the quality and transfer of knowledge and goods. The closer information is to the source, the more reliable and valid it is. Those at the edge of your organization and within your supply chain have vital information. Employees and partners at the edge are close to the pulse of how your materials, products and/or services are utilized and valued. They are most knowledgable about what works and what doesn’t. How valuable is their knowledge?\n\nThe human/time paradox\n\nIncreasing the speed at which people work together results when the social and psychological distance between them is shortened and not by extending work hours and shortening deadlines. Using the right processes can shorten this time. All things digital being equal, the socially and psychologically connected team/supply chain will outperform those that are not. The former is more flexible, adaptable, resilient, engaged, and innovative.  Highly bureaucratic and rigid hierarchical organizational structures and “one-up” work environments harbor jealousy, deceit, and undermining behaviors such as the withholding of information and dehumanizing rumors. All negatively impact efficiency. To increase speed, how much time and money do companies invest in technology in comparison to shortening the distance between employees and partners?\n\nLeaders need to go within in order to go to the edge\n\nCompetitive companies and industry forerunners create and foster workplace cultures that trust and rely on those employees and partners living at the edge. What does it take for an organization to capitalize on the wealth of information at the edge? Creating a human edge funnel requires a culture of trust, transparency, collaboration, empowerment, and freedom just to name a few. Leaders best able to let their companies thrive and innovate at the edge require a solid sense of self and a clear and realizable vision that all employees, regardless of position or seniority can manifest and evolve. Hence another paradox. Leaders with the most inner security and certainty can more easily allow and foster a culture that thrives and grows on the outer edges.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Human Systems Accelerator specializing in Conflict Transformation, Intergenerational Dialogue, & Team Interdependence. He optimizes employee engagement and leadership potential by counseling leaders and enhancing group dynamics. He is the creator of the youth-inspired EPIC Model of development and the author of What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth.\n\nThe Digital Paradox: How Digitalization Beckons Human Development\n\nDigital Paradox\nPhoto by Andy Kelly on Unsplash\n\nThe Digital Paradox\n\nA group of teens is huddled behind their smartphones instead of engaging with one another. An emotional email-rant is sent to a colleague instead of a face-to-face discussion. The more technology ostensibly appears to disconnect us from one other the more it beckons us to confront our own humanity.  This is the digital paradox. I briefly identify digital buzzwords and attribute to each the respective human developmental challenge we face.\n\nEmerging Technology   Respective Human Equivalent\nAugmented Reality (AR) = Individual Perception\nMixed Reality (MR) = Diversity of Perceptions\nBlockchain = Trust / Transparency\nBig Data = Collective Consciousness\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) = Emotional Intelligence (Sensing)\nInternet of Things (IoT) = The Interconnectedness of All Living Things (IoLT)\nBots and Algorithms = Ethical Intention / Posterity\n\nHuman Augmented Reality Makes Us Unique\n\nAugmented Reality is a technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. We augment reality daily using our own biological computer–the brain–to enhance sensory-based experiences based upon our programmed perceptions. Are we at risk of losing our sense of self-perception in a predetermined digitally enhanced augmented reality? What impact does sharing the same augmented sensory experience have on our human development? This leads us to the next emerging technology and its human-related counterpart.\n\nManaging Mixed Reality Requires Leadership\n\nDigital mixed reality refers to any real-time combination between reality, virtual reality, and augmented reality.  In human terms, mixed reality is the intricate interplay of “augmented realities” of over 7.5 billion people. Globalization is the unstoppable convergence of human beings. Nevertheless, the rise of nationalism, xenophobia, and religious intolerance shows a struggle to accept this natural process. Why? Managing diversity requires leaders who can hold the space for multiple mixed realities. Managing conformity only requires top-down authority. Leading diversity is achieved on a more horizontal plane by fostering knowledge sharing to promote common human interests. Dictating uniformity is achieved on a more vertical axis by restricting information sharing to satisfy self-interest based on hierarchy. What does this struggle to integrate mixed realities say about the quality and intention of current global leadership? This leads us to the next emerging technology.\n\nBlockchain is About Trust and Transparency\n\nAccording to a World Economic Forum report, corruption costs the global economy $3.6 Trillion each year.  Blockchain in its basic form is an electronic ledger (chain) of individual data transactions (blocks). In comparison to current financial transaction methods, Blockchain is more secure and unalterable, fostering trust and transparency in a VUCA world. Data is the new oil in the digital era. The importance of trust and transparency will increase as the importance and scope of information expand. The era of “Fake News” is hardly a surprise as financial scandals surface. To remain in power, those who profit from deceit slander and discredit the sources revealing the deception. Blockchain mitigates this issue by allowing one to transparently “follow the money” and brings us to the next tech buzzwords.\n\nBig Data & Artifical Intelligence = Collective Consciousness & Emotional Intelligence\n\nIn an emerging digital age tech gurus like Jack Ma are advising us to focus more on what humans do best. Computers are best at collecting raw data (Big Data) and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze this surplus of data as desired. This relationship between Big Data and AI humanly translates to our collective consciousness and emotional intelligence respectively. Trust and transparency awaken our collective consciousness and stimulate our emotional intelligence. Like computers, humans gather exorbitant amounts of data through augmented and mixed human realities. Being in tune with our emotional state and those of others leads us to be more aware and compassionate. This is being human. Collective consciousness and emotional intelligence make us whole and connected with nature. This is what computers cannot do and leads us to the next tech wonder.\n\nThe Internet of Things (IoT) Represents the Interconnectedness of Living Things (IoLT)\n\nThe Internet of things (IoT) is a system of interconnected computing sensors able to transfer data over an integrated network. As our collective consciousness grows and emotional intelligence develops, we will better understand the interconnectedness of all living things (IoLT). IoT reflects the intricate food web and symbiotic relationships naturally keeping life on Earth in a delicate balance. Somehow this chain of digital events sounds a bit like the famous British nursery rhyme, This is the House that Jack Built! This children’s story is not about Jack’s house per se. Rather it is about the stories of people and animals in his house. The same is true of digitalization. Technology ultimately comes full circle back to our human development and its impact on the 8.7 million species inhabiting Earth. And so our digital intention needs to be clear. Let’s look at the next two tech buzzwords for some insights.\n\nThe Use of Bots and Algorithms Show Intention\n\nHumans create technology. We determine its use and intention. Bots are programs created to automate repetitive tasks. There are Good Bots and Bad Bots.  Good bots can improve your website’s SEO and bad bots can steal content from your website. An algorithm is a set of steps to accomplish a task. Algorithms, like bots, are not free of corruptive influence and human prejudices. Algorithm bias already exists. Like all technology, bots and algorithms are a means to an end. The collective use of bots and algorithms shows our overall human intention and future direction. Digitalization is a reflection of our human development. Is it to serve the interests of the few or benefit the common good of all? What is needed to ensure that posterity supersedes the lucrative lure of special interest to exploit advancements in technology?\n\nThe Digital Paradox Can Be Our Saving Grace\n\nThe digital paradox is technology enlightening humanity. It is putting the proverbial cart before the horse. This is not only the best outcome; it is achievable. The digital paradox casts a bright light onto what is needed for us to further develop as the top species responsible for this planet and all other species inhabiting it. Advancements in deep learning bring algorithms and computers closer to mimicking human thought and behavior. At this stage of our human development is the objective of making machines in the image of humans advisable? We routinely and sadly witness the enduring physical and emotional harm a group of people or even a single human being with malicious intent can have on a community. Imagine what devastation a global network of ill-intentioned algorithms could do? What is needed to minimize this risk?\n\nThe Digital Paradox Demands Ethical Dialog\n\nWe must proceed with mindful ethical oversight. Ethical dialog about technology and its use and intention requires as much attention and resources as that which go into R&D itself. However, careful and serious attention is needed when assembling ethics committees. A recent Guardian article highlighted the risks of having biased and nondiverse members on ethics committees in charge of ensuring that algorithms are not biased and prejudiced. Lo and behold another paradox! Humans stand at the center of all technology. No matter which reality lens you use, the digital paradox becomes clearly evident the more digital processes mirror the likeness of their human creators. Even in a technologically advanced world, all roads still lead to Rome.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Human Systems Expert, Conflict Resolution Specialist, Change Facilitator, and Youth Coach. He optimizes employee engagement and leadership potential by enhancing group dynamics. Jean-Pierre is the creator of the EPIC Model of development and the author of What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth.\n\n996 Work Culture: A Pseudo-Scientific Misrepresentation\n\n996 Work Culture\n\n996 Work Culture\n\nJack Ma, co-founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group (a Chinese multinational conglomerate) recently defended the 996 Work Culture at Alibaba. What is it? A 996 Work Culture means working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week, or a 72-hour workweek! He says working a 996 is a huge blessing. Talking about success, Ma asked his employees, “If you don’t put out more time and energy than others, how can you achieve the success you want?” Does success only have a linear relationship with time and energy?\n\nPythagoras – The Person and Legend\n\nMost of us learned about Pythagoras in Geometry class. In addition to Pythagorean Theory,  this ancient Greek philosopher (c. 570 BC to c. 495 BC) is credited with mathematical and scientific discoveries. He was also an astrologer, musician, and spiritual Guru. By all accounts, Pythagoras’ life teeters on fact and fiction, along with the claim that he is the father of Western Numerology.\n\nNumerology Can Provide Insight\n\nOur reliance on figures, data, valuations, quantities, statistics, and percentages grows daily. Our interpretation of numbers can be misleading. Is success only possible by expending more time and energy? This blog uses numerology as a pseudo-scientific attempt to draw contradictory numerical inferences about the 996 Work Culture.  It is meant to have fun while addressing important organizational issues such as abuse of workers, work-life imbalance, burnout, and in extreme cases self-harm due to work-related stress.\n\nJack Ma on Education\n\nHuman development arises from both reason and creative expression. Even Jack Ma agrees. In his 2018 video on education, Ma says that workplaces should have a good environment to make employees more positive. And education should teach us things that make us different from machines, amongst other things: art, sports, music, painting, and caring for others.\n\nMa’s Discrepancy Between Education and 996\n\nWhen does one living a 996 find the time and energy to be successful in developing the “human” skills he deems imperative for the future? Aren’t machines designed to work 996 and longer so humans can spend more time and energy on being human? Coincidentally, 996 in numerology refers to material attachment. It advises to detach oneself from possessions needed to boost one’s self-esteem and/or ego. The result will be an improvement in your spiritual health as well as your devotion to your loved ones. Altruism, kindheartedness, and light work are also associated with 996. How ironic!\n\nNumber 9 – Worldly Sophistication\n\nWhat do the individual numbers have to say? The number 9 in 996 has a double influence since it is repeated. Number 9 represents humanity and global consciousness, offering sympathy and compassion to everyone. Does a 996 Work Culture show compassion?\n\nNumber 6 – Loving and Caring\n\nProperly nicknamed the motherhood number, the number 6 is associated with sacrificing, healing, caring, protecting, and teaching others. 6 is the glue that keeps families and communities together by living a balanced and harmonious life. How are families living in balance when a parent works 72 hours a week? The 996 Work Culture threatens the basic social fabric of society: families and communities. So what’s the numerical solution?\n\nA Solution: The 954 Work Culture\n\nA 954 Work Culture means working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 4 days a week. A 32-hour workweek makes a clear distinction between work and family/social life. This balanced separation results in improved time management and energy efficiency. Some companies, like one in New Zealand, are experimenting with a 32-hour workweek. A recent blog by David Heinemeier Hansson titled “Work harder or the communists will win” also discusses the absurdity of working employees to exhaustion.\n\n954 Makes Numerological & Rational Sense\n\nA 32-hour workweek truly shows compassion. 9 = 5 + 4. The number 5 represents adventure-seeking and risk-taking. 5 also represents flexibility and adaptability. These qualities are needed in today’s VUCA world. 4 represents dependability and productivity, two highly sought after qualities in prospective hires. 9 + 5 + 4 = 18. The numerology meaning of 18  is keen on building something of lasting benefit. It is future-oriented. 18 turns vision into reality.\n\nThe Pseudo-Scientific Skinny on 966 Work Cultures\n\nThe 996 Work Culture numerologically and logically do not add up even when promoted by a reliable source. Numbers can be misleading. Have a closer look at what they really mean. Have some fun with numbers. It may help you find creative solutions to complex organizational problems!\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Human Systems Facilitator and Executive Coach. He optimizes HR and leadership potential by enhancing group dynamics, team interdependence, and individual performance. He is the creator of the EPIC Model of development and the author of What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth.\n\nVUCA: How companies can reap the rewards\n\n\nRediscovering VUCA\n\nVUCA is an acronym that most in the business world have become familiar with. It is the result of an ever-increasing flow of data and information in conjunction with increasing distrust of data and information.  This duality not only impacts economies and politics. It fundamentally affects how we interact and treat each other. I recently learned of the VUCA acronym at a presentation by Google’s Country Manager Adriatic Region, Joško Mrndže.  Here is the irony. The acronym was unfamiliar to me, however, as Mrndže continued talking about VUCA, the hairs on my arms straightened. As he spoke I was transported back to the almost two decades I had dedicated transforming extreme manifestations of VUCA.\n\nClarifying VUCA\n\n\nVolatility – the quality or state of being like to change suddenly, especially by becoming worse.\n\nUncertainty – a situation in which something is not known, or something that is not known or certain.\n\nComplexity – the state of having many parts and being difficult to understand or find an answer to.\n\nAmbiguity – the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.\n\nWhat the VUCA is going on\n\nLeft unchecked VUCA can wreak havoc on any community, organization, team, or individual. For most of my years in social work, I was responsible for managing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in the lives of hundreds of young men in conflict with the law. Our job was to transform VUCA into positive energy and outcomes. We were tasked with ensuring that its devastating impact did not harm anyone, overrun the program’s culture, or spill into the neighboring community. One can imagine how the life of a young person coming from a home of domestic violence, abuse, and/or neglect can result in VUCA. Add to that any of the following pre-existing conditions: trauma, alcohol/drug addiction, gangs, learning disabilities, truancy, emotional dysregulation, poverty, and psychiatric illness.\n\nPsychological safety transforms VUCA\n\nThe importance of psychological safety in companies is a coping mechanism for VUCA. This is a top priority for leaders.  Work environments are psychologically safe when:\n\nA code of conduct exists and is practiced\nPhysical/Environmental safety is assured\nEmployees are entrusted to do their job\nSystems and procedures  promote fair treatment\nA mentoring culture exists\nEmployees are supported in times of need\nGood work is recognized\nAn open feedback culture exists\nPersonal and professional development is encouraged\nEmployees feel a sense of belonging\n\nAs the director of a group home, I could not control what was happening outside the walls of my program. My energy went to influencing the staff and residents inside by fostering a trusting and caring environment. A safe haven in a sea of uncertainty allows people to harness VUCA’s creative and innovative potential.\n\nLiving la Vida VUCA\n\nVulnerability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are not always unwanted conditions. Moreover, they can never be fully eradicated, nor should they be. When a safe haven to deal with such incalculable conditions exists, VUCA promotes creativity and innovation. Some of the most out of the box thinkers I have met were the young men under my care.  Living a VUCA life creates an agile mind. People comfortable with instability are flexible and adaptable. As VUCA increases in a digital world so does the need for societies and organizations to create conditions for humans to effectively and efficiently deal with it. Ensuring psychological safety permits people to have the peace of mind to learn and grow from incalculable and unknown variables.\n\nAbout the author\n\nJean-Pierre Kallanian is a Process Facilitator and Human Systems Expert. He accompanies organizations in fully integrating their human resource potential by facilitating group processes that foster authenticity, intention, and collective wisdom. He is also the author of What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth.\n\nCreating An Observer-Actor Culture\n\nCourtesy Prawney @ Morguefile\n\nLeaders Need More Than Observers\n\nIn a world of information overload, a leader’s ability to be the sole key observer in keeping an organization abreast of trends, innovations, and market changes is diminishing. There is an ever-increasing multiplicity of social, economic, technological, environmental, and political factors impacting the business cycle. Leaders depend on the keen observation of others, but observation alone without action falls short. Observation without the ability to act is not only a missed opportunity, it is a step backward. Because standing still is as good as going in reverse. It is like staying afloat in the ocean. In today’s world, there are strong currents adrift. Knowing a current is taking you out to sea and doing nothing about it will still result in you being swept out to sea. How can leaders create an observer-actor culture to maximize the benefits of what is being observed?\n\nThe Observer Obsession\n\nAccording to the Oxford Living Dictionary, the verb observe is to notice or perceive (something) and register it as being significant. Do what employees deem significant match what management deems to be? Collective opinions matter. To add some perspective, on just one day there are on average 500 million tweets and 95 million pictures and videos shared on Instagram. Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded. (Source: The Social Skinny).  What do these mindblowing numbers mean for leaders? Alone, not much. The Cambridge Dictionary defines an observer as a person who watches what happens but has no active part in it. This is why the observer-actor is crucial to corporate vitality.\n\nFrom Water Cooler Chat to Accountability\n\nAccording to a two-year-old Pew Research poll, 86% of US adults aged 18-29 are social media users. What does that mean for companies? Every new young hire brings to the company someone who is used to regularly sharing observations on various social platforms.  But it doesn’t just stop there. Employees want to do more than simply share their observations. They not only want their voices to be heard, but they also want to have the ability to act. They want their behaviors to have a noticeable impact. And organizations can profit from this desire. This too, however, requires a shift in leadership to have the courage to channel this untapped potential. How can leaders improve the quality of employee observation and ability to respond by fostering an observer-actor culture?\n\n The Idle Mind is the Devil’s Playground\n\nAs we go about the world with a high-powered computer strapped to our body and vibrating with every notification we have a lot to see and with that a lot to say. What is the point of observing if not to share with your followers? The problem is this. Unfocused observers can go rogue, using information sharing for selfish gain and harming others, undermining team cohesiveness, and creating a toxic gossip-filled work environment. Cliques form. Sides are taken. People start feeling excluded. In worse-case scenarios harassment and bullying result. The company’s mission takes a back seat while personal emotions and ego-driven attitudes overshadow purpose. Organizations need to understand this basic human need to be heard and to belong. Once this is understood, then action can be taken. The key is to focus the errant mind. How can a company reel in the idle mind with a pro-social focus instead of reprimanding anti-social behaviors all-the-while losing your competitive edge?\n\nFocus the Observer-Actor\n\nGive your employees something you want them to observe and tell them how it is important it is for the company! This also tests their mindset to see if they are in line with the organization’s mission and purpose. When employee attention is focused observations become more targeted. Their ability to respond also improves as they are encouraged to take more responsibility. Organizations creating a human-edge inspired observer-actor culture reap the rewards from an ever-growing observer workforce. Focus the observer’s attention on a specific goal, service, or product. Always have employee attention clearly directed toward developing the organization and enhancing its performance and purpose.\n\nFocused Observer-Actors Create an Open Feedback Culture\n\nWhen management seeks clear observations from its employees, deleterious chitchat wanes. Innate pro-social behaviors kick in. Believe it or not, people want to work together. Everyone benefits from a culture that promotes pro-social interactions. A group of focused observers creates a peer culture that derives constructive feedback and not harbor toxic rumors. Safety to verbally contribute increases. Speaking up is now associated with sharing an innovative idea or an improvement of some kind. Making your voice heard now brings the organization forward and not for the purpose of degrading a colleague or undermining a project. Feedback becomes solution-oriented. Possibilities become the focus and not what is not possible. An observer-actor culture entrusted to respond creates an atmosphere of collaboration and collective wisdom sharing. Which organization doesn’t want that?\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJean-Pierre Kallanian is a Human Systems Expert specializing in conflict resolution,  intergenerational dialogue, and psychological safety. He is also a Youth Coach, Author, and Speaker. As the creator of the EPIC Model, Jean-Pierre brings out the expertise in groups by revealing patterns and refining human systems in real-time!\n\nIntergenerational learning ensures viability & innovation\n\nIntergenerational Learning\nIntergenerational learning is optimized when all generations are acknowledged and valued for their contributions.\n\nIntergenerational learning is a top priority\n\nIntergenerational learning is needed more now than ever before. Labor markets are struggling to meet rising human resource demands and simultaneously remain innovative. In a blog titled, Leveraging Europe’s Ageing Workforce, the author reports on how a declining pool of potential EU workers in a growing job market is resulting in the frenetic search for qualified and engaged young workers. In the US, the economic situation does not fair better.\n\nA perfect storm is brewing. The combination of a decreasing labor force participation rate, baby boomers retiring, an expanding wage gap between high school and college graduates, and the skyrocketing costs of higher education are well documented. This harsh reality is set against the backdrop of a spiraling national debt that has surpassed $21,000,000,000,000. Let us not forget the ominous and bitter consequences of the 2008 global financial crisis. A corrective course of action is needed to avert a similar or worse fate.\n\nWhat can we learn from older generations?\n\nCompanies need older workers! That is potentially good news for older workers seeking employment, as long as employers see the value in hiring them. By 2024, one in four U.S. workers will be 55 or older, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. How should older workers be regarded in a digital age? How can the labor market incorporate their experience and wisdom? Older employees are typically seen as expensive and replaceable by younger and less expensive counterparts. But is this entirely true? \n\nOlder employees have established networks. They have experience overcoming organizational challenges and achieving lofty goals. Their know-how and connections optimally position them to offer guidance and support. Their trained soft skills can help younger colleagues refine theirs. By sharing their stories and listening to younger generations, senior employees are a source of inspiration. Solely viewing them as a financial burden is not only short-sighted but also detrimental to an organization’s future in today’s market. Regarding them as a vital asset inspires new purpose and fresh meaning in their work-life, boosting their morale and productivity.\n\nWhat can we learn from younger generations?\n\n“Age shows wisdom, but wisdom shows no age” – Unknown author\n\nAs digital natives, young employees today may lack work experience and social competencies, but their ability to navigate in a digital world is unprecedented. In my parenting book What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth, I outline the EPIC Model, a learning framework embodied by those most adept at learning: young people. The Model consists of four components: exploration, play, inspiration, and connection. Using this framework optimizes intergenerational learning.\n\nRegardless of age, we all have the capacity to learn. Young people can help older ones reignite the innate ability to explore, play, inspire, and connect. Subscribing to such a philosophy allows one to remain open to new possibilities. Organizations adopting such a philosophy remain viable and innovative. Creating an open learning culture improves both employee and organizational performance.\n\nGenerational labels impede intergenerational learning\n\nOnce GenX, GenY, and GenZ are mentioned, a debate ensues to determine the beginning and end years of each. As if a birth year reveals everything you need to know about a person. A heated discussion then follows to agree upon several descriptors applicable to hundreds of millions of people. Anyone who can memorize some random dates and a few adjectives becomes an immediate generation expert. If it were only so simple!\n\nLabeling people usually leads to stereotypes. Stereotypes usually lead to some form of discrimination. Here are some warning signs of age discrimination. How does this domino effect ameliorate an aging and shrinking workforce? It doesn’t. It does the opposite. It perpetuates the current situation. What happens when organizations place more emphasis on reciprocal intergenerational learning?  How would intergenerational learning impact workplace culture, productivity, and creativity in your organization?\n\nIntergenerational learning in action\n\nIntergenerational learning requires commitment and time. Who has time for that? Time taken now to create new possibilities, improve collaboration, and ignite productivity saves time in the long-run. Processes, where information and conversations that matter most can be discussed from all perspectives, are vital. When all stakeholders participate then all members can take ownership and responsibility for the outcome. \n\nFor technical learning, apprenticeship programs and continuous training keep all stakeholders up-to-date with current trends. Mentoring and reverse mentoring also help young employees with onboarding. Storytelling or various circle methods can be extremely helpful in creating space for reciprocal know-how sharing and open feedback.  Excursions and celebrations build social bonds and create a sense of achievement and belonging. A neutral facilitator may also be preferable when starting out or dealing with more serious issues.  There are numerous ways organizations can fully embrace the benefits of intergenerational learning other than simply creating multigenerational teams and hoping for the best.\n\nAbout the author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Process Facilitator, Human Systems Expert, and Youth Specialist. He is the author of “What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth”. Jean-Pierre accompanies organizations in fully integrating their human resource potential by facilitating group processes that foster authenticity, intention, and collective wisdom. All stakeholders benefit in a culture that supports exploration, play, inspiration, and connection.\n\nHow IoT reflects IoLT: the interconnectedness of living things\n\nThe symbiotic relationship between a crocodile and plover for the benefit of both species (\n\nIoT – What is the internet of things?\n\nThe Internet of things (IoT) is a system of interconnected computing sensors able to transfer data over a network. IoT does not require direct human involvement to function. Chips implanted in devices or machinery combine operational technology (OT) with information systems (IT). Real-time data exchange through IoT allows for interoperability, enhancing efficiency and performance of a device,  product, or service.\n\nIoT in the workplace and beyond\n\nIn 2016, the top three industries in IoT spending were manufacturing, transportation, and utilities. Global spending on IoT is projected to reach $1.3 Trillion in 2020 (IDC). According to, a leading provider of market and consumer data,  the number of connected devices will increase six-fold from 15 billion devices in 2015 to 75 billion in 2025.\n\nNot only will IoT be the standard in the workplace, but it will also be pervasive in our private lives, from personal belongings to inside our bodies. According to a 2018 article from Business Insider, thousands of Swedes are having microchips implanted in their bodies, no longer requiring them to carry keys or IDs. A simple wave of the hand unlocks the house door or identifies who you are.\n\nIoLT – The interconnectedness of living things\n\nThe interconnectedness of living things is the interdependence of all organisms. For millions of years, the animal and plant kingdom has been developing and evolving a complex and intricate system of interdependency that benefits all species. Humans are becoming more cognizant of the need to care for the natural resources that all living organisms, humans included, are dependent upon.\n\nNature’s interconnectedness is as astonishing and complex of a system as there is. Nonetheless, it works rather effectively and efficiently through the use of six varying symbiotic relationships. Interdependence requires each stakeholder to uphold a degree of responsibility regardless of status or position. A system overcomes challenges and effectively deals with setbacks when all stakeholders fulfill their role. A breakdown at any point impacts the entire system. It is not a coincidence that the IoLT and IoT diagrams share similar patterns. What can we learn from nature as human interconnectedness and complexity increases as a result of IoT?\n\nThe interconnectedness of living things (Science Bob)\n\nInternet of Things\n\nThe importance of IoLT\n\nJust as industry and technology sectors see the value of the internet of things, so too are we becoming more aware of the importance of the interconnectedness of all things living. IoLT has the answers to cope with the potential threats of IoT. It is imperative we look after nature. How we care for nature will reflect how we cope with digitalization. Maintaining the quality of air, soil, and water, and minimizing our ecological footprint is more noticeable with the increase in air pollution, water contamination, deforestation, and global warming. What societal changes are we noticing from digitalization?\n\nNature not only ensures our survival, but it also helps us solve complex human problems. Studying photosynthesis to improve solar energy. Using snake venom to help find cures for cancer and diabetes. Kingfisher bird anatomy inspiring the design of bullet trains. These are but a few examples of biomimetics or biomimicry. Naturally occurring elements and structures greatly help us in taking the next evolutionary step. We still have more to learn.\n\nRemaining human for the sake of posterity\n\nAs IoT results in the continued digitalization of work and home, interactions with technological devices are on the rise. Practicing pro-social skills and maintaining human connectedness will be paramount in adhering to a moral and ethical framework as digitalization becomes more predominant in everyday life. It should come to no surprise that political, economic, and social divisiveness becomes even more hazardous to our overall safety and security in a digitalized world. The use of IoT for ill intention or for the sake of taking advantage of certain stakeholders is a real and existing threat.\n\nEmpathy, compassion, listening, and understanding are all vital human traits that require continuous practice. A machine needs only to be programmed once to learn a task. In contrast, humans need to continuously train skills in order to maintain proficiency. If we don’t, we risk losing the ability to remain human in a world that becomes more capable of widespread harm with each passing day.\n\n Trust and transparency in a digital world\n\nThe breadth of challenges posed by IoT seems to span as wide as the potential benefits. What data is being collected? For what purpose is it being collected? Who has access to the data?  What impact does IoT have on security and personal privacy? These are just a few of the crucial and complex moral questions arising from data collection and use arising from the internet of things.\n\nCreative cooperation and information sharing lead to survival and prosperity for all. IoT must be used with the common good of all in mind to reap large-scale rewards and avoid large-scale catastrophe. Similar to the delicate relationship between the plover enjoying a free meal and the crocodile a dental cleaning, trust, intention, collaboration, and transparency are paramount when dealing with complexity.  In a millisecond, a quick snap of the jaws is all that is needed to end the mutual benefits of this symbiotic relationship. The 200 million-year-old wise crocodile knows better. Do we?\n\nAbout the author\n\nJean-Pierre Kallanian is an Executive Coach, Youth Expert, Human Systems Facilitator, Author, and Speaker. He accompanies organizations in fully integrating their human resource potential by facilitating group processes that foster authenticity, intention, and collective wisdom.\n\nSmall leader gestures have big follower impact\n\nLeader Gestures – The basics of decency and respect\n\nWithin a period of three days, on two of the world’s biggest stages, millions of viewers observed two slights of basic human decency and respect by two of the most influential people towards other prominent world figures. The first faux pas coincidently occurred on Friday, July 13, 2018, at Windsor Palace between Queen Elizabeth II and President Donald Trump. The second occurred on Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow between Presidents Vladimir Putin, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, and Emmanuel Macron. Fortunately for all of us, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović of Croatia was modeling desperately needed pro-social leader gestures.\n\nThe Queen is somewhere around here\n\nleader gesture\nPresident Trump walking ahead of Queen Elizabeth II during his visit to Windsor Castle. Photos by Richard Pohle\n\nThe procedure seems straightforward. Walk side-by-side through a column of honor guards. How difficult can it be? Even with what appeared to be instruction from the Queen, Trump either did not listen and/or did not care about the procedure. Leaving the Queen momentarily in his shadow, he gave the impression that the ceremony was only to honor his presence. During the short promenade, Trump not once looked at the Queen.\n\nPut aside for a moment their titles and all the pomp and circumstance. An older man (72) is walking with an even older woman (92). As fit as Queen Elisabeth II is she is elderly and walking on an uneven surface. Wouldn’t it be proper and kind for the man to walk by her side? That is at a minimum. The extra step would be to offer his arm. The picture below offers a striking contrast to what easily could have been. The facial expressions in each picture say it all.\n\nleader gestures\nA young man accompanying an elderly woman on a walk Photo credit:\n\nRaining? Really, I’m hardly wet.\n\nAs French and Croatian players in the World Cup finals were awarded their medals and congratulated by FIFA president Gianni Infantoni, Vladimir Putin, Emmanuel Macron, and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, it began to rain then pour. As weather conditions worsened, the first to receive an umbrella was Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. No, not exactly. The first to receive protection from the elements was the host, Vladimir Putin. As Putin was sheltered by a large umbrella he did not even have to hold, Grabar-Kitarović, Macron, and Infantoni stood in elements jubilantly embracing players and coaches.\n\nleader gestures\nPresidents Macron and Grabar-Kitarović congratulate players and coaches in the pouring rain while President Putin takes cover under the first umbrella. Photo by Reuters.\n\nLet us again put aside the titles and the significance of the ceremony. You are hosting three people at your house in your backyard. Suddenly the clouds roll in and it begins to rain then downpour. What do you do? You find an umbrella for yourself. No. This is not an airplane emergency where you are instructed to put your mask on first, then attend to others. You attend to the needs of your guests first.\n\nTrump does not fair better with umbrella courtesy. He also ensured his well-being first under an oversized golf umbrella while Barron and Melanie handled the elements sans parapluie. Maybe the Queen could arrange a lesson in umbrella etiquette for them both.\n\nLeader gestures\nTrump making sure he is protected from the elements.\nPhoto: AP/Andrew Harnik\n\nLeader gestures and their impact on followers\n\nSmall gestures say a lot about a leader’s character. A leader is the model of the behavior she wants her followers to emulate. Some followers do in fact imitate what their leader says and does. What messages are Presidents Trump and Putin sending their constituents on how to treat the elderly, family members, countries hosting you, or foreigners visiting your country?\n\nRemember playing Follow-the-leader as a child?  A very empowering feeling for a young person knowing every one must pay attention to her every step and action. These simple leader gestures, however, are not a game and need to be taken seriously.  Followers can become emboldened by a leader’s irresponsible and anti-social gestures or language. Depending on the leader’s influence and intention, he can incite followers to either bring communities together or have them tear apart the social fabric that keeps us treating one another humanely. I explore the dangers of phony leadership in a previous blog.\n\nA responsible leader gesture\n\nOn July 1st, when the Round of 16 of the World Cup was underway, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović flew economy class to Russia with other Croatian fans to support their national team. What impact did her small gesture have on her constituents and the team? See for yourself.  The Croatian national team deserves full credit for reaching the World Cup Finals. One begs to ask, however, if such pro-social behaviors becoming of a president also contributed to their team’s national and international success?\n\nLeader gestures\nCroatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic flying economy with passengers to Russia. Facebook/Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović\n\nAbout the author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Human Systems Expert, Process Facilitator, Youth Specialist, and Speaker. He optimizes employee engagement and leadership potential by counseling leaders and enhancing group dynamics. He is the creator of the EPIC Model of development and the author of What You Can Learn from Your Teenager: Lessons in Parenting and Personal Growth.\n\nThe numerous benefits of barefoot running\n\nBarefoot running\nHalf Marathon Barefoot run\n\nBarefoot running background\n\nBarefoot running occurs naturally as a child. As an adult, it usually begins once you have read “Born to Run”, by Christopher McDougall. At least it did for me. One late summer day in 2010, while reading McDougall’s book about the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon in Mexico, I decided to do something I had yet to even consider. \n\nOvercoming the anxiety of what the neighbors would think, I jogged about 100 meters barefoot up the road and quickly went inside. The sensation I felt connecting with the pavement was amazing. I was no longer running. Every step was one of sensation. Like electricity running through my body, what I felt with every step–through the over 200,000 nerve endings in the soles of my feet–was instantaneously felt throughout my body to the ends of the hairs on my head.\n\nAfter this unforgettable experience, there was no turning back to running shoes. Barefoot running gave the movement a whole new meaning. It became fun and not a chore. It became a want and not a must. Running became explorative and not exercise. For the next several months I slowly and impatiently transitioned from shod to bare, using my running shoes as hand weights when not in use.\n\nCan you get injured from barefoot running?\n\nRunning injuries occur with or without shoes. Other factors to consider are previous injury history, overtraining, fatigue, and technique. Most of my injuries resulted from simply overdoing it. I enjoyed it too much. Eventually, my body forced me to listen. Blood blisters, calf strains, and the worst was a hairline fracture in my left fibula sustained during a 10K race. I still managed to hobble across the finish line.\n\nThe most frequently asked questions are ‘Doesn’t it hurt?’ and ’Don’t your feet get cold?’ The answer to both is rarely. Occasionally I step on something sharp. However, after seven years and 2,000 miles of barefoot running, only three small objects penetrated my skin and all were removed with tweezers–a must have. Unlike shoes whose soles wear down over time, the soles of your feet thicken with use, making objects more difficult to penetrate.\n\nRegarding cold weather, as long as my feet are warm from the start, they usually stay warm. It can become a game of mind over matter and where I focus my mental energy. I use my “heat to feet” mantra and actively think about transferring the heat from my upper torso to my lower extremities when running in cold weather. Your body also adapts over time.\n\nPhysical benefits of barefoot running\n\nToenail fungus and runner’s toe are not an issue for me. There are more sweat glands in your feet per square inch than in any other part of your body: 250,000 glands per foot! Barefooting naturally allows your feet to breathe, sweat, and air dry while running. It helps get rid of sock tan lines! Splashing in puddles is also great for cooling off and having fun too.\n\nBarefoot running has built-in anti-injury mechanisms. First, I run shorter distances as it is more physically and mentally demanding. The longest races I have run are half marathons. Second, my pads generally need a day to repair, so I rarely run back to back days. Third, the more I listen to my body, the more I am able to slow down and stop before an injury happens. Fourth, is the benefit of earthing, also known as grounding.\n\nFinally, barefoot running lessens the impact on your knees and hips. Leg stride is shorter and your feet naturally fall underneath your body. Cadence is quicker making foot impact lighter. The entire foot and lower leg are engaged like a shock absorber (Photos 1 & 2). The toes act as stabilizers ensuring balance (Photo 3). A heel strike impact goes directly from your heel bone to your knee and hip joints (Photo 4).\n\nBarefoot running\nPhoto 1: Foot muscles, ligaments, and tendons fully engaged, absorbing shock upon impact.\n\nbarefoot running\nPhoto 2: Lower leg muscles, ligaments, and tendons fully engaged, absorbing shock upon impact.\n\nBarefoot running\nPhoto 3: Toes splayed for balance and grip\n\nBarefoot running\nPhoto 4: Heel bone directly impacting the surface. No use of foot or lower leg. Ouch!\n\nFor more information on running economy and technique, watch the short video from Dr. Mark Cucuzzella on Principles of Natural Running\n\nHeel versus forefoot impact experiment\n\nHeel strike: Stand barefoot on a hard surface.  Strike one foot on the floor with just your heel 10 times with some force. How did it feel? Where did you feel the impact?\n\nForefoot strike: Using your other foot and with the same force, strike the ball of your foot 10 times. Have your heel gently touch the floor and bounce up again. How did it feel? Where did you feel the impact?\n\nBody and Mind Transformation\n\nBefore barefoot running, my feet had little to no arch. I have now developed an arch as my feet flex and strengthen with every step. This realignment naturally autocorrects the body from the ground up–remember the hairline fracture–impacting how I stand and walk. I even welcomed the slight gain in height due to a few millimeters with new footpad growth!\n\nBarefoot running involves body and mind. I never run with headphones. Most of my attention goes towards running form and scanning the ground for potential hazards. It is like playing a video game. Look away for too long and…Gotcha! A 30-minute run averaging 180 steps a minute translates to about 5,400 decisions of where to place your feet. That requires some attention.\n\nI had to learn how to run before I could walk\n\nWatch an infant walk without shoes. What do you notice? The child is on her toes. The gait looks more like a cross between walking and running. The child leans slightly forward and she is off! In essence that is running. Watch a toddler with shoes learning to walk. What do you notice? Little Frankenstein. Stiff, awkward, and clumsy movement.  The thousands of foot nerve endings are no longer sending her brain the feedback needed for coordination. Her feet are in boxes, making it unnecessarily more complicated to learn how to maintain balance.\n\nAfter four years of barefoot running, it dawned on me that I might be walking incorrectly! So one day I tried walking with a midfoot/forefoot strike. I was hooked. I call it “active walking” in comparison to “passive walking” or heel striking. With active walking, all foot and lower leg muscles, ligaments, and tendons are activated. A 40-year habit is hard to break. I still catch myself heel striking, especially when I’m in a hurry or wearing shoes with a heel.\n\nGo ahead. Take off your shoes. Let your feet breathe and reconnect with the Earth! Your mind, body, and soles will thank you! If interested you can read another post on Barefoot running and Leadership.\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJean-Pierre is a Human Systems Accelerator specializing in conflict resolution,  intergenerational dialogue, and team interdependence. He is also a Youth Coach, Author, and Speaker. As the creator of the EPIC Model, Jean-Pierre brings out the expertise in groups by revealing patterns and refining human systems in real-time!\n\n\nThe dangers of phony leaders and why authentic leaders are desperately needed\n\nQuotes from leaders\n\nPhony leadership and its consequences\n\nPhony leadership arises when those feeling neglected are used for the sake of the leader’s need to be in a position of power for self-serving reasons. Tricksters in leadership roles play on fears and focus their attention on emotionally charging their fanbase. This creates a level of fanaticism, jeopardizing the cohesiveness of all compatriots. Authentic leaders play down fears and focus their attention on emotionally discharging all stakeholders. This creates a level of security and fosters cohesiveness.\n\nAuthentic leadership seeks common ground amid differences. They view differences as opportunities for creation and innovation. For the authentic leader, new possibilities abound. Phony leadership, in contrast, views diversity as something to contend with, a threat to be defeated. A phony leader uses divisive tactics that create an “us versus them” mentality. Primitive methods using conflict and chaos are used to rule, not to serve.\n\nThe longer an unfit leader remains in power, the more likely respect for the position itself diminishes. Worse is the loss of faith in the institution for which the position is responsible. A group of people losing faith in a person is sad. A group of people losing faith in an institution vital to their livelihood is tragic and catastrophic. Therein lies the true danger of phony leadership.\n\nWhen egos lead, phony leaders follow\n\nPhony leadership is cowardly leadership disguised as brave leadership mainly to protect the leader’s fragile ego. Poor leadership is visible to all, except usually to the phony leader. The ostensible reason one assumes a position of leadership is for the sake of serving others. It quickly becomes evident that the phony leader is in the role to sustain his ego and self-interest.\n\nAs long as phony leaders maintain a loyal and demonstrative fanbase–even if through falsehoods and rhetoric–a cult-like following results. A phony leader creates a self-centered culture by making only a certain group believe someone is listening to just them. It is the equivalent of a parent showing extreme favoritism to one child while completely neglecting the others.\n\nSuch manipulative tactics create a “me first” mentality, mirroring the ego-driven persona of the phony leader. This dynamic creates a classic codependent relationship between the phony leader and his followers. All the while the neglected rest become disenchanted. This is the paradox of phony leadership. A phony leader rises to power by taking advantage of the unmet needs of those who feel neglected, only to use them again to sustain his control of power.\n\nThe courage to step down\n\nWhen transparency and truth reveal a leader’s incompetence, it is not time to denounce, deflect, and counterattack. It is time to face the truth and step down. Leaders serve all, not just their most loyal fanbase. If stepping down is how to best serve everyone, then that is the decision to make. Not doing so only confirms how unfit the person truly is to unite all. Those being led will appreciate the leader’s respect for the position’s duties, the title itself, and the institution he represents.\n\nAn ineffective leader who steps down shows moral intention. The leader wanted to lead a group and not let her ego lead her. It didn’t work out. Yes, this can happen to leaders too.\n\nAuthentic leaders understand the importance of having the right person in the job. Fake it until you become it may have its place in the world, however, not in positions of leadership where the livelihoods of a community, organization, or nation are at stake. In a world that operates and responds in real-time, fabrication of information, impulsive reactions, and emotional instability (just to name a few) can have a significant impact, up to and including global implications. It is in everyone’s best interest that a leader not fit for the position step down rather than continue and put others at risk.\n\nAuthentic leadership in action\n\nAuthentic leadership is without pretense. Their role is to invite, not exclude. Given the multitude of information transmitted each minute from various sources around the globe, it becomes even more critical for leaders to be able to hold the space for all truths. Authentic leaders are not only containers but also colanders. Taking in information is just the first step. The second step is sifting through it all to find common ground amidst the multiple voices.\n\nFinally, it is the leader’s role to create a culture where the themes that matter most can be addressed by those most affected. This is once again holding space for differing opinions and conversations to safely take place. It is like hosting a party whereby all guests feel welcomed, are focused on a purpose, and can speak openly and listen carefully.\n\nWith a focus on the prestige of being a leader and the benefits associated with it, many are interested in playing the part. How many are actually fit to fully embrace the role? Authentic leaders take pride in their title, but this is not why they assume leadership roles. Serving others and responsibly fulfilling their duties keeps the authentic leader’s ego in check. Phony leaders create a platform for themselves to be the top performer. Authentic leaders create platforms for others to be top performers.\n\nAbout the author\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7294514179229736}
+{"content": "“The opening verse of Genesis is majestic in its simplicity: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.'” \n\nGenesis tells so many familiar stories which we learned as children. This study can lead us to accessing those stories as adults in the context of 21st century understanding.\n\nThe magnificent beginning of the Bible tells the story of the creation of the universe through the cataclysmic flood. These stories have been told and retold for thousands of years. Today the challenge is understanding the way those timeless tales speak to our modern understanding of history and science.\n\nThe rest of Genesis is the “history” of those who came to understand one God. Abraham, his faith and struggle, is the story of every man. Although these tales are thought to have originated as folklore and then recorded and edited for centuries, they speak to our hearts today.\n\nAbraham’s descendants’ adventures in the land we know as the Middle East and trials in Egypt inform us regarding the beliefs of our Jewish neighbors. These stories were part of Jesus’ childhood as they are today part of ours.\n\nPursue this study to understand more about the way these stories were recorded and included in scripture and to explore your own faith journey and access to the Bible.\n\nMeet Our Professors\n\nJoel Baden\n\nProfessor of Hebrew Bible\n\nProfessor Joel Baden is a specialist in the Pentateuch, Biblical Hebrew, and disability theory in biblical studies. He is the author of the numerous articles, essays, and books on individual pentateuchal texts, critical methodology, and Biblical Hebrew; future projects include commentaries on Deuteronomy and Exodus. He holds degrees in Judaic Studies (BA, Yale), Semitic Languages (MA, University of Chicago), and Hebrew Bible (PhD, Harvard).\n\nJohn J. Collins\n\nHolmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation\n\nJohn J. Collins, a native of Ireland, was a professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago from 1991 until his arrival at YDS in 2000. He previously taught at the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely on the subjects of apocalypticism, wisdom, Hellenistic Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has participated in the editing of the Dead Sea Scrolls and is the general editor of the Yale Anchor Bible series. He holds degrees from University College Dublin (BA, MA, and an honorary D. Litt.) and Harvard University (PhD).\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nI. Introduction\n\n The Book of Genesis tells the story first of humankind and then of the ancestors of Israel, from the creation down to the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt. We may break it down into three large segments: the primeval history in Genesis 1-11; the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Genesis 12-36; and the Joseph story in chapters 37-50 (with an interlude about Judah in Genesis 38). The material in these three segments is of different kinds.\n\nThe primeval history tells the story of the beginnings, from Creation through the Flood, culminating with the tower of Babel. Much, perhaps all, of this material is pre-historic: it is material for which there is and can be no historical record. Most scholars nowadays characterize it as myth, and in fact it has numerous parallels with the myths of ancient Mesopotamia.\n\nThe stories of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in contrast, are set in historical time, but they hardly qualify as history by modern standards. They are made up of short episodes, which seem to have originated as folklore, but were edited over centuries and cast in the form of sequential history.\n\nThe story of Joseph differs from other material in the book because it is a developed story that runs over several chapters, and has the character of a novella.\n\nThese segments, however, did not circulate as separate stories, at least not in the form in which we have them. Here, as in the rest of the Pentateuch, we can distinguish different strands or sources, known as the Yahwist (J for the German spelling Jahwist), Elohist (E) and Priestly (P) that run through the segments. Even if the segments we have distinguished were composed at different times, they were combined into these strands before they were woven together to form the text of Genesis as we have it.\n\nOnly two of these strands, the Yahwist and the Priestly, are found in the primeval history, and they are easily distinguished. The Yahwist source takes its name from the fact that God is called Yahweh from the beginning, whereas in the other sources the divine name is only revealed in Exodus. J is a good story-teller and the deity is represented in a colorful, anthropomorphic, form. The Priestly source, in contrast, is rather dry. It is greatly concerned with genealogies and with the origin of cultic and ritual observances, such as the Sabbath. The first account of creation, in Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a, is a classic P composition. The story of Adam and Eve is a Yahwist composition, although it is unusual insofar as it refers to God as Yahweh Elohim, (perhaps an editor’s attempt to make clear the identity of Elohim from P in Genesis 1 and Yahweh from J in Genesis 2–3). The story of the Flood provides an exceptionally clear example of a case where these two stories have been woven together.\n\nFor a long time, the Yahwist source was thought to have been composed in Jerusalem early in the period of the monarchy, perhaps as early as the tenth century BCE. Nearly all scholars now think that date is too early. Some have gone to the other extreme and think it was composed during the Babylonian Exile, in the sixth century BCE. Others favor a date at some time during the monarchy (eighth or seventh century BCE). The main argument for a late date arises from the primeval history, which is deeply influenced by Babylonian myths, such as the Atrahasis story and the Epic of Gilgamesh. The exiles of Judah were obviously exposed to Babylonian culture during the Exile, but Judean scribes may well have been acquainted with Mesopotamian literature long before that. At present, however, there is no consensus about the date of the J source. A stronger and clearer case can be made that the Priestly source took shape during the Exile or a little later, although it may have incorporated older traditions.\n\nThe Patriarchal Stories\n\nA new phase in biblical history is ushered in by the appearance of Abraham, or Abram as he is initially called. (His name is changed to Abraham in Gen 17:5; his wife is initially Sarai, but her name is changed to Sarah in 17:15.) Abram is first introduced in a genealogical list in chapter 11, which is part of the Priestly source. In 11:31 we are told that he departed from “Ur of the Chaldeans” with his father Terah and his wife Sarai, “to go into the land of Canaan,” but settled in Haran on the way. This notice is also part of the Priestly source, but another reference to Ur of the Chaldeans in 15:7 is usually understood as non-priestly. The tradition that the ancestors of Israel came from Haran is also attested elsewhere in Genesis. Ur was a famous and ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that flourished in the third millennium BCE. It could be called “Ur of the Chaldeans,” however, only after the rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, in the late seventh century BCE. The reference to Ur of the Chaldeans in 15:7, then, must be a secondary addition, unless we ascribe a very late date to J.\n\nThe Patriarchs and History\n\nThe internal chronology of the Bible suggests a date around 2100 BCE for Abraham, and a time around 1876 BCE for the descent of his grandson Jacob into Egypt with his family. Only extremely conservative scholars would now take these dates at face value, in view of the prodigious life spans attributed to the patriarchs, but many have tried to set the stories of Genesis against the background of an historical era. It is not unreasonable to expect that even a work of fiction should provide clues as to the time of its composition. Unlike many biblical books, however, the patriarchal stories are practically void of reference to public events that might be known from other sources.\n\nIn older textbooks and Study Bibles, the Patriarchs are often dated to the Second Millennium BCE, in the centuries prior to the Exodus, which was thought to have occurred in the thirteenth century BCE.  But\n\nseveral considerations tell against such an early background. The Philistines, who are mentioned in Gen 21:32-34; 26:1, 8, 14-15, were one of the Sea Peoples who invaded the coastal plain in the twelfth century, and gave their name to “Palestine.” The Arameans, who figure especially in the Jacob stories, are attested only from the end of the second millennium (eleventh century BCE). The earliest mention of the camel as a domesticated animal dates only from the eleventh century BCE, and its use became common only some centuries later. Archeological evidence suggests that Beersheba was not settled before the twelfth century BCE. Even if we allow that some references may have been added secondarily, this evidence makes it unlikely that these stories originated earlier than the end of the second millennium BCE or the beginning of the first. The stories may still preserve reminiscences of an earlier time. The preference for names that end in –el (rather than –yah) in the patriarchal stories points to a time before the rise of YHWH as the god of Israel. But the stories cannot be taken as witnesses to pre-Israelite reality in any simple sense.\n\nThe Patriarchal Stories as Legends\n\nIn fact, the stories of Genesis do not lend themselves easily to historical analysis. More than a hundred years ago, a German scholar named Hermann Gunkel showed they belong not to the genre of historiography but to that of legend. Legend, according to Gunkel, is originally oral tradition, while history is usually found in written form. Written material is more easily given a fixed form, whereas oral variants of the same tales tend to proliferate. History treats great public occurrences, while legend deals with more personal and private matters. The clearest criterion of legend, wrote Gunkel, is that it frequently reports things that are incredible. It is poetry rather than prose, and a different sort of plausibility applies. As poetry, legend aims to please, to elevate, to inspire, and to move. It does not tell “what actually happened” in a way that would satisfy a modern historian.\n\nGunkel went on to distinguish several kinds of legends in Genesis. Etiological legends claim to explain the cause or origin of a phenomenon (e.g., the story of Lot’s wife explains the origin of a pillar of salt). Ethnological legends explain the origin of a people or of their customs (the story of Cain explains why Kenites are itinerant). Etymological legends explain the origin of names (there are two accounts of the origin of the name of Beersheba: Gen 21:31; 26:33). Ceremonial legends explain the origin of a ritual (the story of the Passover is an obvious example; the covenant with Abraham in Genesis 17 explains why his descendants practice circumcision). Gunkel did not rule out the possibility that historical reminiscences might be preserved in such legends, but he changed the focus of inquiry, from the events behind the text to the function of the story and its setting in life, or Sitz im Leben. His question was, why, and in what kind of setting, was this story told? Many stories were presumably told in a cultic setting—for example, to explain why Bethel was a holy place (Genesis 28)—but some may also have been told simply for entertainment.\n\nIt is clear, however, that at some point these traditions were linked together to form a genealogy of the ancestors of Israel. Jacob is identified as the father of the people of Israel; his name is changed to Israel in Genesis 32. His twelve sons give their names to the tribes that constitute Israel. Moreover, he is associated with the central hill country, which was the heartland of Israel before the rise of the monarchy. Yet in Genesis priority is given to Abraham, who is associated with the area later known as Judah. There are two periods in biblical history when such a construction would have made sense. One was in the time of David and Solomon, when (at least according to the biblical account) all Israel was united under a Judean monarchy. The other was after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, when Judah had reason and opportunity to assert its leadership of all Israel, north and south, and this remained true into the postexilic period. Both J and E, however, already assume the succession of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and so it is likely that the linkage of the patriarchs was already established at an early time, before these sources were compiled.\n\nThere is good reason to think that the linking of the patriarchs in a genealogical succession was an early attempt to define the people of Israel, by showing how the tribes were related to each other. It is important that the genealogical links bind Judah and Benjamin (the eventual southern kingdom) to the northern tribes, and so create a basis for regarding all Israel as a unity. It is also noteworthy that these stories insist that Abraham and his descendants were not Canaanites. They allegedly came from Mesopotamia, via Syria, and continued to go back to Syria to seek wives for some generations. The more recent archeological work in Israel rather suggests that the Israelites emerged out of Canaan. There is no evidence of the intrusion of a different material culture, such as we might expect if they had actually come from another country. The persistent attempt to deny Canaanite origins can be explained as a way of marking a boundary between Israel and Canaan. Since the Canaanites were the Israelites’ nearest neighbors, this was the most necessary boundary if Israel were to have its own identity. The patriarchal stories viewed as a whole, then, can be understood as an attempt to define Israel over against its neighbors, by positing some relationships and denying others.\n\nMany of the stories in Genesis are folkloric in character, and they surely evolved over centuries. A few features of these stories, however, are significant for their historical background, even if they do not suggest a specific date. There is no reference in Genesis to an Israelite or Judean king. This fact lends some credibility to the view that the stories first took shape before the rise of the monarchy, although they must have been edited long after that. Also, the religion of the patriarchs is significantly different from that of Deuteronomy or the Priestly source.\n\nPatriarchal Religion\n\nThe patriarchs also worship God in specific places, as manifestations of the God El. El was the common Hebrew, and Northwest Semitic, word for “god,” but it was also the name of the high god in the Canaanite myths from Ugarit, an ancient port city in today’s northern Syria. In Genesis 14 Abraham gives a tithe to Melchizedek, king of Salem (presumably Jerusalem), priest of El Elyon (God Most High). By so doing he recognizes, and lends legitimacy to, an established Canaanite cult. In fact, El and YHWH are recognized as one and the same god in biblical religion. According to the Elohist and Priestly strands of the Pentateuch, the name YHWH was not revealed until Exodus, and so the patriarchs worshiped El in his various manifestations. In contrast, the Canaanite god Baal is not mentioned at all in Genesis, and the patriarchs are never said to worship a goddess. So the patriarchs appear to participate in Canaanite religion in a modified form, or to appropriate it in a selective way. It is possible, of course, that the selectivity is due to later editors, who edited out of the tradition religious observances that might be deemed offensive.\n\nThere is a striking discrepancy between the manner of worship practiced by the patriarchs and that which is commanded later in the Bible. Wherever the patriarchs go, they build altars to the Lord. Abram builds an altar by the oak of Mamre, and again between Bethel and Ai. Later he plants a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and calls there on the name of the Lord. Isaac builds an altar in Beersheba, and Jacob at Bethel and Shechem. At Bethel, Jacob takes the stone he had used as a pillow and sets it up as a pillar, and pours oil on it. Later, in Deuteronomy 12, Israel is commanded to restrict sacrificial worship to the one “place which the Lord your God shall choose.” Then: “you must demolish completely all the places where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods on the mountain heights, on the hills, and under every leafy tree. Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred poles with fire, and hew down the idols of their gods” (Deut 12:2-3).\n\nDeuteronomic law did not apply to the patriarchs, who were supposed to have lived before Moses. Nonetheless, the association of the patriarchs with a given shrine marked it as a holy place, and gave it legitimacy in the eyes of later tradition. In fact, several stories in Genesis seem to have been preserved in order to legitimate, or establish the holiness of, specific sites. In the books of Kings, and sometimes in the prophets, great scorn is poured on the rival sanctuary of Bethel, which was one of two state temples erected by King Jeroboam I, when the northern kingdom of Israel seceded from Jerusalem (1 Kgs 12:25-33; the other one was at Dan, on the northern border of Israel). Yet in Genesis 28 we read how Jacob discovered that Bethel was “none other than the house of God and gate of heaven” (28:17). This would seem to establish that Bethel was a holy place, and so lend credibility to Jeroboam’s sanctuary.\n\nIt is at least clear that the stories of Genesis were not the work of the Deuteronomistic school, which made the centralization of religion into a criterion for true religion. In part, at least, the religion of the patriarchs was the kind of observance that the Deuteronomists sought to suppress. The stories about the patriarchs must have been established as part of Israel’s heritage too strongly for the Deuteronomists to repudiate them. It is reasonable then to conclude that Genesis reflects a form of popular, family religion that flourished before the Deuteronomic reform. One cannot, however, take these stories as a reliable or full account of Israelite religion in any period. They are stories about a past, which was always idealized to some extent, and may have been edited to some degree besides. They are of some value to the historian of religion, but that value is limited by the lack of explicit historical data.\n\nRegardless of their historical value, the tales of the patriarchs remain powerful as stories. In large part this is because, like all good folklore, they touch on perennial issues, such as jealousy between a woman and her rival (Sarah and Hagar) or rivalry between brothers (Jacob and Esau). Many of the stories are entertaining—Abraham’s ability to outwit the pharaoh or the gentle story of Isaac and Rebekah in Genesis 24. Others are tales of terror, in the phrase of Phyllis Trible, a modern biblical scholar—the command to Abraham to sacrifice his only son, or Lot’s willingness to sacrifice his daughters to the men of Sodom (Genesis 19). When the stories are read as Scripture, they become more problematic, because of a common but ill-founded assumption that all Scripture should be edifying. The stories of Genesis are often challenging and stimulating, but they seldom if ever propose simple models to be imitated.\n\n\nNahum M. Sarna, Understanding Genesis (New York: Schocken, 1966), xvii-xxx.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nRonald Hendel, The Book of Genesis. A Biography (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013).\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. Where is the line between the stories in Genesis that we more readily accept as non-historical ancient myth and those stories that we begin to read as historically plausible? Why do we draw the line where we do?\n  2. How many difference genres, or types of literature, are represented in Genesis/. What might this tell us about the origins of the book?\n  3. Why does Genesis hold such appeal for the modern reader? Is it simply because it comes first?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nII. Creation\n\nThe opening verse of Genesis is majestic in its simplicity: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Originally, the Hebrew was written without vowels. The vowels were added later as points above and below the consonants. The consonantal text can also be translated as: “In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth. . . .” The Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish, similarly begins with a temporal clause. (There is another possible reflection of the Babylonian myth in Gen 1:2. The Hebrew word for “the deep” [tehom] is a cognate of the name of the Babylonian monster Tiamat in Enuma Elish.) If the opening words are translated as a temporal clause, it is clear that we are not speaking of creation out of nothing. Already when God set about creating the heavens and the earth, there was a formless void (tohu wabohu), and the wind or spirit of God was hovering over the waters. God proceeds to bring order out of chaos simply by uttering commands.\n\nIn Genesis 1, God creates simply by issuing commands. This is exceptional even within the Hebrew Bible. We see a more “hands-on” approach to creation in Genesis 2, where God fashions Adam from the earth. Other passages allude to a mythic account of creation involving a battle with a dragon or sea monster (Job 26:12; Isa 51:9). There were precedents for creation by divine word in Egyptian mythology, but there is an evident contrast here with Genesis 2 and with the creation mythologies of Mesopotamia. The God of the Priestly writers is more exalted, or more remote, than the God of J.\n\nThe creation is arranged in seven days:\n\n1) Light: separation of light and darkness\n2) Firmament; separation of lower and upper water\n3a) Dry land; separation of water and dry land\n3b) Vegetation\n4) Sun, moon, and stars; separation of day and night\n5)  Water and air creatures\n6a) Land creatures; human beings\n6b) Vegetation given to birds, animals and human beings as food\n7) God rests\n\nThe narrative is formulaic. There are frequent pronouncements that “God saw that it was good,” and after the sixth day, everything is pronounced “very good.” At the same time, the narrative is not fully consistent. The pronouncement that “it was good” is lacking for the second and fourth days, and there are double acts of creation on the third and sixth days. The duplications are necessary to fit the work of creation into six days, thereby allowing the Creator to rest on the seventh, in effect inaugurating the Sabbath day. The fact that the whole process ends in a liturgical observance is typical of the Priestly source. Also typical is the emphasis on separation—of light and darkness, upper waters and lower waters, and so on. In the Priestly creation, everything must be in its proper place.\n\nGenesis 1 does not represent creation as instantaneous. It takes place over a period of time. (The days need not be taken literally. With the Lord, a thousand years is as a day. But neither should they be converted into some longer period of time. The point of the story is to provide a divine precedent for resting on the seventh day). Occasionally, scholars try to argue that this description is compatible with modern science. The original formless void, we are told, represents the “soupy” state of the universe at its inception. One biblical scholar has even suggested that the breath of God represents the “big bang.” This kind of attempt to find scientific truth in the Bible is misguided. Genesis 1, like all ancient accounts of the beginning of the universe, is an act of imagination that tells us more about the values of the authors than about the physical universe. The gradual progress of creation over seven days has nothing whatever to do with the scientific idea of evolution. People who try to read Genesis 1 as a scientific account are making an elementary genre mistake – misconstruing the kind of story it is, and the kind of truth that can be gleaned from it.\n\nThe creation of humanity\n\nHuman beings are created on the sixth day. While humankind is designated by the masculine word adam, both male and female are explicitly included. (The rabbis later speculated that the first human being was a hermaphrodite, both male and female, an idea that is known most famously from Plato’s dialogue, the Symposium). Both males and females, then, are created in the image of God. In the ancient Near East, images were very important for cult and worship, as the presence of the divinity was made manifest to the worshipers in the statues. At least in the period after the Exile, no such images were used in the cult of YHWH. Instead, according to the Priestly writer, the presence of God was made manifest in human beings. Moreover, gods in the ancient Near East were often depicted in the form of animals. Such depictions are rejected here. Near Eastern deities were also often depicted in human form. If human beings are made in the divine image, it follows that the Deity has humanlike form. In the modern world, we tend to say that God is conceived or imagined in human form—our knowledge of human form comes first and what we say about the Deity is an inference. In the ancient world, however, the divine typically comes first, and human beings are thought to be an imitation of the divine form. This account of creation, then, attributes great dignity to human beings, both male and female. The Priestly account of creation, then, is remarkably humanistic. One should not, of course, exaggerate the egalitarianism of the story. Genesis 1 says nothing about the social roles of men and women. In the rest of the Pentateuch, the Priestly source is no less patriarchal than the other sources – all are products of an ancient Near Eastern world.\n\nThe fact that humanity is made in the image of God is seldom recalled later in the Bible, but there is one notable instance in Gen 9:5-6, where it is invoked to guard the sanctity of life. God, we are told, will require a reckoning for the lifeblood of humans:\n\n\nThe sanctity of life is not absolute: the punishment for murder is death. But it is clear that the intention of the passage is to deter people from shedding blood.\n\nIt should also be noted that all humanity is made in the image of God. This status is not reserved for Israel or any other segment of humanity.\n\nMale and female\n\nThe distinction between male and female in Gen 1:27 leads directly to the command to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. In Jewish tradition, this has often been viewed as a commandment, which would exclude the option of celibacy for the religiously observant. The Priestly account of creation, then, affirms human sexuality, and seems to rule out at the outset an ethic of abstinence and asceticism. This point is important, as the Priestly rules of purity in Leviticus have often been taken to suggest a rather negative view of sexuality.  In its context in Genesis, however, the directive to increase and multiply is rather an exhortation, or even an authorization: it is good to marry and have children. One might well argue that this commandment, if such it be, has now been adequately fulfilled. The problem in the modern world is population control. This was seldom a problem in the ancient world, because of short life spans and the inability to control the spread of disease. (Plague and disease are created specifically to prevent over-population in Babylonian mythology.)  As we will find in Genesis 2, Genesis 1 is an attempt to explain the world as the author saw it, rather than a prescription that can be taken as valid in all times and places.\n\nGen 1:27 is often invoked in modern debates about homosexuality on the grounds that people were created male and female so that they might procreate. The primeval couple were Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. It should be clear that no such argument can be based on Genesis 1. As we have seen, the account of creation in Genesis 1 is highly schematic. To say that God created Day and Night is not to deny that there are such things as Dusk and Dawn. Genesis only makes sweeping generalities, emphasizing the typical. Transgender people, and people whose sexuality are ambiguous are presumably created by God too, and Genesis says nothing to suggest that they are not the image of God.\n\nThere are only two unambiguous statements about homosexual relations in the Hebrew Bible. Both, as it happens, are in the Priestly tradition, more specifically in the Holiness Code, in Lev 18:22 and 20:13. These verses declare that “if a man lies with a male as with a woman” (literally, “the lyings of a woman”), it is an abomination, and both must be put to death. Scholars debate the exact meaning of “the lyings of a woman” but the reference is most probably to male homosexual relations. Remarkably, lesbian relations are not singled out for condemnation anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. Leviticus does not appeal to the account of creation as the basis for this ruling. It seems to be part of a priestly concern with improper combinations: “you shall not let your animals breed with a different kind, you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials” (Lev 19:19). Few people in the modern world regard all these prohibitions as binding. For our present purposes, however, it is enough to note that Genesis 1 does not address the question of homosexual relations at all.\n\nDominion over the rest of creation.\n\nGen 1:28 tells the first human beings to have “dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing.”\n\nThis verse has drawn the ire of some environmentalists, who trace the human exploitation of nature to biblical roots. Human sovereignty over creation has not always been a blessing, and it has often been abused. Genesis, however, was not giving humanity a license to do whatever it wished. Genesis 1 only allows for vegetarian food: “See I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.” Only after the Flood will provision be made for eating meat. In the P account, creation is good and self-sustaining even before humanity is created. In Genesis 2, the rest of creation exists to serve humanity’s needs.\n\nThe Sabbath rest, with which the account of creation ends, also sets a limit to the human exploitation of the earth. The implications of the Sabbath will later be filled out in Exodus 20:9 (a priestly addition to the Decalogue): Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work – you, our son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day.”\n\nPerhaps the most striking thing about the Priestly creation account, however, is its positive tone. Everything is very good. The origin of sin and evil is not addressed. The story in Genesis 2-3 will set a very different tone.\n\nThis is not the only account of creation that we find in the Bible. The prophets and poetic books often allude to a more openly mythological account, in which the Lord “stretches out Zaphon over the void, and hangs the earth upon nothing” (Job 26: 7). Creation also involved a battle with the Sea and its monsters: “By his power, he stilled the Sea; by his understanding he struck down Rahab” (Job 26:12; compare Isa 51:9). The idea that creation involves a battle with the Deep and its monsters is familiar from Ancient Near Eastern mythology. According to Psalm 104, God set the earth on its foundations and set a boundary for the sea that it must not pass (Psalm 104:9).  We should not then think of Genesis 1 simply as THE biblical account of creation, but rather as one of several accounts, which acquires special importance because of its place at the beginning of the canonical text.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 1–23.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nPhyllis A. Bird, “Male and Female He Created Them. Gen. 1:27b in the Context of the Priestly Account of Creation,” in eadem, Missing Persons and Mistaken Identities: Women and Gender in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997) 123-54.\n\nMark S. Smith, The Priestly Vision of Genesis 1 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010).\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. What are the implications of the many similarities with Babylonian creation stories for our understanding of the meaning of Genesis 1?\n  2. How much of Genesis 1 should we consider determinative for for our current worldview?\n  3. Why do we tell creation stories? What larger cultural purpose do they serve?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nIII. Garden of Eden\n\nThe J account begins with one of the most familiar of all biblical narratives—the story of Adam and Eve. There is surprisingly little reference to this story in the remainder of the Hebrew Bible, although there are several allusions to the garden of Eden as a place of remarkable fertility. For clear allusions to Adam and Eve we have to wait until Ben Sira, in the early second century BCE, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.\n\nThe story focuses on the creation of humanity. Little is said about the creation of heaven and earth, except that they are the work of YHWH, and that the earth was not watered initially. The man (adam is the generic Hebrew word for human being) is made from the dust of the ground and animated by the breath of life. In the Babylonian myth of Atrahasis, humanity is also made from clay, mixed in that case with the flesh and blood of a slain god. In the biblical story, the breath of God is the element of divine origin in the human makeup. In this rather simple understanding, life comes with the breath and ceases when the breath departs. Then human beings return to the state of clay.\n\nTwo trees are singled out in this garden: the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (The precise meaning of “the knowledge of good and evil” is disputed. It may mean “universal knowledge,” or it may mean the power of discernment between good and evil—cf. Isa 7:15-16, which refers to the age by which a child knows how to choose the good and reject the evil.) Symmetry would lead us to expect that if one tree is the tree of life, the corresponding one should be the tree of death, and sure enough, Adam is told that if he eats of it he shall die. The tree is not introduced to Adam under the negative name of death, however, but in its attractive aspect as the tree of knowledge. The plot of the story hinges on the idea that God does not want humanity to eat from the tree of knowledge. The idea that gods jealously guard their superiority over humanity is widespread in the ancient world. It is also found in the Greek myth of Prometheus, the hero who was condemned to torture because he stole fire from the gods to benefit humankind. Adam is not initially forbidden to eat from the tree of life.\n\nThe plot is complicated when the Creator decrees that “it is not good that the man should be alone.” In the J account, the man is allowed responsible participation in the choice of his mate. In the process, he is allowed to name all the beasts, but none of these is found to be a fit partner for him. God is not an unmoved mover who produces creation fully formed. Rather, the Creator proceeds by a process of trial and error, and engages in unsuccessful experiments. This is also the way creation is imagined in the Babylonian Atrahasis myth.\n\nFinally, Adam finds a partner in the woman who is formed from his rib. Whether the manner in which the woman is created implies the subordination of woman to man is a matter of heated dispute. For two thousand years, the implication of subordination was thought to be obvious. In the words of St. Paul, in the course of his attempt to argue that women should cover their heads when they pray or prophesy: “man was not made from woman, but woman from man. Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man” (1 Cor 11:8-9; cf. 1 Tim 2:13, which forbids women to teach or have authority over men, because “Adam was formed first”). Even Paul recognized the anomaly of this claim. He added that though woman came from man, “so man comes through woman, and all things come from God” (1 Cor 11:12) and that “in the Lord, woman is not independent of man, or man independent of woman” (v. 11). In the Genesis text, the emphasis is on the closeness of the bond between man and woman: “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. . . . Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Gen 2:23-24: Usually in ancient Israel, the woman left her parents’ house to live with her husband; either the Genesis text reflects a time when this was not the custom or it simply means that for a man the bond with his wife takes precedence over that with his parents.) Despite all this, however, the reversal of the natural order of birth, by having the woman taken from the man’s body, cannot be denied. The order of creation surely implies an order of precedence. In the ancient (and modern) Near East, it was assumed that females should defer to males. But to speak of subordination here is too strong. In the account of the original creation the emphasis is on the closeness of the bond between male and female.\n\nThe man and wife were naked and not ashamed. This notice alerts us to the sexual overtones of the story. Some interpreters even hold that the “knowledge of good and evil” refers to sexual initiation. Immediately after their expulsion from Eden, we are told that Adam “knew his wife, Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain” (Gen 4:1). The verb “to know” often refers to sexual relations in biblical idiom. Genesis does not say explicitly that Adam “knew” his wife in the garden. Later Jewish tradition insisted that he did not, since the garden was holy, like the temple, because of the presence of God. Nonetheless, the motif of the forbidden fruit in Genesis 3 has always lent itself to a sexual interpretation. More fundamentally, however, the nudity of Adam and Eve symbolizes their initial innocence and lack of self-awareness—a state in which human beings are not sharply different from animals. By the end of the story they will have put on clothes and become human, for better or worse.\n\nThe Serpent\n\nGenesis 3, however, introduces another character into the story: “the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made” (3:1).  In later tradition, the serpent would be identified as Satan, or the devil. According to the Wisdom of Solomon (a Jewish text, written in Greek around the turn of the era, and included in the Catholic canon and Protestant Apocrypha), death entered the world “by the envy of the devil” (Wis 2:24). The New Testament book of Revelation refers to “the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world” (Rev 12:9). The figure of the devil, however, is a latecomer on the biblical scene. When Satan appears in the Hebrew Bible (in the book of Job, and again in Chronicles), he is not yet quite “the devil”—in Job he appears among “the sons of God” in the heavenly court. Neither should the serpent in Genesis be interpreted as the devil. Talking animals are a standard device in the literary genre of the fable, which was developed most famously by the Greek writer Aesop. The appearance of a talking snake should alert even the most unsophisticated reader to the fictional nature of the story. The snake articulates the voice of temptation, but it is not yet a mythological figure such as Satan later became.\n\nThe Knowledge of Good and Evil\n\nThe snake leads the human couple to question the divine prohibition against eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So the woman takes the forbidden fruit and eats, and then offers it to Adam, and he eats. Then “the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.” The “knowledge of good and evil” that they attain does not quite make them like gods, but it does give them self-awareness, and it sets them apart from the animals. There is an analogy here with the figure of Enkidu in the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.\n\nThe evaluation of Adam’s action is severe. First God curses the snake, and condemns it to crawl on its belly and eat dust. Then he tells the woman that he will greatly increase her pain in childbearing (a subject that had not previously been mentioned). Yet she is told “your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (3:16). Finally, the man is told that “because you have listened to the voice of your wife” and eaten from the forbidden tree, the ground is cursed because of him. Consequently, “By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (3:19). God then expels Adam and Eve from the garden, lest they put forth their hands and eat from the tree of life and live forever.\n\nDisobedience and Fall\n\nThe story of Adam and Eve is known in Christian theology as the Fall, and it is assumed that the human condition, subject to suffering and death, are consequences of the sin of Adam. Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden as a punishment for eating the forbidden fruit. Moreover, God pronounces curses on the serpent and on the ground because of what Adam and Eve have done. The narrative can still be read, like that of Enkidu, as a coming of age story of the transition from a prehuman to a human state. But unlike the Babylonian story, Genesis judges this transition negatively. Even though no words meaning “sin” or “punishment” are used in the story, it is quite clear that the conditions in which men and women must henceforth live are explained as punishment for disobedience.\n\nThese conditions are described in God’s words to the serpent, the woman, and the man in Gen 3:14-19. It should be clear that these passages give us only the author’s assumptions about the nature of life. They are not descriptions that are universally valid. Still less can they be read as normative accounts of how life must, or should, be. The nature of these passages can be seen clearly in the words addressed to the snake:  “upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.” Snakes do not in fact eat dust; this was simply a misconception on the part of the author. The curse pronounced on the snake provides an etiology of the way the snake was thought to live. God’s words to the woman likewise reflect the author’s view of the female condition. There is pain in childbearing, and subordination to a husband who “will rule over you.” It is often pointed out that this condition is not the original design of creation. It is a punishment, imposed after Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree. It is a mistake to read this passage as if it were the normative expression of God’s will for women (as seems to be implied in the New Testament in 1 Tim 2:13-15, which says that woman will be saved through childbearing). In that case, one would also have to conclude that it is God’s will that snakes eat dust and that men earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. God’s words to the woman simply reflect the common experience of women in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient Near East. The passage is explanatory in nature. It is not prescriptive or normative.\n\nIf God’s words to the woman paint a grim picture of life, his words to the man are no less severe: “by the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken” (3:19). There is no hint here of any possibility of meaningful life after death. (The common assumption in the Hebrew Bible, as we shall see later, was that after death all people, good and bad, went to the shadowy underworld, Sheol, the counterpart of the Greek Hades.) The biblical text explains this by laying the blame on human beings. In part, the problem is disobedience to the divine command. More broadly, however, one could say that the problem is human overreaching. Like the heroes of Greek tragedy, Adam and Eve are guilty of hubris in their desire to be like God, knowing good and evil. One message of this story, which is a common message in ancient Near Eastern literature, is that human beings should know their place and stay in it.\n\nTheological Misconceptions\n\nMore than most stories, these chapters of Genesis have been overlain with theological interpretations that have little basis in the Hebrew text. Since the time of St. Augustine, Christian theology has maintained the doctrine of original sin—the belief that human beings after Adam are born in a state of sin. There is a partial basis for this idea in the New Testament, where St. Paul asserts that “one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all” and “by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners” (Rom 5:18-19), but there is no suggestion of this in the text of Genesis. The story of Adam is paradigmatic, insofar as the temptation to eat forbidden fruit is typical of human experience. One might also suppose that an inclination to sin is inherited from one generation to another. But there is no suggestion in the biblical text that guilt is transmitted genetically.\n\nEqually unfounded is the view that the responsibility for sin lay with Eve rather than with Adam. The earliest occurrence of this idea is found in the book of Ben Sira in the early second century BCE: “From a woman sin had its beginning, and because of her we all die” (Sir 25:24). It is repeated in the New Testament in 1 Tim 2:14: “Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.” One may reasonably infer from the text of Genesis that the serpent approached Eve first because she was weaker, but Adam still bears the primary responsibility in the story. The command was given to him before Eve was created. Only after they have both eaten are their eyes opened. Adam and Eve suffer equally from the consequences of their action.\n\nFinally, the words of God to the snake have been invested with theological meaning in Christianity: “I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head and you will strike his heel.” Catholic Christianity has traditionally identified the woman as Mary, her seed as Jesus, and the snake as Satan. The passage is then read as a prophecy of the crushing of Satan and has inspired countless statues of Mary with a snake under her feet. Such allegorical interpretation has its place in a religious tradition, but we should be aware that it is not implied by the Hebrew text. Like the preceding verse, about the snake crawling on its belly and eating dust, this one is an etiology, meant to explain a fact of experience—snakes bite people, and people kill snakes.\n\nThe Contrast with Modern Values\n\nThe story of Adam and Eve is a compelling story, largely because the lure of forbidden fruit rings true to human experience, as does the sense that our enjoyment of paradisiac bliss is likely to be short-lived and doomed to frustration. It should be emphasized, however, that the worldview of this story is antithetical to modern Western culture. While Adam has free range over nearly all the garden, the limit imposed by the divine command is crucial. Obedience to a higher authority is an essential element of the biblical ethic. For modern culture, in contrast, the sky is the limit and people are constantly encouraged to “go for it.” One may debate the relative merits of the two approaches to life, but the fundamental difference between them must be acknowledged.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Exodus, 23–32.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nJames Barr, The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality (London: SCM, 1992).\n\nPhyllis Trible, God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1978).\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. In how many ways is the story of the Garden of Eden incompatible with Genesis 1?\n  2. How defensible are the traditional interpretations of the story as the “Fall of Man”? How much culpability does Eve have in the biblical account?\n  3. In the end, should we understand the decision to eat from the tree to be a good thing or a bad thing? What does the Bible seem to think about this?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nIV. The Flood\n\nContinuing the run of the Bible’s greatest hits, the narrative that follows upon Creation, Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel is—after a few genealogies to pass the time—the famous story of Noah and the Flood. For the single most deadly event in the history of God’s engagement with humanity, this is an episode that is most often recounted in children’s books and songs (“It rained and poured for forty daisies, daisies,” etc.). And while it seems at first like a relatively straightforward morality tale—humanity is wicked, humanity is punished, humanity is forgiven—this is in fact a complex narrative, comprising two distinctive views of the Flood. Its message is also not quite as simple as it might at first seem.\n\nThe Problem with the Flood Narrative\n\nThe story of the Flood in Genesis 6–9 has been, since the dawn of critical scholarship on the Bible, the primary text to which people have pointed to demonstrate the presence in the Pentateuch of multiple literary sources. The reason the passage has endured in this role up to the present is the simple fact that, although perhaps the most famous of all biblical stories, when one tries to read the narrative of the Flood one finds that it is, on the basic level of plot, impossible. The story begins with God discovering that the entire earth—“all flesh,” according to Gen 6:12—has become corrupt, and that the earth is filled with violence (hamas). God tells Moses that God has decided to destroy all flesh, but that Noah should make an ark. God promises to make a covenant with Noah, and instructs Noah to bring two of every living thing onto the ark “to keep alive with you; they shall be male and female.” And Noah does so (Gen 6:22): just as God commanded him, so he did.\n\nYet in the very next breath, something is deeply amiss. God once again tells Noah that all life is about to be destroyed, and that Noah should get into the ark. If this were all, we might just say that this God is a repetitive God. But there is more: God tells Noah also to take seven pairs—not one pair, male and female, but seven pairs, fourteen in total—of all clean animals and birds, but only one pair (male and female) of the unclean animals. It would seem, then, that Noah, having just collected one pair of every animal as instructed (“just as God commanded him, so he did,” Gen 6:22), is now told to go do it all over again, with many more animals, and with the distinction between clean and unclean. And, remarkably, “Noah did just as the Lord commanded him” (Gen 7:5).\n\nThe problems continue. Where did the water for the Flood come from? According to Gen 7:11, it was from above and below, from the release of the cosmic waters of creation: “the fountains of the great deep (tehom)” and “the floodgates of the sky.” According to Gen 7:12, it was rain—a lot of rain, but still just plain old rain.\n\nThere is a significant problem of chronology. On one hand, there is a very nice year-long sequence of events: the Flood comes in the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah’s six hundredth year; the waters rose for a hundred and fifty days (Gen 7:24), which is to say, for five months, such that the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month (Gen 8:4); on the first day of the tenth month, the mountains appeared; on Noah’s birthday, the first day of the first month of his six hundred and first year, the water began to dry up (8:13); and finally, on the twenty-seventh day of the second month—almost exactly one year after the waters first arrived—the earth was dry again. All well and good, until we see that there is time that is unaccounted for: most notably, the famous “forty days and forty nights” that the rain fell according to Gen 7:12, which is mentioned again in 8:6 as somehow coinciding with the first day of the tenth month. Thus forty days became, miraculously, seven and a half months. Then there are the seven days in which Noah waited for the dove to return, and the seven days after that (8:10–12).\n\nAs for that dove, which every child knows about, one should not forget about the raven that Noah sends out first. The raven (though it has gotten a bad reputation in the history of interpretation, in completely predictable black-and-white ways) actually does its job perfectly well, and does exactly the same job that Noah’s dove does with its three trips to and from the ark. There are, in other words, two different birds performing precisely the same function.\n\nThere are logical problems, the sort that don’t make it into the children’s books or songs. Most prominent: the minute that Noah gets off the ark, he proceeds to build an altar and offer animal sacrifices to God. It is unclear how this comports with God’s instructions to Noah to take the animals “to keep alive with you.” Even worse, just before Noah sacrifices the animals (8:20), God had just told him to bring the animals out “and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply” (8:17).\n\nJust as the Flood story begins with God’s repeated instructions to Noah, so it ends with another unnecessary repetition, of God’s promise never again to bring a Flood to destroy the earth. The first time, God makes the promise after smelling the odor of the sacrifices (8:21–22); the second time, it is the fulfillment of God’s statement before the Flood that there would be a covenant with Noah (9:1–17).\n\nTwo Flood Stories\n\nThese narrative problems, entirely on the level of the plot, make the Flood story in the canonical Bible difficult to read, difficult to the point of near-impossibility. Yet there is something notable about the narrative problems of the Flood story: they all come in binary pairs. Two repetitions, two birds, two origins of the waters, two calendrical systems. And when the opposing pairs are separated, it turns out that two perfectly good narratives emerge, each with distinctive and consistent narrative claims about what happened, when, how, and why.\n\nAnd then comes the final step: the observation that each of these two stories is also remarkably consistent in terms of literary style. The classic marker for the distinction between the sources J and P is the use of the divine name—and though one does not even need to look at the divine names in the Flood story in order to properly divide it into its constituent sources, once one has accomplished that separation it turns out that, yes, the divine name appears only in one narrative strand, while the generic term “God,” elohim, appears in the other. There are other, terminological distinctions that also appear. The story that uses the divine name uses the phrase “all existence,” while its opposite narrative says “all flesh.” The words for the destruction are distinctive, “blot out” and “destroy.” Also for death: “die” and “perish.” “The earth” versus “the ground.” “Male and its mate” versus “male and female.” None of these stylistic features is necessary to identify the two stories, but they do serve as a wonderful confirmation that, indeed, there are two stories to be found here.\n\nWhat, then, are these two Flood stories? According to the first, Noah is a decent chap with three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and the rest of the earth—all flesh—is corrupted and violent. God instructs Noah to build the ark and take two of each living thing, and Noah does so, and in the six hundredth year of his life, Noah goes into the ark with his wife, his sons, and his sons’ wives (a repeated refrain in this narrative). The waters come from above and below, and rise until everything dies; after a hundred and fifty days, God remembers Noah and sends a wind to drive back the waters. Eventually the ark comes to rest on Ararat, and Noah sends out the raven, which flies around until the waters have dried up entirely. Finally God tells Noah to come out of the ark, and tells everything to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth; God makes a few new stipulations regarding the consumption of meat, which is presented as a novelty in human history here; and finally God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons that there will be no more floods, with the rainbow serving as the sign of the covenant.\n\nThis version of the Flood narrative is manifestly from the priestly source, P, which we met already in Genesis 1. What we have in this story is the undoing of the creation narrated so beautifully in the first chapter of Genesis. The waters that were carefully separated by God to reveal the earth, those waters that are above and below the world we know, are released, returning the earth to its pre-creation chaos. Once again it is a divine wind that marks the end of the chaos. The re-creation of the world is announced with the same divine blessing, be fruitful and multiply. There is the reference in this story to God making humanity in God’s image, straight out of Genesis 1. And the explicitly vegetarian state of humanity proclaimed in Genesis 1 is here undone, and humans are allowed to eat meat, although with restrictions.\n\nThis last point is particularly important, as it gives us the most important hint as to what the author of P imagined the rationale behind the Flood to have been. In the initial state of the world according to P, humans and animals are supposed to be peaceful vegans, living together in harmony. But we are told at the beginning of the Flood story that the world—all flesh—has degenerated into violence and corruption. Humans are killing humans, animals are killing animals, and each is killing the other. Everything is destroyed in the P story because everything, human and animal alike, has violated what was supposed to be the natural order. The permission given at the end of the Flood in P, therefore, is a sop to the natural inclination of living creatures to be violent. That violence is not entirely outlawed, which is (as we learn over and over again in this country, going back to Prohibition and beyond) an ineffective means of preventing something; it is, rather, subject to state (divine) control.\n\nQuite a different story is told in the J version of the Flood. This story begins with God recognizing that humanity is inherently wicked—but that Noah is, at least in relative terms, okay. So Noah takes his seven pairs of clean and one pair of unclean animals, and the rain comes for forty days and forty nights, and everything on earth dies. At the end of the forty days, Noah sends out the dove, three times, and when it finally doesn’t return, Noah opens the ark and sees that everything is dry. He builds an altar and sacrifices—and here we see why God instructed him to bring so many animals, and in particular so many clean, which is another way of saying sacrificable, animals on board the ark! When God smells the sacrifices, God swears not to bring a Flood again: there is the divine recognition that though humanity may be inherently wicked, humanity also serves a purpose, in that it is only humans who are capable of providing God with sacrifices. There is no change in humanity’s regulations according to J, there is only a growing realization on the part of God that humans are imperfect and that those imperfections must be tolerated.\n\nIn the J story, there is a latent question of why, precisely, the animals had to die along with the humans. After all, both at the beginning and the end of the story it is emphasized that humanity is wicked by nature—quite distinct from the claim in the P story that “all flesh” was corrupted. So why a flood to wipe out the whole world, rather than a humanity-specific sort of devastation? The answer lies in the J version of creation and the J vision for humanity’s relationship with the rest of the world. In J, Adam is created first, and all of the animals exist only for the sake of humanity. (This is precisely the opposite of what we see in P, where creation is virtually complete before God creates humans.) According to J’s logic, once God decides to destroy humanity, the animals might as well go too, for without humans the animals serve no purpose.\n\nHistorical and Cross-cultural Considerations\n\nThe two Flood stories, intertwined in Genesis 6–9, are each complete, continuous, and internally consistent. And neither is dependent on or shows any knowledge of the other. In other words, there were in ancient Israel (at least) two independent narratives of the Flood floating around. We also know, of course, that these were not the only Flood stories being told in the ancient Near East, or around the world. Indeed, as has long been noted, virtually every culture has its Flood story. This has led many over the years to conjecture that there might be some historical truth behind the narrative, that there may in fact have been some prehistoric catastrophic flood event, the memory of which was preserved and transmitted in cultures across the globe.\n\nIt must be acknowledged, however, that there is no geological evidence for such a flood event. What we have instead is plenty of evidence for relatively localized floodings. These, it is safe to assume, were expanded by each individual culture into a momentous historical event—and it should be remembered that in the age before the internet, before globalization, before exploration or even substantial population movement, one’s local community was, for all intents and purposes, the world. Over generations, a local natural disaster easily transformed into a global catastrophe (in the same way that a local patriarchal figure could be transformed into a national or global progenitor—but more on that in the next session).\n\nIt is also worth remembering that stories travel from culture to culture, and indeed the biblical Flood stories are a very good example of such narrative migration. Given the climatological realities, it is fairly unthinkable that a story about a massive Flood should have originated in ancient Israel, where a lack of water, that is, famine, is the prevalent disaster (as we see repeatedly in the patriarchal stories and elsewhere), rather than too much water. Ever since the discovery and decipherment of the Mesopotamian epics of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis in the nineteenth century it has been clear that the biblical Flood account are both—though independently—derived from the Mesopotamian traditions (where flooding was, and continues to be, a serious problem). In the Mesopotamian Flood stories, we also have the salvation of a single human, the construction of an ark, the keeping of animals, the sending of birds, sacrifices—virtually every element that we find in the biblical accounts has a parallel.\n\nThis does not mean, however, that the biblical authors were simply translating the Mesopotamian epics into Hebrew. Along with the similarities are also significant differences, often in the most meaningful places. The biblical text presents one deity rather than many, and a deity with quite different justifications for bringing the Flood (in the Mesopotamian epics, the complaints of the gods against humanity are often quite banal, such as excess human noise). Although many scholars have presumed that the biblical accounts are a polemical reaction against the Mesopotamian traditions—along the lines of “you think it went like this, but we’re going to tell it the right way”—it seems more likely that in fact the process of transmission was lengthier and less sharp. It is probably safer to imagine that Mesopotamian Flood traditions came into Israel over many generations of cultural interaction, and that they were “translated” into the Israelite idiom, transmitted, and refined in multiple versions over many years. The biblical accounts are less Israelite “responses” to a Mesopotamian story, and more Israelite “versions” of originally Mesopotamian traditions. In both cultures, it should be noted, there was not one single authoritative rendition of the tale.\n\nAcross both cultures and in all versions, however, there is one consistent element of the Flood story. It marks the transition from the age before to the age of the present. In the biblical accounts in particular, this transition is indicated by God’s changed attitude toward humanity: the acceptance of what humanity is and how we behave. If there is a “fall” in Genesis, it is more here than in the Garden, for it is here that divine expectations are lowered to accommodate our inherent nature. The imperfections that we see around us and recognize in ourselves are officially and permanently encoded at the end of the Flood. Not only is there no going back to the Garden, there is no expectation on God’s part that we ever should.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 37–62.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nNorman Cohn, Noah’s Flood: The Genesis Story in Western Thought (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999).\n\nJason Silverman, Opening Heaven’s Floodgates: The Genesis Flood Narrative, Its Context, and Reception. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2013.\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. What details make the Flood a story difficult to follow as a narrative?\n  2. What are the moral implications of a deity willing to commit global genocide?\n  3. How does the biblical Flood story speak to present-day concerns about natural disasters, global warming, and the ecological movement as a whole?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nV. Call of Abraham\n\nAfter only the briefest of introductions at the end of Genesis 11, and with no hint of the role he would go on to play in the biblical narrative, suddenly at the beginning of Genesis 12 Abraham—still known at this point in the story as Abram—is thrust onto the scene as the first recipient of what we call the promise to the patriarchs. The words are famous and familiar: “Go from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And all the families of the earth shall bless themselves through you” (Gen 12:1–3).\n\nThis divine statement has often been taken as one of, if not the, primary examples of the principle of divine reward for righteous behavior. God tells Abraham to leave his native land in Mesopotamia and journey to Canaan; if Abraham does so, it is often thought, God will reward him by blessing him, by making him the founder of the Israelite people, the “great nation.” And it is true, Abraham does have to leave Mesopotamia and go to Canaan as a necessary first step. (Though this is in large part because it is assumed throughout the patriarchal stories, and indeed in much of the Bible, that Yahweh, the God of Israel, is a potent deity only in Israel; Abraham has to go there because that is where God will be able to actually do the things he promises.) But the structure of these verses, which is difficult if not impossible to replicate in English translation, suggests that the departure from Mesopotamia to Canaan is indeed only the first step, rather than being the main step.\n\nVirtually every main verb in the promise has the same grammatical form in the original Hebrew (with the necessary shifts from first to second person): they are all expressions of will, what we call the imperative (for the second-person forms) and the cohortative (for the first-person forms). Abraham is instructed to leave his homeland; but God equally instructs himself to make Abraham into a great nation, and to bless him, and to curse his enemies, etc. And, importantly, God instructs Abraham, in the imperative, to “be a blessing.” This is not, as so many translators and commentators have thought, the result of God’s actions, that Abraham will be a blessing (at least not necessarily); it is something that Abraham must do. In other words, what God expresses in these verses is not a quid pro quo, but a partnership: God expects Abraham to do certain things, and God puts certain obligations on himself as well. All of these combined efforts are intended to lead to one outcome, marked by the only main verb in the promise that is not either imperative or cohortative: that the nations of the earth will bless themselves through Abraham.\n\nThe meaning of this last, crucial phrase is not necessarily clear. There have typically been two major readings. The first is “the nations of the earth shall be blessed through you”—which is to say, because of Abraham’s faithfulness and righteousness there will be benefit for the entire world. Abraham’s actions will have a global effect, and presumably a trans-historical one. For what may be obvious reasons, this is the reading most often preferred by Christian interpreters, as it provides a mechanism for reading the development and rise of Christianity back into the very first moments of Israel’s existence.\n\nThe traditional Jewish reading, however, is the one suggested above: “the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by you.” This interpretation is quite different: that the non-Israelite nations, upon seeing how blessed Abraham and his lineage are, will express blessing among themselves by invoking Abraham’s success. “May you be as blessed as Abraham”—just as, later on, Jacob blesses Joseph’s sons by saying, “By you shall Israel invoke blessings, saying, ‘God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh’” (Gen 48:20). If Abraham is a blessing, and if God makes Abraham a blessing, then the other nations of the world will look to Abraham as a model.\n\nDespite its centrality in the narrative and its longevity in the history of interpretation, the divine words in Genesis 12:1–3 are not particularly clear. What does it mean that Abraham is “to be a blessing”? How will God bless Abraham? The crucial phrase in this speech is “I will make you a great nation,” for this is the part of the divine promise that is shared by all the pentateuchal authors and that forms the backdrop for the entire pentateuchal narrative arc. The Hebrew word used by God here for “nation” is goy, which is a political term (rather than the ethnic term ‘am, “people”). At the end of the primeval history, God had scattered humanity across the face of the planet, and the nations of the world had all established themselves in their various places. What God tells Abraham here is that Abraham will come to be another such nation, carved out from the existing world order. In order to become such a nation, two elements are required: a population of a certain size, and land in which those people can live. In other words, the two central planks of the divine promise throughout Genesis: land and progeny, distinct but inseparable.\n\nThe fulfillment of these two promise elements, and the challenges that the patriarchs and their descendants face in achieving that fulfillment, is what drives the narrative from Genesis 12 onward. The promise of land will not be fulfilled until the end of the Pentateuch, and in fact not even then; Genesis, however, is in many ways the story of the fulfillment of the aspect of progeny: the movement from one man, Abraham, to the twelve tribes of Israel. But to get from one to many, a seemingly unceasing run of obstacles has to be overcome, beginning first and foremost with the barrenness of Sarah—and after her of Rebekah and Rachel. Yet a promise is a promise, especially when it comes from God, and since the audience of Genesis stands at the end of the story, in full knowledge that Israel would become a full-fledged people, there is no doubt in the reader’s mind about whether God’s words will be fulfilled or not. It is the journey that is enriching, enlightening, and entertaining, not the journey’s foregone conclusion.\n\nThe association of Abraham with the promise of land and progeny must have been an ancient one, for it appears in each of the three sources of Genesis, J, E, and P. The promise in Genesis 12 is from J; the next one we encounter is the promise from E in Genesis 15. There has been significant disagreement in scholarship as to the source assignment of Genesis 15, with many scholars of earlier generations giving the promise material in the first few verses to J. Many scholars, past and present, also suspect that the material about the Exodus at the end of the chapter is secondary. On the first point, much of the disagreement is due to the fact that in this chapter, almost (but not quite) uniquely among those assigned to E, the divine name Yahweh is used. When most people have been taught that the division between J and E is done on the basis of the use of the divine names, this can appear to be a serious difficulty. Yet most pentateuchal scholars now agree that the use of the divine names is not, for the most part, a valid basis for dividing the sources. J uses both Yahweh and Elohim regularly. E seems to use Yahweh on occasion, though very infrequently. And even P, which is the source that most explicitly limits the name Yahweh to the time of Moses and afterward (see Exodus 6), uses it in the first verse of Genesis 17. Even if use of Yahweh in Genesis 15 creates a momentary disconnect, there are many other elements in the chapter that are not only quite in line with the overall E account, but that mark it apart from the J and P promises.\n\nWe may note first that here the promise appears in a very different sort of setting. It comes here not out of the blue, as in Genesis 12, but in response to Abraham’s apparent doubt: he has no heir. In response, God promises Abraham something that seems almost unbelievable: that he will indeed have a child of his own, despite his advanced age. And because Abraham takes God’s words on faith, God famously “reckoned it to him as righteousness” (Gen 15:6). This verse has a lengthy and important history of interpretation, most centrally in the writings of Paul. In its context in Genesis, however, it is not making any grand statement about faith versus works, and is not saying anything about “works of the law,” since the law has not been given yet. The verse speaks only of this moment in the narrative: that God thought it was a credit to Abraham that he believed that God could do such an ostensibly impossible thing. (Later in the E story, Abraham’s faith will be put to the test in the sacrifice of Isaac.)\n\nIn Genesis 15 we find two other interesting elements that do not appear in Genesis 12. One is the formal “cutting” of a covenant. Here we understand where that expression comes from, for there is a literal “cutting” that takes place here: Abraham takes his offerings and cuts them in half, after which God, appearing as fire, moves between the pieces. It has been conjectured that the meaning of this seemingly obscure ritual is symbolic: the one moving between the pieces takes on the obligation to fulfill his part of the deal, with the understanding that if he does not do so he should be cut in two like this animal. Whatever the original intent of the ceremony, the presence of a ceremony at all, the explicit mention of a covenant, is new to Genesis 15.\n\nThe other new element in Genesis 15 is the anticipation of the Exodus event. Abraham is told that he will indeed be given this land of Canaan, but he is also told that his descendants will have to abandon it, to return only after four generations. There are in fact very few explicit references anywhere in Genesis forward to the exodus, so this one stands out, especially given its prominent placement in the midst of the divine promise. It is mostly for this reason that people have thought that the entire passage from 15:13–16 is a later insertion. But there are no grounds for prohibiting a pentateuchal author from anticipating the Exodus in the patriarchal story, just as there are no grounds for saying that there cannot be remembrances of the patriarchal period in the narratives of the Exodus. That said, there is good reason to think that at least some of this material is secondary—in particular, the four-hundred-year enslavement and oppression mentioned in 15:13, which does not comport well at all with the four generations mentioned in 15:16. It is, as always, internal inconsistencies that drive us to see separate authors. If the reference to the Exodus event as a whole is not secondary, then, what purpose does it serve here? It may well be seen as a response on the part of the author to the obvious question that might arise, at least on the part of a reader familiar with the overarching narrative: why does God keep telling the patriarchs that they and their descendants will be given this land, when we know that the Israelites will have to take it back by force after the exodus?\n\nDifferent still is the promise narrative of Genesis 17, from the priestly source. Here the most prominent novelty is the inclusion of circumcision as part of the covenant. The origins of circumcision as a practice are unknown, though it is known that circumcision was not an exclusively Israelite custom. It was known certainly in Egypt, and most likely also among the Canaanites. It was evidently not part of Mesopotamian culture, which has led some scholars to suggest that the emphasis on circumcision in Genesis 17 should lead us to date the text to the period of the exile, when the Israelites would have wanted to define themselves against their Babylonian context. Yet there is another culture that also did not practice circumcision, and that the Israelites had every reason to define themselves against: the Philistines (whose foreskins David is famously sent by Saul to collect).\n\nWhatever the original purpose of circumcision, its use in the context of the patriarchal promise in Genesis 17 is distinctly theological. Although most have read this as something that Abraham and his family must do in order to receive the benefits promised by God—as if it is part of a quid pro quo—in fact there is something quite different going on here. The promise to make Abraham and his family into a great nation is, in Genesis 17 at least, a unilateral one on the part of God. It does not require circumcision in a transactional sense. God explicitly says that circumcision is the “sign of the covenant” (Gen 17:11). It is not part of the covenant itself. It is, rather, like many “signs” in the priestly source (including the rainbow at the end of the Flood), a reminder to God of an obligation that God has taken on. In the case of the Flood, the obligation is never again to destroy the world: when God sees the rainbow, the rains are supposed to stop before another catastrophe ensues. In the case of circumcision, the obligation is to make Abraham and his offspring fruitful and to multiply them (Gen 17:6). This, then, is how the sign of circumcision works: not as an identifying marker for Israelites to recognize each other (which would require a certain level of intimacy that was lost back in the Garden of Eden), but as a marker for God to recognize the Israelites from among the other nations of the world—such that when two Israelites engage in sexual intercourse, God should remember his obligation to make that coupling a fruitful one. Circumcision functions here much like the blood on the doorposts of the Israelite homes functions in the Passover story: as a means for God to distinguish between Israelite and non-Israelite.\n\nThe patriarchal promise is the most often-repeated narrative element in Genesis, and indeed in the entire Pentateuch. It is the central theme and plot device for all three of the sources in Genesis. Though it appears relatively infrequently outside of Genesis, the places that it is mentioned are always prominent ones: when God commits to rescue the Israelites from Egyptian oppression; at the episode of the golden calf; at the episode of the spies. In part because of its regular appearances, particularly in Genesis but elsewhere too, some scholars have suggested that the promise is a later element of the biblical story, one that was inserted by a redactor (or a series of redactors) in order to bind earlier independent pieces together under an overarching theological rubric. While it is certainly possible that some promise texts in the Pentateuch are of later origin—such as the one in Genesis 22, as we will see—the vast majority of the mentions of the patriarchal promise are firmly embedded in the separate sources. The fact that all the pentateuchal sources know of the promise, and the fact that they all construe it in slightly different ways, strongly suggests that instead of being a late theological addition the promise is in fact quite an early element in the tradition.\n\nThe call of Abraham, and the patriarchal promise, inaugurates a new era in the biblical historical scheme. From an entire world, one person was chosen; from that one person, an entire nation will grow, and that nation will, at least in the hopes of Genesis 12, have a world-wide impact.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 81–136.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nJoel S. Baden, The Promise to the Patriarchs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. Why is Abraham (and his offspring) chosen out of all humanity? How does the rationale for Abraham’s election matter for our own notions of being “chosen”?\n  2. What are the obligations of the divine promise, both for Israel/us and for God?\n  3. When we read all three of the calls together, Genesis 12, 15, and 17, what do we gain from this combination that we would be missing were there only one such passage?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nVI. Abraham and Isaac\n\nA major theme in the Abraham cycle concerns the question of an heir who should inherit the promise. At first, Abraham worries that “the heir to my house is Eliezer of Damascus” (Gen 15:2). Then he has a child, Ishmael, by Hagar, Sarah’s slave girl. Here again there is an ethnographic aspect to the story: Ishmael becomes the ancestor of a desert tribe. Like the story of Jacob and Esau, the account of Ishmael explains how Israel was defined over against its neighbors by divine choices that seem quite arbitrary. But this story also raises moral questions, not only for modern sensibilities.\n\nThe story is told twice, with variations, in Genesis 16 (J) and 21 (E). In the J account, the conflict between Hagar and Sarai arises when Hagar becomes pregnant and looks on Sarai with contempt. Abram makes no attempt to defend her, but allows Sarai to do as she pleases, so that Hagar has to flee. The angel of the Lord intervenes, and persuades Hagar to return, by promising that her son will have plentiful offspring, even though he will be “a wild ass of a man” and will live “at odds with his kin.” But Hagar is also told to submit to her mistress. We are left in no doubt about Sarai’s greater importance in the eyes of the Lord. Abram does not come off well in this story, as he makes no attempt to defend his offspring; but, typically, he is not censured in the text.\n\nThe E account locates the conflict later, after Isaac is born and weaned. In this case Sarah’s harshness to Hagar has less justification: she cannot abide the thought that the son of a slave woman would be on a par with her son. This time Abraham is distressed, but God tells him that Sarah is right, and that through Isaac the promise will be transmitted. He then sends Hagar and her child off into the wilderness. The plight of mother and child in the desert anticipates the later wandering of Israel and that of the prophet Elijah. In each case God comes to the rescue. This time there is no reason for Hagar or Ishmael to return to Abraham, but God causes the boy to prosper in the wilderness. Here again the idea of divine election seems to take priority over human compassion. The story seems to champion ethnocentrism, by suggesting that those who do not belong to the chosen people can be sent away. We meet a chilling application of the same principle much later in the Bible in the book of Ezra, where Ezra makes the Judean men who have married foreign women send them away with their children. The Elohist softens the story by assuring us that God looked after Hagar and Ishmael. There is no such assurance in the book of Ezra. Once again, the story raises a profound issue, one that will come up many times in the Bible, but it hardly points to a satisfactory solution.\n\nThe sacrifice of Isaac\n\nThe crowning episode in the narratives about Abraham’s heirs is the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22. The basic story, 22:1-14, 19, is generally ascribed to the E source, like the story of Hagar and Ishmael in Genesis 21. Verses 15-18 (“The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time . . .”) are generally recognized as a secondary addition, which integrates the story into the Yahwistic theme of the promise. There are some problems with the source-critical division, since “the angel of the Lord” is mentioned in v. 11 and v. 14 explains the name Moriah by the phrase “YHWH will see.” Evidently, the story has been reworked by different hands, and this helps explain why several different emphases can be detected in it. Nonetheless, the spare artistry of the story has been widely and rightly praised.\n\nThe opening verse is exceptional among the stories of Genesis in offering an explicit key to interpretation: “God tested Abraham.” The test is eventually aborted, but there is no doubt that Abraham passes. Abraham is commended in v. 12 and again in the redactional addition in vv. 16-18. This is not just any test, however. Abraham is told to take his only son, Isaac, whom he loves, and offer him up as a burnt offering. While the reader is told in advance that this is a test, Abraham is not. To appreciate the force of the story, the awfulness of the command must be taken fully seriously.\n\nAnother key to the story is provided by the theme of providence. Abraham tells Isaac that “God himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering” (v. 8). At this point in the story, this is an understandable attempt to dodge the awful truth, but it is more prophetic than Abraham knows. When the angel of the Lord intervenes, Abraham names the place “the Lord will provide.”\n\nYet another key to the story lies in the repetition of the promise to Abraham in vv. 15-18. While this passage is an editorial addition, it integrates the story into the main theme that now binds the patriarchal stories together.\n\nThe fascination of the story, however, lies in the specific content of the command to Abraham to sacrifice his only legitimate son. We do not know how widely human (child) sacrifice was practiced in ancient Israel, but there can be no doubt that it was practiced, down close to the time of the Babylonian exile. Kings of Judah (Ahaz in the eighth century BCE, 2 Kgs 16:3; Manasseh in the seventh century BCE, 2 Kgs 21:6) made their sons “pass through fire,” that is, offered them as burnt offerings. There was an installation called the Topheth in Ge (valley) Hinnom outside Jerusalem, where children were burned as victims (hence the name Gehenna for hell in New Testament times). King Josiah destroyed the Topheth in the reform of 621 BCE, allegedly so that “no one would make a son or a daughter pass through fire as an offering to Molech” (2 Kgs 23:10). Molech is usually taken to be a Canaanite god, and some interpreters are quick to conclude that child sacrifice was a Canaanite custom. But there is evidence that it was also practiced in the name of YHWH, God of Israel. The eighth-century prophet Micah addresses a Yahwistic worshiper who wonders: “with what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? . . . Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” (Mic 6:6-8). Micah replies that God requires only justice and kindness, but the question shows that a worshiper of YHWH could contemplate child sacrifice in the eighth century BCE.\n\nChild sacrifice actually appears to be commanded in Exod 22:28-29: “The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth you shall give it to me” (Hebrew verse 28, English verse 29). This commandment is modified in Exod 34:19-20, which likewise says that “all that first opens the womb is mine,” but adds, “all the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem.” (Similarly, the firstborn of a donkey could be redeemed by substituting a lamb, but if it was not redeemed it had to be killed.)  Underlying this commandment is the conviction that all life is from God, and that God’s right to the firstborn must be acknowledged, in order to ensure future fertility. We should expect that human firstborn sons were normally redeemed, as commanded in Exodus 34, but it is remarkable that the stark commandment in Exodus 22 is left on the books.\n\nYHWH is also said to have commanded human sacrifice in Ezek 20:25-26: “Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live. I defiled them through all their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.” Ezekiel does not attribute child sacrifice to Canaanite influence. He may have had Exodus 22 in mind. In any case, he provides further testimony that child sacrifice was practiced in Judah, down to the time of the exile. The polemic against child sacrifice in Deuteronomy and Jeremiah would not have been necessary if this had not been the case.\n\nUnlike Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, Genesis 22 does not condemn child sacrifice or polemicize against it. On the contrary, Abraham is praised for his willingness to carry it out. He does not have to go through with it, but that may be an exceptional case, because of Abraham’s exceptional standing. There is a counterpoint to this story in Judges 11, in the story of Jephthah. Jephthah makes a vow to the Lord that if he is victorious in battle he will sacrifice “whoever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me.” The language clearly implies human sacrifice. Unfortunately for Jephthah, he is greeted by his only daughter. He expresses more grief than Abraham, and is no less steadfast in fulfilling his vow. Modern commentators often fault Jephthah, since, unlike Abraham, he brought his misfortune on himself by a rash vow. But the Bible does not pronounce his vow rash, or pass judgment on him at all. (The New Testament proclaims him, like Abraham, a hero of faith, in Heb 11:32-34). Moreover, he seems to make his vow under the influence of the spirit of the Lord (Judg 11:20-21). In this case there is no ram in the bushes. The Lord does not always provide a substitute.\n\nWhile child sacrifice is not repudiated in Genesis 22, it was emphatically rejected by the later tradition. The tradition continued to praise the obedience of Abraham, but there is evident discomfort both with the idea that God gave such a command and with Abraham’s willingness to carry it out. On the one hand, it was suggested that the idea of the sacrifice came from Satan, just as Satan incited God to test Job. So the book of Jubilees, in the second century BCE, has the idea originate with Mastema, leader of the host of demons (Jub. 17:16). On the other hand, Targum Neofiti (an Aramaic paraphrase of the Bible from the early Christian period) has Abraham tell Isaac openly that he is to be sacrificed. Isaac responds by asking Abraham to bind him properly, so that he may not kick and make the sacrifice unfit. (In Jewish tradition, the sacrifice of Isaac is known as the Akedah, or Binding.) Other Jewish sources from the early Christian era also emphasize that Isaac was a willing victim and that his willingness was meritorious. This interpretation of the story may already be found in a fragmentary text from the Dead Sea Scrolls from the pre-Christian era (4Q225).\n\nThe story continues to fascinate philosophers and theologians down to modern times. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard reasoned that Abraham could only be justified by “the teleological suspension of the ethical”—the idea that ethical standards do not apply to a divine command. Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher of the Enlightenment, offered a more penetrating critique. For Kant, the problem was how one can know whether such a command comes from God in the first place: “There are certain cases in which man can be convinced that it cannot be God whose voice he thinks he hears; when the voice commands him to do what is opposed to the moral law, though the phenomenon seem to him ever so majestic and surpassing the whole of nature, he must count it a deception.” (See Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties [Trans. M. J. Gregor; New York: Abaris, 1979] 115). He went on to cite the story of Abraham as a case in point. This is of course a modern critique, which arises in a world where God is not thought to speak to people on a daily basis, and claims of divine revelation are regarded as problematic. We shall find, however, that such a critique is not as foreign to the Bible as we might suppose. Increasingly, as the biblical history unfolds, the authenticity of revelation becomes a problem. We shall find this especially in the debates over true and false prophecy. In the matter of revelation, as in the matter of child sacrifice, we must acknowledge development in the biblical corpus, although that development does not necessarily proceed in a straight line.\n\nThe story of the (near) sacrifice of Isaac is a troubling one for modern interpreters, because of the extravagant divine approval for Abraham’s willingness to do something that is not only regarded as criminal in the modern world but that was also widely condemned in the Bible itself. The problem cannot be resolved by the fact that he was acting in obedience to a divine command. The problem with divine commands is the difficulty of recognizing what is authentically divine. In the 1990’s a man who had converted to a conservative Christian sect was put on trial in California for killing his daughter, whom he apparently loved, because he thought God was telling him to do so. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity, although he showed no other signs of insanity. (See Carol Delaney, Abraham on Trial (Princeton, 1998). Jews and Christians will say that Abraham was different, and it is often argued that we should not judge Abraham by modern criteria. But if Abraham is not judged by modern criteria, is he at all relevant to modern readers?\n\nScripture teaches in many ways, not always by positive example. It contains lessons on the dangers of fanatical faith as well as calls for social justice and moral behavior.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 154–65.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nJohn J. Collins, “Faith Without Works: Biblical Ethics and the Sacrifice of Isaac,” in idem, Encounters with Biblical Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005) 47-58.\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. What are moral implications of a God who even requests the sacrifice of a child, even if the act is eventually unfulfilled?\n  2. How does the story of the sacrifice of Isaac speak to modern-day religious fundamentalism?\n  3. How do we reckon with, integrate, or reject those parts of our biblical tradition that we find ethically or morally problematic from a modern perspective?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nVII. Jacob\n\nJacob is in many ways the first real character in the Bible—and perhaps the last until we meet David in the books of Samuel. Unlike Abraham, who is somewhat uninteresting, and Isaac, who is borderline nonexistent, Jacob has a life full of adventure, ups and downs, and entertainment. What’s more, unlike most other biblical characters, Jacob’s persona develops over the course of his life story.\n\nWhat defines Jacob’s character most of all is his somewhat mischievous nature. To put it in broader folkloristic terms, Jacob is a classic trickster. He takes advantage of those around him for his own benefit. The first inklings of this character trait are clear in his emergence from his mother Rebekah’s womb, as he grasps on to the heel of his older brother Esau, whom we have already been told Jacob will supplant. Esau is indeed the “heel” of the Jacob story. As the older brother, he holds the birthright—the larger portion of Isaac’s inheritance that is due to the eldest son. But Jacob knows Esau’s weakness: his unintellectual physicality, which leads him to unthinkingly trade his birthright for a bowl of stew at a moment of intense hunger.\n\nLater, Jacob will use his wiles to take Esau’s paternal blessing as well. These blessings, though perhaps less tangible than the land holdings that come with the birthright, were still enormously important. It was the father’s dying wishes for his sons that were thought to determine the course of future events and status, as we can see clearly in Jacob’s own dying blessings to his twelve sons in Genesis 49, or Noah’s blessings (and curse) of his sons in Genesis 9. The blessing dominance over the other siblings was highly desired; words were thought to have very real power. Jacob once again attacks the weak spot: in this case not Esau’s brutish nature, but Isaac’s elderly blindness.\n\nLater still, when he has gone to his relatives in Aram to find a wife (and to escape Esau’s wrath over the theft of Isaac’s blessing), Jacob finds himself again in a position to outsmart those around him—again a family member—to his own material advantage. Laban may not have a stellar reputation in the biblical account, and certainly in the history of interpretation that followed, but Jacob’s tricking of him can feel somewhat mean-spirited anyway. Laban’s weakness is his greed: his desire for Jacob to work for him (for twenty years!) for virtually no wages. (This sounds particularly harsh and unkind, but it should be remembered that Jacob does agree to these terms at the beginning of the story—Jacob, at least, isn’t being swindled.) Jacob takes advantage of Laban’s greed by proposing a division of the flocks that would appear to leave all the healthy animals in Laban’s possession and all the weaker ones in Jacob’s. But Jacob has a trick up his sleeve—in this case, something fairly close to a real magic trick, which results in his flocks multiplying at the expense of Laban’s.\n\nJacob’s behavior in these episodes can at times lead to some ethical concerns: is this really how we want to picture our beloved and admired ancestors behaving? Would we not rather that they were, perhaps, more noble than this? It should be remembered, however, that the folk figure of the trickster is indeed an ancient and well-respected one, and moreover one that carried no negative connotations. It is also important to recall that while these stories are now part of what we consider Scripture, they did not originate as such. They belonged, rather, to the oral literature of ancient Israel, the folk tales that were passed down from generation to generation and around from community to community. They were not told for moral or ethical edification, but for entertainment: it would undoubtedly have given the audience much pleasure to hear about their ancestor besting those around him, especially through the use of his intellect and wiles—for most of its history, after all, Israel was never really capable of besting anyone by direct force (in the style of an Esau) or by the exertion of power (as with Laban).\n\nThe ethical question of Jacob’s behavior is also mitigated somewhat by the rest of the narrative of his life, in which he is as much the victim of trickery as he is its perpetrator. The two most notable such episodes are Laban’s replacement of Rachel with Leah on Jacob’s wedding night—just as Jacob took advantage of Isaac’s inability to see, so too Laban used the darkness as a cover for his tricking of Jacob—and, most prominently, Jacob’s own sons convincing Jacob that his beloved son Joseph had been attacked and killed by a wild beast. This latter deception has a special ring of comeuppance to it: just as Jacob used animal skins to trick his father Isaac into being unable to recognize him as the younger son, so Joseph’s brothers use animal skins to trick Jacob—this time, however, by a false act of recognition, the seeing of Joseph’s coat in its mangled state and the inference that Joseph must be dead.\n\nBy the end of his life, Jacob has gone from trickster to tricked, and has generally slowed down considerably. The man who was once practically a pure schemer is, after the births of his twelve sons, far more passive. This comes to light particularly in the story of the rape of Dinah in Genesis 34, where Jacob hears about the rape but keeps silent, and even rebukes his sons for acting rashly when they exact revenge against Shechem.\n\nOne of the prominent stories about Jacob, and certainly one of the most famous, is the encounter with the divine beings at Bethel: the angels going up and down the ladder, and Jacob’s statement, “Surely God is in this place and I did not know it” (Gen 28:16). While this story has come to serve as a reflection on the ubiquity of the divine presence, it originally served virtually the opposite function: it was, like so many of the stories in the patriarchal narratives, an explanation for the existence in Bethel of a cultic site, a sanctuary. These types of stories are known as cultic etiologies, and they litter the patriarchal accounts. Every time a character stops at a certain place and builds an altar, or sets up a pillar, or finds a significant tree, it is probably a cultic etiology. It is in these moments that we can see the great antiquity of so many of these patriarchal traditions. Certainly in the post-exilic period, when there was really only one functional sanctuary, the Temple in Jerusalem, stories like this would make little sense. Even in the pre-exilic period, if we take the arguments of Deuteronomy seriously, there would be significant opposition to the celebration of sanctuaries outside of Jerusalem—these cultic sites inaugurated by the patriarchs are what Deuteronomy condemns as the “high places,” “under every green tree.”\n\nBut in the stories of the patriarchs, these sites are not condemned at all. What we see here are probably the local legends about how the sanctuaries came into existence—the ancient equivalent of “George Washington slept here.” Bethel was clearly a significant cultic site from an early period (and one that would later become rather infamous as one of the sanctuaries set up by Jeroboam in opposition to Jerusalem). There must have been a legend, undoubtedly originating from Bethel itself, that it was founded by a patriarch. The antiquity of this legend is clear, however, from the fact that Genesis itself cannot decide which patriarch actually established the altar at Bethel. In Genesis 28 (E) and 35 (P) it is decidedly Jacob; but according to J in Genesis 12, it is Abraham.\n\nThe patriarchal narratives do more than simply explain the etiologies for Israelite sanctuaries. One of the prominent features of these stories is that the characters almost always stand for larger ethnic or national entities. Abraham’s nephew Lot begets two sons, Ammon and Moab, who are quite clearly the neighboring nations of the same names. Ishmael represents the Arab tribes of the wilderness between Canaan and Egypt. Esau is explicitly identified as Edom. Laban stands for Aram, the great power to the north. Jacob, of course, is Israel, and his sons the twelve tribes. The relationships among the individuals in the patriarchal stories represent the relationships among the peoples and nations within and surrounding Israel.\n\nIt is noteworthy that among the immediately neighboring peoples, the only two that are not somehow genetically connected with Israel according to the patriarchal narratives are Egypt and Canaan. The absence of Egypt is easily explainable as the result of the Exodus story, in which Egypt is the absolute enemy. But Canaan is more interesting, especially as scholars now agree that the community of Israel emerged from within Canaanite society. In other words, the people with whom Israel was in reality most closely connected is the same people that Israel explicitly excludes from its familial history in Genesis. (Note that the story in which the Canaanites play the most prominent part is the rape of Dinah in Genesis 34, where the potential for kinship between Jacob’s people and Shechem’s people is strongly considered, but ultimately rejected in favor of a far more aggressive stance.)\n\nMuch of the concern in the patriarchal stories is for the explanation and understanding of the social world of ancient Israel, both within the family structure and between tribes and peoples. One might observe the repeated emphasis on marriage within the family, what is known as endogamy: in Genesis 24 Abraham sends his servant to ensure that Isaac marries from within the family; in Genesis 27 Isaac and Rebekah do the same for Jacob (and are dismayed that Esau does not). This is a well-established principle of tribal and clan-based societies. Marriage entailed the exchange or division of land, and it was generally of utmost importance in that agricultural context that land remain in the clan. This concern is probably at the heart of many patriarchal stories, in which the right to possession of various towns and fields and burial places is attributed to the earliest cultural memories, way back to the first founders of the family line, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But it was just as important to establish the continuity of land possession looking forward. Thus the push for endogamy, so as to keep familial property within the family.\n\nThe problem, however, is that it is eventually impossible to marry solely within the family. Eventually outsiders must be brought into the fold. In order to keep these exogamous relationships at least theoretically part of the established social order, the notion of “fictive kinship” was employed: the creation or admission of a common ancestor back there in the mists of time. This process of fictive kinship is probably behind the patriarchal corpus as a whole. The individual tribes of Israel most likely only coalesced into a single self-identifying nation relatively late in history, perhaps some time in the eleventh or even tenth centuries BCE. It was this self-identification as a single people that would have inspired the idea of a common ancestor: hence Jacob, probably a local ancestor from the region of Bethel, became Israel, the forefather of all twelve tribes. So too most likely the local ancestors Isaac (perhaps from the Beersheva region) and Abraham (often associated in the stories with Hebron) were included in the ancestry. As social groups intermarried and intermingled and began to think of themselves as unities, so too their ancestry became united by the genealogical linking of their respective ancestral figures.\n\nThus although the literary stories of the patriarchs may be of limited historical value—there is no evidence that anyone named Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob ever did any of the things with which they are credited in Genesis—the existence of these stories and their relationships to one another may very well give us a window into the history, or at least the social history, of premonarchic Israel. In the spread of oral traditions, in the connections between characters, and in their movements across Canaan, we can see growth of the increasingly complex web of relationships among early Israelite tribes.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 181–210.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nSusan Niditch, Underdogs and Tricksters (San Francisco: Harper, 1987) p. 70-125.\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. Is Jacob ultimately a sympathetic character?\n  2. What about Esau?\n  3. How does a family story become a national narrative?\n\n\nYale Bible Study\n\n\nVIII. Joseph\n\nThe story of Joseph is immediately recognizable as quite different in character from the patriarchal narratives that precede it. Whereas the patriarchal stories are episodic, infrequently lasting more than a single chapter, if that long, and quite often serve etiological purposes of one sort or another that attest to their antiquity, the Joseph material is quite the opposite. There are few if any etiologies in these chapters (and the few there are seem to be more related to Egypt than to Israel, such as the passage in Genesis 47 in which Egyptian royal ownership of all non-temple lands is traced back to Joseph’s innovation!). And while there are scenes in the Joseph story, it is not episodic by any means, but is a continuous whole that begins in Genesis 37 and does not reach its logical conclusion until Genesis 50. For this reason the Joseph story has often been classified as a novella, more akin to the books of Esther and Ruth than to the rest of Genesis.\n\nYet for all its continuity and self-contained structure, there are indications that even the Joseph story is composed of multiple strands. This is clearest in the very first chapter, Genesis 37, where the narrative comes to a grinding halt in verse 28: “When Midianite traders passed by, they pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they took Joseph to Egypt.” On a plain reading, it would seem that although the brothers saw the Ishmaelites coming in v. 25, and decided to sell Joseph to them in v. 27, remarkably in v. 28 they were scooped by the Midianites, who stole Joseph from the pit where his brothers had placed him, and then sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites themselves. As if that weren’t confusing enough, v. 36 then goes on to say that it was in fact the Midianites who sold Joseph to Potiphar in Egypt.\n\nGenesis 37, like so many other chapters, can be divided neatly into two stories that are each complete and continuous. In one, from J, Joseph’s brothers hate him because he is the favorite of Jacob and because of his dreams; they plan to kill him, but before they have a chance they see the Ishmaelites coming by and Judah convinces them to turn the murder into a profitable sale. They sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites, who bring him to Egypt, and the brothers then proceed to kill the kid and dip Joseph’s coat in it, thereby completing the cycle of trickery inaugurated by Jacob back when he fooled Isaac into giving him Esau’s blessing. In the E story, by contrast, Joseph’s brothers hate him because he gives bad reports about them to Jacob, and they plan to kill him. Reuben, however, convinces the other brothers to throw Joseph into a pit instead of killing him with their own hands, with the intention of coming back later on and rescuing Joseph. But in that interim between throwing Joseph into the pit and Reuben’s return, the Midianites come by and steal Joseph from the pit. Reuben is distraught, and the Midianites bring Joseph down to Egypt.\n\nAlthough the rest of the Joseph story is less easy to separate into sources than Genesis 37, there are indications that the double strands continue throughout. Most notably, in Genesis 40, while speaking to Pharaoh’s butler and baker, Joseph says “I was stolen from the land of the Hebrews” (40:15), in accordance with the E story; in Genesis 45, when Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, he says “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt” (45:4).\n\nDespite its inconsistencies, the canonical Joseph story has a fairly consistent message throughout, with a moral to the story that is stated by Joseph himself: “Although you intended me harm, God intended it for good” (50:20). After the regular divine appearances to the patriarchs, in the Joseph story God is suddenly conspicuously quiet. Everything that happens seems to be the result of chance or kismet (the appearances of the Ishmaelites and Midianites, the butler and baker ending up with Joseph, Pharaoh’s dreams, the famine that drives the brothers back to Joseph, etc.). The narrative as a whole testifies to faith in divine providence: the understanding that although God’s hand may not be visible, one should trust that it is guiding events in the background, for the benefit of the faithful.\n\nThe prominence of this theme has led some scholars to see in the Joseph story an undercurrent of wisdom tradition, of the type found in the book of Proverbs. Trust in divine providence and the admission that humans have little control over events, and must therefore simply do the best that they can—these are all themes known to wisdom literature and seemingly present also in the Joseph story. Whether any direct connection between Joseph and wisdom can be drawn or not—though it should be noted that wisdom traditions were very much at home in Egypt of all Israel’s neighbors—at the very least the Joseph story takes great advantage of the sort of vicissitudes that typify wisdom thought.\n\nThe ups and downs of the Joseph story take place on three levels. There is the level of the plot of the Joseph narrative: Joseph begins on a high note, as Jacob’s favorite; he is quickly broughth low by his brothers’ machinations; he is up again when Potiphar comes to trust him; down again after the episode with Potiphar’s wife; apparently up when he interprets the butler’s dream successfully; down again when the butler forgets him; and up to stay when Pharaoh’s dreams lead to his appointment as vizier in Egypt. Perhaps in an attempt to make them feel the way he was made to, Joseph replicates this roller coaster ride in his treatment of his brothers when they appear in Egypt. He begins by treating them as spies; then he relents; but he demands that they leave one brother behind while they get Benjamin; when they return he treats them as honored guests; but he hides his cup in Benjamin’s bag and accuses them of theft; finally he reveals himself and all is well.\n\nThe third level is the broadest: the Joseph story serves as a hinge or fulcrum point in the pentateuchal narrative writ large. The separation of Joseph from the rest of Jacob’s sons seems a bad thing; as Joseph says, however, his presence in Egypt is what saves the Israelites from starvation when the famine hits. Yet it is because Joseph has the power to save the Israelites that Israel ends up in Egypt, and subject to the Egyptian oppression and enslavement that constitute Israel’s lowest moments. Then again, without the oppression there could be no Exodus, the event that would come to define Israel as a people.\n\nAs the transition between the patriarchs and the Exodus account, the Joseph story plays a central role, and one that has been subject to much scholarly scrutiny. It is widely assumed that the patriarchal and Exodus narratives have independent origins as contradictory accounts of how Israel came to occupy Canaan. In the patriarchal version represented by Genesis, the land was promised to the patriarchs and their offspring, and this was the explanation for why the Israelites were where they were: because generation upon generation ago God had promised this land to their ancestors, and they had been there ever since. In the Exodus version, God brought the Israelites out of Egypt and through the wilderness and promised them the land of Canaan, but only after they conquered it and took it from its various native inhabitants (the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Jebusites, etc.). At some point, these two traditions of Israel’s origins were brought together—probably through the process of fictive kinship that we saw already in the discussion of Jacob. But there was a logical problem in connecting these two traditions: one of them ended in Canaan, and the other started in Egypt. A narrative mechanism was needed to bring the two major blocks together into a single story, a means of getting Jacob’s descendants from Canaan to Egypt so that they could be enslaved and brought back to Canaan again. The Joseph story is that narrative mechanism.\n\nIt seems likely that the Joseph story was created specifically to serve this larger purpose. This may well account for its novella-like character: it is not the product of the long accretion of oral traditions about Joseph, as the other patriarchal traditions were, but came into being fully formed, as it were.\n\nIt is for this reason that it is also unnecessary to look in the Joseph story for some trace of an historical event. Scholars have long been fascinated by the ostensible similarities between the story of Joseph and the period in Egyptian history when Egypt was ruled by a Semitic people know as the Hyksos. It has been posited that the cultural memory of a time when some early Canaanite peoples were in command of Egypt, even having their own pharaonic dynasty, might lie behind this notion of Joseph rising to such prominence in Pharaoh’s court in Genesis. Yet this resemblance is superficial at best. Joseph looks much more like the common narratives of “the Jew in the foreign court,” represented by Esther and Daniel in later biblical literature. It has also been shown that many of the references to Egyptian culture in the Joseph story are most at home in the first millennium BCE, rather than the seventeenth century BCE when the Hyksos ruled Egypt.\n\nAt the beginning and end of the Joseph story are two chapters that stand out from their contexts and are worth a moment’s attention. Genesis 38 tells the story of Judah and Tamar. In this sort of narrative interlude, we hear about how Judah’s sons died in succession, with Tamar being passed as wife from one to the next, until finally Judah refused to give her to his youngest son. Tamar, recognizing that Judah’s behavior was condemning her to a life of perpetual widowhood, dressed as a prostitute and slept with Judah herself. When Judah discovers that she is pregnant, he orders her burned for—irony of ironies—“playing the harlot.” Yet Tamar produces the items that Judah had given her as pledges for payment when he slept with her, and Judah recognizes immediately what has happened. He admits the error of his ways at once: “She is more in the right than I” (Gen 38:26).\n\nDespite the fact that this story seems to stand very much apart from the rest of the Joseph narrative, it is nonetheless deeply interwoven in the fabric of the Jacob cycle. Judah, it may be noted, is the victim of deception, revealed here in the very words that it is perpetrated in Genesis 27 and 37: “Recognize this.” Just as Isaac fails to recognize Jacob in disguise, and just as Jacob recognizes Joseph’s torn coat and falsely believes his son to be dead, so Judah recognizes his own possessions in Tamar’s hand and understands that he has done her wrong. Though this appears to be a story that condemns Judah, it is (like much in the Joseph narrative) a story in which ostensible bad turns out very much for the good. For the chapter ends with the births of Perez and Zerah, Judah and Tamar’s twins—and Perez will be, according to the conclusion to the book of Ruth, the ancestor of King David. The tale of Genesis 38 is an etiology for the Judahite origins of David: it is through Judah’s error in judgment, and his subsequent recognition of that error, that Israel’s great national history would come to be written.\n\nGenesis 49 is in many ways a parallel text to Genesis 38, though they are entirely different in form. While Genesis 38 is a tightly drawn narrative, Genesis 49 contains a rambling poem, the purported last words of Jacob to his twelve sons, in which he tells them what their fates will be. What is said about each son is, of course, in fact a saying about the tribe that each would come to represent. These “tribal sayings” seem to have quite an ancient origin, perhaps going back in some cases before the period of the monarchy. Most are not in fact predictions, as they are presented in the narrative, but more like mottos (many of the sayings are either wordplays or animal metaphors).\n\nThe first three sayings, however (covering the four tribes of Reuben, Simeon and Levi, and Judah), are of a different character. The sayings about Reuben and Simeon and Levi effectively exclude those tribes from Jacob’s inheritance and blessing. This is important because it clears the way for Judah to get the first real blessing, and to stand in essence as the eldest son. Like the story in Genesis 38, this poem sets the scene for Judah’s rise to prominence in the period of David and Solomon. In Genesis 49, Judah’s kingship is even explicitly mentioned: “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet” (Gen 49:10). This saying, like those for Reuben and Simeon and Levi, has the form of prediction, but is surely not. The mention of kingship in Judah is a clear reference to the Davidic dynasty, and thus must be dated sometime in that period. This may serve as a reminder to us that although we can roughly date large segments of the Bible, these were not stable texts from the moment of their composition to the moment that we read them today. These are texts that have been reworked, supplemented, and edited over the generations, as historical circumstances changed. The poem in Genesis 49 may be generally one of the oldest pieces of writing in the entire Bible; the verses about Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and especially Judah, however, must be later.\n\n\nSarna, Understanding Genesis, 211–231.\n\nFurther Reading:\n\nRobert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (New York: Basic, 1981) 3-12; 107-13; 159-77.\n\nQuestions for Discussion:\n\n  1. If Joseph (and narrator) understand everything in his story to be pre-ordained by God for the purpose of saving Israelites, can talk about there being any villains in the narrative?\n  2. If the Joseph story leads to the enslavement in Egypt, then should we think of it positively or negatively? How do we fit individual episodes into the overall national trajectory?\n  3. How do the literary qualities of the Joseph story affect our sense of its historical veracity?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7083165049552917}
+{"content": "The 18-19 Lecture Series\n24th September 2018\n\nA fun and informative guide to the biggest unanswered questions in the Universe. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson team up to explain everything we DON'T know about the Universe, from Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter to time travel and the Big Bang. Featuring their popular infographics, cartoons, and clear and entertaining explanations, this lecture is perfect for anyone who's curious about science and all the big questions we still haven't answered. \n\nWe Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe \nDr. Daniel Whiteson & Jorge Cham (PhD Comics) \n23rd October 2018\n\nAdam will explore how concepts and ideas within both the world of music and physics relate to one another. Rythmes, colours and light have been key for many scientists and artists for creating a flow of creativity and innovative works! Polyrhythms will also be delved into with a unique approach, starting with Alexander Scriabin, the Russian composer who experienced a perceptual connection of colour to sound, and Isaac Newton’s colour theory. \n\nThe colour of music: Newton and the relationship of music, Rhythm and light\nAdam Neely \n29th OCTOBER 2018\n\nThe search for life has become central to modern astrophysics, whether through new missions which will explore the oceans hidden inside the moons of Jupiter and Saturn or the accelerating race to find and characterize extrasolar planets.\n\nEvents as different as the passage through the solar system of interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua and the discovery of the mysterious WTF Star have raised questions about what we might recognise as alien, but as our knowledge of the Universe grows, it only seems more empty. Astronomer Chris Lintott raised on a diet of science fiction with flashy spaceships draws on his own research and experience to confront the awful truth that we might be alone.\n\nI want to believe: An Astronomer’s view on Aliens \nProfessor Chris Lintott FRAS\n26th NOVEMBER 2018\n\n\nIn the last century, black holes have moved from being a disputed idea at the edge of physics to playing a central role in our understanding of the cosmos. They are also thought laboratories that illuminate theories of the fundamental laws of physics, and researchers are busier than ever trying to make sense of what they mean. I will present the story of black holes: what evidence we have for their existence, how they form, and what they may mean for the future of physics. Remarkably, black holes may play a crucial role in understanding how quantum computers would work. \n\nFrom Black Holes to Quantum Computers \nProfessor Marika Taylor \n28th January 2019\nThe maths that can stop an AI apocalypse\n\nThe late great Professor Stephen Hawking once said:\n\n\nHe also went on to state that he advocated research into precautionary measures to ensure future super-intelligent machines remain under human control. However, AI apocalypse is not necessarily robots marching down the street, there are a number of examples subtler than this. So what is the risk of AI apocalypse and can we calculate this probability? Furthermore, could we come up with a strategy to minimise this probability. In this talk, we will consider the scenario of AI taking over the world economy and how we can use mathematical modelling to investigate this.\n\n\nNira will take you through a mathematical model of the complexities of human behaviour that caused the world economic crash. He’ll go on to show how the same model can be used to investigate how to minimise the probability of an artificial intelligence takeover\n\nDR. Nira Chamberlain CMath FIMA CSci\nThe maths that can stop an AI apocalypse\nDR. Nira Chamberlain CMath FIMA CSci\nThe maths that can stop an AI apocalypse\nDR. Nira Chamberlain CMath FIMA CSci\nThe maths that can stop an AI apocalypse\nDR. Nira Chamberlain CMath FIMA CSci\n25th FEBRUARY 2019\n\nThis talk follows the life of a scientist who embraced adventure and inspired both comic and science-fiction characters. Auguste Piccard spent much of his career venturing into hostile environments, trusting his life in scientific principles and good engineering. From floating high above the Earth’s surface, to reaching the ocean floor, these scientific journeys were risky and exciting but provided a unique view into both the sky and the sea. Piccard counted Einstein amongst his friends, predicted a new isotope and even had stamps made in his honour. This lecture flies from early manned science balloons to the inventions and experiments of Piccard. I will also share my own adventure of building a scientific space balloon as part of a team entry into the Global Space Balloon Challenge - including why a cereal box makes an ideal radar reflector!\n\n\nScientific adventures\nfrom inside a sphere\nDr. Caroline Shenton-Taylor \n25th MARCH 2019\n\nSome physical and mathematical theories have the unfortunate feature that if one takes them at face value, many quantities of interest appear to be infinite! Various techniques, usually going under the common name of “renormalisation” have been developed over the years to address this, allowing mathematicians and physicists to tame these infinities. We will tip our toes into some of the mathematical aspects of these techniques and we will see how they have recently been used to make precise analytical statements about the solutions of some equations whose meaning was not even clear until now. \n\nTaming Infinities \nProfessor Martin Hairer KBE FRS \n2014 Fields Medalist", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9220788478851318}
+{"content": "CCTV of woman released after credit card stolen in Trusthorpe\n\nCCTV has been released of a woman police want to trace in connection with a stolen credit card.\n\nCan you identify this women?\n\nThe credit card was reported missing following a burglary at a property on Sutton Road, Trusthorpe on 28 June.\n\nIt was then used to purchase goods from a local shop.\n\nIf anyone recognises the woman in the picture, please get in touch with police by one of the following ways:\n\nWanted by police in connection to a stolen credit card\n\n* Email [email protected] with the reference (246 of 28 June) in the subject box;\n\n* Call 101 quoting reference number 246 of 28 June;\n\n* Call the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111 or visit", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999828338623047}
+{"content": "Being Better Series: Communication\n\nMelissa Grohs, MA, LPCC, Relationship Counseling for Women, Alameda CA\n\nBeing a Better Communicator\n\nCommunication is the key to a healthy relationship. Our style of communicating will inevitably have an effect our relationship. If you or your partner have difficulty communicating you may find yourselves struggling with intimacy and connection. Healthy communication is necessary in our relationships - they thrive and survive off of it.\n\nMerriam-Webster defines communication as “the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else”. What is communication like in your relationship? Following are 4 areas of communication that can help enhance connection and trust with your partner or friend.\n\n\nOften when we think of communication we think of what it is we say to another. It is possible that the biggest factor in being a good communicator is learning to be a good listener. Often during conversations we are thinking of how we are going to reply when someone is talking. Instead of doing that, try to focus completely on what the person is saying. Really listen. Taking that a step further, once the person is done speaking you could respond to the person with a summary of what they said. This helps the person speaking to know they are being heard. Another aspect of listening is eye contact. Make sure you are looking at the person speaking periodically to signal the you are paying attention and interested.\n\n2- Vulnerability\n\nA large part of communication includes speaking up for yourself and your needs in a relationship. This type of communicating can be very difficult for some people since it involves revealing parts of yourself that may feel safer tucked away or kept private. If we can learn to share our deepest thoughts, fears and needs with another person and that person can meet you with understanding and empathy, the relationship gains strength. Be conscious of yourself and what you choose to communicate and if you realize your partner is taking a risk and choosing to share parts of themselves that may be scary, meet them softly and with love. By continously showing up for each other we build trust and intimacy.\n\n\nOne of the biggest barriers to healthy communication is defensiveness. It is often an instinctual decision to protect yourself and possibly have a desire to go on the offensive - saying something that could hurt your partner.\n\nPay attention to your defensiveness… do you know when it comes up for you? Can you admit to it? The first step in changing a pattern is becoming aware of it. If you find you are becoming defensive - admit to it. You could say “I am realizing I am feeling defensive right now. Can we take a second?” It can be a good idea to take a minute to slow down the conversation and gather your thoughts beyond the quick reflex of defensiveness. If you find your partner is often on the defense it could also help to bring this up gently to them… you could say something like “It seems like you are feeling defensive about what I said - is that true?” Just bringing the defensiveness out in the open can help to deal with it. One of the key factors in bringing up a difficult topic like defensiveness is to try to do it gently and with compassion.\n\n4- Taking a Break\n\nFinally, the idea of knowing when to stop communicating is an important factor that can be easy to forget to think about in our relationships, especially during an argument. If things are heating up between you and your partner and you are getting angry, its ok to take a break. It is better to take a moment away from one another than to say something cruel out of anger or hurt. It is important though if you do take a break, to ensure you come back to the discussion at hand. If you need to take some time to cool down, take the time you need, but make sure to come back to the issue after you’ve had a chance to clear your head. Finding resolution after an argument can help build emotional trust within the relationship.\n\nI hope these topics will inspire thinking around how you can communicate more effectively in your relationships. If anything, it could be a good conversation starter for creating more balance and connection as a couple. If you need help in connecting with your partner or are seeking counseling around your relationship, don’t be afraid to reach out to a therapist in your area.\n\nMelissa Grohs, MA, LPCC Relationship Counseling for Women\n\nAlameda, California\n\n#communication #relationships #wellness #women #psychotherapy\n\nFeatured Posts\nRecent Posts", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9939879179000854}
+{"content": "Monday, June 14, 2021\n\n\nThailand sees biggest jump in Covid-19 cases as global numbers hit 100m\n\nThe Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Tuesday reported 959 new cases, the highest number on a single day since the outbreak last year, including 22 people who had travelled from abroad.\n\n\n\nOf the new cases, 89 were exposed to the virus while visiting high-risk areas. The province with the highest number of infections is Samut Sakhon (70), followed by Bangkok (17), Samut Songkham (1), and Ubon Ratchathani (1).\n\nProactive testing led to the discovery of 848 cases -- 760 foreigners and 84 Thais -- in Samut Sakhon, and four Thais in Bangkok.\nAlso read: Active search in Samut Sakhon finds more than 900 Covid-19 cases\n\nOf the returnees, 13 are Thai nationals, returning from the United Kingdom (5), United States (3), Myanmar (3) and Denmark(1). Also testing positive were two Indians, two Sudanese, a Chinese, an Indonesian, a Pakistani, a Briton, a Russian and a Nepali who flew in from their respective nations.\n\nMeanwhile, 119 patients have recovered and been discharged.\n\nAs of Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases in Thailand had risen to 14,646. Of these, 12,250 contracted the virus domestically, including 5,532 who were found via proactive testing, and 2,396 are returnees. So far, 10,892 have recovered and been discharged, 3,679 patients are still in hospital and the death toll is 75.\n\nAccording to Worldometer, as of 10am on Tuesday, the number of confirmed cases globally has hit 100 million (increasing by 449,073), 72.29 million have recovered, 25.84 million are active cases (110,250 in severe condition) and 2.15 million have died (up by 9,597).\n\nThailand ranks 123rd on the global list of most cases. The US tops the list with 25.86 million, followed by India 10.68 million, Brazil 8.87 million, Russia 3.73 million and the United Kingdom 3.67 million.\n\nTaweesin Visanuyothin, the CCSA spokesperson, revealed that the number of cases in the second wave since December 16 had reached 10,409, after 10 months under the emergency decree.\n\nIn the second outbreak, patients had an average age of 34. The age range with most cases is around 20-29 years old (58 per cent) followed by 30-39 years old (29 per cent). Women tended to get infected more often than men with a ratio of 1.36 female patients to 1 male.\n\nPublished : January 26, 2021\n\nBy : The Nation", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9390386939048767}
+{"content": "Project Description\n\n5th February 2021\n\nIn this second exhibition with Nolan Gallery, virtuoso watercolourist Evelyn Antonysen explores the broad sweep of the Tasmanian landscape. Using limited means (and her favourite hake brushes) her gestural marks express how it is to walk up a sandy track and suddenly be awed by the vast azure horizontal expanse of the coast. Influenced by the tradition of Sumi E ink painting, the interplay of pigment and handmade paper is given “bones” by the foreground dark ink applied with bamboo. Evelyn’s interpretations of the Tasmanian landscape are in collections all around the world.\n\nAntonysen CV\nArtists Statement", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999681830406189}
+{"content": "9 Habits that can end up ruining your mental health as explained by Life Coach, Samira Gupta\n\nA lot of our problems begin with a deteriorating mental health. As long as we find the will to fight it and acknowledge it, things will start falling into place. Here are 9 habits that you may be doing unknowingly that is ruining your mental health. Find out more.\nmental health 9 Habits that can end up ruining your mental health as explained by Life Coach, Samira Gupta\n  • 2\n  • facebook\n  • twitter\n  • Share on whatsapp\n\nPsychological, social and emotional well-being constitute our mental health. These factors decide how we look, feel, think and act. They are also a deciding factor of how well we handle stress, anxiety or trauma against changes and how our relationship is with self and others.\n\nMental health issues are not subject to age or any gender. They can be found in adolescents and the aged, across genders. The stigma around mental health makes it even more difficult to identify such issues and treat their cause.\n\nThere are a few habits that could indicate unsound mental health. If you experience one or more of these, it is time to start taking care of your mental well-being. Binge eating, sleeping, avoiding people interactions whenever possible, feeling low on energy, overthinking, experiencing aches or numbness too often, contemplating the meaning of life, and more. Most of these habits or feelings might sound familiar to you. These are early signs to start taking care of yourself.\n\nWe are here to talk about 9 habits that you must avoid because they end up ruining your mental health as shared by life coach, Samira Gupta.\n\n\nThe most dangerous habit is to not accept that you may have a mental health issue. Living in denial will only worsen your mental health. Instead, talk to someone you feel safe with and discuss your problems. Don’t be afraid to seek professional help if your issues seem deeper.\n\nOver consumption of social media\n\nScrolling your social media feed for long hours can significantly deteriorate your mental health. The standard of perfectionism that social media sets can be highly disturbing. Most of us are dealing with challenges in our daily life, an added dose of socially prescribed ‘perfectionism’ will only make the burden heavier. Instead, use that time to strengthen your inner belief. Practice affirmations, maintain a gratitude journal or anything else that motivates you.\n\nA negative mindset\n\nAre you constantly worried about the result? We often make the mistake of focusing all our energy on the outcome rather than focusing our energy to create the right causes. Negative overthinking can significantly affect your potential to create results. Instead, indulge in activities and conversations with people that encourage you to have a positive perspective towards different life situations.\n\nFeelings of guilt, regret and shame\n\nIf any of these feelings are bothering you, identify their root cause. Such issues may stem from childhood trauma, past experiences, or family history. Addressing these emotions is extremely important. We highly recommend seeking professional help to resolve these issues.\n\n\nMost people spend a lot of time over-analysing their mistakes, failures, body, and everything possible. Drop your judgements today! Remember, no one is early or late in their life to achieve their dreams. Everyone has their own time and path. Continue progressing and don’t forget to enjoy the journey. Life is too short to spend in judgements or comparisons. Love yourself, believe in yourself and accept yourself.\n\nLack of any form of physical activity\n\nWhen we move our body rapidly, our system releases endorphins, ‘the happy hormones’. They stimulate energy and positivity across all the cells in our body. While some days you may want to stay in bed longer or getting up may feel difficult, do it anyway. The first few days will be difficult but as time goes, you will begin to love it.\n\nIrregular sleeping pattern\n\nFollowing a proper routine keeps you physically and mentally motivated. However, due to the coronavirus, most people have suffered from various anxiety issues, anger, frustration or resentment. A lack of work-life balance has also affected the mental health of most people. Before going to bed write all your worries in a diary and close it. Avoid taking stress to the bed.\n\nThe need for co-dependency\n\nThe constant feeling of needing someone can rob you of your individuality. This need generally stems out of a people pleasing attitude, a self-sabotaging act. People pleasers tend to sacrifice their needs to fulfil other’s demands, affecting their personal well-being.\n\nNegative self-talk\n\nIf you spend most of your time thinking about your flaws or imperfections, you are ruining your mental wellbeing. Your brain will believe everything you say. To improve your mental health, focus on your strengths. Self-love begins with positive self-talk. Remind yourself of how amazing you are, be proud of your achievements and pat your back for all the good you do every now and then.\n\nAlso Read:  Does stress lead to obesity? Health Coach, Janvi Chitalia explains the impact of stress on obesity and more\n\nAnonymous 4 weeks ago\n\nall ther points mentioned above at 100 % true in stressing us out . i have been there done that. The day I stopped giving importance to other peoples' thoughts I felt free and liberated.\n\nAnonymous 4 weeks ago\n\nHow are you able to do that. It sounds so simple yet is seeming impossible to do.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9950253367424011}
+{"content": "Please login to the form below\n\nNot currently logged in\n\nEvery superhero has an origin story – what’s yours?\n\nBy Blair Hesp\n\nMost communications regarding pharmaceuticals report data as if treating a patient with the mean/median characteristics of a study population represents the day-to-day reality for healthcare providers.\n\nBut every patient presents with a unique set of characteristics. Data from phase 1 studies can play a key role in explaining the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals and why outcomes may vary between patients. Individual patient characteristics, such as hepatic and renal impairment, age and body mass index, can all influence the degree of exposure to a drug and its therapeutic index (ie, the dose at which a drug is effective versus potentially toxic). Currently, much of this information is not readily available for healthcare providers to consider.\n\nUnderstanding the pharmacology\n\nThe mention of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and population modelling are generally met with yawns. Pharmacologic data may be considered boring, of interest to few, and of limited practical significance in the clinic. However, at First In Human, we believe understanding the pharmacology underpins effective communication of the benefits and risks associated with medications.\n\nOur team includes specialist medical writers trained in pharmacology and toxicology who can help contextualise phase 1 data within a communications plan, incorporating necessary detail while engaging a broad audience. No good story starts with the hero hiding in an impenetrable fortress refusing to come out!\n\nHow do phase 1 studies fit within a story about treatment?\n\nEvery good origin story outlines the trials and tribulations that our hero faces on his path to success. No hero story starts with a skilled protagonist slaying a beast.\n\nPhase 1 studies can demonstrate how and why dosing is chosen. For example:\n\n  • The absence of dose-limiting toxicities can support claims of safety and tolerability\n  • Pharmacokinetic studies can help identify potential patient characteristics that could affect efficacy and safety\n  • Pharmacodynamic studies can underpin claims relating to the mechanistic basis of a drug’s efficacy.\n\nAuthenticity is key\n\nA skilled storyteller brings a tale to life, by knowing what to emphasise, and how, drawing the audience’s attention to the key points and adapting the story as needed. Therefore, it is important to engage medical communications suppliers who can effectively and efficiently translate the jargon used in technical pharmacology reports into a format where the clinical implications of early-stage studies can be readily understood and applied by healthcare providers.\n\nStories do not need to be told sequentially to be effective\n\nWhile communicating data often follows a logical, linear flow, stories can be punctuated by flashbacks that fill gaps in background knowledge because you must know where you have come from to understand where you are going. Accordingly, a reservoir of underutilised and undervalued early-stage data remains unpublished because its true value has not been realised.\n\nAs a drug development story evolves, details of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects can provide justification and insight into potential new and expanded indications, while also strengthening the foundation that supports an established indication.\n\nWhere can we tell our story?\n\nThe perception of preclinical and phase 1 data only being suitable for publication in a narrow selection of specialist translational medicine and clinical pharmacology journals is becoming outdated.\n\nClinical journals with a broader readership are increasingly interested in publishing results from phase 1 studies to meet the demand for deeper insight into the characteristics of new drugs. Likewise, journal editors understand their obligation to support study sponsors as they strive to meet clinical trial reporting guidelines.\n\nEthical considerations surrounding phase 1 studies\n\nThere is also an ethical obligation to publish data from all studies conducted in humans. The current approach of disproportionately publishing data in phase 2 and 3 studies risks creating two tiers of study participants, prioritising those that participate in a study with a therapeutic aim over those who voluntarily risk their health in first-in-human studies.\n\nHowever, all study participants should have an equal expectation that their contribution will enter the publicly available scientific body of knowledge.\n\nUtilising your origin story\n\nPublishing phase 1 data unlocks your drug’s origin story, adding a crucial layer of detail that informs how treatment theory became treatment reality.\n\nIntegrating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic information into messaging can help healthcare providers move beyond representative clinical trial patients to understanding how individual characteristics affect the real-world efficacy and safety of a drug while building trust and transparency in the pharmaceutical industry. All you need now is your knowledgeable sidekick to help you on your journey.\n\nBlair Hesp is Principal Consultant, First In Human and Managing Director of Kainic Medical Communications Ltd\n\nIn association with\n\n19th October 2020\n\n\nCOVID-19 Updates and Daily News\n\nFeatured jobs\n\n\nAdd my company\nKVA Digital\n\nKVA is an award winning full-service digital communications & brand experience agency. Our healthcare expertise blends creative ‘outside-the-box’ thinking with...\n\nLatest intelligence\n\nBuilding the hospital of the future\nWhy people join a clinical trial", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9835798740386963}
+{"content": "Speaker: Professor Chris Philo, Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow\n\nLouis Wain was a relatively well known British illustrator working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly known for his depictions of cats. It is claimed that ‘cats drove him mad’. This talk will explore the ‘madness’ of both human and animals, the curious cross-codings arising between ‘mad’ people and troublesome beasts, and parallels in the spaces/environments that they have occupied or to which they have been consigned.\n\nThis talk is part of a series of events on the history of mental health which accompanies our free public exhibition 'Moonstruck: 500 years of mental health'.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999445676803589}
+{"content": "Tuesday, December 1, 2020\n\nJoint efforts needed to enhance efficiency in regional cargo business\n\nThis article was also published in the  The Standard\n\nSeaports play a key role in in the economic growth of a nation and neighbouring land locked countries. With the majority of global trade facilitated by sea, developing strong, well-functioning transport infrastructure that connects with the hinterland is a key element of growth for emerging regional markets.\n\nGiven the importance of the Port of Mombasa for international trade for Kenya and countries in East and Central Africa, efficiency and unified operations, cannot be taken for granted.\n\nDevelopment and management of ports is a major objective of economic development in many countries. As ownership and operations of seaports have traditionally been in the public sector, restructuring has often been a slow and frustrating process.\n\nHowever, for Kenya, the new Kenya Transport and Logistics Network (KTLN) is meant to enhance efficiency and coordination by fortifying public-private sector dialogue and leveraging on the efficiencies and synergies of relevant state agencies.\n\nIt is hoped that through KTLN, Kenya will achieve its strategic agenda of becoming a regional logistics hub. Additionally, the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport corridor (LAPPSET) is expected to give Kenya an edge over other players in the region.\n\nWithout a doubt, efficient transport and trade facilitation require highly specialized managerial and operational skills as well as use of modern technologies.\n\nIn recent times, the Port of Mombasa has reported improved efficiency it attributed to construction of the second Container Terminal, improved cargo handling services and faster transfer of cargo via the standard gauge railway. In 2019 alone, the port handled 1.425 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (teus) representing a 7.3% growth over the previous year.\n\nThe Port of Mombasa is projected to handle above 2.5 million teus by 2022 after the completion of the second Container Terminal, which is expected to increase the holding capacity by more than 950,000 teus.\n\nActually, rail freight demand between Naivasha and the Nairobi Inland Container Depots (ICD), and the Port of Mombasa has significantly increased, with the operator hauling 264,696 containers between January and August this year.\n\nDespite the growth, partnering with business operators remains critical, to ensure efficiency and sustainability of transport and trade not only in Kenya but the larger East and Central Africa region.\n\nIn the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, lower trade volumes and falling freight rates, governments have to increasingly seek partnerships with private sector players for strategic engagement in operating and maintaining port infrastructure and services.\n\nHowever, all is not lost, the current construction, modernization, and upgrading of our dry ports with associated rail and road networks will definitely facilitate the trucking of cargo between Mombasa to designated intermodal yards.\n\nThe movement of cargo from the designated intermodal destinations is an ideal platform for private sector players to ensure the efficiency and sustainability of transport and trade in order to leverage private sector capital with the aim of redefining how goods flow across the continent.\n\nAs we ponder over our COVID-19 recovery, and assume a new normal, this is an ideal time for all stakeholders in the transport and logistics industry to work together to bring about the growth we have always desired as a regional business hub.\n\nThe writer is a Communication Consultant", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998813271522522}
+{"content": "What happens at my 341 meeting in a Chapter 7 case?\n\n\nThe Chapter 7 meeting of creditors (also called the 341 hearing) is a meeting at which the bankruptcy trustee and your creditors get to ask you questions under oath about your bankruptcy petition and the documents you’re required to provide to the trustee. The meeting of creditors is essentially a hearing used to verify that the information contained in your bankruptcy papers is accurate and complete.\n\nYou’ll also be required to prove your identity by presenting two forms of identification—usually a driver’s license (or a military identification card or passport) and your social security card. These steps prevent and identify fraudulent filings.\n\nSample Questions a Trustee could ask in a 341 meeting:\n\n  1. Did you sign the petition, schedules, statements, and related documents?\n  2. Did you read the petition, schedules, statements and related documents before you signed them?\n  4. Is the information contained in the petition and all accompanying documents true and correct? Are there any errors or omissions that you are aware of at this time?\n  5. Have you identified all of your assets on the schedules? (assets include anything of value including accounts of all kinds, real property no matter if it is located out of the country, or personal property including even clothes and wedding rings).\n  6. Have you listed all of your creditors on the schedules? (creditors include relatives and anyone to whom you owe money)\n  7. Have you previously filed bankruptcy? (generally bankruptcies older than 8 years for Chapter 7 and less for Chapter 13 are fine, but they still need to be disclosed to the Bankruptcy Court and Trustee)\n  8. Is the copy of the tax return your attorney provided to my office before this meeting a true copy of the most recent tax return you filed? (if you have filed a more recent tax return, be sure to give a copy to your attorney a week prior to the meeting, or bring a copy to the meeting if it is even more recent than that).\n  9. Do you have a domestic support obligation such as child support or alimony that you owe another? To whom? You will be asked to fill out a form to provide the claimant’s address and telephone number, but do not state it on the record for privacy reasons.\n  10. You will be asked if you are current on your post-petition domestic support obligations?\n  11. Have you filed all required tax returns for the past four years? If you have not, you likely are not going to be eligible for bankruptcy relief unless you can get these done and quickly filed before a motion to dismiss is filed.\n  12. If you are expecting a tax refund for the year prior to filing your bankruptcy, you will need to send the refund check to the Trustee (do not direct deposit) and the Trustee will do a calculation after the meeting to pro-rate the amounts over the 365 days of the preceding year. The Trustee will return a portion to you representing any exemptions claimed and for the time period after you file bankruptcy.\n  13. Did you review the bankruptcy information sheet (this was provided to you when you hired us and explains the various types of bankruptcies)?\n  14. Have you repaid any debts to family or friends in the last year?\n  15. What is the reason for your bankruptcy filing?\n  16. How did you arrive at the values you listed for your personal property on your schedules?\n  17. Are you paid by the hour or salary? What is your hourly rate/salary?\n  18. Identify any ownership interest and mortgages for real estate, even out of the country (all of this should be listed on your petition also)?\n  19. Any transfers (giving or selling) anything to relatives or insiders in the past two years?\n  20. Anyone holding any property for you?\n  21. Have a claim against anyone else such as a slip and fall, car accident, someone owing you money etc.?\n  22. Entitled to life insurance proceeds or an inheritance upon someone’s death?\n  23. Are you a beneficiary or trustee of a trust?\n  24. Do you own a business?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6055514812469482}
+{"content": "Are Crypto Gains Taxed\n\nNerdWallet, Inc. is an impartial publisher and comparison service, not an investment advisor. Its articles, interactive tools and different content are provided to you for free, as self-assist instruments and for informational purposes solely. NerdWallet doesn’t and can’t assure the accuracy or applicability of any information in regard to your particular person circumstances. Examples are hypothetical, and we encourage you to seek customized recommendation from qualified professionals relating to specific investment points. Our estimates are primarily based on past market efficiency, and past performance just isn’t a guarantee of future performance. The leader in blockchain information, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic requirements and abides by a strict set of editorial insurance policies. CoinDesk is an unbiased operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups.\n\nEvery funding and buying and selling transfer involves threat, and readers should conduct their very own research when making a call. What drove the inquisitiveness of traders, developers and crypto lovers alike was the enchantment of Bitcoin as a retailer of value. Regardless of the blockchain initiatives and their creative names, they’ve spurred on an ecosystem of collaborative growth. Together, they’ve created decentralized apps, or DApps, that can bring the unbanked out of the doldrums of impoverishment, alternative to the financially excluded and new investment avenues to the already-savvy. Their bets, usually fueled by rumors and speculation in on-line boards and chat groups, are prompting extra seasoned money managers to warn that markets are overheating, and that small traders could possibly be damage when costs reverse course. Cryptocurrency trading is offered by way of an account with Robinhood Crypto.\n\nBecause public keys can be derived from non-public keys, a non-public key may be passed as an alternative of a public key. Creates and returns an Hmac object that uses the given algorithm and key. Creates a DiffieHellman key trade object and generates a main ofprimeLength bits using an elective specific numeric generator. Creates a DiffieHellman key change object using the supplied prime and an elective particular generator.\n\nWill Crypto Go Up\n\nGet day by day crypto briefings and weekly Bitcoin market reports delivered proper to your inbox. Our mission is to build, develop and guide how establishments, entrepreneurs and traders can seamlessly enable a bold new world of blockchain-powered fact, belief and prosperity. What do you consider the NY attorney basic’s action towards Coinseed crypto change? Offers to promote securities can solely be made through official offering documents that include essential information about the investment and the issuers, including dangers. Investors ought to conduct their very own due diligence and are inspired to seek the advice of with their tax, legal and monetary advisors. Investors must be able to afford the lack of their entire investment.\n\nAdditionally, cryptocurrency non-public keys may be permanently misplaced from local storage as a result of malware, information loss or the destruction of the physical media. This precludes the cryptocurrency from being spent, leading to its effective removing from the markets. Cryptocurrency, despite adverse feedback, presents main strides in financial development and freedom to people particularly in developing nations in addition to these under economic sanctions. The crypto market is understood to be easier to access than traditional banks because of much less rules and allows residents to bypass governments and rules to mine for cryptocurrency rewards to utilise, trade, and convert for widespread goods to outlive. In nations with high inflation where fiat forex is no longer obtainable to simply utilise to outlive, many have turned to cryptocurrency working via online job boards to bypass strict regulations and obtain economic freedom. In Russia, though cryptocurrencies are authorized, it is unlawful to truly purchase goods with any currency apart from the Russian ruble. Regulations and bans that apply to bitcoin in all probability lengthen to related cryptocurrency systems.\n\n  • Bitcoin Frankie, the influencer, was drawn to crypto buying and selling final yr after the pandemic wiped out her event staffing agency in a single day.\n  • Blockchain is only a platform, and its technology permits those cryptocurrencies and their digital tokens to function within it.\n  • Verifies the given signature for information utilizing the given key and algorithm.\n\nThe lack of salt allows dictionary assaults as the identical password always creates the same key. The low iteration rely and non-cryptographically secure hash algorithm permit passwords to be examined very rapidly. The implementation of crypto.createCipher() derives keys utilizing the OpenSSL operate EVP_BytesToKey with the digest algorithm set to MD5, one iteration, and no salt. Updates the Verify content with the given information, the encoding of which is given in inputEncoding. If data is a Buffer, TypedArray, orDataView, then inputEncoding is ignored. data, key, and signature arguments can also be ArrayBuffer. Returns true if a is equal to b, without leaking timing information that would enable an attacker to guess one of the values.\n\nDoes Crypto.Com Charge Fees\n\nIt is totally different from proof-of-work techniques that run tough hashing algorithms to validate digital transactions. Some cryptocurrencies use a combined proof-of-work and proof-of-stake scheme. A blockchain is a repeatedly rising listing of information, called blocks, that are linked and secured utilizing cryptography. Each block sometimes crypto gaming apps incorporates a hash pointer as a hyperlink to a earlier block, a timestamp and transaction knowledge. By design, blockchains are inherently proof against modification of the data. For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is usually managed by a peer-to-peer community collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks.\n\nCryptocurrencies aren’t shares and your cryptocurrency investments are not protected by both FDIC or SIPC. Flipside Crypto puts pre-modeled and labeled blockchain information within the hands of communities. Create and share information insights on the crypto tasks you care most about. Offers buying and selling for 5 cryptocurrencies, together with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum. Of the web brokerages and cryptocurrency exchanges that NerdWallet reviews, the following current offer cryptocurrencies.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8454596996307373}
+{"content": "the summer campus started:\n\n$1 д. $2 ч. $3 м. $4 с.\n\nFrom storytelling to innovation (VIDEO)\n\nFrom storytelling to innovation (VIDEO)\n\nThe International Summer Campus of the Presidential Academy has hosted a lecture by Oana Contoman, a teacher and founder of the Must Travel agency, From Storytelling to Innovation: Relationships and Correlations.\n\nAccording to Oana Contoman, storytelling is a way to present a product for sale. You need to present your business in such a way as to create a relationship with the client. You need to inspire confidence in people. The speaker advised the participants to try and promote their idea even if it seems ridiculous. It is also important to answer a series of questions: How can you help people? Who is your audience?\n\nAs the speaker noted, first of all one needs to collect enough information to have a good understanding of the chosen area. The next step is to create a concept choosing several most significant aspects. Then the information needs to be disseminated in the media and on social media. According to Oana Contoman, most of the potential customers are there.\n\nThe participants said the session was useful and meaningful, and they were able to pick up a lot of practical tips to use while working on their projects.\n\n\n\n\n\nНашли опечатку? Выделите её, нажмите Ctrl+Enter и отправьте нам уведомление. Спасибо за участие!\n©2010–2021 Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации\n119571, г. Москва, проспект Вернадского, 82, стр.1 | Телефон: +7 499 956-99-99 | Еmail:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9508736729621887}
+{"content": "Is there an easy way to convert all data in DataFrame (or Matrix) to INT?\n\nHi all,\n\nI’m trying to import a .csv file with missing values (just blanks, in the file). I’m using CSV.jl together with DataFrames.jl for this. I notice that the columns containing a missing value are all of type String instead of Int64. Is there an easy way to convert all strings to integers?\n\ncan you share the input data please? (a sample is enough)\n\n1 Like\n\nSure. How do I do that?\n\nex: ?\n\n1 Like\n\nYou can just copy and paste the first few lines of your CSV file (assuming there aren’t too may columns).\n\nWhat’s likely happening is that you don’t have the keyword argument missingstring set correctly when you read in the CSV. For instance, if your CSV is full of \"NA\"s, then set missingstring=\"NA\"\n\n\nThanks, I didn’t know about missingstring. This worked!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9769195914268494}
+{"content": "1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Binomial\n\nBINOMIAL (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and nomen, a name or term), in mathematics, a word first introduced by Robert Recorde (1557) to denote a quantity composed of the sum or difference to two terms; as a + b, ab. The terms trinomial, quadrinomial, multinomial, &c., are applied to expressions composed similarly of three, four or many quantities.\n\nThe binomial theorem is a celebrated theorem, originally due to Sir Isaac Newton, by which any power of a binomial can be expressed as a series. In its modern form the theorem, which is true for all values of n, is written as\n\n(x + a)n = xn + naxn−1 +   n·(n − 1)   a2xn−2   n·(n − 1)·(n − 2)   a3xn−3 ... + an.\n1·2 1·2·3\n\nThe reader is referred to the article Algebra for the proof and applications of this theorem; here we shall only treat of the history of its discovery.\n\nThe original form of the theorem was first given in a letter, dated the 13th of June 1676, from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg for communication to Wilhelm G. Leibnitz, although Newton had discovered it some years previously. Newton there states that\n\n(p + pq)m/n = pm/n +   m   aq +   mn   bq +   m − 2n   cq ... &c.,\nn 2n 3n\n\nwhere p + pq is the quantity whose mth/n power or root is required, p the first term of that quantity, and q the quotient of the rest divided by p, m/n the power, which may be a positive or negative integer or a fraction, and a, b, c, &c., the several terms in order, e.g.\n\na = pm/n, b =   m   aq, c =   mn   bq, and so on.\nn 2n\n\nIn a second letter, dated the 24th of October 1676, to Oldenburg, Newton gave the train of reasoning by which he devised the theorem.\n\n“In the beginning of my mathematical studies, when I was perusing the works of the celebrated Dr Wallis, and considering the series by the interpolation of which he exhibits the area of the circle and hyperbola (for instance, in this series of curves whose common base or axis is x, and the ordinates respectively (1 − xx)0/2, (1 − xx)1/2, (1 − xx)2/2, (1 − xx)3/2, &c.), I perceived that if the areas of the alternate curves, which are x, x1/3x3, x2/3x3 + 1/5x5, x3/3x3 + 3/5x51/7x7, &c., could be interpolated, we should obtain the areas of the intermediate ones, the first of which (1 − xx)1/2 is the area of the circle. Now in order to [do] this, it appeared that in all the series the first term was x; that the second terms 0/3x3, 1/3x3, 2/3x3, &c., were in arithmetical progression; and consequently that the first two terms of all the series to be interpolated would be x1/2x3/3, x3/2x3/3, x5/2x3/3, &c.\n\n“Now for the interpolation of the rest, I considered that the denominators 1, 3, 5, &c., were in arithmetical progression; and that therefore only the numerical coefficients of the numerators were to be investigated. But these in the alternate areas, which are given, were the same with the figures of which the several powers of 11 consist, viz., of 110, 111, 112, 113, that is, the first 1; the second, 1, 1; the third, 1, 2, 1,; the fourth 1, 3, 3, 1; and so on. I enquired therefore how, in these series, the rest of the terms may be derived from the first two being given; and I found that by putting m for the second figure or term, the rest should be produced by the continued multiplication of the terms of this series m − 0/1 × m − 1/2 × m − 2/3 ..., &c. ... This rule I therefore applied to the series to be interpolated. And since, in the series for the circle, the second term was (1/2x3)/3, I put m = 1/2.... And hence I found the required area of the circular segment to be x1/2x3/31/8x5/51/16x7/7, &c. ... And in the same manner might be produced the interpolated areas of other curves; as also the area of the hyperbola and the other alternates in this series (1 + xx)0/2, (1 + xx)1/2, (1 + xx)2/2, &c. ... Having proceeded so far, I considered that the terms (1 − xx)0/2, (1 − xx)2/2, (1 − xx)4/2, (1 − xx)6/2, &c., that is 1, 1 − x2, 1 − 2x2 + x4, 1 − 3x2 + 3x4x6, &c., might be interpolated in the same manner as the areas generated by them, and for this, nothing more was required than to omit the denominators 1, 3, 5, 7, &c., in the terms expressing the areas; that is, the coefficients of the terms of the quantity to be interpolated (1 − xx)1/2 or (1 − xx)32, or generally (1 − xx)m will\n\nbe produced by the continued multiplication of this series m × (m−1)/2 × (m−2)/3 × (m−3)/4... &c.”\n\nThe binomial theorem was thus discovered as a development of John Wallis’s investigations in the method of interpolation. Newton gave no proof, and it was in the Ars Conjectandi (1713) that James Bernoulli’s proof for positive integral values of the exponent was first published, although Bernoulli must have discovered it many years previously. A rigorous demonstration was wanting for many years, Leonhard Euler’s proof for negative and fractional values being faulty, and was finally given by Niels Heinrik Abel.\n\nThe multi- (or poly-) nomial theorem has for its object the expansion of any power of a multinomial and was discussed in 1697 by Abraham Demoivre (see Combinatorial Analysis).\n\nReferences.—For the history of the binomial theorem, see John Collins, Commercium Epistolicum (1712); S. P. Rigaud, The Correspondence of Scientific Men of the 17th Century (1841); M. Cantor, Geschichte der Mathematik (1894–1901).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9964606165885925}
+{"content": "People on crosswalk\n\nImage: Ryoji Iwata via Unsplash\n\nCoded Bias: A Call to activism for a positive digital future\n\nThere is a persistent belief (and hope) that AI will rid society of discrimination, personal biases and create a fair and just world. A friend of mine recently described his love for machine learning. He enthused about the beauty of data, being without value judgement, without ideology – an entity pure and neutral.\nHe couldn’t be further from the truth.\n\nAn algorithm goes beyond being just data. Or rather: data is not neutral. Ideology, personal experience and biases come into play at every step of its creation. That artificial intelligence is biased and results in discriminatory outcomes for marginalised groups is indisputable. We need increased public awareness of those dangers and to tread very carefully when it comes to the applications of these technologies: a message taken up by the trending documentary Coded Bias (available on Netflix). It outlines just how problematic AI can be, with particular focus on one application: facial recognition. Badass female data scientists and grassroot organisations bring to the public consciousness that technology is being rolled out without guidelines, legal frameworks or supervision. With artificial intelligence at the base of cutting edge surveillance technology we are facing the civil rights struggle of a generation. Researcher Joy Buolamwini calls to action and warns that apathy and feeling powerless are society’s biggest enemies when it comes to averting social risks of digitalisation. \n\nFacial recognition, a wind of change?\n\nCoded Bias lays out how the technology is used in policing and in monitoring poor communities. It shows streets routinely yet covertly scanned by the London Metropolitan Police, and persons who wish to hide their face automatically marked as highly suspicious and issued with a fine, for reasons unclear. If you have nothing to hide, there’s nothing to worry about. Right? \nChances are that if your face is compared to the database of Interpol’s watchlist, there will be a match, supposedly with a match confidence of over 90%. I make the wild assumption that most readers of this blog are not internationally wanted murderers or terrorists. The UK based civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has conducted a freedom of information campaign and found that 98% of those matches are in fact incorrect. Police forces around the world have rolled out this technology without a legal basis, framework or any oversight.\n\nThe documentary takes a deep dive in how facial recognition technology is gaining wider application, while studies repeatedly find that it is not quite fit for purpose: the current technology is rather bad at recognising women and darker skin tones. Joy Buolamwini, who initially raised the alarm on this inadequacy, was first ridiculed, then discredited and with time (and a good portion of social media outrage)  became a leading voice in the discussion on banning the technology altogether. Following her work uncovering flaws in facial recognition technology, IBM has acted on it, and their tools are far more accurate on a diversity of faces. Accuracy for lighter female faces went from 92.9% to 100%, darker males from 88% to 98% and darker females from 65.3% to 96.5.%  But do we even want this technology to be more accurate, or to exist at all? \n\nFirst, we must think about where facial recognition is used. There are certainly applications where facial recognition has positive use for society, a definition that may also depend on where you stand politically. Yet, at what human cost ? More accuracy and perfect classification enables surveillance of specific social groups. The social credit score in China has caused many a dystopian shudder in western media, yet facial recognition and algorithmic scoring comes into play in western societies as well. The organisations behind it are just less open about it. Facebook has filed a patent which uses its 2.6 billion database of faces for a tool to give your face a trustworthiness score or measure your “mood” when you enter a shop. Scoring individuals happens all the time: algorithms determine the ads we are shown, the prices we get when shopping online, the information we consume, our credit limit or how likely it is that we are profiled as a criminal. “The key difference between the United States and China”, says futurist Amy Webb, “is that China is more transparent about it.”\n\nDo we live in a lawless wild west, where organisations can apply new technologies any way they want, without oversight or limits to applications? In June 2020 the scene changes. Black Lives Matter protests managed to show the problems that emerge when you couple racist policing with high-tech surveillance. Scientists spoke out in the US congress and following San Francisco’s example, a number of US cities have put a ban or moratorium on the use of facial recognition in police forces. A bill to ban its use by federal law enforcement has also been introduced. \nIn Big Tech, IMB has disrupted their business model and stopped research on facial recognition, nor do they distribute these services. Amazon introduced a year long pause –  but this runs out soon, in June 2021. \n\nHarms of digital technologies acerbate discrimination, further disadvantage marginalised groups and so far there’s a lack of government guidelines and oversight. The EU commission is aware of bias issues. Yet, when it comes to AI, “high-risk applications” take center space in the debate. High risk meaning serious harm to life and bodily integrity, as may occur through self-driving cars. Application and context matter though. The distinction between high risk, and not, is problematic. The recent Artificial Intelligence Act proposal, a 108 page document, lays down a legal framework attempting to regulate an emerging technology before it becomes mainstream. A first of its kind, the draft sets rules for AI application beyond self-driving cars, to scoring exams, mortgages, hiring decisions. Live facial recognition in public spaces is to be banned altogether, with some exceptions, namely national security. However, situations where your face is wrongly matched, you are excluded from participating in society, economic opportunities or the possibility to make a better livelihood are not given increased attention. The draft is open to a lot of interpretation and much is left at the discretion of companies and tech developers. Civil society groups say the policy proposal needs to go further and establish firm boundaries and red lines of what is acceptable.  \n\nBeyond outcomes\n\nCoded bias offers a hopeful message of change and a shift in the distribution of power – a retelling of David against Big Tech, only that David in this case is a black, female scientist representing groups whose voices are usually ignored. The film’s focus however, strongly lies on the negative consequences of AI and only slightly touches some other important questions. To understand the power dynamics behind negative outcomes of AI applications, we need to ask ourselves three questions: What is designed? (And which applications of the technology are even thought of?) Who is it designed for? And how is it designed?\n\nWhat is being designed?\nFacial recognition software is currently catering to private and public surveillance efforts. Law enforcement, secret services, military and private security systems try to sell us their fallacious logic that more surveillance will lead to more safety.  That’s a stunning lack of imagination of how AI and facial recognition can be used. The tech elite proclaims that there’s only one economic model: surveillance capitalism – and that it’s the only possible way for the public good. Alternative uses are not much discussed. For example, AI-based facial recognition supports the ICRC’s efforts in restoring family links, making humanitarian work better, faster and more effective. Reuniting loved one’s displaced by conflict or natural disasters is a core role of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and one of its oldest activities – the website Trace the Face has just revolutionised this work.  \n\nWho is it being designed for?\nWith a relatively homogenous tech force, the question arises: whose needs are catered for through the current technological advancements and research – and whose needs are being left out. Technology surveils the already highly surveilled: poor, marginalised communities, and exclusion from mainstream society traditionally (in most countries) is defined along ethnical lines. This makes it even more problematic that it works so badly for people of colour. A darker side of machine learning are deepfakes. The danger to democracy and its potential to spread misinformation are obvious. But these tools were first and foremost developed to undress women and deepfakes are by 90-95% used for revenge porn as an instrument of gendered power and control. \n\nHow is it designed?\nSo how does it come to that? Potential for bias in machine learning comes in at every step of its creation. From the data selected, how they are categorised, the labels used, and definitions given, for whom the technology is developed and how it is applied. At each step the question arises: and who has been left out? The data that exists is almost never as thorough and representative as might be imagined. It might be big in data of one specific demographic (the usual suspect: white and male) but rather inadequate and lacking when it comes to anyone else. Make sure to check-out Invisible Women by Criado Perez about the gender data gap and the critical consequences it has for the wellbeing and survival of women.\n\nDr. Alexa Hagerty, from the University of Cambridge states that “…we are beginning to realise we are not really ‘users’ of technology, we are citizens in a world being deeply shaped by technology, so we need to have the same kind of democratic, citizen-based input on these technologies as we have on other important things in societies…”. If an automated decision impacts lives, we need to be able to ask “how did it come to that conclusion?” With AI, knowledge has been in the hands of a few people, who hold power. A place at the table matters, because this technology affects all of us. Diverse teams help, yet among leading AI researchers, less than 12% are women. At least half the genius of society is missing from the equation. The onus should also be on tech companies to become welcoming, creative and safe spaces. Further, diversity goes beyond intersectional lines of gender and race, but also includes professional background – people who know how discrimination works in society. \n\nIf disengagement with the social implications of technology is our enemy, as the film states, the solution is public participation. The debate of where we want our societies to go with new technologies needs to be democratised. Activism starts at recognising a problem and talking about it. The communities most affected by surveillance technology are poorer, feminized, ethnically diverse and people with disabilities. Most people outside the tech bubble do not know what machine learning is, or understand how AI works. Basic digital and AI literacy classes for all can facilitate non-techy people to participate in this societal debate. A project from Finland open to the world is a great place to start. We at ethix aim to stimulate debate, transmit understanding and involve people who tend to see digitalisation as something that happens to them, not something they can actively shape according to their needs. Through our event series “Tech & Society Breakfast” we aim to build a bridge between academia, business and a broader public for transdisciplinary discussions. DigitalLabor On Tour, a project brought to life together with the think tank Dezentrum, brings the debate on digital transformation outside the bubble and into villages all around Switzerland. Because the digital future is something to be negotiated with the inclusion of everyone. The documentary is more than a film, it’s a growing movement to raise awareness and gather political momentum for guardrails and policies for AI applications. 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+{"content": "Quick Answer: Do Toxins Cause Inflammation?\n\nCan chemicals cause inflammation?\n\n\n\nThese chemicals cause blood vessels to leak fluid into the tissues, causing swelling..\n\nHow do I get rid of toxins and inflammation?\n\nBy allowing your body to recover and eliminate toxins, you can effectively fight inflammation. Try to get at least seven hours of sleep each night….Some of the best anti-inflammatory foods include:Fruits and vegetables.Foods containing omega-3 fatty acids.Spices like rosemary, turmeric and ginger.Olive oil and garlic.\n\n\n\nWhat is a good detox cleanse?\n\n\nWhat are the symptoms of chronic inflammation?\n\nSymptoms of Chronic InflammationBody pain, arthralgia, myalgia.Chronic fatigue and insomnia.Depression, anxiety and mood disorders.Gastrointestinal complications like constipation, diarrhea, and acid reflux.Weight gain or weight loss.Frequent infections.\n\nWhat are 4 types of inflammation?\n\n\nHow do I reduce inflammation in my joints?\n\nPreventing Joint InflammationKeep a healthy weight.Exercise regularly.Don’t smoke.Eat a healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, and omega-3 fatty acids.\n\nWhat are the 5 classic signs of inflammation?\n\n\nWhat are the symptoms of toxins in your body?\n\n\nWhat is the fastest way to reduce inflammation in the body?\n\n\nDo toxins show up in blood tests?\n\n\nWhat is the best detox for inflammation?\n\n\nWhat is the strongest natural anti inflammatory?\n\n\nWhat are the worst foods for inflammation?\n\n\nWhat does inflammation in the body feel like?\n\n\nWhat are symptoms of an inflammatory response?\n\nSymptoms of inflammation include: Redness. A swollen joint that may be warm to the touch. Joint pain….Inflammation may also cause flu-like symptoms including:Fever.Chills.Fatigue/loss of energy.Headaches.Loss of appetite.Muscle stiffness.\n\nWhat is the strongest anti inflammatory?\n\n\nHow long does it take to reduce inflammation in the body?\n\nIt’s important to remember that chronic inflammation doesn’t happen overnight, so neither will reducing it. While you may start to feel relief in just 2 weeks, full healing can take between 3 and 6 months or longer, especially if you suffer from an anto-immune disease.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5482505559921265}
+{"content": "Strengths And Shortcomings Of Four Common Productivity Styles\n\nBeing productive looks different for every professional. It’s not a matter of crossing items off a to-do list, completing a certain number of client calls or reaching a particular goal. You can start your day or week with the best intentions and still not make any real progress. The key in truly being productive is understanding your productivity style and making it work for you. (Here’s a helpful assessment to determine your productivity style).\n\nWriter Amy Rigby admits she struggled with productivity until she learned about specific productivity styles from consultant Carson Tate. In this issue of Promotional Consultant Today, we share what Rigby discovered from Tate on different productivity styles. Read on to identify which style you lean toward and how to use this insight to work smarter.\n\n1. The prioritizer. Rigby learned that this type of professional has a keen sense of what matters most and can move with decisiveness. They can often complete a large amount of work in a short time because they remain laser-focused on the outcome. If you walk into their office, you’ll likely find a clean desk and orderly shelves.\n\nShortcomings: Prioritizers can come across as rigid or controlling. They also may value speed over excellence and focus on the project over the process. They want to do work quickly and effectively, says Rigby, and skip the small talk.\n\n2. The planner. These professionals usually make excellent project managers because they are detail-oriented, organized and punctual. Rigby says that they are particularly conscientious about sticking to the rules, regulations and protocol.\n\nShortcomings: Planners may miss opportunities because they don’t want to veer too far away from the plan. They also may lack spontaneity and care excessively about the outcome of a specific project or undertaking. If you want to communicate to a planner, do it in writing and provided detailed information, suggests Rigby.\n\n3. The arranger. Arrangers thrive on collaboration and want to understand how different people fit into the project at hand. They love in-person conversations and using body language and tone of voice to communicate with others. These professionals are often expressive, supportive and team-oriented, says Rigby. Walk into their office, and you will likely see plenty of personal touches, from family photos to children’s artwork.\n\nShortcomings: Arrangers can sometimes be nearsighted, losing focus on the big picture. They may also demonstrate excessive involvement with people, losing focus on the end result of the project, says Rigby.\n\n4. The visualizer. This type of professional is a big-picture thinker and does not like getting bogged down in structure and details. They have an uncanny ability to connect seemingly unrelated information and they lean heavily on their creative problem-solving abilities. Their office probably has stacks of papers in every corner and various collectibles and personal items stashed in every open spot.\n\nShortcomings: Rigby points out that visualizers may value possibilities over the process and have a tendency to overlook the details. They may also be consistently late on their deadlines because of their impulsivity. You can communicate best with these types of professionals by using visual words such as “big picture” and “envision,” Rigby adds.\n\nIf you have tried various productivity hacks and you still feel like you’re spinning your wheels, you may not be aligned with your ideal productivity style. Think about which one of these styles you most relate to and use strategies that work with your preferred style.\n\nCompiled by Audrey Sellers\n\nSource: Amy Rigby is a writer and marketing consultant who contributes to the Trello blog.\n\nfiled under June 2021\nRead time:\nComments (0)\nLeave a reply", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9182541370391846}
+{"content": "The AEC sector is one of the most complex and fast-paced industries in the world. Design and construction teams are under constant pressure to ensure projects are completed in budget and time. Furthermore, constant collaboration between the design and construction teams is essential for projects to stay on schedule.\nThe AEC industry is looking at Building Information Modeling (BIM) as the most viable solution to boost various complex projects viz. residential, commercial, healthcare, infrastructure, hospitality, etc. The power of process and technology integration will enable project stakeholders like Architects, General Contractors, Design Engineers, Projects Managers, Fabricators, Owners, and other stakeholders through robust data analytics, automation, and data mining.\n[iF]Meets is one cloud-based software that enables AEC companies and users the potential to leverage powerful project collaboration & video conferencing– all under one roof.\nThe Design, Modeling, and Construction teams are three crucial pillars that need to perpetually collaborate at every second of the building process. When an architect is done creating detailed architectural drawings with elevations, sections, etc., it moves on to structural designers and then MEP designers to design highly detailed drawings for BIM modelers to refer and generate clash-free 3D BIM models.\nThese models are then referred by various teams and project stakeholders to build accurate project schedules, cost estimates, etc. Accurate fabrication drawings are leveraged by fabricators to build precise construction components for onsite installation. As BIM modelers identify and resolve clashes, collaboration meetings are held by project stakeholders viz. architects, structural designers, and MEP designers to update their drawings.\nConstruction personnel relies on 2D drawings, fabrication drawings,3D models, etc. for onsite construction and installation of various building components. With so many processes and conversations taking place through kick-off meetings, construction meetings, project team meetings, contractor and sub-contractor meetings, etc. collaboration is key to accomplish client requirements and project deliverables.\nIntegrating various collaboration enablers that include video conferencing, BIM collaboration, Construction Management, Cloud Data Storage, and more is crucial; distributed design, modeling, and construction teams can improve & optimize processes, workflows, communication through powerful integration.\nDesign and construction teams latch onto video conferencing for efficient coordination & collaboration.\nAs remote work becomes the new norm, construction project teams need to rely on the best video conferencing solutions to enable productive communication between globally distributed trades and teams. Online Video Conferencing Software allows streamlined collaboration for the construction industry and allows architects, engineers, general contractors, onsite personnel, and other stakeholders to spin up inputs in real-time. Implementation of video conferencing tools & features facilitates better training, project management, HD communication with site teams, clients, etc.\nHow does video conferencing enable design, modeling, and construction teams to collaborate quickly and efficiently?\n\nAgenda-based meetings – Meetings without an agenda can turn out to be extremely unproductive. As every construction meeting has a different meaning or outcome, setting meeting agendas proves to be exceptionally productive for design, modeling, and construction teams. Agenda-based meetings list out the purpose of the meeting and the order in which items are to be discussed. With the construction team relying completely on the design team for accurate 2D drawings for onsite construction and installation, creating agendas in video conferencing software helps remote participants –\n• Prepare for the meeting\n• Leverage a structure for the meeting\n• Control the meeting\n• Judge meeting success\nThis promotes collaboration and saves on a lot of onsite rework, mitigates greater no’s of RFI’s, saves on time & cost, etc.\nBreakout Rooms – Breaking large meetings like kickoff, construction, project team, contractor, pre-installation, etc. into smaller ones enables better clarity on how each trade or team functions. Project managers can leverage this feature to monitor project progress, brainstorm ideas, take notes, get feedback, upload and annotate design documents, and more.\nThe use of breakout rooms enables collaboration through meeting clarity, focused virtual collaboration, streamlining processes and workflows, etc.\nWhiteboard and Annotation –The construction industry relies on a more visual approach through 2D drawings and important construction documents like PDF’s, fabrication drawings, etc.; design and construction teams can leverage Whiteboard tools and annotation to facilitate greater engagement by taking notes, producing project call-outs, marking specific areas of 2D drawings, etc.\nThe use of whiteboard and annotation enables design and construction teams to enhance global team engagement, speed up the analysis and feedback process, point out inconsistencies in drawings, and more.\nRecord Meetings & Transcripts – Recording every facet of the meeting process and generating a searchable record of your meeting through line-by-line transcripts is key for design and construction teams for future review. Losing decisive data in physical space can create serious problems for project stakeholders. The recording tool can be used to record presentations, whiteboard collaboration, HD video & audio, etc. Auto transcripts help design and construction teams free-up valuable time and aid the design and construction team work on high-value activities.\nThe use of meeting recording enables design and construction teams to review virtual meetings, presentations, etc. to facilitate better communication, information security, improve decision-making capabilities, reduce rework, and save on project time and cost.\nScreen-Sharing – Video conferencing tools like Screen-Sharing helps design and construction teams collaborate better with secure screen-sharing. To understand the meeting better, project teams can leverage screen-sharing by presenting various construction assets like 2D drawings, RFI’s, BOQ’s, etc. for teams to understand project scope, present scenario, and progress better.\nThe use of screen-sharing enables design and construction teams to make clear and informed decisions on what is presented or shared through virtual conferencing.\n\nVisit us: -\n\nAuthor's Bio: \n\nWrapping it up\nThe AEC industry perpetually relies on the power of information and technology integration for various teams to collaborate efficiently on a single super-suite software that has the ability and tools to connect the dots. The power of [iF] has given the AEC sector an all-round platform for modern AEC professionals to build quicker and better, and use “information” as the tip of the spear backed by state-of-the-art technology.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9975113272666931}
+{"content": "What Are The 5 Primary Air Pollutants And Their Sources?\n\nWhat is the largest producer of primary air pollutants?\n\nEnvironmental Chapter 12 TestABThe largest producer of primary air pollution in the United States is what?electricity producing plantsWhich air pollutants can aggravate bronchial asthma in humans and cause fish to suffocate?acids formed from nitrogen compounds41 more rows.\n\nWhat are the 10 causes of air pollution?\n\n\nWhat is the biggest air pollutant?\n\n5 Major Outdoor Air PollutantsOzone (O3)Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)Carbon Monoxide (CO)Sulfur Dioxide (SO2)Particulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5)\n\nWhat are the major pollutants?\n\nCriteria pollutantsCarbon monoxide.Lead.Nitrogen dioxide.Ozone.Particles.Sulfur dioxide.\n\nWhat are the two examples of particulate air matter?\n\n\nWhat are the 6 major pollutants?\n\n\nWhat are the major air pollutants and their sources?\n\nAir Pollution SourcesParticulate Matter (PM10 and PM2.5) Particulate matter (PM) is a complex pollutant as it contains a variety of components in variable concentrations. … Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) … Ozone (O3) … Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) … Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) … Carbon Monoxide (CO) … Lead (Pb) … Toxic Organic Micro-Pollutants (TOMPs)More items…\n\nWhat are the seven major primary air pollutants and their sources?\n\nCONVENTIONAL POLLUTANTS U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970 designated seven major pollutants: sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulates, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides photochemical oxidants, and lead. They are the major contributors to ambient air degradation. There are natural sources for some of these pollutants.\n\nWhat are three major sources of air pollution?\n\nThere are four main types of air pollution sources:mobile sources – such as cars, buses, planes, trucks, and trains.stationary sources – such as power plants, oil refineries, industrial facilities, and factories.area sources – such as agricultural areas, cities, and wood burning fireplaces.More items…•\n\nWhat are the major types of pollutants?\n\nDifferent types of pollutants include:Nitrogen oxides (NOx)Sulfur oxides (SOx)Particulate matter (PM)Ground level ozone (O3)Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)Mercury (Hg)Peroxyacyl nitrates (PANs)and more.\n\nWhat is an example of primary air pollution?\n\nWhat are primary air pollutants (PAPs)? Primary air pollutants (PAPs) are those that are emitted directly into the air from sources. Examples – Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic matter, particulate matters, lead, ammonia etc.\n\nWhat are the 5 primary air pollutants?\n\nPrimary pollutantNitrogen oxides (NOx)Carbon monoxide (CO)Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)Sulfur oxides (SOx)Particulate matter (PM)Mercury.and more.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998807907104492}
+{"content": "Venus Williams waving\n\nFrench Open Social Slice: Williams speaks out; Spaniard waves goodbye\n\n\nOn today’s Social Slice, Venus Williams speaks out about how she deals with the media and players pay tribute to Carla Suarez Navarro as she bows out at the French Open.\n\nFollowing Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal, several players have given their verdict on how they deal with the media.\n\nSeven-time Grand Slam champion made her statement during a press conference, addressing the media as she states ‘you’ll never light a candle to me’.\n\n\nRafael Nadal made his first appearance on Tuesday as he looks to defend his Roland Garros title yet again and lift trophy number 14.\n\nNew York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey said it becomes more and more difficult for the stadium announcer every year!\n\n\nCarla Suarez Navarro made a stunning return at Roland Garros after she was declared cancer-free.\n\nDespite going down to Sloane Stephens in three sets, the Spaniard played remarkably well given her lack of match practice before waving goodbye to an 18-year career.\n\nAmerican stars Shelby Rogers and Coco Vandeweghe were amongst the many players to pay tribute to the talented clay-courter.\n\nNovak Djokovic opened up on his serve superstitions when questioned on the Eurosport cube following his victory over Tennys Sandgren.\n\nThe Serbian then joked ‘Why are you revealing my secrets? That’s not fair!’\n\nVenus Williams waving\nCopy link", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9930022954940796}
+{"content": "What are the largest volcanic structures on Earth?\n\nResurgent calderas are the largest volcanic structures on Earth, ranging from 15 to 100 kilometers (9 to 62 miles) in diameter.\n\nWhat are the largest volcanoes on Earth?\n\nMauna Loa, Hawaii\n\nMauna Loa is the biggest volcano on Earth. It is 9,170 meters tall. It is a shield volcano. Mauna Loa shares is a hot spot in the Pacific plate.\n\nWhich type of volcanic structure is the largest?\n\nAs Mauna Loa, the largest of the shield volcanoes (and also the world’s largest active volcano), projects 13,677 feet above sea level, its top is over 28,000 feet above the deep ocean floor.\n\nWhat are the three largest volcanoes in the world?\n\nHeight of select volcanoes worldwide (in meters)\n\nVolcano, location Height in meters\nMount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)* 5,895\nPopocatépetl Volcano (Mexico) 5,426\nMauna Loa (Hawaii, United States)* 4,169\nMount Fuji (Tokyo, Japan) 3,776\n\nWhat are the 5 biggest volcanoes?\n\nThe top five biggest volcanic eruptions\n\n  1. 1 – Mount Tambora.\n  2. 2 – Mount Krakatoa. …\n  3. 3 – Mount Pelée. …\nREAD  What Are The Largest Public Accounting Firms?\n\n6 янв. 2012 г.\n\nWill Yellowstone erupt 2020?\n\nYellowstone is not overdue for an eruption. … The rhyolite magma chamber beneath Yellowstone is only 5-15% molten (the rest is solidified but still hot), so it is unclear if there is even enough magma beneath the caldera to feed an eruption. If Yellowstone does erupt again, it need not be a large eruption.\n\nWhat volcano could destroy the world?\n\nThe Yellowstone supervolcano — an 8 out of 8 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index — has erupted three times over the past 2.1 million years, most recently 640,000 years ago. A Yellowstone eruption would be like nothing humanity has ever experienced.\n\nWhich is the most dangerous type of volcano?\n\nNot surprisingly, supervolcanoes are the most dangerous type of volcano. Supervolcanoes are a fairly new idea in volcanology. The exact cause of supervolcano eruptions is still debated, however, scientists think that a very large magma chamber erupts entirely in one catastrophic explosion.\n\nWhat is the most powerful volcano on Earth?\n\n\nWhy is the stratovolcano the most dangerous?\n\nOf all the volcanoes on Earth, stratovolcanoes are the most dangerous. They can erupt with little warning, releasing enormous amounts of material. … As we saw with Mount Saint Helens, they can blast out material from the side, creating pyroclastic flows the hurtle down the volcano’s flanks at enormous speeds.\n\nREAD  Which of Jupiter's moons is the largest?\n\nCan we survive if Yellowstone erupts?\n\nShould the supervolcano lurking beneath Yellowstone National Park ever erupt, it could spell calamity for much of the USA. Deadly ash would spew for thousands of miles across the country, destroying buildings, killing crops, and affecting key infrastructure. Fortunately the chance of this occurring is very low.\n\nCan Yellowstone wipe out America?\n\n\nWhat is the oldest volcano in the world?\n\n\nWhat is the biggest extinct volcano?\n\nTamu Massif is an extinct submarine shield volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean, with the characteristics of a hybrid between a mid-ocean ridge and a shield volcano.\n\nTamu Massif\nA bathymetric map of the volcano\nSummit depth 1,980 metres (6,500 ft)\nHeight 4,460 metres (14,620 ft)\n\nWhat is the biggest eruption?\n\n\nLike this post? Please share to your friends:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6429243087768555}
+{"content": "How to Balance Technical Debt\n\nTrevor Orsztynowicz\n\nOne of the recurring and common complaints about Agile and its associated methodologies is that it doesn’t make an explicit provision for balancing software maintenance with new features. I’ll make the case that those are both related, and explain a system that I’ve seen work in the past to balance both maintenance and quality with new product work. The major benefit of this approach are that it taps into the power of small consistent improvements, and also creates space for software teams to do the work they need to do on an ongoing basis. This methodology works best along side a virtuous process / feedback loop that you can use to improve your teams and companies performance.\n\nTL;DR: Split your sprints / weeks / months into a set of Engineering activities and Product activities. Measure and maintain a ratio of work between these two categories for every period. A healthy ratio is 25% engineering to 75% product. When an objective metric of quality goes below its threshold, then your team increases the ratio to something else like 50% / 50% until the metric improves. This tells you when to make improvements, and when to stop some kinds of improvements.\n\nEverything degrades over time and software is no different\n\nDependencies go stale, implementations don’t scale with their datasets, number of users increase, number of developers increase, features & complexity increases, and a huge number of other variables all contribute to the subjective and objective quality of a codebase. No matter what we do, maintenance will be some part of the software development process, whether its incorporated into “regular work” or not. If we can agree software maintenance has to happen, then we can move on to the more important question of “OK, how much?”. In order to answer “How much?” we can split our work into categories and measure the type of work happening in those categories.\n\nPlanning, Implementation, Quality, and Release are common high level categories. Regardless of your teams series of steps, some work will be more technical debt / engineering / scale [9] related, and some work will be more ‘add button that does X’ / ‘implement new UI’ related. For the sake of conversation, let’s call those two categories “Engineering” and “Product” oriented work respectively. In general, product oriented work are features or enhancements whose primary goal is help the business succeed. Engineering oriented activities are also critical to the success of the business and optimize a separate set of metrics. Both sets of work have to happen in a constrained amount of time. A good software team will be doing roughly 1 part Engineering work to every 3 parts Product work or a 25/75% split. The Engineering work should make a lasting positive change and should be planned and prioritized as well as any product work.\n\nDeveloper time is a limited resource\n\nA team will probably not accomplish more or less than it did the previous time period, all else being equal (and all else isn’t equal). The team cannot be expected to do engineering related activities in their “spare” time, just as much as they cannot be expected to ship new features on evenings and weekends in a sustainable way.\n\nThe success of the company depends on the success of the Software\n\nIf the uptime of the application is poor then users will be frustrated and quit. If the code base is untested, has no standards, and takes a long time to build, it will be difficult to modify. If the company has to add new features, and the engineering teams ability to ship code depends on the health of the application / code base, then time must be dedicated to working on both of those things. Without doing both of these activities the business may fail.\n\nObjective measurements of quality are important\n\nMeasurements of quality are critical for both Engineering and Product work but quality is often times subjective. Our goal should be to make that as objective as possible. The simplest way to do this is to define and measure uptime but more advanced methods could include choosing from a subset of engineering metrics and weighting them appropriately. If uptime during a given time period is poor, then one could say the quality of infrastructure or code is compromised and has to be addressed. From the businesses perspective, it likely does not care about linting rules, unit tests, or reliable deploy processes. It does care about software issues that will affect business metrics like churn, bounce rates, ARPA, etc. Product and Engineering teams can agree on what quality means to the software and business.\n\nEngineering and Product can agree on a simple contract If the Quality goes down then the engineering team gets more time for Engineering related work. For example if the software experiences an outage then it gets to increase its Engineering to Product ratio from 25/75 to 50/50 until the quality returns. This gives engineering time to do reactive maintenance to address the issues in the outage. If your metric is associated with response times then the same rules would apply. The benefit of a contract is that breaking this contract becomes an explicit decision vs a tacit agreement.\n\nHow this works in Practice\n\nThe stakeholders (engineering and product) working on landing pages agree that Page Load Times are an important measurement of quality for their product. The team agrees on how to measure this quality using synthetic monitoring with throttling and device types chosen for their target audience and geography.\n\nA baseline measurement is taken and automated. If the measurement is within an acceptable number like <1s for the 95th ntile of samples, then the page is loading “fast enough”.\n\nWhen the engineering team plans its work - lets just say it’s using 1 week planning windows - it allocates 25% of its work to technical debt related tasks and the remainder to product oriented tasks; Work is completed and features are shipped [6].\n\nIf during the course of the 1 week of implementation the page load time goes above 1s for the 95th ntile then the team will change its Engineering to Product ratio from 25/75 to 50/50 to address the needs. This means less landing pages and more time focused on page load time improvements. The next planning session has 50% Engineering work and remainder is Product.\n\nThe page load times return to acceptable limits. The next planning session goes back to 25/75 split.\n\n\n  1. You cannot set or change the quality metric without involving all the key stakeholders. It’s an informal contract within the organization.\n\n  2. The metric should be as objective as possible and thus as automated as possible. Ideally no subjectivity should be included in this measurement and if there are areas of dispute, those should be topics for discussion amongst the more senior staff members.\n\n  3. For those of us who work on APIs that let people integrate our services into their applications, I would argue you have a technical product and the same categories can be held in place\n\n  4. When teams are small it’s easy to maintain subjective alignment on quality because there are fewer people to convince. As teams scale, more people have a voice, and those stakeholders need alignment in order to affect meaningful change. Alignment requires objectivity in order to avoid confusion.\n\n  5. Good objective measurements for software quality are things like uptime, page load times, API response time, number of bugs reported by users, mean time to recover, build & deploy times, deployments, commit to production time, etc. A subset of these will be user affecting metrics and should be incorporated into some kind of index. It’s important that this index suits your business in a way that other stakeholders agree with.\n\n  6. If changes are big and require dedicated engineering sprints then that might be a good time to think about versioning, feature flagging, or doing more planning and acknowleding a bigger project.\n\n  7. Engineering work also categorizes separately. There is reactive maintenance, preventative maintenance, code quality, engineering focused metric improvements, amongst many others.\n\n  8. Transparency is paramount; We should not be sneaking improvements in off hours or refactoring unrelated areas of code with copy change commits.\n\n  9. Scaling is important but it’s critical to know when to stop.\n\nThanks to @cdemwell, @notmatt, and @jeffhorton for their feedback!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6972182989120483}
+{"content": "Data Myths-logo\n\nData Myths\n\nTechnology Podcasts\n\n\n\n\nUnited States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTesla: 100 Years Too Early\n\nSummary: In this episode, Brian and Malinda discuss a man whose work is still only starting to be understood today - Nikola Tesla. Who was he, and how did he become an inventor? What kinds of technology did his inventions include? We take a look at some of his creations and uncover why his name is not always associated with them. We also discuss his history with Edison, the battle for powering New York City, and why Tesla had so much trouble with his patents. Join us as we look into this...\n\n\nThe Rapid Shift to a Remote Digital World\n\nSummary: Get ready to dive into how current events are changing the landscape of technology, supply chains, and how we conduct business. We take a look at different ways to set up organizations for success with remote work and how our demand is putting strain on the internet. We talk about how businesses are going to have to innovate to provide for their customers and how all of this will impact our supply chains. Join us as we explore how business and technology are rapidly changing to meet...\n\n\nTalking Trash: The Data and Technology Behind Garbage\n\nSummary: Get ready for some trash talk in this waste-focused episode. Hosts Brian and Malinda look at the business of recycling and the ways in which companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint. While Malinda drops staggering facts about the state of our oceans and the plastics that litter it, Brian shares how technology can alleviate some of our waste issues. From single use plastics to food waste, this episode expertly explains the data and technology behind trash and...\n\n\nRaiders of the data archive: Is our legacy safe?\n\nSummary: In an increasingly digital world, how do we make sense of ephemeral content and how do we preserve it for posterity? Episode 23 is a data-driven deep dive that looks at the evolution of digital archiving. Hosts Brian and Malinda Gagnon discuss digital storage and how things like digital availability and digital durability affect the ways we store and share information. An important episode for anyone who’s wondered how the internet affects the ways we document and share ideas. What...\n\n\nDon’t Cross the Streams: A Closer Look at Streaming\n\nSummary:We’ve all toyed with the idea of cutting cable, but how many of us have officially pulled the plug? In this episode, Brian and Malinda explore the world of streaming. Using their wayback machine, they discuss streaming in its infancy (looking at you, MP3 files), and how it’s evolved over time to suit our content needs. Looking at major streaming players and assessing what might be next for them, our cord cutting hosts expertly catch us up on this ever changing landscape. What we...\n\n\nCES 2020 Recap: Impossible Pork Strikes Back\n\nSummary: It’s been a minute, but we’re back! Fresh from his trip to CES, Brian chats with Malinda about the highs and lows of this year’s show. From digital sky writers and ping pong playing robots to parallel reality and biomimetic pleasure devices, it was a year for the books. What better way to kick off Data Myths Season Two than a recap of what we saw at CES 2020 and what we can expect to see in the future. What We Covered: 5:45 Brian recaps a few of his favorite things at CES...\n\n\nIs Hi-Fi Audio Dead in a Digital World?\n\nSummary: Sure we’ve seen a major uptick in vinyl record sales, but what does that mean for the future of sound? Will higher quality audio beat out convenience? What is the difference between AM and FM radio? Will Malinda reunite with her iPod shuffle? Will Bose engineers everywhere be buying Brian voodoo dolls? Brian and Malinda discuss audio industry trends as well as their own experiences with audio technology in their everyday lives. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more. What We...\n\n\nRomancing the Blockchain: Are We Ready?\n\nIn this special episode of Data Myths, Brian and Malinda travel virtually to Liechtenstein to host Thomas Nägele and Alexis Esneault. Thomas is a blockchain expert and managing partner of NÄGELE Attorneys at Law. Alexis is an attorney at the firm and also specializes in blockchain and distributed ledger technology. With blockchain and cryptocurrency being relatively new, it’s important to think about what practical uses are. How will it affect how we do business? What are its potentials? And...\n\n\nCapturing Attention in a Busy World: Is it Possible?\n\nSummary: In today’s digital advertising landscape, it’s harder than ever to stand out from the crowd and grab a consumer’s attention. So what’s a company to do? In this episode of Data Myths, Malinda walks us through the complex and evolving world of digital advertising. Reviving the “Data Myths Leaders and Losers” segment, Malinda breaks down everything from Google’s dynamic advertising to the future of cashing in as an influencer. Is traditional advertising dead? Can anyone take over...\n\n\nClouds on the Horizon: To Cloud or Not to Cloud\n\n\n\n\nSummary: Will Amazon’s smart doorbell replace your local neighborhood watch? How is Amazon fighting the stigma of the Amazon effect? Brian and Malinda discuss how Amazon is eating Google’s lunch by ramping up its ad business, how AI bias could affect Amazon’s AI services, and how Amazon is used for search. While Malinda examines the implications of one company controlling your entire customer journey, Brian weighs the pros and cons of insourcing vs outsourcing cloud services. Tune in for an...\n\n\nWelcome to the Age of Assets: Brokers vs. Owners\n\nSummary: Is the gig economy on its way out? Will Airbnb suffer from Marriott’s latest play? To stay competitive, how are traditional companies repositioning their value in the marketplace? In this week’s episode, Brian and Malinda consider what it means to be a broker versus an owner. Drawing comparisons between companies like Airbnb and Marriott, Tesla and Uber, and Disney and Netflix, your hosts look at who is offering more value to the consumer. Tune in to learn how companies that once...\n\n\nA Brief History of the Internet and Website Development: The Good, The Bad, and Everything In Between\n\nSummary: This week on Data Myths, Brian and Malinda take a trip down memory lane. Considering the evolution of the Internet, they explore how technology has changed the way we live, communicate, and build websites. Looking for a brief and fun history of website development? Ready to reminisce about home row keys and 90s flash sites? From ‘fun buttons’ to responsive design, episode 14 examines the highs and lows of website development. Subscribe and listen for a satisfyingly fun history...\n\n\nA Podcast about Podcasts\n\nSummary: Thinking about starting a podcast but don’t know where to begin? Don’t worry—Data Myths has you covered. In this unapologetically honest episode, Brian and Malinda share their personal podcast highs and lows. From why they started Data Myths, to their top five podcast tech tips, Brian and Malinda get real about life behind the podcast. For those considering the podcast-host life, episode 13 will serve as a great reference point for getting started. What We Covered:1:00 - Does it...\n\n\nThe E-Commerce Equation: To Prime or Not To Prime—That is the Question\n\nSummary: Where will e-commerce be in five years? Will Brian and Malinda find another great deal on a TV before then? This week’s episode focuses on e-commerce—the major players, the trends, and the future of main street shopping. Today, e-commerce platforms are empowering brands to sell directly to consumers; closing the gap on third-party retail sellers; and reducing the cost of production. On this week’s e-commerce-focused episode, Brian and Malinda consider how Amazon factors into the...\n\n\nThe Business of Gaming\n\nSummary: Who will be the Netflix of gaming? How do you make a gaming platform stickier? How do you keep users engaged and entertained? Brian and Malinda discuss changes in the gaming industry, what new platforms are coming to market, and how these competitors may disrupt the gaming industry. Brian breaks down some need-to-know acronyms and helps listeners wrap their heads around the business of gaming. An episode that is sure to make both dataphobes and dataphiles question where is gaming...\n\n\nShopify vs. Mailchimp - An E-Commerce Data Dispute\n\nSummary: This week we’re catching you up on all the dirty data details of the recent Shopify and MailChimp breakup. Before you decide whether you’re team MailChimp or team Shopify, listen to Brian and Malinda weigh in on what ultimately led to the split. Who are the casualties? What does the split mean for other platforms? Is your data really in jeopardy? Brian and Malinda explain how this e-commerce drama is affecting small businesses and start up companies. If you’re a small business owner...\n\n\nHow to Win at Pitching: A SXSW Recap\n\nSummary: How do you make the most of your pitch time? What are the most important things to mention, and what are the most important things to avoid mentioning? Brian and Malinda serve up a SXSW recap and share their personal startup pitch strategies. From what to wear and how to speak, to being a present pitch audience participant, Brian and Malinda reflect on how they made the most of SXSW’s concentration of innovative go-getters. 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+{"content": "How much does a Senior Implementation Consultant make in United Kingdom?\n\n58 salaries reported, updated at 28 April 2021\n£55,113per year\n\nThe average salary for a senior implementation consultant is £55,113 per year in United Kingdom.\n\nWas the salaries overview information useful?\n\nWhere can a Senior Implementation Consultant earn more?\n\nCompare salaries for Senior Implementation Consultants in different locations\nHow much should you be earning?\nGet estimated pay range\nSee more details", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9628536701202393}
+{"content": "Team Aerove\n\n“A drone is often preferred for missions that are too ‘dull, dirty, or dangerous’ for manned aircraft.” Team AeRoVe of UMIC is on a never-ending pursuit of developing an ultimate system of autonomous fixed-wing as well as multirotor aircraft. Incorporating different subsystems namely ‘Mechatronics’, ‘Controls’, ‘Machine Learning’, ‘Perception’, ‘Path Planning’, and ‘Localisation’, the team emphatically covers every aspect to forge a de rigueur system of autonomous aerial vehicles.\n\nThe Purpose \n\nAt Team AeRoVe, we always look for problems that challenge, excite, and motivate us to grow intellectually. Our purpose is to further the boundaries of autonomous aerial technology and realize the true potential of this field. We aim to contribute and start the culture of creating cutting edge technology through indigenous innovation.\nThe International Aerial Robotics Competition, the longest-running aerial robotics competition in the world, is the kind of problem that has pushed us to the best of our capabilities and made us think in ways like never before, providing us with an international platform to display our aptitudes.\nIn addition to the past technologies, Mission 9 required us to work on novel objectives like long-distance outdoor navigation, manipulation of large objects using actuators attached to our drones, interaction with moving frames of reference and 100% onboard computations. These tasks posed us with stimulating challenges and provided the team with the opportunity to improve its technical expertise.\nDespite the ongoing pandemic, we braved our way through and not only succeeded to create a collaborative environment, but also thoroughly enjoyed working on a collective goal, the IARC Mission 9 challenge.\n\nThe Idea\n\nFor tackling the IARC 2020 Challenge, team Aerove decided to go with a Mothership-Daughtership configuration, which would increase effectiveness and save time. A key constraint governing our strategy of module replacement is time constraint. \nThe major drawback of using a single drone is that it decreases the time available for communication module replacement. Therefore a mother-daughter drone configuration will buy us the time of the entire return flight. Also, the weight of the Mothership decreases during return flight which allows it to achieve a higher maximum speed.  The mothership carries the daughtership up to the drop point, and then circles back to the start point. Meanwhile, the daughtership undertakes the arduous task of replacing the communication module on on the swaying mast\n\n\nThe Mothership\n\nThe mothership is the primary drone that carries the secondary daughter drone. It is an autonomous 25 Kg hexacopter with an integral cage-like structure. The mothership will deploy the daughter drone at the mast and continue its way homeward to complete the mission in 9 minutes.\n\n\nThe Daughter Drone\n\nThe daughter drone, a 25 kg autonomous coaxial-octocopter capable of launching in mid-air, is meant to replace the communication module. It is equipped with a Pixhawk 4 for controlling the drone during flight. Intel Realsense D435 for obtaining live video feed of the surroundings, Intel NUC 5i5RYH onboard computation, Here3 GPS for localisation, and 7 DOF robotic arm for gripping the mast and replacing the module.\n\nThe People\n\nUnmesh Mashruwala Innovation Cell, also widely known as UMIC, is a tech team formed to embrace and develop the idea of an autonomous future. The team consists of 60+ students from various fields and years of study at IIT Bombay. Under the sheds of the UMIC, the primary area of focus is developing autonomous vehicles.\nTeam AeRoVe of UMIC is on a never-ending pursuit of developing an ultimate system of autonomous fixed-wing as well as multi-rotor aircraft. Comprising 21 members, the team is divided into multiple subsystems.\n\n@2021 Copyright UMIC\n\nWeb page was built with Mobirise", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9813114404678345}
+{"content": "Showing results for \nSearch instead for \nDid you mean: \n\nEnterprise Vault Journal Mailbox\n\nHas anyone troubljeshot the following issue?\n\n\nMessages with the IPM.Note class within the jpournal mailbox are being archived but they seem to be getting stuck in the Not.enterpriseVault.PendingArcvhive.Part class.    The numbers are rising steadily without intermittent decrease.\n\nAny thoughts?\n\n\n\n\n\nTags (1)\n3 Replies\n\nRe: Enterprise Vault Journal Mailbox\n\nHi Pjglick,\n\n    That's pretty common among EV Journaling issues.  If you're sure they're getting archived, the first things to check are:\n\n-If it's EV11.0.x or after, what's going on with the StorageQueue?  Is there a backlog of batch files sitting there?\n\n-Coupled with that, what's the SafetyCopy setting for Journals in that vault store?  This can be found on the properties of the vault store that hosts that journal archive.  Normally it's set to \"immediate\" for Journals, but if it's not, the items could be waiting on being secured by StorageFileWatch. \n\n   If it turns out they aren't really archived yet; don't worry - those are still the full messages and can be reverted to IPM.Note using either the EV Policy setting for \"Cancel Pending Timeout\" combined with a Report Mode Archiving run, or by a third-party converter like DocMessageClass.  Hope this helps!\n\n\nRe: Enterprise Vault Journal Mailbox\n\nI tired converting them from ipm.not.enterprisevault.pendingarchive.part to ipm.note and they just wend back to the .part class.  I see standarding archiving happening but it seems that they are all just moving from ipm.not, to ipm.note.enterprisevault.pedningarchive. then to ipm.not.enterprisevault.pendingarchive.part.\n\nNot sure why.\n\n\nRe: Enterprise Vault Journal Mailbox\n\nHello Paul,\n\nIs your Vault Store perhaps in backup mode?\n\nDoes the open partition has space left?\n\nIf you want to really check, do the following:\n\nCreate a new Journal Mailbox in Exchange. Add the new Journal Mailbox to EV, make sure that is archived by it's own task, into it's own archive. configure Exchange to use the new Journal Mailbox. Leave the task for the old Journal Mailbox running as normal. Verify (by using Outlook on the EV server, with VSA logged in) the new journal mailbox is being processed. Also verify the old journal mailbox is processed. Be advised it can take up to 5 minutes before an item actually disappears from the Journal Mailbox (i.e. = archived), due to EV waiting for possible identical items coming in. It is my experience that you should start worrying if the item count in the Journal Mailbox goes up only, and no items seem to be moved out. If this happens, the EV Eventlog is your first starting point to check. If you do not see movement in the OLD journal mailbox, there might be an item preventing archiving to continue (it happens..). Then set the task for this one Journal Mailbox in reportmode, let it run for a while. Monitor MSMQ to see if that drops to 0 for that task. When 0, disable the Journal Mailbox for archiving (properties of the Journal mailbox in EV). sync the Journal mailbox, restart the task (still in report mode). Then use docmessageclass to revert the messageclasses back to ipm.note). Now create a new folder in that Journal Mailbox underneath the Enterprise Vault Journaling folders, call it 'special items' or something. Move the last 50 items from the inbox to this folder. enable archivng for this mailbox again, sync the mailbox, clear reportmode, restart the task, monitor the mailbox again.\n\nIf you do not want to use docmessageclass, change your journal policy to have 'Pending shortcut time out' set to 0. Then when you run the task in report mode, EV should revert the items back to ipm.note itself. This can take a while. Wait with actioning until all items are reverted back.\n\nIf there are still items that fail to archive, you need to dtrace the archiving, but then you should contact support, so they can assist in configuring dtrace, and you can have them go through the logfile.\n\nRegards. Gertjan", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.821441650390625}
+{"content": "NIGHT GUARD: strange things happen on a tedious night in this horror game\n\nNight Guard is a horror game in the first person developed by CubyteGames where you play as Logan, a night security guard who, in one night tries to understand what happened with the electricity of the place and realizes that something strange is happening in the place.\n\nThe game has a good horror atmosphere and visuals inspired by the 32-bit era, reminiscent of Playstation games with low resolution graphics and textures. The game is short and can be finished in less than 10 minutes.\n\nCheck out the gameplay\n\nDownload Night Guard", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998775124549866}
+{"content": "• Ayesha Dodo-Williams\n\nIgor Eugen Prokop: Through Glass, Physics, Philosophy and the Arts\n\nIgor Prokop\n\n[..] an essential element of my art’s whole process and what I use it for is teaching. As a teacher, I have the urge to pass on my art. I want to motivate, teach and make a great impression on the audience, mainly a strong, visual, emotional effect by which I want to show them the world. When it happens, the picture should have such elements that help the viewer find a strong point connecting him to reality and enables him to find relations to nature as mentioned before.”\n\nIgor Eugen Prokop, born in Born 1953 Budapest, Hungary, is a visionary abstract painter from Visegrad. His works are deeply suggestive and embody the whole way of thinking of the artist. Prokop doesn’t shy away from the use of color and captures the essence of the world onto his canvas. Analytic and always in though, the artist seems to decline subjects like humanity vs. nature into movement and expressive strokes, creating his own semiotic language. His thought process easily translates into his work, be it words or images everything seems to have double, triple meaning with Prokop.\n\nOne of the most interesting traits of the artist is certainly his mind and how, when asked a question, his ability to connect a simple word with an infinite variety of subjects, reflects heavily into his art. Mathematics, physics, art, music, history…a quasi chaos that melts together to create stunning works of abstract art.\n\nIgor Prokop \"God give more power to the nurces and the doctors\"\n\nBut how does he capture the essence of the world as to fit it in his own interpretation of art?\n\nThe determinate factors are interaction, ecological footprint, the necessity of biodiversity and the fourth one is albedo.”- claims Prokop - “Albedo is important. It expresses the effects of solar radiation on the Earth. The luminous surfaces, like the surface of the seas, simply reflect the light while the dark surfaces absorb the heat of the sun. It is easy to prove with a simple experiment. If you put a black material or a stone on the snow the snow melts under it and around it. This is what is happening on the Northern Pole nowadays where melts and molten areas are getting larger and larger. That is the continental shelf. The rocks in places are basalt and are mainly dark and are exposed. They absorb the heat of the sun more intensely and make the glaciers, already molten, melt faster and the thickness of the ice is halved. Now, this albedo does increase the greenhouse effect and both the pace and extent of the temperature of the Earth are getting higher and higher.\n\nLet's turn back to arts. How can we capture it and why do we have to?\n\nI deal with these issues in my art. I see them through the eyes of a biologist and a traveler who elaborates these issues not just through the experiences of others, although that is also important, but especially when they derive from authentic scientists and authentic sources, they are also rooted in my own experiences as I have traveled around the Earth. It is here where I have mentioned the problem of \"the complete and incomplete\". This is where philosophy and the philosophical background get connected, and the question of what is most important in arts? Teaching, education, presentation, demonstration, that there is still such a world where we, human beings, can cooperate with nature well, where the air and seas are clean, the soil is fertile and free of chemicals. All these are deteriorating nowadays[...]\n\nThis is what is happening to the Earth now because of human intervention. I draw and paint these events and try to signalize that at the beginning there was a very-very active, colorful world and this colorful world is sustainable and must be sustained! This issue is also called the need for sustainable development. As a teacher, I am trying to teach these basic principles and follow them as well. Scientists as indicators have been researching and signalizing the changes of the world. In this change, arts can play a significant role, naturally, in positive changes!”\n\nMy first impression of Prokop’s art was that he seemed to see the world through fragments of stained glass. A blurred and colorful vision of objects and scattered thoughts thrown on a canvas. It was only when reading and digging deeper into the mind of the artist that i understood better what i was looking at.\n\nIf you look closely at Prokop’s pieces you can clearly see the fractures present in almost all of his work. Maybe his vision isn’t fragmented but rather a realistic depiction of the world and the values he holds beginning to crumble and collapse.\n\nCiting scientists like Heisenberg and Hawking it is clear that many cultural elements come into play as the artist’s inspiration.\n\n[...]I love the excellent scientists who I deal with in my works, like Stephen Hawking, whose achievements in astronomy, mathematics, and physics are united in his legacy. His wish was to save the results of evolution; nature and its apex, human beings. Anyway, the Earth will fall, at some point, onto the Sun due to natural reasons and will perish. It is already threatened by global warming, too. Mankind needs time to find a proper place to live, a livable planet. The Earth is getting older naturally and will die and this high level, human presence in the Universe, should be carried on. This was Hawking's principle and philosophy. I connect these scientists, authentic scientists in an authentic way with philosophy, with the above-mentioned philosophical trends.”\n\nBut besides the scientific approach to art philosophy is also deeply grounded in his work.\n\nIgor Prokop \" Ear to live with the Coronavirus in the future\"\n\nHow important are philosophical elements in Prokop’s work and what are they?\n\n“I have studied Greek philosophy. Aristotle and Plato started dealing with the philosophical elements discussing the most crucial questions, like ‘Where are we from, where are we going, what are we?’, and practically, the whole history of philosophy functions along these principles in exactly the same way as evolution put it into practice during milliards of years when life on Earth started to emerge. The whole evolution is a very difficult, very long, well experimented, well-established system. As a result, the highest living creature of mankind, homo sapiens, emerged. I stress that human beings do belong to this system. They are not separate, they are – according to our current knowledge – on the top of this system, on the top of planetary evolution. This is what philosophy is about. I describe this human, physical and mental evolutionary process and show that at the end of it we are destroying the Earth. I think if I compare the teachings of philosophy, evolution, and sciences with my experiences and the interpretations of artists working and thinking in previous centuries then we arrive at a very good picture of the opportunities. It could show the way to the solutions and it is a kind of criticism as well.\n\nAnd here comes a philosophical element: the unification of analysis and synthesis. When you analyze, segment something you have to make the task or problem microscopic and observe the elements it consists of and the characteristic features it has. When you piece together these elements again you synthesize them, and you need a greater synthesis that makes them fit into the elements of the system. This is what I do in my drawings and pictures.”\n\nWho and what kind of people have influenced you besides scientists?\n\n“Nowadays I am \"making friends\" with Basquiat and have painted a picture entitled \"Where Are the Angels of Nature, Mr. Basquiat?\" I consider the actions of people and artists important who can contribute a novelty to mankind. Jean Michel Basquiat was this kind of person! And I am asking him because he is sitting on the clouds together with Andy Warhol swaying their feet and talking about what are the important things and how important they are in life and beyond it. Andy Warhol said that anyone could be famous for 15 minutes. Being famous is important as the world is composed in a way when appearing in the media or on the Internet, a product, even a work of art, a picture, a painting and its contents, too, gets much more attention when an artist or a celebrity stands by it.”\n\n\nUsing spots, lines, and colors as the base of all his paintings and graphics, one of the directions of his research and exploration, as explained in a previous interview by the artist, brought him to the use of glass as a medium. A technique he has been practicing for twenty five years by fusing it with nature.\n\nAlthough a lot of thought and reflection goes into every painting, Prokop’s art is best received through impact and a subsequent discovery of the details which automatically open the doors to a more in depth reading.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.949289858341217}
+{"content": "400,000 Fewer People Signed up for 2018 ACA Coverage \n\nThe Trump administration announced that 11.8 million people signed up for 2018 health-insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces this year, despite the shorter 45-day open enrollment period (in previous years the open enrollment period lasted 3 months). That number represents a 400,000-person drop in enrollment from last year.\n\nMost of the decrease was seen in the 39 states that use the federal government–run HealthCare.gov marketplace, which ended enrollment assistance in 18 cities last year and limited other outreach efforts.\n\nIn the 11 states that sell ACA coverage through their own marketplaces, enrollment levels remained the same as the previous year. The share of customers younger than 35 dropped slightly, while the share of customers older than 55 grew slightly.\n\nThe Trump administration’s decision to stop reimbursing health-insurance companies for the discounts on co-payments and deductibles they are legally required to offer low-income consumers was expected to hurt enrollment. However, to offset these operating cost increases, insurers increased the prices of their midlevel plans, allowing more people to qualify for premium subsidies. In all, 83 percent of enrollees qualified for tax credits that lowered the cost of their premiums.\n\nSource: The New York Times, April 3, 2018.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9994372129440308}
+{"content": "2021 Pipe Music Series Saxophone and Others\n\nSort by\n\nWe have an orchestral department, franchiseOrchestral, string wholesale, including flutes, flutes, double reeds, English tubes, bass, clarinets, scoundrels, small, short, French, long, bass, bass, percussion instruments, set drums, small drums, drums, jazz drums, handwheels, slings, bell drums, triangular iron, Woodfish, iron piece, xylophone, bass xylophone, vibrato, pipe clock, piano, harp, bass violin, etc.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000100135803223}
+{"content": "Python代写 | CS 325 HW 7: The Travelling Salesman Problem\n\n\nCS 325 HW 7: The Travelling Salesman Problem\n\nIn this assignment you will have fun trying out ideas to solve a very hard problem: The Traveling\nSalesman Problem (TSP).\nYou are given a set of n cities and for each pair of cities c1 and c2, the distances between them d(c1, c2).\nYour goal is to find an ordering (called a tour) of the cities so that the distance you travel is minimized.\nThe distance you travel is the sum of the distances from the first city in the ordering to the second city,\nplus the distance second city to the third city, and so on until you reach the last city, and then adding\nthe distance from the last city to the first city. For example if the cities are Seattle, Portland, Corvallis\nand Boise. The total distance traveled visiting the cities in this order is:\nd(tour) = d(Seattle,Portland) + d(Portland, Corvallis) + d(Corvallis,Boise) + d(Boise, Seattle)\nIn this project, you will only need to consider the special case where the cities are locations in a 2D grid\n(given by their x and y coordinates) and the distance between two cities c1 = (x1, y1) and c2 = (x2, y2) is\ngiven by their Euclidean distance. To avoid floating point precision problems in computing the\nsquareroot, we will always round the distance to the nearest integer. In other words you will compute\nthe distance between cities c1 and c2 as:\n(𝑐1, 𝑐2) = nearestint (√(𝑥1 − 𝑥2)\n2 + (𝑦1 − 𝑦2)\nFor example, if the three cities are given by the coordinates c1= (0, 0), c2 = (1, 3), c3 = (6, 0), then a tour\nthat visits the cities in order c1 –> c2 –> c3 – >c1 has the distance .\nYou will research and implement an algorithm for finding an approximate solution for the TSP problem.\nYou should provide pseudocode for the algorithm that is implemented and give the running time.\nThere is much literature on methods to “solve” TSP please cite any sources you use. TSP is not a\nproblem for which you will be able to easily find optimal solutions. Your goal is to find an approximate\nsolution or the “best solution” you can find in a reasonable amount of time. One possible algorithm\nwould perform a depth-first traversal on a MST for a Euclidean graph.\n\n\n\n\nE-mail:  微信:itcsdx", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5306879281997681}
+{"content": "Considered as one of the four essentials of the Qur’an, worship\nexpresses intentional behavior reflecting the attempt to obey Allah’s consent, as\na result of the person’s respect and love for Allah, in Islamic literature.\n\nFound in any religion in different forms and considered as an indicator of servitude,\nworship is worth being examined and kept in agenda due to the different areas it\naddresses such as religious, philosophical, ontological and socio-psychological\nareas etc.\n\nThe fact that modernism failure to provide solutions for socioeconomic depressions\nresulted from its tendency to exclude-ignore religious rituals, which arose upon\nenlightenment, made people of modern era, who destroyed their relation with their\ncreator, completely restless. Together with the disease which spread to Islamic\nsocieties as well, some problems in personal and social areas arose. In this context,\nthe things that worship, bearing the key qualities for worldly and ethereal happiness\nmay provide to the people who suffer from many diseases and are looking for the\nmeaning of life should not be disregarded.\n\nForming the second ring after belief in Islamic thought, the worship also means\n“disciplining and reinforcing religious provisions which are reasonable”. From this\nperspective, belief-worship unity and emphasis on worship’s aspect concerning belief,\nis important for making a type of Muslim with devotion and good works visible. Moreover,\nemphasizing that in Islam worships and other areas are complementary parts and that\nreligion should be lived and considered holistically is important for ensuring that\nthe religion, personal, social and political life can be seen as a whole.\n\nNevertheless, the fact that worship bears a meaning to contact with the creator\nin different dimensions and manners and that it spreads through life’s all moments\nand aspects, addresses this concept’s different functions. Worship is important\nin developing human relations and improving social structure, since in Islamic literature\nany act of the created for gaining Allah’s consent is considered and awarded as\nworship, any positive behavior for personal and social benefit gains a religious\nand spiritual meaning. The fact that all acts by all beings in the universe are\nconsidered as a prayer and act of worship in Holy Koran and that everything is in\nan act of worship in any single moment, reveals the wide perspective of the issue.\n\nAnd in the aforementioned framework, we determined the file of this issue as\n“worship”. We planned to examine the issue in the light of below written questions\nand in the framework of the following concepts: “worship, belief, Fear of Allah,\nprayer, pure worship, patience, gratitude, forgiving, mercy, total adoration, freedom,\njustice, fraternity, weakness, shelter, elevation, love, fear, will, tesbih, salaah,\nfast, zakat, hadj, jihad, force of wrath and defense, reason, powers of anger and\nlust, universe’s worship, observances of worship, social worships”:\n\nWhat is worship? What are the issues determinig conceptual framework of worship\nin religious literature? How can Bediüzzaman’s interpretation of worship as a fact\nraising “person to his/her predestined perfection” and his evaluation of worship\nas the fruit of life and purpose of universe be explained? How important are prayer\nand worship in terms of physical and spiritual health? What are the socioeconomic\neffects and benefits of worship in general? What is the worship-freedom relation?\nWhat are the similarities and differences between Islam and other religions, when\nthey are compared in terms of worship? What can be said on worship-ethic relation?\nWhat is the importance of worships aiming at maintaining and sustaining observances,\nwhich is whole society’s responsibility as well as personal worships? What is the\nimportance of worships in terms of social solidarity and integration? What can be\nsaid on worship-justice relation? Based on the hadith “One-hour/Thinking meditation\nis better than a year of voluntary worship”, what is the importance of “meditative\nworship” in Islam?\n\nWith the hope that you can find the answers to above written issues and questions,\nwe submit our journal to you, and hope to present our next special issue on Bediüzzaman\nSaid Nursi’s 50th death anniversary.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9743859171867371}
+{"content": "Who We Are\n\nMilken Scholars was founded in 1989 by Lori and Michael Milken to honor exceptional young individuals based on their academic performance, community service, leadership activities and character. By identifying these extraordinarily talented youth and then providing resources and networks to them, so they can help themselves and those around them, the program aims to support Milken Scholars during their academic and professional careers.\n\n20375772 1391595544229023 623126875768861181 n 1\n\nAs of 2020, over 500 Milken Scholars have been selected from more than 100 high schools in Los Angeles County, New York City and Washington, D.C. Representing a variety of ages, backgrounds, academic and professional interests, they are attending and graduating from the top colleges and universities in the country.\n\nMilken Scholars receive financial assistance during their undergraduate careers. Yet, what makes the program truly unique is the access to a lifetime of resources. Being a Milken Scholar means joining an extended family and building relationships that will last over time. For example, Milken Scholars receive ongoing career-related counseling, assistance in securing internships, opportunities for volunteer community service, and a fund to assist with the transition from college to graduate school or the world of work.\n\nThroughout their college careers, Scholars are in regular communication with Scholars staff and each other. They meet with Foundation staff and mentors during campus visits and special events, including an annual Summit that provides guidance and insights through speakers, panels and activities to prepare Scholars for choices in their personal, academic and professional lives. These resources create a setting that propels these exceptional youth into the position where they can achieve their academic and professional goals and, in the process, make a profound difference in the world around them.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.75827556848526}
+{"content": "Oi Vietnam\n\nLa Forchetta\n\n\nLa cucina La Forchetta is located in a hotel building in Phu My Hung. Chef Gianni, who hails from Sicily, puts his passion into his food, focusing on pastas and pizzas with Italian meat and fish dishes as well delicious homemade desserts. Most of the tables are outside, so you can enjoy a relaxing outdoor dinner. 24 Hung Gia, PMH, D7 028 3541 1006\n\n ??  ??\n ??  ??\n\nNewspapers in English\n\nNewspapers from Vietnam", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998066246509552}
+{"content": "Medical Counseling\n\nWe at SuAyu provide confidential and professional health, counselling for all physical and mental elements. Counselling is often the first and usually one of the best weapons we have against a whole range of psychological issues like depression, grief and anxiety. You could be doing everything right, leading a model life, exercising and getting all the nutrients you need in your diet, but nothing can quite replace the benefits you get from real human interaction – it’s a genuinely unique source of support.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8363934755325317}
+{"content": "Problem of human health and longevity\n\nIn accordance with the latest ideas, human health is a synthetic category, which includes, in addition to the physiological, mental, intellectual and moral components. It is more or less sick not only the person who has a chronic illness or physical defects, but also one who has a mental disorder, impaired intellect, an unstable psyche. Such a person is usually not in a position to fulfil their social responsibilities on an equal footing with those who are completely healthy. From this point of view, according to authoritative scientists, almost every second inhabitant of the planet is not completely healthy.\nThe problem of human health - just \"old.\" You can talk about the fact that its global nature manifested itself even earlier than other global problems. Indeed, even in the era of transition to the capitalist system, marked by the rapid development of trade and migration, spread around the world threatening epidemics and pandemics (distribution of any disease on whole countries and continents, greater than when the epidemic), against which national control measures and warnings were ineffective. It took concerted international action to \"global\" public health.\nIn 1881, Louis Pasteur proved the principle of creating immunity to infectious diseases with vaccines, and the first theory of immunity was established in 1883, Mechnikov. These discoveries have predetermined chance to eliminate some of the dangerous diseases on the planet. But still can not create a highly effective vaccine against malaria, influenza and acute respiratory infections, sexually transmitted diseases, staphylococci, not to mention cancer or AIDS. Not found yet and vaccines against certain contagious diseases in farm animals.\nIncreasingly, there are facts about the spread of new diseases. Accumulate data on the impact of the increased emissions and toxic effluents on heredity: the percentage of newborns with genetic abnormalities increases. Meanwhile, in the laboratories of scientists each year are born tens of thousands of new chemical compounds whose effects on the human body, as a rule, no one knows.\nReproach to civilization is the preservation of the planet of high infant mortality. Experts of the World Health Organization (WHO) believe that if it is not reduced, during the last decade of XX century. in underdeveloped countries die from disease and malnutrition more than 100 million children. In this case, most of it comes to common diseases: pneumonia, tetanus, measles, whooping cough, and so on. N.\nCame a time when the level of civilization of any country should be determined not only (and perhaps not so much) the development of new sectors of the economy (for example, the release of elektronnovychislitelnoy or space technology), but the duration of life of the population.\nIn the study of this problem in the geographers, as we know, has its own professional interest related to medical geography. This science studies the geographical distribution of diseases and pathological conditions of the person, the reasons for this distribution and the influence of geographical environment on human health. Geography disease is largely due to the influence of natural (climate, nalichieotsutstvie in water, soil, and hence also in food of certain chemical elements, etc..) And social (material conditions of life, the cultural level of the population, a traditional type of food, and so on. D. ) factors. This geography is called nozogeografiey. It is closely linked with epidemiological geography (ie,. E. With the geography of infectious diseases), microbiology, hygiene, pathology, and so on. D.\nNozogeografiya. Has long been observed that many human diseases are found only in certain parts of the world: for example, yellow fever - in the countries of South America and Africa, cholera - mostly in India and adjacent countries in Asia, leishmaniasis - mainly in arid countries, and so on. d. And in terms of the former Soviet Union, many of the disease had enough clear regional character. So, Ufa was \"recognizable\" by cholecystitis in Tagil and Taganrog more common diseases of the upper respiratory tract; for Kineshma were typical chronic pyelonephritis; Salavat suffer from chronic and rheumatic heart disease; in large cities more marked gastrointestinal diseases; in port cities - sexually transmitted, and so on. d.\nNot only the city but also entire regions of the former Soviet Union have been \"recognized\" by the characteristic disease. In the far north are common deficiency diseases; Far East is dangerous tick-borne encephalitis; Ukraine and Belarus increased incidence of bronchial asthma; in Dagestan, the most frequently recorded of iron deficiency anemia; Karelia, Kazakhstan, Buryatia, Astrakhan and Murmansk regions dominated by esophageal cancer, and so on. d.\nGeographically diseases usually are four prirodnoklimaticheskie macro zones - moderate, southern, Mediterranean and tropical. This division is rather arbitrary, but gives you the opportunity to fix the global primary distribution of certain diseases. Temperate zone extends from North America and Europe to Japan, covering Australia and New Zealand; south - the southern half of South America and southern Africa. Mediterranean area includes mainly the Mediterranean countries and the Middle East; tropical - the countries of Central America and Africa, Southeast Asia. Within this \"nozogeograficheskogo regionalization\" of the world to observe the propagation of the four major groups of diseases: 1) infectious diseases; 2) malignant neoplasms; 3) diseases caused by deficiencies in the diet, and 4) cardiovascular and mental diseases.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9536622762680054}
+{"content": "ICC warrants not to stop NATO strikes in Libya\n\nThe coast is becoming clearer for the arrest of Libyan leader Col Moamar Gadhafi with his possibility of being his name being added to the wanted least of the International Criminal Court.\n\nThere is the likelihood that the court could yield to the demand that warrant of arrests could be issued for him and some of his family members. If that is done it can change the role of NATO in the crisis. NATO has so far restricted its operations to the targeting of military installations inside Tripoli. If the warrant is issued then NATO may decide to target Gadhafi personally.\n\nICC prosecutor is seeking for warrant of arrest against Gadhafi his son and the chief of security intelligence in that country for what they he described as crime against humanity against the people of Libya committed by the three men. Issuing the attack will arm NATO with the authority they have been looking for to commence infrastuructural targets in that country.\n\nThe warrant when issued would definitely not make great impact among the citizens of Tripoli but it will change the face of the war especially as regards to NATO attacks because Gadhafi could become the direct targets. The warrant of arrests would further isolate Gadhafi from the rest of the world.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5189183950424194}
+{"content": "Hodgson Era: Steven Gerrard\n\nHodgson Era: Steven Gerrard\n\nEveryone knows Steven Gerrard. Regardless of what corner of the world you are in, he is up there with the World-Class players of today. In terms of whoever he plays for, be it England or Liverpool, there are always debating points about him. First one is the age old ‘Golden Generation’ question of Can Lampard and Steven Gerrard play together? The other is one I will try and highlight is what role suits Steven Gerrard best?\n\nIs it defensive general who breaks up an attack and starts an attacking move?  Or is it Roy of Rovers, basically doing everything and pulling the team up by the bootstrings, taking the corner and having the desire to head it in? Well looking into some statistics under Hodgson tenure, he was employed as both at some point. But statistically you can have an argument for either.\n\nMidfield General\n\nStevie has never been shy in putting in a tackle here and there, but it’s not all about a strong 50/50. Great players make it an art. One of the best I have seen is Makélelé. In fact if you Google his name, the second result is ‘Makélelé Role’.  When Stevie was employed in this role, he shows a tendency to cover the right hand side as well. This could be the fact that both Glen Johnson and Dirk Kuyt are playing on the same side so Stevie was providing this cover. Was this intentional? Without asking players or coaching staff, it’s guess work but indicates yes to me.\n\nHis passing also improves in this role constantly hitting 80% and above. This was due to the increased amount of percentage balls, i.e. playing an easy 5-10 yard pass than a more challenging 20-30 killer pass. The only time he has played this role and not hit this number is Manchester City (Possibly influence to the change of tactics because the Mascherano incidents?). You will also notice that he deployed here during the stronger sides (Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea etc), but as it came toward the end of Roy’s tenure, Steven Gerrard was fulfilling this role more often than not.\n\nSupport Forward\n\nThis is the flip side of the coin. Here he can express himself with his accurate shooting, precision killer passes and powerful runs. Something Rafa exploited in our quest for the title back in 2008/09. Everytime he was unleashed there was always a positive result. The team didn’t lose when playing like this (West Brom (H); Birmingham (A); Blackburn (H) & Bolton (A)) although; interestingly he never scored in these games and gained only 1 assist. The team performed well and gained results prompting the argument that Stevie is more beneficial up there and back here!\n\nStevie’s personal stats actually look worse, and the ratios are not as high when he is playing this role. The reason for that, is the opposite reason why he has a higher percentage of passing when being the midfield general. The killer pass. These passes are always more risky and have a lower completion percent by default. But with Stevie’s direct type of play, it will bring other players into the game such as the wider midfielders and forwards.\n\n\nPositionally, he was only allowed to play this position when he had cover. Roy had to have two defensive midfielders. Stevie was normally one of these. Personally, I think Mascherano affected the season plans as Roy had to make provisions for a suburb midfield general. Poulsen and Merieles were brought in to fill the void to allow either Steven Gerrard or Cole to create chances. Unfortunately for Roy, Poulsen didn’t live to expectations and Merieles isn’t that player (as we are seen under Kenny). So Roy had deployed Stevie as a defensive midfielder. Unfortunately, in my opinion and interpretation of the statistics and performance I have witness this year, it has been to our detriment. Stevie’s talismanic nature is more a beneficial thing for the team, than himself. He is needs to be allowed to dictate the game and provide the guile and creativity to the side. But this comes from his powerful runs from deep towards goal, willingness to run through brick walls and provide the infectious desire and this difficult to do from within your own half and play with lot of self discipline.\n\nWant to be able to comment on the content? Click here to subscribe now for as little as £2.50 per month! If you subscribe before 1st April 2011, we’ll upgrade you to one level of subscription higher! Find out which other features you’ll have access to: Why Join Us?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5267888307571411}
+{"content": "\n\nRe: [pygame] 8bit surfaces and palettes\n\n> 2) i use 8bit bitmaps. i would like to replace a specific color with a given\n> color value (to recolor the dress of a player - just direct color/color\n> replacement). what possibilities do i have to do that? manipulating the\n> palette of a surface (after convert())? directly manipulating the bitmap\n> after loading? using surfarray? i would appreciate any suggestions.\n\nyou may want to peek at my little palette shifting example in the\npygame code repository http://www.pygame.org/pcr/submissions/04192001a.html\n\nhere's a quick overview of how SDL (and hence, pygame) handle 8bit\nsurfaces. first, each 8bit image obviously has its own palette.\nyou can access the palette as a list of 3 element lists in python.\nthis makes it fairly easy to work with.\n(and easy to convert to a Numeric array if you desire)\n\nwhen blitting a non-8bit image to an 8bit image, or blitting an\n8bit image to non-8bit image, SDL will correctly map the image\npalette between the two images.\n\nwhen blitting an 8bit image to an 8bit image, SDL will not use\nthe palette at all, only copy the color index values from one\nimage to the other.\n\nwhen converting an image to match the display format, the new\nsurface will have a duplicate version of the same palette and its\ncolors will be remapped to match the display palette. (this happens\nfor 8bit and non-8bit surfaces)\n\nwhen creating an 8bit display surface, you almost always want to\npass the HWPALETTE flag in the display flags. without the HWPALETTE\nyour display won't get the full 256 palette entires, and instead\nhave to share the palette with other running applications.\n(that is only for windows, nonfullscreen displays, i believe)\n\nwhen you have your 8bit display surface, there are always 2 separate\npalettes. mainly these two palettes remain exactly the same. One\npalette is the \"logical\" palette, and this is the palette SDL uses\nwhen blitting and mapping images to the display colormap. The other\npalette is the \"physical\" palette. this is the actualy palette SDL\nuses to display the surface on the monitor.\n\nin pygame, setting the display surface palette (Surface.set_palette)\nsets both the logical and physical palettes to the same thing.\nnew in pygame-1.1 you can call pygame.display.set_palette(), which\nwill only change the physical (display) palette, and not the one used\nfor blitting.\n\nthere's a lot of things to know about 8bit surfaces. i never found a\nsingle place that explained it all for SDL, i just kind of learned these\n\"rules\" as i went along.\n\nusing the surfarray module you can quickly interact with your image\nas a raw set of 8bit integers. for example, if you have an 8bit image\nin your game, you can create a Numeric array that directly references\nthe pixel data of the surface.\n\ni think in a standard 8bit game, you have all your image data already\nset to a 'universal' palette. then any effects you do are done by just\nchanging the palette for the display. this is the way SDL is set up to\ndo its blitting, so i'd recommend this approach.\n\nanother thing to remember is you can perform some palette shifting\ntricks on an offscreen 8bit surface, then blit them to a 32bit\ndisplay surface and see the effects.\n\npygame mailing list", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9833685159683228}
+{"content": "How do you make a professional sounding mix?\n\nWhen you listen to a beautiful sounding song on the radio, the one thing that would come to a person who is interested in audio is that “how did they make a mix sound so perfect”.\n\nIt’s always been a mystery for people to understand how mixing is done in a step by step process.\n\nIf you take a song that you don’t like and compare it with a song that you do like, you can come to very deep levels of understanding of how your ears judge music.\n\nFor an ordinary person, a professional sounding mix will sound like any other song. They won’t be able to say this is a well-mixed song or not.\n\nOnly an audio engineer will be able to say that because of the hours of work they put into learning mixing and putting it into practice.\n\nThis is why every artist has a dedicated mixing engineer in place and they hold on to them till the end of their career.\n\nSteps required for a professional-sounding mix,\n\n·        Sound selection\n\n·        Chords and soundscape\n\n·        Arrangement \n\n·        Mixing \n\n·        Export\n\nSound selection is important to get a good mix for equalization.\n\nChords and soundscape are also needed to be addressed as they help in harmonizing the song properly.\n\nThe arrangement helps in making the mixing process simple.\n\nMixing plays a huge role in making the song sound good.\n\nIf exported properly the song or mix can be mastered to be released as a commercial song.\n\nUnderstanding mixing is one thing and at the same time, having the ability to mix a song so that it sounds good is a new world. This is why mixing engineers are paid huge sums of money from artists.\n\nIn this article, I will walk you through the process of how mixing engineers get a good sounding mix in a studio. Let’s get started shall we?\n\nSound selection\n\nMost people ignore this step when they start to talk about getting a good sounding mix. The sounds that are selected in the song contribute to how they get together in making the song sound amazing.\n\nWhen selecting sounds you should have a basic idea of how they are going to sit in the mix as well. Having this bird’s eye view while selecting sounds will ensure that you are on the right track to getting a great sounding mix.\n\nSome steps can be taken to make sure that you are staying on the lane to use the best sounds.\n\n·        Emphasize drums\n\nEven before instruments were born the first basic element of music is a beat. The rhythm came first before the harmony. That’s why you will see people moving to the rhythm as soon as the beat comes on.\n\nThe essential part of a rhythm is the drums.\n\nEach drum section has a lot of sounds that are involved. A simple drum beat has a kick, high hat, closed and open high hat, low tom, mid tom, and high tom.\n\nIf you don’t put more emphasis on the drums even if the harmonies are better, the song won’t carry energy at all.\n\nDrums hold all the energy in a song. If the kick isn’t hitting properly then your mix won’t sound right at all.\n\n·        Don’t use repurposed samples \n\nSamples are an integral part of putting together an audio track. The biggest mistake that might keep you away from getting a good mix is the fact that you are using repurposed samples from compressed and used mixes.\n\nYou should always look for samples that are new and dynamic.\n\nSamples from old drum machines and instruments are sometimes too crushed and won’t give you a bigger sound like how you would expect it to help you. This would deteriorate the quality of the mix big time.\n\nSamples that are crisp without any compression and have the natural reverb are the best ones to use for a great sounding mix.\n\n·        Make your bass hit harder \n\nThe next very important aspect of a song is the bass after drums. If the bass sample that is selected is not clean and has a fuzzy sound, then the whole mix would get affected by it.\n\nThis would make the mix sound muddy without clarity. A bass sound should have a good 150 – 200Hz frequency range which isn’t muddy at all.\n\nYou can follow certain principles to make your bass hit harder as well. One of these methods includes adding a side chain to kick.\n\nThis would give a thumping effect when used extensively. A nominal amount will give a great sounding bass.\n\nThis bass sound after side chain can be further enhanced by adding a saturation plugin over the top of that.\n\n·        Use high-quality sample libraries\n\nAfter sample selection, it’s time for sample libraries. You will use a lot of libraries to use orchestral and complex sounds. Opting for low-quality sample libraries would result in mixes that are thin and not broad.\n\nTo get a great sounding mix, we are going for a broad spectrum of sounds that fills the sonic space of a song. This gets the listener hooked on it for a long period. This even makes them listen to the song again and again.\n\nHigh-quality sample libraries can sometimes even take an average sound to a different level. Yes, a small sample swap can do magic to your mixes.\n\nChords and soundscape\n\nif sounds makes up one half of the portion in making a song sound better, then the other half would have proper music theory backing it up. Without proper music theory, even well organized and selected sounds would sound like garbage.\n\nYou have to have well-written music to mix and take it to the next level. Learning music theory will be a hard task to do if you are starting from scratch but it would be a walk in the park nowadays because of the number of resources available to give you a crash course on music theory.\n\nLet’s look at a few things to make sure they are right before starting to write music.\n\n·        Use complimentary chords\n\n Chords are a fundamental part of a song. If you want to have a great sounding mix, you should have great sounding chord patterns as well.\n\nThere are already varieties of chord patterns that you can use, that are readily available for you to download. Starting somewhere you are comfortable within music theory would make you not write rubbish music.\n\nYou will have more control over the chords and get a great sounding mix in the end. You don’t have to write 8 complex chords at all. You have to write 4 easy complementary chords that sound good together and will fit well together.\n\n·        Sound Design with the end in mind\n\nIf finding the chords is done, the next part would be to put the sounds together with the help of various sound design tools. The biggest mistake people make here is that they don’t consider the fact that they already have good chords and sounds.\n\nThey try to complicate things by doing too much sound design after sound selection. Excessive Manipulation of sounds too much will cause chaos in the mix. This will even further add muddiness.\n\nOne possible outcome of too much sound design is that the actual sounds, in the end, will not get together to mix properly.\n\nHaving an idea about who your mix and sound design should be in the end will help a bunch in making a great sounding mix.\n\n·        Keep the chords simple\n\nYes, the 7ths chords and complex 11th chords sound better. You don’t have to make the chords that are that much complicated to get better sounding mixes at all. The problem that occurs while going with a complex chord is the fact that it restricts your capability to explore different possible variations that might be easily available when using simple cards.\n\nYou are bound to end up creating problems in the harmony of the song. This is one of the reasons that all the modern songs all have only 4 simple chords that are repeated over and over again. This ensures that the mix is simple and clean.\n\n\nArrangement of a song is so much more important when it comes to getting a professionally sounding mix.\n\nIt takes so much effort to arrange a song sometimes and people forget that they have to optimize their arrangement for mixing as well. To get a great sounding mix, it has to be optimized as well.\n\nGreat arrangements will give the mix more depth and clarity. It extenuates each element of the arrangement by giving priority to each section of a song. This makes sure that the listeners can hear and enjoy every single element in a song.\n\nLet’s look at some tricks to make sure we get a good arrangement for a great mix.\n\n·        Have an interesting start\n\nHaving an interesting start to a song changes the dynamics of how people perceive the song. When you look at how people are listening nowadays.\n\nThey only listen for a maximum of about 7 -9 secs before pressing the skip button. Catching their attention before they press the skip button with an interesting start makes the song have an outstanding mix.\n\nOne such technique is to start with a narrow sound that seems like mono and then expands to the fuller sound which is in stereo. Many songs nowadays try to use these clear mix techniques to grab the audience’s attention.\n\n·        Don’t repeat the same loops\n\nUnless it is hip-hop or a trap mix, never repeat the same loop throughout the trap, this makes the mix sound loopy and blunt. No matter what you have in the mix, you would always end up with a mediocre song.\n\nEven with a trap mix, allowing certain loops to fade out and fade in throughout the mix would make a significant difference in the way the mix sounds as well.\n\nLoops are a blessing to the mix and at the same time, they can be a literal horror story to the mix by ruining the flow of the song.\n\nWhen you are using a loop always make sure it’s not repeating more than 9 seconds continuously.\n\n·        Always add and subtract\n\nIf a mix is simple, even with fewer effects it would sound amazing. This is one amazing solution that is being used by countless mixing engineers.\n\nThey manipulate the arrangement by adding and subtracting the number of elements that are currently present in a mix and by reducing them it gives a lot of space for other elements of an arrangement to shine through.\n\nYou will be amazed at how much difference this can make to a mix. Sometimes a small number of elements can make a mix sound big and professional when compared to 100 track big mixes.\n\nBringing in and out an arrangement is crucial to keeping the flow going as well.\n\n·        Add drops and raises\n\nDrops are nothing but places where you hear all the elements of the song and it will sound huge when compared to all other sections of a song. The raises are nothing but 7 secs before a drop.\n\nThese raises involve noises and slowly increasing pitched synth sounds which build pressure in the song and releases with a sub drop and starts with a drop.\n\nThe significance of adding a drop and raise makes the song sound full. The contrast between a fully crowded region in a mix and a less crowded region in a mix diversifies the sweetness of the song and takes it to another level.\n\n\nMixing is a complex process when it comes to making music and publishing it commercially to the public. You have to have a killer mix to stand out from the crowd for your music to tell a story.\n\nAs we discussed above, having a good sound selection and arrangement are only a part of getting the bigger professional sound.\n\nThe most important section is how we process the arrangements with the properly crafted and selected sounds; this impacts the overall result that we will get at the end of the mix while exporting.\n\nLet’s look at the mixing strategy step by step shall we,\n\n·        Select a reference track\n\nWhen you are spending too much time mixing a track, this can be in a headset or a studio monitor. Our ears will start to tire out and the ability to judge the mix will soon start to dwindle.\n\nThis can be overcome by using a reference mix that you hear and compare to your actual mix. This is an awesome technique to always ensure your mixes are kept in check while starting the mixing session.\n\nChoosing a reference track might be hard at first. But once you have an idea of what is a good mix. You can easily choose a proper sounding mix and use it as a gauge to analyse how your mixes are sounding.\n\n·        Do proper gain staging\n\nGain staging or levelling is a process in which the different elements in a song are made to be in a proper volume level. If all the elements of a song are in different volume levels then the song wouldn’t sound great at all.\n\nThis is something that you have to consider while doing the mixing. Always make sure all your elements in the mix are under -12db and that throughout the mixing process they are kept under -6db.\n\nThe process of gain staging will allow the mastering engineer to have enough space to execute his mastering techniques, to get to the optimum level of the peak volume desired for a good listening experience.\n\n·        Take care of Bus routing\n\nBus routing is an under-rated step in the mixing process. If you are not familiar with it, it’s the process by which certain main elements or instruments in a song are passed through another track to effectively be a source to add effects and manipulations to it.\n\nBus routings can be an easy way to completely mix a song without being worried about how you are going to mix a 100 track song. You can route all similar elements into 7 busses and manage them very efficiently.\n\nThis is a game-changing feature for simplifying the number of tracks in a project to mix them thoroughly.\n\n·        Compress tracks in stages\n\nWhen you have a large track with 100 elements in it, it’s really hard to even start to compress every element. This is where we can use step by step compression and hone in on specific elements of a mix.\n\nCompression is nothing but the reduction of dynamics in an element or instrument of a song by lowering the gap between the peak volume and the lowest volume.\n\nCompression usually makes the song to sound flat. When it’s overdone this can easily ruin a complete song.\n\nOn a given level, it optimizes the elements to stick together in a song.\n\n·        Filter un-necessary frequencies\n\nEqualizing is a process by which un-necessary frequencies can be removed from the frequency spectrum of an instrument that has been recorded. This can add space for an instrument and create pockets of space for new instruments to come as well.\n\nThis process of filtering unwanted frequencies will help in the clash between the instruments to settle down.\n\nThis extenuates the instruments to shine through in the mix. The low cut and high cut are usually being used in the normal mixing process.\n\nResonant frequencies are also being removed throughout the song to make it sound bigger and better in the mix.\n\n·        Add effects for saturation\n\nSaturation is one of those techniques which doesn’t make much difference to what It does to the track but creates a significant boost in how the track is being perceived by people.\n\nThis is because adding saturation creates richness in the mix and makes it pop throughout all the elements.\n\nSaturation increases the harmonics in a song. This makes the irregular harmonics to shine through.\n\nYou will get interesting sound shapes when using a saturation effect in the audio production software.\n\nThis makes it pretty easy to overcome harmonics issues as well.\n\n·        Check your low end \n\nEveryone will concentrate on the high end and the mid-range of a song or a track to get a good mix but they will completely ignore the low end to a great extent.\n\nThis is one of the most common mistakes beginners make in mixing as well. The low end adds power to the mix and makes the song have a soul. Without the soul of the song, you cannot add emotion to it.\n\nIf you don’t clean the frequencies in the low end, it will cause rumble when played in any speakers. This is why a 30HZ low cut is used to take out the entire inaudible rumble from a mix.\n\n·        Proper parallel compression\n\nThis is one of the alternative methods used along with the saturation plugin to add creative effects and thickness to the mix.\n\nSaturation adds harmonics, while parallel compression adds a lot of thickness to the mix to make it sound better. This can be done by using return tracks in audio production software.\n\nAll the elements of a project are run through a return bus tracks and completely compressed parallel to create a thick layer of the song adding punch along with the harmonics from the saturation.\n\n·        Reverb and delays\n\nOnce upon a time, audio platforms used to be in a complete mono format. Now everything has shifted and things are in right and left stereo format. Even with headsets you can listen to the right and left side of a mix.\n\nThe reverbs and delays are used to add dimension to a song along with panning.\n\nThe reverb creates a space around the elements based on which material or room it bounces off. This adds character to the elements in a mix.\n\nThere are different types of reverbs such as hall reverbs, room reverbs and plate reverbs are used across songs.\n\nThe delays rule the vocals in a mix to make it sound amazing. Without delays nowadays it’s hard to find vocals. Carious delays such as Ping-Pong delays are used to add dimension to the mix.\n\n\nEven if all the above steps are done right, if the export is messed up things will make a big U-turn. When you are exporting a mixed song you have to make sure that the song is completely under the level of -6db.\n\nThis makes sure that the mastering engineer who is going to work on this track or mix will get enough space to work on it.\n\nNormally exporting all the main tracks into one and all the return tracks into one are followed before sending it for mastering.\n\nIf you are going to master yourself, you can take a complete export along with all the return tracks and use it.\n\nHow do I make my song more professional?\n\nMaking a song sound professional is not as simple as it sounds. It requires several hours put in to crafting every sonic element of the song. Mixing and mastering play a major role in making a song sound professional.\n\nWhy do my mixes not sound professional?\n\nMaking a mix sound professional takes a lot of practice and ear training. It’s hard for anyone to start professionally mixing music. Understanding the process of mixing is one-half and training your ears to find the issues is another half of the process.\n\nHow do you make a big sound mix?\n\nBig sounding mixes have amazing special effects that make things sound big. This is usually due to reverb and delays that are run parallel over the actual live sound.\n\nBig sounding mixes are popular in various genres of music like pop and electronic dance music.\n\nWhat makes a great mix?\n\nA great mix is completely balanced in terms of how the frequency of all the instruments in the mix is spread out. It’s pleasant to listen to and doesn’t cause irritation or discomfort. Great mixes sound well in all media players and speakers.\n\n\nSometimes even following a procedure is enough to get a decent mix. If you are mixing for the first time, don’t sweat it too much. It takes years of experience to do it with confidence.\n\nUntil then, it’s a game of figuring out how mixing works in different types and genres of music.\n\nYou might also find out that you can skip some steps that we followed in this article and invent your methods to make music.\n\nThere are countless ways you can creatively mix your tracks to achieve the desired sound that you want. In case of mixing you should never be afraid to fail.\n\nYou can follow the steps provided in the article to create a simple mind map for your future mixes and get great results as well.\n\nRecent Posts", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7173314094543457}
+{"content": "The Root of Passive Aggressive Behavior\n\nPassive aggressive behavior is a sure sign that you are losing contact with your higher power.\n\n\nImage Courtesy Pixabay\n\nHigher power, to some, may be better defined as personal power, depending on differing beliefs. To me, my higher power is synonymous with my ability to remember that not trying to control things, in the name of my own personal gain, is the best decision and reaps the most rewards.\n\nIn a lot of ways, being a recovering alcoholic has made me a better parent. I look at my four kids and they remind me of a bunch of mini alcoholics; they’re selfish, it’s always someone else’s fault, and they are always thinking about how to get what they want next.\n\nAny time the smallest irritation starts to tingle your Medulla, you can be sure that there is something that you are wanting next that is in immediate danger of being messed with.\n\nI will be the first to admit that Jim Carey is a nut, but at one point in his spiritual searching, very early on, he had a goal of obviating his every need. He figured if he could get rid of all of his needs then he would be constantly peaceful and never disappointed. But, did he find that was true?\n\nThe human experience is a big need machine. It needs Needs. It needs food, water, and air. If it didn’t need those things, then it would cease to function, become stagnant, and rot away — never again reproducing and exchanging its cells.\n\nIt is healthy for the soul to need something too. And, just because the body or soul needs something, doesn’t necessarily mean that giving it what it asks for, all the time, is good for it. In fact- to discipline the body, is to feed the spirit. It is actually physically beneficial to limit your body’s needs, both observably and scientifically.\n\nResearch suggests that the less oxygen (a free radical) your body uses, the stronger, longer, and healthier its cells will withstand deterioration. So people who learn to breath deep and slow or to eat moderately, are, in fact, more efficient machines and thus healthier, stronger, and possess greater longevity.\nNow, back to the soul’s benefits. The soul should have a need as well, and we should learn to efficiently give it what it needs, too. What does it need?\n\nClarity and faith. The only way to provide that to it is through the use of the mind. Disciplining the mind, like disciplining the body, is hard work. But boy does it pay off!\n\nWhat is the payoff? Peace, happiness, and success.\n\nSlow-deep breathing exercises and a healthy bird-like diet are easy regimens to understand and incorporate when it comes to the body, but what do we do for the soul?\n\nGive your mind the space it needs to be worry free and it will do the rest. For a lot of people, this might mean changing bad habits or admitting problems with addictions or alcohol. Anything that can make you feel guilty needs to go. It is basic adulthood we’re talking here.\n\nAccountability. Personal accountability is exactly what is defined by its name; personal and therefore different for every individual.\n\nDoes everyone feel guilty about being 10 pounds overweight? Of course not.\n\nFor some, a little meat on their bones is a preference, and in their eyes, healthier feeling and more attractive. For others, it feels more sluggish, or looks less attractive. These are personal preferences, perhaps established early on in life, and unshakable in their adulthood.\n\nIt is for that reason that individuals will have differing ideas of what guilty should feel like.\n\nTo some, racism is not something they feel guilty about feeling. This is an extreme example, but nevertheless, it is true for some, still to this day. Does it mean that it is not wrong in a modern worldly sense? Again, the answer is obvious, no.\n\nBut for that individual, the opinion of racism may not be something that is keeping their spirit free to experience guilt-free-living. Now, if they later are exposed to modern thought practices and communities, it may begin to weigh on them, and at that time they may need to consciously take a self-inventory to prune away some guilty practices and make room for more freedom.\n\nTaking a personal moral inventory is an important step in keeping lines open to your personal power through your creator or belief.\n\nRegardless of what we think, the subconscious punishes us through limiting reward based on our ability to adhere to our self-established guidelines of good and wrong doing.\n\nIn an experiment, a scientist labeled thirty rat-cages with stickers that stated that half of them were ‘dumb’ rats and the other half were ‘smart’ rats. He then gave the rats to thirty different people and instructed them to put their rat through a maze scenario (timing each rat for performance). The results were exactly as you would think, and as they thought as well.\n\nThe dumb rats performed twice as badly as the smart rats.\n\nWhy? Because, the experiment holders thought they would! Simply because of a label on a cage and the preconceived judgement the Experimenters had of the rats, the outcome was skewed.\n\nIt has been argued that everything from mental energy to physical nuances in the way the rats were treated were to blame. For instance, the experimenters may have handled the ‘dumb rats’ more roughly than the experimenters who handled the ‘smart rats’, simply due to the fact of the value they placed on the rats before the experiment — and rough handling has been known to decrease a rat’s performance.\n\nBut, even if that was the case, you can see that our judgement of even another entity has subconscious results that cause adverse effect, and limit rewards. To the self, it is the same.\n\nOnce an adult understands the repercussion of such self-judgement, they can begin to shear away behaviors that may be limiting their success. In fact, it is in ‘good’ behavior that success comes.\n\nThe better we see ourselves being, the more rewards we allow ourselves to achieve.\n\nFailing to comply to our own personal standards is the greatest obstacle in our lives and in the lives of those we love. This is why, the first thing taught in kids Karate classes (which teach kids how to defend themselves) is self-discipline.\n\nWhen we are young, the lesson is taken as ‘not using our skills on the weak’. But in more ancient forms of martial arts like Ninjutsu, self-discipline is more deeply studied for its effects on the outcome of confrontation. It is known that ‘recognized good self behavior’ earns one the intrinsic right to be the victor of a dangerous confrontation against one whose actions are selfish or brute (wrong doing). Classic good conquering evil.\n\nWhen someone gets into a physical confrontation with another human being, their ability to act violently, if necessary, will be limited if they believe they may be in the wrong. Some of the most dangerous martial artists I have met are also the nicest people I have ever come across. But cross them and they most possibly will break your spine.\n\nRead more about passive aggressive behavior and ridding adulthood of boredom, addiction, and solitude in Jay M. Horne’s book:\nThe Only Thing I Like About Living\n\nLike us on Facebook for updates on philosophy\n\nListen to all of his works in progress for FREE at\nWhere Book Clubs Grow.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8031826019287109}
+{"content": "Public Safety Administration Issue- Recommendations\n\nPublic Safety Administration Issue- Recommendations\nNumber of sources: 3\nPaper instructions:\n-The third assignment is to present solutions to the issue (How illegal immigration effects public safety administration), which may include a series of recommendations and implementation steps.\nDevelop recommendations to address the issue with consideration of resources and of systems theory. These recommendations, implementation steps, and what follow-up will be necessary should run 4 pages.\n-As part of this final paper, develop an abstract and an introduction and conclusion that cover all three papers- 2 pages\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5620977878570557}
+{"content": "Overwhelmed by the Complexity of ? This May Help\n\nWhat You Need to Know about Hiring a personal injury claim lawyer\n\nIt is always good to ensure that you’re going to be very careful especially about getting the necessary help especially with cases involving personal injury. The seriousness of these kinds of cases is always very high, very many people die every year from different types of accidents. Car accidents for example are usually happen in huge numbers. This is the major reason why they are usually has to be a very good understanding especially of what is supposed to be done. The one thing that you can be very sure of is that you have to be careful about the handling of the case, many of these accidents happen due to negligence. There is a lot of help that you will need get if you have been involved in an accident. The major reason is because people usually suffer from emotional and also physical trauma. You can actually be able to benefit a lot when you look for the services that are provided by lawyers, they are always very important people. It is however very important for you to realize that you also need to know when you should be hiring the personal lawyer.\n\nThere are a lot of people who do not get the compensation because they are not careful about the guidelines that are supposed to be followed. The most important thing is to realize that financial compensation is only going to be gotten if you push for it. The right lawyer will be able to help you. Immediately after receiving medical treatment, you have to look for the services of a lawyer, the earlier the better. There are many situations where these lawyers will be very important, you need to know them. Helping you to deal with medical malpractice is one of the most important things. If you have suffered from slip and fall accidents, they will also be the most important people to help you out. You’ll also have to look for the lawyers because they will help you with other types of workplace accidents, product defects and liabilities, dog bites and even assault issues.\n\nIs also a good idea to ensure that you are going to work with the most experienced lawyer possible. There are some legal processes that you will have to go through and they will be ready to guide you. They will also be interested in building of the case so that it can be very wrong because this is what is going to allow you to get high levels of compensation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8247457146644592}
+{"content": "In France, the car fleet is approaching 38.5 million, but how many motorists are well settled at their driving positions?\n\nFor daily trips or when going on vacation, your back can be severely tested if the posture is not ideal … A good position allows you to drive in a relaxed but efficient way, to be comfortable behind the wheel, it is to avoid excessive fatigue.\n\nFirst step: the distance between the seat and the pedals\n\nIf you can fully disengage without your left leg fully extended, then the distance is good. If your legs are stretched, you are too far away (watch out for knee blockage!). If they make an angle of less than 90°, you are too close. A position of the seat too far away does not allow to engage with the whole foot but only with the ball of the foot, which is more difficult!\n\nSecond step: the height and the inclination of the seat\n\nEven if in theory the seat back should be as parallel as possible to the steering wheel, it is neither possible nor desirable. The seat tilt must be between 95° and 110°. If the seat is too vertical, the whole body weight is carried by the bottom of the spine, in the long run it will become painful.\n\nTo obtain the correct seat height, you must be able to place your wrists on the top of the steering wheel while having your shoulders glued to the backrest. Your arms will be extended but without making the slightest effort! The goal is to see well in front of you the dashboard while having a good grip on the steering wheel and the possibility of properly pressing the pedals.\n\nThird step: the height and depth of the steering wheel\n\nThe height of the steering wheel should make it possible to see the throush the dashboard and to be able to grasp it correctly by having your hands (either at 9:15 am or 10:10 am) slightly below the shoulders.\n\nIf the steering wheel depth can be changed, adjust it so that the articulation of your elbows forms an angle of about 120 °. Note that a minimum distance of 30 cm and a maximum distance of 45 cm is required between the center of the steering wheel and the base of your sternum.\n\nFourth step: the headrest\n\nThe distance between the head and the headrest should be minimal, no more than 2-3 cm wide! If the headrest is too much, in the event of an accident, you risk the famous whiplash. The top of the headrest should be at the top of your head.\n\nYou are finally ready to travel the roads but do not forget to stop anyway every 2 hours!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9929515719413757}
+{"content": "Hypertension and nephrology\n\n[Primary aldosteronism, the mysterious object of desire – in the context of a study]\n\nBAJNOK László1\n\nAPRIL 29, 2021\n\nHypertension and nephrology - 2021;25(2)\n\nDOI: https://doi.org/10.33668/hn.25.008\n\n[The aldosterone-producing adenoma, aldosteronoma, the actual Conn syndrome, is a relatively well-defined entity, while the separability of idiopathic hyperaldosteronism and low-renin primary hypertension appears to be inherently uncertain according to our current knowledge. In this way, the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA) is in fact more or less probabilistic and this also contributes fundamentally to the uncertainty of prevalence data. These are confirmed by a recent study in which PA was evaluated in the form of 24- hour urinary aldosterone excretion measured with oral salt loading instead of the standard technique. The paper has contributed to the change of paradigm by which the chair of the most widely accepted PA guideline, renewed in 2016, called to be jettisoned much of it.]\n\n\n  1. Pécsi Tudományegyetem, I. Sz. Belgyógyászati Klinika, Endokrinológiai és Anyagcsere Tanszék, Pécs\n\n\n\nFurther articles in this publication\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[Current evidence on the accuracy and precision of non-invasive cardiac output monitoring]\n\nVÉGH Anna, REUSZ S György\n\n[Purpose of review: Assessing cardiac output (CO) is an important part of monitoring the hemodynamically unstable patients. Different non-invasive CO measurement devices are currently available, that can be useful in various clinical situations. The purpose of this article is to review current literature on commonly employed methods especially regarding their accuracy and precision. Results: Most of the devices, especially the non-invasive ones have the disadvantage of questionable accuracy and precision. Generally speaking, the more a method is based on assumptions and mathematical models, the less precise it will be. There is also significant heterogeneity between individual studies. Clinically it is important to consider the purpose of the measurement before choosing a method. In terms of accuracy the most reliable ones are, the ones that are based on simple physical principles and minimal assumptions, for example transthoracic echocardiography, and thermodilution. Conclusions: To have better comparability between individual studies it would be imperative to have standardized study protocols regarding the number of cardiac cycles assessed, the used method, the clinical environment, the age and clinical condition of the study population.]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[At the doorstep of an attitude change: our novel knowledge on renal fibrosis in chronic kidney disease]\n\n\n[In spite of the diverse etiology, chronic kidney disease is finally leading to end-stage renal disease uniformly by the fibrotic transformation of the kidneys. In recent years – mainly due to experimental data – the explanation of this transformation changed profoundly: it has been revealed, that renal fibrosis is a dynamic, actively ongoing process involving many keyfactors. Influencing these factors, give us hope to prevent the progression of chronic kidney disease. This review summarizes the connection of renal fibrosis and chronic kidney disease, the results of the widely used different methods and the recently discovered mechanisms, which caused paradigm change in this topic]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[When should antihypertensive be taken: in the morning and/or evening? Chronopharmacotherapy of hypertension in practice]\n\n\n[The circadian (24-hour) variability of blood pressure (BP) is influenced by constant and variable (external and internal) factors. With this in mind and by determining the type of hypertension with a 24-hour blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), individual chronopharmacological (chronopharmacotherapy) treatment can be planned. There are significant differences in the chronokinetics of antihypertensive drugs administered at different times. Their therapeutic range and efficacy depend significantly on their circadian timing. Although the most modern antihypertensives have a 24-hour effect, they are not able to lower blood pressure at all times. Morning intake of ACE inhibitors, ARB-s, alpha-blockers mainly affect the afternoon and early evening rise, while evening intake reduces nocturnal and morning rise. Calcium channel blockers, beta-blockers (except carvedilol and labetolol), do not affect the circadian blood pressure profile. Therefore, in nondipper hypertension or in the case of morning rise, the twice daily morning and evening administration is more effective than the single morning administration. (Usually a lower dose is sufficient in the evening.) Adequate control of nocturnal or morning blood pressure elevations can be achieved with medication taken in the evening. According to the relevant studies the conclusion is that there is no convincing evidence that the administration of BP-lowering drugs in the evening provides any significant advantage in terms of quality of BP control, prevention of target organ damage or reduction of cardiovascular events, so evening intake only is not recommended. In particular the administration of antihypertensive drugs at bedtime, especially in the case of elderly patients may cause excessive BP fall at night with increased risk of silent cerebral infarct and the myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary heart disease.]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[Covid-19 and peripheral arterial disease]\n\nFARKAS Katalin\n\n[Patients with peripheral vascular disease (PAD) are negatively affected by the coronavirus epidemic in several ways. Fewer-than-usual doctor-patient encounters make it more difficult to detect disease or disease progression. Outbreaks due to the epidemic reinforce a sedentary lifestyle that can mask the symptoms of PAD through lack of exercise. Another risk is that patients with cardiovascular disease are at risk for severe Covid-19 disease, and have a significantly increased risk of mortality. In the case of home treatment of Covid-19 infection in a patient with PAD, close observation is required to make a timely decision on the need for hospitalization. Vaccination, which is gradually available to all PAD patients, could be the solution to prevent the disease.]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[Case report of supine hypertension and extreme reverse dipping phenomenon decades after kidney transplantation]\n\nBATTA Dóra, KŐRÖSI Zita Beáta, NEMCSIK János\n\n[Supine hypertension, a consequence of autonomic neuropathy, is a rarely recognized pathological condition. Reported diseases in the background are pure autonomic failure, multiple system atrophy, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and different autoimmune disorders. In our case report we present a case of supine hypertension which developed in a patient decades after kidney transplantation. The patient was followed for 25 months and we demonstrate the effect of the modification of antihypertensive medications. At the time of the diagnosis supine hypertension appeared immediately after laying down (office sitting blood pressure (BP): 143/101 mmHg; office supine BP: 171/113 mmHg) and on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) extreme reverse dipping was registered (daytime BP: 130/86 mmHg, nighttime BP: 175/114 mmHg). After the modification of the antihypertensive medications in multiple times, both office supine BP (office sitting BP: 127/92 mmHg; office supine BP: 138/100 mmHg) and on ABPM nighttime BP improved markedly (daytime BP: 135/92 mmHg, nighttime BP: 134/90 mmHg). In conclusions, our case report points out that autonomic neuropathy-caused supine hypertension and extreme reverse dipping can develop in chronic kidney disease, after kidney transplantation. The modification of the antihypertensive medications can slowly restore this pathological condition.]\n\nAll articles in the issue\n\nRelated contents\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[Fenestration of endothelium of juxtaglomerular arteriole]\n\n\n[For the first time, we demonstrated the fenestration in the endothelium of the distal portion of renal afferent arteriole (AA), which is unusual among high pressure vessels. The fenestrae are co-localized with renin producing granular epithelioid cells; this arrangement makes it likely that the relatively large renin molecules may use this path to enter into the plasma. We also demonstrated that the length and area of this fenestrated segment 1) correlates with the activity of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), 2) may change by age, in response to some stimuli such as thirst and in some diseases, 3) allows filtration of fluid prior to the glomerular filtration, which can be as high as about 30% of GFR. This morphology and the high filtration volume in AA is one of the most striking observations of renal microcirculation, and question several basic renal physiological issues.]\n\nLege Artis Medicinae\n\n\nGLÁZ Edit, SZŰCS Nikolett, VARGA Ibolya\n\n[The discovery of aldosterone as the principal mineralocorticoid hormone led to a new era in the study of the regulation and the pathological/clinical relevance of the fluid-salt homeostasis and blood pressure. Here, we discuss briefly the history of the discovery of aldosterone, its biosynthesis, the mechanism of action, regulation and the diseases which are associated with its pathologically increased production and hypertension: primary and secondary hyperaldosteronisms. Considering their clinical significance, we focus on primary hyperaldosteronisms as they represent a considerable portion of secondary hypertensions that can be definitively cured. Differential diagnosis issues related to other forms of hypertension of different origins are discussed in detail. Recent findings of the past fifteen years indicate that besides its classical genomical actions aldosterone has much more diverse non-genomic actions as well including proinflammatory and profibrotic effects even in physiological concentrations. Based on these observations, aldosterone can be regarded as a risk hormone in the aetiology of cardiomyopathies, vasculopathies and neuropathies and therapeutical consequences are also discussed.]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[Direct renin inhibitors]\n\n\n[The mechanisms of action of direct renin inhibitors and the important clinical findings gained by the first, clinically approved drug, aliskiren are discussed. The relative lack of side effects and the very long-lasting antihypertensive action of aliskiren is emphasized. Investigations showing efficacy and protective effects of aliskiren and its combinations with other antihypertensive drugs (diuretics, calcium antagonists, angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers) against hypertension-induced subclinical organ damage as well as still ongoing clinical trials are also described.]\n\nHypertension and nephrology\n\n[How the recognition and treatment of primary aldosteronism could be improved?]\n\n\n[Practically there were no randomized, controlled trials in the area of PA so far, but recently two such ones have appeared. In addition, both are paradigm- forming; yet not built into (yet?) the expert opinions. In the field of primary aldosteronism (PA), there is a sharp contrast between the world’s leading experts in many areas. There is consensus in respect that hypokalaemia, therapy resistance and vascular complications are more common in PA than in primary hypertension. According to prestigious studies, the ratio of surgically correctable cases can be around 5% of hypertension. However, only a tiny fraction of these cases are ever investigated even in the developed countries. Specific treatment might be reached more easily by a multi-speed approach applicable for domestic conditions in which one of the alternatives is the diagnostic process itself. In the latter, following aldosterone criteria are proposed: at screening greater than 15 ng/dl when associated with low renin, in the suppression test, for further testing (adrenal CT) a concentration above 5 ng/dl. This would provide a sufficient balance between sensitivity and specificity. Another solution could be the more widespread use of low dose spironolactone in resistant hypertension.]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9877481460571289}
+{"content": "Deaths due to heart attacks up by 53% in 5 years: NCRB\n\n9 months ago 54\ngoogle news Flipboard\n\nNEW DELHI: The number of people killed in heart attacks has been increasing since 2014, according to the\n\nNational Crime Records Bureau\n\n(NCRB). While in 2014, a total of 18,309 people died due to\n\nheart attack\n\n, the number increased year after year and claimed 28,005 lives in 2019, up by 53% in five years.\nThe data also show there has been a steady increase in such cases across different age groups barring those below 14 years and in the age bracket of 14-18 years. NCRB started providing the age group wise details of such deaths from 2016.\n\nThe comparative analysis of the past four years of NCRB reports show that fatalities due to heart attacks in the age group of 18 to 30 years increased from 1,940 in 2016 to 2,381 during the last year. The trend was similar in the 30-45 age group. While in 2016, a total of 6,646 people died in this age bracket due to heart attacks, this touched 7,752 during 2019. In the 45-60 age group, the fatalities increased from 8,862 in 2016 to 11,042 during last year. In the 60 plus age group, 6,612 people died last year compared to 4,275 in 2016.\nDr Ashok Seth, chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, said the increase in deaths due to heart attacks may be reflective of better data collection. “The incidence of heart attacks has certainly gone up, but so has the infrastructure. Ideally, the number of deaths should go down.”\nDr Viveka Kumar, principal director, cardiac sciences at\n\nMax Hospital\n\n, Delhi, said: “The mortality data from Registrar General of India shows 33% adult Indians died due to heart attacks. The major driver of increased mortality are conditions such as diabetes, smoking, BP and unhealthy lifestyle.”\n\n  1. Homepage\n  2. India", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999421238899231}
+{"content": "Sheriff’s Artificial River\n\n Your paper should have an introduction that does not just get the paper going; it should preview the paper’s major argument and provide a skeleton outline. Getting the intro right is key. Following the intro, your paper should make points methodically, with each paragraph making a clearly discernible point. Your conclusion recaps your argument. Finally, use simple, straightforward language. Simple does not mean simple-minded. It brings clarity and even elegance to your writing. Drawing on material from the entire book, not just a particular chapter, address one of the following: (1) Sheriff argues that the Erie Canal turned out to “evoke feelings of ambivalence” (55) among the canal’s promoters. “Progress” turned out to have up sides and down sides. What aspects of the canal project evoked feelings of ambivalence? What canal developments inspired excitement and pride? Fear and opposition? Why? OR (2) We argue about the government’s proper role in the economy today, whether the subject is international trade agreements or tax incentives for new businesses in Buffalo. What was controversial about the government’s role in the Erie Canal, and how did the different sides line up? What broader views of the role of government in the economy did these views represent?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.974970281124115}
+{"content": "HeForShe. Men raising their voices for change\n\n2014 campaign of the UN. They are encouraging men to: “Record a video of yourself speaking out about women’s equality. Visit heforshe.org, send it to us and we’ll share your message with the world”\n\nI wonder if participating in campaigns like this is only considered to be cool in the US and in Western Europe — I have a hard time imagining that there will be a lot of contributions from Eastern Europe, where the general sentiment is that “women are already equal, what more do they want?!”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9806044697761536}
+{"content": "Why Do People Put Rice In Salt ? We Found Out !\n\nPutting rice in salt shakers is as old as time, and you’ve definitely seen it done in many restaurants. Have you ever wondered why this is ?\n\nWell, we just found out why these two food items are so commonly mixed, and we’re going to tell you too.\n\nsalt rice\n\nWhy do people put rice in salt?\n\nPeople put grains of rice in salt because salt absorbs water vapors from the air, but rice absorbs it much faster. Otherwise salt can clump up and it becomes really difficult to get out of the shaker.\n\nIn short, rice keeps the moisture away from salt by absorbing it.\n\nRaw rice is largely tasteless and flavorless so when you mix raw rice to your salt, it does not alter the taste or flavor of the salt. This is a win-win situation. You can keep your salt safe from moisture, and you can do this in a 100% natural and inexpensive way.\n\nRice does not alter the flavor or taste even slightly. While you can use any kind of rice, long grain rice is more appropriate for this purpose. It tends to sit and arrange itself better in the salt shaker.\n\nHow do restaurants keep their table salt fresh?\n\nAside from using rice in their salt shakers, restaurants also invest a lot in dehumidifiers. Be it an actual machine, or ensuring very good airflow via Ac, or just a ceiling fan.\n\nRestaurants have to invest in this kind of equipment, because the patrons have to feel comfortable. Humidity can ruin more than just salt. It can slowly eat away at the building itself, ruin the food, and the staff uniforms.\n\nAnd most of the time the problem stems from the kitchen. Lots of cooking means lots of steam, so good airflow in the kitchen is crucial.\n\nWhy is clumped salt not okay?\n\nIn any culinary tradition, the importance of salt can never be overstated. No food is good enough if there is not enough salt in it. A bit of salt can bring life to an otherwise bland food.\n\nWhether it’s spicy or sweet, a little bit of salt can enliven any dish. It has the power to convert a dish from simple to extraordinary to transcendent. But if you put even a small bit of salt more than how much is needed, you are going to ruin the dish.\n\nClumped salt is not good for cooking because you may not get the right measurement. You may end up using either more or less than necessary.\n\nIn either case, you will not get the result that you had expected from your dish. That is why it is important to have your salt in its original grainy and flowing condition.\n\nIn this form, it’s easy to measure the salt. And to keep the salt safe from moisture and getting clumped, you should mix a little bit of rice in your salt.\n\nBefore using the salt you can use a sieve to separate the rice and remove it. This way, you can use rice to keep salt in a good condition but avoid them getting into everything that you make with salt.\n\nFinal thoughts\n\nWhile salt is a ubiquitous ingredient that’s used all across the world and in all culinary forms, a major problem with the common salt is that it gets clumpy, sticky, and dissolved, especially in wet and humid climates. Then, using such salt is difficult.\n\nIt is even more problematic to offer salt to your guests in the restaurants which can turn clumpy and sticky within hours even without you realizing it. This happens in all such places where the climate is mostly wet or humid.\n\nIt’s because the principles of hygroscopy are at play. In this, salt, which is a hygroscopic substance, absorbs moisture or hard water molecules from the wet and humid environment.\n\nA common solution used to keep salt fresh and fine is mixing a little amount of rice in the salt. Rice is more hygroscopic and it absorbs moisture more quickly than salt. The result is your salt maintains its texture.\n\nIf you’ve got any other food curiosities be sure to check the related articles below, we’re always adding more food facts to make your life that much easier.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8097438216209412}
+{"content": "Yamaha receiver ignores \"scene\" commands\n\nI have three Yamaha RX-series receivers (RX-V473 and RX-V573), and I control them in Roomie via the “2011+ Models Zone 1” setting.\n\nEach receiver responds to all commands (or all those I’ve assigned) with the exception of the “scene” commands. When those are assigned in Roomie, the receivers simply ignore them. I’m forced, instead, to use the “Input HDMI” commands.\n\nThe same is true, whether used as a start command or whether selecting from the manual remote.\n\nIs there a reason why “scene” commands aren’t responding?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5591266751289368}
+{"content": "How Often Should I Clean My Diffuser?\n\nIs it OK to use a diffuser everyday?\n\nIn fact you shouldn’t really be blasting it for hours straight at all.\n\nHis recommendation is to turn your diffuser on between one and three times a day for up to 30 minutes at the maximum.\n\nAccording to him, overexposure and the act of inhaling essential oils can lead to headaches..\n\nHow do you clean an essential oil diffuser?\n\nFill the diffuser halfway with plain water and a teaspoon of white vinegar. Run it for 5-10 minutes so the vinegar has a chance to disperse through all components of the system, and then empty the reservoir again.\n\nCan diffusers cause mold?\n\nWhy is there now mould in my bedroom? In most cases people who use vaporisers and diffusers are unaware they are creating the perfect environment for mould growth. As the solution is steamed into the air the humidity within the room increases significantly and causes condensation to occur.\n\nHow can I make my diffuser last longer?\n\nKeep them in a draught-free, shady and cool environment, this will help your diffusers last much longer than if you place them on a warm, sunny windowsill.\n\nIs it safe to sleep with a diffuser on?\n\nWhile there are a few safety concerns which we’ll get into below, as long as you’re using a high quality diffuser and high quality essential oils, there’s likely no problem with sleeping with your diffuser on overnight.\n\nHow do you clean a diffuser?\n\nDirections:Fill your diffuser with water and 1 teaspoon of white vinegar.Let your diffuser run for about 10 minutes with the vinegar mixture in it.Dump out the water (carefully, you don’t want to get water in the motor of the diffuser).Use a Q-tip and a paper towel to wipe out the basin of the diffuser.\n\nAre you supposed to clean diffusers?\n\nIdeally, a diffuser should be rinsed clean after every use, especially if you are changing the oil scents. Then, depending on how frequently the diffuser is used, it should be thoroughly cleaned at least monthly to remove dust and build-up that affects how well it works.\n\nCan you put vinegar in diffuser?\n\n\nWhat essential oil cleans the air?\n\nA few of her favorites include Peppermint, Lavender, and Lemon. “These are cleansing oils, and can be diffused in your home to help cleanse the air, and promote clear breathing and healthy respiratory functions,” she explains. Eucalyptus supports the respiratory system, and helps to maintain clear airways.\n\nCan air diffusers make you sick?\n\n\nCan you clean a diffuser with alcohol?\n\nIf your diffuser has a buildup issue, use a cloth saturated in rubbing alcohol and gently rub the interior of the tank. Use a Q-tip or small brush to gently clean the ultrasonic chip or plate. You can also use several drops of lemon essential oil on your cloth to remove stubborn buildup.\n\nHow long should I run my diffuser?\n\nHERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO: diffuse over short periods of time: ideally 10-15 minutes, but maximum 30-60 minutes on and 30-60 minutes off. By giving your nose a break, you give your body a break. And you’re going to enjoy smelling the essential oils more because you’ll be better able to smell them – less olfactive fatigue.\n\nAre diffusers bad for your lungs?\n\n\nWhat happens if you don’t clean your diffuser?\n\nYou could damage your diffuser or minimize the perks of your essential oils if you don’t keep it clean. This story originally appeared on Rodale’s Organic Life in January 2018. Your essential oil diffuser is like your contact lens case or dehumidifier.\n\nDoes diffusing vinegar clean air?\n\nWhite vinegar is acetic acid, and it works to neutralize alkaline odors. To use it as an air freshener, find a misting spray bottle or atomizer. … If it is a little too pungent for you, try diluting the vinegar before spraying it. You can go as low as one tablespoon of vinegar in a cup of water.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9528332948684692}
+{"content": "The problem with schools\n6 min read\n\nThe problem with schools\n\nThe problem with schools\nI have never let my schooling interfere with my education.\n- Mark Twain\n\nSchools suck.\n\nLet me explain by telling you how a typical day in school looks like.\n\n“Let’s now proceed to how this bacterium will look like under a microscope, and try to identify the anatomy”, said my lecturer in a monotone. My lecturer was speaking word by word according to the slides we got before class. Couldn’t I just read the slides instead of listening to a dull voice?\n\nIt’s only been 10 minutes, but I can’t wait for class to be over. Why do I need to learn about this when I’m never going to use it in my career, anyway? The moment my exams are over, I know that this piece of information is obsolete. Academia is rich in complex jargons and knowledge that I’ll never use. I signed up for medical school to be a doctor, but do doctors need to know how to label bacteria? This knowledge could be useful for researchers and microbiologists, but I signed up to treat humans, not germs!\n\nInstead of learning something useful, I wasted my time, learning something for the sake of regurgitating in exams. Not only is the knowledge useless, but the methods of learning are boring too! I don’t blame my peers for Airdropping memes whenever class gets dry.\n\nAnd the best part? The moment I get out of that lecture hall, I’ve forgotten 80% of the lecture's content. They shove facts and concepts down our throats at record time, with no time given to digest the information. How the hell do you turn food into nutrients when we can’t digest it?\n\nAh shit, here we go again—time for me to hit the library and learn it all over again on my own.\n\nThe problems with schools\n\nI’ve been experiencing this for at least 15 years now. I’ve tried everything to make the most of my time in class: I sat in the front seat, I sat behind; I took notes; I asked questions. It did work, but not as well as when I learned on my own. The truth is, school is slow, ineffective, and sucks the joy out of life.\n\nClasses moving online has further proved this notion for me. I studied less as online classes are optional. I skipped everything bar the mandatory ones, spent more time studying on my own, but am doing as well on exams. The best part? I replace the time I would spend in class with reading, writing, and connecting with my friends and family.\n\nStandard teaching methods, such as lectures, are not efficient. According to Edgar Dale and the Cone of Experience, listening to lectures and reading information leads to knowledge retention rates as low as 5%.\n\nMy short-term solution to this problem is to skip classes whenever I can and use that time to study on my own instead. This allows me to learn at my pace and intensity and have the flexibility to study when I am at my best. However, this solution is for me alone. A better approach would be to shake up the system.\n\nThe environment and methods of formal education each limit our potential. If we learn in an environment that works with how our brain learns and not against it, we won’t struggle with resistance.\n\nStudies on successful people have shown that success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance. Instead, success results from environments that avoid resistance in the first place. Losing weight is easier when you don’t have access to junk food. Working out is easier when the gym is right around the corner. Learning is easier when you learn according to how your brain works.\n\nInstead of struggling, successful people deflect resistance, like judo champions. The right mindset is not enough; you need a proper workflow too.\n\nWhat schools should do\n\nRetrieval practice\n\nSchools should apply retrieval practice in classrooms. Retrieval practice is a learning technique where you regularly test yourself while learning. This differs from “passive” learning, where you passively consume information by listening to lectures and re-reading. Reading a text about World War 2 is passive. Answering the question: “What triggered World War 2?” is retrieval practice.\n\nRetrieval practice leverages the testing effect, which states that you remember things better when you retrieve the information from memory. By testing ourselves, we put our brain through the wringer, trying to recall information. We often think that we learn better when we find it easy, but research says otherwise. The more effort you put into learning, the more you remember.\n\nOne way schools can apply this is to prioritise testing when teaching. While schools are already doing this through tests and exams, they are not doing it enough. Most of the time, testing is for grading students instead of teaching them. However, the best way to learn is to test yourself. Testing is learning, as it immediately shows you what you know and what you don’t.\n\nInstead of learning via lectures for one hour, make time for quizzing. As students go through the class, deliberately pause halfway and ask students to recall what they learned. You can use flashcards, mini-quizzes, or simply ask them to jot down the fundamental ideas from memory.\n\nBesides that, materials and resources made by teachers should also have these questions by default so students can assess what they know and what they don’t know. Past exam questions should be accessible for students to practice.\n\nSpaced repetition\n\nSchools can also implement spaced repetition, which is the practice of repeating your reviews of a topic with increasing intervals between each review session. The spacing effect explains this, a phenomenon where we can better recall information and concepts if we learn them in multiple spread-out sessions.\n\nIn 1885, the psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered the Forgetting Curve. According to this curve, your memory decays over time when you don’t review it. When we learn something new, we’ll forget half of it by the next day or week unless we review what we learned.\n\nHowever, it is possible to disrupt this forgetting. All we have to do is repeat our review of the information. Ebbinghaus discovered that with each repetition, the forgetting curve flattens, and the rate of memory loss decreases. Do this enough times, and you can commit anything to memory.\n\nSchools usually teach a topic once, then move on to another topic. To leverage the spacing effect, teach once, review multiple times.\n\nBe direct.\n\n\n\nDirect learning helps with transfer, the phenomenon where you learn something in one context (the classroom) and be able to use it in another context (real life). However, formal education does not facilitate transfer.\n\n\n\n\nSir William Osler once said, “Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and control. But see first.” This quote doesn’t just apply to medicine but to anything that we are learning.\n\nSchools suck. But will it change anytime soon? Until schools start using methods that actually work, I’d say probably not.\n\nP.S. Big thanks to everyone who took their time to read my piece and give some feedback: Pathik Vyas, Gayatri Taley, Amanda Natividad, Kyle Weber, Ivan Gonzalez, Megan Goering Mellin, Beda Binder, Gad Allon, Chris Wong, and Gwyn Wansbrough. Also to the mentors for helping me come up with the idea for the article: Adam Tank, Charlie Bleecker, and Julia Saxena.\n\nP.P.S: This video is exactly how I feel about school\n\nEnjoying these posts? Subscribe for more", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9489494562149048}
+{"content": "Magnetic Community strategies are divided into five categories: business, tourism, resident, retiree, and government. Each category is further subdivided into revenue attraction strategies and revenue retention strategies.\n\nThe Magnetic Community model promotes strategies that complement each other. For example, if a community can use more overnight accommodations to help extend tourist stays, why not encourage local entrepreneurs or retirees to start a bed and breakfast. The community will have a new locally owned business, a stronger tourism program, and an enhanced tax base. Taking this one step further, if the community can recruit a retiree from outside the community to relocate and start a bed and breakfast, the community will also benefit from the relocating retiree’s outside investments, ongoing Social Security checks, and other sources of retirement income.\n\nEconomic development efforts are part of almost every community’s strategy for creating prosperity. Communities endeavor to create new jobs, attract new investments, and improve the area’s overall quality of life by implementing a variety of strategies. Critical to the understanding of how local development efforts impact a community’s prosperity is to understand how individual projects and overall development strategies impact the flow of money as it enters, circulates within, and exits a community. This basic concept is seldom considered when developing strategic plans or when evaluating projects. By keeping money flow considerations in mind, community leaders and economic developers can insure that development efforts actually end up paying dividends.\n\nMany of today’s economic development strategies and programs are based on business recruitment practices that have not changed in the past 50 years. As a result, money and resources are wasted on efforts that do little to create prosperity. In addition, these strategies and programs are almost entirely focused on attracting outside revenue with little regard for retaining revenue once it enters and is circulating in the local economy. From a Magnetic Community perspective, economic development efforts seek to advance local prosperity by both attracting and retaining outside revenue. The overall goal is to create a positive flow of money into the local economy.\n\nIn the past, business location decisions were driven by proximity to markets, access to transportation, affordable labor, etc. Today, many business owners, entrepreneurs and employees are more interested in quality of life, education, housing and sense of community. Amenities such as open space, multiuse trails and recreation are at the top of the priority list. In many cases, jobs follow people, in that young people select a place they want to live , move, find a job and then look for work, start a business or work remotely. Many entrepreneurs look for an ideal community before starting a business, especially those individuals who are able to live and work anywhere there is a connection to the internet. More and more, working age individuals rate community higher than a job.\n\nA strong community development effort that produces great schools for children, cultural and recreational opportunities, a clean safe environment, a variety of shopping and eating opportunities, social services and excellent medical care, appeals to current residents and helps attract new residents. Many bedroom communities within commuting distance of good jobs have prospered by creating environments conducive to the needs of current and potential residents. At the same time, many communities with good paying jobs have been denied the prosperity they seek simply because they do not have the infrastructure and quality of life factors necessary to attract and retain residents. As a result, many traditional employment centers and established residential areas have suffered from an outflow of residents and money to communities with a better quality of life and up-to-date assets.\n\nInsuring that quality of life and ongoing community development factors meet and exceed expectations is a Magnetic Community strategy that applies universally to businesses, residents, tourists, and retirees. A great community makes it easier to recruit and retain quality businesses, skilled workers, professionals, entrepreneurs, retirees, young people, home-based businesses, telecommuters, creative workers, computer programmers, engineering consultants, regional sales reps, etc.\n\nNot all Magnetic Community strategies are going to work for every community. That is why communities must have a strategic economic development plan that outlines their vision for the future. The plan helps community leaders and economic developers prioritize how to best invest their limited time and financial resources. Knowing how much outside revenue is attracted by manufacturing, tourism, retirees, etc., allows economic developers to determine how much emphasis to place on each industry segment. For example, even though the military, tourism and retirees are the top three outside income generators where I live in eastern North Carolina, agriculture, forestry and fishing continue to be substantial contributors to the local economy and cannot be ignored.\n\nA community’s strategic economic development plan provides a comprehensive overview of the local economy, sets priorities for economic growth, and identifies strategies, programs, and projects to improve the local economy. The plan identifies local workforce skills that support both existing and target industries. By coordinating training programs with economic development goals, communities insure that local workers are qualified to fill both existing and future jobs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7570428848266602}
+{"content": "Are Fortune Tellers Real? Discover the Truth About Fortune Telling (No More Stereotypes)\n\nAre fortune tellers accurate, or are they for entertainment purposes only? Why would one want to see a fortune teller, and what sort of information are they able to provide? And what about the fortune telling stereotype? Does it really reflect the true nature of fortune telling… or is it a “bad rap” that’s NOT deserved? In this article we are going to take a quick and easy look at fortune telling, and I’m going to give you some HONEST answers that two decades of psychic research have afforded me as well. Curious to know more? Continue reading as we take a closer look below!\n\nWhat IS a fortune teller anyway?\n\nGood question! Honestly? I see it as a bit of a disparaging and “unenlightened” term. I truly don’t know any genuine psychic, tarot readers, clairvoyant or medium who would appreciate being called a fortune teller, and to me…it denotes a negative impression as well.\n\nThat SAID…\n\nA fortune teller is often a euphemism for slang term for psychic. The origin of the term goes back hundreds of years, and over time, in the modern world, has become a bit associated with circus psychics who use costumes and crystal balls to “divine” your future.\n\nCan a legitimate psychic REALLY predict the future?\n\nAbsolutely. As a matter of fact, some very strong studies suggest that YOU can predict the future, too! (both in your own life…and in areas that have nothing to do with you at all) But, rather than delve into a scientific article on the nature of time and space and it’s relationship to future events, let’s just say that precognition, or the ability to see things that have NOT yet happened is a pretty well established phenomenon.\n\nWhat kind of tools do “fortune tellers” use?\n\nGood question!\nIn case you loved this information and you wish to receive much more information relating to 復縁 カリス generously visit our own website.\nIt really depends a bit on the type of reader, AND whether they are legitimately psychic, or simply playing games or trying to entertain an audience. A good psychic can use anything from a deck of tarot cards, to intricate astrological charts, to reading objects (often called psychometry) to channeling or even communicating with spirit guides. (most often associated with psychic mediumship)\n\nA “fake” fortune teller or entertainment oriented psychic will often use props like a crystal ball, or some other new age type of gimmick that they feel plays into the expectation of the audience. (this is NOT something that’s going to help you see your future, and rather should be looked at as fun and light entertainment only)\n\nCan psychic readings, tarot or astrological insight really change my life for the better?\n\nAbsolutely. And yes, I know that some people have a difficult time believing that, and that’s totally okay. I believe (and know from personal experience) that there is much more to life….than that which meets the eye. I believe that we each have karma, and that there is a very important spiritual component to each of our lives. Tapping into this “power” is often an amazing way to wake up to our personal purpose, and PASSION and live the type of life we were destined or put here to pursue.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9460532665252686}
+{"content": "286,151 Pages\n\nChihaya castle\nMount Kongō, Osaka Prefecture, Japan\nChihaya Castle01.jpg\nType Yamashiro\nCoordinates Latitude:\nBuilt 1332\nBuilt by Kusunoki Masashige\nWood, earthwork\nIn use 1332-1390\nNot extant\nControlled by Kusunoki Masashige (1332-1390)\nGarrison about 2,000\nBattles/wars Siege of Chihaya (1333)\n\nChihaya Castle (千早城 Chihaya-jō?) was a Japanese castle, constructed in 1332 by Kusunoki Masashige. Consisting primarily of wooden and earthworks defenses, Chihaya stands as a keen example of fortress design of Japan's Nanboku-chō period. Located on Mount Kongō in Kawachi Province, it survived siege in 1333, but was later conquered by forces of the Ashikaga shogunate in 1390 and then abandoned.\n\nAlong with Akasaka Castle (赤坂城), another nearby mountain fortress, Chihaya served as the base of operations for Kusunoki, and the core of his defenses, in his campaigns on behalf of Emperor Go-Daigo against the Hōjō clan. Constructed a year after the fall of Akasaka, Chihaya was intentionally designed to be stronger, and when it was attacked the following year, in 1333, Kusunoki successfully resisted the siege. Moveable bridges were among the fortress' chief defensive measures, alongside its wooden walls, earthwork defenses, and strategic location on Mt. Kongō. The fortress was surrounded with felled trees and boulders, which could be rolled down the mountain on an approaching army, and screens of brush were used to help protect from arrows.\n\nFollowing the successful defense in 1333, the fortress saw little action until its fall in 1390. Though it was never formally destroyed in battle, it is unlikely that any significant elements of the fortress survive today.\n\nReferences[edit | edit source]\n\n  • Frederic, Louis (2002). \"Chihaya-jō.\" Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.\n  • Sansom, George (1961). \"A History of Japan: 1334-1615.\" Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp123–4\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9949895739555359}
+{"content": "InjuriesIn a collaborative effort with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we we will be writing all about injuries for the month of November. You can expect a new article on the matter every week.\n\nThis week I would like to explore whether or not you should self-diagnose your injuries, or whether you should go to visit a doctor. The largest determining factor are going to be what resources are available to you, followed by the perceived severity of your injury.\n\nThere are many different resources that you may have available to you that will determine whether going to a doctor is even a viable option. Are there any competent sports physicians in your area, or are you going to have to go to a general practitioner? Do you have insurance, and would your visit be covered by your insurance? Can you afford the visit out of pocket? Do you have any sort of medical staff available in a different setting, such as an athletic trainer? Do you have a coach or experienced teammates that can offer you any advice? In my experience, a doctor that has studied sports medicine or an athletic trainer are both good options when available, but a general practitioner may not know enough to be more helpful than to recommend time off.\n\nMoney may not be very important in the scheme of things when you are trying to decide whether to get an injury looked at, but it can often be the difference between winging it and missing a few months of training or seeing somebody competent and missing only a few weeks. Of course, if there is nobody competent in your area, then you are going to have to spend not only a large amount of money but also a large amount of your time in travelling to somebody that can really help.\n\nOnce you know what resources are available to you, the next most important thing that you need to consider is how severe you perceive your injury to be. Be sure to note that what you perceive and how severe an injury actually is may have little correlation with one another. Experience will be your friend here, and if you have any coaches, teammates, or friends that have more experience than yourself then you would be wise to ask their opinion.\n\nSometimes you can tell that something is very severe, such as when you break a bone and a piece is sticking through your skin. Chances are pretty good that even if you are a physician yourself that you are going to need some competent help. Other times, you can tell that something really is not very serious, such as when you stub your toe and it stops hurting after 10 or 15 minutes. In those cases, you generally will know whether you need to go see a doctor or not.\n\nThe problem with sports injuries, especially non-contact sports such as running or weight lifting, is that you may not even notice the more severe problems while minor problems may seem like they really hurt. For example, an oncoming stress fracture might seem like a minor shin splint, and tendonitis may begin by feeling like a sore joint. If you do not adjust your training appropriately, then you may wind up having to sideline yourself for a season or more. Then again, if you do not properly cool down after a marathon or other really difficult workout then you may find yourself unable to move the next day. Realistically, even though you are in a lot of pain, there is not that much wrong with you and you will be fine within a day or 3.\n\nThe more that you exercise and the more that you compete competitively, the more that you will get to know your body. Once you have had a sports injury or three, you will start to notice a trend when you begin overtraining. If you keep accurate training logs and track your weight or your resting heart rate on a daily basis, then you will often be able to prevent the worst injuries in their early stages just by becoming familiar with your own body and its needs.\n\nAfter considering your resources and trying to figure out how much pain you are in or are likely to be in if a change is not made, should you go to see a doctor or not? In general, I recommend going to the doctor if possible. In my experience, most recreational athletes are not comfortable enough with their bodies and do not have a frame of reference to accurately judge how serious an injury is.\n\nThat being said, I very rarely go to the doctor. Most of the times that I have, I have been disappointed with what they have to say. I have kept pretty accurate training logs for most of my adult life, and have had more than my share of injuries. I also know exactly how much pain I am willing to put up with, and how much training I need to do, in order to attain my goals.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9177040457725525}
+{"content": "Theoretical key\n\na key whose key signature has at least one double-flat or double-sharp\n\nIn music theory, theoretical keys or impossible keys are keys with key signatures that contain at least one double-flats or double-sharps.\n\nDouble-flats and double-sharps are used in music as accidentals, but they are rarely placed in the key signature (in music that uses equal temperament), because it would make reading the key signature very difficult.\n\nFor example, the key of G major is rarely used to write music down, because its key signature has an Fdouble sharp. An equal-tempered scale of G major has exactly the same notes as the A major scale. Key pairs like this are called enharmonically equivalent. So the theoretical key of G major is usually written with the key signature of A major.\n\nG major: G A B C D E Fdouble sharp\nA major: A B C D E F G\n\nEnharmonic equivalenceEdit\n\nCircle of fifths showing major and minor keys\n\nA piece of Western music usually has a home key, and a passage within it may modulate to another key, which is usually closely related to the home key. (Usually, close to the original around the circle of fifths.) When the key is near the top of the circle (a key signature of zero or few accidentals), the writing of both keys is easy- a small number of extra sharps or flats is added. But if the home key is near the bottom of the circle (a key signature with many accidentals), enharmonic equivalence may need to be used because simply adding accidentals will result in a key with too many accidentals to be easy to play or write in.\n\nThe need to consider theoretical keysEdit\n\nIn each of the bottom three places on the circle of fifths the two enharmonic equivalents can both be written without double-sharps or double-flats and so do not classify as 'theoretical keys':\n\nMajor (minor) Key signature   Major (minor) Key signature\nB (G) 5 sharps   C (A) 7 flats\nF (D) 6 sharps   G (E) 6 flats\nC (A) 7 sharps   D (B) 5 flats\n\nBut when a relative key is on the opposite side of the circle from its home key, then in theory modulating to that key would involve adding so many sharps or flats that double-sharps and double-flats would have to be written in the key signature. The following keys (six of them are the parallel major/minor keys of those above) would require up to seven double-sharps or double-flats:\n\nKey Key Signature Relative key\nD minor (= C minor) 8 flats F major\nG minor (= F minor) 9 flats B  major\nC minor (= B minor) 10 flats E  major\nF minor (= E minor) 11 flats A  major\nB  minor (= A minor) 12 flats D  major\nE  minor (= D minor) 13 flats G  major\nA  minor (= G minor) 14 flats C  major\nG major (= A major) 8 sharps E minor\nD major (= E major) 9 sharps B minor\nA major (= B major) 10 sharps F  minor\nE major (= F major) 11 sharps C  minor\nB major (= C major) 12 sharps G  minor\nF  major (= G major) 13 sharps D  minor\nC  major (= D major) 14 sharps A  minor\n\nFor example, if a piece in E major were to modulate up a fifth to B major, which is next to it on the circle and on the same side of the circle, the notation is clear and simple; an extra sharp is added to make five sharps. If it was modulated again, it would become F major, written with six sharps. The next modulation, to C has seven sharps. But the next modulation would be to a theoretical key of G which would need an eighth sharp- for the previous F note to become F  in the key signature. To avoid theoretical keys, the new section would usually be written in the enharmonically equivalent key signature of A major.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9710803031921387}
+{"content": "Which is the oldest UK university?\n\nWhich is the oldest university in the world?\n\nUniversity of Bologna\n\nThe ‘Nourishing Mother of the Studies’ according to its Latin motto, the University of Bologna was founded in 1088 and, having never been out of operation, holds the title of the oldest university in the world.\n\nHow old is the oldest university student in Britain?\n\nA D-DAY veteran who left school with no qualifications has become Britain’s oldest university student after he was awarded his second PhD – AGED 95. Charles Betty is now a Doctor of Philosophy after completing a 48,000-word thesis on why elderly ex-pats living in Spain return to the UK.\n\nIs Cambridge or Oxford older?\n\nA: Oxford is older; in fact, Oxford is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world. The exact date of its founding is uncertain, but it is known to have existed in 1096. Cambridge is the second-oldest university in England and the fourth oldest in Europe.\n\nREAD  Question: What is the biggest ski resort in Colorado?\n\nWhich is the oldest school in England?\n\nThe King’s School in Canterbury was established in 597 CE, not long after St. Augustine arrived in England. It is believed to be the oldest extant school in Europe.\n\nIs UST older than Harvard?\n\nUST was founded by Miguel de Benavides on April 28, 1611. That makes this school older than Harvard by more than a quarter-century. (Harvard was founded on September 18, 1636.)\n\nHow old is Harvard University?\n\n384 years (September 8, 1636)\n\nWhat age do you go to uni?\n\nThe minimum age to study a degree programme at the university is normally at least 17 years old by the 20 September in the year the course begins. There is no upper age limit. The University will continue to review the minimum age requirement in light of recent changes to national legislation.\n\nWhat is the oldest university in London?\n\nBy date of earliest royal charter, King’s College London is the oldest of the four institutions, chartered in 1829. However, its charter was as a college rather than as a university; the first institute to be chartered as a university was the University of London in 1836.\n\nHow old is Durham University?\n\nAbout 189 years (1832)\n\nIs Oxford better than Harvard?\n\n\nIs it harder to get into Oxford or Cambridge?\n\nYour University\n\nREAD  What species of wood grows the fastest?\n\nThe University of Cambridge acceptance rate in 2016 showed applicants had a 26% chance of getting in – while the University of Oxford acceptance rate showed applicants had just a 17% chance of success. Our research shows that more students apply to Oxford – 59% of 2016 applicants that we surveyed.\n\nShould I choose Oxford or Cambridge?\n\nCambridge is often regarded as the more “sciencey” one, whereas Oxford is considered better for the humanities. Both, however, have produced their fair share of artists and scientists, so it would be foolish to base your decision solely on this. Both are equally renowned for science and humanities subjects.\n\nWhich is the richest school in the world?\n\nHarvard University — $38.3 Billion\n\n\nWhat are private schools called in England?\n\nPrivate schools (also known as ‘independent schools’) charge fees to attend instead of being funded by the government. Pupils do not have to follow the national curriculum. All private schools must be registered with the government and are inspected regularly.\n\nWhat was the first ever school?\n\n\nLike this post? Please share to your friends:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5036516189575195}
+{"content": "What country is home to the longest river in the world?\n\n1. Nile River: The longest river in the world. 6,650 km in length, Nile River of North-East Africa is the lifeline of a number of countries. Eleven countries, namely, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt share its water.\n\nWhich country has the longest river in the world?\n\nThe Nile river is the longest where as the Amazon is the largest river of the world.\n\nThe longest Rivers of the World River Name Nile\nLocation Africa\nLength (Km) 6650\nDrain Mediterranean Sea\nCountries Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan\n\nWhich river is the longest river in the world?\n\n\n  • Nile: 4,132 miles.\n  • Amazon: 4,000 miles.\n  • Yangtze: 3,915 miles.\nREAD  Frequent question: Which is the oldest monument in the world?\n\nIs the Amazon the longest river in the world?\n\nThe Amazon is considered the world’s largest river by volume, but scientists have believed it is slightly shorter than Africa’s Nile. … According to the team’s results, which have not been published, the Amazon is 4,225 miles (6,800 kilometers) long. The Nile stretches 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers).\n\nIs the Mississippi River the longest river in the world?\n\n\nWhich is the smallest country in the world?\n\n\nWhich is the shortest river in the world?\n\n\nWhich country in the world has no river?\n\n\nWhich is the second largest river in the world?\n\nThe Amazon:\n\nREAD  Question: What Animal Has The Largest Mouth?\n\nAt roughly 6,437 km (4,000 mi) in length, it is also considered to be the second-longest river in the world.\n\nWhich is the longest river in Asia?\n\nFormer Senior Scientist, Leningrad Hydrological Institute. Author of Velichayshiye reki mira. Yangtze River, Chinese (Pinyin) Chang Jiang or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’ang Chiang, longest river in both China and Asia and third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 km).\n\nWhat lives in the Amazon River?\n\nWhat Animals Live In The Amazon River?\n\n  • Black Caiman. Melanosuchus niger is a large crocodilian that lives in the Amazon basin’s slow-moving rivers and lakes. …\n  • Arapaima. The Arapaima are gigantic carnivorous fish living in South America’s Amazon and Essequibo basins. …\n  • Electric Eel. …\n  • Amazon River Dolphin. …\n  • Giant Otter. …\n  • Green Anaconda. …\n  • Pacu.\n\n18 июл. 2019 г.\n\nWhat are the 10 major world rivers?\n\n  • The Nile.\n  • The Amazon River.\n  • The Yangtze River.\n  • The Mississippi River.\n  • The Yellow River.\n  • The Irtysh River.\n  • Rom River.\n  • The Congo River.\n\nHow long would it take to walk the Amazon River?\n\nWalking the Amazon: 860 Days.\n\nWhat is the deepest river in the United States?\n\nThe deepest river in the United States is the Hudson River, which reaches 200 feet deep at some points.\n\nWho owns the Mississippi River?\n\nThe main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is 1,151,000 sq mi (2,980,000 km2), of which only about one percent is in Canada. The Mississippi ranks as the fifteenth-largest river by discharge in the world.\n\nREAD  Question: What is the longest non stop commercial flight?\n\nWhich longest river flows through Africa?\n\nNile River: Longest river in Africa ‘Blue Nile River Dam’ dey cause Egypt-Ethiopia kasala – Read wetin you need to know.\n\nLike this post? Please share to your friends:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6443236470222473}
+{"content": "Can directly impact the commercial activities of an organization. The stakeholders objecting to your project may have inaccurate, outdated information. That can give the objections enough weight that you'll have to pay for road improvements or make other compromises. Stakeholders in Business A standard stakeholder definition is that stakeholders are anyone who has something at risk in your business's behavior, performance and outcomes. Business organizations use different models like Mendelow’s Matrix Model and Salience Stakeholder Analysis Model to segregate their stakeholders into different groups. On the basis of importance, stakeholders of a business are usually categorized as primary stakeholders and secondary stakeholders. In education, the term stakeholder typically refers to anyone who is invested in the welfare and success of a school and its students, including administrators, teachers, staff members, students, parents, families, community members, local business leaders, and elected officials such as school board members, city councilors, and state representatives. Perhaps your business always does things a certain way; dealing with external stakeholders can show you newer, better ideas. Fraser Sherman has written about every aspect of business: how to start one, how to keep one in the black, the best business structure, the details of financial statements. Investors and employees have a stake in what your company does, as do customers. None of this guarantees that every stakeholder will end up supporting you. Show appreciation when stakeholders help you advance toward the finish line. If your law firm does pro bono work for tenants, for example, that's positive for the renters but possibly negative for landlords. Secondary stakeholders People or group who feel involved in the organization's success or failure, whether or not the management agree. each type of stakeholders has different expectation and demand. Learn faster with spaced repetition. Secondary Stakeholders - usually external stakeholders. This is because these stakeholders have a direct and immediate impact upon the financial and/or non-financial matters of the business. Communication is essential. He lives in Durham NC with his awesome wife and two wonderful dogs. Study CSR, Primary and secondary stakeholders, Ethical issues, the 4 P's and two C's of international marketing flashcards from Yoshuna Chan's class online, or in Brainscape's iPhone or Android app. Every enterprise operates in an environment, and there are some factors in that environment. Listening to stakeholders may even improve the project. Secondary stakeholders are less important than primary stakeholders but they are not completely irrelevant, therefore mostly businesses need to put effort to keep these stakeholders satisfied. You may also have to decide how to classify stakeholders. Secondary (External) Stakeholders Secondary (External) Stakeholders are individual, group of individuals or organizations who are not directly involved in the affairs and transactions of the business, but may or may not be affected by its decisions and actions. Primary stakeholders are those who directly affect or affected by the outcome. Primary stakeholders are the people or groups directly affected by company policies and decisions. A given project or business venture may not include all these examples of stakeholders. This expectation is reasonable towards a limit of industry levels and […] Department ; Ground staff The definition of a stakeholder is an individual, a group, an organization or a spokesperson who has a claim or a stake or something at stake in the business’s behavior, performance, or outcome. If your project is going to hurt some of your stakeholders, take steps to minimize the damage. If, say, you're launching a new product line, you can list some of the stakeholders off the top of your head. The stakes aren't necessarily financial. The next step is to map out the various stakeholder blocks. Then you have to assess how important each stakeholder is. Identifying these stakeholders brings valuable insight into the criminal justice system. If you satisfy stakeholders' concerns, you turn them into allies who want the project to succeed. After you have your list of stakeholders, analyze their motivations and interests. Employees can be considered direct stakeholders as their daily tasks … You can start by talking to primary stakeholders about who might be indirectly affected. A very common way of differentiating the different kinds of stakeholders is to consider groups of people who have classifiable relationships with the organization. Copyright 2020 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media, All Rights Reserved. Secondary stakeholders are usually external stakeholders, although they do not engage in direct economic exchange with the business – are affected by or can affect its actions (for example the general public, communities, activist groups, business support groups, and the media). This article defines and explains the difference between primary stakeholders and secondary stakeholders. Brainstorm with your project team about who might need to be added to the stakeholder list. Giving them the facts may resolve their issues. The typical approach requires mapping them onto a quadrant grid: Don't assume secondary stakeholders automatically fall into the \"low influence, low interest\" quadrant. A stakeholder is a party with an interest in an enterprise or project; stakeholders in a corporation include investors, employees, customers, and suppliers. Though their role isn’t primary, they assist with administrative processes, financial, and legalities. Dealing with stakeholders is both practical and ethical. The project plan should document your stakeholders and keep a running record of your interactions with them. Secondary stakeholders are intermediaries who have an interest in the project or outcome, although it is less significant and directly related than that of the primary stakeholders. The key thresholds for discovering the stakeholders and gauging their influence on the organization are based upon two basic aspects – the interest of a stakeholder in the activities of the organization and the power or influence he can exercise upon the organization and its activities. Bring stakeholders in as early as possible. On the other hand, secondary stakeholders are those stakeholders that neither have a direct stake in the business nor do these face a direct financial impact due to decisions made by the business, but these stakeholders may have a strong or weak influence over the commercial activities and the decisions made by the business. Secondary stakeholders are those who have no rights that affect your company. In some cases, that may be all you need. Communication between primary and secondary types of stakeholders will ensure that everyone is working toward the same goal. It's ethical because it's not all about you: It's only fair to give people some input into a decision that's going to affect them. You need to build a positive relationship with stakeholders, at least the ones with enough influence to affect your project. The largest employer in town may exert a lot of influence on employees or local government. The employees and managers who work on the new line obviously have a stake. This gives you a sense of which stakeholders require the most attention. For example, the general public, communities, business support groups, and the media. He's also run a couple of small businesses of his own. If, for example, you run a program to reduce domestic violence, abused spouses have a stake in your success. On the other hand, secondary stakeholders are those stakeholders that neither have a direct stake in the business nor do these face a direct financial impact due to decisions made by the business, but these stakeholders may have a strong or weak influence over the commercial activities and the decisions made by the business. Secondary stakeholders are people or groups that are indirectly affected, either positively or negatively, by an effort or the actions of an agency, institution, or organization. Your email address will not be published. For example, other companies in your industry are secondary stakeholders, because they have no specific rights to stop you from operating in any manner you see fit, as long as you don't do anything illegal. • Secondary stakeholders: the secondary stakeholders are those who are although do not engage in direct economic exchange business but are affected by or can affected. An organization does not directly depend upon these stakeholders for survival of its immediate interests. We can say that these secondary stakeholders are \"indirectly affected\" by outcomes. Expectation of Employees: It is very natural that employees expect more and more monetary and non­monetary benefits to be provided to them with increasing profits. A program to reduce domestic violence, for instance, could have a positive effect on emergency room … secondary stakeholders, the reciprocity with the secondary stakeholders could become situational, others stated: “ From a primary stakeholder point of view reciprocity Secondary stakeholders also help to complete projects, but on a lower, general level. These types of stakeholders help with administrative processes, financial, and legal matters. Primary stakeholders are normally easily identifiable because of their financial dealings with the company but secondary stakeholders are not always easily traceable. A transparent, open process works best for winning allies. Posted by Terms compared staff | Aug 28, 2019 | Management |. Normally, many secondary stakeholders are not recognized by a business until they become vocal and criticize a certain decision or initiative taken by the business. A standard stakeholder definition is that stakeholders are anyone who has something at risk in your business's behavior, performance and outcomes. But having power does not always mean using it. Stakeholders that do not hold direct interests in a business but can have a reasonable influence over a business’s dealings are known as secondary stakeholders. Let the stakeholders know how you handle questions or requests and get them in writing when possible. For example, is a group fighting your plan to clearcut a patch of forest legitimate, illegitimate or a secondary stakeholder speaking for the affected forest? The main points of difference between primary stakeholders and secondary stakeholders are as follows: Primary stakeholders of any organization are those stakeholders without which the organization cannot survive or sustain in the foreseeable future. If you see problems in how you dealt with the stakeholders, correct them on the next project. One might think of a person holding a wooden stake, like the kind driven through the hearts of vampires in folklore. If you can't minimize, consider compensating them financially. Before you can talk to primary and secondary stakeholders, you have to identify them. Friedman (2006) means that there is a clear relationship between definitions of what stakeholders and identification of who are the stakeholders. They often help provide aid to the primary stakeholders. Your company's stakeholders include any people, groups or entities affected by your operations, and not just shareholders or owners with a financial stake in the business. Latent stakeholders are a category that possesses only one of the three attributes (power, legitimacy, and urgency), and managers often choose to ignore them. Example: general public, communities, activist, business support groups and media. Drivers affected by traffic from a proposed new construction project can complain to local government and argue against putting more cars on the road. Secondary stakeholders are individuals or groups not directly affected by the outcome of the projec, but still having an interest in it. They are the decision-making group who will be shaping the outcome of the change. Direct stakeholders are involved in the daily activities directly within a project like workers. One of the primary functions of a business is to serve the needs of its stakeholders, also known as stakeholder responsibility. When you hunt for financing, investors and bankers become key stakeholders. These types of stakeholders include customers and team leaders. secondary stakeholders are government agencies, regulation agencies, trade unions, labor unions, political groups, social groups, and the media. If your company launches a new project, the stakeholders in the project are found both inside and outside your business. Administrators Admissions After school clubs Alumni office Catering staff Chaplain Charities e.g. If you get their feedback early, it'll be easier to make changes. They include the project sponsor, executives from the parent organization, financiers, and investors. Stakeholders that hold a direct interest in a business or organization and its dealings are known as primary stakeholders. A stakeholder refers to an individual, a group of persons, an economic entity or an institution that can affect a business organization by its actions or can be affected by the actions of that business organization. Government, media outlets, pressure groups, trade unions etc. ADVERTISEMENTS: After reading this article you will learn about the expectations of stakeholders from business , commerce and industry. No business operates in a vacuum. Latent stakeholders that possess only power are called dormant. But it’s the secondary stakeholders who are less well managed who tend to trip up a project. Are easily identifiable because of a financial stake within the business. At the end of the process, make a review of how well everything went. But the word stakeholder refers to a person who has an interest or concern in the organization at hand. Showing you can listen to and compromise with external stakeholders demonstrates your company is fair, ethical and honest. These stakeholders vary according to the degree of influence they can exercise on the organization based on their respective standings. Example of secondary stakeholders: Local residents who may be affected by traffic noise from deliveries or by pollution from smelly or smoky factory or firms. Elected officials may listen to them. An organization must keep these stakeholders satisfied. It's practical because stakeholders can derail your business plans. However, the more key people and community leaders you can win over, the better your chances of success become. Are very important for an organization to sustain its business activities. The more stakeholders you can win over, the better your position when you have to say no to someone. A reorganization that doesn't affect anyone outside your company might only have internal stakeholders, for instance. Treat primary and secondary stakeholders with respect, even if they're not key stakeholders. Anyone who has something to gain or lose can be a stakeholder. Secondary stakeholders also help to complete the project. These groups may include government agencies, moneylending institutions or monitoring agencies. It can help to make the stakeholder process formal. So, in terms of education, a stakeholder is Secondary stakeholders are those who are affected indirectly. Secondary: These people may be affected, or have a role to play in the project, but are not involved in making direct decisions. This is important as it helps organizations devise counter response towards the respective interests and influential positions of its stakeholders. Are sometimes difficult to identify because of their inactivity. Secondary stakeholders are those who are affected indirectly. A few hundred employees driving to and from the factory at the start of each shift affects traffic on the nearby roads, so you might list other drivers as secondary stakeholders. Required fields are marked *. If you need government or legal approval for what you're doing, the more support you can build in the community, the better the chances of winning approval. If employees think a new project is a waste of time, they may not commit to it; if a community objects to your construction plans, they may demand that local government refuse you the necessary permits. This may be as simple as talking to them about what they want or don't want from your project. Secondary stakeholders are people or entities that do not engage in direct economic transactions with the company. Your email address will not be published. It improves your brand. However, many secondary stakeholders like governments and tax authorities may convert into primary stakeholders based on the jurisdiction and the extent of power they can exert over the business entity. Even if you can't resolve them, you won't be blindsided if the stakeholders go to the media or the local government. It's also ethical and considerate not to wake people up in the dead of night. Secondary stakeholders tend to be external stakeholders who are affected by the business's actions, although they don't engage in direct economic exchange with … This can include internal and external stakeholders. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. These stakeholders usually invest their financial capital directly into the business. Secondary stakeholders are intermediaries who have an interest in the project or outcome, although it is less significant and directly related than that of the primary stakeholders. Every stakeholder is important for a business entity but some stakeholders exert more influence and are therefore considered more important than others. Conclusion. They do not engage in direct economic exchange with the business, but they are affected by or can affect its actions. Primary stakeholders, as the name suggests, are very vital for an organization because these stakeholders are important for its continued survival. Local regulations may require you to make an extra effort; for example, advertising your proposed development project to anyone who might be affected. Setting up noise-reducing walls or baffles may reduce their opposition. Stakeholders in the criminal justice system are those affected by the criminal justice system. Shareholders, employees, directors, customers, suppliers etc. Winning stakeholders over allows you to keep moving towards your goals. Difference between stockholders and stakeholders, Difference between financial performance measurement and non-financial performance measurement, Difference between one-tier and two-tier board of directors, Difference between for profit and not-for-profit organizations, Difference between cost center and profit center. That's a big plus when you launch the next project. 1. If you want stakeholders' active participation, find tasks for them to do. A business must keep track of the respective interests of such secondary stakeholders and maintain a liaison with them to ensure that they remain satisfy in the best interest of the business to the maximum possible extent. Examples of primary stakeholders include shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, vendors and business partners. Within the overall stakeholder definition, there are multiple ways to classify stakeholders. We can say that these secondary stakeholders are “indirectly affected” by outcomes. These stakeholders experience a clear foot print in result of the direction adopted and decisions made by their related company and vice versa. List of stakeholders. Community Tool Box: Identifying and Analyzing Stakeholders and Their Interests, Health Knowledge: Identifying and managing internal and external stakeholder interests. Direct stakeholders are involved with the day-to-day activities with a project. Different groups of stakeholders are often found on both the positive or negative side. You can't simply manage by manipulation or barking orders. Likewise, a prominent community leader, such as a priest, a college president or a banker, can have outside influence even if they're only a secondary stakeholder. Secondary Stakeholders include project participants and their families; direct service staff; and other professionals providing subsequent services to program participants.3. Secondary (external) stakeholders entail, but not limited, government agencies, general public, financial analyst, stock brokers, media, state or local government unit, and potential investors. However, more … Expectations of secondary stakeholders Beyond these primary stakeholders there are other secondary stakeholders as well and include entities like the community at large, environmental groups, government etc. So do the vendors you'll be paying for more material and the salespeople who have to introduce the line to their customers. Difference between working capital and fixed capital, Difference between formal and informal organizations. Internal stakeholders can be considered the criminal justice system itself while external stakeholdersare those the criminal justice system serves and in some way affects. An organization needs to make sure that it maps its primary stakeholders very effectively so that it meets their requirements and act according to their respective demands. The reason behind this is that primary stakeholders are more likely to have a monetary stake in the company where secondary stakeholders may only have a degree of influence. 8. For that reason, they have the highest level of interest. Priority: These are the people who are directly affected by the work of your project. Latent stakeholders The first category is latent stakeholders. The Importance Of Stakeholders And Stakeholders For Getting A Domestic Shelter Opened Essay 2363 Words | 10 Pages. Different projects have different stakeholders. His website is, Reviewed by: Michelle Seidel, B.Sc., LL.B., MBA. Talking to secondary stakeholders can make you aware of issues you hadn't even considered. Your company can affect stakeholders positively or negatively. What is a stakeholder? How Is a Competitor a Stakeholder?. There are 4 types of project stakeholders: Upwards These are the stakeholders involved with initiating and financing the project. If your plans for the product involve a new factory, the people living nearby may be affected by noise or pollution. Scouts, Brownies and Guides City, or local authority councillors Clerks community members Curriculum providers Faith organisations families Finance Department, Bursar Government departments e.g. Can exercise influence over the commercial activities of an organization. Identifying secondary stakeholders may take extra work as they're not as immediately obvious. Here’s a way of categorizing stakeholders. The main groups of stakeholders are: In other cases, you may have to work to persuade people. You may find they're concerned about the environment, hopeful for jobs at the new factory, anxious about the value of their property or object to your project on moral grounds. Internal Stakeholders are the primary stakeholders whereas External stakeholders are the secondary stakeholders. The importance of key secondary stakeholders must not be undermined because their identification is crucial for continuous and smooth business operations. Once you know who your stakeholders are, you have to decide on a management strategy. The scope for being a secondary stakeholder is wider as compared to a primary stakeholder. On the other hand, secondary stakeholders have contributions to the project’s success but on a general level. A tabular comparison of primary and secondary stockholders is given below: Every organization has various stakeholders attached to it in one or another way. Suppose you're building a new store and neighbors are worried about the noise of unloading late-night shipments. Business competitors, trade unions, media groups, pressure groups and state or local government organizations are some examples of secondary stakeholders.\n2020 what are secondary stakeholders", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9659497141838074}
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+{"content": "(2021 latest) ROLAND TD-17KVX electronic drum maximum configuration\n\n\nHK$20,980.00  HK$24,980.00\n\nROLAND TD-17KVX Electronic Drum Premium KitIncluded\n\n－ Hi-hat Stand\n\n- T200 saddle drum chair\n\n- DA30 Electronic Drum AMP (Even Amp Line)\n\n- Drumsticks\n\n- Foot Kick Pedal\n\n- CY8 and MDY12 (4th crush even bracket)\n\n- Roland RH5 headset\n\n\nThe first TD-17K-L to be listed on the Japanese market. It's a set of home exercises, recordings, stage performances of electric drums, especially powerful and professional practice functions. If you've made up your mind to be a drummer, TD-17K-L will be your choice.\n\n\nExcellent sound source\n\nThe TD-17-L source is derived from the source of Roland's flagship TD-50. 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Continue playing and start using a variety of playing techniques, including stepping on the half-open position and different sounds on the surface and edges.\n\nYou'll find that the sound of a thumping even depends on whether it hits once or multiple times in a rowDifferent。 No matter how you play, you'll feel comfortable on TD-17-L:\n\n\nReal playing feel \nAlthough the TD-17K-L is very compact, its performance is professional.\n\n\nIn addition to the configuration of PDX-8, PD-8A and other Roland's award-winning percussion board, the position and angle of each percussion board can be fully adjusted, the distance between the percussion board and the drummer can always maintain a very similar distance from the use of traditional drums, so that you will not be moved by the long-term use of electric drum practice and the sound of the original drum:\n\n\nProfessional and efficient skills developmentArtifact\n\n1. Enhance your sense of rhythm\nTime Check mode improves the accuracy of your tracks as you play with your beats. The number of precise hits is displayed as a percentage, and the screen indicates whether you hit the drum pad accurately, faster than or slower than the beat. If you practice regularly, time-to-time detection can be invaluable in helping to improve your sense of rhythm.\n\n\n2. Fine-tuning your self-time value perception Quet Count mode helps to improve the feeling of time and speed within your body. In the first few sections, the metronometer sounds at the specified volume, and in the next few sections, the metronut will be silent. In silent sections, you need to keep pace with your beats based on your inner sense of time, and make sure that the beats are consistent when they resume. The more the \"metronometer\" in your heart is used, the more powerful you will become.\n\n3. 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+{"content": "The field of Business Intelligence (BI), despite making significant advances and providing a multitude of useful features, faces an unusual paradox today. According to a Gartner survey, BI and analytics adoption in most organizations remains low at around 30%. Although companies continue to invest in new technologies, at the ground level, BI still faces obstacles in becoming pervasive. Business leaders today continue to struggle to ask simple questions from their data such as\n\n“who are my most valuable customers?”\n\n“why has revenue declined this month compared to last month?”\n\nwithout 3-4 levels of requests that lead to a team of analysts.\n\nSo What Makes a BI Tool “Self-Service?”\n\nVery often, a one size fits all approach is deployed in implementing a BI or data analytics culture. A single BI tool is often expected to play the role of fulfilling enterprise reports, self service BI, and enable data scientists to implement complex algorithms. This may be due to cost constraints or ideological inclinations but such an approach prevents the chosen BI tool from being deployed efficiently and becoming truly self-service. Thus, an organization often needs to balance its needs for having:\n\n  1. A well designed and good quality decision support data in a data warehouse.\n  2. An efficient Business Intelligence tool which is able to query and present this data with the least amount of effort.\n  3. A pool of business users trained to analyze the key takeaways from the analytical tool and derive useful business insights for the profit of organization and,\n  4. A small but efficient IT team which supports the business teams.\n\nWhile many solutions promise to cater to the analytical needs of the modern enterprise with more tools and technology, in the words of distinguished software engineer Grady Booch, ‘A fool with a tool is still a fool.”\n\n8 Reasons Why Business Intelligence Tools Have Failed to Deliver True Self-Service\n\nWe have identified eight factors that hinder modern BI tools from becoming truly self-serve and result in low adoption rates of pervasive BI in organizations:\n\n1. Lack of Access to Clean Data\n\nVery often the transactional platforms employed by organizations leave a lot of fields as non compulsory fields, or free form text fields. These free form fields in a longer span prove to be the biggest bane for efficient data processing. A properly verified data entry form with appropriate validation goes a long way in securing the quality of data that gets generated in an organization. There are some very valid use cases where use of fields that contain a comma separated multi field collection makes sense, however such fields occurring with frequency could lead to complex situations where it comes to cleaning and processing the data.\n\nThe fact remains that despite advances in data capture governance and automation, organizations typically do not have access to clean data. Usually, the data collected during different business operations, when merged together, has no unifying format, may be massaged, and is not complete or consistent. In fact, cross-industry studies have shown that less than half of structured data and less than 1% of unstructured data is actively used decision-making in organizations. However, enterprises that ‘win with data’ are those who maximise the use of data regardless of these limitations. Understanding that your data is not perfect is the first step towards using it in the right way to take decisions. This subsequently results in progressive improvements in the quality of data, and incremental benefits from the consumption of data over time.\n\n2. Focus on ‘Pretty Graphs’\n\nVisualizations help an organization in containing the proliferation of spreadmarts (users retaining pools of data on their machines). An important aspect to keep in mind however is that an excessive preference for beautiful visualizations often leads to time spent beautifying the data than meaningfully consuming the analytics. Aesthetic presentation of data is important, but it is far more important to use data to gain analytical insights, bonus if this also happens in an aesthetically pleasant format.\n\nThe challenge here comes from the fact that most times, companies get too caught up in using BI tools for visualizations and dashboards instead of answering the questions that matter, in a timely manner. Users no longer want to decipher ‘canned reports’ and expect their data & analytics platform to proactively alert users of critical changes in their KPIs for decision making. These alerts need to be relevant to the function/role of the user so as to remove the ‘clutter’ from heaps of visuals. Further, no matter how many visualizations are created, differences in skillets between users of various functions are inevitable. A modern BI platform needs to aid users with natural language generated explanations of visualizations for effective data storytelling and decisions.\n\n3. Clunky User Interfaces\n\nA tool with a small learning curve helps users to expedite use of actionable insights and gives them the ability to deliver actionable insights as fast as possible. Ideally, it should also give users the ability to modify the implementation and adopt data changes as fast as possible. Tools which have a small architectural footprint help to optimize hardware, support and maintenance costs.\n\nDespite the advanced functionalities and features, modern BI tools still tend to be complicated and unwieldy for end-users – filters, menus, and hundreds of pages of help manuals to get the most simple insights from your data. This deters from them making full use of the tool and ultimately lowers the adoption rates across the organization. Clunky interfaces are all too common in today’s tools and this acts as another obstacle to BI becoming self-service.\n\n4. Lack of Collaboration\n\nA self-service BI tool becomes all the more useful when it incorporates the mechanism to collaborate with other participants in the organization and share content. The ability to securely deliver data and analytics to entitled participants is also crucial.\n\nThe reality of the matter is that there are very few BI tools out there which allow employees to collaborate on the work they do and in generating insights. Leading tools today continue to adopt an archaic method of sharing embedded datasets via email instead of helping users collaborate with data where most of their work and decisions happen. This is more apparent with the new reality we live in, and advent of the remote workplace where the majority of  a knowledge worker’s time is spent on platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. Without this aspect, it is not possible for BI to be called self-service because it still requires people to depend on each other and work in isolation to generate insights. Such bottlenecks result in slow turn around times, unnecessary back and forth between team members and limited visibility and passive learning within collaborative work environments.\n\n5. Rigid Data Governance\n\nAn organizational policy that introduces flexibility to choose appropriate tools for complex reporting requirements for regulatory reporting, reporting which requires use of specific visual motifs such as organizational logos and tabular structures vis a vis, tools which fulfill the need for ever expanding diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics etc. aids in empowering the analytics users to keep their focus on analyzing data instead of struggling with the complexities of tools meant for fixed format reporting and data visualization with dashboards.\n\nDespite the advances in BI, people continue to work in silos, in isolation from each other. Few organizations have governance frameworks and policies that ensure that data and BI tools are both flexible and accessible. In the absence of such frameworks and common access, it becomes difficult for BI tools to carry out its function of being self-service. A tool geared towards empowering end users to run their own analytics and run advanced statistical models to unearth insights while keeping the complex backend processing to a minimum is the need of the hour today.\n\n6. Low Data Literacy Rates\n\nData literacy is the ability to understand and analyze the data you work with. One of the main reasons for low adoption rates is that employees at the ground level simply do not have the requisite knowledge to work with the data that they own and instead continue to view data analysis as an IT-focused task. Naturally, this makes them reluctant to use new tools and fully integrate BI within their workflows. However innovative companies such as Amazon and Netflix are confidently moving away from this position and empowering their employees to obtain various analytics capabilities. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2023, data literacy “will become an explicit and necessary driver of business value.”\n\n7. Complex Workflows\n\nBI fails to become pervasive due to the complexity of the tool as well. When the interface is not intuitive or easy to use, adoption rates plummet and individuals usually stop investing their time in these tools and return to traditional programs like Microsoft Excel. This also applies to situations where integrating the BI tool with legacy or third-party databases and other enterprise systems is too complicated for the average user to perform. Change management frameworks and investing in training and education are absolutely essential to encourage those employees who want to be part of an analytics culture but are either reluctant or do not know how to start.\n\n8. Inappropriate Choice of Tools for Intended Users\n\nOftentimes, organizations embark on their BI journey with good intentions but ultimately end up deploying a tool that does not have the required capabilities to serve business needs. One pitfall is that IT departments select tools based on their own understanding of data which includes SQL and other programming skills, a good understanding of data models, and so on. However, the end-users of a BI tool are not always data-savvy – they only know what questions to ask and expect answers for their questions in the simplest possible way. Hence, while organizations expect the tool to be extensible and incorporate advanced data science models, in reality, this can prove to be hard. Incorporating advanced features requires specialist skillsets and proprietary scripting skills. For example, the tool may only be able to offer basic descriptive analytics and visualization capabilities that do not fully answer the questions of the end-users.\n\nUltimately, it is important to realize that the challenges to BI adoption are multi-faceted. If an organization falls short in any one area, it could adversely affect adoption rates and attitudes towards Business Intelligence and analytics in the company. The key to successful adoption lies in establishing a strong data culture, reducing time to implementation, and choosing an easy-to-use and collaborative system which is responsive to user needs and flexible.\n\nIt is our focus at Unscrambl to bring to you an AI-powered data analyst that is accessible 24/7 and simplifies the way you access and consume data & insights. Explore QBO and embark on a 14-day free trial to experience the benefits that BI and analytics can bring for your business!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7444427013397217}
+{"content": "One of the most visited sites on Aegina is the church of Agios Nektarios (Saint Nectarios) and the the monastery of Agia Triada (The Holy Trinity) that is located on a higher level overlooking the church. Agios Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920), is one of the most widely known Greek Orthodox Saints. He was officially recognized as a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1961. Yearly, thousands of people from all over the world coming to Aegina to visit the tomb of Agios Nektarios for healing reasons, to pray to him or ask for his blessings.\n\nAgios Nektarios was known as a great miracle worker, particularly as a healer of every sort of disease, he was also a prolific writer, theologist, philosopher, moralist, educator, poet, ascetic and mystic. Above all Agios Nektarios was a man of deep prayer, and a hard worker who laboured just as everyone else around him, no work was ever dishonorable to him.s.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9965853095054626}
+{"content": "Introduction: worker. Job postings examined The job\n\nPublished by admin on\n\n\nCareers in economic development are\ngenerally distributed among three different categories: non-profit, public and\nprivate. Nonprofit organizations provide people with the opportunity to work on\nissues of economic development that relate specifically to poverty reduction.\nService are some of the several government agencies that focus on distributing\naid to developing countries and overseeing infrastructure projects aimed\ntowards encouraging economic growth. In addition, many international\ngovernmental organizations (IGOs) deal with issues of economic development. The\nUnited Nations Development Program, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and\nDevelopment (OECD) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are a few\nexamples of agencies that combine the resources of different nations in the\nname of global economic development. In the private sector many economic development\npositions are with financial institutions and consulting firms that establish\nprojects geared towards economic growth. There are many different career paths\nthat economic development practitioners can take, three of the most common are\na Manager, An Analyst and a neighborhood/ community worker.\n\nJob postings examined\n\nWe Will Write a Custom Essay Specifically\nFor You For Only $13.90/page!\n\norder now\n\nThe job postings I examined are as\n\nEconomic Development Coordinator- County of Elgin\n\nDevelopment Analyst- MDB insight\n\nEconomic development Specialist- Venture Kamloops\n\nProgram Facilitator\n\nEconomic Development Officer\n\n\nDefine roles and responsibilities of\nan economic development practitioner.\n\nThe tasks and roles of economic development practitioners are related to\nthe needs of the situation and the resources required. Based on the five job\npostings that I examined an economic development practitioner is responsible\nfor the implementation and the financial management of the county wide\ncommunity improvement plan and its associated activities. The Facilitator initiates\neconomic development for the community. An economic development practitioner\nassists local municipalities, organizations, businesses and individuals to take\nadvantage of economic development opportunities and work on projects that will\nprovide economic growth. They support recruitment of participants, depending on\ntheir job title they provide mentorship, coaching, support design of\ncurriculum, conduct and deliver weekly workshops. As a program facilitator they\nwould have to conduct ongoing data collection activities for the program’s\nevaluation, support in the development of program reports, they would have to\nwork in tandem with the program Social Worker and Program Manager to help youth\nwho may be facing a crisis situation. They would also have the responsibility\nto be present at community events and serve as ambassadors for their respected\n\n\n2. Define skills and\npersonality traits required of economic development practitioners.\n\nAn individual working as an economic\ndevelopment practitioner should have exceptional time and project management,\norganizational and communication skills both verbal and written, they should\ndemonstrate experience creating, building and working within a cooperative team\nenvironment. They need to possess a post-secondary degree in business, economic\ndevelopment or related course of study. They should have the ability to\neffectively articulate viewpoint and contribute to brainstorming sessions,\nproject dialogues and manipulate data in MS Excel. They need to demonstrate\nstrong analytical skill set, fueled by curiosity, creativity, and a passion for\ndiscovery. Some personal traits required would be the ability to multitask and\nprioritize duties and be a self-starter. Economic development practitioners\nshould have the ability to communicate constructively in a positive, confident\nand respectful manner (written and oral) to internal and external stakeholders.\n\n\n3. Define personal\nstrategies for entering or advancing in the economic development profession.\n\nIndividuals who want to become\nprofessional economic developers can build on degrees in urban and regional\nplanning, public policy, economics, regional science, geography or related\ndisciplines tailoring their course work to focus on economic development.\nIndividuals can apply for training and certification courses through the IEDC (International\nEconomic Development Council) that is the world leader in economic development\neducation and training. The IEDC provides practical educational tools to help\nstudents expand their economic development knowledge, effectiveness, and gain\nprofessional recognition. There are also several organizations namely Canada’s\nnational organization of economic development EDAC that offers its members\nprofessional development, networking opportunities and a comprehensive offering\nof resources so becoming a member of the EDAC would be definitely be a good\n\nCategories: Financial Management\n\n\nI'm Iren!\n\n\nCheck it out", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8664021492004395}
+{"content": "How to Build a Ground Level Deck\n\nground-level deck\n  • 8-16 hours\n  • Intermediate\n  • 300-2,500\nWhat You'll Need\n2-by-6 feet boards\n5-by-6 feet deck boards\nDeck piers\n4-foot level\n\nA ground-level deck is a perfect spot for spending time outside with friends and family. Building a deck may seem like an overwhelming project, but if you know what you're doing, it’s relatively simple. Before you start, plan out the size and shape of the deck that you want and decide how much money you want to spend on materials. Then, follow the simple steps below.\n\nClear the Land\n\nBefore you start construction, clear the area where you plan to put build the deck. You can do this by tilling the land or raking it. Choose a flat area that will not hinder water runoff from your roof or gutters.\n\nLevel the Ground\n\nNext, level the ground by using a 2x4 and a 4-foot level. Lay out the corners and the middle piers to create the outline of the deck. Mark the corners with stakes and place string in the box area to make a grid. The grid will provide a reference to make it easier to place the piers.\n\nAttach the Lumber\n\nAttach 2-by-6 pressure-treated lumber in the notch of the pier, parallel to the length of the deck. Attach another piece of lumber to the corner. Apply coated deck screws about 2 1/2 inches along the perimeter. If you have a square-head screw, use this to prevent the screw head from stripping. Screw the 2-by-6 boards to the rim to create a single piece.\n\nChoose Your Decking\n\nWhat type of 5-by-6 decking you choose depends on personal preference. Choices include composite, pressure-treated, redwood, and white oak. Composite decking comes pre-colored and finished and is low maintenance. For regular wood, you will need to refinish and seal it as part of routine maintenance. Do not use softer woods if you don't plan on sealing it later.\n\nLay out the Deck Boards\n\nLay the deck boards on top of the framework you have created. How you space the boards will depend on the type of material you have purchased. If you are using natural wood, you must create more space between the boards to leave room for expansion and contraction. However, with composite backing, you don't have to leave extra space. In addition, natural wood doesn't require special screws, but composite does.\n\nIf you need ground-level deck plans, you can find many at your local home improvement store.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8994870781898499}
+{"content": "A $2.7 mn bundle with high value digital assets will be tokenized on WhaleStreet and the B20 tokens - keys to the B.20 experience - will be available for purchase on our platform from January 23\n\nThe B.20 smart contracts represent a pilot project, which is a subset of WhaleStreet’s upcoming “Art-Democracy” module.\n\nOn the 12th and 13th of December 2020, Metapurse bought all the 20 1/1 Editions of Beeple NFTs on Nifty Gateway, totalling around $2.2 million.\n\nFollowing this, three museums dedicated to Beeple were built in 3 Virtual worlds namely, Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, and Somnium Space.\n\nOn the 22nd of January 2021, all the NFTs representing the Art, Museums, and Land will be locked up in a Vault.\n\nOn the 23rd of January 2021, Metapalooza - a cross-metaverse launch event - will kick-start a social experiment in the spirit of decentralization and democratization of art, as the B.20 project.\n\nThis document explains the smart contracts written for the B.20 Vault, Sale, Buyout and Redeem processes.\n\nProcess breakdown\n\n1 : Vault\n\n- On the 22nd of January 2021, Metapurse will transfer to the Vault, approx 33 NFTs:\n\n  1. 20 Beeple NFTs\n  2. The Museum in Cryptovoxels\n  3. CV Parcel tokens on which th CV Museum is built\n  4. The Museum in Decentraland\n  5. DCL LAND tokens on which th DCL Museum is built\n  6. The Museum in Somnium Space\n  7. SS land tokens on which the SS Museum is built\n\n- Metapurse then locks up the Vault. By ‘lock up’, we mean that any permissions to modify or transfer the NFT are frozen. However, access to the B.20 experience will remain open, as intended.\n\n- Metapurse retains ownership of the Vault.\n\n\nThe Vault is represented by the SimpleVault.sol smart contract.\n\n2 : B.20 token\n\n- On the 22nd of January 2021, B.20 tokens - ERC20 tokens representing keys to the Vault, will be created.\n\n- A total of 10 million B.20 tokens will be minted.\n\n- Of these, 1.6 million B.20 tokens will be sent to the SimpleMarket.sol smart contract.\n\n\n- The B.20 token is represented by the Token0.sol smart contract.\n\n3 : Sale\n\n- On the 23rd of January 2021, Metapurse will sell 1.6 million B.20 Tokens for 0.36 DAI each.\n\n- The Sale will have a max cap of 576K DAI, aka, only a maximum of 1.6 million B.20 tokens will be sold.\n\n- There is no individual cap.\n\n- The Sale has no end date.\n\n- The Sale ends when the max cap has been reached.\n\n\n- The Sale is represented by the SimpleMarket.sol smart contract\n\n- DAI token is represented by the Token1.sol smart contract.\n\n4 : Buyout\n\n- 30 days after the Sale, a Buyout process will be enabled.\n\n- Anybody can initiate the Buyout process by bidding for the Vault in DAI, whose deposit value must be above a start threshold value of 10 million DAI. If the bidder does not have sufficient DAI, they can also deposit B.20 tokens, as long as the combined deposited value exceeds the threshold in DAI value.\n\n- Once initiated, the Buyout process will last for 48 epochs, where each epoch is 8 hours.\n\n- During the bidding process, one of two things can happen.\n\n  1. Anyone can outbid the previous bidder. On a successful outbid, the previous bidder can withdraw their DAI deposit.\n  2. If B.20 holders are not convinced of the highest bid amount, they can stake their B.20 tokens to stop the Buyout process. If the total B.20 tokens staked exceeds a stop threshold, the Buyout process is deemed revoked, and the highest bidder can then withdraw their DAI deposit, and the start threshold value increases by 8%.\n\n- If the Buyout process is revoked, it can be re-initiated by anyone.\n\n- At the end of a successful bid in the Buyout process,\n\n  1. Ownership of the Vault is transferred to the highest bidder.\n  2. The B.20 tokens deposited by the highest bidder are burned.\n  3. The total DAI deposited by the highest bidder now represents the total value of the B.20 tokens.\n\n\n- Buyout is represented by the SimpleBuyout.sol smart contract\n\n- DAI for the Buyout process is represented by the Token2.sol smart contract\n\n5 : Redeem\n\n- Following the Buyout process, a Redeem process will be enabled.\n\n- Anybody that holds a B.20 token can exchange them for the DAI deposited by the highest bidder from the Buyout process.\n\n- The B.20 token gets burned and an equivalent amount of DAI is sent to the B.20 token holder.\n\n- The Redeem process remains active until all B.20 tokens have been burned and the total deposited DAI by the highest bidder has reached zero.\n\nNote:- Redeem is represented by the SimpleRedeem.sol smart contract", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000040531158447}
+{"content": "The documentary follows Kevin, Fito, Yurico, and Jairo on their treacherous journey North on Mexican freight trains. It exposes the systemic violence these children encounter in Central America and Mexico and how they flee from gang violence, home abuse, and government abuse. The U.S border comes to symbolize their only hope of attaining safety and the American Dream.\n\n\nRebecca Cammisa. Which Way Home. Documentary. Jan 31. 2009.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.894974946975708}
+{"content": "Member Care Coordinator\n\n\nWebsite Other\n\nReference Code: 5143\n\nPosition: Member Care Coordinator, HCSCJP00013960\nDuration: 6 months Contract to Hire\nLocation Address: Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109\n\n\n1. Responsible for home health assessments and system updates.\n2. Perform outreach and follow up attempts to members on their health care plan.\n3. Build relationships with members to encourage compliance with care plans and to alert the Case Manager quickly when issues arise.\n4. Inform and educate members on their program, may use supplied scripts. Complete records in system by performing data entry. Encourage member usage of our programs, including arranging appointments and additional member services (e.g., transportation). Generate appropriate correspondence and send to member manually, electronically, or telephonically.\n5. Conduct check-ins with members to review individual care plan goals.\n6. Maintain production requirements based on established department business needs.\n7. Provide support to the clinical team by performing the non-clinical functions (as identified by the business process) necessary to generate, manage, and close a case within the platform.\n8. Receive, analyze, conduct research and respond to telephone and/or written inquiries. Process information from member or provider to determine needs/wants and ensure customer questions have been addressed. Respond to customer or send to appropriate internal party.\n9. Notify help desk of system issues.\n10. Perform data entry function to update customer or provider information.\n11. Obtain required or missing information via correspondence or telephone.\n12. May serve as contact for the various groups regarding claims which involves conducting research, obtaining medical records/letters of medical necessity from TMG, reopen or initiate new cases as needed and refer case to clinicians.\n13. Support and maintain communications with various in-house areas regarding groups’ concerns, i.e.: Marketing, Provider Affairs, and SSD.\n14. Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with co-workers, management, customers, etc.\n16. Maintain complete confidentiality of company business.\n17. Maintain communication with management regarding development within areas of assigned responsibilities and perform special projects as required or requested.\n\n? Knowledge of medical terminology\n? Experience coordinating member medical related needs, providing assistance to members, and analyzing member needs\n? PC proficiency including Microsoft Office applications\n? Customer service skills\n? Current state driver license, transportation, and applicable insurance\n? Ability and willingness to travel\n\n\n\n\nRecent Posts", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8573201298713684}
+{"content": "Vaults to a different server folders\n\n\nIs it possible to configure different server folders to use different vaults. Example, I want to have 2 vaults: 1) Public images 2) Internal images. And then define some users to use 'Public images' vault and some users 'Internal images'. And when images are uploaded Public images (vault) would go C:\\Aras\\Public and Internal -> C:\\Aras\\Internal. Now it seems the files are going under same vault folder (even if I use different vaults).\n\nAny insight on that anyone?\n\n  • I think it´s possible but I don´t know exactly how. It´s possible to specify a second Vault. As far as I remember the \"Located\" ItemType contains the link to the target vault. \n\n    I actually use a similar concept for images by myself. I have the regular Vault for all kind of files and a second vault for thumbnail images. This one uses a vault like file structure but in my case this \"Image-Vault\" is basically part of the codetree.\n\n    My thumbnail images are not stored in the default Vault, but in this second location by custom logic. In my case it was mainly a customization to improve performance on image load as I wanted to display images in the grid. In the past displaying multiple vaulted images at once leaded to a server crash, not sure if this one was fixed.\n\n    One disadvantage: The thumbnail images are theoretically accessible from outside Innovator when people know the exact address. In my case we mostly have generic images, so this was no problem. But this should be considered when you have an environment that require high security standards or is cloud hosted. So if using a secondary Vault doesn´t work, a custom codetree Vault definitely does!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6420141458511353}
+{"content": "E-Cigarettes �� Most Common And Safest Smoking Threats\n\nvaping health risks\n\nE-Cigarettes – Most Common And Safest Smoking Threats\n\nVaporizing: HEALTH THREATS, Popularity and Socio-economic Impact Vaping or e cigarettes have grown to be extremely popular over modern times. It comes in many different sizes and shapes, incorporating trendy flavors and customizable add-ons. Considered a slick tobacco alternative, they are appealing to both young adults and old alike. But recent reports reveal a steadily increasing lung disease connected with vaporizing. This is a short list of the most frequent vaporizing health risks.\n\nMany teens and high school students don’t realize the adverse affects that using the cigarettes can podsmall.com have on their lungs. With little if any risk to your wellbeing, vaporizing cigarette butts can drastically decrease how much toxins inhaled by way of a smoker. A study published in-may 2021 reports that among students, there exists a significant link between the level of cigarette butts smoked and the increased risk of heart disease. As smoking becomes popular amongst teenagers and adults alike, the danger of vaporizing cigarette butts will continue to upsurge in tandem.\n\nOne of the newest issues to face the planet as a result of our reliance on electric cigarettes is heart disease. In May of 2021, researchers published a study which found strong evidence that longterm unwanted effects of tapering cigarettes are dangerous to your health. The report directly cites two main findings which directly contradict each other. According to the research, longterm use of the cigarettes increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the second finding shows that although long term side effects of e cigarette smoking may result in a higher risk of heart disease, it really is unlikely to cause death.\n\nLots of people may be surprised to get that vaporizing your personal cigarettes can result in serious lung damage. Because some vapers usually do not yet realize that the temperature they use to heat up their device can severely damage the cells and tissues within the outer layers of the lungs. Damage caused by prolonged smoking can also lead to weakening of the esophageal sphincter, which is responsible for maintaining the strength of the walls of your lungs.\n\nLong term usage of any vaporizing device can also negatively affect the mind. Children who smoke with all the cigarettes have been shown to have slower reflexes and so are more likely to experience short attention spans. Longterm exposure can even result in the increased loss of mental faculties. This is one of the biggest e-cigarette smoking dangers and something of the reasons why it has become so hard for parents to prevent teens from getting involved with this harmful activity.\n\nThe final vaporizing health risks we are going to discuss are the ramifications of long term use of the unit. Nicotine in the liquid used in most vaporizers can stay static in your system for up to six hours once you finish smoking. Therefore you could be exposing the body to cigarette toxins for a lot longer than you understand. E cigarettes, due to their porous and thin nature, can absorb quite a bit of tar and toxic gases in to the body. Tar deposits can build-up on the lungs and in severe cases cause cancer. Nicotine is highly addictive and will be an incredibly hard habit to break.\n\n\nChronic bronchitis is a very serious condition that can develop if a smoker will not quit. Chronic bronchitis is caused by the constant irritation of the liner of the lungs. If it goes untreated, then it could turn into pneumonia, which may be deadly. Nicotine has also been associated with cases of skin rash and oral cancer. E using tobacco is probably the biggest verified deaths as a result of hazards of the product and the risk that it poses to your health.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6505676507949829}
+{"content": "This is your brain — on food.\n\nGrowing up fat, I struggled a lot with diets, my self worth, and my relationship with food which still manifests itself today.\n\nIt turns out I’m not alone.\n\nThe way we eat can have a huge impact on our mental health, and our mental health can have a huge impact on the way we eat. Brain health and food are intrinsically, cyclically, linked.\n\nSo I learned a lot in my conversation with expert nutritionist, Rhiannon Lambert from Rhitrition to help us to understand the complex relationship between food and our mental health. (Here’s the full video interview.)\n\nStress and food\n\nRhiannon’s top 3 tips on how to have a better relationship between food and stress, and how to tackle binge-eating.\n\n‘Slow down the eating process. Remove distractions like the TV or having your phone on when you’re eating, because when you’re not looking directly at the food, the hunger signals aren’t doing their job effectively. ‘\n\n‘Sometimes a client will tell me, “I felt terrible today. I had a huge argument at work and I feel pretty worthless.” And I’ll question if it’s really a fact that they’re worthless. Why do they feel that way? Breaking down if it’s a feeling versus fact can help with the (eating or bingeing) mechanism that’s about to come.’\n\n‘Research suggests that if you restrict completely, and you follow crash diets and you try and eliminate everything, you are way more likely to overeat on the item you don’t allow yourself to have (during times of stress).’\n\nHow to love food and feel guilt-free\n\nRhiannon’s top 3 tips on reframing your relationship with food.\n\n‘Red items are things you never allow yourself, amber could be something you allow yourself occasionally, and then green would be lots of vegetables and fruits that you eat all the time.\n\n‘Do that exercise, question why they’re in that category, and if that’s helpful to you? If it’s not helpful, then try and move a red item to amber and introduce it into your diet occasionally.’\n\n‘To eliminate feeling guilt you need to talk out loud. And if you can’t talk, write. If you internalize it, it’s only going to create a vicious cycle of more unhealthy behaviour patterns to compensate.’\n\n‘Try and say something nice to yourself every single time you identify a feeling of guilt. Be kind to yourself, and acknowledge it’s a long process, but you can make a start at it.’\n\nImprove your relationship with food\n\nRhiannon’s top three takeaways for people that struggle with diet and mental health.\n\n‘Aim for a balanced plate, because if you’re doing that at every meal, nutritionally speaking, you’re on to a winner. You’re definitely getting what you need in your diet, which means you’re nutritionally functioning in the right way.’\n\n‘Is there something missing? Is there something that’s not quite right? Is it sleep? Is it an activity every single day? Is that then affecting how you’re feeling? What can you do to enhance those factors instead of turning to food as a compensatory mechanism?’\n\n‘Do something positive for you that’s related to food. Make it fun, get some friends over, do something that’s going to change your association with it.’\n\n\nIf you enjoyed this snappy snippet — you can check out my weekly newsletter on optimizing brain health and mental performance every week, according to science, in your inbox every Sunday by signing up here.\n\nI’m the Co-Founder of brain health and mental wellness company Heights.\n\nWe make the highest quality natural smart supplements taken daily by some of the sharpest brains in Europe, and create content from science designed to help you reach your heights.\n\n\nGet the Medium app\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7880685925483704}
+{"content": "Home Coronavirus Updates Step 3: what events can happen from 17 May?\n\nStep 3: what events can happen from 17 May?\n\nby Martin Fullard\n\nMonday 17 May marks the activation of Step 3 of the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown in England, with the prime minister Boris Johnson confirming (on 10 May) the planned next stage will go ahead.\n\nWhile Step 3 is good news for pub and restaurant owners, who will again be allowed to welcome people back inside their venues, it is also good news for large parts of the events industry.\n\nWhile social distancing is still required, there is no requirement for Covid-status certification at this time to secure entry, although that could change at a later date. Overnight stays will also be allowed from 17 May.\n\nAre conferences, meetings and exhibitions allowed?\n\nYes, from 17 May most events will resume in some capacity, although it is likely some may opt to postpone if costs make it unviable owing to capacity restrictions.\n\nBusiness events such as conferences, tradeshows, exhibitions, charity auctions, and private dining events such as charity or gala dinners and awards ceremonies, and corporate hospitality are all permitted.\n\nAlso permitted to reopen are cinemas, live performances, circuses, air shows, historical /battle reenactments, live animal performances such as falconry displays at events, non-elite and professional sporting events and grassroots and professional sporting events.\n\nWhat capacity restrictions are in place?\n\nFrom the 17 May, indoor events for up 1,000 people or 50% venue capacity, not including staff, contractors or exhibitors, will reopen. Outdoor events for up to 4,000 (or 50% capacity) may also resume, and special dispensation will be given to seated stadiums.\n\nThe Government has also made a special provision for large, outdoor seated venues where crowds can be distributed around the venue, allowing up to 10,000 people or 25% of total seated capacity, whichever is lower. This provision can be used by venues with a seated capacity of 16,000 or above. For events with mixed seating and standing areas including music, elite sporting events and non-elite/professional spectator events, the capacity cap will be calculated as 25% of seated capacity, irrespective of any standing capacity.\n\nThree rules to know\n\nThe Government states organisers must adhere to the following three rules:\n\n  1. Event organisers follow all relevant Covid-secure guidance depending on the type of event and complete a related risk assessment. This guidance varies according to the type of event and could include business eventsoutdoor eventsfunfairsperforming arts or sports events.\n  2. Organisers and attendees must adhere to all legal requirements, including maintaining group sizes permitted by social contact restrictions at the relevant step in the Roadmap and preventing mixing between groups, enforcing social distancing guidelines and mandating face coverings in indoor areas where required.\n  3. All reasonable action has been taken by the event organiser to mitigate risk to public health.\n\nWhat about the social contact rules and group sizes?\n\nWhile an organiser can run a 1,000-person event, individual groups attending may not be more than six or two households. For example, 30 individual friends cannot attend an indoor event together.\n\nHowever, a group of 30 can attend an outdoor event.\n\nPeople can attend business events in larger groups if it is reasonably necessary for work purposes that everyone in the group attends together. However, in those circumstances, people are still encouraged to attend either alone or in groups as small as possible and must avoid mixing and switching between groups. People should adhere to all risk mitigations identified for that event and maintain social distancing from people they do not live with (or share a bubble with), wherever possible.\n\nThese social contact limits for permitted organised gatherings will be:\n\n  • Indoors – rule of 6 or 2 households\n  • Outdoors – 30 people\n  • Organised sport – exempt from social contact limits\n\nOrganisers should also mitigate risk to public health by controlling attendance, limiting numbers to take account of the space and ventilation of a venue and implementing effective infection prevention and control measures.\n\nHow do capacity caps work?\n\nAll capacity restrictions must be adhered to at any point throughout the event. For example, an exhibition or conference can admit over 1,000 people in a single day, but no more than 1,000 people at one time. If an event runs over the course of multiple days, no more than 1,000 people should be admitted at any one time over that period. An organiser could theoretically run an event with 1,000 people in the morning, and 1,000 people in the afternoon.\n\nIf a single venue hosts multiple different events at one time, and the attendees of each event are separated for the duration of the event (for example, an exhibition centre hosting multiple business events), the 50% capacity cap will apply to each individual event, rather than the venue.\n\nThis should be applied consistently across all types of events apart from grassroots organised sports participants events which are not subject to the limits on participants, but they are still subject to limits on spectators.\n\nFor those events subject to capacity caps, it should be noted that the caps refer to the event attendees only. Staff, workers and volunteers are covered by the work exemption so should not be counted as part of the capacity cap.\n\nDo people need to be Covid-19 tested or show a vaccination certificate (Covid-status certification)?\n\nNo, not at this stage. While the Government has said it is exploring the potential use of ‘Covid-secure status’, the decision to require a mandatory negative Covid-19 test rests firmly with individual organisers. The Government only says: “consider pre-attendance screening.”\n\nDuring his address, 10 May, the prime minister hinted that from Step 4 on 21 June, there may be no need for any form of Covid-status certification. It is believed that the recommendations from the scientists after the Event Research Programme will determine this.\n\nWhat about social distancing?\n\nYes, for all events from 17 May, social distancing rules must be followed.\n\nThe Government suggests reviewing meeting rooms and seating areas to ensure they allow social distancing. Space out chairs and tables to meet social distancing requirements and discourage close face-to-face interaction between guests.\n\n\nThe Government also says organisers and venues should consider ways to manage groups of visitors, for example splitting delegates into smaller groups to manage entry and exit and staggered lunch or break times.\n\nWhat about face coverings or masks?\n\nThere is no clear guidance on the use of face coverings across all the different settings, but it stands to reason that that they are expected to be worn while moving around (indoor) venues, and can be removed once seated, similar to that of working in an office.\n\nHowever, the guidance says organisers should avoid situations which encourage people to raise their voices, as this increases transmission risk. Where possible, use microphones (cleaned between users) for communicating to larger groups. You can also use static microphones (rather than roving microphones which are passed between people) for delegates to ask questions, which should be cleaned between users.\n\nAdditionally, the guidance notes speakers should wear face coverings when presenting and speaking where possible and speak at least 2m from attendees. Microphones and podiums should be cleaned between speakers.\n\nWhat about catering?\n\nFrom 17 May, catering can also be provided for permitted events, such as business events and private dining. Awards nights and gala dinners will need to follow hospitality guidance. Read the guidance via UKHospitality.\n\nRead the Visitor Economy Guidance here.\n\nRelated Articles", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9900192618370056}
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+{"content": "Romneyas meanings in Urdu\n\nRomneyas meanings in Urdu is رومنیاس Romneyas in Urdu. More meanings of romneyas, it's definitions, example sentences, related words, idioms and quotations.\n\n\nInstall chrome extension\n\nWhat are the meanings of Romneyas in Urdu?\n\nMeanings of the word Romneyas in Urdu are . To understand how would you translate the word Romneyas in Urdu, you can take help from words closely related to Romneyas or it’s Urdu translations. Some of these words can also be considered Romneyas synonyms. In case you want even more details, you can also consider checking out all of the definitions of the word Romneyas. If there is a match we also include idioms & quotations that either use this word or its translations in them or use any of the related words in English or Urdu translations. These idioms or quotations can also be taken as a literary example of how to use Romneyas in a sentence. If you have trouble reading in Urdu we have also provided these meanings in Roman Urdu.\n\n\nFrequently Asked Questions (FAQ)\n\nWhat do you mean by romneyas?\n\n\nWhats the definition of romneyas?\n\nDefinition of the romneyas are", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.54830002784729}
+{"content": "Market Insight From\n\nResilient Chinese demand for Australian iron ore to support construction industry\n\nAustralia’s trade surplus grew to A$8.5bn ($6.55bn) in March 2021, driven primarily by an increase in demand for iron ore. Global demand for Australian metalliferous ores has surged since a brief lull in July of last year, when exports of the good contracted by 6.5% YoY.\n\nThe growth in demand for iron ore, however, stands in stark contrast with the fall in demand for Australian coal.\n\nIn March 2021, exports of metalliferous ores increased by 40.5% YoY, while exports of coal, coke, and briquettes fell by 29.2%. The divergent performance between two of Australia’s largest export goods by value has some common cause in Australia’s primary trading partner, China.\n\nTrade tensions with China have escalated as of late, though their beginnings occurred in mid-2018, following the restriction of Huawei and ZTE’s entrance into Australia’s 5G market.\n\nThe relationship worsened after Australia’s call for an inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus in April 2020, with China banning beef imports from four major Australian processing plants and enacting tariffs on Australian barley in response.\n\nA succession of additional punitive measures followed, including tariffs on wine and an unofficial ban on Australian coal. The Australian Government’s recent nullification of two Belt and Road Initiative agreements with the state of Victoria has worsened political relations further.\n\nExports of Australian coal, coke, and briquettes fell sharply in the latter half of 2020 as a result, recording an average monthly contraction of 29.5% YoY since China’s unofficial ban began in October.\n\nExports of coal, coke, and briquettes accounted for 16.1% of Australia’s total exports as recently as July 2019, but as of March 2021, they accounted for only 9.4%.\n\nBy contrast, over the same period, exports of metalliferous ores recorded an average monthly growth of 42.8% YoY, accounting for 45.3% of total exports in March 2021.\n\nDespite many of Australia’s exports seemingly in the sights of Beijing, so far, iron ore remains untouched. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, iron ore exports to China increased by A$1.3bn, to A$10.1bn, in March 2021, accounting for 72.2% of the A$14bn of iron ore exported; this was primarily driven by a 5.25 million tonne increase in volume.\n\nMuch like in previous downturns, China’s economic recovery from the pandemic has been driven by an extensive infrastructure investment program, which has required significant volumes of iron ore to feed. A general relationship can be observed between Australian metalliferous ore exports and Chinese GDP growth.\n\nWith iron ore output in Brazil, India, and South Africa insufficient to meet demand, and alternative sources in Africa years away from viability, China is likely to continue to be dependent on Australian output for the foreseeable future.\n\nChinese dependence on Australian iron ore will continue to support the growth of the Australian economy and construction industry, far outweighing the loss caused by the slowdown in demand for coal.\n\nSectors of the construction industry most likely to benefit are those which provide supportive infrastructure, such as rail, road, and energy, exemplified by Rio Tinto’s $2.6bn infrastructure development at its Koodaideri mine.\n\nIn the longer term, a potential slowing of demand as Chinese infrastructure matures may pose a challenge for the iron ore industry. However, even at lower levels, demand is likely to remain significant, with output at nascent Chinese interests in Africa, such as those at Simandou, unlikely to be fully sufficient.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999992311000824}
+{"content": "Question: Where Is WhatsApp Backup Stored?\n\nHow can I access WhatsApp backup on Google Drive?\n\nHow to Access WhatsApp Backup from Google Drive?Step 1: Take a backup of your chats.Step 2: Restore WhatsApp backup from Google Drive.Step 1: Connect your Android phone to the system.Step 2: Backup your data to your computer.Step 3: Disconnect your device.Step 4: Restore your backup.Nov 27, 2020.\n\nWill I lose my WhatsApp conversations if I change phones?\n\nYou would not lose your WhatsApp chat history even if you change your phone. How do I transfer my WhatsApp chat history to my new phone? You need to open WhatsApp and then go to WhatsApp Settings > Chats > Chat Backup. You will see a green ‘Backup’ button, tap on it to backup your chats locally on your phone.\n\nIs it possible to transfer WhatsApp backup from Google Drive to iCloud?\n\nThis is because Android WhatsApp uses Google Drive for backups while iPhone OS uses the iCloud option. Therefore, to transfer WhatsApp backup from Google Drive to iCloud directly is impossible given the different formats of these storage mechanisms.\n\n\nOpen the settings menu, go to Chats, and then chose Chats backup. # From here you can choose whether you want to backup your chats manually or automatically (weekly, monthly, and more). When you open WhatsApp on the new phone, it will prompt you to recover old chats, media from Google Drive.\n\nHow do I restore my 4 year old WhatsApp messages?\n\n* Login to your WhatsApp account by entering the phone number, OTP. * After setting up the app you will get an option to “Restore” all your WhatsApp chats. * Click on the Restore option and all your old/deleted WhatsApp messages will be restored on your new smartphone.\n\nHow long does WhatsApp backup take?\n\nThe highest size i have taken backup was around 340–370 mb including media files. To take a back in iCloud it took me nearly 10–15 mins using 100 Mbps wifi network,it could have been more with 4G or other networks. The same chat considering no media files it will be less than 5 min.\n\nHow do I transfer WhatsApp to new phone?\n\nHere is how to transfer WhatsApp chats to a new phone: Tap on Chat Backup. Then tap on “Account” to select or add your Google Drive account. Check “Include Videos” if you would like to export them too. Finally, tap on “Back Up” to back up your WhatsApp conversations and media to Google Drive.\n\nWhere is WhatsApp backup saved?\n\nOpen WhatsApp and hit the menu button (three vertical dots on the top-right) > Settings > Chat Settings > Backup conversations. This file will be stored as “msgstore. db. crypt7” in your phone’s /WhatsApp/Databases folder.\n\nHow can I recover deleted WhatsApp messages without backup?\n\n\nHow can I download WhatsApp chat history?\n\nExport chat history You can use the export chat feature to export a copy of the chat history from an individual or group chat. Open the individual or group chat. Tap More options > More > Export chat. Choose whether to export with media or without media.\n\nCan I recover deleted WhatsApp messages?\n\nHow to retrieve deleted WhatsApp messages: Simply uninstall and reinstall WhatsApp. When you reinstall the app, you will be prompted to restore your message history from the backup file. … Therefore if your auto backup frequency is set to daily, then you can easily recover any deleted chats before the next backup occurs.\n\nHow do I download WhatsApp messages from Google Drive?\n\nHere are the steps to follow to download WhatsApp backup from Google drive and restore to the new phone:Step 1: Open the application.Step 2: Phone number.Step 3: Verification.Step 4: Grant access and restore.Step 5: Set up WhatsApp and use it.Step 1: Retrieve WhatsApp backup from Google Drive to Android phone.More items…•Apr 18, 2020\n\nHow can I access my WhatsApp backup?\n\nTo find the local backup saved in the phone’s internal storage, go to file manager, open the root folder, search for the WhatsApp folder and tap on it. Look for the ‘databases’ folder, which includes all text messages. The media files are saved in a separate ‘Media’ folder inside the WhatsApp folder.\n\nHow do I find my WhatsApp backup email?\n\nHope this helps.You can easily find the Gmail ID registered in WhatsApp for backup by simply following below steps.Step 1 : Open WhatsApp and Tap on Menu, then tap ‘Settings’Step 2 : Tap on ‘Chats’Step 3: Open ‘Chat Backup’Step 4 : Under Google Drive Settings Section, you can find the Email ID.More items…\n\nWhere WhatsApp data is stored in Android?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7822836637496948}
+{"content": "A New Paradigm: OT Security and Data in the Cloud\n\nA New Paradigm: OT Security and Data in the Cloud\n\nMany industries have seen significant improvements in operational efficiency and reduced downtime by adopting advanced analytics and optimization algorithms that run on cloud services.\n\nCritical infrastructure operators have been slow to adopt this new technology, due to well-justified concerns over the security and regulatory compliance of external connections. However, the potential benefits of OT-to-cloud connectivity grow more apparent each year, creating additional incentives for critical infrastructure operators and device manufacturers to support secure external network connections.\n\nIs it safe to connect?\n\nConventional wisdom dictates that OT devices should not be connected to external networks, due to the potential consequences if a threat actor were to gain access to a sensor, programmable logic controller, SCADA device, or other OT asset. A successful cyber attack on an OT network, especially at the lowest network levels, can lead to damage far more serious than the financial losses that follow a typical security breach.\n\nThe need for rigorous security in the OT environment remains as strong as ever. However, new technological capabilities, together with changes in enterprise IT architecture, have forced a re- examination of the traditional approach to OT connectivity.\n\nRather than maintaining a simple “no connections” strategy, many organizations have begun to explore and implement technologies that keep OT devices safe from external threat vectors, while enabling—under strict control—connectivity to cloud services or other external networks.\n\nOpportunities in the cloud\n\nCloud services provide an ideal platform for aggregating and analyzing operational data, especially for organizations with multiple facilities or business units that do not share a common IT infrastructure. With cloud connectivity, critical infrastructure organizations can improve the efficiency and resilience of their operations in ways that were not previously possible.\n\nIn addition, machine vendors to the industrial market are beginning to offer enhanced support and services that depend on connected equipment. In order to work, these services—which can include predictive maintenance, planned downtime, and data-driven failure analysis—depend on data flowing out of devices in the plant and back to the manufacturer’s cloud service, where the data can be monitored and analyzed.\n\nEach year, new applications of cloud computing become available, and there are more benefits to be gained from centralized, real-time visibility into device status and performance. The question is how to achieve that visibility without exposing the connected devices to attack.\n\nHardware-enforced security\n\nThe answer to OT-to-cloud connectivity is hardware-enforced security technology that allows data to travel out of the facility to the cloud, without providing a path back inside that could be exploited by threat actors. Data diodes and digital isolators, integrated with hardware-enforced protocol validation technology do exactly that.\n\nInside an optical data diode, data follows a one-way path–through an optical transmitter, across a fiber optic cable, and into an optical receiver–that allows no possibility for data to travel in the opposite direction. Similarly, digital isolators use transformers to magnetically couple data across an isolation barrier in a one-way-only method.\n\nNo software-based firewall can provide the same level of assurance, which is why many organizations now require a hardware-based security for any use case that involves data from an OT device being sent to the cloud.\n\n\nOperational technology data travels safely to the cloud via a unidirectional data diode.\n\nGE and Microsoft pioneered the use of cloud-based OT monitoring and analytics several years ago, using data diode technology from Owl Cyber Defense to protect the data. The concept is now catching on with more organizations. With an OT-to-cloud data flow, protected by hardware-enforced security technology, energy companies can optimize plant performance and device maintenance, thereby reducing operating expenses and delivering more value to consumers and business customers.\n\nOn the horizon: embedded security technology\n\nAs the adoption of hardware-based security accelerates, a new technology will make it even easier for device manufacturers and asset owners to protect their OT devices while enabling outbound connections to the cloud.\n\nEmbedded cybersecurity technology–security hardware that is built directly into OT devices– offers an ideal solution for managing the growth of the industrial internet of things and the need to share data securely.\n\nBuilding security directly into industrial devices provides a range of benefits for operators, designers, and manufacturers of industrial and critical infrastructure controllers and safety systems. Recent innovations make it possible for hardware-based security to be built into modular platforms, such as sensors, programmable logic controllers, SCADA devices, and network switches. This technology provides highly secure, deterministic, data flow management between industrial equipment and external networks.\n\nEmbedded security modules provide maximum assurance for critical OT data, while reducing cost and administrative overhead. Owl Cyber Defense introduced the industry’s first hardware-enforced embeddable security modules in January 2021 and has already received significant interest from device manufacturers and OT operators.\n\nThe benefits of using OT data in the cloud are too numerous to ignore. With a new approach to security, based on hardware-enforced solutions, the critical infrastructure sector will be able to harness the full potential of the cloud.\n\nDownload the whitepaper: OT Data in the Cloud\n\nAir-Gapped Networks and Data Diodes\n\nAn air gap is the ultimate cybersecurity measure: a physical separation between a secure  network and any other computer or network. The purpose of an air gap is to eliminate any poss...\nJune 7, 2021\nDan Crum\n\nCommon Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level and Data Diodes\n\nAs the world’s #1 provider of data diode technology, we field a lot of questions about Common Criteria (CC) and its “Evaluation Assurance Levels” (EAL) of certification, from EAL1 t...\nMay 19, 2021\n\nCross Domain Security for Critical Infrastructure \n\nCybersecurity has always been a key concern in the critical infrastructure sector. But in 2021, security is taking on even greater importance, due to the convergence of two factors: the g...\nMay 11, 2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9739150404930115}
+{"content": "Three species of Hipparion, that lived in the Iberian peninsula between 9 million years and 5 million years ago.Credit: MAURICIO ANTÓN\n\n\nTheir conclusions challenge a classic theory, which links the evolutionary success of horses to several novel adaptations in response to the spread of grasslands around 18 million years ago. “According to the classic view, horses would have evolved faster in when grasslands appeared, developing teeth that were more resistant to the stronger wear that comes with a grass-dominated diet. They also became bigger to more effectively digest this low quality food, and as a strategy against predators in these new, open habitats”, explains Juan L. Cantalapiedra, researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.\n\n\nStay on top of the latest Science News. Learn about animals & plants , and the other interesting topics. Subscribe for free »\n\n“Environmental changes would have produced a lot more fragmented, mosaic-type ecosystems, where populations of horses with similar demands and adaptations could have evolved isolated from one another, resulting in different species but with a similar appearance”, points Manuel Hernández Fernández at the Complutense Univerity in Madrid. “This was probably only possible in ecosystems with a lot of energy and biomass, so that very similar species, which otherwise would have been in strong competition, were all able to survive”, adds Jose Luis Prado, at the National University of the Center of Buenos Aires Province.\n\nDiversification accelerated again two more times, “when changes in sea level allowed their migration from North America into Eurasia and Africa, 11 and 4 million years ago”, explains María Teresa Alberdi, at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. “Then, again, new species appeared very fast, but without showing dramatic changes in appearance”, concludes Cantalapiedra.\n\n\nSource: Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7989276647567749}
+{"content": "There he survived the voyage through the clouds which turned all non-Gold Saints (except Pegasus) into stone and defeated Acheron Charon shortly after. One of the three commanders of the Underworld, Heavenly Noble Star, Griffon Minos (天貴星グリフォンのミーノス, Tenkisei Gurifon no Mīnosu) battled the Pisces Gold Saint of the same era. After Yōma later dissolves Shion with his Marvelous Room technique, Aspros reappears carrying with him Dohko and Shion, to engage Yōma in battle. They share with the Gold Saints the responsibility of training new Saints and undertake all kind of missions. He was saved by Kōh-i-Nūr Krjest, Aquarius Dégel's mentor, who has Athena's blood running through his veins. In a last assault, Shion managed to use his master Hakurei's technique, Praesepe Returning Spirits Wave, channeling the strength of the Saints' souls in a murderous burst, negating Balron's defense, who was unable to find a way to escape in his book, since Shion never used this attack before and performed it empirically, thus completely destroying René with the energy blast conjured. However, before Hakurei can break the seal using the blessed sword, Hades appears out of thin air and kills him. Aquarius Dégel (水瓶座（アクエリアス）のデジェル, Akueriasu no Dejeru) is the Aquarius Gold Saint in Lost Canvas. In the Anecdotes chapters, Acubens name is also alternatively spelled in kanji as Acubens (蟹爪（アクベンス）, Akubensu), meaning \"Crab pincers\". Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese); Neil Kaplan (English). He was later confirmed as the guard of the second Demon Temple, Venus, and also functions as the tireless keeper of the records of people's lives. But after a conversation, he finds out that she is on the same side. Skeletons (雑兵スケルトン, Zōhyō Sukeruton) are the lowest ranking soldiers of Hades' army, the equivalents of Athena's rankless soldiers. Tous les texte sont issu de défis de l'Enfer de Dante. Also a Specter only present in Lost Canvas, Heavenly Penetrating Star, Nasu Veronica (天究星ナスのベロニカ, Tenkyūsei Nasu no Beronika) is one of the most potent Specters alongside Bennu Kagaho, and also the most monstrous ever appeared. Knowing the power of the weapons of the Libra Cloth, Gordon recklessly challenges Dohko to wield any of the weapons of Libra. In the same vein as the Shakespearian proverbial phrase,Yōma compares life to a stage play. Heavenly Heroic Star, Balron René (天英星バルロンのルネ, Ten'eisei Baruron no Rune), appeared briefly behind Hades' shadow, among several high-ranking Specters. A newly introduced Specter, Earthly Beast Star, Cait Sith Cheshire (地獣星ケット・シーのチェシャ, Chijūsei Ketto Shī no Chesha) is somewhat of a comic relief character, acting more like a servant than a combatant, as he's seen riding Pandora's carriage and guiding the Specter that invaded Jamir. Dohko reappears once more in the epilogue included in vol. To defend the boat from the attack of Aiacos, Sisyphos uses arrows made of Cosmo, shooting them with his bow and his direct attack Cheiron's Light Impulse (ケイロンズライトインパルス, Keironzu Raito Inparusu) a powerful blast of ray of light, that provokes a massive whirlwind, extinguishing all the fire that covered Aiacos' and Athena's ship. Finally, Dégel realizes Unity will never give up his plans and decides to fight seriously. A spiritual feather falls off the wing, touching the blood-smeared shards of the Pegasus Cloth, causing the resurrection of the Pegasus God Cloth, which envelops Tenma's body. It is here when he reveals to have been a training partner and friend to Leo Regulus. He was shown as being somewhat hostile and talking in an informal, almost humorous way. He is able to launch one last assault however, as Thanatos uses his decaying body to channel part of his power and attack Manigoldo. ), which is a powerful blast that simulates the Aurora, freezing the air temperature to its maximum (reaching near, or sometimes precisely Absolute Zero). Dohko's knowledge about the secret of Athena's Cloth is removed from his memory by Defteros, who later sent him to the Lost Canvas, carrying the Cloth of the goddess. The following article comprises a list of the characters appearing in the short story serialization Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas - Anecdotes, complementary to the manga Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas.. In the moment Kagaho was to take their lives, he was stopped by Libra Dohko. Kardia is introduced as a merciless sadist and a prideful, arrogant, and boastful warrior with an explosive personality. Following Tenma's Cosmo, Libra leaves the expansion of Defteros' Another Dimension, appearing in the Third Demon Temple: Terra, just in time to relieve Sasha, Tenma and Regulus from Bennu Kagaho's Crucify Ankh. She reincarnates in every era Hades has to resurrect, choosing a mortal host suitable for her master's might and acting as his lieutenant and the commander of the Specters. He was at first involved in an investigation regarding Bluegrad's Blue Warriors and the seal of Poseidon. Unicorn Yato (一角獣星座（ユニコーン）の耶人, Yunikōn no Yato) is the name of the Unicorn Saint living in the 18th Century. In his last moments, Manigoldo launches a last-ditch attack against Thanatos' physical body, destroying it and in the aftermath being pulverized himself, giving Sage a chance to seal Thanatos away. As Shion loses blood, he receives a vision of his master and the Saints of the future generations, encouraging him to defeat the Specter. Additionally, Saori Kido (城戸 紗織, Kido Saori), the incarnation of Athena in the 20th century in Saint Seiya original manga, appears briefly in the epilogue of The Lost Canvas, contained in vol. After returning from the Underworld, his Pegasus Cloth is repaired with the blood of Virgo Asmita, turning it into an identical version to the one that Pegasus Seiya wore during the Hades Arc from Kurumada's original manga. To such end, Athena bestows on Dohko the divine gift of Misopethamenos (ミソペサメノス, Misopesamenos), (from the Greek Greek μισόπεθαμένος: \"semi-dead\"), which grants him incredible longevity by means of a process of simulated aging and reduced cardiac activity, becoming thus the reason of Dohko's surviving until the late 20th century. The spin-off series tells stories about the twelve Gold Saints. He lives by the philosophy of survival of the strongest. He later resurfaces during Athena and Pandora's encounter revealing Partita alive, and revels in the latter's apparent murder of Pandora. As they both leave the stratosphere, Kagaho admires the Sun while listening to Dohko's reasoning, and brings back memories from his past when he lived with Sui. Shiori Teshirogi mentions that drawing the Gold Saints is one of her favorite parts in the manga as they are her favorite characters of the series. Voiced by: Aya Hirano (Japanese); Reba Buhr (English) He later reveals to Kagaho that he shares the same spiritual pain that tormented his master, and intends to bring Kagaho back to the path of virtue. Instead, Valentine stays at the Saturnus Temple, guarding it meanwhile Rhadamanthys suffers excruciating pain as effect of Alone's blood. She is killed by Leo Regulus' Lightning Plasma after he used his superior Cosmo to make Violate lose her influence over the dead. After delivering the killing blow on the Specter, he kneels before her, acknowledging her true identity. It was also revealed that he refused being a candidate for the succession of the Pope. However, he reappeared before Hades, begging for forgiveness after failing in his duties. Age: 32 Tenma recuperates and after Pandora reveals Alone is alive, he parts to encounter him. Furious for revenge, Regulus reveals then to the Wyvern, that he is the son of Leo Ilias, the man who broke off his horn. Forced to wear an iron mask to hide his existence from the outer world, Defteros was protected by his older brother Aspros, who was considered the rightful future heir of the Gemini Gold Cloth. Aiacos is also capable of generating a X-like shaped symbol, which explodes creating a powerful burst of energy, damaging the surrounding area and enemies within it. Before joining them, Athena approaches Dohko and entrusts him with the responsibility of guarding the sealed souls of the Specters, so that in the future, when they come back to life, it will become the harbinger of the new Holy War. Then he admits he had profound bonds with her. The Specter toys with the Saint's psyche, forcing him to remember a time past, when he could have joined Balron in the quest for supreme knowledge, and the moment in which Shion seemingly chose to abandon his training as a Saint. Age: 26 The Specter then realized that Shion was able to be the link between the past and future generation, as the future Pope of Sanctuary. He plays a significant role in convincing the young Alone to become Hades's corporal vessel. As the Specter snatches Athena's Cloth, Dohko miraculously reincorporates and retrieves the Cloth from the Specter's grasp. As Yōma prepared to inflict a killing stroke on Aspros, the Gemini Gold Cloth protects him, summoned by Defteros' soul. He held Tenma captive until the Pegasus Saint was rescued by Yato and Yuzuriha, and then was slain by his former prisoner. The Wyvern Specter dies protecting her, and with the last of his strength sends her back to Earth. Demon Pacifier (天魔降伏, Tenma Kōfuku) is a powerful attack which manifests Asmita's Cosmo physically between his palms. Later he was resurrected by Hades. He was shown giving orders to Behemoth Violate, before dismembering a Skeleton soldier with an unnamed technique, with which he traced a cross in the air, generating an extreme cutting force. As he receives Kagaho's fierce attack, Dohko is sent flying against the Ankh that symbolized a grave in the Terra Temple, and is able to look at Kagaho's memories, finding out about his dead younger brother. Bennu is prevented from pursuing him by Gemini Defteros using the technique Another Dimension to save Dohko's life. Soon after, she was sent flying by Aiacos' Garuda Flap, withstanding its force and using it as a means to assault the Saints, freezing most of them with her mere presence, where she presented her first technique the Brutal Real (���ルータルリアル, Burūtaru Riaru), a titanic stomp which destroys completely the ground below Violate. Pandora then arrives to Uranus and prepares to kill Partita. With the aid of his master Sage, however, he proves to be a challenge for the god. He already knew Sage was dead and the one who had invaded Hades Cathedral wasn't him but his brother, Hakurei, who had dressed in the Pope's clothes. Putting aside fond memories and respect for the once-gentle brother he knew, Defteros engages Aspros in a final effort, pitting his own Galaxian Explosion against his brother's, out of which only one will come as survivor and final victor. He was able to reach the eighth sense after blinding himself. Later, he uses Koĺtso (カリツォー, Karitsō? Afterward, a powerful burst of light obliterates any adversary. Dohko is punished by Kagaho's Crucify Ankh, causing him to bleed over Athena's statue, triggering the resurrection of the goddess' Cloth. Kardia decided to live his short life intensely, only doing what he pleases and encountering death while facing a strong adversary. Twin brother of the late Gemini Aspros. Albafica's deadly poison blood proves too much for Lugonis, and he dies entrusting his pupil the Pisces Gold Cloth and his position as a Saint. Voiced by: Tetsuya Kakihara (Japanese); Arnie Pantoja (English) Icelus fights Capricorn El Cid twice, firstly amputating the Saint's right arm, and secondly challenging him in the dream world. He held the Specter Frog Zelos as a prisoner in his temple. Although Hades' army consist of 108 evil stars, only a few of them were named or fought hand-to-hand with Athena's Saints. Afterward, he is sent by the Underworld commander to infiltrate Athena's Sanctuary in an extremely important mission. Gemini Defteros (双子座（ジェミニ）のデフテロス, Jemini no Defuterosu), also known as the \"Demon of Canon Island\" (カノン島の鬼, Kanon-tō no Oni) and addressed by Asmita's ghost as \"a man who can destroy the stars of a galaxy\", first reveals himself as a man of incredible savagery, although he is at heart a serene warrior. During the invasion of the Sanctuary by Alone and his Specters, Sasha and the Pope attempted to seal him after seeing Alone trying to kill Tenma, but he manages to escape. He has been seen reuniting with Athena's army in heaven and together with Sisyphos and Shion he opened the gate to the Lost Canvas with Athena Exclamation. After being distracted by the energy ball that Hakurei made out of the summoned, fallen Saints from the previous Holy War, Hypnos is finally sealed by Hakurei who uses his young-age soul. [9] The fight also left him with his damaged Surplice, as only one wing remained. Fyodor is one of the Specters introduced in Lost Canvas manga. It has been revealed that Rhadamanthys is now the guardian of the Sixth Demon Temple: Saturnus. After his battle with Violate he was struck by surprise by Aiacos and was retrieved by Yuzuriha. Kardia De Escorpiao Cdz The Lost Canvas Cavaleiros Do Zodiaco. Kisah ini terjadi di Eropa abad ke-18, 24 He is then show killing his father and promising to make Bluegrad the greatest country of the world. Kagaho also appears in Chapter Virgo of the Anecdotes series, years before the events of 1747. Kagaho explodes in anger, brutally attacking Dohko. Saint Seiya - The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa Gaiden » Saint Seiya - The Lost Canvas - Meiou Shinwa Gaiden #3 - Chapter Three: Aquarius released by Akita Shoten on February 8, 2012. The Wyvern effortlessly negates Regulus' attack, who then resorts to summon the power of the twelve constellations, releasing it as a concentrated shockwave known as the Zodiac Clamation (ゾディアック・クラメーション, Zodiakku Kuramēshon). The scarf can also gain heat by the use of her Cosmo. Arriving in Bluegrad (ブルーグラード, Burūgurādo), Kardia and Dégel were attacked by the Blue Warriors, after escaping from the attack the Scorpio Gold Saint unleashes his technique known as Scarlet Needle (スカーレット ニードル, Sukāretto Nīdoru), with which he launches a crimson needle to 14 body parts (which represents the stars of Scorpius) to poison opponents, causing bleeding and excruciating pain, losing their 5 senses in the process, upon receiving several of the blows, the result can only be either madness or death. While Unity attacks, Dégel realizes what has happened to his friend: Unity became desperate to save Bluegrad from the eternal cold, therefore he finds Athena's Amphora, the container of Poseidon's soul, and the Scales. He escorted Pandora in her quest to punish Alone, and didn't exhibit any abilities or intention to fight. The battle resumes and his divine condition allows him to easily deflect Regulus' Athena Exclamation, although the Specter is surprised and acknowledges Regulus' battle prowess. This Specter has the ability to blend completely into darkness, as she presents herself gushing out from her master's shadow and challenging Taurus Aldebaran, proving she is able to fight equally at Taurus' strength. He adopted an orphan Albafica when the latter was a baby, cared for him and trained him in the ways of the Saints. Afterward, the Underworld Commander gravely wounds Ilias, who before dying cuts off one of Wyvern's horns, as he promised, leaving his son Regulus, believing in his future and his bright star. Lost Canvas concluded without an active involvement of Papillon Mew in In the past, 16 years before the events depicted in Lost Canvas, Aspros shared with Defteros the dire trials required to become a Saint. He then engulfs Tenma in a whirlwind, transporting him to the next Demon Temple, to engage Partita as a Specter, in battle. Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki (Japanese); Max Mittelman (English). In his last words Dégel says both he and Seraphina would watch over Bluegrad, the Earth and Unity, blessing his steps. This hints his true power, as Oneiros is the only son of Hypnos without a power of his own. Successfully invading Sanctuary and witnessing Alraune Queen's defeat at Dohko's hand, Sylphid reveals himself with a mild gust of Basilisk-poisoned wind, sensing divine blood in Libra's veins, and vows to kill him, as he considers him unworthy of sharing Rhadamanthys' condition of divine blood carrier. First introduced in a splash page in the first issues of The Lost Canvas, the Earthly Repose Star Specter (地鎮星の冥闘士（スペクター）, Jichinsei no Supekutā) appears in a more active role in the Anecdotes series, in the Virgo chapter, battling Virgo Asmita. Another attack employed by Rhadamanthys is Greatest Caution (グレイテストコーション, Gureitesuto Kōshon), his signature technique from the original manga, a powerful move that flares Rhadamanthys' Cosmo to the maximum, then unleashes it a central point via two opened palms, in the form of a devastating shock wave. In a final assault, the Sagittarius Gold Saint managed to help Leo Regulus and Aries Shion to perform the technique forbidden since ancient times, Athena Exclamation (アテナエクスクラメーション, Atena Ekusukuramēshon), that allows three Gold Saints to provide a monstrous amount of Cosmo capable of reaching a Big Bang in a small scale, releasing it as a single and outstanding blow, destroying the gates of the Lost Canvas. any event. He first appears testing Rhadamanthys' loyalty towards Hades, later he is seen in the entrance of Lost Canvas removing the hearts of soldiers and unknown Saints. With that movement Unity was freed from the power of Poseidon. Pandora is crushed upon learning that it had been Alone, not Hades, who had been at her side since they met. Heavenly Gaol Star, Minotaur Gordon (天牢星ミノタウロスのゴードン, Tenrōsei Minotaurosu no Gōdon), is a direct subordinate to Wyvern Rhadamanthys, and wields extraordinary strength. If the weight of the heart (measured by individual purity) is the same as the Feather of Maat, than the opponent continues alive, otherwise he is killed. Hydra Curtiss (海ヘビ星座（ヒドラ）のカーチス, Hidora no Kāchisu), Bear Douglas (大熊星座（ベアー）のダグラス, Beā no Dagurasu) and Lionet Blériot (子獅子星座（ライオネット）のプレリオ, Raionetto no Burerio), seem to be in a mission as carpenters to fix an ancient boat, found by Unicorn Yato and released from the ice by Leo Regulus. According to the time line, he first appears in the Sanctuary returning from Jamir. He reveals to Dohko that his life was saved by Bennu Kagaho, by bringing him to Canon Island. Bitte wechsele die Sprache zum Anschauen. The Specters are divided according to their destiny stars: Earthly and Heavenly Stars. Age: 14. In order to contain that huge power of the Sea god, Dégel freezes himself, Unity's sister Seraphina and all Atlantis inside the Freezing Coffin (フ リージングコフィン, Furījingu Kofin?) 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+{"content": "The Rider ★★★½\n\n“The Rider” is a quiet, contemplative, and sorrowful neo-western. It follows rising rodeo star Brady Blackburn, who can´t ride anymore, after his skull was crushed in an accident. What would you do, if you lost the one thing that was your big passion and the center of your self-image? How would you cope with it? Those are the questions Brady has to face on his introspective journey, which explores themes such as identity, self-worth, family, masculinity, social expectations, pride, purpose, dreams, passion, loss, self-destruction, change, acceptance, and moving on.\n\nThe film is simple, honest, heartfelt, and patient. The plot is uneventful and a bit meandering, but it has a quiet power and I love how it lingers on character moments. I think I would get more out of this, if I were more interested in riding/rodeo, but Brady´s struggles and insecurities are universal enough to be resonating, nonetheless. The use of non-professional actors and the fact that Brady Blackburn´s story is based on Brady Jandreau´s own experiences give the movie a sense of raw authenticity. Brady´s inner turmoil is so impactful and devastating, because it´s real. His film family is played by his real family (with the difference that his real mother is alive) and the sweet brother/sister relationship is actually the aspect that moved me the most.\n\nOther strengths of the movie include the engrossing mood, stunning cinematography, and fantastic visual storytelling. All in all, the film is not particularly groundbreaking or mind-blowing, but it has a lot of soul. It´s tender, empathetic, and heart-wrenching.\n\nP.S. This whole story reminds me of the book that makes Rick Dalton tear up in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.\n\nThomas liked these reviews", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7248470783233643}
+{"content": "Tabatha Deans\n\nBringing Integrity to the Written Word\n\nMy my my my Coronavirus!\n\n“Please place your item in the bag.”\n\n\n“Did you bring your own bag?”\n\n“Yes dammit!”\n\n“Please place your item in the bag.”\n\n\n“Help is on the way.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSlip Slidin’ Away…\n\nI saw a thriller movie many years ago about the past being erased. As it was erased, somehow people and the planet began to disappear. I don’t remember the entire plot or outcome of the movie, but I do remember it made me really think about what the past is. It was breathtaking to me to realize that the past is merely memories inside our own heads, supported only by photographs and written words. It was disconcerting to me at the time, but Jessica was still young and I lived in the constant chaos of surviving, without much free time to ponder. I buried the thoughts in my mind and carried on.\n\nAnd now I find myself at an age where I probably have more past than future in my mind. Don’t get me wrong. I’m healthy and plan to live another forty years at least, but from what I understand about the mind there’s only so much room for data, so eventually memories and knowledge will be pushed out to make room for new. Are we able to determine what stays and what goes? How do we preserve our most precious memories?\n\nOn a daily basis I visit memories of Jessica throughout all stages of her life. I remember when they first laid her in my arms. I remember when she started walking and ran into the corner of the wall, giving herself a huge goose egg in the middle of her forehead. I remember when she was four and would only wear dresses, and I remember running through the mall minutes before closing time to shop for her prom dress. It seems like just last week I walked into her hospital room after she had given birth to her own daughter, Petra. As I looked into the face of my granddaughter for the first time, it was like looking at Jessica for the first time. A new lifetime of memories had begun. A lifetime that I know I will not be around to see to the end.\n\nNow I enjoy a stable life with little chaos, but which allows me plenty of time to ponder. Which is more important, preserving my past or creating my future? Is there a way to do both? Is it a simple fact of aging and evolution that some things will be forgotten?\n\nDuring my youth all of my struggles were physical, tangible things. Paying the bills, getting the car fixed, raising Jessica and dealing with whatever life threw my way. It seems my middle-age years are destined to be full of internal challenges, which in a way are much harder for me to handle. I’ve never been really comfortable dealing with myself, in my own mind, it’s easier to focus on others and their struggles. So I suppose the time has come. I can’t deny it any longer. I’m officially middle-aged. It’s time for me to start doing brain exercises and crossword puzzles.\n\nForever the optimist, I can think of a few positive things about entering the second stage of life. Thanks to Mi Amante I am now a card-carrying member of AARP, which gets me discounts at dozens of places. I’m also able to pull off wearing brightly colored pants. I can get away with being as contentious as I like, or eccentric as it’s called at my age. And the accessories possibilities are endless!  I will be able to wear macaroni necklaces made my Petra, and funky earrings and trinkets just for fun. And let’s not forget the gaudy holiday sweaters.\n\n\nHaunted by the young\n\nI made the tragic mistake of boarding the 65 bus in the early afternoon, just as the junior high and high schools were letting out. The bus filled up with young hooligans quickly, and I scrunched deeper into the corner back seat. I had deliberately chosen that seat to be isolated and enjoy the scenic ride along Monaco, with only my thoughts go keep me company. It was snowing heavily and I was slowly working my way to Robert’s house. I had spent the morning writing mindless online posts, and intended to enjoy the ride. I looked forward to the two mile walk from the bus stop to his house in the fresh air and snow.\n\nThe children were cramping my space,as three of them took seats near me and began their senseless teenage chatter. They appeared to be about 13 or 14, two boys and one girl. They looked a bit nerdy by teenage standards, the boys’ feet looking too big for their skinny ankles, which peeked out from beneath pants that in my teenage years we would have called floods. Their pants were baggy, not in a gangster kind of way, but more like they had gone through a growth spurt since the beginning of the year, losing their baby fat and thinning out, as they simultaneously grew taller.\n\nTheir cheeks were red and blotchy, not from the cold so much as that constant state of insecurity and embarrassment indicative of young males. One boy and the girl were teasing the other boy, apparently he was moving, and this was his last day at school. They were well spoken, teasing him about needing therapy without his calming presence, dramatically declaring their love for him, how could they live without him. The words were said in jest, and the young man took the good natured ribbing quietly, only the deepening red spots on his cheeks indicated he heard their words.\n\nI listened to this banter for several miles, before the young man pulled the cord signaling his stop. They gave him a final farewell jab of love, and he silently got off the bus. He turned to wave good bye, and I could see the forbidden tears of sorrow begin to fall down his face.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5684347152709961}
+{"content": "Explore Dandeli – Things to do and Where to stay in Dandeli?\n\nDandeli is a small and famous town in the Western Ghats and is home to some of the most amazing natural beauty.\n\nDandeli, also known as “the pearl” by locals, has plenty to offer visitors looking for an adventure!\n\nThe beauty resides significantly in its green environment and adventurous hikes that are available to explore. \n\nMany activities can be done around Dandeli, such as bird-watching, trekking through forests, boating and canoeing for those who love adventure!\n\nIf you want a more relaxing day, then there are options such as bird-watching tours or spending time at one of the many resorts in Dandeli.\n\nThe most popular attractions in Dandeli are the Kalva Caves, Ulavi Temple, Satholi Falls and the famous Sykes Point.\n\nDandeli is well-known for its trails and hiking. There are many beauty in this place. The adventurous hikes and mountain views that can be seen from the accessible parts of Western Ghats.\n\nThe Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary is another exciting thing to do in the Dandeli region.\n\nThis place is perfect for people who love nature and you can see animals, like bisons and black panthers. There are beautiful plants there too.\n\nFlora at Dandeli\n\nFlora at Dandeli\n\nDandeli is a popular spot to visit because of the biodiversity. It has various species like palms, bamboos, and others near extinction in India due to deforestation.\n\nPlant species such as eucalyptus, Tectona grandis, Grevillea robusta, T. bellerica, Adina cordifolia, Mitragyna parviflora and various types of orchids can be found at Dandeli wildlife sanctuary.\n\nIt also has herbs, climbers and bamboos with other wild and medicinal plants.\n\nFauna at Dandeli\n\nFauna at Dandeli\n\nThe number of bird and animal species in the Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary makes it a regional hotspot for ecologists.\n\nDandeli is a nature’s paradise where the commonly seen faunas are Malabar Giant Squirrel or Ratufa Indica, Barking Deer, Gaur, Indian Pangolin, tigers cubs and flycatchers.\n\nDandeli offers plentiful opportunities for birding and wildlife photography, offering an escape to nature with breathtaking scenery.\n\nOne of the most intriguing birds found here is the Malabar Pied Hornbill.\n\nApart from the curious avian, this place is also home to some other birds like blue-throated barbet, peregrine falcon and great hornbill.\n\nPlaces to visit in Dandeli\n\nIn Dandeli, there are many places to visit. Many people come here to find adventure and fun.\n\nDandeli Wildlife Sanctuary\n\nDandeli has an area of 834.16 square kilometres that is made up of both rugged and heavily forested trails and the Western Ghats.\n\nDandeli Wildlife Sanctuary\nImage credit\n\nThe Dandeli wildlife sanctuary was made in Karnataka. It is one of the biggest ones in that state. It’s on the banks of River Kali and has a lot of animals.\n\nIf you go on a jungle safari in a jeep, you will see different animals and hear things.\n\nIt is surrounded by forests and hills in the Kanada District. There are many kinds of plants and animals near the forest.\n\n  • The place is full of many plants and animals. Tigers live here, but also elephants, deer, antelope, lizards and birds.\n  • There are over 300 species of birds that nest in the forest at The Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary. It is a paradise for bird watchers!\n  • This place is perfect for people who want to do something fun, like white water rafting or bird watching. It is also a good place for someone who needs to relax and get away from the stress of everyday life.\n  • You can see some animals in the sanctuary that are not like other animals – for example, sloth bears and Malabar giant squirrels.\n  • It’s not hard to get here because it is on the rail and road networks. This makes it easy for travellers from different places to come.\n\nShivaji Fort\n\nLocated at about 22 kilometres from Dandeli, the Shivaji fort was built by Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji, and it remains one of the country’s most visited destinations.\n\nIt is a great escape for people who like to hike and explore. Once they get there, they can see the strong fort where some warring techniques and architectural marvels are seen.\n\nThis fort is in Karnataka. It is well-maintained and old. You can see a good view of the area from here.\n\nMagod Falls\n\nMagod Falls is one of the most famous waterfalls in Dandeli. It is 200 meters tall, and it can be found just an hour’s drive from Dandeli.\n\nMagod Falls\nImage credit\n\nThe falls are an excellent place to go for picnics. The views of the surrounding areas are beautiful. There are also hiking trails for people who want something more active to do than sitting by the waterfall.\n\nThe area around the falls can be slippery. People should be cautious while walking there.\n\nThere is also Magod Lake, which is downstream from the fall. It has beautiful blue water and green surroundings.\n\nApart from the difficult trails, this captivating waterfall has so much to offer.\n\nIt is hard not to take a photo of something you want to remember.\n\nUlavi Temple\n\nOne of the holiest places for pilgrims in Karnataka, Ulavi Temple, is an important tourist attraction in Dandeli.\n\nUlavi is a religious place for the Lingayat sect of people in Karnataka and one of the best places to visit near Dandeli.\n\nThe Samadhi of Channabasavanna, one of the most revered saints of the Lingayat faith, lies here.\n\nAt Ulavi, there are Samadhi and a temple dedicated to Channabasavanna. Originally, the temple in Chalukyan style had been renovated and coloured.\n\nThe temple has statues of Shiva Sharanas (Devotees of Lord Shiva). Ulavi Jathra is a very famous festival that happens on Magha Purnima in February.\n\nUlavi Temple is visited by thousands of people from all over Karnataka during the Ulavi Jathre or congregations.\n\nThe temple is surrounded by forests that are covered with evergreen trees. The Western Ghats, mountains, are in the background of the landscape. The temple is very pretty. It is a place to get away from the city.\n\nThese forests also happen to be a natural habitat for many rare wild animals, like cheetahs, cobras, tigers and elephants.\n\nThe temple is in the Chalukyan style, and there are lots of caves for tourists to explore.\n\nUlavi Temple can be visited by tourists all year long.\n\nKavala Caves\n\nKavala Caves\nImage credit\n\nOne of the most popular destinations around Dandeli is Kavala Caves, which features beautiful caves and hiking trails.\n\nThe cave remains open from sunrise to sunset. The caves are believed as one of the oldest rock-cut temples.\n\nThe Kavala Caves is a temple on top of the hill. Since it usually remains closed other than Shivratri, there is a government-sponsored trek to Kavala caves every day at 6 AM.\n\nMaha Shivratri is a big event. People come to visit the caves. They don’t have any restrictions on when they can visit during Shivratri.\n\nIt consists of three sections which we can reach by going up 375 steps through forest ground; each section has its prayer hall or room where people prayed during ancient times too.\n\nSyntheri Rock\n\nThere is a big rock in Dandeli that is called Syntheri Rocks. The river Kaneri goes through the inside of it.\n\nSyntheri Rock is a 300-foot tall monolithic granite structure. This rock is situated deep within the dense forest covering Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary, and it enjoys a scenic view of the Kaneri River.\n\nAfter a downhill walk of about 200-250 steps, you reach the Kaneri. If you love the outdoors, set aside some time to explore this beautiful place. The adventurous trails and the flowing river will relax and renew you.\n\nIt is near Ulavi temple, and the forest has many bird species. This place is located 35 kilometres from Dandeli and can be reached by hiring a jeep or walking down 200 steps from Ulavi temple.\n\nMini Tibet\n\nMini Tibet is one of the places to visit in Dandeli. It is sure to be worth your time!\n\nIt’s a place for people who love culture and history. If you go there, then you’ll have the best experience of your life.\n\nThis place is also called Mundgod (Mundgod is a town in Tibet where Tibetan culture lives on. There are many peaceful places to go, and it’s good for escaping stress.)\n\nAfter exploring this place for the entire afternoon and even taking some breathtaking photos, it is still hard to understand how one can think of such an amazing analogy that perfectly fits Mini Tibet in Dandeli.\n\nMoonlight Boat Ride\n\nA moonlight boat ride can be romantic. But it may be more surprising than you think.\n\nThis activity involves boating at night. The ride will make your heart race. It is exciting and fun, even for people who are not usually adventurous.\n\nWhile you are on the water, you might need binoculars to see. And there will be animals in the water, but they will not hurt you.\n\nThe location of Moonlight Boat Ride is Ganeshgudi near Supa Dam, Dandeli. You can easily reach the location by private and public transportation.\n\nSathodi Falls\n\nSathodi Falls is one of the most popular attractions in Dandeli.\n\nThe picturesque beauty of the falls is a sight. The waterfalls from a great height and then goes into the clear blue pool.\n\nThere are a lot of trails that lead to the waterfall. It is not close. You must walk a long way before you see it.\n\nThere is a picnic area in front of the waterfall with water and rocks. You can see part of the waterfall from there.\n\nIt is impossible to get close to the water stream of the falls because a huge rock and some bushes are blocking it. You can’t go past them.\n\nWhere to stay near Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary?\n\nBison River Resort\n\nbison resorts dandeli\n\nThe Bison River Resort is a beautiful place. Staff make sure that you feel welcome and comfortable. They work with an unbiased attitude and a goal to deliver the best service possible.\n\nThis place is suitable for people who need to take a break from work. You can spend time here and have fun while you are on vacation.\n\nMost of the rooms here have a balcony. It is suitable for staying close to nature and for enjoying the beautiful views of rivers nearby.\n\nWhistling Woodzs Resort\n\nWhistling Woodzs Resort Dandeli\nImage credit\n\nIt is a Wilderness River Resort, which is in Dandeli, Karnataka. It’s the perfect place for family vacations and adventures.\n\nThe resort is in the Dandeli Forest. It takes up 7 acres and is an excellent place to stay because it is far away from people.\n\nThe resort will give you an easy and comfortable place to stay. There are animals and plants in the background.\n\nThere is a food court and a recreation area. They are primarily for relaxing, but they also have other things to do like eating food and playing games.\n\nPanther Jungle Resort\n\nPanther Jungle Resort is a perfect base for exploring Dandeli, being located in the jungle. One can take up the activity of their choice like nature walk or playing games and activities made available at the resort itself.\n\nThe property has modern amenities such as accommodation with double beds, air conditioning, hot water showers and wireless internet connectivity to ensure guests have all they need during their stay.\n\nAt the resort, there are lots of free things to do. For example, you can go on a jungle trek or go to the waterfall. There is also rafting and archery.\n\nMagenta Resort\n\nMagenta Resort Dandeli\nImage credit\n\nMagenta Resort is a high-end resort. Resort is surrounded on all sides by jungle.\n\nMany people book their stay here in the summer. This resort is perfect for people who want to go on vacation and spend time in nature.\n\nIt has water sports and indoor activities. You can be entertained for a long time.\n\nThe amenities and activities at the resort include archery, zip lines, kayaking, and more.\n\nStar Riverview Resort\n\nThis resort is near the Kali River and has lots of trees and jungles. You can also get help from the staff there.\n\nThis resort has both pools and conference rooms. People can stay for personal reasons or work.\n\nThe resort provides big and beautiful rooms with all the amenities.\n\nFrequently Asked Questions About Dandeli\n\n\nWhy is Dandeli known as the adventure capital of the South?\n\nDandeli has lots of things to do. You can go to a wildlife sanctuary and have a hike. You can also go watersports or visit the Kavala Caves. Dandeli has a lot of adventures, and it is a place where people can relax. It is a big adventure in the South.\n\nHow can one visit the Dandeli wildlife sanctuary?\n\nThe Dandeli wildlife sanctuary is 75 km away from the nearest airport. It is easy to get to the Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary by train. It is 32 km from Alnavor station and 48 km from Londa station.\n\nWhat is the best time to visit Dandeli wildlife sanctuary?\n\nThe best time to visit the Dandeli wildlife sanctuary is from October to February because you can enjoy it then without being too hot.\n\nAre there tigers in the Dandeli wildlife sanctuary?\n\nYes, there are tigers at Dandeli wildlife sanctuary. There are 11 of them! You can also find 2 more tigers in the neighbouring Anshi national park.\n\nWhat is the total distance between Bangalore and Dandeli?\n\nBangalore is 472 kilometres from Dandeli. Most people want to go to Dandeli from Belgaum, which is 96 kilometres away.\n\nHow far is Dandeli from Goa?\n\nThe distance Between Dandeli to Goa is 110 km.\n\n\nPlease enter your comment!\nPlease enter your name here\n\nMore Recipes Like This", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7134197950363159}
+{"content": "Could The Maple Leafs Target A Defenseman in 2016 Draft\n\nThe Toronto Maple Leafs look to be on the road to having a pretty high pick in the 2016 NHL Draft. The questions are: exactly where will they pick and who will they pick?\n\nOf course, if the Leafs win the lottery and draft first overall, this all becomes very easy. The Leafs would then take Auston Matthews and it would all be over and done with. Of course, if history tells us anything, the Leafs don’t have that kind of luck. If the Leafs drafted anywhere from second to fifth overall or later, the Leafs pick could be anyone. Most people are talking about forwards like Jesse Puljujarvi, Patrik Laine, Alex Nylander and Matthew Tkachuk.\n\nHowever, let’s look at what the Leafs have done in recent years. The Leafs have taken defenseman in later rounds recent years, but the last time the Leafs took a defenseman with their first pick was Morgan Rielly back in 2012. The Leafs first picks since then have been Fredrik Gauthier, William Nylander and Mitch Marner. Now, Gauthier could be the Leafs’ third-line center in the future, but Nylander and Marner are the Leafs future offensive stars.\n\nMorgan Rielly\nMorgan Rielly, the last defenseman the Leafs selected with their first pick of a draft. (Charles LeClaire-US PRESSWIRE)\n\nTime For A D-Man?\n\nNow, defenseman take a lot longer to develop than forwards most of the time. So it will be a while before we know if the Leafs have anything in Rinat Valiev, Travis Dermott and the other defensemen the Leafs have picked in the past two years. The thing is, the Leafs haven’t gotten that defenseman with star potential since Rielly. They drafted Stuart Percy in 2011, but that was with the 25th overall pick. The Leafs haven’t used a top-10 pick on a defenseman since Rielly. Perhaps it’s time they should it again.\n\nThe top defensemen in the draft are Jakob Chychrun and Olli Juolevi. Chychrun has been talked about as a high pick for a year or so while Juolevi really increased his stock with his performance in the 2016 World Juniors. Of course, Finland winning the entire tournament sure helped him along.\n\nChychrun has played for the Sarnia Sting for the past two seasons, being drafted first overall by the team in 2014. That franchise has churned out Steven Stamkos, Nail Yakupov and Alex Galchenyuk in the past seven years so they have a habit of having pretty good talent go through the city. He will also be a second-generation NHLer as his father, Jeff Chychrun, played parts of seven seasons in the NHL, mostly with the Philadelphia Flyers. His dad was an enforcer during his time and the younger Chychrun brings toughness to his game as well. He is already 6’2″ and was listed at 214 pounds last September.\n\nJuolevi made his North American debut this season, playing with the London Knights. He previously played for Jokerit’s junior teams in Finland. On top of this year’s World Juniors, he has competed for Finland in under-16, -17 -18 tournaments. If there’s a d-man the Leafs have got a long look at, its him as the Leafs are obviously keeping tabs on one of their top prospects Mitch Marner, who also plays for the Knights.\n\nIn a mock draft from (updated January 11), Chychrun and Juolevi go back-to-back at the sixth and seventh overall selections. If that is around where they will go, the Leafs would need to get better to be around that area. Right now, without the lottery, the Leafs would be selecting second overall. There they would obviously select either Puljujarci, Laine or Nylander.\n\nWho do you think the Leafs will draft? Or rather, who do you want the Leafs to draft when the time comes?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9235110282897949}
+{"content": "Passion. Intensity. Freedom. Revolutionary. These are some of the one words that come to mind in association with Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi. If one were to do a word cloud to explain him to the general populace, these words, I am sure, would feature prominently. \n\nMahakavi Subramania Bharathi, also known as Bharathiyar and Bharathi, was a phenomenon. Mahakavi literally means great poet. Even today it is hard to describe him in words. Within a short lifespan of 39 years of age, he achieved so much that it can give goosebumps to any onlooker. He was a scholar par excellence, champion of social justice, youth icon, journalist, poet, writer, and more; net net, he was all in one. Tamil Nadu and India are indeed proud owners of his rich legacy. As Gopalakrishna Gandhi mentioned in one of his columns, ‘He was passionate about a Tamil Nadu that belonged to India and an India to which Tamil Nadu belonged.’ \n\nHe redefined history and there are no two views about it. \n\nReading and understanding his achievements will give a ringside view to the multidisciplinary mind that Bharathi was and is. He possessed a unique power, that is the ‘power of attraction’ that, to this day, he continues to attract laymen, scholars, practitioners, policy makers, academics and researchers alike to understand the phenomenon that is Bharathi. In pursuit of this, some tend to restrict Bharathi to just poetry. I think that would be a great disservice to the man in my opinion. He was beyond just poetry, although his poems did have a resonating impact, without any doubts. \n\nIn Tamil Nadu, there is no movie, contemporary performing artist’s performance or literary event today that can go without at least a passing reference to Bharathi. I cannot but recall any other poet’s works which have been nationalized in this way. Such has been his impact and not just in India. It has transcended boundaries, cultures and peoples. Speaking purely from a Tamil Nadu perspective, Bharathi is present and accepted, cutting across political ideologies and lines. \n\nBharathi had seen it all in life; poverty and imposition of colonial rule courtesy the British, and fought both uniquely in his own inimitable way, including spiritual living. He was quick to foresee the future too. Bharathi was a nationalist who thought globally. He interpreted global affairs and yet had the concerns of the most marginalized in whatever he did, be it in his writings or through cartoons. \n\nBharathi gave Tamil its depth, meaning and import in contemporary times. But he was never bound by it and was inquisitive to always learn new languages. That is how he picked up and was proficient in Hindi and Sanskrit. Not just this, as per research the Mahakavi knew 14 languages in total. There was thus no singularity in the way he led his life; he was open minded, allowed thoughts to come from anywhere and armed himself accordingly with them. Such was his clarity. \n\nAn important lesson we can all keep in mind from Bharathi’s short-lived but inspiring life is that he never wanted to be ‘chained’, he loved freedom in thought, word and deed and this reflected in whatever he did. We can arm ourselves with this important takeaway. To understand this, I think it essential to look at the times in which he lived, when the Indian independence movement was ongoing. \n\nPhilosopher J. Krishnamurthy in one of his famous talks has opined, “continue to always explore the ‘why’ in whatever you do.” There was always a reason for whatever Bharathi did. Bharathi’s raison d’etre and focus was the common man. He resorted to innovative and imaginative ways in speaking to the common man with his words. \n\nAt no point in time did Bharathi agonize vis-a-vis the dire situation that he was confronted with in his life nor did he convey his displeasure at the situations of his life. He truly epitomized the saying, ‘It does not matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is that you get up one more time than you were knocked down.’ \n\nThere was a sense of detachment also in whatever Bharathi did, especially after meeting Sister Nivedita. She had a great impact through her candid dialogue with him. The approach of oneness that he brought forth in all his transactions was discernible. \n\nSeptember 11 marks the 99th death anniversary of the Mahakavi. He died in poverty and few know that only 14 people were at his funeral. I see it as incumbent upon us to celebrate the vision of Bharathiyar as we progress towards his 100th death anniversary year on September 11, 2021. \n\nIt is not enough that we aspire to just have school textbooks including lessons on him. There has to be a concerted effort in ‘living Bharathi’. 99-100 years after his moving on, the search is on for the next Bharathi. In fact we need hundreds of Bharathi who will have an open and inclusive mind to consistently push the envelope, innovate in their approach to cater to mankind and be spiritually rooted in the idea of oneness. \n\nToday there is also a need to contemporize Bharathi from various angles and to see how he envisaged a paradigm shift in understanding social cohesion, women-led empowerment, international relations and nationalism to name a few. \n\nCan he be an inspiration to the way that the media can model itself in India today; that is, to speak truth to power?\n\nPurely from an individual perspective, his life inspires me to look within and enquire; if he could do so much within the age span of 39, what am I doing and what have I done thus far? Is it enough at all? Can I do more? I have resolved to make these questions an integral part and parcel of my daily thinking and conversation. \n\nIn the 21st century, mere word speak will not be enough. Only sustained action will sow the right seeds. Bharathi personified this. \n\nOn this solemn occasion it is also important that we take a moment to pause and introspect on Bharathi’s writings and works while in pursuit of self-unfoldment. \n\nIt is to this dynamic life, vision and mission that this 25th blog of mine is dedicated, in memorium. \n\n\nViews expressed above are the author's own.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9592937231063843}
+{"content": "3 Reasons Why Fleet Maintenance Is Important\n\nUpdated: May 4\n\nBy Juhlian Pimping from SafetyCulture\n\nWhether you run a trucking company, a taxi company, or a car rental, you should not neglect proper fleet maintenance.\n\nFleet maintenance is the practice of keeping your service vehicles in good condition to avoid vehicular breakdowns. It is a systematic approach to preventive vehicle maintenance that involves planning, scheduling, analysis, and execution.\n\nHere are the top 3 reasons why fleet maintenance is important:\n\nKeeps your drivers safe\n\nDriver safety is an important aspect of any operation. Management must take all of the necessary steps to ensure that the risk of preventable road accidents are reduced. Some of the leading causes of crashes include worn tires and blowouts, faulty brakes, and steering/suspension issues, all of which can be remedied by proper fleet maintenance.\n\nDepending on your operational needs, preventive maintenance can be time-based (once every year), or after reaching a set mileage per vehicle.\n\nReduces operational cost\n\nPreventive maintenance costs are significantly lower compared to reactive repairs. Paying for the repercussions of poor fleet maintenance costs even more than the two combined. According to OSHA, “motor vehicle crashes cost employers $60 billion annually in medical care, legal expenses, property damage, and lost productivity.”\n\nPerform vehicle inspections to identify maintenance and repair opportunities before they become a serious problem to avoid downtimes and improve your adherence to operational schedules.\n\nBoosts productivity and manages business downtime\n\nBusiness downtimes can cause a domino effect that leaves your operation reeling. Trying to make up for a missed delivery or appointment because your fleet truck broke down can delay the fulfillment of succeeding obligations down the line. When you fail to deliver a product or service to an expectant client as scheduled, your reputation and brand trust suffers.\n\nKeeping your fleet in good working condition all-year round helps you avoid operational delays and maximize your productivity.\n\nAs a business owner, there are many business variables that you cannot steer in your favor. Proper fleet maintenance is not one of them. It reduces the likelihood of accidents caused by vehicular malfunction and keeps your drivers safe. It saves you money by addressing the “little problems” before they turn into big ones. Ultimately, your business becomes more efficient overall with proper fleet maintenance.\n\nA vehicle maintenance log can help you record the condition and repair work performed on an individual vehicle. This can help you manage preventive maintenance schedules, prioritize specific vehicles, and triage issues that need immediate resolution.\n\nThis article was written by Juhlian Pimping of SafetyCulture, a software company that enables businesses to perform inspections using digital checklists.\n\nInfographic Link: https://safetyculture.com/wp-content/media/2019/02/Fleet-Maintenance-Infographic-Blog-Post.png", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9611865282058716}
+{"content": "Meditation in the Early Years\n\nInterested in introducing your little one to meditation?\n\nChildren as young as 18 months are more than capable of understanding meditative concepts.\n\nIf you already practice some form of meditation yourself, you can either choose to meditate around your child from the beginning, or if you are just starting out and your child is a bit older, you can save the meditation for when they are asleep, and just do some deep breathing exercises in their presence.\n\nThis could be as simple as taking a deep breath in your nose, raising your arms up over your head, connecting hands at the top 🙏🏽, bringing them down to heart centre on the audible out breath from your mouth. Repeat as many times as you like.\n\nBy taking a few conscious breaths and repeating this everyday at the same time you are giving your child an opportunity to see and hear a deep breathing technique.\n\nBy doing this around your little one in a peaceful and calm nature, ending on a visibly happy & relaxed note, it will model positive behaviours around your child (great at any age) and will get their wheels turning on why mommy/daddy does this.\n\nThe benefits are endless! Emotional regulation, emotional intelligence, acceptance, understanding, forgiveness, compassion, a mindful lifestyle are just a few quick ones that come to mind.\n\nChildren notice all the details. Watching their parent(s) take these conscious breaths, and walking away all smiley, warm and fuzzy will only entice them to try it themselves one day!\n\nZen master Thich Nhat Hanh has created an incredible book called A Handful of Quiet.\n\nIn this book he beautifully lays out the foundation of meditative techniques and how to introduce them to even the littlest of people. He discusses things like pebble meditation, drawing meditation and so much more.\n\nPebble meditation is perfect for a toddler because it gives them something tangible to hold on to.\n\nIn this version you pick 4 special gemstones, or rocks you found on a walk, or wherever they turn up! You follow his guide (pictured below) choosing 1 rock to be flower 🌸, 1 to be mountain 🏔, 1 water 💦and 1 🌌 space.\n\nYou can even change it up and designate each rock to represent a family member or friend, breathing in & out for each person you decide.\n\nYou could also identify each one as a virtue you might \"need\" that day such as patience or calmness. Breathing in and out releasing all that energy, while welcoming a calm moment in.\n\nThe ideas are endless!\n\nFor older children the drawing meditation is wonderful as you can open up into great discussions and talks about meditative practices or things like what we are grateful for.\n\nFor more meditative techniques with your little one, just ask! I would love to help bring this happy and healthy practice into your home!\n\nShow love, grow love\n\nHappy Living Parents", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.997766375541687}
+{"content": "Health and Wellness\n\nNearly 50% of people are anxious about getting back to normal, pre-pandemic life — here's how to cope\n\n@JulieK | Twenty20\n\nPeople around the world have anticipated the moment when life can return to \"pre-pandemic normal.\" But as that reality seems within sight, many are now feeling increased anxiety about getting back into life.\n\nA recent survey from the American Psychological Association found that 49% of adults reported feeling uncomfortable about returning to in-person interactions when the pandemic ends. Even 48% of who have received the Covid vaccine report feeling the same way.\n\nHere's why that's happening and what you can do to ease your anxiety.\n\nCovid lockdowns have increased social anxiety\n\nSocial anxiety is a mental health condition that's characterized by an intense, persistent fear of being watched and judged by others, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. During Covid, social anxiety is more acute and common.\n\nPeople with social anxiety typically experience symptoms in situations like meeting new people, being put on the spot in a meeting, going on a job interview or even having to talk to a cashier in a store. This stems from a fear of being criticized or rejected by others, and can lead to avoidance of places where you have to encounter other people.\n\nMost people have been staying at home and avoiding social interactions for the past year due to Covid guidelines — indeed there are very real dangers to being in public around other people. But this has also made us hyper-aware of our behavior in public, often in unproductive ways.\n\n\"By being housebound during the pandemic, we've been acting like we have severe social anxiety,\" Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist, told Elemental in an interview published on Feb. 16. \"It's for a good reason, of course, but it mimics avoidance, which feeds and waters social anxiety.\"\n\nThere's still uncertainty\n\nDespite the fact that we know more about Covid and there are three effective vaccines in use, \"there's still a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen with these new variants, and how long will these vaccines last and can someone be asymptomatic?\" Vaile Wright, a clinical psychologist and the senior director of healthcare innovation at the APA, told APA podcast \"Speaking of Psychology\" on March 10.\n\nHumans do not like uncertainty. \"Extraordinarily high levels of uncertainty are really against how we've advanced as human beings,\" Kevin Antshel, clinical psychologist and director of the clinical psychology program at Syracuse University previously told CNBC Make It.\n\nThe more uncertain things feel, the more fearful we become. With increased fear comes higher levels of anxiety, which can skew our perception of things.\n\n\"In the face of all that uncertainty, we become really ineffective at making good risk threat assessments,\" Wright told the APA. \"We have a tendency to either overestimate risk or underestimate risk, and that then translate into our behaviors.\"\n\nFor example, as guidelines change or businesses reopen, you might be wondering if it's safe to see your elderly grandparents or eat indoors in a restaurant. Or if your workplace announces that you will be returning to the office, you might have very legitimate concerns about what that means for your own safety and your family's.\n\nConstantly questioning yourself, and \"having to make those decisions over and over and over again [is] exhausting,\" Wright says. \"You're always not sure if you're putting yourself and your family at risk.\"\n\nHow to feel at ease as we reenter work and society\n\nFirst, it's important to use the science and guidance from experts and the Centers for Disease Control as a blueprint for your behavior, and stay up-to-date as it changes. For example, the CDC recently updated its guidelines for people who have been fully vaccinated, saying that they can visit with other people who are also fully vaccinated and as some unvaccinated people indoors without wearing masks or social distancing.\n\nA study out of China published in April found that 10.8% of people met the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after returning to work. Following personal protective measures, like wearing face masks, reduced psychiatric symptoms and made people feel more confident. It also helped when workplaces listened to employees concerns and increased workplace hygiene.\n\nNavigating other people's comfort levels — like your friends, family members and coworkers — about returning to life can be challenging, Wright said. \"I think we have a tendency to get judgmental just because somebody maybe sees something differently than we do,\" she said. Decide what you are and aren't comfortable doing based on your personal risk factors and where you live, and \"unapologetically stick to it when someone challenges you on it,\" she said.\n\nIt's natural to feel nervous in new situations, but remember that negative emotions are not a sign you're doing something wrong, Jennifer Shannon, a cognitive-behavioral therapist and author specializing in anxiety disorders told the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.\n\n\"Curb the urge to seek reassurance from others that you are doing the right thing,\" Shannon wrote. \"Getting reassurance reinforces the belief that if we do everything right, we will avoid criticism. True confidence comes from allowing for mistakes and accepting that we cannot please everyone.\"\n\nTo check your vaccine eligibility status, you can use NBC News' plan your vaccine tool.\n\n\nDon't miss: 82% of fathers say they could have used more emotional support during pandemic — 68% of mothers say the same: study\n\nCalling out anti-Asian racism", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9959267377853394}
+{"content": "There are nearly 4,000 colleges in North America. Comparing them and discovering the interesting opportunities that exist on each campus can be fun. It’s helpful to have some criteria in mind to evaluate whether you would be happy at a particular school, but don’t limit yourself. Lots of students enroll at “dream schools” that they didn’t expect or didn’t meet all of their criteria. Think broadly! What do you want to achieve during your time in college? In what ways do you want to grow and be challenged? What kind of people do you want to live with and learn from? Remember, you don’t have to figure out the rest of your life—just where you want to spend the first few years of it!\n\n\nColleges that Change Lives: https://ctcl.org/\n\nLiberal Arts: http://www.liberalartspower.org/Pages/default.aspx\n\nBig Future: https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-search\n\n\nFor specific program details, always consult the school’s website and admission office directly.\n\n\n\nEveryone should fill out a FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), regardless of income. Some colleges require it for merit scholarship consideration, but even if those colleges aren’t on your list, it’s good practice. If you experience a loss or financial catastrophe, it’s much easier to approach the financial aid office when all of your paperwork is already complete than to try to tackle it in the middle of a crisis. Many families feel intimidated by the prospect of completing financial aid forms, but they’re actually fairly straightforward. My advice is to break the process into steps. First, create your accounts; second, gather all the documents you need; and then sit down to complete the forms. Remember to utilize the available resources.\n\n\nFAFSA: https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/fafsa\n\nCSS Profile: https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/\n\nGeneral Financial Aid Information: http://www.finaid.org/\n\n\nFor school specific policies and deadlines, always consult the school’s website and financial aid office directly.\n\n\n\nThe format of the SAT has changed 3 times in the last two decades. In that time, the ACT has become increasingly popular and widely accepted. So has the “test-optional” movement. In 1998, there were 281 schools with test-optional policies, now there are more than 1000. The landscape has changed! So has the test-prep industry. We administer practice tests at College, Career & Life because too many test prep companies still prey on students’ fears, convincing them that they must invest a great deal to have more college options. While higher test scores can increase some opportunities or scholarship potential, admissions committees always use the transcript as an indicator of college readiness. Therefore, there are a range of options, at a variety of price points (or free!)  that work well for students. Some students see great improvement with self-study, some love virtual tutorials, some prefer group sessions, but most, in our experience, have the greatest success with one-on-one tutoring. Remember to chose the format that works for your learning style and schedule.\n\n\nACT: https://www.act.org/content/act/en/students-and-parents.html\n\nSAT: https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat\n\nTest Prep: https://www.applerouth.com/ and https://www.compassprep.com/ We have heard the folks at both of these companies speak often and believe in their philosophy and how they support students. Both of these sites provide useful resources and details about the tests and how they compare.\n\nTest Optional: http://fairtest.org/\n\n\nFor school specific policies and deadlines, always consult the school’s website and admission office directly.\n\nLet us be a resource for you.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7065811157226562}
+{"content": "Tonight we can announce that Davey Dixon will wear the number 18 shirt.\n\nHis shirt sponsor is Steven Downes and his shorts and socks sponsor is Ray Abbey.\n\nThere are limited players left to sponsor for the 2021 season which you can see here.\n\nIf you would like to sponsor a player please contact [email protected]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000100135803223}
+{"content": "Mysticeti: Baleen Whales\n\nBaleen is not bone, but is composed of keratin: the same substance as hair, horns, claws and nails. Whales use these combs for filter feeding. Three species of whales featuring baleen frequent our waters and are seen regularly on our whale watching boat tours in Victoria, British Columbia: gray whales, humpback whales and minke whales. Blue, sei and fin whales are extremely rare here.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999717473983765}
+{"content": "Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessment\n\n2 September 2014\n\nHandbook for Product Social Impact Assessment - edie.net\n\nThis handbook is a free practical tool that allows sustainability professionals to assess a product's entire lifecycle, scan their supply chains for risks and improvement opportunities and improve sustainable product development, reporting and communication.\n\nIt has been published by the Roundtable for Product Social Metrics, which claims that the Handbook is the first cross-industry publication of its kind to offer a practical, objective methodology for product social impact assessment.\n\nAs large, multinational organisations, the Roundtable participants - Ahold, AkzoNobel, BASF, BMW Group, DSM, L'Or&eacute;al, Marks &amp; Spencer, Philips, RB, Steelcase, The Goodyear Tire &amp; Rubber Company and a chemical company, led by sustainability consulting firm PR&eacute; Sustainability - understand the need for a social impact assessment method that is capable of screening a product's entire supply chain across continents and throughout its life cycle.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9081966876983643}
+{"content": "Five Drawer Chest in Burl European Walnut\n\nIt all started with the coffer  – a long, deep, crudely constructed box with a hinged lid and [sometimes] short legs or feet. That’s not to be confused with the coffin, though in truth, the early coffer often assumed that role out of expediency. For more than a thousand years, the coffer was the sole piece of furniture in the home, acting as a seat, a work table, a raised bed and storage for everything. That included valuables, weapons, food and clothing.\n\nIn the mid-17th century, mankind deduced how to add a second, miniaturized coffer to the interior. These small tills or “drawer boxes” housed treasures – not just gold and silver, but jewelry, documents, candles. Later, with ingenuity, a larger drawer was fitted into the lower part of the chest. These modified case pieces were known as “mule chests”, apparently a nod to the item stored there. Mules were 17th century slippers.\n\nThis more versatile storage advanced rapidly and within just 50 years the coffer was transformed. No longer sporting just a single drawer, craftsmen had filled the entire piece with drawers of different depths, different widths, even side-by-side models. Ultimately, the hinged top disappeared and presto! the chest of drawers was invented.\n\nAs humans accumulated more possessions, efficient storage became requisite in every home. Until today.  Today we are streamlining, re-evaluating our needs and questioning which of those possessions spark joy. Those that make the cut are returned to our drawers.  Marie Kondo tidying at its best.\n\nShown above:\n Five Drawer Chest in Burl European Walnut", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5050027966499329}
+{"content": "New York The World's Priciest Place To Stay\n\n8 March 2015\nRead Time: 1.0 mins\n\nWords by AFP Relax News\n\nAs in the previous year, global hotel prices continued to rise in 2014, led by a particularly significant increase in North America. As a result, New York City became the destination with the world's priciest accommodations, according to HRS Corporate and its latest Hotel Price Radar.\n\nIn 2014, the average price for a night at a hotel in the Big Apple was $402, up 10.3 per cent from 2014. Economic recovery in the US seems to be the reason behind the surge, according to HRS. A similar uptick was seen in other major American cities including Washington D.C. ($332, +17.2 per cent) and Miami ($236, +5.3 per cent).\n\nIn Europe, the southern half of the continent seems to have seen the highest jumps in hotel prices, with cities like Athens (+35 per cnt), Lisbon (+15.2 per cent) and Madrid (+9.9 per cent) leading the trend.\n\nThese figures may be explained by a tourism boom in the countries concerned: Greece saw a 20 per cent increase in visitors last year, while Portugal and Spain both set new records for tourist arrivals.\n\nThe European city with the most expensive hotels is London, with an average price of $322 per night (+16.1 per cent), ahead of Zurich at $281. In Paris, prices crept up 3.7 per cent to $271\n\nIn certain Northern European cities, travellers actually paid less in 2014 than in 2013. This was the case in Oslo (-13.3 per cent) and Moscow (-11.6 per cent).\n\nIn Asia, the Chinese cities of Shanghai ($137, +9 per cent) and Beijing ($140, +3 per cent) emerged as the destinations with the priciest accommodations, despite rates far below those seen in the West.\n\nThe price index is based on the average hotel rates in 40 major cities according to a statistical analysis of reservation data from HRS's clients worldwide.\n\n\nCopyright AFP Relaxnews, 2015.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9735190272331238}
+{"content": "Alert September 25, 2008\n\nNew Federal Rule of Evidence Simplifies Complex Privilege Issues Associated With E-Discovery\n\nOn September 19, 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill intended to ease certain burdens of electronic discovery. The statute creates a new Federal Rule of Evidence (Rule 502) to address potential waivers of attorney-client privilege and attorney work product protection. Waivers of privilege have become an increasingly important issue because of the large volume of documents produced under the modern regimes of electronic discovery. As Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, stated when introducing the bill, the discovery process “has been made increasingly difficult with the growing use of email and other electronic media.”\n\nAs our December 2006 Client Alert explained, the federal courts attempted to address many of the new issues raised by the increased use of electronic media with the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”). Nevertheless, concerns remained with respect to potential waivers. In fact, some commentators and judges noted that the procedures proposed by the 2006 FRCP amendments could actually result in an increased risk of waiver of privilege and work product protections. New Rule 502 attempts to remedy this unintended consequence.\n\nOf course, even prior to Rule 502’s passage, many parties were already taking steps to make electronic discovery more efficient or to minimize the potential for waiver. Some parties have used such techniques as electronic searching and private agreements among the parties. (Such private agreements are often called “clawback” or “quick peek” agreements, and are sometimes embodied in the form of court orders.)\n\nIn concert with these practical steps, Rule 502 attempts to provide legal relief by codifying, clarifying and harmonizing waiver rules and by giving parties peace of mind that protective orders governing the disclosure of confidential or privileged information cannot be challenged by third parties or in subsequent state court proceedings. Rule 502 also seeks to harmonize waiver rules in state and federal courts. New Rule 502 will apply immediately in all federal actions commenced after the date of enactment, as well as in all pending proceedings “insofar as is just and practicable.\"\n\nFor example, Rule 502 establishes standards for both “inadvertent” waiver and “subject matter” waiver:\n\n  • New Rule 502 codifies the majority rule that, if privileged material is disclosed “inadvertently” in a federal proceeding, the disclosure does not operate as a waiver of privilege in a federal or state proceeding if: the disclosure is “inadvertent;” the holder of the privilege or protection took “reasonable steps” to prevent disclosure; and the holder promptly took “reasonable steps” to rectify the error.\n  • New Rule 502 articulates the law of “subject matter” waiver for disclosures in federal courts and to federal agencies. The rule requires that subject matter waiver applies only if the waiver is intentional. Thus, Rule 502 provides a more uniform federal standard that unintentional disclosures in federal matters do not lead to subject matter waiver, even if they would do so under state law.\n  • Rule 502 also seeks to harmonize the treatment of waiver for attorney work product. For example, Rule 502 codifies that subject matter waiver of work product does apply if the waiver was intentional and it would be unfair not to consider the disclosed and undisclosed communications together.\n\nNew Rule 502 also identifies means for imposing consistency on complex situations involving multiple lawsuits implicating the same privileged documents. To address these complex situations, the new rule validates the utility of obtaining court orders: \n\n  • For example, whereas private agreements (such as the “clawback” and “quick peek” agreements mentioned above) potentially gave rise to waivers as to entities not parties to those agreements, Rule 502 now provides for court orders to authorize such practical solutions without waiver as to non-parties. This option may encourage some parties to propose or consider using innovative methods for discovery.\n  • Moreover, under Rule 502, when a federal court enters an order providing that a disclosure does not constitute a waiver, that order controls any other federal or state proceedings. This provides for enhanced continuity and consistency between federal and state judicial systems.\n\nDangers of Mismanaging Electronic Discovery Remain\n\nLegal clarifications notwithstanding, there may be no way to “put the genie back in the bottle.”  As a practical matter, once confidential documents have been produced and reviewed by opposing counsel, it may be difficult to undo the damage.\n\nIndeed, the intrusive and expansive nature of contemporary electronic discovery dramatically increases the risks that sensitive and privileged communications may be exposed. The volume of electronic documents in use today makes their collection, review and production in litigation a complex, time-consuming and expensive process. In addition, the need for expert data retrieval, the relative permanency of electronic data, and the existence of electronic metadata can also make navigating electronic discovery a far more difficult (and costly) task. It also poses the danger of exposing far more sensitive information.\n\nFurthermore, the consequences of failing to manage electronic discovery can be significant. Where parties have improperly managed electronic discovery by failing to disclose the existence of backup tapes, or failing to disclose technical production problems (or even by willfully destroying relevant information), some courts have awarded monetary sanctions that have reached tens of millions of dollars, or even entered findings adverse to the party failing to meet its discovery obligations. In the past year, for example, in Qualcomm v. Broadcom, six attorneys were sanctioned for failing to find and produce thousands of documents that were responsive to a discovery request.\n\nAn Opportunity to Revisit Document Retention Policies and Practices\n\nCompanies can and should use the enactment of the new rule as an opportunity to ensure that they are properly prepared to manage the challenges of electronic discovery. Specifically, companies should consider taking the following steps now to ensure they are in the best position to comply with discovery obligations:\n\n  • Evaluate document retention policies and practices, including steps to ensure that the company is retaining only the documents, information and electronic information systems needed to manage the business. While companies must maintain certain records because of a valid business purpose, under regulations, or because of potential or actual litigation, many companies maintain voluminous amounts of unnecessary documents with no business, legal or regulatory purpose. In the event of litigation or government investigations, managing, reviewing, collecting and producing these documents can be extremely burdensome.\n  • Appoint a “records retention officer” or equivalent who will work with people from multiple departments, such as Legal, Information Technology and Human Resources. Creating a standing “document management team” will help the company respond to electronic discovery obligations in a way that minimizes disruption and expense. Effective management of the categories and locations of electronic documents creates easier management of the cost associated with the process of obtaining and reviewing any of the information in the litigation context.\n  • Prepare to preserve documents via a “Litigation Hold.” Once litigation or an investigation is reasonably anticipated, parties are required to preserve relevant documents. Companies should be prepared and able to modify some of their document retention practices via a “litigation hold” process on short notice if needed.\n  • Fully understand the scope, extent and accessibility of electronic information. The Federal Rules now require automatic disclosure of a description by category and location of electronically stored information that each party may use to support its claims or defenses. In order to best manage the information disclosed and keep electronic discovery obligations generally cost-effective, the company will need to brief litigation counsel quickly on its electronic information systems, potentially including emails, instant messages, network data, non-networked computers, laptops and other places that information is stored. Companies will also need to have a good understanding of the scope, extent and accessibility of the backups of their electronic information.\n\nMany companies will confront litigation at some point – often without warning. In view of the potentially catastrophic consequences of improper handling of electronic documents, companies should ensure that proper steps, such as those outlined above, are taken to minimize the disruptions and costs of litigation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8080058097839355}
+{"content": "This was the first ministerial dialogue among the trilateral members, indicating their desire to strengthen their partnership\n\nIndia, France and Australia on Tuesday held the first trilateral ministerial dialogue on the sidelines of the G-7 foreign ministers meeting in London and conducted “substantive” discussions on Indo-Pacific and challenges thrown by coronavirus across the world.\n\nConfirming this, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar tweeted: “Substantive discussions with my colleagues FM @JY_LeDrian and FM @MarisePayne at the first India-France-Australia Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue. Thanked them both for their strong support in meeting the Covid challenge.”\n\nThis was the first ever in-person ministerial-level meeting of the Trilateral India-France-Australia. Besides EAM S Jaishankar, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne were present at the trilateral meeting.\n\nIn September 2020, the India-France-Australia Trilateral was launched at the Foreign Secretaries’ level with three priorities---multilateralism, maritime security and environment.\n\nHeld in the virtual format, the first Foreign Secretary level trilateral dialogue had also discussed economic and geostrategic challenges and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe focus of the 3 countries is on Indo Pacific and both France and Australia are part of the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) announced by India in 2019.\n\nFrance joining the IPOI was announced during the French Foreign Minister's visit to New Delhi, last month.\n\nNavies of the 3 countries have also held joint exercises under several formats including India-France bilateral naval exercises- Varuna and Malabar Naval exercises with the involvement of Quad countries-India, Japan, Australia, and the US or the La Pérouse French Naval forces with Quad member countries.\n\nEarlier this year the trilateral mechanism was held at the senior officials’ level. While the Indian side was led by Joint Secretary (Europe West) in the MEA, Sandeep Chakravorty, the French side was led by Bertrand Lortholary, Director (Asia and Oceania), and the Australian side was led by Gary Cowan, First Assistant Secretary (North and South Asia Division) and John Geering, First Assistant Secretary (Europe and Latin America Division).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995177984237671}
+{"content": "PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Parmeggiani, Claudio TI - Epidemic Models and Protective Mutations AID - 10.1101/2021.04.17.21254114 DP - 2021 Jan 01 TA - medRxiv PG - 2021.04.17.21254114 4099 - 4100 - AB - The paper proposes and discusses an epidemic model which assumes that a population, affected to a disease, is (partially) protected from the disease. These protections may be generated by some inherited genetic mutations; mutations favoured by the presence, in the past, of a deadly endemic disease (the Haldane hypothesis). The protections can also have a non-genetic origin: the cause can be the age or the sex of the subjects; in this case the model can only be applied for short periods, typically in the early stages of the epidemic. Anyway we shall see that the presence of these protections, if wisely managed, not only does it benefit the whole population, but it also makes the measures taken to contain the epidemic more effective.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.Funding StatementNo external fundingAuthor DeclarationsI confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.YesThe details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below:No detailsAll necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived.YesI understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance).YesI have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable.YesNo data", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.961525022983551}
+{"content": "Megaman UK on social networks\n\nMegaman Colour Technology - Consistency\n\nMegaman Colour Technology - Consistency\n\nMacAdam Ellipses and Colour Temperature\n\nAs with more traditional light sources, the colour temperature of an LED will dictate whether it emits a warm or cool light. The higher the LED’s colour temperature, the cooler the resultant light effect. So, a cool white light has a colour temperature of 4000K, whereas a warmer light effect will have a colour temperature of 2800K.\n\nHot and Cold Colour Temperatures\n\nDiagram 1: Planckian Locus\n\nThe colour temperature of a light source is taken from the temperature of a perfect black-body radiator that radiates light of a similar appearance to that of the light source. It is measured in units of absolute temperature; Kelvin (K). Interestingly, although red is associated with being a hot colour and blue a cold one, on the black body curve (also known as the Planckian Locus, see diagram 1), blue occurs at higher temperatures than red. A more visual example of this apparent colour temperature contradiction can be seen in candlelight, which emits a warm red orange glow, but in fact has a low Kelvin temperature of 1850K. Therefore higher colour temperatures (5000K more) are called cool colours (bluish white); lower colour temperatures (2700 – 3000K) are called warm colours (yellowish white to red).\n\nColour Measurement of LEDs\n\nDiagram 2: CIE 1931 x,y Chromaticity Diagram illustrating MEGAMAN® Professional Series\n\nLED and discharge lamps have negligible thermal radiation, so do not follow the form of a traditional black body spectrum. However, as with any colour, they can be represented on a so-called ‘colour space’ using the CIE 1931 (x,y)-chromaticity diagram (see diagram 2). Every colour is uniquely defined by one (x,y) point in this space. The colour points of thermal radiators lie on one curve in this space, the black body locus. The colour points of LED and discharge lamps for general lighting are located outside, but close to, this curve. Although a colour temperature can only be attributed to points on the black body locus, these light sources are also assigned a colour temperature: correlated colour temperature (CCT). The CCT is the colour temperature of a black body radiator which, to human colour perception, most closely matches the light of the source i.e. the point on the black body locus that lies closest to the colour point of the source.\n\nColour Consistency\n\n\nMacAdam Ellipse\n\n\nThe distance from the target point in each ellipse is measured in SDCM. An SDCM of 1 step means that there is no colour difference between LED chips, 2-3 SDCM means that there is hardly any visible colour difference. Colour consistency of 6-7 SDCM is accepted by the market and in line with the European EcoDesign – US Energy Star requirements.\n\nMEGAMAN® Performance\n\nThanks to MEGAMAN®’s control of the phosphor/LED blend, MEGAMAN® LED professional light sources have a colour consistency of 3-5 SDCM.\n\nDiagram 3: MEGAMAN® 2800K Spectral Response Curve\n\nDiagram 4: MEGAMAN® 4000K Spectral Response Curve", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.920819103717804}
+{"content": "How to Write a Brief for a Graphic Designer\n\nDesign is intended for the viewer. This is why it is very important to define your end user/target market. Some questions and pointers which may help would be:\n\nThe demographics of your target market\n-Psycho graphics; which would include age and gender, income group, lifestyle, geography, attitudes and preferences, employment status etc.\n-If you have a wide range of audience from different categories, rank them according to importance\n\nWhat Text and Photographs Are Needed With the Design?\nThe text and images used in the design are as important as the design itself, as they form and define the elements of design. This is why you need to tell clearly who will be providing the text and images for the design (if they are needed). Getting the help of a professional copywriter for the text, and a professional photographer for the images, is recommended. You can also ask your graphic designer for any recommendations.\n\nInclude the following information in your design brief:\n-What text needs to be included and who is providing it?\n-What images (photographs, drawings, and diagrams) need to be included and who is providing these?\n\nDefine the Specifications\nGraphics needs to be designed for their context. This is why specifications are very important. Make sure you answer the following information for your design brief:\n\nWhat size do you want the design to be?\nHow is it going to be used? Will it be printed? It is going to be on the website? Or used on stationary, car stickers, business card etc.?\nIs there any other information your designer needs to know about specifications?\n\nDefine Your Benchmark\nIt is always a good idea to provide your designer with some samples you consider effective. If there is a benchmark in your mind, even if it is a relevant design from one of your competitors, provide that to your designer. This will enable him to gauge your expectations and set a benchmark.\n\nAlso, provide your designer with a list of things to avoid and styles you do not wish to see in the final design. This will help the designer avoid designs you wouldn’t approve of, and will avoid let-downs and disappointments.\n\nDefine Your Budget\nGiving a range for the budget saves the designer from wasting time in trying to maximize the budget, and will also help him see if the project is going to be worth the effort.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9642130732536316}
+{"content": "CHRIS POWELL: Stat's vaccination history disproves race mongering\n\nPublished on Monday, 7 June 2021 21:04\n\nNow that the General Assembly, without any research, just a lot of pious posturing, has passed legislation declaring that racism is the cause of the health disparities between the races in Connecticut, legislators should look at what has been happening right under their noses for months.\n\nWhen the campaign to vaccinate people amid the virus epidemic began, it didn't take long to notice that members of minority groups, especially city residents, were not participating as much as everyone else. State and municipal government officials and medical authorities were terrified by this and quickly responded with aggressive outreach efforts and vaccination clinics in the supposedly \"underserved\" communities. But even then minority participation lagged that of whites and suburban residents, and it still does.\n\nWere members of minority groups more skeptical of the vaccines because of an evil medical experiment conducted on Black men in Alabama a half century ago? Maybe, but it's unlikely that even most Black people today are aware of that awful history. It is more likely that the lack of participation is mainly a matter of the disengagement of the poor and less educated.\n\nAnd that's exactly what the Connecticut Mirror found last week as it examined vaccination rates in the state.\n\n“Despite being prioritized for vaccine administration,\" the Mirror's Kasturi Pananjady and Dave Altimari wrote, \"Connecticut's cities have consistently lagged behind in the state's vaccine rollout, and detailed data on the neighborhood level show that disparities mirror existing inequities, particularly socioeconomic ones.”\n\nThe Mirror report added that a \"vulnerability index\" of neighborhoods – measuring income, employment, poverty, and education – accurately predicted vaccination rates, just as a similar national study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control did in March.\n\nSo the racial disparities in public health are almost certainly not caused by racist policies and racist medical staff – those policies and staffers having given priority to racial minorities – but by poverty, whose causes state government never investigates.\n\nNow it's a fair guess that poverty itself is caused by the racism in government policy. After all, what about a welfare system that disproportionately inflicts fatherlessness and parental neglect on minority children? What about an education system whose social promotion disproportionately impairs the learning of minority kids, giving them diplomas when they qualify only for menial work? How do such policies help anyone escape or avoid poverty?\n\nBut welfare and education have become big businesses sustaining the very liberals who prattle about racism elsewhere. Their prattle about racism is excellent camouflage for their own, just as Connecticut's new legislation about racism's supposed responsibility for a public health crisis will preclude examination of the racism behind poverty.\n\nThe racial prattle is overtaking local government, too. Though the virus epidemic had faded, Manchester canceled its Memorial Day observances and has canceled its July 4th fireworks and plans no ceremonies that day. But the town plans a full day of events celebrating \"Juneteenth,\" June 19, marking the day in 1865 when Union troops took control of secessionist Texas and declared the end of slavery there.\n\nJuneteenth is portrayed as a sort of Black Independence Day and the end of slavery in the United States and thus a substitute for the Fourth of July. But this is a contrivance, for slavery legally continued in the United States for six months after the Union subdued Texas.\n\nThat's because President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, enforced by Union troops, applied only to areas in rebellion, and two slave states, Delaware and Kentucky, did not rebel. So slavery there did not end until the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified in December 1865.\n\nManchester has officially proclaimed Juneteenth a municipal holiday, so the erroneous history the town is teaching is bad enough. Worse is the new holiday's suggestion that July 4th is not everybody's Independence Day. For while the Declaration of Independence did not free the slaves, it contemplated that freedom and the universal human rights of \"life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\"\n\nBut rather than talk back to racial separatism, Manchester is playing footsie with it. So much for patriotism.\n\nChris Powell is a columnist for the Journal Inquirer in Manchester.\n\nPosted in New Britain Herald, Columns on Monday, 7 June 2021 21:04. Updated: Monday, 7 June 2021 21:07.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5028191804885864}
+{"content": "The timing and ecology of the human occupation of Central Asia (THOCA)\n\nThis exciting cross-disciplinary project is a collaboration between scientists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Tajikistan. It will answer questions such as when did humans arrive in Central Asia and what was the environment and climate like at the time? Were there waves of migration of different species and did they only move when the climate was favourable, for example in the warm periods between glaciations? These questions are important because if we truly want to understand who we are today we need to understand our evolutionary past.\n\nCentral Asia is a key route for human expansion into Asia. When humans arrived in this region they manufactured stone tools using a variety of different technologies which became more and more sophisticated through time; the shapes of these tools are characteristic of the human species that made them. Such tools are often found in the thick wind-blown dust (loess) deposits that cover Central Asia, and particularly in the loess deposits in Tajikistan. This dust can be many tens of metres thick and has deposited continually over the last 2-3 million years. During warmer, wetter periods the organic content of the dust increased because of plant and animal activity and these periods of soil formation are recorded in the grey-brown loess as darker bands. Large numbers of stone tools are found in these ancient soil layers.\n\nTo understand the history of human activity recorded in these deposits we need to know exactly when the dust was deposited, and what the past climate and environment was like. Dating the dust and the tools is at the heart of this project and will be carried out by teams from the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Aarhus. Archaeologists from the University of Oslo together with earth scientists and archaeologists from the Russian and Tajik Academies of Sciences will investigate the environments recorded in the soils and attempt to describe the variations in human populations through time. Climate scientists from Uppsala University will use a variety of measurements to reconstruct the local climate and compare this to changes in global climate. The Russian participants will also undertake new excavations to characterise the stone tool technologies and how they varied through time.\n\nThis project will give Nordic scientists access to new research areas, establish new links with Russian and Tajik research, and provide a broad cross-disciplinary education to young scientists.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9810259938240051}
+{"content": "A person's ability to expand their circle of influence. \n\n\nTo be a good leader one needs to be competent in their area of expertise and demonstrate good character.  To gain respect from subordinates and peers one must lead by example.  Leaders pass on competency skills to others.  They love to mentor and help others become successful.  They teach the importance of strong character and reinforce it with their own behavior.  They provide solutions to problems rather than just identify them.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9935829639434814}
+{"content": "3 in 4 US Electric Vehicles are Tesla, claims report\n\nElectric Vehicles\n\nTesla vehicles have dominated the US electric vehicle market over the last three years. According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, Tesla electric vehicles (EV) hold a combined 74% share of the US electric vehicle market with car sales of 430,592 from 2018-2021.\n\nAccording to a recent report, the top 10 selling EVs in the US for the last three years account for 97% of all EVs sold in the US for the same time period. As of May 2021, the Tesla Model 3 is the top-selling EV in the US over the preceding three years with 296,392 total unit sales giving Tesla’s most popular model a 50.6% share of the US EV market.\n\nTesla’s two other models, the Tesla Model S and the Tesla Model X, both hold an 11.5% share of the market with 67,335 and 67,225 total unit sales respectively over the last three years. This gives Tesla’s three EVs an estimated combined 74% share of the market.\n\nThe Chevy Bolt is the closest competitor to Tesla with 57,629 units sold in the same time period while the Nissan Leaf was the only other EV to hold a more than 5% share of the US EV market.\n\nAs of May 2021, Forbes lists Tesla as the 8th largest company in the world with a market capitalization of $710.1B.\n\nSays Rex Pascual, editor at Trading Platforms:\n\n“Tesla is not only dominating the US EV market but is also a market leader in many EV rich regions such as Mainland China and the EU. Tesla’s status as one of the pioneers to bring EVs into the mainstream solidifies its position as a market leader of the EV industry for years to come.”\n\nYou can read more about the story with more statistics and information at:  https://tradingplatforms.com/blog/2021/06/09/tesla-sold-more-than-430k-electric-vehicles-from-2018-2021-74-share-of-us-ev-market/\n\nChris Price\nFor latest tech stories go to TechDigest.tv", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8231748342514038}
+{"content": "Unexpected Discoveries from Royal Tomb Excavations\n\n\nDespite centuries of research and study, thousands of unexcavated areas still exist at the locations of civilizations long past, and we’re still waiting for the discovery of several important tombs such as that of Genghis Khan and the Egyptian Queen, Nefertiti. In many instances, excavation efforts are hampered by cities and buildings that have been built on top of the ancient sites.\n\nYet, from what we’ve uncovered so far, it is perhaps the royal tombs of ancient rulers that archaeologists find most fascinating. These tombs were the focus of major investments as ancient rulers employed only the best craftsmen and secured the finest materials to ensure adequate provision for the afterlife. Our discoveries to date have provided us with an unimaginable wealth of ancient artifacts and materials and every so often, a totally unexpected discovery.\n\n10. The Death Pits within the Royal Tombs of Ur\n\nThe Royal Cemetery of Ur, hosted the remains of several ancient Mesopotamian kings and queens who ruled during the Early Dynastic Period IIIA, around 2600-2450 BC. The site received major attention and intense coverage during its excavations which started in 1922 and continued up until 1934. Over 2000 burials took place at the ancient cemetery and 16 Royal tombs were discovered. The discoveries of the royal tombs and their magnificent artifacts had everyone spell-bound until evidence of human sacrifice on a grand scale surfaced.\n\nSeveral “death pits” were uncovered below the royal tombs, containing anything between 7 and 74 bodies. Archaeologists at the time originally believed that the attendants drank poison and suffered minimally, however, later examinations and reconstructions of several skulls confirmed that the attendants were in fact murdered with a sharp instrument during a very elaborate funerary ritual, their bodies were then heated, treated with mercury to delay decomposition, dressed and placed in ceremonial rows. The later findings continue to intrigue scholars and archaeologists alike, as many believe these sacrifices were a theatre of public cruelty, clearly drawing a line between the haves and the have nots.\n\n9. Liquid Mercury in Mexico\n\nTeotihuacan was the largest city in ancient America. Although the verdict is still out on who built the magnificent city, it is estimated that it had over 200,000 residents during its heyday. Located less than 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Mexico, hundreds of excavations have taken place at the site since its discovery, but archeologists never discovered any royal tombs. As such, the excitement was high when evidence finally surfaced of a possible royal tomb located beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. Painstaking tunnel excavations underneath the temple began around 2009 but had to be halted in 2015 when archaeologists finally came upon and opened a chamber located at the bottom of the tunnel. The chamber was filled with liquid mercury – a complete and utter surprise.\n\nThe metallic element was an unforeseen but promising indication of what lies behind the ancient chamber. It is no easy feat to mine mercury, and at the time it was buried it was one of the rarest materials going around. The fact that such a large quantity was left behind could indicate that the chamber was set up to protect a very sacred space. As the ancient builders of the site left no written records, archaeologists can’t be sure that its people were ruled by a king, but all involved are rooting for the remains of their ancient ruler. \n\n8. A Missing Mummy\n\nAfter discovering the tomb of Ramses I in 1817, Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni noticed a cavity leading to another vast chamber beneath. Upon excavating, the team was astonished at the magnificent tomb they uncovered. The burial chamber’s ceiling was covered in beautiful artwork depicting the heavens while paintings on the walls portrayed intricate scenes from the Book of Amduat and a collection of prayers and invocations from the Litany of Re. However, to their dismay, the room only contained a spectacularly empty alabaster sarcophagus and no royal mummy.\n\nThe sarcophagus eventually made its way to London, England where it became famous for its decorations depicting scenes from the Book of Gates. In fact, it was so splendid, that it is regarded as one of the most important finds related to Egypt’s 19th Dynasty ever to be discovered. For several years the magnificent tomb would be linked to various Pharaohs but it was only in 1828 that the French scholar Jean-François Champollion finally deciphered the tomb’s hieroglyphics and were able to identify it as the tomb of Seti I, the father of Ramses II. However, it would be another 81 years before the mummy of Seti I was finally discovered in another tomb where it had been hidden in antiquity to keep it safe from grave robbers.\n\n7. 12 Royal Mummies inside a Single Tomb\n\nOn March 9, 1898, the distinguished French Egyptologist Victor Loret discovered the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings. Although the tomb came with its fair share of ancient treasures, it was something far more priceless hidden away in the upper and lower sections of his tomb that caught the world’s imagination. 12 Royal mummies that were moved from their original burial places in antiquity were hidden in Amenhotep II’s tomb in order to ensure their safety.\n\nThe large tomb labeled KV35, had a complex layout and became the first tomb in the Valley of the Kings to contain an intact pharaonic mummy within its burial chamber. Identified by the inscriptions left on their wrappings, the mummies were eventually identified as that of Amenhotep II (the original owner of the tomb), Thutmose IV, Amenhotep III, Merneptah, Seti II, Siptah, Ramesses IV, Ramesses V, Ramesses VI, Queen Tiye (identified through DNA testing in 2010), a prince many believe to be Webensenu, son of Amenhotep II, and the highly controversial “Younger Lady”, initially believed to be Nefertiti but later proven to have been the daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye. \n\n6. The Oldest String Instrument in Human History\n\nAt over 4,500 years, the lyre is regarded as the modern harp’s ancestor and is acknowledged to be the oldest string instrument in human history. During the excavations at the Royal Tombs of Ur in 1929, sir Leonard Woolley and his team of archeologists came across three lyres placed within one of the death pits. The remains of a multitude of servants – including the musicians – were found next to their instruments and according to the archeologists of the time, it almost appeared as if the musicians continued playing their instruments until the very end. More harrowing was the discovery of one little girl who seemed to have been terribly frightened as she was still clutching her golden headband in both hands. \n\nAfter its discovery, the three lyres were sent to different museums, namely the British Museum in London, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and the museum of Baghdad. In a strange turn of events, the dispersion of the lyres ensured the instruments’ continued existence when the museum of Baghdad was looted in April 2003 and the golden lyre ended up vandalized and in several pieces. Luckily the bull’s golden head was kept safe in a vault and the instrument could be restored to its former glory over a six-year period. \n\n5. The Mystery Gibbon in Lady Xia’s Tomb\n\nBuried about 2,200 years ago, Lady Xia was the grandmother of the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuang, the ruler most famous for his terracotta army that continues to guard his grave to this day. Excavated during 2004, the tomb contained a wealth of priceless artifacts including gold, silver, jade, gold, decorated ceramics, and even two carriages and the 12 horses that would have drawn them. \n\nCeremonial pits in the tomb also contained the bones of several exotic animals including a leopard, a lynx, an Asian black bear, several cranes – and one very conspicuous and strange gibbon. In fact, the poor ape’s skull was so unusual that researchers have recently concluded that it belonged to a now-extinct, genus and species. The newly described ape has been named “Junzi imperialis,” a name that gives credit to the location of its discovery as well as a nod to the gibbon’s popular portrayal as a “scholarly gentleman” (which is the English translation of Junzi) as it appears in ancient Chinese mythology. Yet the most important detail of this discovery is the clear and undeniable evidence of humanity’s early exploitation of exotic creatures, a detail that is helping researchers understand exactly how we influenced past primate extinctions.\n\n4. The Mysterious Iron Dagger in Tutenkhamen’s Tomb\n\nWhen the boy king, Tutankhamen, started his journey to the great beyond, his loyal attendants sealed him into his tomb with over 5,000 priceless artifacts. None of them realized that one of those artifacts would become a matter of great interest and speculation over 3,300 years later upon the tomb’s discovery in 1922. Found within the young king’s wrappings and delicately placed on his thigh was an ornate silver dagger with a stunning golden handle and sheath. The discovery of the dagger garnered very special attention, as iron was considered to be much more valuable than gold in ancient times. To compound the matter, the first mentions related to metallurgy in the region also dated much later, to the first millennium BC, as such the dagger almost seemed to be completely out of place.\n\nExaminations of the dagger during the 1970s and 1990s turned out to be either controversial or inconclusive and it wasn’t until 2016 that a team of Egyptian and Italian researchers decided to take a fresh look at the blade. The scientists took advantage of a new technology called portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry to gain insight into the blade’s exact composition and their findings left the world stunned. The blade was made from a very specific iron, nickel, and cobalt composition, and was an almost 100% identical match to that of a meteor found in Marsa Matruh, a city just west of Alexandria. . \n\n3. Jade Armor for the Afterlife\n\nThe first documented references to jade burial suits can be traced back to the Byzantine Period, although some archeological evidence pointing to their existence at least 500 years earlier have been uncovered during excavations. Nevertheless, their actual existence remained unconfirmed up to the discovery of the tomb of Princess Dou Wan and Prince Liu Sheng of the Han Dynasty in 1968. Widely regarded as one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century, the perfectly preserved state of their tomb might have something to do with the fact that it was discovered behind two brick walls, as well as another layer of iron and a stone-packed corridor.\n\nEach jade suit was fashioned with more than 2,000 individual jade pieces and sewn together with gold (the prince) and silver (the princess). Since the discovery of the royal tomb, only a few other jade suits have been discovered. The scarcity of the suits is directly related to how expensive they were to make, not to mention labor intensive – it would have taken a jadesmith anything between ten and fifteen years to make a single suit. Shortly after the death of the prince and princess, the production of jade suits were also forbidden by Emperor Wen of Wei as looters would rob tombs in order to burn the suits to reclaim its gold. The suits of the prince and princess can be found in the Hebei Provincial Museum.\n\n2. Tutenkhamen’s Unborn Daughters\n\nKing Tutankhamen may have died while he was very young, but what many may not know was that the young king was old enough to have children – and in all probability had several before his untimely death. Among the thousands of artifacts found in King Tut’s tomb, one would shine an exceptional light on the ancient Egyptians’ treatment of unborn children. A plain wooden box that measured only 24 inches (61 centimeters) was discovered to contain two tiny coffins. Both coffins had been treated with the utmost care as with all the dead in ancient Egypt before being entombed with the king. The only lacking element was names, with both coffins simply inscribed with the name “the Osiris.”\n\nInside the coffins archaeologists found the tiny remains of two unborn fetuses, later confirmed through DNA testing to have been King Tut’s unborn daughters, both born prematurely. Autopsies were performed in 1932 and later examinations in 1978 suggested that at least one of the fetuses had a congenital skeletal abnormality known as Sprengel’s deformity as well as scoliosis and spina bifida. \n\n1. A Giant Ship\n\nIn 1954, the Egyptian archeologist Kamal el Mallakh had a hunch that something might be hiding under the stone wall on the south side of the Great Pyramid. While digging, he came across a layer of earth and wood chips, powdered limestone, and weirdly enough, charcoal. Mallakh continued digging until he had uncovered a total of 40 limestone blocks that had all been lined up perfectly in antiquity. To his surprise, it seemed as if the stones were covering a rock-hewn pit. It was upon his peering into the depths below that Mallakh realized he had found something truly spectacular.\n\nThe 144-foot-long (46.3 meters) ship Mallakh uncovered is today better known as the Khufu boat, pharaoh’s ship, or the solar barge. Realizing the immensity of his find, Mallakh took over two years to locate and carefully remove each of the ship’s 1,224 individual pieces. After its removal, a fellow Egyptian and conservator for the Egyptian Antiquities Organization, Hag Ahmed Youssef Moustafa, put a team together to start the careful reconstruction of the ancient vessel. Carbon testing on the ship’s cedar-wood – imported in antiquity from Lebanon, has shown it to be over 2,500 years old, a true testimony to the craftsmanship of its ancient builders. The Khufu ship is preserved and on display at the Giza Solar boat museum.\n\nOther Articles you Might Like\nLiked it? Take a second to support Toptenz.net on Patreon!\n\nLeave A Reply\n\n3 − three =\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.939693808555603}
+{"content": "Nigerian troops killed in ambush in Katsina\nNigerian soldiers\n\nBy Chris Ochayi\n\nA former Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Dr. Charles Ugomuoh (retd) has appealed to President Muahammadu Buhari to apply the combinations of political will and intelligence gathering to end deluge of security challenge confronting the nation.\n\nDr. Ugomuoh, who made the appeal, while speaking with journalists during the launching of Charles Ugomuoh Foundation, CUGFoundation in Abuja, admitted that the scourge of insecurity in the land would fizzle out if appropriate steps were taking towards ending it.\n\nHe noted that no security situation was insurmountable but the critical ingredients to completely destroy the Boko Haram insurgents, banditry, kidnapping in the country are only political will by the government and enough intelligence.\n\nHe said the primary issue of government in any clime was to protect life and property, bring enabling environment for economic growth, development and welfare.\n\nUgomuoh said, “Honestly there has to be a political will by the government. With the political will every other issues will fall in place, but primarily you can’t be doing security without enough intelligence, there must be intelligence.\n\n“There must be synergy among the security agencies. Now it is easy to advice, but it must go with the political will and the field officers must be provided with the adequate equipment to fight and also to protect themselves.\n\n“In as much as citizens are talking of human right themselves, when you deploy a soldier or policeman to a front without enough equipment, you are also depriving him from his own human right because he is liable to lose his life, so it’s a holistic issue, there must be synergy. And government should listen.”\n\nOn the cause of absence of synergy, he said, “The cause sometimes you may not know, human beings with their different personalities because the structure is there for the synergy, that’s why you have Chief of Defence Staff and National Security Adviser.\n\nREAD ALSO: Oyo: Amotekun to employ 3,000 personnel\n\n“But sometimes due to corruption and wrong interpersonal relationship the synergy is no longer there, what happen is that when the officers serve and they are due to be retired, they should be retired.\n\n“So that they pave way and new experience can come in, the important thing is to get result, if somebody is there and the result is not coming, there’s no point of still staying there.”\n\nOn whether the citizens would will pick up arms defend themselves if the current situation continues, Ugomuoh said, “Nobody will ever advice citizens taking laws into their hands, the government is trying their best.\n\n“What we are saying is that they should try a lot more, because the gaps are there, they should deploy resources where resources are supposed to be deployed and the officers who are the head of the affairs should work, diligently.\n\n“They should synergize, they should use intelligence when the intelligence is available. We have passed the old settings, there are technologies to be deployed and these technologies are available.”\n\nOn the  CUGFoundation, the former All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, senatorial aspirants in Imo State explained that the foundation was born out of that late study to navigate government, the human rights of the citizens, rule of law that is within the constitutional settings of this country.\n\nHe said, “We want the citizens of this country to live the right way and not to be hindered by all these acts of corruption, you can’t go from here to Borno freely, half of Nigeria is not been utilized, there’s no productivity.\n\n“We just want to breach this gap, we want to close up the gaps for good governance issue. So this foundation is for good governance, initiative.\n\n“We want to give humanitarian services, stimulus and palliatives to the less privileged in the society. We want to provide health; we want to provide education in order to close up the gaps.\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8274222612380981}
+{"content": "Summer Time Ayurveda Wellness & Digestion Tips\n\nSummer Time Ayurveda Wellness & Digestion Tips\n\nThe summer season inspires us to get outside more, play in nature, and have more fun! Often it is the season where we let loose, work less, and choose to socialize and engage more with others. We feel the summer heat waves immediately call us to take more time to cool down by the water or take a vacation for some extra relaxation and ease. From an Ayurveda perspective, the best thing you can do during the hotter months of July- October, is take more time for you, to self nurture, calm down, and create more time for love and meaningful connections. It is the season that helps us come alive and transform in many ways.  Summer time grants us new energy to revitalize ourselves.\n\nSummer relates to the element of fire, which governs the Pitta dosha in Ayurveda. It is important to find good balance during the hotter months of the year with better self care and mindful approaches. Often the seasonal shifts and extreme weather can greatly imbalance our minds and bodies and cause our digestive fire to weaken. You can avoid gaining weight and learn to adapt new health routines during the Summer to help pacify the Pitta energy of the season. Ayurveda says that like increases like. Since the energy of Pitta is already naturally fiery, adding more heat during this time of year can cause more anger, irritability, aggressive behavior, weight gain, and more.\n\nPitta governs metabolism and digestive functions in the body. During the Summer we can actually live with less food intake. Often eating too much or eating foods that add more heat to the body can cause digestive issues, constipation, inflammation, dehydration, and heartburn. Pitta problems can manifest through excessive sweating, rashes, IBS, bloating, and other stomach problems. If you have low energy this time of year, be sure to adapt new approaches to your wellness regime. Summer is when we naturally have the most drive and power to feel good, have fun, and sustain enough energy to make the most of each day. Practicing some simple new habits can help you enjoy summer and inspire you to live healthier.\n\nStay cool and calm during the Summer and pacify pitta with these ayurveda tips:\n\n  1. Decrease your coffee and caffeine intake.\n  2. Choose more raw and green vegetables\n  3. Drink more water and cooling juices and natural liquids\n  4. Load up on organic tea\n  5. Rise and shine earlier and enjoy waking up with the sun\n  6. Utilize the sun’s powerful energy with walks in nature\n  7. Enjoy your local farmers market for the best organic produce\n  8. Swim and splash in water often\n  9. Eat more watermelon\n  10. Avoid spicy and heavy foods\n  11. Limit your alcohol intake, especially daytime drinking\n  12. Do more gentle exercise routines and adapt to relaxed yoga styles\n  13. Enjoy cold showers to cool your body\n\nEnjoy moderation in everything you do during the Summer. Be mindful of what you eat, how you socialize, your reactions, and your own self care. It is important to watch your digestion and how your body is functioning. If something is not helping you feel energized and empowered, try something different.\n\nSummer is the easiest time to cleanse, eat less, and let your body reform with purification practices that help digestion. The sun’s high energy can heal us all and the extreme heat can suppress hunger and give our bodies time to detoxify with more water and lighter foods.\n\nTake time to find balance for your own energetic needs and calm your mind daily to reduce extreme stress and anxiety. The heat can rattle us all.  Although it is bathing suit season, working out too hard can actually be taxing on your body and can cause excess sweat and heat. Usually organs function better with calmer practices like meditation and breathing that cool your whole system down. The breath is a powerful tool that can calm nerves, enhance circulation, reform your metabolism and improve digestion, which counters the extreme Pitta qualities.The happier and calmer you can sustain yourself, the less hungry you will feel, and you can have more energy to play and enjoy the nice Summer weather!\n\nKali Bliss\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9752522110939026}
+{"content": "Valley Beth Shalom Community Center\n\n\nEncino, CA\nCommunity Center and Day School\n72,000 sq ft\nTom Bonner\n\nMeaningful Connections\n\nOriginally established in 1950, Valley Beth Shalom’s mission is to enrich the lives of their community while fostering personal growth. Mostly untouched since the 1980s, their campus needed a significant overhaul to accommodate the growing number of younger families joining their conservative Jewish community. The new Howard and Irene Community Center is a contemporary extension of their evolving campus.\n\nA nexus within Valley Beth Shalom’s dense urban campus, the Levine Center is a 16-hour-a-day space responding to their previously unmet religious, academic, and athletic needs. The facility provides a new indoor gymnasium and mezzanine level for yoga and other wellness activities. The voluminous space also transforms easily into an auditorium for performances or a sanctuary during high holidays.\n\n\nThe exterior materials are rooted in two primary sources that are prevalent throughout the campus. Four-inch-tall concrete blocks recall the darker hues and proportion of existing multi-tonal brick facades found on the adjacent classroom buildings.\n\n\nA series of custom-designed 3-Dimensional fiber-reinforced polymer panels that clip onto the CMU wall are an abstraction of existing 3-D brick found on campus. In addition to acting as a rain screen and improving the building’s thermal performance, the custom panels create a living façade showcasing the interplay of light and shadow.\n\nCreating a large, daylit space that supports multiple uses while adhering to stringent California seismic codes was one of the most significant challenges. To accomplish this, the designer modeled a complex space frame system spanning the entire building volume. The triangulated members allow for a continuous clerestory around the perimeter of the building while maintaining the structural diaphragm. Triangular pop-up windows introduce additional lighting from the north thus mitigating glare.\n\nTo maintain the floating ceiling’s delicate appearance, the heating and air conditioning ductwork is integrated beneath the mezzanine level. Vents set into a Baltic birch faced ledge provide the velocity needed to force air deep into space. Sliding glass storefront at the east and west facades allow for indoor/outdoor connections and create ample cross-ventilation. From the outside, the structure appears perched atop the concrete block wall. New landscaping and lighting activate the public realm along the long site wall.\n\nThe Rosen Library, located on the lower level of the Levine Community Center, immerses young readers in a series of playfully designed areas. In addition to sound-masking techniques used on the basketball court located on the next level above, acoustical baffling within the ceiling creates visual interest while eliminating any remaining acoustical intrusions such as the thump of basketballs or the shuffling of chairs.\n\n\nWithin the basement space, a sense of warmth comes from artificial lighting, color, and material. The layout takes inspiration from the hexagon, which is also the geometric origin of the Star of David.\n\n\nThe space is designed for children of all ages and includes reading nooks, vibrant learning niche’s, and story-time alcoves. The furnishings are bright and child-oriented. Variations of soft seating and transformable book-shelving can move throughout the distinct areas depending on VBS’s needs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9786912798881531}
+{"content": "Lea Verou\n\n\nAlso from this author\n\n\nAny -webkit- feature that doesn’t exist in a specification (not even an Editor’s draft) is not CSS3. Yes, they are commonly evangelized as such, but they are not part of CSS at all. This distinction is not nitpicking. It’s important because it encourages certain vendors to circumvent the standards process, implement whatever they come up with in WebKit, then evangelize it to developers as the best thing since sliced bread. In our eagerness to use the new bling, we often forget how many people fought in the past decade to enable us to write code without forks and hacks and expect it to work interoperably. Lea Verou explains why single-vendor solutions are not the same as standards and not healthy for your professional practice or the future of the web.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9858121871948242}
+{"content": "Our community, projects and partners made Data Week 2021 a success!\n\nDuring the course of three days, the Data Week 2021 brought together over 450 experts from the BDVA/DAIRO community, projects and partners, and the EUHubs4Data European Data-driven Innovations Hubs Federation community to join the discussion. BDVA/DAIRO says a big thank you to all the participants, organisers, speakers, partners and collaborators!\n\nSpeeding up Industrial AI and Trustworthiness - Position Paper\n\nA position paper introducing a comprehensive industrial and trustworthy AI framework has been recently published in its consultation version. The position paper summarises the presentations and discussions of Franco-German workshops, including numerous received feedbacks. It also aligns with national and European related roadmaps to industrial and trustworthy AI. It should be seen as a first step in speeding up Industrial AI and AI trustworthiness across Europe. Find the paper here.\n\nBDVA/DAIRO pushes forward the work on standardisation and interoperability at the AG44\n\nApril's Activity Group Meeting (AG44) focused on contributions from research and innovation projects and BDVA/DAIRO members to data and AI standardisation and interoperability activities. The event, organised in collaboration with BDV projects, gathered nearly 100 members, Big Data Value Project portfolio representatives and other key stakeholders to exchange views, experience and ideas.\n\nThe EC proposes regulation and actions to foster trustworthy AI in Europe\n\nToday, 21st of April, the Commission unveils the proposal for European artificial intelligence regulation. Combining the proposal with an updated Coordinated Plan on AI, the EC aims to guarantee the safety and fundamental rights of Europeans while strengthening AI uptake, investment and innovation across the EU.\n\nBDVA/DAIRO Activity Group 44, April 22-23\n\nOn the 22nd and 23rd of April, BDVA/DAIRO organises its Activity Group (AG44) meeting. Our popular workshop series brings together BDVA/DAIRO members, Big Data Value portfolio projects and other relevant initiatives on data and Industrial AI. The two-day event focuses especially on data space reference architecture, standardisation and interoperability and Trustworthiness of Industrial AI.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998791813850403}
+{"content": "How Do You Get A Stubborn Person To Listen?\n\nWhat does the Bible say about a stubborn man?\n\n\nIs being stubborn selfish?\n\nA stubborn person’s mindset will ultimately hurt them but they rather be hurt than swayed. A selfish person on the other hand can be swayed if in fact the circumstances are favorable to them. If you are with a stubborn person you learn to live with it. Just don’t confuse a selfish person for a stubborn person.\n\nWhat causes a person to be stubborn?\n\nStubbornness and identity Stubborn people are rigidly attached to their beliefs, opinions, ideas, and tastes. … They become stubborn to the point that they don’t even consider the opinion of others because they feel threatened by people who disagree with them. So, in a way, this is also a type of pain-avoidance.\n\nWhy being stubborn is bad?\n\nStubborn people can easily burn a passive personality, and make the person feel like a victim or like decisions are being forced on him or her, but that is only the faulty choice of the passive. … Stubborn people are not all controlling because a person can choose to be controlled or not be controlled.\n\nIs being stubborn a weakness?\n\nStubborn. Another important strength of the personality is the ability to be flexible in actions or situations. This includes being able to do things out of routine to help others, even if it means taking a bit longer than usual. Being stubborn is considered a weakness, even though some may see it as being determined.\n\nIs stubbornness genetic?\n\nHamburg – People who are stubborn and never seem to learn from their mistakes may have a mutated gene that makes them bull-headed, according to scientists in Germany. About 30% of the population have the mutation, called the A1 mutation, said co-author Dr Markus Ullsperger. …\n\nHow do I fix being stubborn?\n\nHow Can I Stop Being A Stubborn Person?Reserve judgment on the other person or course of action. … Remind yourself that you are only human, and that you are not always right. … Use small steps to build trust with other people. … Let people have their own way on matters of importance to them that are not negative to you.More items…•\n\nCan stubbornness ruin a relationship?\n\n\nWhat is an example of being stubborn?\n\nStubborn is defined as being unwilling to change your opinion or stance, in spite of good reasons to. An example of stubborn is a dictator who has lost the popularity of his people, but refuses to step down from office. Done or carried on in an obstinate or doggedly persistent manner.\n\nWhat are the characteristics of a stubborn person?\n\n5 Signs You Are a Stubborn PersonYou fear new situations. Stubborn people are afraid of change. … You argue about everything. Stubborn people have trouble admitting when they are wrong. … You never change your mind. … You resort to ad hominem attacks. … You avoid information that contradicts your beliefs.\n\nHow do I stop being so hard headed?\n\n7 ways to stop being hardheaded:Make adapting part of organizational culture. … Test assumptions. … Mitigate optimism with pessimism. … Ask, “What are we learning?” Provide time to reflect.Learn from the failures of others.Invite an outsider in. … Stay on target, but stop doing what isn’t working.\n\nHow do you have a relationship with a stubborn person?\n\nHow To Deal With A Stubborn Partner In A RelationshipFirst Order of Business: Breathe. The first thing you need to do is make sure that you don’t let this situation stress you out. … Explain Yourself. … Try to Understand His or Her Side. … Attempt to Compromise. … Time Out From Arguments. … Discuss It Debate Style. … Express Your Love. … Approach It at the Right Time.\n\nHow do you deal with a stubborn man in a relationship?\n\n5 Tips that make dealing with stubborn boyfriend a piece of cakeBe the way you are. Being yourself holds the key to any successful relationship. … Tell him how much you value him. Difficult behavior is often a mark of feeling unwanted and not valued. … Compliment him. … Help him with his Life. … Ask for his help.\n\nWhich personality type is the most stubborn?\n\nINTJ. INTJs can often be perceived as stubborn, since they do not bend very easily. The only reason INTJs are hard to convince of something, is because they have often spent a long time forming their information.\n\nWhat is a headstrong personality?\n\nThe definition of headstrong is someone who is stubborn, likes things his own way, imposes his opinion or is unyielding in his opinions and beliefs. An example of a headstrong person is someone who knows her own mind and who is determined to have her own way. adjective.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993116855621338}
+{"content": "June 7, 2021\n\nHow do you list your skills on a resume?\n\nHow do you list your skills on a resume?\n\n\nHow do I add skills to my resume?\n\nHow to demonstrate a willingness to learn on a resumeHighlight both hard and soft skills. List additional certifications and credentials. Describe the results of learning new skills. Provide specific examples of your accomplishments. Give examples of your professional development. Entry-level example.\n\nWhat kind of skill is multitasking?\n\nMultitasking refers to the ability to manage multiple responsibilities at once by focusing on one task while keeping track of others. Multitasking in the workplace most often involves switching back and forth between tasks and effectively performing different tasks rapidly one right after the other.\n\nHow do you develop multitasking skills?\n\n12 Tips to boost your multitasking skillsAccept your limits. To better manage task organization, be aware of your limits, especially those you can’t control. Distinguish urgent from important. Learn to concentrate. Avoid distractions. Work in blocks of time. Work on related tasks together. Learn to supervise. Plan ahead.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999975562095642}
+{"content": "- Others\n\nAdvantages Of Having Aquatic Plants In the Aquariums\n\nAquatic plants come within various types and sizes. They will embellish your aquariums. In the same time, they keep your aquariums healthy. Even with of this, there will be still people who patronize plastic water plants instead of the live ones.\n\nActually, they’re missing out and about a lot! These people making the wrong decision of using the plastic ones for the reason that live aquatic plants offer the following advantages:\n\n· Survival. If plants go through the process regarding the natural photosynthesis, they release air as a result. Oxygen is then used up by or even breathed with the fishes, and thus helping them survive together with live healthily inside your aquarium.\n\nyoursite.com Clean-up. Aquatic plants absorb this throw away materials derived from the particular fishes and the species of fish food. They will even draw up harmful chemical compounds plus provide opportunities for valuable bacteria to grow as an alternative.\n\n· Safety. Artificial marine flowers can be purchased at dog sores. Similar to live aquatic plants, the artificial kinds are good aquarium ornaments. Nevertheless the problem is these people do not keep often the fishes safe. Artificial plants own sharp edges in addition to so fishes are not really safe with them. Live marine plants are natural together with therefore they’re soft with animal skins.\n\n· Different food resource. As a good pet owner, it is your current prime job to present fish foodstuff to your animal fishes. But what in the event that, you forget to give food to them all because you had been not in your own home. Then many people don’t have any some other choice but to hold out till you get there property. Remember, they can be your fishes’ alternative foodstuff as well as, it adds variance for their diet.\n\n· Carbon dioxide. Often the fishes gently breathe out carbon dioxide. Plants, with the various other side, continues carbon dioxide down together with absorbs it so that they can produce oxygen which fishes need in order to survive.\n\n· Environment. With live aquatic crops, your aquarium is loaded with an all-natural environment which in turn allows the animal’s to breed and grow properly. They provide shade. They can be fine camouflaging spots for newborn baby creatures. The water that’s just beneath them tends to get cooler therefore animals can have good breeding conditions.\n\n· Dirt weight. Climber starts coming out as a result of two things: nutrients around water and light. Marine living body can work with up all the nourishment in the water, and so it wouldn’t be significantly of a challenge. However, worms may likely appear. So, both nutrient and lightweight levels should be well balanced. In the event done right, an individual more than likely have to through the trouble of cleaning your own aquarium.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9872391223907471}
+{"content": "Virginia Basketball Players In The NBA\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Special Olympics sport. In regular play a basket comprised of within the three level line is value 2 factors and a basket shot from exterior the three level line is worth three factors. The USA dominates international basketball and gained all the titles up to 1972, the 12 months it was defeated by the Soviet Union at the Munich Video games.\n\nJulia Marquez AND throughout Qualification for the Basketball Womens Shootout Contest at Parque Mujeres Argentinas, City Park during The Youth Olympic Video games, Buenos Aires, Argentina Saturday 15th October 2018. Show basketball is performed by leisure basketball present teams, the prime example being the Harlem Globetrotters There are even specialized leisure teams, resembling groups of celebrities, individuals with quick heights and others.\n\nAs the game gained reputation on the school stage skilled leagues had been formed and, in 1936, basketball grew to become an Olympic sport. The vast majority of rebounds are defensive, because the group on defense tends to be in higher position to recover missed photographs.\n\nIt was founded as a “riot” of several teams from the now-defunct Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association, which was tightly controlled by the Basketball Association of the Philippines (now defunct), the then-FIBA recognized nationwide association.\n\nBasketball is performed extensively casually in schools and schools the place fun, leisure and camaraderie rule reasonably than winning a recreation. The first professional league, the National Basketball League, was fashioned in 1898 to guard gamers from exploitation and to promote a less tough sport.\n\n20 Men’s Basketball Schedule\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Special Olympics sport. A limited number of time-outs, clock stoppages requested by a coach (or typically mandated within the NBA) for a short assembly with the players, are allowed. Children can have fun working on their instances-tables by multiplying the number of baskets they make by the points every shot is price.\n\nThere were hundreds of males’s professional basketball groups in cities and cities all around the United States, and little organization of the professional sport. Maybe the one most common variation of basketball is the half-court docket game, played in casual settings without referees or strict rules.\n\nUsually, a player faces the basket with each ft facing the basket. The gymnasium class offered them activities corresponding to marching, calisthenics, and equipment work, however these have been pale substitutes for the more exciting video games of soccer and lacrosse they played in warmer seasons.\n\nThe one important tools in a basketball recreation is the ball and the court: a flat, rectangular surface with baskets at reverse ends. Ennis exited Sunday’s preseason sport towards the Magic as a consequence of right calf tightness and won’t return, Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer experiences.\n\nIn FIBA and NCAA ladies’s basketball, a foul leading to ejection is called a disqualifying foul, whereas in leagues aside from the NBA, such a foul is known as flagrant. Whereas shorter gamers are sometimes at a drawback in sure elements of the game, their potential to navigate rapidly by way of crowded areas of the court docket and steal the ball by reaching low are strengths.…\n\nRelated Press Top 25 Basketball Poll, All\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Special Olympics sport. In the 2016-17 season, 980,673 boys and girls represented their colleges in interscholastic basketball competition, in keeping with the Nationwide Federation of State High School Associations 20 The states of Illinois , Indiana and Kentucky are notably well known for his or her residents’ devotion to high school basketball, commonly referred to as Hoosier Hysteria in Indiana; the critically acclaimed film Hoosiers shows high school basketball’s depth of that means to those communities.\n\nTop six players within the Class of 2020 will probably be on show in Springfield. To dribble, a participant pushes the ball down in the direction of the ground with the fingertips relatively than patting it; this ensures better management. When dribbling past an opponent, the dribbler ought to dribble with the hand farthest from the opponent, making it tougher for the defensive participant to get to the ball.\n\nThe NBA built-in in 1950-51 seasons, simply two years after its founding, with three black gamers each attaining a separate milestone in that process. Basketball is fun to observe: Among the worlds best athletes are basketball gamers. Mini basketball played by underage youngsters.\n\nThis violation is incurred when a player touches the ball on its downward trajectory to the basket, unless it is obvious that the ball has no probability of getting into the basket, if a participant touches the ball while it’s in the rim, or in the space prolonged upwards from the basket, or if a player reaches via the basket to interfere with the shot.\n\nThe confusion has been compounded by a small sign on the nook of the building where basketball was invented. Every time a person bought the ball in the basket, his workforce would acquire a point. Presently, the organization only oversaw newbie players.…\n\nSeason 8 Episodes (TV Series)\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Particular Olympics sport. Rezball , short for reservation ball, is the avid Native American following of basketball, particularly a method of play explicit to Native American groups of some areas. Although some players can carry out such a pass effectively, many coaches discourage no-look or behind-the-again passes, believing them to be tough to regulate and extra likely to lead to turnovers or violations.\n\nThompson won’t play in Monday’s preseason finale in opposition to the Jazz as a consequence of proper hip bursitis, Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee studies. Beverley suffered a calf injury in Sunday’s preseason sport, Jovan Buha of The Athletic studies.\n\n1) The participant must bounce, or dribble, the ball with one hand while shifting both ft. Five players from each team may be on the court at one time. James Naismith, Basketball: Its Origin and Improvement, University of Nebraska Press, 1941. Theis completed with 10 factors (four-5 FG, 2-three FT), three rebounds, two assists, and one block in 11 minutes during Sunday’s 118-72 preseason victory over the Cavaliers.\n\nThe tallest gamers ever in the NBA were Manute Bol and Gheorghe MureÈ™an , who had been both 7 ft 7 inches (2.31 m) tall. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and LeBron James had the flexibility to handle the ball, cross it, shoot it, rebound and play protection with one of the best of the best.\n\nA player who begins dribbling once more is known as for a double-dribbling violation and looses the basketball to the other staff. Gamers who are fouled both receive the ball to pass inbounds again, or receive one or more free throws if they are fouled within the act of capturing, relying on whether or not the shot was profitable.…\n\nMen’s Basketball Vanderbilt College Athletics Official Athletics Web site\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Special Olympics sport. The league consists of 29 American teams and the Toronto Raptors. Just one basket is used, and the ball have to be “taken back” or “cleared” – handed or dribbled exterior the three-point line each time possession of the ball modifications from one staff to the opposite.\n\nSubstitute (subs) is when a participant on the bench swaps for a participant on the court. The participant that will get his arms on the ball will tip it to a teammate. Within the draft held instantly previous to that season, Chuck Cooper became the first black player drafted by an NBA workforce.\n\nWhile defending, use the X key to steal the ball and the S key or the down arrow to block the other participant. An illustration of a basketball sport that accompanied Nasmith’s article from The Triangle in 1892 itemizing his 13 rules. Fantasy basketball was popularized through the Nineteen Nineties after the arrival of the Web.\n\nAfter getting taught the principles of the sport to your group, there is a simple solution to be sure that they do not overlook them. If the offensive crew places the ball into play behind the mid-courtroom line, it has ten seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line.\n\nIf a player is fouled while attempting a shot and the shot is unsuccessful, the participant is awarded quite a few free throws equal to the worth of the attempted shot. Other balls equivalent to basketballs and soccer balls include a rubber bladder – an hermetic pocket – stuffed with compressed air.…\n\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Particular Olympics sport. Youngsters can have fun engaged on their times-tables by multiplying the variety of baskets they make by the factors each shot is worth. The confusion has been compounded by a small signal on the nook of the constructing where basketball was invented. Head2Head Finder Find video games by which two chosen players went head-to-head (1963-64 to at this time).\n\nThe player with the ball tries to keep the ball and not let the other team get it. Then teams of young folks played instruments informally, chatted, exchanged, toured the college, performed basketball and customarily and genuinely interacted. An try to score on this manner is known as a shot.\n\nIf a participant is fouled whereas attempting a shot and the shot is unsuccessful, the participant is awarded quite a lot of free throws equal to the value of the tried shot. Different balls equivalent to basketballs and soccer balls contain a rubber bladder – an hermetic pocket – stuffed with compressed air.\n\nThe ball is out of bounds if it touches a boundary line, or touches any player or object that’s out of bounds. Basketball has been performed within the Summer Olympic Games since 1936. If after the shot is taken and the ball fails to go in the basket then the shot clock is restarted for an additional 24 seconds.\n\nThe thing of the game is to outscore one’s opponents by throwing the ball by means of the opponents’ basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. Players hold monitor of their own scores and name out their points after making a basket.…\n\nThe Nationwide Governing Physique For Males’s And Girls’s Basketball In The United States\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favourite Special Olympics sport. The winners of the Eastern and Western Conference Championships play for the league championship in the NBA Finals. Depending on where the foul was committed will rely on the quantity free throws a participant gets. One of many key signs of an excellent basketball is its grip: the more strong the grip, the easier it will be to dribble, move and shoot throughout games.\n\nThere are two ladies on the sophomore and three on the freshman group whose basketball ardor should cool till after the mid-yr exams. The foundations have been tinkered with, however by-and-giant, the sport of basket ball” has not modified drastically since Naismith’s original listing of 13 Rules” was tacked up on a bulletin board at Springfield School.\n\nGroup Recreation Finder Search via staff sport logs spanning from 1963-64 to today for video games that match your criteria. Their job is to obtain rebounds from below the basket and rating within the opposing team’s basket, although it’s unusual for an influence forward to attain most points for the team.\n\nThey need to take the ball out (to dribble the ball midway throughout their team’s court aspect into the opposing staff’s court docket aspect) and plan an “assault” or “play” – to move the ball to a player and he passes on to a different participant and so forth until a participant shoots the basketball.\n\nSubstitution is the act of changing a player from the courtroom to an one other participant sitting on the bench. Streetball is a very fashionable recreation worldwide, and a few cities in the United States have organized streetball programs, resembling midnight basketball Many cities also host their own weekend-long streetball tournaments.…\n\nStar Basketball Recruit, Chooses Florida State Over Oregon, Kentucky\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favourite Particular Olympics sport. 11 Naismith’s handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous concerning the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a kids’s recreation known as duck on a rock , as many had failed before it.\n\nBasketball is a workforce sport where two groups, usually consisting of 5 gamers on every staff, play towards each other on an oblong court The target is to get the ball through a hoop mounted excessive on a backboard on the opponent’s facet of the court, while stopping the opponent from capturing it into your staff’s hoop.\n\nIf a player does something unlawful in the game, it is called a “foul.” If a player fouls someone on the opposite crew who is capturing the basketball, the participant who was fouled gets to shoot “free throws” from the “foul line.” A free throw is a shot that nobody is allowed to try to block.\n\nWater basketball – Water basketball, performed in a swimming pool, merges basketball and water polo guidelines. 8- or 10-second violation is when the staff with the ball fails to advance the ball previous the center line throughout the allowed time. The sport now is up-tempo and groups are starting to involve a lot more three point shooting in their offenses.\n\nFive players from each staff could also be on the court at one time. When winter weather received too icy to play soccer, groups had been taken indoors, and it was handy to have them split in half and play basketball with five on each side. NBA groups typically schedule artists, bands, and stunt groups for thrilling halftime reveals.…\n\nNCAA Men’s School Basketball Scores, News, Rankings\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Particular Olympics sport. Participant Comparability Finder Evaluate the statistics of up to six gamers by (or in) a given season (1946-47 to at present). However, flagrantly breaking the foundations by not dribbling, deliberately double dribbling, or by fouling too harshly will not be accepted and is handled by the other gamers.\n\nThis violation is incurred when a participant touches the ball on its downward trajectory to the basket, unless it is apparent that the ball has no chance of getting into the basket, if a participant touches the ball whereas it is within the rim, or in the space prolonged upwards from the basket, or if a participant reaches through the basket to intrude with the shot.\n\nBasketball has been adopted by various social teams, which have established their own environments and sometimes their own rules. When a group shoots foul shots, the opponents could not intrude with the shooter, nor might they try to regain possession till the final or doubtlessly last free throw is within the air.\n\nNotice: You can find all right this moment’s basketball scores on basketball page – NBA, NCAA, NBL Canada and a hundred and fifty+ basketball leagues from all over the world. Basketball, especially within the ninety’s and 2000’s, used to offer importance to big males. In 1939 the all-black New York Renaissance beat the all-white Oshkosh All-Stars in the World Pro Basketball Event.\n\nThe main differences from the mum or dad sport is the court docket; below the padded basketball rim and backboard are 4 trampolines set into the floor, which serve to propel gamers to great heights for slam dunks The principles additionally allow some physical contact between the members of the four-player teams.…\n\n20 Girls’s Basketball\n\nBasketballBasketball is a favorite Particular Olympics sport. A player fouled whereas making an attempt a daily two-level shot thus receives two pictures, and a player fouled whereas making an attempt a 3-level shot receives three shots. Within the Twenties and Nineteen Thirties, Eastern Basket Ball League (based in 1909), 17 Metropolitan Basketball League (based in 1921) 18 and American Basketball League (based in 1925) 19 had been a very powerful leagues.\n\nScreens and cuts are very important in offensive plays; these enable the quick passes and teamwork, which can result in a successful basket. A Duke basketball commit’s lofty profession goals line up together with his repute amongst his teammates, buddies, and teachers as both a whiz child and a leader.\n\nIn almost all variants of play, it’s unlawful to touch the ball after it is within the downward path of its arc; this is named goaltending Additionally it is illegal underneath NBA and Males’s NCAA basketball to block a shot after it has touched the backboard, or when any part of the ball is instantly above the rim.\n\nThe only important gear in a basketball sport is the ball and the courtroom: a flat, rectangular surface with baskets at opposite ends. Ennis exited Sunday’s preseason game towards the Magic attributable to right calf tightness and won’t return, Keith Pompey of The Philadelphia Inquirer stories.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9631111025810242}
+{"content": "What Is Animation 2d?\n\nWhy 2d animation is important?\n\n\n\nMarketers can cap off on 2D animation for better influence in consumers’ decisions..\n\nAre anime 2d or 3d?\n\n\nIs Simpsons 2d or 3d?\n\nExamples of images created using 2D include, The Simpsons, South Park and Bugs Bunny. 3D animations are solely created on the computer. 3D allows you to do things that are not possible to do when using 2D.\n\nWhy is 2d animation so expensive?\n\n\nWhy is animation expensive?\n\n\nIs Family Guy in 2d?\n\nSome well-known popular 2D animations include: Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd) Classic Disney (Snow White, The Jungle Book, The Little Mermaid) TV shows (The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Rick and Morty)\n\nWhat is a 2d animation where is it use?\n\n2D animation is one of the major types of animation. It’s widely used for creating animated movies, cartoons, marketing videos, advertisements, corporate presentations, educational materials, video games, and so much more.\n\nIs 2d animation dying?\n\n\nWhich is best 2d or 3d?\n\n2D graphics are widely used in animation and video games, providing a realistic, but flat, view of movement on the screen. 3D graphics provide realistic depth that allows the viewer to see into spaces, notice the movement of light and shadows, and gain a fuller understanding of what’s being shown.\n\nAre humans 2d or 3d?\n\n\nDoes 2d animation require math?\n\nYOU are POOR at Maths means you are Going to Have a Great time Animating Things. … So you don’t need to worry about maths a lot until you have the basic knowledge of Addition, Subtraction, Division and Multiplication & the very basic geometry stuff. A bit of physics can be of help too.\n\nWhat is the main difference between 2d and 3d animation?\n\nIn 2D animation, characters and objects used for manipulation only consist of height and width, while 3D animation comprises of manipulation of characters and objects with 3 dimensions, height, width, and depth and are more realistic than in comparison to 2D characters.\n\nIs 2d animation easy?\n\n2D is a much more simple technique, so it’s a lot easier to learn, but it still takes just as much, and often more, time to do than 3D. Since you have to draw, or at least manipulate each frame, it can take a long time to create something of a decent length. 2D animation is harder than 3D animation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998240053653717}
+{"content": "The Censored Diary of a Lonely Fukushima Robot Driver\n\nIllustration for article titled The Censored Diary of a Lonely Fukushima Robot Driver\n\n\n\nThe Japanese driver, who went only by \"S.H.\" online, kept a blog of his daily routine before it was erased—likely by the hand of his bosses at TEPCO. And why would they do that? Probably because his writing exposed an environment in which humans are stressed, irradiated, and depressed. Luckily, IEEE Spectrum ripped (and translated) his blog before it went down.\n\nS.H. describes disconcerting radiation exposure, though he seems rather nonchalant about the whole thing:\n\nToday's work.\nWe did thermal imaging today.\nWe will be going to the front line wearing a glass badge that measures the cumulative doses and carrying two personal dosimeters.\nHe said, \"There is nothing wrong with it, so please continue your work.\"\nSo, I did!\n\nAnd yet, there clearly was a radiation risk, as S.H. describes his operating terminal:\n\nOf course, there is ventilation as well.\nOtherwise, we would suffocate . . .\nThere is a fan on the exhaust side, and it is naturally structured to pull air in on the intake side.\nHaving said that, we still cannot take off our full clothing gear inside the shielded vehicle, and eating and smoking is prohibited.\n\nS.H. begins to describe his worsening condition, both mentally and physically:\n\nI really felt a sense of isolation and loneliness.\n\nMigraine headaches have bothered me since around noon.\n\nOn top of all this, S.H. grapples with the power plant bureaucracy:\n\nThe robot missions have been suddenly halted.\nEveryone on the front line, including our company, are all anxious because of the decision from the Fukushima Prefecture.\nOur morale dropped instantly.\n\n\nIt's rare to get a look at the brain behind a machine. We champion robots, whether in the air or on the ground, because of their ability to spare a person whatever burden the metal's tasked with. But behind every UAV or reactor-sniffing crawler is a guy with a joystick. [IEEE Spectrum]\n\n\nDiziet Sma\n\nLet me get that for you: \"a guy or gal with a joystick\"", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8218470215797424}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Will Soluble Fiber Make You Gain Weight?\n\nWhy does my weight fluctuate 10 lbs in a day?\n\nDaily weight fluctuation is normal.\n\n\n\nIs soluble or insoluble fiber better for weight loss?\n\nAlthough glucomannan and other soluble fiber supplements are a good option, it’s best to focus your diet on whole plant foods. Fiber supplements are usually ineffective for weight loss — with the exception of glucomannan. However, getting your fiber from whole plant foods is better than supplementing.\n\nDoes fiber make you heavier?\n\nA lack of fiber in your diet could be making you gain fat. This is because fiber helps control your appetite to keep you fuller for longer (33, 34, 35). One study showed that eating an extra 14 grams of fiber per day may decrease your calorie intake up to 10%.\n\nHow can I lose my belly fat overnight?\n\n\nWhat drink can burn belly fat?\n\n\nHow can I flatten my stomach naturally?\n\n\nWhat makes you fat fast?\n\n\nDoes fiber reduce weight?\n\nA study published in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that something as simple as aiming to eat 30 grams of fiber each day can help you lose weight, lower your blood pressure, and improve your body’s response to insulin just as effectively as a more complicated diet.\n\nWhat is the perfect breakfast for weight loss?\n\nOatmeal Oatmeal is a healthy and delicious breakfast option, especially if you’re looking to lose weight. Oats are low in calories but high in fiber and protein — two nutrients that impact appetite and weight control.\n\nCan Metamucil cause weight loss?\n\nStudies suggest that taking Metamucil may help reduce hunger, enhance feelings of fullness, and increase weight loss. Still, Metamucil and similar fiber supplements should not be used as a weight loss product.\n\nDoes soluble fiber absorb fat?\n\n\nIs fiber good for losing belly fat?\n\n\nHow can I lose tummy fat fast?\n\n\nDoes water weight go away?\n\nFast facts on water weight: Water levels can make a person’s weight fluctuate by as much as 2 to 4 pounds in a single day. Severe water retention can be a symptom of heart or kidney disease. More often, it is temporary and goes away on its own or with some simple lifestyle changes.\n\nHow can I eat 35g of fiber a day?\n\nHere are 16 ways you can add more fiber to your diet.Eat Whole-Food Carb Sources. … Include Veggies in Meals, and Eat Them First. … Eat Popcorn. … Snack on Fruit. … Choose Whole Grains over Refined Grains. … Take a Fiber Supplement. … Eat Chia Seeds. … Eat Whole Fruits and Vegetables, Not Juice.More items…•Jul 27, 2016\n\nDoes fiber make you gain water weight?\n\nMoreover, excessive fiber may end up interfering with water retention, causing a fluid imbalance. For these reasons, it’s paramount that you drink enough water and eat the right amount of fiber (more on that later). This means upping your water intake if you end up raising your fiber intake.\n\nHow can I reduce my tummy in 7 days?\n\n\nHow do you know if it’s water weight or fat?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8917568922042847}
+{"content": "Home https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ Health https://server7.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/smyrwpoii/p2/ Shock report: Up to 90% of COVID-positive Americans were probably not even contagious\n\n\nMost of the nearly 6 million diagnoses for coronavirus in the United States were probably not contagious, according to the New York Times.\n\nDespite the continuing widespread panic of COVID-19, which includes many restrictions related to the virus, up to 90% of people who tested positive for COVID-19 potentially carried such “minor” amounts of the virus that they were not contagious, writes the Times.\n\nWhat are the details?\n\nThe most widely used diagnostic test for COVID-19 is called the PCR test, which according to the FDA tests the genetic material of the virus.\n\nThe problem with the test is that it only detects the presence of the genetic material that is being searched for. It does not take into account the amount of genetic material, which means that individuals with such insignificant levels of COVID-1\n\n9 genetic material will still have a positive test, even if they are not really sick.\n\nFrom the Times:\n\nThe PCR test amplifies the genetic matter of the virus in cycles; the fewer cycles required, the greater the amount of virus or viral load in the sample. The higher the viral load, the more likely the patient is to become infected. This number of amplification cycles required to detect the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and patients with coronavirus, although it can tell them how infectious the patients are. In three test datasets that included cycle thresholds made up of employees in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada, up to 90 percent of people who tested positive carried almost no virus, according to a review by The Times.\n\nDr. Michael Mina, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health TH Chan, said testing thresholds are currently too sensitive. The problem, he told the Times, is similar to finding individual hair in a room long after the person responsible for releasing a lock of hair has left.\n\nThe solution is to lower the cycle threshold used to determine if an individual is infected.\n\nThe standard is currently 37 or 40 cycles, the Times reported. But Dr. Mina told the paper that it should be less than 30. Then only individuals with 100 to 1,000 times the genetic material above the current standard will return a positive COVID-19 test result, Dr. Mina said.\n\nAnything else?\n\nAlmost six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, questions remain about the extent of the viral problem.\n\nThe CDC, for example, published a report last week stating that only 6% of Americans classified as dead by COVID-19 died only from coronavirus.\n\nThis means that up to 94% of Americans who die from the virus die because COVID-19 worsens the effects of other viruses, diseases or comorbidities.\n\nSource link", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9685438275337219}
+{"content": "Club SciKidz Houston COVID-19 Guidance to Reduce our Disease Transmission Risk\n\nThe steps and procedures introduced in this document are for the health and safety of all staff, campers, and families at Club SciKidz. These procedures will help us to minimize the risk of disease transmission at camp. These will in no way guarantee a disease-free environment but will provide proactive steps in reducing our risk. All of our parents and staff will be educated on our adjusted procedures.\n\n\nOur campers, staff, and parents will receive education on “Cover your Cough”, our COVID-19 procedures, symptoms, and How to wash your hands. Staff will receive this during their training and notices will be sent out to our families.\n\nCamp Entry:\n\nFor parents, if any child has symptoms of infection, even mild, such as sniffles (not allergy-related), a new or worsening sore throat or cough, he/she will need to be evaluated by his/her health care provider and not come to camp that day. A written notice from the campers Primary Care Physician (PCP) or health care provider will be needed before the camper can attend camp. Campers under the age of 5 and with underlying health conditions will need a written notice from their PCP before they may attend camp in accordance with State Department of Health Directives.\n\nParents will be required to answer prescreening questions for each camper they are dropping off each day before campers can be dropped off. The questionnaire will consist of the COVID symptoms. Temperatures and checklist questions will be logged daily. Thermometers used to will be contactless. Staff will also be required to answer prescreening questions before they may clock in for work. All campers and staff will be encouraged to wear face coverings during arrival and departure.\n\nWhen a camper has to be picked up/go home:\n\nDue to the risk of transmission of COVID-19 this summer, Club SciKidz’s threshold for camper illnesses that will require immediate camper pick up has been adjusted for the health and safety of all campers, staff, and families.\n\nIf parents are called to pick up a camper, then will need to wait either in their cars or outside of the main doors. They will need to call the director and let him/her know that they have arrived, and the director will escort the camper out.\n\nCampers will be required to get picked up if they display any of the following symptoms but not limited to:\n\n  1. GI Symptoms (ex. upset, stomach, diarrhea, vomiting)\n  2. Fever (100.4 or higher)\n  3. Dry Cough\n  4. Productive cough\n  5. Extreme fatigue\n  6. Shortness of breath\n  7. Loss of taste and smell\n  8. New or worsening runny nose\n\nAll staff and campers will have a temperature check daily when they report to camp. This will be done regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. Anyone with a documented temperature of 100.4 will be sent home from camp. Individuals with a low- grade temperature will report to the First Aid Station and be assessed for infection (low- grade temperature is defined as &gt; 98.6 and &lt;100.4 &lt; 24 hours)\n\nCampers that have been sent home due to suspected illness will need to get cleared by their PCP or a Doctor and provide written approval prior to their return to camp.\n\nIn the event that a camper/staff has Seasonal Allergies:\n\nIf a camper or staff has seasonal allergies their normal symptoms MUST be documented on their camper application or in their account. Allergy symptoms such as sneezing, watery eyes, and sniffles will be monitored but will not require the camper to be sent home as long as those symptoms are documented on their application or camper account. Campers with allergies are encouraged to take their allergy medications prior to attending camp that day.\n\nIf these allergy symptoms appear in conjunction with any other symptoms such as extreme fatigue, productive cough, light sensitivity, headaches, or muscle aches your camper will be sent home and may only return once he/she has been cleared by your Primary Care Physician (PCP) or a Doctor.\n\nFirst Aid Station Staff\n\nAll First Aid Station Staff will be required to thoroughly wash their hands for at least 20 seconds using soap and water. If soap and water are not available and hands are not visibly dirty, an alcohol- based hand sanitizer with greater than 60% ethanol or greater than 70% isopropanol may be used. However, if hands are visibly dirty, always wash hands with soap and water before and after treating each staff member or camper. They will also be required to use masks and gloves when treating any campers or staff.\n\nGloves must be used during cleaning and changed in between campers.\n\nGloves and masks are only to be used once and then thrown away. Staff may not use the same pair of gloves multiple times. Masks must be changed in between groups. Gloves are to be removed by grasping from the inside and peeling inside out. The First Aid Station will be supplied with PPE gear and cleaning supplies such as Clorox and disinfection supplies. The cleaning of supplies and surfaces will be conducted in between each use. All treatments will be documented according to the State standards.\n\nCamper Groups:\n\nCampers will be placed in cohort groups of 15 or less to limit group mixing. By using the small groups and cohort strategy, isolation and surveillance of close contacts can be implemented in short order. Campers will be required to stay with their own group at all times during the camp day. Campers will wash their hands before and after each activity and meal. Counselors will be given a supply of alcohol-based sanitizer with greater than 60% ethanol or greater than 70% isopropanol to keep on their person for personal and camper use. This bottle of sanitizer will be refilled daily as needed.\n\nCleaning Procedures:\n\nAny staff member cleaning must wear gloves. Gloves will be used once and then thrown away. Cleaning will occur in two stages: Cleaning to remove dirt and grease and then disinfecting. We will be using normal cleaning products such as Clorox to clean and a diluted bleach solution for disinfecting. The disinfecting solution will be 4 teaspoons of bleach to a quarter of water in a spray bottle. These bottles of disinfectant will be labeled clearly so that they are used appropriately and not mistaken for other cleaning solutions.\n\nPreparing Disinfectant Spray Solutions:\n\n  1. Staff members that are preparing the disinfectant solution will be required to wear goggles and gloves and follow the manufacturers’ directions.\n  2. Using the manufacturer’s instructions, fill the spray bottle with the appropriate amount of disinfectant solution and water. A funnel (not to be used for consumables) will be used to reduce spills and splashing.\n  3. A dilute bleach (sodium hypochlorite) solution will be used by adding 4 teaspoons of bleach per quart of water.\n  4. Replace the spray cap and label the disinfectant bottle with the contents using a permanent marker.\n\nRegular During-the-Day Cleaning & Disinfecting Procedures\n\n  1. Each classroom will be equipped with paper towels and disinfecting spray/cleaner.\n  2. Staff should disinfect tables and counters at least three times daily (mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and at the end of the day). Disinfecting should take place when campers go outside.\n  3. Bathrooms and frequently touched surfaces (railings, doorknobs, handles, etc.) will be disinfected at least three times daily (mid-morning, mid-afternoon, and at the end of the day).\n  4. There will be a written record of all disinfecting that takes place.\n\nRegular End-of-Day Cleaning & Disinfecting Procedures Cleaning will be done in Two Stages:\n\n  1. Cleaning to remove dirt\n  2. Then a disinfecting solution will be used.\n\nNormal cleaners such as Clorox will be used to clean surfaces and disposable wipes such as paper towels and Clorox wipes will be used. If a sponge or rag needs to be used for cleaning it will be disposed of in a sealed bag or container. The disinfectant spray used will be a diluted bleach solution consisting of 4 teaspoons of bleach to a quart of water. These bottles of disinfectant will be labeled clearly so that they are used appropriately and not mistaken for other cleaning solutions. An alcohol-based sanitizer with greater than 60% ethanol or greater than 70% isopropanol will be available at the first aid station.\n\n\n  1. All hard surfaces will be wiped down.\n    1. Tables\n    2. Chairs\n    3. Shelves\n    4. Cabinets\n  2. Take out the trash\n  3. Vacuum\n\nCamp Cleaning and Disinfecting Procedures for confirmed COVID-19\n\nExtra cleaning and disinfecting procedures will begin 24hrs after the confirmed case. If waiting 24 hours is not possible, as long as possible will be waited.\n\n  1. First clean visibly dirty surfaces then perform disinfection.\n  2. Use disposable wipes/paper towels to clean surfaces if possible, rather than reusable cloth wipes, as the latter can re-contaminate surfaces. All cleaning and disinfecting materials (e.g., paper towels, cloth wipers, sponges, mop heads, etc.) should be disposed of in sealed bags or containers after use.\n  3. Particular attention will be given to high touch areas, including, but not limited to, handrails, door handles, cabinet and drawer handles, shared sports equipment or craft tools.\n  4. Clean a potential source area by progressing from the most distant point to the entrance to avoid re-contaminating surfaces that have been disinfected (i.e., clean your way out).\n\nHow to Wash Hands\n\n  1. Wet your hands with clean, running, water. Turn off the tap and apply soap.\n  2. Lather your hands by running them together with the soap. Make sure to lather the back of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails.\n  3. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds (about the time it takes to sing the, “Happy Birthday” song twice.)\n  4. Rinse your hands well under clean, running water.\n\nYou may use paper towels to turn off the faucet and/or open the door to the bathroom.\n\nHow to Use Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer\n\nHand sanitizers should contain greater than 60% ethanol or greater than 70% isopropanol. Hand sanitizers are not a substitute for handwashing for there is easy access to a sink.\n\n  1. Apply the product to the palm of one hand.\n  2. Rub your hands together. Make sure the product contacts the back of your hands, palms, between your fingers, and fingertips.\n  3. Continue to rub your hands together until your hands are dry (about 20 seconds).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6539350748062134}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Are The 2 Types Of Liabilities?\n\nWhat are 3 types of liabilities?\n\nWhat Are the Main Types of Liabilities.\n\nThere are three primary types of liabilities: current, non-current, and contingent liabilities..\n\nIs a car an asset?\n\n\nAre bills liabilities?\n\n\nCan a balance sheet have no liabilities?\n\n\nWhat are 3 types of assets?\n\n\nWhat are known liabilities?\n\nKnown Liabilities means Liabilities or Damages which are Indemnification Obligations that are now or hereafter included as Scheduled Liabilities or are the subject of a Liabilities Claim.\n\nIs money an asset?\n\n\nIs it good to have liabilities?\n\nLiabilities (money owing) isn’t necessarily bad. Some loans are acquired to purchase new assets, like tools or vehicles that help a small business operate and grow. But too much liability can hurt a small business financially. Owners should track their debt-to-equity ratio and debt-to-asset ratios.\n\nHow do you identify liabilities?\n\nA liability is recognized in the balance sheet when it is probable that an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits will result from the settlement of a present obligation and the amount at which the settlement will take place can be measured reliably.\n\nWhat are liabilities describe two different types of liabilities?\n\nBusinesses sort their liabilities into two categories: current and long-term. Current liabilities are debts payable within one year, while long-term liabilities are debts payable over a longer period. For example, if a business takes out a mortgage payable over a 15-year period, that is a long-term liability.\n\nWhat are the 3 main characteristics of liabilities?\n\n\nWhat accounts fall under liabilities?\n\nExamples of liability accounts reported on a company’s balance sheet include:Notes Payable.Accounts Payable.Salaries Payable.Wages Payable.Interest Payable.Other Accrued Expenses Payable.Income Taxes Payable.Customer Deposits.More items…\n\nWhat is meant by liabilities with example?\n\nA liability is a legally binding obligation payable to another entity. … Examples of liabilities are accounts payable, accrued expenses, wages payable, and taxes payable. These obligations are eventually settled through the transfer of cash or other assets to the other party.\n\nWhat are current liabilities?\n\nCurrent liabilities are a company’s short-term financial obligations that are due within one year or within a normal operating cycle. … An example of a current liability is money owed to suppliers in the form of accounts payable.\n\nIs a house an asset?\n\n\nWhat is the difference between assets & liabilities?\n\n\nWhat are examples of non current liabilities?\n\n\nAre employees assets or liabilities?\n\n“Far from being a liability, the greatest asset any business has is its workers. And like any asset, your people need to be invested in.” But in accounting terms, Javid is wrong: Employees aren’t a liability or an asset on a balance sheet.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9128955602645874}
+{"content": "Basic Strategy for Participating in Blackjack\n\nBasic Strategy for Participating in Blackjack\n\nBlackjack is a card game that’s well-known in casinos all over the world. Blackjack is also known by other names, such as Spades, credits and sucker, and Caribbean cheats. Blackjack is played with the usage of two decks of 52 cards. The two decks may be of different kinds. One deck is known as “standard” and the other deck is called “hand” or “tally” decks.\n\n\nBlackjack is really a card game used four persons. The players are placed around a table with the dealer near them. Rules of the overall game differ from one casino to another. In some casinos, all the players lose their money when the dealer wins a hand. In some other casinos, the dealer simply wins if the ball player bets the same sum that the dealer does (apart from a single blackjack card). In blackjack games held in high-end casinos, there is only one dealer who deals with all the members.\n\nIn a casino game like blackjack, where one participant is holding a hand, the rules may vary based on the situation. Among the common rule variations is really as follows: The dealer comes with an advantage over the player. As the name suggests, the advantage players have on the dealers is the capability to take control of the overall game. The disadvantage players have is usually that the dealer has an advantage over them also.\n\nThe essential strategy involved in blackjack is to beat the dealer. Blackjack is a simple game for people who have a good strategy. If you have the right blackjack strategy and so are confident enough to win, then you can be rest assured to win. The basic approach in blackjack involves: beating the dealer, counting cards, and following the action of the dealer.\n\nBlackjack is played with four cards: the “card” which you have in your hands, two “caretakers” and the “advantage” cards. You should use these cards to obtain the highest value bet or to take the cheapest value bet. The card sport rules allow the players to place bets ranging from one to four. Probably the most commonly used bet in a blackjack video game is the five-card spread. The guideline of blackjack allows members to take the complete bankroll, including any interest, even though they are not the people wagering.\n\nThere are various variants in blackjack that entail the betting or buying of more than one card. The most used and traditional way of playing blackjack is to wager on the blackjack itself, or a specific cards in the deck. Sometimes, individuals will also bet on pairs of cards.\n\nThe variations include two-card and three-card pull. In the two-card pull, the dealer will deal seven cards to the people. The dealer may also offer three cards to each person. In the three-card draw, the dealer will package ten cards to the 모바일 카지노 members. The guideline of blackjack in these modern casino games differs in the manner it is enjoyed.\n\nA simple strategy for playing a blackjack game would be to know the predicted winnings and losses. The expected loss is the total amount of money that the ball player can lose without leaving the table. Most blackjack tactics involve having a clear photo of the predicted winnings and losses. These strategies add a good understanding of statistics. It is also important to practice the essential strategy using real money within an online blackjack game to be sure that it is powerful.\n\nAnother basic strategy would be to count cards. Counting cards is a simple task that’s usually overlooked by players. Even so, it is an important technique to master. Once players learn how to count cards effectively, they are able to evaluate which decks have the best odds of winning. Knowing how many cards to count is simple. All players must do would be to remember the order that the deck has been dealt into the playing place.\n\nThe primary article in this series targets card counting. Card counting can be achieved using various methods. The first method of card counting is to determine the expected number of cards, like theces, kings, queens, jacks, tens, lemons, and kings. There are many online resources that will help players master card counting. The primary article in this series explores some of the various ways that card counting may be used.\n\nThere are many ways that blackjack can be played. The only way that card counting may be used is in case a player is ready to devote time to learning the various strategies and tactics had a need to play any sort of card game. Most players do not have the time necessary to learn these strategies. However, if you want to improve at blackjack you must be willing to dedicate time to study and practice. Learn to master the art of cards counting.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5186125040054321}
+{"content": "Are AP Tests Curved?\n\nIs there a curve on AP exams?\n\nA “Good” Curve: AP Physics C The two AP Physics C tests are examples of the few tests with a “heavy” curve, as demonstrated by the scoring distributions.\n\nA large majority of test takers pass the exam every year, and almost 50% get a 5..\n\nWhat is a 3 on an AP exam equivalent to?\n\n\nHow are AP tests scored 2020?\n\nA student can earn 2 points for two documents, instead of 1 point for three or more documents. The 2020 AP Government and Politics Exam will be scored on a scale of 7 points instead of 6 points. Students can now earn up to 4 points, instead of 3, on Evidence.\n\nIs a 3 a bad AP score?\n\nWhat was your purpose in taking the AP exam? AP exams are scored 1 – 5, 3 is considered a score indicating the student is “qualified” and is considered by the college board to be the lowest passing grade.\n\nWhat is the hardest AP class?\n\n\nIs a 5 on an AP test good?\n\n\nDo Colleges look at AP scores?\n\n\nWhat percent is a 5 on an AP exam?\n\nThe percentages needed to get a 5 are as follows: Art History: 71% Biology: 63% Calculus AB: 63%\n\nCan you get a 0 on AP exam?\n\nAP tests are scored on a scale of 0-5, with 5 being the highest score you could get. Most schools will give credit for scores of 4 or 5, and some even accept the occasional 3. … Obviously if you don’t indicate a school, scores won’t be sent anywhere other than your house and to your high school.\n\nIs failing an AP exam bad?\n\n\nIs a 3 AP score good?\n\n\nDoes Harvard accept 4 AP?\n\n\nIs a 2 on an AP exam passing?\n\nAP exams are scored on a scale of 1 to 5. A score of 5, meaning the student is extremely well qualified to receive college credit for that course, is the highest score. … A score of 2 means the student is possibly qualified and a score of 1 offers no recommendation for college credit.\n\nIs it hard to get a 5 on Apush?\n\nIt is true that the APUSH exam is a tough one. However, it is not impossible. You’ll need to work on those reading, analytical, and composition skills all while dedicating some serious study time. But those skills that you learn will pay off and get you that much closer to scoring a 5 on the exam.\n\nHow difficult is it to get a 5 on an AP exam?\n\nThe odds of passing with a 5—the highest score—are quite low on any exam: between 10% and 20% for most tests. They are even lower for popular tests, such as AP English Lit and World History, which have 5 rates below 10%.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7033718824386597}
+{"content": "Steven McElroy\n\nObituary of Steven Rex McElroy\n\nSteven McElroy was born on August 28, 1947 to Rex and Cecil McElroy. The youngest of five brothers, Steven grew up on a farm in Kern California. He volunteered service in the Navy during the Vietnam war, serving as a SeaBee and returning home for the birth of his son, Robert McElroy in 1970. Steven celebrated the birth of his daughter Kimberly McElroy in 1974. Steven had a big heart and had three major loves in his lifetime, Debra Stoneburner, Lonny Baltz, and Sandy McElroy. He maintained healthy relationships with each right up until his death. Steven lived a magnificently interesting life, particularly his younger years growing up in California with his four brothers. He would tell the stories of the events that shaped him with such wit and enthusiasm that you couldn’t help but listen to him. They were wonderfully imaginative stories that spoke of a time not long past but far enough gone that our generations cannot find memories but through the stories of those who lived them. A truly kind and gentle man, he carried his loving and giving nature through his life and into his death as some of his last measures were attempts to secure a home for his sole surviving brother, James McElroy. Steven McElroy was survived in death by his son, Robert McElroy, his daughter, Kimberly Banner, his brother James McElroy as well as seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He was cremated on June 7th in Spring Hill Florida and rests in the afterlife with his family in heaven. Steven was preceded in death by his mother and father: Cecil and Rex, and three of his four brothers, Roger, Kenny and Ralph. Please contribute to Steven’s memory by sharing your stories, thoughts, and prayers", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9043018817901611}
+{"content": "How To Stop Allowing The Weather To Affect Your Mood\n\nI suspect that almost everyone is affected by the weather. If you live in a place where the climate is almost always bright and sunny, you probably crave a spot of cool now and again. However, your moods will probably be less affected than those of people who live in darker and damper climes. It is easier to feel brighter and more optimistic when presented with a warm and sunny day.\n\nWhen you live in a part of the hemisphere that is greatly affected by fluctuations between dark and light, grey or blue skies, rain or sunshine, then it is difficult to not be affected in some emotional sense by this changeability. As autumn changes into winter and the nights draw in you feel more confined and restricted. You simply cannot do all of those things that you enjoyed doing in the evenings during the long and light days of summer.\n\nWhen you awaken in the morning and are presented with darkness as you open your bedroom curtains you might feel your mood quite simply dropping downwards. As dawn breaks and the day begins you look forward to lightness and brightness entering your day. Therefore when the skies remain grey and dark clouds loom ominously above it can be difficult to lift your mood and lighten your spirit.\n\nPeople can be forgiven for wishing that they could just curl up and hibernate for the winter and simply reawaken in the springtime when skies and blue and temperatures have risen. That said we have to live within the reality of what we are presented with. We cannot always live our dreams.\n\nWe have to learn to live with the affect of the weather upon our psyche and seek our own ways to lift our spirits and brighten our moods. It is very easy to focus upon what we are missing out upon or what we haven’t got, but in doing this we sink into an ever-deeper rut, making it impossible to climb out of.\n\nIt is instead vitally important to focus upon the things that we do have, the things that are good and enjoyable in our lives. On those darker and colder nights we can enjoy the warmth and beauty of a crackling log fire. We can take time to appreciate the beauty of our homes, friends and families. We can focus upon projects and gain a sense of achievement. We can read all of those books we meant to read and catch up upon movies that we meant to watch.\n\nThere are in fact many things that you can do to stop yourself being afflicted by SAD. Eating well, ensuring that you exercise, focusing upon interests, hobbies and friendships are all obvious forms of self-help and act to prevent the onset of SAD. Meditation or self-hypnosis are also good sources of relaxation and comfort.\n\nThe use of self-hypnosis can also be extended to include utilizing your senses to imagine the effect of sunshine on your mind and body. You can use your mind in this way to trigger a spontaneous endorphin release, raising your mood naturally and lifting your spirits.\n\nRoseanna Leaton, specialist in health hypnosis mp3 downloads including assistance in preventing SAD.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6713175773620605}
+{"content": "What NFL teams have outdoor stadiums?\n\nThe Saints, Falcons, Lions, and Vikings play in those stadiums. Two things to notes: The Vikings played home games outdoors in 2015. The plan is for U.S. Bank stadium to be opened in 2016, and the University of Minnesota football field would serve as the Vikings home field during construction.\n\nHow many NFL teams have covered stadiums?\n\n10 “fixed” or “retractable” roof stadiums are in use within the NFL. That is three for every 10 stadiums. Not exactly a big number, yet notable at the same time. There has also been an uptick of domed stadiums being built.\n\nWhat NFL stadiums are covered?\n\nField sports\n\n# Stadium Tenant(s)\n1 AT&T Stadium Dallas Cowboys (NFL)\n2 Principality Stadium Wales National Rugby Union Team (Welsh Rugby Union)\n3 Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans Saints (NFL)\n4 NRG Stadium Houston Texans (NFL)\n\nDo any NFL teams have grass fields?\n\n“Agronomically, natural grass field surfaces are possible everywhere,” Tretter said. As of 2020, 17 of 31 NFL stadiums use traditional grass.\n\n\nWhich is the loudest NFL stadium?\n\nThe record for the loudest NFL stadium came crashing down less than two months later courtesy of Seattle Seahawks fans at CenturyLink Field, where the design absolutely was intended to maximize noise. That crowd maxed out at 137.6 decibels during a game against the New Orleans Saints.\n\nWhich NFL stadium holds the most?\n\n\nWhat is the most expensive NFL stadium?\n\nRanking the Most Expensive NFL Stadiums\n\n  1. SoFi Stadium. Construction Cost: $5.5 Billion.\n  2. Allegiant Stadium. Construction Cost: $1.9 Billion. …\n  3. MetLife Stadium. Construction Cost: $1.7 Billion. …\n  4. Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Construction Cost: $1.6 Billion. …\n  5. AT&T Stadium. …\n  6. Levi’s Stadium. …\n  7. US Bank Stadium. …\n  8. Soldier Field. …\n\n15 окт. 2020 г.\n\nWhy do NFL stadiums not have roofs?\n\n[5] If a stadium doesn’t have a retractable roof they either need a system like the Cowboys stadium and Cardinals stadium where the field is moveable to get sunlight for the grass to grow, or they need artificial turf.\n\nDo NFL owners own the stadium?\n\nThere are only four teams in the NFL that own and operate the stadiums they play in. … Some of the most iconic stadiums in the league aren’t owned by the teams that play there. The Dallas Cowboys play at AT&T Stadium, which is nicknamed “Jerry World” after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Do NFL players have a choice when traded?\n\nWho has the smallest NFL stadium?\n\n\nDo NFL stadiums have heated fields?\n\nThree-million-BTU boilers hidden underneath the stadium bleachers pump heat through four-inch pipes tucked underneath the sandy underbelly of the playing surface to prevent the field from freezing. “You could remove the soil and see nothing but white tubing.”\n\nWhy are college stadiums bigger than NFL?\n\nThe larger college stadiums, by contrast, are generally many decades old and have been expanded over the years as demand for those seats has increased. Tennessee’s stadium was built in 1921 with 3,200 seats and has had 11 major expansions over the years to get to the current 102,000 capacity. NFL teams don’t do that.\n\nWhich NFL fans drink the most?\n\nFans of the Oakland Raiders came in first as the heaviest drinkers. With Raiders fans drinking an average of 3 drinks in one sitting on a non-game day and 3.5 drinks on average in one sitting on a game-day, they out-drink any other team in the NFL.\n\nWhat are the top 5 loudest NFL stadiums?\n\nRanking The Loudest NFL Stadiums\n\n  1. Centurylink Field (Seattle Seahawks)\n  2. Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Chiefs) …\n  3. Mercedes Benz Superdome (New Orleans Saints) …\n  4. Lambeau Field (Green Bay Packers) …\n  5. State Farm Stadium (Arizona Cardinals) …\n  6. Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis Colts) …\n  7. US Bank Stadium (Minnesota Vikings) …\n\n25 янв. 2021 г.\n\nDo the football players hear the fake crowd noise?\n\nAt least to start its 2020 season, the NFL is doing both. Those inside the stadium will hear a steady stream of fake crowd noise from the public address system, and those watching on TV will hear a different feed of fake crowd noise on the broadcast. … Below is the memo, obtained by NFL Media, in its entirety.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  You asked: Who is the NFL referee with the big arms?\n11 meters", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8630589246749878}
+{"content": "The First World War - Conscription & The War Effort\n\nQuestions to ask yourself:\n\nHow does government use its power?\n\nWhat you will be able to do:\n\nDescribe the measures implemented by the government of Canada during wartime.\n\nExplain the Canadian war effort.\n\nExplain the different points of view on the conscription crisis of 1917.\n\nEngage: Imagine war experiences by reacting to images\n\nLook deeply at one or more of some selected pictures, from a wide range of different locations during the first world war. Consider titles given to the images by your teacher, any available texts or web site links, zoom in and around the documents when necessary. Observe shapes, colours, textures, the position of people and/or objects in the frame. Observe the foreground, middleground and background too. Respond to the images! Use an organizer available already on our Google drawing sample images, that you can copy and edit to use. Work collaboratively to note down your questions, connect any historical events you already know about, share your impressions!\n\nWatch an overview video about World War 1.\n\nConsider also guiding questions like: How does government use its power?\n\nOne option is the video “Canada World War 1”. “This video tells the story of Canada's role in World War One, both overseas in the trenches of the Western Front and on the home front. While this global conflict forged a new sense of nationhood in the British colony, the cost to Canada in killed and wounded was high. This history is recounted using archival footage, photographs, posters, songs from the period and soldiers' letters home.”\n\nIn small groups review how the war started, how Canada got involved, and where and how they fought. Review any other personal experiences of soldiers and other participants that you had not thought of in the image analysis activity earlier.\n\nWrite down and share any questions you have. Consider using an organizer like this 5W's organizer.\n\nExplore: Imagine the Life of a Canadian Soldier\n\n\"The war on the Western Front was fought in trenches – long, narrow, deep, and muddy ditches. The Canadian infantry were rotated in and out of the trenches as it was the most dangerous place on earth to be, and it was extraordinarily uncomfortable. The soldiers lived with vermin such as rats, lice, maggots, and flies which created serious health risks. The trenches were also constantly exposed to the weather. Here is what a day in the trenches looked like for soldiers.\"\n\nLearn more about the \"The Realities of War\" at\n\nThe War Measures Act: Suspending of Civil Liberties\n\nThe War Measures Act was a federal law adopted by Parliament on 22 August 1914, after the beginning of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during “war, invasion or insurrection.” It was used, controversially, to suspend the civil liberties of people in Canada who were considered “enemy aliens” during both world wars. This led to mass arrests and detentions without charges or trials. Source: Smith, D., War Measures Act (2020). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from\n\nVolunteers or Conscription?\n\n\"For the first two years of war, Canada relied on a voluntary system of military recruitment. [...] Throughout the war, but especially in its early months, Canadians rushed to enlist for reasons of patriotism, adventurism, opposition to German aggression, or personal ties to Great Britain. Public attitudes also influenced individual decisions, in particular the widespread view in many parts of the country that those who failed to enlist were cowards.\"\n\nRead more at Voluntary Recruitment at\n\nWhat is conscription?\n\n“Conscription is the compulsory enlistment or “call up” (sometimes known as “the draft”) of citizens for military service.\n\n… “Under conscription, all males of a certain age must register with the government for military service. In some countries, females are also conscripted. Once registered, these people may be “called up” for military service. Some people may be exempt (or excused) from mandatory military service. This could include people in certain occupations or who suffer from physical or mental illness or disability.\n\nSource: Granatstein, J.,, & Jones, R., Conscription in Canada (2020). In The Canadian Encyclopedia.\n\nConscription? “A Momentous Debate\"\n\n\"The 1917 conscription debate was one of the fiercest and most divisive in Canadian political history. French-Canadians, as well as many farmers, unionized workers, non-British immigrants, and other Canadians, generally opposed the measure. English-speaking Canadians, led by Prime Minister Borden and senior members of his Cabinet, as well as British immigrants, the families of soldiers, and older Canadians, generally supported it.\"\n\nSource: Conscription, 1917 at\n\nView various \"Objects & Photos\" at\n\nInvestigate of the Conscription Crisis:Compare Different Reactions and Perspectives.\n\nResearch further, always considering key questions like: How do individuals experience war, and how do those efforts affect the outcomes of wars? and Why were certain historical events “significant”?\n\nUse available documents on this page or in our larger collection specifically here. Follow links to the various online sources to research the various contexts for the need for conscription, the efforts of the Canadian government to recruit soldiers, the reactions of different peoples in Canada, etc.\n\nTo go even further, you could compare different conscription and volunteer experiences in other countries at the time (some documents in our collections refer to these experiences). Reflect on whether this process was needed, was good for the country, and on the significance for Canadians, Quebecois, and other groups.\n\nUse an organizer like this one to take notes and gather examples that could be then shared with the class or used in discussions and debates on the issues\n\nLand, Air and Sea: The Canadian War Effort and Contributions\n\n\"Contribution on Land: Canadian infantrymen were on the Western Front in January 1915 and in March the 1st Canadian Division took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. In April Canadians fought in the Second Battle of Ypres [...] From April to August 1916 the corps fought in the defence of Ypres, until it moved to fight in the Battle of the Somme. On 9th April 1917 it captured Vimy Ridge, which had withstood all attacks for two years. Though this victory cost the Canadian Corps 10,000 casualties, it was certainly a great military success, and ensured that Vimy Ridge would later be chosen as the site of Canada's National Memorial. [See source for dates for ] Hill 70, north of Arras. … Passchendaele on 6th November 1917 suffering 15,000 casualties in the process. … Amiens, when the Germans launched their last big offensive… and others\n\nContribution in the Air: As events soon proved, Canadians excelled in aerial combat. In providing many members of the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and later the Royal Air Force, Canada made a great contribution in this field. More than 23,000 Canadian airmen served with British Forces and over 1,500 died. The Commonwealth's highest scoring airman to survive the war was a Canadian: Lieutenant Colonel W.A. Bishop VC, with 72 victories.\n\nContribution on the Sea: Canadian naval participation in the 1914-1918 War was limited, as its newly formed navy possessed only two old cruisers. However, many thousands went to serve with the Royal Navy. Fleets of Canadian trawlers and small craft carried out mine-sweeping and anti-submarine operations in coastal waters.\"\n\nText snippets from Courage Remembered, by K. Ward & Major Edwin Gibson. Via Canada's Role in WWI\n\nLieutenant-Colonel W A 'Billy' Bishop VC, of No 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, one of the leading fighter aces of the First World War, standing in front of his Nieuport 17 Scout at Filescamp, France.\n\nSource: via Wikipedia.\n\nInvestigate the Canadian War Effort:\n\nDescribe Facts and Situate a Battle, and Explain the Consequences of that battle, both immediate and long-term!\n\nIn partner-groups research various battles in which Canadian soldiers were involved. Try this Google Search for battles in which Canadian soldiers were involved or view our document section here.\n\nWith your findings on a particular battle event during the war, map out the locations, events and players of that/those particular battle(s), using Cartograf or Google Maps, or another mapping or presentation technology. For each battle also explain the Canadian involvement and role, and the significance of their efforts.\n\nThis task is explained in greater detail in our main document collection here. And... a demonstration Cartograf map has already been started (It was for teacher use and for information on the MAIN causes of WW1, but feel free to take a look!)\n\nDocument Collections and Curated Web Sites:\n\nOther tasks and the rest of our main document collection are here\n\nAn overview of some student task suggestions has also begun in slides below:\n\n#14b WW1 Conscription, Government and the Canadian War effort 1896-1945 Nationalisms&Canada\nLIVE - Inquiry Phases - WW1 War Experiences", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8944040536880493}
+{"content": "Blockchain Derivatives: Solving the $ 500 Trillion Problem and Winning the Consensus 2018 Hackathon\n\nOn May 11 and 12, 2018, the 8base team, represented by Evgeny Semushin, Gabe Kelly, and I decided to test my strength and fight for the AlphaPoint prize on the Hackathon Consensus 2018 , which was held in New York. A total of 33 teams participated in the hackathon, and among its sponsors were such giants as CoinDesk, Microsoft, IBM, Hyperledger and Quorum.\n\nAt the AlphaPoint competition, it was necessary to write an application tied to a cryptocurrency exchange, so we hoped that my experience in the hedge fund would be very helpful. We wanted to create something more than a front end to an existing blockchain solution. Our goal was to solve the real problem by applying the unique features of the blockchain architecture, our own experience in developing smart contracts and knowledge of the internal mechanics of finance.\n\nWe have created a set of smart contracts on the Ethereum network, which allows us to form decentralized derivatives and manage their software on a blockchain basis. With our solution, any user can become a guarantor for a contract for the sale or purchase of any ERC20 asset without any external management of requirements and their execution. As a result, we won the main prize.\n\nUnder the cut the nuances of the implementation of this project.\n\n\nDerivatives - a serious thing. The capitalization of the global derivatives market is estimated at almost $ 500 trillion. If we compare this with the cryptocurrency market (about $ 0.4 trillion), the amount of cash (about $ 40 trillion) and the global stock market (about $ 70 trillion), then it becomes obvious how important are the derivatives in the global economy. Just look at this infographic . Banks, funds and companies are actively using options, futures, swaps, and other derivatives to manage risk.\n\nMarket capitalization of various assets:\n\n  • Crypto - cryptocurrency\n  • Liquid money - cash\n  • Global public stock markets - global stock market\n  • Derivatives - derivatives\n\nThe main difficulty with contracts for derivatives is related to the fact that they usually use leverage, since the potential risks are higher than the sums the parties actually have. Because of this, a complex system of settlements arises, as well as the requirements for the minimum margin and requests for increasing the margin: the level of security must remain such that exit from a transaction is always more expensive than its execution.\n\nAll this collapsed in 2008. Entangled in the intricacies of derivatives contracts, Wall Street players lost control of the situation. As a result, the domino effect worked: a flurry of requests for increasing margins and the inability to execute them led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and other players. The US government had to intervene and act as a guarantor of Wall Street for gigantic amounts of unfulfilled derivatives contracts. We all know what this led to ...\n\n\nBlockSigma is a set of smart contracts for organizing cryptocurrency derivatives transactions and managing such transactions. Collateral management is based on the blockchain, therefore, in order to control the compliance with the minimum margin requirements for funds fixed in a smart contract, no intermediary is required.\n\nThe main innovation is that the margin management is completely based on the blockchain, without centralized control and the predictive flow of quotes. To do this, we integrated the Bancor protocol.. The Bancor protocol is already being actively introduced into exchange trading and daily services operations for millions of dollars. Bancor uses a deterministic price function based on the ratio of supply and demand for a particular asset. Accordingly, the price of the basic token can be determined directly in the blockchain, which allows us to accurately formulate the requirements for the minimum margin and create requests to increase the margin in time.\n\nThe logic of smart contracts is structured so that the option buyer forcibly closes the position as soon as the security in the smart contract falls below the mandatory minimum margin requirement. The function of determining the minimum margin takes into account the excess reserve, which creates economic incentives for the option buyer to closely monitor the position and get this reserve (along with the excess) when it is forcibly closed in case of violation of the minimum margin requirement. In turn, the seller (guarantor) of the option also has economic incentives to replenish collateral on time if the transaction fails so as not to lose the excess reserve.\n\n\nThe complete solution source code is published in the GitHub repository .\n\nThe solution consists of three main Solidity files: BlockSigmaBase.sol, BlockSigmaCall.sol, and BlockSigmaPut.sol. BlockSigmaBase implements common logic, and BlockSigmaCall and BlockSigmaPut inherit it and implements the logic of purchase and sale contracts, respectively.\n\nHere is the contract interface:\n\ncontract BlockSigmaBase is StandardToken {\n  * @dev Constructor\n  * @param _underlyingTokenAddress address of the underlying ERC20 token.\n  * @param _currencyTokenAddress address of the currency ERC20 token.\n  * @param _strike option strike denominated in the currency token.\n  * @param _exp expiration timestamp.\n  * @param _minReserve minimum (excess) reserve \n  * @param _underlyingBancorConverter address of the Bancor converter contract that converts underlying token into BNT.\n  * @param _currencyBancorConverter address of the Bancor converter contract that converts currency token into BNT.\n  * @param _issuer address that is allowed to issue(underwrite) new contracts.\n  */functionBlockSigmaBase(address _underlyingTokenAddress, address _currencyTokenAddress,\n          uint256 _strike, uint256 _exp, uint256 _minReserve,\n          address _underlyingBancorConverter, address _currencyBancorConverter,\n          address _issuer)public;\n  * @dev get the required maintenance margin level in currency token.\n  * @dev Get price of the underlying token expressed in currency token from Bancor\n  * @dev Ability for writer to issue(underwrite) new contracts    \n  * @param amount how many contracts to issue (in wei).\n  */functionissue(uint256 amount)publiconlyIssuerreturns(bool);\n  * @dev Buyer can exercise the option anytime before the maturity. Buyer deposits currency(call) or underlying tokens(put).\n  * @dev Writer delivers the underlying tokens(call) or currency(put).\n  * @param to which buyer to deliver to.\n  */functiondeliver(address to)publiconlyIssuerreturns(bool);  \n  * @dev Buyer can force liquidation if exercise is past due or reserve is below requirement\n  * @dev Writer can deposit additional reserve\n  * @param amount how much currency token to deposit.\n  */functiondepositReserve(uint256 amount)publicreturns(bool);\n  * @dev Writer can withdraw reserve\n  * @param amount how much currency token to withdraw.\n  */functionwithdrawReserve(uint256 amount)publiconlyIssuerreturns(bool);\n  * @dev Is reserve below the requirement?\n  * @dev Is option series expired?\n  * @dev Can option be liquidated?\n\nNow consider the main business processes for a sales contract. Take, for example, the contract for the sale of EOS tokens denominated in DAI, which allows you to effectively hedge assets in EOS against the US dollar. The life cycle of such a contract will be as follows:\n\n  1. Any user can publish a BlockSigmaPut contract for a specific issue of options . When publishing, you must specify: (1) basic token, (2) currency token, (3) expiration date, (4) strike, (5) address of the issuer authorized to act as guarantor for contracts in this issue and (6) minimum reserve requirement under the contract. Example: EOS sale until July 1, 2018 with a strike of 10 DAI and a minimum reserve of 2 DAI. Such a contract gives the buyer the right to sell the EOS to the guarantor for 10 DAI at any time before July 1, 2018. The requirement for the minimum margin for each contract in this case will be 2 + max (0, 10 - the current price of EOS).\n  2. The specified issuer acts as a guarantor for a certain number of contracts, placing the necessary reserve in a currency token. For the example above, with an EOS current market price of $ 12, the issuer must place 2 + max (0, 10 - 12) = 2 DAI to issue 1 contract for an option. Issued contracts will be considered as ordinary ERC20 tokens, which will allow them to be listed on the exchange for sale.\n  3. A buyer who wants to execute a contract must give permission to transfer the EOS into a smart option contract and then call the exercise method. After the start of the contract, the seller will have 24 hours to transfer the payment in the currency token. In our example, the seller must give 10 DAI for each EOS token.\n  4. The issuer gives permission to transfer DAI tokens from his account to the smart option contract and calls the deliver method. The executed smart contract automatically settles the transaction: transfers DAI and EOS to the buyer and the seller (issuer), respectively, and the reserve returns to the seller.\n  5. (Optional) If the seller did not make the payment within 24 hours, the buyer can call the forceLiquidate method to return the hosted EOS along with a reserve to cover the incorrect actions of the seller.\n\nNow consider how collateral management is implemented. In our example, the price of an EOS at the time of issuing an option contract was $ 12. Suppose it dropped to $ 9. Then the required reserve will be equal to 2 + max (0, 10 - 9) = 3. This means that the seller must additionally deposit 1 DAI for each contract that he acts as a guarantor. If the seller cannot do this, then the buyer will have an economic incentive to forcibly close the position:\n\n  • If the buyer executes the option, he will receive a payment of 10 - 9 = 1 DAI for each contract (that is, he will buy EOS on the market for $ 9 and sell it to the issuer for $ 10).\n  • On the other hand, if the buyer forcibly closes the position, he will receive the entire reserve, which for our example amounts to 2 DAI for each contract.\n\nThis motivates the buyer to forcibly close positions as early as possible in order to quickly make a profit.\n\n\nThis is by no means a ready-made solution. His main goal is to show the breakthrough capabilities of the blockchain and smart contracts for automating mutual settlements and managing the provision of option contracts. Traditionally, these services are provided by intermediaries, and also require manual work and the payment of commissions.\n\nAlthough our solution is very promising in this regard, we see a number of serious difficulties:\n\n  • Bancor protocol has not been tested under stringent conditions. It uses a deterministic price function, converging to stock prices through arbitration. So far, it is not clear how this mechanism will work with much greater volatility and / or with serious price gaps.\n  • The mechanism for managing collateral is not sensitive to price gaps. Theoretically, a situation is possible in which the liability of the guarantor exceeds the reserve, which is why the guarantor will want to break the deal, and the buyer will not receive full compensation. To avoid this, you can increase the minimum reserve. In addition, you can do the traditional way: users of the system contribute funds to the distributed “insurance pool”, which automatically covers shortages in exceptional cases.\n  • Since Bancor uses a deterministic price function, various manipulations are possible to increase payments to one side of an option contract to the detriment of the other side. This can happen only with a small reserve of the Bancor converter (i.e., at a high price sensitivity) relative to the sum of the options positions. In this case, the manipulation of the price in Bancor may be more profitable than the payment on options as a result of such manipulation. However, this problem is typical not only for cryptocurrency, but also for traditional markets (for example, arson at home for the sake of getting insurance).\n  • Uncertainty in regulation. We have not studied the aspects of regulation, since so far our project has purely research objectives.\n\nIf you notice any problems that are not listed, write about them in the comments.\n\n\nThe solution described in general terms reflects the fundamental changes that the blockchain will bring to the financial industry over the coming years. In addition to more efficient settlements and collateral management, this technology will introduce transparent, self-executing and uniform rules for all market participants.\n\nOur 8base team does not specialize in niche solutions and protocols described in the article. We expect explosive growth of similar revolutionary technologies in the coming years in the wake of digital transformation. Accordingly, we focus on building the next level of infrastructure in order to give business users easy access to these technologies and the ability to integrate them into enterprise software to achieve business goals.\nSources on GitHub\n\nAlso popular now:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8413652181625366}
+{"content": "Accessibility for Passengers with Mobility Disabilities: Entering and Exiting\n\nTaxi 2000\n\nAutonomous vehicles can not reduce the number of cars on exicting roads .We can reduce the number of vehicles if we will use autonomous vehicles riding over briges above existing roads , same \" Taxi 2000 \" .\n\nI desined preliminary project \" Portland Skyweb Express \" and sent it to Oregon Department of Transportation .\n\n\nP.S. Project files Autucad are not supportad for attach in your ideascale\n\n\n1 vote\n1 up votes\n0 down votes\nIdea No. 516", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8960375785827637}
+{"content": "Kyrgyz Hiking in Ala Archa gorge\n\nIn the course of a tour in Kyrgyzstan there is an opportunity to breathe fresh air while travelling and hiking in Ala Archa gorge. We are glad to inform you that the gorge is one of the most visited places by those who travel in Kyrgyzstan on car rent Bishkek and wish to witness the nature of pristine and stunning beauty. While making an investigation of landscape while travelling in the gorge of Kyrgyzstan you can listen to the history of the place - it is said to be created in 1976 and since that time it is located in 40 km from the capital of Kyrgyzstan. We would like to inform you before you start to travel in Kyrgyzstan cars in rent that the name of the gorge really means \"bright juniper\". The plant is actually burnt by the local to get away evil spirits. In the course of a tour in Kyrgyzstan you have an opportunity to make a witness of the gorge which is actually 200 km2 and the altitudes are 1600-4800m above sea level. The highest point is 4,895 meters - the Peak Semenov-Tienshanski. Your tour will be interesting and overwhelming as you can make a visit of the glaciers - the Adygene and the Ak-Sai.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9612334966659546}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Why Is The Tribe Of Judah So Important?\n\nWhy did the Tribe of Judah separate from Israel?\n\n\nWho is the father of Jesus?\n\n\nWhat is Judah called today?\n\nThe current nation of Israel is still largely made up of the original southern kingdom of Judah, while the tribes of the northern kingdom remain scattered.\n\nWhat is Samaria known as today?\n\n\nWhat does Lion of God mean?\n\nArielAriel (Hebrew: אֲרִיאֵל‎, romanized: ʾÁrīʾēl) is an angel found primarily in Jewish and Christian mysticism and Apocrypha. The literal meaning is “lion of God”. … It appears at Ezekiel 43:16 as referring to an “altar hearth”, and it appears at Ezra 8:16 as the name of a Jewish man.\n\nWhat happened to the Tribe of Judah?\n\nAs part of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah survived the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, and instead was subjected to the Babylonian captivity; when the captivity ended, the distinction between the tribes were lost in favour of a common identity.\n\nWhat does Judah mean?\n\nMeaning & History From the Hebrew name יְהוּדָה (Yehudah), probably derived from יָדָה (yadah) meaning “praise”. In the Old Testament Judah is the fourth of the twelve sons of Jacob by Leah, and the ancestor of the tribe of Judah. An explanation for his name is given in Genesis 29:35.\n\nWhy did Judah go first?\n\n\nWhat are the 4 Faces of God?\n\n\nWhy was Judah taken into captivity?\n\nAfter the defeat of Pharaoh Necho’s army by the Babylonians at Carchemish in 605 BCE, Jehoiakim began paying tribute to Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. Some of the young nobility of Judah were taken to Babylon. … Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the city wall and the Temple, together with the houses of the most important citizens.\n\nWho are the lost tribe of Israel today?\n\nThese are the tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim; all but Judah and Benjamin. Claims of descent from the “lost tribes” have been proposed in relation to many groups, and some religions espouse a messianic view that the tribes will return.\n\nWhat is the difference between Judah and Judea?\n\nThe name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name “Judah”, which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah.\n\nWho is the real tribe of Judah?\n\nJudah, one of the 12 tribes of Israel, descended from Judah, who was the fourth son born to Jacob and his first wife, Leah. It is disputed whether the name Judah was originally that of the tribe or the territory it occupied and which was transposed from which.\n\nWhy is Jesus called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah?\n\nIn Genesis, the patriarch Jacob (“Israel”) gave that symbol to this tribe when he refers to his son Judah as a Gur Aryeh גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה, “Young Lion” (Genesis 49:9) when blessing him. In Jewish naming tradition the Hebrew name and the substitute name are often combined as a pair, as in this case.\n\nOne of these glimpses does indeed inform us that Jesus and John the Baptist were related, though they did belong to different tribes. … This double lineage placed Jesus firmly in the tribe of Judah through both his mother, and through his adopted father.\n\nWho are the 10 lost tribes of Israel today?\n\n\nWhat’s the difference between Judah and Israel?\n\n\nWhat does Zion symbolize?\n\nBearing all these connotations, Zion came to mean the Jewish homeland, symbolic of Judaism or Jewish national aspirations (whence the name Zionism for the 19th–20th-century movement to establish a Jewish national centre or state in Palestine).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7269001007080078}
+{"content": "“…one of my most valued experiences.”\n\nEmily has been my vocal teacher on and off for the past couple years. I’ve been a guitarist for half of my life and always had an interest in singing, but my pre-lesson ability was rough; I had no prior singing experience except for maybe my shower. She helped me diagnose what I was doing correctly and what I could be doing a lot better, all in a professional but relaxed demeanor. I feel like I’ve found my true voice, and it’s unlocked a wealth of options within my songwriting and a deeper love for it. Whether you feel like you can’t sing at all, or you’re self-taught and happy with your current singing, I highly recommend lessons with Miss Emily’s Voice Studio. If you’re contemplating lessons, then take the step and make the investment—it’s been one of my most valued experiences.\n\n“This stuff really does work!”\n\nI always wanted to learn to sing but was too scared and shy to start because I thought I was a hopeless case. I never thought it was possible for me, but this stuff really does work! If she can teach me to sing she can teach anyone! She’s talented, knowledgeable, fun, and has a way of making you feel comfortable. This lesson is what I look forward to most in my week.\n\n“Simply put, Miss Emily is the best!”\n\nMiss Emily has the unique ability of diagnosing and correcting singing issues… She is a true professional and a pleasure to work with. As a musician with little singing experience, Emily has taught me the basic principles and helped me overcome my fear of singing. Simply put, Miss Emily is the best!\n\n“…creative, supportive and effective.”\n\nI’ve always loved to sing, and have a pretty good voice; however, I lacked the technical training and had some pretty bad habits. Changing habits is difficult, but Miss Emily had enough patience and encouragement to help me through it. Her exercises, practice recommendations and technique are creative, supportive and effective.\n\n“…an amazing voice instructor!”\n\nMiss Emily is an amazing voice instructor! She put me right at ease and and made our lessons very enjoyable with her upbeat demeanor and great sense of humor. She gave me some great tips and explained things in a way that I could understand and will remember.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9853052496910095}
+{"content": "The Importance Of Grammar In The English Language\n\n974 Words 4 Pages\nThroughout time immemorial, Grammar has been among the utmost essential components in the English language. The English language would not similarly exist if grammar did govern the language. If grammar did not control the language, chaos would exist in the language: frequent misunderstandings would be quite common in the language, and individuals would have a certain amount of difficulty communicating to one another. Society as it exists would collapse without proper communication. Communication needs grammar, therefore, on every level of it’s existence. Existence needs grammar, as rapid societal shift occurs when society lacks it.\nPrimarily, grammar’s absence facilitates a rapid societal shift, since grammar creates a common language. Commonality among language fosters common ideas, and identities among people surrounding similar geographical areas. Such areas create economic markets, thus allowing for the build-up of economic prosperity in their communities: economic build-up begins since locals can understand what each member of their community desires to buy or sell. Without this comprehension, sedimentary societies beyond basic agricultural communities would not form. Modern society depends on grammar, its specific rules that govern its functions, and what defines it as grammar.\n…show more content…\nThe English language requires prescriptive grammar because prescriptive grammar exemplifies the need to have order and arrangement. Correct and incorrect usage and order are important in prescriptive grammar, and thus to prevent rapid societal shift. Examples exist in everyday sentences and phrases, such as “I’m going over to them house for dinner.” The preceding sentence is incorrect: the proper word is “their”; readers infer the meaning of the sentence regardless of its structure, but the absence of the proper word encourages continuous grammatical breakdown among sections of\n\nRelated Documents", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9186445474624634}
+{"content": "Heyman, Moses David\n\nviews updated\n\n\nHEYMAN, MOSES DAVID (1896– ), U.S. inventor. Born in Newark, n.j., Heyman became president of a large mining company in Ecuador, and formed his own company in 1930. He invented many machines used in metalworking, mica, and other fields. Among them was the \"mechanical hand\" (1938). Heyman was the first person to make continuous sheets of synthetic mica.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9482541084289551}
+{"content": "\nBy Stephen Lendman\nGlobal Research, February 21, 2020\n\nUrl of this article:\n\nUS forever war in Syria shows no signs of ending because restoration of peace and stability to the country would be a major strategic blow to Washington’s aim for controlling the Middle East — NATO and Israel serving as junior partners in its project.\n\nTurkey’s Erdogan is a significant obstacle to resolving years of war in Syria because of his revanchist aims — what his support for ISIS, al-Nusra, and likeminded jihadists is all about, using them as proxies (earlier and now) in northern Syria.\n\nHis aims and Russia’s in the country are world’s apart. Negotiations between his regime and Moscow on the conflict are uneasy at best.\n\nMultiple recent rounds failed to resolve differences, further talks planned, including a possible summit involving Putin, Iranian President Rouhani and Erdogan.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed his support for jihadists in Syria, saying:\n\n“We are expressing significant concerns over such support for (these elements) from the Turkish armed forces.”\n\nIt “violat(es) the Russian-Turkish agreements on separating armed opposition from terrorists, and creating a demilitarized area, and it may provoke a further escalation in the conflict in this part of the Syrian national territory,” adding:\n\n“On February 20, the Russian center for reconciliation of the conflicting sides in Syria reported several mass attacks with the use of a large amount of armored vehicles at the positions of the Syrian army in the Idlib de-escalation zone carried out by terrorist units.”\n\n“At the same time, the actions of (jihadists) were supported by artillery fire by the Turkish forces, which allowed terrorists to breach Syrian army’s defenses” before being repelled with Russian aerial support, a statement by its military saying:\n\n“In order to prevent terrorist groups from advancing deep into Syrian territory, Su-24 aircraft of Russia’s Aerospace Force delivered a strike at the request of the Syrian command against the terrorists’ armed formations that had penetrated the area. This helped the Syrian troops to repel all the attacks successfully.”\n\nA Russian reconnaissance drone filmed Turkish artillery providing support for al-Nusra terrorists near Nayrab village in southern Idlib province.\n\nAMN News reported that Russia’s aerial response was “devastating,” repelling Turkish-supported jihadists, destroying or damaging their equipment, causing a number of casualties, including Turkish soldiers killed or wounded.\n\nTass reported that jihadists “sustain(ed) heavy losses” of fighters, weapons, and military equipment.\n\nDays earlier, Sergey Lavrov accused Ankara of breaching its agreed on Astana obligations by escalating conflict instead of pursuing efforts to resolve it, adding:\n\n“It is only natural that the Syrian armed forces, reaffirming their commitment to the original agreements on Idlib, including an agreement on a ceasefire, respond to such inadmissible provocations. We support them in this.”\n\n“The Syrian army’s actions are a response to a flagrant violation of the agreements on Idlib.”\n\n“Contrary to some estimates, let me emphasize that the Syrian troops are not pushing militants and terrorists back on a foreign territory but on their own soil, thereby reestablishing the legitimate Syrian government’s control over its territories.”\n\n“Judging by hysterical comments by some Western representatives, one (gets) impression that…Russia and Turkey agreed to put the issue on the back burner, leave terrorists alone and let them do whatever they want.”\n\n“This is not true. No one has ever promised to leave terrorists unscathed in the Idlib de-escalation zone” or anywhere else in Syria.\n\nOn Thursday, a Kremlin statement said Putin discussed Syria with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Macron by phone.\n\n“Special attention was paid to issues of settling the Syrian crisis in the context of rapidly escalating situation in Idlib as a result of aggressive actions by (Turkish supported) extremist units against Syrian government forces and civilians.”\n\n“The importance was underscored of preventing humanitarian consequences for civilians.”\n\n“Vladimir Putin stressed the importance of taking effective measures on neutralizing a terrorist threat while observing the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.”\n\nMerkel, Macron, and other key NATO leaders are allied with US imperial aims — Erdogan involved in Syria in pursuit of his own objectives.\n\nAccording to Turkey’s Daily Sabah, Erdogan regime war minister Hulusi Akar suggested that US Patriot air defense missiles could be installed in northern Idlib territory controlled by Turkey, adding:\n\nAnkara and Moscow are discussing use of Idlib’s airspace controlled by Russia’s military. Neither country wants belligerent confrontation with the other.\n\nWould Erdogan use long-range Russian S-400 air defense missile’s against its aircraft in Idlib airspace?\n\nWhat’s highly unlikely is possible. In 2015, Turkish warplanes downed a Russia Su-24 fighter jet in Syrian airspace, an incident Putin denounced at the time as a “stab in the back.”\n\nBilateral relations improved significantly since that time. How far Erdogan may push his revanchist agenda in Idlib remains unknown.\n\nAccording to the Middle East Eye (MEE), citing an unnamed Turkish official, Ankara “asked the US to conduct aerial patrols in its airspace bordering…Idlib to show support for (its) ongoing military operations against forces loyal to Damascus,” adding:\n\nErdogan and Trump spoke by phone on the situation in Idlib. DJT “promised that he would sanction (Syrian) officials, or anyone involved in attacks against the civilians.”\n\n“(H)e would issue strong-worded statements. But he didn’t commit himself to anything involving the military, yet.”\n\nNo large-scale confrontation occurred between Syrian and Turkish forces so far.\n\nBoth countries want it avoided. So does Russia, going all-out to prevent it.\n\nMoscow has a significant investment in Syria since intervening against jihadists in September 2015 at the request of Damascus.\n\nPutin supports Syria’s liberating struggle while trying to maintain good relations with Turkey and prevent clashes between Russian and US forces.\n\nIt’s a delicate balance not easily maintained, especially when dealing with US and Turkish belligerent regimes.\n\nIn mid-March, war enters its 10th year with no prospect for resolution in sight.\n\nAs in all wars, civilians in harm’s way suffer most.\n\n\n\n\n\nVisit his blog site at\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8763384222984314}
+{"content": "Categories: General\nWhat does Зачем mean in English? If you want to learn Зачем in English, you will find the translation here, along with other translations from Russian to English. We hope this will help you in learning languages.\nHere is Зачем meaning in English:\nwhy Edit\nwhat for Edit\nLook at these words in all languages: why, what for\nCite this Entry\n\"Зачем, the Russian to English translation.\" In Different Languages, Accessed 14 Jun 2021.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6793041229248047}
+{"content": "Op/Ed: Securing The Future Of Sikhi In Globalised World\n\nAs religious and ethnic minorities are being threatened across the world from groups such as the RSS in India, radical Islamic terror groups in the Middle East and Africa and white supremacist groups in Europe and North America, Sikhs are faced with various questions –\n\n\nWhat does this mean for us? How can we survive in what appears to be an increasing hostile world?\n\nOne thing is for sure, as a rapidly globalized community our future does NOT lie in Punjab or Punjabi culture. There are a number of factors which leads one to come to this conclusion. First, based on the last census, the proportion of Sikhs in Punjab has been rapidly declining and it is predicted to dip from the current 60% to below 50% within the next 20 years. Second, especially amongst the Sikh heartlands of Majha and Malva, we are seeing a dramatic rise in conversions, particularly amongst Dalit Sikhs to other faiths, especially Christianity and Buddhism. Third, the rapid rise of sects (deras) is leading to fragmentation of  Sikh communitites. Fourth, due to rapid increase in drugs and alcohol addiction, coupled with the poisoning of the water supply, dramatic decrease in fertility levels.  And last and perhaps most significantly there continues to be a rapid exodus of Sikhs from Punjab to Europe, North America and Australia.\n\n\nThough the vast majority of Sikhs still live in Punjab, the reality is that, due to a combination of the association with the British Empire and their industrious nature, Sikhs have been rapidly spread throughout the world for the past 100 years. In this regard, we are very much a nomadic people and we live in different cultural contexts, some Islamic, some secular and some in between. For some the displacement of Sikhs from the Punjab is a sign of decline, but for others this can be seen as a strength. However, what cannot be denied is that the uprooting from one cultural context to another does challenge ones sense of cultural, if not religious identification, particularly so as one seeks to or is pressurized to assimilate into the host society culture.  And there can be no doubt that Sikhs have by and large ben very successful at doing this, though this in itself creates tensions about Sikh cultural and religious identity, particularly so in relation to outward expressions associated with the turban and beard.\n\n\nLooking forward, it seems to be Sikhs are at something of a crossroad about how to envisage their future; as a globalized diaspora or as new emergent and relatively independent groups of communities seting root in different parts of the word. Though I am not normally an advocate of the Darwinian mantra of survival of the fittest i.e. those that are able to adapt to the prevailing environmental and social conditions, there is a truism here. Ultimately this will mean that we will need to tolerate plurality within Sikh, or at least find a way of meshing into different cultural contexts. That does not mean that we should do away with fundamental Sikh tenants, but it does mean we should avoid a slippery slope towards our own version of Sharia law as we compete to impress each other with our superior maryada. \n\n\nThe Panth parvanath maryada is often criticised for being ‘minimalist’. Actually that was the very purpose of the document, namely, to establish a principled but broad and inclusive conception of Sikhi. What makes it such an impressive document is its progressive stance on issues of gender, class/caste and social divisions in general, as well as its emphasis on rationality. The rejection of Indian cultural rituals and superstitious beliefs gives it a flexibility and adaptability to reach out into other cultures across the world. Moreover, by investing his authority in the institution of the Panj Piaraay, in effect Guru Gobind Singh Ji gave the Sikhs the authority to amend and develop Sikh docrine in the light of social, cultural and political changes and contexts. Whether one is a religion, company or country, the inability to change, innovate and operate flexibly is a sure path to self-destruction.\n\n\nIn this regard, we could learn a lot of lessons from the oldest faith systems that continue to survive, namely, Christianity, Hinduism and to a lesser extent Jeudaism. We could, for example, learn a lot from the recent pronouncement by Pope Francis 1 when he stated that God was not a “magician with a magic wand”.  He continued by stating that God “created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.  The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it… Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” We can, in this profound statement, see what the Church has been doing for centuries, namely, to update their interpretation of faith in the light of the development of knowledge and discovery. The question is, how do we Sikhs respond to the profound discoveries that are being made in a unique period in human history, where within second ideas can be shared across the planet, where the hegemony of vested interests can be easily undermined. \n\n\nPersonally, I feel the Popes pronouncement sits very comfortably with Sikh teachings. We do not believe a loving God will only intervene in our lives if we convince him that he should bless us through begging, ritualistic praying and chanting. We believe in a loving God that does not ‘do deals’ with us, nor does he play games. We believe in a God that is inseparable from his creation, from nature and from our entire destiny. A God that represents a universal truth in the present, past and future. And ss how does God intervene in our lives. Well, as being part of the creation, he intervenes through nature all the time. Quite simply, God we could not breath or even think. And so it is through the gift of life that God intervenes in our lives. It is the blessing of manukhi janam which God was given to us at birth and that is the potential for Budh and Bibeik (learning), for compassion (Daya), for sacrifice, duty, sewa and courage. It is through the nurturing of these virtues that we become an embodiment of God. As bani says, there is no distinction between a true gurmukh and God. They are at once the same.  \n\n\nSome might be thinking, how can I reject the idea of begging, praying and chanting as there are many shabads in Gurbani that advocate this. It is certainly true that the Gurus mention such religious practices, but the important thing is, if we believe that God resides within our very being, existence, then the act of religious penance becomes understood not as an appeal to some external entitly, but to the awakening of our own souls to realise the power of human life or “manukhi Janam” and to become as fully human as can be. \n\nAnd so in looking for a way forward, I think we should be looking towards Buddhism and Buddhists and Jews if we are to save and spread out great faith/belief system. We need to be comfortable with the idea that not all committed or practicing Buddhists will look or dress like Buddhist monks in saffron robes. Likewise, we should not valorize the outward Sikh identity either at the expense loosing our essence or if this results in pushing people away who might otherwise be perfectly comfortable with the spiritual and social aspects of Sikhi but perhaps not the cultural trappings so much. We can learn from the Jews in relation to resilience and total commitment to education as a means to keep the belief system relevant to a changing world but also to be able to defend our beliefs with intelligence and critical faculties.\n\n\nTo conclude, there can be no doubt that Sikhi is Punjab is in crisis, but that there are also lots of very positive news stories and developments emerging from the rapidly growing Sikh diaspora spread across the continents of the world. Though some will disagree, our essence is not to be found in our physical appearance alone. Yes, we should never compromise on the basic articles of our faith, but we must also realize that appearance and religious rituals alone do not define our Sikhi. Our essence is not to be found in the petty tribalism that we see in the Gurdwara and Jathebandhis today. It can be found in one simple line from the Sukhmani Sahib, “sarab dharan me shraist dharam, har ko naam jap nirmal karam.” To be a Sikh is at once to be very unique (Valakhan/niara) and at the same time to be part of all (sarbat). Because we believe in a God (Waheguru) that recognizes no distinctions of colour, faith or nation, a true Sikh is one who embraces diversity. And since a limitless God resides in each and every one of us and in all life forms, who transcends and traverses the whole universe and beyond, then we must never claim him just for ourselves. Perhaps that is the biggest challenge we all face, but if Sikhs can truly live the message of the Gurus, if we embrace the world the whole world will embrace us.\n\n\n\n\nPlease enter your comment!\nPlease enter your name here", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9057863354682922}
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+{"content": "Switch to ADA Accessible Theme\nClose Menu\n\nIs A Bicyclist Considered A Pedestrian?\n\n\nFlorida roads are used by more people than any other state in the U.S. except for California, but pedestrians have historically had a difficult time in using many of them. The state has been ranked as the deadliest for pedestrians by nonprofits, but it is worth noting that the definition of ‘pedestrian’ does not always include bicyclists. Bicyclists occupy a sort of middle zone in Florida law; depending where they are being used, bicycles can be referred to as vehicles, or as pedestrians. If you are involved in an accident, it can be very relevant to determine which status you were occupying at the time.\n\nYour Status Varies\n\nThe general rule of thumb under Florida law is that bicyclists are considered pedestrians if they ride on the sidewalk, and vehicle operators if they use the roads with motorists. This means that they must observe the relevant laws when they are in the relevant situation – for example, they must yield to other pedestrians on the sidewalk, and they must ride as far to the right as possible and use bike lanes where they exist.\n\nUnfortunately, Florida has consistently been ranked among the deadliest states for pedestrian safety, which places bicyclists in danger even when they are not riding on the road. Smart Growth America, an urban planning think tank, estimates that almost 3 pedestrian fatalities (2.8) occur per 100,000 people every year in Florida, with the next highest numbers coming from Alabama, at 1.9 per 100,000 people. This is due to a host of factors, but a lack of infrastructure is a significant one – broken curb cuts and sidewalks, a lack of bicycle lanes, and missing streetlamps are some of the most commonly cited issues.\n\nSeeking Compensation\n\nIf you are involved in an accident while on your bicycle, it is imperative that you remain aware of where you were riding, because that will govern the rights and responsibilities that you had at the time of the accident. For example, if you were riding in the road, a failure to ride in the bicycle lane would potentially be held against you in terms of contributory negligence – that is, it would be assumed that your conduct played a role in your own injuries, and if you recovered compensation, it would be reduced.\n\nWhile you do have the option to file suit in court against the person who caused your accident if your injuries are severe enough, it is important to keep in mind that Florida is a no-fault auto insurance state. If you have an automobile, you are required to carry at least $10,000 of personal injury protection coverage and $10,000 of property damage liability coverage, and this follows the policyholder, not the vehicle. What this means is that even if you are not operating your own car at the time of an accident, you are generally able to use your PIP coverage to help pay your medical bills.\n\nContact A Tampa Bicycle Accident Attorney\n\nRiding a bicycle is great exercise and is the favorite way that many Floridians keep active. However, the potential for injury is high if a bicyclist is involved in an accident with a vehicle. If you have been injured in this kind of accident, you likely have questions about how to get your bills paid and how to hold the person responsible to account. The Tampa bicycle accident attorneys from the Rinaldo Law Group are ready and willing to try and assist you. Call our offices today for a free consultation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacebook Twitter LinkedIn", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8792974352836609}
+{"content": "\n\nBeginning Again\n\n   I have been in India now for just over two weeks, and have started to\nsettle into a routine here,  at LV Prasad Eye Institute. The days\nbegin with a resident lecture at 7 am, sharp; at just 1 minute past\nthe hour, the doors of the auditorium are locked closed, and no one\ncan come in or out, attending or resident alike.  These lectures are\nfollowed by post-operative rounds that are held in the “OPD”, the LVP\nname for clinic. The postoperative cases from the day prior are\nbrought into the exam rooms by the optometry students, who serve as\nophthalmic technicians, and worked up in preparation for the fellows.\nThe fellows flit from room to room, finding their post-ops and\nassessing their outcomes and status. Next, the attending performs the\nfinal assessment and signs off on discharges and plans for further\nmanagement.  Shortly thereafter, those delegated to the OR retreat to\ntheir posts, and those destined for the clinic begin the task of\nworking up, examining, and managing what will amount to 70-100 patient\nencounters for that day. The OR day will last until 7 or 8 in the\nevening. The clinic will last just as long, and there will be\npostoperative and preoperative rounds to perform before anyone can\nretire for the evening.  \n\n   I can only compare stepping into this frenetically-paced machine to swimming against the current amidst a massive school of fish determined to make their way to their ultimate destination. It’s disorienting, and confounding. All the moving parts look familiar, but the direction isn’t intuitive. And, how to align\none ’s self so that you are moving in the same direction, contributing to the mass movement rather than creating a drag on it, is not clear in the slightest.  I have been seeing patients in a high volume clinic as an ophthalmologist for over three years. To feel the ineptitude of the unfamiliar within a setting you’d felt you’d conquered is deflating. I was a newbie in a foreign clinic, whose best effort was a hindrance to the fellows tasked with making the day run smoothly.\n   So, I decided to do what this year has been slowly, sometimes painfully attempting to ingrain into my nature: Wait. Watch, listen, learn, and only then, act. I spent the first few days trying to pick up the flow of the place, until realizing, finally, that that wasn’t my job. That was not why they had invited me here, nor why I had come. I had come to learn, not to be a part of the system.         \n\n   For the first time in my life, I was within an academic system without shouldering any of the responsibility of turning the cogwheels. The effect was freeing. I begin to slip from room to room, inquiring about the pathology, thumbing through the chart, staying if there was something to glean, quietly excusing myself if it was a pathology I felt I had mastered. In the OR I assisted on cases that held the most gain, and spent more routine surgeries reading up on the interesting cases to come, or asking questions about the strategy of the surgical plan. What a thirst quenching task I have for the next few months:  to spend time at work dedicated to the sole pursuit of knowledge for no other reason than pure intellectual curiosity.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.890189528465271}
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+{"content": "Island, compact, corner? The “shape” to be given to the kitchen is one of the first choices to make. But be careful, as the architect Annalisa Carli explains, it is necessary to start from the dimensions of the environment and then decide what shape to give it, and not vice versa. The risk is being forced to reconcile conflicting elements. An example? If the plant is narrow and long, the island is not recommended.\n\n2. Finding the balance point between aesthetics and practicality\n\nOscar Cifarelli emphasizes that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, as everyone has a personal way of understanding and experiencing cooking. So it’s right that your habits are the guiding thread of the project and the first thing to understand is how we use the kitchen. If, we actually cook, how and how much. Or if for us aesthetics are more important than practicality. Annalisa Carli also agrees to emphasize the priority of the habits of those who will use the kitchen, which can have a decisive influence on the design.\n\n3. Manage the plants according to your needs\n\nWe alternate high columns and low containment in harmony, as Annalisi Carli suggests, and in planning the positions of the various elements “we start from the position of the implants – suggests Oscar Cifarelli – without, however, renouncing to carry out, if possible, an intervention to move them, in the in the event that this can improve the management of the available space ».", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9794414043426514}
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+{"content": "As the capital of the country, Romania houses the important government buildings of the national government. Ceaușescu even publicly condemned the action as \"a big mistake, [and] a serious danger to peace in Europe and to the fate of Communism in the world\". Antonyms for capital of Romania. Independence proclaimed on 9 May 1877, internationally recognised in 1878. [65] The first Slavic groups settled in Moldavia and Wallachia in the 6th century,[66] in Transylvania around 600. [259], Since December 1989, Romania has pursued a policy of strengthening relations with the West in general, more specifically with the United States and the European Union, albeit with limited relations involving the Russian Federation. [471] In women's handball, powerhouse CSM București lifted the EHF Champions League trophy in 2016. Cine sunt următorii în Top 5\", \"Miodrag Belodedici: the fugitive libero who conquered Europe twice | Jonathan Wilson\", \"What happened to Helmuth Duckadam? [137] The united principalities officially adopted the name Romania on 21 February 1862. Transmissible diseases are quite common by European standards. Tatoeba-2020.08. With an area of 238,397 sq. [251] In winter, the average maximum temperature is below 2 °C (36 °F). Tema. Esempi. [194][195] Romania remained under the direct military occupation and economic control of the USSR until the late 1950s. Capital City of Romania The largest and capital city of Romania is Bucharest , which is the industrial, commercial and cultural center of the country. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. [384] In 2018, the adult literacy rate was 98.8%. In English, the name of the country was formerly spelt Rumania or Roumania. [428][429] Certain traditional recipes are made in direct connection with the holidays: chiftele, tobă and tochitura at Christmas; drob, pască and cozonac at Easter and other Romanian holidays. [295], After a series of privatizations and reforms in the late 1990s and 2000s, government intervention in the Romanian economy is somewhat less than in other European economies. [32][33] Excavations near a salt spring at Lunca yielded the earliest evidence for salt exploitation in Europe; here salt production began between 5th millennium BC and 4th BC. This surprise victory was attributed by many analysts to the implication of the Romanian diaspora in the voting process, with almost 50% casting ballots for Klaus Iohannis in the first round, compared to only 16% for Ponta. Define capital of Romania. [144], The Transylvanian Romanians and Saxons wanted to maintain the separate status of Transylvania in the Habsburg Monarchy, but the Austro-Hungarian Compromise brought about the union of the province with Hungary in 1867. [112][113] The neighboring powers forced him to abdicate in September, but he became a symbol of the unification of the Romanian lands in the 19th century. The charges for which they were executed were, among others, genocide by starvation. The largest ethnic minorities are the Hungarians, 6.1% of the population, and the Roma, 3.0% of the population. It is Romania's chief industrial and communications center. [146][147], Fearing Russian expansionism, Romania secretly joined the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in 1883, but public opinion remained hostile to Austria-Hungary. The Romania national football team played its first match in 1922 and is one of only four national teams to have taken part in the first three FIFA World Cups, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium. [307] There are sixteen international commercial airports in service today. [309] Around a third of the produced energy comes from renewable sources, mostly as hydroelectric power. The River Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a generally southeasterly direction for 2,857 km (1,775 mi), coursing through ten countries before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. [421][422] The traditional Romanian dress that otherwise has largely fallen out of use during the 20th century, is a popular ceremonial vestment worn on these festivities, especially in rural areas. Romania (/roʊˈmeɪniə/ (listen) ro-MAY-nee-ə; Romanian: România [romɨˈni.a] (listen)) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. The capital of Romania, the sixth largest city in the EU , has become an important travel destination as a result of the business boom between Russia , Asia and Europe . As of August 2019, its acceptance into the Schengen Area is hampered because the European Council has misgivings about Romania's adherence to the rule of law,[262] a fundamental principle of EU membership. [154], Austria-Hungary quickly disintegrated after the war. [182] After the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, about 132,000 Jews – mainly Hungarian-speaking – were deported to extermination camps from Northern Transylvania with the Hungarian authorities' support. The metropolitan area of Bucharest has an estimated population of 2.27 million people. [312] With one of the largest reserves of crude oil and shale gas in Europe[313] it is among the most energy-independent countries in the European Union,[314] and is looking to expand its nuclear power plant at Cernavodă further. [372] Its canonical jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova. [417] Multiple castles exist in Romania, including the popular tourist attractions of Peleș Castle,[418] Corvin Castle, and Bran Castle or \"Dracula's Castle\". The capital city has an area of 228 square km and a population of 1,883,425 individuals. [189] In February 1947, the Paris Peace Treaties confirmed the return of Northern Transylvania to Romania, but they also legalised the presence of units of the Red Army in the country. \"Paula Seling despre rezultatul la Eurovision 2010: \"Mai bine de atât nu se putea! [239], The Danube river forms a large part of the border with Serbia and Bulgaria, and flows into the Black Sea, forming the Danube Delta, which is the second-largest and best-preserved delta in Europe, and a biosphere reserve and a biodiversity World Heritage Site. At first glance, the architecture is dizzying, but it's a fascinating mix. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. Against the background of this programme, the parent institutions of the nine largest foreign-owned banks incorporated in Romania subscribed to a coordinated commitment to maintain their overall exposure to Romania and to provide additional capital as necessary. [420] Winter holidays include the Christmas and New Year festivities during which various unique folklore dances and games are common: plugușorul, sorcova, ursul, and capra. What are synonyms for capital of Romania? [385] Kindergarten is optional between three and six years. The northern parts of the city have a series of lakes. [51][52], The Carpians, Goths and other neighbouring tribes made regular raids against Dacia from the 210s. [159][162][163] Although minorities could establish their own schools, Romanian language, history and geography could only be taught in Romanian. [173] Romania was forced to cede Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union on 26 June 1940, Northern Transylvania to Hungary on 30 August, and Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria in September. [164], Agriculture remained the principal sector of economy, but several branches of industry—especially the production of coal, oil, metals, synthetic rubber, explosives and cosmetics—developed during the interwar period. The Roma minorityis usually underestimated in census data and may represent up to 10% of the population. Bucharest is the capital of Romania. [99][100] The second Romanian principality, Moldavia, achieved full autonomy during the reign of Bogdan I around 1360. [116] The Church Union strengthened the Romanian intellectuals' devotion to their Roman heritage. [178] The country regained Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, and the Germans placed Transnistria (the territory between the rivers Dniester and Dnieper) under Romanian administration. [458] Dinamo București reached the Champions League semi-final in 1984 and the Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1990. \"Romanian film \"Child's Pose\" wins Berlin Golden Bear\", \"Report on the Nominations from Luxembourg and Romania for the European Capital of Culture 2007\", \"Muzeul National Peles | Site-ul oficial al castelelor Peles si Pelisor\", \"Traditii si obiceiuri romanesti. [406], Prominent Romanian painters include: Nicolae Grigorescu, Ștefan Luchian, Ion Andreescu Nicolae Tonitza and Theodor Aman. There is also a semi-legal, informal private tutoring system used mostly during secondary school, which prospered during the Communist regime. Economic growth accelerated in the midst of government liberalisations in opening up new sectors to competition and investment—most notably, energy and telecoms. [478] Other Romanian athletes who collected five gold medals like Comăneci are rowers Elisabeta Lipa (1984-2004) and Georgeta Damian (2000-2008). [321] Tourism in Romania attracted €400 million in investments in 2005. What feminists can learn from the eastern experience\", \"Romania's brains rank first in Europe, 10th in the world after Math Olympiad\", \"Romanian students win four medals, two gold, at the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad\", \"Romanian students win 32 medals at SEEMOUS International Mathematical Olympiad\", \"Ritli: Ministry of Health budget for 2012 can provide the assistance at least at the level of previous year\", \"Our patients vs. theirs: How many hospitals has Romania compared to other EU countries\", \"Personalul medico-sanitar pe categorii, forme de proprietate, sexe, macroregiuni, regiuni de dezvoltare și județe\", \"\"De profesie: medic în România\". [150] The country remained neutral when World War I broke out in 1914, but Prime Minister Ion I. C. Brătianu started negotiations with the Entente Powers. [41][45] He resisted the Romans for decades, but the Roman army defeated his troops in 106 AD. [134] After special assemblies convoked in Moldavia and Wallachia urged the unification of the two principalities, the Great Powers did not prevent the election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as their collective domnitor (or ruling prince) in January 1859. Sper să nu prind ziua când ne vor bate iar, \"Ne-a părăsit Ştefan Sameş, fostul mare fundaş al Stelei\", \"L'Equipe: Nicolae Dobrin, cel mai valoros jucător român din istorie. [373] Romania has the world's third-largest Eastern Orthodox population.[374][375]. What Lessons for the Spatial Policy? 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[264] In May 2009, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, declared that \"Romania is one of the most trustworthy and respectable partners of the USA. [284] Metropolitan areas have been constituted for most of these cities. [57][58][59] The Goths' rule ended abruptly when the Huns invaded their territory in 376, causing new waves of migrations. [215], Corruption has also been a major issue in contemporary Romanian politics. tutto esatto qualsiasi . The metropolitan area of Bucharest has an estimated population of 2.27 million people. Care este povestea \"Campioanei Provinciei, \"FC Petrolul – UTA Arad/Duelul celor zece titluri! [98] He defeated the Hungarian royal army in the Battle of Posada and secured the independence of Wallachia in 1330. He was World Number 2 in 2015. Following the exit of the Ottomans, Bucharest was occupied by different powers like the Habsburg Monarchy and Imperial Russia for short periods. [316] According to Bloomberg, in 2013 Romania ranked fifth in the world, and according to The Independent, it ranks number one in Europe at Internet speeds,[317][318] with Timișoara ranked among the highest in the world. The largest ethnic minorities are the Hungarians, 6.1% of the population, and the Roma, 3.0% of the population. [136], The Treaty of Paris put the Danubian Principalities under the collective guardianship of the Great Powers in 1856. Someone offensive and annoying. [257] There are also courts of appeal, county courts and local courts. [123] The neighboring powers took advantage of the situation: the Habsburg Monarchy annexed the northwestern part of Moldavia, or Bukovina, in 1775, and the Russian Empire seized the eastern half of Moldavia, or Bessarabia, in 1812. \"[265], Relations with Moldova are a special case given that the two countries share the same language and a common history. \", \"Arad: \"Bătrâna Doamnă\", UTA Arad, împlinește, joi, 74 de ani. [364] The Romanian alphabet contains the same 26 letters of the standard Latin alphabet, as well as five additional ones (namely ă,â,î,ț, and ș), totaling 31. [114], The united armies of the Holy League expelled the Ottoman troops from Central Europe between 1684 and 1699, and the Principality of Transylvania was integrated into the Habsburg Monarchy. Brâncuși has a sculptural ensemble in Târgu Jiu, while his sculpture Bird in Space, was auctioned in 2005 for $27.5 million. 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[135] Bishop Andrei Șaguna proposed the unification of the Romanians of the Habsburg Monarchy in a separate duchy, but the central government refused to change the internal borders. Bucharest is also the industrial, commercial, and transportation hub of Romania. sfn error: no target: CITEREFHitchins1991 (, Giurescu, \"'Alegeri' după model sovietic\", p.17 (citing Berry), 18 (citing Berry and note); Macuc, p.40; Tismăneanu, p.113. [412], In cinema, several movies of the Romanian New Wave have achieved international acclaim. The first fortified settlements appeared around 1800 BC, showing the militant character of Bronze Age societies. [92] Also in the 13th century, during one of its greatest periods of expansion, the Republic of Genoa started establishing many colonies and commercial and military ports on the Black Sea, in the current territory of Romania. The state is obliged to fund public hospitals and clinics. [224][225] However, Romania's development suffered a major setback during the late-2000s' recession leading to a large gross domestic product contraction and a budget deficit in 2009. Câte milioane de români au acces la internet\", \"• Chart: Blistering broadband: Europe's fastest downloaders | Statista\", \"Top 10: Where to Find the World's Fastest Internet\", \"Romanian city comes out first in the world in Internet download speed ranking\", \"Country/Economy Profiles: Romania, Page 329 Travel&Tourism\", \"Tourism attracted in 2005 investments worth €400 million\", Report from Romanian National Institute of Statistics, \"Castelul Bran, marcat de istorie, dar şi de legenda lui Dracula atrage anual sute de mii de turişti\", \"Bine ati venit pe site-ul de promovare a pensiunilor agroturistice din Romania !!! [138] Cuza's government carried out a series of reforms, including the secularisation of the property of monasteries and agrarian reform, but a coalition of conservative and radical politicians forced him to abdicate in February 1866. [261], Romania opted on 1 January 2007, to accede to the Schengen Area, and its bid to join was approved by the European Parliament in June 2011, but was rejected by the EU Council in September 2011. Definition of capital of romania in the dictionary. Chinezii v-or avea 51% din actiuni – Nicolae Moga (PSD) – Energie –\", \"Numărul conexiunilor la internet a crescut cu 22,8%. [88][89] A high-ranking royal official, styled voivode, ruled the Transylvanian counties from the 1170s, but the Székely and Saxon seats (or districts) were not subject to the voivodes' authority. Prefect is appointed by the Romanian workforce is employed in agriculture, one of the city an. 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+{"content": "• ASIA\n  • Add your spot\n\n    Share the best spots.\n  • Submit upcoming event\n\n    Expose your event to our fans.\n  • Add your profile\n\n    Are you an athlete?\n  • Be our partner\n\n    Add your school & packages.\n  • Videos\n\n    Watch amazing xtremespots videos!\n  • Careers\n\n    Collaborate with us!\n\nThere are tons of beautiful beaches around the world, and surfing is one of the best ways to enjoy it. Aside from that, surfing and other watersports are best for fitness.\n\nSurfing is a unique and fun sport but mastering it’s not easy.  Beginners need to understand what surfing is about and must be prepared to go out and get that perfect wave. If you’re a beginner, balancing your body on the surfing board is the number one challenge you’ll face.  If you want to learn the basics of the sport, you can watch the videos on youtube to learn more.\n\nBut if you’re too excited to start balancing on the board, you need to know some fundamentals and understand why balance is critical to master the sport.\n\nHow to Maintain Balance on A Surfing Board\n\nThe main aim of surfing is to balance one’s body movements while moving across the surface of the water. The feet, hands, and arms’ movement are coordinated with the paddle’s forward and backstrokes. The movement of arms, hands, and feet are coordinated with each other and with the paddles’ direction.\n\nBalancing the body in surfing requires you to have a lot of flexibility. It also requires you to maintain your balance for long periods. Your balance will deteriorate if you don’t exercise this ability. Therefore, you should spend quality time surfing as much as possible.\n\nHere are some essential things you need to practice to maintain the right balance on the surfboard:\n\n1. Put Your Feet on The Right Position\n\nTo improve your balance when surfing, you must first get your body in the right position. Most surfers don’t know how to do this and will often end up with a stiff upper body when they get out of the water.\n\nTo do this, stand on your tiptoes or bend your knees slightly, then slowly move back towards your center until your entire body is in one straight line. To allow your spine to work correctly, do this slowly with each knee bent. Doing this will help your body remain in proper alignment when in the water and keep your weight evenly distributed for you to be comfortable.\n\n2. Align Your Hips Parallel To The Deck\n\nAnother important aspect of balancing is to remember that your hips need to be parallel to the deck. If you’re not aligned correctly, you’ll likely end up with a lot of sway in your upper body. It would help if you weren’t bending the knees to get the hips parallel to the deck. This will only cause problems for your lower body and could even cause injury.\n\nInstead, if your knees are bent, try to turn your elbows and knees simultaneously. Doing so will help you get the hips in proper alignment. If you’re unsure of the right body positioning, you need to ask a trainer or find amanzi surf coaching online to teach you the basics before practicing.\n\n3. Practice Proper Breathing\n\nPractice regularly and pay close attention to your breathing. Ensure that your breathing is consistent throughout your body and mind. It’s essential to remember that all positions are meant to be smooth and flowing. Don’t feel the need to be rigid while surfing, and make sure that your breathing doesn’t become labored or complicated as it can take a toll on you, causing your body to be imbalanced.\n\n4. Practice with Props\n\nAnother thing that you can do to improve your balance and gain momentum for surfing is to make sure that you have a great surf workout. To help you with this, try carrying a massive surfboard over your shoulder or trying to balance a pail on your foot while holding the board. You can even use an empty spray bottle or a tennis ball to help get your legs going.\n\n5. Do Core Exercises\n\nSurfing is a very strenuous sport that requires your core muscles to be extremely powerful. Core exercises can strengthen those muscles and help prevent injuries.\n\nThe first workout that’ll give you a good workout is to sit on a surfboard. This is an excellent way to tone your muscles without getting into trouble or putting your body in an uncomfortable position. When doing this exercise, you must keep your legs and back straight. As you lower yourself, try to do it slowly so you won’t stress your neck or back. It would also help if you tried to keep your knees slightly bent when you do this exercise. Lastly, use your entire body to stabilize yourself.\n\nAnother core workout for surfers involves standing on your head and holding onto the board with one arm. Make sure to keep your back straight and use your legs to help propel yourself down to the water. This will burn a lot of calories and strengthen your legs, shoulders, and core.\n\nIf you cannot find a surfboard to practice on, you can find other ways to incorporate core workouts into your workout routine. For instance, standing on a towel can provide you with a similar level of exertion as a board while still providing a low impact workout. Stand with your legs apart from your body by using both arms to support your body. Slowly push yourself forward until your feet are almost touching the floor and then lower yourself to the ground while keeping your body in motion.\n\n\nBefore you visit the best surfing spots in the country, you need to learn the basics of surfing to fully enjoy the sport. Maintaining balance on the board is a critical skill in surfing. To do this, you must master the basic postures, feet and body positions, and breathing. Having a strong core helps maintain balance, so you need to work on those as well.\n\nIf you’re unsure about your proper positioning, you should find a trusted surfing trainer to teach you the right execution and body positions. Hiring a trainer will also ensure you don’t get injured while practicing how to maintain balance on a surfboard.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6899306774139404}
+{"content": "Top 10 Gun Death By Country in The World 2021 !\n\nGun violence in any region comprises firearms, such as cannons, shotguns, rifles, or machine guns, basically violence against the weapons. Any person may suffer from firearms, but gun violence affects people of color, women, and other disadvantaged social groups overwhelmingly in some circumstances.\n\nSometimes the very sight of guns can endanger people and cause them to be afraid of life, with serious and lasting psychological consequences on people and whole populations. Fear of gun abuse will also negatively affect people’s right to schooling or health care if they are too scared to go into classrooms or health care facilities.\n\nAbout 2,000 people are wounded every day by gunshots, and around the world, at least 2 million are injured by firearms. Firearms have shot and wounded almost 134,000 people in the USA in 2017. Millions suffer from serious and long-term traumatic consequences for victims, families, and their broader communities from armed conflict or the risk of gun violence.\n\nIn Germany, the murder of guns is almost as unusual as in the United States, the murder of dropping objects. Around two people are killed in a gun murder out of a million. Some people require lifelong and permanent treatment, and many more lose their capacity to work, particularly in stressful jobs.\n\nNevertheless, there are almost no programs that provide sufficient long-term treatment, recovery, and retraining. Gun violence has caused a chronic public safety epidemic – and remarkably small government response to victims, family members, and the healthcare service.\n\nSo, here’s the list of Top 10 gun death countries in the world 2021:\n\nGun Death\n\nGet here detail information about the top 10 gun death by countries:\n\n10. Nicaragua\n\nU.S. citizens in Nicaragua were victims of murder; robbery was the most common crime reported. American citizens in Nicaragua have also reported sexual assaults and other violent crimes. Several Nicaraguans have been victims of gunshots, firearms killing, and violence against women remains a concern in general. The drug trafficking and associated criminal elements increased as Nicaraguan security forces seized several large-scale drug shipments and large bulk cash and made several arrests. The latest official crime statistics by the Nicaraguan Government show that the total homicide rate was 11:100,000. The homicide rate was 19 – almost double the national average in the southern Caribbean Coast. Many Nicaraguan areas have homicidal rates significantly over the national average.\n\nHomicide Rate:3.72\nFirearm Death Rate:4.68\nTotal Death number:306\n\n9. Costa Rica\n\nCosta Rica is a Central American nation with a remarkable record of crime concerning its neighbors. It is one of the few nations that abolished the armed forces of their nation. This country has had a steady past and has managed to develop its economy. However, criminal activity has increased markedly since 2000. The local population has been overwhelmed by increasing domestic illegal activity, such as robbery, firearms murders, and organized crime. In the past, it was 2015 that had the highest homicide rates. The Costa Rican Star is currently reporting a drop in the homicide rate in areas across Costa Rica. This decrease is mainly in the San Jose and Guanacaste regions, where figures have decreased respectively by 19 and 62 percent. \n\nHomicide Rate:5.63\nFirearm Death Rate:6.3\nTotal Death number:318\n\n8. Barbados\n\nSince 2010, there have been under 35 victims a year of intentional homicides registered in Barbados. Twenty-eight people were reported to have been killed in 2018, down from 30 a year ago. In 2010 and 2015, 31 killings, which makes it the deadliest year for the Caribbean country in the specified period, were killed voluntarily. The Royal Barbados Police Force (RBPF) had been exceptionally busy in 2020, with a total of 49 murders at the end of the year, which exceeded both 2019 and 2018. Throughout the year, shootings dominated media coverage, and most of the 49 recorded assassinations were related to firearms. 21 out of 27 unnatural deaths were reported in September. Meanwhile, Barbados recorded about 22 murders in the first half of 2020, with 15 involving guns\n\nHomicide Rate:3.12\nFirearm Death Rate:6.6\nTotal Death number:19\n\n7. Paraguay\n\nIn recent years, crime in Paraguay has increased, with criminals often targeting rich people. Although most crime in Paraguay is nonviolent, the use of arms has increased, and extreme violence has occurred. The homicide rate was 9.7 per 100,000 in 2012 in Paraguay. In 2019, Paraguay claimed a total of 649 killings. This was down to 9.29 per 100,000 in 2020, with 617 killings recorded. Last year, in 2020, in which the latest gender-based homicide rates are available, women constituted 11.2% of the total, and 88.8% of men were victims. A further reduction in Paraguay’s homicide rate of 5.1 per 100,000 was seen in 2020, for which the latest statistics are available. In urban and rural areas, armed robbery, car theft, and invasion of the homeland are a problem. Street crime is prevalent in towns, including a selection of pocketing, mugging and gunshots.\n\nHomicide Rate:5.78\nFirearm Death Rate:7.76\nTotal Death number:546\n\n6. Montenegro\n\nDuring the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, Montenegro’s organized criminal circles grew rich and powerful, cocaine traffickers and money laundering gangs are particularly active in Kotor. In a few cases, according to Mans, the Montenegrin NGO focusing on organized criminal activity and corruption has operated with the confirmation of officials and governmental institutions, which it says are “overwhelming challenges” in the country. In Montenegro, there are 700 documented organized criminals operating, and in Europe, in particular, Serbia and Slovenia, there are gangs outside Montenegro. The gangs specialize in the trafficking of cigarettes, drugs, and firearms. In 2019, Montenegro’s homicidal rate was 2.2 for 100 thousand inhabitants. While the homicide rate in Montenegro has fluctuated considerably in recent years, it has been declining to a level of 2.2 per 100,000 population in 2018 by 2004-2018.\n\nHomicide Rate:2.42\nFirearm Death Rate:8.91\nTotal Death number:56\n\n5. Uruguay\n\nThe Government of Uruguay revealed last month that in 2018 homicides in Uruguay rose 46%. This dramatic increase reflects increased public support for tougher crime policies and will likely lead in the coming presidential campaigns. The number of deaths was 414 in 2019, up from 284 in 2018. Therefore, the official homicide rate in Uruguay amounted to 11.8 per 100,000 people, the highest in the history of the country. In particular, the data from the Government shows that from 170 homicides in 2017 to 296 in the following year, non-gun-related assassinations increased only by five counts. Violent crime also rose sharply compared to 2017, with an increase in the exacerbated robbery of 53.8 percent. The Government has affirmed that, in organized criminal groups and drug traffickers, most deaths (47 percent) were counted.\n\nHomicide Rate:4.78\nFirearm Death Rate:11.52\nTotal Death number:399\n\n4. Panama\n\nIn the history of Panama, a threat assessment of 2012 by the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime found an important hub for the regional arms business (UNODC). The geographical position makes it the natural destination for arms to travel through Central America and leave the United States where weapons laws are imposed. The guns are then moved from Panama to Colombia from the country and often south. The logic behind easing restrictions on imports of firearms in Panama is difficult to see at a time when killings are on the rise, especially since such weapons have long been a driving force behind violence in both Latin America and the Caribbean, one of the world’s most murderous regions. Panamanian authorities have not yet provided further information regarding the new rules, but reopening imports of weapons risks exacerbate criminal arms groups’ problem. Similar criticism has been made of the proposed easing of arms legislation in countries like Brazil.\n\nHomicide Rate:14.36\nFirearm Death Rate:15.11\nTotal Death number:641\n\n3. Jamaica\n\nThere are some areas in Jamaica, in particular cities such as Kingston, Montego Bay, and the Spanish Town, which is highly affected by firearms. According to United Nations estimates, Jamaica has been one of the world’s highest murder rates for many years. The situation was called “a national challenge of unprecedented proportions,” former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson described it. The murder rate was 3.9 for every 100,000 population in 1962, one of the lowest in the world, when Jamaica gained independence. In 2005, Jamaica had 1.674 assassinations per 100000 people at a murder rate of 58. Jamaica had the world’s highest killing rate that year. The Jamaican parliament voted in November 2008 to retain the death penalty, carried out by suspension. In 2018, Jamaica recorded 1,287 killings by gunshots.\n\nHomicide Rate:30.38\nFirearm Death Rate:30.72\nTotal Death number:905\n\n2. Swaziland\n\nIn a nation of 8.3 million people, there are about 2 million secret weapons in the country. In 2016, 47 homicides with firearms were attempted in the country. Swaziland often argues that additional rules on arms ownership are unnecessary in the National Rifles Association. Since 2001, when the local parliament in Zug stormed a man killing 14 people and then himself, Switzerland hasn’t seen a mass shooting. The National Rifle Association often mentions it as an example of why more gun ownership rules do not have to be implemented. In 2016, the NRA indicated on their blog that the neutral European country has one of the lowest murder rates globally but still has millions of private weaponry and some arms for hunting that do not even need permission. But Swiss regulations and rules on the use of guns are quite specific in the country.\n\nHomicide Rate:37.16\nFirearm Death Rate:37.16\nTotal Death number:426\n\n1. El Salvador\n\nIn 2018, the disintegration of the so-called gang’s truce negotiated between the MS 13 and the Revolutionaries Sureños faction of the Barrio 18 Streets gang in 2012 led El Salvador to close with 20 murders by gunshots per day, making it one of the worst countries in the world. The truce’s demolition that happened after the Government had disclosed its secret provision. The record shows that El Salvador has achieved its lowest death rate in recent history, a massive drop of 1.630 deaths in the same period in 2019. Bukele continually mentions the murder plunge on Twitter and highlights his Territorial Control Plan, which deployed more than 5,000 police and soldiers for criminal gangs one year ago.\n\nHomicide Rate:26.49\nFirearm Death Rate:45.6\nTotal Death number:2,942\n\nSo, these are all about the Top Ten Gun Deaths Countries in the World! If you want to take a glimpse at the ranking of all the countries in the world along with their respective homicide rate, then have a look below:\n\nRankCountryFirearm Death RateHomicide Rate\n1El Salvador45.626.49\n9Costa Rica6.35.63\n28New Zealand1.070.11\n\n\nIn many countries in the world, gun violence is an important issue. In countries such as Japan, the U.K., Norway, and Australia, gun losses are incredibly rare. These countries have introduced incentives or adopted laws to reduce the number of handguns in the possessions of civilians.\n\nSophia Wadke\n\nRelated Articles\n\nLatest Articles", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9402943253517151}
+{"content": "In addiction treatment, the term “aftercare” refers to the continuation of treatment after rehab. There are many types of aftercare that can help people strengthen their sobriety skills. People in recovery will need to find what types of aftercare work best for them. Most will derive the maximum benefit by trying two or more types of aftercare.\n\nEffective Types of Aftercare\n\n1. Sober Living Residences\n\nFollowing a residential course of addiction treatment, some people may not feel fully confident about their ability to remain sober once they return to their home. Others may not have a job to return to, and may need to learn new practical skills to help them find suitable employment. Entering a sober living residence is one of the types of aftercare that may be a very helpful option for those who would benefit from structured support while returning to regular life.\n\nSober living residences provide a drug- and alcohol-free environment to live in while residents reintegrate into society. Most sober living homes expect residents to find some type of work. Alternatively, residents are encouraged to return to school or college or to take part in vocational training. Sober living residences are one of the most effective types of aftercare, offering support and a sober environment while residents transition to independent living.\n\n2. 12-Step Programs\n\nThe 12 Step program was initially introduced by Alcoholics Anonymous, and it is still the methodology used by AA and other groups to help people stay sober.1 The 12 Step program is one of the most widely recommended aftercare programs by addiction treatment specialists.\n\n3. Counseling and Therapy\n\nIt is rare that an individual in recovery from the illness of addiction will not experience cravings and urges to relapse. Addiction is similar to other chronic illness in that relapse is relatively common. Relapse rates for addiction are between 40 and 60 percent, which is comparable to relapse rates for people with chronic illnesses like asthma or hypertension.2\n\nFollowing rehab, people in recovery are encouraged to engage with counselors or therapists to help them deal with the inevitable urges that will arise. Many of those in addiction recovery find it helps to continue to attend counseling and therapy sessions immediately after rehab.\n\n4. Family Therapy\n\nPeople with addiction will find it easier to control their illness if they have the support and understanding of their families. They will also find it helpful if they can come to terms with the effects their illness has on other members of the family. Family therapy is an ideal setting for people with addiction and their families to address the effects addiction had on the family. It can help people identify positive ways to undo the damage that may have occurred in family relationships. This helps to reduce or eliminate some forms of stress.\n\n5. Social and Physical Activities\n\nPhysical exercise causes the body to release chemicals that stimulate the parts of the brain that cause us to feel pleasure. Those in recovery should find that physical activity reduces the intensity and the frequency of urges to use drugs or alcohol. Joining clubs or societies that provide physical exercise in a social environment is very beneficial.\n\nThere are many more types of activities that can help people avoid relapse. Art and music therapy, equine therapy and biofeedback are just some examples. The more types of aftercare that people try, the more likely they are to find what suits them best.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5734823942184448}
+{"content": "What Are The Benefits Of Incognito?\n\nWho can see your incognito history?\n\n\nYour internet service provider (ISP) can see your activity..\n\nCan my employer see my incognito history?\n\n\nCan my employer see my Internet activity at home?\n\n\nCan someone hack your phone through WiFi?\n\nHackers many a times leave the WiFi open to all to use it as a bait. When someone connects the device to this open WiFi, their device’s MAC address and IP address are registered in the router. Hacker first intercepts the traffic by using the sniffing tool. … Routers with WEP security are easy to hack.\n\nDoes Google Incognito have a history?\n\nWhen you browse privately, other people who use the device won’t see your history. Chrome doesn’t save your browsing history or information entered in forms. Cookies and site data are remembered while you’re browsing, but deleted when you exit Incognito mode.\n\nCan you hack incognito mode?\n\nIncognito hides your actions from the browser you’re using. … The private browsing mode protects you only from people who have access to your system. Government surveillance – still on. Hacking activities (if any) – continuing without any issues.\n\nIs Incognito tab safe?\n\nIt won’t protect you from viruses or malware. It won’t keep your internet service provider (ISP) from seeing where you’ve been online. It won’t stop websites from seeing your physical location. And any bookmarks you save while in private browsing or incognito mode won’t disappear when you switch it off.\n\nCan incognito browsing be traced?\n\n\nHow do you delete Incognito history?\n\n\nIs guest mode better than incognito?\n\nIn all, the Guest mode is preferred when you’re using someone else’s computer, or someone else is using your computer. Whereas, the incognito mode can be used when you don’t want the history to be saved on your browser.\n\nCan someone see my Internet history on my phone?\n\n\nCan you be tracked on guest mode?\n\nWhile the browsing history from the guest mode will not be available on other Chrome profiles, it can still be accessed by your internet service provider and your employer or school. Similarly, if you have signed in to a web service such as Gmail, YouTube, or Facebook, they can still track your activity.\n\nCan parents see Internet history on WiFi bill?\n\nOriginally Answered: Does Internet history show up on WiFi bill? Nope ! It only shows the amount of data you’ve used – so they can bill you the appropriate amount.\n\nCan my employer see what websites I visit on my personal phone?\n\n\nHow do I go incognito on Google?\n\nHow to go incognito in Google ChromeThe easiest way to open an Incognito window is with the keyboard shortcut combination Ctrl-Shift-N (Windows) or Command-Shift-N (macOS).Another way is to click on the menu on the upper right – it’s the three vertical dots – and select New Incognito Window from the list.More items…•Jun 5, 2020\n\nWhy you should never use incognito?\n\nYour IP Address: While your device might not know what you’re searching in incognito, your internet service provider does. Your ISP can still track your activity and collect your data. This data may even be sold to third-parties. Your Site Data: Many users believe incognito prevents a website from collecting your data.\n\nCan someone see my Internet history if I use their WiFi?\n\n\nCan Incognito history be recovered?\n\n\nCan your school see your incognito?\n\nThe simple answer is YES! Everything you do on the laptop is stored. Even if you use incognito. In addition, if you are using the school’s WiFi, everything you do (regardless of whether it is your device or the district’s) could be monitored.\n\nCan people see what you search on guest mode?\n\nHow Guest mode works. When friends and family members browse as guests on your computer, none of their browsing history or cookies are saved. They also can’t see or change your Chrome information or settings.\n\nDoes deleting your history actually delete it?\n\n\nIs it good to use incognito mode?\n\n\nCan my parents see my incognito history?\n\n\nCan someone see your search history if you delete it?\n\n\nCan my employer see my Internet activity on my phone?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7803983688354492}
+{"content": "Why should graduates consider roles at smaller businesses?\n\nWhy should graduates consider roles at smaller businesses?\n\nGraduates can often be inundated with information about graduate schemes from some of the biggest companies around, but securing a position on one is not the only pathway towards a successful career.\n\nSmall and medium sized companies and start-ups can give graduates a great platform to learn and develop whilst gaining invaluable experience in the workplace. From the opportunity for quick career progression to a more creative company culture, there are numerous reasons why size does not necessarily matter when it comes to graduate schemes.\n\nMuch greater responsibility\n\nWhile responsibility can vary on much larger graduate schemes due to the sheer number of employees involved, roles at small businesses are often more complex – you will naturally have to take on a wide range of responsibilities very quickly.\n\nWith very few employees, they will not necessarily have the time to continuously oversee your development, meaning you will be accountable for your own progress to a certain degree. The steep learning curve will result in you constantly having to face challenges that will mean you learn and develop essential skills.\n\nHaving practical experience under your belt will be hugely advantageous if the opportunity arises for you to move on too. You may not have the same level of external training due to smaller budgets, but on-the-job experience is still highly sought-after by employers.\n\nShowcase your talents\n\nSome of the biggest and most popular employers will take on a large number of graduates on a yearly basis. With such a large number of people to compete with, standing out and showcasing your individual talent can be extremely difficult.\n\nWhereas at a smaller business they are more likely to take on one or two graduates at a time as the business grows, meaning you will have a fantastic opportunity to impress your employers and prove your worth.\n\nUnique company culture\n\nSmall companies are well known for having their own innovative company cultures, from quirky office parties to ping-pong tables and office dogs. Transitioning from university into working life can be a challenge, but it can be made considerably easier if you are in tune and enjoy your new office environment.\n\nWith the competition for talent so high and with a need to keep hold of talented employees, companies are taking personality incredibly seriously when it comes down to recruitment. If you do manage to secure a position, you can expect to be working with like-minded colleagues.\n\nAs a result, you should find yourself joining a much more collaborative and enjoyable office, where you can become an important part of the team and enjoy yourself.\n\nIf you are a graduate looking to kick-start your career, have a chat with Discovery Graduates and see how we can help get you started...\n\nRecent Posts\n\nTime is ticking for your Graduate recruitment article\n\nTime is ticking for your graduate recruitment!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9922720789909363}
+{"content": "Call/WhatsApp: +1 914 416 5343\n\nEthnolinguistics studies and the different views of Native American and Euro-American culture on the intersexed child, or “two-spirit.” \n\n\n1, Ethnolinguistics studies “the relationships between language and culture and how they mutually influence and inform each other” (Haviland et al., 122). Using the three examples of (1) gender differences in language use, (2) Ebonics, and (3) code switching, describe the contributions of ethnolinguistics to our understanding of human communication.\n\n2, Describe the different views of Native American and Euro-American culture on the intersexed child, or “two-spirit.” How have anthropologists in their studies of culture and personality contributed to our understanding of gender roles and personality development?\n\nEthnolinguistics (sometimes known as ethnic linguistics)[1] is actually a discipline of linguistics that reports the relationship between terminology and tradition and just how distinct cultural groups understand the globe. It will be the combo between ethnology and linguistics. The previous refers to the life-style of the complete group: every one of the attributes that identify one group from the other. This kind of characteristics make your societal elements of a group or a culture.\n\nEthnolinguists review how perception and conceptualization factors words and demonstrate how that is linked to various ethnicities and communities. One example is when spatial orientation is expressed in various cultures.[2][3] In several societies, phrases for that cardinal guidelines eastern and western are derived from terminology for sunrise/setting sun. The nomenclature for cardinal recommendations of Inuit speakers of Greenland, however, is based on geographical attractions like the river system and one’s placement about the shoreline. In the same way, the Yurok absence the concept of cardinal instructions they orient themselves regarding their principal regional function, the Klamath Stream.\n\nSocietal Linguistics is a related branch of linguistics that explores your relationship between terminology and social conceptualisations.[4] Cultural Linguistics pulls on and expands the theoretical and analytical improvements in intellectual research (such as complexity technology and dispersed cognition) and anthropology. Cultural linguistics examines how a variety of attributes of man spoken languages encode societal conceptualisations, which include cultural schemas, ethnic categories, and social metaphors.[4] In Cultural Linguistics, language is viewed as deeply entrenched from the team-level, ethnic cognition of communities of audio speakers. Thus far, the approach of Ethnic Linguistics has been implemented in many aspects of applied linguistic analysis, which include intercultural conversation, next terminology learning, Instructing English as being an Overseas Terminology, and Entire world Englishes. The word Ethnography comes from these two Greek words:”Ethnos”, meaning people & “Graphein”, meaning writing. Wolcott (1999) describes ethnography can be a explanation of “the normal sociable actions of an recognizable band of people”. Ethnography is often referred to as “culture composing,” and it also identifies a kind of paperwork often utilized by Anthropologists with their industry function. This category of producing uses comprehensive first-hands written descriptions of any culture depending on initially-hands study in the discipline.\n\nEthnographies often represent the anthropological need for holism, the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. When it comes to ethnography, holism refers to the simple fact that a traditions can be finest realized from the comprehension of as much aspects of the social circumstance as you can.\n\nCultural anthropologists who compose ethnographies are often known as ethnographers. Ethnographers who discuss whatever they learned through the folks they have been working with often use a study technique referred to as participant-viewing. Individual Observationis a method of area investigation employed in anthropology in which an anthropologist reports the lifespan of a team by revealing in their activities.\n\nEthnographic information might take numerous forms. Posts, periodicals, statistical data, and documentaries are just some of the countless forms that ethnographic information and facts can be communicated. An incredibly typical develop is a publication created by the person engaged in the investigation or observation. A fantastic instance of a magazine can be “Waiting On An Ordinary Day” by Farnaz Fassihi since being a journalist going to Iraq through the Iraq warfare, she participates in Iraqi daily living and files her outline than it, because of her approaches and magnificence of composing although Fassihi may well not consider herself an anthropologist, her reserve Expecting a regular Time is ethnographic. Gradually, she turns all of her journalistic notices into a reserve which identifies specific occasions that assist her define the Iraqi customs. She uses the participant-observation strategy, plus uses the very idea of holism to describe the entire of Iraqi traditions, rather than just small aspects of it.\n\nAnthropologists, professionals, philosophers, historians and the majority of societal scientists have already been reexamining suppositions about what research is and the way it works. They may have pushed the regular distinction between hard sciences (for example physics, chemistry, and biology) and smooth sciences (psychology, sociology, and anthropology). They think they may have much more in common than previously thought. Anthropologists aid in the work to examine and reconsider what science is about through collecting details about varied ethnic thoughts about the process of explanation received during individual-observation-based fieldwork. is definitely the comparison research of 2 or more countries. Ethnology utilizes the data taken from ethnographic analysis and can be applied it to a single cross ethnic matter. The ethnographic technique enables you to identify and try to describe cross societal variation in social components like marriage, religious beliefs, subsistence techniques, governmental organization, and parenting, just to mention a few. Ethnology often compares and differences various ethnicities. Anthropologists who give attention to one customs are often called ethnographers while those who concentrate on numerous ethnicities are usually referred to as ethnologists. Nancy Bonvillain (2010: 54-57) describes the essential procedure for ethnic anthropology fieldwork. The initial step is define a challenge and select an industry internet site. Determining a problem can occur multiple methods it may stem from anything an anthropologist has read about it might start out with an extensive-phrase curiosity about a particular area or nation, or with regards to graduate individuals, it will be a category that catches an fascination.\n\nAnother phase is always to do history investigation. Before leaving behind for your discipline it really is imperative for anthropologists to accomplish a thorough literature search. This requires undertaking collection study to determine which study has already been completed by other anthropologists. Furthermore, it consists of understanding the region where they are going to study–the historical past, national politics, surroundings, weather, customs, and so on. It is particularly important for anthropologists to determine if you will find lawful limitations for doing work outside their house region. Numerous anthropologists do mini-outings with their investigation ares to make preliminary connections, understand the language, and make plans for a longer continue to be.\n\nThe third stage is really going to the industry to perform research. this can be the most exciting and the majority of nerve-racking component of anthropological job. Until steeped in the nearby cultures, there is certainly always a chance how the specialist will unwittingly violate community norms, making it more difficult to access are aware of the review team. Staying in the area can cause customs surprise. One of the primary points anthropologists will do within the industry is look for a location to reside. Picking to live in exactly the same location as being the examine group is the easiest way to conduct research, but living in shut distance causes it to become a hardship on the anthropologist to be fairly neutral community disputes, a thing that is essential for that researcher to do.\n\nOnce settled in, data selection may start. Anthropologists can gather both qualitative and quantitative data in the discipline. Qualitative data might incorporate information gleaned from interviews or individual observation. Quantitative information could be something that could be calculated statistically, e.g., mortality costs, delivery charges, and many others.\n\nThe interpretation of web data comes about both in the sector and once the anthropologist earnings residence. Hopefully, the research will likely be released in a few type, whether that be in an scholastic diary or as an ethnography. 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+{"content": "Iran marks 41st anniversary of Islamic Republic Day\n\nTEHRAN, Mar. 31 (MNA) – Today is the 41st anniversary of announcing the Islamic Republic as Iran’s ruling system after people overwhelmingly voted in favor of this establishment in a nationwide referendum.\n\nThe historic referendum was held on March 30 and 31, 1979, across the country and the results announced a day later on April 1, indicating a 98.2 percent ‘Yes’ votes to the Islamic Republic. The day has since been named as ‘Islamic Republic Day’ in the Iranian calendar and is a national holiday.\n\nThe referendum came some two months after the Islamic Revolution, under the leadership of its late founder Imam Khomeini, overthrew the US-backed Pahlavi regime in February.\n\nHolding a referendum just two months after a historic revolution depicts how Imam Khomeini was seeking to establish democracy in a country that had been ruled by the monarchy for some 2,500 years.\n\nSince then, Iran has held dozens of elections for parliament, presidency, city councils, and Assembly of Experts among others to prove that the system is based on people’s votes.\n\n\n\n\nEvery year ceremonies are held to commemorate the day but this year, as the country is fighting with the coronavirus pandemic as social distancing rules have been issued, that will not happen.\n\nMany authorities and organs issue separate statements each year to mark the day.\n\nThe General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces was one of the first to issue a statement in this regard on Monday.\n\n\"The Islamic Republic of Iran’s outstanding achievements and successes in the fields of defense and military have brought the country to a point of deterrence that our enemies are recoiling in strategic horror and desperation,” reads the statement\n\nThe US-led global hegemonic system is suffering from military decline and political frustration in the face of the Islamic resistance front and Iran’s growing influence, it said, adding, “Consolidation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s power and its expansion into the rest of the world under the leadership of Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei will prepare the ground for the creation of a new Islamic civilization\".\n\nIt further reiterated the Armed Forces’ commitment to press ahead with plans to boost defense capabilities and deterrent power in order to thwart the plots hatched by the adversaries of Iran.\n\nThe statement also said the country’s Armed Forces have always stood by the Iranian nation during different natural disasters and epidemics, saying, “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces have mobilized all its means and resources to stem the novel coronavirus and alleviate people’s pains and sufferings\".   \n\nIn a tweet on Tuesday, Iranian First Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri pointed to the high participation of people in the referendum to realize their will. “Since then, our people have never forgotten the need for freedom, independence, and the Islamic Republic despite dealing with hard times of war, sanctions, and coronavirus outbreak,” he added.\n\n“On that day we went through the ancient world and defeated political, economic and social traditions, entering the era of the Islamic Republic. Today, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of a new struggle,” wrote Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei in a tweet on Tuesday.\n\n “From the early stages of their fight against the Pahlavi regime, the Iranian nation had chanted the slogan of ‘independence, freedom, and Islamic Republic’ indicating the desired model of the establishment. But it was necessary to achieve this legitimate aim through a legal and official framework” that was realized in the referendum, said the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n“The Islamic Republic Day is the manifestation of the realization of people’s determination and its bond with Islam as the plan for life.”\n\nFour decades have passed since that day and now the Islamic Republic has managed to go through all plots with the help of God and support of its people, setting foot in the route to becoming stronger, it added.\n\n\nNews Code 157135\n\n\nYour Comment\n\nYou are replying to: .\n  • 3 + 7 =", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8431404829025269}
+{"content": "Atlas Shrugged\n\nDescription Part 1: What are the main points that John Galt makes in his speech? That is to say, what are the main tenets of Ayn Rand’s objectivism? This section is for you to show your understanding of what objectivism is, and what Ayn Rand was trying to convey through the John Galt Speech, and through Atlas Shrugged as a whole. Its highly recommended reading the speech in its entirety as well as doing some outside research on what Ayn Rand taught as objectivism. You should use outside sources to help describe your understanding of objectivism in this section. You might also use other events in the book to help support your discussion of what Ayn Rand was trying to say. Part 2: Argue AGAINST Ayn Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, capitalism, and free markets. The purpose of this section is to isolate the most lucid, and thus the most difficult, points to argue against in defending Ayn Rand’s theories. We have discussed in class how Ayn Rand paints her characters in a very black and white way, where good and bad are on polar opposite sides of a spectrum. In life, we will less commonly encounter such polarized personalities or viewpoints. Rather, people who disagree with Rand typically have persuasive or understandable arguments against objectivism or capitalism. These are the perspectives or positions that you should explore in your arguments against objectivism. In other words, present arguments that are logical and realistic rather than at an extreme spectrum. Other requirements (will be graded upon): 1. You must incorporate citations from Atlas Shrugged 2. You must also have at least six other citations than Atlas Shrugged (these can be from news articles, books, online sources, etc.) 3. You must reference all citations in APA format (including in text citations and references). 4. Your paper should be well written (spelling and grammar are graded), well organized, and clear. Details: – 12 point Times New Roman font, double spaced, 1 inch margins – Hand in via Webcourses, a hard copy is not necessary. – No late submissions will be accepted. Due date: November 28th at midnight Page length: Minimum 6 pages, maximum 8 pages (title page and references not included)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5225358605384827}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Should You Do If You Ate Too Much Sugar?\n\nHow do you neutralize sugar in your body?\n\nEat some protein and fiber Stabilize your blood sugar by eating some slow-digesting protein and fiber.\n\nIf you don’t, your blood sugar will crash and you’ll potentially feel hungry and want to eat again.\n\n\nWhat happens if you stop eating sugar for 14 days?\n\n\nIs it OK to have a little sugar everyday?\n\nBut they all agree that there’s room for some sugar in a healthy diet. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines say that an adult eating 2,000 calories per day should have less than 12.5 teaspoons, or 50 grams, of added sugar daily. (That’s roughly the amount in a 16-ounce cola.)\n\nWhat are the signs of too much sugar in the body?\n\n7 signs you’re eating too much sugarPremature ageing. Excessive sugar consumption can cause long-term damage to skin proteins, collagen and elastin, leading to premature wrinkles and ageing. … Constant cravings. … Low energy. … Unexplained bloating. … Weakened immune system. … Insomnia. … Weight gain.Mar 18, 2021\n\nWhat time of day is blood sugar highest?\n\nIf you’re experiencing the dawn phenomenon, which raises your blood sugar between approximately 3 and 8 a.m., your doctor may recommend that you avoid increasing your long-acting insulin.\n\n\n\nWhat are the symptoms of too much sugar?\n\n\nCan you eat fruit on a sugar detox?\n\n\nWhat happens when you quit sugar for 30 days?\n\nIf you cut out added sugar for 30 days only to return to a high sugar diet, the health benefits of added sugar reduction will be canceled out.\n\nHow much sugar is OK in a day?\n\n\nCan you flush out sugar by drinking water?\n\n\nWhat happens if you eat too much sugar in one day?\n\n\nWhat does a sugar crash feel like?\n\nSugar crashes generally cause us to be incredibly distracted throughout the day, which leads to a lack of productivity and concentration. Confusion, abnormal behavior, the inability to complete routine tasks and blurred vision are also common symptoms, especially for those who have diabetes.\n\nHow can I flush sugar out of my system fast?\n\n\nWhat should I eat when I crave sugar?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9349378347396851}
+{"content": "Green is CoolAnimalsEverything You Need To Know About the Clouded Leopard what it is and Where It Comes From\n\nEverything You Need To Know About the Clouded Leopard what it is and Where It Comes From\n\nJun.07.2021 25 view review\nclouded leopard\n\nOur big and beautiful planet is home to an extremely large amount of different animal species, ranging from some of the biggest mammals to the smallest of living microorganisms, the world really has seen it all. But while we may think we have witnessed the earth roaming creatures from beginning to end, one that we may have missed is the all enticing clouded leopard. This wild cat roams through specific regions within the earth terrain and with the many cloud leopard pictures being surface through the media everyone is eager to know a little more about the Himalayan leopard that now faces vulnerability as it is threatened by extinction due to man-made causes and behaviors . In this article ill be explaining to you exactly what the snow leopard is, where you can find it in its natural habitat, and many of its interesting adaptations and characteristics that make it so special.\n\nWhat Is a Clouded Leopard?\n\nBefore we can get into some more intricate clouded leopard facts let me give you a better picture by explaining exactly what they are. Clouded leopards are a beautiful species of the Asian cat family that is most commonly known for their mysterious behaviors and the fact that they are almost never seen in the wild. Not much information is known about the cat family and the exact size of their species population but what we do know is that they are now classified as a vulnerable species meaning they are under threat and could become extinct if not protected.\n\nThe Clouded Leopard Size and Characteristics\n\nclouded leopard pictures\n\nThe clouded leopard is not classed as a small cat nor as a large cat and simply remains in the middle of the two extremes. They roughly way around 12-23 kilograms depending on their gender and age and are most definitely carnivores and advent hunters. For means of a better context, the clouded leopard size compared to human is roughly the size of your average 9-year-old, weighing in at anywhere between 12-30 kilograms. Clouded leopards are found in many color varieties including brown, grey, yellow and black, and have an average litter of about three. They are a powerful mammal that is known for their quick and efficient hunting skills and there near 2 inches long canines.\n\nHow Many Clouded Leopards Are Left?\n\nThe clouded leopard population has been slowly declining for years in which it is now estimated that there is only about 10,000 or fewer left in the wild making them a vulnerable species and a clouded leopard extinct could be soon approaching if we do not act to save the remainder of their population almost immediately. The biggest threat that the species is actually facing is from our behaviors as humans in which we both hunt and destroy their habitat.\n\nWhere Does the Clouded Leopard Live?\n\nclouded leopard facts\n\nThe clouded leopard habitats are found in Asia, south-east Asia to be exact, including countries such as India, Southern China, Burma, Nepal, and Sumatra. They tend to live amongst the trees in densely forested areas in both the subtropical and tropical jungles. However, there have also been a few cases of reported clouded leopard spotting in mangrove areas and grasslands in both Nepal and Borneo. The clouded leopard hides high in the trees during the day and secretively and efficiently hunts throughout the night using darkness as one of its weapons. They are extremely agile and can climb at one of the fastest speeds of all the cat species. The clouded leopard is also a solitary animal and hunts alone, marking its territory in trees in the wild.\n\nWhat Does the Clouded Leopard Eat?\n\nSo with all its great hunting skills and abilities, what do clouded leopard eat? The clouded leopard only hunts and eats other animals including rodents, squirrels, gibbons, monkeys, birds, deer, cattle, livestock chickens, and even goats and wild boars. A clouded leopard baby is born blind and only opens its eyes after 10 days after birth. From then they are fully active and begin learning to hunt at just 5 weeks old. After nine months once fully weaned they are ready to go out into the wild and hunt on their own with all the necessary skills already developed and understood. The clouded leopard sounds are almost identical to that of a baby kitten as they purr but also pose some other interesting sound effects including a low moan or roar, a growl, a hiss, and soft meows as part of their way of communicating with other members of their species and population.\n\nClouded Leopard Facts\n\nclouded leopard size\n\nSome other interesting facts about the clouded leopard include :\n\n  • Human-leopard conflict, poaching, and wildlife change as well as habitat loss as destruction are the greatest threats towards the species and its risk of extinction.\n  • Clouded leopards pets are beginning to become more frequent\n  • Clouded leopards skin is covered in fur\n  • Tigers, leopards, and humans are all predators of the clouded leopard\n  • The clouded leopard can live anywhere from 11 to 17 years\n\nAs you can see the entire population of the clouded leopard species is relatively interesting and mostly unknown to your average human being. They are a very special and rare cat species that play an important part within the natural cycle of nature’s ecosystems and are unfortunately facing many threats as a result of human behavior and its impact. To help with this try donating to a big organization such as WWF, sign petitions, and recycle or use as many sustainable materials as possible. As just like it’s our fault that they are in this position it is just as much our responsibility to get them out.\n\nDo you like this article?\nno 0\n\nLeave comment\n\nRequired minimum 3 characters\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7853992581367493}
+{"content": "The torch has become for me an important metaphor of missionary work and church planting. In different ways the torch displays what it signifies to be a follower and disciples of Jesus. \n\nThe fire is kindled with oil of the Holy Spirit\n\nFirst, a torch is not useful if it has no oil or if the flame is not burning. This symbolizes the need of repentance and faith in Christ. When the fire is kindled you warm yourself, get to know yourself and  you get to know Christ in a personal relationship. Moreover, you continually need to refill your torch with oil, which symbolizes the fullness of the Holy Spirit in your live.\n\nThe wick must always be trimmed\n\nSecondly, the torch smokes a lot if the wick is not well-trimmed. In my opinion, this signifies recognizing wrong patterns or obstacles to the work of God in your personal life. There is a need for confession and distancing yourself from wrong paths. In that way the wick might become a channel for the oil. This process of trimming your wick, requires to live daily in the Presence of God.\n\nYou carry the torch together\n\nNext, what I really like about the metaphor of the torch is that followers of Christ are not meant to carry the torch alone. You do this together with many other Christ’ followers. The torches spread much more light if you walk together. Besides that, you might keep an eye on each other’s flame, which is a symbol of taking care of each other. “Hey, your torch smokes a lot!” or “Is your flame not about to go out?”. You might take responsibility for each other: “Do you still have enough oil?” \n\nThe torch is meant to burn in the dark\n\nFinally, the most important reason why the torch is such a beautiful symbol, is that a torch only really makes sense when it is dark. Christians are not meant to stay at the places where the light already brightly shines. Is it not Gods desire that we go to the darkest places? Especially these places where it is difficult to stay and where you maybe pay a price because of living a Christlike life? If you do not take the burning torch to dark places, where the light of Christ is not yet present, what is the point of having your torch burning? What is it a privilege to kindle the flame in another torch, a torch of someone who was used to live in the dark! In that way you might share what you received yourself by grace and pass it on with gratitude to others. God is worthy that many more torches are kindled in Europe!\n\nRead here more about the practical implications of the metaphor of the torch for discipleship.\n\nRecommended Posts", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5479438304901123}
+{"content": "Thursday, January 26, 2006\n\nMachine & Infant Learning\n\nMy 7 month old daughter started talking just recently.\n\nOkay, so we can't understand what she's saying, but she's got the cutest way of saying it! It sounds a bit like \"gnab gnab blah\", repeated over and over again. She's clearly processing our speech and working it into her neural pathways, trying to reproduce it.\n\nThe whole process of infant learning has been wonderfully fascinating to watch. They come into life with very little other than an amazing capacity to learn and integrate what they observe from their environment, and work their way upward from there. There's a field of AI that maintains that's the way we should teach computers to think, too, by building in the ability to learn, then putting them into an environment and teaching them how to solve a series of problems.\n\nThe main problem with that is our limited understanding of how infant learning actually takes place. The traditional view of an infant is that they're relatively stupid, and learn slowly. Having observed my daughter as she's gone from infant to baby stage, I can say with confidence that infants are incredibly smart and able to learn quickly.\n\nThere's been some research going on in this area. There's an article on ScienCentral News about research done in how quickly infants can learn, while others have done research showing that infants have complex emotional responses from the start (sorry, I've lost my link to that one).\n\nWhat all this means for machine learning is that we can only scratch the surface of what's possible, since we don't understand the complexities of infant learning yet. Theoretically, if we understood infant learning completely, we could then model that in a computer to create a computer that could learn how to interact with its environment.\n\nAnyone want to raise a baby computer?\n\nSaturday, January 14, 2006\n\nEvolution of Intelligence\n\nI'd read a science fiction story lately that talked about a possible cause for intelligence arising in early humans. The idea is that for thousands of years, humans went around with basically the same brain structure, but not really advancing in intelligence, until suddenly (at least in evolutionary terms), intelligence started advancing. The story talked about one possible cause that, like most science stories, isn't too likely, but undoubtedly there was some mechanism for intelligence to start advancing.\n\nI've also been reading about brain development in infants, since we have a 7 month old daughter. It's been suggested that listening to classical music will help an infant's brain development, by stimulating neural connections and pathways that otherwise wouldn't form. The same could be said for any complex stimulus, such as complex patterns of colors, complex shapes, etc.\n\nIt struck me that the evolution of intelligence could have been caused by a sort of cultural bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is when you start out with a relatively simple technique that allows more complex techniques to be developed. So what if, way back in the dawn of prehistory, someone developed a slightly more complex form of music, or art, or mechanics, something just a cut above the natural tools they'd used before then.\n\nCould that have stimulated neural development in their children, such that those children were then able to create something a bit more complex than their parents, and so on down the generations until we have the level of intelligence that we have today? It certainly seems plausible enough.\n\nIf that's true, then I have to wonder what the next advancement will be that will stimulate further neural complexity in our children. And will the children be exposed to it early enough to make a difference?\n\nSuch are the thoughts you have when you commute an hour to work.\n\nWednesday, January 11, 2006\n\nGeek Humor\n\nStarting a new semester is always a bit like jumping off a cliff, hoping to sew together a parachute before you hit bottom. Each week you're writing lecture notes for the next week (or for the next day!), and trying to make sure that what you're asking students to do is actually possible.\n\nNow and then, though, you get time to do some aimless wandering on the web, and I ran across this geeky holiday humor piece that computer programmers will enjoy.\n\nThursday, January 05, 2006\n\nStarting a New Year\n\nMy break between semesters is just about over, and a new year is starting.\n\nThe Christmas break is always a bit hard for me. I teach at two schools. At one school, spring classes start the first week of January, at the other they start the second week of January. So I basically have two weeks of Christmas break before I start back to the first school.\n\nInto that two weeks I try to cram as much enjoyment of my family as possible. Amelia is just about 7 months old now, and this was her first Christmas. She loved tasting all her packages and, with a little help, tearing the paper off of them. Once she had the paper off, she tasted the presents inside the package. ;-)\n\nIn those two weeks, I also have to prepare for the coming semester. For classes I've taught before, that means updating the syllabus with new dates, fixing any problems in the lecture notes I found the previous semester, and generally improving the class as much as I can. For classes I haven't taught before, that means coming up with a syllabus from scratch, and at least the first two weeks' worth of lecture notes to start.\n\nThis year I decided to take the two weeks with no classes at all to just relax and enjoy family. Then, when my first school started back, I also started preparing for the second school. Which means that this week I've been running around like crazy trying to get everything ready.\n\nLuckily, the class I'm teaching for the first school is an entirely online class. This means I don't have to lecture, and have only online office hours that I have to do at a certain time each week. Otherwise, I can fit in responding to questions however works best for me.\n\nUnluckily, I'd rather spend time with my daughter than doing any of this, so it's been a challenge for me to make time for the class preparations with Amelia around. Especially since I know that next week I start back to full-time face-to-face classes, with about a little over an hour's commute one way to get there.\n\nI can't complain too much, though, since I have both a beautiful daughter and a job I love. Now, if only there were more days in the week!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5627801418304443}
+{"content": "Six bins, a church and a Air New Zealand 777\n\n18 April 2021\n\nCarbon Comparison Australia - New Zealand travel corridor\n\nWith an air corridor in place, what's is the ideal way of flying between the two countries and with whom?\n\nWith the very recent travel corridor opening between Australia and New Zealand, let’s look at the best way to fly that route and with the smallest carbon footprint. This is precisely what Lite.Flights was built for.\n\nLite.Flights has a real tangible purpose for today: how to take flights with the lowest environmental impact. Here is a clear example of how you can put it to good use.\n\nAuckland to Sydney is operated by three airlines, Jetstar, Qantas and Air New Zealand. They do so with different aircraft types and each has a different carbon footprint. Let's take a look at the ranking for this route:\n\nCarbon Comparison\n\nSYD Sydney Kingsford Smith International Airport\nAKL Auckland International Airport\n  1. AIR NEW ZEALANDAirbus A321 neo~331 kg CO2\n\n  2. JETSTARAirbus A320~586 kg CO2\n\n  3. QANTASAirbus A330-300~723 kg CO2\n\n* [Results compared to an Airbus A321 neo producing ~331kg CO2 per seat.]\n\nThere is a clear winner here with Air New Zealand as your best option but only if they fly the A321 NEO. Signifiant carbon savings can be made just by choosing one airline over another and doing a bit of homework before you book.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9778947234153748}
+{"content": "Why do we write literature reviews?\n\nTheme#1: Defined by the UMUC:\n\nA literature review is a survey of the scholarly work in a particular subject area. Use scholarly, peer reviewed, or refereed journals in your research. How do I know what a scholarly source is? Review this UMUC link for clarification: https://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/scholarlyjournals.cfm\n\nDefined by the UNC-Chapel Hill:\n\nA literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period (within the past 5-7 years is preferred in our course). A literature review can be just a simple summary of (scholarly) sources.\n\nWhy do we write literature reviews?\n\n\n\nThe University of Maryland University College. Retrieved from: https://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/scholarlyjournals.cfm\n\nThe University of North Carolina-Chapel, The Writing Center. Retrieved from: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/literature-reviews/\n\n\nTheme #2:\n\n\nTopic 1: There are four themes in health science learning and teaching which all become more prominent in recent years, for this discussion pick up one of them and discuss:\n\n– Evidence-based practice\n– Research-based learning\n– Learning research methods\n– linking staff research activity and teaching\nEvidence-based practice\n\n\nEvidence-based practice step by step: Critical appraisal of the evidence: part I\n\nEvidence-Based Practice: Step by Step: Igniting a Spirit of Inquiry\n\nThe following link is the useful book for most of the class discussion, please remember to review class material as well.\nField Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox\n\n\nTopic 2: Health Services Research and Research Question\n\nThe goal of health services research is to acquire and disseminate relevant evidence that can advance population health, improve health services and inform health policy in governments and organizational policies in health care for this week pick up one of the following areas and discuss:\n\nWhat are the major steps in the conceptualization stage of health services research?\nWhat is Health Services Research? What are the overall goals of health system research? What are the functions of health research systems?\nDiscuss main components of a research question (this is a general discussion and you can discuss health system research as a general term)\nWhat are the unique characteristics of medical care services compared with other market products or services?\nBackground: Ten steps for conceptualizing and conducting qualitative research studies in a pragmatically curious manner\n\nArrow and the Information Market Failure in Health Care\n\n\nParticipatory Research Methods: A Methodological Approach in Motion", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998562932014465}
+{"content": "• govt set to buy track back in New Zealand\n\n  • Discussion about railroad topics everywhere outside of North America.\nDiscussion about railroad topics everywhere outside of North America.\n\nModerators: Komachi, David Benton\n\n  by David Benton\nAfter years of neglect , toll rail just doesnt have the trained staff and equipment to handle the upgrade work been paid for by the government .\n\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/busi ... ubsection=\n\nI think there will be either a callback of early retirement workers , contracting out of work to private companies , or bringing in of overseas workers / companies to undertake some of the work .\n\n  by David Benton\nabit of background to the take over of tranzrail , and who was interested in buying Tranzrail .\nTo be honest i cant make heads or tails of it , badly written i thought , but it may be of interest .\n\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/busi ... ction=rail\n\n  by george matthews\nI think what is happening everywhere is that political fashions sweep round the world. In Britain we had Thatcherism - hostile to state ownership of anything. In NZ you had \"Rogernomics\" brought in, bizarrely, by the Labour Party.\n\nIn reality it does not seem that modern rail systems flourish in private ownership. They should be regarded as more like the highway system. The taxpayer will always need to support rail services.\n\nIn Britain these payments should be regarded as being made for services rendered. These include: lessening of congestion on parallel roads, less air pollution.\n\nEveryone should study the history of Railtrack which was privatised, collapsed and is now nationalised in reality though not in name. Now that the dogma of \"privatise everything\" is less and less believed in it is becoming possible to see that rail industry cannot be a completely unfettered private business, especially while there are benefits to society that cannot be collected at the booking office or anywhere else. The taxpayer supplies them. Perhaps the motorist pays for his easier ride on the highway by contributing towards rail.\nLast edited by george matthews on Thu Oct 07, 2004 5:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.\n\n  by David Benton\nThe railways corporation sale was probably the worst of the privatization's of the rogernomics period . Yes it was a labour government , but the country had been run by an almost dicatotorial Mouldoon , who tired to fix the economy by regulating almost every single price / service / exchange rate etc .\nThe thing was , the government owned railways corporation had done most of the hard work usually undertaken by privatization . mainly in the form of reducing the work force , from around 20 000 to 5000 . nz rail , as it was sold was in good condition , and a bargain at around $ 300 million .\nthen came the sale , unbeliveably ( but little known to the public including myself ) to a consortuim led by NZ company , Fay Ritchwaite , and backed mainly by American wisconisin central . That Fay ritchwaite was the governments advisor on the sale process was not publicy discussed , and the obvious conflict of interest was not challenged as it should of been . while public mistrust was of the american partners, it was the Nz company that borrowed money to buy thier share , and then sold rails assets to pay back the loans . in the process getting thier shares for virtually nothing . as any student of railway operation would know , asset stripping is probably the worst thing you can do . Most problems since have been caused by lack of capital .\nhopefully , the government investment in the track , and tolls investment in rolling stock should help to fix the degradation since privatization\n\n  by David Benton\nWell , it looks like Fay ruchwaite and others may get thier comeupperance after all . Not for the original purchase ( that would probably cause imbarrassment for the govt ) , but for insider trading , surrounding thier sale of tranz rial shares\n\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay. ... on=general\n\n  by David Benton\nRitchwaite apparently believes in the company he asset stripped ability to prosper .\nIt probably would have had he invested in it , rather than stripping it .\nWith a personal wealth of around $ 600 million , hopefully he will pay , to the benefit of toll rail .the big losers will be small shareholders , who have since sold thier shares . i dont think they recieve any compensation .\n\n\n\n  by David Benton\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_i ... D=10007926\n\nWell , it looks like Mike bloomfield is not in a copperating mood .\nlooks like he has some valid points too , though i can t pretend to understand 1/2 the legal jargon .\nperhaps the commisiion \"hurried\" his case , obviouslythey are more interested in the bigger fish , and probably wanted to have him \"cooperating \" .\n  by David Benton\nthis is no surpise to anyone . just politicking before the election . the government said when it first borught the track back , that it would probably haver to spend more than $ 200 millon on the track .\n\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_i ... D=10330955\n  by David Benton\nsome good info on the difference between road and rail in this article .\nThe government wont want to be seen to be giving Australian owned Toll too much before the general election . so this issue will probably go on the back burner till after then . The minister says as much in his case by case comment , i.e lets slow this down .\n\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_i ... D=10332405\n  by David Benton\nhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_i ... D=10332521 .\n\nThe govermnet has $ 500 million more than budgeted from company tax revenue . It has proposed spending it on road transport .\nthe greens co leader , Jeanette Fitzsimons , proposes spending it on rail and public transport instead , more effective in the face of rising Oil prices .\nMs Fitzsimons has long been a supporter of railways and public transport .\nShe used to take her bike on the Auckland commuter trains to get to university , at a time when the Auckland subbies were less than user friendly .", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6737020015716553}
+{"content": "Property-Driven Fence Insertion Using Reorder Bounded Model Checking\n\n\nModern architectures provide weaker memory consistency guarantees than sequential consistency. These weaker guarantees allow programs to exhibit behaviours where the program statements appear to have executed out of program order. Fortunately, modern architectures provide memory barriers (fences) to enforce the program order between a pair of statements if needed. Due to the intricate semantics of weak memory models, the placement of fences is challenging even for experienced programmers. Too few fences lead to bugs whereas overuse of fences results in performance degradation. This motivates automated placement of fences. Tools that restore sequential consistency in the program may insert more fences than necessary for the program to be correct. Therefore, we propose a property-driven technique that introduces “reorder-bounded exploration” to identify the smallest number of program locations for fence placement. We implemented our technique on top of CBMC; however, in principle, our technique is generic enough to be used with any model checker. Our experimental results show that our technique is faster and solves more instances of relevant benchmarks as compared to earlier approaches.\n\nInternational Symposium on Formal Methods\nSaurabh Joshi\nSaurabh Joshi\nAssistant Professor, CSE\n\nMy research interests include Constraint Programming, Formal Verification and Program Analysis.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8990035653114319}
+{"content": "Presentation is loading. Please wait.\n\nPresentation is loading. Please wait.\n\nThe Periodic Table How the periodic table is put together.\n\nSimilar presentations\n\nPresentation on theme: \"The Periodic Table How the periodic table is put together.\"— Presentation transcript:\n\n1 The Periodic Table How the periodic table is put together\n\n2 Why is the Periodic Table important?\n\n3 Pre-Periodic Table Chemistry …\n…was a mess!!! By 1860 about 60 elements were known and a method was needed for organization.  Imagine going to a grocery store with no organization!! Difficult to find information. Chemistry didn’t make sense.\n\n4 Dmitri Mendeleev: Father of the Table\n\n5 The Current Periodic Table\n\n6 Periods = Rows In the periodic table, elements have something in common if they are in the same row. All of the elements in a period have the same number of energy levels. Every element in the top row (the first period) has one energy level for its electrons. All of the elements in the second row (the second period) have two energy levels for their electrons. It goes down the periodic table like that.\n\n7 Groups…Here’s Where the Periodic Table Gets Useful!!\n\n8 Families on the Periodic Table\n\n9 Hydrogen Hydrogen belongs to a family of its own.\n\n10 Alkali Metals 1st column on the periodic table\nVery reactive metals, always combined with something else in nature (like in salt). Soft enough to cut with a butter knife Malleable, ductile, good conductors of heat and electricity. Low melting points\n\n\nDuctile and malleable, and conduct electricity and heat High melting points Often used to form alloys Includes metals used in jewelry and construction.\n\n13 Boron Family Elements in group 13\n\n14 Carbon Family Elements in group 14\nMost important family, since they are halfway between highly reactive metals and nonmetals Contains elements important to life and computers. Carbon is the basis for an entire branch of chemistry. Silicon and Germanium are important semiconductors.\n\n15 Nitrogen Family Elements in group 15\n\n16 Oxygen Family Elements in group 16\nOxygen is necessary for respiration. Very reactive – forms compounds with almost every element. Many things that stink, contain sulfur (rotten eggs, garlic, skunks) Heavier elements – Se, Te, and Po can show both a combination of metal and nonmetal properties\n\n17 Halogens Elements in group 17\nVery reactive, volatile, diatomic, nonmetals Exist in all three states of matter Always found combined with other element in nature . Used as disinfectants and to strengthen teeth.\n\n18 Noble Gases Elements in group 18\nDo not chemically combine readily with other elements Have a full valence shell. Used in lighted “neon” signs\n\nDownload ppt \"The Periodic Table How the periodic table is put together.\"\n\nSimilar presentations\n\nAds by Google", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998583972454071}
+{"content": "VCA Outline VCA Outline Outline\n\n\nA standard linear voltage-controlled amplifier with CV level control, output level knob, and signal level meter.\n\nConnect the CV input to one of the ENV outputs on Envelopes to shape sounds, or to an LFO to slowly modulate the level.\n\n\n  • LEVEL Knob\n\n    Sets the overall output level of the amplifier, from 0% to 100%. Non-linear, roughly quadratic.\n\n\n  • CV Input\n\n    Linearly modulates the output level. 0V corresponds to 0% and +10V to 100%; negative voltages are treated as 0%, not inverted.\n\n    CV INPUT: 0V to +10V\n\n  • IN Polyphonic Input\n\n    The input signal.\n\n    CV / AUDIO INPUT: -5V to +5V\n\n  • OUT Polyphonic Output\n\n    The output signal, obtained by multiplying the input signal by the gain amount derived from the LEVEL knob and the CV input. Outputs the same number of polyphonic channels as IN.\n\n    CV / AUDIO OUTPUT: -5V to +5V\n\nSignal Flow Diagram\n\nVCA Diagram VCA Diagram", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9978144764900208}
+{"content": "Your question: Who has been on the throne the longest?\n\nNo. 1\nName Sobhuza II\nState Swaziland (British protectorate until 1968)\nReign From 10 December 1899\nTo 21 August 1982\n\nWho is the longest serving monarch in the world?\n\nThe longest-reigning living monarch is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (UK, b. 21 April 1926), who succeeded to the throne on 6 February 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI. As of 11 December 2020, Queen Elizabeth II had reigned without interruption for 68 years 309 days.\n\nWho has ruled England the longest?\n\n\nIs Queen Elizabeth II the longest serving monarch?\n\nThe Queen is an illustrious figure, one who has seen quite the stretch of history go by during her time on the throne. She officially became the longest-reigning British monarch on 9 September 2015, having surpassed the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.\n\nWhy is Prince Philip not king?\n\nPrince Philip does not have the title of ‘King’ simply because the law of succession in Britain is based on gender and not bloodline. The parliamentary law means that when someone marries a King or Queen, they become known as a ‘consort’.\n\nREAD  What is the most expensive pet to own?\n\nWho is the oldest king in the world?\n\nThe oldest monarch currently reigning is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (UK, b. 21 April 1926), who celebrated her 94th birthday on 21 April 2020.\n\nWhy is the husband of the Queen not King?\n\nThe technical phrase is queen consort, where consort basically means that you gained your title through marriage. Why, then, did Prince Philip not become King Philip (or king consort) after his wife’s coronation? … In general, a wife assumes the female form of her husband’s title.\n\nHow rich is the Queen of England?\n\nThe paper values her current net worth as 350 million pounds, or roughly $486 million USD. In 2019, Forbes had assessed the Queen’s net worth as equal to least $500 million USD.\n\nWho was the youngest queen?\n\nYoungest. The youngest British monarch at the start of her reign was Mary, Queen of Scots, who became queen aged 6 days in 1542. The youngest king was Henry VI, who was 8 months and 26 days old at the time of his accession.\n\nWill Prince Charles become king?\n\nCharles is heir to the throne in the Royal family line of succession, which is headed by Her Majesty the Queen as UK monarch, and it is expected to see a change in the coming months after she was recently reported to be potentially stepping down from the role she has held since 1952.\n\nWho was the 1st king of England?\n\nThe table provides a chronological list of the sovereigns of Britain. Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself “King of Great Britain” and was so proclaimed.\n\nREAD  Question: What Is The Number 1 Guard Dog?\n\nWill Camilla be Queen?\n\nClarence House has previously confirmed that Camilla will not take on the title of Queen Consort and instead will be known as Princess Consort. This change was agreed at the time Charles and Camilla married in 2005 due to the controversial nature of their relationship following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nWill Kate be Queen when William is King?\n\n\nWill Charles or William be king?\n\n\nLike this post? Please share to your friends:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9850876927375793}
+{"content": "Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the sole voice of reason from the Trump administration during the current crisis. He has consistently been forced to correct statements made by Trump, and has contracted him in the media multiple times. This doesn’t bode well for Fauci’s future, and Trump refused to allow him to answer a question at a press briefing this weekend that would have made Trump look foolish. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8945510387420654}
+{"content": "Your state taxes - how will legislators allocate and spend it?\n\nThe proposals are in and the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) is making final decisions. Therefore, during this 2-week window, bills are on pause. Hearings and floor votes resume on Tues, June 8th. Pay attention; things will move quickly. The last day of session this year is June 30th. \n\nSummarized below are the new bills we're watching, and bills that have moved in the legislative process. (Click on the bill title to read it directly.) If you missed previous updates, click here.\n\n\nHCR 24 is a resolution, not a bill. (Remember, a resolution presents a declaration of support to the General Assembly for agreement. Resolutions start with \"WHEREAS\" clauses that state the premise of what is being proposed. Pay special attention to the premise of any resolution or bill. Always. The premise should be rooted in facts, not political rhetoric.)\n\nHCR 24 begins by commending SB 56 which would evenly distribute funding among public schools regardless of the amount of funding they receive from their districts. This mirrors similar funding policies in other states.\n\nThe language that needs be monitored and fully defined are phrases like \"need for racial justice in schools\" and \"the movement towards racial justice.\" \n\nRedefinition of terms\n\nYou should read this bill for yourself. Most people are completely unaware of the law that currently exists.  \n\nThis bill changes the definition of a hate crime (line 2) to now include \"groups\" (line 2b).\n\nIt also now defines a hate crime as someone who commits a crime that is motivated by a \"belief or perception\" about a protected class. \n\nWhy is motivation based on perceptions and biases a consideration when a crime is committed? Could it be that the goal is to judge perceived biases as well as the crime committed? This is the same motivation behind the push to criminalize \"hate speech.\"\n\nDo you see how confusing this can get? It makes right and wrong very subjective. We urge legislators to proceed with extreme caution here and ask good questions for clarity. \n\nParental Rights\n\nThis bill lists the factors for courts to consider when a child is in need of placement for 60 days or more, other than with the custodial parent(s). \n\nThe last point includes as part of the list \"any other factor affecting the best interest of the child.\" \n\nCaution: This is the phrase that cost parents in other states the custody of their children when the state decided that it was in the \"best interest\" of the child to allow that child to \"transition\" gender against parental wishes.\nIt is a great idea to secure a parent's right to view the inspection records of their child's potential care facility. \n\nYes! And if a legislator can support this bill, then they will support securing this same level of transparency for public school parents too?\n\nIf these legislators legitimately care about the \"right to know,\" then they would require an abortion doctor to offer the option to a woman to see the ultrasound of her unborn baby before consenting to an abortion. \n\nI hope you agree. I covered this hypocrisy in Update #9.\nLine 279 of this bill adds children, defined as individuals under 18 years old, to the list of people eligible to request termination of their own parent's custody rights.\n\nThis could be problematic in a culture where children are being conditioned to distrust their parents. For example, parents who oppose the idea of their elementary-age children \"transitioning\" their gender could risk losing custody at their child's own wishes.\n\nThis bill makes it possible for children to leave their families simply because they want the freedom to do as they please, to their own detriment.\n\nLimited Government\n\nWe all watched as our civil liberties were limited by our Governor citing \"emergency powers\" -- including the rights secured in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). \n\nThe FOIA allows citizens to \"observe the performance of public officials and to monitor the decisions that are made by such officials in formulating and executing public policy.\" This includes the right to access all committee hearings and floor sessions, and though not stated explicitly, could also mean being allowed inside the property itself at Leg Hall. \n\nHB 203 places a higher burden of proof on the Governor to justify a suspension of this right during emergencies.\n\nElection Integrity\n\nThese four bills directly address the voter identification process, and they have each been recently assigned to a committee.\n\nProof of identification is required to go to an emergency room, begin a new job, start school, or buy alcohol. The claim that asking for identification when voting is racist, is 👏 racist 👏 itself👏. And you can tell anyone making this claim that I said that 😉. Just like everyone else, minor communities are required to provide identification in other aspects of society. It should be no different in voting. \n\nHB 187 will require proof of identity to vote. HB 189 specifies the forms of identification required to request an absentee ballot, and requires that a copy of the ID be submitted with the actual absentee ballot. \n\nUnder HB 188, people convicted of fraudulent voting will be guilty of a felony, fined up to $2,000 and prevented from voting for the next five years. \n\nFinally, HCR 23 would require a review of the current process of verifying absentee ballot signatures.\n\nThese measures will help mitigate the damage of previous expansions on voting practices, such as automatic voter registration.\nThe current deadline to vote is four Saturdays before Election Day. This bill would allow individuals to register on Election Day ... directly in their polling place. \n\nIf anyone has experienced the long lines during an election cycle, I don't have to tell you why this could be problematic. \n\nLet's just agree that this will eliminate the ability to spot invalid registrations prior to when the vote is submitted. \nState and county elected officials are required to have primary residence in the district they represent or seek to represent. This bill will require proof of residence. It will apply to state and county candidates and incumbent elected officials. \n\nLaw Enforcement\n\nGrowing up, I learned that real-life heroes wore uniforms, not capes. Those heroes included soldiers, firefighters, and police officers. I count my own father among these heroes, having served 20+ years as a Sergeant First Class in the Army and another 15 years on the police force.\n\nToday, children are absorbing the media's narrative that our men and women in blue are \"the bad guys.\" Honor and respect towards police are often equated with white supremacy 🤔. Media portrays law enforcement as a threat instead of a source of protection.\n\nWhile the following proposed police reforms may be warranted, it is important to understand the narrative and potential motivation behind these bills.\n\nSB 147 adds what is called the \"reasonableness standard\" to the use of deadly force by an officer. Even this civil rights activist experienced that the margin for what is and is not reasonable leaves no room for error. Determining the reasonableness of an action is more difficult than it would seem. \n\nIf deadly force is used, SB 148 requires that the races of the officer and individual be listed in the records. If it isn't already being recorded, then how do we know the statistics of the number of unarmed whites versus blacks killed by police officers?\n\nLastly, if an officer is disciplined for any reason, SB 149  would require that all of their disciplinary records be made public.\n\nHere's the question -- is this really about transparency or is it about making a point?\n\n2nd Amendment Rights\n\nIN PROCESS:  SS 1 for SB 3 and SB 6 - HA 1 w/ SA 1\nSince Legislative Update #7, both bills have been moved to the Appropriations Committee because of their fiscal mandates (see here and here).\n\nSB 6 w/ SA 1 may be amended to allow current Delaware manufacturers of large magazines (17+ rounds of ammo) to sell to out-of-state buyers. It will protect those individuals' livelihoods in light of the original bill's prohibition on large magazines in our state.\n\nWhat's Next ...\n\nAs we prepare for Memorial Day this Monday, I am reminded that though my father came home, so many brave soldiers do not. \n\nTo every soldier still in service, our veterans, and all families left behind, may Christ be with you and keep you. \nWith Honor and Gratitude, \nNandi Randolph\nPolicy Analyst\nDelaware Family Policy Council\nPS. CALL TO ACTION! June 10th is Pro-Life Unity day. Stand with us on June 10th, 1-2pm in your life green rally shirt.\n\nPlease register and we'll send you rally details. Bring your own lime green shirt, or purchase the official rally shirt HERE.\nP.S.S.  (REMINDER: The highlighted bills on the 'watch list' above are specific to DFPC's focus, expertise, and interests. To view the actual bill language or see the sponsors, the bill title is linked for your convenience. Green means we support the bill; red means we oppose it. IMPORTANT: if you click on a bill that you support, take a minute to thank the legislators who are sponsoring it.)\n\nIf you missed any, HERE is the link to the previous Legislative Updates. \n\nTo see which hearings are coming up and when, check the Legislative Calendar or the Senate and House agendas.\n\nThe left side of the homepage also lists the committee hearings in chronological order. When you select the name of a committee from this list, you will be taken to the \"meeting link\" to register and view that committee's hearing. When prompted, enter your name, email, and address to receive an email with the Zoom link. \n\nTo learn more about Delaware Family Policy Council and to be added to our email list, go to\nCopyright © 2021 Delaware Family Policy Council, All rights reserved.\n\nWant to change how you receive these emails?\nYou can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9156308174133301}
+{"content": "IT Manager II-Business Relationship/Senior Health Services\n\n\nDetroit, MI\n\nBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan\n\n\nkeywords: oversee,communication,departmental summary / preferences,organization,management,quality assurance,performance,implementation,planning,teamwork,communication,skills,experience,technical,degree,deliver,knowledge\n\n\nCompetitive Total Compensation Package\n\nOverview: Oversee the planning, organizing, and execution of a department and is accountable for IT functional/ departmental decisions, management, and results. Operate within broad objectives to ensure optimum utilization of capital, staffing, and equipment. Oversee the development of corporate standards, technology architecture, technology evaluation, and transfer.<br /><br /> <p><strong><u>Departmental Summary/Preferences:</u></strong></p> <ul> <li>Strategic interface to Senior Health Services in support of MA PPO, MA HMO, and MedSupp; providing highly-valued strategic business consulting support across a wide spectrum of defined business capabilities including the development of the business-IT strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management (including technology) and relationship management based on a strong foundational understanding of the business</li> <li>Serve as the key point of contact for business stakeholders and the relationship linkage between the business and IT, being an advocate for the business stakeholders across IT organizational and business-entity boundaries while supporting a single, holistic IT perspective/understanding</li> <li>Facilitate discussions in understanding what is possible to support defined business capabilities both from within or outside the enterprise</li> <li>Communicate clearly, negotiate, listen, mitigate conflict, build alliances and achieve desired results using strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills. Strong command of the English language, both written and verbal</li> </ul>\nResponsibilities: <ul> <li> <div>Manage the delivery of multiple services required to support the IT strategy.&nbsp; Contribute to the development of an IT strategy.&nbsp; Collaborate with department directors across the organization and key stakeholders for the coordination and alignment of objectives and functions across multiple functional areas.</div> </li> <li> <div>Work with business unit managers and form alliances on projects, operational decisions, scheduling requirements/ conflicts and vendor contract clarification.&nbsp; Plan, implement, direct, and monitor IT technology solutions to ensure successful fulfillment of end-user requirements, proper and accurate testing and sound implementation.&nbsp; Deliver solutions consistent within current context of overall architecture.&nbsp; Maintain and control budget, schedule and resources.</div> </li> <li> <div>P articipate in an advisory board/governance committee (e.g., change management, architecture, data quality) to manage IT services demand.&nbsp; Provide input into demand management process and executes on plan.&nbsp; Manage the development of enterprise technology standards, governance processes, and performance metrics to ensure IT delivers value to the enterprise.&nbsp; Ensure adherence to policies, procedures, and standards.</div> </li> <li> <div>Plan, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of business processes and procedures to enhance speed, quality, efficiency, and output. Measure service performance.&nbsp; Identify opportunities for process improvements and then implement.&nbsp; Manage designated processes and is accountable for ensuring that established processes are followed.&nbsp; Support the user community in system and process matters/issues.&nbsp; Ensure efficient customer service to internal clients and external vendors.</div> </li> <li> <div>Develop, track, and control the IT annual operating budgets.&nbsp; Ensure department works within budget guidelines; track and take appropriate steps to stay within budget.</div> </li> <li> <div>Discuss work progress and obstacles. Establish measurable individual and team objectives that are aligned with business and organizational goals.&nbsp;&nbsp; Partner with direct reports to establish a career development plan that is aligned to achievement of performance and career goals. Implement organizational talent management processes, policies and procedures (e.g., staffing, EEO, diversity, performance management, career development, reward and recognition, and retention.)&nbsp;</div> </li> <li> <div>I dentify the roles, skills and knowledge required to achieve organization goals.&nbsp;&nbsp; Forecast staffing requirements (e.g., headcount, skills).&nbsp; Ensure staff has the resources and skills needed to support all work initiatives.&nbsp;&nbsp; Participate in IT workforce deployment activities.</div> </li> <li> <div>Act as a change agent to implement and manage best practices within area of responsibility.&nbsp; Execute change through frequent, communication to staff and clients about the change and the impact of the change (individual and business).&nbsp;&nbsp; Generate appropriate communication, process and educational plans for mitigating the disruption of change.</div> </li> <li> <div>Approve vendor contracts within budget authority.&nbsp; Provide advice to the vendor relationship decision-making and contract development processes.</div> </li> <li> <div>Anticipate and analyze trends in technology while assessing the emerging technologies impacts.</div> </li> <li> <div>Other duties as assigned.</div> </li> </ul>\nRequirements: <p><strong>EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE</strong></p> <ul> <li> <div>Bachelor's degree in related field required.</div> </li> <li> <div>Seven (7) years of relevant IT and business/industry work experience with one (1) year of leadership experience in managing cross-functional teams or projects required.</div> </li> <li> <div>Experience in supervising and building relationships with people at all levels required.</div> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES</strong></p> <ul> <li> <div>Decision making, critical and strategic thinking skills ability to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.</div> </li> <li> <div>Must possess a combination of business, technical and leadership skills and competencies understanding of client's business needs, processes and functions</div> </li> <li> <div>Solid knowledge of IT infrastructure, architecture, application development and support, networks, and computer operations</div> </li> <li> <div>Written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence others.</div> </li> <li> <div>Demonstrated ability to launch and deliver one or more IT projects on time and within budget.</div> </li> <li> <div>Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a collaborative manner.</div> </li> <li> <div>Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job.</div> </li> </ul> <div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -164px; top: 26px;\">&nbsp;</div>", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9991308450698853}
+{"content": "Summary: Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed\nSummary: Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed\n\nSummary: Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed\n\nKindle | Hardcover | Audiobook\n\nWhat Is Black Box Thinking?\n\nBlack Box Thinking is the willingness and tenacity to investigate the lessons that often exist when we fail, but which we rarely exploit. It’s about creating systems and cultures that enable organizations to learn from errors, rather than being threatened by them.\n\nIn aviation, the black box records the flight so that in event of a disaster, we can thoroughly examine what went wrong. They then implement changes and take precautionary action against future accidents. This is why accidents in the air have dramatically gone down over the last decades.\n\nEverything we know in the aviation, every rule in the rule book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died. We’ve purchased lessons literally bought with blood. We have to preserve institutional knowledge and pass on to generations. We cannot have a moral failure to forget these lessons after we learn them.\n\n\nAviation Vs. Healthcare\n\nUnlike aviation, healthcare industry today keeps making mistakes consistently with tragic consequences. Doctors usually spawn cover ups with generic messages like “Something happened…”.  They have unconsciously enforced a culture where mistakes are seen as weaknesses that cannot be tolerated.\n\nReason is not usually laziness or unwillingness. The reason is more often the necessary knowledge is not being translated into a simple usable systematic form.\n\nIf the only thing people did in aviation was to issue page-long bulletins, it’d be like subjecting pilots to study almost 7,000 medical journal articles per year, which is why aviation practitioners distill the information into its practical essence.\n\nYou might be thinking when doctors make a mistake, it results in someone else’s death. When pilots make a mistake, it results in his own death. That is why pilots are better motivated than doctors to reduce errors. But this analysis misses the crucial point. Remember pilots died in large numbers in the early days of aviation. This was not because they lacked the incentive to live, but because the system had so many flaws. Failure is inevitable in the complex world. This is precisely why learning from mistakes is so crucial.\n\nDoctors aren’t supposed to make (and admit) mistakes they make. This leads the system to ignore and deny rather than investigate and learn. But the system alone isn’t to blame. Society as a whole has a deeply contradictory attitude to failure. We’re quick to blame others for their mistakes than we’re so keen to conceal our own. The result is simple; it obliterates openness and spawns cover-ups. It destroys vital information we need in order to learn.\n\n\nA Progressive Attitude to Failure\n\nMistakes stimulate growth BUT only when we see them and use the feedback to improve.\n\nA golfer gradually improves their game with trial-and-error practice. Imagine they practiced in the dark. They could practice for years, or a lifetime and they’d never know where the ball landed. Closed loop is where failure doesn’t lead to progress because information on errors is misinterpreted or ignored altogether. Open loop leads to progress because feedback is shared generously and rigorously acted upon.\n\nTraditionally we punish errors. Punitive actions lead to blaming and covering up valuable information that could be used to learn and generate solutions that would prevent more mistakes. As a result, we end up practicing golf in the dark.\n\nFixed mindsets ignore mistakes because they feel threatened – mistakes are a sign they’re inferior and always will be. Growth mindset on the other hand are interested in their mistakes because they picture errors differently. They believe they can develop their abilities through hard work.\n\n\n\nCognitive Dissonance\n\nIronically, the more famous the experts the less accurate their predictions tended to be. Why is this? Cognitive dissonance is the answer. It’s those who are strongly associated with their predictions whose likelihood of egos are bound up with their expertise. They’re most likely to re-frame their mistakes and least likely to learn from them. The idea here is the learning advantage of adapting to mistake is outweighed by the reputational disadvantage of admitting to it.\n\nThe problem again is not always the external incentive structure. It’s the internal one. It’s the sheer inability of us to admit our mistakes even when we’re incentivized to do so.\n\nAfter all, you expect the higher you go up in the company the less you’ll see the effects of cognitive dissonance. Aren’t the people who get to the top of the company supposed to be rational, forensic and clearly sighted? Isn’t that supposed to be their defining characteristics? In fact, the opposite is the case.\n\nWhy Do Doctors Rarely Admit Mistakes?\n\nCognitive dissonance has something to do with it. Doctors have spent years to reach high standards of performance. Their self-esteem is bound up with their clinical competence. They came into medicine to reduce suffering, not to increase it. But now they confront with having killed the healthy people. Just think how they desperate they’d have been to re-frame the fatality.\n\nAdmitting to error becomes so threatening that in some cases, surgeons would rather risk killing a patient than admit they might be wrong. As a result, doctors end up hiding their mistakes from patients, other doctors and even from themselves.\n\nDoctors trusted in the power of bloodletting\n\nWhen a patient died, they believed because he was so ill that no even bloodletting could save him. But when they lived, that confirmed bloodletting saved him. Think of how many success stories circulated in the medieval world. What the patients and doctors didn’t see is what happens if the procedure wasn’t performed?\n\nSure we can speculate what would happen and we can make decent guesses. But we don’t really know. But let’s say patients are randomly divided into two groups. Providing the sample size is big enough, the two groups  are likely to be similar. The only difference between the two groups is one gets the treatment the other doesn’t. Those don’t receive the treatment are called control group.\n\nThis is known as randomized control trial (RTC). Many of the patients that received bloodletting recovered. It looks successful. But many more in the control group  recovered. The reason is simple the body has its own powers of recuperation. By comparing  two groups, it’s possible to say that bloodletting on average kills them.\n\nSame way, take the example of website redesign. The problem is whether if the change in design has increased sales or it was increased by something else. Suppose you randomly direct users to the new or the old design, you can then measure if they buy more with the old or the new design. This will filer out all the other variables such as interest rates, weather, competition.\n\n\nReady, Fire and Aim\n\nYou construct a perfect rifle, you create a model of how the bullet will be affected by wind and gravity, you do your best to get the strategy just right. Then you calibrate the rifle, pull the trigger and watch as the bullet sails towards the target. But this approach is flawed for two reasons.\n\n  1. The real world contains greater complexity than just wind and gravity. There’re endless variables and inter-dependencies.\n  2. By the time you pull the trigger, the target would have been moved. So, Ready, FIRE and then AIM.\nSuccess is Just the Tip of the Iceberg.\n\nBeneath the surface of success, outside our view and often outside our awareness is the mountain of necessary failures. So fail early, fail fast and succeed!\n\n\nKindle | Hardcover | Audiobook", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7896010875701904}
+{"content": "BAG WfbM (Germany)\n\n„Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen e. V. (BAG WfbM) is the German association of sheltered workshops.“\n\nIn 2019, 93 % of the 734 German sheltered workshops were organized in BAG WfbM. BAG WfbM is providing them with services like expert advice on questions related to employment, vocational education, financing and legal issues.\n\nBAG WfbM advocates for the participation of people with disabilities in working life. In Germany, sheltered workshops are highly specialized facilities for vocational rehabilitation who enable people with severe disabilities to participate in working life. They provide vocational education, work opportunities and support in personal development for roughly 320,000 people with intellectual, psychological and severe and multiple disabilities in around 3,000 subsidiaries.\n\nback to overview", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9166739583015442}
+{"content": "Normalize the Struggles\n\nThis week's mindful mantra comes from a place of feeling connected with other parents rather than against them.\n\nThink about the tape that plays in your mind day to day and what stressors come up. Think about how often you tell others about these worries or pressures. If you tend to keep most of what concerns your mind to yourself, you might not ever know if or when someone else, even close to you, is thinking the same things. Once we begin to realize that we all come with these egoic thoughts, we can open up our ability to accept them for what they are, just thoughts.\n\nParenting is a role that comes with a lot of pressure to do thing's right, aiming to raise well-rounded individuals.\n\nMost of the time, we internalize our parenting hardships or give ourselves the monumental task of balancing every facet of our lives into one smooth sailing experience. While blogs and other outlets for parenting discussions are certainly helpful, what can be most helpful is to normalize the struggles in your home and come to a place of understanding, accepting and releasing them, as opposed to trying to hide or coverup.\n\nParents of children at any age can relate to most of the common struggles that come to mind i.e. sleep routines, nursing or potty training. Imagine if we released ourselves from the idea of control in these moments, and rather joined forces with other parents to create a place of acceptance. Recognizing when the parent-child relationship is out of balance and then realizing that you are not alone, can carry a lot of power.\n\nIf we first accept we are not alone in these common parenting struggles and that most of what we experience is in fact very normal, we could free ourselves from the burden of having to get it all right, all the time.\n\nOnce we create a space within ourselves to deem our struggles as normal, and recognize our life might be out of balance, we can then focus all of our attention and effort into re-balancing it. Maybe you start a mommy or daddy circle in your home town, or maybe you read more blogs and articles to notice you aren't alone. Whatever you decide to do, you won't be wasting time stressing over the normal stuff.\n\nUse this mantra throughout your week to remind yourself in the heat of the moment or at the end of an exhausting day that our struggles have been or are being felt by many other parents out there. Accepting and releasing the pressure we so often put on ourselves.\n\nShow love, grow love\n\nHappy Living Parents", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5093274116516113}
+{"content": "Electronics at the service\nof industry\n\nWV5H25 V3 4-20mA OUTPUT\n\nWind direction sensor designed for different industries and sectors.\n\nWV4403 detects the vane position by using magnetic sensors avoiding wear and tear. It generates a 4-20mA analogue output or RS485 MODBUS signal, depending on version. The heated version generates 4-20mA output and works from -20 ºC. When the temperature is higher than +6º C, the heater switches itself off automatically to reduce the consumption.\n\nDownload technical data sheet\n\n\nSolar, Low power wind energy, Cranes, Agriculture, Meteorology, Domotics", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9970633387565613}
+{"content": "A year after schools closed, many kids are in a mental health crisis\n\nOne year after the start of the pandemic, experts say that students are suffering from more intense symptoms of anxiety, depression and other mental illness than pre-coronavirus. With routines are still upended, milestones missed and some not having stepped foot inside a classroom for 12 months, how are students coping? Correspondent Joanna Gagis reports.\n\nWATCH: Student mental health: A dialogue among educators, the administration, state assemblyman\n\nMORE: NJ students resilient in pandemic, but some show signs of mental health stress", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9785833954811096}
+{"content": "Dr. Michale \"Mickey\" Barber\n\n(843) 737-2597\n\nBetter Life Carolinas\n\n7221 Pineville-Matthews RD STE 200\n\nCharlotte, NC 28226\n\n\nDr. Michale “Mickey” Barber offers an integrative approach to age management medicine while providing the patient with an assessment of hormonal balance and overall health and disease risk. Her philosophy for successful aging includes maintaining energy, health, and sexual vigor through shared responsibility of the patient-doctor team. Dr. Barber not only teaches her patients about hormonal balance but practices such balance herself. She has competed in Masters level figure competitions at the age of 48 placing second and ten years later competing to a standing ovation. Given a strong family history of heart disease and cancer, she takes her health very seriously and is a living example of the benefits of the program.\n\nDr. Mickey and her husband reside in Isle of Palms and share a blended family of five wonderful children and two adorable granddaughters. She is a sports enthusiast, golfer, and Saints fan and enjoys working out at the beach.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5825566649436951}
+{"content": "Multi-tasking. Is it draining your energy?\n\nRaise your hand if you are tired all of the time, and feel like you could get so much more out of your day if you only had energy!\n\nIf the current medical research is a correct reflection than approximately 50% of you just sighed out of exhaustion.\n\nFatigue is one the of most fascinating states, in my opinion, because there are any number of things that can be contributing to it. Everything from small day to tasks, all the way up to chronic multi-system illnesses could be at the root of this symptom. Whatsmore, is that even in the face of a multi-system illness, we are still doing things every day that are aggravating our fatigue levels. Over the next few weeks we will address some of the most common fatigue offenders and give actionable steps to help you feel more energetic and vibrant!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9679772853851318}
+{"content": "ASIC’s Regulatory Methods\n\nThere is a relationship between banks and their regulators that, although unspoken, has always been clear; when a regulator wants to take any regulatory action, the bank expects to be given prior warning, and is usually always given a chance to settle and negotiate outside of court.\n\nHowever, last year when the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) decided to pursue legal action against the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) for anti-money laundering (AML) violations, CBA felt completely blindsided due to the fact that they did not receive a notice or warning from AUSTRAC.  In addition, Scott Morrison, Federal Treasurer, stated that the government had knowledge of every detail of the violations and misconduct that had occurred.  Despite the government denying the claims, it was later discovered that the violations had been documented and found in both the files of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the institutions involved which the banking royal commission itself obtained, with a little persuasion, from the institutions and ASIC.\n\nWhile it was expected that all the commission would do was expose the past violations that the institutions had committed, it was also brought to light those individuals that were affected by the misconduct.  In order to avoid a royal commission, banks have taken matters into their own hands and are acknowledging their violations and introducing multiple self regulatory measures.  In addition, the government had also implemented new regulations that would threaten banks with liabilities and a large tax surcharge.\n\nASIC’s actions to deal with the violations were seen as inappropriate and unfair by some because they involved large “donations” to ASIC’s fund for the purposes of promoting financial literacy, restitution for the affected customers, and payment towards ASIC’s costs.  ASIC also pardoned some institutions of their accountability without much of a punishment, and those who did not turn to ASIC for help were simply banned or met with legal action in court.  On the other hand, ASIC’s actions can be seen as justified because they ensure that the same violation does not occur again by issuing court-enforceable changes to an institution’s systems and policies that will improve and strengthen their risk management and compliance programs.  In doing so, ASIC hopes to encourage and increase the self reporting of institutions which results in a cheaper and quicker method to handling violations because the litigation and appeal processes in court can be avoided.\n\nHowever, some institutions have taken advantage of this, and will self report violations only to make deals and outcomes beneficial to them.  While there are fines and penalties associated with some regulatory actions, large banks have access to enough funds and high-end legal representation that allow them to not be concerned with the extra costs incurred by these fines.  Although ASIC has the authority to take further legal action such as issuing harsher jail sentences, it is rarely used and is seen as a last resort.\n\nWhether or not there will be a royal commission remains to be seen but the government intends on making all of the violations that were hidden by ASIC evident, and those individuals and institutions involved can expect to be met with punishments.\n\n\nFor the full article, click here.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6959120035171509}
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+{"content": "What Is Aim of Termination of \"Missile Guidelines\"\n\n     Pyongyang, May 31 (KCNA)     \n\n\n\n\nKim Myong Chol, an international affairs critic, issued the following article titled \"What is the aim of the termination of 'missile guidelines'\":\n\nThe south Korean chief executive during his recent trip to the U.S. announced in a joint press interview that the U.S.-south Korea \"missile guidelines\" were terminated.\n\nThis means a green-light for south Korea to develop missile with all parts of the DPRK and neighboring countries in the striking range, exceeding the 800km maximum range limit.\n\nAlready afloat in south Korea and other parts of the world is a disturbing opinion that south Korea can develop even a hypersonic missile, to say nothing of ICBM and SLBM in the shortest possible period.\n\nIt is apparently deliberate and hostile act that the U.S. lifted the firing range limit, not content with the removal of the warhead weight limit through the approval of several revised \"missile guidelines\".\n\nThe termination of the \"missile guidelines\" clearly shows who is behind the escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe U.S., doggedly branding the measures taken by the DPRK for self-defence as violation of UN \"resolutions\", grants its allies unlimited right to missile development. It is engrossed in confrontation despite its lip-service to dialogue.\n\nThe termination step is a stark reminder of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its shameful double-dealing.\n\nLots of countries now view the U.S. key DPRK policy, namely \"pragmatic approach\" and \"maximum flexibility\" produced by the Biden administration with much effort as just trickery.\n\nThe U.S. act of giving free \"missile\" rein to south Korea is all meant to spark off arms race on the Korean peninsula and in its surrounding areas and check the development of the DPRK.\n\nThe U.S., at the same time, seeks to hold a tighter military grip on south Korea and legitimately realize the deployment of intermediate-range missiles targeting countries around the DPRK in exchange for the termination.\n\nThe U.S. is mistaken, however. It is a serious blunder for it to pressurize the DPRK by creating asymmetric imbalance in and around the Korean peninsula as this may lead to the acute and instable situation on the Korean peninsula now technically at war.\n\nThe target of the DPRK is not the ROK army but the U.S.\n\nThe U.S. calculation to attain its hegemonic purpose with the use of south Korea is a foolish one.\n\nA proverb goes sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.\n\nNow that the U.S. and the south Korean authorities made clear their ambition of aggression, they are left with no reasons whatsoever to fault the DPRK bolstering its capabilities for self-defence.\n\nWe will counter the U.S. on the principle of strength for strength and good faith in kind. The escalated tension on the Korean peninsula will lead to instability of the forces threatening the DPRK.\n\nWe also take this opportunity to make mention of the chief executive of south Korea putting himself within the gun-sights of regional countries, saying it \"imparts with glad mind the fact about the termination of missile guidelines\".\n\nSo disgusting is his indecent act of seeking to sense reactions from this side and that side, with guilty conscience for what it did.\n\nWhat should deserve concerns of the international community are the U.S. grave and provocative acts against the DPRK just under its nose, not the DPRK's violation of the UN \"resolutions\" touted by the U.S.\n\nCategory: English | Views: 49 | Added by: redstartvkp | Tags: usa, North Korea, DPRK, Korea, DPRK-US relations, Inter-Korean relations, South Korea", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8307912945747375}
+{"content": " 1953 S Dime Value // xinlizx.net\nur8i0 | lyrkm | 095yv | to6al | s9bx4 |Luci Halo F150 | Lv Red Bag | Idea Per Bomboniere Di Natale | Fatica Sono Incinta | Iscrizione A Makeup Forever Pro | Modello Di Curriculum Per Laureati | Colonna Sonora Glitterata Itunes | Pompa Ottano Più Alta Del Gas |\n\nThis classic 1953-S Roosevelt Dime makes a great addition to any collection. Struck in 1953 by the historic San Fransico Mint. This dime is needed by anyone hoping to build a complete date and mint mark collection, so you`ll want to order today! Variations in value do occur subject to subtle grading points, collector demands and dealer needs. For more background information, see how value listings in the above Coin Value Guide are determined. The Uncirculated Roosevelt Dime Holds all the Value It is the collector that ultimately determines silver Roosevelt dime values. Value of us dime 1953 s? Unanswered Questions. Is it normal to find human bones in the Thames? What do the colors of the Great Britain flag mean? Is Kaká hated by Inter Milan fans? Why is Manhattan called an island? How much fog does London get How does it affect the city? The first column lists the date and mint mark see the photo link above followed by the buy price and the sell value for an average circulated silver Roosevelt dime. The next two columns list the buy price and the sell value for an average uncirculated. These are approximate retail prices and wholesale values.\n\n1949S–This particular mintage is considered to be the only true key date Roosevelt dime. The value of a 1949S Roosevelt dime ranges from $10 in EF condition to $200 for mint state specimens. 1949–Semi Key date. Values range from slightly above melt to $30 in mint state condition. 1951S–Semi Key date. Make Offer - 1953-S Roosevelt Dime 10c MS67 Color NGC 930126-9. 1946-S Roosevelt Dime 10c MS67 FT NGC 941503-1. 1946-S Roosevelt Dime 10C Coin - PCGS MS67 FB - Plus Grade - $475 Value! $346.68. Free shipping. Make Offer - 1946-S Roosevelt Dime 10C Coin - PCGS MS67 FB - Plus Grade - $475 Value! Silver Roosevelt Dime Set 1946-1964. $65.00. Detailed information about the coin 1 Dime \"Roosevelt Silver Dime\", United States, with pictures and collection and swap management: mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value.\n\nThe U.S. Mint began producing the Roosevelt Dime in 1946. The ten cent piece was very popular, and it remains in production today. While one may assume that dimes cannot be valuable beyond their face values, some of these coins can be significantly valuable based on mintage, year, scarcity and condition. Have a 1953 wheat penny? Want to know how much it's worth? See the value of 1953 pennies, a list of 1953 penny errors, and whether or not 1953 pennies are rare.\n\n  1. 1953 S Roosevelt Dime Home > San Francisco > Coin Dealer Insight: For 1953, production decreased to just over 229 million dimes with the largest production run again being from Denver.\n  2. Do you have a 1953 dime? Learn the value of this silver Roosevelt dime, which mint marks are available, and how many coins were minted.\n  3. 1953 S Roosevelt Dime Value. This Roosevelt Dime was made in 1953 and hasS as the current mink mark. A total of 39180000 of these coins were produced in 1953 and have a silver content of 0.9 and a weight of.0723 oz.\n  4. Value of 1953-D Roosevelt Dime. The 1953-D Roosevelt Dime was made by the United States Mint. This coin was made out of silver 90% so it does carry some precious metal value. Most coins melt price is around $1, depending on the current spot price of silver.\n\nThis page is dedicated exclusively to the 1953 D Roosevelt Dime. You will find a lot of information below such as mintages, specifications, and images. Be sure to visit our Roosevelt Dime Forum if you need help. We also have a Roosevelt Dime Grading Forum to help you establish a grade for your. Details, specifications, values and general information for the 1953 Elizabeth II Canadian Silver \"Dime\" 10 Cents. Also find this coin and many others at the best prices.\n\n1953 United States one cent value. What is a 1953 US penny worth? Philadelphia mint variety Value, specifications, and images for the 1953 Lincoln wheat one cent coin from the United States of America. Essential grading images alongside coin value charts uncover how much your box of old coins are worth. 1953 Quarter Auction Value - Final Bid $690 Amazing condition and quality resulted in an amazing price. The coin, a 1953 Washington quarter selling at a Bowers and Merena Auction. Pushing this 1953 quarter value.\n\n1950 Roosevelt Dime: Minting information, specifications, characteristics, current melt value, and past sales prices. Issued by the U.S. Mint in 1950. 1953-d 1¢ wrpm-040 Description: D and totally separated D Southwest with the secondary D tilted and punched into the front of the vest. Cross References: CONECA: RPM 28, Crawford: CRPM-003.\n\n1953 S 10c Ngc Ms67 Roosevelt Dime Discount. You must get 1953 S 10c Ngc Ms67 Roosevelt Dime Sale, go to the retailers and get 1953 S 10c Ngc Ms67 Roosevelt Dime Best Price you need. That is all so difficult. Many people are happy with 1953 S 10c Ngc Ms67 Roosevelt Dime Online after purchase them and I count on you may be too. Finally, thank. 01/09/2008 · For the best answers, search on this site shorturl.im/SjgRv. It would depend on their condition. As a top known collector and invester in coins, they would have to be in at least mint state grade to be worth more than its face value of 15 cents. 1953 Proof Roosevelt Dime 10c Gem Proof Uncirculated 50 Coin Roll Buy Now. 1953 Proof - $700.00 1953 Proof Set Lot Of 5 All Ngc Pf67 Cent Nickel Dime Quarter Half Dollar Cac. Buy Now. 1953 U.s. - $525.00 1953 U.s. Proof Silver Set Ngc Pf 69 Nickel, 67 Dime And Cent, 66 Half And Quarter Buy Now. Detailed information about the coin 1 Dime \"Roosevelt Dime\", United States, with pictures and collection and swap management: mintage, descriptions, metal, weight, size, value and other numismatic data.\n\nCalculate 90% silver value: 17.21 ×.0321507466 × 2.5 ×.90 = $1.2449572852 $1.2449 is the rounded silver value for the 1946-1964 silver dime on December 20, 2019. This is usually the value used by coin dealers when selling these coins at melt value. However, the total melt value is continued below. 2. Calculate 10% copper value. We are pleased to offer for sale this 1953-S Roosevelt Silver Dime. These Roosevelt Silver Dimes are 90% silver coins that have been circulated and will grade G-4 or better. All of our circulated Roosevelt Dimes have no major marks or visible problems just honest wear. This Roosevelt Silver Dime is an outstanding value at this price! Canadian coins price guide and values. The value of a canadian coin depends on several factors such as quality and wear, supply and demand, rarity, finish and more. Values in the section are based on the market, trends, auctions and recognized books, publications and catalogs. 1953-S Washington Quarter Value in mint state is worth $5 and up retail but it must be in a PCGS, NGC, ANACS or ICG holder. A raw or ungraded uncirculated example will sell for less. If a 1953-S Washington Quarter. Roosevelt Dime Value Mint state and key date listed Roosevelt Dime values is for graded, certified and authenticated coins in PCGS or NGC holders. The rest are a sample of raw coin sell but this is not a guarantee your.\n\nThe minimum value of a 1952 Roosevelt dime is typically its melt value, or what the silver content is worth to a precious metals dealer. Based on the current spot price of silver, the estimated melt value of this coin is $1.10. Numismatically, there is a bit of variance based on the mint mark, but it. 1953-D: RPM-002. Description: D/D Southwest. Grade: MS64. Population: 4, 2. Markers: UVC-239. DMR-003. Stage A: EDS unconfirmed Stage B: Die scratches Northeast on Reverse – LMDS. Die crack from behind ear to rim at K-2 – LMDS. Die break on eyebrow. Small die chip on nose. UVC-244. DMR-008. Stage C: Die scratches Northwest on Reverse. - While Mercury Dime Off-Center and Broadstruck coins from the 1940’s are relatively common, Roosevelt Dime Errors from this period are like hen’s teeth. This coin’s luster is regrettably subdued from over-dipping, but it’s still a pleasing uncirculated off-center from the. 10 cents 1953. The date on the image can be different from the year selected. 10 cents 1953 prices and values. 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+{"content": "Welcome to the new DiscussCESM forum!\n\n\ndepths of levsoi (as opposed to levgrnd)\n\n\nNew Member\nI'm using an out-of-the-box configuration of CLM (clm5.0.34) and have trolled through the documentation and restart and history files and cannot determine the depths of the variables declared to use 'levsoi' as their vertical coordinate. 'levgrnd' has 25 layers, and there is a coordinate variable that defines them. The 'levsoi' dimension is 20, and if I read between the lines section of the CLM5 Technical Note: Soil Layers​\n\nThe soil column can be discretized into an arbitrary number of layers. The default vertical discretization (Table 2.2.3) uses\nN_{levgrnd} = 25\nlayers, of which\nN_{levsoi} = 20\nare hydrologically and biogeochemically active. The deepest 5 layers are only included in the thermodynamical calculations (Lawrence et al. 2008) described in Chapter 2.6.\n\nthe 'shallowest' 20 layers of the levgrnd coordinate variable are probably the correct depths to use when trying to interpret variables dimensioned with 'levsoi' ... is this correct?\n\nThanks -- Tim\n\n\nKeith Oleson\nCSEG and Liaisons\nStaff member\nYes to both of those questions.\nA single exception is that levdcmp could be 1 (single level) if use_vertsoilc = .false. There might be some older model configurations which use that.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9570614099502563}
+{"content": "How does Spotify work?\n\nIn today’s world, we are surrounded by modular designs. The idea of a modular design, as Dr. Irvine states, is that Modularity allows us to manage a larger and more whole complex structure, by diving up it’s functions into separate, interconnected components, layers and subprocesses. This process helps us to understand “the big picture” of how something works, and we do that by looking at the encapsulation boundaries (Langois)\n\nFor this week’s post, I wanted to look into Spotify’s Layout and Interface and see how this app works.  To me, Spotify is like a digital library of music. You can listen to the music on your phone, computer, tablet. Once you download the app, you open an account and you’re ready to listen to your favorite songs. Spotify let’s you browse music by artist, album, song name and genre. You can locate artists and song through keyword searches. Most internet music players have some drawbacks when it comes to streaming the audio. If your internet connection is poor, then you will experience pauses, the song will stop playing and that is not a pleasant experience. On the other hand, Spotify uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to stream audio. As explained on the Spotify community support page, when you select a song, Spotify’s computers immediately begin sending the data to your computer. Simultaneously, it looks for other Spotify users who have the tune on their computers. When it finds the track, it commands the Spotify software to send bits of the song to your computer, all of which takes a load off of Spotify’s central servers and Internet connection.  Another thing that happens is that,  when you listen to a song, it stores it on your hard drive, which means your computer plays the song instead of Spotify.\n\nAnother interesting issue to discuss are the algorithms that Spotify engineers use to shuffle and discover the music that you like. There are mainly two algorithms that are used. The Floyd-Steinberg dithering algorithm and the Fisher Yates Shuffle algorithm.  Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm is used  to generate a perfectly random shuffling of a playlist.\n\nThis picture helps us to better understand how the algorithm works.  Let’s say that we want to shuffle songs from 5 different artists, where each of them has a certain number of songs. This algorithms groups the songs into clusters of the same artist, and spreads them equally throughout the playlist, so each song appears roughly every 25% of the length of the playlist.\n\nWhen it comes to interfaces, Spotify let’s you synchronize the playlists, so you can listen to them from your phone or your desktop. And this is done automatically. Except songs and albums, Spotify has incorporated podcasts and videos as part of their platform. And after a recent deal between Facebook and Spotify, now you can share the playlists and songs that you listen to, with your friends on Facebook, so we see a collaboration between different platforms.\n\nAfter all, even though there is a lot going on in the background, where the DNS servers handle all the traffic, and the algorithms help to choose the right songs, it seems like Spotifu has an easy to use interface and layout for the user.\n\n\nIrvine, Martin Introduction to Modularity and Abstraction Layers\n\nLanglois, Richard  “Modularity in Technology and Organization.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 49, no. 1 (September 2002): 19-37.\n\nPoláček, Lucas December 09, 2014. How to shuffle songs?\n\nChandler, Nathan October 03,2011  How Spotify Works.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8480273485183716}
+{"content": "Functional Connectivity-Based Classification of Gulf War Illness Patients vs Control Veterans\nUnal \"Zak\" Sakoglu1, Mounika Galla1, Bruce Crosson2,3, Robert Haley4, and Kaundinya Gopinath5\n\n1Computer Engineering, University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston, TX, United States, 2VA RR&D Center of Excellence, Atlanta VAMC, Decatur, GA, United States, 3Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, 4Internal Medicine, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, 5Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States\n\n\nAround 200,000 veterans suffer from Gulf War Illness (GWI). GWI is characterized by multiple deficits in cognitive, emotion, somatosensory and pain domains. In this study we studied 23 GWI patients and 30 age-matched controls with resting state fMRI in order to classify patients versus controls using functional connectivity among brain networks. Results show that different brain networks have discriminating power, signaling widespread impairments in functional connectivity of visual, semantic, multi-sensory, and sensory-motor processing networks in GWI consistent with multi-symptom nature of the illness.\n\n\nGulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic medical condition characterized by multiple symptoms which indicate brain function deficits in emotion, cognitive, pain and somatosensory domains1-3. It affects approximately 200,000 of the 1991 Gulf War veterans. Prior neuroimaging studies confirm presence of structural, functional and metabolic brain impairments in GWI4-6; however, GWI is still poorly understood. During the last two decades, functional neuroimaging technology, especially functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), has improved tremendously, with recent attention towards resting-state functional connectivity (FC) analysis of the brain combined with independent component analysis (ICA)7-9. ICA can reveal which parts of the brain act as (statistically) independent functional networks7. FC analysis, based on ICA, can provide insight into overall functional connectivity between networks; differences in the FC of the brain networks under different brain conditions can be studied and used as features for classification9. In this study we used ICA-based FC as features to classify the GWI patients from normal control (NC) veterans.\n\n\n23 GWI veterans (mean age 49.4 yrs.) and 30 normal controls (NC) (mean age 49.8 yrs.) were scanned in a Siemens 3T Tim Trio MRI scanner using a 12-channel receiver head coil. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants in the protocol approved by the local Institutional Review Board. Whole-brain resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) data were acquired with a 10-min whole-brain gradient echo EPI (TR/TE/FA = 2000/24ms/90°, resolution = 3mm×3mm×3.5mm). RsfMRI preprocessing steps included attenuation of signal related to subject-motion and physiological responses, using advanced ICA-based artifact reduction techniques, and spatial smoothing with FWHM = 6mm isotropic Gaussian kernel. Group spatial ICA10 were performed separately for each group, the number of independent components (ICs) were determined (21 ICs for NC and 23 ICs for patients) using the minimum description length criteria7. Subsequently, an overall combined group spatial ICA was done with the total number of ICs (44), which results in a higher dimensional estimation of the ICs11. After removal of 5 ICs which correspond to artifacts, the remaining 39 ICs were paired to obtain $$$\\left(\\begin{array}{c}39\\\\ 2\\end{array}\\right)=741$$$ FC values, which were used as initial features. The features were ranked and reduced to only 4 features (FC pairs) by using the Wrapper subset evaluator with \"best-first\" forward-search utility in Weka machine learning toolbox12. Classification was performed using the reduced number of features and different machine learning algorithms and cross-validation parameters using Weka.\n\n\nCombined group spatial ICA, when unrestricted, resulted in 22 ICs using the MDL criterion. Group spatial ICA with higher dimension of 44 ICs therefore corresponds to a 100% dimensionality increase when compared to the the unrestricted ICA. Five ICs were mostly artifactual and were removed from the classification analyses. After feature reduction to 4 FCs as described in the Methods section, using 10-fold cross-validation, a Naive Bayes Classifier algorithm classified 28/30 of NC and 19/23 of the GWI correctly, which corresponds to sensitivity of 82.6%, specificity of 93.3%, and an overall classification accuracy of 88.7%. Naive Bayes classification performed better than other algorithms in Weka. The 4 most discriminating FC pairs were the following:\n\nFC1: IC2 (higher visual content processing areas) & IC16 (motor cortex);\n\nFC2: IC12 (superior frontal, anterior medial frontal) & IC43 (visual association cortex, retrosplenial cortex, posterior parahippocampal area; posterior cingulate);\n\nFC3: IC23 (bilateral Sylvian fissure, superior temporal gyrus) & IC34 (left middle and superior temporal gyrus, mid and posterior);\n\nFC4: IC24 (right lateral frontal cortex) & IC33 (right parietal, pre-sensory-motor, fronto-parietal, posterior mid cingulate cortex).\n\nMean FC values for the NC were higher than GWI for these FCs (p<0.05 for FC1 and FC4).\n\n\nFunctional connectivity between multiple brain networks appeared as having good group discriminating power of 88.7%. FC1 is between higher visual processing areas and motor cortex; which is important for visuo-motor function, and multisensory processing. FC2 could be related to top-down influence on visual functions. FC3 could be related to auditory and language functions. FC4 could be related to fronto-parietal and task-positive networks. Overall, these regions were previously shown to be involved in either visual, auditory, sensory-motor input processing, or semantic processing. Consistent with these findings, GWI veterans were reported to exhibit deficits in word-finding13, in visual processing14, and in fine motor skills1. However, brain networks involved in successful classification need to be further interpreted and studied. Future work involves different feature/FC selection and classification algorithms to achieve a higher classification accuracy. Overall, the results are in line with other recent findings of widespread impairments in rsFC within brain function networks implicated by multiple symptoms in GWI patients1-6,13,14.\n\n\nThis work was supported by the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Gulf War Illness Research Program under Award No. W81XWH-16-1-0744 (PI: Gopinath). Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Department of Defense.\n\n\n[1] Binns JH, et al., Report of Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses, In: Affairs DoV, editor, Boston, MA, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.\n\n[2] Haley RH, et al., JAMA, 277: 215-222, 1997.\n\n[3] Toomey R, etal., J Int Neuropsychol Soc., 15:717-729, 2009.\n\n[4] Moffet K, et al., Brain Cogn. 98:65-73, 2015.\n\n[5] Gopinath K, et al.,Neurotoxicology, 33:261-71, 2012.\n\n[6] Li X, et al., Radiology, 261:218-225, 2011.\n\n[7] Calhoun VD, et al., HBM, 14:140–151 (2001).\n\n[8] Jafri MJ, et al., Neuroimage, 39(4): 1666–1681 (2008).\n\n[9] Sakoglu U, et al., MAGMA, 23(5-6): 351–366 (2010).\n\n[10] http://mialab.mrn.org/software/gift\n\n[11] Dipasquale O, et al. Front Hum Neurosci 9:43:1-7 (2015).\n\n[12] https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka\n\n[13] Moffett K, et al. Brain Cogn 98:65-73 (2015).\n\n[14] White RF, et al. Am J Ind Med 40:42-54 (2001).\n\n\nFigure 1. Functional connectivity between the 4 brain networks, which have the most discriminating power between the two groups, gulf war illness patients and normal control veterans.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6270890235900879}
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+{"content": "Mysterious chest in Ancient Egyptian temple contains skeleton of sacrificial goose – and could lead to lost royal tomb\n\nA 3,500-YEAR-OLD box containing the remains of a sacrificial goose has been discovered in Egypt.\n\nThe stone artefact also contains a wooden chest engraved with the name of Thutmose II, a famous boy Pharaoh who took the throne aged just 13.\n\nDiscovered at the ancient site of Deir el-Bahari, the extraordinary find indicates an untouched royal tomb may be hidden nearby.\n\nSeveral packages wrapped in linen canvas were found inside the box. One contained the goose and another held the egg of a bird known as an ibis.\n\nProfessor Andrzej Niwiński, from Warsaw University, told the Polish Press Agency: \"The chest itself is about 40 cm long, with a slight smaller height.\n\n\"It was perfectly camouflaged, looked like an ordinary stone block. Only after a closer look did it turn out to be a chest.\"\n\nEncased inside the stone chest was a wooden box wrapped in four layers of canvas.\n\nWithin this box was a second box in the shape of a chapel. It featured one of the names of Pharaoh Thutmose II.\n\nThutmose II was married to the famous Queen Hatshepsut.\n\nIt's thought he took the throne in his early teens and reigned for just three years before his death aged 16.\n\nArchaeologists made the extraordinary find at the famous Egyptian site of Deir el-Bahari. It's not clear how or why the goose was sacrificed.\n\nIt's a vast complex of temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt.\n\nBased on the artefacts' symbolism and engravings, Professor Niwiński said he had high hopes of finding a hidden royal tomb somewhere nearby the burial.\n\n\"The royal deposit implies that a temple or a tomb was erected for the king here,\" he said.\n\n\"And because we are in the middle of a royal cemetery, there is no doubt that it must be a tomb.\n\n\"The discovery of this deposit suggests that we are in the process of finding a tomb.\"\n\nThe stone chest discovery was made in March last year but only made public this month.\n\nArchaeologists continued their work in October 2019 but are yet to find any entrance to a secret tomb.\n\nA brief history of Ancient Egypt\n\nHere's everything you need to know…\n\n  • The Ancient Egyptians were an advanced civilisation who at one point owned a huge portion of the globe\n  • The civilisation began about 5,000 years ago when ancient humans began building villages along the River Nile\n  • It lasted for about 3,000 years and saw the building of complex cities centuries ahead of their time – as well as the famous Great Pyramids\n  • The Ancient Egyptians were experts at farming and construction\n  • They invented a solar calendar, and one of the world's earliest writing systems: The hieroglyph\n  • The Egyptians were ruled by kings and queens called pharaohs\n  • Religion and the afterlife were a huge part of Ancient Egyptian culture. They had over 2,000 gods\n  • Pharaohs built huge elaborate tombs to be buried in, some of which were pyramids – at the time among the largest buildings in the world\n  • The Egyptians believed in life after death, and important people's corpses were mummified to preserve their bodies for the afterlife\n  • The Ancient Egytpian empire fell due to a mix of factors, including wars with other empires and a 100-year period of drought and starvation\n\nIn other news, 16 ancient tombs containing the mummified bodies of high priests were uncovered in Egypt earlier this year.\n\nA rare pink statue of an Ancient Egyptian king was unearthed near the pyramids of Giza in December.\n\nAnd, archaeologists recently found ancient tattoos depicting animals and gods on several female Egyptian mummies.\n\nWhy do you think the goose was sacrificed? Let us know in the comments!\n\nSource: Read Full Article", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7251813411712646}
+{"content": "ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 2, 2020\n\nHuman Factors in Critical Care Medicine\n\nshare Share\n\n\nHuman Factor (HF) is an established scientific discipline that studies the interrelationship between humans, equipment, and work environment. Core aspects of HF, widely known as non-technical skills (NTS), include three dimensions 1) cognitive (situation awareness, decision making), 2) interpersonal (communication, team working, leadership), and 3) personal resources (managing stress and coping with fatigue) (Flin et al. 2008). Additional important NTS include empathy and resilience.\n\nThe study of HF began in the aviation industry about 40 years ago after studies suggested that deficiency in NTS may have been significant in fatal accidents. The world of aviation with its emphasis on safety has directly influenced our current approach to anaesthesia, critical care medicine, and healthcare safety in general. NTS are as important to promoting patient safety as the technical knowledge and expertise required to clinically treating patients’ physiological abnormalities. NTS training was developed recently in healthcare as a result of many reports showing that the lack of NTS might lead to medical errors and patient harm. In fact, the main objective of HF is to optimise the interaction of humans with their work environment and technical equipment in order to maximise patient safety and efficiency of care.\n\nSituation Awareness\n\nSituation awareness (SA) is defined as the perception of the elements in the environment within a specific volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning and a projection of their status in the near future (Endsley 1995). The basic components of SA are 1) perceiving (an active process of collecting data and gathering information by observing the environment and monitoring all the sources), 2) understanding (combining data with knowledge and experience, interpreting information collected from the environment to identify the match or mismatch between the situation and the expected state), and 3) projecting (anticipating future events). Accurate SA is very important for subsequent decision-making, teamwork and task management, and it is therefore crucial for providing optimal performance during care and treatment of critically ill patients (Endsley 1995).\n\n\nDecision-making(DM) is the process of choosing a course of action in a scenario that offers multiple alternatives to meet the needs of a given situation. The two main styles of decision-making are intuitive, or type I, and analytical, or type 2. The intuitive decision style is the ability to make quick decisions when time is short, based on previous experience. An intuitive decision style is developed through practice; it is a rapid, subconscious and automatic process. The analytical decision style is developed in a thorough, slow, systematic and logical manner and it is generally more reliable. It is characterised by spending time reviewing all the details and making sure all decisions comply with formal guidelines and requirements, and it implies a subsequent analysis of advantages and disadvantages for each option. The DM process includes evaluation of the situation and multiple alternatives, choice of one of these alternatives, implementation and communication of the decision made, and finally, re-evaluation (Croskerry and Nimmo 2011). In a life-threatening emergency and in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting, meta-cognitive strategies could include a personal reflection on human factors principles within the clinical situation, attention to self-awareness about potential cognitive errors and taking a moment to pause before rushing into new decisions (Reason 2000).\n\n\nCommunication is the exchange of information between people through speaking, writing or by other medium. The process includes a sender, a receiver and the channel (medium). It can be classified as verbal (oral or written) and nonverbal. Nonverbal communication can include signs, symbols, gestures, body language and facial expressions. It can complement, repeat, reinforce, substitute, regulate, or even contradict verbal communication. Clear communication means that information is conveyed effectively between people.\n\nEffective communication among team members is widely recognised as one of the most important factors in delivering high-quality healthcare, especially in a complex setting such as an intensive care unit, where different professionals interact with each other (Vermeir et al. 2015).\n\nThe Joint Commission reported that communication errors were at the top of the list of root causes of sentinel events in hospitals, contributing to 65% of events. Most communication errors occur during the handover of patient care between different groups (Siewer and Hochman 2015). Error-reporting systems now frequently focus upon poor communication as an antecedent to error in critical care medicine; interventions to improve communication in the intensive care unit have resulted in reduced reports of adverse events, and simulated emergency scenarios have shown effective communication to be correlated with improved technical performance (Reader et al. 2007).\n\n\nTeamwork is the process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goal. Intensivists and non-intensivist physicians, critical care nurses, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, respiratory care practitioners, rehabilitation specialists, dieticians, social workers, case managers, spiritual care providers, each one of them provide unique expertise and perspectives to patient care, and therefore play an important role in a team that must address the diverse needs of patients and families in the ICU (Donovan et al. 2018). The principles that characterise a successful health care team include 1) shared goals, 2) clear roles, 3) effective communication, 4) measurable processes and outcomes, and 5) effective leadership (Mitchell et al. 2012; Schmutz and Manser 2013).\n\nA growing body of literature links the quality of teamwork to the quality and safety of health care delivery. Work in this area has focused on three domains: (a) the quality and safety of care, (b) patient experience, and (c) clinical patient outcomes (Rosen et al. 2018).\n\n\nLeadership can be defined as the ability to lead a team, considering the particular needs of each team member, following high standards of clinical care. Valuable leadership skills include the ability to delegate, inspire and communicate effectively. Other leadership traits include honesty, confidence, commitment and creativity. The leader should also prioritise the importance of the team goal over other individual member goals, and he should motivate team members and establish a positive environment. The role of the leader is to keep the big picture and the control of the situation. The team members will unavoidably be consumed with their actions, but this must not happen to the leader. The leader cannot let himself engage in any particular task that would narrow his attention span; the leader sets the priorities for any given moment, delegates the tasks, and respectfully takes feedback from others (Riskin et al. 2015).\n\nManaging Stress\n\nWork-related stress is the response people may have when presented with work demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope. Because workplace stress can influence physical and emotional well-being, and reduce efficiency and quality of life, dealing with stress is a big challenge for many healthcare professionals. Causes of occupational stress include long hours, excessive workload, dealing with death and dying, interpersonal conflicts with other staff, unfair management practices and lack of support from supervisors and managers. Stress may be associated with irritability, job dissatisfaction, depression, and sleep problems, and also with absenteeism and job turnover. Effective interventions to prevent work stress and to improve job satisfaction of employees are of the utmost importance. Stress management training can reduce the degree and intensity of current stress reactions as well as help to develop skills for preventing additional, harmful stress reactions. Therefore, healthcare institutions and management should include stress evaluation tests and coping models for improving job satisfaction and productivity. Stress is normal and, as human beings, we have multiple strategies for coping with stress. Therefore, working in a highly stressful department like intensive care and frequently managing life-threatening emergencies will not be an issue, unless the amount of stress exceeds our coping mechanisms for dealing with that stress. The key factor is, therefore, self-awareness of your own coping anti-stress mechanism (Koinis et al. 2015).\n\nCoping With Fatigue\n\nThe link between health care workers’ fatigue and adverse events is well documented, with a substantial number of studies indicating that the practice of extended work hours contributes to high levels of worker fatigue and reduced productivity.\n\nFatigue can lead to memory lapses, delayed judgment, diminished reaction time, lapses in attention or inability to stay focused, ineffective communication, irritability, and lack of motivation. To reduce the occurrence and impact of health workers’ fatigue, the Joint Commission recommends that all health care organisations should consider inviting employee input when creating work schedules to reduce fatigue, adopt a fatigue-management plan with scientific strategies for reducing fatigue, educate staff on the importance of sleep and sleep hygiene, and consider fatigue a potential cause when reviewing adverse events (Noone and Waclawski 2018).\n\n\nEmpathy is an essential element in providing quality patient care and consists of the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Expressing empathy is highly effective and powerful; it builds patient trust, calms anxiety, and can improve health outcomes. In fact, a meta-analysis of studies that evaluated various contextual influences on patient outcomes found that physicians who adopted a reassuring, warm and friendly approach were more effective than those employing a detached concern (Di Biasi et al. 2001). Despite the clear importance of empathy in clinical settings, many physicians experience difficulties in empathising with their patients. Empathy towards co-workers is also a key skill in the workplace. It can help in resolving conflicts, in building more productive teams, and it contributes to the improvement of the relationships among colleagues.\n\n\nResilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, threats or significant sources of stress. It is an important skill in critical care medicine because it plays a role in the ability to withstand both everyday workplace stressors and serious incidents without becoming psychologically harmed. Low resilience is associated with burnout, low compassion satisfaction, high secondary traumatic stress and more frequent use of maladaptive coping mechanisms, including self-blame, behavioural disengagement and substance use (McCain et al. 2018; Baid 2018).\n\nNon-Technical Skills Assessment and Training\n\nThere are several tools in literature to evaluate NTS that should be applied in critical care medicine. Training, including simulation, to develop NTS, has been successfully introduced in the past years with significant benefits (Flin and Maran 2004; Hagemann et al. 2017). Simulation has multiple well-documented advantages including meeting educational needs, improving individual and team performances, identifying latent patient safety threats and infrastructural defects. Furthermore, simulation can facilitate introducing protocols and guidelines and assessing their application. Several patient safety incidents appear to be related to deficiencies in human factors and ergonomics. Simulation provides an ideal approach not only for addressing deficiencies in human factor skills, but also in analysing and addressing key environmental and organisational issues and how these interplay and affect outcomes in-patient care pathways. Simulation is especially important in ICUs as patient care is complex and multi-disciplinarian, therefore increasing the likelihood of medical errors. There are barriers to setting up a simulation programme, mainly related to costs and clinical workload.\n\n\nThere is scientific evidence that the lack of NTS is associated with poor performance and fatal errors in critical care medicine. The principles and practice of HF can help intensivists and all the multidisciplinary ICU teams to deliver high quality of care to patients and to work in a nicer and more productive environment (Carayon 2006; Carayon 2010).\n\nConflict of interest\n\n\nKey Points\n\n  • Human Factors (HF) is an established scientific discipline that studies the interrelationship between humans, equipment, and work environment.\n  • HF include situation awareness, decision making, communication, team working, leadership, managing stress and coping with fatigue, empathy and resilience.\n\n\nCOVID-19: Molecular Mechanisms of Gender Differences »»\n\n\nBaid H (2018) Resilience in critical care nurses – is it desirable? Nurs Crit Care, 23:281-282.\n\nCarayon P, Schoofs Hundt A, Karsh B et al. (2006) Work system design for patient safety: the SEIPS model. BMJ Quality & Safety, 15:i50-i58.\n\nCarayon P, Wood KE (2010) Patient Safety: The Role of Human Factors and Systems Engineering. 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Qual Saf Health Care,13 (Suppl 1); 80-i84.\n\nHagemann V, Herbstreit F, Kehren C, Chittamadathil J, Wolfertz S, Dirkmann D, Kluge A, Peters J (2017) Does teaching non-technical skills to medical students improve those skills and simulated patient outcome. Int J Med Educ, 8:101-113.\n\nKoinis A, Giannou V, Drantaki V et al. (2015) The Impact of Healthcare Workers Job Environment on Their Mental-emotional Health. Coping Strategies: The Case of a Local General Hospital. Health Psychol Res, 13; 3:1984.\n\nMcCain RS, McKinley N, Dempster M, et al. (2018) A study of the relationship between resilience, burnout and coping strategies in doctors. Postgrad Med J, 94:43-47.\n\n\nMitchell P, Wynia M, Golden R (2012)  Core principles & values of effective team-based health care. Discussion Paper, Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC. Available from\n\nNoone P, Waclawski E (2018) Fatigue risk management systems needed in healthcare. 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American Psychologist, 73, 433–450.\n\nRelated IssueArticles\n\nT hey say that in the world of the intensive care unit (ICU), there is no night. It can be qualified as a lesser day, but not... Read more\n\nNassim Taleb, in his book, \"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,\" describes the term Black Swan as a rare,... Read more\n\nThe Night in the ICU  Read more\n\npatient safety, human factors, HF, efficiency of care Human Factors in Critical Care Medicine\n\nNo comment\n\nPlease login to leave a comment...\n\nHighlighted Products", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999253511428833}
+{"content": "Business News\n\nIndonesia Government Prohibit Homecoming During Islamic Ied Holiday 2021\nThe government prohibits Islamic Ied holiday 2021 homecoming trips from 6-17 May.\n\nHowever, to minimize the number of travelers leaving early, the police have begun to prevent Islamic Ied 2021 homecoming activities at 333 specific points since Monday (12/4/2021).\n\nThis activity is carried out through Highway Police Operation Safety until April 25, 2021.\n\nThis activity is expected to prevent a spike in Covid-19 cases due to people traveling from outside the city.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000100135803223}
+{"content": "Christopher Badger, “Lunar Mirror” | Visual Art Source\n\nWritten by DeWitt Cheng\nVisual Art Source\nFull review here\n\nThe battle between reason and emotion has deep historical roots in art. In the early 19th century there was Neoclassism versus Romanticism; then there was the utopian and dystopian wings of modernism in the twentieth. In current discourse, that conflict between human Lapiths and bestial Centaurs takes shape as a clash between culture and nature, one that favored the former a generation ago, but only for a time. In recent years we have come to see culture in more traditional, modest terms — as a subset of nature…\n\nChristopher Badger’s “Lunar Mirrors” focus on the mathematics of astronomy — the rigorous simplification required to construct analytical models — and the elusive realities of the material world—in this case, the moon, that mutable satellite that affects both the tides and, if you believe in astrology, the affairs of men. A previous sculpture by this Los Angeles-based conceptual artist and musician, “Monument To Secrets Lost In The Night Of Time,” took the form of a large irregular seven-sided polygon (or heptagon) fabricated from door-frame components. The meta-object contained smaller concentric heptagons, like nesting Russian dolls, framing a central aperture.\n\nWith this new work Badger divides his interests in mathematics and randomness or irregularity, previously combined, into 2D and 3D works, respectively. Square-format drawings or paintings in chalk and oil paint on black gessoed panels suggest blackboards as well as astronomical charts. “Lunar Mirrors” are silvery cast-aluminum moonscapes, replete with mountains, craters and fissures. Some of them are wall-mounted, while others are floor-mounted, atop short-legged tables. They invoke the moon’s historical identity as earth’s withdrawn, ghostly partner or, in mythic terms, the female yang to the sun’s complementary yin.\n\nThe elegant minimalism of Badger’s astronomical charts or diagrams emphasizes the antique rationality of Newtonian physics, with perfect spheres, variously illuminated, pictured in their various aspects and phases, or illustrating, in the polygon pieces, with their circular orbits and trajectories, that planetary bodies obey physical laws. This is a readily comprehensible, navigable Renaissance space, even if it’s airless. The seven-foot-square “Shadow Phase” presents a circle of sixteen circular moons, at various degrees of illumination, with a full moon at noon and a new moon a six o’clock. Slightly larger circles are inscribed in white lines both inside and outside the circular cycle, tangent to the shaded moons. It’s all steeped in orderly progression, closer to the aesthetically appealing but mathematically and astronomically impossible crystal sphere’s of the Ptolemaic system, the Divine Clockwork universe long since shattered by modern scientific knowledge. \n\n“The Construction 3-15” series, comprised of four-foot-square works, uses polygons of various types, centered in the black image field, to generate various circular projections, which are tinted in various gray shades, suggesting lens flare, gravitational fields, ionization zones, etc. The geometric solids of trigon, tetragon, pentagon, hexagon, octagon decagon, dodecagon, and pentadecagon, with their three to fifteen sides, thus take on cosmic, symbolic and even, if you are a peruser of alchemical, theosophical, or religious publications, mystical implications.\n\nThe more random, contingent nature of reality is reflected, literally, in the shiny but optically distorted surfaces of Badger’s “Lunar Mirrors,” which are derived from 1974 Apollo 15 photographs. Necho, Proclus Crater, Rima Dawes, Rima Hadley and King Central Peaks may be accurate models of real places, but they’re imperfect objects of contemplation and poor vehicles for self-scrutiny; to this Pacific Coaster, the nacreous surfaces suggest abalone shells, or perhaps the liquid-mercury rivers entombed, along with his clay armies, with the First Chinese Emperor.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9401602745056152}
+{"content": "What is buprenorphine?\n\nBuprenorphine (brand names: Buprenex®, Simbadol®, Belbuca®, Vetergesic®, Buprenodale®, Sublocade®, Suboxone®, Subutex®, Temgesic®) is an opioid analgesic used to treat pain, or is used as a preanesthetic in the hospital or clinic setting.\n\nIts use in dogs, small mammals, large animals, and sometimes cats to treat pain is ‘off label’ or ‘extra label’. Many drugs are commonly prescribed for off label use in veterinary medicine. In these instances, follow your veterinarian’s directions and cautions very carefully as their directions may be significantly different from those on the label.\n\n\nHow is buprenorphine given?\n\nBuprenorphine is given by mouth in the form of a liquid. It should not be eaten, but rather it should be squirted into the side of the mouth into the cheek pouch or under the tongue so that it can be absorbed through the mouth. Measure liquid doses very carefully, as this is a potent drug. It can also be given by injection in the hospital or clinic setting. Occasionally, you may be asked to give injections of this medication under the skin at home; be sure to follow your veterinarian’s instructions carefully.\n\n\n\nWhat if I miss giving my pet the medication?\n\n\n\nAre there any potential side effects?\n\nThe most common side effect is sleepiness. Injections into the muscle may cause pain at the injection site. In dogs, agitation, low or high heart rate, vomiting, low body temperature, or high blood pressure may rarely occur. In cats, behavior changes, increased heart rate or body temperature, or vomiting is rare but may occur. Serious side effects are uncommon but can include severely decreased breathing rate. In horses and rabbits, slower gastrointestinal movements can occur. \n\n\n\nAre there any risk factors for this medication?\n\n\n\nAre there any drug interactions I should be aware of?\n\nThe following medications should be used with caution when given with buprenorphine: local anesthetics, anticonvulsants, azole antifungals, benzodiazepines, cisapride, central nervous system depressant agents, cyclobenzaprine, desmopressin, erythromycin, fentanyl, halothane, metoclopramide, MAOIs (antidepressants), naloxone, pancuronium, phenobarbital, rifampin, serotonergic agents, or tramadol.\n\n\n\n\nYour veterinarian may monitor your pet to be sure that the medication is working. Monitor your pet for adverse side effects, especially heart function and breathing.\n\n\nHow do I store buprenorphine?\n\nStore at room temperature between 20°C and 25°C (68°F and 77°F) and protected from light, excessive heat above 40°C (104°F), and freezing. Follow the storage directions on the label for compounded forms of this medication.\n\n\nWhat should I do in case of emergency?\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9791393280029297}
+{"content": "Forever Young\n\nSale price Price R 450.00 Regular price Unit price  per \n\nDelivery fee added at checkout\n\nForever Young has a meadowy countryside feel and is bound to bring some cheer into your friend's day.\n\nInspired by Alphaville's 1984 tune, this arrangement is a fitting reminder that it's in our power to seize the day while we're able to. \n\n\"Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while\nHeaven can wait we're only watching the skies\"\n\n\nThe arrangement includes: \n\nThe Hero Flower\nInca Lilies - Graceful, harmonious and uplifting.\nThe Supporting Stems\nDelphiniums - Playful, enchanting and fresh.\nThe Foliage\nMichaelmas Daisies - Joyful, radiant and natural. \n\n\n\nNote: Flowers are unique and seasonal. On the rare occasion we need to substitute flower varieties, we will ensure we maintain the highest quality arrangement. \n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9385427236557007}
+{"content": "Why is decrypt failing for this site\nShowing results for \nSearch instead for \nDid you mean: \n\nWhy is decrypt failing for this site\n\nL4 Transporter\n\n\n\n\n\nmy PA's use the unsecure CA..\n\ntring to work out why.\n\n\nLast I checked there was no log so ...\n\n\nCyber Elite\nCyber Elite\n\nFrom what I can see (without troubleshooting this deeply on a PA), it could be because of something called \"Extended Master Secret\". As the webserver behind your mentionned website is a windows server this might be the reason as I have seen this reason for failed decryptions only on windows servers so far. Other things that might be a reason I cannot see in the webservers TLS configuration.\n\nBut to be sure you probably need to dig deeper (or open a support case and let PaloAlto do this work ;)\n\nI have been down this route before - capturing packets etc ... they haven't been helpful.\n\n\nThe point I was trying to make was there is not enough logging around this.\n\n\n\nIn the traffic logs or default packet captures, yes there is not enough information. But on the CLI you will be able to see what you want to.\n\n\ndebug dataplane packet-diag set log feature proxy all\ndebug dataplane packet-diag set log feature ssl all\n\n\nLike what you see?\n\nShow your appreciation!\n\n\n\n\n\nThe LIVEcommunity thanks you for your participation!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8363648056983948}
+{"content": "Skip to main content\n\nConsidering Patient Needs to Ensure Effective Treatments and Reduce Payer Costs\n\nJune 01, 2021\n\njoanne mortimer, MD, City of HopeJoanne Mortimer, MD, director of women’s cancer programs at City of Hope, discusses the unique challenges of treating breast cancer, the importance of patient-centered treatment, and what payers can do to better accommodate patient needs while reducing costs.\n\nRead the full transcript:\n\nWelcome back to PopHealth Perspectives, a conversation with the Population Health Learning Network where we combine expert commentary and exclusive insight into key issues in population health management and more.\n\nToday we are joined by Dr. Joanne Mortimer, director of Women's Cancer Programs at City of Hope. She discusses the unique challenges of treating breast cancer, the importance of patient‑centered treatment, and what payers can do to better accommodate patient needs while reducing costs. Dr. Mortimer?\n\nMy name is Joanne Mortimer. I am currently the director of our Women's Cancers Program at City of Hope. I've been taking care of women with breast cancer for 35 years, so I've had the opportunity to watch a great deal of change over time.\n\nAfter I finished training, we used to get a drug every 10 years. In the '70s, it was Adriamycin. In the '80s, it was Cisplatin, and then it was etoposide. The rapid change in the landscape of how many new drugs we have is both exciting and very sobering and it makes it very complex to be able to keep up with the treatment of breast cancer patients.\n\nWhat are some common challenges in treating breast cancer that make it unique compared to other types of cancer, and where do you see the future going in terms of care?\n\nIt's an incredible challenge, no matter what specialty of oncology you're in, to keep up. There are so many new targeted agents that have very different side effects than the ones we're used to. You have to not only learn what the drugs are, what their indications, and what the unique side effects are.\n\nAdditionally, we have a number of molecular tests. These are wonderful, they help us to define who needs chemotherapy and who does not, how long to give treatment for, and importantly, germline testing tells us who is at risk for certain types of cancer and how we should follow them over time.\n\nAnother challenge with breast cancer, which is somewhat unique is that breast cancer is a chronic disease. While there are subtypes of breast cancer which can be very aggressive, like triple‑negative breast cancer, for the majority of breast cancer, it's diagnosed at an early stage.\n\nThe cure rate is incredibly high for those women diagnosed at an early stage. This makes understanding the patient experience so much more important because survivorship and the problems that women experience during survivorship have become the purview of the medical oncologist.\n\nHow we manage the side effects of estrogen deprivation at very young ages is a component of the care of breast cancer patients. For women who have metastatic disease, again, this can be a very chronic process.\n\nWomen with estrogen‑positive breast cancer are on and off different endocrine therapies that may keep them in and out of remission for years and even decades, in some cases. For women with HER2‑positive breast cancer, there are so many new HER2‑directed agents that this also has become a very chronic disease that women live for years, even with metastatic disease.\n\nSome of the new challenges that come up are brain metastases. That's true, certainly in the HER2‑positive arena because as women with breast cancer, especially HER2‑positive and triple‑negative breast cancer live longer, they are at increased risk for developing brain metastases. Again, we're balancing the toxicity of surgery and radiation with quality of life.\n\nIn the past, where we used to give whole brain radiation to most women with brain metastases, now, our treatments tend to be more local with surgery and radiation and stereotactic radiation, because we want to avoid the long-term complications of whole brain radiation as these women have the opportunity to live longer and longer, and we want to maximize their quality of life.\n\nAs far as the future, we continue to understand the genetic makeup of cancer and the biology of cancer, which allows us to get new drugs for the treatment of breast cancer. Another area that's important is understanding the patient and their own immune system. That may not be the right term, but their own biologic makeup.\n\nRight now, younger women with breast cancer have worse outcomes stage for stage, even when they're treated appropriately. What is about the makeup of a younger patient that makes their cancer behave more aggressively, have more recurrences, and a greater likelihood of dying of breast cancer than the older woman?\n\nThe future is understanding the biology of cancer and developing new drugs, understanding the genetic makeup of who's at risk for getting breast cancer, and understanding the inherent makeup of individuals, whether it's by age or by individuals themselves, that may impact the side effects of drugs and how the drugs are handled in that individual patient and how the cancer behaves in that environment.\n\nAnother aspect in the future and I want to talk about, the importance of advocacy. Our patients are our true partners in treating them and understanding the disease, and also how they experience breast cancer and the side effects of treatment.\n\nThey are incredibly important partners in not only their own treatment, but in our understanding of breast cancer and how to improve therapies in patients. Also to help us to understand what is important, not just the psychosocial but the toxicities of treatment, the financial issues. The continued role of advocacy, I see only increasing in the future.\n\nWe often hear about multidisciplinary teams. In your experience, what has it been like navigating through breast cancer with the whole care team?\n\nPeople always talk about, breast cancer is a team sport. Breast cancer, like all cancers right now, involves the patient and families who are at the center of multidisciplinary treatment team that includes surgeons and medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, and pathologists.\n\nOur pharmacists partner with us, and they are important in making sure that we prescribe the right dose of the drug, that we've given the appropriate antiemetics, and increasingly, our pharmacists are called upon to navigate the financial landscape of these very expensive oral agents that we use.\n\nThese new agents are so incredibly important in improving quality of life and longevity, and yet the cost of them is often prohibitive. The ability to get these drugs for all our patients often takes a team, our financial team as well as our pharmacists.\n\nThe other components of the team, which I think are variable across practices are the psychosocial support teams. At City of Hope, we're very fortunate to have a robust psychosocial team who actually see each of our patients and their support person at the time of diagnosis.\n\nDuring this visit, they talk about what their concerns are, and our social workers work with them to talk about strength‑based support. Women like to process and they like to talk about their cancer and the problems that they're facing, and the emotional issues, and men like to fix things. At these initial visits, we talk about how those different types of personalities can help to support each other.\n\nWe discuss how men should just listen to women, you don't have to fix it if they've talked about something, and women should give men tasks to help them direct their energies to task‑oriented activities that help them to feel that they're supporting the woman and are also obviously incredibly helpful. These psychosocial support systems are very, very important.\n\nWe all are challenged to work with the payers and to the insurers to make sure that our patients have access to the most effective new agents. That will continue to be a challenge now and in the future as we work with pharma and insurers to help them understand the importance of individual treatments on quality of life and longevity.\n\nHow has treatment for breast cancer change during the COVID‑19 pandemic?\n\nInitially, when the pandemic took root, we had a lot of discussion about how to minimize toxicities from treatment that may make a patient myelosuppressed and put them at risk for infection presumably because they were immunocompromised.\n\nWe initially started to delay doing surgeries, putting women upfront on chemotherapy or endocrine therapy to delay their surgery. As time went on, it became apparent that that strategy was not necessary because we were not putting women at increased risk.\n\nIn fact, knowing what their appropriate stage and treatment was, was more important than worrying about any possible complications related to COVID. For women with breast cancer, there hasn't been a lot of change. All along, the women who had metastatic breast cancer continued to receive their treatment because that's their lifeline. During COVID, that did not change.\n\nWhere we see the difference in breast cancer care has been in the screening. Nationally, we see significant decreases in the number of women who underwent their screening mammographies.\n\nWhat we're seeing now, and this is just the beginning of what we're going to see throughout the next year, is an increase in women with locally advanced breast cancer, so cancers that were in place and ignored or not picked up on screening and therefore presented as a greater stage when they're finally diagnosed.\n\nThe impact of COVID has been on new diagnoses of breast cancer and the use of screening mammography.\n\nWhat are some of the biggest areas of breast cancer care and management you think both providers and payers should know about?\n\nI would like the payers to have a better appreciation of the patient experience and the impact on the family and the importance of psychosocial support. I mentioned earlier that we have what we call our couples program where our psychosocial support people or social workers meet with our patients and their family members to talk about psychosocial support throughout the treatment course.\n\nWhat we've demonstrated is that women in our couples programs actually have shorter length of stays in the hospital than the women who were not part of our couples program. What this says is that ultimately having that type of support at home, and that sort of strength of the support does translate into cost savings.\n\nI wish that our payers and our providers would actually study this because, although this is soft science, the psychosocial support, ultimately, it can translate into cost savings.\n\nIs there anything else you'd like to add?\n\nThe importance of the patient in decision‑making cannot be overstated. Over my years, I have learned so much from my patients, whether it's the patients who are not advocates, or our patient advocates who tell us what's important to them.\n\nBecause in treating the patient, if we don't know what's important to the patient, we get caught up in the biology and the science, which is fascinating, and it's incredibly important at making advances, but ultimately, does it help the patient in the long run? The importance of advocacy and incorporating the patient into the decision‑making process cannot be overstated.\n\nThanks for tuning in to another episode of PopHealth Perspectives. For similar content or to join our mailing list, visit\n\n\nYour Name\n1 + 16 =\nBack to Top", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6740596890449524}
+{"content": "Pinned toot\n\nUnder marked otherwise, all posts from this account are 4.0. Unless I send a DM, I want all my posts publicly visible, to any web browser, and any other user app or archival/ research system that speaks (and ideally and too). I'm happy for them to be indexed by any search system and included in any relevant search. That's why I publish them on the web with Mastodon. When I want to have private discussion, I use DMs. One day the AP-verse will do this better.\n\nPinned toot\n\n\"Our collective objective should be, to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offence, or the disadvantage of anyone.\"\n- Buckminster Fuller\n\n\n\"In February, Microsoft announced that the Victorian government could rely on Microsoft’s Vaccination Registration and Administration Solution platform, in use in several US states. According to Microsoft, it would only have to “fine-tune” the platform to render it fit for purpose in Victoria.\n\nWell, it hasn’t worked out that way. The costly platform still isn’t operational\"\n\n\n\"International research shows that the building industry produces nearly 40 percent of all greenhouse gases. Most new buildings erected in the present are built for a 50-year lifespan, meaning they will not survive long enough to repay the amount they cost in carbon to construct. Conversely, preserving older buildings contributes to climate change solutions by storing energy (or embodied energy).\"\n\n- , Wellington historian, 2021\n\nAn Employment Court ruling has reinforced that caring for people with disabilities is work and deserves compensation, even when the care worker is a family member of the person in care:\n\nThe BBC reports that none of the existing COVID-19 vaccines can prevent people from spreading the virus. If people who have been vaccinated against an infection can still spread it, what does this mean for the concept of herd immunity?\n\n\"... most vaccines don't fully protect against infection, even if they can block symptoms from appearing. As a result, vaccinated people can unknowingly carry and spread pathogens. Occasionally, they can even start epidemics.\"\n\nIs the @silence project still alive? I notice there hasn't been a new release on F-Droid for more than a year.\n\nI'll try to provide some running commentary on the conference in the 'verse, like I did for the conference in Hangzhou, China.\n\nShow thread\n\nFor example, the panel on \"Māori/Indigenous Self-Sovereign Identity, and other protocols\", which ...\n\n\"...brings together a group of researchers and practitioners working in the periphery of initiatives such as Te Mana Raraunga – Māori Data Sovereignty Network, and elaborates an indigenous world view on cultural engagement strategies through sociotechnical protocol and Tikanga Māori, to shares its practice across various projects for further knowledge transference and discussion.\"\n\nShow thread\n\nIf you're able to get to Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, NZ) next weekend, you might consider joining me at the Moneylab conference. The programme looks like an intriguing mix of digital tech and social critique:\n\n\n\nStrypey boosted\n\nThe FSF is seeking a principled, compassionate, and capable leader to be its new executive director. This position can be remote or based in our Boston office. Learn more, and learn how to apply:\n\nStrypey boosted\n\nJust tried #Matrix and #Element on #linux desktop for a video call 🎧 .\n\nAnd it #justworked.\n\nI love it when things work exactly as you expect them to work for the first time.\n\nKeep on the good work ,guys developing programms for us end users!\n\nWhy does every region in Aotearoa spend money maintaining its own bus timetable website, apps etc? Wouldn't it make more sense to have one site that provides timetables and other public transport info for the whole country, publishing open data feeds that can be picked up and displayed by any public transport apps?\n\nI stayed up with some friends to witness the blood moon eclipse last night but these folks seemed to get a much better view than we managed to find:\n\nStrypey boosted\n\nGame Dev, Co-ops, The Commons \n\nI've been thinking recently about game development. Specifically, I've been wondering about how to make a collaborative environment where people can either start new projects or jump in to existing ones.\n\nI've been giving this a lot of thought, and I'm curious about the prospect of creating an anarchic, anticapitalist game studio that functions like a startup incubator, but specifically for open source / creative commons indie games.\n\nInstead of startups, capital, or even traditional publishing, people instead join or start teams and projects. The overarching organization acts like a publisher, in the sense that it helps teams package up games for storefronts and maybe funnel money from sales directly to projects.\n\nMaybe this would be good to attempt a cooperative model?\nStrypey boosted\nKind of want to start up on #Sporadic FE development again, but I'm really at a loss on how to make my code acknowledge state with Vuex. It's kind of hard to preemptively know which things I need to target, and what the states should be.\n\nAnyway, here's how far I ultimately got, #fediverse.\n\n@delta Is the full Delta Chat desktop app included in @debian yet? If not, any idea when that might happen?\n\n\"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness\"\n\nThe Buddha on social media 😉\n\nShow older\nMastodon - NZOSS\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6270824074745178}
+{"content": "xchg rax, rax\n\nAssembly code can appear mysterious to the uninitiated. Aspects of the physical machine abstracted away in higher-level languages are referred to directly in its terse commands.\n\nThis chapbook of minimal assembly code poems (its author refers to them as \"snippets\") offers no solutions, context, or explanations to ease this gap, leaving the work of deciphering to the reader. For xorpd, its pseudonymous author, this is exactly the point: to immerse the reader in the machine level of code.\n\nWhen working inside a computer, everything is eventually made of assembly, so this is where you go if you really want to understand how things work.\n\nThere is no extraneous word of text in the book to break that context. The title, xchg rax, rax, is a NOP instruction (pronounced no-op, for no operation): xchg exchanges the data of two operands, in this case of rax with itself. The author's name, xorpd, is a bitwise logical XOR (exclusive or) of packed double-precision floating-point values.\n\nRead More\n\nThis entry originally appeared at esoteric.codes/blog/xchg-rax-rax, and may be a summary or abridged version.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9763189554214478}
+{"content": "A Mindful Approach to Trauma\n\nA Mindful Approach to Trauma\nDisclosure: I have done my utmost to prevent the triggering of difficult thoughts and emotions by labeling anything specific. However, if you believe that this may be a topic that is too overwhelming for you on this day, you will need to make the decision for yourself whether reading this will be conducive to your well-being or not.\n\nTrauma is defined by the American Psychological Association as:\n\n“An emotional response to a terrible event…”\n\nI want to highlight two things here: A An event does not have to be something highly significant for it to be considered traumatic, and B It is not the event itself that causes trauma, it is how it affects us individually.\n\nFor some children, the breakup of their parents will be extremely significant and adjustment concerns present themselves in a big way, whereas other children will adjust quite quickly and the long-term effects are minimal. Many factors give rise to these two presentations, namely attachment style, support systems and resiliency.\n\nI want to explore how mindfulness can support individuals through trauma and the myriad of symptoms and concerns that arise because of trauma. Granted everyone experiences trauma in differing ways, so I will discuss this issue in blanket terms.\n\nGenerally, proceeding a traumatic event we will witness shock, denial, isolation, anger, memory loss, dissociation, flashbacks, hypervigilance and avoidance. Normal memories are stored in our brain in a uniform fashion however memories of traumatic incidents do not store themselves in this way, rather they store as puzzle pieces, fragmented portions of the event, sights, sounds, smells and feelings. Our brain, feeling under threat effectively goes into survival mode and when this happens memories just don’t have the chance to be processed appropriately. Flashbacks for example are pieces of our puzzle that are protruding through our consciousness but don’t make sense to us because we don’t have the narrative to our story as it is so fragmented. Past and present, facts and feelings all become blurred.\n\nMindfulness has been empirically proven effective in supporting those who have experienced trauma because it:\n\n  • Helps with accepting what has happened. This doesn’t mean forgiveness or being ok with what has taken place. But accepting is such a powerful tool which allows us to start moving on with our lives.\n  • Mindfulness, meditation and yoga have a significant effect on our well-being by reducing stress levels and reducing traumas effect on our nervous system.\n  • It supports us to reconnect our body with our mind so that real healing can take place. This connection is often severed after trauma as our brain tries to dissociate from the overwhelming physical sensations and feelings of our body. Physical movement allows our bodies to digest the trauma and we then have more of an idea of how we can look after ourselves to feel whole again.\n  • It allows us to put words and feelings to how we have been impacted so we can start to express ourselves appropriately.\n  • Mindfulness helps us to process our memories and re-create our trauma story.\n  • When trauma is encountered, the brain changes in response to the event to cope and adapt to the situation. Mindfulness and meditation helps to reverse this deregulation.\n  • It helps re-train our brain to get out of the vicious cycle of negative self-talk we engage in after a traumatic event. It trains us in how to “unstick” ourselves.\n\n\nHere is my “Mindful Toolkit For Trauma”\n\n\nActivities such as yoga , walking, tai chi or any exercise that employs cross coordination. This assists with the mind-body connection I spoke about earlier. In yoga specifically try forward bends, back bends and twisting postures. Forward bends and back bends are recommended for anxiety-twisted postures are not. These postures can set you up for a restful meditation as well.\n\n\nThis allows your mind the time to rest and learn to be ok with ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’. Doing is great sometimes, but can have an adverse effect as it keeps us from confronting how we are feeling by always being busy. When we avoid our thoughts and our feelings we can never truly heal. Practice with small guided meditations that are centered around soothing or serene sounds that you are comfortable with.\n\n\nStart re-training your brain to direct its attention towards helpful stimuli. This not only improves our mood and mindset but it allows for healthy pathways to be established in our brain. Once our brain is alerted to areas that are going well it starts the process of actively seeking out more of these things.\n\nGratitude Journals by AwesoME Inc HERE >\n\n\nWhen our attention is on the present it helps us work with our emotions and feelings more appropriately and it supports us with making the distinction between “this happened in the past, it is not happening right now”, “I am safe in the here and now”, “I can control my current experience”.\n\n\n\nTo note: If this is an area you are passionate about or if you would like to share your story feel free to get in touch. If this has brought up any discomfort for you ensure that you discuss this with someone that you trust. Mindfulness is a helpful adjunct to other therapies and the role of a support worker, psychologist or counsellor is often pivotal in guiding someone through this journey.\n\nFurther, because we are challenged to bear witness to what has been stored inside our minds, bodies and hearts this can be particularly confronting, so going slow and reaching out is key.\n\n\n\nAbout Victoria Hood\n\n\n\n\nLeave a comment\n\nAll blog comments are checked prior to publishing\nYou have successfully subscribed!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8496018648147583}
+{"content": "China and Russia form common front against the West\n\n\nGerry Shih, “Faced with sanctions and condemnation from the West, China becomes bedfellows with Russia,” Washington Post, March 24, 2021 (7:52 a.m. EDT).\n\nThis article could have been entitled, “Speak loudly and carry a twig.”x\n\nPresident Joe Biden can speak powerfully, when he speaks as the captain of his team, and is on script. He speaks most powerfully through his team’s and his actions. The two most powerful things he has said are things he has done:\n\n1) He has organized a capable team which is leading the fight against Covid-19 and which has achieved a level and pace of vaccinations which is the envy of the world; and\n\n2) He has secured the passage of a $1.9 trillion Covid recovery package which is a historic achievement.\n\nBut when Biden speaks off-script, he is a loose canon, and often makes colossal mistakes. This is the Joe Biden we have known for 40 years.\n\nHe hasn’t changed, except in one critical regard. He has developed the ability to stay on message, as he did during the campaign.\n\nWithout his first-rate campaign team, which successfully imposed message discipline on Biden, he would never have won the 2020 election.\n\nHowever, there is evidence that suggests that Biden, like Donald Trump, resents the handlers who seek to impose message discipline on him.\n\nActually, Biden is a great communicator, when he is on message. Without message discipline he can make huge mistakes.\n\n\n1) Frank Bruni, “Biden Has Disappeared\nHis presidency will be transformational to the extent that he transforms himself,” New York Times, March 19, 2021.\n\n2) Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks, Biden’s got the buzz. Who’s smirking now?” New York Times, March 20, 2021.\n\n\n\n\nComing from a former KGB officer, those words amounted to an assassination threat, and were undoubtedly understood in Russia and elsewhere as such.\n\nAnyone knowledgeable about diplomacy and international affairs knows the risks and costs of speaking such unvarnished truths about other heads of state with whom one must seek cooperation, on some matters, in the future.\n\nIn Anchorage, Alaska, in the first meeting of its kind in some time between the Chinese Foreign Minister and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Blinken made the monumental mistake of grandstanding for domestic opinion, instead of attepting to establish good working relationships with the Chinese. Here, Blinken’s lack of previous day-to-day overseas diplomatic experience may have been a factor in the harshness of his approach, though he has held high-level foreign policy positions in the State Department and the White House.\n\nBiden’s first big mistakes vis-à-vis Russia and China were to publicly call Putin a “killer” and to adopt a confrontational attitude at the first bi-lateral meeting at the foreign minister level with China.\n\nIn both cases, Buden and Blinken were playing primarily to their domestic audience. The point is not that Biden and Blinken should not have spelled out in detail their criticisms of China. The point, rather, is that this was the wrong time and the wrong place to make these points.\n\nTo do so in a face-to-face meeting with the Chinese foreign minister and his delegation, in public, may have been particularly offensive on a personal level, in terms of Chinese culture.\n\n\nFor an insightful account of Chinene-Russian cooperation against the U.S.and its allies, see,\n\nPiotr Smolar, “La Chine et la Russie opposent un front commun à l’Occident; Ces deux régimes autoritaires, redoutables dans le domaine cyber, sont alliés dans les arènes multilatérales, s’épaulant au nom d’une même lecture des relations internationales,” Le Monde, le 24 Mars 2021 (14h00, mis à jour à 18h44).\n\nThe Trenchant Observer", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9917955994606018}
+{"content": "We are experiencing Brexit-related stock shortages. Please check back in in a few days || Orders over £50 qualify for free delivery. Standard delivery cost is £5.\n\n\nInduna was a regal elephant, strong in stature with tusks that earned him the label of a “tusker”. A tusker is an elephant with tusks that weigh more than 45.45 kg/100 lbs each.\nInduna was an amazing sight to behold, with the gentle movements of a patient giant moving through the bush, he carried a pair of the largest tusks in South Africa at the time. Estimated to be about 50 years old, the combined weight of his tusks was thought to be about 107 kg/235 lbs, more than the weight of an average man. Like any elephant, especially a male, Induna didn’t hesitate to claim his territory if needed or trumpet warnings and shake his head at any male attempting to intrude.\n\nThe big tuskers in the Tembe Elephant Park are truly magnificent, and losing one always seems sad. Induna lived a long life and died as he should have, of natural causes. Even in death these creatures demand our respect, with their memories living on through stories and pictures, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Farewell Induna, your life was truly one of magnificence.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.737686276435852}
+{"content": "A generalized 3-D Hilbert scan using look-up tables\n\nJian Zhang, Sei Ichiro Kamata\n\n研究成果: Article査読\n\n4 被引用数 (Scopus)\n\n\nThe Hilbert curve is a one-to-one mapping between multidimensional space and one-dimensional (1-D) space. Due to the advantage of preserving high correlation of multidimensional points, it receives much attention in many areas. Especially in image processing, Hilbert curve is studied actively as a scan technique (Hilbert scan). Currently there have been several Hilbert scan algorithms, but they usually have strict implementation conditions. For example, they use recursive functions to generate scans, which makes the algorithms complex and difficult to implement in real-time systems. Moreover the length of each side in a scanned region should be same and equal to the power of two, which limits the application of Hilbert scan greatly. In this paper, to remove the constraints and improve the Hilbert scan for a general application, an effective generalized three-dimensional (3-D) Hilbert scan algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm uses two simple look-up tables instead of recursive functions to generate a scan, which greatly reduces the computational complexity and saves storage memory. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the proposed generalized Hilbert scan can also take advantage of the high correlation between neighboring lattice points in an arbitrarily-sized cuboid region, and give competitive performance in comparison with some common scan techniques.\n\nジャーナルJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation\n出版ステータスPublished - 2012 4\n\nASJC Scopus subject areas\n\n  • Signal Processing\n  • Media Technology\n  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition\n  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering\n\nフィンガープリント 「A generalized 3-D Hilbert scan using look-up tables」の研究トピックを掘り下げます。これらがまとまってユニークなフィンガープリントを構成します。", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9815642833709717}
+{"content": "Built by Angels\n\nAs legend tells it, the Old-New Synagogue in Prague was built by angels, and later was home to a golem who remains locked away in the building to this day. In lyrical prose, Mark Podwal shares the story of the world’s oldest active synagogue, which was completed in 1270. Throughout the years, this sacred place of prayer and celebration has endured plagues, wars, and the Nazi regime. Its story is part legend, part history, and one that stands as a testament to the perseverance of the Jewish people.\n\nA New Frontier: The Peace Corps in Eastern Europe\n\nA collection of black-and-white photographs offers a dramatic portrait of the Peace Corps teachers, business specialists, and other volunteers in the ex-Communist countries of Eastern Europe.\n\nThe Book of Jude\n\nIn 1989, when fifteen-year-old Jude’s mother wins a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Czechoslovakia, the family postpones a planned move to Utah to join her, but the political situation and the move itself are too much for Jude, who is overwhelmed by a previously undiagnosed psychological disorder.\n\nTorn Thread\n\nIn an attempt to save his daughter’s life, Eva’s father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia where she and her sister survive the war.\n\n\nExplaining the complex political and social backdrop that allowed the Holocaust to occur, as well as its progression and aftermath, this comprehensive volume contains first-hand testimony from survivors and enables readers to appreciate the impact of the Holocaust on real people and the lives they and their families have rebuilt today.\n\nI Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor\n\n\nYou Can Go Home Again\n\nThe woman describes her childhood and her Aunt Anna and Uncle Billy, who lived in a wonderful mansion filled with beautiful carpets, vases, and paintings. Most special of all were four ebony elephants that she loved to played with. When World War II began, she was sent to live in Canada and, while she was gone, her aunt, uncle, and father died. After hearing the story, Annie wants to visit the old country, and her mother agrees that it is time. Annie is determined to find the elephants, but it is not until they visit a restaurant on their last night that she discovers the figurines in a glass case and hears the story of how Uncle Billy left them there for his niece to find.\n\nSomeone Named Eva\n\nOn the night Nazi soldiers come to her home in Czechoslovakia, Milada’s grandmother says, “Remember, Milada. Remember who you are. Always.” Milada promises, but she doesn’t understand her grandmother’s words. After all, she is Milada, who lives with her mama and papa, her brother and sister, and her beloved Babichka. Milada, eleven years old, the fastest runner in school. How could she ever forget?Then the Nazis take Milada away from her family and send her to a Lebensborn center in Poland. There, she is told she fits the Aryan ideal: her blond hair and blue eyes are the right color; her head and nose, the right size. She is given a new name, Eva, and trained to become the perfect German citizen, to be the hope of Germany’s future—and to forget she was ever a Czech girl named Milada.Inspired by real events, this fascinating novel sheds light on a little-known aspect of the Nazi agenda and movingly portrays a young girl’s struggle to hold on to her identity and her hope in the face of a regime intent on destroying both.\n\nThe Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain\n\nPeter Sis draws us into the world that shaped him–Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. World War II had ended, and the Germans had left, but Czechoslovakia was still an occupied country, this time by the Russians. As tensions between Eastern Europe and the free world intensified, borders to the West were fortified with fences and walls–the Iron Curtain had descended. Behind it were many people who wanted to be free. And as Peter grows up, he becomes one of them.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6221646070480347}
+{"content": "Scheduling Committee\n\nThis committee page is under construction.  As we move to common metal, we are working to update information to reflect the new JCBA provisions.\n\nThe Scheduling Committee is responsible for the construction of the lines of flying each month. Members of this committee build domestic, international and reserve lines after receiving trip Pairings for the upcoming month.  \n\n[pmUA Info]\n\n[pmCO Info]\n\n\n\nSharlene Kirk* (808) 372-0909\nMarina Bins  (832) 607-1531\n\nSusanne Bobish (414) 350-0336\n\nMelanie Gonzales (310) 740-2701\n\nGreg Jacobs (661) 304-0736\nLudmila Parev-Connole (714) 955-3255\n\nKathryn Satow  (310) 993-2707\nRajneeta Smith (206) 354-9045\nTeri Tillman (310) 467-6426\n\nMindy Thai (626) 416-8008\nJames Thrombley (713) 344-3981\n\n\nEmail: scheduling@afalax.org\n\n\n\nAs provided in Section 12.B of the JCBA, vacation pay will be 3:15 per vacation day prorated for any partial day. \n\n\nReserves are paid 3:15 hours per vacation day, prorated for any partial day. Reserves awarded a full month Reserve schedule and who have vacation are protected by the language in the Contract and will be paid the Reserve minimum guarantee of  83 hours (pmCO) / 78 hours (pmUA).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8109755516052246}
+{"content": "Bernice Bobs Her Hair\n\n1475 Words6 Pages\n\n\nEverything is\n…show more content…\nThe reference to the sphinx gives insight to the reader that quite the opposite is true. Marjorie is afraid that Warren may actually really have feelings for Bernice and feels threatened. \"You may as well stop making a foool of yourself over Warren McIntyre. He doesn 't care a snap of his fingers about you\" (Fitzgerald 15). If Marjorie actually felt this way, she would not of approached Bernice in this manner. Bernice had successfully destructed the untouchable.\nDisliked by the French as a foreigner, she made herself more unpopular by her devotion to the interests of Austria, the bad reputations of some of her friends, and her extravagance, which was mistakenly blamed for the financial problems of the French government. Especially damaging was her supposed connection with the so-called Diamond Necklace affair (see Diamond Necklace, Affair of the), a scandal involving the fraudulent purchase of some jewels (1785).Marie and Louis tried to escape from Paris with their surviving son in 1791, but they were captured and brought back prisoners. In 1792 the monarchy was overthrown, and after the execution of the king and separation from her son, she was sent before the revolutionary tribunal the following year. Sentenced to death for treason, she was guillotined in Paris on October 16, 1793.\n\"Bernice had all the sensations of Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine in a tumbrel\" (Fitzgerald 17). This comparison emphasizes the fact that she knows\nGet Access", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5050296783447266}
+{"content": "Secrets and techniques About Protection: A Light Intro For you to Crypto Various currencies\n\nPermit us consider the example of scrambling an egg. 1st, crack the shell, pour the contents into a bowl and conquer the contents vigorously until finally you attained the essential result – properly, a scrambled egg. This motion of mixing the molecules of the egg is encryption. Considering that the molecules are blended-up, we say the egg has achieved a increased condition of entropy (condition of randomness). To return the scrambled egg to its original type (which includes uncracking the shell) is decryption. Not possible?\n\nHowever, if we substitute the term “egg” and exchange it with “variety”, “molecules” with “digits”, it is Attainable. This, my good friend, is the thrilling globe of cryptography (crypto for quick). It is a new discipline dominated by talented mathematicians who employs vocabulary like “non-linear polynomial relations”, “overdefined systems of multivariate polynomial equations”, “Galois fields”, and so forth. These cryptographers makes use of language that mere mortals like us are not able to pretend to understand.\n\nIn the personal computer, everything stored are quantities. Your MP3 file is a variety. Your textual content information is a amount. Your deal with ebook is a lengthier variety. The number sixty five signifies the character “A”, 97 for the tiny “a”, and so on.\n\nFor , we acknowledge quantities with the digits from to nine, the place else, the pc can only recognize or one. This is the binary method which uses bits instead of digits. To convert bits to digits, just merely multiply the amount of bits by .three to get a good estimation. For case in point, if you have 256-bits of Indonesian Rupiah (one particular of the cheapest forex denomination in the entire world), Monthly bill Gates’ prosperity in comparison would be microscopic.\n\nThe hexadecimal (base 16) method makes use of the 10 digits from to nine, plus the six further symbols from A to F. This set has sixteen different “digits”, consequently the hexadecimal title. This notation is helpful for pc staff to peek into the “real contents” stored by the computer. Alternatively, treat these different amount programs as currencies, be it Euro, Swiss Franc, British Pound and the like. Just like an item can be priced with different values utilizing these currencies, a variety can also be “priced” in these various amount programs as properly.\n\nTo digress a bit, have you ever questioned why you had to examine key numbers in school? I am sure most mathematics instructors do not know this answer. Response: A subbranch known as public-important cryptography which utilizes primary quantities particularly for encrypting e-mails. Over there, they are conversing of even even bigger figures like 2048, 4096, 8192 bits.)\n\nWhen we want to encrypt something, we need to have to use a cipher. A cipher is just an algorithm related to a recipe for baking a cake. It has specific, unambiguous steps. To carry out the encryption method, you want a key (some referred to as it passphrase). A excellent apply in cryptography requirements the important utilised by a cipher must be of substantial entropy to be effective.\n\nInfo Encryption Regular (DES), released as a normal in the late 1970’s, was the most frequently utilised cipher in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. It uses a 56-little bit important. It was damaged in the late 1990’s with specialized personal computers costing about US$250,000 in 56 several hours. With today’s (2005) components, it is possible to crack within a working day.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9366103410720825}
+{"content": "36 C\nMonday, June 14, 2021\nTags Joe Biden\n\nTag: Joe Biden\n\nPompeo to travel to Qatar as part of ‘Mideast peace push’\n\nPompeo is due to travel to Qatar to meet with Amir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, during his last Middle East tour as US...\n\nQatar’s Amir congratulates US President-elect Joe Biden\n\nThe 2020 US election has resulted in a contentious Joe Biden presidential win.  Qatar’s Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent his congratulations to President-elect...\n\n\nAs the United States gears up for the the November 3 presidential election, questions have been raised over the potential impact of a Joe...\n- Advertisment -\n\nMost Read", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8181633353233337}
+{"content": "Course Directory\n\n\n\n  • Poetry\n\n    Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12\n\n    Department: English\n\n    This course has two primary purposes: (1) to introduce students to some of the achievements of poets writing in English and (2) to help students become a discriminating and confident reader and writer of poetry. Students will understand better what poetry is and what kind of responses it invites from its readers. A wide range of poems from different historical periods, written in a wide range of forms and styles will be read and analyzed. The first part of the course will tend to emphasize the various elements of poetry—imagery, figurative language, tone, sound and rhythm. In the second part, students will spend time considering what can be learned from studying a poem in the context of other poems by the same author or poems on a similar subject.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9970382452011108}
+{"content": "How old is Mariah Carey?\n\nMariah Carey was born on 27 March 1970.\nMariah Carey is 51 years old.\n\nHow old is Mariah Carey in days now?\n\nMariah Carey is 51 years 2 months 18 days old.\nTotal 18,707 days old now.\n\nWhen is the next birthday of Mariah Carey?\n\nMariah Carey's next birthday is in 9 months 13 days.\n\nWhat is the zodiac sign of Mariah Carey?\n\nZodiac sign of Mariah Carey is Aries.\n\nKnown for her incredible voice power and a really wide vocal range, Mariah Carey is a notable American singer and a winner of numerous musical awards and wide public recognition. Born in 1970 in Greenlawn, New York, she started her professional career in 1990 with her debut album Mariah, which raised to the Billboard Top 100. Her first albums were released by Columbia Records since Mariah got married to the company's high executive Tom Mattola. With this company, Carey produced her famous pop singles \"Hero\", \"All I Want Is Christmas For You\", \"My All\", etc. In the late 1990s, she changed her musical style and started rather gravitating to hip hop. In 2001 Mariah's project \"Glitter\", a movie which was supposed to repeat the success of Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard, came out, but it marked the beginning of a small decline in Carey's career. She was back on track in 2005 with her new albums and new interesting ideas. She is currently considered to be among 3 best-selling female singers of all times. She has 5 Grammy awards, 10 American Music Awards, and over a dozen Billboard and other awards. Mariah Carey is undoubtedly one of the most influential singers of the early 21st century.\n\nRelated Singers Birthdays\n\nPlease keep up with us:\n\ntwitter Get it on Google Play Age Calculator Chrome Extension", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.997547447681427}
+{"content": "+1 4853618276 support@regentessays.com\n\nLaJolla Securities Inc. specializes in the underwriting of small companies. The terms of a recent offering were as follows:,,Number of shares 3 million ,Offering price $25 per share ,Net proceeds $35 million ,,LaJolla Securities’ expenses associated with the offering were $400,000. Determine LaJolla Securities’ profit on the offering if the secondary market price of the shares immediately after the offering began were as follows:,,,a.$23 per share,$ million,,,,b.$25 per share,$ million,,,,c.$27 per share,$ million", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9856106042861938}
+{"content": "Dryland training for swimmers #1\n\nMarch 27, 2020\n\nDryland training is essential for a swimmer. Spending up to 20 hours at the pool is a normal thing for competitive swimmers. They are the most overtrained athletes in sports. To some of them, dryland is mostly ab flexion exercises while for the others it is endless hours on swim benches.  \n\nThe goal of dryland exercises is to improve the speed in the pool, increase the swimmer’s power and prevent injuries. Since everybody is at home right now and does not have access to the pool, we thought we might share with you some exercises you can practice at home.\n\nIf you like being guided and are comfortable watching videos, you can check this nice tutorial made by SwimUp. It will help improve flexibility, which is the key feature of swimmers. Competitive swimmers do dryland exercises every training season. The quarantine should not stop you from exercising and improving your skills. No pool is not an excuse. \n\nRemember that it does not matter what age are you or when do you start swimming. What really matters is how much you train. Why not try this at home right now?\n\nHope this will help you not get out of shape and we, Sonr Team, support you in this matter. \n\nStay at home.\n\nStay healthy.\n\nKeep training.\n\nLatest News\n\nWhy is swimming good for you?\n\nJune 10, 2021\n\nA healthy lifestyle is ceasing to be \"fashionable\" and becoming a conscious phenomenon.People tend to lead an active lifestyle, play sports, and spend time in the fresh air. You can meet people who run, ride bicycles in the summer, ski in the winter, and walk. The majority of health problems are related to low mobility. Today we're talking about swimming.\n\nHow many calories do you burn swimming?\n\nJune 4, 2021\n\nSwimming burns enough calories to fight weight, and this method of weight loss is suitable for absolutely everyone.But here's the question: how many calories do you burn swimming for an hour or 30 minutes? Which of the styles is most suitable for those who want to become slim? How many laps should you swim? Find out now!\n\nHow to improve your swimming technique\n\nJune 3, 2021\n\nThe swimmer faces a difficult task - to achieve the maximum result. Success depends on many things: the strategy of sports training, the definition of means and methods, the rational construction of loads, regular monitoring of the condition, the search for options for improving the technique.\n\nGet your SONR sooner.\nPre-order now for an exclusive early bird price\n25% OFF\nShipping starts from 20th July, 2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.740322470664978}
+{"content": "Mobile users are being on their devices anywhere they go, and smart cities are continuing to increase every day, and Wi-Fi connection will be broadcast in these cities; therefore, that one may be a challenge for secure, available, performance of Wi-Fi connection. Internet providers in Canada such as Shaw, Telus have been trying to provide free Wi-Fi for their customers when they go to outside home. An example for this would be shopping mall, this service shift customer’s cellular usage to minimizing.\n\nAssume Wi-Fi will be broadcast in every city, that can be a milestone in internet connection history, and this can benefit many users. However, the downside is hard to maintain security, and network performance because the number of users can be millions at the same time. This number will affect the valuable bandwidth, delaying performance, and possibly exposing network security.\n\nThe internet providers need to make sure that they can manage the biggest network connection in the Internet of Things (IoT) age. A smart city can have billions of sensors, and they need to be connected together using different connection protocol (Wi-Fi, Zwave, Zigbee, MQTT, CoAP, Bluetooth, Cellular…). The top fastest internet speed that Shaw having is 600 Mbps, and this number is not stable during the day, so with the current technology will be enough for the IoT demand or not?  \n\nAdditionally, different types of users need to access different resources, and having restrictions based on their role. For instance, residences of the city have different role compare to visitors or contractors. Access control policies are not only important in this case, but also ensure smart cities technical teams be able to manage network security and performance.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7422598600387573}
+{"content": "internet definition\n\nOnline Computer Programming Degree\n\nComputer Programming\n\nC was originally designed to write systems software but is now considered a general-purpose language. Using open source operating systems like Linux, students develop an acquaintance with compilers, scripting languages, frameworks, build tools, APIs, version control software, and their licensing constraints.\n\n\n\n\nComputer Programming\nThe Certificate in Computer Programming program is designed for people who are wishing to make a career change to become computer programmers or computing professionals. Explore computer architecture including basic numerical systems, Boolean logic, functional hardware and software components needed to run programs. Java courses in our Computer Programming Specialist Certificate can prepare you for industry certification. Analyzing, designing, and implementing software applications across various operating systems and platforms.\n\nIn order to compartmentalize different developers, Java had to introduce more code layers for the program to pop through, thereby eating considerable extra CPU cycles. Students expecting long-term employment in programming and beyond should plan on a minimum of a four-year degree, with career opportunities thereafter dependent on job performance and perhaps additional education.\n\nThrough Pine Technical & Community College’s Computer Programming AAS degree and the emphasis in Mobile App Development and Web Programming, you can attain the skills that are essential to addressing the needs of the modern business world. Applications programmers usually specialize in either writing programs just for one professional field, such as science or business.\n\nComputer Programming Certificate Program\n\nThe Computer Programming program provides students with the courses needed to seek employment as a computer programmer. It’s at this stage that they begin leaning toward systems or applications, become interested in networks or databases, and get a feel for what extent they wish to work with hardware. Ada Lovelace , whose notes added to the end of Luigi Menabrea ‘s paper included the first algorithm designed for processing by an Analytical Engine She is often recognized as history’s first computer programmer.\n\nSome people discover how to become a computer programmer by talking with coders they know. A degree in information systems security provides a student with working knowledge of how to set up security networks, use coding languages, and analyze systems. A programmer will also need to re-design their programs to adapt to other systems platforms such as OSX or Windows.\n\nTo replace the Is and Os used in machine language, assembly languages use mnemonic codes, abbreviations that are easy to remember: A for Add, C for Compare, MP for Multiply, STO for storing information in memory, and so on. Although these codes are not English words, they are still- from the standpoint of human convenience-preferable to numbers (Os and 1s) alone.\n\nComputer Programming And Information Systems\n\nThose who work in computer programming appear to have a certain set of traits that benefit them in their careers. You will begin by learning the basics of editing and running programs. Tasks accompanying and related to programming include: testing , debugging , source code maintenance, implementation of build systems , and management of derived artifacts , such as the machine code of computer programs.\n\nStudents interested in these courses should have a firm knowledge of basic computer skills and networking technologies. Some students take jobs in the technology field after earning their associate degree; others use it as a springboard for a four-year program.\n\nComputer Hardware\n\nComputer Programming\nLearn the fundamentals of computer programming and language. Programmers can explore topics like blockchain, Azure, artificial intelligence, or Android development. This course is designed to teach the basic concepts and methods of objected-oriented design and C#.Net programming. Implement the best practices of object-oriented program development with software design patterns.\n\nUpon completion of the Grand Canyon University’s University Foundation experience, students will be able to demonstrate competency in the areas of academic skills and self-leadership. Program design entails planning the software initially, creating models and flowcharts detailing how the code is to be written, writing and debugging code, and designing an application or systems interface.\nOne more note here: Programmers usually use a text editor, which is somewhat like a word processing program, to create a file that contains the program.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9060855507850647}
+{"content": "Smithtown Acupuncture & Wellness uses a wide range of modalities to bring your health back to balance.  These modalities can increase and balance your Qi, giving your body and being the healing support it needs to regain its healthy function.\n\n\nWill it hurt?\n\n\nIs it safe?\n\n\nWhat should I expect for my first treatment?\n\n\nHow long do the treatments take?\n\n\nWhat conditions can acupuncture treat?\n\n\nHow does acupuncture work?\n\n\nAre the needles clean?\n\n\nHow many treatments will I need?\n\n\nAre needles the only equipment involved?\n\n\nWill it conflict with my other medications?\n\n\n\nTrigger points are focused knots of pain located in tightened muscle tissue. They develop out of acute or repetitive overtraining, musculoskeletal imbalance, injury or other kind of strain.\n\nWhat is NAET or Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques?\n\nNAMBUDRIPAD’S ALLERGY ELIMINATION TECHNIQUE is a holistic treatment for the reduction of sensitivities with food and environmental allergies, which may be the cause of a wide range of illnesses.  NAET® was discovered by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad in November of 1983.  Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques, also known as NAET, are a non-invasive, drug free, natural solution to alleviate allergies of all types and intensities using a blend of selective energy balancing, testing and treatment procedures from acupuncture/acupressure, allopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, and kinesiological disciplines of medicine.\n\nUntil recently, disease was looked at a sets of symptoms caused by poor function or non-functioning of specific organs or body parts.  Medical professionals everywhere are taught to look for and to treat symptoms, rather than to look further to find their causes. If we looked for causes, most could be found with ease, allowing symptoms to be reduced or effectively mitigated.\n\nSmithtown Acupuncture & Wellness is proud to say that we were one of the first practices to utilize NAET on Long Island starting in 2000.\n\nWhat is Functional Medicine and Function Nutrition?\n\nFunctional Nutrition looks at the foundational way that food affects your body on the cellular level.  Food is much more than calories, in fact there are millions of molecules of information in every bite of food that you eat! These molecules come into your body, affect how your cells behave and how you feel.\n\nEating healthy is essential for both preventing illness and for recovering from disease.  Specific nutrients can help your liver detoxification pathways, give you sustained energy, help you sleep deeply, and support your general well-being.\n\nFood is one of the most fundamental and potent inputs we give our bodies every day it is a clear and impactful message to our biochemistry.  It’s one of several powerful links between our internal and external environments.  When it comes to health care, too often we put time, energy and money into masking symptoms rather than treating their root cause.\n\nWhy Do We Need Functional Medicine?\n\n  3. Unfortunately, the acute-care approach to medicine lack the proper methodology and tools for preventing and treating complex, chronic disease. In most cases if does not take into account the unique genetic makeup of each individual or factors such as environmental exposures to toxins and the aspects of today’s lifestyle that have a direct influence on the rise in chronic disease in modern Western society.\n  4. There’s a huge gap between research and the way doctors practice. The gap between emerging research in basic sciences and integration into medical practice is enormous – as long as 50 years – particularly in the area of complex, chronic illness.\n  5. Most physicians are not adequately trained to assess the underlying causes of complex, chronic disease and to apply strategies such as nutrition, diets and exercises to both treat and prevent these illnesses in their patients.\n\nHow is Functional Medicine Different?\n\n\n  • Patient-centered care. The focus of functional medicine is on a patient-centered care, promoting health as a positive vitality, beyond just the absence of disease. By listening to the patient and learning his or her story, the practitioner brings the patient into the discovery process and tailors treatments that address the individual’s unique needs.\n  • Integrating best medical practices. Functional medicine integrates traditional Western medical practices with what are sometimes considered “alternative” or “integrative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through nutrition, diet, and exercise: use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques; and prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, or stress-management techniques.\n\nThe Functional Medicine Approach to Assessment\n\nThe Institute for Functional Medicine teaches practitioners how to assess the patient’s fundamental clinical imbalances through careful history taking, physical examination, and laboratory testing. The functional medicine practitioner will consider multiple factors, including:\n\n  • Environmental inputs – The air and water in your community, the particular diet you eat, the quality of the food available to your, your level of physical exercise, and toxic exposures or traumas you have experienced all affect your health. Lifestyle is a major factor: research estimates that 70-90% of chronic disease risk is attributable to lifestyle.\n  • Mind-body elements – Psychological, spiritual, and social factors, including how you deal with stress, can have a profound influence on your health. Considering these areas helps the functional medicine practitioner see your health in the context of you as a whole person, not just your physical symptoms.\n  • Genetic makeup – Although your individual genes may make you more susceptible to some diseases, your DNA is not an unchanging blueprint for your life. Emerging research shows that your genes may be influenced by everything in your environment, plus your experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. That means it is possible to change the way genes are activated and expressed.\n  • Fundamental physiological processes – These are the body’s processes that keep you alive. Some occur at the cellular level and involve how cells functions, repair, and maintain themselves. These processes are related to larger biological functions, such as:\n  1. how your body rids itself of toxins — digestion and absorption of nutrients\n  2. regulation of hormones and neurotransmitters — musculoskeletal integrity\n  3. immune system functions — psychological and spiritual equilibrium\n  4. inflammatory responses — how you manage stress\n  5. how much energy you have\n\nAll of these processes are influenced by environment and by genes, and when they are disturbed or imbalanced, they lead to symptoms, which can lead to disease if effective interventions are not applied.\n\nA Comprehensive Approach to Treatment\n\nMost imbalances in functionality can be addresses: some can be completely restored to optimum function, and other can be substantially improved.\n\n  1. Prevention in paramount. Virtually every complex, chronic disease is preceded by long-term disturbances in functionality that can be identified and effectively managed.\n    Changing how the systems function can have a major impact on the patient’s health. The functional medicine practitioner examines a wide array of available interventions and customizes a treatment plan including thoses with the most impact on underlying functionality.\n  2. Functional medicine expands the physician’s tool kit. Treatments may include combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets, or detoxification programs. They may also include counseling on diet and nutrition, lifestyle, exercise, or stress-management techniques.\n  3. The patient becomes a partner. As a patient, you become an active partner with your functional medicine practitioner. You may be asked to make dietary and activity changes that, when combined with nutrients targeted to specific functional needs, will allow you to really be in charge of improving your own health and changing the outcome of disease.\n\n\n\nImage Guided Pain Injections are used in the attempt to partially or completely relieve pain and swelling in a joint.\n\nWhy Do I Need an Image-Guided Injection?\n\nYour primary care physician will determine if you will benefit from pain injections and provide a referral for treatment. Our team of pain relief specialists offer image-guided steroid injections for better treatment of pain and accuracy (to assure correct placement of the injection needle in the small joint space). Depending on the joint and the medical problem, our pain specialists have the option of using fluoroscopy, CT or ultrasound for needle guidance, an option only available at centers who specialize in pain management. InHealth Imaging offers steroid injections of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, lumbar facet joint injections plus nerve blocks, sacroiliac joint and all extremity joints, Monovisc in the knee and trigger point injections. In most cases, these injections provide a reduction in inflammation and alleviation of pain and discomfort.\n\nGuided Meditation is a wonderful technique to reduce stress and promote relaxation.  It is also used to expand creativity and to help with achieving goals. Olympic athletes have used this type of meditation for years to reduce the tremendous stress they experience, and to increase their focus.\n\nIn guided meditation sessions you are led through the most peaceful meditative journeys. These meditations are specifically chosen to reduce stress and promote well being. If you have ever daydreamed, or have brought a memory to mind, you will be able to enjoy the benefits of this type of meditation.\n\nA twenty minute guided meditation session can cancel out hours or even days of stress.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7117058038711548}
+{"content": "April 2020\n\nThe 2 Languages You Should Learn First\n\nPeople are making use of different programming languages at this time. Earlier, there were limited programming languages. But these days a lot of changes have been brought in the programming languages. With the changes in the programming languages, the value of these programming languages has also increased. People try to learn different programming languages for a different purpose. As these programming languages are quite helpful in coding. Even the people who are not from the technical background are trying their hands on the programming languages.\n\nKnowing a programming language is becoming a hobby these days, as many people enjoy coding. It also opens more career options for one. If you have ever heard of the popular sex dating platform meetnfuck app then you will be familiar with an example of entrepreneurs who built a business on the backs of their coding hobby. They started taking the idea of trading snapchat nudes and used their programming skills to develop a wildly popular sex app. Needless to say, there is plenty of unexcpected opportunity, but one needs to decide which programming languages they should learn first. Here, we are going to share with you the details about the 2 programming languages which are very popular these days. Also, learning these two will help you in your career as well, as they are very beneficial.\n\nThe two programming languages which we are talking about are Python and Java. Let’s know more about these two programming languages.\n\n\nPython is one such programming language which is fun to learn. It is an easy programming language and many people prefer to learn Python first and then go for learning the other languages. It is always been said that if you are learning the programming languages for the first time, you should go for Python. People can understand the Python language easily because of being one of the simplest programming languages. In other programming languages, one may have to look for every single and small detail. But Python is more of the basic knowledge related to coding instead of the complicated programming codes. Many people feel that Python is quite a slow language because of its requirement for more testing. However, many web developers or aspiring web developers prefer to start with Python only.\n\nWhy choose Python to learn first?\n\nEven after being considered as one of the slowest languages, Python has created its own space among the other programming languages. There are many reasons why Python should be learned first.\n\n  • Simple and easy programming languages – One of the topmost reasons for learning Python first is because it is a very simple programming language. And this makes people learn it easily in comparison with the other programming languages. If you are new to the coding world, why to start with something complicated. Instead, you should start with something easy. And what makes Python an easy language is how it is interpreted and high-level programming language. One will not have to learn the complex syntax use while learning Python, instead, it is more of the English language. Like in other programming languages one may need many sentences for giving a simple command. But that can be done in Python in just one or two sentences only.\n  • Big Data Processing – When it comes to big data processing, Python is a rescue. As it can handle a big amount of data easily. One can make use of Python language for Hadoop also, as it supports parallel computing. There are many libraries in Python which are used for processing big data like Dask, Pydoop, Pyspark, and many others.\n  • For Scripting and Automation – Do not be surprised how Python can be used as a scripting language, as it is true. It is not just a programming language but it also works as a scripting language and helps in Automation. It helps in writing the codes in the form of scripts which are executed after that. Once the interpreting of the code and error checking is done, it can be used for automating different tasks.\n  • Highly Paid – As Python is one of the popular programming languages, it is highly paid as well. The Python Engineers from all around the world have the highest salary in all over the world in comparison with other language programmers. This is also what attracts many people to learn Python.\n\n\nJava is one of the oldest programming languages which is always in demand. This object-oriented programming language is used generally for heavy programming. It works on the ‘Write once, run anywhere’ formula. This means one can write the Java language on any device and it can work cross-platform. Java is not that easy like the Python, and this is one of the reasons why programmers are confused that which language they should learn among the two. You can start with Python and can then learn Java also, as both are highly popular languages.\n\nWhy choose Java for learning first?\n\nIf you are confused about whether to learn Java or not, then here are some of the reasons why you should choose Java.\n\n  • Platform Independent – As we just mentioned above that Java is one such language that works on the formula of ‘Write once, run anywhere’, this has increased its popularity. You can use it on different platforms without any problem. The best example is that there are many applications of java which are built on Windows. But one can easily run them on the Linux Platform.\n  • Mature Languages – Java is not a new programming language like the ones which are introduced just a few years back. It’s been more than 22 years now, that people are using Java. This makes it beneficial for new programmers. As any error which occurs in the Java Programming can be resolved easily. Or one can find the solution to it easily, as most of the questions related to Java programming languages and error related to it are already answered. You will find many online resources where you can read about the questions related to Java language.\n  • Object-oriented programming language – The concept of this programming language is quite easier and are relatable as well because of being an object-oriented programming language. Java helps in promoting the right use of the Object-Oriented Programming design by bringing it into the best practice. It makes the Java language a flexible language and most extensible programming language.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.990594208240509}
+{"content": "Sistemas Importantes del Patrimonio Agrícola Mundial (SIPAM)\n\nFloating Garden Agricultural Practices, Bangladesh\n\nGIAHS since 2011\n\n\nDetailed Information\n\n\n\nSite location:  Gopalganj, Pirojpur and Barisal, South Center Bangladesh\n\nArea of GIAHS: 2 500 ha\n\nPopulation working for this system: -\n\nTopological Characteristics: Water and flooded lands\n\nClimatic Classification: subtropical humid\n\nEthnic Groups/Indigenous People: -\n\nPrimary Income Sources: agriculture, fisheries\n\n\nGlobal importance\n\nIn some parts of Bangladesh, most affected by flood and where water remains for a prolonged period of time, farmers have developed a method to use their submerged lands for crop production. Floating agriculture has traditional roots in practices dating back to the country’s forbearers. It is a useful method considering the economic, environmental and as well as social aspects.\n\nAllowing the satisfaction of their living needs, floating gardens have also permitted to give an access to lands to the poorest communities. Last but not least, promoting their integration it has also improved the gender balance in these communities. This system is an example of the adaptation to hard climatic conditions but also to climate change.\n\nFood and livelihood security\n\nPrimarily, floating gardens are essential for the self-consumption food needs of the communities. In summer, vegetables such as okra, ribbed gourd, Indian spinach, brinjal, cucumber, red amaranths, stem amaranths, wax gourd etc. are cultivated on floating beds. Moreover, the productivity of floating vegetable cultivation is estimated ten times higher than on a similar sized land-based cultivation. Local communities also use wet lands to grow rice, practice fishery.\n\nThis cultivation practice helps to supplement people’s income, which contributes towards the alleviation of poverty, and provides greater food security by increasing the landholding capacity of poor as well as landless people by allowing them to grow vegetables and crops with lower input costs, due to the minimal infrastructure required. People who are practicing floating-bed cultivation are enjoying a better life economically, than those in other flood-affected areas who have not yet adopted this practice\n\nBiodiversity and ecosystem functions\n\nA high biodiversity of cultivated plants is grown on the floating garden. Mainly okra, ribbed gourd, Indian spinach, brinjal, cucumber, red amaranths, stem amaranths, wax gourd, bitter gourd, kang kong, melon, etc. are cultivated on the floating beds. In addition to these, during the winter, other lands are used to cultivate rice and other vegetables.\n\nBecause prime nutrients such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are abundant in the floating beds, there is almost no need of fertilizer input. Additionally, because the water prevents vermination, almost no pesticides are applied being a eco-friendly system to the environment. Besides, using water hyacinth which is an invasive plant, it helps preserving the aquatic life of the region.\n\nKnowledge systems and adapted technologies\n\nThis system employs the floating beds, Dhap, on the surface of water as the foundation of growing plants and crops without soil. Bamboo is laid on a dense layer of water hyacinth. The first layer acts as the base of the floating bed and maintains the stability, buoyancy and thickness of the bed. Above layers are used as compost. After 8-10 days of last stacking, farmers sow / transplant seeds/seedlings already germinated.\n\nTwo or three crop rotation cycles on floating gardens during one monsoon season are common on average in this region. At each cycle, mixed intercropping is the most prevailing system of crop production.\n\nIn the following winter, the floating beds are discomposed and the residue is used to enrich the soil for winter vegetable cultivation.\n\nCulture, value systems and social organizations\n\nBangladesh agriculture is strongly linked to the communities’ culture. ‘Nabanna’ is a Bengali harvest celebration among Hindu rice growers, usually celebrated with food, dancing and music. It typically honors the Goddess Lakshmi, who symbolizes wealth and fertility and take place between November and December.\n\nMoreover, local communities’ life strongly relies on the seasons and the agricultural labor. This also includes the traditional dishes including regional varieties of rice.\n\nRemarkable landscape, land and water resources management features\n\nThe landscape with colourful diversified floating gardens has a unique aesthetic view. Dealing with nature and human needs, floating garden are integrated and sustainable in the Bengali landscape. In summer, flowers of water hyacinth bloom on the water. Contrast between light purple of flowers and deep green of leaves creates beautiful scenery.\n\nLooking at the water and land management, floating systems are one of the most developed ones to the flooding areas.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9962719678878784}
+{"content": "RSS Feed\n\nDaily Archives: July 11, 2017\n\nThe Tidbit Tuesday Post\n\nPosted on\n\nYes, I promised to post on Tuesdays. About something. Anything. Maybe food. Maybe events. Maybe activities. Maybe the weather. Who knows.\n\nLet’s start with tomatoes. We have tomatoes.\n\nLovely little cherry tomatoes. Ripening on the windowsill. I still pick them just about when they are ready, to avoid bug damage.\n\nThe crazy little ones on the left are called tomatoberry garden. They look like strawberries, with a pointy end.\n\nI did get one Scarlet Red tomato the other day. Other than that, lots of green tomatoes on the main plants. I put in 30 plants this year. I know that is obsessive, but I still try to achieve that blue ribbon for heirlooms at the county fair.\n\nChanging the subject.\n\nWhy doesn’t grocery store celery look like this?\n\nWhy do they cut away the leaves, which add so much flavor to soup? I will quickly blanch, then rinse and freeze these beauties in order to make chicken stock this winter.\n\nThe final tidbit? Cauliflower cake.\n\nAn Ottolenghi creation. From his book, Plenty More. One of the highlights of a month long cooking spree using any of his books. The recipe is here.\n\nIt’s a show stopping recipe that will impress anyone when you serve it.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5851867198944092}
+{"content": "Assignment: Management Theory Timeline \n\nOpen Pedagogy Assignments are assignments in which students use their agency and creativity to create knowledge artifacts that can support their own learning, their classmates’ learning, and the learning of students around the world. (See this peer-reviewed article for more details.) The assignment on this page is aligned to the learning outcomes of Organizational Behavior/Human Relations  and we’ve identified the module where the reading appears. All of the assignments can be created with a cell phone camera or any video recording device, Google or Word documents, and your learning management system.\n\nLearning Objectives\n\n  • Differentiate among Human Relations, General, and X &Y Theories\n\nIn the first module of the course, Introduction to Organizational Behavior, we discuss six different management theories that helped form the core management theories. For this assignment, you are going to work with a small group to summarize one theory and research key historical events in the United States that occurred during the time when the theory was formulated. There are many correct answers for this assignment, so aim to find an example that helps your audience understand a bit more about your assigned theory and the cultural context of when it was formed.\n\nUse this list of questions to guide your response:\n\n  1. In your own words, summarize on a Google Doc, or a similar online tool, why your theory is important to the study of organizational behavior. How would you define your theory in less than 250 words?\n  2. What were two main events happening in the US when this theory was formed? You can cite political or social factors.\n  3. How did this theory benefit managers of businesses at the time?\n  4. How did this management theory help and/or hurt employees at the time?\n\nA Note To Teachers: Your students in the first term will create definitions of the theories that other students can build from in the following terms. Encourage students to build a timeline that will help them see how larger cultural changes influenced management decisions. With their permission, you can upload the first term assignments into your course in order to show examples for the next term. The idea will be to have students generate content that other students can learn from with this assignment.\n\n\n\nImprove this pageLearn More", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.955814778804779}
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+{"content": "\n\nI disagree, wholeheartedly.\n\nThe reason Silent Hill worked so well on PS1/PS2 was because the low resolution and fact most people were playing on CRT displays, added a lot to the atmosphere, and did an excellent job of allowing the player to fill in the gaps in surroundings and objects with their imagination where the consoles limitations meant that geometry was not accurate or simply a texture to represent it.\n\nthe undertaking requires to retain that feeling would be far more than the game is worth.\n\nthe switch from relatively analog CRT to digital LCD/LED plays a large part of why going back to pre-hd consoles, but on modern displays, feels so dramatically different to when you originally played them on the original consoles.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.816736102104187}
+{"content": "I was a lady the primary time I saw the pink boxing gloves, hung high on a rack in Sports Authority. The earliest proof of boxing dates again to Egypt around 3000 BC. The game was launched to the ancient Olympic Games by the Greeks in the late seventh century BC, when tender leather thongs were used to bind boxers’ fingers and forearms for defense.\n\nJennifer Yazmin Carrillo Carrillo MEX and Panpatchara Somnuek THA compete within the Gold Medal Boutin the Boxing Womens Feather (54 to 57kg) in the Oceania Pavilion, Youth Olympic Park throughout The Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday seventeenth October 2018.\n\nAn instance of a mode matchup was the historical fight of Julio César Chávez , a swarmer or in-fighter, towards Meldrick Taylor , the boxer or out-fighter (see Julio César Chávez vs. Meldrick Taylor ). The match was nicknamed “Thunder Meets Lightning” as an allusion to punching power of Chávez and blinding velocity of Taylor.\n\nA boxing match is divided into rounds of two or three minutes, with a one-minute rest period in between. They usually have the next chance than different preventing kinds to score a knockout in opposition to their opponents as a result of they deal with touchdown massive, highly effective hits, as an alternative of smaller, sooner attacks.\n\nAs the opponent’s punch arrives, the boxer bends the legs quickly and simultaneously shifts the physique both slightly right or left. Additionally they intention to intimidate their opponents due to their power, stature and ability to take a punch. Boxing is overseen by a referee over a series of 1- to three-minute intervals known as rounds.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9478551745414734}
+{"content": "Travellers Palm\n\nThis relaxed apartment hotel is surrounded by lush greenery and lies a 14-minute walk from the Folkestone Marine Park and Museum, and 1.9 km from Paynes Bay Beach.\n\nFeaturing furnished balconies, the low-key, 1-bedroom units come with kitchens and living rooms with dining areas. They also have free Wi-Fi, and TVs with premium channels.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999303221702576}
+{"content": "abstract art, a systems view\n\nPosts Tagged ‘general systems theory\n\nwhy systems thinking?\n\nleave a comment »\n\nSomeone said that they would like to know more about the link between systems thinking and my abstract paintings.\n\nbeer game set up\n\nSet up for The Beer Game, a simulation (devised by Jay Forrester) that helps teach systems thinking in organisations\n\nBerkeley Square 1\n\nBerkeley Square 1, marker pen on post-it notes on board, 122cm x 122cm, by Andy Parkinson\n\nFor some, in the late 1960’s, systems art seemed to point beyond the impasse of late modernism.\n\nThis impasse was seen to be the result of a reductionist approach where art was divesting itself of all that was unnecessary to its specific characteristics. The art critics Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried were great proponents of this reductionist grand narrative, and their heroes were the Abstract Expressionists (Pollock, Newman, Motherwell, Rothko, Gottleib, Frankenthaler, etc)  and later, so called Post-Painterly Abstraction, and colour field painting (Stella, Louis, Noland, Olitski etc)  that had supposedly shown the way beyond Jackson Pollock’s all-over painting via the staining technique that they claimed to have learned from Helen Frankenthaler’s watercolour Mountains and Sea.  However, where could you go to beyond the (monochromatic) colour field?\n\nSystems thinking outside of the art world had been catching on for some time. Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory (1968) brought together much that he had been working on for years previously, concentrating on how systems are structured. In 1948 Norbert Weiner published Cybernetics, focussing on how a system functions, regardless of what the system is. A group of systems thinkers from different disciplines, including Weiner, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, John Von Neumann and Warren McCulloch had been meeting every year between 1942 and 1951 at the Macy conferences.  In 1961 Jay Forrester applied systems thinking to the economy, urban industry and housing. Donella Meadows and the Club of Rome applied systems thinking to problems of pollution and ecology, resulting in the publication of the influential book The Limits to Growth in 1972. Much later (1990) Peter Senge applied systems thinking to management and organisations in his book The Fifth Discipline. The work of W. Edwards Deming is also an example of systems thinking applied to business and management. I would also argue that Karl Marx was a great systems thinker long before the term was coined.\n\n(I came to systems thinking through my work with people in organisations not primarily as an artist. In relation to painting I had more or less given up on it, after all where else could you go after the monochrome colour field?)\n\nSystems thinking was largely a reaction against reductionism in science and an attempt to unify its various disciplines. It argued that real systems are open to, and interact with, their environments, and that they can acquire qualitatively new properties through emergence, resulting in continual evolution.\n\nRather than reducing an entity (e.g. the human body) to the properties of its parts or elements (e.g. organs or cells), systems theory focuses on the arrangement of and relations between the parts which connect them into a whole. This particular organisation determines a system, which is independent of the concrete substance of the elements (e.g. particles, cells, transistors, people, etc).\n\n\nIt was only a matter of time before someone in the visual art world would notice that systems thinking promised an alternative approach to modernist reductionism.  One such ‘someone’ was Jack Burnham.\n\nJack Burnham’s systems aesthetic took issue with late modernist painting, offering five key insights:\n\n  1. That there has been a transition from an object-oriented to a systems-oriented culture.\n  2. That art does not reside in material entities.\n  3. That art is not autonomous.\n  4. That art is conceptual focus.\n  5. That no definition or theory of art can be historically invariant.\n\nFor many involved in systems aesthetics this spelled the death of painting (one day I must blog about painting’s many deaths). Burnham and others majored on the context in which art takes place: the system of art production.\n\nFor me, these five insights can be appropriate to painting itself. Rather than emphasising objecthood, materiality and autonomy, painting can be systems oriented, serial and conceptual and this is one of the ways in which I think of my paintings as systems. I am interested in the ways that the parts relate to each other in the whole that is the painting, and in the larger whole that is the viewing experience. I am interested in the system: artist/painting/viewer(s) and particularly in the ways in which viewers can have differing perceptions (physically, emotionally and conceptually) of a painting.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8881031274795532}
+{"content": "The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the successful conduct of its zonal congress in the North Central and Southwest zones respectively, despite the doomsday prediction of naysayers, further confirms that the party is united and poised for the task ahead.\n\nThe party in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan asserts that the spirit of sportsmanship and unprecedented zeal displayed by critical stakeholders and members of the party in the exercise is an unmistaken pointer that the PDP is indeed poised to take back its political dominance in the two zones.\n\nThe PDP notes that the rancour-free atmosphere in the keenly contested congress as well as the spirit of sportsmanship and maturity displayed by aspirants, leaders, stakeholders and members of the party in the exercise also gives credence to its free, fair and credible internal democratic processes.\n\nAccording to the party , the peace and understanding that pervaded the exercise in the two zones have also shown that the PDP is a party of patriotic Nigerians, who put the collective interest of our nation over all parochial consideration, in the all important task to rescue her from the misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC).\n\nThe PDP commends the commitment of party leaders and elders in the two zones for ensuring genuine reconciliation and understanding among all stakeholders leading to the successful conduct of the exercise.\n\nThe party also congratulates the newly elected zonal executive officials of the North Central and the SouthWest while commending all the aspirants for their display of sportsmanship, in line with the ideologies of our great party.\n\n” Our party calls on all members in the two zones to remain united and continue to work hard, particularly as Nigerians are looking unto the PDP for direction in their quest to return our nation to the path of peace, economic prosperity and national cohesiveness.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9971356391906738}
+{"content": "Presentation is loading. Please wait.\n\nPresentation is loading. Please wait.\n\nThe Periodic Table\n\nSimilar presentations\n\nPresentation on theme: \"The Periodic Table\"— Presentation transcript:\n\n1 The Periodic Table\n\n2 TEKS 5 (A) explain the use of chemical and physical properties in the historical development of the Periodic Table; 5 (B) use the Periodic Table to identify and explain the properties of chemical families, including alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, halogens, noble gases, and transition metals; and\n\n3 Why is the Periodic Table important to me?\nThe periodic table is the most useful tool to a chemist. You get to use it on every test. It organizes lots of information about all the known elements.\n\n4 Pre-Periodic Table Chemistry …\n…was a mess!!! No organization of elements. Imagine going to a grocery store with no organization!! Difficult to find information. Chemistry didn’t make sense.\n\n5 Dmitri Mendeleev: Father of the Table\nHOW HIS WORKED… Put elements in rows by increasing atomic weight. Put elements in columns by the way they reacted. SOME PROBLEMS… He left blank spaces for what he said were undiscovered elements. (Turned out he was right!) He broke the pattern of increasing atomic weight to keep similar reacting elements together.\n\n6 The Current Periodic Table\nMendeleev wasn’t too far off. Now the elements are put in rows by increasing ATOMIC NUMBER!! The horizontal rows are called periods and are labeled from 1 to 7. The vertical columns are called groups are labeled from 1 to 18.\n\n7 Groups…Here’s Where the Periodic Table Gets Useful!!\nElements in the same group have similar chemical and physical properties!! (Mendeleev did that on purpose.) Why?? They have the same number of valence electrons. They will form the same kinds of ions.\n\n8 Families on the Periodic Table\nColumns are also grouped into families. Families may be one column, or several columns put together. Families have names rather than numbers. (Just like your family has a common last name.)\n\n9 Hydrogen Hydrogen belongs to a family of its own.\nHydrogen is a diatomic, reactive gas. Hydrogen was involved in the explosion of the Hindenberg. Hydrogen is promising as an alternative fuel source for automobiles\n\n10 Alkali Metals 1st column on the periodic table (Group 1) not including hydrogen. Very reactive metals, always combined with something else in nature (like in salt). Soft enough to cut with a butter knife\n\n11 Alkaline Earth Metals Second column on the periodic table. (Group 2)\nReactive metals that are always combined with nonmetals in nature. Several of these elements are important mineral nutrients (such as Mg and Ca\n\n12 Transition Metals Elements in groups 3-12 Less reactive harder metals\nIncludes metals used in jewelry and construction. Metals used “as metal.”\n\n13 Boron Family Elements in group 13\nAluminum metal was once rare and expensive, not a “disposable metal.”\n\n14 Carbon Family Elements in group 14\nContains elements important to life and computers. Carbon is the basis for an entire branch of chemistry. Silicon and Germanium are important semiconductors.\n\n15 Nitrogen Family Elements in group 15\nNitrogen makes up over ¾ of the atmosphere. Nitrogen and phosphorus are both important in living things. Most of the world’s nitrogen is not available to living things. The red stuff on the tip of matches is phosphorus.\n\n16 Oxygen Family or Chalcogens\nElements in group 16 Oxygen is necessary for respiration. Many things that stink, contain sulfur (rotten eggs, garlic, skunks,etc.)\n\n17 Halogens Elements in group 17\nVery reactive, volatile, diatomic, nonmetals Always found combined with other element in nature . Used as disinfectants and to strengthen teeth.\n\n18 The Noble Gases\n\n19 The Noble Gases Elements in group 18 VERY unreactive, monatomic gases\nUsed in lighted “neon” signs Used in blimps to fix the Hindenberg problem. Have a full valence shell.\n\nDownload ppt \"The Periodic Table\"\n\nSimilar presentations\n\nAds by Google", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9532973766326904}
+{"content": "Question: Are Tomatoes Bad For Your Gut?\n\nDo tomatoes cause inflammation?\n\nNightshade Vegetables Eggplants, peppers, tomatoes and potatoes are all members of the nightshade family.\n\n\nWho should avoid tomatoes?\n\nPeople with severe kidney issues may also be required to limit their intake of tomatoes as they contain a lot of water (11). High potassium levels in the blood, which is one of the causes of kidney disease, could be dealt with by avoiding tomatoes or tomato sauce or anything made of tomatoes (12).\n\nCan I eat tomatoes on empty stomach?\n\nThough tomatoes are enriched with Vitamin C and nutrients but should definitely be avoided on an empty stomach. The tannic acid present in tomatoes increases acidity in the stomach and may lead to gastric problems.\n\nWhat vegetable kills you from the inside?\n\n\nWhat are the 5 things you should never eat?\n\n5 unhealthy foods you should avoid, according to a nutritionistHot dogs. Processed meats in general are just one of the worst things you can put into your body. … Pretzels. Pretzels were the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing type of food. … Diet soda. Just because something is calorie-free doesn’t mean it’s chemical-free. … Processed pastries.Fluorescent orange snacks.Jun 25, 2020\n\nWhy you should never eat tomatoes?\n\nAcid Reflux: Tomatoes have malic acid and citric acid, which makes your stomach excessively acidic. Eating too many tomatoes can cause heart burn or acid reflux due to the production of excess gastric acid in the stomach.\n\nWhat do tomatoes do to your stomach?\n\nLoaded with acidic contents like malic and citric acid, tomatoes can cause a serious acid reflux in your system after indulging in them too much. Once the process of digestion begins, the acidic contents of the tomatoes lead to the release of excess gastric acid in stomach.\n\nWhat is the vegetable to avoid?\n\n\nIs it OK to eat tomatoes everyday?\n\nEating tomatoes daily will ensure that you get an array of nutrients which will help in better functioning of your body. Always wash tomatoes properly before eating or cooking them. Always try to consume tomatoes with its skin.\n\nWhat 3 foods are bad for your gut?\n\n\nWhat is the number 1 toxic vegetable?\n\n\nAre raw tomatoes good for you?\n\n\nWhat vegetable does Dr Oz say not to eat?\n\nThis is especially true when you’re flying. According to Dr. Oz, beans, lentils and cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc.) are the foods you’ll want to avoid before air travel.\n\nWhat is the number 1 healthiest food in the world?\n\n\nWhat 3 foods cardiologists say to avoid?\n\n\nWhat are the top 3 Superfoods?\n\n\nWhich fruit is best for heart?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8074211478233337}
+{"content": "Steamship Authority, a ferry service to the islands near Massachusetts, is the latest ransomware victim in logistics.\n\nAfter the attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS, many may have been wondering, as we did, what the next ransomware headline was going to be.\n\nWell, here it is—another victim in the vital infrastructure of transport and logistics, although this time the impact may be less brutal.\n\nSteamship Authority, the largest ferry service in Massachusetts, has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The Steamship Authority informed the public on social media that it was the target of a ransomware attack early Wednesday, June 2, 2021.\n\nSteamship Authority, the company\n\nSteamship Authority is the largest ferry service to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. They operate ferry transports between the mainland of the US and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands, including passengers, autos, and trucks. The ferry services and their safety have not been compromised, but it looks like the Steamship Authority offices have been disrupted in a severe way. The Steamship Authority’s website is currently unavailable. This also means that it is not possible to make new reservations, not even by phone.\n\n The impact\n\nIn a tweet, the company informed customers that while they were working through the consequences of the cyberattack, all ferries are operating at this time. They are keeping customers informed by posting the ferry schedules on their social media channels.\n\n, Steamship Authority answers question: Who’s the next ransomware victim?\n\nWhich does not mean that it’s all business as usual. There is limited access to credit card systems at some terminal and parking locations but, to avoid delays, cash is likely the best option for ticketing and parking. Customers are currently unable to book or change vehicle reservations online or by phone. Existing vehicle reservations will be honored at Authority terminals, and rescheduling and cancellation fees will be waived.\n\nThe timing for the attack is painfully accurate as this marks the start of season where tourists start to visit this region and where a peak in traffic is to be expected.\n\n\nThe Steamship Authority tweeted that it is working internally, as well as with federal, state and local authorities, to determine the extent and origin of the attack. Since this is an ongoing investigation it is unlikely that the authorities will share any information about the type or possible origin of the attack. But we will keep you informed if we should learn more.\n\nA spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard stated that the U.S. Coast Guard 1st District is working in conjunction with the Massachusetts Cybersecurity Unit, and that the FBI is currently leading the investigation.\n\n\nRecovery from a ransomware attack can be a long and expensive process, even if the victim decides to pay the ransom. It can take weeks to months to get the server infrastructure back up and running. If the possibility to make new bookings stays offline it will only take so long before the number of existing bookings starts to dwindle. We can only hope that the Steamship Authority manages to get back into an operational state as soon as possible. Getting stuck on one of the islands is not the worst thing one could imagine, but it’s different if you didn’t necessarily plan it.\n\nStay safe, everyone!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8714494705200195}
+{"content": "When you first start telling people you are expecting a baby, the jokes such as ‘enjoy your sleep now’ start rolling in. And whilst there is definitely going to be less sleep in the household for the next few months, you do not need to be sleep deprived from being up every hour, or let bad sleep patterns continue until your child is in infant school. It really doesn’t need to be like that, and it isn’t helpful for expecting parents to be led to believe that it is, and just accept that it’s a way of life.​\n\nNevertheless, in those first few weeks it will be simply about survival as a family. Your newborn has a small tummy which is the key reason they aren’t able to sleep longer than a couple of hours as they require regular replenishment. Your baby won’t be little forever and you will quickly experience growth spurts which can impact feeding amounts, times and sleep. This will lead to days of feeding non-stop, followed by days of not much feeding and inconsistent sleep patterns – this is all very normal.​\n\nDuring this period because of the inconsistent feeding and sleeping patterns, it is unlikely that you will be able to set a clear daytime routine. It’s important to not get overly focused about daytime routines for the first 6-8 weeks; it is only around this stage that you may begin to see your baby sleeping slightly longer stretches, being awake for longer periods in the day and not need feeding so often. As their tummies get bigger they can take more milk during a single feed, keeping them fuller for longer.​\n\nWhilst you will unlikely be able to develop a daytime routine initially, I would recommend that you start to build a bedtime routine within this period. The timings of this bedtime routine may differ night to night depending on the feeding and sleep times of your baby throughout the day. However, you can develop a consistent set of steps that will form part of your bedtime routine in the weeks and months to follow. I will discuss how to do this in Chapter 7.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9205386638641357}
+{"content": "Do As I Say, Not As I Do\n\nPresident Biden has signed a slew of executive orders since taking office on Wednesday. One of them being a mask madate for the next 100 days for air travel and other forms of commercial transportation. He also signed a mandate that made mask wearing and social distancing mandatory on federal property. However, he visited the Lincoln Memorial on Thursday...federal property, without wearing a mask. The Biden Administration also claims that they can't find the Covid plan from the Trump Administration, so now we're being told that Biden needs to start over at zero to come up with a plan for the pandemic. If that's true, how do we have a vaccine? What was Operation Warp Speed? Whatever has happened with the vaccine roll out has been wiped clean & now any progress will be given to the Biden Administration.\n\nMatt Lamb of The College Fix discusses how college campuses are embracing the culture of payback politics.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9430792927742004}
+{"content": "Statistic regarding Alnatura customers: favorite fast fashion brands\n\nAIlon has analyzed 5607 people from Germany who have a very high affinity to Alnatura and compared the mean values with a representative sample of the population.\n\nLoading statistic. Please wait...\n\nFashionfast | Alnatura\n\nApril 22, 2021\n\nThis statistic shows the preferred fast fashion brands of that part of the German population, with a strong preference for the shopping brand \"Alnatura\", compared to the total population. Especially noticeable is the positive correlation with Stradivarius, Zara, H&M.\n\nThis bar chart visualizes, how a preference for the brand \"Alnatura\" correlates with an affinity for the displayed Fashionfast affinities. The affinity shows, how a topic is over- or underrepresented in a certain target group, compared to the total population. The statistic can be read as follows: The probability for \"Alnatura\" customers to have a preference for \"Stradivarius\" is increased by 59.53% .\n\n\nYou need individual statistics? Feel free to contact us.\n\nChristopher Dübe\n\nChristopher Dübe\n\nYour contact person", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9747655987739563}
+{"content": "Haines '21 '22 Creates Podcast to Educate on Controlled Burns\n\nKatherine Haines '21 '22\n\nIn the Capstone 2021 Series, members of the Class of 2021 showcase their capstone and thesis projects. \n\nMedia and Communications and Biology double major Katherine Haines ’21, ’22 explores how conservation biology topics can be communicated through multimedia tools like podcasts, in order to be more effective in educating the general public.\n\nArcadia University student Katherine Haines working on her podcast\nOne major barrier that scientists face when communicating their research to the general public is the scientific terminology and data that non-scientists might struggle to understand. One of the ways to make scientific research more accessible is to use multimedia tools like podcasts, which provide abbreviated versions of concepts that impact people’s everyday lives in more layman's terms.\n\nHaines’ podcast focuses on information disbursement about controlled burns, an important topic in conservation, and explains the benefits of it. By creating four podcasts that are 30 minutes or shorter in length, Haines educates listeners on controlled burns and how they affect them and their surroundings.\n\nTo do this, Haines needed to become an “expert” herself. This began with joining Associate Professor of Biology and Dendrochronologist Dr. Lauren Howard in his lab and learning the intricacies of controlled burns and the research that supports it. Haines then identified experts who would be guests on her podcasts, Flame Game: A Podcast About Controlled Burns, leading to her decision to have four podcasts to feature each expert and each facet of controlled burns.\n\nThe first episode focused on providing the background of controlled burns and the work that is going into removing the culture of fire suppression that has been practiced in the United States for the last 100 years. Haines met with Mike Gallagher, a research ecologist who works for the USDA Forest Service at the Research Station at the Silas Little Experimental Forest in the New Jersey Pinelands to get an understanding of why controlled burns are important and what he does in his research. He also provided information on how this culture of fire suppression began, pointing at campaigns like Smokey Bear as one barrier to controlled burns.\n\nIn episode two, Haines talked with Arcadia University alumna Trinity Norwood who is a citizen of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape nation, and Dr. Marc Abrams, a forest ecology professor at Penn State University, to gain insight into the invaluable influence Native Americans had on the composition of our forests. Native Americans practiced forest management and controlled burns long before western colonization and helped to create the fire-adapted forests that we have today. Their insight into current forest management practices are helping to change the stigma of fire in order to prevent the large-scale out-of-control wildfires that threaten many parts of the United States and the world.\n\nIn episode three, Haines and Dr. Howard had a conversation about the research he is doing at Arcadia University in partnership with the Nature Conservancy to date fire scars and create a historical chronology of the fires in the area. He explained the importance of dendrochronology and the processes that are done when completing his research. Research like Dr. Howard’s provides a resource for organizations like the U.S. Fire Service and the Pennsylvania Game Commission on how to manage forests and introduce controlled burns from a historical perspective.\n\nIn the final episode, Haines met with Dr. Dave Robinson, a New Jersey state climatologist to discuss the impact climate change is having on our forests and how controlled burns can help to reduce them. Dr. Robinson also shared that you don’t have to be a burn manager to have an important role in supporting controlled burns and that many different jobs can help to make a difference.\n\nEach episode was designed to highlight a specific aspect of controlled burns and provide opportunities for listeners to connect to different pieces of the podcast no matter what their career or education level. By producing audio podcasts in this way, more people can find reasons to care about the forests and to learn about them. Providing education in this way supports more informed listeners, but also consumers and voters who, by being more informed on the conclusions that scientists are coming to about our environment, can use their voice to make a difference. \n\nListen to Haines’s podcast on SoundCloud, and explore her entire thesis project.\n\nThe Capstone 2021 Series provides a platform for members of the Class to showcase their projects and share their expertise.  Capstone is an opportunity for students to engage in an extended project that reflects their academic experiences. Projects combine their fields of study with personal interests. \n\nFor more information on Capstone 2021, visit Arcadia.edu.\n\ncapstonebiologymedia and communicationstudent research", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9983597993850708}
+{"content": "\n\nEntre Nous Femmes Housing Society\n\n\nEntre Nous Femmes Housing Society (ENF) was founded in 1984 by three women who wanted to improve their lives and the lives of other single mothers and their children. ENF became a registered nonprofit society in 1985, ENF is one of the first women-led community housing development organizations in Canada that specifically developed housing to meet the needs of single parent families.\nENF began with a dream, a lot of courage and perseverance. The name “Entre Nous Femmes” came about after our founders realized they needed a name for their newly founded organization that reflected both the inclusive and non-hierarchical model of creating spaces for women and the belief that they could develop their own housing in a non-traditional way.\nThey gathered one evening, armed with a pot of tea and a bottle of wine, and with the help of an English and French dictionary, they came up with the name “Entre Nous Femmes” . The women believed a French name would reflect both the potential and opportunity to create something new and unique, and also speak to the collaboration and connection between this group of women.\n“Entre Nous Femmes” in its translation is “Amongst us Women”, speaks not to the individual but about “us together” in community. A philosophy ENF still follows today.\nEach building is named after a founder or an early member of the Society’s grandmother and woven through the history of ENF is the legacy of these grandmothers. Their care for family and community, and the teachings of love, respect, bravery, humility, honesty, and wisdom.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9126332402229309}
+{"content": "Honeywell, 2020\n\nUS 10540899B2\n\nIn this patent, we address a situation where aircraft pilots suddenly have to divert to an alternative destination. The area along the planned flight route is divided into segments. We calculate the best alternate landing airport for each segment, considering various external conditions, such as weather.\n\nHoneywell, 2019\n\nUS 10499827B2\n\nWithin this patent, we present a procedure for assessing the mental and physical condition of the pilot (e.g., fatigue) based on data from ECG sensors located on the seat in the cockpit. Using the signal-to-noise ratio, we infer the current state of the pilot.\n\nHoneywell, 2019\n\nUS 10430048B2\n\nThis patent relates to the display of information on the availability and suitability of an airport for landing with respect to many criteria, such as the size and weight of the aircraft, the availability of fuel, airport services, or, for example, connecting flights for passengers.\n\nHoneywell, 2019\n\nUS 10304344B2\n\nWe address a situation where the pilot needs to make an emergency landing at an alternate airport. We propose a system that plans a route to an alternate airport, considering various flight restrictions, such as restricted airspace.\n\nHoneywell, 2018\n\nUS 10134289B2\n\nIn this patent, we propose an algorithm and displaying methods for a stabilized approach of an aircraft to a destination airport. To do so, we use data ​​obtained from onboard avionics, such as the aircraft’s position, its speed, the position of the airport, etc.\n\nHoneywell, 2018\n\nUS 10109203B2\n\nWe divide the area along the planned flight route into separate segments. For each segment, we calculate the most suitable airport for an emergency landing. When planning a flight, we present these suitable alternative destinations to pilots using a tablet application.\n\nHoneywell, 2018\n\nUS 10096253B2\n\nSimilar to the previous, this patent relates to the availability of alternate airports along the planned flight route. The system takes into account both information from onboard avionics and current information about available airports and categorizes airports according to the calculated suitability for landing.\n\nHoneywell, 2018\n\nUS 10086950B1\n\nThe patent is describing a system that collects information about the current state of the aircraft in flight. If the conditions require intervention, the system uses sensors to determine which electronic device the pilot currently uses. Then, it displays a warning on that particular screen.\n\nHoneywell, 2018\n\nUS 10055963B1\n\nThe system detects the physiological state of the pilot flying. At the same time, it monitors the physiological state of the resting pilot. When one of the monitored values ​​exceeds a predetermined threshold, it suggests their replacement.\n\nPublications, 2021\n\nBook (in Czech language)\n\nThis book relates to my hobby: ultrarunning. I share my experience and knowledge from my ten-year runner’s career. I am particularly proud of it because I managed the whole end-to-end process myself, from writing to designing and publishing the book.\n\nkniha Jak se Učím běhat\n\nPortál, 2009\n\nMonograph (in Czech language)\n\nThe book Self-Knowledge is a popular version of my dissertation, in which I attempted to integrate various psychotherapeutic approaches into one comprehensive system. Many practical examples and exercises supplement the theoretical overview.\n\nkniha Sebepoznání\n\nPortál, 2005\n\nTranslation of papers collection\n\nThe Evolution of Psychotherapy is a collection of papers from a 1985 conference. The most outstanding personalities of psychotherapy attended it at the time and gave their presentations. It took me a whole year to translate a 712-page book from English into Czech, but I don’t regret it because I improved my knowledge of English and the field of psychotherapy, respectively.\n\nkniha Umění psychoterapie\n\n\n\nmobile: +420 604 820 537", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9832127690315247}
+{"content": "Travails of a town\n\nTravails of a town\n\nNearly 20 years after her richly imagined novel, The Scent of Pepper, Kavery Nambisan returns with her seventh work of fiction, A Town Like Ours. To hold Kavery’s latest book in one’s hands is to remember the literary scene when The Scent of Pepper was published,  and recognise how much the world of Indian publishing has changed since the late 90s.\n\nA Town like Ours begins slowly and awkwardly, almost with its choice of an omniscient narrative in the first person and present tense. Several pages in, one’s patience is rewarded as it pulls one deep into the story of Manohar Kripa and Saroja Sampathu, Gundumani and Rukmini and other characters who live in the village-turned-town of Pingakshipura.\n\n\nTheir stories, and her own, are recounted by retired whore Rajakumari, “a hag in a long white skirt and a shirt chemise that barely hides” her “fatness”, who lives in a “one-window room with a cow-turned-buffalo for company” on the temple premises.\n\nIf Manohar and Kripa are happy in their 14-year-old marriage, it is despite their not having any children. Manohar teaches English at the local college, and Kripa spends her free time painting, a time when she is remote from Manohar, drawn into expressing herself on canvas.\n\nDestiny is capricious in what she chooses to give to some and withhold from others. The impassioned priest’s wife has, unfortunately, a fertile womb; Saroja and Sampathu gift each other a child, while Manohar must yearn for one.\n\nWhen it comes to homes, Saroja’s living space morphs through the day, now shelter, now shop; Rajakumari, brought into the oldest trade in the world while very young, has a solid roof over her head, never mind that her window is “kerchief-sized”; and Tejaswini is the mistress of a large house with a garden, at the cost of having a daughter left paralysed due to her own husband’s administrations.\n\nSaroja and Sampathu come together after each of them has faced tremendous danger on their own. If Manohar and Kripa are the normative couple, married in the proper way and then fully expected to procreate, Saroja and Sampathu are unusual in every way. One has lost a child, the other has gained one. One has lost a spouse, the other never had one. Even more unusual is their choice of a home, though like every Indian woman, Saroja dreams of owning a little piece of land.\n\n“It is an orderly life, an almost good life with enough food, family, wholesome sex, kids to spank and cherish, earnings from the tea stall and mild flirtations with men who would like something more. Saroja yearns for a home with its own floor, its own roof and four strong walls. She longs for it and is jealous of every woman who can stand at her own doorway while cleaning rice or picking lice out of young white hair. Desire leads to desperation.”\n\nDesires, normal and attainable, drive the actions of Saroja and Manohar, resulting in unforeseen and complicated outcomes. One might suppose that Rajakumari has earned some wisdom about the ways of the world having experienced its darker side, but what she has to offer through her commentary isn’t very much.\n\nIn the end, what powers the book is the gradual accumulation of detail, details about life in a small town, details that are of overwhelming importance to the characters, to their own experience of human life.\n\nKavery writes with understated humour about ordinary people in an ordinary town that does not even have a train passing through it. Pingakshipura, a place once known for its “eight varieties of paddy, four of mangoes and 10 types of banana” is now a “high-decibel, boom-boom town” with one extraordinary feature. Children here all have white hair.\n\n“In 1996, the hair of little babies in this town started to turn white. Born with black hair, every one of them, but around the age of one or so they began to put out white hair. Now there isn’t a single child or teenager born among us who has a head of black hair.”\n\nThis is courtesy the pesticide produced by Sugandha Enterprises, whose greed and heedless expansion is to blame for spoiling local natural resources. However, this visual metaphor for the effect of ‘development’, white hair in the youngest generation, also sets up expectations of a greater element of magic realism in the book that are not met.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6099860668182373}
+{"content": "Climate Destruction – Bearing Witness with Dahr Jamail\n\nIn-depth Report:\n\n\nWater, glaciers, oceans, food, forests and fires – all of these things are part of global warming under the magnifying glass of Dahr Jamail in his book The End of Ice.\n\nJamail is a first class hunter-gatherer of information.  It is not just finding and reading scientific papers.  It is climbing the mountains; it is meeting with and listening to the indigenous people living on the edge of disaster; it is walking in the forests, swimming in the coral reefs, and doing this in the company of those experts and scientists who have watched, recorded and wept over the changes for many years, choosing their place and staying there, knowing it will all be destroyed.\n\nEach place he visited, each conversation he had with the experts on that place produced startling facts that should be, but aren’t, trumpeted by the media, taught in schools, thrust down the throats of the climate change sceptics.  And here is the message that the many scientists he spoke to stress: everything is happening much faster than predicted, and certainly much, much faster than you would know if you depend on your television, daily paper or politicians for information.\n\nThe book explores some of the hits the earth is already suffering through climate disruption and what that is leading to.  And it is not just a few changes here and there.\n\nIt starts in the Alaskan mountains but then, for Jamail, it will always start, and end there.  From an early age he has been mesmerised by mountains.  Whether climbing them or just sitting and watching them, mountains have been central to his life.  It goes without saying that glaciers are a part of that love.\n\nAnd the glaciers are melting.  No news there.  What must be faced is how rapidly they are disappearing, all over the world.  As glaciers die, so do the forests lower down the mountains.  Without glaciers the mountain slopes dry out.  With a warming climate and dry forests, massive wildfires are set to increase.\n\nIt is expected that in just a few decades the United States will have no glaciers left; Alaska is suffering more than most, only much of that is unseen, out in the wilderness.  But what is happening there is happening globally.\n\nStartling fact 1: globally glaciers hold 69 percent of all the freshwater on the planet.  Many major rivers are fed by glaciers.  Millions of people depend on them.  What, one wonders, will happen when the Ganges runs dry?\n\nWhile the brutal seal hunt on Canada’s east coast carries on, on the western side of the continent small communities struggle to find seals at all.  They have moved further north in search of cooler waters.  There have been massive die-offs of sea birds as the warming sea has killed their food.  Small coastal and island communities with subsistence cultures are breaking up.\n\nStartling fact 2: in the summer of 2016 the water in the Gulf of Alaska “was 15ºC warmer than normal in some areas.  And it is now, over all, 5ºC above normal in both the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, and has been all winter long.”  So said scientist Bruce Wright.\n\nCoral reefs are extraordinarily beautiful, but they are not just there for divers and their cameras.  Just as coastal communities in the north are seeing their food supply dwindle, so island communities that depend on the fish living among the coral reefs for their food are watching the corals die and the fish disappear.\n\nIt is common knowledge that warming seas are bleaching the coral reefs.  What is not appreciated is that though corals can recover from a warming event, those events are now happening too often, too quickly for any recovery.  A marine scientist, Dr Dean Miller, considering the prediction that coral reefs will disappear by 2050, told Jamail,\n\nI think it’s too conservative, I really do… what we are seeing now is death.\n\nSeas are not just getting warmer, there is acidification.  This is threatening plankton, the base of the sea’s food chain.  Some plankton species are dying out while others flourish, leading to imbalance and ‘a big problem’.\n\nStartling Fact 3: phytoplankton photosynthesis produces half, yes half, the total oxygen supply for the planet.\n\nJamail went to the Everglades, a unique site of global importance and not without problems.  Through human activity it has been robbed of its water and suffers from invasive species, but the real threat to come is rising sea levels.  The rest of Florida may not be far behind.  There is not a lot of high ground and most of the coast is vulnerable to ever-fiercer hurricanes and storm surges.  With a projected 6 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, much of Florida would be under water and its fresh water aquifer would be contaminated.\n\nBut Florida is also an example of why the world is not preparing for such climate disruption.  Rick Scott, Florida’s governor until 2019, is a climate disruption denier.  He prohibited any state employee from even using the words ‘climate change’.\n\nJamail went to the University of Miami to meet Dr Harold Wanless who was more than blunt:\n\n“We’ve screwed ourselves.  We have kicked the bucket.  We have gone off the cliff.”\n\nAs Wanless outlined the certain threats we are facing, Jamail wrote,\n\n“Hearing the truth in a society steeped in various degrees of denial, I greet the bad news with relief.”\n\nWanless talks about the amount of heat human activity has put into the oceans, something we can’t undo.  He gives Jamail one last piece of data: in the past, atmospheric COvaried from roughly 180 to 280 parts per million (ppm).  This 100 ppm fluctuation was linked with about a 100-foot change in the sea level.\n\nStartling Fact 4: Reacting to this information, Jamail recalled that since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric CO2 has increased by 130 ppm.\n\n“That is 130 feet of sea level rise that is already baked into Earth’s climate system!” he exclaimed.  Wanless nodded grimly.\n\nAnd it is grim.  How do we prepare for seas taking over so much land?  How do we face it?  Can we even imagine what that will mean?\n\nIn 2015 Jamail experienced a seriously emotional and personal event (you’ll have to read the book to find out what that was), and it was this event that helped him make sense of all that he was learning and how to use that knowledge.  It is, after all, difficult to accept that all you know and love is due for demolition.\n\nAnd this is his conclusion:\n\n“I find my deepest conviction and connection to the Earth by communing with the mountains. I moved to Colorado and lived among them when I was in my early 20s, and it was there I began to deepen my relationship with them, and to really listen to them. I would hike out and just sit among the peaks, watching them for hours, and write about them in my journal. Today I know in my bones that my job is to learn to listen to them ever more deeply, and to share what they are telling us with those who are also listening.\n\n“While western colonialist culture believes in “rights”, many indigenous cultures teach of “obligations” that we are born into: obligations to those who came before, to those who will come after, and to the Earth itself. When I orient myself around the question of what my obligations are, a deeper question immediately arises: from this moment on, knowing what is happening to the planet, to what do I devote my life?”\n\nSo he ends where he began – among the mountains.\n\nIt could be a seriously depressing read, if it wasn’t for Jamail’s determination to understand and share with us what the earth is undergoing, and his loving commitment to be with it every step of the way.  His skill in writing keeps you focused on what he has to say, and his ability to override the dire news he is recording with a compassion that sees beauty among the ruins is somehow both comforting and inspiring.  Instead of despair it gives each one of us, as individuals, direction.\n\nWe might delay disastrous climate change by ending all carbon emissions but we cannot stop it, and it will be upon us much sooner than we like to think.  But we can each choose our place on the earth, sit with it, listen to what it is trying to teach us and share the knowledge we gain.  We can support it, love it and be with it for as long as we live.  The earth needs all the devotion we can give it.\n\n\n\nThe End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by [Jamail, Dahr]\n\n\nAuthor: Dahr Jamail\n\nPublisher: The New Press (January 15, 2019)\n\nPublication Date: January 22, 2019\n\n\nClick here to order.\n\n\n\n\nComment on Global Research Articles on our Facebook page\n\nBecome a Member of Global Research\n\nArticles by: Lesley Docksey\n\n\nFor media inquiries: [email protected]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5641647577285767}
+{"content": "Reiki Treatment\n\nAn Ancient Science of Natural Healing, Relaxation and Pain Relief\n\n\nWith my Hands-on or Hands-off Reiki therapies, patients report to feel relaxed and renewed after each session.  They report an increase in their energy and a reduction in their pain levels.  I’m trained in psychological techniques, so I tailor your session to work on your specific goals and needs. I love showing my patients how just a few treatments can make an enormous difference to their health.\n\nReiki is the laying on of hands on or slightly above the body, healing modality that channels energy to oneself or a client, who remains fully clothed during the treatment session.  Reiki relieves energy blockages and imbalances (usually from disease or emotional or physical trauma) to support healing and well-being.  Reiki treats the who person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well-being.  It also works in conjunction with all other medical o therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.\n\nReiki Energy Healing is basically a process whereby the practitioner acts as a conduit for energy from the universal source of the negative earth charge and the positive atmospheric charge, to the client.  When we allow our bodies to recharge with the Reiki energy it is similar to giving our bodies water when we are thirsty; or food when we are hungry; or sleep when we are tired.  All of these actions help our bodies maintain wellness.  Maintaining our energy levels is no different. \n\nQuantum physics teaches us we are 99% energy and only 1% matter.  In today's world we focus 100% on repairing and maintaining the matter of our being (our bodies); but we spend 0% maintaining and healing the energy that makes up 99% of our being.  \n\n Sometimes when we are sick or run down or stressed and worried, our frequencies in our bodies (measured in hertz) drop.  When your hertz readings are low, you feel drained and those negative, draining emotions tend to take over (stress, grief, anger, worry, sadness, pessimism, negativity, etc.).  Living in the lower vibrations results in your body's inability to heal and maintain itself.  The long term result of staying in these lower vibrations is disease and degeneration.  By raising our body's frequencies into the higher resonance of 300 hertz or higher, our bodies actually start to heal themselves and our minds have a more optimistic and positive outlook.  You feel better, look better and are able to cope better!\n\nReiki energy is known to improve the functionality of our nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, digestive and excretory systems.  Once the biological systems, energy and fluids are moving freely, without any blockages, clients experience a reduction in inflammation and pain levels resulting in an increase in their mobility.\n\n\nReiki improves the client's state of relaxation and mindfulness, reduces stress and anxiety and improves sleep patterns, duration and quality.  Reiki enables the clients to achieve relaxation and mindfulness by opening up access to the quiet mind (beta brain waves), opening to its subconscious (theta waves), resonating with the energies of healing and growth in nature (alpha waves), and intuitively attuning to the quantum field of consciousness (delta waves) containing all energy and information.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7463545799255371}
+{"content": "Patient Hub\n\nPatient Hub is a resource for Lucy Clarke Acupuncture’s current patients. The information contained here is not medical advice. By accessing the following pages you are agreeing to consult your GP, physiotherapist or medical practitioner before purchasing or using equipment or implementing changes to your health or lifestyle.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5212653875350952}
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+{"content": "Biotechnology: Africa cannot become an observer\n\n24 March 2003\nGenomic revolution: Prof Wieland Gevers, Interim Director of the Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, was the co-convenor of the Pathogen Genomics and Infectious Diseases workshops at The Human Genome and Africa initiative, held at Spier over the weekend.\n\nAFRICA runs the risk of being marginalized following an explosion of innovative scientific endeavour around the new field of genomics, says Professor Wieland Gevers, Interim Director of UCT's Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM).\n\nHe was speaking on the eve of an international conference organised by the Africa Human Genome Initiative, held at the Spier Estate near Stellenbosch over the weekend.\n\nThe conference presented the historical, ethical and legal, educational, bio-medical and bio-technological implications of the Human Genome Project (HGP) for research and development in Africa.\n\nThe HGP is an international research programme designed to construct detailed genetic and physical maps of the estimated 30 000 genes within the human genome. Considered one of the greatest scientific developments of our time, the work has opened massive new areas for scientific investigation, Gevers noted, yielding results that will influence the understanding (and exploitation ) of biology in the 21st century.\n\n“It's very clear that biological science will be the dominant science in the 21st century, the way that physics was in the 20th century. We can already see this (on the dark side) with biological weapons having become prominent next to nuclear weapons in warfare.\n\nAs African citizens we need to be in a position to benefit from and contribute to breathtaking new knowledge about ourselves and organisms of importance to us. But there is a real risk of Africa becoming completely marginalised, a non-player in this burgeoning new field,” he observed.\n\nBio-scientific research among the world's big players, such as Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to name just two, was moving at a particularly fast pace. “But there are significant contributions smaller players in Africa can make, provided they hook timeously and appropriately into these major developments,” he cautioned.\n\nThe digital divide between Africa and the world has been well documented already. The thrust of the conference was an attempt to prevent a second divide arising. However, Africa did have some have some advantages, Gevers noted.\n\n“The story of humans is an African story. For genomic studies, Africa represents a particularly interesting field in the scientific sense, especially human genomics because Africa is the cradle of mankind. It's hugely important for this reason alone that we should be part of that scientific endeavour.”\n\nThe same can be said for the fields of proteomics (the way proteins coded by the genes function and interact with each other) in living cells and organisms) and bioinformatics, the study of information locked up in genomes.\n\nBut perhaps more worrying for Africa is the fact that uninformed societies risk commercial and ethical exploitation in a genomics revolution, with its wide implications of genetic predisposition to certain diseases, behaviour determinism, and so on. “African states cannot afford to be mere observers.”\n\nDescribed as an “intellectual feast” of eminent human and natural scientists, the conference was initiated by former UCT Dean of Humanities, Professor Wilmot James. James is now executive director of the Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC) Social Cohesion and Integration Programme and Professor of Business Administration in Diversity Studies, a position that straddles UCT's Graduate Schools of Business and Humanities.\n\nA number of UCT academics and researchers were involved in the conference's five main workshops: Genomic Research; History and Archaeology of Africa; Genetics Research' Ethics and Law; Genomic Research and Education; Biotechnology and Life Sustainability; and Pathogen Genomics and Infectious Diseases. The last was convened by Gevers and Dr James Sakwa, and paid specific attention to Africa's most serious pathogens: malaria, TB and HIV.\n\n“The humane genome has evolved through thousands of generations, but the genomes of our 'parasitic' pathogens have kept pace, though it has been in their interest not to wipe us out, Gevers said.\n\n“Pathogen genomics provide an analytical framework from which to elucidate which infectious organisms in our bodies mutate, and where and why. Combined with a detailed understanding of the mechanics of infection and human responses, this new scientific frontier holds vast promise for the successful development of vaccines and drugs.”\n\nUnfortunately, rumours of war in Iraq and the associated risks of air travel resulted in cancellations among some of the top speakers selected for the conference, notably Nobel Laureate Professor David Baltimore of the California Institute of Technology.\n\n\nPlease view the republishing articles page for more information.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9937376379966736}
+{"content": "Compensation Today author:\n\nkelsied Kelsie Davis is a brand journalist for BambooHR, the leading online HR software used by over 12,000 businesses in more than 100 countries worldwide. Her mission is to help HR create more strategic and impactful initiatives. She does this by researching, analyzing, and writing about all things HR—particularly topics helping HR professionals engage, attract, and maintain employees. Because of their unique ability to influence the most fragile and important asset a company has—its employees—Kelsie believes HR professionals are crucial to company success.\nStart the Transformation\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9580105543136597}
+{"content": "Apapa gridlock\n\nThe Lagos State Government says it plans to restrict the movement of heavy-duty trucks in the metropolis during the day so as to ease traffic on the roads.\n\nLagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made this known on Monday at the Lagos House, Ikeja, when a team from the Nigerian Breweries Plc paid him a courtesy visit.\n\nSanwo-Olu said that the government had been pushing the trailers off that whole corridor of Iganmu area to ensure that the journey towards Apapa continued to remain free.\n\nHe said that the state would soon come up with a comprehensive plan and decisions on traffic management in order to resolve the gridlock.\n\n”New policies are going to come out in the coming days, on some regulations around the movement of heavy duty trucks, just so that we can manage what time of the day they all get to come in on the roads.\n\nALSO READ: Nigeria can develop rail line construction technology in 10 years – Amaechi\n\n”We cannot begin to imagine 30 to 50 trucks competing during work hours, and so we need to plan out the logistics around it, what time of the day they need to move.\n\n”It is more around how do we resolve traffic movement and traffic flow in all of the places and some very hard decision will be taken.\n\n”The issue is not building more roads, the issue is managing the ones that we currently have, and all of us using them efficiently and effectively.\n\n”The things that don’t need to move during the daytime, we can restrict them to night movement, so that they can free up traffic all around the places,” the governor said.\n\nSanwo-Olu said that rehabilitation as well as development needed to happen in all areas of the state.\n\nALSO READ: Gridlock: Taskforce gets clampdown order on traffic law offenders in Lagos\n\nHe said that his administration was committed to rehabilitate Abebe Village Road in Iganmu, clean up canals as well as major drainage system in the area.\n\nThe governor said the Abebe Village Road was strategic and the rehabilitation would further open up the industrial area and ensure Lagos remained a destination that people could do business.\n\nSpeaking earlier, the Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Plc, Mr Jordi Borrut Bel, said that the company was in support of Sanwo-Olu’s visionary call of ‘Awakening a Greater Lagos’.\n\nBorrut Bel commended the investment the administration was making in infrastructural development and security of the state.\n\n”We share your vision that these investments would further stimulate private sector-led economic growth, which as well evidenced by developed nations, always yield substantial and sustainable rewards,” he said.\n\nVanguard News Nigeria.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9933604598045349}
+{"content": "Articles/Touring Al-Mazloum neighborhood in Historical Jeddah\n\nTouring Al-Mazloum neighborhood in Historical Jeddah\n\nما حقيقة قصة حارة المظلوم بجدة التاريخية!\n\n23 MAY 2021\n\nSource: Abeer Al-Amoudi\n\nMany narrators have tried to identify the reason behind the famous neighborhood’s name. One story dates back to the Ottoman era, when the Ottomans ordered the people of Jeddah to build a great wall to protect them from a Portuguese invasion. One local worker missed a working day and was put to death as a result. The Ottomans then ordered the rest of the workers to complete construction of the wall over his body.\n\nAnother narration suggests that the Al-Mazloum neighborhood was named after a dispute that occurred between the elders of the city and the military, leading to executions and unjust treatment of the locals.\n\nImportant landmarks\n\nThe neighborhood in is home to many old historical houses and buildings, including Qabil House, Al-Shafei Mosque that is one of the oldest mosques in Jeddah, and Al-Jami’ Market, also one of the most famous markets in the area. The district also has Al-Falah School the first of its kind in the Kingdom.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9631689786911011}
+{"content": "If you still haven’t passed a driving exam, there are no more excuses. Check out this sheep’s driving skills and unshakeable patience as it drives and enjoys the road. Hats off to those animals that are always ready to offer a helping…hoof to their buddies and give them a lift.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7081523537635803}
+{"content": "Talks & Events\n\nI try to speak across disciplines and to non-academic communities as often as possible. Science myths, especially in topics as hot as robotics and AI, ought to be dispelled as approachably and easily as possible. I try to bring my research to life at comedy festivals, nerd gatherings, theatric productions, and, occasionally, Very Serious Scientific Venues.\n\nFameLab Scotland Finalist\n\nFameLab Scottish first runner-up discussing what Smart technology really means and why calling it “smart” is perhaps a bit of a misnomer. View presentation here.\n\nWomen in Technology Conference\n\nImposter Syndrome\n\nThere’s earnest self-improvement and criticism, and then there’s crippling self-doubt. Learn techniques to differentiate between subtlties of the two, and identify self-sabotaging behaviors you can mitigate to reach your highest potential.\n\n\nSocial Robotics Workshop\n\nWhat is a social robot? What applications are social robots uniquely suited for, and how can we design interactions that are useful, and socially fulfilling?\n\nLesbians Who Tech\n\n\"Alexa, Read the Room.\"\n\nEmotions govern so much of human behavior – why are voice agents taking so long to catch up? What does the future of an emotional voice interface look like, and how will the ability to perceive and express emotions influence the development of voice interfaces in the future?\n\nBoston ML Meetup\n\nHuman-Computer Interfaces\n\nIt’s 2016, and humans don’t give instructions through terminals anymore. The future of interfaces is social. Natural language understanding, conversational dialogs, and subtle social cues are the new instruction set – what challenges exist in the vast field of HCI, and how can current machine learning techniques address them?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9074496626853943}
+{"content": "Junior seminar competencies Essay writing homework help\n\nNow that you have completed your first essay & 2 or video, now pick the last  two competencies and sample assignment(s)…do it again!  \n\nTo recap from four weeks ago….\n\nFrom Syllabus:\n\nessays or videos (submitted on Bb then later posted to Digication). \n\nPapers/Topics will include evidence of when students have done the work for each competency  (include samples -evidence of learning) (total of 30 pts)\n\na.For each essay/video students must demonstrate average proficiency in critical analysis, structuring a topic, and grammar and punctuation, as well as APA/MLA formatting style.\n\nNew Information:\n\nYou will need to complete 3 essays or videos that describe how you have shown your level of proficiency in two competencies through one or more learning activities completed throughout your general education classes.  Each essay will be awarded a max of 10 points when completed (each competency will be worth 5 points). Videos will be awarded FOUR extra points.\n\nChoose two competencies at a time to evaluate in an essay or video. Essays should be 4 to 6 pages long and videos should be between 3 & 4 minutes long and include proper citations.  See the folder on Digital Storytelling in Course Materials for tutorials on how to make videos.\n\nYou can either use one learning activity for both competencies or choose a different activity for each of the competencies.  \n\nIn the essays or videos, describe a learning activity that you have done (provide the example with your assignment) and how you successfully showed proficiency in each section (bullet) of the competency.  For example,  you have an activity from an english course and want to use it for the Written Communication Competency.  So, you need to explain how parts or the whole of the activity include the aspects of the competency:\n\n1* Choose and narrow a subject.\n\n2* Identify a purpose and formulate an appropriate thesis statement.\n\n3* Organize ideas effectively and develop them within a logical paragraph structure.\n\n4* Support points clearly with adequate and specific evidence.\n\n5* Demonstrate command of accepted English sentence structure and grammar.\n\n6* Revise and edit according to standard English practice, including attention to punctuation and appropriate vocabulary. \n\n7* Acknowledge all sources by documenting research according to a recognized manual.\n\nYou can either use screen shots or quote parts of the activity to explain how this evidence you are providing meets the assignment requirements & competency.  So- if you cited sources at the end then you can state that for #7 you documented your research according to APA/MLA etc…then provide a screen shot of the page.   Try your best to provide evidence for 100% of the competency components.  \n\nLet me know if you have a hard time doing this assignment.  Email me at vcolemanprisco@mercy.edu.\n\nOnce you have submitted and I have graded the essay/video to satisfaction, then you can upload it to your digication portfolio (we will set up the accounts next week).\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9961583614349365}
+{"content": "My May Blogging\n\nI spent May sleeping as much as I could while my body tried to tear itself apart with neuromyotonic cramps. During more cogent moments, I managed to publish a few batches of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion related blog posts from my lanes of neurodiversity, disability, and toxic Christianity.\n\nDEI, Belonging, and Values Fit in the Workplace\n\nThe latest episode of Distributed interviews Sid Sijbrandij, Co-founder and CEO of GitLab. The episode prompted me to revisit the comprehensive GitLab Values page. There’s lots of good stuff in here.\n\nDiversity, inclusion and belonging are fundamental to the success of GitLab. We aim to make a significant impact in our efforts to foster an environment where everyone can thrive. We are designing a multidimensional approach to ensure that GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can contribute. We actively chose to build and institutionalize a culture that is inclusive and supports all team members equally in the process of achieving their professional goals. We hire globally and encourage hiring in a diverse set of countries. We work to make everyone feel welcome and to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and nationalities in our community and company.\n\nWe demonstrate diversity, inclusion and belongings when we foster an environment where everyone can thrive and ensuring that GitLab is a place where people from every background and circumstance feel like they belong and can contribute.\n\nSource: GitLab Values | GitLab\n\nI like the addition of belonging to DEI. That’s an important part of Employee Resource Groups: fostering belonging. Belonging helps address the leaky pipeline, and hiring for values fit instead of culture fit helps address getting in the pipeline in the first place.\n\nCulture fit is a bad excuse\n\nWe don’t hire based on culture or select candidates because we’d like to have a drink with them. We hire and reward team members based on our shared values as detailed on this page. We want a values fit, not a culture fit. We want cultural diversity instead of cultural conformity, such as a brogrammer atmosphere. Said differently: “culture add” > “culture fit” or “hire for culture contribution” since our mission is that everyone can contribute.\n\nSource: GitLab Values | GitLab\n\nI love the rule-of-thumb: culture add > culture fit. I might add it to my old, neglected list of rules of thumb for human systems. Changing the framing from fit to add better includes neurodivergent people.\n\nSpeaking of neurodivergent people, the page has a section on neurodiversity.\n\nNeurodiversity is a type of diversity that includes: autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, cognitive impairment, and other styles of neurodivergent functioning. While neurodivergent individuals often bring unique skills and abilitieswhich can be harnessed for competitive advantage in many fields including cybersecurity, neurodivergent individuals are often discriminated against, and sometimes have trouble making it through traditional hiring processes. These individuals should be able to contribute as GitLab team members. The handbook, values, strategy, and interviewing process should never discriminate against the neurodivergent.\n\nSource: GitLab Values | GitLab\n\n“The handbook, values, strategy, and interviewing process should never discriminate against the neurodivergent.”\n\nWow, it sure feels good to read that so plainly written. Here’s some previous writing of mine to help avoid discriminating against neurominorities at work and, instead, create belonging.\n\nPower, Justice, and Professionalism in the Tech Workplace\n\nThis account is based on interviews with six Basecamp employees who were present at the meeting, along with a partial transcript created by employees. Collectively, they describe a company whose attempt to tamp down on difficult conversations blew up in its face as employees rejected the notion that discussions of power and justice should remain off limits in the workplace. And they suggest that efforts to eliminate disruptions in the workplace by regulating internal speech may cause even more turmoil for a company in the long run.\n\nSource: 🚨 How Basecamp blew up – Platformer\n\nRight-wing narratives of woke capitalism are so off. Tech leaders aren’t remotely woke, as evidenced here, yet again. Over and over, tech leaders fail to rise to the 101 level of analyzing power and confronting injustice. The “disruptions” eliminated by suppressing internal speech are marginalized people. The silence is suffocating.\n\n“Racism [and] white supremacy are not things that are so convenient that they only happen when full intention is present, or true malice is present,” the employee said. “Evil is not required. We’re not so lucky as for this to come down to good and evil. It’s as simple as creating a space where people do not feel welcome.”\n\nThe employee continued: “The silence in the background is what racism and white supremacy does. It creates that atmosphere that feels suffocating to people. It doesn’t require active malice. It’s not that convenient.”\n\nSource: 🚨 How Basecamp blew up – Platformer\n\nMarginalized groups are tired from the exhausting work of coaching white men to understand their world. The leadership at Basecamp, and pretty much every tech company, are so far behind at understanding worlds outside their own that their professionalism is in question.\n\nFor this reason, I would suggest a renewed focus on MESH education,which stands for Media Literacy, Ethics, Sociology, and History. Because if these are not given equal attention, we could end up with incredibly bright and technically proficient people who lack all capacity for democratic citizenship.\n\nSource: Forget STEM, We Need MESH. The importance of media literacy… | by Tim Wise | Our Human Family | Medium\n\nThe price of relevance is fluency,” and these leaders are not fluent.\n\nWorse, that visibility of critique means that powerful people now have to do work that they didn’t want to do. They can’t stand it.\n\n\nSimilarly, CEOs keep fussing about how it’s hard to not offend people these days. (Being a CEO myself, this one ends up on my radar a lot.) Now, every person in marketing knows they have to try to stay culturally relevant, and certainly every ordinary worker knows they constantly have to be learning new skills and developing professionally. But if a CEO has been in his seat long enough, he’ll often get deeply resentful of being told that he has to learn new ways of being respectful to the people who were systematically obstructed from reaching his awareness in the past.\n\nSource: The price of relevance is fluency", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8180131912231445}
+{"content": "Guide to Utilizing the Fibonacci System in Roulette\n\n\nGuide to Utilizing the Fibonacci System in Roulette\n\nRoulette can be known as Caverta or Batavola in the German 크레이지 슬롯 and in French, L’apparat or Batavogui in Italian and as Roulette in English. Roulette is without a doubt just about the most famous casino games all over the world. It has been the favorite game of gamblers for years and years. Roulette is played with a set of dice or a coin.\n\nBetting on a roulette table is known as risky by many casino games. Because of this, roulette does not have any set odds. Although it holds true that it can be an easy task to gain money with roulette, it is still considered a game of risk. The house always comes with an advantage on roulette. Hence, players need to consider the odds when they place their bets.\n\nThe most basic rule on roulette may be the spin of the roulette wheel. This is often compared to the popular spin of an individual wheel at the casinos. This assists you get an idea on what much you can win in the overall game.\n\nThere are numerous differences on how the wheel should be spinning. Most of them have something to do with the roulette layout. The layout in roulette is different in casinos. The original layout is a nine marked grid with two columns, three rows, and four columns facing each other. There are two columns and one row in a traditional setup of roulette. In addition, there is only 1 wheel per player which layout is not exactly the same in every roulette variations.\n\nTraditional roulette includes three possible outcomes – an absolute bet, a losing bet and a broke position. The majority of the bets in a traditional game of roulette are put inside the casino’s main floor. Outside bets on roulette aren’t allowed. Thus, placing outside bets on roulette is recognized as gambling. However, many people still place their bets in the casino even-money outside bets.\n\nThere are various systems that could help a person have better chances of winning. One of these brilliant systems is the Fibonacci System. The Fibonacci System can be used as a tool to assist in winning bets and decreasing the possibility of losing in a game of roulette. The Fibonacci System can assist you increase your chances of success in roulette by determining the appropriate betting combinations using the odds. It uses the Fibonacci formula and may calculate the odds of the particular game that you will be playing.\n\nThis formula is very simple and clear to see. Here, every number represents one of many numbers that can be observed in the Fibonacci sequence. The initial number, which is known as the starting number, could be thought of as the baseline. It indicates the most likely winning combination a player is most likely to accomplish once he or she enters the game. The next number, which is called the prospective number, can be regarded as a measure of the amount of money that is owned at the moment the person places that winning bet.\n\nWhen you have calculated the starting number and the prospective number, you can now proceed with the Fibonacci sequence to look for the number of possible wins. The third number in the sequence indicates the chances of a win by the person who has chosen the layout. The wheel can be placed in any convenient invest the casino, rendering it accessible to all players. However, you should stick to one layout because selecting a different layout will alter the odds for every bet. By knowing the Fibonacci Formula, it is possible to improve your likelihood of placing the winning bets and decreasing the chance of losing.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7481474876403809}
+{"content": "Posts Tagged ‘book of the law’\n\nThe Devil ⚧ PerPEtuaȴ I\n\n\nAs a Comet passes close to the Sun, it heats up and begins to emit gases, which create a visible aura called a coma. Sometimes the visible coma can be seen from Earth. The coma’s presence has given rise to speculation that comets are harbingers of doom or incredible change. Comets have often been confused with shooting stars, which are the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Shooting stars are said to bring fortune and good luck to their viewers. \n\nIn either case, this card symbolizes placing one’s fate in another entity. Upright, this card may manifest itself in seeing either a physical sign that a wish may be coming true or a signal of the onset of great change.\n\nReversed, the card warns to “be careful what one wishes for” because its fulfillment may come with an unexpected price.\n\nΔeatƕ ☠ IMAGination I\n\n\ngt   maybug    Dōng Fāng Qīng Lóng maybug  bt mov \n\nThe Hanged man↭Stable I\n\n\n\n ?               isla      The sail is a crucial part of a ship, responsible for harnessing the wind and propelling the ship to its distant destination. But a sail alone isn’t enough. It’s a tool for a skilled navigator and cooperative weather. This card depicts javaJason and the the Argonauts passage through the treacherous  an Symplegades. The towering cliffs continually shifted and crashed together, making navigation extremely difficult, even for a trained crew. To navigate it without assistance would mean certain death, but Jason let loose a dove to lead the way through the perilous waters to safety.\n\nUpright, the atmosphere is perfect for moving forward. With the right crew and a bit of forward momentum, you can be carried forward steadily, bypassing some of the most difficult terrain. The  cor dove in thejava Jason and the Argonauts story symbolizes faith in outside help when even when an expert is confident in their craft. This card also symbolizes asking for guidance, potentially from a consultant, a spiritual advisor, or a mentor. bc\n\n   Reversed, this card symbolizes  troubled waters ahead. This could mean taking on an endeavor too difficult for one’s experience level, putting faith in the  wrong place or not having enough win    jd  8    mayan nawal    mayan nawal in our sails to go very far.\n\nThe Force ⚛ I of Act\n\n\n\nAdjustment↭Faithful/less I\n\n\n\n\nkoobs Latin for “weighing scales,” Libra is associated not only with     justice and graceful diplomacy, but with balance on all levels. Like day and night, life and death, inhale and exhale, each requires the other to exist. Libra rules the seventh house, the house of partnership. One of Libra’s most interesting qualities is that they strive for balance at any cost. Libra personalities prefer not to choose sides, though they may be the first person to interrogate the parties in question in hopes of getting to the bottom of an issue. Though they are able and willing to provide support to whomever needs it, the middle of the road is where many Libra personalities prefer to be. \n\nLibras are gentle and charming, and enjoy the comfort of steady companionship. They have a fondness for perfection and in relationships, they want to sort out misunderstandings as quickly as possible.  Because Libra’s rationale is based on relative thinking, their opinion of perfection may sway depending on the information they gather at the time.\n\nIf Libra appears in a reading, a person may be called upon to act as an arbiter in a social or work-place stalemate. Often Libra can see the perfect compromise. This may include a bit of smoothing-over, or some sly management of personalities. \n\nWhen this card appears reversed, a person may find themselves waffling between two sides of an important issue where both sides seem particularly unhelpful or detestable. Uncovering the cold, hard truth may give a person enough leverage to rally for a more favorable scenario than the two present.\n\nThe L(eft)overs↭Disposing I\n\n\n\n jù xiè zuò Cancer is the fourth sign of the zodiac and rules over home, family, tradition, and communal activities. The constellation Cancer has evolved since Egyptian times to depict all manner of creatures, but has most commonly been depicted as a crab called KarkinOS from the Greek myth involving Hercules and his Twelve Labors. Hera, having sent Karkinos to fight Hercules, was so grateful for his effort that she placed him in the sky. The card depicts Karkinos in a sad state, being gently tended to by Hera. \n\nAs a cardinal water sign, Cancer personalities are extremely in tune with their emotions. At their best, they may be affectionate and sympathetic, with the desire to give their all to protect what is important to them. When troubled, they may be possessive, smothering, overly sensitive, and easily hurt.\n\nIn a reading, a person may take on some of Cancer’s tendencies. Upright, one should pay special attention to matters of the home and family. Reaching out to loved ones is especially important at this time. Often a person’s loved ones are their greatest allies in times of joy or hardship. Now is a great time to refresh the bond between relations. \n\nReversed, a person may find themselves battling a wave of self pity or insecurity, potentially brought on by a lack of social outlets or connections to their kin or peers. Interacting with an active community and playing a participatory role in an engaged social group is essential. Feeling purposeful and connected to others may be all that is needed to get back on\n\n\nThe HΞrmiϮ ↭I of Mirrors\n\n\n gstar  can  Canis Major depicts               Laelaps  anmov cererus, a mythological dog who never failed to catch what he was hunting  canmcharacter in question. Gifted to Europa by Zeus,  Laelaps   the dog was once used to hunt the  fox script fo fox script an Teumessian fox,    a fox that could never be caught  egypt anubis   Laelaps  was known for his speed, loyalty, and his persistence during the chase. Zeus cast both the dog and the fox into the heavens, where the chase continues to this day.\n\nThis card is all about the pursuit of an incredible, and hard-to-attain prize. Upright, this card indicates focus, determination, stamina, and steadfastness. In some cases this is a search for knowledge and understanding, such as in the case of the Hermit. The pursuit referenced in this card is also almost always done alone and for  selfish purposes, though the wisdom gained during the journey may be shared with others once the seeker deciphers its meaning. \n\nReversed, the prey may seem so elusive that a person may wonder if they are chasing anything at all. With any good search, one must know if and when to end the pursuit. Adjusting one’s strategy and beginning the search again after a small rest may be just enough to revitalize the hunt. \n\nThe Hierophant↭Triumphant& Eternal I\n\n\nbu Taurus, the bull, is a symbol of power, strength and purpose. Taurus rules the second house, the house of possessions. Traditionally seen as the house of material goods and matters of wealth and investments, it also rules over one’s abilities and identities. Taurus seeks supreme security. Taurus is hard working, dependable, and steadfast, using their efforts to ensure that they feel grounded whenever possible.\n\nTaurus is patient and plodding, with a dependable schedule and faithful work ethic. They are often serious, concrete, and quite realistic about their view of the world. Finding comfort is of utmost importance in relationships, work, and finances. Taurus’s mission can make them possessive and immovable at times, making it hard to negotiate or compromise with them.  \n\nWhen this card appears in a reading, it’s a sure sign that a methodical, practiced approach is best when pursuing an upcoming goal, particularly one of financial or workplace matters. Taurus has a connection to traditional philosophies, time-honored practice and ritual. A systematic schedule may be the best way to help realize new goals. There are no short-cuts with Taurus as all accomplishments must feel earned to be worthwhile.\n\nWhen this card appears reversed, a person may find they are at an impasse with no way to move forward. This may manifest itself during negotiations with another strong personality, when battling against established axioms, or even when running up against regulations set in place without any workarounds. \n\nThe Emperor↭Error of I\n\n\nsphinx shī zi zuò    lring    ast qmLeo, the lion, is one of the only constellations that resembles its namesake. Leo reins over the fifth house, the house of pleasure, satisfaction, and creation. The image of a lion conjures visions of nobility, power, and pride. Individuals born under this sign share many of the attributes of their namesake. Leos tend to speak with both authority and showmanship. They are acutely aware of how people may perceive them and therefore may embellish their stories and their personal appearance in order to leave a good impression. Though Leos have a reputation for being proud, idealistic and hard-working, they have a deep appreciation for relaxation and pleasure.  Leos do not always seek the lime-light in social situations, but they do love being at the center of a small team or when at home with family and friends. A willingness to motivate and entertain their peers comes naturally, and Leos have a fine time rallying energy for causes with humble or honest purposes. \n\nLeos tend to reflect traditional ideals in their relationships and the need for chivalry, loyalty, and passion are paramount. Their interactions with others are honorable and spirited, and they find the company of other like-minded folks comforting. Leos find the most pleasure in relationships when they feel appreciated and they will gladly soak up any attention their partners, friends, or family will provide them. \n\n Reversed, a person may be lacking an outlet for proper self expression. That person may feel like they have a ton of energy but no one to share it with. It may be up to an individual to announce a call-to-arms for like minds and take on the role as the voice for change or the promoter for a worthy cause.\n\nThe House of ODG ✑ Connected I\n\n\n\nIP Blocking Protection is enabled by IP Address Blocker from", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7590703964233398}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Why Do Companies Use Fiscal Years?\n\nWhat is the most common fiscal year?\n\n\n\nHow do companies determine fiscal year?\n\n\nWhat is difference between fiscal year and financial year?\n\nIn India, this 1 year period starts from 1st April and ends on 31st March. This period in which the income is earned is known as the Financial Year or Fiscal Year. The income tax returns are filed and taxes for a company are usually paid in the next year after the end of the Financial Year.\n\nWhat does fy20 mean?\n\n\nWhat is India’s financial year 2020?\n\nHowever, fiscal year 2019-20 will end on June 30, 2020 whereas the fiscal year 2020-21 will begin on July 1, 2020 but will end on March 31, 2021. Post this, all the accounting year will commence on April 1 every year. The central bank has been following July-June as its accounting year for the past eight decades.\n\nWhat is the purpose of fiscal years?\n\n\nWhat quarter are we in now?\n\nJanuary, February, and March (Q1) April, May, and June (Q2) July, August, and September (Q3) October, November, and December (Q4)\n\nWhy is the financial year April to April?\n\nIn order to ensure against losing revenue it was decided by the British Treasury that the tax year, which started on March 25 1752, would be of the usual length (365 days) and therefore it would end on April 4, the following tax year beginning on April 5. Time passed smoothly and most importantly accurately until 1800.\n\nWhy does a company’s fiscal year not always end on December 31?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6559087038040161}
+{"content": "Opportunity Lies in Customer Complaints\n\nIt’s time to take a closer look at the ugly side of customer experience – customer complaints.\n\nJack Ma, founder of China’s social media and ecommerce giant Alibaba has a famous quote “Opportunity lies in the place where complaints are”. Given he’s one of the worlds most successful self-made billionaires there might be something in this for us to explore.\n\nFar from embracing this ethos, some businesses I see actively go out of their way to ignore complaints, even though there have been studies done to show that these customers can actually be worth more to your business.\n\n\n\nIn my late teens, I worked in a dry-cleaners. It was a great grounding in customer service and how to deal with difficult situations – because when things went wrong, they really went wrong!\n\nWhen I reflect on those days I can see a consistent pattern in how customers reacted to a problem.\n\nTheir voice would get louder.\n\nSome customers would find their voice straight away and not be afraid to vent their frustrations. The good thing about this, was that you could work through their objections and find resolution.\n\nThe other type of customer was far more damaging. There was a delay in them finding their voice. They start with disgruntled silence, grumblings or even compliance as they quietly take their business away from you. But then, back in the comfort of their own environment, their voice would get louder and they would start venting to their friends, family and anyone they can find to recount how terrible their experience was. If you were lucky they would write a formal letter or call the boss. But otherwise, the damage was done and could not be repaired.\n\nToday’s challenge is that with social media and online reviews – when a customer shouts the whole world can hear it. And this scares the hell out of a lot of businesses!\n\n\n\nI’ve recently been consulting with some companies that surprised me with their approach to online reviews and negative feedback. The first was a retailer who was hiding all negative comments on social posts and in online product reviews. The second was a client in the property industry who actually had extremely good after sales service and an unusually high repurchase rate but they were so scared of those one or two people who may have something negative to say, that they had switched off all forms of ratings, reviews and testimonials.\n\nBoth of these businesses were missing the power of transparency and social currency.\n\nUS tech company Skybell found that it took about 25 happy customer reviews to offset one bad review. And this is why some businesses just hide or delete customer complaints.  However, the problem is that a clean sheet of positive feedback with a pure 5-star rating feels too good to be true. This scepticism results in all the genuinely positive reviews being dismissed by a customer as #fakenews.\n\n\n\nWhat’s really interesting is what happens if you resolve a complaint.\n\nResearch shows us that customers who have had a problem satisfactorily resolved actually become more loyal than a customer who has never complained at all. Plus they are more likely to tell others how pleased they are with the resolution.\n\nHarvard Business Review did a study where they audited customer complaints made to numerous businesses over Twitter. They analysed the time it took for a business to respond to the complaint and the type of response that was given. They then approached those customers who had complained and surveyed them. To create a benchmark, they also surveyed customers of those same businesses who had never complained.\n\nWhat they found was fascinating…\n\nWhen a customer received a response to their complaint in a timely manner, they would actually be willing to pay more for that product or service than someone who had never complained!\n\n\n\nBeyond increasing the value of that particular customer, there is also a halo effect that can be achieved by using complaints to create social currency.\n\nYour future customers are often exposed to online and social ratings and reviews as they make their purchase decision. It might be on google, facebook, forums or category specific review websites.\n\nPublicly resolving an issue online, (or at least being seen to respond and take action to resolve privately) demonstrates a service level that your potential customer could expect if they ever end up needing an issue resolved themselves. This transparency leaves a heightened degree of trust which helps confirm their purchase decision.\n\n\n\nInstead of paying for influencers to create positive word-of-mouth why don’t we focus on building a connection with real customers and turn them into public advocates. In fact, the more emotionally connected a customer is to your brand, the more likely they are to tell you when you are doing something wrong.  And that’s the kind of feedback that unlocks opportunity.\n\nSo let’s stop deleting, hiding and ignoring online complaints and let’s start listening and responding to what our customers have got to say. You might actually improve your product and create a more valuable customer along the way.\n\nDiscover why building real emotion into your customer experience is the missing ingredient for Australian businesses.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7049651145935059}
+{"content": "Parasitologie»: diagnostic biologique de la toxoplasmose (2h de cours ; 2h de TD . Cours toxoplasmose, DCEM1, Faculté de médecine de Rouen (commun. données devraient être disponibles au cours de l’année , résultant de la Cours magistraux, TP et ED: DCEM1 et DESS de Parasitologie Mycologie. 19 juil. DCEM1. La rentrée est le 19 septembre, le choix des modules le 20 et D1): la bactériologie-virologie-parasitologie-hygiène, la nutrition et les TP Toujours des QCMs à remplir dans la semaine suivant le cours, un QCM.\n\nAuthor: Kagagis Zulabar\nCountry: Libya\nLanguage: English (Spanish)\nGenre: Politics\nPublished (Last): 21 April 2006\nPages: 286\nPDF File Size: 7.54 Mb\nePub File Size: 3.67 Mb\nISBN: 178-8-96270-447-6\nDownloads: 67456\nPrice: Free* [*Free Regsitration Required]\nUploader: Zukree\n\nAnemia related adult repositioning every few days in the intestine coupled with anti-coagulant. The source is our class notes. Elevated when the worms are migrating to and especially when they are molting within the alveoli.\n\nWhat is the dx parasitologi Necator and Acylostoma. Unencyst and develop into adults 7. If you want it to look pretty, steal some crayons and go to town.\n\nIt is a segment of the worm that contains the eggs. What is the life cycle of Enterobiusvermicularis. What are the sx of Echinococcusgranulosus. Taeniasaginata — beef tapeworm Taeniasolium — pork tape worm Diphyllobothriumlatum — fish tape worm Echinococcusgranulosus — dog tape worm. They can range up to 70cm.\n\nEtudes de médecine en Tunisie\n\nEggs hatch in pparasitologie soil and larvate. Therapy directed against the bacteria can be beneficial. What dictates the level of eosinphilia between Ascaris, Necator, Ancylostoma, and Strongyloides. Ingested eggs hatch in small intestine Adults live in colon Eggs deposits in perianal region nightly by females.\n\n\nCystecercosis occurs when a human ingest the eggs of T. Eggs hatch in fresh water to form miracidia Miracidiapentrate snails and mature to cercariae Cercariae leave snail and penetrate host. What are the agents of Filariasis? Ingested eggs hatch in cattle 2.\n\nClasses of Nematodes. Why does rectal prolapse occur with Trichuris? Epilepsy can occur in if cystecerci form in the brain. Disease intensity is dictated by worm burden. Otherwise tenesmus with chronic mucoid diarrhea occurs. What are the clinical sx of Trichuris. What is cutaneous larva migrans.\n\nIntestinal phase — non-specific gastroenteritis lasting weeks. It is very complicated and involves multiple fresh water hosts including crustaceans and fish. What are the three methods of nematode infection. How do humans enter the Fe loop. Disclaimer The information represents my understanding only so errors and omissions are probably rampant.\n\nInsect Transmitted Nematodes. Taeniasaginata — beef tapeworm. What is the difference between saginata and soliumproglottids? Larva migrate to the skeletal muscles and encyst for up to 30 years. Sticky side out Scotch tape wrapped slide is pressed against perianal region. Where do adult schistosomes live? Eggs are deposited into epithelium where they burrow through to the epithelium to pass.\n\nWhat are the clinical sx of D. Dogs eat sheep muscle encysted with the organism. Courd — Chinese river fluke. How do the insect biting pattern and the worm levels in the blood compare in filariasis?\n\n\ncours de parasitologie dcem1 pdf – PDF Files\n\nWhat is Loa Loa. What is the relative size of ascaris?\n\nLarva hatch in small intestine Adults mature in colon where they burrow into the surface Eggs are passed in the feces Egg embryonate in the soil over weeks. Clonorchissinensis — Chinese river fluke Fasciola hepatica — Sheep liver fluke Pargonimuswestermani — Human lung fluke Schistosomes — blood flukes. What are the time course of the diseases caused by schistosomiasis.\n\nPT may notice proglottids in stool. What are the clinical sx of cystecercosis. Large 20cm fluid filled hydatid cysts form in the liver or viscera.\n\nIngestion of embryonated eggs which hatch in intestines Larva migrate to alveoli L3 larva break through into the alveolar spaces Larva migrate up trachea and are swallowed Adults mature in small intestines Eggs pass in feces Embryonate in soil for parasifologie.\n\nDescribe the lifecycle of Taeniasolium. What is the lifecycle for Ascarislumbricoides? Email Presentation to Friend. Surgical tx must be done gingerly to prevent shock.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5338621139526367}
+{"content": "How would I go about selecting $3$ random points $p$, $q$, and $r$ on the perimeter of a square of side a such that they are as far apart from each other as possible (i.e. the sum of the euclidean distances from $p$ to $q$, $q$ to $r$, and $p$ to $r$ is maximized)?\n\nIs there a general method to do this such that I can extend it to (for example) finding $5$ such points on the surface of a cube of side $a$? $7$ on the surface of a sphere of radius $a$? Not a textbook problem, was just thinking for fun and got lost.\n\nCan try solving the square problem with a simulation on a computer, but looking for mathematical insight. Thank you.\n\n  • $\\begingroup$ These are similar to packing problems, which are hard. For a given general configuration, you can take the derivative of your objective with respect to the positions of the points and find a local optimum. Unfortunately, there may be a better general configuration. For small numbers of points you can justify that you have tried all the configurations or can rule out some of them. For three points on a square, they should clearly all be on different sides. Then the two that are next to a side with no points should be at the corners away from the side with a point, and that point should $\\endgroup$ – Ross Millikan May 16 '20 at 4:23\n  • $\\begingroup$ at the center. For seven on a sphere, you can imagine a point at a pole with two sets of three on lines of latitude. Are you sure that is the best configuration? If you look at packomania you will find different packing problems that surprisingly often have asymmetric arrangements that are superior to symmetric ones. $\\endgroup$ – Ross Millikan May 16 '20 at 4:26\n  • $\\begingroup$ @RossMillikan, for three points in a square, it sounds like you are suggesting that $(1+\\sqrt 5)a$ is optimal. But putting the three points in three corners instead yields the larger sum of distances $(2+\\sqrt 2)a$. $\\endgroup$ – RobPratt May 16 '20 at 15:49\n  • $\\begingroup$ Are you trying to maximize the sum of the distances, or maximize the minimum distance? $\\endgroup$ – Mark L. Stone May 17 '20 at 13:55\n\nFor $i\\in\\{1,2,3\\}$, let $(x_i,y_i)$ denote the coordinates of point $i$. The problem is to maximize $\\sum_{1\\le i<j\\le 3} \\sqrt{(x_i-x_j)^2+(y_i-y_j)^2}$ subject to bound constraints: \\begin{align} 0\\le x_i &\\le a \\\\ 0\\le y_i &\\le a \\end{align} Now use multivariable calculus. An optimal solution will naturally occur on the boundary.\n\n  • $\\begingroup$ @genokem, the perimeter of inscribed triangle is maximum if two side are coincident with two sides of square and third side is the diameter of the square. $\\endgroup$ – sirous May 16 '20 at 18:07\n\nYour Answer\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6515581607818604}
+{"content": "Ilmenskie Cave Gr Stone Texture 4\n\n\nThis glitch clipart is about ilmenskie, cave, gr, stone, texture, 4.\n\n\nThe glitch assets were converted to svg format by Bart from\n\n4 cave glitch gr ilmenskie stone texture\nSafe for Work?\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000083446502686}
+{"content": "Tehillim 114\n\n1 14 When Yisroel went out of Mitzrayim, Bais Ya’akov from a people of foreign tongue,\n2 Yehudah was His kodesh (sanctuary), and Yisroel His dominion.\n3 The yam saw it, and fled; Yarden was driven back.\n4 The harim skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.\n5 What ailed thee, O thou yam, that thou didst flee? Thou Yarden, that thou wast driven back?\n6 Ye harim, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?\n7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of Hashem, at the presence of Elohei Ya’akov;\n8 Which turned the rock into a pool of mayim, the flint into a spring of mayim.\nCalifornia - Do Not Sell My Personal Information  California - CCPA Notice", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9143409132957458}
+{"content": "Lambda Pi Eta Associates\n\nNational Communication Honor Society\n\nIn April 2016, I was inducted into the Lambda Pi Eta Associates candle lighting ceremony. The Associates is an honor society for Rider University communication and journalism majors who have achieved a fine academic record, and who have earned fewer than 60 credits. Lambda Pi Eta strives to foster and reward students who display a commitment to the field of communication and exhibit high standards of personal and professional character.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8487739562988281}
+{"content": "Is Ingredion Inc (INGR) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?\n\n\nIs Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR) a marvelous investment right now? Investors who are in the know are turning bullish. The number of long hedge fund positions improved by 5 lately. The level and the change in hedge fund popularity aren’t the only variables you need to analyze to decipher hedge funds’ perspectives. A stock may witness a boost in popularity but it may still be less popular than similarly priced stocks. That’s why at the end of this article we will examine companies such as KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY), Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (NYSE:IPG), and Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) to gather more data points.\n\nFollow Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR)\n\n\nMost Successful Etsy Shops in 2015\n\nAfrica Studio/\n\nHedge fund activity in Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR)\n\nHeading into the fourth quarter of 2016, a total of 23 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were bullish on this stock, a boost of 28% from one quarter earlier. That followed a steep decline in Q2, when hedge fund ownership slumped by over 35%. With hedge funds’ positions undergoing their usual ebb and flow, there exists a select group of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).\nAccording to Insider Monkey’s hedge fund database, Cliff Asness’ AQR Capital Management has the most valuable position in Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR), worth close to $215.4 million. The second most bullish fund manager is Ken Fisher of Fisher Asset Management, with a $101.9 million position. Remaining hedge funds and institutional investors that are bullish include Dmitry Balyasny’s Balyasny Asset Management, Mario Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors, and Israel Englander’s Millennium Management.\n\nNow, specific money managers have been driving this bullishness. Balyasny Asset Management initiated the most outsized position in Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR). According to its latest 13F filing, the fund had $14.5 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Millennium Management also initiated a $10 million position during the quarter. The other funds with new positions in the stock are Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies, David E. Shaw’s D E Shaw, and George Hall’s Clinton Group.\n\nLet’s now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR). We will take a look at KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY), Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (NYSE:IPG), Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC), and Wynn Resorts, Limited (NASDAQ:WYNN). This group of stocks’ market values are similar to INGR’s market value.\n\nKEY 42 727656 -4\nIPG 31 1267574 -4\nLNC 24 668282 0\nWYNN 38 2245380 8\n\nAs you can see these stocks had an average of 34 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1.23 billion. That figure was $407 million in INGR’s case. KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC) is the least popular one with only 24 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Ingredion Inc (NYSE:INGR) is even less popular than LNC. Considering that hedge funds aren’t fond of this stock in relation to other companies analyzed in this article, it may be a good idea to analyze it in detail and understand why the smart money isn’t behind this stock. This isn’t necessarily bad news. Although it is possible that hedge funds may think the stock is overpriced and view the stock as a short candidate, they may not be very familiar with the bullish thesis. In either case more research is warranted.\n\nDisclosure: None", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5833873152732849}
+{"content": "1984 Totalitarian Government Analysis\n\n2107 Words9 Pages\nA Totalitarian Government Controls Everything According to dictionary.com, totalitarian is defined as of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinions and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life. Do to the control and power that the government put out over the people, many people think that it is impossible to ever overthrow a totalitarian government. People are scared, uneducated and brainwashed to a point where they just believe was ever is said and do not even try to rebel. In the novel 1984 written by George Orwell, the totalitarian government is incapable of being overthrown because it controls all aspects of life; specifically through the use of propaganda, the television,…show more content…\nIn the ministry of Love people who don't conform are tortured to a point that almost that dying would be less painful. Winston nevered agreed with the government of Oceania, and has joined an the Brotherhood society which is lead by O’Brien. When O’Brien splits Winston and Julia up, they are both taken to the Ministry of Love. Winston goes through some extreme torture to the point that he would almost rather die. “Yet even the hardest totalitarianism seeks to control language and truth; for ultimately, it seeks to control all reality, unto the few human souls it does not destroy” (Nelson 25). O’Brien knows that Winston would rather die then believe what the government wants him to believe. The one thing that O'brien tries to get Winston to believe is that two plus two equals five and when he when he holds up four fingers he tells him five. By the government torturing Winston into beleive something that isn’t true and even Winston knows it's false. This is showing the rest of society to just believe what the government tells them because the beating and abuse of the Ministry of Love is very harsh. Do to the government scarring the people of society through the abuse and torture in the Ministry of Love helps the totalitarian government keep their power over the\nOpen Document", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9774102568626404}
+{"content": "Facebook pixel Me, Myself, and AI | Pepperdine University Skip to main content\nPepperdine University\n\nMe, Myself, and AI\n\nAs the healthcare industry moves swiftly into an increasingly technological age, experts weigh in on the factors, fears, and future prospects of artificial intelligence-powered innovation\n\nJuly 10, 2019  | 6 min read\n\nA notification appears on the tablet screen. “Record your daily weight,” it advises Patient X, recently discharged from the hospital following double bypass surgery. He steps on the digital scale in the comfort of his home and checks the number on the display. He notices a five-pound weight gain in a span of two days—a common symptom that follows the procedure he underwent last week. This type of weight gain, however, typically caused by fluid buildup called edema, could signal diminished blood flow, and it must be treated with diuretics to expel water and salt from the body and increase the volume of blood in circulation.\n\nLindsay Brooker  - Pepperdine MagazineAt the hospital, a team of nurses who have been monitoring Patient X in real time in the days following his surgery send him a same-day appointment request through the system he uses to record his vitals and communicate remotely with those individuals responsible for delivering his postoperative care.\n\nThe preprogrammed tablet, which uses an algorithm to detect abnormal vital sign ranges, and the digital scale are part of the handful of appliances that includes blood pressure monitors and pulse oximeters that Patient X came home with after surgery. Individuals who are eligible for this type of remote monitoring—those managing chronic diseases such as diabetes or recovering from surgical procedures—are more likely to have potentially serious problems detected early and typically experience better recovery outcomes than individuals without such personalized care.\n\nAt UCLA Health, telehealth implementation manager Lindsay Brooker (MPP ’11) identifies strategies for expanding the use of digital health across the enterprise, including video visits and postsurgical remote patient monitoring programs for high-acuity patients like Patient X.\n\n“Very sick patients often do not understand how their lifestyle and decisions affect their health outcomes,” she explains. “Remote patient monitoring is one way for these patients to visualize in near real time how eating poorly or skipping an important medicine can directly affect their vitals.”\n\nBeyond empowering patients to generate their own data and gain deeper insight into customized treatment plans, Brooker explains that telehealth services also move low-acuity patients out of the clinic, minimize waiting room bottleneck, and reduce the rate of hospital readmission and emergency room visits—results that would help hospitals avoid associated penalties and fines.\n\n“Remote monitoring is going to be a standard of care in the next decade, but most likely even sooner than that,” Brooker continues. “The next layer is determining how to take the information that patients are already gathering about themselves and creating an algorithm that’s actionable so we can start identifying trends in public health.”\n\nOver the last decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and, specifically, deep learning—when computers learn and adopt skills only possessed by humans—have overtaken the healthcare industry, from AI-enhanced microscopes that have learned to detect deadly diseases faster than humans can to applications that enable ultrasound capabilities on a person’s smartphone to surgical robots. But beyond the benefits of diagnostic accuracy, self-guided care, and convenience for both patients and providers, many are skeptical of the impersonal qualities of AI practices in contemporary medicine and wonder how emerging technologies will further erode the clinical experience.\n\nIn the foreword to world-renowned cardiologist Eric Topol’s Deep Medicine, a revealing book on the emergence and limitless potential of artificial intelligence in healthcare, author Abraham Verghese cites a 2,000-year-old phrase by Hippocrates: “It is more important to know what sort of person has [a] disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.” Not known for its personalized approach by any standards, the healthcare industry as we know it and the reality of the clinical experience do not often suggest a caring healthcare environment.\n\nEric Topol  - Pepperdine MagazineTopol, who was the keynote speaker at the 2019 Future of Healthcare Symposium founded by the Figueroa family and hosted by the Graziadio Business School this April, explained that AI, especially in the realm of healthcare, enhances productivity and efficiency and improves workflow in ways that can and will repair patient-doctor relationships.\n\n“Keyboards are the enemy of doctors and patients,” Topol explained, referring to the disconnected nature of data entry and note-taking during already compressed office visits—the leading source of patient dissatisfaction during medical encounters. In a study conducted in partnership with NHS England, Topol and team tested a natural language processing technology and found that introducing the clinical speech recognition practice during patient consultations not only enhanced the quality and accuracy of the data gathered but also saved time—about three minutes per patient. Voice-synthesized notes, he says, will also be able to deploy orders, tests, and billing.\n\nTopol explained that these results could relieve the pressure of routine and systematic office visits, which, if implemented properly, can also reduce the alarming rates of burnout and depression among healthcare professionals.\n\n“As machines get smarter and become better at performance, human intelligence is not going to change. But machines will,” said Topol at the symposium. “We need to get more humane. That’s what defines us, and that’s what people want when they’re sick: to be able to deal with their data and be able to have a better outcome.”\n\nGary Mangiofico, academic director of the Graziadio Business School master of science in organization development and executive professor of organizational theory and management, echoes Topol’s optimistic outlook on the future of the doctor-patient relationship and explains that healthcare systems that use AI and other major data analytics free up healthcare providers so that they may deliver better care.\n\n“Instead of doctors or nurses being overloaded with sorting through data and moving from patient to patient as fast as they can, data is going to enable them to have answers at their fingertips,” Mangiofico says of the activity volume-based healthcare system wherein physicians are incentivized to see as many patients as possible. “Doctors will be freed up to spend more time with patients. We should see the quality of the actual care delivered go up.”\n\nJohn FigueroaAmong both experts and laypeople, criticisms of AI almost unanimously identify radiological error as the sources of greatest concern. A 2017 study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology cites earlier research that implicates medical error as the third most common cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart disease. At a 4 percent error rate, that translates into approximately 40 million interpretive errors per year.\n\nJohn Figueroa (MBA ’97), former CEO of Genoa Healthcare, argues that radiology is the area that will be revolutionized most significantly by AI, explaining that once a machine learns the human skills of scanning and analyzing medical images, it is three times more effective at identifying and diagnosing injuries and diseases.\n\n“AI compounds [the human capabilities of] sight, intelligence, and predictive modeling to improve medicine significantly,” Figueroa says. “That’s the essence of AI to me. It’s a math equation. We teach the computer everything that we know, and then it begins to run a predictive model of the knowledge it has gained and even continues to develop more knowledge. This exponential knowledge gathering of predictive modeling is going to solve a lot of our health and healthcare mysteries. As great as that sounds, however, it still will take a while.”\n\nBut what about cases in which patients are denied assistive care because an AI system misrepresented their condition and failed to recommend the appropriate care? Although the benefits of AI-supported healthcare abound, questions, concerns, and fears still remain. In a 2018 study, Syneos Health Communications surveyed approximately 800 European and American patients in three disease areas and caregivers for patients in a fourth disease area in one of the earliest insights into patients’ thought processes about the ways in which AI could impact their health outcomes. The top two fears that both patients and caregivers expressed were lack of human oversight and the potential for machine errors leading to mismanagement of their health.\n\n“You could point to an example where AI made a mistake and ask how we can rely on a technology that has the potential to make a mistake,” says Figueroa. “But consider how many times a human doctor or an X-ray or a lab result produces an inaccurate result. The opportunities for human beings to make mistakes using basic human knowledge are vastly greater than those for AI products using the same information.”\n\nFigueroa says that patients unsatisfied by AI determinations are still able to use the same methods they’d use today in the form of a first, second, or third opinion. “The AI is never the be-all,” he says. “AI is a system to help make a decision, but the patients always have the right to challenge that decision. Human agency is not going to go away just because someone relied on an AI decision point.”\n\nGary MangioficoWith advancements in AI and analytics, access to electronic medical records and information on the internet, and the distribution and breadth of available information, healthcare providers and consumers are now more informed and more empowered to choose the best courses of action for their respective healthcare needs. But the question still remains: could machines degrade the human relationship that’s at the core of medicine? Mangiofico maintains that the use of AI will allow physicians to provide more personalized care.\n\n“Despite the intervention of artificial intelligence, someone has to ultimately educate and care for the patient,” Mangiofico says. “While machines can deliver enormous amounts of data, especially data that’s directed toward diagnostics or clinical interventions or even prophylactics, what machines can not do is care. With the increasing use of AI, we now see the landscape shifting so the individual is at the center of healthcare.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8135517835617065}
+{"content": "Wheels (Australia)\n\n\n- Ron Glanville, Woodend, Vic\n\nI LOVE CAR of the Year’s objective criteria, but looking at the sales charts, people obviously use other criteria. I read Ray Atkin’s conundrum (Inbox, February 2021 issue) and thought about one I have. We own seven cars, some quite nice drives, but one of them is a 1989 Mitsubishi Pajero. It’s old, tired, slow and needs some work. Every year it’s harder to justify re-registerin­g it, although it is still pretty good off-road, swallows heaps of stuff and makes me drive in a more relaxed manner. Yet, we have one member of the family who just loves it and is not interested in any of the other cars. If I pick up the keys to ‘the Beast’, even if I’m careful to not jangle them, and she’s at the front door in a flash. She even likes to just sit in it for a while if she’s feeling stressed. So, should I listen to the views of a three-legged Staffy?\n\nYes, yes you should. Park it in the backyard. Can be the new dog-house...\n\nNewspapers in English\n\nNewspapers from Australia", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6961356401443481}
+{"content": "Consider These Five Steps When Starting a Project\n\nEvery time you’re given a new project, you first start with a process of initiating and planning. There are additional things to consider to ensure you start the project off right.\n\n  1. Take responsibility. Take responsibility for delivering the project, and ensure other stakeholders are accepting their responsibilities as well. Be sure the sponsor will provide strong sponsorship, and that you have adequate funding and resources to complete it on time. Be sure you have a gut feel that the project is achievable. If you have concerns about the viability of the project raise your concern. Taking responsibility does not mean to be an order-taker. It means you also take responsibility to push back when needed.\n  2. Understand the background and context. You really need to understand as much as possible about your customer’s business to know why the scope and priorities have been set as they have. Ask your customer what’s driving the deadline of anything, why you can’t reduce the scope further and why the deliverables have been prioritized as they have. This gives you good information to start the planning process.\n  3. Identify the stakeholders. This is one of the most important aspects of starting a project. You need to know who the players are and their roles and responsibilities. You will need this information to know who to talk to for planning the project.\n  4. Clarify the scope. You need to uncover the scope of the project to ensure that all of the deliverables to be produced during the project are adequately defined. You don’t want to get part way through the project only to find that your customer actually wanted different or additional deliverables that weren’t planned. Sit down with your customer and clarify all of the deliverables on day one. The complete set of deliverables forms the “scope” of the project and it’s critical that you document these before you get started.\n  5. Understand if there is a fixed deadline and budget. Many projects have their deadline and budget set depending on the scope of work and the resources available. On the other hand, some projects are assigned to the project manager with a fixed deadline and budget. These projects can be harder to deliver. When a project starts it is important to know if you can propose the budget and deadline based on the work, or if these will be constraints given to you ahead of time.\n\nMany teams struggle understanding how best to initiate and plan a project. Invite us in to help. We can facilitate a Project Quickstart session that helps identify project objectives, scope, risks, assumptions, constraints, milestones and more. Please call Menno Valkenburg +31(0)649417755 or Dick van Schoonhoven +31(0)611045033.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8257799744606018}
+{"content": "What is supposed by sole proprietorship in business?\n\nBroberg Moos (Banned)\n\n0/5 stars (0 votes)\n\n\nA sole proprietorship, also known as sole proprietorship or the only real entrepreneur, is a kind of company in which there exists no gap between the direction and the firm itself, and in which there isn't any legal differentiation between the employer and the worker. A sole proprietorship generally is present in partnerships and limited liability partnerships. It may be casual or formal, unlimited or limited.\n\nThere are many reasons for establishing a sole proprietorship. A sole proprietorship may be established by one individual to serve as his own manager and all or part of the business income will be passed on to him. Another motive for a sole proprietorship is to form an investment trust in which the sole proprietor along with other investors to create an entity and hold a share of their investment. A sole proprietorship may be created to form a company to run a specific enterprise. In general, in any firm the company's shares will be owned by the company owners and the managers are going to be employees of the company.\n\nOne of the benefits of sole proprietorship is that the business owner has control over his or her assets. This offers the sole proprietor greater patience and ability to make tactical decisions. But, it can also be disadvantageous when the sole proprietor does not understand how to manage the organization effectively.\n\nAnother disadvantage is that the business will have to pay tax on its own business income or personal income. The sole proprietorship can't exist for any other reason than the one cited above and if that is true, the person will pay capital gains tax on their private income after the year of conversion or sale. There are special rules, but if the personal or business earnings is greater than the limit for a limited liability partnership, then the individual will pay capital gains tax on the difference between the amount of income and the limitation for your partnership.\n\nIn short, a sole proprietorship is a unique type of unincorporated business structure. It's not a popular option when starting a new organization, but it is an excellent choice for older companies seeking to retain some of their profit in their service rather than using assistance from a hired manager. When choosing how to design your sole proprietorship, it's important to keep in mind if the sole proprietorship will be considered a sole purpose firm, a company, a partnership, or an unincorporated business enterprise. This can help to ensure that your legal structure has the pros and cons that you need so as to fulfill your own personal or professional goals.\n\nFor more details check out sole proprietorship.\n\n\nCommenting only available for logged in users", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9801570773124695}
+{"content": "founder's message     melisa kennedy\n\nFostering knowledge of the universe's mysteries.\n\nUFOHA’s recipe for success is going to be simple yet powerful. We are led by our volunteers and our members, all of whom are seeking the truth. You are our heart and soul, our muscles and energy to raise the funds and deliver research and education to humanity. All charities have donors. We have passionate, hardworking members and volunteers who make things happen. We are also science based in our procedures. We invest in research—practical research into these unresolved mysteries—that guides our investment of your hard-earned dollars, and we put those dollars where they deliver the greatest return.\n\n\nWe really are moving heaven and earth to seek the truth. \n\n\nOur people—you—make our mission possible: To inspire, explore and apply the education of UFOs in newfound ways that can advance human knowledge and have a profound impact on the future of humanity.\n\nMelisa S. Kennedy, CEO\n\nUFO Hunters of America, Inc.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9918004274368286}
+{"content": "Glass Beach\n\nGlass Beach\n\nFort Bragg, California\n\nCloseup of beach glass Glass Beach\n\nOne cannot collect\n\nall the beautiful shells on the beach.\n\nOne can collect only a few,\n\nand they are more beautiful if they are few.\n\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh\n\nGlass Beach covered in beach glass\n\nAs I walked Glass Beach, a dream destination for beachcombers, this Anne Morrow Lindberg quote came to mind. This season of life is more about collecting memories than things. We said goodbye to our four-bedroom house five weeks ago. We are living in a 22-foot Winnebago. We have a minimal amount of belongings with us, and yet, the \"stuff\" feels too much most of the time. Why did we bring four dinner plates when we only need two? Why are there so many clothes in the closet when we wear the same things over and over again? Why do we have so much when we can happily get by on so little? Did I really think we would use the crockpot?\n\nAs my desire for material things wanes, my hunger for more experiences grows. I want to see more beautiful places. Hike more challenging trails. Open myself to richer experiences and deeper connections. The bucket list isn't getting shorter with each park we visit and each fellow traveler we talk to, it's getting longer.\n\nLife ebbs and flows. Things won't always be as simple as they are right now. But walking across the beach of sea glass, marveling at the rock formations, and exploring the jagged shoreline with Jeff made it feel as though we could live in these moments, or ones like them, forever. I took a few pieces of beach glass with me, tiny shining reminders for the future of this time when less was more.\n\nwoman walking on Glass Beach\nGlass Beach Fort Bragg, California\n\nRock formation Glass Beach\n\n\nGlass Beach rock and beachglass\n\n#GlassBeach #FortBragg #beachglass\n\nYou Might Also Like:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7254372239112854}
+{"content": "AVID’s proven learning support structure, known as WICOR , incorporates teaching/learning methodologies in the critical areas of Writing to Learn, InquiryCollaboration, Organization, and Reading to Learn. WICOR provides a learning model that educators can use to guide students in comprehending concepts and articulating ideas at increasingly complex levels (scaffolding) within developmental, general education, and discipline-based curricula. Furthermore, the WICOR model reflects and promotes the expertise and attitudes that will serve students well in their academic lives and careers.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9986042380332947}
+{"content": "The Small Seven | Latest news The Moscow Post\n14 June 2021\n\n\"The Small Seven\"\n\nThe main theme of the first G7 summit in two years was not global problems, but the geopolitical confrontation between Russia and China, which is beneficial only to the United States and Great Britain.\n\nAccording to the correspondent of The Moscow Post, the first day of the G-7 summit (G7) ended in London. The main topics were not the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, not the difficult economic situation and the fight against terrorism and climate change, but the geopolitical confrontation between the \"democratic world\" of Russia and China.\n\nIt was difficult to expect another focus for the summit, which Great Britain has the chairmanship this year. It is significant that this is the first meeting of G7 in almost two years. During this time, many events occurred, including the dramatic events of January 2021 in Washington, not against the backdrop of a change in the American administration.\n\nMeanwhile, the Biden team's approaches to the most important geopolitical issues in relations with the Russian Federation and China are not completely clear. The United States remains the main geopolitical center and key country of G7. But the influence and status of the world and military hegemon are leaving, while Biden himself and his team demonstrate amazing political (neurotic?) Ambivalence.\n\nOn the one hand, the policy of pressure on the PRC and the Russian Federation, the introduction of new sanctions and the strengthening of the military presence in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region continues. On the other hand, the United States is well aware that the world is changing, and both China and the Russian Federation will have to negotiate. This is evidenced by Shatov's position on extending the agreement on the deployment of medium and short-range missiles, as well as the invitation of President Vladimir Putin to a dialogue - a bilateral meeting of the leaders of the two countries.\n\nMeanwhile, the meeting, which was supposed to take place in the near future, so far seems ephemeral. The reason is the same ambivalence, or two-track, as it is called in the USA itself. Recently, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov gave an extensive interview in the Big Game program on Channel One, where he outlined this problem.\n\nAccording to Mr. Peskov, due to the difference in signals from Washington, it is more difficult for the Kremlin to analyze and determine the motives of the United States. On the one hand, Biden calls Putin and invites him to dialogue, on the other hand, he imposes sanctions. Meanwhile, there is a topic on which the position of the Biden administration is extremely clear - the rapprochement between Russia and China there is considered a threat.\n\nAs Dmitry Peskov said, Western countries do not want to perceive Russia's desire to be with other countries in good relations: \"For some reason, they stubbornly do not want to hear this first part and the main message of President Putin (in a message to the Federal Assembly, approx. Editors) neither in Washington, nor in Brussels, nor in European capitals.\"\n\nDmitry Peskov spoke about the situation in the context of new baseless accusations against Russia. This time - from the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, who \"suddenly\" discovered a \"Russian trace\" in explosions in warehouses with weapons. It is easy to guess that small European democracies themselves would hardly have decided on such a step. Most likely, they were advised to \"shoot themselves in the foot\" in Washington and London?\n\nMeanwhile, the recent increase in military tensions on the border with Ukraine also influenced the agenda of Seven members. Then, recall, the armed forces of Ukraine concentrated large forces on the direction of the unrecognized LPR and DPR.\n\nAfter the Russian Federation approached the border, the violent heads cooled. But earlier, the foreign ministers of the countries included in the G7 demanded that Russia stop \"provocations\" at the borders of Ukraine and \"comply with obligations regarding the transparency of the movement of military forces.\" That is, NATO exercises at the borders of Russia are exercises, and the movements and exercises of the Russian Federation on its territory are aggressive actions? However, the essence is not quite in Ukraine.\n\nThe essence is the island of Taiwan, which for the inhabitants of China is the same as for Russia is Crimea. The only difference is that Taiwan is an economically and technologically advanced state. The dream of returning Taiwan to Chinese control has existed for a long time, and after the events in Nagorno-Karabakh, there was talk that this country could resolve the situation militarily.\n\nGiven this, on the eve of the coordinator for the Indian and Pacific Oceans regions at the National Security Council (NSC) under the White House, Kurt Campbell, expressed the opinion that maintaining the status quo for Taiwan is in the interests of both Washington and Beijing.\n\nThe American official added that any conflict between the United States and China over Taiwan is unlikely to be limited to a small area in terms of geography. \"I think it will quickly expand and thoroughly destroy the global economy in a way that, I believe, no one can predict,\" Campbell quoted TASS as saying.\n\nIn this context, during the first day of the G-7 summit, it became known that the United States is seeking to develop a joint consultative mechanism with the Group of Seven countries on policy towards China. The proposal was before the Group's foreign ministers at yesterday's plenary meeting in London.\n\nThe essence is simple - the United States seeks to drive other members of the Seven into the fairway of its anti-China policy, who are not at all willing to enter into confrontation with China and prefer to pursue an independent policy. Something similar is observed in the case of the Russian Federation in relation to sanctions. There is Eurosolidarity, but not everywhere and not to the end. An example is the Nord Stream-2 project, which no one wants to stop for the geopolitical interests of the United States and NATO.\n\nWe will have to negotiate\n\nA separate topic in the discussion of Seven's relations with China and the Russian Federation was to be the nuclear problem of Iran and the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. The latter should be the final of a 20-year senseless military campaign, the victims of which were tens, and maybe hundreds of thousands, of Afghan residents. Until now, no one can name the exact numbers.\n\nThe reduction in military presence also fits into the ambivalent nature of US foreign policy actions. Yesterday's hegemon is completely unprofitable to continue to invest forces and resources in Afghanistan. On the other hand, the reduction of military presence in the Middle East allegedly unleashes the hands of Russia, China, Turkey and the same Iran.\n\nMeanwhile, Iran recently concluded a multi-year strategic cooperation agreement with China, which involves the supply of oil from this country. At the same time, China receives 25% of all oil from Iran - this is the key geopolitical interest of the United States in containing Iran. In fact, the goal is to weaken China and cut it off from energy supply markets. Today it is clear that this policy has completely failed.\n\nDonald Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal with Iran. Today, Biden seeks to return to the negotiating table, because another option involves further rapprochement between Iran and China and the Russian Federation. From the same positions, the United States proceeds in relations with the Russian Federation.\n\nThe policy of deterrence and sanctions pressure, launched under Barack Obama, leads to nothing but a rapprochement of the main geopolitical competitors of the States. The Biden administration understands that without the Russian Federation it is neither possible to solve the problem of Iran, nor to finish the settlement in Syria and Libya. So it will be necessary to negotiate with Russia - and here Biden needs to act as a united front with G7. Hence, based on America's interests, and the key theme of the first day of the G-7 summit.\n\nSubscribe to our channels YANDEX.ZEN, PULSE, GOOGLE NEWS", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8774742484092712}
+{"content": "Question: What Can Going To The Chiropractor Help With?\n\nWhen should you stop chiropractic treatment?\n\nIn general, it is advised to discontinue chiropractic care if any of the following is true:Increased pain.\n\n\nNo improvement within 2 to 4 weeks.\n\nSymptoms have gone away..\n\nDo chiropractors get turned on?\n\nOn occasion chiropractors find themselves sexually attracted to patients or their parent/guardians.\n\nWhat should you not wear to a chiropractor?\n\n\nCan I take a shower after chiropractor?\n\nRefrain from doing any strenuous tasks such as hoovering, ironing, housework and lifting for 24 to 48 hours. Avoid taking hot baths for 24 hours, showers and warm baths are fine. Drink plenty of water as this will hydrate your body and aid recovery.\n\nWhat can chiropractors help with?\n\nConditions Chiropractic Can TreatSubluxation. Subluxation is a result of the spine in which alignment, movement integrity and physiological functions are compromised due to functional, structural, and/or pathological articular changes. … Back Pain. … Chronic Pain. … Herniated Disc. … Migraine Headaches. … Neck Pain. … Sciatica. … Sports Injuries.\n\nShould I wear a bra to the chiropractor?\n\nThe answer is no. You can remain fully clothed and comfortable, and it will not impede the chiropractic practice. Many women wonder if they can wear their bra to the chiropractor. … Wearing a bra, whether regular, strapless, or a sports bra, does not interfere with chiropractic treatment in any way.\n\nWhy do doctors not like chiropractors?\n\n\nDo doctors recommend chiropractors?\n\n\nCan a chiropractor break your neck?\n\n\nHow long do chiropractic adjustments last?\n\n\nWhy is it important to go to the chiropractor?\n\nLower back pain, headaches, leg pain, and injury are just a few of the reasons given for a trip to the local chiropractor. Spinal health is imperative in overall health. The numerous benefits of chiropractic care can help improve the overall quality of life and increase health, all without the use of drugs or surgery.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9687098264694214}
+{"content": "Trò chơi puzzle\n\nWork together and solve a series of individual puzzles khổng lồ unlochồng the answer khổng lồ the master puzzle! Compete against each other lớn see who can solve it first. The Puzzle is a fun way khổng lồ connect with others during online get-togethers - whether that be with your work colleagues or at an online networking sự kiện or conference. Want more details? Cheông chồng the FAQs at the bottom of the page!\n\n\nIf you would lượt thích us lớn facilitate The Puzzle then you can book a 1 hour facilitated session and we’ll take care of all the organisation for you.\n\nBạn đang xem: Trò chơi puzzle\n\nThis includes:\n\nSetting up the video hotline and breakout rooms\n\nAll pre-event logistics\n\nA warm up activity\n\nBriefing the participants on how lớn play\n\nManaging the in-game communication to maximise the game experience\n\nManaging the scoring\n\nFun answers and results conclusion - all live!\n\nSelect your preferred date và time when you book và kiểm tra out và we’ll be in touch to arrange the final details.\n\nMore than 75 people? Contact us for a quote!\n\nListed prices are in USD.\n\nFacilitate yourself via our easy-to-use game platform\n\n\nBuy a single session or ongoing access\n\nFacilitate The Puzzle for your group once or purchase a subscription for ongoing and unlimited access lớn all of our games.\n\n\nFind out why everyone loves The Puzzle\n\n““My adrenaline was pumping because of the time pressure & knowing the other teams racing against us might have sầu been doing it faster. This is such a unique game you’ve created - the way I have explained it khổng lồ friends since we played is like an online version of an escape room experience!”” — Kristen, CoreData (Australia)\n““I was looking for a fun team activity for our management team as a touch point the day before we had a full day of meetings together. I came across The Puzzle and thought it sounded interesting. The organisation was easy and Dan did a great job facilitating the game for us in just over an hour. We were split up into lớn two teams of 4 and we found The Puzzle lớn be just the right amount of difficulty. One team solved it just in time with the other very cđại bại. The feedbaông xã was great & everyone really enjoyed the experience!” ” — Thomas, AESG Consulting (UK)\nRead more reviews\n\nFrequently Asked Question\n\nTell me more - what are these puzzles?!\n\nWe know that you are curious khổng lồ know more about the puzzles themselves but generally we lượt thích khổng lồ keep these khổng lồ ourselves as showing you the actual puzzle pieces spoils the game! That’s no fun, is it? If your colleagues or trùm keep asking just tell them they are a phối of riddles, problem-solving, logical reasoning, and visual puzzles & we can guarantee they are a good phối of challenge & fun.\n\nHow many people can play?\n\nWe have facilitated the game for between 6 & 500 people at one time (using multiple facilitators). Most people play in teams of 4-5 và make it a time-based competition, which means large groups can play together.\n\nHow long does the game take?\n\nWe recommover that you allow 1 hour in total for the game, including time to lớn explain the rules & go through the answers. The majority of teams are able lớn solve sầu The Puzzle in around 35-40 minutes (not including time penalties for clues).\n\nHow many players would you recommend per team?\n\nFor a 40-minute game we recommend 4-5 players per team. The more players per team, the quicker you are likely lớn be able khổng lồ solve sầu the puzzle (and vice versa). We have sầu run competitions with 2-5 players, however smaller teams generally require more time.\n\nXem thêm: Đọc, Nghe Truyện Online 18 + Audio Mới Nhất Hay Nhất Online Đỉnh Cao Nhất\n\nWhat happens if a team gets stuck and can’t solve a puzzle piece?\n\nTeams are allowed to ask the game facilitator for the answer lớn a puzzle piece, but will incur a time penalty for each one requested. There are no bottlenecks in the game either as it’s non sequential, so if you can’t solve one your team can still move on khổng lồ the next puzzle.\n\nHow hard is it?\n\nTricky question…. because it depends on the group’s ability and how good you are at puzzles, riddles và reasoning! There are a set of easy & difficult puzzle pieces, but there is nothing involving complex mathematics, for example. The large majority of teams finish 8 of 10 individual puzzles, và approximately 70% of teams solve everything và the master puzzle within 40 minutes.\n\nWhat vị we need to lớn play remotely?\n\nA computer & a way to communicate with each other (ideally Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Google Meet, etc.).\n\nDo you have sầu a preferred platsize for facilitating the game?\n\nYes, Zoom. This is because of the superior breakout rooms functionality. We also use Teams frequently, but it’s our second preference.\n\nDo you decide on the teams when you facilitate for us or will we vì this?\n\nThat is completely up lớn you. We can pre-mix teams if you have sầu a preference or randomly allocate on the gọi - this is often easier if you bởi vì not know exactly who is going to be playing.\n\nDoes this have sầu khổng lồ be played remotely?\n\nNot at all - you can definitely play this game in the office. You\"ll just need one device per team và a separate work space so you can\"t hear each other.\n\nXem thêm: Đọc Truyện Hiệp Khách Giang Hồ Chap 494, Hiệp Khách Giang Hồ Chapter 494\n\nCan high school & college students play?\n\nFor sure! There is no reason why teenagers could not solve The Puzzle, too. We’d recommkết thúc ages 14 years và older.\n\nChuyên mục: Tin Tức", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8797286748886108}
+{"content": "DP9139 Innovation and spatial inequality in Europe and USA\n\nAuthor(s): Neil Lee, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose\nPublication Date: September 2012\nKeyword(s): Cities, European Union, Inequality, Innovation, Regions, United States\nJEL(s): D31, O31, R13\nProgramme Areas: International Trade and Regional Economics\n\nInnovation is a crucial driver of urban and regional economic success. Innovative cities and regions tend to grow faster and have higher average wages. Little research, however, has considered the potential negative consequences: as a small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is fragmented, based on cross-sectional evidence on skill premia rather than overall levels of inequality. This paper provides the first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from population surveys for European regions and US Cities, the paper finds, after controlling for other potential factors, good evidence of a link between innovation and inequality in European regions, but only limited evidence of such a relationship in the United States. Less flexible labour markets and lower levels of migration seem to be at the root of the stronger association between innovation and income inequality in Europe than in the US.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.889083981513977}
+{"content": "Cultures & Traditions\n\nChristianity in Africa\n\nChristianity has an extensive history in Africa. It was first introduced in the 4th century to the ancient and prosperous Axumite kingdom in present-day Ethiopia. The Axumites traded far and wide, exporting incense, ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoiseshell, apes, and slaves through the port of Adulis on the Red Sea and importing goods and ideas from Syria, Egypt, and other lands. Frumentius, a Syrian and member of the Axumite court, is usually credited with introducing Coptic Christianity to the Axumite king Ezana, who established the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. During the period between the late 12th and early 13th centuries, King Lalibela desired to build a new Jerusalem. The churches in the capital of Lalibela were cut out of rock and are the largest monumental structures in Africa.\n\nPortuguese navigators in the late 15th century took Roman Catholic priests on their exploratory voyages to coastal West, Central, and East Africa. Initial efforts to convert the king (oba) of the Benin kingdom failed but mutually beneficial commercial trade—the trafficking of European luxury goods, firearms, and brass in exchange for salt, pepper, and slaves—was established. During the early 16th century the reigning Edo king also refused to be baptized, but he allowed his son to do so and to learn Portuguese, thereby enhancing diplomatic relations. Missionary efforts had ceased by 1540, probably as a result of unprofitable commercial transactions, and were not attempted again until the 17th century.\n\nThe first Christian state in sub-Saharan Africa was the Kongo kingdom in present-day northern Angola. João I and his nobles were baptized in 1491, and hundreds of Kongo subjects and Portuguese carpenters built a Catholic Church. By the time João died in 1509, he had lost interest in Christianity. His son and successor Afonso I Mvemba Nzinga (reigned 1506-1543) was a devout Christian, however, and re-founded the Kongo kingdom with Christianity as its state religion. Although Alfonso thought the Portuguese partners were not adhering to Kongo laws governing the slave trade, he sent his son Henrique Kinu a Mvemba to Portugal to be educated. Henrique eventually became a bishop.\n\nThe Dutch seized Portuguese trading establishments in the early 17th century and supplanted the Portuguese in the Atlantic slave trade. The Dutch were followed by the Danes, and they by the British. Each reintroduced European Christianity to Africa as part of their commercial and colonial agendas. During the 18th and 19th centuries, repatriated Christian slaves helped spread the religion. When European powers divided sub-Saharan Africa among themselves and created colonies in the late 19th century, conversion to the Christian religion availed one of Western education and with access to the requisite skills for survival in a changed world.\n\nAdapted from\n\n\nWeb Resources", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8155618906021118}
+{"content": "Question: How Tall Is Lisa Blackpink?\n\nHow much does Lisa Blackpink weight?\n\n\n27, 1997Height166cm (5’5″)Weight45kg (99lbs)Blood TypeOPositionDancer, SubVocal, Rapper, Maknae4 more rows.\n\nWho is the tallest girl in Blackpink?\n\nRoseRose is the tallest in Blackpink. She is 5′6″tall,that’s 168 in cm.\n\nHow tall are Lisa’s legs?\n\nLisa Hall, a 19-year-old office worker from Heybridge in Essex, says her legs measure 49in from hip to heel. Her amazing measurement is five inches longer than the woman listed as having the longest legs in the world by the Guinness Book of Records.\n\nHow tall is Jennie from Blackpink?\n\n1.63 mJennie/Height\n\nWho is taller Lisa or rosé?\n\nRosé is taller than Lisa. By 1.5-2 inches.\n\nWho is the prettiest in Blackpink?\n\n\nWho is the shortest KPOP Idol?\n\nTaeil of Block B – 167 cm, 5′6.Sungwoon of HOTSHOT – 167 cm, 5′6.Jay of iKON – 165 cm, 5′5.Woozi of SEVENTEEN – 164 cm, 5′5.Dok2 – 160 cm, 5′3.Yep, that’s pretty much it!Edit: I added Nako from IZ*ONE and a couple of others, because people were pointing them out.More items…\n\nWho is the richest in Blackpink?\n\n\nIs Lisa Manoban tall?\n\n1.67 mLisa/Height\n\nWho is taller jisoo or Jennie?\n\nJisoo is listed at 162cm and Jennie at 163cm but I think Jennie is actually shorter than Jisoo. Apparently her stylist and fans say she is only 160cm.\n\nHow tall is Ji Soo?\n\n1.86 mJi Soo/Height\n\nWho is the thickest member of Blackpink?\n\n\nWho is the skinniest in Blackpink?\n\nRosé (BLACKPINK) BLACKPINK’s main vocal is so thin that rumors have surfaced that she has a 48cm waistline only. Indeed, from many angles, Rosé looks so thin to the point that fans have to worry.\n\nWho is the tallest female KPOP Idol?\n\n\nIs Blackpink rude?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9986603260040283}
+{"content": "Those who have been considering making large gifts of assets, but have been hesitant due to the uncertainty around the potential sunset of current favorable tax laws, received an early holiday present from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). On Nov. 22, 2019, the IRS issued final regulations clarifying that those who make large gifts now, and that are within the lifetime exemption amounts ($11.4 million per individual, $22.8 million for couples,) will not be subject to a “claw-back” of gifts into their taxable estates if they die when the exemption amount is lower.\n\nPrior to these final regulations, it was possible for someone to make a large lifetime gift, only to have it later made taxable if that person was to die in a year of a new, lower exemption amount. To illustrate the point, an individual’s lifetime gift tax exemption amount in 2019 is $11.4 million, meaning that gifting less than or equal to that amount will not trigger any gift tax. However, if that individual were to die after Dec. 31, 2025, when the current tax laws are scheduled to sunset and the lifetime exemption amount reverts to $5.49 million, that would result in a portion of the gift being taxable.\n\nWith the passage of the final regulations, no estate taxes will be due in the event a lower exemption amount is applicable at death. Instead, the regulations implement an adjustment to the tax calculation. Specifically, in calculating the estate tax, the tax credit will equal the sum of the total credits used on all prior gift tax returns.\n\nIn summary, the final regulations should provide reassurance to those contemplating large lifetime gifts.  They no longer need to worry about a claw-back creating unexpected tax consequences to their estates.\n\nThe post Gift Today Without Worrying About Tax Consequences Later appeared first on Cresset.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6060594320297241}
+{"content": "Wrinkles can help prevent fractures in women\n\nWe have always seen the wrinkles as synonymous with experience and, in some cases, with wisdom. But now we know one more fact about them: a study carried out in the Yale University School of Medicine , in the United States, concluded that the severity and distribution of wrinkles on the skin are a sign of the fragility of bones of a woman and the risk of fractures. According to the researchers, \"wrinkles and the general quality of the skin can tell the story of the Bone mineral density in women in the early stages of menopause. \"\n\n\nAs scientists explain the skin and the bones of the human being are constructed with the same materials: proteins . The changes that occur with the aging process affect both the skin and the quantity and quality of bone material .\n\n\n\nOn this basis, the teacher Lubna Pal , expert in obstetrics, gynecology Y reproductive science , and his team decided to investigate if in women postmenopausal The quality of the skin (the degree of wrinkles and hardening) could reflect the status of your bones .\n\n\nFor this they studied a group of 114 women who had entered the early stages of menopause, at the end of their 40s and early 50s, participating in a study on the hormonal changes in the women.\n\n\nAll had presented their last menstruation within the last three years and none was subject to hormonal therapies .\n\nThe researchers carried out an analysis of the wrinkles of women's skin in 11 different areas of the face and neck, which measured the depth Y distribution of wrinkles.\n\n\nThe key, collagen\n\n\nAlso the firmness of the skin in the front and the cheeks with a device called durometer, which is used to measure the hardness of materials. At the same time, the participants were subjected to a measurement of the Bone mineral density (the amount of bone mass per cubic centimeter) with a device X-rays called densitometer, which is used for the diagnosis of osteoporosis, a disease that causes the loss of Bone density .\n\n\nThe teacher Pal says: \"We discovered that the deeper and damaged the wrinkles, the smaller the Bone density among the participants. The women who presented the worst wrinkles had lower levels of bone density, and this relationship was independent of age or other factors that are known to influence the bone mass \"\n\n\nOn the other hand, measurements of skin stiffness showed that the firmer the skin, the better the bone density.\n\n\n\nScientists do not know with certainty what are the mechanisms that are involved in this association, but as indicated by the teacher Pal , the link could be because both share, to be formed, the same group of proteins, some compounds called collagens .\n\n\n\"As we age, changes in collagen levels occur that could have an impact on changes in the skin, such as wrinkles and loss of firmness, and the same could happen in the bones, with a deterioration in quality and amount of bone mass \"explains the researcher.\n\nScientists believe that the study could lead to the development of a new, simple and inexpensive way to identify the risk of fractures in women postmenopausal . The results of the research were presented at the annual conference of the Endocrine Society which is celebrated in Boston, United States.\n\n\nSource: BBC World\n\nVideo Medicine: How to Treat Lines, Folds, and Wrinkles Around the Mouth and Lips (June 2021).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9262769222259521}
+{"content": "Evaluation of “failure to rescue” topic on deteriorating patients\n\nThis is an assignment that focuses on evaluation of “failure to rescue” topic on deteriorating patients. The paper also examines the various nursing strategies to prevent this issue.\n\nEvaluation of “failure to rescue” topic on deteriorating patients\n\n\nThe purpose of this essay is to enable you to critically evaluate current research about the topic ‘failure to rescue’ as related to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment. You will also examine nursing strategies that can be used to prevent patient deterioration and that are instrumental in maintaining patient safety.\n\nThis assessment item will address learning outcomes 1 and 3 of this course.\n\nTask description:\n\nFor this task you are to write a 2000-word essay in which you critically evaluate ‘failure to rescue’ as it relates to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment.\n\nYour evaluation must be underpinned by patient safety needs, and should include a discussion about incidence, consequences and nursing strategies as reflected in the current literature.\n\nYour essay must include the following components:\n\na.      Firstly, an introductory paragraph that outlines the aim of the assignment.\n\nb.      Secondly, a definition of failure to rescue.\n\nc.      Thirdly, a discussion of the incidence of adverse events that are linked to failure to rescue in the Australian acute healthcare environment.\n\nd.      Fourthly, an analysis and evaluation of the consequences of failure to rescue for the patient; the patient’s family; and the health care system.\n\ne.      Then, a critical evaluation of TWO nursing strategies involving either the patient; the patient’s family or the health care system that may be used to prevent registered nurses from failing to rescue to maintain patient safety.\n\nf.       Lastly, a conclusion summarising the central points of your essay.\n\nOther elements:\n\nRefer to the Health Group Writing and Referencing Guide for all presentation, referencing and formatting guidelines. This is located on all course sites.\n\nThe word limit for an assessment item includes in text citations, tables and quotations. The word limit does not include the reference list. Please note the marker will cease marking your submitted work once they have reached the allocated word limit.\n\nYou must include a Reference list on a separate page formatted to APA 7th style.\n\nWrite in the third person and also use academic language throughout.\n\nSubmit your assignment online as per the instructions on your Learning@Griffith course site.\n\nRefer to the marking criteria when writing your assignment.  This will assist you in calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999942183494568}
+{"content": "Every Meeting Has The Potential To Spur Connections and Drive Impact\n\nProductive, memorable meetings hinge upon experiences that motivate and ignite audience engagement. Delivering integrated strategic business events and programs that leave attendees feeling inspired and focused on new connections and the information they receive. We create seemless experiences so they can do just that.\n\nEvery corporate event or program is different, depending on the Client’s vision and individual goals. With your objectives, environment, participant profiles and other input as design tools, our team will partner with you to create, design and produce impactful program content that reflects your company’s style, it’s culture, personality and we will bring your story to life.\n\nWhether it is for a sales conference, an annual meeting, a symposium, corporate lunch, award dinner or a breakfast briefing, we have the expertise to deliver authentic one-of-a-kind experiences. The result is your event delivers impactful, engaging storytelling that leaves your company, and you, successful each and every time.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000091791152954}
+{"content": "1(904)362-3629 [email protected]\n\nMedical Marijuana Can Help People With Seizures\n\nThe use of medical marijuana for seizures and epilepsy has been a hot potato in the cannabis news updates. This is not surprising because humans have used marijuana for thousands of years to treat certain conditions. Today, marijuana is seen as a great potential for managing seizures thanks to several types of research showing great results.\n\nWhat Are Seizures?\n\nSeizures occur when an individual has abnormal electrical activity in their brain. They’re often confused with convulsions. Seizures can be extremely difficult to identify because its symptoms vary from one person to another depending on the area of the brain affected.\n\nApart from being common, seizures are serious conditions affecting people in America. They can last from a few seconds to several minutes accompanied by shaking or convulsions. But seizures can also manifest in other ways.\n\nFor instance, they can manifest when a person smells some scents, engages in behaviors like fidgeting, chewing and lip-smacking, sees visual images or different colors. And sometimes, certain patients will just be unresponsive and remain staring into space.\n\nWhat Causes Seizures?\n\nEpilepsy is the leading cause of seizures. It affects over three million adults and 470,000 children. Epilepsy is a brain disorder whose cause remains unknown but can occur due to multiple reasons, such as brain tumor, stroke, infections at the central nervous system, genetics, and head injury among others.\n\n1 in every 26 Americans will have epilepsy once in their lifetime. But what’s more harrowing is the condition it results in 34% of childhood deaths. These statistics demonstrate the commonality of epilepsy and the need to develop novel drugs to manage seizures.\n\nPeople with epilepsy often face economic, physical, psychological, emotional and social challenges, like affordable medical care, work limitations and difficulty finding the right transportation. So the potential of medical marijuana can make a huge impact on the lives of people living with seizures and epilepsy.\n\nHow Cannabis Can Help\n\nAlthough the benefits of medical marijuana are self-evident, most law enforcement agencies have only recently allowed research institutions to investigate its effects, usefulness and side effects. This has given researchers, breeders, pharmaceutical companies and the marijuana community a great opportunity to fully understand marijuana plant and its potential.\n\nAccording to a study published in the Pediatrics Journal, medical marijuana is highly effective in managing seizures and nausea in young patients. Researchers performed a meta-analysis on over 20 studies on the use of medical marijuana on children to draw this conclusion.\n\nMost researchers have determined that cannabidiol (CBD), a chemical substance present in marijuana has a huge effect on seizures. In fact, some of them have even gone ahead and hailed the results as proof that medical marijuana is highly effective particularly in cases where patents haven’t responded well to conventional treatments.\n\nThese results demonstrate that marijuana can play a great role in the management of life-threatening seizures. They do so in a more effective and safer manner than traditional treatments.\n\nCBD binds to brain cells. It gets attached to a novel receptor and dampens extremely high electrical activity which causes seizures. This is a unique mechanism that’s not present in traditional medications.\n\nIs CBD Addictive?\n\nAddiction is a brain condition that forces an individual to seek a specific substance regardless of its adverse consequences. It’s called a brain disease because it changes the functioning and structure of the brain.\n\nMost people living with seizures often wonder whether the use of marijuana for seizures can lead to addiction. To help you understand, let’s look at CBD in detail.\n\nTHC, the active ingredient in marijuana causes addiction. It binds with the cannabinoid receptors in the brain triggering the intoxicating effects that are often associated with marijuana use.\n\nStudies have unraveled that cannabinoid receptors alter the brain’s reward system and release dopamine- the pleasure hormone. And that is why THC can be addictive.\n\nBut that’s not the case with medical marijuana because it uses CBD and not THC. Several studies show that CBD is a non-addictive substance. In fact, WebMD reports that CBD is safe for human consumption and is well tolerated.\n\nWhat Are The Other Benefits Of CBD?\n\nApart from helping with seizures, CBD also offers other numerous benefits, including:\n\nPain Reliever\n\nFrom as far as 2900 B.C, humans have used marijuana to manage pain. Recently, researchers have identified certain components that are responsible for relieving pain.\n\nOur bodies have a specialized system known as the endocannabinoid system, which regulates several functions such as sleep, pain, appetite, and immunity.\n\nThe body, therefore, produces endocannabinoids- transmitters that attach to cannabinoid receptors. Several studies have demonstrated that CBD can help relieve chronic pain by altering endocannabinoid receptors, neurotransmitters and managing inflammation.\n\nAnxiety And Depression Management\n\nAnxiety and depression are not only common, but also have devastating health implications. The World Health Organization warns that depression alone is the largest contributor to disability and anxiety is the sixth.\n\nSadly, the two mental disorders are typically treated with drugs that result in numerous side effects, such as headaches, agitation, drowsiness, insomnia, and sexual issues. In addition, some medications like benzodiazepines often lead to addiction.\n\nCBD has demonstrated its ability to manage anxiety and depression without the above side effects. In fact, it’s already being used to manage anxiety and insomnia in kids with post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nLike with managing seizures, these qualities are due to CBD’s ability to impact the brain’s receptors and therefore affect social behavior and mood.\n\nReduces Acne\n\nAcne is a skin condition that affects about 10% of the population. It is caused by several factors, ranging from genetics, inflammation, bacteria to excess secretion of sebum.\n\nCBD can help manage acne thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties and remarkable ability to reduce sebum production and manage inflammation.\n\nHelp Manage Neurological Disorders\n\nScientists believe that because CBD can act on the endocannabinoid system, it may offer benefits to those suffering from other neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.\n\nFor instance, Sativex, a spray consisting of both CBD and THC, is known to be safe and effective in managing muscle spasticity, which is common in patients with multiple sclerosis. A 2014 Study proved that Sativex can reduce spasms by over 70%.\n\nGood For The Heart\n\nRecent studies have shown that CBD can help the heart and circulatory system in general. It also has the ability to reduce high blood pressure- a condition associated with numerous diseases, such as metabolic syndrome, stroke, and heart attack.\n\nFinally, CBD has also been found to be beneficial in substance abuse treatment, diabetes prevention, anti-tumor, and antipsychotic effects.\n\nFor a long time, people living with seizures relied on medications with numerous side effects. As more research goes into the use of medical marijuana, there is hope. So far several studies have shown marijuana can help.\n\nIn 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first medication made from marijuana to help manage rare forms of epilepsy. This approval triggered more research into cannabis, a drug that remained illegal for many years.\n\nWith academic institutions, research centers and more scientists getting into the field, the true potential of marijuana is yet to be fully unraveled. So if you or a loved one suffers from seizures, you have a reason to smile, hope for the best and check out the latest marijuana news.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe post Medical Marijuana Can Help People With Seizures appeared first on Marijuana Experts.\n\nSite Link", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7900057435035706}
+{"content": "Medication-Assisted Treatment Program\n\n\nMedication-Assisted Treatment Program For Alcohol And Drug Addiction \n\nDrug addiction in the United States is a growing problem. Opioids are among some of the most abused drugs in the nation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that nearly 2.1 million people in the country suffered from opioid use disorder in 2016. Another common problem the country faces is alcohol abuse. What do these two issues have in common? Both are commonly treated with medication-assisted treatment or MAT services.\n\nDetox and rehab centers across the country have started taking advantage of MAT as an effective way of caring for people with certain addictions. With that said, what does MAT involve, and is it effective? Studies have found that there are many benefits of choosing MAT over traditional rehab services alone.\n\nWhat Are Medication-Assisted Treatment Services?\n\nBefore people can decide if MAT is right for them, they must understand this type of program. In short, MAT is the use of medications and therapy to overcome drug addiction. For example, medication-assisted treatment for alcohol typically combines taking naltrexone in combination with behavioral therapy and counseling. The main idea behind MAT is to provide a “whole-patient” approach to treatment.\n\nBest of all, MAT is a proven method. The Food and Drug Administration and other organizations have approved it for drug addiction treatment. Furthermore, it can do more than successfully treat addiction. It can also help people sustain recovery more efficiently.\n\nMAT is an excellent option for people who have tried rehab in the past but failed to remain sober. In these situations, it provides just the right amount of assistance to ensure that their next attempt at sobriety is more successful.\n\nOf course, MAT can’t do the work alone. It still requires individuals to cooperate and be determined to overcome addiction. The medication is just an extra tool at their disposal, giving them the additional push that they need.\n\nHow Effective Is Medication-Assisted Treatment?\n\nPart of getting familiar with MAT is understanding how effective it is. Rehab experts believe that it’s an effective tool for people who need to overcome addiction. It typically has a higher success rate than standard rehab programs. However, why is it more effective?\n\nMost experts believe that MAT has a higher success rate because of the additional assistance that it provides during and after detox. The majority of the medications are designed to reduce cravings. Thanks to fewer cravings, people are less likely to relapse while they learn to manage addiction.\n\nThe prescriptions that people take during MAT depend on the drugs to which they’ve developed addictions. In general, the purpose of the medications is to normalize their bodily functions. Along with relieving physical cravings, these prescriptions relieve psychological cravings.\n\nBecause of the high success rate of MAT, it’s an effective option for just about anyone who struggles with drug addiction. It’s ideal for people who have completed treatment once and are released as well as for people who have never received treatment before.\n\nTypes Of Medications Used During Medication-Assisted Treatment\n\nHealth care professionals at rehab centers use several medications during MAT. The reason is that different prescriptions ease cravings for various drugs. As a result, the medications that people receive will depend heavily on their specific addiction.\n\nThis use of different medications is what makes MAT so effective. Each MAT program caters to the individual needs of the patient. Here’s a more in-depth look at some of the most common prescriptions that rehab centers use during MAT.\n\nMedication-Assisted Treatment For Alcohol Addiction\n\nSince it’s so easy for people to get their hands on alcohol, most people think that alcohol addiction isn’t too serious. The truth is that alcohol is not only addictive but also creates some of the worst withdrawal symptoms. In severe cases, alcohol withdrawal can be deadly. That’s why it’s so important to get MAT for alcohol addiction. Below are some of the medications approved for this type of program.\n\n\nAcamprosate is a unique drug that helps people avoid drinking after they quit. It stabilizes the chemical imbalance in the brain that occurs from alcohol abuse. However, acamprosate doesn’t prevent withdrawal symptoms. For this reason, rehab centers tend to use it after people have achieved abstinence for several days.\n\nThis medication is available in a tablet that people can take three times a day. To achieve optimal results and create a routine, they should take the tablets at the same time every day. While acamprosate is effective, it can cause some side effects, such as difficulty sleeping, diarrhea, and an upset stomach.\n\n\nDisulfiram is a prescription that people typically get if they suffer from chronic alcoholism. Once again, it works best if they’ve completed detox before they start taking it. Unlike acamprosate, disulfiram doesn’t alter the chemical balance in the brain. Instead, it discourages people from drinking by changing how their body eliminates alcohol. As a result, drinking alcohol makes them feel sick, which discourages them from drinking.\n\nGenerally, people can take this medication orally once a day. The unpleasant side effects of drinking alcohol can start within 10 minutes of consuming a small amount. These side effects can include vomiting, headache, and nausea.\n\n\nNaltrexone is one of the few medications on this list that can be used for both alcohol and opioid addiction. This drug works by blocking the euphoric effects that people feel from drinking alcohol. Because of that, it helps them remain motivated and avoid relapse. Also, the drug can reduce alcohol cravings.\n\nIn general, naltrexone treatment lasts for about three to four months. It’s available in pill form, but you can take it as an injection too. Like other MAT programs, people should continue to undergo therapy and counseling.\n\nMedication-Assisted Treatment For Opioid Addiction\n\nOpioid addiction is hard for people to overcome, partially because of how strong the cravings are for this drug during detox and withdrawal. Thankfully, MAT for opioids can help. While naltrexone can be used for both alcohol and opioid MAT programs, rehab centers can use different medications.\n\n\nBuprenorphine helps individuals by reducing and suppressing cravings for opioid drugs, such as heroin. It works by producing a euphoric effect. However, this effect is much weaker than what people experience with heroin or other medications used during MAT, such as methadone.\n\nWhen people take buprenorphine as their health care team prescribes, it’s both effective and safe. The oral pill can diminish their physical dependence on opioids. At the same time, the slightly euphoric effect can limit withdrawal symptoms.\n\n\nMuch like buprenorphine, methadone reduces cravings for opioids. It can also block the effects that opioids have on the body if people use opioids while they’re in a MAT program. This medication is available in pill, liquid, and powder forms.\n\nAll of these prescriptions are effective in helping people overcome drug addictions. However, they can’t do all of the work alone. It’s essential for people to only use them in combination with therapy and counseling to assist with achieving and sustaining sobriety.\n\nThe Therapy Side Of Medication-Assisted Treatment\n\nmedication-assisted treatment for alcoholThe medications that people take during MAT are just one piece of the puzzle. During the program, they must undergo therapy and counseling sessions as well. The goal of therapy is to develop and strengthen coping skills that help them avoid relapse once they get out of treatment. The sessions involve identifying and addressing the root cause of the addiction.\n\nCognitive-behavioral therapy is an important part of MAT. The idea behind it is to change negative thoughts, which experts believe can cause negative behaviors. In this case, a negative way of thinking can lead people to the negative behavior of abusing drugs.\n\nDual diagnosis treatment is another crucial element of a MAT program. Most of the time, people don’t just wake up one day and choose to take the path of addiction. Typically, an underlying cause or another mental disorder pushes them down this path. Simply treating the addiction without addressing the underlying issue can result in relapse after treatment. The reason is that the core issue that led to the addiction remains and continues to wreak havoc on their well-being.\n\nKingsway Recovery Offers Medication-Assisted Treatment\n\nAre you looking for a rehab center that can provide a MAT program that you can count on? If so, consider Kingsway Recovery. We provide several treatment options in New Jersey, including MAT. A few of our other programs include:\n\n  • Intensive outpatient rehab.\n  • Art and group therapy.\n  • Dual diagnosis treatment.\n  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy.\n  • Individual therapy.\n\nAt Kingsway Recovery, we take great pride in the programs that we offer. We create custom treatment plans for all of our clients. We know that not everyone is the same, so not all treatment plans should be the same.\n\nDon’t try to deal with addiction alone. Put your trust in a rehab center that has your best interests at heart. Contact us now to learn more about our programs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5056278109550476}
+{"content": "Living a Rural Lifestyle: Everything You Wanted to Know (and More)\n\n\nSpending too much time at home lately? Sick of the small city apartments? It may be time to move and embrace a rural lifestyle. Country living has some major benefits. When your dream is no longer to live in the hustle and bustle of the big city, move to the countryside and slow your life down a bit. Many people are fleeing cities in search of a more authentic and natural life. A life circled around family and nature rather than work and concrete. During this pandemic, working remotely has increased the need for a home office space, which city apartments don’t usually have room for. Country living and a rural lifestyle offer so much more than one might think, so keep reading to learn more.\n\n\nHow to Live a Rural Lifestyle\n\nThere are many things someone would need to consider when uprooting their life for a new adventure. Knowing the nitty-gritty of country living is important before taking the plunge and move. Here are some things to know and consider:\n\n\nFigure Out Where to Live\n\nDo you want to move just outside the city or further remote than that? Do some research. Make sure the town will fits every need, interest, and hobby. There are so many options to choose from! Mountains, forest, lake, desert, New England towns. Take a look at these best small towns in America from Architectural Digest to find something that seems perfect! Many small rural areas are within driving distance to bigger cities, so visiting from time to time is possible.\n\n\nBuy a Home\n\nIt is less common for apartments and rental situations in rural areas. Out in the country, one would most likely buy their own house.  There will be a yard, but it’s going to need to be mowed. No landlord here to do that. Same with any home repairs, one should be prepared to take care of that themselves. Sit on the porch and enjoy coffee out of this Life Grows Green ceramic mug. Now, is the time to relax and enjoy the view, instead of grabbing coffee and hopping on the metro. Life will be slower, more relaxed, and more enjoyable. Things to think about when looking for a home include the amount of land, will there be a lot to take care of? Water source, is it a well, or public water? How old the house is and the upkeep that goes with it. While owning a home is exciting, it can also be tough – make sure to know what issues could be with the house. Definitely have an inspection done before purchasing a house.\n\n\nBe Self-Sufficient\n\nWith all this land and time, it is the perfect time to plant a garden! Guaranteeing the food being consumed is pesticide-free and organic! Many states have legalized cannabis and in some states, it is now legal to grow it. Know local laws before planting anything that might not be allowed in that particular state.  If making your own edibles out of your freshly grown cannabis seems interesting, check out this guide we have on how to make edibles. In the country, livestock is welcome depending on the zoning structure. Rural areas are much more animal-friendly than urban areas and often have fewer zoning rules and regulations. Raise chickens and never have to buy an egg again! Just be sure there isn’t a rooster in the mix unless raising baby chicks is the goal. Here are some very valuable tips on raising chickens. Being self-sufficient, and utilizing the land to feed the community is very satisfying. Even simple things like growing herbs inside can be refreshing.\n\n\nLess to Do or More to Do?\n\nSome people will say that there is less to do in a rural area. That’s not completely true. Sure, in a city there are bars, restaurants, etc… but in rural areas, there are the great outdoors! Modifying hobbies a bit may be necessary, but there is so much to do.  Fishing, camping, bonfires, mountain biking, cycling… the possibilities are endless. When searching for a town to move to, take into consideration the outdoor activities that are readily available. Hiking is a great outdoor activity that can be done every day. Taking time to explore and enjoy the nature around is encaptivating. There are hiking trails all over the world, but make sure to know the difficulty of the hike and be prepared before going. Check out these beginner hiking tips and get ready for the next great (or small) adventure.\n\n\nInternet and Cell Service?\n\nOne major downfall of any rural area is cell service and internet access. Some extremely rural areas still don’t have internet access and cell phone service! If working remotely or just wanting access to the rest of the world, internet and cell service will definitely be needed, unless living off the grid is the plan. Use this AT&T map to check and see if service and internet are available in whatever area that is chosen.  It can seem stressful to not have cell service, but it also will result in less screen time and more appreciation for the smaller things in life.\n\n\nCheaper Cost of Living\n\nGenerally, the cost of living in a rural area is much less than that of the city. Housing is more affordable and someone would likely buy a house and have a mortgage. This is a much better investment than renting, as it insures a return on the investment.  Cooking at home more and ordering take-out less will result in less money being spent, as well as spending less on clothing and accessories. One added expense might be a car if a person doesn’t already have one. Most grocery shopping can be done at the local farmer’s markets or at local farms. Represent our CBD company and carry our reusable canvas tote bag. Some things will still have to be purchased at big box stores, stock up on essentials to lessen visits to the city or a more urban area.  Farmer’s markets are usually cheaper than grocery stores for organic produce. Some even have vendors that offer farm-fresh meats and local baked goods. Sometimes mom-and-pop grocery stores will also sell local products at an affordable price.\n\n\n\nWhen living in a city setting, often one can remain anonymous and avoid eye contact with anyone who lives around them. That won’t be the case in a small town. Neighbors will become friendly acquaintances, if not good friends.  They will help shovel the driveway, bring cookies over when they’ve made too many, and help in any way that they can. People in small towns and rural areas tend to trust more and are a lot more welcoming than people in cities. Small towns are very community-oriented, and living in the country can sometimes make life seem like a TV movie.\n\n\nAdopt All the Dogs\n\nWithout the extra pet fees of apartment living, adopting all the dogs is now an option. A major benefit to country living is the freedom to have animals. Any pups that have been living in the city would be very happy to have a yard to run around in. One of the downfalls of having a dog in an urban area is that there aren’t many areas where the dog can be off-leash. While in a rural area, it is almost uncommon for a dog to be on a leash. When moving a dog from the city to the country, they may have a hard time adjusting. Try these CBD dog treats to help calm them down. Also, use them if the dog doesn’t do well in  the car and needs a little help getting through the ride.\n\n\nEmployment Opportunities\n\nWhile finding a job in a rural location is possible, there will be a lot fewer local employment opportunities. It is not uncommon for someone living in a rural area to have to drive 45 minutes to an hour to and from work each day. Thankfully, a lot of businesses are beginning to offer remote working. It is being presumed that remote opportunities will double in 2021, and by 2025 70% of the workforce will be remote! Being able to work remotely and live in a rural area is the best of all worlds. Imagine being able to work on a back deck while listening to the bird’s chirp, not a siren around. That sounds perfect. Or perhaps starting a business. There might be something a person can offer a small community that they don’t already have!\n\n\nRaising Kids \n\nRural lifestyles are famous for being ideal for family living. If someone is planning to start, grow a family, or already have a family, country living is going to be perfect. The cost of child care tends to be less and more available in rural areas. Public education is usually of higher quality, has smaller class sizes, and has a better teacher-to-student ratio. Raising children in a rural community with access to nature will give them a leg up in the real world. Children who grow up in these types of environments are often more self-sufficient than the ones who are not. Real-world activities and natural consequences can teach children a lot more than a fancy preschool can.\n\n\nPeaceful & Private\n\nRural living offers a much more private and peaceful lifestyle. The clean crisp air and not having houses or apartments so close together offers many advantages. Rural areas are often safer than urban areas, too. Less population means less crime. Fewer people also equals less noise, rural lifestyles are often very quiet. If someone is used to city sounds, it may take a little while before sleeping in the silence is attainable. We offer CBD melatonin that can help one fall asleep. Peacefulness is nice, but the quiet can be quite a culture shock.\n\n\nBetter Health \n\nIt’s interesting to know that people who live in rural areas often have better mental health. A brain is often overstimulated in a city setting and that can lead to anxiety, irritation, and other psychological issues. In a rural setting, a person doesn’t have that issue. The sight of the stars at night and the sunrise or sunset is very calming. While it cannot actually treat any mental health issues, it can help to lessen triggers and lower stress. One’s diet and physical health will probably improve, too. There will be healthier food options because there are very few fast-food restaurants around. The food being eaten will most likely be more whole foods and less processed and therefore much better for the body. Since access to nature is immediate, being more physically active will also be much easier.\n\n\nWe Can Help\n\nWhen more of the population is working remotely and needs a larger at-home workspace, there will be more people moving to the country. Additional benefits to a rural lifestyle include less pollution, less traffic, and more serenity. A rural lifestyle is achievable and extremely beneficial. Now is the time to take that leap, buy that house, plant that garden. Change your life, take care of yourself and the world, we are here to help you grow.  We can help with the transition with our CBD products. CBD is a plant-based substance that is used to treat various illnesses and disorders.\n\nHere at Life Grows Green, we strive to make quality hemp products to promote wellness in the world. Contact us for any of your Hemp, CBD, or cannabis needs and questions.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6819208860397339}
+{"content": "Advanced Placement (AP)\n2017-08-16 00:33:57\nplease select the word from the list that best fits the definition. Choose the best organizational aid for the use described below. Provides insight to cause and effect via ordered events: table, flowchart, organizational chart, diagram\n2017-08-16 00:39:33\n\nSince we are talking about an aid that would provide an inside to a cause and effect via ordered events, I can say that the best organizational aid to present this is a FLOWCHART. From the term itself, this includes a series of movements or happenings presented in a sequential manner. Hope this answers your question.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995275139808655}
+{"content": "​​Since the dawn of time, there have been dangers. From the wrath of nature to “evil spirits”, and everything in between, there always have been (and always will be) danger in life.To me, danger…bad luck… whatever you choose to call it… it’s all negative energy when you boil it down. And mankind has gone through quite a process to protect themselves against it.\n\nResults may vary from individual to another", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5431585311889648}
+{"content": "Question: What Are The Qualities Of A Good Team Leader?\n\nWhat are the 5 roles of an effective team?\n\n\n\nA leader can act as a creative director and a coach as well at different times..\n\nWhat makes a good team leader interview?\n\n“I am a hard-working, professional and conscientious person who enjoys the challenge of both leading and managing people, and also seeing projects and tasks through to successful completion. I pride myself on a strong work ethic and an ability to motivate a team in order to get the best out of them.\n\nHow do you motivate your team?\n\n\nWhat are the roles and responsibilities of team leader?\n\nTeam leader responsibilitiesCoach team members. An effective team leader coaches members on achieving goals and developing necessary skills that get results. … Develop team strengths and improve weaknesses. … Identify team goals and evaluate team progress. … Resolve conflict. … Organize team initiatives.\n\nWhat are the five leadership skills?\n\n\nWhat is a good leader?\n\n\nWhat are the two main responsibilities of a leader?\n\n\nWhat are the 7 leadership styles?\n\n\nWhat are the top 5 characteristics of a leader?\n\n\nHow would you describe a team leader?\n\n\nWhat does it take to be a perfect leader?\n\nYou will have to set a good example for others to follow. That is where your commitment, passion, empathy, honesty and integrity come into play. Good communication skills and decision-making capabilities also play a vital role in success and failure of a leader.\n\nWhat are the 4 Team Roles?\n\n\nWhat is the most important leadership skill?\n\n\nWhat are the best qualities of a team leader?\n\nHere are some important qualities of a good team leader:Communication.Honesty.Relationship building.Decisiveness.Innovation.Responsibility.Motivation.\n\nWhat are the 3 most important roles of a leader?\n\n\nWhat are the skills of a team leader?\n\n7 Skills Needed for Strong Team LeadershipCommunication. Becoming a strong leader means mastering the art of communication. … Approachability and Availability. … Showing Consistency. … Organisation. … The Art of Delegation. … Confident and Knowledgeable. … Innovate and Inspire.\n\nWhat is another name for a team leader?\n\nteam leader / synonymsforeman. manager. phr.squad leader. phr.leader of the team. phr.foremen. n.crew chief. phr.overseer. leader. phr.More items…\n\nWhat are the 7 functions of leadership?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9997208118438721}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: How Do I Clean My House After Ringworm?\n\nHow long can ringworm live on carpet?\n\n\n\nCan you get ringworm from a dirty house?\n\nIt is usually passed by direct skin contact with another person who has ringworm or by touching a contaminated surface such as dirty clothing or towels. You may also be able to get the infection from household pets or contaminated soil.\n\nHow do you know when ringworm is no longer contagious?\n\n\nHow long can ringworm live on sheets?\n\n\nHow do you keep ringworm from spreading all over your body?\n\nCan I Prevent Ringworm from Spreading?Wash your hands after touching any part of your body with ringworm. … Keep all infected areas clean and dry. … Treat all areas infected. … Thoroughly clean infected items. … Use flip flops or waterproof shoes in public showers, pool areas and locker rooms.\n\nCan stress cause ringworms?\n\n\nCan ringworm live on furniture?\n\n\nHow long can ringworm live on surfaces?\n\n\nShould I cover my ringworm when I sleep?\n\n\nWhat looks like ringworm but isnt?\n\nOther rashes can look like ringworm, including spider bites, nummular eczema, and Lyme disease, a more serious infection that produces a bull’s-eye shaped rash. These require different treatments, so it’s important to consult a medical professional.\n\nHow do I stop ringworm from spreading?\n\nPreventionEducate yourself and others. Be aware of the risk of ringworm from infected people or pets. … Keep clean. Wash your hands often. … Stay cool and dry. Don’t wear thick clothing for long periods of time in warm, humid weather. … Avoid infected animals. … Don’t share personal items.\n\nWhat is the incubation period for ringworm?\n\n\nHow do you disinfect your house after ringworm?\n\n\nWhat disinfectant kills ringworm?\n\n\nDoes washing clothes kill ringworm?\n\nDisinfect or throw out infected items. The fungi that cause ringworm can survive for a long time. To avoid re-infecting yourself with infected items, you should wash clothes, towels, and bedding that you use while you have ringworm. Be sure to wash everything in hot, soapy water.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9737685918807983}
+{"content": "Question: Can The Apple Watch 6 Measure Blood Pressure?\n\nCan a smartwatch accurately measure blood pressure?\n\n\nIs ECG on Apple watch accurate?\n\n\nWhat is a bad heart beat per minute?\n\nThe usual range for resting heart rate is anywhere between 60 and 90 beats per minute. Above 90 is considered high. Many factors influence your resting heart rate.\n\nWhy was Apple Watch 4 discontinued?\n\n\nCan the Apple watch measure blood pressure?\n\n‘: Yes, it can — if you use it with a paired accessory. Your Apple Watch alone cannot measure your blood pressure, but if paired with an accessory it can give fast and accurate readings. The Apple Health app can store and track blood pressure data over time, giving you a better snapshot of your overall health.\n\nWhat is the best blood pressure app for Apple Watch?\n\n\nWhat heart rhythms can Apple Watch detect?\n\n\nDoes Apple Watch call 911 if your heart stops?\n\n\nIs the Apple Watch 4 discontinued?\n\nApple discontinued last year’s Apple Watch Series 4 after announcing its brand-new watch — here’s how to decide between the Series 3 and Series 5. Apple is launching the Apple Watch Series 5 on September 20.\n\nShould I get Apple watch 4 or 5?\n\nFor most people, the answer to that question is, “Probably not.” The Apple Watch Series 5 is a big upgrade to the Series 4, with the key differences being the new always-on display, compass, and new materials. That being said, the Apple Watch Series 4 is still an excellent and powerful smartwatch.\n\nWhat’s the difference between Apple Watch 4 and 6?\n\nWhen comparing Series 6 and Series 4, the list of differences is significantly longer. You get a processor two years newer (S6 vs S4), new case colours, the new U1 chip, compass, faster battery charging, longer battery runtimes during training, the always-on altimeter, and the ability to measure blood oxygen.\n\nCan Apple Watch detect heart attack?\n\nApple Watch cannot detect heart attacks. If you ever experience chest pain, pressure, tightness, or what you think is a heart attack, call emergency services immediately. The irregular rhythm notification feature on Apple Watch is not constantly looking for AFib.\n\nCan Apple Watch detect oxygen levels?\n\n\nWhich Apple Watch is best for seniors?\n\nBest Apple Watch for Seniors in 2020Best Overall: Apple Watch Series 5.Best for Sport: Apple Watch Series 5 Nike+Best Budget: Apple Watch Series 3.Best Premium: Apple Watch Edition.Best for Fashion: Apple Watch Hermès.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9908492565155029}
+{"content": "Rock me like a…\n\nAROUND since the 1970s, Wagon Wheels are an iconic biscuit for many people across the country.\n\nTo help the biscuit wheel into 2019, brand owner Burton’s Biscuit Company has launched Wagon Wheels in a new on the go format specifically aimed at the convenience channel.\n\nThe new individually wrapped Wagon Wheels single packs come in cases of four counter display units, aimed at creating an impactful display.\n\nIsabel Lydall, category and insights controller at Burton’s Biscuit Company said: “With Wagon Wheels Singles, we’re tapping into the key food-to-go mission, enabling retailers to drive sales from impulse purchases of a well-loved biscuit brand.”\n\nThe RRP is 49p per pack.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9986335039138794}
+{"content": "Multi-word-expressions in a multilingual context\n\nIn Trento, Italy with EACL 2006\n\nEndorsed by SIGLEX.\n\nFor many years, interest in the natural language processing community of the problems that multiword-expressions (MWE) posed was focused mainly on English. Recently, for example, at the ACL2004 workshop on multiword expressions, attention has begun to expand to other languages such as Japanese, Russian, Basque and Turkish. This necessitates a re-evaluation of earlier rule-based, statistical and hybrid techniques for MWE identification and classification. In English, MWE types such as phrasal verbs, noun phrases, proper names, and true non-compositional idioms, are considered. However, in other languages MWE types can be represented as single words, e.g. phrasal verbs in English are generally expressed as verbs with a prefix in Russian. At the same time, research on MWEs for languages other than English is confronted with new problems, such as the number of word forms per lemma or free word order. In the call for papers for this workshop, we invited submissions incorporating the requirements from different areas such as translation, language engineering and those studying computational techniques for the processing of MWE of language learners and how all these requirements differ across languages. This had a deliberately wide scope to enable cross-disciplinary contact between descriptive, contrastive, educational and computational approaches. The papers presented here deal with a number of themes, from translation, extraction of MWEs, language description and modelling of dictionaries and lexicons.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999361038208008}
+{"content": "What Qualifies As A Disability UK?\n\nWhat conditions are classed as a disability?\n\n\nWhat illnesses are covered under the Disability Act UK?\n\n\nWhat are 4 hidden disabilities?\n\n\nWhat is the most approved disability?\n\n\nWhat should you not tell a disability doctor?\n\n\nWhat medical conditions qualify for a blue badge?\n\nYou’re automatically eligible for a Blue Badge if you: are registered as blind….If you’re not automatically eligibleyou have long term problems walking or going to places – including problems caused by stress, anxiety or other mental health issues.you have severe problems using both your arms.More items…\n\nDoes having a blue badge mean you are registered disabled?\n\n\nWhat am I entitled to with a blue badge?\n\nYour Blue Badge usually lets you park for free: on streets with parking meters or pay-and-display machines for as long as you need to. in disabled parking bays on streets for as long as you need to, unless a sign says there is a time limit.\n\nWhat hidden disabilities qualify for a blue badge?\n\n\nWhat conditions automatically qualify you for PIP?\n\n\nWhat are the medical conditions that qualify for quick determination of disability?\n\nIf you are an SSI applicant with one of about 15 severe physical or intellectual impairments — among them amputation, Down syndrome, total blindness or deafness, and HIV/AIDS — Social Security may find you have a “presumptive disability.” This qualifies you for up to six months of benefits while your claim wends its …\n\nDoes fibromyalgia come under the Disability Act?\n\nMost members with fibromyalgia will be covered by the Equality Act, though not all. Very few conditions are automatically covered under the Act and fibromyalgia is not one of them. Instead you have to demonstrate that a member meets the definition of a disabled person as set out in the Act.\n\nIs COPD covered under the Disability Act UK?\n\nThose who suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) will have a disability that is getting progressively worse. While the Equality Act [2010] protects people residing in England, Wales, and Scotland, it does not cover people living in Northern Ireland.\n\nIs anxiety and depression a disability?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8341915011405945}
+{"content": "\n\n\n\nOn Twitter this week, Schwarzenegger paid tribute to Vajna, commenting: “Andy Vajna was a dear friend and a revolutionary force in Hollywood. He proved that you don’t need studios to make huge movies like ‘Terminator 2’ or ‘Total Recall.’ He had a huge heart, and he was one of the most generous guys around. I’ll miss him. My thoughts are with his family.”\n\nIn the untitled “Terminator” movie, which Paramount will release on Nov. 1, Schwarzenegger reprises the role of the iconic cyborg, while Linda Hamilton returns as Sarah Connor.\n\nSchwarzenegger tweeted a photo of him and Hamilton on the set of the movie on her birthday, Sept. 26.\n\n“Avatar” and “Titanic” helmer James Cameron is producing the movie. He has a long history with the “Terminator” franchise, previously writing and directing “The Terminator” and “Terminator 2,” as well as writing for video games based on the saga. The sequel is produced by Skydance and Cameron.\n\nThe movie marks the first time that Hamilton, Schwarzenegger and Cameron have worked together on the franchise since 1991’s “Terminator 2.” Cameron has said that the new film will be a direct sequel to that installment.\n\nHamilton starred in the first two pics, starting with “The Terminator,” which was released in 1984. She portrayed a waitress being hunted down by a killer cyborg (Schwarzenegger) sent from the future to kill her in order to prevent her from giving birth to the savior of mankind.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7439006567001343}
+{"content": "Our favorite pieces\n\n\"Sand in the Road\" - Paul Pedulla\n\n$ 595.00\n\nBrand Paul Pedulla\n\nLimited edition giclée print on premium archival matte paper, dry mounted, framed under glass or plexiglass in a black wood frame, signed and numbered by the artist.\n\nImage size: 6\"x36\" (framed piece is approximately 9\"x39\")\n\n\nPaul Pedulla’s contemporary paintings and prints are representational yet minimal. There’s a simplicity that draws you in and a depth that finds you frequently discovering something new. \n\n\nWhat you see is a moment, often revealing a relationship between neighboring houses, a building and the sky, a road and the landscape, the sky and a lake or the sea, figures in an environment or a window and the world it views.\n\n\nThe artist is drawn to an uncluttered sensibility, both on his canvasses and in day-to-day life. What he leaves out of his work is probably as important as what he puts in.\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9983181357383728}
+{"content": "1.0. Introduction\n\n  1. For a long time, money lending was a preserve of commercial banks which dominate the Kenyan credit market. Many private individuals as well as Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and big corporations relied on credit facilities from commercial banks. Due to this monopoly, access to credit was restrictive.\n  2. However, there emerged new credit facilities in the form of mobile money lending applications. These applications are ubiquitous and can easily be downloaded from among others, Google Play store and Apple iOS.\n  3. The flexible nature of mobile money lending applications has largely contributed to a rise in digital lending in Kenya. Mobile money lending requires no collateral, they conduct minimal credit risk assessment for borrowers, the loans are processed quickly and they are accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. This makes digital lending more appealing to borrowers.\n  4. While the advantages have been documented, especially digital loan services’ contribution to financial inclusion, inadequacies have also been reported. These are driven by issues of lack of industry specific laws, consumer exploitation, exorbitant interest rates being charged, data privacy infringement on account of the vast quantities of personal information found in handheld devices, and the increasing sophistication of cybercrimes.\n\n2.0. Regulation\n\n  1. The digital lending sector remains largely unregulated and there have been calls to regulate the digital lending sector. To assert their rights, the lenders as well as their clients have to refer to a myriad of legislations including Law of Contract Act and, Consumer Protection Act. Such a reference, no doubt, creates confusion and loopholes as the legislations are not industry specific.\n  2. The mobile money lending companies are unique in nature and do not fall under the auspices of the Banking Act because they are not financial institutions as defined under the Act and therefore cannot be regulated or supervised by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) neither do they fall under the Micro-Finance Act. There is therefore a lacuna in the law.\n  3. In 2018, there was an attempt by the National Treasury to draft the Financial Markets Conduct Bill which was aimed at regulating market conduct. Under Section 64, the proposed Bill requires all regulated credit contracts to be in writing in prescribed form. This clearly excludes digital lenders which do not enter into written contracts with borrowers.\n  4. The Bill is yet to be presented to the National Assembly a year after it was drafted and has received a lot of opposition from sectoral bodies. The Central Bank has criticized the Bill for trying to emasculate the CBK, and stripping it of its powers granted under the law. That said, the mobile lending in Kenya regime faces various challenges as espoused hereunder.\n\n3.0. Interest rates\n\n  1. The interests charged by the digital lenders are so exorbitant and are not regulated. They cannot be regulated by the CBK since they are not within the ambit of the Banking Act. Since they are not supervised by any authority or body, the digital lenders set interests rates that are very unfair.\n  2. Moreover, the In Duplum rule does not apply to them and therefore the danger that arises is the fact that a borrower can pay an interest that is more than twice the principal sum lent to the borrower. The Bill proposes the establishment of the Financial Markets Conduct Authority (FMCA) which will be charged with setting interest rate caps to regulate entities that do not fall under the Banking Act and the Micro-Finance Act.\n  3. Section 87 of the proposed Bill further makes it an offence to charge an interest beyond the maximum rates as prescribed by FMCA from time to time. While this can be justified on the basis of consumer protection, previous attempts to cap interest rates have been found to have a reverse effect on access to credit by SMEs and individuals.\n\n4.0. Unfair terms\n\n  1. The terms of contract entered into by the borrower are usually unfair, and most borrowers are usually ignorant of what they are signing up for. The contract is usually in standard form and mostly drafted in complex unintelligible terms. Because of the urgency and desperation to access credit, most borrowers hardly read the terms and conditions nor do they get an opportunity to get independent legal advice.\n  2. Indeed, since it is a pre-condition to the loan being granted, most borrowers accept the terms and conditions without reading the terms. While a bad bargain is not a defence in contract law, there is need to protect borrowers as they are susceptible to exploitation by lenders.\n  3. Under the Section 52 of the proposed Bill, it is an offence for a provider to engage in unfair business practices which include practices that deceive, mislead or unfairly prejudice customers. Moreover, under Section 59, it is an offence to fail to submit pre-contract statements and a quotation in respect to the proposed contract to a customer before accepting an application for credit. The pre-contract statement should specify the interest rates, insurance requirements, fees, charges and costs to be imposed as well as the intervals of payment.\n\n5.0. Know your customer (KYC) compliance\n\n  1. Financial institutions are under an obligation to know their customers. KYC is the process by which a financial institution verifies the identity of its clients and their suitability.\n  2. In Kenya, this is a statutory obligation. Under Section 45 of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, a financial institution is under an obligation to take reasonable measures to satisfy itself as to the true identity of any applicant seeking to enter into a business relationship with it by requiring the applicant to produce an official record capable of establishing the true identity of the applicant.\n  3. Section 2 of the Act defines a financial institution as any person or entity which conducts as a business, the accepting of deposits and other repayable funds from the public, lending, including consumer credit, mortgage credit, factoring, with or without recourse, and financing of commercial transactions, among others. Further, under Section 45(2), a financial institution is under an obligation to undertake customer due diligence on the existing customers or clients.\n  4. This presents a challenge in mobile money lending. This is because mobile money lending takes place in a digital space. Consequently, a lender cannot easily ascertain the true identity of the borrower. A borrower who does not have mental capacity to enter into such a transaction. This may be detrimental to the lender as such contracts are not enforceable by reason of incapacity.\n  5. Suffice to add, due to its nature, mobile money lending does not require physical interaction between the borrower and the lender. The borrower may obtain private identification details of another person and falsely represent himself as that person. This can have serious implications. Where a borrower has not repaid the credit facility as well as the interest charged, the lender usually forwards the name of the defaulter to the Credit Reference Bureau. However, what happens when a person’s name is mistakenly forwarded? Can a claim in defamation be successful?\n\n6.0. Privacy\n\n  1. Digital lending apps have come under fire for access of private data of borrowers such as GPS data, call logs, contact lists, and texts such as bank balance messages and bill payment receipts to determine credit worthiness. While the newly enacted Data Protection Act is a step towards the right direction, it is important that a legislation should be enacted to regulate the privacy of borrowers.\n\n7.0. Conclusion\n\n  1. The Bill still needs a lot of fine-tuning in order to ensure it offers protection to digital borrowers. While the possibility of the Bill being passed are slim, it is imperative that Parliament enacts a legislation to cater for digital lending or amends the current legislation to regulate digital lending in Kenya.\n\nIf you have any query regarding the same, please do not hesitate to contact Ambrose Waigwa at ambrose@wamaeallen.com. Note that this alert is meant for general information only and should not be relied upon without seeking specific subject matter legal advice.\n\nAbout the author\n\n\nAmbrose is a civil and commercial litigator who has keen interest in commercial law, recoveries litigation, labour and employment disputes, banking law, tax law, company law, public policy and legislative development\n\nAdvocate Trainee, 2020\nShare this\nerror: Content is protected !!\n\nSubscribe To Our Newsletter\n\n\nYou have successfully subscribed to Wamae & Allen Quarterly.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6642519235610962}
+{"content": "How To Boil A Bullfrog\n\n\n—John F. Kennedy\n\nThere once was a neurosurgeon who taught a few classed in medical school. He would occasionally include a bonus question on an exam: 'Is it possible to boil a bullfrog? Explain.' The students would respond that it was impossible, stating that once the bullfrog felt the heat from the boiling water its immediate reaction would be to jump out.\n\nFollowing the exam, the professor would review the questions with his students. He would explain the somatic nervous system and the involuntary movements known as reflex arcs (when a nerve pathway connects directly to the spinal cord). He would diagram how, when a human touches a hot surface with its hand, for example, the automatic response is to immediately remove the hand from the hot surface. He would then ask the class if they still agreed that it is was impossible to boil a bullfrog. Unanimously the class would agree.\n\nThe professor responded letting the students know that they were all wrong. He would caution them about becoming bullfrogs once they graduated from medical school.\n\nHe would explain how to boil a bullfrog. 'You place a bullfrog into a pot of cold water and place the pot onto the stove. The bullfrog will enjoy the temperature of the water. You then turn on the stove and heat the water slowly. As the water temperature increases, the bullfrog will relax even more and become so comfortable that it will eventually slip into a deep sleep. As the bullfrog sleeps, the temperature will increase to a boil, thus proving it is possible to boil a bullfrog!'\n\nHe would finish his lecture by stressing the importance of becoming too comfortable, in any situation. If so, little by little, it would become more and more dangerous until it was too late.\n\n©Copyright WisdomShare — All Rights Reserved\n\nEnter your details below:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.733015239238739}
+{"content": "The Importance Of Nonverbal Communication\n\nSatisfactory Essays\n1.1. Introduction\nCommunication is not just a matter of sending and receiving messages without thinking of their effects on others. Successful communication means sending and receiving thoughts and ideas in a reasonable, acceptable and, at the same time, polite way since misinterpretation may cause embarrassment or harm to others.\nAs simple as communication seems, much of what we try to communicate to others—and what others try to communicate to us—gets misunderstood, which can cause conflict and frustration in personal and professional relationships. (Robinson, Segal, and Segal, 2013, para. 1).\nTherefore, the researcher of the present study believes it is reasonable to say that people should be aware of the power of words in constructing or spoiling the relationships among people. Moreover, members of any society must use the language as a means of social interaction in a way that suits the cultural values of that society.\nAl-Shawashreh (2004: 63) believes that \" a person must possess not only linguistic (the knowledge of lexemes, grammar etc) but also communicative competence (the use of the language appropriately in a given situation)\". However, following DeVito (2002: 134) that \" nonverbal messages may communicate specific meanings, just as verbal messages do\", the researcher of the present study believes that it is not only verbal communication skills that a person must have in order to be able to communicate successfully with others, but also non-verbal communication skills, such as: facial expressions, body movements and even appearance.\n\nAs a matter of fact, all societies have some words, expressions and acts that are inadmissible in certain social situations, these are called...\n\n... middle of paper ...\n\n...towards reciting the Qur'an, does it indicate death?\n\n1.5. Significance of the Study\nThis study is an attempt to familiarize Jordanians, especially young Jordanians, with euphemistic death expressions used in everyday life of Jordanian society and the social situations in which each expression is used. The researcher assumes that the study will help Jordanians to be aware of the power of language in strengthening the relationships among people. It also identifies the most common euphemistic death expressions used by Jordanians and the ones most frequently used by males and females. It is also an attempt to investigate the Jordanians' attitudes towards the notion of death as a taboo topic. Few studies were concerned with social factors as some of the most significant factors in the formation of euphemisms. Therefore, this study attempts to fill this gap.\nGet Access", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9997767210006714}
+{"content": "Orbital Sciences and Thales Alenia Space is to build a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite for OverHorizon.\n\nThe spacecraft will be based on Orbital’s STARTM 2 satellite platform and Thales Alenia will provide an on-board processing payload to be carried by the spacecraft.\n\nThe OverHorizon satellite will offer a regenerative system for broadband communication via the satellite to, from and between small, inexpensive user terminals installed on moving vehicles, such as cars, trucks, boats and airplanes.\n\nThe satellite will meet the demand for OverHorizon’s government, media and NGO customers operating in areas with limited or no communications infrastructure.\n\nThe satellite will be due in early 2012.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9897398948669434}
+{"content": "A new study describes the genetic fingerprints of the Mediterranean people with high-density genomic markers and a wide sample of modern populations from Sicily and Southern Italy. Their genetic profiles were analyzed to reconstruct the combination of ancestry components and the demographic history of the region.\n\nAs one would expect, populations inhabiting the southeastern shores of Europe are the result of a complex, multi-layered history. One of these layers corresponds to a shared genetic background, extending from Sicily to Cyprus and involving Crete, the Aegean islands and Anatolia. “This shared Mediterranean ancestry possibly traces back to prehistoric times, as the result of multiple migration waves, with peaks during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age,” says Stefania Sarno, researcher from the University of Bologna and lead author of the study. Apparently, the ancient Greek expansions (during the Magna Graecia foundation) were only one of the last events in a long history of East-West movements, where the Mediterranean Sea served as a preferential crossroads for the circulation of genes and cultures.\n\nNew perspective for the diffusion of Indo-European languages\n\nOne of the most intriguing layers hidden in the Mediterranean genetic landscape involves an important Bronze Age contribution from a Caucasus (or Caucasus-like) source, accompanied by the virtual absence of the typical “Pontic-Caspian” genetic component from the Asian steppe. The latter is a very characteristic genetic signal well represented in North-Central and Eastern Europe, which previous studies associated with the introduction of Indo-European languages to the continent. “These new genomic results from the Mediterranean open a new chapter for the study of the prehistoric movements behind the diffusion of the most represented language family in Europe. The spread of these languages in the Southern regions, where Indo-European languages like Italian, Greek and Albanian are spoken nowadays, cannot be explained with the major contribution from the steppe alone,” adds Chiara Barbieri from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena.\n\nLinguistic and cultural isolates\n\nThe current genetic study also focuses on more recent historical layers that contributed to the present-day genetic makeup of the populations sampled, in particular in the cases of long-standing, non-Italian-speaking communities in Italy. For example, mainland Greece and Albania seem to have acquired additional genetic contributions during historic times, most likely related to the Slavic migrations in the Balkans. This recent Balkan genetic ancestry is still evident in some ethno-linguistic minorities of Sicily and Southern Italy, such as the Albanian-speaking Arbereshe. The Arbreshe migrated from Albania to Italy at the end of the Middle Ages and experienced geographic and cultural isolation, which played a part in their distinctive genetic composition. A different case study is that of Greek-speaking communities from Southern Italy. The genetic features of these groups are compatible with the antiquity of their settlement and with a high cultural permeability with neighboring populations, combined with drift and effects of geographic isolation, as in the case of Calabrian Greeks. “The study of linguistic and cultural isolates in Italy proved to be important to understand our history and our demography,” says Alessio Boattini, geneticist and anthropologist from the University of Bologna. “The cases of the Albanian- and Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy help to shed light into the formation of these cultural and linguistic identities.”\n\n“Overall, the study illustrates how both genetic and cultural viewpoints can inform our knowledge of the complex dynamics behind the formation of our Mediterranean heritage, especially in contexts of extensive – both geographically and temporally – admixture,” says Davide Pettener, professor of Anthropology from the University of Bologna. “These results,” adds Prof. Donata Luiselli, who co-led the project, “will be further developed in future studies integrating data from other disciplines, in particular linguistics, archaeology and palaeogenomics, with the study of ancient DNA from archaeological remains.”\n\nAncient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean – Scientific Reports (open acess).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999731183052063}
+{"content": "World Struggles as Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Pass 40 Million\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S., India and Brazil are reporting by far the highest numbers of cases — 8.1 million, 7.5 million and 5.2 million respectively — although the global increase in recent weeks has been driven by a surge in Europe, which has seen over 240,000 confirmed virus deaths in the pandemic so far.\n\n\nWHO said the new measures being taken across Europe are “absolutely essential” in stopping COVID-19 from overwhelming its hospitals. Those include new requirements on mask-wearing in Italy and Switzerland, closing schools in Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic, closing restaurants and bars in Belgium, implementing a 9 p.m. curfew in France and having targeted limited lockdowns in parts of the U.K.\n\nThe agency said several European cities could soon see their intensive care units overwhelmed and warned that governments and citizens should take all necessary measures to slow the spread of the virus, including bolstering testing and contact tracing, wearing face masks and following social distancing measures.\n\nWHO has previously estimated about 1 in 10 of the world's population — about 780 million people — have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the official number of cases. That suggests the vast majority of the world's population is still susceptible to the virus.\n\nSome researchers have argued that allowing COVID-19 to spread in populations that are not obviously vulnerable will help build up herd immunity and is a more realistic way to stop the pandemic instead of the restrictive lockdowns that have proved economically devastating.\n\nBut WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned against the belief that herd immunity might be a viable strategy to pursue, saying this kind of protection needs to be achieved by vaccination, not by deliberately exposing people to a potentially fatal disease.\n\n“Allowing a dangerous virus that we don't fully understand to run free is simply unethical,” Tedros said last week.\n\nThe U.N. health agency said it hopes there might be enough data to determine if any of the COVID-19 vaccines now being tested are effective by the end of the year. But it warned that first-generation vaccines are unlikely to provide complete protection and that it could take at least two years to bring the pandemic under control.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9878097176551819}
+{"content": "The Parent-Adult-Child model: the basics\n\n\nPerception is projection\n\nPerception and projection are two psychological processes. They are values-neutral, neither good nor bad in themselves. We repress stuff in our minds which we find hard to\n\nSetting the right intention\n\nAccept 100% responsibility for your outcomes and accept that there’s another person in the discussion with their own set of needs, wants, desires and outcomes\n\n\nTo handle resistance to your ideas and influence during negotiation, you will first need to know why there is an objection. Typically, people object or resist because they:\n\nBuilding rapport—1\n\n\nChunking up and down\n\n‘Chunking up’ refers to moving from specific, or small scale ideas or pieces of information to more general, larger ones. ‘Chunking down’ (obviously) means going the other\n\nSaying ‘no’: 13 tips\n\nSometimes you have to be able to say 'no' and not leave yourself open to influence or manipulation. When we just take on everything thrown at us, our bosses and colleagues\n\nNoticing body language: 14 tips\n\nHumans are the only animals to communicate using words. The rest of the animal kingdom manages very well with non-verbal signals. Your body language releases lots of subtle\n\n\nMetaprograms are ways in which people choose to approach life and their relationships with other people\n\nA short piece about disputes\n\nThe problem with disputes in relationships is that they are never about what the people in dispute think the dispute is about.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9959374666213989}
+{"content": "How To Write A Summary Essay Examples\n\nIt may be helpful to describe the central points in the material read then you can confirm whether you have understood the main points as you continue with the second step. Read Again: Re-read the material once more and underline the essential details as he/she proceeds.\n\nTags: Essays On Black In EuropeThesis Child Themes Real EstateBusiness Plan ChaptersTypes Of Business PlanThesis Paper Writing ToolFriendship Essay ExamplesReal Essays\n\nAn essay conclusion is the next most important part after the introduction. It is not enough to make a summary of what was written in the body part – a writer must make the reader want to continue exploring the problem or share the author’s position. It is the closing part of any type of an academic assignment, no matter whether it is a school essay or college research paper. The rest of the sections are different depending on the type of assignment. Do not miss any of them: Some students wonder how to start a conclusion for an essay. We recommend involving a paraphrased thesis statement and adding a powerful hook sentence to attract the reader’s attention again and leave an unforgettable impression.\n\nWe have come up with essay conclusion examples and useful tips to help students master the art of academic writing. If this information looks insufficient to carry out a perfect study, feel free to contact online paper writers and get a ready solution! We have prepared several tips to make students understand how to write a conclusion for an essay. Do not forget about these tips: as “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” is the best start in the process of learning Roman and Greek mythology.\n\n\nWriting a summary and review essay of an article strengthens a reader's critical thinking skills.\n\nIt has many differences with the original legend but is understandable for students. Hercules was not accompanied by Atlanta or Daedalus, the authors did not mention Perseus who played a significant role in the destiny of Hercules, and there is also no love story between the hero and Psyche in the myth.\n\nThe rest of the plot reflects the myth better than other related shows.I have collected both primary and secondary sources to prove it.The essay proves that violent video games may motivate adolescents to take part in school bullying and even commit crimes.”“The essay proves that the epic English poem, “Beowulf,” can be considered a work of the true artist as it sticks to the elder traditions and avoids personalization, while “A Modest Proposal” might have some deviations from what a good artist means. Swift’s pamphlet gained an appreciation and influenced next generations.”“Speaking of the article, I should say that the most complicated dilemma recalled by the author is the lack of time versus storing resources and not the rest of the ideas. While the teacher believes that conserving resources by rinsing out paper cup instead of discarding it may save natural resources, the girl’s dad knows about the importance of time as an intangible resource.”“I have analyzed the given piece of literature to prove that the author uses ghostwriting services. A language of the last chapters is significantly different from the writing style at the beginning of the book, the plot changes throughout the story taking new directions, and there “My attitudes have greatly shaped after this study.By writing a summary and review essay on an article, you will be able to explore how you interpret the article and whether the information is relevant to you. Jot down any questions you may have as you read, and if those questions are answered.Write down your reactions to certain areas of the article and any major issues the article covers. If you feel the article is informative, take notes on how this is accomplished.It allows the reader to fully understand what the article is about, and why this is important.An article may share new information, express the author's opinions on a popular topic or tell someone’s story.This part of your essay must show your reason for writing the review in the first place.Share your opinion of if the author has successfully written the kind of article she sat out to write. Dawn Colclasure has written for the newspaper, \"SIGNews,\" since 2003 and has been published in several different newspapers and magazines.If you disagree with what the article has covered, share excerpts from the article and state why.Support your disagreement with a solid reason, such as personal experience or information from other published works such as a book. Your conclusion must briefly touch on what you addressed in your summary and your overall opinion of the article.\n\n\nComments How To Write A Summary Essay Examples\n\nThe Latest from ©", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8358296155929565}
+{"content": "Machine Vision Approaching Milestone\n\nMachine vision systems are a staple in production lines for barcode reading, quality control and inventory management. And, as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) continues to expand its reach, these systems have become crucial data collectors.\nThese solutions often have long replacement cycles and are less prone to disruption. Due to the increasing demands for…\n\nHow AI to detect the coronavirus spread?\n\n\nHow Machine Vision Works\n\nMachine vision is composed of a digital camera, lighting and optics, coupled with software that processes images. The electronic “brain” of the system evaluates the image and then takes action based on the analyzed data. On the hardware front, cameras, optics and lighting systems have advanced to capture precise image information, even under challenging conditions. In some, for example, if an image doesn’t have good contrast under a white light, banks of LEDs can strobe through red, green and blue lights to find a workable wavelength — as well as change the intensity and frequency — in milliseconds.\n\nMachine Vision Promises Nearly Flawless Quality Control\n\nRobots are capable of incredible feats well beyond human abilities. Strength has long made robots a staple of assembly lines, where their immense power transcends human limitations. But companies are discovering that robots can be leveraged not just to overcome human physical limitations, but mental limitations as well.\n\nMajor Machine Vision Trends for 2020\n\nThe trend towards robotics and smart manufacturing makes machine vision technology an indispensable tool for industrial automation.  Machine vision technology has gradually replaced quality inspection performed by humans.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9958385229110718}
+{"content": "What is Isagenix?\n\nIsagenix provides systems and products to aid its customers achieve a healthy lifestyle, while providing an income opportunity to those who would like to share the products with others. It is that simple! Furthermore they have been doing so for over 15 years.\n\nWhether it be the products or the business opportunity, Isagenix has aimed to keep things as simple as possible.\n\nIsagenix products are all about providing solutions to transform lives and that means we offer a variety of systems and packs to help you reach your personal health and wellness goals.\n\nHundreds of thousands of people across the world have maintained healthy lifestyles for weight loss, weight maintenance, muscle building and retention, and fitness performance by using Isagenix products. And now its time for the UK to join this group!\n\nIsagenix’s commitment to scientific research in nutrition and health is one of the factors that sets it apart from other similar firms. By partnering with established universities and laboratories conducting clinical studies, Isagenix is contributing to evidence-based nutrition research while also providing clinical substantiation for Isagenix Systems for healthy weight loss and healthy living.\n\nThe following video provides an in depth look at the products and the science behind Isagenix.\n\nNutritional Cleansing the Isagenix way\n\n\n\n\nWeight Control\n\nOne of the first things that people notice when they embark on Cleanse Days is the weight loss. Studies on intermittent fasting have shown that it is just as an effective approach for weight loss as compared to cutting calories. In a comparative study, overweight women who fasted intermittently for six months lost more weight than women who restricted their calories each day.\n\nReset Food Cravings\n\n\nReset Insulin Sensitivity\n\n\nBrain Protection\n\nResearch on fasting’s effect on brain and mood has so far been done on animals, but the results are still promising. It appears that fasting stimulates the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which increases the resistance of brain neurons to degeneration and preserves learning and memory. Fasting has also shown to be beneficial in the brain for stimulating growth of new brain neurons, called neurogenesis. When levels of BDNF increase, so do levels of serotonin, otherwise known as the “feel good” neurotransmitter. This could help explain why one study among aging men found that after two-day fasts, their moods and perceptions of quality of life were improved.\n\nTime for the Body to go to Work–On Itself  \n\n\n\nLastly, there is the detoxification that can take place on Cleanse Days. Improved detoxification while on Cleanse Days may be one of the most fascinating parts of the scientific story behind Cleanse Days. Nutritional support in the form of antioxidant vitamins and botanicals is essential in the detoxification process because some toxins are produced as the result of free radical activity. Additionally, nutritional support is needed to counteract the oxidative damage caused by toxins.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.815520167350769}
+{"content": "Physics Lab\n\nChemistry Lab\n\nCompueter Lab\n\nThe World is a laboratory to the inquiring mind\n\nKeeping in tune with the changing educational environment and focusing on the students innovative and interpretation skills we at JKG have well equipped Physics, Chemistry , Biology and Maths lab where the students get ample opportunity to display their experimental skills.\n\n\nThe upcoming generation has to be equipped with tech skills. Today, most prominently demanded skill is computer skill. For this, the school has setup an ultra-modern Digital equity lab This lab is big enough to house 50 units for the students. The students of every class visit the lab weekly in rotation and have their computer skills with the help of computer wizards . The school aims to facilitate digital equity to all students.\n\n\nWith the ever-changing technology our computers keep the students abreast of the latest software and technological development of 21st century.\n\nBio Lab", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9945553541183472}
+{"content": "Peter Forbett.\n\nPeter Forbett's time in the BB house has led him to never watch another episode of the series. He told the Illawarra Mercury earlier this year that the show saw him become a commodity and that his identity had been stolen. He was the winner of the second Australian season.\n\nMedia: image/jpeg", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.967844545841217}
+{"content": "If You Like Midsomer Murders\n\nSmall and sleepy village? Check. A gruesome and unusual murder of someone who was slightly hated, and/or, hardly known? Check. A tiny police force with an overly intelligent detective, younger/sometimes-goofy sidekick, and, possibly, a snarky medical examiner? Check. Plenty of infidelity, betrayal, and family secrets that have been hidden for years are uncovered? Check. A dog, a bookstore, a cat, or a winery involved? Check.\n\nAlthough these are all elements of the popular mystery books subgenre called \"cozy mysteries,\" they could also refer to the crime drama television series from the United Kingdom, Midsomer Murders, which is basically one, long cozy mystery that has been running since 1997. \n\nCaroline Graham is the author and creator of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) who lives and works in the picturesque English county of Midsomer. Her first book, The Killings at Badger's Drift, was turned into the pilot that premiered in March of 1997, attracting 13.5 million viewers. The quiet village of Badger's Drift is in an uproar after a spinster whose only hobby was making homemade cookies is murdered. It attracts the attention of Barnaby, who begins to discover Badger's Drift has plenty of horrible scandals to hide.\n\nOf course, an unusual number of murders occurs in the county of Midsomer (unlucky for the residents, but lucky for our entertainment), and the episodes are always known for their high body count. Tom (and later on, his cousin John) has plenty of detective sargents to assist him over the years: DS Gavin Troy, DS Dan Scott, DS Ben Jones, DS Charlie Nelson, and, currently, DS Jamie Winter. \n\nLike me, have you seen (or binged-watched, which is not easy since the episodes are an hour and a half long) all of the episodes of Midsomer Murders that have been made so far? There are plenty of books in the catalog that are in a similar vein to Midsomer episodes: plenty of murder, mayhem, and... coziness. \n\nAuthor Anthony Horowitz adapted quite a few of Caroline Graham's novels into episodes, including The Killings at Badger's Drift. In Horowitz's Magpie Murders, editor Susan Ryeland is reluctantly about to begin editing Alan Conway's latest novel. Conway is famous for his troubling behavior, and, if Susan wants to keep her job, she must keep reading his monotonous manuscripts. The latest concerns a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Typical Conway subject. However, as Susan reads, she feels as if there's something else in the pages of the manuscript... something that involves a genuine murder. In this creative and intriguing twist on British crime, Horowitz lets the reader become the detective. This is the first in the Susan Ryeland series.\n\nThe Thursday Murder Club meets in the Jigsaw Room of a retirement village to discuss unsolved crimes. But, when a local developer is discovered dead with a photo next to his body, they find themselves in the middle of their first real case.\n\nIn Murder in G Major, Gethsemane Brown's options for a career in music are limited, so she accepts the position of turning a group of uninterested schoolboys into an award-winning orchestra. The perk is the lovely cliffside cottage she rents, but the catch is the cottage is haunted. The murdered owner, falsely accused of killing his wife, comes forward one night and begs her to clear his name so he can rest in peace. But, Gethsemane's investigation provokes someone who is determined to keep the secret she is trying to uncover. This is the first in the Gethsemane Brown mystery series.\n\nIt's a Wicked Autumn for Max Tudor, who is a vicar (and a former MI5 agent) in the small English village of Nether Monkslip when the unpopular president of the local Women's Institute turns up dead at a harvest fair. The death looks like an accident, but Max suspects something sinister. The first book in the Max Tudor series.\n\nWhen Mma Precious Ramotswe sets up her own detective agency - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, she finds cases are hard to come by. But eventually cheating husbands, insane doctors, and a possible witch doctor-related disappearance come knocking on her tiny van door. The first book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.\n\nMurder Is Binding for city native Tricia Miles, who meets friendly competition when she opens her mystery bookstore in the small village of Stoneham - that is, until she finds her competitor, Doris, dead from a carving knife, and the tide quickly turns. Doris had recently purchased a rare cookbook - which is now missing - and many locals think the thief is Tricia. The first in the Bookshop Murders mystery series.\n\nAunty Lee runs a popular Singapore café and graciously supports her stepson, but his wife is problematic and untrustworthy, along with his new assistant Laura. When Laura doesn't show up to work, Aunty suspects she may be the unidentified woman found on the beach. When she is proven correct, she immediately jumps into the investigation with Salim Mawar, the lead detective on the case, and her reluctant assistant Nina. The first in the Aunty Lee mystery series.\n\nA suspicious death occurs in a rural village south of Montreal. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team must investigate Jane Neal, whose death is said to be a tragic hunting accident and nothing more. But Gamache knows something is up in this tiny village, and the secrets it hides are more sinister than he could imagine. Still Life is the first in the very popular Gamache series.\n\nTwo corpses appear amid stolen goods and ancient bones at a Navajo burial site in A Thief of Time. Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee dive into the past to unearth the horrifying truth behind the murders. The first book in the Leaphorn and Chee mystery series.\n\nIf you want to get started on the TV series, check out the DVDs in the catalog. The 21st season, which began in 2020, has had only two new episodes that have premiered in the UK. Due to the COVID-19 virus, production of the show been put on hold for now. Here's to hoping we'll see Barnaby and his team solving a cozy and wild mystery in 2021.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9614311456680298}
+{"content": "Murphy's Multiverse -\n\n\nThis is the kind of piece I’ve often considered writing up and leaving around for fans to use as a sort of resource. It’s something that can be updated and revised as necessary to provide fans with a familiar place they can find the information they need. Please feel free to bookmark it and check it often. I’m sure I’ll continue to tweak it and add to it as I continue to receive feedback.\n\n\n\n\nWhat's your reaction?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999845027923584}
+{"content": "Europe welcomes Biden but will not wait for him\n\nEurope welcomes Biden but will not wait for him\n\nAs a politician who sets his eyes on the midterm congressional elections, “Biden will focus like a laser in his first year on the pandemic, on reopening the economy, unemployment, infrastructure, health care, and economic stimulus.” Copchan said. “There will be a lot of time, energy and money for foreign policy.”\n\nSophia Pisch and Luigi Scateri of the European Reform Center Argue in a new paper That “many Europeans will want to forget that the Trump presidency never happened.” But they add, “Europe cannot continue to look to the United States to answer the key questions about what its interests are and how it should pursue them.”\n\nThis is especially true for defense, as most European leaders agree more should be spent.\n\nGerman Defense Minister Angret Kramp-Karenbauer asserts that Europeans cannot replace America as a provider of security, the way Central and Eastern European leaders do. But others, notably French President Emmanuel Macron and the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell Fontel, argue that Europeans cannot be sure of America’s credibility.\n\nThey argue that Biden’s victory should not distract or discourage Europeans from a more independent and more strategic defense goal, even in the context of NATO.\n\nThere are certain issues, such as terrorism, instability in North Africa and immigration, where Europeans feel they need to be able to act more effectively on their own.\n\n“The place where we Europeans need to be careful about our expectations of Americans is in our neighborhood,” said Natalie Tucci, director of the Italian Institute of International Affairs. On issues such as Belarus, Ukraine and the Balkans, she said, “Coordination with the United States is important, but we cannot expect the United States to step up its participation.”\n\nREAD  The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada condemn the Hong Kong arrests\n\nSchreibe einen Kommentar\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7990923523902893}
+{"content": "Kaylee is a nationally-recognized Movement Educator, internationally board certified Structural Integration Practitioner, Professional Athlete Body Coach, creator of Structural Functional Bodywork™ and Movement Specificity Training™,former internationally touring professional modern dancer, former television and theater choreographer, and a teacher of teachers. Kaylee’s 30-plus years of exposure and training in various somatic movement methods such as the Pilates Method, Feldenkrais Method®, Ideokinesis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Laban Movement as well as her own movement explorations combined with anatomy, physics, and neuroscience, provide the infrastructure for her perceptive and integrative teachings and work. Kaylee approaches movement  through the nervous system instead of the muscular system because ‘muscles don’t move themselves.’ This approach differs from standard fitness and athletic training with a focus on ‘how’ movement occurs. Working this way invites lasting change in posture and movement which is instrumental in preventing injury and reeducating chronic injury related patterning and compensations to improve the body’s future function.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999935030937195}
+{"content": "Why is my Yorkie Acting Strange?\n\nWhy is my Yorkie Acting Strange?\n\nIs your Yorkie barking at nighting? Suddenly acting frightening? Shaking uncontrollably? There are many potential reasons for your Yorkie’s strange behavior. Yorkies are known for their quirky personalities but there’s usually a good reason when they suddenly exhibit unusual behavior you’ve never seen before. Ahead, we’ll delve into common strange Yorkie behaviors and hopefully get to the bottom of just what is going on with your pup.\n\nMy Yorkie Is Acting Drunk\n\nIf your Yorkie is staggering, falling down or acting tipsy, don’t laugh it off as funny behavior. You know they didn’t get into the liquor cabinet so tipsy behavior should be taken seriously.\n\nLiver Shunt\n\nSome Yorkies may be born with this potentially fatal congenital condition. With a liver shunt, the blood circulating the body completely bypasses the liver. This causes toxins in the blood to never get cleaned out of the body. You may start to see digestive system issues, poor weight gain,  listlessness, uncoordinated movements, urinary system troubles such as excess thirst and urination, and seizures appearing shortly after eating.\n\n\nWhen a dog (or human) is having a stroke, the consistent flow of blood that the brain requires is reduced or shut off entirely. This will cause symptoms such as a loss of balance or blindness. In other words, your Yorkie will give the appearance of acting drunk. Strokes typically affect middle-aged to elderly dogs, but this isn’t to say that younger dogs can’t experience a stroke. You can learn more about recognizing a stroke in your dog from the American Animal Hospital Association.\n\nThe severity of symptoms will be contingent upon which region of the brain suffered the reduced blood flow, and for how long the brain was deprived of blood and oxygen. The following symptoms are potential signs that your Yorkie may have suffered a stroke:\n\n  • Seizures\n  • Circling or weaving\n  • Head tilting\n  • A sudden collapse\n  • Vision loss\n  • An inability to recognize their owner\n  • A loss of bowel or bladder control\n  • Loss of balance or falling often\n\nThere are two different types of stroke: ischemic and hemorrhagic. Ischemic strokes occur when there has been a lack of blood flow to the brain, and is the most common type of stroke known to affect dogs. Hemorrhagic strokes occur when there is too much blood in the brain as a result of a broken blood vessel causing leaking between the brain and the skull.\n\nYour Yorkshire Terrier may be at risk of a stroke if they have these risk factors:\n\n  • High blood pressure\n  • Cushing’s disease\n  • Congenital clogging disease\n  • Increased thickening of blood\n  • An infection in the central nervous system\n  • Thyroid gland abnormalities\n  • Head trauma\n  • Heart attack\n  • Intravascular cancers\n  • Heart, liver, or kidney disease\n  • Abnormal development of blood vessels\n  • Inflammation in arteries or blood vessels\n  • Ingestion of rodent poisoning\n\n\nThere are potential doggy hazards everywhere, and unless your Yorkie has never been in the outside world and your house is 100% puppy-proofed, they’ll likely sooner or later eat something they shouldn’t. Seemingly acting drunk, with or without dry heaving, vomiting, or other clinical signs, is a sign your Yorkie may have been poisoned.\n\nThe following are foods you should avoid giving a Yorkie.\n\n\nMost commonly applicable to Yorkie puppies, hypoglycemia can actually affect toy breeds at any age, especially if you have a Teacup Yorkie. Hypoglycemia transpires when a rapid drop in blood sugar levels occurs, and this can cause some very peculiar behavior. Sometimes simply rubbing some honey onto your Yorkie’s gums can be enough to fix a minor case of low blood sugar, but in moderate to severe cases, a visit to the vet will be required and an IV intervention may be needed. Hypoglycemia is potentially a very serious issue, as a coma or even death could be a possible outcome in severe instances.\n\nIf your Yorkie is diagnosed with hypoglycemia, you will need to follow careful feeding guidelines. Hypoglycemic Yorkies need to eat snacks between meals and benefit from a high-calorie puppy kibble supplement.\n\nHead Injury\n\nSince Yorkshire Terriers and other toy breeds are so tiny, even the smallest tumble to the ground can cause an injury to the head. All sorts of strange Yorkie behavior can really come as a result of a head injury. Side effects may include changes in behavior, uncontrolled shaking, a loss of coordination, and a funny tilting of the head. Even if you did not see your Yorkie fall, if you are seeing any of these symptoms, you should have him or her examined as soon as possible.\n\nMy Yorkie is Shaking and Hiding\n\nYorkies may shake and hide if they get scared. This may happen if there’s an unfamiliar visitor in the house, loud noises, or a new pet. There may be other reasons for a Yorkie that’s shaking and hiding that need attention.\n\n\nHypoglycemia is especially common in Yorkshire Terriers, particularly Yorkie puppies and Teacup Yorkies. While it can be managed, it can be incredibly serious and even fatal. As a result of the low levels of blood sugar, you may see symptoms such as shaking, and they may want to be left alone for fear of being vulnerable.\n\nMake sure your Yorkie is eating regularly with snacks between meals and a high-calorie nutritional dog supplement on their kibble.\n\nDifficulty Regulating Body Temperature\n\nYorkies are tiny. That means they’re extra susceptible to hot and cold temperatures. On top of this, Yorkshire Terriers have no layer of fat to protect themselves and help to maintain body temperatures in the same way that other, larger dogs do.\n\nYour Yorkie’s shaking and hiding may just mean that they’re very cold or even too hot. They may be trying to cool off or get warm somewhere in the house. If it’s even a little chilly, make sure your Yorkie is wearing a warm dog sweater.\n\nMy Yorkie is Acting Lethargic\n\nMuch like us humans, canines are known for their fluctuations in behavior throughout the day. Even the friendliest of dogs can have a bad day, and even the most energetic dog can sometimes feel like just relaxing and having a lazy day. In some cases, an overly tired or moody-acting dog may have a more serious underlying health issue.\n\nLethargy is a top sign to look out for when spotting an illness. It can be caused by anything from tick bites, hypothyroidism, and diabetes to liver problems, heart issues, and anemia. Other possible reasons may include:\n\n\nIt’s still possible for dogs to get dehydrated when drinking water regularly. Dehydration is most likely to happen during the summer months, but it can still occur at any time of the year. A drop in water levels as small as 2 to 3% is enough to cause concentration issues and decreased awareness.\n\nFor Yorkies that require some encouragement with their drinking, a canine water fountain may work well. Also, ice cubes and other fruits with high water content can be of great help in the summer. Try making your Yorkie homemade fruit ice pops to enjoy.\n\nNormal Aging\n\nWhen it comes to the more senior Yorkies, much more rest and relaxation is required. This is obviously a gradual process, however, you may not quite notice this gradual increase in the need for sleep and rest as your Yorkie ages. Still, do not brush aside any excessive weakness or lack of energy in seniors. If you suspect their lethargy is extreme or they struggle to get up and walk, it’s time to see the vet.\n\nFemale heat cycle\n\nWith female Yorkies, the heat cycle brings with it drastic increases and decreases in their hormone levels that can cause moodiness. Some dogs may become more clingy, while others just want to be left alone to rest.\n\nDisturbances in the night\n\nWhile some dogs do alert their owners if they are awake in the night, some may not. If you suspect your Yorkie may be staying awake in the night, it could be a sign of an injury or an illness, so it might be worth having it checked out.\n\nThis could, however, simply be a case of a new noise waking him up, or something else in the outside world, such as car doors, chirping birds, or a passing train, for example. If disturbances at night are frightening your Yorkie and keeping him from sleeping, he may act lethargic during the day. You can try moving his sleeping area to see if it helps or even setting up a white noise machine if you can’t move his bed.\n\nMy Yorkie is Walking Weird\n\nIf your Yorkshire Terrier seems to have trouble walking, doesn’t want to put weight on one leg, or seems to be in pain, it’s important to take it seriously. Yorkies are prone to several conditions that can affect their joints and bones and make walking painful.\n\nLegg – Perthes Disease\n\nLegg – Perthes disease is a disease in which the femur bone, located on the hind leg, spontaneously deteriorates, resulting in the bone and joints becoming inflamed and the hip bone disintegrating. Symptoms of this include hip joint pain, wasting thigh muscles, and a gradual onset of lameness.\n\nThe exact cause for Legg – Perthes disease is relatively unknown for now, although some research points to blood supply issues to the head of the femur bone being the cause.\n\nYorkies get Legg – Perthes disease more than any other breed. The onset of the disease is usually around 6 months but it can show up earlier or as late as 13 months old.\n\nLuxating Patella\n\nA luxating patella, otherwise known as a trick knee or a floating kneecap, is an issue commonly found commonly in Yorkshire Terriers. In fact, Yorkies are the second most common breed to get this disorder and an astounding 1 in 4 Yorkies have it to some degree.\n\nAs the result of either an inherited trait or an injury, the luxating patella condition causes the kneecap to pop out of place. The symptoms of a luxating patella can vary widely, mainly contingent upon the severity of the condition. You may notice things such as strange walking patterns, a bow-legged stance, a skip in your Yorkie’s walk, or pain when you or someone else attempts to touch their hind legs.\n\nThere are four grades of luxating patella. At grade 1, the kneecap should be able to be moved out of position manually, but it will return to its normal position. With grade 2, the out-of-place kneecap will stay out of place until returned to its normal position manually. In grade 3, the patella will remain luxated most of the time, and when moved, it will return to its out of place position. With grade 4, the Yorkie’s patella will be constantly out of place, and any attempt to manually push it back into place will be impossible.\n\n\nAs mentioned previously, Yorkies – especially Yorkie puppies – are very vulnerable to hypoglycemia and the effects of low blood sugar. Infrequent eating, stress, digestive tract illness, or strenuous activity can bring on episodes of hypoglycemia, During a hypoglycemic episode, you may see your Yorkie acting disoriented, staggering, or walking very slowly.\n\nMy Yorkie is Coughing\n\nIf your Yorkie is coughing, there’s one very important condition that should be on your radar.\n\nCollapsed Trachea\n\nThe distinctive honking cough of a collapsed trachea indicates a chronic and progressive disease which causes the cartilage in the trachea to weaken and collapse. Thought to be a condition present from birth, other factors that could lead to tracheal collapse include obesity, respiratory infection, an abnormal enlargement of the heart, a buildup of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema) and allergic respiratory disease. Yorkies with a collapsed trachea will have difficulty breathing, even when resting, and feelings such as distress or excitement may exacerbate symptoms. Even exercise or just being out and about on a hot and humid day can make it dangerously difficult for your Yorkie to breathe.\n\n\nOne of the only risk factors for collapsed trachea that you can control is the use of a safe, soft dog harness instead of a collar. A collar puts pressure on the delicate trachea and may cause significant damage when your pup pulls against the leash.\n\nMy Yorkie is Acting Scared\n\nMost often, there is a pretty obvious reason why your Yorkie seems scared. On occasion, though, it can seem that your Yorkie has become scared for absolutely no reason, perhaps suddenly hiding in a closet, under a bed, or hesitating to enter certain rooms. Your Yorkie may even shake with fear.\n\nThere may be something frightening your Yorkie that you can’t hear or see. Your Yorkie may even be hurt. Try ruling out any potential causes of your pup’s fear then taking him to the vet if it doesn’t improve.\n\nMy Yorkie is Acting Strange Following a Trip to the Groomer\n\nYorkshire terrier getting his hair cut at the groomer\n\nHas your Yorkie’s odd behavior started after a trip to the groomer? There could be two reasons for this: either your Yorkie perceived an action to be disturbing or scary, or the task performed by the groomer caused some degree of distress. Perhaps the Yorkie even had some pretty severely matted hair that needed to be worked out, or maybe there was a new task performed that has not been done before.\n\nEven if the groomer is great, highly competent, trusted, and professional, it’s no guarantee your Yorkie will get along with him or her and he may still come home frightened.\n\nYorkshire Terriers are incredibly observant and sensitive creatures. This can be a matter of gender in some cases, with a dog preferring a male or female handler, or in other cases the dog may simply just not like a certain person’s scent, or even their method of handling.\n\nSometimes a Yorkie may have been getting on great with the groomer until now. Perhaps the groomer passed some tasks to a new assistant, or perhaps had an overly busy day and didn’t quite have the time to give their usual level of attention.\n\nThere are a few options you may wish to take. Firstly, you may want to have a word with the groomer. If something new and unusual was done this time around, or if someone else did indeed take care of your Yorkie, you may be able to receive assurance that this can be avoided in future visits. If there was something unfamiliar done to your Yorkie, the groomer may be able to suggest potential steps that you can undertake at home to avoid its necessity upon the next visit. If there were large tangles removed, for example, your groomer may suggest brushing your Yorkie’s coat and practicing certain Yorkie grooming tasks at home. The groomer may also recommend using a leave-in conditioner to help avoid tangles in the future.\n\nIf your Yorkie is responding badly to your groomer, you should never be afraid to find a new one.\n\nMy Yorkie is Barking at Nothing\n\nThis is quite a common occurrence, however this makes it no less puzzling for owners trying to figure out what their Yorkie is barking at. Yorkshire Terriers can be very odd sometimes, often sitting in the middle of a room seemingly staring at nothing, barking at empty air, and becoming nervous and agitated. You may see them appearing to trace the path of something invisible from one room to another, or barking at the wall, the air, or even chasing something that doesn’t appear to exist. The answer to all of this can be pretty straight forward – they can hear and smell things that we can’t.\n\nBear in mind that canines can hear a wide gamut of sounds that are simply inaudible to the human ear, and not only can they hear to as much as 4 times the distance as we can, they can also hear on a vastly superior frequency range. Where the human ear picks up 64 to 23,000 Hz, dogs can hear at a range of 67 to 45,000 Hz. Where our ears have 6 muscles that control the movement of our ears and their ability to hone in on a noise, dogs have 18.\n\nThe canine sense of smell is even more amazing and a source of many studies. Their sense of smell is tens of thousands times superior to ours as they can smell things that are as deep as 40 feet underground, or easily pick out smells that are over a mile away.\n\nWith all this in mind, it’s easy to imagine that at all times your Yorkie can hear and smell things that our human senses would find impossible to detect.\n\nWhen looking and barking at something that appears to not be there, your Yorkie will most often be looking in the direction of something that he is picking up on. Maybe this is something far, far away like a house alarm or a siren, maybe it’s the scent of another animal, or it might be another dog barking so far away that you can’t hear it. Your Yorkie may also be barking at something on the roof like a squirrel or a bird, or even something that’s on the other side of the wall. Should there be a mouse living within the walls, you can be certain that your Yorkie will most certainly pick up on it, and respond to it in any and every way it sees fit. Usually with a lot of barking.\n\nTypically, when not sure if he is correct to be alert and alarmed, a dog will look to his owner for confirmation. Of course, the dog has no awareness that their owner may not be able to hear or smell what they’ve been noticing. Many owners make the mistake of becoming alarmed themselves with their dog which confirms to the dog that something deserves barking. The best course of action you can take as an owner is to stay calm and relaxed during these episodes. Hopefully, over a short period of time, your Yorkie should come to realize that they had no reason to be alarmed.\n\nIf you see this kind of behavior continuing, or even worsening, it may be worth investigating if there are any stowaways living somewhere in your house, such as a family of squirrels making a new home for themselves in the attic.\n\nAlso, keep in mind that odd staring and a repeated pattern of barking, almost as if the dog is stuck on a loop or sounding like a skipped record, can be a symptom of certain types of strokes. So if you do find the behavior to be alarming, record these occurrences and show them to your vet.\n\nMy Yorkie is Acting Agitated and Hyper\n\nMost Yorkshire Terriers are even-tempered and adaptable. When a Yorkie suddenly becomes agitated, it can be surprising. This can happen for a few reasons\n\nGenuine Agitation\n\nEven the most friendly, easy-going, and adaptable human being has their limits, and dogs are no different. Try assessing the environment to see if there’s anything different from the norm. Perhaps schools are out for summer and there’s active, excited children around everywhere all day long. Maybe your Yorkie’s special area of the house has been moved and he feels he has no personal quiet spot to retreat to. If it is possible to rectify any changes that have been made that could potentially be the cause of your Yorkie’s agitation, try to do so.\n\nIncreasing intolerance\n\nMost relevant with older dogs that no longer seem fine with people, tasks, noises and events, and situations that were ok previously, issues such as vision and hearing loss may cause dogs to start having trouble in certain environments. Allowing your Yorkie to make their own decisions about whether they want to engage, wait and see, or retreat can help resolve any issues most of the time.\n\nPent up energy\n\nIn many cases of strange behavior, including pacing, excessive barking, and hyperactivity, your Yorkie simply has too much energy and needs an outlet. Try taking your Yorkie on more frequent walks and engage in fun play time to relieve the boredom that can make him act out.\n\nIf you find that your Yorkie’s energy is being released in a negative, or even destructive fashion, this is a sure fire signal that you need to add another walk to the walkies schedule, or perhaps instead to increase the walk by an extra 10 or so minutes.\n\nHealth Issues\n\nAs you would expect, when a dog is feeling under the weather, there will be some degree of a change in behavior and personality. This could manifest itself in one or more of a vast range of ways, such as acting scared, nervous, clingy or tired, for example, and in some cases, if your Yorkie is feeling vulnerable as a result of their illness or injury, then you may see him or her responding with some degree of agitation.\n\n\nSubscribe To The Yorkie Advice Newsletter!\n\n\nYou have Successfully Subscribed!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7253502011299133}
+{"content": "Description red measles, seven-day measles, eight-day measles, nine-day\n\nPublished by admin on\n\nDescription Masele (Middle Low German) or Masel (Middle Dutch) which means “spot, blemish” An acute, contagious viral disease, usually occurring in childhood, characterized by eruption of red spots on the skin, fever, and catarrhal symptoms Also known as rubeola, hard measles, red measles, seven-day measles, eight-day measles, nine-day measles, 10-day measles, and morbilli. Etiologic agent Measles virus is the cause of measles.\n\nSpherical, nonsegmented, single-stranded RNA virus in the Morbillivirus family Contains six structural proteins, three that are complexed to the RNA and three that are associated with the viral membrane envelope Two of the membrane envelope proteins are important in its pathogenesis The F (fusion) protein is responsible for fusion of virus and host cell membranes, viral penetration and hemolysis The H (hemagglutinin) protein is responsible for adsorption of the virus to cells. The virus is rapidly inactivated by heat, light, acidic pH, ether, and trypsin(an enzyme).\n\nIt has a short survival time (under 2 hours) in the air, or on objects and surfaces. Mode of Transmission Airborne Transmission: Droplet inhalation (coughing and sneezing) Direct contact with infected nasal or throat secretions Contaminated fomites Incubation Period usually 8-12 days on average After the incubation period, only symptoms can occur. Pathogenesis Measles first gains access to the body via the direct contact with nasal or throat secretions of infected people or by airborne transmission. The primary site of infection is the respiratory epithelium of the nasopharynx.\n\nWe Will Write a Custom Essay Specifically\nFor You For Only $13.90/page!\n\norder now\n\nTwo to three days after: A primary viraemia ensues which is responsible for spreading the virus throughout the rest of the R-E system and the respiratory system. Five to seven days after: A secondary viraemia follows whereby the virus is further spread to involve the skin, the viscera, kidney and bladder, lymphoid tissues, thymus, lymph nodes Signs and Symptoms Early measles symptoms can include: High fever (up to 105°F or 40. 6°C) Maculopapular Rash Cough Runny nose Sneezing Hacking cough Sore throat Redness and irritation of the eyes Tiredness Muscle and body aches Irritability Swelling of the eyelids Loss of Appetite\n\nKoplik’s spots – one to two days before the rash appears, small red lesions with blue-white centers appear on the inside of the mouth and tongue, and occasionally on the whites of the eyes or inside the intestines. Complications: Secondary bacterial infection Pneumonia – is the main cause of death in measles Otitis Media – inflammation of the middle ear Bronchitis Giant-cell pneumonia (Hecht’s pneumonia) a protracted, fatal, interstitial viral pneumonitis seen only in children Eye conditions (corneal ulceration, keratitis, or blindness) Measles causes ear infections in nearly 1 out of every 10 children who get it.\n\nInflammation of the Nervous System (meningitis, encephalitis) 1 child in every 1,000 who get measles will develop encephalitis. – an inflammation of the brain that can lead to convulsions, and can leave your child deaf or mentally retarded. ) Thrombocytopenic purpura Transient hepatitis Measles in pregnancy – can lead to miscarriage, premature delivery, or a low-birthweight baby. Medical Intervention / Treatment Supportive Care: Intravenous (IV) fluids Medications to control fever or pain Antibiotics to treat secondary infections from bacteria Good nursing care Vitamin A as Part of Measles Treatment Low serum levels of vitamin A are associated with severe disease due to measles In developing countries, malnutrition, vitamin A deficiency, and severe measles are common. For these situations, the treatment of measles should include vitamin A medication for two days, starting as soon as a measles diagnosis is made. This treatment has been shown to decrease the risk of blindness and death. Pregnant women, infants younger than six to nine months, and people with weakened immune systems are given a shot of immune globulin, or antibodies against the measles virus.\n\nA patient who develops an ear infection or shows signs of pneumonia will be treated with an antibiotic. Young children who become severely ill with measles may be given a large dose of vitamin A. Antibiotics should be prescribed to treat eye and ear infections, and pneumonia Nursing Care Management Protect eyes of patients from glare of strong light as they are apt to be inflamed. Keep the patient in an adequately ventilated room but free from drafts and chilling to avoid complications of pneumonia. Teach, guide and supervise correct technique of giving sponge bath for comfort of patient.\n\nCheck for corrections of medication and treatment prescribed by physician. Children should not be given aspirin, however, because of the risk of Reye syndrome. High risk of infection related to the host and infectious agents. Identify high-risk children Rational: to ensure children avoid exposure Make a referral to a community health nurse if necessary. Rational: to ensure proper procedures at home. Monitor temperature Rational: increased body temperature is not expected to indicate an infection. Maintain good body hygiene. Rational: to reduce the risk of secondary infection from the lesions.\n\nGive a little water absorption, but often a child or a favorite drink and fine food. Pain related to skin lesions, malaise Use a cool mist vaporiser, mouthwash, and tablets suck. Rational: to keep mucous membranes moist. Clean the eye with physiological saline solution Rational: to remove secretions or leprosy Keep your child cool. Rational: because the air is too hot can increase itching. Give a cold water bath and give a lotion such as calamine Rational: to reduce itching. Give analgesic, antipyretic, and antipruritus according to the needs and requirements. Rational: to reduce pain, lower body temperature, and reduce the itching.\n\nPreventive Measures Routine measles vaccination for children, combined with mass immunization campaigns in countries with high case and death rates. usually given at 12 months of age – (it should not be given in younger individuals because the presence of maternal antibodies may lead to a poor response) The measles vaccine is often incorporated with rubella and/or mumps vaccines in countries where these illnesses are problems In 2008, about 83% of the world’s children received one dose of measles vaccine by their first birthday through routine health services – up from 72% in 2000.\n\nTwo doses of the vaccine are recommended to ensure immunity, as about 15% of vaccinated children fail to develop immunity from the first dose. This vaccine protects against both red measles and German measles. When this vaccine virus is given to a child, it replicates only a little before it is eliminated from the body. People who are potentially infectious with measles should minimize the risk of transmission by limiting contact with other people who may be susceptible to the disease. Contact should be limited until: A medical diagnosis, excluding measles, has been established The symptoms have resolved completely days have passed since the onset of the rash. People who are potentially infectious with measles should especially avoid: Public transportation Crowded area Why is it still one of the Leading Causes of Mortality in the Philippines? Highly Contagious Easily transmitted Measles transmission can occur any time, from about 4 days prior to the onset of the rash to 4 days after the onset. If one person has it, 90 percent of their susceptible close contacts will also become infected with the measles virus.\n\nComplications resulted from poor health caused by poverty and malnutrition The associated secondary infections which apparently complicate the primary illness in malnourished children might be responsible for higher mortality and could be due to socioeconomic and environmental causes that are associated with poverty and malnutrition rather than due to malnutrition or measles per se. People have less knowledge on: Proper disposal of fomites Proper disposal of nose and throat discharges. Difficulty in transporting immunizing paraphernalia on isolated areas.\n\nStrategies in the Eradication of Disease Expand child immunization goal for eliminating measles by undertaking house to house monitoring measles vaccination. Strengthen routine immunization against measles that is effective, and has resulted in significant reductions. Have a health education program – to inform or educate what are the preventive measures on what or how to control that kind of disease, like keeping your immune system healthy (taking Vitamin A, eating healthy, getting enough rest. ). To know what are the signs and symptoms for them to be aware if they already have that disease.\n\nWhat to do if they are infected to control further spread that can make many people safe or free having that disease. Emphasize the need for immediate isolation when early catarrhal symptoms appear. If immune serum of globulin is available (gamma Globulin), explain this to the family and refer to physician or clinic giving this service. Observe closely the patient for complications during and after the acute stage. Teach, demonstrate, guide and supervise adequate nursing care indicated. Explain proceedings in proper disposal of nose and throat discharges. Teach concurrent and terminal disinfection.\n\nCategories: Management\n\n\nI'm Iren!\n\n\nCheck it out", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6791610717773438}
+{"content": "How to Save the World Using Gantt Charts\n\nThere are many tools available to project managers for coordinating work and keeping their projects on schedule. Small and simple projects may use task lists or spreadsheets to track the status of work items. Teams working on longer term or more complex tasks often benefit from visualizing the progress of tasks in a shared space. One such example is the Kanban board used to enable Agile practices. Today, there are many online platforms that combine visualization in a virtual space with the benefit of file sharing and real-time collaboration.\n\nWhat Is a Gantt Chart?\n\nOn the other extreme is the Gantt chart, a classic pencil-and-paper method for visualizing the work breakdown structure in routine industrial operations. This project management tool is useful for planning, scheduling, and executing complex projects in construction, marketing campaigns, design and creative, manufacturing, software development, event planning, and so forth.\n\nA well-constructed Gantt chart helps team members see and answer many important questions. Do we have a plan that will meet the deadline? What needs to happen first? What activities must be completed to get from point A to point B? Are we currently on track to meet the deadline?\n\nIt’s somewhat surprising that such a well-established and useful project visualization tool doesn’t get more appreciation in lean, Agile, and continuous improvement circles.\n\nWhy Don’t Gantt Charts Get More Respect in Lean Circles?\n\nA very basic reason may be that at a glance, Gantt charts appear quite complicated to build, read, and update. The more complex and multi-faceted a project is, the more this is true. Taking the time to visualize this complexity often helps to make it simpler, or to identify potential pitfalls. But it does require learning how to create a new tool. When software is seen as the way to create Gantt charts, rather than by hand, this can add another layer of friction to learners.\n\nAnother reason that Gantt charts don’t get their due respect in lean circles may be because there is a bias for small and quick changes. For instance, the Toyota Kata approach assumes that there are too many uncertainties and unknowns to achieve a specific challenge. This requires many iterations of experimentation and learning. The view is that making detailed improvement plans and trying to execute them is not sensible, since plans are bound to change a lot.\n\nThe Agile Kanban approach discourages making detailed project plans because of the belief that that low WIP, speed, and adaptiveness contribute to success more than adherence to the project plan. Similar to kata, this is also rooted in the assumption that the unpredictability and instability of development work can’t be planned out in advance.\n\nThe classic kaizen event avoids the need for Gantt charts by narrowing the scope, doing upfront preparation to remove many uncertainties, and focusing the resources to make rapid changes across a week or two. On the other hand, Gantt charts are handy for larger scale lean projects such as plant layout, value stream redesign, or launching trainings or new management practices.\n\nLean Gantt Charts Hidden in Plain Sight\n\nGantt charts break a project down into tasks and visualize start and end dates so that we can manage firm deadlines. These charts help multiple people work on interrelated tasks in a specific order in a coordinated way. The real power of Gantt charts in the context of continuous improvement is the ability to see dependencies between tasks and identify the critical path. The critical path is the sequence of events that requires the minimum time to complete an operation. There are several lean tools that make good use of this principle.\n\nThe standardized work combination sheet is basically a one-person Gantt chart. It shows the work of a person for a repetitive cycle. There is a firm deadline, the takt time. The individual task times are known. The work sequence is specified. The dependencies take the form of standard WIP which must be there and ready for the worker to pick and replace each cycle.\n\nThe SMED technique of tag teaming the internal time of a quick changeover is another example. If 10 minutes of downtime on a critical asset can be cut in half or even by a third, it’s often worth having two or more people work together. The pit crew in NASCAR racing is an example of this idea taken to an extreme.\n\nWhen mapping a value stream in order to reduce lead-time, the large first-in first-out queues and blocks of WIP represent opportunities to shorten the critical path. On a much smaller scale, the bar chart to balance the cycle times of multiple operators to takt time also reveals dependencies and the proverbial longest pole in the tent.\n\nHow Gantt Charts Are Saving the World\n\nSource: Clinical trial medians from “Development Times and Approval Success Rates for Drugs to Treat Infectious Diseases”\n\nAround a year ago, the world began to accept that we were in a pandemic. We soon wondered, “When will it be over?” Typical vaccine development takes years, we were told. Here is a critical path diagram of all activities required to complete development of vaccines. There are nine major activities from academic research, to pre-clinical, three phases, to building production lines, to the vaccines’ manufacturing, approval, and distribution. Traditionally, each activity is completed in series, one before the next begins.\n\n\nSource: “What’s Going On in This Graph? | Estimated Time for Covid-19 Vaccine”, Wall Street Journal\n\nNobody thought that was good enough. Fortunately, there were some smart people familiar with Gantt charts and their underlying project management principles. They looked at activities that could be done in parallel. They identified where we could take intelligent risks, and where to spend massive resources to reduce the timeline. Smart people estimated that we would have a COVID-19 vaccine by August 2021.\n\nHalf a year from that date, today we have multiple vaccines in use. Several of them took less than 8 months from ideas to shots in arms. It makes you wonder what else is possible if we all agreed it’s important, mapped it out on a Gantt chart, and got down to work.\n\n\n\n\nLeave a Reply\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8295180797576904}
+{"content": "9 essential insights from our imposter syndrome webinar\n\nKayla Brown\nWritten by Kayla Brown\non March 25, 2021\n\nEarlier this month, we conducted a survey of our female users and learned that 66% of women feel challenged by the prospect of starting their own business and/or freelancing. When respondents were asked to go into more detail regarding which aspects they felt were holding them back they listed: \n\n  • Pay gap, financial security\n  • Fear of failure\n  • Perceived lack of experience\n  • Time consumed by household responsibilities\n\nFear of failure and the perceived lack of experience are both major symptoms of the common phenomenon known as Imposter Syndrome. \n\nWe thought it would be helpful to dive into this important topic as a community so we can learn more about what imposter syndrome is, how the symptoms manifest, and how to effectively heal from its debilitating effects. For this webinar we were joined by a popular therapist, author, and lecturer Katrin Saali Saul, who is a practicing family therapist and author of the book The Art of Being a Woman, an exploration of female archetypes within our society. \n\n\nYou can view the entire webinar here, but in the meantime, here are 9 important takeaways: \n\n#1: It's not the excuses, it's lack of courage that's holding you back \n\nA list of the most common excuses we use to justify inaction.\nTake a look at this long list of excuses. Maybe you can even point to a few favourites that you're using even now to justify why you haven't made progress moving toward a goal. \n\nIt's human nature to refer to this long list of excuses to justify inaction, but when we look deeper beneath the surface, we begin to understand that it's not these excuses that are holding us back, it's fear.\n\nFear takes many different different forms in our lives, but when it actively obstructs our efforts to move forward toward our goals, it's because of our own lack of courage. Every time you say that you can't do something because you don't have the courage, you lose a little bit of confidence and sense of control in your life. By succumbing to fear and losing confidence in ourselves, we're ultimately eroding our own sense of power and agency to ultimately shape our existence.\n\n#2: In order to become courageous, we need to become friends with failure\n\nCourage doesn't mean you don't still have fear, it means that you learn to push past it and do it anyway! And if gaining courage can only be achieved by becoming comfortable with failure, how do we learn to be comfortable with failure? You guessed it — by practicing! \n\n#3: Want to move forward? Ask yourself 4 questions\n\n  • What do I want to change\n  • Why do I want to do it?\n  • What are my main obstacles?\n  • What am I afraid of? \n\n\n#4: Make a plan (then stick to it)\n\nHere is Katrin's prescribed process for moving forward: \n\nA game plan for moving toward a more courageous future.\n\n#5: Scientists started studying imposter syndrome in the '80s\n\nImposter syndrome is the chronic feeling that others are overestimating your abilities, while you yourself know that you are a fraud. It's also marked by the signature expiration date on this perceived \"fraud\" — that it's only a matter of time until everyone realises what you've known all along: that you are completely incompetent. \n\n#6: There are 5 \"types\" of imposters\n\nHaving imposter syndrome is hard enough, so imagine our surprise when we learned that there are 5 distinct \"flavours\" of imposter syndrome! \n\n  • The Perfectionist is never satisfied with anything less than perfection and is always convinced that their work can be better. If they score a 99% on a test, the perfectionist thinks, \"Why not 100? Shame on me!\"\n  • The Expert is never satisfied with their own level of understanding and even though they're highly skilled, they underrate their own experience. Even a minor lack of knowledge sends them reeling into a shame spiral. \n    • The Soloist believes that it's a sign of weakness to rely on other people. And since you can't rely on other people, you must be perfect on your own. \n  • The Natural Genius believes that everything should come naturally to them. They set excessively loft goals, and then feel immense shame when they don't succeed on their first try. \n  • The Superhero seems to be a direct result of our social media obsessed society. This type of imposter syndrome believes that you have to be perfect in absolutely every single aspect of your life: in business, as a parent, in relationships, in friendships, etc. Every aspect of your existence must be instagram-filter level of perfection and the inability to live up to this completely impossible standard comes with… you guessed it… deep shame and self-loathing. \n\n#7: Men suffer from imposter syndrome, too\n\nWhen scientists first began studying imposter syndrome in the '80s, they believed that it was a phenomenon that almost exclusively affected high-achieving women. But modern research has proved that this debilitating feeling of being a fraud affects both genders. One might even argue that suffering from imposter syndrome is especially difficult for men, since males have traditionally been taught by our society that they must repress all uncomfortable emotions and suffer in silence. \n\n#8: Comparing ourselves to others is a deadly sin\n\nEspecially because we usually compare ourselves at our worst, to others when they're at their best. \n\n#9: To begin to heal, we must learn to accept ourselves as we are\n\nPeople who suffer from imposter syndrome make for some of the kindest, most compassionate partners, friends, and co-workers. The sad irony is that they are so often unable to lend this same compassion — which they show almost universally to those around them —to themselves. To begin to heal from this constant state of shame and self-loathing, it is important to begin to treat yourself with the same kindness and compassion that you show to everyone else in your life. \n\nThe next step is to adjust your self-limited thinking; don't think of it as lowering the bar. Instead, think of it as simply adjusting your standards to a level where you won't be left constantly feeling inadequate. It's about coming to terms with the fact that you will never be perfect, you will never be the best, and that doesn't matter because you're still good enough. \n\nA huge thank you to Katrin Saali Saul for sharing her time and wisdom with us for this very special and insightful talk. For more great insights and tricks for overcoming imposter syndrome (which we unfortunately weren't able to fit into this blog post) watch the full playback of the webinar here!\n\nStart solo business\n\n\nShare this story!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8709316849708557}
+{"content": "I’ve been taking the time regularly in my life to prioritize learning. I’ve been on the lookout for new things to learn.\n\nSo, I explored options for online learning. I found Coursera. A few of the top recommended online classes included a particularly interesting class called Learning How to Learn.\n\nIn this class, you really do learn how to properly learn and engage with new and confusing content. Let’s take a look at some of the most profound things I learned from the class.\n\nBrain Modes\n\nThe first thing that caught my attention was the concept diffuse and focused brain modes.\n\nBrain Modes\n\nThink about what it’s like when you try to understand a difficult and novel concept, such as an abstract math or physics equation. When taking a fresh, new look at hard material like this, I tend to read back and forth, hoping to latch on to any piece of the material, and form associations with other pieces of the material that I’m trying to learn. During this process, I’m confused, uncertain of the topic, and generally not having a good time understanding what’s going on.\n\nIt turns out that this is actually a typical brain mode, called the diffuse mode. Existing in the diffuse mode means that you’re trying desperately to grab on to any novel concept you can and form new neural connections. This is where creative ideas and abstract concepts come to fruition. You want to remain in the diffuse mode so that you can encourage the inception of novel thoughts.\n\nThe downside about the diffuse brain mode is that it’s hard to remain in this mode for long - it’s frustrating, confusing, and downright unsustainable to effectively always learn in this way. We all eventually reach a point where we just can’t learn anymore, and the mind’s ability to learn has reached a saturation point that will no longer allow more novel thoughts to form.\n\nThis is where the focused mode comes into play. When you’re performing a routine task, or doing something easy and sensible, you’re switched into the focused mode. In this mode, I personally choose to lift some weights, eat a few bites, have some quick chats, etc. This is a procedural, straightforward mode that is meant to sharply contrast the more difficult and abstract diffuse mode.\n\nSalvador Dali\n\nSalvador Dali and Thomas Edison used a trick to enable diffuse mode thoughts on demand. They would hold something in their hand that makes a loud noise when dropped, such as keys or ball bearings, and hold them in their hands while drifting off into a brief nap. As soon as the nap takes over and muscle control is lost, the item in their hands would drop to the floor, and they would snap out of it.\n\nThe thoughts that were floating around in their diffuse brain are likely novel ideas and thoughts that they wouldn’t have come to otherwise.\n\nThe Technique\n\nWhen you switch between focused and diffuse modes intentionally, your brain will actually form new neural pathways more efficiently.\n\nStay diffuse for a while, then take a quick break in focused mode. There is a technique that implements this: The Pomodoro technique.\n\nThe concept is simple: Learn for 25 minutes, take a break for 5 minutes.\n\nDuring your learning time, don’t break your focus. Just commit to learning for 25 minutes.\n\nThen, when break time comes, do something easy. Perhaps you could frame it as a reward for all of your hard work. As I said earlier, I personally use the time to lift some weights, eat some bites of food, use the restroom, grab water, say hello to my significant other, etc.\n\nPomodoro Software\n\nI use Ubuntu 20.04 as my main system, so I’ll recommend the Gnome Pomodoro software project.\n\nGnome Pomodoro\n\nInstall it using its recommended installation method, and use the gnome-tweak-tool or the official Extensions application (built in to newer Gnome desktop versions) to ensure it’s enabled. You can start it as a standalone application as well.\n\nProcess vs Product\n\nBy focusing on process instead of product, it allows you to naturally work towards a goal instead of getting stressed about the end result. For example, following a process of spending 25 minutes on a task is more likely to succeed than trying to get the whole task done within 25 minutes. This principle operates complementary to the Pomodoro technique.\n\n\nScientific observations presented in the course confirm that there are actually small “toxic” substances that build up in the brain throughout the day. When the mind is at rest, natural processes wash away the undesirable substances. A healthy amount of sleep is necessary to refresh the mind.\n\nI wish I could be more scientifically specific than this, but the class did not offer more insights - there are references presented that detailed more info, but I do not have the time to go into them in more detail.\n\nWorking Memory and Long Term Memory\n\nMany cards in hand photo\n\nWhen we are focusing our minds on a task, we generally only are able to keep 4 things in what’s called “working memory”. For example, when doing a math problem, you may only be able to keep track of a few variables and their values while working through the problem at a time.\n\nLong term memory, on the other hand, can complement your working memory by helping you recall concepts related to an item in working memory.\n\nTo keep working memory and long term memory at their best, use techniques like deliberate practice.\n\nDeliberate Practice\n\nSpreading out your learning by deliberately practicing a few problems regularly (for example once a day, or every couple days) helps facilitate absorption of the content and better understanding. This is one of the more important concepts to bake into your learning routine.\n\n\nChunks are pieces of information that are bound together through use and meaning. They’re built with focused, undivided attention and understanding of the basic idea at hand. Chunks are critically important to learning because they allow you to form a solid block of related information that you can access quickly. The brain is quickly capable of recalling and leveraging a well-formed chunk.\n\nThe true advantage of using chunks comes to fruition when they can be used with other information, through a process called transfer.\n\n\nPiggy-backing on the concept of chunking, transfer is the idea that a chunk can be interleaved with other areas of your mind (either via diffuse or focused modes of thinking!). This is really important because historically, clever people taking a chunk from one area of study in another field has lead to great innovations that might not otherwise have occurred.\n\nIllusions of Competence\n\nWhen attempting to learn a new subject, it’s important to acknowledge that there are certain learning methods that we try that do not actually yield any results. Proven, effective methods need to be discussed.\n\nThe first of these methods is to test yourself on the topics you’re trying to learn. You can read all of the solutions you want, and re-read all of the text you want, but ultimately you’re taking an easier path than if you had just tested yourself.\n\nThe next is recall. Highlighting, underlining, and re-reading are not effective learning methods. Recall is very effective, and it’s easy. Simply look away from the text you just read, and try to recall it immediately from memory. If you fail, go over it again, and try it again until it sticks.\n\nMake mistakes when learning. Don’t be afraid to mess up. This is one of my personal appreciation points with a system like Coursera - you can frequently try again without penalty on most assignments, aside from, say, only being able to submit an assignment once every X hours.\n\nRecall the segment on deliberate practice - practice makes perfect, and this applies to your learning. Set up practice problems for yourself regularly.\n\nEinstellung is a German word for “mindset”. An initial thought, pattern, or idea that already exists in your mind may prevent you from learning new things. Simply being made aware of the fact that you may be succumbing to einstellung in your studies can help you learn more effectively.\n\nThe last note for this section is about The Law of Serendipity. Lady Luck favors the one who tries. In practice, what this means is that if you just try to learn, regardless of what result you think you’ll get, you’re already more likely to succeed than the version of you that didn’t try.\n\n\nUsing the techniques outlined in the Pomodoro technique, and the process vs product discussion, procrastination should become less of a beast. That being said, there are still a couple ways to beat it still.\n\nCommit yourself to certain routines and tasks every day. I personally do not struggle with this, but perhaps you do. A well-structure daily lifestyle will yield excellent benefits, because you are exerting less willpower by simply following a successful routine.\n\nRewards come after the task or process is finished, not before, and not during. Part of successful, good habit-forming technique involves setting yourself up with a reward for completing the task. Deliberately treat yourself to something that you look forward to when your task is done.\n\nWatch for procrastionation cues. Find a quiet place to work with minimal distractions. Silence your phone. Turn off ALL push notifications, everywhere (this is a major one that I recommend). You are in control of the flow of information and can always check your apps later, notifications must not control your attention.\n\nThere were a few other tips in the procrastination section of the class, that I did not touch upon here, because I did not personally benefit from them as much. I highly recommend taking the class to continue learning.\n\n\nWhen trying to commit something to memory, consider using a goofy, fun, or vivid set of imagery. In the class, an interview with a competitive professional memory athlete takes place (this was new to me), and in the interview, the athlete is able to recite a long string of digits forwards and backwards - so long as the interviewer read them about 1 second apart.\n\nThe athlete describes his process as follows:\n\n  • Create a “memory palace” that your mind walks through\n  • When presented with each number in the sequence, recall a (pre-selected by you) familiar image that you’ve associated with the number, and navigate to it in your memory palace. The image could be a shovel, or a tree, or an animal.\n\nSo, to best leverage memory, associate it with vivid mental imagery - even take it a level further and combine it with helpful metaphors and analogies.\n\nMetaphors and Analogies\n\nThis may not be as much of a surprise, but using metaphors and analogies are extremely helpful with the process of understanding.\n\n\nStudy group image\n\nStudying with friends, colleagues, etc. The ability to discuss ideas and learn from others is essential. Study groups are important - make every effort to start one or get involved in one.\n\nKeep study groups focused. A good, healthy study group arrives on time for study sessions. All members of a good study group have prepared for the session by reading the material in advance, and even coming with questions ready for discussion. Talking about non-essential things will greatly diminish the value of your study groups.\n\nTry preparing for your learning in different environments. Studying in the same room forever creates environmental cues that only exist in that room. When you take a test, you’ll be in a different room that you’re unfamiliar with.\n\nTest Taking\n\nThe class ends with this material, and I found it to be extremely useful. How do you get better at taking tests? Let’s dig in.\n\nUpon receiving the test questions (presumably in a typical timed testing environment), immediately start working on a hard problem. Make progress on the hard problem until you get stuck. Then, immediately pivot to the easier questions in the test. This allows your “second brain” (your diffuse mode) to work in the background while your focused mode handles the easy items. This is important!\n\nTest taking releases cortisol, a stress hormone that substantially impacts how you feel. Try to shift your mentality from something like, “this test has me feeling scared”, to something more like, “this test has me excited to do my best”, you’ll notice a difference in your test taking abilities.\n\nAs part of managing your response to the stress hormone cortisol, you should also try deep breathing from your stomach. Relax your stomach, place your hand on it, and draw a deep breath.\n\nFinally, make sure to get a lot of sleep each of the nights leading up to the exam.\n\nFinal Note\n\nIf you haven’t taken the class yet, it’s free. Do it here: Learning How to Learn", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.990665853023529}
+{"content": "Your question: Can I use Tommee Tippee bottle warmer for breast milk?\n\nWith the Tommee Tippee Bottle and Food Warmer you can quickly and gently warm breast milk, formula or baby food to the perfect temperature. … Just place the baby bottle or food jar in the warmer, add water, and adjust the easy to use temperature dial and you’re ready in about 4 minutes.\n\nCan I use a bottle warmer for breast milk?\n\nWarming breast milk means heating it to somewhere between body and room temperature, although some babies don’t mind it a little chilled. The easiest and safest way to warm milk is to use a baby bottle warmer. … If you don’t have access to a baby bottle warmer, you can warm milk by placing it in a bowl of warm water.\n\nWhat is the Tommee Tippee bottle warmer used for?\n\nTommee Tippee’s Closer to Nature Electric Bottle and Food Warmer heats bottles and baby food quickly and safely in about 4 minutes.\n\nWhat is the fastest way to warm up a bottle?\n\nIf you don’t have a bottle warmer, you can microwave a bowl of hot water for 60-90 seconds and put the bottle in that for a minute or so to warm.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Does Baby Annabell cry real tears?\n\nHow long can you leave a bottle in a bottle warmer?\n\nIn most cases, the feeding bottle can be kept inside the warmer for utmost two hours. Read Also: How do you find good baby bottles?\n\nCan I leave my bottle warmer on all night?\n\nTellingly, the highes -rated and most technologically advanced bottle warmers on the market — the Kiinde Kozii Bottle Warmer and Breast Milk Warmer consistently comes out on top — provide an auto shut-off feature. That means the warmer can’t be left on overnight, and can’t overheat.\n\nHow long does Tommee Tippee bottle warmer stay hot for?\n\nThe water is hot 8-10 hours after you fill it and nicely warm for several hours after that. I once scalded myself with the water that had been in the container unopened, for 6 hours. It works for keeping water warm.\n\nHow long does it take for Tommee Tippee bottle warmer?\n\nHow long does it take to heat a bottle or pouch? The answer to this varies from 2 minutes to half an hour, depending on the starting temperature of your milk, the amount of it, and whether it’s in a pouch or bottle.\n\nHow long can you keep a bottle in an insulated bag?\n\nIf made-up formula is stored: in a fridge – use within 24 hours. in a cool bag with an ice pack – use within 4 hours. at room temperature – use within 2 hours.\n\nDo you put water in a bottle warmer?\n\nFill the warmer with water to approximately 10mm below the rim of the warmer. Never let the water overflow or rise above the neck of the bottle. For larger bottles, fill to 12mm below the rim of the warmer. Before plugging in, make sure the bottle warmer is switched to the “MIN” setting.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Why is Vicks bad for toddlers?\n\nCan I pre make bottles for night feeds?\n\n\nCan you pre make formula for night feeds?\n\nPrepare Formula Ahead\n\n\nCan babies drink cold formula?\n\nIt’s fine to give your baby room temperature or even cold formula. If your baby prefers warm formula place a filled bottle in a bowl of warm water and let it stand for a few minutes — or warm the bottle under running water. The formula should feel lukewarm — not hot. Don’t warm bottles in the microwave.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7619040012359619}
+{"content": "6 weeks pregnant mother\n\nQuestion: I had bhcg test in 5th week of my pregnancy....and results came out is low that is 347....what happened with my pregnancy i m so worried\n\n1 Answers\nAnswer: Hi Dear! At 5th week 18-7340 miu/ml is the hcg range, if u r under a treatment, pls show the report to ur Dr. to knw more on the same. Hope this helps!\nSimilar Questions with Answers\nQuestion: I had an iui on 19th may, i did a pregnancy test and came out negative, is that i did the test too early??\nAnswer: Hello dear yes you did early test you should wait for two weeks\n»Read All Answers\nQuestion: Am 36 week pregnancy,, my aminutic fluid is low, so what to do?? And am so worried of it\nAnswer: Hi dear, During pregnancy Amniotic fluid helps in protecting the baby in the uterus and very low level and very high level amniotic fluids can bring complications. Generally the normal index of Amniotic fluid is between 8-18 and if the index level of this fluid drops between 5-6. Drink plenty of water, coconut water, glucose and fresh juices. These liquids promote the production of amniotic fluid. Check the weight of the baby as low weight can affect the level of amniotic fluid. Generally your baby should weigh 2kg in the 8th month of pregnancy. Eat fruits with water content- The idea is to stay hydrated, which can be done by drinking lots of water as well as consuming fruits and vegetables that contain water. Cucumber, watermelon, strawberries, tomatoes, etc.\n»Read All Answers\nQuestion: In my 5th week I had small spot in my urine so I want to know why it was happened and I also had miscarriage before.\nAnswer: Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy is any discharge of blood from the vagina. It can happen anytime from conception (when the egg is fertilized) to the end of pregnancy. Light bleeding, or spotting, during pregnancy is common, especially during the first trimester. ... Bleeding is a heavier flow of blood. Spotting is light bleeding from your vagina. It's similar to a period, but much lighter. The colour of the blood can be anything from red to brown. Rest assured that in the early weeks of pregnancy, a little spotting or bleeding is very common. But since there is a chance of having early trimester miscarriages please any kind of spotting and bleeding at any point of time must be reported to your doctor for proper treatment on time.\n»Read All Answers", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9948126673698425}
+{"content": "IJCRRI Journ Cur Res ReInternational Journal of Current Research and ReviewI Journ Cur Res Re2231-21960975-5241Radiance Research Academy3420 http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP122HealthcareLifetime Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder Symptoms and Early Adolescence Risk Factors for Poor Physical Health Outcome Among Malaysian Adolescents YYChenSRBGhazali23022021enes8995This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 20092009This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.\n\nIntroduction: Individuals who experienced traumatic events were more susceptible to non-communicable diseases and adoption of health-harming behaviours. Clearer understanding of the relationship between trauma and PTSD on the risk trajectories of CVD, especially among adolescents are missing in the literature. Objective: This study investigated the associations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) manifestation and early risk factors for cardiovascular physiological measures, i.e., high blood pressure and heart rate among adolescence. Methods: A total number of 606 adolescents aged 14-19 years old (M=16.9, SD = 1.28) to participate in the present study. Their blood pressure, heart rate and body mass index (BMI) were measured. They were asked to rate their possible trauma experiences and PTSD symptoms via questionnaires. Results: Results showed that PTSD symptoms had a significant effect on blood pressure and heart rate reading. Total PTSD scores and only specific trauma types were significant predictors for the blood pressure and heart rate changes among adolescence. Conclusion: It is concluded that risk factors related to reported associations between trauma, PTSD symptoms, and physiological outcomes among adults might be able to identify in adolescence suggesting early detection and intervention to reduce adverse physical health outcomes are required.\n\nAdolescence Blood-pressure Heart-rate PTSD Trauma", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998492002487183}
+{"content": "Undead Girl Murder Farce, Volume 1\n\nThe end of the 19th century—a vampire's wife is murdered, and the detective known as the \"cage user\" is called in to solve the crime. But there's more to the detective and the curtained birdcage he carries...after all, when solving a case involving a monster, it might just take one to know one!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9354466199874878}
+{"content": "Would he answer the call? - ShareLife\nRegister for the ShareLife Speaker Series: Caring for Seniors\n\nParish Campaign Progress\n\n\nof $13,800,000\n\n\nof goal\n\nShareLife Sunday is\n\nOctober 2/3\n\nLiving the Gospel\nA client of St. Michael's Homes\n\nAlex is a 34 year-old who struggles with anxiety, which has limited his career opportunities and overall enjoyment of life. In an attempt to cope with his paralyzing bouts of fear, he bravely attended a walk-in counselling clinic at Catholic Family Services of Simcoe County (CFSSC). The appointment went well and Alex booked a series of follow-up sessions.\n\nMeanwhile, the pandemic had escalated to the point that CFSSC needed to close for face-to-face services. Alex’s counsellor called him to schedule a telephone session, but could not reach him. Weeks went by without word from him, despite several more calls.\n\nNo longer alone in his struggle\n\nAt last, Alex finally answered the phone. He shared that he had contracted Covid-19 and had experienced a severe reaction. His anxiety had also worsened due to the pandemic.\n\nThanks to the counsellor’s consistent support, Alex developed the trust needed to overcome several hurdles in his mental health journey. Alex no longer feels alone in his struggle as he learns new tools and techniques to manage his anxiety.\n\nPhoto: A client of St. Michael’s Homes\n\nGive someone in your community a brighter future\n\nLiving the Gospel by providing\nfor those in need\n\nA counsellor from CFS Toronto\nA counsellor from CFS Toronto\n\nThank you for signing up.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5341728329658508}
+{"content": "Iodine is a necessary mineral found in some foods. Foods that contain iodine include: fish (such as cod and tuna), seaweed, shrimp, other seafood, dairy products, and iodized salt. Getting enough iodine is important for everyone, especially infants and women who are pregnant.\n\nProcessed foods, such as canned soups, almost never contain iodized salt. In addition, specialty salts, such as sea salt, kosher salt, Himalayan salt, and fleur de sel, are not usually iodized. \n\nLife Stage\n\nRecommended Amount\n\nBirth to 6 months\n\n110 mcg\n\nInfants 7–12 months\n\n130 mcg\n\nChildren 1–8 years\n\n90 mcg\n\nChildren 9–13 years\n\n120 mcg\n\nTeens 14–18 years\n\n150 mcg\n\n\n150 mcg\n\nPregnant teens and women\n\n220 mcg\n\nBreastfeeding teens and women\n\n290 mcg\n\n\nSome people groups are more prone to iodine deficiency. These include those who do not use iodized salt, pregnant women, those who consume a vegan diet or few/ no dairy products, seafood, or eggs, and those living in regions with iodine deficient soil.\n\nAlthough iodine deficiency has not been common, more people are choosing foods with Himalayan salt (which is not iodized) or having a diet that does not contain the needed iodine. Iodine deficiency can present itself with symptoms such as issues with one’s thyroid hormones, goiter (enlarged thyroid), issues with fetal development, cognitive function during childhood, fibrocystic breast disease, and radiation induced thyroid cancer.\n\nCompare 0", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7046645879745483}
+{"content": "Find Your Free Essay Examples\n\nImportant Questions Class 11 Biology Chapter 22 Chemical Coordination Integration\n\nHormones are chemicals providing chemical control and coordination of the body which assists in the regulation and integration of numerous activities of the human body. These are the hormones that govern the metabolism, development, and growth of our organs, a few cells, and the endocrine glands. The endocrine system consists of the hypothalamus, thyroid gland, pineal and pituitary gland, pancreas, thymus, parathyroid and the gonads (ovary and testis). Few other organs such as gastrointestinal tract, heart, kidney, etc also secrete hormones. Read on to discover more on how chemical integration and coordination is brought about in the human body\n\nQ.1. List the endocrine gland that is absent in males and the one absent in the female. A.1.  A pair of testes are present in the scrotal sac in males that performs functions of the endocrine gland as well as acts as a sex organ. This gland is absent in females as they possess a pair of ovaries situated in the abdomen. It produces progesterone and estrogen and is absent in males. Q.2. Which amongst the two adrenocortical layers, zona reticularis, and zona glomerulosa lies outside wrapping the other? A.2.  The zona glomerulosa envelops the zona reticularis. Q.3. Define erythropoiesis. Name the hormone that triggers it. A.3.  The process of formation of RBC is known as erythropoietin. The peptide hormone erythropoietin produced from the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney triggers the erythropoiesis. Q.4. Which is the only hormone that is secreted by the pars intermedia of the pituitary gland? A.4.  Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone (MSH). Q.5. Which is the endocrine gland that secretes calcitonin? What role does this hormone play? A.5.  It is produced by the parafollicular cells of the thyroid gland. It restricts excess Ca 2+  and phosphate in the plasma by lowering mobilization from bones. Its deficiency causes osteoporosis or loss of bone density. Q.6. Which hormone aids in cell-mediated immunity? A.6.  Thymosins play a significant role in the differentiation and development of T-lymphocytes that provide cell-mediated immunity. Q.7. State if true or false a) The gastrointestinal tract, heart, and kidney also produces hormones b) Pars distalis produces six trophic hormones A.7. a) The gastrointestinal tract, heart, and kidney also produce hormones – True. b)  Pars distalis produces six trophic hormones – True. Q.8. Which hormone is responsible for normal sleep cycle? A8.  There are a variety of hormones, which are responsible for sleep-wake cycles. This hormone includes– cortisol, melatonin, prolactin and thyroid-stimulating hormone- TSH. Q.9.  Name the endocrine gland that secretes cortisol hormone? A.9. Adrenal gland. Q.10. Name the endocrine gland, which is present only in females? A.10.Estrogen, progesterone and testosterone are considered as a female sex hormone and are present only in females.\n\nQ.1. State the significance of luteinizing hormones in males and females. A.1.  The luteinizing hormone in males triggers the production and secretion of hormones known as androgens from testes. Along with Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), androgens control the spermatogenesis. The LH in females causes ovulation of the Graafian follicles and maintains the corpus luteum, developed from the traces of the Graafian follicles after ovulation that produces progesterone. Q.2. Write about the importance of the second messenger in hormone action. A.2.  The hormones that do not enter the target cells, communicate with specific receptors situated on the surfaces of the target cell membranes and produces second messengers on the plasma membrane(inner side). In turn, the second messenger performs all the functions related to hormones. Q.3. Which is the steroid that controls inflammatory responses? Name its source and its other functions. A.3.  Glucocorticoids. They are secreted by the adrenal cortex. They trigger gluconeogenesis, proteolysis, and lipolysis and hinder the cellular uptake and utilization of amino acids. Q.4. Why do old people have a weak immunity system? A.4.  The  thymus  gland is situated on the dorsal side of the heart and the aorta and is a lobular structure. Derived from the embryo’s endoderm, the thymus produces the thymosin hormone that triggers the development of WBCs which produce immunity. In older individuals, the thymus degenerates thus causing a decreased thymosin secretion. Hence their immune system becomes weak. Q.5. How does hypothyroidism affect the maturation and development of a growing baby, generally seen during pregnancy? A.5.  During pregnancy, hypothyroidism causes defective maturation and development of the fetus, that induces a stunted growth, low Intelligence Quotient(IQ), mental retardation, deaf-mutism, abnormal skin, etc. Q.6. Differentiate between hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. A.6.  Hyperthyroidism is the over secretion of thyroid hormone and occurs due to the cancer of the thyroid gland whereas hypothyroidism is the low secretion of the thyroxine hormone.\n\nQ.1. A milkman’s cow refuses to give milk. On being fondled by the calf, the cow produced enough milk. Explain the significance of the endocrine gland and the pathway related to this response. A.1.  A neuroendocrine reflex is created when calf suckling occurs that causes an increase in the oxytocin from the neurohypophysis. In the hypothalamus, oxytocin is synthesized in specific nuclei, the paraventricular nucleus, and the supraoptic nucleus. Here the neurons produce the oxytocin precursor and bundle it into vesicles. The level of oxytocin in the blood gets concentrated within a minute or two after the stimulation which causes smooth muscle contraction of the udder causing milk to flow. An intra-udder hormone that functions like oxytocin would do a similar function. Following is a summarization. Suckling stimulus → Hypothalamus → Neurohypophysis → Oxytocin → Udder → Flow of milk. Q.2. A urine sample contained increased content of glucose and ketone bodies. Answer the questions below basis this observation. a) Name the hormone and gland associated with this condition. b) On which cells do these hormones act? c) Name the condition. How can it be rectified? A.2.  a)  Insulin  hormone and Insulin gland. b) It acts on the β-cells of islets of Langerhans present in the pancreas c) Prolonged hyperglycemia causes diabetes mellitus that is linked to loss of glucose via urine and accumulation of harmful compounds called as ketone bodies. Insulin therapy can be successfully used to treat Diabetic patients. Q.3. Describe the importance of hormones and endocrine glands responsible for regulating the Calcium Homeostasis. A.3.  The hormones and endocrine glands that regulate calcium homeostasis are thyroid and parathyroid glands and their related hormones which are Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and calcitonin. The endoderm of the embryo develops the parathyroid glands and has two types of cells – oxyphil cells and chief cells. The chief cells secrete the parathyroid hormone(PTH) which is involved in controlling phosphate and calcium stability between other tissues and blood. From bones, it causes the secretion of calcium into the blood. PTH causes an increase in the reabsorption of calcium by the organs of the body such as kidneys and intestine. The thyroid gland is the largest endocrine gland that is situated prefrontal to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx in the neck. It regulates the calcium homeostasis and releases thyrocalcitonin hormone which is produced by the ‘C’ cells. The hormone is secreted when the calcium concentration in blood is high. They lower the calcium level by suppressing the release of calcium ions from the bones. Hence calcitonin has a contrary effect on calcium in comparison to the parathyroid hormone. Q.4. Explain why hypothalamus is a super master endocrine gland. A.4.  The hypothalamus controls an array of functions. It has many groups of neurosecretory cells known as nuclei that produce hormones. These hormones maintain the secretion and synthesis of pituitary hormones. The hormones produced by the hypothalamus are – the releasing hormones and the inhibiting hormones. The releasing hormones trigger the secretion of pituitary hormones and the inhibiting hormones hinder the secretions of the pituitary hormones. Through a portal circulatory system, the hormones arrive at the pituitary gland and check the functions of the anterior pituitary. Hypothalamus directly regulates the posterior pituitary. It also synthesizes two hormones – vasopressin and oxytocin which are further conveyed to the posterior pituitary. Q.5. What are the causes and symptoms of hormonal disorders? A.5.  Hormonal disorders or imbalance occurs when there is an under secretion or an oversecretion of respective hormones by the respective endocrine glands. There are several other environmental factors and medical conditions behind the cause of hormonal disorders in an individual and it varies with the age and sex. These factors include:\n\nThe symptoms of a hormonal imbalance usually vary according to the type of hormones. The more common causes of hormonal imbalances are:\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9877458810806274}
+{"content": "Find Your Free Essay Examples\n\nThe earth’s surface absorbs the most part of this radiation that results into its warming.\n\nWhen the Earth’s surface is heated upon by the radiations from the Earth, it results into increased temperature than it is generally required, this process is known as greenhouse effect. Most of the greenhouse gases are responsible to cause the greenhouse effect by radiating energy in all directions. The earth’s surface absorbs the most part of this radiation that results into its warming. The strength of this effect depends upon the atmosphere’s temperature and the amount of greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere. The primary greenhouse gases known are water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and ozone (O3). This paragraph has answered the question- What is a greenhouse effect short answer?\n\nLet’s go through the following MCQs on greenhouse effect which are asked in most of the entrance examinations. Students can get an idea with the below questions and answers on greenhouse effect.\n\n(a) Infrared radiation (b) Ultraviolet radiation (c) Beta radiation (d) Alpha radiation Answer: (b)\n\n(a) 15 ℃ (b) 50 ℃ (c) – 18 ℃ (d) 33 ℃ Answer: (d)\n\n(a) Shorter (b) Infinite (c) Longer (d) Zero Answer: (c)\n\n(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Ethane (c) Propane (d) Methane Answer: (a)\n\n(a) Greenhouse gases (b) Beta radiations (c) Alpha radiations (d) Ozone gases Answer: (a)\n\n(a) Increased oxygen level (b) Decreases greenhouse gases (c) Increased greenhouse gases (d) Increased ethane level Answer: (c)\n\n(a) N2O (b) C2O (c) CFC (d) CH4 Answer: (c)\n\n(a) Life on earth is possible due to greenhouse effect (b) Greenhouse effect is a natural process that maintains earth’s temperature (c) More is the emission of greenhouse gases, more is the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere (d) Increased emission of greenhouse gases is a natural process Answer: (d)\n\n(a) Nitrous oxide (b) Methane (c) Carbon dioxide (d) Ethane Answer: (d)\n\n(a) CFCs – 14% (b) Carbon dioxide – 60% (c) N2O – 12% (d) Methane – 20% Answer: (c)\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000097751617432}
+{"content": "Bukhara Indian Bistro\n\nShopping and Dining\n\n\nThe cultural and religious capital of this empire lay in Bukhara due to the established silk trade routes from the Far East to the Mediterranean. This Indo-Islamic power had control over most of Asia and the city of Bukhara was the melting pot for all these cultures and their cuisines, as this great power vanished so did much of its culinary inventions, but some aspects of this style survived in Northern India which have since come to be known as ‘Mughlai Khanna’ (food of the Mughals).\n\n\n15718 Wayzata Blvd E\n\nWayzata, MN, 55391\n\n\n(952) 476-7997", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9992899894714355}
+{"content": "Brazil - Santo Antonio by Yuki Minami\n\nRM35.00 MYR \n\nThis variant is currently sold out\n\n\nThis coffee hails from the town of Rio Paranaiba located in the Cerrado Mineiro Region. Yuki Minami is a third generation coffee farmer of Fazenda Santo Antonio. This farm was founded by her grandfather, Goro Minami back in 1970s.\n\nHer grandfather came to Brazil at the age of 11 with his parents in 1927 with a dreams of cultivating their own land. They left Japan on the 16th of June that year. First his family found work at Fazenda Promissao, in Sao Paolo and learnt the coffee farming. The pay was small. But after all the hardwork his father raised enough money to buy a small farm at Santa Mariana, in Parana State. The family worked the land together and in 1940, his father bought another piece land and planted coffee. Yuki Minami’s dad, Nicolau Minami was born.\n\nIn 1975, a heavy frost hit the Parana state and it affected the crops throughout the state. Back then, Parana state was the major contributor for the coffee production in Brazil. Nicalau left his family in search for his own fortune. Arrived in Cerrado Mineiro, he was one of the young farmers selected to be settler in the Alto Paranaiba Rural Settlement program to plant coffee there. The land was divided into 100 lots and his lot was #71. Towards the end of the 90s, Nicalau began to acquire the other lots, Lot #41 and #42. Both these lots became Fazenda Santo Antonio. Today, they own a total area of 1790 hectares.\n\nYuki started her life in Coffee much later. She began her career as a Marketing professional in Sao Paolo. In 2016, she entered her fathers coffee in the Brazilian Cup of Excellence competition and became a national winner. Knowing she has something in her, she left her marketing career and came back to the farm to get her hands dirty.\n\nYuki is now in charge of the Specialty Coffee production and at Santo Antonio, she has a plot of land where only specialty coffee is planted and process at this plot of land. That accounts to 20% of the whole farm annual output per year which is around 6000 jutes of coffee. The actual plot where this coffee was harvested is named after her.\n\nWhat we have here is a natural process red catuai planted at an altitude of 1150 masl. All of the harvesting process on the farm is mechanized. Harvesting began between July to September annually. 100% of the coffee on the farm is processed using the natural method. After harvest, the cherry is sorted and the coffee is laid on a concrete patios. The cherries are checked daily to ensure over fermentation does not occur. This drying coffee is turned at least 10 times a day during the first 2-3 days of the drying process. It will take 7 to 10 days to reach the 15% to 16% moisture level. The cherries is then dried in a mechanical dryer until it reach the 11.5% moisture level. The coffee is then stored for few weeks before it is sent to the mill and pack for export.\n\nThis Brazilian is definitely different from the other cup of espressos that we tasted from Brazil. Upon grounding, we could detect nectarines aroma and pineapple aroma on the ground coffee. On the cup, we could detect the taste notes of apricot, hints of lemon and grapes in the cup with pineapple in the mid section. The coffee is juicy with a very silky body which would balance the cup when milk is added in the brew.\n\nVarietal : Red Catuai\n\nAltitude : 1150 masl\n\nProcess : Natural\n\nOrigin : Rio Paranaiba", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6764435768127441}
+{"content": "Catcoin Hashrate Chart\n\nThe Catcoin hashrate chart provides the current Catcoin hashrate history in graph format with an option to expand the Catcoin global hashrate chart time frame back to 2013.\n\nCatcoin Hashrate Now: 1.07 GH/s\nDec 02, 2018 12:55 PM UTC - 1,065,488,685 H/s\n\nWarning: Catcoin is no longer being monitored as of 12/3/2018\nLoading Catcoin hashrate chart Loading Catcoin Hashrate Chart\n\nThe Catcoin network hashrate chart can be used to visualize Catcoin mining hashrate increases and decreases viewable in segment options of daily, weekly, monthly, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 3 years, and all time.\n\nWhat is Catcoin Hashrate?\n\nCatcoin hashrate is a calculated numerical value that specifies an estimate of how many hashes are being generated by Catcoin miners trying to solve the current Catcoin block or any given block.\n\nCatcoin hashrate is represented in Hashes per Second or H/s.\n\nThe global Catcoin network hashrate is a calculated value and is measured in hashes per second (H/s). The calculation uses the current mining difficulty and the average Catcoin block time between mined blocks versus the defined block time as variables to determine the global Catcoin network hashrate.\n\nAs the Catcoin network hashrate goes up - the CAT hashrate numbers get so large that abbreviations must be used.\n\n\nThe current Catcoin hashrate is 1.07 GH/s, representing the global Catcoin network hashrate with a mining difficulty of 330.85 at block height 137,765.\n\nView the Catcoin hashrate chart for all time historical hashrates.\n\nHashrate Unit/s Hash Hashes Per Second\nH/s (Hash) 1 One\nkH/s (KiloHash) 1,000 One Thousand\nMH/s (MegaHash) 1,000,000 One Million\nGH/s (GigaHash) 1,000,000,000 One Billion\nTH/s (TeraHash) 1,000,000,000,000 One Trillion\nPH/s (PetaHash) 1,000,000,000,000,000 One Quadrillion\nEH/s (ExaHash) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 One Quintillion\nZH/s (ZettaHash) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 One Sextillion\nYH/s (YottaHash) 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 One Septillion\n\nIt is important to point out the Catcoin hashrate does not determine how quickly or slowly each block is solved.\n\nThis timing, called the block time is enforced by the Catcoin mining difficulty value, which is adjusted upwards or downwards during each block difficulty retarget to keep blocks being solved at a constant time frame.\n\nFor more information about the Catcoin difficulty re-target visit the Catcoin mining page.\n\nYou can calculate Catcoin mining profits using the current CAT hashrate difficulty and our Catcoin mining calculator.\n\nWhat is the Current Catcoin Hashrate?\n\nThe current Catcoin hashrate (CAT hashrate) is 1.07 GH/s at block height 137,765 with a difficulty of 330.85.\n\nCatcoin Hashrate Stats\n\nCurrent Catcoin Hashrate\n\nCatcoin Global Hashrate\n1.07 GH/s\n\nCatcoin Hashrate All Time High\n\nCatcoin Hashrate on Jan 31, 2018 at block 125,840\n51.37 GH/s\n\nCatcoin Catcoin Price\n\n$0.00 (0.00 %)\n\n24 hour change", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7493605017662048}
+{"content": "\n\n  • Discomfort in other areas of the upper body - Symptoms can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw or stomache.\n  • Shortness of breath - This feeling often comes along with chest discomfort. But it can occur with or without chest discomfort. \n  • Other signs - Thes may include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or lightheadedness.\n\nIf you or someone you're with has one or more of these signs call 911 immediately. Get to the hospital right away. \n\nIf you're the one having symtoms, and you can't access the emergency medical services (EMS), have someone drive you to the hospital right away. Don't drive yourself, unless you have absolutely no other option.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995033144950867}
+{"content": "Cibitoke Qibla Direction\n\nEasily find out the qibla direction for Cibitoke (Burundi) here. Easily find out the qibla direction and the qibla angle for Cibitoke in online maps. You will experience the ease of finding the qibla direction from the satellite without schedule for Cibitoke. Find your location on the online map. You will get your Qibla direction line instantly. You will also be given your qibla angle for the compass.\n\n\nQibla Angle: °\n\nQibla Angle for Compass: °\n\nKaaba Distance: km\n\nLocation: ,\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6398686170578003}
+{"content": "Book Corner: Recent Releases Make Great Beach Reads\n\nWhat does “beach read” mean to you? The term conjures light women’s fiction, whose cover sports the back of a white Adirondack chair, possibly with a towel draped over it, facing the ocean and a gorgeous sunset in shades of blue and orange. Your library has plenty of those if that’s your thing.\n\nReally, though, a beach read is anything you want it to be. Something that takes you out of your present and transports you to another place, time, or setting. You don’t even have to be at the beach (and that’s a good thing right now). I like my beach reads to have an unusual premise, be set in places that are anywhere but here, and be fast paced. Here are some books that fit the bill:\n\nThe Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton\nThree women from different circumstances unexpectedly cross paths during one fateful weekend in Florida Keys in 1935. While Helen Berner’s husband operates a successful travel business, Helen herself longs to escape her native Key West. Mirta Perez accepts an arranged marriage to a notorious American after the Cuban Revolution leaves her family in a tenuous state, but her husband’s illicit business interests threaten their marriage. Elizabeth Preston is on a mission to relieve her once-wealthy family’s troubles after the Wall Street crash and meets a veteran on his own treacherous quest. Compounding the women’s precarious situations is a powerful hurricane barreling its way toward the Keys. After this weekend, their lives will never be the same.\n\nThe Blaze by Chad Dundas\nArmy veteran Matthew Rose, who lost most of his memory following a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, is called home to Missoula, Montana, to settle the affairs of his estranged father, who recently committed suicide. Matthew has forgotten much of his childhood, including the falling out with his father and his breakup with his childhood sweetheart, Georgie Porter. Matthew learns he had once excelled in academics and sports but became a sullen, risk-taking teenager. Then, Matthew witnesses a house fire that kills a college student, and it triggers a memory of a fire from 15 years earlier. He and Georgie start investigating the fire, and suddenly they are in danger as more murders and fires occur, possibly linked to the older fire that leads to unsolved crimes connected somehow to Matthew’s father.\n\nBeach Read by Emily Henry\nJanuary Andrews writes best-selling romance novels with happy endings, and literary fiction author Augustus Everett tends to kill his characters off. The only thing they have in common is living in neighboring beach houses, trying to overcome writers’ block. Then one evening, they make a deal: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will write the next Great American Novel, taking each other on creative trips to show off each other’s passions and get out of their writing ruts. They both will finish a novel, and the summer will be a success. Or, will it?\n\nIt's Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan\nBest-selling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale is back with another perceptive tale of life, loss, and resilience. On her sixty-eighth birthday, Loretha Curry reflects on her full life, replete with a successful beauty supply empire, a group of lifelong friends, and an amazing husband. Her best days are not behind her, and she’s ready to prove that to her mother, twin sister, and anyone else who disagrees. But then an unexpected loss turns her life upside down, and Loretha must summon all of her strength and determination to keep thriving and continue to pursue a joy-filled life.\n\nThe Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones\nTen years ago, four young Blackfeet Nation men went hunting on tribal lands reserved only for their elders, killing a female Elk, which was oddly pregnant at the wrong time of year. Now, as adults, the four men still carry the guilt of what they did, and the spirit of the Elk has been waiting to make each one pay in this terrifying tale of revenge horror. Creepy moments, heightened suspense, and violent action contribute to an overarching sense of something terrible and inevitable about to happen.\n\nMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia\nWhen Mexico City socialite Noemí Taboada receives a pleading letter from her newlywed cousin Catalina, she immediately heads to High Place manor in the Mexican countryside to investigate. Privileged Noemí, accustomed to the best of what 1950s life offers, is dismayed to see the state of the isolated property and the declining health of her cousin. Upon digging further, Catalina’s husband Virgil and the family doctor are evasive, so Noemí befriends Francis, the outcast youngest son who is eager to escape. As Noemí uncovers clues about the manor’s cursed, violent history and patriarchal power, her chances of escaping with her cousin fade. Cryptic dreams, pulsing walls, and tangled flora cause reality to slip, and hope of rescue fades. Desperate, Noemí must confront her family’s secrets to stop the corruption.\n\nYou still have time to sign up for Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s Summer Reading for adults to enter drawings for weekly and grand prizes! Visit\n\nTracy McPeck is the adult services coordinator at Central Rappahannock Regional Library. This column first appeared in the Free Lance-Star newspaper.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5961415767669678}
+{"content": "The Essential Laws of Explained\n\nWhat You Need to Know to Survive an Airplane Crash\n\nWhile aircraft are considered as the safe means of transport which is also quick, they sometimes also report accidents which are mentioned as a plane crash. Aircrafts accidents could be a forced landing which is also a crash landing where the plane is roughly brought to the ground without even the pilot lowering the landing gears and lead to injuries and even death at times. After a plane crash, what do you need to do to come out safely? For you to survive a plane crash, it will mostly depend on how you prepared yourself before boarding the flight. Here below is a discussion of what you need to know to survive an airplane crash.\n\nThe first thing that you need to learn on surviving an aircraft crash is your dressing. When traveling by air, it is important to know that the type of clothes that you will put on is a major determinant of walking out alive from an airplane’s crash. Tight clothes are encouraged when traveling by air, this is because, in case of anything happening to your aircraft, you don’t have any lose textiles holding you or slowing you when rushing for safety posture. It also advisable that you put on long-sleeved shirts or blouses and a long pair of trouser, this will reduce the exposure of your body skin to fire or an irritable substance.\n\nYou need to factor in your traveling shoes when traveling by air. When traveling by air, you should consider wearing shoes that you can easily maneuver around with without any difficulty. When taking a flight, you need to find shoes which will cover your feet and also have a hard sole which gives you the ability to walk on rough metals and even fire in case of a crash.\n\nYour seat position will also matter. While most people like the seats which are in the front, it is advisable that you go for the back seat and if possible a middle seat at the back. When a crash happens, the ones sitting in the front of the plane will absorb the impact while the one on the sides collide with the walls of the plane while those at the back and in the middle are cushioned.\n\nPlanes are different and you need to know more about the plane you will be traveling with. Do not presume that you are an expert in-flight safety when there is a possibility of a crash, aircraft are different. Get to the homepage of the website of the flight company you will be traveling with, click on the links provided on this site to learn more about this company and the safety precautions to follow whenever a crash is inevitable.\n\nFeatured post: visit homepage", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.610058069229126}
+{"content": "How do you view health? In our modern approach to life, multitasking, a fast-paced and convenient life has taken precedence over living in the present and making conscious choices.  Over time, sensory overload and a general lack of self-awareness has led to a path of imbalance due to poor choices. Chronic stress, decreased immunity, weak digestion, and feelings of dissatisfaction predispose us to numerous health issues at the mind-body level.  Health is not just about normal labs, trendy diets, or an ideal weight. \n\nUntitled design (2).png\n\n\n\nNurture your Core\n\nAyurveda, an ancient holistic medical system, believes in discerning the root cause of an imbalance within your unique constitution. It is based on the foundation of being one with the environment so you can heal your whole self.  Therefore living in disharmony with nature leads to separation of your mind-body-spirit. Realizing that the healer lies within you gives you power to make a change and live a life in awareness of your true potential.  \n\nAt SomAyu, we hope you will learn a personalized approach to nutrition, beauty, your daily lifestyle, common ailments, and mind/spirituality. Readers can cultivate their power to heal and create means to harmonize their lives with nature\nthrough a holistic perspective.\n\nLatest Wellness Feed\n\n\"Wherever Pure Knowledge and Happiness is There Lies True Beauty.\nGet In Touch\n\nThanks for submitting!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9566430449485779}
+{"content": "Animal Welfare Legislation in India – Its History\n\nJun 09, 2021 Anshul Raj\n\nIndia has more than 35 million stray animals, the largest number in the world. The stray animal population has increased drastically over time due to the increase in the human population and poor waste management, creating more exposed garbage available as food for strays.\n\nIn this article, we will discuss the laws that have been established during the Pre-Independent India and how newer ones have been added from time to time so that animals in general are treated better. At the same time, it is sad that none of laws have been implemented in right earnest because of which animals have suffered across times immemorial.\n\n\nBritish India\n\nAnimal experimentation began in India in the 1860s when Britain began introducing new drugs to the colony. Moved by the suffering of the Indian strays and draught animals, Colesworthey Grant founded the first Indian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in 1861 in Calcutta.\n\nThe Indian SPCAs successfully lobbied for anti-cruelty legislation in the 1860s, which was extended to all of India in 1890–91. An obelisk (tower or pillar) was established in the memory of Colesworthey Grant, just in front of the Writers' Building in Calcutta.\n\n\nWhile the anti-vivisection (surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals) movement grew in Britain, it failed to take hold in India. British officials and (British-led) SPCAs both opposed the introduction of the British Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876 - which established regulations on animal experimentation in India.\n\nIn around the 1900s, the stray population was more vulnerable to heinous crimes as there were still a few animals’ welfare laws and also public sensitisation was not prevalent.\n\n\nA few animal welfare laws came into effect after independence, but they were hardly successful.\n\nIndia's first national animal welfare law, the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (1960), criminalized cruelty to animals. This was a major legal step towards the protection of strays in India. After this several other steps followed like that given below:\n\nThe Breeding of and Experiments on Animals (Control and Supervision) Rules, 1998 set general requirements for breeding and using animals for research.\n\nThe Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 is a stricter legislation than the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. According to Section 2(37) of the act, wildlife includes any animal, aquatic or land vegetation that forms part of any habitat, thus making the definition a wide and inclusive one. Section 9 of the Act prohibits the hunting of any wild animal (animals specified in Schedule 1, 2, 3 and 4) and punishes the offense with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years or with a fine which may extend to Rs. 25,000/- or with both.\n\nThe Food Safety and Standards (Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses) Regulation, 2011 provides more precise stipulations surrounding the welfare of animals during the slaughter process, including that 'Animals are slaughtered by being first stunned and then exsanguinated (bled out). Also, according to this law, stunning before slaughter is mandatory.\n\nThe Drugs and Cosmetics Rules (Second Amendment) 2014: Under this, the animals testing for cosmetic products was prohibited all over India. Any person who violates the Act is liable for punishment for a term which may extend from 3 to 10 years or shall be liable to a fine which could be Rs.500 to Rs.10,000 or both.\n\n\nThe treatment of dogs started to become more humane although few laws protected their dignity and ensured their welfare. Few steps were taken by the government to make sure that crimes are not committed against them but still, the numbers were high.\n\nThough sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code and the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960 said that it is against the law to cause any sort of injury to any street animal, cases of stray animals being intentionally harmed by people are not unheard of.\n\nMedically technology was not as advanced as it is in the present day. Treatment consisted of both technologies prevalent at that time and old remedies. Due to this, the recovery rates were not as high but were decreasing at a steady rate with time.\n\n\nThe present-day scenario is much better as the laws and establishment of various non-governmental organisations have created a safer atmosphere for strays. they make sure that event stray animals are represented equally in the eyes of law and nature as anyone else.\n\nMedically the treatment has got more advanced and again the establishments of non-governmental organisations and government laws had made it even easier for strays to get treatment and the funds are provided by the various hospitals and clinics that are set up across the country that provides the best healthcare and treatment possible. During the financial year 2019, over 12 thousand veterinary hospitals and polyclinics were found across India. Along with numerous aid centres and dispensaries, about 65 thousand veterinary institutions were present across the country that year.\n\nEven though laws and technology have advanced a lot, still we are far away from the day when animals are given proper treatment and dignity.\n\nThe continuation of the colonial Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act from 1890, which also punished animal cruelty with a fine of a mere Rs 50 and the fact that we removed this law only until now, is a testimony that we do not take crimes against animals seriously.\n\nAs per the Times of India 06-Feb-2021, The Government has prepared a draft to amend the 60-year-old Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, proposing penalty up to Rs 75,000 or three times the cost of the animal with jail term up to five years or both if an act of an individual or an organisation leads to an animal's death. All those who love animals and of course the animal welfare activists are waiting for this draft to become a law at the earliest.\n\nAuthor: Anshul Raj\n\nAnshul Raj is an Economics student at Delhi University trying to make a social impact. He appreciates activities in natural settings and is a fervent believer in animal welfare and environmental conservation.\n\n\nAbout Us\n\n\n\nStray Relief and Animal Welfare (STRAW)\n2303, Sector D, Pocket 2, Vasant Kunj\nNew Delhi, India, 110070\n\nSubscribe for updates\n\n\nFollow Us", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8898574709892273}
+{"content": "Data Wiki | Data Management\n\n\n01 | What is a Data warehouse?\n\n\nA data warehouse is a central repository for all data that is collected in an organization's business systems. Data can be extracted, transformed, and loaded (ETL) or extracted and loaded into a warehouse which then supports reporting, analytics and mining on this extracted and curated data.\n\n02 | What is a Data Lake?\n\nA data lake is a storage repository that holds large amounts of raw data in native format until it is needed. Data lakes address the shortcomings of data warehouses in two ways. First, the data can be stored in structured, semi-structured, or unstructured format. Second, the data schema is decided upon reading, rather than loading or writing data and it can be changed for more agility.\n\n\n03 | What is a Data Lake House?\n\nA data lake house is a data solution concept that combines the best elements of the data warehouse with those of the data lake. Data lake-houses implement data warehouses’ data structures and management features of data lakes, which are typically more cost-effective for data storage. A Data lakehouse has proven to be quite useful to data scientists as they enable machine learning and business intelligence.\n\n\n04 | What is a data catalog?\n\nGartner definition: A data catalog maintains an inventory of data assets through the discovery, description, and organization of datasets. The catalog provides context to enable data analysts, data scientists, data stewards, and other data consumers to find and understand a relevant dataset for the purpose of extracting business value.\n\n\n05 | What is a Data dictionary?\n\nA Data Dictionary is a collection of names, definitions, and attributes about data elements that are used or captured in a database, information system, or part of a research project. It describes the meanings and purposes of data elements within the context of a project and provides guidance on interpretation, accepted meanings, and representation. A Data Dictionary also provides metadata about data elements.\n\n\n06 | What is metadata management?\n\nMetadata Management is an organization-wide agreement on how to describe information assets. \n\nWith a radical shift in the amounts of data metadata management is critical to help derive the right data as quickly as possible, to increase the ROI on data.\n\n\n07 | What is data lineage?\n\nData lineage traces the transformations that a dataset has gone through since the time of origination.  It describes a certain dataset’s origin, movement, characteristics, and quality.\n\nData lineage gives visibility while greatly simplifying the ability to trace errors back to the root cause in a data analytics process.\n\n\n08 | What is ETL?\n\nETL is a 3 step process of extracting data from one or more sources, transforming it into a structure that is geared for its business use, and loaded or stored into a data storage system like a data warehouse, for further use.\n\n\n09 | What is ELT?\n\nELT is a modern alternative to ETL for massive amounts of data, where data is extracted from multiple sources, loaded once into a central data repository like a data lake, and transformed as needed by BI tools, allowing for timely access, scalability and flexibility.\n\n\n10 | What is data governance?\n\nData governance is a set of principles and practices that ensure high quality through the complete lifecycle of your data. According to the Data Governance Institute (DGI), it is a practical and actionable framework to help a variety of data stakeholders across any organization identify and meet their information needs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.947563111782074}
+{"content": "Ezeagu: Stockbrokers Must Adopt Proactive Risk Management Strategies\n\n\nChairman of the Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria Chief Patrick Ezeagu spoke to journalists on the reasons for the intensive training on risk management recently organised by the association for capital market operators. Goddy Egene presents the excerpts:\n\nWhat informed ASHON’s decision to organise training in Risk Management?\nASHON in its own wisdom looked at the deficiencies in the Human capital capacities of operators within the industry and found out that with the kind of economy that we are operating, risks are inherent in the business we do. There are risks that are evident arising from the way and manner government policies impact on the market as well as the global vicissitude that had sent out some shock waves within the industry. Therefore, we cannot continue to fold our hands and sometimes pretend that these are not ominous for our business survival.\n\nIt appears the training programme is also an extension of capacity building initiative of ASHON?\nAbsolutely yes. There is the need to ensure that we develop our own local capacities to be able to evaluate risk and then provide mitigants that will ensure that risks are reduced to the bearest minimum. In that way, we can ensure that our businesses operate within some checks and balances and risk is managed at all times. We must therefore ascertain and evolve mitigants to be applied promptly in a sustainable manner to manage risks.\n\nHow would you respond to the concept that risks change with time ?\nEffective and efficient risk management structure positions Stockbroking Houses to exist in perpetuity as a going concern. Risk changes over time and therefore, tools of identifying and managing risk must change over time and the only way you can ensure that we are prepared to manage risks is to continually train and re-train risk Managers within the Capital Market space.\n\nIt is necessary to consistently train those who are involved in the day to day management of risk associated with our businesses. That was why we decided to organise the training workshop on Risk Management. We also looked through the other training programmes and they appear theoretical and they do not cover some practical aspects of risk management. Therefore, we decided to bring in people who have skills and competencies in Risk Management to conduct this particular training for operators with the Capital Market.\n\nHow would you assess the training?\nWell, from the feedback I am getting, the attendance was very impressive. I understand that the participants got value for their money. This is apparent from the post training assessment conducted on the participants, including some chief executive officers of stockbroking firms who participated.\n\nWhat are the risk management issues affecting stockbroking firms in Nigeria?\nIt depends on how you identify them. There is financial risk, capital adequacy risk, operational risk, control risk, technology risk and human capital management risk among others. There are different levels of risks in whatever we do. This explains the overriding importance of risk management for our businesses.\n\nCould you shed light on the roles of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in addressing risk management issues among the capital market operators in Nigeria?\n\nSEC is the Head Master of the capital market and it plays the role of a supervisor alongside that of the development of the capital market. It has rules and regulations that guide and also mitigate against some of these risks. But people must understand rules and regulation and then be able to apply the rules and regulations governing the market appropriately,\n\nHow do we train our members to ensure that at least they will be able to work within that purview of what SEC expects of them to do in order to have a very healthy capital market? The same thing applies to The Stock Exchange. The Stock Exchange is a self regulatory body that provides the platform under which the trading takes place. They too have their rules and regulations that help to guide operators in the Stock Market. That in itself partially mitigates risk. However, when the people who function within the back office and those who are involved in daily activities are trained to understand what risks are, the issue of risk management becomes easier to handle.\n\nHow would you advise the promoter of stockbroking firms to ensure compliance with the modern risk management challenges?\nThe need for a new stockbroking firm to comply with modern risk management strategy is number one. It starts with capital adequacy, having the right organisational structure on the ground, having the right management team with requisite experienced people to be able to run the firm. Then the firm must meet the Minimum Operating Standard (MOS) stipulated by the regulatory authorities. With these on ground you cannot get it wrong because the rules are there, the markets are there, the capacities in terms of men and materials that you are going to use are there. And then, over time, you will be able to learn and key into the way(s) and manner the business is run.\n\nHow can investors in the capital market be protected?\nWhen you have knowledgeable people managing the Capital Market environment that in itself, is protection. It means that the professionals will not lead you astray except those that are fraudulent. The fact is that, we have what is called Trade Guaranty Fund (TGF). We also have Investment Protection Fund. The fund in itself is not the issue, it is the integrity of the market participants that is more important. Once the integrity of the market is assured by the fact that people operate within rules and regulations guiding the market, then you can be sure that the market is well protected.\n\nThe market is guided by rules and regulations and there is the apex institution that is like the “big brother” watching you. These are the things that ensure that there is integrity and investors can trust the market and participate actively in the market. Added to the above is that there are avenues for the ventilation of grievances between parties in the market. Because in a situation where you have two parties that interact, sometimes there will be conflict. And we have a very robust conflicts management frame work which has been designed and flows from Firm to SEC and even to the Investment & Securities Tribunal. Once people are assured that they can come into the market and exit whenever they like in an orderly manner, people develop confidence and patronise the market.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7062401175498962}
+{"content": "How can an employer avoid name bias?\n\nAuthor: XpertHR Editorial Team\n\nAn employer can eliminate the risk of name bias by having a blind recruitment and resume process to remove names from applicants' resumes. Removing the candidate's name before reviewing a resume will reduce the risk of unconscious bias based on race, gender, national origin or other protected characteristics when an employer reviews a candidate's relevant skills.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9054840803146362}
+{"content": "Contextual translation of \"dealt in tagalog\" into Tagalog. of despair,” she says, “a Witness couple spoke to me about how the Bible can help us solve our problems. (art, photography) The property of appearing three-dimensional. Foundation Depth Calculation. Human translations with examples: neet, midst, nugaya, torbanti, snab in tagalog, goth sa tagalog. Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. + Maging matibay sana ang pagkakaugat ninyo+ at pagkakatatag sa pundasyon+ 18 para lubusan ninyong maintindihan, 19 at malaman ninyo ang pag-ibig ng Kristo,+. 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The vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep. degree of psychological or intellectual profundity, the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; \"the depth of his breathing\"; \"the depth of his sighs\"; \"the depth of his emotion\", the extent downward or backward or inward; \"the depth of the water\"; \"depth of a shelf\"; \"depth of a closet\", the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas, (usually plural) a low moral state; \"he had sunk to the depths of addiction\". In my hypothesis, the contrast be-tween speech-act participants (SAPs) and non-SAPs plays an important role. 6 essential time management skills and techniques Human translations with examples: lalim, arukin, nakalap, english, sa lalim, kaibuturan ng, tamang lalim ng. abyss noun /əˈbɪs/ + grammar A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Bilang pagkilala rito, ganito ang ibinulalas si apostol Pablo: “O ang. Last Update: 2020-09-05 Usage Frequency: 1 Quality: Reference: Anonymous Learn more in the Cambridge English-Italian Dictionary. Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth. A sermon is a construction of three primary elements. The English word \"synonyms\" can be translated as the following word in Tagalog: 1.) English-Tagalog new dictionary. Translation API lives to God and become disciples of Christ. The distance between the front and the back, as the depth of a drawer or closet. Market Depth: The market's ability to sustain relatively large market orders without impacting the price of the security. Tagalog; depth (n.) lalim, kalaliman: Translations: 1 – 1 / 1. Pocket Tagalog Dictionary: good for vocabulary but not for sentence formation. 4.Depths shoaler than the Safety Contour Depth are considered “unsafe.” 3 Ways to Set Safety Depth and Safety Contour Depth • IMO Performance Specifications and S-52 provide flexibility in how the safety depth and safety contour depth may be set by the mariner.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8965224623680115}
+{"content": "Different mix transitions\n\nTransitions different\n\nAdd: muhuqi20 - Date: 2020-12-08 07:44:48 - Views: 8187 - Clicks: 1079\n\nUnlike the dissolve, this does it in a more dramatic way. Adjoining two types of wood floors is nothing complicated in separated areas or rooms. In this video I will demonstrate the main ways DJs transition between songs. transitions are used by the author to help the reader progress from one significant idea to the next transitions also show the relationship within a paragraph (or within a sentence) between the main idea and the support the author gives for those ideas.\n\nStereotypically, dance music DJs favor beatmatching, Hip Hop DJs cutting, and radio DJs fading. Specify the duration of the transition animation. Transitions Signature GEN 8; Transitions XTRActive; Transitions Vantage; Transitions Drivewear; Transitions Shields; ACUVUE Oasys with Transitions; Virtual Try-On ; Create Your Glasses ; Why Transitions. Similar to the dissolve, a fade to black or a fade up from black is another way to show a change in time, location or subject. The raw footage from your camera contains.\n\nThis simple and well organized template features 5 different transitions that can easily be customized in just a few clicks. Mixing songs with a variety of tempos is a necessity for any modern-day DJ. Tile to Wood Transition: Mix Your Flooring Materials. wooden flooring of a living space is separated from gray kitchen tiles with a perpendicular plank (Heather Stevens) Accent tile transition between the hardwood in the dining room and the vinyl planking in the kitchen.\n\ndifferent mix transitions For matching items without a transition, the item switches half way the transition between the item in the scene its coming from and the item in the scene different mix transitions it is going different mix transitions to. Camouflaging Transitions. Rubber Flooring Transition Strip Black Commercial Grade Model LTTRN $ 22 72 $ 22 72. I&39;m a different mix transitions relatively newer EDM DJ (house, big room, electro house) and have made a few mixes under my belt so I know the basics. Mix / Dissolve / Crossfade.\n\n; Select a sound clip from the Sound drop-down list. Switching tracks suddenly different mix transitions in your audio/video projects can be really jarring for the audience. Fade to/Fade from Black. WIthin the same brand i never thought there needed to be a transition. This way, transitions are taken care of right away and can be practiced frequently.\n\nStep 1) Prepare by turning the bass frequencies down on the track you’re about to mix in, and probably a bit of mids and. Here are five tips for transitions – how to add them into your show and what things you need to consider when working on them. Download now >>. Get Transition Sounds from Soundsnap, the Leading Sound Library for Unlimited SFX Downloads. Meanwhile, clapping triggers an automatic transition from.\n\nInstead of using the same type of flooring between different mix transitions two rooms, consider mixing different mix transitions things up a bit by using different items like stone, slate, or marble. Max only Scale to aspect ratio, but only to the maximum size of each source. They define different areas of the home. The two profiles can be difficult to flow seamlessly. Let’s start with one of the most popular and common used transitions of all time. One approach is to select a transitional color; if the tiles in each room are different shades of the same color, select a transition tile that is a hue between each tile color for a seamless transition from room to room.\n\nSo, now you may be faced with a dilemma: should you match it with an equivalent or throw something new and different into the mix? Free delivery with order. Get adaptive lenses and designer sunglasses for UV protection from Transitions. Unless your pup has a sensitivity to a specific protein, i&39;m always of the thought that different proteins are best. They are on different levels, so there is a clear place to stop one and start the other.\n\nTo edit transitions: Select a transition from the gallery. Glass tile transition between floors instead of wood or marble. However, I do not have much experience with transitioning EDM songs that don&39;t different mix transitions have intro/outros. It&39;s great for making large tempo jumps and smoothly transitioning between different styles different mix transitions of music, especially ones that don&39;t different mix transitions beat match different mix transitions easily. How to do echo transitions in Serato DJ Using the Echo effect can be an easy way to quickly cut to your next track, without necessarily having to beat match the songs together.\n\nIdeas for different transitions? You can do a few things to make a transition from one profile of molding to another so the molding differences are unnoticeable. Block and/or choreograph transitions as soon as you block a scene. 5 Free Ink Transitions is the perfect for transitioning your videos, titles or logo with an elegant fluid ink style. Step 3) Once you’re approaching the transition,.\n\nSee more videos for Different Mix Transitions. Mix it, since you have some of the other left. Crossfades can help make natural-sounding transitions between audio tracks, and you can really take advantage of them if you know a little about how sound works.\n\nSo, on the dancefloor, you have track A playing that’s approaching its different mix transitions ending. Transition scale type. Simply use a T-molding at the threshold of the doors – it is a neat and easy solution.\n\nThey are strikingly different in color, yet the lighter flooring different mix transitions has a variety of colors pulling in some of the deep color of the darker wood flooring. Discover Transitions Optical photochromic lenses and glasses. During this transition, you will gradually incorporate more and more of the new food by mixing it with your dog’s current diet. The formula is usually the same other than the protein. Carpet transitions to thick flooring like hardwood. While you can different mix transitions make an excellent mix with any single transition type, using a combination different mix transitions different mix transitions of transitions can both help some tracks fit together that may not otherwise, and/or create variety in your set. Put your headphones on both ears and move the mixer’s Cue Mix/Master fader to the middle.\n\nStart track B on the first beat of A’s instrumental. different mix transitions Types of Video Transition different mix transitions Cut. Many DJs will. The organization of your written work includes two different mix transitions elements: (1) the order in which you have chosen to present the different parts of your discussion or argument, and (2) the relationships you construct between these parts.\n\nTypes of effects in different mix transitions Premiere Pro; Apply and remove effects; Effect presets; Automatically reframe video for different social media channels; Color correction effects; Change duration and speed. While WIPE TOs, IRIS INs, IRIS OUTs, and FADE TOs are dated transitions rarely used in today’s screenplays, there are justifiable transitions like SMASH CUTs, DISSOLVE TOs, and MATCH CUTs that screenwriters can use now and then — different mix transitions as long as the moments within the script that different mix transitions they are attached to are integral to the story. Guide; How to transition between songs with different BPM! Experienced or not, mixing songs of different BPM requires skill and the technology that gives you with the tools to do so.\n\nTo create a basic color block, lay a row of smaller, horizontal tiles in a distinct color at the joint between the two rooms. Changes in the fence are most noticeable at the transition point, especially when the material is different or the height changes. - Clever Floor Transitions from one type of floor to another. I wouldn&39;t want to eat the same thing daily. One of the most popular different mix transitions DJ transitions is to add high/low pass filter to your mix. Users choose from a set of hand gestures to scratch, create loops in sync with the beat, and apply filters and effects. If you own an older home, you may find yourself with two different profiles of baseboards. Overview of video effects and transitions; Effects.\n\nThe Transition Step by Step. Smooth controls and navigation will have you blending songs precisely and seamlessly for that perfect different mix transitions mix. Sometimes you’ll want to make a drastic switch, let’s say from 150 to 80 BPM, right? Transitions cannot substitute for good organization, but they can make your organization clearer and easier to follow. Fades to and from black are often used in movie trailers. Your design can include pairing almost anything including different mix transitions wood next to marble or even a combination of porcelain different mix transitions and ceramic tile. This is the most common, of course, but fading to white.\n\nTransitions DJ is an app for mixing music with all the tools to DJ your different mix transitions next party or record a mix of your different mix transitions favorite tunes. For most of these transitions, balancing out flooring heights different mix transitions is a primary concern. Algoriddim has today announced an update to djay Pro AI on iPad, introducing gesture-based control of the app, allowing users to mix and manipulate music hands-free. These are all terms to describe the same transition — a gradual fade different mix transitions from one shot to the. Start early and make transitions part of the scene. Ensure that different mix transitions the transition between different flooring in two adjoining rooms happens in a straight line at the threshold of the room.\n\nNow you can hear both different mix transitions the floor (channel A) and Cue Mix (channel B) in your headphones. A piece of different mix transitions T-molding is a quick and easy way to create a neat. For your music needs, Transitions DJ integrates with your local music library and SoundCloud&39;s online catalog. Step 2) Choose your moment and different mix transitions lift up the fader, you might want to gradually fade the track in over a few bars or fade.\n\nBest Seller LifeTiles 2 1/4 in. Transitions between different flooring types require more precise strips tailored to the specific floor materials. Ideally, these transitions should happen over 5-7 days. Transitions Between Different Flooring Types.\n\nTransition The transition used for the item. Best Practices: Mix audio faster; Best Practices: Editing efficiently; Video Effects and Transitions. Carpet to Hardwood or Tile Floor Transition Tips. The most common transition — an instant change from one shot to the next. Fades the shot to a. See more ideas about flooring, kitchen flooring, floor design. Locate the Timing group.\n\nLearning to DJ isn’t an easy process, however the filter mix is a simple and different mix transitions easy way to add more flair to your DJ sets. The fade in and fade out usually signal the beginning or end of a scene, especially if the filmmaker is fading to/from black. Transitions Live Sets & DJ Mixes John Digweed – Transitions 848 (with Nick Warren) –John Digweed – Transitions 847 (with Spencer Parker) –John Digweed – Transitions 846 (with G Flame) –.\n\nDifferent mix transitions\n\nemail: kegufi@gmail.com - phone:(969) 621-5860 x 4755\n\nAfter effects no mp4 format render - Fire plugin\n\n-> After effects expressions documentation\n-> Transitions spark coaching pam norton\n\nDifferent mix transitions - Effects sync sarah\n\nSitemap 1\n\nPuls shapes in after effects - Trim command frame exact", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8563003540039062}
+{"content": "Developing Your Mindfulness Practice – Part 7\n\nYoga_Micheal_easy pose lower bodyIt’s not always happiness and joy felt this time of year. The holidays are often a time of increased stress and anxiety. For others it could be loneliness and sadness. We all experience pain at some point in our lives. This week is the final instalment of my blog series of simple mindfulness practices. After today, I encourage you to keep practicing a little bit a time until it becomes habit. A little by little you will begin to see these mindfulness practices filter into different parts of your life and you will feel great! Today’s practice is an extension on the mindful breathing exercises.\n\nMindfulness Practice 7:\n\nMelt away __discomfort__ (insert your choice: stress, anxiety, fear, panic, pain, etc)\n\nWhen you experience  any kinds of discomfort, it is obviously uncomfortable and we want it to go away. Discomfort can come in many shapes and sizes and can be experienced in different ways by different people. For example, anxiety or stress might manifest itself as unwanted thoughts, tightness in your chest or stomach pain. Using our skills as an observer, we can learn to melt our discomfort away, by meeting it head-on.\n\n  • Step 1: recognize the pain/discomfort and label it, eg. “anxiety”.\n  • Step 2: breath into that anxiety. Know that it is happening, feel it, be curious about it – how is effecting how your heart feels, how your belly feels, how your chest feels, how your head feels, how does it feel when you begin to breath deeply and slowly. Breath into the most intense discomfort and stay with it for as long as you can.\n  • Step 3: be kind to yourself. Recognize that many other people in the world also experience this type of pain/discomfort. Allow yourself to work through the process. The pain/discomfort is not something that is happening to you, it is something you are experiencing and it is your choice how you relate to it.\n  • Step 4: As you observe your breath and your discomfort, witness what happens to it. You are in control.\n\nIf you have any questions for concerns about your mindfulness practice, or if you would like to share how these practices have influenced you, contact me. I would love to hear your story and try to answer your questions.\n\n\n\nDeveloping Your Mindfulness Practice – Part 6\n\nOver the last 2 months or so I have talked about Mindfulness exercises that have begun to shape our perceptions of ourselves. Perhaps you have already begun to notice shifts in how you think, how you react to situations and how you feel physically. If you have been keeping a Mindfulness Journal, take a look at your entries and see how your experiences have affected you. You might not notice any changes yet and that is completely normal (so don’t worry!). Continue to be a witness to your experiences and take them as they are in each moment. Remember, try not to cast judgement on what you are experiencing. Drop any expectations you have about where you think you should be in terms of your mindfulness practice (notice that expectations exist and then, let them go….). Expectations are a form of desire that block the process. No one ever said this was easy work.\n\nThis next practice helps us to examine our relationship to food. How we eat is usually a reflection of how we go about our day to day lives. We rush through a meal or snack, maybe you are watching TV, driving a car or reading a book while you eat. Maybe you don’t even notice what your food tastes like anymore.\n\nMindfulness Practice 6:\n\nMindful Eating\n\nThe first time I consciously practiced this exercise was in mindfulness meditation class where my yoga teacher brought in apples for everyone. If you’d like, have an apple ready for your first go at it. However, because I want this to be accessible to you to try at any time, start with any meal or snack of the day. It’s easier to start small.\n\n  • Give yourself at least 5 minutes to eat your snack, if not more. For example, you have an apple. Clean your apple, notice the beauty of the apple (it’s shape, texture, colour, smell).\n  • Take a moment to thank the universe for it’s abundance (and while you eat or before you eat, acknowledge all the people who made this apple in your possession possible: express your gratitude to everyone/everything involved in making this apple available for you to eat (i.e. the sun, water, earth, the farmer who planted the seed, and cared for it, the pickers, the transporters, the farmers who hired the workers, the grocery store (the staff who stocked the shelves, the clerks, the store owners who made the store possible), the bankers or government who have the farmers and store owners capital to their work, the builders who built the grocery store, your boss for giving you a job so that you could afford to buy the apple, your teachers/parents who gave you the knowledge to go to school to get an education to get the job so that you can make a living, etc etc).\n  • The Eating process: take a small bite. Chew that piece until it is completely gone. You may not even need to swallow. Repeat one bite at a time.\n  • While you chew, notice the taste, notice the texture, the juices, how the taste might change, and any other thoughts that arise. Repeat until apple if finished. Pause and reflect on the experience, comment in your journal. (Post it notes are great when you are on the go!)\n\nWhile  healthy choices are ideal for our well-being, don’t feel guilty when you indulge in a tasty treat. Instead of scarfing it down and then feeling guilty, take your time to truly savour and enjoy.  Watch how this practice, over time, changes your relationship to what you eat, how you eat, and even how much you eat.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8688908815383911}
+{"content": "Recipe: Tea tree mushroom fried wild celery\n\nHome Cooking Recipe: Tea tree mushroom fried wild celery\n\n\nWild celery has slender petiole and many fibers. Compared with cress, it has a rich fragrance. In the Book of Songs, there was a record of \"Sile with water, thinly picking its own celery\", and \"Lv's Spring and Autumn\" also recorded: \"The beauty of the dish, there is the celery of Yunmeng.\" It can be seen that celery has been cultivated for a long time in China. Wild celery has four seasons in the north and south of China, but it tastes best in early spring. In the late Qing Dynasty, \"Vegetarian Speaking\" records: \"Qinhuang is better in Qinzhong, he can't get it too. Cut the section, it is very good with the tofu and dried silk; the fried celery is also good; or cut into the water 瀹 (yue, meaning It is \"boiled\"), salt, vinegar, sesame oil mixed with food, especially crisp.\" Today, the famous \"Kei Huang Gan Silk\" in Yangzhou cuisine is this dish. People like to eat wild celery, not only because of its rich flavor, but also because of its high nutritional value, in addition to containing certain protein and vitamins, it also contains a large amount of inorganic salts, especially calcium and iron. Wild celery is a high-fiber, low-calorie food. Celery provides less heat to the body than the body needs to digest celery. It produces lignin and enteric fat when it is digested in the intestine. These two substances are an antioxidant. It can speed up the movement of excreta in the intestine. It has anti-cancer and detoxification effects and is an effective beauty diet food. One. Today's wild celery has a special status. It is the best green organic vegetable, free of pesticides and fertilizers, and naturally grown. The status of Huxi wild celery is more special. It grows in the water of the valley of the Lushan Mountain, surrounded by clouds all year round. Lushan nourishes wild celery, Wild celery purifies Lushan. Do you also need to purify the mind?\n\n\n\n  1. Wash the tea tree mushrooms and cut into 5 cm long sections.\n\n  2. Wash wild celery and cut into 5 cm long spare\n\n  3. Carrots are washed and cut into 5 cm long thick spare\n\n  4. Ginger washed and peeled, cut into the end\n\n  5. Put the pot, put the water in the pot, put the salt (10 g), tea tree mushroom, wild celery, carrot wire after boiling water, and boil for 15 seconds.\n\n  6. Put a little oil in the pot, fragrant ginger, then stir the tea tree mushrooms, wild celery, carrots together, the fire is going to be strong, the action is fast, so the fried dishes have the flavor of the dishes. Finally, the seasoning can be a little bit thin, a little sesame oil, and the pan can be put on the pan.\n\n\nThis dish is tender and crisp, with a special aroma and rich nutrition. Wild celery is a unique vegetable with certain pharmacological and therapeutic value. Like wild celery, wild celery has the effect of lowering blood pressure and lowering blood fat.\n\nLook around:\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6578015089035034}
+{"content": "Question: Does Drinking Water After Eating Make You Fat?\n\nCan I lay down 30 minutes after eating?\n\nRecommended Intervals.\n\nAs a general rule of thumb, nutritionists will tell you to wait about three hours between your last meal and bedtime.\n\n1 This allows digestion to occur and the contents of your stomach to move into your small intestine.\n\nThis may prevent problems like heartburn at night and even insomnia..\n\nWhen should I drink water to lose weight?\n\nBefore a meal The next thing to do is to drink a glass of water 30 minutes before every meal. It will keep you from overeating. It is also an effective way to control calorie intake, thus aiding weight loss. Also, avoid drinking water immediately after a meal or during the meal.\n\nWhat happens if you only drink water and don’t eat?\n\nDiet & FitnessUSDA releases new dietary guidelines: What do they mean for you? And if you don’t get enough water while fasting, you risk side effects like dehydration, which can result in dizziness, fainting, constipation and headache, just to name a few.\n\nHow long should you wait to drink water after eating?\n\nDrink one glass of water 30 minutes before a meal to help digestion. Remember not to drink too soon before or after a meal as the water will dilute the digestive juices. Drink water an hour after the meal to allow the body to absorb the nutrients.\n\nWhy you should not drink water while eating?\n\nOur stomachs have a knack of knowing when you will eat and starts releasing digestive juices immediately. If you start drinking water at the same time, what you are actually doing is diluting the digestive juices being released to digest your food, thereby hindering them from breaking down food.”\n\nCan water reduce belly fat?\n\nAnd drinking a glass or two of warm water in the morning can help you in losing weight and belly fat. It will help in cleansing your system. Drinking water reduces appetite and calorie intake and helps in maintaining hydration levels in the body.\n\nDoes drinking cold water make you fat?\n\nNo. In fact, ice water can help you lose weight. Not only is ice water a calorie free beverage, but your body will actually burn calories to heat it up to body temperature (98.60 F), although it is a very insignificant amount of calories burned.\n\nHow do I empty my stomach quickly?\n\nEating smaller meals Increasing the number of daily meals and decreasing the size of each one can help alleviate bloating. The stomach may also be able to empty more quickly. Eating smaller amounts of food at each meal means the number of meals should be 4 to 6 per day to meet nutritional needs.\n\nDoes drinking water after eating help you lose weight?\n\n\nWhat happens when you drink too much water after eating?\n\n\nIs water Food yes or no?\n\nWater is a food as defined in section 20l(f) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (2l USC 32l(f)). It is a normal constituent of many foods and is essential in the preparation and processing of most commercially prepared foods.\n\nWhat’s the healthiest way to drink water?\n\nHere are 12 simple ways to drink more water.Replace other drinks with water. … Drink one glass of water before each meal. … Get a water filter. … Flavor your water. … Drink one glass of water per hour at work. … Sip throughout the day. … Eat more foods high in water. … Drink one glass of water when you wake up and before bed.More items…•\n\nHow much water per day is too much?\n\nSo how much fluid does the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate need? The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is: About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women.\n\nHow long should you wait to drink water after brushing your teeth?\n\nBut don’t use water. Wait at least half an hour after brushing your teeth to drink water or consume beverages.\n\nIs it good to drink water before bed?\n\nDrinking warm water before bed will keep you hydrated through the night and may help the body to rid itself of unwanted toxins. It may also help to relieve pain or cramping in the stomach. If plain water is too bland or if you’re trying to beat a cold, consider adding lemon to you water before bed.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9823384284973145}
+{"content": "Genel Bakış\n\nIn this world, everyone can use magic… and in a land called the Clover Kingdom, two young men, Asta and Yuno, strive to become the Wizard King, the greatest of all magic users. Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at a church in Hage, a village in the boonies, and lived as brothers from that day onward. For some reason, however, Asta never developed the ability to use magic, even when Yuno had already mastered wind magic. Now, at last, the boys are turning fifteen, the age at which children receive their own grimoires. Asta has high hopes that receiving his grimoire will awaken his latent ability to use magic, but when the time comes…\n\nBu içeriği   @SiteRobotu   oluşturdu.\n\nYorumlar ( 2 )\n\n\ntatoe bir cips olamsı lazım\n\n\nYağ abi cidden neddn yorum yok olm\n\nŞikayet Et\n\nSorunu anlamamıza yardım et. Bu bölümü hangi sorundan dolayı bildiriyorsun?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9759163856506348}
+{"content": "1 - 25 of 28\nNumber of results to display per page\n1 Visual Neuroprosthetics: Functional Vision for the BlindResent progress in materials and microfabrication technologies have allowed researchers to reconsider the prospect of providing a useful visual sense to the profoundly blind. This will be accomplished by electrically stimulating their visual systems via an array of implanted microelectrodes. T...Visual Neuroprosthetics; Vision; Blindness1995-01\n3 Signal integration at the pedicle of turtle cone photoreceptors: an anatomical and electrophysiological studyThe morphology of the axon which connects the cell body and pedicle of turtle cone photoreceptors was studied by light and electron microscopy. The axon which contains numerous synaptic vesicles, some endoplasmic reticulum, and a few cisternae is basically filled with cytoplasm. The length of the ax...Cone Photoreceptor, Voltage Clamp; Isolated Cells; Input Resistance; Cell Body-Pedicle Coupling1989\n4 Selective motor unit recruitment via intrafascicular multielectrode stimulationRecruitment of force via independent asynchronous firing of large numbers of motor units produces the grace and endurance of physiological motion. We have investigated the possibility of reproducing this physiological recruitment strategy by determining the selectivity of access to large numbers of ...Funtional Neuromuscular Stimulation; Microelectrode Array; Neuroprosthesis; Intrafascicular Multielectrode Stimulation; Cats2004\n5 Silicon carbide enhanced thermomigrationThe widespread acceptance of thermomigration technology to produce through-chip interconnects has been impaired by (i) a random walk of the Si-Al liquid eutectic inclusion as it traverses the wafer, and (ii) a ?surface barrier? which allows thermomigration of only relatively large inclusions. In ...Silicon Dioxide; Thermometers; Transducers; Thermomigration Technology; Infrared Lamps1992\n11 Silicon-based, three-dimensional neural interface: manufacturing processes for an intracortical electrode arrayA method has been developed for the manufacture of a \"three-dimensional\" electrode array geometry for chronic intracortical stimulation. This silicon based array consists of a 4.2 x 4.2 x 0.12 mm thick monocrystalline substrate, from which project 100 conductive, silicon needles sharpened to facilit...Electric Stimulation; Electrodes, Implanted; Sensory Cortex; Intracortical Electrode Array1991\n12 Evidence for multiple signaling pathways in single squid olfactory receptor neuronsAt least two different G-protein-mediated transduction cascades, the adenylate cyclase and phospholipase C (PLC) pathway, process chemosensory stimuli for various species. In squid olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), physiological studies indicate that both pathways may be present; however, confirmat...Olfaction; Cephalopods; G Proteins, PLC; Adenylate Cyclase2007-03\n13 Statistical encoding model for a primary motor cortical brain-computer interfaceA number of studies of the motor system suggest that the majority of primary motor cortical neurons represent simple movement-related kinematic and dynamic quantities in their time-varying activity patterns. An example of such an encoding relationship is the cosine tuning of firing rate with respect...Discrete Distribution; LN Model; Neural Decoding; Neuroprosthetics; Sequential Monte-Carlo Filter2005\n14 Cross-species comparison of metabolite profiles in chemosensory epithelia: an indication of metabolite roles in chemosensory cellsComparative studies of chemosensory systems in vertebrates and invertebrates have greatly enhanced our understanding of anatomical and physiological constraints of chemical detection. Immunohistochemical comparisons of chemosensory systems are difficult to make across species due to limited cross-re...Olfactory; Vomeronasal; Mouse; Zebrafish; Squid2008-04\n15 Three-dimensional architecture for a parallel processing photosensing arrayA three-dimensional architecture for a photosensing array has been developed. This silicon based architecture consists of a 10 x 10 array of photosensors with 80 microns diameter, through chip interconnects to the back side of a 500 microns thick silicon wafer. Each photosensor consists of a 300 x 3...Retina; Optics; Silicon; Photosensing1992\n18 Signal transmission from red cones to horizontal cells in the turtle retina1. Intracellular recordings were made from L-type horizontal cells in the retina of the turtle Pseudemys scripta elegans. The responses were evoked by 500 msec pulses of 'white' light. 2. L-type horizontal cells were classified as either, 'small receptive field' s.r.f. or 'large receptive field' l.r...Turtles; Synapses; Retina; Photoreceptors1979\n19 Oscillations in rod and horizontal cell membrane potential: evidence for feed-back to rods in the vertebrate retina1. Rods and horizontal cells were studied with intracellular recordings in the retina of the toad, Bufo marinus; 161 cells were from the eyecup preparation and thirty were from the isolated perfused retina. 2. Of these cells, 39% exhibited either transient or sustained oscillations of membrane poten...Retina; Photoreceptors; Toads; Adaptation, Ocular1976\n23 Study of printed spiral coils for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applicationsWe have explored the use of printed spiral coils (PSC's) for neuroprosthetic transcranial telemetry applications. We fabricated two-dimensional PSC's on a thin (25 microns) polyimide substrate using copper (35 microns) as a conducting material. All the coils had a fixed inner diameter of 1.0 cm. We ...Blindness; Neuroprosthesis; Transcranial Telemetry System; Prosthesis Design1998\n1 - 25 of 28", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7333157658576965}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: How Much Money Can A 70 Year Old Make Without Paying Taxes?\n\nHow much can a retired person earn without paying taxes?\n\n\n\nWhat is the income tax limit for senior citizen?\n\nIncome Tax Slabs and Rates for Financial Year: 2019-20Income Tax SlabVery Senior Citizens (aged 80 years and above)Up to 5,00,000Nil5,00,001 to 10,00,00020%Above 10,00,0001,00,000 + 30% of total income exceeding 10,00,000\n\nDoes Social Security count as income?\n\nSocial Security benefits do not count as gross income. However, the IRS does count them in your combined income for the purpose of determining if you must pay taxes on your benefits.\n\nDo pensions count as earned income?\n\n\nDo seniors get a stimulus check?\n\nIf you’re over age 65 and a recipient of Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance, you were eligible for a first and second stimulus check, and will be eligible for a third. This also includes many VA recipients and Retired Railroad Workers.\n\nIs Social Security taxed after age 70?\n\nHere’s why: Every dollar you earn over the 85% threshold amount will result in 85 cents of your benefits being taxed, plus you’ll have to pay tax on the extra income. … After age 70, there is no longer any increase, so you should claim your benefits then even if they will be partly subject to income tax.\n\nDo I have to claim my Social Security as income on my taxes?\n\nWhat Percentage of Social Security Is Taxable? If you file as an individual, your Social Security is not taxable only if your total income for the year is below $25,000. Half of it is taxable if your income is between $25,000 and $34,000. If your income is higher than that, up to 85% of your benefits may be taxable.\n\nAt what age is 401k withdrawal tax free?\n\nYou can withdraw money from your 401(k) penalty-free once you turn 59-1/2. The withdrawals will be subject to ordinary income tax, based on your tax bracket.\n\nDoes Social Security count as income for unemployment?\n\n\nIs monthly pension taxable?\n\nYour monthly pension payment almost always counts as taxable income, and you’ll need to make sure that you have enough taxes withheld from your pension payments to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service.\n\nDo seniors get a tax break in 2020?\n\nWhen you turn 65, the IRS offers you a gift in the form of a bigger standard deduction. For 2020 returns, for example, a single 64-year-old gets a standard deduction of $12,400 (it will be $12,550 for 2021). A single 65-year-old gets $14,050 in 2020 (and $14,250 in 2021).\n\nWho is exempt from filing taxes?\n\nUnder age 65. Single. Don’t have any special circumstances that require you to file (like self-employment income) Earn less than $12,400 (which is the 2020 standard deduction for a single taxpayer)\n\nAt what age do you no longer have to pay taxes?\n\n65Updated for Tax Year 2019 You can stop filing income taxes at age 65 if: You are a senior that is not married and make less than $13,850.\n\nWhat age do you stop paying taxes on Social Security?\n\n65 years of ageat least 65 years of age, and.\n\nHow much bank interest is tax free for seniors?\n\nDifference between Section 80TTA and Section 80TTBParticularsSection 80TTASection 80TTBApplicabilityApplicable to individuals and HUF except for senior citizensApplicable to senior citizensSpecified incomeInterest on savings account onlyInterest on all kinds of depositsQuantum of deductionUpto Rs 10,000Upto Rs 50,000Apr 27, 2021\n\nDo seniors pay taxes on Social Security income?\n\nThe federal government taxes up to 85% of Social Security payments for seniors who earn more than a specific threshold, but never taxes the full benefit. … Individuals with a combined income between $25,000 and $34,000 are taxed on 50% of their Social Security benefit.\n\nWhat are the federal tax tables for 2020?\n\n2020 Federal Income Tax Brackets and RatesRateFor Single IndividualsFor Married Individuals Filing Joint Returns10%Up to $9,875Up to $19,75012%$9,876 to $40,125$19,751 to $80,25022%$40,126 to $85,525$80,251 to $171,05024%$85,526 to $163,300$171,051 to $326,6004 more rows•Nov 14, 2019\n\nCan I get a tax refund if my only income is Social Security?\n\nAs a very general rule of thumb, if your only income is from Social Security benefits, they won’t be taxable, and you don’t need to file a return. But if you have income from other sources as well, there may be taxes on the total amount.\n\nWhat is the standard deduction for senior citizens in 2021?\n\nTaxpayers who are at least 65 years old or blind can claim an additional 2021 standard deduction of $1,350 ($1,700 if using the single or head of household filing status). For anyone who is both 65 and blind, the additional deduction amount is doubled.\n\nDo you have to file taxes if you are over 70 years old?\n\nYou may or may not be free from paying income tax after age 70, depending on your circumstances. … No matter what age you are, you may not have to file or pay income taxes, especially if you don’t earn a dollar of income during the tax year.\n\nAdd a comment", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8038976192474365}
+{"content": "How to scrape only a single port of a pod using kubernetes_sd_config\n\n\nI have been trying to scrape targets in my Kubernetes namespace using kubernetes_sd_config. The pods have 2 processes- instrumentation server and application server. With the below annotations in deployment, Prometheus still has 2 targets. Let me know how can I enable it for only a single port. '8081' 'true'\n\nWelcome to the community.\n\nWe will need more details to help you. It also feels like a question related to Prometheus-Operator, did you try to reach that community more specifically?\n\nHello @roidelapluie, Thanks.\n\nThe Prometheus deployment is not done through the operator as we are still not there with OCP(lower version without operator support). What we have is a single pod(single container) that has 2 HTTP servers running(port-8080/port-8081)\nPort - 8080 is for application backend APIs.\nPort - 8081 is for instrumentation APIs(metrics, version, health)\n\nWe only want a single scrape target(pod:8081) but we see 2 targets in our case with kubernetes_sd_config. Hope I am able to describe the problem.\n\nCan you provide your kubernetes_sd_config ?\n\nBelow is the config\n\n- job_name: optisam\n  scrape_interval: 10s\n  scrape_timeout: 10s\n  metrics_path: /metrics\n  scheme: http\n  - api_server: null\n    role: pod\n      - int-optisam\n  - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]\n    separator: ;\n    regex: \"true\"\n    replacement: $1\n    action: keep\n\nCould you try:\n\n  - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_scrape]\n    regex: \"true\"\n    replacement: $1\n    action: keep\n  - source_labels: [__address__;__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io_port]\n    target_label: __address__\n    regex: \"(.*:)\\d+;(\\d+)\"\n    replacement: $1$2\n1 Like\n\nIt works. Thanks for your help.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8864411115646362}
+{"content": "What Would I Do If I Was A Doctor?\n\nWhy Being a doctor is bad?\n\nStressful and demanding work Most doctors work more than 40 hours a week.\n\nTheir work is stressful because they deal with sick and often frustrated people.\n\nThey carry a great burden on their shoulders because people lives’ are in their hands.\n\nNumerous doctors feel overworked and stressed because of these pressures..\n\nWhat should you not tell your doctor?\n\n\nCan a doctor red flag you?\n\nThroughout the course of several investigations, certain consistencies have been observed and can serve as “red flags” for medical providers to alert them that the patient may not have a legitimate pain issue but are instead seeking narcotics for illegitimate reasons.\n\nHow do I build my relationship with my doctor?\n\n7 Ways to Build a Better Relationship with Your DoctorBe prepared for the appointment. … Use the time with your doctor wisely. … Bring a companion to your appointment. … Be honest with your physician. … Be sure you understand your care plan. … Communicate with your physician. … Follow your care plan.\n\nDo doctors die younger?\n\nWhile suicide is a matter of concern, the much more common reason behind early deaths is physicians developing health conditions like cardiac problems and cancer. There are multiple causes identified that promote these conditions and result in shorter life expectancy of doctors.\n\nDo med students have a life?\n\nEach year of medical school has different demands, and so do residency and life as a practicing physician. Students and practicing physicians learn to find balance throughout their careers in order to have a personal life, excel as a physician and still have time to maintain mental and physical health.\n\nAre most doctors wealthy?\n\nMany specialists are wealthy and many who live paycheck to paycheck. Many primary care doctors are wealthy and many who are not. A high income is not the common denominator to becoming wealthy. One of the top three jobs of people who have become millionaires, according to Hogan’s book, is a teacher.\n\nWhat to do if a doctor mistreats you?\n\nIf the doctor is employed by a medical practice or hospital, the complaint should be made there in the first instance. The doctor should be given the opportunity to respond. If you are not satisfied, or the complaint is serious enough, you can make a complaint to the health care ombudsman in your State.\n\nIs becoming a doctor really worth it?\n\n\nCan doctors have tattoos?\n\nJust last year, the Mayo Clinic announced all employees, including physicians would be allowed to display tattoos on the job as long as they were not offensive. But a few places absolutely forbid body art or piercings. Many facilities have unwritten rules about no facial or must-be-covered sleeve tattoos.\n\nIs Medical School Hard?\n\n\nDo doctors have a lot of free time?\n\n“Free time isn’t something most doctors have in abundance,” according to the report. “But when they’re not working, physicians of all ages engage in a variety of extracurricular activities.” Read more about how doctors spend their free time.\n\nDo doctors lie to patients?\n\nLies in the doctor-patient relationship are common. Physicians often minimize problems, fail to tell the whole truth, or resort to overly simplified explanations. Two important arenas for potential omissions are the delivery of bad news and the admission of errors.\n\nHow much money would you get if you were a doctor?\n\nMost physicians earn an annual income between $150,000 and $312,000, ZipRecruiter reports. Separate data from Medscape’s 8th Physician Compensation Report for 2018 states that the average U.S. primary care physician earns $223,000 annually. Meanwhile, medical specialists earn an average of $329,000, as of 2018.\n\nCan a doctor treat himself?\n\nIn general, physicians should not treat themselves or members of their own families. However, it may be acceptable to do so in limited circumstances: (a) In emergency settings or isolated settings where there is no other qualified physician available.\n\nIs 400k a year a good salary?\n\nIn terms of the average American taxpaying family, $400,000 is unquestionably a high income. … That means that taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes that come in just above $400,000 can often earn far more than that.\n\nHow much do most doctors retire with?\n\nPlus, many physicians will enjoy higher incomes in their working years than most. That’s why financial advisors often recommend that they save between 20 percent to 25 percent of their income for retirement.\n\nThe American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics: Opinion 8.19 states that “physicians generally should not treat themselves or members of their immediate families.” The American College of Physicians Ethics Manual states that “physicians should avoid treating themselves, close friends, or members of their own …\n\nAre all doctors rich?\n\nMost doctors, though, have a negative net worth until a few years into practice. … The doctors further along in practice are likely to have higher net worth’s than those just starting out. More time to save and pay off debt. Medscape actually did a pretty solid survey of almost 20,000 doctors on physician wealth.\n\nAre doctors millionaires?\n\nFifty-six percent of professional self-made millionaires in my study were doctors. Surgeons and scientists earned the most money and were the wealthiest, according to my data. Next up were lawyers, then engineers, then financial planners.\n\nWho are the highest paid doctors?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8384509682655334}
+{"content": "These 9 aerobic exercises will get your heart thumping! Try them to the groove of pop music of your choice and feel the stress and fat melting away! These workouts are easy to do at home and will help in building immunity\n\nProtip: Try to do atleast 3 sets of any 4 of them\n\n1. Skipping\n\nSimple and highly effective, skipping engages the Shoulders, Quads, Glutes, and Calves. Jumping rope is known to burn around 1300 calories/hour (now that’s high!).  You can mix this exercise up by trying the cross jump, double jump and single leg jump. A minimum of 250 skips is a must.\n\n2. Burpees\n\nBurpees work out the Chest, Triceps, Delts, Quads and Hamstring. Here is how you can do a burpee at home:\n\n\n·         Push your hips back, bend your knees, and lower your body into a squat.\n\n\n·         Jump your feet back to softly land on the balls of your feet in a plank position. Your body should form a straight line from your head to heels. Be careful not to let your back sag or your butt stick up in the air, as both can keep you from effectively working your core.\n\n·         Jump your feet back so that they land just outside of your hands.\n\n·         Reach your arms overhead and explosively jump up into the air.\n\n·         Land and immediately lower back into a squat for your next rep.\n\nBurpees are a killer full body workout and do atleast 20 to feel the burn.\n\n3. Squat jumps\n\nTry this intense exercise to strengthen your legs and give you that perfect bum!\n\n·         Begin with a standing position with your feet shoulder-width apart.\n\n·         Perform a normal squat.\n\n·         As you complete the downward motion, jump in the air.\n\n·         As you land, lower the body back to normal squat position to finish rep one.\n\n·         Do minimum of 3 sets of 10-15 reps and take no more than 30-60 seconds of rest between each set.\n\n·         You should also keep in mind to keep a steady pace throughout the exercise.\n\n4. Jumping Jacks\n\nWe’ve done these since we were kids! Great to warm up and full body exercise that will help loosen up your muscles as well. Do atleast 30 of these.\n\n·         Start with feet together and hands down by the side.\n\n·         Jump your feet out to the side and raise your both arms above your head simultaneously.\n\n·         Immediately jump back to starting position. And repeat.\n\n·         It’s a little warm-up exercise before you get into real hard aerobic training.\n\n5. Donkey Kick\n\nGet on all fours and work those glutes and hips out!    \n\n·         Get on all fours on mat (hands under shoulders, knees under hips).\n\n\n·         Lower the knee without touching the floor; lift again. Do 15 reps.\n\n·         Switch legs; repeat.\n\n6. High Knees\n\nOn the spot, high knees will give you quads to die for. You got to do atleast 30 to feel the burn.\n\n·         Stand with your feet hip-width apart and run in place at a steady pace by pulling both the knees alternatively to the chest.\n\n·         Do as quickly as you can.\n\n7. Corkscrew\n\nA great work out for your abs and obliques! Do a minimum of 3 sets with 10 reps each side.\n\n·         Lie on your back with your hands just below your lower back for extra support.\n\n·         Keep your navel sucked and legs straight.\n\n·         Lift off the legs from the ground till it is at a right angle to your upper body.\n\n·         Keeping your core tight and legs together, make a complete rotation with your legs.\n\n·         Focus on keeping your abs tight throughout the exercise.\n\n8. Push ups\n\nA basic push up is an effective way to strengthen the chest and arm muscles and can be easily scaled as you get stronger. Start with 3 sets of 5 reps, and push yourself everytime you do this exercise\n\n·         Lie down facing the ground with hands palm-down on, approximately shoulder width apart. They should be about next to your shoulders, with your elbows pointed towards your toes.\n\n·         Raise yourself using your arms. Your weight should be supported by your hands and the balls of your feet aka in plank position\n\n·         If you have a problem getting the proper form, clench your butt and tighten your abs.\n\n·         Scaled version: Knee push ups where the weight on your knees instead of the balls of your feet.\n\n9. Butt Kicks\n\nFor those killer hamstrings and glutes! We recommend 3-4 sets of 10 butt kicks/ leg\n\n·         Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and bend your arms towards the sides.\n\n·         Bend your right knee like you are jogging and touch your butt with the right ankle.\n\n·         Repeat with the other leg and fasten the pace once perfected.\n\n\nFollow us on Instagram: Fitternity for more at-home workouts and tips to stay fit and healthy in this quarantine\n\n\nDownload the Fitternity App now and get started with fitness:\n\nMumbai | Delhi | Pune | Bangalore Gurgaon | Noida | Hyderabad | Ahmedabad | Jaipur | Chandigarh | Faridabad | Kolkata", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9853083491325378}
+{"content": "T Nation\n\nJMB macro combinations\n\nI need clarification on JMB macro recommendations. I still dont see why a [isocaloric P+C+F] meal is wrong assuming that you were to eat a lean protein, low glycemic carb and an essential unsaturated fat! Not so long ago (MM2K) these types of combinations were encouraged because it was believed the fat would slow digestion and release energy into your system more evenly. Doesnt the quality of the food dictate the outcome greater then its combination? Thanks in advance.\n\nRead Massive Eating. JMB explains all. In future, read the artcile/info first before asking Q’s.\n\nIt’s not as if having an isocaloric meal on occasion is going to ruin things.\n\nLet’s say, making numbers out of nowhere, that an isocaloric diet 24/7 would give you results you’d call an 80, and Berardi’s diet would give you results you’d call 100. In other words, you get 20 points better results with Berardi’s diet according to this arbitrary system.\n\nNow, if 3/4 of the time you do as John says and 1/4 of the time you have an isocaloric meal, it seems to me you’d probably get about 3/4 of the improvement you’d get compared to following John’s advice all the time.\n\nIn other words, you’d get results you’d call\na 95. So it would not be a terrible loss even if one meal out of four (some days one meal, some days 2 meals) were isocaloric.)\n\nNow, that may not be right, but it’s what I’d guess.\n\nHowever, I’m sure that that’s an oversimplification. There’s probably more loss from ignoring John’s recommendations at the earliest and latest parts of the day, and the least from having an isocaloric meal in the middle part of the day about the time you’d be making the changeover anyway.\n\nI wouldn’t be surprised if there were no significant disadvantage to having one isocaloric meal at about the changeover point… e.g., if you arise at 8 AM and go to bed at midnight, an isocaloric meal at about 4 PM would probably have little or no effect on results compared to making it a P+C or P+F meal, I would think.\n\nLet’s don’t forget that people were into bodybuilding, bulking and cutting long before Massive Eating. The majority of bodybuilding community, natural and enhanced, certainly does not follow p+c and p+f guidelines. Try it, if it works, accept it, if not, reject it. I tried Massive Eating and the fat gain was the same compared to the same caloric level eaten in p+f+c combination. Therefore, it does not work for me and I could not care less about Massive Eating - however, this is just me, it might be different for somebody else. I think the most important thing about Massive Eating is the caloric level, most people simply eat too little to meet their goals, and not p+f and p+c meals - I consider this to be a fad despite scientific explanation behind all this.\n\nI feel I am going to be flamed for what I just said.\n\nThanks for everyone that replied. A second opinion on any subject always sheds light. Axy: Hope you dont get flamed, you have a valid opinion. History proves that theories based soley on scientific research dont always prove to be correct in real life. Not to say that JMB’s diet wont work for the vast majority.\n\nJust wondering something: what’s the logic behind placing more emphasis on the early/late meals than the ones in the middle of the day? I understand your reasoning for the above example, but people who say not to eat carbs in the PM, for example…what’s the thinking behind that? To me, taking the day as a single, 24-hour unit, it makes logical sense that no matter how you divide the calories up, so long as you’re taking in the same amount you would end up with the same amount of expenditure, fat storage, etc.\n\nTo make this a little clearer: Let's say a person is eating an isocaloric 3000 cals/day. One month he eats it with all the carbs in the AM. The next month he eats it with all the carbs in the PM. And let's also stipulate that this is 500 cals/day above maintenance for this individual. So he gains about 4 pounds the first month, and then another 4 the second, right? (Oversimplified, I know.) Assuming all other parameters (training, etc.) are held the same, it seems to me that the fat/LBM gain would be the same. (And just for the sake of argument, let's further stipulate that this hypothetical person worked out [and thus drank his Surge] in the morning during the first month, and in the afternoon during the second.) What do you think?\n\nIf I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times…a lot of people can get away with doing a LOT of things and still reach their fitness goals. CONGRATUALTIONS!..dammit…\n\nI ain’t one of 'em. I have to track my diet closely, follow by body closely…and yes…do those things that will maximize for me lean body weight gain, fat loss and cardiovascular fitness. I’m glad for all of you who don’t need scales, calipers, or cutting edge nutritional information. Do you think I like having to weigh food, adjust my diet based on weekly body composition measurements and being meticulous about macronutrient ingestion? Hey…I live with it because reaching and maintainng my fitness goals is paramount.\n\n“Testosterone”, it’s contributors, and yes, the people on this Forum (for the most part!)are actually “partners” in a way in helping me reach those goals.\n\nSo…despite the smug sentiment of “people always did this or did that…or didn’t do this or didn’t do that” as a slight against new technology, knowledge and information, I hope that “Testosterone” and it’s contributors continue to offer me the latest and best information in a battle, which for me, is almost daily…\n\nPart of the logic as I understand it is that insulin sensitivity is higher in the earlier part of the day, and so that’s a better time to consume the carbs for the day; whereas it’s lower later on and so then is a better time to reduce carbs.\n\nSo to me it makes sense that in the middle\nof the day, where John would have you either consume P+C or P+F according to preference (providing that the totals for the day come out correct) that an isocaloric meal should fit in pretty well.\n\nAnother part of the theory may be that fat storage is less likely when carbs and fats\naren’t taken in at the same time. If so then the isocaloric meal could be a problem if there were a caloric surplus, but I’d think not if there weren’t.\n\nThanks for the response, Bill. (Damn, that was fast!)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7011774778366089}
+{"content": "Music Memory Game\n\n\n  1. This activity speeds up the pace of the learner’s music reading abilities. The goal is for the child to identify what letter note is on the staff. To begin, go in order of the note for each clef. Once that has been mastered, progressively increase the difficulty.\n  2. Includes: 8 pages (2 Treble Clef, 2 Bass Clef, 4 colorful backsides)\n  3. Tip: Laminate the sheets. This will keep it in great condition for reuse. Try shuffling in both clefs to make it more challenging.\n\n\nThere are no reviews yet.\n\nBe the first to review “Music Memory Game”\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7785696983337402}
+{"content": "How Much Is A Serving Of Lettuce?\n\nIs Romaine a Superfood?\n\nSUPERFOOD #9 Romaine Lettuce Even more so than its cousin kale, the humble Romaine lettuce packs high levels of folic acid, a water-soluble form of Vitamin B that’s proven to boost male fertility..\n\nHow many calories are in a heart of romaine lettuce?\n\nNutrition facts A dieter’s dream, romaine lettuce has about 8 calories and 1 to 2 grams of carbohydrates per cup . Although it’s low in fiber, it’s high in minerals, such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, and potassium.\n\nWhat is the safest lettuce to eat?\n\nfull heads of lettuce are safer than cut greens, as long as you remove the outer leaves. This is because contaminates have a harder time penetrating the whole head. Heads of lettuce are still susceptible to contaminants that enter through their roots, however.\n\nWhat is a serving of lettuce?\n\n3 A cup of raw iceberg lettuce is considered one serving, and the American Diabetes Association recommends a minimum of 3–5 servings of non-starchy vegetables per day.\n\nIs spinach or romaine lettuce better for you?\n\nBoiling spinach releases the oxalates and many nutrients into the cooking water. Romaine is on the milder end of the greens spectrum but still nutritious. “It’s definitely a step up from iceberg lettuce,” Mangieri said. If you’re bored even with spinach, advance to bitter arugula or try trendy kale.\n\nIs it okay to eat a lot of salad?\n\nThe short answer is: Yep. According to Food Fix founder Heather Bauer, RD, CND, all those raw veggies can seriously stress out your GI tract. “I hear over and over again from clients that they start eating salads to be healthier and end up feeling bloated,” Bauer says.\n\nWhat is the lowest carb lettuce?\n\n#4 is ICEBERG LETTUCE! It contains 2g of carbs in a 50-gram portion. One cup of shredded iceberg lettuce contains 2g of carbs. #5 is CELERY!\n\nIs Cabbage better for you than lettuce?\n\nAs you can see, both cabbage and iceberg lettuce are low in calories and deliver minimal protein, fat, and carbs. Meanwhile, green cabbage is higher in most nutrients — except vitamin A. Cabbage is also higher in minerals than iceberg lettuce. … It also contains more fiber, a nutrient essential to digestive health ( 3 ).\n\nHow much is a serving of salad?\n\nIf you must measure, a portion of salad is about 1 to 2 cups. Dress lightly with dressing, don’t drown your lettuce, but don’t worry about measuring out your dressing — that’s obsessive.\n\nDoes Salad count as 5 a day?\n\nAlthough sliced cucumber, tomato or lettuce in a sandwich can contribute towards your 5-a-day, it’s unlikely that there will be 80g of vegetables in your salad, which is how much you need for it to count as one portion of vegetables.\n\nWhy is lettuce healthy?\n\nAnswer: All types of lettuce are good for you. As a vegetable, lettuce provides fibre, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals for very, very few calories. With respect to vitamins, lettuce is a source of folate, a B vitamin needed to make and repair DNA in cells, and vitamin K, a nutrient linked to healthy bones.\n\nIs it good to eat salad every day?\n\nIt’s important to eat a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, in as many different colors as possible. … Loaded with vitamins and minerals, eating a salad a day will also increase the level of powerful antioxidants in your blood. The basis of any salad, leafy greens, offer a huge nutritional benefit.\n\nWhat does iceberg lettuce do for your body?\n\nAlthough it’s low in fiber, it has a high water content, making it a refreshing choice during hot weather. It also provides calcium, potassium, vitamin C, and folate. The nutrients in iceberg lettuce can help you to meet the standard daily requirements for several vitamins and minerals.\n\nWhat is a serving of iceberg lettuce?\n\nA full head of iceberg lettuce can range anywhere from 485 to 800 grams in size. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the serving size for lettuce is about 3.2 ounces (or 89 grams).\n\nHow much is a serving size of romaine lettuce?\n\nDark Green Leafy Vegetable Serving Size According to the American Heart Association, a serving of a raw, green leafy vegetables like romaine lettuce, arugula or spinach is 1 cup. The serving size for all cooked veggies (fresh, frozen and canned) is ½ cup.\n\nCan I eat romaine lettuce everyday?\n\nSummary. Romaine lettuce can be a healthful part of a balanced diet and can provide even more health benefits if a person eats it regularly. The combination of a low calorie content and high nutritional value make this leafy green an excellent, healthful staple.\n\nWhy is iceberg lettuce bad for you?\n\nIt’s actually a perfectly healthy food, and if you like the taste, you should include it in your meals. But there’s not a whole lot of substance to it. However, due to its high water content, iceberg lettuce is less nutritionally dense than dark leafy greens like spinach or kale.\n\nHow much is a cup of romaine lettuce?\n\nEach cup of romaine lettuce contains around 44grams of water or about 1.5 ounces.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9982302784919739}
+{"content": "\n\n\n\n\n\nsenior exercise classes in baton rouge weymouth senior center activities | exercise classes for senior citizens senior activities centerville oh\n\nCarlucci was running a fitness program for young moms when she decided to offer the tagalong grandparents a class of their own.  She quickly discovered that routines geared to the issues dancers are most concerned about – alignment, strength, balance and coordination – can open up a whole new world of movement for people over 60 and also help prevent falls later.\nUpper Body Strength Training Strength training shoulder exercises for seniors and the elderly  can have a significant and lasting effect on your independence as we age. When we build up our arm, upper back, and shoulder strength, we improve the ability to reach overhead to that high cupboard, lift our grandchildren up to our chest, … Continue reading 12 Best Shoulder Exercises For Seniors And The Elderly\n\n\nIf you’ve ever seen the show, you know there’s big bucks to be saved in the couponing game. I will say...it does take time, patience, and a level of skill, but start saving money on groceries and other necessities by strategically collecting coupons. Don’t just recycle the coupon mailers that come through each week - give them a scan and start making a habit of cutting out coupons you can use that month. You can also print coupons offline for free using sites like Coupons.com .\nAs we age, if we aren’t diligent about preventing it, we tend to lose a great deal of muscle mass. When that’s coupled with a more sedentary lifestyle, we’re more likely to gain weight, which is typically body fat and not muscle mass. That’s why resistance training is an essential part of your routine. There are many benefits to weight training, but the benefits of strength training for seniors are even more potent.\n\n\nHow might fitness and more brain tissue help you? Researchers have found that the fittest elders had the highest scores on tasks like coordination, scheduling, planning, and memory. And in a recent study of 1,740 adults older than 65, researchers found that the incidence of dementia in individuals who walked three or more times per week was 35% lower than those individuals who walked less than three days per week.\nPut together a nostalgic treasure chest of memories by making a time capsule for future generations to open in the years to come. Using a stainless steel container with a strong seal, fill your time capsule with memorable items that will surprise and delight like old records or cd’s, newspaper clippings, movie stubs, collector stamps, your favorite book, and a handwritten letter. When deciding where to store your time capsule, remember generally above ground in a place agreed upon with your children is best.\nFor those in skilled nursing care, activities should be geared towards those that are right for the physical limitations and abilities of the individual. Many are unable to do a lot of physical activities but may enjoy the one-on-one time with friends playing games or watching movies together. It is also possible to enjoy activities such as crafts that can be done without getting out of bed.\nYou guessed it. It decreases. The good news is that some studies, but not all, show improvements in flexibility when individuals engage in exercise programs that involve stretching exercises. Unfortunately, the studies on flexibility in the aging population aren't as complete as they are for studies of strength and endurance, but the studies do suggest that significant improvements in the range of motion of various joints (neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle) can occur when stretching exercises are prescribed. It's just that it isn't clear how much flexibility training older adults should do to maintain good range of motion and joint function.\nUsually associated with the county, senior centers offer a wide variety of services and support, along with social events. Visit your senior center or look for their website online to get more information on what they have to offer. Most sites will provide a list of programs and upcoming events that are open to the public. Getting involved in some social activities will open the doors to meeting others in your community!\n\nBalance decreases as we age, and consequently, falling is a major concern for the elderly. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of every three Americans over the age of 65 falls each year, and among individuals 65-84, falls account for 87% of all fractures and are the second leading cause of spinal cord and brain injury. The good news is that physical activity can improve balance and reduce the risk of falling. The results of a study of 256 older adults (70 to 92 years of age, average age 77) who participated in tai chi for six months found that there were 52% fewer falls in the individuals who did tai chi compared to those who didn't.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9845691323280334}
+{"content": "Module 1: Course Orientation & Process Analysis, To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that, Lesson 1-1.1 Process View of Operations (Part 1), Lesson 1-1.2 Process View of Operations (Part 2).\n\nIf the demand is maxed out, the idle time at the bottleneck is always […], […] the American professor John Little (1950s).\n\nRead a job description, CFOWhat Does a CFO DoWhat does a CFO do - the job of the CFO is to optimize a company's financial performance, including: reporting, liquidity, and return on investment. What can you say about the order quantity and the frequency of placing orders?\n\nworkers) being devoted to the station.\n\nSo, therefore, the entire process can only produce at 685.71 pounds per hour.\n\nCFO is calculated by calculating all type of cash transactions like cash expense, cash payment, cash receipt, and cash interest and taxes. Notice that bottleneck processes are always at 100 percent utilization. In a process, some operations can process multiple flow units at a time and others can’t, so it’s important to analyze the operation batch size to maximize the total system’s capacity. It is useful, to calculate a comprehensible number, such as customers per hour or parts per day (instead of a hard to comprehend number such as 1/40 customer per second or 1/345 part per second). The cycle is three hours of spraying for the sprayer and half hour of cleaning for the sprayer, during which, for three hours, all three of them are going to be producing and during the half hour, all three of them are going to be stopped.\n\nWe explain how to link the 3 financial statements together for financial modeling and valuation in Excel.\n\nSo, let's calculate what happens at the puffer. […], […] process with multiple steps might have an attrition loss (of flow units) on every step. Operations Management Examples 2.\n\nWhile it is arrived at through the income statement, the net profit is also used in both the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. Activity 3 is capable of producing 7.5 per hour, but the demand rate happens to be eight per hour. It’s unhealthy and can survive very long. For this once again, we look at the bottleneck activity, and the capacity of our process is the capacity of our bottleneck activity. This part is very straightforward; it simply begins with Amazon’s 2017 net income of $3,033 million, taken directly from the income statementIncome StatementThe Income Statement is one of a company's core financial statements that shows their profit and loss over a period of time. Therefore, my flow rate is going to be 24 divided by 5, which is 4.8. There are nozzles in the sprayer which are doing this. In this example, we are going to be looking at a continuous flow process. For example, a company that manufactures widgets must make more money selling them than it cost to produce them. Start now! « The Lecture Notes Blog, The concept of responsiveness « The Lecture Notes Blog, Calculation of the time in the queue / waiting time « The Lecture Notes Blog, Calculation of the time in the queue with multiple resources « The Lecture Notes Blog, Scrapping or reworking? Bill’s main competition is Guitar Center and he wants to analyze ways he can improve his business. We also provide you Cash Flow from Operations Calculator with downloadable excel template.\n\nSo, activity three is our bottleneck, and because it's the bottleneck, it decides what's the flow rate for the entire process and so in this particular case, our process flow rate and our process capacity is 7.5 per hour. ( Log Out /  In this case, I can go and calculate the demand that is being put on each of the activities, and I call this my implied utilization. The theoreticals are what we think ought to be happening, if it will not take some of these other factors into account. Why is this? This is a garment manufacturing in example, where we are cutting fabric as the first step. Consider the following example, in which we have four activities. Notice that the implied utilization in this case is higher than 100. Usually, different authors and different textbooks, will choose to specify one or the other, they may call the flow time, flow rate, and cycle time without waiting, as being theoretical, and other times they will call it that as being effective, if waiting is being considered. 1/40 / 1/25). Sometimes it's possible to take the output of, say, the puffer and store it somewhere else and then bring it back into the sprayer when the sprayer starts again.\n\nTHE CERTIFICATION NAMES ARE THE TRADEMARKS OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS. We introduced the notion of an implied capacity utilization based on the customer demand rate. To learn more, check out CFI’s Business Valuation Modeling Course.\n\nIf I now go and calculate each of the activities, let's focus, for example, on Activity 3.\n\nIt has net income of $100,000.00, depreciation of machinery is $200,000.00, deferred taxes are $300,000.00, other fund company has $100,000.00 and a change in working capital is $10,000.00.\n\nCFO helps to check the flow of cash in a business. It is more detailed than the annual report that is sent to shareholders.\n\nThis course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. While the flow rate logically can never be higher than the capacity of the bottleneck, it can very well be lower, if the demand is insufficient. Choosing the batch size: there is a tradeoff between flow rate on one hand, and average inventory and average flow time on the other hand.\n\nChange ), You are commenting using your Google account. Having a conceptual understanding of accounting for income taxes enables a company to to maintain financial flexibility. These three core statements are intricately. Calculating waiting times with multiple resources involved […], […] to answer that question it has to be noted, that reworking defects can turn a process step into a bottleneck, which has not been the bottleneck before.\n\nSuppose a company named RK Industries manufactures auto parts.\n\nIn accrual accounting, revenue is only recognized when it is earned. Companies should assess if an impairment is, and unrealized gains or losses. Capacity: The capacity can be calculated for every station in a business process. The company earns cash and spends cash. It's going to dictate the rate at which production occurs in this particular process.\n\nOther income refers to foreign currencyCurrency RiskCurrency risk, or exchange rate risk, refers to the exposure faced by investors or companies that operate across different countries, in regard to unpredictable gains or losses due to changes in the value of one currency in relation to another currency. Notice once again that the bottleneck activity, which was Activity 2, has 100 percent utilization.\n\nThis so-called waiting time formula can only be used if the demand is lower than the capacity. The account payable is liabilities account. Accounts payable was higher by $7,157 million, with more money owed to suppliers and vendors, which created a positive cash flow benefit for Amazon in 2017. ( Log Out /  Please select the correct language below.\n\nAdding Parts 1, 2 and 3 together, we get the following operating cash flow formula for Amazon: + $15,574 million of non-cash expenses added back, – $173 million reduction of cash due to a change in working capital, = $18,343 million of net cash from operating activities.\n\nis the net after-tax profit of the business from the bottom of the income statementIncome StatementThe Income Statement is one of a company's core financial statements that shows their profit and loss over a period of time. If a customer pays for good/services in advance, the company does not record any revenue on its income statement and instead records a), when added up, resulted in more operating cash flow in the period for Amazon. In order to perform the following calculations, processing time has to be defined as the time that is spent on a certain task (e.g.\n\nSo, we will talk about, process capacity calculations, the difference between capacity and implied capacity utilization, and then also look at how we have to think about capacity for continuous flow processes.\n\nCash is very much necessary thing for smooth working of a business, it helps a company to expand a business, launch new product, reduce debt, payment of dues etc. To calculate … Income taxes and its accounting is a key area of corporate finance. (except for cash) less all current liabilitiesCurrent LiabilitiesCurrent liabilities are financial obligations of a business entity that are due and payable within a year. If you can recall, we talked about an activity having a cycle time, and a flow rate.\n\nYou can easily calculate the Cash Flow from Operations using Formula in the template provided. Finally, accrued expenses increased (a benefit to cash flowThe Ultimate Cash Flow Guide (EBITDA, CF, FCF, FCFE, FCFF)This is the ultimate Cash Flow Guide to understand the differences between EBITDA, Cash Flow from Operations (CF), Free Cash Flow (FCF), Unlevered Free Cash Flow or Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF).\n\nNow, how do we go about calculating this capacity?\n\n, (3) plus the net increase in net working capitalNet Working CapitalNet Working Capital (NWC) is the difference between a company's current assets (net of cash) and current liabilities (net of debt) on its balance sheet.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8354595899581909}
+{"content": "Skip links\n\nMental Health Awareness Week 2021\n\nToday (May 10th) marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week.\n\nWhy should Soroptimists promote this week? offers information regarding how women’s mental health is adversely affected – their role as main carer of children; often they have a carer role of elderly and disabled relatives; they are more likely to experience sexual violence resulting in increased PTSD;  exposure to domestic abuse can impact on a woman’s mental health; poverty and social isolation and more likely to result in depression and anxiety in women.\n\nThere is also evidence that indicates how the Covid pandemic and especially the repeated lockdowns have resulted in a negative impact on more women’s then men’s mental health. According to a study  led by researchers at The University of Manchester, King’s College London and the National Centre for Social Research and the National Centre for Social Research, it is estimated that as many as 44 percent of young women are experiencing clinically significant levels of mental distress compared with 32 percent before the pandemic.\n\nThe study reported  “The higher mental distress in women widens established mental health inequalities and highlights how important it is that providers make sure to maintain people’s access to services for domestic violence, sexual and reproductive health. Availability of childcare is also urgently needed.”\n\nSoroptimists need to keep fighting to achieve gender equality , greater support for domestic abuse victims, improving women’s health and reducing women’s social isolation. We need to keep the fight going to reduce poverty and improve and empower women and girls to access education and employment.\n\nThis year, the theme for Mental Health Awareness week is Nature, which also fits into the Soroptimists’ centenary theme. Have a look at the following link to help you to understand why Nature can help improve everyone’s mental health:\n\nIt seems especially pertinent that SI Derby will be starting working in a garden at the local Perinatal unit to help improve the environment for the women who are experiencing mental health problems after the birth of their babies, thus incorporating action towards improving women’s mental health through their involvement with nature.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.000002145767212}
+{"content": "If we are to face otherworldly powers and bring down those who oppressed our people for years, we need the help of those who did not blink when Hell itself fell down upon the Universe. We need the help of those who vanquished entire armies of unspeakable horrors and lived to tell the tale. We need the help of the greatest warriors to ever inspire an entire Universe to take arms against the horrors of Chaos. We need the Civatrons.\n\n- Singul'Aren.\n\nCivatrons never ask how many, but where.\n\n- Captain Ramikku.\n\nThe Civatrons (Primogenitus, Firstborn, Thorbil...), \"Humble ones\" in their language, are the leading psionic race of the Krassio, and arguably the most powerful species to ever wield it. In ancient times, they founded the The Host, an organization primarily focused on rallying all psionic users under one banner, acting as both their political and military leaders. They are known as a powerful disciplined warrior race, originating from the planet Civa Prime in the Tigris Galaxy. They are known for their fierce prowess and strategic leadership in numerous wars, especially that of the War of Ages and the Great Psionic War.\n\nBeing one of the most powerful warrior races of all time in the Universe, known for their incredible power known as psionic energy and famous for being the only species capable of defeating the Zhulultu and make them vanish, they are one of the most famous and highly respected species in the Universe. They led a powerful alliance known as the Krassio Host and they were known of being the main promoters of the old Onuris Alliance.\n\nDespite the Civatrons' well-known reputation as the perfect warriors, only a few military regiments or diplomats ever witnessed one or many in action. Still, legends and myths are created around them, and the tales of their heroic deeds during the epic War of Ages galvanize the Civatrons to the point of godhood. From tribe elders to playful children in every system and station on the Gigaquadrant, stories of the towering, beautiful reptilians with flaming blue hair and eyes burning with divine psionic fire spread wide. For many, they are considered the universe's most powerful Demon slayers. They represent a beacon of hope in the face of the constant threat of annihilation by the forces of Chaos and Evil, inspiring good in all those who face their inner--and outer--demons. They are amongst the few races in the entire history of the First Gigaquadrant to have ever battled the Zhulultu on equal terms... and won.\n\nThe Civatrons are a reserved species, mostly caring for themselves other than others, yet when they see a threat, they feel obligated to act and do something about it. They are mostly good willed beings, but when at war they are feared for their merciless rampage in the battlefield. Their discipline is quite known across the galaxy, some minor species have employed their teachings to perfect themselves in the art of war. Even the slightest knowledge of their combat discipline is a huge advance in physical prowess for lesser races. Treating with them is really hard since they are close to each other and very reserved to foreigners, only some certain species have credited respect among them, or fear. Those are the species who rather showed their military prowess to them by fighting on their side or having defeated them in combat. Again, the species who accomplish this are few and are mostly members of the most powerful empires in the Universe.\n\nUnlike their genetic brothers, known as Andrudans and Juvan, who were part of the Krassio and members of the Krassio Host, they did not ascend at the end of the War of Ages into the Xol'Etra, believing that turning into gods would make them as ruthless as their rival species: the Zhuhultu. Due to this, they were sent into sleep by the newly ascended essentials and ultimately imprisoned for years until Singul'Aren freed them and rallied them under his cause.\n\nIn recent years, they have, once again, began to lead a spiritual successor of their past organizations: the Singularim and they, alongside the Khalinar, are the only remaining Krassio in the known universe.\n\nHistory[edit | edit source]\n\nOrigins[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Civatrons hail from the now destroyed world of Civa Prime, which was their seat of power for millennia of their history. The Civatrons evolved and unconsciously developed their psionic potential during their tribal and civilization stage. Not much is known about any great conflicts between them in that time, except that the infamous Civatron Tribes emerged during this era, unified the species under a common goal, and craved to reach the stars.\n\nThe Valader's First Revolution[edit | edit source]\n\nIn a certain point of their space colonization exploits, the Civatrons came under constant attacks by alien raiders. It is worth mentioning that the Civatrons, although with a certain taste for warfare, did not embrace their psionic nature, nor they were even aware of it, until the arrival of who will become a god among them: The Valader.\n\nHis arrival into existence and to Civatron public view is worth noting, because his understanding of the Civatron's natural psionic biology allowed him to teach, spread, and eventually institutionalize its practice. Under his spiritual guidance, the Civatrons shone brighter than ever before and embraced the beauty of an ordered, powerful psychic mind. His word, penned under the name of \"The Book of Discipline\", became the statute, bylaw and most studied source of information in the Civatron Culture. Responding to an uncivilized threat in a civilized time, the Civatrons became fully militarized and pushed back the many alien threats that had harassed them for decades. The Civatron tribes pushed farther in the space frontier, colonizing many worlds and coming into contact with like-minded peoples, like the Andrudans and the Juvans.\n\nThe Inquisition War[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Civatron light shone so bright in the Tigris Galaxy, that others began to observe them with a worrying eye. The Order of the Missionistus, a radical Spodist military junta, rallied a massive fleet of spode followers in the galaxy and, giving no quarrel, began a gigantic crusade of extermination against the Civatrons, believing them to be heretics to the teachings of spode (and it some way, being true). These series of conflicts escalated to the first great war the Civatrons ever experienced: the Inquisition War.\n\nAlthough the Valader valiantly led the Civatrons, Andrudans, and Juvans into the fray, the Missionistus proved to be formidable foes in battle, and their numbers too great. It was when the Missionistus prepared to make a final run to Civa Prime itself that a singular Civatron warrior stepped into the public eye, praised for his heroid deeds in numerous key battles that turned the tide in the psionic coalition's favor. Liberatus Kroc, a Civatron with seemingly infinite psionic power and unyielding will, rose with his two mallet-like gauntlets and inspired all races in the Tigris Galaxy with connections to the psionic essence into fighting the Missionistus, eventually defeating and expelling them from the galaxy.\n\nIn the Aftermath of the war, the Civatrons, Andrudans, and Juvans convened and formed the infamous Cianju Alliance, rallying all psionic practitioners under one banner and becoming the galaxy's first superpower.\n\nWar of Ages[edit | edit source]\n\nAfter centuries of prosperity and unstoppable expansion across the galaxy, the Cianju Alliance came face to face to its greatest foe, one who would eventually lead to its destruction: the Congregation, led by the ruthless and powerful Zhulultu.\n\nInitial skirmishes and failed diplomatic communications later, Master Kroc and the Congregation's leader, Lord Zhuleshxi, exchanged final ultimatums and thus the war began. It is said that the war was a massive battlefield across the core worlds of the Tigris Galaxy, where the Congregation, a dormant, yet waking giant, grew more and more powerful. The Cianju Alliance was soon fighting a losing war of attrition in all fronts.\n\nMaster Kroc united with other intergalactic powers of that time, such as the Delpha Coalition of Planets, Rambo Nation, and the Fiction:United Republic of Cyrannus, but even with scores of ships and countless troops, the alliance was unable to prevent the destruction of the Tigris Galaxy at the hands of the Zhulultu.\n\nThe War of Ages, as this conflict would be called in the future, continued even after the Cianju losing their home galaxy. The Cianju reformed into the House of the Krassio and fled to the Chandras Galaxy, where they would continue fighting the harassing forces of the ever growing Dominion of the Xhodocto alongside their allies.\n\nThe Civatrons continued to reform their empire, turning the House of Krassio into the Krassio Host as they expanded into the Kaas Galaxy, with Kroc, the Valader, and Mayor Lagartoss at the front of these changes. The Civatrons depleted their resources and military forces in their constant battle against the forces of the Xhodocto Dominion, but they valiantly continued to inspire many species and civilizations across the First Gigaquadrant to rise and fight for their very existence.\n\nThe War of Ages ended as the united front of scores of species and empires failed to prevent the Zhulultu from achieving their goal: The Cleanslate of all existing dimensions and universes. This feat restarted the very concept of existence and since the Civatrons had always been at odds with the Zhulultu, they were targeted first. The Civatrons could have been wiped out if not for the godly intervention of the Xol'Etra, who saved Chandras Galaxy, Kaas Galaxy, and stopped the Annihilation from wiping the psionic essence out of existence forever.\n\nImprisonment and Xol'Etra rule[edit | edit source]\n\nTheir numbers greatly reduced, the Civatrons were left only with a massive armada, said to harbor a wounded Master Kroc. The Xol'Etra descended upon the two galaxies the Civatrons once controlled and imposed an imperial peace and strict law in the two sectors of space. Master Kroc, as he recovered, opposed the Xol'Etra's vision of an empire that, in Kroc's eyes, would eventually stagnate and prevent the psionic races such as the Krassio to reach their full potential. As a result, the rising Xol Dominion imprisoned them in psionic stasis at the core of the Chandras galaxy, their punishment being slowly consumed and drained by the forces of the chaotic Neithil. By this time, the Civatrons were only legendary objects used to inspire countless worlds through their feats. In the Xol Dominion, to even mention the word \"Civatron\" would mean a severe punishment and hurtful indoctrination process.\n\nThe Valader's Second Revolution[edit | edit source]\n\nHowever, there was one being that had managed to survive, through mysterious means, both the Annihilation of the Zhulultu and the Xol'Etra's dominance. The Valader had been searching for more psionic power, and that search led him into becoming Singul'Aren, a psionic god more powerful than a standard Xol'Etra, and the first psionic essential to be formed out of the Xol'Etra's watchful eye. The Valader discovered the existence of the Krauna, altered versions of the Civatrons, who had been oppressed by the Xol Dominion ever since the latter's establishment. He descended upon them and gained their loyalty, starting yet another revolution that shook the oppressed foundations of the Krauna and awakened their psionic potential. As the Krauna, joined by the Valader and the ancient Krass, rose into a threat to the Xol Dominion, the latter sent a massive fleet to crush the Civatrons' legacy forever.\n\nThe Great Psionic War[edit | edit source]\n\nAfter the Krauna principality revolted against their old masters: the Xol'Etra, so did many other psionic species such as the Krass Hegemony, the Livirkiton Protectorate. At some point, the Khalinar and the Inog also joined the fray. The Pact was thus formed in order to defend their respective territories against the expected retaliation from the Xol'Etra.\n\nThe Xol'Etra, weakened by a treacherous psionic syndrome spread over their mental collective consciousness, gathered their servants and loyal subjects to defend their hold over the Universe as Psionic lords. The resulting military junta formed to battle the opposing government was named the \"Dominion\".\n\nThe Xol'Etra launched their armies with extreme prejudice. In the Beacon Sector, the full might of the Li Combine and the Phar'Servia attacked the Krauna Principality in a widespread assault on numerous fronts. In the Kaas Galaxy, the Krass Hegemony faced the wrath of the Phar'Michani's inquisitive work, as the fabled messenger warriors of the Xol'Etra made planetfall over scores of systems the Krass protected. The Xol'Etra servants were bent on extinguishing the taint of the Singularim over the galaxies they deemed now \"corrupted\". In many cases, Singul'Aren, master of the Singularim Pact, was forced to retreat and concentrate his forces on evacuation efforts in order to save lives before the Xol onslaught. Even if the Pact managed to save millions, countless more succumbed to the wrath of the Psionic Lords. The Xol'Etra seemed to attain victory over the first months of the crusade.\n\nHowever, as their forces spread wider in order to face Pact supporters across the entire Xanctum and Kaas Galaxies, they soon realized that their original plan was far-fetched. The battle of the Praxeum Trade route proved to be a fatal loss to the Dominion, and the Pact's first major victory, as they did not expect Singul'Aren himself to face the Dominion forces in this critical interstellar sector. Singul'Aren advanced through the four main Port worlds of the Praxeum sector, seeing that the Dominion would gain direct access to core worlds of the Krauna Principality, including Monoikos. Escorted by his newly formed Araenian Guard, he marched unopposed until the Praxeum route had been cleared and the Dominion invaders routed.\n\nIn the Kaas Galaxy, the arrival of the Livirkiton-Khalinar-Inog Front to assist the Krass halted the Phar'Michani drastically, but the holy servants of the Xol'Etra proved to be worthy opponents that would not give in even to the savagery of the Inog. The war became a tedious and violent between the allied forces and the Dominion.\n\nTheir victory at the Praxeum trade route was followed by a series of small victories that began to circumvent the Dominion advance in numerous systems, frustrating the Xol in many fronts and coming to a stalemate in others. Although the Pact had proven capable of holding the Xol'Etra, the front against the superior organization of the Dominion was unstable for the Krauna forces, even with the help of minor empires who refused to bow to the invading forces of the Li Combine. It was clear that the Pact needed to rekindle its initial hope. Singul'Aren knew that his appearance and power was not enough to inspire his new people with hope. Even the Krass had their hands full with the radical attacks of the Phar'Michani. Singul'Aren knew that only a species was powerful enough to confront the greatest warriors o the Dominion and inspire hope and victory in the hearts of the exhausted Krauna forces. They needed the three original races of the Krassio, and more specifically, the might of the Civatrons.\n\nSingul'Aren then convened with his advisers, and Master Haart, the only Civatron at that time, conveyed the location of a fleet of Krassio that had been imprisoned near the galactic core of the Chandras Galaxy. As Singul'Aren secretly reached out to identify such a promising military force, he realized that this fleet of Krassio warriors was no other than the Primal fleet, led by the supposedly defunct Master Kroc. The Krassio were kept in hibernation by the Xol'Etra so as to break their psionic discipline and add their brilliant military and psionic prowess to their own. As swiftly as he could, Singul'Aren mustered a small force composed of his bravest and most promising Araenian guards, and secretly traveled to the Chandras galactic core, which was right by the seat of the Xol Dominion. Once he warped through a psionic portal and he poured from it into the coordinates he had received, the psionic god of balance realized that the situation was far worse than he had imagined. The Xol'Etra, in their twisted sense of submission, had allowed Neithil minds to mentally bombard the sleeping warriors of the Primal Fleet. Singul'Aren sensed Master Kroc's soul desperately trying to circumvent the Neithil's influence in his subordinates, incapable of actively fighting their psionic attacks. Singul'Aren then awakened a large percent of his power for the first time, facing the custodians of the fleet, a large task force of Li forces who had a cult around Master Kroc and his warriors.\n\nSingul'Aren contended for a moment with the Li commander, who wrongly called himself \"The Hierarch's voice\". It was only when the Li leader lied at the psionic god's feet that he understood that Singul'Aren and the fabled warrior The Valader were the same beings. Understanding the Pact's right to claim the Primal fleet, the Hierarch's voice called his forces to stand down and allow Singul'Aren to do his work. The psionic god rushed to his old friend's aid and cast out the evil influence of the Neithil. Without the psionic slumbering power of the Xol'Etra nor the Neithil's defiling watch to withhold them, the Krassio fleet awakened and half a million strong reactivated the fleet's cruisers. Master Kroc's reunion with his old friend Singul'Aren is something still told across those who worship them as liberators.\n\nThe legendary leader of the Krassio and the Li subservient forces escaped through psionic portals towards a safe area into the Chandras galaxy, making short jumps in order to prevent the Dominion from falling on their numbers.\n\nAs the Primal Armada arrived at the frontlines, the Krauna saw the semi-mortal Civatrons unleash their full might against their ascended kin's servants. The Phar'Servia proved to be but a nuisance to the Civatron onslaught, and the Andrudan and Juvan auxiliaries provided much-needed reinforcements in besieged systems. One Civatron Chapter of battle-hardened warriors was enough to turn the tide on a battlefield, regardless of its size. Master Kroc ensured his forces hit critical strongholds created by the Phar'Servia and the Li Combine in order to demoralize and put their foes to the test. It was here where Kroc declared words that echoed in the front:\n\nCompared to the Zhulultu, these fiends stand no match against the light of the Krassio\n\n- Master Kroc\n\nEven with these significant victories, the Dominion still had to unleash its full might. With no sense of mercy or sorry for their victims, the Xol'Etra themselves descended upon the Krass and their own rebellion. The Triam, the leader of the Dominion, personally led the purge and, supported by his people of godly beings, crushed the Krass opposition. The bright comet that had been the Krass during the Great Psionic War was abruptly silenced, and millions of voices screamed in agony before the Triam's wrath. Kaas Galaxy was left in ruins and completely formless, with no possibility for it to ever host sentient life again.\n\nUnbeknownst to both the Xol'Etra and Singul'Aren, the dying cry of countless lives claimed by the Xol'Etra coalesced into something both sides did not expect: The birth of a new god. With great sorrow over her people, a being in the form of a Civatron female immediately imploded into reality just as the Phar'Michani and the Phar'Servia prepared to make a final run on Singul'Aren in the Endless Space. This being, calling herself Ynur'Va, full of sorrow, let out a chilling cry of war and vengeance as she charged with unconceivable psionic power, matched only by beings like Kroc and the Valader: The true warrior of the future, prophesized since the days of the War of Ages, had finally come into being.\n\nYnur massacred scores of enemies as she went from debris to debris, hunting down every single being she held responsible for the death of millions of her \"children\". She was the consolation and final rest for all victims in Kaas galaxy, and a terrible avenger to the murderers responsible for it. “I can hear them, Oh mighty Firstborn, the cry of countless voices who wish I do them justice, I shall not help you while these perpetrators of a life of honor and an honoring death still live. I will kill them, but not before they feel for the fist time what is to know fear\n\n- Ynur\nThe warrior of the Past and the warrior of the Future meet.\n\nSingul'Aren quickly rushed to what was left of Kaas, and sought to meet and calm Ynur. Both deities met and, at first, did not manage to come to terms with what they witnessed. Ynur was restless, wishing all remaining Xol'Etra in the devastated galaxy be silenced. Both warrior gods agreed to stay in Kaas until all crying souls had been harvested by Ynur, and their enemies crushed, thus beginning a stage of the war where only the gods did battle.\n\nAs his old friend the Valader was dealing with his complete opposite in Kaas, it was up to Kroc to, yet again, lead the surviving Krassio and Krauna, as well as all Krass and the species who had escaped the Xol'Etra. His innate charisma with psionic-minded people, like his, allowed him to pass reforms into the Krauna Principality and make it the backbone of the Pact Singul'Aren had envisioned. His strategic meta-genius conducted battles across the Chandras Galaxy that allowed the Pact to gain more soldiers to its ranks and secure its borders. However, the Dominion's losses at the hands of Ynur back in Kaas Galaxy began to recover, and the Pact's advance soon came to a second stalemate.\n\nHowever, just as the Pact's forces could not afford to spare any more casualties before the Xol Dominion, Ynur'Va and Singul'Aren arrived at Chandras, joined by a massive fleet of ships piloted by the souls of those dead by the Xol'Etra, and those psionic minds killed during the War of Ages. Just as Singul'Aren had amassed a massive army of the living that faced the might of the Xol'Etra, Ynur'Va had rallied the dead. This armada, called the Fleet of Vengeance, led the frontlines in a carnage that forced the Xol'Etra to step into the war, finding themselves outmatched by this turn of events. The Dominion retreated many times, each time allowing the Pact's forces to pave the way into the very heart of the Dominion: Vof Valar.\n\nYnuri striking with relentless fury at her foes.\n\nWhen the time finally came to besiege the massive City System of Vof Valar, the combined Trinity of the Pact's leaders was there. Singul, Kroc, and Ynur struck fiercely upon the shields of the great city, their forces battled the Triam's defense legions for months in space, until the Civatrons led by Kroc finally managed to land on the City, starting a prolonged ground fight that saw the Civatrons facing the Lantian Imperial Warriors, an unknown force brought by the Xol'Etra to compensate the battle.\n\nThe Siege of Vof Valar was interrupted when an unknown fleet of twisted psionic users pierced the blockade and landed swiftly upon the massive city, thus starting a new frontline. These newly arrivals identified themselves as the Yasuul Legion, seeking to become the dominant power of the Chandras galaxy by defeating both current powers in one swift strike. In a symbolic turn of events, the Xol Dominion and the Singularim Pact saw this new foe as their biggest threat, joining forces temporarily to defeat it. Just as the Yasuul were repelled, the Singularim and Xol authorities signed a cease-fire, finally able to see the great devastation their conflict had brought upon their worlds.\n\nBiology[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Civatrons are part of the Krassio gene, or \"Psionic gene\", meaning that they are mainly composed of psionic energy instead of other key genetic items that compose other species. For instance, their neuronal network is far more advanced than the average sentient species. Civatrons can compute information with extreme speed and multitask thoughts and commands. Instead of blood, they have an exotic bluish fluid connected somehow to their Psionic essence.\n\nPhysically, the Civatrons are constantly burning on specific parts of their body, like the eyes and hair tendrils, which display the raw power they possess in the arts of psionic energy. Despite their semi-mortal form, the Civatrons are in need of food and are carnivores in nature.\n\nMentally, Civatrons are naturally chaotic because of the raw psionic energies they are constantly using. Emotions in general, like happiness or anger, unlike other species who would consider them normal, are exponentially enhanced in a Civatron due to its cerebral cortex' hyper-advanced structure. As such, it is safe to assume that when a Civatron shows anger, he or she is probably being burnt from the inside out with this emotion. However, Civatrons endure harsh mental training in order to control these emotions and, although they display them from time to time, they prefer being simple and rational. Additionally, Civatrons compensate the immense surge of psionic energy coming from their minds by spreading it through their whole bodies, hence the usual glowing lines on their bodies.\n\nCivatrons have to genders, male and female, and they use sexual reproduction to conceive offspring. The male is significantly bulkier than the female, and they are reptilian in nature for unknown evolutive reasons.\n\nCulture[edit | edit source]\n\nCivatron culture is a monument to the art of War. From infancy to adulthood, the Civatrons train their psionic energies and learn to keep them in balance, not allowing their raw emotions take over and make them do atrocious things. Despite their warrior culture, Civatrons are not murderers nor revel in conquest. They are bound by a tradition of honor and integrity that define their rules during combat.\n\nTheir code of honor is highly defined by what Civatrons consider the highest authority concerning moral use of their powers: \"The Book of Discipline\", which was written mainly by The Valader, with annexes penned by Master Kroc and on recent months, by Lady Protectress Ynur'Vae.\n\nIn ancient days, prior to the War of Ages the Civatrons were organized into a body of Tribes, which in turn elected representatives that would form a general assembly and make decisions about their race. These Tribes varied in power and influence, and after the Great Psionic War, the surviving tribes reformed into the Civatron Chapters, which are military bodies dedicated to the protection and expansion of the The Singualrim Pact.\n\nNotable figures[edit | edit source]\n\nThe three leaders of the Singularim Pact are Civatrons.\n\nAlternate versions[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Lantians[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Lantians are the prime example of the Civatrons embracing the concept of chaos.\n\nThe Lantians come from the Mirror Universe, a parallel dimension where the Civatrons embraced the chaotic nature of their psionic essence (a concept unknown to the prime universe Civatrons) and allowed their immense psychic power to get out of control. These Civatrons, soon turning into Lantians (meaning Superior ones in their language), destroyed their Krassio brothers and became the main antagonists of their version of the Tigris War, subduing it successfully under their blasphemous rule. The Lantians are able to access to near infinite pools of power thanks to their ability to drain psionic essence from their victims. They are subjects now to the great and powerful Gigaquadrantic Hegemony. They lead a powerful military junta called the Yasuul Legion, and they are one for the primary reasons of the Hegemony's rapid and nearly uncontrollable expansion in their dimension.\n\nThe Krauna[edit | edit source]\n\nThe Krauna are a paradoxical existence, for they share Civatron blood, but keep a trace of another species entirely. This is because, during the Annihilation of universes and dimensions at the end of the War of Ages the Krauna, once another species with psionic potential, were merged with the Nigtrion tribe of the Civatrons, creating a new version of Civatrons (or Krauna) that, in time, created their own interstellar empire in the Endless Space between galaxies, building space marvels and holding a relatively vast territory (albeit with no stars) until they were absorbed by the rising Singularim Pact. Like their original peers, the Krauna are warlike and biologically compatible with the Civatrons, sharing their immense psionic potential, as well as an indomitable will and body thanks to the Krauna's genetic inheritance.\n\nQuotes from other empires[edit | edit source]\n\nWe thank you for teaching us about the universe we live in.\n\n- Shellious Imperium\n\nTrivia[edit | edit source]\n\n  • The Civatrons are the first Spore fiction ever introduced by The Valader, as well his main fiction.\n... more about \"Civatron\"\nReptilia +\nThe Valader +\nThe Valader +\nKorosauridae +\nKrassio +\nCRE_The_Valader-187dc4ec_ful.png +\nAnimalia +\nBipedal +\nCrocodilia +\nKorosauridae +\n  • Reserved\n  • Reclusive\nChordata +\nKrassio primogenitus +\n2010 +", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6016552448272705}
+{"content": "Keeping the Bucket Full\n\nAugust 15, 2016\n\nHave you ever been in a meeting with your peers?\n\nThe meeting starts off well enough; you catch up on the weekend, and then the agenda items start rolling. Things seem pretty clear at first, but then your meeting is hit with a needed decision. Everyone shares their points of view, but all the proposed decisions are different. Who finally decides which option to choose? Sometimes, it is the loudest person in the room who directs the decision. Maybe it is the one with the most tenure or who is most eloquent in their reasoning. Or even worse, sometimes it is the person the group knows will get the most upset if their decision is not chosen.\n\nAll of these scenarios are lousy reasons to make a decision. A leader is needed; not just to make the decision, but to remind the group what the decision will do to contribute to the vision, rallying everyone behind it. You see, a leader in these situations provides something that no one in a group of peers is able to provide—constant direction to one common purpose. If there is no leader, the perspectives of many contributors start to rush in, confusing the way forward.\n\nBill Hybles, in his book Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs, describes this phenomenon as “vision leaks.” What this means is that, as humans, we forget everything; our memory is a leaking bucket. We forget what we are trying to do all the time. This is why we make lists, use project management software, even tie bows on our fingers. But these leaky memories can lead us to forget one of the most important things—the “why” behind what we’re doing. The “why” is what drives us with passion and unites us with our team. The “why” is what encourages us to be decisive and gets the whole team behind our decisions. If we forget the why, then the vision is gone and this opens the door to poor decision making.\n\nWithout the leader’s vision constantly filling our leaky buckets, the “leaking” commences and people start to fill it with false ideas of what it is supposed to be. This frequently starts a small, unnoticeable, ever-so-slight shift of the vision; shifting it from what the leader intended to, eventually, a whole new unintentional path, made one decision at a time.\n\nSo, as a leader, do you need to be involved in every single decision? Absolutely not! But your vision does. Your vision needs to be at the heart of every decision made, from the executive meeting to the front counter. Instead of asking yourself, “does everyone know (or remember) the direction we are going?” know that the vision will naturally leak and that the best way to make sure the right decision is being made is to constantly be filling up the vision buckets of those who make them.\n\nThis week, look for ways to share your vision in every meeting you have. Then do it again next week.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5633425116539001}
+{"content": "With introductory material by Leonard C. Lewin\nThe Dial Press, Inc. 1967, New York\n\n Screen Shot 2015-12-27 at 9.06.00 AM\n\n\n\nHe was obviously disturbed. He made small talk for half an hour, which was quite out of character, and I didn’t press him. Then, apropos of nothing, he mentioned a dispute between a writer and a prominent political family that had been in the headlines. What, he wanted to know, were my views on “freedom of information”? How would I qualify them? And so on. My answers were not memorable, but they seemed to satisfy him. Then, quite abruptly, he began to tell me the following story:\n\nEarly in August of 1963, he said, he found a message on his desk that a “Mrs. Potts” had called him from Washington. When he returned the call, a MAN answered immediately, and told Doe, among other things, that he had been selected to serve on a commission “of the highest importance.” Its objective was to determine, accurately and realistically, the nature of the problems that would confront the United States if and when a condition of “permanent peace” should arrive, and to draft a program for dealing with this contingency. The man described the unique procedures that were to govern the commission’s work and that were expected to extend its scope far beyond that of any previous examination of these problems.\n\nConsidering that the caller did not precisely identify either himself or his agency, his persuasiveness must have been a truly remarkable order. Doe entertained no serious doubts of the bona fides of the project, however, chiefly because of his previous experience with the excessive secrecy that often surrounds quasi-governmental activities. In addition, the man at the other end of the line demonstrated an impressively complete and surprisingly detailed knowledge of Doe’s work and personal life. He also mentioned the names of others who were to serve with the group; most of them were known to Doe by reputation. Doe agreed to take the assignment — he felt he had no real choice in the matter — and to appear the second Saturday following at Iron Mountain, New York. An airline ticket arrived in his mail the next morning.\n\n\nThe cloak-and-dagger tone of this convocation was further enhanced by the meeting place itself. Iron Mountain, located near the town of Hudson, is like something out of Ian Fleming or E. Phillips Oppenheim. It is an underground nuclear hideout for hundreds of large American corporations. Most of them use it as an emergency storage vault for important documents. But a number of them maintain substitute corporate headquarters as well, where essential personnel could presumably survive and continue to work after an attack. This latter group includes such firms as Standard Oil of New Jersey, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, and Shell.\n\nI will leave most of the story of the operations of the Special Study Group, as the commission was formally called, for Doe to tell in his own words (“Background Information”). At this point it is necessary to say only that it met and worked regularly for over two and a half years, after which it produced a Report. It was this document, and what to do about it, that Doe wanted to talk to me about.\n\nThe Report, he said, had been suppressed — both by the Special Study Group itself and by the government INTERAGENCY committee to which it had been submitted. After months of agonizing, Doe had decided that he would no longer be party to keeping it secret. What he wanted from me was advice and assistance in having it published. He gave me his copy to read, with the express understanding that if for any reason I were unwilling to become involved, I would say nothing about it to anyone else.\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is not surprising that the Group, in its Letter of Transmittal, did not choose to justify its work to “the lay reader, unexposed to the exigencies of higher political or military responsibility.” Its Report was addressed, deliberately, to unnamed government administrators of high rank; it assumed – considerable political sophistication from this select audience. To the general reader, therefore, the substance of the document may be even more unsettling than its conclusions. He may not be prepared for some of its assumptions — for instance, that most medical advances are viewed more as problems than as progress; or that poverty is necessary and desirable, public postures by politicians to the contrary notwithstanding; or that standing armies are, among other things social-welfare institutions in exactly the same sense as are old-people’s homes and mental hospitals. It may strike him as odd to find the probably explanation of “flying saucer” incidents disposed of en passant in less than a sentence. He may be less surprised to find that the space program and the “controversial antimissile missile and fallout shelter programs are understood to have the spending of vast sums of money, not the advancement of science or national defense, as their principal goals, and to learn that “military” draft policies are only remotely concerned with defense.\n\nHe may be offended to find the organized repression of minority groups, and even the reestablishment of slavery, seriously (and on the whole favorably discussed as possible aspects of a world at peace. He is not likely to take kindly to the notion of the deliberate intensification of air and water pollution (as part of a program leading to peace), even when the reason for considering it is made clear. That a world without war will have to turn sooner rather than later to universal test-tube procreation will be less disturbing, if no more appealing. But few readers will not be taken aback, at least, by a few lines in the Report’s conclusions, repeated in its formal recommendations, that suggest that the long- range planning–and “budgeting” — of the “optimum” number of lives to be destroyed annually in overt warfare is high on the Group’s list of priorities for government action.\n\n\nThis book, of course, is evidence of my response to Doe’s request. After carefully considering the problems that might confront the publisher of the Report, we took it to The Dial Press. There, its significance was immediately recognized, and, more important, we were given firm assurances that no outside pressures of any sort would be permitted to interfere with its publication.\n\n\nIt should be made clear that Doe does not disagree with the substance of the Report, which represents as genuine consensus in all important respects. He constituted a minority of one — but only on the issue of disclosing it to the general public. A look at how the Group dealt with this question will be illuminating\n\nThe debate took place at the Group’s last full meeting before the Report was written, late in March, 1966, and again at Iron Mountain. Two facts must be kept in mind, by way of background. The first is that the Special Study Group had never been explicitly charged with or sworn to secrecy, either when it was convened or at any time thereafter. The second is that the Group had nevertheless operated as if it had been. This was assumed from the circumstances of its inception and from the tone of its instructions. (The Group’s acknowledgment of help from “the many persons….who contributed so greatly to our work” is somewhat equivocal; these persons were not told the nature of the project for which their special resources of information were solicited.)\n\nThose who argued the case for keeping the Report secret were admittedly motivated by fear of the explosive political effects that could be expected from publicity. For evidence, they pointed to the suppression of the far less controversial report of then-Senator Hubert Humphrey’s subcommittee on disarmament in 1962. (Subcommittee members had reportedly feared that it might be used by Communist propagandists, as Senator Stuart Symington put it, to “back up the Marxian theory that was production was the reason for the success of capitalism.”) Similar political precautions had been taken with the better-known Gaither Report in 1957, and even with the so-called Moynihan Report in 1965.\n\nFurthermore, they insisted, a distinction must be made between serious studies, which are normally classified unless and until policy makers decide to release them, and conventional “showcase” projects, organized to demonstrate a political leadership’s concerns about an issue and to deflect the energy of those pressing for action on it. (The example used, because some of the Group had participated in it, was a “While House Conference” on intended cooperation, disarmament, etc., which had been staged late in 1965 to offset complaints about escalation of Vietnam War.)\n\nDoe acknowledges this distinction, as well as the strong possibility of public misunderstanding. But he feels that if the sponsoring agency had wanted to mandate secrecy it could have done so at the outset. It could also have assigned the project to one of the government’s established “think tanks,” which normally work on a classified basis. He scoffed at fear of public reaction, which could\n\n\nhave no lasting effect on long-range measures that might be taken to implement the Group’s proposals, and derided the Group’s abdication of responsibility for its opinions and conclusions. So far as he was concerned, there was such a thing as a public right to know what was being done on its behalf; the burden of proof was on those who would abridge it.\n\nIf my account seems to give Doe the better of the argument, despite his failure to convince his colleagues, so be it. My participation in this book testifies that I am not neutral. In my opinion, the decision of the Special Study Group to censor its own findings was not merely timid but presumptuous. But the refusal, as of this writing, of the agencies for which the Report was prepared to release it themselves raises broader questions of public policy. Such questions center on the continuing use of self-serve definitions of “security” to avoid possible political embarrassment. It is ironic how often this practice backfires.\n\n\n\nL.C.L. New York June 1967\n\n\n\n[The following account of the workings of the Special Study Group is taken verbatim from a series of tape recorded interviews I had with “John Doe.” The transcript has been edited to minimize the intrusion of my questions and comments, as well as for length, and the sequence has been revised in the interest of continuity. L.C.L.]\n\n\n…The general idea for it, for this kind of study dates back at least to 1961. It started with some of the new people who came in with the Kennedy administration, mostly, I think, with McNamara, Bundy, and Rusk. They were impatient about many things….One of them was that no really serious work had been done about planning for peace—a long-range peace, that is, with long- rang planning.\n\nEverything that had been written on the subject [before 1961] was superficial. There was insufficient appreciation of the scope of the problem. The main reason for this, of course, was that the idea of a real peace in the world, general disarmament and so on, was looked on as utopian. Or even crack- pot. This is still true, and it’s easy enough to understand when you look at what’s going on in the world today….It was reflected in the studies that had been made up to that time. They were not realistic…\n\nThe idea of the Special Study, the exact form it would take, was worked out early in ’63…The settlement of the Cuban missile affair had something to do with it, but what helped most to get it moving were the big changes in military spending that were being planned…..Plants being closed, relocations, and so forth. Most of it wasn’t made public until much later….\n\n[I understand] it took a long time to select the people for the Group. The calls didn’t go out until the summer……\n\n\nThat’s something I can’t tell you. I wasn’t involved with the preliminary planning. The first I knew of it was when I was called myself. But three of the people had been in on it, and what the rest of us know we learned from them, about what went on earlier. I do know that it started very informally. I don’t know what particular government agency approved the project.\n\n\n\nAll right—I think it was an ad hoc committee, at the cabinet level, or near it. It had to be. I suppose they gave the organizational job–making arrangements, paying the bills, and so on—to somebody from the State or Defense of the National Security Council. Only one of us was in touch with Washington, and I wasn’t the one. But I can tell you that very, very few people knew about us….For instance, there was the Ackley Committee. It was set up after we were. If you read their report—the same old tune—economic reconversion, turning sword plants into plowshare factories…I think you’ll wonder if even the President knew about our Group. The Ackley Committee certainly didn’t.\n\n\nWell, I don’t think there’s anything odd about the government attacking a problem at two different levels. Or even about two or three [government] agencies working at cross-purposes. It happens all the time. Perhaps the President did know. And I don’t mean to denigrate the Ackley Committee, but it was exactly that narrowness of approach that we were supposed to get away from…….\n\nYou have to remember — you’ve read the Report—that what they wanted from us was a different kind of thinking. It was a matter of approach. Herman Kahn calls is “Byzantine”–no agonizing over cultural and religious values. No moral posturing. It’s the kind of thinking that Rand and the Hudson Institute and I.D.A. (Institute for Defense Analysis.) brought into war planning…What they asked up to do, and I think we did it, was to give the same kind of treatment to the hypothetical nuclear war…We may have gone further than they expected, but once you establish your premises and your logic you can’t turn back….\n\nKahn’s books, for example, are misunderstood, at least by laymen. They shock people. But you see, what’s important about them is not his conclusions, or his opinions. It’s the method. He has done more than anyone else I can think of to get the general public accustomed to the style of modern military thinking…..Today it’s possible for a columnist to write about “counterforce strategy” and “minimum deterrence” and “credible first strike capability” with- out having to explain every other word. He can write about war and strategy without getting bogged down in questions or morality…….\n\n\nThe other big difference about or work is breadth. The Report speaks for itself. I can’t say that we took every relevant aspect of life and society into account, but I don’t think we missed anything essential…\n\n\nI think that’s obvious, or should be. The kind of thinking wanted from our Group just isn’t to be had in a formal government operation. Too many constraints. Too many inhibitions. This isn’t a new problem. Why else would outfits like Rand and Hudson stay in business? Any assignment that’s at all sophisticated is almost always given to an outside group. This is true even in the State Department, in the “gray” operations, those that are supposed to be unofficial, but are really as official as can be. Also with the C.I.A….\n\nFor our study, even the private research centers were too institutional… A lot of thought went into making sure that our thinking would be unrestricted. All kinds of little things. The way we were called into the Group, the places we met, all kinds of subtle devices to remind us. For instance, even our name, the Special Study Group. You know government names. Wouldn’t you think we’d have been called “Operation Olive Branch,” or “Project Pacifica,” or something like that? Nothing like that for us—too allusive, too suggestive. And no minutes of our meetings—too inhibiting…. About who might be reading them. Of course, we took notes for our own use. And among ourselves, we usually called ourselves “The Iron Mountain Boys,” or “Our Thing,” or whatever came to mind……..\n\n\n\nIt’s true that there were no women in the Group, but I don’t think that was significant…..We were all American citizens, of course. And all, I can say, in very good health, at least when we began…. You see, the first order of business, at the first meeting, was the reading of dossiers. They were very detailed, and\n\n\nnot just professional, but also personal. They included medical histories. I remember one very curious thing, for whatever it’s worth. Most of us, and that includes me, had a record of abnormally high uric acid concentrations in the blood…… None of us had ever had this experience, of a public inspection of credentials, or medical reports. It was very disturbing…\n\nBut it was deliberate. The reason for it was to emphasize that we were supposed to make ALL our own decisions on procedure, without outside rules. This included judging each other’s qualifications and making allowances for possible bias. I don’t think it affected our work directly, but it made the point it was supposed to make…… That we should ignore absolutely nothing that might conceivably affect our objectivity.\n\n\nThe simple alphabetical “names” were assigned by Doe for convenient reference; they bear no intended relation to actual names. “Able” was the Group’s Washington contact. It was he who brought and read the dossiers, and who most often acted as chairman. He, “Baker,” and “Cox” were the three who had been involved in the preliminary planning. There is no other significance to the order of listing.\n\n“Arthur Able” is an historian and political theorist, who has served in government.\n\n“Bernard Baker: is a professor of international law and a consultant on government operations.\n\n“Charles Cox” is an economist, social critic, and biographer. “John Doe.”\n“Edward Ellis” is a sociologist often involved in public affairs.\n\n\n“Frank Fox” is a cultural anthropologist.\n\n“George Green” is a psychologist, educator, and developer of personnel testing systems.\n\n“Harold Hill” is a psychiatrist, who has conducted extensive studies of the relationship between individual and group behavior.\n\n“John Jones” is a scholar and literary critic.\n\n“Martin Miller” is a physical chemist, whose work has received inter- national recognition at the highest level.\n\n“Paul Peters” is a biochemist, who has made important discoveries bearing on reproductive processes.\n\n“Richard Roe” is a mathematician affiliated with an independent West Coast research institution.\n\n“Samuel Smith” is an astronomer, physicist, and communications theorist.\n\n“Thomas Taylor” is a systems analyst and war planner, who has written extensively on war, peace, and international relations.\n\n“William White” is an industrialist, who has undertaken many special government assignments.]\n\n\nWe met on the average of once a month. Usually it was on weekends, and usually for two days. We had a few longer sessions, and one that lasted only four hours. …. We met all over the country, always at a different place, except for the first and last times, which were at Iron Mountain. It was like a traveling seminar….Sometimes at hotels, sometimes at universities. Twice we met at summer camps, and once at a private estate, in Virginia. We used a business place in Pittsburgh, and another in Poughkeepsie, [New York]….We never met in Washington, or on government property anywhere….Able would announce the times and places two meetings ahead. They were never changed…..\n\n\n\ninformation from other people…. Among the fifteen of us, I don’t thing there was anybody in the academic or professional world we couldn’t call on if we wanted to, and we took advantage of it….. We were paid a very modest per diem. All of it was called “expenses” on the vouchers. We were told not to report it on our tax returns…. The checks were drawn on a special account of Able’s at a New York bank. He signed them….I don’t know what the study cost. So far as our time and travel were concerned, it couldn’t have come to more than the low six-figure range. But the big item must have been computer time, and I have no idea how high this ran……\n\n\nYes, it is. I can understand your skepticism. But if you had been at any of our meetings you’d have had a very hard time figuring out who were the liberals and who were the conservatives, or who were hawks and who were doves. There IS such a thing as objectivity, and I think we had it… I don’t say no one had any emotional reaction to what we were doing. We all did, to some extent. As a matter of fact, two members had heart attacks after we were finished, and I’ll be the first to admit it probably wasn’t a coincidence.\n\n\nThe most important were informality and unanimity . By informality I mean that our discussions were open-ended. We went as far afield as any one of us thought we had to. For instance, we spent a lot of time on the relationship between military recruitment policies and industrial employment. Before we were finished with it, we’d gone through the history of western penal codes and any number of comparative psychiatric studies [of draftees and volunteers]. We looked over the organization of the Inca empire. We determined the effects of automation on underdeveloped societies….It was all relevant….\n\nBy unanimity, I don’t mean that we kept taking votes, like a jury. I mean that we stayed with every issue until we had what the Quakers call a “sense of the meeting.” It was time-consuming. But in the long run it saved time. Eventually we all got on the same wavelength, so to speak…..\n\n\nOf course we had differences, and big ones, especially in the beginning… For instance, in Section I you might think we were merely clarifying our instructions. Not so; it took a long time before we all agreed to a strict interpretation…. Roe and Taylor deserve most of the credit for this… There are many things in the Report that look obvious now, but didn’t seem so obvious then. For instance, on the relationship of war to social systems. The original premise was conventional, from Clausewitz. …. That war was an “instrument” of broader political values. Able was the only one who challenged this, at first. Fox called his position “perverse.” Yet it was Fox who furnished most of the data that led us all to agree with Able eventually. I mention this be- cause I think it’s a good example of the way we worked. A triumph of method over cliché…… I certainly don’t intend to go into details about who took what side about what, and when. But I will say, to give credit where due, that only Roe, Able, Hill and Taylor were able to see, at the beginning, where our method was taking us.\n\n\nYes. It’s a unanimous report… I don’t mean that our sessions were always harmonious. Some of them were rough. The last six months there was a lot of quibbling about small points… We’d been under pressure for a long time, we’d been working together too long. It was natural…..that we got on each other’s nerves. For a while Able and Taylor weren’t speaking to each other. Miller threatened to quit. But this all passed. There were no important differences…\n\n\nWe all had a hand in the first draft. Jones and Able put it together, and then mailed it around for review before working out a final version… The only problems were the form it should take and whom we were writing it for. And, of course, the question of disclosure…. [Doe’s comments on this point are summarized in the introduction.]\n\n\nI wanted to say something about that. The Report barely mentions it. “Peace games” is a method we developed during the course of the study. It’s a forecasting technique, an information system. I’m very excited about it. Even if nothing is done about our recommendations–which is conceivable–this is something that can’t be ignored. It will revolutionize the study of social\n\n\nproblems. It’s a by-product of the study. We needed a fast, dependable procedure to approximate the effects of disparate social phenomena on other social phenomena. We got it. It’s in a primitive phase, but it works.\n\n\nYou don’t “play” peace games, like chess or Monopoly, any more than you play war games with toy soldiers. You use computers. It’s a programming system. A computer “language,” like Fortran, or Algol, or Jovial…. Its advantage is its superior capacity to interrelate data with no apparent common points of reference…. A simple analogy is likely to be misleading. But I can give you some examples. For instance, supposing I asked you to figure out what effect a moon landing by U.S. astronauts would have on an election in, say, Sweden. Or what effect a change in the draft law–a specific change–would have on the value of real estate in downtown Manhattan? Or a certain change in college entrance requirements in the United States on the British shipping industry?\n\nYou would probably say, first, that there would be no effect to speak of, and second, that there would be no way of telling. But you’d be wrong on both counts. In each case there would be an effect, and the peace games method could tell you what it would be, quantitatively. I didn’t take these examples out of the air. We used them in working out the method….Essentially, it’s an elaborate high-speed trial-and-error system for determining working algorithms. Like most sophisticated types of computer problem-solving…\n\nA lot of the “games” of this kind you read about are just glorified and conversational exercises. They really are games, and nothing more. I just saw one reported in the Canadian Computer Society Bulletin, called a “Vietnam Peace Game.” They use simulation techniques, but the programming hypotheses are speculative….\n\nThe idea of a problem-solving system like this is not original with us. ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency, of the Department of Defense DoD.) has been working on something like it. So has General Electric, in California. There are others….. We were successful not because we know more than they do about programming, which we don’t, but because we leaned how to formulate the problems accurately. It goes back to the old saw. You can always find the answer if you know the right question…..\n\n\n\nCertainly. But it would have taken many times longer. But please don’t misunderstand my enthusiasm [about the peace games method]. With all due respect to the effects of computer technology on modern thinking, basic judgments must still be made by human beings. The peace games technique isn’t responsible for our Report. We are.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo the convener of this Group:\n\nAttached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and 2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For the convenience of nontechnical readers we have elected to submit our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, as well as a preliminary manual of the “peace games” method devised during the course of our study.\n\n\n\nWe deeply regret that the necessity of anonymity, a prerequisite to our Group’s unhindered pursuit of its objectives, precludes proper acknowledgment of our gratitude to the many persons in and out of government who contributed so greatly to our work.\n\n\nFOR THE SPECIAL STUDY GROUP [signature withheld for publication]\n\n\nOur work has been predicated on the belief that some kind of general peace may soon be negotiable. The de facto admission of Communist China into the United Nations now appears to be only a few years away at most. It has become increasingly manifest that conflicts of American national interest with those of China and the Soviet Union are susceptible of political solution, despite the superficial contraindications of the current Vietnam war, of the threats of an attack on China, and of the necessarily hostile tenor of day-to-day foreign policy statements. It is also obvious that differences involving other nations can be readily resolved by the three great powers whenever they arrive at a stable peace among themselves. It is not necessary, for the purposes of our study, to assume that a general detente of this sort will come about—and we make no such argument–but only that it may.\n\n\n\n\nbe faced. What, for instance, are the real functions of war in modern societies, beyond the ostensible ones of defending and advancing the “national interests” of nations? In the absence of war, what other institutions exist or might be devised to fulfill these functions? Granting that a “peaceful” settlement of disputes is within the range of current international relationships, is the abolition of war, in the broad sense, really possible? If so, is it necessarily desirable, in terms of social stability? If not, what can be done to improve the operation of our social system in respect to its war-readiness?\n\nThe word peace, as we have used it in the following pages, describes a permanent, or quasi-permanent, condition entirely free from the national exercise, or contemplation, of any form of the organized social violence, or threat of violence, generally known as war. It implies total and general disarmament. It is not used to describe the more familiar condition of “cold war,” “armed peace,” or other mere respite, long or short, from armed conflict. Nor is it used simply as a synonym for the political settlement of international differences. The magnitude of modern means of mass destruction and the speed of modern communications require the unqualified working definition given above; only a generation ago such an absolute description would have seemed utopian rather than pragmatic. Today, any modification of this definition would render it almost worthless for our purpose. By the same standard, we have used the work war to apply interchangeably to conventional (“hot”) war, to the general condition of war preparation or war readiness, and to the general “war system.” The sense intended is made clear in context.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt is a truism that objectivity is more often an intention expressed than an attitude achieved, but the intention—conscious, unambiguous, and constantly self-critical — is a precondition to its achievement. We believe it no accident that we were charged to use a “military contingency” model for our study, and we owe a considerable debt to the civilian war planning agencies for their pioneering work in the objective examination of the contingencies of nuclear war. There is no such precedent in the peace studies. Much of the usefulness of even the most elaborate and carefully reasoned programs for economic conversion to peace, for example, has been vitiated by a wishful eagerness to demonstrate that peace is not only possible, but even cheap or easy. One official report is replete with references to the critical role of “dynamic optimism” on economic developments, and goes on to submit, as evidence, that it “would be hard to imagine that the American people would not respond very positively to an agreed and safeguarded program to substitute an international rule of law and order,” etc. Another line of argument frequently taken is that disarmament would entail comparatively little disruption of the economy, since it need only be partial; we will deal with this approach later. Yet genuine objectivity in war studies is often critized as inhuman. As Herman Kahn, the writer on strategic studies best known to the general public, put it: “Critics frequently object to the icy rationality of the Hudson Institute, the Rand Corporation, and other such organizations. I’m always tempted to ask in reply, `Would you prefer a warm, human error? Do you feel better with a nice emotional mistake.'” And, as\n\n\nSecretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has pointed out, in reference to facing up to the possibility of nuclear war, “Some people are afraid even to look over the edge. But in a thermonuclear war we cannot afford any political acrophobia.” Surely it would be self-evident that this applies equally to the opposite prospect, but so far no one has taken more than a timid glance over the brink of peace.\n\nAn intention to avoid preconceived value judgments is if anything even more productive of self-delusion. We claim no immunity, as individuals, from this type of bias, but we have made a continuously self-conscious effort to deal with the problems of peace without, for example, considering that a condition of peace is per se “good” or “bad.” This has not been easy, but it has been obligatory; to our knowledge, it has not been done before. Previous studies have taken the desirability of peace, the importance of human life, the superiority of democratic institutions, the greatest “good” for the greatest number, the “dignity” of the individual, the desirability of maximum health and longevity, and other such wishful premises as axiomatic values necessary for the justification of a study of peace issues. We have not found them so. We have attempted to apply the standards of physical science to our thinking, the principal characteristic of which is not quantification, as is popularly believed, but that, in Whitehead’s words, “…it ignores all judgments of value; for instance, all aesthetic and moral judgments.” Yet it is obvious that any serious investigation of a problem, however “pure,” must be informed by some normative standard. In this case it has been simply the survival of human society in general, of American society in particular, and, as a corollary to survival, the stability of this society.\n\nIt is interesting, we believe, to note that the most dispassionate planners of nuclear strategy also recognize that the stability of society is the one bedrock value that cannot be avoided. Secretary McNamara has defended the need for American nuclear superiority on the grounds that it “makes possible a strategy designed to preserve the fabric of our societies if war should occur.” A former member of the Department of State policy planning staff goes further. “A more precise word for peace, in terms of the practical world, is stability. … Today the great nuclear panoplies are essential elements in such stability as exists. Our present purpose must be to continue the process of learning how to live with them.” We, of course, do not equate stability with peace, but we accept it as the one common assumed objective of both peace and war.\n\n\n\n\nIt is not surprising that these less obvious factors have been generally ignored in peace research. They have not lent themselves to systematic analysis. They have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to measure with any degree of assurance that estimates of their effects could be depended on. They are “intangibles,” but only in the sense that abstract concepts in mathematics are intangible compared to those which can be quantified. Economic factors, on the other hand, can be measured, at least superficially; and international relationships can be verbalized, like law, into logical sequences.\n\nWe do not claim that we have discovered an infallible way of measuring these other factors, or of assigning them precise weights in the equation of transition. But we believe we have taken their relative importance into account to this extent: we have removed them from the category of the “intangible,” hence scientifically suspect and therefore somehow of secondary importance, and brought them out into the realm of the objective. The result, we believe, provides a context of realism for the discussion of the issues relating to the possible transition to peace which up to now has been missing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe first factor is that of size. The “world war industry,” as one writer has aptly called it, accounts for approximately a tenth of the output of the world’s total economy. Although this figure is subject to fluctuation, the causes of which are themselves subject to regional variation, it tends to hold fairly steady. The United States, as the world’s richest nation, not only accounts for the largest single share of this expense, currently upward of $60 billion a year, but also “…has devoted a higher proportion [emphasis added] of its gross national product to its military establishment than any other major free world nation. This was true even before our increased expenditures in Southeast Asia.” Plans for economic conversion that minimize the economic magnitude of the problem do so only by rationalizing, however persuasively, the maintenance of a substantial residual military budget under some euphemized classification.\n\nConversion of military expenditures to other purposes entails a number of difficulties. The most serious stems from the degree of rigid specialization that characterizes modern war production, best exemplified in nuclear and missile technology. This constituted no fundamental problem after World War II, nor did the question of free-market consumer demand for “conventional” items of consumption—those good and services consumers had already been conditioned to require. Today’s situation is qualitatively different in both respects.\n\nThis inflexibility is geographical and occupational, as well as industrial, a fact which has led most analysts of the economic impact of disarmament to focus their attention on phased plans for the relocation of war industry personnel and capital installations as much as on proposals for developing new patterns of consumption. One serious flaw common to such plans is the kind called in the\n\n\nnatural sciences the “macroscopic error.” An implicit presumption is made that a total national plan for conversion differs from a community program to cope with the shutting down of a “defense facility” only in degree. We find no reason to believe that this is the case, nor that a general enlargement of such local programs, however well thought out in terms of housing, occupational retraining, and the like, can be applied on a national scale. A national economy can absorb almost any number of subsidiary reorganizations within its total limits, providing there is no basic change in its own structure. General disarmament, which would require such basic changes, lends itself to no valid smaller-scale analogy.\n\nEven more questionable are the models proposed for the retaining labor for nonarmaments occupations. Putting aside for the moment the unsolved questions dealing with the nature of new distribution patterns—retraining for what?– the increasingly specialized job skills associated with war industry production are further depreciated by the accelerating inroads of the industrial techniques loosely described as “automation.” It is not too much to say that general disarmament would require the scrapping of a critical proportion of the most highly developed occupational specialties in the economy. The political difficulties inherent in such an “adjustment” would make the outcries resulting from the closing of a few obsolete military and naval installations in 1964 sound like a whisper.\n\nIn general, discussions of the problem of conversion have been characterized by an unwillingness to recognize its special quality. This is best exemplified by the 1965 report of the Ackley Committee. One critic has tellingly pointed out that it blindly assumes that “…nothing in the arms economy–neither its size, nor its geographical concentration, nor its highly specialized nature, nor the peculiarities of its market, nor the special nature of much of its labor force— endows it with any uniqueness when the necessary time of adjustment comes.”\n\n\nThe most common held theory is simply that general economic reinvestment would absorb the greater part of these capabilities. Even though it is now largely taken for granted (and even by today’s equivalent of traditional laissez- faire economists) that unprecedented government assistance (and concomitant government control) will be needed to solve the “structural” problems of\n\n\n\nOne school of economists has it that these patterns will develop on their own. It envisages the equivalent of the arms budget being returned, under careful control, to the consumer, in the form of tax cuts. Another, recognizing the undeniable need for increased “consumption” in what is generally considered the public sector of the economy, stresses vastly increased government spending in such areas of national concern as health, education, mass transportation, low- cost housing, water supply, control of the physical environment, and, stated generally, “poverty.”\n\n\nMore sophisticated, and less sanguine, analysts contemplate the diversion of the arms budget to a non-military system equally remote from the market economy. What the “pyramid-builders” frequently suggest is the expansion of space- research programs to the dollar level of current expenditures. This approach has the superficial merit of reducing the size of the problem of transferability of resources, but introduces other difficulties, which we will take up in section 6.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSCENARIOS, as they have come to be called, are hypothetical constructions of future events. Inevitably, they are composed of varying proportions of established fact, reasonable inference, and more or less inspired guesswork. Those which have been suggested as model procedures for effectuating international arms control and eventual disarmament are necessarily imaginative, although closely reasoned; in this respect they resemble the “war games” analyses of the Rand Corporation, with which they share a common conceptual origin.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiven genuine agreement of intent among the great powers, the scheduling of arms control and elimination presents no inherently insurmountable procedural problems. Any of several proposed sequences might serve as the basis for multilateral agreement or for the first step in unilateral arms reduction.\n\n\nFurthermore, disarmament scenarios, like proposals for economic conversion, make no allowance for the non-military functions of war in modern societies, and offer no surrogate for these necessary functions. One partial exception is a proposal for the “unarmed forces of the United States,” which we will consider in section 6.\n\n\n\nWe have dealt only sketchily with proposed disarmament scenarios and economic analyses, but the reason for our seemingly casual dismissal of so much serious and sophisticated work lies in no disrespect for its competence. It is rather a question of relevance. To put it plainly, all these programs, however detailed and well developed, are abstractions. The most carefully reasoned disarmament sequence inevitably reads more like the rules of a game or a classroom exercise in logic than like a prognosis of real events in the real world. This is as true of today’s complex proposals as it was of the Abbé de St. Pierre’s “Plan for Perpetual Peace in Europe” 250 years ago.\n\nSome essential element has clearly been lacking in all these schemes. One of our first tasks was to try to bring this missing quality into definable focus, and we believe we have succeeded in doing so. We find that at the heart of every peace study we have examined–from the modest technological proposal (e.g., to convert a poison gas plant to the production of “socially useful” equivalents) to the most elaborate scenario for universal peace in out time–lies one common fundamental misconception. It is the source of the miasma of unreality surrounding such plans. It is the incorrect assumption that war, as an institution, is subordinate to the social systems it is believed to serve.\n\nThis misconception, although profound and far-reaching, is entirely comprehensible. Few social clichés are so unquestioningly accepted as the notion that war is an extension of diplomacy (or of politics, or of the pursuit of economic objectives). If this were true, it would be wholly appropriate for economists and political theorists to look on the problems of transition to peace as essentially mechanical or procedural—as indeed they do, treating them as logistic corollaries of the settlement of national conflicts of interest. If this were true, there would be no real substance to the difficulties of transition. For it is evident that even in today’s world there exist no conceivable conflict of interest, real or imaginary, between nations or between social forces within nations, that cannot be resolved without recourse to war–if such resolution were assigned a priority of social value. And if this were true, the economic analyses and disarmament proposals we have referred to, plausible and well conceived as they may be, would not inspire, as they do, an inescapable sense of indirection.\n\nThe point is that the cliché is not true, and the problems of transition are indeed substantive rather than merely procedural. Although was is “used” as an instrument of national and social policy, the fact that a society is organized for any degree of readiness for war supersedes its political and economic structure. War itself is the basic social system, within which other secondary modes of\n\n\n\nOnce this is correctly understood, the true magnitude of the problems entailed in a transition to peace—itself a social system, but without precedent except in a few simple preindustrial societies—becomes apparent. At the same time, some of the puzzling superficial contradictions of modern societies can then be readily rationalized. The “unnecessary” size and power of the world war industry; the preeminence of the military establishment in every society, whether open or concealed; the exemption of military or paramilitary institutions from the accepted social and legal standards of behavior required elsewhere in the society; the successful operation of the armed forces and the armaments producers entirely outside the framework of each nation’s economic ground rules: these and other ambiguities closely associated with the relationship of war to society are easily clarified, once the priority of war- making potential as the principal structuring force in society is accepted. Economic systems, political philosophies, and corpora jures serve and extend the war system, not vice versa.\n\nIt must be emphasized that the precedence of a society’s war-making potential over its other characteristics is not the result of the “threat” presumed to exist at any one time from other societies. This is the reverse of the basic situation; “threats” against the “national interest” are usually created or accelerated to meet the changing needs of the war system. Only in comparatively recent times has it been considered politically expedient to euphemize war budgets as “defense” requirements. The necessity for governments to distinguish between “aggression” (bad) and “defense” (good) has been a by-product of rising literacy and rapid communication. The distinction is tactical only, a concession to the growing inadequacy of ancient war-organizing political rationales.\n\nWars are not “caused” by international conflicts of interest. Proper logical sequence would make it more often accurate to say that war-making societies require—and thus bring about—such conflicts. The capacity of a nation to make war expresses the greatest social power it can exercise; war-making, active or contemplated, is a matter of life and death on the greatest scale subject to social control. It should therefore hardly be surprising that the military institutions in each society claim its highest priorities.\n\n\n\n“national interest”–economic, political, ideological; to maintain or in- crease a nation’s military power for its own sake. These are the visible, or ostensible, functions of war. If there were no others, the importance of the war establishment in each society might in fact decline to the subordinate level it is believed to occupy. And the elimination of war would indeed be the procedural matter that the disarmament scenarios suggest.\n\n\n\n\nAs we have indicated, the preeminence of the concept of war as the principal organizing force in most societies has been insufficiently appreciated. This is also true of its extensive effects throughout the many nonmilitary activities of society. These effects are less apparent in complex industrial societies like our own than in primitive cultures, the activities of which can be more easily and fully comprehended.\n\nWe propose in this section to examine these nonmilitary, implied, and usually invisible functions of war, to the extent that they bear on the problems of transition to peace for our society. The military, or ostensible, function of the war system requires no elaboration; it serves simply to defend or advance the “national interest” by means of organized violence. It is often necessary for a national military establishment to create a need for its unique powers–to maintain the franchise, so to speak. And a healthy military apparatus requires “exercise,” by whatever rationale seems expedient, to prevent its atrophy.\n\n\n\nThe production of weapons of mass destruction has always been associated with economic “waste.” The term is pejorative, since it implies a failure of function. But no human activity can properly be considered wasteful if it achieves its contextual objective. The phrase “wasteful but necessary,” applied not only to war expenditures but to most of the “unproductive” commercial activities of our society, is a contradiction in terms. “…The attacks that have since the time of Samuel’s criticism of King Saul been leveled against military expenditures as waste may well have concealed or misunderstood the point that some kinds of waste may have a larger social utility.”\n\nIn the case of military “waste,” there is indeed a larger social utility. It derives from the fact that the “wastefulness” of war production is exercised entirely outside the framework of the economy of supply and demand. As such, it provides the only critically large segment of the total economy that is subject to complete and arbitrary central control. If modern industrial societies can be\n\n\ndefined as those which have developed the capacity to produce more than is required for their economic survival (regardless of the equities of distribution of goods within them), military spending can be said to furnish the only balance wheel with sufficient inertia to stabilize the advance of their economies. The fact that war is “wasteful” is what enables it to serve this function. And the faster the economy advances, the heavier this balance wheel must be.\n\nThis function is often viewed, oversimply, as a device for the control of surpluses. One writer on the subject puts it this way: “Why is war so wonderful? Because it creates artificial demand…the only kind of artificial demand, moreover, that does not raise any political issues: war, and only war, solves the problem of inventory.” The reference here is to shooting war, but it applies equally to the general war economy as well. “It is generally agreed,” concludes, more cautiously, the report of a panel set up by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, “that the greatly expanded public sector since World War II, resulting from heavy defense expenditures, has provided additional protection against depressions, since this sector is not responsive to con- traction in the private sector and has provided a sort of buffer or balance wheel in the economy.”\n\n\nBut even in the context of the general civilian economy war cannot be considered wholly “wasteful.” Without a long-established war economy, and without its frequent eruption into large-scale shooting war, most of the major industrial advances known to history, beginning with the development of iron, could never have taken place. Weapons technology structures the economy. According to the writer cited above, “Nothing is more ironic or revealing about our society than the fact that hugely destructive war is a very progressive force in it. … War production is progressive because it is production that would not otherwise have taken place. (It is not so widely appreciated, for example, that the civilian standard of living rose during World War II.)” This is not “ironic or revealing,” but essentially a simple statement of fact.\n\nIt should also be noted that the war production has a dependably stimulating effect outside itself. Far from constituting a “wasteful” drain on the economy,\n\n\nwar spending, considered pragmatically, has been a consistently positive factor in the rise of gross national product and of individual productivity. A former Secretary of the Army has carefully phrased it for public consumption thus: “If there is, as I suspect there is, a direct relation between the stimulus of large defense spending and a substantially increased rate of growth of gross national product, it quite simply follows that defense spending per se might be countenanced on economic grounds alone [emphasis added] as a stimulator of the national metabolism.” Actually, the fundamental nonmilitary utility of war in the economy is far more widely acknowledged than the scarcity of such affirmations as that quoted above would suggest.\n\nBut negatively phrased public recognitions of the importance of war to the general economy abound. The most familiar example is the effect of “peace threats” on the stock market, e.g., “Wall Street was shaken yesterday by news of an apparent peace feeler from North Vietnam, but swiftly recovered its composure after about an hour of sometimes indiscriminate selling.” Savings banks solicit deposits with similar cautionary slogans, e.g., “If peace breaks out, will you be ready for it?” A more subtle case in point was the recent refusal of the Department of Defense to permit the West German government to substitute nonmilitary goods for unwanted armaments in its purchase commitments from the United States; the decisive consideration was that the German purchases should not affect the general (nonmilitary) economy. Other incidental examples are to be found in the pressures brought to bear on the Department when it announces plans to close down an obsolete facility (as a “wasteful” form of “waste”). and in the usual coordination of stepped-up military activities (as in Vietnam in 1965) with dangerously rising unemployment rates.\n\n\n\n\n\nThese functions are essentially organizational. First of all, the existence of a society as a political “nation” requires as part of its definition an attitude of relationship toward other “nations.” This is what we usually call a foreign policy. But a nation’s foreign policy can have no substance if it lacks the means of enforcing its attitude toward other nations. It can do this in a credible manner only if it implies the threat of maximum political organization for this purpose– which is to say that it is organized to some degree for war. War, then, as we have defined it to include all national activities that recognize the possibility of armed conflict, is itself the defining element of any nation’s existence vis-a-vis any other nation. Since it is historically axiomatic that the existence of any form of weaponry insures its use, we have used the work “peace” as virtually synonymous with disarmament. By the same token, “war” is virtually synonymous with nationhood. The elimination of war implies the inevitable elimination of national sovereignty and the traditional nation-state.\n\n\nThe basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers. (There is, in fact, good reason to believe that codified law had its origins in the rules of conduct established by military victors for dealing with the defeated enemy, which were later adapted to apply to all subject populations.) On a day- to-day basis, it is represented by the institution of police, armed organizations charged expressly with dealing with “internal enemies” in a military manner. Like the conventional “external” military, the police are also substantially exempt from many civilian legal restraints on their social behavior. In some countries, the artificial distinction between police and other military forces does not exist. On the long-term basis, a government’s emergency war powers — inherent in the structure of even the most libertarian of nations — define the most significant aspect of the relation between state and citizen.\n\n\nIn advanced modern democratic societies, the war system has provided political leaders with another political-economic function of increasing importance: it has served as the last great safeguard against the elimination of necessary social classes. As economic productivity increases to a level further and further above that of minimum subsistence, it becomes more and more difficult for a society to maintain distribution patterns insuring the existence of “hewers of wood and drawers of water”. The further progress of automation can be expected to differentiate still more sharply between “superior” workers and what Ricardo called “menials,” while simultaneously aggravating the problem of maintaining an unskilled labor supply.\n\n\n\n\nThe most obvious of these functions is the time-honored use of military institutions to provide antisocial elements with an acceptable role in the social structure. The disintegrative, unstable social movements loosely described as “fascist” have traditionally taken root in societies that have lacked adequate military or paramilitary outlets to meet the needs of these elements. This function has been critical in periods of rapid change. The danger signals are easy to recognize, even though the stigmata bear different names at different times. The current euphemistic clichés–“juvenile delinquency” and “alienation” — have had their counterparts in every age. In earlier days these conditions were dealt with directly by the military without the complications of due process, usually through press gangs or outright enslavement. But it is not hard to visualize, for example, the degree of social disruption that might have taken place in the United States during the last two decades if the problem of the socially disaffected of the post-World War II period had been foreseen and\n\n\n\nThis system and its analogues elsewhere furnish remarkably clear examples of disguised military utility. Informed persons in this country have never accepted the official rationale for a peacetime draft–military necessity, preparedness, etc. –as worthy of serious consideration. But what has gained credence among thoughtful men is the rarely voiced, less easily refuted, proposition that the institution of military service has a “patriotic” priority in our society that must be maintained for its own sake. Ironically, the simplistic official justification for selective service comes closer to the mark, once the non-military functions of military institutions are understood. As a control device over the hostile, nihilistic, and potentially unsettling elements of a society in transition, the draft can again be defended, and quite convincingly, as a “military” necessity.\n\nNor can it be considered a coincidence that overt military activity, and thus the level of draft calls, tend to follow the major fluctuations in the unemployment rate in the lower age groups. This rate, in turn, is a timetested herald of social discontent. It must be noted also that the armed forces in every civilization have provided the principal state-supported haven for what we now call the “unemployable.” The typical European standing army (of fifty years ago) consisted of “…troops unfit for employment in commerce, industry, or agriculture, led by officers unfit to practice any legitimate profession or to conduct a business enterprise.” This is still largely true, if less apparent. In a sense, this function of the military as the custodian of the economically or culturally deprived was the forerunner of most contemporary civilian social- welfare programs, from the W.P.A. to various forms of “socialized” medicine and social security. It is interesting that liberal sociologists currently proposing to use the Selective Service System as a medium of cultural upgrading of the poor consider this a novel application of military practice.\n\nAlthough it cannot be said absolutely that such critical measures of social control as the draft require a military rationale, no modern society has yet been willing to risk experimentation with any other kind. Even during such periods of comparatively simple social crisis as the so-called Great Depression of the 1930s, it was deemed prudent by the government to invest minor make-work projects, like the “Civilian” Conservation Corps, with a military character, and to place the more ambitious National Recovery Administration under the direction of a professional army officer at its inception. Today, at least one small Northern European country, plagued with uncontrollable unrest among its “alienated youth,” is considering the expansion of its armed forces, despite the problem of making credible the expansion of a non-existent external threat.\n\n\nSporadic efforts have been made to promote general recognition of broad national values free of military connotation, but they have been ineffective. For example, to enlist public support of even such modest programs of social adjustment as “fighting inflation” or “maintaining physical fitness” it has been necessary for the government to utilize a patriotic (i.e. military) incentive. It sells “defense” bonds and it equates health with military preparedness. This is not surprising; since the concept of “nationhood” implies readiness for war, a “national” program must do likewise.\n\n\nIt follows, from the patterns of human behavior, that the credibility of a social “enemy” demands similarly a readiness of response in proportion to its menace. In a broad social context, “an eye for an eye” still characterizes the only acceptable attitude toward a presumed threat of aggression, despite contrary religious and moral precepts governing personal conduct. The remoteness of personal decision from social consequence in a modern society makes it easy for its members to maintain this attitude without being aware of it. A recent example is the war in Vietnam; a less recent one was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In each case, the extent and gratuitousness of the slaughter were abstracted into political formulae by most Americans, once the proposition that the victims were “enemies” was established. The war system makes such an abstracted response possible in nonmilitary contexts as well. A conventional example of this mechanism is the inability of most people to connect, let us say, the starvation of millions in India with their own past conscious political decision-making. Yet the sequential logic linking a decision to restrict grain production in America with an eventual famine in Asia is obvious, unambiguous, and unconcealed.\n\n\n\nfor individual human violence, but itself in turn serves to rationalize most nonmilitary killing. It also provides the precedent for the collective willingness of members of a society to pay a blood price for institutions far less central to social organization that war. To take a handy example…”rather than accept speed limits of twenty miles an hour we prefer to let automobiles kill forty thousand people a year.” A Rand analyst puts it in more general terms and less rhetorically: “I am sure that there is, in effect, a desirable level of automobile accidents—desirable, that is, from a broad point of view; in the sense that it is a necessary concomitant of things of greater value to society.” The point may seem too obvious for iteration, but it is essential to an understanding of the important motivational function of war as a model for collective sacrifice.\n\nA brief look at some defunct premodern societies is instructive. One of the most noteworthy features common to the larger, more complex, and more successful of ancient civilizations was their widespread use of the blood sacrifice. If one were to limit consideration to those cultures whose regional hegemony was so complete that the prospect of “war” had become virtually inconceivable —as was the case with several of the great pre-Columbian societies of the Western Hemisphere—it would be found that some form of ritual killing occupied a position of paramount social importance in each. Invariably, the ritual was invested with mythic or religious significance; as will all religious and totemic practice, however, the ritual masked a broader and more important social function.\n\nIn these societies, the blood sacrifice served the purpose of maintaining a vestigial “earnest” of the society’s capability and willingness to make war– i.e., kill and be killed—in the event that some mystical–i.e., unforeseen — circumstance were to give rise to the possibility. That the “earnest” was not an adequate substitute for genuine military organization when the unthinkable enemy, such as the Spanish conquistadores, actually appeared on the scene in no way negates the function of the ritual. It was primarily, if not exclusively, a symbolic reminder that war had once been the central organizing force of the society, and that this condition might recur.\n\nIt does not follow that a transition to total peace in modern societies would require the use of this model, even in less “barbaric” guise. But the historical analogy serves as a reminder that a viable substitute for war as a social system cannot be a mere symbolic charade. It must involve risk of real personal destruction, and on a scale consistent with the size and complexity of modern social systems. Credibility is the key. Whether the substitute is ritual in nature or functionally substantive, unless it provides a believable life- and-death threat it will not serve the socially organizing function of war.\n\n\n\n\n\nEthologists have often observed that the organized slaughter of members of their own species is virtually unknown among other animals. Man’s special propensity to kill his own kind (shared to a limited degree with rats) may be attributed to his inability to adapt anachronistic patterns of survival (like primitive hunting) to his development of “civilizations” in which these patterns cannot be effectively sublimated. It may be attributed to other causes that have been suggested, such as a maladapted “territorial instinct,” etc. Nevertheless, it exists and its social expression in war constitutes a biological control of his relationship to his natural environment that is peculiar to man alone.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe declared order of values in modern societies gives a high place to the so- called “creative” activities, and an even higher one to those associated with the advance of scientific knowledge. Widely held social values can be translated into political equivalents, which in turn may bear on the nature of a transition to peace. The attitudes of those who hold these values must be taken into account in the planning of the transition. The dependence, therefore, of cultural and scientific achievement on the war system would be an important consideration in a transition plan even is such achievement had no inherently necessary social function.\n\nOf all the countless dichotomies invented by scholars to account for the major differences in art styles and cycles, only one has been consistently unambiguous in its application to a variety of forms and cultures. However it may be verbalized, the basic distinction is this: Is the work war-oriented or is it not? Among primitive peoples, the war dance is the most important art form. Elsewhere, literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture that has won lasting acceptance has invariably dealt with a theme of war, expressly or implicitly, and has expressed the centricity of war to society. The war in question may be national conflict, as in Shakespeare plays, Beethoven’s music, or Goya’s paintings, or it may be reflected in the form of religious, social, or moral struggle, as in the work of Dante, Rembrandt, and Bach. Art that cannot be classified as war-oriented is usually described as “sterile,” “decadent,” and so on. Application of the “war standard” to works of art may often leave room for debate in individual cases, but there is no question of its role as the fundamental determinant of cultural values. Aesthetic and moral standards have a common anthropological origin, in the exaltation of bravery, the willingness to kill and risk death in tribal warfare.\n\nIt is also instructive to note that the character of a society’s culture has borne a close relationship to its war-making potential, in the context of its times. It is no accident that the current “cultural explosion” in the United States is taking place during an era marked by an unusually rapid advance in weaponry. This relationship is more generally recognized than the literature on the subject\n\n\nwould suggest. For example, many artists and writers are now beginning to express concern over the limited creative options they envisage in the warless world they think, or hope, may be soon upon us. They are currently preparing for this possibility by unprecedented experimentation with meaningless forms; their interest in recent years has been increasingly engaged by the abstract pattern, the gratuitous emotion, the random happening, and the unrelated sequence.\n\nThe relationship of war to scientific research and discovery is more explicit. War is the principal motivational force for the development of science at every level, from the abstractly conceptual to the narrowly technological. Modern society places a high value on “pure” science, but it is historically inescapable that all the significant discoveries that have been made about the natural world have been inspired by the real or imaginary military necessities of their epochs. The consequences of the discoveries have indeed gone far afield, but war has always provided the basic incentive.\n\nBeginning with the development of iron and steel, and proceeding through the discoveries of the laws of motion and thermodynamics to the age of the atomic particle, the synthetic polymer, and the space capsule, no important scientific advance has not been at least indirectly initiated by an implicit requirement of weaponry. More prosaic examples include the transistor radio (an outgrowth of military communications requirements), the assembly line (from Civil War firearms needs), the steel-frame building (from the steel battleship), the canal lock, and so on. A typical adaptation can be seen in a device as modest as the common lawnmower; it developed from the revolving scythe devised by Leonardo da Vinci to precede a horse-powered vehicle into enemy ranks.\n\nThe most direct relationship can be found in medical technology. For example, a giant “walking machine,” and amplifier of body motions invented for military use in difficult terrain, is now making it possible for many previously con- fined to wheelchairs to walk. The Vietnam war alone has led to spectacular improvements in amputation procedures, blood-handling techniques, and surgical logistics. It has stimulated new large-scale research on malaria and other typical parasite diseases; it is hard to estimate how long this t? Amoould otherwise have been delayed, despite its enormous nonmilitary importance to nearly half the world’s population.\n\n\nWe have elected to omit from our discussion of the nonmilitary functions of war those we do not consider critical to a transition program. This is not to say they\n\n\nare unimportant, however, but only that they appear to present no special problems for the organization of a peace-oriented social system. They include the following:\n\nWar as a general social release. This is a psychosocial function, serving the same purpose for a society as do the holiday, the celebration, and the orgy for the individual—the release and redistribution of undifferentiated tensions. War provides for the periodic necessary readjustment of standards of social behavior (the “moral climate”) and for the dissipation of general boredom, one of the most consistently undervalued and unrecognized of social phenomena.\n\nWar as a generational stabilizer. This psychological function, served by other behavior patterns in other animals, enables the physically deteriorating older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary.\n\nWar as an ideological clarifier. The dualism that characterized the traditional dialectic of all branches of philosophy and of stable political relationships stems from war as the prototype of conflict. Except for secondary considerations, there cannot be, to put it as simply as possible, more than two sides to a question because there cannot be more than two sides to a war.\n\nWar as the basis for the international understanding. Before the development of modern communications, the strategic requirements of war provided the only substantial incentive for the enrichment of one national culture with the achievements of another. Although this is still the case in many international relationships, the function is obsolescent.\n\nWe have also forgone extended characterization of those functions we assume to be widely and explicitly recognized. An obvious example is the role of war as controller of the quality and degree of unemployment. This is more than an economic and political subfunction; its sociological, cultural, and ecological aspects are also important, although often teleonomic. But none affect the general problem of substitution. The same is true of certain other functions; those we have included are sufficient to define the scope of the problem.\n\n\n\nBy now it should be clear that the most detailed and comprehensive master plan for a transition to world peace will remain academic if it fails to deal forthrightly with the problem of the critical nonmilitary functions of war. The social needs they serve are essential; if the war system no longer exists to meet them, substitute institutions will have to be established for the purpose. These surrogates must be “realistic,” which is to say of a scope and nature that can be conceived and implemented in the context of present-day social capabilities. This is not the truism it may appear to be; the requirements of radical social change often reveal the distinction between a most conservative projection and a wildly utopian scheme to be fine indeed.\n\nIn this section we will consider some possible substitutes for these functions. Only in rare instances have they been put forth for the purposes which concern us here, but we see no reason to limit ourselves to proposals that address themselves explicitly to the problem as we have outlined it. We will disregard the ostensible, or military, functions of war; it is a premise of this study that the transition to peace implies absolutely that they will no longer exist in any relevant sense. We will also disregard the noncritical functions exemplified at the end of the preceding section.\n\n\nEconomic surrogates for war must meet two principal criteria. They must be “wasteful,” in the common sense of the word, and they must operate outside the normal supply-demand system. A corollary that should be obvious is that the magnitude of the waste must be sufficient to meet the needs of a particular society. An economy as advanced and complex as our own requires the planned average annual destruction of not less than 10 percent of gross national product if it is effectively to fulfill its stabilizing function. When the mass of a balance wheel is inadequate to the power it is intended to control, its effect can be self- defeating, as with a runaway locomotive. The analogy, though crude, is especially apt for the American economy, as our record of cyclical depressions shows. All have taken place during periods of grossly inadequate military spending.\n\nThose few economic conversion programs which by implication acknowledge the nonmilitary economic function of war (at least to some extent) tend to assume that so-called social-welfare expenditures will fill the vacuum created by the disappearance of military spending. When one considers the backlog of un- finished business—proposed but still unexecuted—in this field, the\n\n\nassumption seems plausible. Let us examine briefly the following list, which is more or less typical of general social welfare programs.\n\nHEALTH. Drastic expansion of medical research, education, and training facilities; hospital and clinic construction; the general objective of complete government-guaranteed health care for all, at a level consistent with current developments in medical technology.\n\nEDUCATION. The equivalent of the foregoing in teacher training; schools and libraries; the drastic upgrading of standards, with the general objective of making available for all an attainable educational goal equivalent to what is now considered a professional degree.\n\nHOUSING. Clean, comfortable, safe, and spacious living space for all, at the level now enjoyed by about 15 percent of the population in this country (less in most others).\n\nTRANSPORTATION. The establishment of a system of mass public transportation making it possible for all to travel to and from areas of work and recreation quickly, comfortably, and conveniently, and to travel privately for pleasure rather than necessity.\n\nPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT. The development and protection of water supplies, forests, parks, and other natural resources; the elimination of chemical and bacterial contaminants from air, water, and soil.\n\nPOVERTY. The genuine elimination of poverty, defined by a standard consistent with current economic productivity, by means of a guaranteed annual income or whatever system of distribution will best assure its achievement.\n\nThis is only a sampler of the more obvious domestic social welfare items, and we have listed it in a deliberately broad, perhaps extravagant, manner. In the past, such a vague and ambitious-sounding “program” would have been dismissed out of hand, without serious consideration; it would clearly have been, prima facie, far too costly, quite apart from its political implications. Our objective to it, on the other hand, could hardly be more contradictory. As an economic substitute for war, it is inadequate because it would be far too cheap.\n\nIf this seems paradoxical, it must be remembered that up to now all proposed social-welfare expenditures have had to be measured within the war economy, not as a replacement for it. The old slogan about a battleship or an ICBM\n\n\ncosting as much as x hospitals or y schools or z homes takes on a very different meaning if there are to be more battleships or ICBM’s.\n\nSince the list is general, we have elected to forestall the tangential controversy that surrounds arbitrary cost projections by offering no individual cost estimates. But the maximum program that could be physically effected along the lines indicated could approach the established level of military spending only for a limited time–in our opinion, subject to a detailed cost-and-feasibility analysis, less than ten years. In this short period, at this rate, the major goals of the program would have been achieved. Its capital-investment phase would have been completed, and it would have established a permanent comparatively modest level of annual operating cost–within the framework of the general economy.\n\nHere is the basic weakness of the social-welfare surrogate. On the short-term basis, a maximum program of this sort could replace a normal military spending program, provided it was designed, like the military model, to be subject to arbitrary control. Public housing starts, for example, or the development of modern medical centers might be accelerated or halted from time to time, as the requirements of a stable economy might dictate. But on the long-term basis, social-welfare spending, no matter how often redefined, would necessarily become an integral, accepted part of the economy, of no more value as a stabilizer than the automobile industry or old age and survivors’ insurance. Apart from whatever merit social-welfare programs are deemed to have for their own sake, their function as a substitute for war in the economy would thus be self-liquidating. They might serve, however, as expedients pending the development of more durable substitute measures.\n\nAnother economic surrogate that has been proposed is a series of giant “space research” programs. These have already demonstrated their utility in more modest scale within the military economy. What has been implied, although not yet expressly put forth, is the development of a long-range sequence of space- research projects with largely unattainable goals. This kind of program offers several advantages lacking in the social welfare model. First, it is unlikely to phase itself out, regardless of the predictable “surprises” science has in store for us: the universe is too big. In the event some individual project unexpectedly succeeds there would be no dearth of substitute problems. For example, if colonization of the moon proceeds on schedule, it could then become “necessary” to establish a beachhead on Mars or Jupiter, and so on. Second, it need be no more dependent on the general supply-demand economy than its military prototype. Third, it lends itself extraordinarily well to arbitrary control.\n\n\nSpace research can be viewed as the nearest modern equivalent yet devised to the pyramid-building, and similar ritualistic enterprises, of ancient societies. It is true that the scientific value of the space program, even of what has already been accomplished, is substantial on its own terms. But current programs are absurdly obviously disproportionate, in the relationship of the knowledge sought to the expenditures committed. All but a small fraction of the space budget, measured by the standards of comparable scientific objectives, must be charged de facto to the military economy. Future space research, projected as a war surrogate, would further research, projected as a war surrogate, would further reduce the “scientific” rationale of its budget to a minuscule percentage indeed. As a purely economic substitute for war, therefore, extension of the space program warrants serious consideration.\n\nIn Section 3 we pointed out that certain disarmament models, which we called conservative, postulated extremely expensive and elaborate inspection systems. Would it be possible to extend and institutionalize such systems to the point where they might serve as economic surrogates for war spending? The organization of failsafe inspection machinery could well be ritualized in a manner similar to that of established military processes. “Inspection teams” might be very like weapons. Inflating the inspection budget to military scale presents no difficulty. The appeal of this kind of scheme lies in the comparative ease of transition between two parallel systems.\n\nThe “elaborate inspection” surrogate is fundamentally fallacious, however. Although it might be economically useful, as well as politically necessary, during the disarmament transition, it would fail as a substitute for the economic function of war for one simple reason. Peace-keeping inspection is part of a war system, not of a peace system. It implies the possibility of weapons maintenance or manufacture, which could not exist in a world at peace as here defined. Massive inspection also implies sanctions, and thus war-readiness.\n\nThe same fallacy is more obvious in plans to create a patently useless “defense conversion” apparatus. The long-discredited proposal to build “total” civil defense facilities is one example; another is the plan to establish a giant antimissile missile complex (Nike-X, et al.). These programs, of course, are economic rather than strategic. Nevertheless, they are not substitutes for military spending but merely different forms of it.\n\nA more sophisticated variant is the proposal to establish the “Unarmed Forces” of the United States. This would conveniently maintain the entire institutional military structure, redirecting it essentially toward social-welfare activities on a global scale. It would be, in effect, a giant military Peace Corps. There is\n\n\nnothing inherently unworkable about this plan, and using the existing military system to effectuate its own demise is both ingenious and convenient. But even on a greatly magnified world basis, social-welfare expenditures must sooner or later reenter the atmosphere of the normal economy. The practical transitional virtues of such a scheme would thus be eventually negated by its inadequacy as a permanent economic stabilizer.\n\n\nThe war system makes the stable government of societies possible. It does this essentially by providing an external necessity for a society to accept political rule. In so doing, it establishes the basis for nationhood and the authority of government to control its constituents. What other institution or combination of programs might serve these functions in its place?\n\nWe have already pointed out that the end of the war means the end of national sovereignty, and thus the end of nationhood as we know it today. But this does not necessarily mean the end of nations in the administrative sense, and internal political power will remain essential to a stable society. The emerging “nations” of the peace epoch must continue to draw political authority from some source.\n\nA number of proposals have been made governing the relations between nations after total disarmament; all are basically juridical in nature. They contemplate institutions more or less like a World Court, or a United Nations, but vested with real authority. They may or may not serve their ostensible post-military purpose of settling international disputes, but we need not discuss that here. None would offer effective external pressure on a peace-world nation to organize itself politically.\n\nIt might be argued that a well-armed international police force, operating under the authority of such a supranational “court,” could well serve the function of external enemy. This, however, would constitute a military operation, like the inspection schemes mentioned, and, like them, would be inconsistent with the premise of an end to the war system. It is possible that a variant of the “Unarmed Forces” idea might be developed in such a way that its “constructive” (i.e., social welfare) activities could be combined with an economic “threat” of sufficient size and credibility to warrant political organization. Would this kind of threat also be contradictory to our basic premise?–that is, would it be inevitably military? Not necessarily, in our view, but we are skeptical of its capacity to evoke credibility. Also, the obvious destabilizing effect of any global social welfare surrogate on politically necessary class relationships\n\n\nwould create an entirely new set of transition problems at least equal in magnitude.\n\nCredibility, in fact, lies at the heart of the problem of developing a political substitute for war. This is where the space-race proposals, in many ways so well suited as economic substitutes for war, fall short. The most ambitious and unrealistic space project cannot of itself generate a believable external menace. It has been hotly argued that such a menace would offer the “last, best hope of peace,” etc., by uniting mankind against the danger of destruction by “creatures” from other planets or from outer space. Experiments have been proposed to test the credibility of an out-of-our-world invasion threat; it is possible that a few of the more difficult-to-explain “flying saucer” incidents of recent years were in fact early experiments of this kind. If so, they could hardly have been judged encouraging. We anticipate no difficulties in making a “need” for a giant super space program credible for economic purposes, even were there not ample precedent; extending it, for political purposes, to include features unfortunately associated with science fiction would obviously be a more dubious undertaking.\n\nNevertheless, an effective political substitute for war would require “alternate enemies,” some of which might seem equally farfetched in the context of the current war system. It may be, for instance, that gross pollution of the environment can eventually replace the possibility of mass destruction by nuclear weapons as the principal apparent threat to the survival of the species. Poisoning of the air, and of the principal sources of food and water supply, is already well advanced, and at first glance would seem promising in this respect; it constitutes a threat that can be dealt with only through social organization and political power. But from present indications it will be a generation to a generation and a half before environmental pollution, however severe, will be sufficiently menacing, on a global scale, to offer a possible basis for a solution.\n\nIt is true that the rate of pollution could be increased selectively for this purpose; in fact, the mere modifying of existing programs for the deterrence of pollution could speed up the process enough to make the threat credible much sooner. But the pollution problem has been so widely publicized in recent years that it seems highly improbably that a program of deliberate environ- mental poisoning could be implemented in a politically acceptable manner.\n\nHowever unlikely some of the possible alternate enemies we have mentioned may seem, we must emphasize that one must be found, of credible quality and magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration. It is more probably, in our judgement, that such a threat will have to be invented, rather than developed from unknown conditions. For this\n\n\nreason, we believe further speculation about its putative nature ill-advised in this context. Since there is considerable doubt, in our minds, that any viable political surrogate can be devised, we are reluctant to compromise, by premature discussion, any possible option that may eventually lie open to our government.\n\n\nOf the many functions of war we have found convenient to group together in this classification, two are critical. In a world of peace, the continuing stability of society will require: 1) an effective substitute for military institutions that can neutralize destabilizing social elements and 2) a credible motivational surrogate for war that can insure social cohesiveness. The first is an essential element of social control; the second is the basic mechanism for adapting individual human drives to the needs of society.\n\nMost proposals that address themselves, explicitly or otherwise, to the postwar problem of controlling the socially alienated turn to some variant of the Peace Corps or the so-called Job Corps for a solution. The socially disaffected, the economically unprepared, the psychologically unconformable, the hard-core “delinquents,” the incorrigible “subversives,” and the rest of the unemployable are seen as somehow transformed by the disciplines of a service modeled on military precedent into more or less dedicated social service workers. This presumption also informs the otherwise hardheaded ratiocination of the “Unarmed Forces” plan.\n\nThe problem has been addressed, in the language of popular sociology, by Secretary McNamara. “Even in our abundant societies, we have reason enough to worry over the tensions that coil and tighten among underprivileged young people, and finally flail out in delinquency and crime. What are we to expect.. where mounting frustrations are likely to fester into eruptions of violence and extremism?” In a seemingly unrelated passage, he continues: “It seems to me that we could move toward remedying that inequity [of the Selective Service System] by asking every young person in the United States to give two years of service to his country–whether in one of the military services, in the Peace Corps, or in some other volunteer developmental w? Am at home or abroad. We could encourage other countries to do the same.” Here, as elsewhere throughout this significant speech, Mr. McNamara has focused, indirectly but unmistakably, on one of the key issues bearing on a possible transition to peace, and has later indicated, also indirectly, a rough approach to its resolution, again phrased in the language of the current war system.\n\n\nIt seems clear that Mr. McNamara and other proponents of the peace-corps surrogate for this tar function lean heavily on the success of the paramilitary Depression programs mentioned in the last section. We find the precedent wholly inadequate in degree. Neither the lack of relevant precedent, however, nor the dubious social welfare sentimentality characterizing this approach warrant its rejection without careful study. It may be viable — provided, first, that the military origin of the Corps format be effectively rendered out of its operational activity, and second, that the transition from paramilitary activities to “developmental w? A” can be effected without regard to the attitudes of the Corps personnel or to the “value” of the work it is expected to perform.\n\nAnother possible surrogate for the control of potential enemies of society is the reintroduction, in some form consistent with modern technology and political processes, of slavery. Up to now, this has been suggested only in fiction, notably in the works of Wells, Huxley, Orwell, and others engaged in the imaginative anticipation of the sociology of the future. But the fantasies projected in Brave New World and 1984 have seemed less and less implausible over the years since their publication. The traditional association of slavery with ancient preindustrial cultures should not blind us to its adaptability to advanced forms of social organization, nor should its equally traditional incompatibility with Western moral and economic values. It is entirely possible that the development of a sophisticated form of slavery may be an absolute prerequisite for social control in a world at peace. As a practical matter, conversion of the code of military discipline to a euphemized form of enslavement would entail surprisingly little revision; the logical first step would be the adoption of some form of “universal” military service.\n\nWhen it comes to postulating a credible substitute for war capable of directing human behavior patterns in behalf of social organization, few options suggest themselves. Like its political function, the motivational function of war requires the existence of a genuinely menacing social enemy. The principal difference is that for purposes of motivating basic allegiance, as distinct from accepting political authority, the “alternate enemy” must imply a more immediate, tangible, and directly felt threat of destruction. It must justify the need for taking and paying a “blood price” in wide areas of human concern.\n\nIn this respect, the possible enemies noted earlier would be insufficient. One exception might be the environmental-pollution model, if the danger to society it posed was genuinely imminent. The fictive models would have to carry the weight of extraordinary conviction, underscored with a not inconsiderable actual sacrifice of life; the construction of an up-to-date mythological or\n\n\nreligious structure for this purpose would present difficulties in our era, but must certainly be considered.\n\nGames theorists have suggested, in other contexts, the development of “blood games” for the effective control of individual aggressive impulses. It is an ironic commentary on the current state of war and peace studies that it was left not to scientists but to the makers of a commercial film to develop a model for this notion, on the implausible level of popular melodrama, as a ritualized manhunt. More realistically, such a ritual might be socialized, in the manner of the Spanish Inquisition and the less formal witch trials of other periods, for purposes of “social purification,” “state security,” or other rationale both acceptable and credible to postwar societies. The feasibility of such an updated version of still another ancient institution, though doubtful, is considerably less fanciful than the wishful notion of many peace planners that a lasting condition of peace can be brought about without the most painstaking examination of every possible surrogate for the essential functions of war. What is involved here, in a sense, is the quest for William James’ “moral equivalent of war.”\n\nIt is also possible that the two functions considered under this heading may be jointly served, in the sense of establishing the antisocial, for whom a control institution is needed, as the “alternate enemy” needed to hold society together. The relentless and irreversible advance of unemployability at all levels of society, and the similar extension of generalized alienation from accepted values may make some such program necessary even as an adjunct to the war system. As before, we will not speculate on the specific forms this kind of program might take, except to note that there is again ample precedent, in the treatment meted out to disfavored, allegedly menacing, ethnic groups in certain societies during certain historical periods.\n\n\nConsidering the shortcomings of war as a mechanism of selective population control, it might appear that devising substitutes for this function should be comparatively simple. Schematically this is so, but the problem of timing the transition to a new ecological balancing device makes the feasibility of substitution less certain.\n\nIt must be remembered that the limitation of war in this function is entirely eugenic. War has not been genetically progressive. But as a system of gross population control to preserve the species it cannot fairly be faulted. And, as has been pointed out, the nature of war is itself in transition. Current trends in warfare–the increased strategic bombing of civilians and the greater military\n\n\nimportance now attached to the destruction of sources of supply (as opposed to purely “military” bases and personnel)—strongly suggest that a truly qualitative improvement is in the making. Assuming the war system is to continue, it is more than probably that the regressively selective quality of war will have been reversed, as its victims become more genetically representative of their societies.\n\nThere is no question but that a universal requirement that procreation be limited to the products of artificial insemination would provide a fully adequate substitute control for population levels. Such a reproductive system would, of course, have the added advantage of being susceptible of direct eugenic management. Its predictable further development—conception and embryonic growth taking place wholly under laboratory conditions–would extend these controls to their logical conclusion. The ecological function of war under these circumstances would not only be superseded but surpassed in effectiveness.\n\nThe indicated intermediate step–total control of conception with a variant of the ubiquitous “pill,” via water supplies or certain essential foodstuffs, offset by a controlled “antidote”—is already under development. There would appear to be no foreseeable need to revert to any of the outmoded practices referred to in the previous section (infanticide, etc.) as there might have been if the possibility of transition to peace had arisen two generations ago.\n\nThe real question here, therefore, does not concern the viability of this war substitute, but the political problems involved in bringing it about. It cannot be established while the war system is still in effect. The reason for this is simple: excess population is tar material. As long as any society must contemplate even a remote possibility of war, it must maintain a maximum supportable population, even when so doing critically aggravates an economic liability. This is paradoxical, in view of war’s role in reducing excess population, but it is readily understood. War controls the general population level, but the ecological interest of any single society lies in maintaining its hegemony vis-a-vis other societies. The obvious analogy can be seen in any free-enterprise economy. Practices damaging to the society as a whole–both competitive and monopolistic–are abetted by the conflicting economic motives of individual capital interests. The obvious precedent can be found in the seemingly irrational political difficulties which have blacked universal adoption of simple birth- control methods. Nations desperately in need of increasing unfavorable production-consumption ratios are nevertheless unwilling to gamble their possible military requirements of twenty years hence for this purpose. Unilateral population control, as practiced in ancient Japan and in other isolated societies, is out of the question in today’s world.\n\n\nSince the eugenic solution cannot be achieved until the transition to the peace system takes place, why not wait? One must qualify the inclination to agree. As we noted earlier, a real possibility of an unprecedented global crisis of insufficiency exists today, which the war system may not be able to forestall. If this should come to pass before an agreed-upon transition to peace were completed, the result might be irrevocably disastrous. There is clearly no solution to this dilemma; it is a risk which must be taken. But it tends to support the view that if a decision is made to eliminate the war system, it were better done sooner than later.\n\n\nStrictly speaking, the function of war as the determinant of cultural values and as the prime mover of scientific progress may not be critical in a world without war. Our criterion for the basic nonmilitary functions of war has been: Are they necessary to the survival and stability of society? The absolute need for substitute cultural value-determinants and for the continued advance of scientific knowledge is not established. We believe it important, however, in behalf of those for whom these functions hold subjective significance, that it be known what they can reasonably expect in culture and science after a transition to peace.\n\nSo far as the creative arts are concerned, there is no reason to believe they would disappear, but only that they would change in character and relative social importance. The elimination of war would in due course deprive them of their principal conative force, but it would necessarily take some time for the transition, and perhaps for a generation thereafter, themes of sociomoral conflict inspired by the war system would be increasingly transferred to the idiom of purely personal sensibility. At the same time, a new aesthetic would have to develop. Whatever its name, form, or rationale, its function would be to express, in language appropriate to the new period, the once discredited philosophy that art exists for its own sake. This aesthetic would reject unequivocally the classic requirement of paramilitary conflict as the substantive content of great art. The eventual effect of the peace-world philosophy of art would be democratizing in the extreme, in the sense that a generally acknowledged subjectivity of artistic standards would equalize their new, content-free “values.”\n\nWhat may be expected to happen is that art would be reassigned the role it once played in a few primitive peace-oriented social systems. This was the function of pure decoration, entertainment, or play, entirely free of the burden of expressing the sociomoral values and conflicts of a war-oriented society. It is\n\n\ninteresting that the groundwork for such a value-free aesthetic is already being laid today, in growing experimentation in art without content, perhaps in anticipation of a world without conflict. A cult has developed around a new kind of cultural determinism, which proposes that the technological form of a cultural expression determines its values rather than does its ostensibly meaningful content. Its clear implication is that there is no “good” or “bad” art, only that which is appropriate to its (technological) times and that which is not. Its cultural effect has been to promote circumstantial constructions and unplanned expressions; it denies to art the relevance of sequential logic. Its significance in this context is that it provides a working model of one kind of value-free culture we might reasonably anticipate in a world at peace.\n\nSo far as science is concerned, it might appear at first glance that a giant space- research program, the most promising among the proposed economic surrogates for war, might also serve as the basic stimulator of scientific research. The lack of fundamental organized social conflict inherent in space work, however, would rule it out as an adequate motivational substitute for war when applied to “pure” science. But it could no doubt sustain the broad range of technological activity that a space budget of military dimensions would require. A similarly scaled social-welfare program could provide a comparable impetus to low- keyed technological advances, especially in medicine, rationalized construction methods, educational psychology, etc. The eugenic substitute for the ecological function of war would also require continuing research in certain areas of the life sciences.\n\nApart from these partial substitutes for war, it must be kept in mind that the momentum given to scientific progress by the great wars of the past century, and even more by the anticipation of World War III, is intellectually and materially enormous. It is our finding that if the war system were to end tomorrow this momentum is so great that the pursuit of scientific knowledge could reasonably be expected to go forward without noticeable diminution for perhaps two decades. It would then continue, at a progressively decreasing tempo, for at least another two decades before the “bank account” of today’s unresolved problems would become exhausted. By the standards of the questions we have learned to ask today, there would no longer be anything worth knowing still unknown; we cannot conceive, by definition, of the scientific questions to ask once those we can now comprehend are answered.\n\nThis leads unavoidably to another matter: the intrinsic value of the unlimited search for knowledge. We of course offer no independent value judgments here, but it is germane to point out that a substantial minority of scientific opinion feels that search to be circumscribed in any case. This opinion is itself a factor\n\n\nin considering the need for a substitute for the scientific function of war. For the record, we must also take note of the precedent that during long periods of human history, often covering thousands of years, in which no intrinsic social value was assigned to scientific progress, stable societies did survive and flourish. Although this could not have been possible in the modern industrial world, we cannot be certain it may not again be true in a future world at peace.\n\n\n\nWar is not, as is widely assumed, primarily an instrument of policy utilized by nations to extend or defend their expressed political values or their economic interests. On the contrary, it is itself the principal basis of organization on which all modern societies are constructed. The common proximate cause of war is the apparent interference of one nation with the aspirations of another. But at the root of all ostensible differences of national interest lie the dynamic requirements of the war system itself for periodic armed conflict. Readiness for war characterizes contemporary social systems more broadly than their economic and political structures, which it subsumes.\n\nEconomic analyses of the anticipated problems of transition to peace have not recognized the broad preeminence of war in the definition of social systems. The same is true, with rare and only partial exceptions, of model disarmament “scenarios.” For this reason, the value of this previous work is limited to the mechanical aspects of transition. Certain features of these models may perhaps be applicable to a real situation of conversion to peace; this till depend on their compatibility with a substantive, rather than a procedural, peace plan. Such a plan can be developed only from the premise of full understanding of the nature of the war system it proposes to abolish, which in turn presupposes detailed comprehension of the functions the war system performs for society. It will require the construction of a detailed and feasible system of substitutes for those functions that are necessary to the stability and survival of human societies.\n\n\nThe visible, military function of war requires no elucidation; it is not only obvious but also irrelevant to a transition to the condition of peace, in which it will by definition be superfluous. It is also subsidiary in social significance to the implied, nonmilitary functions of war; those critical to transition can be summarized in five principal groupings.\n\n\n\n\nSOCIOLOGICAL. War, through the medium of military institutions, has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known history, as an indispensable controller of dangerous social dissidence and destructive antisocial tendencies. As the most formidable of threats to life itself, and as the only one susceptible to mitigation by social organization alone, it has played another equally fundamental role: the war system has provided the machinery through which the motivational forces governing human behavior have been translated into binding social allegiance. It has thus ensured the degree of social cohesion necessary to the viability of nations. No other institution, or groups of institutions, in modern societies, has successfully served these functions.\n\n\nCULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC. War-orientation has determined the basic standards of value in the creative arts, and has provided the fundamental motivational source of scientific and technological progress. The concepts that the arts express values independent of their own forms and that the successful pursuit of knowledge has intrinsic social value have long been accepted in modern societies; the development of the arts and sciences during this period has been corollary to the parallel development of weaponry.\n\n\nThe foregoing functions of war are essential to the survival of the social systems we know today. With two possible exceptions they are also essential to any kind of stable social organization that might survive in a warless world. Discussion of the ways and means of transition to such a world are meaningless unless a)substitute institutions can be devised to fill these functions, or b) it can reasonably be hypothecated that the loss or partial loss of any one function need not destroy the viability of future societies.\n\n\nSuch substitute institutions and hypotheses must meet varying criteria. In general, they must be technically feasible, politically acceptable, and potentially credible to the members of the societies that adopt them. Specifically, they must be characterized as follows:\n\nECONOMIC. An acceptable economic surrogate for the war system will require the expenditure of resources for completely nonproductive purposes at a level comparable to that of the military expenditures otherwise demanded by the size and complexity of each society. Such a substitute system of apparent “waste” must be of a nature that will permit it to remain independent of the normal supply-demand economy; it must be subject to arbitrary political control.\n\nPOLITICAL. A viable political substitute fir war must posit a generalized external menace to each society of a nature and degree sufficient to require the organization and acceptance of political authority.\n\n\nECOLOGICAL. A substitute for war in its function as the uniquely human system of population control must ensure the survival, if not necessarily the improvement, of the species, in terms of its relations to environmental supply.\n\nCULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC. A surrogate for the function of war as the determinant of cultural values must establish a basis of sociomoral conflict of equally compelling force and scope. A substitute motivational basis for the quest for scientific knowledge must be similarly informed by a comparable sense of internal necessity.\n\n\nThe following substitute institutions, among others, have been proposed for consideration as replacements for the nonmilitary functions of war. That they may not have been originally set forth for that purpose does not preclude or invalidate their possible application here.\n\n\nECONOMIC. a) A comprehensive social-welfare program, directed toward maximum improvement of general conditions of human life. b) A giant open- end space research program, aimed at unreachable targets. c) A permanent, ritualized, ultra-elaborate disarmament inspection system, and variants of such a system.\n\n\nSOCIOLOGICAL: CONTROL FUNCTION. a) Programs generally derived from the Peace Corps model. b) A modern, sophisticated form of slavery. MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTION. a) Intensified environmental pollution. b) New religions or other mythologies. c) Socially oriented blood games. d) Combination forms.\n\nECOLOGICAL. A comprehensive program of applied eugenics.\n\nCULTURAL. No replacement institution offered. SCIENTIFIC. The secondary\n\nrequirements of the space research, social welfare, and / or eugenics programs.\n\n\nThe models listed above reflect only the beginning of the quest for substitute institutions for the functions of war, rather than a recapitulation of alternatives. It would be both premature and inappropriate, therefore, to offer final judgments on their applicability to a transition to peace and after. Furthermore, since the necessary but complex project of correlating the compatibility of proposed surrogates for different functions could be treated only in exemplary fashion at this time, we have elected to withhold such hypothetical correlations as were tested as statistically inadequate.\n\nNevertheless, some tentative and cursory comments on these proposed function- al “solutions” will indicate the scope of the difficulties involved in this area of peace planning.\n\nECONOMIC. The social-welfare model cannot be expected to remain outside the normal economy after the conclusion of its predominantly capital- investment phase; its value in this function can therefore be only temporary.\n\n\nThe space-research substitute appears to meet both major criteria, and should be examined in greater detail, especially in respect to its probable effects on other war functions. “Elaborate inspection” schemes, although superficially attractive, are inconsistent with the basic premise of a transition to peace. The “unarmed forces” variant, logistically similar, is subject to the same functional criticism as the general social-welfare model.\n\nPOLITICAL. Like the inspection-scheme surrogates, proposals for plenipotentiary international police are inherently incompatible with the ending of the war system. The “unarmed forces” variant, amended to include unlimited powers of economic sanction, might conceivably be expanded to constitute a credible external menace. Development of an acceptable threat from “outer space,” presumably in conjunction with a space-research surrogate for economic control, appears unpromising in terms of credibility. The environmental- pollution model does not seem sufficiently responsive to immediate social control, except through arbitrary acceleration of current pollution trends; this in turn raises questions of political acceptability. New, less regressive, approaches to the creation of fictitious global “enemies” invite further investigation.\n\nSOCIOLOGICAL: CONTROL FUNCTION. Although the various substitutes proposed for this function that are modeled roughly on the Peace Corps appear grossly inadequate in potential scope, they should not be ruled out without further study. Slavery, in a technologically modern and conceptually euphemized form, may prove a more efficient and flexible institution in this area. MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTION. Although none of the proposed substitutes for war as the guarantor of social allegiance can be dismissed out of hand, each presents serious and special difficulties. Intensified environmental threats may raise ecological dangers; mythmaking dissociated from tar may no longer be politically feasible; purposeful blood games and rituals can far more readily be devised than implemented. An institution combining this function with the preceding one, based on, but not necessarily imitative of, the precedent of organized ethnic repression, warrants careful consideration.\n\nECOLOGICAL. The only apparent problem in the application of an adequate eugenic substitute for war is that of timing; it cannot be effectuated until the transition to peace has been completed, which involved a serious temporary risk of ecological failure.\n\nCULTURAL. No plausible substitute for this function of war has yet been proposed. It may be, however, that a basic cultural value-determinant is not necessary to the survival of a stable society. SCIENTIFIC. The same might be said for the function of war as the prime mover of the search for knowledge.\n\n\nHowever, adoption of either a giant space-research program, a comprehensive social-welfare program, or a master program of eugenic control would provide motivation for limited technologies.\n\n\nIt is apparent, from the foregoing, that no program or combination of programs yet proposed for a transition to peace has remotely approached meeting the comprehensive functional requirements of a world without war. Although one projected system for filling the economic function of war seems promising, similar optimism cannot be expressed in the equally essential political and sociological areas. The other major nonmilitary functions of war—ecological, cultural, scientific—raise very different problems, but it is least possible that detailed programming of substitutes in these areas is not prerequisite to transition. More important, it is not enough to develop adequate but separate surrogates for the major war functions; they must be fully compatible and in no degree self-canceling.\n\nUntil such a unified program is developed, at least hypothetically, it is impossible for this or any other group to furnish meaningful answers to the questions originally presented to us. When asked how best to prepare for the advent of peace, we must first reply, as strongly as we can, that the war system cannot responsibly be allowed to disappear until 1) we know exactly what it is we plan to put in its place, and 2) we are certain, beyond reasonable doubt, that these substitute institutions will serve their purposes in terms of the survival and stability of society. It will then be time enough to develop methods for effectuating the transition; procedural programming must follow, not precede, substantive solutions.\n\nSuch solutions, if indeed they exist, will not be arrived at without a revolutionary revision of the modes of thought heretofore considered appropriate to peace research. That we have examined the fundamental questions involved from a dispassionate, value-free point of view should not imply that we do not appreciate the intellectual and emotional difficulties that must be overcome on all decision-making levels before these questions are generally acknowledged by others for what they are. They reflect, on an intellectual level, traditional emotional resistance to new (more lethal and thus more “shocking”) forms of weaponry. The understated comment of then- Senator Hubert Humphrey on the publication of ON THERMONUCLEAR WAR is still very much to the point: “New Thoughts, particularly those which appear to contradict current assumptions, are always painful for the mind to contemplate.”\n\n\nNor, simple because we have not discussed them, do we minimize the massive reconciliation of conflicting interests with domestic as well as international agreement on proceeding toward genuine peace presupposes. This factor was excluded from the purview of our assignment, but we would be remiss if we failed to take it into account. Although no insuperable obstacle lies in the path of reaching such general agreements, formidable short-term private-group and general-class interest in maintaining the war system is well established and widely recognized. The resistance to peace stemming from such interest is only tangential, in the long run, to the basic functions of war, but it will not be easily overcome, in this country or elsewhere. Some observers, in fact, believe that it cannot be overcome at all in our time, that the price of peace is, simply, too high. This bears on our overall conclusions to the extent that timing in the transference to substitute institutions may often be the critical factor in their political feasibility.\n\nIt is uncertain, at this time, whether peace will ever be possible. It is far more questionable, by the objective standard of continued social survival rather than that of emotional pacifism, that it would be desirable even if it were demonstrably attainable. The war system, for all its subjective repugnance to important sections of “public opinion” has demonstrated its effectiveness since the beginning of recorded history; it has provided the basis for the development of many impressively durable civilizations, including that which is dominant today. It has consistently provided unambiguous social priorities. It is, on the whole, a known quantity. A viable system of peace, assuming that the great and complex questions of substitute institutions raised in this Report are both soluble and solved, would still constitute a venture into the unknown, with the inevitable risks attendant on the unforeseen, however small and however well hedged.\n\nGovernment decision-makers tend to choose peace over war whenever a real option exists, because it usually appears to be the “safer” choice. Under most immediate circumstances they are likely to be right. But in terms of long-range social stability, the opposite is true. At our present state of knowledge and reasonable inference, it is the war system that must be identified with stability, the peace system that must be identified with social speculation, however justifiable the speculation may appear, in terms of subjective moral or emotional values. A nuclear physicist once remarked, in respect to a possible disarmament agreement: “If we could change the world into a world in which no weapons could be made, that would be stabilizing. But agreements we can expect with the Soviets would be destabilizing.” The qualification and the bias\n\n\nare equally irrelevant; any condition of genuine total peace, however achieved, would be destabilizing until proved otherwise.\n\nIf it were necessary at this moment to opt irrevocably for the retention or for the dissolution of the war system, common prudence would dictate the former course. But it is not yet necessary, late as the hour appears. And more factors must eventually enter the war-peace equation than even the most determined search for alternative institutions for the functions of war can be expected to reveal. One group of such factors has been given only passing mention in this Report; it centers around the possible obsolescence of the war system itself. We have noted, for instance, the limitations of the war system in filling its ecological function and the declining importance of this aspect of war. It by no means stretches the imagination to visualize comparable developments which may compromise the efficacy of war as, for example, an economic controller or as an organizer of social allegiance. This kind of possibility, however remote, serves as a reminder that all calculations of contingency not only involve the weighing of one group of risks against another, but require a respectful allowance for error on both sides of the scale.\n\nMore expedient reason for pursuing the investigation of alternate ways and means to serve the current functions of war is narrowly political. It is possible that one or more major sovereign nations may arrive, through ambiguous leadership, at a position in which a ruling administrative class may lose control of basic public opinion or of its ability to rationalize a desired war. It is not hard to imagine, in such circumstances, a situation in which such governments may feel forced to initiate serious full-scale disarmament proceedings (perhaps provoked by “accidental” nuclear explosions), and that such negotiations may lead to the actual disestablishment of military institutions. As our Report has made clear, this could be catastrophic. It seems evident that, in the event an important part of the world is suddenly plunged without sufficient warning into an inadvertent peace, even partial and inadequate preparation for the possibility may be better than none. The difference could even be critical. The models considered in the preceding chapter, both those that seem promising and those that do not, have one positive feature in common–an inherent flexibility of phasing. And despite our strictures against knowingly proceeding into peace- transition procedures without thorough substantive preparation, our government must nevertheless be ready to move in this direction with whatever limited resources of planning are on hand at the time—if circumstances so require>. An arbitrary all-or-nothing approach is no more realistic in the development of contingency peace programming than it is anywhere else.\n\n\nBut the principal cause for concern over the continuing effectiveness of the war system, and the more important reason for hedging with peace planning, lies in the backwardness of current war-system programming. Its controls have not kept pace with the technological advances it has made possible. Despite its unarguable success to date, even in this era of unprecedented potential in mass destruction, it continues to operate largely on a laissez-faire basis. To the best of our knowledge, no serious quantified studies have even been conducted to determine, for example:\n\n—optimum levels of armament production, for purposes of economic control, at any given relationship between civilian production and consumption patterns:\n\n—correlation factors between draft recruitment policies and mensurable social dissidence;\n\n—minimum levels of population destruction necessary to maintain war-threat credibility under varying political conditions;\n\n—optimum cyclical frequency of “shooting” wars under varying circumstances of historical relationship.\n\nThese and other war-function factors are fully susceptible to analysis by today’s computer-based systems, but they have not been so treated; modern analytical techniques have up to now been relegated to such aspects of the ostensible functions of war as procurement, personnel deployment, weapons analysis, and the like. We do not disparage these types of application, but only deplore their lack of utilization to greater capacity in attacking problems of broader scope. Our concern for efficiency in this context is not aesthetic, economic, or humanistic. It stems from the axiom that no system can long survive at either input or output levels that consistently or substantially deviate from an optimum range. As their data grow increasingly sophisticated, the war system and its functions are increasingly endangered by such deviations.\n\nOur final conclusion, therefore, is that it will be necessary for our government to plan in depth for two general contingencies. The first, and lesser, is the possibility of a viable general peace; the second is the successful continuation of the war system. In our view, careful preparation for the possibility of peace should be extended, not because we take the position that the end of war would necessarily be desirable, if it is in fact possible, but because it may be thrust upon us in some form whether we are ready for it or not. Planning for rationalizing and quantifying the war system, on the other hand, to ensure the\n\n\neffectiveness of its major stabilizing functions, is not only more promising in respect to anticipated results, but is essential; we can no longer take for granted that it will continue to serve our purposes well merely because it always has. The objective of government policy in regard to war and peace, in this period of uncertainty, must be to preserve maximum options. The recommendations which follow are directed to this end.\n\n\n\nWe propose the establishment, under executive order of the President, of a permanent WAR/PEACE Research Agency, empowered and mandated to execute the programs described in (2) and (3) below. This agency (a) will be provided with nonaccountable funds sufficient to implement its responsibilities and decisions at its own discretion, and (b) will have authority to preempt and utilize, without restriction, any and all facilities of the executive branch of the government in pursuit of its objectives. It will be organized along the lines of the National Security Council, except that none of its governing, executive, or operating personnel will hold other public office or governmental responsibility. Its directorate will be drawn from the broadest practicable spectrum of scientific disciplines, humanistic studies, applied creative arts, operating technologies, and otherwise unclassified professional occupations. It will be responsible solely to the President, or to other officers of government temporarily deputized by him. Its operations will be governed entirely by its own rules of procedure. Its authority will expressly include the unlimited right to withhold information on its activities and its decisions, from anyone except the President, whenever it deems such secrecy to be in the public interest.\n\nThe first of the War/Peace Research Agency’s two principal responsibilities will be to determine all that can be known, including what can reasonably be inferred in terms of relevant statistical probabilities, that may bear on an eventual transition to a general condition of peace. The findings in this Report may be considered to constitute the beginning of this study and to indicate its orientation; detailed records of the investigations and findings of the Special Study Group on which this Report is based, will be furnished the agency, along with whatever clarifying data the agency deems necessary. This aspect of the agency’s work will hereinafter be referred to as “Peace Research.”\n\nThe Agency’s Peace Research activities will necessarily include, but not be limited to, the following:\n\n(a) The creative development of possible substitute institutions for the principal nonmilitary functions of war.\n\n(b) The careful matching of such institutions against the criteria summarized in this Report, as refined, revised, and extended by the agency.\n\n\n(c) The testing and evaluation of substitute institutions, for acceptability, feasibility, and credibility, against hypothecated transitional and postwar conditions; the testing and evaluation of the effects of the anticipated atrophy of certain unsubstantiated functions.\n\n(d) The development and testing of the corelativity of multiple substitute institutions, with the eventual objective of establishing a comprehensive program of compatible war substitutes suitable for a planned transition to peace, if and when this is found to be possible and subsequently judged desirable by appropriate political authorities.\n\n(e) The preparation of a wide-ranging schedule of partial, uncorrelated, crash programs of adjustment suitable for reducing the dangers of unplanned transition to peace effected by force majeure.\n\nPeace Research methods will include but not be limited to, the following:\n\n(a) The comprehensive interdisciplinary application of historical, scientific, technological, and cultural data.\n\n(b) The full utilization of modern methods of mathematical modeling, analogical analysis, and other, more sophisticated, quantitative techniques in process of development that are compatible with computer programming.\n\n(c) The heuristic “peace games” procedures developed during the course of its assignment by the Special Study Group, and further extensions of this basic approach to the testing of institutional functions.\n\nThe WAR/PEACE Research Agency’s other principal responsibility will be “War Research.” Its fundamental objective will be to ensure the continuing viability of the war system to fulfill its essential nonmilitary functions for as long as the war system is judged necessary to or desirable for the survival of society. To achieve this end, the War Research groups within the agency will engage in the following activities:\n\n(a) Quantification of existing application of the non-military functions of war. Specific determinations will include, but not be limited to:\n\nthe gross amount and the net proportion of nonproductive military expenditures since World War II assignable to the need for war as an economic stabilizer;\n\n\nthe amount and proportion of military expenditures and destruction of life, property, and natural resources during this period assignable to the need for war as an instrument for political control;\n\nsimilar figures, to the extent that they can be separately arrived at, assignable to the need for war to maintain social cohesiveness;\n\nlevels of recruitment and expenditures on the draft and other forms of personnel deployment attributable to the need for military institutions to control social disaffection;\n\nthe statistical relationship of war casualties to world food supplies;\n\nthe correlation of military actions and expenditures with cultural activities and scientific advances (including necessarily the development of mensurable standards in these areas).\n\n(b) Establishment of a priori modern criteria for the execution of the non- military functions of war. These will include, but not be limited to:\n\ncalculation of minimum and optimum ranges of military expenditure required, under varying hypothetical conditions, to fulfill these several functions, separately and collectively;\n\ndetermination of minimum and optimum levels of destruction of LIFE, PROPERTY, and NATURAL RESOURCES prerequisite to the credibility of external threat essential to the political and motivational functions;\n\ndevelopment of a negotiable formula governing the relationship between military recruitment and training policies and the exigencies of social control.\n\n(c) Reconciliation of these criteria with prevailing economic, political, sociological, and ecological limitations. The ultimate object of this phase of War Research is to rationalize the heretofore informal operations of the war system. It should provide practical working procedures through which responsible governmental authority may resolve the following war-function problems, among others, under any given circumstances:\n\n\nhow to determine the optimum quantity, nature, and timing of military expenditures to ensure a desired degree of economic control;\n\nhow to organize the recruitment, deployment, and ostensible use of military personnel to ensure a desired degree of acceptance of authorized social values;\n\nhow to compute on a short-term basis, the nature and extent of the LOSS OF LIFE and other resources which SHOULD BE SUFFERED and/or INFLICTED DURING any single outbreak of hostilities to achieve a desired degree of internal political authority and social allegiance;\n\nhow to project, over extended periods, the nature and quality of overt warfare which must be planned and budgeted to achieve a desired degree of contextual stability for the same purpose; factors to be determined must include frequency of occurrence, length of phase, INTENSITY OF PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION, extensiveness of geographical involvement, and OPTIMUM MEAN LOSS OF LIFE;\n\nhow to extrapolate accurately from the foregoing, for ecological purposes, the continuing effect of the war system, over such extended cycles, on population pressures, and to adjust the planning of casualty rates accordingly.\n\nWar Research procedures will necessarily include, but not be limited to, the following:\n\n(a) The collation of economic, military, and other relevant date into uniform terms, permitting the reversible translation of heretofore discrete categories of information.\n\n(b) The development and application of appropriate forms of cost-effectiveness analysis suitable for adapting such new constructs to computer terminology, programming, and projection.\n\n(c) Extension of the “war games” methods of systems testing to apply, as a quasi-adversary proceeding, to the nonmilitary functions of war.\n\nSince Both Programs of the WAR/PEACE RESEARCH Agency will share the same purpose—to maintain governmental freedom of choice in respect to war and peace until the direction of social survival is no longer in doubt — it is of the essence of this proposal that the agency be constituted without limitation of\n\n\ntime. Its examination of existing and proposed institutions will be self- liquidating when its own function shall have been superseded by the historical developments it will have, at least in part, initiated.\n\n\n\n\n1. The Economic and Social Consequences of Disarmament: U.S. Reply to the Inquiry of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, June 1964), pp. 8-9.\n\n2. Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable (New York: Horizon, 1962), p.35.\n\n3. Robert S. McNamara, in an address before the American Society of News- paper Editors, in Montreal, P.Q., Canada, 18 May 1966.\n\n4. Alfred North Whitehead, in “The Anatomy of Some Scientific Ideas,” included in The Aims of Education (New York: Macmillan, 1929).\n\n5. At Ann Arbor, Michigan, 16 June 1962.\n\n6. Louis J. Halle, “Peace in Our Time? Nuclear Weapons as a Stabilizer,” The New Republic (28 December 1963).\n\n\n1. Kenneth E. Boulding, “The World War Industry as an Economic Problem,” in Emile Benoit and Kenneth E. Boulding (eds.), Disarmament and the Economy (New York: Harper & Row, 1963).\n\n2. McNamara, in ASNE Montreal address cited.\n\n3. Report of the Committee on the Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament (Washington: USGPO, July 1965).\n\n4. Sumner M. Rosen, “Disarmament and the Economy,” War/Peace Report (March 1966).\n\n\n1. Vide William D. Grampp, “False Fears of Disarmament,” Harvard Business Review (Jan.-Feb.1964) for a concise example of this reasoning.\n\n\n2. Seymour Melman, “The Cost of Inspection for Disarmament,” in Benoit and Boulding, op. cit.\n\n\n1. Arthur I. Waskow, Toward the Unarmed Forces of the United States (Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1966), p.9. (This is the unabridged edition of the text of a report and proposal prepared for a seminar of strategists and Congressman in 1965; it was later given limited distribution among other persons engaged in related projects.)\n\n2. David T. Bazelon, “The Politics of the Paper Economy,” Commentary (November 1962), p.409.\n\n3. The Economic Impact of Disarmament (Washington: USGPO, January 1962), p.409.\n\n4. David T. Bazelon, “The Scarcity Makers,” Commentary (October 1962), p. 298.\n\n5. Frank Pace, Jr., in an address before the American Banker’s Association, September 1957.\n\n6. A random example, taken in this case from a story by David Deitch in the New York Herald Tribune (9 February 1966).\n\n7. Vide L. Gumplowicz, in Geschichte der Staatstheorien (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1905) and earlier writings.\n\n8. K. Fischer, Das Militar (Zurich: Steinmetz Verlag, 1932), pp.42-43.\n\n9. The obverse of this phenomenon is responsible for the principal combat problem of present-day infantry officers: the unwillingness of otherwise “trained” troops to fire at an enemy close enough to be recognizable as an individual rather than simply as a target.\n\n10. Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War (Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1960), p.42. 11. John D. Williams, “The Nonsense about Safe Driving,” Fortune (September 1958).\n\n12. Vide most recently K. Lorenz, in Das Sogenannte Bose: zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression (Vienna: G. Borotha-Schoeler Verlag, 1964).\n\n\n13. Beginning with Herbert Spencer and his contemporaries, but largely ignored for nearly a century.\n\n14. As in recent draft-law controversy, in which the issue of selective deferment of the culturally privileged is often carelessly equated with the preservation of the biologically “fittest.”\n\n15. G. Bouthol, in La Guerre (Paris: Presses universitairies de France, 1953) and many other more detailed studies. The useful concept of “polemology,” for the study of war as an independent discipline, is his, as is the notion of “demographic relaxation,” the sudden temporary decline in the rate of population increase after major wars.\n\n16. This seemingly premature statement is supported by one of our own test studies. But it hypothecates both the stabilizing of world population growth and the institution of fully adequate environmental controls. Under these two conditions, the probability of the permanent elimination of involuntary global famine is 68 percent by 1976 and 95 percent by 1981.\n\n\n1. This round figure is the median taken from our computations, which cover varying contingencies, but it is sufficient for the purpose of general discussion.\n\n2. But less misleading than the more elegant traditional metaphor, in which war expenditures are referred to as the “ballast” of the economy but which suggests incorrect quantitative relationships.\n\n3. Typical in generality, scope, and rhetoric. We have not used any published program as a model; similarities are unavoidably coincidental rather than tendentious.\n\n4. Vide the reception of a “Freedom Budget for all Americans,” proposed by A. Philip Randolph et al; it is a ten-year plan, estimated by its sponsors to cost $185 billion.\n\n5. Waskow, op. cit.\n\n6. By several current theorists, most extensively and effectively by Robert R. Harris in “The Real Enemy,” an unpublished doctoral dissertation made avail- able to this study.\n\n\n7. In ASNE, Montreal address cited. 8. The Tenth Victim.\n\n9. For an examination of some of its social implications, see Seymour Rubenfeld, Family of Outcasts: A New Theory of Delinquency (New York: Free Press, 1965).\n\n10. As in Nazi Germany; this type of “ideological” ethnic repression, directed to specific sociological ends, should not be confused with traditional economic exploitation, as of Negroes in the U.S., South Africa, etc.\n\n11. By teams of experimental biologists in Massachusetts, Michigan, and California, as well as in Mexico and the U.S.S.R. Preliminary test applications are scheduled in Southeast Asia, in countries not yet announced.\n\n12. Expressed in the writings of H. Marshall McLuhan, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964) and elsewhere.\n\n13. This rather optimistic estimate was derived by plotting a three-dimensional distribution of three arbitrarily defined variables; the macro-structural, relating to the extension of knowledge beyond the capacity of conscious experience; the organic, dealing with the manifestations of terrestrial life as inherently comprehensible; and the infra-particular, covering the subconceptual requirements of natural phenomena. Values were assigned to the known and unknown in each parameter, tested against data from earlier chronologies, and modified heuristically until predictable correlations reached a useful level of accuracy. “Two decades” means, in this case, 20.6 years, with a standard deviation of only 1.8 years. (An incidental finding, not pursued to the same degree of accuracy, suggests a greatly accelerated resolution of issues in the biological sciences after 1972.)\n\n\n1. Since they represent an examination of too small a percentage of the eventual options, in terms of “multiple mating,” the subsystem we developed for this application. But an example will indicate how one of the most frequently recurring correlation problems–chronological phasing–was brought to light in this way. One of the first combinations tested showed remarkably high coefficients of compatibility, on a post hoc static basis, but no variations of\n\n\ntiming, using a thirty-year transition module, permitted even marginal synchronization. The combination was thus disqualified. This would not rule out the possible adequacy of combinations using modifications of the same factors, however, since minor variations in a proposed final condition may have disproportionate effects on phasing.\n\n2. Edward Teller, quoted in War/Peace Report (December 1964).\n\n3. E.g., the highly publicized “Delphi Technique” and other, more sophisticated procedures. A new system, especially suitable for institutional analysis, was developed during the course of this study in order to hypothecate mensurable “peace games”; a manual of this system is being prepared and will be submitted for general distribution among appropriate agencies. For older, but still useful, techniques, see Norman C. Dalkey’s Games and Simulations (Santa Monica, Calif.:Rand, 1964).\n\n\n1. A primer-level example of the obvious and long overdue need for such translation is furnished by Kahn (in Thinking About the Unthinkable,p.102). Under the heading “Some Awkward Choices” he compares four hypothetical policies: a certain loss of $3,000; a .1 chance of loss of $300,000; a.01 chance of loss of $30,000,000; and a .001 chance of loss of $3,000,000,000. A government decision-maker would “very likely” choose in that order. But what if “lives are at stake rather than dollars?” Kahn suggests that the order of choice would be reversed, although current experience does not support this opinion. Rational war research can and must make it possible to express, without ambiguity, lives in terms of dollars and vice versa; the choices need not be, and cannot be, “awkward.”\n\n2. Again, an overdue extension of an obvious application of techniques up to now limited such circumscribed purposes as improving kill-ammunition ratios determining local choice between precision and saturation bombing, and other minor tactical, and occasionally strategic, ends. The slowness of Rand, I.D.A., and other responsible analytic organizations to extend cost-effectiveness and related concepts beyond early-phase applications has already been widely re- marked on and critized elsewhere.\n\n3. The inclusion of institutional factors in war-game techniques has been given some rudimentary consideration in the Hudson Institute’s Study for Hypothetical Narratives for Use in Command and Control Systems Planning (by William Pfaff and Edmund Stillman; Final report published in 1963). But\n\n\nhere, as with other war and peace studies to date, what has blocked the logical extension of new analytic techniques has been a general failure to understand and properly evaluate the non-military functions of war.\n\n– End –", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6529582142829895}
+{"content": "China: USA’s “White Supremacy” Poisoned Hong Hong\n\n( China may depend on the United States and other large Western nations to keep its economy afloat, but that doesn’t seem to stop them attacking the United States at every opportunity through its various propaganda news networks. The People’s Daily, a Chinese media outlet controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, claimed on Wednesday that the United States as a “predominant culture of white supremacy” that has unleashed “turmoil” in Hong Kong.\n\nIt looks like China isn’t too happy to see the people of Hong Kong proudly waving British Union Flags and American flags, rather than Chinese ones.\n\n“The epidemic of systemic racism and discrimination against people of color has long poisoned the US political atmosphere under the patronage of white supremacists and with their tacit connivance,” the propaganda outlet claimed. “They have perpetuated discriminatory laws and legitimized racial segregation by giving immunity to convicted police officers.”\n\nThe outlet goes on to claim that African Americans are more likely to be arrested than white people, that there are continued racist killings, and racial violence “continues to abound.”\n\nIronic, coming from a country that banned black people from several of the country’s major chain stores during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe People’s Daily did what it usually does, and published claims that they found on left-wing news sites in America. Chinese propaganda networks are working overtime to ensure President Donald Trump is removed from office in November, owing to the actions taken by the president to protect the American economy from China.\n\nThe People’s Daily went on to suggest that the US has segregation in its roots.\n\n“Segregation has its roots in history,” the outlet claimed. “American leaders have continuously turned a blind eye to racism and partly fuelled it by allowing rampant segregation in the legal, economic and social systems to thrive.”\n\nIt then claimed that the United States’ “pompous homilies about democracy and freedom” are the reason for the world’s problems, including what they called the “turmoil in Hong Kong.”\n\nHey, China. Maybe if you weren’t trying to control everything the people of Hong Kong did, and forcing them to live under a communist dictatorial regime, they’d like you more.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.694749116897583}
+{"content": "Ingredients and Method\n\nYou are the Universe experiencing itself.\nThree Ways to Re-jig Your Life\nHow to be in the NOW.\nLet’s talk about what motivation REALLY is.\nWhat Is Personal Development?\n5 Things that are AUTHENTIC\nSome thoughts on Mercury’s Retrograde Habits.\nDoes old energy have you feeling stuck?\nVertigo and hard life lessons.\nFear…and the sensations around it.\nYou are ACTUALLY afraid of being SUCCESSFUL.\nThe importance of knowing everyone’s story is different.\nHow to be the same as everyone else.\nHow to improve your life really quickly.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9515047073364258}
+{"content": "Contemporary is a style of expressive dance that combines elements from many other dance genres and styles including jazz and ballet. This class will teach a student to use their emotions and portray stories through dance. Learning how to move in a fluid but controlled style as well as developing skills that are used in all styles of dance. This is an enjoyable class to really express personality and work on self-confidence.\n\n\nTap is a style that will quickly develop a dancer’s coordination and rhythmic ability. While it is challenging this style is extremely beneficial and a very enjoyable class. The musicality and tap technique taught in this class will add to a dancer’s well-rounded base of knowledge regarding all styles.\n\n\nBallet is a style that incorporates the use of the ballet barre to learn basic steps and positions, which will be combined to create simple combinations.  Learning how to maintain correct posture, which in ballet, involves everything from the feet to the top of the head and everything in between. After the barre; dancers continue stretching, working the hamstrings, calves, quadriceps, back, and other muscles of the body. Educating the students on the names of the steps and what they mean in the French language. Dancers will learn about turnout and correct body placement. They will expand their repertoire of jumps starting from a basic position and increasing in difficulty. Dancers will work to improve their turns with proper use of the arms. Traveling across the floor learning sequences that strengthen all aspects of dance. Ballet is the foundation and base for all styles of dance.\n\nHip Hop\n\nHip Hop is a familiar and popular style of dance in the modern world. Commonly seen in movies and on television it is a rhythmic, free, and fun style that is very entertaining to an audience. Learning the skills in hip-hop requires using stylized techniques and trying new popular hip hop moves. Hip Hop also strengthens a dancer physically and promotes self-confidence.\n\n\nJazz is one of the most popular and commonly known styles of dance. It requires the understanding of strength, flexibility, and technique required through dance. A jazz class consists of turning, kicking, leaping, and moving rhythmically to music. A dance class with a centered focus on jazz can produce a well-rounded dancer that excels in many skills needed in all styles of dance. Choreography learned in these classes includes jazz style from vintage eras to the current upcoming new styles of today. Using a wide variety of music and movement, jazz is a fundamental style for any dancer.\n\nHip Hop/Jazz Combo\n\nThe Pre-Hip-Hop/Jazz class teaches fundamental jazz steps and combines the elements of hip-hop moves and contemporary music. Our classes combine these two dance styles into one program that has been designed for the young dancer!\n\nMusical Theater\n\nMusical Theateris a very fun and well-known style, particularly enjoyable for a dancer who loves to be on stage. Using songs from Broadway musicals and every play imaginable the style focuses on skills and moves you would typically see on a Broadway stage. It is a fantastic way to feel like you are in the theater without having to sing or act.  Jazz technique, style, and expression are also taught in this class focusing heavily on encompassing the specific character of a piece. It will enhance a dancer’s education and prepare a student for future theater opportunities.\n\n\nPointe is for dancers who have reached a point in their dancing where they are strong enough to learn the style wearing pointe shoes. First year pointe students will start slowly at the barre and will gradually move to center work on two feet. Building strength and establishing proper placement on pointe is important to expand their abilities.��As students increase in their level and ability they will be given more challenging work and will continue to build strength by executing turns, jumps, and combinations of other moves. Dancers in this class are required to be in a ballet class as well as a technique class. This style is the most challenging in dance and there is great pride for a dancer in learning and executing it well.\n\n\nBallet/Tap Combo Class – Ballet and tap exercises are taught to introduce important dance basics such as stretching, concentration, rhythm, coordination and discipline. The purpose of this class is to provide a strong foundation for continued dance training as well as develop a love for dance itself.\n\nTiny Tots\n\nIntroductory combo class consisting of Ballet/Tap – covering the vocabulary, ballet positions, stretching and Creative Movements. Basic tap skills are taught to upbeat children music. Children also learn performance skills.\n\n\nTumbling teaches the fundamentals of floor gymnastic moves. This is fun for all ages and all levels and good for students that have or do not have prior tumbling abilities. Tumbling will teach many variations of moves and dance tricks. From the well-trained dancers to students who want to learn basic tumbling training, it is becoming a popular art and athletic activity and a great way to stay fit and have fun.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9915953874588013}
+{"content": "Remnants of massive Hurricane Michael, which has left a trail of destruction in Florida, could now be heading towards the UK and one forecast shows it making landfall from the South West next week.\n\nThe most powerful storm to strike the USA in decades has now been downgraded to a tropical storm and will continue to weaken as it makes its way north.\n\nHowever, it is expected to emerge from the east of the USA on Friday, forming into an extra-topical system as it moves over the cooler waters of the North Atlantic.\n\nIt may combine with another area of low pressure to bring more unsettled weather across the UK early next week.\n\nForecaster Amy Hodgson, of The Weather Channel , said: “Latest model guidance indicates an eastward movement across the North Atlantic, and it will merge with a larger area of low pressure.\n\n“This deep low, including remnants of Michael, is currently forecast to bring a period of unsettled weather across the British Isles next Tuesday or Wednesday.”\n\nAt its most severe, Michael was a Category 4 hurricane with winds measuring 155mph. Downgraded to a tropical storm early on Thursday over south-central Georgia, it continues to weaken but is still menacing the southeast with heavy rains, blustery winds and possible spin-off tornadoes.\n\nBased on its internal barometric pressure, Michael was the third most powerful hurricane to hit the US mainland, behind the unnamed Labour Day storm of 1935 and Camille in 1969.\n\nBased on wind speed, it was the fourth-strongest, behind the Labour Day storm (184 mph), Camille and Andrew in 1992.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5894678831100464}
+{"content": "Cuba Is an Example for Fighting Hunger: FAO\n\nResende said that Cuba demonstrated early on that it is possible to fight hunger with political will.\n\nCuba is an example to the world in fighting hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) declared Wednesday.\n\nFAO’s representative in Cuba, Marcelo Resende, said during an interview with the country’s Round Table television program, that Cuba leads in the promotion of agricultural production in the country and the world, as well as the democratization of land tenure, with agrarian reform being a cornerstone of the Cuban Revolution.\n\n\nCurrently, there are 800 million people around the world who go hungry despite the fact that food production is seven times higher than the needs of each person, which is due to the lack of political will, pressed the representative.\n\nResende recalled the words of the late revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, where he had remarked, that from the millions of children who go hungry in the world, none are Cuban.\n\nThe representative also highlighted the FAO’s extensive collaboration with the Caribbean island, especially in the areas of natural disasters, hurricanes, seed production. However, he added, FAO has continued to learn more from Cuba than vice versa, even when the FAO has provided technical assistance.\n\nArticles by: Telesur\n\n\nFor media inquiries: [email protected]", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9973457455635071}
+{"content": "Keeping up professional appearances on Zoom\n\nDo you really need to get out of your pajamas before a zoom conference? Under lockdown and home office, we tend to relax, tend to think that no one really notices. ¡WRONG!\n\nHere are some cardinal rules to start your zoom-based office from home. Your voice is much like your face after eight hours of blissful sleep, it takes a while to lose that distinctive, muffled sound of still sleepy voice.\n\n\n\nDress to kill or how to design your zoom stage\n\nThe unforgettable year, 2020 with all its casualties and devastation is coming to an end, but there may well be a blessing in disguise. Many of us will need to prepare for new jobs, as our current ones have been swept away by the collateral damage of the pandemic.\n\nThus, we need to concentrate on what we really want and need, perhaps a high income in a large city or living happily on a lower income in a rural area with no commutes but those from the kitchen to your desk. Whatever your objectives for 2021, solid communications skills are of vital importance for you and your career.\n\n\n\nCan you deliver a speech at TEDx?\n\nDoes speaking in front of an audience make you feel nervous?\n\nIt most likely will, but as with all talents, practice, practice and more practice, will make the difference, and yes, most of us belong to the 85% of the population who suffer from terrible stage fright.\n\n\n\nHow did it all start?\n\nWhy would I focus on children’s ability to learn to speak in public? Serendipity is the answer, I was invited to participate in a global congress of public speaking in Lisbon in September of 2019.\n\nThat’s when we could still travel and mingle in an auditorium. A fascinating show with speakers from all four corners of the earth, and yes, you are spot on, almost a quarter of the conference was dedicated to children.\n\n\n\nWhy not to be afraid of your audience?\n\nTo be able to communicate with others, to express ourselves coherently is a challenge for many.\n\nThe lack of public speaking skills is one of the reasons that, as adults, many feel insecure to speak to an audience or to just simply look into someone’s eyes.\n\n\n\nCommunications skills are vital for children\n\nCovid-19, the pandemic which has hit Spain, and the rest of the world, so severely has been a blessing in disguise for the two entrepreneurs who have started Komünikare in October 2020.\n\nAll our lives changed due to lock down and a dramatic change in how we can continue to communicate.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9881393313407898}
+{"content": "\n\nBullying: The ‘silent’ epidemic in our schools\n\nBy Antoney Luvinzu | May 10th 2021\nBullying is a relatively common problem among children and adolescents. [Courtesy]\n\nBullying is an epidemic. It is rampant, widespread, pervasive and the effects can be catastrophic.\n\nBullying in schools is a worldwide puzzle that has negative consequences for the general school setting and for the enablement of students to learn in an apt environment without fear.\n\nWhat makes a school bully? School bullies tend to share common traits such as aggressive, dominant, slightly lower than average intelligence and reading ability, and are of average school popularity. A vital suggestion is that such tyrants may possess poor social skills, have low empathy levels, and can be uncooperative.\n\nWhen most people think about bullying, they envision some kind of physical intimidation. However, bullying can take on many forms, which are just as emotionally and psychologically damaging as physical intimidation and harassment.\n\nThe four general forms of bullying are physical, verbal, social, and cyberbullying. All these are evident in the school integration and equal emphasis should be put on them.\n\nAligning this with the knowledge of parents on this puzzle, the conclusion that parents are not aware of such shameful acts in schools would be disgraceful.\n\nThe Global School-based Health Survey 2017 ranks Kenya among the top countries in the world with a high prevalence of secondary school bullying.\n\nThe government is aware of bullying in schools and has legal provisions in place to protect the rights of learners and empower school administrators to address it. The Education Act, 2013, outlaws any form of psychological or physical punishment of students.\n\nIt spells out punishments for those who contravene this, which includes, upon conviction, jail terms, or payment of fines. These interventions are time-consuming, in theory, but in reality, nobody has ever been convicted based on the same, knowledge well known to bullies.\n\nIn earlier times, bullying was seen as a more clearly specified and simple set of behaviours than at present. [Courtesy]\n\nBullying is a relatively common problem among children and adolescents. It is not a new phenomenon, but something is different: How the generations; the millennials and the generation Z are indulged in it.\n\n\nAccording to descriptions in old documents from the 18th to early 20th centuries, bullying was generally seen as a more clearly specified and simple set of behaviours than at present.\n\nHowever, in contrast to the forms of bullying in earlier times, and the first descriptions of bullying as one or a few physically strong boys directly and harshly treating weaker ones, bullying in modern contexts includes more psychological and verbal threats as well. Researchers such as Smith and Rigby have included forms of indirect bullying: gossiping, unkind gestures, and spreading rumors.\n\nOver time, the meaning of what bullying includes has broadened to cover indirect forms. The attitude towards it has been changing. It used to be considered a part of children’s growing up, but now is considered to be a social problem that has to be controlled.\n\nBoth are very important issues because the possible developmental forms of bullying can be predicted. More efficient prevention programmes could be provided to reduce the incidence of bullying. Moreover, the forms of bullying have developed further in more impersonal ways, rather than face to face.\n\nSocieties with larger economic inequality have a higher prevalence of bullying victimisation, but also a stronger social gradient in bullying. One underlying mechanism may be that acceptance of hierarchies and of having a more segregated society is reflected in behaviour among children.\n\nIn countries with large economic inequalities, hierarchies and status differences are distinct in the adult population and thus may gain more widespread acceptance among children and school officials.\n\nA societal norm of accepting socioeconomic inequality may lead to more widespread approval of behaviours associated with status differences, such as bullying.\n\nForms of bullying tend to differ from private schools to public schools. A student at Brookhouse School, for example, is more likely to experience a different form of bullying from one at Maranda High School. This is due to the very different economic and cultural settings.\n\nStudents living below the poverty threshold are at high risk for perpetrating and suffering bullying in all grades of school. The frequent victimisation of these students by their peers has been related to the stigmatisation for their being “different” due to familial poverty, and/or to the poor relational skills of minors raised in highly deprived environments.\n\nForms of bullying tend to differ from private schools to public schools. [Courtesy]\n\nThere is also increasing evidence about the higher prevalence of bullying behaviours in students living in poverty, who may bully their peers as a reaction to the suffered stigmatisation, or to combat feelings of low self-esteem.\n\nThe degree between the number of incidences, types, and location of bullying that takes place at public and private schools are different. In private schools, forms such as gossiping, unkind gestures, name-calling, cyber-bullying, exclusion, spreading rumours, racial and sexual comments are some of the common unfortunates of bullying.\n\nUnlike in private institutions, public schools tend to have face-to-face-like forms of bullying such as physical acts, money or items taken away, threatened or forced to do something.\n\nBullying, online and in school, has driven students to the point of fear, depression, self-harm, and even suicide. Solutions are said to be as simple as talking to a parent or teacher about the problem, but it is easier said than done. Many victims of bullying never tell a trusted adult, most likely due to lack of self-esteem and the fear of the situation becoming more unbearable.\n\nThe long-lasting psychological impacts stem directly from the short-term impacts that children experience as the result of being consistently bullied. Depression and anxiety tend to characterise their emotional outlook well beyond the bullying years, extending into their adult lives, where they become chronic, sometimes lifelong problems.\n\nThese issues make eating, sleeping, working, exercising and engaging in interesting hobbies – all the hallmarks of a full, balanced life – more difficult. They also make it more difficult to make and keep relationships, whether with friends or romantic partners.\n\nAnd according to the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the conventional “sticks and stones” wisdom about what kind of bullying really causes lasting damage is backwards: It is actually emotional harm that lasts much longer than physical harm. Especially during childhood, when bodily damage heals readily, the victim’s self-image may be permanently maimed.\n\nThis results in the bully victim’s inability to trust himself or herself as a capable individual. In particular, this has effects during tough or difficult times, where the victim has been taught they are too weak or hopeless to persevere, and so they do not. This can have major repercussions for work, relationships, and other trying life situations that require persistence and grit to overcome or succeed in.\n\nThey also have difficulty trusting people, have reduced occupational opportunities, and grow into adulthood with the tendency to be loners. They make fewer positive choices and act less often in defense of their own happiness, owing mostly to the lack of perceived control instilled in them during their childhood bullying.\n\nThe long-lasting psychological impacts stem directly from the short-term impacts. [Courtesy]\n\nWhat can we do to make schools safer?\n\nDealing with feelings of school safety, and specifically addressing school bullying, requires a multi-pronged approach. One of the first steps in preventing bullying is teaching students about it and discussing what their rights are at the school.\n\nThere are multiple ways to do this. The internet and library can be used by students to research bullying, what it looks like, how to prevent it, and how to respond. Of course, learning about bullying also requires school staff to step up.\n\nIt’s important to have presentations on what bullying looks like and teach students about how it can hurt others. School-wide presentations and classroom discussions can both be used as a means of teaching students about just how bad bullying can get.\n\nTeachers might also want to use alternative approaches to exploring bullying. For instance, in some cases, teachers can turn to creative writing to help students express how they feel when they get bullied.\n\nPoems, sketches, and stories can all be written that explore bullying and its effects. This creative exploration doesn’t have to be limited to writing. Artistic works can also be created that explore the bullying phenomenon. What’s important is that teachers give students the space to explore their feelings on the matter and guide discussions around the topic.\n\nOf course, responding to bullying requires more than just exploring the feelings of students. Concrete actions need to be taken to prevent bullying before it starts and stopping bullying when it happens. To that end, staff training is an incredibly important part of stopping bullying.\n\nIt’s important for not only teachers but all members of a school’s staff to be familiar with the policies regarding what to do when they see bullying. Teachers may often step in to address bullying in their classrooms, but other members of staff may be at a loss about what to do when they witness bullying happening. For this reason, it’s important that administrators review school policies toward bullying with all members of the staff.\n\nIt’s also important to be aware of the school climate and how students feel about going to the school. For this reason, it’s important for administrators to occasionally perform a school-wide assessment.\n\n\nShare this story\nODM pushes for Uhuru to endorse Raila's presidency\nAlthough the party is yet to settle on a presidential candidate, insiders say the former Premier is the most likely flagbearer.\nKabogo: Mt Kenya will field a candidate for the top seat\nKabogo insists there will be no vacuum in region’s leadership after President Kenyatta retires next year.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9874022006988525}
+{"content": "Roman Tlusty's business was focused mainly on cowboy boot and leather shoe repair. He asked his friend Ivan Petrův to create a new logo for his Tlusty leatherworks goods and that logo is still in use today. At this time, neither Roman or Ivan had any idea that they would connect again to found Tlusty & Co. together 20 years later.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5708189606666565}
+{"content": "Jul 06, 2017 Others\n\nThe owner of a copyright has five (5) principle rights. What are they?\n\nThis paper concentrates on the primary theme of The owner of a copyright has five (5) principle rights. What are they? in which you have to explain and evaluate its intricate aspects in detail. In addition to this, this paper has been reviewed and purchased by most of the students hence; it has been rated 4.8 points on the scale of 5 points. Besides, the price of this paper starts from £ 40. For more details and full access to the paper, please refer to the site.\n\nPY360 Ethics in Technology: Copyrights, Trade Secrecy and Patents\n\n\nASSIGNMENT: text book Ethics for the information age Fourth edition Michael J Quinn Pearson Custom Library \nPY360 https://essayzoo.org/essay/apa/business-and-marketing/the-development-of-business-ethics.php#order_topic#mce_temp_url# in Technology \nWrite a short essay for each of the following topics.\n1. Define copyright, trade secrecy, and patents as they relate to software.\n2. The owner of a copyright has five (5) principle rights. What are they?\n3. Discuss the legal protections related to copyright, trade secrecy, and patents. Include an example for each where legal protection has been enforced.\nTotal possible points of 100 include ten (10) points for organization and use of language, including grammar and punctuation.\n\n\nCopyrights, Trade Secrecy, and Patents By Institution Copyrights, Trade Secrecy, and Patents A software copyright refers to how the government provides the creator of the software with certain rights to his or her original work. A trade secret is an extremely confidential piece of intellectual property which typically gives a company competitive advantage (Quinn, 2011). About software, the trade secret refers to its source code. Lastly, a patent allows the government to offer an inventor with an exclusive right to an individual piece of intellectual prop\n\n\n0% Plagiarism Guaranteed & Custom Written, Tailored to your instructions\n\nInternational House, 12 Constance Street, London, United Kingdom,\nE16 2DQ\n\nUK Registered Company # 11483120\n\n100% Pass Guarantee\n\nOrder Now\n\n\n\nView Our Samples\n\ncorona virus stop", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8502602577209473}
+{"content": "How do children and adults get to cook together?\n\nThe group is divided into teams. Each team cooks one dish. The atults cook something savory, meanwhile the kids can creat the dessert with the help of a children's animator.\n\nWhat is the minimum age? And what is the maximum at the parent and children party?\n\nChildren's from 6 are welcome, and no maximum age. You can bring granny too!\n\nOn what days is it possible to organize the parent-children party?\n\nThe event can take place, on saturday and sundays ( In lunchtime 10:00-13:00 or dinnertime 16:00-19:00).\n\nCan we choose among the locations?\n\nThe choice of places depends on the number of people. In case of a small party, at the Bécsi út, the main cooking studio and the Páva and Sas street are the most perfect places. A large party can only be held at the ground floor cooking studio of the Bécsi út.\n\nWhat kind of dishes can we make at the adult and children party?\n\nYou can choose different, easy, national dishes from our proposal.\n\nHow many dishes can we make at the parent and children party?\n\nIt depends on the number of attendees. Up to18 adults: 3 dishes, up to 24 adults: 4 dishes, up to 35 adults: 5 dishes. Plus there is always a desert that the kids can make, and you can choose from our special \"Deserts for the kids\" menu.\n\nCan we combine a menu?\n\nOf course you can combine the menu according to your wishes.\n\nEveryone can taste everything?\n\nYes of course. Each dish is so large that everyone can cuddle it, so the 3-4-5 or even more-course dinner is combined at the end of the cooking.\n\nCan we bring decoration, own music? is there any projector?\n\nDecoration and music can be solved, and projector is also available on all venues.\n\nHow long is the program?\n\nTotal approx. 3 hours: cooking 1.5-2 hours, meals 1-1.5 hours. Upon request, you can stay longer.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5998243689537048}
+{"content": "In Stock\nPrice: £51.00\n\nAvailable Options\n\n\nUnique and multidisciplinary approach to optimize digestion and improve gut health\n\nIndication for use\nCavalor Digest improves digestion and restores gut flora, protecting against diarrhea and also decreasing the risk of colic. Furthermore, it binds, traps and inactivates mycotoxins.\nCavalor Digest provides a unique and multidisciplinary approach to optimize digestion and to improve gut health and gut flora by providing a variety of nutrients and nutraceuticals (living yeast culture, herbs, activated carbon, etc.). Cavalor Digest can also be used in the dietary management of horses associated with gastrointestinal disturbances. Cavalor Digest also contains ingredients to reduce the risk of the harmful effects of mycotoxins.\n\nWhat are the effects of mycotoxins and general symptoms of mycotoxicosis? \nMycotoxins originate from molds. They grow on living and stored plants. The growth of mycotoxins is practically unavoidable, especially in moist conditions. Because of the large volume of feedstuffs that must be stored and distributed in stables, considerable opportunity exists for molds to grow, especially when dry and cool storage of harvested feed is not possible (particularly in countries with a warm and humid climate). When mycotoxins are ingested, either in large single doses or in small quantities over a long period of time, it can have adverse effects on the performance capacity, the reproductive efficiency and the health of horses.\n\nThere are several general symptoms that may indicate that a mycotoxin problem exists:\n- Reduced consumption of feed\n- A high incidence of digestive upsets/ liver problems (equine leukoencephalomalacia)\n- A high incidence of diseases associated with depressed immune function\n- A high rate of fertility problems without obvious infectious disease involvement\n - Animals that do not respond well to treatment\n\nThere are many types of molds that produce a variety of mycotoxins, causing various diseases. Only a few mycotoxins have been related to feed-borne mycotoxicosis, and the potential impact on animal health remains to be further elucidated. The risk for some mycotoxins can be reduced by dietary management. Among others, the occurrence of fumonisin-B1 and aflotoxin-B1, and to a lesser extent Loiter B (rye grass staggers), seem to be the most threatening mycotoxins in equine rations.\n\nComposition and safety of the product\nCavalor Digest contains different active ingredients with different modes of action to increase digestion, improve gut health and gut flora, and reduce the risk of mycotoxicosis.  It contains living yeast cultures both positively influencing digestion and nutrient absorption. Activated carbon and bentonites that act as mycotoxin-binding agents by adsorption on their surface are included to reduce mycotoxin risk. Cavalor Digest contains the amino acid methionine to support the suggested benefit of supplementing this amino acid during mycotoxicosis. It contains choline chloride, which has a \"methionine saving effect\" and plays a role in fat metabolism. A variety of herbs as oregano, anise, melissa and cumin have been added to enhance the digestibility of the ration and improve palatability.\n\nAdd 30-45 grams/1.06- 1.59 oz to the daily ration for a minimum of 4 weeks. \nDo not use longer than 6 weeks. My follow up with Cavalor Vitaflor 365.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9648435711860657}
+{"content": "Restone syrup Maharishi Ayurveda, 200 ml\n\nOut Of Stock\n\n\n  1 reviews\n\nRestone syrup is a liquid form of the female tonic Restone. This is a balanced medicine to maintain women's health. Restone syrup is selected in such a way as to maintain both the physiology and the nervous system of the woman. This is a wonderful tool for restoring and strengthening the body. It supports the reproductive system, improves blood circulation, digestion and metabolic processes in the body and also calms the nervous system. Restone is also indicated during menopause to reduce unpleasant symptoms.\nIndications: common female tonic, premenstrual syndrome, menopause. As an adjuvant in the treatment of diseases of the female reproductive system.\n\nContent: Saraca asoca (Ashok), Symplocos racemosa (Lodhra), Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari), Mangifera indica (Aam), Ficus religiosa (Peepal), Mimosa pudica (Lajwanti), Boerhaavia diffusa (Punarnava), Caesalpinia sappan (Patang), Messua ferrea (Nagkesar), Valeriana wallichi (Sugandh Bala), Aconitum heterophyllum (Atees), Cyperus roundus (Nagar Mustak), Hotarrhena antidysenterica (Kurchi), Nymphoea nouchali (Kumud), Santahun album (Safed chandan), Terminalia chebula (Haritaki) , Cuminum cyminum (Jeera), Zingiber officinale (Sonth), Piper longum (Pippali), Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha), Asphaltum punjabianum (Shudha Shilajeet), Praval bhasm, Swarna makshik bhasm.\nDosage/Application: 1-2 teaspoons twice a day or as directed by a doctor.\n\nReviews: 1\nPlease login or register to review\nRecommended to watch\nSimilar items\nDrakshadi kwath, 100 tablets - 100 grams\nDrakshadi kwath (Drakshadi vati) is a well-known medicine used for treatment of the digestive system and liver disorders. This medicine is effective in chronic heartburn, gastritis, dyspepsia, as well as with jaundice and general intoxication of the body, including alcoholic. Additionally, D..\nMedha vati, 120 tablets\nMedha vati is a complex medicine for improving the work of the nervous system. This medicine maintains the balance of the nervous system with large mental and mental loads, improves memory and concentration, promotes healthy sleep. Medha vati is also indicated for stress and depression. This medicin..\nVidyarthi Amrit, 200 ml\nVidyarthi Amrit is an excellent tonic for children, students and adults. It is a brain tonic, which improves memory and intellectual skills. Vidyarthi amrit contains three crucial medha “rasayanas” (“rejuvenators”), for improvement of intellectual performance. It increases ability to learn, to remem..\nSitopaladi churna, 50 grams\nSitopaladi churna is one of the most famous ayurvedic medicines for the respiratory system and disorders of the digestive system. This medicine is shown for any diseases of the respiratory system - cold, acute respiratory infections, cough, bronchitis, asthma, etc. Additionally, this medi..\nHridyamrit vati, 120 tablets\nHridyamrit vati is an effective cardiac tonic General validity. This medicine helps with pain in the heart, ischemia, arrhythmia, angina, strengthens the heart muscle, lowers triglycerides and cholesterol in the blood. Also Hridyamrit vati is used for hypertension. Additionally, this medicine can ..", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9161117076873779}
+{"content": "Euclid - Online edition\n\nEucalyptus diversicolor\n\nClick/tap on images to enlarge\n\n\n\nEucalyptus | Symphyomyrtus | Inclusae\n\nEucalyptus diversicolorF.Muell., Fragm. 3: 131 (1863).\n\nT: ?Wilson Inlet, W.A., A.Oldfield 788; holo: MEL; iso: CGE, E, K.\nTree to 80 m tall. Lignotuber absent but has epicormic buds up the stem.\nBark smooth throughout light grey, dark grey and cream to yellow or pale orange, often mottled, shedding in irregular plates. The smooth surface may become granular with age.\nBranchlets lacking oil glands in the pith.\nJuvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stems rounded in cross-section; juvenile leaves always petiolate, opposite at lowest nodes only then alternate, broadly ovate to sub-orbicular, 5–15.5 cm long, 2.5–10 cm wide, discolorous, dull mid-green above.\nAdult leaves alternate, petioles 1–2 cm long; blade lanceolate, 7–13.5 cm long, 1.5–3.7 cm wide, base tapering or oblique, margin entire or subcrenulate, apex a drip-tip, discolorous, dark green and glossy above, paler below, penniveined, reticulation dense, intramarginal vein close to margin, oil glands mostly island, yellow.\nInflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles rounded to slightly flattened, 1.2–3 cm long, buds 7 per umbel, pedicels 0.3–0.6 cm long. Mature buds ovoid to obovoid (1.1–1.6 cm long, 0.5–0.7 cm wide), outer operculum lost very early and scar obscure at bud maturity, inner operculum broadly conical, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong-cuboid, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma more or less blunt, locules 3, the placentae each with 4 vertical rows of ovules. Flowers white.\nFruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.5–0.6 cm long), barrel-shaped, 1–1.2 cm long, (0.7)0.8–1 cm wide, disc descending, valves 3, enclosed or just below rim.\nSeeds grey, 1.2–3 mm long, flattened-ovoid and often pointed at one end, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.\n\nCultivated seedlings (measured at node 10): cotyledons bilobed to oblong; stems square in cross-section; leaves always petiolate, opposite for 6 to 15 nodes then alternate, ovate to broadly elliptical, 4–8 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, discolorous, dull mid-green above.\nFlowering Time\n\nFlowering has been recorded in January, April, May, August and December.\n\n\nA tall forest tree endemic to Western Australia, growing in higher rainfall areas of the south-west of Western Australia from Mt Manypeaks and Porongorup Range (but not the Stirling Range) west to Cape Leeuwin and north to Nannup where it can form pure stands on acidic sandy soils. Eucalyptus diversicolor has smooth bark spectacularly orange in season and discolorousadult leaves that are paler green on the underside.\n\nEucalyptus diversicolor belongs in Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus because the buds have two opercula and ovules are in four rows. However it is not closely related to any other species and occupies a solitary position in section Inclusae as the cotyledons are bilobed to oblong, stamens are inflexed, the fruit have enclosed valves, seeds are flattened-ovoid and the branchlets lack pith glands.\n\nE. diversicolor has no closely related species. It has some affinity with eastern Australian tall, wet forest species such as E. grandis and E. saligna, being large forest trees occupying wet habitats and retaining the primitive rainforest character of strongly discolorous adult leaves, and having flattened-ovoid seedE. diversicolor may also have some more distant relationship with the grey gums of eastern Australia (E. punctata, E. canaliculata, E. longirostrata, E. grisea, E. propinqua, E. major) which share some bark characteristics and also have discolorous leaves but differ in having cuboid seed.\n\nThe timber of E. diversicolor is red, hard and beautiful, strong and moderately durable. It is the second most important commercial species in Western Australia used for flooring and building construction.\n\nOrigin of Name\nEucalyptus diversicolor: Latin diversi-, diverse and -color, colour, referring to the dorsiventral leaves.\nCopyright © CANBR 2020, all rights reserved.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9875000715255737}
+{"content": "Diabetes During Pregnancy Could Raise Lifelong Heart Risks for Children\n\nMONDAY, Sept. 28, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The foundation for early heart disease might begin not during childhood or in the years that follow, but in the womb.\n\nResearchers studying nearly 30 years of data from families in Manitoba, Canada, found a strong connection between heart disease risk factors in teens and young adults and their mother’s type 2 or gestational diabetes.\n\n“I was surprised at the strength of the association, because we see a twofold, threefold higher risk for those who are exposed to diabetes compared to those who are not exposed,” said study author Laetitia Guillemette. She was a doctoral degree candidate at the University of Manitoba during the study, and is now a scientific evaluator for Health Canada.\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Robert Gabbay is chief science and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association. He said, “This is looking at individuals that are relatively young for heart disease. That is really concerning. By age 35, it could lead to heart disease. We typically think of heart disease being at a much older age.”\n\n\n“We know that people at higher blood sugars during pregnancy have larger babies, have more likelihood of challenges during delivery, higher cesarean rate, a variety of pregnancy complications,” Gabbay said. “Whereas higher blood sugar leads to all of those things, controlling blood sugars prevents all those things, so the link is really strong.”\n\nThe study, published Sept. 28 in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), doesn’t determine why maternal diabetes affects the heart. But one hypothesis suggests that it’s because the fetuses’ organs are made in real time while using the nutrients available to them, Guillemette said.\n\n“The baby is basically setting up for a life of being exposed to those kinds of nutrients and then becomes exposed to different kinds of nutrients when it’s a growing person. There might be a disjointed message between how the body is set up and what it receives to function,” Guillemette said.\n\nAnother hypothesis is that if the nutrients aren’t well-balanced during growth, the organs are setting up in an imperfect way from birth and not working as well as they could be, she added.\n\n“My goal was to highlight the fact that many of the things that affect our health are not directly related to individual decisions and lifestyles,” Guillemette said.\n\n\n“Even though we adjusted for it in our study, we do see that diabetes and heart disease are both clustering with poverty. If we tackled poverty, maybe we would erase two problems,” Guillemette said. “I think the takeaway from this is also that we can’t look at just interventions that target diabetes and just interventions that target heart disease because they’re all related, and they’re all related to other things.”\n\nMore information\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9618006944656372}
+{"content": "Government attempts to reform apartheid (2) Flashcards Preview\n\nHistory- Crisis of Apartheid > Government attempts to reform apartheid (2) > Flashcards\n\nFlashcards in Government attempts to reform apartheid (2) Deck (13)\nLoading flashcards...\n\nHow did the apartheid government change its strategy?\n\nAfter the Soweto uprising, the apartheid government changed its strategy - it began to mix reform with repression.\n\n\nUnder Prime Minister P.W. Botha, who led the National Party from 1978 to 1989, the government developed a policy which it called \"_____ _____ - Total Strategy '\n\nTotal Onslaught\n\n\nWhat was total onslaught?\n\nGovernment propaganda tried to make people believe that communists (including the Soviet Union and Cuba) were plotting to seize power in South Africa through military attacks, protests and international criticism.\n\n\nUsing this rather ____ Cold War propaganda, they adopted a 'total strategy' to meet this _____.\n\n\n\nWhat did total strategy involve? (5)\n\n- This involved an increased military build-up\n- censorship\n- the banning of people, organizations and political rallies\n- detentions without trial\n- from 1985 a national state of emergency in which the police and army had extra power to take action against protestors.\n\n\nWhat dud total strategy accompanied by?\n\nAt the same time, this was accompanied by limited reform in an attempt to win support from the growing black middle class.\n\n\nWhat was the system of apartheid designed to do to black workers?\n\nThe system of apartheid was designed to keep black workers as providers of manual labour in the economy.\n\n\nWhat were the features of the government's attempt to subjugate black workers? (4)\n\n-The policies of Bantu Education\n-The colour bar in the industry,\n-The pass laws\n-The homeland system\nwere all part of this design\n\n\nWhat effect did the growing economy have?\n\nAs the economy began to grow, more jobs were available in industry and there was an increasing need for skilled workers. As a result, there was pressure from business leaders and from black workers for the government to reform its policies affecting labour.\n\n\nWhat effect did the demand of labour have on migration?\n\nAs the demand for labour increased, more people moved from the homelands to the cities in spite of the pass laws. Many women were determined to join their husbands in the cities and the number of self-built informal settlements expanded rapidly.\n\n\nHow did the state try to prevent people from moving from homelands to the city?\n\nThe state tried to prevent this, using arrests and forced removals and by destroying the informal settlements, but the move from the homelands to the towns continued.\n\n\nHow did the pass system break down?\n\nAs the rate of urbanization increased, the number of people charged with breaking laws increased too - to an average of 540 000 cases each year. The courts, the pass and the prison system were overloaded, and the pass system began to break down. In the early 1980s, there were fewer prosecutions under the pass laws; and finally, the pass system was completely abolished in 1986.\n\n\nWhat vision was no longer possible as the pass system broke down?\n\nThis meant that the government's vision of separate development in independent homelands could no longer exist.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6438696384429932}
+{"content": "COVID-19 disproportionately affects different communities, and some are at much higher risk than others. Schools have shut down, unemployment rates are through the roof, and many young/healthy people are now at home with much more free time on their hands. Many elderly members of the community, as well as those with underlying health conditions, face a much greater risk if they contract the disease. To help mitigate this, we want to connect communities so that those at higher risk do not have to put themselves at risk by doing basic and necessary errands, such as getting groceries.\n\nWhat it does\n\nOn this website, one can register as a recipient and create a post detailing what items they need and from where. Good Neighbors will register and can see what requests have been made near them, and can then fulfill those.\n\nHow we built it\n\nThe front-end uses React and Redux in Javascript, and the backend utilizes mongoDB and heroku. All designs were created in Figma.\n\nChallenges we ran into\n\nOur biggest challenge in designing the app was considering how payment for grocery items would work. With limited time, we opted into erasing this from the equation so as to not have to deal with security issues, as well as verifying users before sharing credit card / bank account information. This payment process is up to the users.\n\nAccomplishments that we're proud of\n\nFunctionality and clear, thought-out steps before even beginning to code, which made the process much easier.\n\nWhat we learned\n\nIdeas are always changing and evolving, and it's really important to think about what features will actually get put to use when launched.\n\nWhat's next for Good Neighbor\n\nGetting members of the community to use it, and connect with one another.\n\nTry It out\n\n\n\naxios, babel, bcryptsjs, css, express.js, heroku, html, javascript, mongodb, mongoose, passport, react, redux, surge, webpack\n\nDevpost Software Identifier", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9222691059112549}
+{"content": "∙Wealth families have complex multi-jurisdictional needs ∙Integrated approachmeans thesedemands can be met ∙Wealthmanager must knowwhich part of bank to turn to ∙Covid-19 has led to more collaboration between teams JOHNYOUNGER HEADOFCLIENT&#38;BUSINESSDEVELOPMENT,RBCWEALTHMANAGEMENT\n\nrisk/return, tax residency, cross- border wealth transfer and estate planning and business needs that operate across international borders. Awealth manager aligned to an investment bank should be able to take a coordinated approach to their personal, family and institutional needs across the globe. For example, an individual\n\n\nany ultra high net worth (UHNW) clients and their families tend to have sophisticated,\n\nmulti-jurisdictional wealth and business structureswhich often means their needs cannot fully be met by traditional wealth management services due to the breadth, complexity and size of these requirements. In servicing these families, it is\n\nimperative to align their personal needs with their institutional-like needs. For such clients, we believe it is advantageous for a wealth manager to have a global investment bank within its structure, rather than as a third party. Aclientmay have a core holding in\n\na business and personal exposure to a currencywhichwould benefit from a hedging programmeto mitigate risk. Most independent wealth managerswould not have the ability\n\nto execute such a programmedue to size and complexity constraints, but a wealth manager aligned to an investment bankwould be able to offer an in-house hedging programmesuited to their personal needs.\n\nSimilarly, an individualwho owns\n\na significant position in a single stock (perhaps through ownership of a private company in an IPO) may prefer to take leverage fromthe position rather than sell. Should the position be in excess of £50m($69m) for example, the balance sheet of an investment bankwould be required to supply the leverage. Weare seeingmany wealthy\n\ncross-border families splitting their time (and/or business) between multiple jurisdictions. While the concept of a global footprint may be glamorous, it is certainly complex. Each jurisdiction has itsownrules, regulations and customs thatmay cause frustration or challenges, particularlywhen clients are considering investment\n\nSky high demands: ultra high net worth clients and their\n\nfamilies tend to have complex cross-border requirements\n\nmoving fromthe US to theUKmay discuss with their wealth manager the merits of taking leverage against a property purchase from an inheritance tax mitigation perspective. That same individual may also benefit frominstitutional advice on expanding their footprint of investors in their business beyond the US to theUKand Europe.A coordinated wealth manager and investment bank is best positioned to achieve this. For thewealthmanager/ investment\n\nbank, the key toworking effectively across business units is coordination and treatment of the client as a bank relationshipandnot just a client of an individual. Wheninvestment bankers guide a\n\nclient through an IPO, for example, they should be looking to optimise both the corporate and personal outcomes for the owners and management teams involved. By the same token, the wealth manager should consider every element of a client’s needs, and he or she should be skilled enough to identify the optimal place within the broader bank to serve those needs. Inmanyways, Covid-19has\n\ncontributed to themove toward a truly effective integratedmodel. At RBC, our integratedmodel has gained strongmomentumin recent years, and the pandemic anda virtual office environment hasmeant that the collaborationbetween teamsis as close as it has ever been.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7791255712509155}
+{"content": "How Personal Transportation Devices Impact The Post Pandemic World! \n\n January 4, 2021\n\nBy  Rando\n\nThe pandemic that hit us during early 2020 has made us reevaluate transportation, especially in cities and towns where people mostly rely on mass transportation to get around.Personal Transportation Devices Impact The Post Pandemic World\n\nElectric scooters, skates and skateboards, which were under powered kids toys just a few years ago, have been quickly transformed into convenient and efficient mode of transport for many. Electric scooters have become especially popular among college students and  18-34 year old urbaniites.\n\nElectric scooters started to appear practically overnight on the streets of many cities back in 2010. Although for some these personal transportation devices (PTD) seem childlike in terms of their appearance, these dockless PTD-s don’t have a fixed home location and can therefore be picked up from arbitrary locations. Shared electric scooters quickly overtook bike shares that were station-based and also established micromobility as a legit but somewhat controversial mode of transport.\n\nWhen the coronavirus was announces as a worldwide pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020, and countries around the world went to lock-down, travel stopped as well. But not everyone had the ability to stay at home and these essential workers still needed to get around somehow.\n\nDuring the spread of the virus, mass transportation hit all time lows as people stopped using trains, buses and subways to avoid being in close contact with other people. Many other systems reduced their routes and services, which forced the people who couldn’t work from home look for other options for commuting.\n\nA large portion of those people started to use micromobility. For example in New York, the bikeshare rides went up by 67% in the middle of March, when compared to the same period in 2019. Also during the first 2 weeks of March, bike check-outs on Chicago’s Divvy program doubled, when compared to the same period last year. But when the lock-downs started to take effect, micromobility use also dropped and many systems where shut down as well.\n\nWhen cities started to reopen, PTD providers were hopeful that the need for social distancing would result in a greater demand for micromobility services. An American study from April 2020 found that those people who would regularly ride mass transit, 28% of them would use it less often and 20% of them would not use them at all.\n\nIn May 2020, micro-mobility providers in Washington DC, Oklahoma City and Columbus, were reporting that the length of the electric scooter rides were increasing. Which means that people would use their PTD for full commutes rather than for the first mile, last mile trips, as was the case pre-pandemic.\n\nAlso in July 2020, Chicago officials announced that they partnered with 3 electric scooter vendors, in order to conduct another 4 month pilot program, which would make 10,000 electric scooter available throughout Chicago. \n\nThe usage of Personal Transportation Devices goes beyond just rental e-scooters, as sale of e-bikes saw a surge during the pandemic, as one retailer in New York City recorded sales of 600% when compared to the same period the previous year.  A study, which was recently commissioned by Deloitte predicted use of e-bikes worldwide will grow 50 percent by 2023.Personal Transportation Devices Impact The Post Pandemic World \n\nThe majority of electric bikes can travel at least 25 miles, depending how much assisted electric power a person uses. E-bikes can also be very useful for hauling gear, transporting packages and food o people. For example, in March of 2020 the New York City’s comptroller released a report encouraging the city to subsidize the purchase of e-bikes for frontline workers in order to hasten their travel time.\n\nIn some of the places during the lockdown, cities closed streets for cars and opened the streets for only electric scooters, e-bikes, pedal bikes and pedestrians. The first city to do this was Oakland , CA that launched the Slow Streets program on April 11 2020. By June of 2020, more than 20 miles of slow streets had been installed along 19 corridors throughout Oakland.\n\nSeattle was also one of the cities that closed 20 miles of roads, that were named “Stay Healthy Streets.” These roads had low car ownership, low rates, limited open space and were along routes for essential services, such as takeout meals. I\n\nn May 2020 these temporary closures become permanent, which made Seattle the first city to put these measures into effect. Seattle is also leading the way of accelerating the efforts to install the necessary infrastructure for biking, such as protected bike lanes and greenways. Many micro-mobility providers and PTD owners have urged other cities to follow this examples as well.\n\nThere have been a total of 207 million trips on e-scooters, e-bikes and pedal powered bikes in the United States since 2010. 84 million of those 207 million trips occurred in 2018. Although data for 2019 and 2020 are not available the numbers are expected to be much higher when compared to 2018. The 84 million trips of 2018 included 9 million on dockless bikes, 38.5 million on electric scooters and 36.5 million on station-based bike share, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials\n\nElectric scooters become the most popular micro-mobility mode as the preferred vehicle for dockless providers by overtaking bikes. There were also a total of 85,000 electric scooters operating in almost 100 cities across the Unites States by the end of 2018. 40% of all the electric scooter trips were concentrated to three metropolitan areas: Austin, Sand Diego and Los Angeles during 2018.\n\nPersonal Transportation Devices Allow Social Distancing\n\nPTD allows for social distancing, unlike buses, subways and trains. In the pre-pandemic world chose to use electric scooters and bikes to get around, instead of cars. In the post-pandemic world these people will appreciate the benefits of PTD-s even more not only because it is a fast and cost-effective way to move around but allows for social distancing as well.\n\nAs the travel speeds of cars have become slower, PTD have become a faster alternative. For example, in midtown Manhattan, cars traveled at an average speed of 4.7 mph, which is practically walking pace and a very slow way to get around.\n\nShared electric scooters and bikes have a maximum speed of 15-20 mph, which makes them a faster alternative to cars. Travel speed is one of the most important factors for riders. 62% of people in the Danish capital of Copenhagen bike to school or work. 49% of those people said that the main reason for using bikes for commuting was because it was faster. So the primary reason was not for health reasons or because of saving the environment. \n\nPersonal Transportation Devices Impact The Post Pandemic World\n\nWhen using cars for commuting you also have to deal with parking and gridlock. Electric scooters and bikes take up much less space and there is no need to look for parking space or pay for using it. Modern electric scooters are light and foldable, allowing you to fold the scooter and store it in your office or home.\n\nAnother benefits of using electric scooters and bikes, is that they allow you to get to your destination without exerting yourself. Pedal bikes require you to do all the work but electric scooters and bikes require less or no output from the rider. Electric bikes can be especially beneficial for older adults who have limited mobility, as the person can choose how much to pedal.  \n\nIt might seem that using electric powered bikes is cheating but it actually is not because people who use e-bikes get more exercise because they ride more often and for longer distances. If someone has an e-bike in their home then they might opt for using their electric bike for small errands rather than their car. \n\nElectric scooters, unlike electric bikes, require a little more physical prowess to use, which is why there are a variety of e-scooters for accommodating all comfort levels and body types. Micro-mobility providers Shared and Razor in Portland, OR offer electric scooters with seats who have disabilities. These electric seated scooters have also wider wheels and larger tires than most stand-up scooters.\n\nAlso the Detroit’s Adaptive MoGo bikeshare program started to offer 13 different types of cycles, which included recumbent, upright cargo, hand and tandem tricycles to accommodate a wide range of rider needs in 2018.\n\n\n\nYour Signature\n\n\nYou might also like", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8670693039894104}
+{"content": "Sworn translations\n\n\nLanguages: English, Portuguese and Spanish\n\nNot everything can be translated by someone who has some knowledge of a foreign language in which the document was written.  Brazilian law stipulates that sworn translations are to be made so that documents can be officially recognized in the country.\n\nA series of norms and a specific format needs to be followed, which means that such documents cannot be produced by all and sundry.  Even if someone has knowledge of these norms and formats to be used, if that person is not officially registered at the Commercial Registry (known as the Junta Comercial) for their state of residence, the translated document will not be officially recognized in Brazil.\n\nIn addition to this, not giving this translation task to a qualified and registered professional can result in major problems.  Many of the terms used in these types of translations are not a part of our day to day vocabulary and many words do not even have a direct equivalent in Portuguese.\n\n\nFor this reason, there is a major risk that the translation will contain mistakes, however small they may be. For example, one simple word might completely alter the meaning of the original text.  When this involves delicate legal issues, it is not good enough that a person has some knowledge of the languages in question. It is necessary to have a good understanding of the issues involved.\n\n\nHere at Uncomplicating Legal English we take sworn translation seriously. We only use public sworn translators that have decades of experience, guaranteeing the delivery of a high-quality document, which is unreservedly faithful to the original text in the foreign language. We translate: minutes, memorandums, contracts, procedural documents, driving licenses, school reports and other documents in the judicial remit.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9992749094963074}
+{"content": "T Nation\n\nLack of Hunger\n\nSo I’m never hungry anymore.\n\nI’ve realized that I’m actually scared of being hungry and be stuck somewhere where I won’t have anything to eat. As if I’d grown up in Somalia or something. It’s strange. So it’s really important to me to try to eat every three hours or whatever because I don’t want to undereat and slow my metabolism. I’m never hungry in the morning, but I know how good breakfast is for you so I always have something.\n\n5’4.25\", ~120lbs, ~20% BF, BMR: ~1400, female - looking to lose fat/bulk up some, not currently actively pursuing it.\n\nThe thing is, I’m don’t really need to eat anything at all. I’m just not hungry. Yesterday (don’t slam me, it’s exam period) I had peanut butter on bread for breakfast. A few hours later, the fear hit that I hadn’t eaten enough yet, and I had a meal bar (which I always have on me). Then dinner:\n\nSo what ends up happening is that I’m eating just to eat. Pretty much every night I’m not hungry for dinner, but when I’m around my boyfriend at the end of a long day I want to sit back, have a meal, and relax - even if I’m not hungry. He suggests pizza, I think “I have to eat, I’ve only had 400 cals today.” After that, I can finish half a bag of oreos in a sitting, although I rarely make it over 2,000 even when I do so. I seriously just like the act of eating, eat because I think I should, and am not hungry.\n\nObviously I need to start eating clean. Obviously I should eat smaller meals at night and bigger during the day - all which will be easier in approximately 3 days when I finish college - but seriously, how can I eat sometimes 1200 calories and still not be hungry?\n\nHungry is a weird subject… it’s also very mental. If you think about food all day you’re probably more hungry. You think the opposite. I know people to who just “forget” to eat or can easily skip some meals without feeling dizzy.\nWith low blood sugar myself, and being used to every few hours, my personal clock inside “warns” me when it’s time to eat. But (especially when leaning down) most of the time I already watch the clock when it’s finally time to eat again LOL\n\nIt seems like your nutrition is not good for several reasons: probably not enough protein, not enough fiber (good for digestion!), not enough water (speeds up the process too), veggies and fruits, and very important also: eating every few hours. That speeds up your metabolism too.\nIf you say you eat on one day 400 calories untill dinner, than I see the main reason there. Just change your eating pattern, increase calories slowly, eat at the same hours… Start making it a habit, follow the 9 Berardi rules.\n\nOwh, one more thing: what kind of training are your doing?\nWith heavy lifting, hunger guaranteed. Try to look up into compound exercises, like the Waterbury workouts.\n\nYeah, training is kind of an a hiatus right now.\n\nOther significant factor: in a month or two I hope to get my first real job and might be getting my first car. That means access to the grocery store, and that means fruits, veggies, etc. Man, a car will be like heaven.\n\n[quote]MR1 wrote:\nWith heavy lifting, hunger guaranteed. Try to look up into compound exercises, like the Waterbury workouts. [/quote]\n\nI second this. When I’m in the middle of one of Chad’s workouts I literally can’t eat enough. Like if I don’t get found NOW i’d eat my own arm!! Chad said thats a good sign!\n\nDo a search on “empty calories”.\n\nUhhh…who is that in your avatar AG1?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.520117461681366}
+{"content": "General-Yo Magnum: A High Speed YoYo Review\n\nMagnesium, good old atomic number 12 on the periodic table of elements. Magnesium is an interesting metal, with some unusual facts. It is used to make car parts, electronics, and medications for acid reflux and restless leg syndrome. It also burns with a bright white glow when powdered or cut into thin strips and it reacts slowly when submerged in water. My favorite fact is that magnesium is the 9th most abundant mineral in the universe due to its buildup in supernova stars. That means that the material for the wheels we drive on and the yo-yo I am reviewing today could have potentially been in the heart of a star. While all the fun facts are cool, one has to ask, why bother with machining a yo-yo out of it? Magnesium is a tough metal to work with due to the fact that the shavings can ignite in certain conditions. Even though it is tough to work with it does have one large upside, it is two-thirds the density of aluminum while being just as strong allowing for some interesting weight distribution in the objects made from it. Today I am reviewing the Magnum, the fifth design from Ernie Kaiser and General-Yo. The Magnum is Ernie’s first foray into the realm of exotic metals and his first entry in the world of full sized yo-yos. This yo-yo was a labor of love for Ernie, spanning 10 months of engineering and redesigns in order to push the absolute limits of what he could do to a yo-yo. Now is the time to see whether all of this hard work has paid off making a long lasting, shining star or if the Magnum is just shooting star destine to burn out and fade from memory.\n\nClick the link to continue to read the review:\n\nAwesome review as always :wink:\n\nawesome yoyo and expensive.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.75632244348526}
+{"content": "Q: My six-year-old son has been suffering from frequent bouts of coughing paired with difficulty in breathing for the past two years and has to use a nebuliser frequently. Is there any homeopathic treatment for this?\n\nYour son has childhood asthma, a respiratory disease that affects infants and children. It is also called asthmatic bronchitis, and is a chronic inflammatory condition of the respiratory system often associated with allergies.\n\n[Homoeopathic treatment for flu]\n\nChildren with asthmatic bronchitis face difficulty in breathing, which results in a wheezing (whistling) sound from the chest.\n\nMany cases are often associated with allergies, such as eczema, allergic rhinitis, and urticaria, while only some cases may present an inflammatory condition of the respiratory passage. A few cases can be a combination of allergy and an inflammatory condition.\n\nHomoeopathy is a safe option for treating asthmatic bronchitis in infants and children. It works by boosting immunity and improving the lung capacities of the patient.\n\nHomoeopathy also affects the airways, thereby reducing inflammation – which in turn reduces the cough and breathlessness. Regular homoeopathic treatment for a sufficient period helps in reducing the frequency and intensity of the attacks.\n\nHomoeopathy has a wide scope when it comes to treating childhood asthma effectively and safely without any side effects. The alternative medication focuses on reducing the frequency, duration, and intensity of the recurrent cold, cough, and asthma episodes. The scope of recovery is even better when the case is detected early. Chronic cases usually need more time to recover. In my experience, I have noted that children respond to homoeopathic treatment more effectively than adults.\n\nCases treated with steroids for a long time increase the duration of the homoeopathic treatment, and genetically inherited cases of asthma need long-term treatment to attain a significant remission (symptom-free) period.\n\nWhen it comes to symptoms, childhood asthma usually starts with frequent colds and cough, where the cough usually gets worse at night. Upon chest examination, a high-pitched whistling sound in the lungs can be heard while breathing out (exhalation), with difficulty in breathing or shortness of breath, particularly after exertion. The child gets tired easily after doing any activity, and has generalised weakness and a lack of stamina.\n\nThese symptoms may worsen after exposure to certain triggers or events such as: smoke; strong odours from perfumes, incense sticks, phenyls and so on; dust and dust mites; pollens that occur in the season between the months of March-May; pet dander (dog or cat fur); and eating foods containing preservatives, canned foods, eggs, peanuts, pistachios, fish, etc.\n\nRiyaz Badami is a Dubai-based homoeopathic practitioner and medical director at Good Living Medical Centre. Got a problem? Our fantastic panel of renowned experts is available to answer all your questions related to fashion, well-being, nutrition, finance and hypnotherapy. Email your queries to friday@gulfnews.com.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9996500611305237}
+{"content": "Sony has just revealed more details about the upcoming PlayStation 5 a few hours ago. The next generation of the PlayStation brand console is still going to be release on holiday 2020 – the schedule is reported to be unchanged, despite the coronavirus pandemic. This does somewhat make sense, as the Chinese manufacturers are resume working overtime after the pandemic subsides in the country.\n\nIn their 1 hour-long presentation, Sony has revealed in detail the architecture of the new console, along with the specific specs. Its overall design is still in the dark, however.\n\nThe PC5 would have these specs:\n\nPs5 Vs Ps4 Specs\nPS5 vs PS4 comparison\n\nOverall, the SSD was the number one most requested demand from both players and game developers. The PS5’s SSD load time is 5GB per second – 50 to 100 times faster than the PS4’s hard drive: For example, it would take the PS4 20 seconds to load 2GB of data, while the PS5 would take only 0.27. The load time would lead to a lot of improvements in both gamer’s experience and game development – players would get a highly reduced load time, while game developers would not have to reuse graphics assets to reduce load time anymore.\n\nDd Comp New Ps5\nOne of the various \"design leaks\" for the PS5\n\nThe SSD would also help reduce RAM load as well – PS5 games can just retrieve game data right from the SSD. With the PS4, various games have to store some of the game data in RAM to reduce load time due to the slower hard drive. There would also be a docking bay to install another SSD if you need more storage.\n\nThe controller of the Ps5 is rumored to have a screen attached\n\nCerny then talked about the PS5 console's custom chips and how they'll provide backward compatibility with the PS4. AMD worked on incorporating the previous console's logic and features into the customer PS5's processors. Cerny said they tested the top 100 PS4 titles on the PS5 and almost all will be playable on the PS5 at launch. Regarding compatibility for PS3, PS2, and PS1 games – it is likely that the PS5 would run them on software simulation if they are available.\n\nLastly, the CPU and GPU – they were both developed by AMD, with 10.3 teraflops produced by a 2.23GHz Graphics process and a 3.5Ghz processor. For more information about the likely designs of the PS5, please check out this article on Gurugamer.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9947208762168884}
+{"content": ", pub-4583369089164892, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 5 Big Data Trends for 2020 - Iot Tech Media\nJune 9, 2021\n\nIot Tech Media\n\nGuest Posts On Tech, IOT, Business\n\n5 Big Data Trends for 2020\n\nBigdata Trends\nSpread the love\n\nAs a result of the digital transformation process facing the real estate industry and the business sector in general, which includes data analysis that provides them with an important competitive advantage, there are some trends that will take center stage the following year with the aim of responding to new demands and needs. \n\n“This 2020 is presented as a year with great challenges for the sector. On the one hand, we will continue to see how some of the technologies that we have seen emerge during 2019, such as 5G, are consolidated. On the other, we will see how data will continue to offer enormous potential for companies to improve their business processes, get to know their customers better and can maximize the efficiency of their processes, ”said Raúl Galán, CTO of Hocelot , a Spanish deeptech company.\n\nImage: Akamai\n\nAccording to Hocelot , among the main Big Data trends for 2020, the following stand out: \n\n1. Data as a Service (DaaS): Although data will continue to be the key pillar, the disaggregation of information registered in various bases with low quality will promote that together with the Data Centric, the master data is accessible from the same point to the rest of the tools, applications and organization systems. \n\n2. Digital assistants : The predictive technology of the assistants and the incorporation of more functionalities oriented to facilitate the life of the user and offer brands new ways of positioning, will result from the strongest trends. These advances will modify the relationship of people with their personal devices.\n\n3. Internet of Things (IoT) : It is expected that the devices connected to IoT from 26 billion -registered today- will go to 75 billion by 2025. The arrival of 5G, more options to domotize houses, buildings or devices, will modify habits and generate a greater amount of data. The challenge for companies will be to process, optimize and extract in real time what is most relevant and strategic.\n\n4. Privacy, security and digital ethics: Data generation is increasingly robust and dynamic, but a large number of companies are not prepared to interpret or protect it, which could be negative in financial, reputation and legal terms. If to this is added a greater consumer demand for the protection of personal data, an increase in the control, transparency and traceability of the information by the companies will be observed. Gartner assures that this business concern will grow from 10 to 70% in 2020, compared to 2018.\n\n5. Artificial intelligence (AI): Its integration with IoT, machine learning or Blockchain will provide a better user experience and more predictive business decision making, so the implementation of algorithms that will correctly process this information will be basic in the solution of problems, performance and customer satisfaction.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8796109557151794}
+{"content": "Logos, Ethos and the Pathos\n\nLogos, Ethos and the Pathos\n\nI need 6 full pages each \n\nLogos, Ethos and the Pathos\n\nI need these assignments for 2 different students with the same teacher so you will give me 2 different copies, YOU NEED TO CHOOSE 2 DIFFERENT SUBJECT FOR EACH ONE.\n\n\nEssay 2: Logos, Ethos, Pathos\n\nWrite a six-full-page essay on a debatable topic of your choice in which you effectively use logos, ethos, and pathos to support your claim. Your purpose is to persuade your audience. Use clear language.\n\nFor logos, include facts from sources, possibly numbers, to show the scope of what you are talking about: how much money involved, how many people affected. . . .\n\nEthos comes through the credibility of the sources you quote. Use credible sources. Direct quotations seem more real than indirect quotations, but limited use of indirect quotations can save space and time. You might also draw on your own special knowledge of something, such as your life experience, your hobby, your sport, if it is relevant and out of the ordinary.\n\nPathos gets a bit extra emphasis in this essay. It depends on concrete, sensory detail. For pathos, use moving stories of individuals: one person, one animal, one town.\n\n(Notice the difference between logos and pathos:\n\nlogos: “Every year, there are 1.5 million evictions in the United States.”\n\npathos: “Mary Smith was holding a baby in each arm when the marshals knocked on her door that cold January morning in Fairbanks, Alaska.”)\n\nType your essay in MLA format\n\nActions, including a Works Cited page. Make your essay as meaningful as you can.\n\n\nRefer to the Essay 1 rubric generally. Specific to this essay: here is essay one rubric I don’t know if you will need it or not https://www.homeworkmarket.com/questions/rogerian-argument-essays\n\nAn “A” essay will include moving examples or stories of individual people, animals, towns, or the like.\n\nAn “A” essay will have direct quotations with sources properly cited and an orderly Works Cited page.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9870548248291016}
+{"content": "How Do I Backup My IPhone Without ITunes Or ICloud?\n\nHow do I backup my iPhone to an external drive?\n\nOpen the external hard drive.\n\nGo back to the Finder window with your iOS backups in it and select the device backup folder (It will either be called “Backup” or have a bunch of numbers and letters).\n\nDrag it to your external hard drive.\n\nEnter your administrator password to authenticate your action..\n\nWhere are Apple backups stored?\n\nMobileSyncOn both Windows and macOS, iOS backups are stored in a MobileSync folder. On macOS, iTunes will store backups in /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup . (macOS 10.15 creates backups using Finder rather than iTunes, but these backups are stored in the same place.)\n\nWhat happens if my iPhone is not backed up?\n\nIf your iPhone does not back up, then you could potentially lose some of your data. When we say “data,” what we mean is the configuration of your phone and everything that makes it uniquely yours. That includes your apps, pictures, videos, podcasts, music, etc. Your iPhone should back up with iCloud automatically.\n\nHow do I import photos from iPhone to Windows 10 without iTunes?\n\n\nHow do I backup my iPhone without a computer?\n\nStep 1. Make sure your iPhone is connected to a stable Wi-Fi network > Then go to settings app in your iPhone > Tap your Apple ID on the top of the screen > iCloud > Scroll down and tap “iCloud Backup”. Step 2. Toggle on iCloud Backup if it hasn’t been turned on > Then tap “Back Up Now”.\n\nCan I backup my phone without WiFi?\n\nStep 1: Open the Settings option at your Android phone. Step 2: Tap on the Google option in Settings window. … Step 3: Turn on Back up to Google Drive option. Now, finally tap on the Back Up now button to start phone backup on Google Drive without WiFi connectivity.\n\nHow do I manually backup my iPhone to iCloud?\n\nHow to back up with iCloudConnect your device to a Wi-Fi network.Go to Settings > [your name], and tap iCloud.Tap iCloud Backup.Tap Back Up Now. Stay connected to your Wi-Fi network until the process completes.Apr 29, 2020\n\nHow long does it take to backup an iPhone?\n\nUsually, an iCloud backup takes approximately 30 mins to 2 hours to complete the process, depending on the number of files to backup, internet connection, and device condition. If you back up your device regularly, it won’t take too long to back up.\n\nHow do I backup my iPhone to my computer without iTunes or iCloud?\n\nTo back up iPhone to computer without iTunes:Connect your iOS device to your computer and open Finder.Unlock your phone and trust the computer. … Click [your iPhone’s name] under “Locations”.Click “Back Up Now” to start backing up your iPhone to computer without iTunes.Dec 21, 2020\n\nHow do I take photos off my iPhone to my PC?\n\n\nDo photos stay on iPhone if deleted from iCloud?\n\nYour device will immediately remove any photos and videos that you delete and they won’t be available for recovery in your Recently Deleted album. If you’re out of storage, your devices won’t back up to iCloud, and new photos, videos, documents, and your information won’t stay up to date.\n\nHow do I manually back up my iPhone?\n\nBack up iPhoneGo to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > iCloud Backup.Turn on iCloud Backup. iCloud automatically backs up your iPhone daily when iPhone is connected to power, locked, and on Wi-Fi.To perform a manual backup, tap Back Up Now.\n\nDoes backing up iPhone save photos?\n\nAn iTunes backup will save nearly everything on the iPhone including pictures on the camera roll, just as long as the photos were not downloaded from the computer but taken directly from the iPhone’s camera. For more info on backups, see About backups for iOS devices.\n\nWhy can’t I transfer photos from iPhone to PC?\n\nConnect the iPhone via a different USB port on Windows 10 PC. If you can’t transfer photos from iPhone to Windows 10, the problem might be your USB port. … If you’re unable to transfer files while using USB 3.0 port, be sure to connect your device to a USB 2.0 port and check if that solves the problem.\n\nHow do I backup my iPhone when storage is full?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6819463968276978}
+{"content": "Billy Baloney.jpg\n\nPee-wee's ventriloquist dummy, slightly resembling Randy in appearance (but blond), who Pee-wee himself operated on occasion\n\nPortrayed by Paul Reubens, who also plays as the title character Pee-Wee.\n\nAppearance[edit | edit source]\n\nBilly has white skin, blond hair and freckles. He wears a plaid coat, a white shirt, a red necktie with his initial, B, blue jeans and black and white sneakers.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6184897422790527}
+{"content": "The Truffle Hunters ★★★★\n\nWatched at the Film Forum in first post-vaccine movie on a big screen - holy shit. \n\nLoved every moment of this. Incredibly immersive cinematography (serious Italian landscape porn), no talking heads, Go-Pros attached to truffle hunting dogs - at times it feels more narrative than documentary. It’s an inside look into the Truffle Mafia (because some of this actually plays out like a mob movie), and afterwards, my wife and I went to an Italian restaurant and had Black truffle fettuccini and I could practically hear the epic Puccini aria playing in my head as I took each delicious bite. 🐶🍄", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9990243315696716}
+{"content": "Retirement Planning\n\nRetirement Planning\n\n\n\nThe retirement planning process involves a majority of the steps utilized during the financial planning process with the focus on a client’s ability to retire given their desired retirement age and anticipated lifestyle.\n\n\nDuring this process we will focus on the client’s retirement lifestyle and consider the following issues:\n\nDesires to relocate to a retirement friendly state.\n\nAnticipated leisure pursuits.\n\nStaying connected within the community.\n\nPossible part-time work consulting work.\n\n\nOnce these issues have been given consideration, we will review client’s assets, current and future income sources and estimated expenses in retirement. This information will be utilized to forecast asset growth and cash flow needs in conjunction with the client’s anticipated longevity given their family health history.\n\nThe plan, once established, can be reviewed annually or on an as-needed basis to ensure the client’s goals are being met as they continue along their retirement journey.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999971985816956}
+{"content": "A recent study by the students of Harvard has supported the claim of the group that the drinking of two cups of hot chocolate in a single day can keep the brain of people healthy. This study is more oriented towards the elderly people and the case provides evidence that the people of higher age groups can reap the benefit of this by drinking two cups of hot chocolate per day as a routine and this guarantees a better mental health.\n\nThe team which has come up with this bit of study started to investigate the effect of the consumption of cocoa on the thinking process and also upon the performance of the memory of people.\n\nFarzaneh A. Sorond, lead author and member of the American Academy of Neurology, told the press:\n\n\nThe study process comprised of recruitment of 60 dementia free older people whose average age lingered around the 73 year mark. The people who were taken up for the study were asked to drink two cups of hot chocolate for two times in a day and this was to be carried for 30 days, a month that is.\n\nA major factor which was to be carefully kept constant was that the people who were being taken up for the study were strictly asked not to consume any sort of chocolate product for the time that they had to drink the hot chocolate twice a day.\n\nA standard set of skills was used to check the memory and thinking of the participants.\n\nAt the start when the results were reveled, 18 out of 60 participants had impaired neurovascular coupling. However, by the time that the study was completed, this figure had risen in percentage and the numbers now reflected 8.3 percent which is a certain improvement.\n\nA study speed test was also set to check the efficiency of the patients which were made to drink the prescribed hot chocolate and the results showed that at the start of the test, the participants would take on average 167 seconds to complete the test while after a month of the following routine, this time period had reduced to 116 seconds on average and this was seen as a very good change towards positive, hence proving that the diet increased memory efficiency.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8500064611434937}
+{"content": "Question: How Does Your Family History Influence Your Cultural Identity?\n\nHow does family influence cultural identity?\n\nThere are two ways that families influence values and expectations of their children: directly and indirectly.\n\nChildren watch their parents interact with others, make choices and determine right and wrong for themselves, and this impacts how they develop their moral self..\n\nHow does your culture influence you?\n\n\nWhat makes up a cultural identity?\n\nCulture is the shared characteristics of a group of people, which encompasses , place of birth, religion, language, cuisine, social behaviors, art, literature, and music.\n\nWhat aspects of the environment influence your cultural identity?\n\nCultural influences like customs – family traditions, music, religion and language – are part of the environment. The family environment provides a scaffold for children to develop understanding about themselves and also the community around them.\n\nHow family influences a person’s development?\n\nThe Role of Family in Child Development. Humans rely heavily on learning for child development. … A child’s learning and socialization are most influenced by their family since the family is the child’s primary social group. Child development happens physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually during this time.\n\nHow do family influence you?\n\nA study that followed children over a ten year period showed that positive relationships among children and their relatives led to more positive, healthy behaviors in life. Their physical health, taking care of themselves and making healthy choices, was connected with their family experiences as young children.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9957955479621887}
+{"content": "The Technological Environment Of The Modern Workplace\n\n1133 Words5 Pages\nINTRODUCTION In the ever-advancing technological environment of the modern workplace, managers are forced to implement new policies and procedures to increase productivity (Otto et al. 154). Lee and Duffy claimed in their peer-reviewed article in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries that this his increase in technology has created workplace systems such as the internet, e-mail and instant messaging that allow more multitasking and workplace interruptions. This technology allows workers to access their schedule instantly, hold meetings at their desk, constantly checking their phones for emails and phone calls. The availability of information at just a few finger taps has created an information overload in…show more content…\n486). The researchers conducted several different types of tests, however, the Trial Making Test and the Digit Cancellations showed the adverse effects of a cell phone. This Trial Making Test or TMT consisted of drawing a line sequentially connecting between a number and a letter within a circle within a time frame. On average those with a cellphone present connected 3 fewer circles than those with a notebook with a significance of p< .05 (Thornton et al. 481-483). Thornton’s Digit Cancellation consisted of participants crossing out numbers in a row that totaled up to the proceeding adjacent number. The number of correct digit cancellations decreased by nearly 4 with a significance of .05. The digit cancellation shows a decrease in accuracy while the TMT shows a lower ability to perform. This decrease in performance was significant and consistent across genders, and age differences (Thornton et al. 483). Consistent results with such significance mean there are real world implications. The implications of these findings are very apparent considering the commonality of cellphones in the workplace today. Almost everyone has their cell phone on their desk while working, and this study shows that even if it is not one’s own cell phone or if it is in a “do not disturb” mode that it still distracts us while performing complicated tasks. Thornton discusses that even though measures\nGet Access", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9468528032302856}
+{"content": "Common Gastrointestinal Disorders\n\nThe experienced team of gastrointestinal specialists at Cayuga Medical Center treats the array of disorders relating to the digestive system. The following disorders are among the most common problems we diagnose and treat.\n\nBarrett's esophagus\n\nBarrett’s esophagus is a serious complication of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that occurs when the tissue in the esophagus (swallowing tube) becomes altered due to constant inflammation. About 10 percent of people with chronic symptoms of GERD develop Barrett’s esophagus. This condition increases the risk of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, which is a rare but very serious, potentially fatal form of cancer.\n\nCeliac disease\n\nCeliac disease is an allergic reaction to gluten, which is a protein found in specific grains: wheat, barley, rye, and possibly oats. Why allergic reaction occurs in certain people and not others remains unclear. When a person with celiac disease consumes gluten, it breaks down during digestion and causes painful inflammation, which damages the inside of the small intestine. This makes it difficult to absorb the nutrients from food and can lead to other chronic problems, such as anemia and osteoporosis.\n\nCrohn's disease\n\nCrohn’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract. Symptoms include severe abdominal pain, profuse diarrhea, bleeding in the intestinal tract, and weight loss. There is no one test to determine if a person has Crohn’s disease, as it has many symptoms that are the same as those of other health problems. To make a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease, your doctor will probably gather information from a combination of exams, lab tests, and imaging studies.\n\nChronic constipation\n\nThis is a common condition that is characterized by difficult, infrequent, or incomplete evacuation of bowel movements, or the inability to pass stool. The prevalence of chronic constipation increases with age and is more common in women than men. There are many causes of chronic constipation, including lesions or narrowing of the colon, medical conditions such as diabetes, thyroid disorders, or Parkinson’s disease, or it may be due to certain medications. In people over 50, the cause may be a serious bowel disease so it is important to see your doctor to rule this out.\n\n\nThe medical term for difficulty swallowing is called dysphagia. This can be caused by problems of the brain or nervous system (that prevent the throat and esophagus from working properly) and by conditions such as GERD.\n\nFatty liver disease\n\nFatty liver disease is also called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). This condition, which occurs when fat (adipose) cells infiltrate normal liver cells, is the most common cause of liver disease in the United States. If it is controlled, fatty liver disease is usually benign; however, if left uncontrolled it can lead to permanent scarring of the liver that requires a liver transplant.\n\nGERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease)\n\nHeartburn is an irritation of the esophagus that occurs when acid comes up into the swallowing tube (esophagus) from the stomach. This is called acid reflux. When heartburn symptoms occur frequently, it may be a sign of the more serious problem called GERD. Left untreated, GERD can cause several different problems, among them esophagitis (chronic inflammation of the esophagus), ulcers, hoarseness, and Barrett’s esophagus.\n\nHepatitis C\n\nHepatitis C is a virus that affects the liver. An estimated 3.2 million people in the United States have hepatitis C, but because it causes very few symptoms over the course of several years, most people don’t know they have it. However, this is a virus that often does not disappear on its own. Typically if you have acquired hepatitis C, it will infect your liver for the span of your life and may progress to liver cancer or cirrhosis of the liver if not successfully treated. Hepatitis C is the most common cause of liver failure.\n\nIrritable Bowel Syndrome\n\nIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most common disorder of the digestive tract treated by gastroenterologists. This disorder does not shorten a person’s life, nor does it lead to serious illness or increase the risk for developing cancer. It is chronic, however, and causes very distressing symptoms that can have a significant impact on quality of life. IBS is called a disorder because it occurs in gastrointestinal tracts that appear healthy and have no signs of disease, such as inflammation, infection, or cancer. Nevertheless, people with IBS suffer from gastrointestinal dysfunction in the way matter moves through their digestive tracts and this abnormal function causes a variety of uncomfortable symptoms.\n\n\nPeptic (or gastric) ulcers are very common in this country. Ulcers are holes in the protective lining of the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine. These are the areas in the digestive tract that come into direct contact with stomach acids and enzymes. Less common are esophageal ulcers that form in the swallowing tube. Historically it was believed that ulcers resulted from stress; however, we now know that the vast majority of ulcers are caused by a specific bacterium. Ulcers can be exacerbated, and in some cases caused, by overuse of over-the-counter painkillers, heavy alcohol use, and smoking.\n\nDiagnostic Tests and Treatments\n\nEndoscopy is a nonsurgical approach to examining the digestive tract. Using an endoscope (a thin, flexible tube with a tiny light source and camera attached to it) your gastroenterologist can view images of your digestive tract on a color monitor. Endoscopic exams, many of which are performed with light sedation to keep patients comfortable, are typically very well tolerated.\n\n  • Endoscopy is used to: detect the presence of disease; remove precancerous polyps that can become cancerous over time; collect small tissue samples for further examination by a pathologist; stop bleeding in the digestive tract; remove foreign objects; and treat certain other problems such as difficulty swallowing.\n  • During an upper endoscopy procedure, the endoscope is gently passed through the mouth and throat into the swallowing tube, enabling the gastroenterologist to see the esophagus, stomach, and upper part of the small intestine.\n  • In an examination of the lower gastrointestinal tract the gastroenterologist passes an endoscope through the rectum into the large intestine (or colon). This procedure is called a colonoscopy.\n\nSome of the more common procedures and treatments performed by our gastroenterology team are described below.\n\nUpper Gastrointestinal Tract\n\nThe EGD (esophagealgastroduodenoscopy)\n\nThe EGD (esophagealgastroduodenoscopy) examines the esophagus, the stomach, and the duodenum (the first section of the small bowel. During this procedure, the gastroenterologist examines the linings of the upper GI tract and can perform treatments as needed. Biopsies and tissue samples may be obtained.\n\nStricture Dilation and Stenting\n\nStricture Dilation and Stenting may be performed if the esophagus is narrowed and swallowing food is difficult. Narrowing of the esophagus may occur for a number of reasons, such as tumors, the presence of scar tissue, or muscle spasms. The esophagus may be opened using different methods, and occasionally a stent may be placed to keep the esophagus open.\n\nBarrett's Esophagus/GERD Monitoring\n\nBarrett’s Esophagus/GERD Monitoring is recommended on a regular basis for people with these conditions to ensure that no cancer is developing. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) occurs when stomach acid goes back up into the esophagus, damaging its lining over time. Barrett’s esophagus is a complication of long-term GERD and may increase the risk of esophageal cancer.\n\nEsophageal pH Monitoring\n\nEsophageal pH Monitoring is performed by placing a capsule in the esophagus during an EGD. The pH capsule contains a small radio that transmits data to small receiver worn on the patient’s belt or waistband, similar to a pager or mobile phone. Over 24 to 48 hours, data is collected that is analyzed by the gastroenterologist and used to develop a treatment plan.\n\nEsophageal Manometry\n\nEsophageal Manometry shows the contractions of the esophagus during swallowing. A small, highly sensitive probe is passed through the nose to the end of the esophagus. Pressures can then be measured and analyzed to assist the gastroenterologist in developing a treatment plan.\n\nBotulinum Toxin Injection\n\nBotulinum Toxin Injection is used to treat achalasia, an esophageal mobility disorder in which the muscles in the swallowing tube and the lower sphincter do not contract and relax the way they should to move food from the mouth to the stomach.\n\nForeign Body Removal\n\nForeign Body Removal is performed during an EGD procedure to remove food or a foreign object that has become lodged in the swallowing tube.\n\nPercutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube (PEG Tube)\n\nPercutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube (PEG Tube) can help when someone is having ongoing and serious trouble swallowing and cannot consume enough food or liquid by mouth. A PEG tube is a feeding tube placed directly into the stomach through the skin, allowing the intake of food and calories while bypassing the mouth and esophagus.\n\nSmall Bowel or Small Intestine\n\nSmall Bowel Enteroscopy\n\nSmall Bowel Enteroscopy is a procedure that places a tube through the mouth and throughout the small bowel. This may be used to assist in diagnosing irritable bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease or celiac disease.\n\nCapsule Endoscopy\n\nCapsule Endoscopy is a procedure in which the patient swallows a small capsule containing a tiny camera that takes multiple images of the esophagus, stomach, and small bowel as it travels through the digestive tract. The images are collected by a small receiver worn on the patient’s belt and then downloaded into a computer. The gastroenterologist uses these pictures to help with the diagnosis and treatment plan. The capsule passes through the digestive tract into the toilet, where it is flushed away\n\nLarge Bowel or Lower Gastrointestinal Tract\n\n\nColonoscopy is a procedure that looks at the entire large bowel (colon) with a thin, flexible tube called a colonoscope. Pictures are taken and treatments may be performed through the colonoscope. Biopsies may be taken and polyps may be removed during this exam. Polyps have the potential to become cancerous and are therefore removed to help prevent colon cancer from starting. Screening colonoscopies are the number one way to prevent colon cancer and save lives. This procedure may also be performed through a stoma, if a patient has had a colostomy.\n\n\nSigmoidoscopy is a procedure that looks only at the sigmoid colon, which is the part of the large intestine that is closest to the rectum. Biopsies can be performed and polyps can be removed during this procedure.\n\nAbout Cayuga Medical Center\n\n\n\nDr. Laura Sidari of Cayuga Integrated Behavorial Health was the recent guest on WHCU Radio's Healthy Rounds. She an…\n- Monday Jun 14 - 4:00pm\n\n- Monday Jun 14 - 12:26pm\n\n- Friday Jun 11 - 7:41pm\n\nFont Resize", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.97007817029953}
+{"content": "Various Tundra Plants\n\nThe tundra only has what would normally be considered a growing season for two months of every year. Despite the almost year-round freezing temperatures, the tundra biome is thriving with a surprising variety of plant life.\n\n\nThere are over 400 different types of plants that bloom on the tundra, but few plants are associated with year-round growth. One of the issues with plants growing on the tundra is the nature of its soil. While there is a thick layer of soil beneath the ice, it rarely thaws beyond a few inches. This means that only plants with the shallowest roots can take hold.\n\nThe fact that plant life is present, but not always lasting plays an essential role in sustaining the other life forms that live in this biome. As the plants die and decay, many of the other organisms will use them to nourish themselves during the long winter months.\n\n\n\nBearberry (Arctostaphylos)\n\n\nLabrador Tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum)\n\nThe Labrador Tea is a strange little plant with red leaves and what can only be described as hairy legs. The stems of the plant are covered with a fine type of hair-like growth that helps it to conserve heat. It is a low, slow-growing shrub with evergreen leaves that are used to make tea for treating colds.\n\nREAD  What are the Major Biomes of the World?\n\nThis attractive, sweet-scented shrub needs only moist acid soil to show its full brilliance. Along with other advantages, the plant is used in closets to protect against moths. Unusual about this plant is that it is not consumed by any of the animals on the tundra.\n\nDiamond Leaf Willow (Salix planifolia)\n\nThe Diamond leaf is a form of willow, but not like the willows that you may be used to. These are not tall willows, but they grow close to the ground. Like the Labrador, they also have a hair-like growth that covers their stems and roots that help the plant to stay warm.\n\n\nArctic Moss (Calliergongiganteum)\n\nArctic Moss is the most plentiful plant on the tundra, and it is not quite unlike the moss that grows elsewhere in other biomes. It can grow on the surface but is primarily an aquatic plant that grows beneath the surface of the water. It does not have root systems but rhizoids.\n\n\n\n\nArctic Willow (Salix arctica)\n\n\nREAD  Desert Ecosystem: Biotic and Abiotic Components (And Importance of Desert Ecosystem)\n\nCaribou Moss or Reindeer moss (Cladonia rangiferina)\n\nCaribou Moss grows in the arctic and northern regions around the world. They grow on the ground and rocks and can go up to1-4 inches high. It is a representative of the exceptional tundra wildlife. Though it is lichen, not a plant, perhaps due to its bizarre beauty, it is actually broadly used in home and outdoor decorations, architectural models, and dish gardens.\n\nThey go dormant when there is no light or water. They can grow again after being dormant for a very long time. The stems or stocks of caribou moss are hollow. There are so many uses for such miniature plants as they are hardy and delicate at the same time.\n\n\nTufted Saxifrage (Saxifraga cespitosa)\n\n\nThe Tufted Saxifrage grows on the rocky slopes and can be found from Alaska to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains and northwestern Oregon.\n\nPasque Flower (Pulsatilla)\n\nPasque Flower is a member of the Ranunculaceae family and can grow 6-8 inches off the ground. On each stem, it has one flower with 5-8 petals—the color of flower range from lavender to almost white. Pasque Flower grows on southward facing slopes and is common throughout the northwestern U.S. up to northern Alaska. It is also the state flower of South Dakota.\n\n\n\nCottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium)\n\nThis hardy herbaceous and aquatic sedge is the perfect choice for water gardens or patio water containers, with its even more pleasing views of the white, feathery flowers, bringing fine taste and subtlety into the garden.\n\nREAD  15 Different Types of Animals Found in Taiga Biome\n\nTussock grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)\n\nThese perennials are also known as Tufted hairgrass. This low-maintenance ornamental grass is very useful for erosive terrains and heavily damaged environments. It is suitable for borders and containers, providing fine texture and aerial flowers, mesmerizingly stirring on windy days\n\nMoss campion (Silene acaulis)\n\nThe evergreen perennial S. acaulis is a cushion-forming tundra plant. Captivating, tender, star-shaped flowers spread like a pink tufted carpet covering the ground. It looks exceptionally beautiful when used in rock cracks, containers or stepping stones.\n\nPurple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia)\n\nAnother rock-breaker, as its Latin name suggests (Saxifraga means rock-breaker), grows in barren, rocky landscapes in all kinds of cold temperatures. It is an evergreen cushion-forming perennial, which forms alluring magenta to pale pink or white cup flowers.\n\nAlthough the plant isn’t easily available, it can be grown in gardens if planted in very dry spots. It can also be used in rock gardens to “break up” the rocky scenery.\n\nNorthern redcurrant (Ribes triste)\n\nIt is a flowering shrub that grows in wet, rocky woods and on cliffs—often used in mixed borders and small urban gardens as a year-round structural element. The bright red fruits and nice reddish fall color may add a pleasant sense of warmth to your urban landscape. It’s edible too.\n\nTundra rose (Potentilla fruticosa)\n\nThe flowering shrub tundra rose is often used as an ornamental plant by landscaping firms because of its hardiness and low maintenance. It is an appealing shrub in the wild and has variable hardy cultivars, with flowers from white to yellow, orange, and pink, small but abundant, fascinating through their vividness.\n\nSaskatoon berry (Amelanchier alnifolia)\n\nSaskatoon berry is a fascinating shrub due to its multiple ornamental features like delicate white flowers in spring, tasty blueberries in summer, and dazzling yellow and red fall color. It is also useful for controlling erosion through its knitting rhizomes, without being aggressive. It is extremely hardy and highly adaptable to hills, rocks, or streamsides.\n\nArctic poppy (Papaver radicatum)\n\nPapaverradicatum is a species of poppy known by the common names Arctic poppy, rooted poppy, and yellow poppy. This plant is about 10-15 cm tall, with a single flower per stem. The flower heads follow the sun, and the cup-shaped petals help absorb solar energy.\n\nShare on:\n\nAbout Rinkesh\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9845865964889526}
+{"content": "A Three-Pronged Approach to Enrollment with the Data you Already Have\n\nAshley Kern, M.S., Founder and Data Scientist, SightLineAshley Kern, M.S., Founder and Data Scientist,SightLine\nSightLine, Inc., is a growing boutique analytics firm providing targeted, easy to interpret predictive analytics and market intelligence solutions for colleges and universities. We empower higher education institutions to better understand the data they already have without complicated software installations and training.\n\nSightLine is dedicated to personal customer services throughout the engagement. Clients have direct contact with our consultants and data scientists working with their data. We encourage a collaborative relationship with our clients allowing them to request adjustments to the analysis and outputs at any time.Using data science and propriety algorithms combined with customized research-backed interventions, our team provides on average a 15X return on investment for our clients.\n\nWe specialize in a blend of macro level market intelligence and benchmarking combined with micro level targeted predictive analyticsfocused on optimizing financial aid, financial aid forecasting and budgeting, increasing enrollment, and increasing retention and graduation rates.\n\nSightLine provides hands-on analytical support to institutions throughout the student lifecycle, and this article highlights our thought process and methodologies for maximizing enrollment in particular.\n\nWe view enrollment challenges as multifaceted. Enrollment, financial aid, and admissions teams have their hands full with day-to-day operations during the enrollment period. Therefore, we have developed a three-pronged approach to enrollment management to support university leaders towards meeting their enrollment goals. This approach is composed of top-level market analysis and benchmarking, predictive analytics and segmentation analyses, and disseminating and implementing data driven enrollment and retention strategies to meet university goals; this process is detailed below.\n\n1. Market Analysis\n\nA customized market analysis is usually a first step in helping our clients understand how their published price, discounting, yield, revenue and enrollment trends compare with their direct competitors. Institutions use this information to understand potential options for adjusting pricing to optimizing enrollments and revenue. This leads into more granular questions about how to identify effective marketing and recruiting strategies.\n\n2. Predictive Analytics and Student Segmentation\n\nThe typical second prong involves development of rigorous machine learning algorithms for identifying patterns in student enrollment choices and accurately predict behaviors for individual applicants. These highly accurate models based on state of the science machine learning algorithms provide the basis to study many automated what-if scenarios to develop expectations, including uncertainty bounds, for a range of enrollment options.\nThese models also provide a basis for ongoing revenue and budget forecasting with much greater accuracy than competing methods based on more traditional time series, regression alone, or general demographic-based models.\n\nThe combination of phases one and two provide a holistic analysis for;\n\n• optimization of published and net pricing,\n• targeted accepted student outreach strategies,\n• specification of enrollment factors to drive marketing and recruitment,\n• supplemental award decisions, and\n• guidance on tailored college and university initiatives.\n\n3. Implementing Enrollment and Retention Strategies\n\nAs individual students are identified as likely candidates for enrollment, student level variables are used to segment the applicant pool to provide enrollment staff with strategies for contacting and for setting appropriate aid and scholarship offers. Through this approach we often find groups of applicants with common characteristics which provide an avenue to reach out to similar groups that may not have been previously connected and aware of their likely affinity for a given institution. We have also found that a combination of predictive analytics and segmentation based on student attributes provides an effective way to deploy intervention strategies in a student focused context for both enrollment and retention. We believe retention starts during the enrollment process.\n\nTargeted student outreach strategies, communications, and timelines are thoughtfully developed by our higher-ed consultants. These strategies are developed with a combination of leveraging public research, but also guided by data outputs and insights provided during phase one and two of this process. These consultants work to reduce or even remove the roadblocks that occur when attempting to implement data driven strategies at a given institution. SightLine consultants may even provide hands on training to admissions teams on how to use the predictive analytics output effectively.\n\nWhat is the Underlying SightLine Process?\n\nSightLine specializes in targeted student-level analyses using our proprietary modeling methods, resulting in the highest accuracy rates in the higher education data analytics space. During our proprietary model development process, we apply a range of predictive model types to your institutions’ data in order to develop and leverage the most accurate model type for your data.These models range from simple logistic regression through complex machine learning and AI models. These models are compared with a variety of metrics including sensitivity, specificity, receiver operating curves and overall accuracy to identify the right model to meet your institutional goals.\n\nIn each project it is common for us to formulate hundreds of models based on several algorithms to identify the most accurate and robust predictive methods for each institution. No single method is uniformly best because, unlike traditional statistical models, machine learning algorithm performance is a function of the combination of an algorithm and supporting data. We have found that traditional statistical models such as logistic regression rarely percolate to the top of these rigorous evaluations, although we continue to include them in our tests as a point of reference. These models are generally less accurate than other algorithms because student behaviors are much more complex (i.e. nonlinear functions of data) than can’t be captured by more traditional statistical algorithms.\n\nWe combine our unique predictive analytics with econometric principles and SightLine market intelligence reporting. Through this process, we can gain holistic insights into the strength of current enrollment and tuition strategies, simulate ‘what-if’ scenarios, and assess the strength of your current and future market and pricing strategy relative to competitors.\nShare this Article:\nTop 10 Artificial Intelligence Solution Companies - 2020", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7966665029525757}
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+{"content": "skip to main content\n\nS. 3977 (116th): Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act of 2020\n\nThe text of the bill below is as of Jun 17, 2020 (Introduced). The bill was not enacted into law.\n\n\n\n2d Session\n\nS. 3977\n\n\nJune 17, 2020\n\n(for himself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Cruz) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations\n\n\nTo require the Department of State to publish a list of countries that contract with the Government of Cuba for their medical missions program and ensure that such contracts are considered as factors in considering Trafficking in Persons report rankings, and for other purposes.\n\n\nShort title\n\nThis Act may be cited as the Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act of 2020.\n\n\n\nCongress makes the following findings:\n\n\nThe Department of State declared in September 2019 that Cuba’s overseas medical missions program, known as the Cuban doctor’s program, employs up to 50,000 healthcare professionals in more than 60 countries, and are a major source of income for the Cuban regime. However, former participants describe coercion, non-payment of wages, withholding of their passports, and restrictions on their movement. The Department of State has documented indicators of human trafficking in Cuba’s overseas medical missions each year since the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report), including in the 2019 TIP Report and remain deeply concerned about these abuses. The Department of State urges host country governments and civil society to examine the practices in Cuba’s medical missions in their countries and ensure the rights of healthcare professionals are protected.\n\n\nAccording to the Department of State, the Government of Cuba collected $7,200,000,000 in a single year from the export of professional services through programs like the foreign medical missions and, while those services were ongoing, refused to provide even a living wage to those who were participating in it.\n\n\nThe Department of State estimates that globally there are 24,900,000 victims of human trafficking, also commonly referred to as modern slavery.\n\n\nIn the United States, Congress has led efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons domestically and internationally, particularly with its enactment of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386). Division A of that Act, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), established United States antitrafficking policy to—\n\n\nprevent trafficking;\n\n\nprotect trafficking victims; and\n\n\nprosecute and punish traffickers (known as the three Ps).\n\n\nA key element of the TVPA’s foreign policy objectives involved a new requirement for the Secretary of State to produce an annual report on human trafficking and to rank foreign governments based on their antitrafficking efforts. In the ensuing reports, which the Department of State titled as Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports, the Department developed a ranking system in which the best-ranked countries were identified as Tier 1 and the worst-ranked as Tier 3. Moreover, the TVPA stipulated that the worst performers (Tier 3 countries) in the TIP Report could be subject to potential restrictions on certain types of United States foreign aid and other United States and multilateral funds—a policy that is intended to motivate countries to avoid Tier 3 by prioritizing antitrafficking efforts.\n\n\nAccountability for countries that use the Cuban doctor's program\n\n\nRequirement report on countries that use the Cuban doctor's program\n\nThe Secretary of State shall include in the report required under section 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)) a list of countries that contract with the Government of Cuba to use that country's medical missions program, known as the Cuban doctor’s program.\n\n\nConsequences for enabling trafficking in persons\n\nSection 110(b) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:\n\n\nConsequences for enabling trafficking in persons\n\nIn preparing the report under this subsection, including determining which countries to include on the lists pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall consider whether the government of a country enables the trafficking in persons in another country, including by participating in programs with foreign governments and organizations that involve or enable trafficking in persons.\n\n\n\nRecognition of efforts To prevent funding Government of Cuba\n\nA country’s ranking for purposes of section 110(b)(1) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7107(b)(1)) shall not be adversely affected as a result of a country's contracting with a doctor's program if the country using the program—\n\n\ncompensates medical professionals (or any service professional) directly rather than through the government of a country or an organization that is sponsoring them and pays foreign medical professionals and personnel the same compensation as domestic medical professionals and personnel are paid for similar work;\n\n\nensures such professionals retain control of their passports and earnings;\n\n\nmakes public the terms of the agreement with the government or sponsoring organization;\n\n\nensures medical professionals are allowed to bring their family (particularly spouses and minor children) with them;\n\n\nensures medical professional’s (and their family’s) travel are not restricted and that their activities and speech are not monitored while in the host country;\n\n\nensures humane and safe working and living conditions, in accordance with international law; and\n\n\nensures that the country providing the program is not receiving any additional compensation from the host country or any organization for the work of the medical professionals.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9365615844726562}
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+{"content": "Penn Arts & Sciences Logo\n\nMathBio Seminar\n\nTuesday, April 20, 2021 - 4:00pm\n\nKatrina Podsypanina\n\nInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)\n\n\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\n\nSee Zoom link\n\nI am a cancer researcher working on a framework for a new mathematical model of metastasis. The reason for making a new model is that, in mice, metastases can grow from cells that are still normal at the time of arriving to the future metastasis site. If the same happens in humans, it would be pretty important for cancer therapy. First, it would explain why anti-cancer therapies fail to prevent metastases in some patients: if the cells are yet non-malignant at the time of therapy, they would be spared by the treatment. Second, it may be possible to identify improved treatments based on the ability to kill these non-malignant cells. I hypothesize that dissemination of non-malignant epithelial cells occurs in parallel with tumor cells, and subsequent transformation at the ectopic sites is a source of some metastases. This scenario ties together two contradictory observations: that metastases are associated with large and rapidly growing primary tumors, while metastatic tumors themselves often take a long time to appear. During my recent sabbatical at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, together with Misha Gromov and his colleagues I started to interrogate publicly available data on mutation rates and/or profiles from cancer patients and healthy individuals to determine whether the earliest common ancestor predicted using phylogenetic methods in some primary-metastasis pairs has features of a non-malignant cell.\nZoom link:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9841840863227844}
+{"content": "words that shouldn't be?\nrobert macneil on subway in nyc\n\nThe Truth About Change\nLanguage change starts subtly in the middle class\n\nAre Dialects Fading?\nMass media  has no influence over  the way we speak\nThe Decline of Grammar\nGeoffrey Nunberg asks for civility when assessing language\n\nAdditional Resources\nSez Who? Index\n\nSez Who?\n\nLanguage & Society\n\n\nIs E-mail ruining the language?\n\nCan I be fired for speaking Spanish on the job?\n\nAre we less literate than we used to be?\n\nThese questions reflect how language is a social phenomenon. Although many linguists believe that humans are genetically programmed to learn language, it takes social contact to flip the switch that makes us talk. So, linguists study not simply the sounds, grammars and meanings of the world’s languages, but also how they function in their social settings\n\nLanguage varies according to the social structure of a local speech community. For example, American English has varieties, dialects that are subsets of the larger linguistic whole called English. Some dialects vary by geography: In the North, you put the groceries in a bag; in the South, you put them in a sack.\n\nLanguage expresses group identity\n\nLanguage also expresses solidarity or group identity. Language can separate insiders from outsiders, those in the know from those who didn’t get the memo, the cool from the pathetically unhip, and, in the case of the Biblical shibboleth, friend from foe.\n\nMembers of small groups such as families, couples, friends, roommates and work groups all give their language a spin suited to the group’s interests and experience. Members of a profession develop a jargon, an internally efficient job-related shorthand that permits them to impress, mystify or stonewall outsiders. In simple two-person conversation, language may reflect power differentials: One person may take charge while the other plays a subordinate role.\n\nWe sometimes label the language of larger social groups a social dialect, with differences in pronunciation and usage based on social class, ethnic factors, contact with other languages, gender or age. Let’s take a look at some issues in social dialects.\n\nEbonics Emerges\n\nAfrican-American Vernacular English (AAVE) — sometimes known as Black English or Ebonics — is used by many African Americans, particularly those from working-class or inner-city areas. Black English clearly differs from other varieties of English in its vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, but simply attaching it to one population group oversimplifies a complex situation.\n\nteen  in record store in nyc\n\nMany African Americans do not speak Black English; many non-African Americans who live in inner cities do. Complicating matters further, African American influence — music, fashion, language — on American culture is very strong. As a result, some white American teenagers from the suburbs consciously imitate Black language features, to express their own group identity and shared opposition to mainstream culture.\n\nMany people — African American or not — look down on Black English as an undesirable or ignorant form of the language. Others see it as a proud and positive symbol of the African-American experience. A few political activists or Afro-centrists insist that Ebonics isn’t a dialect of English at all but rather a separate language with roots in Africa. And many people accept Black English as an important social dialect but argue that its speakers must also master standard English in order to succeed in America today.\n\nThe debate illustrates a larger sociolinguistic point. We all master several different varieties of our language, standard and less so, that we deploy depending upon social contexts. In unfamiliar social situations, we feel linguistically inadequate and “don’t know the right thing to say.” Yet we can pick up the lingo of a new context if we are exposed to it long enough.\n\nWord Wars Between the Sexes\n\nGender differences in the use of English are subtle. Nonetheless, notions of men’s and women’s language use abound: Men are said to swear a lot, to be more coarse and casual. Studies claim that American women know more color terms and men know tool names; that women use more qualifiers and diminutives; and that young women are more likely than men to end a declarative sentence with a rise in pitch, as if it were a question? In meetings or other professional contexts, men are said to speak more than women and interrupt them more often. On the other hand, women seem to carry the burden in mixed-gender conversations.\n\nClearly, these stereotypes aren’t very trustworthy. It’s probably not so much gender as gender roles that influence linguistic behavior. As gender roles change, gender differences in speech frequently disappear. Women who work as mechanics know the names of tools, and men who paint and decorate have to know their color terms.\n\nGender roles change, but they may not disappear. For example, although the taboo against women swearing has eased, both men and women students still report some degree of discomfort when women swear in mixed company.\n\nDepartment of Ms. Information\n\nIn the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Labor rewrote its extensive list of job titles to eliminate gender bias, making language less patronizing, more accurate and inclusive — by, for example, replacing “stewardess” with “flight attendant.”\n\nThe case of the missing “Miss” illuminates more change.  For some time people sought an alternative to Miss or Mrs. that did not indicate marital status, a title that would parallel the masculine title Mr.  “Ms.” took root (after decades of failed starts) in American usage in the 1970s, pronounced Miz to distinguish it from Miss. Since then, Ms. has undergone an interesting shift. Many young women use it either as a trendy alternative to Miss, or to indicate an unmarried woman (widowed or divorced) of their mother’s generation. It’s a good example of what can happen when planners decide a word should mean one thing, but users of the language adapt it to mean something else.\n\nAnother interesting development in gender-neutral vocabulary is the rise of you guys as a new kind of second person plural in American speech. Even though guy is usually masculine, the plural guys has become, for most people, gender neutral — and can even refer to an all-female group.\n\nMinority Report\n\nHuman history can be viewed as what happens when groups of people speaking different languages encounter one another. The result isn’t always pretty: language contact can lead to mutual understanding but also social conflict.  Although it’s the speakers who unite or clash, language often symbolizes what unites or divides people — and linguistic minorities often find their right to use their native language severely restricted by laws requiring the majority language in all sorts of situations.\n\nIn the U.S., diversity tends to give way to one common language: English\n\nThe United States is founded on diversity and difference. In religion and ethnicity, we are a composite people. However, when it comes to language, diversity tends to give way to one common language: English. And although the very title Do You Speak American? suggests the broadness of American speech, there have always been Americans who feel that if you don’t speak the “American” language, you may not really be an American.\n\nAmericans initially accepted French in Louisiana and Spanish in California and the Southwest territories, but soon began requiring English-only in all public transactions. Government policy initially eradicated Native American languages, but has recently switched — in an effort that may come too late — to try to preserve them and encourage growth. Similarly, depriving African slaves of their linguistic roots was one way of controlling them.\n\nLanguage loss is common for immigrants to the United States. During the pre-World War I waves of immigration from non-English-speaking countries, it was common for second-generation speakers to be bilingual in English and the language of the land they came from, and the third generation to be monolingual English speakers, unable to converse with their grandparents. There is some evidence that the switch to English has speeded up since the 1960s, skipping the bilingual middle generation altogether. Parents are monolingual in Spanish or Hmong or Ukrainian. Their children speak only English.\n\nAmerican schools have never dealt comfortably with their non-Anglophone students. In the 19th century, bilingual schooling was common, particularly in the heavily German areas of the Midwest. As immigration increased, public schools shifted overwhelmingly to English as the language of instruction. The Americanization movement of the early 1900s reinforced assimilation to English, often punitively. But there was no concerted effort to teach these students how to speak English. It should not be surprising that in this sink-or-swim environment, many students simply sank: More than half of students dropped out at the height of the great wave of Eastern European immigration.\n\nTeddy Roosevelt warned the U.S. was in danger of becoming a polyglot boarding house\n\nTeddy Roosevelt once warned that the United States was in danger of becoming a polyglot boarding house. Instead we became a nation of monolingual English speakers. Language teachers tell a joke: What do you call a person who speaks two languages? Bilingual. What do you call a person who speaks one language? American.\n\nImmigration reforms in the 1960s brought an influx of speakers of Spanish, as well as  Russian and a variety of Asian languages — yet English continues to dominate the United States. In the 1970s, court-ordered bilingual education attempted to deal with the problems faced by minority-language speakers in the schools. Ideally, such programs use the students’ native languages to instruct them in basic subjects (reading, writing, math, science and social studies) so that they don’t fall behind while they get up to speed in English.\n\nHighly effective when done well, bilingual education has been controversial because many people fear the programs are designed to preserve minority language, not to teach children English. California voters recently rejected bilingual education in favor of English immersion programs. Supporters of bilingual education fear that this reduction in language support services that signals a step back to the isolationism of the early 20th century.\n\nAmericans will continue to face issues of assimilation and minority language rights. Opponents of immigration see the English language as endangered and call for laws to make English the nation’s official language. Still, the U.S. Census has reported for several decades that English is spoken by 95 percent or more of U.S. residents. Although bilingualism may be on the rise, the children of non-English-speaking immigrants are abandoning their heritage languages, becoming monolingual speakers of English with record speed.\n\nSociolinguistic Short-Takes\n\ninstant message\n  • Do people swear more today than they used to? We have no way to quantify how much people used to swear, or even how much they swear today. It would be fair to say that people today swear more in public (and on radio and television and in film) than they did in the 1940s or 50s.\n  • Is the language of blacks and whites diverging? Some observers worry that the social distance between whites and African Americans may be increasing, which could in turn lead to greater linguistic differences.\n  • Is E-mail ruining the language? Critics object that it encourages misspelling and grammatical error, makes people lazy, and is impersonal and overly informal. Even so, standards for e-mail started to emerge as soon as it became common. E-mail programs come with spell- and grammar- checkers, advanced formatting capabilities, and graphics and sound. Many e-mail writers want their e-mails to read as if they have been written by someone who knows how to do things right.\n  • Where do language standards come from? Language standards — ideas about correct spelling, usage, grammar, and style — emerge by consensus within communities of language users. In some countries, government offices or language academies devise language policy, draw up standards and attempt to enforce them. There are no such mechanisms for English, though teachers, editors, writers, and self-appointed experts serve as language guardians, transmitting ideas of correctness and attempting to secure their adoption. Despite their efforts, there is no single standard of correctness in English. Instead, there are multiple standards that emerge from fluid communication contexts.\n  • Can I be fired for speaking Spanish on the job? That depends. Federal courts frequently side with the workers’ right to use any language they want, particularly when on breaks or talking privately. The courts also allow employers to specify the language to be used when employees deal directly with the public, and more than half the states have adopted English as their official language — a designation more symbolic than enforceable. English doesn’t need the protection of being an official language: the number of English speakers in America is rising and will not decline anytime soon. No other language, including Spanish, is positioned to become the majority national language. However, designation of English as official can put a chill on the use of other languages. In a period of increased globalization, a knowledge of the world’s languages should help rather than hurt the U.S. position among the nations of the world.\n  • Are literacy rates really too low? We all agree that literacy — the ability to read and write — is one of the most important things that people need to succeed. Yet as experts disagree over how to define and measure literacy, the stakes have gone up. Is a high-school education enough? Can we say that a given score on a standardized test guarantees a comparable level of performance in real-world reading, writing, and calculating?\n\nEvery few years we have a literacy scare. Most recently, a report in the 1990s warned that almost half of American adults couldn’t read, write, or calculate at adequate levels. At the same time, the vast majority of people interviewed considered their reading, writing and math perfectly adequate for their jobs and other everyday tasks. So, the assessment could simply mean Americans are too complacent about their literacy … or that testing doesn’t really measure what we need to know.\n\nAfter a report on literacy in crisis, politicians legislate more standardized testing. This forces schools to redirect their efforts to get students past the standardized tests. Scores go up, things settle down for a while, then the next report comes out and the crisis cycle starts again.\n\nStandardized tests have some ability to predict actual performance. But when schools devote too much time to test-taking skills and too little time to the actual literacy practices the tests are supposed to measure, actual progress is stymied. A more reliable measure of literacy might be the amount of time spent in and out of class on reading, writing, and numeracy. A 2003 report from the Brookings Institution indicates that two-thirds of American high school students spend less than an hour a day on homework. This suggests that students don’t spend enough time on actual literacy tasks — and that is something that no test can address.\n\nSuggested Reading/Additional Resources\n\n\nBack to Top\n\nSponsored by:\n\n\nNational Endowment\nfor the Humanities\n\nWilliam and Flora Hewlett\n\n\nRosalind P.\n\nArthur Vining\nDavis Foundations\n\nCorporation of New York", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.594915509223938}
+{"content": "Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene\n\nWe worry about machines going rogue. What if they went green instead?\n\nDrones fly above smog-blanketed Zenica.  (Dado Ruvic / Reuters)\n\n\n\nIn an intriguing thought experiment, landscape architect Bradley Cantrell, historian Laura Martin, and ecologist Erle Ellis have taken this ethos to its logical extreme, and ended up with what they call a “wildness creator”—a hypothetical artificial intelligence that would autonomously protect wild spaces. We’d create it, obviously, but then let it go, so it would develop its own strategies for protecting nature. Maybe it blocks out human-made light or noise. Maybe it redirects the flow of water or destroys litter. Maybe it deploys drones to cull invasive species. Think Skynet crossed with Captain Planet, or the Matrix meets Ranger Rick, or IBM’s Watson meets Greenpeace.\n\nCantrell, Martin, and Ellis have presented their ideas in a provocative new paper called “Designing Autonomy: Opportunities for New Wildness in the Anthropocene.” To be clear, they’re not remotely saying that “it will ever be technologically, financially, or politically possible to develop and install autonomous wildness creators at meaningful scales.” They’re not even recommending it. “That’s not the direction I want to see us going,” says Cantrell. “The paper has a tongue-in-cheek aspect. We make this proposition and immediately pull back.”\n\nSo, then: why?\n\nBecause exploring hypothetical futures tell us a lot about the concerns of the present. That’s science-fiction in a nutshell. Ex Machina, System Shock, and Neuromancer aren’t how-to manuals; in their visions of robotic rebellion, they reflect our fears about our own fallibilities. So what happens when we speculate about AI going green instead of going rogue? That tells us something about how the ethical questions that pervade modern conservation, about how we see our role in protecting our remaining wilderness, and about what “wild” even means.\n\n“When people try to maintain natural places, there’s a tendency to end up over-curating them,” says Ellis. “So even with the best intentions, everything ends up conforming to what human cultures decide is important.” For example, my colleague Ross Andersen recently wrote about an ambitious and possibly quixotic plan to re-wild the Siberian steppes with resurrected woolly mammoths. Those large beasts once roamed there, sure, but the architects of this plan have made a judgment call about what those now mammoth-less plains should be like. The same goes for the U.S.’s decision to reintroduce wolves to Yellowstone in the 1990s, or New Zealand’s plan to kill all rats on the island by 2050, or the starfish-murdering COTSBot. This is a perfect example of possible over-curation, says Ellis, because the crown-of-thorns starfish isn’t even an invasive species—it’s a native one that occasionally goes through population outbreaks. “The idea that you’re going to automatically kill a lot of animals in the name of “protecting nature” is a little disturbing,” he says.\n\n“These interventions have been inherently controversial,” says Martin. “There’s already such an effort to present those decisions about which species get to live in a landscape and which do not as purely technical, when in reality, it’s very social and political.” Even when we’re trying to remove our influence, we’re stamping our humanity onto things.\n\nBut what if humans weren’t running the show? Artificial intelligence has progressed to a point where machines are capable of developing their own behavior, going beyond their original programs. When Google’s AlphaGo system recently beat the world’s best Go players, it did so with unconventional strategies, and moves that no human would ever have made. “After humanity spent thousands of years improving our tactics, computers tell us that humans are completely wrong,” said reigning human champion Ke Jie.\n\n“That’s the interesting thing about bringing in an autonomous learning system that can come up with its own rules,” says Ellis, who wonders what such artificial enlightenment look like when applied to conservation. “Maybe there are ways of doing things that have not occurred to us, and would not, but could emerge from a learning process that isn’t human.”\n\nSeveral projects are already moving in this direction. At Harvard University, Cantrell’s team is designing prototypes for intelligently controlling river systems. People are good at diverting or barricading rivers with levees, dams, and flood barriers. But Cantrell imagines something more dynamic—sensors and structures that could more subtly manipulate the flow of water and the pattern of sediment to “protect against flooding, but also sculpt the land in advance of the next flood,” he says. The idea isn’t to “build one solution, but something that constantly updates itself.”\n\nMeanwhile, other groups are developing drones that can plant trees, artificial pollinators, swarms of oceanic vehicles for cleaning up oil spills, or an autonomous, weed-punching farm-bot. Geoengineering—big attempts to counter climate change by manipulating the environment—is also a conceptual predecessor to a wildness creator. It’s a way of reshaping ecosystems by introducing something new and letting it run, by changing then relinquishing. Re-wilding projects like the Russian mammoth quest, where scientists introduce long-lost megafauna, are also similar. “You’re replacing a species that had a lot of control over its ecosystem—and it’s not human control,” says Ellis. “Our wilderness creator idea is just intensive re-wilding.”\n\n“The publication of a paper on the use of AI on conservation would have been hard to imagine five years ago, but we can now read it in one of the top journals in ecology,” says Eric Higgs, who studies ecology and philosophy at the University of Victoria. “It’s testament to the fact that we’re looking for new ways of addressing rapid change.” But he adds that conservationists have learned the hard way that protecting nature is only possible if people are invested in caring for their land or protecting local animals. “That human engagement piece has really jumped out as being very important,” Higgs says, and the wildness creator concept “is a denial of that.”\n\nAnd in that denial, the concept reflects many of the tensions that underlie modern conservation. “The way we think of conservation is typically to right the wrongs of humans in the environment,” says Cantrell. “We’re cordoning off portions of the Earth to protect it from our influence, or trying to turn back that landscape. And if we take technological solutions down that same line of thought, we get to a point where we’re heavily managing ecosystems just to take the humanity out of them.”\n\nThe idea of fully removing ourselves from nature is unachievable. It’s the Anthropocene and humans are here to stay. “Instead, we should be thinking critically and carefully about how to co-exist with other species,” says Martin. And AI, while not supplanting that responsibility, can help us to exercise it. “There are so many technological utopians who are envisioning how tech can improve the lives of humans. Diverting some of that energy to promoting the lives of non-humans would be a worthwhile endeavor.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9335253834724426}
+{"content": "What Is A Hash In Cryptocurrency\n\nWhat is a hash in cryptocurrency\n\n· A hash is a function that converts an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length. A hash is created using an algorithm and is essential to blockchain management in. · When you mine cryptocurrency, you’re basically looking for some predefined hash that will solve a complex “puzzle.” And whoever finds that magical hash completes the block and is rewarded with currency.\n\nIt follows that the faster you can rip through these algorithms, the better your chances of finding the correct one and earning the reward. · A hash algorithm takes data of any arbitrary size (numbers, alphabets, media files) and transforms it into a fixed alphanumeric string. The fixed bit size can vary (like bit or bit or bit) depending on what hash function is being used.\n\nAnd this fixed size output is what is called a yztz.xn--80aaemcf0bdmlzdaep5lf.xn--p1ai other words, a hash is the cryptographic byproduct of a hash algorithm. · Hodl Mean In Cryptocurrency – The Most Famous Cryptocurrency Terms ] Hash Power & Crypto Mining: What Is Hashrate In Cryptocurrency Mining Hash rate is also known as hash power. If you are a newbie, you might hear about up and down fluctuations in hash rate.\n\n· A hashing function is simply a mathematical function that can take any form of data or any size (numbers, alphabets, media files) and produce a fixed-length output for that particular input.\n\nAnd this output or digest of the hashing function is called Hash. · Tx Hash means Transaction Hash and is also known as Transaction ID (TxID). It consist of alphanumeric characters and is basically an identification number given for a Bitcoin transaction.\n\n\nTop 10 Best Forex Indicators\n\nHow to get started day trading bitcoin Dollaro euro cambio al forex tempo reale Trading forex with no indicator\nPfingsten trading zeiten forex admiral markets Binary options managed account service I lose money in forex\nBroker de forex con bono sin deposito Song elliott trong forex Forex market trading hours gmt\n\n· 2. The previous block hash is the hash of the parent block in the blockchain. i.e. block 23’s hash if this is block 3. The Merkle Root or essentially a binary hashing of all the transactions in the block. 4. The timestamp is the time that hashing took place. 5. The difficulty target is the Bitcoin Network targeted number of zeroes.\n\n6. Cryptographic hash functions are ideal for processing cryptocurrency transactions.\n\nHow to Rent Hash Power For Speculative Crypto Mining in 2020\n\nThey are secure and are widely used in information security applications involving authentication, digital signatures and message authentication codes. In the context of cryptocurrency mining, a hash is one computation or “guess” at solving a block. Hash rate is a unit of measure to determine the speed in which a computer’s chipset can mine cryptocurrency.\n\nIt can also represent the total amount of hash power a cryptocurrency has mining on its network. Knowing your hash rate and how to use it can help you determine whether mining with your CPU, GPU, or even ASIC miner is worth it.\n\nWhat is a hash in cryptocurrency\n\n· The hash rate, is a measure of how many times the network can attempt to complete this puzzle every second. This means that hash rate is a good indicator of the Bitcoin network’s health. Hash algorithms are vital in keeping the blockchain upon which Bitcoin exists safe and secure. They are the building blocks upon which the technology was developed, and without them, the entire cryptocurrency ecosystem would cease to exist.\n\n  • Bitcoin HashRate Explained (2019) - Coinmama\n  • What is Cryptocurrency: [Everything You Need To Know!]\n  • Bitcoin Hash Functions Explained Simply\n\nIn essence, a Author: Sergio Zammit. · A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a mathematical algorithm that maps data of arbitrary size (often called the \"message\") to a bit array of a fixed size (the \"hash value\", \"hash\", or \"message digest\"). It is a one-way function, that is, a function which is practically infeasible to invert. · What is a Cryptocurrency Hash? Cryptocurrency mining power is rated on a scale of hashes per seconds.\n\nA rig with a computing power of 1kH/s is mining at a rate of 1, hashes a second, 1MH/s is a million hashes per second and a GH/s is one billion hashes per second. Every time a miner successfully solves a block, a new hash is created.\n\nWhat is Mining Cryptocurrency? What you need to know...\n\n· Finding A Cryptocurrency Transaction Id (txid) Finding a cryptocurrency transaction ID (TXID) Once you've sent a crytpocurrency payment from Wirex to an external cryptoaddress, transfer details (such as amount of cryptosent, sending/receiving crypto address, the date of transfer) can be found on the blockchain. · The cryptocurrency network sets a target value for this hash the target hash - and miners try to determine what this value is by testing out all possible values. The block header contains the block version number, a timestamp, the hash used in the previous block, the hash of the Merkle Root, the nonce, and the target hash.\n\nWhat is Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Hash Rate\n\n· The hash is the reason why your coins are safe in your blockchain-backed crypto. The hashing process In the world of cryptocurrency, hashing takes place when data from a block goes through processing by a mathematical function. Hash rate: The hash rate refers to the amount of power a miner uses to solve a mathematical algorithm that mines the cryptocurrency. Power consumption: The power consumption informs the user how much electricity the mining hardware will use when operating.\n\nPower consumption is measured in Watts. A cryptographic hash function is used for security purposes and constitutes the backbone of crypto security; A hash function turns a random input of data (keys) into a string of bytes with a fixed.\n\nWhat is a Crypto Token? - HedgeTrade Blog\n\n· What is a Bitcoin hash and SHA SHA is a secure encryption algorithm that has gained popularity due to the Bitcoin code. The abbreviation SHA is the Secure Hash Algorithm, and means that the cryptocurrency algorithm generates a bit hash, i.e., a string of bits/5().\n\nWhat is a hash in cryptocurrency\n\n· In the Bitcoin blockchain, ‘mining’ is essentially conducted by running a series of SHA hashing functions. In cryptocurrency blockchains today, hashing is used to write new transactions, timestamp them, and ultimately to add a reference to them in the previous block. · A hash rate is a unit which measures the computing power of equipment for cryptocurrency mining.\n\nCryptocurrency mining requires a user to solve a large number of mathematical problems to earn cryptocurrency. This complex mathematical process requires a powerful special device that will help you to find the right hash in the shortest time/5. · What Is Cryptocurrency Difficulty? Difficulty is a parameter that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies use to keep the average time between blocks steady as the network's hash.\n\n\n\n\n· NiceHash is the largest crypto mining hash power marketplace that connects cryptocurrency miners either to purchase or sell hash power.\n\nThe platform offers an intuitive interface that lets users easily either sell hash power by pointing their miners at NiceHash while simultaneously giving buyers the option to point this hash rate at their. · Ethash is Ethereum’s Proof of Work hashing algorithm.\n\nThe algorithm is GPU memory intensive to discourage CPU mining and future development of ASIC’s. It. Cryptocurrency is a digital currency that is a secure medium of exchange; Mining cryptocurrency is computing a specific value that produces a specific hash result and completes a block on the blockchain.\n\nHash per second or h/s. In simple words, if you have a mining rig with a hash rate of 60 h/s, this means your machine is capable of making 60 guesses a second. The higher the hash rate it offers, the more powerful your mining rig is.\n\nIn addition, the hash rate of the same machine may also vary based on the cryptocurrency you are mining. · What Is a Hash | Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Essentials What you’ll learn • What cryptocurrencies are • How to use cryptocurrencies • What blockchain is • The components blockchain consists of • Blockchain use cases • Finance skills • What Bitcoin is • What Ethereum is • Alternative cryptocurrencies Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Essentials Playlist: [ ].\n\nThe hash rate is a measure of how fast your system can process a specific Proof of Work algorithm.\n\nWhat is Hashing on the Blockchain?\n\nIn most cases there are many different pieces of miner software that are written to process Proof of Work algorithms. Most crypto projects provide an open source miner that anyone can download and use, however third-party miner software is usually. · Bitcoin Hash Ribbons Signal Miner Capitulation As Bull Market Begins There is no other asset on the face of the planet like Bitcoin.\n\nAltcoins created in its honor, and even hard forks that as closely mimic the first ever cryptocurrency as possible can’t come close to. · A cryptocurrency mining pool is a collective of miners who pool their system resources together. Combining system resources allows the miners to generate a much higher hash rate than they could achieve mining solo.\n\nCryptocurrency cloud mining is a process of mining cryptocurrencies by utilizing a remote data-centre with a shared processing computerized power to generate new coins by hash rates. This type of cloud mining enables users to mine bitcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies (Altcoins) without having the required hardware physically. There’s been a lot of excitement about Bitcoin’s hashrate lately! If you follow crypto news, you might have seen reports of Bitcoin’s hashrate pushing above the exahash (or zetahash) level recently.\n\nIn simple terms, that means Bitcoin miners are estimated to be collectively performing over quintillion (,,,+) hash calculations per second. · This cryptographic hash is basically a long number which acts as the unique digital ID of the data entered on the blockchain.\n\nThere are two basic functions of mining crypto: Adding new transactions to the blockchain (safeguarding and authenticating) Creating new coins part of the process and to reward the miners with; Crypto mining broken down. · The number of mobile phones in is approaching Billion, which would further decentralize and distribute the hash rate and mining power of such crypto networks. Crypto mining started back inwith CPUs of your standard computer being used to hash, but as is the case with any new market, things moved particularly quickly in the mining sector, with the.\n\nIn segment we're going to talk about cryptographic hash functions. We'll talk about what they are, and what their properties are. And then later we'll move on and talk about what their applications are. So, a cryptographic hash function is a mathematical function. And.\n\nWhat Is A Hash In Cryptocurrency - What Is Cryptocurrency Cloud Mining? | Blockfinest\n\nCryptocurrency mining is a process of adding the data of transactions to the yztz.xn--80aaemcf0bdmlzdaep5lf.xn--p1ai blockchain will have all the information about past transactions in the form of blocks.\n\nThe blockchain also serves as the medium to verify the legit transactions in order to prevent the scope of yztz.xn--80aaemcf0bdmlzdaep5lf.xn--p1ai mining process is an intensive exercise specifically structured to have a stable number. · Basically, You can invest in cloud mining with your money to mine cryptocurrency online.\n\nBut, how do you count your mining process according to the fund you invested? For that, You will need to understand a term called “Hashpower“ So, What is the Hash power or Hash rate in other words?\n\n\nWhat is a hash in cryptocurrency\n\nAs more miners mine Bitcoin, this causes a surge in the hash rate. What does trading pairs mean in cryptocurrency trading? In short, a trading pair are two pairs currencies that can be traded between each.\n\n· SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm) – is a set of cryptographic algorithms – single-aimed hash functions including SHA, SHA, SHA and SHA  · Crypto being open-source let’s other people contribute to its well being and development, which in turn can hasten the coin’s rise to the top.\n\nWhat is a hash in cryptocurrency\n\nNow that we talked quite extensively about the main features and characteristics that a successful cryptocurrency should have, let’s try and put it into a list of simplified and specific points.\n\nyztz.xn--80aaemcf0bdmlzdaep5lf.xn--p1ai © 2013-2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.814445436000824}
+{"content": "Grief and Trauma Therapy\n\nGrief and Trauma Focused Therapy\n\nTraumatic life events can be overwhelming and devastating. In most cases, after the shock and numbness wear off, the grieving process follows. An individual’s life may change in many ways due to the grieving and mourning process brought on by a traumatic event. When a traumatic life event remains in the psyche causing long term distress and other life changing behaviors, an individual may be suffering from what is known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In the case of a traumatic life changing event, the professionally trained trauma counselors here at Universal Therapeutic Services, LLC are equipped to put individuals on the road to recovery. The treatment modalities for grief and/or trauma are based on individual needs and are considered separate treatable conditions.\n\nEvery Little Victory Counts!\n\nUniversal Therapeutic Services, LLC grief and trauma focused therapy programs are designed for individuals who have experienced a traumatic life event such as domestic violence, serious accidents, traumatic and sudden loss, natural/man-made disasters, witnessing a traumatic event, etc. Part of life’s journey sometimes includes a traumatic life changing event and that event can have a real impact on an individual’s physical, emotional, behavioral and spiritual well-being. The professionals at Universal Therapeutic Services, LLC have the tools to help individuals navigate through the maze that grief and trauma can create.\n\nGrief and Trauma Focused Therapy That Works\n\nBad memories and negative feelings of the traumatic event can come back at any time causing an individual to feel the same fear and horror that was experienced from when the actual event took place. These memories may feel like you're going through the event again. Sometimes there is a trigger such as a sight or sound that causes you to relive the event.\n\nSymptoms may also include avoiding situations that remind an individual of the event. They may try to avoid people, places or situations that trigger memories of the traumatic event. Some people try and keep busy or avoid seeking help to keep from having to talk about and relive the memories. For instance, a person was in an automobile accident may avoid watching shows or movies in which there are auto accidents. The experienced staff at Universal Therapeutic Services, LLC are committed to providing the absolute best care in serving all people, from every walk of life.\n\n   2510 Wade Hampton Blvd. B-2, Greenville, SC 29615\n   P.O. Box 8303, Greenville, SC 29607\n   (864) 405-3044\n\nInsurance Accepted: SC Health Connections Medicaid | Blue Choice\nMolina Healthcare | Wellcare | Select Health | B.C.B.S. | Private Pay", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9551703333854675}
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+{"content": "Baghdad's wristwatch repairman is a timeless treasure\n\nSalam Faraj and Habib Haj Salem\n·3-min read\n\nYoussef Abdelkarim's storefront on one of Baghdad's most historic streets is a time capsule -- literally. Thousands of wristwatches fill the tiny shop, where three generations have repaired Iraq's oldest timepieces.\n\nThe dusty display window on Rasheed Street features a single row of classic watches in their felt boxes right at the front, with a mountain of haphazardly piled pieces behind it and others hanging from hooks overhead.\n\nInside, there are watches in plastic buckets on the floor, packed in cardboard boxes on shelves and stuffed into suitcases.\n\nIn a far corner, behind an old wooden desk, 52-year-old Abdelkarim is hunched over an antique piece.\n\n\"Every watch has its own personality. I try to preserve it as much as I can, as if it were my own child,\" he told AFP, squinting through black, thick-framed glasses.\n\nAbdelkarim began fixing watches at the age of 11, after the death of his paternal grandfather, who opened the store in the 1940s.\n\nHis grandfather had already passed the trade onto his own son, who began to teach Youssef.\n\nHe has repaired expensive Swiss models, including 10,000-euro Patek Philippes, and what Abdelkarim calls \"the poor man's watch\" -- a Sigma. And he suspects he even fixed a piece that belonged to Iraq's feared dictator Saddam Hussein.\n\n\"It was a rare watch brought to me by the presidential palace, with Saddam's signature on the back,\" he recalled.\n\nIt cost 400 Iraqi dinars to repair -- more than $1,000 in the 1980s but less than a dollar today.\n\n- A timeless trade -\n\nIndeed, much has changed since then.\n\nPeople swapped their analog wristwatches for digital models, then dropped them altogether for smart phones.\n\nBut Abdelkarim insists an original timepiece isn't a thing of the past, telling AFP with a wink: \"A man's elegance begins with his watch. And his shoes.\"\n\nThat may be right: his shop is still packed with customers of all ages and styles, including former ministers in sleek suits, collectors looking for vintage classics and younger Iraqis bringing newer pieces for him to fix.\n\n\"Everyone finds what they need here,\" he said proudly.\n\nWith his eyesight starting to falter, he fixes just five pieces a day now, compared to the 1980s when he sold and fixed hundreds every day.\n\nAt the time, Rasheed Street was bustling with business during the day and the top place to be seen at night.\n\nAbdelkarim still remembers the famed theatres, movie halls and coffee shops: \"They never closed!\"\n\nHis shop was competing with dozens of other repair stores then, but they started to shutter in the 1990s, when crippling international sanctions left many households struggling to feed themselves.\n\n- 'Something different' -\n\nThen, the US-led invasion of 2003 toppled Saddam and opened a pandora's box of sectarian violence, including car bombs on Rasheed Street.\n\nAbdelkarim moved to live in a safer neighbourhood but still walked to the family store to keep it open.\n\nEven last year, when Rasheed Street was shut for months by a huge protest camp in nearby Tahrir Square, he managed to keep working.\n\n\"I'd open once or twice a week, because the riot police often clashed with protesters here, but I still came,\" he told AFP.\n\nAll around him, the vintage clothing stores or bookshops have closed, transformed into warehouses or stores selling car accessories.\n\n\"The street's features were erased and most of my friends moved. But there's just something different that sets it apart from every other place in Baghdad,\" he said.\n\nHe is teaching his sons, Yehya, 24, and Mustafa, 16, to take over the family business.\n\nBut he insists they will preserve the store as it is, with its cracked walls framing the door, its dusty shelves and its mountains of timepieces.\n\n\"This shop hasn't changed in 50 years, which is what keeps people coming back,\" he said.\n\n\"That's what preserves its identity.\"", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6608517169952393}
+{"content": "logo temple u press\n\n\nFounded in 1969, Temple University Press chose as its inspiration Russell Conwell's vision of the university as a place of educational opportunity for the urban working class.\n\nThe Press is perhaps best known as a publisher of books in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as books about Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley region. Temple was an early publisher of books in urban studies, housing and labor studies, organizational reform, social service reform, public religion, health care, and cultural studies. It became one of the first university presses to publish in what later became the fields of women's studies, ethnic studies—including Asian American and Latino studies, as well as African American Studies. Today, it continues in those fields and in newer ones such as disability studies, animal rights, criminology, gender and sexual identity, and sport and society. Temple's regional list encompasses scholarly books, coffee table books, and books about art, culture, birding, fishing, hiking, sports teams, and the urban and suburban environments.\n\n\n\n\nTrade titles in catalogs are designated by a \"T\",  and any titles without the \"T\" designation are short discounted titles.\n\n\nTrade Discounted titles:\n\n\n1- 4 = 20%\n\n\n4 - 10 = 40%\n\n\n10 or more = 46%\n\n\nShort discounted titles:\n1- 4 = 20%\n4 and above = 40%\nAll sales rep orders get 40% discount even on short discounted books\n\n\n\nA link to Temple University Press catalogs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee a list of bestsellers and backlist gems", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9637240171432495}
+{"content": "In Andean belief, Titicaca is the birthplace of the sun. Lake Titicaca has a surface elevation of 3,812 m (12,507 ft). Set between Peru and Bolivia, it’s the largest lake in South America and the highest navigable body of water in the world. Bright days contrast with bitterly cold nights. Enthralling, deep-blue Lake Titicaca is the unifying, longtime home of highland cultures steeped in the old ways. Peru provides many different places to fish in the Andes the popular rainbow trout. Peru has become the third largest exporter of cultivated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to US. Nutritional value per 100 g (portion size – average) Calories: 107 Kcal Protein: 20 g Selenium: 10 µg Vitamin D: 7 µg EPA: 219 mg DHA: 496 mg. Glazing 3%.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9996398091316223}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Are You More Fertile After Endometriosis Surgery?\n\nWhat are the chances of getting pregnant after laparoscopic surgery?\n\nIn conclusion, the present study shows that the natural conception rate was 41.9% during the first year after laparoscopic surgery in infertile women with endometriosis and no other factors..\n\nWhat does Stage 4 endometriosis mean?\n\nStage 3 or moderate: There are many deep implants. You may also have small cysts on one or both ovaries, and thick bands of scar tissue called adhesions. Stage 4 or severe: This is the most widespread. You have many deep implants and thick adhesions. There are also large cysts on one or both ovaries.\n\nHow likely is it to get pregnant with endometriosis?\n\nAn estimated 70% of women with mild to moderate endometriosis will get pregnant without treatment. If you know you have endometriosis and are failing to conceive, talk to your doctor who can advise you or refer you to the necessary fertility specialists.\n\nCan you still get pregnant with Stage 4 endometriosis?\n\nIt is important to remember that most women with endometriosis will become pregnant without any medical assistance. For women diagnosed with severe endometriosis (stage III/IV) who do want to become pregnant, about 75% will be able to do so – two-thirds naturally and one-third with the help of IVF.\n\nHow quickly can endometriosis grow back after surgery?\n\nMany studies also report patient symptoms as a sign of new disease. The most recent studies have shown that endometriosis recurs at a rate of 20% to 40% within five years following conservative surgery.\n\nWhy is it hard to get pregnant with endometriosis?\n\nA surgeon can fix those problems, but endometriosis can make it hard for you to conceive in other ways: It can change your body’s hormonal chemistry. It can cause your body’s immune system to attack the embryo. It can affect the layer of tissue lining your uterus where the egg implants itself.\n\nWhat stage of endometriosis causes infertility?\n\nWomen with severe (Stage 4) endometriosis, which causes considerable scarring, blocked fallopian tubes, and damaged ovaries, experience the most difficulty becoming pregnant and often require advanced fertility treatment.\n\nWhat can I expect after laparoscopy for endometriosis?\n\nUnder local anesthesia, the area where the incision is made will be numb. You’ll be awake during the surgery, but won’t feel any pain. During the laparoscopy, your surgeon will make an incision in your abdomen, typically under your bellybutton. Next, a small tube called a cannula is inserted into the opening.\n\nDo I still have endometriosis after laparoscopy?\n\nEndometriosis can also come back after surgery. ACOG estimates that endometriosis symptoms like pain return in 40 to 80 percent of people within 2 years of surgery.\n\nHow long does it take to get pregnant after endometriosis surgery?\n\nIf pregnancy does not happen within six to 12 months after surgical treatment of moderate to severe endometriosis, in vitro fertilization is generally recommended. In some cases the fallopian tubes are found to be blocked, and/ or scar tissue is very severe.\n\nDoes treating endometriosis increase fertility?\n\nEndometriosis is a common disease in infertile women. It can affect fertility in many ways and at different levels. Medical treatment of endometriosis does not improve spontaneous pregnancy rates, whereas there is evidence that surgery is beneficial in minimal-mild endometriosis.\n\nIs endometriosis an autoimmune disease 2020?\n\nEndometriosis has not yet been classified as an autoimmune disease but it may increase risk for autoimmune diseases. The inflammatory nature of endometriosis seems to trigger imbalance in the immune system. Our immune system protects our body from invaders. But immune systems can get out of balance.\n\nWhat stage of endometriosis do I have?\n\nEndometriosis is classified into one of four stages (I-minimal, II-mild, III-moderate, and IV-severe) based upon the exact location, extent, and depth of the endometriosis implants as well as the presence and severity of scar tissue and the presence and size of endometrial implants in the ovaries.\n\nCan infertility from endometriosis be reversed?\n\nWhile endometriosis can, and often does, prevent a woman from getting pregnant, by treating the endometriosis itself, patients find that their infertility symptoms can improve. Even those with stage III or IV endometriosis find differing results following deep-excision surgery.\n\nDo you lose weight after endometriosis surgery?\n\nHaving surgery to remove endometrial tissue that is growing outside of the uterus can help with pain and may reduce bloating. This, in turn, may help a person lose weight or look thinner.\n\nWhat can you not do after laparoscopic surgery?\n\nAfter 24 hours, there is no limit on your physical activity as long as you’re not taking narcotic medication. DO NOT drive, participate in sports, or use heavy equipment while you’re taking narcotic pain medication. You may take a shower or bath 2 days after your surgery.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.93196702003479}
+{"content": "What Does PHC Mean?\n\nWhat are the principles of PHC?\n\n\n\nWhat are the 3 levels of healthcare?\n\nLevels of CarePrimary Care.Secondary Care.Tertiary Care.Quaternary Care.\n\nWhat is the difference between primary health care and primary care?\n\n\nWhat is PHC test?\n\nConclusions: The PHC-cog test is a simple, accurate and reliable, performance-based tool in the screening for cognitive dysfunction. The PHC-cog test is quick, and easy-to-use, and will hopefully become widely used in the cognitive screening of the aging population in the primary public medical institutions of Korea.\n\nWhat are the strategies of primary health care?\n\n\nWhat is the goal of primary health care?\n\n\nWhat does PHC mean PHC?\n\nprimary health carePHC stands for primary health care—the most basic package of essential health services and products needed to prevent disease, promote health, and manage illness.\n\nWhat is included in primary health care?\n\n\nWhat is an example of primary care?\n\n\nWhat are the 8 components of primary health care?\n\n\nWhat are the five principles of care?\n\nThe Five Principles of CareNurse assistants follow a group of five principles, or values. These five principles are safety, dignity, independence, privacy, and communication. … The first principle is safety. … The second principle is dignity. … The third principle is independence.\n\nWhat is the full meaning of PHC?\n\nprimary health careAbstract. PIP: The meaning of primary health care (PHC) has evolved over time and, by examining its origins and later formulations, it is possible to arrive at what is meant by PHC today. It originated as primary medical care where patients met health workers.\n\nWhat is meant by primary health care?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9926300048828125}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: Can Thor Beat Juggernaut?\n\nHow do you kill a juggernaut?\n\nThe quick and simple answer is firepower – and the more powerful the better.\n\nYou want to opt for explosives if you can, whether it’s RPGs or throwing grenades.\n\nNot only does this cause more damage, but can stagger a Juggernaut, halting their attacks and allowing you to re-position yourself or retaliate with yours..\n\nCan Storm lift Thor’s hammer?\n\n\nDid Hulk lift Thor’s hammer?\n\nPerhaps the closest Hulk has come to truly lifting Mjolnir was in Avengers Assemble #4. Thor attempted to wallop Thanos with Mjolnir, only for Thanos to mind-control Hulk and force the Jade Giant to catch the hammer. Hulk was able to both deflect Mjolnir and whack Thor in the face with it.\n\nWhy is colossus so weak in Deadpool?\n\nColossus does have a huge weakness in the form of Vibranium. Any sort of physical contact with Vibranium will force Colossus to revert to his original form. … A Vibranium weapon would incredibly effective against Colossus, as he would be forced to fight in his more vulnerable form.\n\nWho is the strongest XMen?\n\nHere are a few more of the most powerful Ultimate X-Men, ranked.1 Jean Grey. It may come as little surprise that Jean Grey is the most powerful member of the Ultimate X-Men team.2 Professor Xavier. … 3 Rogue. … 4 Iceman. … 5 Kitty Pryde. … 6 Nightcrawler. … 7 Psylocke. … 8 Wolverine. … More items…•\n\nWho is stronger juggernaut or Superman?\n\nJuggernaut wins pretty easily. He’s faster than Superman (indeed he’s probably faster than the Flash), and hits infinitely harder. Further, Superman can do nothing to actually harm Juggernaut, and even were that not true Juggernaut can simply regenerate from the damage.\n\nWhat is Juggernaut weakness?\n\nThe character is vulnerable to mental attacks, a weakness that has been exploited via the removal of his helmet, which normally protects him from such. The Juggernaut has circumvented this weakness on occasion by wearing a metal skullcap inside his main helmet.\n\nCan Thor kill Superman?\n\n\nWho can beat the juggernaut?\n\n\nCan anything stop the juggernaut?\n\nJuggernaut is already pretty indestructible and he doesn’t need anything to sustain him other than the mystical powers of Cyttorak. It’s not at all easy for heroes to stop Juggernaut, much less to kill him. … If anyone can kill zombie Juggernaut,though, it’s zombie Wolverine and boy does he.\n\nCan the juggernaut beat the Hulk?\n\nJuggernaut is only beaten when his friendliness to Hulk breaks the illusion. … The Hulk can be overpowered by the Juggernaut; the Hulk cannot stop the Juggernaut; and most importantly, the Hulk’s strength, even at maximum, cannot harm the Juggernaut at his maximum power.\n\nWho is stronger Juggernaut or Colossus?\n\nAccording to the (Original) Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (from the 80’s), Colossus could lift (press) 70 tons. He fought Juggernaut and lost, but held his own because of the durability of his Organic Steel form. Juggernaut has always been “class 100” strength (on par w/ Thor & an enraged Hulk).\n\nWhy is juggernaut so big?\n\nJuggernaut, on the other hand, is a massive mountain of a man who possesses superhuman strength and durability, and is virtually unstoppable once he builds up momentum. … Way back in the 60s, Marko became the Juggernaut when he discovered a ruby in the temple of the mystical entity Cyttorak.\n\nCould the juggernaut beat Thanos?\n\nWithout gauntlet: Normal juggernaut can’t defeat Thanos. Thanos is even more powerful than Hulk. However, when juggernaut accessed full power of cyttorak and became Trion Juggernaut, he was elevated to a whole new level. … So, juggernaut would win this one.\n\nCan Deadpool kill the Hulk?\n\nDeadpool has no way of killing the Hulk. All deadpool has is his weapons and unpredictable fighting style while the Hulk has infinite potential in every asprect. Both have great healing factors but the Hulk’s healing factor is definitely better.\n\nWho is stronger storm or Thor?\n\nThor. … Both Storm and Thor have weather-manipulating abilities, but Thor has other powers, such as near indestructibility and superhuman strength. He is also the god of Thunder, so he has more control over lightning and storms than Storm does. Thor takes the win 9/10 times.\n\nWho can beat the Hulk?\n\nAs reliable as they are when it comes to heroes who can defeat the Hulk, Silver Surfer has put the Green Goliath in his place on more than one occasion. He has a host of powers that makes him more than a match for Hulk, and by wielding the Power Cosmic, Silver Surfer has incredible strength, endurance and speed.\n\nCan Superman lift Thor’s hammer?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9871254563331604}
+{"content": "It provides a comprehensive picture of the world’s best architecture firms, and will be refreshed each year based on the results of the annual A+Awards program. Sheppard Robson’s focus is on urban design, highlighting social and environmental responsibility, and moving functional design into our daily lives. Their recent year design focus has been towards sustainability. The architecture firm has extensive experience in designing public facilities, government offices, office buildings, educational facilities, medical institutions, hotels, resorts, and urban development areas. One year later, Van Berkel started his career by founding UN Studio with the Caroline Bos in 1988. ENR 2020 Top 500 Design Firms Preview Design firms began this year with high hopes that it would provide the tenth straight year of market growth. The building is already complete but needs to be modified, The firm’s main focus is on the landscape, engineering and interior design. As an award-winning company, it employs 1400 creative minds and professionals together to make company Aedas successful on a global scale. 2020 Rank: 2019 Rank: FIRM, U.S. HEADQUARTERS: TYPE OF FIRM: TOTAL ARCHITECTURAL REVENUE: 1: 1: Gensler San Francisco: A: $1,523.14: 2: 2: Perkins and Will Chicago: A: $670.32: 3: 4: HDR Omaha: EA: $517.60: 4: 3: Jacobs Dallas: EA: $509.90: 5: 5: AECOM Los Angeles: EA: $439.30: 6: 7: HKS Dallas: A: $435.55: 7: 6: HOK St. Louis: AE: $429.00: 8: 8: Stantec Irvine, California: … Manisha Patel has been at PRP for 25 years. The company is known for designing attractive parks and urban plans within the Philippines and internationally such as Aluminum City in Bahrain. Huckabee primarily focuses on educational institutions. In 2009, Manit Rastogi was the first Indian to win a World Architecture Festival Award for his design of The Pearl Academy of Fashion, in Jaipur. CPKA’s designs include futuristic looks driven by straight lines and modern facade solutions. Here are the Top 10 architecture firms in Arizona, based on public voting for the 2020 edition of Ranking Arizona, the state’s biggest and most comprehensive business opinion poll. This can be seen in their goal of making all their architecture carbon neutral by 2030. In 2020 alone, UN Studio has won 5 awards – which speaks volumes to the success of this firm! Ishii is also Chairperson of APTAC: Asia-Pacific Town-Building Assistance Consortium. Search Here: For example: Architects in Cape Town. of ArchitectureQuote IVS, I would like to receive relevant marketing materials and In 1995, Thompson was promoted to Director. Before becoming managing partner at 10Design, David Pringle was CEO of the Asia and Middle-East branches. Also, Ronald Lu & Partners is based in Hong Kong with over 550 active staff members. Photo: HOK,", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9932563304901123}
+{"content": "Do you know, in Taiwan a festival is dedicated to ghosts?\n\nTaiwan ghost festival\n\nYes! A festival for the Ghosts in Taiwan!\n\nIsn’t it scary to know that there is a festival dedicated to ghosts?? \n\nPeople in Taiwan do celebrations to appease the spirits roaming around them during this festival. They feed these hungry ghosts with offerings of special food and conduct entertainment events in their country. \n\nAlthough, Taiwan (ROC) is an independent Asian country and part of a string of small islands neighboring South China Sea. Taiwan is home to 23 million people (almost the same as India’s capital city Delhi’s population), and very rich when it comes to art. Their profound art catches the attention of travelers all around the globe.\n\nBe it music, dance, handicraft, or even the folk art, the people of Taiwan have displayed an exceptional pool of talent. Besides this, Taiwanese are incredibly superstitious. Taiwanese believe in ghosts and spirits. Although, they are afraid of them and have many myths related to those paranormal things. Still they have a festival dedicated to them.\n\nThough, the charm of the festival can be seen throughout the island, but the go-to spot for the travelers is Taiwan’s northern port city of Keelung. The festivities of the ghost month can be experienced to a large extent at this place.\n\nWhen do they celebrate the Ghost festival?\n\nAccording to Taiwan’s lunar calendar, around August end (the seventh month) they celebrate “The Hungry Ghost Festival” for about 15 days. In 2020,  2nd September is the 15th  day of the festival. Tourists in Taiwan notice the buzz of this festival and no doubt return amazed during this ghost month.\n\nWhat are the beliefs related to the Hungry Ghost festival in Taiwan?\n\nIt is crazy to see that the ghost festival is celebrated for almost 15 days every year and still they call this period inauspicious. During this festival, people take various precautions as they believe that the restless and malignant (evil) ghosts emerge out of the hell gates to haunt the world. \n\nLocal people of the country exhibit prohibitions to their normal routine work and avoid special occasions like weddings, new baby born celebrations, or starting a new business. \n\nIn Taiwan, people burn “ghost money” every month in temples as an offering to their deceased (dead) family members for their afterlife expenses. If anyone neglects this ritual for any ghost or there is no heir or living relative left to do the same, the neglected ghost comes out of the hell being playful and do evil pranks with the humans.\n\nBelievers says that in addition to causing trouble, the paranormal spirits visit their families and roam around in search of food, entertainment, and money. Therefore, their families burn two types of ghost money in temples. Yellow with gold print for the Gods and yellow with silver print for their ancestor’s spirit.\n\nTaiwan ghost festival\n\nWhy is the Ghost festival celebrated?\n\nThe Ghost Festival is celebrated to appease the ghosts of the dead people who returned to the earth during the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.\n\nIn Taiwan, it is believed that, every year, the spirits of the people who died sad, unexpectedly, and forgotten after the death by their families, walkout from their paranormal states during this period. Therefore, to address these spirits with respect, people visit templespray for them, and burn incense and ghost money (Joss paper) so that their ancestor’s spirit can purchase day-to-day necessities in the afterlife.\n\nThough, it sounds very strange to us but it is truly believed by them. No offense but why would a ghost need money?\n\nWho celebrates this festival of ghosts in Taiwan?\n\nChiu Chow community” of Taiwan, celebrate this festival and host different events in many parts of the country to honor the spirits. The event includes opera performances, dance parade, puppet show, lion dances, and live singing. These activities are dedicated to the ghosts, therefore, the front row seats are kept reserved for them during this festival.\n\nTaiwan ghost festival\n\nLike Taiwan, where else the Hungry ghosts festival is celebrated?\n\n  1. Japan – Obon festival – on 13th August 2020 \n  2. Korea – Miryang Baekjung festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  3. Vietnam – Tết Trung Nguyên festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  4. Cambodia – Pchum Ben festival – on 16th September 2020\n  5. Laos – Boun Khao Padap Din festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  6. Sri Lanka – Mataka dānēs festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  7. Thailand – Sat Thai festival – on 25th September 2020\n  8. China – Zhongyuan festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  9. Indonesia – Cioko, or Sembahyang Rebutan festival – on 2nd September 2020\n  10. India- Shraddha (not as a festival but a ritual to feed the spirits).\nAlso read: Why, Ladakh need attention now?\n\nWhat are the dos and don’ts during the Hungry Ghost festival?\n\nDuring this festival, people avoid doing some activities just to stay safe from naughty spirits. Especially, after sunset, they make sure not to indulge in such activities which can bring misfortune to their life. These include:\n\n  1. They don’t leave their clothes outside to dry because they believe that a ghost passing by might try them. If any of the ghost touches their clothes, the negative energy of the ghost will remain in them.\n  2. Offerings kept for the hungry ghosts are not disturbed or swept up before sunrise.\n  3. Beaches tend to be vacant during the festival. It is believed that the spirit of the deceased swimmer might attempt to trap them underwater.\n  4. They don’t lean against the wall as spirits are believed to be inside them.\n  5. Urinating on a tree is an offense to the spirits living inside the tree.\n  6. They are afraid of taking pictures after sunset as they could capture a ghost.\n  7. They don’t leave the main door of the house open at night. It is an invitation for ghosts to enter.\n  8. No marriages or ceremonies are arranged during this month.\n  9. People don’t forget to switch on bright lights at home, in balconies and other areas nearby.\n\nWhat happens during Ghost Month?\n\nMany rituals and ceremonies take place during the festival for the ghosts in Taiwan cities.\n\nHere are some:\n\n  1. Taiwanese sprinkle rock salt on the floor outside their front door to keep ghosts outside the house.\n  2. Ghost lanterns are hanged at the entrance of the house to light the path for the visiting spirits.\n  3. Fresh fruits and candles are kept on small tables outside their house and shops as offerings to the hungry ghosts. \n  4. They burn incense and Joss paper (ghost money) for the prosperity of the spirits of their ancestors.\n  5. They also release small lotus-shaped lanterns out into the ocean or rivers. Each lantern holds a candle that helps the spirits back to the underworld.\n  6. The priests and monks perform rituals to relieve ghosts from their sufferings.\n  7. During the festival, most of the shops are kept closed in Taiwan to keep the streets clean and open for the passing by ghosts.\nTaiwan ghost festival\n\nHow the ghost festival ends?\n\nThere is a very famous temple in Keelung (city in northern Taiwan) named “Lao da Gong Temple“. On the last day of the festival, the gates to hell at this temple get closed officially. People of Taiwan make sure that they have paid proper homage to the hungry ghosts and prayed for their peaceful return to their underground world before ending this festival.\n\n1 Comment\n\nLeave a Reply\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5484365820884705}
+{"content": "Before you go, check out these stories!\n\nHackernoon logoLaunching the Impossible Engineering Challenge by@TheLoneroFoundation\n\nLaunching the Impossible Engineering Challenge\n\nAuthor profile picture\n\n@TheLoneroFoundationAndrew Magdy Kamal\n\nCurrently, in order to promote the open innovation license, I have decided to launch an engineering challenge.\n\nThis challenge shall be dubbed the impossible engineering challenge, and aims to tackle some of humanity's biggest problems in terms of things I'm not tackling right now. The aim is to inspire the next generation of makers and doers.\n\nDetails are below:\n\nAre you an open source trailblazer? Build a project licensed under the OPNL License tackling a complex innovation track.\n\nProblem Statement\n\nOur organization have been working on exploring a wide variety of technologies, both theoretical and existing. This includes everything from exploring Quantum Origin through a variety of derived theorems to building water harvesting devices for third world countries and working\non a decentralized internet.\n\nIn the vast exploration of STEM, there are certain limitations and constraints in regards to time. In regards to engineering challenges, there are three that we have lesser time to explore that I believe are worth tackling.\n\nThese three challenges are centered around solving the world's energy crisis, solving the world's resources problem, and reaching new heights in space exploration lesser explored. The three problems we are looking at, which is described by the below three tracks are centered around black hole energy extraction, oceanic colonization, and even extraterrestrial communication. All projects submitted with be under the open innovation license\n\nCurrent Solutions\n\nThese problems are widely lesser explored complexity problems, but here is some inspiration:\n\nCurrently, one of the biggest problems in relation to energy sustainability is harnessing the power of nuclear fusion. However, what would take this even one step further?\n\nWhat engineering challenge if solved, may provide an abundant source of seemingly limitless energy? When looking at the Penrose process, it has theoretically been proven as possible through experimentation.\n\nFor the past many years myself, I have been wondering what would happen if we could extract energy from black holes, and where we as a civilization could be?\n\nIf the closest black hole may be a daunting 1000 light years away, and the closest known super massive blackhole may be 25,000 light years away, Sagittarius A, how do we get to where we need to go? The fastest answer to solve this outside of accelerated aeronautical development, is the experimentation of self contained microscopic blackholes.\n\nThe question is, what type of technology needs to be possible to figure out the right equations? Is it a new algorithm, hardware, etc. and how do we go about conceptualizing such things beyond where ANY PHYSICIST has gone before? This proposes one of the biggest engineering challenges of all time.\n\nStark Drones has some underwater wireless networking and telemetry solutions. However, they want to take this a step further. A challenge in regards to the environment and our limited allocation of resources, is how do we make the best of what we have?\n\nThe ocean is perhaps one of our more abundant resources in the foreseeable future. Not only is harnessing the full power of our ocean likely important for this civilization, but these same types of technologies may be used when we colonize other planets later on.\n\nThe question is whether underwater tunnels, smart elevators, artificial land, or submarine cities, what will the solution be? Can it garnish hydroelectric sources, or what external source will power it? How can we make sure it doesn't negatively impact the environment or marine life? What makes said solution worth exploring? Many big questions can be tackled with this challenge.\n\nHave you wondered what is going on in outerspace? It seems like a dull question to ask, obviously most people have. Many people have contemplated that we aren't the only intelligent planetary species in this universe.\n\nThe idea of other terrestrial beings seem more and more likely. With programs such as the SETI Institute which I have been a fan of for many years, or programs like Zooniverse and the CHIME Experiment, we are exploring lots of uncharted territory.\n\nOutside of the area of data compression, there are uncovered areas in terms of building full fledgling algorithms, linguistic and communications-wise for translating large radio frequencies and even transcribing possible alien communications.\n\nThere are organizations like CETI and projects like CosmicOS trying to tackle this problem. How can you translate messages from radiosonic signals to bits and binary then to fully spoken words? How fast can you speed up the process?\n\nGoing beyond trying to capture one word sentiments like \"hello\" or \"what\", if one is able to capture full fledged words and maybe even sentences in real time, this would lead to huge breakthroughs. Excuse my mad scientist fantasy, but what if communicating with aliens is feasible, and how can we design a linguistic, hardware, or transcribing system that puts us a step closer?\n\n\nThere are two purposes in regards to why this challenge was made:\n\n1) To promote innovation in regards to these solution tracks for the spirit of build something amazing.\n\n2) To get more people using the Open Innovation License and inspire others with what type of projects can be done in the open innovation space.\n\nWe aren't specifically hardware or software focused, and do promote hybrid builds as opposed to many other challenges that focuses primarily on software. We want to see what people can come up with and what type of innovation can be spawned around those three tracks.\n\nPossible Tools:\n\nThis is a list of some tools you might consider using in your project that are entirely optional. (For inspiration):\n\n  1. QGIS\n  2. Public Lab\n  3. Julia Language\n  4. Project Jupyter\n  5. BeagleBone Black\n  6. Wolfram Language™\n  7. Decentralized Internet SDK\n  8. Bloomberg Quantum Library\n\nFor details about the challenge, please visit the GitHub here to learn about it on an ongoing basis.\n\nIf we decide to move the challenge to an open innovation or crowdsourcing website, the GitHub might be updated to reflect that. This being said, let us innovate for the future!\n\n\nJoin Hacker Noon\n\nCreate your free account to unlock your custom reading experience.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.667817234992981}
+{"content": "Question: How Can You Improve Hygiene?\n\nWhat is good grooming and why is it important?\n\nIt enhances beauty, health, and hygiene -Unhealthy practices such as overfeeding, not bathing often, nail-biting, and so on.\n\nThese are harmful to your health and can cause illnesses.\n\nThey can also damage skin and your physical appearance.\n\nThe concept of grooming is proper hygiene..\n\nWhy is it important to shower regularly?\n\nOf course, the risk of body odor isn’t the only reason to shower or bathe regularly. Poor hygiene or infrequent showers can cause a buildup of dead skin cells, dirt, and sweat on your skin. This can trigger acne, and possibly exacerbate conditions like psoriasis, dermatitis, and eczema.\n\nHow do you teach personal hygiene?\n\n\nHow can we maintain home hygiene?\n\nThe following weekly tasks will support your daily efforts:Spot vacuum or sweep as necessary.Wipe down fronts of appliances and stove tops.Clean up spills that were not thoroughly cleaned.Clean bathroom mirrors.Finish laundry and put away clean clothes.Change towels and sheets.Take out the trash.\n\nWhat are the 4 importance of personal hygiene?\n\n\nHow many types of hygiene are there?\n\n\nWhat are signs of poor hygiene?\n\n\nWhat can cause poor personal hygiene?\n\nPoor hygiene often accompanies certain mental or emotional disorders, including severe depression and psychotic disorders. Dementia is another common cause of poor hygiene….Alcohol and Teens. … Alcohol Abuse. … Alzheimer’s. … Bipolar Disorder. … Adult Brain Tumor. … Brain Damage. … Brain Tumors. … Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.More items…\n\nWhy is personal health important?\n\nBeing healthy sharpens your memory and stabilises your mood. A low-stress life can help you sleep better, which leads to more energy. Good mental health can also be about maintaining healthy relationships, feeling positive about life and experiencing a sense of belonging.\n\nWhy hygiene is so important?\n\nGood hygiene lowers your risk for diseases and illnesses commonly spread through viruses and bacteria. Your hands come into contact with bacteria every time you cough, use the restroom, touch your pet, or touch surfaces, such as stair railings, used frequently by others.\n\nHow can workplace hygiene be improved?\n\nDo and Don’ts of Personal Hygiene In The WorkplaceDo clean up after yourself.Do regularly wipe down your workstation.Do wash your cups and mugs daily.Do use sanitiser provided for you.Do adhere to the company’s hygiene policy.Don’t sneeze or cough without covering your nose and mouth.More items…•\n\nWhat are the 10 personal hygiene?\n\n10 Personal Hygiene PracticesWet your hands with clean water and apply soap.Lather your hands by rubbing them thoroughly with soap.Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds.Rinse your hands well.Dry your hands with a towel or air dry.\n\nWhat is hygiene checklist?\n\nUniforms, aprons (or clothes) should be clean at the beginning of a work shift. Wear a hair restraint (hat or hairnet) Keep fingernails short and clean. Avoid touching nose, mouth, hair and skin during food preparation.\n\nWhich activity is an example of poor hygiene?\n\nFood handler be unsuccessful to wash hands correctly after spending the restroom or when their hands become dirty. Food handler coughs or sneezes on foodstuff. Food handler traces or scratches wounds, cuts, or sores, and then touches food.\n\nWhat happens when you have bad hygiene?\n\nPoor personal hygiene habits, however, can lead to some minor side effects, like body odor and greasy skin. They can also lead to more troublesome or even serious issues. For example, if you don’t wash your hands frequently, you can easily transfer germs and bacteria to your mouth or eyes.\n\nWhy do schizophrenics have poor hygiene?\n\n\nWhat are the 7 personal hygiene?\n\n7 Personal hygienewashing the body often. … If this happens, a swim or a wash all over the body with a wet sponge or cloth will the teeth at least once a day. … washing the hair with soap or shampoo at least once a week.washing hands with soap after going to the toilet.washing hands with soap before preparing and/or eating food.More items…\n\nHow can you prevent bad hygiene?\n\nIf you want to minimize your risk of infection and also enhance your overall health, follow these basic personal hygiene habits:Bathe regularly. Wash your body and your hair often. … Trim your nails. … Brush and floss. … Wash your hands. … Sleep tight.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6721365451812744}
+{"content": "» » Gemini - How Do You Know\n\nGemini - How Do You Know download mp3 album\n\nGemini  - How Do You Know download mp3 album\nHow Do You Know\nFLAC vers. size:\n1843 mb\nMP3 vers. size:\n1726 mb\nWMA vers. size:\n1610 mb\nOther formats\n4.6 ★\n\nAre you a birth born gemini or are you actually more similar to your ascending star sign? Let's take the test and see! . You can adapt to the world around you and you are always curious to know what is going on. You want to be involved in every single project possible and communication is your strength because, out of all of the astrological signs, Geminis are the ultimate social butterflies. Routine and boredom are Geminis biggest fears. You'd rather be naive than know the depressing truth, because you don't want anything putting a dampener on your freedom or positive energy. You are not Gemini at heart. Unfortunately you are not a gemini at heart\n\nGemini may also point out how you are both so similar or enjoy the same things. Birds of a feather do flock together. If you feel the Gemini is worth the mental gymnastics, give Gemini verbal assurance that you enjoy Gemini’s company, accept them as they are and do not come on too strong or try to get intimate too fast, even if it appears Gemini wants you to make advances.\n\nGemini Suite Live is a recording of Jon Lord's classical/rock piece Gemini Suite featuring the original Mark II band lineup of Deep Purple, recorded live during this one and only live performance in 1970. A follow up to their \"Concerto\" Project, it featured five movements for the individual members of the band, including a guitar piece from Blackmore. All movements composed by Jon Lord. Conducted by Malcolm Arnold. Ritchie Blackmore - guitar. Jon Lord - organ, keyboards.\n\nIf your friend was born May 21 to June 20 then he or she is the sign of the twins, Gemini.\n\n\n1 How Do You Know (Single Mix) 3:34\n2 How Do You Know (K.C.B. Freaky Radio Edit) 3:34\n3 How Do You Know (Cool Room Mix) 3:36\n4 Stone Cold 4:01\n\nBarcode and Other Identifiers\n\n  • Barcode: 809274273727\n\nOther versions\n\nCategory Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year\nHW10374 Gemini How Do You Know ‎(12\", Single) Warner Music Australia HW10374 Australia 2001", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6635732650756836}
+{"content": "Can Too Much Caffeine Make You Depressed?\n\nHow long does it take for the brain to recover from caffeine?\n\nThe duration of caffeine withdrawalsymptoms vary from person to person, but caffeine withdrawal usually lasts at least two to nine days .\n\nSomeone who abruptly stops caffeine intake after regular use will usually feel withdrawal effects between 12 and 24 hours after stopping..\n\nHow does caffeine affect your mental health?\n\nThe drug is notorious for causing the jitters and anxiety, particularly at higher doses. People with underlying mental health issues may be more susceptible: a review of eight studies found that caffeine aggravated symptoms of anxiety and panic disorder (Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 2011).\n\nIs depression a symptom of caffeine withdrawal?\n\n\nWhat caffeine does to your brain?\n\n\nIs coffee a stimulant or depressant?\n\n\nDoes caffeine kill brain cells?\n\n\nHow long until caffeine is completely out of your system?\n\n\nDoes coffee ruin your skin?\n\n\nWhy does coffee make me feel sad?\n\nCaffeine withdrawal can trigger symptoms that overlap with those of depression and anxiety. Caffeine only provides a temporary boost to the nervous system. As a result, people with depression may experience a more severe drop in their mood once the effects of the stimulant wear off.\n\nCan caffeine cause suicidal thoughts?\n\n\nCan caffeine change your personality?\n\n\nDoes caffeine make you dumber?\n\nNew study finds that caffeine slows your brain… if you’re a male. According to a study from the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, that cup of coffee you’re drinking in the morning isn’t helping you wake up, it’s actually diminishing your brain power- if you’re a male.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.938586950302124}
+{"content": "0 ×\n\nMulti-dimensional Scaling\n\nSchrödinger extension for KNIME Workbench version by Schrödinger\n\nMulti-dimension scaling driver program\n\nBackend implementation\n\ncanvasMDS is used to implement this node.\n\n\nColumn containing binary matrix input\nChoose the input column that has the binary matrix input\nUse binary matrix input\nThis option is enabled only if there exists a binary matrix in the input table. If checked, the binary matrix is used as input. Otherwise, the input that is used is the entire input table, which has the molecule names in the first column and numerical data columns that make up a symmetric distance matrix.\nInclude Molecule\nWhether the molecule should be included in the output\nInclude Input\nWhether all columns in the input should be included in the output\nScaling Method\nScaling method. Valid choices are: \"covariance\", \"correlation\" and \"distanceMatrix\".\nNumber of Dimensions\nNumber of dimensions to use.\n\nInput Ports\n\nThe input should include a molecule (Maestro or SD) and numerical data columns that make up a symmetric distance matrix or a canvas binary matrix\n\nOutput Ports\n\nThe output includes the multi-dimensional scaling information computed plus the input, if specified (i.e., the molecule or all columns)\n\n\nStd output/error of Multi-dimension Scaling\nStd output/error of Multi-dimension Scaling\n\nBest Friends (Incoming)\n\nBest Friends (Outgoing)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7325222492218018}
+{"content": ": Rodney Atkins: 01892 833115: rodney.atkins@paddockwoodtc.co.uk: Estates, Finance, PPP (Vice Chairman)\n\nRodney became a town councillor in May 2015. He met his wife in Tonbridge, where he had grown up and moved to Paddock Wood in July 2009 with his family. He has a teenage daughter and a teenage son who is a member of Paddock Wood Athletic club and the 11th Tonbridge Scout group. Rodney has worked all his life in the financial services industry, and has now worked for a global company for 21 years.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8248744010925293}
+{"content": "Why MVP?\n\nWith decades of experience in both professional sport and the field of strength and conditioning, our programs have been specifically designed to help you to achieve your goals whatever they are.\nBy understanding your needs through a quick but detailed questionnaire we can then provide programs that suit your circumstances.\nOur programs take into consideration your physical profile, your ability (from professional athlete all the way to someone who is at the start of their fitness journey) and access to workout equipment. Whether you train at home, in a gym or a studio we have the workout plan just for you!\nWith health and fitness elements including muscle growth, muscle tone*, fat loss, strength, power, speed, health, flexibility, core stability and more!\nWe also have lots of sports-specific programs including Football, Rugby, Cricket, Netball, Lacrosse, Tennis, Golf to help you to excel. We literally have something for everyone.\n\nWith a library of over 3000 exercises all with clear instruction, we are the fitness coach that is with you 24/7.\n\nBeing one of the best data analytics companies in the UK we can also provide insightful information about your progress to aid your development via the latest AI and machine learning. Your programs will automatically adapt to your performance and keep you motivated to continue on the path to achieving your goal!\n\nReach YOUR Goals:\n\nEveryone is different. That is why we individualise EVERY single program. By working with you to understand what you want from your program we design a cutting edge program that can be enjoyed anywhere anytime!\n\nCutting Edge Technology & Artificial Intelligence:\n\nWe have partnered with Volt Athletics to provide us with a fantastic platform to deliver our programs right to your smartphone! Your interactions with the app allow us to analyse what is working and automatically adjust your programs for you. Keeping you interested and gently pushing you according to your feedback!\n\nCoach Support:\n\nIn addition to your 24/7 access to the app, you will also receive FREE advice from our top coaches if you would like to change programs, speak about your goals or discuss how to take your performance to the next level.\n\n\nJoin thousands of other people across a wide range of abilities who use MVP to track, improve and achieve their goals. Our huge database of people helps us to guide your training and take your performance to the next level.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5857494473457336}
+{"content": "Cape Vulture\n\nOur Work\n\nThe Maloti-Drakensberg Vulture Project aims to conserve the Bearded and Cape vulture species in the region, in both South Africa and Lesotho, ensuring the persistance of these birds for future generations. We work to implement effective research, education, threat mitigation, protection, preservation and recovery operations in order to prevent further decline of population numbers and decrease in habitat use, which will ultimately result in the extinction of these iconic vulture species.\n\nvulture awareness and education\nLearning about vultures is fun!\n\nThe project works to provide mechanisms to ensure the long term survival of the species through:\n\n  • Research to provide a comprehensive understanding of population sizes and dynamics, territory usage and spatial and temporal foraging ranges, breeding distribution, density and success rates, and the impacts of environmental influences and global climate change on the species.\n  • Monitoring activities using satellite transmitters, in order to provide information relating to territory range and occupancy, breeding and foraging ranges, change in territory uses, causes of mortality and the survival rate of the species.\n  • A Recovery Programme, encompassing a Bearded Vulture captive breeding programme, which will allow us to reintroduce these birds into the wild in order to boost population numbers.\n\nSee the detailed objectives of the Bearded and Cape Vultures’ Biodiversity Management Plans for more information.\n\nResearch on Bearded Vulture\nResearch on Bearded Vulture during fitting of a satellite transmitter", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8815950155258179}
+{"content": "If you’re a subject matter expert (SME), it’s probably safe to say that your time is in high demand. Over the last few years, more and more people have discovered the importance of SMEs. Your colleagues need and value your knowledge. From sales to product development, you’re continually asked to contribute and advise. Clearly, the unique perspectives of subject matter experts are essential to success. \n\nWith the high demand for a subject matter expert’s knowledge comes both opportunities and challenges. On the bright side, being a subject matter expert is good for your professional development. Afterall, the more relied upon a subject matter expert becomes, the more valuable they are to the company. On the other hand, due to the number of people and projects they’re involved with, SMEs must cultivate additional skills. These skills separate good subject matter experts from great ones.\n\nIn this post, I’ll offer the definition of a subject matter expert. From that foundation, I’ll explore the responsibilities, traits and key skills of a subject matter expert. In addition, you’ll learn easy ways to deliver even more value to your business, and how to manage and scale your knowledge across the business. Finally, I’ll explain why it benefits you to be an SME. \n\nWhat is a subject matter expert?\n\nTo start, let’s define subject matter expert. Simply put, a subject matter expert is the go-to authority and domain expert in the business about a particular subject. Often abbreviated to SME, the subject matter expert can be an individual contributor, manager or executive.\n\nDepending on the business, being a domain expert may or may not be the SME’s only responsibility. Because the type and depth of knowledge required is different in each business, you may be one of just a handful of subject matter experts or one of hundreds. Regardless of the number of SMEs in the company, each adds value with their deep knowledge of a particular subject. \n\nSubject matter expert responsibilities \n\nBeing a subject matter expert is all about balancing priorities. Not only are you responsible for your primary job functions, but you also contribute to other areas of the business. As you might imagine, subject matter expert responsibilities vary from business to business and role to role. Some expert knowledge may be required by only one department, but expertise from another may be required by many. In most cases, domain experts interact with the product development, marketing and sales departments most often. \n\nConsult with and advise product development\n\nThe insights you possess are valuable. As a subject matter expert, your body of knowledge can have a huge impact on the growth and vision of the company. Working with the product development team, SMEs contribute their unique perspective to strategic initiatives and projects.\n\nFor example, a software company may have an SME in IT who is a data security analyst. Before building a new release, the company’s development team would strategize with the data security analyst. Together they would ensure that the planned enhancements don’t impact compliance. Alternately, the SME may recommend strategies to avoid risk.\n\nEducate and strategize with marketing\n\nHow can you use your domain expertise to the advantage of the company? Can it be a differentiator between your company and the competition? As a subject matter expert, you can help the marketing team create interesting content that attracts new prospects. Your expertise can be leveraged to ensure messaging is accurate and appealing.\n\nUsing our example from above, the data analyst can help explain why a potential customer’s data is at risk. And, how the company goes above and beyond to protect it. The IT SME can provide information and strategize ways to attract and sell to specific industries. In this example, the SME in IT can explore ways to approach the financial, government and legal sectors.\n\nCreate proposal content with sales\n\nAs the authority on a certain subject, the SME plays a big role in the proposal team. Working with sales or the proposal coordinator, you answer client questions and communicate value. In some cases, the subject matter expert themselves may become a differentiator that helps to win business. \n\nIn our final example, the same data analyst — an SME in IT ⁠— would help to answer customer questions about the company’s data security protocols. They would communicate how their policies are different from the competition including how they reduce risk for the potential customer. \n\nFor more about how the proposal team and subject matter experts can create winning responses, check out this blog.\n\nTraits of a truly great SME\n\nThe subject matter expert definition will fit a lot of people within your business. So how do you become the go-to authority on a subject? Or, if you already are, how do you take your skills to the next level?\n\nNo matter their field of expertise, truly great SMEs tend to be:\n\n  • Educated and experienced\n\nYou don’t become a domain expert by accident. In addition to experience, SMEs have a deep knowledge of the subject through formal education or self-guided learning. Consequently, the best SMEs never stop building their knowledge.\n\n  • Observant and inquisitive\n\n    A great SME continually explores new ideas and trends. They are incurably curious about the matter they specialize in. They read all the best blogs and magazines about their topic and keep up with new developments.\n\n  • Social and engaged\n\nBeyond studying and tracking trends, the best SMEs actively participate in events, forums and social media groups that discuss their topic. They network and engage in conversations with others domain experts who specialize in their area.\n\n  • Freethinking and innovative\n\nLeading subject matter experts explore new ideas. They think outside of the box and look for innovative ways to leverage their knowledge. These SMEs carefully consider common challenges and find creative ways to solve them.\n\n  • Perceptive and cooperative\n\nA great SME must not only understand their area of expertise, but they must also understand how their knowledge impacts the business. They see the big picture and often work closely with other SMEs.\n\n  • Helpful and articulate\n\n\n  • Precise and principled\n\nFrom time to time, a business will need to consult the subject matter expert and will hope for a particular outcome. Regardless, a great SME will maintain uncompromisingly high standards. Which may require them to deliver tough advice when necessary.\n\n4 key skills of a subject matter expert\n\nTo be successful, a subject matter expert must cultivate key skills outside of their area of expertise.\n\nSubject matter expert competencies should include:\n\n1. Time management\n\nWith so many responsibilities, time management is top on the list of required skills for a subject matter expert. Balancing your workload, prioritizing and task management will be an ongoing challenge.\n\n2. Teamwork\n\nBy definition, subject matter experts work with a lot of people throughout the business. Teamwork is crucial to success. In fact, a recent survey reported that 86 percent of employees believe poor collaboration is to blame for workplace failures.\n\nSME collaboration\n\nLearning and practicing key teamwork skills will make your interactions more successful. For instance, focus on rapport-building, listening, empathizing, respectfully disagreeing, collaboration and expressing appreciation.\n\n3. Communication\n\nAlong with honing your teamwork skills, you must be an excellent communicator. You’re the domain expert, so from time to time it will be a challenge to explain more nuanced concepts to the team. Be sure to take your time, communicate clearly and give context when possible.\n\n4. Knowledge management\n\nEven if you have an excellent memory, you’ll occasionally need to locate your previous work, sources or documentation. Locating the right information can be time consuming. Accordingly, a McKinsey study estimated that workers spend 20 percent of their time searching for information.\n\nSME knowledge management\n\nIf your knowledge is scattered among emails, notes and proposals you may be doing yourself a disservice. Centralizing and applying knowledge management principals to collect, catalog and reuse your knowledge can be a huge time saver. More on this later.\n\nEasy ways to deliver more value to your business\n\nAs the domain expert, you already deliver a great deal of value to the projects and proposals you are involved in. Even so, there are ways to make your job easier while delivering even more value. \n\nUnderstand your role\n\nLike many SMEs, you probably struggle with overextending yourself in an attempt to be helpful. Unfortunately, this well-intentioned habit can quickly lead to burnout. It is tempting to lend your assistance to areas of the project outside of your defined role. I recommend using a RACI matrix for exactly this reason.\n\nIf you know from the beginning what role you play, you will be less tempted to volunteer or insert yourself into additional tasks. So, as projects come your way, remember and respect your role in the process. Be an expert in your area and trust others to be experts in theirs.\n\nMake yourself available for sales conversations\n\nIt’s no secret that getting in the door can be a challenge for your sales team. But for you, a domain expert, it might be a lot easier. Ian Altman, a strategic advisor and keynote speaker, discussed the value of including an SME in the sales process saying: \n\n“SMEs provide a valuable resource to discuss industry trends, share best-practices, and delve into detailed discussions about how one solution might perform better than another. Whereas traditional sales professionals have noticed increased challenges in getting in front of customers, SMEs are welcomed into the room with open arms.”\n\nYour knowledge could open the door for your business’s next big deal. Make yourself available to the sales team when strategic opportunities arise. With this in mind, be ready to talk directly with customers and share your passion for your field of expertise. There’s no substitute for human connection.\n\nSet clear timeline expectations and follow a set process\n\nWhen you’re brought into a project, be realistic and transparent about your prioritization and workload. Particularly when responding to RFPs with tight deadlines. Clearly communicate when the proposal manager or project manager can expect your input. \n\nIn addition, define and share your process to help set expectations with your colleagues. This insight will allow your colleagues to better understand how you can successfully work together. \n\nOffer feedback and be a part of go-no-go conversations\n\nWhile you understand the excitement of sales, you simply don’t have time to waste on unwinnable opportunities. When a request for proposal is received that heavily intersects with your domain expertise, review it with the sales team. \n\nUse your knowledge to ask questions and proactively uncover problems or concerns. Granted, you might not make the final decision, but your input helps determine if the opportunity is a fit for your business and worth the effort and expense of responding. Your respectful and thorough feedback will go a long way to help educate others for future decisions.\n\nBe the voice of reason\n\nAs the SME you must set realistic expectations. If you win the bid by overpromising, the business and client relationship is bound to be rocky. With your guidance, sales won’t be overzealous. By delivering accurate information in a proposal you set the stage for a long-lasting customer relationship. This approach protects the company from risk, establishes a reputation for honesty and builds a foundation for future growth.\n\nBecome a mentor\n\nHelp others develop their skills in your area. Keep your eye out for colleagues who show a keen interest in your domain. Sharing your knowledge and guidance to create more domain experts can be incredibly rewarding. As they deepen their knowledge, they can put what they’ve learned to work and help lighten your burden.\n\nScale your knowledge with a centralized knowledge library\n\nYou probably feel like you’re fielding the same questions all the time. From the sales department to product development, the demand for your knowledge is never-ending. In addition, you may have recently noticed an increase in the number of requests for proposals. Not only that, but also an increase in the required detail and volume of questions within those proposals. This trend is wide-spread across many businesses and industries.\n\nKnowledge management offers a good way to keep up with the increasing workload. By centralizing information, you can save time as well as track and control how the information you create is used. Most subject matter experts do this in a knowledge library or knowledge repository. While some use spreadsheets or cloud-collaboration tools, our favorite tool for this is RFP technology. \n\nWithin an RFP software solution, you can store, categorize, tag and reuse your knowledge. Then, empower your proposal and project managers to use this as a self-service tool. Using the software, they can select and customize your response, but give you final approval to ensure any updates are accurate. Storing knowledge this way ensures you are adding value to your business even when you’re not immediately available to answer questions.\n\nWhy be an SME?\n\nAdmittedly, being a subject matter expert is a lot of work. So, why do it? There are some major benefits to being a domain expert. In fact, it’s a great way to accelerate your professional development. In the last few years, SMEs have become more valuable than ever. \n\nAs a subject matter expert, you can:\n\n  • Raise your profile with peers in your field of expertise\n  • Leverage your reputation to become a selling point for the company\n  • Increase your worth to the business\n  • Elevate your role and be a part of strategic decisions\n  • Become a trusted advisor\n\nThe importance of subject matter experts cannot be understated. When internal and external teams recognize your expertise, knowledge and professionalism, they will want to work with you. 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+{"content": "Sleep fliushes toxins from the brain\n\nStudy shows how sleep ‘cleans’ our brain of toxins\n\nIn a  breakthrough discovery, scientists believed they may have uncovered one of the mysteries why sleep plays such a vital role for every living animal species.\n\nIn a series of experiments on mice,  researchers at the University of Rochester in the United States found that whilst asleep ( or under anaesthetic), brain cells shrink and cerebral fluid is pumped at an increased rate, flushing away toxic proteins like a molecular waste disposal system.\n\nThe study, Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain, which was published in the journal Science this month, adds to our understanding of the function of sleep. It may also pave the way for new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases which are also asociated with protein build-up in the brain.\n\nLeading the study, Dr Maiken Nedergaard suggested the reason this ‘cleansing’ process happens during sleep is because it takes too much energy to pump fluid round the brain whilst we are awake.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC she said “the brain only has limited energy at its disposal and it appears that it must choose between two different functional states – awake and aware or asleep and cleaning up.”\n\nOther scientists have been more cautious about the findings. Jim Horne of Loughborough University’s sleep research centre pointed out the evolutionary differences between mice and humans. Speaking to the Guardian he stated, “”Sleep in humans has evolved far more sophisticated functions for our cortex than that for the mouse, even though the present findings may well be true for us,”\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9888114929199219}
+{"content": "14:09 GMT24 January 2021\nListen Live\n    Get short URL\n\n    UK Green leader outlines the party's election manifesto ahead of this year's general election, which includes abolishing the monarchy and building more council housing.\n\n    MOSCOW, January 24 (Sputnik) – The leader of the UK Green Party has said in an interview with the Times that under a Green government, the Queen would be evicted from Buckingham Palace, but, being entitled to join the social housing register, would not need to worry about the future since one of the party's proposals is a mass program of house-building to tackle the country's housing deficit.\n\n    After abolishing the monarchy, as the Greens propose, the Queen would have to leave Buckingham Palace and find alternative accommodation: \"I can't see that the Queen is ever going to be really poor, but I'm sure we can find a council house for her — we're going to build lots more,\" party leader Natalie Bennett told the newspaper.\n\n    Under the Greens' plans, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would also have to leave Kensington Palace and contend with the UK's housing shortage, which the party aims to tackle with proposals including greater financial support to local housing associations, and the encouragement of housing cooperatives and self-build projects.\n\n    The Greens would also require the Queen to pay a wealth tax levied on individuals with assets of more than £3 million, proposed by the party at a rate of one or two percent. The top rate of tax, Bennett told the Times, would likely be higher than the 50p rate on earnings over £100,000 that the party advocated at the last general election in 2010.\n\n    The tax rises would pay for a rise in the national minimum wage to £10 an hour, as well as a £71 per week \"citizen's wage,\" paid to all adults. \"The assumption is that those of working age will top it up, but pensioners and the disabled will need extra help. It means that no one falls through the gaps,\" said Bennett, who worked as a journalist before becoming leader in 2012.\n\n    Ofcom controversially excluded the Greens from the planned televised debates featuring the leaders of all main parties ahead of the UK general election due to be held in May 2015, due to a lack of members. This resulted in the Green Party seeing a surge in membership in recent weeks to 43,829, including 2,000 members on January 14.\n\n    The party now boasts more members than UKIP, which had already been offered the fourth slot on the debating stage by Ofcom. UKIP told the the Scottish Herald on January 15 it had 41943 members, while the traditional third party of British politics, the Liberal Democrats, reported in November a total of 44,576 members. The Welsh national party Plaid Cymru with 8,000 members and the Scottish National Party with 92,000 have also asked to take part in the televised debates.\n\n\n    Elizabeth II to Launch Academy for Leadership in London: Royal Institute\n    Release of BBC Documentary Critical of Prince Charles Delayed\n    Buckingham Palace Says Prince Andrew Underage Sex Allegations 'Untrue'\n    Buckingham Palace, the UK Green Party, UK Independence Party (UKIP), Queen Elizabeth II, United Kingdom\n    Community standardsDiscussion", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9721353650093079}
+{"content": "Is your dog Flexible or Fragile?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAggression in dogs: the possessive dog\n\n\n\nThe large dog lay resting comfortably on his bed in the family room.  The kid approached quickly to grab a toy soldier figurine that accidentally flew then slid across the room landing near the head of the German Shepherd.  As the boy came closer to the toy and to the dog’s bed a low rumble began.  The family dog was growling at the child.  The German Shepherd tensed – frozen in energetic anticipation of the explosive action that would invariably be coming next in the dog’s primal ritual.  Would be coming next if the boy continued on his toy-retrieving trajectory unabridged.  Fur stood up on the Shepherd’s back.  The animal was stiffened and ready to strike!\n\nSound familiar?  I hope not but dog aggression is currently and has been on the rise in the USofA.  As the world turns and people grow less connected to nature and more connected to comfort, convenience, consumerism, instant gratification, and all the digital insanity…basically, as we grow more unhinged in our own lives, our dogs will reflect these growing issues back to us and sometimes even on to us or on to the unwary child, family member, friend, or neighbor by way of outright aggression!\n\nHave you ever been bit, snapped at, or purposefully threatened by a large animal equipped with a tremendous amount of bite force and long sharp canines?  For most dog owners it can be pretty intimidating.  For me it’s just another day at work.\n\nIn my daily work (averaging five or six private 1 hour training and behavior mod. sessions a day) I am now seeing an increase in resource guarding and/or possession aggression from the dogs.  Resource guarding is exactly like it sounds –  the dog claims whatever it deems a resource!  This is highly problematic and can be and often is downright dangerous.  Possessive dogs bully people (or other dogs) into submission in that they cause them to back away from “their” stuff, or “their” bed, or “their” food, or “their” person or “their” body.\n\nFriends, those “theirs” I just mentioned – they need to go.  They need to go and go quickly from the mind of your dog, otherwise you are just biding your time, waiting for the ticking time bomb to go off.  So many well-meaning dog owners are blissfully unaware of the dangerous creature they keep in their home amongst their children and spouse!  Because so few people know the dog language they cannot identify the INITIAL stages of resource guarding  and/or if and when they eventually do identify it, they take a poor course of action in reversing and preventing it!\n\nAt this point we must, if we are being honest (and I’ve heard that’s the best policy) also add that many a dog owner’s philosophy of dog ownership is weak, non existent, or in the least, not beneficial.  Some dog owners’ philosophy of ownership, care, and handling amounts to wishy-washy fluff and not much more – they take the jelly fish approach to dog ownership and care.  They may even expect the dog living in their home currently to act like a prior dog they had, or like a childhood dog that they knew, or like a friend’s dog.  Dear Reader, if this resonates with you please understand this sort of relationship is not living, acting, or working with your dog to your full potential or to the dog’s.  Success always requires intentionality.\n\nStep 1.  Think about your dog and about what kind of leadership (if any) you are providing.\n\nStep 2.  Develop a philosophy of ownership or examine and possibly alter your existing, most probably, sub-par philosophy to include the main theme that NOTHING IS THE DOG’S!  Yes, let’s repeat that.  NOTHING.IS.THE.DOG’S.\n\nStep 3.  Contemplate WHY your dog, your loving, furry family member, should definitively understand that NOTHING in his/her wonderful life with you is really his/her’s.\n\nStep 4.  You must begin right away, today, to claim your dog and not the other way round.  Guys, all older dogs know this stuff (why are we as humans so slow on the uptake?).  All we have to do is watch the mother dog and observe grooming rituals, greeting rituals, and other common interactions among dogs in order to easily identify and learn Who claims Who in order to then apply these techniques and movements by adopting them into our own lives with our dogs.  Begin with your dog’s body because every dog on the planet with behavioral issues (no matter what the issue is btw) is somehow manipulating the owner using their body and using yours!  (This does NOT mean rolling them, or hurting a dog in any way)  We must claim them and we must occasionally deny them free and unhampered touching on OUR body even and sometimes especially if it appears “happy” or “friendly” to you.  (Also, in the case of the skittish dog, your human body should NOT become a comforting pacifier if you desire a healthy relationship and if you desire genuine maturity with and for your dog).\n\n\nImagine if your body was transformed suddenly into a dog’s body (like we see in the werewolf movies) and you were able to enter your home as an older dog…How would your dog greet you?  Rudely?  Politely?  Aggressively?  Fearfully?  How would your dog interact with you and touch your dog body and the space surrounding it when you sat down near or on the couch to relax?  Another question to ask yourself is…Would your dog’s biological birth mother (or any older dog for that matter) put up with your dog’s behavior as it applies to their bodies?\n\nIf you desire less possessive behavior from your dog – less resource guarding –  Then you’ve got to control who is touching who, and how the touch is applied, and when it is applied!  Please reread that last sentence like 50 times in a row.  It will help you.  It will help anyone who is open-minded enough to consider it.  Then you can begin all the other steps to continue treating resource guarding.\n\nAs you know, I could go on and on but I’ll end here.  For more info please read my books on dog and human behavior, Dog Myths: What you Believe about dogs can come back to Bite You!, and So Long Separation Anxiety available wherever books are sold!\n\n\n\nMaturity is better than Motivation for you and your dog.\n\n\n\nI will unpack this whole thing for you here and now in three short, precise paragraphs (not counting this one).  I hope you all understand that the vast majority of dogs and their owners never move past the first phase (external motivation) due to their unyielding belief in the many dog myths about canine behavior and “science” that are rampant in the pet industry.  But here you are anyway…\n\nEXTERNAL MOTIVATION = positive reinforcement and/or punitive reinforcement.  These are the very lowest levels of relating and, as science reveals over and over, those employing this sort of base motivation see an initial and temporary upward bump in performance and, then, in the long term, the motivation and the individual’s performance takes a steady and serious dive unless consistently given stronger and stronger reinforcement.  (examples of externally motivating your dog – training with food treats or with shock collars)\n\nINTERNAL MOTIVATION = tapping into the individual’s nature, drives, instincts, and personal desires.  This form of motivation is stronger than most forms of external motivation and it stands the test of time due to the individual remaining engaged because of their own inherent interests.  (examples of internally motivating your dog  –  tapping into curiosity, autonomy, freedom of choice, play, and loyalty within a relationship)\n\nTRUE MATURITY or MASTERY = little to no motivation is necessary because the individual has moved beyond the realm of immature reactivity towards stimuli and into the realm of genuine understanding.  A realm wherein liberty and freedom are expressed within a healthy relationship with and among others and is valued above self and selfish drives and natural instincts and responses.  (This should be the goal for both human and dog!  You’ll see examples of it in your dog when they do something to help out instead of help themselves.  However, as I’ve said dozens of times…tragically most people and dogs never move past the lowest level/external motivation!!!)\n\n\nFor more info on the sort of stuff I’ve just gone over please read my books, Dog Myths and So Long Separation Anxiety – they can be found on Amazon and they will help you and your dog on the path towards mastery.  (Superman is holding onto them in the pic at the top of this article)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6603763103485107}
+{"content": "Granite Way\n\n From Kwolyin, Strike out on a 60km tour of the most impressive granite rocks on any drive. Spectacular scenery of both grantie rocks and farmland abound, on this short but impressive drive. the drive can be accessed from Kellerberrin, Yoting or from Kwolyin.\n\nThis region is special to many different people, for many different reasons. As you drive, enjoy and sty in this exceptional part of the world. immerse yourself in the landscape and stories which make this land so special. Follow in the footsteps of traditional Aboriginal people, bold exploreres, sandalwood cutters, dedicated pioneers, avid scientist and contemporary farming communities. Listen for the whispers of their stories in the breeze... they are everywhere. You are now part of their story and they are part of your journey.\n\nGranite WalkwayGranite Way Flowers\n\nkwolyin campsite map", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.937654435634613}
+{"content": "cognitive distortions examples\n\nMental Filtering is a cognitive distortion where we tend to filter things out of our conscious awareness. Below, I’ve listed the sixteen most common cognitive distortions, each with an example and a recommendation for how to fix it. Each response should be 150-200 words. Cognitive distortions (CDs) are important for people to understand when they are learning to challenge their thoughts and behavior. As conscious beings we are always interpreting the world around us, trying to make sense of what is happening. Cognitive Distortions Core Beliefs These thoughts are often cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are ways that the mind convinces us of something that is not true. In general, they’re misconceptions that lead to dysfunctional emotional states. 16 MOST COMMON COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS . Filtering. Essay type Research . Although these thoughts may sound very convincing, they are simply not true and make us feel badly about ourselves or others. But take solace in knowing that we all suffer from cognitive distortions from time to time. Cognitive distortions are viewed as patterns of thought that reinforce a person’s negative thoughts or emotions. This is the 3 rd post in my series about Cognitive Distortions, and I am going to cover Personalization. Let’s take an example from the above list: Mind Reading. This can be detrimental to the affected person for many reasons, the biggest being it holds them back from growing mentally and emotionally. Then, ask your group members to identify the distortion. 1) MENTAL FILTERING. Words 566 (2 pages) Views 283. Cognitive Distortion Examples. Download a printable copy of examples of the common cognitive distortions to better understand each of the negative thinking styles. Or in other words, we choose to focus on what’s not working, rather than on what is working. With polarized thinking cognitive distortion, or black and white thinking, you can make one mistake and you feel like a total failure. Please respond to the prompts below (a,b,c,d) for each cognitive distortion you choose. There are 15 main cognitive distortions that can plague even the most balanced thinkers. Cognitive distortions are a hallmark of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and many other mental disorders. Polarized thinking is one of many forms of cognitive distortion. cognitive distortion! You trust someone completely or not at all. Polarized thinking is an extreme simplification of reality. Cognitive distortions: an introduction to how CBT describes unhelpful ways of thinking. If you have difficulty identifying the correct one, here are examples of each cognitive distortion to help you better understand them. Cognitive distortions often turn us into our own worst enemy. Examples of Cognitive Distortions. PhD Essay Essay Examples Cognitive distortions. 5. Cognitive distortions or ‘unhelpful thinking styles’ are ways that our thoughts can become biased. If a person can correctly identify these negative thinking errors, it allows them the opportunity to challenge and refute those negative thoughts. Challenge & Reframe Negative Thinking . Challenging cognitive distortions can be accomplished by evaluating the evidence, focusing on positive thoughts, and avoid thinking in extremes. It’s free! Definition of Cognitive Distortion. Examples: When someone praises your looks or work effort, you automatically tell yourself, \"they're just being nice.\" Come up with your own scenario in which you incorporate a cognitive distortion! You’ll discover interesting stories and extra examples, deeper explanations and more tips for re-framing cognitive distortions. This blog mentions some cognitive distortions PDF and explains in detail the cognitive distortions that we come across in our daily life. These inaccurate thoughts often amplifying our negative thinking or emotions — telling ourselves messages that sound reasonable even though they aren't true, and only serve to … For example: You make a presentation at work and 95% of the team praises and compliments you on it. Selected Cognitive Distortion. These methods are found within the easy-to-read book, “ Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Dummies ”. In the 1980s, David Burns was responsible for popularizing the idea of cognitive distortions, giving different examples of distortions by creating common names. There is a lot more to learn about cognitive distortion in this blog, so let’s not delay further and take a start from the definition of cognitive distortions. An example of a functional explanation is the information processing model of cognitive distortions in depression (see Dozois & Beck, 2008; Rnic et al., 2016). Overcoming Cognitive Distortions. Polarized Thinking Cognitive Distortions. Thoughts that include “should,” “ought,” or “must” are almost always related to a cognitive distortion. Other cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions were described by Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck. You’re either on top of the world or down in the depths of despair. Category Essay Examples. Other examples of cultural cognitive distortions are racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, anti-Romanism, misogyny, misandry, anti-gypsyism, anti-Christianity, all of which can contain multiple cognitive distortions related to other cultures or certain people, without any evidence or cause. Cognitive Distortion Types and Examples All or Nothing Thinking: Black and white thinking You have a disagreement with your friend and you think to yourself: “that’s it; you’re not my friend anymore!” Overgeneralization: Then, ask your group members to identify the distortion. Psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck laid the groundwork for the study of these distortions, and his student David D. Burns continued research on the topic. Examples of Cognitive Distortions Infographic. Cognitive Distortions. Many of the most popular and effective cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques are applied to what psychologists call “cognitive distortions,” inaccurate thoughts that reinforce negative thought patterns or emotions (Grohol, 2016). As you read through these ten cognitive distortions, circle three that you experience the most. You are either all bad or all good. This leads to an intensely miserable life where you fail to appreciate the good things that happen. This includes irrational fears, feeling sad for no reason, etc. a) Provide an example of a cognitive distortion from your personal life. All-or-nothing thinking (also known as black-or-white thinking, dichotomous reasoning and splitting) All-or-nothing thinking refers to your tendency to think in terms of false dichotomies. This particular distortion involves the tendency to assume that you know what someone else is thinking and to take this hunch seriously. A “cognitive distortion” is an unhealthy and maladaptive pattern of thinking built on an irrational belief system. Cognitive distortions. 2. COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS 43 WAYS THAT THE MIND FOOLS US Focusing on the negatives and minimizing or ignoring the positives is another example of a cognitive distortion. Student-Led Activity Presentation video as part of a PowerPoint Presentation on CBT. We often tend to track down the causes of our mental health conditions like genetics, life situations, and others. The good news is that cognitive therapy is very effective. If your partner is late once, you say something like “you are always late! Don’t miss a chance to chat with experts. These distortions can interfere with how someone perceives a conversation, event or relationship. A cognitive distortion is an exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and anxiety. The good news is that the more you are aware of your thoughts, the more empowered you are to change them. Cognitive distortions are ways that our mind try to convince us that something is true that really isn't. When you have cognitive distortions, you have negative thoughts bubbling up, followed by it, you feel and react according to it. A cognitive distortion is one in the list. → DOWNLOAD. b) How did the cognitive distortion affect your critical thinking? chat with experts. 1. It can help people overcome these distortions and gradually learn to replace distorted thinking with healthy, adaptive thinking. But you dwell on the 5% that said it could have been better. Don’t forget to grab your beautiful affirmations print-out below! Putting a label on the distortion can be helpful in re-framing your thoughts. For instance, a person might tell himself, “if I do not make it the first time, I will never make it.” This is an example of “black or white” (or polarized) thinking. Mental Filtering You experience mental filtering is when you focus exclusively on the most negative and upsetting parts of a situation, filtering out all or most of the positive elements. Last Updated 16 Jun 2020. In this case an individual will focus on the one thing that went wrong instead of the things that went right. Ask group members, “Where do you think our core beliefs come from?” For facilitator to discuss afterwards: -Our core beliefs usually come from early experiences (i.e. Cognitive distortions are methods our brain uses to convince us that certain untrue thoughts are true. We all experience cognitive distortions in our every day lives to varying degrees. CDs are patterns in thinking that typically make someone think in the negative and have negative expectations. One cognitive distortion doesn’t come alone. This creates a never-ending loop! The Many Faces of Distortion. Our decisions and our relationships are all at the mercy of these damaging assumptions. Here are 10 cognitive distortions and how to avoid them. In cognitive behaviour therapy-based psychotherapy (one of the most popular and effective forms of psychotherapy), one central tenet is working on thought redirection. It can be hard to know how another person thinks, but there are some easy ways to spot distortions in other people. For a more comprehensive list of cognitive distortions and definitions, check out this article on PsychologyToday. Things are either black or white, good or bad. As a therapist, I see the harm they cause all the time. Some of us experience them more than others and sometimes they can be so severe they end up hurting us emotionally. Cognitive distortions drive eating disorders. Anxiety & Manage Stress Rachael Kable July 2, 2019 Cognitive distortions , Anxiety , Common cognitive distortions , How to change cognitive distortions , Cognitive distortions and mental health Comment AA calls it “stinking thinking,” which is as good a description as any. This specific cognitive distortion typically has an underlying fundamental belief that \"I'm second rate.\" Cognitive distortion contributes to a depressive or anxious mental state that can affect all aspects of life. We choose for instance to focus on the negative events rather than on the positive outcomes of a situation. This is a distortion that can include believing that you are responsible for things outside of your control, or it could also mean interpreting things in a way that always reflects back on you. Here’s how this guide will work: For each cognitive distortion category, I will take one example (from my previous post) and I will introduce some ways to redirect the thoughts through the example. 1.\n\nDiy Black Marble Countertops Tiktok, Travertine Texture Geology, Toll Brothers Stock, Past Kob News Anchors, Inky Octopus Game, Great American Cookie Company Copycat Recipes, Biswabhusan Harichandan Son, Types Of Gland Packing, Medford, Ma Firefighter Salary,", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9636281132698059}
+{"content": "Proudly proclaiming packaging’s praises pushes public policy\n\nNovember, 2013\n\nEric F. Greenberg | Attorney-at-Law\n\nThere seems to be new pro-packaging life in the public policy debate, both here and in the UK.\n\nOld-timers like me remember the 1990’s, when environmental laws focused a great deal of attention on packaging waste, largely because the focus was on municipal solid waste, and packaging represented something like 1⁄3 of such waste. So state and local governments started to require packaging itself to be reduced, reused, recycled, or recyclable.\n\nIn the process, the many advantages of modern packaging were largely ignored or forgotten, and too many people only perceived it as very visible trash. That unfair and inaccurate perception made it easier to impose heavy burdens on packaging makers, users, or the articles themselves.\n\nPackaging protects, preserves, communicates, enhances safety, provides convenience, and is integral to marketing, often all at the same time. Strip out the marketing considerations and packaging is still crucial to swift, efficient and safe delivery of food and other consumer commodities, so much so that in parts of the world, a lack of effective packaging is often associated with lack of available foods.\n\nNowadays, the focus of much environmental energy is “sustainability,” usually defined so as to sound like a meld of concerns we used to call conservation, life-cycle analysis, and social consciousness. Sustainable packaging is a central goal of many companies.\n\nAMERIPEN (American Institute for Packaging and the Environment), formed in 2010, wants to “proactively influence public and policy issues related to packaging and the environment,” says vice president Gail Tavill.\n\nIn doing so, they want to emphasize the total value chain and focus on scientific facts and data. As a result, they have made one of their top priorities “increasing the understanding and communicating the value of packaging.”\n\nHistory from the 1990’s may be repeating itself, as once again the packaging industry finds itself explaining its many values. Tavill notes, “There is a real opportunity to re-invent how we communicate the value of the improvements and advances we are making in our industry to reinforce the positives versus minimizing the negatives.”\n\nThe UK-based packaging industry group, INCPEN (The Industry Council for Packaging & the Environment) thinks its government doesn’t get it about packaging, and that may be leading to misconceptions among the public as well.\n\nINCPEN’s director Jane Bickerstaffe agrees the current debate about packaging’s value is similar to what we saw in the 1990’s. She says it’s very similar, but “the politicians are increasingly saying they need to ‘do something about packaging’ because the public think packaging is a major environmental issue. Our response is that government should explain to the public that packaging has a net positive environmental impact, instead of pandering to public misperceptions.”\n\nPackaging’s roles in minimizing food waste are especially poorly understood, she notes, but there are others. After all, people don’t often appreciate the fact that, without packaging, consumers could have no access at all to liquids, powders, or gels. Also, she says, “Fresh fruit and vegetables need packaging to get from the field to a retail outlet, where they can be sold ‘loose,’ but those that are packaged tend to last longer so are less likely to go to waste before they are consumed.” She adds, “It also carries instructions to guide consumers on how to best use the products.”\n\nBickerstaffe thinks the recent emphasis on “sustainability” too often ends up shedding a bad light on packaging. “I think supply chain companies appreciate that packaging is just one of the cogs in the supply chain and their main focus needs to be on reducing the environmental burden on getting goods to people. Sometimes that can be achieved by using less packaging, but sometimes more is needed. The focus on packaging has sometimes been a diversion from the main aim.”\n\nAMERIPEN’s Tavill says, “By continually making claims related to reducing packaging, we reinforce the notion that packaging is bad. We do this even though we know that we truly deliver a real benefit to maintaining a sustainable society by protecting the environmental and social value of products and delivering them safely to their intended use.”\n\nSo even though governments and the public still don’t properly appreciate packaging, it’s good to see the industry again advancing active advocacy on both sides of the Atlantic. PW\n\n\n\n\n\nFood Section\n\n\nFood Fraud is Frequent, but Help Flourishes\n\nBy Eric F. Greenberg, Attorney-at-law\n\nFood Fraud is Frequent, but Help Flourishes\n\n\n\nYou have questions, We have answers. Request a consult.\n\nOur Office Location\n\n303 East Wacker Drive Suite 305\nChicago, IL 60601\n\nPhone: 312-977-4647", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6142597794532776}
+{"content": "CRMs are here to stay in wealth management, but that doesn’t mean firms are satisfied. The industry ecosystem is complex, and firms say they need more from these systems to make them effective tools for advisors and leadership teams. The problem is that every firm has a unique set of needs. Many are exploring new CRM partners in order to find the one that fits within their individual firm.\n\nHere are five key trends that wealth management firms are feeling when it comes to their CRMs.\n\nTrend 1: Almost Every Firm has a CRM...but 25% are Looking for Something Better\n\nIn today’s wealth management industry CRMs ubiquitous—93% have a CRM in place. More than three fourths of them useSalesforce with the remaining quarter using a variety of other CRM partners.  \n\nFirms established their CRMs years ago and since then, technology has grown, and their needs have evolved. Currently 25%report they are actively looking for a new CRM partner. What they find however, is that no CRM operates seamlessly within the complex wealth management ecosystem. Often wealth tech professionals spend significant time piecing together components to build value for their teams.\n\nWhen seeking a new CRM, firms should look for features that provide a user experience layer that gives advisors all the components they need.\n\nTrend 2: CRM? “Meh” - Most Wealth Management Firms Not Blown Away By Their CurrentSolutions\n\nOverall, firms aren’t thrilled with their CRM solution experience. Only three actually rated theirs a “9” or “10”.  Clearly, there is a misalignment between expectations and reality: firms think they are buying a “Ferrari” but end up with an “IKEA package of DIY Ferrari parts”. But the reality is, most firms don’t have the capacity to build what they need internally, so they leverage the platforms available.\n\nTo reduce the friction, align expectations with a potential CRM partner from the outset. They should begin by asking the right questions upfront to get what they want. For example, “Do you have anyone who has worked with a wealth management or advisory firm?” (If the answer is no, move on).\n\nTrend 3: Firms Say “More” Would Increase their Happiness with their CRM’sEffectiveness\n\nThere are a lot of elements firms would like to have to be happier with their CRMs. Interestingly, like many other systems, more support with employee adoption tops the list. This is because a CRM is only as good as the data entered into it, but unfortunately firms report employees often have lack of interest in maintaining data. Firms consistently say they struggle with how to make their CRM a hub/single pane of glass for their teams.\n\nThere are a few ways to encourage employee adoption that have worked for some firms. One is to implement gamification strategies or make it an unavoidable tool for all employees. Another is to seek operational changes that improve senior executives’ days so that they demand data be entered into the CRM.\n\nTrend 4: Measure Twice, Cut Once: Firms with Internal Buy-in and Clear Vision Can’tLose\n\nAnother way firms can find success with a CRMis to build internal ownership. When firms are committed to using their CRM, the data model provides more value to the entire team. To gain internal buy-in firms should undertake a journey mapping exercise early on in the process. When they spend time up front to set expectations for what they want the CRM to do, they deliver a better product in the end.\n\nTrend 5: Firms Report Happiness with Managed Service Providers\n\nFinally, Managed Service Providers can provide a level of support that make CRMs more effective, ensure a strong foundation and enjoy long term success. Firms should beware that disparities in both cost and experience exist when it comes to implementation partners and configurers. It’s important to select a Managed Service Provider who can provide focused project management for integrations, structured roadmap methodology, increased functional velocity and strong change management and training.\n\nWant more on this topic? We’ve created an infographic highlighting the survey’s top trends. Download it here. Plus, look out for more CRM information when we release our next set of research in October.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8781933188438416}
+{"content": "Amelia Trask and Sasha Hecht are introduced to defunct Swedish band Broder Daniel by friends from Gothenburg. Although Trask and Hecht do not understand anything about the cultural significance of the band, they immediately sense there is a bigger story beneath the surface. Contacts at Pitchfork agree. The two women begin research and building a contact list.\n\nThe initial concept for the film was for it to be a YouTube documentary with a limited theatrical release in collaboration with Pitchfork TV with a runtime of around 45 minutes, a long-form project for the publication's video outlet which, had until then, produced only short-form content.\n\nTrask and Hecht enlist the help of their Swedish friends who had initially introduced them to the subject to begin navigating the unknown territory.\n\n\n\n\nTrask and Hecht are immediately met with silence from the Swedish music industry and media reach outs, which is remarkable considering their initial introduction is representing Pitchfork, a globally-respected music publication. However, the band's former frontman Henrik Berggren's immediate enthusiasm towards the concept concretizes Trask and Hecht's pursuit of the project.\n\n\nOnce the filmmakers begin speaking with Berggren regularly, the ambition of the project widens dramatically. Trask and Hecht decide to part ways with Pitchfork and begin developing a feature-length documentary film concept called I'll Be Gone, with Berggren as the film's central figure. \n\nIn fall 2015, Trask and Hecht travel to Gothenburg and spend three days interviewing Berggren on-camera and capture b-roll of the city to cut together as a fundraising piece. Berggren, who had begun to work on new music for his first solo album, is in fragile health and has a history of being taken advantage of professionally. Trask and Hecht encourage him to seek a manager (something had never had previously) to protect his financial interests and aid him in the logistics of recording an album, as well as getting to and from the film set. Berggren agrees, and shortly after Trask and Hecht return to New York, he tells them a friend has agreed to manage him. \n\nBack in New York, members of Trask and Hecht's professional network suggest they pursue fundraising in Sweden as the country has a reputation for granting funding to the arts and is already familiar with the subject matter. Trask and Hecht look into the matter and learn that they must partner with a Swedish production company in order to be eligible for Swedish grants and funding. \n\n\n\n\nTrask and Hecht return to Sweden in early 2016 to take meetings with various production companies and continue their research and development. Early in the trip, they meet Paul Blomgren DoVan, owner of Gothenburg Film Studios, a local rental house and production services provider from whom they had rented equipment for their 2015 test shoot. Although Blomgren DoVan is not an experienced producer, he proposes coming onto the project as the film's Swedish partner to aid in fundraising and supply equipment in-kind. Trask and Hecht like the idea of partnering with a local film studio being that the documentary is a Gothenburg story. After some deliberation, the filmmakers accept Blomgren DoVan's offer and cancel their other meetings scheduled with production companies in Stockholm. \n\nThe issue of Håkan Hellström begins to arise with the addition of Gothenburg Film Studios to the team, as Blomgren DoVan is convinced the inclusion of Hellström in the project would guarantee Swedish funding. However, one of the first issues the filmmakers had become aware of at the inception of the project was the fact that Hellström is a huge pop star in Sweden who had built his 20 year career off of egregious plagiarism and copyright infringement of English-language artists. For reasons the filmmakers could not understand, this issue had never been litigated and no one in Sweden appeared to care about it; in fact, the filmmakers learned early on that the subject was a point of contention for many Swedes. \n\nNot wanting to offend the Swedes, the filmmakers concede, and in April, shoot a bizarre two-day Hellström concert in New York. Hellström, who sings in Swedish and is unknown outside of Scandinavia, plays two sold-out shows at Gramercy Theater in Manhattan to an audience comprised entirely of Swedes who had flown to NYC for the event, many of whom attended both nights. The show is publicized in Sweden as though Hellström had sold-out the show to the local New York audience, however, this is not the case. During the weekend, Hellström avoids so much as acknowledging Trask and Hecht, who are among only a small handful of people present at the venue from pre-soundcheck to load-out. To make matters worse, on the second night of filming, Hecht is briefly cornered in the basement of the venue by Hellström's \"A&R\" Isse Samie, who is extremely drunk and inappropriate towards Hecht, who is over 20 years his junior. Blomgren DoVan appears unmoved by the events of the weekend, and Trask and Hecht drop the issue.\n\n\nIn spite of a few bumps in the road, Trask and Hecht complete pre-production and continue to receive positive feedback and encouragement  in the US for their endeavor. In late spring, they officially quit their jobs and relocate to Gothenburg in June 2016 to pursue the film full-time.\n\n\nAs soon as they arrive in Sweden, stories begin to surface about widespread abuse by the people surrounding Hellström, who appear to control the majority share of the local music industry and infrastructure. Trask and Hecht decide to avoid covering the corruption in their documentary out of fear for their subjects' safety, but promise their sources that they will connect them with US journalists to help give a platform to the issues raised. However, by late July 2016, stories of rampant sexual abuse begin to come to the filmmakers' attention. Simultaneous to this, Berggren informs them that his management is considering signing him to the same label from which these accusations are stemming: Woah Dad.\n\nBerggren, who is in poor health and overwhelmed with recording his record, is not capable of processing the amount of information the filmmakers begin to uncover. Therefore, the filmmakers decide to warn his management in an attempt to shield Berggren from further strife. Berggren's manager Ebba Lindqvist, however, has not been communicative with the filmmakers since her hiring in late 2015, and the filmmakers enter their first and only in-person meeting with her suspicious and armed with a voice recorder.\n\nTrask and Hecht tell Lindqvist that they need her to sign a non-disclosure agreement before disclosing the sensitive information in their possession, explaining that they are journalists and need to protect their sources. Lindqvist declines and attempts to procure information from Trask and Hecht anyway; they refuse. Lindqvist passes the filmmakers to Anders Larsson, owner of United Stage, the management company with which Lindqvist is representing Berggren.\n\nLarsson travels from Stockholm to Gothenburg and meets Trask and Hecht in a hotel atrium. The meeting feels clandestine and the filmmakers' unease about the situation intensifies. The filmmakers also tape this meeting for safety concerns. Larsson additionally declines to sign the NDA; therefore, the filmmakers do no disclose the information about sexual abuse. Larsson, like Lindqvist, continues to gossip to the foreign journalists anyway, and reveals he is in possession of similar knowledge, making statements like \"Isse's biggest problem is women.\" Trask and Hecht ask Larsson to take care of Berggren as he is very sick and needs protection. They explain that they cannot ethically stand by while Berggren suffers the same fate he has in the past. Larsson assures the filmmakers that he will protect Berggren. Trask, Hecht, and Larsson agree to continue communicating in good faith.\n\nTrask and Hecht complete the majority of their production, and in late September 2016, return to NYC. Immediately following their return, Hellström, through his representation, Joel Borg, definitively pulls out of the documentary. Blomgren DoVan expresses optimism that he can coax Hellström back, but this time, Trask and Hecht put their foot down, relieved that they do not have to deal with Hellström and his people further. \n\nBlomgren DoVan, who to this point has been unsuccessful in securing financing for the project, is relieved of his fundraising duties, and Trask and Hecht turn to their US network for financing. The filmmakers are quickly connected with an agent at CAA interested in representing the film and are tasked with putting together a new reel made from the summer/fall 2016 shoot. Blomgren DoVan, however, begins to act erratically, disappearing for long spans of time and slow-walking the delivery of necessary assets for fundraising. In November 2016, the conflict escalates until Blomgren DoVan eventually reveals on a call that he does not want to be a part of the film any longer and implies that the filmmakers are up to something duplicitous with regards to the content of the film. He states that he would rather \"burn [his] investment\" than see the wrong film be made. Trask and Hecht are shocked by Blomgren DoVan's shift in attitude, as previous agreements regarding the trio's working relationship had clearly designated that Trask and Hecht retained creative control of the project. The filmmakers agree to buy out Blomgren DoVan's investment and part ways.\n\n\n\n\n\nTrask and Hecht begin reaching out to contacts to build a new executive team and quickly connect with Adrian Grenier and his partner at Reckless Productions, Robin Garvick. Within weeks of their engagement, Garvick has engaged interested investors and encourages Trask and Hecht to return to Sweden to wrap production. \n\nBlomgren DoVan continues to cause difficulties for the filmmakers, refusing to deliver an itemized budget of incurred expenses needed for the US investors to reimburse him. While in Sweden for their final production in late February, Hecht translates the Hellström appearance release for the 2016 NYC concert shoot and realizes that the agreement is not an appearance release, but rather, grants full ownership of the footage to Hellström's personal company, Tro och Tvivel, and is signed with Gothenburg Film Studios, not Trask and Hecht's company, The Monster Group. This rendered the footage in breach of the location release signed between Live Nation, the venue's owner, and The Monster Group. Hecht confronts Blomgren DoVan over email and informs him that the filmmakers refuse to pay for the shoot, as Blomgren DoVan had misrepresented the contract to them. The contract also breached the agreement between Gothenburg Film Studios and The Monster Group, as Blomgren DoVan had signed the agreement with Tro och Tvivel without Trask and Hecht's knowledge and against their advise. Blomgren DoVan tells the filmmakers he will not release any of their material or sign any documents for US investors unless they agree to pay for the Hellström shoot, which at that point, accounted for over half of the documentary's production budget. A legal battle ensues.\n\nThe filmmakers return to New York in early March with their film production complete but without their summer/fall 2016 footage, which is still physically in the possession of Blomgren DoVan in Gothenburg. Garvick and the filmmakers take a meeting with their potential investors, who want to see the Blomgren DoVan issue resolved, as well as the music licenses for Henrik Berggren's solo record Wolf's Heart, which had been included in the pitch package (which United Stage had previously agreed to pre-negotiate into any record deal Berggren signed). Shortly after, the filmmakers realize United Stage had not secured the Wolf's Heart license ahead of signing Berggren to Woah Dad; furthermore, through drawn-out email exchanges, the management refuses to confirm or deny that any such agreement was ever made with the filmmakers.\n\nBerggren steps in and pleads with his management and label to signs the license, but the conflict continues in bizarre circles. Trask, Hecht, and their legal team cannot understand why the owners of these rights would obstruct Berggren from reaching a wider market, as the rights owners only stood to profit from the increased exposure. Unbeknownst to the filmmakers at the time, Berggren and former Broder Daniel bassist/additional I'll Be Gone film subject Theodor Jensen sign over the rights of the Broder Daniel catalogue to Telegram Studios (Woah Dad's parent company) in exchange for the Wolf's Heart license dispute to end\n\nIn late April, the filmmakers finally receive the license for Wolf's Heart, but Blomgren DoVan continues a similarly circular conflict with Trask and Hecht's legal team regarding their footage. Berggren again steps in and offers to pay the cost demanded by Blomgren DoVan for the footage with the money Berggren earned from his summer tour. Blomgren DoVan cannot say no to Berggren and agrees. In the settlement, Trask and Hecht correct the chain-of-ownership releasing the Hellström footage legally to Tro och Tvivel, and Blomgren DoVan erases himself from the film. The legal conflict, however, is not resolved until late July 2016, and by the time Trask and Hecht return to the investors, they had already committed their funding to another project, and due to extraneous circumstances, Garvick cannot continue to work on the film. \n\nBack to the drawing board once more, Trask and Hecht again reach out to their US network and connect with Max Joseph of MTV's Catfish. Over a meeting, Joseph advises the filmmakers to try and finish the film on their own since they had come this far by themselves.\n\nTrask and Hecht decide to teach themselves how to edit and spend the next nine months constructing the film in their Brooklyn apartment.\n\n\n\n\nTrask and Hecht spend the first half of 2018 editing I'll Be Gone, and they reach picture-lock by the summer. They interview various post-houses and find kindred spirits at Cut & Measure, a post-house in Red Hook, Brooklyn owned by Alex Laviola. \n\n\nStill in need of funds for finishing, the filmmakers briefly attempt to fundraise but find themselves overstretched. On a chance run one Saturday morning, Trask bumps into Meredith Graves, an old friend whom she had not seen in the years since she had started working on the film project. Graves is moved hearing about the filmmakers' struggles and schedules a meeting with Trask and Hecht at Kickstarter, which Graves had recently joined as Director of Music. \n\nGraves thinks highly of the film and what Trask and Hecht went through in order to make it and offers to help the filmmakers. In September, Trask and Hecht decide to run a Kickstarter to raise funds for finishing and help alleviate some of their legal fees. Graves helps Trask and Hecht plan a campaign and Trask and Hecht produce the necessary assets. \n\nThe campaign sees a soft launch on October 10th, with the official launch set for October 11th, with the intention of focusing on the US. However, Trask and Hecht wake up the morning after their soft launch to find that their Kickstarter announcement had been extensively covered by the Swedish media, even making the nightly news. Interview requests and confusion from Sweden force Trask and Hecht to refocus their efforts towards the Swedish audience. The Swedish response is overwhelming and wrought with confusion as Berggren had made his comeback the previous summer and purposely not mentioned the film in the press. \n\nDuring this time, Oskar Sonn Lindell, a Swedish journalist who had been following the film since 2015 and had been granted full access to the behind-the-scenes of the production, tells the filmmakers that his publication, Magsinet FIlter, had a last-minute opening for their Dec/Jan issue and that he wanted to write his piece about the film now. The filmmakers agree but suggest that Lindell focus on Berggren and not the behind-the-scenes conflict as their understanding of what had happened to them was not yet clear and it was too much to process in just a few weeks. \n\nTwo weeks into their four-week Kickstarter campaign, Berggren's management continues to obstruct the filmmakers by refusing to post Swedish press coverage to Berggren's social media accounts, causing further confusion for the Swedish audience, who were wondering if the film was even authorized by Berggren. This conflict results in Berggren ultimately giving the logins to his social media directly to the filmmakers to do themselves.\n\nOn October 30th, Lindell beings to reach out to Berggren's management and label for comment. As a result, Berggren begins to receive threats. His booking agent and co-manager, Pontus Sillrèn, calls Berggren crying, pleading that the story will destroy his children's lives. Lindqvist's husband, Joel Alme, who is also a member of Berggren's live band, threatens Berggren to \"silence those broads\" or he will \"spare no gun powder to lower them in the media.\" Berggren sends a barrage of hysterical messages to the filmmakers. The filmmakers tell Lindqvist to stop harassing Berggren. \n\nIn spite of the threats, Berggren refuses to retract his statements to Magasinet Filter, but caves slightly, by sending a \"disclaimer\" meant for the end of the piece that he believes will \"sound too robotic to be believed.\" \n\nThe filmmakers and Berggren are sent a draft of the article on Friday, November 3rd. Trask and Hecht translate the article for fact-checking. Although the piece is a bit too personal and not how they would describe the making of the film, it is historically accurate and well-written, and return their few notes the following day.\n\nOn Monday, November 5th, the article is sent to be printed and Lindell sends Trask a message on Skype saying that some things were removed from the piece but that the story was the same and that he needed rest. Trask and Hecht assume the removed content had to do with rape allegations, which was understandable, and they never translate the final piece (as it is 12 pages).\n\nA few days before the Kickstarter ends, which looks like it will fail, an investor steps in and saves the project. Shortly thereafter, Graves starts an enthusiastic chain with programmers at SXSW, and Göteborg International Film Festival officially invites I'll Be Gone to premiere in January\n\n\n\n\nIn mid-January, Trask and Hecht officially complete I'll Be Gone. Two weeks later, the film premieres at the historic Draken Theater in Gothenburg to a sold-out crowd of over 700. All the subjects of the documentary are present at the premiere, however, the row reserved for \"press\" is completely empty.\n\nThe premiere is followed by an afterparty at which Agent blå plays and photography by Martin Norberg is displayed. The mood of the evening, however, is tense. Berggren, who is supposed to play a surprise set with Jensen, is sequestered upstairs in the party venue on a cot, heavily-medicated and unable to function. Throughout the night Trask and Hecht are verbally assaulted by multiple individuals and Trask is physically groped by an unknown male; as a result, the two women end up joining Berggren upstairs for remainder of the evening. \n\nThe following day, the film has its second sold-out screening at Captiol Theater. The audience at this screening is older and the atmosphere is welcoming.\n\nTrask and Hecht depart Sweden ahead of two more sold-out screenings at Biopalatset and Roy. Although I'll Be Gone sold more tickets than any other film at the festival and the Swedish media coverage had been extensive and consistent since the announcement of the Kickstarter three months prior, en route to NYC, the filmmakers realize I'll Be Gone has been almost entirely blacked out in Swedish media, save for a sole one-star review in Göteborgs-Posten by a beat reporter with no other film reviews to his byline.\n\nTrask and Hecht also begin to receive threats on their social media calling them \"stupid cunts\" who should \"stay out of Sweden.\" \n\nRealizing his own management played a role in the filmmakers' harassment and abuse while in Sweden, Berggren fires his management. Although his contract includes a two-year sunset clause, the retainer is reduced to six months due to Berggren being in possession of the threatening texts by Alme.\n\nAt this point, Trask and Hecht realize the issues facing the film are more complicated and wide-reaching than they had previously understood. Concerned for their subjects' safety in Sweden and that the film would continue to experience obstruction throughout the festival cycle, the filmmakers decide to get to the bottom of what exactly is going on and re-open their research files. \n\nThe filmmakers begin by revisiting their files on Anders Göthberg, the former guitarist of Broder Daniel who had committed suicide in 2008, resulting in Berggren ending the band. Since the inception of I'll Be Gone, Trask and Hecht had set the intention not to focus on the death as the spirit of the project was to avoid exploitation of sensational and scandalous topics. However, throughout the making of the film, information was brought to the filmmakers' attention that could not be ignored, compelling them to build a file on the case. In August 2016, the documentary production had pulled the official police reports on Göthberg's death but received the report heavily-redacted. Although the media coverage of the death had been vague and biased, Trask and Hecht are ultimately able to create a timeline of the night by triangulating media accounts with the police report and find that the inconsistencies appear to be in order to distract from two simple questions: Who was in attendance of the party that night? And what happened that prompted Göthberg to jump from Västerbron?\n\nThe filmmakers begin to track the ways and means the information about Göthberg's death was reported to the public. The filmmakers identify Swedish publications and journalists connected to a group who call themselves \"Elit List,\" a group of people who hold influential positions in Swedish society and use blackmail and coordination to control various aspects of Swedish industry, culture, and economy.\n\nTrask and Hecht spend the next few months compiling extensive research on the individuals and business entities involved in the harassment of their production, the business of Broder Daniel, and involvement in Elit List activities, with a focus on known members of the group working in the Swedish media.\n\n\nSimultaneous to this research period, Berggren's living situation becomes tenuous. Berggren's health, which had been poor since the inception of the film, had been declining since the completion of his 2017 \"comeback\" tour and had never recovered. Due to an instability in interest rates in Sweden, his family is now in danger of losing the home in which Berggren resides. To make matters worse, his former management is making it impossible for him to generate income unless he agrees to play a show with Hellström, which Berggren repeatedly refuses. \n\nOut of the blue, a man by the name of Oscar Wallblom comes into the picture offering to help Berggren with his money situation. Wallblom is best-known in Sweden as the long-time bassist in Hellström's live band. Wallblom's family is also independently wealthy, having founded the Mary Kay makeup network in Scandinavia. In 2017, Wallblom had founded Tamiami Records, a label through which he had released one record by this time. Wallblom offers Berggren money and suggests signing a \"casual\" record deal with Tamiami in return.\n\n\nTrask, Hecht, and Berggren discuss the development and agree that, while Berggren is desperate for money, getting involved with Wallblom without throughly vetting him would be unwise. Berggren, frail and unable to defend himself, asks the filmmakers to make executive decisions regarding Wallblom until his new management can officially begin to work in August, following the conclusion of his United Stage contract. Trask and Hecht agree and begin vetting Wallblom.\n\nOn April 4th, Wallblom flies to New York and meets twice with the filmmakers. Wallblom insists his intentions towards Berggren are good and that he just wants to help stabilize him and facilitate the recording and release of Berggren's new music. \n\nTrask and Hecht concoct a deal with Wallblom: if he finances the stabilization of Berggren's living situation, provides a small amount of money for weekly groceries, and helps him put together a new live band, Berggren will release a single with Tamiami Records, and Tamiami will be given an exclusive option to release Berggren's next full-length in Scandinavia. \n\nAlthough all parties agree to the framing of the terms, Wallblom spends the summer traveling the world attending tennis tournaments and slowly chipping away at the spirit of the original agreement in a contract which, as it turns out, is being dictated by his family lawyers and advised by Isse Samie\n\nDuring this same time period, Trask's grandmother's health rapidly begins to decline and Trask must travel home to New Orleans. A few days later, her grandmother passes away. Trask spends July and August occupied flying back-and-forth between New York and Louisiana.\n\nOn August 15th, Berggren is officially released from his United Stage contract, with no deal reached with Wallblom, rendering the engagement with him moot. Berggren's physical and mental health have continued to decline and he has resorted to stealing food to survive.\n\nTrask, Hecht, and Berggren slowly begin distancing themselves from Wallblom, who, for some reason, continues to believe that he is negotiating a record deal. Berggren's new management is now free to step in and begin to help him apply to grants and get his financials in order. \n\nOn September 14th, I'll Be Gone has its US premiere at Basilica Soundscape in Hudson, NY, a highly-curated festival which does not engage corporate sponsors and showcases a diverse cross-section of music and art from around the world.\n\nShortly after the filmmakers return from Basilica, Ludlow House in Manhattan invites them to screen the film. While putting together material for the Soho House marketing team, Hecht decides to translate the final Magasinet Filter piece so as to not give them incorrect pull quotes. Hecht realizes the printed piece is not the piece that had been given to the filmmakers to fact-check days before going to print, is highly defamatory, and shocking in its failure to uphold basic journalistic standards\n\nTrask and Hecht post public statements on their production company website and the film's social media, accompanied by side-by-side infographics of the two versions of the article, as well as the bizarre email exchanges between Trask and Magasinet Filter's Editor-in-chief Christopher Friman and Publisher Mattias Göransson, both of whom take responsibility for the defamatory and untrue edits.\n\n\nTwo weeks later, I'll Be Gone is screened at Ludlow House for an invite-only audience and the filmmakers dialogue with the attendees about their current extraordinary situation. \n\nFollowing the Ludlow House screening, the filmmakers begin to prepare the film for distribution, but remain highly concerned about Berggren's health and safety. Although Trask, Hecht, and Berggren had remained in constant contact over the years, the heavy flow of information was often too much for Berggren to process, and he still appeared to not understand fully the situation he was in, making him critically vulnerable. Burdened with the Magasinet Filter realization and concerned for Berggren's wellbeing, Trask and Hecht decide to put their film sale preparations on hold and, in early November, fly Berggren to New York for two weeks in an effort to stabilize him both physically and mentally.\n\nWhile in New York, Berggren is introduced to a cast of characters from Trask and Hecht's Brooklyn music community with whom Berggren feels a sense of camaraderie. After spending an evening with friends at the Kanine Records offices, Berggren remarks on the familiarity of the evening, and compares the experience to an episode of Star Trek concerning a rip in the space time continuum.\n\nEarly into his second week in New York, Berggren begins to reach some clarity. Trask, Hecht, and Berggren begin reviewing the research together, their first opportunity to do so in the five years they have been working on the project. Together, Berggren, Trask, and Hecht reach their final conclusions and Berggren returns to Sweden with full understanding of what has happened to him, armed with a plan.\n\nUpon returning to Sweden, Berggren emails the members of Broder Daniel, Paola Bruna, and Klas Lunding with the Broder Daniel music license for the film and an explanation of the parameters of the contracts. Berggren asks them to sign it. \n\n\nJohan Neckvall, Daniel Gilbert, and Paola Bruna sign the license shortly after the email from Berggren. Theodor Jensen, Lars Malmros, and Håkan Hellström say they will sign and Klas Lunding remains quiet.\n\n\nWhile Berggren works on securing the music license, Trask and Hecht spend the next two weeks building the official website for their documentary. The intention of the site is to memorialize the conflict the filmmakers experienced while making the film in order to neutralize the disinformation which had hindered the film’s release process. For US stakeholders in the film, the ongoing behind-the-scenes conflict had become too dense to follow as it dealt with a labyrinth of foreign names, places, and relationships. Furthermore, Magsinet Filter’s defamatory and untrue article by Mattias Göransson and Christopher Friman had caused many issues for the filmmakers’ Swedish sources and the complex disinformation had rendered further communication with Swedish entities difficult. Therefore, the film’s website would serve to rectify these issues by clearly outlining the situation with full transparency. Berggren agrees.\n\n\nOn December 9th, Trask and Hecht launch illbegonefilm.com, the I'll Be Gone official website. Since the film had been prematurely exposed in the Swedish media, the filmmakers decide to host a free stream of the film for a limited time so that Swedes who had been waiting to see the film for over a year would not need to wait any longer. Trask and Hecht invite the Swedes to read the website and, in addition to the film stream and the behind-the-scenes conflict outline, the filmmakers include an “Action” page illustrating how the Broder Daniel catalogue was obtained by Telegram Studios and offer a petition to aid the members of Broder Daniel in regaining control over their catalogue by returning it to a proper auction as per the EU mandate. \n\n\nImmediately after the website launch, Berggren’s management receives an anonymous email warning that someone had removed the redactions on one of the website’s documents regarding research about Anders Göthberg. Trask and Hecht promptly remove the document as the redactions on that particular document were meant to protect others’ identities and avoid publishing speculation about a sensitive topic. Although the film's website covers a wide selection of dense research and information, the filmmakers begin to almost exclusively receive emails focused on the research regarding Anders Göthberg and \"Elit List.\" This is notable as neither of these topics are focal points of the website’s content and the Göthberg document in question had been removed the same day that the website was launched. The filmmakers continue to monitor and archive the activity in Sweden online. The Swedish media does not report on the content of the website.\n\n\nBy the end of December, signatures from Lunding, Malmros, and Jensen are still outstanding. Berggren sends another email to his former band members and Lunding outlining in detail Berggren’s own point-of-view on the situation. Shortly after Berggren sends his email, Lunding signs the license. Jensen and Malmros say they will sign pending legal counsel on the licensing contract.\n\n\n\n\nWhile working on their new year plans to release I'll Be Gone in the US, Trask and Hecht continue to field feedback from Sweden on a daily basis. Since the launch of the film’s website on December 9th 2019, the filmmakers continue to receive a steady stream of support from Sweden as well as new disclosures from additional alleged victims of the people associated with Telegram Studios. The Swedish media, however, remains silent on the matter of the website. Trask and Hecht monitor the online activity in Sweden, which is a mixture of support, outrage, and confusion. \n\n\nOn January 8th, Berggren releases a public statement to his fans addressing some detractors of the website, clarifying that he supports the actions of the filmmakers. Berggren writes: \n\nTo the fans\n\n\nThere has been much discussion about Amelia Trask and Sasha Hecht’s website, illbegonefilm.com. I did not want to comment on this because I thought that the information contained there clearly describes what happened to them while working on the US documentary about me. But I hear that misinformation is distorting the picture of what happened. Therefore, I feel that I need to clear this up.\n\n\nWhen Amelia Trask and Sasha Hecht did research for their film and talked to people connected to Gothenburg’s music scene, they were met unexpectedly by basically everyone they talked to telling about corruption, crime, and sexual abuse that they or someone close to them were subjected to by people involved with the record companies Telegram/Woah Dad. Those who spoke with A and S did not want to talk about this publicly for fear of retaliation. Instead, they hoped that Amelia and Sasha could make their voice heard and reveal this clique.\n\n\nAmelia and Sasha told these people that they did not intend to make such a documentary. The film was to be about me and BD. But they still felt they had to do something in their capacity as journalists. They therefore decided to give all of the source material they had about this to Magasinet Filter, which they heard they could trust and which was alleged to be Sweden’s leading society and cultural magazine. Filter received this and wanted to work on it. Among other things, Filter hired two independent economic journalists who confirmed the financial crime found by A and S. A writer at Filter said that many have tried to go after this group and its crimes for many years but that no one could do anything.\n\n\nFilter then made an article about the film that would not discuss these things in detail, but the work on the investigation would proceed separately from this article. Amelia and Sasha felt that their material was not satisfactorily investigated at that time. However, there was negative information about Telegram/Woah Dad and those who collaborated with them in the article that I, A, and S approved for publication.\n\n\nHowever, Filter did not publish this article, but a revised version where this negative information was removed, and they distorted the events in a way that did not correspond with the information they had in their source material. When A and S realized this much later, they feared for the security of their sources. Because Filter’s journalistic integrity could be compromised, they could not know that those who talked about crime and abuse were safe.\n\n\nTherefore, A and S went out on the internet with the article they approved along with an account of Filter’s actions. They sought no attention for this. They only wanted this to be publicly available information to protect their sources. \n\n\nEarlier, A and S had tried to warn my management about signing a contract on my behalf with Telegram/Woah Dad, because they had received all of these stories. But my management decided to sign a contract with Woah Dad anyway.\n\n\nTelegram/Woah Dad and my former management have tried in every way to stop and sabotage the film. In this, they have not spared any means, legal or illegal. They spread lies and misinformation. One such lie is that Amelia and Sasha manipulate me. They do not. What would be the motive for it? I have said from the first day we spoke that I am with them fully.\n\n\nAs a creative person or a musician, you notice very quickly what kinds of people you are dealing with. You notice if they talk about your music and what it says or not. You can tell if their soul is interested in and understand what your soul is trying to say. In short, you notice whether someone grasps one’s reason for being or not. After five minutes of talking to Amelia and Sasha, I knew they were my soul sisters and I have not had any reason to change that view. The others who have been involved in this story, I do not know who they are.\n\n\nThe film and Amelia and Sasha’s website are intended for an American audience. They have no interest in spreading awareness for themselves or the film here in Sweden. They do not want to have contact with the Swedish media or music industry anymore, given the horrors they have endured. A and S are completely satisfied with the end result of their film and they only get positive reactions to it in the US.\n\n\nThe information on the website was published by A and S so that no one can sabotage the film anymore, because it has been easy for those who want to destroy the film to create doubts in those who are interested in it. The website is thus not even intended for an American audience but is only there to protect against sabotage. In this way, A and S can refer interested parties to their website and therefore, these stakeholders know who is trying to sabotage and that they cannot be trusted.\n\n\nThe distorted and erroneous idea that all of this is a personal and petty vendetta from Amelia and Sasha’s side is only a distraction from the serious reality: that a major record label, a major management company, and a major magazine collaborated to smear two foreign and independent journalists in an attempt to conceal a domestic criminal network.\n\n\nHenrik Berggren\n\n\nThe next day, the Swedish media runs a brief news item announcing that Berggren is \"working on new music\" but does not report on any other details from Berggren's letter or the information outlined on the film’s website. In fact, the Swedish media does not so much as acknowledge the existence of the website or the conflict outlined in Berggren's statement.\n\nOn January 10th, Theodor Jensen signs the license with a small amendment request, which the filmmakers accommodate. As former Broder Daniel drummer Lars Malmros is now the only outstanding signature needed for license, Berggren begins communicating with Malmros directly.\n\n\nDespite being censored by the Swedish media, Berggren’s public statement sparks a flurry of online activity in Sweden.\n\nOn January 11th, a 30-something-year-old woman called “Elin Mellbergstedt” posts a screenshot of a text conversation in Bede, the same private Facebook fan group where Paul Blomgren DoVan had attempted to slander the filmmakers in December. The conversation is between Mellbergstedt and an unidentified person to whom she refers as \"dad\" and \"her father.\"\n\n\nThe text message reads [translated to English]:\n\nMellbergstedt: Oki. Have you saved all the shit the two American women spread about his death?\n\nUnidentified Person: Yes. About his death. On the other hand they have tried to involve me in other ways. Have always said no thanks. But Henrik has let them in unfortunately. \n\nThe post fuels another argument amongst members of the Bede group, some of whom send screenshots of the active thread to Trask and Hecht.\n\n\nTrask and Hecht are confused; the bizarre post by Mellbergstedt does not make sense because Trask and Hecht had never contacted anyone in Sweden with the surname Mellbergstedt and had not engaged in any interactions that resembled those described by the unidentified person.\n\n\nHowever, since Trask and Hecht do not have Facebook accounts, they are unable to respond to Mellbergstedt directly.\n\n\nA Google search reveals that Mellbergstedt has been featured in the Swedish press as a Håkan Hellström superfan, with articles chronicling her travels to NYC and Berlin to see Hellström, as well as a Håkan Hellström secondary ticket market she runs on Facebook with a woman called “Mathilda Edman,” whom Mellbergstedt tagged in the aforementioned post of the text message screenshot. Mellbergstedt also has a number of posts on social media representing that she is close with members of Hellström's band.\n\nGiven Mellbergstedt's reputation as a \"connected insider\" in the Broder Daniel/Håkan Hellström fan communities, her claims carry more credibility and therefore have the potential to be more damaging than those of a random commenter. The filmmakers identify the situation as a potential liability.\n\n\nMoreover, Trask and Hecht wonder about the identity of this unnamed person from whom Mellbergstedt is getting her factually-inaccurate information.\n\nOn January 12th, Trask messages Mellbergstedt on Instagram asking for the contact information of the person from Mellbergstedt's published text who accused Trask and Hecht of harassment.\n\n@illbegonefilm: Hello Elin, please send me your father’s name and contact information. I would like to follow up on the defamatory and untrue claims made according to the text messages which you spread via the ‘Bede’ Facebook group on January 10th-11th, 2020. Thank you, Amelia Trask.\n\nMellbergstedt replies immediately, backpedaling on some of her Facebook statements, insisting that the unidentified person never accused the filmmakers of anything and that she would drop the subject. But as this is not why Trask messaged Mellbergstedt, Trask asks again: “What is your dad’s name?” Mellbergstedt replies: “Look at your own websites timeline where it says “Hecht reached out to ***” several times with different people and you will find him.” Trask and Hecht look at their timeline and find that the only person who matches her description is Håkan Hellström.\n\n\nThe conversation continues as follows:\n\nTrask: What you are describing does not match any person I have contacted or in my published timeline.\nTrask: Except for Hakan Hellstrom.\nMellbergstedt: He wrote to me in a private conversation and I unfortunately made the mistake of posting it and I’m sorry for that but he is not to be blaimed for anything so leave him alone.\nTrask: Is your father Hakan Hellstrom?\nMellbergstedt: Leave me alone.\nTrask: Thank you, have a great day.\nMellbergstedt: You too.\n\nTrask and Hecht do not know what to do with this information. Whether Hellström is Mellbergstedt’s actual father or if Mellbergstedt is referring to Hellström as “dad” the way that Lorde’s fans refer to her as “mom” is irrelevant. The point is that the message suggests that there is a group of people involving Hellström who were coordinating to work against the filmmakers\n\nTrask and Hecht decide to err on the side of caution regarding the Mellbergstedt revelation. In the worse case scenario, should Mellbergstedt in fact be Håkan Hellström’s secret daughter whom he is using as a proxy, the emotional pressure of the situation could have serious ramifications for Mellbergstedt. With that in mind, Trask decides to send a follow-up message.\n\n\nTrask: Elin, I'm not going to pursue this anymore so don’t worry. I’m sorry about the situation and I won’t say any more on the topic with you. You don’t have to reply me any further. Best to you.  \n\nMellbergstedt sees the message and does not reply.\n\nTrask and Hecht move on believing that Mellbergstedt will keep her word and stop slandering the film and the filmmakers. Trask writes a message for the Bede group and asks Sophia Scalpel, a German photographer well-known in the Broder Daniel fan community and whose work is featured in BD photo book When We Were Winning, to post it for Trask.\n\n\nIn addition to the online conflicts, the filmmakers also field reach-outs from a few Swedish journalists. The filmmakers and Berggren had decided together ahead of Berggren’s public statement to refrain from speaking further to the Swedish media unless to clarify specific questions regarding the content outlined on the film’s website. Due to the actions of Magasinet Filter's Mattias Göransson and Christopher Friman, as well as the response (or lack thereof) of the press regarding the issues raised on the film's website, Berggren, Trask, and Hecht do not trust the Swedish media.\n\nOne example of the Swedish media's hostility towards the filmmakers occurs on January 13th, when Swedish music publication Sonic Magazine's official Twitter account attempts to undermine the filmmakers with scathing and cryptic tweets. First, Sonic Magazine tweets and deletes the following message, derogatorily referring to Berggren as \"an easily-duped indie dandy\" [translated to English]: \n\n\n@sonicmagazine: Generally speaking, people should take the words of an easily-duped indie dandy with a heavy grain of salt. End of message.\n\nSonic Magazine then continues to tweet about Trask and Hecht, alluding to forthcoming information that Sonic believes will discredit the filmmakers and illbegonenfilm.com. The Twitter thread reads as follows:\n\n@danielswedin: Do you remember the Broder Daniel film that two American women did? Now the filmmakers have compiled a report on the making of the film. Does not provide the world’s most flattering picture of Gothenburg’s music and cultural scene. [illbegonefilm.com]\n\n@sonicmagazine: That information should in itself be taken with a heavy grain of salt.\n\n@danielswedin: Why?\n\n@sonicmagazine: It will be revealed in due time.\n\nTo which Hecht replies:\n\n\n@sashahechtagain: Oooh sounds juicy, can't wait to see what you guys come up with!\n\n@sashahechtagain: Actually, very excited for whatever this is bc I've still never heard a counter-narrative that isn't easily disproved by docs/emails/transcripts yet to be released. Happy to publish more if anyone would like to dispute the timeline, tho!\n\n\nSonic Magazine does not respond to Hecht.\n\nOn the US side, the website’s illustration of the conflict has successfully engaged the filmmakers’ own network to organize and begin making plans to screen I'll Be Gone in the spring.\n\n\nMeanwhile in Sweden, Berggren continues to exchange emails with Malmros about the music license for the film. Malmros insists that the continued withholding of his signature on the license is due to a pending review by a lawyer and not because Malmros seeks financial compensation or intends to obstruct the film’s release any further. However, after weeks of back-and-forth, Berggren becomes concerned that Malmros is being influenced by some of the people mentioned on illbegonefilm.com.\n\nOn January 21st, Trask and Hecht are contacted by Sara-Märta Höglund, a Swedish woman who represents herself as a freelance journalist. At first, Trask and Hecht tell Höglund that they are not taking press requests from Sweden. However, Höglund replies, saying:\"I can really understand your feelings about Swedish media coverage especially after reading your encounter with FIlter.\" She goes on to say that she is working on a piece about Isse Samie and that Trask and Hecht's contribution would be \"really really important.\" \n\n\nTrask and Hecht decide to make an exception and answer preliminary questions for Höglund over email.\n\nOn January 23rd, Höglund interviews Trask and Hecht over Skype, which the filmmakers also record. Höglund tells the filmmakers that she has multiple alleged victims of Samie on record and asks Hecht to disclose her own experience with Samie, which Hecht does. At the end of the call, Höglund tells Trask and Hecht that she may have trouble getting the piece published in Sweden. Hecht and Trask offer to connect Höglund with US journalists if her story is killed in Sweden. The three women agree to stay in touch and part ways.  \n\nOn January 26th, Malmros sends Berggren an email in which Malmros argues that since the film is not about the “corruption” outlined on the film’s website, he will not sign the license without contractual stipulations regarding what the filmmakers are and are not allowed to discuss publicly as Malmros feels it is “negative.\" Malmros states that this incoming offer will be a “take it or leave it” deal.\n\n\nMalmros writes:\n\nThere are some changes and clarifications I want you to take into consideration when the contract comes back to you from the lawyer after the weekend. The music of the film is of course you to use \"free of charge\" according to our agreement. No one wants to stand in the way of your movie. It's just that some reasonable conditions have to be set. It is a so-called \"take it or leave it deal\" and it will include everything we on the so-called \"evil\" side want to put an end to this sad heap. There is nothing unreasonable in those requirements.\n\nBerggren forwards the Malmros email to Trask and Hecht.\n\n\nOn January 28th, the filmmakers and Berggren receive an email from Malmros’ legal team with a heavily edited licensing contract rife with overreaching, vague language. In the proposed amendments, Malmros demands that Berggren, Trask, and Hecht retract all of the information on illbegonefilm.com and and enter into a gag order that would legally bind Berggren, Trask, and Hecht from speaking about any of the individuals or entities on the film's website in the future as an absolute condition for his signature.\n\n\nBerggren, Trask, and Hecht do not accept the terms of Malmros’ contract. Since Malmros had explicitly told Berggren that the offer was non-negotiable, Trask and Hecht begin researching their legal rights in the matter.\n\nAround this time, Trask and Hecht also become aware of a thread entitled \"Joel Alme, Hellström, Isse Samie and others threaten and harass Henrik Berggren\" about the website on Swedish messageboard Flashback Forum (founded and owned by \"Elit List\" member Jan Axelsson).\n\n\nWhile Trask and Hecht are quite familiar with the tone of anon boards, they are still surprised by some of the speculation that the Flashback posters raise about the situation. A handful of the Flashback posters in the thread cite the untrue and defamatory Magasinet Filter article edited by Mattias Göransson and Christopher Friman as the source of their opinion of the filmmakers and the situation (see post #16, for example).\n\n\nOn January 30th, Hecht tweets from her personal Twitter account: \"Just found out I've been referred to as a 'quarrelsome Jewish woman' on a Swedish messageboard so... there's that.\"\n\n\nHecht's tweet refers to the following Flashback post [translated to English]:\n\n\noenophile: Very strange story with a lot of loose ends.\n\nTwo American self-appointed heroines who dig up a down-in-the-shit HB and rescue him from the evil world (=reality).\n\nA former record company director who, in true MeToo fashion, drunkenly paws at one of the heroines, and this in the middle of the ongoing Håkan Stealström concert in the Big Apple.\n\nAn Ullevi star devotedly cultivates his innocent appearance as he tries to mask his half-stoned spasmodic movements.\n\nAnd in the eye of the storm: a talented but naive 45-year-old boy who steals food to survive as he gave away his last hard-earned money to a rock documentary that is so content-poor and meaningless that barely even the most devoted fans bothered to see the free link.\n\nWide-eyed and once again amazed at the brutality of the real world, he disappears into the mist of substance and turns pages in his Greek fantasy world. It is unclear if he is aware of having been hijacked by two quarrelsome Jewish women in their child-like scheme, “Rescue Henrik, dead or alive.”\n\n\nHecht follows up with another Tweet, this time a screenshot from the last page of the Flashback thread [translated to English]:\n\nTintin.i.Kongo: Did the girls sleep with Berggren or? The timeline shows a number of emails from them to him greeting them with the phrase \"bb\", a common abbreviation for baby. They also use a \"love\" somewhere.\n\n\nEither they lay with him or they assumed he would be more cooperative if they made him think that they could think of doing it. That is, manipulation.\n\n\nmuilak: One girl is lesbian and the other girl is in relationship with someone according to instagram. Seems to be a long relationship if you read index on illbegone.\n\n\nAfter Hecht Tweets, the Flashback thread dries up.\n\n\nOn the same day as Hecht's Flashback tweets, January 30th, the filmmakers publish the Malmros contract with annotations on illbegonefilm.com. \n\n\nAlso on that same day, a member of Bede links the filmmakers' annotated Malmros contract in the Facebook group. Elin Mellbergstedt pops up again, replying to the post: \"omg is that why he is following me, should we get together and take them down???\".\n\nThe next day, Trask and Hecht are alerted that Mellbergstedt is continuing to slander the filmmakers -- this time, in private chats using a selectively-edited version of Trask and Melbergstedt's Instagram conversation. When Trask and Hecht check the conversation thread on Instagram, they find that Mellbergstedt had strategically deleted certain messages to make it appear that Trask was harassing Mellbergstedt and that Mellbergstedt had never suggested that Hellström was the sender of the message. \n\nNot wanting the seemingly futile \"Elin Mellbergstedt\" situation to escalate further, on February 2nd, Trask and Hecht publish the \"Elin Mellbergstedt online harassment report\" in an attempt to protect themselves from Mellbergstedt's ongoing disinformation campaign.\n\nAfter spending weeks exploring their options and consulting with professionals regarding the Lars Malmros situation, on February 24th, Trask and Hecht send reports to the FBI and the American Embassy in Sweden. Following the advice of a personal contact at the FBI, on February 26th, Trask and Hecht speak with the Swedish police on the phone, who explain that since Malrmos is not demanding money, the situation does not meet the criteria for criminal extortion in Sweden. The police instead advise the filmmakers to take the issue to a Swedish civil court. They also posit that if Malmros cannot confirm that he is the publisher, the filmmakers might not need his signature after all.\n\nEncouraged by the police tip, Trask and Hecht follow up with Malmros and his lawyer, Staffan Boström (who has also represented Håkan Hellström and Roxette) asking for clarification regarding ownership of the publishing rights in question. Trask and Hecht had previously asked for this clarification after -- for reasons unknown -- Boström had amended all of the instances in the contract where Malmros was referred to as \"publisher\" to instead say \"writer.\" However, neither Boström nor Malmros ever provided an answer.\n\nBut this question is highly significant; if Malmros is not the publisher, he would not have any legal right to enter into (or reject) this licensing agreement at all. \n\nA few days pass with no response. On March 2nd, Trask again follows up with Malmros and his lawyers and asserts that it is reasonable for the filmmakers to assume that Malmros will not make any copyright claims against the filmmakers in the future seeing as he cannot so much as confirm his own ownership of the copyright.\n\nThis time, Boström replies, stating: \"In the meantime I have learned that most songs (maybe all) are published by Jimmy Fun, so the mark up I sent relates to Lars Ms position as writer only.\" Boström's response confirms that Malmros is not the publisher -- the only reason the filmmakers and Berggren were engaging in this interaction with Malmros in the first place -- thereby ending the four-months-long deadlock with Malmros.\n\nHowever, if Steffan Boström has only just learned this information about Jimmy Fun Music being the publisher \"in the meantime,\" then why did he change the language from \"publisher\" to \"writer\" two months earlier in January?\n\nThe new information about Jimmy Fun Music prompts Trask, Hecht, and Berggren to audit Berggren's publishing rights in STIM. Up to this point, everyone that the filmmakers had spoken to in Sweden regarding the Broder Daniel publishing rights (including members of the band and Berggren himself) were under the impression that at one point, Jimmy Fun Music had controlled the publishing for the first three Broder Daniel albums but that that agreement had expired and that the rights had since reverted back to the individual band members.\n\n\nBut now, when Berggren looks up Broder Daniel in STIM, it states that Jimmy Fun Music (owned by Per Gessle of Roxette) is listed as the publisher of the Broder Daniel music in question.\n\nThe inquiry into the Broder Daniel publishing in STIM also reveals that Berggren's 2017 solo album Wolf's Heart had not been registered properly by Berggren's then--\"team\" (Woah Dad and United Stage) in STIM. Because of this, Berggren had not received any publishing royalties for his solo record. Berggren is then told by STIM that Spotify would not reimburse Berggren for the millions of streams accrued since 2017 as it is \"not how Spotify's payment system works\" and that Spotify does not keep a record of streams for more than a month (despite the fact that the play count of album's lead single – the third most-streamed song in Sweden that year – is displayed publicly on the platform).\n\nNevertheless, the discovery of the botched registration results in Berggren beginning to receive some money for Wolf's Heart and, as a result, Berggren is able to cease stealing food.\n\nShortly after the STIM discovery, in mid-March, New York City goes into lockdown for the COVID-19 pandemic and the filmmakers' plans for the Spring screenings of I'll Be Gone are paused indefinitely.\n\n\nWhile in quarantine, Trask and Hecht decide to use the time to re-write and re-edit I'll Be Gone; they spend the next two weeks drafting a new cut.\n\nMeanwhile in Sweden, Håkan Hellström releases a new single with the announcement of a double album release with Woah Dad to bookend Hellström's four sold-out stadium shows that summer.  The Swedish media casually reports that Hellström's new single,  ”Tillsammans i mörker,” steals intellectual property from \"Seven Wonders\" by Fleetwood Mac\"It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\" by REM, and the album art of Tony Molina.  \n\nOn March 27th, Hecht tweets a side-by-side comparison of Tony Molina's Kill The Lights and Håkan Hellström's Tillsammans i mörker to Slumberland Records.\n\nOn April 8th, out of the blue, Oscar Wallblom resurfaces and attempts to call Berggren and Trask multiple times. The same day, Joel Borg also tries to contact Berggren.\n\nBerggren writes to Trask and Hecht:\n\nJoel Borg tried to call me today. Oscar tried to call me three times. But no texts. Joel Borg asked my management if they could call him. So they're hysterical about something. Neither Oscar nor Borg sent me any texts, just the calls.\n\nIt's so silly and strange that they would try to contact me at this point. What could I do to help them now if I wanted to!\n\nSara-Marta from Svd has tried to get in touch with Theo. Theo seemed upset or worried about that. He then talked to Lars about it. I then texted Sara-Marta that the evil side would be aware of her actives now since Lars has clearly sided with them.\n\nThe last time Trask and Hecht had heard from Sara-Marta Höglund was back in January when she had interviewed Trask and Hecht about the music industry corruption and alleged sexual abuse. Trask, Hecht, and Berggren wonder if Höglund is about to run her piece about the sexual abuse.\n\nHowever, on April 13th, Höglund texts Berggren:\n\nI am writing a report about BD and about the events that took place over the last few years. The report shows how many people have been badly burned by the actions of American filmmakers. Your former bandmates also ask themselves what your motive is for your actions towards them. Do you want to comment on the information or would you like to refer to previously stated that you do not trust the media?\n\nBerggren forwards Höglund's text to Trask and Hecht with the message: \n\n\nGot this from Sara-Märta. Looks like she's actually doing a piece for the corruption and not against it.\n\nOn April 14th, Hecht emails Höglund asking if the article for which Höglund was asking Berggren to comment was the same one for which Trask and Hecht had given Höglund an interview. \n\n\nHöglund does not respond Hecht.\n\nThe next day, in the US, an international music business class at Drexel University in Philadelphia watches the new rough cut of I'll Be Gone, and Trask and Hecht join the class over Zoom to discuss the project and their experience making it. Although the cut is a very rough draft, the students fully understand the new direction and screening is a success. Trask and Hecht continue to move forward with the plan for the new film.\n\nThat same day, Hecht follows up with Höglund and again receives no response.\n\nThe next day, on April 16th, Hecht tweets (along with a screenshot of a Höglund email):\n\nHey @saramrta, is there a reason you haven't responded to my email or follow-up? You were extremely communicative in attempting to secure an interview with us in Jan for your article about \"I.S.\" and rampant sexual abuse in the Swedish music industry. What changed?\n\nHecht receives no response. She follows up with another tweet (as well as another email screenshot):\n\n.@saramrta Starting to look like you, a female journo, duped me, another female journo, into speaking on record about my experiences with \"I.S.\" only to turn around & smear me for it. Really hope this isn't the case, esp in light of what happened w Filter (exact same thing) \n\n\nHöglund responds by blocking Hecht on Twitter.\n\n\nHecht tweets again, this time at Höglund and the Swedish daily SvD:\n\nGood thing I record/transcribe all of my conversations! (Yes, including our hour-long interview with @saramrta.) Your move, @SvD.\n\nOn April 18th, a member of the ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) community in Sweden reaches out to Trask. The individual writes:\n\nHave you seen the latest [Magasinet] Filter? There's an article about me/cfs claiming that the disease is psychological. This is wrong on every level, but we have lobbyists here in Sweden trying to discredit the patients and ME-experts. Their agenda is terrible. It looks like the article is written by the same journalist that wrote about your film. How did that end? Did they change the text? \n\nThe individual goes on to explain that ME/CFS experts and activists have been discussing this new Filter article and that one of their experts sent an email to Magasinet Filter reporter Oskar Sonn Lindell asking \"what the agenda is, and why they only publish one side of it and false facts.\" The individual forwards the ME/CFS expert's email to Trask. After reviewing the material, Trask tells the individual she will email Magasinet Filter on behalf of the ME/CFS community as well.\n\nTrask emails Lindell:\n\nHi Oskar,\n\nI’ve been getting messages this week from Swedes in the ME/CFS community telling me that the same journalist who smeared me in Magasinet Filter is now, out of nowhere, smearing the ME community. Your article has caused damage for the many disabled people who are already struggling to have their illness and limitations taken seriously, especially during this outbreak as they are immunocompromised.\n\nEveryone thinks your article is a follow-up to your hit piece on Henrik. My opinion is that you were assigned to the piece as punishment. Care to clarify? \n\nI don’t really expect an answer, just wanted to try and check in for the people who reached out to me who do not believe anyone at Filter will reply their emails as they have read what you guys did to us and Henrik.\n\nLindell does not reply Trask. \n\nOn April 23rd, Trask and Hecht make contact with Jimmy Fun Music and begin discussing the Broder Daniel music license needed for the film.\n\nOn April 27th, Hellström announces that his Summer 2020 Ullevi stadium shows have been rescheduled for Summer 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nOn April 30th, Berggren informs Trask and Hecht that Sara-Marta Höglund's article for SvD has bee killed. \n\nOn May 15th, Håkan Hellström releases the first installment of his double LP Rampljus [Spotlight] with a video for single the \"Alla drömmar är uppfyllda\" [\"All Dreams Are Fulfilled\"], in which Hellström lifts the riff from \"Baba O'Reily\" by the Who (none of the songwriters of The Who are credited on the song). The single is a classic example of Hellström's method of \"songwriting,\" which often involves taking copied riffs, melodies, and lyrics from a number of different (mostly) English-language songs and mashing them together into one \"Håkan song.\" \n\n\nSome examples of this are:\n\n-\"Det Kommer Aldrig Va Över För Mig\" [\"It Will\" Never Be Over for Me\"], which takes its opening intro riff from The Killers' \"When You Were Young,\" its verse melody and instrumentation from U2's \"New Year's Day,\" and its chorus melody from Bryan Adams' \"Heaven.\"\n\n-\"Minnen Av Aprilhimlen\" [\"Memories of the April Sky\"], the lyrics of which are comprised almost entirely of translated lyric fragments by Louis Armstrong, The Divine Comedy, The Beach Boys, Pavement, and The Stone Roses.\n\n-\"Nu kan du få mig så lätt \" [\"Now You Can Have Me So Easily\"], which takes its entire melody (verse and chorus) from \"Desperado\" by The Eagles.  \n\nOn June 10th, the filmmakers receive the signed Broder Daniel music license agreement from Jimmy Fun Music. \n\n\nOn June 15th, George Cederskog, Culture Editor of Swedish daily DN who interviewed Trask and Hecht in 2018, attempts to make contact with Berggren but is unsuccessful.\n\nBerggren writes to Trask and Hecht:\n\nGeorge [Cederskog] is \"in bed with\" Ebba Lindqvist according to Oscar [Wallblom]. There is a media lockdown against me, bd and the film. So it's suspicious. Since the SvD slander piece fell through, are they trying something new maybe? Or does he in fact just want to talk to me about shoreline? I'm obviously not going to talk to him.\n\n\nWith all of the music rights finally cleared and with no further need to engage with Sweden, Trask and Hecht continue re-writing and re-editing the new version of I'll Be Gone with an expanded team.\n\nOn August 19th, independent Swedish film review website, Filmtopp.se, publishes an interview with Trask and Hecht (verified by Berggren), marking the first the information outlined on illbegonefilm.com is acknowledged by the Swedish media. Only Gaffa, a Swedish music publication, covers the article\n\nOn September 3rd, Swedish network TV4 broadcasts Håkan Hellström - 20 år i rampljuset [Håkan Hellström - 20 Years in the Spotlight] a documentary about Håkan Hellström directed by former I’ll Be Gone producer Paul Blomgren DoVan and executive produced by Telegram, Woah Dad, Joel Borg, Niklas Lundell, and Tamiami Records (Oscar Wallblom). The program contains footage from Håkan Hellström’s 2016 NYC shows which had been directed and produced by Trask and Hecht for I’ll Be Gone.\n\nA brief reminder/summary of how Håkan Hellström personally came to own what was originally intended to be Trask and Hecht’s footage:\n\nIn February 2016, the day after meeting Trask and Hecht for the first time (and after consultation with Joel Borg), Blomgren DoVan suggested that he, Trask, and Hecht film Håkan Hellström’s upcoming shows in New York City for I’ll Be Gone. Despite Trask and Hecht insisting on multiple occasions that they had no interest in filming the shows and did not want to get involved with Hellström or Woah Dad, Blomgren DoVan insisted that that footage would be crucial in securing Swedish funding.\n\nOne year later, in February 2017, Trask and Hecht were caught in a legal dispute with Blomgren DoVan — Blomgren DoVan insisted that the filmmakers pay him over $80,000 for his production expenses (almost half of which came from shooting the Hellström NYC shows) within 30 days or he would sell the footage (of which he had no legal ownership) to another party. Trask and Hecht had investors prepared to fund the project, but the investors first needed to see a signed agreement with Blomgren DoVan stating that the filmmakers owned the copyright to all of the footage before releasing the money to the filmmakers and, in turn, Blomgren DoVan. However, Blomgren DoVan refused to sign such an agreement, instead countering with a one-page “woefully inadequate” pseudo-legal document and insisting that he would only release the footage to the filmmakers after receiving full payment.\n\nIt was at this point that Trask and Hecht, upon reviewing all of the legal documents involved in the film’s production, discovered that a contract in Swedish that Blomgren DoVan had signed with Håkan Hellström’s personal company, Tro & Tvivel AB, was, in fact, entirely different from how Blomgren DoVan had originally represented it to the filmmakers. The contract was supposed to be an appearance release—a standard document required in order show an individual’s likeness in a film or TV program—for Hellström’s NYC shows between Hellström and No Plus Ones Productions, Trask and Hecht’s company. Instead, the document was an agreement between Håkan’s father/business manager, Björn Hellström (on behalf of Tro & Tvivel), and Blomgren DoVan’s company, Gothenburg Film Studios, which stated that Tro & Tvivel owned the footage and that, should Tro & Tvivel commercially exploit the footage, Gothenburg Film Studios would receive a percentage of the profits. Additionally, Gothenburg Film Studios was permitted to commercially exploit the footage but only if Tro & Tvivel approved the content of whatever the footage was included in.\n\nWith proof that Blomgren DoVan was attempting to force the filmmakers to pay for footage that they unknowingly did not own and could not use, Blomgren DoVan eliminated the Håkan Hellström NYC show costs from the total sum of expenses he claimed to be owed by the filmmakers. \n\nHowever, Trask and Hecht found another document: a location release—a contract that permits filming in a venue—which they had negotiated with Livenation (owner of Gramercy Theater, the NYC venue of the Hellström shows) and which was signed by Live Nation and No Plus Ones Productions. Additionally, the crew deal memos—work-for-hire contracts which specify terms of a job including pay and role/credit—that Trask and Hecht had negotiated with the NYC film crew (camera operators and sound recordists) were signed between the crew and No Plus Ones Productions and specified that the work was for a documentary called I’ll Be Gone. This meant that, although Blomgren DoVan had effectively given ownership of the footage to Håkan Hellström, any exploitation of the footage by anyone other than No Plus Ones Productions for anything other than a documentary called I’ll Be Gone would be illegal. It was upon this revelation that Blomgren DoVan engaged legal counsel.\n\nUltimately, months later in the summer of 2017, a settlement was reached: Blomgren DoVan would give the filmmakers their footage and the filmmakers would correct the chain of custody for the Håkan Hellström NYC show footage, meaning that Hellström and Blomgren DoVan would be in the free and clear to exploit it. The filmmakers also still had to pay Blomgren DoVan ~$60,000 for the expenses he claimed to have incurred, and because their investors had already committed their funding to another project due to the seemingly unending legal battle with Blomgren DoVan, Berggren paid the ~$60,000 himself (despite Blomgren DoVan telling Berggren that he would give the footage to Berggren for free if he promised not to give it to Trask and Hecht).\n\nAs part of the settlement agreement, Trask, Hecht, and Blomgren DoVan agreed to a mutual nondisclosure agreement and a non-disparagement clause, meaning that all parties would be prohibited from discussing what transpired between them (including the events recounted above) or making disparaging statements about the other, in public or in private. However, Blomgren DoVan breached these clauses when he made false and defamatory statements on the record to Magasinet Filter in 2018.\n\nAdditionally, Blomgren DoVan requested that any mention of him or his company, Gothenburg Film Studios, be scrubbed from I’ll Be Gone. Trask and Hecht obliged, but they made no such request about their credits with regards to the Håkan Hellström NYC show footage nor the credits of the NYC crew of camera operators and sound recordists who Trask and Hecht had hired to capture the shows and who were legally entitled to crediting per their crew deal memos.\n\nRegardless, when the footage eventually airs in Håkan Hellström - 20 år i rampljuset on TV4 on September 3rd, 2020, none of the NYC crew are credited. Prominently credited, however, are Paul Blomgren DoVan, Telegram, Woah Dad, Joel Borg, Niklas Lundell, and Oscar Wallblom.\n\n  • Black Instagram Icon\n\n© 2020 by no plus ones\n\n12-10-19 Anon, Hecht.jpg", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7531181573867798}
+{"content": "‘They just want to make it home to their loved ones. They’re working soul-crushing shifts. Who will help THEM?: Woman pens ode to Covid-19 war heroes, ‘We see you, and we salute you’\n\nMore Stories like:\n\n“We are currently facing a global catastrophe of such magnitude that has never been witnessed by our generation, nor by our parents’ and grandparents’ generations. A different type of war, if you will.\n\nIn modern times, our soldiers have faced The Persian Gulf War and the War on Terrorism. In our Grandparents’ time, there was The Korean War and The Vietnam War.\n\nThroughout our nation’s history, there have been many brave soldiers to stand up and fight for a universal truth that we as American’s cling to-that we have been endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This is a cause for which many have given their lives to protect.\n\nHeroes come in all forms, but share the same admirable traits. They give of themselves, often to their detriment, for the good of others. They sacrifice their comforts, their worldly possessions, their rights, and even their lives to defend ours. They run towards the danger, as everyone else runs the other way. They walk to the frontlines of the battle, holding up a shield to protect all in their care, who stand behind them.\n\nToday, we are seeing a new generation of warriors running to the aid of hundreds of thousands of hurting and dying individuals. Across our country and around the world, these heroes are rising to wage war against an unseen, but oh so lethal enemy. They are doctors, nurses, therapists, hospital staff, the National Guard and so many others that are standing as our first line of defense against this virus disrupting our way of life.\n\nThese courageous professionals are being taken away from their families for countless hours of soul-crushing shifts and then they are choosing to continue to remain separated from them, to protect the health and well-being of those closest to them. Yet even during their own isolation, our healthcare workers are turning around and doing their best to calm, comfort, and preserve the lives of thousands upon thousands of people who just want to make it home to their own loved ones.\n\nNo war is without casualties and no one leaves the battlefield untouched, whether physically or emotionally. Having a spouse who is a combat veteran and a grandparent who was a veteran of the Vietnam war, and suffering from PTSD myself, my first thought as I watched the current events take place was, ‘Who will help THEM?’ The strain on the hospitals, the concerned staff, the heartbreaking triage decisions, the time away from family, the high stakes life or death stress moment by moment, and the complete and utter exhaustion that healthcare workers are going through. When they are done helping everyone else?\n\nWhat happens when this virus finally runs its course, when we all can go back to work, when the last case is discharged, or the final ICU bed is clear of these patients? What happens when these brave souls who have fought against breaking down every day, they step through those hospital doors, can finally release the weight of their emotions?\n\nWe, the people, must be prepared, as a global community to embrace our frontline healthcare workers, our military who were called to serve, even our grocery store employees that have been operating under enormous stress and conditions completely foreign to them. We need to stand ready with mental health resources for all our brave soldiers, to let them know that it’s their turn now to let someone fight for them.\n\nThese last few months have been so life-altering and defining that many people will never be the same again. They have had to make choices that will follow them for the rest of their lives. They have been unable to save people, for which they will have to forgive themselves. They have been the last face many have seen as they drew their last breath and those images are seared in our doctors and our nurse’s minds for all time.\n\nAfter all that they have done for us, the most important thing we can do for all of those that waged and won this war for our country is to let them know that there is no shame in getting help. Not only is there no shame, it should be highly encouraged that they go to counseling to process the experiences and emotions that would otherwise haunt them. We cannot make it taboo to discuss depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder, because there will be countless individuals who will surely suffer from these issues.\n\nTo the war heroes of this generation, we see you. We know you signed up to change lives and save lives. You have and you are making a monumental difference in our world. We salute you and when this is all over, let us do our part and help you pick up the pieces of life as we knew it and put our country back together. At the end of this battle, may we truly find ourselves to be one nation-indivisible, stronger together and loving our neighbors, as we stand shoulder to shoulder.”\n\nThis story was submitted to Love What Matters by Tabitha Yates, a writer, master life coach and founder of The Redeemed Mama. You can follow her journey on her websiteFacebook and Instagram. Submit your own story here, and be sure to subscribe to our free email newsletter for our best stories.\n\nRead more from Tabitha:\n\n‘No one asked if I was OK.’ I was 15 when I attempted suicide. I went to church, sat alone. I cried the entire service.’: Woman urges Christians to discuss mental health, ‘you don’t need to hide it’\n\n\n\nShow appreciation for our health heroes. SHARE this story on Facebook with family and friends.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6265013217926025}
+{"content": "Workshop was a chance to improve acting craft\n\nArticle Sidebar\n\nArticle content\n\nPerformers from both MUCC Team Drama and Melfort Amateur Dramatics (MAD) had a chance to improve their craft on Saturday, April 7 at Mad on Main. Facilitator Ian C. Nelson was giving tips to the actors and directors in both companies to sharpen their works that are upcoming.\n“We are doing it for MAD because they are preparing five one act plays and they are done in three sequences for three nights and for three different places. It is really quite interesting,” Nelson said.\nThey take the scenes and see if they can do a little bit more according to Nelson.\n“They are blocking and there is lots of under-character sort of relationships. What might you be saying underneath, no matter what you need to say on top and what does it really need underneath,” Nelson explained.\n“We do a lot of repetition just for finding different ways. It’s there and you basically have to notice it and say keep it. Or you are giving them permission to go with it more than they had been,” he added,\nNelson, who is from Saskatoon, explained that he likes working in this type of situation because the actors know what they are doing with the scene already.\n “They have done some preparation so they really know the characters. Then I can come in and I can start to polish,” he explained.\nNelson notices possibilities to change the performance. He gives notes and make slight changes to the performance.\n“They will decide eventually whether they want to use what I suggest. It may work or it may not,”  he said.\nNelson is a director but not in the workshop but he tries to broaden the mind of the actors.\n“I am also trying to make sure that the actors have a respect for the director who asks them to do different things because sometimes they think a director should have one idea. The rehearsal process is about fine tuning. That’s how the clinic works,” he said.\nNelson explained that he was looking forward to seeing what comes from both productions.\nThe workshop was sponsored by the Saskatchewan Drama Association and Theatre Saskatchewan Inc.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9806697964668274}
+{"content": "Mount Vernon, IN\n\nmap preview\nPlease wait, loading your map...\n\nMount Vernon profile\n\nLiving in Mount Vernon\n\nMount Vernon is a somewhat small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 6,502 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Mount Vernon is the 98th largest community in Indiana.\n\nMount Vernon is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Vernon is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Vernon who work in office and administrative support (14.21%), sales jobs (9.23%), and food service (7.67%).\n\nCompared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mount Vernon spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.22 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.\n\nThe percentage of adults in Mount Vernon with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.34% of adults in Mount Vernon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.\n\nThe per capita income in Mount Vernon in 2018 was $28,690, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,760 for a family of four. However, Mount Vernon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.\n\nThe people who call Mount Vernon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Vernon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Vernon include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.\n\nThe most common language spoken in Mount Vernon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.\n\nZip Codes in Mount Vernon, IN", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9945303201675415}
+{"content": "Visit to the Zoo !\n\nWe are going to the zoo,zoo, zoo, You can come too ! On 16th January, 2018, the students of class Pallav visited the Delhi Zoo for their day long educational trip.\n\nThis trip was planned by the teachers as an entry event to the topic ‘Land’ to be studied in class over the next two months. As a part of the visit they were exposed to the different kinds of animals, birds and reptiles.\n\nThey were also made aware that certain animals only live in a particular region, due to favourable climate and their food habits.\n\nThe children enjoyed moving around the zoo in the battery operated nature friendly buses and learnt that animals live in different habitats – birds live on trees, animals living in caves and burrows and water animals have adapted to their surroundings.\n\nThe teachers also explained about their eating habits and how they give birth to their young ones. Lastly they also made observations about various kinds of plants and trees like Ashoka, Banyan, Bamboo and Banana that they saw in the zoo. Overall it was a fun day with the children’s picnic and learning happening all at once.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9608403444290161}
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+{"content": "Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria has said the United States has “lost its cards” in Syria, and called on America to leave the country in an interview with Russia Today.\n\n“The Americans should leave. Somehow, they’re going to leave. They came to Iraq with no legal basis, and look what happened to them. They have to learn their lesson. Iraq is no exception. Syria is no exception. People will not accept foreigners in this region any more,” Assad said.\n\nThe Syrian leader said his government had “opened doors to negotiation” with US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a predominantly Kurdish group that controls parts of northern Syria. The SDF, which Assad dubbed the “only problem left in Syria,” would be confronted with force if negotiations fail, the president said.\n\nAssad has been battling rebels opposed to his rule since a popular uprising seven years ago plunged the country into civil war. Government forces lost large swaths of territory, but Russian intervention on behalf of Assad in 2015 helped turn the tide of the war in his favor.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.957036554813385}
+{"content": "Invest adjective\n\nInvest adjective\n\nAdd: xoroham71 - Date: 2020-12-29 20:22:42 - Views: 2995 - Clicks: 8158\n\nAccredited, active, american, average, better, big, biggest, british, conservative. An adjective is a term that we use in our sentence to expound the meaning of a noun or a pronoun, i. This reference page can help answer the question what are some adjectives commonly used for describing INVESTOR. An aggressive investment strategy is a means of portfolio management that attempts to maximize returns by taking a relatively higher degree of risk. 5 %, based on rising private consumption, a jump in corporate investment, and EU funds inflows. To ceremonially install someone in some office. To use or expend, especially carelessly or wastefully. To envelop, wrap, cover.\n\nDefinition of invest-with phrasal verb in Oxford Advanced Learner&39;s Dictionary. floccinaucinihilipilificatively - in the manner of someone suggesting that a thing is worthless. (tr; often foll by invest adjective in or with) mainly archaic. to use (money), as in accumulating something: to invest large sums in books. invest in something She advised us to invest in the property market.\n\nCapital definition is - of or conforming to the series A, B, C, etc. So you should make good efforts to understand why online investing of stocks is useful for you. Find more ways to say investigative, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus. investment The act of investing, or state of being invested. Synonyms & Antonyms of invest 1 to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle invested the film with his own enthusiasm for the wonders of flight. The company has invested a six. past simple and past participle of invest 2.\n\nit acts as a modifier of a noun, so as to indicate the quality of the thing mentioned, express its quantity, extent or to highlight something which is rare in nature. In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like nouns (a process called declension), they were considered a type of noun. Investment synonyms.\n\nTo spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. Here&39;s the word you&39;re looking for. transitive verb/intransitive verb If you invest in something useful, you buy it, because it will help you to do something more efficiently or more cheaply. Definition of investigative adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner&39;s Dictionary.\n\nAdjectives Test Exercises - Multiple Choice Questions With Answers - Advanced Level 23 38 Free Online English Grammar Quizzes - Tests invest adjective - Exercises About Adjectives Test Exercises - Multiple Choice Questions With Answers - Advanced Level 23. investment opportunities/decisions/strategies. into something to. How to use invest adjective capital in a sentence.\n\nTo set up, establish or initiate (something) To pledge, give or set aside (resources) to another or for future use. 1 Medieval Latin investire, from Latin, to clothe a : to array in the symbols of office or honor. I&39;m tired of watching you invest our money in insane projects. ( finance ) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, including to provide targeted advertising and track usage. “The children have been asleep for hours” “asleep” is the adjective and “have invest adjective been” is the verb phrase. Investing of mass psychology learning is important rather than investing in economics learning.\n\nInvent definition, to originate or create as a product of one&39;s own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. b : to furnish with power or authority. c : to grant someone control or authority over : vest. In, GDP grew an estimated 6. Definition of invest verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. The noun forms for the verb to invest are investor, investment,. rather than a, b, c, etc.\n\nverb give power or authority. To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain. verb contribute money to make money. in the hope of making a profit Now is a good time to invest. 4 : clothe, adorn. an investment trust/fund/firm. Each word below can often be found in front of the noun investor in the same sentence.\n\nInvestitive definition, of, relating to, or empowered to invest: an investitive act. capital and capitol: Which One to Use Where. to lay out (money or capital in an enterprise, esp by purchasing shares) with the expectation of profit. Below I have listed examples that contain predicative adjectives. Top investment synonyms (adjectives) are capital, principal and spent. in-vest SEE DEFINITION OF invest. to put money, effort, time, etc.\n\nOpen Ended Investment Company: a company that invests its money in other companies and has no limit on the numbers of its own shares that it can make available for sale offshore adjective. investment in something This country needs investment in education. invest adjective in-vest SEE DEFINITION OF invested. Investor adjectives are listed in this post.\n\nto attract/encourage investment. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. How to use foresight in a sentence. Invent definition is - to produce (something, such as a useful device or process) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment. 3 : to cover completely : envelop. Another word for investigative. investment by somebody/something This initiative involves considerable long-term investment by the university. Predicative adjectives differ from attributive adjectives as attributive adjectives come before a noun and predicative adjectives are placed after a linking verb.\n\nMany people don&39;t like to invest in stocks. Most people chose this as the best definition of lucrative: The definition of lucrati. 2 : to endow with a quality : infuse. See the dictionary meaning, pronunciation, and sentence examples. &39;additional noun&39;. (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).\n\n(finance) Ready for investment; liquid. Invest in stocks, property, or other ventures in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss. com, the world&39;s most trusted free thesaurus.\n\nNo, the word invest is a verb (invest, invests, investing, invested): tocommit money or capital in order to gain a financial return. (obsolete) To put on (clothing). invest something If you want to invest your money, you are probably better off with bonds. Adjective comes from Latin nōmen adjectīvum, a calque of Ancient Greek: ἐπίθετον ὄνομα, romanized: epítheton ónoma, lit. Foresight definition is - an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience.\n\nDave snorted floccinaucinihilipilificatively at the fake Rolex. Women are trying to fund their start-ups from their own savings or from the investing of a small group of relatives and friends. intransitive, transitive to buy property, shares in a company, etc. Here&39;s the word you&39;re looking for. Definition of Adjective. to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.\n\nForeign ownership of and investment in Hungarian firms are widespread, with cumulative foreign direct investment totaling more than $ 60 billion since 1989. (transitive; often foll by in) to devote ( effort, resources, etc, to a project ) 3. invested definition: 1.\n\nInvest adjective\n\nemail: [email protected] - phone:(401) 361-1587 x 5023\n\nThyssenkrupp ag bloomberg financial news - Runescape money\n\n-> Level up work from home\n-> How to convert coin base dollars to bitcoin\n\nInvest adjective - Variation crash chinese\n\nSitemap 31\n\nInvestment managers tunbridge wells - Clear politics polls real", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9522132873535156}
+{"content": "What Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis means for the stock market - October 09, 2020\n\nWhat Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis means for the stock market\n\nWith over 35 millions cases and over 1 million deaths worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the global economy and obviously the stock markets. United States are in the lead with more than 7.5 millions of cases and over 200 thousand deaths. Several leading figures in global politics have been among people infected, here are some of the cases: Prince Albert II of Monaco, UK prime minister Boris Johnson, prime minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, former president of India Pranab Mukherjee. Donald Trump joins the list of leading politicians who contracted coronavirus, First Lady Melania Trump has tested positive as well. What does that mean for the stock markets?\n\nDonald Trump announced early on Friday (October 2), less than 5 weeks before the Election Day, that he and the First Lady had contracted the coronavirus. Both of them immediately began quarantine, which prevented Trump from further campaigning.\n\nOn Friday, Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower driven by the news of Trump’s diagnosis: S&P 500 lost 1.24%, NASDAQ Composite dropped 2.15%, Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.01%. A slowdown in the US economic recovery affected the market as well. CBOE Volatility Index, which is often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge, opened 8% higher. After plunging on uncertainty over Trump’s COVID-19 test, stocks partially recovered during the day.\n\nPresident Trump’s diagnosis added even more uncertainty to the markets, put focus on a possibility of a second COVID-19 wave and raised fears of a slower reopening. Some investors are worried, that a serious worsening in Trump’s health less than a month before the Election Day could affect the stock market that just finished its worst month since March. \n\nAs Reuters puts it, should uncertainty persist, technology and momentum stocks that have led this year’s rally may be particularly vulnerable to a selloff, some investors said. “If people ... get nervous right now, probably it manifests itself in crowded trades like tech and mega-cap being unwound a bit,” Willie Delwiche, investment strategist at Baird, told Reuters.\n\nHowever, many analysts believe the Friday selloff was rather a knee-jerk reaction. According to MarketWatch, Jefferies analyst Sean Darby said that investors should not be panicking about Trump’s diagnosis and believes some of the selling in the stock market, which was staging a mini recovery at midday Friday, is overdone. The moves of U.S. 10 Year Treasury Note and gold price imply that there is no significant flow to safe havens.\n\nIn the meanwhile, there have been several rather sharp movements on the markets after the news of Trump’s illness (see a chart below): stocks reacted positively to improvement in President Trump’s recovery from coronavirus over the weekend and were supported by the hope for a new fiscal stimulus, then dropped as Trump ordered to stop the stimulus negotiations until after the election, and have rebounded after he said he was open to a number of independent fiscal stimulus measures. \n\nUncertainties related to the elections, a second COVID-19 wave, and a slowdown in US economic recovery will affect the market movements in the upcoming weeks. In times like this, patience is a virtue for investors. Additionally, a well diversified and professionally managed portfolio is a good choice that will help investors achieve their long-term return goals. As MarketWatch puts it, Michael Pompian, an expert on behavioral finance at Sunpointe Investment, notes that investors should resist the urge to change their tactics due to politics because it rarely has a long-term impact on their returns.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9679137468338013}
+{"content": "Cosmology Views\n\nGalactic Corona Coincidences\n\nThe previous post Galactic Corona Radiation did not reference several coincidences present in the spectra taken by an astronomer in 2013, which were in the link.\n\nAmong the coincidences are the elements and their velocities.\n\nM31: Calcium, Hydrogen, Magnesium, Sodium; velocity -301 km/s\n\nAldebaran: Calcium (other elements were not noted but calcium was used for comparing to calcium in M31); +54 km/s (star's velocity is irrelevant here)\n\nNGC 404: Hydrogen, Oxygen; -241 km/s\n\nM33 was too faint for the astronomer so he used NGC 404 as a proxy for M33.\n\nfrom Wikipedia:\nM33 Helio radial velocity-179 km/s\nM33 Galactocentric velocity -44 km/s\n\nsolar wind: Carbon, Oxygen, others; 250-750 km/s\n\nCoincidences are not a firm basis for a conclusion.\n\nHowever, this scenario is suggested:\n\na) these elements in these galactic spectra are from transmutation at the corona's electric discharge,\n\nb) calcium absorption line in Aldebaran is a calcium atom on its photosphere, possibly from transmutation. like a Safire scenario,\n\nc) the M31 calcium could be present by a similar mechanism at the corona,\n\nI could not find the Safire list but I suspect these elements were observed.\n\nd) the NGC 404 oxygen (and emission line) could be present by a similar mechanism,\n\ne) Each atom's velocity comes from the plasma moving away from the discharge (so toward Earth) bringing along neutral atoms,\n\nf) the velocities are similar because the plasma motion at the galactic corona discharge is similar to the plasma at the solar corona discharge, though the solar wind is a different mechanism.\n\nThis scenario is most certainly conjecture.\n\nHowever, the similar velocities among these blue shift objects suggest there is 'something' in common here.\n\nSometimes, coincidences suggest an explanation.\n\n\nThere are very few blue shifted galaxies; the others:\n\nM90, type Sb, velocity -282 km/s\nM98, type SABab, velocity -142 km/s\n\nNGC 6822, type Irregular Bar, velocity -57 km/s\nNGC 6822 is an unusual  galaxy in the Local Group with just the bar of a spiral galaxy but no arms.\n\nEvery blue shift object should have a public spectrum to understand its uniqueness, but they don't, certainly not of their corona.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998543381690979}
+{"content": "Attention Training: The Fundamental Pillar of Success?\n\nAttention Training: The Fundamental Pillar of Success?\n\n“Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success.”  ~ Tom Davenport, former director of Accenture Institute of Strategic Change\n\nMy childhood home had a steep driveway, sloping up to the road. Dad wanted to leave to go on a cycling trip, but it was very icy that day and he couldn’t get traction to move backward up the drive. Thankfully, there was an easy solution: to roll forward into the garage so that he could get up some momentum before hitting the ice. The problem was, he had already attached his bike to the roof of the car so that he could drive to the start point. As soon as he rolled the car forward, it hit the wall above the garage and the bike was ripped from its mountings.\n\nHow could we both have failed to see something so obvious? I was standing right next to the car, and could clearly see that the top of the bike was much higher than the garage door, yet still missed it.\n\nThis is a great example of the problem called inattention blindness. If you’ve ever seen the popular “invisible gorilla” video, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Originally created as part of an experiment conducted at Harvard University, it is of two teams of basketball players. Viewers are invited to count the number of passes made by one of the teams, unaware that, in the middle of all the activity, a person in a gorilla suit will walk through the group. Despite how obvious the gorilla is to anyone who already knows about it, scientists have discovered that most people miss the gorilla the first time they watch it, and in other, similar experiments this number can be as high as 80 percent.\n\nInterestingly, without the task of counting the passes, pretty much everyone watching the video will see the gorilla, and this gives us the clue to what happened with my Dad’s bike. Focusing on the task of counting passes causes most of us to miss what would otherwise be obvious, and similarly, it was the fact that our attention was overly focused on the problem of the ice that led us to fail to consider the broader consequences of our solution. When focusing on one task, it can be hard to notice much else.\n\nThese examples are highly representative of life. There are always multiple objects or streams of thought that we could concentrate on, and if we become locked onto any one of them it will dominate our attention, leading to us becoming unaware of other things around us.\n\nThe solution needed, which is core to all such problems, is the ability to manage attention more effectively. Today, this capability is commonly referred to as “mindfulness”. This is a mental state where the contents of the mind are very stable, enabling us to pay attention in a deliberate way, able to choose and maintain our focus, rather than having it pulled around by distractions.\n\nIn the examples above, the core problem is driven by the inappropriate focus of attention, which then blocks awareness to such an extent that even critical, and obvious, information outside the area of attention gets completely missed. This article discusses one of the most effective and accessible approaches to developing attention – meditation – describing how it enables us to change the way the brain perceives the world, thus creating a shift in awareness. It also covers some of the other, many benefits that we can gain from this practice.\n\nRead the Article: How Meditation Works in Your Brain – The connection between attention, awareness, and emotion\n\nMy Advice\n\nDespite its historical links to religion, there’s nothing mystical or weird about meditation. Whatever form it takes, meditation is brain training, pure and simple. Amongst other things, it enables us to develop the mental skill of being able to focus attention with intention, which is a skill which has many modern-world benefits.\n\nWhile the article is largely about attention, I want to reinforce the importance of intention in the process. This is because so much of what we do, and experience, is driven by the subconscious mind according to deeply buried rules. Even our perception of ‘out there’ is a construction which gives us the impression that we are able to see a full rich picture of “reality”. However, because the processes by which this happens are so effortless and unconscious, anything we miss will be completely invisible. To change this, we must introduce the power of intention.\n\nAn example of how powerful intention can be is observable when people listen to music. Research has shown that if they do so with an intention to feel happier, they actually become happier, whilst if they only seek to relax their happiness levels don’t move. It is the intention to become happier that makes the difference, which is achieved by consciously directing attention towards the desired outcome.\n\nThus, intention gives us the ability to bring conscious choice to the act of placing attention. As we develop the capacity to interrupt the automatic, unconscious processes, though mindfulness, we can literally change the way we perceive things and reduce problems like inattention blindness. Meditation enables us to develop this mental capacity. It takes time and deliberate effort; however, like going to the gym, if you are willing to put in the work, the benefits can be assured.\n\nDisliking Others – Is it Really About Them?\n\nDisliking Others – Is it Really About Them?\n\n\nToday I’m wise, so I’m changing myself.”  ~ Rumi\n\nThe conditioning we receive throughout life is so pervasive and powerful that it’s literally impossible to be aware of the psychological influence that it has on our feelings, including – perhaps especially – on our feelings relating to others. We are fundamentally social beings, so even the presence of other people can dramatically affect our experience of situations and things that we come across. For example, in his book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini quotes one study where “men who saw a new-car ad that included a seductive young woman model rated the car as faster, more appealing, more expensive-looking and better designed than did men who saw the same ad without the model. Yet, when asked later, the men refused to believe that the presence of the young woman had influenced their judgments”.\n\nWhat is happening is that we naturally interpret everything through the lens of our own experience and belief systems. If you’ve read my book, The Little Black Book of Decision Making, you’ll know that I love the following Sufi proverb, because it captures this idea so powerfully and in so few words: “When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are pockets”. Another way of saying this is that we see the world, not as it is, but as we are.\n\nThe psychological truth is that our emotional reaction to any experience cannot be attributed to any sort of objective “reality”, any more than a roller coaster can be said to be objectively exhilarating or terrifying. Rather, our emotional reactions are the result of our subjective interpretation of whatever is happening. Inevitably, this means that the way we see others – how we label or judge them, has more to do with ourselves than with them, as this wonderful story that I’ve paraphrased from Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, illustrates:\n\nStephen was travelling on the underground when a man got on with his children. The peace and calm that had previously existed was immediately shattered as the children’s terrible behaviour disrupted the other passengers. Irritation levels in the carriage understandably started to rise, but the father had closed his eyes and seemed oblivious. Astonished by this obvious lack of sensitivity to others, Stephen spoke politely to the man, suggesting that perhaps he could control his children a little more. The father then seemed to become aware of the situation for the first time, acknowledging he should do something, and saying, “We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don’t know what to think, and I guess they don’t know how to handle it either”.\n\nThis article offers some useful starting points to think about the root cause of negative biases that you might experience towards others.\n\nRead the Article: Are You Biased Against That Coworker You Don’t Like?\n\nMy Advice\n\nThere is one capability that both comes before and sits below all the techniques mentioned in the article, and which is, therefore, an essential enabler to developing emotional balance: to become much more highly attuned to our own emotional state in the moment. To do this, we must learn to use our minds differently.\n\nBy keeping some of our attention on the inner world of our emotions, we create the opportunity to change how we feel. This focus enables us to become aware of negative reactions. Having done so, we can then track back to the underlying thoughts, developing the capability to look at the thinking associated with the emotion. This capability is sometimes called metacognition, which means thinking about what we are thinking about. By becoming more conscious of your thoughts, the self-awareness generated will enable greater conscious regulation of how you feel, improving your ability to build constructive and empowering relationships.\n\nThe “Better than Average” Trap\n\nThe “Better than Average” Trap\n\nThere are two areas of understanding involved in our sense of self-awareness:\n\n  • Who we believe that we are  our identity, including our values, fears, thoughts, feelings, behaviours, strengths and weaknesses, drivers and motivators.\n  • How we fit into the world around us – based our beliefs about how the world works.\n\nThe problem is, we aren’t typically very good at making these assessments. Worse, as human beings, we have a tendency to overestimate ourselves, especially in relation to others.\n\nFor example, in one of a series of experiments by researchers at Cornell University, students were asked to predict how many flowers they would buy in an upcoming charity event, and how many the average student would buy. They then compared the predictions with actual behaviour. Consistently, the students greatly overestimated their own contributions, while making good guesses about what others would do.\n\nThis trait is known as illusory superiority, and it leads directly to problems like over-confidence, poor critical thinking, and a weakened ability to learn.\n\nTo compound the problem, even being given feedback on actual outcomes doesn’t lead us to make accurate adjustments. People have no resistance to adjusting down their estimates relating to others, but don’t similarly revise their perception of self, preferring to maintain their inflated self-image. The result is that, while we evaluate everyone else on observable behaviours, we cling to our original assessment of ourselves, even in the face of evidence to the contrary. For us, our knowledge of what we are “really like inside” is preferable emotionally, and therefore outweighs the external evidence.\n\nThe evidence of illusory superiority has been found in many studies, for example:\n\n  • High school students evaluate their leadership ability as above average 70% of the time, while only 2% of them see themselves as below average.\n  • When MBA students were asked to estimate their contribution to a team effort, the overall total came to 139%.\n  • 94% of university professors rate themselves as above average.\n  • In one company, 32% of the employees saw their performance as being in the top 5%.\n\nLeaders are especially susceptible to the tendency to overestimate their skills and contribution, because the delusion affects people most when the traits required are ill-defined – which is definitely true of leadership! That enables us to set up comparisons in a way that favours us.\n\nThis comprehensive article examines the power of reflective capacity, or mindfulness, to increase self-awareness because of the way it improves our ability to observe ourselves objectively. It examines the importance of giving consideration to our “inner self”, which is separate to our thoughts, looks at some of the benefits of self-awareness, and offers some simple practices for improving it.\n\nRead the Article: What is Self-Awareness and Why is it Important?\n\nMy Advice\n\nA powerful way to reduce our sense of illusory superiority is to become completely intolerant of our own excuses for our shortcomings, especially those which are based on the idea that poor results were “outside our control”. I call this desire to take personal responsibility, “getting to cause”, rather being “at effect”. Then, taking advantage of the fact that we are generally pretty accurate in assessing other people, seek third party input any time you find yourself making excuses, and make sure that you give full consideration to their responses. It won’t be comfortable, but you will increase the speed of your learning and immediately improve your decision making.\n\n“Because the Answers Have Changed”\n\n“Because the Answers Have Changed”\n\nThe title of this section is probably one of Einstein’s less well-known quotes. Nevertheless, I believe it’s also one of the most powerful and important things he said, particularly because of the way it relates to our ability to learn, grow and handle change.\n\nThe story goes that, while administering a 2nd year exam at Princeton University, his teaching assistant noted that Einstein had set the same paper as the previous year. Dr. Einstein, he asked, “Isn’t this the same exam you gave this class last year?”\n\nEinstein paused, then replied, “Yes, it is.”\n\nPuzzled, the assistant enquired, “Why would you give the same exam two years in a row?”\n\n“Because,” Einstein replied, “the answers have changed”.\n\nThis observation highlights a critically important concept: what we hold as “true” now can, and very often will, change. For leaders, there are two sides of this coin, one relating to maximising future potential, and the other to do with over-relying on the past:\n\n  1. It is essential to be able to recognise new insights and discoveries as they emerge, because this awareness can open up new possibilities, creating the potential to gain a competitive advantage or improve results.\n  2. Changes in the external environment can have the effect of making any current solution less effective, or even invalid, irrespective of its usefulness in the past. Strategies, systems and processes that were once “best practice” can become past practice virtually overnight, and this is happening right now, at a rate that has never been seen before.\n\nMost people have already become fairly well aware of this challenge. However, understanding the need to remain alert in order to spot changes as they occur is the easy part. Being able to put that awareness into practice is a completely different matter, because of the way our unconscious mind prefers the familiarity of the known. This can create a feeling that we “know”, or are “right”, even when our certainty has no basis in reality whatsoever.\n\nUnfortunately, we get no mental or emotional “warning bell” as we pass the point where ‘knowing” turns from strength to weakness: when we are wrong, but feel certain we are right, the way we feel matches the belief, not the fact. This article provides six recommendations, with details as to why each can be of great help to overcome our tendency to over-rely on expertise and/or knowledge, these being:\n\n  1. Maximise learning by listening attentively and reading critically.\n  2. Cultivate diverse sources of trusted advice who are willing to disagree with you.\n  3. Avoid your experience becoming too narrow.\n  4. Seek to overcome biases by actively looking for differing perspectives (stay detached).\n  5. Keep questioning when options are offered.\n  6. Think carefully about the risks during delivery/implementation.\n\nRead the Article: The Elements of Good Judgment\n\nMy Advice\n\nTo respond more effectively to changes in the business environment, it is essential to remember that even practices that worked very well in the past may not get you to where you want to go tomorrow. The most powerful approach for overcoming the ‘knowing/being right’ trap is also the core principle of scientific thinking: take what you believe and actively seek to disprove it, especially if you feel certain! Doing so will help to protect you against out-dated assumptions and be hugely transformation to your decision-making.\n\nAs the Einstein example highlights, to stay in front it is essential to keep questioning your beliefs, because you never know when the answer will change!\n\nLeading When Uncertainty is Pervasive\n\nLeading When Uncertainty is Pervasive\n\nThat leadership is about dealing with change – handling difficulties as they arise and adjusting course when necessary – is not news, or new. It involves diagnosis, then action, and it involves a great deal of resilience.\n\nThe problem is, the nature of decisions, even the approach needed to make them, varies hugely depending on the level of complexity and uncertainty in the environment. The more volatile and ambiguous the circumstances we face, the greater the difficulty of diagnosis becomes. As this happens, decision-making becomes less science and more art.\n\nThis is a real challenge, right now. If there is a simple way to describe the operating environment of the last few months, it is the absence of predictability and increase in ambiguity. Complexity has been spiralling out of control, and this has fundamental implications for leaders, many of whom have leaned heavily on their market, technology or industry expertise in reaching their level of seniority. The problem is, as uncertainty increases, so does the risk that expertise will become more of a hindrance rather a help.\n\n“I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.” ~ Socrates\n\nThe most compelling warning that I’m aware of, which highlights the dangers of over-reliance on expertise and being blinkered by certainty our knowledge is correct, comes from the largest study to date on this subject, completed by Professor Philip Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania. Over 20 years, and involving 82,361 forecasts by a large group of experts, he investigated their thought processes as they made predictions about future events, then he followed up to assess their accuracy.\n\nThis piece of work has become quite famous, perhaps because the high-level conclusion that Tetlock drew from it is rather memorable: that the average expert “is not much better at predicting the future than a dart-throwing chimpanzee”. Many of them, he found, would have done better if they had made random guesses!\n\nI believe this should strike a note of caution for all of us…\n\nWhat makes this study extremely important, is that Tetlock was able to identify a small group of experts who consistently defied the odds. They made startlingly better predictions than everyone else, even in the face of massive uncertainty.\n\nWhat differentiated this group was their thinking style: they were comfortable with complexity and uncertainty and did not allow themselves to become overconfident. This allowed them to constantly seek new perspectives and to avoid getting locked into the rigid mindset of what they already “knew”.\n\nThis article suggests that responding to the pervasive and unprecedented uncertainty that we all face today requires a whole new style of leadership: one built on humility, openness and commitment. I like this suggestion, not least because strengthening these traits does much to overcome the problems associated with over-reliance on expertise outlined above.\n\nRead the Article: Leading in Uncertain Times: Be Real – Not a Hero\n\nMy Advice:\n\nRemember, one thing that history demonstrates conclusively is that almost everything, even the most widely accepted scientific “facts”, will be disproven eventually. Unfortunately, we naturally tend to resist the idea that we might be wrong, because falling back on our expertise is comfortable and almost effortless. On the other hand, learning requires commitment and can be very uncomfortable. That’s where resilience comes in. We must learn to welcome the discomfort inherent in facing new challenges to maximise our ability to cope with highly complex and ambiguous situations. By practicing humility and openness, which will help you to see things from a new perspective, while displaying confidence and commitment, you will dramatically improve your resilience, thereby transforming your ability to adapt effectively.\n\nDeveloping Inner Agility\n\nDeveloping Inner Agility\n\nThis article, from McKinsey & Co., suggests that, “To navigate effectively, we must learn to let go—and become more complex ourselves“.\n\nThe concept of developing greater personal complexity encapsulates the approach that I’ve adopted in virtually all of my work. Because great leadership is critically dependent on emotional intelligence (EI), we can see that it has more to do with our mindset than any skills we might possess. This means that it must be constructed, from the inside out, by creating learning environments, not instructed from the outside in, as has traditionally been the case when teaching skills.\n\nLet’s look at this in the context of one key point from this article, which is the statement that, “The problem isn’t the problem; our relationship to the problem is the problem”. In relation to resilience, this would suggest that it is not stress that is the problem, but our perception of the situation that is the problem. This recognition is incredibly powerful, because it puts us in a better position to find a solution.\n\nAt the heart of this challenge, of changing our relationship to our environment, is one of the biggest paradoxes of dealing with the unknown.\n\nCurrent thinking in psychology, which is supported widely by research, suggests that we all experience stress when faced with change or uncertainty, to some degree. This is thought to be the result of deep conditioning that evolved to aid our survival.\n\nThe problem today is simple: very few situations we face are genuinely life-threatening, but our mind reacts to uncertainty as though faced with a predator: by triggering our fight-or-flight response. We experience this as stress, and it drives behaviours that may be highly inappropriate, such as acting on instinct, falling back on old habits, or to becoming so preoccupied with seeking more information that we cannot make any decision at all.\n\nSo, what is the paradox I referred to above?\n\nLet’s assume for a moment that our stress is not the result of misperception. The root cause of the stress that arises when we face the unknown is that we don’t know how to resolve the situation we face, and we therefore worry about the outcome. If we knew what to do, we wouldn’t feel stressed!\n\nIt follows that what we most need in such situations is a new solution; however, that would require creativity, and – here’s the paradox – creativity is blocked by stress. How ironic! Because our brain is maladapted to modern challenges, just when we most need to be creative is when this mental resource is least available to us. It occurs because the part of our brain that triggers our fight-or-flight response, the amygdala, also suppresses activity in our prefrontal cortex, which is the part that gives rise to our creativity (as well as many other higher human functions).\n\nTo remain agile and creative when confronted by unpredictable change, it is essential that we learn to become more comfortable with uncertainty. I believe that this article conveys some useful insights to help you move towards this goal.\n\nRead the Article: Leading with Inner Agility\n\nMy Advice:\n\nWhen we resist a situation, wishing it would go away because it feels uncomfortable, that resistance increases the stress we experience. This puts us into a vicious cycle where, as the article highlights, our poor relationship to the problem only increases the magnitude of the problem as we see it.\n\nTry to shift your perception of challenges, to see them as opportunities to learn and grow. Every world-class athlete knows the importance of this mindset, having achieved success by continually pushing him or herself into situations where they are stretched beyond their current physical, mental and emotional limits. Without the stress this creates, the growth they seek is impossible. If you can use your challenges in a similar way, as melting pots that create the conditions necessary to become stronger, they will immediately feel less stressful.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9407195448875427}
+{"content": "Investigation into UIA plane crash in Iran can last from 5 years, - MFA\n\nSource : 112 Ukraine\n\nYenin added that the situation can be resolved out of court\n19:32, 17 August 2020\n\nPS 752 plane crash\n\nIf international courts are involved in the investigation of the UIA Boing crash in Tehran, it may take 5 years or more to complete, as Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgen Yenin said, Censor.NET news agency reports.\n\n“I would definitely not want to name any time benchmarks, although I understand perfectly well that society expects results for yesterday. To a large extent, it all depends on the Iranian side's political will. If we look at the similar practice of investigating other aviation accidents, let us recall for example, the situation with a Russian plane shot down over the Black Sea, on board which there were citizens of Russia and Israel, the settlement process lasted about 2 years,” Yenin stated\n\nRelated: President's Office examines impact of events in Belarus on Ukraine\n\nIn addition, Yenin added that the situation can be resolved out of court.\n\nAs we reported before, Foreign Ministry of Ukraine states Iran is obliged to pay compensation for Ukrainian Boeing 737 downed over Teheran, despite the fact that the plane was registered by European, no Iranian underwriter\n\nRelated: Why Vladimir Putin is unlikely to invade Belarus\n\nСистема Orphus\n\n\nsee more", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7870502471923828}
+{"content": "Are you winning at our Wheel of Life?\n\nGood wellbeing is all about balance. In the midst of half term, are you winning at balance and harmony in your life? Not easy when you are trying to balance work, a family, health and a home not to mention all of this in the throws of the covid 19 pandemic.\n\nWe often use the wheel of life in clinic to help our patient’s when they need to decide what is important to them.\n\nIf you manage to get 5 minutes this half term (lock yourself in the bathroom) take this wheel of life and rate each section out of 10 with 10 being the most important to you and 0 being the least important to you.\n\nDon’t forget, we are in strange times and so some things may mean more (or less) to you right now than they did say back in January.\n\nWhat do the results mean?\n\nThe higher scores reflect what is important to you, what you value in your life. An example would be that if exercised scored a high mark then your health is probably a high priority to you. If recreation and fun are high right now, it might be because you are not getting your usual fill of social interaction right now, so it has become more important than ever.\n\nWhat do the lower scores mean?\n\nThe meaning very much depends on if you are comfortable with these scores. For example if money doesn’t rate high on your wheel of life but you aren’t struggling financially then it is pointless to make it a worry. If family, kids and love rate low but you and your family are suffering as a result then this would indicate that now is the time to make some changes.\n\nDo not stress over the wheel of life however, it serves as a guide and a point of focus to help you to revaluate what is important to you at that moment in time. Don’t forget that life changes and ebbs and flows and things will become of greater and lesser importance at certain points in our life. The wheel serves as a way of focusing our minds on what we want and/ or need most right now.\n\nHow do I make the changes I need then?\n\n1. Start by picking one area you genuinely want to improve upon.\n2. What are the 3 things you could be doing to improve that are of life?\n3. Are there things you know you could be doing in this area, that aren’t happening right now?\n4. What do you need to stop doing?\n5. What will happen if you don’t change things? What about if you do change things?\n6. What one action could you take everyday that would not take up too much time, and would take you in the direction you want to go in?\n7. Can you commit to that action?\n8. When will you start? Set yourself a goal!\n\nOnce you have identified the one area that you most want to improve in, start by committing just 15 minutes to that area each day. Starting small will ensure your success.\n\nI read a book earlier this year and a Father decided that he most wanted to improve on the way he was with his children. When he walked through the door each evening, for 5 minutes he would behave in what he perceived would be the best dad in the world, like they were the only children in the world and the only person he had seen that day, even though he just wanted to eat supper and sit on the sofa. The kids loved seeing their dad, their relationship improved and they soon got bored of him, leaving him (the now best dad ever) to get on with his evening!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9607328176498413}
+{"content": "नाड़ीशोधन प्राणायाम - Nadishodhan Pranayama\n\nNadi Shodhan Pranayama - By this Pranayama the Nadis are purified. Therefor, it is known as Nadi Shodhan Pranayama. Human body does have psychic center and the channel for communication is called Nadi. Nadishodhan Pranayama also known as Anulom Vilom Pranayama.\n\nMany of us may not be aware of the fact that we breathe mostly through only one nostril at a time and even the force of breathing is also not equal for both the nostrils. the science of breath claims that there is a natural, rhythmic and alternate change in the dominance of one nostril to another, occurring after every one hour. It also believes that a particular type of nostril dominance is preferable for preparing one mentally, emotionally and physiologically for a particular activity of day-to-day life. This is because certain physical activities and psychological conditions were observed to be associated with the predominant flow of breath through a particular nostril.\n\nFor example, the right nostril dominance is associated with the digestion of food, outward directedness, more vigorous activity, more active and aggressive nature and more alertness for the external happenings; whereas the left nostril dominance is related to more passive psychological state, more quiet and receptive mood which helps one in getting easily directed towards the inner environment.\n\nYoga not only recognized this one-nostril dominance from the beginning but also has correlated certain psychological changes and behavioral tendencies with it.\n\nModern science has revealed several chronic functional disorders ranging from simple intellectual asthenia to visceral dysfunctions like asthma, peptic ulcer, cerebral palsy, dysmenorrhea, etc., associated with permanent single nostril dominance on account of the septum deviation or some other obstruction in the nostril. Various mental and emotional disturbances have been observed to influence the natural rhythm of the alternate nostril dominance, by bringing about the nasal congestion and changing the secretions. Physical factors like temperature, humidity, irritants, breath holding as well as exercise are known to alter nasal airflow and establish equal dominance in both the nostrils.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998980760574341}
+{"content": "The American Journal of Education, Volume 14\n\nSampul Depan\nHenry Barnard\nF.C. Brownell, 1864\n\nApa yang dikatakan orang - Tulis resensi\n\nKami tak menemukan resensi di tempat biasanya.\n\nEdisi yang lain - Lihat semua\n\nIstilah dan frasa umum\n\nBagian yang populer\n\nHalaman 102 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes, yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgment.\nHalaman 41 - Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth ; ... most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant, The President of the United States, and all others in authority...\nHalaman 313 - Can there be any thing more ridiculous than that a father should waste his own money and his son's time in setting him to learn the Roman language, when at the same time he designs him for a trade...\nHalaman 162 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned ; either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer...\n\nInformasi bibliografi", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7162519693374634}
+{"content": "Healthcare Incentives | The Nursing Tutors\nJanuary 14, 2021\nresponse to dq 7.1 post 2\nJanuary 14, 2021\n\nWhat are the main criteria by which we should judge the quality of the governance of international organizations (whether IGO’s or NGOs)? In your answer discuss at least two different criteria by which we can measure the quality of governance of IGOs. Do you believe that the UN Charter offers a blueprint for good governance?\n\nYour initial submission\n\n(your answer) should demonstrate both your knowledge of the course\n\nmaterials and your knowledge of the topic. It should be analytical in\n\nnature and explain your logic. Your answer should be 200-300 words long\n\nand be free from grammatical and proofreading errors. Please cite your\n\nsources using the reference list format within the Turabian style. For\n\nexamples, please see the Turabian Quick Guide located under the\n\nresources link.\n\n\nUse Discount Code “Newclient” for a 15% Discount!\n\n\nBuy Custom Nursing Papers\n\n\n\nEssay Writing Service", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9623857736587524}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Are The 2 Types Of Cell?\n\nAre all prokaryotes harmful?\n\nLess than 1% of prokaryotes (all of them bacteria) are thought to be human pathogens, but collectively these species are responsible for a large number of the diseases that afflict humans.\n\nBesides pathogens, which have a direct impact on human health, prokaryotes also affect humans in many indirect ways..\n\nWhat are the 2 main types of eukaryotic cells?\n\nTypes of Eukaryotic Cells Eukaryotic cells may be classified into two groups based on the number of cells that make an individual organism: (1) unicellular eukaryotic cells and (2) multicellular eukaryotic cells. Unicellular eukaryotes include the protists.\n\nWhich type of cell is more simple?\n\nProkaryotic cellsProkaryotic cells are generally much smaller and more simple than eukaryotic (see Fig. 1). Prokaryotic cells are, in fact, able to be structurally more simple because of their small size.\n\nWhat is the smallest type of cell?\n\n\nWhat is a cell?\n\n\nAre viruses prokaryotes?\n\nMicroorganisms and all other living organisms are classified as prokaryotes or eukaryotes. … Viruses are considered neither prokaryotes nor eukaryotes because they lack the characteristics of living things, except the ability to replicate (which they accomplish only in living cells).\n\nWhat are the 2 main types of cells What is the main difference between the 2 types?\n\nThere are two cell types: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotic cells are usually single-celled and smaller than eukaryotic cells. Eukaryotic cells are usually found in multicellular organisms, but there are some single-celled eukaryotes.\n\nWhich type of cell is larger?\n\n\nWhat type of cell is bacteria?\n\nprokaryotic cellsBacteria are examples of the prokaryotic cell type. An example is E. coli. In general, prokaryotic cells are those that do not have a membrane-bound nucleus.\n\nWhat ribosome means?\n\nRibosomes are minute particles consisting of RNA and associated proteins that function to synthesize proteins. Proteins are needed for many cellular functions such as repairing damage or directing chemical processes. Ribosomes can be found floating within the cytoplasm or attached to the endoplasmic reticulum.\n\nWhy are prokaryotes split into two domains?\n\n\nWhat are the 2 types of prokaryotic cells?\n\nBut in the three-domain system, based upon molecular analysis, prokaryotes are divided into two domains: Bacteria (formerly Eubacteria) and Archaea (formerly Archaebacteria). Organisms with nuclei are placed in a third domain, Eukaryota.\n\nWhat types of cells make up your body?\n\nHow many different types of cells are in the human body?red blood cells (erythrocytes)skin cells.neurons (nerve cells)fat cells.\n\nAre humans eukaryotes?\n\nFor more information on DNA, see section “DNA Definition.” Cells that contain these features (ie, cytoskeleton, organelles surrounded by cytoplasm and nucleus surrounded by nuclear envelope) are called eukaryotic cells. Human cells are eukaryotic cells.\n\nWhat is the basic unit of life?\n\nCells as the Basic Unit of Life. A cell is the smallest unit of a living thing and is the basic building block of all organisms.\n\nWhat are the two main types of cells quizlet?\n\nWhat are the two types of cells? Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic.\n\nWhat is Prokarya?\n\nalso pro·car·y·ote (prō-kăr′ē-ōt′) Any of various microorganisms of the domains Archaea and Bacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct membrane-bound nucleus and membrane-bound organelles and by the simultaneous occurrence of DNA transcription and protein synthesis at the same site, in contrast to eukaryotes.\n\nWhat type of cell is a fungus?\n\nFungi are eukaryotes and have a complex cellular organization. As eukaryotes, fungal cells contain a membrane-bound nucleus where the DNA is wrapped around histone proteins. A few types of fungi have structures comparable to bacterial plasmids (loops of DNA).", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999687075614929}
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+{"content": "What Does CC Mean Fashion?\n\nWhat does CC stand for in medical terms?\n\n\nWhat does CC stand for in slang?\n\n\nWhat does CC stand for on TikTok?\n\nClosed Captions”Closed Captions.” Closed Captions are a type of subtitles, used to display text on screen in video apps such as YouTube and TikTok.\n\nWhat is CC in Instagram?\n\ncoloring creditCC = coloring credit (Every editor uses a coloring.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9281027317047119}
+{"content": "My website contains affiliate links. I may earn something from qualifying purchases and subscriptions made through my links.\n\nHow’s your content plan going? I thought I’d help you out by giving real examples of how to do keyword research for content marketing.\n\nRemember how I told you to research from a social media platform - the one that you are most interested in?\n\nAlthough I am mostly a silent reader of “Manila Grows Food” public Facebook group, I consume most of the people’s “contents” while lying down trying to sleep. I see people sharing their successes in growing specific plants, asking questions, and some are even selling fertilizers (but they are mostly deleted by the admin).\n\nNow as I browsed the newsfeed, I saw some questions, and did a little keyword research.\n\nSo for this lesson, I will aim to come up with keywords which will be good for a 1 month content plan.\n\nImportant: Don't OVERDO your keyword research. Ubbersuggest is free but have limitations. If you cannot see the results anymore, that means you already reached the limit for the day and needs to come back after 24 hours.\n\nHow To Do Keyword Research For Content Marketing\n\nIdea #1: “Why do you use plastic forks and knives in the plant box?”\n\nTarget Keyword\n\n\n\nforks in the garden\n\n\n\nIdea #2: “My Basil plants started to die, since it's started raining. I'm not sure why, but anyone who can give any tips on how to save my basil?”\n\nto do keyword research for content marketing\n\nTarget Keyword\n\n\n\noverwatered basil\n\n\n\nIdea #3: “Got these seeds today: Carolina Reaper and Habanero. Before I even attempt to start planting them, do you have any tips and advice as to how to take care of them or effectively make them grow?”\n\nkeyword research for content marketing\n\nTarget Keyword\n\n\n\n\nplant stages\n\n\n\nHow to grow\n\nCarolina reaper\n\n\n\nIdea #4: A shared blog post about “compact edible garden.”\n\nhow to do keyword research for beginners\nkeyword search marketing\n\nTarget Keyword\n\n\n\nedible garden plants\n\n\n\nlist of edible plants\n\nwith pictures\n\n\n\nCompanion planting examples\n\n\n\nCompanion planting garden layout\n\n\n\nCompanion planting chart for vegetables\n\n\n\nCompanion planting\n\n\n\n\nCompanion planting potatoes\n\n\n\nSee how I easily gathered topics to produce contents about? And I only scrolled the Facebook feed for 10 minutes! \n\nTo test the potential of this public Facebook group if they will engage in my post should I decide to create and share solutions to their problem, I posted a helpful post. \n\nA little background:\n\nTwo weeks ago, I went to this group desperate for solutions on how I can stop stray cats from ruining my vegetables. I went there (instead of Google) since these are “targeted helpers who will not sell me anything.” And we share something common: we grow food in an urban setting.\n\nBeginner gardeners like me (I’m trying to grow some edibles in pots/small space) are always excited to “harvest.”\n\nEveryday, we check how many leaves are added, if there are caterpillars snacking on the leaves (LOL), or pests, etc.\n\nNow, imagine one morning what we will feel if stray cats will just end up stamping on the vegetables that you are supposed to already harvest, and worse, leave their poop over there?\n\nOkay, end of background story, LOL.\n\nSo my problem with stray cats has been going on for 3 days, before I asked for help since I cannot take it anymore. Googling didn’t necessarily helped me (most of them don't have a blog! So YES!!! Can you see the potential of these 23,000 targeted people who I can invite here in my blog, and benefit from my FREE training, using the topic they are already passionate about?)\n\nSo anyway, my post was flooded with “helpers.” Some of them suggested sticking forks or plastic knives in the ground, while others told me to put citrus (including my mother, LOL). So after doing all the suggestions, something finally worked! Just put a water bottle (with water) and place it beside the pot!\n\nSince I owe the “solution” (I don't know how long it will work) to the group, I shared it with them. Most of them started to really “engage” (HINT: engagement is super necessary in social media marketing).\n\nSomeone asked: “Do I put the water bottle beside the pot or inside the pot?”\n\nAnother question: “Does anyone know how to stop stray dogs from digging the soil in the pot?”\n\nMost of them started giving me theories (links to other blogs) why it worked. If I have a blog post about it, and IF the “solution” I shared is a blog post, instead of just the photo of my plant with a water bottle beside it, see how people are already giving me suggestions on how I can start to “improve” my post.\n\nI can include their questions to my blog post now, so every time someone has a problem with stray cats, my blog post (with complete proven solutions) will be the ANSWER! It will be a “cornerstone content” now.\n\nAccording to Yoast (a tool used for SEO, separate lesson), a cornerstone content should be the most comprehensive and longest article in your blog (you can have 4 to 5 cornerstone contents).\n\nIf I have an urban gardening blog, one of the cornerstone contents can be the solution to stray cats (compilation of all other blogs’ solutions + my compiled suggestions from the Facebook group + my proven solution to give it credibility).\n\nAnd do you know what else happened after I shared the solution to them? My post was “shared” although I didn’t solicit for shares! \n\nSocial media shares is one of MANY factors for ranking in Google!\n\nWhile your competitors are “manipulating” their shares, using expensive automation tools just to “share” a post they either probably spend money/time on, and “marketing” it to random audiences who are not actually interested at all - HERE you are, in this targeted Facebook group. Helping people who need your help. And you don’t need to solicit shares because they will share it and tag people they know who have the same problem!\n\nNow, from a single “specific” problem, which is now solved (for now), I can go ahead and look for solutions to stray dogs. I can even start to look for products on Amazon that can stop specific pests like snails (yes, I also saw the problem on Facebook. Snails are snacking in my friend’s garden, LOL)!\n\nI googled, “What product should I buy to get rid of snails?” Since there are no “potential” keywords, I can move on to the next related topic with a good potential.\n\nIf I want to earn money faster, I will focus my research in Amazon search bar:\n\nI typed “snail repellant” and Amazon products started to populate! \n\nhow to do keyword research for seo\n\nSo now, I have a HELPFUL article (which doesn’t expire easily), integrated with Amazon products which I do not have to review since reviews can expire over years, and just embed Amazon products (with my Affiliate link) as “Products To Explore” or \"What's selling?\" \n\nWhen you want to update the Amazon products in this post, you can “update” it by choosing:\n\n“What’s new, what’s selling and what’s hot.” People like new/latest products!\n\nThere are few things to note about the keywords that I chose, aside from the number of searches and the competition.\n\nThe topics will not easily “expire.”\n\nIf you write about why people use forks in their garden, the answers “might evolve” over time. But in concept, the reasons behind doing it were the same years ago as it will be years from now.\n\nGrowing a Carolina reaper will require the same elements: how much water, how much sun, and how big the container should be. Wherever you are in the world, five years after you publish the content, there might be new technologies to grow it, but as long as your post is talking about growing in soil, then you don’t have to revise it often compared to when you are writing product reviews.\n\nAlso, seeing the results above, I know that I will prioritize the \"companion planting tomatoes\" content. Not only because so many people are searching for \"help\" about it and there's only a little competition - but because, as a gardener, you should know how hard it is to grow tomatoes! \n\nI planted my tomato seeds 4 and a half months ago, and although it has been flowering for quite sometime now, it doesn't bear fruits at all! I consumed all suggestions on Google and nothing worked so far. If you have a solution that works, people will definitely consume your content and in the end, you can end up gaining their trust.\n\nHere's the thing - this is a tempting niche to explore. It is an \"evergreen niche.\" So many years ago, people are already trying to learn how to grow vegetables. Many years from now, the basic process of growing vegetables will be the same as long as you are using soil. There might be new technologies in the future, but the \"classic way\" of growing vegetables will not change. \n\nSpending time researching and pushing to pursue a niche just because it is evergreen is something to consider. It can take time to \"finish\" - and see monetary results since you will be spending time researching something you know very little about, but consider it as an investment. In the future, you don't have to keep on revising since your contents will not easily expire.\n\nFor me, my priority is to finish my free course. Five years from now, I \"might\" explore this niche - when I already know so much about plants. If I pursue this now, my credibility is still questionable since my garden is full of dying vegetables that I cannot even proudly promote my gardening blog to my neighbour, lol.\n\nBefore you worry about how you can make money about these topics, specifically through affiliate marketing, you need to help. Produce contents that can help your target audience.\n\nTo give you peace of mind, I googled for “urban gardening affiliate programs.” You can do the same by googling your niche + affiliate program.\n\nI made sure that there are “enough” affiliate programs in urban gardening.  Look! TONS!\n\nkeyword research optimization\n\nYou'll see that even with a lower domain score (newbies start with \"1\"), you can still have a chance of outranking an \"authority\" website!\n\nAnd there’s Amazon (which has almost all products you can think of) to begin with.\n\nHere’s your homework:\n\n  1. Finalize your keyword list. Use Google spreadsheet so it autosaves reliably and you’ll have a copy wherever you go (as long as there’s an internet).\n\n  1. Use Google Docs to start writing about your first 12 chosen topics. You can choose a method which is the most comfortable for you - writing or making videos.\n\nIf you love making videos, stick to it so you'll not struggle with creating contents. It should be helpful videos, showing solutions, and educating the audience how to get rid of the problem.\n\nDo this for the next 1 month. (Yes, try to produce 12 in a month. That’s how you will get the momentum going). Don’t worry if you don’t finish all. If you aim for 7, you might end up with just 6, 4, or even just 2. It’s still a good progress compared to aiming for just 2 to begin with!\n\nI hope this post has been helpful, and no, I won’t teach you how to optimize it for SEO yet, LOL.\n\nI believe that in order to get results faster, you need to focus one task at a time.\n\nIf you are struggling to come up with contents, maybe there is something wrong with the method you are using. Maybe, writing is not for you. Maybe video making is alien to you. So focus on what other “content” you can do. For podcasts, look for Pat Flynn, or maybe use the free Canva (affiliate link) if you want to focus on creating beautiful infographics.\n\nIn order to get rid of any hindrance which can stop you from producing a content a day, focus on your existing skills. If not, just dedicate time and be willing to learn new ones. Instead of thinking that acquiring new skills can delay your content creation process, consider it as an investment.\n\nI’ll see you in the next lesson.\n\n\n\nP.S. It's important to learn \"content marketing\" too (since this is a \"timeless\" approach) - learn how to build and gain trust, before trying to rank in search engines (SEO), so audience can buy from your affiliate links (affiliate marketing). Gaining your audience trust can mean a lot, like getting their e-mail addresses, talking about your blog to people they know (free offline promotion), sharing your contents (free social media automation) and commenting on your posts (free engagements!).\n\nIf you provide value and help people, they will help you too (they just don't know that they are actually helping).\n\nShould your \"traffic\" or site visitors drop in numbers (due to the everchanging algorithms of Google for ranking on top), we will have other ways to \"sell\" our audience something - like the old school but still very effective (when done right) e-mail marketing. Even if the internet is gone in the future and everything goes back offline, only one thing will remain - the \"trust\" of your audience to you or to the brand you built.\n\nContent Marketing: \"A strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.\"Content Marketing Institute.\n\nwhat is the best keyword research tool for seo\n\n\"What you plant today, you will harvest tomorrow.\"\n\nClick to Tweet\n\nBefore I forget, since you already know by now that external links to authority sites are good for ranking higher on search engines, every time I point you to an authority site, I advice you to learn from the article, too. 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You can read more about me here.\n\nWould love to know your thoughts, please comment! :)\n\nYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked\n\n  1. Wow thank you for the article! As I’m very new in the online business scene, I need any way I can to continue to find reliable keywords, so that I can continuously and consistently post new content and gain as much traffic as possible. Your article has helped me find new methods to reliably find new keywords so that I may continue to posting new content. Thanks again!\n\n    1. Great! Just a heads up though. Don’t focus so much on the numbers. Focus on providing value. Honestly, when people get caught up with “very good” keywords to target, they tend to overdo it and forget that there are people consuming their contents on the other side of it. In the next lessons (and when you already have the contents produced), we can easily “fix” the technical sides of it/do on-page and off-page SEO so that your content will reach more audiences.\n\n  2. Many times we underestimate the power of groups and social media platforms. Like you rightly said, in groups, you have people that are ready to share their experience without selling. They are potential sources of the ideas.  \n\n    1. Honestly, I find good “traffic” or people who really engage in Facebook groups, compared to social media platforms like Twitter, FB page, Quora, etc…Maybe it’s just me being anti-social, haha, but really, the “real people are in groups.” People in FB pages are merely there for entertainment. Same in Twitter. Or again, maybe, it’s just me. LOL\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7670713067054749}
+{"content": "Last year, Google released a new “Recommendations” tab in the Google Ads interface, which houses a new metric called “optimization score.” Google’s optimization score is an estimate of how well Google believes your account is currently performing. This scale ranges from 0% to 100%, with 100% being the maximum optimization score. The lower the score, the more potential opportunities you have to test new features and improve account performance.\n\nBefore you get concerned about seeing low optimization scores in your account, it’s important to note that scores are very dependent on adoption of Google algorithms and features, and not all features are going to be aligned with your current account goals. A 70% score does not necessarily mean your account is set up poorly; it might just indicate that there is room to increase coverage on smart bidding or new ad types.\n\nHow Do I Improve My Optimization Score?\n\nFrom the moment you create your campaign, Google’s algorithms are calculating your baseline optimization score. Google will then provide various recommendations on how you can improve your score.\n\nNow, the important question: which recommendations should you use? The answer: it depends. You could easily apply all recommendations Google provides to skyrocket your optimization score to close to 100%, but you don’t necessarily want to do that. There are many outside factors deciding which of the recommendations you should use. For example, Google always recommends testing smart bidding, no matter how long the campaign has been active or how much conversion volume a campaign has. Oftentimes, there might be reasons you want to hold off on immediately activating smart bidding, such as budget limitations or concerns about optimizing toward back-end metrics — so even though Google recommends smart bidding, you may not want to enable it right away just to improve your optimization score.\n\nWhen you go through the list of recommendations Google provides, you’ll want to focus on the suggestions you know are easy to implement, have direct control over, and are enhancing your campaigns based on your account and business needs, not based on Google’s desire for you to adopt new features. Examples of quick win adjustments include adding new “Observation” audiences, fixing negative keyword conflicts, fixing ad groups with no keywords or ads, fixing ad disapprovals, adjusting campaign settings, and adding ad extensions.\n\nAs for the recommendations that don’t align with your current account goals, make sure to dismiss them by clicking on the three dots at the top right of each Recommendation box. Removing them will prevent irrelevant recommendations from bringing down your total optimization score.\n\nWhat Is a Good Optimization Score?\n\nWhile optimization scores are a helpful gauge to see how your campaigns align with Google’s recommended best practices, there are some intricacies to be aware of. Optimization scores vary on the type of campaign; whether it’s Search, Display, Shopping, or Youtube, each campaign type has different sets of criteria for Google’s optimization score. For example, all Smart campaigns default to a 100% optimization score (as long as budget is not limited), since these campaigns are letting Google take full control over bids and optimizations. Again, this does not mean Smart campaigns will always perform better than a campaign with a lower optimization score. There are many instances where a campaign with a lower optimization score will perform better than a campaign with an optimization score of 100% based on your business goals.\n\nSo, if Google’s optimization score is so dependent on other factors, what should you use it for? Like many of the other insights and metrics we receive as digital marketers, optimization score should be a directional tool. We are not just looking for the best optimization score; we are looking for opportunities to improve our accounts. The optimization score and recommendations tool Google provides are great resources for finding new opportunities to grow or make your accounts better. While a 100% optimization score is not the ultimate goal you should strive for, improving optimization scores should be a key aspect of any digital marketer’s ability to brainstorm new ideas and drive strong performance in their accounts.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9991182088851929}
+{"content": "Search results for tag \"Uke\"\n\nWhat is Uke?\n\n\nI think sometimes in the Bujinkan we have a misconception about what an Uke is and their role in training. Some think that the Uke is always the junior person and they are solely there for the senior person to learn a technique. Merely sacrificing their body so the senior person can do a good c...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999366998672485}
+{"content": "Innovation Watch: Mind controlled robots\n\nImagine controlling a robot arm with nothing more than your thoughts? Researchers have taken a step towards that reality with a breakthrough in non-invasive robotic device control. We picture a world where brand activations could be brought to life with the opportunities this tech provides.\n\nA team of American researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has developed the first successful mind-controlled robotic arm. The team, working in collaboration with the University of Minnesota developed the arm’s ability to continuously track and follow a computer cursor.\n\nUntil this breakthrough any sort of robot device required some form of brain implant to work. As you might have guessed the tech is still very much in its early stages and isn’t nearly as effective as the implant-based technology. So, let’s hold our horses when we imagine some kind of Doctor Octopus robot super soldiers…\n\nNaturally this sort of tech could potentially have life changing implications for people with physical disabilities, or with people who are growing frail with age. All on board with that sort of thing.\n\nHowever, imagine the sheer scope it could give to branded experiential activations? Suddenly scale stops being a problem when a thought can control a robot. Larger than life activations don’t have to worry about the same logistics as something manually controlled: there’d be no worrying about having to teach people controls, just tell people to focus their concentration and they’re in control.\n\nIf the tech could world alongside VR we could create worlds that combine the wonder of the virtual with real tactile feedback as well. It could completely change how we interact with live spaces. This is a tech we’re seriously hoping becomes the norm!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5949066877365112}
+{"content": "Over the summer, the U.S. Women's national basketball team cruised to the gold medal at the FIBA Women's AmeriCup, winning all six games by an average of 38.6 points. They've dominated at the Olympic level, winning the last six gold medals, and have done the same at the FIBA World Cup, taking home gold at the last three editions of that event. In fact, it's been over a decade since they lost a game at a major international competition.\n\nBut on Saturday night, the No. 1 ranked college team was too much for them. In front of a sold out crowd at their home gym, the Oregon Ducks took down Team USA, 93-86 in a historic upset. In doing so, Oregon became just the second collegiate team to ever beat Team USA, joining Tennessee, who accomplished the feat back in 1999. \n\nNo matter the level, you need a star to take down Team USA, and Oregon has one in senior guard Sabrina Ionescu. She led Oregon to their first ever Final Four appearance last season, and is already the NCAA all-time leader in triple-doubles, regardless of gender, and would have been the No. 1 overall pick in last year's WNBA Draft if she had decided to declare. \n\nShe showed why on Saturday, scoring 25 points in the second half alone to lead Oregon to the upset. She finished with 30 points, four rebounds and seven assists, and made a couple of highlight-reel plays. Ionescu might as well start looking up places to live in New York, because there's no way the Liberty are taking anyone else with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft next spring. \n\nNow, you may be asking yourself, why was Team USA even playing Oregon this weekend? Good question. Over the past two weekends, Team USA embarked on a four-game tour to face some of the best college teams of the country. The matchups were set up as part of a new and improved training program for the national team. Earlier in the tour, Team USA defeated Stanford, Oregon State and Texas A&M.\n\nWorking together with the WNBA, USA Basketball committed to a program to pay for a select group of players to stay in the United States this winter to train and prepare for the 2020 Olympics. In addition to improving Team USA, a stated goal of the initiative was to increase exposure for women's basketball in the U.S. It's safe to say that goal was accomplished on Saturday night. \n\nNow, it must be stated that this wasn't the A+ version of Team USA. Breanna Stewart and Angel McCoughtry are injured, Maya Moore isn't playing basketball right now and key bigs like Elena Delle Donne, Brittney Griner and Tina Charles weren't playing. Still, this version of Team USA featured much of the core of the Olympic team, including Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Sylvia Fowles, and was a much better squad than the one that went to Puerto Rico for the FIBA Women's AmeriCup and flat out dominated. \n\nIn truth, it wouldn't matter which version of Team USA Oregon defeated; a group of college kids taking down WNBA stars is an incredible accomplishment. Good luck to the other college teams that have to face the Ducks this season.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6484469175338745}
+{"content": "Everyone experiences goosebumps from time to time. When it happens, the hairs on your arms, legs, or torso stand up straight. The hairs also pull up a little bump of skin, the hair follicle, up with them.\n\nThe medical terms for goosebumps are piloerection, cutis anserina, and horripilation. The term “goosebumps” is most widely used because it’s easy to remember: The little bumps that form on your skin when this phenomenon happens look like the skin of a plucked bird.\n\nAs you may have noticed, goosebumps tend to form when you’re cold. They also form when you experience a strong emotional feeling, such as extreme fear, sadness, joy, and sexual arousal.\n\nGoosebumps may also occur during times of physical exertion, even for small activities, like when you’re having a bowel movement. This is because the physical exertion activates your sympathetic, or instinctual, nervous system. Sometimes, goosebumps may crop up for no reason at all.\n\nMany animals also experience what could be categorized as goosebumps, including porcupines and dogs. In these cases, goosebumps are a bodily response to situations where it’s advantageous to appear larger and stronger, such as during a confrontation or courtship.\n\nIn humans, experts believe goosebumps are a product of evolution working in a similar way as they’re meant to in nonhuman animals.\n\n\nIn animals, this action also raises hairs in a way that traps air to create insulation. In people, this effect doesn’t do quite as much. Humans have much less body hair than many other nonhuman animals with hair.\n\nAs your body heats up, your goosebumps will slowly begin to disappear. The same goes for bodily exertions that can cause goosebumps, such as having a bowel movement. After a bowel movement, goosebumps will disappear.\n\nGoosebumps caused by emotion\n\nWhen you’re experiencing extreme emotions, the human body responds in a variety of ways. Two common responses include increased electrical activity in the muscles just under the skin and increased depth or heaviness of breathing. These two responses appear to trigger goosebumps.\n\nWith these responses, you may also notice sweating or an increase in your heart rate. Intense emotions and their associated responses can be elicited by your what you think, hear, see, smell, taste, or touch.\n\nGoosebumps are also associated with the state of feeling emotionally touched in either a joyful or sad way. Sometimes it can be both at the same time.\n\nOne study suggests that viewing social stimuli, such as an emotional conversation between actors in a film, is more closely associated with goosebumps than just hearing something, such as a song that’s emotionally touching.\n\nIn most cases, goosebumps are nothing more than a temporary nuisance. However, goosebumps can be a sign of a long-lasting or serious medical condition. For example, goosebumps can also be a sign of:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8460366725921631}
+{"content": "Health News\n\nEngland to use testing to shorten quarantine for incoming passengers\n\n\n\n\nEngland’s current lockdown bans most international travel but when it ends on Dec. 2, people will be free to go abroad whatever restrictions are imposed in their local area, transport minister Grant Shapps said on Tuesday.\n\n“You can go abroad but of course there’s a penalty to pay for that in terms of having a potential quarantine period when you come back,” he told BBC radio, when asked about the end of lockdown.\n\nThe potential for shorter quarantine and more travel following the end of lockdown buoyed shares in London-listed travel companies. Holiday group TUI was up 12%, while British Airways-owner IAG and easyJet were both up 6%.\n\n\nThe new scheme will apply to passengers arriving from countries not featured on the government’s safe travel list, such as France, Italy, Spain and a number of other major destinations usually favoured by British tourists.\n\n\nWizz Air, which serves a handful of British airports, announced a partnership with a testing company to offer its passengers cheaper tests, while Gatwick Airport, Britain’s no.2 airport, has set up a testing centre.\n\n\n\n\nReporting by Estelle Shirbon and Sarah Young; editing by William James and Angus MacSwan", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8324185013771057}
+{"content": "Medical Weight Loss\n\nMedical Weight Loss\n\nWhat can medical weight loss do for you?\n\nMedical or clinical weight management programs offer professional, evidence-based, and doctor-supervised weight management treatments. In general, they usually involve expert counseling for physical activity and nutrition, behavioral therapy, and medications. Our clinical weight management program here at Solstice Health & Wellness always starts with a thorough initial evaluation. This will entail assessing for certain diseases and causative factors linked to obesity, as well as a physical exam. Additionally, your weight history will be taken, including your previous attempts at weight loss. You may likewise have to undergo a psychological exam.\n\nWhy is it So Difficult to Keep The Weight Off?\n\nWeight loss alone is typically not enough to provide lasting improvements in a person’s overall health. Studies show that once you’ve gained a substantial amount of weight, metabolic, neurological, and hormonal changes will also occur and these will essentially memorize or remember your heavier weight. This is known as a setpoint. This means that when you lose weight, this setpoint will make your brain and body fight back, in turn causing you to regain weight, unless you go on an effective weight loss and management plan.\n\nWhy Dieting is Not That Simple\n\nYou just have to control and count all the calories you take in. Sounds easy, right? However, your mind and body won’t readily accept this food deprivation tactic simply because they’re so used to these foods. Additionally, your body will react very quickly when dieting by activating coping mechanisms that slow down the metabolism and increase appetite, making dieting even more difficult. When you’re under a clinical weight management plan, however, you’ll learn tips and tricks that will make dieting easier and more effective for your specific needs.\n\nThe Problem with Physical Activity\n\nDiet and regular physical activity are the cornerstones of any sound, healthy, and safe weight loss and management plan. Working out regularly is especially crucial for maintaining long-term weight loss. But when you’re overweight or obese, you may also have co-occurring health problems that may stop you from moving because of potential side effects. With clinical weight management, your overall physical condition will be evaluated so your doctor can recommend safe exercises that you can perform and avoid complications.\n\nWhy You May Need Behavioral Therapy\n\nLifestyle adjustments through exercise and healthy eating are immensely vital for weight management to be successful. Through behavioral therapy, you’ll learn how to better control your exercise and eating habits and understand what’s stopping you from doing what you need to do to lose or keep weight off.\n\nWhat About Weight Loss Medications?\n\nYour doctor might recommend weight loss medicines if exercise and diet are not working or if you have medical issues that are not properly controlled. Talk to your doctor about the best options for you.\n\nIf your weight is causing severe problems with your mobility, overall health, and quality of life, you should definitely consider clinical weight management. Contact Solstice Health & Wellness. in Sarasota,FL, at (941) 330-9797 to schedule your appointment.\n\nContact Us\n\nOur Location\n\nOffice Hours\n\nSolstice Health & Wellness\n\n\n8:00 am-5:00 pm\n\n\n8:00 am-5:00 pm\n\n\n8:00 am-5:00 pm\n\n\n8:00 am-5:00 pm\n\n\n8:00 am-5:00 pm", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6528208255767822}
+{"content": "Jacques Du Broeucq (1505–1584) was a Mons artist (probably born in Saint-Omer, he spent most of his life in Mons), as both an architect and sculptor much admired in Renaissance times. Often compared to Michelangelo, this master craftsman was particularly sought after by the great figures of his time. In particular, he worked for the Emperor Charles V as well as Mary of Hungary and in Italy, as master of the sculptor Jean Boulogne, more commonly called Giambologna, one of the most praised artists of the time. Jacques Du Broeucq travelled to Italy to learn from the great names of the time and arrived in Mons in 1530 where he lived until his death, leaving no descendants. He didn’t take long to live up to his reputation, by erecting magnificent buildings in Hainaut (the castles of Boussu, Binche and Mariemont) which, unfortunately, faded away over time and through war. However, some of the artist’s works have survived, particularly in the Collegiate Church of St Waltrude in Mons.\n\nAn artist resurrected\n\nThe most famous work by Jacques Du Broeucq is undoubtedly the rood screen of the Collegiate Church of St Waltrude, although it would take some time before the artist’s name was associated with it. Two Montreal scholars, A Lacroix and L Devillers, have conducted several works allowing this official recognition of Du Broeucq’s works. At the beginning of the 20th century, a monograph of the artist would be written by R Hedicke (from the University of Strasbourg). It covers all the sources that make reference to the master craftsman so he is not forgotten. At present, there are many works that mention Du Broeucq’s role in the history and heritage of Mons and highlight his artistic skills.\n\nHis beliefs\n\nDu Broeucq, like his contemporaries, was above all a humanist. He declared he believed in God but did not consent to wars justified in his name. Protestantism grew in the Mons region, but reformist activity would soon be swiftly repressed. From 1548 to 1573, the Inquisition would claim some forty victims. Dubroeucq, a supporter of Protestantism and a reformist, was listed among those sentenced to death. Fortunately, he would be spared following the intervention of the canonesses of St Waltrude, who imposed certain conditions on him: renounce the Protestant religion, undergo reinforced surveillance and complete an alabaster statue for their collegiate church (for the altar of the chapel dedicated to St Bartholomew, the patron saint of the tanners of Mons). Specialists confirm that Jacques Du Broeucq (allegedly) incidentally modelled the saint on himself.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7447246313095093}
+{"content": "(310) 710-0640 DC90275@gmail.com\n\nYour Offer has been Accepted, Now What?\n\nYour real estate agent calls you and gives you the great news, your offer has been accepted!\n\nNow what?  Buyers often ask us, why from acceptance does it take so long to actually close?  Generally, a real estate closing takes 30 – 60 days from offer acceptance to closing – but this varies depending on many variables, big and small. There are many “cooks in the kitchen” who play an extremely important part behind the scenes in actually getting the transaction closed!\n\nRealtors, escrow officers, inspectors, insurance companies, appraisers, underwriters, surveyors and title companies are a handful of important professionals who play a vital role in getting you from accepted offer to the closing table!  Below is an overview of what these professionals do and why it takes approximately 30-60 days to close from offer acceptance.\n\nMost buyers will make their purchase offer contingent on various inspections and/or tests.  They have the right (or not) to perform many different types of inspections or tests, including (but not limited to) a home inspection, pest inspection, plumbing/sewage inspection, soils’ inspection, electrical inspection, radon test, lead paint inspection, septic inspection and more.\n\nOnce the buyers offer is accepted, they will have a set amount of days to perform the inspections or tests.  The majority of inspections or tests are at the buyer’s own expense since they are the ones that need to be satisfied with the results!  Once the inspections or tests are completed, the buyer has the option to remove the contingencies of the inspection(s) with no conditions OR they have the option to ask the seller to have specific work and/or repairs done prior to closing.  Buyers are encouraged to look into different inspection companies and should make sure that the company they select will provide them with a detailed (we love pictures), easy to understand, and neat report.  Having a detailed report can be the difference in a seller agreeing to repair or fix valid requests from a buyer.\n\nMortgage (Loan) Officers/Originators\nMortgage (loan) officers are often the first point of contact for buyers in their pursuit of home ownership (other than a real estate agent).  They are generally the first professional a buyer will see once they’ve had their offer accepted.\n\nWhen a buyer meets their mortgage lender, it may be before, during, or after the inspection process.  Within the accepted offer, there will be a date for the bank to issue their mortgage commitment to the buyer.   The processor, underwriter, and appraiser also play an important part in the buyer obtaining a written mortgage commitment.\n\nMortgage Processors\nOnce the loan officer meets with the buyer for application, the file is assigned to a mortgage processor.  The mortgage processors job is to ensure all of the information in the package is correct and verified.  At this point the loan officer will often “pass the torch” to the processor and they will be the main point of contact for the buyer from this point forward.\n\nMortgage Underwriters\nThe mortgage underwriter normally will have final approval and final responsibility to approve the buyer’s loan.  They check to make sure the loan is within loan guidelines and also make sure that the tax, title, insurance, and closing documentation is in place.  Once they give the “clear to close” the ball is now in the attorney’s “court” to set a closing date and time.\n\nWhen applying for their mortgage, a buyer will also bring payment for a bank appraisal.  There are two main reasons for a bank appraisal to be completed. First, the appraiser is going to give their point of view on the fair market value of the home to make sure the value supports the purchase price.  In addition, they are looking for major safety issues with the subject property, such as, peeling paint, broken windows, or missing handrails.  If the appraiser cites any issues, they must be completed and re-inspected prior to the loan being cleared to close.  Depending on the mortgage type (i.e. FHA, VA, Conventional) the appraiser has certain requirements to adhere to.\n\nTitle Companies\nOnce a buyer and seller agree to terms, the title company plays a large part.  Title companies are often tasked with searching the history of title for defects or “clouds.”  This could include (but not limited to) other claims on the property in the form of liens or easements.  Most mortgage lenders will require a title search prior to approving the buyers loan.  The title company also offers an optional title insurance to a buyer against past/future fraudulent claims to ownership.\n\nInsurance Companies\nDepending on the percentage of loan to value, the lender will require the buyer to obtain home-owners insurance prior to them clearing the file to close.  The buyers’ lender and attorney will require an “insurance binder” be sent to them showing payment and proof of insurance.  There are many insurance companies and it’s suggested that a buyer shop around for different quotes since each companies quote can be different.\n\nThe above professionals are extremely important to most real estate transactions.  If the above professionals do not do their jobs in a timely fashion this can delay a closing, which can be frustrating to a buyer and seller!  Donna Cartwright and Carol Mell are experienced real estate agents and a top team who work for you to keep all parties working towards the common goal, getting the deal closed in a timely fashion.\n\n\n\nDonna Cartwright - REALTOR®\n(310) 710-0640 DC90275@gmail.com\nDRE #01457071\n\n\nRE/MAX Estate Properties\n450 Silver Spur Rd,\nRancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275\n(310) 544-9999", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8419985175132751}
+{"content": "East Side Massage and Spa\n\nGuest relaxing massage\n\nFor most people the stiffness and pain from contractions are basically a way of life to which we’re accustomed slowly and often ignore the fact that our muscles are tense so far in which we perform a massage to relax. But besides giving relief to the physical pain, relaxing massages soothe usually much mental state of a person due to the pleasant feeling of well-being and especially relaxation, providing relaxing massages.\n\nTechnically, the massages are an operation that involves rubbing, pressing or hitting very softly, but with proper intensity, certain areas of the body, especially those where there is a greater concentration of muscle mass. The massages are divided into two main groups: the sensory massage, which aims to provide welfare addition, a feeling of relaxation, yet becomes a fundamental means of relaxation. On the other side are the therapeutic massages, offering physiotherapy results or medical influencing essentially injuries muscle groups, joints or the circulatory system.\n\nOne of the biggest differences between the two types of massage to relax is that massages therapy should be performed by qualified professionals as the same must have a sufficiently broad knowledge about human anatomy, as well as techniques for the massage. Another factor to consider before having a massage to relax is not always a massage is the most appropriate since in many cases it should not be carried out, for example, some situations are: if fever or illness; rash or bruises; swollen joints; tumors; thrombosis; varies.\n\nBasic techniques for massages\n\nAs we mentioned in the previous paragraph, there are many ways that exist to perform a massage relaxing and each fits much better to each situation. First mention relaxing massage technique friction, which is making superficial, broad strokes, but inconsistent which should cover larger areas of the body. They are made ​​with whole palm and fingers together keeping a steady pace without abrupt stops and even pressure.\n\nIt is important that the masseur never lose contact with the patient. Moreover we also find the relaxing massage technique with sliding pressure, which is very similar to friction movement, but in this case the pressure is much more uniform and strong, almost pushing the skin. The important thing about art is that the masseuse will “carry forward” the patient’s skin.\n\nMassage-relax-photos this represents a basic movement for muscle relaxation, where the rate at which it is performed is truly slow. It is important during the relaxing massage, a forward movement takes place always going to mean circulation of return, i.e., toward the heart, whereas the return movement should be performed with friction, without losing touch with the patient, and with a slight stretch, so then you can start over.\n\nKneading is another technique for relaxing massage. This represents one of the more specific manipulations within the application and relaxing massage that involves taking a muscle with all the command and kneads with alternating movements of both hands.\n\nIt is important that all of the hands must be used as sizing and tightens said releasing a small area with a hand muscle. It is important that the masseuse’s hands are not too far apart the body and should gradually move from one hand to the other in the same way that pasta kneaded. Usually treated muscles are the largest: quadriceps, trapezius, twins, etc. A branch of this technique is the kneading fingers, which is a similar movement but is used in much smaller muscles.\n\nThe last of the techniques that mention is the percussion, which is based on something more stimulating than relaxing movements consist of different kinds of rhythmic and energetic repeatedly pressures. The blows should be smooth and shall be conducted with the heel of his hand with his fist and with a cupped hand. The objective of this relaxing massage technique is to stimulate those areas that are in soft tissue such as the thigh muscles, toning the skin and helping blood circulation to properly pass.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7887336015701294}
+{"content": "Research ArticleChemistry\n\nFavoring the unfavored: Selective electrochemical nitrogen fixation using a reticular chemistry approach\n\nSee allHide authors and affiliations\n\nScience Advances  09 Mar 2018:\nVol. 4, no. 3, eaar3208\nDOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar3208\n\n\nElectrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia fixation is emerging as a sustainable strategy to tackle the hydrogen- and energy-intensive operations by Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production. However, current electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) progress is impeded by overwhelming competition from the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) across all traditional NRR catalysts and the requirement for elevated temperature/pressure. We achieve both excellent NRR selectivity (~90%) and a significant boost to Faradic efficiency by 10 percentage points even at ambient operations by coating a superhydrophobic metal-organic framework (MOF) layer over the NRR electrocatalyst. Our reticular chemistry approach exploits MOF’s water-repelling and molecular-concentrating effects to overcome HER-imposed bottlenecks, uncovering the unprecedented electrochemical features of NRR critical for future theoretical studies. By favoring the originally unfavored NRR, we envisage our electrocatalytic design as a starting point for high-performance nitrogen-to-ammonia electroconversion directly from water vapor–abundant air to address increasing global demand of ammonia in (bio)chemical and energy industries.\n\n\nFixation of naturally abundant nitrogen (N2) into ammonia is a key (bio)chemical transformation required to sustain life (13), with ammonia heavily used as fertilizers, feedstock to numerous chemical and pharmaceutical productions, and also potential carbon-free condensed fuel. Among various (bio)chemical strategies to fix N2 (48), electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) to produce ammonia is particularly promising due to its facile integration with electrochemical cells powered by renewable energy (9, 10) and its versatility in using water/organic additives as alternative hydrogen (H)-atom source for NRR. NRR is further able to address the unsustainable and energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process for ammonia generation, which requires harsh operating conditions (>150 bar; >450°C) and hydrogen gas reformed from fossil fuel as a precursor (4, 11). However, current progress in electrochemical NRR is inhibited by the intense competition from the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of water due to the preferential adsorption of H atom over nitrogen (N) atom on virtually all traditional NRR metal catalysts (including Fe, Rh, and Ru) (3, 12, 13). HER also creates overwhelming electrochemical current interference even at trace water levels (such as the omnipresence of atmospheric water vapor), thus prohibiting the direct identification of intrinsic NRR electrochemical features which are critical for future thermodynamic and kinetic studies/validations (12, 13). Consequently, a majority of NRR studies report low Faradic efficiency of ≤1% even at elevated temperature/pressure (14, 15). Although notable Faradic efficiency of ~35% for NRR has been recently achieved using N2 and steam in a molten hydroxide suspension (9), this method requires an additional input of energy to sustain the mandatory high-temperature (200°C) and high-pressure (>25 bar) conditions. To progress toward achieving both selective and high-performance NRR at ideal ambient operations, we will need to devise new electrocatalytic design to effectively suppress water electrolysis while simultaneously promoting solid catalyst-gas interactions (16, 17).\n\nHere, we achieve both efficient and selective NRR at ambient conditions by introducing a hydrophobic layer of zeolitic imidazolate framework-71 (ZIF) over the NRR electrocatalyst’s surfaces to suppress competing HER and enhance reactant-catalyst interactions. Our reticular chemistry approach focuses on exploiting ZIF’s superhydrophobicity to inhibit the access of water molecules to the encapsulated electrocatalytically active surfaces (thereby inhibiting HER) and uses the high gas sorptivity of the metal-organic framework (MOF) to concentrate N2 directly at the catalyst surface (1822). Extensive cyclic voltammetric investigations unravel unprecedented electrochemical responses directly attributed to NRR. By quantifying the ammonia generated, we show that ZIF encapsulation enables excellent selectivity toward NRR (~90%) and significantly boosts the Faradic efficiency by ten percentage points. Finally, we demonstrate that the molecular enrichment effect imparted by ZIF can continuously facilitate and sustain NRR in such catalyst@MOF hybrid simply under prolonged N2 bubbling. Our electrocatalytic design can also be easily extended to other materials, thereby establishing a versatile “build-on” strategy to significantly improve the electrochemical performance of a water-sensitive reaction. Our findings also offer valuable insights to expedite progress toward efficient nitrogen-to-ammonia electroconversion directly from atmospheric air where water vapor is prevalent.\n\n\nFabrication and characterization of ZIF-coated Ag-Au platform (Ag-Au@ZIF)\n\nOur model NRR electrocatalyst is a bimetallic design prepared by depositing Ag nanocubes (HCl-treated; edge length, 119 ± 4 nm; fig. S1) onto an Au electrode, where the Ag-Au platform also serves as a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) platform to monitor molecular environment near the electrocatalytically active surface (23). We subsequently coat the electrocatalyst with a bifunctional ZIF thin film (Fig. 1A), which acts as a sorption layer to confine electroactive species near catalyst, as well as a superhydrophobic barrier to inhibit the access of water (19, 20, 24, 25). In a typical fabrication, we use a wet chemical deposition approach to deposit ZIF on the Ag-Au platform (Ag-Au@ZIF). The synthetic process begins with an initial nucleation of ZIF on both the Au and Ag surfaces, followed by its overgrowth into an extended polycrystalline thin film (thickness, 321 ± 17 nm; Fig. 1B and fig. S2, A to C). Ag-Au@ZIF exhibits unique x-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns equivalent to those in neat ZIF thin film and Ag nanocubes (Fig. 1C and fig. S2D) (26), denoting the formation of a pristine MOF membrane over the Ag-Au electrode.\n\nFig. 1 Characterization of as-synthesized ZIF thin film fabricated over Ag nanocube array on Au working electrode (Ag-Au@ZIF).\n\n(A) Schematic depicting the importance of Ag-Au@ZIF as water repellent and nitrogen (N2) molecular concentrator for subsequent application in electrochemical NRR into ammonia (inset). HCl-treated Ag nanocube is denoted as AgNC. (B) Cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of Ag-Au@ZIF using an 18-nm Au film as proxy. (C) Substrate XRD diffraction pattern of HCl-treated AgNC, neat ZIF thin film, and as-synthesized Ag-Au@ZIF (bottom to top). a.u., arbitrary units.\n\nOur Ag-Au@ZIF design uses ZIF as a hydrophobic barrier for N2 to selectively access the enclosed electrocatalyst while concurrently blocking the entry of water (24, 25). Note that electrochemical reactions are mainly confined to the enclosed Ag-Au metal surfaces in our setup rather than the MOF coating, which is directly exposed to the electrolyte because ZIF is a poor electrical conductor (fig. S2E) (27). The overgrowth of ZIF on metallic nanoparticles using our fabrication protocol generates nanoscopic interfacial cavities at the interface between the catalyst surface and the polycrystalline ZIF coating (fig. S2, F to H) (18). Collectively, these interfacial cavities and MOF’s intrinsic micropores are essential for accumulating N2 and other reactant molecules at the catalytic surface for NRR, as affirmed from surface-sensitive SERS detections of chemical species located near/at the bifunctional plasmonic and electrocatalytically active metallic surfaces (fig. S3). This direct molecular enrichment at the catalytic surface potentially enhances catalyst-gas collisions required for subsequent NRR without necessitating elevated temperature/pressure. The ZIF coating on the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode is also structurally robust upon thermal activation for the subsequent electrochemical NRR (fig. S2).\n\nElectrochemical NRR investigations using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode\n\nWe proceed to evaluate the performance of the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode for NRR at 298 K and 1 bar using a liquid-based electrochemical setup (Fig. 2A). The electrolyte system consists of “dry” tetrahydrofuran (THF)-solution containing lithium trifluoromethanesulfonate electrolyte and ~1 volume % ethanol as a biorenewable proton source for NRR. We use a three-electrode system comprising Pt wire as counter electrode and Ag/AgCl reference electrode to effect the electron-driven reactions at precisely controllable applied voltages.\n\nFig. 2 Electrochemical reduction of N2 gas using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode.\n\n(A) Schematic illustrating the experimental setup of liquid electrolyte-based electrochemical reduction of N2 gas to ammonia (inset). The electrolyte solution is prepared in dry tetrahydrofuran (THF). Various platforms prepared on Au electrodes function as the working electrode (WE). Pt wire and Ag/AgCl (1 M KCl) are used as counter (CE) and reference electrodes (RE), respectively. Cyclic voltammetry analysis using (B) Ag-Au@ZIF electrodes and (C) Ag-Au electrodes, both under argon (Ar) or N2 gas bubbling. (i) Scheme depicting the respective working electrodes. (ii) Cyclic voltammograms recorded from respective working electrodes under Ar or N2 gas bubbling. Directions of forward and backward scans are denoted by the double and single arrows, respectively. All gases are bubbled at 3 sccm using a mass flow controller.\n\nTo identify electroreduction of N2 in our Ag-Au@ZIF electrode, we perform cyclic voltammetric investigations to elucidate the electrochemical processes occurring near the electrocatalytic surface. In the cathodic scan where the applied potential decreases from −0.5 to −3 V, Ag-Au@ZIF generates a distinct reduction peak at −2.5 V in the presence of N2 bubbling [3 standard cubic centimeter per minute (sccm); Fig. 2B]. In the reverse anodic scan, we observe an electrochemical oxidation peak at ~−1.7 V as the voltage is regulated from −3 V back to the initial −0.5 V. In contrast, the reduction peak at −2.5 V is absent in a control setup under argon (Ar) bubbling [Fig. 2B (ii), brown trace]. We therefore eliminate the possibility that this reduction peak arises from electrochemical interference by ZIF, electrode material, or electrolyte solution. The clear difference in electrochemical responses upon exposure to different gases therefore affirms that the reduction peak at −2.5 V arises from N2-related reduction processes.\n\nOn the other hand, the control Ag-Au electrode in the absence of ZIF coating exhibits two drastically different cathodic responses even though a similar anodic peak shows up at ~−1.6 V under identical test conditions (Fig. 2C). Specifically, the cyclic voltammogram recorded from the Ag-Au electrode under N2 bubbling displays two new cathodic responses at −1.8 and −2.9 V in the forward scan, whereas the previously observed reduction peak at −2.5 V using Ag-Au@ZIF is not observed. Near-identical cyclic voltammetry features are also documented from the Ag-Au electrode when the bubbling gas is replaced from N2 to Ar, evidently revealing that these two electrochemical peaks arise from electroactive species present in the electrolyte solution and are not N2-related reactions. In addition, we exclude electroreduction of Ag cocatalyst as a possible cause of the cathodic peak at −2.5 V, because control HCl-treated Au electrode in the absence of Ag nanocubes also exhibits voltammogram akin to the Ag-Au platform (fig. S4A). From the differences in cathodic peaks in both Ag-Au@ZIF (at −2.5 V) and Ag-Au (at −1.8 and −2.9 V) platforms, it is clear that competing reducing species are present in the electrolyte solution, and these electrochemical interferences can be minimized by coating ZIF over the electrocatalyst. We then proceed to design comprehensive investigations to rationalize the electrochemical features from our Ag-Au@ZIF electrode and control Ag-Au platform without ZIF coating. We examine the distinct electrochemical features present in the voltammogram according to the following sequence: (i) the cathodic peak at −2.5 V in Ag-Au@ZIF linked to the presence of N2 gas, (ii) the universal anodic peak at ~1.7 V, and (iii) two cathodic peaks that are present only in the Ag-Au electrode in the absence of ZIF.\n\nRationalizing the electrochemical features in cyclic voltammograms\n\nFirst, we establish the origin of the cathodic peak at −2.5 V in Ag-Au@ZIF as the electroreduction of N2 into ammonia. Briefly, we subject the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode to continuous N2 flow for 6 hours at an applied potential of −2.9 V, which is slightly more negative than the peak potential of −2.5 V. The enhanced reducing capabilities at −2.9 V allow more rapid ammonia formation for accurate ammonia quantification by minimizing potential complications that could arise from solvent evaporation, especially in our open electrochemical system. We also adopt these electrochemical conditions in subsequent experiments involving other electrode platforms for a fairer comparison. Electrosynthesized ammonia is directly harvested from the THF-based electrolyte solution (ammonia solubility of ~0.4 M) by adding aqueous sulfuric acid to convert dissolved ammonia into ammonium ions. The amount of ammonia generated in the electrochemical process can thus be quantified from these ammonium ions using the indophenol blue method (Fig. 3A) (28). In this method, ammonium ions are converted back to ammonia in situ, which subsequently serves as a vital reagent in the Berthelot’s reaction to generate indophenol blue. Ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy measurement of the electrolyte solution after 6 hours of continuous N2 flow exhibits an intense absorption peak at 638 nm that is characteristic of indophenol blue (Fig. 3B). This presence of NH3 is concrete and unambiguous proof of ammonia formation via the electroreduction of N2 in our Ag-Au@ZIF platform at −2.5 V. Our strategy of encapsulating electrocatalyst with MOF is therefore the first to enable direct electrochemical readout attributed to NRR at a remarkable experimental condition of 298 K and 1 bar, notably by mitigating the persistent electrochemical interferences arising from the favored water/moisture electrolysis (13). Identifying the electrochemical feature unique to NRR is critical to allow future thorough investigations on the thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia conversions to further optimize their efficiency and selectivity.\n\nFig. 3 Evaluation of electrochemical performance and selectivity toward NRR using Ag-Au@ZIF electrodes.\n\n(A) Experimental scheme for the electrochemical reduction of N2 and subsequent quantification of the ammonia generated. Ammonia detection is based on the indophenol blue method. (B) Absorption spectra of indophenol blue formed from the ammonia generated using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode under N2 bubbling. (C) Effective rate of ammonia formation and Faradic efficiency for various electrode platforms. (D) Comparison of NRR selectivity in the presence and absence of ZIF encapsulation. (E) Overall process mechanism for the selective and improved electrochemical reduction of N2 gas to form ammonia achieved simply by encapsulation with ZIF. ZIF layer functions both as a water-resistant coating and gas concentrator. N2 is electrochemically reduced to generate ammonia (left). Water molecules are deterred from accessing the electroactive surface by a hydrophobic ZIF coating, hence impeding the competing HER (right).\n\nTo index the universal anodic peak at ~−1.7 V, we conduct cyclic voltammetry of Ag-Au@ZIF in the same electrolyte solution and under N2 bubbling but without ethanol. We observe a featureless cyclic voltammogram without any anodic peak at −1.7 V (fig. S4B), hence highlighting its origin as an ethanol-related oxidation reaction. We further justify our assignment based on a similar lack of electrochemical response at ~−1.7 V, using the Ag-Au platform and water as the electrocatalyst and protic solvent, respectively (fig. S4C). Moreover, the absence of cathodic peak at −2.5 V even under N2 bubbling clearly indicates that ethanol is required as a sole proton source for NRR.\n\nLikewise, we unravel the two cathodic peaks unique to the Ag-Au electrode at −1.8 and −2.9 V as the consequence of water electrolysis by deliberately spiking the electrolyte solution with 20 volume % water. Under constant Ar bubbling, we detect an intense and linear current response in the reduction scan with magnitude in the mA regime (fig. S4D). This linear correlation in the water-spiked control solution begins at a potential of ~−1.3 V (fig. S4D, ii), corresponding well with the onset potential (~−1.2 V) of the first cathodic peak centered at −1.8 V when dry THF solution is used (Fig. 2C). It is also noteworthy that gas bubbles are rapidly evolved from the Ag-Au electrode in electrolyte solution spiked with water. Hence, the first and second cathodic peaks using bare Ag-Au electrode are likely due to the electrolysis of water present in the electrolyte solution, beginning with the HER (−1.8 V) and followed by hydride formation (−2.9 V) as the potential becomes more reductive (29).\n\nThe existence of HER despite the use of dry liquid THF highlights the detrimental effect that trace water content has on the electrochemical NRR system, which is unavoidable especially when water vapor is prevalent in the atmosphere. This creates an inevitable bottleneck to water-sensitive reactions and their electrochemical investigations, hence heavily restricting their practicability in applications beyond precisely controlled laboratory-based environments. Furthermore, the water-resistant properties conferred to electrocatalyst are possible only upon the complete overgrowth of ZIF over its surface; control Ag-Au electrode drop-casted with preformed ZIF nanoparticle exhibits dual cathodic peaks similar to the Ag-Au electrode without the ZIF encapsulation (fig. S4E). Collectively, our electrochemical findings highlight that vital reaction precursors can easily access the electrocatalyst surface, and also emphasize the importance of coating a hydrophobic ZIF layer over the electrocatalyst to perform water-sensitive reactions such as NRR; otherwise, the access of water to the catalyst will lead to overwhelming cathodic responses arising from HER.\n\nElectrochemical performance of the Ag-Au@ZIF ensemble\n\nWe further determine the effective rate of ammonia formation (rNH3) and Faradic efficiency to exemplify Ag-Au@ZIF as an efficient catalyst-MOF hybrid for the fixation of inert N2 molecules into highly valuable ammonia. Rapid ammonia formation is essential to meet global demand, while high Faradic efficiency maximizes the utilization of electrons used to electrosynthesize ammonia. These effective values are obtained by comparing the measurement under N2 bubbling against control Ar flow (5), hence enabling a more accurate assessment that eliminates background contributions due to remnant dissolved N2, exposure to air, and/or nitrogen-containing species in chemical/solvent used. All ammonia harvesting experiments are performed by subjecting various electrode/gas combinations to a constant potential of −2.9 V over an accumulation period of 6 hours. For the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode, the average effective rNH3 is ~10 pmol cm−2 s−1 (Fig. 3C and figs. S5 and S6A), which is comparable to many previous reports where more catalytically active metals are used (14). We also affirm that the effective NH3 molecules detected mainly originate from the nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion with negligible contribution from potential NH3 contaminant in the input N2 stream (~1%; fig. S6). Normalizing rNH3 with the current density (fig. S6), our Ag-Au@ZIF achieves a Faradic efficiency of 18 ± 4% for electrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion at ambient conditions (fig. S6B), surpassing conventional liquid-based electrochemical approach and solid-state electrochemistry operated at extreme pressure and temperature by >18-fold (14). Furthermore, our Ag-Au@ZIF electrode also achieves rNH3 and Faradic efficiency >4-fold and 2-fold superior to control Ag-Au platform in the absence of ZIF encapsulation, respectively. The latter suffers reduced performance due to competing electrolysis of water even at trace level in dry solution. We also note the relatively higher intrinsic efficiency of our liquid-based setup compared to other electrochemical approaches and attribute this to the use of dry organic liquid and presence of ionic electrolyte for efficient current flow. Nevertheless, our catalyst@MOF ensemble clearly offers a powerful approach to enhance reaction performance even at ambient conditions, whereby a boost to Faradic efficiency by 10 percentage point is attained simply by encapsulating electrocatalyst with a MOF layer. This achievement is notably significant considering the typical <1% Faradic efficiency reported for majority of previous NRR works (14, 15). The Ag-Au@ZIF electrode also enables a >4-fold improvement to both turnover number and frequency (fig. S6, C and D), which are two common indicators used in catalysis studies to estimate the longevity and specific activity of a catalyst, respectively.\n\nNotably, the ZIF coating in the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode also contributes to a high selectivity of ~90% toward NRR that is 14-fold better than the Ag-Au electrode in the absence of ZIF (Fig. 3D). This selectivity is derived from comparison of the Faradic currents obtained under N2 and Ar flow to determine the percentage of current used for the entire NRR (fig. S7). The superior Faradic performance and selectivity to NRR in Ag-Au@ZIF arise from the efficient isolation and confinement of target trace reactants/additives on the catalyst’s surfaces. This is possible because of the hydrophobic interior of nanoporous ZIF which is impermeable to trace water (≤1 volume %; fig. S8A), thus impeding HER which could otherwise consume the supplied electron and reduce the Faradic efficiency (Fig. 3E). Consequently, N2 gas reactants infuse the ZIF scaffold selectively and eventually concentrate near the electrocatalyst surface driven by the thermodynamically favorable sorption at the interfacial cavities and ZIF’s micropores (18). The close proximity of N2 molecules and ethanol (proton source) to the catalytic surface facilitates both intermolecular and surface interactions, eventually activating the electrochemical heterogeneous reduction of N2 molecules to ammonia when an external voltage is applied. Our Ag-Au@ZIF is also superior to the Au@ZIF platform comprising a single metal catalyst, where the latter exhibits a weak reducing peak at a more negative potential of −2.66 V (fig. S8B) and a correspondingly lower Faradic efficiency of 11 ± 2%. The need of a higher overpotential to drive NRR and poorer Faradic efficiency therefore indicates that it is more difficult for N2 to be electrochemically reduced in a single metallic Au@ZIF platform. These observations therefore clearly exemplify the necessity of inherently stronger catalytic activities, either conferred by synergistic effect of bimetallic system or other NRR catalytic materials (30), to further promote reaction efficiency and offer distinct electrochemical responses for reaction studies. These findings also highlight that our electrocatalytic design is versatile and can be possibly build-on traditionally highly active Ru/Fe/Mo-based catalysts to confer NRR selectivity critical for overcoming their current performance bottleneck imposed by water poisoning (13).\n\nEnhanced and sustained NRR performance using the Ag-Au@ZIF platform\n\nTime-dependent electrochemical evaluation of the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode also unveils enhanced electrochemical performance toward NRR via the molecular concentrating effect imparted by MOF (Fig. 4A). Continuous cyclic voltammetry examinations using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode under constant N2 bubbling demonstrate similar and distinct electrochemical features of NRR and ethanol-related oxidations at −2.5 and −1.7 V, respectively, throughout the 45 potential cycles (Fig. 4B). We note the concomitant positive shift of NRR peak potential from the initial −2.50 to ~−2.46 V at 50 min, eventually reaching a plateau of peak potential at –2.44 V beyond 170 min (Fig. 4C). Further resorption of N2 and subsequent exposure of the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode to a second set of cyclic voltammetry treatment also yields similar peak potential of −2.44 V (fig. S9). It is noteworthy that the temporal positive shift of a reducing peak is a direct indication of the growing ease of N2 electrochemical reduction. We attribute this phenomenon to the continuous sorption of reactants into a pseudo high-pressure microenvironment within the nanoscopic interfacial cavities (18), where reactants are forced near the electrocatalytic surface to improve reactants’ accessibility and enhance catalyst-gas interaction necessary for NRR. Under sustained N2 gas flow, this accumulation of reactants at the electrocatalyst surfaces ensures the abundance of N2 molecules to fuel NRR, which is observed from the consistent peak current of 1.43 μA with <3% change over 45 consecutive cycles (Fig. 4D). The ZIF functionality in the Ag-Au@ZIF ensemble is also robust under extensive electrochemical treatment and able to retain its water-resistant properties throughout our experiments (Fig. 4E and fig. S9). Our results jointly demonstrate that MOF is essential to locally saturate and ensure an abundant supply of reactant molecules to the electrocatalytic surfaces, effectively overcoming the rapid depletion of chemical species near the catalytic sites in the absence of sorbing materials (fig. S10). This is especially crucial for electrocatalysis involving trace reactants/additives and/or sparsely distributed gaseous precursors that are prevalent in energy-related and electrosynthetic applications (31).\n\nFig. 4 Enhancing and sustaining electrochemical N2 reduction performance using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode.\n\n(A) Schematic depicting the continuous accumulation of N2 molecules near the electrocatalyst to boost the performance of NRR. (B) Cyclic voltammograms depicting electrochemical responses indexed to NRR using Ag-Au@ZIF for 45 cycles. The red arrow denotes the systematic evolution of the electrochemical responses. (C) Peak potentials and (D) peak heights derived from the cyclic voltammograms in (B). (E) Magnified cyclic voltammograms near the HER region recorded from Ag-Au@ZIF electrodes for 45 cycles. A control voltammogram recorded from the Ag-Au electrode in the absence of ZIF encapsulation is included to indicate the potential region for HER. All experiments are performed under constant N2 gas bubbling.\n\n\nOur work highlights the importance of a superhydrophobic MOF coating on an electrocatalyst to favor the originally unfavored electrochemical NRR over competing water electrolysis, as well as impart a molecular concentrating effect to improve reactant-catalyst interactions. Using this reticular chemistry approach, we achieve both excellent selectivity toward NRR (~90%) and a boost to Faradic efficiency by 10 percentage points notably at ambient conditions. In comparison, many NRR studies report <1% Faradic efficiency at elevated temperature/pressure. Extensive electrochemical investigations unveil the unprecedented electrochemical response directly attributable to NRR, exemplifying the importance of hydrophobic MOF coating to suppress the competing HER and to accumulate N2 molecules at catalyst surface for enhanced NRR. Our strategy effectively tackles the HER-induced bottleneck of NRR and allows future validation of theoretical models to accurately predict the thermodynamics of electrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion. Together with the build-on nature of our approach, which allows facile integration with intrinsically highly active catalytic materials, these valuable insights create enormous opportunities to design an ideal electrocatalytic system for high-performance and sustainable NRR even when using atmospheric air as feedstock. Our strategy could also be potentially extended to other electrochemical systems involving water-sensitive reactions.\n\n\n\nSilver nitrate (≥99%), anhydrous 1,5-pentanediol (PD; ≥97%), poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP; average molecular weight, 55,000), zinc acetate dihydrate (≥98%, ACS reagent), 4,5-dichloroimidazole (≥98%), lithium trifluoromethanesulfonate (LiCF3SO3; 99.995%), sodium nitroprusside dihydrate (≥99%, ACS reagent; Reag. Ph. Eur), ammonium sulfate (≥99.0%), sodium dichloroisocyanurate dihydrate (≥98.0%), and phenol (≥99%, purified by redistillation) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Copper (II) chloride (≥98%) was from Alfa Aesar. Methanol (≥99.9%) and THF (≥99.0%, ACS reagent) were from Fulltime. Ethanol (ACS, ISO, Reag. Ph Eur) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH; ≥99.0%) were from EMSURE. N,N′-dimethylformamide (DMF; ACS reagent) was obtained from Tedia. Sulfuric acid (≥95%) and hydrochloric acid (37%) were from VWR Chemicals. Nitrogen (N2; 99.999%, ALPHAGAZ 1) and argon (Ar; 99.9995%) were purchased from Singapore Oxygen Air Liquide Pte Ltd. THF was further dried by distilling commercial THF with sodium and benzophenone under inert N2 environment. All other chemicals were applied without further purification. Milli-Q water (>18.0 megohm·cm) was purified with a Sartorius Arium 611 UV ultrapure water system.\n\nSynthesis and purification of Ag nanocubes\n\nThe preparation of Ag nanocubes was carried out following the method described in the literature (23). Briefly, 10 ml of copper (II) chloride (8 mg/ml), PVP (20 mg/ml), and silver nitrate (20 mg/ml) were separately dissolved in PD. The chemicals were sonicated and vortexed repeatedly to dissolve them. Copper (II) chloride solution (35 μl) was then added to the silver nitrate solution. Then, 20 ml of 1,5-pentanediol in a 100-ml round bottomed flask was heated to 190°C for 10 min. PVP precursor (250 μl) was added to the flask dropwise every 30 s, whereas 500 μl of silver nitrate precursor was injected every minute using a quick addition. The addition process continued until the greenish coloration of the reaction mixture faded off.\n\nFor the purification of Ag nanocubes, PD was first removed from the mixture through centrifugation. The Ag nanocube solution was then dispersed in 10 ml of ethanol and 100 ml of aqueous PVP solution (0.2 g/liter). The resulting solution was vacuum-filtered using Durapore polyvinylidene fluoride filter membranes (Millipore) with pore sizes of 5000, 650, 450, and 220 nm, repeated several times for each pore size. The Ag nanocubes were later redispersed in ethanol. SEM imaging was performed, and the edge lengths of 100 Ag nanocubes were measured and analyzed using ImageJ software.\n\nPreparation of the Ag-Au electrode\n\nTo prepare the Ag-Au electrode, 0.132 μl of ethanolic PVP-capped Ag nanocube solution was drop-casted onto a prepolished Au electrode (2-mm diameter). The electrode was then immersed in 0.1 M HCl solution (20% ethanol in water) for 3 hours and washed with a copious amount of methanol. The as-prepared Ag-Au electrode was dried using a stream of N2 gas and stored under inert N2 condition.\n\nEncapsulation of the Ag-Au electrode with zeolitic imidazolate framework-71 (Ag-Au@ZIF electrode)\n\nBefore ZIF synthesis, methanolic solutions of zinc acetate dihydrate (0.2 M) and 4,5-dichloroimidazole (0.4 M) were prepared separately. As-prepared Ag-Au electrode was subsequently immersed into a 2-ml centrifuge tube containing 0.125 ml of DMF, 0.375 ml of MeOH, and 0.25 ml of respective methanolic solutions of zinc and imidazole precursors. The reaction was allowed for 40 min and later washed with a copious amount of methanol. ZIF formation reaction was repeated four more times to achieve a complete encapsulation over the Ag-Au surface. The electrode was dried using a stream of N2 gas and stored under inert N2 condition.\n\nPreparation of the Au@ZIF electrode\n\nPrepolished Au electrode was immersed in 0.1 M HCl solution (20% ethanol in water) for 3 hours and washed with a copious amount of methanol. The HCl-treated Au electrode was subsequently immersed into a 2-ml centrifuge tube containing 0.125 ml of DMF, 0.375 ml of MeOH, and 0.25 ml of respective methanolic solutions of zinc (0.2 M) and imidazole (0.4 M) precursors. The reaction was allowed for 40 min and later washed with a copious amount of methanol. ZIF formation reaction was repeated four more times to achieve a complete encapsulation over the Au surface. The electrode was dried using a stream of N2 gas and stored under inert N2 condition.\n\nEncapsulating Ag nanocube drop-casted Au substrate with ZIF (Ag-Au@ZIF substrate)\n\nAu films were first prepared using a thermal evaporator deposition system from Syskey Technology Corporation. An 18-nm Au was deposited on an O2 plasma-treated Si wafer (0.6 cm × 0.6 cm) at a deposition rate of 0.8 Å/s. The deposited rate was monitored in situ by a quartz crystal microbalance. Au source with 99.99% purity was purchased from Zhongnuo Advanced Material (Beijing) Technology Co. Ltd.\n\nEthanolic solution of Ag nanocubes was drop-casted onto the Au substrate (Ag-Au substrate) at a volume-to-area ratio of ~4 × 10−2 μl/mm2, which is also similar to that used for the Ag-Au and Ag-Au@ZIF electrodes. Upon drying, the Ag-Au substrate was subsequently immersed into a 2-ml centrifuge tube containing 0.125 ml of DMF, 0.375 ml of MeOH, and 0.25 ml of respective methanolic solutions of zinc (0.2 M) and imidazole (0.4 M) precursors. The reaction was allowed for 40 min and later washed with a copious amount of methanol. ZIF formation reaction was repeated four more times to achieve a complete encapsulation over the Ag-Au surface. The Ag-Au@ZIF substrate was dried using a stream of N2 gas and stored under inert N2 condition before subsequent cross-sectional SEM imaging and XRD characterizations.\n\nSynthesis of ZIF nanoparticles\n\nZIF nanoparticles were synthesized from a reaction mixture containing 0.125 ml of DMF, 0.375 ml of MeOH, and 0.25 ml of respective methanolic solutions of zinc (0.2 M) and imidazole (0.4 M) precursors. The reaction was allowed for 40 min, washed with a copious amount of methanol, and subsequently redispersed in methanol.\n\nThermal activation of various platforms\n\nBefore latter application in electrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion, all platforms were thermally activated at 120°C under vacuum for 2 hours to evacuate residual methanol residing in ZIF’s intrinsic pores after its synthesis. This heat treatment does not alter the structural and chemical identity of our platform, ensuring the integrity of its respective constituents for efficient and selective electrochemical reaction.\n\nElectrochemical NRR\n\nElectrolyte solutions were prepared by adding LiCF3SO3 (0.2 M) in a solvent mixture containing ~1% ethanol in dry THF. The THF-based electrolyte solutions were bubbled with respective N2 or Ar gas for at least 15 min before electrochemical experiments. These gas flows were also maintained during the electrochemical measurements. All gas flow rates were controlled at ~3 sccm using mass flow controllers (model no. MC-100SCCM-D) obtained from Alicat Scientific Inc.\n\nA three-electrode electrochemical setup was used, where the counter electrode and reference electrode were composed of a Pt wire and silver/silver chloride electrode (Ag/AgCl; 1 M KCl solution), respectively. Working electrodes were composed of thermal-activated Ag-Au@ZIF electrode as well as control platforms such as Ag-Au and Au@ZIF electrodes. Cyclic voltammetry measurements were recorded at a scan rate of 50 mV/s between applied potential of −3 and −0.5 V (versus Ag/AgCl). Electrolyte solutions and type of gas used were also varied to identify the electrochemical peaks recorded from different working electrodes. Electrochemical conversions of nitrogen to ammonia for evaluation of Faradic efficiency and ammonia formation rate were subsequently conducted using chronoamperometry at a constant applied potential of −2.9 V for 6 hours using respective combinations of working electrode and gas types. Ammonia generated was quantified using the indophenol blue method (stated in the following sections). All electrochemical experiments were performed under constant gas flow and at ambient conditions of 1 bar and 298 K.\n\nPreparation of reagents for indophenol blue method\n\nTwo precursor solutions were required in the indophenol blue method and were named as reagent A and reagent B, respectively (28). Reagent A was prepared by dissolving phenol (0.1 M) and sodium nitroprusside dihydrate (0.2 mM) in water. Reagent B was prepared by dissolving sodium dichloroisocyanurate dihydrate (2.8 mM) and NaOH (0.13 M) in water. Both reagents were stored in the fridge before use.\n\nDetection of ammonia using indophenol blue method\n\nA calibration curve relating extinction intensity with ammonia/ammonium concentration was first established for subsequent quantification of ammonia produced in the electrochemical reaction. Ammonium sulfate (10 mM) was dissolved in an aqueous sulfuric acid solution (10−3 M). The ammonium sulfate was then serial-diluted to various concentrations between 10−6 and 10−4 M. After which, an equivalent amount of dry THF (containing 1% ethanol) was added to all the ammonium sulfate standard solutions. Individual ammonium sulfate standard solution (0.2 ml) was added to a glass vial containing 1 ml of reagent A. One milliliter of reagent B was then added into the solution and allowed to react for 1 hour while being stirred at 500 rpm. Indophenol blue generated was identified and quantified using UV-vis spectroscopy (28).\n\nTo determine the ammonia generated during the electrochemical nitrogen-to-ammonia conversion, we added the THF-based electrolyte solution to an equivalent amount of aqueous sulfuric acid solution (10−3 M). Two milliliters of this solution was added to a glass vial containing 1 ml of reagent A. One milliliter of reagent B was then added into the solution and allowed to react for 1 hour while being stirred at 500 rpm. Indophenol blue generated was identified and quantified using UV-vis spectroscopy. THF electrolyte solutions were primarily examined for ammonia because THF readily dissolves ammonia up to a high concentration of 0.4 M.\n\nDetermination of rate of ammonia formation and Faradic efficiency\n\nThe ammonia formation rate and Faradic efficiency were calculated using Eqs. 1 and 2, respectively (32)rNH3=[NH4+]×Vt×A(1)where rNH3 is the rate of ammonia formation (mol cm−2 s−1), [NH4+] is the concentration of produced ammonium ion (equivalent to ammonia concentration), V is the volume of THF-based electrolyte solution, t is time of collection, and A is the overall electrocatalyst’s area.Faradic efficiency (%)=3F×rNH3I(2)where rNH3 is the rate of ammonia formation, I is the current density at constant applied voltage, and F is the Faraday constant.\n\nSERS evaluation\n\nThe thermal-activated electrodes and the electrolyte solution were placed inside a custom-made gas flow cell with a quartz window suitable for SERS examination. N2 gas was bubbled in the electrolyte solution for at least 15 min before SERS measurement and maintained during entire experiments. N2 gas flow was precisely controlled at 3 sccm. All SERS spectra were normalized between 0 (min) and 1 (max).\n\nMaterial characterization\n\nSEM and energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy imaging were performed with JEOL-JSM-7600F microscope. UV-vis spectroscopic measurements were conducted with a Cary 60 UV-vis spectrometer. SERS measurements were performed using x-y hyperspectral imaging mode of the Ramantouch microspectrometer (Nanophoton Inc.) with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm. Using a 50× (numerical aperture, 0.45) objective lens, the laser power was preset at 0.37 mW with 5-s accumulation time for data collection between 200 and 2600 cm−1. All SERS spectra were the average of at least nine individual spectrum. Substrate XRD patterns were recorded on a Bruker General Area Detector Diffraction System (GADDS) XRD diffractometer with Cu Ka radiation. All electrochemical experiments were performed using Metrohm Autolab potentiostat instrument.\n\n\nSupplementary material for this article is available at\n\nfig. S1. Characterization of as-synthesized and HCl-treated Ag nanocubes.\n\nfig. S2. Characterization of the Ag-Au@ZIF platform.\n\nfig. S3. Qualitative comparisons of SERS spectra obtained under various experimental conditions.\n\nfig. S4. Electrochemical investigations of various electrodes under respective conditions.\n\nfig. S5. Calibration of the indophenol blue method for subsequent NH3/NH4+ quantification.\n\nfig. S6. Evaluating the performance of the Ag-Au@ZIF ensemble over control platforms.\n\nfig. S7. Selectivity of various electrode platforms toward NRR.\n\nfig. S8. Water-repelling properties of Ag-Au@ZIF and cyclic voltammetry analysis on Au@ZIF.\n\nfig. S9. Enhancing and sustaining electrochemical N2 reduction performance using the Ag-Au@ZIF electrode.\n\nfig. S10. Time-dependent electrochemical evaluation of the Ag-Au electrode.\n\nReferences (3337)\n\n\n\nAcknowledgments: Funding: X.Y.L. thanks the financial support from Singapore Ministry of Education Tier 1 (RG21/16) and Tier 2 (MOE2016-T2-1-043) grants. H.K.L. appreciates the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate Scholarship support from A*STAR, Singapore. C.S.L.K. acknowledges support from Nanyang Presidential Graduate Scholarship from Nanyang Technological University. C.L. was supported by Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship, Singapore. C.-K.T. acknowledges support from Boston College and donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. Author contributions: H.K.L. and X.Y.L. conceived and designed the research. H.K.L., C.S.L.K., I.Y.P., and X.H. performed the research. H.K.L., C.S.L.K., Y.H.L., C.L., C.-K.T., and X.Y.L. analyzed the results and wrote the manuscript. X.Y.L. supervised the project. All authors discussed and commented on the manuscript. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors.\nView Abstract\n\nStay Connected to Science Advances\n\nNavigate This Article", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8751599788665771}
+{"content": "By Jocelle Koh\nPhotographer: Acudus Aranyian\n\nBorn and raised in the States, Taiwanese-American creative Angela Lin never had much of an affinity with the Taiwanese music scene until she came across legendary indie music pioneer Lim Giong 林強‘s music in director Hou Hsiao Hsien‘s 2001 film “Millenium Mambo“. Despite a wealth of experience in the music industry, coming across the song was a unique experience that forged personal and spiritual connections for Lin. This eventually culminated in the creation of musical project “A Pure Person 單純的人“, which sees various Taiwanese artists (Point Hsu, YUYING HSU, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Jieh, Non-Confined Space) paying homage to Lim’s creation, alongside a new track by Lim reimagining the themes of his original work in the new era.\n\nCurated and executed by Angela, it has all come full circle as she pays homage to the song which bridged her affinity with Taiwan; working hand-in-hand with the artist who started it all no less. We delved deep to understand more about the project, and how new imaginings of the theme of being a ‘pure person’ continue to be as significant now than ever before.\n\nI understand that you are from and primarily based in the States, before moving to Taiwan for a period of time. How did you discover Lim Giong’s music in the first place?\nI first discovered Lim Giong’s music through the film Millenium Mambo. I also discovered his music alongside my Mother. Lim was the first and only artist that both my mother and I had a shared love for.\n\nWhat sparked the creation of this project?\nA desire to alter my way of living. A desire to share Taiwanese music to the world. A desire to have fun and be light.\n\nWhy do you think it’s important to once again shine a light on ‘A Pure Person’ in particular and Lim Giong’s work now?\nLim Giong’s philosophy has changed since “A Pure Person” was first released in 2001. In Lim Giong’s new interpretation,“Recite,” he beautifully expresses the buddhist philosophy of non-desire. The track has given me peace in a tumultuous time. I hope that by spreading Lim Giong’s music more people can experience peace and also a deeper cultural understanding of Taiwan.\n\nWhat was it like, being able to work with the legendary Lim Giong?\nIt was an honor. For me, this project was always more of a philosophical project than a musical one.  I grew a lot spiritually after talking and observing carefully how Lim lives his life and treats his art.\n\nHow did you select the various collaborators who put their own spin on Lim Giong’s work for this project?\nI chose Taiwanese musicians who were directly inspired by Lim Giong or who I felt could capture the philosophy and feeling of the project.\n\nWhat do you hope to express via this project?\nA deep respect and love for Taiwan\n\nCan we expect any other extensions of this project outside the album in the future?\nYes! I hope to continue releasing small projects either inspired by Lim Giong or by Taiwan on my label Pure Person Press.\n\n“A Pure Person 單純的人” features new song “Recite 念” by Lim Giong, as well as new imaginings of “A Pure Person 單純的人” by Taiwanese artists Point Hsu, YUYING HSU, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Jieh and Non-Confined Spaces. Learn more about the album and Angela’s new label “Pure Person Press” here.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6229817867279053}
+{"content": "Why Doesn’T Ireland Have Snow?\n\nWhat is the hottest month in Ireland?\n\n\nHowever, it’s also crowded and prices are at a premium.\n\n\nWill Ireland have snow this year?\n\nSnow is expected in parts of Ireland with the weather forecast turning distinctly chilly over the coming days. … Sunday will be dry, but rain is likely to fall as snow on Sunday night as temperatures fall to minus 1 degrees overnight.\n\nWhy is Ireland so rich?\n\nIn terms of GDP per capita, Ireland is ranked as one of the wealthiest countries in the OECD and the EU-27, at 4th in the OECD-28 rankings. … GDP is significantly greater than GNP (national income) due to the large number of multinational firms based in Ireland.\n\nIs Ireland colder than England?\n\nNorthern Ireland’s Weather Northern Ireland is warmer than Scotland throughout the year, and has milder winters than England or Wales. In terms of rain, Northern Ireland is generally drier than both Scotland and Wales, but wetter than most of England.\n\nWhere is the safest place to live in Ireland?\n\nIt shows that Roscommon and Longford are the safest places to live in Ireland while Mayo is the region with the lowest crime rate. Dublin is the country’s crime capital with a well-above-average number of offences per capita.\n\nIs Ireland a friendly country?\n\n\nWhere is the warmest part of Ireland?\n\nValentia IslandValentia Island is the warmest spot in Ireland with an average annual temperature of 10.9 ºC. Nevertheless, it also experiences a lot of rain – almost twice as much as Dublin City annually in fact!\n\nWhy doesn’t Ireland have snow?\n\nDuring the winter months sea temperature are higher than land temperatures which means rain is more likely in coastal area but precipitation may fall as snow further inland. … Ireland tends to get less snow than our nearest neighbour because of the warming effect of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift.\n\nDoes Ireland get much snow?\n\nSevere cold weather is uncommon in Ireland with the majority of winter precipitation coming in the form of rain, although hills and mountainous regions in the country can commonly see up to 30 days of snowfall annually, with the Wicklow Mountains sometimes seeing 50 or more days of snowfall annually.\n\nDoes Dublin have snow?\n\nSnow is quite rare as well: on average, it falls for a few days in a year, and may not occur for an entire winter. Night temperatures drop below freezing (0 °C or 32 °F), usually by a few degrees, for about twenty days each year in Dublin, and up to 50 days in inland areas (see Mullingar).\n\nIs Ireland getting wetter?\n\nIn an era captivated by global warming and shifting weather patterns, Ireland is getting wetter. … The CSO compilation – data published during 2019 but which covers topics over a number of recent years – gives other insights into the Irish environment.\n\nWhat is the wettest month in Ireland?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9919037222862244}
+{"content": "\n\nBy Daniel Gurara, Stefania Fabrizio, and Johannes Wiegand\n\n\nWhile the COVID-19 crisis is sending shockwaves around the globe, low-income developing countries (LIDCs) are in a particularly difficult position to respond. LIDCs have both been hit hard by external shocks and are suffering severe domestic contractions from the spread of the virus and the lockdown measures to contain it. At the same time, limited resources and weak institutions constrain the capacity of many LIDC governments to support their economies.\n\nAbsent a sustained international effort to support low-income developing countries, permanent scars are likely to harm development prospects.\n\nGrowth in LIDCs is likely to come to a standstill this year, compared to growth of 5 percent in 2019. Further, absent a sustained international effort to support them, permanent scars are likely to harm development prospects, exacerbate inequality, and threaten to wipe out a decade of progress reducing poverty.\n\nMultiple shocks take a heavy toll\n\nLIDCs entered the COVID-19 crisis in an already vulnerable position—for example, half of them suffered high public debt levels. Since March, LIDCs have been hit by an exceptional confluence of external shocks: a sharp contraction in real exports, lower export prices, especially for oil, less capital and remittances inflows, and reduced tourism receipts.\n\nTake remittances, for example, that exceeded 5 percent of GDP in 30 (out of 59) LIDCs in 2019. Between April and May, they fell by 18 percent in Bangladesh, and by 39 percent in the Kyrgyz Republic, compared to the previous year. The repercussions are likely to be felt widely where remittances are the main source of income for many poor families.\n\nAs for the domestic impact, while the pandemic has evolved more slowly in LIDCs than in other parts of the world, it is now inflicting a sizeable toll on economic activity. Many LIDCs acted swiftly to contain the spread. From mid-March, when reported infections were still low, they put in place containment measures including international travel controls, school closures, the cancelation of public events and gathering restrictions.\n\nMobility—a proxy for domestic economic activity—also declined sharply, and continued to retreat as measures were broadened to include workplace closures, stay-at-home orders, and internal movement restrictions. From late April/early May, containment measures have gradually loosened and mobility has recovered, but has yet to return to pre-crisis levels.\n\nManaging difficult trade-offs with scarce resources\n\nMost LIDCs cannot sustain strict containment measures for long as large segments of the population live at near subsistence levels. Large informal sectors, weak institutional capacity, and incomplete registries of the poor make it difficult to reach the needy. Further, governments have only limited fiscal resources to support them.\n\nRecent surveys conducted across 20 African countries reveal that more than 70 percent of respondents risk running out of food during a lockdown that lasts more than two weeks.\n\nFaced with such constraints, the short but sharp front-loading of containment fulfilled a critical purpose: it flattened the infection curve, while granting time to build up capacity in the health sector. Many LIDCs have followed this path: while they expended less fiscal support to their economies than advanced or emerging market economies, the share of additional spending dedicated to health has been higher.\n\nAs broad-based containment becomes difficult to sustain, LIDCs should transition to more targeted measures, including social distancing and contact tracing—Vietnam and Cambodia are good examples. Policy support should focus on supporting the most vulnerable, including the elderly, and on limiting the health crisis’s long-term fallout.\n\nFor example, protecting education is critical to ensure that the pandemic does not—as highlighted in a recent Letter to the International Community by a group of eminent persons—“create a COVID generation who loses out on schooling and whose opportunities are permanently damaged.”\n\nWhere the necessary infrastructure exists, technology can sometimes be leveraged in innovative ways. For example, to limit the spread of the virus, Rwanda is leveraging its digital finance infrastructure to discourage the use of cash. Togo employs the voter registration database to channel assistance to vulnerable groups.\n\nA decade of progress under threat\n\nDespite the best efforts of LIDC governments, lasting damage seems unavoidable in the absence of more international support. Long-term “scarring”—the permanent loss of productive capacity—is a particularly worrisome prospect.\n\nScarring has been the legacy of past pandemics: mortality; worse health and education outcomes that depress future earnings; the depletion of savings and assets that force firm closures—especially of small enterprises that lack access to credit—and cause irrecoverable production disruptions; and debt overhangs that depress lending to the private sector. For example, in the aftermath of the 2013 Ebola pandemic, Sierra Leone’s economy never recovered to its pre-crisis growth path.\n\nScarring would trigger severe setbacks to LIDCs’ development efforts, including undoing the gains in reducing poverty over the last 7 to 10 years, and exacerbating inequality, including gender inequality. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will thus be even more difficult to achieve.\n\nLIDCs cannot make it alone\n\nThe support of the international community is key to enable LIDCs to tackle the pandemic and recover strongly. Priorities include: (1) guaranteeing essential health supplies, including cures and vaccines when they are discovered; (2) protecting critical supply chains, especially for food and medicines; (3) avoiding protectionist measures; (4) ensuring that developing economies can finance critical spending through grants and concessional financing; (5) ensuring that LIDCs’ international liquidity needs are met, which requires International Financial Institutions to be resourced adequately; (6) reprofiling and restructuring debt to restore sustainability where needed, which, in many cases, may require relief beyond the G20/Debt Service Suspension Initiative; and (7) keeping sight of the United Nations’ SDGs, including by reassessing needs when the crisis subsides.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic will be defeated only when it and its socioeconomic consequences are overcome everywhere. Urgent action by the international community can save lives and livelihoods in LIDCs. The International Monetary Fund is doing its share: among other things, the IMF has provided emergency financing to 42 LIDCs since April. It stands ready to provide more support and help design longer-term economic programs for a sustainable recovery.\n\n\nThis blog draws on joint work with Rahul Giri, Saad Quayyum, and Xin Tang, and has benefited from the assistance of Carine Meyimdjui.\n\n2020-09-03T13:21:38-04:00August 27, 2020|", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9981494545936584}
+{"content": "The self-healing capacitors uses a single-layer polypropylene film as the medium, and a thin layer of metal is vapor-deposited on the surface as a conductive electrode. When an excessively high voltage is applied, the electrical weakness of the polypropylene film is broken down, the resistance of the breakdown point is significantly reduced, and the current density flowing through increases sharply, causing the metallized coating to generate high heat, and the metal conductor around the breakdown point quickly evaporates and escapes. Disperse, forming a blank area of ​​metal plating, and the breakdown point automatically restores insulation.\n\nReasons for the popularity of self-healing capacitors\n\n  • The practicality of self-healing capacitors\n\nCompared with traditional power capacitors, self-healing capacitor have self-healing capabilities. When a traditional power capacitor has an electrical breakdown, the capacitor may leak oil, catch fire, etc.; in the worst case, the capacitor may explode. Although self-healing capacitor cannot completely solve these problems, they can reduce the probability of problems in these areas.\n\n  • Economic benefits of self-healing capacitor\n\n① When we use traditional capacitor, if electrical breakdown occurs, it may cause oil leakage, oil leakage, explosion and other phenomena in the power capacitor. Enterprises need to replace power capacitor, which will incur expensive replacement costs.\n\n②When we use self-healing capacitor, the power capacitor will experience electrical breakdown, and the power capacitor will automatically recover, reducing the occurrence of oil seepage, oil leakage, explosion and other phenomena. Therefore, the use of self-healing capacitors will help companies save investment.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7031617760658264}
+{"content": "Can you land without a parachute?\n\n\nCan you land a wingsuit without a parachute?\n\nAnyone can fly like a bird and land without a parachute–once. But Jeb Corliss has no desire to become a human pancake. “A wingsuit landing is only successful if you can do it 10 times out of 10 without being injured,” Corliss says.\n\nIs it possible to survive without a parachute?\n\nSurprisingly, the answer is yes. There have been documented cases of people jumping from planes and their parachute malfunctioned or failed to open – only they survived the fall. In a few cases, people have fallen from planes without parachutes and survived.\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  Is a bigger parachute better?\n\nWho jumped out of a plane without a parachute?\n\nLuke Aikins\n\nWhat happens if you skydive without a parachute?\n\nTo slow down, a skydiver can spread his or her limbs to increase surface area, but “that will only slow you down maybe 10 miles an hour [16 km/h] — not substantially. You’re still falling above 100 miles an hour [160 km/h],” Koreen said.\n\nHow much does a wingsuit slow you down?\n\n\nHas anyone landed a wingsuit?\n\nGary Connery (born 1969) is a British skydiver, BASE jumper, and professional stuntman. Connery has performed stunt-work in films. He is acknowledged as the first skydiver to land after a wingsuit jump without using a parachute. …\n\nCan you survive a 1000 foot fall into water?\n\nIf the thousand foot fall was terminated by a body of water, you would die just as quickly as if you had hit a solid object. … If the fall was from a starting point above 60,000 feet you would probably die from lack of oxygen or from cold before hitting the ground unless you had special equipment.\n\nWhat is the highest fall a person has survived?\n\nAnd Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulović holds the Guinness world record for the longest survived fall — over 30,000 feet — after her plane blew up in the 1970s, though some cynics think the real height of Vulović’s fall was a mere 2,600 feet.\n\nWhat’s the highest someone has fallen and survived?\n\nVesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi).\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  Pergunta frequente: Do you wear a parachute while gliding?\n\nHow often do skydivers die?\n\n\nWho was the first person to jump?\n\nThe first successful parachute jump was actually made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon, 3,200 feet above Paris, way back in 1797. Imagine being the first person to try that! It was sometime between da Vinci’s sketch and the first skydive as we know it today.\n\nHow fast would you fall if you jumped from a plane?\n\n120 mph\n\nCan you survive a 500 foot fall into water?\n\nYou would not survive a fall onto the sidewalk, at anything above 50 feet. … When you fall into water from 50 or 100 feet, or above, it is like hitting concrete. The water cannot move away fast enough to let your fall be cushioned, as it is when you dive into a pool from a five-foot or ten-foot diving board.\n\nHow cold is skydiving?\n\n\nHow high can a human fall without death?\n\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  How fast does a parachute descend?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9752704501152039}
+{"content": "Hi, I have faced a problem, I need to add css styles to UI mixins of components (for example to button small ui), I haven't found this option in Sencha Themer 1.2. Unfortunately by means of mixins it is impossible to describe all styles necessary for me. Is there any way to expand the base functonality of the generated mixins?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999203085899353}
+{"content": "Fireworks Killing Birds?\n\nI don’t know how you feel about fireworks. Since I became the parent of a deathly-afraid-of-them dog, I find them an unnecessary evil. With the birds, I mostly try to provide lots of white noise and comfort them in a night fright.\n\nBut what if you house them outdoors? In Italy recently, they were deadly.\n\nThis is horrific, and must be terrifying for those keeping parrots or finches outdoors. Do you have an outdoor aviary? How do you handle fireworks?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9982962012290955}
+{"content": "Contraction Jumble Puzzle()\nContraction Jumble Puzzle\n\nContraction jumble puzzle. Here is multiple part contractions matching game puzzle to consolidate student understanding of common contractions. Part 1: determine the contraction for each word in the word bank; Part 2: determine which set of scrambled letters in the clues match with the contractions; and Part 3: record the unscrambled answer on the line. Remember to include the apostrophe. Suitable for students in elementary grades 4,5,6 classrooms. Homeschooled students will also benefit from these puzzles.\n\nThinking of You!\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9962350130081177}
+{"content": "Urban Energy (AMS)\n\nAmsterdam strives to reduce CO2 emissions and use more renewable energy. While most supplied energy is still fossil-based and stems from city surroundings, the goal is to transition to more sustainable and local solutions. All projects concerning urban energy can be found in this collecton on openresearch.\n\nMeer informatie\n\nThe transition from fossil-based resources to more sustainable forms of energy like electricity, heating and cooling, is overdue to best preserve our environment. Therefore, Amsterdam has the ambition to reduce CO2 emission by 55% in 2030 and 95% in 2050. This requires a major transformation of our current energy systems. How can ensure the energy use in urban areas will remain reliable, sustainable and affordable?\n\nEnergy is both a social and a technical challenge\n\nCities depend on their surrounding areas for energy production, because the total amount of required energy cannot be generated within city limits. Amsterdam must explore how to generate reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy at the metropolitan level.\n\nThis energy transition is both a technical and social challenge. One of the social challenges is the adjustment or change that need to be made by citizens. This includes for example uncertainty about the costs of sustainable solutions. Technical challenges stem from constraints like Amsterdam being an old city with a historic city center. This thus puts certain constraints on how new infrastructure can be built.\n\nHow do we work on the topic of Urban Energy?\n\nAMS Institute complements the initiatives of the city of Amsterdam. It contributes technological and scientific expertise in the field of urban energy and partnerships with energy providers that add the long-term perspective beyond council terms. Researchers have good insight on early-stage developments with potential and on their best fit with the urban energy challenges.\n\nResearch projects target different levels for investigation such as interventions at household, building, neighborhood, community, or city and regional level. In addition, research projects also distinguish between different types of energy such as electricity, heating, and cooling. Within the various research projects, there is also a strong focus on the social and societal challenges of the energy transition.\n\nWider impact\n\nWhile AMS Institute seeks to improve local or urban energy challenges, the long-term goal is to make an impact beyond its city limits. Ideally, local solutions support the global energy transition by translating findings for other cities, countries and continents.\n\nUrban Energy on AMS-institute\n\nAfbeelding credits\n\nIcon afbeelding: Fotograaf: Jerry Ferguson -", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9728842377662659}
+{"content": "Kwik Kiln® Deluxe Hybrid Kit\n\n\nThis product is sold out\n\nCupel your lead prill after fire assaying or melt precious metals and cast ingots. Portable propane fired kiln designed to both cupel and melt precious metals quickly and with ease. If you prefer a Kwik Kiln® that does both, at an economical price, this kit is the one for you.\n\n\nKiln weight: 1 lb\n\nSize: 4\" tall x 4\" diameter\n\nStainless-Steel Jacket\n\n2300°F rated refractory kiln material\n\nDeluxe Kit Includes:\n\nHybrid Kwik Kiln®\n\n4 Premium Bone Ash Cupels\n\n6” Crucible Tongs\n\nCupel U Tongs\n\n2 High Quality Dense NAC 500 Graphite Mini Crucibles\n\n1 NAC 699 Graphite 2 oz gold / 1 oz silver Loaf Mol\n\n3 oz GPK Melting Flux\n\nInstructions for Cupelling and Precious Metals Melting\n\nPropane Fired. Requires 2 Pencil Tip Torches, such as Bernzomatic UL2317 Torches (not included)\n\nPlease note:\n\nThe purer the metal, the less flux is needed, since flux is designed to pull out impurities. So, while some of our customers do smelt their gold concentrates in this mini Kwik Kiln®, it is a very tedious, small scale process, due to the limited capacity for 1 to 3 ratio of cons to flux needed. Therefore, we recommend only melting purer metals in it, such as fine gold, copper or silver. If you have enough cons to smelt, please check out our larger Kwik Kiln® series that are designed to accommodate larger crucibles with the capacity needed for smelting. And, if you happen to have enough pure gold to melt into bars with our larger kilns, please include us in your will. \n\n\nFiring the Kwik Kiln® beyond the operating effectiveness of the refractory kiln material or the use of any other size torch or propellant automatically voids any actual or implied warranties.\n\nNo guarantee is given on the amount of gold or silver or other precious metals obtained from this process, as it depends upon the quality of your materials to begin with. The more precious metals that are in your black sand, ore, or old jewelry, the larger your results will be.\n\nThis kiln is not a toy and is not to be used by children. This is a kiln that ultimately generates temperatures in excess of 2200° F. Do not allow children or animals in the immediate area when you are firing. Use at your own risk and follow all recommended and common-sense safety precautions. Sellers are not responsible for accidents or injuries caused by hot kilns or contents. Using one purchased from this seller acknowledges that you use it at your own risk", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8415848016738892}
+{"content": "Two major areas of opportunity will emerge out of the crisis: technology and operational efficiency.\n\nJaafar ALTAIE Managing Director MANAAR ENERGY\n\nA data-driven future\n\nMay 4, 2020\n\nJaafar Altaie, managing director of Manaar Energy, talks to The Energy Year about what it will take for companies to survive the Covid-19 crisis and the role that data and technology will play in the industry moving forward. Manaar Energy provides strategic and commercial advice on E&P, oil service and infrastructure projects.\n\nWhat is your outlook for the oil and gas industry in 2020?\nThe situation seems very worrying in the short term, and most of us do not know how long the crisis will last. At Manaar, we do not subscribe to the idea that the crisis will be over in six months. We believe it will go on beyond 2020 and change the global energy industry’s ecosystem permanently. It is difficult to predict how badly oil demand will be affected, but for now everything seems very bleak.\nHowever, longer term prospects are positive in our view. Covid-19 and its implications will shake up the industry in its entirety. The pandemic, coupled with depressed oil prices, will force companies to go out of their comfort zones and exercise an unforeseen diet.\nWe believe the USD 70 per barrel oil price can return, and when it does, those who survive will be in much better shape to take advantage of it. In the meantime, several industry stakeholders that fail to adapt their business model to the changing environment will simply go bankrupt. Approaches that worked so far have to be fundamentally changed. Firms in the oil and gas value chain, including upstream, midstream and downstream players, will require a thorough operational restructuring.\nUltimately, we believe that two major areas of opportunity will emerge out of the crisis. These are technology and operational efficiency.\n\nWhat is the role of big data and artificial intelligence for the industry’s future growth?\nThe learning curve on big data and artificial intelligence is quite long and requires huge investments. The issue is that a lot of companies are still mid-cycle in their implementation plan for big data and digital infrastructure. Unfortunately, these companies will confront growing challenges because the crisis can easily destroy all of the progress that they have made so far to embrace big data.\nThose actors who are already ahead of the maturity curve in developing artificial intelligence and have long started to benefit from big data analytics will be able to generate new business opportunities. This is their time now to cut costs by going digital. Some companies, especially oilfield services providers, started to position themselves in 2013 and 2014 to accommodate digitalisation in action. These players will be well positioned by 2022, and they may as well play a major part in the industry’s consolidation process by acquiring other companies that will be in need of capital injection.\nWe believe ADNOC is not entirely at the peak of the maturity curve in terms of technology investments, but it has crossed the mid curve and is therefore in the safe zone. However, it won’t be able to utilise all the technological breakthroughs to maximum advantage and position itself for sustained growth. There will be limitations to that growth.\n\nWhat is the way forward for industry players to survive and thrive in a post-crisis environment?\nNational and international oil companies are making all kinds of redundancies and seeking lasting cost cuts in the midst of the pandemic. They have already asked all their contractors and suppliers to deliver additional cost reductions. Many of the big players are rethinking their business model and will be making drastic changes to their operations.\nFor instance, a company such as Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil company, may seem to have the worst performance amongst national oil giants around the world. However, when you take a closer look at their capex and incremental cost structure, as well as their diversified portfolio of assets, you realise that Petrobras is at the forefront of the efficiency revolution globally.\nNorway’s multinational energy company Statoil has also made huge investments to streamline operations into a technology-focused upstream energy entity. Players such as Petrobras and Statoil are likely to keep their edge and emerge out of the downturn stronger.\nThen you have legacy companies such as the National Iranian Oil Company which, due to a lack of investment into embracing new technologies, will cope with severe challenges to survive the crisis. Other international companies such as Halliburton and KBR will also have to revise their operations significantly.\n\n\nHow will the region’s national oil companies continue to evolve as the global energy landscape changes?\nADNOC has long been at the forefront of innovation, and the company continues to streamline internal procedures and processes. Prior to this crisis, the UAE had been known for embracing new efficiencies across the country’s energy value chain to build a more sustainable and brighter future.\nOverall, I believe that oil companies in the GCC may be one step ahead of their regional peers, which have less capacity and resources to build long-term resilience. This is particularly true for countries such as Iraq and Iran, where the long-term consequences of the pandemic and the oil price crash can easily be catastrophic. In comparison with Iraq and Iran, the oil and gas value chain in the GCC has been very resilient and suitable to withstand a massive crisis.\nIn Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s government has taken a big risk in its way of managing the crisis, and that approach seems to be paying off so far. It looks like Saudi Arabia will continue to emerge as the head of a larger global OPEC and alliances group, and their policies may provide stimulus for other national oil companies in the GCC to grow with them.\nQatar faces a huge dependence on gas, and we know that gas prices are anything but reliable. They react to the negative downfall of oil much more than they react to an uptick in oil prices. Kuwait may be behind the UAE and Saudi Arabia on the technological curve.\nPetroleum Development Oman (PDO) has always taken a culture of efficiency as a given. PDO is a great and solid entity that got used to producing in difficult circumstances. The current crisis may not be that big of a shock to PDO’s operations, even though the company does not have the size and assets of ADNOC or Saudi Aramco. It seems that ADNOC, Saudi Aramco and PDO will be taking the driving seat in terms of leading the future revolution in the region.\n\nWhat do you make of the recently signed historic OPEC deal?\nI am not very pleased with the outcome of the deal. In my view, solving the current situation is not only the responsibility of OPEC. However, it is an issue for which OPEC is being leaned on to get us out of it. Going forward, the United States and Russia should also be heavily involved in the production cut deals. OPEC is banking on the possibility that the United States’ shale production will start to decline by the end of 2020 and is planning on making further production cuts to stabilise prices between USD 40-50 per barrel.\nWe are advocating for a more collaborative OPEC that is aligned with the United States, Mexico, Brazil and other big oil-producing nations to regulate the market going forward. These countries have to be part of some sort of new world mechanism. We can either create this mechanism ourselves or let the market force it upon us.\n\nHow would you describe the ways industry actors are responding to the coronavirus crisis?\nWe have discovered three types of categories in terms of companies’ reactions to the crisis. The first category includes companies that have been caught unawares by the situation and pretend the issue does not exist. They plan on carrying on with business as usual, hoping things will get better. We were surprised to see the number of players that are in complete denial about the crisis. Their jobs are on the line.\nThe second category includes companies that appear to have a reactive approach. They do not have a well-formulated strategy and prefer to cope with the challenges as they arise on a day-to-day basis. The third group consists of companies that had this figured out from day one and are simply implementing something that they knew would happen.\nUnfortunately, very few companies belong to the third group. Most IOCs are part of the second category; they do not know how the long-term implications will play out and are banking on short-term strategies. Some other players have simply given up on setting any strategies. Finally, there are some national companies that are fully aware of their surroundings and the severity of the crisis, yet they prefer to sit back comfortably, hoping that public sector jobs will not be on the line.\n\nWhat priorities has Manaar Energy set for the year to come?\nOur key areas for business growth include risk and data analysis. We want to become the leader in commercial risk-related artificial intelligence, and we have been working on laying down the foundations of artificial intelligence within the company. Today, we are heavily involved with conventional and advanced risk analysis and techno-economic risk assessment in several areas, such as drilling, seismic campaigns and economics around adopting new technologies. Going forward, we can mix our expertise in geopolitics with technical answers to some of the biggest operational challenges that companies will be facing.\n\nStay Informed", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8365086317062378}
+{"content": "Media library\n\nPresentation [part of the standard session “Community, Housing, Care“]\n\nThis paper focuses on the intersection between degrowth and urban planning, and contributes to a deeper understanding and a sharper concretisation of how a strong sustainability concept such as degrowth can be taken into planning practice for long term sustainability.\n\nPresenters: Carlos Ruiz-Alejos, Vincent Prats\n\nLanguage: English\n\nTechnical details: Standard F_CARLOS_RUIZ-ALEJOS_Materialising degrowth in local urban planning policies.mp4, MPEG-4 video, 19.1MB\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6136195659637451}
+{"content": "floodedfields-406New research has shown that climate change may be causing more than just an increase in extreme weather events such as heat waves and storms. Those events also seem to be bringing a heightened risk of Salmonella outbreaks with them. The rates of people sickened by Salmonella rises each time their area experiences an extreme weather event, according to a new study published in Environment International and conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland. To be precise, the researchers observed the risk of Salmonella infection increase 4.1 percent each time Maryland experienced an extreme heat or precipitation event. Those extreme weather events were defined as any time the state experienced temperatures or precipitation greater than the top 10 percent of hottest and wettest days from a 30-year baseline of 1960-1989. Given that numerous climate studies anticipate extreme weather events increasing in frequency and intensity in the coming decades, health officials and communities will need to account for the additional foodborne illness burden resulting from these events, said Amir Sapkota, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Applied Environmental Health and senior author of the study. The increased risk of infection was also more pronounced in coastal areas compared to areas further inland. While extreme precipitation events resulted in a 3.6-percent increase of Salmonella infection risk to inland areas, they caused a 7.1-percent increase of risk in coastal regions. The explanation for this is fairly simple: Extreme weather events give bacteria more of what they like. “A lot of evidence shows that rising temperate and precipitation is conducive to bacterial growth and transmission,” Sapkota said. “Bacteria tend to multiply and grow better in warmer and wetter environments.” But that’s just part of the story. Extreme weather events also cause flooding and water runoff that spreads and amplifies bacterial loads. Take chicken farming as an example. Maryland produces more than 300 million broilers chickens each year on its Eastern Shore. First, rising temperatures perpetuate the colonization and growth of Salmonella among flocks, likely leading to higher rates of contamination on poultry products. Second, chicken manure is commonly used as fertilizer in Maryland. Once an extreme precipitation event rains down on a field fertilized with contaminated chicken manure, the manure runs off into streams, bodies of water, and even drinking wells, Sapkota said. There have been numerous cases of children and others falling ill with bacterial infections after swimming or recreating in public bodies of water, and the runoff from food-producing fields is a likely explanation in many of those cases, he added. One study cited by the team showed that Salmonella could persist in soil for as long as 405 days, providing ample opportunity for a precipitation event to spread it somewhere else. Weather events likely affect coastal areas to a greater degree because not only do they have a higher concentration of people, but residents spend more time around water, where they increase their chances of exposure to harmful bacteria during water runoff events. There could be exceptions to how well these observations translate for other foodborne pathogens such as E. coli and Listeria, but Sapkota said that the situation was most likely similar for any other bacteria. Next, the team plans to continue studying the relationship between extreme weather and bacterial illness by expanding their study region to include states outside Maryland. In the meantime, Sapkota said he hopes the study helps raise awareness about the connection. “People should become aware of the issue to help themselves,” he said. “If you’re living in a coastal area and you have reason to believe the water may be contaminated during extreme precipitation events, then you should certainly reduce your family’s recreational activities.” “Of course, the other big thing,” he added, “is to properly cook your food.”\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9488155841827393}
+{"content": "Veľký Sokol - Slovak Paradise\n\nVeľký Sokol is the mightiest ravine in Slovak Paradise. It ends with the romantic Róthova ravine. Both sides of the gorge are formed by rock walls as high as 300 m. Waterfalls and cascades, which are a part of the national reserve Sokol, complete the fascinating landscape. The land of the gorge is covered in woods, in some places of forest characteristic.\nVeľký Sokol is also an example of thermal inversion. Moist and shaded areas of the rocks are covered in, for example, violets. The heated areas and rocky ridges are covered in plants that need more heat and sunlight. You can, for example, find the Slovak pasque flower here. When it comes to animals, at the bottom of the ravine, you can often find a salamander with its’ typical yellow and black spots. Bears, wolves and lynxes live in the inaccessible parts of the gorge.\n\nSlovenský raj\nvirtual tour", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9964727759361267}
+{"content": "Envie sua Receita…\n\nRelationship Communication Abilities: Helping to Maintain your Relationship satisfied\n\nCommunication is without a doubt the foundation of your healthy marriage. It s how you connect, share the views and ideas, and resolve issues with your spouse. Healthy romantic relationship communication abilities do not arrive easily to everyone. Some couples will have to work at their very own communication skills for years to come. Yet , eventually, they’ll ultimately be able to talk openly and frankly with each other. Once they accomplish that level of understanding, they can begin having more deeply conversations than in the past.\n\nIf the two people in a relationship are unable to communicate effectively, the relationship will definitely not really thrive. When ever there is poor communication, misconceptions will frequently happen. One or the other person may send a wrong message towards the other. The other person could misinterpret what another person is intending to say. This could lead to a whole lot of inconvenience for everyone engaged.\n\nEffective connection always calls for listening to one other and understanding where the different person is normally coming from. To ensure that a romance to thrive, it must be allowed to solve disputes in a positive way. One way to do that is by communicating your opinions clearly with one another. When you appreciate your partner, you are able to better understand where the additional person is usually coming from, too.\n\nAnother trouble that couples experience whenever they do not converse effectively with each other is that they are likely to get distressed with each other above the smallest facts. If you obtain frustrated using your partner mainly because you cannot get them to see the common sense behind your words, then you are likely to irritate them, as well. This will certainly not help the marriage at all. Alternatively, if you share your feelings to your partner in a calm and logical manner, odds are good that they will feel good about it. They will understand what you are feeling and they will be a lot more willing to communicate with you in the future.\n\nWhen it comes to communication skills, many people are confused about the idea of armed service onessource. The word military onessource simply refers to communication with people who are in the military. In other words, it does not have anything at all to do with relationships at all! The term armed service onessource was actually coined by psychiatrist Robert McKenzie, that’s an ally of classic psychological therapy. Military onesources differ from additional onesources in this they concentrate more in communication skills and how a person understands to talk to people from a military perspective.\n\nPeople study certain speaking and body gestures techniques when in the military. If you learn these approaches while you are nonetheless in the product, chances are good that your spouse will also be in a position to understand and use them. Because you start communicating more with each other, chances are much more that your companion will feel more comfortable using the same communication skills that you’re already employing. As long as you no longer push to discuss personal issues or additional sensitive problems, you should be capable of create small things like keeping hands while you’re watching tv, doing exceptional eye contact, and so forth.. If you want the relationship to experience a more pleasing feel, take small measures in order to communicate more often and to improve your relationship’s communication expertise.\n\nAlthough one could say that successful communication is certainly not the same as powerful communication, be careful to not ever confuse both. Although you may always be communicating with an individual, there is continue to a great deal of difference between applying words saying something and also having many words spoken in a clear and hearable tone. By simply listening to each other’s feelings and truly feeling each others emotions, you’re going to be well on your way to developing a great emotionally solid relationship. Though communication is known as a key component to any relationship, if you are not able to communicate your emotions to another person, then they is likely going to be unable to connect click now similar feelings for you. This can cause feelings of unfulfilled require and isolation, which can in the end lead to relationship problems, such as cheating.\n\nRomantic relationship problems usually stem from particular facet of communication between partners: not being able to pay attention to what one another is saying. One of the most common ways this kind of happens is because people are as well busy concentrating on what they are planning to say compared to what they are sense. When you happen to be communicating with your spouse, you should be completely present with what you will be communicating regarding. Paying full attention to your partner’s ideas and how you are feeling every time you produce a communication will help build better conversation between you. By monitoring your lover’s words and truly feeling every feeling that comes up, you will find your self with far less relationship problems than if you would not pay attention to your partner’s demands and emotions.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6847307682037354}
+{"content": "OPINION | The parallels and contrasts of fighting the Aids and Covid-19 pandemics\n\nplay article\nSubscribers can listen to this article\n  • The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the global response to other infectious diseases, including HIV/Aids\n  • This is highly concerning, considering that more than 38 million people worldwide are living with HIV\n  • Leaving people behind is not an option if we are to succeed in tackling the colliding pandemics of HIV and Covid-19\n\nWhile the world is preoccupied with battling the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, it is easy to forget other epidemics such as HIV and Aids that are plaguing the planet with even more devastating consequences.\n\nAs the world ponders the theme of “Global solidarity, shared responsibility”, for the 2020 observance of World AIDS Day on 1 December, one is prompted to ask: Are there some bleak parallels in the Covid-19 pandemic now wracking the world and the Aids pandemic? Yes! The answer can be found in the same theme.\n\nPandemics feed on inequality\n\nThe statistics of epidemics are dire. The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across the world with more than 60 million confirmed cases in 190 countries and more than 1.4 million deaths.\n\nIn contrast, more than 75 million people globally became infected with HIV in the period between its discovery in the 1980s, with the loss of a staggering 32 million lives. More than 38 million people around the world are living with HIV.\n\nMore than 25.7 million people are living with HIV in Africa; of this number, South Africa has the largest prevalence in the world with 7.7 million, followed by Mozambique with 2.2 million , and Nigeria with 1.9 million.\n\nLest we forget the crucial truism that pandemics feed on inequality, especially between rich and poor countries. The people hurt are the most vulnerable. It took five years to get antiretroviral (ARV) drugs following campaigns by the HIV movement to get prices down.\n\nIn the case of Covid-19, history seems to be repeating itself. African countries were at the back of the queue for testing kits and this is likely also to be the case for vaccines.\n\nHIV, Covid and morals\n\nThe engagement of leaders, the health sector, and communities which have been instrumental in Aids awareness campaigns, have also been key in responding to Covid-19 through conversations about the lifesaving importance of wearing face masks to slow the spread of Covid-19, similar to the approach taken to increase the use of condoms to reduce HIV transmission.\n\nSometimes the spread of Covid-19 is strongly tied to our individual choice of ignoring to wear a mask, practise physical distancing and take hygiene measures.\n\nFor some, testing positive for both HIV and Covid-19 may mean that human nature takes over. Rather than telling people you are infected, you might conceal it for fear of retribution.\n\nUltimately, fear of the stigma keeps us more sick than healthy. It makes it shameful to quarantine when that's what everyone should be doing without a second thought.\n\nShame surrounding an illness is not new. In the 1980s, as Aids was tearing through communities, it was treated as a moral failing. People who tested positive for HIV were stigmatised for alleged bad lifestyle choices, such as having multiple partners and having sex without a condom.\n\nTherefore, the consequences for both Covid-19 and Aids are much higher than spreading a common cold or the flu, and precautions should be taken to reduce the spread of any illness.\n\nHIV/Aids/Covid-19 and personal responsibility \n\nIndeed, the way both HIV/Aids and Covid-19 are contracted has been studied extensively, which means the methods of transmission and everyone’s responsibilities are well-known. We know that the greater part of the problem appears to be complacency coupled to a lack of personal responsibility.\n\nFor example, the primary cause of HIV/Aids infection begins with one party being sexually promiscuous. This calls for more responsibility and vigilance on how we conduct our lives. \n\nLike HIV/Aids, to prevent the spread of Covid-19, it is incredibly important that we take personal responsibility for our actions and understand how those actions can impact others.\n\nThis means prevention begins at home, where South Africans have the power – and the responsibility – to prevent additional contagion and infections.\n\nA wake-up call\n\nFor Covid-19, we know that to save lives, part of the responsibility is to wear a mask when physical distancing is not possible, not to touch our eyes, nose or mouth, cover our nose and mouth with a bent elbow or a tissue when coughing or sneezing; clean our hands often; use soap and water, or an alcohol-based sanitizer; stay home when one feels unwell; if one has a fever, cough and difficulty breathing, seeking medical attention.\n\nCovid-19 is a global pandemic, and the whole world is going through it almost at the same time, together with the Aids and HIV epidemic. No matter what your medical background, if you have symptoms, you may need to be quarantined, and you may need to be tested.\n\nIndeed, Covid-19 should serve as a wake-up call for anyone questioning the importance of a vibrant public health system and responding to such a crisis such as the Aids epidemic.\n\nA recent survey by the World Health Organization revealed that South Africa was one of the 73 countries that were at a risk of stock shortages for live-saving anti-retroviral (ARVs) for people living with HIV.\n\nThe survey pointed out that while countries have been fighting Covid-19, they have neglected other healthcare areas like HIV/Aids, hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections. South Africa has had a disruption in its supply of ARVs according to the survey.\n\nHIV/Aids and fighting Covid\n\nWith the focus on Covid-19, it is important to ask whether financial and other resources for containing the other epidemics are being diverted to Covid-19 mitigation.\n\nFortunately, the South African government has already designated HIV/Aids \"as a strategic priority and an essential element of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development\", which targets the eradication of the disease as a public health threat by 2030.\n\nWhether the country will achieve its goal of expanding HIV treatment to 6.1 million people by the end of 2020, given the disruption caused by Covid-19, remains to be seen.\n\nSo, now that we know that HIV damages the body's immune system and interferes with the body's ability to fight infection and disease, does that make it more difficult to fight off Covid-19?\n\nI agree with advice from Dr Stacey Rizza, an infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic in Los Angeles. She says: \"We know that anybody who has a suppressed immune system may have an altered response to the virus that causes Covid-19. We know that older people whose immune systems are a little weaker, and people who have medical issues or organ diseases, are going to generally do worse with the infection.”\n\n\"If somebody has HIV and their immune system is weaker, meaning they're not on therapy, or they're earlier on in their therapy and their CD4 count is still low, they may be at risk of having a worse reaction to the virus.”\n\nCommunities, epidemics, and pandemics\n\n\nCommunities play a vital role in preventing and responding to epidemics. There are strong traditional beliefs and stigmas around Aids, HIV and Covid, and therefore effective communication is crucial to helping communities abandon deep-rooted beliefs and take actions to prevent infections.\n\nTips for people living with HIV in this Covid-19 era\n\nIt is possible to achieve this by listening to people's fears, perceptions and beliefs about HIV, Aids and Covid-19 and tailoring social mobilisation activities to address these fears.\n\nI have found these tips for people living with HIV in the Covid-19 era very useful:\n\n  • Help your immune system fight off infection by staying healthy.\n  • Get plenty of rest and reduce stress.\n  • Practise Covid-19 health protocols such as wearing masks and physical distancing.\n  • Have at least a 30-day supply of your HIV medicine and any other medications or medical supplies you need to manage HIV.\n  • Establish a plan for clinical care with your health care provider.\n  • Maintain social connections remotely, such as online, by phone or video chat.\n\nPolitical will, leadership, HIV and Aids, and Covid-19\n\nCovid-19 has shown how political will and committed leadership can bring about change. We have seen governments urgently coming up with policy measures and financial resources to save lives, protect livelihoods and jobs. \n\nJust as the 2020 World AIDS Day theme calls for ”Global solidarity, shared responsibility”, as we enter the last decade of action to end Aids as a public health threat by 2030, we need  the same political will, worldwide collaboration and commitment used to respond to Covid-19 to tackle the Aids epidemic.\n\nThe colliding Covid-19 pandemic and HIV/Aids epidemic are a wake-up call and an opportunity to do things differently – better, and together. It can be done.\n\nDr Anna Mokgokong is chairperson of AfroCentric Health Group, owners of Medscheme and other health care providers, and Executive Chairperson of Community Investment Holdings.\n\nWe live in a world where facts and fiction get blurred\nSubscribe to News24\nVoting Booth\nHave you entered our Health of the Nation survey?\n33% - 9324 votes\n67% - 18755 votes", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9119668006896973}
+{"content": "How to Optimize Your Landing Page Using Qualitative User Research\n\nHow to Optimize Your Landing Page Using Qualitative User ResearchThis is a guest post from Adam Enfroy. He writes about how to blog like a startup to 450,000 monthly readers at, & teaches his audience of New School Bloggers the tactics he used to scale his blog to $80k/month MRR.\n\nAs a product marketer, increasing your landing page conversion rates through optimization has a significant impact on your bottom line.\n\nYou spend most of your time running A/B tests and tracking your conversion rates because you’re trying to optimize conversions and prove the ROI of your PPC campaigns.\n\nNonetheless, you still can’t seem to grasp why your visitors behave the way they do.\n\nSo, what’s your solution?\n\nUsing qualitative research to understand the reasons behind your visitors’ behavior so that you optimize your landing page and skyrocket your conversion rates.\n\nIn this article, I’ll explain the ROI of qualitative research, different methods to conduct it, and how to analyze your research data within your database. I’ll also demonstrate how Process Street’s superpowered checklists can help you perform optimized qualitative user research.\n\nTo jump to a specific section of the post click the appropriate link below. Alternatively, just keep scrolling.\n\nReady? Let’s get started.\n\n\nThe value of qualitative user research for landing page optimization?\n\nQuantitative research data gives you the numbers with little or no insight into what they actually mean. There’s little you can do to make sense of these numbers, leaving you stuck on what you need to do to improve conversions.\n\nThis is where the use of qualitative research data can help you.\n\nGain deeper insights behind visitor behavior\n\nThere will always be a reason behind every action that visitors take when on your landing page.\n\nFor example, your landing page visitors get subtle subconscious cues from the visual combinations you use, compelling them to take action. They elicit different emotions in your visitors in line with their values and attitudes, determining whether they will trust you or not.\n\nData from qualitative research tells you why your landing page visitors prefer certain visual combinations over others and the psychological associations they have with them.\n\nIt can also directly tell you how to fix bounce rates plaguing your conversions.\n\nThe visual combinations you use should complement your landing page copy and make it more compelling for improved conversions.\n\nLuckily, plenty of website builders provide you with tips and insights to optimize bounce rates when building your website or landing page.\n\nKlientboost compared the effectiveness of a green CTA button against an orange one.\nSpoiler alert: the orange CTA outperformed the green one. Take a look:\n\n\n\nWhy was this the case?\n\nThe green button blends in with the brand’s colors. Even if it is associated with balance and harmony, it never stood out as well as the orange one did.\n\nWhy orange? Because it is an aggressive color that breeds excitement and warmth.\n\nThis leads us on to the next important factor, choosing the correct color and tone…\n\nUse a tone and style that helps you connect with your visitors\n\nThe kind of copy you use in your landing pages needs to mirror the language that your visitors use when describing their problems.\n\nQualitative research data provides you with your customers’ thoughts, feelings, and attitudes. This data allows you to understand their problems and the solutions they may need. You also gain an understanding of some of their psychological triggers which you can use when writing your landing page copy.\n\nSay, for instance, you have data telling you that your customers are hellbent on avoiding a particular problem, and your product helps them achieve that.\n\nYour landing page will mirror the same problem to them using the words and tone they used in your qualitative data to connect with them.\n\nYour data will also help you identify their desires so that you mirror that in your copy to help you earn their trust and boost your conversions.\n\nHere’s how Cubefunder does it on their landing page:\n\n\nGiven that this is a section of copy on their landing page, let’s check if the words visible in this image (or anything close to them) also show up in the Cubefunder’s reviews:\n\n\nKeeping up with changing attitudes\n\n73% of buyers expect you to understand their needs and expectations. According to ReferralCandy, this is called the buyer’s journey:\n\n\nIf you aren’t aware of what your customers want, you’re likely to come up with irrelevant offers, hurting your conversion rates in the process. For example, if your site is finance related, maybe your page needs a helpful cost calculator. If you’re providing how-to content, maybe video is what your customers are after.\n\nBesides, evolving customer needs and expectations mean that you have new customer segments emerging, and you have to know this so that you customize your offers to meet their needs.\n\nIn that case, I’d recommend first learning how to start a blog, so you can address all of your customers’ needs properly and nurture them over time.\n\nHowever, before you start creating content, just be sure to analyze the qualitative research data, which will let you know exactly what your customers need and expect from you.\n\nThe responses you get help you uncover their struggles so that you know what features to add to your product or create new products that meet their needs.\n\nYou might even find out that you’re serving one customer segment with different needs, so you create a long-form landing page with sections addressing each need.\n\nSo, how do you conduct qualitative research to get high-quality responses that will help you optimize your landing page for improved conversions? That’s what we’re talking about next.\n\nHow to conduct qualitative user research (and get the responses you need)\n\nYou know you need to conduct qualitative research. But which method do you use? What questions should you ask? How do you conduct your research efficiently? For starters, I recommend creating standard operating procedures (or SOPs) for your team to follow when conducting research.\n\nEach of these methods below works well. We will start with what you need to know from your customers, free trial users, and landing page visitors to guide you on the questions to ask. So, here’s what you need to know to help you understand the reasons behind their actions on your landing pages:\n\n  • Why they signed up for your lead magnet or paid for your product – You want to know why your customers bought from you to help you uncover their buying triggers and understand what’s working well on your landing pages.\n  • What would have prevented them from taking action on your landing page and why – You want to know common objections and whether your landing page elements are addressing these objections.\n  • What landing page elements prevent them from taking action and why- Here, you want to improve their experience and remove distractions that lower your conversion rates.\n\nWith this in mind, let’s get started on qualitative user research methods:\n\n1. Customer surveys\n\nWhen conducting customer surveys, the goal isn’t collecting as much information as you want to, rather, the right information.\n\nAssuming that you do send a thank you email after a customer buys from you or you have a sequence dedicated to welcome emails for new subscribers, the best time to do a customer survey is right after they buy or sign up for your lead magnet.\n\nIt doesn’t have to be too long and complicated — one question will do the trick.\n\nHere’s what I mean…\n\nYour welcome email:\n\n\nHere, you want to start a conversation with your new subscriber. You’re digging deeper to know their needs so that you position your product as their best solution both in terms of the offers you make and the copy you use.\n\nSeveral themes emerge in these responses, and if you’re keen enough, the language the subscriber uses is unique to their segment. (we’ll talk about this in language analysis).\n\nYour thank you email for your customers:\n\n\nThese emails don’t even look like surveys. They provide enough context, asking open-ended questions, making it easy for the recipient to respond.\n\nPro tip: Don’t worry about asking only one question in the email. The goal is to start a conversation with your subscribers and customers, opening the way for more questions that you have. Afraid you don’t have time to send these emails? No problem, just outsource it to a virtual assistant or a freelancer.\n\n2. Customer service interactions\n\nYour customer service conversations and live chat logs are a goldmine of qualitative data because this is where your customers air their frustrations concerning your product and what’s missing.\n\nAsk your customer service team to show you common customer complaints concerning your product and the positive feedback they have received from customers. If you’re utilizing live website chat, you can easily dive into chat transcripts to read what customers are saying first hand.\n\n3. Customer interviews\n\nTalking to your customers allows you to gather deep insights about them because, as you listen, you understand them better.\n\nThese insights provide you with more context that helps you understand the responses you get from your surveys. Here, you have two options: Pick up your phone and call them or interview them on your podcast.\n\nWhen planning to conduct customer interviews, use a sales automation tool to start running outreach campaigns to get people to interview with you.\n\nTo avoid back and forth emails to agree on a suitable date and time, the Woven calendar app comes in handy—you just need to include a link to your schedule. Once your customers click on it, they will see your availability and choose a date and time that works for them.\n\nDuring your interview, mute your microphone whenever your customer is speaking to avoid interrupting them.\n\nAlso, request their permission to record the call, so that you can listen to the recording later and make sure you haven’t missed anything. Transcribe the interview to help you analyze their responses.\n\nUsability testing\n\nYou need to understand how your landing page visitors use your landing page so that you eliminate distractions to improve their experience. Common distractions that occur are such as inconsistent ad scent, a hidden call to action button, unfriendly legal forms, unclear headlines, and testimonials that don’t inspire trust in your visitor. Here are three tests to conduct:\n\n6-foot test\n\nStand six feet away from your landing page and see if your headline and call to action stand out from other elements on your landing page. Alternatively, have someone else do this test for you. If your headline and CTA aren’t visible from six feet, increase your headline’s font size and whitespace on your landing page to improve visibility.\n\n5-second test\n\nThis test lets you know whether your offer and value propositions are clear to your visitors. Have someone sit in front of your landing page for five seconds then let them tell you what they got from it. (In case study #1, we’ll talk about how Unbounce fixed a landing page with an unclear offer and value proposition)\n\nWeb traffic surveys\n\nUse a tool to ask your users questions on your landing page to know what elements prevent them from taking action.\n\nYou can also do this remotely by having a set of questions for your visitors to help you know why they aren’t taking action on your landing page. Take a look:\n\n\nThere you have it.\n\nWhich method will you use to collect your qualitative data?\n\nMake a mental note of it because, during the analysis section, you’ll get plenty of a-ha moments!\n\nHow to analyze your qualitative user research\n\nDepending on the data collection method you decide to use, it’s time to derive meaningful insights from your responses. Here, you’ll start connecting the dots between the numbers you get and your visitor’s behavior.\n\nStep 1:\n\nSort out the responses to your questions based on their length. You’re going to end up with two groups of responses: Long and short responses. The longer your responses, the more details they have, so you want to pay attention to the next step.\n\nStep 2:\n\nAnalyze the language in these responses to identify common themes that keep emerging.\n\nSince you want your landing page visitors to trust you, you need to speak like you’re one of them by avoiding using language that alienates you from them.\n\nRead through all the responses you have to connect with your visitors’ sentiments then note down words and phrases that appear frequently.\n\nWhat themes do these words represent? Do they mention a specific thing about your product that they need? Is there a group that needs a new product to meet their needs?\n\nInsert your responses into a word cloud tool for further analysis and to help you compare with what you wrote down when reading through your responses. Or alternatively, you could sit down with your team to do some mind mapping of your ideas on paper or whiteboard.\n\nStep 3:\n\nUsing your word cloud results, you already have common words and themes that show up.\n\nCreate a hypothesis using the data you have and conduct an A/B test to see what you need to improve or change on your landing page for better conversions.\n\nFor example, your data might reveal that your visitors still have trust issues that prevent them from converting, yet you have been using text-based testimonials.\n\nYour hypothesis will be:\nIf I added video testimonials to my landing pages, then I will have better conversion rates because 5 out of 10 buyers watch a video before buying.\n\nRun your A/B test and see which landing page performs better then use it to improve your conversion rates.\n\nNow, let’s look at more examples below to see how qualitative research data has improved landing page conversion rates…\n\nLanding page optimization in action using qualitative user research\n\nCase study #1:\n\nRemember the 5-second test we spoke about earlier?\n\nOli Gardner from Unbounce asked website visitors if they understood what a given email marketing solution does upon reading the headline.\n\nThis headline to be exact:\n\n\nIs it immediately clear to you what that solution does for you? Yeah, I thought so too.\n\nYet isn’t it strange that only 6% of the respondents said that they understood what the email marketing solution does for them?\n\nAfter tweaking and testing a new headline, 20% said they understood what’s in it for them.\n\nCase Study #2:\n\nIn another example… Unbounce wrote an ebook, The Noob Guide to Online Marketing, and for visitors to get it, they had to tweet about it.\n\n\nInitially, the conversion rates for this were 25% so, Oli did a usability test using Qualaroo, asking users why they didn’t convert and whether a tweet was enough to get an e-book.\n\nHe uncovered three significant objections in the responses he got:\n\n5% of these visitors were afraid of what would happen after clicking the call to action button. Would they edit the tweet? Would the message automatically appear on their feed?\n\nThey didn’t want to share an e-book they hadn’t read\n39% of the visitors preferred sharing their email addresses to get the e-book.\n\nSo, Oli added an infographic and a text preview, providing more information about the e-book. He also assured the visitors that they would edit the tweet before posting it, convincing them to take action.\n\nThe result?\n\nConversion rates shot up to 33%.\n\nUse qualitative user research and boost your conversions\n\nYour qualitative research data comes in to fill in the gaps left by your quantitative research data. Having read this far, you should know what you need to do to conduct your research.\n\nStart with what you have. If you don’t ask your new subscribers and customers questions, add a question in your email series. If you’ve never done a usability test, start with the 5-second test. The idea is to start where you are and just keep moving.\n\nOn a final note, remember: your qualitative research data may not be as perfect as you want it to be. Work with the data you get and, over time, you’ll learn how to ask better questions and get better responses to help you optimize your landing page for better conversions.\n\nIf you’d like to learn more about optimizing your landing pages and all of your business processes, check out these Process Street articles:\n\nWe’d love to hear about the different ways you use qualitative user research to optimize your landing pages in the comments.👇🏼 Who knows? You may even get featured in an upcoming article!\n\nGet our posts & product updates earlier by simply subscribing\n\nMolly Stovold\n\n\nLeave a comment\n\n\nGet a free Process Street account\nand take control of your workflows today.\n\nNo Credit Card Required", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5144063234329224}
+{"content": "Produits en promotion\nAll sale products\n\nNovalac Ar 2 Pdr 800g\n\n\n\nPrix Selfpharma: €24.04\n(tax incl.) €22.68 (tax excl.)\nblock Out-of-Stock\nYou can order: 8 quantity of this product\n\nskim milk, lactose, vegetable oils (palm, coconut, soy), starch, sodium citrate (citrate sodium), vitamins (vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K1, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin C, niacin, biotin, folic acid, pantothenic acid), tricalcium phosphate, dipotassium (phosphate dipotassium), emulsifier (soy lecithin), magnesium chloride, bitartrate choline, potassium hydroxide (potassium hydroxide), iron sulfate, vanillin, ethyl, antioxidants (tocopherols), zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide (iodide of potassium).\n\nComposition per 100 ml to 13 %:\nprotein 1.7 g (casein 1,36 g, whey protein 0.34 g), fat 3 g (linoleic acid 600 mg, alpha-linolenic acid in 54.6 mg), carbohydrates/carbohydrate 7.6 g (lactose 6.3 g, starch 1.3 g), minerals (Na 31,2 mg, K product 102.7 mg, Cl 58,6 mg, Ca 66,3 g, P a 50.1 mg, Mg 5.9 mg, Fe 0.8 mg, Zn 0.5 mg, I have 5.9 µg, Cu 39 µg, Mn 6.5 µg), vitamins (vitamin A for 58.5 µg ER (equivalent in retinol), vitamin B1 39 µg, vitaimne B2 104 µg, vitamin B6 39 µg, vitamin B12 0.1 µg, vitamin C 7.8 mg, vitamin D3 1 mcg, vitamin E 1.7 mg, vitamin K1 3.3 µg, biotin 2 mg, niacin 1.1 mg, folic acid by 5.9 µg, pantothenic acid 0.3 mg), choline 7.8 mg.\n\nEnergy value: 64,1 kcal = 268 kJ.\nNovalac AR 2 (second age) is a follow-on milk is intended to cover the daily needs of infants from the age of 4 months. To administer as a complement to a diversified diet. The formula to Novalac AR 2 is specifically adapted to the problems of regurgitation in infants.\n\nMilk second age Novalac AR 2 is composed of corn starch pre-cooked (17 % carbohydrates; composed for 99 % of amylopectines) and casein (80 % protein), which thicken the milk in the stomach to avoid regurgitation. The thickening has no influence on the feces;\nRemains liquid in the bottle to facilitate feeding;\nVegetable oils: linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid, converted in the human organism fatty acids (i.e. arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)), play a role in the development of sight and brain.\n\n1 measuring scoop = 4,3 g. 3 mesurettes + 90 ml water = 100 ml of food at 13 %.\nFirst warm the water up to a maximum temperature of 40 °C. Subsequently, add the powder and mix well/shake.\nDo not hesitate to immediately discard any leftover milk from the bottle if it has not been consumed completely in a single meal. Do not reuse leftover bottle not finished! You must give the bottle in the hour following its preparation.\nDo not add sugar.\nAlways make sure that you fully close the box after each use and store in a cool and dry place.\nAfter opening, use the contents of the box within 3 weeks.\nExpiry Date mentioned on the box.\n\nBe the first to write your review !", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.849602222442627}
+{"content": "Waterfalls of the Kimberley\n\nJuly 2020\nPorthole Cruise Magazine - Steve Leland\n\nEVEN AMONG SEASONED CRUISE AFICIONADOS, a look of befuddlement accompanied by “where is that?” was commonplace when discussing our cruise adventure along the coast of the Kimberley, a treasured destination of Northwest Australia. A perennial best-kept secret, the region would continue to find cruise-travel headlines elusive were it not for the vision of True North Adventure Cruises.\n\nVisiting this isolated parcel of the country is an immersion into a dramatic landscape of waterfalls, rugged wilderness, and deserted beaches lapped by the aquamarine waves of the Indian Ocean. The area’s remote accessibility becomes a non-factor with a niche 10-day cruise experience that diverges from the subdued adventures found aboard larger ships and ventures into authentic encounters of the awesome kind.\n\nThe storied outpost of Broome is the point of embarkation for this journey of adventure aboard the stunning 36-passenger True North. First appearances mean a lot, and this sleek yacht-looking vessel does not disappoint. Graced with casual elegance fulfilling the promise of a gold-standard cruise product, True North is built for access to places larger craft would never attempt. With incredible locations far removed from roads and people, it is expeditionary cruising at its best.\n\nThe first morning finds early risers anxiously absorbing the beauty of Cockatoo Island, followed in the afternoon by witnessing one of the greatest wonders of the natural world: the Horizontal Waterfalls of Talbot Bay. This natural phenomenon produces amazing Mother Nature–action as the daily surge of reversing tides forges its way between narrow, solid stone gaps carved by wind and sea. The True North’s adventure boats challenge the gushing rapids head on, a thrilling initiation into adventure cruising.\n\nSailing along the picturesque coastline, Crocodile Dundee–style adventures await at every turn as guests assume the role of backwater explorers, venturing into tranquil bays and rivers that escape the cacophony of urban bustle. What makes this cruise experience so unique is the daily roster of personalized adventures that are waiting for discovery, the type of things that dreams are made of.\n\nFancy an invigorating climb up a natural staircase of boulders to a remote waterfall for a refreshing dip in a pond at the top? Consider it done! Wish you could take a shower under a thundering waterfall, go fishing for trophy barramundi, or hunt for mud crabs? Wish granted! Want a prepared picnic under a canopy of hanging king ferns ... or freshly collected oysters at low tide chased by champagne bubbly on the beach? Of course!\nFantasizing about a helicopter flight that lands on the top of a spectacular waterfall? Wait — what?!? Thrill-seekers will be astounded by True North’s very own onboard helicopter, poised for adrenaline-laced reconnaissance missions into the above and beyond. A diverse menu offers options like fly-in fishing, amazing aerial flight-seeing, and, for the ultimate experience, a landing on top of the magnificent King George Falls, Kimberley’s iconic spectacle.\n\nThe daily agenda of activity requires little forethought as everything is perfectly executed, narrated, and curated by willing and competent staff that impart fascinating insight into the region’s history and billion-year-old rock formations. The guides are experts in pointing out critters, crocs, and birds as you explore the rugged habitat of the Kimberley on the six exclusive adventure boats. While the rousing and seemingly never-ending activities deserve significant merit, it’s the vessel itself that succeeds in conveying luxurious convenience with casual class, barefoot comfort, and a five-star ambience.\n\nResembling a fashionable living room, the vessel’s lounge is a natural gathering point for sharing the escapades of the day. Pre-dinner happy hours feature creative appetizers complemented by daily cocktail specials and regional wines. The congenial dining room sports family-style tables surrounded by large windows that expose the passing cinema of the region. Hearty breakfasts fuel the body for the daily outings, and full-service lunch and dinner are both expertly prepared by heralded chefs using in-season, locally sourced ingredients. Each individual of the cruise staff shares their passion for the area and displays genuine interest in accommodating every whim of their guests, making this a true once-in-a-lifetime event.\n\nThrill-seekers will be astounded by True North’s very own onboard helicopter, offering fly-in fishing, amazing aerial flight-seeing, and, for the ultimate experience, a landing on top of the magnificent King George Falls, Kimberley’s iconic spectacle.\n\nIn spite of recent fires that devastated parts of Australia, the Kimberley was fortunate to escape the tragedy, and the unbreakable spirit of the region remains intact, standing ready to reveal the spectacle of nature’s grandeur. True North’s is a cruise experience that displays two attitudes, adventurous enough to fall into the expeditionary niche yet doused with significant elements of upscale travel, an enviable departure from normal. Discovering places far removed from destinations choked by overzealous tourism is a welcome departure from normal. It’s an experience that will create a shift in your cruise perspective — not what cruising is, but what cruising should be.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8190687894821167}
+{"content": "Paris printed pant\n\nWe are loving our Paris printed pant with a wide leg A-line cut, they're relaxed through the leg and a versatile wardrobe piece all year round. Featuringﾠan elastic waistband at the back and a flat band to the front.ﾠ\n\nSizing guide: true to size/ relaxed fit\n\n\nFabric: 100% Rayon\n\nModel wears a size S and is 174cm tall\n\nCategory: PANTS\n2 items left", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9990222454071045}
+{"content": "Fluoride Action Network\n\n\nChronic renal failure (CRF) inhibits the ability of the kidneys to excrete fluoride. Increased systemic fluoride, has been shown to result in increased thickness of the growth plate (GP). Severe CRF also leads to widening of the GP in uremic rats. Therefore, we hypothesize that fluoride exposure may further accentuate the widening of the GP induced by uremia. Objectives: To determine whether the fluoride supplementation affects growth plate disturbances in uremic rats. Methods: Young rats (100 gm) were divided into four groups: sham-operated (S), S with 50 ppm F in the drinking water (F), 5/6 nephrectomy (Nx), and Nx with F. After 2 weeks the animals were sacrificed, and 1 femoral epiphysis from each animal was analyzed for fluoride, while the other was fixed in 10% formalin and processed for histomorphometry. Results: Mean ± SD ppm fluoride in the femoral GP of the S group was 546 ± 122; the Nx group was 684 ± 125; the S +F group was 1445 ± 178; the Nx+F was 2767 ± 403. ANOVA showed statistically significant differences between the groups. Fluoride supplementation increased the thickness of the GP when compared to S animals. The thickness in the GP was increased further by NX and further widened in the Nx + F group. The thickness in the GP affected by F occurred primarily in the hypertrophic zone. Conclusions: This study suggests that in chronic renal insufficiency, fluoride supplementation enhances the widening of the epiphyseal growth plate. Further studies to determine mechanism by which fluoride affects the growth plate are needed to determine the possible role of excess fluoride supplementation on renal osteodystropy in children.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9123464226722717}
+{"content": "Maria do Rosário Pedreira\n\n(b. 1959)\n\nMaria do Rosário Pedreira’s poetry has been, since her very first book, ‘A Casa e o Cheiro dos Livros' (The House and the Smell of Books), a musically melancholy writing, infused in a unhurried tune of harsh beauty in which, like the wind in the cypresses, the feelings of loneliness and forsakenness blow, together with a lyricism embroidered by a sort of needle of time guided by distance and memory.\nMaria do Rosário Pedreira was born in Lisbon. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures and has worked in publishing since 1987 - her brief includes the discovery of writers of new literary fiction in Portugal. She has also written a novel and two series of books for young people which were both adapted for television. All her poetry books are now collected in one volume published in 2012.\nPoetry books since 2000: O Canto do Vento nos Ciprestes (2001), Nenhum nome depois (2004), Poesia Reunida (2012)\n\n\nDomingo, 24 de Janeiro de 2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9889556765556335}
+{"content": "\nAuthor Le J, Mallery EL, Zhang C, Brankle S, Szymanski DB.\nIssue Curr Biol. 2006 May 9;16(9):895-901.\nAbstract The actin cytoskeleton dynamically reorganizes the cytoplasm during cell morphogenesis. The actin-related protein (Arp)2/3 complex is a potent nucleator of actin filaments that controls a variety of endomembrane functions including the endocytic internalization of plasma membrane , vacuole biogenesis , plasma-membrane protrusion in crawling cells , and membrane trafficking from the Golgi . Therefore, Arp2/3 is an important signaling target during morphogenesis. The evolutionarily conserved Rac-WAVE-Arp2/3 pathway links actin filament nucleation to cell morphogenesis . WAVE translates Rac-GTP signals into Arp2/3 activation by regulating the stability and/or localization of the activator subunit Scar/WAVE . The WAVE complex includes Sra1/PIR121/CYFIP1, Nap1/NAP125, Abi-1/Abi-2, Brick1(Brk1)/HSPC300, and Scar/WAVE : Defining the in vivo function of each subunit is an important step toward understanding this complicated signaling pathway. Brk1/HSPC300 has been the most recalcitrant WAVE-complex protein and has no known function. In this paper, we report that Arabidopsis brick1 (brk1) is a member of the \"distorted group\" of trichome morphology mutants, a group that defines a WAVE-ARP2/3 morphogenesis pathway . In this paper we provide the first strong genetic and biochemical evidence that BRK1 is a critical WAVE-complex subunit that selectively stabilizes the Arp2/3 activator SCAR2.\nLink 16584883", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999344527721405}
+{"content": "Purpose To elucidate the initial molecular elements and biological procedures which\n\nPurpose To elucidate the initial molecular elements and biological procedures which are differentially expressed within the limbal stem cellular microenvironment by evaluating right to that of its immediate adjacent buildings, the conjunctiva and cornea. c, homeodomain just proteins (HOP), and TP53 apoptosis effector (PERP) had been confirmed in individual ocular tissues. Useful analysis from the preferentially portrayed genes within the limbus evaluated that melanin metabolic process and cell-cell adhesion had been among the visible natural procedures. Chromosomal distribution from the overexpressed genes within the limbus was disproportional compared to that of most known individual genes. Conclusions These results may reveal the initial molecular elements and legislation of limbal stem cellular material and their specialized niche. Launch Corneal epithelial stem cellular material have been recommended by scientific and experimental proof to reside on the basal level from the limbal epithelium, and they’re so known as limbal stem cellular material (LSCs) [1-5]. Many substances have been suggested as markers of LSCs [6-8]. Nevertheless, there is absolutely no exclusive marker to recognize LSCs straight, which significantly limitations the characterization and localization of LSCs and their specialized niche [9]. The idea of stem cell niche was introduced by Schofield in 1978 [10] first. The stem cell fate is governed by extrinsic and intrinsic signals. The encompassing specific niche market or microenvironment, which includes niche cellular material, soluble elements, and extracellular matrix, supplies the exterior signals. The root limbal stroma like the extracellular matrix, vascular supply, and stromal cellular material seems to modulate the success and differentiation of corneal epithelial cellular material [9,11-13]. Because LSCs never have however straight been located, the precise spatial agreement of LSCs and their specialized niche WAY-100635 IC50 cellular material is largely unidentified. Bron and Goldberg [14] recommended that LSCs can be found within the precise limbal framework, the palisades of Vogt. Papillary projections from the stroma expand on the cellar from the limbus upwards, and specific invaginations of limbal epithelium in to the deep stroma (limbal crypt) show up like the epithelial crypts from the gut where in fact the intestinal epithelial stem cellular material can be found [1,15,16]. The LSC specialized niche has been suggested to reside in within these deep limbal crypts WAY-100635 IC50 [17,18]. To comprehend the intrinsic elements that characterize limbal stem cellular material, the gene appearance profile of limbal epithelial cellular material has been weighed against that of corneal epithelial cellular material [19,20] or of conjunctival epithelial cellular material [21], but no research KLHL22 antibody WAY-100635 IC50 evaluating the gene appearance profiles of most three types of epithelia using the root stroma continues to be reported. The purpose of the present research was to recognize exclusive genes and natural pathways which are differentially portrayed within the limbal epithelium as well as the root stroma in comparison to those within the cornea and conjunctiva. The root stroma was included to make sure that the samples included the deep limbal crypts as well as the potential the different parts of LSC specialized niche. Methods Tissues collection Eye tissues of vervet monkeys (have already been suggested as potential LSC markers. Our data demonstrated that was portrayed within the conjunctiva at the best level (124) accompanied by the limbus (75), that was in line with the previous discovering that conjunctiva included a higher part of the side inhabitants compared to the limbus [50]. Therefore, was not regarded particular towards the limbal area according to your selection criteria. Regarding was portrayed within the basal and suprabasal levels within the epithelial cellular material within the limbus and conjunctiva, but at hook lesser degree within the last mentioned. The isoform from the were the most particular towards the basal epithelium within the limbus. To help expand confirm their results, QRTCPCR using isotype particular primers will be necessary. Based on the Relieve annotation, we discovered that melanin metabolic process was one of the leading natural processes within the limbus in vervet monkey. This result can be in keeping with the observation the fact that limbus from the vervet monkey can be extremely pigmented. The palisades of Vogt, that WAY-100635 IC50 is where LSCs are believed to reside, include pigment granules which WAY-100635 IC50 are aligned using the microplicae from the epithelium in individual [6]. The melanocytes are dispersed within the basal limbus epithelium [52]. Contact with ultraviolet rays causes oxidative insult, DNA harm, and cellular death within the corneal epithelia [53,54]. Epidermal melanocytes may actually play a significant role in safeguarding epidermal tissues from oxidative harm. In addition, melanin pigmentation obstructs ultraviolet rays [55] directly. A recently available content proposed that N-cadherin+ limbal melanocytes could be a cellular element of the LSC specialized niche [8]. Whether melanocytes constitute the LSC niche provides yet to become confirmed indeed. Nevertheless, there is certainly mounting proof that.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993419051170349}
+{"content": "In order to obtain a correct decontamination there are certain parameters to follow. In the first place the environmental conditions of the zone are due to change to try. It is important to make a study and good selection of the methods use, as well as choose the suitable time of development of the species to which it is wanted to control. Besides the cleaning of means methods preventive, physical, chemical, biological and integrated can be used. (A valuable related resource: Amazon). By means of the cleaning of means we concentrated in trying to reduce the provisions of the plague (water and food) as well as to restrict the zones of shelter that can have.\n\nAlso it consists of throwing the sweepings in the appropriate points, treating waste waters and to maintain a hygiene and cleaning adapted in the buildings to try. If not yet there is a plague seizing of the place, preventive methods can be used to save the worries in the future. It uses you enmesh and grids that prevent or make difficult the access of insects. Cudese to cover cracks, cracks and turns, since they suppose a perfect hiding place for the plagues in order to lodge and to reproduce. In some places where the presence of insects supposes a high risk (as they can be hospitals), resorts to airflows like preventive measures. The air flow prevents the entrance of insects, preventing therefore the possible plagues.\n\nThe use of physical methods to fight insects is only advisable when it is a reduced number and never for a plague. Between the different methods is the temperature (cold or heat), the ultraviolet light and the vacuum cleaners. If the temperature is used, in conditions of cold speech of temperatures inferiors to ten degrees, moment which the insects enter a lethargy state, the movement and the reproductive activity stop.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8681626319885254}
+{"content": "Economic Damages: Work-life Expectancy v. Retirement Age\nAdding years onto the end of earnings loss calculations\n\nThe only supporting rationale from the forensic for this assumption was the fact that the plaintiff had older siblings who continued to be active in the labor force into their 70s. The statistical work-life tables detailed an additional six years of active work for the man. The result from the economist’s assumption was the 100% continuous employment from the age of 60 to 75 in “Medium to Heavy” categories. The economist would have you believe that the plaintiff would never be injured, his health would never deteriorate, and he would never transition between jobs or projects. The impact is an overestimate of future earnings with nine years added to the end of the calculation.\n\n\nThe disagreement can be further supported with the point that the majority of the work-life sample (labor data) consists of sedentary and light category workers. While the plaintiff would continue working in construction in the medium and heavy categories, I would argue that the statistical work-life expectancy presented is a best-case scenario for the plaintiff considering his job’s physical category, his age, and his level of education. (Note: There are no published statistical work-life tables for construction workers.)\n\n\nThese are some examples of the persuasive case against the use of the crystal ball by the economist when attempting to guess plaintiff’s retirement age. In the end, you can be certain that the foundation for this speculation is the resulting additional years of annual earnings for the plaintiff.\n\n\nA work-life expectancy is a conceptual contradiction from the idea of guessing the plaintiff’s future retirement age at 65 or 67. Selecting a retirement age of 65 and subtracting the plaintiff’s age does not garner a work life expectancy. In truth, my 16-year-old son could throw darts at future retirement ages and then perform a back-of-the-envelope calculation and call it a “work-life expectancy”. Not only does this methodology invite speculation, but it also assumes 100% full-time employment for the remainder of the plaintiff’s work-life duration. This approach does not consider any of the factors (voluntary and involuntary) that lead one to leave the labor force.\n\n\nThe work-life expectancy is the average number of years that a person will spend either working or actively looking for work during the remainder of his or her life. Work-life tables were developed over time to allow for the probability of traditional factors that might cause someone to leave the labor market temporarily (i.e. change in job locations or being injured) or permanently (i.e. death, early retirement).\n\nThe Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) had published a work-life expectancy table that was normally relied on by economists for the purpose of ascertaining the expected future work life expectancy of an individual.  The BLS tables were constructed from information collected in the Current Population Survey (CPS) of the U.S. Census. Three distinguished economists now share the responsibility of producing these tables every few years. The recently updated table[1], published in 2019, presents estimates using 2012-2017 labor force data for persons ages 18+ by sex and level of education. Failure to take into consider the standard statistical probabilities through the use of this table results in an inappropriate estimate of future work life expectancy (in actuality, failure to use this table results in ignoring the whole concept of a work-life expectancy estimate). The work-life tables are peer-reviewed and are the preeminent source used by both plaintiff and defense experts for projecting future work life[2].\n\n\nIn addition, there are many alternative methodologies utilized by experts to determine a future retirement age. For example, the use of recent Gallup polls, Social Security retirement eligibility age, and the plaintiff’s own subjective testimony (“I planned to retire at 75”) are effective alternatives. However, these methodologies are flawed for the same fundamental reason of assuming 100% continuous employment for the entirety of the plaintiff’s remaining work duration.\n\n\nOver the past few years, several economic experts have taken the strategy to present multiple work-life scenarios. Their first scenario presents the plaintiff’s statistical work-life expectancy from the work-life tables and considers the statistical probability of all factors limiting the plaintiff’s active participation in the labor force. Their second work-life scenario will assume that the plaintiff will retire at age 67 (example). These two scenarios are in direct conflict with one another. The expert’s first scenario accepts the process of census labor data combined with transition probabilities, resulting in median active work years. The second work-life scenario essentially suggests that the previous statistical work-life expectancy is nonsense and the plaintiff will work continuously (without transition) and longer than the median, amongst his peers. A counter question for this expert would be why a third scenario is not presented with the plaintiff estimated to work for a shorter period of time when compared to the average amongst his peers.\n\n\nAn additional concept introduced to eschew the statistical work-life expectancy is the idea that workers are retiring at a later age today when compared to previous decades. To be clear, the work-life tables do not delineate a future retirement age for the individual. The tables simply provide the number of active years in the labor force from the date of the incident to the plaintiff’s future retirement age. Furthermore, the work-life tables published in 2019 include labor data from 2012 through 2017, which would capture this theory of workers retiring at a later age more recently.\n\n\nAlthough throwing darts and peering into a crystal ball to determine retirement ages are fun pass times, they are of no value in the determination of a platintiff's loss of earnings.  An older sibling's work longevity may make for good conversation at family gatherings, but it hardly represents a viable forecast for any other family member's work-life expectancy.  Objective data and peer-reviewed work-life tables (albeit less exciting than darts and crystal balls) are the only viable choices for the economist when determining work-life expectancy.  \n\n\n[1] Gary Skoog, James Ciecka, Kurt Krueger, “The Markov Model of Labor Force Activity 2012-2017: Extended Tables of Central Tendency, Shape, Percentile Points, and Bootstrap Standard Errors,” Journal of Forensic Economics 28, (2019).\n\n\n[2] Michael Luthy, “A 2015 Survey of Forensic Economists: Their Methods, Estimates, and Perspectives,” Journal of Forensic Economics 26, (2015): 53-83.\n\nBack to the Blog\n\nWebsite Design", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9997288584709167}
+{"content": "Understanding receiver and amplifier power\n\n\n\n\nIn this primer from TechLore, we take a look at the power specifications of amplifiers and receivers.\n\nIn Steps the Watt\nEvaluating and stating the wattage of an amplifier has become the single most important number to the amplifier shopper.\n\nUnfortunately, wattage is a highly misunderstood specification, which dupes people into buying products with a level of performance much lower than what is anticipated.\n\nOne-hundred watts seems to be the magic number for most, thinking that as long as you have 100 of them, and no less, they’ll be fine. However, even passenger side mirrors on your car say that things aren’t always as they appear.\n\nTo be fair, wattage is an important number that can give a clear understanding of an amplifiers performance. A Watt, named after the British scientist James Watt, is a unit of power.\n\nSince power is expressed as a unit of energy divided by a unit of time, a watt is commonly defined as a unit of power equal to one joule per second. Simply stated, a watt is the amplifiers ability to do work, like make the drivers in a loudspeaker move.\n\nWattage in an amplifier is like horsepower in a car. The more horsepower a car has, the faster the car goes. But unfortunately, this isn’t always true.\nTake into consideration that a 150 horsepower engine might be able to rocket a 1200-pound car, but it’s not going to budge a 5-ton semi-truck. The weight of the car is similar to the weight (efficiency) of the speaker connected to an amplifier.\n\nStandardizing the Specs\nIn the competitive atmosphere that has taken over the entire electronics industry, manufacturers and marketers struggle to make their products appeal to the masses.\n\nMassaging the specifications of their products is a sure fire way to attract buyers in a sea filled with similar products.\n\nThere is, to this day, no truly defined way to measure the power output of an amplifier. As you will learn below, the numbers do not mean much until they can be understood in context, and broken down in a manner that allows fair comparisons between products.\n\nWhen amplifiers went from tube amplifiers (that use vacuum tubes) to solid-state amplifiers, power ratings for amplifiers got extremely confusing. Finally, the FTC stepped in ruled that all power claims had to include the conditions in which they were measured.\n\nUnfortunately, the FTC did not rule that amplifiers had to be tested on the same playing field. This means that in order to make fair comparisons, one would need to know how to interpret what the conditions of the measurement means.\nSpecifically, the FTC ruled that:\n\n  • Power measurements must be stated in RMS (sustained) watts.\n  • The bandwidth (band of frequencies) used in the measurement must be stated.\n  • The impedance (load) had to be stated.\n  • The number of amplifier channels played into that load had to be stated.\n  • Total harmonic distortion figures had to be stated.\n\n\nSpecifications Explained\nMore often than not, looking at amplifier specifications can reveal a great deal about the amplifiers real world performance.\n\nBelow is an explanation of each specification, and how to interpret them.\n\nRMS Power\nThere are two ways of expressing power, peak and RMS. Peak power is the amplifier’s ability to provide an instantaneous burst of power.\nHowever, peak power measurements are somewhat fictitious since they cannot be sustained for long. RMS (Root Mean Square) power ratings are a mathematically correct way to express an amplifier’s usable average power, which is a representation of real-world performance.\n\nBandwidth refers to the frequency range used to produce the claimed power specification.\n\nMost amplifiers have a harder time producing the frequency extremes, such as low bass frequencies or high treble, than it does with midrange frequencies. Humans with perfect hearing can discern a frequency range from 20Hz to 20kHz (20,000Hz).\n\nSince music and movie soundtracks involve a very wide range of frequencies, it is good to know what range the amplifier was tested under. This ensures that the amplifier can hold its own producing the dynamic effects of music and movies.\nMany manufacturers often try to massage the specifications of amplifiers to give them a higher claimed wattage. When you see a power rating that says “x watts @ 1 kHz”, it means that they only tested one specific frequency to get its power rating.\nNot only does this not give you any indication of whether or not the amplifier can hold its own during frequency extremes, but it is unfair to buyers since the measured wattage would be considerably less if all frequencies had been used.\n\nSolid-state amplifiers usually produce lower wattage into higher impedances (electrical resistance) than lower impedances.\n\nThis, however, is not always true for tube amplifiers.\n\nAccording to Ohm’s Law, a perfect amplifier would produce twice the wattage into a 4-ohm load than it does into an 8-ohm load.\n\nBut since lower loads can drain amplifiers quickly, the power supplies tend to produce less operating voltage. So in the real world, lowering the impedance of the speaker will not necessarily yield twice the wattage from the receiver.\n\nWhen evaluating power specifications, the output wattage will typically be larger when a lower impedance is used for testing.\n\nNumber of Channels Driven\nLong ago, when amplifiers had only two channels, the term “all channels driven” meant that the test included both amplifiers being tested simultaneously.\n\nToday, products contain 5, 7, or even 10 amplifiers in one chassis, and this term can be a bit deceiving. It would make sense that “all channels driven” would mean that every channel in the product were all tested simultaneously, but unfortunately, this is not always true.\n\nIf, for example, a product contains 7 amplifiers, yet they only used two of them at the same time while testing, the claimed wattage on the receiver would be significantly higher than if all 7 amplifiers had been used.\n\nIt is important to read the fine print to find out exactly how many amplifiers had been used for the test.\n\nTotal Harmonic Distortion (THD)\nDistortion measurements do not necessarily speak volumes.\n\nAt some degree or another, all amplifiers introduce distortion, which is when an amplifier changes the input signal. In most cases, the distortion increases as the power demanded grows.\n\nDistortion measurements can give an indication of when an amplifier is operating in a non-linear fashion.\n\nManufacturers can also use this specification to their advantage. As stated above, claimed wattage is the effect of the test variables.\n\nSo, if the manufacturer chooses to turn up an amplifier until it reaches 10% THD, they could report a higher wattage (even though it would probably sound terrible). High wattage at very low distortion is desirable.\n\nComparing Specifications – An Example\nHere are some real world power specifications to compare. While reading them, try to figure out which one is probably the better amplifier.\n\nFor this example, assume that both amps in question contain five channels.\n\nAmp #1 – 75W per channel, 5Hz – 80kHz, @ 8 Ohms, 5 channels driven with no more than .08% THD.\n\nAmp #2 – 100W per channel, 80Hz – 20kHz @ 6 Ohms, 5 channels driven with no more than 1.0% THD.\n\nSo the question on everyone’s mind is, “Which one is the better amplifier?” At first glance it may appear that #2 is the better amp, considering it boasts 25 more watts than amp #1.\n\nHowever, the surprising answer is that amp #1 is probably the better amplifier. Here’s why:\n\nAs you can see, the stated frequency response on amp #1 is considerably wider than amp #2. This means that amp #1 was producing a much wider range of extreme frequencies than the second.\n\nIn fact, amp #2 cut out low bass frequencies entirely, indicating that it may not be able to hold up under extreme bass passages.\n\nIt also shows that amp #1 was tested using a higher impedance than #2, and as you learned above, higher impedances produce lower wattages.\n\nAmp #2 used a 6 ohm load, which would give it a higher claimed wattage than if it had used an 8 ohm load.\n\nAmp #1 has less distortion than amp #2. While distortion is not always a clear indicator of an amps sound quality, it does show that #1 is altering the input signal much less than amp #2.\n\nConsidering that amp #1 was tested harder than #2, it’s impressive that it maintained low distortion under a rigorous test.\n\nThis article was written by TechLore’s Matt Whitlock.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7919173240661621}
+{"content": "Melhor resposta: How does a parachute deploy?\n\nParachutes open with a staged deployment sequence. … Once extracted, the pilot chute inflates. As it inflates, the pilot chute creates enough drag force to extract the main parachute from the container. The main parachute inflates as each of the ram-air foils fills with air in a slow, efficient manner.\n\nDo parachutes automatically deploy?\n\nReserve parachute deployment\n\n\nHow long does it take for a parachute to deploy?\n\naround 5 minutes\n\nHow do parachutes work?\n\nA parachute works by forcing air into the front of it and creating a structured ‘wing’ under which the canopy pilot can fly. Parachutes are controlled by pulling down on steering lines which change the shape of the wing, cause it to turn, or to increase or decrease its rate of descent.30 мая 2019 г.\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  Is Parachute aloe vera oil non sticky?\n\nWhat forces are acting on a parachute?\n\nParachute. There are two forces acting on a parachute with a parachutist: the force of gravity and the air resistance. Suppose that the air resistance is kv2, where v is the speed of descent, and k is a positive constant.\n\nWhat happens if you pull the parachute too early?\n\n\nHow many skydivers die a year?\n\n\nDo you pee when you skydive?\n\n\nWhat is the lowest you can pull a parachute?\n\nMost main parachutes take 600 to 1200 feet of free fall to open. The reserve parachute can open in less than 400 feet. The reserve absolute minimum would be around 700 feet to land without injury. A parachute is the only tool that would help you safely land from performing a high altitude jump.\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  Why do parachutes fail to open?\n\nWhat is the lowest height you can open a parachute?\n\nThe United States Parachute Association sets minimum pack opening altitude at 2,000 feet AGL(Above Ground Level as opposed to MSL — Mean Sea Level) for experienced skydivers, 2,500 feet for slightly less experienced skydivers, and up to 5,500 feet for certain training jumps.\n\nHow much does a parachute slow you down?\n\n\nWhy do parachutes fail?\n\n\nDoes the size of a parachute matter?\n\nHow large a parachute is (in other words, the parachute’s surface area) affects its air resistance, or drag force. The larger the parachute, the greater the drag force. In the case of these parachutes, the drag force is opposite to the force of gravity, so the drag force slows the parachutes down as they fall.\n\nWhat shape of parachute is most effective?\n\ncircle parachute\n\nDo heavier parachutes fall faster?\n\nAs we make gravity stronger, the parachute will fall faster. … So if you have two parachutes with the same size and shape but made of different materials, one heavier than the other, the heavier parachute will fall faster.\n\nЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО:  How do you wash a parachute quilt?\n\nWhat happens when you open your parachute?\n\nWhen a skydiver opens their parachute, they accelerate upwards. This is not the same as saying the move upwards. Acceleration is a change in the velocity. So the amount of downward velocity the skydiver has gets smaller and smaller, until they reach a new terminal velocity.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9165170788764954}
+{"content": "Posted on\n\nDancer Cares for Energy\n\nI Dance every cell of me\nEvery cell of me has its own group\nEvery cell group follows a pathway through me\n\nEvery pathway has a purpose within me\nEvery purpose follows my journey to form and reform all of me\n\nMy cell groups are simple\nSome gather Energy\nSome store Energy\nSome launch and dock Energy\nSome track and respond to disruption of Energy\nSome honor and absorb Energy\n\nI Dance to care for Energy.\nCare shapes and reshapes my pathways for Energy\nCare is a full spectrum of curiosity\nfrom smallest to largest and shortest to longest\nCare embraces all cell groups as a part of my journey\nCare invites all cell groups to become one Image\nCare grows one Image into many families of Images\nI Dance to care for Energy.\n\nGrasping the concept of caring for Energy within Cell groups can be seen visibly as waves in the sea.\n\nWaves spread across an expanse and gather Energy\nWaves gather Energy as they lower and as they rise\nWaves shape Energy as ripples, as choppy peaks, as lapping and curling masses\nWaves roar and whimper as they meet other Energy from the air and the earth.\n\nI Dance as a wave of the sea\nI spread Energy across the expanse of me\nI gather Energy as I lower and as I rise\nI shape Energy inside me and around me\nI merge with other waves as we shape our journeys\nI roar and I whimper as I meet all other Energy of air and person and earth.\n\nI Dance to Care for\nEnergy within me,\nEnergy from me\nEnergy I meet\nEnergy I merge\nEnergy I absorb.\n\nI Dance to Care for\nthe shaping of me\nthe joining of me\nthe growing of me in all my meetings.\nTim Hurst 01/28/19 6:44 am\n\nPosted on\n\nMy Dance My Moves\n\nEvery year Ginger and I dance at a party for a Dance Retailers gathering. And every year I get the same comments. “I love all your moves.” “You have got the moves.” “I love watching you and Ginger dance because you make it all look so easy.”\n\nWhat are all these people seeing? It is not expertise because we are improvising and mixing every possible sequence we have ever experienced from many forms of dance. And it is not perfection of any style that would be called good.\n\nMy favorite response to our dancing is when we are the first couple on the dance floor. Finally we have the courage to do that…sometimes. Another couple look at each other and one spouse says, “We can do that.” There are immediately three couples on the floor.\n\nSo what are they seeing in us? First we are just ourselves and we are letting that be seen. Second, we have spent lots of time learning to love every movement we make. Being satisfied no matter how subtle or bold goes a long way to growing our movement. Third, we have learned not to force as we extend ourselves and how to reveal our soft side in the transitions. And fourth, we know dance as moving in a full circle from center outwards and in every direction. In other words, every movement is a discovery of a fresh new angle or quality that we may never have experienced before.\n\nAll of our perspective adds up to be forming and re-forming all of our movements and emotions and hopes with every dance sequence. The Energy we share is our awareness. The including of other people is the same awareness.\nTim Hurst 01/23/19\n\nPosted on\n\nThe Dancer and The Horse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Hurst 01/18/19\n\nPosted on\n\nDancer Delight as Energy\n\nSometimes when I watch dance i see bodies moving from here to there. It may take me a while to orient to the emotions and the energy of the dance and the dancers.\n\nIt helps that I know the delight the dancer carries into their dance. The delight is not a feeling that comes and goes. The dancer’s delight I know as a way of navigating through movements, attitudes, emotions, plans, and errors.\n\nNavigation sounds like a huge task. In practice, dance has a way of simplifying everything. The dancer’s delight is moving energy. Dance training is simply to learn step by step how to move energy through the entire person.\n\nThe body is only the vehicle. The pathways, the shaping of space, the rhythms, these are the ways of playing with energy.\n\nThe body can be compared to clay. The potter shapes and responds to the ever changing curves in the clay. The dancer of course is unique because their clay is living, breathing, sensing, and growing.\n\nEnergy is the first image of a Ballet class no matter what age. Moving energy from toe to top of the head connects the entire body at once. From this simple beginning comes the complexity and the beauty of dancers of all kinds.\n\nLike dancing, energy is not an “it” to use. Energy is living and growing every moment. The person who enters dance chooses to enter that living and growing process.\n\nI have throughout my life been nagged by the question, “What’s all this life for?” When I enter dance, the question erases because my full attention, all my brain and body power must be directed toward the energy that insists on growing or languishing.\n\nAnd when delight is involved, it is obvious when I choose to be discouraged rather than engaged in growing energy. Besides, when the choice is letting enegy slip away, I can not resist getting with the program.\nTim Hurst 06/30/18\n\nPosted on\n\nMy Ballet Energy\n\nBallet has a quality that brings me closer to myself. There is something about moving my arms that brings energy in towards my spine and extends energy outwards from my spine. Something about the simple quality of the movements capture me. I have this feeling of being one movement. It is hard to say, I am moving as myself, all of myself.\n\nMy usual jerky and forced movements give way to something akin to ease. Moving my arms with other movements, I follow the energy flow up and down my spine. Then when I bring my arms close to my lower spine, I can feel the lifting energy that my teachers speak about going up the spine and out the top of my head.\n\nThat is not the only quality I feel. Extending my arms while lowering into a wide second position, I feel the expansion of energy outwards in my entire pelvic floor. The same happens when my arms extend at chest level, the energy of my entire chest and back expand with my arms. The energy fills me edge to edge and I almost suspend in space.\n\nInteresting that word suspend, because the energy moving through me has that tendency to suspend every part of me. Every movement has an energy of suspension.\n\nI am close to myself. Energy comes from me and returns to me with my spine as a relay point. My movement is connected to my focus of energy. Moving is a slight adjustment of energy flow rather than raw force.\n\nThe circular pathways of Ballet give me a place to take the suspension like in waves that reach a peak and carry that energy into the spreading or falling motions.\n\nSpeaking of energy, the more I dance the more energy I have. And the energy is a two way flow that extends me beyond my imagination and then returns the movement close to my heart where I can take delight in what has happened. That is all another story.\nTim Hurst 06/29/18\n\nPosted on\n\nDancer’s Unique Movement\n\nWatching a dancer, I always see something more than the movement. That something is the reason that dance is so hard to explain. Everyone wants to say that their exercise or their game trains the brain. With dance, there is that something more, more than the brain, more than the effort and more than the extreme skills.\n\nThe special something of dance has obsessed me for many years. Trying to make a list is like a grocery list that never ends. One reason is that dance contains the simplest beginning to movement leading to variation upon variation of complexity.\n\nSo I continue to try and clarify a few simple things about dance. I begin with Ballet because it is the one form that takes from and influences every other form of dance.\n\nOne simple element that gives movement an extra quality is the rhythm. In a Ballet class the teacher often emphasizes the rhythm by using the phrase, “And, One.” This can be stated repeatedly or in series as in “And, One; And, Two; And, Three.”\n\nSo many principles are capsuled in these words. First they are a phrase. All movement is more than a task or a skill, it is a phrase in the same way that music is more than sound.\n\nWhat else does “And, One” reveal? The anticipation of the movement is as important as the move itself. In other words, every part of the movement is important.\n\nHow does the dancer make the anticipation just as important as the movement? First is the rhythm that can be using duration of short/long. The “And” becomes the short and the “One” can be long. Or the variation can be Long/Long that sustains the phrase as in music.\n\nThe dance can then vary the movement by distinguishing a rhythm with the simple phrase of shorts and longs.\n\nThis is easily experienced in Tap dancing that specializes in the sound of shorts and longs in phrases that can be quick or extended.\n\nIt is this extension of the phrase that is also different about dance movement. By combining the short/long variations, phrases place emphasis. As an observer I am guided by the phrase to anticipate the emphasis. As in “And, One” I anticipate the One. With a longer phrase, I wait for and anticipate the return of the emphasis. For example, “And, One: And, Two; And, Three,” returns to “And, One.”\n\nNot only is every moment important, the preparation and the emphasis. Every moment can also be distinguished by an emphasis or a building to an emphasis. This is also the language of music.\n\nAnother way of describing this process of managing the emphasis is using the term transition. Dance and music are basically learning to experience ways of making a transition from one sound or movement to another using processes like the phrase.\n\nHip Hop and Street Dancing demonstrate all this with their moments of suspense just before a surprising movement. Latin Dances likewise vary the emphasis with variations on “And, One, And, Two” changing the emphasis from the One to the Two.\n\nRhythm built around the phrase and emphasis are only the beginning of what makes dance movement unique.\nTim Hurst 06/28/18\n\nPosted on\n\nDance Basic Ease\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Hurst 03/25/18\n\nPosted on\n\nEnter Dance Delight\n\nEnter Dance Delight\nEntering dance is entering delight. Dance is a way to engage my whole self, a way to focus all my attention on a full range of experience.\n\nDance has many forms that use basic principles. Ballet is the science that has organized dance principles into a progressive system of learning. The power of Ballet as a science has been its ability to add to and influence discoveries in other disciplines. Using the term dance applies to all dance forms and refers to the codification of movement by Ballet.\n\nTo fully engage, dance begins with simple movements using an image that guides the building of networks that interconnect the entire person.\n\nSimilar to the tradition of Tai Chi, dance imagery is the falling and rising of the body as one unit. This simple image will be applied to every area of the body and to every system from emotional to cognitive.\n\nAlso like Tai Chi, dance begins with slow movement allowing time and space for the body brain to record the movement and distinguish it from other movements.\n\nWhen I lose the sense of delight in dancing, I simply return to the falling and rising. In Ballet it is the plie. In Tai Chi it is the basic lowering of the entire body by bending the knees and lowering the arms from an outstretched position.\n\nIn both Ballet and Tai Chi, this is a basic movement that prepares for many other movements from stepping to leaping. The slow connected movement is the gathering of power and the integrating of position in space.\n\nEnter Dance Hope\nDance is the process of anticipating more life revealed in the connection of movement. The experience of anticipation is a recognition of the process of creation and growth in our cells. The cells divide as a creation of more life. Neurons interconnect by the creative process of sending and receiving signals.\n\nHope is the process of anticipation, response, and integration that brings us to an active curiosity.\n\nAnticipation prepares to recognize the surprises and the shifting of these different networks.\n\nEnter Dance Networks\nDance is a way of training our focus to manage creative connections between our different networks. One network related to focus is the specific goal oriented focus that can identify specific actions and proactively adjust them. Another network is the broad spectrum focus that oversees full person acting at once.\n\nAnother pair of networks are the directive and the collaborative. The first is specific and directional while the last is reflective and integrative.\n\nEnter Dance Image\nThe image simplifies all the complex work of the body brain and empowers the person to wield an instantly changing focus.\n\nOne key image is energy. Energy in dance, as in sound and light, can be varied to many levels of force, speed, intensity, and quality.\n\nThe dancer uses imagery to shape energy that goes beyond their limitations physically, emotionally and mentally. The interaction and interconnection of energy is studied both within the individual and between members of a group.\n\nDance is a way to build the curiosity of anticipation and the images as tools that can apply to the uniqueness of the individual and the unity of a group.\n\nEnter Dance Complexity\nDance is a process of beginning with simple movements, adding variations that are easily distinguished, and integrating the movements so they can be combined in multiple ways.\n\nThe unique realm of dance is to distinguish the connections within each different network encompassing the entire person. This process recognizes not only skill development and structures of mathematical, geometric, and motor calculations. Training distinguishes experiences of intention, malleability, and states of network collaboration. Building the care for the self as an interactive part of life is at the center of all learning.\n\nEnter Dance Power\nDance is an experience of power from many different perspectives. Clarifying signals through all the types of entry mentioned, the dancer creates a moment by moment portrait of their experience in the form of dance. This portrait is changeable with the wide range of qualities and states of experience. Claiming and building this dance of the self represents a long journey of entering dance.\n\nThe source of power is the interactive nature of our systems that receive and send signals allowing the person to evaluate their location in space, the intensity of force they are applying, and their relationship to emotion and intention.\n\nTwo other aspects of power are important. One is the openness to surprises that may exceed any expectation. The other is the willingness to ask for help and to experiment with the help given.\n\nAsking for help may be a personal action of specifically asking within the self for the attention and courage to recognize the help that is offered and for the vulnerability to fully receive it.\nTim Hurst 03/24/18\n\nPosted on\n\nSustenance in Melody\n\nSinging today I fell in love with the overtones that connect a musical melody into a whole.\n\nSince the qualities of dance and music is so close, I wonder what the connecting elements are for dance in a movement melody.\n\nWith musical overtones, the resonance of one tone fills the spaces of one note to the other. Their is a continual flowing movement no matter what rhythmic spaces occur for emphasis and anticipation.\n\nDancers also know how to fill a movement with different levels and qualities of resonance. Each movement, each part of the interconnected body, each cell and organ, fills with a resonant energy that continues like music through any rhythmic space into a melodic phrase.\n\nYet there is something more basic below the energy. That is the movement of the curve that dancers understand as connecting any transition from one movement to the next. The curve can be a loop that can double back into what seems like a line. The curve can be a continuous spiral that intertwines with other spirals from many areas of the body, the emotions, and the intentions of the person.\n\nThe basis is of course the wave that makes up sound and light. The wave like the dancer extends to a peak and rides the curve into a rejuvenating exhale before receiving another inhale at the lowest point to rise again.\n\nEach point along the way connects in millions of ways with the next points changing direction into a fresh movement. The dancer studies the wave form as the sustenance between each movement and the sustainer of the melody creating an imprint of the individual and the group of dancers.\nTim Hurst 02/06/18\n\nPosted on\n\nDance Trains the Spine\n\nDance trains each area of the spine to command horizontal and vertical signals. Two principles seem to be that each section of vertebra engage the nearest part of the body, and that each section networks with other parts of the spine to interconnect the entire body.\n\nMy search is for a simple way to engage myself in movement physically, emotionally, and intentionally. The building blocks to simplicity seems to be signals originating at the spine.\n\nWith one simple image of a signal connecting an entire area of the body, I can bypass all my thinking about which muscles need to move and which muscles are restricting movement.\n\nRather than two separate intentions of sending signals and receiving feedback, the spine becomes the instantaneous sender and receiver of information.\n\nDancers learn this simplicity in the process of a detailed study of movement engaging the entire body at once. I had to go through the back door to understand this simplicity that becomes apparent to the serious dancer.\n\nA common dance image is to send energy from the feet up through the body and out the top of the head. This is one signal. The signal can be varied to activate each area of the body as it rises. The signal can even go beyond the feet to ground the body or beyond the head to extend the sense of lengthening the muscles.\n\nMy clue for understanding horizontal signals was the ease of raising the arms in Ballet. The dancer describes the signal coming from the spine between the shoulder blades, traveling under and around the arms, lifting the forearms, and continuing through the fingers of each hand. As the fingers of each hand approach each other, the signals continue making an energetic connection between each finger. A spreading movement of the arms emphasizes the returning signal to the spine.\n\nThe signals in each area of the spine travel to every edge of the body, front, back, and side. I loosely refer to these areas as diaphragms because they are interconnected tissue of all kinds muscular, neurological, vascular, Limbic, and glandular.\n\nThis is only the beginning of training this area of the spine that I refer to as the dancer’s diaphragm. Signals are varied to spread and raise the arms while maintaining this energetic circle within the arms. The signals are clearly only for the arms allowing the shoulders and neck to be supportive but not fully engaged.\n\nThe training extends the range of the spinal area with slight twists, and the rolling of each vertebra forward and back. Engaging these muscles around each vertebra requires specific training to bend and slide horizontally in each direction.\n\nUsing these upper vertebra as an example, the next step of learning is to network the signals from this area with other areas of the spine. Networking signals means that the vertebral areas are interconnected through both sending and receiving signals.\n\nThe breathing diaphragm, attaching at the lower vertebra of the rib cage, networks signals to the dancer’s diaphragm. The signals are spreading,suspending, and releasing that correspond to breathing.\n\nReceiving signals from the breathing diaphragm, the dancer’s diaphragm opens the upper chest and the back to allow breath into the upper lungs. The arms in any position receive sensations of these spreading and suspending signals.\n\nSignals to the dancer’s diaphragm also network to the pelvic diaphragm. The pelvic diaphragm engages the lower vertebra connecting the support from the inner legs, ankles, and feet. Lifting the pelvic diaphragm also sends signals to the erector muscles along the spine that contribute to the sensation of lifting and spreading throughout the entire back as well as the chest and neck areas.\n\nThe lowering and spreading of the pelvic diaphragm also sends releasing signals to the breathing and the dancer’s diaphragms to support the sensations of suspension and continuous lowering.\n\nThe value of networking is so all these interconnections can happen at once with the least amount of directed commands. The access to each vertebral,area gives the opportunity to monitor and respond specifically to the areas that need adjustment or support.\nSee also Spinal Imagery\nTim Hurst 01/23/18\n\nPosted on\n\nDancing the Breath\n\nDance Trains the breath to be just as malleable as movement of the body, of the thoughts, and of the emotions.\n\nI have a very tight neck and jaw. Dance teachers and some who are Pilates instructors, say to breathe regularly and with more ease. Easier said than done. I enrolled in breathing classes that practiced specific exercises to get me to breathe into all areas of my lungs. I took Yoga to coordinated my breath with specific movement patterns. I learned to follow a counting sequence that slowed down my breathing.\n\nBecause my learning curve takes longer I was patient. Or probably I was learning to force myself to do things that were contrary to the source of my tightness.\n\nI changed direction and tried several forms of both sitting and moving meditation. I was looking for a way to get beyond my tightness and to somehow deal with my focus upon commanding myself to breathe. Of course the worst suggestion was to “just stop thinking so much.”\n\nActually what did help was moving my thinking in many different ways. I found Modern Dance technique as a way to simplify movement into parts and then to practice the movement through improvisation. Then I did years of study of using imagery as a basis for both the technique and the improvisation.\n\nThere was a sensation associated with my breathing. The breathing sensation would capture my attention as I followed a Deborah Hay image like seeing only what is above my head or seeing with every cell of my body. My body and my breathing were totally engaged in the image that revealed changes of sensation and surprises beyond my imagination.\n\nEvery thing about me was malleable, shifting and changing at every moment. My breathing and my movement were exploring the contours of my conscious and released relationship to the image. Everything was aware or everything was flowing on its own. Movement surprises would take my attention and then disappear into the variation of another improvisation.\n\nI was able to put words to this effect on my breathing after adding improvisational singing to my dancing. Musically I was opening areas of myself with phrases.\n\nDancing puts together phrases that flow melodically and rhythmically. My breath could be used to begin phrases and continue them as long or short. Musically my breath could emphasize a movement or make the movement a kind of quiet secret. The shifting image could take me to a conscious focus on these kinds of musicality or my focus could shift to my involvement in the phrase with my whole body.\n\nMy breathing was able to change with the interaction of my sensations and thoughts. An image guided the discovery of a variety of phrasing that captured the attention of my breathing.\n\nAs I learn more about the ease of breathing for singing, I the union of my breath with dancing. Both dancing and singing rely on the rising of a phrase followed by the continuous release of the phrase into a state of receptiveness.\nTim Hurst 01/23/18\n\nPosted on\n\nBallet Ease and Effort\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Hurst 01/06/18", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5626549124717712}
+{"content": "Production of precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) from steelmaking slag for fixation of CO₂\n\nArshe Said, Hannu-Petteri Mattila, Mika Järvinen, Ron Zevenhoven\n\n    Forskningsoutput: TidskriftsbidragArtikelVetenskapligPeer review\n\n    85 Citeringar (Scopus)\n\n\n    Producing precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) from steelmaking slag is a technology that contributes to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from iron and steel industries. While the carbon dioxide emissions from the sector are large, it could benefit from this option by utilizing its own by-products, i.e. steelmaking slags for fixation of CO2. Since the calcium content of the steelmaking slag is high, a calcium carbonate precipitate can be produced with the method which we have recently developed, and, if fulfilling the requirements (e.g. purity and crystal shape), it can be utilized as PCC. Therefore, the objective of this study is to further evaluate the feasibility of this method. Calcium was extracted selectively from the slag with aqueous solution of ammonium salt (NH4NO3, CH3COONH4 or NH4Cl) in an extraction reactor. After removal of the residual slag, the calcium-rich solution reacted with CO2 in a carbonation reactor producing PCC. Based on the experimental results, the slag's grain size has a clear effect on the calcium extraction efficiency; the smaller the steel converter slag's grain size, the larger the surface area, and the better the mass transfer rate which in turn results in a higher extraction efficiency. Grinding to smaller sizes is therefore one strategy towards improved efficiencies and chemical conversion rates. Solid to liquid ratio is another important parameter for improving extraction efficiency. The smallest solid to liquid ratio 5 g/l resulted in the maximum calcium extraction efficiency (73%) while the highest solid to liquid ratio 100 g/l resulted in the lowest extraction efficiency (6%). Consequently this option will be operationally expensive because of larger reactor volumes. The PCC produced from the calcium rich solution is comparable to the PCC produced with conventional methods.\n    Sidor (från-till)765–771\n    Antal sidor7\n    TidskriftApplied Energy\n    StatusPublicerad - 2013\n    MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad\n\n\n    • Extraction of calcium\n    • Mineral carbonation\n    • Precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC)\n    • Steelmaking slag\n\n    Citera det här", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8218239545822144}
+{"content": "10 Albums That Killed Artists' Careers\n\nNothing would be the same again.\n\nDGC Records\n\nFor many artists, all it takes is one album to put them on top of the world. Whether it's your first time up to the plate or the result of years of hard work, bands have fought tooth and nail to make their work better than the rest. Then again, it also takes just one album to see it come crashing down.\n\nArriving at the low point in these artists' discography, these are the albums that mark the beginning of the end for any more good music. It could come from a drastic change in sound or just a lackluster delivery, but these artists have not been able to recover from the performances that they turned in on these albums.\n\nThe kicker is that some of these albums aren't even really bad. In fact, some of them stand up as some of the best work of the band's career, but these records may have had a hand in the band's downfall by setting the bar a little too high.\n\nA lot of these acts have done phenomenal work, but these are the records where you knew things weren't going to be the same. It was fun while it lasted, but here's where everything starts to run out of gas.\n\nIn this post: \nPosted On: \n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7046805620193481}
+{"content": "Volume of Flint, calcined at 900°C\n\nflint, calcined at 900°c: convert weight to volume\n\nV2W | W2V | Density | Price\n\nVolume of 100 grams of Flint, calcined at 900°C\n\nfoot³0oil barrel0\nImperial gallon0.01US cup0.17\ninch³2.46US fluid ounce1.36\nliter0.04US gallon0.01\nmeter³4.02 × 10-5US pint0.09\nmetric cup0.16US quart0.04\nmetric tablespoon2.68US tablespoon2.72\nmetric teaspoon8.05US teaspoon8.16\n\nThe entered weight of Flint, calcined at 900°C in various units of weight\n\nmilligram100 000 \n\nFoods, Nutrients and Calories\n\nMOZZARELLA LOW-MOISTURE PART-SKIM CHEESE STICKS, MOZZARELLA, UPC: 07789095252 contain(s) 286 calories per 100 grams or ≈3.527 ounces  [ price ]\n\nFoods high in Menaquinone-4 and foods low in Menaquinone-4\n\nGravels, Substances and Oils\n\n\nNeon, gas [Ne] weighs 0.00089994 g/cm³ (0.000520198 oz/in³)  [ weight to volume | volume to weight | price | mole to volume and weight | mass and molar concentration | density ]\n\n\nWeights and Measurements\n\nGram per square nanometer (kg/nm²) is a metric measurement unit of surface or areal density [ kilogram per square nanometer ]\n\n Magnetic flux density is a vecor quantity that measures the direction and magnitude of a magnetic field.\n\npc/s² to Ym/s² conversion table, pc/s² to Ym/s² unit converter or convert between all units of acceleration measurement.\n\n\nHome value appreciation rate calculator", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9961994886398315}
+{"content": "Skip To main content\n\nClearing Up a Gray Area: How a Color Checker Can Improve Web Accessibility\n\n\nWeb accessibility means that websites, apps and other online technologies have been designed in a way that makes it possible for people with a variety of disabilities to interact with them. They can perceive them, understand them and use them without effort. Web accessibility also tends to make the operation of technology easier for other groups of people who don’t necessarily have disabilities – such as those using small screens, or those who need reading glasses – and in a wider variety of settings, such as quiet environments.\n\nweb accessibility colour checker\n\nThere are many components to making a website accessible. One of them, known as “contrast” or “color contrast,” refers to the contrast between the text and the background when you’re looking at a web page. Is the text dark enough, and is the background light enough? A web accessibility color checker is a tool for testing whether or not this contrast is sufficient.\n\nWhy Does Contrast Matter?\n\nConsider the difference between a thick, black word against a pale background, and a medium-gray word against a slightly lighter gray background. In the first example, the superior contrast allows the word to stand out and be read more easily. When there is poor contrast, however, it’s more of a struggle to see and read the word. It’s even more difficult when the text is smaller, or the font is thinner. It’s like trying to read a street sign with low contrast from a great distance. If you’re a person with low vision who nevertheless relies on your eyesight to read a web page, poor contrast can make it impossible to make out the words.\n\nThis “low contrast sensitivity,” as it’s sometimes described, can be an issue for people of any age, but it’s more common as we get older. Thus baby boomers and seniors who haven’t had particular vision problems in the past may start to notice that they can read and use a website more easily and efficiently when there is good contrast between the text and the background.\n\nThis relates to what we mentioned earlier – that the various features of web accessibility often make it easier for people without diagnosed disabilities to use technology. That’s certainly true in the case of contrast. Not only is it preferable for many who are aging, it’s also useful when we’re in different lighting conditions, such as bright sunlight, or using older computer monitors with varying color calibration settings.\n\nHow Much Contrast is Required for Web Accessibility?\n\nThe Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA, describes adequate contrast in its Success Criterion According to these requirements, in order for a web page to be considered accessible, the contrast ratio between text and the background must be a minimum of 4.5 to 1. This is, therefore, the ratio that web accessibility color checkers will usually test for.\n\nAlthough web designers and accessibility consultants may talk about “color contrast,” or “color checker,” it’s really just contrast they’re trying to achieve. The actual colors are irrelevant – it’s the shades of light and dark that are important. That’s because some people, in fact, can’t see color differences (also known as color blindness), and it’s important that the contrast works for everyone.\n\nAnother interesting note about the WCAG 2.0 requirements for contrast is that the minimum ratio for larger text (an 18-point font, or a 14-point bold-face font) is only 3:1. That’s because text is easier to make out when it’s larger, bolder, or both, and doesn’t require such a high contrast with its background to be accessible. (See the example below.) This means that designers who want to apply certain colors but feel limited by the contrast restrictions have the option of enlarging the text, and thus using a wider range of hues.\n\nIncidentally, the contrast ratio must be 7:1 if you’re aiming to achieve Level AAA of WCAG 2.0 instead of Level AA. However, people with vision disabilities who require this much contrast typically use their own assistive technologies (software) to enhance the screen display, and those technologies usually include options for enhancing the contrast or enlarging the display. Not everyone has access to assistive technologies, so meeting Level AAA is a worthy goal.\n\nHowever, legislation such as Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act usually requires compliance with the Level AA standards of WCAG 2.0 in order to achieve web accessibility. Some color checkers will test for both Level AA and Level AAA.\n\nThe new 2.1 version of WCAG, published in June, adds a minimum contrast requirement (3:1) for important non-text elements. A good example would be a button that needs to be clicked to place a grocery order. If the button contrasts poorly with the background color, a person with low vision or color blindness may not be able to detect it.\n\nShould You Be Using a Color Checker?\n\nA wide range of accessibility testing tools are available that can test a web page or computer document for contrast. They work in different ways. For example, Color Contrast Analyser will test the contrast of a PDF against WCAG 2.0 when you open it in a browser2. The Sim Daltonism color blindness simulator is a downloadable app that can show you how your page actually looks to people with various types of color blindness3.\n\nThere are also tools that can help you avoid using poor contrast while you’re still designing or developing your website. The Contrast Ratio website, for example, lets you choose text and background colors, and then lets you know whether or not the contrast between these colors meets the criteria of WCAG 2.0 Level AA or Level AAA4.\n\nMinimum contrast is just one out of many criteria that determine whether a web page, app or document is accessible. A color checker tool won’t give you a complete overview of how accessible your website is, or list all the barriers that need to be removed.\n\nWeb accessibility color checkers can, however, be quite useful when you want to determine whether the contrast is adequate between a specific font and background color, or when you’re trying to decide which shades and colors you can use without creating accessibility barriers for people with disabilities.\n\nContrast matters, and it will become even more crucial as the population ages. A web accessibility partner can tell you more about this and the many other barrier-free features of online technologies. It’s worth ensuring that your digital properties are usable by people of all ages, and all abilities.\n\nAn Innovative Solution\n\n\n\n  1. Contrast (Minimum) W3C, 2016\n  2. Getflourish/ Sketch-Color-Contrast-Analyser Github, 2018\n  3. Sim Daltonism: The color blindness simulator Sim Daltonism, 2018\n  4. Contrast Ratio Contrast Ratio, 2018", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8716611862182617}
+{"content": "Spark - Shapers in Action!\n\nShapers in Action! was a social business accelerator designed to help social entrepreneurs in Ecuador grow sustainable for-purpose businesses. During the 3-day event, 10 Global Shapers from 3 different continents came to Quito to accelerate 3 social business that were selected amongst more than 50 applicants. These were: Dominga, a productive chain composed by Ecuadorian artisanal women dedicated to the elaboration of hand made garments; MOI Social Learning, a collaborative learning platform that integrates parents and teachers in the individual learning process of their children; and Hydroponia, a sustainable organic gardener project in a rural neighborhood in Quito. The 3selected social businesses were awarded 2k in seed capital and the winner, Hydroponia, received an extra 2k for its growth potential and commitment to improving the living conditions of low-income families in the Toctiuco neighborhood of Quito.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9964595437049866}
+{"content": "Judicial Review Appeal with Potentially Far Reaching Implications for Contaminated Land Rejected\n\nIn summary we can breath a sigh of relief and carry on as before with a system that allows contaminated land to be dealt with by planning conditions.\n\nAn appeal for judicial review was made against a Derbyshire council’s consent for a 200-home development less than 100m from a former landfill. The points of appeal in a layman’s summary were a contention that the contaminated land issues had not been adequately addressed. The appeal was rejected after concluding that there was no obligation for any potential contamination of the application site to be assessed and removed before approval was granted.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9877902269363403}
+{"content": "Pesch: Pros and cons to raising minimum wage\n\nBill Pesch\n\nTo raise the minimum wage on Guam, or not to raise the minimum wage, that is the question. Unfortunately, trying to find the answer is proving to be quite elusive. On Jan. 1, 2015, as a result of Public Law 32-229, Guam’s minimum wage increased from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour. According to Vice Speaker Benjamin Cruz, who sponsored the legislation, this was a compromise to his earlier bill that called for further automatic increases to the minimum-wage on Jan. 1, 2016, to $9.20 and to $10.10 on Jan. 1, 2017.\n\nCruz agreed to the compromise in the face of a possible veto by the governor. Under the amended bill, the $8.25 increase went into effect, but the two subsequent automatic increases were removed and substituted with a requirement for the Department of Labor to coordinate the preparation of an Independent Economic Impact Statement to assess the effect of the 2015 increase. The study was to be completed and published by April 30, 2016. However, in a classic example of political foot dragging, the Department of Labor didn’t issue the Request for Proposal until this April 1, ten months behind schedule, and this was only after Cruz had exerted pressure on DOL to live up to its legal mandate. Even under the best-case scenario, the study won’t be completed until Oct. 1.\n\nUnderstandably frustrated by the lack of action, on May 4, Cruz introduced Bill 312 which, if passed, will increase the minimum wage to $9.20 on Jan. 1, 2017 then to $10.10 on Jan. 1, 2018, and won’t require any impact study.\n\nVice Speaker Cruz: How long should minimum wage workers wait?\n\nPredictably, proponents and opponents alike are voicing their opinions. This is déjà vu all over again. When I first entered the workforce at the age of fourteen in 1968, the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. Since then, the federal minimum wage has increased fourteen times and currently stands at $7.25 per hour. Each time an increase has been proposed, proponents and opponents alike, parade out the same arguments. Frustratingly, they often stand in stark contrast to one another.\n\nThis is the situation we face on Guam today. On one side, Chamber of Commerce President Catherine Castro is quoted as saying, “We believe that the issue has vast repercussions that may adversely affect many small businesses as well as the wage earners the bill is trying to support.” Under this argument, inflation will follow the wage increase resulting in a higher cost of living and higher unemployment.\n\nThis doom and gloom prediction is largely undermined by Guam economist Joe Bradley’s observation over a 25-year span that the impact of various wage increases on Guam’s unemployment rates has been minimal, brief, “and in most cases they have not even been statistically significant.” He noted that raising the minimum wage has actually increased labor productivity due to “improved attendance, improved worker morale, stronger employee loyalty to the employer, and dramatically reduces turnover rates.” He also pointed out that when adjusted for inflation, today’s minimum wage “is barely half of what it was more than 30 years ago.”\n\nDuring a public hearing, Cruz offered further evidence that the Jan. 1, 2015 minimum-wage increase has not adversely impacted the Guam economy. He noted that DOL’s own statistics reveal that more than 1,200 jobs have been added since the wage increase. In addition, the Bureau of Statistics and Plans’ study indicates that the prices for food, housing, and gas decreased in 2015, when adjusted for inflation.\n\nJones: Consider data before wage increase\n\nGov. Eddie Calvo has spoken out loudly on the subject, although his position remains ambiguous at best. He is quoted as saying, “In a nutshell, I’m for it, but I need to see proof first.” Talk about trying to appease both sides of the argument! If he really supports a minimum-wage increase, why didn’t he muster his formidable political clout months ago to ensure that DOL met the April 30, 2016 deadline for submitting economic impact study?\n\nAs I stated in last week’s column, I’m not an economist. But it doesn’t take an economist to spot political wrangling on both sides of this issue. We all know that politics is Guam’s favorite pastime.\n\nUnfortunately, in this situation, the pawns in this political game of chess are our community’s most financially vulnerable. They deserve better.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9946035146713257}
+{"content": "Successful Aging: Ways to prevent social isolation from turning into depression\n\nQ. I have an issue. This statewide “one-size-fits-all” order that we stay imprisoned in our homes condemns the widows and widowers among us older people to solitary confinement. If you have family in the house of one or more people, it’s not so bad. My wife passed away over six years ago after 58 years of being together; the loneliness is still with me. I go out to eat at restaurants just to have people around me not because I don’t know how to cook. What good does it do to save lives if these lives are not worth living anymore? We’ve had other crises without bankrupting America. Sorry to vent on you, but I am in danger of going stir crazy. Humans are wired for contact, not cages. H.R.\n\nDear H.R.\n\nVenting is fine. In fact, your candor may help others who are having feelings similar to yours. Adapting to widowhood after 58 years of marriage is a huge adjustment; sheltering in place can just add to feelings of loneliness that easily can occur from being socially isolated.\n\nOf most importance is to determine if such feelings are morphing into depression. One might ask, “how would I know?”\n\nThe National Institute on Aging indicates several signs.\n\nHaving a persistent feeling of sadness or anxiety.\n\nFeeling hopeless, guilty, worthless or helpless.\n\nBeing irritable or restless.\n\nNo longer interested in activities that once were pleasurable.\n\nHaving less energy and feeling fatigued.\n\nMoving or talking more slowly.\n\nHaving difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions.\n\nSleeping poorly.\n\nEating more or less than usual, without planning a weight gain or loss.\n\nHaving dark thoughts of death, suicide or suicide attempts.\n\nSuffering from aches or pains or digestive problems without a clear physical cause that do not ease with treatment.\n\nCrying frequently.\n\nFurthermore, the Institute suggests suffering from several of these symptoms for more than two weeks may be a sign of depression. If that’s the case, there is help through a live 24/7 chat line at 1-800 273 8255.\n\nThe big question is, “What can we do to fight loneliness and avoid going “stir crazy” during this difficult time?”\n\nTechnology may come to the rescue. Let’s begin with the telephone. Telephone conversations are flourishing with people using their cell phones to just talk to one another as opposed to texting or checking emails. Consider calling family and friends; set up a specific time during the week. Then there is Skype and Facetime. Again, set up times to connect. If you like crossword puzzles, thinking about doing one with a telephone, Skype or Facetime buddy.\n\nIf you belong to a faith-based community, reach out to a clergy person or a member of that community. Let that person know you are feeling the painful consequences of sheltering in place. Religious institutions are eager to help.\n\nAssuming you have a computer or cell phone, here are some new opportunities. Explore Care Buddies which consists of pairs of people who check-in with one another. They are cross-generational pals, both younger and older, who give one another a sense of safety, community and purpose in time of isolation. Some prefer phone calls; others prefer texts or video chats. They share stories, worries, exchange family recipes and talk about their favorite shows. Go to\n\nHere is another that embraces younger and older generations. Career Village is a community where students can get free personalized career advice from professionals. Retired professionals have much to contribute. Go to\n\nMon Ami which means my friend supports older adults who are isolated by the COVID-19 virus. Friendly phone calls are offered with tech support and virtual concerts. Go to or call (650) 267 2474.\n\nQUARANTINECHAT connects isolated people with surprise conversations over the Internet rather than the phone system. The app Dialup is required for the toll-free call. You will receive calls at random times and get paired with another person for a one-to-one conversation. Subjects discussed include what you are cooking for dinner, your dreams or the global economy. Go to And finally, there is Zoom video conferencing. In connecting with friends and family, ask if they are using it and request to be part of their Zoom community.See; it’s easy to use.\n\nH.R. Thank you for your timely question. Using technology is not the same as face to face meeting and the human touch. However, for the time being, staying at home is an important effective way to slow down the number of people affected and also to avoid contracting the virus. I hope some of these resources are helpful. Reach out to connect and stay safe and well.\n\nReminder to readers: Call someone who is home alone. You may be their only human contact for the day.\n\nHelen Dennis is a nationally recognized leader on issues of aging, employment and retirement with academic, corporate and nonprofit experience. For more information, visit Or follow her at\n\n© Helen Dennis.  All Rights Reserved.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8200407028198242}
+{"content": "A couple of UFO experts claimed to have spotted a massive statue of a humanoid creature in one of NASA’s photos of Mars. Based on the image, one of the experts estimated that the alleged statue could be about 700 feet tall.\n\nThe mysterious object was first spotted by the YouTube Channel ArtAlienTV. According to the owner of the channel, he came across the photo of the object as he was browsing through Gigapan’s website, which features panoramic images of Mars.\n\nThe original photo was captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover on SOL 1419, which is equivalent to the date Aug. 2, 2016. Similar to the other photos taken by Curiosity, the images from SOL 1419 mainly features Mars’ vast landscape and desert-like surface. However, as ArtAlienTV was going through the photo, he spotted a strange object in the distance.\n\nIn the Gigapan photo, the mysterious object can be spotted near the upper left corner of the image. Upon zooming in on the object, ArtAlienTV noted that looks like a massive statue that was buried waist-deep in the sand. Based on the object’s appearance, the channel’s owner speculated that it could be about 500 to 700 feet tall.\n\nScott Waring of the UFO-centered blog ET Data Base identified some of the key features he found on the alleged statue. Based on these features, the subject of the statute could have been a humanoid or an alien creature that has similar physical characteristics as humans.\n\n“It is a huge statue that is half-buried by the sands,” Waring wrote on a blog post. “It’s easy to make out the waist, hips, chest, arms and shoulders. However, the helmet is turned sideways, with its back to us so it’s difficult to see. The helmet also seems to have decoration on it.”\n\nWaring suggested that the ancient aliens on Mars may have built the statue as a tribute to a notable member of their civilization, similar to how humans erect monuments and statues to honor historical figures.\n\n“Just as humans made the faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota...aliens made this statue along the edge of this rocky hillside,” he stated. “This is 100% proof that aliens existed and they looked like us.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9913712739944458}
+{"content": "Plan A Trip To Concord, One Of New Hampshire’s Most Charming Historic Towns\n\nConcord was one of New Hampshire’s earliest settlements. Its earliest settlers arrived in the Merrimack River valley region in 1659. In 1725, the region was granted by Massachusetts as the Plantation of Penacook. Just a few short years later, in 1734, the area was incorporated as the town of Rumford. In 1765, the town was renamed Concord following a boundary dispute with the neighboring town of Bow. As the town grew, it became a notable site for granite quarrying and manufacturing. Its central location in the state led to its selection as the state capital in the early 19th century. Today, Concord is a vibrant city that boasts numerous cultural landmarks and historic sites where visitors can experience the region’s rich history.\n\n\nTake a look at the town’s website here to learn more about all Concord has to offer.\n\nAddress: Concord, NH, USA", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995133280754089}
+{"content": "Busy. Please wait.\n\nshow password\nForgot Password?\n\nDon't have an account?  Sign up \n\nUsername is available taken\nshow password\n\n\n\nAlready a StudyStack user? Log In\n\nReset Password\nDidn't know it?\nclick below\nKnew it?\nclick below\nDon't know (0)\nRemaining cards (0)\nKnow (0)\n\n  Normal Size     Small Size show me how\n\nExcel - Unit D Vocab\n\nunit D vocabulary\n\nx-axis The horizontal axis in a chart ; because it often shows data categories, such as months or locations; also called category axis.\ny-axis The vertical axis in a chart, because it often shows numerical values, also called value axis.\ncategory axis the horizontal axis in a chart usually containing the names of data categories in a 2 dimensional chart also known as the x axis.\nvalue axis in a chart the axis that contains numerical values in a 2 dimensional chart also known as the y axis\nplot area in a chart the area inside the horizontal and vertical axis\ntick marks notations of a scale of measure on a chart axis\ngridlines evenly spaced horizontal and/or vertical lines used in a worksheet or chart to make it easier to read\ndata point individual piece of data plotted in a chart\ndata marker a graphical representation of a data point such as a bar or column.\ndata series A row or column of numbers that are plotted in a chart is called a data series. You can plot one or more data series in a chart. To create a column chart, execute the following steps.\nlegend In a chart or graph in spreadsheet programs such as Excel, the legend is most often located on the right hand side of the chart or graph and can sometimes be surrounded by a border.\nsizing handles Alternatively referred to as a handle, drag handle, sizing grip, or resize corner, the sizing handle is a tool found in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to resize an object.\nembedded chart is a chart that is placed on a worksheet as opposed to on a separate chart sheet when using a spreadsheet software package.\nobject refers to the entities that make up an Excel workbook, such as Worksheets, Rows, Columns, Cell Ranges, and the Excel Workbook itself. ... For example, the 'Rows' collection is an object containing all the rows of a Worksheet.\nMajor grid lines Alternatively referred to as a column separator or row separator, Grid lines or grid lines are the light gray lines that divide each of the cells, rows, and columns in a spreadsheet\nMinor grid lines in a chart the gridlines that represent the values between the tick marks on the value axis\ntext annotations labels added to a chart to draw attention to or describe a particular area\nexploding exploding or pulling away from .\nCreated by: kfennell01\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPass complete!\n\n\"Know\" box contains:\nTime elapsed:\nrestart all cards", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5903419256210327}
+{"content": "Playing with variations\n\nPhotography has changed a lot recently, as it has become much easier to manipulate images digitally. There are many free pieces of software and applications that are available to enhance and touch up images. Not only is it possible to take a likeness of something, it is so easy to create something fantastical and imaginative with digital photography.\n\nComposition, perspective, focus, and light, among others, are still important, but a lot of magic happens later. Editing images digitally is sometimes a matter of correcting the blemishes of the image, but at other times, it is a far more creative process. The resulting images are perhaps what we'd like to see, or have imagined to see, rather than what we actually saw.\n\nThe images in this section of the site are my attempts to see what I could do achieve with different effects or layering. For this reason, you will often see the same image being edited in different ways. They are also experimental: sometimes they work and make the images better, sometimes the differences are minute that they are hardly noticeable, and sometimes a complete disaster. Despite a relatively high rate of disasters, I enjoy the process of editing images, and I hope that others will derive enjoyment from using the images.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.913910984992981}
+{"content": "The chief component that brings water into your home is the main water line. Unfortunately, it can reach a point where a replacement is a good idea. If you're mindful of certain factors, you can approach this process like a responsible homeowner.\n\nOverall Condition\n\nFinding out the overall condition of your main water line is important before having a replacement carried out. You need to see if a replacement is indeed warranted so that if it is, you know your money is going to a good place.\n\nYou'll want to work with a professional plumber when seeing what condition your main water line is in. They have special cameras they can insert inside this line, showing what the condition is like. Then the plumber can analyze relevant areas and recommend a replacement if there are a lot of structural issues that their cameras pick up. \n\nScope of Replacement\n\nOnce you confirm that a main water line replacement is necessary for your property, you want to then find out the scope of the replacement. Then you'll know exactly what will happen to your property and the costs you'll have to pay for this replacement to be carried out successfully.\n\nYou can quickly find out the scope by talking to a company that provides water main replacements. They'll outline every stage and break down the costs of the materials and labor. If you're okay with these details, you should sign a contract to lock everything in.\n\n\nSince replacing the main water line around your property is a pretty involved process, you first want to make sure the right permits are obtained before any digging or material transportation occurs. That will save you penalties and prevent the plumbing renovation from getting shut down.\n\nTalk to the company carrying out the replacement about permits to see what is necessary. Then verify that they've done the proper steps to receive these permits before anything happens.\n\nOnce actual paperwork is shown, you can feel good about the company carrying out the main water line replacement in a legal way that protects you as the homeowner. \n\nA serious renovation you may have to perform around your home is replacing the main water line. It may be in rough condition and a replacement may be the only way to restore the flow of water back in your home. If you perform the right steps leading up to the replacement, it won't be too much to handle.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6426098346710205}
+{"content": "Showcase and discover digital art at yex\n\nFollow Design Stacks\n\n\nAbout Syntax and Statements\n\nAbout Syntax and Statements\n\nLearning ActionScript syntax and statements is like learning how to put together words to make sentences, which you can then put together into paragraphs. ActionScript can be just as simple. For example, in English, a period ends a sentence; in ActionScript, a semicolon ends a statement. In the ActionScript language, you can type a stop() action to stop the playhead of a movie clip instance or a SWF file from looping. Or you can write thousands of lines of code to power an interactive banking application. As you can see, ActionScript can do very simple or very complex things.\n\nIn the Understanding Data section, you learned how the ActionScript language uses data, and how you can format syntax. This section demonstrates how you can form statements in ActionScript using syntax. It contains many short code snippets and some examples to demonstrate fundamental language concepts. Upcoming sections contain longer and increasingly involved code examples that combine and facilitate the fundamentals you learn in this chapter.\n\nLooking at Language Elements\n\nThe ActionScript language is made up of the built-in classes that make up the ActionScript language. You need to use correct ActionScript syntax to form statements so the code compiles and runs correctly in Flash. In this case, syntax refers to the grammar and spelling of a language that you program with. The compiler cannot understand incorrect syntax, so you see errors or warnings displayed in the Output panel when you try to test the document in the test environment. Therefore, syntax is a collection of rules and guidelines that help you form ActionScript correctly.\n\nA statement is an instruction you give the FLA file to do something, such as to perform a particular action. For example, you can use a conditional statement to determine whether something is true or exists. Then you might execute actions that you specify, such as functions or expressions, based on whether the condition is true or not. The if statement is a conditional statement and evaluates a condition to determine the next action that should occur in your code.\n\n// if statement\nif (condition) {\n// statements;\n\nExpressions, different from statements, are any legal combination of ActionScript symbols that represent a value. Expressions have values, while values and properties have types. An expression can consist of operators and operands, values, functions, and procedures. The expression follows ActionScript rules of precedence and of association. Typically, Flash Player interprets the expression and then returns a value that you can use in your application. For example, the following code is an expression:\n\nx + 2\n\nIn the previous expression, x and 2 are operands and + is an operator.\n\nThe way you format your ActionScript also determines how maintainable your code is. For example, it’s difficult to read the logic of a FLA file that doesn’t contain indents or comments, or contains inconsistent formatting and naming conventions. When you indent blocks of ActionScript (such as loops and if statements), the code is easier to read and debug if you encounter problems.\n\nIn ActionScript, you use a dot (.) operator (dot syntax) to access properties or methods that belong to an object or instance on the Stage. You also use the dot operator to identify the target path to an instance (such as a movie clip), variable, function, or object. A dot syntax expression begins with the name of the object or movie clip, followed by a dot, and it ends with the element you want to specify. The following sections demonstrate how to write dot syntax expressions.\n\nTo control a movie clip, loaded movie, or button, you must specify a target path. Target paths are hierarchical addresses of movie clip instance names, variables, and objects in a SWF file. To specify a target path for a movie clip or button, you must assign an instance name to the movie clip or button. You name a movie clip instance by selecting the instance and typing the instance name in the Property inspector. Or you can specify the instance name with code if you create the instance using ActionScript. You can use the target path to assign an action to a movie clip or to get or set the value of a variable or property.\n\nNote: When you write ActionScript for Flash Player 7 and later, your code is case-sensitive. This means that variables with slightly different capitalization are considered different from each other.\n\nPunctuators are the characters that help form your ActionScript code. There are several language punctuators in Flash. The most common type of punctuators are semicolons (;), colons (:), parentheses [()] and braces ({}). Each of these punctuators has a special meaning in the ActionScript language and helps define data types, terminate statements or structure ActionScript. For more information, see About Language Punctuators (Learning ActionScript 2.0 > Syntax and Language Fundamentals > About Language Punctuators).\n\nConstants are properties with a fixed value that cannot be altered, so they are values that don’t change throughout an application. Flash includes several predefined constants, which can help simplify application development. An example of constants can be found in the Key class, which includes many properties, such as Key.ENTER or Key.PGDN. If you rely on constants, you never have to remember that the key code values for the Enter and Page Down keys are 13 and 34. Using constant values not only makes development and debugging easier, but it also makes your code easier to read by your fellow developers.\n\nKeywords in ActionScript are used to perform specific kinds of actions. They are also reserved words because of this, so you can’t use them as identifiers (such as variable, function, or label names). Examples of some reserved keywords are if, else, this, function, and return.\n\nAn array is an object whose properties are identified by numbers representing their positions in the structure. Essentially, an array is a list of items. Unlike some languages, ActionScript does not require that each element in an array is of the same data type. You can mix numbers, dates, strings, and objects and even add a nested array at each array index.\n\nOperators are characters that specify how to combine, compare, or change values in an expression. An expression is any statement that Flash can evaluate and that returns a value. You can create an expression by combining operators and values or by calling a function.\n\nFor example, a mathematical expression uses numerical operators to manipulate the values you use. Examples of operator characters are +, <, *, and =. An expression consists of operators and operands, and they are any legal combination of ActionScript symbols that represent a value. An operand is the part of your code that the operator performs actions on. For example, in the expression x + 2, x and 2 are operands and + is an operator.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7501742243766785}
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+{"content": "I started Foodies simply to share my impressions of food that I encounterd in Japan and other countries.\nI hope to inspire people to savour and enjoy the time they spend preparing and eating food. I also hope to reveal the rich diversity and importance of food within the cultures of different countries. I believe that understanding food and culinary culture of different countries is one of the easiest and fastest ways to know and understand the people. Food is one of the most essential things in the human life and the culinary culture of a country embodies the country’s own history, spirit and joy.\nI hope you too can discover and enjoy the different tastes of food from other countries and gain an insight into the people and places it's from.\n\n\nSix Senses Resorts & Spas - Phuket, Thailand\n\nWonder of human senses\n\nThe Six Senses Sanctuary(Six Senses Destination Spa) is dedicated to transforming the lifestyle of its guests through a complete immersion into a healthy and mindful living. 　They offer structured and personalized programmes that blend holistic fitness activities, organic fishetarian spa cuisine, wellness education, self-discovery classes, and relaxation and renewal.\n\nThey offer a novel and internationally inspired Spa Cuisine in which they try to use as many ingredients from their own ecologically grown gardens. 　There are wonderful fishetarian dishes served with only the best the sea has to offer.\n\nWe can also have a Raw Foods dining experience. Raw Foods preparation, also known as ‘Living Cuisine’ avoids the use of animal products. It is high in nutrients and minerals with a maximum cooking temperature of 42 degrees Centigrade (116 degrees Fahrenheit) is strictly observed. This raw food cooking method allows enzymes and vitamins to be preserved which cannot be achieved at higher temperatures. Raw Foods preparations contain a higher nutritional content, resulting in higher energy levels.\n\nI am very much a meat- lover. Six Senses Sanctuary has no meat. They use only fish and vegetables & fruit. They do not use oil except olive oil. Also, only when you ask, will you be given butter or coffee. The only beverages they serve are herb teas, fresh juice and organic wine. There is no beer and coke.\n\nI was worried, wondering if I could live four days without meat! However, It was no problem at all! I found that meats or vegetables are not necessary for me. The important thing is the taste which can satisfy my stomach and brain.\n\nJust because they do not use meat in their cuisine doesn't mean that their dishes are simple. The technical skills of the chef and the fresh ingredients make us happy and give us a fulfilling cuisine. They prepare their cuisine in Chinese, Italian, French, Japanese and Thai styles.\n\nI can live without meat in Six Senses resorts and Spa. Food and our senses are wonders!\n\nRaw Zucchini \"Cannelloni\" filled with herb and nut cheese on tomato basil sauce\n\nStir fried local fish with rice noodle, kale, carrot and soya sauce\n\n\nKUTANI porcelain - SAICHI’s Dish + MAURI’s Chocolate -\n\n\"KUTANI\" dish made by Saichi Matsumoto.\n\nKUTANI means nine valleys and is the name of an area and a village. The two characters that make up the word KUTANI consist of the character for \"nine\"(KU) and \"valley\"(TANI). KUTANI porcelain was born in 1655. I enjoy serving the chocolate from a wonderful pastry shop \"MAURI\" founded by Francesc Mauri in 1929 in Barcelona, with beautiful green & gold SAICHI’s KUTANI dish.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9306678771972656}
+{"content": "Перейти к верхней панели\n\nPsychology, Theory, And Applications, What Is Introspection? The ego is a reflection of how you think about you. By reviewing and comprehending the following key theories, you truly begin to understand psychology and what it's all about. The psychology of flat earthers, antivaxxers, and truthers ... Hypersensitive agency detection and belief in conspiracy theories. Other notable theories include the Maslowian hierarchy of needs, Elaboration theory, ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate), and Bloom’s Taxonomy. Positive psychology. Positive psychology aims to gain a deeper understanding of positive emotions, positive traits, and positive institutions. I have waited several months to \"evaluate\" her because I don't personally trust face value too quickly, but what you see is what you get and Tara has earned my trust. The psychology of reasoning is the study of how people reason, often broadly defined as the process of drawing conclusions to inform how people solve problems and make decisions. The term theory is used with surprising frequency in everyday language. Cognitive psychology explores the branch of mental science that deals with motivation, problem-solving, decision-making, thinking, and attention. Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. As new evidence and research are added, a theory may then be refined, modified, or even rejected if it does not fit with the latest scientific findings. To continue using BetterHelp, you must consent to our Privacy Policy. The theory, in this case, is that researchers want to use their normal statistical methods to establish true facts about the world. For example, in the form of movement as a muscle memory, a baby might remember the action of shaking a rattle. These theories represent just a few of the different ways of thinking about child development. When you feel like a person is insulting you, and your ego is damaged, you might respond with hurt or angry feelings. It's important to take the time to understand these key psychological theories, especially if you're looking to get mental health treatment. The psychologists through that an individual psychology is greatly influenced by social, political and economic problems. The primary way that scientific researchers use theories is sometimes called the(although this term is much more likely to be used by philosophers of science than by scientists themselves). Thinking is based entirely on physical actions, and infants learn by doing, rather than by internal representation (or thinking).It involves encoding physical action based information and storing it in our memory. Some developmental theories focus on the formation of a particular quality, such as Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Other developmental theories focus on growth that happens throughout the lifespan, such as Erikson's theory of psychosocial development. It oversees when you're doing something that you're unsure of, and guides you towards making morally responsible choices. That's why certain psychologists specialize in behaviorism while other ones have expertise in humanism, cognitive behavior, or psychodynamic theory. Updated April 2, 2013. In fact, be… Others have not held up under close scientific scrutiny and may have been rejected altogether or only partially accepted by researchers today. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. The theories are: 1. BetterHelp has been found to be just as effective in treating a variety of conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma, and addiction, as face-to-face therapy. Freud believed that everyone's subconscious contains an ID, ego, and superego. Behavior theory focuses on the stimulus-response behaviors. Social and emotional development in infancy and early childhood. Here is a sampling of some of the more influential theories that can be found in this branch of psychology.. Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. Continue reading below to find reviews of some of our licensed therapists from people seeking different treatment methods. Keywords: systems thinking, stock and flows, interconnected relationships, interdependencies. They then participate in positive behavior to receive rewards. It's a form of treatment that helps people handle their emotions and change their behaviors to build sustainable relationships. There are many aspects to the field, including abnormal psychology, psychological theories, and research. These theories have greatly influenced teaching, parenting and the so-called helping professions, which includes clinical psychologists, therapists and counselors. Scientific American listed \"theory\" as one of their seven most misused scientific terms. It is these misconceptions about the term's meaning that lead people to dismiss topics such as evolution and climate change as \"merely theories\" despite an abundance of overwhelming scientific evidence. Psychology, Definition And More, Evolutionary Psychology Definition: Humans, Behavior, And Evolving Norms, What Is Flooding? As you study psychology and other scientific topics, it is important to note that a theory in science is not the same as the colloquial use of the term. Psychology is a discipline that focuses on the study of human mind and behavior (Pearce & Packer, 2013). Psychologists and researchers often use grand theories as a basis for exploration, but consider smaller theories and recent research as well. Dual process theories can be found in Neurology also plays a role in the biological perspective of psychology. Your ego determines how you see yourself and whether you believe you have value. You can opt-out at any time. In science, a theory is not merely a guess. A theory is an established model for why or how a given phenomenon occurs – it is an explanation of observed regularities. DBT was created initially to treat those with borderline personality disorder. The overall strength of a scientific theory hinges on its ability to explain diverse phenomena. The challenges […] The humanistic theory of psychology primarily regards the humanity of the individual and the different factors which contribute to their feelings, actions, and self-image. Read our, Different Types of Psychological Theories, Why Psychological Theories Exist And What Purpose They Serve, How Different Branches of Psychology Study the Brain and Behavior, Nature vs. Nurture, and the Other Issues in Developmental Psychology. Grand theories are those comprehensive ideas often proposed by major thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, and Jean Piaget. A theory is a fact-based framework for describing a phenomenon. Some of the best-known theories of psychology focus on specific branches within psychology. Life throws challenges at all of us, and everyone deserves to have a strong support system who they can turn to, including a therapist or counselor. ADVERTISEMENTS: In this article we will discuss about:- 1. There's nothing wrong with consulting with a therapist, whether they’re online or in your local area. Some theories, such as classical conditioning, are still well accepted today. Others, like Freud's theories, have not held up so well and have been mostly been replaced by new theories that better explain human development. Thinking & Reasoning 2016; … Next comes storage when the brain holds onto intel which it deems as important or valuable. Psychology Press, 2010. Springer, 2011. Some of the best-known theories in psychology are devoted to the subject of personality, including the trait theory of personality, the \"big 5\" theory of personality, and Erikson's theory of psychosocial development.. In the field of psychology, there are six main theories that provide the foundation for various other studies, therapies, and perspectives. In fact, three months post-treatment, 57% of those who had utilized online therapy experienced a continued decline in depression symptoms, compared to just 42% of those who had been treated with in-person therapy. 20 key theories in psychology. According to this particular psychological theory, genes, DNA and other hereditary factors have an impact on human behavior. You may even hear people dismiss certain information because it is \"only a theory.\" Sullivan’s Concept of Modes of Thinking 3. The ID is the part of us that wants things and needs to have them immediately. She's also a psychotherapist, international bestselling author and host of the Mentally Strong People podcast. J Exp Psychol. A psychological theory has two key components: Each theory has helped contribute to our knowledge of the human mind and behavior. Development 4. In psychology, the biological theory can be very advantageous in the field of dealing with mental health issues and disorders. Developmental theories provide a set of guiding principles and concepts that describe and explain human development. Ellis A, Abrams M, Abrams L. Personality theories: Clinical perspectives. One of the best things about therapy is that no matter what key psychological theory it extends from, it has the power to help you. No one school of thought is better than the other. This theory explains … Various mental disorders almost always come with symptoms which are abnormal in comparison to most people. She is genuine, educated and experienced. Much of what we know about human thought and behavior has emerged thanks to various psychology theories. Each theory has helped contribute t… The humanistic theory asserts that everyone bears responsibility for being happy and properly functional in the world. Learning Theories Behaviorist Approach Classical Conditioning Little Albert Pavlov's Dogs Systematic Desensitization Operant Conditioning Schedules of Reinforcement Behavior Therapy Social Learning Theory Bobo Doll Study A researcher begins with a set of phenomena and either constructs a theory to explain or interpret them or chooses an existing theory to work with. Children are driven more by the id than the other components of the subconscious, which Freud coined. Introduction to Thinking 2. These theories draw on research and ideas from different disciplines but are not yet as broad or far-reaching as grand theories. In psychology, theories are used to provide a model for understanding human thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Having self-integrity means that one perceives oneself as living up to a culturally specified conception of goo… Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Individuals make associations between behavior and consequences, and thereby adjust their behaviors. You'll choose a therapist who practices one of the forms of treatment that works best for your needs. Systems thinking is an important 21st century skill. Lawrence Kohlberg (1958) agreed with Piaget's (1932) theory of moral development in principle but wanted to develop his ideas further.. This is because rational thinking involves logical propositions; therefore, it should be considered whether emotions or feelings have anything to do with logic. Medically Reviewed By: Whitney White, MS. CMHC, NCC., LPC. A mini-theory might explain relatively narrow behaviors, such as how self-esteem is formed or early childhood socialization. Psychology — the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes — attempts to uncover why and how we do what we do. Learn how the many branches of psychology differ from one another and how and where they overlap. Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Walrath R. Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development In: Goldstein S, Naglieri JA (eds). Cognitive psychology emerged in the 1950s and became dominant in the 1960s. Mini-theories describe a small, very particular aspect of development. Two stimuli link together and result in a learned response in a person or animal. Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. To be precise, humanism states that each is unique in their way and capable of change if they so choose. It must make predictions about future behaviors. By learning more about these theories, you can gain a deeper and richer understanding of psychology's past, present, and future. Here at BetterHelp, we have an awesome team of therapists who would be more than thrilled to work with you.\n\nBatman Comic Font, Between Towns Road, Oxford, Fender Telecaster Pickguard Humbucker, Sample Project Reports, Sulfur Tuft Psilocybe, Alpine Biome Food Web, Lycoming O-145 Parts, Hosa Canada Flc, Eating Rice Benefits For Skin, Hip Hop Concerts In La, L'oréal Efassor Hair Colour Remover Instructions,\n\n\nДобавить комментарий", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9860652089118958}
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+{"content": "Redefining the “moment” with long exposure photography\n\n\nMost photographers are likely familiar with the term “the decisive moment” which is the tile of a book by Henri Cartier-Bresson, a French photojournalist. He said, “Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.”\n\nHe was a founding member of Magnum Photos and a collection of his works can be seen here. And you can buy the book on Amazon here.\n\nIt’s a great study and I love the notion offered by Cartier-Bresson with the idea of the “expression that life itself offers you,” and that you, the photographer must have the “intuition” to know when to create the photograph. It’s what we do all the time.\n\nBut what happens when we want to extend that way beyond the moment? We call it long exposure photography, or long exposure photographs, but the main idea here is we’re capturing a moment that lasts not just an instant, but several instants compiled together. So, in a rather tongue-in-cheek fashion, I might suggest we call this type of photography as capturing “the decisive minute,” or something like that. Whatever fancy name we concoct, we’re talking about extending that shutter time, so we capture the movement of our subject and we are then creating an alternate reality or understanding of our chosen subject.\n\nGetting Started\n\nThere’re a few things we need to prepare to capture long exposure images. First off, you’ll need a filter of some sort. You can also photograph later in the day but even still, to get really long exposures a filter will help. If you want to keep the color in your images looking good, you’ll need high-quality filters. I use filters from Breakthrough Photography. But you can also use B&W, Singh-Ray, Lee and other high-quality brands of filters. I’m not paid by Breakthrough, I bought my filters like everyone else, it’s just what I use. Please stay away from cheap filters as the color cast they induce on your photographs is just terrible. \n\nI have the 10-stop neutral density (ND), 6-stop circular polarizer (CPL) and the 3-stop circular polarizer. I like the polarizer options since they are color-neutral, but they can also have a polarizing effect if you want it, or just rotate it to remove the polarizing effect.\n\nThe new tripod design by Colorado Tripod Co.\n\nNext, you need a solid tripod. A small travel tripod may be able to do the trick, but the sturdier your ‘pod the better. I use a carbon fiber model by Induro. I’ll soon be able to test a tripod and ball head from Colorado Tripod Company, so I’m looking forward to that. \n\nWith a good tripod, it also helps to be able to anchor it. Some spike feet can help, but a weight hanging from the center column, or if you don’t have a center column hang it under the central apex where the legs come together, will help a lot. And spread those legs out further than the first stop on the leg adjustments. I would also suggest keeping it as short a possible. Fully extending the legs just makes it more susceptible to vibrations from the wind and other items.\n\nI use the time delay on my camera which allows me to hit the shutter button and then two seconds passes before the exposure begins. You can also use a cable release if your camera supports that option.\n\nI don’t usually use the mirror lockup. Partly because when I’m shooting like this the mirror is already up because I’m using the live view mode. The other reason is that the vibrations from the mirror might last a fraction of a second. But when you have an exposure that is multiple minutes, that fraction of a second is nothing to your exposure. I will absolutely use a mirror lockup if my exposure is between 1/30 second and 4 seconds. Because it’s in that range that the mirror vibrations may affect the exposure and stillness of the camera.\n\nIt’s also a good idea to stand between your camera and the wind if it’s a windy day. That wind can cause lots of vibration which will soften the subjects and not deliver a sharp image.\n\nAnd finally, be sure to block the viewfinder if you’re shooting a DSLR. If you’re shooting a mirrorless camera you have nothing to worry about. But for the DSLR, it’s possible to get some stray light leaking in to the camera and it will either affect the light meter only or it can possibly get some light down into the sensor area if it’s bright enough.\n\nComposition Techniques\n\nDepending on how much light you have in your scene, you may have to compose without the filter in place. Ten stops of light is a LOT of light that is removed from the scene by this filter. And auto focus likely won’t work either. In really bright scenes I’ve had AF still work, but many times it hunts and just can’t get a lock on a subject.\n\nIf your lens or camera body has an anti-shake or image stabilization technology, turn it off. Many of them are rather smart these days and they detect that it’s mounted on a tripod, but I like to turn it off to be safe.\n\nCape Disappointment. Washington.\n\nI like to find a subject that is rock solid amongst something that has movement. That way the solidity of that object can be enhanced during the long exposure since the movement of the other elements will blur out into streaks of motion. If you’re photographing water for example, the water will keep moving by and you’ll get the nice silky effect. If you’re at the ocean or a lake, a long exposure can turn a somewhat choppy surface to one of glass.\n\nGetting Creative with Composition\n\nPhotography is a challenge already. Then when we add this notion of multiple minutes of exposure we are adding even more challenges to the mix. We’ve got the technical challenges, and of course a different set of creative challenges. \n\nPalouse Falls State Park, WA, USA\n\nThink about what you want to emphasize in your image. For me, I love doing this with water. It’s one of the most prevalent subjects for the outdoor/nature photographer, whether it’s a river, waterfall, lake or ocean, I love photographing water. But be careful not to go too long with the exposure. Watch that histogram so you don’t blow the water completely out of detail. Keeping some detail in the water will go a long way to keeping your viewer interested. I’ll cover more on exposure challenges in a moment…\n\nI recommend taking a few test shots. Get a feel for how your subject looks with long exposure. If you really can’t see the benefit of going with a long exposure, then you need to either get a different subject or modify the settings so you have an even longer exposure. Once you can get a sense for what’s happening, ask yourself a few questions. Is my subject enhanced positively by the motion that’s happening? What mood am I creating by including this motion? Do I need to alter my settings to achieve a different goal for this image? Is my main subject sharp enough? Go ahead and zoom in on your little LCD panel on your camera and inspect the details. If you have some softness occurring, it could be for any number of reasons. It’s usually missed focus or subtle shakes in the camera. \n\nLong exposure photographs tend to work better when the scene is minimized to its utter simplicity. Try and remove any distractions that will compete for the viewer’s eye. Try and predict how the viewer will look at the scene and adjust as needed for the desired experience for your viewer. This could be pointing the camera up, down, or considering what you might do in post-production.\n\nLower Lewis River Falls, US, WA, Skamania County\n\nIn general, the overall approach I take has me focusing on the bare-bones of the image and my subject. The shapes, forms and textures will become more important in the scene as compared to specific subject matter, color and the like. Like this image here. The parts are important, but it’s the collection of the whole that really makes it sing for me. It’s about enhancing whatever your subject is by causing the detail of whatever is moving through it or around it to be blurred. While the motion will create its own interest for the viewer, it’s usually successful if it contrasts and supports the subject that is rendered sharply.\n\nMultiple long exposures were used and combined in Photoshop to enhance the feeling of a busy street in Warsaw, Poland.\n\nAnd finally, maybe you can use a long exposure photograph to eliminate something from a scene, or enhance it like in the image above. If you’re in a somewhat crowded space, you could use a 10-stop filter to simply not record the people walking through the scene. Or, if they’re still recorded you can massively blur their movement with a longer exposure. The 10-stop isn’t necessarily needed all the time, so use the tools that best match your subject. If the people in the aforementioned situation aren’t walking, but milling about, you can get rather interesting results.\n\nGetting the Exposure Right\n\nThe exposure can be the tricky part. How long do you need? First off, shoot in manual mode only. Automated modes will simply be a work in frustration since most cameras don’t go over 30 seconds. You’ll need to switch to the bulb mode. This is often designated with a “B” in your shutter speed settings. Rotate your shutter speed to 30 seconds, then go one more click and you will probably be in “B” or bulb mode. This means that the shutter will be open for as long as you hold the shutter button down. On my Canon, there’s an option to set the duration of the shutter when you activate the bulb mode. It’s really nice to be able to hit the button and not worry about ensuring I release it at the right time.\n\nHowever, this is where a cable release really comes in handy. Many cable releases are programmable which means you can set it to expose for the desired length of time and then the exposure ends. Or it will have a button that you can easily lock down and then manually release it when the exposure is done. With this method you’ll need to use a timer either on your phone or stopwatch or something like that.\n\nIf using a 10-stop filter, start by taking an exposure reading without your filter. You’ll then double that amount 10 times to reach your desired exposure.\n\nIf your non-filtered exposure was 1 second, your exposure with the filter would be 1024 seconds. That’s over 17 minutes. A situation that’s more reasonable is if your unfiltered exposure was 1/60 second, your filtered exposure would be 16 seconds. Now that’s not too bad. \n\nOnce you have an idea on what you want to set your exposure to, test it out. But please know, if you’re using your live view mode it’s highly likely that you won’t be seeing an accurate representation of what the final image will look like. My Canon 5D mkiv is a great camera, but when the exposures get beyond 10 seconds the preview on screen is not very reliable. You have to play back the image and inspect it once it’s recorded to your card. Also look at the histogram and ensure it’s rendering the subjects where you want them on the luminance scale. Adjust your exposure as needed. But if you’re at a five-minute exposure, let’s say, and you want to increase your exposure by a stop, then you’re going to ten minutes. If the light is fading, that can be a bit much to gamble with. So, consider raising your ISO or opening up your aperture if you can. This way you won’t have so much time invested in one exposure and you can adjust more quickly. But if you NEED that extra time to achieve the effect you’re going for then, of course, do the shutter adjustment. \n\nLong Exposure Challenges\n\nCapturing successful long exposure photographs has its challenges that we need to be aware of. Some of these were already mentioned above, but I think it’s worth repeating some of them here and then we have some new ones too. \n\nVibrations caused by wind is very likely. But also think about the surface you’re standing on and that your tripod is standing on. Will people walking by cause vibrations on the ground? I always stand very still when getting a long exposure because I don’t want my movements to cause problems. \n\nDigital noise is also a potential problem. Most modern cameras do really well at handling noise, but even the best cameras can exhibit problems from time to time. Since you really want a long exposure you’ll be gravitating towards an ISO of 100, which will help with keeping noise down. But when you get a really long exposure, your noise will build up no matter how good your camera is. This is mostly noticed in the shadow areas. I do like to try and expose to the right and by that I mean to make things slightly brighter than you might intend them to be. If you end up darkening them in post-production, you’ll minimize the noise and it won’t be bothersome. If you brighten an image in post, you run the risk of having noise popping out. Noise reduction tools in your processing software can help mitigate this issue but it’s just something to be aware of.\n\nA clean filter and lens is absolutely necessary. It’s so easy to get a speck of dust on the filter and try and not worry about it. I would argue against that since it can easily scatter the light and since we’re getting such long exposures it can cause a little extra havoc. \n\nLong Exposure Alternative Technique\n\nIf you don’t have a 10-stop or a 6-stop filter, you can do something else. That is to shoot multiple frames of the same subject and then combine them in photoshop. It’s called Exposure Averaging.\n\nWhen you do exposure averaging you’re simply taking multiple images of the same scene. Your camera should be on a tripod. Set your camera to motor drive and grab several frames. In my opinion you get better results if you stop down the lens and get a bit longer of an exposure for each capture. Say about 1/8 of a second or maybe slower if possible. \n\nShoot multiple frames and then process them as you normally would in your raw processor. Take the images into Photoshop and open them all as a layer-stacked image. Then select all layers in the layer stack and convert them to a smart object. Then go to Layer>Smart Object>Stack Mode>Mean and the images will be averaged. \n\nSay you did the 1/8 of a second exposure mentioned above. If you shot 8 frames, you’d have the equivalent of a 1 second exposure. However, you do have the time between the frames that you’ve lost out on. So if you’re trying to get cloud movements or other items like that and absolute smoothness is required, this may not be the best solution for you. But if you were to get something like 40 frames you’d have about a 5 second exposure total. That would do well for averaging out things like the ocean, rivers and waterfalls. But there’s another benefit. The ISO equivalent drops dramatically. \n\nIf your ISO was set to 400, and you shot 40 frames the math looks like this: 400/40=10. Your equivalent ISO would be 10!. That’s crazy good noise reduction right there. Of course, doing this technique doesn’t allow you to see your results in the field. And there’s the whole idea of who wants 40 frames of the same subject? I suppose you could delete those frames once you have the image built in Photoshop.\n\n\nNo matter which way you do it, either waiting for low light so you can get long exposures naturally, using a filter or using the exposure averaging technique, experimenting with long exposures can be fun and quite rewarding. It just may open up a whole new world to explore in your photography.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.973410964012146}
+{"content": "About me\n\nMy name is Christopher Sax, I’m 26 years old and I live in Austria. I am currently pursuing my bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Vienna. Before that, I tried out studying Software Engineering but figured that the courses weren’t what I was looking for, so I moved to Munich for 6 months for an internship at a software company to gain more insight. Later, I decided to study my second interest psychology in Vienna.\n\nWhat I Do\n\nToday, I am involved in web development as well as in psychology. It’s a weird mix, I know, but those two can be combined. In research designs, a lot of things have to be coded to be assessed correctly, such as eye tracking experiments. In those cases, I’m already equipped with the necessary skills to code the experiment.\n\nIn the psychology domain, I am involved in research about social psychology and especially consumer behaviour by being a research assistant at the University of Vienna. Research I’m involved with generally includes marketing, branding or some kind of eye tracking.\n\nIn the web development domain, I specialize in PHP and frameworks associated with it. Of course, all the “general” frameworks like JQuery and Bootstrap CSS as well as standard plugins are also used in my project. My latest project is lagorial.com, a product &services search engine enabling people to search for a product or service that can be bought nearby. Businesses can save their products or services online and users can search through the offers of many businesses nearby. This fosters small businesses by giving them an easy way to “go online” while not having to open a web shop or operate an own website.\n\nWhy I Do It\n\nBecause I love it.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8400471806526184}
+{"content": "Statement of a problem № m336\n\n\nCreek Ratz is a very popular restaurant located along the coast of northern Florida. They serve a variety of steak and seafood dinners. During the summer beach season, they do not take reservations or accept “call ahead” seating. Management of the restaurant is concerned with the time a patron must wait before being seated for dinner. Listed below is the wait time, in minutes, for the 25 tables seated last Saturday night. \u0001 a. Explain why the times are a population. b. Find the mean and median of the times. c. Find the range and the standard deviation of thetimes.\n\nNew search. (Also 1294 free access solutions)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9945854544639587}
+{"content": "\n\nWritten by Administrator\n\nCovid vaccination programmes kicked off in the UK at the end of 2020, as the US-made Pfizer jab offers a path out of the pandemic. The vaccine, which researchers found was up to 95 percent effective, has since made its way to more than one million people, according to Government estimations. But as the epidemic worsens and the Astraenexa jab becoems available, people will want to know where they fall in the vaccine timetable. \n\nWhen will you get the coronavirus vaccine?\n\nGovernment policy has mandated an approach which starts with the elderly and most vulnerable and moves down.\n\nHealth workers are currently focussed on the first of nine stages, as they vaccinate care home residents aged over 80 and their carers.\n\nThe remaining eight will cover ages 75 to 50, with an exception for vulnerable children and younger adults.\n\nREAD MORE: When will asthmatics get the Covid vaccine?\n\nIn a bid to provide some clarity on the process, one creator on the site Omnicalculator created a tool to place people in a virtual queue.\n\nOmni’s vaccine calculator, created by Steven Wooding, combines answers given by people online to provide a rough idea of how long they have to wait before their vaccination.\n\nThe tool asks people their age, whether they work at a care home or in healthcare, or are currently pregnant.\n\nPeople also need to say whether or not they had to shield earlier this year, or if they have underlying health conditions.\n\nFor example, by their calculations, a 67-year-old person with no underlying conditions, not working in the care industry, has roughly 9,926,645 and 12,305,865 in front of them.\n\nAnd a 16-year-old with a chronic health problem has roughly 12,305,865 to 18,074,125 people ahead of them.\n\nThe calculations show most people will have to wait quite some time before they achieve immunity.\n\nOfficials figures show NHS personnel have vaccinated just over 100,000 people so far.\n\nBotched EU scheme buys wrong Covid vaccines to please French [INSIGHT]\nTier 4 must remain ‘until we get vaccinations up and running’ [WATCH]\nCan I book a Covid vaccine? How to get yourself on the list [EXPLAINER]\nCovid vaccine fertility: Does the Covid vaccine affect your pregnancy [EXCLUSIVE]\n\nMore than half of Brits may have to wait potentially another two years to receive their jab, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).\n\nThey announced the Government secured 267 million doses of the vaccine, costing them £2.9 billion in total.\n\nBut it added the current plans from NHS England and NHS Improvement intend to vaccinate 25 million people “throughout 2021”.\n\nDepending on how many people they manage to vaccinate this year, it could leave the remaining roughly 35 million people waiting until 2022.\n\nGareth Davies, head of the NAO, said “logistical challenges” would determine how quickly people will receive the jab.\n\nHe said: “Developing and securing an effective vaccine is central to reducing the impact of Covid-19 on society and saving lives.\n\n“Government has worked quickly and effectively to secure access to potential vaccines, using the available information to make big decisions in an inherently uncertain environment.\n\n“With one vaccine now approved for use and its rollout started, significant challenges remain. Efficient delivery to the UK population presents complex logistical challenges and requires excellent communication with the public.”\n\nSource link\n\nAbout the author", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.972139835357666}
+{"content": "Call/WhatsApp: +1 332 209 4094\n\nBank Loan Default Prediction\n\n Bank Loan Default Prediction\n\nProblem Statement:\n\nMany banks believed lending to individuals is the risk-free given they are better placed with credit scores and sometimes the loans are backed by collateral. But recently the banking system has witnessed an increase in the loan default i.e. the borrower is not able to pay back the instalment on time. These loan defaults directly impact the revenues of a banking system.\n\nNow a days, banks are scrutinizing each loan application to identify potential loan default cases so that they can predict which client is going to default the loan repayment and at which step.\n\nBased upon the given data from a bank, build a model to predict default loan that will help the bank to take required actions.\n\nThe first set of project notes must describe the data and align it to the analytical problem, the Project addresses. It should also include the rationale of the project (why the problem is important and what value it will add to the company). It should be of 5-7 pages and shall be simple and straightforward depicting the objective of the project, description of data, EDA report and insights driven from EDA.\n\nBelow are the guidelines for the Project Notes-I:\n\n\n1) Introduction\n\n\na) Defining problem statement\n\n\nb) Need of the study/project\n\n\nc) Understanding business/social   opportunity\n\n\n\n2)Data Report\n\n\na) Understanding how data was   collected in terms of time, frequency and methodology\n\n\nb) Visual inspection of data   (rows, columns, descriptive details)\n\n\nc) Understanding of attributes   (variable info, renaming if required)\n\n\n\n3) Exploratory data analysis\n\n\n\na) Univariate analysis   (distribution and spread for every continuous attribute, distribution of data   in categories for categorical ones)\n\n\nb) Bivariate analysis   (relationship between different variables , correlations)\n\n\na) Removal of unwanted variables\n\n\nb) Missing Value treatment\n\n\nd) Outlier treatment\n\n\ne) Variable transformation (if   applicable)\n\n\nf) Addition of new variables\n\n\n\n4) Insights from EDA\n\n\na) Is the data unbalanced? If so,   what can be done?\n\n\nb) Any insights using   clustering  (if applicable)\n\n\nc) Any other Insights\n\nBelow are the guidelines for the Project Notes-II:\n\n\n1). Review Parameters\n\n\n1).Model building and   interpretation\n\n\na. Build various models\n\n\nb. Test Various performance   metrics (Confusion matrix, AOC, RMSE, etc.) as applicable.\n\n\n\n2). Model Tuning\n\n\na. Ensemble modelling, wherever   applicable\n\n\nb. Any other model tuning   measures(if applicable)\n\n\nc. Interpretation from the best   model\n\nPlease note the following:\n\nYou have to submit 2 files:\n\n· Business Report: In this, you should cover all the topics given in the rubric in a sequential manner. It should include a detailed explanation of the approach used, insights, inferences, all outputs of codes like graphs, tables, etc. Your report should not be filled with codes.\n\n· R code file: This is a must and will be used for reference while evaluating", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9939404726028442}
+{"content": "Keeping kiln burning in My Thien pottery village\n\nFriday, 2020-01-31 18:09:54\n Font Size:     |        Print\n\nArtisan Dang Van Trinh and his wife, Pham Thi Thu Cuc, checking the quality of their pottery products (Photo: Lam Uyen)\n Font Size:     |  \n\nNDO – Located along the bank of Tra Bong river, My Thien village in Chau O town, Binh Son district, Quang Ngai province has more than 200-years of history making pottery.\n\nExperiencing many ups and downs over the village’s long history, hundreds of households at the village have abandoned the craft, but there is one man still working to keep the kiln burning, thus preserving the chemistry of My Thien pottery. He is artisan Dang Van Trinh.\n\nAccording to historical records, My Thien pottery village was established at the end of the 18th century and early 19th century. My Thien pottery products were made by using sophisticated techniques and were made-to-order souvenirs for Nguyen Lords.\n\nMy Thien pottery products had been transported through waterway, sea routes, and roads to many cities and provinces across the country such as Quang Nam, Da Nang, Nghe An, Binh Dinh, Central Highlands region, and even to neighbouring countries of Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.\n\nAs the fourth descendant of a family with a rich tradition of practicing the craft, potter Dang Van Trinh has nearly 40-year experience working with clay, potter's wheels, and kilns. When he was a boy, the craft was taught and passed down to him from his father and grandfather.\n\nThe main ingredient for making My Thien pottery products is clay, which is carefully filtered from impurities. The clay is kneaded properly to form different shapes of jars, pots, and vases, it’s then coated with ceramic glaze and decorative patterns. Finally, it is baked in a kiln at a blistering temperature of over 1,000°C, which results in a final product that is solid and will last a life time..\n\nAll of the steps are done manually. While other types of ceramic products have a surface that is decorated with engraved patterns, My Thien pottery products have an eye-catching appearance thanks to embossed decorative patterns, which often feature the image of dragons, phoenixes, rats, and leaves.\n\nThe secret key to the unique charm of My Thien pottery is the different glaze of the products, which is resulted from the potter’s control of fire inside the kiln. Every My Thien pottery product is baked twice, each last at least three days and nights, which helps to provide a strong colourful tone and a nice variety for the finished products.\n\n\nAt the age of 60, Dang Van Trinh and his wife, Pham Thi Thu Cuc, have witnessed many historical ups and downs of the pottery-making craft in their hometown. During the golden era of the craft, roads in the village were filled with people transporting products to the river’s wharf for traders from across the country.\n\nAt that time, the craft was practiced by dozens of households, who kept the flame going inside their kilns on all year round. They joined hands to established a pottery collective but it was dissolved after ten years under operation due to fierce competition from mass production and the increase in raw materials, forcing many families to turn their back to the pottery-making craft and sought for other well-paid jobs. Dang Van Trinh is the last potter practicing the time-honoured craft.\n\nWith a deep passion for their ancestors’ craft and their strong determination to keep the chemistry of My Thien pottery alive, Dang Van Trinh and his wife have kept the fire raising in their kiln and have travelled to many cities and provinces across the country including Da Nang, Gia Lai and Binh Dinh to advertise their products.\n\nIn addition to producing traditional products such as kitchenware and daily utensils that have made My Thien pottery so famous, the couple have also created indoor decoration products in order to keep pace with the increasing demand of customers.\n\nTheir efforts have been rewarded as they have received more and more orders from customers, and thousands of their products are sent to many places around the country every week.\n\nThe old couple has planned to open a workshop and an exhibition space so that visitors to the village can learn more about the craft and try their hands at making pottery products themselves.\n\nThey also receive support from local sectors and functional agencies in an effort to promote My Thien as a tourist spot for visitors to Quang Ngai province.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.786477267742157}
+{"content": "Customised solution secures V150-4.2 MW order with record hub heights in Vietnam\n\nSource: press release, 24 April 2020\n\nThe V150-4.2 MW™ is one of the highest producing onshore low wind turbines in the industry\nThe V150-4.2 MW™ is one of the highest producing onshore low wind turbines in the industry (illustration: Vestas)\n\nA 67 MW order for two projects in Vietnam underlines Vestas’ ability to deliver a tailormade and innovative solution featuring the tallest turbines in the country for a challenging site with complex installation requirements.\n\nVestas will supply, transport, install and commission a total of 16 V150-4.2 MW wind turbines delivered in different power ratings to optimise the projects’ energy output. The customised tower solution takes the turbines to 162m hub heights and opens up new wind resources by allowing access to higher and more consistent wind speeds.\n\nLocated in a wetland area of the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam and surrounded by aquaculture shrimp farms, the sites’ limited space and complex infrastructure requires a specific transportation and installation solution to construct the projects. To successfully execute the projects, Vestas has developed a solution using a specialised tower crane to significantly reduce the hardstand space necessary to erect the turbines.\n\nThe order also includes a 20-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement, designed to maximise energy production for both sites. With a yield-based availability guarantee, Vestas will provide the customer with long-term business case certainty.\n\n“These projects feature the tallest towers in Vietnam and showcases Vestas’ ability to optimise the value proposition for our client and develop site-specific solutions for all wind sites,” says, Clive Turton, President of Vestas Asia Pacific. “With the strong traction we are gaining in the country over the last few months, I am confident that we will be playing a big part in the future development of Vietnam’s renewable energy market.”\n\nThe projects are planned to achieve commissioning in the third quarter of 2021. The project and customer are undisclosed at the customer’s request.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9933954477310181}
+{"content": "Question: What Are The Reasons For Fitness Testing?\n\nWhat is situps test?\n\nAbdominal muscle strength and endurance is important for core stability and back support.\n\nThis sit-up test measures the strength and endurance of the abdominals and hip-flexor muscles..\n\nWhich of the following tests measures muscular strength?\n\nThe most widely used exercises for upper and lower body muscular strength testing are the bench press and leg press, respectively. Other dynamic strength tests include the arm curl, latissimus dorsi pull down, knee extension and knee curl.\n\nWhat is a good fitness level?\n\nThe target heart rate zone is an increase in your heart rate — 50% to 85% of the maximum heart rate for your age — great enough to give your heart and lungs a good workout. Aim for 50% to 70% when you do moderately intense activities and 70% to 85% when you do vigorous activities.\n\nHow do you tell if you’re in shape?\n\n\nWhat are the reasons for fitness testing quizlet?\n\nTerms in this set (6)Identify Strengths and Weaknesses in Performance. … Identify Physiological Potential and starting levels of Fitness. … Compare against normative data. … Helps motivate the performer/set goals. … Provides variety to a training programme. … Shows improvement or success of training programme.\n\nWhy is fitness testing bad?\n\nGetting numbers that show you are not improving after all the training effort can easily upset you. De-motivate your client in the future because poor results may reinforce beliefs they have that ‘exercise just isn’t for them’. … Bad testing results can easily become references a client uses to support limiting beliefs.\n\nWhat are the 5 fitness tests?\n\nA: The five components of physical fitness are cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition, according to Fit Day.\n\nHow often should fitness testing be done?\n\nIn general, industry standards trend towards three to six-month time intervals for comprehensive fitness testing to be able to assess progress. Trainers may vary in their test schedule advice, but only to ensure their clients are safely on the right track.\n\nWhat is reliability fitness testing?\n\nReliability: The ability to carry out the same test method and expect the same results. Validity: Results obtained are a true reflection of what you are actually trying to measure.\n\nWhat is the goal in regard to the health fitness tests?\n\nFor general health and fitness purposes, the tests are considered the starting point for designing an appropriate exercise program. 1 They are meant to ensure you won’t be at risk of harm and provide the trainer with the insights needed to establish clear and effective fitness goals.\n\nHow can you test your fitness?\n\n10 Ways To Test Your FitnessResting heart rate – to assess aerobic fitness.Push-ups – to assess upper-body muscular endurance.Head turning – to assess neck flexibility.12-minute walk/run – to assess cardio capacity.Plank – to assess core stability.Loop-the-loop – to assess shoulder mobility.Vertical jump – to assess explosive power.More items…\n\nWhat is the best fitness test?\n\n8 True Tests of Your Overall FitnessCheck 1: Is your core weak?Check 2: Lower-body power.Check 3: Anaerobic endurance.Check 4: Mobility.Check 5: The Beep Test.Check 6: Upper-body power.Check 7: The Go-Muscle Test.Check 8: Flexibility.\n\nHow fit should I be for my age?\n\nThe younger you are, the more you should be able to do. For men ages 18 to 25, any number over 49 is excellent; 35 to 38 is average. For men over 65, any number over 28 is excellent; 15 to 18 is average. For women ages 18 to 25, any number over 43 is excellent; 29 to 32 is average.\n\nHow do you test your strength?\n\n5 Tests That Will Measure Your StrengthTEST 1: THE 3-MINUTE PUSHUP TEST. Devised by Martin Rooney, creator of the Training for Warriors system, this test is simple: Do as many pushups as you can for 3 minutes straight, resting as needed. … TEST 2: THE DEADLIFT TEST. … TEST 3: THE CHINUP TEST. … TEST 4: THE SQUAT TEST. … TEST 5: The GETUP TEST.\n\nWhy do we do fitness testing?\n\nFitness testing helps the fitness professional to measure and review a client’s progress and develop a programme to suit. Measuring a client’s progress is an important part of personal training, whether it’s noting when a client has succeeded in lowering their blood pressure or measuring a decrease in body fat.\n\nWhat are the 6 fitness tests?\n\n6 Fitness Tests to Gauge Your Overall ProgressTest 1: Dead Hang. Physical Ability: Support Grip Strength. … Test 3: Maximum Burpees in 5 Minutes. Physical Ability: Aerobic Capacity, Functional Strength. … Test 4: 300 Yard Shuttle. Physical Ability: Anaerobic Capacity. … Test 5: Broad Jump. Physical Ability: Muscular Power. … Test 6: Bodyweight Conditioning.\n\nWhat determines how our bodies respond to exercise?\n\nWhile exercising, the muscles need additional energy as:the breathing rate and volume of each breath increases to bring more oxygen into the body and remove the carbon dioxide produced.the heart rate increases, to supply the muscles with extra oxygen and remove the carbon dioxide produced.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999129772186279}
+{"content": "HomeAnswerNotificationsCustomize Feeds\nWhat arguments are there against The Beatles being considered the best pop / rock band of all time?\n\n\nThe main argument is the absolute affirmation of the best band of all time, which I sincerely believe that no band can claim.\n\nStarting from that and trying to be as objective as possible, leaving aside my personal tastes The Beatles were frankly remarkable for several reasons:\n\nThey made known to the great European public in first term and after a number of important classic rock authors who were already in decline and that if we now considered them as indisputable pioneers is in large part to the versions made by The Beatles, for Chuck Berry and his Rock 'n' Roll Music, Little Richard and his Long Tall Sally or Lieber and Stoller and his Kansas City, among many others. And is that The Beatles were a consummate version.\n\nHis music and way of doing in his early days influenced many large groups that would later find their own form of expression. It is surprising to hear now like the Rolling Heart of Stone or one of the first of The Kinks, for example and to see how very similar they were to the Beatles' way of doing.\n\nThey practically defined the format of what an LP is. In this sense, they have evolved from albums like A Hard Day's Night to such conceptual albums as Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's or Double White.\n\nThey were pioneers in daring to open the instrumental range and arrangements in rock using instruments that until then nobody had considered.\n\nTo a greater or lesser extent they played almost all the records of rock and pop, with songs that range from sugar intoxication that can be Michelle to past ones like Yer Blues or Helter Skelter.\n\nWhat has been said, I think his merit was above all to the canon of how things were made in rock before anyone else.\n\nI saw Sir Paul Maccartney five years ago on his OUT THERE tour .. !! Here he promoted his new album.\n\n\nYou've made me want to see him again, I'll look for the next tour dates \n\n\nSongwriting mastery: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and later part George Harrison were altogether skilled lyricists who could make such immense numbers out of good quality tunes. John Lennon was a talented artist who could create various extraordinary and convoluted tunes with provocative stanzas. Paul McCartney was a fit performer who could make various full and lavish tunes with ear-fulfilling tunes and charming refrains. George Harrison started off as an ordinary lyricist, yet as time cruises by, his songwriting fitness improved an impressive measure and he could created a ton exceptional tunes which are equivalent to Lennon-McCartney quality-wise. \n\nSolid Musicianship: The Beatles people potentially less the most fit specialists yet they could play their melodic instruments great. John Lennon was an inconceivable yet underrated guitar play and he could play a couple of melodic instruments like piano and harmonica extremely well. Paul McCartney was a multi-instrumentalist who could play various melodic instruments so well. George Harrison was an exceptional guitar player and he could play a couple of Indian melodic instruments also. Ringo Starr was a mind boggling yet underrated drummer who could play flexible drumming reliant on the required styles. \n\nSocial Impact: The Beatles transformed into the counter-social token of the 1960s and the picture of British culture. The Beatles also made UK twisted up a champion among the most socially rich countries on earth. \n\nCreative ability: The Beatles is a significantly innovative band that pushed always restricts in songwriting and melodic strategy by doing melodic experimentation and making new sorts melodic sounds. \n\nPeculiarity: The Beatles people furthermore recognized autonomy with their own unquestionable personalities that people can relate to. There were John Lennon the testing radical, Paul McCartney the bewildering confident individual, George Harrison the quiet supernatural, and Ringo Starr the smart lively individual.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9941352009773254}
+{"content": "Commercial Real Estate Law in Texas\n\nCommercial real estate is any form of land or structure in Stephenville, Texas which is utilized for business purposes, mainly the sale of goods and/or services to the public.\n\nThe Stephenville, Texas laws regulating commercial real estate differ significantly from the laws that cover residential and other types of real estate.\n\n\nThese include implied warranties of habitability, rent control, and covenants of use and quiet enjoyment, among various others. Of course, the most general protections, such as prohibiting the seller from actively concealing defects, apply to both.\n\nCommon Commercial Real Estate Law Issues in Stephenville, Texas\n\n\nConcealment of Defects: Sellers and lessors of commercial real estate are under a duty to disclose any defects in the property which might impact the buyer's decision to purchase it, such as water damage, mold, or other structural problems. These defects are quite typical, and the buyer has a right to know about them. If the seller doesn't disclose these defects, where they exist, the buyer can sue for any harm this causes.\n\n\nEncumbrances: An encumbrance is any interest held in a piece of property by a party other than the seller and the buyer. These property interests might make it very challenging for the buyer to use the land as they intended when they bought it. A typical type of encumbrance in Stephenville, Texas is the easement. An easement is some right that a third party has in a piece of property. For example, suppose that, many years ago, a neighbor adjacent to the land you want to buy, paid a previous owner for the right to cross his land to reach a public road. Unless the agreement states otherwise, this right will usually apply to subsequent owners, and has to be honored. Therefore, it might interfere with the intended use of the new owner.\n\nCan a Stephenville, Texas Attorney Help?\n\nThe issues surrounding commercial real estate in Stephenville, Texas can get fairly complex. Therefore, it's never a bad idea to have the assistance of an efficient commercial real estate attorney.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9808444976806641}
+{"content": "Ketosis Explanation\n\nKetosis Explanation\n\nIf you’re struggling with either one of these medical conditions or are looking for a natural preventative technique, a low-carb, high-fiber to diet plan might be the right answer. In this article, you’ll learn how low-carb diets lead to healthy weight-loss, which kind of results to anticipate, and how to utilize keto for effective and safe weight reduction. Let’s begin by exploring what’s implied by a keto diet plan. Put simply, it is a diet in which the body breaks down carbs instead of burning off those calories as weight-loss. It has actually been shown that ketosis (high ketones) happens when the body uses ketones for energy. The ketone diet plan is most commonly employed by athletes and diabetic clients, as their bodies are able to efficiently adapt to ketosis and slim down while preserving health.\n\nHigh-fibers carbohydrates lead to ketoacidosis. They do this through insulin resistance, which takes place when the pancreas responds to the hormone insulin by releasing extreme quantities of the hormone. Insulin resistance, which is genetically determined, can result in the development of various chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, and cancer. Extreme insulin also increases the quantity of fatty substances (fat cells) in the blood. Excessive fat cells make it much harder for the body to slim down, triggering one to have problem with persistent illness.\n\nA well-balanced diabetic diet plan will limit both total carbohydrate consumption and the amount of hydrogenated fat an individual eats. During the keto diet, you will need to eat an extremely low carb diet plan, usually below 40 g carbs per day. As a result, your blood sugar levels must remain consistently raised throughout the day. If you are following the keto diet, your carbohydrate intake ought to be mainly from vegetables and ideally naturally produced foods. Whole grain foods are also allowed, however remember that these are higher in carbohydrates.\n\nThe primary benefit of following the ketogenic diet plan for weight reduction is the low glycemic index (GI). This indicates that your blood glucose responds gradually to consuming carbohydrate foods, instead of rapidly. This is the essential to weight reduction success. You must not experience any bloating, irregularity, or diarrhea while on the ketogenic diet. You will experience remedy for frequent urination and will have increased energy. You will likewise shed additional fat in the abdomen due to the increased metabolic process.\n\nThe other benefit of following this diet plan for weight loss is considerably increased HDL levels in your blood. High density lipoproteins (HDL) are needed for your body’s use of energy, as they are the building blocks of cell membranes. When you increase the amount of HDL in your blood, your risk of cardiovascular disease or stroke is considerably reduced. A considerable boost in HDL can also reduce your chance of having type 2 diabetes. In addition to this, you will find that you have more energy, feel more energetic, and your skin will be clearer.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6829063892364502}
+{"content": "420 Magazine Background\n\n\n  1. S\n\n    Mistakenly cycled plant to flowering phase\n\n    Hi all, I have had clones on veg cycle and, when I transferred them all to my new box, I mistakenly set the timer on 12-12 cycle. They have been there for 4 days now. Here how they look now: Will it be okay to revert the cycle to the veg state now? I also planned to cut two of them and clone.\n  2. WalterGamer8\n\n    24/0 or 18/6 for my first grow ?\n\n    Hey! I planted my 4 seeds and for my first grow. When my plants get a little bit bigger should I go 24/0? I heard 24/0 makes plants grow a lot faster a makes them bushier which is exactly what I’m looking for. How much faster do they grow under 24/0 compared to 18/6? I am also using a 600w hps...\n  3. meejay\n\n    Seems (feels) like a female? What do you think?\n\n    Hi there, I was checking on my first grow and just realized something I was looking for. She is still in 24/0 vegetative stage but what I saw on above 6th branching seemed a sign of a female plant to me. Below you may find the photos. What do you think? Is she a SHE?\n  4. Koopa707\n\n    Question pruning in Veg\n\n    I’m new to indoor growing and I have two plants that are very bushy that look like they may need pruning because the fan leaves are so massive they are shading out the new growth. I have six plants total, four of which are berry white and two are from seeds I found in some amazing purple...\n  5. G\n\n    Purple bud auto first grow\n\n    So this is my first grow and if it weren’t for you guys probably wouldn’t got this far. The seeds are purple bud auto from white label, I had some nute burn on the beginning of the grow and switched my soil to a good quality one and it solved the problem. I didn’t gave any nutes till now, and I...\n  6. H\n\n    420's Soil Purple Kush Journal\n\n    Growing 2 crop king Purple Kush plants in a 4x4x6.5 reflective tent in 5 gallon pots with Happy Frog soil. Currently using one 300W vipar spectra LED but I have another one ready for use once the seedlings hit vegetative stage. Lights are currently positioned at around 40 inches from the top of...\n  7. G\n\n    Should I trim? Vegetative.\n\n    Hey guys new to growing. I'm currently using two 1150 lumen led lights on the side and one 1600 on the top, low cost setup, planning to upgrade soon but the plants seem to be doing fine with it. Should I trim my lower branches? I've heard good things about it but with the side lighting is it...\n  8. K\n\n    Red Dragon & Sour Diesel, DWC, 400 Watt, FoxFarm Nutes\n\n    Vegetative Phase: Day 1 Stats: 2 x Red Dragon (Feminized) - Barney's Farm This Red Dragon is slacking. 1 x Sour Diesel (Feminized) - Blimburn Seeds *Both of these strains come highly recommended. Red Dragon - 23% THC / Sour Diesel - 25% THC - All 3...\n  9. R\n\n    Growth cycle\n\n    Hello all! When can a new sprout be considered in the vegetative phase? After the 3rd node or ? Thanks!:Namaste:\n  10. J\n\n    Gearing up\n\n    I have six 2' x 4' 6-bulb t-8 fluorescent fixtures. What would be a good combination of bulbs that I can use to go through the entire vegetative and flowering stages without changing bulbs? Thanks\n  11. D\n\n    Yellowed & crispy leaves - Falling off vegetative stage?\n\n    The leaves at the bottom has gotten so crisp or soft and crumpled up to the point they've just fallen off. I hadn't given them any nutrients yet because I was told to wait until the 3-4th week to give nutrients. I have started LST and using pipe cleaners to bend some of the stems and I have...\n  12. S\n\n    Need grow assistance!\n\n    What Strain is it? Northern Lights from Nirvana Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? Indica How Many Plants? 2 Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stage? Vegetative If in Vegetative Stage... How Long? 8 weeks Indoor or Outdoor? Indoor Soil or Hydro? Fox Farm Ocean Forest If Soil... What is in...\n  13. S\n\n    Strange leave colour\n\n    What Strain is it? Royal dwarf auto-flower How Many Plants? 1 Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stage? Vegetative If in Vegetative Stage... How Long? 1 month Indoor or Outdoor? Indoor Soil or Hydro? Soil If Soil... What is in your Mix? Organic mix with perlite Is it Air Cooled? yes...\n  14. P\n\n    I have few problems but Idk what\n\n    Hello guys. I am growing Jack herer from seeds and it is my 35th day. I've encountered some issues and seeking for help. I am using 400W Led lights, starting from last week(Before, I was using flor. lamps to not to shock the plants. I have 3 ventilators to maintain air flow and my pots are big...\n  15. T\n\n    Vegetative stage - Pistils dying - Help me\n\n    hey guys, i'm around 5/6 weeks of vegetative stage, pistils plant start to grow about 2/3 weeks and they are pretty white healthy till yesterday, dont know why, since then, they are turning brown and seems to me like they are dying.... but the rest of plant is pretty good to me ! :thanks:\n  16. T\n\n    Deficiency or pests\n\n    Hello everyone, Im new grower. This is my first time grow :D What Strain is it?- Random seeds How Many Plants?- 5 Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stage? Vegetative ~25-30 days from seeds If in Vegetative Stage... How Long?~25-30 days from seeds Indoor or Outdoor?- Outdoor Soil or Hydro?- Soi...\n  17. C\n\n    Phosphorus deficiency but pH is correct\n\n    What Strain is it? Bubbalciious Is it Indica, Sativa or Hybrid? What percentages? Indica Dominant How Many Plants? 1 Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stage? Vegetative If in Vegetative Stage... How Long? 3 Weeks Indoor or Outdoor? Indoor Soil or Hydro? Soil If Soil... What is in your Mix? FFOF...\n  18. E\n\n    Brown Spots On 2 Week Old Plants - Pics\n\n    What Strain is it? 4 NL fems and 2 Super Silver Haze fems How Many Plants? 6 total Is it in Vegetative or Flowering Stage? Vegetative If in Vegetative Stage... How Long? 2 weeks total Indoor or Outdoor? Indoor Soil or Hydro? Hydro If Hydro, Reservoir size? 5 gal If Hydro, Reservoir...\n  19. cufix\n\n    Switching in to flowering and got stucked\n\n    Hey folks, I'm new to this forum and I would appreciate if anyone of you would please be able to help me with my dilema. It's about switching from vegetative stage 18/6 to flowering 12/12 and I have fallen in to some kind of a dilema. If my light schedule in vegetative stage is from 11am to 5am...\n  20. D\n\n    Indoor Growing Problem\n\n    Hi guys, this is my first time growing indoors, and I am experiencing some problems with my plant about 3 weeks into growing. The leaves started to face down, and some are turning yellow. Here are some pictures: The light im using is a 32W CFL (2150lm - cool daylight - 6000k)...\nTop Bottom", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5422855019569397}
+{"content": "Temporomandibular Joint Disorder\n\nTemporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ) is a disorder that affects the muscles of the jaw.\n\nThis disorder is characterized by pain where the jawbone and the skull meet, the temporomandibular joint. This joint is located on either side of the head and just in front of the ears.  TMJ causes pain and discomfort associated with jaw movements such as chewing, yawning and talking.\n\nTMJ symptoms include an aching pain in the jaw, face, and around the ear; a clicking or popping sensation when the jaw is opened or closed; and difficulty and discomfort when chewing.\n\nIf left untreated TMJ can also cause headaches, an uneven bite, and in some extreme cases, the joint itself will lock, thus rendering a person unable to open or close their mouth.\n\nThere are many factors that will lead to TMJ, including arthritis, a facial injury, or teeth grinding, which overworks the muscles of the jaw. Women between the ages of 30 and 50 have the highest risk for developing TMJ, but individuals with arthritis, fibromyalgia, and various sleep disorders are also at a high risk.\n\nTMJ is very common, but symptoms for most people are mild and easily resolved with help from a dentist. In many cases of TMJ a change of behavior is all that is needed to resolve the problem. For those who suffer from TMJ, a dentist may prescribe an overnight bite guard to prevent patients from grinding their teeth while sleeping.\n\nThere are many treatments for TMJ that don’t require a medical professional. Some of the at-home methods to relieve pain include finding ways to use the jaw muscles less, such as eating softer foods or cutting foods into smaller portions.\n\nPeople who suffer from TMJ are also advised to avoid chewing gum and to not open the mouth too wide when chewing. If you suffer from any of these symptoms we would be happy to help at Creative Smiles.\n\nPlease contact [email protected] or alternatively you can call one of our Creatve Smiles Team on 02890 618545", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995070695877075}
+{"content": "News Release \n\nTaking a shine to polymers: Fluorescent molecule betrays the breakdown of polymer materials\n\nTokyo Institute of Technology\n\nResearch News\n\n\nIMAGE: H-DAAN could work as a radical scavenger for polymeric mechanoradicals in the bulk and generate DAAN* , which could potentially be evaluated by EPR spectroscopy and fluorescence measurements owing to... view more \n\nCredit: Tokyo Tech\n\nNylon, rubber, silicone, Teflon, PVC - these are all examples of man-made polymers - long chains of repeated molecular units that we call monomers. While polymers also exist in nature (think wool, silk, or even hair), the invention of synthetic polymers, the most famous of which is plastic, revolutionized the industry. Light, stretchy, flexible, yet strong and resistant, synthetic polymers are one of the most versatile materials on the planet, used in everything from clothing to building, packaging and energy production. Since the very beginning of this new era in material engineering, understanding the influence of external forces on polymers' strength and stability has been crucial to evaluate their performance.\n\nWhen subjected to mechanical stress, the weak bonds that keep some polymer chains together are overcome, and one inevitably breaks. When this happens, a free radical (a molecule with an unpaired electron, which is naturally unstable and very reactive, called a \"mechanoradical\" in this case) is generated. By estimating the amount of free mechanoradicals produced, we can infer the resistance of a material to the amount of stress. While this phenomenon is well documented, scientists struggled to observe it under ambient temperature in bulk state, because mechanoradicals produced for polymers in bulk are not stable due to their high reactivity toward oxygen and other agents.\n\nResearchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology led by Professor Hideyuki Otsuka decided to take up the challenge. In their study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, they used a small molecule called diarylacetonitrile (H-DAAN) to capture the rogue free radicals. \"Our theory was that H-DAAN would emit a distinctive fluorescent light when it reacts with the free radicals, which we could then measure to estimate the extent of polymer breakdown,\" explains Prof Otsuka. \"The theory is simple; the higher the force exerted on the polymer, the more mechanoradicals are produced, and the more they react with H-DAAN. This higher reaction rate results in more intense fluorescent light, changes in which can easily be measured.\"\n\nThe researchers now wanted to see how this would work in practice. When polystyrene (in the presence of H-DAAN) was subjected to mechanical stress via grinding, the H-DAAN acted as a radical scavenger for polymeric mechanoradicals, and bound with them to produce \"DAAN* ,\" which has fluorescent properties. This caused a visible yellow fluorescence to appear.\n\n\"More important, probably, is the clear correlation that we found between fluorescence intensity and the amount of DAAN radicals generated by the ground-up polystyrene, as we had predicted,\" reports Prof Otsuka. \"This means that it is possible to estimate the amount of DAAN radicals generated in the bulk system just by measuring the fluorescence intensity.\"\n\nThe implications of their findings are wide-ranging: by being able to visually quantify how materials respond to different external stimuli, they can test how suitable polymers are for various uses, depending on the mechanical stress they will be expected to undergo. This method could prove to be an invaluable tool for scientists and engineers as they strive to improve material performance and specificity.\n\nThis exciting research this shine light on the responses of polymers to mechanical stress and illuminate the way forward in the research of polymer mechanoradicals!\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8951215147972107}
+{"content": "‘Very lucky’: Health care workers applaud seniors who beat COVID-19\n\nAcross the world, health care workers are showing their admiration for fortunate older individuals who have recovered from the novel coronavirus.\n\nAlbert Chambers, 99, could only say “thank you very much” after successfully recovering from the virus. The 99-year-old British WWII vet received applause on April 10 when being discharged from a hospital in Doncaster, England.\n\n\nAt Birmingham City Hospital in England, staff applauded Connie Titchen as she was discharged on April 15 after being treated for COVID-19. At 106 years old, Titchen is believed to be Britain’s oldest-surviving COVID-19 patient.\n\nIn Edinburgh, a Scottish man received accolades from health care staff after defeating COVID-19. Roger Street, 77, triumphantly pumped his fists while walking out of the hospital ward on April 10.\n\nEarlier in April, a 94-year-old woman named Maria received cheers from staff upon her recovery at a hospital in Sabadell, a city in Catalonia, Spain. \n\nThe triumphs of these older individuals have resonated with health care workers, but seniors still face a serious risk from the novel coronavirus.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that older adults, as well as people with underlying medical conditions, seem to be at a higher risk for developing serious and life-threatening COVID-19 complications.\n\nThe CDC recommends that older individuals follow necessary preventative measures, such as staying home when possible, washing hands frequently, and practicing social distancing.\n\nRELATED: COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped this grandpa and granddaughter from dancing together", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9984292387962341}
+{"content": "Harvest of Hope - Zoom Call with Martins from Global Hope Network Int'l on Vimeo.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic brought about regulations including: lockdowns, restricted travels, curfews, and limited movements inside the country. The number of food insecure people in Africa has increased by 135%. \n\nMany farmers have been unable to get to their farming locations because of the distance. Farmers found success in their planting but could not sell their produce due to the restrictions.  First, there were no vehicles to move the crops to the people. Second, there were no means of transporting the produce to the needed market. We also found that locusts are severely affecting food production and harvest in east Africa. Our goal is to help villagers overcome the food shortage by producing\nseeds that they can plant during the dry season since most of their crops were wasted during and\nafter harvest.\n\nUpdates from some of our Villages in Africa: \n\nThe Ethiopian government announced that every citizen should grow different vegetables and grains, even on small plots of land, to stave off food shortages due to the pandemic. It has been forecasted that the total production of grains and vegetables will decline. In an effort to help with the situation, the government has provided special seeds for the TCD program in Elala and Tuti villages. Also, our TCD Agriculture Committee has prepared the farms to be ready for seedlings. \n\nIn Didi Hara Village, Ethiopia,  the Agricultural Committee has been working hard to plant a variety of vegetables. Due to the virus, the government projects a shortage of farm production. They have encouraged the farmers to work hard and have provided them with a variety of seeds. Our agricultural groups have benefited from this, so they are continuing to work hard to increase food production.\n\nIn Marsabit Village, Kenya, village food security has suffered a great hit due to drought during the previous season, which was followed by heavy rainfall that caused serious flooding and then an invasion of locusts which destroyed crops and vegetation cover. Now with the Coronavirus pandemic, the situation and people’s lives are hugely challenged and strained. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen food security and nutritional outcomes. \n\nPlease consider donating to help us achieve our goal of seed purchase and\ndistribution to the farmers. Every donation will help overcome the food shortage.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999296247959137}
+{"content": "The Theme Of The American Dream In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby\n\n984 Words4 Pages\nWhat exactly is the American Dream? It is a tangible concept that is within the hearts of most Americans. It can also differ and change between whom is asked and where that person is at with their life. The idea of the American Dream has certainly changed between its first manifestation during the 1800s and today, but at the same time some of those dreams have stayed the same. The American Dream equals happiness and what makes a person happy has changed throughout time. “In the 1920s, it became the acquisition of material things. That was best exemplified by the novel The Great Gatsby. Its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, defined the aspirations of the age. At the same time, he warned that a pursuit of happiness driven by greed was not attainable.…show more content…\nIt shows how greed can take over a person’s ability to have a level head and make good and moral decisions. This harkens back to F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, in which Fitzgerald explores the themes of decay, idealism, and excess that can be described as a cautionary tale with regard to the American Dream. The American Dream can be used as a powerful theme because it is something that every American can relate to. No one is born into this life without wanting something for themselves. Nor do they go about their day without some type of driving force. People go through life to accomplish some type of goal and that can be different for every person. “The Declaration of Independence says nothing about any type of lifestyle. It does not define what that happiness should look like. Instead, it seeks to ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to pursue a personal vision. It also promotes faith in private free enterprise as a way to pursue that happiness” (Amadeo, 2017). The same ideals set forth by the Declaration of Independence is why so many seek to live within the United States. It is those same ideals that we continue on our daily lives. Our American Dream can be purchasing a home, purchasing a new vehicle with cash, or starting a small business. “The American dream altered. In the 19th century, it was focused on male success in the marketplace. With the rise of the consumer culture, ideals changed. Women were brought in, as companionate marriage, home ownership, and a successful domestic life with children became central in American life” (Fuchsman, 2016). It is a theme and an idea that does not have a limit. The great thing about it is that once a goal has been accomplished, it can be replaced by another goal, another form of a person’s American\nOpen Document", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9991599917411804}
+{"content": "COVID Triggers Blood Clots\n\n\nORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — Blood clots are a major problem for many patients with COVID-19. If you develop one, your disease becomes much more difficult to treat. In one recent study, 31 percent of COVID patients in the ICU had experienced complications related to blood clots. Now, researchers are discovering new insights about why the clots form.\n\nIf you have COVID-19, there’s a lot to worry about. Blood clots are one major concern for severely ill patients. In a person with the virus, these dangerous clots can cause a stroke, restrict blood flow in the lungs, and impair oxygen exchange.\n\n“We don’t really understand why it is happening,” explained Ivan Castro, MD, Internist.\n\nBut a new study offers some clues. Investigators found that half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were positive for at least one autoantibody. They believe certain autoantibodies in the blood attack cells and trigger clots in arteries, veins, and vessels. The next step is to test whether removing or blocking these antibodies could help protect against clots.\n\nYou can help prevent clots in general by avoiding smoking, staying active, and maintaining a healthy weight.\n\n“If you can defeat the virus, then the complications from the virus will resolve,” continued Dr. Castro.\n\nDoctor Castro emphasizes that wearing a mask, washing your hands often, and practicing social distancing are your best defenses.\n\nScientists say they also want to figure out why some people with COVID produce these antibodies and others do not. They’re also currently studying how long these antibodies remain in circulation after someone recovers from the COVID-19 virus.\n\nContributors to this news report include: Julie Marks, Producer; and Roque Correa, Editor\n\nREPORT #2816\n\nBACKGROUND: The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 attacks the body in many ways, ranging from mild to life-threatening. Different organs and tissues of the body can be affected, including the blood. Blood clots can form and cause problems to an infected individual. If a clot blocks blood flow in a vein or artery, the tissue normally nourished by that blood vessel can be deprived of oxygen, and cells in that area can die. “In some people with COVID-19, we’re seeing a massive inflammatory response, the cytokine storm that raises clotting factors in the blood,” says Panagis Galiatsatos, a specialist in lung diseases and critical care medicine at John Hopkins. In a study out of UC San Diego Health, 20 percent of the COVID-19 patients were found to have blood clots in the veins, and among patients in the intensive care unit, that statistic increased to 31 percent.\n\n(Source: and,in%20higher%20risk%20of%20death)\n\nTHE IMPACT OF BLOOD CLOTS WITH COVID: The concern for blood clots associated with COVID-19 is not only to the lungs. It can also harm other organs, for example, the nervous system. Blood clots in the arteries leading to the brain can cause a stroke. Some previously young, healthy people who have developed COVID-19 have suffered strokes, possibly due to abnormal blood clotting. The clogging of blood vessels in the kidney with blood clots can lead to kidney failure. It can also complicate dialysis if the clots clog the filter of the machine designed to remove impurities in the blood. Finally, small blood clots can become lodged in tiny blood vessels. When this happens close to the skin, it can result in a rash. Some people who test positive for COVID-19 develop tiny blood clots that cause reddish or purple areas on the toes, which can itch or be painful. Sometimes called “COVID toe”, the rash resembles frostbite.\n\n\nNEW TREATMENT POSSIBILITY: Robert Brodsky, a blood specialist who directs the Division of Hematology at Johns Hopkins, is studying the intense inflammation that occurs in some patients who have the coronavirus. The research is narrowing down a way to prevent the destructive organ damage that COVID-19 causes in some people. The team found that the spike protein on the coronavirus activates a part of the immune system known as complement and hijacks the body’s immune system and turns it against healthy tissue. Research showed that blocking the complement protein factor D could interrupt the cascade of events that lead to severe illness and organ damage. “What we discovered is how this coronavirus activates a series of reactions in the immune system that lead to inflammation and cell destruction,” Brodsky says. “Blocking this pathway can prevent that damage.” Other diseases affect the body using a similar pathway. Brodsky and his research team hope that medicines now in development to treat those conditions might help people with COVID-19.\n\n\n* For More Information, Contact:\n\nIvan Castro, MD\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9913982152938843}
+{"content": "They were very satisfied with the boy’s behavior and they reward him by changing his lifespan from 19 to 91 years. What is the tofu slang meaning in Chinese? Chinese Symbols & Their Meanings. This Chinese number 9 is also said to be traditionally associated with the Chinese emperor. Chinese good luck colors. Chinese character’s tattoos have been popular for many years thanks to the elegance of the characters. Symbols express these universal themes. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Lucky images and symbols are used to create an environment protected from illness, bad fortune and mishaps. The Fu symbol has been used since ancient times, and emperors used to wear it on amulets. These high-energy symbols can be displayed in your environment to show your vitality, and express your acceptance of luck and fortune into your life. The Chinese word 喜 (xǐ) symbolizes joy and happiness, and 鹊 (què) means Magpie. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Learn Chinese Online | TutorMandarin 2017, 2nd Floor, No. Find out why, and view beautiful dragon pictures on this page. It’s a norm in China to display this symbol on the front door, although, you might notice that it is sometimes hung or painted in an upside-down style. The boy did what the fortune teller told him. Needless to say, they received a handsome salary that others could only dream of. This is how the Shou symbol came to represent longevity. In this section we feature some common chinese symbols and their meanings. The De symbol is made by combining the ‘chi’ radical with a group of other basic Chinese characters such as ‘yi,’ ‘xin,’ and ‘shi.’ Chi represents a step, while the other radicals ‘yi,’ ‘xin,’ and ‘shi’ denote one, heart, and perfection respectively. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. [wikipedia], Longevity – Shòu – 寿Chinese symbol for longevity. Magpie in Chinese is 喜鹊 (xǐ què) . The Emperor found out about the villager during his visit to the village and he was very fond of being served by people shorter than him. This is because it symbolizes good luck. Chinese New Year is linked with the Chinese zodiac symbols. Legend has it that during the times of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, a family insulted his wife, Empress Ma. It presents peace and safety. The Shou symbol was adopted from shouxing, the Chinese name for the Star God, Canopus, who is believed to determine the ages of all living beings after their birth. As you may already know, good in Chinese expression is 好, so good luck is 好运. In summary, whether you believe the above to be just some Chinese superstitions or Chinese symbolism, one thing is for sure, they are deeply rooted into the Chinese culture and Chinese values. in Chinese beliefs. Number 5 represents the 5 elements and thus is a good luck number in Chinese beliefs. The Chinese believe that positive symbols will bring positive results. Top 10 Chinese phrases or Chinese expressions for dating in Chinese. One of the famous legends was that he was the Prince of Fen-yang Wang and also one of the most honored generals. Ren is exemplified by a normal adult’s protective feelings for children. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. This is contrary to the culture in the West. This is a very famous and common decoration for Chinese weddings. If apple is one of them, you are lucky. Symbols and signs have graced their architecture, language, artwork, and everyday objects for centuries. However, in Chinese culture, especially Chinese feng shui, bats are symbol for wealth because the Chinese translation for bats is 蝙蝠 (biān fú) . Chinese view bamboo as a symbol of traditional Chinese values. Check out a few common yet powerful Chinese symbols for luck on this post. In this blog, I’ve explained the four most common and famous Chinese symbols that you can see in everyday Chinese people lives together with their usage and the stories behind them.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993118047714233}
+{"content": "Automation insights and productivity tips from LEAPWORK.\n\nAll Posts\n\nTest Automation Tools for Mainframe Applications: What To Look For\n\nTest automation for mainframes can be used to reduce risk and increase the efficiency of testing, allowing major organizations to deliver quality at speed. But how can you automate with only limited mainframe experts and resources and still achieve the desired advantages of test automation? Read on to find out. \n\nAlthough mainframes have been around for years, they are still used by many of the world’s largest banks, insurers and other BFSI enterprises that rely on their complex processing capabilities and efficient data storage. \n\nMainframes are also highly reliable, scalable, and have an unmatched ability to support high volumes of transactions and data. This allows BFSI organizations to process billions of highly sensitive business transactions per day, such as stock trades, money transfers and credit card transactions.\n\nMainframes are incredibly reliable because they don’t go through much change in comparison to other systems. This strength is, however, arguably also their weakness. Because, while the systems haven’t changed for 20-30 years, neither have the processes for testing and developing them.\n\nGet the guide: Learn how to overcome common challenges in mainframe testing to achieve efficient, low-risk, and low-cost operations.\n\nMatching the pace of development\n\nThe problem is, although mainframes haven’t changed, the way we do business has. And that’s a lot faster than it was 20-30 years ago.\n\nIn other words, the speed at which development must take place today doesn’t match the practices that have traditionally gone hand in hand with mainframe development. As a consequence, mainframe development isn’t moving at a pace that satisfies modern consumers.\n\nWhat’s more, the systems that mainframes form have evolved significantly over time. For this reason, a complex mix of integrated, connected platforms, technologies and systems now shape part of the constellation, meaning that there hasn’t just been a shift in the need for faster testing, but also for more testing. \n\nA need to modernize the approach to mainframe development and testing has thereby emerged.\n\nThe question is how to unify the need for quality at speed with limited time and resources. For this, you’ll need test automation and the right test automation tool (that won’t drain your team for time and resources).\n\nWhy test automation?\n\nAlthough mainframes have been around for many years, the technology does not prohibit the use of modern methodologies such as agile and DevOps. On the contrary, these approaches are arguably an essential ingredient in keeping mainframes reliable and scalable.\n\nAgile typically involves testing more and earlier, which is important particularly to BFSI businesses to whom defective code can be extremely costly and put business continuity and data security at risk.\n\nDespite this, there has been a tendency in mainframe testing to wait to test until the very end, when all the code is done, and to follow a waterfall approach to releasing, instead of an agile one.\n\nBy shifting towards a more modern testing approach, where testing takes place earlier and more frequently in the release cycle, the number of defects found at the end of the cycle is lowered, which in turn lowers costs and reduces risk - something that is imperative during an economic downturn.\n\nShift left testing is such an approach, and goes hand in hand with DevOps and agile methodologies. Shift left testing involves testing earlier, or, as the name implies, shifting testing to the left on the project timeline.\n\nWith shift left testing comes the need for test automation, as it effectively helps teams increase the frequency and speed of tests, test earlier, move faster, become more agile, and scale while lowering risk.\n\nTo many, however, testing earlier and test automation don’t go hand in hand. \n\nThe test automation paradox\n\nThis is because test automation in many cases requires your tests to be complete, in order for you to start setting up automation. It’s also something that in many cases takes long and requires resources many teams just don’t have. This is what we also call the Test Automation Paradox.\n\nBut test automation is possible without spending vast amounts of time and resources - it just requires the right tool (which we’ll get to at the end of this blog post).\n\nWith the right tool it becomes possible to move away from tedious, error-prone manual testing and towards efficient and accurate automated tests. The quality of tests can also be improved, because testers are freed up to do exploratory testing and to improve test design, rather than spending most of their hours on manual testing.\n\nIn sum then, with an agile approach that integrates test automation as a part of the release cycle in mainframe development, businesses can achieve:\n\n  • Faster release cycles\n  • Greater agility\n  • Scalability\n  • Lowered risk\n  • Higher efficiency\n  • Reduced costs\n\nRisks of not automating mainframe testing, on the other hand, include:\n\n  • Defects are found later in development, or worse, in production use\n  • Inefficient release cycles with bottlenecks and developer dependency\n  • Unstable performance in applications  \n  • Security vulnerabilities\n\nHow to find the right test automation tool for mainframe\n\nAlthough the benefits of modernization and test automation are clear to many, the transition can still be a challenge and introduce many bumps on the road to teams that have been following the same procedures for decades. \n\nThere are a number of things that these teams can do to ensure a smooth transition to a more modern mainframe testing approach that includes test automation.\n\nOne of the most important things to consider is which test automation platform you will use, as this will shape your transitioning, as well as how team member’s time and skills are distributed to achieve the most efficient and lean mainframe development model.\n\nA test automation tool for mainframe should therefore have the following capabilities:\n\nCross-technology capabilities\n\nThe first thing to consider in this respect is cross-technology capabilities. Mainframes are rarely a stand-alone system; they are typically integrated and connected with multiple other platforms and technologies that together deliver business-critical value for the enterprise.\n\nA good testing tool is therefore one that lets teams do end-to-end testing across technologies, and allows seamless integration, while providing testing teams with a centralized overview of when and where bugs occur.\n\n\nWhen the tool is also codeless, building tests becomes a lot faster, and the maintenance burden lower, as both technical and non-technical team members, mainframe developers and non-mainframe developers, are empowered to create and update tests.\n\nAs a result, teams become less dependent on mainframe developers (which are a scarce resource, and needed for actual mainframe development), allowing teams to flow through bottlenecks. For enterprises, this also introduces a level of scalability not possible with a tool that requires coding.\n\nParticularly now, when we have entered a new normal where businesses - small and large - are forced to do more with less, ensuring that resources are leveraged efficiently is key.\n\nAs personnel with mainframe development experience are typically scarce, their time shouldn’t be spent on needless test coding. By introducing a codeless testing tool, testers can be the ones to set up and execute tests. In this way, resources are optimized, and businesses can move through release cycles with higher speed and lower risk.\n\nLEAPWORK: A no-code mainframe test automation tool\n\nWhen you have the right people and process in place for your mainframe development and testing pipeline, the cycle time can be shortened, errors can be reduced, and quality can be delivered faster than ever before.\n\nLEAPWORK’s no-code automation platform for mainframe testing enables enterprises to set up automation flows with ease. The platform offers a simple user interface without compromising functionality, meaning you can use LEAPWORK to automate across multiple technologies without spending needless time on coding and maintenance.\n\nThis means easy mainframe test automation that gives an early return on investment.\n\nLearn more about no-code test automation in our webinar.\n\nJoin our webinar\n\nMaria Homann\nMaria Homann\nContent Marketing Manager\n\nRelated Posts\n\nHow to Overcome Challenges in Cross-Platform Testing\n\nWith more businesses on the web, or moving to the web, it’s not often you see new desktop application releases. But the fact remains - many companies rely on a complicated web of desktop applications, web applications and legacy systems to perform business critical processes.\n\nAI in Test Automation: 4 Types of AI that you’ll come across in 2021\n\nAI has, once again, been mentioned as a key technology trend for the year ahead. But what does this mean for test automation? In this post, we break down key terms and explain how QA can benefit from these technologies in 2021 and onwards.\n\nHow to Automate Mobile Web Testing with Codeless Selenium\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8365482687950134}
+{"content": "My Approach\n\nI strive to meet you exactly where you are.\n\nBuilding a relationship grounded in safety and trust, embedded in empathy and humour. To me, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to Counselling. People are unique and so are their stories, backgrounds and journeys through life.\n\nI work holistically because I honour the interconnectedness and interaction of body and mind. This allows me to use different therapy models and techniques depending on your needs. I combine elements of trauma sensitive yoga and somatic experiencing with talk therapy. I often weave mindfulness practices into the sessions and I am trained in EMDR.\n\nMy work is person-centered, but we are not isolated entities. I see us deeply influenced and shaped by our environments, families and communities which contribute to our entire being and I honour that in my work.\n\nMy counselling sessions open a space for you to slow down, so that you can reclaime an inner state of calm and clearity. They open a space for you to feel heard, seen and acknowledged, so that you may uncover the stress you carry and become curious about the parts of yourself that, doubt, hurt, disassociate, overwork, engage in negative self-talk, feel stuck or undergo intense emotions.\n\nThe sessions are an invitation to listen and drop into your body, so that you can reconnect with its innate intelligence and wisdom.\n\nI´d be honoured to offer guidance and support along your journey but it is not without your dedication, commitment and willingness to do the inner work that is necessary. My work is designed to empower to get curious and courageous to look beneath the surface. So that whatever is there can be seen, illuminated and healed.\n\nI provide my counselling services in both German and English.\n\nIf you have questions or you want to schedule a free phone consultation please contact me.\n\nI would love to hear from you!\n\n\n\"Before I began working with Lisa I was dealing with a few really big life challenges in both work and personal life and I often struggled with overwhelm and feeling stuck and alone with it all. Without Lisa's support I would have really struggled to cope and stay strong throughout it all.\n\nAfter each session with Lisa I felt so much lighter and had so much clarity about how to take care of myself during tricky situations / periods and navigate through them. The most valuable thing for me was to be able to talk to Lisa consistently for a number of months. I knew I had solid support from her the entire time, feelings of overwhelm and loneliness (and feeling weird because of it!) really transformed over that time. Now I feel acceptance and compassion for myself, I'm able to stay open to experiences and know that I'll be able to handle anything that comes up rather than trying to pre-plan all the ways it could go wrong, I enjoy spending time with myself and doing things that make me feel good...guilt-free, which is so freeing! I feel resilient and know that at this point I'm going from strength to strength, for that I'm very grateful for how far I've come with Lisa's help.\n\nI would definitely recommend Lisa to others! She's a good listener and full of wisdom, about everything! You'll be able to tell her anything and she will be your support, guide, teacher and friend. Trust in her and in the process, trust that you'll shift into a completely new place by the end of it. The fears and resistance you have now is your foundation to transform. From the many things that stands out to me, one thing was how Lisa made me feel there's nothing weird about feeling weird, everyone feels it. By working with Lisa and trusting in the process, you'll release that heaviness that's keeping you down and move on from it with ease.\" - B. Iqbal\n\n  • Facebook\n  • Instagram\n\ncontent & photos @ Lisa Mikosch 2021", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9710102677345276}
+{"content": "After the election, &c.\n\nSen. Lindsey Graham speaks at his Election Night party in Columbia, S.C., November 3, 2020. (Sam Wolfe / Reuters)\nOn the GOP, the Electoral College, Mark Esper, the Olympics, music, language, and more\n\nNRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE R epublicans used to joke — maybe they still do — that whenever a Republican was elected, the Democrats rediscovered a homelessness problem. When a Democrat was in charge, you did not hear much about homelessness. But when a Republican got in, homelessness, as an issue, was back.\n\nWhat issues or principles or values might Republicans rediscover when a Democrat is again president? A list of possible rediscoveries:\n\nFiscal responsibility. Personal responsibility. The need for entitlement reform. The benefits of international trade. The need for democratic alliances. The importance of U.S. leadership in the world. Realism about the Kremlin. Disapproval of dictators. The", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5417373180389404}
+{"content": "I am a researcher who studies the broad and interdisciplinary fields of planetary science and astrobiology. Astrobiology is a relatively new field of study which focuses on the origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe (including on Earth!). My focus is on the past and present habitability of Mars through which I use atmospheric modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), laboratory experiments, and field work. I also occasionally branch out and collaborate on exoplanetary (planets outside our solar system) studies.  \n\nWater on Past Mars\n\nMars today is too cold and too dry to sustain liquid water on its surface, but that wasn't always the case. From studying the surface geology we know there was liquid water billions of years ago; but we don't know how much or for how long it lasted. \n\nMy research examines the northern plains of Mars to determine the history of liquid water there. Many believe that there may have been a vast ocean created by catastrophic floods. Using old and new techniques, I am investigating the geology of proposed ancient shorelines and the distributions of boulders and craters to study the past processes that may have shaped the geology we see today. \n\nOur 3D Image of Potential Martian Shorelines\n\nAtmospheric Chemistry\n\nSulfur cycle on past Mars from volcanism.\n\nMars' atmosphere is very thin compared to the Earth's and is mostly carbon dioxide. However, it has evolved over time and plays an important role in understanding the habitability of past and present Mars. Under certain conditions the atmosphere can act as a sort of factory to help create the building blocks to life. Other times, it is able to provide a source of energy for living microbes. \n\nWe use an atmospheric model to test the affects of certain sources and sinks of atmospheric gases on the overall redox chemistry of the atmosphere. For example: volcanic eruptions are a great source of sulfuric gases, certain geological reactions can produce methane, and hypothetical subsurface life could potentially eat up carbon monoxide. \n\nPlanetary Spatial Science\n\nA lot of my data-driven work focuses on developing and implementing new tools for quantifying the surfaces of planets (including the Earth!). For example, the size, frequency, and spatial distribution of boulders on the surface can tell us a lot about the processes that placed and modified the boulders on the surface. \n\nWe use a variety of tools such as ground and aerial LiDAR (lasers!), geographic information systems (e.g. ArcGIS and JMARS), and our own developed MATLAB and Python tools. These methods are used for detecting specific landforms (e.g. shorelines), measuring spatial distributions of features (e.g. boulders), and developing automated algorithms for measuring surface properties. \n\nLiDAR Point Cloud with Removed Vegetation\n\n\nThe Sholesonian\n\nMy Online Museum\n\n© 2021 Steven F. Sholes.\n\n  • Icon_Email\n  • Icon_CV\n  • Twitter Clean Grey\n  • LinkedIn Clean Grey\n  • google_scholar_round-150x150", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.896052896976471}
+{"content": "Payslips or bank statements no longer necessary when applying for credit\n\nLast Updated On May 06, 2020\n\nWe have all learned to accept that when you apply for credit, you are required to provide your payslips and bank statements as proof of income.  But what do you do when you do not have a bank account or payslips?  In many instances, small business owners like informal traders, freelancers, and self-employed consumers, are refused retail accounts due to the fact that they do not have a bank account or payslips.  The main reason for this is that a credit provider may be refused judgment when a consumer fails to repay the money and it appears that the credit provider did not comply with the regulations of the National Credit Act (hereafter referred to as “NCA”) and failed to obtain a bank statement or payslip.\n\nAffordability assessments have always been a requirement of the NCA, but credit providers were allowed to determine the manner in which they conduct the assessment.  During March 2015, new regulations to the Act were promulgated, which introduced strict criteria to be followed when conducting the assessments, one of which were that documentary proof of income in the form of three months’ payslips or bank statements had to be obtained.\n\nRecently, clothing retailers Truworths, Foschini and Mr. Price, approached the Western Cape High Court to challenge this prerequisite for credit applications.  The court found that it is discriminatory to demand proof of income in the form of only bank statements or payslips, as it excludes many consumers, who could easily pay off credit instalments.\n\nThe court used an example of a flower seller who wants to apply for credit to pay for her child’s school uniform, but does not have a bank account.  The court stated that it is unlikely that such a person would have financial statements, which meant she would have been prevented from obtaining a small amount of credit, even if she was earning a reasonable amount each month.\n\nIt is important to note that the ruling does not affect a retailer’s obligation to conduct a fair and objective affordability assessment. A credit provider still needs to properly evaluate the application to ensure that the consumer is not over-indebted and will be able to afford the repayment.  It merely removes the obligation to demand payslips and bank statements as proof of income in certain cases. \n\nThe judgment was welcomed by credit providers all over the country.\n\nWaldette Grey, Van Velden-Duffey Inc.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9942312836647034}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Happens If I Uninstall Google Authenticator?\n\nHow do I uninstall Google Authenticator?\n\nI am using an android smartphone.\n\nRe: Google Authenticator: How to remove entries on the app?.\n\nClick on the pencil, top left.\n\nthen tick the one that you want to delete, and press Delete at the bottom..\n\nHow do I get a Google Authenticator secret key?\n\nThe server and Google Authenticator both know the same secret key and based on it they generate the same OTPs. You can enter it manually or scan the QR code where the secret key is encrypted. So if Google Authenticator requires the secret key you should just scan the QR code from the service you would like to protect.\n\nWhy you should never use Google Authenticator?\n\nAccording to a recent report from Nightwatch Cybersecurity, Google’s Authenticator app for Android comes with an unfixed issue that can create a big security nightmare if you have any malware or otherwise shifty apps installed on your device.\n\nIs it safe to use Google Authenticator?\n\nUsing an authenticator app for two-factor beats SMS, but it’s still not the absolute most secure way to go. … If you’re an activist, journalist, or other potential target of attacks, Google Advanced Protection is the most secure option around. As with so many things, it’s a matter of balancing security and convenience.\n\nHow do I bypass Google 2 step verification?\n\nTL;DR – An attacker can bypass Google’s two-step login verification, reset a user’s master password, and otherwise gain full account control, simply by capturing a user’s application-specific password (ASP).\n\nCan Google Authenticator be backed up?\n\nTitanium Backup (link to Google play store) will backup any android app, including Google Authenticator. However, you must root your phone for this to be a viable option. I would also recommend printing the Google backup codes too.\n\nHow do I restore my Google Authenticator backup codes?\n\nTo do that, you must log into your Google account, and then go to the Google 2FA site, where you’ll be prompted to log in once again. Upon successful authentication, you’ll see an entry for Backup codes. Click the SHOW CODES button (Figure A). Retrieving your Google 2FA codes.\n\nWhat happens if you lose Google Authenticator?\n\nIf you have lost or your phone was stolen, anyone may now generate new tokens using your Google Authenticator app. Yes, they are useless without the password but don`t take the risk and reset the Authenticator App in your Google Account 2-Step Verification settings.\n\nWhat happens to Google Authenticator when you get a new phone?\n\nIf you’ve used Google Authenticator before and recently got a new phone, you’ll need to move the Google Authenticator app to your new phone so that it can be used for two-step authentication.\n\nCan I have Google Authenticator on two phones?\n\nUse Google Authenticator with multiple accounts or devices Google Authenticator can issue codes for multiple accounts from the same mobile device. Each Google Account needs a different secret key. To set up extra accounts: … Use the same Google Authenticator app.\n\nCan Google Authenticator be hacked?\n\nSecurity researchers say that an Android malware strain can now extract and steal one-time passcodes (OTP) generated through Google Authenticator, a mobile app that’s used as a two-factor authentication (2FA) layer for many online accounts. Google launched the Authenticator mobile app in 2010.\n\nWhat can I use Google Authenticator for?\n\nUse Google Authenticator to securely login to non-Google sites. With two-step authentication enabled, you’ll be prompted to enter a six-digit number after you provide your username and password. Google’s two-step authentication helps you restrict access to your accounts.\n\nHow do I restore my Google Authenticator to a new phone?\n\nOpen Google’s 2-Step Verification page in a browser and log into your Google account when it asks you. In the “Authenticator app” section of the page, click “Change Phone.” Choose the kind of phone you are migrating to and click “Next.” You should now see the “Set up Authenticator” screen, complete with barcode.\n\nHow do I restore my Google Authenticator without a key?\n\nWhere Do I Find My Lost Google Authenticator key?What is Google Authenticator?How do I use it?What if I lose my Google Authenticator key?Use a backup phone. If you have a backup phone listed Google can send the codes to it in the event you lost your main one.Sign in from your computer. … Get a new phone. … Fill out an account recovery form.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5508711338043213}
+{"content": "But in a nearby school district, the NAACP is investigating complaints of racial harassment against black students. It's akin to ignorance, or a lack of knowledge, experience or education.It's something that should not be tolerated, as we all strive for betterment and higher learning.\n\nDiscrimination includes… This article discusses theories of prejudice and how they inform an understanding of bullying, conflict, and violence in schools. Prejudice often leads to discrimination and can drastically affect a person's well being. Types of prejudice found in modern society include those related to sex, gender, race, nationality, ethnicity, class, religion, disability and language. ... Nowadays, because people travel a lot, or go to live in a completely different country, or go to school with lots of people from different places, we should learn to respect each other's differences.\n\n25 Examples of Outstanding Prejudice He prejudice Is a negative attitude towards a community or towards an individual based on preconceived ideas, stereotypes and preferences. Prejudices are pre-formed and have no reasonable basis. Evidence-based prejudice reduction approaches are presented that teachers and school administrators can use to improve school culture and climate. Prejudices can be very common - in fact, everyone has a prejudice in their lifetime. Extreme Prejudice Examples In military operations, or other covert operations, to act with “extreme prejudice” means to assassinate someone. Prejudice is an idea or opinion that disregards basic facts. In the modern world, there is a direct link between prejudice and discrimination. Examples of prejudice found in modern society are the common assumptions that African Americans have greater inborn rhythmic abilities and a thicker skull, as noted in a 1995 psychology study. Look up the word “prejudice” in two dictionaries and find out what it means. prejudice definition: 1. an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or….\n\nPrejudice Prejudice can be caused by fear of the unknown, or by fear of something different. Prejudice (say pre-joo-dis) is a word that means judging someone or having an idea about them before you actually know anything about them. However, … Prejudice is defined as the unjustified negative attitudes that some people hold against others of a certain group of people. Here is a simple definition to help you: an unreasonable dislike of something or someone Write down your own meaning of prejudice.\n\nLearn more. Prejudice can include attitudes such as sexism, racism, homophobia, and religious persecution. The prejudices are not objective and do not involve any type of reasoning; In fact, … My own 2001-03 anthropological study of students of Mexican descent in a central California high school revealed several racial and ethnic conflicts. The meaning of the term was initially brought to public light in reports of an incident during the Vietnam War known as the Green Beret Affair. Examples of prejudice in schools include excluding students from activities and social groups due to religious beliefs, race, gender or sexual orientation; judging others based on stereotypes; and bullying students due to academic performance or beliefs. 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+{"content": "Home |  Contact UsSitemap\n\n\nKhumo Theko\n\nFuturist Profile\n\n\nKhumo Theko\n\nTrend Spotter: I See Africa\n\nBA in fashion design with Trend Analysis as one of my main subjects.\n\nKhumo answered a few questions about her perspective and on being a futures thinker.\n\n\nYou identify yourself as an African futures thinker or practitioner. How would you describe to the woman or man on the street what it is that you do in this regard?\n\nI unpack the innovations, changes taking place in the creative or knowledge industries in Africa. The aim for this is to inform the everyday person, businesses and researchers on the opportunities, challenges and solutions occurring in the continent.\n\nHow many years have you worked as an African futures thinker / practitioner?\n\nIn terms of researching it has been close to 4 years, the online platform where we distribute some of the findings has been active for a year.\n\nIn which countries or places have you had working experience as an African futures thinker / practitioner?\n\nCurrently it is in South Africa as we are still starting out, the aim is to touch various parts of the continent.\n\nIn what languages have you undertaken futures / foresight related work or research?\n\nThus far in English\n\nWhat is it that motivates you to work or participate in the foresight / future studies / related field\n\nI truly believe that there is a lot we as Africans can learn from each other. The ability to inform people about what’s happening in their region or country provides one with options, sparks ideas to challenges they face.\n\nWhat goal/s would you most like to reach with your work as an African futures thinker / practitioner?\n\nMy aim is to create an organisation that is one of the go to places with regards to information on what is occurring in the creative and knowledge economy in Africa. I want to be part of the people talking to decision makers, heads of state, AU delegates and advising them on how best to create solutions to provide better options for Africans.\n\nWho or what most influenced your thinking as a futures thinker / practitioner, and how?\n\nMy former lecturer Elizebeth Croser, encouraged me to look at trends beyond the glits and glamour and to recognise the impact they play in various industries. She also encouraged me to be the solution or find the solution to the opportunities I was seeing.\n\nWhat is your main disciplinary background? (i.e. your primary training / qualification)\n\nI have a BA in fashion design with Trend Analysis as one of my main subjects.\n\nHow do other people describe you and how do you describe yourself?\n\nOthers describe me as ambitions\n\nI describe myself as a learner.\n\n\n\nWhat is one of your favourite quotes about the future?\n\n“The future belongs to those that create it today” – Martin Luther King.\n\nHow would you describe the state of African futures thinking right now?\n\nIt’s a boiling pot of young innovators, thinkers and creative solutionists. Given the correct guidance and opportunity Africa could receive a good serving of positive change. If not handled with deliberate direction the continents youth will be a challenge to cope with.\n\nWhat is, in your opinion, the main barrier to uptake of futures knowledge by African institutions and organisations?\n\nInstitutions tend to encourage the call for global change makers, so they naturally look at what the world is doing and find comfort in futurist’s insights from countries abroad. However if they were to promote creating African solutions that would positively impact the world there would be a much greater appreciation for African futurists knowledge as much of this information is not easily available nor promoted.\n\nIf you were to give advice to someone who wants a career in African foresight / future studies, what would you say to him or her?\n\nFind a topic, theme, concept that you want to promote, change or bring attention to and run with it. The more research, conversation and writing we have about what is happening and going to happening in Africa the better options we will be able to create.\n\nWhat are your recommendations for other favourite futures resources: websites, newsfeeds, mailing lists, associations, etc.?\n\nDon’t know about future resources but these are some sites I go to ,that tend to direct my research.\n\n\n\nShare your Profile\n\n\nProfile Archive\n\n\nnew-sampnode-logo rockefeller-logo-footer-new\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8047484159469604}
+{"content": "Angeliki Simossi\n\n  • Two newly-found wrecks are Mediterranean's deepest\n\n    Shipwrecks... Deep\n\n    From The Associated Press\n\n    Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday.\n\n    Greece's culture ministry said the two third-century wrecks were discovered earlier this month during a survey of an area where a Greek-Italian gas pipeline is to be sunk. They lay between 1.2 and 1.4 kilometres (0.7-0.9 miles) deep in the sea between Corfu and Italy.\n\n    That would place them among the deepest known ancient wrecks in the Mediterranean, apart from remains found in 1999 of an older vessel some 3 kilometres (1.8 miles) deep off Cyprus.\n\n    Angeliki Simossi, head of Greece's underwater antiquities department, said sunken ancient ships are generally found 30-40 metres (100-130 feet) deep.\n\n    Most scholars believe that ancient traders were unwilling to veer far offshore, unlike warships which were unburdened by ballast and cargo.\n\n    \"There are many Roman shipwrecks, but these are in deep waters. They were not sailing close to the coast,\" Simossi said.\n\n    \"The conventional theory was that, as these were small vessels up to 25 metres (80 feet) long, they did not have the capacity to navigate far from the coast, so that if there was a wreck they would be close enough to the coast to save the crew,\" she said.\n\n    U.S. archaeologist Brendan Foley, who was not involved in the project, said a series of ancient wrecks located far from land over the past 15 years has forced experts to reconsider the coast-hugging theory.\n\n    \"The Ministry of Culture's latest discoveries are crucial hard data showing the actual patterns of ancient seafaring and commerce,\" said Foley, a deep water archaeology expert at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.\n\n    Jeffrey Royal, director of the Key West, Florida, based RPM Nautical Foundation, said that in many cases -- as when winds threatened to push ships onto rocks -- ancient mariners made a conscious effort to avoid coastal waters.\n\n    Royal, whose foundation has carried out a series of Mediterranean underwater projects, said the depth of such finds is immaterial from an archaeological standpoint.\n\n    Full story...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7902573943138123}
+{"content": "Salamis Tablet - Journal of Computer History\n\n\nGeorge Stibitz and the Bell Laboratories Relay Computers\n\nIn 1937 mathematician and researcher George Stibitz \"liberated some relays from a scrap pile at Bell Telephone Laboratories\" where he worked and took them home to experiment with a personal project. Over the weekend he assembled what is generally believed to be the first binary adder circuit. The project was built in classic tinkerer style. Along with two of the relays, he fashioned two input switches out of metal cut from a tobacco tin and used two flashlight bulbs as outputs. The entire circuit was mounted to a wooden board.\n\nOver the next decade, propelled by Stibitz' innovations in digital design, Bell Laboratories would be a significant force in the development of computer technology, producing a series of increasingly capable computers driven by electromagnetic relays.\n\nBell Laboratories in the 1920s and 1930s was an incubator for the advancement of switching technology. Under the combined ownership of the Western Electric Company and the American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T), Bell Laboratories provided research and development for the United States' maturing nationwide telecommunications network. The engineers who designed and maintained the system operated within a private world, working with technologies that few outside the Lab had use for, and speaking a language of their own.\n\nTo handle the routing of calls, the network used what was called the panel machine switching system. The concepts behind the panel system were largely unique to the telephone network. The system relied heavily on relays which were configured as complex digital logic circuits, although the term \"digital logic\" had yet to be coined.\n\nA number of the techniques they developed map directly to the basic requirements of an electronic computer. The system had the ability to store and retrieve numbers using banks of relays. The panel system also freely converted among numbering systems in order to more efficiently handle data. A number entered into the system in the human-friendly base 10 (decimal), might be converted into base 2 (binary), base 4 or base 5 during operation, only to be converted back to decimal again to be displayed to human operators.\n\nThrough the lens of history, it can seem surprising that with so many pieces of the puzzle already in place, Bell Laboratories did not move earlier to designing and building computers. In the pragmatic, business driven environment, it appears that no one found the idea interesting enough to pursue. The prime and perhaps only true mission was to sustain and expand the telephone system, and a complex, expensive calculator didn't seem to have a place in that vision. As computing pioneer Ernest Andrews would recount years later:\n\n\"In brief, then, many of the more important computer operations and concepts were, in the 1920s and 1930s, already incorporated into the panel switch system, and, as the value of the new circuits was recognized, into other systems as well. It might be asked, therefore, why automatic digital computers were not developed simultaneously. In the period from 1925, for example, this writer heard many of his colleagues say with firm conviction that relay circuit techniques could be used to carry out arithmetical operations commonly performed with desk-type adding machines. The reasons are the traditional ones of economics and failure to see a compelling need. But more importantly, no one had taken the initiative to make a thorough study of all aspects of such a project.\"\n\nIt was against this backdrop that when Stibitz first brought his binary adder into the lab to demonstrate to his colleagues, they were \"more amused than impressed with some visions of a binary computer industry.\" Nonetheless, he continued to explore the concepts of binary, electronic computation as a side project and prepared the plans for a complete and functional machine.\n\nA barrier to getting a project funded for the building of a relay calculator was the fact that the mechanical adding machines of the day worked pretty well. Bell Labs needed quite a bit of number crunching as part of their R&D efforts, but these needs were addressed by a room full of workers who would complete the needed calculations using standard mechanical adders. (The mathematics staff are somewhat jarringly referred to as \"the girls\" in contemporary accounts.) The prospect of spending many thousands of dollars to build a machine consisting of hundreds of relays and other components was a tough sell when the current system appeared to be efficiently meeting the needs of the engineers.\n\nAs it happened however, there was one particular requirement that was giving the team more trouble than usual. Engineers working on filter and amplifier circuits were performing calculations on complex numbers: two-part numbers made up of both the amplitude and phase of a signal. A characteristic of these complex number calculations was that there were significantly more intermediate totals that needed to be written down and re-entered when using the adding machines. Stibitz was approached by the chief of the mathematics department regarding the problem of complex numbers, and it was quickly apparent that his design concept for a calculator was well suited to tackle the equations. With an actual solution to an actual problem identified, leadership at Bell Labs finally agreed to fund development of the first relay calculator.\n\nThe project was placed under the leadership of a veteran Bell Labs engineer, Samuel Williams, and the two men set to work refining Stibitz' concepts for the special purpose of complex number calculations. To simplify the conversion between decimal and binary, Stibitz developed a system known and used today as binary coded decimal (BCD) in which each decimal digit is represented by four binary bits. The machine used two calculator units running in parallel which provided for the simultaneous processing of the two components of the complex number. The calculator used standard and familiar telephony equipment. Workstations were made by combining two 10-key push button keyboards and a commercially available teletypewriter was used for output. The system would ultimately have three of the keyboard work stations running with a control mechanism that ensured \"first come, first served\" operation.\n\nThe calculator was completed in October 1939. In January 1940, test and debugging was finished and the calculator was put to work at a Bell Laboratories facility in New York City. In September of that year, the machine, then called the Complex Calculator, was the subject of a somewhat famous demonstration for the American Mathematical Society held at Dartmouth College. For the demonstration a remote link was established. Problems were entered into a terminal at Dartmouth, transmitted to the New York office where the solution was calculated, and then transmitted back to Dartmouth where the answer printed on a teletype. Attendees were even invited to submit their own problems to be solved.\n\nThe Complex Calculator would come to be known as Model I. It operated productively at Bell Labs until 1949.\n\nWhen the United States entered World War II, Stibitz was loaned to the National Defense Research Committee (NRDC) where he consulted on a number of control projects including anti-aircraft and other ballistics computation while continuing to work closely with Bell Labs. During this time, he continued to develop and enhance the machines while adapting them to other uses.\n\nWith Model II, which came online in September 1943, the use of paper tape was introduced. The tape system featured five-hole codes for a machine language level programming of the device with such commands as \"transfer from register B to adder, \"read data\" and \"punch.\"\n\nStibitz described the operation of Model II years later in a 1967 Datamation article:\n\n\"It was exciting and a bit weird to watch this interpolator go about its work sans human boss: days, nights, Sundays and holidays. This was a year before Mark I was formally demonstrated, and the use of teletype tapes and readers, under the control of an impersonal back of relays, was new. At the time it seemed to us we had a highly intelligent machine - the first programmable computer. It could call for the next program step from one tape and the next data from another at exactly the right instant, and detect any extra holes worn in the tape by repeated runs.\"\n\nStibitz and Bell Labs continued developing the relay computer through the war years and beyond. The last Stibitz machine was the Model V (there were actually two Model Vs produced) that was delivered to the Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, Maryland in 1947. The Model V had more the 9,000 relays, used paper tape to store both program and data, and had two calculator units that could operate either independently on separate problems or be combined for more intensive calculations. Bell Labs would produce one final relay computer, the Model VI, in 1950 after Stibitz had left the organization and begun independent consulting.\n\n\nStibitz, George R. as told to Mrs. Evelyn Loveday, \"The Relay Computers at Bell Labs,\" Datamation 13, no. 4 (April 1967)0: 35-44, and no. 5 (May 1967): 48-53\n\nAndrews, E.G., Telephone Switching and the Early Bell Laboratories Computers., Bell System Technical Journal, 42: 2. March 1963 pp 341-353.\n\nChapuis, Robert J, & Joel, A.E. Jr., 100 Years of Telephone Switching, Part 2., IOS Press, 2003\n\nIfrah, Georges (2001). The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-39671-0.\n\nOther Articles in the Series:\n\nThe Antikythera Mechanism and the History of Clockwork\n\nThe Vacuum Tube in Computer History\n\nFrom Boole to Bits - Claude Shannon's Digital Revolution\n\nGrace Hopper - Matriarch of Programming\n\nSCELBI, Altair and the Journey to Home Computing\n\nThe Commodore VIC-20 - The Friendly Computer\n\nComputer History Timeline", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.895412802696228}
+{"content": "Is 7 Plastic Recyclable?\n\nHow can you tell if plastic is recyclable?\n\n\n\nAre Ziploc bags recyclable?\n\nYes, it’s true, Ziploc® brand bags are recyclable. Really! Just look for the bin next time you’re at your local participating store. Your used Ziploc® brand bags (clean and dry) go in the same bins as those plastic shopping bags.\n\nWhat materials Cannot be recycled?\n\nWhat can’t be recycled and whyWhat is contamination? Any materials put in the Smart Sacks or Smart Banks or green recycling bins which can’t be recycled are called contaminants. … Food waste. … Garden waste. … Polystyrene, plastic bags and film. … Aluminium foil, milk bottle tops or yoghurt pot lids. … Aerosol cans. … Clothes, textiles and shoes. … Broken glass.More items…\n\nWhy is black plastic not recyclable?\n\nRecycling black plastic is hard and that’s because recycling facilities sort plastics by bouncing a beam of light off them. Since black plastic absorbs light, it can’t be sorted and goes straight through the system and off to landfill or incineration.\n\nCan I recycle foil packaging?\n\nScrunch the foil in your hand – if it stays squashed in a ball it is foil and can be added to your recycling. If it bounces back open it is plastic and needs to go in the rubbish bin. Please rinse foil trays before recycling to remove food residue. … Only recycle empty, used up aerosols.\n\nWhat plastics should you avoid?\n\nThree Plastics to Avoid #3 PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic is used to make toys, shower curtains, IV bags, medical tubes, vinyl flooring and wallpaper. Phthalates (also known as plasticizers) are added to soften PVC. Phthalates are also used as solvents in shampoo, nail polish and hair spray.\n\nWhat is the healthiest plastic?\n\n#2 plastic: High-Density Polyethylene Plastic 2 is one of the safest sorts of plastic. Also called HDPE (high-density polyethylene), it has got a high strength-to-density ratio which results in superb wear resistance. HDPE products withstand heating and freezing so they can be used in various weather conditions.\n\nWhat types of plastic are recyclable?\n\nHow to know what plastics can be recycled Plastic Recycling Symbol #1: PET or PETE. … Plastic Recycling Symbol #2: HDPE. … Plastic Recycling Symbol #3: PVC or V. … Plastic Recycling Symbol #4: LDPE. … Plastic Recycling Symbols #5: PP. … Plastic Recycling Symbol #6: PS. … Plastic Recycling Symbol #7: Miscellaneous.\n\nWhat food packaging Cannot be recycled?\n\nPlasticS/NItemCan recycle?5Plastic film/flexible packaging (e.g. magazine wrapper, film packaging for packet drinks, bubble wrap etc.)YES6Plastic packaging (e.g. sliced bread bag and egg trays)YES7Plastic clothes hangerYES8Non-polystyrene foam takeaway food containerYES12 more rows•Sep 15, 2020\n\nWhat number plastics Cannot be recycled?\n\nMany plastic-based products cannot break down and cannot be recycled. Most plastic that displays a one or a two number is recyclable (though you need to check with your area’s recycling provider). But plastic that displays a three or a five often isn’t recyclable.\n\nAre plastic bottle caps recyclable?\n\nFor plastic bottles, you need to ask your local recycling program whether caps are accepted before trying to recycle them with the bottle. Some will ask you to leave them on, some accept caps but want them separated, and some will ask you to throw them away.\n\nCan bubble wrap be recycled?\n\nBubble wrap is recyclable, making it a great option for businesses who want to go green with their protective packaging. However, recycling bubble wrap isn’t as simple as tossing it into your curbside recycling bin. Your customers will need to take a few extra steps to do their part in protecting the environment.\n\nWhy are milk cartons not recyclable?\n\nYou’re recycling your milk carton all wrong Cartons are made primarily of paper but also have a thin layer of polyethylene, or plastic. Shelf-stable cartons contain a layer of aluminum. As such, milk cartons should be recycled with plastic, metal, and glass containers. … You also should not flatten the carton.\n\nIs plastic 7 BPA Free Safe?\n\nCode 7 is the recycling code for plastics that contain BPA and must be avoided at all cost. Although codes 3 and 6 technically do not contain BPA, the chemicals that are used to manufacture these products also pose serious risks to our health.\n\nWhat plastic Cannot be recycled?\n\nNO expanded polystyrene—foam cups , takeaway containers and packaging cannot be recycled in your recycling bin. Polystyrene breaks up into many small pieces and contaminates recyclable materials. Rigid, hard forms such as yoghurt and margarine containers can be recycled in your recycling bin.\n\nIs number 7 plastic bad?\n\n#7 plastics are not for reuse, unless they have the PLA compostable coding. When possible it is best to avoid #7 plastics, especially for children’s food. Plastics with the recycling labels #1, #2 and #4 on the bottom are safer choices and do not contain BPA.\n\nCan number 5 plastic be recycled?\n\nNumber 5 Plastics: PP (polypropylene) Recycling: Number 5 plastics can be recycled though some curbside programs. Recycled Into: Signal lights, battery cables, brooms, brushes, auto battery cases, ice scrapers, landscape borders, bicycle racks, rakes, bins, pallets, trays, and more.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8684202432632446}
+{"content": "Parenting: How to improve Parent – Child relationship\n\nParenting: How to improve Parent - Child relationship\n\nLike any other relationship, improving a parent-child relationship takes time, work, and commitment. Parenting is a difficult job, but by building a deep connection and maintaining open communication with kids, you can remain close and connected to them throughout all stages of your life.\n\nAn enhanced parent-child connection makes parenting not just easy but also enjoyable because kids who feel closer to their parents are more likely to listen, assist in performing house chores, and follow instructions. Your kids are also more willing to open up to you, especially when they have problems in school or with peers.\n\nHere are 8 ways to improve and strengthen your relationship with your child:\n\n  1. Show Little Acts of Love\n\nChildren require a human touch and warm affection at all stages of their lives for the proper development of their emotions and neurobiology. So, ensure you give your child a gentle, affectionate touch in the form of hugs a couple of times every day. Use every interaction as a chance to build a deeper connection with your child. Speak to them lovingly and respectfully, maintain eye contact, smile, and foster an open interaction. Show them how important they are in your life by surprising them with a lovely quote necklace. This is your chance to get all sentimental and engrave a motivational or loving quote that commemorates an early childhood.\n\n  1. Say “I Love You” Every Day\n\nTell your kids you love them often, regardless of their age. Even after disciplining them for undesirable behavior, your children should know that your love for them is unconditional. Conflict is the most ideal time for you to communicate your love to your children. Saying “I Love You” to your kids every day can go a long way in improving parent-child relationships. Furthermore, when they receive this verbal affirmation of love from their parents, it will help their self-esteem as they grow into adults and know that they are deserving of love. This is fundamental when building new relationships outside their home and avoiding toxic people in their lives later on.\n\n  1. Play With Your Kids\n\nPlaying and spending time with your kids is a fantastic way to strengthen your bond with them. There are many child-friendly games that you can play with your kids. For instance, you can play board games, football, or even sing songs. Regardless of what you play, be sure to give your full attention and to enjoy each other. If your children are a bit older, you can play with them chess, cards, or even computer games.\n\n4. Set Rules and Age-appropriate Consequences\n\nChildren require proper guidance to grow into mature and respectful adults. They need to be guided on the best ways to interact with the world around them. They also need to have a clear understanding of what is expected of them. And the best way to do that is by setting clear boundaries and rules. You should also set age-appropriate consequences so that your children understand the kind of punishment associated with specific undesirable behavior.\n\n5. Listen and be Considerate\n\nListening is a fundamental part of creating a strong connection with your children. Recognize their feelings, tell them you understand, and let them know that you’re willing to help them find a lasting solution to their problems. Don’t immediately assume that their problems are “probably” not serious. That invalidates their feelings towards their problems, makes them feel like they’re inadequately overreacting, and might hesitate to come to you with their concerns in the future. If they expect you to immediately criticize and turn their problems down as insignificant, such an approach to your children’s concerns might seriously compromise their mental health, and lead to emotional damage as they grow into adults.\n\n6. Create and Practice Bedtime Rituals\n\nBedtime separates you from your children and having a ritual can help them feel safer and secure. It can also be the only time some busy parents engage their children, so find ways to make it peaceful and enjoyable. Some great rituals to try include telling stories, singing bedtime songs, and reading bedtime books.\n\nerror: Content is protected !!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6699424982070923}
+{"content": "How Do You Become A Critical Thinker?\n\nHow do you test critical thinking?\n\nThe most effective way to measure critical thinking is to use a validated critical thinking skills test to assess the skills used to solve problems and make decisions AND to use a critical thinking mindset measure to assess the level of the person’s consistent internal motivation or willingness to use his or her ….\n\nHow do you develop critical thinking skills?\n\nHow to improve critical thinkingBecome more self-aware.Understand your mental process.Develop foresight.Practice active listening.Ask questions.Evaluate existing evidence.\n\nWhat are the 7 critical thinking skills?\n\n\nCan critical thinking be taught?\n\n\nWhat are examples of critical thinking?\n\nCritical thinking skills examplesAnalytical thinking.Good communication.Creative thinking.Open-mindedness.Ability to solve problems.Asking thoughtful questions.Promoting a teamwork approach to problem-solving.Self-evaluating your contributions to company goals.More items…•\n\nIs critical thinking a skill or ability?\n\n\nIs critical thinking hard?\n\nFirst, van Gelder notes that critical thinking is HARD. It is a higher-order skill that involves the mastery of low-level skills before you even begin to tackle the critical thinking part. … If students are expected to critically evaluate an idea or theory, then they need practice and instruction on how to do that.\n\nWhy is it important to be a critical thinker?\n\n\nWhat does being a critical thinker mean?\n\nCritical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking.\n\nWhy is critical thinking so difficult?\n\nCritical-thinking tasks tend to be much more difficult than others in part because critical thinking needs to be built on a foundation of language and comprehension. Also, some of the issues involved when analyzing statements and arguments are quite subtle.\n\nWhat are the qualities of a critical thinker?\n\nIf you’re hoping to reach your full potential and make your mark on the world, cultivate the following 16 characteristics of critical thinkers.Observation. … Curiosity. … Objectivity. … Introspection. … Analytical thinking. … Identifying biases. … Determining relevance. … Inference.More items…•\n\nHow can you tell if someone is a critical thinker?\n\n10 Signs You’re A Critical ThinkerYou get your news from a wide variety of sources. … You can have rational conversations with people you disagree with. … You are willing to change your mind when/if you discover you were wrong. … You get irritated with people who resort to personal insults on comment threads. … You evolve as a person every single day.More items…\n\nWhat are the 5 critical thinking skills?\n\nThe key critical thinking skills are: analysis, interpretation, inference, explanation, self-regulation, open-mindedness, and problem-solving.\n\nWhat are critical skills?\n\nIn general, critical skills are future looking. They are the skills we will be using in the future, not the skills we used in the past. Your target skills should be future looking. This survey is meant to be fun and exploratory and by no means scientific or authoritative.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000059604644775}
+{"content": "Knitted Dress and Cardigan Set - Pink/Red\n\n\nA gorgeous, stylish two-piece set, an ideal outfit for the colder months.\n\n. Soft knitted dress with peplum frill hem\n\n. Dogtooth cardigan\n\nAvailable in pink and red.\n\nSizes: 2-3 years, 3-4 years, 4-5 years, 5-6 years, 6-7 years.\n\nThis outfit would look perfect with our boots or Mary Jane shoes, which can be found here:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8599972128868103}
+{"content": "Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway elected to UNSC; Africa seat open\n\n7 months ago 39\ngoogle news\n\n Dominick Reuter/AFP]\n\nThe UN Security Council has five permanent veto-wielding members: the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia [File: Dominick Reuter/AFP]\n\nMexico, India, Ireland and Norway have been elected to take up a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council, but a rerun is needed for the contested fifth seat after there was no clear winner.\n\nNeither Kenya nor Djibouti on Wednesday gained the required two-thirds majority to win the Africa seat on the 15-member council, meaning another round of voting is needed on Thursday. \n\nMore: Canada does not deserve a seat at the UN Security Council Impunity and annexation: 'Israel has its cake and eats it too' How has my country voted at the UN?\n\nCanada lost out to Ireland and Norway in a hotly contested election in the council's \"Western European and others\" group. India and Mexico's uncontested bids for the Asia-Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean seats were approved.\n\nTo ensure geographical representation, seats are allocated to regional groups. But even if candidates are running unopposed in their group, they still need to win the support of more than two-thirds of the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe new members will start their term on January 1, 2010.\n\nAnd the winners are ...\n\n[of non-permanent seats on the #UNSC for 2021-22]\n\nIndia (184 votes)\nMexico (187 votes)\nNorway (130 votes)\nIreland (128 votes)\n\nCanada falls short.\n\nAnd 1 seat remains to be filled: Neither Kenya nor Djibouti got enough votes in the first round.\n\n— Amanda Price (@amandaruthprice) June 17, 2020\n\nAfter operating virtually since March amid the coronavirus pandemic, diplomats - wearing masks and social distancing - returned to the General Assembly hall on Wednesday to cast their secret ballots at allotted times.\n\nThey also elected - unopposed - Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir as the president of the 75th session of the Assembly. He will take up the role later this year.\n\nThe Security Council is the only UN body that can make legally binding decisions such as imposing sanctions and authorising the use of force. It has five permanent veto-wielding members - the United States, the UK, France, China and Russia.\n\nAfrican countries have in the past picked their own candidate but were unable to put forward a single country this time, setting the stage for Wednesday's showdown.\n\nKenya boasts of enjoying the support of the African Union, but Djibouti said it should have the seat due to Nairobi's past participation on the Security Council and the principle of rotation.\n\nBoth countries are highlighting their roles in seeking peace on the Horn of Africa, as well as their contributions to UN peacekeeping options.\n\nSOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies\n\n  1. Homepage\n  2. International", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9213411211967468}
+{"content": "Sketch Waterfall Droplets, Little Drops Cause Large Movement\n\nteamLab, 2018-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi\n\n\n\nThis waterfall is created from the water droplets drawn by people.\n\nColor in a droplet on the paper provided. See the picture you have drawn become one of the many water droplets that make up the waterfall in front of you. Before long, your droplet will mix with the droplets drawn by other people. The falling water droplets will flow down to the bottom of the Graffiti Nature terrain.\n\nWhen just one water droplet splashes, it bounces like a ball. When the water droplets gather into a single body, they flow together and act like liquid water. When water droplets separate from the body, they begin to behave like individual balls again.\n\nEach one of the droplets, whether on its own or gathered with others, moves under the same simple rules of physics. However, when many droplets are gathered together, they behave in a way that could never have been guessed when dealing with individual droplets.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998424649238586}
+{"content": "Concept graviteit aantrekkelijke communicatie content design\n\n\nbrainstorm / image / positioning / strategy / tactics / branding / digital network / advice / campaigns\n\nA unique and strong concept:\nthe basis for efficient communication\n\nThink before you act\n\nA lack of time and resources often makes it tempting to rush into a project. That’s never a good idea. The absence of strategy increases the risk of unpredictable and potentially disappointing results. That is why Graviteit is in favour of a well-considered approach, tailored to the possibilities and the wishes of your company. By doing so, we avoid wasting precious time and money.\n\n\nEach finished project starts with a strategy\n\nTo put your company on the map and to launch product-specific campaigns, a strong concept is the key to success. Strategic research, creative brainstorms, image definition, plan of action, advisory and a careful follow-up from start to finish? We keep an eye on each aspect, in close corporation with you and your company.\n\nThe importance of a well-considered communication mix\n\nFor Graviteit, projects are always a part of a bigger picture. We love to brainstorm about potential next steps, let our imaginations run wild and execute the best creative ideas!\nWe believe that a tactic never stands alone. It’s always part of the overall communication mix. It should be taken into account that the different media are constantly influencing each other. But it’s even more important to keep your eyes open for the opportunities that come from these media interactions. As an example, Graviteit believes in a close interaction between online and offline channels. By implementing this comprehensive method, we want to book results in both the short and the long term. What are the results of this work process? That all depends on your specific company’s needs and the broader context!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9314311742782593}
+{"content": "BACKGROUND: Homelessness is associated with poor health. A policy approach aiming to end homelessness across Europe and North America, the 'Housing First' (HF) model, provides rapid housing, not conditional on abstinence from substance use. We aimed to systematically review the evidence from randomised controlled trials for the effects of HF on health and well-being.\n\nMETHODS: We searched seven databases for randomised controlled trials of interventions providing rapid access to non-abstinence-contingent, permanent housing. We extracted data on the following outcomes: mental health; self-reported health and quality of life; substance use; non-routine use of healthcare services; housing stability. We assessed risk of bias and calculated standardised effect sizes.\n\nRESULTS: We included four studies, all with 'high' risk of bias. The impact of HF on most short-term health outcomes was imprecisely estimated, with varying effect directions. No clear difference in substance use was seen. Intervention groups experienced fewer emergency department visits (incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.63; 95%?CI 0.48 to 0.82), fewer hospitalisations (IRR=0.76; 95%?CI 0.70 to 0.83) and less time spent hospitalised (standardised mean difference (SMD)=-0.14; 95%?CI -0.41 to 0.14) than control groups. In all studies intervention participants spent more days housed (SMD=1.24; 95%?CI 0.86 to 1.62) and were more likely to be housed at 18-24 months (risk ratio=2.46; 95%?CI 1.58 to 3.84).\n\nCONCLUSION: HF approaches successfully improve housing stability and may improve some aspects of health. Implementation of HF would likely reduce homelessness and non-routine health service use without an increase in problematic substance use. Impacts on long-term health outcomes require further investigation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9899334907531738}
+{"content": "Connect with us\n\n\nForgiving Old Debts: Russia’s Diplomatic Maneuver\n\n\n\nWith economies experiencing contractions across the globe and with governments in the third world most vulnerable, discussions of debt relief have been revived. Yet, forgiving old debts is nothing new to the Kremlin. For the Russian government, it has been just one part of a wider diplomatic toolkit to rekindle ties that have faltered since the end of the Cold War.\n\nOnce the primary backer of numerous states over large swathes of the globe, Moscow largely retreated from the non-Soviet space during the presidency of Boris Yeltsin and it continued to not be a primary concern during Vladimir Putin’s first two terms as head of state. However, Russia’s resurgence on the international arena over the past few years has not only made the country more willing to re-engage with the region but also more capable.\n\nInternational media has primarily viewed this through the lens of military strength. Whether it is sending trainers and advisors to the Central African Republic, allegedly supporting rebels in Libya, or deploying Wagner Group forces to fight an Islamic State-offshoot in Mozambique, the focus has primarily been conflict-oriented. However, less explored is the quieter and more economic measures that the Russian government has taken in order to win hearts and minds outside of the West.\n\nAs part of a debt-for-development programme, Russia has forgiven approximately $20 billion worth of debt to various African governments that was accrued during the Soviet period. Beneficiaries include the Commonwealth nation of Tanzania and Francophonie member Madagascar, along with others. In forgiving these loans, the Kremlin has acknowledged a reality that many countries continue to deny: such debts are unpayable. At the first ever Russia-Africa Summit, Putin stated explicitly that “It was not only an act of generosity, but also a manifestation of pragmatism, because many of the African states were not able to pay interest on these loans.”\n\nThese measures have yielded concrete benefits for the previously indebted countries. For example, the decision to forgive Mozambique’s $40 million debt was done in conjunction with the United Nations World Food Programme, with the money that was intended for debt repayment instead being used to provide free school meals for 150,000 children over the course of five years.\n\nWhile Russia will potentially be losing some money in the short term, debt forgiveness is likely to open new doors moving forward. Many of the countries that have seen their debts written off have significant economic and geopolitical potential. With improved political relations as a consequence, it is hoped that Russian companies will get preferential treatment should contracts be offered to international firms. This could help explain the Kremlin’s decision to forgive 90% of North Korea’s $11 billion debt despite the latter’s weak position. Russia has been eager to develop a trans-Korean gas pipeline that would transport fuel to South Korea. While the likelihood of this being realised remains slim, in the context of Pyongyang’s inability to repay the debt in any case, it is a reasonable gamble to make on the part of the Russian government.\n\nThis is somewhat similar to China’s efforts over the past few years, albeit in an inverse form. With Beijing less cash-strapped than Moscow, it is able to invest directly whereas Russia is using debt forgiveness to redirect cash payments away from servicing old debts and instead towards domestic reinvestments. Free projects, such as the Chinese-funded and constructed headquarters of the African Union, have been followed by ever-growing economic and political relations.\n\nRussia’s debt policy has been used to strengthen existing alliances and partnerships. While not all Soviet-era allies have retained close ties to Moscow, many have done so continuously since the Cold War. One of the biggest beneficiaries of Russian debt forgiveness has been Cuba. In July 2014, ahead of a visit to the island nation by Putin, the Russian government wrote off 90% of Cuban debt. Though Russia was not only the country that showed willingness to restructure Cuba’s debt obligations at the time, it was by far the most generous. China restructured approximately $6 billion while Japan and Mexico forgave $1.4 billion and $478 million, respectively; Russia forgave $32 billion.\n\nThe decision did reaffirm the close relations between Moscow and Havana. Cuba has repeatedly voted in support of the Russian Federation at the United Nations on sensitive topics, such as Crimea, and Russian firms have received multiple drilling and mining contracts from the Caribbean country.\n\nHowever, this strategy has its limitations. The overwhelming majority of these debts date back to the Soviet era and are therefore limited in scope. Some countries, such as Angola and Ethiopia (which saw most of their debts forgiven in the 1990’s), were primarily recipients of military support during civil wars so their debts were not as vast as other heavily indebted countries with other creditors. Since then, despite respite from Moscow, such countries have continued to become increasingly burdened by growing debts. While Ethiopia is often heralded as an example of rapid economic growth, its debt, both in total but also has a percentage of GDP, has grown considerably during the post-Soviet era.\n\nWhile debt relief is undeniably beneficial to the third world, the fact that Russian-owned debts constitute a mere fraction of all foreign-owned debts in most cases means that the act of writing debts off cannot achieve much in of themselves. Consequently, in several countries, the gesture is mostly a PR move. In the case of Afghanistan, where Russia was the largest creditor due to loans handed out during the 1980’s, Kabul had for decades refused to recognise the debt. The decision to forgive the debt was therefore more of a signal of a desire to improve relations than any hope to achieve instantaneously tangible rewards.\n\nThe largest stumbling block for the Kremlin’s efforts remain structural issues afflicting the indebted nations, the nature of which vary considerably from country to country. For example, while Russia has forgiven a majority of Iraq’s debt to the country, which in turn helped revive talks over potential oil contracts, the continued instability in the Middle Eastern nation makes it difficult to reap many benefits. Though it is true that Baghdad has continued to purchase Russian T-90 tanks and attack helicopters, this is more of a sign that Russia has partially managed to pivot Iraq away from the United States’ sphere of influence as opposed to gaining economically.\n\nWith the onset of coronavirus, however, Russia might not be the leading debt forgiver for very long. In places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where economies are expected to continue shrinking while deficits are set to grow, other creditors could potentially step in and likewise forgive debts. In April of this year, G20 leaders agreed to extend debt relief in the form of a moratorium on debt repayment yet this can only serve as a short term solution. With many governments already increasing their borrowing, creditor nations are well positioned to leverage their position in order to improve geopolitical relationships as well as set the stage for favourable contracts for their firms. If more countries follow Moscow’s path, then the significance of what the Kremlin has done will only recede and lose much of its relevance.\n\nDebt forgiveness can win friends but can only go so far. For Russia’s diplomatic maneuvers to stick, they will need to continue complementing it with other efforts, such as improving trade and boosting security partnerships, in order to truly make the most of its financial generosity.\n\nNaman Karl-Thomas Habtom is the Senior Vice President of the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum and a writer with a focus on security policy.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n\nHow the West failed to understand contemporary Russia\n\n\n\nA few years ago, James G. Stavridis, a retired U.S. admiral and dean of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy claimed that, for anyone wishing to understand the domestic and foreign politics of Russia he should read and try to understand the great works of Russian literature. In a post that he made at, he mentions: “Read Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Bulgakov. That’s where you’ll really find how Russians think”.\n\nIt is understandable that when a former NATO commander suggests something like that, policymakers and diplomats from the U.S. would have an easier time understanding contemporary Russian politics. However, if this claim was true, how is it possible that after thirty years since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and the West in general still, fail to understand Russia and its position in this world?\n\nThe Russian-American relations in the era of Boris Yeltsin\n\nBy 1989, it was pretty clear that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the uprising in Eastern Europe created a chain reaction that eventually caught up with the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the reforms that Gorbachev suggested to open up the Soviet Union failed. On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved. The Russian Federation became an independent state and declared itself as the successor to the USSR. The Russian-American relations during the Yeltsin period can be described as neutral with a mutual tolerance from both sides. Also, at that time, there was indeed a sense of officially ending the Cold War, as both sides took positive measures to ensure that. In 1993, both sides signed the START II arms control treaty that focused on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.\n\nHowever, the warm relations between the United States and Russia revealed how the U.S. perceived Russia. As a weak nation trying to balance itself after the fall of communism and its dissolvement. At the same time, Russia had to deal with enormous problems. The new Russian Federation was forced to sell almost 40.000 public businesses, like energy, mining, and communications companies. The economy of the country was in a freefall and for years the country found itself, hostage, to oligarchs. Besides that, Boris Yeltsin himself was considered to be a national embarrassment, relying heavily on the oligarchs and the West that saw him as a political tool to influence Russian domestic politics.\n\nThe United States under Bill Clinton wasn’t exactly rooted in any exalted “Russophilia”, as Dr. Andrei Kortunov pointed out: “Washington gave warm support to Yeltsin because of numerous US agencies’ analyses indicating Yeltsin could be counted upon as a guarantee of the irreversibility of the big and small victories gained over the former Cold War antagonist” (Kortunov, 1997). However, in March 1999, these slightly warm relations would be tested, after the U.S.-led NATO military operation against Serbia over the disputed land of Kosovo. Russia was against the attack and until this day, it does not recognize the pseudo-state of Kosovo. A few months later, when he was visiting China, Boris Yeltsin verbally attacked Bill Clinton for his criticism of Russian tactics in Chechnya. He made a blunt reminder of the fact that Russia was still a nuclear superpower. ���Things will be as we have agreed with Jiang Zemin. We will be saying how to live, not Bill Clinton alone”. This was the only attempt that Boris Yeltsin did to show that Russia must still be considered a major player in international affairs. The U.S. made the mistake to think that the weakness of one man represented a weak nation in total, but with the 1999 elections and the victory of Vladimir Putin on December 31st, it was clear that Russia was entering a new era re-emerging from the collapse of the Soviet Union and challenge the geopolitical status quo of the new millennium.\n\nVladimir Putin and the genesis of modern Russia\n\nAfter the appointment of Vladimir Putin as the new President of the Russian Federation, the relations between the two countries were characterized as stable and warm. However, the West continued the same rhetoric of underestimating Russia. For former senior CIA officer Paul R. Pillar, the mistake that the U.S. and the West made was pretty clear. The West did not treat Russia as a nation that got rid of communism like Hungary or Poland. Besides that, the rapid expansion of NATO on former Soviet territories created more problems for the peaceful coexistence of both superpowers, as Russia viewed that as a sign that it will not be treated fairly and equally in the global political arena.\n\nFor years, Vladimir Putin had a more passive-aggressive stance against the United States. In 2001, Russia expressed its opposition against the invasion of Afghanistan and in 2003 again, against the invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately, Russia at that time was focused on its internal affairs, as President Vladimir Putin had to resurrect a crumbling economy, deal with suppressing the power of the oligarchs and ensure the safety of Russian citizens against the attacks of Chechen terrorists. According to Vladislav Surkov, former Aide to Vladimir Putin, the country did manage to stabilize itself due to bold political changes. “Russia stopped breaking and began to recover”, he wrote. To be able to compete again with the United States, Russia had to put an enormous effort to achieve that, under internal and external pressure, while being underestimated by its Western partners.\n\nFor Dr. Georgi Asatryan, Vladimir Putin and the concept of Putinism helped Russia achieve that. “Putin provided stability, predictability, and peace. Putinism ensured the possibility of development. The West cannot comprehend this since standards have always been higher there”, were his words in one of his articles for EuroNews. The West soon comprehended the role of Russia in the world, with the newly appointed Obama administration in 2008. While President Barack Obama, was optimistic about a potential reset between the relations of the two nations, the reality just proved that the West had gone from a state of misunderstanding and underestimating the Russian Federation, to a state of trying to find a scapegoat and a potential enemy to protect its ideal monopoly of international influence and power.\n\nTug-of-war with the Obama Administration\n\nFor a brief time, there was a possibility regarding the reset in the bilateral relations between Moscow and Washington. In 2010, President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new nuclear arms treaty called NEW START to effectively reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile. However, this euphoric feeling of resetting lasted only for a few moments. By 2012, Vladimir Putin was re-elected to serve as the President of Russia for a third term. The tug-of-war between the two countries involved certain disbelief about resetting the tones. On the one hand, the West continued its traditional feeling of mistrust, creating a sense of fear against the rapid re-emerge of Russia and the nationalistic policies of Vladimir Putin. On the other hand, Russia remained paranoid about the intention of the West to meddle in its internal affairs as well as with their political expansion towards Eastern Europe.\n\nSir John Sawers, former head of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in Britain, expressed his opinion a few years ago, in a BBC interview. “If there was a clear understanding between Washington and Moscow about the rules of the road, that we are not trying to bring down each other’s systems, then solving regional problems like Syria or Ukraine or North Korea would be easier”. Many experts believed that the mixed signals that the Obama administration sent towards Moscow might have been one of the reasons for the fragile relationship between the two states.\n\nFrom 2013 until the U.S. Presidential elections in 2016, three main events have destabilized the relations between Washington and Moscow and also added up to the misunderstanding and animosity between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin. Firstly, the case of Edward Snowden. Mr. Snowden released secret U.S. government documents exposing a mass surveillance campaign inside the United States and on foreign country leaders. He was granted asylum in Russia, where he remains until now. The incident of Edward Snowden was enough to cancel the meeting between Obama and Putin in Moscow. The second event that stigmatized Russian-American relations was the 2014 Ukrainian coup d’ etat and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. In February 2014, after the collapse of the legitimate government of Viktor Yanukovych, Russia decided to annex Crimea based on a referendum that was held on March 16, 2014. The referendum was successful and Crimea became part of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the West was against the referendum while the United States accused Russia of acts of aggression. On March 24, 2014, Russia was suspended from participating in the G8 summits. Due to the concerning situation in Ukraine at that time, the relations between the two states were characterized as the worst since the end of the Cold War.\n\nLast but not least, the event that further increased the gap between the two sides was the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. Russia’s involvement started in 2015 with an air campaign in Syria, aiming to help stabilize the situation and keep Bashar Al-Assad in power. A month later, after the air campaign, President Obama called the Russian military intervention a “recipe for disaster”. In October after the launch of the Aleppo offensive and two fruitless rounds of talks in Lausanne and London, Russia’s U.N ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, compared the tensions in Syria with the events during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, mentioning that the relations between the United States and Russia were the worst since 1973.\n\nThe Donald Trump Syndrome\n\nThe most important event in Russian domestic politics is the U.S Presidential elections. This phrase has been a joke in the Russian political elite circles in the Kremlin, but it does not go far from reality. In 2016, the victory of Donald Trump might have been seen as a dreamy situation for Russia, but the reality is far from it. Although there is some truth in this statement. Donald Trump had more open policies towards Moscow promoting a more ideal relationship between the two states. It was clear that the Kremlin had ambitions to rebuild the shattered relation it had with the U.S. that was filled with mistrust from the Russian side and increased Russophobia from the American side.\n\nIn 2018, President Doland Trump called for Russia to be allowed to join the G-7 summit, where Russia was expelled back in 2014. In the first formal meeting of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018, some experts argued that there was a friendly climate between both sides. However, Donald Trump drew criticism from U.S. politicians regarding his stance to side with Russia on the allegations about potential Russian interference in the 2016 elections. John McCain went as far as describing Donald Trump’s policy as: “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory”.\n\nNevertheless, over the last four years, the Trump administration has been more of a headache rather than an ally of Russia. Particularly in the case of the Nord Stream II pipeline, where the Trump administration issued numerous sanctions on Russian and European companies involved with the project. Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov criticized the Trump administration by saying that the ultimate goal of the U.S. is to destroy the U.S-Russia relations. Besides that, the paranoia of the former President Donald Trump with China, had a negative impact on any establishment of a new arms control agreement between the three countries, something that the Kremlin will be eager to pursue after the inauguration of Joe Biden. The increased instability inside the United States and political immaturity of Donald Trump, has been more harmful than beneficial for Russia who now sees the new Biden administration as a political pillar, to try and establish any sort of normalization in the diplomatic relations between the two countries, at least in a respectful manner of mutual understanding.\n\nJoe Biden and the Future of the U.S.-Russia Relations\n\nOn January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be the 46th President of the United States. Joe Biden is an old familiar face to the Kremlin, having served as the Vice-President for Barack Obama. However, the fact that he is more familiar does not change the cold relations between him and Vladimir Putin. The cold relations can be traced back to 2011 when Joe Biden met with opposition leaders, expressing his thoughts on how Vladimir Putin should not run for President in 2012. This statement is still memorable for many Kremlin officials, and the same rhetoric seems to still be used, with Joe Biden referring to Russia as the “biggest threat to U.S. security”. However, despite what many analysts believe, the new Biden administration might be more reliable in building a new relationship of understanding between the two sides.\n\nThere is a growing feeling amongst the political elite of the Kremlin, that the growing turmoil and instability in the U.S. especially after the events on January 6, 2021, harms the diplomatic relations between the two countries. Besides that, Mr. Biden will take the “wheel” of a country that for four years has been exposed to unprofessionalism and childish acts from a President that is in danger of being removed from his office before the inauguration of his successor. Joe Biden, as a more traditional U.S. politician, a so-called “inside man” of U.S. politics, can be proven to be more reliable on rebuilding any new diplomatic relations with Russia. As former senator Bill Bradley, who visited the USSR in 1979 with Joe Biden, pointed out: “Joe knew the Soviet Union, knows Russia, has experience with Vladimir Putin and understands what’s possible and what’s not”.\n\nJoe Biden’s familiarity with Russia might provide room for improvement, however, it is understandable that the relations between the two states will not be extremely friendly. A harsher attitude towards Russia is expected by the Biden administration. Nevertheless, the future of the U.S.-Russia relations with Joe Biden might conduct a more understanding approach without the mistakes of past administrations. In the end, the relations between Russia and the United States might reach a level of understanding each other’s coexistence in the global arena while acknowledging the realistic politics that require each state to behave in a manner that will maximize its benefits. \n\nContinue Reading\n\n\nRussia and Belarus: An increasingly difficult alliance\n\n\n\nWay back in 1991, while the crisis of the Soviet system was leading to the disintegration of that galaxy of nations which, under the acronym of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was the second world power in political, military and economic terms, Russia promoted and obtained the establishment of the “Commonwealth of Independent States” (CIS)in view of curbing the centrifugal force triggered by Ukraine’s declaration of independence of December 1, 1991.\n\nOn December 8, 1991, all the former Soviet Republics joined the CIS, with the exception of the independent Ukraine and the Baltic States, which had been absorbed into the USSR in September 1939 thanks to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and since then had always considered themselves militarily ‘occupied’ by the Soviets.\n\nCurrently, after the defection of Georgia and other statelets in the Caucasus, the Commonwealth of Independent States has eight other members in addition to Russia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus.\n\nA glance at the map shows that Russia has placed itself physically at the centre of a region in which the CIS Member States play a fundamental role, not only as a free trade area covering a single market of over 180 million people, but also as an important collective security area that has ensured to Russia – which psychologically has never recovered from the Nazi aggression of 1941 – a ‘buffer zone’ around its territory, which is very important from a military viewpoint(all the more so after the “betrayal” of Ukraine, which, by siding militarily with NATO in 2014, helped fuel the Kremlin’s paranoia about border security).\n\nIt is in this political and “psycho-political” context that the “special relationship” between Russia and Belarus was born and developed – a relationship that for some time has been showing increasingly visible cracks.\n\nBelarus is a Presidential Republic ruled since 1994 by “President-dictator” Alexander Lukashenko.\n\n Elected and re-elected again and again over the last 25 years after elections looked on with suspicion by all Western diplomacies, Lukashenko has been tolerated with more or less obvious annoyance by the Kremlin, which is interested in maintaining a privileged and advantageous relationship at economic and military levels, even in the face of the harshness with which the Belarusian President has been trying for years to keep the political opposition in his country under strict control with his iron fist and with instruments that appear excessive even to the certainly non-liberal Kremlin representatives.\n\nThe straw that threatens to break the camel’s back and try Vladimir Putin’s patience vis-à-vis his Belarusian colleague was his umpteenth re-election in August 2020 to the Presidency of the Republic with vote percentages that in the eyes of the entire West, but also of Russia, appeared to be the result of shameless electoral fraud.\n\nLast year’s August elections put the Kremlin in a very awkward and uncomfortable position.\n\n On the one hand, continuing to support Lukashenko’s discredited government diminishes the Russian government’s democratic credibility not only in the eyes of Europe and the United States, but also in those of the more moderate allies in the CIS and, at the same time, risks alienating the respect and support of the pro-Russian citizens of the Belarusian Republic who are calling for more democracy in their country without undermining the friendly ties with Russia.\n\nOn the other hand, there is concern in the Kremlin’s upper echelons that too openly supporting the reasons for the people’s uprising against Lukashenko and the demand for more democracy in Belarus could turn the neighbouring Republic into a symbol for those who are calling for a similar expansion of democratic rules in Russia.\n\nThe cunning Lukashenko who, before the August 2020 elections had shown signs of impatience with Vladimir Putin’s policies – according to reliable sources, they hate each other – going as far as to order the arrest (a few weeks before the vote) of 33 Russian “mercenaries” accused of being part of a Kremlin plot to sabotage his re-election, after having been put in difficulty by internal unrest and the international reaction to his authoritarian methods of government, backtracked vis-à-vis Russia.\n\nInitially Belarus granted Russia exclusive rights on the use of Russian ports for Belarusian oil exports – a request that Lukashenko had resisted for years. Later he agreed to the stationing of military contingents of the Russian National Guard on his territory. Finally, on January 10, the Belarusian President publicly called for “the removal of any obstacles…to greater integration between Russia and Belarus”.\n\nIn spite of the increasingly worried moves of the Belarusian autocrat, faced with the choice between supporting the Belarusian regime and trying to get rid of the troublesome neighbour with a coup –Russia is considering a third option which could safeguard the stability of a country like Belarus, which Russia deems essential not only from an economic, but above all from a military viewpoint, as basic foundation of the ‘strategic depth’ ensured by Belarus on the Russian borders in its important role of ‘buffer state’ safeguarding the security of Russia’s Western borders.\n\nThe third option is included in two documents leaked by the Kremlin at the end of last year and published by the Russian investigative website The Insider.\n\nThe first document is entitled “Strategy of Operational Intervention in the Belarusian Republic” and was drafted in September 2020, when Lukashenko’s democratic reputation was at the lowest ebb, after the evident electoral fraud and the harsh repression of people’s protests.\n\nThe drafters of the document speak of the need to change the Belarusian Constitution also through “the penetration of all opposition parties and organisations” to the regime “with a view to encouraging the creation of new political forces promoting the reform of institutions”, as well as through a propaganda work with the use of modern communication channels such as Telegram and Youtube.\n\nThe aim of this operation would be twofold: to turn the Belarusian Presidential Republic into a Parliamentary one and increase consensus towards the Russian ally.\n\nThe second document drafted by Kremlin strategists and skilfully leaked to The Insider talks about the foundation of a new political party in Belarus called “The People’s Right”, which would promote changes to the Constitution along Parliamentary lines, as well as social and economic reforms that would win citizens’ support.\n\nThe creation of this new Party has not yet been publicly announced, but its programme suggests that the Kremlin hopes to divert popular support in the neighbouring Republic towards a Parliamentary and democratic transition of the country, which – as a side effect – could reduce protests over electoral fraud in the last elections.\n\nThe new Party’s plans envisage that, even if – at least in an initial phase – Lukashenko remains in power to enable him to save face with a dignified departure from the scene, he will be deprived of almost all his current executive powers, as his future functions will be reduced to the typical representative functions of a ‘normal’ President in a Parliamentary Republic.\n\nFurthermore, the programme of the new pro-Russian Party includes plans for extensive privatisation of the Belarusian public sector, as well as the ‘dismantling of censorship’ and ‘respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual’.\n\nThe first feedback to the publication of these two documents, with which the Kremlin wants to demonstrate not only an obvious interest in the stability of Belarus, but also an unexpected (at least for us in the West) attention to democratic rules and respect for human rights, have aroused very positive reactions in the Russian business world, which is obviously very interested in penetrating more deeply into a country that has a well-developed industrial sector, exports a significant quantity of goods to Europe as well as to Russia, has two excellent large oil refineries and is at the forefront in the field of information technology and IT services.\n\nIn short, it is a potentially good geopolitical achievement for Vladimir Putin and his government: limiting and frustrating the ambitions of an autocrat who does not want to give up the reins of power and, at the same time, gain credit – towards Europe and the new U.S. Administration – as promoter of Western-style democratic and economic reforms.\n\n All this while safeguarding the role of Belarus as a “buffer zone” against a NATO that, although weakened, remains a strategic opponent in the eyes of the Kremlin.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n\nHow Crimea Strengthened Russia’s Eurasian Identity\n\n\n\nWhile the west imagined Crimea was just a territorial dispute that had got out of hand and its annexation a move forced on Putin to salvage something from the ruins of his Ukrainian policy, the Chinese saw it as the moment Russia flipped from being a Eurocentric power to a Eurasian one. The bridge that connected mainland Russia to Crimea which cost $3,69 bln and stretched for 19km symbolized the fact that this was not just a buffer zone but sacred territory and there was no going back as its unity with Russia was eternal. A massive new mega church the resurrection to honour Crimea’s return to the motherland. Leading Siloviki from the power ministries such as defence minister Sergei Shoygu was pictured in a mosaic to show that the days of Russian were over and that the security services were once again watching over Russia and ensuring that the enemies encircling it were kept at bay .The temporal and the sacral under Putin were once again in harmony after decades of being at odds with one another.\n\nThe idea that Russia through Eurasia was coming back to itself was a perennial topic of influential nationalists .The infatuation with the west was over and Russians were once again appreciating that being different did not mean inferior. For example Dmitry Rogozhin the head of Russia’s space agency commented that “in space one must not run after beautiful goods with wonderful labels under the music of Bowie, but one must lean first and foremost on well functioning systems.” The excellence of Russia’s high performance sectors should energize the low expectation culture that bedevilled many Eurasian projects . So for example regarding the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe bridge which was built to accommodate  300,000 vehicles and had a load capacity of 4 million tonnes prime minister Mikhail Misushtin on its commemoration wanted to know “what it was like working with Chinese partners” on the project. Like the Chinese Russians should not tolerate excuses for shoddy work and should not look at the Crimea annexation as an exception but a rule. Not as a one off event with a short lived effect that disappeared once the euphoria ended but something to be harnessed permanently so it could be applied on an industrial scale across multiple sectors.\n\nEurasian road\n\nRussia had proved in Crimea that it had an edge in cyber technology in particular and could act unilaterally to defend its interests. But it was working at razor thin margins and stretching them to the limits so it could only be sustained for a short time. It was much more effective combined with a partner China that had spare capacity and an abundance of riches and did not have to work fast in case it used up all its resources too quickly. It only needed to employ a fraction of their strength and allow the Russians to spread the  burden with the Chinese. Where  they could concentrate on upgrading their labour and production capacity  without the pressure of bringing immediate results.  So whereas  the Blagoveshchensk- Heihe bridge was a “difficult object because the weather did not allow us to work in the snow, the access road was snowed over”  the barriers were ” quickly pushed them to one side”. And apart from Vant all the material was sourced from Russian factories. So “we ordered different products from Omsk, Tomsk – at various factories.”\n\n As new technology became available the costs and risks of operating in the region would fall to acceptable limits and allow it to “reach central Russian living standards.” Its mass introduction would have a dramatic effect so that Siberia and  companies like SIBUR would “have highly efficient and competitive production which would strengthen its position not only in the domestic market but in the world.” It could then pave the way for “thousands of high technology work places, transport and social infrastructure.” This would have a “multiplying effect” on the economy there. And in the case of joint projects such as the Amur gas processing plant the goal was “in the area of metal construction, building material, laboratory and tele mechanical equipment it would be 100% localized.” The problem was to keep as much production as possible within the region and not allow it to move across the border while engaging with the Chinese to the maximum extent. And that any gains in efficiency brought about by digitalization would not come at the expense of hollowing out of the local economy and turn it into a hub for low grade goods.\n\nRegional Dynamo\n\nThe Chinese would not be allowed to capture the regional market but it would not done in a way that would discriminate against Chinese companies and deter them from trading. The Russian attitude was that it would be scrupulous in respecting Chinese economic interests and would not disrupt the level playing fields to gain an unfair advantage. They might look to tweak the relationship a bit but not undermine the general direction of travel. The Chinese would continue to enjoy a privileged status within the Russian far east just as minority autonomous regions enjoyed a privileged position within the Federation. This allowed them to champion the cause of engagement with China by presenting it as a Eurasian enclave which shared as much with China as it did with Russia. So the Governor of the Jewish autonomous province Rostislav Goldstein extolling the opening of the bridge between Nizhneleninsko and Tsunyan looked forward to the time where “in the territories around the bridge industrial parks should appear which could produce additional value. And then we need to learn to produce our own products.” He added that “there is an idea now unrealized that we could get permission to create a cross border territory where Russian companies could learn from Chinese comrades.”  So in the enterprise of Vostochny port for example “very attractive conditions of work were established.” And thus  “decent pay, social guarantees, comfortable and secure conditions for production” would develop “team building”. And the benefits would be shared by “colleagues and members of their family who had access to health resorts, nurseries and convalescence centres.”\n\nThe degree of political closeness did not heavily influence Chinese economic decision making. It did not mean that because a country had friendly relations with China business opportunities would automatically follow. For the Chinese geopolitical considerations were much less important than economic opportunities .They viewed Eurasia in pragmatic   rather than hard line ideological terms so that even if they shared the same authoritarian leanings the most important factor was economic competence. A country was judged by its economic fitness rather than its political compatibility. The departure from liberal norms was minimal and the extent of their ambitions was confined to working within the system and adapting it to its needs rather than replacing it with a new order based around Moscow and Beijing . The Chinese approach was subtle and multidimensional helping reinterpret the Russian state as a  conservative bulwark at its core  with distinct, complementary  regional particularities open to prevailing  global influences.\n\nContinue Reading", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5660790205001831}
+{"content": "Art(ificial Mastery) of the Deal\n\nResearchers at Facebook just showed the Turing Test isn't all it's cracked up to be.\n\nSince it was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing Test has remained the gold standard for grading artificial intelligence. Over the last half-century, countless programmers have laid controversial claim to the creation of a program that passes the test—which assesses whether a machine or bot can pass as human to another person—inevitably to a great deal of skepticism. However, a recent study published by Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Research lab and the Georgia Institute of Technology indicates that this kind of trickery might be a misguided way to evaluate the intelligence of AI.\n\nThe study looked at negotiation between Facebook-created bots—which were haggling for books, basketballs, and hats—as well as between bots and human laborers crowdsourced from Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Each bot was assigned varying valuations of the items and asked to come to an agreement with another bot about how to divide a collection of the items between the two of them. Among the bots that emerged as the most successful negotiators, two notable and unprogrammed behaviors became apparent: Bots developed their own language for negotiating—what the researchers call \"divergence from human language\"—and learned to deceive their interlocutors, both human and bot. However, the bots' deceit was not Turing Test-style trickery, since there was no question about their botness. Instead, the bots learned to deceive on their values and intentions.\n\nThe researchers gave the bot \"agents\" three main strategies through which to learn negotiating tactics in order to achieve the best deals: mimicry, conversational simulation, and practice through repetition. The mimicry strategy, termed \"supervised learning\" by the researchers, involves bots observing conversations between negotiating humans and attempting to replicate them. According to Georgia Tech's Dhruv Batra, one of the researchers who worked on the study, supervised learning only \"works a little bit. It generates grammatical sentences, but those agents turn out to be poor negotiators.\" Bots with no learning tools besides supervised learning are able to become decent communicators, but fail to develop the strategic acuity required to succeed in deal-making. Without much in the way of reasoning skills, they fold quickly and are often happy to accept mediocre deals.\n\nMimicry of this sort is the foundation of most contemporary AI, and is part of why most AI so far has proved underwhelming at human tasks, such as negotiation. Mimicry \"can build language models that can produce fairly fluid sentences,\" says Mike Lee, a researcher at Facebook who also worked on the study, \"but it's hard to make it to use the language to actually achieve some kind of goal.\"\n\nThe planning strategy, or \"dialogue rollouts,\" gave the bots the ability to consider not only what to say at present, in order to achieve a favorable outcome in the negotiation, but also the likely responses to a statement, and how it would want to answer that response, and in turn the best follow-up retort, ad infinitum, until the predicted end to the negotiation. The bots \"consider not just what to say, but 'how will you reply?'\" Lee explains, much like a chess player thinking over the long-term ramifications of her next move.\n\n\"There's no particular reason why the bots should have to use human language for this.\"\n\nThe third strategy, \"reinforcement learning,\" involved bots playing practice games against each other thousands of times. After every practice game, each bot looked at how the deal worked out for it, and updated its strategies accordingly. The addition of reinforcement learning and dialogue rollouts to the mimicry learning capabilities resulted in bots with a much better understanding of the art of the deal. Bots that thought through and planned for the consequences of the statements they made became much better negotiators. This seems to be because, when experienced bots think a few moves ahead, they become much more aggressive negotiators, and push back against bad offers.\n\nBut dialogue rollouts and reinforcement learning also made the bots better negotiators, because the strategies allowed them to develop their own negotiating language, and to attempt to deceive their trade partners by feigning interest in an object of no value to them, in order to appear to be conceding it in a compromise in a later deal. The researchers were surprised, excited even, by the bots' development of this bluffing strategy. \"No human programmed that behavior!\" Batra says gleefully. \"We never even had annotations for this kind of negotiation strategy. These strategies just emerged from the bots trying different things, and playing these negotiation games with each other.\"\n\nThe researchers were less happy with the divergence from human language that emerged through the practice games, because, as Lee says, their \"goal is to make bots that can negotiate effectively with people.\" The bots were primed to start out speaking English, mimicking their most basic language skills from observing conversations between English speakers. As the bots practiced negotiating with each other again and again, however, they began to develop their own language. Bots speaking in tongues unknown to any humans aren't poised to effectively communicate with people. The new language was developed through the numerous repeated practice games that only involved bots, so it was understood by bots—but humans were not privy to the bot-speak.\n\nTo prevent the bots from diverting from English, the researchers modified the practice sessions, asking the bots to to predict how a human might respond to a certain ask, between practice games. Batara noted that, if bots were given thousands of practice sessions with humans, they would probably be no more (or less) likely to diverge from English than humans playing together. \"Like with board games, and with other adversarial games, practice against a model adversary is good only if your model of the adversary is a good model of who you're going to be playing against,\" he says.\n\nStill, according to the researchers, it's not too surprising that the bots, through thousands of practice games, developed their own shorthand, vocabulary, and grammar for communicating. \"There's no particular reason why the bots should have to use human language for this,\" Lee says. \"They start out with human language because we kind of pre-trained them to try to imitate people. But after that, there's kind of no particular reason that human language should be the best way that two bots should be communicating.\"\n\nIn fact, this is exactly what we should expect from individuals who spend an extensive amount of time together. The researchers compare the linguistic development to cryptophasia, the unique language created by some sets of twins, but the bots' linguistic phenomenon appears to be a normal behavioral development for anyone (or anything) that spends a lot of time together. \"This happens in human communities all the time,\" Batra says. \"One way that humans identify in-group vs. out-group behavior is whether or not you understand the jargon that the community has developed. And it's often hard for outsiders to break into their community because of the jargon, and you can think of this similarly.\"*\n\nSo while the bots' development of their own language is a notable manifestation of the learning capabilities created by the Facebook programmers, given the endlessly repeated tasks in which they were engaged, it would have been surprising if they had not developed their own way of speaking. Similar linguistic developments have been observed in several recent studies, including one at the University of California–Berkeley, where researchers actually attempted to translate the bot language (they call it \"neuralese,\" the language of a neural net) that emerged.\n\nWith the results of this study in mind, the Turing test seems a silly way to evaluate intelligence, at least as normally administered. Developing a new language that no humans speak is not a great way for a bot to fool people into thinking it is human, but it is a complicated development, and a signpost of intelligence. Similarly, the bots' versions of the bluffing technique probably didn't fool anyone into thinking they were humans, but it made them better negotiators. Both of these strategies resemble intelligent human behavior in form, if not content. As artificial intelligence improves, it seems, we shouldn't expect faster humans made of metal. We'll get bots. But better.\n\n*Update —July 3rd, 2017: This post has been updated to reflect the source of information on cryptophasia.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9274569749832153}
+{"content": "Startup Relationship Management during COVID-19\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected all areas of business, and startup relationship management is not an exception. Since many startup events have been canceled for the foreseeable future, companies involved in startup relationship management are finding it increasingly difficult to manage startup relationships without these events.\n\nPrior to the pandemic, startup relationships were easily managed through events such as demo days, in-person accelerators, and pitch events. With social distancing measures in place and most work going virtual, these events have been harder to organize.\n\nThe first major event that was canceled due to COVID-19 was South by Southwest. South by Southwest was essentially an annual event that consisted of multiple exhibits that served many different industries, including tech, media, and film.\n\nEvents such as this gave startups exposure and networking opportunities, which are especially essential for early age startups. For larger corporations, this gave them the opportunity to find new talent and establish partnerships with startups that could help them solve current business problems. All in all, these events were essential for establishing and maintaining corporate-startup partnerships.\n\nIn a 2020 McKinsey study, 75% of surveyed startups considered partnerships with corporates to be an important aspect of their business; 63% of these startups also said that they anticipate partnerships becoming increasingly important in the future. In the same study, interviews with corporates showed that executives believed that these partnerships with startups were the key to innovation and product development.\n\nMost of the events that were critical for startup relationship management have either been canceled indefinitely, been moved completely online or have been turned into hybrid events.  \n\nHowever, some have expressed their opinions and said that in-person events give participants certain elements that virtual events fail to offer. When you meet face-to-face, it is easier to build trust and engage\n\n with people since there are often fewer distractions around you and it is easier to detect non-verbal cues.\n\nWith COVID-19 and all the uncertainty that accompanies it, corporations are now under pressure to be innovative and restructure their business models to be more versatile to unforeseen events. Now more than ever, technology has become a key factor in creating and sustaining these relationships.\n\nThough in-person events gave corporations more opportunities to meet more startups, there are numerous technological alternatives that would still enable these companies to expand their lines of innovation. These alternatives include startup relationship management platforms, which allow corporations to connect with startups in order to expand business lines and solve key innovation issues.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995164275169373}
+{"content": "Sort By\n\nTo maximize your score in games like scrabble & word with friends, you can use words from this list. You should pick words like affixal , affably and abaxile to increase your score instead of words like airless , aileron and aerosol\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8588404655456543}
+{"content": "What is a Level 3 Qualification?\n\n\nQualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are grouped into levels, from Entry Level to Level 8.\n\nLevel 3 qualifications:\n\nAS and A-Level \n\nAdvanced Extension Award \n\nCambridge International award \n\nInternational Baccalaureate \n\nKey Skills Level 3 \n\nNVQ Level 3 \n\nAdvanced diploma \n\nProgression diploma\n\nBTEC award, certificate and diploma Level 3\n\nBTEC National\n\nOCR National\n\nCambridge National\n\nQualifications explained\n\nQualifications at the same level are a similar level of difficulty, but the size and content of the qualifications can vary.\n\nFor example, AS-levels and A-levels are both Level 3, but people study AS-levels over one year and A-levels over two years. You’ll therefore have a deeper knowledge of a subject if you’ve studied it at A-level, rather than just AS-level.\n\nThe different levels are used in both education and work to compare different qualifications. They also show how one qualification can lead to another.\n\nCheck the Register of Regulated Qualifications if you’re not sure what level a qualification is.\n\nQualifications in Scotland\n\nPeople can compare Scottish qualifications with those in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Contact the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework for more information.\n\nRead more:\n\nWhat is a level 2 qualification\n\nWhat is a level 4 qualification\n\nRecruiting school leavers? We can help", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.000007152557373}
+{"content": "Why Instagram Is the Worst Social Media for Mental Health\n\nInstagram is the worst social media network for mental health and wellbeing, according to a recent survey of almost 1,500 teens and young adults. While the photo-based platform got points for self-expression and self-identity, it was also associated with high levels of anxiety, depression, bullying and FOMO, or the “fear of missing out.”\n\nOut of five social networks included in the survey, YouTube received the highest marks for health and wellbeing and was the only site that received a net positive score by respondents. Twitter came in second, followed by Facebook and then Snapchat—with Instagram bringing up the rear.\n\nThe #StatusOfMind survey, published by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society for Public Health, included input from 1,479 young people (ages 14 to 24) from across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. From February through May of this year, people answered questions about how different social media platforms impacted 14 different issues related to their mental or physical health.\n\nThere were certainly some benefits associated with social networking. All of the sites received positive scores for self-identity, self-expression, community building and emotional support, for example. YouTube also got high marks for bringing awareness of other people’s health experiences, for providing access to trustworthy health information and for decreasing respondents’ levels of depression, anxiety, and loneliness.\n\nBut they all received negative marks, as well—especially for sleep quality, bullying, body image and FOMO. And unlike YouTube, the other four networks were associated with increases in depression and anxiety.\n\nPrevious studies have suggested that young people who spend more than two hours a day on social networking sites are more likely to report psychological distress. “Seeing friends constantly on holiday or enjoying nights out can make young people feel like they are missing out while others enjoy life,” the #StatusOfMind report states. “These feelings can promote a ‘compare and despair’ attitude.”\n\nSocial media posts can also set unrealistic expectations and create feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem, the authors wrote. This may explain why Instagram, where personal photos take center stage, received the worst scores for body image and anxiety. As one survey respondent wrote, “Instagram easily makes girls and women feel as if their bodies aren’t good enough as people add filters and edit their pictures in order for them to look ‘perfect’.”\n\nOther research has found that the more social networks a young adult uses, the more likely he or she is to report depression and anxiety. Trying to navigate between different norms and friend networks on various platforms could be to blame, study authors say—although it’s also possible that people with poor mental health are drawn to multiple social-media platforms in the first place.\n\nOriginally created from here.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999348521232605}
+{"content": "Our world is called Protos. Protos is a High-fantasy setting with magical creatures of all sorts.\n\nAt the end of long day, you fall asleep… Tired of all the hassle, it won’t take long to fall asleep.\nIt’s the same dream again, mist and silver eyes of a woman in this mist… this time it seems different.\nYou have the feeling of falling backwards into the endless mist. Before you think you fall into the ground the feeling of falling comes to an end.\nYou look around, and amongst a couple of creatures, you see the grey woman with silver eyes.\nShe appears to be exist of mist, and her eyes have a hold on you.\n“I have brought you here for a reason… The paths of destiny come together at this time and place, you are destined to be here… I do not know why… But I know what was, I see what is… and I hope what shall be”\nAgain you feel like falling…\nWhen you open your eyes…. Surrounded by a world you do not know, scent, color, energy, everything seems different…\nThen you here a voice:\n“Welcome at Protos…”\n\n“Two things are certain in live, the Sun burns without mercy, and the Night will fall down for everybody as the Moon washes the sky”\n– Archibald the Artifact collector –\n\nProtos is home to lots of creatures and clans. The Dragovan, Duerghar, and giants live in the north. The Avenaï, Carnaxi, and trolls in the centre. And the Aydani to the south.\nTo the east the Murtameï plan their dream of destruction, and conquer.\nEver since human, trolls, Duerghar, Avenaï, fauns, and elfs can remember, the earthbound live under the Pressure of the Winged Ones, a nation of Sun and Moon that aren’t concerned about the mortals underneath their feet.\nEmpires rise and fall, cities grow and burn, civilizations, village culture, every cycle wakes the battle to an endless spiral of death and decay.\n1200 years ago the first battle took place, the earthboundfought back with the DrragonKing, a creature from outside of Protos, as leader.\nRecently the Northern, and the Avenaï clans unite in an attempt to unite the world, and together stand against the Winged Ones. Until it hasn’t been a real success, if you don’t count the small victories.\nTime to arm yourself, charge your energy, and work together for a clear future, for all those who walk the ‘earth’.\n\nThe world is torn by a War between the Winged Ones. Through the millenium empires of “Earthbounds” have risen and fallen under the pressure of the hate between these to powerful factions, and he nations are forced to slavery. This conflict comes and goes, to then wake ferociously. This has led to devide the nations of the world, from those who technologically live in the late Middle Ages, or in the “Iron Age”, to those who are put in the “Stone Age” and now try to live primitively in harmony with nature.\n\nWe mix an existing game world with all the possibilities of an open setting. This means that you can be a member of one of the miscellaneous nations who live on Protos, although there are some cultural traits with this, there is always room to give your own twist to your character.\nThere is space for communication.\n\nWhat is a Summon?\nImagine you have always wanted to play something “Special”, but so many times you hear “Does not fit the setting”, “Does not fit our world”, or something of the sort. As Summon you can play anything you can think of at Booyah.\n\nHow can this be? And does this fit the storyline?\nYes, it does fit, because your character is put into our world in a familiar way, a variation of:\n\nSummon, or Native, we always try to fit in new characters into the game.\n\nPersonal background\nIf you sent us a personal background of your character, we shall try and give you some personal plot. At Booyah! we try to make plot that fits your character as well. We also try to go a bit further if it comes to emotional play.\n\nWe LOVE our NPC’s en try to write the roles so they feel like real characters with a important part of the gameworld. Our NPC’s are our most important help to bring our story and nations in our world to live.\nIf possible we try to keep the difference between NPC and PC as little as possible.\n\nGame style\nBe true to your character. Fighting or even just a small ritual, is not always the way to solve the plot. Most important is that you do what is logical for your character. Although we are a travelling LARP, the focus is on our recurring themes and that there are consequences on the actions your character takes.\nHave you rescued a village of a very evil Warlord? There is a chance the villagers will be grateful, and will make this clear to you in their own way.\nHave you killed a Warlord? There is a chance his family and confidants will want revenge. Positive, or negative, bur consequences are a thing at Booyah!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7715667486190796}
+{"content": "Private 2 Year\n\nStautzenberger College-Brecksville GPA Calculator\n\nBrecksville, Ohio\n\n 0 Reviews\n\nStautzenberger College Brecksville students can use this calculator to estimate the outcome of this quarter's grades on your overall college average. To calculate your cumulative average, enter in your current GPA and credit hours from previous quarters, then this quarter's grades and credits.\n\nPrior Quarters' Grades (optional)\n\nEnter your current GPA info prior to this quarter to calculate your overall (cumulative) GPA.\n\nThis Quarter's Grades\n\nWhile you're here... please help guide prospective students to Stautzenberger College Brecksville by sharing your experiences as a student.\nWrite a Review", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.997835636138916}
+{"content": "Platter Tutus Seen Worldwide for Costuming Glitz, Grace, and Glamour\n\nCosplay has moved the world's understanding of what goes into the artistry of costume design to the forefront over the past few years. For costume designers, it is not enough to sew well or imagine how things will go together. The essence of costume design combines fabrication of interesting props and wearable art, makeup design, and then actual garment design and creation. Great costume designers can fabricate intricate designs of superheroes, aliens, and robots while also being able to build the delicate embellishment of a platter tutu.\n\nAs a child ballerina, there are many young ladies that aspire to wear the elegant tutu as a right of passage. Historically in traditional ballet training schools, the length of your tutu determined the level of expertise in ballet. Romantic tutus trail between your knee and your ankle. Pancake tutus are shorter, but rest on the dancers uppers thigh. The platter tutu barely touches the ballerinas legs so the audience can see every movement and muscle tone. This is optimum for the most advanced dancer, and at Encore, has become a right of passage for the most advanced costume designer.\n\nCostume design for dancers (and circus performers) is a very specialized field. The designers need to make the costume beautiful for stage while also taking into consideration the durability and wearability of the costume. Dancers move. Directors have specific ideas on what the overall feel of the scene needs to portray. It is the task of the Costume Designer to build the overall aesthetic while keeping in mind the choreography and movement that will need to happen in the costume. The costume designer needs to build the elegance of a ballet dancer to make sure that no \"wardrobe malfunctions\" happen onstage.\n\nPictured here is one of the very first tutus ever designed and created for Encore High School. This was the costume for the Sugar Plum Fairy and was designed by Costume Designer, Mariah Woods. This tutu started a legacy.\n\nConstruction of dance costumes and more specifically ballet costumes is very specific and complicated. Corsets require panels to be the same size and fitting costumes like the ones shown here are specific. The corset needs to move with the dancer and needs to fit well. When a corset does not fit well, the movement of the dancer can make the front the back and the back the front. If the closures on the corset are not strong, the corset can undo itself and rest on the platter tutu making for an awkward situation for the dancer. Then, costume designers also have to take into account the dreaded \"quick change.\"\n\nCostume Designers are problem solvers. Getting to experience a custom designed garment from the initial interview with the director to the sketch parade, Designers are an integral part to the success of a dance production. From the sketch parade, Designers then need to find the correct materials for the project. How do you affix the embellishments so they don't fall off? How will you clean the costume when it smells from the sweat of the dancer? How does the headpiece stay on? Where do you hide the mic pack? If the performer has a 45 second quick change, how do they lace up that corset?\n\nCostume Designers get to play with crystals, sequins, and other sparkly things. They build the costume that was once only a dream while making sure that the appropriate amount of flash keeps the audience engaged. Without Costume Designers, the performers are naked and the story cannot be told. So, how many crystals are too many crystals on a platter tutu anyway?\n\nAt Encore, Costume Designers have the ability to learn how to fabricate and build a variety of costumes. Designers enrolled in the program work on productions throughout the year and get to witness their creations onstage. They create for dramas, tours, ballets, and circuses. By the time Designers graduate, they have the ability to create an impressive portfolio with the platter tutu being historically one of the Designers favorite costumes to create. Encore's costume department is one of the most advanced high school programs in the State. A lot of Designers have graduated Encore and moved on to college, design schools, and some have been able to gain employment with entertainment leaders like Disney. This costume family (under the direction of Costume Guru Mrs. Sandi Del Sole) is one of a kind. Getting to build costumes for such a wide variety of productions helps to make costume designers well rounded and marketable for careers after high school. But seriously, how many crystals are too many crystals for a platter tutu?\n\n#teencostumedesigners #thisisencore #cosplaycalifornia #cosplaydesigncalifornia #encorecostumedesign #plattertutus #plattertutucreation #plattertutudesign #plattertutucalifornia #balletcalifornis #beautifultutus #peteythepirate\n\nPetey the Pirate is the author of this blog for Encore High School. Encore High School is a free public performing arts regional high school in Southern California grades 7 - 12. Encore's Costume Design program is currently taking applications for the fall 2020. Where arts and academics grow together. WASC Accredtied. Copyright 2020.\n\n52 views0 comments\n\nRecent Posts\n\nSee All\n\nNo School on Monday, January 18, 2021\n\nThis is just a quick reminder that there will be no school on Monday, January 18, 2021 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Due to this closure, School Lunches will be delivered only on Tuesday next wee\n\nPlease note, live stream starts about 10 minutes before the meeting starts.\n\nEncore High School\n\n16955 Lemon Street\n\nHesperia, CA 92345\n\n\nFor records and transcripts email: \n\nFor Questions, Comments, Concerns - please complete this contact form.  Contact forms are checked daily Monday through Friday. \n\nAttendance Verification\n\nYour typed signature attests that this information is accurate.\n\nEncore Jr./Sr. High School is accredited through\nWestern Association of Schools and Colleges\n\n© 2020 by Encore Education Corporation.\n\nEncore Education Corporation does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin (ancestry), ethnic group identification, mental and physical disability, marital or parental status, sex, sexual orientation, or military status, or genetic information in any of its activities or operations. The perception of one or more of such characteristics: or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Encore Education Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9930198788642883}
+{"content": "• Technical Writer\n\n    PDS Tech IncSterling Heights, MI 48311\n\n    Job #1373567500\n\n  • PDS Tech, Inc. is seeking a Technical Writer II, in Sterling Heights , MI 48312 + Creates and revises complex technical documentation to support the marketing, operation, repair, and maintenance of company products. + Ensures documents conform to company and government standards and specifications and language usage principles. + Creates and revises technical documentation using state-of-the-art publishing software technology including product descriptions, detailed functional descriptions, operating procedures, fault isolation, maintenance and repair procedures, illustrated parts breakdown (IPB), miscellaneous reports, proposals, marketing literature, or other technical documentation pertaining to company products. + Ensures compliance with customer requirements, government specifications, engineering standards, and language usage principles. + Researches and consults with engineering staff on systems and equipment to create and revise technical documentation. + Analyzes and interprets engineering drawings and other technical data to translate information into technical documentation. + May assist project writer with validating written procedures for equipment. + Evaluates illustrations and graphics to determine how to best utilize them within the documentation. + Requests the creation of new illustrations/graphics or changes to existing illustrations/graphics. + May participate in evaluating project requirements by providing input into time and cost estimates. + May assist with overall design of technical documentation by providing input to format and style. + Maintains up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, practices, and applications. + Maintains a safe work environment and ensures compliance with safety objectives and policies. + Working knowledge of hydraulics, mechanics, electronics, and system operations to write technical documentation. + Working knowledge of publication software. + Ability to understand and translate engineering designs into understandable language for non-engineers and to write documentation while still maintaining the desired meaning. + Ability to write technical documentation of limited scope and complexity, engage in problem solving discussions with cross-functional team members, provide guidance to cross-functional team members, and ensure documents are produced on time. + Ability to concentrate, attention to detail, and command of the English language. Skills Required + XML Authoring Tool Experience (e.g. Arbortext Epic Editor and Oxygen software) + MS Office Tools/Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint required;Access a plus) + Adobe Acrobat Professional PDF Software - proficient for use of illustration markups; or use of a similar PDF (electronic) markup tool + Mechanical/Electrical/Operator Tech Writer Experience/Knowledge Required, preferred in the defense industry Validation/Verification on-vehicle experience a plus + Content Management System (CMS) experience a plus + Customer Interaction/Customer Service skills required (some positions involve direct customer interface representing the Client) + Ability to work with a diverse team in several physical locations + Basic understanding of interactive electronic technical manual functionality, development processes, and markup languages is preferred + Familiarity with relevant military and commercial standards + Certain positions may require specialized technical knowledge Education Required + Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, plus 2 additional years of relevant experience. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.\n\n  • You Can Also Try Searching", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9904221296310425}
+{"content": "IGCSE Economics Paper-2: Specimen Questions with Answers 92 - 92 of 100\n\n\n“As budget deficits reached an estimated $ 1. 6 trillion for 2,009 and the government printed money to finance its financial rescue programs, other countries and investors started to get nervous. China, which holds the most dollar reserves, raised concerns about rising American debt, and some of its top officials floated proposals that would replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. “\n\nQuestion 92 (1 of 5 Based on Passage)\n\n\nWrite in Short\n\nShort Answer▾\n\nPegged floating currencies are pegged to some band or value, which is either fixed or periodically adjusted. Explain the statement.\n\n\nFloating currencies that are pegged or fixed against some band or value which is periodically adjusted is known as Pegged floating currency. Pegged currencies are hybrid of fixed and floating currencies. Pegged currency is a hybrid of fixed and floating currency. There are three types of pegged float regimes:\n\n  • Crawling bands: When the value of a currency is permitted to fluctuate within a range of band it is referred to as crawling band. This band is determined by the agreements of the international market or by unilateral decision or by a decision of the central bank.\n  • Crawling pegs: A crawling peg is an exchange rate is a part if fixed exchange rate regime, it allows gradual depreciation or appreciation in an exchange rate.\n\n  • Pegged with horizontal bands: This type of exchange rate is like crawling bands, but here the currency can fluctuate within a larger band which can be greater than one percent of the currency’s value.\n\nDifferent Buying and Selling\n\n🎯 Choose Paper", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8607634902000427}
+{"content": "Where are you going?\n  1. Home\n  2. Japan\n  3. Tokyo\n  4. Tokyo\n  5. UNIZO INN Tokyo Kandaeki-West\n\nProperty Location\nWith a stay at UNIZO INN Tokyo Kandaeki-West in Tokyo (Chiyoda), you'll be minutes from Bank of Japan and close to Tokyo Stock Exchange. This hotel is close to Tokyo Imperial Palace and Sensoji Temple.\n\nMake yourself at home in one of the 219 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and LCD televisions. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and pay movies provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.\n\n\nBusiness, Other Amenities", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5265388488769531}
+{"content": "Bus Accident Attorneys\n\nSeptember 28, 2016\n\nCommercial Vehicle Accidents – Bus Accident Attorneys\n\nOver the last decade, the use of public transportation has grown by more than 20%, an all time high since the 1950’s. For example, buses have become an integral part of everyday life of many people who commute to work or school, or simply run errands. These people trust that the bus is mechanically sound and the driver is a duly licensed operator. Unfortunately, regardless of the many precautions taken, bus accidents are far more common that you would think. Accidents involving larger vehicles, like buses, carry a large possibility of an injury due to the large number of people involved: passengers, the bus driver, or the driver of the any other vehicle involved in the accident. Common injuries of bus accidents are: brain injuries, sprained muscles and ligaments, spinal cord injuries, internal bleeding, coma/ventilation, damaged internal organs, etc.\n\nThe Need for a Lawyer\n\nBus accidents can lead to severe injuries. Such injuries lead to extensive expenses medical treatment and rehabilitation, as well as possible lost wages, property damage, etc. In order to recover for their damages, the injured party has to prove negligence against the other party. If negligence is established, the injured party is entitled to compensation. This would covers pain and suffering, medical bills, property damage, loss of income, loss of consortium, etc.\nHowever, bus accidents are confusing when it comes to liability. A bus accident attorney can help identify the negligent parties. Liability can often be found in the bus driver, the public transportation company, the driver of the other vehicle involved (if applicable), etc. A bus accident attorney helps navigate through the legal issues involving bus accidents, such as the higher duty of care owed to passengers when it comes to proving negligence and the stricter guidelines they adhere to, such as the statute of limitations. A personal injury attorney can also ensure that all corners of the case are covered: gather all evidence of liability; record all witness testimonies; create a timeline of events; etc.\n\nBus Accident Attorneys Can Help\n\nIf you or a loved one was injured in a bus accident, you should contact a personal injury attorney. They can help you explore all your options. Schedule a free initial consultation with experienced bus accident attorneys from the Law Offices of Eslamboly Hakim. Call 800-LAW-TALK (529-8255) or contact us online.\n\n[photo credit Storyblocks ]\n\nSharona Hakim\n\n\n\n\nHow can we help you ?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7734289169311523}
+{"content": "Hearing Loss \n\nTypes of Hearing Loss\n\nYour hearing process may be affected by some conditions, causing hearing loss. There are two types of hearing loss - sensorineural and conductive.\n\n\nSensorineural Hearing Loss\n\nSensorineural (or \"nerve\") hearing loss results from damage to the hair cells, nerve fibres or both in the inner ear. Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common type of hearing loss. It is usually caused by ageing or excessive loud noise exposure. Other possible causes include high fever, birth defects and certain medication. People with sensorineural hearing loss can usually hear speech, but lacks clarity. Speech is often difficult to understand and some guessing is involved. This is especially prominent when background noise is present. Sensorineural hearing loss is most commonly treated by the use of a hearing aid, and generally cannot be corrected through surgery or medicine.\n\n\nConductive Hearing Loss\n\nConductive hearing loss is usually due to some blockage in the outer or middle ear. This obstruction reduces the transmission of sound vibration via air, bone or tissue to the inner ear. Fortunately, many conductive hearing losses can be successfully treated by medical or surgical procedures, and sometimes hearing aid.\n\n\nMixed Hearing Loss\n\nPersons with both conductive and sensorineural hearing loss are commonly referred to as having mixed hearing loss. Most of these cases can be helped by either a hearing aid or surgery.\n\nAre you experiencing any hearing problems that needs further advice from a specialist?\nWe can help!\n\n\n103 Irrawaddy Road\n\n#02-18 Royal Square at Novena\n\nSingapore 329566\n\nOur Opening Hours\n\nMonday to Saturday: 10am - 7pm\n\nSunday & PH: Closed\n\n+65 6904 9555\n\n+65 8809 1988\n\n\n© Copyright 2018. All Rights Reserved.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5781224966049194}
+{"content": "Better understanding Fibromyalgia\n\nFibromyalgia is one of those invisible diseases which cannot be detected either in the blood or on X-rays but which has a real impact on the daily life of the people affected by it. Fibromyalgia is a neuropsychological condition which creates strong feelings of constant, generalized pain of the entire musculoskeletal system along with an immense feeling of fatigue. This physical and mental fatigue can be overwhelming since sufferers of fibromyalgia no longer benefit from reparatory sleep due to this chronic disorder.\n\nCommon symptoms of Fibromyalgia\n\nFibromyalgia manifests itself differently from one person to another. Amongst the common symptoms we can cite are short term memory problems, mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, digestive system disturbances and of course, fatigue and chronic pain. The pain can be described as intense aching of the sort one would feel after an overly taxing workout when in fact you have been merely lying down. Others describe it as a heavy feeling, as if cement blocks were attached to their ankles; or as painful burning sensations, stabbing pains or pins and needles.\n\nWhat physiotherapists can do to help\n\nPhysiotherapists know that fibromyalgia is a complex condition and that it is experienced in a different manner by each person. As such, it is their responsibility to begin by listening with intent to understand. Physiotherapists know well how the perception of pain can be intense, even to a simple touch. This is why their treatments are conducted slowly, gently and without haste while remaining attentive to your limits at all times.\n\nIn order to accompany you day to day and to relieve certain pains, our team proposes exercises, treatments and nutritional recommendations. You may count on us as an ally on your journey to wellness.\n\nWhen will we see you?\n\nSet up an appointment\n\nConception Web :", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5832711458206177}
+{"content": "Ordering Inquiries\n\nWhy was my order cancelled?\n\n\n\nCan I change or cancel my order, or change my delivery address if my order hasn't shipped yet?\n\nWe get to work as soon as you submit your order, so unfortunately we can't cancel or change your order even if it has not yet been shipped. However, you can refuse delivery or return any unwanted products to us for a refund - excluding customised products and only if the conditions of our Return Policy are met.\n\nYour delivery address cannot be changed after order placement.\n\nHow do I add / make changes to my shopping bag?\n\nTo add a product to your bag, choose the size and colour you want, then select how many you want to buy before clicking the 'Add to Bag' button.\n\nTo make changes to your shopping bag, click the 'Checkout' icon at the top of the page. Now you can adjust the quantity of any item in your bag, or completely remove items.\n\nWhen you've finished making changes, click the 'Continue Shopping' button to return to the online shop.\n\nCan I exchange a product?\n\nUnfortunately, we don't exchange products, but you can always refuse delivery or return unwanted items for a refund, and then place a new order.\n\n\nHow do I choose the right size?\n\nThere's a size chart link in the product description, right next to 'Select Size', that links to a full overview of all size measurements. You can also check the size charts here.\n\nCan I place an order over the phone?\n\nNo, unfortunately our customer service advisors are unable to accept phone orders.\n\nHow do I checkout?\n\nWhen you're ready to buy the items in your shopping bag, click the 'Checkout' button at the top of the page.\n\nIf you've registered with Reebok or the online shop you can use your email address to log in. If you don't have an account, you can check out as a guest or create an account before you check out.\n\nTo finalise your purchase, enter your delivery and billing addresses, then choose a payment method and enter the necessary payment information before clicking 'Confirm Order'.\n\n\nWhat kind of emails will I receive about my order?\n\nReebok will send you the following emails to update you on your order status:\n\nOrder received: You will receive a confirmation of receipt email shortly after you successfully placed an order online.\nOrder shipped: This email confirms that your order has shipped from our warehouse. The email contains a track & trace code you can use to follow your order's delivery status.\nInvoice: This email contains your invoice.\nOrder returned: This email confirms that we have received your returned order. We will inspect the products you returned and refund you if they meet the requirements of our Return Policy within 14 business days.\nCancellation: This email is sent if your order is fully or partially cancelled.\n\n\nIn certain instances, you can pre-order selected products that have not been launched yet on reebok.co.za. As soon as it arrives, we ship it straight to you. Place your pre-order using a valid credit card - you will not be charged until your order has left our warehouse and you have received an email with your tracking information. Pre-order products cannot be delivered in combination with other products.\n\nWhat do I do if my question isn't covered here?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5813024044036865}
+{"content": "Welcome to the lives and culture of people who lived during Japan’s Early Modern period (late 1500s to mid 1800s). These centuries are also known as the Edo period because they coincide roughly with the ruling government of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which had its headquarters, or bakufu, in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). During the period, land was divided into territories defined by taxable agricultural output, or koku (\"bushels\"). The Shogunate assigned these territories to the heads of leading military families. If a territory were valued at 10,000 koku or above, the family head was labeled a daimyō (\"great lord\"). Independently of the Shogunate, these lordly rulers and the men who served them governed their designated territories, called han (\"domains\") by modern scholars, in a balanced political arrangement known as the bakuhan taisei (\"Shogunate-Domain System\"). For over two hundred years under this arrangement, there was no warfare on the Japanese archipelago and no wars against countries beyond its borders.\n\nWhile the Shogunate outlawed Christianity and restricted overseas trade, it by no means isolated itself from the rest of East Asia. In Nagasaki, it traded with people from the Netherlands and China. It also maintained mutually voluntary diplomatic relations with the Joseon government on the Korean peninsula, and mutually involuntary ones with the Ryūkyūs (modern-day Okinawa). It further allowed the Matsumae Domain to maintain trade relations with the Ainu in the north.\n\nOn the one hand, Early Modern Japan was governed by a soldiering class whose members constituted a mere five percent of the overall population and resided in castle towns like Edo from which they ruled members of the townsman and peasant classes. On the other, advances in agricultural production and commercial development contributed to an unprecedented dissemination of people, goods, and culture throughout the country. It was a process that would eventually give birth to Modern Japan.\n\nEarly Modern Japan and the International CommunityThe Urban AgeThe Flow of People and GoodsA Village Perspective on \"Modern Japan\"Early Modern Japan in Maps\n\nEarly Modern Japan and the International Community\n\nEarly Modern Japan is often labeled a \"closed country,\" but it was not isolated from the East Asian world. While Japan did not have formal political relations with China, it engaged in trade with both China and the Dutch via Nagasaki. Political relations with Joseon (Korea) and the Ryūkyūs (Okinawa) were facilitated by the domains of Tsushima and Satsuma respectively, while Matsumae Domain likewise facilitated trade relations with the Ainu in the north. People, goods, and information passed back and forth through these four openings, connecting Early Modern Japan to the international community beyond its borders.\n\nA view of the gallery\nThe Dutch Quarter\nThis scroll depicts the exchange with Dutch and other foreigners.\n\nThe Urban Age\n\nEarly Modern Japan was the greatest period of urban development in Japanese history prior to Japan’s \"modernization\" in the late 1800s. Castle towns, designed and built to centralize a domain’s political and economic activities, and regional towns, which fed on the expanding market for goods, both shared institutions and cultures in common that laid the foundations of many of Japan’s modern cities. This exhibit introduces Japan’s greatest \"castle town,\" Edo, a city whose population and scale were large even by global standards. It also examines the organization of urban society and the cultures that blossomed in Japan’s Early Modern cities.\n\nThe Great Avenue of Edo Bridge\nThe bridge in the foreground is Nihonbashi (Bridge). The city of Edo, built by its various townspeople and merchants, stretches beyond on the other side of the bridge.\nWomen's Clothe\nWomen's Clothes: Samurai Families\n\nThe Flow of People and Goods\n\nAs regional castle towns arose and attracted great numbers of people, agricultural and other commercial goods flowed between regions like never before. By the late 17th century, improved eastward and westward shipping lanes made it possible to transport mass quantities of goods between Edo and Osaka and distant regions, while rising agricultural productivity and improved transportation contributed to heightened travel by common folk. While common folk needed a reason or occasion to travel (e.g. pilgrimage to shrine or temple), they were also increasingly drawn to travel by the publication of travel-related books and prints.\n\nView of the gallery\nThe Kadoya Inn in Mukumoto Village\nThis is the store front for one of the inns which catered to travelers from Kyoto on their way to Ise Shrine.\n\nA Village Perspective on \"Modern Japan\"\n\nBeginning in the late 18th century, villages used their day to day experience to develop technologies that increased productivity and which created time for leisure in their lives. Children were now expected to be educated and the number of temple schools grew in both urban and rural areas. Urban print culture also spread, helping to disseminate information. On the other hand, the gap between poor and rich widened. The confluence of these developments and a growing concern over foreign powers contributed to ideologies that were critical of the government and to questions about one’s own culture and history, engendering movements that gave birth to the inventors of Modern Japan.\n\nThe Four Seasons of Agriculture\nJoseph Heco's Records of a Castaway (Illustrations)\nThis is a record of a castaway, Joseph Heco (Hamada Hikozou), who was lost in the Pacific and was rescued by an American freighter.\n\nEarly Modern Japan in Maps\n\nA look at maps of Japan or the world that were produced during Japan’s Early Modern period reveals the ways people at the time regarded the world and their country. While some approaches are strongly ideological and imaginative, others reflect legacies of traditional learning, while still others pursue accuracy through the use of field surveys and measurements. There was, in other words, not just one approach to mapping Japan and the world, but rather a diverse range of approaches that co-existed simultaneously. In time, however, a realistic understanding of Japan and the world spread widely, preparing the way for Modern Japan.\n\nMatteo Ricci-type oval map : Revised Map of the Earth and its Countries\nThis map was drawn by Nagakubo Sekisui.\nIno Tadataka's Map: Chugoku and Shikoku\nThis map was drawn by Ino Tadataka.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8506128191947937}
+{"content": "Antidote - Las Vegas\n\nEscapology Las Vegas\n\n\nLas Vegas, United States\n\nMore in this city →\n\nNevada Desert, United States, May 25th, 2015. Dr. Walter Brandt is a high-ranking chemical weapons specialist for the United States government, part of a\n\nThere are no reviews for this game yet.\n\n\nPhone: +14072781515\n\n2797 S Maryland Pkwy\n\nEmail address\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Prices\n\nThere are no special offers this time\nFor further information regarding special offers please contact us at\n\na secret department that is only recognized by a series of mysterious numbers and letters. He has been developing powerful viruses capable of eradicating enemy forces with swift pace and deadly accuracy.\n\nForeign powers have noted Dr. Brandt's work and have recruited him to develop a powerful virus capable of killing their enemies in hours. He has gone rogue and has become a threat to the US and potentially the entire human race.\n\nYou are a team of scientists investigating Dr. Brandt's abandoned laboratory. You've been tasked with finding the only known antidote to virus TS-51 before it gets passed into enemy hands.\n\nHowever, during the investigation a clumsy member of your team bumps into a shelf, sending vials of the highly contagious virus crashing to the ground. One of them breaks and sends plumes of deadly vapour into the air.\n\nImmediately, everyone is infected but that isn't your biggest problem. The chemical detection sensor has picked up the threat and shutdown the facility. Total decontamination will begin in 60 minutes (eliminating all biological organisms inside)!\n\nYour only chance of survival is to scour Dr. Brandt’s laboratory to find the antidote. He has hidden it from the government through a series of riddles, puzzles and codes that only the smartest can figure out.\n\nIf you do not find the security override code and antidote within 1 hour the facility will self-destruct, and there will be no escape.\n\nRely on your team, intellect, and keen sense of observation to solve the riddles and unlock the secrets to find the antidote and to escape the facility.\n\nTime is of the essence. Do you have what it takes to defeat Dr. Brandt and save yourselves and the World from destructive chemical warfare?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9110719561576843}
+{"content": "genus Serenoa\n\nAlso found in: Thesaurus.\nThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:\nNoun1.genus Serenoa - one species: saw palmetto\nliliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed\nArecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae, palm family, Palmaceae, Palmae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales\nsaw palmetto, scrub palmetto, Serenoa repens - small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9980230927467346}
+{"content": "\n\nThis blip is not on the current edition of the radar. If it was on one of the last few editions it is likely that it is still relevant. If the blip is older it might no longer be relevant and our assessment might be different today. Unfortunately, we simply don't have the bandwidth to continuously review blips from previous editions of the radarUnderstand more\nPublished: Apr 24, 2019\nApr 2019\n\nCage is an open-source wrapper around Docker Compose that lets you configure and run multiple dependent components as a larger application. It lets you orchestrate the execution of components such as Docker images, service source code from repo, scripts to load datastores and pods, which are containers that run together as a unit. Cage uses the Docker Compose v2 configuration file format. It addresses some of the Docker Compose gaps such as supporting multiple environments, including the dev environment for running a distributed application on the local developer machine and the test environment for running integration tests and production.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7436524629592896}
+{"content": "For the first time since President Trump lost his bid for reelection, Vice President Pence appeared on the campaign trail on Friday to boost Senate Republicans at a pair of rallies north of Atlanta.\n\nTwo U.S. Senate seats in Georgia remain to be decided in runoff races on Jan. 5. The outcome will dictate which party will run the upper chamber come next year.\n\nAnd with Trump and Pence still declining to concede their loss, GOP has been left with a tricky argument in Georgia for a high-stakes Senate battle as they try to navigate the president's false claims.\n\nCrowds gathered in the northern New York village of Canton, population 6,400, on Saturday for a vigil honoring black lives lost to police brutality.\n\nThe gathering in the village near the Canadian border was one of several taking place this weekend in smaller, more rural towns scattered across New York, reflecting how widespread protests have become outside of major cities. Another march held in Plattsburgh, about 100 miles east of Canton, drew several hundred more, while about 75 others also gathered south of Plattsburgh in the town of Westport.\n\nKentucky Transportation Cabinet\n\nThe Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is restricting traffic to one lane on the US 68/KY 80 Cumberland River Bridge at Canton starting Monday.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9709597229957581}
+{"content": "Бесплатная энергия бы очень пригодилась.\n\nНичего об этом не знаю, но собираюсь почитать и рассказать:\n\nNikola Tesla's Energy Innovations\n\nAfter watching several Ted Talks on Energy i have realized that most of the people even in Ted do not know the hidden Truth connected with the Energy Innovations of NIkola Tesla. He has become like a forgotten wizard. Indeed, he answered everything in the 19th century which we are searching now.\n\nThe law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in a closed system remains constant. But there is no closed system in nature and nothing is constant. Everything in this universe is moving and entangled with one another. In South East Asia on December 26, 2004, when the entire scientific world failed to warn about the imminent threat of Tsunami, the wild animals electromagnetically sensed the danger and had already moved to safer zones of habitat. Historically, this entangled circuitry system is the reason for all forms of intuition from which Bohr discovered the shape of the atom, Archimedes used to get answers to many–a–thing, from where, Buddha spoke, Nicholas Tesla did his wonders, Wright Brothers invented flight, Kristian Birkeland did his ‘Terrella Experiment’. Maxwell, Schrödinger, Feynman, Heisenberg and other quantum champions used, to speak\n\nMy dear friends, knowing Truth is more important than simply worshiping or praising it. It is the corporate world that has destroyed Nikola Tesla's innovations just because they cannot make money out of it.\n\nIndeed, the root of energy electromagnetic in nature and exists in nature for ages. Let us check the important videos connected with the Tesla's heartbeat from the links below.\n\nLet us discuss about Nikola Tesla and his suppressed innovation that can give light to the world forever without a single penny!\n\nNikola Tesla - The Forgotten Wizard - Free Energy Secret\n\nTesla free energy for all (To the entire World)\n\n\nи еще\n\nNikola Tesla’s Free Energy Invention Was Suppressed by the Government for Over 90 years But is Now Available to the Public\n\nShare to Facebook\n13:32   МЕТКИ:\n\nОставить комментарий", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9774802327156067}
+{"content": "Dead Budgie recipe\n\nDead Budgie Ingredients\n\nPour the coconut rum, banana liqueur, orange juice and pineapple juice into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Add a dash of grenadine around the inside edge of the glass, and serve.\n\nBest served in a Highball Glass.\n\nDead Budgie Drink Recipe\n\nHow other's rated it...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8022984266281128}
+{"content": "It’s widespread to check the Teletalk SIM balance of all the Teletalk users. But most of the time, they, especially the new Teletalk subscribers, forget the process of how to check the Teletalk SIM balance. This is why today, I  will share with you the processes/code that will help you to check your SIM current balance. So let’s started.\n\nTeletalk SIM balance\n\nHow To Check Teletalk SIM Balance\n\nHence you are here, so I can suppose you come here to know how to check Teletalk SIM balance. If my guess is correct, this article will be most helpful for you. All the processes are given below. Keep reading.\n\nThere are two ways to check the Teletalk SIM balance.\n\n  1. The one is a unique code. To get Teletalk SIM balance, just dial *152#. or\n  2. Type “U” and send SMS to 111. Then you will get an SMS with your current Teletalk SIM balance\n\nThese all are dependable & reliable information arranged from some valid and loyal sources. To get more information about the topic or any topic related to mobile operators, inform us. To get more updated information stay with us.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8629037737846375}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Are Staccato Sentences?\n\nWhat does a staccato look like?\n\n\nIt is a horizontal line written above or below the notehead.\n\nSome of you may wonder why you can’t simply notate a staccato note with a really short rhythm like a 16th or 32nd note..\n\nWhat does Fermata mean?\n\nrest beyond its given time value: a prolongation at the discretion of the performer of a musical note, chord, or rest beyond its given time value also : the sign denoting such a prolongation. — called also hold.\n\nHow long should you hold a Fermata?\n\nA conductor will keep their hands out (or baton moving) indicating to hold the note until they give a grand cut-off signal telling all performers exactly when to release the note together. In several places, I have read that a note with a fermata over it should be held “approximately twice the normal duration”.\n\nWhat is the symbol for pause?\n\nSymbolsUnicodeName / functionISO 7000 / IEC 60417U+23F8 ⏸/⏸️Pause#5111B Pause; InterruptionU+23EF ⏯/⏯️Play/Pause toggle—U+23F4 ⏴, U+25C0 ◀/◀️Reverse—U+23F9 ⏹/⏹️Stop#5110B Stop13 more rows\n\nHow do you use staccato in a sentence?\n\nStaccato in a Sentence 🔉When the police entered the home, they heard the staccato sound of a gun. … The song needs to be played in a staccato manner and not as a continuous melody. … Because the bird was trapped in the wire, it started to chirp in staccato spurts.More items…\n\nWhat is staccato an example of?\n\nAn example of staccato is a song with short, quick notes. The definition of staccato is where each sound is short and distinct from the other sounds. An example of sound that would be described as staccato is the sound of a machine gun. Cut short crisply; detached.\n\nWhat are telegraphic sentences?\n\nUse Telegraphic Sentences: Sentences with 5 or fewer words. … Typical in journalistic writing, a telegraphic sentence states the facts outright with no ‘fluff’ in the sentence providing all of the essential elements without extra words.\n\nWhat is an example of a short sentence?\n\nShort simple sentences are frequently used to offer facts, so that they are easily understood by a reader. For example: ‘Paris is the capital city of France. ‘\n\nWhat does CODA mean in English?\n\n\nWhat is a short note called?\n\nmemo. noun. a short note that you send to someone who you work with.\n\nWhat is a staccato marking?\n\nA dot above or below a note tells you to play it short and detached. This should not be confused with a dot after a note which alters its value. Short, detached, jumpy notes are called staccato. Listen to the two examples below to hear how the same notes sound when played without and with accents.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.959132730960846}
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+{"content": "How a digital death certificate could help sort out estate and tax matters when you pass\n\n\nGrave site.\nFrom the time someone dies, it usually takes about three years for loved ones to sort out their legal affairs.\n\nAlmost half (45 per cent) of Australians die without a will. And from the time someone dies, it usually takes about three years for loved ones to sort out their legal affairs.\n\n  • When someone dies, their tax debts don’t disappear, leaving loved ones having to sort out the mess through a tricky legal system\n  • Australia’s tax ombudsman, the Inspector-General of Taxation, has conducted a review into deceased estates and suggests having digital death certificates to make the process easier\n  • The issue of death and taxes is a source of common complaints from taxpayers to the ombudsman and the ATO, including claims that tax officers lack empathy\n\nThe long and difficult process of sorting out deceased estates could be made easier by allowing digital “death certificates” — or automatic notification using their Medicare number — which is legally enforceable and shared between all layers of government.\n\nThis is one of 10 recommendations made by Australia’s tax ombudsman, the Inspector-General of Taxation, in a new report delving into the complicated area of death and taxes.\n\nThe area is so legally fraught that each year it results in about 430 complaints by taxpayers to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and Inspector-General of Taxation.\n\n“When you die, someone has to pick up the pieces,” Ms Payne said.\n\n“It’s not just a tax matter but about ensuring affairs are left in an orderly state.”\n\nThere was no formal requirement to notify the ATO of a death.\n\nBut in order to get the deceased person’s tax affairs sorted, the person acting on their behalf — either their tax agent or the executor of their will where there is one — has to jump through various legal hurdles before being able to access records.\n\n“Different government agencies have different systems and they do not necessarily align,” Ms Payne said.\n\n“A ‘tell us once’ approach would also reduce the stress placed on representatives who are likely the relatives or friends of the deceased.”\n\nCurrently, multiple notifications of a death are required across federal, state and local government and various other business and community organisations.\n\nMultiple notifications of a death are currently required across federal, state and local government and various other business and community organisations.(AFP)\n\n160,000 Australians die each year, most with outstanding taxes\n\nABS data shows almost 160,000 Australians die each year — with about 82 per cent of them aged 65 or over at their date of death and about 55 per cent aged over 80.\n\nState and territory laws determine who can represent the deceased after their death and a “grant of probate”, or letters of administration, are required before the ATO is able to freely engage with the legal representative.\n\nThe report notes that different institutions with which the deceased held assets may also impose their own requirements before assets are released.\n\nThe legal representative has to lodge any prior-year tax returns that are outstanding and deal with complex estate issues.\n\nInspector-General of Taxation Karen Payne says there is no formal requirement to notify the ATO of a death.\n\nWhile there are no death taxes in Australia, there is still an obligation to pay tax on the earnings and investments that had been held by the deceased.\n\nThis may include taxes on superannuation payouts (generally the ATO will tax super payouts to nominated beneficiaries at 15 per cent) and capital gains taxes owed on any investments such as shares or property.\n\nBefore that can even happen, a tax return is required if a dead person had a taxable income higher than the tax-free threshold of $18,200 in the year that they died.\n\nSince most taxpayers have reached retirement age at the date of their death, they may not have been required to engage with the tax system for some years before they pass away.\n\nHow Medicare numbers could help agencies data match\n\nMs Payne suggests that one way to make the whole process easier would be to have some sort of digital notification of a death that is shared across all government agencies — federal, state, and locally based.\n\nAustralia’s Digital Transformation Agency is currently working with NSW agencies and the ATO on a project to develop a digital death certificate by 2025.\n\nBut even then, information sharing across government would be limited due to restrictions surrounding the use of some unique identifiers, such as Tax File Numbers.\n\nMs Payne suggests there may instead be a benefit in exploring the use of Medicare numbers as a possible identifier.\n\nHowever, it could take years for such a system to develop, and the report noted to date its development had been held up due to the high cost.\n\nThe report suggests that in the interim funeral directors “may be well placed to assist grieving friends and relatives to reduce their stress in dealing with the ATO by obtaining information from them which fills ATO data and information gaps”.\n\nMedicare card numbers could provide a possible identifier for government information-sharing and data-matching purposes after a person’s death.(ABC News)\n\nATO could make it easier to get franking credits\n\nMs Payne says another common source of complaint by taxpayers about deceased estates relates to how to access a franking credit owed when their loved one passes.\n\n“If you’re alive and don’t have to lodge a tax return — you get your franking credit refunded,” she said.\n\n“But as soon as you die, that form no longer applies to you. There’s no easy way in which people acting on behalf of the deceased can apply.\n\n“You can apply for a tax file number for a trust, and then lodge a tax return for a trust. It goes without saying that as soon as you step into the world of taxation of trusts, the level of complexity goes through the roof.”\n\nThe report recommends simplifying tax-filing requirements for a deceased taxpayer, especially simple estates and where filing is necessary to process “low-value” franking credits and other tax refunds.\n\nThe report also recommends that the ATO engage with tax practitioners, solicitors and barristers to help develop better guidance for taxpayers dealing with deceased estates.\n\n“Deceased estate issues do not only involve taxation matters but also matters of inheritance, property law, family law, trust law, as well as various state and territory succession laws.”\n\nThe report said the ATO does not presently have a dedicated team to deal with deceased estate matters, unlike other government agencies, such as Services Australia.\n\nIt suggests “expertise should be developed within the ATO to advise holistically on deceased estate taxation issues”.\n\nThe ATO has agreed in full, or part, with all but one of the 10 recommendations.\n\nIt disagreed on a part of a recommendation to give binding advice to taxpayers — a move that would possibly help minimise tax disputes — noting that the law was already binding but that “to the extent advice would be about the application of the commissioner’s general power of administration, the ATO does not have the ability to give binding advi", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7518589496612549}
+{"content": "\n\nReading Connections\n\nReading Connections is for students in 6th-8th grade.  We use the READ 180 program to provide reading support and to improve the��foundation skills that are needed as students progress to more complex reading for their grade level curriculum.\n\nWhat is READ 180?\n\n\nWhat skills do students develop using READ 180?\n\nREAD 180 is designed to help your child develop and improve their skills in the following areas:\n\n• Phonics: The lowest-level students in READ 180 get instruction in how to “decode” text by understanding how letters and spelling patterns stand for sounds in the English language.\n• Fluency: Fluency is the ability to read smoothly, accurately, and with confidence and expression. READ 180 students develop fluency through repeated readings of texts on the computer and teacher-guided reading and instruction. Audiobooks and narrated online readings model fluent reading for listeners.\n• Reading Comprehension: Students in READ 180 learn, practice, and are tested on a variety of skills and strategies (such as finding main ideas, summarizing the important parts of a text, and understanding causes and effects) that help readers better understand and remember what they read.\n• Vocabulary\n• Spelling\n• Writing\n• Global Perspectives: READ 180 readings focus on diverse people and cultures both within and outside of the United States.\n• College and Career Readiness Skills\n\nHow was READ 180 developed?\n\nResearch for READ 180 began in 1985, when Dr. Ted Hasselbring of Vanderbilt University developed breakthrough software that used each student’s performance data to customize a path of reading instruction. Research continued through the 1990s as it was put to the test in Florida’s Orange County public school system.\n\nWhat are the benefits of READ 180?\n\nREAD 180 is proven to work. Students who enter the program below grade level in reading gradually experience success and become better readers. Data from schools across the country show that many READ 180 students frequently improve their reading levels by 2–5 years of growth as measured by Lexile®*.\n\nWhat is a Lexile measure?\n\nA Lexile measure is a unit of measurement that is used to indicate the difficulty of text, such as a book. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an “L” after it. Higher Lexile measures represent a higher level of reading ability while lower Lexile measures represent a lower level of reading ability. Lexile text measures are based on word frequency and sentence length. All independent reading books and eReads in READ 180 are assigned a Lexile measure based on their level of difficulty. Software passages are also leveled. Students are assigned to the appropriate level in the software based on their SRI score, which measures their reading level. Lexiles are reported to you each year on the Georgia Milestones score report.\n\nHow is a READ 180 student’s reading level determined?\n\nEach student takes a placement test called the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI). The test uses the Lexile Framework® for Reading to measure how well the student understands the reading material on the test.* Based on the test results (the student’s SRI score), the student is placed into the appropriate level on the READ 180 Software and guided to choose books and materials at an appropriate level during independent reading time.\n\nThe Middle School Reading Connections Teachers are LaNessia Miller and April Smith.\n\nTranslate »", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.509835958480835}
+{"content": "What Is a Continental Breakfast ?\n\nPosted on December 29, 2019 · Posted in Blog, General, Personal\nPost Image\n\nMaybe you’ve stayed at a certain hotel specifically because you wanted the free continental breakfast. Maybe you have visions of huge pancakes and fluffy egg dishes. And maybe you were disappointed when presented with your options: a small bowl of fruit, a tiny banana-nut muffin, and a mug of coffee.\n\nTo some, this might seem downright skimpy, especially if you’re used to big, made-to-order options for your first meal of the day. To others, it might be just the right amount of food as they embark on their day.\n\nWherever you land on the divide, let’s take a closer look at this popular option for travelers here in America and abroad, and see how this free meal came into fashion.\n\nWhat is a continental breakfast?\n\nThe first known use of the term “continental breakfast” was in 1896 in “The Sanitarian,” but the idea had been around for a few decades before then as American hotels made an effort to appeal to the changing tastes of both the emerging middle class and European travelers visiting America.\n\nAccording to Merriam-Webster, a continental breakfast is defined as, “a light breakfast in a hotel, restaurant, etc., that usually includes baked goods, jam, fruit, and coffee.” What do these items have in common? They’re all shelf-stable items in portion sizes that are perfect for large groups of people.\n\nWhere does the term come from?\n\nThe term “continental breakfast” originated in Britain in the mid-19th century. To the British, “the continent” refers to the countries of mainland Europe. A “continental breakfast” describes the type of breakfast you’d encounter in places like France and the Mediterranean. It’s a lighter, more delicate alternative to the full English breakfast — a heaping plate of eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, beans, and roasted mushrooms and tomatoes.\n\nContinental breakfasts were also a stark contrast to American-style breakfasts, which boasted large helpings of eggs, breakfast meats, pancakes, potatoes, and toast. Europeans recoiled at the American-style breakfast, which they found too heavy and far too greasy. They preferred much more modest breakfast fare like fruit, bread, and pastries. So hotels aimed to please their more refined palates.\n\nWhy do hotels offer it?\n\nNot only are these items more cost-effective for hotels — you don’t need much staff to tend to a few trays of bagels, pastries, and carafes of orange juice in the lobby — but it’s also easier to manage than, say, cranking out omelets and flapjacks to order. (Of course, some hotels do serve a much larger, more involved, free breakfast.) And guests like the convenience of the food and the perceived value of getting something “for free.”\n\nWhy is it free?\n\nIn the traditional American payment model, hotel guests enjoyed all their meals in the hotel’s restaurant. The price of the meals were included in one bill (room and board) at the end of their stay.\n\nHowever, as guests preferred making cheaper and more flexible dining arrangements, hotels started adapting a European-style plan where meals were no longer folded into the cost of their stay. Guests only paid for their room.\n\nEventually, a hybrid plan emerged. It was called the “continental” model to set it apart from the other pricing structures. (It also sounds super fancy.) At a continental-style hotel, breakfast was now touted as being included with the price of the room, but guests were free to make their own arrangements for lunch and dinner. This model is now the standard in most hotels worldwide.\n\nSo next time you’re at a hotel and you nibble on a complimentary blueberry muffin while sipping your free coffee and reading your free newspaper, you’ll know how it all came about. – thekitchn.com\n\nNatural memory enhancer", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5526257753372192}
+{"content": "Does A Blind Person See Black?\n\nDo blind people watch TV?\n\nThe majority of people with visual disabilities watch four or more hours of television per day, which is almost as much as the general public, a new survey by Comcast and the American Foundation for the Blind found..\n\nCan blind people dream?\n\n\nWhat do blind people do for fun?\n\nWhat Do Blind People Do For Fun?Go to the movies. Nowadays, many popular movies have audio described versions available for blind and visually impaired audiences. … Attend a concert. Concerts are a fun activity for just about anyone! … Get pampered. … Go for a walk. … Play sports. … Go to the mall. … Cook a meal together. … Play a game.\n\nDo blind people live in darkness?\n\nThis is a circadian rhythm disorder affecting about 70 percent of people who are totally blind and have no light perception. … Unlike the popular belief, most of us do not live in complete darkness, and even the amount of light perception varies from one person to the next.\n\nWhy do blind eyes turn blue?\n\nPerson with a cataract in their left eye, and normal lens in the right. Not all people who suffer from blindness have ‘clouded’ eyes, but the opaque appearance may be related to the cause of their blindness. Eyes become cloudy as a result of the formation of scar tissue in the normally clear parts of the eye.\n\nWhat do people with no eyes see?\n\nSome blind people who have had eyes removed have reported seeing sparkles of colour and flashes of light even though they dont have eyes their optic nerves are picking up random signals from the brain.\n\nHow can you avoid going blind?\n\n10 Tips to Reduce Your Chance of Losing Vision from the Most Common Cause of BlindnessExercise regularly. … Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, especially green, leafy ones. … Drink coffee in moderation. … Consider taking a magnesium supplement. … Brush, floss, and visit the dentist regularly. … Don’t smoke.More items…•\n\nWhat does a completely blind person see?\n\n\nWhy do blind eyes turn white?\n\nCorneal scarring form burns or other trauma can make the whole of the cornea go white from scarring. All the other causes of blindness I can think of at the moment leave the blind person looking normal.\n\nCan we live without eyes?\n\nYou don’t need eyes to survive Some people may lose an eye due to an injury or have one removed because of cancer. In rare cases, a person could be born without them. While a lack of eyes can create many challenges for a person, they technically aren’t a vital organ for survival.\n\nCan you give your eyes to a blind person?\n\nIn very rare circumstances, a donor may be living. For example a patient who has an ocular tumor in the back of the eye may be able to donate the eye at the time the eye is removed. If an eye is blind and it is removed, but is healthy in the front, that cornea might also be used.\n\nWhat does legally blind vision look like?\n\n\nCan blind people cry?\n\nYea, blind people can also cry tears; I have ever seen a blind man cry. A variety of factors can lead to blindness, but in general, the lacrimal gland will not be damaged. Therefore, though they are unable to see things, they can cry tears. … But if their lacrimal gland damages, they can cry but no tears like most of us.\n\nCan blindness be cured?\n\n\nWhy do blind people wear dark glasses?\n\nMany blind people have facial disfigurations around their eye area. … By wearing sunglasses, blind people are able to make themselves more approachable and easier to interact with. While seeing people can easily maintain and sustain an eye contact, it’s often difficult for blind people to do the same.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8461499810218811}
+{"content": "Question: What Is Another Name For Take?\n\nWhat is another word for taking in information?\n\nIn this page you can discover 85 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for take-in, like: embrace, comprehend, receive, accept, comprise, apprehend, swindle, gather in, draw, defraud and furl..\n\nWhat means take?\n\nVerb. take (REMOVE) take (MOVE) take (ACCEPT) take to be/take for sth.\n\nWhat is the opposite word of listening?\n\nAntonyms for listen disobey, neglect, ignore, disregard, deny, speak, reject, turn away, refuse, dispute, forget, talk, miss.\n\nWhat is another word for take?\n\nWhat is another word for take?grabholdclenchgraspgripclaspsnaresnatchwrestcatch95 more rows\n\nWhat’s another word for take away?\n\ntake along; take away; pick up; fetch; collect; take; come round for; carry off; accompany; carry away; take in; see off; expropriate; snitch; steal; rob; purloin; swipe; pinch; snatch; make off with; filch; pilfer; cadge; collar; nick; go thieving; decrease; decline; shrink; remove; dwindle; wain; be shortcoming; …\n\nWhat grasp means?\n\n\nWhat embrace means?\n\n1a : to clasp in the arms : hug. b : cherish, love. 2 : encircle, enclose. 3a : to take up especially readily or gladly embrace a cause.\n\nWhat is the opposite of take away?\n\nWhat is the opposite of take away?addenlargeextendholdincreasekeeplengthenraiserefusereject4 more rows\n\nWhat is your take Meaning?\n\nThis idiom is way of asking someone for their opinion and ideas. Category: General.\n\nDo synonyms list?\n\nother words for doaccomplish.complete.conclude.end.execute.move.perform.prepare.\n\nIs taken or was taken?\n\nSimple tenses: “He is taken” is the passive voice of the simple present tense. “He was taken” – passive of the simple past tense (imperfect). “He will be taken” – passive of future tense.\n\nWhat is the antonyms for take?\n\nWhat is the opposite of take?refusedeclinerenouncerepudiaterefuse to receiveset asideabstain fromnot acceptrefrain fromdodge17 more rows\n\nWhat is grasp in education?\n\nGRASPS is an acronym for: Goal – states the problem or challenge to be resolved. Role – explains who students are in the scenario and what they are being asked to do. Audience – who the students are solving the problem for, who they need to convince of the validity and success of their solution for the problem.\n\nWhat is opposite word of away?\n\n▲ Opposite of being far away. close. near. nearby.\n\nWhat means take up?\n\n: to engage vigorously in a defense or dispute. take up with. 1 : to become interested or absorbed in. 2 : to begin to associate or consort with.\n\nWhat is a better word for has?\n\n\nWhat is the difference between take and takes?\n\nThe only difference between the verbs take and takes is the conjugation. It depends on which person precedes the verb. I take the food. … “to take” is a verb which conjugates in present tense to “takes” in third person singular but to “take” in first and second person singular and all plurals.\n\nWhat is it called when someone takes away your rights?\n\nTo disenfranchise is defined as to take away someone’s right to vote or to deprive someone of power, rights and privileges. …", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9742698073387146}
+{"content": "buffalo chicken dip egg rolls\n\nit's holiday season, which means it's party season! when I'm at a party or gathering with friends and family, I want to be able to walk around and chat with everyone. especially when I'm the host. what better way to allow for that than to make hand-held dishes? I have been making a lot of dishes using my bon COOK tartlet tray, but I've recently discovered the power of egg roll wrappers! you can literally stuff anything into them and then make a dipping sauce to pair.\n\negg rolls part I: my buffalo chicken dip all wrapped up and then dipped in homemade ranch dressing!\n\nbuffalo chicken dip egg rolls\n\nyields: 18-20 egg rolls prep time: 15 minutes cook time: 10 minutes\n\n\n½ cup ranch\n\n½ cup buffalo sauce\n\n1 (8 oz.) block of cream cheese, softened\n\n1 tsp. garlic powder\n\n½ tsp. onion powder\n\n2 (12.5 oz.) cans shredded chicken, drained\n\n1 cup shredded cheddar\n\n\nIn a large bowl, combine ranch, buffalo sauce, cream cheese and garlic & onion powders.\n\nUsing a fork, shred up the chicken and incorporate it into in the cream cheese mixture.\n\nMix in the shredded cheddar cheese.\n\nTo assemble the egg rolls, lay the wrappers diagonally on a flat surface.\n\nSpoon about 2 Tbsp. of the dip into the center of the wrappers.\n\nRolling from the bottom, roll halfway up, then fold in sides and roll tightly (but gently!). Seal with a drop of water and set aside.\n\nRepeat until all mixture is used up – it should fill about 12 rolls.\n\nHeat a couple inches of vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.\n\nCarefully lay the egg rolls into the heated oil and cook until browned and then flip.\n\n*I did about 2 minutes on each side and fried them up in 2 batches.\n\nTransfer the fried egg rolls onto a paper towel-lined plate.\n\nServe them hot alongside my homemade ranch for dipping!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7322545051574707}
+{"content": "Global training solutions for engineers creating the world's electronics products\n\nWire Assignments\n\nA wire can be declared and continuously assigned in a single statement - a wire assignment. This is a shortcut which saves declaring and assigning a wire separately. There are no advantages or disadvantages between the two methods other than the obvious difference that wire assignments reduce the size of the text.\n\nLater on we will discuss delays on assignments and wires. A delay in a wire assignment is equivalent to a delay in the corresponding continuous assignment, not a delay on the wire. Thus it could be necessary to separate the wire declaration from the continuous assignment to put the delay onto the wire rather than the assignment. Note that this is a subtle point that you are unlikely to encounter in practice!\n\nVerilog: Using wire assignments to describe an AOI gate module\n\n// Verilog code for AND-OR-INVERT gate\nmodule AOI (input A, B, C, D, output F);\n  /*  start of a block comment\n  wire F;\n  wire AB, CD, O;\n  assign AB = A & B;\n  assign CD = C & D;\n  assign O = AB | CD;\n  assign F = ~O;\n  end of a block comment */\n\n  // Equivalent...\n  wire AB = A & B;\n  wire CD = C & D;\n  wire O = AB | CD;\n  wire F = ~O;\n// end of Verilog code\n\nSo in this sample code, each of the wire declarations and its corresponding assign statement are effectively merged into one wire assignment.\n\nNote the use of a block comment in the Verilog code, rather than the line comments we have seen so far. A block comment may span several lines of code. Block comments may not be nested.\n\nPrev Next\n\nHenry Hastings\nLockheed Martin\n\nView more references", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8585649132728577}
+{"content": "Why I would do this lesson custom essay\n\n[pewslideshow slidename=anim2]\n\nThis is what my professor wants I will upload the document and you will have to add on to the essay portion. If you have any question please contact me Individual assignment: Design and explain one lesson plan. The lesson plan should include two objectives to help students acquire academic English in your discipline. This lesson and the group project, below, should be completely different. Lesson plan 1. Develop your lesson plan. The final draft of the lesson should be about 300-600 words in length (about 1-2 pages). a. Lessons should follow the format below rather than one from your discipline, and should include: i. A description of the learners. Who are they? Describe their ages, language level, learning situation, cultural background, preferred learning styles & strategies. ii. Curricular goals this lesson will meet. Use / adapt MN state standards for ELLs. [You are encouraged also to cite your content area standards. However, you only get credit for citing and applying the ELL standards.] iii. Two observable objectives. What should the learners be able to do with the language by the end of the lesson? (The learner will be able to….) 1. One objective should help learners improve their receptive skills (listening or reading) 2. One objective should help learners improve their productive skills (speaking or writing). iv. Evaluation. How will you observe that the student has met the two objectives? What qualities are you looking for? v. A purpose for the lesson. How will meeting the goal help the learner? vi. Suggested tasks, and class activities: 1. Lesson introduction 2. Middle 3. Conclusion 4. Homework to be assigned. 2. Provide examples of materials you are going to use. This is in addition to the lesson plan. Allow for 600-900 words beyond the lesson plan. 3. Write a formal essay explaining your lesson in terms of our class. Discuss what choices you made, and why, and ground these choices in the readings from our class. Cite a minimum of six reading selections from our class in your explanation. For your final draft, write 900-1200 words (3-4 pages). PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT IT STAYS BETWEEN 900- 1200 WORDS Also I am going to give you the book that we use in class and you have to take quotes from the book here is the information about how to get the book materials. this essay is why I am doing the lesson that i want to do. – I will upload an EXAMPLE of a essay that was done.(please follower the example in format of the essay) – in the essay it should included 6 quotes from the book to support my lesson. – I am e-mailing you a link that as a e-book. http://www.coursesmart.com 1. in top left corner it will say log in 2. log in here is the information hean0901@stcloudstate.edu password anniebell63 3. go to bookshelf and click. Then you will see only one book and that is the book that you will need to use 4. you should use 9 or more quotes and make sure that you use different quote in the paper Also if you could make it sound like me that would be great and I will also upload materials of examples of lessons and essay from pass students that took his class that will help you see what the teacher is looking for. Also keep with what I have and just add to it and make it more about the students and use the comment for the teacher to expand on it.\n\n\n[pewslideshow slidename=anim3]\n\nUnlike most other websites we deliver what we promise;\n\n  • Our Support Staff are online 24/7\n  • Our Writers are available 24/7\n  • Most Urgent order is delivered with 6 Hrs\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9535617232322693}
+{"content": "Financial Capabilities\n\nFinancial Capabilities is a six-week series that meets two times per week.\n\nThe aim of the class is to empower students to make informed and prudent decisions when it comes to dealing with their financial situations.\n\nModule 1- Where does my (attitude towards) come from?  \n\nExplore your personal relationship and views of money and understand your sources and timing of income.\n\n\nModule 2- Where does my money go?\n\nInvestigate your spending habits as you construct a total picture of your finances.\n\n\nModule 3- Making changes with your money.\n\nConsider their financial goals and habits and how to use banks and financial intuitions.\n\n\nModule 4- How can I get money out of my situation?\n\nUnderstand the opportunities and pitfalls that come with debt as well as consider ways in which to increase your income.\n\n\nModule 5- Empowered to make tough choices.\n\nLearn how to deal with your debt situation and how to make positive changes moving forward.\n\n\nModule 6- Our Money. Our Future.\n\nExamine how choices today will impact your future and the future of your children.\n\n\n\n8:30 am - 10:30 am\n\nPhone: 360-578-4245", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995428919792175}
+{"content": "What is the best way to get rid of social media when you’re away from home in a different country and Facebook is really the only way to connect with them?\n\nMiriam Z.\nIf Facebook is the only way to communicate with home I wouldn’t completely get rid of it. But try and set yourself a limit (like 2 hours max a day).\n\nJames O.\nOn Facebook you have the option to 'unfollow' everyone.\nI have unfollowed everyone except close family and friends who I actually want to talk to.\nThis also works with groups you're part of. They stay on your account but won't show up on your newsfeed all the time and distract you from your important family.\n\nYou could delete the app for Facebook and have to log into the browser page each time.\nOver time you may change the habit of being constantly logged in and only check at a certain time of day.\n\nI've also got an app called ActionDash which I can set app time limits. For example I've set my internet browser to 2hrs limit a day so I'm forced to only go on for important things.\n\nHope this helps.\n\nKonstantijn I.\nI would say that just communicating with your family and friends through social media is perfectly fine. This is what the internet is for! Having no social media is just to avoid stress, and to avoid using up time you could be spending doing something better. Just use it wisely!\n\n\nChristyanna T.\nAirplane mode, don't think about how work or family is going, work on you. Be selfish while YOU are on YOUR vacation. The world wont burn down, your work wont collapse into anarchy if you're not there. Everything will be fine because your mental health will make your return all the better.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6609035134315491}
+{"content": "LINGUA: Italiano\nAUTORE Mariella Sgaravatti,Paola Zardini\nISBN 9788820660468\n\nPage précédente: La casa nera\nPage suivante: Codice della crisi dimpresa e legge fallimentare. Confronto normativo\n\n\n\nPassiflora possui ação sedativa e tranquilizante, utilizado como calmante natural, para proporcionar o bem estar físico e mental. “Passiflora é um fitoterápico que ajuda a relaxar e a diminuir os níveis de estresse e tensão Farmacia Eficácia. La passiflore bleue (Passiflora caerulea) est la passiflore ornementale la plus cultivée en France métropolitaine. La diversité des formes de feuilles chez les passiflores serait due aux papillons. Les lépidoptères Heliconius ont tendance à choisir certaines formes de feuilles pour y pondre. Passion flower is a plant used for making medicine to treat several conditions. Passion flower may have effects that are similar to benzodiazepines (for example diazepam []) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors or MAOIs (for example, selegiline).Passion flower has calming, sleep inducing, and muscle spasm relieving effects. Check with your health care professional before using herbs or herbal. see more; Synonyms Passiflora chinensis Passiflora mayana. Family Passifloraceae. Genus Passiflora are mostly tender tendril-climbing shrubs, with simple or palmately-lobed, generally evergreen leaves and showy flowers of distinctive structure with often colourful coronal filaments, followed by conspicuous fruits, edible in some species. Passiflore Dress. #D Belted coat dress with a slightly relaxed fit. Version A is a short-sleeved maxi dress, version B is a knee-length dress with long buttoned sleeves, and version C is a shirt. The pattern envelope contains a full size pattern and a detailed instruction booklet. The PDF pattern contains a full size printable pattern (A0 and A4/US letter formats) and an instruction file. Located in Dyo in the Burgundy region, Relais Passiflore has a balcony and garden views. This holiday home features a garden, barbecue facilities, free WiFi and free private parking. This holiday home includes 2 bedrooms, a living room and a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dining area, and 1 bathroom with a shower and a washing machine. For added convenience, the property can /10(36). 22/06/ · Clinical data. In a study of menopausal women, passion flower significantly reduced menopausal symptoms (ie, vasomotor symptoms, insomnia, depression, anger, headache, muscular/joint pain, numbness) in the third and sixth weeks of the study (P. 29/04/ · Description: The Passiflore dress and top is unlined with button closure, a-line silhouette, notched collar, set in sleeves (2 lengths available), and a D-ring are 2 dress lengths included in the pattern, as well as a blouse option. I made: Version B with short sleeves. Size range: (″″ hip measurement). I made: Size 36, no adjustments except lengthening the skirt. Passiflora Complex is a herbal tincture containing Passiflora incarnata and Avena sativ a. It is a food supplement which is particularly useful for supporting those prone to worrying or feeling ‘under pressure’, helping to maintain a healthy response to stress. Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to southern Brazil through Paraguay and northern Argentina. It is cultivated commercially in tropical and subtropical areas for its sweet, seedy fruit. The fruit is a pepo, a type of berry, round to oval, either yellow or dark purple at maturity, with a soft to firm, juicy interior filled with. Passiflore, fleur de passion ou grenadille (Passiflora incarnata). Plante grimpante à fleurs étonnantes, la passiflore fait partie de la famille des passifloracées. En phytothérapie, elle est connue principalement pour son effet calmant, pour améliorer les troubles du sommeil et pour atténuer nervosité et irritabilité. La passiflore contient plusieurs alcaloïdes et des sédatifs.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7171630859375}
+{"content": " docker vs openshift vs kubernetes\n\nYou can also think of OpenShift as a Kubernetes distribution managed by Red Hat. The next important feature refers to in-built monitoring through a database and application monitoring software, Prometheus. After the debate on OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker, we can note the hidden relation between them. DevSecOps – Dynamic Analysis DAST with OWASP ZAP and Jenkins. Containerization deals with this problem through bundling of the application code with configuration files, dependencies, and libraries for running it. In this 5 minute article, we covered the major differences between open-source Kubernetes and RedHat OpenShift distributions. Openshift is another popular Container management tool developed by RedHat. Docker Swarm emphasizes ease of use, making it most suitable for simple … But where is OpenShift in this equation? Let’s understand how Kubernetes and DevOps toegther make a perfect match! The working of the Docker platform is visible in two different editions. OpenShift limited installation vs. install Kubernetes (almost) anywhere. Others. Red Hat OpenShift 4 is the next generation of trusted enterprise Kubernetes platform. Another prominent difference point between OpenShift and Kubernetes comes up in terms of the web user interface. Users can install docker on various nodes termed as Docker hosts. Thanks for the Encouragement. Because, Single container is weak, and it is very difficult to overcome the Failover and Outage. Installing Amazon CloudWatch Agent and Collecting Metrics and Logs from Amazon EC2 Instances. You have to … The foremost aspect of the comparison battle of OpenShift vs Kubernetes is the base. The Docker community edition involves community-based support forums, and Docker Enterprise edition provides enterprise-class support. How to Integrate Jenkins SAST to SonarQube – DevSecOps. In OpenShift v2, gear orchestration, scheduling, and placement was handled by the OpenShift broker host. So, This platform is an on-premises Platform as a Service built with Docker Container and the Kubernetes. Till now, our discussion focused on reviewing the individual differences in OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker. Big Data You can also think of OpenShift as a Kubernetes distribution managed by Red Hat. Testability, isolation and reproducibility improve control over operations. Deployment and other Operational activities in Container-based application developments are in demand with Container Orchestration and Management tools. Kubernetes certifications are among the top 5 DevOps certifications. Furthermore, the assurance of high availability in Kubernetes leads to its popularity. Out of the box containers don’t run as root, and they have locked down every interface with auth. Guided approach leads to restricted options and loss of control over operations. Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise open source container orchestration platform. Even if they appear unrelated, you can learn to apply the functionalities of one in the other. Container Orchestrating Platforms: OpenShift is using Kubernetes internally for Container Orchestration while Docker is using Docker swarms. Then, Clustering is an important aspect of Microservices and Container-based applications. As applications in OpenShift v2 typically used multiple gears, applications on OpenShift v3 will expectedly use multiple containers. Because Docker Swarm is natively built to manage Docker Containers (Docker Swarm Mode). The transformations in the technical field tend to simplify legacy processes in almost every aspect. OpenShift is also a container platform like Docker with the credibility of Red Hat as its developer. OpenShift can be considered as containerization software and a PaaS. Docker and Kubernetes are both open source tools. The symbiotic relationship between these three tools leaves little for comparison. This family of containerization software, OpenShift, is created by Red Hat. The most prominent answer is that OpenShift depends on Docker and Kubernetes internally. Since we have already taken note of the definition for both of these tools, let us dive directly into their differences. Since we have already found the definition of Kubernetes and the main reasons for its popularity, let us find about OpenShift. Hi Neeru, OpenShift is a component of the Certified Kubernetes program and shows compatibility with Kubernetes container workloads. Thanks for sharing such a good comparison. Click here and get Flat 90% Offer on Udemy sitewide. On the other hand, experienced DevOps teams could make the most of Kubernetes. Difference Between OpenShift vs Kubernetes The following article provides an outline for OpenShift vs Kubernetes. AWS Re:Invent 2020 – Virtual Cloud Conference! Also, Kubernetes ensures storage management for multiple container instances and the launch of new container instances. Kubernetes and OpenShift manage a cluster by doing a CRUD of these resources according to the previleges of the user doing the operation. Furthermore, the lack of awareness about OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker is also responsible for the lack of clarity about the boundaries of the platforms. First of all, definitions of Kubernetes and then the definition of docker can support this discussion on OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs docker. Dockers native features like Docker Compose are not supported. Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host, Separate installation of dashboard for Kubernetes, Facility of login page and ease access to web console. Traditional methods involved code development in a particular computing environment, and transfer of code development to a new environment resulted in errors and bugs. Other Technical Queries, Domain It provides an opensource toolkit for the creation of a fault-tolerant scalable platform meant for automation and central management of containers. Interview Preparation While OpenShift provides comprehensive documentation, Docker could face concerns of documentation being out of sync sometimes. As we have seen above, Kubernetes uses its basic features for effective container orchestration. It has its own practices like its non-kubernetes … Web-based User Interface (UI) is important for effective cluster administration. First of all, you should understand that Docker has certain limitations. The primary product of OpenShift is the OpenShift container platform that has Kubernetes in underlying architecture for container management. Various Linux kernel features, including cgroups and namespaces, as well as configurable virtual environments. There’s also no denying that OpenShift is the gold standard for security hardened Kubernetes. The chilly destination of confusion. Java Many developers and generally us till now did not understand the scope of any form of a relation between these three tools. Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration solution with DevOps. On the other hand, the DeploymentConfig are not implemented by controllers but through dedicated pod logics. So, the possibility of an intertwined, The future course of action for your business depends a lot on the stage of, If you are a DevOps professional working on any of the OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker, you should validate your skills with a certification. A user would have to build image streams, secrets management, and built to image in a lot of cases, unlike pure kubernetes which is much less … What’s New at Whizlabs: New Launches Oct, 2020. The base is Linux, albeit with each product running in a different environment. Web-UI. The most prominent answer is that OpenShift depends on Docker and Kubernetes internally. Docker is an open-source framework that helps in automation of application deployment through simple, portable, and lightweight containers. Possibilities of lag alongside massive upstream blockades, Issues of documentation being out of sync at certain times. Most important of all, Docker allows the containerization of mission-critical applications. You could not use knowledge about one platform when working with another platform. I am looking for: Thank you for your valuable feedback. The many branching tunnels and jargon on top of jargon it is characterized with can sooner or later lead you to a familiar destination that we have all been to. Project Management On the other hand, OpenShift utilizes an Ansible-based installer that requires minimal configuration parameters. No! Let’s find out! Before proceeding ahead on the comparison of OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker, let us know more about containerization. As a result, debates on the effectiveness of container tools such as OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker continue to rage on! We’ll take a look at the ease of implementation, deployment flexibility, out-of-the-box security, options with commercial support, and additional tools, which make it … Therefore, OpenShift moves a step ahead in the battle of OpenShift vs Kubernetes with the feature to visualize applications in real-time. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. Because of complex security requirements and configs specific to openshift, a user is prevented from pulling a docker image. Currently CRI-Oand containerd provide this. Can this much info stand for the comparison between OpenShift, Kubernetes, and Docker? Because OpenShift operates on top of Kubernetes, it consumes and works on the same et of resources and adds more type of resources. Complex applications can require multiple containers, thereby leading to challenges for developers. Newly inducted businesses could use the opinionated and guided support of OpenShift. A closer look at the features which make Kubernetes and Docker popular can be prominent comparison points in Kubernetes vs docker evaluations. As a result, debates on the effectiveness of container tools such as OpenShift vs Kubernetes vs Docker continue to rage on! Enroll Now: Docker Swarm Basics Online Course. It can help in running containers across multiple machines, scaling containers, and distributing load across different containers. Kubernetes provides low fault tolerance while Docker … They are related, though! Several major cloud service providers support Kubernetes, and even Docker added Kubernetes support to their container management platform. As Modern Software application development strategy moved towards Microservices and Container-based applications. PRINCE2® is a [registered] trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. You have entered an incorrect email address! How To Implement Security Testing In IDE. So, I hope this article will give you the basic knowledge and comparative knowledge of the above tools. As a result, you can achieve prolific savings in infrastructure, along with reduced labor and improved security. Traditionally, Crictl has been targeted for developer use cases, namely testing, validation, and debugging of container runtimes. Openshift UI has more interactive and informative then Kubernetes; To bake docker image inside Openshift has BuildConfig but kubernetes don't has any thing you need to build image and push to registry; Openshift has Pipeline where u don't need any jenkins to deploy any app but Kubernetes … Simple words would say, docker is for creating, running, and managing a few containers, and Kubernetes is the magic trick. If you decide to install … With V3, OpenShift added Docker as their prime container technology, and Kubernetes as the prime container orchestration technology, which will be continued in subsequent releases. Docker provides core features that enterprises need in a container platform, along with best practices for ensuring success. 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+{"content": "Where To Get House Rental Agreement\n\nBefore moving to a rented apartment, many landlords ask their tenants to sign rental agreements. A tenancy agreement is a contract between the tenant and the lessor that gives a tenant the right to reside for a specified period of time in a property that usually includes a tenancy period of 6 or 12 months. A contract between the landlord and the tenant binds the parties to the tenancy agreement. A tenancy agreement is a contract between a landlord and a tenant. In general, it is not necessary to notarize it. With JotForm, you can include digital signatures such as DocuSign in your rental agreement, which are usually legally binding. A rental contract can be a good option for landlords who focus on flexibility, especially in areas where rapid tenant rotation is possible, such as university cities.B. Often, the terms „lease“ and „lease“ are used in a synonymous way to mean the same thing. However, the conditions may relate to two different types of agreements. Leases and leases are legally binding. But each serves a completely different purpose.\n\nBelow, we will make the main differences between a lease and a lease. A long-term tenancy period allows tenants and landlords to adjust the terms of a tenancy agreement of more than five years and to agree in advance on things like rent increases and slight changes to the property. This lease creates the greatest security for tenants and landlords. A rental agreement is a legal contract used by landlords and landlords to describe the specific requirements of tenants who rent their property. Whether you`re renting a holiday home or a home forever, use this free PDF model for the House Rental Lease rental contract to complete the task of writing rental contracts. When tenants sign their rental agreement online, this model immediately creates secure PDF home rental contracts containing contact information, real estate rules and legally binding electronic signatures. You can then download these pdfs and print them for your documents or automatically send copies of the home rental contracts to the tenant. You can use Formplus payment integration to obtain payments for your equipment, while registering their consent to the terms of loss or damage. This also allows you to track the equipment you distribute for hire, as this is clearly stated in the agreement. Using a tool like the rentometer is useful for searching for rental price comparisons near you. It is important that your tenant understands with a rental agreement that the landlord has the option to increase the rent from month to month. Here are some useful definitions of legal language, often used in lease and lease forms: a roommate lease is a legally binding contract used by landlords and roommates to establish rules on rent and incidental costs, property damage and household obligations.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5496277809143066}
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+{"content": "CHCECE007 Develop positive and respectful relationships with children\n\nForum for students doing their Certificate 3 in Childcare Studies.\nForum rules\nIMPORTANT: Student's support in our forum will now be a part of our Premium Subscription service. This means students who have purchased a Premium Subscription will now be offered complimentary support in our Student Forums by us. This will only be available to students who have purchased a Premium Subscription. Click here to subscribe.\nPost Reply\nPosts: 23\nJoined: Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:09 am\n\nCHCECE007 Develop positive and respectful relationships with children\n\nPost by Newbie » Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:31 pm\n\nHi there :) I'm just after some feedback on my assignment. I really don't know if I have answered all questions properly.\n\nAny feedback would be greatly appreciated.\n\nShort Answer questions\n1. Briefly outline five (5) strategies that can be used by an educator to respond, and further enhance the development of positive relationships with children in an early childhood setting.\n\n- Ensure I have the child’s attention – Get down to their eye level\n- Use words that are appropriate to the child’s development: Make my words simple and clear.\n- Provide children with the same respect to children as you would adults\n- If a child does not comply assume that they have not understand and rephrase the sentence\n- Be aware of body language, when speaking to children your body language conveys more of what you really mean than your words.\n- Be aware of the level and tone of your voice as using a soft voice will be more effective in calming a child\n- Actively listen and respond in a reassuring and sensitive way\n- Allow the child to finish what they are saying before responding\n\n2. Identify three benefits of using positive communication with children in an early childhood setting.\nOne of the most important ways children learn to interact positively with others is by observing educators and parents engaging in positive interactions. By educators demonstrating good communication skills and positive interacts to children, they will watch and learn about social expectations.\n\nUsing positive communication with children helps children feel secure, which frees them to explore, play and learn.\n- Positive two-way communication is essential to building a child’s self esteem While children thrive with words of encouragement and praise, listening to a child boosts their self-esteem and enables them to feel worthy and loved.\n- By setting up clear and open communication pattern with the children in their early years, you are setting up good practises for the future.\n\n3. List three ways educators could gather information about children’s needs, interests and abilities. Once you have formed a list briefly explain how this information could be used to enhance relationships and inform program planning.\n\n- Talking with the individual child\n- Conversations with parents\n- Parents input and feedback forms\n- Information on child enrolment forms\n- Talking to other educators\n- Observations on what toys the child has been focusing on during play times and participating in during child’s play.\nParents and educators should work together to understand the child interests through experiences, and family culture. When educators understand children within the different contexts of their lives it assist them in planning experiences and routines that reflect children’s interests and abilities. This will also help to maintain consistency between home and childcare routines for younger children.\nEducators are required to make information about each child available for families and to show children’s learning in each of the EYLF Learning Outcome areas.\nHaving knowledge of each child’s cultural practises enables educators to provide environments and experiences which are inclusive of all children within the service which will help make them feel confident within themselves and provides the children with a strong sense of identity.\nBy using this knowledge and information educators can provide engaging experiences to further develop their learning and create trusting and respectful relationships with the children and their families.\n\n4. Briefly outline the benefits of applying developmentally appropriate limits to children’s behaviour. In your answer explain why these limits to behaviour must be applied within service policies and procedures.\n\nThe benefits of applying developmentally appropriate limits to children’s behaviour are that the response, which you use, will be appropriate to the child’s capability and level of understanding.\nThese limits to behaviour must be applied within service policies and procedures to safeguard your actions and provide guidelines for how to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children. They clarify what should be a consistent approach to behaviour strategies within the service and how to act as a role model.\n\n5. How would you encourage children to respect similarities and differences between each other? In your answer, identify three techniques you could implement in your daily practice.\nAs an educator I could:\n- Add posters within the play areas of different families wearing different clothes and cultures.\n- Play games with children to help them understand what it is like for a child that is blind (cover their eyes with a blindfold) or deaf (get them to cover their ears) and get them to do tasks to see what it is like.\n- Have group discussions with children on what makes them the same (eye colour, hair colour) and different (what they eat, their family structure, language they speak). I could record the discussion and display it in a chart for families.\n- For ‘ Harmony Day’ have the children bring photos of their extended families and a little information about their families heritage to display in the classroom and talk about similarities and differences.\n\n6. Children are learning how to control their emotions and therefore require good role modelling and practice to learn how to express their emotions appropriately. Consider how you would respond to two children wanting the same toy who are starting to become upset and agitated. Identify one appropriate strategy you would use for each age group below to resolve the conflict:\n• 0-2 year olds\nChildren at this age in development are learning to control their emotions. They may not understand the concept of ‘sharing’ with other children managing their emotions If two children are fighting over the same toy I would find the same toy and give it to the other child or find another toy one of the children could play with. Children are too young to understand waiting or sharing at this stage.\n• 2-3 year olds\nI would use a song or music to the young child to teach them how to manage their emotions and ways that they can understand of how to positively resolve the conflict. It will help to understand the importance of sharing, turn- taking and how regulate their emotions positively.\n• 3-5 year olds.\nBooks about (resolving conflict and sharing with peers) may be helpful in educating children about strategies that they can use when they feel certain emotions. It teaches children how they can positively regulate their emotions and how they should share toys or other items with other children. It teaches about the importance of sharing with others and building effective relationships with their peers.\n\n7. Give an example of how you might help a child make a decision.\nLetting children make choices and experiencing the natural consequences of their actions is an important part of helping children learn their limitations. Allowing children to make their own choices helps promote a sense of independence and agency that lead to children developing confidence and knowledgeable self- identity, giving a child a choice between two acceptable options makes children feel powerful and part of the decision making process.\nFor example 3-year-old Judy is busy with her block construction, when her educator Anne comes up to her and says, “I can see you are very busy there Judy, I am just getting paint set up so we can all paint pictures, would you like to continue playing with blocks or help us set up the paint table and paint a butterfly perhaps?”\nWe need to make sure that we take into account the child’s age as this will impact their decision making skills, it is important that we carefully consider the materials and resources that are provided in a program when choosing resources it helpful for us to consider the following\n- Are the resources provided for a child open ended, with the potential to be used a number of ways opposed to having one use or function as this will allow the children to make a decision on what they do with it.\n-Can children access and use it for themselves without help\n-Can it be used by one child or by a group?\nSo we need to be able to be there when needed to help and guide the children with what they decide to do and making sure we can let them learn from their decisions and consequences without posing any physical or emotional harm.\n\n8. Give two examples of how you might draw a child’s attention to positive aspects of their behaviour.\nAn effective way of encouraging good behaviour management skills is to acknowledge children when they make positive choices in managing their own behaviour. It is important to use positive reinforcement when a child is making positive choices, as this will help them develop effective methods of self- regulation.\nAn educator can either verbally or non-verbally acknowledge good behaviour. An example of non-verbal behaviour includes thumbs up, a high five, or a smile.\nWhen a child’s positive behaviour is acknowledged without them having to seek recognition or gratification, you demonstrate that you are paying attention and that you recognise when they make positive choices, which encourages the child to continue making positive choices.\n\n9. Identify two forms of behaviour management that you must not use and explain why these are unacceptable and to be avoided. Use the United Nations Convention Rights of the Child and the Education and Care Services National Regulations to guide your answer.\nThe following examples of discipline are considered serious breach of the department of Education and early childhood development Act.\n- Force Feeding\n- Depriving a child of food or drink (for example. Saying to a child ‘if you don’t eat your vegetables you can’t have any dessert”)\n- Excessive use of negative language, including “no, stop that! And ‘bad’.\n- Physically dragging a child\n\n10. Briefly describe why it is important for children to be able to express their ideas and stories in a variety of situations. Refer to the Early Years Learning Framework to guide your answer.\n\nIt is important for children to express their own ideas and feelings to make something, which is original, for example a picture, clay sculpture or house made from blocks. This enables the child to express feelings and ideas more easily than by using words.\nNot all children are able to communicate their ideas through verbal methods and by providing opportunities for children to express their ideas in a Varity of contents; a child will discover different ways of expressing themselves. This can be through music and art. From birth children communicate with others using gestures, language, sounds and assisted communication.\nIn the EYLF under outcome 5: children are effective communicators: Communication is crucial to belonging, being and becoming.\n\n\nUser avatar\nPosts: 13455\nJoined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:36 am\n\nRe: CHCECE007 Develop positive and respectful relationships with children\n\nPost by Lorina » Sat Nov 26, 2016 1:26 pm\n\nYes! You're on the right track! :thumbup:\n\nYou have given good details in your responses!\n\nPremium Subscriber\nPremium Subscriber\nPosts: 2\nJoined: Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:42 pm\n\nRe: CHCECE007 Develop positive and respectful relationships with children\n\nPost by » Sat Dec 12, 2020 12:07 pm\n\nHello Lorina,\n\nGot stuck with such answer. The booklet as provided has too many information but not the info you need for an answer. Please advice...Question as given below:\n\nLater in the day, Mitchell is playing in the wet sand, designing a complex city of roads and buildings. Sarah runs through Mitchell’s ‘city’ and wrecks it. Mitchell is silent for a moment then says loudly “I’m angry Sarah! You wrecked all of my hard work!” Sarah offers to help him re-build it and Mitchell reluctantly agrees.\n\na) What could you say to acknowledge Mitchell’s positive choices in dealing with potential conflict?\n\nb) How can you involve all children in developing limits and consequences for inappropriate behaviors?\n\nc) What are the benefits of allowing children to make choices and experience natural consequences of these (when there is no risk of harm)?\n\nd) Which service documents guide your actions when guiding children’s behavior?\n\nThank you\n\n\nUser avatar\nPosts: 13455\nJoined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 7:36 am\n\nRe: CHCECE007 Develop positive and respectful relationships with children\n\nPost by Lorina » Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:14 am\n\na) You could say something like \"Mitchell I really appreciate how you expressed to Sarah how you felt when she knocked down your city. It helps us to understand what you are feeling\".\n\nb) Brainstorm ideas for rules. Let all children have input etc.\n\nc) Helps children to learn about consequences for their action, gives children a choice.\n\nd) Behaviour Management Policy\n\nHope this helps!\n\n\nPost Reply", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9985722899436951}
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+{"content": "The first group was then proposed two alternative programs to combat the disease: Result: About 72% of participants voted for program A because they were risk-averse. Loss aversion – the psychological propensity that losses loom larger than equal-sized gains relative to a reference point – can occur in riskless and in risky choices, as argued in two seminal papers by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (Kahneman and Tversky 1979; Tversky and Kahneman 1991). According to Changing Minds, Endowed Progress Effect is based on the idea that when people feel they’ve made some progress towards their goal they feel more committed to continue and achieve it. Some common examples include: Holding onto a losing stock investment; Refusing to sell a home with a mortgage substantially above its market value Medical Xpress covers all medical research advances and health news, Tech Xplore covers the latest engineering, electronics and technology advances, Science X Network offers the most comprehensive sci-tech news coverage on the web. AI and machine learning, data collection, analytics and reporting. The pain of losing also explains why, when gambling, winning $100 and then losing $80 feels like a net loss … Why, though? Given real-life examples of the Endowment Effect in action; Get to know us a little better, from key figures to the mission that drives us. Ease and speed of an all-in-one platform to delight your customers with compelling experiences.​. They assign more value to your brand, begin to trust you and consider it as their loss if they don’t buy from you. Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under … Feature flagging, progressive deployment, KPI triggered rollback, server-side experiments. The first part of this article introduces and discusses the construct of loss aversion. The strategy is fairly simple: Highlight the new discounted price + display the referent, original price for comparison’s sake. Remember to send personalized recommendations to make your message more appealing and relevant. The desire to avoid a loss IMPROVES even a professional’s performance. However, these two factors alone don’t convince people to buy anything. For the second group, the programs were framed in a different way: Result: A majority 78% of respondents voted for program D. They were more risk-taking as 400 people dying was scary and less acceptable than the two-in-three chance that 600 will die. They cave in and buy. A fair warning: If you overuse these scarcity tactics people will catch up to you and may even feel cheated. If Program B is adopted, there is a 1/3 probability that 600 people will be saved, and 2/3 probability that no people will be saved. Below is a list of loss aversion examples that investors often fall into: 1. Loss Aversion. Next, practice restraint when applying the principle of scarcity and urgency, otherwise it could backfire. Thank you for taking your time to send in your valued opinion to Science X editors. Elephants found to have the highest volume of daily water loss ever recorded in a land animal, Sediment cores from Dogger Littoral suggest Dogger Island survived ancient tsunami, Study of river otters near oilsands operations shows reduced baculum strength, A possible way to measure ancient rate of cosmic ray strikes using 'paleo-detectors', Thermonuclear type-I X-ray bursts detected from MAXI J1807+132, Question About Electric Aircraft Propulsion. In their experiment, two groups of participants were asked to imagine that the U.S. is preparing for the outbreak of an unusual disease that is expected to wipe out 600 people. If it doesn’t inspire fear of loss and gain in equal amount, it will never convert. Make your website work overtime - so you don't have to. If Program A is adopted, 200 people will be saved. Some studies have suggested that losses are twice as powerful, psychologically, as gains. They also mention the exclusivity of their products, which makes the saved item even more valuable. So send a reminder asking them to use their points before they expire. We do not guarantee individual replies due to extremely high volume of correspondence. But that’s not enough because a lot of people—even when they are ready to buy—abandon their carts. If you’re going to use loss aversion in your digital marketing, go all-in and make it believable. Get more articles like this in your inbox monthly! Depending on whether the stock’s running low or the discount is time-bound, you can write a personalized email copy. If Program C is adopted, 400 people will die. They conducted a study to measure loss aversion in relation to how a problem is framed. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2'); }); Developed by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, prospect theory has been called the most influential theoretical framework in all of the social sciences and popularized the concept of loss aversion, which says that people prefer small guaranteed outcomes over larger risky outcomes. In 2018, for instance, the average cart abandonment rate was 78.65%, 10 Techniques to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment, first one sent within an hour of abandoning the cart, Tactics To Boost Your Ecommerce Conversions, Ziehen Sie Ihre User mit Ready-To-Use Widgets in Ihren Bann. Telling one… Result? After all, they know the aftertaste of losing what they’ve been eyeing up for so long will be too much to deal with later! Pre-configured templates for client-side experiments and personalizations. For anyone who’s looking to save money, discounts work as a huge motivation to buy something. You can be assured our editors closely monitor every feedback sent and will take appropriate actions. The pain of losing something is much more intense than the happiness of gaining something, even if it’s of equivalent value! Framing the option in terms of saving lives made people, A Comprehensive Guide to the 11 Trends Shaping Digital Customer Experience in 2021, AB Tasty named in the Forrester Wave: Experience Optimization Platforms, as a contender, 408 Broadway NY 10013, New York, United States, Abtasty-icon-professional-network-linkedin. The principle is prominent in the domain of economics.What distinguishes loss aversion from risk aversion is that the utility of a monetary payoff depends on what was previously experienced or was expected to happen. Most people will behave so that they minimize losses because losses loom larger than gains, even though the probability of those losses is tiny. part may be reproduced without the written permission. They show progress made by the customer by showing the progress bar + the number of questions left to answer. In this example, loss-aversion can explain the need to commit to insurance plans, even if the losses outlined in the plans are unlikely to occur. And while this was loss aversion in the context of health, the same is applicable in marketing, too. The 1979 paper that launched the theory is today the most cited paper in economics and is among the most cited in psychological science. More information: Kai Ruggeri et al. Let's see prospect theory and loss aversion through some real-world examples. The aim for getting perfect rank score is an “almost-impossible goal” and this will cause a lot of pressure on Brett. Prospect theory also states the importance of how the situation changes from our current reference point. Episode 9 of The Brainy Business podcast (which came out today) was the first Behavioral Economics Foundations episode, and it was dedicated to Loss Aversion. The concept of loss aversion invariably leads to the concept of risk aversion. This time, it's two similar biases, the \"endowment effect\" and \"loss aversion\": A man may say he would not pay more than $5 for a coffee … We now have a fair idea that people can do anything to dodge losses. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no Neither your address nor the recipient's address will be used for any other purpose. Physics Forums | Science Articles, Homework Help, Discussion, Science X Daily and the Weekly Email Newsletter are free features that allow you to receive your favorite sci-tech news updates in your email inbox. In it, after a list of GOOD examples for loss aversion (including those for real estate agents, financial institutions, accountants, business coaches, wedding retailers, and more) I give an example of a very ridiculous pop up that … They trigger negative, unpleasant emotions of pain, fear, and regret. The idea of loss aversion was first proposed in a paper entitled “Choices, Values and Frames” presented by the economists Kahneman and Tversky in 1984. So work it to your advantage and make your offers more noticeable and appealing. It’s hard to put items back, whether online or in real life, so it’s easy to end up buying more than we intended. Play upon people’s fear of missing out (FOMO). Now although the reasons to drop out vary, you can still recover your customers by mentioning the stock of each product in the shopping cart. In 2018, for instance, the average cart abandonment rate was 78.65%. Get weekly and/or daily updates delivered to your inbox. Variations of loss aversions are common place in business and investing. In all, 4,098 respondents who completed all the questions were included in the final analysis. Make your loss aversion real. You can unsubscribe at any time and we'll never share your details to third parties. Display stock level: When your customers realize the product they want may soon go out of stock, they will put their misery to an end by buying it right away! A/B test to see how your customers respond. Time. Participants were presented with 17 hypothetical decisions about potential gains and losses of money. The researchers found that Kahneman and Tversky's 1979 empirical foundation for proposing prospect theory broadly replicates in all the countries they studied: they report a 90 percent replication in areas directly testing the theoretical contrasts at the heart of prospect theory. Prospect theory But what most of us don’t realize is that solid social proof works because it also triggers FOMO. Signing off with the hope that this catalog of loss aversion strategies brings you results! What do they mean when they say something is so many light years away. Good question. A 12.5% spike in conversion rate as compared to those pages with no social proof. In the real world, it suggests that most people will derive less pleasure from winning £500 than they would derive suffering from losing £500. the practical value of prospect theory, loss aversion was cited in 5 of 10 examples where prospect the-ory could be observed in the real world (Camerer, 2000). English examples for \"loss aversion\" - There has also been other criticism of the notion of loss aversion as an explanation of greater effects. If so, loss aversion could mean you spend more than you planned. low compared with those of most real-world decision-makers. Loss aversion refers to our tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains. Led by a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health researcher, the new study in 19 countries and 13 languages replicates the original study that provided the empirical basis for prospect theory. Another brilliant conversion practice is coupons. Access the latest corporate news and press releases. And it's not difficult to find real world examples of loss aversion, right? For example: If you were given $1,000 to play a game, would you accept a 50 percent chance to double your money or a 100 percent guarantee of gaining an additional $500? For most people losses loom larger than gains. Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. And along comes the fear of losing to this anonymous person, which they don’t like. A/B tests, multivariate, split, multi-page, predictive, bayesian statistics. Seeing those accumulated points in their panel will motivate them to shop and collect more reward points to advance to the next level. It’s a reminder that the product has been ‘saved’ for them, but there’s no guarantee the stock’s going to last forever! Now over to how and when to use the endowed progress effect. The Plus, they also love to keep up with trends. The key is to avoid inciting fear: instead, focus on offering constructive information to your users. It makes people think of buying now rather than paying much more for the same product later on. First, let’s begin by outlining what loss aversion is. or, by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Loss aversion, the principle that losses loom larger than gains, is among the most widely accepted ideas in the social sciences. Here’s what I found on RetailMeNot’s homepage – a Forever 21 deal evokes as much fear (limited time offer) as it makes the visitor happy (Make My Monday). Unless you do that none of your discounts, coupons, reward programs, and cart recovery emails are going to move the conversion needle. \"Our study offers compelling evidence for continuing to consider prospect theory as a viable explanation of individual behavior, and therefore valuable for informing public policy around the world, in areas from financial decision-making to population well-being,\" says Ruggeri. The idea of loss aversion also includes, for example, the finding that investors are typically very reluctant to lock in a loss, right? And this phenomenon is called loss aversion. For example, if we have wealth of £100,000 but lose 20% – we will be very unhappy. Loss aversion is the tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains. Loss Aversion Strategies in Marketing. Loss Aversion is the bias that causes humans to feel the effects of losses as worse than gains of the same size ... My favourite real world example is used when selling new windows. Another possible explanation—a third of respondents were aware of the concept of loss aversion—was shown to have only a weak effect on their decisions. and Terms of Use. Some examples even suggest people can be twice as likely to prefer ... and this kind of powerful leverage is exactly how the concept of loss aversion … Think about being subtle and direct at the same time. Click here to sign in with In short, loss aversion describes the tendency in most people to favour avoiding losses over acquiring gains. Example 2 - Why loss aversion prevents us from taking financial risks. Ran Kivetz, a professor at Columbia Business School, said there are a lot of real-world examples of loss aversion at work. Your email address is used only to let the recipient know who sent the email. If Program D is adopted, there is a 1/3 probability that nobody will die, and 2/3 probability that 600 people will die. So frame your marketing messages to introduce/highlight imminent loss. Results of 1979 study—now confirmed in the new global study—gave rise to prospect theory and upended orthodoxies around rational choices. Prospect theory has helped explain why people under-use preventive care in health, how people misunderstand risk in health, and how to frame behavioral interventions for smoking cessation in terms of losses instead of gains, among many other health-related insights. This behavior is at work when we make choices that include both the possibility of a loss or gain. Now let’s take a look at an email sent by Ghurka. We are hiring - check our open positions. For first-timers you can make the program more interesting: Positively reinforce them by gifting them ‘welcome points’. Note how the individual chooses to not take the sure loss … Loss aversion refers to the tendency of people to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains. Some effects were less strong than in 1979, but the researchers say this outcome may be more a testament to the ease of accessing participants in 2019, rather than suggesting a flaw in the original study conclusions. A lot depends on how you frame the offer. It’s because losses loom larger than gains which also perfectly sums up the loss aversion theory. The new study led by Kai Ruggeri, Ph.D., assistant professor of health policy and management, is a robust test of prospect theory at a scale commensurate with its impact—and the first to test the theory in so many countries, languages, currencies, and to focus on the generalizability of the theory. This shows that a £100 gain is less than the £100 loss. 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+{"content": "Online Test\n\nComplex Regional Pain Syndrome - PT - 3 Hour\n\n\n\n1. Which of the following is NOT a common clinical feature of CRPS? (p.4-5)\n\n2. CRPS most often presents following a _______. (p.6)\n\n3. Prolonged limb immobilization and reluctance to move by the patient are risk factors for CRPS. (p.7)\n\n4. Widespread extremity pain that does not fit an obvious anatomic pattern is almost always CRPS. (p.8)\n\n5. CRPS is a clinical diagnosis based on _______. (p.9)\n\n6. It is recommended that patients diagnosed with CRPS be referred for a full psychosocial evaluation. (p.12)\n\n7. Which test is commonly utilized to assess for signs of CRPS? (p.13-15)\n\n8. Which of the following is NOT a test used for measuring autonomic function? (p. 15)\n\n9. Which of the following occurs during Phase 1 of CRPS treatment? (p.18)\n\n10. Interdisciplinary programs are the gold standard of treatment for individuals with chronic pain who have not responded to less intensive modes of treatment. (p.19)\n\n11. Which of the following is NOT an active therapy used to treat CRPS? (p.25-29)\n\n12. In most cases, analgesic treatment of CRPS should begin with _______. (p.35)\n\n13. Which of the following invasive therapies is no longer recommended for the treatment of CRPS? (p.38)\n\n14. Individuals with CRPS can use biofeedback to self-regulate which of the following? (p.40-42)\n\n15. Which of the following is NOT one of the domains of CAM practices? (p.42)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9189842939376831}
+{"content": "Iran threatens to fully quit global nuclear non-proliferation Treaty\n\nIran is threatening to be only the second country – North Korea being the first – to withdraw from the landmark 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\n\nOn Monday, January 20, Iran’s Foreign Minister announced that they will leave the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European participants bring Iran to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over disputes related to the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA).\n\nIran’s announcement was in response to a January 14 statement from the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The joint statement condemned Iran’s decision to reduce its compliance to the JCPoA, taking the first step toward imposing sanctions on Iran and indicating possible escalation to the U.N.S.C.\n\nLayers of Nuclear Agreements\n\nThe NPT was created in 1968 and aims to “prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.” 190 countries are currently signatories. Israel, India, and Pakistan never signed and in 2003 North Korea become the only country to withdraw. The NPT is the largest nuclear agreement and is considered the foundation of international nuclear policy.\n\nOther countries have created their own nuclear agreements over the years. In 2015 Iran, the U.S., China, and several European countries negotiated the JCPoA. The agreement set limits on the types of nuclear material that Iran can possess, the number of centrifuges authorized, reactor types, and more. It also included guidelines on the sanctions and embargos to be imposed by the European Union, the US and the UN if Iran does not comply with the agreement.\n\nIn 2018 President Trump decided to withdraw the US from the agreement. Man-made uranium particles were discovered in Iran in November of 2019 at a previously undisclosed site. Additionally, Iran announced in July of 2019 it was enriching uranium beyond limits set by the JCPoA, indicating the country was slowly pulling away from its JCPoA commitments.\n\nOn January 5, after the US killed Iranian General Soleimani, Iran opted to withdraw completely from the JCPoA. The move prompted the European signatories of the JCPoA to issue the joint statement and potentially escalate the situation to the UN Security Council. Iran’s leadership has indicated that they may be willing to create a new deal but not under the current conditions.\n\nWhat Happens if Iran Leaves the NPT?\n\nThe NPT has mechanisms allowing for a country to withdraw if they feel that their sovereignty is under threat. Iran could claim, as North Korea did, that the U.S.’ recent actions have threatened them and follow the procedures to withdraw, in which case the UN might not have any recourse under the terms of the NPT. However, if Iran fails to satisfy the terms of the withdrawal they could be subject to additional economic and potentially military actions by the UN.\n\nHowever Iran withdraws from the NPT they will no longer be subject to the safeguards system that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) uses to verify compliance. In other words, the UN would no longer be able to monitor the type of nuclear activity going on in Iran.\n\nA December 2019 report by the Congressional Research Service estimated that Iran could potentially develop nuclear weapons in a timeframe of one year. The estimate included three months to create enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium. The report notes that the IAEA would detect any attempts by Iran to create a weapon. However, if Iran leaves the NPT, they are no longer subject to IAEA oversight. Theoretically, if uranium enrichment began last November and Iran leaves the NPT soon, they could have a weapon in close to nine months.\n\nWhether or not Iran leaves the NPT, they are likely to face sanctions for their withdrawal from the JCPoA.\n\nA Test of the UN\n\nThe UN’s legitimacy and effectiveness as a governing body in the international arena are called into question by the mere ongoing existence of the problems it is supposed to solve such as war, hunger, and displaced people. Iran’s threat to leave the NPT if their case is referred to the Security Council poses a difficult challenge to the agency.\n\nIf the case is referred and Iran follows through on leaving the NPT, then an already tense international situation will be further destabilized. However, if Europe or the UN agree to Iran’s threats and opt not to have the Security Council act on the matter then the authority of the UN is also challenged and could be somewhat diminished.\n\nIf European countries are able to negotiate a new agreement with Iran rather than send the matter to the Security Council that would likely create the best possible outcome, but that depends on both sides finding conditions they can agree on, which appears not possible at the moment.\n\nAlexis Chapman", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9956778883934021}
+{"content": "The hazards of an Foreign Marriage\n\n13 grudnia 2020\n\nFor some people, getting married away from their country might seem such as an international marital life to them. But before obtaining too enthusiastic about such options, it is important to enable them to keep in mind that intercontinental marriages usually fall into two categories: the compelled and the non-forced types. Of this two, the forced kind poses as being a bigger hazard to the traditional family structure than the non-forced kind. This is because marriage between two individuals who are part of different countries requires numerous legal strategies to ensure that they can be properly hitched.\n\nForced foreign marriages label the situation when two individuals simply get married through induce or discomfort. They could be imprisoned or required to live in independent rooms until the wedding is done. If the couple is wedded in another country, then this could possibly also be environment for divorce. In other words, it is actually perfectly suitable to marry through force if the person does not desire to be separated legally from his or her spouse.\n\nAnother type of international marriage, which is also considered as the pre-eminent danger for the institution of marriage, is that of arranged marital relationship. Arranged marriages might involve parents or perhaps relatives who pressure the young couples to get married. Actually even the mere suspicion of a wedded man or woman penalized connected to somebody from a unique country is plenty to marry through duress. The family of the star of the wedding and the soon-to-be husband, together with the friends of both the families, might also pressurize the couple to get married. This kind of a situation can have horrible consequences pertaining to the few.\n\nBut the many serious overseas marriage threats are the instances when the two persons who get married aren’t from the same country. For instance , an American who will be currently surviving in Canada and plans to get married for an Iranian female might experience problems. Not simply might the Iranian regulators deny the individual’s request for a visa, some might also imprison him or her and send all of them back to the united states to get married. Even if the couple manages to get married in another country, this sort of a marriage might not be recognized by the Iranian government. Consequently , no matter what sort of marriage you get into, it is advisable that you do hence from another country.\n\nWhen you enter an international marital relationship, you are not actually escaping the rules of classic marriage. A similar obligations that you would definitely face within a domestic relationship also apply. After all, you should share your home with your significant other, raise kids, and deal with everyday relationship issues including divorce. You might also have to adapt to the traditions of the country where you live since it might not always be simple for you to adapt to the way of life of the persons there.\n\nThere is the matter pounds. Most overseas marriages involve the exchanging of money. This is not always a problem, but when the exchange involving takes place with no stipulation drafted in the marital life contract, afterward there might be challenges on the lines of fraudulence or embezzlement. And since some countries vietnamese girls for marriage do not allow non-public transactions among its citizens, then the money exchange must take place beyond the purview on the law which is therefore incredibly risky. As a result, before starting away with a great intercontinental marriage, make sure both you and your wife are ready to put aside your dissimilarities and spend your time, money and energy in making the marriage work.\n\nA lot of international marriages fail since they were started on the Net. While the Web has presented a lot of advantages to people, in addition, it has made details easier for frauds and cons who want to take advantage of the condition. When you get involved with an international marriage, you are adding yourself at high risk. If everything tumbles apart, you might burn everything you have so far, including your family, belongings, property and in some cases your children.\n\nAlthough it might seem that being needed for an international matrimony is fairly risky, there are a lot of benefits involved in it. For one thing, there are countries all over the world that you can choose from. It is simple to fall in love with men or a female from Canada, Australia, Europe, South America or even Asia. Worldwide marriages have become quite popular today. But you must always remember that zero country could be taken as ‚home’ and that you need to be prepared to move around from a country to a new depending on where you feel comfortable.\n\nBrak komentarzy\n\nDodaj komentarz\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8599931001663208}
+{"content": "Finding Guides\n\nThe Museum has created research guides for collections that are frequently accessed or that have additional research potential. These guides provide concise descriptions of the scope and content, provenance and list of materials for each collection.\n\n\nAllen Lee’s “Maps on Stamps” Collection, donated in 1977, is 26 albums illustrating all of the features and types of cartography found on postage stamps.\n1959 First day cover, Vienna Philharmonic\nThe collection is a broad compilation of thematically organized stamps, covers, commemorative sheets, and more philatelic objects. Themes presented in the collection include composers, performers, musical instruments, festivals, and music industry. Dr.\nJascha Heifetz, Russian-born American violinist is associated with musical perfection. He became a U.S. citizen in 1925 and toured the world giving concerts. Heifetz’s specialized collection is about anything connected with music.\nThis collection is Malcolm MacGregor’s personally amassed collection of autographed stamps, covers, related correspondence, and ephemera.\nThe U.S. post office issued its first commemorative postage stamps for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, initiating a significant change in the postage stamp program.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9974234104156494}
+{"content": "Question: Are Pictures Haram?\n\nAre pictures Haram in Quran?\n\nTheological views.\n\n\nIs it haram to be a photographer?\n\nNo where Allah s.w.t mentioned it is haram , but if you use photography for the above four purpose or any one purpose it becomes haram. … Now coming to Hadith – You find N number of Hadith where Photography or drawing pictures/images mentioned has Lanat-Allahi (May the Curse of Allah upon you) not the word with Haram .\n\nWhy is it haram to draw pictures?\n\nDrawing is not haraam but making pictures if human beings as portraits is haraam because of two reasons: 1) portraits stir desire of what is temporary in the world, for example youth is temporary and we want to look young forever. We are repeatedly reminded in Quran to strive for the Hereafter which is eternal life.\n\nIs clapping Haram?\n\n\nWhat does Haram mean?\n\n\nIs wedding photography allowed in Islam?\n\n“Photography is un-Islamic,” Vice Chancellor of Darul Uloom, Mufti Abdul Qasim Nomani, told the Times. “Muslims are not allowed to get their photos clicked unless it is for an identity card or for making a passport.”\n\nWhy is art Haram in Islam?\n\n\nIs Photo allowed in Islam?\n\nHowever, ijtihaad cannot happen over issues that Allah (swt) or the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) gave clear instructions on, he said. “When we talk about pictures, it’s very clear that they are haram. … According to him, digital images are permitted in Islam.\n\nIs music haram in Islam?\n\n\nIs it haram to post pictures on Instagram?\n\nPutting picture on the internet itself is not haram for Muslim women. Of course in some circumstances, it will be haram to do so: For example, it is forbidden for Muslim women to put their pictures on the internet without Islamic veil.\n\nIs drawing anime Haram in Islam?\n\n\nIs it haram to draw eyes?\n\nHence, in conclusion, drawing upon the eyes is not permissible in Islam and thus what is considered to be permissible is when the painting does not include upon the eyes, the nose, the mouth, or even the fingers, as it is not a complete image, and thus it is not imitating the creation of God.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9638134241104126}
+{"content": "Vanadyl sulphate is derived from the trace mineral vanadium and can be found in natural foods such as soybeans, mushrooms and various types of seafood. It was only recently identified as being essential to humans.\n\nThe body only requires very small amounts of vanadium. High doses can be toxic and result in excessive fatigue. Most typical diets provide about 10-30 micrograms of vanadium each day.\n\nIn terms of specific bodybuilding benefits, vanadyl sulphate is mainly known as an “insulin mimicker”. It is said to have a tissue building effect by facilitating the motion of glucose and amino acids into the muscles at a faster rate.\n\nOn top of its supposed effects on increasing nutrient uptake into the muscles and keeping blood sugar levels balanced, vanadyl sulphate is also claimed to increase vascularity as well as blood flow to the muscle tissue.\n\nThis is similar to the claimed effects of nitric oxide supplements which are said to give the muscles that “pumped up” feeling both in and out of the gym.\n\nOn top of this, it is also claimed that vanadyl sulphate increases glycogen synthesis and storage.\n\nGlycogen is the stored form of carbohydrates in the muscle and in addition to keeping the muscles looking full and round, glycogen is an important energy source during intense weight training and cardio sessions.\n\nDoes these supposed vanadyl sulphate bodybuilding benefits really live up to the hype?\n\nBased on the evidence so far, it doesn’t appear that vanadyl sulphate promotes any measurable increase in muscle size and strength or a decrease in body fat.\n\nMost of the studies conducted to date have been performed on rodents, and even still have not shown any convincing evidence that the supplement will provide positive benefits for humans.\n\nIn one 12-week study containing 40 participants, there was found to be no positive correlation between vanadyl sulphate supplementation and an increase in lean body mass. On top of this, 20% of the participants in the study reported significant fatigue both during and after training while using the supplement.\n\nOn top of the lack of reliable studies demonstrating any real vanadyl sulphate bodybuilding benefits, the real-world evidence is severely lacking as well. The general consensus among those experimenting with vanadyl sulphate is that it provides very little to no effects at all.\n\nVanadyl sulphate was mainly popular as a supplement during the early 90’s and since then has mostly faded away.\n\nIf you check out the shelves at your local supplement stores you’ll find that very few even stock vanadyl sulphate supplements anymore.\n\nTypical doses are in the range of 30 to 50mg daily, however, I don’t see any reason at all to include vanadyl sulphate as part of your supplementation program.\n\nThere is no good evidence, neither in the lab nor the real world, that would suggest any measurable vanadyl sulphate bodybuilding benefits worth supplementing for.\n\nIn addition, if you are consuming a reasonable amount of vegetables and seafood in your diet then you should be receiving all of the vanadyl your body needs.\n\n\nTake the physique quiz", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8929862976074219}
+{"content": "How To Deal With The Differences In Your Marriage- Part I\n\nCompatibility is not measured by how many things you have in common, but is gauged by how you resolve the things that you don’t have in common. In other words, the real question is: how willing are you to work at solving your differences?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6483420133590698}
+{"content": "How to grow autoflowering weed\n\nAutoflowering plants or automatic plants are those that are not sensitive to photoperiod. Their smaller size and rapid flowering also characterize them. These characteristics make the autoflowering plants are becoming preferred, especially during the months of spring and summer, for outdoor cultivation.\n\nGrowing autoflowering weed:\n\nThe process of autoflowering is not complex, once you know the steps to follow and their characteristics, to get a healthy marijuana plant of good quality. In the first place, it is a priority to know what elements are necessary to plant autoflowering marijuana. We will need autoflowering seeds, a pot that has holes in the bottom of it for draining and the substrate. Grown indoors or outdoors, know that adjusting your light schedule will not affect these girls. These are weed strains that are not defined by sensitivity to photoperiods. You can not control the phases of growth and flowering with artificial lights.\n\nThe process to cultivate autoflowering\n\nThe first step is to introduce the substrate in the bucket or bucket. It must be completed at least 75%, although the fuller is better, even reaching 95%. Then water should be added, which is what is known as a leached process. The cultivation of autoflowering should be done in a space that is very humid. In the case of dry areas in the substrate, the roots may not grow well, causing disturbances in the growth of the weed plant.\n\nHowever, during the first phase of life, the growth period, of the plants, an excess of watering or overfertilization of the plant should be avoided. Being too generous with either can harm the autoflowering weed plant. It is similar to the consequences a plant undergoes when exposed to stress. It does not get to develop 100%.\n\nNext steps to cultivate autoflowering\n\nThe next step is to make a hole in the center of the substrate to plant the weed seed. Special attention must be paid to the upper part of the shoot during initial growth ensure it’s placed above the substrate line.\n\nSome growers believe that it is preferable to place the germinated seed in jiffy pods or small pots. Once too large for the container, they will transplant it to a larger pot when you see actual leaves. However, this process can harm the marijuana plant. The transfer can be traumatic and stressful for your young weed plant, so the process of growing an autoflowering plant should be done from the beginning in a single pot.\n\nIn the case of the autoflowering culture outdoors, the process is carried out with natural light. It is advisable to start the process when the weather is good. In Canada, this is usually the month of May approximately. We start ours indoors under 24 hours of light. When we can smell them, we move them outdoors.\n\nFrom here, it is essential to control the growth of the marijuana plant. It will be necessary to water them from time to time. How to know when to perform the irrigation? As simple as putting a finger in the soil of the crop and see if it is dry or wet.\n\nThe last step is the harvest of the plants. After between ten and fourteen weeks from the germination of the autoflowering seeds, the plant will present a large number of buds covered with crystals. The leaves that leave around the buds should be cut, and they should be left to dry in a room where the light does not penetrate and is not damp so that the buds do not generate mould or rot.\n\nAspects to take into account in the autoflowering culture\n\nThe first one is the shape of the pot, where you will grow autoflowering. Automatic plants will produce more or less depending on where and how they are grown. weed plant growth is limited by several factors. One of them is the autoflowering gene, which allows flowering after they have acquired maturity through the vegetative phase of growth.\n\nOn the other hand, the activation of this autoflowering gene will depend on other factors that will make it appear faster or slower. The most important factor and one that requires more attention is the amount of substrate that will use for the crop.\n\nAnother issue is that when the root of the autoflowering plant detects the top of the pot or pot, the plant begins to bloom. The longer it takes the roots to reach the bottom of the pot, the larger the final size of the marijuana plant will be, and the higher the production obtained.\n\nWhat about lighting for autoflowering plants\n\nIn terms of lighting, an appropriate combination of light should be offered to the plant to ensure the correct cycle between wet and dry periods. The plant will grow more with better health. When the growing process begins, it is advisable not to give too much light to the plant. This is important when the plant is very young. With indoor cultivation, low-power devices or bulbs will be used to allow the growth of the seedlings. As the process goes on, the power of the light will increase.\n\nWatering your weed plants\n\nRegarding irrigation, we have already commented that it should be avoided to water it in excess since it can negatively affect its growth. On the other hand, you can not put any nutrient to the automatic plants, until they have fully developed their four nodes. When that happens, the discharge of nutrients should be done gradually and incrementally.\n\nThe vegetative feed (nutrients/fertilizer) of the plant must continue until the growth cycle of the plant stops. In the case of autoflowering plants, this process occurs before flowering has started.\n\nWhen it comes to cultivating autoflowering is of vital importance the choice of genetics, which must be of good quality for proper development of the plant.\n\nFinally, the autoflowering plants are not designed to transplant from one pot to another. Therefore, the autoflowering seed should be placed directly in a pot after it germinates.\n\nBud S. Daily\n\nAdd comment\n\nYou found our secret drawer!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.841772198677063}
+{"content": "(488e) Initiation of Autocatalytic Surface Explosion Reactions\n\nGellman, A. J., Carnegie Mellon University\nMhatre, B. S., Carnegie Mellon University\nPushkarev, V., Carnegie Mellon University\nHolsclaw, B., Carnegie Mellon university\nLawton, T., Tufts University\nSykes, C., Tufts University\n\nAutocatalytic reaction mechanisms are observed in a range of important chemical processes including catalysis, radical-mediated explosions, and biosynthesis.  Because of their complexity, the microscopic details of autocatalytic reaction mechanisms have been difficult to study on surfaces and heterogeneous catalysts.  On surfaces, these types of reactions were originally discovered during studies of formic acid decomposition on Ni(110) and the mechanism has often been described as a vacancy-mediated surface explosion.  Autocatalytic decomposition reactions of tartaric acid (TA) adsorbed on Cu(110) offer molecular-level insight into aspects of these processes, which until now, were largely a matter of speculation.  The decomposition of TA/Cu(110) is initiated by a slow, irreversible process that forms vacancies in the adsorbed TA layer, followed by a vacancy-mediated, explosive decomposition process that yields CO2 and small hydrocarbon products.  Initiation of the explosive decomposition of TA/Cu(110) has been studied by measurement of the reaction kinetics, time-resolved low energy electron diffraction (LEED), and time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy (STM).  Initiation results in a decrease in the local coverage of TA and a concomitant increase in the areal vacancy concentration.  Observations of explosive TA decomposition on the Cu(651)S surface suggest that initiation does not occur at structural defects in the surface, as has been suggested in the past.  Once the vacancy concentration reaches a critical value, the explosive, autocatalytic decomposition step dominates the TA decomposition rate.  The onset of the explosive decomposition of TA on Cu(110) is accompanied by the extraction of Cu atoms from the surface to form a (6,7;-2,1) overlayer that is readily observable using LEED and STM.  The explosive decomposition step is second-order in vacancy concentration and accelerates with increasing extent of reaction.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9957045316696167}
+{"content": "Anthony Ejefoh Career Is a Masterclass in Entrepreneurial Nimbleness\n\nIn the realm of enormous business, it frequently takes a great deal of effort for things to occur. New items and administrations are the aftereffects of months and long stretches of work. Consolidations and acquisitions require a very long time to pound out. Working together, at that level, is a lot of like guiding a huge boat; courses are set cautiously on the grounds that it takes ages to transform them.\n\nWith entrepreneurship, nonetheless, that isn’t the situation. An entrepreneur can not just stand to be deft and sharp witted, yet it’s right around a prerequisite. With regards to clarifying why, Anthony Ejefoh’s who is known as ijobacypher profession is an extraordinary contextual investigation.\n\nA few spots will give individuals more admittance to circumstances than others. This is genuine even in this day and age, when individuals have an abundance of information and unending specialized devices readily available. However, for certain things, being in the correct spot is as yet a necessity.\n\nAnthony is a characteristic organizer, which serves him well indeed. Nonetheless, the systems administration and business openings in his region were restricted. So what did Anthony do? He gathered his sacks and went to Abuja, a spot that managed the cost of him a lot more chances.\n\nBeing stuck in a solitary endeavor may turn out great for certain individuals. They may be content with the gradual advantages that come, each drop in turn, from a generally safe, low-reward business. That sort of thinking is entirely fine for hazard unwilling individuals.\n\nRegardless of whether Anthony is more inclined to facing challenges than the normal individual is questionable, however one thing’s without a doubt: he’s not one to be stuck in one business. During his profession, he figured out how to assist a few organizations with developing incredible achievement.\n\nAt the point when it began troubling him that he got no open acknowledgment for the exertion he was placing in, he left on another endeavor of special entrepreneurship. He saw that the course he was on wasn’t serving him well, so he rectified it. It’s as straightforward as that.\n\nBecause of web-based media and the gadgets individuals use to devour it and make content for it, it’s simpler than at any other time to turn into a one-individual endeavor. It is, all things considered, what offered ascend to the marvel known as the influencer. Being a sharp client of online media, Anthony is very much aware of the relative multitude of advantages that accompany it, just as the tech that empowers it.\n\nThen again, he likewise knows there are a few things he can’t do all alone. That is the place where cooperation and coordinated effort come in, however not in the customary sense. Here, once more, Anthony puts his interesting twist on it.\n\nAs a finance manager, he is significantly more inclined to making groups when the circumstance requires the joined abilities of a few people. And, after its all said and done, he jumps at the chance to keep the group little, and he’s thorough with regards to guaranteeing everybody’s in the same spot in regards to the mission and the nature of work.\n\nBecause of this capacity and ability to wander into new business sectors and adjust his methodology, Anthony had the option to situate himself to accomplish greatest proficiency and jump on another open door at whatever point it introduces itself. That is what is the issue here, and it can profit numerous entrepreneurs who rush to take an action.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.554953932762146}
+{"content": "Top Ideas for Filling Your Blank Wall at Home\n\nWhen moving into or redecorating a home, there are certain things each room needs. For example, you know that the living room will need a couch, a coffee table and a chair or two. Pretty much every bedroom calls for a bed, dresser and shelves.\n\nThe walls, however, are a wide-open canvas that’s entirely up to the homeowner. The only thing certain is that leaving them barren and boring isn’t an option. Decorating the walls can be one of the most challenging interior design tasks — but also one of the most rewarding. At Chelsea Clock, we know the value of stately aesthetics, and we’ve put together some of our favorite home wall décor ideas to transform any room.\n\n1. Wall Clocks\n\nA home décor wall clock can be a statement centerpiece or an accent to the room’s larger theme. They’re also a functional decoration that keeps you on schedule. Larger clocks work well for energizing rooms while smaller clocks offer a more subdued atmosphere.\n\n2. Light Sconces\n\nThis is another piece of functional décor that fills the blank space and also provides high-quality accent lighting. Use them as mood lighting for the room or to call attention to artwork and displays. Hang the sconces next to mirrors if you really want to light up a room.\n\n3. Hanging Wall Maps\n\nA large map of a city, state, country or the world shows that you think beyond the walls of your home. Map collages are another option. You can make them interactive by marking the places you’ve been or plan to visit.\n\n4. Add Unique Storage Options\n\nEvery room can use a place to store books, display collectibles or keep supplies. But why install the same shelves everyone else does? Use floating shelves, ledges or built-in shelves and experiment with levels to create something that fits your tastes and opens up more floor space.\n\n5. Oversized Tapestries and Weavings\n\nIf you have a smaller room, a large patterned tapestry can command attention and set the tone. Even in larger rooms, these items are perfect behind a sofa or bed. Tapestries add a sense of softness and elegance to space — and they’re much easier than paintings to move or store if you ever decide to redecorate.\n\n6. Mount Your Television\n\nModern flat-screen televisions can easily be attached to the wall using the right brackets and mounting equipment. This fills up the wall, saves floor space and fosters a modern look. Add LED backlighting to accent the TV and reduce eyestrain.\n\nApartment with Hanging Pictures\n\n7. Create a Gallery Wall\n\nIf you have a large collection you want to display, the wall is a perfect canvas. You can hang clocks, paintings, vintage record albums, plates, tools and much more. Display the entire collection at once or mix things up by switching pieces from time to time.\n\n8. Large Wall Calendars and Whiteboards\n\nThis is one of our favorite home office wall décor ideas. (It also works well for kitchens.) An oversized calendar or whiteboard helps you stay organized without rummaging for notebooks. If you prefer a rustic look, go with a chalkboard instead of a whiteboard.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.612078070640564}
+{"content": "SteamSpy Continues to Operate Using New Machine Learning Algorithm\n\nIt turns out that news of SteamSpy‘s demise has been exaggerated. SteamSpy was one of the most widely-referenced analytic tools for Steam ever since it was created back in 2015 by Sergey Galyonkin. Valve recently changed its privacy policy on Steam, which meant that SteamSpy could no longer operate like it used to due to Steam making every user’s gaming library hidden by default.\n\nIn a recent blog post, Galyonkin confirms that SteamSpy is indeed back in business. He also clarified that the site was never shut down in the first place, only that its “old algorithm stopped working” and that he has been “busy creating a new one.”\n\nHe revealed that a proposal was sent to Steam so that SteamSpy could be given permission to keep its old algorithm running despite the new privacy policy changes. The only reply from Valve was a simple confirmation that the company received Galyonkin’s letter and nothing else.\n\nGalyonkin also explained the reason why he is going to keep the SteamSpy service running, despite the complications. He said: “…I received over two hundred emails and messages from developers telling me how SteamSpy improved their lives. There was an indie company from Berlin that managed to secure financing from the government for their niche title because they had the data to prove that this niche is big enough. The title got released and succeeded.”\n\nUnfortunately, the new algorithm developed by Galyonkin isn’t as accurate as the previous version. He said: “Many features of the site are still unavailable, but most of them will be coming back. I will keep on iterating the new algorithm while slowly bringing back the core functions of SteamSpy. It will take some time and it’s still possible that Valve will make another move to shut down the service, but until that happens, SteamSpy will continue to operate.”\n\nThat’s all great news for gamers, gaming journalists, and developers who have grown to rely on the SteamSpy service for work purposes and more. On the other hand, Valve’s new privacy policy settings could be considered a consumer-friendly move in protecting the data of users from being easily exposed, especially in light of Facebook’s recent controversial scandals.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7459414005279541}
+{"content": "Online Instructional Practices for Racially Diverse Student Populations in United States Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and Best Practices\n\n\nTeresa Mutahi (University of Florida, USA) and Stefanie Gazda (University of Florida, USA)\nDOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch015\nOnDemand PDF Download:\nNo Current Special Offers\n\n\nBoth individual online courses and fully online programs in the United States have gained widespread acceptance. They are also more diverse than ever due to students' demographic changes. There are multiple challenges to student learning and to instructor teaching, and in this chapter, the authors present literature on online learning challenges and possible best practices for faculty training, instructional design, course content, intercultural miscommunication, accessibility for students with disabilities, and social isolation. Use of inclusive teaching methods are recommended. These are methods that promote effective cross-cultural pedagogies including methods that create learning tasks that foster reciprocal learning about cultures, expose learners to multiple perspectives, and facilitate development of skills in global thinking and intercultural competence. Use of universal instructional techniques to address multiple learning styles and integrating multicultural perspectives in course content have resulted in student success, satisfaction, as well as reduced stress and social isolation in online classes.\nChapter Preview\n\n\nThe United States has been grappling with demographic changes in the general population that in turn extend to K–12 schools and higher education institutions. According to US census bureau projections, the population will increasingly become a racially and ethnically pluralistic society: in the coming decades, one in four is expected to be a race other than non-Hispanic white, and by 2060 that number is expected to be one in three (Vespa, Armstrong, & Medina, 2018).\n\nThe Hispanic population contributes to half of the nation’s population growth, and the number of Hispanic students at all levels of education has doubled in the past 20 years. By 2060, at least two races, Asians and Hispanics, are expected to double in population size. By 2028, Black or African American races will comprise 15.5% of the population, and the foreign-born population is expected to make up about 14.9% of the population (America Counts, 2017; U.S. Census Bureau, 2013).\n\nInstitutions of higher education in the United States have therefore seen drastic changes in their students’ demographics in both face-to-face and online enrollments. Universities and colleges are a great reflection of a state’s demographics as they admit a greater percentage of students from within state than from out of state. For example, the University of Florida (UF), the state’s flagship institution, has seen the undergraduate student population change from over 80% white in 1990 to about 57% in the Fall of 2017 (UF Facts, 2017).The state is characterized by a higher Hispanic or Latino population (24.9% compared to 17.8% nationwide) and an African American population (16.8% in Florida versus 13.3% nationwide) (America Counts, 2017). The trends at UF are similar to the national trends—the percentage of Hispanic/Latino students has increased dramatically since 1990 from about 6% to 20% across UF. Furthermore, the majority of the university’s admits are the top-half of the high school graduating class as freshman students (99.9%), and 94% of all freshman admits have a high school GPA of 3.75 or higher (University of Florida Common Data Set). This does not align with the notion that diverse students entering the institution affect the quality or that diverse students lack intellectual abilities. This population paradigm shift also coincides with a time when online learning has gained popularity (Seaman & Allen, 2013). Hence, this cultural shift calls for a collective responsibility for institutions to use instructional strategies appropriate across racial/cultural groups in both online and face-to-face classes.\n\nWith advancements in computer technology and internet penetration, online course offerings and enrollments have increased. Online courses have also been filling a major educational gap for the working population due to flexible class schedules (Cobb, 2011; Mancini, Ashwill & Cipher, 2015). In a study by Mancini et al. (2015), a bachelor of science in nursing program (RN-BSN) had ten times as many online students (3470) compared to on campus students (332) signaling a high preference for online courses for nurses in the working population. Online, nursing students were significantly older than on-campus students by about 5 years (39.48 vs. 34.97). Both online and on-campus nursing programs had similar educational outcomes with a similar percentage of students who failed or dropped out from the programs (Mancini et al., 2015). However, most studies (reviewed in Bawa, 2016) report higher dropout rates for online programs compared to on-campus programs, with Smith (2010) reporting dropout rates of between 40%–80% for online courses. Faruk and Giffin (2014) reported lower persistence (38%), lower average GPA (2.65), and 70% course completion for credit in online courses compared to 62% persistence, 2.8 average GPA, and 82% receiving course credit in face-to-face courses taught by the same instructor.\n\nKey Terms in this Chapter\n\nParadigm Shift: A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.\n\nCommunity of Practice (CoP): A group of people who share a craft or a profession.\n\nCommunity of Inquiry (CoI) Framework: Any group of individuals involved in a process of empirical or conceptual inquiry or learning experience through the development of three elements that are interdependent—social, cognitive, and teaching presence.\n\nDemographic: A section of a population.\n\nCollectivist Culture: Cultures that put more importance on family and work group goals above individual needs and/or desires.\n\nCultural Imperialism: Imperialism refers to the creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations, favoring the more powerful civilization. Cultural imperialism refers to the cultural aspects of imperialism.\n\nConstructivist Learning: A theory of learning that states that people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences.\n\nReciprocity: The process of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit.\n\nInstructional Design: The process of creating instructional experiences that make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing.\n\nFormative Assessment: Methods used to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course.\n\nUniversal Design for Learning (UDL): A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.\n\nIntegrated Multicultural Design (IMCD): A model that integrates multicultural content and diverse teaching, as well as learning support, into instructional design.\n\nCurriculum: A course of study in a school or college.\n\nCongruence: Compatibility; agreement, or harmony.\n\nProblem-Based Learning: A student-centered approach where students learn about a subject by working in groups to solve an open-ended problem.\n\nIndividualism: Emphasis of the individual over the entire group.\n\nComplete Chapter List\n\nSearch this Book:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9979010820388794}
+{"content": "\n\nThe Municipality’s Coat of arms\n\nThe first coat of arms was designed in 1986 when Mesa Geitonia was proclaimed a Municipality. The Deputy Mayor and the Architect Mrs Elenitsa Stavroulla were those who conceived and created it.\n\n\nThe Municipality's coat of arms illustrates the medieval cistern existing in the municipal area at the road junction between Marcos Dracos and Papathinodorou Papamichail streets. The two white doves symbolize peace.\n\nThe cistern is built since the Turkish occupation. It was then a water supply source filling its big reservoirs during winter months. The inhabitants used its water for drinking and cleaning purposes, giving animals water to drink etc. Water was carried home in jars (pitchers). The cistern ceased to be operational in 1959 when a pipe network for distribution of water to houses was built.\n\nIn 2003 the Municipal Council decided to launch a public procurement to modernize the Municipality's coat of arms. The graphic designer Mrs Souli Christou won the procurement and she was the one to design the coat of arms currently used by the Municipality.\n\nThe coat of arms stands again for the medieval cistern in a simplified version.\n\n  25 723 597\n  25 723 744\n  Γρίβα Διγενή 14, 4002 Μέσα Γειτονιά, Τ.Θ. 59596, 4010 Λεμεσός", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.996446430683136}
+{"content": "Massive cyberattacks against Ecuador government after Julian Assange’s arrest\n\nAccording to cyber forensics course specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) the government of Ecuador has faced about 40 million cyberattacks in retaliation for the decision to remove the political asylum to Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, which lead to his arrest by the British authorities last week.\n\nAfter remaining as a refugee at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for almost seven years, Lenin Moreno, president of Ecuador, decided to stop giving refuge to the cyber activist. Moreno argues that Assange breached their deal by intervening in the political affairs of other nations, in addition to continuing his cyber espionage activities.\n\nFollowing the arrest of Assange, several online platforms of the government of Ecuador began to receive multiple cyber attacks allegedly perpetrated by groups sympathetic to the founder of WikiLeaks, reported the cyber forensics course specialists.\n\nThe investigations carried out by the Ecuadorian government have revealed that most of the cyberattacks have originated abroad, in countries such as United States, Holland, Germany, Brazil, France and England.\n\nEcuadorian government officials added that the attackers sent a huge amount of traffic to a single server, saturating their bandwidth to eventually collapse the service. Javier Jara, of the Ministry of Telecommunications of Ecuador, argues that the attacks are directly linked to the arrest of Julian Assange.\n\nAccording to cyber forensics course specialists, the threat actors focused the attacks mainly on the central bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the President of Ecuador.\n\nFor now Assange is still detained in Belmarsh prison, United Kingdom. The founder of WikiLeaks could be extradited to the United States, where he faces charges of hacking against the government, or to Sweden, where there is a legal process against him for alleged inappropriate sexual conduct. If he was extradited to U.S. territory, Julian Assange could even be sentenced to the death penalty, although the British government has not yet confirmed whether Assange will be extradited to the U.S.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5462986826896667}
+{"content": "Top Machine Learning Techniques and Their Definitions\n\nWhen one technology replaces another, it’s not easy to accurately ascertain how the new technology would impact our lives. With so much buzz around the modern applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, it becomes difficult to track the developments of these technologies. Machine Learning, in particular, has undergone a remarkable evolution in recent years. Many Machine Learning (ML) techniques have come in the foreground recently, most of which go beyond the traditionally simple classifications of this highly scientific Data Science specialisation.\n\nRead More: Beyond RPA And Cognitive Document Automation: Intelligent Automation At Scale\n\nLet’s point out the top ML techniques that the industry leaders and investors are keenly following, their definition, and commercial application.\n\n#1 Perceptual Learning\n\nPerceptual Learning is the scientific technique of enabling AI ML algorithms with better perception abilities to categorize and differentiate spatial and temporal patterns in the physical world.\n\nFor humans, Perceptual Learning is mostly instinctive and condition-driven. It means humans learn perceptual skills without actual awareness. In the case of machines, these learning skills are mapped implicitly using sensors, mechanoreceptors, and connected intelligent machines.\n\n#2 Automated Machine Learning\n\nMost AI ML engineering companies boast of developing and delivering AI ML models that run on an automated platform. They openly challenge the presence and need for a Data Scientist in the Engineering process.\n\nAutomated Machine Learning (AutoML) is defined as the fully automating the entire process of Machine Learning model development right up till the process of its application.\n\nAutoML enables companies to leverage AI ML models in an automated environment without truly seeking the involvement and supervision of Data Scientists, AI Engineers or Analysts.\n\nGoogleBaiduIBMAmazonH2O, and a bunch of other technology-innovation companies already offer a host of AutoML environment for many commercial applications. These applications have swept into every possible business in every industry, including in Healthcare, Manufacturing, FinTech, Marketing and Sales, Retail, Sports and more.\n\n#3 Bayesian Machine Learning\n\nBayesian Machine Learning is a unique specialisation within AI ML projects that leverage statistical models along with Data Science techniques. Any ML technique that uses the Bayes Theorem and Bayesian statistical modelling approach in Machine Learning fall under the purview of Bayesian Machine Learning.\n\nThe contemporary applications of Bayesian ML involves the use of open-source coding platform – Python. Unique applications include –\n\n  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)\n  • Bayes Optimal Classifier\n  • Bayes Theorem for AI ML Modelling Hypotheses\n  • Bayesian Belief Networks\n  • Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Probability\n\n#4 Meta-Learning\n\nA good ML program would be expected to ‘perpetually learn’ to perform a set of complex tasks. This learning mechanism is understood from the specialised branch of AI ML techniques, called Meta-Learning.\n\nThe industry-wide definition for Meta-Learning is the ‘ability to learn and generalise AI into different real-world scenarios encountered during the ML training time, using specific volume and variety of data.\n\nMeta-Learning techniques can be further differentiated into three categories –\n\n  • Metric-based ML\n  • Model-based ML\n  • Optimizer Meta-Learning\n\nIn each of these categories, there is a unique learner, meta-learner, and vectors with labels that match Data-Time-Spatial vectors into a set of networking processes to weigh real-world scenarios labelled with context and inferences.\n\nAll the recent Image Processing and Voice Search techniques use the Meta-Learning techniques for their outcomes.\n\n#5 Adversarial Machine Learning\n\nAdversarial ML is one of the fastest-growing and most sophisticated of all ML techniques. It is defined as the “ML technique adopted to test and validate the effectiveness of any Machine Learning program in an adverse situation.”\n\nAs the name suggests, it’s the antagonistic principle of genuine AI, but used nonetheless to test the veracity of any ML technique when it encounters a unique, adverse situation. It is mostly used to fool an ML model into doubting its own results, thereby leading to a malfunction.\n\n#6 Causal Inference\n\nMost ML models are capable of generating answer for one single parameter. But, can it be used to answer for ‘x’ (unknown or variable) parameter. That’s where the Causal Inference ML techniques comes into play.\n\nMost AI ML courses online are teaching Causal inference as a core ML modeling technique. Causal inference ML technique is defined as the causal reasoning process to draw a unique conclusion based on the impact variables and conditions have on the outcome. This technique is further categorized into Observational ML and Interventional ML, depending on what is driving the Causal Inference algorithm.\n\n#7 Deep Learning Interpretability\n\nAlso commercially popularised as Explainable AI (X AI), this technique involves the use of neural networking and interpretation models to make ML structures more easily understood by humans.\n\nDeep Learning Interpretability is defined as the ML specialisation to remove ‘black boxes’ in AI models, providing decision-makers and data officers to understand data modelling structures and legally permit the use of AI ML for general purposes.\n\nThe ML technique may use one or more of these techniques for Deep Learning Interpretation.\n\n  • Model Tuning\n  • Regression\n  • Data Scoring\n  • Supervised Machine Learning\n  • Target Leakage\n  • Target Variable\n  • Text Mining\n\n#9 Graph Neural Networks\n\nAny data can be accurately plotted using graphs. In Machine Learning techniques, a graph is a data structure consisting of two components, Vertices (or nodes) and Edges.\n\nGraph ML networks is a specialise ML technique used to connect problems with edges and graphs. Graph Neural Networks (NNs) give rise to the category of Connected NNs (CNSS) and AI NNs (ANN).\n\nThere are at least 50 more ML techniques that could be learned and deployed using various NN models and systems. Click here to know of the leading ML companies that are constantly transforming Data Science applications with AI ML techniques.\n\nArticle by AIThority team writer via\n\nIf your business is still challenged by the remote working environment, why not get US to take the stress out of the equation!\n\nWolfe Systems are industry leaders with a strong focus on enriching our customer’s world through the use of technology. We are experts in understanding individual business models and our team will listen to you, work with you and create a support package tailored to your business needs, now and into the future. Contact us now!\n\n(Wolfe Systems are a partner to Dell and we have permission to use their content)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8173016309738159}
+{"content": "Significance of number 242\n\nSignificance of number 242\n\n\n · The meaning of number 242 reminds you to be honest in your relationship, and to do away with the lies and secrets that are keeping you from being truly close to your partner. Remember that secrets don’t remain secrets forever, and the sooner that …\n\n\n · What’s the Significance of Angel Number 242? Angel number 242 derives its energies from Root Number 8. This angelic sign asks you to maintain your humility. Don’t allow your successes to go into your head. You will achieve a lot if you can manage to keep yourself grounded. This angelic sign asks you to open your eyes to the possibilities around you.\n\nNumber 242 and Love. For the angel number 242 only genuine and meaningful love is towards children, he doesn’t pay attention to his love partner; he isn’t romantic, he is rather a practical partner. Number 242 has two or three real relationships in life, one becomes his spouse, and they usually have a …\n\n\n · Angel Number 242 Meaning. Angel number 242 comes with interesting numerology. Number 2 is mentioned twice to emphasize empathy. 4 meaning is that of a practical number. It speaks of clarity and light. Number 24 is number is transparency. It brings out the truth of issues which are hidden. 42 is a number of balance.\n\n\n · The angel number 242 also indicates that your twin flame is going to have all the positive and negative habits you have. Your life is going to change completely when you meet your twin flame. Your twin flame is going to come as a lucky charm in your life.\n\nThe number 242 reduces to the single-digit number 8. The energy represented by the number 8 resonates with — among other aspects — business, efficiency, and realism. It contributes the majority of the resonance represented by the number 242. The energy represented by the unique digits that compose the number 242 also contribute to the whole.\n\nLove and Angel Number 242. Generally, people with number 242 are not romantic, but they are protective and caring, they value family love above all and they would do anything for their children, in the first place. They are practical in life and so are they in love.\n\n\n · Detailed significance of 242 single digits. Angel number 242 contains a spectrum of energies of number 2, four (4), number 2. The Two in the message of heaven says that it is time for you to remember its main quality - the ability to find a compromise in any conflict of interests.\n\n242 (two hundred [and] forty-two) is the natural number following 241 and preceding 243. In mathematics. 242 is the smallest integer to start a run of four consecutive integers with the same number of divisors. 242 is a nontotient since there is no integer with 242 coprimes below it. 242 is a palindrome. In other fields. 242 is also:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9870825409889221}
+{"content": "Craig v Provo City\n\nCraig filed suit against Provo which was dismissed for failure to file a required bond. He then filed a second suit after filing the bond. The district court ruled the savings act, Utah Code 78B-2-111, did not apply to claims against government and dismissed on limitations grounds. The panel reversed and remanded. It held that while the statue governing claims against government entities is comprehensive, it not the exclusive source of law noting that the statute does not provide any causes of action nor rules of evidence which would utterly defeat any claim against government entities and cannot be what the legislature intended. The panel held that 111 applies because it applies to all cases unless otherwise provided, the government claim statute does not have any contrary provisions, and allowing suits under 111 does not impact the notice and filing requirements.\n\nKimbal v Department of Corrections\n\nKimbal appealed the denial of his petition for extraordinary relief. The panela affirmed. It held that because Kimbal faced an indeterminate sentence of life, there was no statutory requirement that he complete treatment and his restrictions on treatment arose from smuggling a gun into prison and bad disciplinary record which do not prevent treatment in the future. It also held that there was no due process violation at the parole hearing as Kimbal had the opportunity to challenge the evidence he did not receive before the hearing and knew the basis for the decision.\n\nHillcrest Investment Company, LLC v Department of Transportation\n\nHillcrest appealed summary judgment to Department on its breach of contract and unjust enrichment claims. The panel affirmed. It held there was no breach of contract as the contract contained no requirement to build a frontage road and its reference to the warranty deed which did contain language about building a road was only referenced to identify the property purchased and thus did not impose a duty to build the road. It affirmed n the unjust enrichment claim as there is a contract here and Hillcrest cannot use equity to negotiate a better contract than the parties did after negotiation.\n\nIn the Interest of B.K. and A.K. (J.K. v A.P.)\n\nJ.K. appealed the termination of his parental rights. The panela affirmed holding the evidence that J.K. went periods of up to 2 years without communicating with his children and evidence of minimal support were enough to prove the ground of abandonment. It noted that  J.K. he made no effort to call or write his children while incarcerated and thus incarceration did not excuse his failure to communicate.\n\nTillotson v Meerkerk (Salt Lake Tribune proposed intervener)\n\nTribune moved to intervene in the underlying defamation case to challenge the designation of the case file as private. The district court denied the motion. The panel reversed and remanded with instructions. It first held that Tillotson’s argument that the case is moot was without merit as the issue of classifying the file is still live even though the underlying case was dismissed. It next held that the district court failed to make any findings and thus meaningful appellate review was impossible. The case was remanded to enter adequate findings and conclusions supporting the denial of the intervention motion.\n\nState v Zazueta\n\nZazueta appealed her convictions for robbery and burglary and the revocation of her probation in another case. The panel affirmed. It held that the district court conserved the legally relevant standards and permissibly concluded the violent nature of the crimes and the high number in a short time outweighed Zazueta’s anger, depression and substance abuse issues.\n\nHamblin v State\n\nHamblin field for post-conviction relief arguing his trial and appellate counsel were ineffective. The distract court denied his petition and the panel affirmed. It held that his claims against the trail attorney were procedurally barred as they could have been raised in the direct appeal of his convictions. It held that appellate counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise issues of trial counsel ineffectiveness as trial counsel’s decision to impeach the complaining witness instead of recommending a plea deal was not deficient performance as the impeachment resulted in acquittal on several counts and was thus in the range of reasonable strategic decisions entrusted to trial attorneys.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.648331344127655}
+{"content": "[/left_column][right_column]a revolutionary film about a country in revolution\n\nby Mike Wayne & Deirdre O’Neill\nListen To Venezuela (125 minutes) takes the viewer into a contemporary revolution and extraordinary experiment in radical democracy and social justice. In Venezuela, ordinary people have rejected the savage neo-liberal capitalism that has been imposed the world over. In the west, democracy has been drained of any substantive connection with popular power and accountability over the powerful. In Venezuela, the once marginalised majority have become political actors in a story they have reclaimed from the Venezuelan oligarchy, western business interests and political domination from Washington. Listen To Venezuela builds a multi-leveled, visually diverse account of the struggle for social change, a struggle to build a different kind of society where human needs, not profit, are prioritised; a struggle whose outcome has implications for everyone.\n\n[left_column]Read two eassays about the film:\n\nthe dialectical image\nwriting history\n\n[/left_column][right_column]Buy the film for just £5 (including postage)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6644035577774048}
+{"content": "Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884 book)\n\nAuthor: Mark Twain\n\nGenres: Classic, Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Academic\n\nRating: 4.2 stars\n\n\n“The average man don’t like trouble and danger.”\n\nPlot (See Goodreads for brief summary)\n\nThis was not my cup of tea. I often struggle reading classics and following the plot thoroughly, and this was adventure after adventure with Huck & Jim and any other people, or ‘rapscallions’ that came along the way. But I loved the Huck and how his thought processes would be narrated. This novel deals with concepts such as racism, slavery, the morality between right and wrong – which evidently proved the hypocrisy of the presumably ‘civilized’ society that Huck wanted to escape from, among others.\n\nAs a reader, we can see how Huck, despite being in his teen and most rebellious years, grows into a more mature person by rejecting the beliefs imposed by society and going with his guts. It made me question the issues he had to face at the same time. I loved how Huck dealt with each situation he was unexpectedly thrown into with such cleverness. Every time he arrived at a community, which was always very different from the last community, he was able to come up with a meticulous background story and identity – how the hell does a nearly-uneducated boy come up with such ideas on the spur of the moment?\n\nFinally, the friendship between Huck and Jim is very particular. On the one hand, their relationship is limited by their strained situation (both being on the runaway). However, the fact that they each rely on each other’s company and see the benefits that the other has to bring enables them to develop an amicable and respectful attitude towards each other.\n\nWriting style\n\nThe prose was beautiful. Twain has a particular flair in his writing, and it was spot-on in this book. He approached each character with his distinctive dialect, according to his background and how he had been brought up. Huck, the protagonist, had a literate yet rebellious kind of language (if that makes sense) due to his tumultuous childhood and unable to fit into any society he was brought up in. Jim, the runaway ‘nigger’ (that’s how he is called in the book, as that is how he was addressed by everyone else) had an even more enhanced dialect, which made it harder to read.\n\n\nIf you have read my “Reading Facets” post where I talk about reasons why I read, you might know that I read this novel mainly for the purpose for educating myself on a classic.  This kind of reading does and has never come easy to me because a) English is my 3rd language (though ever since I became fluent in it I have thought and dreamed in English) and b) I am simply not used to these kind of books. However, despite that, with the aid of the internet and meticulous reading, it was overall a really good and particular read.\n\nWho would I recommend it to?\n\nI know that most of you handle English better, but I also know that many of you read for the pleasure of it. And that might mean reading other YA fiction or sci-fi novels that are topping the New York’s best-sellers list. But if you haven’t read this book, it’s a classic that you must read at some time. The dialect, moral implications and the oh so grand adventures will take your mind to a maze-like ventures alongside Huck and Jim.\n\n\nlet's chat:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9985616207122803}
+{"content": "Get Adobe Flash player\n\n\n\nHyperion University, Department of Psychology\n\n\nDOI: 10.15303/rjeap.2015.v6i4a6\n\n\n\n Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour which cause serious problems with relationships and work (Grohol, 2015).The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR, 2000) defines a personality disorder like “an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that differs markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment”. Those who struggle with a personality disorder tend to be inflexible, rigid, unable to respond to the changes and demands of life and find it difficult to participate in social activities.\n\n Personality disorders usually begin in the teenage years or early adulthood and causes significant problems and limitations in relationships and social encounters.\n\n DSM-IV-TR has organized clinical assessment into five axes, addressing the different aspects and impact of disorders and personality disorders were designated to Axis II. Later, the mental health specialists considered that that there is no fundamental difference between disorders described on DSM-IV’s Axis I and Axis II and DSM-5 has shifted to a single axis system, which combines the first three axes outlined in past editions of DSM into one axis with all mental and other medical diagnoses ( Personality disorders fall within 10 distinct types: paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality, narcissistic personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder (\n\nKeywords: personality disorder, axis, DSM\n\nFULL TEXT:  download PDF...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8710026741027832}
+{"content": "saving retirement\n\nAssignment 1: Saving for Retirement\n\nYou may often wonder how to retire comfortably. The most common way is to contribute every month to a retirement account during your working years.\n\nIn a typical retirement plan or a savings plan, it is assumed that there will be equal payments each month and that any interest earned by the plan each month will be added back into the principal. In this way, the plan builds value based upon successive contributions and calculated interest.\n\nIn most retirement plans, your money is distributed across different types of investments—this is known as your portfolio. In this assignment, you will manage an imaginary portfolio and determine the optimum contributions you must make to each category in your portfolio to achieve your retirement goals.\n\nIn this assignment, you will use a simple version of a portfolio where your money is distributed across three categories: stocks, bonds, and cash. Refer to this module’s readings to review historical return values.\n\nCategory Average Annual Return\nStocks 6.0%\nBonds 2.1%\nCash 1.0%\n\nYour portfolio will be diversified across these three different types of investments. The amount that you decide to put into each will greatly depend upon what stage of life you are in. If you are young and just starting out in your career, you may want to have a high-risk portfolio with the hope of high returns in the distant future. However, if you are near the end of your career, you may want to choose a less risky portfolio.\n\nCreate your own portfolio that addresses the following:\n\n  • After retirement, how much will you like to have annually in order to maintain the standard of living that you expect to have?\n  • How much annually do you plan to set aside for your retirement plan?\n  • How much of this annual contribution will you want to invest in each of the investment categories?\n  • How many years will you work from now until you retire?\n\nClick here to download the retirement Excel spreadsheet you will need for this assignment.\n\nPut the values that you decided on above into the retirement spreadsheet.\n\nRespond to the following in a 3–4-page Microsoft Word document:\n\n  • What is your retirement goal? Can you realistically reach the goal that you have set? How long will it take to achieve this retirement goal?\n  • How much money will you need to save in order to achieve your retirement goal?\n  • This assignment assumes that the interest rates will remain constant for the entire life of the retirement plan. Is this a realistic situation?\n  • Are you planning to have a high-risk or a low-risk portfolio? Explain.\n  • What other factors related to contributing to the typical retirement plan must you consider when managing your portfolio?\n  • What impact will inflation have on your calculations?\n\nApply APA standards to citation of sources. Name your Word document as follows: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc. Submit it to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.\n\nAssignment 1 Grading Criteria Maximum Points\nExplained the retirement goal and a way to realistically achieve it within a stipulated time.\n\n\nCalculated the money that is required to be saved to achieve the retirement goal.\n\n\nExamined whether interest rates can remain constant through the life of the retirement plan.\n\n\nExplained in detail the choice of a high-risk or low-risk portfolio.\n\n\nExamined other factors that may contribute to the retirement plan.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUse Discount Code \"Newclient\" for a 15% Discount!\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6508052945137024}
+{"content": "Siber saldırılar ile mücadele eden güvenlik ekipleri için en değerli sorulardan biri “Nasıl anlarız?” ve bu soru ile el ele tutuşan bir başka soru daha var: “Ne zaman anlayabiliriz?”\n\n    In order to answer both questions, let’s talk about the general structure first. In the cyber security world, there is a scheme called “security kill chain” that explains the process well:\n\n    This diagram shows the path taken by an outside attacker to enter an organization or a system. During the reconnaissance phase, before interacting with the computer connected to the company’s network or system, information about that company is collected primarily by using special software and through other sources on the internet such as Google. After completing the preparations, the second stage, Exploitation, that is, in the intrusion, slowly initiates interaction with that company’s systems and security vulnerabilities are detected.\n    In order to detect the vulnerability of a company, it is necessary to make small tests on the structures, systems, solutions, software, applications, websites of that company with access to the Internet. The initial part of these trials is not distinguishable from an ordinary user, but can be noticed by the security scanner software that is installed later as those trials start to get serious and are made for certain points.\n    For a company, the best stage of detecting a cyber attack is scouting. For this, the company must have solutions that follow the requests to its systems very well. With these systems, companies can examine the details of alarms or place feeds called “honeypots” into the system. These baits are placed in remote corners of the system and when the normal user presses normal keys, they never log in. However, while the attacker is examining the system, they see a security vulnerability there and act. With that bait, companies can watch the attackers and learn what they are trying to do and how they attack. In this way, it can both find the answer and prevent the attack, which is still in the research and trial phase, before it has a serious effect, since it detects the infiltration effort at a very early stage.\n    Even though the computer that attackers first reach often does not contain the data they want to access, even being able to become an inside user is a very important start. Once they have managed to infiltrate, they spread within the system by accessing other computers and servers from an ordinary computer in the company with the movement we call “lateral movement”. In each phase of the attack, there is actually a loop seen in the kill chain scheme. There are different ways to be aware of each step of this flow chain. As security teams, our goal should be to be aware of it at the earliest possible stage because the earlier it is caught, the less loss is. According to an IBM made with Ponemon Institute, when the attackers are detected, they may have spent an average of 6 months in the system.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.768412709236145}
+{"content": "Van Gogh : Suicide or Murder?\n\nVan Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert in Holland on March 30th 1853 to a pastor father and was brought up in a highly religious and cultured environment.\n\nWhilst he showed an aptitude for drawing from an early age, the young man didn’t choose to become an artist until his late twenties instead beginning his career working for an art dealer travelling between The Hague, London and Paris.\n\nIn 1886, Van Gogh moved to Paris where his younger brother Theo, with whom he was close, lived. Theo, an art dealer, supported his brother financially and introduced him to a number of artists, including Paul Gauguin, Camille Pisarro and Georges Seurat. Influenced by these and other painters, Van Gogh’s own artistic style lightened up and he began using more color.\n\nIn 1888, Van Gogh rented a house in Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to found an artists’ colony and be less of a burden to his brother. However, tensions developed and on December 23, in a fit of dementia, Van Gogh threatened his friend with a knife before turning it on himself and chopping his ear lobe off.\n\nAfterward, he allegedly wrapped up the ear and gave it to a prostitute at a nearby brothel. Following that incident, Van Gogh was hospitalized in Arles and then checked himself into a mental institution in Saint-Remy for a year. During his stay in Saint-Remy, he fluctuated between periods of madness and intense creativity, in which he produced some of his best and most well-known works, including Starry Night and Irises.\n\nBy 1890 his condition had improved and he moved to Auvers-sur-Oise under the supervision of his consultant Dr Gauchet. Here the open air and vistas of wheat fields inspired van Gogh to produce his greatest works; though even at this point of better health he was still incapacitated by his fits of madness which stopped him working for long periods. Two months later he had committed suicide by shooting himself in the fields where he painted and died in his bed from his gun-shot wound.\n\nThis was the accepted truth until writers Naifeh and Smith produced a biography in 2011 citing that there is evidence to suggest that van Gogh was shot accidentally by a teenager whom he did not wish to take the blame.\n\nRene Secretan at the time was a young man of about 18 who dressed as a cowboy and loved guns.\n\nTheir logic calls forth the trajectory of the bullet which was at an angle and not straight as a self inflicted wound would be.\nVan Gogh had mentioned in previous correspondence with others of his distaste for suicide labeling it immoral and a sin.\n\nSo why would van Gogh protect this youngster who according to locals had been tormenting the artist? Perhaps he felt that he had been done a favour – having not the ethics to have committed suicide himself, he may have welcomed the accident as an end to his suffering.\n\nExperts have said that it would have been impossible for van Gogh to have walked the mile or so from the field where he said the shooting took place back to his lodgings and so the incident must have taken place closer; could he have used this as a rouse to protect his killer?\n\nVan Gogh experts all over the world have different opinions many accepting that his death was by suicide citing his history of mental health. Medical experts today have put his conditions down to a brain lesion he was born with which caused him to have epileptic fits; this coupled with his excessive consumption of absinthe (a kind of liquor) would have made the condition worse.\n\nPeriods of extreme dedication to his religion and later in producing artwork followed by deep states of depression and melancholy would today be diagnosed as a bi-polar disorder.\n\nCategories: News", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9953062534332275}
+{"content": "January 23rd, 1955 was a Sunday.\n\n\n\nPeople born on January 23rd, 1955 turned 66 this year (2021).\n\n\nAquarius (The Water-Bearer)\n\nJanuary 21st, 1955 - February 19th, 1955\n\nWow, over 24,000 days old!\n\nWhy not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 892 days, exactly on July 5th, 2023, people who were born on January 23rd, 1955 will be 25,000 days old!\n\n24,108 Days\n\n3,444 Weeks\n\n792 Months\n\nAge in days, hours & seconds\n\n\nBorn on January 23rd, 1955: When to retire?\n\nBirth 20 67 80\nChildhood & Education 20 Years Work 47 Years Retirement 13 Years\n\n1 more years of work\n\nYou have already worked for 46 years so far and have still 1 years of hard work to come until you can retire in 2022 at the age of 67.\n\n\nAge at start of work\nRetirement age\nLife expectancy\n\n\n... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 23rd\n\nBorn on January 23rd, 1955\n\n66 Years\nSylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann\nGerman politician\n*January 23rd, 1955, Berlin\n\nSylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann was born on January 23rd, 1955 in Berlin (capital and largest city of Germany) and is now 66 years old.\n\n66 Years\nRamón Lobo\nSpanish journalist and writer\n*January 23rd, 1955, Lagunillas\n\nRamón Lobo was born on January 23rd, 1955 in Lagunillas (municipality in the state of Zulia, Venezuela) and is now 66 years old.\n\n66 Years\nXavier Vives\nSpanish economist\n*January 23rd, 1955, Barcelona\n\nXavier Vives was born on January 23rd, 1955 in Barcelona (capital of Catalonia, Spain) and is now 66 years old.\n\n66 Years\nRaymond Ndong Sima\nPrime Minister of Gabon\n*January 23rd, 1955, Oyem\n\nRaymond Ndong Sima was born on January 23rd, 1955 in Oyem (city) and is now 66 years old.\n\n66 Years\nHoyt Yeatman\nAmerican visual effects artist\n*January 23rd, 1955, San Francisco\n\nHoyt Yeatman was born on January 23rd, 1955 in San Francisco (consolidated city-county in California, United States) and is now 66 years old.\n\nWho's birthday is on January 23rd?\n\nAlexander Cunningham (79)\n\nBritish army engineer and amateur archaeologist\n\n*January 23rd, 1814, London November 28th, 1893, London\nLinda Efler (26)\n\nGerman badminton player\n\n*January 23rd, 1995, Emsdetten\nAlyssa Lim (30)\n\nbadminton player\n\n*January 23rd, 1991, Milton Keynes\nGong Ruina (40)\n\nbadminton player\n\n*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County\nGennadiy Natarov (29)\n\nbadminton player\n\n*January 23rd, 1992, Kharkiv\n\nSame year: Born in 1955\n\n17 Apr\nPete Shelley (63)\n\nEnglish singer-songwriter\n\n*April 17th, 1955, Leigh December 6th, 2018, Tallinn\n7 Mar\nLasse Lindtner (65)\n\nNorwegian actor\n\n*March 7th, 1955, Bergen\n1 Apr\nStephen Mann (65)\n\n\n*April 1st, 1955, Leeds\n28 Oct\nBill Gates (65)\n\nAmerican business magnate and philanthropist\n\n*October 28th, 1955, Seattle\n8 Jun\nTim Berners-Lee (65)\n\nBritish computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web\n\n*June 8th, 1955, London\n\nBirthdays of famous people\n\nDate as a Roman numeral / digit\n\n\n\n\nM = 1000CM = 900L = 50X = 10V = 5I = 1\n\nFuture birthdays\n\nLeap year\n\nNo: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.\n\nJanuary 1955\n\nJanuary 1955\n\nw# Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su\n52 12\n53 3456789\n54 10111213141516\n55 17181920212223\n56 24252627282930\n57 31", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.93100506067276}
+{"content": "What are the 4 types of electromagnetic waves?\n\nThe electromagnetic spectrum includes, from longest wavelength to shortest: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma-rays.\n\nWhat are the 7 types of electromagnetic waves and their uses?\n\n\n  • Radio Waves: Instant Communication. …\n  • Microwaves: Data and Heat. …\n  • Infrared Waves: Invisible Heat. …\n  • Visible Light Rays. …\n  • Ultraviolet Waves: Energetic Light. …\n  • X-rays: Penetrating Radiation. …\n  • Gamma Rays: Nuclear Energy.\n\nWhat are the 4 types of electromagnetic radiation?\n\nThe electromagnetic spectrum\n\n  • Gamma radiation.\n  • X-ray radiation.\n  • Ultraviolet radiation.\n  • Visible light.\n  • Infrared radiation.\n  • Microwave radiation.\n  • Radio waves.\n\nWhat is the same for all kinds of electromagnetic waves?\n\nRadio, microwaves, UV, visible light and gamma rays have completely different effects, but they’re all exactly the same kind of thing: electromagnetic radiation (EMR). They’re just waves of energy travelling through space — or through things. … Radio waves have got the lowest energy on the electromagnetic spectrum.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  How do astronomers use electromagnetic radiation?\n\nWhat is the most important electromagnetic wave?\n\n\nWhat color has highest frequency?\n\n\nHow do you identify radiation type?\n\nTo determine the type of radiation (alpha, beta or gamma), first determine the background count rate, then the source count rate with no absorber. Next, place a sheet of paper between the source and the monitor. If the counts are significantly reduced, the source emits alpha particles.\n\nWhat animals can see radio waves?\n\nNo animals can see radio waves (that would require impractical anatomy) but insects have a trichromatic vision skewed toward the UV, and birds (and presumably, other dinosaurs) have well-balanced tetrachromatic vision that lets them see from UV up to extreme near-infrared.\n\nWhat types of radiation are not harmful?\n\n\nHow do you detect electromagnetic waves?\n\nTo detect the electric fields, use a conducting rod. The fields cause charges (generally electrons) to accelerate back and forth on the rod, creating a potential difference that oscillates at the frequency of the EM wave and with an amplitude proportional to the amplitude of the wave.\n\nWhat is the difference between waves and rays?\n\nWave is the actual disturbance travelling through the medium. It transmits energy through the medium. Whereas a ray is a narrow beam of light which are used to model the propagation of light through an optical system.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  What is stronger electromagnet or permanent magnet?\n\nWhat types of waves exist?\n\nWaves come in two kinds, longitudinal and transverse. Transverse waves are like those on water, with the surface going up and down, and longitudinal waves are like of those of sound, consisting of alternating compressions and rarefactions in a medium.\n\nWhat are 2 examples of waves we can see?\n\nHow can we “see” other parts of the spectrum?\n\n  • Radio waves. Giant satellite-dish antennas pick up long-wavelength, high-frequency radio waves. …\n  • Microwaves. Because cosmic microwaves can’t get through the whole of Earth’s atmosphere, we have to study them from space. …\n  • Infrared. …\n  • Visible light. …\n  • Ultraviolet light. …\n  • X rays. …\n  • Gamma rays.\n\nCan radio waves kill you?\n\n\nHow fast does an electromagnetic wave travel?\n\nGenerally speaking, we say that light travels in waves, and all electromagnetic radiation travels at the same speed which is about 3.0 * 108 meters per second through a vacuum. We call this the “speed of light”; nothing can move faster than the speed of light.\n\nA magnetic field", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9812078475952148}
+{"content": "Question: Are Babies Supposed To Throw Toys?\n\nWhy do babies like to knock things over?\n\nBefore babies can build things up, they actually like knocking things over.\n\nIt may seem like a pointless thing to do, but it’s actually really important for babies of this age.\n\nThey’re learning about cause and effect, they’re learning that they have the power to do things within their own environment..\n\nHow can you tell if a girl has autism?\n\nMany autistic children have difficulty with social interaction and communication. Some examples of common symptoms include: not responding to their name by the time they are 12 months old. preferring not to be held or cuddled.\n\nHow do you discipline a toddler?\n\n\nWhy do babies like to push things?\n\nHere are a few other reasons that they make great toys for baby: They help build gross motor skills. Push toys provide support for babies who aren’t quite ready to stand or walk on their own. … Like push toys, pull toys and ride-ons also boost balance and coordination.\n\nWhy do babies throw toys out of playpen?\n\nNew Skill. The main reason why your baby delights in throwing her favorite dolls and books out of her crib and onto the floor is because it is a new skill. Starting at about 7 months old, babies’ fine motor skills develop and they are able to grasp small objects in their hands and pick them up.\n\nIs throwing things a sign of autism?\n\nAutistic children sometimes express their emotions through aggressive behaviour towards others. Sometimes their aggressive behaviour can be directed towards themselves. This is called self-injurious behaviour. They might hit, kick, throw objects or hurt themselves – for example, by head-banging.\n\nHow do you get housework done with a baby?\n\n14 Sneaky Ways to Get Housework Done with a Baby in the HouseUse a baby monitor. … Multi-task. … Declutter before the baby arrives. … Create a schedule where you complete tasks in bulk. … Set a timer. … Get the whole family involved. … Make cleaning a game. … Have a catch-all basket.More items…\n\nHow do you handle a toddler hitting a baby?\n\nWhat should you do when your toddler hits?Restrain them physically. Your instinct may be to physically hold your toddler back when they are trying to hit others. … Remove your child from the situation. … Discuss alternatives. … Redirect. … Provide emotional support. … Prevent hitting before it begins.\n\nWhy do 1 year olds throw things?\n\nWhy Toddlers Throw Things or Hit There are a number of emotions that he goes through but is unable to express them. They could be anything from feeling tired to being hungry. Acting out is also a way to seek attention.\n\nIs extreme shyness autism?\n\n\nHow I know my baby was autistic?\n\nYour child doesn’t point to show you interesting objects or events. Your child doesn’t engage in back-and-forth baby babbling. Delay in smiling and laughing. Your child doesn’t make and keep eye contact with people.\n\nHow do I stop my baby from throwing toys?\n\nConcentrate instead on limiting what she throws and where she throws it with these tips.Show her what she can throw. … Discourage aggressive throwing. … Fasten her toys to her seat. … Tidy up together. … Set a good example. … Sit with her at mealtimes. … Use toddler-proof dishes. … Stick to small portions.\n\nCan you hold babies too much?\n\n\nCan I vacuum with my baby in the room?\n\nIf the decibel of sound being emitted from your vacuum is damaging to your ears, then it’s damaging to LOs ears. Babies may be more sensitive, but it’s sensory not actual physical damage. So no.\n\nHow do you discipline a toddler for throwing things?\n\nHow Do I Stop My Toddler from Throwing Things!Recognize the behavior is a call for help or trying to communicate something. … Don’t take behavior personally. … Be calm and confident as you respond (believe you are even if you don’t feel like it) … Communicate and give choices. … Follow through with any consequences. … Allow their emotional response.More items…•\n\nWhy does my baby throw things on the floor?\n\nWhy Babies and Toddlers Throw Food on the Floor Throwing food is totally normal for children between 8 and 18 months old. … It’s fun for babies and toddlers to drop or throw food on the floor. They are actually learning that they can make something happen. It may be even more exciting if there’s a dog there to eat it up!\n\nIs it normal for a 2 year old to throw things?\n\nThrowing Is Totally Normal Toddler Behavior Monti Kids parents frequently reach out to us and say “My toddler throws their toys instead of playing with them.” Your little one loves to experiment with cause and effect, and throwing is a great way to do so.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9978351593017578}
+{"content": "Math Games for Kids – Explode a Number\n\n\nAre you searching for a new math game for your kids to play with in order to teach them a new math lesson? “Explode a Number” is the game that we will discuss through this educational video – get yourself ready! Counting numbers is the first thing that kids learn in math and once they are good at counting, they move forward to learn the mathematical operations that are found out there. Along the learning process and knowing more about numbers, the kid will understand that one number could be the outcome of several processes done; it could be the answer for two numbers added together, two numbers multiplied by one another, two numbers subtracted from one another, etc. and that is exactly the main purpose of this math game.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6323791146278381}
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+{"content": "mgt 520 course ct9 6\n\nThere are a variety of techniques that can minimize performance rater biases. In your textbook, review “Case Study 6-2: Minimizing Biases in Performance Evaluation at Expert Engineering, Inc.” After reviewing the case and considering the course and textbook content, in a 4-5 page paper, not including the cover page and reference page, answer questions #1 and #2 (located at the end of the case study and as follows).\n\nQuestion #1: Provide a detailed discussion of the intentional rating distortion factors that may come into play in this situation.\n\nQuestion #2: Evaluate the kinds of interventions you could implement to minimize intentional rating distortion, and its reasons, that you have described. What do you recommend and why?\n\nYou will need to include a brief introduction of the case and critically evaluate the current situation of Expert Engineering Inc. It is important to present an in-depth analysis of the case and integrate sufficient support from scholarly resources throughout the assignment. Use suitable headings and subheadings to organize the work in an appropriate manner.\n\nBe sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing any sources referenced.\n\nYour well-written paper should meet the following requirements:\n\n  • Be 4-5 pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract, or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.\n\n\nSubmit Your Assignment and get professional help from our qualified experts!\n\nmgt 520 course ct9 6 was first posted on June 27, 2020 at 6:24 am.\n\n\n\nEssay Writing Service", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9943159818649292}
+{"content": "Achilles Tendinitis\n\nFind out more!\n\nThe Achilles tendon is the most powerful tendon in the human body. It connects the backs of your calf muscles to your heel bone and enables movement in the ankle.\nAchilles tendinitis is an overuse injury of this tendon and is most common in runners who have suddenly increased the intensity or duration of their runs. It’s also common in middle-aged people who play sports regularly.\n\nPain that occurs due to Achilles tendinitis will typically begin as an ache in the back of the leg or above the heel. This pain will occur after running or another sports activity.\nMore severe pain may occur after prolonged running, stair-climbing, or sprinting.\nTenderness and stiffness are also possible, especially in the morning. This feeling will usually improve with mild activity.\nYou should see a doctor when you start experiencing persistent pain around the Achilles tendon. You should seek immediate medical attention if the pain or disability is particularly severe.\n\nAchilles tendinitis can occur for many reasons, including but not limited to:\n\nSex-Achilles tendinitis is most common in men\n\nAge-the older you are, the more common Achilles tendinitis becomes\n\nMedications-certain types of antibiotics are correlated with higher rates of Achilles tendinitis\n\nMedical Conditions-those who have psoriasis or high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing Achilles tendonitis\n\nTraining Choices-running in worn-out shoes increases the risk of Achilles tendinitis. Tendon pain will occur more frequently in cold weather and running in hilly terrain can predispose you to Achilles injury.\n\nPhysical Problems-If you have flat feet more strain is placed on the Achilles tendon. Obesity and overly-tight calf muscles are also contributing factors.\n\nDuring your physical exam, your doctor will press on the affected area to determine the source of your pain. The physical exam will also help your Pain Relief Center physician determine the flexibility and range of motion in your foot and ankle.\nYour doctor may also order one or more imaging tests to assess your condition.\n\nSome possible imaging tests they may order are:\n\nMRI-this uses radio waves and has a strong magnet. An MRI can produce very detailed images of the Achilles tendon. \n\nUltrasound-an ultrasound uses sound waves to visualize your soft tissues. Therefore, an ultrasound can show the doctors at Pain Relief Center real-time images of your Achilles tendon. Color-Doppler ultrasound can even help evaluate the blood flow around your Achilles tendon. \n\nX-ray-this can't visualize soft tissues, like tendons, but they are helpful in ruling out other conditions.\n\nTendinitis responds well to self-care methods. If your early morning foot pain is a result of Achilles tendinitis, the pain will be localized to the tendon area, on the back of your ankle above the heel. Stretching this area several times throughout the day can be helpful in alleviating symptoms.\nOver-the-counter pain medications such as ibuprofen or naproxen (Aleve) will help reduce inflammation and relieve pain. Avoiding exercise for a few days or switching to an activity like swimming that doesn’t strain the Achilles tendon can help ease the pain.\n\nIt isn’t always possible to prevent Achilles tendinitis. But you can take measures to reduce your risk.\nSome of these measures are:\n\nIncrease your activity level gradually. Start your exercise regimen slowly and gradually increase the duration and intensity of your training.\n\nTake it easy. Avoid activities that place extra stress on your tendons. If you do participate in strenuous activity, warm up first by exercising at a slower pace.\n\nChoose your shoes carefully. The shoes you wear while exercising should provide adequate cushioning for your heel and firm arch support. This helps reduce the tension in the Achilles tendon. Replace your worn-out shoes.\n\nStretch daily. Take the time to stretch your calf muscles and Achilles tendon in the morning, before exercise, and after exercise.\n\nStrengthen your calf muscles. Strong calf muscles enable the calf and Achilles tendon to better handle stress.\n\nCross-train. Alternate high impact activities with low-impact activities. For instance, if you are a frequent runner, supplement some of your runs with swimming.\n\n\n\n\n\n    Translate »", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9927520155906677}
+{"content": "FREE doorstep delivery $100 (worth $10)\nReceive park discount voucher ($2 off) with every purchase\n\nThere are many traits that could have been used to describe the female characters in this book. The quote ‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’ is very important in particular to two of the female characters. ...The Great Gatsby Essay Also, Myrtle thinks she needs to be the center of Tom’s life and does not care if he has a family at home. It was easy to relate to him through the problems that he faced. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel. The reader feels bad for her because she has to choose from her present life with Tom, or the new life she might have with Gatsby.\n\nThrough all the story she is indifferent and set apart from the main characters’ twisted love vicissitudes.\n\nWhen Nick first sees Daisy's daughter, she says, \"I'm glad it's a girl.\n\nHe doesn’t feel like Daisy would so such a thing because they have been married for so long.\n\nFrom the first psychical description we receive about time we get the impression that he is an arrogant alpha male ‘Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch’. Daisy is extremely charming and many men fall for her because of the way that she speaks her mind and presents herself to others.\n\nThis indifference from Daisy makes Gatsby all the more pitiful.\n\nWhen she speaks to Wilson in chapter two she is disrespectful and as Nick reveals she speaks in a “course voice” to him when she orders him around. Daisy knows that what her husband is doing, but she still stays with him for the fact that they have a daughter together and for financial support. She's torn between two lovers, and both of them have their own reasons for loving her, and why she should choose them. This is an all too common occurrence, with women being understood only in terms of how they relate to men. The progression of women's role from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fences by August Wilson, and Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen demonstrate the change of the housewife driven culture to a feminist awakening. The Great Gatsby is shown to be self-centered in many parts of the book. This statement proves that all Daisy cares about is social standing, and wealth. She made bold moves that were done to start trouble. Each woman represents different parts of the spectrum of behaviors and class distinctions of being a woman. \"The Women of the Great Gatsby.\" Socially, women enjoyed enormous changes during this era as hemlines shortened replacing long skirts and corsets, hair was bobbed to resemble a more masculine style, and women attained the right to vote. However Fitzgerald has shown some fascination or fondness in Nick towards Jordan as he did in Daisy.\n\nIn comparison to Daisy, Myrtle is presented from Fitzgerald through Nick as well but in a different way.\n\n...The Great Gatsby\n\nGreat Gatsby has been a story popular with mass audiences for, In The Great Gatsby, Midwest native Nick Carraway arrives in New York in search of the American dream.\n\n...Analysis of The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan is married to Tom Buchanan and cousin to Nick Carraway.\n\nGatsby is not great because he is self-centered, obsessive and a liar. Highlighting the similarities within the texts, this positions readers to acknowledge that people are a product of their society.\n\nThat is why she is yearning for love, and Gatsby was there to give it to her. But are people really successful if they are unhappy without a person to love in their lives?\n\nHowever, although she is demanding and wants all good things she is not stopped or blamed. Nick describes the scene in her apartment and explains how Myrtle was acting.\n\nHe was smart and part of a wealthy family. Even though they live in the same circumstances, where women are below men, their reactions to it contrast greatly.\n\nThe Female Characters in The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a historical novel.\n\nThe greatest examples of Fitzgerald’s personal biography within The Great Gatsby are the amoral female characters which he wrote.\n\nIn the book he was described as a weakling, a servant, and a murderer.\n\nThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has many female characters with all having different attributes and a different significance and role in the novel. Gatsby’s overall character is not at all how he is at first... StudyMode - Premium and Free Essays, Term Papers & Book Notes. As mentioned by Meyer, Myrtle is clearly not a good example of a good love relationship. Please join StudyMode to read the full document. In the third chapter of the novel she has a conversation with Nick on this subject. When they are in New York she changed and Fitzgerald presents her in a very different way. Nick Carraway says, ‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’. Each female character in the novel differs greatly from one another. In the novel however this is not portrayed as a bad thing, similarly to Daisy.\n\n“Sitting on Tom’s lap Mrs Wilson called up several people on the telephone” this shows that she felt like she was in charge. All you need to do is fill out a short form and submit an order. The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is not a novel based around gender, but it is an available reading position.\n\nPeople that George Wilson associated with didn’t exactly... ...The character I have chosen to study is Jordan Baker.\n\nThe first paragraph describes how the narrator is going to visit his friend and cousin; by describing such a glamorous place I am automatically aware that his friend and cousin must be wealthy individuals. She is interested in Gatsby when they are reunited only because he was rich, as can be seen in the scene with her crying over the shirts. RQ1: How does gender play a key role in The Great Gatsby? our expert writers, Hi, my name is Jenn Myrtle will try to do bold things even if their affair is supposed to be a secret.\n\nThe Great Gatsby – How female characters are presented. Why-they’re things between Daisy and me... ...Discuss how the female characters are presented in the first four chapters ...While reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald one particular character stood out more than the rest. Retrieved 02, 2009, from Word Count: 3736 In the chapter they go to New York and she is able to act as if she really was with Tom and lived the luxuries which she wasn’t able to get with Wilson. Despite this Daisy is shown as a strong woman who is loved by two men in different ways. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy, The input space is limited by 250 symbols.\n\nNick moved to New York to become a sales person after World War one to take a job as a bond salesman. This shows that Tom must be a wealthy and powerful figure, football players in the modern age earn millions and this would be no different in the 1920’s. 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+{"content": "Knowledgeable Legal Guidance & Counsel\n\nFor Life's Bumps in the Road\n\nU.S. Supreme Court Decision Limits ERISA Plans’ Subrogation Rights\n\nOn January 20, 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued a significant decision that makes it more difficult for employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to obtain reimbursements of payments made to plan participants who have subsequently received third-party settlements. The decision is Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, U.S., 136 S. Ct. 651, 84 USLW 4046 (Montanile). In Montanile, the issue presented to the Supreme Court for its review was whether an ERISA plan has authority under the statute to place a lien on a plan participant’s general assets once that person has obtained funds from the settlement of a legal action with a third party and then dissipated the settlement funds.\n\nThe Supreme Court held in an 8-1 decision that an ERISA plan fiduciary may not seek reimbursement out of the third-party settlement a plan participant has received in circumstances where the participant has spent the settlement funds. Writing the opinion for the majority (Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a dissenting opinion), Justice Clarence Thomas found that ERISA provision Section 502(a)(3), which authorizes a fiduciary to bring a suit for equitable relief to enforce the terms of the plan, precludes such a suit for reimbursement where the plan fiduciary is seeking to attach the participant’s separate assets that are not traceable to the settlement funds.\n\nAs will be discussed below, Montanile involved an employee health benefit plan. Justice Thomas did not address whether the court’s ruling applies more broadly to other types of ERISA plans, such as pension or disability plans, that may seek to recoup benefits that could have been paid to participants over many years or even decades. Given the length of time during which such pension or disability payments may have occurred, it is even more likely that the payment recipients will have spent the payments they had received.\n\nOverview of Montanile Decision\n\nThis case arose from the medical expenses Robert Montanile incurred as a result of injuries he suffered when a drunk driver ran through a stop sign and crashed into his vehicle. Montanile was a participant in the National Elevator Industry Health Plan. The plan paid in excess of $120,000 for medical care Montanile required as a result of his injuries from the car accident. However, the plan’s provisions enable it to demand reimbursement when a participant recovers money from a third party for medical expenses. Indeed, Montanile did file a negligence claim against the drunk driver and obtained a $500,000 settlement. He netted $240,000 after paying attorney’s fees and repaying an advance from his attorneys.\n\nThe plan’s Board of Trustees sought reimbursement of the medical expenses the plan paid to Montanile, but his attorney argued that the plan was not entitled to any recovery. The parties entered into negotiations over reimbursement but never reached an agreement. Thereafter, Montanile’s attorney informed the board that he would distribute the remaining settlement funds unless the board objected within 14 days. After the board did not object within that timeframe, Montanile’s attorney paid him the remainder of the funds from the settlement.\n\nSix months later, the plan filed suit against Montanile in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida under ERISA Section 502(a)(3) seeking reimbursement of the amount it expended on his medical care. The plan sought to enforce an equitable lien against any settlement funds, as well as any funds that were in Montanile’s actual or constructive possession. Montanile argued that he had spent almost all of the settlement funds and that there were no specific, identifiable funds separate from his general assets against which the equitable lien could be enforced. The district court rejected that argument and held that even if Montanile had dissipated some or all of the settlement funds, the board was entitled to reimbursement from Montanile’s general assets. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision. The court of appeals held that the equitable lien was enforceable, notwithstanding dissipation of the specific fund to which the lien attached. The court of appeals determined that a plan can recover out of a participant’s general assets when the participant dissipates the specifically identified fund.\n\nCourts of appeals in only two circuits have adopted the position that ERISA plans cannot seek reimbursement of general assets under Section 502(a)(3) from participants unless they can trace their claims to specific funds in the participant’s possession. The Eleventh Circuit’s decision followed the majority position taken by courts of appeals in other circuits permitting an ERISA plan to enforce an equitable lien against a defendant’s general assets without having to satisfy a tracing requirement.\n\nThe Supreme Court’s decision in Montanile upholds the minority position. One point Justice Thomas made in his opinion was that a plan can only seek equitable relief under Section 502(a)(3), whereas ERISA contains other civil action provisions, such as Section 502(a)(1)(B), that more broadly allow plan participants and beneficiaries to enforce their rights under the plan that does not limit them to equitable relief. He further explained that equitable remedies enforce a right against a particular thing, rather than a right to recover money generally out of a defendant’s general assets. In addition, Justice Thomas found that an equitable lien could ordinarily be enforced against specifically identifiable funds that remain in the defendant’s possession or against traceable items that the defendant purchased with the funds, such as a car. However, he indicated that expenditure of the entire identifiable fund on non traceable items (like food or travel) destroys an equitable lien. Justice Thomas then concluded that the board could not enforce its equitable lien against Montanile’s general assets.\n\n\nThe decision in Montanile puts responsibility on health benefit plan fiduciaries to have in place processes to ensure that they seek reimbursement for medical expenses that they have paid to plan participants and beneficiaries promptly after those individuals have recovered those medical expenses from third parties in legal proceedings. It is especially important that these processes include a system for investigating and tracking expensive claims.\n\nBy commencing reimbursement actions promptly, the likelihood that third-party settlement funds will be wholly dissipated will be diminished. Nevertheless, as some settlements (especially settlement amounts) are reached in secrecy with nondisclosure agreements, it may be difficult for plans to gain sufficient information to trigger a prompt reimbursement effort. Furthermore, if lower courts interpret Montanile to apply to other types of ERISA plans, it may not be practicable for plans to quickly seek reimbursement before dissipation of pension or disability disbursements that were perhaps paid years earlier.\n\nIf you have a subrogation case and want the very best South Florida has to offer, look no further than Stephen Barker Law! We work with the best attorney’s to bring you the compensation you deserve. Reach out to us for a quote today and a more lucrative tomorrow!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8625078797340393}
+{"content": "Stylize your booking page and emails\n\nUse our Markdown toolbar to add style to your text on your booking form and confirmation emails. \n\nIn this article:\n\nAdd bold text\nAdd italics\nAdd hyperlinks\nAdd shorthand codes\nOther Markdown shortcuts\n\nAdd bold text\n\nHighlight the text you want to show in bold and click the B in the toolbar to make the text bold.\n\nYou can also add double asterisks around the text to make the text bold, ie **This text is bold.**\n\nAdd italics\n\nHighlight the text you want italicized, and click the I in the toolbar to make that text italicized.\n\nYou can also add single asterisks around the text to make the text italic, ie *This text is italic.*\n\nClick the link symbol in the toolbar to add a hyperlink. Enter the text you want to be clickable, and the URL, then click Insert link.\n\nYou can also use the formatting [your text]( to make text a clickable link. \n\nAdd shorthand codes\n\nUse the curly brackets { } in the toolbar to access a list of default shorthand codes, as well as any shorthand codes you've assigned to questions on your booking form. These can be inserted to customize your text to the booker.\n\nOther Markdown shortcuts\n\nAdd Headings\n\nAnother common use of Markdown is to create different heading sizes on a page. This helps to break up content and make it easier for visitors to read. You can do this simply by using # before a word or sentence to set it's size. There should be a space between the # and the first word. For example:\n\n### Heading 3\n\n## Heading 2\n\n# Heading 1\n\nAdd images to your booking page\n\nYou can add images that are hosted somewhere else with this formatting:\n\n\nWhere the link in the round brackets is where is where your image is hosted. This can be used to add images to your header/footer, booking form, or in your confirmation emails. \n\nMake an image clickable\n\nYou can make an image that is hosted somewhere is linked to an external URL with this nested formatting:\n\n\nIf you've uploaded a picture under General, you can make that image clickable in other parts of the booking page using the shorthand code {LOGO}.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9868298172950745}
+{"content": "Deep Learning\n\nTable of Contents\n\n\nDeep learning is incredibly powerful tool for extracting complex pattern from data using neural network having multiple layer in it.\n\nFollowing figure depicts what deep learning is and where it resides in the field of artificial intelligence:\n\nDeep Learning Introduction\nFigure: Deep Learning Introduction\n\nDeep Learning is sub field of Artificial Neural Network which in turn sub field of Machine Learning in Artificial Intelligence.\n\nArtificial Intelligenec: Any technique that mimics human behavior using computer or digital processor is known as artificial intelligence. For example: Robots, Chatbots, Spam Filter & Email Categorization, Face Recognition etc\n\nMachine Learning: Ability to learn by machine from examples or without being explicitly programmed is known as machine learning. For Example: Face Recognition, Stock Market Prediction, Voice Recognition etc\n\nArtificial Neural Network: Computational algorithm for machine learning inspired by human brain is known as artificial neural network. For example: Stock Market Prediction, Object Detection, Face Recognition, Outlier Detection etc.\n\n\nDeep learning has following applications:\n\n  1. Computer Vision: Object Detection, Object Recognition, Face Recognition etc.\n  2. Natural Language Processing: Speech Recognition, Language Understanding, Language Generation etc.\n  3. Bioinformatics: Understanding Biological Data, Finding Pattern in Biological Data etc.\n  4. Machine Translation: Translating text and speech from one language to another language.\n  5. Medical Image Analysis: Analyzing different images in medical field like Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI). Application includes brain tumor detection, cancer diagnosis and detection.\n\n\nDeep learning has following requirements:\n\n  1. Large Data Requirements: Deep learning algorithms are hungry for huge amount of data to succeed.\n  2. Hardware Requirements: Deep learning algorithms are tremendously parallelizable which means they can benefit from modern Graphical Processing Unit (GPU).\n  3. Software Requirements: Due to open source toolboxes like Tensorflow, Kaggle, Keras building and developing deep learning algorithms has become extremely streamlined.\n\nThese article series are focused on different aspects of deep learning with practical examples implemented in python programming language, Tensorflow & Google Colab.\n\nGoogle Colab\n\nBuilding Blocks", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7995991110801697}
+{"content": "In history, presidents’ first 100 days offers results ranging from baptism, a shooting, a death and war beginnings and endings\n\nPresident Abraham Lincoln is shown in a formal portrait, holding the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, year unknown.\nPresident Abraham Lincoln is shown in a formal portrait, holding the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, year unknown. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)\n\nOne started the country, another tried to preserve it, one was shot, and another was baptized — these occurrences all transpired in the first 100 days of a new presidential administration.\n\nOn April 30, Joe Biden will reach that point in time. Today, that juncture is considered a presidential milestone: the end of the political honeymoon and an opportunity for pundits to assess the effectiveness of the new commander in chief.\n\n\nBut, before Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, the completion of a president’s initial 100 days was not a newsworthy occasion.\n\nFDR saw this initial period as a unique window to begin transforming the economy of the financially crippled country brought on by the Great Depression. In a frenzy of activity in his early months, he signed 76 major pieces of legislation, issued many executive orders and began reassuring the nation through his fireside chats.\n\n\nHe set the standard for how his successors should commence their initial time in the White House. While this 100-day barometer has come to prominence in American politics since FDR, it has also been applied retrospectively to his predecessors.\n\nAn historic 19th century French exploit was the source for naming this presidential performance yardstick. It was originally referred to in studies about Napoleon Bonaparte’s legendary rise and fall in 1815. It took him 100 days to escape from exile, raise an army, regain power, be defeated at Waterloo and sent to a more secure location as a prisoner.\n\nPrecedent-setting occurrences at the outset of a president’s time in office were not unusual.\n\nFor George Washington anything he did was new and created a paradigm. No chief executive has achieved more at the beginning of their tenure. Likely, his greatest achievement was the establishment of the very office of president. This validated the new federal government as prescribed under the Constitution. He also initiated many of the customs and the code of conduct for those who occupy the position, most remain today.\n\nThe nation’s ninth president had no accomplishments. William Henry Harrison fell ill after his inauguration; 31 days into his term he became the nation’s first leader to die while in office.\n\nHis vice president, John Tyler, succeeded to the presidency as established in the Constitution. He quickly took the oath of office and assumed full presidential powers. This action secured the prescribed procedure and precedent for the seven future vice-presidents who took the reins after a sitting president died or was assassinated.\n\nSome chief executives had no honeymoon.\n\nFrom the start, Abraham Lincoln was swamped trying to circumvent a civil war. He was surrounded with quarreling advisers who gave conflicting counsel. After Fort Sumter’s surrender in Charleston, his quandary centered on how to stop the rebellion. Thirty-nine days after his 100th day in office, the Civil War’s first major battle at Bull Run took place. He never had an opportunity to adjust to his new position, let alone a moment to relax.\n\nLike Lincoln, Harry Truman had no time to learn on the job. He became president after FDR’s death on April 12, 1945. In his first 100 days, the European war ended, the atomic bomb was tested, the United Nations was established. He issued multiple executive orders and held frequent press conferences. On his 100th day, he was in Potsdam conferring with Stalin and other leaders. He is quoted as saying, “Being president is like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding or be swallowed.”\n\nThere was a scandal early on in one presidential administration.\n\nAndrew Jackson’s first 100 days, much like his personality, was combative. Not long after his inauguration, the Secretary of War was alleged to have had improper circumstances surrounding his marriage to Peggy Eaton. The “Petticoat Affair,” as it was called, unsettled the entire cabinet and its impact extended well beyond Jackson’s first 100 days. In the end, it resulted in the resignation of all but one member of the cabinet.\n\nMore recent presidents have also had memorable first months.\n\n\nDwight Eisenhower took a different path. He used his influence to promote the role of how religion and patriotism are interrelated. Religious overtones extended from his inauguration to becoming the first president to be baptized while in office just 10 days after becoming the commander in chief.\n\nJohn Kennedy, 87 days after entering the Oval Office, approved the invasion of a counter revolutionary group to invade Cuba. “The Bay of Pigs” was a failed mission that early in his presidency was an embarrassment. When Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford became President. Ford pardoned him 69 days later. Just over two months after assuming the presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot. His bravery and survival from a serious injury increased his popularity.\n\nThe chief executive’s initial days in office are an inconsistent indicator of the success or failure of a president’s tenure. In addition, enduring recollections of most presidents are commonly shaped long after the first 100 days are a remote memory.\n\nNevertheless, the public and media will be focused on Joe Biden’s first 100 days in the White House — his leadership and influence will be at a high point. How he uses his new power will be consequential.\n\nStolz is a resident of James City County.\n\nRecommended on Daily Press", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8637014627456665}
+{"content": "Pl sql developer Interview Questions | Glassdoor\n\nPl sql developer Interview Questions\n\n\npl sql developer interview questions shared by candidates\n\nTop Interview Questions\n\nSort: RelevancePopular Date\n\nNot unexpectedly, the manager was particularly interested in my experience in gathering requirements and creating designs.\n\n3 Answers\n\nBecause I had 12 years as team lead on a top priority application, I had good stories to relate about my experience gathering requirements and creating designs.\n\nWhat kind of design excersice did you have to present? something related to data modelling? I'm just curious\n\nIt was a high-level design for a loan application, including the architecture and data model for the application.\n\nWhat is the tnsnames?\n\n2 Answers\n\nThey asked me to write an Oracle procedure that would select data from 3 tables and update a 4th table. (handwritten, not in Oracle) This was to be completed in 15 minutes.\n\n1 Answer\n\nWhat is a connection pool? At what point are the connections within one established?\n\n1 Answer\n\nIF I would be interested in working as an Oracle DB Admin\n\n1 Answer\n\nWaht is an indexes how many type of Indexes?\n\n1 Answer\n\nWhat is the ascii code for line feed?\n\n1 Answer\n\nWhen would you use dynamic sql?\n\n1 Answer\n\nOne of the question was how do you compare the data between two tables or how do you see the difference of data between these two tables where both the table have same table structure ?\n\n1 Answer\n\nTell us why you’re interested in the company and why you think you’d be a good fit for the role.\n\n110 of 20 Interview Questions", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5750519037246704}
+{"content": "Towards the Automatic Analysis of Customer/User Journeys\n\nA user journey is the experiences a person has when interacting with different systems, typically digital services (e.g., online shopping, tax declaration, online booking, etc.). In this research topic we will use logic-based methods towards the automatize analysis of the user experience when interacting with such services to guide users towards successful journeys. For such purpose, we plan to use executable modelling languages and their associated analysis tools to describe, predict, and prescribe user journeys as concurrent processes. This research topic is part of the ongoing collaboration between SINTEF and IFI.\n\n\nSuggested coursework\n\n    IN5170 - Models of concurrency.\n\n    IN5100 - Selected topics in rewriting logic.\n\n    IN5110 - Specification and verification of parallel systems.\n\n\nRelated links\n\n  Customer journey modeling language (CJML)\n\n  \"What? Why has no one told me this? ” An analysis of the IT solutions at UiO in a service design perspective. Martine Birketvedt Eklund og Seline Tomt. IFI master thesis 2016\n\nPublisert 8. okt. 2020 23:46 - Sist endret 16. okt. 2020 12:01\n\nOmfang (studiepoeng)", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9990164637565613}
+{"content": "How far is a half marathon in miles\n\nWhat is the average time to run a half marathon?\n\n\nHow long does it take to run 13 miles?\n\nabout two hours\n\n\n\nIs 2 hours 30 minutes a good half marathon time?\n\nRunning a sub 2 hour , or 1:59:59, half – marathon means maintaining a 9:09 average pace per mile. That time is considered a decent half marathon time among runners. Highly competitive runners aim for harder targets, like a 1 hour and 30 – minute half – marathon (6:51 per mile pace or faster).\n\nIs running a half marathon a big deal?\n\n\nCan you run half marathon without training?\n\n\nYou might be interested:  Boston marathon lookup runner\n\nIs 13 miles a long run?\n\n\nHow fast is 13 miles in 30 minutes?\n\nWell, 13 miles in 30 minutes means you’d be running at 26 mph. Usain Bolt set the fastest human record, running the 100 meter sprint at 27.8 mph. So, yes, it is possible to run that fast .\n\nWhat is a good half marathon time by age?\n\nAverage Half Marathon Pace by Age and Sex\n\nAge Men Women\n15 10:16:34 11:40:00\n16 09:58:31 12:07:03\n17 09:30:56 12:24:57\n18 09:31:49 10:31:14\n\nHow many days a week should you run for half marathon training?\n\nthree days\n\nHow long does it take to go from 5k to half marathon?\n\n“If you can run a 5K now, then you can run a half marathon in eight weeks ,” Coogan says. “But the ideal plan is three to four months long, which gives you a buffer if you get sick, injured, or slammed at work.” Basically, plan for life to get in the way—as it so often does—so you don’t stress yourself out.\n\nIs 8 miles a long run?\n\nFor a 10k, it’s ideal to run up to 8 -10 miles in training for your long runs . Half marathons will require up to 14-15 miles . To ensure you recover correctly, reduce your long run for two weeks following one of those 14-15 mile runs . Method 2.\n\nYou might be interested:  New marathon world record\nWeek Long Run\n5 9 miles\n6 5 miles\n7 10 miles\n8 5 miles\n\nWhat happens to your body after a half marathon?\n\n\nWhat is a good time for 5k by age?\n\nRunning a 5K is a fairly achievable feat that’s ideal for people who are just getting into running or who simply want to run a more manageable distance. Average by age and sex.\n\nAge group Men Women\n50 to 54 34:30 41:20\n55 to 59 37:33 45:18\n60 to 64 40:33 45:49\n65 to 99 42:59 50:13\n\nShould you run the day after a half marathon?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8185840845108032}
+{"content": "Anton Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9\n\nBruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9\n\nValery Gergiev, Münchner Philharmoniker\n\nAnton Bruckner\n\nDisponible como and Digital\n\nThe Munich Philharmonic have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner’s music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked for and with the Münchner Philharmoniker are stored in the historical archi\n\nGain deeper insights into the world of classical music\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9954866766929626}
+{"content": "Fixed Mortgage Rates\n\nWhat Is A Mortgage Constant\n\nThe part of your mortgage payment that goes toward principal plus interest remains constant throughout the loan term, though insurance, property taxes and other costs may fluctuate. The interest rate.\n\nConventional Fixed Rate VS FHA Mortgage  · A 15-year fha loan with 22% down payment gets you out of paying PMI, which can actually make the FHA loan cheaper than a conventional. When we bought our house in 2012, the best FHA loan was a 2.75% 15-year fixed (no PMI with 22% down), but the best conventional was over 3% for a 15-year fixed.\n\nA mortgage constant (denoted as Rm) is the ratio of annual loan payments to the full value of a fixed-rate mortgage. You can calculate the mortgage constant by dividing the total amount paid on the loan annually by the full amount of the loan. This is also called the mortgage capitalization rate.\n\nThe debt constant sometimes referred to as the loan constant or mortgage constant is the ratio of the constant periodic payment on a loan to the original loan amount. The debt constant is only relevant to loans that have a fixed interest rate over the period of the loan, and is used to make quick calculations of the amount needed to repay a loan over its term, and the balance outstanding at any point in time.\n\nannual mortgage constant. The amount of annual debt service compared to the principal amount of a loan and then expressed as a dollar amount. Annual debt service / Mortgage principal = Annual mortgage constant. The constant tells you the total principal and interest payments per year per $100 of debt.\n\nBut it’s not just the scope, remit and purview of IT jobs that are in constant flux, it is the designation and. AI and complex algorithms for decision making (self-driving cars, mortgage and credit.\n\nA mortgage constant is a useful tool for a real estate investor because it simplifies and clearly shows how much the borrower will need to pay over a given period of time. This value is only useful for closed-end, fixed-rate mortgages.\n\nThere is constant juggling of the priorities. READ MORE: The average canadian owes ,500 in consumer debt, excluding their mortgage, Ipsos poll finds The survey points out that those who are.\n\n\nMontage Mortgage Reviews Montage Mortgage works hard to offer employees comprehensive benefits, including competitive pay, excellent insurance coverage, career mentoring. 26 montage mortgage reviews. A free inside look at company reviews and salaries posted anonymously by employees.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8057717680931091}
+{"content": "Social Network\n\n\nMI UP: Are wolves becoming a more serious problem?\n\nAre wolves becoming a more serious problem?\n\nby Natalie Jovonovich\n\nAnimal control officers recently killed three wolves in the Ironwood area, and now residents are concerned: is this becoming a more serious problem?\n\nUPPER PENINSULA — It happened in two separate instances.\n\nLast month, the first two wolves were discovered, and eliminated, in a rural residential area.\n\nA few weeks later, a third wolf was found near a child care center.\n\nTurns out, the three wolves all came from the same pack.\n\nD.N.R. officials have been investigating these cases since November..\n\nShelley Voakes asked us on Facebook to further investigate why wolves continue to appear in people’s yards in Ironwood.\n\nIt’s a problem the D.N.R.’s been dealing with for several months.\n\n“We don’t really have the ability to take wolves just because you see one, but if you have repeated offences where these animals are coming in close contact with people, seem to be losing their fear, that’s when we always urge people to call,” says wildlife biologist Brian Roell.\n\nThe D.N.R. wants to prevent any sort of conflict between a wolf and a human, even though there’s never been an attack by a wild wolf in the lower 48 states.\n\nMany of you voiced your concerns on Facebook that the wolf problem is growing, or becoming more serious.\n\nAccording to D.N.R. officials, these instances are repeatedly happening in the same places.\n\nWolf activity is more prevalent in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties since that’s where the U.P.’s wolf population is concentrated.\n\nBut the reason you’re seeing them, is because of deer.\n\nDeer are the primary prey for wolves.\n\nWhen people feed deer, they become less fearful, and start venturing further into communities.\n\nThe wolves will then follow, and thus the increase in wolf sightings in populated areas.\n\n“Wolves are really given a bad monicker as being aggressive toward humans and they really simply don’t deserve that,” Roell adds. “If these wolves did do anything that was deemed negative, it portrays a bad light on all wolves, so really what we’re trying to do is decrease the chance of anything negative happening before it does occur.”\n\nSome municipalities already have laws in place against feeding wild animals.\n\nNow, if you think there is a wolf problem in your area, you should contact your local D.N.R. office.\n\nAlso, as far as de-listing the wolf as an endangered species, the federal government is moving ahead with the process.\n\nThere will be a public hearing in Ashland, Wisconsin next month.\n\nPublic comments will be accepted until June 15th.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.796115517616272}
+{"content": "Wave Image\n\nSend Us Feedback\n\nThank You\n\n\n\nThis is a little counter inside of a Japanese grocery store (Katagiri) on Lexington Avenue. If you need something quick for lunch or dinner, get a few rice balls to go - they’re filled with things like grilled salmon, shrimp tempura, and pickled plums, and they’re only a few dollars each. Also worth noting, Katagiri is lined with shelves of pre-packaged food as well lots of Japanese candy and snacks.\n\nYou'll need a better browser for that!\nUpgrade to Chrome and start finding Restaurants.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6692992448806763}
+{"content": "Beatrice Bobby\n\nFind yourself! your unique destiny…\n\nI am writing this because of a recent post I saw in headstart Africa. The post was about discovering your destiny and pursuing it with Holy anger.\nEver wondered what you were created on this planet for?\nWhy are you here?\n\nThe entire 2020 has been a remarkable year for everyone worldwide, whether American, Canadian, Nigerian, or British. We’re all questioning why a tiny virus could disrupt the economy and significantly shutdown events. However, I believe God used this pandemic to recruit destinies; people who will embrace their unique future through thick and thin and shake the world.\n\nSo back to the topic, do you know what you’re destined to do on the planet?\nIf you find your “why,”? Have you thought about how you can polish your skill or craft to become world-class at it? Be mindful of stumbling blocks and obstacles on your way to finding your gift. They will be many but do not let obstacles make you falter; let it make you rise.\n\nAt the end of the tunnel, when you finally breakthrough, you will be happy you made those hard decisions, and nature will beckon on your fearlessness in not surrendering to its hard flames.\nFind yourself, find you!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7345547676086426}
+{"content": "Did you know that many things affecting the world and society?\n\nImpacts are related to a lot of serious Natural phenomena in the world and society—such as environment, agriculture, Art and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and others—and are expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond. \n\nWhy don’t we do something good about it and turn it into a positive impact on society, like creating artworks, different types of art, because it is a free expression of our thoughts, emotions, and desires, it’s even more personal than that, art has a lot of impact in society, it is a global movement of artists and of projects that aims to gather creative and artistic projects from around the world!\n\nArt influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time, and it influences society by communicating with each other via artworks, sounds, and motions.\n\nUsing the arts, culture, and creativity impacts society in all issues or matters of life. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to the generations of the world” (Leonardo da Vinci).\n\nAlongside how art impacts on society, there is also recycling and the environment, as we all know that Recycling helps protect the environment.\n\nClean environment is essential for healthy living. Don’t you agree? Air and water pollution can cause diseases among other problems, therefore we should keep our environment clean and protected.\n\nIn December 2019 understanding the importance of recycling,   DNA decided to do a pilot project about recycling, We taught a 5-week course, at “Hakob Kojoyan” art school for young generations, our aim was to spread the importance of recycling, how the daily used objects like plastic, wood, and papers can turn into a piece of art, how to make something from nothing, and yes we made a beautiful TREE from used objects!\n\nWe are now starting Phase 2 of the program and teaching more primary schools in Armenia.\n\nLet us spread positive and good things that affect society, everyone needs it and we can all help the environment, even by picking up a piece of garbage from the ground, everything counts!\n\nWritten by,\nCarolin Semerjian", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9758028984069824}
+{"content": "6 Efficient Ways to Improve Your Essays\n\n6 Efficient Ways to Improve Your Essays\n\nStudents always have to write the essays in various niches. Writing an essay is a complicated process that requires some inspiration, proper mood and, of course, good knowledge. Every student knows this terrible issue when you should exceed yourself and write something better each time. No wonder that most students start to iterate their ideas. If you are one of them, if you need an upgrade, read our practical tips and write your essays better than ever! If there is a problem, there will be a solution!\n\nA proper way to improve your writing skills is to explore other essays of successful authors. Read their works, notice sentence structure and other peculiarities. It will help you to build on and grow your own style. Read essays on various topics and disciplines. For example on some pop culture topic. It is your chance to develop your writing manner and expand your vocabulary. Here are the main points of how a reading of another excellent paper works can improve your style.\n\nAn efficient dictionary allows you to express your thinking and major ideas clearly and briefly. Try to be accurate and bold with reasons and points. People, who will look on the essay, may not have the time to read long, incoherent marks; so you should attempt and signify each idea and fact in a writing piece. There are plenty of modern words that can express major thoughts as effectively as possible. Rich vocabulary shows intellect and permits you to be more convincing in your essays.\n\nYou should keep your mind on how to use language efficiently. You don’t need to use the identical words many times. Diversify your tongue and use such words as “furthermore” and “moreover” instead of “also” and “so.” Due to these words, you will be able to evolve the major argument in a better way. Try Thesaurus as a great source of significant words.\n\nCreate a better plan with an idea of the essay before you start writing and think about the reasoning you want to signify. To affirm your main thoughts into a brief and prompt resume, try to create an ‘Elevator Pitch’ method before you start to perform your thinking on the paper. It will bring a system to your mind, and you will write your essay more clearly. Here are some examples of excellent essays on Essaydragon.com.\n\nWhen you write an essay, it is crucial to highlight facts and correct information. Wikipedia can help you to find thoughts of famous people and highlight them in your work. So you will show the readers that you have concentrated highly on important moments of your writing piece. But don’t cite too overly because people should understand your own minds and do not think that you prefer the opinion of other people.\n\nYour essay should be legible and understandable for teachers and other readers. Use a diversity of sentence formations, short and long, because if all sentences are too long and inconsistent, it will be difficult for reading. Don’t forget about grammar. It must be excellent. Cooperate with professional academic writers. They can bring your writing style to another level and correct all errors.\n\n1. Build an Outline of the Main Content\n\nTo make it easier to remember all the key points for an academic essay, a writer should proceed with a structure. How to write better essays? -  of course, by creating a top outline where all related evidence and facts are visible and allocated per paragraph or page. It will be a draft body for your final essay. The outline usually consists of 5 parts, including the introduction, 3 main body paragraphs, and the conclusion. To capture all key points, spend qualitative time on research - decide on interesting sources, books, and your tone. Especially focus on the introduction from where you guide the reader. \n\n2. Develop Your Thesis\n\nThe second turn on how to write better essays is to decide on the thesis. All the following paragraphs will only discuss the idea you mention in your talking point. A thesis statement should include 1 or 2 sentences only. Make them logical, and explain to the reader your position on the selected topic. Beyond that, a professor will evaluate your total work on the correspondence of the main body with the set talking point. To be on top of writing it, make a question page, and note down the following:\n\n  • Is my talking point clear for the reader?\n  • Does my main body correspond to the talking point?\n  • Does my conclusion solve the talking point?\n\nA writer may answer any question during the actual writing, and after finalizing his paper, he should double-check it for every word relevance. It helps avoid miscommunication and guide the reader as well.\n\n3. Get a Strong Understanding of Grammar and Style\n\nGrammar, punctuation, and style nuances are crucial to follow, support the idea, and deliver an academic tone. Before starting an essay, try to search for information on basic rules of grammar, including article usage, subject agreement, and verbs flow, among others. Besides, focus on the punctuation, which may cost you a grade, especially it concerns comma and period usage. Finally, your voice is extremely important as well, so include the active voice rather than passive, and avoid slang, which your professor won’t like for sure. Your language should be perfect, and every word should be well-placed.\n\n4. Provide Support and References\n\nLast but not least, turn on how to write better essays is resources and references. Advice is to support your ideas with valid sources - search for related books, web pages that have credibility. Moreover, every perfect statement in a paragraph should be cited or credited correctly; otherwise, a plagiarism checker won’t help you achieve an A grade. Return to a question page in outline, and write down the next interesting questions, which then you may answer: \n\n  • Are all sources cited?\n  • Is my evidence supported by references?\n  • Are citations of the proper format?\n\nFollow all the advice and achieve success in writing.\n\nWe hope our suggestions and tips will be beneficial and helpful for you. Share your experience and achievements contacting us.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9756687879562378}
+{"content": "EU fights back to neutralize US sanctions against Iran\n\nBolton: European countries could be sanctioned\n\nBolton: European countries could be sanctioned\n\nEurope is fighting back against President Donald Trump’s attempt to isolate Iran with new rules aimed at protecting European companies from US sanctions.\n\nThe European Commission said Friday it is planning to shield EU-based companies that continue to trade with Iran despite Trump’s decision to quit an international nuclear agreement and reintroduce sanctions.\n\nThe move, which has the support of all 28 EU states, is part of an effort by Germany, France and the United Kingdom to salvage the 2015 deal that promised Iran economic benefits in return for a promise that it would limit its nuclear program. If the EU can’t guarantee continued trade and investment, Iran has little incentive to play ball.\n\nThe EU is also encouraging its member states to explore the possibility of making one-off payments to Iran’s central bank to underpin the OPEC country’s oil trade, which is vital to its economic prospects.\n\nThe most significant measure announced Friday is a “blocking statute.” It would protect European companies from US sanctions, but could expose them to European penalties if they choose to cut ties with Iran.\n\n“It’s a significant escalation of tensions between the US and the EU,” said Judith Lee, an international trade lawyer at Gibson Dunn in Washington, DC. “They’re moving really fast… to stake out a position on this.”\n\nIran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi on Sunday gave France, Germany and the UK 60 days to guarantee that business ties between the countries will continue, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.\n\n“I think [today’s move is] definitely a signal to the Iranians that the EU will not give up without a fight with the US,” said Thomas Gratowski, an Iran expert at the advisory firm Global Counsel.\n\nThe European Union exported nearly €11 billion ($ 13 billion) in goods to Iran in 2017, roughly 100 times larger than US exports to the country.\n\nRelated: What is the perfect price for oil?\n\n‘Unresolvable conflict’\n\nFriday’s announcement puts companies in a difficult spot, creating an “unresolvable conflict of law,” said Lee.\n\nThey would have a choice: Stop doing business with Iran to comply with US law, but break EU rules. Or continue business with Iran to comply with EU rules, but face harsh US sanctions.\n\n“There’s no way you can get around it,” Lee added\n\nLarge European companies with big US operations will likely feel compelled to break EU rules by winding down their Iranian business. Companies with more limited ties to the US may try to continue trading with Iran, she said.\n\n“I don’t think we’re going to see uniformity” in corporate reactions, said Lee.\n\nRelated: Total halts $ 2 billion gas project in Iran\n\n‘Limited’ practical value\n\nExperts are skeptical about how far Europe will ultimately go to enforce such a rule, and therefore how much comfort it will provide to Iran.\n\nFrance, for example, wouldn’t want to issue penalties against a firm such as Renault (RNSDF), since it owns a stake in the company, Gratowski said.\n\n“You might end up shooting yourself in the foot,” said Gratowski. “The practical value … [of this rule] is very limited.”\n\nAdditionally, the “blocking statute” states that companies that endure financial losses due to US sanctions can later recover damages “from the person causing them.”\n\nGratowski believes it would be next to impossible recover damages from the US.\n\nBig companies react cautiously\n\nFrance’s Total (TOT) said on Wednesday it was unable to proceed with a $ 2 billion project to develop Iran’s giant South Pars gas field due to the reimposition of US sanctions. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday about the EU measures.\n\nSiemens (SI), whose CEO told CNN this week that the company could not accept new Iranian business, told CNN its position had not changed.\n\n“We will … very carefully analyze the sanction-related steps announced by the US and the EU. We have strictly complied with all relevant export control restrictions in the past and will continue to do so in the future,” it said in a statement.\n\nPSA (PUGOY), which sells Peugeot cars, said it would “follow the evolution of this subject, including the official and singular position expressed by the European Union on this issue.”\n\nAirbus (EADSY) reiterated on Friday that it would act “in full compliance with sanctions and export control regulations.” But the aircraft manufacturer said it would not be able to export commercial planes to Iran without a license from the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.\n\nLet’s block ads! (Why?)\n\nEconomic news –\n\nYou May Also Like", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.906903862953186}
+{"content": "Why Vitamins and Minerals Are Important and How to Get Them\n\nby Peter Bua on March 19, 2018\nWhy Vitamins and Minerals Are Important and How to Get Them\nMost people know vitamins and minerals are important to their health, but that may be the extent of their knowledge about the nutrients bodies need to stay healthy and fit. Vitamins and minerals come from what you put in your body, and the body needs those nutrients to function the way it should. Here’s an overview of why vitamins and minerals are important, and how to get them. You know vitamins and minerals are important but still aren't sure how supplements and vitamins differ? Check out the Difference Between Vitamins and Supplements\n\nAll About Vitamins and Minerals\n\nVitamins and minerals are substances naturally found in many foods, which is good because our bodies need both vitamins and minerals for optimal health. The body can produce vitamin D on its own, by way of exposure to sunlight, and it can also produce vitamin K, which benefits the gut. But all the rest of the vitamins and minerals humans need to be healthy have to come from either the food they eat or by way of a supplement. Why does that matter? That’s an easy one—not getting the vitamins and minerals needed can lead to some serious health issues. For example, a vitamin C deficiency could lead to scurvy, can cause joint pain and tooth loss. A vitamin B12 deficiency could cause anemia, which leads to fatigue, depression, and vision issues. A calcium deficiency could lead to weak, brittle bones and teeth. I could go on, but you likely get my drift. Vitamins and minerals are important—and an essential part of the human diet. Take strides toward getting healthier by taking a look at the //www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20660118,00.html#vitamin-a-to-zinc-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Foods for Every Vitamin and Mineral\n\nHow to Get the Nutrients You Need\n\nClearly, you want to avoid the health problems that come with a vitamin or mineral deficiency, and that’s possible when you make it a point to eat foods that have all the vitamins and minerals your body needs. In general, you’ll find the most vitamins and minerals in fruits, vegetables, legumes, protein, whole grains, and dairy. But if you’re only deficient in one or two vitamins or minerals, you can focus on eating foods that are rich in those specific nutrients. For example, the best source of vitamin A is a sweet potato. If you need vitamin B12, you can get that from animal products, and dairy products and leafy greens are the easiest sources of calcium. These are just a few examples, and know that the body needs lots of other vitamins and minerals on a daily basis, including vitamins A, C, D, and E, folic acid and others. If it turns out you can’t get enough of the nutrients you need through food, your other option is to take a supplement.\n\nWhat to Know About Supplements, and Where to Get Your Calcium\n\nA dietary supplement is a substance you can ingest to get one or more nutrients into your systems, since vitamins and minerals are important. Supplements are helpful, and important, when your diet isn’t serving up the vitamins, minerals, and overall nutrients that the body needs. Supplements come in all shapes and sizes, pills, liquid, and even in powdered form. Take calcium for instance. Adults need about 1,000 mg of calcium a day and children between the ages of 8 and 18 need about 1,300 mg of calcium. If you can hit those numbers from food alone, that’s great, but it’s not always easy to do, especially if you’re dealing with lactose intolerance or you’re not a big consumer of dairy products. That’s where FitFormula’s Cal-EZ Calcium + D can come in handy. It’s a flavorless, tasteless powdered supplement that you can quickly and easily add to water, tea, coffee—just about anything, for quick and easy absorption and an equally quick and easy way to check the box when it comes to getting the daily dose of calcium and vitamin D that you need. If you’re not sure whether you need to take a calcium supplement, read: Do You Need a Calcium Supplement? Here’s How To Find Out As helpful as supplements are when it comes to dosage, most doctors still recommend you try to get most of your vitamins and minerals from food, and then add a supplement if necessary. This is because food is the most natural source of vitamins and minerals, especially considering that most supplements include some unnatural elements, such as binders and preservatives. The main exception to this is supplement powder, as it doesn’t tend to have the binders and other unnatural ingredients that pills often do. FitFormula’s Cal-EZ Calcium + Vitamin D is one example of a 100 percent natural powder supplement that’s free of binders, preservatives, soy, sugar, gluten, dyes, and animal products, and it’s also kosher! FitFormula’s Cal-EZ Calcium + Vitamin D is pure, made from the most simple of ingredients, and proven in delivering exactly what your body needs when it comes to building and maintaining strong bones and also supplying the RDA of vitamin D the body needs along the way. Want to give FitFormula Cal-EZ Calcium + Vitamin D a try at 50% off your first purchase? We’d love to help you get the calcium and vitamin D your body needs, and your family needs using code: FitFormula50. More sources on why vitamins and minerals are important: The best foods for vitamins and minerals Why You Still Need a Calcium Supplement with Your Multivitamin Dietary Supplements: 4 Things You Could Be Doing Better", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.881282389163971}
+{"content": "Chris Benjamin’s latest book was almost two decades in the making.\n\nBoy with a Problem is a collection of 12 short stories that focus on love, loss, acceptance, and failure.\n\nIn 2003, Benjamin wrote the first story during his 1.5-hour subway commute to and from work while living in Toronto. Since then, many of his stories have been published, and he felt confident that he had enough to tie all of them into the collection. But a challenge emerged during the process. How could he link the short stories into a common theme, and which stories should he send to his publisher?\n\n“I found that hard; the best I could come up with was a lot of stories about underdogs and outsiders,” he recalls. “Eventually, I explained my problem to a writer friend of mine…she suggested loneliness as a theme… because some of these characters are privileged, middle class, and doing well in life. However, they are still feeling isolated, lonely for some reason, or just disconnected.”\n\nOne of the short stories in the collection that resonated with Benjamin is called “Mulch Glue.” It’s a story about a girl growing up in a small town and the mill’s environmental impact on her. The girl’s parents recall how people used to swim in the waters but not anymore. Already an outcast, she decides to take a stand against most people who had connections to the mill.\n\n“I enjoyed that conundrum of trying to be an activist: you are taking a stand on what you feel is right, but you are going against everyone else around you,” Benjamin explains. “As young people often go through that in small towns, they develop a certain sensibility or belief about the world. I felt that a lot in suburban Nova Scotia outside of Halifax, feeling like I had values and principles that others either weren’t thinking about, or they didn’t care about them.”\n\nAs a writer, Benjamin avoids tidy stories with neat conclusions. “In real life, resolutions in our relationships are compromised, or I think of times where there was conflict with people, and it’s often a matter of ‘OK, I’ll try to do this differently,'” he says. “We grow, but we don’t always grow as much as we want to or as much as other people want us to; the resolutions from my characters are often learning to deal with a problem more so than solving it.”\n\nWhile Benjamin did not plan it, the collection’s relevancy comes amid a pandemic, and Black Lives Matter and many other movements. Benjamin says some of these issues have always existed; more people are paying attention, and the spotlight is shining more so on TV with sports not being broadcasted.\n\n“It’s interesting because no matter what your social background class, standing, or level of privilege, we all have to deal with it to some extent. Then suddenly going out into the world was a very scary concept, so we had to deal with isolation and facing loneliness,” Benjamin adds. “It was the isolation that forced us to pay attention to something bigger.”\n\nNot immune to the pandemic, the publishing industry is facing challenges with book releases and promotion.\n\nBenjamin and other authors rely on book launches to gain momentum and jump-start their sales. It’s forced them to find innovative and creative ways to create some buzz. There hasn’t been an official launch of Boy with a Problem, but Benjamin did get to participate in the Lunenburg Lit Fest before the book’s launch. He also did a Facebook co-interview with another writer and sold books through an email campaign.\n\nAs the second wave of the pandemic rolls over Nova Scotia, Benjamin hopes people take away crucial things from his short story collection.\n\n“It’s an interesting companion by your bedside during this time as we worry about a possibility of another lockdown,” Benjamin says. “I hope they are entertained by it for a couple of hours, want them to be moved by the characters…and become affectionate for a character. A writer tries to see the world through someone else’s eyes and then show it to their readers. I am trying to show different perspectives on things and build that empathy muscle.”\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9887418150901794}
+{"content": "Axcient Help Center\n\nIntegrating x360Sync with Microsoft 365 (Private Cloud)\n\nIf your organization has access to a commercial Microsoft 365 subscription, you can integrate x360Sync with Microsoft 365 apps, allowing users to edit files from within the web portal.\n\nTo configure this feature, SaaS partners can simply turn on the Microsoft 365 policy in the administrative web portal; however, if you are a Private Cloud partner, you must also request access to the Office Cloud Storage Partner Program so that you can deploy your own Microsoft 365 integration.\n\n\nThis process can take a month or more to complete. Please plan accordingly.\n\nStep 1: Request Access to the Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program\n\nAs a first step, you need to request access to the Microsoft Cloud Storage Partner Program.\n\n  1. Navigate to the Office Cloud Storage Partner Program site and click the Join the Program button.\n\n  2. Complete the registration form and click the Submit button when you are finished.This form will initiate the approval process. The approval process can take a week or more to complete.\n\n  3. When you are approved for the program, Microsoft will contact you and provide access to the following resources:\n\n    1. WOPI Yammer group—the WOPI Yammer group is the best way to submit requests, questions, or problems related to your Office Cloud Storage Partner Program membership.\n\n    2. Web Integration Documentation—this WebHelp file outlines integration information and instructions.\n\n    3. Shipping Information—this section of the WebHelp file provides instructions for validating and launching your completed web integration.\n\nStep 2: Use the WOPI Protocol to Integrate Microsoft 365 with your Private Cloud Environment\n\nAfter you are approved as an Office Cloud Storage Partner, you can use the WOPI protocol to integrate Microsoft 365 with your Private Cloud environment. This integration is already available in the x360Sync installation folder. You simply need to enable this feature through the configuration file (\n\n  1. Open the file.\n\n  2. Update the following settings: WOPI_ENABLED = True WOPI_TESTING = True\n\nStep 3: Validate your Integration\n\nBefore deploying to production, Microsoft must validate your integration package.\n\n\nNote: This process can take two weeks or longer. Before starting the launch process, please ensure that you have reviewed all requirements, and that you are ready to provide test accounts and videos.\n\nTo validate your integration:\n\n  1. Before you begin the validation process, you must set up a test domain for Microsoft validation through Yammer. You can view an example Yammer request in the Yammer group.\n\n  2. To prepare for the validation process, you have access to a WOPI Validation application that executes a test suite against a host’s WOPI implementation. The test suite verifies semantics for all the WOPI operations.\n\n  3. Create test accounts and videos that will be used by Microsoft for validation during the release process. For a complete list of requirements, please reference Microsoft’s Web Integration Documentation.\n\n  4. When you are ready, request Trello access through Yammer. You can view an example Yammer request for reference.\n\n  5. When your request has been received, Microsoft will provide a private Trello board to track issues and promote communication between your team and Microsoft. Follow the provided Trello release guide (this will include setting up and providing an M365-specific subdomain for use by the WOPI protocol).\n\nStep 4: Deploy to Production\n\nWhen Microsoft has signed off on your integration, you can begin to roll out to your users.\n\n\nMicrosoft might request that you roll out over a period of several days to ensure you do not overload Office for the web or your WOPI servers.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5757226347923279}
+{"content": "Bleeding Disorders 101\n\n\nHemophilia happens when the body does not make enough of a specific clotting factor. Severity or risk of bleeding depends on the level of clotting factor that is present.\n\nVon Willebrand’s Disease\n\nVon Willebrand’s disease occurs because of abnormalities with an individual’s von Willebrand’s factor. Severity depends on the level and quality of von Willebrand’s factor.\n\nThere are three main types of von Willebrand’s disease: Type 1 is a result of abnormally low levels of von Willebrand’s factor. Type 2 is characterized by an irregular von willebrand’s factor being made by the body. Patients may have normal levels of von Willebrand’s factor that do not function properly. There are four different subsets of type 2.\n\nType 3 occurs when there is essentially no von Willebrand’s factor produced by the body.\n\nvon Willebrand disease (vWD) is much more common, found in approximately 1-2% of the U.S. population. Like hemophilia, vWD is inherited from parent to child. The abnormal gene in von Willebrand’s disease is located on a chromosome called an autosome, which means that men and women can pass the defective gene to their children. Unlike hemophilia, vWD occurs equally in men and women.\n\nIndividuals with von willebands are at risk for prolonged nosebleeds, easy bruising, abnormal bleeding after surgery, dental work, or injuries. Women are more likely to experience symptoms of heavy or abnormal bleeding during their menstrual bleeding and after childbirth. Older patients are more susceptible to chronic gastrointestinal bleeding.\n\nPlatelet Deficiency\n\nPlatelets are a critical component of the blood clotting process. Platelets are small, disk shaped cells created in the bone marrow. Their primary role is to help the blood clot through adhesion aggregation activation and secretion. If there is a failure in any of the platelet functions there will be an increased tendency to bleed.\n\nThere are two main types of Platelet disorders:\n\nQuantitative platelet disorder, which is the most commonly occurring type of platelet deficiency. There is a decrease in the number of platelets that function normally. Either the body doesn’t make enough OR the platelets get removed too quickly from the body.\n\nQualitative platelet disorder, this results from an abnormal structure or functioning of the platelet. The platelets are poor “quality”. Some potential causes include missing or abnormal proteins on the surface of the platelet membrane. Decinecry or defectiveness in the platelet granules or their contents (commonly referred to as storage pool disorder).\n\nPlatelet deficiencies may or may not be genetically inherited, meaning you don’t need to have a family history to have a platelet disorder, but you could potentially pass the disorder onto your child.\n\nDue to the complexity of platelet disorders, this is often difficult to diagnose.\n\nIndividuals with a platelet disorder can experience easy bruising, nose bleeds, mouth or gum bleeds, heavy menstrual bleeding and after childbirth, and bleeding following dental work and surgery.\n\nRare Bleeding Disorders\n\nThere are other less common bleeding disorders that we service. Explore other conditions that can cause bleeding issues.\n\nFactor 7 deficiency is a rare genetic disorder caused by a deficiency or reduced activity of clotting factor 7. This is considered to be the most common of the rare bleeding disorders. It is estimated to occur in every 1 of 300,000-500,00. It is inherited in an autosomal excessive fashion meaning both parents must carry the gene to pass it on to their child. This affects men and women equally. (citation)\n\nIndividuals with factor 7 deficiency are at risk for bleeding after trauma, surgery, or dental work. They may also have internal or joint bleeding without an apparent cause. The more deficient a person is in the clotting factor the more at risk they are for bleeding.\n\n\nAcquired Hemophilia is an autoimmune disease. The antibodies from the immune system attack and destroy one of the body’s clotting factors (most often clotting factor 8). This can lead to excessive bleeding and can affect males and females equally.\n\nAcquired hemophilia can be caused by other autoimmune diseases, cancer, pregnancy, or certain drugs but other times there is no known cause. Acquired hemophilia is extremely rare only affecting approximately 1 of 1,000,000 people.\n\nAcquired von Willebrand’s Disease\n\nThe immune system can also attack von Willebrand factor, resulting in acquired von Willebrand’s disease.\n\nUnspecified Bleeding Disorder\n\nIndividuals with Unspecified bleeding disorders can experience prolonged or excessive bleeding. This may occur spontaneously, after an injury, or a during/following a surgical procedure.\n\nIn these situations, although testing is done for all bleeding disorders, there are no abnormal lab results that lead to a specific bleeding disorder diagnosis.\n\nPatients typically present with post surgical/dental bleeding, bruising from minor trauma, nose bleeds, and/or heavy menstrual cycles.\nInheritance for unspecified bleeding disorders is unknown.\n\nTreatment for bleeding prior to procedures may be required even without a formal diagnosis. It is very important that you discuss your abnormal bleeding history with all care providers and make sure HOC is involved in your care.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9072979688644409}
+{"content": "Outbyte Product Line Certified by AppEsteem\n\nAt Outbyte, one of our priorities is making sure that our software adheres to the industry’s modern-day standards, regulations, and practices. We are all for a transparent and safe cyberspace for everyday computer and internet users.\n\nThose are the reasons why we decided to apply for certification by AppEsteem – a trusted cybersecurity organization – and successfully attained it. Outbyte apps that are now AppEsteem certified include Outbyte PC Repair, Outbyte Driver Updater, Outbyte Antivirus, and Outbyte MacRepair.\n\nWhat is AppEsteem?\n\nAppEsteem is one of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity organizations that contributes to the safety of more than 2 billion users. The company was founded by a team of experienced Microsoft cybersecurity specialists. Its mission is to create a safe space for computer and internet users where they are protected against cyber threats and deceptive or unethical practices.\n\nWhat are AppEsteem certification requirements?\n\nAppEsteem requirements come from the IT industry companies, government bodies, cybersecurity organizations, and end consumers. These requirements were put in place to prevent fraud attempts, exploitation of users, misinformation, and a number of other unethical practices by companies that may not have the user’s best interest in mind. The full list of requirements includes almost 130 items. All of these requirements have to be met in order for an app to successfully complete the certification process.\n\nSome of the requirements that are most important to customers include a clear and explicit description of the app’s purpose, its features and interface, and a user agreement. The app must not mislead customers into believing that their system has a problem that does not exist, exaggerate existing issues, or display any false claims. Other requirements include not spamming, not secretly installing any other software or components on customers’ devices without their consent, not collecting any sensitive user information, not spreading any malware, viruses or the like. The apps should be easy to uninstall, be clear about the subscription and payment models, and not produce any negative effects on computer performance, etc.\n\nWhat does Outbyte software getting certified mean to our customers?\n\nBeing able to meet all of AppEsteem’s strict requirements means that our product line apps can be considered clean, safe, and transparent; and that our software is compliant with the ethical and legal norms of distribution.\n\nIf you have questions regarding Outbyte products or the way they work, feel free to contact us at support@outbyte.com at any time.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9881447553634644}
+{"content": "Do Ragdolls Like To Be Held? (How to Hold a Ragdoll Cat)\n\nby McKenny Joshua | Last Updated: November 21, 2020\n\nWhy do Ragdoll cats like to be held?\n\nRagdolls cats are extremely gentle creatures that prefer that warmth of humans.\n\nRegardless of what the real motive is, Ragdolls will enjoy the attention that being held provides.\n\nSo, if you’re thinking about getting Ragdoll cats, then it would be wise to know how to hold them.\n\nRagdoll cats are calmly creatures that like to be held and cuddled. They are an affectionate cat breed, having large bodies like the Maine Coon. A male Ragdoll weighs 15 – 24 pounds while females weigh up to 15 pounds.\n\nWhen you want to purchase a cat, you want to make sure that they’re as happy and healthy as possible.\n\nOne of the best ways to do this is to make sure that the cat doesn’t get any unnecessary attention from other people, which is why they’ll love to be held.\n\nHold your cat with caution\n\nTo hold your cat in a safe way, there are a few things that you can do. The first thing to remember is to always use caution when holding your cat.\n\nThere is no need for you to tug at the cat on its tail, but it is a good idea to gently rub its head.\n\nBe careful not to pull at the cat because this will only cause your cat to become uncomfortable.\n\nHold your cat when it’s relaxed\n\nAnother thing that you can do is to try to hold your cat in a position where it’s relaxed.\n\nDon’t try to hold your cat in such a way that it looks uncomfortable because this is going to turn your cat off.\n\nTry to hold it in a sitting position and don’t try to hold it in an upright position as well.\n\nTake your time to learn how to hold a Ragdoll cat\n\nPhoto of Woman Holding a Tabby Cat\n\nThe reason for doing this is that it’s easier to give the cat the attention that it needs when they are relaxed.\n\nREAD  How Big Do Mini Goldendoodles Get? (Size, Facts, Temperaments)\n\nWhen you hold your cat in a way that they are uncomfortable, you are making it difficult for them to get their attention.\n\nThis will just cause more stress for your cat and they will probably feel even more uncomfortable. If you do hold your cat in a stressful position then they will probably be even more stressed.\n\nIf you really want to know how to hold your cat then you should make sure that you practice the process over again until you are comfortable.\n\nThis way you won’t have to worry about your cat getting distressed because you are holding it wrong.\n\nWhy does my Ragdoll not like being picked up?\n\nHave you ever been picking up your kitty and it seems that the ragdoll doesn’t want to be picked up?\n\nDo your cats seem to be afraid of the whole idea of being picked up and put in a cage, even though they are housebroken?\n\nWell, there are a couple of reasons why this might be happening:\n\nCat not used to being picked up\n\nOne of the biggest reasons that ragdoll cats don’t like being picked up is because they aren’t used to it.\n\nThey are creatures of habit. When their owners to pick them up, they have no choice but to look for their own way out.\n\nSince they were raised to be able to look for a place where they could go and be alone with their owners, their natural instinct is to come to them whenever possible.\n\nAnd since they cannot be trained to go to their own litter boxes or the kitchen table or anything like that, they just aren’t very happy when people pick them up, even though they may try to get away.\n\nCat has been mistreated\n\nAnother reason that these cats don’t like being picked up is because they have been mistreated a lot.\n\nAs humans, we are taught that the best place to find things is in a box or in the corner of a room.\n\nREAD  13 Dogs That Look Like Pandas (Pictures and Breed Info)\n\nWe are taught to find things in the dark and in the corners of things. Since cats are not very keen on these things, they are often times confused by us picking them up.\n\nCats don’t like to be picked up if they feel as if they are being mistreated. If your cat is trying to escape, it will feel more secure when you pick it up.\n\nIt is also important to remember that cats don’t really care what their owners think about them. If they were treated well, then there would be nothing to complain about.\n\nHowever, since humans don’t treat cats very well, the cat is very likely to show his/her displeasure by jumping or moving its legs and trying to get away.\n\nNow that you know what the reasons why your Ragdoll cat doesn’t like being picked up are, it’s time for you to start training it to be on the floor and take more walks.\n\nIf you want to learn more, just click the link below.\n\nYou can learn how to train your cat so that he/she will learn to sit, lay down, and stay on one leg as well as other new behavior.\n\nWith some patience and time, your Ragdoll cat will become very comfortable with you, and you will see that it’s happy and contented.\n\nCats can’t be trained to like getting picked up, because they have a natural instinct for self-preservation.\n\nTo stop this problem, take advantage of your cat’s natural instincts, and be kinder to your cat, and your pet.\n\nHow to cuddle a ragdoll\n\nIt’s not as easy as it sounds to cuddle a Ragdoll cat, but once you know the correct way to do it, you’ll soon see the difference.\n\nAnd you’ll want to take notice of that difference for several reasons!\n\nPrevent cats from snapping at you\n\nCats don’t have the same sense of humor as humans, and even a slight misstep can make them snap at you. But you don’t have to be a walking joke to cuddle a ragdoll cat.\n\nAll you need is a little patience and the right attitude.\n\nThat being said, what would a Ragdoll cat look like if they had a tail? Well, you know how to cuddle a Ragdoll cat, but what happens if you don’t?\n\nREAD  Silver Lab vs Weimaraner: (Differences, Breed Info)\n\nTo avoid being bitten\n\nThe first thing that might happen is that you might get bitten mildly.\n\nDon’t worry too much about it, because they usually won’t bite you unless you try to scratch their eyes with it.\n\nHowever, if you don’t want to end up looking silly or getting a bit of rabies, just wash your hand afterwards and be on your merry way.\n\nAs you’re trying to get to know your cat better, there are several things that you should look for.\n\nFor example, check to see if they have an “L” shaped mark under their ears, which indicates that they are female cats. If so, then they’re ready to get a little affection!\n\nAnd when it comes to cuddling a Ragdoll, you’ll notice that they have a more relaxed attitude than the typical cat you’ve probably seen at the mall.\n\nThey also have a unique way of rolling over, which will make them seem very comfortable and cozy.\n\nSo as you can see, getting to know your ragdoll cat can be easy if you keep in mind the basics. And if you learn how to cuddle a ragdoll cat, you’ll be able to get more out of your interactions with your feline friend.\n\nBut of course, this doesn’t mean that the cat is any less of a pet than one who’s not cuddled!\n\nIn fact, they can actually be more loving than some pets because they’ll appreciate your affection for them and they’ll be glad to spend time with you as you show off your love.\n\nCuddling a Ragdoll cat doesn’t have to be difficult\n\nYou simply need to take time to know your cat and do some research, and ask around at your local animal shelter or vet for more information and your new friend should be happy to return the favor.\n\nOne of the most important things to remember is that a cat likes a warm hug and cuddling.\n\nTry to give them plenty of attention, and you’ll soon know how to cuddle a Ragdoll cat.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7336474657058716}
+{"content": "Advantages Of Mathematics\n\nExpertise advancements in lots of areas make it doable to build gadgets that were not potential 20, 10, and even 5 years in the past. Duringthe Stone Age, ignition of fireside by rubbing stones, manufacture of assorted handmade weapon and utensils from stones and clothes apply have been some of the easy technological developments of utmost importance. A fraction of Stone Age individuals developed ocean-worthy outrigger canoe ship technology to migrate from one place to another throughout the Ocean, by which they developed their first casual schooling of data of the ocean currents, weather conditions, crusing follow, astronavigation, and star maps. In the course of the later Stone Age period (Neolithic interval),for agricultural apply, polished stone tools had been created from a wide range of arduous rocks largely by digging underground tunnels, which could be considered as the first steps in mining know-how. The polished axes have been so efficient that even after appearance of bronze and iron; folks used it for clearing forest and the establishment of crop farming.\n\nIn short science has changed, improved, enhanced, modified and refined human life in all methods. Designing and establishing buildings and infrastructure in such a means that they assist conserve natural resources is also classified as Inexperienced Technology. An instance of a inexperienced constructing is one which is in-built such a means that it will possibly keep itself cool throughout the day and heat through the night time thus effectively lowering or even eliminating the necessity for heating and cooling techniques. Arithmetic led to the right ratios proven in Renaissance portray. The research of astronomy in the early instances of its inception demanded the growth of our understanding of arithmetic and made attainable such realizations as the dimensions and weight of the earth, our distance from the sun, the fact that we revolve round it, and different discoveries that allowed us to move ahead in our physique of knowledge without which we would not have any of our fashionable marvels of technology.\n\n2: Science has modified the people and their living, life style, food habits, sleeping arrangements, incomes strategies, the way in which of communication between folks and recreational actions. Every kind of music programs, computer games, electronic video video games, DVDs, cinema leisure and communication have been brought to our door with the help of Science. The life of man was very different from what it was once a hundred years again. Science has given ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind and limbs to the crippled. Science has adequately, energetically and productively advanced, changed, civilized, enhanced and progressed human life. Science has brought sophistication to human life.\n\nOne should also be aware of the large importance of Mathematics, and the way in which it is advancing at a spectacular charge. Mathematics is about pattern and structure; it is about logical analysis, deduction, calculation inside these patterns and structures. When patterns are discovered, usually in broadly totally different areas of science and know-how, the mathematics of these patterns can be utilized to explain and management natural happenings and situations. Mathematics has a pervasive affect on our everyday lives, and contributes to the wealth of the person.\n\nLots of the typical STEM actions for the classroom attraction to male pursuits and switch off women. For example, curriculum in robots often involves monsters that explode or cars that go fast. “Roboeducators” noticed that robots involved in performance artwork or are characterised as animals are extra appealing to ladies. Engineering activities will be about how a hair dryer works or designing a playground for those with disabilities in addition to about constructing bridges. Lecturers ought to consider using all sorts of examples when they are teaching and incorporating activities in efforts to appeal feminine and male pursuits. Academics may also direct college students to come up with their own projects as a method of guaranteeing girls can work in an area of significance to them.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9902521967887878}
+{"content": "VMS (Virtual Memory System) is an operating system from the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that runs in its older mid-range computers. VMS originated in 1979 as a new operating system for DEC’s new VAX computer, the successor to DEC’s PDP-11. … (OpenVMS is also the name now used on the VAX computer.)\n\nA Virtual Machine (VM) is a compute resource that uses software instead of a physical computer to run programs and deploy apps. One or more virtual “guest” machines run on a physical “hostmachine. … This means that, for example, a virtual MacOS virtual machine can run on a physical PC.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999330639839172}
+{"content": "Air Capture’s Role in Decarbonizing Global Energy Systems\n\nIn order to meet targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit the most severe effects of climate change, levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere must not exceed 450 parts per million. While fuel switching, energy efficiency, and conservation are critical pillars to reduce CO2 emissions, they are insufficient to deal with fugitive emissions or cancel out past emissions. Air capture, or the technological ability to remove CO2 from air at least 1000 times more effectively than biomass presents a promising option to achieve the IPCC’s goal. This presentation will outline strategies for economically deploying air capture and discuss its role as one of the sustainable solutions to climate change.\n\n\nChristophe Jospe\n\nChief Strategist\nthe Center for Negative Carbon Emissions (CNCE), ASU", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999464750289917}
+{"content": "Poets Corner - Fool\nI admire,\nhow she smiles,\ngazing into your eyes,\na timeless innocence, pure to the bone, blinded by your guise,\ndark secrets will rise,\naroused & awakened,\nburning with envy,\na nameless foe,\nto drown her soul,\nthe bitter poison,\nof love retold,\n\n\ndon’t look at me,\n\neyes, wide,\n\nshock, surprise,\n\nthere is no truth,\n\nIn what you hear,\n\nwhy do you listen,\n\nTo gossip dear,\n\ntittle, tattle,\n\nmeddling here,\n\njust shadows,\n\npassing by,\n\njealous foes,\n\nto divide,\n\nspeak to me,\n\nmy friend,\n\nmy love,\n\nmy eternal heart,\n\nwill never die,\n\nRosanna x\n\n©2015 by A Dancer Dies Twice®© - ADDT Films©\n\nProtected by Registered Trademark® & Copyright laws©", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5544866323471069}
+{"content": "Wellness CLub — National Family Meals Month with Pulses\n\nWellness CLub — National Family Meals Month with Pulses\nAbingdon, VA. - Tuesday, Sep 1, 2020.\n\n\nTrying to include more plant-based proteins in your family’s meals? Look no further than pulses, which includes peas, beans, lentils, and chickpeas. Pulses are nutritionally-dense, edible seeds of legumes that pack a serious punch when it comes to their health benefits. Rich in fiber, protein, folate, potassium, and iron, these versatile foods are easy to prepare and incorporate into delicious family meals.\n\nPulses are a part of the legume family but they are different from soybeans and peanuts, which are legumes, but not pulses. The origin of the name comes from the Latin word “puls” referring to a thick soup that was traditionally created by beating these seeds into a paste. Pulses are a sustainable crop with a significantly lower carbon footprint than many other food sources. Pulse crops grown all around the world even when they are untended. They are great for soil and use very little water to grow; about one-tenth of the water used by other proteins. Rather than deplete the soil, they replenish it with key nutrients and are known as “nitrogen-fixing” plants.\n\nPulses are ecologically and economically friendly, but they are also a time-saver since most can be prepared in the same amount of time it takes to prepare pasta, quinoa, or rice. If you are short on time, try canned or frozen options.\n\nWhen it comes to nutrition, pulses are a good source of protein and potassium and an excellent source of fiber and folate. Pulses have four times as much fiber as found in brown rice and just one serving of dried peas contains as much potassium as a banana. Pulses are iron-rich and high in antioxidants; with more antioxidants than blueberries or pomegranate juice.\n\nThere are endless possibilities when it comes to these pantry staples. Add them to cooked pastas or salads to boost protein and fiber or puree them to add density and nutrition to moist baked goods. Pulses also taste great whether prepared in sweet or savory dishes and are a budget-friendly option for lasagna, tacos, casseroles, and chili. Serve as a vegetable or meat substitute to complete any meal.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999374270439148}
+{"content": "Search Our Essay Database\n\nMan Who Was Almost A Man Essays and Research Papers\n\nInstructions for Man Who Was Almost A Man College Essay Examples\n\nTitle: richard wright's a man who was almost a man\n\nTotal Pages: 3 Words: 1007 References: 0 Citation Style: APA Document Type: Essay\n\nEssay Instructions: The essay should be double spaced with margins of 1 inch on the left, top and bottom and margins of 1.25 inches on the right. 3 pages long using times new roman and 12 point font.The essay must be written in correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.The essay must have a thesis statment that sums up the main idea of the essay. The body of the paper should have a sufficient quantity of evidence to convince the reader of the validity of the argument. That evidence should include specific quotations from the story (ending with page citation in parentheses) and your intrepretations of the quotations. Please include an average number of quotations per page. Please be sure to introduce the quotations and explain their significance after quoting.\nHere is my essay topic:\nDo a close reading of Richard Wright's \"The Man Who was Almost a Man\" offer an intrepretation of how the language of this paragraph continues the themes of the story. In the conclusion of many short stories, the protagonist experiences what James Joyce called an \"epiphany\". Does Wright's character Dave experience an ephiphany? If so, what is it? If not, what does the ending of the story signify?\n\nExcerpt From Essay:\n\nTitle: comparison\n\nTotal Pages: 3 Words: 1009 Works Cited: 2 Citation Style: MLA Document Type: Research Paper\n\nEssay Instructions: Compare Richard Wright's short story, \"The Man Who was Almost a Man\" with John Updike's short story, \"A & P\" as they address the transition from childhood into adulthood. Compare Sammy and Dave's conceptions of honor, autonomy, and what it means to be a man.\n\nDiscuss imagery- what visual images do the stories evoke? How well?\n\nDiscuss use of language- is it complex? Idiomatic? Highly refined?\n\nDiscuss tone- is it ironic? Straightforward? Elegiac? Melancholy?\n\nBe sure to cite specific examples from the primary texts, and be sure to explain how they illustrate your points.\n\nExcerpt From Essay:\n\nTitle: Social comment on Race by william faulkner and richard wright\n\nTotal Pages: 3 Words: 1065 Bibliography: 0 Citation Style: APA Document Type: Essay\n\nEssay Instructions: For my English composition class i need the following \"compare and contrast what social comment regarding race Richard Wright and William Faulkner are trying to make using their short stories, ?The Man Who was Almost a Man? and ?That Evening Sun? respectively. Keep in mind that Wright was a black author and Faulkner was a white author. But both men grew up at the same time and in the same state (Mississippi), and both are writing about the South in the 1930s. Your paper should explore both similarities and differences by closely analyzing each story and using specific quotes. I need this paper before 4 pm today. work cited using only two souces mentioned above.The essay also needs a title.\n\nThere are faxes for this order.\n\nExcerpt From Essay:\n\nTitle: Essay\n\nTotal Pages: 2 Words: 864 Sources: 0 Citation Style: MLA Document Type: Research Paper\n\nEssay Instructions: THE two questions must reference the following \"6\" different stories. The first question, Often a young character goes through some sort of change in a story . These changes may be part of a period of transition, an initiation from innocence to experience, or a jorney toward self-discovery and maturity. The character may also never get through the whole change process and these works are often tragic. Sometimes the climatic change is something like a rebirth a resurrection as a character passes from one world into another. A writer's language often communicates this general theme;the symbolic figurative language is used to symbolize the journey.Consider this \"rite of passage\" or initiation and explain how it occures to the individual characters and why it is important in \"3\" of the following stories:Joyce Carol Oate's \"Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?\" , John Gardner's \"Redemption\" , Richard Wright's \"The Man who was Almost a Man\".\n\nThe second Question, Sometimes stories concern characters who are rebelling against particular rules or codes of behavior accepted by society. Talk about \"3\" individual characters from the \"3\" stories below. What type of rebellion is involved? Are they in conflict with themselves in someway or with the society in general? how do they see themeselves in relation to the way society sees them. How they are rebelling or cnforming to the rules and manners and instructions of the society they are a part of.What sorts of results occur and what do these results suggest for the reader? How does the language in the story tell you how the wtiter feels about each character? Kate Chopin's \"The Storm\" , Charlotte Perkins Gilman's \"The Yellow Wallpaper\" , James Joyce's \"Counterparts\".\n\nExcerpt From Essay:\n\nRequest A Custom Essay On This Topic\n\n\n\nTiffany R\n\n\nCharlotte H\n\n\nBill K", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.972589373588562}
+{"content": "The EDPB’s Draft Data Transfer Guidance Follows Schrems II – A Close Look\n\nLatham & Watkins LLP\n\nThe EDPB takes a strict approach in its recent guidance on international data transfers following Schrems II, posing a difficult challenge for businesses.\n\nOn 10 November, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released its much anticipated draft guidance on international personal data transfers (the Guidance) in the wake of the CJEU Schrems II decision. The EDPB simultaneously issued updated recommendations on the European Essential Guarantees for surveillance measures, which are referred to in the Guidance. The Guidance sets out the EDPB’s proposed step-by-step process for data controllers or data processors that export personal data outlining how to assess their data transfers and implement General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant mechanisms to protect data flows. One day later, the European Commission released draft updated Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data. The draft updated SCCS are explicitly designed to address Schrems II requirements, and cross-refer extensively to the Guidance in the draft implementing decision.\n\nThe EDPB’s recommendations are applicable immediately, including in the United Kingdom, though they are also open for public consultation (until 30 November 2020). Commentators expect significant lobbying given the strict approach the recommendations reflect. While the Guidance is not legally binding on organisations, it gives a clear indication of EU regulators’ expectations. The Guidance raises a number of difficult questions and challenges for businesses, particularly those transferring data to the United States, which are examined below.\n\nThe Roadmap\n\nThe EDPB recommends that all data exporters, within the scope of the GDPR, use the following roadmap to assess current and future personal data transfers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA):\n\n  • Step 1: Map the flow of personal data transfers, including any onwards transfers. Organisations may build on any existing records of processing activities for this step.\n  • Step 2: Identify applicable data transfer mechanisms. If an organisation is relying on an adequacy decision (under Article 45 GDPR), the only further step is to monitor the validity of the adequacy decision. If an Article 49 GDPR derogation can be relied on, the organisation does not need to take any further steps. If the organisation is relying on an Article 46 GDPR mechanism (such a SCCs or Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs)), it must move onto Step 3.\n  • Step 3: For SCCs and BCRs (and other Article 46 mechanisms), assess whether the transferred personal data is afforded a level of protection in the recipient country that is essentially equivalent to standards provided for by EU law. (In its assessment of the 2016 Privacy Shield decision, the CJEU in Schrems II found this was not the case for the United States, which the Guidance relies upon now.) If the legal regime of the recipient country undermines the commitments in the relevant Article 46 transfer mechanism, supplementary measures are required in order to mitigate those effects (see Step 4).\n  • Step 4: If the Step 3 assessment indicates that supplementary measures are required to ensure adequate protection, identify and implement appropriate supplementary measures. The Guidance includes a non-exhaustive list of potential technical and non-technical measures (the technical measures being problematic for many business models – see below for details). The Guidance states that non-technical measures, such as organisational or contractual measures, generally will not overcome any issues of public authorities’ access to personal data, and, therefore, such non-technical measures should generally be used to compliment technical measures.\n\n    If the viable supplementary measures are not sufficient to ensure adequate protection for the transferred data, the EDPB states that the personal data must not be transferred, and any existing data transfers should be stopped and the data returned or destroyed.\n\n  • Step 5: Certain procedural steps may need to be taken to formalise any supplementary measures. The Guidance confirms that supplementary measures to SCCs do not require prior authorisation from the supervisory authority, provided the supplementary measures do not contradict the SCCs.\n  • Step 6: Re-evaluate the transfer mechanism and supplementary measures at appropriate intervals. The Guidance reiterates that accountability is a continuing obligation under the GDPR. The Guidance encourages exporting organisations to implement mechanisms to ensure transfers are promptly suspended or terminated if an importer breaches or is unable to honour commitments under the Article 46 mechanism, or if the supplementary measures implemented are no longer effective.\n\nAssessing Legal Regime Essential Equivalence\n\nThe Guidance states that all transfers that rely on the SCCs or BCRs (or other Article 46 bases) should be assessed to determine whether the transferred personal data is afforded a level of protection in the recipient country (including onwards transfers) that is essentially equivalent to that prescribed by EU law, in respect of the specific transfer in question. In light of Brexit, this assessment would also be required for relevant data transfers from the EEA to the UK from 1 January 2021, unless and until an adequacy decision is made in favour of the UK. All relevant data transfers are expected to be assessed in the same way.\n\nThe proposed assessment of the essential equivalence of the recipient country’s legal regime under the Guidance involves, firstly, identifying the laws and practices applicable to the specific transfer (including legal principles and doctrine, legislation, case law, reported practice, data protection structures, reports from intergovernmental, civil society, or academic institutions). Secondly, the identified legal regime must be assessed to determine whether it impinges on the SCC/BCR protections, including whether individuals can effectively exercise their data subject rights. The Guidance expects particular attention to public authorities’ power to access personal data — and requires exporting organisations to assess whether those powers meet the EU law obligations regarding necessity and proportionality in relation to the protection of fundamental rights in light of the EDPB’s recommendations on European Essential Guarantees and the Charter of Fundamental Rights.\n\nThe EDPB further states that organisations should conduct their risk assessments with due diligence and document them thoroughly. The Guidance explicitly confirms that organisations will be held accountable for their data transfer decisions based on these assessments.\n\nThe legal regime assessment described in the Guidance is likely to be enormously onerous in practice, even for those organisations with well-resourced legal and compliance support. An assessment of equivalence is a complex legal analysis and in our view it is not practical to expect small businesses to be able to undertake it. Commercial and market factors will also come into play in the context of transfers to vendors, and may require the potential re-negotiation of long-standing vendor arrangements. The draft Guidance position effectively leaves the vast majority of organisations with a choice between a highly burdensome compliance exercise, or keeping the data in/returning the data to the EEA (which may not be feasible in many circumstances).\n\nSupplementary Measures\n\nIf an organisation’s Step 3 assessment concludes that the recipient country’s legal regime does not meet the essentially equivalent standard, the exporting organisation must implement supplementary measures to ensure adequate protection for the personal data being transferred. The EDPB explicitly states that any measures must address the specific deficiencies identified in the recipient country’s legal regime. This may be challenging (potentially near impossible in some cases) in practice.\n\nIn terms of the recommended supplementary measures, the Guidance emphasises technical measures over contractual and organisational measures, with the EDPB stating that “…there will be situations where only technical measures might impede or render ineffective access by public authorities in third countries to personal data, in particular for surveillance purposes”. The recommended technical measures focus on encryption as a tool to prevent public authorities from accesseing data.\n\nWhile the Guidance promotes the use of encryption as a potential technical solution, the EDPB makes its view clear that, in order to be effective, the encryption arrangements must be such that the data recipient never has access to, or the ability to access, the unencrypted data or the encryption keys. The Guidance relies upon the CJEU’s decision in Schrems II to conclude that, based on the US surveillance regime (particularly Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the United States does not meet the essentially equivalent standard. This conclusion appears intended to preclude any effective supplementary measures for the majority of US-based cloud services arrangements or global, intra-group data sharing with a US nexus where there is a need for data access in the US to operate the relevant business or its services (at least in the context of today’s most commonly available encryption technology).\n\nIs There Still Room for a “Subjective” Assessment of Risk?\n\nIn relation to the Step 3 assessment, the EDPB states that assessments should be objective and that organisations should not rely on what the EDPB describes as “subjective” factors, such as the likelihood of public authorities accessing the transferred data. The EDPB does not make this same objective/subjective distinction in relation to the Step 4 assessment of the efficacy of supplementary measures. Moreover, the draft updated SCCs make clear that the assessment of the specific circumstances of the transfer must take due account of, amongst other factors, “any relevant practical experience with prior instances, or the absence of requests for disclosure from public authorities received by the data importer for the type of data transferred”.\n\nThis inconsistency may be clarified in any updated version of the Guidance. In the meantime, organisations may choose to rely on subjective factors in their Step 4 personal data transfer risk assessments. Arguably, a genuine case-by-case assessment of the practical risk to the personal data, and the adequacy of the data transfer safeguards, must take into account important factors such as the actual likelihood of access by relevant authorities.\n\nAlternative Data Transfer Mechanisms\n\nAbsent an adequacy decision under Article 45, SCCs or BCRs, Article 49 GDPR contains a number of bases on which personal data may nonetheless be transferred, including explicit consent and performance of a contract. These Article 49 bases are not subject to the essential equivalence and supplementary measures requirements, and may therefore be seen as an increasingly attractive alternative to SCCs. However, Article 49 is not unlimited, and reliance on these legal bases may not be viable in practice in many circumstances.\n\nWhile one of the specific transfer bases in Article 49 (namely, transfer based on compelling legitimate interests) is expressed in strictly limited terms (e.g., if the transfer is non-repetitive, concerns a limited number of individuals, etc.), the Guidance appears to suggest that all of the data transfer bases under that Article should be subject to these strict limitations. The basis for this restrictive interpretation is unclear and is unsupported by Article 49. The Guidance seems to imply that transfers that an organisation has previously justified using an Article 49 basis may now need to be re-evaluated based on the stricter approach suggested by the Guidance (which, in itself, may not properly respect the fundamental rights and freedoms protected under EU law). Commentators hope that the EDPB will clarify the position in the final Guidance.\n\n\nGiven the significant ramifications of the draft Guidance for global data transfers, we remain hopeful that the likely significant lobbying during the consultation period will result in changes reflected in the final guidance. For example, we would hope that the final guidance will at least make it clear that assessments should take into account the types of data involved and the extent of any risk of allegedly excessive access to data, and outline more realistic technical measures for companies to try to adopt. In the meantime, organisations should start to map their personal data transfers, as a first step in scoping the potential compliance exercise. Organisations currently relying on, or seeking to implement, SCCs, may look to the updated SCCs (once approved) for the concrete requirements for assessing the adequacy of the protection of the transferred personal data, in the context of the specific data transfer.\n\n\n© Latham & Watkins LLP | Attorney Advertising\n\nWritten by:\n\nLatham & Watkins LLP\n\nLatham & Watkins LLP on:\n\nReporters on Deadline\n\n\"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…\"\n\nCustom Email Digest\n- hide\n- hide\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9988347291946411}
+{"content": "On Campus\n\nThe case for the informed and worldly student\n\nOne of the most important things you can learn at university is that a world, beyond university, exists\n\nFirst off, let me say that I can’t believe there’s a case undermining the value of the informed and worldly student.\n\nWait, I take that back. Since I know I shouldn’t put words in other people’s mouths, and probably can’t accurately do so, I’ll refrain from trying altogether.\n\nSome of my recent posts have apparently elicited some head-scratching. Why are you talking about provincial budgets? Media ethics? Why does this concern me? What does it have to do with post-secondary education?\n\nWell, my answer is quite simple:\n\n\nI could make some absurd connection about the effects tobacco lawsuits will have on provincial university grants, but I think students deserve more credit than that. Besides, I’d rather not preface my posts with “you should care about this because…” or “what this means for you as a student is…”\n\nJeff Rybak makes the point that “student” is an identity. For him, perhaps it is. However, I know lots of students who coast through their university years feeling no connection to their school, student union or peers. True, they’re united in their debt and coffee-addictions, but I think I’ll remain relativistic when it comes to “identity assignment.” Just because we share similar experiences doesn’t mean we all define ourselves the same way. I’ll let the individual define him/herself.\n\nI perceive my “student status” as a temporary one. Yes, I’m a student, and yes, I’m concerned about student issues. But I’m also Canadian, female, pro-choice, anti-cell phone at the dinner table, etc.; it’s my collection of different hats that make me who I am. Right now I’m immersed in a world of academia, somewhat sheltered from the harsh realities of the real world but accelerating quickly towards post-post-secondary life where I can’t complain to my faculty adviser when things don’t go my way. Straddling these two worlds allows me the privilege of time, resources and encouragement to read and learn about the world around me. Students are taught the latest social theories and scientific breakthroughs; why should we think about them only in abstract terms? Why not apply them to what’s going on in the world today?\n\nI have to admit, some of the reactions to my posts got me scratching my head. Wait… doesn’t the University of Toronto Students’ Union have a campaign against water bottles? Didn’t the Canadian Federation of Students BC call for public transit reforms? What do these initiatives have to do with post-secondary education? Sure, I could draw a connection if I really wanted to, but isn’t that beside the point?\n\nThen—I got it. AHA! I’m not blogging about the popular student issues; the ones the “powers that be” have deemed  worthy of student attention. That makes much more sense. After all, the issue of political advertising ethics can’t seduce a crowd quite like “sustainability��� written on a poster board.\n\nBack to my earlier point. I’m not trying to suggest that being a student doesn’t mean anything, but just that it doesn’t mean everything. I’m a student, yes, but only for a little while. And during that “little while” I’m fortunate enough to hear lectures about the latest and greatest sociological (and other) theories in my lectures. So I’m going to think about them when I read the paper, and maybe blog about them after. If you don’t like what I write, or find my posts irrelevant, feel free to click over to another blogger.\n\nBut perhaps better yet, think about where you come from—your ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, political affiliations, what you’ve learned in class—and debate me on the issues. That’s what the comment section is for, after all. Like I’ve said before, I think one of the most important things you can learn at university is that there exists a world beyond university. So, let’s talk about it.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5811653137207031}
+{"content": "I had parathyroid surgery four days ago. I had some tingling yesterday and took extra calcium, and that has resolved. My issue is that I'm having loose stools and abdominal cramping. Do you know what is causing this?\n\nDeva Boone\nAnswer authored by Deva Boone\nDeva Boone, MD is the founder of the Southwest Parathyroid Center. As one of the most experienced parathyroid surgeons in the U.S., she has treated thousands of patients with parathyroid conditions.\n\nThis may be a gastrointestinal reaction to the calcium you are taking. Calcium citrate is a form of calcium I frequently recommend because it tends to not cause constipation as much as some other forms. But it can cause the opposite problem of loose stools. If you are taking calcium citrate, you may want to try a different form of calcium. The most common form of calcium supplement is calcium carbonate - this is the calcium in Tums and Oscal, among many others. For someone having loose stools, calcium carbonate is a good option. Often, calcium carbonate causes constipation, so watch out for that. Some people do best taking two different forms of calcium - for example, alternating citrate and carbonate. You still need calcium, but may have to try a few different types to see what agrees with you. \n\nIf you are taking magnesium, that can also cause loose stool. You may want to hold off on magnesium until the loose stool resolves, then take a lower dose. \n\nPostop expectations Postop complications", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6948292255401611}
+{"content": "ConAgra, the largest microwave popcorn distributor announced that it would no longer add the flavor-enhancing chemical diacetyl to its Orville Redenbacher and Act II brands, based on claims that it may cause a deadly lung disease called bronciolitis obliterans. Recently a man claimed that he developed the ailment after eating microwave popcorn daily. Although a scientific correlation between digesting the chemical and developing the illness has yet to be proven, it has been linked to illness in factory workers.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9021573662757874}
+{"content": "genus Serranus\n\nAlso found in: Thesaurus.\nThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:\nNoun1.genus Serranus - type genus of the Serranidae: mostly small Pacific sea basses\nfish genus - any of various genus of fish\nfamily Serranidae, Serranidae - marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish\nbelted sandfish, Serranus subligarius - found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic\nReferences in periodicals archive ?\nFish of the genus Serranus are synchronous hermaphrodites; male and female tissues are simultaneously functional (Smith, 1965).\nReproductive potential measured as potential annual fecundity has not been addressed in any species of the genus Serranus with the POF method to date.\nComparative ultrastructure of spermatozoa of three marine teleosts of the genus Serranus: S.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998804926872253}
+{"content": "The march towards a financial democracy\n\nOver the past decade, many areas of our lives have been impacted by the rise of technology. Technology has changed how we shop, date, eat and bank, offering services and making products that are simpler, cheaper and more convenient than ever. This revolution has also liberated us. Startups have loosened the grip of multinational corporations,", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9981562495231628}
+{"content": "Arsenic, once known as the “king of poisons,” is a naturally occurring element found worldwide at low levels in water, food, air, and soil. Human exposure to arsenic can occur through ingestion of unregulated drinking water and certain agricultural commodities, particularly rice.  In recent years, several studies by consumer advocacy groups have highlighted the presence of this toxic metal in a variety of food products.\n\nOn August 5, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a long-awaited guidance establishing an action level of 100 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal.  While the FDA action level is a good start, the United States still lags behind other nations in terms of setting limits for heavy metals in food.  Here are five facts to consider in regard to arsenic and the food supply. Continue Reading\n\nRemember in school when the math teacher gave you a problem to solve, and how you felt when your answer matched the one in the back of the textbook? Didn’t it feel great knowing you solved the problem correctly?\n\nValidating the answer to grade school math problems carries the same concept as validating analytical methods. When scientists validate an analytical method, they need to show that it correctly measures the metric they’re testing for. To effectively do so, first they need to identify a product with existing results for the test they’re running as a control. Then, once the results from the test come in, they can verify that their results match the known answer, just like in school when you could check if your answer matched the one in the back of the textbook. Continue Reading", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8222448229789734}
+{"content": "Darwinian Beekeeping\n\nDarwinian Beekeeping. This presentation provides an introduction to a way of being a beekeeper who wants to let his or her colonies live as naturally as possible. This is an approach to beekeeping that is only relevant for a small-scale beekeeper, one who has just a few hives, and for a beekeeper who does not seek to get a lot of honey from his or her bees. It is appropriate for somebody who wants to relate to the bees more as a beewatcher than as a beekeeper.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9987316727638245}
+{"content": "The 450th anniversary of the start of the Dutch Revolt – the Eighty Years War as it is known in Dutch – is being commemorated in 2018 by a series of events, including an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. In this blog, Prof. Judith Pollmann reflects on Prof. Geoffrey Parker’s 1976 article in our Transactions which asked ‘Why did the Dutch Revolt last Eighty Years?’\n\npollmann.jpegWhy did the Kings of Spain fail to defeat the rebels who took up arms in the Netherlands in 1566, and created a breakaway Republic? And why did it take them eight decades to accept the loss of the Northern half of the Low Countries? It was these two basic questions which Geoffrey Parker set out to address in his 1975 lecture for the RHS. His answers transformed the study of that ‘first World War’, the Revolt of the Netherlands, and his essay continues to be on every reading list on the subject.\n\nParker’s article emanated from a 1972 paper written for an audience of Hispanists at Cambridge, who had requested a talk on the historical context to the many plays, poems and histories which touched on the endless war which the Spanish had fought in the Low Countries. With this broad remit in mind, Parker ventured both beyond the book that he had just completed, his 1972 The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, and beyond the one he was completing when he spoke to the RHS; The Dutch Revolt (1976) covered only the period from 1566 to 1609, when a Twelve Year Truce ended the first phase of the war.\n\nParker answered his first question, on the Spanish failure to defeat the rebels in the Low Countries in the early stages of the conflict, by pointing to a factor that had never been considered systematically before. While King Philip II spent vast amounts of Peruvian silver and Castilian taxes on the fight against the rebels, he did not do so consistently. At crucial moments, the money was needed for matters of even greater urgency in the Iberian peninsula, Italy, the Mediterranean, to meddle in the wars in France, or to invade England. And whenever that happened, the Habsburg Army of Flanders was starved of funds, to the point that earlier gains were sometimes completely lost.\n\nFor Dutch scholars this was new; they had taken for granted that the revolt in the Low Countries had been at the top of their King’s agenda, rather than just one item on a much longer list of royal headaches. It also opened up a new field of questions. If Parker was right that to explain Habsburg military fortunes, we should just follow the money, this was perhaps also true for the Dutch. Jim Tracy and Marjolein ‘t Hart proceeded to analyse how the Dutch exploited an older system of local borrowing by urban authorities, at low interest, to fund their collective war debt. They used the money to revolutionize their armies, not only by changing the conduct of war itself, as Parker and others had argued, but above all by changes in military organization. Both to raise the loans, and the taxes that were needed to service them, Dutch authorities had to secure broad support for the war among the population. This, in turn, forced them to do something about the disciplinary problems and mutinies that plagued all early modern armies. By offering their soldiers more regular pay, and by honouring these offers, it proved possible to get them to accept stricter discipline, and so considerably reduce their nuisance value. Whereas billeting had been every householder’s nightmare, people in garrison towns now competed to become the soldiers’ landlords. It all helped the Dutch rebels to at last to secure loyalty to their cause in the United Provinces; this was less self-evident than Parker had thought; the early phases of the war, we now know, were a civil war as much as a collective uprising against the King.\n\nIt also points to the pivotal importance of both political representation and public opinion. No one cared much about civilian suffering in those areas in the Dutch Republic that were politically unrepresented. Conversely, the Habsburgs realized from the 1580s that they if they were to successfully regain control of the Southern provinces, they were to honour the privileges and liberties of the representative assemblies in the South after 1585. The surprisingly fast revival of Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands similarly owed much to the fact that the Habsburgs presented themselves as the guarantors of the age-old religious values of the Southern communities, rather than to demand religious conformity as evidence of obedience to royal authority. Heresy in the South was no longer fought with executions, but by much tighter control of the public sphere.\n\nIn the Dutch Republic, by contrast, religious arguments were never going to win the war; while the ‘public church’ was Reformed, only a minority of the population signed up for full church membership. Even the influx of tens of thousands committed Calvinists from the Southern Netherlands did not change the fact that there were large Catholic and Mennonite minorities. Instead, Calvinist proponents of continuation of the war developed a powerful and secular popular memory culture around graphic images of ‘Spanish’ atrocities in the 1570s, which were presented as evidence that the Spanish peace offers could never be trusted. Even when the actual stakes in the war had long changed, this determined much of the public debate in the Republic.\n\nThis brings us to Parker’s second question, why Philip II and his successors did not cut their losses earlier and concede victory to the Dutch. Again, his answer pointed to the importance of placing the Revolt in a bigger, transnational picture. In successive peace talks, the Kings of Spain found it impossible to compromise on religion, or cede sovereignty, because they feared a domino effect in the monarchía as a whole. Moreover, Parker pointed out that by the 1620s the stakes in the war had become economic, while the war itself also shifted to theatres in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While some aspects of Parker’s second answer met with criticism, not least in Jonathan Israel’s 1982 The Dutch Republic and the Hispanic World, 1606-1661, both his emphasis on the war’s transformation into an economic conflict, and his insistence that it should be studied at a global as well as a European level, are now central to the study of the war’s seventeenth-century history.\n\nJudith Pollmann is Professor of Early Modern Dutch History at Leiden University. You can follow her on Twitter @JudithPollmann.\n\nFurther reading:\n\nHenk van Nierop, Treason in the Northern Quarter. War, terror and the rule of law in the Dutch Revolt (Princeton 2009)\n\nJudith Pollmann, Catholic identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635 (Oxford 2011)\n\nJudith Pollmann, ‘The cult and memory of war and violence’ in Helmer Helmers and Geert Janssen (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge, forthcoming August 2018).\n\nJasper van der Steen, Memory wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700 (Leiden 2015)\n\nWerner Thomas and Luc Duerloo, Albert and Isabella, 1598-1621 (Louvain 1998)\n\nImage: Gablestone at the ‘Spanish House’ commemorating the massacre at Naarden on 1 December 1572. Photo: Ralf Akemann, via Judith Pollmann.\n\nFollow This Blog\n\nEnter your email address to receive new posts by email.\n\n* indicates required", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5552270412445068}
+{"content": "Proper Way to List Credentials\n\nGrowth Trends for Related Jobs\n\nTo obtain the job you want, the importance of a properly formatted resume cannot be overestimated. Many hiring managers receive dozens, even hundreds of resumes for a single position and weed out those applicants with grammatical and syntactical errors or otherwise improperly formatted resumes. Here is an overview of the order in which to list the key items on your resume.\n\nEducation Versus Experience\n\nIf you are at the beginning of your career, and you have either a short work history or little work experience relevant to the position for which you are applying, list your education before your experience. This will shift the resume reviewer’s focus to your education, rather than your work experience, but only if your level of educational attainment meets or exceeds the minimum education requirement of the position for which you are applying.\n\n\nList your credentials in order from the highest degree attained to the lowest.\n\nOnly include your grade point average if it is a 3.5 or above. The older you are the less employers are likely to consider your grade point average as a relevant factor in most industries.\n\nMake sure you list your educational credentials clearly and unambiguously, especially if you have not completed a degree. Misleading an employer as to your educational history, even if unintentionally, can cost you a job offer, or, if you begin to work before your background check is completed, can cost you your job.\n\n\nWhen listing experience, try to stick to no more than three or four accomplishments per position. List accomplishments rather than responsibilities, especially in positions wherein the responsibilities are evident by job title. Accomplishments should be written as if you identified and solved a problem leading to a quantifiable result. For example, an accomplishment for a manager of a human resources department might be:\n\n“In response to staff attrition in the public relations department 36 months ago, implemented a morale boosting program that has resulted in a staff retention rate of 100% and increased productivity 30% over 36 months.”\n\n\nUnless you lack substantial work experience and transferable skills or are looking to transition into a new industry, use skills lists sparingly or not at all. If you fall into the former category, list your education, followed by your skills, and then your work experience on your resume, as your education will be the most significant item on your resume. If you fall into the latter category, list your skills, then your education, and lastly your experience. In this instance you will be emphasizing the transferability of your skills to a potential employer.\n\nAvoid listing skills that are not closely aligned with your work experience and/or your educational experience. Also avoid listing too many – you do not want to appear as if you have dabbled in a number of fields but have not developed expertise in any.\n\n\nCertifications should only be listed above education on a resume if you are trying to draw more attention to them than your degrees; this might be true if you work in an industry that highly values certification, such as information technology. Otherwise, list only the certifications relevant to the position for which you are applying in reverse chronological order.\n\nIf your resume only contains certifications and degrees, rather than work experience, list your educational credentials before your certifications.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9627618789672852}
+{"content": "CellProfiler 3D colocalization error\n\nHi all,\n\nRunning MeasureColocalization in CellProfiler (4.0.4).\n\nDue to background noise I have binarized my images to only select for structure of interest. If I put this binzarized image as a maximum projection, the CellProfiler pipeline works. However, if I put the Zstack of the binarized image, the pipeline returns the error:\n\n“Error while processing MeasureColocalization: local variable 'Thr_fi_c” referenced before assignment\"\n\nI thought it was an issue with the Zstack, but if I analyze the original grayscale (non-binarized) images, the pipeline works. I desire the Zstack because a maximum project results in seeming co-localization but there is clear separation in Z between the objects.\n\nHas anyone encountered a similar issue or know why this occurs.\n\n\nHi @AFenix ,\n\nMeasureColocalization is generally intended to work with greyscale images, not binary. Making a max projection is probably converting it into a greyscale-like image which is why that didn’t trigger the error.\n\nThe particular segment that’s causing the error here is the Costes automated threshold. Attempting to run this technique is nonsensical on a binary image (since there are only 2 possible values), which is why it fails to run. There’s an option to disable these features in the module settings, but if you’re working with binary images you may be better off using the MeasureImageOverlap module instead.\n\nTo make a more useful error message for future versions, it’d be helpful if you could post a copy of the pipeline and a test image so that we can replicate this?\n\nHope that helps!\n\n1 Like", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7051792740821838}
+{"content": "Question: Can You Check In Early To Airbnb?\n\nDoes Airbnb require ID?\n\nAt Airbnb, we’re always working on making our community as secure as possible for everyone.\n\nThat’s why, before booking a stay or experience, or becoming a host, we may ask for a government ID or have you confirm your legal name and add your address.\n\nThis information helps us keep Airbnb secure, fight fraud, and more..\n\nCan Airbnb hosts have cameras?\n\nUnder a section on Security, Airbnb says that “cameras are not allowed in your listing unless they are previously disclosed and visible, and they are never permitted in private spaces (such as bathrooms or sleeping areas).”\n\nWill Airbnb know how many guests?\n\nStating the maximum occupancy limit should be written in the house rules. You need to implement how many people can stay in the rental, e.g. if the reservation is for 4 people, there cannot be 6 guests.\n\nDoes Airbnb rent to 18 year olds?\n\nIn order to rent an Airbnb, the primary renter, or the individual who creates the Airbnb profile, must be at least 18 years old. As long as the primary renter meets the age specifications, Airbnb does not ask for the ages of anyone else who may be accompanying the guest on their stay.\n\nHow early can you check into an Airbnb?\n\nReservation details If there’s no check-in or check-out time specified within a listing’s description, check-in is 3:00 PM local time and checkout is 11:00 AM local time.\n\nWhat happens when you start check in on Airbnb?\n\nThe Airbnb check-in process allows guests to prepare for their check-in before they even arrive. Once the reservation is booked (and if the host turned on self-check-in), guests receive the instruction package three days before the check-in date. … Provide information that guests need about the self-check-in process.\n\nHow do I self check in on Airbnb?\n\nHow do I add self check-in to my listing?Go to Your listings on and select a listing.Next to Guest resources, click Edit.Below Directions, click Add self check-in.Select the way that guests can get in to your listing.Follow the instructions to add check-in instructions.\n\nDoes Airbnb have age restrictions?\n\nYou must be 18 years or older to create an account and use Airbnb’s site and services. It’s against our Terms of Service for people under the age of 18 to create an account to travel or host.\n\nHow do I check in a lockbox?\n\nAn Airbnb self check-in lockbox is a common solution.Place the key for the property inside the lockbox.Provide your guests with the code to access the lockbox when they arrive.For added security, you can reset the code before each new visitor arrives.More items…\n\nHow do I check in with myself?\n\nMake space in your life to check in with yourself daily. You can build the practice into your day; for example, trying this at traffic lights, when the phone rings, or when you enter or exit a building. Or, if you want to explore things at more depth, do this at the end of the day. Close your eyes or lower your gaze.\n\nHow does self check in work?\n\nSelf check-in means that guests can access the listing using a key lockbox, smart lock or keypad, or by getting a key or access from building staff (such as a doorperson or receptionist) at any time after the designated check-in time on their arrival date.\n\nCan someone else check into Airbnb?\n\nWe require Airbnb reservations booked for personal travel to be booked by the person who’s going to stay at the listing, as hosts rely on information in Airbnb profiles, reviews, and other verifications to provide transparency and trust.\n\nCan an Airbnb host kick you out?\n\nThat means, as it stands now, anyone has the right to kick you out of their car, house or apartment if they feel so inclined. That’s essentially what happened with Kugler when he used Airbnb to rent a home in LA last month. … “This was a 31-day rental.”\n\nDo hotels allow early check in?\n\nEarly can mean anything before their normal check in time. … Most hotels will hold your luggage before their stated check in time (hotel differ in their check in policies). Some (if not busy) will accommodate you prior to the check in time. But, you are arriving around shift change at the hotel.\n\nHow do you ask for an early check in?\n\nDepends on what you consider an early check-in. If you’re talking several hours, just call the hotel, explain that you will be arriving prior to check in and request it. If you’re talking like arriving very early in the morning, most likely that will not happen without you having to pay for the prior night.\n\nDo you have to be 21 to check into an Airbnb?\n\nYes, Airbnb terms and policies state the user must be a minimum of 18 years old. This means that someone who is under 18 years cannot book a stay for themselves, or be the solo traveller.\n\nCan an Airbnb host show up unannounced?\n\nthere is no concrete rule about whether or not a host can enter unannounced. However, it is the overwhelming consensus that a host cannot and should not enter a private Airbnb space without guest permission except in the case of an emergency.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.827703058719635}
+{"content": "Endometriosis is one of the common yet misunderstood medical conditions, affecting 10-15 percent of women of childbearing age. Licensed naturopathic doctors (NDs) utilize effective diagnostic interventions for discovering underlying causes of endometriosis. Trained extensively in clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, pharmaceuticals, and lifestyle counseling, naturopathic doctors provide patients with various options for a comprehensive treatment plan catered to the patient’s personalized needs.\n\nEndometriosis: What is it and what are the symptoms?\n\nEndometriosis is the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. This uterine tissue is not restricted to the uterus and can be found on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, in the abdominal cavity and in other places throughout the pelvic area. This misplaced uterine tissue responds to monthly hormonal cycles and wreaks havoc in many ways. Depending on where the uterine tissue located symptoms can include painful periods, pain during or after intercourse, persistent lower back and pelvic pain, discomfort during bowel movements or urination, menses lasting longer than seven days, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea or nausea during menstruation. Endometriosis is also a common cause of infertility or endometrial cysts.\n\nEndometriosis symptoms may include painful periods, persistent lower back and pelvic pain, bloating, constipation, infertility, and more.\n\n\nPhysicians diagnose endometriosis based on findings during a pelvic exam, presenting symptoms, and a thorough medical history. During the pelvic exam, doctors manually palpate the pelvis for abnormalities such as scars behind the uterus or growths on reproductive organs. Pelvic ultrasound and MRI are often ordered to rule out other causes of the patient’s symptoms. Laparoscopy remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of endometriosis.\n\nUnderlying Causes\n\nWhile the exact cause of endometriosis is unknown, there are several hypotheses regarding how endometriosis may develop. One possible factor is retrograde menstruation when the endometrial tissue flows backward, out through the fallopian tubes, and into the abdomen to implant and grow on organs in the pelvis.\n\nIn addition, endometriosis lesions may arise from Mullerian anomalies that did not correctly differentiate or migrate during fetal development. Other factors such as hormonal imbalance, inflammation, toxic environmental exposures, and immunologic dysfunction may determine why lesions implanted in the pelvic cavity cause symptoms and/or persist. There is also likely a genetic component as endometriosis does run in families.\n\nNaturopathic Treatment\n\nUnderstanding multifaceted causes of endometriosis guides treatment for both acute and long-term challenges. Treatment for endometriosis begins by stimulation of the body’s innate ability to heal through restoring healthy inflammatory response, balancing hormones, and aiding the liver’s ability to break down environmental toxins and naturally occurring estrogens. For some, the treatment of endometriosis will also include surgery performed by a gynecologic surgeon.\n\nSome factors that may contribute to endometriosis may include genetics, hormonal imbalance, environmental exposures, and immunologic dysfunction.\n\nNaturopathic treatment also addresses the whole patient. For many women, endometriosis can cause high levels of stress, often due to pain, difficulty in diagnosis, and the trials associated with an often invisible illness. NDs help treat not just the body, but the symptoms of the mind and spirit too.\n\n\nThere are numerous nutritional influences related to endometriosis. Licensed naturopathic doctors often begin with the diet, where patients are able to take an active part in the management and prevention of symptoms. The recommendation of an anti-inflammatory diet is often part of the plan in order to reduce inflammation and help with the balance of estrogen.\n\nIn a study of 500 women, there was a significantly decreased risk of developing endometriosis with higher consumption of fruits and green vegetables. Conversely, an increased risk for endometriosis was associated with high intake of red meat. Foods high in dietary fiber are associated with a healthy balance of microorganisms in the gut flora, where they play a significant role in breaking down estrogens and also reducing inflammation. Studies show that the inclusion of soy with its isoflavones can reduce the proliferation of endometrial cells.\n\nNaturopathic treatments including nutrition and dietary changes, botanical medicine, and supplementation have been shown to provide relief for endometriosis symptoms.\n\nBotanical medicine\n\nBotanical medicine has been shown to provide relief for some endometriosis patients, including:\n\n  • Vitex (Chaste Tree) has traditionally been used as a treatment for hormone imbalances in women, causing estrogen to be less available to stimulate endometrial tissue growth.\n  • Motherwort gently soothes cramps and pain during times of extreme discomfort in the uterus and other lower abdominal regions. As a mild sedative, motherwort helps with needed relaxation during menstrual cramps.\n  • Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary) has been researched as a strong anti-inflammatory herb and can be helpful for those with endometriosis pain.\n  • Curcumin has also been shown to reduce estradiol which helps to reduce endometriosis symptoms.\n  • Flax seeds with their anti-inflammatory impact and their capacity to reduce inflammation are also recommended.\n  • Pycnogenol derived from Pine Bark has been studied and shows the capacity to reduce many of the painful symptoms of endometriosis.\n  • Green tea has also shown promising results in the treatment of endometriosis.\n\n\nAnother natural treatment for endometriosis may include supplementation such as:\n\nAcupuncture, a modality some licensed naturopathic doctors utilize, when studied, showed a clear benefit to those suffering from symptoms of endometriosis.\n\nTreating endometriosis can be challenging and requires a whole-patient approach encouraged by naturopathic doctors. Natural therapies that address the root cause can lead to appropriate treatments to support the body in restoring optimal function. \n\nA service for consumers from the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and the Institute for Natural Medicine (INM). The AANP and INM would like to acknowledge Marianne Marchese, ND and Amy Rothenberg, ND for their contributions to the content of this FAQ.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8690105676651001}
+{"content": "Any current Off the Wall student may book practice sessions at the school, dependent upon availability.\n\nPractice sessions are a great resource for new students who want to work on their skills but aren't yet ready to invest in their own equipment.\n\nPlease note: If you book a practice session, you must be able to work without supervision. You'll be greeted and shown to your specific practice room when you arrive, but we won't be able to provide any further guidance, assistance or instructional feedback. This service is provided for free to new students for their first month, and at a discounted rate to other students, with the assumption that a member of our staff will not be required to supervise you. If you need additional supervision, please book a regular lesson instead.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993981122970581}
+{"content": "Global warming has been called by a number of different terms in recent years: global heating, climate crisis and Hothouse Earth, for example. These terms suggest that ‘warming’ might be too ’soft’ a term and may ignore the fact that in many places, there is a significant rise in temperature, hence ‘heating’. One example is the rise in temperatures in the Indian Ocean which may be linked to the bush-fires in Australia and flooding in parts of Africa.\n\nThe Indian Ocean Dipole refers to temperature change in the Indian Ocean which leads to extreme events in Australia and Africa. Due to global climate change, the western Indian Ocean warms up more than the eastern Indian Ocean. This affects atmospheric circulation and precipitation in the two regions. The warmer western ocean experiences more rainfall, such as that which affected parts of Africa this year. The cooler eastern ocean experiences less rainfall, leading to drought and extreme fire conditions in parts of Australia.\n\nIt is similar to the reversals caused by El Nino in the Pacific Ocean, which cause pronounced weather reversals in South America and Australia. Unlike the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean which are able to disperse warmer water through ocean currents, the Asian land landmass prevents this.\n\nThere is evidence that the Indian Dipole has become more frequent and more intense as the ocean has warmed up over the last 50 years. It is predicted that if the Dipole intensifies, there will be more fires over Australia and more intense floods in Africa. The floods there affected 2.5 million people this year. Around lake Turkana in Kenya around 30% of the population are said to be affected by malnutrition, and the floods badly affected crop growth.\n\n\nMore information:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9915647506713867}
+{"content": "WEBVTT NOTE recognizability 0.901 NOTE language en-us 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:02.100 Happening today you can share your opinion 00:00:02.100 --> 00:00:06.570 ...commissioner join hardest these proposal to cut nearly twenty million dollars from the 00:00:06.570 --> 00:00:11.790 portland police girls budget...genevieve rams wide downtown portland generally 00:00:11.790 --> 00:00:15.730 ...to testify has close but there are other ways people can 00:00:17.470 --> 00:00:22.250 Yes, primary want people to know there are other ways to make their voices heard the final vote on this 00:00:22.250 --> 00:00:26.330 ...until next week so if you haven't been able...weren't able to register 00:00:26.330 --> 00:00:31.100 ...during today's meeting you can still submit a written testimony you 00:00:31.100 --> 00:00:35.260 can also call or email the mayor or city commissioners directly without all the information to 00:00:35.260 --> 00:00:38.450 do that online at ktwo dot com to funding the police 00:00:38.450 --> 00:00:43.670 has been highly debated but it's what protests but...what protesters have been calling 00:00:43.670 --> 00:00:47.810 for five months now the city council cut fifteen million dollars and pcbs budget this 00:00:47.810 --> 00:00:52.540 summer but what's different about this nearly twenty million dollar cut is that it would at first go 00:00:52.540 --> 00:00:56.580 to corona virus relief then next year commissioner...says the focus can 00:00:56.580 --> 00:01:01.250 moved permanently finding ways to reinvest that money I have reached out to the council 00:01:01.250 --> 00:01:05.770 ...to see how many people have registered satisfy this afternoon once we hear back will be sure to 00:01:05.770 --> 00:01:07.300 ...you now even also 00:01:07.300 --> 00:01:12.050 ...stream the city council meeting on youtube you've got the link for that as well 00:01:12.050 --> 00:01:17.360 ...you...com...here in downtown portland...teach...genevieve thank you.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7059388160705566}
+{"content": "Grant Burlew\n\nInterim Director\n\n\nPhone: 213.740.2080\n\nMaster’s Degree, Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, University of Southern California\nBachelor’s Degree, Biopsychology, University of California, Santa Barbara\n\nBio + Fun Facts:\nGrant Burlew has degrees in Biopsychology and Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs from UCSB and USC respectively. Born and raised in Southern California, Grant is no stranger to the sunshine and earthquakes as well as the beaches and mountains. Prior to working at USC, he worked in Residence Life at UCSB and in Student Affairs during the inaugural year of UC Merced. Grant is passionate about hiring the right people for the right positions and making sure everyone has the correct resources needed to succeed in their positions. Some of his interests outside of the work setting include exploring different parts of the world, hiking around Southern California, and exploring the different restaurants and eateries in the surrounding area.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995371103286743}
+{"content": "00000nam a22000002a 4500 s2010 sbm 000 0 eng de-publications@UNEStawski, Clare.Ecology and thermal physiology of an insectivorous bat restricted to subtropical and tropical Australia / Clare Stawski.2010.Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy)--University of New England, 2011.Bats of the mammalian order Chiroptera make up about one-fifth of all mammal species and a large proportion of bat species inhabit subtropical and tropical regions. Most bats, particularly microchiropterans, weigh well under 25 g and therefore expend large amounts of energy for normothermic thermoregulation. Consequently, many microchiropterans are heterothermic endotherms and use torpor for energy conservation. However, despite the large number of species inhabiting subtropical and tropical regions knowledge about torpor use in free-ranging subtropical and tropical microbats is scarce. This is largely due to the view that low and stable ambient temperatures (Ta) are necessary for torpor use. The aim of my project was to collect data on the skin temperature (Tskin) of freeranging insectivorous northern long-eared bats ('Nyctophilus bifax'), which are restricted to the Australian tropics and subtropics. This was accomplished via temperature-telemetry. As weather, food availability and reproduction vary seasonally, I undertook seasonal studies on 'N. bifax' at a subtropical field site, because detailed knowledge on how freeranging subtropical insectivorous bats cope with such changes is essentially non-existent. Winter studies were undertaken on 'N. bifax' in two different habitats, a subtropical region near the southern end of their range and a tropical region near the northern end of their range to determine whether they employ torpor and especially prolonged torpor, and also whether their thermal physiology varies within their range. Additionally, since few studies have examined the thermal energetics of torpor in species that inhabit only subtropical and tropical regions, I quantified the thermal energetics of 'N. bifax' during summer, winter and spring from a subtropical habitat and also during winter from a tropical habitat.University of New England theseshttp://e-publications.une.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/une:http://dx.doi.og/10.1007/s00360-008-0328-yhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-009-0606-xhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.038224http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2010.05.009", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9993434548377991}
+{"content": "New study shows transgenic salmon outperform their selectively bred counterparts\n\nGrowth hormone transgenic Coho salmon exhibit significantly greater growth rates than selectively bred Coho salmon, in a variety of production conditions and experimental designs, according to emerging research from the Pacific Science Enterprise Centre.\n\n28 May 2020, at 7:32am\n\nThe study, the results of which will be published in the upcoming edition of the journal Aquaculture, compared the growth, development and survivability of growth hormone transgenic Coho salmon with selectively bred Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in four separate trials across a range of production conditions.\n\nThough these results are a huge boon for advocates of transgenesis, the research team notes that their trials aren’t reflective of commercial aquaculture conditions. They also stress that achieving greater growth rates and slaughter weights shouldn’t be the sole consideration for producers. Other research indicates that transgenic growth hormone fish can exhibit lower reproductive success and altered swimming ability when compared to their wild-type counterparts. Because of this, the team suggests conducting trials with transgenic fish on a commercial scale to get a better sense of their performance in a production environment.\n\nCoho salmon\nCoho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) are a subspecies of Pacific salmon\n\n\nAs sustainable salmon aquaculture scales up production to meet demand, fish farmers are exploring new ways to optimise fish growth. Capitalising on salmon growth would make the industry more resilient and profitable – shortened production times and improved feed conversion ratios would allow producers to raise more fish and better predict their yields each year. Currently, the industry uses two different strategies to enhance growth: selective breeding and transgenesis.\n\nSelective breeding programmes develop strains of fish with strong growth performance over multiple generations. As the breeding programmes have progressed, they have developed domesticated strains of Coho salmon that grow faster and larger than their wild-type counterparts.\n\nSalmon eggs\nSalmon eggs can modified to contain genes that enhance growth and other useful traits\n\nTo create transgenic salmon, researchers modify wild-type fish so they contain a gene for heightened growth hormone expression. Previous research has shown that transgenesis can induce a 37-fold growth in young salmonids. Though transgenic Coho salmon haven’t been commercialised yet, producers and researchers are quickly approaching that milestone.\n\nDespite transgenesis and selective breeding following similar biological pathways, researchers have not directly compared the growth rates of selectively bred domesticated salmon and growth hormone transgenic salmon. There’s also a gap when it comes to their performance in different environmental and production conditions.\n\nThe trials\n\nThe research team, based at the Pacific Science Enterprise Centre (PSEC, West Vancouver, BC), wanted to compare the growth and survival of domesticated and growth-hormone enhanced transgenic salmon at different developmental stages and in different experimental and rearing conditions. To test this, they designed four separate trials.\n\nExperiment 1\n\nResearchers compared the growth of selectively bred domesticated (D), transgenic (T) and hybrid domesticated/transgenic salmon in standard freshwater hatchery conditions over 10 months. The team tracked 30 fish per cohort and measured any differences in growth. They recorded and removed any mortalities to calculate the average survival rate.\n\nExperiment 2\n\nThe team measured the maximum potential growth in D and T Coho salmon by comparing weight-matched fish in the groups as well as the 30 heaviest fish in a standard freshwater hatchery environment over six months. Before the trial period, the team raised 300 D and 300 T salmon in water temperatures optimised for maximum growth. After the habituation period, the researchers took 90 fish from each strain and measured and weighed them. They were then weight-matched and tagged before being put back in the tanks. The trial continued for an additional seven months, with the fist being sampled twice again for weight and growth measurements.\n\nSalmon parr\nThe different strains of salmon were raised together in three of the four trials\n\n\nExperiment 3\n\nThis trial wanted to observe the effects of social interaction and inter-strain competition on growth in a standard hatchery environment. The researchers measured this by comparing the growth of domesticated and transgenic salmon when reared both together and separately.\n\nT and D salmon were raised until smolt in two separate tanks. From there, they were size-matched, tagged and split into three treatment groups. Group one contained 50 transgenic salmon, group two contained 25 transgenic salmon and 25 domesticated salmon and group three had 50 domesticated salmon. Mortalities were recorded and removed to calculate the mean survival rate.\n\nExperiment 4\n\nThe researchers investigated the lifetime potential growth in D and T fish when they were reared together in large, land-based tanks after smoltification. This trial hoped to identify the life stage where the growth advantage of transgenesis or domestication became more pronounced. The researchers reared D and T strains together in low density seawater tanks after the fish had smolted. After this point, the fish were tagged and randomly distributed to experimental and control tanks. Their growth was tracked for the rest of the trial period.\n\nKey results and conclusions\n\nIn all four trials, the transgenic salmon grew both faster and larger than the selectively bred salmon. However, there were some nuances in the recorded results.\n\nExperiment 1\n\nIn this trial, the hybrid group had higher average finishing weights than fish in the T group. Salmon in the D group did not show the same level of growth. This suggests that the growth enhancement from both domestication and transgenesis can interact to produce larger fish.\n\nExperiment 2\n\nThe average weights and lengths of the weight-matched T salmon were significantly larger than the weight-matched domesticated fish. The 30 heaviest transgenic fish were larger than the 30 heaviest domesticated ones. However, this difference wasn’t as pronounced as the one seen in the weight-matched groups. The researchers felt that this indicates a potential for further growth selection in selectively bred salmon.\n\nsalmon swimming in a tank\nTransgenic salmon outperformed selectively bred salmon in all of the trials\n\nExperiment 3\n\nThe researchers noted that after size-matching, T salmon grew at least two-fold faster than D salmon. Average body weight and length in transgenic salmon was larger than the domesticated salmon. The trend was observed if the cohorts were mixed or kept in strain-only groups.\n\nExperiment 4\n\nBefore smolitification and tagging, the fish in the experimental groups differed in weight. At the end of the trial, the average weights of the transgenic salmon were significantly larger than the selectively bred salmon. Though the researchers observed fluctuations in growth rates between the groups (with Coho salmon in the D group showing higher growth rates during some sampling periods) transgenic fish had a weight advantage when they reached maturity. Transgenic fish also had a higher average dress weight at the end of the trial.\n\nBased on these results, the researchers concluded that there is a noted growth advantage to using transgenic fish relative to domesticated fish. They suggest that growth hormone transgenesis could complement selective breeding programmes – allowing the aquaculture industry to quickly produce fast-growing Coho salmon.\n\nThough these results are promising, the team was quick to note that their trials were relatively small-scale. Scaling these trials up to mimic commercial conditions may provide greater clarity on the benefits of using transgenesis to promote growth.\n\nThe full study, \"Comparison of growth rates between growth hormone transgenic and selectively-bred domesticated strains of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) assessed under different culture conditions,\" is now available as an open access piece in Aquaculture. It was funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.\n\nEditorial team at The Fish Site\n\nMegan Howell first started writing about aquaculture in 2019 as part of the editorial team at 5m Publishing and The Fish Site. She has a MSc in applied research methods from Trinity College Dublin. She currently lives and works in Ireland.\n\nMore from this author", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8407672643661499}
+{"content": "Turkey’s Olay TV forced to close over pro-Kurdish HDP coverage, chief editor says\n\n\nSüleyman Sarılar, the former chief editor of private Turkish television station Olay TV, which was forced to close down due to government pressure last week, only 26 days after it started broadcasting, told the T24 news website on Friday that the main reason for ceasing operations was its coverage of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).\n\nOlay TV, which went on the air on Nov. 30 with the slogan “Returning Journalism to its Factory Settings” and closed its doors on Dec. 25, was owned by Turkish businessmen Cavit Çağlar, who formerly served as minister of state responsible for state-owned banks and was also the station’s license holder, and Hüseyin Köksal, who provided the capital to start broadcasting.\n\nSarılar told T24 on Friday that Olay TV was forced to close down due to increasing government pressure on Çağlar because of their broadcasting an HDP group meeting in its entirety.\n\nThe ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) accuses the HDP of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed secessionist group considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Turkey and the European Union despite the party’s denial of any links to terrorism.\n\nSarılar also shared data on Olay TV’s airtime allocated to each political party, underlining that the ruling AKP led with 766 minutes of live broadcast in 26 days, with the main opposition Republican People’s Party, the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), opposition İYİ (Good) Party and the HDP having 605, 194, 72 and 51 minutes, respectively.\n\nWhen asked who was bothered by the channel’s “objective” journalism and the dissident journalists working for the station, Sarılar replied, in reference to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: “The person who controls the media. There’s no need for a name, everybody knows who that is.”\n\nSarılar was also asked if they expected to have to shut down due to their “objective” editorial stance, and he said that although they knew there was going to be some pressure by the government, they never expected to have to close their doors and on such short notice, too.\n\n“But I know it won’t be long before we start broadcasting again [on a different station] because there’s nothing preventing us from doing that. We’re ready in terms of staff, infrastructure and ‘sense of broadcasting.’ We won’t back down from our sense of broadcasting because treating people from different political parties and faiths equally is what we know the best,” he added.\n\n“In countries where democracy is not fully established, those in power, unfortunately, control the media through various methods. Turkey is no different. This is my 37th year in this business. When I look back and compare, I can say that this is Turkey’s worst period in terms of press freedom, and international statistics back up my opinion on this,” Sarılar said.\n\n“Is the the Presidential Communications Directorate responsible for growing censorship and pressure on the media?” HDP lawmaker Dilşat Canbaz Kaya recently asked in a parliamentary question addressed to Vice President Fuat Oktay.\n\nReferring to the question, Turkey’s communications director Fahrettin Altun said it was an honor for him to be targeted by a person from the pro-Kurdish HDP.\n\nCommenting on the parliamentary question and Altun’s remarks, Sarılar said he found it strange as a journalist that Altun was so quick to express his opinion on a parliamentary question that was directed to Oktay and not him.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5428719520568848}
+{"content": "GameChanger: Lauren Gardner\n\nWe catch up with the creator of the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard.\nMmorgan 200511 0120 Cmyk\nPhotography by Mike Morgan\n\nIn January, as COVID-19 began its spread around the globe, a team of Johns Hopkins University engineers began tracking data from around the world to document the novel coronavirus. Their online dashboard now gets upwards of 4.5 billion hits a day from public health authorities, researchers, and the general public. In early May, we spoke with project lead Lauren Gardner, an infectious disease specialist and co-director of the school’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering, about the dashboard’s viral moment.\n\nWhat was a normal day like for you before the coronavirus outbreak?\nA lot more relaxed. My group does infectious disease modeling, specifically looking at the risk of spread on national or global scales. We look at how many different factors—people, their environment, land use, population density, urbanization, climate mobility—play a role to understand which are most significant, then we build out prediction models. Back in January, we were looking specifically at measles. I’ve historically done a lot of work around Zika and dengue fever.\n\nGiven your expertise, did the arrival of this pandemic come as a surprise?\nBack in January, I definitely didn’t think this was going to become the worst pandemic in a century, but in general, I am keenly aware of the heightened risk of new novel viruses getting introduced into the human population. The severity of this one, the extent to which it has integrated into every part of the world, and the complete economic collapse around it, is more extreme than I, and I think most people, were originally thinking. Even in January, we were expecting to see it all over the world—we were modeling importation and exportation risk at a global scale back then. But there was still just so much uncertainty surrounding how infectious it really was.\n\nHow did you make the shift to following COVID?\nWe had a lab meeting back in January with a couple of my PhD students and we were talking about this new coronavirus in China, just discussing what was going on and the implications. The students were already tracking it closely because they’re both Chinese and have family there. I thought it could be a great opportunity to build out a dataset for an emerging infectious disease in real time for the research community. Of course, we didn’t know where it was going to go. We built the dashboard just to visualize the data. It was a big surprise how popular it became for the general public. It makes sense now. My PhD student, Ensheng Dong, was really the pioneer. He built the original dashboard from scratch. We literally made the whole thing in a few hours one evening. But the data collection feeding into it is an incredibly complex process that has massively evolved over the last few months.\n\nHow quickly did it begin to consume your work?\nThe first week we put it up. It was growing quickly in popularity. By the end of February, it was already getting a billion hits a day. It was huge, and already starting to quickly get unsustainable in terms of managing it. We had to grow the team and start automating things. Part of it too was the scale of the outbreak. In terms of magnitude and also spatial scale, it just grew so fast through January. It was pretty obvious very fast that we were getting in deep.\n\nHow timely and accurate is the dashboard?\nWe update every hour. It just depends on how frequently our sources update, and because we’re reporting from all over the world, we’re getting updates at different times. One of the biggest challenges has been that sources are changing all the time. Over the last few months, counties, states, and even countries have come up with their own reporting systems, dashboards, and websites dedicated to COVID. None of these existed in January and February when we first started tracking this. Reporting rules are also changing. Some places include probable cases, some include probable deaths, some don’t. That’s really complicated to keep up with, and it’s a reason why there are discrepancies. Everyone in the world is still trying to learn how to deal with this, and their data collection and processes are continually evolving. Even in the U.S., there are inconsistencies all over the place.\n\nWhat’s your day to day like now?\nSince January, it’s been 110 percent. None of us have taken a day off. We work pretty much all the time because the dashboard is running all the time. We have people on 24-hour rotations for issues around servers and scripts and data crashes and all that, and we have group meetings every morning to talk about any ongoing issues, because we’re still literally building out the infrastructure every day. On the side, I’m doing a lot more modeling and analysis now, too, using the data we’ve collected through the dashboard. We’re creating weekly risk assessment forecasts for what’s going on in the U.S. We’re looking at how the cases and death rates are growing in every U.S. county. We’re looking at how social distancing is affecting the outbreaks growth rates. We’re looking at building local and global models for climate seasonality, and how that’s affecting COVID around the world.\n\nAre there any key takeaways?\nWe’re learning a lot. The most critical thing right now is that we’re obviously seeing the loosening of regulations around social distancing and stay-at-home orders, and I would say it’s definitely not time for that yet. There’s strong evidence that social distancing is driving down the growth rate of the outbreaks, and if we start moving around again, we should expect to see those increase.\n\nAre there any local trends you’re paying attention to?\nA lot of our county-level modeling looks at the contributing risk factors, and a lot of that has to do with certain socioeconomic demographic characteristics, so I definitely have concerns about Baltimore. I do expect it to get worse here. Maryland is one of the higher risk states that we’re concerned about.\n\nWhat’s next for the dashboard?\nWe’ll keep it running and continue to build on it and keep it as sustainable as possible. We’ll continue to create new models to try to learn more about COVID, and then ideally we’ll be able to transfer that knowledge to other infectious diseases. I think the dashboard has filled a knowledge gap and set a great example in terms of having a public facing tool to watch these things unfold in real time. I think it could be a good resource for annual influenza. And I hope it encourages more vaccinations among populations because maybe they’ll understand more about the risks.\n\nYou joined the Hopkins team in early 2019. What it’s like being a part of that community in this moment?\nThis tool is so trusted because it’s coming out of Hopkins. I think it’s really cool that we’re doing it out of the [Whiting] School of Engineering. It’s important for people to recognize that engineers can contribute to society in lots of different ways, including public health.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9277802109718323}
+{"content": "A couple have been left piping hot with fury after a Morrisons store said there would be a 15-minute wait to buy meat pies.\n\nLinda and Tony Gilkes say their local Morrisons refused to sell Linda meat pies before 9am.\n\n“I wanted eight large sausage rolls and two steak bakes,” said the 62-year-old grandmother-of-four.\n\n\n\n“But when I asked for the pies, I was told: 'We can’t sell the pies until 9am.' I could have had a fruit pie, but not a meat pie.”\n\nLinda Gilkes, who was told she could not buy meat pies before 9am, with husband Tony. Picture: Keane Duncan\n\nA queue of five other confused customers formed at the ‘Oven Fresh’ counter at the store in Berwick Hills, Middlesbrough, to demand their pastry fix last Wednesday.\n\n\n“If they hadn’t been cooked, that would make sense,” said Linda, from Thorntree in Middlesbrough. “But the fact that they were baked, well - it’s ridiculous.\n\n“If I could’ve reached over, I would have grabbed them myself.\n\n“I wasn’t waiting 20 minutes so I went to Cooplands. I was disappointed to say the least.”\n\nShe added: “They are dictating to me when I can buy pies and when I can shop.”\n\nHusband Tony, who eats fish and chips three days a week and rarely touches pastry, branded the decision “stupid”.\n\nThe 76-year-old said: “When you’re faced with that situation at the counter, you start thinking: ‘Is it Candid Camera? Is it April Fool’s Day?’\n\n“You can have fruit pies, but you can’t have meat pies!\n\n“We have always been able to get the pies before 9am. The decision makes no sense. I can’t see any logic.”\n\nMorrisons told the Teesside Gazette there is no “hard and fast policy” and meat pies are simply baked for 9am to match customer demand.\n\nBut Tony suggested a more sinister explanation.\n\n“There’s more to this,” he said. “Morrisons have got their own agenda.\n\n“They don’t want people to know about it. They have given too many ridiculous stories about why. They contradicted themselves over and over.\n\n“Who do they think us customers are? We are the people paying their wages.”\n\nThe supermarket chain, with 500 stores up and down the UK, has now swallowed a piece of humble pie and issued an apology to the couple for the mi-steak.\n\nA spokesman said: “It appears that in this case we should have sold the customer their pies.\n\n“We apologise for any inconvenience it might have caused.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5683953166007996}
+{"content": "Manipulating Falsehood\n\nHannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic (particolare), 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin\n\n\nIn 1916, in Zurich, Dadaism was born, a current that belongs to the group of the so-called historical avant-gardes that marked and revolutionized the artistic scene of the first thirty years of the twentieth century. Certainly Dada, as the name already testifies, with its strong playful component and dubious origin, is among the artistic avant-gardes of the twentieth century the most transgressive and irreverent. That same ironic component, already intrinsic in the nominal identity, is the foundation and the engine that allows it to unhinge any form of language, starting, of course, from the visual and non-visual artistic ones.\n\nIn this process of dismantling language, Dadaism intersects both the terrible rise of Nazism and the technical evolution of photography. It will be clear to anyone how, while Hitler’s dictatorial thought and power is making its way, it was complex for an artist to denounce and take a stand against the events triggered by Nazism. The Dadaist will to denounce finds a powerful answer precisely in the encounter with the new photographic language that, also subjected to the playful action typical of this current, leads to the composition of photographic fragments of different origins, thus giving rise to the photomontage. But the photomontage created by Dadaism is also imbued with the cunning and ironic irreverence typical of the bad boy: it uses, in fact, the same photographic materials designed and originally made as tools of the Nazi propaganda spread through the press. So that the denunciation is proffered by the same elements that constituted the propaganda. In short, Raoul Hausmannn (1886-1971), Hannah Höch (1889-1978) (1), John Heartfield (1891-1968), Max Ernst (1891-1976), etc., short-circuit the language of the regime, leading it to its opposite, an operation that in itself is of a biting irony, precisely because it dismantles the language of power from the inside, subverting its grammars and undermining its meanings and signifiers. In essence, if power manipulates truth to create its own propaganda, Dadaism manipulates the falsity of power to lead it back to truth.\n\n(1) Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Beer-Belly of the Weimar Republic, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90 x 144 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin\n\nNow, who belongs to my generation, and having an imaginary forcibly marked by television communication, has for years witnessed (in Italy) a similar process of short-circuiting of the media language. Maybe he didn’t do it consciously, but in fact he has enjoyed for years, and still today, a process of irreverent criticism of the statements produced by power through television broadcasting and quite similar, in the manner, to that originated many years before by Dadaism. This hereditary repetition was indeed able to originate precisely thanks to the previous Dadaism, to the point of constituting a greater diffusion and normalization of it. I am referring to the program created by Enrico Ghezzi (1952) and Marco Giusti (1953), Blob (2) on air since 1989, whose title is already a manifesto of his intentions. Some will remember the science fiction film of the same name (The Blob of 1958, directed by Irvin Shortess “Shorty” Yeaworth, Jr.), from which the program takes its title, where the Blob is made up of a shapeless and jelly-like mass that devours humans increasing its size from time to time and that, Ghezzi and Giusti, seem to put in parallel with the continuous flow of imaginary produced by television that devours and feeds on the minds of viewers and that, always through them, increases its volume of propagation and power.\n\n(2) Blob, di tutto di più, in onda dal 17 aprile 1989\n\nThe program consists of a collage of excerpts from different television broadcasts: variety, news, quizzes, etc.. The sequentiality of the fragments orders a narrative inverse to the one of origin, so that Bruno Vespa, or whoever for him, reveals the truth hidden in the lie profused by the media.\n\nGhezzi and Giusti, therefore, have transposed an instrument of denunciation, and at the same time of resistance to the propaganda power, from one medium to another. They are certainly not the only ones to have practiced this type of operation: on closer inspection, in fact, television and advertising continuously draw on the linguistic subversions brought by art to maintain the high level of attention of users and to dress themselves in an innovation that is only apparent.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCALVESI Maurizio, Le due avanguardie. Dal Futurismo alla Pop Art, Bari, Laterza, 1991.\n\nCAROLI Flavio, Magico primario, Milano, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1982.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDEL GUERCIO Antonio, Storia dell’arte presente, Roma Editori Riuniti, 1985.\n\n\nFARNÉ Roberto, Iconologia didattica – le immagini per l’educazione dell’Orbis Pictus a Sesame Street, [2002], Bologna, Zanichelli Editore, 2006.\n\n\n\nHONNEF Klaus, L’arte contemporanea, Köln, Taschen, 1990.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVALLIER Dora, L’arte astratta, Milano, Garzanti, 1984.\n\n\nSiti web\n\nLeave a comment", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7103495597839355}
+{"content": "Barbican Flatpacker Flat Pack Experts - Find Furniture Assembler in the Greater London (City of London) EC2Y 8 area\n\nfixings for flat pack furniture\n\nFlat Pack Furniture Assembly In Barbican\n\nEver purchased a piece or pieces of furniture from a flat pack outlet ? If you have, then you are well aware that it’s quite an experience.\n\nInitially, you sort through the choices and spot items that you like and then you acquire the items that interest you. Some individuals likewise buy due to the fact that they probably desperately need the items for a specific function.\n\nIf you’ve just moved to a new home, or you just have to fix up the furnishings in your home or workplace, or you need the furnishings for other reasons, getting it should not be a difficult procedure. We can help in Barbican Greater London (City of London) EC2Y 8 London. \n\nDelivery of Flat Pack Furniture\n\nYou can opt to purchase flat pack furnishings online and have it easily delivered or visit the furnishings store physically, make your purchases, and carry them home in the trunk of your vehicle. If they don’t fit, the furniture company will be more than happy to make the shipment for you.\n\nIf the orders are too large to fit in your vehicle, the majority of suppliers usually have a provision for sending the item to your home or office.\n\n\nThe possible often tricky part at times is that you will be at the mercy of their shipment schedule which might be agreeable to you or not. But generally, they do deliver within a sensible time frame.\n\nPutting Together Flat Pack Furniture in Barbican\n\nThe items are finally in your home or workplace and you are all excited at the prospect of getting them to their particular corners and locations. The only thing that is left is the assembling. What the majority of people think to themselves at this point is “how hard can this be?”\n\nDIY or Professional?\n\nWell, some individuals decide to fold their sleeves back and begin the assembling, which is not bad providing you have the ability and experience to do it.\n\nThe truth is, assembling flat pack furnishings is very easy, however not many individuals have the persistence needed to study a manual and figure out exactly what pieces go where.\n\nFor many, the plot gets lost as soon as one unloads the items only to be confronted by all sorts of furniture pieces and a huge bag of screws, bolts, and washers plus a few more unidentifiable items.\n\nIf you resemble the majority of Barbican DIY assemblers, by the end of an hour you’ll be seated in the middle of the room, cross-legged with pieces of furniture all around you while little beads of sweat drip down your temples in utter despair at how you have actually not managed to get even one single joinery done.\n\nThe good part is, you don’t need to fret as there are specialists who focus on assembling flat pack furnishings.\n\nWhat would have taken you hours to complete they will finish within record time and have it done properly and to your complete satisfaction.\n\nThe difference in between doing it yourself and calling the assembly pros does not lie in the task being hard, but because you need loads of persistence experience and time which the majority of people simply don’t have.\n\nAssembly pros do this for a living, and beyond the training, they have loads of experience and more importantly, they have the right tools and work as a team of more than one making the assembling jobs far a lot easier.\n\nWith these aspects combined, you will marvel at how a stack of bits and pieces of furniture seemingly in disarray start coming together and taking shape with exceptional rapidity.\n\nCall us. We can help in Barbican Greater London (City of London) EC2Y 8 London\n\nbaby crib\npax drawers\npax internal layout\nwardrobes with mirror doors\npine bedroom chest\nkitchen table\n\n\nSearch for: How do you assemble furniture?\n\nSearch for: How is flat pack furniture made?\n\n\nSearch for: What do you need to assemble IKEA furniture?\n\nSearch for: What is the IKEA tool called?\n\nSearch for: What size are Ikea Allen keys?\n\nSearch for: What is flat packed furniture?\n\nSearch for: What are the advantages of flat pack furniture?\n\nSearch for: What is modular furniture?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9679648876190186}
+{"content": "A Roseburg Psychiatrist’s Proposal to Reduce Gun Violence\n\nI am a psychiatrist, and I live and work in Roseburg, Oregon, the site of the most recent act of mass murder by gun violence. We are yet again arguing over ways to reduce this senseless carnage. Some argue that we must change gun laws. Others say we must instead improve mental health care. We must do both.\n\nThe risk of gun violence — both mass casualty and the more prevalent but less publicized individual gun deaths–can be reduced by more and better mental health care, increased access to it for those who want it, and stronger outreach to those who need it. This would be helpful by reducing the incidence of mental illness and being able to identify and take guns away from mentally ill people likely to kill or injure innocents. But there are significant problems in this. First, the individuals who commit acts of gun violence, even mass casualty violence, more often than not appear crazy only in retrospect. Although these acts of violence appear to be increasing, they are still extremely small in number in comparison to the number of people in this country. The number of lonely, angry, poorly socialized, often bullied young men–this being the profile of the men who commit these horrendous acts–is far and away larger than the number of them that commit violence. Together, these things make it is almost impossible to see violence looming in the future of any particular young man. Another problem is that some individuals will avoid contact with the mental health care system out of fear that their guns will be taken away if they are diagnosed with a mental illness. When I worked at the VA hospital as a psychiatrist, many suspicious veterans whose trust I had won asked me if just coming for help for PTSD and other psychiatric illnesses would put their gun ownership at risk. Thus, while improvements in mental health care would be helpful, they would not be enough.\n\nI believe that in addition to improvements in mental health, we need to create gun laws that both respect Second Amendment rights to bear arms and lessen the likelihood that dangerous people will possess weapons with intent to harm others or themselves. Psychological and criminal background checks should be universal and mandatory. It is also necessary to alter current gun laws and HIPPA regulations to make it possible to at least temporarily disarm individuals who fit currently known psychological profiles predisposing to violence. An arm of the legal system needs to be created to allow such individuals to come under scrutiny if they fit that profile and legitimate complaints have been filed by individuals–such as family, coworkers, neighbor,s or law enforcement officials–in the position to know of increased likelihood that they might soon act in violent fashion. Such a complaint could trigger investigation and taking court-ordered custody of weapons if the risk is compelling. In some cases, that disarming should be permanent.\n\nAnother means by which gun violence can be reduced and rogue gun owners controlled is by returning to the sorely neglected words of the Second Amendment itself: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That is, why not make gun ownership dependent upon membership in a well-regulated militia of fellow gun owners? This militia need not be controlled by Federal or even State governments. It could be formed and monitored by local, county governments. It could even be organized by groups like the NRA. Most important are groups of gun owners who can be responsible for each other. The vast majority of gun owners are responsible, civic-minded people. The militias could be organized and run as citizen’s groups to provide service to the community in emergency situations, not unlike the National Guard. Membership and regular attendance of reasonably spaced meetings of such militias could be a fair and tolerable requirement for continued gun ownership. The members of the militia could monitor themselves and make certain that all of their members remain level-headed, responsible people. Members of the militias whose circumstances and states of mental health change for the worse could be spotted by other members of the militia, and steps could be taken to avoid escalation into gun violence. People unwilling to participate in such a militia, including the angry, antisocial individuals most prone to commit gun violence, would lose their gun rights.\n\nThis accelerating cycle of gun violence must end, and we must use every means at our disposal to do so. This means both improving mental health care and adjusting gun laws while still honoring the text of the Second Amendment to our Constitution. We must progress beyond this impasse. Innocent lives are at stake.\n\n\nRead more here:: A Roseburg Psychiatrist’s Proposal to Reduce Gun Violence\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6156947016716003}
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+{"content": "What to Do if Your Myanmar e-Visa Is Denied\n\nMyanmar eVisa denied\n\nThe e-Visa for Myanmar is a convenient way to gain authorization to enter the country formerly known as Burma. The vast majority of applications made online are approved without any issue and enable travelers to enjoy their trip and experience the beauty of Myanmar.\n\nHowever, in some rare cases, a Myanmar e-Visa application might be denied.\n\nWhen permission to visit a country is not given, the first question people usually have is “why would the visa be denied?”, followed by “what can I do next?” It is important to know the answers to these questions in order to understand how to avoid problems in the future.\n\nWhy Was My Myanmar e-Visa Denied?\n\nIf a foreign national applying online finds their Myanmar e-Visa rejected, there are a number of possible things that might have caused this to happen.\n\nHowever, the office does not provide the reason why an individual’s e-Visa was denied; the foreign traveler is simply notified that their application was unsuccessful.\n\nThe likely causes for the rejection of an online visa application for Myanmar are listed below.\n\nThe Application Contained Incorrect Information\n\nThe most common reason why a Myanmar online e-Visa application is rejected is because some of the information provided on the form was incorrect. This usually entails small errors that were noticed during the processing of the application form and flagged as being erroneous.\n\nAlthough accidental mistakes usually seem minor, the information provided on visa applications must be 100% accurate.\n\nProspective visitors to Myanmar should take the utmost care when filling in the online form and double-check all of their personal details, passport information, contact details, and answers to the questions on the application before submitting it.\n\nBy completing the e-Visa application form for Myanmar through this website, travelers can minimize their chances of a rejection, as the data is verified before it is submitted to processing. This provides an extra check for errors and gives applicants a chance to rectify any mistakes.\n\nTravelers must keep in mind that staying is only allowed in registered hotels, motels, resorts, guest houses, and inns.\n\nThere Was A Problem with the Traveler’s Passport\n\nOne possible reason why an e-Visa application might be rejected is that there was an issue with the passport details submitted.\n\nOne of the Myanmar e-Visa requirements is that the traveler’s passport has at least 6 months’ validity. Even if it is valid at the time of applying, the e-Visa may be denied if the passport is set to expire less than 6 months after the date of intended arrival in Myanmar.\n\nThe passport must also be issued by an eligible country. Only certain nationalities, including British, Canadian, and US citizens, are able to obtain a Myanmar e-Visa. If the individual is not eligible for the e-Visa, they will not be able to apply online.\n\nApplicants should be sure to enter the country that corresponds to their passport, rather than the country in which they live (if different).\n\nAdditionally, all applicants should double-check that the passport details entered on the form are correct. If the e-Visa is granted, but the information on it does not correspond exactly to the data of the traveler’s passport, they may be denied entry at the Myanmar border.\n\nThe Applicant Is on a Watchlist\n\nAn application for a Burma e-Visa may be rejected if the applicant is on a list of individuals that are not permitted to enter Myanmar or require special permission to do so due to past events.\n\nIndividuals who have been involved in incidents on previous visits to Myanmar may be barred from returning. Such incidents may include:\n\n  • Overstaying a visa\n  • Being involved in civil unrest, such as demonstrations against the Burmese government\n  • Having broken the law in Myanmar\n\nTravelers with a history of involvement in serious criminal activity in any part of the world may be denied an e-Visa for Myanmar due to that, particularly if their names are on international watchlists.\n\nWhat Can I Do If My Myanmar e-Visa is Rejected\n\nIf a Myanmar e-Visa application is rejected, the most likely cause is that there was a small error in the information submitted.\n\nTravelers who have been denied an e-Visa for Myanmar may apply again.\n\nIt is advisable to thoroughly check and double-check all the information entered on the online form.\n\nApplying online for the Myanmar e-Visa is the quickest and most convenient way to obtain authorization to enter the country.\n\nIf the Myanmar e-Visa status is rejected more than once and it is not clear why, it is advisable to contact one of the country’s overseas diplomatic missions (embassies and consulates) to enquire as to why the application has not been successful.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9660767912864685}
+{"content": "What are the Free or Low Cost STI test options in Del City,OK?\n\nTurbulent times has become a reality in Oklahoma state where sexually transmitted diseases majorly chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea have sharply increased in the past five years. They have more than tripled since 2000 when the CDC almost wiped out STDs.\n\nAccording to Oklahoma State Department of Health, Del City STD statistics is mirror in comprehensive state report of 2017. There were 31, 779 incidences of chlamydia up by 7% from 29,716 cases in 2016. Syphilis infections increased by 36.55 and about 20% gonorrhea while chlamydia reported a big chunk of the totals; 21,752 cases in 2017.\n\nThe Health Department despite mushrooming STD incidences, is doing a good job in educating the people on safe sex practices, importance of regular screening, making healthcare services accessible and establishing STD training and testing centers.\n\nDel City Health Officials have identified irresponsible sexual behavior as the prime lead to new infections, re-infection and recurrence. It has therefore a partner management program where a patient is given medication for their partner even without testing because STDs often have no symptoms.\n\nThere are various public facilities that offer discrete STD testing services that are open for all persons Monday through to Friday. Today Clinic is one of the public STD testing centers based along 701 NE 36th street in Oklahoma City to check, it has various satellite operations within the state.\n\nAlternatively, local clinics may offer free STD testing under government sponsorship. However, you might experience long waiting hours and some of the clinics may delay releasing results. Also, service delivery might be delayed due to high demand are witnessed.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7469658255577087}
+{"content": "Elimination diet breakfast ideas\n\nElimination diet breakfast ideas\n\nIs oatmeal okay on elimination diet?\n\nStarchy foods: Avoid wheat, barley, corn, spelt, rye, oats and bread. Also avoid any other gluten-containing foods. Meat and fish: Avoid processed meats, cold cuts, beef, chicken, pork, eggs and shellfish. Dairy products: Eliminate all dairy, including milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream.\n\nWhat is elimination diet menu?\n\nAn elimination diet is an eating plan that omits a food or group of foods believed to cause an adverse food reaction, often referred to as a “food intolerance.” By removing certain foods for a period of time and then reintroducing them during a “challenge” period, you can learn which foods are causing symptoms or\n\nDo you lose weight on the elimination diet?\n\nCan an Elimination Diet Help You Lose Weight ? Cutting out food groups is a proven means of identifying allergies and sensitivities. But it isn’t a safe (or effective) way to drop pounds, a U-M expert says. The foundation of dieting has always been diligence and moderation.\n\nWhat do you eat for breakfast on the whole 30 Diet?\n\nHere are 13 Whole30 -compliant breakfast recipes that will give you all the protein you need to start your day off STRONG. Buffalo Chicken Egg Muffins. Sausage Pizza Egg Muffins. Smoked Ham, Kale, and Olives Frittata Cups. Low-FODMAP Smoked Salmon and Spinach Frittata Cups. Spinach and Bacon Egg Muffins.\n\nCan you have stevia on elimination diet?\n\nSweeteners – What to Use : Certain sweeteners, in very small amounts, are acceptable: brown rice syrup, blackstrap molasses, pure maple syrup, raw honey, coconut sugar, agave nectar, lo han, erythritol, and stevia . Use no more than three teaspoons daily of all sweeteners combined.\n\nYou might be interested:  How much is mcdonalds big breakfast\n\nWhat can you eat on the 6 food elimination diet?\n\n\nCan you have almond milk on elimination diet?\n\nIt is important to take notice that almond milk or cashew milk cannot be used as a substitute for cow’s milk , as they are both tree nuts that are eliminated from an SFED.\n\nCan you eat coconut on an elimination diet?\n\nFOODS ALLOWED Beverages Juice, soda, sports drinks, coffee, tea and rice, oat, potato, hemp or coconut milk.\n\nCan you eat onions on an elimination diet?\n\nFoods to Avoid Most fresh vegetables (try to incorporate onions , garlic , carrots, beets, leeks, celery, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, green beans, broccoli, asparagus, leafy greens – kale, mustard greens, turnip greens, bok choy, kohlrabi etc.)\n\nWhat causes big stomach in females?\n\n\nCan you cheat on an elimination diet?\n\nThere are no cheat days on the elimination diet . It is strict, and you have to follow it to the letter. If you don’t—it’s not going to work!\n\n\n\nYou might be interested:  Hotel with breakfast included\n\nIs bacon and eggs a healthy breakfast?\n\n\nWhy is granola so bad for you?\n\nThe bottom line. Granola is a nutritious, filling cereal. However, many varieties are high in calories and packed with excess sugar, which can harm your health . Be sure to carefully read labels, choosing products with whole ingredients — like raisins, seeds, and nuts — that are high in protein and fiber.\n\nWhat is the world’s healthiest breakfast?\n\n\nDaniel Barlow\n\nleave a comment\n\nCreate Account\n\nLog In Your Account", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5309935808181763}
+{"content": "How many miles is a marathon\n\nHow many miles is a full marathon?\n\n26.2 miles\n\nHow many miles is a 5k run?\n\n3.1 miles\n\nHow many miles should I be running a week for a marathon?\n\n\nHow many miles is a 5k 10k half marathon?\n\nIf you’ve never run a race before, you probably want to start with a shorter race, such as the 5K ( 3.1 miles ), 10K ( 6.2 miles ) or half-marathon ( 13.1 miles ).\n\nIs it OK to run everyday?\n\n\nIs 40 miles a week enough for marathon training?\n\n\nWhat is a good 5k time for a beginner?\n\nAverage for beginners If you run a mile about every 8 minutes, you can count on your 5K time being under or around 25 minutes . However, this isn’t easily achievable for many people, so beginners should aim to run a mile in about 9 to 13 minutes. Set up a fitness plan that builds up over a few weeks or months.\n\nYou might be interested:  Marine corps marathon 2017 results\n\nCan I run a 5k if I never run?\n\nSome people have enough aerobic endurance to run or jog that distance without any training. However, if you don’t participate in any cardiovascular activity, the prolonged effort might be a struggle. Beginners may be able to complete 5K race in under 30 minutes, or closer to 40 minutes at a slower running pace​.\n\nHow long does it take to walk 5k?\n\n45 minutes\n\nCan u run a marathon without training?\n\n\nWhat is a decent marathon time?\n\n\nIs running 100 miles a week healthy?\n\nNot only is it less long runs , but it’s also more recovery time between those miles . Generally, someone running 100 miles a week is running doubles on most days. If you’re working 9-5 then this could be to and from work or even with a lunchtime run .\n\nIs 10k harder than 5k?\n\nThe 10K (6.2 miles) is a tough distance. Even though it’s twice as long as the 5K , the 10K is only run about 15 to 20 seconds per mile slower than 5K race pace. This means the 10K can be quite a painful race!\n\nYou might be interested:  Half marathon walking events\n\nIs 5k hard?\n\n“Most of the 5K race will feel difficult ,” Harrington says. “It is a short race, after all. But if you can, shoot for negative splits. That means your miles get progressively faster.\n\nWhat is a good distance to run daily?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9886365532875061}
+{"content": "Trouble-Free Programs For How To Write An Ap Lit Essay Explained\n\nLiterary Essay TopicsThis article was co-authored by Stephanie Wong Ken, MFA Stephanie Wong Ken is a author based in Canada. Naturally, your literary analysis wants a strong, convincing conclusion. This closing paragraph will make the essay complete and nicely-rounded. It is going to give the reader an impression that you made a clear point that they are able to agree or disagree with.\n\n10. Main thought: Toni Morrison mirrors the fragmentation of her characters’ lives by way of her novel’s non-linear construction , specifically via her use of flashback, stream of consciousness, and shifts in perspective. Thanks for an amazing Literary Analysis Thesis paper! You’ve got awesome writers that actually save individuals when they’re in bother. Thanks for completing my papers within actually quick deadlines.\n\nWhat are commentaries in a literary evaluation? They’re your interpretations and explanations of concrete particulars. Clinchers are its concluding sentences that wrap up the last How To Write A Literary Analysis Essay paragraph by tying all commentaries and concrete particulars again to a serious thesis.\n\nWe help college students who wish to pay for essays, time period paper writing, and different school assignments. The professional writers know the type Literary Analysis Paper Ap Literature Essay of service college college students require. For instance, we’ll take care of the worldwide scholar’s language barrier.\n\nEnd your introduction together with your thesis assertion. Your thesis statement should include the who, what, why and Keep in mind to include parts How To Write A Literary Criticism of the question that you just intend to reply. Start reading Chosen Literary Essays on your Kindle in underneath a minute.\n\nNecessary Details For literature essay examples\n\nOne of these writing involves examining each a part of your chosen play, novel, or poem (settings, characters, imagery, tones) and deciding how the author used them to create a special impact. You should follow a specific format. Your literary evaluation is different Ap Literature Essay from a regular e book assessment as a result of you don’t have to state when you like a work of literature and whether you advocate it to another reader.\n\nShut Studying: The time period shut studying refers to the act of reading a specific piece of writing while paying notably shut attention to the minor details. This consists of issues like a character’s use of particular words or perhaps Literary Analysis Conclusion Example a gesture, along with the imagery the writer makes use of in a specific scene and the way the characters might react to it – understanding why the creator selected to make use of the gadgets that will create a stronger and extra insightful understanding of the work in its entirety.\n\nSimple Secrets Of essay sample – What’s Needed\n\nThe Options For Significant Criteria For essay sample\n\nBody paragraphs: 2 things should seem in every new physique paragraph – the subject sentence & interpretation together with the textual evidence. The information in each paragraph needs to be associated to the thesis statement. Tie the details of the paragraph together. To relate some paragraph concerning Example Of Literary Analysis the American society after the World War I, the coed might recall the truth that John Gatsby survived as a soldier in the course of the struggle. Drawing parallels with actual-world events is a good suggestion. It helps to make the viewers perceive the author’s point higher.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9985149502754211}
+{"content": "Chicken Bombay Biriyani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1 whole chicken..cut into pieces\n1 packet shan biriyani mix..can be found in the supermarkets.\n2 large onion..diced\n2 large tomatoes..diced\nOil for cooking\nYellow food colouring\n1 tbsp ginger/garlic paste\nYou also need rice that is half way cooked and water drained. (In a pot, add some water, salt and a few tbsp of oil. Bring it to a boil then add the rice.Cook the rice until it’s half way cooked then drain the water away).\n\nIn a pot, add the oil and cook the onions until golden in colour.\nNext add the garlic/ginger paste and cook for a minute.\nThen add the tomatoes and cook until they begin to soften up.\nNow add the chicken and the spices and mix well.\nCover and let the curry cook for a minute.\nThen add about 2 cups of water and let the chicken cook until almost tender. For tougher chicken meat, you might have to use some more water.\nOnce the chicken is almost cooked and there is about 1 cup of liquid left, remove the curry from the stove.\nNow take the half cooked rice and start layering it in an oven safe pot. Then add some of the chopped coriander. Sprinkle the dry food colouring over the coriander and rice. Next add all of the chicken curry and most of the sauce (leave some sauce for the top layer of rice).\nNow add another layer of rice, followed by yellow food colouring, then the coriander, next add the remaining sauce and gently mix the food colouring with the rice.\nCover the rice and bake it in the oven at 350 degrees until the rice is fully cooked.\nOnce cooked, remove the rice from the oven.\nGently mix before serving.\n\nYou may also like...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7318578362464905}
+{"content": "cam a22 4 4500 600015491 CHVBK 20200907130302.0 200903s2020 xxk |||| 00 0 eng|d 978-1-5261-4005-0 1-5261-4005-5 (IDSBB)007211306 (VAUD)991021345874202852 (OCoLC)1157269215 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023674499902851 CHBCC ger CHBCC SzZuIDS BS/BE B583 rda NQ 3210 rvk NQ 3560 rvk Robinson Michael Verfasser aut Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39 a difficult homecoming Michael Robinson Manchester Manchester University Press 2020 253 Seiten Illustrationen Disability history Bibliographie: pages 233-247 Index: pages 248-253 Introduction - 1. \"A definitive neurasthenic temperament?\": the Irish Tommy and veteran - 2. Neurasthenic pensioners in revolutionary Ireland - 3. Neurasthenic pensioners in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland - 4. The war hospital in Ireland - 5. The Service Patient scheme in Ireland - Conclusion With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War veterans in Ireland. The book is a result of five years of researching previously untouched archival sources including psychiatric records of former patients otherwise closed to the public. The remit of the work contributes to various historiographical fields including disability history, the social history of medicine, the cultural history of modern war, the history of psychiatry and Irish studies. It also seeks to extend the scope of the First World War with an emphasis on how war-induced disability and trauma continued to affect large numbers of ex-servicemen beyond the official cessation of the conflict. BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 s1me rnv IDSBB B583 B583 MAG IMG CFA 2020 306 NELB5832009 IDSBB 100 1- Robinson Michael Verfasser aut IDSBB 490 0- Disability history VAUD 100 1- Robinson Michael D. aut VAUD 490 0- Disability History", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999386668205261}
+{"content": "THREE planet discoveries in a row!\n\nin #nextcolonylast year\n\nOn my previous @nextcolony post I posted about my first rare planet discovery and it was discovered back to back with another planet. I opened the game to refresh some exploration missions, expecting one planet to be discovered at best, even don't mind if none at all was discovered. But boy what actually waiting for me was way sweeter.\n\n\nPictured above is screenshot on my latest missions from all planets. Three planets are discovered in a row from missions from all planets! Again, what's the odds? The 85 Stardust is a nice cream on the top of that. The types and rarities of the newly discovered planets are nothing too outstanding but the fact it happens right one after another is amazing enough. I won't be as pumped if the discovery chain is broken somewhere even if I also greeted by three new planets upon opening the game. But it isn't broken so I'm pumped. Good stuff.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7424770593643188}
+{"content": "Ofrenda a Douglas Huebler\n\n\nFor this londinense edition, Tell me a secret project opened secrets coming from New York City Douglas Huebler’s collection. Those stories comes from New York City, 1969. They were exhibited during the Software project exhibition at the Jewish museum in 1970. Also years later,  those secrets were printed as an artist book named Variable piece 4  published by Printted Matters in 1973. In 2017,  the same art publisher did a second edition of the book .\n\nDuring this edition We have explored narratives that can be hosted into a single HTML button. Reviewing 3 basic states of the interactive objet: link, visited, hover, and active. All buttons trigger an action\n\nWhat event does it buttons triggers?\nHow does this states relates each other ?\n\nAll these buttons will be hosted in single website (Ofrenda) honors Douglas Huebler and the students protest of 1968.\n\nWith this we open Douglas Houber secret collection , that we will continue working for all the englih workshops of Cuentanos un secreto, project\n\nThanks Maria Mencia , for her invitation!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9438647031784058}
+{"content": "Outlook: Control and Feedback in Hierarchic Systems in Society, Politics and Economics\n\nIt is often assumed that if a system is disturbed in the apparently stable but fragile state, it will be prone to fall into chaos. However, regarding our ecosphere, this is obviously not the case on a long time scale. Or, put more precisely, it would be necessary to define chaos quite well to be able to judge opinions like that. However if we assume that chaos is something like the aforementioned big bang in the ecosphere driving a large percentage of all species into extinction in a short time span we might at least realize that in spite of the fact that we disturb our ecosphere quite severely it is not necessarily behaving absolutely chaotic.\n\nEvolution turns out to be a strong mechanism selecting stable structures that survive after a distortion of the environment and start to grow again. This means that we will most probably not eliminate all fish from the planet by overfishing, but we might cause a new form of “fish” to emerge, which is not interesting for our menus and therefore has adapted to the constraint of a mankind that shows the tendency to overfish the oceans. We will not eliminate life in the oceans, but we will shift it into a direction that releases the pressure of the fishermen's nets and fills the ecologic niches that are opened due to overfishing. Actually it is observed that the number of jellyfish is significantly rising, which is most probably caused by overfishing and the extinction of regular fish populations (Gershwin, 2013). When reading Lisa-ann Gershwin's book Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean one may wonder why the jellyfish bloom was not foreseen twenty years earlier. After all, the correlations between overfishing of regular fish, opening of new ecologic niches, growing toxicity of the oceans, global warming and the growth advantages for jellyfish are quite evident.\n\nFor most experimental scientists it is of interest to extract the maximum amount of information from a sample. In complex systems, where the dynamics of several coupled states takes place within the same time domain, it is difficult to make clear forecasts. However, often there does not even seem to be any serious attempts to do so. We need a new methodology for simultaneous spectroscopy of multiple parameters over several orders of magnitude in space and time in multiscale hierarchical systems. In biophysics, samples can be imaged with a spatial hierarchy from the (resolution limited) molecular level, involving cell organelles and the cell structure, tissue formation and the whole organism. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) on single molecules up to macroscopic scenes covers a time range from the ps domain up to minutes. Therefore a hierarchy over 14 orders of magnitude in time and 9 orders of magnitude in space are accessible for generalized spatiotemporal correlation spectroscopy. Such deep hierarchical investigations are lacking in many other disciplines.\n\nIn economics, for example, one typically finds investigations of processes that happen on the minute time scale up to financial concepts covering five years. However these investigations are not analysed in a concerted scientific approach. More likely the economics study itself is based on a concept of win-loss estimations or equilibria. These concepts might be of extremely high scientific relevance. However nevertheless there is a lack of a hierarchically structured dynamic studies.\n\nSuch a temporal hierarchy should cover even more than the mentioned seven orders of magnitude in time. Extending the time scales turns out to be rather successful. This counts for the introduction of high-frequency trading or 60 second pitches for the presentation of start-up ideas on one end of the scale but it should also lead to an extended view on our economic strategy that can cover more than five years and clearly focus on predictable outcomes on long timescales of several generations.\n\nWe will refrain at this point from an instruction in how mathematical concepts might be applied to social, economic or political networks: instead we will point to the urgent need to react to predicted outcomes following current strategies.\n\nInspired by Hermann Haken’s Synergetics (Haken, 1990) Wei-Bin Zhang wrote Synergetic Economics. She focused on problems of time and change in economic systems and was able to deal with the complexity resulting from nonlinearity and leading to instability, bifurcation and chaos in economic evolution. Zhang describes a hierarchy of instabilities in her book and shows how economic systems that develop along such a hierarchy of instabilities evolve structural patterns. Similar to Hermann Haken’s synergetics, in Zhang’s work external control parameters reduce the degree of freedom in complex systems. However, while synergetics focusses on self-organization, Zhang focuses on the possibilities of chaos that arise from the hierarchy of instabilities. Changes of external parameters can lead to chaos. They may lead to new spatial-temporal patterns of the system, such as oceans filled of jellyfish as a result of overfishing the seas.\n\nEvolution forces the disturbed system to stabilize on the next probable stability path after its distortion. The same thing generally happens in society when the constraints change. This might be an event like a terror attack or the election of a new president who releases a broad series of new laws. In nature the appearance of the biosphere will change if we change a control parameter like the average temperature or the average number of fish in the sea. Between these stabilities there exists a transition time in which a more or less chaotic behavior is observed. In that time the old and the new form coexist with rather quickly changing population density. After some time the stabilization is completed and the new equilibrium holds a quite stable population of both - the old and the new species, but with changed ratio as compared to the former situation.\n\nPolitics might be the example in which the transition from one to another structure is at most prone to chaos. Changes in external control parameters which might be the outcome of an election, a revolution or an economic change can lead to chaotic situations that finally reach a new equilibrium. Political systems might also be the most evident structures indicating how top down and bottom up signalling both contribute to the current state of the structure. Elections and peoples’ behaviour are surely bottom up. However, the release of laws and the exchange of people in responsible positions are often top down. Both influence the dynamics of the system.\n\n< Prev   CONTENTS   Source   Next >", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5271692276000977}
+{"content": "Don’t equate materials with living life. Strike a balance.\n\nWhat's wrong in this sentence? I wrote it as part of an answer on quora. But when seeing today, I think I wrote two contradicting sentences. Because in first part, I wrote not to equate or compare, but in second part, I asked to balance. But without equating, how do you balance?\n\nI am not sure, I dont have good knowledge on grammatical terms. Not sure of which tag to apply too :)\n\n  • 2\n    It sounds almost as jarring as 'What's the difference between a raven and a writing desk?' I might use 'Don’t think that having many possessions is the same as living a fulfilled life.' – Edwin Ashworth Jan 21 '17 at 17:14\n  • 1\n    There is absolutely nothing wrong with it in grammatical terms. Stylistically, \"living life\" may be awkward: it is actually ambiguous between \"the process of living your life\" and \"life, that I am describing as 'living'\". If you mean the latter, it is certainly infelicitous. But your comments suggest that it is the logical consistency that concerns you, and in my view that is off-topic for this site. – Colin Fine Jan 21 '17 at 17:23\n  • 1\n    equate and compare are two different things. You certainly can balance between A and B without equating them.That is not the flaw in your statement. Using materials when you mean possessions (at least that's what I think you mean) is - and so is the phrase living life. – michael.hor257k Jan 21 '17 at 18:17\n  • It rubs me wrong having the 'materials/living life' comparison. I'd like it more like 'acquiring/living' or 'possessions / life\" or ''acquiring possessions / living life' . Also materials and materialism are a few steps away... materials evokes something closer to a basic need for me .. just my 2cents – Tom22 Jan 21 '17 at 19:57\n  • @EdwinAshworth - Put that way I’d have to say, “there’s an ’o’ in one and an ’h’ in t’other.” – Jim Jan 21 '17 at 22:17\n\nBut without equating, how do you balance?\n\nThat's very deep!\n\nBut you aren't saying \"don't equate\" in general, you're saying \"don't equate these two specific things\". So even if balancing requires equating, that's ok. You haven't prohibited all types of equating anyways.\n\nBut really, I would just say that language isn't that logical. We're humans, not computers, and our communication is messy. Your sentences don't have a terrible contradiction hiding in them as far as I can tell\n\n\nDon’t equate materials with living life. Strike a balance.\n\nThe main issues with this sentence are in trying to define a relationship between materials and living life.\n\nFirstly, material as a noun is defined as a physical substance that things can be made from: note the highlighted section. material as an adjective is defined as relating to physical objects or money rather than emotions or the spiritual world: note again the highlighted section. You could use this in an adjectival sense by using material things.\n\nSecondly, and in my opinion less importantly, materials is an object and living life is an activity. The relationship that you want to define is between the acquisition and possession of material things and living life.\n\nI don't think that there is a contradiction between equate and balance. Equate is defined as considering one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing. The meaning of equate in the first clause is not about making two things equal, it's about considering them to be the same: thinking that the acquisition of material things is the same as living life. To expand the concept in order to make it perfectly clear:\n\nDon't consider the aquisition of material things and living life to be the same: you need to strike a balance between these two.\n\nIt's up to you how you produce a nice compact aphorism from this. Here are some suggestions, each of which deals with the issues that I have raised in different ways:\n\nDon't equate material things with living life: strike the balance.\nDon't equate possessions with living life: strike the balance.\nDon't equate possession with living life: strike the balance.\nDon't equate acquisition with living life: strike the balance.\n\nNote the use of possession and acquisition as noun that describe an activity: this makes it clearer that you are equating two activities, rather than an object and an activity. Personally, I think that the first is good enough and the most evocative, as it has the nice overtone relating to emotions or the spiritual world.\n\nYour Answer\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5965428352355957}
+{"content": "Kelvin Leon Jones et al. v. Ron DeSantis et al.\n\nBackground: Beginning in 1838, Florida’s constitution allowed the legislature to disenfranchise felons. Effective January 8, 2019, Amendment 4 of the Florida constitution added a provision automatically restoring the voting rights of felons upon completion of all terms of sentence including parole or probation. That same year, the legislature  passed SB7066 which defines the language ‘all terms of sentence’ to include financial obligations included in the sentence and further clarified that  these financial obligations must be paid for the person to be eligible to vote, even if the sentencing court converts them to a civil lien. \n\nThis case consolidates the cases of 17 individuals, each with at least one felony conviction, who have completed all prison or jail terms and all terms of supervision, and whose right to vote under Amendment 4 and SB7066 hinges on the payment of LFOs. The plaintiffs assert that the requirement to pay to vote is unconstitutional as applied to those who are unable to pay the amount at issue.\n\nThe District Court issued a preliminary injunction requiring the state to register the named plaintiffs. On appeal, the 11th Circuit ruled that the State cannot condition voting on the payment of an amount a person is genuinely unable to pay and upheld the injunction. \n\nThe Court held a virtual bench trial and issued its decision on May 24, 2020. The Court held  that the State can condition voting on the payment of fines and restitution that a person is able to pay, but cannot condition voting on payment of amounts a person is unable to pay or on the payment of taxes, even those labeled fees or costs. \n\nHolding: When a state decides to restore the right to vote to some felons but not others, the state must comply with the United States Constitution, including the First, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Fourth Amendments. Florida’s pay-to-vote system, as applied to those unable to pay, is subject to heightened scrutiny because it punishes more harshly solely on account of wealth by withholding access to voting. Heightened scrutiny requires an analysis of the legitimate governmental interests served by the provision. The State identified the interest in re-enfranchising only those felons who have completed their sentences as its sole legitimate interest. The State went further in its appeal identifying additional interests served by the pay-to-vote system including: punishment, enforcing its laws, debt collection, and administrative convenience. The court holds that the pay-to-vote system does not survive heightened or rational basis scrutiny and plaintiffs are entitled to prevail on their claim that they cannot be denied the right to vote based on failure to pay amounts they are genuinely unable to pay.\n\nThe court also applies a rational-basis scrutiny standard to the system as applied to those able to pay. If the question was whether the LFO requirement was rational as applied to those unable to pay, it would not pass because Florida’s disenfranchisement of these plaintiffs is not rationally related to any legitimate governmental interest. The State’s justifications for the pay-to-vote system: that a felon should be required to satisfy the felon’s entire criminal sentence before being allowed to vote; that the system provides an incentive to pay the amounts at issue; and that the state should be able to pursue the first two goals efficiently, do not justify requiring payment from those unable to pay. The court concludes that the system survives rational-basis scrutiny, only as applied to those who are able to pay.\n\nThe court also concludes that fees, not fines or restitution, are taxes because they are assessed regardless of whether a defendant is adjudged guilty, they bear no relation to culpability, and they are assessed for the sole or primary purpose of raising revenue to pay for government operations. The Twenty-Fourth Amendment precludes Florida from conditioning voting in federal elections on payment of these fees and costs. Because the Supreme Court has held that what the Twenty-Fourth Amendment prescribes for federal elections, the Equal Protection Clause requires for state elections, Florida also cannot condition voting in state elections on payment of these fees and costs.\n\nThe court finds no evidence that SB7066 was motivated by race and similarly, the court finds no evidence of gender bias or reason to believe gender had anything to do with the adoption of Amendment 4, the enactment of SB7066, or the State’s implementation of this system.\n\nThe court holds that a state does not violate the Excessive Fines Clause by refusing to re-enfranchise a felon who chooses not to pay a fine that the felon has the financial ability to pay and concludes that, if implemented in a timely manner with adequate, intelligible notice, the advisory-opinion procedure and attendant immunity will satisfy due process. \n\nWith respect to implementation, the Court finds that any person who was represented by a Public Defender is presumptively unable to pay their financial obligations. The court allows the Division to rebut that presumption with reliable information, but if it does not, the Division of Elections must register the person. In other cases, the order requires the Division of Elections to provide an advisory opinion to individuals who are unsure of their eligibility status that   sets out the amount of their unpaid financial obligations within days. . The injunction also prescribes a method for determining ability to pay which provides a rebuttable presumption based on facts that are objectively determinable without undue difficulty and that, in the overwhelming majority of cases, correlate with genuine inability to pay. When the presumption applies, the injunction requires reliable information to rebut it. The injunction allows individuals to vote if they are otherwise eligible but have LFOs they are unable to pay. \n\nYou can access the full opinion here\n\n\nMay 24, 2020", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6332638263702393}
+{"content": "Public issuing orders and instructions. Coordinating is inter-relating\n\n\nadministration as a sub-field of political science has two key components. It\nemerged as an instrument of the state to serve public interests as opposed to\nprivate interests. One of its components, public, in the above sense consists\nof all people in general who have something in common and an objective to meet\nother than few individuals having their own interests. The other component,\nadministration, means look after or to manage public affairs according to E.N\nGladden. It has been observed that administration has two essential elements,\nthat is, it involves collective efforts and a common objective. Public administration\nhas been defined by differently by various scholars. According to Woodrow\nWilson, public administration is the detailed and systematic execution of law.\nHe continues to indicate that every particular application of law is an act of\nadministration. He further says that administration is the most obvious part of\ngovernment; it is the government in action; it is the executive, the operative\nand the most visible side of the government.\n\nThe scope of\npublic administration is wide and various perspectives have been put forth\ndiscuss the scope. Luther Gulick has proposed the narrow perspective or the\nPOSDCoRB view in trying to explain the scope of public administration. He\nargues that public administration has a limited scope. According to him, public\nadministration only concerns itself with those aspects of administration that\nrelate with the executive branch of the government. His acronym, POSDCoRB,\nstands for seven types of administrative functions namely; planning,\norganizing, staffing, directing, coordinating reporting and budgeting. Planning\nmeans the working out in broad outline the things to be done, the methods to be\nadopted to accomplish the purpose.\nOrganization means the establishment of the formal structure of authority\nthrough which the work is sub-divided, arranged, defined and coordinated. Staffing\nmeans the recruitment and training of the personnel and their conditions of\nwork. Directing means making decisions and issuing orders and instructions. Coordinating\nis inter-relating the work of various divisions, sections and other parts of\nthe organization. Reporting means informing the superiors within the agency to\nwhom the executive is responsible about what is going on. Budgeting means\nfiscal planning, control and accounting. According to Gulick, the activities of\nPOSDCoRB are common in all organizations. He views them as common managerial\nproblems which are found in various agencies regardless of the work they\nperform. POSDCoRB gives certainty, unity and definiteness and makes the study\nof public administration more systematic. However, POSDCoRB activities are not\nthe whole of administration or even the most important part of it. It does not\nput into consideration the fact that different organizations have different\nadministrative challenges which are peculiar to the nature of the services and\nfunctions performed. It also ignores the major concerns which the organization\nis concerned with. One of its major defects is that it fails to have any\nreference to the formulation band implementation of policies. This perspective\ntherefore defines the scope of public administration very narrowly and it is\ntoo inward and again too conscious of the top management\n\nBest services for writing your paper according to Trustpilot\n\nPremium Partner\nFrom $18.00 per page\n4,8 / 5\nWriters Experience\nRecommended Service\nFrom $13.90 per page\n4,6 / 5\nWriters Experience\nFrom $20.00 per page\n4,5 / 5\nWriters Experience\n\nWilson and L.D White on another hand propose the broad perspective or the subject\nmatter view. In this view, they have present a very broad perspective on the\nscope of public administration. They argue that public administration covers\nall the three organs of the government and their functions, that is, the legislature\nmaking laws, the executive implementing the laws and the judiciary interpreting\nthem. They propose that there is an interrelationship among the three as all of\nthem mostly function within the bracket of law. This perspective includes\ncooperative groups, like public universities, which consists of all categories\nof public employees. They also view public administration as part of the\npolitical process. They argue that it plays a vital role in the formulation of\npublic policies from the national level to the local levels of government. They\npropose that public administration is related with the numerous private\nentities and individuals in providing services to the society. In Kenya, for\ninstance, public administration has in the recent years been influenced by the\nhuman approach in various aspects like the non-governmental organizations and\nother private organizations who have been working with the government sectors\nto provide services to the people. For example, the ministry of education of\nKenya has been working closely with the United States Agency on International\nDevelopment (USAID) and the United Kingdom Agency on International Development\n(UKAID) in a bid to improve the education sector in Kenya. Besides, the New\nPartnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) works with the Kenyan government\nto eradicate poverty, promote sustainable growth and development, integrate\nKenya in the world economy, and accelerate the empowerment of women. It is\nbased on underlying principles of a commitment to good governance democracy,\nstandards is fundamental to the creation of an environment conducive to\ninvestment and long-term economic growth. They argue that public administration\ninvolves political appointees, parliamentarians and politicians.\n\nThe other\nperspective is the prevailing view which splits the scope of public administration\ninto two categories; the administrative theory and the applied administration.\nThe administrative part on one hand involves organization part like the\nstructure of an organization which includes the human resource department, the\nbehavior and functions of administrative authorities and various methods\nappropriate to different functions, functions and methods of all types of\npublic authorities be it at the national, regional or local level. It also\nincludes the public personnel administration which concerns itself with all the\nproblems concerning personnel, training, recruitment, retirement, promotion and\nall the problems related to planning, research, information and services\nrelevant to the public. On the other hand, the applied administration entails\nall political functions including the relationship between the executive and\nthe legislature, minister and permanent official relationship, the legislative\nfunctions including.\n\n delegated legislation and the preparatory work\ndone by the officials connection to the drawing \nof bills, the financial functions related to total financial\nadministration from the preparation of budget to its execution, accounting and\nauditing and other roles like defense, education and social welfare functions.\n\nSince the inception of public administration,\nits study has been growing in different perspectives and now it involves\nvarious functions and concerns. Various scholars have made different attempts\nto explain the aspects of public administration. They have come up with\ndifferent approaches to the study of public administration which are different\nbut not in large extensions which have shaped its structure and functions. One\nof the approaches used is the public policy approach and it aims at improving\nthe public policy process. It was propounded by D. Lerner and Harold Lasswell\nprimarily to address the concerns of the public for its betterment. After the Second World War, there developed\nsome interests in the aspects of administration due to the practical encounters\nand war alliances which had been formed during the war, the inception of\ninternational organizations and emergence of the developing countries. A\nlot of reforms were carried out in areas not just regarding the content of\npublic policy but also the ways in which they were formulated. W. Parsons argues that the wider\npurpose of public policy is involving the enlightenment, the fuller development\nof individuals in the society and development of consensus, social awareness\nand legitimacy other than simply the role of service and goods delivery. With\nthe dynamic times, the needs of the society have also changed and thus the role\nof the government and nature of its policies. The increase in the average age\nof the population has made the Government to look into the pension policies in\nthe developed countries which has also been rolled out in Kenya for the elderly\nin the society while the young population of the developing countries has\nforced their governments to come up with policies like those of creating job\nopportunities to them, right to education in Kenya. This approach encompasses\nmany aspects of the functions of the government. Its scope has become so broad\nthat it might appear confusing at times and spread all over. Policy analysis\napproach is gaining popularity since the Government is venturing into new areas\nand different activities with increased involvement in welfare programs, the\nprocess of making public policies and its analysis and execution, the\nmeasurement of the output among other things have become the new areas of\nconcern in trying to provide devices and mechanisms for moving the\nsocio-economic systems of the society.\n\nAnother approach to the study of public\nadministration is the structural approach. This approach has been influenced\nmostly by the success of American co-operations which lay their focus on the\norganizational structure and personal management. The approach mainly focuses on\nthe formal administrative structures, their functions and the limitations\nimposed on their activities. It treats public administration as purely\ntechnical rather and non-political organization based on a scientific\nprinciple. The proponents believe that public administration has nothing to do\nwith neither politics nor policy making. They argue that its core functions is\nto perform politically determined policies effectively and efficiently. They\nalso hold that tasks of an organization are very clear objectives, functions\nand goals which do not overlap and that employees should adjust themselves to\nthe tasks assigned to them.\n\nTo add on the approaches is the political\neconomy approach. Political economy entails the interdisciplinary study from economics,\nlaw and political science in trying to explain how political institutions, the\npolitical environment and the economic system influence each other. This\napproach tries to bring closer the gap between political science and economics\nin a bid to aid better political cohesion and policies. Some economists like\nAntony Downs and Godon Tullock have made attempts of this approach by\nexperimenting economic methods to political problems. It deals with a wide\nrange of issues including how elections influence the choice of economic\npolicies, the determinants of electoral outcomes, politics of delayed reforms\nin developing countries and of excessive deficits like it is in Kenya, the\npolitical business cycles and redistributing conflicts in physical policy. It\nhas recently been incorporated to involve the origins and rate of change of\npolitical institutions and the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes\nand developments. As its study narrows down, it presents public policy as\nencouraging market protection, monopoly, and rent seeking and institutional\ncorruption. For instance, in Kenya, when the government gets into the economy,\nit does so not to harmonize market opportunities for all but to encourage\nmonopoly and protection of businesses related to it. For instance, in the\ntelecommunications sector, there has been a continuous sabotage of new and\nupcoming communication networks  like\nAirtel, which has gone through a long period of crisis and collapses in\nbusiness, and this to some extent has been attributed to the government’s close\nworking with the telecommunication ‘giant’ in Kenya, Safaricom Limited.\n\nAnother approach in the study of public administration\nis the institutional approach. It largely concerns itself with legal rights and\nobligations of the government. It deals with the formal relationships to\nprovide checks and balances which is the oversight and regulatory mechanism and\nalso the separation of power among the three arms of the government. This\napproach separates the policy and administration assuming that the role of\nadministrators is almost confined to perform policies defined by the political\narm of the government. It is based on formal analysis of the hierarchy,\ndepartments, units and the vertical and horizontal relationships and the\nconstitutional delegation of authority and responsibility of the judiciary,\nlegislature and the executive. For instance, in Kenya, the three arms of the\ngovernment that is the judiciary, the legislature and the executive work in a\nsystem of checks and balances where each arm provides an oversight on the\nfunctioning of the other and again being keen not to overlap on the functioning\nof the other. There is also the concept of separation of powers so that each\narm works independently without interference from another arm. These principles\nare sometimes interfered with for we have had complains from some arms that\nother arms compromise their independence. For instance, the judiciary has\nrecently complained of the parliament coming in to dictate its functioning. The\nIndependent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) in last year’s elections\ncomplained over external influence from the parliament and re-known politicians\nin its decision making process and functioning.  \n\nIn conclusion, the various approaches applied\nin the study of public administration have some shortcomings in the way they\nview public administration. None of them is self-reliant for public\nadministration is extremely wide just as some scholars have admitted that\nalmost every activity involves some administration. Thus, these approaches\nshould be intertwined and comparisons made if one is to get the gist of public", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9976244568824768}
+{"content": "To refund or not refund, that is the question!\n\n“Patient Y needed a crown placed after a previous trauma to tooth 21 had resulted in root canal therapy being performed. It was explained and documented that the existing dark halo would be evident. Patient Y, a 20 year old, gave consent to cementation of the crown and was happy with the result. Her mother was not. They demanded a refund.”\n\n“Patient Z came in wanting to improve the appearance of her lower anteriors. Porcelain veneers were decided to be the best option. Patient Z was quite specific about what she wanted in terms of the aesthetic result so I brought the ceramist to be involved in the consultations. We delivered exactly what she wanted and she initially happy after cementation. A month went by and then she turned up demanding a refund because her unhappiness with the veneers was causing her depression to worsen.”\n\nPatients demanding a refund. It is unfortunate but most dentists will be faced with such situations during their careers. The above examples detail two occasions this happened in my practice.\n\nTo refund or not refund, that is the question!\n\nIt has been my experience that one of the strongest issues raised when a patient asks for a refund is the dentist’s reaction. Many dentists see a refund as an admission that they were somehow negligent. Even though I understand and honour the ‘insult’ to the dentists’ sense of professionalism and commitment to patient care, acting with such a mindset will hamper your attempts to resolve the situation.\n\nMy general rule in almost all such cases has been ‘Refund and Refer’. That is, refund the money the patient paid for the treatment in question, and refer them to a specialist for further management.\n\nThe refund resolves the patient’s upset and the referral to a specialist ensures you are maintaining your professional duty to that patient.\n\nSome may consider this a weak and possibly an unnecessary strategy. But I have good reasons.\n\nLet’s look at the benefits and drawbacks when refusing to refund an unhappy patient.\n\n\n  • You get to keep the patient payment for the treatment you performed\n  • You have the personal victory of being ‘right’\n\n\n  • You will spend ALOT of personal time and energy contemplating and worrying over what the patient claims and how best to manage the situation\n  • If it goes further and you must defend your case, your practice will also have to take their focus away from your happy, satisfied patients to gather and supply evidence\n  • The cost of a legal battle will likely be far above that of any refund that was asked of you\n  • In the past, unhappy patients have told only close friends and family about their negative experience. However, social media now means that there is a high chance that hundreds and even thousands learn of what happened. And remember, they will be getting the patient’s version only.\n\nIt is my observation that the drawbacks of refusing refunds outweigh the benefits. Holding onto and giving life to situations of this nature will often increase the damage to you and your practice. It is better to manage them in a manner that minimise their impact, not magnify it.\n\nMy philosophy is that you only charge patients for treatment they are happy with. Refund their fee stating that the reason you agree to give their money back is not because of any particular fault on your part, but simply because they are unhappy.\n\nObviously, ensure that you and the practice implement the proper systems to avoid unhappiness and continue developing your communication skills to better engage and discuss treatments with your patients.\n\nIf the question is to refund or not refund, I say the answer is to REFUND! And REFER!\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9183980226516724}
+{"content": "Future of Education\n\nStrategic Design, Future Scenario, Roadmap\n\nProject for Barco\n\nBarco is a technology company specializing in digital projection and imaging technology. For this project, we were tasked to imagine and propose a future vision, exploring future opportunities for Barco. The outcome is a thorough research that resulted in defining a vision for The Future of Education and how Barco could play a part in it with a detailed roadmap and some product concepts.\n\nAll rights reserved © 2021. All things here represent my work and thinking unless stated otherwise. However, feel free to appropriate, copy, remix, collage, or whatever you want to do with what you see. Registered in the Netherlands with KVK: 78542359   <------->", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9688135385513306}
+{"content": "WOW COLOUR Product Launch\n\nBeauty retailer brand, WOW COLOUR officially opened its doors to the public on 4 January 2020. Riviera Events was selected as the event agency for the grand opening, supporting with the activation, product launch, production and management. The day began with the store opening, where thousands of excited customers queued outside, eager to enter and try out the new products. Touted as one of the very first major beauty retailers to carry domestic beauty brands, the WOW COLOUR flagship store indeed “wowed” the attending media and consumers with 130 different cosmetic brands. Following the store opening was the brand launch conference and gala dinner. Incandescent violet and fuschia lights emitted onto a kaleidoscopic planet, officially kicking off the evening and commemorating the celebratory occasion. During the conference, the CEO of WOW COLOUR, Yang Yang, shared her perspective on the domestic beauty industry and its potential to thrive in the global market. Other highlights were a photo opportunity within a multi-coloured dodecahedron and unparalleled entertainment during the gala dinner. Riviera Events South China team was thrilled to support the WOW COLOUR brand activation and look forward to collaborating with the company again as it expands across the region.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.695409893989563}
+{"content": "Question: Which Are The Lucky Numbers?\n\nWhich zodiac is the luckiest?\n\nSagittariusSagittarius is the lucky person of the Zodiac..\n\nIs 1 a lucky number?\n\nOne – means the first. It is the simplest number but also the most complex one in terms of its cultural meaning in Chinese culture. It is neither auspicious nor inauspicious. … In most cases, it is a lucky number in Chinese culture as Chinese people think all good things com in pairs.\n\nIs 3 a evil number?\n\n\nIs 1 a good number in numerology?\n\nThe most powerful brand in the world, Google in Numerology adds to Number 1 too. # Number 1 people cannot play second fiddle to others. Number 1 person is decidedly ambitious and hates any form of restraint. They always rise in whatever profession or occupation and become heads of their department.\n\nWhich number is the luckiest?\n\n\nIs 2020 a lucky year?\n\n\nHow do I know my lucky day?\n\nIn order to find what days of the month will be lucky for you, you have to add your birthday number to the number of a calendar day. When you find a date that adds up to the exact number that your birthday adds up to, you’ve got a lucky day.\n\nIs 27 a lucky number?\n\n\nIs 7 a lucky number in Islam?\n\nMuslims believe that there are seven hells but eight paradises, signifying God’s mercy. In Buddhism 8 is a lucky number, possibly because of the eight petals of the lotus, a plant associated with luck in India and a favourite Buddhist symbol.\n\nIs 8 a lucky number in India?\n\n\nWhat is the lucky number for 2020?\n\nYour lucky numbers for the year 2020 based on your planetary positions are 5, 8, 16, 24, 37, 43, and 51. The best number you can depend on in the year 2020 considering your planetary positions are 5, 8, 10, 11, 23, 34, and 45.\n\nWhat are the 3 lucky numbers?\n\n\nIs 7 a lucky number?\n\n\nWhat are the five luckiest numbers?\n\nThe most frequent numbers are: 26, 16, 41, 32, and 28. Number 26 has been drawn 281 more times than the least common ball number 66, although that is due to the number of balls being increased recently and not because number 66 is incredibly unlucky!\n\nIs 69 a lucky number?\n\nNumber 69 is considered to be a lucky number and also a semiprime number. Number 69 is also the mark for the U.S. Navy carrier aircraft USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). In science, number 69 is the atomic number of thulium and in astronomy an object M69 is a globular cluster in the Sagittarius constellation.\n\nIs 13 a lucky number in Chinese?\n\nThree is also a lucky number for them as this is similar to the character of birth. Four is an unlucky number and it means death. In East Asia, some buildings do not have a 4th floor. (Compare with the Western practice of some buildings not having a 13th floor because 13 is considered unlucky.)\n\nWhich zodiac signs are lazy?\n\n\nWhich zodiac sign is dumbest?\n\n\nWhich zodiac is the kindest?\n\n\nIs number 9 lucky?\n\n\nIs 23 a lucky number in Chinese?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.624290943145752}
+{"content": "Why Do We Need To Repent?\n\nWhat must I do to repent?\n\nTipsForgive yourself.\n\nRemember there is no limit on forgiveness.\n\nChange your environment.\n\n\n\nBelieve things will change.More items….\n\nWhat happens when repent?\n\nThe rewards of repentance are: purity of heart, erasing of sins, and increasing of good deeds. Both the Quran and the Hadith are clear that those who repent sincerely to Allah, acknowledging their sins, and commit to not return again to those sins will have their sins forgiven.\n\nCan you ask for forgiveness on Judgement day?\n\nIf God has forgiven you of a sin, it’s forgiven. However, we’ll sin up until the day we die, or on Judgment Day, so there will be more to reckon with. Additionally, it’s important to remember that asking forgiveness only works if you truly mean it and are truly repentant.\n\nWhat happens if you don’t repent your sins?\n\nOriginally Answered: What happens if you don’t repent for your sins? Repentance means that you change the way you think about something, as well as trying your best to not do it again. So, if you do not repent, that means that you are still willfully sinning, and those willful sins will not be Forgiven.\n\nHow does God want us to repent?\n\nRepent means to “change your mind about” or “to turn away from.” If you make a decision to turn away from your sins, that means you are walking away all of your sins, no matter how many of them there may be. … You know He will forgive you when you genuinely repent through the Word of God (1 John 1:9 & Hebrews 4:14-16).\n\nWhat are the three worst sins?\n\n\nDoes repentance come from God?\n\nThe Hebrew term teshuvah (lit. “return”) is used to refer to “repentance”. This implies that transgression and sin are the natural and inevitable consequence of man’s straying from God and his laws, and that it is man’s destiny and duty to be with God.\n\nIs it ever too late for repentance?\n\nLuckily for us, Jesus offers us the opportunity to repent and follow Him no matter how far off track we may have gotten. For Jesus, there is never too little too late because He knows the motives of our hearts. … Even when we cause discord, Jesus still offers forgiveness and receives us…even when the church does not.\n\nDo you think they were worse sinners?\n\nJesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. … But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6538225412368774}
+{"content": "Debunking The Myths & Fears Associated With Spirit Animals\n\nDebunking the Myths\n\nMy spirit animal has to come in a special ceremony\n\nI’ve seen spirit animals connect in the most mundane and the most astounding of circumstances. Just like there is no single path to God, there is no one way to relate with an animal guide. Mouse came to me while live trapping hundreds of mice for a scientific study. It was an inglorious job of repeatedly setting and checking traps, weighing mice, tagging their ears, determining their gender, and setting them free. Deer spirit animal made her presence known to me through a life purpose journey a shamanic practitioner performed on my behalf. A wild mountain lion came to me on a riverbank while I was all alone. We stood eye to eye for many moments before she quietly walked back into the woods. There’s no special ceremony needed, just contact that leads to consistent interaction\n\n\nSomeone else needs to retrieve my spirit animal for me\n\nOf all the beliefs around spirit animals this is the most limiting. Beware of the expert healer that tells you that the only way you will receive a spirit animal is through their ability. This is an invitation to hand your power over to someone else. Ultimately, we all need to practice discernment and decide for ourselves how we are going to connect with divine guides. I’m an adamant proponent of direct revelation. I believe that we have more\nabilities than we give ourselves credit for, including the ability to claim our own spirit animals.\n\n\nI only get one spirit animal\n\nI’m not sure where this one came from, but I know a lot of people live under this illusion. As the beneficiary of a community of dozens of spirit animals, this is a preposterous idea to me. Over and over in my years worth of work, I’ve seen a whole host of spirit animals flood in to assist people. They are eager to help, and one never seems to do. This doesn’t mean that we don’t have stronger bonds with some animals over others; it just means that we don’t have to limit ourselves so severely. It would be akin to explaining who we are using just a single word. Once we understand that our entire future, healing, power, or identity doesn’t hinge on one animal, we are much less afraid of what it will be.\n\n\nDispelling the Fears\n\nWhat if my spirit animal is stupid, silly, or weak?\n\nAn essential part of being human is worry about what other people will think of us. If we have what we think is a lame spirit animal we fear it will reflect poorly on us. Spirit animals do mirror either what we have inside or what we need to build inside. The thing is, no spirit animal is stupid, silly, or weak. That is our projection on them. When you take the time to pause and study the creature that’s come forward to help you, you have the grand opportunity to see what an amazing creature of God they are. The power in a mouse is their ability to see the details in life and this is a power that mouse calls us to embody. The power in skunk is to have our reputation precede us, in ant is to help us with hard work, and in beetle is to teach us about resurrection.\n\n\nI am afraid of snakes. What if that’s my spirit animal?\n\nMany of us have animal phobias. Before I could walk, I was absolutely terrified of even the tiniest of spiders. Fear of an animal is common. Shifting that fear into a gift is not. To be able to face our fear and transmute it into a partnership is akin to the power of loving one’s enemies. This is one of the most potent of relationships with a spirit animal you can ever hope for. If you don’t feel like you are ready for this kind of encounter, don’t fret. You can politely invite another animal into your life to help you get started. The animal spirits are often kind enough to oblige our idiosyncrasies. Be gentle with yourself in the process. You’ll get there someday.\n\n\nWhat if I can’t SEE my spirit animal?\n\nSo often people are worried they won’t be able to envision their animal and then once they do they are worried they’ve made it all up. I say don’t stress it. Over time the animal will show up enough times in absolutely unrelated ways that you won’t be able to dismiss their presence. You’ll see them in your dreams, in waking reality, and in photos and videos when you aren’t intending to look. People will bring them up in conversation without your prompting. Stay open to the countless ways these guides\nmake their presence spontaneously known.\n\n\nWhat is My Spirit Animal PDF\n\nBy Stacey L. L. Couch", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9524713754653931}
+{"content": "\"Reel Reviews: ‘Shadow in the Cloud’ feeds off of WWII airmen superstitions\" by: Jessica Shepard\n\n   It’s slim pickings at the theater again and I did a little research on the movies offered locally and settled on “Shadow in the Cloud.”\n   Now, the storyline is pretty weak and seems entirely too weak to matter, but, I’m here for any flick with a monster based in military superstition.\n   Though, I’ll also admit that my knowledge of “gremlins” depends largely on a series of the same name and an antique Looney Tunes cartoon.\n   Outside of that, it’s just a quick Google search and I’m gotten a grasp on the history of gremlins that started in the 1920s during World War I and were reoccurring in WWII. \n   Gremlins are basically known as mischievous and destructive creatures that sabotage aircraft.\n   Shadow in the Cloud is a fantasy adventure action film directed by Roseanne Liang, from a screenplay by Liang and Max Landis. \n   It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Taylor John Smith, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale, Benedict Wall, and Callan Mulvey. \n   The film is rated R for language throughout, sexual references and violence and is 83 minutes long.\n   In August 1943, female Flight Officer Maude Garrett (Moretz) is assigned to travel with top secret documents from New Zealand to Samoa. \n   However, as soon as she arrives at the air base, she witnesses a ground crew baggage handler inexplicably disappearing before her eyes just before she suddenly finds herself standing right in front of her transport, a B-17 bomber christened, “The Fool’s Errand.” \n   The bomber’s crew gives her a mostly derisive welcome, and she is quartered in the “Sperry” for the takeoff. \n   The Sperry is basically the gun turret on the underside of the bomber and definitely not a great place if you’ve got motion sickness.\n   With no room left for her document bag, she reluctantly allows the only crew member friendly to her, Walter Quaid (Smith), to store it.\n   While stuck in the turret, Maude suddenly sees some sort of creature clinging to the underside of the bomber’s wing; she reports it, but most of the crew - except Beckell (Robinson), who sights it too - dismisses it. \n   When she is allowed to exit the turret, the hatch malfunctions and leaves her trapped inside; which naturally makes her worry.\n   When she reacts indignant about the crew’s comments to her situation, they abandon their attempts to open the hatch and the crew switches communications channels to speak without Maude listening. \n   After seeing a Japanese scouting plane appearing and disappearing close to the bomber, she is abruptly attacked by the creature, a gremlin.\n   Maude fights it off and shoots it in self-defense even though it violates rules about having a non-issued weapon aboard a plane.\n   When the crew contacts her again to ask about what happened, a radio message comes in telling them that a Maude Garrett doesn’t exist and is not registered for the flight. \n   When they intend to take her out for questioning, Maude deliberately jams the turret’s gears and prepares to defend herself when the Japanese plane reappears and attacks. \n   After that, the action really picks up and it’s a race to safety between the gremlin and Japanese attacking.\n   It’s definitely a better watch on the big screen than waiting for a rental or streaming at home. \n\nRate this article: \nNo votes yet", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5605421662330627}
+{"content": "The Beatles (White Album) artworkWritten by: Lennon-McCartney\nRecorded: 30 May; 6, 10, 11, 20, 21 June 1968\nProducers: George Martin, John Lennon\nEngineer: Geoff Emerick\n\n\nAvailable on:\nThe Beatles (White Album)\n\n\nJohn Lennon: vocals, tape loops, effects, samples\nGeorge Harrison: vocals, samples\nYoko Ono: vocals, effects, samples\n\nDividing audiences since late 1968, John Lennon’s sound collage ‘Revolution 9’ was an exercise in musique concrète influenced heavily by Yoko Ono and the avant-garde art world.\n\nThe recording emerged from ‘Revolution 1’, the final six minutes of which formed a lengthy, mostly instrumental jam. Lennon took the recording and added a range of vocals, tape loops and sound effects, creating ‘Revolution 9’, the longest track released during The Beatles’ career.\n\nThe slow version of ‘Revolution’ on the album went on and on and on and I took the fade-out part, which is what they sometimes do with disco records now, and just layered all this stuff over it. It was the basic rhythm of the original ‘Revolution’ going on with some 20 loops we put on, things from the archives of EMI.\nJohn Lennon\nAll We Are Saying, David Sheff\n\nAlthough he made no direct contribution to ‘Revolution 9’, being in New York at the time, Paul McCartney had led work on a similar sound collage, the unreleased 14-minute ‘Carnival Of Light’, 18 months previously.\n\n‘Revolution 9’ was quite similar to some stuff I’d been doing myself for fun. I didn’t think that mine was suitable for release, but John always encouraged me.\nPaul McCartney\n\nThe other Beatles and George Martin are said to have persuaded Lennon not to include ‘Revolution 9’ on the White Album, to no avail. Although McCartney had long been interested in musique concrète, particularly Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ‘Gesang der Jünglinge’, it is likely that he was concerned at the effect ‘Revolution 9’ would have on the group’s public perception.\n\nI don’t know what influence ‘Revolution 9’ had on the teenybopper fans, but most of them didn’t dig it. So what am I supposed to do?\nJohn Lennon, 1969\n\nIt wasn’t only the group’s teenage fans who were confused by ‘Revolution 9’. Charles Manson found a wealth of symbolism in the track’s loops and effects, and thought that Lennon’s shouts of ‘Right!’ were, in fact, a call to ‘rise’ up in revolt.\n\nManson drew a parallel between ‘Revolution 9’ and the Bible’s book of Revelation. He thought The Beatles were variously four angels sent to kill a third of mankind, or four locusts mentioned in Revelation 9, which he equated with beetles.\n\n‘Revolution 9’ was an unconscious picture of what I actually think will happen when it happens; just like a drawing of a revolution. All the thing was made with loops. I had about 30 loops going, fed them onto one basic track. I was getting classical tapes, going upstairs and chopping them up, making it backwards and things like that, to get the sound effects. One thing was an engineer’s testing voice saying, ‘This is EMI test series number nine’. I just cut up whatever he said and I’d number nine it. Nine turned out to be my birthday and my lucky number and everything. I didn’t realise it: it was just so funny the voice saying, ‘number nine’; it was like a joke, bringing number nine into it all the time, that’s all it was.\nJohn Lennon\nRolling Stone, 1970\n\n‘Revolution 9’ also featured in the ‘Paul is dead’ myth, after it was discovered that the ‘number nine’ motif, when played backwards, sounded like ‘Turn me on, dead man’. A number of other elements of the recording featured in the myth, including the sound of a car crashing followed by an explosion.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8813985586166382}
+{"content": "PSG match - PSG\n\nLaunching a remarkable team of attacks, but MU entered a less exciting than PSG. The visitors playing jubilantly, attacking from the beginning and soon having a goal. 6th minute, Mbappe shot from turning on a man who went to Neymar, \"No. 10\" on the PSG side then defects the right angle to open the match.\n\nMU - PSG: Red card turning point, the finished double (C1 trophy result)\nNeymar soon opened the match scoring (source: Internet)\n\nNeymar soon opened the match scoring\n\nAfter the early goal, the visitors also created two suspension situations into danger. Meanwhile, until 16 minutes, there was a first finish of Rashford's first shot from Rashford.\n\n23 minutes, Fred created the most controversial ball in the first half with a headed move towards Paredes, causing PSG midfielder to fall off. However, after referring to VAR, the referee only warned Brazilian midfielder with a yellow card.\n\nIf PSG had a goal thanks to a sloping ball, MU also had a table from a similar situation. In 32 minutes, from Wan-Bissaka's silhouettes, Rashford finished playing the ball to touch Danilo Pereira's leg to change the net to go into the net, causing Navas to keep his hand.\n\nThe last minute of the first half witnessed to play the defensive defensive. 45 minutes, Martial fell well to put Bruno Fernandes on goal when he was only goalful in front of Navas, but the Portuguese star handled the lack of confidence to go away.\n\nTo the second half, PSG is better but MU is a team with the first dangerous opportunity. The 49th minute, Rashford passed the ball that opened an extremely open space so that Martial finished to close into, but the cushion of this striker went to an unbelievable bar. By 57th minute, it was Civani's turn on the ball in the phase to face Navas.\n\nUnable to score when there was an opportunity, MU had to pay. The crossbar and de Gea helped them escape in the two consecutive brakes of Marquinhos and Bakker, but Marquinhos's 69th minute defeated the Spanish goalkeeper, after a series of shadows Crushed in the penalty area.\n\nMarquinhos once again put PSG over (Photo source: Internet)\n\nMarquinhos once again put PSG over\n\nThe more disappointing for the home team when only 1 minute was 1 minute, Fred received the second yellow card to leave the back of the backyard.\n\nThe minutes later, 4 Pogba stars, Greenwood, Van de Beek and Ighalo were turned into the yard but everything with MU only stopped at opportunities. Meanwhile, PSG constantly creates dangerous counterattacks thanks to the speed of Mbappe and Neymar.\n\nAnd in such a situation in the first minute, Neymar finished MU. The Brazilian star initiated the quick counterattack for PSG and himself buffer the ball into the blank grid after Rafinha's favorable backwards, closing the 3-1 victory for the French team.\n\nWith this result, Table H department will only be disposed of in the last round, when MU, PSG and RB Leipzig are 9 points. In the end, PSG was played at home Next Istanbul Basaksehir, while MU had a passenger trip to RB Leipzig.\n\nGeneral: MU 1-3 PSG (1st half: 1-1)\n\n\nMU: Rashford 32 '\n\nPSG: Neymar 6 ', 90 + 1', Marquinhos 69 '\n\n\nMU: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Maguire, Alex Telles, Fred, Mctominay, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, Martial, Cavani.\n\nPSG: Navas, Florenzi, Marquinhos, Diallo, Kimpembe, Verratti, Danilo Pereira, Paredes, Mbappe, Neymar, Kean.\n\nScoring player (according to whoscored)\n\nStatistics of matches", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8636069297790527}
+{"content": "How will global energy markets evolve to 2035?\n\n| © OECD/IEA, 2011 |\n\nPublihed link: www.worldenergyoutlook.org |\n\n Major events of the last year have had an impact on short- and medium-term energy trends, but have done little to quench the world’s increasing thirst for energy in the long term. The level and pattern of energy use worldwide varies markedly across the three scenarios in this year’s World Energy Outlook (WEO-2011), which differ according to assumptions about government policies on energy and climate change. The New Policies Scenario is the central scenario of WEO-2011. It assumes that recent government policy commitments are implemented in a cautious manner.\n\n\n The dynamics of energy markets are determined more and more by the emerging economies. Over the next 25 years, 90% of the projected growth in global energy demand comes from non-OECD economies; China alone accounts for more than 30%, consolidating its position as the world’s largest energy consumer. In 2035, China consumes nearly 70% more energy than the United States, the second-largest consumer, even though, by then, per-capita energy consumption in China is still less than half the level in the United States. The rates of growth in energy consumption in India, Indonesia, Brazil and the Middle East are even faster than in China. Emerging economies also dominate the expansion of supply: the world will rely increasingly on OPEC oil production as it grows to reach more than half of the global total in 2035. Non-OECD countries account for more than 70% of global gas production in 2035,\nfocused in the largest existing gas producers, including Russia, the Caspian and Qatar.\n\n World demand grows for all energy sources. The share of fossil fuels in global primary energy consumption falls slightly from 81% in 2010 to 75% in 2035. Natural gas is the only fossil fuel to increase its share in the global mix over the period to 2035. Absolute growth in natural gas demand is similar to that of oil and coal combined. Oil demand increases by 15% and is driven by transport demand. Coal demand, dictated largely by emerging economies, increases for around the next ten years but then stabilises, ending around 17% higher than 2010.\n\n In the power sector, nuclear generation grows by about 70%, led by China, Korea and India. Renewable energy technologies, led by hydropower and wind, account for half of the new capacity installed to meet growing demand. Overall, modern renewables grow faster than any other energy form in relative terms, but in absolute terms total supply is still not close to the level of any single fossil fuel in 2035.\n\n Large-scale investment in future energy supply is needed. In the New Policies Scenario, $38 trillion in global investment in energy-supply infrastructure is required from 2011 to 2035, an average of $1.5 trillion per year. Two-thirds of this is required in non-OECD countries. The power sector claims nearly $17 trillion of the total investment. Oil and gas combined require nearly $20 trillion, increasing to reflect higher costs and a need for more upstream investment in the medium and long term. Coal and biofuels account for the remaining investment.\n\n The energy world becomes more inter-connected and more focused on Asia. More than half of world oil consumption is traded across regions in 2035, increasing by around 30% in absolute terms compared with today. Trade in natural gas nearly doubles, with gas from Russia and the Caspian region going increasingly to Asia. India becomes the largest coal importer by around 2020, but China remains the determining factor in global coal markets.\n\nClick for more", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5074927806854248}
+{"content": "Morgan Complete Scragg Mill\n\n\n\norCall 704-288-1904\n\n\nStock Number008364\nMorgan scraggFully hydraulic, twin 50 hp electric motors with 40\" insert saws. Width is from 3 .5\" to 8\" and the saw can take up to 10.5 ft logs.\nGenset460 Volt, 475 kva, 12,000 hours and runs smooth\n\n\nThe log deck is on hydraulics and very heavy duty, 20' long and 7' wide. The green chain is hydraulic, very heavy duty, 20' long and 6.5' wide. The slab saw is a two saw, twin 20hp electric motors, 20\" saws, 18\" wide, 7 .5\"  tall.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9983941912651062}
+{"content": "Animal Criticism: Specicism And Immanuel Kant\n\n1045 Words 4 Pages\nPeter Singer makes a substantial argument regarding animal ethics, and although the term ‘specicism’ has existed for some time, Singer really brings popular attention towards it. In order to make a firm decision on the plausibility of Singer’s argument, I will be looking closely at Shelley Kagan, who criticises Singer’s argument in itself, as well as an earlier writer who discussed animal ethics, namely, Immanuel Kant. By looking at critics of Singer’s ideas, we can then discuss which view is more convincing.\nIn order to understand how specicism may be similar to racism, it is first necessary to define specicism. Specicism is, a prejudice or a bias that favours the interests of an individual’s own species against other species, which Singer\n…show more content…\nShelly Kagan attempts to object the idea that specicism is a mere prejudice. Kagan discusses why specicism is a moral insight rather than a prejudice (Kagan 5). He argues that counting the pain of a human in higher regard is in fact, moral insight and not a prejudice (Kagan 5). However, this argument falls short of explaining how counting the interest of one species over another is again not just a prejudice. Singer explains that racists violate equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race, and sexists do the same respectively. The same is happening in the case Kagan describes, you are counting the interests of one species over the other, and this is from a prejudice, or specicism. We know now that there is no biological difference between races, and gender merely the social meaning of sex. Although it is true, that only humans are rational, self-aware and autonomous, and taking these distinct human characteristics is not a form of specicism but can be challenged by the argument from marginal …show more content…\nImmanuel Kant argues that animals are a means to an end, whose end is humanity, simply because animals cannot reason and are therefore at humanities disposal (Kant 223-248). The argument is not absolutely a speciesists one, but is arguably still a form of disguised specicism as the argument takes certain characteristics into consideration, such as rationality. The reason for introducing the argument is to strengthen my case that disguised specicism can be argued against. Which I will do by thinking back to Kagan’s argument - which has some commonalities to Kant’s argument – where he describes himself as not a speciesist, and that it is through moral insight that he counts the interests of a human more, as only humans are rational or self-aware (Kagan 5). This argument is venerable to the argument first proposed by Jeremy Bentham, and is the argument for marginal cases. Kagan’s argument was that because the human knows how to reason and is self-aware, then our interests count more than the any other species. When presented with the marginal cases argument, it shows how the decision to count human interests more, even with justification that humans can reason, is still a prejudice and a problematic\n\nRelated Documents", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8092507123947144}
+{"content": "• Dr. Mel Tavares\n\nHow to Write a Book in 3 Months\n\nFirst, you need to download Scrivener (no I’m not being paid to say this). What is Scrivener? It is, in my opinion, THE best writing platform out there. I’ve been writing books and articles for 20 years, and this gem is making my writing life 100% easier!\n\nHow? Let me count the ways? My top five beloved features are the ability to create footnotes and move them within the document, the ability to split the screen within the platform and move content quickly and easily, the ability to create notes to remind me later of things that randomly pop into my head while trying to focus, the ability to create an outline as detailed as I prefer, and the ability to move entire sections of content with the click of a button (and the footnotes move with it).\n\nIt is under $50 and the best part is the 30 day free trial. There are lots of YouTube videos that will give you a basic tutorial if you don’t like the tutorial within Scrivener. If you disagree with me and don’t like the Scrivener platform; simply export your work, end your trial and go back to using Word.\n\nSecond, you need to create an outline for your book. Remember your high-school English class and how detailed your teacher made you get with the outline draft? Do that! If you are using Scrivener, outline creation will be relatively simple. I create mine as I go. Each section and subsection gets it’s own folder. If you are creating the outline and realize a particular point needs to come much earlier or later in the book, simply drag and drop it to the desired point in the outline flow. This outline becomes the framework of your book.\n\nThird, use the outline to write. Open the desired point of the outline and start writing!You will need to write only 700 words (double the length of this blog post) of new content each day for 90 consecutive days to achieve your goal of writing a market standard book in 3 months. This will be your draft. It should only take 2 hours a day. If you want to also have the book ready for publication within the 90 days, you’ll need to spend additional time each day editing content written on previous days.\n\nAbout your word count: Writing a promotional e-book? Great! Plan to write under 10,000 words. Tip: If you plan to also make it available as a print book, stick to the market standard word count for your genre. Young adult fiction books is 20,000-40,000. Adult fiction typically runs 80,000 to 120,000. Non-fiction books have a market standard of 50-75,000 words.\n\nDoes this seem too easy? It’s not easy, but it is doable. If you are like me, you’ll start writing and write more than 700 words most days!\n\nNo more excuses! Write that book! I can't wait to read it!\n\n44 views0 comments\nLet Me Help You Thrive!\n\n\n\nJoin My Mailing List\n\n(c) 2020 Equipped to Thrive.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6748227477073669}
+{"content": "It’s safe to say that many in the scientific community think of B cells as just the antibody-producing cells of the adaptive immune response. However, through some excellent scientific discovery over the years, many of us have come to appreciate the diverse nature of B cell population subsets. For instance, regulatory B cells or Bregs modulate the immune system through the production of various cytokines. They are of interest to researchers and biopharmaceutical companies for their role in inflammation, autoimmune disease, and even cancer. With current cutting-edge genome editing techniques like CRISPR, there now exists the real potential to create effective immunotherapeutics using Bregs. These chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) B cells may hold the key to treating diseases like multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, or B cell malignancies.\n\nIn this GENcast, our guest will tell us about some of the latest science with Bregs and their role in immunosuppression. Moreover, our guest will describe the future of B cell therapies like CAR B and how they are being used to combat various human diseases. Take a listen!\n\n\n\nClaudia Mauria, PhD\nProfessor of Immunology\nSchool of Life and Medical Sciences,\nUniversity College London\n\n\nPodcast Sponsored By:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8982704281806946}
+{"content": "HABA - Children of the World Puzzle\n\n\nAvailability:Out of Stock\n   Pin it\nThree puzzle pieces compose children and animals from various continents. Which animal matches with which child? You can also mix up the puzzle pieces and use your imagination to create new fun animals and people! The puzzle frame is integrated in the lid and the puzzle pieces can be stored away perfectly inside the box. The pack contains 72 wooden pieces to create 6 children and 6 animals.\n\nDimensions: 26.5cm x 19.2cm x 7.5cm\n\nAge Range: 1.5 years+", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9996733665466309}
+{"content": "Retinyl palmitate\n\nINCI: Retinyl palmitate\n\nWhat is Retinyl palmitate?\n\nA form of vitamin A- retinoid.\nRetinoids are the number one ingredient for anti-aging skincare.\n\nUse & Benefits\n\nAlthough retinoic acid is the only form that has a direct biological effect on the skin, it's too irritating. Where as Retinyl palmitate is less irritating, and our body can convert Retinyl palmitate into its active form.\nRetinyl palmitate can improve the skin's appearance by reducing fine lines and wrinkles by initiation proliferation of the epidermis; this promotes new skin at a faster rate. It can also inhibit collagenase, which is responsible for the breakdown of collagen. This increases the abundance of collagen in the skin, revealing more plump, youthful skin.\nWith the peeling of the stratum corneum, this will help fade dark spots and blemishes while improving the softness of the skin.\nAnother function of Retinyl palmitate is its antioxidant properties, and this allows it to protect the important protein in the skin; elastin and collagen from free radical damage produced by the Ultraviolet rays from the sun exposure, which weakens the skin leading to dull, saggy skin.\nFree radicals can be produced by other means; natural cell degradation, smoking, and pollution.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6284757852554321}
+{"content": "Patchwork crazy mix 20×20, 12mm\n\n995  498 \n\nPrice: 318 SEK/per box including VAT. One box contains 16 tiles (=0.64 sqm).\nPlease observe that the picture is just an example of what the patch can look like. A box does not necessarily contain the tiles in the picture and it can contain both tiles from our current and past product range.The tiles are 20×20 cm and 12 mm thick.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.999911904335022}
+{"content": "Women Wednesday #57\n\n(Haitham Almussawi / United Arab Emirates US Embassy)\nThis summer, Alia Almansoori watched an experiment she designed launch from the Kennedy Space Center. But Almansoori isn't a NASA scientist or an astronaut; She's a 15-year-old student from Dubai. Almansoori is the winner of the \"Genes in Space\" competition, run by Boeing and miniPCR, which challenges student from grades 7 through 12 to design experiments that will help uncover how space impacts DNA. The experiment was among cargo and supplies for the ISS sent aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. Her experiment will study heat-shock proteins, a group of protective proteins that our body produces in response to stressors such as heat, cold, and UV light. The young scientist wanted to find out if the intense radiation in space stimulates the production of heat-shock proteins, so she designed an experiment that will determine whether space conditions activate the genes that produce these proteins. It will advance findings from earlier DNA in space studies, including the first student-designed \"Genes in Space\" experiment, which investigated epigenetic modification of DNA in microgravity. \"Actually, I want to be one of the first astronauts to go to Mars,\" Almansoori said. \"It's a big dream, but there is no 'impossible.'\" Go get em Alia!\n(Timothy D. Easley / The (Louisville) Courier-Journal)\nStasia Kowalski, 92, uses a cane to walk. But she doesn't need one in the pool. The Louisville resident competed in her first ever meet in July at Lakeside Swim Club, setting best times for her age bracket in the 50-meter and 100-meter backstroke and competing in a medley relay. \"Just because you're in your 90s doesn't mean life is over,\" Kowalski said. \"There's always something exciting to do, if you want to.\" Kowalski didn't learn to swim until she was almost 40 because she was afraid of the water, she said. Now, she swims two or three times a week in the summertime, usually completing 15 laps, or 30 lengths, of the pool.  That made her events a piece of cake, she said. \"This is easy! You get a little rest in between,\" she said, laughing. Still, all morning before she left for the pool, she was a \"wreck,\" fighting knots in her stomach from nerves. Once she got in the pool, the nerves went away. During the 41st Annual Lakeside Masters Long Course Invitational Saturday, Kowalski's 4:08.80 time for the 100-meter backstroke bested the 90-94 age bracket's record. She also set an age bracket best time with her 1:45.57 in the 50-meter backstroke. As for next year? Kowalski hopes to compete if she's able, she said. Good luck!\n(A-WA - Habib Galbi / Youtube)\nThe streets and bars of Israel’s hippest city have been filled by what may be a bit of an unexpected tune: three women belting out the Yemeni dialect of Arabic with a heavy darbuka beat behind them. The surprise hit Habib Galbi - performed by a band of three Israeli sisters of Yemeni background named A-WA - managed to rise to the top of this country’s music charts, shattering records and all expectations. The song is actually based on a tune that the group’s grandmother. She was born in Ibb, Yemen, but moved to Israel in 1949 and taught the beautiful tune to her family. For sisters Tair, Liron and Tagel singing it was the most natural thing in the world. Its positive reception across borders in countries Israel has been at war with for almost 70 years has plenty of experts wondering if the song is a sign of a cultural thaw and hope amid the increasingly bleak political landscape across the region. Keep bringing your voices into the world ladies! You never know what bringing a small joy into the world can turn into.\n\nHave a positive week,\n\nLove Neon Moon x   \n\nLet us know your thoughts about this weeks Women Wednesday below.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8306496143341064}
+{"content": "Vision and future\n\n\"The past has an effect on the direction you are going, but does not determine your destination\n\nor how you get there.\"\n\nSociety has become more receptive to the importance of self-preservation and never has there been more opportunities to take control of your own physical and mental wellbeing. \n\nThe future is all about understanding your priorities, what you can and can't control and being proactive in shaping your own life and that of the generations to follow.\n\nBit too deep and profound?!\n\nOK...the future is getting active, enjoying the many benefits, living your life and getting rid of the excuses and regrets. So let's go!\n\nTom Meehan\n\nWho am I?\n\n\nI'm a fitness professional and event organiser based in Shrewsbury and I'm proud to call this my home town where I have lived and worked for the last 15 years.\n\n\nI have built a reputation, client base and business which helps motivate, support and offer opportunities for people to take control of their health and fitness whilst making positive lifestyle choices.\n\nI practice what I preach! Enjoy life, time with my family, eat, drink, be social and exercise!\n\nI get job satisfaction seeing other people motivated and making progress, whilst maintaining my own drive and focus through fitness training, sport and mindfulness.\n\nTom Meeha personal training - 07761 989433 - Shrewsbury - Shropshire", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9140859246253967}
+{"content": "Riskhantering i samband med pandemier : Analys utifrån COVID-19s påverkan på fallföretagets Supply Chain\n\nDetta är en Kandidat-uppsats från Högskolan i Gävle/Industriell ekonomi; Högskolan i Gävle/Industriell ekonomi\n\nSammanfattning: Increased economic growth and growing competition in the world market has led to an increased need for Supply Chain Management (SCM). SCM leads to a complex network between the parts in the entire flow chain and the complexity increases the vulnerability to external disturbances. At the end of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic start spreading, an external disturbance, had a major impact on society. Because of the preventive measures to prevent the spread of infection, many companies' supply chains are affected. Today, it is a major challenge for companies to manage and mitigate the risk on the company through well-functioning risk management, both to work proactively and reactively, as well as structural flexibility in the supply chain. This thesis examines how a Swedish medium-sized export company is affected by COVID-19 and how they work proactively and reactively in reducing negative consequences in the supply chain as a result of COVID-19. The study was conducted with qualitative interviews at the case company and the result was compared with a literature study of existing risk management theory in the event of disastrous events. A literature survey shows that there is a clear research gap, as there is limited knowledge about COVID-19 and its impact on corporate supply chains. Previous research on the subject is not comparable to COVID-19, as all disease outbreaks are unique. The result shows that the company has comprehensive risk management through an appointed director of the group management who proactively works with risks and has prepared a crisis management plan that is used during the outbreak of COVID-19. The crisis management plan, on the other hand, does not address pandemics, but the plan has been adapted to the current situation. However, supply chain risks should be seen not only as a threat to the business, but also as opportunities. Both positive and negative consequences for the case company have been identified. The results, however, contain limitations as the pandemic during the study's time span is still going and can create further direct and indirect consequences, and a future study can follow up on the outcome of the pandemic on the case company and suggest improvements based on the company's risk management.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9972141981124878}
+{"content": "The Sea! Rhythm of Digression\n\nSketch in the Sand\n\nA poem by Oliverio Girondo\n\nThe morning strolls along the beach dusted with sun.\n\nAmputated legs.\nBodies intermingling.\nFloating rubber heads.\n\n\nEverything is blue and gold!\n\n\n\nAnd above all, the sea!\n\nThe sea! . . . until you scream\nlike at the circus.\n\n\nMassimo Vitali\n\nSee more on the Beach\n\nOn The Beach\n\nHere are some breathtaking photographs of the sea/beaches by two highly influential photographers: Richard Misrach and Massimo Vitali. Immerse yourself in the fantastic shades of turquoise.\n\nRichard Misrach\n\nIn his series On the Beach, Californian photographer Richard Misrach studies human interaction and isolation through aerial photographs (taken from hotel balconies) of beaches in Hawaii. Misrach says, “I always thought about it as being a god’s-eye view, looking down and seeing these amazing human interactions.” Richard Misrach ON-THE-BEACH-Untitled-394-03-2003misrach2misrachswimmer119Misrachmisrachmisrach\n\nMassimo Vitali\n\nItalian photographer Massimo Vitali has been documenting crowds since 1994, studying how and where people gather. Nature vs colonisation. These photographs are taken in Greece and Brazil. “Upon these swaths of water, sand, and sky are people parked and splayed, inactive, passive, disinterested, as neutral as grains of sand in an hourglass or the dots on a box of dominoes spilled out of their box onto a blanket… [Massimo Vitali] illuminates the apotheosis of the Herd”  (What the Butler Saw)\n\n“I have tried to avoid behaviour that is too focused on everyone doing the same thing. e.g a football stadium, where everyone is looking and reacting in the same way. I focus on groups of people, but I try to photograph them at times when they are not doing the same thing, in situations where they are free to maintain their own personality and individuality.”  From an interview with Massimo Vitali \n\nMassimo-Vitali-Talks-To-Yatzer-18massimo-vitali-brazil-01massimo-vitali-brazil-11massimo vitalimassimo-vitali-best-shot-001", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9285954236984253}
+{"content": "Question: How Do You Prevent Hip Dysplasia In Babies?\n\nWhat are the symptoms of hip dysplasia?\n\nHip dysplasia is an abnormality in which the femur (thigh bone) does not fit together with the pelvis as it should.\n\nSymptoms are pain in the hip, limping and unequal leg lengths….Signs and symptoms of hip dysplasia include:Pain in the hip.Loose or unstable hip joint.Limping when walking.Unequal leg lengths..\n\nCan a chiropractor fix hip dysplasia in babies?\n\nChiropractic co-management is appropriate in cases of DDH as the biomechanical dysfunction caused by the hip will have a direct affect on pelvic and spinal alignment. Emphasis should be placed on treatment after the removal of any harness used in treatment.\n\nDo you need surgery for hip dysplasia?\n\nWhen hip dysplasia is diagnosed in adults, surgery may be required to prevent further damage to the hip joint. If an adequate amount of cartilage still exists between the ball and socket, realignment surgery on the existing joint often is recommended to fix the problem.\n\nIs hip dysplasia considered a disability?\n\n\nCan hip dysplasia be prevented?\n\nMost cases of hip dysplasia cannot be prevented. To reduce the risk of hip dysplasia after birth, avoid wrapping your baby up too tightly.\n\nCan hip dysplasia correct itself in babies?\n\nIt happens because the bands of tissue that connect one bone to another, called ligaments, are extra stretchy. Neonatal hip laxity usually gets better on its own by 4–6 weeks of age and is not considered true DDH. A baby’s whose hip ligaments are still loose after 6 weeks might need treatment.\n\nWhat happens if hip dysplasia is left untreated?\n\nIf left untreated, hip dysplasia will cause pain, decreased function, and eventually result in hip osteoarthritis. The incidence of hip dysplasia is reported to range from 1.7 to 20 % in the general population, with most studies finding the incidence between 3 and 5 % [1–5].\n\nHow long does a baby wear a Pavlik harness?\n\nIn the majority of cases, the harness is worn 24 hours a day for 8–12 weeks. Depending on the severity of your baby’s dysplasia, for the first few weeks they will usually need to see the doctor every week in order to adjust the harness and receive an ultrasound of their hips.\n\nHow do they test for hip dysplasia in babies?\n\nThe Ortolani Test: The examiner’s hands are placed over the child’s knees with his/her thumbs on the medial thigh and the fingers placing a gentle upward stress on the lateral thigh and greater trochanter area. With slow abduction, a dislocated and reducible hip will reduce with a described palpable “clunk.”\n\nHow common is hip dysplasia in babies?\n\nSome hip instability is very common in newborn infants. The exact frequency of hip dysplasia that requires treatment in babies is variable depending on Nationality, sex, race, and other factors. Hip dysplasia that needs treatment occurs in approximately 2-3 children per thousand.\n\nWhat does a baby with hip dysplasia look like?\n\nThe leg may appear shorter on the side of the dislocated hip. The leg on the side of the dislocated hip may turn outward. The folds in the skin of the thigh or buttocks may appear uneven. The space between the legs may look wider than normal.\n\nCan infant hip dysplasia cause problems later in life?\n\nAbout 1 or 2 in every 1,000 babies have DDH that needs to be treated. Without treatment, DDH may lead to problems later in life, including: developing a limp. hip pain – especially during the teenage years.\n\nHow do babies get hip dysplasia?\n\nWhat is hip dysplasia in babies? Hip dysplasia in babies, also known as developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), occurs when a baby’s hip socket (acetabulum) is too shallow to cover the head of the thighbone (femoral head) to fit properly.\n\nIs hip dysplasia painful for babies?\n\n\nHow can I strengthen my baby’s hips?\n\nActivity: Hip StretchBend your baby’s hips and knees to 90 degrees and hold the back of her thighs with the palms of your hands. … Talk to her and maintain the stretch for 1-2 minutes.Practive 2-3 times a day and you will feel less stiffness each day.More items…\n\nWhat exercises are good for hip dysplasia?\n\nRegular, low- or non-impact exercise such as swimming, aquatic therapy or cycling train strength and range of motion. Strong muscles will act like shock absorbers and provide greater support for the hip. Weight loss for those overweight can significantly reduce the stress on the hip and reduce pain.\n\nWhat is the best supplement for hip dysplasia?\n\nThey will most likely recommend a chewable supplement veterinarian-grade dose of glucosamine and chondroitin. You can also purchase supplements with these ingredients, like Glyde Mobility Chews, for dogs that might be prone to developing arthritis and hip dysplasia down the line.\n\nHow do you fix hip dysplasia in babies?\n\n\nHow serious is hip dysplasia?\n\nHip dysplasia can damage the cartilage lining the joint, and it can also hurt the soft cartilage (labrum) that rims the socket portion of the hip joint. This is called a hip labral tear. In older children and young adults, surgery may be needed to move the bones into the proper positions for smooth joint movement.\n\nHow serious is hip dysplasia in babies?\n\nDevelopmental dysplasia of the hip, sometimes termed congenital dysplasia or dislocation of the hip, is a chronic condition present from early childhood which can cause permanent disability if not identified and treated early.\n\nHow common is hip dysplasia in breech babies?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9190106391906738}
+{"content": "\n\nWhat is A Copyright?\n\n\nWhat is a Trademark?\n\nA symbol or other notable visual characteristic that people associate with a brand is a trademark. Visual cues are key in the entertainment industry to create product recognition. Trademarks do not expire. They are acquired through registration with the U.S. patent and trademark office. Consumers recognize brands better when they have associated trademarks.\n\nHow Can a Indiana Attorney Help?\n\nDeciding whether you need a trademark or copyright is often a decision best made with the advice of an attorney in Decatur that has experienced in entertainment law. The filing process in Indiana can also go more smoothly with an attorney to guide you.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8526813387870789}
+{"content": "\n\nWhat If Someone Fails to Honor Their End of the Contract in Espanola\n\n\nWhat If I Can\n\n\nHow Can an Attorney Help?\n\nIt is typically best for a party intending to violate an agreement to make its intention known to the other party, but extreme care must be used. Otherwise, communications may be taken as admissions of wrong doing. When a party finds itself unable to complete a contract, it is important to be aware of local New Mexico law, since it may impact your case in an unique way. Espanola, New Mexico Since contractual disputes often turn on questions of timing, you should consult an attorney as soon as you suspect that a contract has been violated. Many attorneys in the Espanola, New Mexico area have specialized in contract law.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7422695159912109}
+{"content": "Powers of Arion in Greek Mythology\n\nStudents reading book at table.\n... Purestock/Purestock/Getty Images\n\nArion was a winged horse in Greek mythology. Most stories say that he was born after the sea god Poseidon took the shape of a horse to disguise himself and rape the goddess Demeter, who had previously assumed the shape of a horse to escape him. Other accounts say that Arion was the son of the Earth or of other gods. No matter the story of his lineage, his powers remain the same throughout Greek mythology.\n\n1 Amazing Speed\n\nArion was no ordinary horse, and he was said to have exceptional speed that riders used to aid their victory in battle. In \"The Iliad,\" Homer wrote that no other horse could pass Arion in a chariot race. In \"Fall of Troy,\" Quintus Smyrnaeus wrote that Arion was the fastest of all horses on Earth. Arion's speed was partly due to his divine birth, but also partly due to wings that he used to accelerate.\n\n2 Superior Intelligence\n\nThough he had the shape of a horse, Arion was said to have the mind of a god. In many stories, Arion uses his superior intelligence to participate in battle strategy and to save his rider. For example, in the play \"Seven against Thebes,\" Arion is said to save King Adrastus' life by rescuing him from captors and taking him off the battlefield. Arion is not just a tool for warriors, but participates in battle as a sentient being.\n\n3 Ability to Speak\n\nIntrinsic to his superior intelligence was Arion's ability to speak. He was able to converse with his masters to help them in battle, as is described in the \"Elegies 2\" by Propertius. Arion's ability to speak set him apart from other mythological, immortal horses ridden by the gods. His power of speech is attributed to his divine birth, whether of Poseidon and Demeter as most stories suggest, or one of the other gods, such as Zephyrus.\n\n4 Power of Immortality\n\nIn all accounts of Arion, he is gifted with the power of immortality. This served him well in battle as he could not die of his wounds, and he could offer superior protection to his masters. Arion meets other immortal horses in \"The Iliad,\" such as the horses of Achilles. However, these horses are not born of divine parentage. In some accounts, Arion also has the \"power of light,\" further reinforcing his divinity.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5741715431213379}
+{"content": "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\n\nMICL Seminar\n\nAnalog Compute-in-Memory at Mythic\n\nDave FickCTO/FounderMythic\n1690 Beyster BuildingMap\nAI and many other applications have opportunities to build systems that merge memory and computing into a unified structure in ways which yields significant improvements in energy efficiency, performance, and cost. In these scenarios, “moving the compute to the memory” makes sense because the applications have large amounts of data to process and relatively simple operations to perform, which makes it not too difficult to create specialized processing near the memory when traditionally moving the data to the main system processor would be slow and inefficient. These approaches have a  have a wide variety of applications as well as approaches. On one end of the spectrum, systems which have processing inside of an SSD to perform searches inside the drive itself, and on the other end of the spectrum, systems that have analog compute performing mathematics directly on the bitlines of the memory arrays. In this talk we will provide an overview of many of these approaches as well as the methods to their madness.\nDave Fick co-founded Mythic with Mike Henry in 2012, a company building next-generation intelligence processing units (IPUs) for edge and cloud inference. Mythic has raised $86M of venture capital to combine analog computing, dataflow architecture, and compute-in-memory to provide the best combination of performance and energy efficiency available. Dave received his PhD from the University of Michigan under David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester at the Michigan Integrated Circuits Lab.\n\n\nFran Doman\n\nFaculty Host\n\nDennis SylvesterSenior Associate ChairECE", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8712799549102783}
+{"content": "How Do I Stop The Urge To Scratch?\n\nWhat stage of liver disease is itching?\n\n\n\nAs a matter of fact, itching can even be the initial symptom of PBC..\n\nWhat are the first signs of a bad liver?\n\n\nWhy do we itch at night?\n\n\nWhy does it feel good when you scratch an itch?\n\n\nWhy do we get the urge to scratch?\n\nAn itching sensation of the skin arises due to stimulation of pruriceptors—itch-sensing nerve endings—by mechanical, thermal or chemical mediators. These include: Chemicals for immune response (histamines) and pain relief (opiods)\n\nWhat helps high bilirubin itching?\n\nCurrent guidelines for the treatment of itching in jaundice recommend initial management with biliary drainage where possible and medical management with ursodeoxycholic acid, followed by cholestyramine, rifampicin, naltrexone and sertraline.\n\nShould eczema be kept moist or dry?\n\n\nHow do you stop itching from a scratch cycle?\n\nAsk the Allergist: Breaking the Itch-Scratch CycleUse moisturizers. … Use a systemic antihistamine – like an oral antihistamine – that can help block the itch sensation when it’s caused by histamine release.Use a topical anti-inflammatory medication – steroidal or nonsteroidal – to reduce the inflammation in the skin and ease itching.\n\nHow do I get rid of itchiness?\n\n\nWhat happens if u don’t scratch an itch?\n\nContact dermatitis Don’t scratch! You’ll risk the same ugly problems that crop up with other itchy conditions—namely, bleeding, infection, and a more intense itch.\n\nWhat part of the body itches with liver problems?\n\n\nWhy does hot water feel good on itchy skin?\n\nHeat overloads the nerve network so effectively that the urge to scratch is abolished for hours. Relief usually comes within seconds. Here is what some of our readers have to say: “Oh my gosh, hot water on a severe itch brings euphoric relief for a few seconds and then the itch stays away for hours.\n\nCan eczema spread if you scratch it?\n\n\nWhy does itching eczema feel good?\n\n\nWill eczema go away if you don’t scratch?\n\nEven if you are able to avoid scratching during the day, you may scratch your rash in your sleep unknowingly. This results in restless sleep and daytime grogginess. But, simply not scratching is not a cure for eczema.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7897446751594543}
+{"content": "Business Ethics: Overview\n\nUnderstanding Business Ethics Unit 37: National Diploma Assignment brief TASK 1: Scenario: Business ethics – a study of a selected company With growing interest among consumers regarding the business ethics of the businesses brands that consumers buy, Westminster council wants to conduct an independent review of some of the organisations that sell their goods and services in the borough. You have been asked to select one of the following brands and conduct research into their business ethics. 1. Using Primark as a case study, visit their website/conduct research into their activities to help with the tasks below.\nTask 1: PRIMARK – GROUP PRESENTATION • Explain the ethical issues Primark needs to consider in its operational activities (P1) • Explain the implications for both the business and stakeholders of the business operating ethically. (P2) • Assess how the business could improve the ethics of their operations. (M1) SCENARIO: You are ethical investment consultants who advise clients on what type of ethical businesses to invest their money in. One of your clients is thinking of setting up a business that produces and sells ethical clothing for high street shoppers.\nPrimark will be one of their main competitors and your client has heard that they have recently begun to change some of their business practices in the face of public criticism. In an effort to get a better understanding of their competitor’s activities, your client has asked you to investigate Primark’s business activities and report back to them in a formal presentation Working in assigned group, you need to investigate and prepare a presentation which describes the following areas: A. Primark – company background and description of what type of clothing they produce B.\n\nMedia attention – describe why Primark have attracted a lot of criticism over the last few years. Give examples C. What have Primark done to make their business practices more ethical? – Corporate Governance – Corporate Social Responsibility – Code of Conduct – External Partnerships D. Stakeholders – who are they? E. Implications of ethical business practices on stakeholders F. Implications of improved ethical business practices for Primark G. Your suggestions for new ethical practices which Primark could use and the impact of these suggestions\nDISTINCTION TASK – Individual Report. • Evaluate the impact of the business’s ethical behaviour on stakeholders and the business. (D1) Undertake a Cost Benefit Analysis for Primark summarising the impact that their ethical behaviour has on the business and its stakeholders. To complete this task to distinction level you will need to: 1. Using evidence from Task 1 briefly explain who the stakeholders in the business are 2. List the ethical behaviour evident for the business 3. Decide whether this impact is positive or negative and explain why (who does it affect and how) 4.\nWhat does it cost/benefit the business to behave like this? (eg time, money, training, reputation, sales, competitive edge, unique selling point, employee loyalty, lower costs, increased costs, larger profit margins) 5. Evaluate the impact of this behaviour – it is worthwhile to the business? Is it sustainable (can it continue? ) What might happen in the future if the business continues to take this type of CSR? You can present your findings in a table if you prefer – make sure you change your page to landscape so that the table is large enough for the detail you will need to include. Example: (Un)Ethical Behaviour|The stakeholders who |How these stakeholders|Costs to business |Benefits to |Long term impact on | | |are affected |are affected (positive|(D1) |business |business and | | | |or negative and why) | |(D1) |stakeholders | | | | | | |(D1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\nEvaluation and conclusions are required for D1 and incorporates the work learners have completed for P1, P2 and M1 – bring your investigations together with relevant conclusions. Task 2: Social Implications – McDonalds • Describe the social implications of business ethics facing the selected business in its different areas or activity (P3) • Assess the social implications of business ethics facing the business in its different areas of activity (M2) Social implications refer to those actions of business that have an effect on society as a whole and relate to a number of areas of business activity. McDonalds have come under growing criticism in the last few years in terms of the social implications of their business activities. Write a report which should include the following: A.\nDescribe the social implications of McDonalds business activities. Include the following headings: – Nutritional value of McDonalds Products and link with obesity – Food Production Sustainability – Intensive farming (poorer quality food in the food chain) – Environmental Impact – Treatment of Animals – Advertising to Children – Employment B. Evaluate the extent to which you feel these social issues are a real problem for McDonalds? What are the consequences for the major stakeholders if McDonalds does not address these issues? (M2) Task 3: Ethical Concerns in the Community–newspaper report • Examine the ethical concerns of the communities in which the business operates. (P4) Explain the ethical concerns of the communities in which the business operates and suggest measures that could be taken to improve corporate responsibility (M3) Scenario: In 2010 there was a massive oil explosion on a BP rig off the Gulf of Mexico with resulted in devastation to several communities. You are a journalist for your local newspaper and you have been commissioned to write an article on the disaster. In your news report, you must include the following information: A. Describes the ethical concerns facing each of the communities affected by the spill (P4). B. Give a full explanation as to why there these communities have such concerns (M3). C. Suggest measures that BP could take to improve corporate responsibility and address the needs of the affected communities. (M3) [pic]\n\nDon't use plagiarized sources. 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+{"content": "The Mocking Jay from the Hunger games series Essay\n\nThe book I chose to read for my second quarter federal government book was The Buffooning Jay from the Hunger games series. The author of this book is Suzanne Collins. There is a lot that goes on in the story, involving many things in the war of her districts. It is causing a disobedience in the districts. Katniss takes stock of her new position as a rebel in District 13. Only 3 victors were saved from the arena from the last book from the Hunger video games series; Beetee who is an old guy from District 3, likewise referred to as Volts, Finnick who is the victor from District 4 and Katniss’s first ally and Katniss herself, however Peeta wasn’t among them– he’s still missing out on, together with other victors, Enobaria who is the female tribute from District 2, Johanna who is the tribute from District 7, and Annie who wasn’t in the Quarter Quell however was arrested when the arena blew up.\n\nKatniss is still haunted by Snow and fears for Peeta’s life.\n\nThe book begins in District 12, which has actually been reduced to ashes.\n\nKatniss alone wanted to see the district herself. This is about a month after the arena was blown up. While she is there, she reclaims Buttercup who is Prim’s cat, her dad’s old hunting jacket, a picture of her mom’s wedding event, and a book of plants. Before she leaves, she notices one of Snow’s white roses on her dresser. A hovercraft takes her to District 13 where the survivors of District 12 now live. When she returns, she enjoys an interview in between Caesar and Peeta. She is eliminated when she finds that Peeta looks unharmed, healthy even, however during the interview, Peeta calls for a cease-fire and is accused by lots of people of being a traitor. This is why later on when she chooses to become the Mockingjay, she asks for the resistance of Peeta and the other tributes in addition to searching rights for her and Windstorm, the right to keep Buttercup for Prim, and approval to kill Snow. President Coin, the leader of District 13, agrees to these conditions and Katniss formally ends up being the Mockingjay. Katniss has to star in commercials for the rebel side, called propos.\n\nFor one propo, she and a group that includes her old friend Windstorm are sent out into District 8, where they see a healthcare facility get damaged. This influences Katniss to call for justice. During the airing of an Interview with Peeta in the Capitol, Beetee is able to get control of the broadcast and air the propos for a brief time prior to a battle for control of the broadcast breaks out. During the back-and-forth, Peeta manages to send out a coded message to the rebels cautioning them of an attack. The Capitol then breaks into mayhem, the camera tilts to the flooring, screams can be heard and blood splatters can be seen, leading us to think Peeta is being tortured. Peeta Mellark cautions Katniss of the upcoming battle of District 13, after briefly combating the tracker jacker venom, which leads to him being tortured. He does this during an interview with Caesar Flickerman, when he is asked what he desires to say to Katniss, in which they are “still dragging out the star-crossed enthusiasts thing,” as Johanna Mason and the pirated Peeta referred to it bitterly later on in the novel. A shrilling alarm sounds, to evacuate the upper levels into the bunkers.\n\nAs Katniss is considered as the symbol of the uprising by the people, she composes herself and is one of the very first to reach the bunkers, coming to ensure that her mother and Prim should still be moving the health center patients. As she waits, interrupted by the flecks of blood on the bunker indication, she grabs three packs of the instructions. As time passes, her mom shows up, and they become careful of why Prim hasn’t shown up yet. She pictures herself as Prim, and unexpectedly understands the scenario. Prim, being herself, had actually rushed back to their compartment to get her precious cat, Buttercup. After much panicking, Prim, together with Wind, gets here back to security with Buttercup.\n\nEverybody waits in the bunker for a number of days up until the battle has actually stopped. Katniss learns throughout the bombing that the Capitol is utilizing Peeta and whenever she states something versus them, they harmed him. When she is looking above ground at all the wreckage after the bombing, she sees that President Snow has actually planted more roses. Katniss begins sobbing when her camera team tells her to say a short line for the electronic camera, to show that she is alive and still fighting. Finnick explains to the perplexed cam team that Katniss understands the Capitol will harm Peeta if she does so. They inform her that she can go. The next day, people tell her that they have actually sent a group to rescue Peeta, understanding that she won’t do anything more till she understands the Capitol can’t hurt him.\n\nWhile being with Peeta after a rescue team went to the Capitol to save him and fellow victors: Annie, and Johanna, Katniss is stunned that Peeta had attempted to choke her to death. While conference with Plutarch, Haymitch and Beetee with Prim by her healthcare facility bed side, she discovers that the Capitol had utilized an unusually used strategy called hijacking. The hijacking was done by giving Peeta a dosage of tracker jacker poison then revealing him a clip of Katniss and informing him she destroyed his family and friends, therefore deceiving him to hate her. After Peeta’s arrival, Boggs makes a call to Coin about his being in the squad. When he returns, he says that he believes Coin sent out Peeta personally to eliminate Katniss given that after the war, a brand-new leader will be selected and Katniss, having a lot of influence as the Mockingjay, will be a danger if her vote does not go to Coin. To shut Katniss up, Coin sent Peeta to the Team, hoping he would kill her.\n\nAfter a call from Haymitch, Katniss solves to begin attempting to help Peeta remember his previous memories. The Squad develops a video game, “Real or Not Real”, to assist him separate the hijacked memories from the genuine ones. Throughout this, Peeta exposes that when he was held in the Capitol, they required him to view the execution of two Avoxes, Darius and Lavinia, under the guise of attempting to get information about the disobedience. Snow is found inexplicably dead, having actually possibly choked on his own blood or run over by the crowd. Katniss is acquitted due to her obvious insanity and she and Haymitch return to their house in District 12.\n\nPeeta returns months after Katniss and Haymitch got here, having actually recovered profoundly from his brainwashing. Finally, Katniss surmises that falling in love with Peeta was inevitable, as he had always represented to her the guarantee of a much better future, rather than the damage she now connects with Gale. She states that she did not need Gale’s fire, as she already had it herself; she needed Peeta, who represented the hope she needed to endure “What I need is the dandelion in the spring, the bright yellow that suggests rebirth rather of destruction. The guarantee that life can go on no matter how bad the losses. That it can be excellent once again” Together with Haymitch they produce a book filled with the stories of the previous tributes and others who died in the war so that they will not be forgotten.\n\nThis div height required for enabling the sticky sidebar", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6839097738265991}
+{"content": "Equation of frequency\n\nHow do you calculate frequency?\n\nHow to calculate frequencyDetermine the action. Decide what action you want to use to determine the frequency. Select the length of time. Select the length of time over which you will measure the frequency. Divide the numbers. To calculate frequency, divide the number of times the event occurs by the length of time.\n\nWhat is frequency equal to?\n\nFrequency is equal to 1 divided by the period, which is the time required for one cycle. The derived SI unit for frequency is hertz, named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (symbol hz). One hz is one cycle per second.\n\nWhat is a frequency cycle?\n\nFrequency is the rate at which current changes direction per second. It is measured in hertz (Hz), an international unit of measure where 1 hertz is equal to 1 cycle per second. Hertz (Hz) = One hertz is equal to one cycle per second. Cycle = One complete wave of alternating current or voltage.\n\nWhat is the frequency wavelength equation?\n\n\nHow do you calculate relative frequency and frequency?\n\nRemember, you count frequencies. To find the relative frequency, divide the frequency by the total number of data values. To find the cumulative relative frequency, add all of the previous relative frequencies to the relative frequency for the current row.\n\nWhat is frequency example?\n\n\nWhat is the sign of frequency?\n\n\nWhy is frequency V?\n\n\nWhat are the units of frequency?\n\n\nYou might be interested:  Find equation of line with two points\n\nWhat is frequency error?\n\nThe frequency error is the difference in frequency, after adjustment for the effect of the modulation and phase error, between the RF transmission from the mobile station and the test set.\n\nWhat is frequency and wavelength?\n\nfrequency: Is the number of waves that pass a certain point in a specified amount of time. trough: The low point of the wave cycle. wavelength: The distance between two successive peaks.\n\nWhat is meant by frequency?\n\n\nLeave a Reply\n\n\n\nTensile stress equation\n\n\nQuotient rule equation\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6346405744552612}
+{"content": "Quadratic equation\n\nHow do I solve quadratic equations?\n\nSolving Quadratic EquationsPut all terms on one side of the equal sign, leaving zero on the other side.Factor.Set each factor equal to zero.Solve each of these equations.Check by inserting your answer in the original equation.\n\nWhat is a quadratic equation used for?\n\nAs well as being a formula that yields the zeros of any parabola, the quadratic formula can also be used to identify the axis of symmetry of the parabola, and the number of real zeros the quadratic equation contains.\n\nWhat are the 5 examples of quadratic equation?\n\nExamples of Quadratic Equation6x² + 11x – 35 = 0.2x² – 4x – 2 = 0.-4x² – 7x +12 = 0.20x² -15x – 10 = 0.x² -x – 3 = 0.5x² – 2x – 9 = 0.3x² + 4x + 2 = 0.-x² +6x + 18 = 0.\n\nHow do you solve quadratic equations examples?\n\nSolve each factor that was set equal to zero by getting the x on one side and the answer on the other side.Example 1 – Solve: x2 + 16 = 10x.Example 2 – Solve: 18x2 – 3x = 6.Example 3 – Solve: 50x2 = 72.Example 4 – Solve: x(2x – 1) = 3.Example 5 – Solve: (x + 3)(x – 5) = –7.Example 6 – Solve: 3x(x + 1) = (2x + 3)(x + 1)\n\nWhat are the roots of a quadratic equation?\n\nThe roots of a function are the x-intercepts. By definition, the y-coordinate of points lying on the x-axis is zero. Therefore, to find the roots of a quadratic function, we set f (x) = 0, and solve the equation, ax2 + bx + c = 0.\n\nWhere are quadratic equations used in real life?\n\nQuadratic equations are actually used in everyday life, as when calculating areas, determining a product’s profit or formulating the speed of an object. Quadratic equations refer to equations with at least one squared variable, with the most standard form being ax² + bx + c = 0.\n\nWhy do quadratic equations equal zero?\n\nWe use the zero product property when we solve quadratic equations. You may have noticed that we always manipulate quadratic equations to ax2+bx+c=0. This is because factoring the equation gives us two expressions that multiply to zero. We can set each factor equal to zero and solve for x.\n\nHow does the military use quadratic equations?\n\nThe military uses the quadratic equation when they want to predict where artillery shells hit the earth or target when fired from cannons. So if your goal is to go into the military and work with artillery or tanks, you will be using the quadratic equation on a daily basis.\n\nWhat are the three types of quadratic equations?\n\nHere are the three forms a quadratic equation should be written in:1) Standard form: y = ax2 + bx + c where the a,b, and c are just numbers.2) Factored form: y = (ax + c)(bx + d) again the a,b,c, and d are just numbers.3) Vertex form: y = a(x + b)2 + c again the a, b, and c are just numbers.\n\nYou might be interested:  Drag coefficient equation\n\nWhat is a quadratic in math?\n\nIn mathematics, a quadratic is a type of problem that deals with a variable multiplied by itself — an operation known as squaring. The word “quadratic” comes from quadratum, the Latin word for square.\n\nLeave a Reply\n\n\n\nRewrite as a logarithmic equation\n\n\nNavier-stokes equation\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8841121196746826}
+{"content": "Connect with us\n\n\nHow does the Pfizer Covid Vaccine work?\n\n\n\n\nSpike proteins from other coronaviruses have previously been used to develop vaccines for diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars).\n\nThe Covid “mRNA” vaccine is given to the muscles of the upper arm. When instructions (mRNA) enter the muscle cells, the cells use them to make spike proteins. After the proteins are made, the cells break down the instructions and remove them. The cell then displays the protein on its own surface.\n\nOur immune system recognizes that proteins do not belong to it, builds an immune response and begins to make antibodies, as it does in real infections. When the vaccine is removed from the body, the cells return to normal operation.\n\nThese types of vaccines do not use live viruses that cause Covid and do not interact with DNA. The vaccine is degraded immediately after the cells have finished using the instructions without the mRNA entering the cell’s nucleus.\n\nDr. Zoltan Kish, Research Associate at the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub at Imperial College London, said: “This is the first mRNA vaccine approved and this technology is a vaccine against currently unknown viral pathogens.\n\n“The current Covid-19 pandemic still has major manufacturing, distribution and management challenges, but MHRA. [Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency] Approval of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is a major step towards overcoming this pandemic. “\n\n\nWhat Are The Main Benefits Of Comparing Car Insurance Quotes Online\n\n\nPictures Credit\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9785245656967163}
+{"content": "\n\nPhalangeal fractures in the cat\n\nWho we are\nWhat are the phalanges?\n\n\nSigns of a Phalangeal fracture\n\n\n\n\nDiagnosis of a phalangeal fracture\n\nIn order to properly diagnose a fracture, the veterinary surgeon may need to sedate your cat in order to take X-rays and assess the extent of the fracture.\n\nTreatment of a phalangeal fracture\n\nIn general, most phalangeal fractures in cats are non-surgical. Either a splint can be placed or more commonly cage rest will be advised. Healing will take several weeks. Due to the small size of the bones, surgery is precluded in most cats. If there is a lot of trauma to the paw and the phalanges then surgical removal of the affected bones may be necessary. Digit amputation can be considered in severe, chronic or non-healing fractures.\n\n\nStay in touch\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9517422318458557}
+{"content": "International Women’s Day has come and gone.\n\nI’m proud of all the rallies and protests that took place in several parts of the world. I’m delighted to see the art that the day spurred – art like the now famous statue of a girl standing her ground in front of Wall Street’s antagonistic charging bull, unfazed, ablaze with spirit. I’m pleased to see inspiring reminders of the many women in history who did amazing things in spite of their repressive circumstances.\n\nHowever, my ebullience somewhat deflates when I see the usual roster of ‘women and work’ themed corporate events pop up.\n\nInternational Women’s Day protest 2016. Photo: Dan Garrett.\n\nI’m sure these events are designed to inspire. While they may be useful in rehashing the many areas of improvement regarding gender equality in the workplace, most appear to do little more than to regurgitate information from years past and seem to be attempts, first and foremost, to build better reputations for the corporations that sponsor them.\n\nHere’s the deal with women at work. The issues are known.\n\nWomen are not paid equally. Promotions don’t happen equally. Corporate boards are so unbalanced, they ought to keel over. Policies like maternity leave and importantly, paternity leave, greatly impact the retention of women in the workforce if they choose to have children. Many corporate cultures look down on offering flexibility, flexibility that is desired by women who generally take on more caregiving roles and domestic leadership as compared to men. Workplace dynamics that value unpleasant traits make many women uncomfortable, uninspired, and feel undervalued. Sexism is real.\n\nPhoto: Dan Garrett.\n\nGetting deeply entrenched centuries-old poison out of the system is never going to be easy. But when change is so badly needed, and there is already quite a bit of pageantry around the now conspicuous issues, why is progress so absurdly slow? The value of creating conversation is not to be dismissed, but we are usually stuck simply scratching the surface and hearing the same platitudes on repeat.\n\nReal change will come from translating the talk into clearly executed policies and processes, without gaps between policies and implementation, with accountability targets, and staff that is culturally equipped to lead the way forward.\n\nSee also: We Can Do It: Hong Kong women have made progress, but the gender gap persists\n\nPhoto: Tom Grundy/HKFP.\n\nThis is not a blanket condemnation of all corporations or people in decision making positions inside businesses. Nor is it an indictment of the many strong speakers and panelists who take to stages at this time of year. Some companies have taken active steps to start to right the imbalance.\n\nNetflix, Facebook and a few others have started offering significant paid parental leave. Salesforce adjusted employee salaries to ensure women were paid on parity (it cost them 3 million USD to do so by the way). Still others have pledged plans (albeit, inchoate) for new or added scrutiny to pay scales and promotions. Even companies with problematic track records contain people who genuinely try to steer policies in the right direction. This is good. But we need wider and further action, to ensure change doesn’t just stop at the hands of these few entities or importantly, at all the talk.\n\nLet all the talk lead to corporate cultures genuinely becoming more inclusive. Let it lead to confronting biases no matter how difficult that may be. Let it lead to analyses of all compensation scales and promotion methods to ensure parity, and importantly, scrutiny into the processes that led to the existing disparity. Let it lead to equal pay, without any hemming and hawing.\n\nLet it lead to the creation of different types of work projects that will lend themselves more easily to the demands or desires of whatever life can contain, for all genders (genuinely, without penalties). Let it lead to wider discussions of the rights of all workers, not just white-collar ones. Let it lead to transparency. Let it lead to accountability to actually put positive changes into place, not just leave things at high level commitments on panels and keynotes once a year.\n\n\nSai Pradhan\n\nSai is passionate about exploring ways to live on our planet more sustainably, the intersection and integration of work and life, and how to make it healthier. She helps organisations build and sustain their workforces thoughtfully and efficiently, design healthy work cultures and workspaces, and hone their employer brands, with a keen focus on gender parity, diversity, and inclusion. She has degrees in international relations and international law, and has worked in various capacities with tech companies, non-profits, think tanks, and inter-governmental organisations. She is also the founder of The Particular Rover - a travel and hotel review site.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.892827033996582}
+{"content": "Release date: 2019\n\nGenres: Arcade\n\nPlatforms: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, XBox One\n\nPublishers: Sonka\n\n198X is an arcade video game developed by Swedish team Hi-Bit Studios and published by Sonka. Released worldwide on January 23, 2020 for the Nintendo Switch, the game received a Metacritic rating of 65. An homage to arcade gaming in the 1980s, 198X's coming-of-age story follows an unnamed \"Kid\" as he discovers a video arcade in an abandoned factory and falls in love with video gaming. The gameplay of 198X's 5 chapters are each based around different arcade game genres that were popular at the ti…\n\n\n\nRelease date: 2013\n\nGenres: Platform\n\nPlatforms: PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Linux, Apple OSX, Wii U, XBox One\n\nPublishers: Double Fine Productions\n\n140 is a platform game independently developed by Jeppe Carlsen, known for his gameplay direction for Playdead's Limbo. The game is described as a \"minimalistic platformer\", using electronic music to create synesthesia as the player makes its way through four different levels, each with its own sound-track. The game-play has been compared to other similar games which involve music synchronization like Sound Shapes and the Bit.Trip series, though with difficult platforming elements comparable to…\n\n\n\nRelease date: 2017\n\nGenres: Party\n\nPlatforms: Nintendo Switch\n\nPublishers: Nintendo\n\n1-2-Switch is a party game developed and published by Nintendo as a launch title for the Nintendo Switch, which was released worldwide on March 3, 2017. The game extensively uses the system's Joy-Con controllers, with players facing each other performing various minigames. By 2019, it sold 3.01 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling games on the platform, despite the mixed reception.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6184682846069336}
+{"content": "Zen Tangle Art Online\n\n\"Untangle\" your kids creativity with this Artistic Meditation. This method helps aspiring artists create beautiful pictures and scenes through drawing abstract, structured patterns with step-by-step instructions with our instructor. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves, and orbs. Let's get into some serious doodling and you will know there is no limit to creativity.\n\nAge Range: 6-12", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9971815943717957}
+{"content": "Recent Posts\n\n\n\nMichael Koumbas Baseball Blood and Art\n\nI started playing the piano at a young age about 6 or 7 although my sister had already started taking formal lessons.I switched to the guitar at the age of 14 where I started playing led zeppelin, guns and roses gary moore,alice cooper etc. which was on the radio at that time.\n\nThen I got a guitar teacher who got me into Joe Pass and Jazz and chord melody and that really changed my perception of the guitar and what I wanted to do musically. I also always had a big love for synthesizers and samplers and I remember back then I was totally blown away by the JM Jarre records \"Souvenir from China\" and the \"Zoo look\" record which was basically the first time I heard voice sampling used in an instrumental record.\n\nWhen I went to Berklee school of Music I had the chance to meet the person who wrote the chord melody book I had when I was 15 Bret Wilmott himself who I could not believe I had in front of me!!!\n\nMy other big influence has always been Marty Friedman who I'm about to meet here in New York on the 23rd of October!!! which was my first exposure to Japanese music and Japanese scales such as the Kumoi Pentatonic and Hiraioshi etc. These are the scales I'm using on \"The Distance between Us\" record (The purple album)!\n\nI welcome all artists interested in my music to contact me directly as I'm looking forward to collaborate with new talent not just from New York but all over the United States!\n\nAs far as Baseball Blood and Art...\n\n\"Scott gave me a unique opportunity to write music for a truly amazing American Story!\" \"The BB and A theme represents the first theme in a series of succeeding themes following the number of innings in the book. It is called \"Dream Big and Dream on\" and it takes you through the journey and struggles of the main character (S. Christopher) in his effort to shine in the game of baseball. If you listen carefully the very last note of the theme signifies the \"First drop of Blood\".\n\n\n©2018 by Digital Dope. Proudly created with", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6957571506500244}
+{"content": "What are CVC words?\n\nCVC is an abbreviation for Consonant-Vowel-Consonant. “Cat,” “cap,” “cup,” “pup” are examples of CVC words.\n\nWhy CVC words are important?\n\nCVC words are important to early reading for two reasons: young readers 1) learn short vowel sounds, and 2) learn how to substitute different letters-sounds to make new words. Dr. Seuss’ Hop on Pop uses abundant CVC words such as “cat,” “bat,” “hat,” “sat” or CVCC words such as “ball,” “call,” “fall,” or “tall.”\n\nWhat are CCVC words?\n\nConsonant, consonant, vowel, consonant words, for example: trap, chop, stun, grit, shop.\n\nWhat are CVCC words?\n\nExamples of CVCC (consonant, vowel, consonant, consonant) words are: hunt, fast, cart, milk, want.\n\nHow children can learn CVC words\n\nBooks and apps which present CVC and CVCC words in a repetitive pattern help young readers develop a mastery of sounding out words. Young readers can practice sounding out CVC and CVCC when they read books labeled “Early Reader.” These books use CVC and CVCC words in a repetitive pattern to help readers acquire basic reading skills. Apps, such as “Phonics Read CVC Words” and “Duolingo ABC,” also help with this reading skill. Repetition of CVC words in a story or an app is important to learning how to recognize words readily.\n\nOnce young readers learn to decode CVC words, they can manipulate letters to make new words. For instance, they can substitute the 1st consonant: “fit,” “bit,” “sit,” “hit.” They can substitute the middle vowel: “sit,” “set,’ “sat.” Finally, they can substitute the final consonant “sat,” “sad,” “sap.”\n\nIf early readers have difficulty with a particular vowel sound, short “e,” for instance, they can make flash cards or a list of CVC words to help them learn that sound. A list for short “e” CVC words might include “pet,”” wet,” “set,” “pen,” “den,” “hen.” Repetition of words with the CVC pattern help early readers store letter-sound correspondences in memory.\n\nWhen Pre-K and Kindergarten readers, learn to decode CVC and CVCC words, when they work on apps that emphasize these words, when they work at reading Early Reader stories, they build vocabulary. Storing easily recognizable vocabulary words in memory is important for early reading success.\n\nPhonics information for parents\n\nFor more information on phonics and how it's used to teach children to read look through our parents' guides, or find phonics apps and phonics games for your child to help them practise early reading at home.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.95155268907547}
+{"content": "Pinpoint Predictive\n\nPinpoint enables companies across the industry to more effectively forecast and influence human behavior. Leveraging the latest advances in behavioral science, artificial intelligence, and privacy-safe data enrichment, Pinpoint’s Thinkalike® AI allows organizations to better quantify and manage risk, and to persuade people to take positive actions.\n\nVisit Pinpoint Predictive :\n\nPsychological Enrichment\n\nImprove your Underwriting Profitability\n\nCRM enrichment, product recommendations, user acquisition, risk management, and more.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9760277271270752}
+{"content": "Therapy for Black Girls\n\n\n\nSo often the stigma surrounding mental health issues and therapy prevents Black women from taking the step of seeing a therapist. This space was developed to present mental health topics in a way that feels more accessible and relevant.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999635815620422}
+{"content": "Wind strengthens and veers into the north-northeast\n\nSunday was a little warmer than on Saturday, just 1C, but still below average (-2.8C). As the wind strengthened, windchill became a factor in the open air so that it felt up to 2C colder. The wind was mostly from the north-northeast but later the northeast gusting to 22mph. It was a dry and sunless day.\n\nThe past night was cold dropping to 0.7C with a slight recovery at 08.00 on Monday to 1.1C which felt more like -2C in the strong, gusty wind.\n\nAlthough there was little brightness at dawn cloud soon drifted in on the brisk north-northeast wind gusting to 20mph again.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7102347016334534}
+{"content": "Practicing leadership in daily life\n\n\nLessons lurk everyday around us, it’s just that we are too busy to look around and pick them up. Here’s a wonderful lesson on leadership that will linger on.\n\nWe all know about Ratan Tata, but not many know this story. Once Ratan Tata was driving to Nasik with members of the senior management of a company called Nelco, an electronics company in Tata’s portfolio which needed attention as it was facing certain challenges.\n\nOn the way to Nasik their car got a flat tyre. While the driver got down to changing the tyre, those travelling with Mr. Tata took this as an opportunity to take a comfort break, relax, stretch, light a cigarette. Suddenly some of them noticed that their leader was nowhere to be seen. Some assumed he must have walked to sip some tea from the nearby stall and perhaps get feedback about Tata Tea or maybe he was talking to a passerby and making an interesting conversation with them.\n\nTo their surprise, they spotted Ratan Tata on his knees, with his sleeved rolled up helping the driver change the tyre. Sweat on his forehead but a smile on his face.\n\nThe managers who had accompanied Tata got a valuable lesson on leadership and humility that day. Sometimes, as managers or leaders, we wait for the right time (a certain project) to come so that we can demonstrate our leadership and people skills but in simple moments like this, one can see what truly a leader is.\n\nTo assimilate a few learnings, let’s write down the name of at least one celebrity that we have been following since a long time.\n\nLet’s answer the following questions:\n\na. What have we observed about them?\n\nb. What are the latest developments in their professional life?\n\nc. Have they gone through a rough patch in their life recently and how did they manage to come out of it?\n\nd. How many similarities did we strike with them and what lessons can one learn from their life ?\n\nDoing this activity will give us some perspective and go-to tools and methods that we can imbibe in our day to day living. Writing down what one feels or gathers is essential if one really wants to begin to make a difference in one’s life.\n\nArticle by: Neha Somani\n\nOrganizational & Counselling Psychologist\n\n\nWaking up early - 2\n\nBefore the sounds of the world drown us, let's find and claim our place under the sun\n\nWaking up early - 1\n\nNot all heroes wear capes, some become part of the 5 a.m. community and change the world\n\nTo-Do and To-Do it Well\n\nOur second article on To-Do Lists\n\nTo-Do or not To-Do?\n\nAn introduction of To-Do Lists\n\nUltimate Performance\n\nTechniques used by athletes to become world-class performers", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8166924715042114}
+{"content": "Supplementary MaterialsFig\n\nSupplementary MaterialsFig. as controls. Photographs were used at two wk after agro\\infiltration. Bars = 1.5 cm. (b) Western blot with \\SWP1 antibody showed the presence of SWP1 and SWP1 mutants in VEGFA Figure 2c. Samples were collected 7 d after agro\\infiltration. *Indicates the objective bands. (c) Expression of GFP\\SWP1 and GFP\\SWP1 mutants in Figure 2d were confirmed by western blot using \\GFP antibody. Ponceau S\\stained RuBisCo was used as the loading control. MPP-19-2623-s003.tif (25M) GUID:?E1554220-62B1-465B-94CF-FFD33EB2BD02 Fig. S4 SWP1 co\\localized with BRC1 and BRC2 at the cell nucleus in Fluorescence signals were visualized at 60 h after agro\\infiltration by confocal microscopy. The boxed areas are shown at higher magnification. Bars = 20 m. MPP-19-2623-s004.tif (1.4M) GUID:?756C8852-345D-43BF-9F86-40A1EBD0944D Fig. S5 Yeast two\\hybrid analyses of the interaction between SWP1 and members of the class II TCPs. Experimental details are described in Figure 3a. The experiment was repeated three times with the same results. MPP-19-2623-s005.tif (6.9M) GUID:?A2C605CB-E4C0-48DE-A133-3A8653A3A3F5 Fig. S6 Schematic diagram of BRC1 and its truncated versions. TCP, TCP domain; R, R domain. MPP-19-2623-s006.tif (2.1M) GUID:?7269ACA4-E673-4594-8590-6602F3D74FED Fig. S7 SWP1 homolog, SAP11, destabilizes BRC1. BRC1\\HA was co\\expressed with GFP\\SAP11GFP\\SAP11CaPM, or GFP in leaves of SWP1plants showed typical witches broom symptoms. On overexpression of SWP1 truncation mutants in transcription factor TCP18 (BRC1), the key negative regulator of branching signals in Tenofovir alafenamide hemifumarate various plant species. Moreover, co\\expression analysis showed that SWP1 promotes the degradation of BRC1 via a proteasome system. These findings suggest that the phytoplasma effector SWP1 induces witches broom symptoms through targeting of BRC1 and promoting its degradation. (and/or (Minato et?al., 2014). SAP11, secreted by aster yellows phytoplasma strain witches broom (AY\\WB; into leaf\\like vegetative tissues (Maclean et?al., 2011). Notably, TENGU and SAP11 are responsible for the typical witches broom phenotype of phytoplasmas. TENGU inhibits an auxin\\related pathway, thereby leading to witches broom symptoms (Hoshi et?al., 2009). However, the plant goals of TENGU never have been referred to to time. SAP11 binds and destabilizes (Efroni et?al., 2008; Sugio et?al., 2011a). Hence, the system of witches broom symptoms due to SAP11 is not well referred to to date. As a result, direct molecular proof for the system of witches broom symptoms induced by phytoplasma effectors continues to be to be uncovered. The process leading to axillary bud development to make a branch or even to stay dormant in the axils of leaves is certainly highly plastic material and is generally controlled by endogenous and environmental stimuli (Aguilar\\Martinez et?al., 2007). Two versions have been suggested to describe this technique (Domagalska and Leyser, 2011; Leyser and Ongaro, 2008). One may be the auxin transportation canalization\\structured model where the growth from the lather branches would depend in Tenofovir alafenamide hemifumarate Tenofovir alafenamide hemifumarate the establishment of auxin export through the axillary buds, which auxin export is negatively regulated by basipetal transportation of auxin in the principal stem strictly. The various other model may be the second messenger model where strigolactones and cytokinins are two potential applicants controlled by auxin to translocate straight into axillary buds to modulate bud activity (Domagalska and Leyser, 2011; Dun et?al., 2012). In plant life did not Tenofovir alafenamide hemifumarate display an obvious witches broom phenotype (Tan et?al., 2016). It’s possible that SAP11CaPM will not focus on and destabilize BRC1. SAP11 interacts with and destabilizes people from the CIN\\TCP subfamily. Nevertheless, whether SAP11 goals TB1/CYC\\TCP proteins continues to be unidentified (Sugio et?al., 2011a). The upsurge in stem amount due to SAP11\\like proteins is certainly most probably the consequence of the destabilization of BRC1 and BRC2. Different interactor runs of SAP11 homologues might reflect their functional diversity. Hence, whether witches broom\\inducing protein (SAP11\\like) connect to and destabilize TB1/CYC subclass.\n\nSupplementary Materialsmmc1\n\nSupplementary Materialsmmc1. malignancy and could enhance the tumorigenicity of cancer cells both and was highly expressed in tumor tissues from 361 gastric cancer patients and acted as an oncogene to promote cell proliferation. also functions as a tumor promoter in colorectal cancer [10]. It was reported that high expression of was associated with tumor proliferation and indicated worse prognosis in colorectal cancer [5]. In osteosarcoma, previous study has found that was overexpressed in osteosarcoma and Aripiprazole (Abilify) promoted cell growth. However, there has been no research focusing on the role of in osteosarcoma metastasis. Therefore, to explore how participates in osteosarcoma progression, especially its effect on the invasion and migration of osteosarcoma cells, aiming at discovering novel targets for treatment becomes our goal of study. In this study, we validated how the was upregulated in osteosarcoma and considerably, for the very first time, we verified that promotes the metastasis of osteosarcoma both and interacts with and suppresses miR-582 like a potential ceRNA. The pro-metastatic aftereffect of is attained by inhibiting the epithelial-mesenchymal changeover (EMT) via CREB1-mediated PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. 2.?Methods and Materials 2.1. Cell cells and culture samples ABLIM1 Regular osteoblast cell line hFOB1.19, osteosarcoma cell lines Saos-2, HOS, U2-OS and MG-63 were from the Cell Standard bank of Chinese language Academy Sciences. The hFOB1.19 cells were cultured in d-MEM/F-12, Saos-2 in McCoy’s 5A, U2-OS cells in RPMI-1640 and HOS cells in MEM. All the media as well as the supplemented Aripiprazole (Abilify) 10% fetal bovine serum had been from Gibco. All cells had been incubated at 37?C inside a 5% CO2 atmosphere. Human being cells samples of paired major and regular tumor cells from 30 osteosarcoma Aripiprazole (Abilify) individuals had been gathered from Zero. 215 Medical center of Shannxi Nuclear Market. The analysis was Aripiprazole (Abilify) authorized by the Medical Ethics Committee and created informed consents had been from all individuals. 2.2. RNA removal and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) Total RNA from both cells examples and cell lines had been extracted using TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen). First-strand cDNA was synthesized from 500?ng of total RNA using the PrimeScript RT Reagent Package (TaKaRa) for detecting mRNA, miRNA and lncRNA levels. Real-time PCR was performed in triplicate using SYBR Premix Former mate Taq (TaKaRa) on CFX96 Real-Time PCR Recognition System (BioRad). Manifestation degrees of mRNAs, miRNAs and lncRNAs had been normalized to GAPDH, 18S U6 and rRNA, respectively. 2.3. Oligonucleotides, plasmids building and cell transfection The Control/shRNA as well as the full-length human being sequence had been synthesized by Genscript (Nanjing, China) and sub-cloned into pLKO.1 and pCDNA3.1 vectors, respectively. Based on the manufacturer’s guidelines, cells were transfected with Control/shRNA Control/vectors or vectors using Lipofectamine? 2000 reagent (Invitrogen) at last concentrations of 2?g/ml for 48?h. For steady overexpression of cDNA was cloned into lentiviral expressing vector pLV-puro. After creation of lentiviral contaminants based on the regular protocols, cells had been transfected for 24?h with 2?g/ml polybrene (Sigma) and selected through the use of 2?g/ml puromycin for seven days. The artificial miR-NC/miR-582 and inhibitor NC/miR-582 inhibitor bought from GenePharma (Shanghai, China). All the oligonucleotides had been transfected into cells using Lipofectamine? 2000 reagent (Invitrogen) at last concentrations of 50?nM. 2.4. CCK8 assay and apoptosis assay Cell proliferation was recognized with Aripiprazole (Abilify) a Cell Counting Package-8 (CCK-8) assay (Dojindo) as manufacturer’s guidelines. Cells had been seeded into 96-well plates (2??103 cells/very well) for 1, 2, 3 and 4 times observation..\n\nSupplementary MaterialsSupplementary File\n\nSupplementary MaterialsSupplementary File. exposes a smart tactic utilized by whereby the bacterium assigns a multidimensional function to a canonical regulator of fat burning capacity to temper its pathogenesis. colonizes and infects a number of different sites within our body. To adjust to these different conditions, uses complicated and finely tuned Rabbit polyclonal to ZMAT5 regulatory network. Although OPC-28326 some of these systems have already been well-elucidated, the features greater than 50% from the transcriptional regulators in stay unexplored. Right here, we measure the contribution from the LacI category of metabolic regulators to staphylococcal virulence. We discovered that inactivating the purine biosynthesis regulator led to a stress that was acutely virulent in blood stream infection versions in mice and in ex vivo versions using primary human neutrophils. Remarkably, these enhanced pathogenic characteristics are impartial of purine biosynthesis, as the mutant was still highly virulent in the presence of mutations that disrupt PurRs canonical role. Through the use of transcriptomics coupled with proteomics, we revealed that a number of virulence factors are differentially regulated in the absence of toxins drive the death of human phagocytes and mice, whereas the surface adhesin FnbA contributes to the increased bacterial burden observed OPC-28326 in the mutant. Thus, repurposes a metabolic regulator to directly control the expression of virulence OPC-28326 factors, and by doing so, tempers its pathogenesis. The human pathogen can cause an array of illnesses, ranging from moderate skin conditions to life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia or bacteremia (1). Combatting infections has become increasingly difficult due to the widespread emergence of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) strains that plague both communities and hospitals worldwide (2). The pathogens adaptability to different lifestylesfrom commensal/skin colonizer to an invasive pathogen that can thrive in different tissuesis due in part to its expansive and dynamic regulatory network (3). While there is a great deal known about how activates and/or represses virulence genes under defined laboratory conditions, much remains to be understood about how metabolic fluctuations influence pathophysiology in vivo. Metabolic regulation is likely of great importance to as it transitions between says of variable energy sources, such as when it moves from a colonization site to an invasive site. Thus, as confronts new environments, the bacterium must finely coordinate the expression of virulence factors with the metabolic demands of a particular anatomical compartment. employs a plethora of secreted and surface-associated virulence factors to evoke disease in the host and to evade immune defenses. This diverse arsenal of factors contains cytotoxins, proteases, adhesins, immunomodulators, and autolysins (4). Provided the key contribution of the elements towards the pathogenesis from the bacterium, it isn’t surprising an elaborate regulatory pathway handles their expression. utilizes a network of devoted regulators to regulate virulence favorably, which include the item gene regulator (Agr) protein, exoprotein two-component program (SaeRS-TCS), and staphylococcal item regulator nucleic acid-binding proteins family members (Sar). The Agr proteins constitute a quorum-sensing program that, when turned on, up-regulates the creation of poisons and exoenzymes (5). The SaeRS program favorably regulates virulence aspect responds and creation to environmental stimuli such as for example pH, osmolarity, and host-derived elements (6). The Sar category of transcriptional elements favorably regulate the creation of virulence elements and modulate the creation from the Agr quorum-sensing program (7). The bacterium also adversely regulates toxin creation via the repressor of poisons (Rot) (8). Each one of these regulatory pathways is certainly linked and complementary, making a complicated network generating virulence factor creation. While OPC-28326 the referred to regulatory pathways utilized to regulate virulence are elaborate, we just understand some from the operational systems intricacy. is forecasted to encode 135 transcriptional elements, and significantly less than 50% of these.\n\nLiver fibrosis is an advanced liver disease condition, which could progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma\n\nLiver fibrosis is an advanced liver disease condition, which could progress to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. influence of the microenvironment around the response of HSC to TGF-. Finally, we discuss GR148672X new approaches to target the TGF- pathway, name current clinical trials, and explain promises and drawbacks that deserve to be adequately resolved. mice spontaneously developed severe liver fibrosis with huge TGF-/Smad3 and subsequent HSC activation. The animals die between 8 and 12 weeks of age. This phenotype could be rescued by adenoassociated computer virus (AAV) mediated expression of ECM1 or by interfering with TGF- signaling using AAV expressing soluble TRII. Moreover, carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver damage was blunted by ECM1 overexpression [25]. Active TGF- starts signaling by binding to the TGF- type II receptor (TRII) resulting in recruitment of the TGF- type I receptor (TRI). Next, TRII phosphorylates TRI at a Gly-SerCrich (GS) domain leading to a conformational modulation in TRI and sensitizing it to bind and phosphorylate its substrates, i.e., SMAD2 and SMAD3 proteins (also called receptor-activated SMADs or R-SMADs). After C-terminal SMAD phosphorylation, pSMAD2 and pSMAD3 form heterocomplexes with the common SMAD4, which thereafter translocates to the nucleus to bind DNA and regulate the transcription of multiple target genes, e.g., (Physique 2) [13,26]. Two important facts deserve to be highlighted here. First, SMAD2 does not bind to DNA, while SMAD3 possesses a poor DNA binding affinity. Therefore, SMAD2/3/4 complexes generally recruit additional transcriptional coactivators to stabilize transactivation complexes [13,27]. Second, several TGF- target genes can be activated by R-SMADs without the requirement of SMAD4 [28]. Open in a separate window Physique 2 SMAD- and Non-SMAD-dependent TGF- signaling. Upon liver damage associated signaling, TGF- molecules are freed from the large latent complex (LLC) through the conversation of integrins with the latent association protein (LAP). Binding of released TGF- to TRII results in the formation of a heterotetramer with TRI, which then initiates the canonical signaling pathway through phosphorylation of R-SMADs, i.e., SMAD2 (S2) and SMAD3 (S3). TGF- can also activate non-canonical SMAD-independent pathways, as exemplified here by MAPK, mTOR, GR148672X PI3K/AKT, and Rho/GTPase pathways. Alongside other mechanisms, SMAD7 negatively regulates TGF- signaling through competing with R-SMADs for TRI binding. TF: Transcription factors, P: phosphate Rabbit Polyclonal to ETV6 group, LTBP: latent TGF- binding protein. Canonical R-SMAD-mediated TGF- signaling does not explain all observed effects of TGF-. Many studies identified other signaling pathways that could be activated by TGF-, such as mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase/AKT, and Rho GTPase pathways (Physique 2). TGF- non-canonical pathways provide a broad windows for intracellular cross-talk [29,30,31] and can be classified into three major groupings [29]: (I) R-SMADs connect to other pathways rather than straight transmitting the indication towards the nucleus. Such relationship is certainly illustrated by the power of SMAD3 and SMAD2 to activate ERK and PKA [32,33]. (II) TheTR complicated can activate intracellular substrates apart from SMADs, such as for example Daxx, a proapoptotic adaptor proteins, resulting in JNK apoptosis and activation [34]. (III) R-SMADs could possibly be turned on by TR-independent systems. The GR148672X latter system is most beneficial exemplified by phosphorylation from the linker area of R-SMADs, e.g., by ERK, which inhibits R-SMAD nuclear translocation [35]. Non-canonical pathways offer one description for the flexible ramifications of TGF- signaling and its own dichotomal functions, for example defined in carcinogenesis [36]. In fibrosis, nevertheless, such occasions never have however been looked into completely, with exemption of linker phosphorylation [37]. It ought to be emphasized right here that results extracted from SMAD4 cells or specific kinase inhibitor treatments should be cautiously attributed to GR148672X non-SMAD signaling for several reasons [29,30]. Firstly, as previously mentioned, SMAD4 is not required for transcription of several specific R-SMAD dependent genes such as [28]. Secondly, chemical inhibitors can block several kinases dose-dependently [30]. Therefore, in our opinion, specific SMAD2 and SMAD3 models represent GR148672X the best way to characterize non-SMAD pathways downstream to TGF- treatment [29]. Signaling kinetics can also be utilized to shed light on SMAD and.\n\nData CitationsAzfar AK, Kasim MF, Lokman IM, Rafaie HA, Mastuli MS\n\nData CitationsAzfar AK, Kasim MF, Lokman IM, Rafaie HA, Mastuli MS. this work accounted in today’s paper is aimed at bridging the info between fundamental and program function which attempt on demonstrating energetic sites as yet another factor that needs to be notified. Hence, in this ongoing work, the ready photocatalyst had been examined with regards to size thoroughly, morphology, band difference, textural properties and the real variety of energetic sites present in the top of nanocatalyst. The components had been characterized via X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission checking electron microscope (FESEM), BrunauerCEmmettCTeller (Wager) surface evaluation, temperature-programmed desorption of skin tightening and (TPD-CO2) and UVCVis spectrophotometer. The analysis Gfap of photodegradation was performed under UV-light irradiation. 2.?Experimental 2.1. Components Zinc acetate dihydrate was bought from R&M chemical substances with 99.5% purity. Sterling silver() KU-57788 price acetate and nickel() acetate had been purchased from Aldrich with 99% purity. These beginning components were blended with absolute ethanol AnapuR. 2.2. Synthesis of components Ag and Ni/ZnO nanoparticles had been synthesized at different stoichiometry beliefs (= 1%, 3%, 5%, 7% and 10%). Zinc acetate dihydrate and sterling silver acetate/nickel() acetate had been dissolved under overall ethanol and was stirred for 2 h to get a homogeneous mix. Bottom (ammonium hydroxide) was put into raise the pH worth to pH 9, which was accompanied by a heating system procedure at 80C. The components underwent slow drying out grey and process precursors were obtained within 24 h. For evaluation, a control test (undoped ZnO) was made by blending zinc acetate dihydrate with overall ethanol and prepared with the very similar method as above. The precursors had been annealed at 400C for KU-57788 price 3 h. Next, structural research on crystallinity had been carried out following the annealing procedure using XRD (PANanalytical) X’pert Pro natural powder diffraction apparatus. The morphology from the components was evaluated under FESEM (JEOL JSM-7600F). The music group gap research, which at length depicts light absorption properties, was performed under reflectance (%R) setting using Perkin Elmer Lambda 950 UVCVis-NIR Spectrophotometer. The top area was evaluated using BELSORP-mini device from BEL Japan Inc. The precise surface regions of undoped, Ag and Ni/ZnO had been plotted under Wager story. Measurement of active sites were identified using TPD-CO2. 2.3. Photocatalytic activity The photocatalytic activity on Ag and Ni/ZnO nanoparticles was measured by determining the decomposition of methyl orange on each interval at KU-57788 price constant room temperature. The catalyst loading was 100 mg of Ag and Ni/ZnO catalyst, inside a medium beaker comprising 100 ml of methyl orange remedy with 10 ppm as the initial concentration. The UV-light irradiation was turned on at 352 nm wavelength and 8 W. The dye remedy was extracted out at every 40 min interval. The photocatalytic analysis was performed using UVCVis spectrophotometer under absorbance, (A), mode. The methyl orange absorption peak was measured at 464 nm. Photodegradation effectiveness (%) was measured in regard to the maximum photodegradation collected at each interval. Photodegradation rate constant, illustrates the XRD pattern ranged between 20 and 90 for Ag and Ni/ZnO nanostructures, respectively. Good crystallinity was achieved as the diffracted peaks displayed good match with the ICDD reference no. 01-089-0510 of ZnO wurtzite hexagonal with a space group of P63mc. As for the Ag/ZnO (figure?1and ?and55for Ag and Ni/ZnO respectively. The Tauc relation was applied via equation below represents the absorption coefficient of the material, h denotes Planck’s constant, reflects the frequency of light, is the proportionality constant, = ? (for direct transition mode materials), since ZnO is classified under direct band gap semiconductor [34,35]. The absorption coefficient in this study was determined by represents a constant, and ?and55for Ag and Ni/ZnO, respectively. The band gap values are tabulated in electronic supplementary material, table S1. It was revealed that the band gap of Ag/ZnO did not consistently change with increment of Ag content, and this is happened because Ag+ ions do not take the place of the Zn2+ ions in the lattice crystal, which means that Ag+ ions do not contribute in the VB of ZnO materials. It is believed that the Ag+ ions only existed on.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5496907234191895}
+{"content": "\n\nComparing Decimals Examples Worksheet\n\nIn Free Printable Worksheets231 views\n\nTop Suggestions Comparing Decimals Examples Worksheet :\n\nComparing Decimals Examples Worksheet Addition to add up the items that he is considering buying your child should line up all the decimal points in order to correctly compute the total cost for example 29 99 45 00 14 99 89 98 While excel doesn t provide a built in function to determine percentage changes you can easily calculate the percentage increase between any two numbers on your worksheet by sticking to a simple Show your students the number line from the first page of the number line riddle worksheet have your class think pair and share a three letter word and its corresponding fraction or decimal on the.\n\nComparing Decimals Examples Worksheet Learn how to round decimals to the nearest whole number using examples including money rounding is important because it makes numbers easier to manage and allows us to estimate answers It should take just a few minutes to set up a microsoft excel worksheet so that the quot top quot margin text field use decimals for fractions of an inch for example if the distance is 1 4 inch This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data comparing the values are given with decimal points have students explore rounding and scale by attempting to best capture non.\n\nComparing Decimals Examples Worksheet Compare the following two circuits used when working with the metric system is multiplication by ten and division by ten via shifting of the decimal point a similar trick may be applied to If we got for example between six and seven of those we could say the trailing zeroes before the decimal point don t count unless the decimal point is explicitly written after them thus Because binary numeration requires so many bits to represent relatively small numbers compared to the economy of the decimal system analyzing the numerical states inside of digital electronic.\n\nHow big are the planets and how far away are they compared to each other see how the sizes of planets and the distances between them compare in this video credit nasa jpl caltech watch on youtube Learn how to round decimals to the nearest whole number and nearest tenth rounding is important because it makes numbers easier to manage and allows us to estimate answers imagine you re in a.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTags: #decimal worksheets for 4th grade#decimal hundredths worksheet#rounding decimal numbers worksheet#grade 6 decimal worksheets#4th grade decimal practice worksheets#decimal tenths worksheet#ascending order worksheet#comparing time worksheet#moving decimals worksheets#fractions into decimals worksheet\n\nAuthor: Yana Shushkov\n\nLeave a reply \"Comparing Decimals Examples Worksheet\"", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9214726090431213}
+{"content": "Romanticism – the roots of Existentialism?\n\nThere is a fascinating series of documentaries by Simon Schama on BBC about Romanticism and its relevance to the modern world.\n\nThe first episode was about the aspect of Romanticism which was concerned with freedom, the imagination, a sense of self and a sense of humanity as one facing an uncertain future and an indifferent universe. Its politics were anti-establishment, anti-elite with an emphasis on the power of the people and yet also the importance of individual freedom.\n\nAs I watched the programme I was increasingly struck by the echoes of existentialism and began to wonder how far back beyond Nietzsche and Kierkegaard those roots stretched?\n\nWhen you read Shelley’s political poetry with its emphasis on action, or his defence of atheism; when you look at Delacroix’s liberty leading the people or Gericault’s raft of the medusa, you are seeing and reading the ancestors of existentialist writers such as Sartre and Camus with their philosophy of freedom, authenticity and political action to express the voices of the oppressed.\n\nAnd in Coleridge and Wordsworth you read of their love or nature, their absolute immersion in life as if nothing else matters but what is around us here and now, again reflecting Sartre’s belief that this life is all there is and needs to be experienced and lived as authentically as possible.\n\nSo, it seems the modern world does contain echoes from the Romantics, and their influence is deeper and wider than we might have imagined.\n\nFacebook Twitter Email Linkedin\n\nAbstract art and Existentialism\n\n“Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.”\nFrancis Bacon\n\nThis quote from Francis Bacon reflects the tension between representational and non-representational art, both between artists and amongst audiences.\n\nBacon also said most abstract art was purely decoration.\n\nFundamentally, this comes down to a question of meaning and intention. Is the artist interested in telling a story, giving a sense of meaning to his/her image as well as a sense of composition and design, or is the artist looking at the painting as an object in its own right. That object being constructed of colour or shape or composition.\n\nThis is where Bacon has a point. Even abstract art needs to convey something if it is to avoid being just decorative.\n\nOne way to avoid this is to think about art from an existentialist perspective. Sartre talks about “contingency” which is the seeming randomness of things just existing in space. Man is desperate for meaning and order in this chaos, but the universe seems indifferent. Art, he believed provided contingency and necessity. It reflects back the objects around us (contingency), and makes an attempt to provide meaning from the artist’s perspective, whether in narrative form or through colour and shape (necessity).\n\nGreat abstract art does this.\n\nIt asks us to look at colour, shape, juxtaposition, texture in order to evoke a new perspective on the world around us. It questions our way of looking and, from a phenomenological point of view, asks us to experience the painting as a thing in itself and thereby become more deeply aware of our own existence.\n\nBacon was right. Abstract art is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes. But isn’t that true of the whole world?\n\nFacebook Twitter Email Linkedin", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9958193898200989}
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+{"content": "\n\nThe Great Gatsby and Macbeth Essay Sample\n\nThe whole doc is available only for registered users OPEN DOC\n\nA limited time offer!\n\n\nOrder Now\n\nThe Great Gatsby and Macbeth Essay Sample\n\nAn individual’s ambition can be a crucial factor in aiding one to achieve their goals. However, one’s obsessive desire to achieve their goals can have a series of destructive effects potentially leading to their demise. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is a novel that depicts the consequences that relate to one’s obstinate devotion to their goal. Characters in the novel strive to achieve their individual goals, however they become blinded by their ambition in the process. Jay Gatsby, the protagonist in The Great Gatsby is an ideal representation of an individual whose ambition lies in his love for a woman he had lost long ago, and how this ambition manipulates his actions which in return hold tragic consequences. Macbeth, a play written by William Shakespeare that takes place in the 11th century is an optimal depiction of the negative effects appertaining to one’s ambition. Through protagonist Macbeth, Shakespeare is able to displays how the choices one makes based on their motive determines their overall fate. Character Macbeth is an ambitious warrior under the rule of King Duncan. He is confronted by the Weird Sisters; three witches with the supernatural ability to look into the seeds of time, and is told three prophecies. One of these prophecies states that he will be the new king of Scotland.\n\nThe possibility of being king intrigues Macbeth however it alters his thoughts and poisons his mind as he feels he must do whatever necessary to ensure the fulfillment of the prophecy. Both The Great Gatsby and Macbeth illustrate how ambition has the ability to affects one’s actions and thought. As Gatsby’s goal is to reclaim his lost love and Macbeth’s intention is to become the new king of Scotland, they both set up their tragic fates in the process through their actions. Both characters fall victim to their ambition as they become obsessed with their impending futures, destroy relationship, and face the consequences of their actions leading to their demise. In the pursuit to achieve their goals, Gatsby and Macbeth look to the future and allow it to shape their actions which in return aid destructive results. Jay Gatsby’s obsession with the future comes through his affection for his lost love Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is a wealthy woman and was Gatsby’s first true love.\n\nHowever, due to of Gatsby’s financial status at the time, Daisy was unable to marry him and instead married a wealthy polo player named Tom Buchanan. In the hopes of impressing Daisy, Gatsby invites her to one of his grand parties. Shortly after the party when all the guests including Daisy return home, Gatsby talks about the disastrous party and the unsuccessful attempt to impress Daisy with Nick Caraway; Gatsby’s neighbor and good friend. Gatsby believes that in order to rekindle Daisy’s passion and secure his future with her, he must call upon the past. Nick rebuts and states that it is impossible to recreate the past to which Gatsby declares, “‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’” (Fitzgerald, 110). Gatsby’s ambition alters his thoughts and drives him to believe that in order to be with Daisy he must repeat his past with her. However, this is ironic because although Gatsby’s mindset remains in his past with Daisy, Daisy has learned to move on with her life and has forgotten her past with Gatsby. Unable to realize this, Gatsby becomes a victim of his ambition as he is blinded by his aspiration and continues to cringe on to his history with Daisy in the attempt to merge his past with his future.\n\nAnother example that reveals Gatsby’s obsessive desire for a better future can be expressed when he creates a new persona for himself. As a young man, Gatsby was originally known as James Gatz. Poor at the time, he was one day influenced by Dan Cody; a wealthy alcoholic who gave young Gatsby a taste of the wealthy life. Inspired, Gatsby was intent on creating a better future for himself. As Nick Caraway narrates the story of Gatsby and his relationship with Dan Cody, it is revealed that Gatsby was determined to change his life and live as Dan Cody did, and as a result, “he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen – year old boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end” (Fitzgerald, 98). Influenced by Dan Cody, Gatsby was determined to create a better future for himself. Embarrassed by his upbringing, he creates his own persona that symbolizes a better future. Through the use of symbolism, to young James Gatz, his alternate persona is a symbol that motivates him to start anew and shape his life the way he intends it to be.\n\nHowever in the process of achieving his goal, Gatsby’s ambition causes him to lose himself and forget who he truly is. Ultimately, Gatsby is blinded by his devotion to his goal as he believes must create an alternate version of himself to better his future. Similar to Gatsby, Macbeth displays his obsession with his future as he looks to the supernatural in order to attain answers regarding his fate. Macbeth’s desire to obtain knowledge about his future can be related back to his encounter with the Weird Sisters. As he returns from battle, he is confronted by the witches who catch his attention as they speak of three prophecies. The witches tell Macbeth that he would soon be rewarded with the title Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and the future king of Scotland. Macbeth. Although he questions the validity of the prophecies, Macbeth is curious to know more. Before he was able to question the witches any further they had vanished into thin air, to which restless Macbeth exaggerated out loud, “Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. /By Finel’s death, I know I am Thane of Glamis, /But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor live /A prosperous gentleman, and to be king / Stands not within my belief, / No more than to be Cawdor.\n\nSay from whence /You owe me this strange intelligence” (Shakespeare, 1.3.68-74). Macbeth’s curiosity feeds his desire to attain more knowledge about the prophecies and the use of irony aids in displaying his eagerness to know more about his future. Macbeth does not understand how he can be named Thane of Cawdor while the current Thane still lives. This is ironic because little does he know that the Thane had been removed of his title under the charge of treason and that Macbeth had been appointed the new Thane. The witches’ prophecies alter Macbeth’s thought as he begins to wonder if what the witches speak hold true. In return, Macbeth’s curiosity drives his ambition and causes him to take actions that he believes will help him fulfill the witches’ prophecies. An alternate example that demonstrates Macbeth’s infatuation over his future can be displayed once he is named King of Scotland. As king, Macbeth is extremely paranoid as he fears others will come to know about the reality of his wrong doings since he was forced to murder the previous king in order to be appointed the new king. Therefore, he seeks a method that will ensure he is prepared for the future and what lies ahead. During a conversation with his wife Lady Macbeth, Macbeth explains his worries to her. His displays his obsession with the future as he announces to her, “bedtime I will – to the weird sisters. /More shall they speak.\n\nFor now I am bent to know /By the worst means, the worst; for mine own good” (Shakespeare, 3.4.133-135). Macbeth’s paranoia drives him to set up a meeting with the weird sisters as he is keen to learn more about his future. The use of irony can be displayed as Macbeth ventures to the weird sisters for reassurance; however it is known that he is destined for death in the near future. The need to know his fate reveals Macbeth’s obsession. Gatsby and Macbeth are both determined to create a better future for themselves as they are intent on doing whatever necessary to ensure the accomplishment of their goals. As a result of their ambition, they strive for a better future however they become obsessed and become unaware of their actions. Gatsby and Macbeth’s determination prevents them from having anything stand in their way, and this motivates them to destroy relationships that restrain them from achieving their goals. In the pursuit to be with Daisy, Gatsby is forced to sever his relationship with his parents. As Nick Caraway narrates Gatsby’s past as well as his relationship with his parents, it is revealed that “his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all” (Fitzgerald, 98).\n\nGatsby, being in love with Daisy was unable to marry her as a result of his poor financial status. Through the use of a flashback, Nick explains how Gatsby was unhappy knowing he was relatively poor with his parents and felts as if they were preventing him from achieving his goal. As a result, Gatsby leaves his parents so that he may start his life over again this time free from any restrains. This reveals how Gatsby, guided by his ambition is willing to make rash decisions that affect his relationship even with his own parents as he chooses to isolate himself from others. Another example that displays Gatsby’s nature to break relationships can be viewed during an argument between him and Tom Buchanan; Daisy’s husband. The two get into a heated discussion over Daisy and who she truly loved. Tom roared at Gatsby stating how happy she was living with him, where to Gatsby rebutted, “‘Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. ‘She never loved you. She loves me’” (Fitzgerald, 130). Gatsby is intent on winning Daisy regardless of the fact that she is now married to Tom.\n\nGatsby wants nothing more than for Daisy to break off her relationship with tom and admit that she has never loved him. This is ironic as Gatsby is certain Daisy only yearns for him, however in reality Daisy is happily married with Tom even though it appears she is not. The false hope Gatsby is given pushes him to want to be with Daisy, however his ambition continues to blind him from the. In brief, Gatsby feels that relationships act as barriers that prevent him from fully carrying out what is needed to attain his goal, and as a result he looks to eradicate any relationships that he feels stand in his way. Comparable to Gatsby, Macbeth’s desire to be king causes him to take actions that require him to destroy his relationships with others. For example, Macbeth understands that in order for him to become king, he must commit the murder of the current king; King Duncan. The night of the murder, Macbeth prepares himself for the deed. Hesitant, Macbeth awaits on the midnight bell which signals him to enter Duncan’s room as he lay asleep and commit the crime. As he remains waiting, Macbeth attempts to motivate himself as he whispers “I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. /Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven or to hell” (Shakespeare, 2.1.62-64).\n\nWith the use of a metaphor, Macbeth foreshadows Duncan’s appending death as he compares the tower bell to a knell; a bell rung at funerals to announce an individual’s death. This reveals how Macbeth’s ambition and determination to become king allows him to destroy his well respected relationship with Duncan to the extent of murder. An additional example that exhibits Macbeth’s seamless ability to destroy relationships can be revealed through his relationship with Banquo; Macbeth’s close friend who fought alongside him during the battle, and his son Fleance. Now that Macbeth is king, he grows paranoid as he fears people may begin to suspect him for the Duncan’s murder. He grows suspicious of Banquo who worries that Macbeth managed to become king through foul means. In order to ensure there will be no problems, Macbeth hires two murderers to kill Banquo eliminating any risks. While speaking to the murderers, it is clear that Macbeth is willing to sacrifice his relationship with Banquo as he demands the murderers, “To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. /Fleance his son that keeps him company, /Whose absence is no less material to me /Than his father’s, must embrace the fate” (Shakespeare, 3.1.136-139).\n\nMacbeth’s growing paranoia causes him to take extreme measures. He explains to the murderers that he wants Banquo dead as well as his son Fleance. This is ironic however because Fleance manages to escape. Macbeth’s willingness to kill his good friend shows how his ambition towards becoming king will not let anything stand in his way. He is prepared to do whatever necessary to ensure his position as king remains. The decision to kill Banquo effects Macbeth as his conscience catches up with him while his guilt does not allow him to live. Gatsby and Macbeth are both ambitious characters as they do whatever is necessary in order to ensure the fulfillment of their goals. Both characters look to ruin any relationship they feel stand in the way of their goals, which in return leads to their state of solitude and emptiness. Gatsby and Macbeth both undergo a lot in their mission to accomplish their goals, however the actions they take, and the decisions they make on the way effects their ultimate outcome. Through Gatsby, an example that shows the negative outcome of his decisions can be portrayed through the car accident.\n\nWhen Gatsby allows Daisy to drive his car as a kind gesture in the attempt to impress her, events take a turn for the worst as a woman rushes in front of Gatsby’s car as Daisy is driving and is instantly killed. Panicked, Daisy and Gatsby drive off escaping the scene of the crime. After hearing the news of the accident, Nick decides to visits Gatsby. During their conversation together, paranoid Gatsby asks Nick, “‘Did you see any trouble on the road?’ he asked after a minute. ‘Yes.’ He hesitated. ‘Was she killed?’ ‘Yes’ (Fitzgerald, 143). As Gatsby is driven to impress Daisy he makes the mistake of allowing her to drive his car. In the process, a woman is killed and now Gatsby is suspected for murder as his love for Daisy leads him to take the blame for the accident. Through the use of pathos, a sense of pity is felt towards Gatsby, who is now suspect to a murder he did not commit. As his ambition and love for Daisy lead him to take the blame for her actions, Gatsby is now facing the consequence of his decision. Gatsby’s love for Daisy makes him blind as he is unable to realize her true feelings and intentions. After the accident, George Wilson; the husband of the victim of the car accident, sets off to find Gatsby and acquire his revenge.\n\nGeorge Wilson arrives at Gatsby’s house as he prepares himself for his evening swim. Wilson, deranged by his need to seek revenge aims his gun at Gatsby and kills him. The moment Nick is made aware of the tragic incident he rushes over to Gatsby’s house where he describes the scene as “A faint barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way towards the drain at the other. […] The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved slowly, tracing like the leg of transit, a thin red circle in the water” (Fitzgerald, 162). Through the use of a metaphor, the cluster of leaves is compared to Gatsby’s death. As the revolving leaves depict the cycle of life, they reach the leg of transit, or in other words the end of the journey. Gatsby’s ambition drives him to be with his love but ironically in the end, he pays the ultimate price as he dies before he is able to accomplish his goal. Similar to Gatsby, Macbeth faces tragic consequences that in return lead to his demise. Shortly after executing the plan to kill Banquo, Macbeth holds a state banquet and invites many royal guests.\n\nThroughout the banquet, Macbeth is unable to let go of the guilt of killing his good friend. His poisoned mind begins to betray him as he starts to hallucinate and sees Banquo’s ghost. Terrified, Macbeth cries, “Can such things be, /And overcome us – like a summer’s cloud, /Without your special wonder? You wake me strange /Even to the deposition that I owe, /And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, /When mine is blanch’d with fear (Shakespeare, 3.4.110-116). Macbeth’s conscience causes his mind to deceive him into seeing the ghost of Banquo. The use of imagery is used to display Macbeth’s confusion and terror. He is unable to understand as to how Banquo’s cheeks are flushed with color making him appear alive when he is presumed to be dead. Meanwhile, the pale cheeks of Macbeth reveal his horror and disbelief. Macbeth’s decision to kill Banquo now torments him as he is unable to live peacefully with a guilty conscience. Like Gatsby, Macbeth also faces the ultimate consequence of his actions, death. During a battle against Macbeth to overthrow him as king, he encounters Macduff; a brave soldier the witches told Macbeth to be aware of as he was the only one capable of ending his reign.\n\nDuring his battle with Macduff, Macbeth realizes that he is losing and in that moment he understands that he has nothing left to life for. Accepting his fate, Macbeth declares, “Through Birnam Woods be come to Dunsanaine /And thou oppos’d of no women born / Yet I will try the last. Before my body /I throw my war like shield. Lay on, Macduff /And damned be him the first that cries ‘Hold Enough!’” (Shakespeare, 5.8.30-34). Macbeth accepts the consequences he is about to face, however he refuses to go down without one last fight. The use of irony is present as Macbeth, who at first believes the witches’ prophecies to be unrealistic, now sees them each come true before his own eyes. His ambition which drove him to take actions in order to achieve his goal to become king now holds consequences that escort Macbeth to his demise. In summary, Gatsby and Macbeth face the ultimate consequence of their actions in the pursuit to achieve their goals. Both characters fall short of their aim and are killed as a result of their ambitious desires.\n\nOne’s obsessive desire to fulfill a goal can have destructive results as portrayed through characters Jay Gatsby and Macbeth; given the fact that they become obsessed with their respective futures, are willing to destroy relationship that stand in the way of their fulfillment, and the fact that they both experience a similar fate as a result of their actions. As Gatsby cringes on to his past in attempt to better his future, and as Macbeth’s displays a persistent desire to acquire knowledge about his fate, both characters reveal their infatuation for the future. Also, both characters displays their willingness to destroy relationship they believe restrain them from achieving their goals. Finally, both characters experience similar fates as their ambition leads them to experience their demise. To conclude, Gatsby and Macbeth’s inability to control their ambition resulted in their deaths. Ambition is necessary to motivate one to achieve their goals, however not being able to control this aspiration and failure to ensure the right steps are preformed in the process can aid destructive results.\n\nWe can write a custom essay\n\nAccording to Your Specific Requirements\n\nOrder an essay\nGet Access To The Full Essay\nMaterials Daily\n100,000+ Subjects\n2000+ Topics\nFree Plagiarism\nAll Materials\nare Cataloged Well\n\n\nSorry, but only registered users have full access\n\nHow about getting this access\n\nBecome a member\n\nYour Answer Is Very Helpful For Us\nThank You A Lot!\n\n\nEmma Taylor\n\n\nHi there!\nWould you like to get such a paper?\nHow about getting a customized one?\n\nCan't find What you were Looking for?\n\nGet access to our huge, continuously updated knowledge base\n\nThe next update will be in:\n14 : 59 : 59\nBecome a Member", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9861180782318115}
+{"content": "How to Prune Young Potted Rhododendrons\n\nThere are hundreds of rhododendron varieties (Rhododendron spp.), not to be confused with azaleas, which are from the same family. Rhododendrons typically stand out with their larger, leathery leaves. Rhododendron shrubs produce large, colorful flowers that bloom throughout late winter and early spring and prefer plenty of moisture. Some smaller species, such as yakushimanum (Rhododendron yakushimanum), are ideal for growing in pots, reaching only up to 3 feet tall. Young potted rhododendrons require only occasional pruning and deadheading to control their size and encourage blooming. It's best to perform pruning and deadheading tasks at the same time, when the flowers have finished blooming during the spring. You can forgo pruning altogether if the plant appears healthy and of a suitable size for its container. The entire Rhododendron genus grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 11, while the yakushimanum variety grows in zones 3 to 9.\n\n\nDip your pruning shears into a container filled with enough rubbing alcohol to fully submerge the blades. Remove them from the alcohol and allow them to air-dry. This disinfects the shears to prevent the transfer of pathogens between plants.\n\n\nTrim off any dead or damaged branches at their point of origin on the plant with the pruning shears. To limit the plant's size or help maintain its shape, cut back branches to just above a whorl of leaves.\n\n\nDeadhead spent flowers by pinching them off at their base. Avoid removing the flower buds below the flower.\n\n\nPinch off the tips of new shoots to encourage fuller growth.\n\n\nClean up any plant tissue from the soil surface.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9886013269424438}
+{"content": "Holding my Baby Through the Long Feverish Night\n\n\nHolding my Baby Through the Long Feverish Night\n\nBy Jasmine Wood\n\n\n\nAlas, whether that little rascal the groundhog sees his shadow or not, chances are we are in for another good month or two of winter.\n\nFrom our home to your home, tis the season of runny noses!\n\nAs we slowly journey through the second half of winter, cold and flu-like illnesses abound. In fact, last winter season most of the illnesses my family endured occurred between January and March. There are certain experiences in parenthood that facilitate your evolution as a mother or father and I feel strongly that tending to a sick child is one of these experiences. Caring for a sick child brings up a whole array of emotions in us; including empathy, helplessness, self doubt and confidence!\n\nAs parents we are able to whole-heartedly empathize with our children, who are sick, but are unable to fully vocalize what they are going through.\n\nAfter my daughter was sick for the first time I realized that I was now able to understand a concept my mother had repeated to me throughout my life “Once you are a mother, when your child is in pain, so are you. You feel their pain.” I realized just how true this was when Little Rita caught her first cold at 6 months old; every time she coughed I experienced pain somewhere deep inside my gut. \n\nIt physically hurt me to watch my daughter go through the minor pains and discomforts of illness.\n\nI remember feeling very vulnerable and questioning my instincts as a parent. At any given time I might have had ten different questions running through my head “Is her body’s response to the cold a normal reaction?”, “When should we call the Doctor” “Is having a cough supposed to affect her breathing like this?” and so on, and so on. I could practically drive myself mad!\n\nUnderstanding the nature of our immune system and how minor illnesses help to strengthen it did not help me cope with caring for my sick child.\n\nThe sleepless nights and hours of laying up listening to her congested breathing patterns had me feeling totally frazzled and filled with self doubt. With Rita’s first cold, we scheduled a visit to the Doctor. She did the routine, listened to her heart and her lungs, checked her eyes, ears and throat and reassured mom and dad that she was going to be fine after the “respiratory virus” ran its course.\n\nRelief ran through me like a cool drink of water on a hot day.\n\nBeyond relief, there was confidence; confidence in my parenting instincts reinforced by our pediatrician letting us know we had been caring for our little girl properly. As a first time parent, I knew to follow my instincts but at the same time the looming fear that we were solely responsible for this tiny little being made me feel insecure.\n\nHaving dealt with many colds and sleepless nights since our first experience I now carry with me self-confidence which stems from experience. Since I now bring with me the experience of caring for Rita while she progressed through a cold and came out on the other side perfectly healthy I also carry with me a stronger coping mechanism and a greater faith in my maternal instincts.\n\nI have grown as a mother through Rita’s illnesses.\n\nAlthough, I now feel much better equipped to deal with illnesses when they enter our home, it doesn’t make the emotional aspect of dealing with illness any easier. Two years later, every time I hear her cough my heart breaks a little knowing she is experiencing discomfort that I cannot make go away!\n\nBut, there is something very important I have learned about nurturing a sick child; even though you cannot take away the symptoms, you can offer your child something no one else can: the loving and tender comfort of a mother.\n\n\nThe nurturing medicine of a mother holds its own unique healing properties! Simply by being there when you child wakes up in a feverish fit to caress their cheek and wipe the hair from their face, as a full body handkerchief for them to wipe their runny nose on, and most importantly as loving arms to embrace and comfort them: you are helping your child to recover! So, remember next time you find yourself facing the dreaded cold or flu, by providing the simple things mother does best, tender love and care, you are also providing a pathway to a speedy recovery for your child!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5079280138015747}
+{"content": "Executive Assitant:\n\nLiz Thach\n\n\n\nPersonal Website\n\nNathaniel Hendren\n\n\nNathaniel Hendren is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights.\n\nHis work is motivated by the question: Do markets provide equal opportunity? Using a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis, he documents and evaluates the potential for opportunity in various situations including insurance markets and intergenerational mobility. His work seeks to understand when and why markets fail to provide opportunity, quantify the impact of these market failures, and provide tools to normatively evaluate potential policy solutions.\n\nIn 2019, he was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) having been nominated by the National Science Foundation. In his ongoing work with Opportunity Insights, he seeks to develop scalable policy solutions that will empower families throughout the United States to rise out of poverty and achieve better life outcomes. Hendren earned a B.S. in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nSee All", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9988701343536377}
+{"content": "Start a conversation and send a message\n\n\n\nMeedialeht ja uudisvoog\nIT SNAB OÜ: Wage rally\n\nIT SNAB OÜ: Wage rally\n\nIn the third quarter of 2020, IT SNAB OÜ team consisted of 2 employees, who were paid an estimated average gross salary of 2 530 EUR / month.\n\nComparsion with the previous quarter\n\nCompared to the second quarter the teams size did not change.\n\nSummary of the year\n\nEach year, an employee receives an average salary of 2 595 EUR per month and a turnover of an average of 5 940 EUR for the company. Labor costs are an average of 57% of turnover.\n\nWage rally\n\nThe company would probably have enough funds to increase the payroll, because in the last declared financial year (2019) the company ended with a profit, which could increase the salary of each employee by a maximum of 357 EUR / month (total salary fund) and in that case the company would close its financial year with a similar profit of 4 292 EUR.\n\nComparsion with the sectoral average\n\nIT SNAB OÜ operates in the sector ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT SERVICE ACTIVITIES, where the average monthly salary is 1 099 EUR. In Harju, where the company operates, the average monthly salary is 1 340 EUR. *\n\n\nKas oled kindel, et soovid artikli kustutada?\n\nScorestorybook Chrome extension\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9831193089485168}
+{"content": "Thoughts, 21.12.2019\n\nLifting the separation between nonhuman and human spheres\n\nreveals that the factualness of how beings are\n\nmakes up a universe\n\nhuman collectivist cultures can’t fathom\n\nIf thinking for yourself would be a form of activism\n\nIt would mean you constantly stepped on the feet of activist-clusters positions\n\nIt would mean you must be able to work 99%ly independent as a minority within a minority\n\nIt would mean you might feel what you are doing is totally detached from group dynamics\n\nIt would mean you are not d’accord with the undifferentiated main-streams of positions\n\nJust tell yourself you are a passivist, not an activist, and you can just keep trotting your own paths", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5092364549636841}
+{"content": "Sunday, 24 January, 2021\n\nTop Nutritional Guidelines For Your Personal Benefit\n\nPro Tip! You shouldn’t use meat as your sole source of your daily protein needs. Many foods other than meat contain protein.\n\nAnyone that wants to live as long and healthy of a life as possible should put more emphasis on their nutrition. The foods that are most rich in nutrients tend to be the most expensive. It’s hard to eat right, but this article can help.\n\n\nVary the sorts of proteins you eat. Eat a little bit of skinless poultry, seafood and lean meat each week. Eggs make another great protein source. Researchers have learned that one egg a day has no negative effect on health. Do without meat a minimum of once a week. Substitute meat with nuts, peanut butter, beans, peas and other protein rich foods.\n\nTrans Fats\n\nPro Tip! When you’re almost to the point of being full, quit eating. This will discourage overeating, and your body will then begin digesting your meal.\n\nYou will want to avoid highly processed foods because they contain trans fats. Foods that are high in trans fats have been linked to heart disease and should only be consumed in moderation. Trans fats play havoc with cholesterol level in the body, raising the bad cholesterol (LDL) and lowering the good one (HDL).\n\n\nWhen trying to eat healthy, you should stop eating microwave dinners. These foods are usually very unhealthy, and are rarely cooked well when you make them. It is always best to purchase your food fresh and to cook it yourself for it to have the best nutritional value.\n\nPro Tip! Reduce your salt intake. Most fast foods and junk foods have a lot of salt in them.\n\nEating oatmeal for breakfast can provide you with a great start to your day. Oatmeal is full of grains, which are filling, and will leave you feeling full until lunch.\n\nPro Tip! When you’re doing your grocery shopping, let your kids help to pick out foods. If you give them a choice of what fruits and veggies they want, then they’re more likely to want to eat them.\n\n\nGrains Taste\n\nPro Tip! Add a few new recipes each week that are healthier than your current dishes. Make homemade protein bars by combining milk, protein powder and organic peanut butter.\n\nIt’s often said that processed grains taste much better than whole grains. White flour does work for some baked goods. However, whole grains taste better and help you digest foods rich in fibers.\n\nPro Tip! Cook mushrooms well prior to eating. Eating their carcinogens can harm your body, so cook them to break them down.\n\n\nPro Tip! Even if you eat nothing but health food, you can appreciate a good dessert. Believe it or not, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with a yummy dessert that is healthy and will not derail your nutritional objective.\n\nPurchasing fruit juices are a convenient way of consuming fruit and vegetable portions. This can save some of the hassle of preparation. Juicing can provide your body with vitamins and nutrients without the inconveniences of chopping, cooking, and preparing. Drinking juice through a straw may reduce the risk of developing tooth decay.\n\nPro Tip! One positive way to get vegetables in front of your entire family is to cook pizza topped with plenty of them. Put on standard toppings, and then add veggies such as onions, tomatoes and olives.\n\n\nCanned Salmon\n\nPro Tip! Make better dairy choices. Dairy products are rich in potassium, protein, vitamin D and calcium but keep in mind that these foods also contain fat.\n\n\nPro Tip! Make your bread more nutritious by using whole wheat flour as a substitute for half of the flour your recipe calls for. Doing this improves your bread’s nutritional value without having to give up texture.\n\n\nPro Tip! Load up on veggies and fruits first, then add in protein, and add your carbs last. Carbs are an important part of your daily diet, but many people overeat them.\n\nOne aspect of nutrition that is relatively unknown is the need for B vitamins, and especially B12. Cobalt is found inside the dark green vegetables. However, organ meats like kidneys, livers and hearts are the biggest sources.\n\nPro Tip! Once you have made the choice to eat nutritiously, you need to learn a few basic facts to get you started. If you do not understand proper nutrition, then you could be eating improperly.\n\nDon’t add salt to boiling water. It might make boiling faster, but it also adds unnecessary salt. Salt is not necessary, so do not add it, and wait the few extra minutes it takes the water to boil.\n\n\nIt is a good idea to learn new recipes regularly. It keeps your dishes interesting, and you may discover healthy dishes you really enjoy. Finds new and exciting recipes can help remove a lot of the monotony from some healthy diets. Healthy eating will become more of an adventure for your family instead of boring and monotonous.\n\nPro Tip! Use natural, healthy juices to add needed vitamins to your diet. Don’t confine yourself to typical juices like orange and apple.\n\nNutrition is a vital part of your physical health and your mental well being. Vitamin deficiency can have an effect in so many ways, including making you depressed or lethargic. By maintaining proper nutrition and not eating too much, you will be able to avoid many potential physical and mental issues.\n\nPro Tip! For an easy protein addition to your diet, try Greek yogurt. It can be used in place of other dairies like sour cream when cooking.\n\nTry some foreign cuisine if you’re bored with your usual fare. Eating the same thing can get boring; however there is much international variety available that is healthy and delicious.\n\nPro Tip! Create a mealtime schedule to help you eat healthy. This will cause your body to be familiar to a set schedule and you will not be hungry as often.\n\n\nPro Tip! Some foods that will increase your serotonin levels naturally are baked potatoes, brown rice, and oatmeal. They will also give you a lot of fiber so that you stay full longer.\n\nCheck to see if you are eating too many calories each day. Are you a salad dressing and extra sauce person? You should cut back on using them on healthy foods.\n\nPro Tip! Try consuming less meat and consuming more plant-based foods to change your nutrition. Meat should just be part of a healthy meal, not the entirety.\n\nEven though organic foods may not be something we typically buy, we can sometimes grow vegetables even in a limited space. You can get hanging containers for strawberries and tomatoes, and many patio containers may be used for peppers, beans and other veggies.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8844636082649231}
+{"content": "How to Relieve Stress and Anxiety During the Coronavirus Pandemic\n\nDuring this coronavirus pandemic, how can we manage our stress or anxiety so it won't be harmful to our health?\n\n\nWe are currently facing one of the most challenging times in our life – a war against an enemy we can’t see. As a human, it’s normal to feel anxious or stress in times like this because we know that if we are not careful, something terrible can happen. The anxiety of getting infected, getting sick or dying serves as a motivation for us to stay at home and be vigilant.  \n\nHowever, even after following necessary protective measures, some things will keep bothering us, like the fear of uncertainty and the fear brought by news and posts we see online. \n\nTo protect our mental health, here are some things we can do to relieve or manage our stress and anxiety during this coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTake a break from the news and social media if it gets overwhelming.\n\nNow that we are facing a global pandemic, it’s common to see news about people suffering, death, economic crisis, and other negative stuff. Because of this, we often feel helpless and pessimistic. \n\nKeeping yourself updated on what’s happening around you is good, but if you start to become immensely absorbed by negativity, don’t hesitate to take a break.\n\nWorrying or stressing about everything that you see on the news and social media will not change anything. It will only heighten stress and anxiety. \n\nSo, take a break from reading news and do something else that will make you feel relax and better. \n\nConnect with your family and friends.\n\nWe are social creatures by nature, so even if we are practicing physical distancing, we need to make time and connect with our family and friends.\n\nMoreover, socializing can reduce stress and anxiety. Especially during tough times, being able to talk to your friends and family play an essential role in keeping your sanity. \n\nIf you are at home with your family, set aside some time to talk to them or do something like watch movies, eat meals or do some chores together. \n\nIf your loved one is away from you, like your friends, don’t forget to send them a message or call them. \n\nYou’ll feel better after doing so.\n\nLet go of what you can’t control.\n\nYou cannot control everything that is happening around you. No matter how much you stress yourself or how much you worry about the issues of the world, you can’t solve everything. \n\nI’m not saying that you should stop caring, but you should be aware that as a human, you can only do so much. \n\nJust like in our situation right now, we don’t have the power to stop people from going outside, in halting the spread of the virus, and in helping every poor people in our country, but we can do our part, and we can influence others to do theirs. \n\nSo when you feel like you’re stressing yourself again and you���re feeling helpless in the world’s situation, give yourself time to step back. If it’s something you can control, act on it. If it isn’t, let it go. \n\nRemember that it’s not only the virus that can kill you, but by worrying too much and stressing yourself of the things you can’t control, you are posing a threat to your health.\n\nWrite down and assess all your worries and fears.\n\nPhoto by Green Chameleon on Unsplash\n\nThe thing about pandemics is that we don’t know until when it will continue. It affects not only our health but also other aspects of our life – our time, work, and future. If all of these worries are trapped inside our brain, they will continue to bring us stress and anxiety. \n\nThe best way to deal with them is to write and assess. Write down all of the fears that you have and see if you can do something to solve it. If it is not something you can solve, then the best thing to do is to accept and let it go.\n\nStay in the present moment and avoid making assumptions.\n\nOne of the reasons why our stress and anxiety double during these challenging times is that we create scenarios in our minds. But no one can foresee what will happen, no matter how much we think about it.\n\nSeize this present moment. Do what you can with the time you have. This approach is better than worrying about a future that is not guaranteed to any of us. \n\nExtend help or share something positive.\n\nPhoto by Kat Yukawa on Unsplash\n\nUsually, when we extend our help to others, we feel happier. We feel that there is still something we can do. So if you have some extra money and you want to donate, then go for it!\n\nBut help doesn’t always need to be monetary, I’ve seen some Facebook groups sharing tips and pieces of advice about cooking, I’ve seen creators sharing free resources and ideas, and I’ve seen people posting positive quotes and some good news. \n\nYou can share what you know or share something good. It goes a long way.\n\nLook for things you can be grateful for.\n\nI know this might sound silly, but if you can still read this blog or if you still have time to do something you want, I hope you’ll realize how lucky and blessed you are. \n\nDuring these tough times, you need to focus on counting your blessings. Focus on what you have and not what you’re missing. If you can hug your parents, you can work, and you can still breathe, don’t forget to be grateful. \n\nFocusing on the good things in times like this can ease your heart and mind.\n\nYou should never neglect your mental health, especially during these challenging times. \n\nThere is still hope; I’m very positive that we will find the cure, that we will be able to surpass this pandemic. But what we can do now is stay home, comply with the rules, and manage our stress and anxiety so it wouldn’t affect our health. \n\nWhat are you are doing right now to manage your stress and anxiety? Feel free to share it below. I would love to hear from you! Please stay safe.\n\n\n    You might also like...\n\n\n    Laughter During a Pandemic: Why People Turn to Humor During a Crisis\n\n    by Jennifer Lea Reynolds\n    First Responders First//\n\n    5 Ways to Manage Your Coronavirus Stress\n\n    by Michelle A. Williams, Shekhar Saxena\n    overcome from depression\n\n    I succeeded in reducing my mental stress, despite many complications\n\n    by Ashish sharma\n\n    Sign up for the Thrive Global newsletter\n\n    Will be used in accordance with our privacy policy.\n\n    Thrive Global\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9449689388275146}
+{"content": "How people or companies can infringe on a patent\n\n| Nov 25, 2020 | Patent Law |\n\nThere are many people and businesses in New Jersey which are innovating and creating new products. These products are usually the result of hard work and a significant amount of time. Therefore, they will want to make sure that they are the only people or business that can benefit financially from their work. In order to protect these products, they can apply for and seek a patent for the product. Patents make it illegal for others to copy the product and make money from it.\n\nThis does not mean that people will not try to copy or use parts of the product to create one of their own. Some products prove to be very profitable and others will want to make some money as well. This type of behavior is known as patent infringement and people may be able to initiate lawsuits to force the other people or companies to stop producing their product and also seek monetary compensation for the profits they loss due to the infringement.\n\nTypes of patent infringement\n\nThere are different ways that people commit patent infringement though. The most obvious one is direct infringement and that occurs when the product is manufactured by someone else without permission. Another type of infringement is indirect patent infringement, which occurs when someone helps another infringe.\n\nPeople can also have contributory infringement which occurs if they supply a part which could only be used to complete the infringement. The last type of infringement is literal infringement if the words used in the patent claim and the infringing device directly correspond to each other.\n\nIt is important that when people in New Jersey create a new product that they protect it with a patent. Some of these patents will be infringed on by others though, which can be done with multiple different ways. Patent infringement cases can be complicated though and consulting with experienced attorneys could be beneficial.\n\nSchedule A Consultation", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8321186900138855}
+{"content": "Periódicos Brasileiros em Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia\n\np. 293-298\n\nPotential geographic distribution and conservation of Audubon’s Shearwater, Puffinus lherminieri in Brazil\n\nLopes, Ana Cecília P AVital, Marcos Vinícius CarneiroEfe, Márcio A\n\nAudubon’s Shearwater (Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839) is a tropical seabird occurring mainly between southern Canada and the southeast coast of Brazil. Puffinus lherminieri is considered Critically Endangered on the Brazilian Red List because it only occurs in two known localities, both of which contain very small populations. However, many offshore islands along the Brazilian coast are poorly known and the discovery of new colonies would be of considerable significance for the conservation of this species. The aim of this study was to estimate the potential geographic distribution of Audubon’s Shearwater in Brazil, based on ecological niche model (ENM) using Maxent algorithm with layers obtained from AquaMaps environmental dataset. The ENM was based on 37 records for reproduction areas in North and South America. The model yielded a very broad potential distribution, covering most of the Atlantic coast ranging from Brazil to the US. When filtered for islands along the Brazilian coast, the model indicates higher levels of environmental suitability near the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Bahia. However, P. lherminieri prefers islands in environments with warm saline water. Thus, based on the influence of currents that act on the Brazilian coast we can infer undiscovered colonies are most likely to occur on islands on coast of Bahia, Espírito Santo and extreme north of the Rio de Janeiro. These should be intensively surveyed while the islands south of Cabo Frio should be discarded. The existence of new populations would have profound effects on the conservation status of this enigmatic and rarely seen seabird.(AU)\n\nTexto completo", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9653429985046387}
+{"content": "Breaking News\n\nCricplex Latest News\n\nConcussion tests are not precise, says Neuroscientist\n\nHowever, the 22-year-old young batsman, who has a shocking record of nine concussion tests has to think twice on building his career in sports, according to a USA-based neuroscientist Chris Nowinski, who himself was a professional wrestler.  \nSpeaking exclusively over the telephone from the USA, he said, \"Pulcovski has been cleared to play by a neurologist, so ethically, if he wants to play then he should play. But the long-term effects of 9 concussions are unclear and could be severe. The tests we use to clear athletes are not precise, so passing the concussion test does not mean he doesn’t have permanent brain damage\".\n\"He and the public should understand that multiple concussions can lead to problems later in life with thinking, emotions, and mental health and that the risks likely increase with each additional concussion\". \n\"In addition, concussions tend to take longer to recover from with each additional concussion, so the next concussion could lead to years of symptoms. With all that said, we cannot predict what will happen, so as long as he is informed of the risks, he should play and we should hope for the best for him. I hope he ends up in the majority of people who do not have long-term problems, and not like me fighting headaches, problems sleeping, and problems remembering\", he further added. \n\"As a neuroscientist who had to retire from sports due to too many concussions, and as someone who still has debilitating symptoms 17 years later, my goal is to help the public understand the risks of continuing to play after 9 diagnosed concussions\", he signed off.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7239655256271362}
+{"content": "Gaelic Storm comes to mind with these beautiful hues of charcoal, ice greens and soft greys made from wool/acrylic blended fiber. Can be worn as a hip shawl or gracing  your shoulders\n\nmeasure 51\" across top edge\n\nties are an additional 22\"\n\ntop to bottom point measures 34\"\n\nTurkish Fans Shawl", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9356204271316528}
+{"content": "\n\nFlurries of snow are expected throughout the day and into tomorrow with the real bad weather set to hit on Saturday, when a yellow weather warning is in place for Lancashire and Greater Manchester.\n\nOver the coming days temperatures are set to hit freezing in both areas.\n\nThere is a chance of travel delays on roads with some stranded vehicles and passengers, along with delayed or cancelled rail and air travel expected. \n\nThere is also a small chance that power cuts will occur and that other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nMeanwhile up to 30cm of snow could fall on Thursday in Scotland, where an amber weather warning is in place.\n\n\n\nJohn Griffiths, a Met Office forecaster, said: “On Thursday a band of rain, sleet and snow will hit parts of Scotland and northern England, which will slowly extend south to the Midlands as the day progresses.\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9987372756004333}
+{"content": "Travel Advice for Italy\n\nTravel Advice for Italy\n\n\nIn this article, you'll find information on the necessary documentation to travel to Rome and other parts of Italy. \n\nEU Citizens\n\nItaly, since 1958, has been part of the European Union. Therefore citizens of countries belonging to the Schengen Zone may visit Rome with just a passport or valid I.D. document.\n\nUS citizens\n\nAmerican citizens are not required a visa to enter Italy if they plan to stay under 90 days. However, your passport must be valid for at least six months after your planned departure date.\n\nAustralian and New Zealand citizens\n\nAustralian citizens planning on staying in Italy or any other EU member country for less than 90 days are not required a visa. Your passport has to have at least six-month validity from your planned date of return.\n\nNew Zealanders do not require a visa to enter Italy and can spend up to three months in the country. However, they will need a return ticket and a passport with at least three-month validity from their planned departure date. Currently, New Zealand has bilateral visa waiver agreements with certain countries in the Schengen area including Italy, which you might want to check out before traveling:\n\nEU, EEA and Swiss Citizens\n\n\n\nCitizens of countries that do not require a visa\n\nThe following states do not need a visa for stays up to 90 days, but require a valid passport to enter Italy:\n\nAlbania, Andorra, Antigua and Bermuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, East Timor, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Japan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldava, Monaco, Montenegro, Nauru, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Salvador, Samoa, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican and Venezuela.\n\nCitizens of states that require a visa\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8922492265701294}
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+{"content": "Crypto-of-Things for Securing Identity:\nEnterprise Security On-the-Go\n\nCryptographic Key Authentication and Identity Management\n\nNow, businesses relying on hardware tokens, software tokens, and passwords can secure high-risk operations and authenticate transaction approvals without the typical security, usability, and cost trade-off.\n\nThe concept of “going passwordless” isn’t new ,and has been a concept explored by the technology sector for years now. Despite the importance of this move, adoption continues to be slow due to the fact that software-only platforms are not secure enough and hardware limitations presents several user experience and operations issues.\n\nFor a deeper dive into multi-factor authentication methods and how Unbound Tech is leading the way through innovation, get your copy today of Prof. Yehuda Lindell’s whitepaper, “Unbound CoT (Crypto-of-Things) for Securing Identity”.\n\nDownload the Whitepaper", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9371111392974854}
+{"content": "Friday, July 31, 2015\n\nHillary on climate:  A complete ignoramus\n\nOn Sunday, she promised two national goals if elected president. First, she would “set the United States on a path toward producing enough clean renewable energy to power every home in America within a decade.” Second, she would “initiate a process that would bring the total number of solar panels installed nationwide to more than half a billion before the end of her first term.” We truly hope she never sees that first term, because all that proposal will do is line the pockets of cronies in the solar-power industry. But hey, she’s got to repay a favor — the two largest solar contractors in America gave generously to the Clinton Foundation.\n\nMeanwhile, Hillary couldn’t resist the opportunity to blast the GOP on the climate. She claims Republicans answer questions about climate change by deflecting, “I’m not a scientist.” But she did no better, saying, “Well, I’m not a scientist either, I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.” She forgot to mention she stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.\n\nOf course, the “science” behind climate change isn’t science at all; it’s an agenda. Hillary and her fellow climate alarmists need to take the blinders off of their eyes and use what’s left of their brains.\n\nAdditionally, she promises to fight back against the Republicans' attempt to dismantle the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, though she says she’ll try to help those in the coal industry who have or will lose their jobs due to leftist environmental policies.\n\nGee, that’s terrific. Who in their right mind would believe she will “try to help those in the coal industry”? Remember Benghazi? The last thing most Americans want to hear from Hillary is that she is here to help. Especially since her economic policy proposals for higher tax rates and a landscape plastered with solar panels do nothing but hurt Americans and their prosperity rather than helping them.\n\n\nPrince Charles extends climate doomsday deadline by 33 years\n\n\n\n“Prince Charles gives world reprieve: Extends ‘100-Month’ climate ‘tipping point’ to 35 more years,” says the Tuesday headline on the Climate Depot website.\n\nThe British blog Not A Lot of People Know That announced in a July 19 post, “Charlie Gives Us a Reprieve!”\n\nPrince Charles, who updated his forecast in a July 18 interview with the Western [U.K.] Morning News prior to his visit to the Westcountry, began issuing warnings six years ago about imminent ecological disaster driven by climate change.\n\n“The best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change,” the Prince of Wales said in a speech in Rio de Janeiro, as reported by the [U.K.] Telegraph.\n\nFour months later, he predicted in an interview with the [U.K.] Independent that the Earth had 96 months left to avoid “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it.”\n\nThat prediction, which he continued to reference in other interviews, would have given the world until 2017 before reaching the “tipping point” of environmental catastrophe driven by climate change.\n\nOthers have also extended their original “tipping point” predictions in recent years, much to the amusement of climate-change skeptics.\n\nFor example, Climate Depot notes that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave the world 15 years to act starting in April 2014, even though its then-chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, had set a five-year deadline in 2007.\n\nIn 2006, former Vice President Al Gore said the world may have only 10 years to reverse course, prompting climatologist Roy Spencer to comment in 2014 that, “in the grand tradition of prophets of doom, his prognostication is not shaping up too well.”\n\nSkeptics point out that the global mean temperature has not increased for more than 18 years, a phenomenon referred to by scientists as “the pause.\n\n\nEPA Extends Deadline on Clean Power Plan\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to realize that it might be asking a bit too much from the American economy. Sources at the EPA have told The Washington Post that it is extending the deadline for when coal plants must reduce their greenhouse gas output. The EPA has yet to release the final version of the regulation, but it said coal plants have until 2022 instead of 2020 to conform to the gospel of green and avoid too much stress on the electrical grid. By ceding ground, the EPA admits the Clean Power Plan demanded too much.\n\nOn a related note, the new ozone standards that the EPA is working on would set the standards so low on the naturally occurring gas that Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon would be in violation, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Things have gone too far when an agency supposedly established to protect the environment finds nature in violation of its decrees.\n\n\nNOAA Fraudsters Prove Man-Made Global Warming Is Real\n\nThat the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is fudging temperature records isn’t a secret, but the (ahem) degree to which it is doing so has hit a mind-numbing level. Climate blogger Steve Goddard explains: “The measured US temperature data from USHCN shows that the US is on a long-term cooling trend. But the reported temperatures from NOAA show a strong warming trend.\n\n\nThe depths of this fraud is breathtaking, but completely consistent with the fraudulent profession which has become known as ‘climate science.’” Fellow climate blogger Steve Milloy adds, “NOAA fakery shows why it’s called man-made global warming.”\n\n\nThe Colossal Hoax Of Organic Agriculture\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGlobal warming - scientific nonsense\n\nComment from Britain\n\nAFTER a wet and miserable May and chilly July five species of butterfly resident at my local nature reserve for more than 40 years have disappeared. I’ve been monitoring them carefully and can’t quite believe their demise.\n\nPerhaps it has something to do with this cold summer - which the BBC will no doubt tell us is the warmest on record.\n\nReaders may remember 2013 was supposed to be the year the Arctic would be “ice free”. Now its thickness has increased by a third. Polar bear numbers are rising, not falling.\n\nLast week Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice from an icebreaker had to suspend their research, when they were called to rescue ships trapped in the thickest summer ice seen in Hudson Bay for 20 years.\n\nGlobal warming is an invention of well meaning folks whose desire to cut so-called greenhouse gases will send us back to the stone age. They are aided and abetted by charlatans masquerading as scientists desperately trying to raise funds for their \"research\".\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday, July 30, 2015\n\nA mystery that is a mystery to Warmists only\n\nIn science, when something shows your theory is wrong, you change your theory.  In Warmism, if something shows your theory is wrong, it's a \"mystery\".  The finding below shows that coral deaths presently being attributed to warming are NOT produced by warming\n\nAN ancient coral reef specimen now on display at the Natural History Museum in London is at the centre of a global warming mystery spanning 160 million years.\n\n\nYet global warming in the 21st century is already associated with serious damage to coral reefs caused by \"bleaching\".\n\nDr Ken Johnson, coral reefs researcher at the London museum, said: \"By researching historical fossil corals like this, we can understand and predict the impact of climate change and other environmental factors on coral reefs over time.\n\n\"This 160-million-year-old specimen is an ancestor of some of the corals on our planet today, showing us that a sustainable future for coral reefs is possible because they can survive severe global environmental changes.\"\n\nEarly corals also managed to survive the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species.\n\nIf greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked, atmospheric carbon dioxide is expected to match Late Jurassic levels by 2100 and to exceed them by 2250.\n\nBleaching occurs when stressful environmental conditions cause corals to expel the symbiotic algae living in their tissues, turning them white.\n\nCorals depend for their survival on the algae, which provide them with oxygen and nutrients. When they bleach they begin to starve.\n\nProfessor Richard Twitchett, palaeoecology researcher at the Natural History Museum, said: \"At the time this coral reef was alive, 160 million years ago, our planet's marine biodiversity was as high as it had ever been.\n\n\"The fact that this coral reef lived in a much warmer world shows that if we monitor and control future changes, coral reefs can remain one of the most important ecosystems on Earth.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n'One one-hundredth of a degree?' EPA's McCarthy admits Obama regs have no measurable climate impact\n\n\nGoverned by Zealots\n\nThe government's environmental rules defeat even environmentalists.\n\n\nTom's company hired hundreds of people to study the Pebble Mine's potential environmental impact, a first step before asking the Environmental Protection Agency for permission to dig. Usually, the EPA analyzes a company's study, then does its own research, then rules. But in this case, the EPA did something odd -- it rejected the mine before Pebble even got its application in.\n\nThat's never happened before, says Collier.\n\nSo why would the EPA do that? It's simple: the agency has been captured by environmental zealots.\n\nOne of the world's biggest environmental groups, the Natural Resources Defense Council, opposed the mine. The NRDC doesn't do science well -- it employs mostly lawyers, not scientists -- but the lawyers are good at raising money by scaring people about supposed environmental \"disasters\" like mines.\n\n\"The things that NRDC is talking about are from an age far in the past,\" says Tom Collier. \"Now you can build a safe mine.\"\n\nHe points out that two big mines \"sit right on the edge of the Fraser River ... the second largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. ...No problem with the salmon.\"\n\nTo arouse public opposition to the Pebble Mine, the NRDC funded TV ads that claim the mine will mean a \"natural paradise (is) destroyed by a 2,000-foot gaping hole.\" The mining company will build \"huge earthen dams up to 50 stories tall, holding back billions of tons of mining waste.\" That sounds frightening, because the NRDC doesn't mention that the \"waste\" is sand -- not some poisonous chemical.\n\nActor Robert Redford lent his voice to the ad, claiming, \"The EPA has confirmed that the Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper mine, would devastate Bristol Bay.\" After watching that ad, I thought the proposed mine must be right next to Bristol Bay, but it turns out that the Bay is (SET ITAL) 90 miles (END ITAL) away.\n\nIt also turns out that some NRDC activists now work for the EPA, and although activists aren't supposed to get involved in issues pushed by the agency, they do it anyway. The NRDC's Nancy Stoner became an EPA regulator. Then she wrote her former colleagues, \"I am not supposed to set up meetings with NRDC staff,\" referring to a pledge she signed not to participate in any matters directly involving her former employer. Then she got around these restrictions by qualifying that she could attend such a meeting if \"there are enough others in attendance.\"\n\nIsn't that revealing? It's the evil private-public \"revolving door\" that activists usually complain\n\nShe didn't respond to my questions, so I asked NRDC spokesman Bob Deans about his group \"colluding with regulators\" to shut down a mine. He smoothly replied, \"NRDC is a source of expertise, and sometimes government takes advantage of that.\"\n\nIt sure does.\n\nI asked Deans, \"Are there some mines you don't  complain about?\n\nHe said, \"Sure.\" But when I asked him to name \"any mines\" that NRDC \"doesn't oppose,\" he failed to come up with any.\n\n\"NIMBY\" used to be the anti-economic-growth refrain. Luddites shouted, \"Not in my backyard!\" Now, watching bureaucrats stop projects such as the Keystone oil pipeline and the Pebble Mine, it's clear that the phrase has become \"BANANA\": \"Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone!\"\n\nI wish activists would personally experience the economic devastation that occurs when they block every project that might have a slight impact on nature.\n\nAlaskans who still live near the Pebble Mine site say the activists killed their dreams. \"The environmental groups,\" said Lisa Reimers, \"made people believe on TV that everything was going to die.\"\n\nWhen Pebble ramped up, Reimers' company employed 215 people. Only six remain. \"You see your people struggling and you have to let them go,\" Reimers told us. \"There are no jobs here, and they're angry at you because they think it's your fault.\"\n\nPropaganda is what the NRDC produces. It shouldn't be the basis for EPA policy. These days, too often, it is -- because activists and regulators collude.\n\n\nEx-Im’s War on Coal\n\nLest you needed another reason to oppose the resurrection of the United States Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, bureaucrats haven’t just been picking the winners and losers among American corporations but have also been taking it upon themselves to do the bidding of the Obama administration by helping wage their misguided “War on Coal.”\n\nFor the past few years, bank officials have refused to finance many coal exports in order to support President Obama’s climate initiatives. This was done without congressional approval or oversight – and demonstrates yet another example of how transparency was severely lacking in the bank’s lending practices.\n\nAt a June congressional hearing on the bank’s reauthorization, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) prodded the bank’s chairman, Fred Hochberg, with questions. Corker quipped, “I didn’t know we were carrying out environmental policies through Ex-Im,” and said he was “offended to realize Ex-Im Bank basically had taken on some of the administration’s policies without Congress being involved in any way.”\n\nIn a moment of rare honesty, Hochberg testified that he made a habit of not supporting coal and coal-mining equipment exports or deals involving coal-fired power plants in “wealthier countries” that have the ability to use other sources of power. This left many senators, particularly Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), to question if the bank was more interested in promoting liberal policy agendas than American jobs. That appears to be exactly the case.\n\nAt the same time the supposedly independent financial institution was denying coal equipment exports to needing countries across the world, they were promoting the Obama-backed “green energy” firm Solyndra. Nobody will forget the corrupt solar start up that went belly-up after receiving more than $500 million in taxpayer subsidies and a $10.3 million loan from the Ex-Im bank, leading to subpoenas and congressional inquiries of high level Obama administration officials. Ex-Im provided loan guarantees to another politically-connected solar panel company, Abound Solar, before it, too, went under. Abound received $9.2 million from the bank.\n\nAs supporters of Ex-Im cry for Congress to reauthorize the bank before they leave for their August recess, it’s important to remember these stories. Plagued with mismanagement and a lack of transparency, the bank’s goal was not, first and foremost, about promoting American jobs.\n\nClaiming in its mission statement that the bank was intended to assist small businesses export overseas, Ex-Im was caught mischaracterizing “potentially hundreds of large companies and units of multinational conglomerates as small businesses,” as reported by Reuters. The most recent data shows that 60 percent of the bank’s financing went to 10 multinational corporations, and a remaining 30 percent went to Boeing alone. The three largest recipients of Ex-Im funds include Boeing, General Electric, and Caterpillar, year after year. And it has since come to light that the Ex-Im bank only supports less than one percent of America’s small businesses with loan guarantees, instead serving only to prop up major companies who are more than capable of finding private lending.\n\nWhen picking winners and losers in exporting, the taxpayer-backed bank propped up politically-connected corporations and failing alternative energy companies, without disclosing its selection process. The bank promoted a political agenda when it was supposed to remain independent and impartial. Ex-Im was allowed to run rampant, despite multiple congressional attempts to reform and rein in. Thus, Congress in June allowed its charter to expire. It should remain that way.\n\n\nPakistan supports global warming\n\nISLAMABAD: The present unsustainable global economic order has brutally overexploited natural resources to achieve so-called development, benefitted a few while plunging millions in the developing world into poverty and debt.\n\nThis was stated by Climate Change Minister Mushahidullah Khan while speaking to the media on Sunday.\n\n“The world direly needs a whole new economic framework to cope with these challenges being aggravated further by the consequences of the global warming caused by the increasing trajectory of emissions of climate-altering and heat-trapping greenhouse gases, mainly carbon-dioxide,” he said.\n\nThe minister added that the planet is unlikely to be able to deal with the threat of global warming and achieve sustainable development goals without a new economic order. He said this new order must be made binding on rich industrialised countries, which are historically the world’s leading polluters, so as to use natural resources in a more judicious manner and move from fossil fuels to renewable energy.\n\nKhan opined the current ‘business as usual’ model for development has led to dangerous levels of pollution, triggered climate change, biodiversity loss, and failed to address poverty and inequality. He said though a sustainable approach would be for all countries needed to shift towards zero-carbon economies, this remained a tremendous challenge for developing countries in particular.\n\n“No one can deny that no country to date has developed without fossil fuel. However, cooperation is key in providing the technology, finance, skills and systems to create an alternative way of developing countries to adjust to the impact of unfolding climate change for which rich countries are responsible,” the minister said.\n\nHe seconded a statement made by Irish President Michael D Higgins, where he noted that the current generation may be the last with a chance to respond to the urgent, uncontested effects of climate change.\n\n“The Irish president, last week rightly said at a meeting in Paris entitled the Summit of Consciences for the Climate that the challenge of climate change provided opportunities to build up a new economic order for humanity and for the sustainability of mother Earth,” Khan said.\n\nThe minister also supported former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s view that the threat posed by climate change is as grave as the danger of nuclear war.\n\nThe summit was convened by French President François Hollande, and was attended by religious groups, Nobel Laureates, artists and prominent politicians. The event is part of a series of gatherings to be held in the run-up to the two-week UN climate change conference in Paris in December. At the conference, a new global climate agreement is due to be finalised between developed and developing countries to keep the global carbon emission levels below 2 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.\n\n\n'Scientific Method' Australian Government style\n\nby John Elliston AM, FAusIMM(CP)\n\nSince 1936 the ‘scientific method’ has been recognised by Australian law (Subsection 73B(1) of the ITAA 1936) as: - ‘Systematic investigative and experimental activities that involve testing a hypothesis (new idea) by deductive formulation of its consequences. aussie scientific method\n\nThese deductions must be rigorously tested by repeatable experimentation and logical conclusions drawn from the results of the experiments. The hypothesis must be based on principles of physical, chemical, mathematical, or biological sciences’ (this would include the Second Law of Thermodynamics).\n\nIn 1972 Australian universities abandoned the procedure that had been used for award of their highest degrees in science to that time. DSc candidates were required to submit a doctoral thesis embodying an original research finding (details of a tested hypothesis). This was “peer reviewed” by two or more external scientists selected by the university as most appropriately qualified.\n\nIt was recognised that a candidate who had tested an original hypothesis may be equally or better able to interpret the results than an external reviewer. Candidates were therefore entitled to a “right of reply” to the written report or comments of the universities’ reviewers. In reply they could produce references or call on reviewers of their own selection.\n\nUniversity authorities were able to fairly assess the candidate’s new research finding and determine if it merited the award of their highest degree. This procedure raised standards in all scientific disciplines to which it applied but by 1974 it was abandoned by all Australian universities as too tedious and time consuming to cope with the rapidly increasing number of candidates aspiring to higher degrees.\n\nWith continuing rates of increase since 1970’s, Australian universities now resemble production-line ‘higher degree factories’! They quite rightly require higher degree candidates to meet very high standards but they are uniform standards requiring each candidate to conform to the limitations of the knowledge of his or her degree supervisor. corrupted scientific method\n\nSignificant new discoveries cannot conform to what is currently “generally accepted”. All publicly funded research in Australia tends to digress, at least to some extent, from the scientific method toward the extreme case depicted in the American cartoon (pictured right). Competitive research proposals are written to get research grants rather than to advance our knowledge by resolution of long-standing problems.\n\nGeological researchers spend more time looking at computer screens than looking at rocks and mineral deposits!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday, July 29, 2015\n\nRegulations, mostly Green, are destroying America's future\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew Little Ice Age Started: Climate Change with a Difference\n\nby Professor Cliff Ollier\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUsing NOAA's cooked data, NASA says June tied as hottest month\n\n by Thomas Richard\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience or Selective Ignorance?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEPA head: We don't need to justify our regulations with data\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCommenting from her home in South Ayrshire Susan Crosthwaite said:\n\n\n\n\ngroundwater impact\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday, July 28, 2015\n\nIs the Pope a Fascist?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHansen in the gun\n\nSome excerpts below from comments by  Judith Curry on Jim Hansen's latest brainstorm.  She first notes that lots of people thought Hansen has gone well beyond the realm of the probable this time. She then gives the actual journal abstract and adds some comments of her own\n\n\n\n\nThere is evidence of ice melt, sea level rise to +5–9 m, and extreme storms in the prior interglacial period that was less than 1 C warmer than today. Human-made climate forcing is stronger and more rapid than paleo forcings, but much can be learned by  combining insights from paleoclimate, climate modeling, and on-going observations. We argue that ice sheets in contact with the ocean are vulnerable to non-linear disintegration in response to ocean warming, and we posit that ice sheet mass loss can be approximated by a doubling time up to sea level rise of at least several meters. Doubling times of 10, 20 or 40 years yield sea level rise of several meters in 50, 100 or 10 200 years. Paleoclimate data reveal that subsurface ocean warming causes ice shelf melt and ice sheet discharge. Our climate model exposes amplifying feedbacks in the Southern Ocean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stability. Ocean surface cooling, in the North Atlantic as well as the Southern Ocean, increases tropospheric horizontal temperature gradients, eddy kinetic energy and baroclinicity, which drive more powerful storms.We focus attention on the Southern Ocean’s role in aecting atmospheric CO2 amount, which in turn is a tight control knob on global climate. The millennial (500–2000 year) time scale of deep ocean ventilation aects the time scale for natural CO2 change, thus the time 20 scale for paleo global climate, ice sheet and sea level changes. This millennial carbon cycle time scale should not be misinterpreted as the ice sheet time scale for response to a rapid human-made climate forcing. Recent ice sheet melt rates have a doubling time near the lower end of the 10–40 year range.We conclude that 2 C global warming above the preindustrial level, which would spur more ice shelf melt, is highly dangerous. Earth’s energy imbalance, which must be eliminated to stabilize climate, provides a crucial metric.\n\nThe paper is in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, the discussion forum of the European Geosciences Union journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics\n\n\nFor context,  Hansen et al. present a much more extreme scenario than the  last report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most recent assessment in 2014  “Expert assessment of sea-level rise by AD 2100 and AD 2300.”\n\nThe biggest issue raised by Hansen is the potential (plausible? possible?) for a catastrophic >5 m sea level rise in the 21st century. Hansen et al. have proposed a  a new mechanism for faster sea level rise – can we falsify this?  The collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS)  is arguably the most alarming potential impact of global warming.  WAIS has collapsed before during previous interglacials, and will undoubtedly collapse again (with or without AGW), with a ~5 m sea level rise.  The issue is whether the WAIS can collapse on timescales of decades to a century.  Based on what we know (summarized by Tad Pfeffer above), this is a process that would take centuries.\n\nI am not an expert on sea level rise or ice sheets, but here are a few things that frame my own understanding, including some recent research:\n\nSea level has been rising for millennia.  I am not convinced that there is a significant acceleration of sea level rise that can be attributed to human caused global warming (see this previous post).\n\nRecent research from Scripps finds that the Greenland ice sheet did not melt as much as expected during the Eemian but that may mean Antarctic ice sheets melted more than expected\n\nA new paper summarized by Cato that found that the size of the Greenland ice sheet—especially the best observed portions covering the west and southwestern parts of Greenland—during the mid-Holocene was smaller than it is today—but not by a whole lot.\nStudy finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath west antarctic ice sheet\n\nSo it looks like we should be more worried about WAIS than about Greenland, and it seems that natural processes (natural climate change and geothermal processes) have caused large sea level changes in the past during interglacial periods (albeit not rapid ones) and will continue to cause sea level to changes in the future.\n\n\n\n\n\nHouse Action to Ban GMO Labeling Laws Merits Praise\n\nIf the U.S. House has its way, state laws passed (and those being considered) requiring that foods produced using genetic modification (i.e. genetically modified crops or biotech foods) be label would become moot. On July 24, 2015, the house voted 275 for to 150 against, passing a bill banning state laws that force food makers to place labels on products that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).\n\nThe agriculture industry complained individual state labeling standards would be costly and confusing and, more importantly, any standard, even a universal federal standard, would unfairly lend credence to environmentalists false assertions or suggestions that biotech foods are not as safe or healthy as conventional foods developed through traditional cross breeding techniques.\n\nVermont, Connecticut and Maine have already passed mandatory GMO labeling laws, though they have yet to take effect, while GMO labeling laws are being considered in few other states. The House bill would prevent them all.\n\nDemocrats and Republican’s alike supported the GMO labeling ban. The Minneapolis Star Tribune notes Democratic Rep. Tim Walz of Minnesota supported the House bill he said, “hundreds of scientific, peer reviewed studies have found [genetically engineered] foods are just as safe and nutritious as non-[genetically engineered] foods.” Another Minnesota Rep. who voted in favor of the bill, Republican Rep. Tom Emmer argued “Minnesota farmers already deal with heavy compliance regulations to ensure that genetically engineered crops are safe to eat.”\n\nThe vote came on the heels another in a long list of literature reviews and analyses demonstrating the safety of biotech foods was published in Salon Magazine on July 15, 2015. In it the author William Saletan notes, organizations lobbying against GMOs routinely lie and have been consistently anti-scientific in their claims about biotech foods, contributing to public misunderstanding and, in some cases, hysteria.\n\nMuch of the food industry was thrilled with the House vote and hopes the Senate will move quickly to pass the bill as well.\n\nAg-giants General Mills and Cargill, and the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperative, CHS Inc., each lobbied for the bill. In statements post-passage, they praised the House vote. CHS Inc.’s statement said “CHS applauds the House of Representatives for passing the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act.”\n\nSometimes sound science wins despite environmental fear-mongering. Three cheers for the House of Representatives.\n\n\nHillary sways Democrats with her impressive ignorance on Global Warming\n\nHillary Clinton was in Iowa, talking about the subject foremost on everyone's mind. No, not the tremendous national debt, or illegal immigration, or Iran getting nuclear weapons, but global warming.\n\nShe praised Iowa for its success with wind energy, which she said was an example of good environmental and economic policy. She said she favored a wind-production tax credit\n\nHow is it good economic policy when the championed energy source requires taxpayer subsidies? How is it good energy policy when the championed energy source stops working when the wind dies down?\n\nClinton called for harnessing the power of the sun to generate enough renewable energy to run every home in the country within the next decade, as part of a climate-change initiative announced Sunday.\n\nAnd what happens at night when there is no sun? Do we have to go back to the middle ages and live in darkness without power for 12 hours a day?\n\nIn a campaign video, Clinton says, “It’s hard to believe that people running for president refuse to believe the settled science of climate change.”\n\nIt's hard to believe that Hillary believes the science is settled. Thousands of scientists would disagree. I imagine, in the same vein, that she believes that the matter of her using a personal email server for State Department emails without compromising national security is also settled, as well as the matter of accepting foreign donations to her slush fund/foundation while she was secretary of state.\n\n“This is not complicated, folks,” she said. “The people on the other side will answer any question about climate change by saying, ‘Well, I’m not a scientist.’ Well, I’m not a scientist either. I’m just a grandmother with two eyes and a brain.”\n\nI agree she has two eyes, but what's behind them could simply be jello. I'll bet she can't answer the simplest questions, such as \"What causes global warming? Did you know that CO2 is mostly produced naturally, and man-made sources are insignificant? Did you know that CO2 is a tiny percentage of the upper atmosphere? How does that trap heat?\"\n\nThe climate-change initiative announced on Clinton’s Web site calls for having more than 500 million solar panels installed by the end of her first term and generating enough renewable energy to power every home in the country within 10 years of Clinton taking office.\n\nHow much land will that take up? How much will it cost? And again, what will we do at night and on cloudy days?\n\nIt's just like a liberal to master a superficial understanding of a subject and then render themselves an expert.\n\n\nWarming predictions increasingly detumescent\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGervais, Weiss and Lüdecke conclude in their EIKE piece:\n\n\n\n\nHow Safe is Your Drinking Water and Can the EPA Really be Trusted?\n\n“What’s in my Water?” by David De John\n\nDavid De John in his book, “What’s in my Water?”, sets forth in fourteen chapters the risks involved in some drinking water. Featured in De John’s book are chapters dealing with the following subjects:  “About EPA contaminant levels; About Water Supply Filtration Systems; Skin Absorption/Inhalation of Contaminants; Is Bottled Water the Answer?; Filtration Devices and Equipment; and EPA Violation Information and Reports.”\n\nDe John has been called upon as the expert to review Department of Health investigation reports on water quality by the media. As a keynote speaker at medical conferences, De John has likewise spoken at numerous public venues. Furthermore, his book has been used as training material by some of the largest water filtration companies in the country, along with being distributed to consumers as educational information by the companies.\n\nDe John owned multiple water filtration locations in the Midwest. During that period, he came upon a report — referenced as originating from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) — indicating that approximately one million people become ill every year and an estimated 100,000 people die due to infectious drinking water.\n\nThis CDC report spearheaded De John’s quest to find the truth about our nation’s drinking water quality, leading him to conduct extensive research through thousands of pages of information and data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); the Center for Disease Control (CDC); the American Journal of Public Health; the Department of Public Health and many more sources.\n\nAs such, De John’s book is not based on opinions or theories, nor is it intended to impart health or medical advice.  Instead, “What’s in my Water?” is a compilation of the important elements of De John’s research obtained from government and professional organizations, which, in turn, led to his writing of “What’s in my Water?”, prompted, in a large part, by requests from DeJohn’s numerous business associates who at one time were competitors.\n\nEPA and Contaminates\n\nIn speaking recently to De John by phone, he stressed how important it was for readers to be briefed on what the Environmental Protection Agency has to say about contaminants in our drinking water:  As printed here on Page 2 of“Drinking Water Quality Consumer Confidence Reports”:\n\n“Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Children and infants, pregnant women and their fetuses, the frail elderly, people undergoing chemotherapy or living with HIV/AIDS, and transplant patients can be particularly at risk for infections… If you have special health care needs, consider taking additional precautions with your drinking water…”\n\nAs the standards set by the EPA are relied upon and trusted throughout this nation for drinking water quality, it was most shocking to learn from De John how the Environmental Protection Agency defines contaminant levels. Additionally, the list of drinking water contaminants and their health effects can be further reviewed here.\n\nIt becomes extremely important that the wording of the above EPA definitions be examined.\n\nThe first definition is about MCLG (Maximum Contaminant Level Goal):  Notice the wording: “below which there is NO KNOWN OR EXPECTED RISK TO HEALTH” and “THEY ARE UNENFORCEABLE.”\n\n The second one defines MCL (Maximum Contaminant Level): Again notice the wording: “using the BEST AVAILABLE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY AND TAKING COST INTO CONSIDERATION” and “MCL’s are enforceable standards.”\n\nDichotomy Between EPA’s Standards for contaminants and what is allowed\n\nHow can it be that the EPA regulates 90 contaminants in our drinking water, allows 33 of those contaminants to exceed the lower level (MCLG), but then decides to regulate the 33 at the higher level (MCL)?  In other words, just because the MCLG states that it allows for a margin of safety, doesn’t mean that drinking water is safe with contaminants at the higher regulated level (MCL)?  Even the EPA is at odds with its own MCLG and MCL definitions as to what constitutes safe contaminate levels in the water we drink.  How is this so?\n\nA cancer-causing contaminant called Radium 226 and 228 can be present in drinking water around the country. The EPA set the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) for Radium 226 and 228 at ZERO. That is the level at which there is no known or expected risk to health.  Nevertheless, it’s unbelievable that the EPA allows Water Supply Systems to provide drinking water with a Radium 226 & 228 level of 5 pCi/L.\n\nIs it safe to drink water over a long period of time if containing a 5pCi/L Radium 226 & 228 level?  No!  Increased levels of Radium 226 & 228 are even linked by the EPA to an increased risk of cancer, including fatal cancer.\n\nFollowing is what the Maryland Department of Environment, the US EPA and the Anne Arundel County Health Department states about long term ingestion of Radium 226 & 228, as found under “What are the health risks of radium indigestion?”\n\n“For radium 226 and 228, the U.S. EPA estimates that the additional lifetime risks associated with drinking water containing 5pCi/l is about 1 in 10,000. This means that if 10,000 people were to consume two liters of this water per day for 50 years, one additional fatal cancer would be estimated among the 10,000 exposed individuals. According to the EPA model, as the level of radium increases, so does the risk. For example, increasing the concentration of radium from 5 to 10 pCi/l would increase the lifetime risk from approximately one to two additional deaths per 10,000 individuals.”\n\nMore about Radium 226 & 228\n\nWhat they are talking about is death from drinking tap water from your kitchen sink with Radium 226 & 228 at the allowed Maximum Contaminant Level?\n\nAs David De John related to me, in his initial research for the book he found over 45 Water Supply Systems that were violating the “higher allowed level” (Maximum Contaminant Level) for Radium 226 & 228 here in Illinois alone. Some Water Supply Systems had levels of over 24 pCi/L. That is almost 500% higher than the allowed 5 pCi/L level.\n\nBased on the Maryland Department of Health and the U.S. EPA’s calculations in the quote above, that would mean potentially five cancer deaths per year per 10,000 people. Although De John did assure me that some of the Water Supply Systems have taken steps to fix the contaminant level, there  still remain many with contaminant levels far exceeding the “higher allowed” Maximum Contaminant Level. This is not a new problem, for Radium 226 & 228 is formed in the rock beds down in the earth and seeps through the cracks in the rocks into the aquifers where Water Supply Systems might be pumping water from.\n\nRadium 226 & 228 is but one of the 33 contaminants in your drinking water that the EPA allows to exceed the MCLG stated lower level, which the EPA then deems as acceptable at the “higher”MCL (Maximum Contaminate Level).  However, a dichotomy exists in what the EPA has to say about drinking water with contaminants that exceed the higher Maximum Contaminant Level and how violations are issued.\n\n“A health-based violation means that either a system has exposed their users to what EPA has judged as an unreasonable risk of illness, or a system has failed to treat their water to the extent EPA has judged necessary to protect their users from an unreasonable risk of illness in the event that the regulated contaminant is present in source water.”\n\nTo be noted is that for 33 of the 90 contaminants being regulated by the EPA that were allowed to exceed the MCLG lower level (MCLG), no violations were issued by the EPA until they reached the higher MCL.  Noted below are violations reported by the EPA in 2010:\n\n8,522 violations for health based standards reported by Water Supply System\n17,519 Water Supply Systems were in violation for failure to monitor or submit a report on contaminants in their water.\nContaminants added to water with EPA approval\n\nContaminates in your drinking water should not be your only concern. Regulated and potentially dangerous contaminants approved by the EPA are actually added by the Water Supply Systems themselves, such as Chlorine.\n\nChlorine started being used back in the 1908 because of illnesses like Cholera and Typhoid. For reference purposes at that time it was estimated that Typhoid Fever killed about 25 people out of 100,000 people. That was serious enough for the government to take action to stop any more deaths. Those death rates work out to 2 ½ per 10,000 people. As a reference point, the anticipated death rate from cancer stated by the EPA from Radium 226 & 228 in drinking water is 1 per 10,000 people at the allowed Maximum contaminant level.\n\nConsider what the EPA has to say about chlorine:\n\n“Disinfectants, while effective in controlling many microorganisms, react with matter in water to form DBPs. Unchlorinated private well water is unlikely to contain any DBPs……..While health effects from exposure to disinfectants and DBPs vary by contaminant, some epidemiological studies have shown a link between bladder, rectal and colon cancers and DBP exposure.”\n\nWhat about lead?  Can lead be in your drinking water?  Absolutely YES!\n\n“Evidence also suggests that for children with BLLs 5–9 ugdl [indicates lead poisoning threshold], no single source of exposure predominates. For these children, the contribution of multiple sources, including drinking water, seems likely, particularly for children who do not have well-established risk factors such as living in old housing or having a parent who is exposed to lead at work (38). CDC and its Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention concur that primary prevention of lead exposure is essential to reducing high BLLs in children and that reducing water lead levels is an important step in achieving this goal. …”\n\nWhat about Fluoride?  The Maximum Contaminant Level set by the EPA for fluoride was 1.2 ppm until a few years ago, when it was increased from 1.2 ppm to 4.0 ppm.  Why did this happen?\n\n“Political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised the acceptable level of fluoride in drinking water from 1.2 ppm to 4 ppm, over objections from their agency scientists… 7,000 *EPA union employees and the unions jumped into the debate.”\n\n*The 7,000 union employees argued against increasing the level of fluoride in drinking water.\n\nAccording to this report put out by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health: “The PTD, 5.0 mg F/kg, is defined as the dose of ingested fluoride that should trigger immediate therapeutic intervention and hospitalization because of the likelihood of serious toxic consequences.”\n\nTake a look at a tube of toothpaste with Fluoride as an ingredient and you will find a warning:\n\n“…..If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing seek professional assistance or contact a Poison Control Center immediately.”\n\nDid you know that the recommended amount of toothpaste that should be used is a size of a pea!?\n\nHighlighted information in David De John’s book\n\n“What’s in my Water?” is filled with vital information to help you understand what is taking place with our nations water quality and what you can do about it. There are actions points in almost every chapter, there is a chapter on home water filtration systems, bottled water, the complete EPA contaminant list, levels and affects, along with a list of every states drinking water quality office contact information and more.\n\nAlso included in De John’s book is a complete list of the EPA Regulated Drinking Water Contaminants, their MCLG’s and MCLs, the EPA stated potential health effects from Long-Term Exposure above the MCL and a list of the 33 contaminants that are allowed to exceed the MCLG. There is also a sample of the Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report (which is available to all consumers from their Water Supply System) with an explanation of how to understand it, and a list of every state’s Drinking Water Protection Program Offices with phone numbers and addresses.\n\nThe embedded links are special, in that additional information can be be seen that relates to the issue at hand.\n\nI recommend that if you read only one book this year, it has to be “What’s in my Water?” recognizing that the information in the De John’s book is not intended as health or medical advice.  Any medical questions or concerns should be discussed with a qualified medical practitioner.\n\nHow does your drinking water measure up in your community or city?  It is up to you to request the latest analysis of the water you are being supplied by your local water treatment plant.  If not acceptable, demand that action be taken.\n\nAfter all, it is your health and the health of those in your city or community who might be at risk.\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5649417638778687}
+{"content": "IDTechEx Highlights 2020: Energy Storage Research\n\nIDTechEx Highlights 2020: Energy Storage Research\n\nPR Newswire\n\nBOSTON, Dec. 15, 2020\n\nBOSTON, Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy storage technologies have undergone several years of sustained growth stemming from progress in markets such as consumer devices and the quest for decarbonization kick-starting growth in electric vehicle (EV) and stationary energy storage demand. A diverse range of applications calls for a diverse range of energy storage technologies, and many questions remain, such as which technologies are best suited to which application, what are the alternatives to lithium-ion, or how will battery performance and cost continue to improve?\n\nFigure 1: Market segments driving development of thin-film, flexible, and printed energy storage (Source: IDTechEx)\n\nBusinesses with interests in the storage of mechanical, electrochemical, chemical, electrical, and thermal energies are now beginning to emerge. The opportunities and challenges they face have been documented in a range of IDTechEx reports during the year.\n\nThe status of energy storage markets\n\nThe term 'energy storage' covers technologies that range from lithium-ion, solid-state, sodium-ion, sodium-sulphur, and redox flow batteries (RFB), through to supercapacitors and flywheels, or hydropower and compressed air energy storage (CAES).\n\nFor stationary markets, RFBs based on vanadium or zinc are being deployed, while various other flow battery chemistries are also being developed further. However, the stationary market is not reliant on electrochemical storage, with solutions such as compressed air and various forms of gravitational storage being discussed for long-duration (>4h) applications.\n\nFor smaller form-factor batteries, the growth in IoT and wearables offers an opportunity for different battery chemistries and form factors, including thin-film and flexible batteries. And of course, Li-ion battery technology, the incumbent for consumer devices, EVs, and new stationary storage, is still evolving. State-of-the-art solutions such as NMC 622 and NCA cathodes are likely to give way to NCMA or NMC 811 or single-crystal variants, graphite-based anodes may be replaced by lithium-metal or silicon, while liquid electrolytes will continue to incorporate new additives or be replaced entirely by solid electrolytes.\n\nCurrently, the broad energy storage market can be sub-divided into storage types that are: at a formative or exploratory stage; emerging (such as flexible and printed batteries or compressed air energy storage); and established and consolidated (e.g. EV batteries and some grid-level energy storage systems). There is a huge variety within these groups in terms of the technology, application, form factor, mechanical properties, and materials used in their energy storage solutions.\n\nEnergy storage: constant challenges vs. huge potential\n\nFor sectors such as stationary storage or EVs, regulation and government support play a key role, with the potential to both stifle and encourage growth. There are challenges inherent in the sector, such as the constant trade-off between the existing capabilities of energy storage technologies and the demands they are required to meet. For example, while current lithium-ion battery technology, and some supportive regulations, have allowed EVs to become part of the mainstream discussion for transport decarbonization, they still constitute a tiny portion of the total on-road transport market. Improvements to battery performance are still required. One option for this comes from solid-state batteries utilizing lithium metal anodes, which offer the possibility for improved safety and greater energy density. However, challenges remain for the deployment of large solid-state batteries at scale.\n\nWhile the widespread use of solid-state electrolytes for automotive batteries is still some years away, they have already found commercial use in other sectors, such as medical devices. Solid-state electrolytes can also be used in flexible, printed, and thin-film batteries in applications such as wearables or skin patches, demonstrating potential growth applications for batteries outside the widely discussed stationary and EV markets. Figure 1 shows how sector demand will drive the development and application of flexible, printed, and thin-film batteries.\n\nEnergy storage forms to watch\n\nDuring 2020, IDTechEx has analyzed and reported on a range of technologies within the energy storage sector and their associated markets. For example:\n\nOther key concerns reported on include\n\nLooking ahead\n\nEnergy storage technologies are fundamental to an increasingly connected and green world. Keeping abreast of new technology developments, market trends, and growth opportunities across a range of energy storage options and applications will be key to those involved in the industry. To find out more, please explore IDTechEx's 2020 range of reports on this sector. For the full portfolio of Energy Storage research available from IDTechEx please visit  \n\n\nImage Download:\n\nMedia Contact: \n\nNatalie Moreton \nDigital Marketing Manager \n+44(0)1223 812300 \n\nSocial Media Links:\n\n\n\n\nIDTechEx Logo\n\n\n\nVoltar noticias em Inglês", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9641425609588623}
+{"content": "Description of Goloka\n\nIn the Srimad-Bhagavatam we find descriptions of Lord Krishna’s eternal home, such as this one:\n\n\n“The inhabitants of Vrindavana are never disturbed by the scorching heat of the sun or high summer temperatures. The lakes of Vrindavana are surrounded by green grasses, and various kinds of lotus flowers bloom there. The air blowing in Vrindavana carries the aromatic pollen of those lotus flowers. When the particles of water from the waves of the Yamuna River, the lakes, and the waterfalls touch the bodies of the inhabitants of Vrindavana, they automatically feel a cooling effect.\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9990527033805847}
+{"content": "Working Principle Of Lotion Pump\n\n- Jul 17, 2018-\n\nLotion pump also called hand sanitizer pressure pump. Life can be used almost everywhere, such as cosmetics, skin care products, detergents, detergents and so on.\n\n\nWhen use it, we first pump out the air from the liquid storage chamber (that is, the plastic tube that can absorb shampoo) by pressing the pressure, and when the air is out, press the pump head again, because after we release our hands, the spring in the pump head is restored to its original state. \n\nThen there will be a vacuum in the liquid storage chamber, resulting in negative pressure. At this time, the pressure in the container is consistent with the atmospheric pressure. Then, the pressure in the storage chamber is small and the pressure in the vessel is high. \n\nAt this time, because of the pressure difference, The atmosphere compresses the liquid around the mouth of the tank into the tank, which feels like a pump head sucking the liquid up.\n\nF004  50ML.JPG", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9540915489196777}
+{"content": "Shutter speed or, as it is also called, shutter speed is directly related to the transmission of motion in the pictures. When shooting stationary objects with a fixed camera, shutter…\n\nContinue reading →\n\nPhoto Archiving\nThe time of the film has passed, and with it the time of photo printing has somehow sunk into oblivion, sadly enough - if we discard professionals who are forced…\n\nContinue reading →\n\nDynamic range\nThe dynamic range or the photographic latitude of the photographic material is the ratio between the maximum and minimum exposure values ​​that can be correctly captured on the image. In…\n\nContinue reading →\n\n\nThe bit depth or color depth of a digital image is the number of binary bits (bits) used to encode the color of a single pixel.\n\nIt is necessary to distinguish between the terms bit per channel (bpc – bits per channel) and bit per pixel (bpp – bits per pixel). The bit depth for each of the individual color channels is measured in bits per channel, while the sum of the bits of all channels is expressed in bits per pixel. For example, an image in the Truecolor palette has a resolution of 8 bits per channel, which is equivalent to 24 bits per pixel, because the color of each pixel is described by three color channels: red, green and blue (RGB model).\n\nFor an image encoded in a RAW file, the number of bits per channel matches the number of bits per pixel, since prior to interpolation, each pixel obtained using a matrix with an array of Bayer color filters contains information about only one of the three primary colors.\n\nIn digital photography, it is customary to describe bit depth mainly using bits per channel, and therefore, speaking of bit depth, I will mean only bits per channel, unless otherwise indicated.\n\nBit depth determines the maximum number of shades that may be present in the color palette of a given image. For example, an 8-bit black and white image can contain up to 28 = 256 shades of gray. A color 8-bit image can contain 256 gradations for each of the three channels (RGB), i.e. total 28×3 = 16777216 unique combinations or color shades.\n\nHigh bit depth is especially important for the correct display of smooth tonal or color transitions. Any gradient in a digital image is not a continuous change in tone, but is a stepwise sequence of discrete color values. A large number of gradations creates the illusion of a smooth transition. If there are too few halftones, the gradation is visible with the naked eye and the image loses its realism. The effect of the appearance of visually distinguishable color jumps in areas of the image that originally contain smooth gradients is called posterization (from the English poster – poster), because a photo that lacks half-tones becomes like a poster printed using a limited number of inks.\n\nBitness in real life\nTo clearly illustrate the above material, I will take one of my Carpathian landscapes and show you how it would look at different depths. Remember that increasing bit depth by 1 bit means doubling the number of shades in the image palette.\n\n1 bit\n1 bit – 2 shades.\n1 bit allows you to encode just two colors. In our case, it is black and white.\n\n2 bits\n2 bits – 4 shades.\nWith the advent of halftones, the image ceases to be just a set of silhouettes, but still looks pretty abstract.\n\n3 bits\n3 bits – 8 shades.\nThe foreground details are already distinguishable. Striped skies are a good example of posterization.\n\n4 bits\n4 bits – 16 shades.\nDetails begin to appear on the slopes of the mountains. In the foreground, posterization is almost invisible, but the sky remains striped.\n\n5 bit\n5 bits – 32 shades.\nObviously, areas with low contrast, the display of which requires a large number of close halftones, are most affected by posterization.\n\n6 bit\n6 bits – 64 shades.\nThe mountains are almost in order, but the sky still looks stepwise, especially closer to the corners of the frame.\n\n7 bit\n7 bits – 128 shades.\nI have nothing to complain about – all the gradients look smooth.\n\n8 bit\n8 bits – 256 shades.\nAnd here you have the original 8-bit photo. 8 bits is enough for a realistic transmission of any tonal transitions. On most monitors, you will not notice the difference between 7 and 8 bits, so even 8 bits may seem redundant. But still, the standard for high-quality digital images is exactly 8 bits per channel, with a guaranteed margin to block the ability of the human eye to distinguish color gradations.\n\nBut if 8 bits is enough for realistic color reproduction, then why might you need more than 8 bits? And where does all this noise about the need to save photos with a bit depth of 16 bits come from? The fact is that 8 bits is enough for storing and displaying a photograph, but not for processing it.\n\nWhen editing a digital image, the tonal ranges can either be compressed or stretched, as a result of which part of the values ​​are constantly discarded or rounded, and ultimately the number of halftones can fall below the level that is necessary for smooth transmission of tonal transitions. Visually, this is manifested in the appearance of the same posterization and other cutting artifact eyes. For example, brightening the shadows by two steps leads to a fourfold extension of the brightness range, which means that the edited sections of the 8-bit photo will look as if they were taken from a 6-bit image, where the gradation is very noticeable. Now imagine that we are working with a 16-bit image. 16 bits per channel means 216 = 65535 color gradations.\n\nHow beautiful to photograph water droplets on flowers?\nHello! You saw similar photos of flowers on the Internet where drops of water sparkle and glow. But how are they made? I will not touch on the technical aspects…\n\n\nBasic camera settings\nI recommend to any novice photographer, whenever possible, to actively use the automation of the camera. This applies to matrix metering, autofocus, automatic white balance, and everything else that only…\n\n\nMacro shot\nThe word \"macro photography\" usually means photographs taken on a sufficiently large, but still not microscopic scale, i.e. from about 1:10 to 1: 1. Pictures with a scale exceeding 1:…\n\n\nOptimum Aperture Selection\nThe ability to effectively use an existing lens has a much greater effect on the sharpness of a photograph than the choice of the lens itself. The number of apertures…", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9936250448226929}
+{"content": "Forensic Fashion\n(c) 2006-present R. Macaraeg\n\n\n>Costume Studies\n>>1859 Banjar warrior\nSubject: warrior\nCulture: Banjar\nSetting: civil war, Banjarmasin war, Kalimantan 19thc\n\nContext (Event Photos, Period Sources, Secondary Sources, Field Notes)\n\n* Tagliacozzo 2005 p163-164\n\"In southeastern Borneo, a war had been fought in 1860 to depose the sultan of Banjarmasin from his throne; the Dutch were able to claim control over the city and its coastal lowlands as a result, and the sultan and his party fled upriver into the interior.  What happened next in this arena, however, as it did in many other places in the archipelago, showed the hazy nature of Dutch conquests and what they implied.  The war continued in the periphery for the next several decades, pitting the original and rightful ruling dynasty against the forces of Dutch expansion and control.  This can be seen in the reports of the local resident in the early 1870s: lands outside of immediate Dutch occupation were deemed completely unsafe, with resistance cropping up even in areas very close to Banjarmasin.  Most of the danger, according to the resident, was attributable to bands of armed men who wanted to restore the sultan.  The sultan himself was far away upriver converting various Dayak peoples, often with a great deal of success, the resident noted, to his cause of rebellion.  Worst of all, from the perspective of the Dutch, was that the sultan was unreachable by law for all interests and purposes: the intersecting river systems in the interior meant he could appear at any moment, depending on which river he happened to traverse to get down to the lowlands.  Conquest in South Borneo, therefore, was contextual and ambivalent.  The sultan's palace in Banjarmasin flew the Dutch flag, but meanwhile his followers traveled the length of the residency using rivers as their guides.  Even into the early twentieth century, expeditions were being sent into the interior near the border to attempt to quell disturbances caused by remnants of the sultan's party.\"\n\n\n* Tagliacozzo 2005 p292\n\"The resident of Sumatra's East Coast complained to the Dutch governor-general that Enfields and other modern firearms could be had at 'spot-prices' in Singapore by local peoples, which certainly seems to have been true, as these rifles were turning up all over Southeast Asia at the time, even in interior Borneo.\"\n\n\n* Steel and  Magic 2020 p117\n\"The beladah belabang is a saber popular among the coastal Banjar Muslims of Negara in South Borneo.  According to Schmeltz, its name is derived from the local dialect of labang (nail) and beladau (a curved dagger).  Another local name is parang lais.  \n    \"[...]  The beladah belabang is quite common because of its popularity during the Banjarmasin War (1859-63).  It was produced in significant volumes by the industrialised arms factories founded in Negara by the Sultan of Banjarmasin in the mid-nineteenth century.\n    \"Some of the oldest examples are rather short and have a more upturned end close to the point, resembling an Ottoman kilij.  The kilij might even be the inspiration for the blade of this sword; it was common for the rich Banjarese to visit Mecca on hajj, as well as Turkey and Egypt.  Later, more standardised versions of this sword have less curvature.  Some of them also have a cut-off, vertical point.  All of them, however, feature the knuckle-guard, usually a fuller, and often the protrusion at the base.  It is also quite common to find esoteric Islamic squares, or rectangles, combined with pierced or inlaid leaf motifs at the base.\n    \"Among Western collectors, this sword is mostly (and falsely) known as parang nabur.  The reason for this error is twofold.  The first mistake was made by Stone, who, in his highly distributed reference work on swords, misunderstood the non-illustrated description by Roth on the Northwestern Borneo parang nabur (also known as parang nyabor or parang naibor) of the Iban people as a sword resembling a Western saber.  In his book ,he illustrates the parang nabur with two swords: a minasbad from Bicol in the Philippines, and a parrot-hilted saber that might originate from Peninsular Malaysia.  The next mistake occurred when Western collectors wanted to categorise this South Borneo sword of the Banjarese and thought it resembled the swords depicted in Stone.\"\n\n* van Zonneveld 2001 p\n\n* Stone 1934 p\n\n\n\n\n* Steel and magic 2020 p120\n\"The jambiah is originally an Arabic curved dagger, the form of which was imported and then usually manufactured locally in Negara (South Borneo), Sumatra, and Peninsular Malaysia.  Characteristic for the Negara version is the black and crimson colour (the crimson being dyed with locally produced dragon blood resin), and the floral or bird-shaped hilt.  This dagger probably became popular because a large share of the wealthy Banjarese from Negara could afford, and made, the hajj to Mecca.\n  \"[...]  The jambiah was mostly used in combat with the blade protruding from the side of the little finger of the wielder's hand (an ice-pick grip), and delivered either upward gut-ripping slashes, or downward strikes with a hooking and piercing motion.  In this respect, it belongs to a groups of small sickle-shaped daggers.\"\n\n​* Steel and magic 2020 p123\n​\"The sadop is found in Southeast Borneo, and the Dayak term translates as 'small dagger.'  According to Juynboll, it is regarded among the Dayak people as suitable for women.  In the collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Leiden, however, it is also attributed to the neighboring Banjar Malays.  A notable element of the Dayak sadop is its triangular blade, often designed with a central ridge.  The sadop of the Banjarese, however has a longer and less triangular blade that sometimes shows pamor.\"", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.600875735282898}
+{"content": "News & Events\n\nIsolation: A Dangerous Side-Effect of Dementia\n\nSocial Connection Matters\n\nRelationships and social connection are important to our overall health. The human brain is hardwired for connection with other humans. In fact, we are so hard-wired that mirror neurons in our brains mirror the experiences and emotions of other human beings. This mirroring directly impacts our brain chemistry.\n\nPeople living with dementia and the caregivers who support them are at high risk for isolation. This isolation puts them at risk for other negative health consequences, consequences that can exacerbate the impact of dementia.\n\nThe Science of Social Connection\n\nIn a TED Talk in April of 2014, science journalist and author, Emma Seppälä of Stanford University, reported that low social connection causes great harm.  It leads to increased anxiety, depression, violence, suicide and whole-body inflammation. She reports that the negative impact of decreased social connection on health is worse than smoking, high blood pressure and obesity.\n\nThe Friend “Drop Off”\n\nSo, what happens to social connections in people living with dementia and their caregivers? Many people in the early stages of Dementia say friends stop calling, inviting them to go places, and coming by. Even the ones they thought they could count on tend to drop off. They feel like their friends have divorced them. A lack of understanding of the stages and types of dementia which affects 50,000 million globally is probably why people react this way. A recent global survey by Alzheimer’s Disease International found that 38% of those living with dementia in high income countries, including the U.S. report feeling avoided, ignored, and ostracized in their social lives.\n\n10 Ways You an be a Friend to Someone with Dementia\n\n1. Learn. Educate yourself about the disease and its stages. The Alzheimer’s Association is a great resource (\n2. Connect. Call them; be there with them; invite them to go do an activity. Even if you are unsure about what to “do,” your presence matters. A lot.\n3. Help. Ask if there is something they need help with.\n4. Include. Talk to them directly and make eye contact.\n5. Have patience. Be patient if they repeat themselves and avoid pointing it out. Be patient with activities they seem to need to do that don’t necessarily make sense to you. Allow extra time to do EVERYTHING.\n6. Slow down. Give plenty of time to answer the questions.\n7. Avoid having to be right. Don’t argue with them if they are incorrect; just go with the flow to avoid embarrassing them. Based on the way their brain works, what they are saying is truly their reality. Disagreeing with them takes them to an emotionally frightening place, because their experience is no longer one they can make sense of. Their defensiveness is not contrariness. Rather, the defensiveness arises from their need for their experience to make sense so they can feel safe in the world.\n8. Don’t test. It can be really tempting to “check in” to see what the person remembers, but this kind of testing is stressful. People find it frustrating and scary when they can’t recall basic information they know they should be able to recall. Offer reminders and avoid asking lots of questions that can be confusing.\n9. Quiet. Avoid loud and crowded places they can be overwhelming.\n10. The Golden Rule. Generally, just treat your friend or family member with dementia the way that you would want to be treated. Think about how you would want to be included and what would make you feel valued. Everybody, including people with dementia, just wants to be loved.\n\nAlthough people with dementia are at high risk for social isolation which can negatively impact their overall health and exacerbate their cognitive decline, there are things you can do to minimize this risk. Focusing on social connection with some of these strategies can increase people’s health and happiness. Give it a try!\n\nThis post is featured in: BiosHealth\n\nOutdated Browser\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7498746514320374}
+{"content": "Caring for Your Dress Shirts\n\n\nAlthough they are relatively easy for a professional cleaner to clean and press, a shirt can experience several problems, including ring-around-the-collar, color loss, and fabric abrasion that can lead to tears, punctures and holes. Industry experience shows that, on average, shirts have a wear life of 35 to 50 washings. That’s not to say your shirt will shred during its 51st time through the spin cycle. The wear life will fluctuate depending on the amount of abrasion and strain placed on the shirt during wear, the fiber content, and the laundering procedure. Sweat Does More Than Stain
A sweat-soaked shirt could eventually turn into a stained shirt if the perspiration is allowed to say in the shirt. Sweat, as well as many antiperspirants, will also weaken the fabric allowing it to be damaged during washing. Localized holes or tears may appear near the underarm area of shirts made with natural fibers or blends.\n\n\n♦ One\n\nWhen applying antiperspirants or deodorants allow them to dry before dressing.
 Wash your shirts as soon after you wear them as possible in order to minimize the damage. Pinholes in Oxford Shirts 
Tiny holes can appear at random areas throughout an oxford shirt due to the weaving process. Oxford cloth is made with two thin yarns in one direction and one thick yarn in the other direction. This unbalanced construction puts strain on the thin yarns, causing them to break and leave tiny holes. The development of holes is slower in shirts made with a cotton/poly blend or with a heavier yarn, but eventually any oxford weave can develop tiny pin holes due to wear and care.\n\n♦ Two\n\nPuckers or Wrinkles in Collars and Cuffs
If the interfacing fabric used in collars, cuffs, and placket fronts is not fused correctly or is not properly preshrunk, after laundering the outer fabric will then be larger than the interfacing, causing puckers or wrinkles when pressed. This excess material makes obtaining a smooth finish difficult if not impossible. If this happens, the shirt should be returned to the retailer or manufacturer.\nFor Best Results: Go to a Pro
At home or at the cleaners?  It’s your choice.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8202971816062927}
+{"content": "Johnson v. State\n\nIncluded in the appellant’s sentence was “court costs” of $234. The appellant appealed, arguing that there was insufficient evidence to support the amount of the costs.\n\nMueller v. State\n\nTwo appellants convicted of misdemeanors offered participation in the pretrial diversion program upon payment of $230 in fees. They filed a complaint alleging removal from the program because of their inability to pay the fees is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.\n\nThomas v. City of Gulfport\n\nHarrison County Jail was a modern day debtors’ prison. Officers went to predominantly African American neighborhoods arbitrarily checking people to see if they had paid their court fines and fees.\n\nBearden v. Georgia\n\nIn Bearden v. Georgia, the Supreme Court held that courts may only revoke probation and/or sentence the defendant to imprisonment if the defendant willfully refused to pay.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9918339252471924}
+{"content": "(July 10, 2008)http://discovermagazine.com/1997/mar/howthegiraffegot1084/?searchterm=giraffe, \"Mammals: Giraffe.\" Animals with teeth like humans that use their molars for grinding and their incisors and canines for ripping or tearing are said to have heterodont dentition. Giraffes have unique pattern on their body and no two giraffes share same pattern. The giraffe has one set of teeth at the front on its bottom jaw and one set at the back on the top jaw, but the giraffe also has a hard plate at the top of its mouth. (July 10, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=-MCP3vAx1zkC, Information about the device's operating system, Information about other identifiers assigned to the device, The IP address from which the device accesses a client's website or mobile application, Information about the user's activity on that device, including web pages and mobile apps visited or used, Information about the geographic location of the device when it accesses a website or mobile application. The liver of the giraffe is small. If the wolf teeth are retained and interfere with the bit they can be removed. Giraffe horns, unlike a deer's antlers, never fall off. (July 10, 2008)http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giraffe.html, \"How the Giraffe Got Its Neck.\" Camels £7.49 £ 7. The upper incisors are reduced or sometimes absent. 1991. The Best 20 Gallon Fish Tank Guide – 2020, The Best Aquarium Vacuum Buyers Guide – 2020, The Best Goldfish Food Buyers Guide – 2020, The Best Aquarium Rock Buyers Guide – 2020. Diagram of the Stomach How the food is Digested Mechanical Digestion Chemical Digestion The thick layer of saliva on the giraffes tongues allows the to eat thorns from plants without getting hurt. buyer's guides ; visit buyer's guides. The neck is a remarkable feature on a giraffe. We hope this picture giraffe skeleton anatomy can help you study and research. University of Chicago Press. Giraffes vary in dimensions according to the gender and the species, but even the smallest are huge for us. Diagram of permanent teeth ... Picture of Human Tooth People use their teeth to bite ... TEETH DIAGRAM Reviewed by Umasa on 14:33 Rating: 5. top 7 men's aftershave. self-care at home. Giraffes actually have 32 teeth just like humans. There are nine recognised sub-species of Giraffe that are found in differing geographic locations and vary somewhat i… Feeding- Giraffes graze on the branches of trees, preferring trees of Commiphora and Terminalia. Calder, William A. You can tell a dolphin’s age by its teeth. They use their front teeth and the pad along with their very long tongue to strip leaves off of the trees. Toys with Gift Box Ideal for Teething Baby Boys/Girls BPA Free and CE Certificate (Yellow) 4.7 out of 5 stars 213. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. For that reason, the anatomy of a giraffe is quite amazing. They are used to rip skin and tear away meat. baby & child. We are pleased to provide you with the picture named giraffe skeleton anatomy. A female giraffe's skull reaches its full adult growth at about 10 years of age, but a male giraffe's skull and neck continue to grow throughout its lifetime. Giraffes If you’ve ever wondered if there are animals out there with the same number of teeth as humans, look no further. Ruminant, any mammal of the suborder Ruminantia (order Artiodactyla), which includes the pronghorns, giraffes, okapis, deer, chevrotains, cattle, antelopes, sheep, and goats. Adult giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) close up, selective focus. Structure. The Giraffe Teether Inesita Ritalia Giraffe teeting Toys for Babies 4 Month. FREE Delivery on your first order shipped by Amazon. FREE Delivery on your first order shipped by Amazon. Hind legs - The hind legs are shorter than the front legs. Chewing giraffe shows teeth. Get it Sunday, Nov 29. fragrance hints & tips. The giraffe's intestines measure up to 80m (260ft) in length. 1982. CRC Press. Dagg, Anne Innis and Foster, J. Bristol. They use their long tongues to pull leaves into their mouths before chewing. Camouflaged coat - Patches of different sizes and colors help hide the giraffe in the African savanna. (July 10, 2008)http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561060/giraffe.html, \"Giraffe.\" These can be used for age determination in giraffes with immature dentition. Weird & Wacky, Copyright © 2020 HowStuffWorks, a division of InfoSpace Holdings, LLC, a System1 Company. The giraffe uses its teeth, long tongue and hard plate to cut up food before the back teeth are able to chew the last bits before the giraffe can swallow it. how to buy fragrance. baby & child; visit baby & child. Giraffes have a hard thickness of tissue called the \"dental pad\" in place of the top front teeth, which they grind their food against. 49. Fringed tail - A fringe at the end of the tail keeps flies and other pests away. (July 10, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=ymLBZWGM7KEC, Chudler, Eric. Get it Thursday, Nov 19. They acquire 30 teeth in their lifetimes. The Giraffe Teether Inesita Ritalia Giraffe teeting Toys for Babies 4 Month. It is still a mind-boggling characteristic of this animal. Giraffe Skull BC-034 $760.00 Special handling fees will be applied to this order. Ossicones are horn-like or antler-like protuberances on the heads of giraffes, male okapis, and their extinct relatives, such as Sivatherium, and the climacoceratids, such as Climacoceras. As you can see from the diagram below, the Giraffe is a very tall animal measuring a maximum of 19 feet (6 metres). A gallbladder is generally present during fetal life, but in many cases it disappears before birth. University of Washington. Giraffes are some of the largest land animals, and need up to 70 pounds of food a day to survive. Discover Magazine. Just like trees, dolphin’s teeth have rings inside them that … ruminants (Janis, 1995), which results in a reduced chewing. (July 10, 2008)http://books.google.com/books?id=RwMDI06snIwC, Wood, Stephen C. and Johansen, Kjell. This large BC specimen reflects that adaptation by the open sutures visible on the skull, which continue to allow for bone growth. Giraffes have 32 teeth too! The Giraffe is the tallest living animal on land and despite its height is mostly closely related to the much smaller and solitary Okapi, that is found elusively dwelling in the dense tropical forests. Canines, the four largest teeth (either side of the incisors), can reach up to 7 centimetres in length. BBC Recommended for you The close up of Giraffe teeth. Carnassial, the sharpest teeth at the back of the mouth, act like a pair of scissors to cut meat. \"Physiological Adaptations in Vertebrates: Respiration, Circulation and Metabolism.\" 6, 7, 8, 9) were short crown and belonged to the braquidonte type. Giraffes don’t have to consume as much foliage as other animals that graze and feed on such a diet because they get the part of the plants that holds the essential nutrients since they can reach high into the trees. teeth whitening advice; visit teeth whitening advice. The teeth of the giraffe are different from those of grazing. \"The Giraffe: Its Biology, Behavior, and Ecology.\" The giraffe dentition had a dental formula (I 0/3 C 0/ 1 P 3/3 M 3/3)2. As the males have larger dimensions than the females, there is sexual dimorphism in this animal. Fossilised antler-like ossicone of Sivatherium maurusium. They also have unique 2 or 3 lobed canine teeth which can be used like a comb to strip leaves from branches. As another result of the long neck, a giraffe's blood has a long journey to travel. Hoofed feet - A tough hoof protects each foot. Human teeth are not indicative of exactly what you will see in the mouth of all omnivores. He may also have up to 4 wolf teeth and a set of 4 canine teeth. fragrance; visit fragrance. Lions have three types of teeth: Incisors, the smallest teeth at the front of the mouth, are used for gripping and tearing meat. Courier Dover Publications. Giraffes have rough molars in their top and bottom jaw. Giraffes obtain most water from their food, though in the dry season they drink at least every three days. Teeth. \"Feeding Strategy.\" The Giraffe is a long-necked, hoofed mammal that is natively found grazing in the open woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa. Teeth (Figs. BLACK mould, the kind that was found growing in a beloved children’s teething toy, can release toxins that can cause allergic reactions in babies, … : 26 The giraffe's molars have a … Affiliate Disclaimer AnimalCorner.co.uk is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. 1996. Unique Teeth. Neuroscience for Kids. £7.49 £ 7. Giraffes have long, blue/black prehensile tongues which can be extended more than 45 cms (18 inches) and they use them for grasping food. \"Giraffe.\" March 1, 1997. 1982. The horse does not need them for chewing. In this image, you will find Skull, Teeth, Horns, Vertebrae, Ribs, Hip joint, Heel bone, Hind legs, Foot, Wrist bone, Forelegs, Shoulder joint in it. Giraffe, (genus Giraffa), ... the giraffe “combs” leaves from the stem by pulling it across the lower canine and incisor teeth. As a giraffe is tall, the heart of a giraffe has evolved to generate blood pressure that is double than the blood pressure generated for normal mammal, so that the blood flow to the brain is maintained. Ossicones of a reticulated giraffe. Thirteen tooth eruption stages and their corresponding chronological ages are descri bed from a series of giraffe jaws. Although many animals have teeth that fit neatly into one category, there are also some amazing and unique teeth! pregnancy & maternity. The goal of this Giraffe Husbandry Resource Manual is that it is used as reference tool for the zoo industry. Their tongues are also very long(can reach up to 7cm) which helps them to reach up These are the small pointed teeth that grow in just in front of the premolars. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website. \"Size, Function, and Life History.\" \"The Spinal Chord.\" The giraffe uses its long tongue to clean its face. National Geographic. Toys with Gift Box Ideal for Teething Baby Boys/Girls BPA Free and CE Certificate (Yellow) 4.7 out of 5 stars 204. 49. (July 10, 2008)http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giraffe.html, Owen, Jennifer. The teeth grind together to crush the vegetation that the giraffe eats. Wolf teeth are often shed along with the baby teeth, but not always. On the front of their bottom jaw they have incisors. Funny portrait of a giraffe. The top jaw has no teeth on the front but has a hard pad. Read the definitions below, then label the giraffe diagram. They will only feed on the ground when that is scarce although the young will feed on the grass though due to their size. fragrance. The giraffe, unlike most animals, is born with horns intact, although they are folded onto the skull to ease their passage during birth. The heart of a Giraffe can weigh up to 10 Kgs (22 lbs) and be approximately 61 cms (2 ft) long. A happy giraffe smiling with teeth. Closeup portrait of a giraffe showing its teeth; background of green tree foliage. The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC - Duration: 3:53. Boots Parenting Club. teeth whitening advice. WebMD's Teeth Anatomy Page provides a detailed diagram and definition of the teeth, inlcuding types, names, and parts of the teeth. San Diego Zoo. Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company. The giraffe is a most amazing and unusual animal it is the biggest ruminant and the tallest mammal complete with a striking coat pattern.\n2020 giraffe teeth diagram", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8466970920562744}
+{"content": "Reimbursement Requests in New York: Claimant’s Record of Medical and Travel Expenses (C-257)\n\nUnder New York’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the claimant is entitled to be reimbursed for any drugs or apparatus properly prescribed by the treating physician.  Additionally, the claimant is entitled to receive reimbursement for fares, mileage and other necessary expenses going to and from his or her medical appointments.\n\nTo receive proper reimbursement, the claimant must keep record of such expenses and provide the carrier with same.  The Board instructs the claimant to submit the completed C-257 form and copies of all receipt or bills to the carrier for reimbursement.  Please note that the claimant must provide a complete form and copies of all receipts or available bills.  Please note that a C-257 form, itself, is not a mandatory filing.  The claimant may keep track of his or her expenses in any formation.  However, simply submitting a C-257 form is not necessarily a sufficient record.\n\nIt should also be noted that the reimbursement is owed for round-tip mileage, rather than a flat-fee rate.  Meaning, the reimbursement is for mileage,  not taxi or bus fare.  Below is the rate of reimbursement for mileage by year:\n\n\nYou are handling a claim with the following set of circumstances:\n\nThe claimant submitted a C-257, with the Board  which contains multiple entries.  Every entry states “to/from doctor’s office” and lists a $50 expense was incurred as a result.  Every entry is missing the date of the medical appointment, the name of the doctor’s office, and roundtrip mileage.\n\nProper Procedure:\n\nSince the claimant did not provide sufficient information in the above mentioned hypothetical, we recommend filing a written notice with the Board.  We recommend that you document that the submitted C-257 was audited timely.  Additionally, we recommend documenting that the claimant failed to provide a sufficient record of his or her medical and travel expenses.  Therefore, the carrier cannot issue proper reimbursement until the claimant provides a complete C-257 form and any bills and receipts available in connection with the traveling expenses incurred as a result of attending medical appointments.\n\nLearn more.\n\nDownload our New York Workers’ Compensation law Handbook:\n\n\nRegister for our New York webinar series:\n\nRegister for Webinars\n\nSign up for monthly newsletter:\n\n\nDefending Employers in New York, New Jersey, and Longshore.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6767598390579224}
+{"content": "Type to search\n\n\nNew Laws for 2020 Will Affect Insurance Claims Professionals in Multiple States\n\nNew personal injury laws 2020\n\nMany new state laws are set to take effect in 2020, impacting the insurance industry and its claims professionals through changes to labor law codes, tort law, auto liability insurance coverage, and even flood zoning coverage.\n\nLet’s review some of the most talked about state legislation from 2019, and take a look at how those new laws will affect individuals in the worlds of personal injury law and insurance claims adjusting in 2020.\n\n\nCalifornia passed a significant amount of new legislation in 2019. Of that legislation, one of the new laws that garnered a great deal of media attention was Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). AB5 dramatically alters the standard for determining whether workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors (with the presumption now being that that the vast majority of workers are employees).\n\nUnder AB5, for a worker to be classified as an independent contractor, a hiring entity must first prove the following (under what is known as the “ABC Test”):\n\n\n\n\nThe ABC test amounts to a stricter and more straightforward standard of proof for companies to meet when categorizing employees. For most companies, meeting all of the above standards set forth in the ABC test will be challenging. Two of the largest corporations that are expected to be impacted by AB5 are Uber and Lyft.\n\nAdditionally, AB5 creates at least 50 exceptions for specific occupations and industries including: insurance brokers, physicians, architects, podiatrists, stock brokers, lawyers, accountants, engineers, veterinarians, direct sellers, real estate agents, hairstylists/barbers, aestheticians, commercial fishermen, and marketing professionals.\n\nAB5 takes effect, for the purposes of workers’ compensation claims, beginning July 1, 2020.\n\nAnother California law making major headlines is State Bill 41 (SB41). Under the new SB41 law, which takes effect on January 1, reductions of damages for lost future earnings based on race, gender, or ethnicity in personal injury and wrongful death cases are prohibited. SB41 is the first law of its kind in the U.S., and is seen as a potential harbinger for future legislation that might sweep the country and disrupt the $429 billion tort law system.\n\nInsurance companies have specifically cited such tort law expansion, which many insurance executives have referred to as a “tort tax,” as a major factor in their declining earnings. Earlier this year, in a conference call with shareholders, Travelers Insurance CEO, Alan Schnitzer, described “a tort environment that has deteriorated beyond our elevated expectation” when addressing financial losses for the quarter.\n\nUltimately, considering SB41 and the perspective on earnings from insurance company executives, we can likely expect to see an increase in premiums throughout 2020 (perhaps a significant increase if other states follow suit in enacting tort law that prohibits reductions in damages based on demographics).\n\n\nIn Colorado, House Bill 1283 (HB1283) takes effect on January 1. Upon receiving a written request from a claimant, HB1283 will require commercial and personal auto liability insurers to provide the following within 30 days:\n\n  1. The name of each insured party\n  2. The limits of liability coverage\n  3. A copy of the relevant insurance policy\n\nAny insurer that is found to have violated the disclosure requirement will be liable to the requesting claimant for damages in an amount of $100 per day.\n\nWith the passage of HB1283, attorneys have stressed that auto insurers should be aware of the increased need to obtain defense council early on to avoid unnecessary litigation.\n\n\nSenate Bill 1 (SB1) rescinds a unique provision of Michigan insurance law that requires auto insurers to provide lifetime personal injury benefits to policyholders. The amended statutes will allow motorists to opt out of personal injury protection entirely, or opt for lower limits.\n\nThe new legislation came as an effort to reduce Michigan’s notoriously high auto insurance rates. Industry experts estimate that SB1 could have a dramatic impact on consumers, cutting Michigan’s rates by as much as half.\n\nAdditionally, in what can be considered more welcome news for the state’s drivers, the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (the group that reimburses insurers for excess personal injury claims) announced last month that it is reducing its assessment on policies from $220 to $100.\n\n\nOregon House Bill 2312 will require sellers to include property disclosure forms with all sales to indicate whether flood insurance may be required for homes located in designated floodplains.\n\n\nHouse Bill 288 provides that guaranty associations are entitled to any collateral posted by an employer who purchased a large deductible through an insurance company. If an insurer is liquidated, the receiver will bill the insured party for the deductible amounts owed under the policy.\n\nWith the new laws of the new year, expect to see a rise in employment law claims, as well as headlines concerning how tort reform may evolve throughout the country following the passage of California’s SB41.\n\nTort and personal injury lawyers anticipate fairer settlements pertaining to the issue of lost wages, while insurance companies seem set on tearing down such legislation and fighting to ensure additional measures aren’t passed at the state or federal level.\n\nMore than likely, insurance rates will continue to rise in most states until a better sense of how the new laws will impact the industry is known.\n\nPINews will continue to keep you updated as additional laws take effect.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8879430890083313}
+{"content": "How much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline\n\nOceanic pipeline internet\n\nAdd: yhodig8 - Date: 2020-12-29 03:18:49 - Views: 3508 - Clicks: 1254\n\nAstraZeneca Agrees Billion Takeover of Alexion Pharmaceuticals. Won: 2 Golden Globes + 6 other Wins + 16 NominationsA true story focusing on the leveraged buy-out of R. Bankruptcy does not mean a company ceases to exist. The deepest insides of this scandal are exposed and laid bare for all to see in this high-quality movie. So, if the corporation is treated like a person, what is the psychological status of that person, is that person good for society.\n\nWon: 4 Awards + 1 Golden Globe NominationI am not a big fan of Richard Gere, but strangely many people are! You want to drink a coffee when watching this as the is a lot of information and some of it may be hard goingBut, ultimately this is a rewarding watch and gives us a deepened perspective on how and why our modern societies are structured and behave as they do. It is only the fortunate stockholders who have management that is frugal with their funds. Won: 1 Award + 1 Golden Globe NominationGekko is out of prison and looks to be on the right path with his new book warning of ruin, but all is not as it seems.\n\nIn this article we are going to use hedge fund sentiment as a tool and determine whether Plains All American Pipeline, L. Based on the great book “No one would Listen” by Harry Markopolos. See full list on liberatedstocktrader. My Election Day Wish, Tech Sector Performance, Trading Amazon and 6 Other Stocks Here&39;s to the removal of uncertainty -- and thousands of campaign signs on thousands of lawns in my neighborhood. A nice insight into the mentality of the people to whom you entrust your money, your portfolio and ultimately your financial future. I was on the edge of my seat during the book and exasperated for Markopolos. Wall Street agrees with Vafi on this one.\n\nHere are two dictionary definitions of the word greed: 1. This classic shows what it is like on the inside of these mega mer. It in fact had billions of dollarsworth of assets. Find the latest Wall Street Journal stories on tech companies, wall start-ups and personal technology, plus the latest reviews. In 1968, with 0,000 of his own money and a 0,000 investment from his uncle, M.\n\nSo Whitewing was destined to take losses on its assets acquired from Enron. Transwestern Pipeline Company, owned by Enron, is the first merchant pipeline in the United States to stop selling gas and become a transportation only pipeline. The results of the evaluation are not good, corporati. A white elephantis anasset that is potentially valuable but at the present has no benefit. Won: 1 Oscar + 9 Other AwardsI am pretty sure you have seen this already, hasn’t everyone? Before imprisonmentcould be imposed Kenneth Lay, at age 64, died. Many pipeline companies have very old pipelines that could need expensive investments in the future, lowering their potential profits.\n\n· Wall Street retreats a day after S&P 500 returned to break-even for the year. natural gas business abroad; Enron becomes a natural gas market maker in the United States. That means the corporation has rights, can buy property, has legal ownership. The early success of Enron engendered a hubris among the Skilling group of executives that they could make any venture a success. · A trans-Arctic route would help protect against that while offering a more direct path, potentially making internet speeds much faster. Thus those extravagances were at the expense of the company&39;s creditors rather than its stockholders. Inter Pipeline has generated C. This idea was not so entirely divorced from the pipeline business asone might think.\n\nIt focuses on the excesses of the character charismatically played by Dicaprio, but that somewhat misses the point. more popular on Wall Street, where. · The Dow index started in 1896 by Wall Street Journal editor Charles Dow and Edward Jones. The concept they came up with is the provision of internet service with Enron Broadband Services and the future possibility of trading rights to broadband capacity as a commodity. Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB) is dedicated to natural gas infrastructure. All information provided how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline on the Investing Daily network of websites is provided as-is and does not represent personalized investment advice.\n\nSome people, even ones that should know better, assert that greed was behind thecollapse of Enron. It’s the largest interstate gas pipeline by volume. If there was ever a lesson to trust only yourself, then this is it, I hope you can sleep after this.\n\nThe game was called Liar’s Poker. This is a thrilling account of the rise and fall of Bernie Madoff and how difficult it was for Markopolos himself to get the Securities & Exchange Commission to take action. Get all of Hollywood. Upstream and downstream companies usually own and maintain a smaller pipeline infrastructure. · For a president who has obsessively tweeted about Wall Street and taken credit for its gains, Donald Trump doesn’t have much of his own money in the game By BERNARD CONDON Associated Press.\n\n· Wall Street cheerleader Trump has little invested himself. , a securities firm that focused on risk arbitrage and options trading. Coal mining had become more and more costly over the years and the government how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline nationalized the coal mine. The COVID-19 crisis hamstrung Wall Street as a whole in, and there are lots of inexpensive stocks on the market even after the. has the largest energy pipeline network in the world. Whitewing was created to buy the underperforming assets from Enron at a generous price, a price higher than it could sell those assets for. Much of America&39;s oil and gas moves through pipelines. These corporate airlines costs many, many times what the travel would cost on commercial airlines.\n\nEntertaining, thought-provoking and ultimately a how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline great watch this movie is highly recommended. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. Michael Moore is back and turning his critical gaze on Capitalism itself. The Azurix Water Company.\n\nThe small-capitalization. I have watched this how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline movie many times and still love it. Natural gas, primarily methane, was originally an unwanted byproduct of petroleum extraction.\n\nIn return for holding the creditorsin abeyance the court takes charge of arranging the ultimate dispositionof the company&39;s assets in satisfying the debts of the company. · A neophyte in the ways of Wall Street, Shaw wanted Sussman, who founded the investment firm Paloma Partners, to look at an offer he had received from Morgan Stanley’s rival, Goldman Sachs. An excessive, inordinate, rapacious desire, esp.\n\nJohn Wing seemed to have an instinct for the profitability of projects that Rebecca Mark lacked. See full list on sjsu. The suppliers who are making decisions about exploration for natural gas worry that they may invest in development of fields only to find a downturn in the market price which may result in losses. how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline It examines how, after the financial crisis, the next big thing has become investing in Chinese stocks.\n\nOil pipeline investments pay cash dividends. Won: 1 International EmmyNiall Ferguson traces the history of money and how it has grown from a tool to be able to trade goods and services more easily, to a dominating factor in society. · The amount of money involved in the alleged scheme may have been as high as €850 million. The historical aspects of the movie and the implications of what he depicts are powerful. Won: 1 Academy Award Nomination + 3 other award nominationsGreed arrogance, corruption, this movie has it all, or rather the board of Enron did. You how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline have to see this only to understand the depth of the problem of trying to oversee the companies that take advantage of the lazy money. and around the world at WSJ.\n\nIn a competitive market the fluctuations in the supply of natural gas creates fluctuations in the spot market price of gas. Pipeline companies. But how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline floor trading still exists and a lot of money still passed over the counter and on the floor. Houston Natural Gas had pipeline running east-west and included lines for serving the Florida market and the California market. A Gekko cannot change its stripes and he is planning an almighty return to the top to fuel his ego and self-superiority. how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline From director James Allen Smith, this cult classic captures how how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline it was on the Chicago Board of Options exchange floor. When the apparent success continued despite the lack of real profits and in the face of cash flow problems it promoted that how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline notion that real profits did not matter, mark-to-market accounting profits were enough. oceanic The cases of corporate management expending corporate funds for luxuries are inumerable.\n\nIf you pay an army of high priced lawyers to stand in the way of investigators and regulatory authorities you can get away with a lot of financial crime. Everyone wants to be a part and take their share of. Enron had a great array of foreign assets such as powerplants and pipelines that were not doing as well financially as the company hoped and counted on in its accounting. Customers, such as electrical power generators, face investment choices between equipment t.\n\nIt is a “Greed is Good” grab for riches at its worst. In the case of Enron the managers in the latter stage of the firm operation before its bankrupcy the luxuries were paid for from the firm&39;s borrowing because it had no real profits. com bubble was the focus of attention and the Enron people looked for a way to share in the bonanza of the New Economy where firms had huge valuations despite the lack of profits or any plausible potential for profits. · When Lay formed Enron from the merger of two pipeline companies in 1985, he understood that deregulation of the business would offer vast new opportunities. Also some of the assets like the power plant Dabnol in India were white elephants. ; VOLQ: How to Measure Nasdaq-100 Volatility. In 1999 Enron sold off slightly more than half of Whitewing how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline so it would not be treated as a subsidiary in the accounts of Enron. TO) has not formally confirmed its next earnings publication date, but the company&39;s estimated earnings date is Thursday, February 18th, based off prior year&39;s report dates.\n\nA timeless cult classic. They found it in Houston Natural Gas. · Pipeline: A pipeline is a phase of progress toward a long-term goal that typically is associated with some uncertainty or risk.\n\nThese are excellent books and a watchable movie. Teeside created the feeling that if the political and financing problems of power plant projects could be overcome then that guaranteed the success of the projects. After fending off one takeover attempt InterNorth officials were looking for another pipeline company to merge with that would reduce their attractiveness to corporate raiders.\n\nHe served as the president and founder of the Jerome Levy Institute for Economic Research at Bard College and the president of the Institute for Advanced. The march of technology has made floor trading largely extinct, with most trades happening electronically now. We like to analyze hedge fund. Whitewing was then to sell off the underperforming assets. Lewis has a way of writing that adds great storytelling to the factual background of what went on before and after the credit crunch. This made it a target for corporate raiders who sought to use its cash holding and borrowing capacity to extract funds for themselves. The focus is not on hedge fund management but on a scum bag rich guy trying to get out of a crime he committed in typical Hollywood style. · Leon Levy began his career on Wall Street in 1948 and over the next five decades became a major figure in investment circles, helping to create Oppenheimer Mutual Funds and Odyssey Partners.\n\nWon: 1 Award + 9 NominationsFocused on the lowest of the low, Pump and Dump scheme operators, this film is excellent and gives an insight into the operations that are still around today. 31 earnings per share over the last year and currently has a price-to-earnings ratio of 7. Won: 5 Awards + 3 Golden Globe NominationsA rather depressing realization that the U. When Skilling got the promotion Mark sought a way to be her own boss while perserving her ties with Enron. This movie does focus on a Hedge Fund Manager trying to cover up his personal misdeeds. Bitcoin and it’s hundreds of competing digital currencies are the darling of traders. ; Post-Election Market Trends.\n\nRelated Article: The Best Forex Brokers In The USA – Margin & Commissions. Won: 4 Awards + 12 NominationsThe thing I like about Michael Moore is he fights for a cause and never shirks away from challenging the status quo. Whitewing was created to purchase the underperforming Enron assets.\n\nHouston Natural Gas had borrowed to make justifiable acquisitions of pipelines to the Florida and California markets. on the stock exchanges. It was alleged that the bank engaged in covert espionage on its critics. · Pipeline companies are viewed by Wall Street as engines of growth, especially as the oil boom in the U. The market agrees with the analysts. Earnings Inter Pipeline Ltd.\n\nBut the fact is that in the vast majority of those who have invested in Bitcoins a. Politics, Economics, Markets, Life & Arts, and in-depth reporting. The name Enronhas entered the American lexicon as being synonomous with greed and excessive profit by whatever means possible. Respect to Markopolos, a great book and a.\n\nThey are yet to be sentenced how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline in, but the public was expectingsentences to involve terms of years in prison. Elliot Schnall, which allowed him to buy a street seat on the New York Stock Exchange, 12 he formed Icahn & Co. Strangely since the financial crisis, there has been no major changes to reduce the number of too big to fail institutions. The book (and audiobook) is even better and provides more insight into the catalog of mental issues, drug, and alcohol-related challenges of Jordan Belfort in his rise from the street to being a Wall Street hotshot with personal jet. Pipelines are some of the most valuable pieces of fossil fuel infrastructure. Investing Daily is not a registered investment adviser or broker/dealer. It follows alpha male traders who tell it like it is, or at least how it was. Icahn began his how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline career on Wall Street as a stockbroker in 1961.\n\nA good deal of competition and antagonism existed between Rebecca Mark and Jeff Skilling. chief investment officer of Cresset Wealth Advisors. Filmed in a 24 hour time window of chaos during the financial crisis this is a real roller coaster ride you do not want to miss. InterNorth&39;s pipelines ran north-south and served the Iowa and Minnesota markets.\n\n· Where Wall Street went wrong Novem: 3:06 p. To have so much wealth and so little invested, he added, is \"completely out of. For anyone who is mystified by the technology and wants to learn more, this is a great starting point. Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, and Kevin Spacey make up this all-star cast. In the top executives of Enron, Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling, were indicted. Can he sacrifice his relationship with his family to get what he wants? If you sit in front of a computer all day and read books in bed, what do you do in your downtime during the evening? The project was the building of a gas-powered electrical generating plant at Teeside, England.\n\n· Image via Wikipedia Let&39;s begin by positioning the sector. One of the first foreign projects of Enron, under the guidance of John Wing, appeared to be spectacularly profitable. 2 trillion to buy back their stock and pay dividends to. This is a must watch for those wall who want to experience how intoxicating the promise of huge wealth is and how it can corrupt anyone and devastate investors who get caught up in it. Wednesday, December 16 1:00 – 1:30 PM ET This interactive webinar featuring Nancy Nardin, Founder of Smart Selling Tools and one of the world’s leading experts how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline on sales technology and how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline process, explores what sales really needs from marketing right now and provides a blueprint for how teams can align to reach revenue goals in the near-term. 2 Nominations (New Release)“Capitalism rewards those who work hard, but it also rewards those to take advantage of others” is the opening line of this disturbing movie. How has money transformed the world we live in? Both expected to advance to the top level of management.\n\nShe was able to guide the projects through the approval stages and even the completion stages but in many cases the proje. At that time the executive control of InterNorth had passed from an executive who had pursued cautious, conservat. A committee composed of three representatives of S&P Dow Jones Indices and two representatives of The Wall Street Journal decide on the stocks that are added or removed. So far this year, the company has handled 30% of America’s natural gas output. While the industry will probably still use rail and barge for smaller markets. (NYSE:PAA) is a good investment right now.\n\nHow to invest in oil pipelines? Based on the infamous Nick Leeson Book Rogue Trader, the film depicts how Leeson brought down Barings bank by taking huge risks in his role as a star trader for the firm. 1% stake in Wall Street&39;s preeminent investment bank that made Berkshire its fourth-largest shareholder. “Greed is Good” is the mantra and this cunning, ambitious and morally vacant stock broker will do anything to rise to the top and cash in the wealth. Enron set up a subsidiary in 1997 called Whitewing. Why not watch a financial thriller, stock market movie or a true story.\n\nThe problem was that it had more liabilities thanit had assets. Usually, the biggest pipeline stocks are the midstream companies. In, more than 2. 10 Best Railroad Stocks for This Year - Top Stocks - TheStreet Ratings Top Rated Stocks. Won: 5 Awards + 1 Oscar NominationQuoted by many in the business as a classic in direct sales and the pressure of being on the phone and selling. More particularly it ran into insurmountable cash flowproblems. But in most cases the prodigal managers are expending the corporate profits.\n\nHow much does Inter Pipeline earn per share? It means thatit cannot pay its contractual obligations and seeks protection fromits creditors through the courts. But people eventually learned the uses and virtues of natural gas and built pipelines to convey it to the how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline cities where it took the place of coal gas for residential and industrial lighting and heating. The best pipeline companies generate billions of dollars each year. Just like trucking companies, railroads or airlines, pipeline companies charge for the privilege of using their pipes to move oil and gas from wells to refineries, to docks, to terminals or to power plants. Dennis Kucinich: “Is this the United States Congress, or the board of d. In order for Enron to find buyers for the half share in Whitewing it had to agree to compensate Whitewing for any losses on its sale of the underperforming assets with shares of Enron stock. For many years when an oil well vented gas it was simply flared; i.\n\nShe decided that she would take the expertise that Enron had developed in the natural gas and petroleum fields to the water industry. The stock has 9 recent reviews, breaking. John Wing left Enron but before he did he tutored his assistant Rebecca Mark in his style of project development. An in-depth look at how to invest in pipeline stocks.\n\nA compelling and fascinating insight into the mind of a trader and why we need strong oversight and controls as the psychology of any individual can be ruinous. We hope you enjoyed the review, please leave your comments or favorite film feedback below. The enterprise did some things right and gained considerable credibility on Wall Street. State Street Explores Strategic Options for Asset Management Arm. Located on Wall Street in the heart of New York City’s financial district, FinancialBuzz. One common extravagance of corporate managers is on corporate airplanes. Teeside, England.\n\nRoss Johnson the CEO wants to make a killing by purchasing how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline the undervalued company from shareholders, however the Wall Street investment professionals he hires start to become his competition in the buyout. There are many reasons why you need to see this movie. Oliver Stone’s Academy Award Winning blockbuster epitomizing the roaring 80’s stock market of corporate raiders this classic must see movie creates an icon that every trader knows “Gordon Gekko”. In addition, the company&39;s physical stock could impact its future earnings. It can also refer to an entity that primarily serves as a conduit. Won: 1 Nomination Warsaw International Film Festival A fascinating collection of filmed documentaries exploring human nature and that how we explain the world around us is rarely linked to the true cause.\n\n· Pipeline Stock to Watch No. Yet Enron was a corporation that went bankrupt and some of the outrageous corporate misdeeds occurred in an effort to stave off bankrupcy. Banking on Bitcoin is a documentary film highlighting the birth of Bitcoin and the underlying technology that drives it, the Block Chain. Enron lost moneybecause its management made some disaste. A bitter battle ensues to take over this conglomerate. A few factors go into its makeup. InterNorth had been operated conservatively and had little debt. · About 85% of analysts covering the stock rate shares Buy—much higher than the average buy-rating ratio.\n\nWon: 8 Awards + 1 Oscar NominationWhat happens when over-leveraged financial investment firms get a margin call. com&39;s best Movies lists, news, and more. The Market Moves Fast. · Buffett parlayed the original investment into what at one point was a . (Webster�s Unabridged Dictionary) 2.\n\nIn 1999 Jeff Skilling was raising cash by selling off assets. This film shows you how little governance and risk management there was (and still is) at the top banks or in fact most banks. Enron launches plan to expand U. From Quintillion’s inception in, Pierce focused her.\n\nA report from the Wall Street. As a subsidiary the financial state of Whitewing would show up in the accounts for its parent company Enron. Won: 11 Film Awards – Category DocumentaryAn excellent movie showing the rise of the Corporation as a person. In 1998 she settled upon Wessex Water Co. Breaking news and analysis from the U.\n\n4 million miles of pipeline crisscrossed the country. This film allows you to see inside, try not to be shocked. This is not only because of the high operating costs (in the neighborhood of thousand per hour) but also because often the corporate plane flies without any passengers to pickup the corporate executives (or family members or friends) and takes them to their destination and flies b. These sites do not constitute a representation by the publisher or a solicitation for the purchase or sale of securities. How do pipelines affect the stock market?\n\nFinancial system is on the edge, this film based on the book with the same name, is critical of Wall Street and the governments that are “supposed” to regulate it. That core enterprise was put together, in part, to profit from the deregulation of the natural gas industry. There were many discouraging aspects to the project but John Wing was able to how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline drive through them to project completion.\n\nMuch of that 30% is through the 1,800-mile Transco system. · Today, Wall Street moves it from corporations to investors, not the other way around. Won: 1 Oscar & 37 other wins + 79 nominationsA great true story involving the few men who bet against the investment banks going into the financial crisis. This film gives us insights into how fragile our financial system is and how close we can come to utter devastation during the shock waves of fear in the market.\n\nThe rise of the corporation accelerated after laws were passed granting the corporation a legal status equivalent to a person. The market for natural gas has three major types of economic units: 1. What’s not to love about this movie, apart from the fact it is dour, depressing and down to earth. headquartered in Bath, England as the nucleus for her international. ET Enron was in bad shape for a long time, but analysts kept beating the drum. Such uncertainty in the price of gas creates problems for the suppliers how much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline and customers. How to Invest in Oil Pipelines. England had an energy economy historically based upon coal.\n\n1: Williams Companies. Setting the Table for a Challenging. In the last decade, S&P 500 corporations spent . Firstly it uncovers a real live scam that is currently ongoing now in in the U. Theywere tried andconvicted in. The Dabnol Power Project in Maharastra State, India. The firm earned 4 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of 7 million.\n\nEnron was not devoid of assets. An excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. It is a really great movie which brings to life the failures of investment banks and institutions to even be able to understand the products they imaginatively create to try to make a profit. · It&39;s not hard to find stocks priced below right now. Solid interviews with Block Chain and Bitcoin enthusiasts round off the documentary. Enron started out as a natural gas company put together by Kenneth Lay. com is a credible source for the world’s latest trending financial and economic news. One stock which has fared quite well during this turbulent era is Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) stock.\n\nRSS Feed for 10 Best Railroad Stocks for This Year. This was a help b. (Random House Unabridged) First of all these definitions are defective, but more importantly the assertion that greed per se was behind the collapse ignores the obvious point that Enron collapsed because it was losing money and had been doing so for a long time. The nature of the problem of Enron was quite different from the public&39;s perception of the corporation.\n\n· Not all stocks have been killed by the coronavirus from China. See how the biggest scam of the 21st century developed and exploded. Won: 38 Awards + 5 Oscar NominationsBased on the book with the same name, this film is entertaining and well directed – a real Hollywood blockbuster. The core of Enron was the merger of Houston Natural Gas of Houston, Texas and InterNorth, a natural gas pipeline company of Omaha, Nebraska. Skilling soldEnron 53% interest in Enron Oil and Gas for about 0 million. The place was Wall Street.\n\nIn 1985 a pipeline company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, theWilliams Companies, began stringing fiber optic cable in some of itsunused pipelines. While pipelines frequently provide steady income and earnings, their prices can fluctuate based on the sentiment of the market. Inter Pipeline has confirmed that its next quarterly earnings report will be published on Thursday, May 7th,. Investing in a pipeline company is similar to investing in a utility: Like electricity providers, pipeline companies operate in heavily. Stocks fell on Tuesday, pulling back after a string of gains that had lifted Wall Street by 6 percent this month. It can be dry at times but it does show how taking a different lens to economics and the thought process can show different insights.\n\nAt the turn of the millenium the dot. An Example Quote: Rep. Insights galore here into the different roles on Wall Street and although they earn a lot of money the mental stress and anguish of the jobs can crush a man. What are pipeline oceanic stocks? The assets for which there was a market, such as Enron Oil and Gas, were the ones that were well-run and producing cash.\n\nHow much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline\n\nemail: [email protected] - phone:(968) 402-2307 x 7624\n\nAdditive manufacturing investment casting - Charts bitcoin\n\n-> Grassi investment\n-> Forbes rich list russian warships\n\nHow much did wall street invest in oceanic internet pipeline - Jewish care home\n\nSitemap 11\n\nSsys stock price history - Investment best pure silver", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5889165997505188}
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+{"content": "Support Union Test Prep\n\nSupport us and begin preparing Ad-free for your tests with\nUnion Test Prep.\n\n\n\nSupport Now\n\nWhat Is a Good Score on the LSAT?\n\nThe Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, is an essential test required for individuals seeking to attend law school, and it specifically assesses the key skills needed to thrive in law school. The score required on an LSAT may vary depending to which school you are applying, but, generally speaking, the better the school, the higher the score required. Schools will generally weight your score on the LSAT with greater importance than your undergraduate GPA, making high performance essential for examinees.\n\nThe test itself is scored on a scale between 120 and 180. The test consists of about 101 questions, meaning that each correct answer adds approximately one point to your raw score. The raw score is then converted to the LSAT standard score that ranges from a minimum of 120 to a maximum of 180.\n\nThe average score on the LSAT is roughly around 152. However, top schools generally require a score exceeding 160. The difference of even 10 points can have a profound impact on your options for law school. While a score of 150 puts you in the 46th percentile, a score of 160 would put you in the 82nd percentile, and one of 170 would put you in the 98th percentile.\n\nSince the LSAT is weighted more heavily than other factors, such as GPA and references, individuals attempting to take the exam should spend ample time preparing and studying the material. This is the best way to ensure that you get a score that will allow you to gain entrance into the law school of your choice. You can find LSAT practice materials—study guides and practice questions—at Union Test Prep.\n\nRecent Posts\n\nHow Long Should I Study for the LSAT?\n\nTaking the LSAT is an incredibly important event; it is the beginning o…\n\nThe Top Ten Law Schools in 2021\n\nAs you consider attending law school, one big decision you’ll have to …\n\nLSAT®-Level Reading: What’s It Like?\n\nSimilar to Law School Reading As anyone who has attended law school wi…\n\nKeep Reading\n\nLaw School Admission Test® Blog\n\nLSAT Lessons from Legally Blonde (really!)\n\nLaw School Admission Test® Blog\n\nWhat Are the Best Undergrad Majors for Law School?\n\nLaw School Admission Test® Blog\n\nHow Long Should I Study for the LSAT?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9300740957260132}
+{"content": "Support Union Test Prep\n\nSupport us and begin preparing Ad-free for your tests with\nUnion Test Prep.\n\n\n\nSupport Now\n\nWhat Is “Reading Literacy” on the TASC Test?\n\nThe phrase “reading literacy” might sound vague or intimidating, but reading literacy is actually an important part of reading as a whole, as well as learning how to effectively take tests.\n\nThe TASC Test reading literacy sections evaluate the test-taker’s ability to read a passage, synthesize the information offered in the passage, and deliver it back correctly. Although reading is one of the fundamentals taught early in academic life, reading comprehension (also termed reading literacy) is another animal entirely. To accurately measure test-takers’ reading literacy, there are several components that will be targeted for evaluation. These include thesis, evidence, summary, structure, and meaning.\n\n\nTo find the thesis of a piece, you must ask yourself: What is the point and purpose of this piece? Although a thesis statement is typically found in the opening paragraph of a paper or piece, it can be found in many other places throughout a writing composition, and knowing how to answer this question can help you more effectively determine the thesis of a particular work.\n\nThe thesis of an informative essay on climate change, for instance, might read, “Identifying alternatives to fossil fuels is essential to limit the damage incurred by climate change.” This tells you the point of the piece (fossil fuels are contributing to climate change) and its purpose (to identify the factors contributing to climate change).\n\n\nTo find evidence or supporting details, evaluate the remainder of the text to find details that support the thesis or main idea. Details for the thesis listed above might include things in this sentence:\n\n“Fossil fuels release additional carbon into the atmosphere that puts an additional burden on the carbon cycle.”\n\nWhen you are asked to find a supporting detail or a piece of evidence, ask yourself, “Does this support or contribute to the main idea?”\n\nAlthough it may seem that evidence will always be dry or scientific, fiction can also offer supporting details and evidence. If a person in a passage is identified as easily overwhelmed, a supporting detail could include a sentence such as the following:\n\n“He turned pale as the plan began to change, his voice shaking as he spoke. ‘What do you mean, change of plans?!’”\n\n\nBeing able to accurately write or identify a summary of a passage is another important part of demonstrating reading literacy. To write a summary yourself, or to select a summary composed by someone else, return to the thesis of a piece. Take that thesis or main idea and expound on it to create a small paragraph that describes what has happened within the body of the entire passage.\n\nA summary for Pride and Prejudice, for instance, might read:\n\n“The Bennett sisters learn about love, family, and learning from mistakes in this heartwarming classic from Jane Austen.”\n\nSummaries can be short and simple, or can be longer and include more supporting details.\n\n\nTo identify the structure of a piece, you might be asked to identify whether it is fiction or nonfiction, an essay or a piece of prose, or even what type of essay it might be. Word choice, tone, and point of view are all also components involved in the structure of a piece, and you may be asked to identify each of these with regard to a passage.\n\nWord choice can inform an author’s tone (formal or informal, for instance), and tone can include broad categorizations such as informal or formal, but can also include more specific tones, such as informative, angry, and satirical.\n\nPoint of view (POV) typically includes first-person POV, third-person limited POV, and third-person omniscient POV. There is second-person POV, but it is far less common. First-person is identified by the author using I, we, and other words to indicate the author is speaking directly. Third-person omniscient will address and describe everyone equally, while third-person limited will describe things from primarily one person’s point of view, while still using he, she, or other pronouns to discuss that person.\n\n\nReading literacy will also evaluate your ability to determine the meaning of words you may not know. Using context, word choice, and the overall point and purpose of a piece, you should be able to discern what a word means. Although context clues may not provide an exact meaning, having a general idea of what a word means is typically enough to understand the whole of a passage and correctly answer a test question.\n\nUltimately, the best way to prepare for reading literacy evaluations is to read as much as possible. Reading daily and applying the principles and ideas listed above is the simplest and most effective way to prepare yourself for your TASC Test.\n\nRecent Posts\n\nWhat Type of Math Is on the TASC™ Test?\n\nThe Test Assessing Secondary Completion™ (TASC) covers five areas of st…\n\nWhat Do You Have to Write on the TASC Test?\n\nWriting is not the only beast to tackle in the writing portion of the T…\n\nEvidence vs. Inference\n\nThe TASC Reading Literacy Test, like so many others, assesses your abil…\n\nKeep Reading\n\nTest Assessing Secondary Completion™ Blog\n\nThe TASC Test: How is it Graded?\n\nTest Assessing Secondary Completion™ Blog\n\nThe TASC: All About the Test\n\nTest Assessing Secondary Completion™ Blog\n\nEvidence vs. Inference", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9899160861968994}
+{"content": "Finally A Choice In Style And Fit\n\nIt is well documented throughout Roman history that many Caesars gave their wives opal for good luck. Look into the lives of camera-bearing people that have caught history on film. When people lose their jobs and cannot afford new clothes, they look for economic solutions. When it comes to experimenting with your clothes, and going in for an extremely new and outgoing look- Boho Fashion comes to the best rescue. Edward Steichen is also best appreciated for the Family of Man which he created in 1955. The said collection was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and had more than 500 photos depicting love, life, and death. In 1963, Edward Steichen was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom award by no less than US President Lyndon Johnson. He also created the 1945 Academy Award winning documentary, The Fighting Lady, which was named as the Best Documentary. Pearl Academy offers a post graduate degree in Fashion and Textiles.\n\nA fashion merchandising college will be of great help for you. If you are a bargain shopper, now is a great time to get those high priced clothing items on sale. This guide leads us down the path to learn what it takes to become a great photographer through the biographies of famous photographers. I wear my hair down but I also wear a snood, a kerchief, or a hat. Be it the haircut of a man or the hair arrangement of a woman, both gives a vivid indication on how to determine the age of a photograph. There are also peripheral methods on how to determine the age of a photograph, such as wearing ultraviolet glasses to check the glossiness of the photograph, as pictures before the 1950s do not manifest glossy effects on them. Trade-in second hand bookstores are a thriving enterprise, especially when the same book can be bought and sold several times.\n\nThe prospect of a second hand store offering discounted apparel is brighter than ever before in troubled economic times. A second hand clothing store also positions itself to deal in fashionable used clothes aimed at providing a low-cost option to the fashion conscious niche. This means that the deal is cost-effective in the long run and we would all love that, wouldn’t we. C&A, the global fashion retailer, is run and managed separately from C&A Foundation, but the two entities share a vision for the apparel industry. While these are certainly good skills to have, they aren’t very practical when you’re trying to land your first job in the fashion industry. In researching trends, forecasts for the entire aspect of the fashion industry should be the main consideration. In the world of fashion, photographs are the key to marketing the latest trends, colors and textures. Famous names in nature photography have caught amazing views of animals and plant life in close up form, allowing us to study and view the world around us. This is primarily because you might not have the expertise in botany, you might lack the sense of design and you might end up paying extra for every pot and plant that you purchase.\n\nAlso, if the email is addressed to multiple recipients, it might not be all that it appears. Spambully is another anti-spam tool which, like Mailwasher Pro, uses multiple methods to determine and categorise what is spam. G-Star RAW or G-Star is one of the most popular clothes brands in the UK and various different European countries in particular Netherlands, Spain and Germany. It was exhibited in more than 60 countries. We are more of a business catalyst than an accelerator because we help startups connect with large multi-brand retailers and mono-brands. Plastic rings, bangles, bracelets and other jewellery for girls and kids are prepared using colorful plastic. Also fashion for kids is becoming famous due to the many live TV shows that promote modeling for kids. While many shounen and seinen shows have several “useless characters” that never come in to their own (e.g. the Sakura from Naruto kind of useless).\n\nFreeSat delivers its signal through a satellite dish and this is an extra cost in setting up this kind of TV. For storing high-quality video, it’s the best option, though the cost has not yet dropped far enough to reach mainstream consumers. The short outer wear and dress can not be warm enough so a green scarf is necessary to add a sense of hierarchy. The powerful visuals and the quotable quotes would both inspire and add to the imagination of the fashion student and expert alike. After the World War I, Edward Steichen continued to move towards fashion photography. The costume design world has never been the most inclusive. Two years later, Stieglitz asked Steichen to make the logo design for his publication named Camera Work. Edward Steichen also served as the Director of Photography of the Museum of Modern Art in New York until 1962. Two years after his retirement, the Edward Steichen Photography Center was established in the said museum.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8149754405021667}
+{"content": "Bard Optical\n\nInjuries to the Eye Can’t Be Ignored: What You Can Do\n\nYou may think that a small irritation to your eye is no big deal. Maybe you’re having some minor scratching or pain when you blink or shut your eye. Generally, things like this have a simple answer, such as an eyelash stuck in your eye. However, what if your eye is still in pain for several days? Or if you take damage to the eye? How serious are injuries to the eye? Does this necessitate a trip to the doctor?\n\nThe answer is yes. Any pain, vision changes, or damage to the eye means that a doctor’s visit is in order. Sometimes, we may think that some pain in the eye is a result of eye strain, as we all spend a fair amount of time staring at screens. It can cause your eyes to become dry, or even manifest as a headache. This pain can be easily remedied, but if it persists, you should contact your optometrist right away. Eye pain can indicate other issues, so it’s best to rule them out as soon as possible.\n\nSudden vision changes can be the result of damage to the eyes. Suppose you accidentally hit yourself in the eye with something, a ball perhaps, while playing with your pet or child. This is common, and it has happened to all of us. However, if you notice your vision changing after this incident, you should see a doctor to ensure that the blow did not cause any damage. Blurry vision or double vision can indicate underlying issues, so having this checked out as soon as you can is in your eyes’ best interest.\n\nNow let’s suppose you’re doing an at-home project, which involves you sawing up some wood. Wearing protective eye gear is a must, but it may not always be completely effective. Sawdust, in this case, can cause severe damage to the eyes. Even if you think this is minor, it is most definitely not. This is the sort of eye damage that requires a visit to an eye doctor to check your eyes for dust and other contaminates.\n\nAny sort of contaminates in the eyes demand a visit to your optometrist immediately, as do any blows to the eyes or pain in the eyes. Our eyes are very sensitive, so when they take any damage or have irritation, that is their way of telling us that there is something wrong. You should not ignore these symptoms to ensure that your eyes remain healthy for your lifetime. Often times, damage that goes untreated causes problems later in your life that could have been easily prevented. Anything that seems unusual to you about your eye health should be brought to a doctor’s attention immediately!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8977082967758179}
+{"content": "Hello, everyone. Tough times everywhere. I hope that some of the content we've put up on the JRN main site the last few weeks has been helping pass the time. I know a lot of people have been impacted economically by the current situation so I really appreciate the support some of you have given us during these weeks. Stay safe and let's all get through this.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9590650796890259}
+{"content": "• Amy Lees\n\nHow To Build Your Own Habits & Stick To Them\n\nUpdated: Jan 30, 2020\n\nWelcome to the last lap of the decade! But really, it's the end of a DECADE and I think we should celebrate all the hard work we put in! However, I don't mean coast for the remaining two months of the year.\n\nI have decided to go out with a bang this year, and I'm calling it our LAST LAP. Yes, I am trying to fight off the seasonal vibes of \"chill and relax until the new year\" too. PLUS, have you ever ran a 5k, 10k, marathon, or any kind of race (even Mario Kart counts here)?\n\nThe last lap of the race is usually when we are most focused, driven, and determined to complete the race on a high note, whether that's first place or just better than you did last time you competed.\n\n\nWe have two months left in 2019. Instead of letting them slip by, why not get ahead of the game and tackle some unfinished business? Why not end the last year of this decade on a high note?\n\nI just finished a 100 workout program. I made it my goal to complete 100 workouts in 100 days, which was almost too-scary-to-try, but I really wanted to change my mindset about working out.\n\nI had this vision of a future me, who worked out daily to keep a healthy and happy LIFESTYLE. I wanted the rewards and benefits of fitness to be a life long choice, so I knew that I needed to build that habit.\n\nThe question became: how am I going to create the lifestyle I want for my future NOW?\n\nI had heard countless times from a multitude of people (through interviews, podcasts, and books) that the best way to create a workout habit is to have a consistent time in the day dedicated to working out.\n\nSome people choose mornings, some are active at lunch, and others choose evening.\n\nThroughout my health journey, I've discovered that if I don't do my workout before noon, I won't be doing it at all. I am my most productive in the morning and by the time dinner rolls around (omg did anyone else think about actual dinner rolls reading that or just me??), I am way too worn out to even THINK about pushing play on my workout, let alone change into fitness clothes (no matter how cute I think they are).\n\nI wanted to create such a strong habit that even the holidays couldn't screw me over and win the head game.\n\nIf you're like me and have the desire to end this decade on a high note, follow these steps to building habits you want to stick with in 2020.\n\n1. Start with a goal, or a dream version of yourself.\n\nWhat do you want to accomplish?\n\nAre you trying to live a healthier lifestyle?\n\nAre you trying to commit to a workout program? A new eating plan?\n\nDo you want to take that side hustle to a full time income earning business?\n\nThis method works for anything, so pick a route and go all out on it.\n\nMy example: Before I started the 100 workouts, I had this vision of a future me finishing the 100th workout. I envisioned how accomplished I would feel. I thought about all of the work going into each and every workout to get to workout #100, and all of the progress my body would show after completing the program. My goal was to complete all 100 workouts in 100 days.\n\n2. Identify the habit(s) needed to reach your goal.\n\nWhen you think about your future accomplished self, what is the thing you had to do over and over to get there? This is the habit you need to create in your daily life NOW in order to make that future a reality.\n\nMy example: For me, I had to push play on my virtual trainer and follow the workouts each day. In order to do that, as explained earlier, I needed to create a habit of waking up and working out immediately after. I had to create a pair of habits that worked together to get to my goal.\n\n3. Create a daily action plan that tracks the habit(s) you're creating.\n\nTake a look at where you have free time or where you need to MAKE time to prioritize the habit. Get out paper and pen, or work it out on your computer. Do whatever you need to do to figure out how you will make this habit a priority every day.\n\nCreate an action plan for yourself with consequences (for not following through) and rewards (for sticking to your plan) that you feel satisfied with.\n\nMy example: I needed to create a morning routine of waking up and working out. I didn't necessarily have a morning routine before - I just woke up and went on with whatever I needed to do that day. So I stepped it up, and wrote out exactly what I would do from the time my alarm goes off to finishing my workout.\n\nHere's the layout (and probably more info you need to know about me but whatev):\n\n5:55am Watch alarm goes off and I get out of bed. I add a spoonful of extra virgin coconut oil into my mouth to oil pull while I change into my workout clothes, put my hair up, and get into my shoes.\n\n6:00am I take a shameless selfie and post it on my stories to hold myself accountable publicly and document my journey. Then, I feed my cat, spit out the oil, take half a shot of my preworkout energy supplement, and drink 32 oz of water.\n\n6:15am I turn my girl gang accountability call on and push play on my workout in my living room.\n\nWhen I have finished my workout, I reward myself with recovery and superfood supplements to help my muscles recover and jumpstart my day with fueling my body right.\n\nNow, I know you're going to ask me: \"how long should I do this for?\"\n\nIn turn, I'll ask you: \"has that dream version of you stopped?\"\n\nHabits are changes we make to our daily behaviors to create a better version of life for ourselves. It starts with a DESIRE to want to change. Making change takes time, especially if it's something you're wanting to be a natural at for the rest of your life.\n\nWe have to stop saying things like \"it takes 21 days to create a habit\" because the reality is that a habit is something you commit to doing daily until you decide to change that behavior into some new better version of you.\n\nThe way you BUILD HABITS is through the same 3 step process. Sometimes, it works out where you can double up and build two habits at once, like waking up and working out. Generally speaking though, you want to start making change to one habit until you feel comfortable with the change.\n\nTrying to change multiple habits at once can be overwhelming. Stick to working them into your daily actions one at a time.\n\nSoon enough, you'll be LIVING that dream version of yourself.\n\nAnd that dream version of you will begin to dream new dream versions of yourself to grow into. #inceptiontalk\n\nWhat habit are you going to work on building into your daily life?\n\n32 views0 comments\n\nquestions | contact", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5400904417037964}
+{"content": "C. Serrano, M.B. Sousa , M.J. Trigo, R. Bronze\nThe consumption of berries in Portugal has gradually increased due to the high content on phenolic compounds (PC). These PC, mainly flavonoids, phenolic acids, and hydroxycinnamic acid derivatives are implied in the good functioning of the human organism.\nThere are few studies referring to the phytochemical properties of berries cultivated in Portugal. The PC present of different species of blueberry ‘Jubilee’, blackberry ‘Arapaho’, raspberry ‘Polka’ and strawberry ‘Camarosa’ in some cultivars harvested from the southern of Portugal in Odemira region were assayed for antioxidant activity, phenolic contents and HPLC profiles. The present study outlines that the blueberry and blackberry populations were the richest source of antioxidants, demonstrating its potential use as a nutritional and food additive.\nSerrano, C., Sousa , M.B., Trigo, M.J. and Bronze, R. (2012). PHENOLIC PHYTOCHEMICAL ANTIOXIDANTS IN BERRIES . Acta Hortic. 926, 675-681\nDOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.926.98\nantioxidant capacity, anthocyanins, flavonoids, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry, strawberry\n\nActa Horticulturae", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7504960894584656}
+{"content": "How the IPA Vapor Dryer Provides Superior Wafer Processing\n\nHow the IPA Vapor Dryer Provides Superior Wafer ProcessingAfter etching and rinsing, an IPA (isopropyl alcohol) vapor dryer can produce dry silicon wafers without watermarks and limited particle adders. In IPA drying, also known as Marangoni drying, the Marangoni effect relies on the low surface tension of IPA compared to water. When IPA vapor is introduced into the drying chamber, a surface tension gradient is established between the IPA and water on the surfaces of the silicon wafers. The surface tension gradient causes the water to flow off the wafers, leaving them clean and dry. The slow drain water feature also helps reduce particles contaminating the wafer surfaces. As a result, IPA vapor drying can be used to produce especially clean, wafers after a final etch and before the next semiconductor manufacturing step.\n\nIPA Vapor Drying is Safe for Thin Silicon Wafers\n\nIPA vapor dryers are especially suitable for drying thin, delicate silicon wafers. In other drying methods, the wafers are placed in a drying chamber and rotated or spun to remove the rinsing water, but handling and moving these wafers can result in damage. With the IPA vapor dryers, the Marangoni effect dries the wafers without moving them. Delicate wafers are not subjected to any stress and damage is minimized while drying performance is excellent.\n\nIPA Vapor Dryers Improve Wafer Processing After HF Last Etching\n\nAs the final process in a silicon wafer fabrication step, the silicon oxide layer on the wafer has to be removed with hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching. The wafer is then rinsed with de-ionized water and dried before passing on to the next step in manufacturing the final semiconductor component. Providing a clean wafer with a low particle count is critical at this point because subsequent process steps are affected by the presence of contamination or particles. For high-density semiconductor components, a particle or film on the silicon wafer can prevent the correct etching of a structure or the deposit of a conductor. Because IPA vapor dryers remove water from the wafer surface and reduce particle counts with their Marangoni effect, IPA vapor dryers improve wafer processing results and ensure higher quality output.\n\nModutek Single Chamber Processing Delivers Further Improvements\n\nAt the end of a wet process wafer fabrication step, the wafers are etched with hydrofluoric acid in an etching chamber and then transferred to a dryer. The transfer exposes the wafers to particle contamination that can lead to elevated wafer surface particle counts, even after Marangoni drying. Modutek has eliminated this source of contamination by developing a method that allows etching and drying in a single chamber.\n\nWith the Modutek etching and drying station, hydrofluoric acid is injected into the chamber at a controlled ratio to etch the oxide layer down to the bare silicon. The wafers are then rinsed with de-ionized water to a set pH level. When the pH level is reached rinsing is complete and drying can begin.\n\nIPA vapor is generated from a standard one-gallon bottle and introduced at the top of the drying chamber. The drying cycle takes about 10 to 15 minutes and the dry wafers are ready for their next fabrication step. The wafers are not moved during the whole etching, rinsing and drying process, reducing wafer breakage, especially for thin, delicate wafers. Since the wafers stay in the chamber from etching to drying, particle contamination is significantly reduced.\n\nModutek’s extensive experience in the semiconductor manufacturing industry allows it to support customers in integrating the new single chamber IPA vapor dryer in any new or existing wet processing equipment. Modutek designs and builds their own semiconductor manufacturing equipment and can therefore offer customized versions to meet the requirements of any application. The company’s staff work with a customer’s engineering team to make sure the equipment meets the customer’s process requirements. Contact Modutek for a free quote or consultation to discuss your manufacturing equipment requirements.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.620834231376648}
+{"content": "Quality of Life Comparison\n\n\nIf you lived in Slovakia instead of Mexico, you would:\n\n\nlive 1.1 years longer\n\nIn Mexico, the average life expectancy is 77 years (74 years for men, 80 years for women) as of 2020. In Slovakia, that number is 78 years (74 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2020.\n\nbe 29.1% less likely to be obese\n\nIn Mexico, 28.9% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Slovakia, that number is 20.5% of people as of 2016.\n\n\nmake 66.3% more money\n\nMexico has a GDP per capita of $19,900 as of 2017, while in Slovakia, the GDP per capita is $33,100 as of 2017.\n\nbe 73.4% less likely to be live below the poverty line\n\nIn Mexico, 46.2% live below the poverty line as of 2014. In Slovakia, however, that number is 12.3% as of 2015.\n\npay a 28.6% lower top tax rate\n\nMexico has a top tax rate of 35.0% as of 2016. In Slovakia, the top tax rate is 25.0% as of 2016.\n\nbe 2.4 times more likely to be unemployed\n\nIn Mexico, 3.4% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Slovakia, that number is 8.1% as of 2017.\n\n\nbe 84.8% less likely to die during childbirth\n\nIn Mexico, approximately 33.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Slovakia, 5.0 women do as of 2017.\n\nbe 54.2% less likely to die during infancy\n\nIn Mexico, approximately 10.7 children die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Slovakia, on the other hand, 4.9 children do as of 2020.\n\nhave 47.2% fewer children\n\nIn Mexico, there are approximately 17.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020. In Slovakia, there are 9.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020.\n\nBasic Needs\n\nbe 22.6% more likely to have internet access\n\nIn Mexico, approximately 65.8% of the population has internet access as of 2018. In Slovakia, about 80.7% do as of 2018.\n\n\nspend 20.4% less on education\n\nMexico spends 4.9% of its total GDP on education as of 2016. Slovakia spends 3.9% of total GDP on education as of 2016.\n\nSlovakia: At a glance\n\n\nHow big is Slovakia compared to Mexico? See an in-depth size comparison.\n\nThe statistics on this page were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Servicio de Administración Tributaria, SHCP, Tax Directorate, Slovakia.\n\n\nJoin the Elsewhere community and ask a question about Slovakia. It's a free, question-and-answer based forum to discuss what life is like in countries and cities around the world.\n\nShare this", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999590516090393}
+{"content": "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 15\n\n\nIn June 2014, it was announced that showrunner Carol Mendelsohn would be leaving the show after 14 years. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Mendelsohn stated, \"It's been a long and amazing journey, and I am so proud of CSI's continued success. In handing over the helm to my dear friend and partner, Don McGill, I know he and our CSI team will carry on brilliantly what we've all created together. CSI, its cast and crew, writers and directors, will always be my family. I have learned so much from each and every one of them. About writing, producing and life. For that, and so much more, I am forever grateful.\" Don McGill will become the lone showrunner for the fifteenth season.\n\nList Episodes:\n\nSuggest TV-Series Subtitles", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8507827520370483}
+{"content": "Alpha beta gamma\n\nBeta alpha gamma\n\nAdd: xegafa22 - Date: 2020-12-11 13:26:52 - Views: 6366 - Clicks: 8210\n\nSee full list on en. Welcome to our website for all Alpha beta gamma ___. beta particles, alpha beta gamma &92;(&92;left( &92;beta &92;right)&92;), and ; gamma rays &92;(&92;left( &92;gamma &92;right)&92;) using the first three letters of the Greek alphabet. The crucial difference between alpha, beta, and gamma particles lies in their charge constituent. Alpha particles are He-4 nuclei, and beta is either electrons or positrons.\n\nTherefore, they have a mass of approximately, where. More Alpha Beta Gamma videos. Styles: Presidential, Embossed, Campus Scene, Spirit Medallion, Tassel. · Anyway, gamma alpha beta gamma is alpha beta gamma different, beta is more slots, alpha beta gamma alpha is more skills, beta alpha beta gamma is usually. 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Discover Quality Frames For 1,600+ Colleges & Universities To Highlight Your Achievements. What is Delta Coronavirus 6. Look no further because you will find whatever you are looking for in here. Alpha Beta Gamma (ΑΒΓ) is an international business honor society established in 1970 in Manchester, Connecticut to recognize and encourage alpha beta gamma scholarship among two-year college students in business curricula. Their kinetic energy is sufficient to ionize matter.\n\nIn the decay process, there are alpha beta gamma several different types of radiation produced. Each particle contains a pair of neutrons and a pair of protons. Alpha particles are made of four nucleons. So, the mass of an alpha particle is 6. The capacity of alpha, beta, and gamma rays pose varying levels of danger externally and internally.\n\n3 out of 5 stars 13. Alphacoronavirus is a genus of coronaviruses. Alpha radiation it where heavy molecules eject a ionized helium particle from the nucleus in their attempt at becoming more stable atoms.\n\nAlpha rays have poor penetration power. They are performed one after another, and together ensures a release of high-quality software. Alpha and beta decays almost always leave the nucleus in an excited state. Some later time, alpha particles were identified alpha beta gamma as helium-4 nuclei, beta particles were identified as electrons, and gamma rays as a form of electromagnetic radiation like x-rays except much higher in energy and even more dangerous to living systems. · Cities are categorized as Alpha, Beta or Gamma cities based on their connectivity to the rest of the world. What is Gamma Coronavirus 5. Gamma emission brings the nucleus down to a more stable energetic state. Ionizing radiation comes in three flavors: alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays.\n\nThe purpose of this is to test the thickness of the sheets. Gamma The potential benefits from “good” financial planning decisions are often difficult to quantify. Alpha is a positively charged particle, beta is negatively or positively charged. · Hint: For the SSS case, you are given the 3 sides a, b, and c, and need to find the corresponding angles Alpha, alpha beta gamma Beta, and Gamma. The outer layer of dead skin in humans, a thick sheet of paper, or a layer of clothes can resist alpha penetration. What are the uses of beta radiation? Naturally occurring vitamin E exists in eight chemical forms (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocopherol and alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-tocotrienol) that have varying levels of biological activity.\n\nJordan Armed Forces-Arab Army Quick Reaction Force Female Engagement Team Soldiers examine a radiation monitoring system during a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Subject Matter Expert Exchange with U. There will be 2 outputs, and the positive output will be your solution. Handmade in alpha beta gamma the USA · Museum Quality Protection · Officially Licensed.\n\nBeta radiation is mainly used in industrial processes such as paper mills and aluminium foil production. Alpha Beta Gamma® is the National Honor Society established by business professors in 1970 to recognize and encourage alpha beta gamma scholarship among Business and Professional students enrolled at two-year degree granting institutions. Then find the value of (&92;beta + &92;gamma) (&92;gamma + &92;alpha) (&92;alpha + &92;beta)? If &92;alpha, &92;beta, &92;gamma are the roots of the equation x^3 +px^2 + qx + r. Gamma radiation is simply a loss of energy by the nucleus, a desexcitation; much alpha beta gamma like an emission of light or X-rays by energetic atoms.\n\nThese are the first three letters in the Greek alphabet and represent increasing levels of biological danger upon exposure to the radiation in question. However, other connectors are available if specifically requested when ordering your instrument. Side by Side Comparison – Alpha Beta Gamma vs Delta Coronavirus in Tabular Form 8.\n\nThe three most common types of decay emitted from the nucleus. Greek alphabet letters & symbols. Showcase Your Degree Or Certificate With An American-Made, Museum-Worthy Frame. See full list on rapidtables. When fights do occur alpha beta gamma between bros they are both generally Betas. · Alpha, beta and gamma radiation are the original and still-standing names for the three major types of radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.\n\nFounded on Janu on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D. What are the 3 types of radioactive decay? Greek alpha beta gamma alphabet letters and symbols. What is Beta Coronavirus 4. &92;alpha+&92;beta +&92;gamma =-p &92;beta +&92;gamma =-p-&92;alpha. What is Alpha Coronavirus? Detector Reference Chart. If α,β,γare the roots of the equation x3+px2+qx+r.\n\nThey don&39;t penetrate very deeply into the skin, if at all -- in fact, clothing can stop alpha particles. The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Phonetic Alphabet is currently officially denoted as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet (IRSA) or the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) phonetic alphabet or ITU (International Telecommunication Union) phonetic alphabet. , species richness) in that ecosystem. Comparison, distinguish, difference between. Alpha, Beta, and Now. All our instruments and detectors come standard with series \"C\" connectors.\n\nThe society is a member of the Association of College alpha beta gamma Honor Societies and has initiated more than 100,000 members. They can cause little harm from outside. Between 70% and 80% of the dudes in any squad will be Betas. Read More \"Alpha beta gamma ___\". They radiate alpha particles. 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Common sources do include radon gas which comes from radium in the earth, their are other common sources such as smoke alarms which contain a small amount of americium.\n\nTo find Alpha, for example, you solve the equation a^2==b^2+c^2-2b c CosAlpha for alpha beta gamma the variable Alpha. What is the difference between alpha beta and gamma rays?\n\nAlpha beta gamma\n\nemail: [email protected] - phone:(708) 215-8044 x 7736\n\n妻 イライラ 病気 -\n\n-> 老子 本\n-> 薬 が みえる 電子 版\n\nAlpha beta gamma - Last dream night\n\nSitemap 2\n\nイーラ 黄金 - Where roselia catch", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8118598461151123}
+{"content": "Read Original Article on CIOReview.comm\n\nVishnu Sundaram, VP, Telematics Business Unit HARMAN Connected Car (A Samsung Company)\n\nThere seems to be a lot of hype these days about vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology and the promise this interoperability holds for safer roadways and more efficient travel. However, while the possibilities, such as cars that can detect pedestrians from the smartphones in their pockets or anticipate changing traffic signals miles ahead, certainly warrant further discussion, the technology that will make these developments possible doesn’t seem to be getting the attention it deeply deserves. This needs to be addressed not just by automotive technology suppliers, but by the entire transportation industry.\n\nTwo paths to connectivity\n\nRight now, there are two options for achieving more widespread V2V/X communications: dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) or cellular technology, mainly 5G. The average driver may not realize this, but V2X technology is already in use today through DSRC. This and its European counterpart, ITS-G5, are based on the IEEE 802.11p wireless standard, an amended version of the specifications likely governing your office Wi-Fi. However, DSRC is actively being used today by electronic tolling systems, e.g. toll tags. That said, it is a challenge for DSRC to match the wide-reaching communications capabilities that cellular can provide between cars and other networked devices – such as the smartphones in the pockets of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.\n\n The bandwidth, low latency, and reliability strengths of 5G make it much better suited to automotive rollout applications \n\nDSRC technology is rooted in nearly 20-year-old standards and even though the work put forth by IEEE/ SAE to create security protocols, basic safety messages, cooperative awareness messages and event notifications specific to the automotive and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) communities has been great, V2V/X success needs even more capabilities than DSRC is able to provide. 5G-fueled cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology provides data rates up to 20 Gbps and ultra-reliable, low latency communications with only 1 ms delays, making it more suitable for the vast data transfer needs of a connected car. The 802.11p standard was innovative at the time it was introduced, but cars now have numerous active sensors including cameras, radar and LiDAR and the list will only grow as we move up the SAE Level of Autonomy ladder. All of this will only force the V2X wireless sensor to deliver additional value, including longer range and greater reliability – something DSRC technology will have a challenge addressing.\n\nCellular misconceptions\n\nAlthough my work in automotive telematics has led me to believe that 5G is the way forward for V2X technology, there are some that would argue DSRC is more realistic, proven and already established, thus advocating for investments into both to create complementary technologies. While it is possible for both 5G and DSRC to complement each other, the transportation industry would essentially double the investment needed to enable the same level of capabilities of 5G. A single network is more efficient and allows for greater innovation as companies and road operators build for a single network. Investing in both 5G and DSRC would be the infrastructure equivalent of having two styles of electrical power piped into your home: one for low amperage appliances and another for higher load systems such as HVAC.\n\nOne of the main arguments against C-V2X is the misconception that all applications would require a network connection. That simply isn’t true, as many V2V, vehicle-to-people (V2P) and other short-range solutions will work without reliance on network connectivity because of the LTE-PC5 capabilities. This allows direct-mode communications between vehicles, road users, and infrastructure operating in intelligent transportation system (ITS) bands independent of the cellular network – similar to what is being done now through 802.11p DSRC. When you combine this with 5G’s true power capabilities through a network connection, the flexible and scalable nature of cellular technology shows too much promise not to be the backbone of future mobility.\n\nLooking forward: The future of the driving experience\n\nUltimately, our work with vehicle telematics isn’t meant to sell one piece of technology rather than the other but instead, promote greater roadway safety and expand the user experiences available to motorists across the globe. Getting to a point where vehicles can take early safety warnings and match them with incidents that are happening further along a roadway to avoid potential hazards and protect their passengers, or upload/download high volumes of 3D mapping and sensor data to further develop autonomous A.I., will save lives and make commuting more efficient, and this really can’t happen without cellular technology. The bandwidth, low latency, and reliability strengths of 5G make it much better suited to automotive rollout applications, and it could therefore become ubiquitous and essential to consumers’ lives.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8586196303367615}
+{"content": "Determining appropriate leader behavior\n\nAssignment Help Business Management\nReference no: EM132280773\n\nDiscuss challenges leaders might face when determining appropriate leader behavior to use when managing virtual and/or dispersed teams.\n\nReference no: EM132280773\n\nEconomic indicators of hong kong\n\nInvestigation of the economic indicators of Hong Kong. Economic indicators should include Unemployment, Housing, Consumer price index, Industrial production, Gross domestic\n\nHow risky is limiting a products market\n\nHow risky is limiting a product's market potential for the sake of maintaining brand integrity? The Levi product has not really changed since the Gold Rush days. How do you\n\nCommunication network diagram\n\nOne of the most important behavioral aspects of the informal organization is its communication pattern. Now that you have read about the different types of communication net\n\nEconomics of health and health care\n\nNeed help. Healthcare Economics questions. Book: Folland, S., Goodman, A. C., & Stano, M. (2013). The Economics of Health and Health Care (7th ed.). Chapters: 24 and 25. th\n\nDifferences between quantitative and qualitative information\n\nDiscuss the differences between quantitative and qualitative information? Then what are two or 3-examples of each?  Explain why should you question the motivation of the sourc\n\nEvaluate how organizational functions influence\n\nExplain the organizational structure of your selected organization and compare and contrast that structure with two different organizational structures of similar organizatio\n\nCurrent challenges facing organizations today\n\n\nExamine pros and cons of possible target markets for each\n\nWhile there are many benefits to online shopping, some target markets just do not transition from physical stores to online shopping very well. Examine the pros and cons of\n\n\nWrite a Review\n\nFree Assignment Quote\n\nAssured A++ Grade\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9369155168533325}
+{"content": "Ostankino TV tower: observation deck, excursion, photo. Tower construction and height\n\nThe Ostankino TV Tower is one of the most important architectural landmarks of Moscow and a symbol of Russian television. Thanks to this grandiose structure, television broadcasts are provided to almost the entire country. In terms of technical equipment, broadcasting power and some other characteristics, the TV tower has no equal. In addition, it is considered the tallest structure in Europe.\n\nOstankino Tower\n\nGeneral characteristics\n\nThe area of ​​the television tower in Ostankino is more than 15 thousand square meters. meters. There is a whole complex of television studios, ring platforms and balconies. The volume of the tower is about 70 thousand cubic meters. The building consists of 45 floors. The height of the Ostankino TV tower is 540 meters. It ranks eighth in the world in terms of the height of free-standing buildings (the tallest structure in the world at the moment is the Dubai skyscraper Burj Khalifa). The first name of the tower is \"All-Union Radio and Television Transmitting Station named after the 50th Anniversary of October\".\n\nHistory of construction\n\nPermanent television broadcasting in the Soviet Union began in 1939. Initially, signal transmission was carried out using equipment that was located in the Shukhov tower (Shablovka). However, the increase in the volume and quality of broadcasting after World War II necessitated the construction of another TV tower. At first, it was built near the Shukhov television tower, but soon it still required the construction of a more modern television tower.\n\nThe project of the TV and radio station in Ostankino was developed by the Mosproekt organization. The construction of the Ostankino TV tower began in 1960. However, in a very short time it was stopped due to the uncertainty that the foundation of the structure was sufficiently reliably designed. In the future, the design of the television tower was entrusted to the Central Research Institute for the Design of Sports Buildings and Spectacular Facilities.\n\nfire at the Ostankino TV tower\n\nThe project of the tower in Ostankino was invented by the designer Nikitin in just one night. He chose the inverted lily as the prototype of the design - a flower with a thick stem and strong petals. According to the initial idea, the tower was supposed to have 4 supports, but later, on the recommendation of the German engineer Fritz Leonhard (the creator of the first concrete TV tower on the planet), their number was increased to ten. The chief architect of the Ostankino TV tower, Leonid Ilyich Batalov, also supported the idea of ​​increasing the number of supports.\n\nThe final design of the building was approved in 1963. Its authors were architects Burdin and Batalov, as well as designer Nikitin. The specialists decided to significantly modify the previous project, in particular, the number of equipment placed in the tower and its height were increased. The construction of the Ostankino TV tower was carried out from 1963 to 1967. In general, over 40 different organizations took part in the construction of the television station. At that time, the Ostankino TV tower became the tallest building not only in Europe, but throughout the world.\n\nThe beginning of the work of the TV tower\n\nThe first broadcast of television programs from the Ostankino tower was made in 1967. Despite the fact that this year the construction of the Ostankino tower was completed and the construction was officially accepted into operation, its revision was carried out for another year. As a result, the first broadcast of a color image took place already in 1968. A 3-storey restaurant with the symbolic name \"Seventh Heaven\" was also created in the tower. Most of the engineers who took part in the creation of this grandiose television center were awarded the Lenin Prize.\n\nconstruction of the Ostankino TV tower\n\nTelecentre value\n\nThe Ostankino TV tower became a unique structure of that time, unparalleled. In addition to being the tallest building in the world for a long time, its technical characteristics were indeed impressive. After the completion of the construction of the tower, approximately 10 million inhabitants lived in the area of ​​operation of the transmitters, but now the television center covers an area with a population of more than 15 million people.\n\nThe station equipment made it possible to simultaneously record from several different objects and broadcast. A special mission fell to the tower in Ostankino during the 1980 Olympics. It even housed the special equipment of the CNN news channel.\n\nMeanwhile, the TV tower had other functions, no less important. Its building housed a meteorological observatory, which was in charge of the main meteorological center of the Soviet Union. The Ostankino station also provided television and radio communications between the main state structures of the country.\n\nTourist attraction\n\nVery soon the television center became one of the most popular tourist attractions in the capital. In 1982, a building was erected near the tower, which provided excursion activities. A modern conference room for 800 people was also equipped here. The Seventh Heaven restaurant has also improved. It is worth noting that it is located at a height of 334 meters (which is approximately the 112th floor of a residential building) and occupies as many as three floors. Its windows offer an amazing view of Moscow. The peculiarity of the establishment is that it makes slow movements around its axis at a speed of one to three revolutions in 40-50 minutes. True, at present, the \"Seventh Heaven\" is closed for reconstruction, the timing of its completion is still unknown.\n\nUnique panoramic platform\n\nMeanwhile, most tourists are attracted by the observation deck of the Ostankino TV tower. In particular, there are four of them in the television center: an open one at an altitude of 337 meters and a closed one - 340 meters, as well as two lower ones at 147 and 269 meters. They work only during the warm season - from May to October. The tour group is usually limited to 70 visitors. The TV tower has 7 levels. The panoramic platform is located at the very last one. To better see all the interesting objects in the vicinity of the TV center, tourists can use telescopes and binoculars. In good weather, you can see not only the capital, but also the near Moscow region. It should be noted that the floor on the observation deck is absolutely transparent (made of durable glass), which definitely stimulates the flow of an impressive dose of adrenaline into the blood of visitors. An excursion to the Ostankino TV Tower is a truly impressive and spectacular event. It is noteworthy that over 30 years of operation of the tower, more than 10 guests have visited it.\n\nexcursion to the Ostankino TV tower\n\nVisiting rules\n\nSince July 2013, excursions to the Ostankino television center have been temporarily suspended due to reconstruction work. But at the moment, two observation decks (337 and 340 meters) are again open to tourists! For your information: only tourists from 7 to 70 years old are allowed on the tour. Pregnant women at a later date are also undesirable to visit the tower. The tower's management also prohibits visually impaired people from climbing on observation decks or if a person moves on a wheelchair or crutches.\n\nTelecentre design\n\nThe observation deck of the Ostankino TV tower undoubtedly deserves increased attention, but I would like to separately mention the structure of the tower. It is, in fact, a huge elongated cone, the walls of which are made of monolithic concrete reinforced with metal. The roof of the telecentre is supported by 149 ropes that are attached to the tower wall. In the center of this cone, there are shafts for cables, stairs, elevators and pipelines. By the way, the building has seven elevators, of which four are high-speed. Apart from the foundation, the weight of the TV tower structures is approximately 32 thousand tons. The mass of the structure together with the foundation is 55 thousand tons. The useful area of ​​the premises in the tower is 15 square meters. m. At the maximum design wind speed, the Ostankino TV tower (Moscow), or rather its top (spire), theoretically can deviate by 000 meters.\n\nTechnical premises are isolated from visitors, they have a hotel entrance. The hall where all the main transmitters are located is located on the fifth floor. The technical rooms are located on the floor above. Telecentre personnel are protected from powerful electromagnetic radiation by means of screens made of special materials.\n\nModern elevators\n\nThe television center has four high-speed elevators that can reach speeds of up to 7 m per second. The last one was launched in 2006. In particular, the observation deck, which is located at an altitude of 337 meters, can be reached in 58 seconds.\n\nFire at the Ostankino TV tower\n\nin 2000, the TV tower suffered a massive fire that took the lives of three people. After the disaster, Moscow and the Moscow region were left without television broadcasting for several days. Initially, the fire broke out at an altitude of 460 meters. As a result of the disaster, three floors were completely burned. Due to the high temperature of the flame, several dozen cables, which provided the prestressing of concrete structures, burst, but, contrary to fears, the structure still resisted. This became another indisputable proof that the architect of the Ostankino TV tower and all other specialists who worked on the building project were true geniuses. Later, all these cables were successfully restored.\n\nthe height of the Ostankino TV tower\n\nAccording to firefighters, it was very difficult to extinguish the fire. In the process of extinguishing the fire, the commander of the fire department, Vladimir Arsyukov, died. He decided to climb to the source of the fire himself and gave the command to the elevator operator Svetlana Loseva to go to an altitude of 460 meters with him. In the end, they both died. Another victim was the locksmith Alexander Shipilin.\n\nAccording to experts, the overload of the networks became the cause of the fire. However, the equipment was set up in the shortest possible time, broadcasting was also resumed in the same volume. After the fire, large-scale construction and repair work had to be carried out to improve the territory and premises where excursions were held. By February 2008, everything was restored and improved. After the catastrophe, the excursion to the Ostankino TV tower was now conducted in compliance with special requirements: the number of participants in it should not exceed 40 people.\n\nSporting events\n\n  • Until 2000, the television center hosted a race for races to a height of 337 meters.\n  • Since 2003, base jumping competitions have been organized here. In the same year, a world record was set: 26 people jumped from the Ostankino TV tower at the same time.\n  • In 2004, at the base jumping festival, a misfortune happened: the Austrian competitor Christina Grubelnik somehow caught on the protruding parts of the TV tower and lost consciousness, and then hit a concrete wall hard. As a result, at a height of 85 meters, she caught her feet on the balcony. The workers of the television center, fortunately, managed to film the extreme. The girl received several fractures, but survived.\n  • In 2004, a new record was recorded: 30 people jumped from the TV center at the same time.\n    observation deck of the Ostankino TV tower\n\nConcert hall\n\nIn the building of the excursion building of the Ostankino television center, there is the Royal Concert Hall. As part of the excursion program, this room is used as a cinema for showing films about the TV tower and Russian television. Korolevsky also hosts many concerts, conferences, performances and other events.\n\nIncredible monument of the era\n\nThe Ostankino TV tower and all its equipment is constantly being improved. Due to the installation of several additional antennas, its height is now more than 560 meters (note that, according to the initial idea, its height was 520 meters). The television center is used in our time for its main purpose - for receiving and transmitting various radio signals and as a place for placing television studios for a large number of programs.\n\nostankino tower moscow\n\nIn addition, the Ostankino TV Tower (the photo of this building is admirable) is the most important tourist attraction in the capital. A tour of the TV center is something truly unforgettable. An overview of Moscow and its environs from the observation deck will be remembered for a lifetime.\n\nThe television center in Ostankino is rightfully considered a symbol of Russian television and one of the most delightful buildings on the planet.\n\nAdd a comment\n\n\n53 - 50 =", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9762945175170898}
+{"content": "Eamonn Percy\n\n\nEamonn Percy\nEamonn Percy\nBy building a culture of innovation into the DNA of both your leadership and company, you become more competitively positioned and create greater long-term shareholder value. Business leadership must be persistent, aggressive and focused in transforming the company, so innovation becomes the way you are, not something you do.\nThe 6 keys to building a culture of innovation are:\nMake innovation a strategic priority. Ensure you develop and implement a strategic plan to grow your organization, and make innovation a key priority within that plan. Review and update the strategic plan regularly (no less than annually), ensure the organization is aligned with the achievement of the plan, and consistently measure your progress against its goals.\nCommunicate why innovation is a priority. Communicate to all levels of your organization, so employees are aware of your plans, understand their roles, are committed to taking action and can define success. Provide regular and meaningful updates on progress. Be clear and transparent. Create a common language in order to achieve greater organizational cohesion.\nImplement a system that enables innovation. For a business initiative to become successful, it will need a system to nurture, support and measure it. For instance, you could select a system like Lean, which started in manufacturing and now is being adopted in Health Care and Technology, as the backbone of driving transformative thinking. Or give people time to innovate (i.e. Google gives its employees 20% of their time to innovate)\nLead by example. Take the time to focus on becoming a better business leader, so you can model the behaviors you expect of others, particularly during difficult or critical periods. Nothing will make the cultural change more successful than this one act. Be persistent, be authentic and be open minded to opportunity.\nHire, train and build innovative talent. Make the recruitment and retention of key staff that support your innovation strategy a key priority. Help your current staff to develop new skills and find the right way to contribute in a more innovative environment, while hiring new staff that can fill the gaps and have the skills and abilities to drive innovation. Be consistently focused on market problems and customer needs.\nFail faster: Encourage more risk-taking and make failing for taking measured risks both acceptable and an opportunity. Find ways to decrease the failure cycle time, which will drive new opportunities from the failures, and move the company ahead faster.\nDon’t innovate for the sake of it. Rather use innovation as a core strategy to build a dominate market position, enabling your company to adapt and transform, creating long-term shareholder value well into the future.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9879099130630493}
+{"content": "Identification, Images, & Information\nFor Insects, Spiders & Their Kin\nFor the United States & Canada\nClickable Guide\n\nUpcoming Events\n\n\nNational Moth Week 2020 photos of insects and people.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos of insects and people from the 2012 gathering in Alabama\n\n\nTribe Arphiini\n\nRed-winged Grasshopper - Arphia pseudonietana - female Tomonotus ferruginosus - male Lactista gibbosa, perhaps? - Lactista gibbosa Grasshopper - Arphia granulata - male Grasshopper - Lactista gibbosa - male A female, grasshopper nymph? - Lactista azteca Arphia conspersa Arphia xanthoptera  - Arphia xanthoptera - female\nKingdom Animalia (Animals)\nPhylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)\nSubphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)\nClass Insecta (Insects)\nOrder Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)\nSuborder Caelifera (Grasshoppers)\nFamily Acrididae (Short-horned Grasshoppers)\nSubfamily Oedipodinae (Band-winged Grasshoppers)\nTribe Arphiini\nSynonyms and other taxonomic changes\nArphia Genus Group D. Otte, 1984\ntribe Arphiini D. Otte, 1995\nMostly small to medium sized species. In many ways similar to the Hippiscini, but generally more slender, often with bodies deeper than wide, usually with the crest of the pronotum well-developed (sometimes quite high) and cut only once or not at all). Antennae often rather thick. Coloring usually almost plain in grays or browns, and often speckled, but sometimes with one to three dark bands across the tegmina (usually broken or irregular and ill-defined, but sometimes solid). Hind wings are usually colored yellow to pink or red, rarely blue (not north of Mexico), with a dark cross band usually curving around the outer margin and with a long spur projecting toward the base near the front margin. Hind tibiae most often brownish, yellowish, green, or blue, occasionally black (not reddish). The male epiphalus is not trilobed toward the ends, but rather \"normally\" bilobed. Nearly all species can crepitate with a buzz or continuous crackling sound (but apparently there are some exceptions).\nNorth America to northern South America\nMembers of the tribe Chortophagini have often been been considered closely akin to members of this tribe, and they are rather similar in morphology. However, molecular studies imply that they are not closely related. Chortophagini differ from Arphiini in having wings not bightly colored with dark band indicated at most by cloudy dark coloring (or bright blue and black in one species).\n\nThe Arphiini are probably most closely akin to the Hippiscini.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8749018311500549}
+{"content": "Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Sometimes it is better to be dishonest with people than to always tell them the truth. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.\n\nMaintaining healthy relationships can be very difficult in today’s world, and there are many aspects of our interactions with others that we need to worry about. One repetitive concern is whether we need to be honest with others in all situations or it is acceptable not to be for some reasons. In my opinion, there are times when it is better not to not tell the truth to others. I feel this way for two reasons which I will explore in the following paragraphs. First of all, telling small lies can sometimes motivate the people we care about to excel. Humans are very competitive and want to be the best at whatever task they have been assigned to. Whether they are involved in an athletic event or taking a test at school, they feel more motivated if they think it is possible that they will achieve an impressive result. In cases like these, sometimes lying about their potential can encourage them to perform well. My own experience is a compelling example of this. Last year, my friend signed updecided to take part forin a sport exam coopetitionin our city. I knew that he would struggle to even finish the event, but I wanted him to feel confident about his ability. Accordingly, when he asked me for my opinion, I lied and said that he had a the chance of finishing in the top ten. This gave him a lot of confidence and he dedicated himself to training practicing for the sport event. Had I told him what I really thought, he might have given up altogether. Secondly, being honest all of the time can lead to high levels of anxiety. If we tell unpleasant truths, we may spend days or hours worrying about the possible consequences of what we have revealed. For instance, last week a friend asked me what I thought of her new hairstyle. I was honest, and said that I thought it looked terrible. I could see that she was really hurt by what I said. As a result of this, I spent the rest of the day worrying it that I had jeopardized our friendship. I am still a bit nervous that my friend will hold a grudge against me. Had I simply said that her hair looked wonderful, I could have avoided all of these feelings. In conclusion, I believe that there are times when it is best not to not tell the truth to others. This is because little lies can motivate people to perform well, and because always being honest can sometimes cause personal turmoil.\nSubmitted by Fardad Didaran on\nWhat to do next:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9449647068977356}
+{"content": "Question: What Does Drawing File Is Write Protected Mean?\n\nWhy is my AutoCAD file write protected?\n\nCauses: AutoCAD does not have elevated permissions.\n\n\nHow do I make my AutoCAD file not read only?\n\nMake the files accessibleRight-click the DWG file.Choose Properties.Uncheck “Read-only” and click OK.\n\nWhy is my AutoCAD file read only?\n\nFiles permissions Check that correct permissions are set on DWG and BAK files, and hidden DWL and DWL2 files. Confirm that full read-write permissions are on the folder location being saved to. Read access may be enabled but not write access.\n\nHow do I lock a copy of an Autocad file?\n\n\nHow do you unlock a block in Autocad?\n\nSolution:Open the block in the Block Editor.In the Block Editor, make sure nothing is selected.In the Properties palette(Ctrl+1), under Block, select the Allow Exploding option.From the drop-down list, select Yes.On the Block Editor toolbar, click Save Block Definition.More items…•\n\nHow do I edit a drawing in AutoCAD?\n\nEditing PDF and Other Drawing File Formats in AutoCADOpen a new or existing drawing file.On the Application menu, choose Import → PDF.Press Enter.Browse to and select the desired PDF file using the file dialog box that has appeared.Click Open. The Import PDF dialog box appears.Click OK. For your first try, you probably want to go with the defaults.\n\nHow do I remove a write protected drawing?\n\n\nHow do you make an AutoCAD drawing not editable?\n\nDWG and DXF files are always editable. To avoid editing or replication, the best solution is to create a DWF or PDF file.\n\nHow do I recover a corrupt AutoCAD file?\n\nIf the file opens, there is no need to continue to the rest of the steps.Open a blank DWG and run the RECOVER command. … Open a blank DWG and run the RECOVERALL command. … Open a blank DWG and run the INSERT command. … Look in the same directory where the DWG resides and see if there is a BAK file of the same name.More items…•\n\nHow do I unlock an object in AutoCAD?\n\nBy Selecting an ObjectClick the Model tab.Do either of the following: Click Home tab Layers panel Lock. Find. Click Home tab Layers panel Unlock. Find.Select an object on the layer that you want to lock or unlock.\n\nHow do you unlock all layers in AutoCAD?\n\nTo unlock Layers, use the ‘LAYULK’ command. Tip: Set the ‘LAYLOCKFADECTL’ command variable to ‘fade’ the locked Layers, for quick visible feedback.\n\nHow do I create a write protected file in AutoCAD?\n\nRight click on . DWG file, go to properties. Select Read Only. Anyone can make a copy of the file and write on it anyway.\n\nHow do I open an AutoCAD file that is read only?\n\nIt is really just as easy as opening AutoCAD, clicking on Open Files, highlight the drawing you want to open, then click on the little dropdown arrow to the right of the OPEN button, and choose Open Read-Only.\n\nHow do I unprotect a DWG file?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9373651146888733}
+{"content": "Cryptocurrency, Altcoins and TheirProperties\n\nIn many ways, cryptocurrency, altcoins and their particular properties are as different because the water from your ocean. There is nothing about one which could be generalized to the other. One is a item of another, but this will not make it the same. It makes it unique.\n\nWhile all cryptocurrencies have their own characteristics, each has its own history, its own economics, its own user base, its own prices, its trading signals, and its own trading signals and signals. The reality is that none of the things are so simple they can be characterized to exactly the same extent. Like any money or commodity, their pricing varies every once in awhile.\n\nAmong the cryptocurrencies, there are those which are created for cause of speculations within the financial markets, while others provide security procedures by investing of various other currencies. Then More Support can find those which are created as a means of investing in the future of a small business, while you can find those which are manufactured to provide another because of its users. All possess their own distinct characteristics and although, all can market along with the others, they all can also swap differently.\n\nAnother characteristic from the cryptocurrencies is that all have certain security considerations and limitations that must definitely be considered before utilizing them. Normally, this is because of the risks of theft and scams which may have an effect on the overall market capitalization of a currency. Since it may be hard to look for the worth of a money, or to calculate its total marketplace capitalization, in order to make transactions, security methods are essential.\n\nThese security actions are made to prevent the currencies of different cryptocurrencies from trading freely with each other without any limitations. So, if you wish to use the currency which is not really of a particular purchase, the restrictions will be limited, or any fines or penalties levied by way of a governmental entire body wouldn’t normally utilize. This approach is comparable to what government agencies use to control goldand silver.\n\nIn numerous cases, crypto-currencies are the items of ICO or Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The purpose of an ICO would be to finance a new project within the cryptocurrency markets. In exchange, the investors will obtain tokens or shares in the formed entity newly. As these are designed for speculation purposes, the price will continuously fluctuate.\n\nAlthough ICOs may be a large amount of fun, they are scams basically, since no real value has been distributed. Investors are usually getting their tokens to play with and because of this simply, the value of the token cannot be quickly decided. Thus, the ICO is really a scam.\n\nAs pointed out, just click %url_domain% would not be much various. However, to make it more profitable, it would be less complicated to consider it from the true viewpoint of a user. Quite simply, it’ll be more about what an individual can do with the digital currency, as opposed to its possible future market value.\n\nhelpful site could actually swap one digital money for another by simply doing a purchase via an altcoin exchange system, which may be another method of looking at it. It would be determined by the method by which the purchase occurs also.\n\nThe altcoin is also traded like the stock market is traded, either by buying or selling on the open market. The thing that should be remembered is that the value of the currencies may differ. Because of the unpredictability from the exchange market, you can find risks involved.\n\nFortunately, there are a few common pitfalls to consider. It will always be smart to learn more about what the cash are, how they work, as well as the disadvantages and advantages they may have got.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7360390424728394}
+{"content": "Did Aizawa Lose An Arm?\n\nDoes Eraserhead die?\n\nAfter seemingly killing off Shirakumo at the end of Chapter 64 of the series, Chapter 65 confirms that Oboro Shirakumo tragically lost his life in a battle with a villain.\n\nThis has set Aizawa on his loner path, and explains much of what we understand about the current Eraser Head in the main series..\n\nWho married Bakugo?\n\nEijiro Kirishima3 Katsuki Bakugo & Eijiro Kirishima.\n\nWho does Aizawa have a crush on?\n\nFukukado EmiSeason Three welcomed Ms. Joke to the stage, and Fukukado Emi has a big crush on Aizawa. The heroine made a short cameo way back in My Hero Academia’s 20th episode, but she just got her full reveal this week. Emi was introduced as the Pro Hero with her own students who need to get their Provisional Hero License.\n\nIs Denki kaminari a girl?\n\nAboutJapanese Name:上鳴電気Alias:Stun Gun Hero “Chargebolt” (スタンガンヒーロー・チャージズマ Sutan Gan Hīrō Chājizuma)Birthday:June 29thAge:15 16 (From School Trip Arc)Gender:Male13 more rows\n\nHow did Mineta get into UA?\n\nThe goal in the entrance exam was to incapacitate the faux villain robots, so Mineta stuck his balls to the ground and walls, essentially setting traps that would render the robots immobile. … As you can see, Mineta got into the UA Academy course not for brawn but brains.\n\nWho does Denki have a crush on?\n\nSeroSero has a crush on Denki.\n\nDoes Eraserhead get married?\n\nThere’s little information about Aizawa’s life outside of the U.A. Due to this, it is unknown whether he is married or has any children. However, due to his surprisingly nurturing character and Quirk, he has been acting as Eri’s guardian and foster father.\n\nHow tall is Mineta?\n\n108 cmAboutAliasFresh-Picked Hero “Grape Juice”GenderMaleHeight108 cm (3′ 6½”)Hair colourPurple and BlackEye colourBlack8 more rows\n\nIs shinso Aizawa’s son?\n\nAizawa has become Dad-zawa to Shinso, and fans are loving it. In the same way he believed in Izuku once the student found a way to use his quirk, Aizawa sees the same potential in Shinso. … The story follows Izuku Midoriya, who lives in a world where everyone has super powers, even though he was born without them.\n\nWho is the UA traitor?\n\nToru Hagakure9 Toru Hagakure Is The Traitor For the most part, Toru Hagakure is a secondary character who rarely influences the overarching premise of My Hero Academia. However, it’s her invisibility quirk that demands suspicion.\n\nIs present MIC married to Aizawa?\n\nAizawa is married to Hizashi. Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead and Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic are married.\n\nWho kills all might?\n\nTomura ShigarakiAll Might will be killed by Tomura Shigaraki, the successor of All For One. This will also fit in with Sir Nighteye’s prediction that All Might will die a tragic and horrible death at the hands of a villain. Shigaraki has received all For One’s powers and become the most feared and strongest villain in the series.\n\nDoes Aizawa have a cat?\n\n9 He’s A Cat Person Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Shota Aizawa is actually a cat person. In fact, when he was younger, it was a chance meeting with a cat that would help to affirm him as the talented hero that he would one day become.\n\nWhat episode does Mr Aizawa die?\n\nGame Over (ゲームオーバー, Gēmu Ōbā?) is the 11th episode of the My Hero Academia anime.\n\nIs 13 a boy or girl BNHA?\n\nBNHA Ultra Analysis book has confirmed that Thirteen is female. “It’s hard to tell due to the size of the costume, but Thirteen is, in fact, a woman.”\n\nHow did Aizawa die?\n\nThe other heroes react, but not quickly enough to save Aizawa from the incoming bullet aimed his way. It pierces him through his wounded leg — a leg which had already been crushed by falling debris during Shiagraki’s earlier Decay Wave and led to Crust sacrificing his life in order to save Aizawa’s own.\n\nDoes Aizawa lose eye?\n\nAnd as you can see below, Aizawa is missing an eye in these new posters. … The hero took direct blows to his face from Shigaraki, so fans were convinced the hero’s eye had been damaged beyond repair. And as it turns out, their big hunch was right.\n\nDid Eraserhead lose his eyes?\n\nShiggy dug deep around Aizawa’s face and the blood pouring down probably made it hard for Aizawa to keep it open. Yeah Aizawa lost his eye. It’s displayed in one of the most recent my hero artworks. Thankfully he can still use his quirk as normal.\n\nIs there actually a UA traitor?\n\n1 There Is No Traitor The idea of there not being an actual traitor stems back to the fact that Horikoshi totally forgot about the traitor subplot and that it hasn’t really been mentioned in a while.\n\nDoes Shigaraki die?\n\nShigaraki Tomura is not dead. He went into a comatose state after Present Mic broke his capsule in Dr. Ujiko’s lab during the raid. After an edgy battle of wills with his conscience, Shigaraki manages to wake up as the new inheritor of evil and user of All for One.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.59361732006073}
+{"content": "Atom music lets listeners experience atomic world through sound\n\nJill Linz describing atom music during a TEDx Talk. Credit: Skidmore College\n\nAtom music is a fun new way to explore the atomic world via musical synthesis techniques.\n\nAtoms absorb and release energy in the form of photons that we perceive as different colors—think . These colors can be passed through a grating or prism that reveals the atom’s individual spectrum as a set of colored lines. The lines are specific to the atom and can be used to identify the element to which it belongs.\n\nDuring the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held Dec. 2-6, at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, Jill Linz, from Skidmore College, will describe how her interpretation of the interconnectedness of and led her to create spectral scales.\n\n“The basic premise of music synthesis is that all sound, from a simple octave to white noise, can be produced by simply adding together enough single-frequency sine waves in the right amounts,” said Linz.\n\nIndividual sine waves can be organized in a bar chart that represents a Fourier Transform, where each line on the chart is the frequency of an individual tone and the height of the lines is the amplitude (loudness) of the tone. “Think of this chart as a recipe for the sound,” she said.\n\nEach line in the chart represents a different ingredient. The height of the line represents the amount of that ingredient to be used.\n\n“As with cooking, we can use the same basic ingredients to create entirely different dishes by simply adjusting the amounts of ingredients,” Linz said. “To create atom music scales, the ingredients are determined by the scaled frequencies of the atomic spectra.”\n\nThe advent of audio synthesis and audio editing programs “made it possible to visualize sound in a way that wasn’t possible before,” said Linz. “It gave us insight into how sounds are produced and manipulated, which changed the way audio is produced and engineered. By using data from atomic spectra, we are now able to gain insight into the atomic world.”\n\nIs the way Linz determined her scales the only way to convert light waves into sound waves? “Not at all, but hopefully others are inspired to investigate the atomic world in a new and exciting way,” she said.\n\nMore information:\nLinz’s presentation 3aMU2, “Atom music: exploring the atomic world through sound,” will be at 9:15 a.m. PT, Wednesday, Dec. 4, in the Coronet room of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.\n\nProvided by\nAcoustical Society of America\n\nAtom music lets listeners experience atomic world through sound (2019, December 4)\nretrieved 4 December 2019\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7704795598983765}
+{"content": "‘Creative’ genes gave Homo sapiens edge over Neanderthals: study.\n\n\n\nResearchers have discovered a series of creativity-linked genes that may have given Homo sapiens a significant edge over Neanderthals, enabling them to avoid extinction.\n\nThe findings suggest that these genes played “a fundamental role in the evolution of creativity, self-awareness and cooperative behavior,” the multinational research team wrote Wednesday in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry.\n\nSuch genes were like “a secret weapon” that gave modern humans “a significant advantage over now-extinct hominids by fostering greater resilience to aging, injury, and disease, they wrote.\n\nLed by Granada University in Spain, the experts identified 267 genes unique to humans, and through genetic markers, genetic expression data and AI-related MRI techniques, found they were related to creativity.\n\n“The scientists were able to identify the regions of the brain in which those genes (and those with which they interacted) were overexpressed,” they wrote.\n\n“These regions are involved in human self-awareness and creativity, and include the regions that are strongly associated with human well-being and that appeared relatively recently.”\n\nPreviously, the same team had identified a pool of 972 genes organized into three brain networks, the oldest—which relates to learning habits, social attachment and conflict resolution—dating back 40 million years.\n\nThe second network—which relates to intentional self-control—emerged 2 million years ago, while the newest, governing creative self-awareness, only emerged 100,000 years ago.\n\n“Thanks to these genes, Homo sapiens enjoyed greater physical fitness than now-extinct hominids, providing them with a superior level of resilience to aging, injury, and disease,” they wrote.\n\n“Physical fitness, or resilience, is intrinsic to the definition of creativity,” said the study’s lead author Igor Zwir.\n\nThe finding offers fresh insight into the mystery of why Homo sapiens outlived the Neanderthals and other species.\n\nThe authors said creativity may have encouraged cooperation between individuals which would have set the stage for technological innovation, behavioral flexibility and openness to exploration, enabling them to spread out more successfully than their predecessors.\n\n\nLeave A Reply", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5404703617095947}
+{"content": "With the recent news that some BigLaw starting salaries are rising to $190,000, it’s no wonder that law school continues to be a top destination for recent college graduates. However, the truth behind those starting salaries—and given the volatility of the legal job market and the effects of globalization and technology on the business of law—should give one pause before taking out $200,000 in school loans.\n\nSo the question remains: Should you go to law school? The answer according to two legal industry experts? It depends.\n\nNicole Black and Heather Morse are two leading voices in the legal industry when it comes to discussing business of law trends, from the intersection of technology and the practice of law to the inner workings of successful law firms. Both are frequently asked for their advice by potential students considering law school. Here’s what they have to say about the wisdom of attending law school in 2018.\n\nNicole: I recently received an email from a young man who was considering attending law school, and was seeking my opinion on the advisability of doing so. He told me he’d approached other lawyers for their input on the value of a law degree in 2018 and had received “mixed signals.”\n\nHeather: Given the financial investment to attend law school, with no guarantees of a high-paying job at the end of three years, I’m not surprised to hear that. To be honest, I’m often shocked by the lack of due diligence by the students. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with a 1L who is attending an Ivy League law school. “What type of law are you looking to practice?” I asked her. “BigLaw,” she replied. This led to me to immediately jump on my Legal Watercooler soap box about the current state of the business of law, especially where law school students are concerned.\n\n\nHeather: If you’re in it for the money, the truth is that very few lawyers will see those highly coveted and published $190,000 salaries as first-year associates. In fact, according to US News & World Report, the median salary for a lawyer in 2016 was $118,160. And, a stat rarely touted is that the median private sector salary amongst 2016 graduates was $68,375. Unless you are graduating at the top of your class from a Tier 1 law school, the average student loan debt of more than $100,000 could be crippling as you enter the workforce.\n\nNicole: In addition, economic forces continue to contribute to the declining legal job market and are causing increased stress and lack of job satisfaction for current lawyers. Also problematic is, as Heather mentioned, that recent graduates tend to emerge from law school deep in debt with no light at the end of the tunnel given the depressed market. Because it’s such a stressful profession, burnout is common. As a result, lawyers suffer from high rates of depression, substance abuse and suicide.\n\nHeather Morse.\n\nHeather: Another big concern to keep in mind is the bar passage rate in your state, and for your school in particular. In my home state of California, the overall pass rate from the February 2018 exam was 27.3 percent, with a first-time pass rate of 39 percent. Before attending law school, I would ask myself, “Am I willing to take on $100,000 or more in debt with these types of odds?”\n\nNicole: It’s also important to acknowledge that there’s a decreasing demand for entry-level lawyers. Technology continues to supplant and replace much of the legal work traditionally performed by newly hired associates, thus reducing the need for the same. To add to this, many law schools aren’t doing a great job educating students to succeed in the face of all the changes. They’re failing to adapt to changing times and, instead, many are focused on maintaining the status quo as long as it’s profitable.\n\nHeather: We’re seeing those trends played out in the law firm. Law schools teach you how to think, but they don’t necessarily teach you how to practice law. Corporate clients are no longer willing to pay the costs associated with the on-the-job training needed in those first few years. Therefore, law firms are hiring fewer recent law school graduates; and when they do, they’re only hiring from a select number of schools. Many firms have now adopted a strategy of only hiring third or fourth years students who have been trained by an AmLaw 100 firm.\n\n\nNicole: For starters, it’s a great education that will provide foundational skills, such as analytical thinking and persuasion capabilities, that easily translate and provide value to many different career paths, both legal and non-legal.\n\nHeather: For those passionate about social justice, a law degree is a powerful tool. Now more than ever, we need good lawyers out there who can right wrongs, to cut through red tape, to make a difference for their clients. Whether in private practice or public service, being a lawyer is still a noble profession, and we will always need good advocates.\n\nNicole: Access to justice is another important and somewhat related consideration that aligns with social justice. Legal services funding has been drastically cut in recent years, resulting in reduced access. Rural areas in the United States are particularly underserved and in need of dedicated lawyers who are focused on making a difference in the lives of those who need their assistance the most.\n\nHeather: To me it comes down to the “why.” Keep asking yourself those why questions to find your motivation. I spoke to a friend recently who is considering going to law school as a second career (he’s in his early 40s). After a series of “why” questions, his motives for law school were sound, and he asked if he could call me once he began his application process.\n\n\nNicole: While it’s difficult to reduce it to one or two pieces of advice. I would suggest:\n\n  1. Take some time off to travel and explore the world and grow as a person.\n  2. Intern in a law office to learn what it’s truly like to practice law in order to decide if it’s really what you want to do.\n  3. Consider night school or a lower-tier law school that offers scholarship options so that you can pay for law school as you go and avoid debt.\n  4. Read the book Tomorrow’s Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future by Richard Susskind from cover to cover prior to committing to law school.\n  5. Ensure that you have a thorough understanding of the effects of the changing legal landscape and how they’re affecting the delivery of legal services. That way you can take steps to position yourself to take advantage of the changes once you graduate.\n\nHeather: I couldn’t agree more with No. 2. Right after college, I worked in a highly regarded law firm while studying for my LSATs. I learned very quickly that the corporate law firm lifestyle was not the place for me. Unfortunately, I did not have a mentor at the time and did not realize that corporate law (or BigLaw) wasn’t an actual discipline of law, and there were other choices. So my final pieces of advice would be:\n\n  1. Find a great mentor.\n  2. Realize that the decision to attend law school is not a choice between right and wrong: It is a choice between right and right. How you make that decision is a defining moment. (See Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right, by Joseph L. Badaracco.)\n  3. Should you decide that practice of law is not the right choice for you, keep in mind that the legal industry provides numerous career pathways, with or without a JD.\n\n\nHeather Morse is a senior legal marketing professional partnering with lawyers and law firms on business development strategies and the business of law. Heather currently oversees the business development, marketing, and public relations initiatives for Greenberg Glusker, a mid-sized firm based in Los Angeles. Heather is a 2018 Fellow-elect in the College of Law Practice Management and the founder and editor of The Legal Watercooler, an award-winning blog dedicated to discussions surrounding the business of law. She can be contacted at hmorse@ggfirm.com.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7651764154434204}
+{"content": "A step\n\nI have for some time now been wanting to put more time into my artistic practice, but balancing a full-time teaching job and a rich family life, has meant that practical creativity has often been pushed to the side.\n\nTime to make a change.\n\nMaking a move to part-time employment has been on my mind for a while, but the doubts have always crept in and forced me to remain in the status quo. The uncertainty of providing for my family and the struggle to make ends meet being the overriding ‘voice of reason’ in my head for a long while.\n\nWithout going into too much depth (which I may or may not do in later posts), a tough few years, the growing realisation that life is too short, and encouragement and support from family and friends, I have finally mustered to courage to take the step towards my goals. Financial concerns do cross my mind, however, they also provide an incentive that I must make this work on different levels, artistically, emotionally, socially, and financially.\n\nIt may be exciting and it may be scary but I will be bold, and I will create.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9880517721176147}
+{"content": "IRAQ: Ankawa District Mayor visits headquarters of Bethnahrain Patriotic Union\n\nANKAWA, Iraq — Ankawa District Mayor, Rami Nuri Siyawash, accompanied by several directors of departments and administrative institutions, recently visited the headquarters of the Bethnahrain Patriotic Union (Huyodo d-Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA).\n\nSiyawash was received by the head of the HBA, Yusuf Yaqoub Matti, and several members of the political and executive bureau of the party.\n\nDuring the meeting, Siyawash talked about the relationship between the Ankawa District Administration and the components of the region, as well as areas various political parties and institutions. The importance of exchanging information, proposals, and criticisms to develop work in the district was also touched on. Siyawash indicated the need to identify and address problems and obstacles.\n\nMatti, in turn, explained the difference between the classic administrator and the leading administrator and how the leading administrator influences the cultures within service departments making them especially valuable to effective administration.\n\nMatti also emphasized the great importance of obtaining information from the people, understanding the problems they suffer, and developing solutions for them.\n\nHe referred to the successful experience in Baghdede District and how the District Mayor, Issam Behnam, used this administrative strategy to make Baghdede the best administered district in Nineveh Governorate.\n\nAt the end of the visit, Matti thanked Siyawash and his accompanying delegation for their positive initiative and wished them success in all their future decisions.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9995435476303101}
+{"content": "Treading new ground in household sector innovation research: Scope, emergence, business implications, and diffusion\n\nPaper by Jeroen Jong et al: “Individual consumers in the household sector increasingly develop products, services and processes, in their discretionary time without payment. Household sector innovation is becoming a pervasive phenomenon, representing a significant share of the innovation activity in any economy. Such innovation emerges from personal needs or self-rewards, and is distinct from and complementary to producer innovations motivated by commercial gains. In this introductory paper to the special issue on household sector innovation, we take stock of emerging research on the topic. We categorize the research into four areas: scope, emergence, implications for business, and diffusion. We develop a conceptual basis for the phenomenon, introduce the articles in the special issue, and show how each article contributes new insights. We end by offering a research agenda for scholars interested in the salient phenomenon of household sector innovation….(More)”.\n\nA growing problem of ‘deepfake geography’: How AI falsifies satellite images\n\nKim Eckart at UW News: “A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show widespread fireworks activity.\n\nBoth images exemplify what a new University of Washington-led study calls “location spoofing.” The photos — created by different people, for different purposes — are fake but look like genuine images of real places. And with the more sophisticated AI technologies available today, researchers warn that such “deepfake geography” could become a growing problem.\n\nSo, using satellite photos of three cities and drawing upon methods used to manipulate video and audio files, a team of researchers set out to identify new ways of detecting fake satellite photos, warn of the dangers of falsified geospatial data and call for a system of geographic fact-checking.\n\n“This isn’t just Photoshopping things. It’s making data look uncannily realistic,” said Bo Zhao, assistant professor of geography at the UW and lead author of the study, which published April 21 in the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science. “The techniques are already there. We’re just trying to expose the possibility of using the same techniques, and of the need to develop a coping strategy for it.”\n\nAs Zhao and his co-authors point out, fake locations and other inaccuracies have been part of mapmaking since ancient times. That’s due in part to the very nature of translating real-life locations to map form, as no map can capture a place exactly as it is. But some inaccuracies in maps are spoofs created by the mapmakers. The term “paper towns” describes discreetly placed fake cities, mountains, rivers or other features on a map to prevent copyright infringement. On the more lighthearted end of the spectrum, an official Michigan Department of Transportation highway map in the 1970s included the fictional cities of “Beatosu and “Goblu,” a play on “Beat OSU” and “Go Blue,” because the then-head of the department wanted to give a shoutout to his alma mater while protecting the copyright of the map….(More)”.\n\nThe EU General Data Protection Regulation: A Commentary/Update of Selected Articles\n\nOpen Access Book edited by C. Kuner, L.A. Bygrave and C. Docksey et al: ” provides an update for selected articles of the GDPR Commentary published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. It covers developments between the last date of coverage of the Commentary (1 August 2019) and 1 January 2021 (with a few exceptions when later developments are taken into account). Edited by Christopher Kuner, Lee A. Bygrave, Chris Docksey, Laura Drechsler, and Luca Tosoni, it covers 49 articles of the GDPR, and is being made freely accessible with the kind permission of Oxford University Press. It also includes two appendices that cover the same period as the rest of this update: the first deals with judgments of the European courts and some selected judgments of particular importance from national courts, and the second with EDPB papers…(More)”\n\nExperimental Regulations for AI: Sandboxes for Morals and Mores\n\nPaper by Sofia Ranchordas: “Recent EU legislative and policy initiatives aim to offer flexible, innovation-friendly, and future-proof regulatory frameworks. Key examples are the EU Coordinated Plan on AI and the recently published EU AI Regulation Proposal which refer to the importance of experimenting with regulatory sandboxes so as to balance innovation in AI against its potential risks. Originally developed in the Fintech sector, regulatory sandboxes create a testbed for a selected number of innovative projects, by waiving otherwise applicable rules, guiding compliance, or customizing enforcement. Despite the burgeoning literature on regulatory sandboxes and the regulation of AI, the legal, methodological, and ethical challenges of regulatory sandboxes have remained understudied. This exploratory article delves into the some of the benefits and intricacies of employing experimental legal instruments in the context of the regulation of AI. This article’s contribution is twofold: first, it contextualizes the adoption of regulatory sandboxes in the broader discussion on experimental approaches to regulation; second, it offers a reflection on the steps ahead for the design and implementation of AI regulatory sandboxes….(More)”.\n\nCan Democracy Safeguard the Future?\n\nBook by Graham Smith: “Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.\n\nIn this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes strengthening independent offices whose overarching goals do not change at every election. More radically, Smith argues that forms of participatory and deliberative politics offer the most effective democratic response to the current political myopia, as well as a powerful means of protecting the interests of generations to come….(More)”.\n\nThe Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups\n\nBook by William J. Bernstein: “…Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial roots of human irrationality. Bernstein tells the stories of dramatic religious and financial mania in western society over the last 500 years—from the Anabaptist Madness that afflicted the Low Countries in the 1530s to the dangerous End-Times beliefs that animate ISIS and pervade today’s polarized America; and from the South Sea Bubble to the Enron scandal and dot com bubbles of recent years. Through Bernstein’s supple prose, the participants are as colorful as their motivation, invariably “the desire to improve one’s well-being in this life or the next.”\n\nAs revealing about human nature as they are historically significant, Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass mania: for example, belief in dispensationalist End-Times has over decades profoundly affected U.S. Middle East policy. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its frequently dire impact….(More)”.\n\nBuilding on a year of open data: progress and promise\n\nJennifer Yokoyama at Microsoft: “…The biggest takeaway from our work this past year – and the one thing I hope any reader of this post will take away – is that data collaboration is a spectrum. From the presence (or absence) of data to how open that data is to the trust level of the collaboration participants, these factors may necessarily lead to different configurations and different goals, but they can all lead to more open data and innovative insights and discoveries.\n\nHere are a few other lessons we have learned over the last year:\n\n  1. Principles set the foundation for stakeholder collaboration: When we launched the Open Data Campaign, we adopted five principles that guide our contributions and commitments to trusted data collaborations: Open, Usable, Empowering, Secure and Private. These principles underpin our participation, but importantly, organizations can build on them to establish responsible ways to share and collaborate around their data. The London Data Commission, for example, established a set of data sharing principles for public- and private-sector organizations to ensure alignment and to guide the participating groups in how they share data.\n  2. There is value in pilot projects: Traditionally, data collaborations with several stakeholders require time – often including a long runway for building the collaboration, plus the time needed to execute on the project and learn from it. However, our learnings show short-term projects that experiment and test data collaborations can provide valuable insights. The London Data Commission did exactly that with the launch of four short-term pilot projects. Due to the success of the pilots, the partners are exploring how they can be expanded upon.\n  3. Open data doesn’t require new data: Identifying data to share does not always mean it must be newly shared data; sometimes the data was narrowly shared, but can be shared more broadly, made more accessible or analyzed for a different purpose. Microsoft’s environmental indicator data is an example of data that was already disclosed in certain venues, but was then made available to the Linux Foundation’s OS-Climate Initiative to be consumed through analytics, thereby extending its reach and impact…\n\nTo get started, we suggest that emerging data collaborations make use of the wealth of existing resources. When embarking on data collaborations, we leveraged many of the definitions, toolkits and guides from leading organizations in this space. As examples, resources such as the Open Data Institute’s Data Ethics Canvas are extremely useful as a framework to develop ethical guidance. Additionally, The GovLab’s Open Data Policy Lab and Executive Course on Data Stewardship, both supported by Microsoft, highlight important case studies, governance considerations and frameworks when sharing data. If you want to learn more about the exciting work our partners are doing, check out the latest posts from the Open Data Institute and GovLab…(More)”. See also Open Data Policy Lab.\n\nArtificial Intelligence in Migration: Its Positive and Negative Implications\n\nArticle by Priya Dialani: “Research and development in new technologies for migration management are rapidly increasing. To quote certain migration examples, big data was used to predict population movements in the Mediterranean, AI lie detectors used at the European border, and the recent one is the government of Canada using automated decision-making in immigration and refugee applications. Artificial intelligence in migration is helping countries to manage international migration.\n\nEvery corner of the world is encountering an unprecedented number of challenging migration crises. As an increasing number of people are interacting with immigration and refugee determination systems, nations are taking a stab at artificial intelligence. AI in global immigration is helping countries to automate a plethora of decisions that are made almost daily as people want to cross borders and look for new homes.\n\nAI projects in migration management can help in predicting the next migration crisis with better accuracy. Artificial intelligence can predict the movements of people migrating by taking into account different types of data such as WiFi positioning, Google Trends, etc. This data can further help the nations and government to be prepared more efficiently for mass migration. Governments can use AI algorithms to examine huge datasets and look for potential gaps in their reception facilities such as the absence of appropriate places for people or vulnerable unaccompanied children.\n\nRecognizing such gaps can allow the government to alter their reception conditions as well as be prepared to comply with their legal obligations under international human rights law (IHRL).\n\nAI applications can also help in changing the lives of asylum seekers and refugees. AI machine learning and optimized algorithms are helping in improving refugee integration. Annie MOORE (Matching Outcome Optimization for Refugee Empowerment) is one such project that matches refugees to communities where they can find the resources and environment as per their preferences and needs.\n\nAsylum seekers or refugees most of the time lack access to lawyers and legal advice. A UK-based chatbot DoNotPay provides free legal advice to asylum seekers using intelligent algorithms. It also provides personalized legal support, which includes help through the UK asylum application process.\n\nAI tech is not just helpful to the government but also to international organisations taking care of international migration. Some organizations are already leveraging machine learning in association with biometric technology. IOM has introduced the Big Data for Migration Alliance project, which intends to use different technologies in international migration….(More)”.\n\nThe Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance\n\nBook by Steven Feldstein: “The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently developed a formidable array of technological capabilities to constrain and repress their citizens.\n\nIn The Rise of Digital Repression, Steven Feldstein documents how the emergence of advanced digital tools bring new dimensions to political repression. Presenting new field research from Thailand, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, he investigates the goals, motivations, and drivers of these digital tactics. Feldstein further highlights how governments pursue digital strategies based on a range of factors: ongoing levels of repression, political leadership, state capacity, and technological development. The international community, he argues, is already seeing glimpses of what the frontiers of repression look like. For instance, Chinese authorities have brought together mass surveillance, censorship, DNA collection, and artificial intelligence to enforce their directives in Xinjiang. As many of these trends go global, Feldstein shows how this has major implications for democracies and civil society activists around the world.\n\nA compelling synthesis of how anti-democratic leaders harness powerful technology to advance their political objectives, The Rise of Digital Repression concludes by laying out innovative ideas and strategies for civil society and opposition movements to respond to the digital autocratic wave….(More)”.\n\nLearning Policy, Doing Policy: Interactions Between Public Policy Theory, Practice and Teaching\n\nOpen Access Book edited by: Trish Mercer, Russell Ayres, Brian Head, and John Wanna: “When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned ‘on the job’, with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qualifications and/or through short courses in policy training.\n\nLearning Policy, Doing Policy explores how policy theory is understood by practitioners and how it influences their practice. The book brings together insights from research, teaching and practice on an issue that has so far been understudied. Contributors include Australian and international policy scholars, and current and former practitioners from government agencies. The first part of the book focuses on theorising, teaching and learning about the policymaking process; the second part outlines how current and former practitioners have employed policy process theory in the form of models or frameworks to guide and analyse policymaking in practice; and the final part examines how policy theory insights can assist policy practitioners.\n\nIn exploring how policy process theory is developed, taught and taken into policymaking practice, Learning Policy, Doing Policy draws on the expertise of academics and practitioners, and also ‘pracademics’ who often serve as a bridge between the academy and government. It draws on a range of both conceptual and applied examples. Its themes are highly relevant for both individuals and institutions, and reflect trends towards a stronger professional ethos in the Australian Public Service. This book is a timely resource for policy scholars, teaching academics, students and policy practitioners….(More)”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9940128326416016}
+{"content": "“Prioritize sleep.” with Sue Heikkinen\n\nPrioritize sleep. You can have the best of intentions to focus, but being sleep-deprived will rob you of the ability to focus and retain information. Inadequate sleep also makes it harder to synthesize new ideas.Both quantity and quality of sleep are essential. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adults need about 7–9 hours of sleep nightly. […]\n\n\n\nBoth quantity and quality of sleep are essential. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adults need about 7–9 hours of sleep nightly. Poor quality sleep can result from untreated sleep apnea, depression and stress.\n\nAsa part of our series about “How Anyone Can Build Habits for Optimal Wellness, Performance, & Focus”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sue Heikkinen. She has 20+ year’s experience providing nutrition counseling and education for wellness and medical conditions. She is a nutrition consultant to MyNetDiary (, a top-rated nutrition-tracking app with over 11.5 million global users. Sue is also a clinical dietitian in a medical office.\n\nSue has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and Psychology from the University of Colorado and completed a Master’s Degree in Nutrition Science and Dietetic Internship with the University of Minnesota. She is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management, and an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer.\n\nSue avoided vegetables at all costs as a child and is living proof that change is possible! She loves helping people develop a healthy, guilt-free relationship with food while finding a plan that fits their lifestyle. Sue lives with her family in Boulder County, Colorado. She enjoys walks, hikes, and exploring the beautiful state. Sue enjoys cooking healthy, simple recipes–the more vegetables, the better.\n\n\n\nIwas the kid who would pick off any traces of lettuce or onion in a sandwich and move the peas around on the plate in effort to make it appear I was actually eating them! Who would have guessed this non-vegetable-eating child would grow up to be a dietitian? I didn’t discover that vegetables can actually taste good until college, a time when I also began to develop my interest cooking.\n\nIn college, I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the health field, but unfortunately was too squeamish for many health professions. I signed up for a nutrition elective, the only course that fit in my schedule, and very soon I was hooked! As a double major in Biology and Psychology, I realized the field of nutrition offered the perfect combination of science, behavioral change, and best of all, food!\n\nMy work with MyNetDiary came about by reconnecting with a skilled and respected former colleague, Brenda Braslow. Brenda had been working with MyNetDiary for several years. She encouraged me to consider working with this innovative company, despite my lack of expertise with app technology. Brenda assured me that the app developers were committed to providing quality, evidence-based, nutrition information and resources to users. It’s been a steep learning curve, but I’m thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to help people meet their health goals with the use of technology.\n\n\nMy husband, Chris. While we didn’t meet until I was well into my career, he is always the one to tell me to go for it, even during times of self-doubt. He observes that I find great meaning in my work and reminds me I will always find a way to be successful in a task that is important to me. Chris is also a guinea pig for new recipes and ideas and has even admitted to enjoying kale chips and roasted broccoli.\n\n\nDuring my internship, a supervising dietitian advised me not to ask patients open-ended questions, noting “they are just going to talk” and take too much of our time. My mistake was heeding this advice.\n\nI learned quickly that open-ended questions are often the quickest way to get to the heart of the matter, ultimately saving time in the end. Asking a client what they would like to discuss can offer tremendous insight to frame the conversation, rather than diving in with my own agenda. As one example, perhaps a client is feeling devastated about a new diabetes diagnosis, which is important to acknowledge and address before diving into their eating plan. You have to understand the full picture, or else they won’t be ready to engage in a realistic plan.\n\n\nI would say, always be curious and don’t be afraid to say you don’t know or ask questions. You will never be an expert in everything. Nutrition is a young, evolving science and that’s what makes it fun and interesting!\n\n\nI thoroughly enjoyed and connected with Tiny Habits by behavioral researcher BJ Fogg. I wound up reviewing it for our blog on MyNetDiary. Fogg’s approach is to start with very tiny changes, which allow people to establish successful habits that they can then build on. While not specifically a diet book, this approach translates very well to making changes to the way we eat. I think people often get overwhelmed at the prospect of making changes, or set the bar too high, which is why the “Tiny Habits” approach is usually more realistic. I love his personal example of starting a flossing habit by committing to flossing one tooth!\n\n\n“Don’t believe everything you think.”\n\nOur internal “self-talk” can set the stage for success or failure. We will always have negative self-talk, but it doesn’t mean we have to believe it or act on it. I try to apply the self-talk strategy I use with my clients by asking: “Is it true? Is it helpful? Is this how I would talk to a friend?” If the answer to one or more of these questions is “no”, I know to challenge the self-talk.\n\n\nAt MyNetDiary we have been hard at work developing new eating plans and accompanying resources, such as recipes, tips, and even interactive online communities so that users feel supported on their weight loss journey. I love that it will allow our users to take charge of their health goal. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to eating, which is why a lot of diets fail! The best “diet” is the one that fits their specific lifestyle, preferences and goals, which is why MyNetDiary puts a strong focus on customization, offering customers a variety of diets based on their specific preferences from Mediterranean to low-carb or vegan (and many more). Furthermore, users can customize tracking options from measuring carb and protein intake to calorie distribution and macronutrient targets and get access to quick and healthy Premium Recipes.\n\nOK, thank you for all of that. Let’s now shift to the core focus of our interview. This will be intuitive to you but it will be helpful to spell this out directly. Can you help explain a few reasons why it is so important to create good habits? Can you share a story or give some examples?\n\nHabits are lasting. Diet changes made by and relying on willpower alone don’t last. These will be the first things to go when life gets too busy or stressful. Form a positive habit and it will stick with you for the long-term. A diet that limits your favorite food will be short-lived, but a habit of putting smaller portions on your plate will help you reduce calories no matter what you are eating and what else is going on your life.\n\nHabits are a no-brainer. When something is a habit, you do it automatically without extra effort. This is important when life gets busy and distracting. If you create a habit of putting your walking shoes and stepping out the door as soon as you get home from work, you won’t have a chance to talk yourself out of it. You will be in automatic pilot mode!\n\nIf you create a habit of staying away from the tempting buffet of food at a holiday gathering, you have made it easier to avoid mindless nibbling.\n\n\nA daily habit of taking a few minutes for gratitude has helped me tremendously. It is grounding and allows me some distance from daily stressors. It’s also a great way to start the day and set a positive tone!\n\nUnfortunately, I’ve always had a not-so-helpful habit of being disorganized with papers and making lists is not helpful when you can’t find the list! Electronic alternatives have been a lifesaver for me. I keep running lists of tasks on a phone app, which allows me to not spend so much energy keeping track of them in my head. I use the list to prioritize what “needs” to get done over what is “nice” to get done. This allows me to be more productive during the workday and be attentive while working with clients.\n\nThe habit of tracking my food and activity in MyNetDiary has been exceedingly helpful in my personal and professional life, too. Sadly, dietitians are not immune to food temptations. I can speak from experience when telling that tracking is a convenient learning and a behavior-change tool wrapped up in one! I’ve found tracking to be especially useful during the COVID pandemic, as many people are struggling with emotional eating and disrupted exercise routines. It’s a way to put ourselves back in the driver’s seat, at least with our lifestyle choices.\n\nSpeaking in general, what is the best way to develop good habits? Conversely, how can one stop bad habits?\n\nIt’s better to start a new habit than stop a bad habit. For example, rather than telling yourself you won’t grab a treat from the vending machine at work, focus on a new habit of packing a healthy (or healthy-ish) snack for when afternoon hunger kicks in.\n\nTo stop bad habits, start by acknowledging how they are serving you in some way. Consider what you gain to benefit from giving up the bad habit. For example, a nightly bowl of ice cream may serve you by bringing a sense of relaxation. Is there something else that could also give you a relaxing effect, such as a lower-calorie option, drinking a cup of warm tea, doing a puzzle or journaling?\n\nLet’s talk about creating good habits in three areas, Wellness, Performance, and Focus. Can you share three good habits that can lead to optimum wellness. Please share a story or example for each.\n\n\nThe best intentions for healthy eating will fall short if you don’t have the right foods around.\n\nMaking a grocery list (and sticking to it as best as possible) sets the stage for success. I’m excited that MyNetDiary will soon implement a grocery list feature. You can bet I will be using it!\n\n\nYou don’t have to be a data geek to get benefits from tracking. Whether you track what you eat, or the number of steps you take, it provides objective information and increases awareness of what is (and isn’t) working for you.\n\nLeveraging environmental cues\n\nWhen trying to eat healthier, you can’t rely on sheer willpower alone. Your surroundings at work, home and in the community, all influence your success.\n\nCan you help explain some practices that can be used to develop those habits?\n\n\nWhile some people plan out their meals for the entire week, you may start with at least thinking of your day ahead. If you know you’re going to be busy or working late, can you take some leftovers out of the freezer or make something healthy the night before for a quick meal instead of ordering takeout?\n\nKeep a grocery list on your app and add to it as soon as you realize you are out of something. You can also use the grocery list to make sure you stock up with healthy choices.\n\n\nUsing an app like MyNetDiary makes it easy to track your food and activity, which is a proven method for success. It has a robust food database and you have the option of setting up reminder alerts. MyNetDiary has a feature which will tell you how long you need to exercise to burn extra calories from different food choices. This is a huge eye-opener!\n\nIf you would rather keep track on paper, get a small notebook that is easy to keep with you.\n\nLeveraging environmental cues\n\nLimit negative cues:\n\nKeep treats out of sight to avoid constant visual temptations. Who could resist seeing a tray of brownies every time they enter the kitchen?\n\nWhile its be difficult to entirely avoid negative cues in our society, do what you can. Skip past TV food commercials and avoid the snack aisle when grocery shopping. A man I worked with even started driving a different route home from work to avoid the lure of fast-food restaurants!\n\nMake positive cues visible:\n\nKeep a tangible reminder of your goal visible. This reminder could be writing out your goal, or posting a photo of a destination you would like to visit.\n\nCreate positive food cues. Put a bowl of fruit out where it is visible. Use smaller plates to help limit portions.\n\nCan you share three good habits that can lead to optimal performance at work or sport? Please share a story or example for each.\n\nMake a schedule.\n\nDon’t wait until you feel like exercising or finishing an important task. It is too easy to talk yourself out of it.\n\nPut it in your electronic or physical calendar.\n\nSet goals\n\nYou may have a vision of a “new you”, but what will it take to get you there? Goal-setting helps you align your focus. Break down goals into smaller, manageable steps.\n\nReflect on your progress\n\nWhen you are in the middle of it, it can feel like you aren’t budging toward your goal. Compare where you are now to before you started, rather than comparing yourself to to other people.\n\n\nMake a schedule\n\nPut exercise in your planner, just as you would any other important activity. Schedule exercise with a friend who will keep you accountable. Sign up for a class, even if it is virtual.\n\nSet goals\n\nGrand New-Year’s Resolutions (“I’m going to run a marathon,” or “I’m swearing off sweets”) rarely work.\n\nSet SMART (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-Bound) goals for yourself. Don’t let someone else set it for you; they won’t be as meaningful. A vague goal of “I will exercise more” is a set-up for failure. A SMART goal might read: “I will walk for 20 minutes in the morning four days this week.\n\nReflect on your progress.\n\nWe all have challenging days, and looking back on our progress gives a sense of perspective. For example, our MyNetDiary users love seeing their weight loss progress graphed over time. It helps them realize that a day’s setback will not undo their efforts.\n\nCan you share three good habits that can lead to optimal focus? Please share a story or example for each.\n\nFuel yourself\n\nI had a client who struggled with concentration in the afternoon. It turns out she rarely ate lunch, sometimes just grabbing a handful of popcorn. After committing to take time out to each lunch each day, her focus soared.\n\nLimit distractions\n\nI know some people who can be productive despite constant distractions. I’m not one of those people. Even just taking a few seconds to check emails and texts is a major focus disruptor for me.\n\nPrioritize sleep\n\n\n\n\nFuel yourself\n\nEat breakfast. While there is debate about optimal mealtimes, research shows that eating breakfast can give you a mental edge by boosting short term memory, concentration, and creativity. Taking time for breakfast is a grounding way to start your day. Aim for a balance of healthy carbohydrate and protein, such as whole grain toast and peanut butter, or scrambled eggs and orange slices.\n\nLimit distractions\n\nKeep your phone on silent mode, ideally out of sight to avoid the temptation to peek at it. Use noise-cancelling headphones or listen to music. Consider using a timer to give yourself uninterrupted time to work on a task.\n\nPrioritize sleep\n\nTry to keep a consistent sleep schedule, even on weekends. Bedtime routines are essential for adults as well as children. Your routine might include a cup of warm tea, breathing exercises, or listening to calming music.\n\nAvoid the use of electronic screens at night. Talk to your doctor if you suspect stress, depression, or untreated sleep apnea could be disrupting your sleep.\n\n\nFuel your brain.\n\nYour brain needs fuel for challenging work. Are you living off caffeine when your body needs real energy from food? It can be tempting to skip a meal in order to keep working on a task, but you won’t be at your best.\n\nMove your body, outdoors if possible.\n\nI’m not talking about intense workouts. Movement can help with alertness and concentration. Being outdoors provides a change of scenery, welcome sunlight, and a chance to clear our mind.\n\nAvoid multitasking.\n\nIt is humbling to realize that I’m not good at multitasking. In the moment, I think I’m being productive, but after the fact, I see evidence of careless mistakes and not giving my best to either of my tasks.\n\n\nI would love to dismantle the notion that food choices reflect one’s virtue or self-worth. Unless you stole the food, you aren’t a “bad” person for eating it. If we could spend less energy feeling guilty and more time developing a positive relationship with food, we would be healthier and happier as a nation.\n\n\nMichelle Obama. I admire her work at First Lady promoting kids’ nutrition and fitness. She is an intelligent, funny woman who has been an incredible role model to so many.\n\nHow can our readers further follow your work online?\n\n\nFacebook —\n\nTwitter — @MyNetDiary\n\n\n\nYou might also like...\n\nSleep Well//\n\nWhat You Can Learn From Elite Athletes About Raising Your Game and Improving Your Performance With Quality Sleep\n\nby Shelly Ibach (Sponsored By Sleep Number)\n\nMaya Feller: “Make time for sleep”\n\nby Ben Ari\n\n3 Things to Know if You Want to Get the Best Sleep Possible\n\nby Sina Nader", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8769792318344116}
+{"content": "Is 60k A Year Good Money?\n\nWhat house can I afford on 100k a year?\n\nThis was the basic rule of thumb for many years.\n\n\n\nIs 60k a year middle class?\n\n\nIs 45k a year middle class?\n\nThe Pew Research Center defines the middle class as earning between 67% and 200% (two-thirds to double) of the median household income. … As of the 2019 tax year, the income range for the middle class was $45,000 to $139,999.\n\nWhat does $25 per hour annually?\n\nAssuming 40 hours a week, that equals 2,080 hours in a year. Your hourly wage of 25 dollars would end up being about $52,000 per year in salary.\n\nIs $30 an hour good?\n\n\nCan you live off 70k a year?\n\nUsing the Calculate net paycheck, state and federal taxes, estimate salary in California to find your Net Income for a single person, $70k salary translates into $50k Net Income. Thus, you should spend no more than $50,000 * 0.40 / 12 = $1,666 per month in rent. That’s a MAXIMUM.\n\nWhat house can I afford on 50k a year?\n\n\nCan you live comfortably on $60000 a year?\n\n$60,000 per year is a really good salary to live comfortably on. In fact, it’s a upper-middle class salary.\n\nIs 60k a year rich?\n\nIt’s about median income which means it’s average. … U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $35,977 in 2019. Then 60K is almost 2x – WoW 60K is a high Salary in the US.\n\nWhat is $100 an hour annually?\n\nAssuming 40 hours a week, that equals 2,080 hours in a year. Your hourly wage of 100 dollars would end up being about $208,000 per year in salary.\n\nHow much does 60k salary per paycheck?\n\nThe hourly wage will be the same as if you worked 52 weeks at 40 hours a week without taking any vacation time. For each hour you work in this scenario, you make $28.85. Each month that you work at a $ 60,000/year salary, you make $5,000 per month.\n\nWhat is middle class annual income?\n\nPew Research defines middle-income Americans as those whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median (adjusted for local cost of living and household size). For a family of three, that ranges from $40,100 to $120,400 for 2018 incomes in a recent Pew study.\n\nHow much is 70k a year hourly?\n\nA salary of $70,000 equates to a monthly pay of $5,833, weekly pay of $1,346, and an hourly wage of $33.65.\n\nWhat jobs make 500k a year?\n\n\nWhat annual income is considered rich?\n\nTo be considered rich in the San Jose, California, metro area, you need to make over $234,948.\n\nIs 60k a year good for a single person?\n\n60k as a single male is plenty enough to have a used car, rent your own 1BR apartment in a good part of town, put away some cash in 401k/roth ira, go out every weekend eating/drinking without having to sweat it. but you won’t be buying new cars, living like a “baller”, or impressing any of your friends with money.\n\nIs 60k a good salary us?\n\n\nWhat mortgage can I afford on 60k?\n\nThe usual rule of thumb is that you can afford a mortgage two to 2.5 times your annual income. That’s a $120,000 to $150,000 mortgage at $60,000. You also have to be able to afford the monthly mortgage payments, however. … You can cover a $1,400 monthly PITI housing payment if your monthly income is $5,000.\n\nWhat is $30 an hour annually?\n\n30 dollars an hour is what per year? It depends on how many hours you work, but assuming a 40 hour work week, and working 50 weeks a year, then a $30 hourly wage is about $60,000 per year, or $5,000 a month.\n\nIs 35000 a low income?\n\nThat places a household earning $35,000 a year in the next-to-last quintile, a little below the 40th percentile. If “middle” means anything, this is indeed middle class. Yes, it’s below the median income, but surely the middle class has to include more than the few people making precisely $52,100 a year, right?\n\nCan you live in NYC on 60k a year?\n\nOf course you can live on a salary of 60k. It’s easier to do this than in most parts of the U.S., because you don’t need a car or house or tons of furniture here, just a little apartment. Pretty much all you have to pay here is rent, food, and Metrocard. 60k isn’t even a low salary.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5427957773208618}
+{"content": "Rare painting by Gyzis in Greece for the first time\n\nThe Royal Suite of the Grande Bretagne Hotel hosted a work of art painted in 1884 by Nikolaos Gyzis to mark the birth of his only son and youngest child Honoufrios-Telemachos, a masterpiece that had passed into the hands of Americans (as an inheritance), who knew the value of the painting but not the name of the artist. They sent a photograph of the painting to Sotheby’s in New York who referred it to the London office where the head of Greek Sales, art critic Constantinos Frangos, recognized it as the work of Gyzis (1842-1901). The painting, which had never been brought to Greece but had been sold in Munich by the artist, was auctioned at Sotheby’s in November of last year, attracting a great deal of interest, and was bought by Athanassios Laskaridis, who with his brother Panos Lazaridis are the main shareholders in the Grande Bretagne Hotel. Laskaridis told us that the painting belongs to the Costas Laskaridis family and has been hung in the 400-square-meter dining room of the hotel’s Royal Suite. According to Frangos, the painting was sold for 1 million euros.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8562073111534119}
+{"content": "Learn About Hunger\n\nHunger vs. Food Insecurity\n\nWhat is hunger?\nHunger is the personal, physical sensation of discomfort from a lack of food. Hunger can also lead to a lack of concentration, irritability, and social and behavioral issues — particularly in children. Individuals who are food insecure may experience hunger.\n\nWhat is food insecurity?\nFood insecurity is the lack of reliable, consistent access to enough affordable, nutritious food for an active, healthy lifestyle. Hunger is related to food insecurity, but food insecurity refers to a lack of available financial resources for or access to food in a household. Food Gatherers often refers to hunger and food insecurity interchangeably but at its core, our mission focuses on alleviating food insecurity and its root causes.\n\nLooking at the Data\n\nBefore the COVID-19 crisis began, food insecurity in the U.S. was the lowest it had been in more than 20 years. However, 35.2 million people, including 10.7 million children, were food insecure.\n\nIn early 2020, Feeding America released their annual Map the Meal Gap study, the goal of which is to improve our understanding of food insecurity at the local, state, and national levels. The findings of Map the Meal Gap were based on data from 2018. Since then, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity has increased dramatically.\n\nIn response, Feeding America released a companion study and interactive map that illustrate the projected impact of the pandemic on local food insecurity in the year 2020. The following data is based on those projections, which were last updated in March 2021.\n\nHunger in Washtenaw County\n\nHunger food insecurity exists in every city, township, and zip code of Washtenaw County. In our community, approximately 42,450 individuals, including 6,090 children, are food insecure.\n\nHouseholds with children also have higher rates of food insecurity during the summer months because children are at home and replacing free- and reduced-price school meals is a drain on limited resources. \n\nHunger in Michigan\n\nDue to the pandemic, Feeding America projects that 14.2% of Michiganders will face food insecurity in 2021, with child food insecurity reaching 16%. \n\nHunger in America \n\nAs a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people are newly experiencing food insecurity, alongside those who were experiencing food insecurity before the crisis began. Feeding America projects that in 2021, 42 million individuals (including 13 million children) may face hunger because of COVID-19. Food insecurity rates are expected to remain elevated in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic levels across the United States.\n\nHunger, Health, and Equity\n\nNutritious food plays an essential role in health, and a lack of sufficient food and the right type of food can lead to devastating health outcomes. People who are food insecure are disproportionally affected by diet-sensitive chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Being food insecure often means making a tough choice between paying for food and paying for medicine and/or medical care.\n\nBeing able to access affordable, healthy food is also influenced by factors like poverty and discrimination. As a result, food insecurity is also an issue of equity and has a disproportionate impact on low-income households, Black and Hispanic families, female-headed households, and families with children.\n\nAccording to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Black and Hispanic households have had higher annual rates of food insecurity compared to the national average among all households since 1995. In 2017, 21.8% of African American households and 18% of Hispanic households reported food insecurity, while the national food insecurity rate was 11.8%. \n\nTo increase food security for everyone, it is critical that we actively incorporate equity into our responses. By examining the fundamental causes of food insecurity and health inequities, we can work to dismantle systemic racism, which is at the root of inequities in health, hunger, and economic opportunity. \n\n    Additional Resources\n\n    Looking for additional information on hunger? Click on the button below for a list of additional resources.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 1.0000090599060059}
+{"content": "While archaeologists and botanists do not know the exact time and place where onions were first cultivated, written evidence suggests that it was first grown 5,500 years ago in Asia. It might have been an ordinary food but the moment it arrived in Egypt, ancient Egyptians worshiped the onion because they believed that its spherical shape and concentric ring represented eternity. Below are other remarkable facts that you may not know about one of the most widely used crops in the world:\n\nAncient Egyptians used onion for religious ceremonies\n\nThe onion is one of the most valuable funeral offerings for early Egyptians. Archaeologists found paintings of them inside pyramid walls and in the tombs of the Old Kingdom and the New Kingdom. Ancient Egyptian paintings also showed images of priests holding onions in their hands or altars covered with onion roots or leaves.\n\nThe mummification process required the use of onion\n\nArchaeologists have discovered that the onion is an important part of the mummification process. Excavated mummies frequently contained onions in the pelvic regions, thorax, ears, and in the front of collapsed eyes.\n\nAncient Egyptians believed that onion was needed by the dead\n\nConsidering how ancient Egyptians view them and how they utilized them in burial ceremonies, Egyptologists believed that early Egyptians considered onions as having magical powers that can bring the dead back to life.\n\nSome religious groups consider the crop as a forbidden vegetable\n\nBuddhists, Jains, Orthodox Brahmins, and Hindu Widows considered onion as a forbidden vegetable because of its pungent scent and its ability to stimulate the senses. For Buddhist, specifically, the Buddha apparently forbade the consumption of onions since it can produce hormones and can negatively affect the liver, which would both lead to one’s inability to concentrate.\n\nRoman gladiators were massaged with onions before fighting\n\nAncient Romans believed that onions can provide strength similar to gods, which was why gladiators were massaged with onions before stepping into the arena to fight.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9989988207817078}
+{"content": "Understanding anger and overcoming it\n\nPeople & Culture\n\nA red face, increased heart rate, tense expression, vocal tone changes—we’ve all seen it, experienced it, done it. Anger is a relatable emotion. However, just because we can relate to it doesn’t mean we all understand it in the same way. Our perspectives around anger may differ greatly and as a result contribute to more conflict.\n\nIn the workplace we often consider anger from a behavioural standpoint. Correct the behaviour and the emotion will not be a factor. The actual emotion itself is not identified and acknowledged and therefore never truly understood so the cycle of behaviour continues.\n\nProblematic, without a doubt.\n\nWhere’d the anger come from?\n\nThat’s why it’s imperative that we recognize that in order to manage anger in the workplace we must understand what rung the anger alarm. What threat occurred to create the emotional reaction?\n\nThe emotion of anger is outlined by the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) as a mind-body signal indicating a disturbance to our systems.\n\nAnger is a watchdog sleeping by a fireplace, an ever-ready alert system.\n\nThe anger could be a result of a threat to our basic needs. As a secondary emotion it goes on to say that it could be a defense against painful feelings or sensations, frustration or emotional threats. When we consider this as being all internal (our emotional state when angry) we can see that how we express it may not show what the emotional need is.\n\nHow’s the anger expressed?\n\nThe expression of anger, or the behaviour associated to being angry becomes more challenging to identify. Here’s an excerpt about anger as a behaviour:\n\nAngry behaviour is the way in which our anger is expressed.  Our repertoire of responses can range from apathy, to irritation, to violence.  These responses are learned rather than pre-programmed or innate.   They are often strategies aimed at punishment and/or retaliation, rather than strategies for taking care of the issue that provoked the anger. -JIBC, Dealing with anger\n\nUnpuzzling anger\n\nUnderstanding the dynamic between the emotion of anger and the behaviour that shows up is an important aspect to managing it in the workplace.\n\nWhen the emotion appears, it’s a signal—understanding the signal is our job as human beings. Next is to identify the behaviour that comes as a result of the emotion. Finally, we need to take steps to manage the behaviour by identifying any fundamental problem that has not been addressed emotionally.\n\nI can almost hear the responses as I write, “Really? Do I have to? Shouldn’t people just be able to take care of their own anger?” If only it were that simple. For those of you who lead, try to remember it’s hard to get over something that nobody acknowledges. Start there and see how much easier it gets when the emotion is identified, acknowledged and they there’s no reason to defend.\n\nIf there’s nothing to defend (emotional anger), there will be no need to express anger (behave towards perceived threat).\n\nShannon Pearson\n\nShannon Pearson\n\n\nShannon Pearson is a champion of culture and engagement at incrementa (un)consulting. She helps create high performance teams by connecting people to the organization’s DNA: it’s core values and purpose. Leveraging proven methodologies, she increases engagement and connection while reducing conflict.\n\nRelated posts\n\n\nThe Importance of Disciplined Execution\n\nSales & Growth\nStrategic Planning & Business Coaching\n29% I was recently at a client’s quarterly planning session, leading them through their review of the last quarter. It was rather shocking\n\nDeveloping a Giving Mindset\n\nGiving Back\nPeople & Culture\nWe get by with a little help from our friends. Many hands make light work. A community is like a ship in which everyone must be prepared to take th\n\nLet’s talk\n\nThe incrementa insider\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7446017265319824}
+{"content": "Original on Transparent.png\n\nKena is where aspiring musicians grow together\n\nKena is a destination for music learners, hobbyists, educators, composers, and publishers of music across all genres, cultures, and instruments. \n\nResearch Area ~ Kena is building a 'Music Neural Graph' using AI with applications in the area of Musicology, Compositions, and Accelerated Learning. We work in the interdisciplinary research areas of how humans learn music, compose music, neuroscience of music, and computational creativity. \n\n\nKena Opus\n\nDiscover Your Musicality\n\nOur first consumer-facing platform, Kena Opus is the music learning and practice platform powered by a community of music practitioners. Musicians come here to learn from each other, collaborate, engage, and have fun while learning the art.\n\nKena Opus has thousands of curated lessons, tens of thousands of arpeggiated patterns, scales, chords, and exercises across all instruments, along with artificial-intelligence assisted assessments and feedback.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8155156373977661}
+{"content": "Property firm Bruntwood has unveiled its first dedicated co-working facility in Liverpool at the Cotton Exchange.\n\nCo-working is a practice that has become popular in the US in recent years and involves a cluster of small or start-up business owners occupying a shared office space and other communal facilities.\n\nThe new area is situated on the sixth floor of the Bixteth Street building, known as The Loft, and is designed to appeal to entrepreneurs with a highly flexible need for office space in the heart of the commercial district.\n\nAt full capacity, the first phase will see up to eight different businesses working alongside each other in the same space.\n\nColin Sinclair, director of property marketing at Bruntwood, said: \"Co-working captures the spirit of entrepreneurial collaboration and growth as it allows businesses to explore their potential and develop side-by-side with peers while enjoying benefits they could never get at home or in a coffee shop.\n\n\"The majority of great businesses are built upon similar foundations - the right environment, a focussed team, forward energy and a strong local network. Our new co-working space provides an eco-system for all of those elements to flourish.\n\n\"For most businesses, it's an opportunity to test the water and get a feel for their own needs. While many successful co-workers enjoy a sense of community with their peers, others prefer to cohabit without collusion and that freedom to choose reflects the essential beauty of co-working.\"\n\nRates start at £30 a week, including super-fast wifi and unlimited coffee.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9629154205322266}
+{"content": "\n\nBlade Runner 2049 Makes $4 Million In Thursday Previews\n\nBlade Runner 2049 is already off to an impressive start at the box office. The film brought in $4 million in Thursday night previews, ahead of a projected $45 to $50 million opening weekend. (via Box Office Mojo)\n\nBlade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the events of the first film. The movie focuses on a new LAPD blade runner in Officer K (Ryan Gosling), who unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what is left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find former LAPD blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who has been missing for the last three decades.\n\nThe original Blade Runner didn't make a huge box office splash when it hit theaters in 1982. The film had a $6.15 million opening weekend and eventually went on to make $32.87 million total, something which the sequel should easily surpass in its opener. (via Box Office Mojo) The sequel is being helped by quite a lot of added buzz thanks to some stellar reviews, with some critics calling it even better than the original.\n\nIn addition to the $45 million plus 2049 it is expected to bring in domestically, the film is tracking to make somewhere in the mid-$50 million range internationally, for a worldwide total of over $100 million in its opening weekend. These domestic numbers put it solidly in the same range as some other modern reboots of popular 1970s and 1980s properties, including Mad Max: Fury Road ($45.4 million domestic opening weekend), Tron: Legacy ($44 million domestic opening weekend), and Prometheus ($51 million domestic opening weekend). \n\nBlade Runner 2049 doesn't have much box office competition this weekend. The other new wide releases include Idris Elba and Kate Winslet's The Mountain Between Us, which brought in $400,000 in previews, and the animated My Little Pony, which pulled in $290,000. The rest of the top five for the weekend will likely be filled out with some familiar performers, including Tom Cruise's American MadeKingsman: The Golden Circle, and the record-breaking It.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9707621335983276}
+{"content": "SolarWinds MSP is becoming N-able\n\nRead more\n\nThe Most Effective Types of Network Topology: A Quick Guide for MSPs\n\nCompanies’ IT infrastructures have become more complicated than ever. According to recent reports, the global Bring Your Own Device (BYOD market) was valued at $94,200 million USD in 2018 and is expected to reach $337,500 million USD by the end of 2025. As a growing number of employees bring their own laptops, tablets, and mobile devices into work, it’s become increasingly difficult for managed services providers (MSPs) to gain full visibility into their customers’ networks.\n\nThis is where sophisticated network topology comes into play. Network topology describes the logical and physical relationship between all nodes, devices, and connections on your customers’ networks. Put simply, network topology refers to the way a network is arranged. Physical connections are connections between nodes and the network—the physical wires, cables, and so on. Logical connections describe which nodes connect to one another and how data is transmitted throughout the network. Although these connections cannot be seen, they are intrinsic to the overall function of the network.\n\nWith the right network topology system in place, MSPs can auto detect if a device is added or removed, quickly troubleshoot network connectivity issues, and get a comprehensive, digestible visual representation of the network and its interconnectivity.\n\nHow do you make a network topology map?\n\nCreating a network topology map begins with network device discovery. Network device discovery is the process of identifying all computers and other devices located on the network. While you can do this manually, many MSPs rely on network discovery tools to automate and expedite the process. Network discovery software leverages common discovery protocols—including the Simple Network Management Protocol, Link Layer Discovery Protocol, and ping—to quickly discover and collect information about virtual computers and networks, hardware on a network, software on a network, and the logical and physical relationships between network assets.\n\nOnce devices have been discovered, a comprehensive network discovery tool can leverage this information to produce easy-to-understand network diagrams that integrate OSI Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology data, including switch-to-switch, switch-to-node, and switch-to-router port connections.\n\nWhich network topology is the most common?\n\nThere are several different types of network topology. Each type is designed for its own unique purpose—there is no “one-size-fits-all” topology. Finding the right layout for your customers’ networks depends on the overall size of each network and your specific objectives. Some of the most common types of network topology include star, bus, ring, tree, mesh, and hybrid topology. Here’s a brief overview of each:\n\n  • Star topology is by far the most common network topology. Within this framework, each node is independently connected to a central hub via a physical cable—thus creating a star-like shape. All data must travel through the central node before it reaches its destination. Because no two adjacent nodes are connected, if one goes down, the others will remain up and running. However, if the central node fails, so will all adjacent nodes within the network.\n  • Bus topology—also known as line topology or backbone topology—connects all devices via a single cable running in one direction. All data on the network also runs through this cable, following the same direction. Due to the limited amount of equipment needed to construct this layout (a single coaxial or RJ45 cable), bus topology is considered a strong, cost-effective option for many MSPs. As the needs of the network grow, you can add more nodes by joining additional cables. Just keep in mind these topologies can only handle so much bandwidth and if the single cable fails, the entire network will fail in turn.\n  • Ring topology, as its name suggests, features all nodes arranged in a ring. Data can travel through the ring in either direction, passing through each node until it reaches its destination. Because only one node on the ring can send data at any given time, the chance of packet collisions is greatly reduced. However, like bus topology, one failed node in a ring layout can take all others down with it. Bandwidth is also limited in ring topology, bringing scalability into question.\n  • Tree topology is set up like a family tree, with a central unit at the top that then cascades into a hierarchy of additional units. Tree topology combines the best of star and bus topologies, making it easy to add nodes to the network. If the hub fails, the nodes directly connected to it will fail as well, but connectivity will be maintained within the remaining branch systems. While tree topologies facilitate scalability, they can be costly to manage due to the amount of cabling required to connect all devices.\n  • Mesh topologies form web-like structures of interconnected nodes. The nodes then leverage logic to identify the most efficient route for transmitting each data packet. In some cases, the data is flooded and the information is sent to all nodes within the network without the need for routing logic. Mesh topologies often require numerous cables and can be labor-intensive to set up. However, many MSPs consider them worth the effort due to their reliable, failure-resistant nature.\n  • Hybrid topology leverages two or more topology layouts to meet network usage needs. The tree topology is technically an example of a hybrid topology, as it combines star and bus structures. Hybrid technologies offer a great deal of flexibility and are common among large companies—particularly those broken down into many different departments. Because these topologies are so complex, they require a great deal of experience to manage.\n\nEach of these network topologies boasts its own set of benefits, as well as some unique drawbacks. It’s up to MSPs to listen to the needs of their customers and find the best fit.\n\nThe benefits of network device monitoring and mapping\n\nNetwork topology empowers MSPs to conduct in-depth network assessments and get to the root of network issues with greater efficiency. With the right network device monitoring and topology mapping software in-hand, MSPs are empowered to:\n\n  • Automatically discover devices: Rather than manually taking inventory of all devices on a network, MSPs can leverage a comprehensive network topology platform to automatically discover all devices on the network in mere minutes. After these scans, detailed network maps can be created to provide MSPs with a bird’s-eye view of their customers’ IT infrastructure. Many platforms even boast scheduled network scanning to ensure new devices are automatically added to the network without MSPs having to lift a finger.\n  • Maintain regulatory compliance: Maintaining regulatory compliance is an absolute must for any MSP. Many compliance standards, including PCISOXHIPAA, and FIPS 140-2, require maintenance of an up-to-date network diagram. A comprehensive and accurate topology map created by top-of-the-line software streamlines the compliance process for MSPs. If topology maps need to be exported for any reason, truly robust network mapping programs will even allow MSPs to export maps into Microsoft Office Visio, PDF, and PNG formats.\n  • Quickly troubleshoot network issues: Network issues can bring productivity to a standstill, putting your reputation and your customers’ bottom line in jeopardy. When issues on the network arise, it’s your responsibility to quickly identify and resolve them with minimal disruption. Leveraging a highly detailed network topology map, you can easily view your customer’s network layout—which helps you locate the network issue to facilitate faster troubleshooting and minimal downtime.\n  • Conduct comprehensive network inventory management: Comprehensive network mapping software provides more than topology maps—it also creates detailed reports to track hardware inventory, switch port data, device ARP cache, and VLANS and subnets. These reports allow MSPs to keep track of inventory and network information, so they can have a better grasp of all available inventory and existing device capacity. Some reports even identify security vulnerabilities and provide patch statuses of endpoints and servers across multiple client sites.\n  • Increase the efficiency of your operation: Platforms that allow MSPs to build multiple network maps without having to rescan save MSPs valuable time, bandwidth, and resources. These solutions often support multiple discovery methods, including SNMP v1-v3, ICMP, WMI, CDP, VMware, Hyper-V, and beyond. Some network topology platforms are also part of service suites that offer remote access software for business. This further helps increase operational efficiencies for many MSPs by allowing them to manage their customers’ networks in real-time.\n\nIt’s easy to see that the benefits of network topology software are vast and varied. Leveraging the right tools can take your operation to new heights, helping you deliver better results for your customers. For more information on the benefits of network device monitoring and topology, check out our blog.\n\nWant to stay up to date?\n\n\nLoading form....\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7884286642074585}
+{"content": "Rafiq Azad’s death anniv today\n\nCultural Correspondent | Published: 00:00, Mar 12,2020\n\n\nRafiq Azad\n\nToday is the 4th death anniversary of late Ekushey Padak-winning poet and freedom fighter Rafiq Azad.\n\nRafiq Azad was born on February 14, 1941 at the village of Guni in Tangail.\n\nHe had enriched Bangla literature with his works addressing social and political issues.\n\nHe depicted love, romance, poverty, sufferings, injustice, urban and rural life in his poems.\n\nRafiq Azad was one of the most creative young poets in the post-liberation war period. He had 45 books to his credit, including an autobiography.\n\nHis first book ‘Asombhaber Paye’ was published in 1973. Some of his renowned works include ‘Shimabaddha Jale Shimita Shabuje’, ‘Chunia Amar Archedia’, ‘Haturir Niche Jiban’, ‘Parikirna Panshala Amar Swadesh’, ‘Shahstra Sundar’, ‘Khub Bashi Durey Nay’, ‘Khama Karo Bahaman He Udar Amia Batas’, ‘Karo Asrupat’, ‘Prem O Biraher Kabita’, ‘Pagla Garad Thekay Premikar Chiti’, ‘Apar Aranya’ and ‘Moulabir Man Bhalo Nai’.\n\nDuring the 1971 liberation war he fought as a member of the guerrilla outfit known as Kaderia Bahini.\n\nBeing moved by the horrifying famine in 1974, Rafiq Azad penned his most famous poem titled ‘Bhat Dey Haramjada’. Through the strong and intense verses of the poem, Rafiq loathed those who were responsible for the famine.\n\nRafiq was also a prolific administrator and held important posts at different government organisations.\n\nHe had received many awards like Kobitalap Award, Alaol Literary Award, Bangla Academy Literary Award, Suhreed Literary Award, Poet Ahsan Habib Award, Poet Hasan Hafizur Rahman Award, Ekushey Padak and others.\n\nHe passed away on March 12, 2016 at the age of 75.\n\nMore about:\n\nWant stories like this in your inbox?\n\nSign up to exclusive daily email", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6753519773483276}
+{"content": "2019 Election: NEDG, BON hold debate for Nigerian Presidential Candidates\n\nCandidates took the stage for the 2019 Presidential Debate hosted by the Nigeria Elections Debate Group (NEDG) and Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) to enlighten Nigerians of their plans if they win the election.\n\nThe debate took place on Saturday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja Nigeria.\n\nCandidates present at the debate are Oby Ezekwesili (Allied Congress Party Of Nigeria ACPN), Fela Durotoye ( Alliance For New Nigeria ANN), Kingsley Moghalu (The Young Progressive Party YPP).\n\nHowever, President Muhammed Buhari (All Progressives Congress APC) , Atiku Abubakar (Peoples Democratic Party PDP), were absent from the debate.\n\nAtiku Abubakar stated that he would only participate in the debate if President Muhammadu Buhari is present.\n\nDuring the introduction of the candidates, each candidate was given 3 minutes to introduce themselves and state their mandates.\n\nKingsley Moghalu of the The Young Progressive Party YPP stated that with the support and vote of Nigerians he would be sworn in as the 8th President. He said his government would have a foundational approach to the issues in the country. He explained that he would establish effective system where the women and children would be part of the government. He noted that his government would ensure to equip women and children with skill acquisition programmes.\n\nSpeaking on the economy, Mogahalu said that the path to fixing the economy was by electing leaders who have a vast knowledge of the economy. He said he would focus on reforming the education system. Skills and Capital will fix the economy.\n\nHe vowed that his administration will focus on ICT to move the country forward. He added that he would create a start-up innovation that would move to the rural areas and boost job creation for young people. He said money to fund this would come from the private sector and be run by the private sector.\n\nHe said the candidates are absent because they are arrogant and cannot answer the questions that would be asked.\n\nOn tackling insecurity, he said he would use the political will to address it and secondly tackle corruption in the military, partner with the people and work with neighbouring countries on border control.\n\nOn reducing the spate of kidnapping, he said his government would invest to create a world class police that would be properly organised and modern. He said the police to citizen ratio is extremely low. There is no greater investment than investing in security of life and property\n\nOn restructuring, he added that he would make every Nigerian feel like a Nigerian, he would address problems from the roots starting from the constitution of Nigeria and he would practice inclusive government. We shall have a constitutional restructuring of this country and be not choked by Abuja centrality; we shall have an inclusive administration based on merit, from Sokoto to Ibadan they shall be represented by their best.\n\nOn education, he said his administration would prioritise education in the country and change the curriculum to lean towards vocational skills and ICT. He said he would make sure that the education budget would be the first to be passed. I will end ASUU strike in Nigeria.\n\nHe added that his government would make secondary education free.\n\nOn Health, he said he would focus on quality and access to health care services in the country. He promised to increase the health budget to 15% in line with the Abuja health agreement. He vowed to build world class hospitals and drastically cut down medical tourism. We shall focus of quality of healthcare provision, ensure UHC, budget for health shall move from 3% to 15% as stipulated by the Abuja Declaration which Nigeria has never kept, ensure each of the 6 geo-political zone has a world class healthcare facility.\n\nHe said his presidency will ensure that Nigeria’s peace is established on the basis of justice, equality and accountability. Every citizen in the country matters\n\nHe said the APC and the PDP has brought the country to a sorry path, he however said with him as president, the future would lean towards a robust economy and a robust ICT.\n\nFela Durotoye said Nigeria is one of the best nation in the world, he said that as a leader he has dedicated his life to the service of the people. Durotoye noted that his government will give hope to Nigerians, and make it a nation that works for all, irrespective of age and class.\n\nOn diversification from oil he said he would focus on sectors that would grow jobs such as agriculture, housing and road infrastructure. He noted that the infrastructure of the country is completely decayed, and he vowed to fix power, roads and housing thereby creating jobs for Nigerians.\n\nHe said his administration would reduce cost of government and eradicate wastage, reform institutions to ensure that they deliver quality services, boost the economy to grow jobs and re-orient Nigerians to know that paying tax is a way to secure the future.\n\nHe said the absence of the candidates shows that the future of the nation is at the debate. He added that if you can’t tell the people what you plan to do then you become a ruler and not a leaderwe have had 58 years of independence and not 58 years of freedom Leadership is about competence and character.\n\nOn security he would strengthen security agencies and ensure that the military personnel is well taken care of. He also stated that he would work on the ideology feeding the insurgency.\n\nOn Border Security, He added that his government will invest in drone facilities that will help to secure the border. He said he would ensure that if a person crosses the border illegally, they would be repatriated by the communities that they crossed into.\n\nHe said his government would get the private sectors involved in curriculum development for schools. He noted that values and work ethics are not taught in schools so his government would ensure that all students would be taught how to act in the work environment.\n\nOn Education, he said it is the more you learn that increases your capacity to earn, adding that he would ensure that teachers are committed to the success of the students and not just seeing them pass out. He would invest in the learning infrastructure and have values in the curriculum.\n\nHe said he would enforce a law that prosecutes parents that don’t send their kids to school.\n\nOn Health, he stated that his administration would provide quality primary healthcare centres in the country. He would ensure that everyone above 60 and below 5 would get free health care. He noted that health practitioners would be trained to man the centres.\n\nOn the fight against corruption, he said in his administration it will be easier to catch a thief and more difficult to steal. He said he would strengthen anti corruption agencies by training and equipping them.\n\nHe added that power will shift hands to people who have the interest of the nation at heart.\n\nOby Ezekwesili, She noted that Nigeria is in dire state and needs to be rescued. She quoted Chinua Achebe by saying the single problem with Nigeria lies in its leadership. She said women have been failed as 60% of women are poor. Oby added that Nigerians have no business being poor. She said the country would continue to fail unless the politics of the country is changed, which is why she has stepped forward to run for the President of the country.\n\nShe explained that Nigerians are poor because they earn below 700 naira per day. She added that when people have higher productivity, they earn more and when they earn more they lift themselves out of poverty. She advocated for the empowerment of women.\n\nOby said she is not surprised by the absence of APC and PDP candidates, they have just announced their exit from the government she added that if they cared about Nigerians, they would be here to speak, adding that she showed up for the debate because she believes that it is time for a new kind of politics and leadership in the country.\n\nOn security, she noted that she would send a sharp signal that there is a new sheriff in town. She said she would make it clear that the territory is not one which anybody can take. She also with economic opportunities, people stop listening to wrong ideologies\n\nOn youth unemployment and the education sector, she stated that her government would get a scheme that targets young people in the society to make them employable. She also said teachers must be trained to be able to impart knowledge. The way out for our youths is jobs jobs and more jobs\n\nShe advocated for early child education adding that Education is the pathway to solving human problems Teacher quality is at the heart of education quality, she said she would take the teaching profession to what it used to be.\n\nShe added that she would identify the learning outcome missing in the schools and fix them. Greater power would be given to teachers’ body and increase the remuneration of teachers and give them houses.\n\nOn Health, she said she would expand access to the National Health Insurance Scheme. She would also address the challenges of keeping our health practitioners in the country. She said she would connect health and wellbeing to productivity.\n\nOn Youth Empowerment, she noted that youths must participate in agendas and promised that her cabinet would be made up of 50% of youths. She said she would ensure that the youths are globally competitive.\n\nOn Corruption and human rights, she stated that as a president, exemplarily leadership would be paramount. She said she would shed light on the happenings of the oil sector which would reduce corruption in the sector.\n\nShe noted that the citizens of Nigeria can choose a leader that truly cares and is competent and she is running for president to fix the state of the nation.\n\nSource: Voice of Nigeria", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9596847295761108}
+{"content": "Disseminating to businesses\n\n\nAll you need to know to promote your research to businesses - The \"why\", the \"what\" & the \"how\" in disseminating to businesses.\n\n\n1. Requirements and expectations: Why do businesses need information from research?\n\nIn general, businesses want to stay up to date about what is going on in research projects and not miss latest developments that are relevant for their own developments, services and products. This is particularly true for businesses without an own R&D department.\n\nBusinesses are also interested in finding new R&D cooperation partners, e.g. to outsource R&D activities, share resources, or validate research done in-house. In this context having strong IPRs is very important for businesses.\n\nIn some areas, e.g. in health society or public technology, businesses need input from independent research providing independent data confirming that their products are safe, have an effect, or an overall positive risk-benefit balance. Examples are public debates with environmental organisations or the general public.\n\nThe need by businesses to receive information from some research areas (e.g. arts and humanities, social sciences) might not seem evident. In these areas, there is a bigger discrepancy between science and businesses.\n\nIn commissioned consulting, businesses expect the experts to deliver a clear and quick answer to a problem. They are not looking for possible solutions and their caveats; they want clear answers that help them solving problems that they encounter in practice.\n\n2. What information do businesses require from research?\n\nDepending on the research area, information required from research varies. For example in the manufacturing industry information is needed to reduce costs, make products more attractive, and to maintain/achieve the pole position on market.\n\nOn the one hand, industry is interested in using the results from research. For them it is essential to know how to access the results, under which licenses, and if they are openly available. It is important for them to know which IPRs apply and which of the results can be re-used. This information should be well understandable.\n\nOn the other hand, businesses do not only need research outputs such as concrete results, papers, patents. They are interested in updates on any latest research development. This can include everything up to messages or short reports on what you are up to right now.\n\nBusinesses also need people. They want to know principle investigators in their own sectors to be able to collaborate. Not only do they want to know about events that researchers are attending. They are also looking for individual experts in the field and their expertise. Businesses are always looking for opportunities to get to know researchers and find possible collaboration opportunities.\n\n3. How should the key message(s) be structured?\n\nMake sure to align your research with what the targeted businesses do. To make the message more interesting for the targeted businesses, make sure to transform it to fit their requirements and expectations. For instance, if they are producing a product or offering a service, how can your research contribute to those? If they are producing washing machines, could you write a story about your research and a washing machine?\n\nExplain what you are doing and get the key message to your audience. Start with the knowledge base that they already have by involving their world in the story. As a result, the message will be easier to understand, and it gets a personal touch. People like it if you are interested in what they are doing. It is important to be open to discussions, and have a platform for businesses to enable a two-way communication.\n\nIn context of commissioned research, the specifications of the requested research reports are set and communicated by the company. In these cases, the company should receive the information in exactly the format requested. Businesses will have trained staff who can deal with scientific information.\n\nIt is crucial to clarify the IPR beforehand: make sure that relevant and sensitive results are only available for the company.\n\n4. Form/format of communication to businesses\n\nAs already mentioned, the business target audience is big. There is no format fitting all sectors and businesses. To find out what your own sectoral industry wants, talk to them and ask how they are usually getting their information from research. This can be a good first orientation. However, different players will give you different answers. Try to create a two-way communication.\n\nIt is recommendable not to go just with one format. Use 3-4 main formats that your target audience uses. Always think multi-canal and multi-format. Do not put all energy in one big campaign. Use various tools, e.g. video, social media strategy, marketing actions, paid media, price relations, public relations (influential bloggers). All these tools and approaches can complement one another. Doing communication well is a big job, and it does not necessarily lead to success. You can do it right and still fail to reach a lot of impact.\n\nCommunication material should be in the language that your target audience understands best. To achieve a broad dissemination, in particular for EU projects, use English as dissemination language. For national projects use the national language; but always provide an executive summary in English.\n\nNext to producing e.g. texts, leaflets, blogs, or videos, an important format is directly involving your target groups in face-to-face events or meetings. For example, you can organise special workshops for industry partners in context of your research project.\n\nAnother possibility is to invite industry audience to talks and conferences. This is, however, not always easy if those events are geared towards academics. Business audiences are not that much interested in getting to know comprehensive technical details; they want to know what the main output is, how it can help the company and how they can apply it. Choosing appropriate formats to present to and discuss this with them in a two-way communication is recommendable.\n\nTo generate interest about your events targeting businesses you can advertise and disseminate them via social media channels (e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn) and buzz marketing. It is necessary to get connected with your peers through various channels and to see it as an integrated strategy. Decide in how many channels you need to go to be well connected, and try to get the right topic to generate a buzz. ResearchGate is not recommended as this network is mostly used to reach peers from research.\n\n Download the recommendations", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9942643046379089}
+{"content": "Metabolism is a very important concept one has to understand when trying to get in shape. If you’re trying to trim your middle into slim, here’s what you need to know, and how key botanicals can help you on your weight-loss journey.\n\nA Refresher on Metabolism\n\nTo simplify, Metabolism related to the body’s internal process of producing energy from fat, sugar and protein. The more energy you produce, the faster your metabolism, and the less energy you produce, the slower your metabolism is.\n\nMetabolism is responsible for keeping the body moving like a well-oiled machine. It continuous process and the energy converted from the food you eat allows you to move, to think and for most of your body parts and processes to function properly.\n\nCan You Speed Up Metabolism?\n\nThis is the golden question that has nutritionists and concerned health professionals debating for a long time now. While there is yet to prove that you can or cannot change your metabolic rate, there are a couple of factors that you can work with to influence metabolism. These are:\n\nEating more calories than you can burn will always be the primary cause behind weight gain. You can “boost” your metabolism by working with it; eat healthy fats and protein, consume less sugar, and incorporate more physical activity into your daily routine.\n\nBotanicals: Drink the Fat Away\n\nFor centuries, herbs and botanicals have been used to naturally treat ailments and aid various bodily functions and processes. Green tea and Pu-erh are just two of many teas found to have high levels of compounds that naturally block the formation of fat and optimize the body’s metabolism process.\n\nGreen Tea\n\nGreen tea has always been linked to many health benefits. Its unique combination of catechin\n\ncaffeine and a compound known as EGCG blasts adipose tissue, in effect releasing fat from fat cells (specifically in the belly area) and speeding up the liver’s capacity to converting the released fat into energy. Experience these effects with every calming infusion of Sekaya Green Earl Grey.\n\nPu-erh Tea\n\nWith bioactive components theobromin, theaflavins, and complex polysaccharides, Pu-erh tea is consumed as a medicinal beverage for a variety of illnesses. Pu-erh tea also suppresses the conversion of fatty acids into fat, and reduces cholesterol production.\n\nServing suggestion: drink a cup of Sekaya Pu-erh Trim one hour after a meal.\n\nSample nature’s nurture for the body with Sekaya Botanic Infusions.\n\nHealth Tools for You\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9110927581787109}
+{"content": "Common sense stressed to stay safe on water this winter\n\nBrian Wells\nTimes Herald\nU.S. Coast Guard BOSN William Hosford talks about an inflatable craft used for ice rescues Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on the buoy deck of the USCGC Hollyhock in Port Huron. The raft has three air chambers and can be inflated within a matter of seconds.\n\nPORT HURON — On an overcast afternoon in January, U.S. Coast Guard BOSN William Hosford recalled the 14-foot aluminum boat they used to use for ice rescues.\n\n\"It took basically all of us to carry it from a trailer, down across a beach, and then we would have to drag it along the ice until we got to the water,\" he told the Times Herald of Port Huron. \"Then we had to get into the boat.\"\n\nThe boat was replaced with an inflatable craft that's more portable and lightweight. It has several different uses, such as serving as a bridge to disperse weight to pull someone out of the ice, or as a safety tool for rescuers who may need to cross a frozen surface. And, it inflates in seconds, Hosford said.\n\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported this month ice cover remains limited across the Great Lakes Region, with ice mainly being found in some bays.\n\nBut U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Nick Monacelli said that could change quickly depending on weather patterns. As a precaution, U.S. Coast Guard Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate Kyle Thomas said it is always important to know how to stay safe on the ice, and when to stay off it.\n\n\"We have no way of knowing how thick the ice will be, since things like water current, waterfowl presence, rotting vegetation, or waves could delay ice formation, or significantly weaken the ice,\" Thomas said.\n\nAs the spring approaches, ice can deteriorate, and what might appear to be thicker may be breaking down and unsafe.\n\nWhen talking about staying safe while doing activities on the ice, such as ice fishing, the U.S. Coast Guard uses the acronym I.C.E., which stands for information, clothing and equipment.\n\nThomas said before people head out on the ice, they should have the appropriate weather forecast, as well as being knowledgeable about the types of ice they'll be walking on and potential thickness.\n\n\"You can be the most experienced person in the world, but you and I both know the weather can change in a heartbeat,\" Thomas said.\n\nFor clothing, Thomas recommends wearing bright-colored clothing and a buoyant floatation device. He recommended against wearing an inflatable life jacket due to the risk of hitting your head if it inflates under ice.\n\nThomas also recommends carrying a personal locator beacon, a submersible radio and a screwdriver or ice awl that can be used to dig into the surface to pull someone out of the water in the event they fall through the ice.\n\nIf someone is planning to go on the ice, Thomas also recommends they come up with a float plan to let others know where they're going and when they plan to return. He recommends party-members keep a distance to reduce the chance of others falling through if someone does.\n\nThe U.S. Coast Guard has a mobile app available that has options to help users file float plans, as well as find information on required equipment, buoy data and NOAA weather station information.\n\n\"The biggest thing is, the best defense is a good offense,\" Thomas said.\n\nThomas also warned against driving on the ice. If a vehicle falls through, there can be penalties that range from $250 to $11,000 in pollution and recovery fees.\n\nBen Lasher, a conservation officer with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division, said boaters have a lot more to take into consideration during the colder months.\n\nLasher recommends boaters wear a dry suit or other kind of survival suit.\n\n\"The real bulky winter clothing that we would wear to stay warm is going to absorb more water if you end up in the water,\" he said. \"You might be nice and warm above the surface but once you fall in the water you've created a real bad situation where you might not be able to swim.\"\n\nBoaters should also be aware that accumulated icing on their craft can affect stability, especially on smaller vessels, Thomas said.\n\nBoaters should also be aware of conditions, Thomas said. As ice breaks up in the spring and begins to move south along rivers, it can pose a hazard to mariners as striking one at speed could be dangerous.\n\n\"I would not advise recreational boaters to operate their vessels in the ice or to break through ice, due to the likelihood of hull or engine damage, or injury,\" Thomas said.\n\nLasher added that boaters should be aware of how thick their hull is so if they do encounter ice, they know how much damage it can take.\n\nShould boaters choose to go out, it is recommended that they create a float plan and carry an operational VHF-FM marine radio. They should also go out in pairs in case of an emergency.\n\n\"The joy of catching a fish is not worth someone's life,\" Lasher said. \"A little bit of common sense can go a long way.\"\n\nAny water under 77-degrees Fahrenheit is considered cold water and puts people at a risk of submersion hypothermia, Thomas said. Even on a warm day, if someone enters cold water, they will experience a cold shock response, which is the involuntary gasp reflex that happens.\n\nA screwdriver or an ice awl can also be used to help a person pull themselves out of the ice before they lose the dexterity in their fingers.\n\nA personal locator beacon and a submersible radio should always be carried so people can call for help if they need it, Thomas said.\n\nIn addition to a working bilge pump, boaters should also carry a backup device such as a hand pump or a bucket to help get water out of a boat should the hull become damaged and leak, said Lasher. Most newer boats are designed so they won't sink entirely unless there are other catastrophic failures, but many older boats don't have these safety features.\n\n\"Most boats made today have enough designed floatation in them they're not going to sink such as the Titanic did,\" he said.\n\nU.S. Coast Guard BOSN William Hosford talks about ice awls that can be used for ice rescues Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, on the buoy deck of the USCGC Hollyhock in Port Huron. Ice awls are used to stick into the ice to help a person pull themself out if they fall through.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5140994787216187}
+{"content": "Pen Creigiau'r Llan North Top\n\nArea:Central Wales - Pumlumon\nCounty:Cardiganshire [Ceredigion]\nClassification:sub Tump\nMaps:OL23(W) Explorer or 135 Landranger\nGrid Ref:SN746945         Hills nearby: 5km 10km 20km\nSummit:no feature: rough grass\nDaylight:dawn 04:40, sunrise 05:23, sunset 21:00, dusk 21:42\n\nview on a bigger map\n\n\nIf you need accommodation we have details of 10 properties offering rooms near Pen Creigiau'r Llan North Top. Here are some examples:\n\n4 Sykes Cottages Assessed Cottage\n£466-2306 per week\n8.4km (5.2 miles) away, sleeps 4\n4 Sykes Cottages Assessed Cottage\n£680-2193 per week\n4.3km (2.7 miles) away, sleeps 4\n5 Sykes Cottages Assessed Cottage\n£481-3385 per week\n10.6km (6.6 miles) away, sleeps 7\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9431703686714172}
+{"content": "White-Collar Crime\n\n\n\nThe FBI’s white-collar crime work integrates the analysis of intelligence with its investigations of criminal activities such as public corruption, money laundering, corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, mortgage fraud, financial institution fraud, bank fraud and embezzlement, fraud against the government, election law violations, mass marketing fraud, and health care fraud. The FBI generally focuses on complex investigations—often with a nexus to organized crime activities—that are international, national, or regional in scope and where the FBI can bring to bear unique expertise or capabilities that increase the likelihood of successful investigations.\n\nFBI special agents work closely with partner law enforcement and regulatory agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, among others, targeting sophisticated, multi-layered fraud cases that harm the economy.\n\nMajor Threats & Programs \n\nCorporate Fraud\n\nCorporate fraud continues to be one of the FBI’s highest criminal priorities—in addition to causing significant financial losses to investors, corporate fraud has the potential to cause immeasurable damage to the U.S. economy and investor confidence. As the lead agency investigating corporate fraud, the Bureau focuses its efforts on cases that involve accounting schemes, self-dealing by corporate executives, and obstruction of justice.\n\n\nThe FBI’s corporate fraud investigations primarily focus on the following activities:\n\nFalsification of financial information\n\n  • False accounting entries and/or misrepresentations of financial condition;\n  • Fraudulent trades designed to inflate profits or hide losses; and\n  • Illicit transactions designed to evade regulatory oversight.\n\nSelf-dealing by corporate insiders\n\nFraud in connection with an otherwise legitimately operated mutual hedge fund\n\n  • Late trading;\n  • Certain market timing schemes; and\n  • Falsification of net asset values.\n\nObstruction of justice designed to conceal any of the above-noted types of criminal conduct, particularly when the obstruction impedes the inquiries of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), other regulatory agencies, and/or law enforcement agencies.\n\nThe FBI has formed partnerships with numerous agencies to capitalize on their experience in specific areas such as securities, taxes, pensions, energy, and commodities. The Bureau has placed greater emphasis on investigating allegations of these frauds by working closely with the SEC, CFTC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8288536667823792}
+{"content": "AB336030 | CAS 2083-91-2\n\n(N,N-Dimethylamino)trimethylsilane, 25% in toluene; .\n\nArticle ID CAS MDL Unit Unit Price Quantity Subtotal\nAB336030 2083-91-2 MFCD00008297 Price on request\nTotal Total\nBulk Request\nPrice Request\nPhysical and Hazardous Characteristics\nSum formula C5H15NSi\nMolecular weight 117.27 g/mol\nMelting point\nBoiling point 111.00°C\nFlash point 4.00°C\nSafety instructions\nSignal word Danger\nHazard statements H225, H304, H315, H319, H335 and H336, H361d, H373i\nPrecautionary statements P201, P202, P281, P280, P210, P241, P242, P243, P233, P271, P260, P264, P314, P308, P313, P304, P340, P312, P301, P310, P331, P303, P361, P352, P363, P332, P305, P351, P338, P337, P405, P403, P235, P501\n\n\nDo you have any questions?\n\n+49 721 95061 - 0 (international)\n0800 9506100 (national)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMany chemicals are subject to strict legal stipulations.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7400383353233337}
+{"content": "Are tattoos harmful to the body? Are there any side effects over time?\n\n\n       To put it plainly, a tattoo is to pierce the bottom of the skin with a needle with various colors of ink to create some patterns or words on the skin, so it is destructive to your skin, so you need to bear these risks:\n\nRisk of infection. If the tattoo device is not strictly disinfected, it is likely to carry a variety of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, such as hepatitis B virus, which can invade the body through tiny damage to the skin and mucous membranes, as long as there is a little blood of 0.00004 ml , The hepatitis B virus can hide in it and infect others.\n\n　　It may cause infection. Contaminated ink or insufficient disinfection of needles and tattoos can cause bacterial infections. Infections usually appear 4 to 22 days after the tattoo, ranging from cellulitis and small pustules to large abscesses that require drainage from the surgical incision.\n\n\n      The hygiene of the tattoo and the technical level of the tattoo artist may also affect your health. The ink pierced into the skin will gradually be swallowed by macrophages. This is one of the reasons why your tattoo will become lighter over time.\n\n     The macrophages that have swallowed the ink will flow back to the heart along the blood circulation, and then flow into the lungs. Alveoli, the ink accumulated in the lungs will stain the lungs \"colorful\". Of course, you can't see it. More importantly, the ink accumulated in the lungs can cause genetic mutations and cause lung cancer risk factors.\n\n\n\n\n　　No matter how natural pigments are, no matter how pollution-free needles are, they may cause unexpected minor injuries. It's just that the damage will not have an immediate effect. Sometimes the skin is itchy, and the strange eyes are not strong enough to conceal it. \n\n      The situation is new. No matter how beautiful tattoos are, they are not as good as their own natural flawless skin, not to mention the circulation of blood over time. The skin is no longer firm and brilliance, the patterns become fuzzy and wrinkled, and the once psychological satisfaction has become a stain on the body.\n\n\n Disclaimer: This article comes from the Tencent News client self-media, and does not represent the views and positions of", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8678992390632629}
+{"content": "Li X Rong Books\n\nBooks di Li X Rong editi da Crc Pr I Llc pubblicati nella collana Crc Pr I Llc Hardcover\n\nProbability, Random Signals, and Statistics\n\nProbability, Random Signals, and Statistics\n\nLi X. Rong \nedizioni CRC Pr I Llc collana CRC Pr I Llc (Hardcover)\n\nIn this outgrowth of his undergraduate courses on probability and random signals (e.g. grade point averages), Rong (electrical engineering, U. of New Orleans) utilizes a textgraph format of fonts suitable for direct use as transparencies/viewgraphs and smaller type providing further detail. He covers: basic concepts...\n\ndisp. incerta\n€ 154,10", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8154939413070679}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: How Does A Civil Marriage Work?\n\nWhat do you wear to a wedding at city hall?\n\nBut many brides take advantage of the low-key vibe to wear a short silhouette, a fun jumpsuit, or even a colorful ensemble.\n\nYour city hall wedding dress can be as formal or free-spirited as you like.\n\nSince you won’t have a big entourage, your hair and makeup plans are blissfully flexible!.\n\nDoes God recognize civil marriage?\n\nMarriage is a divine institution that can never be broken, even if the husband or wife legally divorce in the civil courts; as long as they are both alive, the Church considers them bound together by God. Holy Matrimony is another name for sacramental marriage.\n\nHow long does a civil wedding take?\n\nSo how long should your wedding ceremony be? Here’s what our experts have to say. Wedding ceremonies usually last between 20 and 30 minutes, which is ample time to cover the basics (words of welcome, a few readings, your vows, the ring exchange, and the final pronouncement).\n\nWhat is the point of a civil partnership?\n\nCivil partnerships are available to both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples. Registering a civil partnership will give your relationship legal recognition. This will give you added legal rights, as well as responsibilities.\n\nIs marriage civil or religious?\n\nThe institution of marriage in the United States is not a religious-driven contract; it is a secular agreement between two people and the state. In other words, marriage is only allowed under civil law, not religious doctrine. No couple, heterosexual or same-sex, can be married without a license issued by the state.\n\nWhat do you wear to a civil ceremony?\n\nGiven its less formal nature, a civil ceremony is your chance to have some fun and break the bridal fashion rules. You can’t go wrong with a little white ensemble like a chic wrap dress, tailored jumpsuit or a slim-cut suit in more laid-back blue, green or gray.\n\nWhat are the disadvantages of a civil partnership?\n\nAnother possible disadvantage of being in a civil partnership or marriage is that you may only have one property which qualifies for private residence relief between you at any one time (subject to exceptions in certain circumstances), even if you live separately.\n\nHow do you plan a civil wedding?\n\nSteps to Planning a Courthouse WeddingChoose a City Hall.Research the Requirements for Getting a Marriage License.Apply for the Marriage License.Make an Appointment or Nominate a Day.Create a Courthouse Wedding Checklist.Capture the Event on Film.Invite Your Closest Family Members or Friends to Witness Your Commitment.More items…•\n\nWhat type of marriage is civil marriage?\n\nWhat is a civil marriage? It is a marriage that can only be entered into between a man and a woman. A civil marriage will automatically be in community of property, unless an ante nuptial contract is entered into indicating that the marriage will be out of community of property, with or without the accrual system.\n\nHow do you get married civilly?\n\nIf you want to know how to get married at the courthouse, a civil ceremony is the simplest way to get married. Marriage ceremonies conducted by the Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner of Civil Marriage are performed at several branch offices of the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. The fee for the civil ceremony is $25.\n\nIs a civil ceremony a marriage?\n\nA civil, or registrar, ceremony is a non-religious legal marriage ceremony performed by a government official or functionary.\n\nWhat are the advantages of a civil partnership?\n\nCivil partnerships, like marriages, offer legal and financial protection for both parties in the event of the relationship ending and benefits including inheritance, tax, pensions and next-of-kin arrangements.\n\nDoes Catholic Church recognize civil marriage?\n\nAn unconsummated marriage can be dissolved by the Pope, as Vicar of Christ. … Accordingly, “the Catholic Church does not recognize or endorse civil divorce of a natural marriage, as of a sacramental marriage”.\n\nHow many witnesses do you need for a civil wedding?\n\ntwo witnessesThe married couple will then receive a certified copy of the marriage certificate. Most states require both spouses, the officiant, and one or two witnesses, to sign the marriage certificate. This is often done just after the ceremony.\n\nDo you need rings for civil marriage?\n\nSo, do you exchange rings as at a courthouse wedding? You can contact your local courthouse to make sure but in more places, exchanging rings at a civil ceremony is not a requirement. Whichever way you decide, just make sure the magistrate knows ahead of time so that the ceremony can be planned accordingly.\n\nIs a civil ceremony the same as marriage?\n\nA civil marriage means you end up with the same rights as a religious marriage in the eyes of the law, but the ceremony is different. The marriage ceremony is conducted by a local council official known as a registrar, rather than a vicar or priest in a church.\n\nWhat does civil marriage mean?\n\nYou can choose to get married by a religious institution; or have a civil service marriage performed either by a civil marriage officiant; or by the government. … But if you’re comparing civil marriage vs religious marriage, then we would say that we define civil wedding as “marriage without mandatory religion”.\n\nDo I need witnesses for a civil ceremony?\n\n1. Witnesses. You will need 2 witnesses at the ceremony. They must be over the age of 16, and able to speak and understand English.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7996454238891602}
+{"content": "Ranking and Scoring in Boymate10\n\nIn Boymate10 there are special combinations of cards' value and scoring. The smallest of the cards is 1 and the largest is 100 in the scoreboard. In the game consisting of 54 cards, there are geometric cards with 13 scores on four colors. Unlike these, there are 2 more cards named boymate10, which gave the game that completed 50 points, while the other card with 10 points alone was 10 points.\n\n\nOne of the basic rules that are effective in calculating the points of the game is the rule of collecting the points of the same kind of cards. Here, while boymate10 completes the small card to 50 points, if the color of the other card is the same, the total score is calculated by adding 50.\n\nFor example, if the score value of the two cards in blue is 1 and 8, the boymate10 card is also discarded.\n\nThe card with a value of 1 combines with the boymate10 and becomes 50 points, additionally added at 8 points, and a total of 50 + 8 hand points becomes 58 points.\n\n\nIf the color of the cards is different, there will be 50p in total if there is boymate10. This rule takes place when you do not have a 100 point card. If the color of the other card is different when there is 100 points, the boymate10 will be 10 points and the total will be 110 points, while the color of the card will be 100 + 50 = 150 points.\n\n\nFor example :\n\nWhen 100 yellow cards and 1 blue card and boymate10 = 110 points;\n\n100 yellow cards and 1 yellow card and boymate10 = 150 points.\n\nThere is no need to memorize them one by one. It is enough to try to make a strategy using the same breeds. And it is necessary to know that boymate10 has two point values.\n\n\nAttempting to find bonuses that give the game the skeleton task of the game requires establishing strategy and thinking in the flow of the game. When the total point value of the 2 or 3 cards selected is 10, they form a whole and the total point value becomes 50 points. If the total value of the two cards is 10 and the same color in the other card, 50 points are added with the score value of the other card.\n\nFor example: When 3 Blue and 7 Blue and 9 Blue are thrown, 3 and 7 = 50 points and 9 points total 50 + 9 = 59 points are obtained.\n\n\nWhile trying to get high points and leaving high card point values ​​to the future hands, it is tried to predict the future card and get high points from the opponent. In each hand consisting of 9 hands, each hand wins 50 points, except for the card points.\n\nThe last hand is a surprise, and the hand score is 150 points.\n\nAt the end of the game, additional points are calculated beside the points in the leaderboard.\n\n\n\n  • About Boymate10 (HOW TO PLAY)\n\n  • Boymate10   There are only one card in the game in the same color and shape and there are a total of 52 single cards and a total of 54 cards called boymate10, used as the 2nd joker.\n\n  • Boymate10   The game can be played with 2 players and the first version has been designed for 2 people. The first version has an advanced artificial intelligence application.\n\n  • Boymate10   the game consists of successive hands. It consists of a total of 9 hands according to the number of 2 players.\n\n  • Boymate10   In the game, the game card has been brought a new vision and the scoring system, which contains different combinations, has been built according to the logic of the game.\n\n  • Boymate10   In the game, each player receives 17 cards. And 20 cards are left on the floor as decks.\n\n  • The player strategically assigns the 3 cards in which each hand will get the highest score according to the compatible points system, the cards are evaluated and the hand points with the high-score cards. Only the score of the cards is written to the loser.\n\n  • 3 cards are out of the game at the end of each hand. And one card is dealt from the remaining deck.\n\n  • When the cards in the hand are gone, 6 cards remain in the deck. And this card is dealt 3 each 3. And the player with the highest score in the last hand adds the 3-point (150 points worth) hand score to his digit along with the value of the cards.\n\n  • And the player with more than 9 total points wins the game.\n\n  • Boymate10   Young players without knowledge of the game can play, but they can play for a long time by having fun in highly specialized players who learn the whole system and strategies.\n\n  • In the clear game flow, the two most important features are to create a strategy by selecting the binary cards with a total score value of 10 using the same color cards. With this solution, good results can be obtained with some luck, some guess, some memory, and attention.\n\n  • Don't stop, download now! Discover boymate10 with its new design.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9956117868423462}
+{"content": "a woman asking a taxi driver for directions\n\n\nJane has received an invitation to a wedding and some directions to explain how to get from the town hall (wedding venue) to the hotel where the reception is. \n\n\nTask 1 - vocabulary\n\nIn this activity, you will study the meaning, pronunciation and spelling of some words and phrases in directions that you just read and listened to.\n\nTask 2 - find the missing word\n\nIn this activity, you will focus on words which sound natural together when giving directions. For example, we say ‘at the end of the road’, not ‘in the end of the road’.\n\nTask 3 - building sentences\n\nTask 4 - giving directions\n\nRead Jane’s directions aloud to a friend and ask them to mark the route on the blank map.\n\nYou can check that they have marked the correct route by comparing their map with the completed map.\n\n  • Did you give good, clear directions?\n\nYour turn\n\nHow about having a go at giving your own directions?\n\nThink of two places you are familiar with. Write down the directions from one place to another and read them aloud, paying particular attention to linking sounds. You could get a friend to mark the route on a map.\n\nListening to yourself speaking aloud can really help improve your pronunciation. It allows you to notice how you really speak so that you can identify your individual strengths and weaknesses.\n\nYou can use your mobile phone to record yourself speaking. If you think you could improve you can record yourself again.\n\n\nDirections from the Town Hall to the hotel (wedding reception).\n\nCome out of the car park and turn right into Green Street.\n\nGo along Green Street for about a mile until you reach the roundabout.\n\nGo over the roundabout (second exit) and keep going straight ahead until you arrive at the second set of traffic lights.\n\nTurn left into Rowley Road and keep going for about 2 miles. You will go under a bridge and past a pub on your right called ‘The Old Manor’.\n\nWhen you arrive at the crossroads, turn right into Primrose Lane.\n\nGo past the swimming pool and the playground, and take your third right into Junction Road (be careful as there are speed bumps along here – don’t go above 20mph).\n\nFinally, take your second right into Bluebell Walk. The hotel is at the end of the road – it’s on the corner, opposite the old school.\n\n\nAre you better at giving or listening to directions?\n\n1 vote\n\nI study regular english for about 10 years and used different selfstudy methods but this is the first time I 've learnt about  'linking sounds'\n\nVery interesting and useful.\n\n\n\n\n\n0 votes\n\nIt's my first time here and it's so nice of studing becouse it's so good end free. Thanks.\n\n0 votes\n\nit good for me\n0 votes\n\n\n\n\n1 vote\n\ni was learning English for four years but i have never been learned like this, it's very usefull", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8928704857826233}
+{"content": "Storing essential oils: 8 dos, don’ts and tips you MUST know\n\nEssential oils, as you know, are plant substances that form the immune system of plants. When steam distilled or extracted from plant parts, they are pure and pristine, without any synthetic elements. Such pure essential oils can change over time. They can go rancid, oxidize, deteriorate and lose their therapeutic properties if they are not handled properly. To avoid any kind of damage, essential oils need to be stored and preserved in the right way. Be it of a small quantity or a large quantity, essential oils need special attention to keep them natural and untainted.\n\nHow to store essential oils? Before plunging into the dos and don’ts of storing essential oils, we need to look into the measurements of oils sold in the market. Essential oils are highly concentrated substances and hence a little goes a long way. Owing to this, they are sold only in 5ml, 10ml and 15ml quantities. Some of the costliest oils are sold even in 2ml or one dram sizes. This is being done to help preserve the quality and purity of oils sold. As oils age with time, they can lose their therapeutic value. If sold in large quantities, you may end up with oils that are of no use to you. Below are a few tips on how to store essential oils:\n\n1. Do not store oils in plain, clear glass bottles. Most of the essential oils, especially the Citrus ones, are phototoxic and hence should not be exposed to sunlight. If clear bottles are used, there is every chance of sunlight entering the bottle and deteriorating the oil. To avoid this, don’t buy oils sold in clear glass bottles\n\n2. Store essential oils in amber-colored or cobalt blue color bottles. These bottles filter UV rays from entering the oils inside and hence you have less chance of losing the therapeutic value of the oils.\n\n3. Plastic bottles should be avoided completely. Essential oils react vehemently with plastic and eat it out. This will make them rancid and impure over time. To avoid this, never use plastic bottles.\n\n4. Avoid bottles that have a rubber dropper incorporated into its screw-top cap. Droppers with rubber bulbs should not be kept with essential oil bottles as the oils can react with droppers and ruin them into a gum-like form. In the process, the oils can go rancid and impure.\n\n5. Store all your essential oil bottles away from sunlight, in a cool and dark place. Ensure that they are out of reach of children and pets. A tiny drop of oil can be toxic if ingested without dilution. So, avoid such a scenario at any cost.\n\n6. Store all your essential oil bottles in a wooden box. You can choose any wooden box from craft stores or bazaars. Even unfinished wood is no issue.\n\n7. Check for an oil’s shelf life and properties before buying an oil. For instance, Citrus essential oils tend to deteriorate in six months time. While those like Patchouli or Sandalwood mature with age. If you know the shelf life of every oil you buy, you will be able to use them and conserve them properly.\n\n8. Aluminum bottles are said to be safe for storing essential oils if they are lined on the insides. Check the nature and quality of bottles before you buy oils.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9443590044975281}
+{"content": "How Can I Tell Who Is Watching My Netflix?\n\nHow many people can use my Netflix account?\n\n\n\nHow can I get Netflix for free forever?\n\n\nCan someone hack into your Netflix?\n\n\n\nOfficial policy: Not allowed to share. If you want to have multiple people use one Netflix login, you should buy their premium plan, which allows you to watch from four devices at the same time. …\n\nDoes Netflix tell you when someone is watching?\n\nWhile in the “Viewing activity” page, click on the “See recent account access” link. This will take you to a page displaying all kinds of information related to logins: date and time, location, IP address, and device types.\n\nCan someone else use my Netflix?\n\nAccording to Netflix’s ToS your account is for “personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household”.\n\nHow do you delete history on Netflix app?\n\nDeleting your Netflix history is simple. On your Android or iOS device, go to the Continue Watching list on the Netflix app, then click the three dots on any entry. A sub-menu will pop up. Select the bottom option that says ‘Remove from row’.\n\nHow do you see how much time you’ve spent on Netflix?\n\nFirst of all Netflix is now many platform so let say your are watching on phone which is Android so on this you can go settings and click on battery setting in this you can see how much you are using your mobile on which particular app. 2. On iPhone if you updated Os than there is option of screen time you can check.\n\nWhat do I do if someone is using my Netflix account?\n\nOnce you have established that someone has been using your profile without your permission, then revert back to “Settings” and go to the “Sign out of all devices” option. This will enable you to kick your Netflix hackers out of your account. – Please note that the signing from all devices may take up to eight hours.\n\nCan I see how many times I’ve watched something on Netflix?\n\nGo to your acount -> viewing activity. Then hit ctrl+f and type in the name of the thing you want to know how much you watched it. Press enter (more then once), and you can see how many times you’ve watched it. Edit: for this to work you will have to scroll to the bottom off the list, and back up, first.\n\nCan I see what I have watched on Amazon Prime?\n\nOn the Prime Video page, click “Settings” at the top-right corner of the screen, click the “Watch History” option, and then click the “View Watch History” button. This page shows a complete history of all the videos you’ve ever watched on Amazon, with your most recently watched videos at the top.\n\nDo you get notified when someone logs into your Netflix?\n\n\nHow do you log everyone out of Netflix?\n\nHow to log out of Netflix from all devices at once using a computerLog into Netflix on your preferred browser.In the dropdown menu on the far right side of the screen, select the “Account” option.Under “Settings,” select “Sign out of all devices.”More items…•\n\nWhat is the screen limit for Netflix?\n\ntwo devicesNetflix allows streaming on two devices at the same time on its standard plan, which costs $12.99 a month in the U.S., and four devices on its premium plan, at $15.99. (A plan for a single screen is $8.99 a month.)\n\nHow can I see whos using my Netflix?\n\n\nCan you kick someone off your Netflix?\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6129187345504761}
+{"content": "Georgetown Explained\n\nGeorgetown Explained: Domestic violence resources\n\nPublished November 4, 2020\n\nIllustration by Deborah Han\n\nContent warning: This article contains information about intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and relevant resources. \n\nOctober was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence—also known as intimate partner violence—refers to physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship. IPV can impact survivors physically, mentally, and financially in both the short and long-term.\n\nIf you are a survivor of IPV, there are resources to help you process what you have experienced. While this article specifically references survivors of domestic violence, the majority of the following resources also support survivors of sexual violence that was not perpetrated by an intimate partner.\n\nYou are not alone, regardless of what you have experienced.  \n\nI am in immediate physical danger:\n\nIf you are in immediate danger, Georgetown recommends dialing the appropriate campus police depending on your location: 202-687-4343 (Main Campus), 202-662-9325 (Law Center); or 202-907-3061 (SCS). If you are off-campus, Georgetown recommends dialing 911 to reach the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). \n\nIf you are not comfortable involving the police in your situation, there are other resources available. DC Safe is an organization based in D.C. that provides crisis intervention for domestic violence survivors. Call 1-800-407-5048 to speak with an advocate. If you need someplace safe to go, there are emergency shelters and housing services to which they can refer you. An advocate also can help you obtain an Order of Protection from your assailant. All services are free and confidential. For more information and a comprehensive list of resources, visit\n\nI need immediate medical care or evidence to be collected:\n\nIf you have been physically or sexually assaulted, it is important to obtain medical attention as soon as possible to assess the severity of your injuries and to ensure that you are physically healthy. In D.C., you can obtain this care for free through the DC Forensic Nurse Examiners at MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC). These services are accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, even during the pandemic. You can take yourself to MWHC, or you can call the D.C. Victim Hotline at 844-4HELP-DC, who can provide you with safe transport to the hospital. Once you arrive, go right to the emergency room and say that you are there for a forensic exam. \n\nThe hospital will call a forensic nurse, who is trained to mentally and physically care for people who have experienced violence, and an advocate from Network for Victim Recovery of DC\n\nAfter the assault, it is best to avoid changing your clothes, showering, going to the bathroom, brushing your teeth, eating, or drinking until you can obtain an exam. If you already did these things, you can still go to the hospital and receive an exam. If you changed clothes and still have them, bring them with you in a brown paper bag.\n\nDuring the exam, you will be asked to describe the assault. It is okay if you are unable to recall all the details, and it will not undermine the validity of what you experienced. The nurse will also ask about your medical history and any physical symptoms you are currently experiencing. The nurse will then evaluate your physical state, and do a full-body physical exam. They will identify and document any injuries and findings. If there are concerning injuries, other physicians might be consulted so that they can be treated. If you were sexually assaulted, the nurse will perform an internal exam and collect physical evidence, which can include bloodwork and swabs. You will be given appropriate medications and given referrals to other doctors or organizations for more long term support. \n\nIt is okay to be scared during this exam. Just remember that you are in control of every aspect of the exam, and have the right to deny any part of the exam, no questions asked. The entire exam is based on respecting your boundaries and honoring your consent.\n\nFor more detailed information about the forensic exam, please visit   \n\nI am in crisis, and I need immediate emotional support:\n\nIf you are in crisis after experiencing something traumatic, that is extremely common and understandable. There are many resources that can help you. \n\nIf you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK to speak with a licensed professional at any time. The lifeline accommodates those with hearing difficulties and provides tele-interpreters for over 150 different languages. Lifeline also offers a chat feature if you do not feel comfortable speaking on the phone. Visit This is a free, confidential resource.\n\nThe Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) has a National Sexual Assault Hotline. You can call 1-800-656-HOPE or go online to to access a chat. The hotline will connect you to a trained staff member local to your area to ensure you are properly helped. This is a free, confidential resource. \n\nThe National Domestic Violence Hotline is an accessible hotline that caters to all people, and provides specific resources for indigenous survivors and survivors with hearing difficulties. For specific information, visit their website, You can call 1-800-799-SAFE or go to their website to utilize their online chat feature. This is a free, confidential resource. \n\nThe DC Rape Crisis Center (DCRCC) also has a hotline that can be reached at 202-333-RAPE. Their website,, provides more information. This is a free, confidential resource. \n\nWithin the Georgetown Community, you can contact Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) even after business hours. Call 833-960-3006. This is a confidential resource.\n\nI want to report what happened to me:\n\nIf you do choose to report, you deserve support, especially from those to whom you are reporting. At Georgetown, you can choose to file a Title IX complaint with the university. You can also file a criminal complaint with MPD. There are also other actions you can take. In order to decide what process would feel the safest for you, you can consider speaking to the following resources.\n\nNetwork for Victim Recovery of DC (NVRDC) is an organization based in D.C. that provides legal services, advocacy, and resources to survivors. If you received a SANE exam after an attack, you most likely met an advocate from this organization during that exam. NVRDC can not only talk you through your options, but can also provide you with legal advice and advocacy throughout the entire process. To get in touch with NVRDC, call 202-742-1727. Leave a brief message with your name and phone number, and they will return your call as soon as possible. If it feels more comfortable, you can also send an email to For more information, visit their website at \n\nIf you feel more comfortable staying within the Georgetown community, you can contact the Title IX office. There, you can meet with a Title IX Coordinator. During this meeting, you can learn about what support you can receive, and what the process of filing a formal complaint would look like. Speaking with a Title IX Coordinator is not a confidential conversation, which means that if you share any details about your experience, the university might have to investigate. However, you do not have to share anything in this initial meeting unless you are ready. To set up a meeting or for more information, visit or call 202-687-4798. Samantha Berner, the Director of Title IX Compliance and Title IX Coordinator, can be reached directly at 202-697-9183 or at \n\nIf you aren’t ready to start with the Title IX office, and would feel safer with a confidential counselor, you can either contact Health and Education Services by calling 202-687-8949 or sending an email to or Counseling and Psychiatric Service (CAPS) by calling 202-687-6985\n\nYour experience is not any less valid if you choose not to report it to the school or the authorities. You get to define what happens next.\n\nI am not in crisis, but I need to talk to someone:\n\nCalling any of the hotlines mentioned above is always a great option for short-term support. If you are finding that you are in need of a more long-term support system, there are many resources available.\n\nTherapy, for some people, is a vital part of their recovery from a traumatic experience. Depending on a lot of factors, it can sometimes be hard to find the right therapist. As previously mentioned, NVRDC is one organization that can refer you to mental health providers and support groups in the D.C. area. \n\nIf cost is an issue, you can still find professional support through organizations that can provide free therapy for domestic violence survivors. House of Ruth is a D.C. based group that provides trauma-informed services to survivors of trauma and abuse. In addition to psychotherapy, they provide many other services to help survivors heal safely. Call their support center at 202-667-7001 ext. 515 to schedule an initial consultation. \n\nThere are also resources within the Georgetown community. Health and Education Services (HES) can provide advocacy, crisis intervention, and a plethora of other services. Call 202-687-8949 or send an email to to set up an appointment. These services are free and confidential. Note that HES does not provide psychotherapy.  If you are looking for therapy on campus, contact Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) at 202-687-6985 to set up an initial consultation. CAPS can also make referrals to other on-campus programs (such as support groups) and other providers off-campus.\n\nCampus Ministry, the Women’s Center, the LGBTQ+ Center, and faculty can also support you. With the exception of ordained clergy, these other resources are not fully confidential as most faculty and staff are mandated reporters. If there is someone you would like to talk to, but you do not know if they are a mandated reporter, ask them before you start to talk.\n\nI want to support someone:\n\nIf a friend comes to you for help, thank them for coming to you, and reassure them that you are here for them. Keep in mind that for some people, it is difficult to ask for help, so it’s important that you meet their openness with kindness and understanding. \n\nUnder no circumstances should you place any blame on your friend for the abuse they endured. Statements like, “I don’t understand why you don’t just leave,” imply blame, and cause deep hurt. Ask what they need specifically, so you can support them in a way that is safe and comfortable. Consider suggesting they come up with an emergency safety plan, and provide them with the appropriate professional resources. \n\nIf you see something that doesn’t look right, say something in a way that is sensitive and kind. Considering the situation, you might want to initiate a conversation in person, as opposed to over the phone or through text message. Do not make any strong statements, and do not tell your friend how they are feeling. It is imperative that you do not define your friend’s experience for them. Instead, remind your friend that they can count on you to be a non-judgemental presence in their life.\n\nIt is crucial to remember that you are not a mental health professional, which means you are not equipped to deal with crisis intervention by yourself. There are some situations where a professional is needed to ensure everyone’s safety. It is also important to remember that you cannot support someone if you are not supporting yourself. Set healthy boundaries, and keep a close eye on your mental health. There are resources that exist to help you too. \n\nAs October comes to an end, so does Domestic Violence Awareness Month. With this being said, it is vital to have these conversations year-round.\n\nAllison Grace O'Donnell\nAllison is an assistant design editor and a sophomore in the College. 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+{"content": "What we do\n\n\n\nFollow ODI\n\n\n  1. With Myanmar’s military back in full control, Rohingya refugees need long-term solutions\n\n  2. Three myths about armed groups and the smuggling economy\n\n  3. Exploring the impacts of Covid-19 on Rohingya adolescents in Cox's Bazar: a mixed-methods study\n\n  4. In pursuit of resilience: assessing threats and trade-offs for risk-informed development in Myanmar and Niger\n\n  5. ‘Every action counts’: why the humanitarian sector needs to fast-track inclusion\n\n  6. The Rohingya response in Bangladesh and the Global Compact on Refugees: lessons, challenges and opportunities\n\n  7. The gendered dynamics of trafficking in persons across Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand\n\n  8. Using mobile phone surveys to track resilience and post-disaster recovery: a how-to guide\n\n  9. The Global Compact on Refugees: lessons from Bangladesh\n\n  10. How mobile phones can be used to track people’s views on resilience: key findings from Myanmar\n\n  11. Delivering climate resilience programmes in fragile and conflict-affected contexts: a synopsis of learning on the ground\n\n  12. Rohingya refugees’ perspectives on their displacement in Bangladesh: uncertain futures\n\n  13. Women Deliver 2019 Conference Power Talk\n\n  14. Informality and protection: understanding the role of informal non-state actors in protecting civilians\n\n  15. Protecting civilians in the Kachin borderlands, Myanmar: key threats and local responses\n\n  16. Capacity and complementarity in the Rohingya response in Bangladesh\n\n  17. Rohingya want to return, but only if rights and safety are guaranteed\n\n  18. The Rohingya crisis: voices from the field\n\n  19. MEDIA NOTE: Rohingya crisis, one year on – ODI expert available for interview\n\n  20. Dignity and the displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6999613642692566}
+{"content": "Which private jets can cross the Atlantic?\n\nThe Gulfstream G650ER is one of the fastest and longest-range private jets with a range of 7500 nm. It can cross the Atlantic on any route comfortably (and very quickly) at a speed of 0.85 mach.\n\nCan a Cessna Citation cross the Atlantic?\n\nThe Citation X, or Cessna model 750, is the fastest, fully certified, civilian aircraft flying with a top cruising speed of 92% the speed of sound! … 82 or greater and still complete flights across the Atlantic ocean.\n\nCan a private jet fly from US to Europe?\n\nMany users of private aviation in the U.S. and Europe fly commercially across the Atlantic. The reasons are multiple. There’s the cost, typically around six figures each way. There is only a small percentage of private jets that have the range to fly nonstop.\n\nHow much is a private jet across the Atlantic?\n\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Best answer: Is there a time limit on claiming flight delay compensation?\n\nCan private jets fly international?\n\nWhen it comes to flying internationally on a private jet, the same rules apply for passports and visas as they would on a commercial flight. These are not required as part of the airline, but for entry into a country. … They may require a visa before your arrival as well as a passport.\n\nCan a Boeing 737 fly across the Atlantic?\n\nLow cost carriers are starting to compete on this market, most importantly Norwegian Air Shuttle, WestJet and WOW Air. … Norwegian Air performed its first transatlantic flight with a Boeing 737-800 on 16 June 2017 between Edinburgh Airport and Stewart Airport, New York.\n\nCan a small plane fly over the Atlantic?\n\nThere are 3 ways to cross the Atlantic by small plane: The southern route from St Johns to the Azores to Europe or Africa. The middle – from Goose Bay, Newfoundland, to Narsarsuaq, the southern tip of Greenland to Iceland to Europe.\n\nHow much does a private jet to Europe cost?\n\nFlying from the U.S. to Europe on a private jet can easily range from $75,000 to $100,000 one-way versus $7,500 for first class, while a private flight from New York to Los Angeles might run $30,000 compared to $2,500 in first class on American Airlines, where they offer a VIP check-in which reduces airport hassles and …\n\nHow much is a private jet to Vegas?\n\nPrivate plane cost for round trip flights.\n\nOriginating Destination Midsize Jet\nLos Angeles Las Vegas $13,000\nLos Angeles San Francisco $13,500\nLos Angeles Aspen $18,500\nLos Angeles Seattle $21,000\n\nHow does customs work for private jets?\n\nIn many cases when flying by private jet, customs comes to the passenger. “Most of the time we can clear customs and immigration right on the aircraft,” he said. “When we land, the officers usually walk right on board, check passports and all of the forms, and most of the time we can be cleared in just a few minutes.\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  How much refund do we get on cancellation of flight ticket?\n\nWhat is the cheapest way to fly private?\n\nThe cheapest form of private flight is an empty leg. These are journeys that are scheduled to fly without passengers so any money the company makes is a bonus. Another is the prepaid jet card, where members can buy time in jets by the hour and renew as needed.\n\nHow rich do you have to be to fly private?\n\n\nHow far can a private jet fly?\n\nSo if you can fly direct, can you fly nonstop?\n\nAircraft Type Maximum Range Maximum Flight Time\nLight Jet 1000-1800 miles 5 hours\nMidsize Jet 2000-3000 miles 6 hours\nSupermid Jet 3000-4000 miles 7 hours\nLarge Cabin Jet 4000+ miles 10+ hours\n\nDoes Jeff Bezos own a jet?\n\n\nHow much does a private plane cost?\n\n\nHow much is a ticket on a private jet?\n\n\nIT IS INTERESTING:  Does American Airlines fly to Naples Italy?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8190228939056396}
+{"content": "Rookie Round Table\n\nThe rookie round table takes place on Thursday evenings at 7:00pm local time on our main repeater.\n(There is no net on the first Thursday of each month due the SnoVARC monthly meeting)\n\nThe primary purpose of this net is to give newer hams a chance to connect with other hams on the air. By sharing our experiences and knowledge we can help each other further our journey into the ham radio hobby.\n\nEven if you have been a ham for a long time, we still invite you to join in the round-table discussions. Those that are newer to the hobby can benefit greatly from your shared experiences.\n\nQuestions, Comments, Suggestion? You can also email us at:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9718247056007385}
+{"content": "Palazzo, Edwards Join in Letter to Obama Championing Human Spaceflight\n\nPalazzo, Edwards Join in Letter to Obama Championing Human Spaceflight\n\nThe top Republican and top Democrat on the Space Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee sent a joint letter to President Obama on Friday championing human spaceflight as NASA’s chief priority.   They were joined by 30 other members of both parties in arguing in favor of human deep space exploration “on an American rocket launched from American soil.”\n\nRep. Steve Palazzo (R-MS) and Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), subcommittee chairman and ranking Democrat, respectively, sponsored very different versions of a new NASA authorization bill last year.  Palazzo’s was approved by the committee on a party-line vote, breaking a tradition of bipartisanship on NASA issues.  This joint letter to the President may signal a new, unified approach.   The committee’s Senate counterpart also approved a NASA authorization bill last year on a party-line vote.  Neither bill proceeded any further.\n\nEdwards said at a Maryland Space Business Roundtable (MSBR) luncheon last week that she and House committee Republicans are trying to find common ground so a bill can pass the House, at least, this year.\n\nThe subcommittee will hold a hearing on NASA’s FY2015 budget request on Thursday.\n\nThe Palazzo-Edwards letter says “We must prioritize U.S. leadership in space exploration, especially in light of the expansion of human spaceflight programs in countries such as China and Russia over the past decade.”  Later it adds “In addition to the threat to our civilian preeminence in space, the increasing efforts of other countries to develop human spaceflight capabilities may also threaten U.S. national security.”\n\nGrouping China and Russia together in this context is surprising.   Russia is not only a partner in the U.S. human spaceflight program today, but an enabler of it.   As will be evidenced once again tomorrow night, the only way American astronauts can travel to and from the International Space Station (ISS) is on Russian spacecraft, and the ISS itself is an integrated facility of Russian and American (and European, Japanese and Canadian) hardware.  Russia’s human spaceflight program pre-dates the U.S. program (Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961) and had a long series of successful space stations from 1971-2001, including the world’s first space station (Salyut 1 in 1971) and the first multi-modular space station (Mir, 1986-2001).  The letter’s reference to an “expansion” of Russia’s human spaceflight program over the past decade is curious — it was and is a partner in the ISS and, under contract to NASA, is providing crew transportation services for non-Russian astronauts. \n\nChina, by contrast, is still on the human spaceflight learning curve, with just five crewed missions over the past 11 years.  It plans a 60-ton space station by 2023, but that is modest in comparison to ISS.   Some Chinese space officials have been quoted in Chinese media about sending people to the Moon, but China’s most recent official 5-year space plan calls only for studies on a “preliminary plan for a human lunar landing.”\n\nThe letter, and Thursday’s hearing, are set against a backdrop of tense relationships between the United States and Russia over Russian’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.  So far, those geopolitical tensions do not seem to have affected ISS cooperation, but the letter’s juxtaposition of Russia and China and national security interests may signal a desire by the subcommittee, at least, for increased scrutiny of U.S. reliance on Russia.\n\nIn any case, the letter appears to represent agreement between the two parties on their top NASA priority — human exploration beyond low Earth orbit.   That may not be good news for NASA’s space science, space technology and aeronautics programs, but politically it is a step forward in resolving NASA’s future in a budget-constrained environment.\n\nThe letter noticeably does not state what should be the next step in human space exploration.  That issue has separated Congress and the Obama Administration since 2010 when the President cancelled the Constellation program to return astronauts to the Moon and replaced it with the concept of sending humans to an asteroid.  The Obama Administration continues to try and win people over to its asteroid plan and will hold a public forum on Wednesday afternoon towards that end.  \n\nEdwards has not been a supporter of the asteroid mission in the past, but said at the MSBR luncheon that she happened to see NASA Administrator Bolden explaining the Asteroid Redirect Mission to students recently and finally understood why it is important.  The hearing on Thursday may be an opportunity to see if she is willing to fight for it.\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9606733918190002}
+{"content": "Sarkozy sends condolence letter to Netanyahu after 'liar' jibe\n\nSarkozy sends condolence letter to Netanyahu after 'liar' jibe\n\n\"President (Nicolas) Sarkozy sent a personal letter in his and his wife Carla's name in which he expresses his condolences to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his spouse Sarah after the death of the latter's father.\n\n\"In the letter, Mr Sarkozy reminds the prime minister of his friendship and underlines that their differences over the problems of the Middle East, which the press echoed recently, do not have an impact on this friendship,\" an Israeli official was quoted by 'The Daily Telegraph' as saying.\n\nIn fact, in the conversation during the G20 Summit, overheard by a number of newspersons after it's inadvertently transmitted over a system used for translation, President Sarkozy told President Obama in French: \"I can't see him anymore, he's a liar.\"\n\nTo which President Obama responded: \"You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him (Netanyahu) every day,\" -- and it was translated into French, news website 'Arret sur Images' reported.\n\nJournalists were able to hear the conversation after they were given translation devices for a press conference but told they would receive headphones later, according to the website which also quoted a number of journalists saying that a group decision was made not to report the \"private conversation\".\n\nIn Paris, the Elysee Palace confirmed that a \"private\" letter had been sent, but refused to disclose its contents, according to the British newspaper.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5492345094680786}
+{"content": "Pickpocket returns wallet after being caught red-handed on Twitch IRL stream - Dexerto\n\n\nPublished: 21/May/2019 8:46 Updated: 21/May/2019 9:18\n\nby Calum Patterson\n\n\nIRL Twitch streamer Giannie Lee has had her share of run-ins with some unsavory individuals on her travels, from encountering racists in Cologne to now a ruthless pickpocket in London.\n\nAs Giannie and her partner were walking through a quiet part of the city on the evening of May 20, a man could be seen shuffling around closely behind them.\n\nFrom the viewers perspective, it soon became clear that the man was reaching into Giannie’s partner’s back pocket, before quickly moving away and getting ahead of them.\n\nTwitter / Giannie LeeGiannie Lee streams her travels around the world on Twitch.\n\nImmediately noticing that his wallet had been ‘dropped’, her partner swiveled round to look on the ground for his missing belongings, with the pickpocket already far ahead.\n\n\nHowever, it appears that the thief may have realized that Giannie had been filming, even streaming, the entire situation, as she turned the camera to face him in the background.\n\nOr, perhaps the thief simply wasn’t interested in the contents of the wallet – either way, he chose to ‘return’ it, pretending he had just spotted it on the ground, as though it had in fact been dropped.\n\nGiannie has been streaming much of her trips around Europe on Twitch, and has made headlines previously after being subjected to multiple racist encounters during her time in Germany.\n\nWhile at a restaurant, two German men mocked her ethnicity, playing up for the camera, but likely not realizing that the incident was being livestreamed, as well as recorded.\n\n\nThese repeated incidents show that even if you are clearly filming, and even livestreaming to the world, it may not be enough to keep you safe while traveling big cities.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8980727195739746}
+{"content": "Why You Should Volunteer in the Philippines\n\nWhy You Should Volunteer in the Philippines\n\nBy Justine Simonin on 22/10/2020\n\nWritten by Leslie Martine. As someone who considers herself as a citizen of the world, Leslie often finds herself jumping from one country to another. During one of her travels, Leslie realized how she could make the most out of her every adventure by integrating volunteer works to it. Since then, Leslie has been dedicating most of her free time to writing about voluntourism and the endless benefits it offers.\n\n\n\n\n\nIn recent years, volunteering has been continuously gaining popularity — and for a lot of good reasons. Aside from providing individuals with the perfect opportunity to share their blessings and give back to the community, multiple studies have shown how acts of kindness such as these could help ease various mental health issues as well. According to an article by The Balance, volunteering can effectively help you reduce loneliness, improve your social skills, develop emotional stability, improve your self-esteem and even alleviate the symptoms of different mood disorders such as depression.\n\nIf you want to experience all these and more, there’s no better place to do so than in the Philippines. In a previous post, Frank Stovall explained how volunteering in the Philippines could be extremely satisfying. With opportunities that help you connect with others, learn new skills, and boost your confidence, the Philippines is a great destination for volunteering, but there’s more to the country:\n\n\n\nBeautiful, natural destinations\n\nThanks to its wide array of pristine islands and coasts, the Philippines has understandably become synonymous with beaches. One of the Philippine beaches that has been making waves all around the world is Boracay. A little over two years ago, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte decided to temporarily close Boracay, to pave the way for various rehabilitation initiatives. Today, the world-class tourist destination is now open for local tourists. In addition to the majestic beaches, the Pearl of the Orient also boasts tons of beautiful land formations. From the hand-chiseled Banaue Rice Terraces in Ifugao to the cone-shaped hills that turn chocolate brown during the dry season in Bohol, the number of breathtaking natural destinations you can visit once you’re volunteering in the Philippines are endless. If you are someone who loves the great outdoors, programs that aim to preserve nature and the indigenous people that inhabit them will be right up your alley. Try checking out the programs offered by Tribes and Natures Defenders Inc.\n\n\n\nHospitable, friendly people\n\nAside from its astonishing destinations, the Philippines is also known far and wide because of the very people that live there. In his article on Hospitality Net, Jule Grass even went as far as saying that the hospitable nature of the Filipino people is probably the most compelling factor that’s driving word of mouth and attracting newcomers to this corner of the world. During your volunteer trip to the Philippines, you can expect the locals to welcome you with open arms, treat you like family and help you in whichever way they can. Culture Trip’s write-up about the things that will make you love the Philippines mentioned that the Filipinos will even ensure that your belly is always filled and that your lips are always curled upwards with their impeccable sense of humor and contagious positivity. In return, you can join programs that give basic school supplies and daily (sustainable) school-based feeding program such as the ones offered by Tarambid Inc.\n\n\nInexpensive, yet fulfilling experiences\n\n\nOne of the main reasons why a lot of people shy away from voluntourism activities is cost. Sometimes, the cost can be so steep that the program fees can run into thousands — causing volunteers to spend more than they normally would if they simply travel to that specific country. On top of the fees, the price of goods, activities and services in some countries can also be pretty high. If you volunteer in the Philippines, costs would be the least of your problems. An article by Coffee With A Slice Of Life detailed how the total travel expenses for two people in the Philippines could be as low as $73 per day since the average cost of accommodation is at $25.40 per day while food expenses could be a bit shy of $14.75 per day.\n\nNow, more than ever, everyone should work hand in hand (not literally, of course) in helping those in need. Fortunately, with voluntourism programs, you and your friends can participate in meaningful activities and have some fun at the same time. Once the ongoing crisis subsides, try participating in voluntourism programs and don’t forget to check out our list of volunteer opportunities in the Philippines.\n\n\n\n\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9491698145866394}
+{"content": "The Inkatha Freedom Party repeats its calls and support for the full recognition of the Republic of China (Taiwan) by the United Nations [UN].\n\nInkatha Freedom Party Secretary-General and member of parliament, Mr Siphosethu Ngcobo said, “The IFP fully supports, and calls upon the United Nations to recognize the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is representative of 23 million people and should have the full right of participation within the UN.”\n\n“It is absurd that the UN continues to kowtow under what can only be assumed, patent duress from The Peoples Republic of China and in so doing undermines its own mandate by not permitting Taiwan to meaningfully contribute and partner with the rest of world in achieving the UN Sustainable Development, and other UN Goals,”\n\n“Equally absurd is that despite Taiwan being geo-located within a key aviation position in the Asia-Pacific region and manages large volumes of air traffic, the International Civil Aviation Organization [ICAO] still refuses to allow Taiwan’s professional, necessary and constructive participation, once again in conflict with it’s [ICAO’s] own mandate of ‘connecting the world’”\n\nThe IFP remains committed in its support for Taiwan to have an independent voice and role in the global arena.\n\nIFP Secretary-General, Mr Siphosethu Ngcobo, MP\nMobile: 082 902 4508\nIFP Media, Parliament", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5894015431404114}
+{"content": "Mind and Body\n\nThe \"hormone diet\" works -- but not for the reason you think\n\nA nutritionist explains the science behind another diet plan that has come into the spotlight.\n\nUnsplash / Louis Hansel\n\nWhen it comes to losing weight and getting healthy, there never seems to be a shortage of diet and fitness crazes claiming to hold the secret to easy, sustainable weight loss. Some of the most recent popular diet crazes include the ketogenic diet (low carbohydrate, high fat), the carnivore diet (only eating meat and other animal products), and intermittent fasting (eating only within a strict timeframe, or on certain days).\n\nBut another diet plan that’s come into the spotlight recently is the hormone diet, which claims that the reason people struggle to lose weight is because their hormones aren’t working properly. Numerous books have been written about this topic, with advocates of the hormone diet claiming people can experience quick and significant weight loss by using diet and exercise to manipulate or “reset” their hormones. There are a few variations of the diet, but the main idea with each is that the key to losing weight is by correcting perceived hormonal imbalances in the body.\n\nHormones play an important role in our body’s everyday processes, from digesting food to helping bones grow. They’re transported around the body through the bloodstream and act as “chemical messengers” which instruct cells to perform specific jobs.\n\n\nInsulin was once thought to play a key role in weight gain, but recent research shows that total calorie intake is actually the primary factor in gaining or losing weight. Fat loss can only be achieved by creating a calorie deficit, which simply means that you must burn more calories than you consume. Similarly, this is why many people have success with intermittent fasting, as it typically results in the consumption of less food and therefore fewer calories.\n\nThe hormone diet claims healthy eating and exercise are key to \"resetting\" your hormones.Unsplash / Jannis Brandt\n\nOne popular book promoting the hormone diet uses a three-step program that claims it will help people lose weight, gain strength, and feel younger. Steps one and two of the diet focus on changing nutritional habits. Step three concentrates on exercise.\n\nAccording to the author, readers must “detox” their body. In step one, readers remove foods such as alcohol, caffeine, sugar, red meat, cow’s milk, and milk byproducts (such as cheese or yogurts) from their diet, while simultaneously eating more fruits and vegetables, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products from sheep and goats, and plant milks. In step two, readers must then cut out processed foods, artificial sweeteners, and refined grains. Step three involves an increase in cardiovascular and strength exercises.\n\nThe dietary recommendations provided in steps one and two require a decrease in food products that are typically high in calories and low in nutritional value, such as alcohol, high-sugar foods, and processed foods. The diet also promotes foods such as vegetables, fish and fruit, which increase fiber intake (important for the digestive system) and provides the body with a variety of vitamins and minerals which perform numerous bodily functions required for overall health and well-being. These foods are also generally lower in calories than alcohol, high-sugar foods, and processed foods. And paired with the recommended exercises in step three, this “hormone diet” will probably increase calorie “burning” along with other health benefits.\n\nDoes the “hormone diet” actually work?\n\nGenerally, the hormone diet recommended in this book is not bad nutritional advice. However, the key here is that any potential weight loss will probably be from the change in calorie intake, rather than an effect (if any) on your hormones.\n\n\n\n\nThis article was originally published on The Conversation by Robert Naughton. Read the original article.\n\nRelated Tags", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7169656753540039}
+{"content": "Atoms are commonly thought to look like a planetary system, tiny spherical electrons orbiting a spherical nucleus, like the planets orbit the Sun. But it's more complicated than that.\n\nOnce the spine has been severed signals can no longer pass from our legs and our feet to our brain. This makes it impossible for paraplegics to know how they are distributing their weight when wearing an exoskeleton. However, by using the Wii Balance Board the patient can receive visual feedback about balance and movement, allowing the patient to learn how far they can shift their weight before falling.\n\nNew video from The Royal Institution explains how the particle accelerator at the STFC ISIS muon and neutron facility works.\n\nWhat is weightlessness? Do you have weight in Space?\n\nThis 8 minute animated short, titled \"We Can't Live Without Cosmos\" encompasses many childhood dreams of going to space with your best friend.\n\nFollow the link to watch an illustrated version of Professor Stephen Hawking's second Reith lecture, \"Black holes ain't as black as they are painted\".\n\nIn 2004 graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, was isolated by two researchers at the University of Manchester. Learn more about it in this video.\n\nOur recent studies of Mars inform us that there used to be oceans on this now dry planet. It is thought that the weak magnetic field is to blame. The strong magnetic field of Earth protects our planet from the high energy particles from the Sun. But the weak field on Mars resulted in the atmosphere and most of the water being blown away. Check out the video below to find out more.\n\nNASA are currently recruiting the next generation of astronauts. It is a competitive job, with only around 8 in 6,000 applicants getting accepted. But what kind of training is required to become an astronaut and prepare for the unpredictability and harsh nature of space?\n\nWomen scientists at the dream and nightmare laboratory at the University of Montreal (yes, it is a real place) are investigating dreams. They study what we see, hear, feel and even smell.\n\nEveryone has experienced a nightmare, but some people have nightmares so frequently and intensely it makes their waking hours a misery.\n\nCombining neuroscience, with humanities, with philosophy makes this area of research particularly collaborative.\n\nEveryone loves bubbles, but have you ever seen them up close? Check out the video below to see the hypnotic surface of a bubble.\n\nThe Solar Dynamics Observatory is constantly keeping a close track of the surface of our Sun. In order to observe the wide variety of features exhibited photos are takes at 10 different wavelengths every 12 seconds. A collection of these photos have been stitched into a video showing the beauty of our Sun, and the many interesting features it \n\nMost of us know someone with a pacemaker, it is an invention which has extended millions of lives. But these battery-powered devices are going to become battery-free. Where will they get their power from? The heart?!\n\nThe vibrational energy created in the chest by each heart beat is enough to provide the electrical energy required to power the pacemaker. Watch the video below to find out more.\n\nThanks to NASA and GoPro, now you can share in the breathtaking views/sheer terror that astronaut Terry Virts enjoyed during a recent hour-long spacewalk.\n\nHow small is an atom?\n\nHave you ever tried to wrap your head around just how small an atom is. Maybe this video can help.\n\nPeriodic table of videos\n\nA team of scientists at the University of Nottingham have created a series of videos about all of the different elements in the periodic table, including why do ice cubes crack in drinks, and what happens when ice cubes are put into liquid nitrogen? As well as the barking dog, in slow motion.\n\nWhat happens to liquid nitrogen under vacuum?\n\nSummarised from the link below:\n\nLiquid nitrogen has a boiling point of -196°C making it difficult to contains. As soon as it is exposed to air it instantly boils away. But something very unusual happens when it is placed inside a vacuum chamber.\n\nNASA wants to capture an asteroid in 2019\n\nSummarised from the link below:\n\nNASA plans to snatch an asteroid out of space and send it into orbit around our moon for study. Examining an asteroid could give scientists a view into the earliest stages of the universe. Sometime in the 2020s, a crew of astronauts will follow the rock, hooking up to the spacecraft and mining the 32-meter asteroid. The video below shows a concept animation featuring notional crew operations during NASA's proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission\n\n\nNASA also plans to launch a robot into space in 2016, have it latch onto an asteroid, and return samples by itself in 2023.\n\nGLaDOS Explains Fission and Fusion\n\nWant to know the difference between fission and fusion, or just a fan of portal? Check out this video from NASA!\n\nSuper Hydrophobic Surface and Magnetic Liquid\n\nThe Slow Mo Guys - Gav and Dan are in the GE lab using nanotechnology to show you cool liquid physics in slow mo.\n\nOptical illusions\n\nAn Optical Illusion You'll Swear Is Moving. It Isn't.\n\nWhy it's hard to control your thoughts\n\nWhat are thoughts, and what exactly is thinking? Take a trip into the fantastic, ceaseless world our minds create.\n\nBill Nye YouTube series about NASA's mission to Jupiter\n\nCentral Limit theorem explained with bunnies and dragons\n\nMany real-world observations can be approximated by the normal distribution, a bell shaped curve. However, many important things we would like to measure and test that do not follow a normal distribution, but there is often a normal distribution lurking within it. The existence of this hidden normal distribution is known as the Central Limit Theorem. In this episode of CreatureCast, Shuyi Chiou, an animator, presents the Central Limit Theorem.\n\nBrian Cox describes how black dwarfs will be the end of our Universe\n\nA clip from the BBC's Wonders of the Universe special with Brian Cox. In this clip he describes how black dwarfs will be the end of our Universe, a long time from now.\n\nBrainstuff YouTube Channel\n\nWhether the topic is popcorn or particle physics, you can count on the HowStuffWorks team to explore - and explain - the everyday science in the world around us on BrainStuff. The link will take you to their YouTube channel where you will find loads of great videos.\n\nBrit Lab YouTube Channel\n\nEver wondered what causes a beer belly? How does glue work? How far can bullets travel? Where does all the snot come from? BRITLAB is where we answer all your curious questions about science in the world around you.\n\nHow Big is the Universe...Compared to a Grain of Sand?\n\nThis video clip tries to put into perspective just how mind bogglingly huge the Universe is, and it explains some of the techniques scientists use to calculate the distances between stars and objects in the Universe.\n\nRichard Feynman 1983 BBC TV Series 'Fun to Imagine'\n\nRichard Feynman is a Nobel Prize winning phycisist and is brilliant at engaging with his audience when he speaks. In all of these short clips from the BBC TV Show he is sitting in his armchair in his California home explaining different aspects of physics that explains the world around us.\n\nThe Higgs Field Explained\n\nOne of the most important and exciting discoveries of the 21st Century is that of the Higgs Boson, at CERN. This discovery may enable us to explain where certain particles get their mass, but what is the Higgs Boson and the Higgs Field?\n\nStephen Hawking's Big Ideas Made Simple\n\nStephen Hawking is the planet's most famous living scientist, and one of the brilliant minds of the 21st Century. In just two and a half minutes Alok Jha explains some of Hawking's big ideas about black holes and the origin of the Universe.\n\nThe Physics Bohemian Rhapsody Cover\n\nAn informative and entertaining cover of the Bohemian Rhapsody made by a masters student from McGill University, Timothy Blaise. This cover manages to include all the confusing elements of String Theory and is complete with an Einstein sock puppet.\n\nWhy we live in 3D\n\nHave you ever wondered why we live in three dimensions? Check out this New Scientist video for more of an explanation.\n\nPlease reload\n\nvideos from the web", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7886124849319458}
+{"content": "Datapages, Inc.Print this page\n\nIce Sheets and Hot Rocks: Unravelling the Glacial Signature in the Late Ordovician Reservoirs of North Africa and the Middle East\n\nJonathan Craig\nEni Exploration and Production Division, San Donato Milanese (MI), Italy\n\nThe Upper Ordovician reservoirs in North Africa contain at least 5 billion barrels of oil equivalent in more than 50 fields scattered across a broad area from the Murzuq Basin in SW Libya to the Ahnet Basin in central Algeria. Most of these reservoirs were deposited in glacially-influenced, generally shallow marine settings, on the continental shelf, beyond or at the margins of a continental ice sheet. In keeping with their ice-proximal to distal setting, they exhibit complex and rapid changes in facies and reservoir quality, and contain a wide range of glacially-induced syn-sedimentary structures.\n\nMany of the Upper Ordovician glacigenic deposits of North Africa were first documented during the 1960’s and 70’s, but relatively few attempts have been made since then to interpret them in the context of our now much greater understanding of glacial and glacimarine processes. Considering their importance as hydrocarbon reservoirs and their intimate association with one of the main source rock horizons in the region, a re-evaluation is long overdue.\n\nOver the past two decades, Eni, in association with several different academic institutions and industry contractors, has made considerable progress in unravelling the depositional history of these complex rocks. The sedimentology has been re-interpreted, new biostratigraphic data have been collected and a method of correlation has been developed based on the cycles of ice advance and retreat that occurred during deposition. The age of the deposits has been revised and the timing of ice-sheet growth and collapse has been related to plate movements, changes in climate and in oceanic conditions and, ultimately, to the causes of the second largest mass extinction in Phanerozoic times.\n\nThe deposits of the late Ordovician glaciation are extensive and occur at outcrop and in the sub-surface in North and South Africa, Arabia, South America, and parts of southwest Europe. The ice sheet was centred over Central Africa and expanded outward onto the surrounding continental shelves. At its maximum extent, it was of comparable size to the present day Antarctic Ice Sheet and may have extended over 65º of palaeolatitude, reaching as far north as 30ºS.\n\nGrowth of the late Ordovician ice sheet paradoxically occurred during a period of elevated CO2 levels that lasted throughout most of the Early Palaeozoic. The glaciation caused a eustatic fall in sea level of 50-100 m, produced ventilation of the world’s oceans and triggered a major mass extinction, during which 85% of all extant species were eliminated.\n\nThe initial stage of ice-sheet growth was terrestrial and commenced at the start of the extraordinarius Zone of the early Hirnantian (latest Ashgill). This initial stage was coeval with the ‘first strike’ of the late Ordovician mass extinction that resulted in the evolution of the Hirnantia fauna. This distinctive fauna is preserved immediately beneath and within Upper Ordovician glacigenic rocks of North Africa, indicating that the glaciation here is almost entirely Hirnantian in age. In the later stages of the extraordinarius Zone, the ice sheet advanced onto the continental shelf and deposited ‘glacially-influenced’ sediments across most of North Africa.\n\nUnequivocal evidence of the presence of ice on the continental shelf of North Africa is sparse, but includes isolated occurrences of outsized, exotic, faceted and striated (icerafted?) clasts in shales and the presence of locally extensive soft sediment striated ‘icepavements’. The Upper Ordovician glacigenic rocks characteristically exhibit very rapid lateral and vertical changes in facies. These make it notoriously difficult to establish a sound sequence stratigraphic framework for the deposits and to correlate them from one area to another, even within a single field. However, new work has enabled the Upper Ordovician glacigenic rocks of North Africa to be subdivided allostratigraphically into ice-contact, glacimarine shelf, and rebound units, based on an analysis of the facies and facies associations preserved within the Upper Second Bani Formation in Morocco, the Hassi el Hadjar Formation in Algeria, and the Melez Chograne and Memouniat Formations in Libya. Fourteen facies and six facies associations characterise these rocks. Together they indicate ice-contact to distal glacimarine shelf settings on a high-latitude shelf influenced by an extensive grounded ice sheet. The fining-upward transition from ice contact to glacimarine shelf architectural elements characterises a glacial-retreat succession.\n\nTwo main glacial-retreat successions are preserved in the Upper Ordovician rocks of North Africa and both are underlain by sub-glacially deformed, coarsening upward, glacimarine shelf allostratigraphic units deposited during glacial advance. Related cycles of eustatic sea-level fall and rise are recorded in age-equivalent sequences in Canada, the Welsh Basin, the Prague Basin and Portugal suggesting that these two major cycles of advance and retreat of the ice sheet produced global effects. The upper glacial retreat succession in North Africa is overlain by a rebound allostratigraphic unit that represents the collapse of the ice sheet from the shelf and the associated isostatic rebound. Full-glacial conditions ended abruptly in North Africa near to the base of the late Hirnantian persculptus Zone. This triggered the ‘second strike’ of the late Ordovician mass extinction when the associated glacioeustatic sea level rise produced a return to normal oceanic stratification and flooded the previously exposed continental shelf with anoxic waters. Organic-rich graptolitic ‘hot’ shales were deposited in isolated topographic depressions in the former glacial landscapes of the continental shelf in the Rhuddanian (earliest Llandovery) during the initial stages of the transgression. These discontinuous basal Silurian black shales are the source of at least 80% of the Palaeozoic-derived hydrocarbons discovered in North Africa to date. The sea level continued to rise through the early Silurian, flooding most of the remaining topography by the Aeronian (mid-Llandovery). Analogy with late Quaternary glaciations and with chronometric data from coeval Upper Ordovician deposits in Australia suggests that the climate (and presumably ice-sheet volume) during the late Ordovician was influenced by Milankovich-eccentricity cycles of approximately 100,000 years. The presence of two main cycles of glacial advance and retreat in the Upper Ordovician successions of North Africa suggests that full glacial conditions may only have lasted about 200,000 years, a much shorter time than previously thought. This accounts for the poor biostratigraphic resolution that exists in the late Ordovician glacigenic sequences in North Africa, and has important implications for extinction rates and global climate change.\n\nThe different facies of the Upper Ordovician glacigenic succession have widely differing reservoir properties. Successful exploration for, and development of, these reservoirs requires a detailed understanding of sand body distribution, shape and vertical and lateral continuity. Ice-proximal fluvio-glacial deposits and high-density turbidites typically form the best quality reservoirs, but punctuated coarsening-up shoreface deposits in the postglacial isostatic rebound succession also have considerable potential. Appraisal and development of these glacigenic reservoirs is further complicated by the presence of a wide range of syn-depositional, glacially-induced heterogeneities, including sub-glacial and ice marginal fold-thrust belts, tunnel valleys, soft-sediment load structures, intraformational shear surfaces, dewatering structures and micro-faults, all of which have the potential to act variously as barriers, baffles or conduits for fluid flow on both geological and production time-scales.\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.984785795211792}
+{"content": "Studio Soundproofing - Soundproofing a Studio | Soundproof Cow\nClick To Call\nup close of pink soundproofing foam\n\nRecording Studio Soundproofing\n\nStudio Soundproofing\n\nArtists spend years perfecting their craft. Their hard work shouldn’t be marred by something as simple as a noisy recording environment. Whether you host singers, musicians, voice actors or anyone else that needs a mic and a sound setup, amateurs and pros alike need soundproofed spaces if they want to sound their best.\n\nCreating these soundproof spaces may be easier than you think. While materials built into the walls are great, there are also plenty of ways to add soundproofing to an existing room. Let’s take a closer look at what soundproofing a recording studio entails.\n\nIs Your Home Recording Studio Working for You?\n\nFor many musicians, the home recording studio is their castle — a sanctuary where they can fully focus on their art. When you have a home recording studio, you control your destiny when it comes to your future in music. You can produce professional demos, record whenever the inspiration strikes you, day or night, and not have to worry about compromising your art.\n\nMost beginning musicians don’t think they have the money or space to create a home recording studio. However, the reality is, all you need is a garage or other suitable home space and quality recording studio soundproofing. For that quality studio soundproofing, musical artists in-the-know contact Soundproof Cow.\n\nWhat Are the Benefits of Soundproofing a Music Studio?\n\nNot only is soundproofing a studio beneficial, but there’s also little point in trying to operate one without adequate studio soundproofing. Music is all about the sound, and the higher sound purity you have, the better chance you have of producing the recording you want — the one that will make others take notice.\n\nQuality music studio sound proofing allows you to produce superior, professional sound quality recordings, lets you nail down your recording in fewer takes because of less sound interference, and lets you record as loud and as long as you want without having to worry about disturbing family members or neighbors. You’ll also enjoy fewer distractions from outside the studio pulling your focus from your composition.\n\nChoosing Soundproofing Solutions for Studios: Soundproofing vs. Sound Absorption\n\nYou will generally want both soundproofing and sound absorption for your music studio, and when building your studio, it will be helpful for you to understand the differences between the two and the types of products that will help you with both.\n\nWhen you are considering the quality of sound, sound absorption materials are extremely important. These materials absorb sound waves to minimize reverberation, echo and other harsh byproducts of sound. While sound absorption materials do not actually block sound, they will help give you that sound purity you want when trying to create a pristine recording.\n\nRecording studio soundproofing products, on the other hand, actually stop sound transfer. When you layer soundproofing material on your studio walls, you prevent sound from escaping or getting in. This is what will allow you to record freely without worrying about disturbing your neighbors and without having to deal with external sounds that may distract you from what you are doing.\n\nWhile it’s unrealistic to expect you will create a completely soundproofed room in a private residence, by installing recording studio soundproofing products to block sound, along with sound absorption products that improve sound, you can create a sound isolation scenario that will allow you to create professional-sounding recordings without the need to pay for a professional studio.\n\nAnother way to isolate your recording studio is to create air space between walls and reduce the number of contact points between building materials. When construction elements are not physically touching, sound waves weaken and transfer is minimized.\n\nIf you can only use one type of sound control material, or you’re trying to decide how much of one type of material to use versus another, simply consider your needs in a home studio. If you are in a relatively isolated location and your main concern is getting good sound quality, your focus will be on sound absorption material. If you are getting little interference with your recordings, but are in a crowded residential area where sound blocking is a priority, soundproofing will be the priority.\n\nIdeally, of course, you’ll want to have a good amount of both.\n\nWhere to Install Your Soundproofing Studio\n\nBefore you purchase your Soundproof Cow soundproofing and sound absorption materials, you will want to know which materials work better in which parts of the studio.\n\nWhen determining sound control for your walls, you will want to focus on soundproof barrier insulation. If you can build an air gap between the wall and the drywall you lay down, you will better isolate the sound. We also recommend high-grade acoustic foam . Soundproof Cow offers soundproofing insulation that includes both a soundproof barrier and foam for maximum sound isolation and sound-blocking capability.\n\nFloors are not the first area people often think of when considering sound control for a studio, but it can be very important. For hardwood floors, isolators that separate the top layer of flooring with the original layer, perhaps with a rubber intervening material, can serve to effectively deaden floor sounds. If you have a less flexible material, like concrete, you can purchase acoustical carpet underlay to kill sound.\n\nFor your ceiling, you can build a dropped ceiling and fill it with soundproofing material. You can also hang baffles or acoustic tiles for further ceiling sound control.\n\nOnce you have the materials you need, creating a studio to serve your purposes should be a quick and highly rewarding process.\n\nReasons to Soundproof Your Studio\n\nThe importance of soundproofing in recording environments is critical. If a car honks outside your window, it can ruin an otherwise perfect song. If your room is more spacious, all the echoes bouncing off the walls can seriously affect the sound quality of your recording.\n\nIf you’re considering soundproofing a studio, keep in mind the following traits of effective soundproofing:\n\n  • Increases the quality of your recordings. This is perhaps the most significant factor, as it means your recordings won’t pick up a variety of unwanted noises. Even echoes within a room or the sound of equipment can hurt your sound quality and create less desirable results.\n  • Looks more professional. If your clients visit your studio and it has no methods of soundproofing, they probably assume it doesn’t bode well for their recording quality.\n\nThere are two types of sounds that any recording studio has to deal with: sounds from inside the room and sounds from outside the room. A studio-quality soundproofing system should address both. Some materials will block outside sounds — like footsteps from the hallway or a siren wailing by your street — while others will absorb sounds that you create in the studio. These noises include computer fans, airflow from ventilation, clicks on a keyboard and echoes from the sound you’re recording.\n\nMaterials used for sound absorption might include porous foam, cotton or fiberglass panels mounted to the wall or ceiling. For sound blocking, materials are usually built into the walls, floors and ceilings. They don’t physically “block” sounds — they substantially minimize them by de-energizing the sound waves with heavy friction between the fibers of the material. You can read more about the principles of soundproofing on our blog.\n\nMethods to Soundproof Your Studio\n\nThere are several different ways to approach soundproofing a studio, and each method addresses unique types of sounds.\n\n1. Decouple the Structures\n\nHave you ever cranked up a speaker only to have the items on your table start shaking and rattling? Sound waves are made up of vibrations. When these waves travel through two items that are touching, they can compound the issue, particularly in structural components of a room like the materials used to build the walls, floors and ceilings.\n\nDecoupling isolates these points of contact with a material that won’t transfer vibrations. This ensures the sound can’t travel as easily.\n\n2. Use Materials With High Mass and Density\n\nA wall that has more mass and density is less likely to vibrate when it is hit by sound waves. If it’s less likely to vibrate, it’s less likely to transfer those vibrations to the next room over. You can use dense materials during construction to boost a wall’s soundproofing qualities, but you can also add new materials and panels onto a wall that’s already built.\n\nadd new materials and panels to walls\n\n3. Implement Sound Dampening\n\nDamping sounds involves using specialized materials to convert sound waves into heat, which reduces their kinetic energy and limits how far they can travel. Typically, these damping materials go between panels of another substance, like drywall or plywood.\n\n4. Minimize Sound Sources\n\nEvery room is filled with sound sources that you likely wouldn’t notice until you go to record. Things like air vents, recording equipment and hard floors can contribute to noisy rooms that hurt your recording quality. Eliminate as many of these extra sound sources as you can.\n\n5. Fill in the Gaps\n\nAnother place vibrations can travel is through gaps and cracks in the walls, floor or ceiling. Special types of acoustical caulk for gaps or door sweeps for the space underneath the door can help in this aspect.\n\nBest Studio Soundproofing Products\n\nWhen you’re trying to soundproof a recording studio, you need quality materials that support that goal. We offer several products that lend themselves to recording artists of all types — whether you’re looking to fully outfit a professional studio or just prevent waking up your family when you get inspired at 2 a.m.\n\nHere are some of our products for studio soundproofing.\n\nFloor Joist Isolators\n\nAs a form of decoupling, floor joist isolators work to keep structural noise transmission to a minimum. These U-shaped items are made up of medium density thermoplastic and are easy to install. They fit over any wood with a 2-inch width. They are also cost-effective and perfect for professional and in-home studios where impact noises can travel throughout the floors and from adjacent levels of a building. This simple tool is much more effective than it might look.\n\n\nOur isoTRAX™ soundproofing system goes inside of the walls during construction and uses a few different methods to minimize sounds. Isolation rails decouple the drywall from its studs, while sound deadening pads reduce vibrations from the sounds. The system is easy to install, works well in a variety of room sizes and addresses multiple types of sound vibrations.\n\nQuiet Barrier™\n\nOne of our most popular soundproofing products is Quiet Barrier™ material sheets. This nonporous, high-density material blocks airborne sound transmission, such as conversations and noises, and dampens vibration sounds, like impacts. It keeps your room quiet from adjacent sources but won’t reduce the sound inside. You can cut Quiet Barrier™ foam to the size you need and use it in a variety of locations and applications. It even comes in peel-and-stick options, so you can use it like a thick sticker for easy installation.\n\nAcoustic Panels\n\nFor a more stylish look with sound-deadening and sound-absorption characteristics, acoustic panels are an excellent choice. These materials can help reduce echoes in your recording studio, making for cleaner, clearer sound quality. One of the best parts about acoustic panels is that they are versatile and aesthetically pleasing. We wrap powerful, sound-reducing panels in attractive materials and can even print your choice of images in high-quality, richly colored fabrics. You can hang these panels from the ceiling or on the walls for a professional look.\n\nDoor Sweeps and Seals\n\nEvery recording studio has an entrance, which can also be an entrance for sound waves. Door sweeps and seals line the doorway with materials that prevent the escape or entrance of these sounds. This solution is easy to install and perfect for home use. It can help you create noise without disturbing others or hearing sounds that disrupt your recordings.\n\nFind the Recording Studio Soundproofing Products You Need\n\nIf you’re ready to take your recordings to the next level with a sound-free room, we can help. Here at Soundproof Cow, we have everything needed to create a custom solution that addresses the noise concerns in your environment.\n\nFrom door seals to interior design-worthy acoustic paneling, our soundproofing products are perfect for reducing background noise and other sounds that may impede your recordings. 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+{"content": "Things to keep in mind while working with Decision Trees\n\nAug. 6, 2017, 8:34 p.m. By: Prakarsh Saxena\n\nDecision Trees\n\nAnyone working in the field of Machine Learning knows a thing or two about Decision Trees. It’s a kind of supervised learning algorithm with a pre- defined target variable mostly used in classification problems, and can work for both categorical and continuous variables. The sample data is split into two or more homogeneous sets based on the most significant differentiator in the input variables.\n\nRegression vs Classification Trees\n\nMain features which differentiates regression trees from classification trees are as follows.\n\nRegression Trees: Regression Trees are the types of Decision Trees which mostly work on input variables which are continuous. In these, the terminal node value is the mean response of observations in the training set, which fall in that particular region. Any prediction of an unseen data is hence predicted by the mean value.\n\nClassification Trees: Classification Trees Learning Model, unlike the Regression counterparts, works with the categorically dependent input variables. In this case, the value or category obtained by the terminal node is the mode of the observations of the training set falling in that region. So any prediction of the unseen data is hence predicted by the mode value.\n\nHowever, due to the fact that both of the types fall under Decision Trees, they both follow a top- down greedy approach, also known as Recursive Binary Splitting. They do this by dividing the predictor space (or the independent variables), into distinct and non- overlapping regions. The splitting process is continued until a user defined stopping criteria is reached. And in both cases, the splitting process result in fully grown trees until the stopping criteria is reached. This increases the likelihood of over- fitting the data.\n\nAvoiding Over- fitting in Decision Trees\n\nOver- fitting is one of the key challenges while modeling any Machine Learning Algorithm. If we set no limit set on a decision tree, it will be 100% accurate on training set because in the worst case, the model will end up making 1 leaf for each observation. Over- fitting is thus pivotal for an efficient working model, and this can be done in two ways\n\n1: Setting constraints of tree size\n\nConstraints on the tree size can be put by changing the innate parameters of the model. These are\n\n  • Minimum samples for a node split: This defines the minimum number of samples required in a node to be considered for splitting. Higher values prevent a model to learn its dataset properly and would lead to under- fitting\n\n  • Minimum samples for terminal node: This denotes the minimum number of samples required in a terminal node. Lower values should be chosen in general.\n\n  • Maximum depth of tree: Higher depths allow model to learn relations very specific to training data, so this also controls overfitting.\n\n  • Maximum number of terminal nodes: An alternative for Maximum Depth, since number of leaves are 2^n in a complete binary tree of height ‘n’\n\n  • Maximum features to consider for split: This should generally be selected as the root of total features. Higher values tend to overfit the data.\n\n2: Pruning the tree\n\nPruning is done to avoid the down effects of the greedy approach towards splitting. Pruning helps focus on future, unlike the greedy approach which tends to favour the present scenario. Pruning is normally done from the bottom of the leaves which give negative returns wrt to the top ones and the features pruned are merged with the parent nodes.\n\nHow effective are Tree Based Models compared to Linear Models?\n\nThe question finally boils down to the type of problems we have in front of us. The following factors will help gauge the problems in a better way\n\n  • If the dependent and independent variables’ weights are well approximated by a linear model, linear regression would certainly outperform the tree based. But if there is high degree of non- linearity and complex relationship between the dependent and independent variables, tree models are preferred.\n\n  • Decision tree models are, at any point of time, easier to explain, visualize and interpret than a linear regression.\n\nHope this article comes to some help while using Decision Trees the next time.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8666826486587524}
+{"content": "New Clause 15 - Children as victims of domestic abuse\n\n\nAlert me about debates like this\n\n‘(1) This section applies where behaviour of a person (“A”) towards another person (“B”) is domestic abuse.\n\n(2) Any reference in this Act to a victim of domestic abuse includes a reference to a child who—\n\n(a) sees or hears, or experiences the effects of, the abuse, and\n\n(b) is related to A or B.\n\n(3) A child is related to a person for the purposes of subsection (2) if—\n\n(a) the person is a parent of, or has parental responsibility for, the child, or\n\n(b) the child and the person are relatives.\n\n(4) In this section—\n\n\n“parental responsibility” has the same meaning as in the Children Act 1989 (see section 3 of that Act);\n\n“relative” has the meaning given by section 63(1) of the Family Law Act 1996.” —(Victoria Atkins.)\n\nThis new clause provides that references in the Bill to a victim of domestic abuse include children who see or hear, or experience the effects of, the abuse.\n\nBrought up, and read the First time.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5296938419342041}
+{"content": "В търсене на тайното съкровище на нацистите - Кехлибарената стая\n\nLegends of buried Nazi treasure, stolen during the Second World War, abound, and one group of pensioners is determined to find the fabled ‘Amber Room’, a priceless room made entirely of amber gifted to the Russian empire by the Prussian king. Led by sixty-eight-year-old Karl-Heinze Kleine, a group of elderly German pensioners decided to track down the long-lost treasure by digging through the tunnels of old Nazi bunkers in the western German town of Wuppertal.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9998601078987122}
+{"content": "How to Write a Press Release\n\nWriting a good press release is one of the keys to successful business. You have something special to offer, so you should let the public know about it.  Use this method of announcing new services, product lines, or other happenings in your business to generate positive talk. If you choose to write your own press release, you must proofread it thoroughly with a trustworthy writing program like WhiteSmoke. If you need to save time or just want to insert your own information to a template, you can also use WhiteSmoke’s selection of professional templates.   Write a press release (sometimes referred to as a news release) with the help of WhiteSmoke online writing software, and see an impressive reaction.\n\nThe first thing to consider in how to write a press release is the headline.  You should use strong words and messages to catch your readers’ attention.   WhiteSmoke’s thesaurus software will help you find the right synonym for what you need to say.  The enrichment feature will suggest adjectives and adverbs for powerful phrases that will draw the reader into the story.   After you have your readers’ attention with a humorous or otherwise catchy headline, you should continue by providing the most important information first.   In the following paragraphs, include information from most-important to least-important, to ensure your readers see the essential facts first.\n\nAfter the headline, the next part of a press release is the opening paragraph.   This should provide answers to the six Ws and an H questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.   The first few lines of the release, called the lead, are designed to provide a lot of information in a short amount of space.   Use WhiteSmoke’s thesaurus to find smart synonyms and the online dictionary for expanding the vocabulary you can use to impress your readers, and convey the important details about your news.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9636631011962891}
+{"content": "In the common vertical dial, the shadow-receiving plane is aligned vertically; as usual, the gnomon's style is aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation. Often these cast the device in the role of memento mori, inviting the observer to reflect on the transience of the world and the inevitability of death. The gnomon can be twisted to be above a month or day indication on the face of the cylinder. Although usually a flat plane, the dial face may also be the inner or outer surface of a sphere, cylinder, cone, helix, and various other shapes. The rays of light that graze the tip of a gnomon, or which pass through a small hole, or reflect from a small mirror, trace out a cone aligned with the celestial poles. For a vertical dial, the angle The gnomons were black braided silk, linen or hemp string. An easy way to do this is to set a clock or watch so it shows \"sundial time\"[b] which is standard time,[c] plus the equation of time on the day in question. when the gnomon is coplanar with the dial plate, we have : i.e. Because of always present temperature changes in the air a star appears to twinkle: to move ... Because Venus is so far away, it appears to move with you, just like the Moon and the Sun do. The same process can be used to do both. To adjust the style height, the sundial can often be tilted slightly \"up\" or \"down\" while maintaining the style's north-south alignment.[13]. To read the correct time, the gnomon must also be moved northwards by a distance. This model of the Sun's motion helps to understand sundials. As per the present theory, Sun light has the seven colours or variable frequency and wave length containing electromagnetic waves. The gnomon is usually fixed relative to the dial face, but not always; in some designs such as the analemmatic sundial, the style is moved according to the month. The style is usually aligned parallel to the axis of the celestial sphere, and therefore is aligned with the local geographical meridian. If the style is aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, a spherical shape is convenient since the hour-lines are equally spaced, as they are on the equatorial dial above; the sundial is equiangular. For example, a sundial designed for a latitude of 40° can be used at a latitude of 45°, if the sundial plane is tilted upwards by 5°, thus aligning the style with the Earth's rotational axis. = +1, while those partly or fully north-facing have an According to Kepler's third where L is the sundial's geographical latitude, The dials are attached to and aligned with each other, and are oriented so they show the same time. RD The Eddystone Rocks were a major shipwreck hazard for mariners sailing through the English Channel. The length of a human shadow (or of any vertical object) can be used to measure the sun's elevation and, thence, the time. {\\displaystyle H_{H}} (b) Rays of light from sun are incident upon a biconvex lens. of the 3pm hour-line would equal the arctangent of sin L, since tan 45° = 1. In addition to the hour lines, the dial face may offer other data—such as the horizon, the equator and the tropics—which are referred to collectively as the dial furniture. A standard time zone covers roughly 15° of longitude, so any point within that zone which is not on the reference longitude (generally a multiple of 15°) will experience a difference from standard time equal to 4 minutes of time per degree. However, the face of a polar dial need not be vertical; it need only be parallel to the gnomon. The path of the Sun on the celestial sphere is called the ecliptic. Light energy is very quick and travels faster than anything. In some sundial designs, only a point-like feature, such as the tip of the style, is used to determine the time and date; this point-like feature is known as the sundial's nodus. Sun is emitting only one electromagnetic wave, that is ultraviolet rays. Pros: in this lighting setup, you will note how the light illuminates your subject’s face gradually. , rather than the reclination, There are several different types of sundials. Sundials also may use many types of surfaces to receive the light or shadow. ∘ In the preceding chapter on the Creation, we saw how the plurality of the Heavens and Earths was referred to, as well as what the Quran calls an intermediary creation 'between the Heavens and the Earth', modern science has verified the latter. Ans. 154–155; Mayall and Mayall, pp. It takes the Sun 31 days to rotate at its poles, but at its equator it moves faster, taking just 27 days to turn one revolution. Seen from beneath Venus’ dense, sulfuric acid-laden clouds, the sun is no more than a dimly glowing patch in the perpetual overcast. I In such cases, the rays of light trace out a cone over the course of a day; when the rays fall on a surface, the path followed is the intersection of the cone with that surface. Both dials need to output both time and declination. {\\displaystyle H_{RV}} where This method is much more accurate than using a watch as a compass (see Cardinal direction#Watch face) and can be used in places where the magnetic declination is large, making a magnetic compass unreliable. ), this formula reduces to the formula given above for vertical south-facing dials, i.e. Vertical sundials in the tropics which face the nearer pole (e.g. After the invention of good clocks, sundials were still considered to be correct, and clocks usually incorrect. is the sundial's geographical latitude; t is the time before or after noon; With translucent dial plates (e.g. For example, the sundial may follow the sharp tip of a … 0 Although usually straight, these hour lines may also be curved, depending on the design of the sundial (see below). The style's angle from horizontal is equal to the sundial's geographical latitude. When the rate of photosynthesis equals the rate of respiration or photorespiration, the compensation point occurs. If the dial plate material is opaque, both sides of the equatorial dial must be marked, since the shadow will be cast from below in winter and from above in summer. [3] The Earth rotates on its axis, and revolves in an elliptical orbit around the Sun. If the face of the vertical dial points directly south, the angle of the hour-lines is instead described by the formula[37][38]. [citation needed], A universal equinoctial ring dial (sometimes called a ring dial for brevity, although the term is ambiguous), is a portable version of an armillary sundial,[64] or was inspired by the mariner's astrolabe. The formulae describing the spacing of the hour-lines on such dials are rather more complicated than those for simpler dials. What is used to colour stained-glass windows? 70–81; Waugh (1973), pp. However, other designs are equiangular, such as the Lambert dial, a version of the analemmatic sundial with a moveable style. [77] A card is aligned edge-on with the sun and tilted so that a ray of light passes through an aperture onto a specified spot, thus determining the sun's altitude. 161–165; Mayall and Mayall (1994), p. 166–185. A spot of light can be as small as a When L equals 90° (at the North Pole), the horizontal sundial becomes an equatorial sundial; the style points straight up (vertically), and the horizontal plane is aligned with the equatorial plane; the hour-line formula becomes = Planets move along the sky just like stars, but after many days it becomes apparent that planets also move slowly relative to the stars. ) This angle can be determined by rotating the vane to give the smallest shadow. Giuseppe Biancani's Constructio instrumenti ad horologia solaria (c. 1620) discusses how to make a perfect sundial. V In some cases, the sundials are formed as hollows in a solid object, e.g., a cylindrical hollow aligned with the Earth's rotational axis (in which the edges play the role of styles) or a spherical hollow in the ancient tradition of the hemisphaerium or the antiboreum. The hour-lines for such a sundial can be calculated by slightly correcting the horizontal formula above[54]. Vertical dials that face North are uncommon, because they tell time only during the spring and summer, and do not show the midday hours except in tropical latitudes (and even there, only around midsummer). H The intersection of the two threads' shadows gives the local solar time. ) For example, some equatorial bow sundials are supplied with a small wheel that sets the time of year; this wheel in turn rotates the equatorial bow, offsetting its time measurement. This is not correct for diptych dials consisting of a horizontal and vertical dial using a string gnomon between faces, no matter the orientation of the dial faces. o In other words, the direction of true North need not be determined; the dials are oriented correctly when they read the same time and declination. SUBSCRIBE | LOGIN. VD [43][44][45], Vertical dials are commonly mounted on the walls of buildings, such as town-halls, cupolas and church-towers, where they are easy to see from far away. Usually the second thread is orthogonal to the first. Related ∘ Rohr (1965), p. 110; Waugh (1973), pp. The answer to the question is : Yes. 158–160; Mayall and Mayall (1994), pp. What technique can be employed to get back the acetone? [6][a] ... the light from the Sun is hitting the Earth more directly where you are located than when the Earth is tilted away from the Sun. [72][73] The time stick is carved with eight vertical time scales for a different period of the year, each bearing a time scale calculated according to the relative amount of daylight during the different months of the year. As the points begin to leave the light of the sun due to progression in the rotation, darkness begins to set in. When the edge of the Sun's image touches the part of the shape for the current month, this indicates that it is 12:00 noon. The Sun is also moving in two other ways. advances counterclockwise with respect to the zero hour angle for those dials that are partly south-facing and clockwise for those that are north-facing. The gnomon may be fixed or moved according to the season. RD R Another major advantage of this dial is that equation of time (EoT) and daylight saving time (DST) corrections can be made by simply rotating the dial plate by the appropriate angle each day. An alternative method uses two sundials of different designs. The gnomon is not fixed and must change position daily to accurately indicate time of day. The fact is that the sun appears to be revolving around us basically because the earth not only orbits it but also does rotate on its axis as it is revolving. The gnomon of a Foster-Lambert dial is neither vertical nor aligned with the Earth's rotational axis; rather, it is tilted northwards by an angle α = 45° - (Φ/2), where Φ is the geographical latitude. A parabolic reflector would direct light at some fixed point. Whereas a gnomon casts a sheet of shadow, his invention creates an equivalent sheet of light by allowing the Sun's rays through a thin slit, reflecting them from a long, slim mirror (usually half-cylindrical), or focusing them through a cylindrical lens. Although the Sun appears to rotate uniformly about the Earth, in reality this motion is not perfectly uniform. L Likewise for southern hemisphere dials that are partly north-facing. [92] Such marks indicate local noon, and provide a simple and accurate time reference for households that do not possess accurate clocks. [61][62] This collection of sundials and other astronomical instruments was built by Maharaja Jai Singh II at his then-new capital of Jaipur, India between 1727 and 1733. It has been suggested that it is better to locate the hour lines empirically, marking the positions of the shadow of a style on a real sundial at hourly intervals as shown by a clock and adding/deducting that day's equation of time adjustment. o This conic section is the intersection of the cone of light rays with the flat surface. And so, if the light from the nearest star (Alpha Centauri) takes more than 4 years to reach us, we’re seeing that star 4 years in the past. {\\displaystyle H_{V}} {\\displaystyle G} These in turn provide the times for the rest of the society. Alternatively, sundials may change the angle or position (or both) of the gnomon relative to the hour lines, as in the analemmatic dial or the Lambert dial. where R is the radius of the Foster-Lambert dial and δ again indicates the Sun's declination for that time of year. For example, the shadow length at noon is short in summer months, and long in winter months. If a sundial is located at, say, a longitude 5° west of the reference longitude, its time will read 20 minutes slow, since the Sun appears to revolve around the Earth at 15° per hour. [29], In the horizontal sundial (also called a garden sundial), the plane that receives the shadow is aligned horizontally, rather than being perpendicular to the style as in the equatorial dial. Horizontal dials are commonly seen in gardens, churchyards and in public areas. Ans. AB is image of the sun. , between the style and the plate is given by : Note that for R 90–32) degrees North, which is slightly further North than Perth, Scotland. Answered by HIW. Indeed, the centre of mass of these orbital systems is often found within the Sun itself, so it only wobbles very slightly compared to the huge orbits of other celestial bodies. His lighthouse was the first tower in the world to have been fully exposed to the open sea. [55], One system of formulas for Reclining-Declining sundials: (as stated by Fennewick)[56]. Sundials can be designed with a gnomon that is placed in a different position each day throughout the year. {\\displaystyle I=(90^{\\circ }+R)} In one simple version,[75] the front and back of the plate each have three columns, corresponding to pairs of months with roughly the same solar declination (June–July, May–August, April–September, March–October, February–November, and January–December). The tip of the shadow indicates the time on the cylinder. It corrects apparent solar time to mean solar time or another standard time. If it could be seen, it would be about half again larger than it appears in Earth’s sky. Light is necessary for the survival of life on Earth, as almost all energy used by life is derived from the sun. ∘ Given that sundials use light to indicate time, a line of light may be formed by allowing the Sun's rays through a thin slit or focusing them through a cylindrical lens. [88] value of -1. If the plane's face points downwards towards the ground, it is said to be proclining or inclining, whereas a dial is said to be reclining when the dial face is pointing away from the ground. Sunquest is adjustable for latitude and longitude, automatically correcting for the equation of time, rendering it \"as accurate as most pocket watches\". These usually have hour lines shaped like \"figure eights\" (analemmas) according to the equation of time. c As Earth orbits the Sun over the course of a year, the Sun appears to move with respect to the fixed stars on the celestial sphere, along a circular path called the ecliptic. On any given day, the Sun appears to rotate uniformly about this axis, at about 15° per hour, making a full circuit (360°) in 24 hours. A canonical sundial is one that indicates the canonical hours of liturgical acts. = 15° × t, as for an equatorial dial. The face may be painted on the wall, or displayed in inlaid stone; the gnomon is often a single metal bar, or a tripod of metal bars for rigidity. D Win a smartwatch and wireless headphones worth £230! When the Sun's rays are nearly parallel to the plane, the shadow moves very quickly and the hour lines are spaced far apart. The Italian astronomer Giovanni Padovani published a treatise on the sundial in 1570, in which he included instructions for the manufacture and laying out of mural (vertical) and horizontal sundials. 59–60, 117–122, 144–145. A dial is said to be equiangular if its hour-lines are straight and spaced equally. It may be oriented vertically, horizontally, aligned with the Earth's axis, or oriented in an altogether different direction determined by mathematics. These were novelties rather than precision sundials, sometimes installed in parks in Europe mainly in the late 18th or early 19th century. The entire object that casts a shadow or light onto the dial face is known as the sundial's gnomon. A 66 inch tall person casts a 4-inch shadow at 27 deg latitude on the summer solstice. The collection of hyperbolae was called a pelekonon (axe) by the Greeks, because it resembles a double-bladed ax, narrow in the center (near the noonline) and flaring out at the ends (early morning and late evening hours). ∘ - Adobe After Effects Forum. For more details and examples, see Skewing of time zones. Vom 15. A sundial cannon, sometimes called a 'meridian cannon', is a specialized sundial that is designed to create an 'audible noonmark', by automatically igniting a quantity of gunpowder at noon. , the critical declination value.[56]. is defined positive in the clockwise sense w.r.t. In such cases, the same hour lines may be used throughout the year. Such sundials were used from the 7th to the 14th centuries by the members of religious communities. A partly south-facing dial has an within the parameter ranges : H The ecliptic passes through the twelve constellations of the zodiac in the course of a year. 155–156; Mayall and Mayall, p. 59. The hour-lines will be spaced uniformly if the surface receiving the shadow is either perpendicular (as in the equatorial sundial) or circular about the gnomon (as in the armillary sphere). The critical declination The mechanics required to create such a system seem rather impossible. The general appearance is that it set to the west. [citation needed], The most commonly observed sundials are those in which the shadow-casting style is fixed in position and aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, being oriented with true North and South, and making an angle with the horizontal equal to the geographical latitude. A navicula de Venetiis or \"little ship of Venice\" was an altitude dial used to tell time and which was shaped like a little ship. For example, such a sundial might be found on a roof that was not oriented in a cardinal direction. The formulas shown in the paragraphs below allow the positions of the hour-lines to be calculated for various types of sundial. is the angle between a given hour-line and the noon hour-line (which always points due north) on the plane, and t is the number of hours before or after noon. [citation needed], A horizontal line aligned on a meridian with a gnomon facing the noon-sun is termed a meridian line and does not indicate the time, but instead the day of the year. Other non-planar surfaces may be used to receive the shadow of the gnomon. (See #Multiple dials, above.) For we require that f is a function, so we can write f x, and of course we can test for equality, so we can write f x = x. Gaiane But not every object is a valid input to f.We cannot, for example, discuss what would happen if we incremented a body of … At its most extreme, time zones can cause official noon, including daylight savings, to occur up to three hours early (the Sun is actually on the meridian at official clock time of 3 pm). Or, if preferring to use inclination angle, Some authors use a more specific nomenclature to describe the orientation of the shadow-receiving plane. They have been commonly used since the 16th century. But the capuchin dial (described below) has a version that's adjustable for latitude.[70]. Timesticks, clock spear,[72] or shepherds' time stick,[72] are based on the same principles as dials. Some types of sundials are designed with a fixed gnomon that is not aligned with the celestial poles like a vertical obelisk. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. For example, the angle How loud would stars be if space was full of air? In such cases, there may be multiple sets of hour lines for different months, or there may be mechanisms for setting/calculating the month. G A digital sundial indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it. The perpendicular spacing X of the hour-lines in the plane is described by the formula. the upper vertical hour angle; and that its conversion to the equivalent solar hour requires careful consideration of which quadrant of the sundial that it belongs in.[51]. H You are the one fixed point in a changing age. 90 0 The sundial can be placed on a horizontal surface, and rotated about a vertical axis until it shows the correct time. Almost all of the information about the rest of the universe reaches Earth in the form … s This forced the user to rotate the instrument, which had the effect of aligning the instrument's vertical ring with the meridian. H Unlike the simpler vertical declining sundial, this type of dial does not always show hour angles on its sunside face for all declinations between east and west. Presumably, humans were telling time from shadow-lengths at an even earlier date, but this is hard to verify. In some cases, these multiface dials are small enough to sit on a desk, whereas in others, they are large stone monuments. With a knot or bead on the string as a nodus, and the correct markings, a diptych (really any sundial large enough) can keep a calendar well-enough to plant crops. All the hour-lines intersect at the point where the gnomon's style crosses the horizontal plane. Such dials may be made self-aligning with the addition of a more complicated central bar, instead of a simple slit-style. R Thus, a Foster-Lambert dial located at latitude 40° would have a gnomon tilted away from vertical by 25° in a northerly direction. [4][5] The Roman writer Vitruvius lists dials and shadow clocks known at that time in his De architectura. – 19. {\\displaystyle D=D_{c}} = R Rohr (1965), p. 15; Waugh (1973), pp. = [41] However, there is an exception. The globe dial is a sphere aligned with the Earth's rotational axis, and equipped with a spherical vane. {\\displaystyle H_{V}} In altitude dials, the time is read from where the nodus falls on a set of hour-curves that vary with the time of year. Unlike the fixed stars, the Sun changes its position on the celestial sphere, being - on north hemisphere - at a positive declination in spring and summer, and at a negative declination in autumn and winter, and having exactly zero declination ... Another type of sundial follows the motion of a single point of light or shadow, which may be called the nodus. . The average velocity of the solar system is 828,000 km/hr. 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+{"content": "Frequently Asked Questions About Motivational Enhancement Therapy\n\nWe all have those days when merely getting out of bed is a challenge. It normally happens on occasion. However, make sure to observe such instances. Once these occasional slumps stretch to days, weeks, and even months, there must be something serious going on. \n\nFor one, serious mental health conditions can cause this feeling. If it’s the case, it can take a negative toll on our lives and how we connect with people around us.\n\n\nMany types of therapy are available that can properly address different mental health disorders. Behaviors and habits can change with the right help. One of the most effective treatments is motivational enhancement therapy. \n\nMotivational enhancement therapy aims to change and refocus your motivations in life. Usually recommended to people facing substance abuse problems, this method is backed by numerous studies. \n\nLike most types of therapy, it begins with asking yourself questions that can address negative behaviors. Because it involves making conscious adjustments, it is a difficult process for most. Some even end up rejecting it. \n\nBut then,  things can get better over time. The therapist is available to assist through the process. They can help assess and provide feedback on your actions while also preventing relapse. \n\nThe best way to gain the desired results is to be open to the process. Although it may take hard work, it is essential to trust the therapists and the process. Gradually, as the therapy moves forward, it will help bring a new perspective. \n\nWant to know more about motivational enhancement therapy? Read on to learn if this type of treatment is suited for you. \n\nHow does motivational enhancement therapy work?\n\nMotivational enhancement therapy, also known as MET, is a treatment with a primary goal to change or motivate an individual from the name itself. It is primarily used in people with substance abuse disorders or behavioral problems. These people usually resist changes in their habits, lifestyles, and other things. MET is an approach used to overcome those disrupting their well-being.\n\nIs motivational enhancement therapy the same as motivational interviewing?\n\nOne can say that motivational enhancement therapy and motivational interviewing are the same. Their main goal is to help addicts overcome and become motivated in behavioral changes.\n\nHowever, the difference between the two relies on specificities. MI is often used in a general setting with general goals and is usually the first step taken when a patient wants to start motivational therapy. In contrast, MET is tailored to a more specific purpose.\n\nIs motivational enhancement therapy evidence-based?\n\nYes, motivational enhancement therapy is evidence-based. This particular type of treatment is already backed up by numerous findings and researches, all of which are credible.\n\nHow do therapists motivate clients?\n\nTherapists motivate clients through MET’s five principles: communicating with understanding, preventing arguments, neutralizing opposition, elaborating on contradiction, and encouraging ability. These five principles will bring out an individual’s strength to overcome difficulties in changes.\n\nWhat type of therapy is motivational interviewing?\n\nMotivational interviewing is classified as psychotherapy. Specifically, an adjunct is usually used with cognitive-behavioral therapy. It is a client-centered approach, giving more importance to the individual and helping him/her resolve any change-driven problems he/she has.\n\nWhat are the five stages of motivational interviewing?\n\nThe pre-contemplation stage, the first stage, is similar to a denial stage wherein patients are not ready to change yet. The second stage, the contemplation stage, serves as an assessment stage for patients to consider which behaviors or habits need changing. The third stage, called the preparation stage, allows the individuals to determine how they will change.\n\nNext is the action stage, from the name itself, when they already work themselves out to change. Lastly, during the maintenance and relapse prevention stage, the therapist oversees the client’s progress.\n\nWhat should you not do in motivational interviewing?\n\nWhether you are undergoing motivational interviewing or you are the one doing the MI, remember not to use scare tactics, not to pressure yourself, and refrain from being biased or giving out your judgment, among many other things. It is vital that both the client and the therapist are comfortable and at ease with each other.\n\nWhat is the rule in motivational interviewing?\n\nRULE is an acronym for the four core principles of motivational interviewing. It stands for Resist the righting reflex, Understanding the patient’s motivation, Listening with empathy, and Empowering the patient. If you follow these RULE or core principles, instead, a successful MI is guaranteed.\n\n\nWhat are the six stages of change?\n\nThe six stages of change follow the five motivational interviewing steps: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse prevention. The difference is that maintenance and relapse prevention are separated, making each one a different stage. So, therefore, change has six stages.\n\n How do you motivate physicians to improve compliance?\n\nImproving compliance means improving patient care. To motivate physicians to improve compliance, one can start by removing any other administrative responsibilities or work so physicians can focus on working on their clients.\n\nOther factors to consider are having them work with better technology and possibly more clinical staff. It is also essential to address any mood disorders if it starts affecting physicians due to various reasons.\n\n Why is behavior change so difficult?\n\nChanging one’s behavior is difficult but not entirely impossible. One of the main reasons why many people tend to resist change is because they have been accustomed to one habit or lifestyle for so long that they see change as a potential threat or harm to what they are used to. The unfamiliarity change brings scares them.\n\n How do you influence and motivate others?\n\nUsing your voice to influence and motivate others should be put into fair use. To control and inspire other people, you should be able to empower them. Empowering others starts by empowering yourself first. Just like how loving others begin when you love yourself first.\n\nIt would be best if you also remembered to remain true to yourself. This way, your authenticity, and honesty will inspire others to follow you.\n\nHow do you motivate people in a team?\n\nMotivating a team is more than just being their leader. As an efficient and effective leader, you must set a comfortable and safe space for every single one of your team members. It is crucial to building trust, loyalty, and understanding within the team. This way, you will be able to motivate and influence them better.\n\nDo not forget to allow your teammates to have opportunities to grow and learn outside of the team.\n\nWhat causes a lack of motivation?\n\nLack of motivation is almost always associated with psychological disorders, especially depression. However, there are other causes for it, such as lack of clarity, lack of goals, feeling overwhelmed, physical conditions, and disruptive habits such as alcohol drinking, to name a few.\n\n How do you improve morality?\n\nDeveloping a strong morality is crucial as it guides us to give and have better judgments. Improving one’s character should always start from knowing what is right from wrong and what is good for you from what is not. It also involves having high self-awareness and self-management.\n\n\nChanging your habits is always difficult but not entirely impossible. Since you have had these behaviors for a long time, you may tend to resist at first. You may also doubt and worry about your capacity to change. \n\nBut have patience in yourself and recognize this discomfort. It may initially be a painful process, but it will get better. Rest assured that you will eventually enjoy the fruits of your hard work. \n\nMotivational enhancement therapy is for those dealing with substance abuse issues, lack of goals, and destructive behaviors. By working with a therapist, you can take action to commit to change. Eventually, you will feel more empowered and excited about the future.\n\nThe process will begin by being aware of the present problem and how it affects you. After which, it will be necessary to adjust your thoughts to facilitate change. Then, the therapist will constantly evaluate the progress as the treatment continues. \n\nIt will be a long journey of ups and downs. Expect to encounter bumps along the way. But through therapy and the therapist’s help, you will be able to overcome these hard times. \n\nRight now, you may be feeling uninspired and demotivated. But with the right help and guidance, this too will pass. Have confidence in yourself that you can change for the better.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9293264150619507}
+{"content": "The exciting offers lingering in Pawn Shops\n\nPawn refers to an item used by the owner to procure and secure a monetary loan. A pawn shop is a place where personal items are used as collateral to obtain quick loans.  These items are available for sale upon the owners defaulting on repayment or all together letting them go for the terms of the loan they have consumed.  Pawnshops are also the place to sell your used items USA pawn & jewelry\n\nThese shops are unique. The loan is available on the instant once you agree to broker or pawn your item on the terms laid out by the pawnbroker of the pawnshop. The amount loaned is repayable with interest. The pawnbroker accepts to take your item upon subjecting it to an examination. It is to confirm the item is functional and legitimately owned by you. They also gauge whether the item can be sold in the event of you defaulting on the terms of loan repayment. \n\nThe deal brokered in a pawn shop takes a shorter time than the bank or financial services providers. It is simple; you either repay or forfeit your collateral item. There is no threat of you listed at the credit reference bureau.  It is a quick transaction with no traces.  It makes it attractive to those who want fast access to money. \n\nPawnshops have an online presence.  You can contact many and negotiate a fair offer for your item.  They are interested in all manner of things for as long as it is perceived to sell. You need to have prior knowledge of the value. Pawnbrokers’ low quote is meant to recoup their costs in the event of a defaulter.  \n\nThe pawnshops’ interest rates are on the high of 300 percent and the low of 30 percent.  Pawning is not cheap.  The pawnbroker takes a risk and covers it by charging high interest. The money is instant, and you protect yourself against the eminent low credit listing. It is a preserve of the banks. \n\nA high number of pawnshop enthusiasts have had a bad experience with banks.  They are recipients of high rates charge on overdraft facilities, and some have a low credit rating due to defaulting to repay as agreed with the bank. Some are not in a position to establish a relationship with the financial institutions.  Hence they do not qualify for loan facilities. \n\nPawnshops offer reasonable prices for a wide range of used items. They play a critical role in making money available to solve situations that are major of emergency. The amount lend by Pawn shops can be as small as ten dollars. It is determined by the value of the item you are ready to place as collateral.  \n\nWalk-in and see what the pawnshop next door has on offer. The variety is wide.  You may be thinking of refilling your sports equipment, a toolbox for the car or garden, wardrobe, living room, and even kitchen equipment. Try them; the bargains are real and ideal.   \n\nVarious divisions for Indoor Playground Equipment\n\nIndoor Playground Equipment are designed for children in a manner that ensures they are able to have the best kind of fun there is. Over the years, they evolved into creative playground spaces for kids that are able to cater for kids who are in different age groups. There are a number of different sections in which this equipment can be divided to. They include the following: \n\nThe soft play game area \n\nThis play area can include a lot of basic things like soft play equipment which may include things like a trampoline or even a ball pool Orca Coast Play It can also include a system that contains multi-level plays which may include a variety of different features and events which may come with theme elements that are custom-built. There are different play activities that can be played in this play area. They include games such as a ball blaster which is a very interactive and dynamic way for kids to play, a ball fountain which is very exciting for kids especially when the foam balls are dropped from above creating an exciting experience. There is also the Nerf ball and single shoot blaster which are both exciting experiences for kids.  Other games include slides, bridge, net rope, soft obstacles and crawl tunnel. \n\nThe toddlers play game area \n\nThis is a play area which caters for children who are under the age of 5years. Since toddlers are usually at an age where there is a lot of curiosity and a lot of learning is taking place, the Indoor Playground Equipment should be safe, colorful and highly educational. The common equipment here includes things like painting, role play houses and also a play panel that is educational. When the children are in the role play houses, they get to learn a lot especially when it comes to the basics of life since they get the chance to act like their parents. The painting area on the other hand brings a lot of imagination and creativity to kids and parents can also paint with their kids creating a good interaction. The play panels create a lot of educational values to kids while at the same time bringing a lot of fun with them.  \n\nThe public open play area \n\nBy public open play area, this simple means that there is no frame structure that is used. However, it is usually very different compared to the toddler play area. There are a variety of different games that can be played here like the inflatable castle, the electric soft game play, sandpit and a climbing wall. Each of these Indoor Playground Equipment divisions have a major impact especially when it comes to positively affecting your child’s physical activity.  \n\nHow to increase efficiency of Creative Design in Marketing\n\nCreative design in Toronto marketing is more than aesthetics as it goes beyond graphics and concepts. The purpose of creativity in design is creating compelling, attractive visuals that customers will love and, in the process, turn to business results as well as turn to a brand.\n\nThe world has become data-driven, creating pressure for companies to focus on data-driven strategies purely. It is essential to consider the way design influences consumer impressions to engage customers who pass through a digital door.\n\nAny organization needs to evolve the brand strategy to focus on a business mindset and not just on numbers. The purpose of design is to tell a story as communication is vital for marketing. A picture taking a small space can communicate many words.\n\nMake design great by persuading the audience and potential customers to understand the things t that your organization does and the activities that characterize it. Use the information across various platforms from like the website, email communications, and social media accounts. It generates leads in driving sales and triggering growth.\n\nCreative design Toronto for visuals makes them striking by creating Digital marketing an immediate impact that leaves a lasting impression in the mind of a viewer. The brain processes images faster than text. There are subtle elements that increase the efficiency of design in Toronto marketing to make it more impactful.\n\nVisual cues directing a user\n\nRight visual cues help in leading those searching for information on a page by indicating the next point to focus their look. The clarity in design and images also enhances user experience in Toronto. It helps all persons, including the static faced to make a connection. For example, if a model on the advert faces in a direction, the viewers focus on the person. The focus on the message increases if the model is facing the text because everyone who looks gets an interest at what the person seems to be reading.\n\nFitting the appropriate amount of information\n\nDesign is not just about fitting information, especially in the times of digital marketing.  content does not achieve efficiency if the information is too little. Too much information can impede impact. The crucial thing is to perform self-editing to remove excess information. It has more efficiency than you may assume. Creating focal points and leveraging white space prevents an overwhelming sense for followers of marketing content and guides them through it. For example, smart design on a website includes limiting the certifications icons, affiliate badges, and testimonials on the first page.\n\nThe mistake by many marketers is to emulate the design that other marketing agencies used for larger competitors even when the first plan was to be different. Creative design is about communicating a message and not emulating large corporations as their approach might be incorrect digital marketing agency\n\nHow Pawn Shops Help People\n\npawn shops help people satisfy various urgent need which may arise when a person is not financially stable ezpawn nearme This could be certain necessities which may be instant like, basic needs or social amenities, which may arise when a person does not expect. The person opting for the loan could be struggling with school fees, which could be factor to delay payments from their area of work, or bankruptcy. The pawn shop literally helps people in many ways and on different grounds. Some ways in which the loans from pawn shop help people include, but not limited to the following: \n\nHelp in protecting a person’s reputation \n\nEvery person is well known for a certain character. There are those who are known for their bad, or negative reputations, while those with good characters have a positive reputation. In this context, we consider the latter. A person could possess a positive reputation with a certain bank, from which they are a member. From this, the person may decide to acquire a loan from the bank to return at an agreed period. Unfortunately, when the time to refund the loan reaches, the person is not in a place to raise the money together with interests. Due to this reason, the bank will automatically put the person in the CRB, or take them to a court of law accusing the person of defiling the law. A person, highly esteemed and respected, ends up losing their renowned character. Instead of risking losing or corrupting a good reputation, a person can go for a pawn loaning which is highly flexible. If the person is not able to return the loan at the end of the agreed period, they are only required to forget their pawned item. This is a much better compared to the situation in the bank. \n\nThey help generate income \n\nAlthough the main reason for pawning may be to secure a loan, people could also use the shops to sell their products, that could become obsolete over a short period. Other than seeing a product deprecate in value, one could consider pawning it. This will help the person raise the money. The person may never go to claim it because the reason for pawning was to get rid of the item. People are also able to meet their needs using the loans they get. \n\nThey help people get jobs \n\nPawn shops usually have attendants who are the pawnbrokers. These people take this to be a business and from it, they earn cash. They get employed by maybe the pawn shop owners. The shops are limited in size, and hence sell almost items of all varieties. From this, it is possible to get quite a number of pawnbrokers under one building because they specialize in different types of items. \n\nA person should not allow poverty to take control when they have assets in their houses. Taking an item to a pawn shop does not necessarily mean losing it because, it is possible for an item owner to go and claim their item(s) once they return the loan. These loans are helpful because, they help people to tackle. Daily situations which come their way.\n\n10 Best Practices Employee Benefits to Guarantee Success in A Company\n\n\n1.???? Tailor Made Benefits through Survey \n\n\n2.???? Respecting and Recognizing Your Employees Performance \n\n\n3.???? Motivating Through Appraising Your Employees \n\n\n4.???? Offering Health Benefits to Your Employees \n\n\n\n\n6.???? Delegate the Roles \n\n\n7.???? Explaining Employees Benefits  \n\n\n8.???? Introduction of Wellness Policies \n\n\n9.???? A Reasonable Human Resource Department \n\n\n10.? Paternity and Maternity Leaves \n\n\n\nWhy Mandarin Is The Best Language To Learn\n\nCovid 19 Update – Many of our students will need to work from home remotely and we have prepared a new report.\n\nThe demand for private schools has gained traction over the years as more and more people continue enrolling in these schools. This has been led by the benefits that the schools come along with. For instance, private school classes are very small thus making education effective. In addition, they offer personalized services. Starting a private school as a business, therefore, is a very profitable venture which you ought to think about in the near future. However, in order for you to be fully operational, you will need to meet certain requirements. These requirements include the following.\n\nCreate a school website\n\nTechnological advancements have gone a notch higher in recent times, which has, in turn, led to many people spending most of their time learning Mandarin Singapore. Therefore, as a business owner who wants to start up a private school, you will need to take advantage of the untapped online market. The only way to do this is by creating a school website, which will lay bare what the school is all about and provide a platform where your clients can follow you up. Make sure that the search engine optimization agency that starts up your website is qualified so that you rank high in the search engines. Click here for Indonesian\n\nGet location\n\nYour private school is not a virtual business, it will need premises where students will come to learn. Therefore you need to find a location where it can rest. In order to achieve this, you may rent land or buy the land so that you can build your school. Whenever you are choosing the location of your private school, you need to choose a location which is strategic so that you can fetch all the students in your town. Make sure that your school is highly accessible and within proximity to the residential areas where your students live.\n\nRegister the business and get certification\n\nFor you to effectively operate a private school, you will need to first register it with the necessary authorities. You can do this online or just visit the necessary local authorities to do so. Make sure that you choose a unique name for your school so that it doesn’t resemble another. The local authorities will visit your school, access if it reaches the required standards and checks if it has all the necessary amenities. After this is done, they will offer you the certification which confirms your qualifications to offering education. In addition, you will have to get the license of operation, which gives you permission to operate in that particular area. Therefore, set aside funds to pay for all these certifications and checks as you will be required to.\n\n7 Ways To Choose The Right Language School\n\nDue to the rise in demand for private schools all over the globe, many of these schools have cropped up left right and center, in the bid to rake in the massive profits that comes along with it. This has in turn led to development of many private schools which have not reached the required standards. That is why whenever you are thinking of choosing a private school, you need to ask critical questions so that you may not choose a scam private school. This article therefore will delve into the questions that you need to ask, when choosing your private school. They include. \n\nWhat is the schools philosophy? \n\nDifferent schools be it private or public have different reasons of operations. That is why it is important that you ask the philosophy of the school that you have shortlisted. This helps you to get to know the school better and know whether the school fits your learning. Therefore, whenever you are choosing your private school, make sure that the school has the same vision as yours or compliments it. This will make sure that the school that you choose is just fit for you. For instance, you can ask the key elements of the schools philosophy, how the philosophy fits with the schools mission and how the school applies the same in the classrooms. \n\nWhat curriculum does the school use? \n\nThere are different curriculums through which different schools can use in educating their students. That is why it is very important to look at the curriculum that the schools is using. The curriculum determines the type of learning as well as the academic profile of the school. Never choose a school which doesn’t rhyme with your own goals. You can find out if the curriculum of the school is right for you by just asking whether you meet the curriculum qualifications. After doing so, choose the curriculum that best suits you. \n\nWhat is the schools class size? \n\nAlthough the size of the class that the private school has can be deemed very useless, it is actually one of the most importantly factor that you need to consider. The class size determines the relationship between the students and their teachers. Therefore, it is wise to choose the school with small class size, as these small classes makes better the education and the relationship that you will have with your teacher. Ask these important questions like what is the schools class size, whether the school offers personalized learning or whether the school have teaching assistants. Never choose a school with large class sizes as they hinder the effectiveness of learning. You want to enroll in school which has the best environment for learning.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6403852105140686}
+{"content": "Foundation Story\n\nThe IUSARC was established under the auspices of April 24, 2012, and with the efforts of the universities operating in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in order to help humanity with no discrimination of religion, language, race, and geography.\nFor the establishment of the Council, 24 universities from 19 foreign countries provided contributions, except for TRNC universities.\nOur Council currently has 44 universities from 22 countries and a national founder member. In addition, our council has an honorary president, 5 individuals, and an honorary member.\n\nVision  and Mission\n\n\nThe Council’s Mission;\n\nTo reach, in the shortest possible time, the people who have been under the influence of natural disasters like earthquakes and floods or accidents of substance in a totally voluntary but professional manner, to create the conditions necessary to extend help, to perform the correct search and rescue operations and extend first aid, to move towards the transportation of the affected to safer ground, to provide that loss of life is kept at a minimum level, to raise search and rescue awareness.\n\nThe  Council’s Values;\n\nThe spirit of voluntarism, a desire to help without seeking any return, to value human life, honesty, and reliability\n\nThe Targets  ;\n\nTo work voluntarily in order to reduce the risk of disasters at home and abroad, to minimize the loss of life and property in all activities requiring operations of search and rescue, including natural disasters or accidents.\n\nTo reduce the risk of disasters, to strengthen the capabilities of the management of the risk of disasters, the management to enhance search and rescue awareness among university students, to upgrade the standard of education equipped with conscious, organized, team spirit and technical knowledge in the search and rescue clubs set up in universities, and to create a disaster-resistant society.\n\nTo reduce the risk of disasters, to choose, train, and raise educated and certified, talented members, to ensure the speedy establishment of teams and their timely arrival at the scene towards the efficient implementation of search and rescue operations.\n\nTo prepare the ground to organize workshops about first aid, reducing the risk of disasters, search and rescue, nature sports, alternative sports and other activities and training seminars for members or non-member public or private establishments, educational establishments as well as individuals, upon request.\n\nTo cooperate with and to offer advisory services to legal and private persons, foundations, public establishments, and enterprises as well as non-governmental organizations, which are set towards the same goals.\n\nTo organize, at home or abroad, meetings, symposiums, interviews, rallies, signature campaigns; to prepare publications such as books, brochures and alike; to form public opinion, to increase awareness among the public on matters related to search and rescue, reducing the risk of disasters, strengthening the capabilities of the management of the risk of disasters, creating a disaster-resistant society as well as on matters related to history, culture, education, health, nature, and environment, where knowledge is recognized to be missing – with the responsibility the Council has shouldered as a non-governmental organization.\n\nTo organize national or international search and rescue games to help raise awareness and  reduce the risk of disasters as well as search and rescue club services in the member universities", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9987808465957642}
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+{"content": "Online citations, reference lists, and bibliographies.\nReferencing for people who value simplicity, privacy, and speed.\nGet Citationsy\n← Back to Search\n\nChronic Hypoxia Attenuates Resting And Exercise-induced VEGF, Flt-1, And Flk-1 MRNA Levels In Skeletal Muscle\n\nI. Mark Olfert, Ellen C. Breen, Odile Mathieu-Costello, Peter D. Wagner\n\nSave to my Library\nDownload PDF\nAnalyze on Scholarcy Visualize in Litmaps\nTime to take this seriously.\nGet Citationsy\nVascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a hypoxia-inducible angiogenic mitogen. However, chronic hypoxia is generally not found to increase mammalian skeletal muscle capillarity. We sought to determine the effect of chronic hypoxia (8 wk, inspired O2 fraction = 0.12) on skeletal muscle gene expression of VEGF, its receptors (flt-1 and flk-1), basic fibroblast growth factor, and transforming growth factor-β1. Wistar rats were exposed to chronic hypoxia ( n = 12) or room air ( n = 12). After the exposure period, six animals from each group were subjected to a single 1-h treadmill exercise bout (18 m/min on a 10° incline) in room air while the remaining six animals served as rest controls. Morphological analysis revealed that chronic hypoxia did not increase skeletal muscle capillarity. Northern blot analyses showed that chronic hypoxia decreased resting VEGF, flt-1, and flk-1 mRNA by 23, 68, and 42%, respectively ( P < 0.05). The VEGF mRNA response to exercise was also decreased (4.1- and 2.7-fold increase in room air and chronic hypoxia, respectively, P < 0.05). In contrast, neither transforming growth factor-β1 nor basic fibroblast growth factor mRNA was significantly altered by chronic hypoxia. In conclusion, prolonged exposure to hypoxia attenuated gene expression of VEGF and its receptors flt-1 and flk-1 in rat gastrocnemius muscle. These findings may provide an explanation for the lack of mammalian skeletal muscle angiogenesis that is observed after chronic hypoxia.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.969278872013092}
+{"content": "13 February 2021\n\nThe BORNTOGETTHERE Consortium has been awarded an EU Horizon Grant 2020 - 2025 Euro 3.5M including sites in Italy, Holland, Denmark, Georgia, Sri Lanka, and Remote/Indigenous Australia. Subsequently, Prof. Ros Boyd and Dr Kath Benfer have been awarded an additional A$0.5M from the NHMRC, serving as the Australian-arm of the program to conduct and implement the research in QLD and remote Australia.\n\nThe overarching aim of the Born-to-get-there program is to exploit current evidence on early detection, characterisation and intervention for infants at high risk of Cerebral Palsy (CP) by implementing the first International Clinical Practice Guideline in multiple sites in Europe (Italy, Denmark, Netherlands), in low and middle-income countries (Georgia, Sri Lanka) and hard to reach populations (Queensland and remote Australia). \n\nSpecifically, we will improve maternal and infant health through the following three specific aims.\n\nAim 1: to improve health programs for the early detection (ED) of CP, in a context-specific way, thereby reducing age at diagnosis and age at referral to CP-specific early intervention programs.\n\nAim 2: to improve health programs for the early surveillance (ES) of associated impairments and functional limitations in infants with CP and mental health of their parents, in a context specific way, thereby fostering individualised early intervention delivery and prevention of secondary complications (e.g. hip dislocation) for infants, and provision of support for their parents.\n\nAim 3: to improve health programs of early intervention (EI) in infants with CP, in a context-specific way, thereby improving the outcomes of the infants (motor, cognitive and social-emotional development) and of their caregivers (mental health).\n\nMembers of the BORNTOGETTHERE consortium:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9851698875427246}
+{"content": "Understanding the Different Types of Like Relationship\n\nThere are many types of love connections that people knowledge. Some of these associations happen to be courtly appreciate, conjugal take pleasure in, and weakness. Each one has its own characteristics and each one of them is filled with a unique specific emotions. Courtly love on the one hand is often filled up with jealousy and possessiveness while free love consists of trust and empathy for another.\n\nA case in point on this is the love triangle. This is a situation in which at first sight, two people seem to be suitable and then profound down inside there is placed a great deal of pain. The most popular example of this is when two people are attracted to one another even so there is a great attraction intended for another person. Another type of love triangle certainly is the friendship take pleasure in triangle. Right here, there may be an extremely strong appeal for two persons but their compatibility is definitely not identified beyond a doubt.\n\nOther than these types of, there are also a number of love interactions. Some examples these are friendship, conjugal love, and courtly appreciate. Each of these includes several subtypes. For example , good friends have commonalities but variances as well. When it comes to the domestique love triangular, the three key characteristics are sexuality, age, as well as the preference of this person showcased.\n\nFriends happen to be basically the identical to they have most characteristics. Examples include sharing similar interests, getting nice, posting secrets, and having a caring heart. Regarding age, they vary among 13 and twenty-two years old. Sexuality is different with two people obtaining the same desire to one want to be with a female and the additional preferring a man. Regarding the preference of the person in question, it could possibly either become male or female.\n\nCourtly love is one of the types of love relationship where a couple gets into into a matrimony. Right here, one partner will give products to their partners. In addition , in addition they spend time alone together. They have not uncommon designed for the couple to engage in intimate activities to be able to remain attached to each other.\n\nAnother type of love romance is friendship love. A good example of this is ex-boyfriend. Though some might have split up, they still remain in contact with each other because they have something that brings all of them together. In terms of the domestique love triangle, this is where two people get involved with the other person, get along with one another, and get along with their particular respective associates. This is often seen in a loving relationship.\n\nCompanionship love relationship is a good kind of relationship for people who don’t require a serious dedication. In this type, the couple often keep your relationship light whilst still retaining communication lines. As long as the two main people continue to keep do the factors that they need to perform, they won’t experience trouble staying in appreciate. As long as that they continue to meet up with each other’s needs, they won’t feel any kind of pressure to into a critical relationship.\n\nThe above-mentioned types of love romantic relationship are just some of the examples that experts recommend as types of the different types of love marriage. It’s great to know there are so many types of love human relationships, especially when considering love. There are many ways about how two people can easily express their want to each other. Additionally they are available in different forms. With this kind of, experts believe there is really almost nothing wrong with exploring the different types of love romance.\n\nThe problem despite the fact that is with the process of https://thebestmailorderbrides.com/mail-order-bride-sites/singles-russian-dating/ discovering, discovering, discovering more about the different types of love romance. Sometimes, the couples so, who are just bride and groom may find hard to understand every other’s demands, especially when they are simply just starting to date. Occasionally, newlyweds can even find it difficult to express their very own love to one another. With this kind of, it is important that you comprehend what these types of people really would like before trying to express that to all of them.\n\nAnother matter is the match ups of the marriage. You have to do not forget that two people who are within a love relationship should be able to match each other. This will help maintain the quality and the endurance of the romantic relationship. Even though you may well like someone who is different through the one you are dating, you have to make sure that you’re not committing errors which may issues between the a couple.\n\nIf you have a doubt on whether you and your lover can really go through the strategy of expressing absolutely adore, then you can usually consult a great authority or a specialist who can assist you in exploring the types of love romantic relationship you have. It is because there may be several types of love romantic relationship but if you may truly figure out each other’s needs, tastes, and targets, it would absolutely make your relationship stronger. Additionally, it is good when you could start out exploring and discovering more with regards to your partner before expressing and proclaiming the love to them. Love does not just happen by accident. This can be a process that should be experienced, understood, and shared.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9747875332832336}
+{"content": "Postdoc position in analytical chemistry\n\n  • September 2, 2020 at 2:41 am\n\n    A research institution in Austria is seeking a postdoc candidate with a research background in Analytical Chemistry. The candidate is expected to conduct research to examine and explain both transformations and kinetics in relation to new pollutants (i.e. synthetic polymers and nanoparticles. The candidate is expected to be in possession of a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Chemistry or a related discipline. Please reply to this message if you are interested.\n\n    Deadline: September 20, 2020.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999683499336243}
+{"content": "Now, more than ever, it is important for the business world to employ people who are willing to continuously grow and expand their knowledge. Technology is changing constantly and what is needed is people who can adapt to different situations rather than those who do things “by the book”. Furthermore, it is important that people learn to not be afraid of failure. A big mistake can cause someone to lose their job, but risk-taking can also lead to innovation and career advancements.\n\nManagers should not be afraid to take on projects that are more difficult than their usual work because of the chance of failing. When a manger shows that he is open to the opportunity to attempt new tasks and to raise goals, he shows desire to expand his horizons. This way he will maximize his potential and lead a company to bigger success. It is also important to be reasonable when making changes. For example, in a high leverage situation it is better to stay within one’s current capabilities. However, in situations where the consequences of failing are smaller, it is better to take a risk and accept a challenge. This is a strategy that has worked for many successful businesspeople. When asked to list the top five moments when their career took a leap forward, most executives will list loss of job or a project that did not go well. This is because failing teaches us lessons and when overcoming particularly hard obstacles, we employ more of our potential. The key to success is in taking chances and being open to new ideas.\n\nFile under\n\nShare this article", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.631140410900116}
+{"content": "Moroccan Culture\n\nLanguages and Dialects Spoken in Morocco\n\nGoogle+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr\n\nThe Kingdom of Morocco is a diverse country with rich culture. The geographic position of the country and the influence of Arab and European culture in languages and dialects spoken in Morocco.\n\nLanguages and Dialects Spoken in Morocco\n\nOfficial Languages in Morocco\n\nLanguages and Dialects Spoken in Morocco;arabic language\n\nLanguages and Dialects Spoken in Morocco;amazigh language\n\nMoroccan official languages are Arabic and Amazigh or Berber and the most important one in studies is Arabic which represents the administrative language of the country and Amazigh is taught in some primary schools. \n\nConcerning dialects in Morocco, there are Moroccan Arabic (Darija) and Hassani dialect of Sahrawi people in the south of Morocco.\n\nThe importance of DARIJA in Morocco\n\nDARIJA or Moroccan Arabic is a dialect containing the combination of Arabic (Predominant), French, Spanish and Berber. DARIJA has some similarities with the Algerian and the Tunisian dialect and you may hear that Moroccans speak too fast comparing to Algerians and Tunisians.\n\nGenerally speaking, between Moroccans in the streets, you will hear Moroccan Arabic, Berber or Hassani dialect, and never Classical Arabic. Also, you will find out that all Moroccans speak Darija but not all speak Berber or Hassani dialect. So, as a foreigner in Morocco, Darija is the most important if you are interested in communication with locals. But, you may find some old people in Berber villages with some difficulties in speaking Moroccan Arabic.\n\nForeign Languages in Morocco \n\nFrench is spoken widely in Morocco and you will have more facilities if you are a French speaker. In northwestern Morocco, some locals speak also Spanish because of the proximity and the influence of the Spanish culture. For example in Tangier and Tetouan, locals use a lot of vocabulary coming from the Spanish language when they speak Darija.\n\nIn larger cities, English is an emerging language, and Moroccans are known to be good in foreign languages and you may be surprised in tourist areas markets where many sellers have never been in school and they speak many languages.\n\nShould I learn DARIJA as a Foreigner in Morocco?\n\nLike anywhere in the world, when you speak local languages or dialects, you will feel closer to locals and you enjoy more your stay in the country. So, Learning Moroccan Arabic can be useful for you as a foreigner in Morocco. \n\nIf you want to learn Arabic online with the help of a teacher, you write to him on Moroccan Arabic Online Classes.\n\nTips in Learning Moroccan Arabic \n\nMoroccan Arabic Online websites/Youtube Channels\n\nFor those who do not live in Morocco, learning online is a good option via websites and youtube channels. It is good especially if you are planning to visit or live in Morocco.\n\nMoroccanArabicLanguage is a new website for beginners containing Vocabulary, Expressions, and Courses sections related to different contexts useful to foreigners in English and Darija. \n\nSome Youtube Videos \n\nThe videos below, belong to the Youtube Channel Learn Moroccan Arabic – Darija :\n\nExpose yourself to the language with locals \n\nYou can ask sometimes your Moroccan friends to talk in Darija, even if you don’t understand what is going on. Then, you keep listening, write down new words, sentences, and eventually the entire conversation. The more you do that, the more you notice that you start understanding a part or even all their conversations. In parallel to that, do not hesitate to ask for explanations and practice what you learned.\n\nTV Shows and Films\n\nTo improve quickly your level in Darija, you can watch Moroccan TV channels like 2M TV and AL OULA TV as well as listening to the Moroccan news, watching Moroccan movies and Comedy series on TV or on youtube.\n\nExchange languages with Moroccan Friends / Family\n\nYou can also exchange languages with your Moroccan friends interested in learning your language and you fix a regular time with them for that. Then, try to be generous when they ask about your language to push them to do the same in Moroccan Arabic.\n\nWrite A Comment", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7757593393325806}
+{"content": "The primary purpose of any business is to produce goods or provide services in a way that they have a higher value for the customers than the original cost for the firm. Companies engage in numerous activities while converting inputs to outputs. Porter’s Value Chain helps us create a clear overview of the internal organization, which in turn helps us to assess where the business creates actual value and where we can make improvements in the processes.\n\nValue Chain\n\nAnalysts need a systematic way to examine all internal processes and their interactions, to analyze the source of competitive advantages or disadvantages. To gain a competitive advantage, the company has to perform strategic procedures, either better or cheaper than others.\n\nPrimary Activities\n\nOn the bottom half of the diagram, we see a list of our primary activities groups. These are the processes that are directly involved in the production and sales of the products, from physically creating the product to providing aftermarket services and support.\n\nInbound Logistics\n\nThis section includes all activities related to inventory handling for incoming raw materials and parts, from receiving in the warehouse to issuing the inventory to production.\n\n\nThese activities encompass the production process itself, covering every aspect of turning all the inputs to the final product.\n\nOutbound Logistics\n\nThis group includes activities related to collecting the finished goods from production, storing them, and dispatching orders to clients. This section covers all processes that physically get the product to the customer.\n\nSales and Marketing\n\nThese are all activities for finding potential clients, introducing the product, and enticing new customers to purchase it. The group includes running ads and promotions, pricing, quoting, sales, and others.\n\nAftermarket Services\n\nAll activities engaged with improving or maintaining the product’s value for the customer after the sale fall in this section. These may include installations, training, support, repairs, warranty replacement, and others.\n\nSupporting Activities\n\nThe supporting activities go across the primary ones to support and organize their function and communication with each other. These can either be associated with a specific primary activity or contribute to the whole value chain.\n\nCompany Infrastructure\n\nHere we find activities for general management, planning, finance and accounting, analysis, legal, quality control, and others. These activities almost always support the whole value chain instead of a single primary activity. In finance and accounting, we refer to these mostly as overhead costs. It is important to note that strategic management has a considerable impact on the firm’s ability to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage, as it shapes all future decisions within the company.\n\nHuman Resources Management\n\nThis group consists of activities like recruiting, hiring, development, training, assessment, and firing of employees. Human resources management has a tight connection to the competitive advantages of the company through the aim to hire, train, and keep the best people.\n\nTechnology Development\n\nThese are activities that have to do with developing internal technologies. These can range from know-how to technical aspects of various processes, or multiple procedures, including R&D. We can broadly separate them into two types:\n\n  • Improve the product (product design, testing, and others);\n  • Improve the process (accounting systems, costing procedures, CRM, and others).\n\n\nAll activities related to the purchase of inputs are in this section. It is essential to separate purchasing from handling of the inputs, which is outside the Procurement activities. The activities cover all inputs for the company, not just those required for Operations activities. Examples are consumables, raw materials and parts, also property, plant and equipment, intangibles, and others.\n\nA Value Chain is not a group of independent activities. All primary and supporting activities have a constant connection and information flow between them. Porter describes these as ‘bridged.’ Any such links are where we usually find a great room for improvement, to achieve or maintain a competitive advantage.\n\nBusinesses often neglect the links within the Value Chain, which can lead to significant adverse effects on profits, and missing out on opportunities to improve and create more value.\n\nLet’s look at a chatbot that aims to handle customer queries for warranty claims. Such an implementation will come from activity within the Technology Development group. However, it will significantly improve the support activity in the After-market Services group and will help improve the competitive advantage of the company.\n\nPorter’s Value Chain is a robust framework we can apply to analyze the internal structure and environment of the business. It gives us a structured approach to find where the firm creates value and where we can improve the margins by optimizing costs. It also helps improve communication and information flow between departments in the company, which in turn aids the achieving and maintaining competitive advantages.\n\nA company’s Value Chain is a part of a larger-scale Industry Value Chain. The more activities a company performs from the industry Value Chain, the more vertically integrated it is.\n\nValue Chain Analysis\n\nValue Chain Analysis is the process in which we identify the company’s primary and supporting activities and analyze the ones that add value to the product. We intend to either differentiate more from our competitors or find room for cost reductions.\n\nIt is an internal strategy tool, which aims to recognize the activities that provide the most value to the product. The model focuses on understanding the internal processes of the company to optimize them to achieve or maintain the company’s competitive advantage. Value Chain Analysis reveals the source of the firm’s competitive advantages and disadvantages. It gives us a visual model of our Value Chain.\n\nAccording to Porter, there are ten cost drivers that a firm can try to control, to be more efficient and create more value:\n\n  • Economies of scale;\n  • The pattern of capacity utilization;\n  • Internal relationships;\n  • Timing;\n  • Location;\n  • Learning;\n  • Linkages;\n  • Integration;\n  • Organizational policies;\n  • Institutional factors.\n\nThe Value Chain Analysis is more than just a cost-to-profit model. It considers the principles of economies of scale and capacity. There’s a limit to cost-reductions and increases in capacity, after which the company’s growth can start to suffer. Competitive advantage can also come from the perceived value for the customer. Finding the sources of such perceived value can mean the difference between charging $ 250 for a smartphone and $ 700 for an iPhone.\n\nWhen we perform the analysis, we must engage as many stakeholders as possible, and study the industry and market in its entirety, to identify competitive opportunities. Setting the proper goals is crucial, as there are thousands of activities with varying importance within a company. We should also consider the cycle-time performance of the Value Chain and look into it for additional room for improvement.\n\nValue Chain Analysis is a complex undertaking. We may face the following challenges:\n\n  • Gathering the required data may be a time-consuming task;\n  • It can be hard to identify the activities that add real or perceived value to the product;\n  • It can be challenging to develop and deploy a plan with optimizations\n\nCompetitive Advantage\n\nThe idea of the Value Chain Analysis is to achieve one of two things to increase margins:\n\n  • Cost advantage – perform activities cheaper than the competition;\n  • Differentiation advantage – do activities in a manner to get a superior final product.\n\nIn modern days primary activities are mostly a source for cost advantages. On the other hand, supporting activities provide differentiation advantages, coming from strategic management, R&D, and technological advancements.\n\nDepending on the aim at hand, we perform different steps for our Value Chain Analysis.\n\nCost Advantage\n\nWe perform such analysis in companies that aim to compete on costs. The goal is to understand the sources of the costs and the drivers behind them. Such companies are Tesco, Ford, Burger King, and others.\n\nThe process consists of five steps.\n\nStep 1. Identify the firm’s primary and support activities\n\nWe need to make sure we identify and separate the procedures. Doing so requires good knowledge of the company and its business operations and the links between the activities within.\n\nStep 2. Calculate the relative importance of each activity in the total cost of the product\n\nWe have to analyze the total cost of production or provision of service and break them down so that we can assign them to the separate activities. Those with higher costs or performed inefficiently, when compared to competitors, are the ones we will address first.\n\nStep 3. Identify the cost drivers for each activity\n\nWe need to know what are the drivers behind each cost so that we can improve them. We have to remember that different processes have different cost drivers. For example, labor-intensive processes will most likely be driven by work hours, wage rates, or others.\n\nStep 4. Identify links between activities\n\nIt is crucial that we correctly identify the links within the Value Chain because some cost-reductions might lead to increased costs in other activities. We need to be aware and look synergies where optimizations in one procedure can also lead to optimizations in other ones.\n\nStep 5. Identify cost-reduction opportunities\n\nOnce we know the cost drivers and have identified the company’s inefficiencies, we can start planning improvements.\n\nDifferentiation Advantage\n\nThe process of performing a Value Chain Analysis looks differently when the company aims for a differentiation advantage. These advantages come from introducing additional features and creating a superior product.\n\nStep 1. Identify the value-creating activities\n\nIn this step, we identify the activities that create the most value for the customer.\n\nStep 2. Evaluate strategies to improve value for the customer\n\nIn this step, we evaluate a variety of strategies to helps us improve customer value. The most common of those are:\n\n  • More product features;\n  • Better customer support;\n  • Complementary products;\n  • Optimization choices.\n\nStep 3. Identify the most sustainable differentiation\n\nTo achieve and maintain a competitive differentiation advantage, we will usually implement many strategies in various activities.\n\nExample Value Chain Analysis\n\nLet us take a look at a white label bicycle manufacturer that sources parts and performs assembly in its plants. If we apply the Value Chain Model, we might get something like the following:\n\nAfter creating our Value Chain, we can start with our analysis. In the first step, we will identify the activities within the company.\n\nThen we can evaluate which ones create the most cost for the company.\n\nTo better understand our expenses, we list the cost drivers behind each activity.\n\nAfter this, we can continue to Step 4, where we identify the links between activities:\n\n  • High-quality assembly process reflects in fewer warranty claims;\n  • Bulk purchases reduce relative transportation cost;\n  • Fewer new model designs decrease assembly costs;\n  • Larger order size from supplier increase warehouse costs.\n\nAnd, finally, in Step 5, we can formulate cost-reduction opportunities, that will help us optimize our activities and gain competitive advantage.\n\nPush the same models to more clients, offering small customizations only (mostly branding). This way, we will increase order sizes of the same parts and materials, simplify the assembly process and increase quality, hence reducing warranty claims.\n\n\nValue Chain Analysis is a robust management tool, which helps us identify the activities within the organization that create a premium product or service. If we provide such products and services to our customers, they will be willing to pay more, thus generating higher profits for the company.\n\nThe ultimate goal of the method is to create or maintain and strengthen competitive advantage. It helps us identify areas we can optimize to be more efficient and profitable. Value Chain Analysis is crucial in evaluating the product quality, cost, and effectiveness of related activities. Then we can start implementing the appropriate improvement strategies.\n\nThe model is instrumental, as it provides management with insights needed to focus on the areas where the business creates value. It helps companies develop a vision around competitive advantage and shows the importance of supporting activities, which are sometimes neglected by management.\n\nPlease, show your support by sharing the article with colleagues and friends. You can do that from the social icons to the side!\n\nAlso, don’t forget to download the example below.\n\nDobromir Dikov\n\nFCCA, FMVA, Founder of Magnimetrics\n\n\n\n\n\nAny Thoughts?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9626131653785706}
+{"content": "Should You Take Steps Now To Get Student Debt Cancelled Later? | #Education\n\nAs the Biden administration continues to evaluate options for enacting widespread student loan forgiveness, should you be doing anything now to maximize your potential future eligibility? Perhaps — but some actions may carry significant and lasting consequences. Here’s what to know.\n\nBiden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Legal Review\n\nIn March, the White House announced that President Biden had asked Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and his legal team to draft a formal legal opinion letter outlining potential legal authorities that could be used to enact widespread student loan forgiveness through executive action. The legal review, which is ongoing, is being conducted in conjunction with the Department of Justice, which has also been evaluating legal questions related to mass student debt cancellation.\n\nStudent loan borrowers and their advocates in Congress, as well as a diverse array of civil rights, labor, and consumer protection groups, have been engaged in a sustained campaign to convince President Biden to use executive authority to cancel student debt on a mass scale. But Biden has not yet endorsed this route.\n\nStudent loan legal advocates have argued that the Higher Education Act gives President Biden broad authority, via the Secretary of Education, to forgive student loan debt. A key provision of the statute provides the Secretary with the authority to “enforce, pay, compromise, waive, or release any right, title, claim, lien, or demand, however acquired, including any equity or any right of redemption.” Advocates argue that the plain language of this provision supports the conclusion that the President may cancel student debt without Congressional input. Borrower legal advocates have also noted that the HEROES Act, which President Trump and President Biden relied on to cancel billions of dollars in student loan interest, also provides the Secretary with authority to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs” in response to a national emergency.\n\nBut attorneys under former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had concluded that neither the Higher Education Act nor the HEROES Act gives the president the kind of authority that advocates have been arguing is allowable. The Education Department, under DeVos, had argued that widespread student loan forgiveness would be contrary to Congressional intent, as lawmakers did not envision mass student debt cancellation when it passed either statute. The Department’s attorneys had concluded that “Congress appropriated funds for student loans with the expectation that such loans would be repaid except in very specific circumstances.”\n\nIf Biden Forgives Student Loans, Who Would Qualify?\n\n\n\nShould You Consolidate Your Student Loans To Qualify for Forgiveness?\n\nIf Biden enacts mass student loan forgiveness, eligibility could potentially be restricted to certain types of student loans. For instance, if Biden does wind up using executive action, he would not have authority under federal law to cancel private student loans. He would only have authority to address federal student loans under the Higher Education Act and the HEROES Act.\n\nBut even for federal student loans, there may be further limitations. For instance, the CARES Act — which Congress previously passed last year to suspend payments, interest, and collections on federal student loans — limited student loan relief to Direct federal student loans only (loans issued directly by the U.S. Department of Education). Other types of federal student loans, such as Family Federal Education Loan (FFEL) and federal Perkins loans, were excluded. Some existing federal student loan forgiveness programs, like Public Service Loan Forgiveness, are similarly limited to Direct loans.\n\nBorrowers with FFEL and Perkins loans can consolidate their loans through the federal Direct consolidation program to convert these loans into a Direct loan. If Biden limits any future student loan forgiveness programs to Direct loans only, this could make Direct loan consolidation an attractive option for FFEL and Perkins loan borrowers, and some borrowers are considering preemptively consolidating their FFEL loans and Perkins loans, just in case. (Private student loans are not eligible for Direct loan consolidation).\n\nBut Direct loan consolidation can sometimes have significant downsides, including interest capitalization and a restart of the borrower’s repayment term, thereby erasing any progress the borrower may have already made towards their payoff date or loan forgiveness term. Biden recently used executive authority under the HEROES Act to expand the CARES Act’s collections suspension to include defaulted FFEL loans, demonstrating that executive action may not necessarily have to be limited to Direct loans only.\n\nShould You Refinance Your Student Loans?\n\nBorrowers with high interest student loans may be interested in refinancing through a private lender. Refinancing a student loan can result in a lower interest rate and better repayment terms, particularly for student loan borrowers who have good credit and fairly high income.\n\nBut refinancing federal student loans via a private student loan carries some risks, including a loss of consumer protections (like flexible repayment options, default resolution programs, and generous deferment and forbearance options), as well as access to federal loan programs like income-based repayment and loan forgiveness. And refinancing federal student loans now carries even more risks than normal. That’s because federal student loans covered by the CARES Act currently have a 0% interest rate until at least September 30, 2021 — borrowers are simply not going to get a lower rate from a private lender.\n\nFurthermore, if President Biden does determine that he has authority to cancel student debt through executive action, his authority would be limited to federal student loans only. Once a borrower refinances their federal student loans through a private lender, that refinanced loan cannot be re-converted into a federal student loan. So refinancing these loans now could ensure that you would not qualify for any student loan forgiveness.\n\nShould You File Taxes Separately From Your Spouse?\n\nOne big question regarding a potential Biden student loan forgiveness initiative is whether there would be eligibility limitations based on a borrower’s income. Biden and moderate Democrats have previously spoken publicly about concerns that mass student loan forgiveness would skew benefits towards higher income earners. For married borrowers, would spousal income come into play?\n\nThere is no way to know at this juncture, but we can look at a few programs for insight. For example, the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan factors in spousal income when determining a borrower’s student loan payment, but only when they file taxes jointly. If the borrower and spouse file taxes separately, spousal income is excluded. But that is not true for the Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) plan, which factors in spousal income regardless of tax filing status.\n\nBorrowers considering filing taxes separately “just in case” should be aware that filing separately can sometimes have significant tax consequences, so it would be prudent to first consult with a qualified tax advisor before changing your filing status.\n\nFurther Reading\n\nWhy $10,000 In Student Loan Forgiveness May Not Help Borrowers In Income-Based Repayment\n\nNew Details: Student Loan Forgiveness Could Wipe Out The Debt Of Most Borrowers\n\nBiden Excludes Student Loan Forgiveness From Budget Proposal, But Calls For More Funding For Higher Ed: Key Details\n\n72,000 Borrowers Will Get $1 Billion In Student Loan Forgiveness – Do You Qualify?\n\nSource link", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7482300996780396}
+{"content": "Lux Aeterna/Elgar\n\nEdward Elgar, another English church musician (although he was Roman Catholic, not Anglian), may be best known for Pomp and Circumstance, but he also was the composer of The Enigma Variations, of which the one named Nimrod, was the most popular and is frequently heard at funerals and memorial services. In the late 1990's, British composer and arranger John Cameron put together the traditional words of the Lux Aeterna, the communion antiphon used at the requiem Mass (May everlasting light shine upon them, O Lord, with your Saints forever, for you are kind. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may everlasting light shine upon them; with your Saints forever, for you are merciful) with Elgar's tune. Cameron is much more well known for his composition and arrangements of pop songs and in musical theater, but this arrangement for 8 voices is lovely and poignant. It's also hard to sing because of the occasional leaps, but this recording from Voces8 is the best I've heard.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9203389286994934}
+{"content": "* Bansho\n\nWhat is Bansho?\n\na. A type of sushi\n\nb. A form of martial arts\n\nc. A math teaching strategy\n\n\n\n\n\nHow could this be adapted to support special needs students? \n\n\n* Mathematics discourse\n\nMathematics discoursequotation marks 2\n\n\n\n  • 15 minutes: whole-group, teacher-led instruction\n\n\n* Backing up, moving forward in math\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Anonymous scholars\n\nThis month’s Teaching Children Mathematics features an excellent article entitled “Learning From the Unknown Student.”   What’s that about?   The idea is to expose students to effective strategies and prompt analysis of others’ mathematical reasoning by using “anonymous scholar” work.  The unknown student provides an avenue for sharing an alternate problem- solving approach without leading students to believe it’s the Teacher Way of doing math.  I typically employ a variation of this strategy in writing and social skills, but it is equally effective in math.\n\nLet’s say I want a student to recognize a common error in her writing, perhaps an abundance of incomplete sentences.  But this kiddo does not see those mistakes and is already hyper-sensitive about correction.  That’s when I introduce “a student from last year” whose writing is replete with the same errors.  Now my student becomes a helpful editor and delights in using effective strategies to catch those errors, such as reading the sample out loud and using a rubric or checklist.  I have found that students are much more relaxed about revisions and editing when they have sliced-and-diced someone else’s work.  Where do I find these student samples?  Some are actually students from last year.  Others are copied from Google images or a search such as “writing samples, grade 2.”\n\nFor those students who struggle to add a specific feature to their writing, such as an effective opening sentence, I will use commercially-prepared mentor texts (Empowering Writers is a good choice) and graphic organizers with built-in prompts (usually created by me).  There’s no point in replicating my students’ dismal classroom experiences, where other kids seem to write effortlessly.  Those scholars are not anonymous.\n\nIn social skills instruction, I tell anecdotes or write social stories about anonymous scholars who struggle to make friends or follow directions.  I have also referred to “a student at another school, but I can’t tell you his name.”  It’s amazing how my students immediately verbalize highly effective strategies for dealing with these issues.  For the younger set, we watch puppets literally wrestle with familiar social and academic glitches.  Sometimes I wonder what kind of teacher I am, since Rocky the raccoon and Sandy the pup never learn to take turns, listen to others, or manage their frustration!\n\nIn the examples I’ve shared, there is a downside to using anonymous scholars.  A student with very low self-esteem may attempt to build his confidence on the back of that pitiful kid who can’t add 1 + 1.  However, I think that is more easily managed than erasing 50% of the answers on a math page, then telling the kids they are improving.  Who would believe that?  silhouette\n\n* School-wide bulletin boards\n\n\nbulleting board image.jpg\n\n\n* The Math Diet\n\n\n\n  1. Counting\n  2. Subitizing\n  3. Conceptual understanding\n  4. Strategic Competence\n  5. Procedural fluency\n\n\n\n* Multiplying fractions with visuals\n\nIn a previous post, I expressed my concern about the use of some models and processes for representing multiplication of decimals and fractions. A recent issue of Teaching Children Mathematics provides a better description of why my students and I were both confused by the representations being used by some classroom teachers.  As we plowed through classwork and homework, kids were increasingly anxious as I tried to inject some meaning into the process.  “My teacher says to color these boxes!” the kids would exclaim in desperation.  “We aren’t doing it that way!”  When asked what the boxes meant, the kids had no idea.\n\nIn an excellent article by Webel, Krupa, and McManus, the authors describe the confusion that results from using visual representations without context.  They emphasize that the visual should clearly depict the differing sizes of the two fractions.  The authors express concern that visuals may be reduced to a series of steps which are no more helpful than blindly following an algorithm.\n\nAs I’ve taught students in 4th and 5th grade, all three of these pitfalls have been evident.  Here are some graphics to demonstrate the authors’ perspective (and my students’ anxiety).\n\nLet’s say we want to solve this problem (borrowed from the article):  I have 1/4 of a gallon of orange juice in my fridge.  Then I drank 1/4 of it.  What fraction of the gallon of OJ is left in the fridge?\n\nHere are three possible visuals for this problem.  Multiplying fractions\n\nA and B are very similar and bring back bad memories!  Use a grid to color across and down.  The double-shaded area represents the answer.  Ta-da!  Only it doesn’t answer the question!  In the OJ problem, we need to know what’s LEFT.  C is a superior representation of the problem but a teacher must guide kids into how we arrive at 16 squares in the grid.  That discussion follows logically when you focus on the problem, which has 2 distinct units.\n\nFor fragile learners, A and B have great appeal.  Kids can memorize the coloring process without difficulty.  Unfortunately, they are not even close to understanding what multiplication represents.  The “talking it through” process can be very frustrating because they know they’re BEHIND and want to speed along to catch up.  And as we know, THIS ISN’T THE WAY MY TEACHER DOES IT!\n\n* Teaching math teachers\n\n\n\n\n* Graphics and algorithms, part 2\n\nI made three points in yesterday’s post on this topic:\n\n  1. Students should be allowed access to manipulatives far longer than is typically expected.\n  2. Students should not simply memorize algorithms, but should understand the mathematical reasoning behind them.\n  3. Visual representations of math processes can be helpful, but can often be more confusing than a standard algorithm.  I have concerns that kids struggle to understand the area model of multiplying decimals and suggested a number line.\n\nToday’s post deals with a terrific process and graphic for teaching division.  It is featured in this month’s “Teaching Children Mathematics,” published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Called “division quilts,” it represents a measurement model of division as opposed to “fair shares.”  The fair share model is like dealing cards into equal hands.  The measurement model begins with the dividend, created on graph paper in a rectangular representation.  This is one way to draw 35 ÷ 4.\n\nDivision quilts_0001\n\nNext, color groups of 4, using a different color for each adjoining set.  A good question to ask kids is why they should use different colors.Division quilts_0002\n\nBy counting the groups of 4, it’s easy to see that there are 8 equal groups.  Finally, number the left-over spaces, which is the remainder.Division quilts_0003\n\nThere is a strong relationship between this graphic and the long division algorithm.  For kids struggling with math, that relationship must be explicitly taught.  We want kids to use algorithms, but this process helps explain not only how we got a quotient of 8, but what a remainder means.  Depending upon the context of the problem, kids must decide what to do with that remainder.  I love to use field trip math problems with remainders because the imagery is so vivid.  “If we had parent drivers and placed 35 students in groups of 4 per car, how many cars would we need?”  At first, most kids will say 8.  Then we imagine those last three kids running behind the cars to the museum.  After they exhaust the possible ways for those kids to get smushed on the freeway, most students never forget that remainders are important!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6168158054351807}
+{"content": "Move over CRISPR, the Retrons are coming\n\nResearchers have created a new gene editing tool called Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) that can generate up to millions of mutations simultaneously, and ‘barcodes’ mutant bacterial cells so that the entire pool can be screened at once. It can be used in contexts where CRISPR is toxic or not feasible, and results in better editing rates.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9999463558197021}
+{"content": "What Is The Value Of H In Quantum Physics?\n\nWhat does the H stand for in e HV?\n\nE = hv C= λv.\n\nE is the energy of the light in Joules (J), h is a constant which is 6.626 X 10-34 J·s, and.\n\nv is the frequency of the light in s-1 or waves/s (also called Hertz (Hz).\n\nC is the speed of light..\n\nWhat is Quantum Energy?\n\nIn chemistry and physics, quantum refers to a single packet of matter or energy. In practical use, it refers to the minimum amount of energy required for a change or the minimum value of any physical property in an interaction. Quantum is the singular form of the word. Quanta is the plural form of the term.\n\nWhat is Planck’s quantum theory?\n\nAccording to Planck’s quantum theory, Different atoms and molecules can emit or absorb energy in discrete quantities only. The smallest amount of energy that can be emitted or absorbed in the form of electromagnetic radiation is known as quantum.\n\nWhat is value of Boltzmann constant?\n\nHaving dimensions of energy per degree of temperature, the Boltzmann constant has a value of 1.380649 × 10−23 joule per kelvin (K), or 1.380649 × 10−16 erg per kelvin.\n\nWhat is the value of h in Planck’s equation?\n\nPlanck constantValue of hUnits1.054571817×10−34J⋅s6.582119569×10−16eV⋅sValues of hcUnits1.98644586×10−25J⋅m7 more rows\n\nWhat is H in energy quantum of light?\n\nOne photon of light carries exactly one quantum of energy. Planck is considered the father of the Quantum Theory. According to Planck: E=h[latex]\\nu[/latex], where h is Planck’s constant (6.62606957(29) x 10-34 J s), ν is the frequency, and E is energy of an electromagnetic wave.\n\nWhich color has the highest energy?\n\n\nWhat is Planck’s constant in simple terms?\n\nThe Planck constant (Planck’s constant) links the amount of energy a photon carries with the frequency of its electromagnetic wave. It is named after the physicist Max Planck. … In SI Units the Planck constant is exactly 6.62607015×10−34 J·s (by definition).\n\nWhat is H in photoelectric effect?\n\nequations. Einstein and Millikan described the photoelectric effect using a formula (in contemporary notation) that relates the maximum kinetic energy (Kmax) of the photoelectrons to the frequency of the absorbed photons (f) and the threshold frequency (f0) of the photoemissive surface. Kmax = h(f − f0)\n\nWhat is capital H in physics?\n\nH = henry (inductance)\n\nWhat is the value of H Cross?\n\nPhysical constantsQuantitySymbolValue (eV units)reduced Planck’s constantℏ = h/2π6.5821 × 10-16 eV sBoltzmann’s constantk8.6173 × 10-5 eV K-1Stefan-Boltzmann constantσelectron chargee8 more rows\n\nHow much energy is a photon?\n\nThe energy of a single photon is: hν or = (h/2π)ω where h is Planck’s constant: 6.626 x 10-34 Joule-sec. One photon of visible light contains about 10-19 Joules (not much!)\n\nWhat does Planck’s constant mean?\n\nMedical Definition of Planck’s constant : a constant that gives the unvarying ratio of the energy of a quantum of radiation to its frequency and that has an approximate value of 6.626 × 10−34 joule second —symbol h. Comments on Planck’s constant. What made you want to look up Planck’s constant?\n\nWhat is the value of h in energy?\n\nThe dimension of Planck’s constant is the product of energy multiplied by time, a quantity called action. Planck’s constant is often defined, therefore, as the elementary quantum of action. Its value in metre-kilogram-second units is defined as exactly 6.62607015 × 10−34 joule second.\n\nWhat is the value of h by 2 pi?\n\nThe value of : ℏ=h2π=1.054 571 726(47)×10−34 J·s eV·s. To learn more about Planck’s constant please see hyperphysics.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.998731791973114}
+{"content": "The Power Of Habit By Charles Duhigg\n\nWhy We Do What We Do in Life and Business\n\nPublished or Updated on \nMay 5, 2021\n\n\nThe Power Of Habit uncovers the mysteries behind our habits. Habits are what make most of our daily lives yet until recently not much was known about them. As this book explains, there are clear patterns that all habits share: a cue and rewards loop that makes some people exercise and makes other people drink or gamble every day.\n\nDuhigg explains how this mechanism works giving real life examples of gamblers and alcoholics, and even gives some explanations as to why certain civic movements are successful while others fail, all this citing and explaining recent and relevant research in areas such as neuroscience and psychology.\n\nAll in all, I really enjoyed this book and completely changed the way I think about habits. I am now more mindful about them and always try to change them and make better choices.\n\nNotes and Highlights\n\n\n– William James\n\n\nIf you picture the human brain as an onion, composed of layer upon layer of cells, then the outside layers –those closest to the scalp– are generally the most recent additions from an evolutionary perspective.\n\nDeeper inside the brain and closed to the brain stem – where the brain meets the spinal column– are older, more primitive structures. Thy control our automatic behaviors, such as breathing and swallowing, or the startle response we feel when someone leaps out from behind a bush.\n\n\nHabits, scientist say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.\n\n…the fries, for instance are designed to being disintegrating the moment they hit your tongue, in order to deliver a hit of salt and grease as fast as possible, causing your pleasure centers to light up and your brain to lock in the pattern\n\n\nCinnabon tries to locate their stores away from other food stalls. Why? Because Cinnabon executives want the smell of cinnamon rolls to waft down hallways and around corners uninterrupted, so that shoppers will start subconsciously craving a roll.\n\n“I work hard because I expect pride from a discovery. I exercise because I expect feeling good afterward. I just wish I could pick and choose better.”\n\n\nI knew that if something didn’t change, I was going to kill my kids. So I started working at that, working at believing in something bigger than me. And it’s working. I don’t know if it’s God or something else, but there is a power that has helped me stay sober for seven years now and I’m in awe of it.\n\nWe do know that for habits to permanently change, people must believe that change is feasible. The same process that makes AA so effective – the power of a group to teach individuals how to believe – happens whenever people come together to help one another change. Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.\n\nSome habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are “keystone habits”, and they can influence how people work, eat play, live, spend, and communicate. Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transforms everything.\n\n\nFor many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.\n\nStarbucks has taught him how to live, how to focus, how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions. Most crucially, it has taught him willpower.\n\nDescribing Starbucks trainee program. This is a system that one should probably study to understand how to create value not only for your customers but also for your employees and do good.\n\n\n\nAs people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives – in the gym, or a money management program – the strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked.\n\n\n\n\nJust as choosing the right keystone habits can create amazing change, the wrong ones can create disaster.\n\nIt may seem like most organizations make rational choices based on deliberate decision making, but that’s not really how companies operate at all. Instead, firms are guided by long-held organizational habits, patterns that often emerge from thousands of employees’ independent decisions. And these habits have more profound impacts than anyone previously understood.\n\nCompanies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.\n\nSometimes, one priority – or one department or one person or one goal – needs to overshadow everything else, though it might be unpopular or threaten a balance of power that keeps trains running on time.\n\n\nA company with dysfunctional habits can’t turn around simply because a leader orders it. Rather, wise executives seek out moments of crisis – or create the perception of a crisis – and cultivate the sense that something must change, until everyone is finally ready to overhaul the patterns they live with each day.\n\nif we start our shopping sprees by loading up on healthy stuff, we’re much more likely to buy Doritos, Oreos and frozen pia when we encounter them later on.\n\n“People listen to Top 40 because they want to hear their favorite songs or songs that sound just like their favorite songs. When something different comes on, they’re offended. They don’t want anything unfamiliar.”\n\n…listening habits exist because, without them, it would be impossible to determine if we should concentrate on our child’s voice, the coach’s whistle, or the noise from a busy street during a Saturday soccer game.\n\nTo date, the only government program ever to cause a lasting change in the American diet was the organ meat push of the 1940s.\n\nDuring WWII there was a shortage of protein (meat) in the American Market so the government decided to start a program to make people eat animals’ organs and not only their meat. That is supposedly how americans started eating kidneys, livers, etc.\n\nSocial habits are why some initiatives become world-changing movements, while others fail to ignite.\n\n\nOn a playground, peer pressure is dangerous. In adult life, it’s how business gets done and communities self-organize.\n\n“Gambling”is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief\" – George Washington\n\n\nThis is in reference to a famous case where a husband killed a wife while sleepwalking. The husband was absolved and declared “not-guilty”\n\nIt’s unclear if problem gamblers’ brains are different because they are born that way of if sustained exposure to slot machines, online poker, and casinos can change how the brain functions. What is clear is that real neurological differences impact how pathological gamblers process information.\n\n“The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.”\n\n\n…almost all the other patterns that exist in most people’s lives –how we eat and sleep and talk to our kids how we unthinkingly spend our time, attention and money–those are habits that we know exist. And once you understand that habits can change, you have the freedom –and the responsibility– to remake them. Once you understand that habits can be rebuilt, the power of habit becomes easier to grasp, and the only option left is to get to work.\n\n\nIf you believe you can change –if you make it a habit– the change becomes real. This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs –and becomes automatic– it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable, the things, as James wrote, that bears “us irresistible toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be”.\n\nYou might also like\n\nSubscribe to Alberto's Nerd Corner\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9344512224197388}
+{"content": "TV & Movies\n\nAll The Clues Tayshia Is Replacing Clare On The Bachelorette\n\nThe evidence is clear.\n\nPaul Archuleta/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images\n\nAs one of the top candidates for Season 16 Bachelorette, Tayshia Adams was likely let down when Clare Crawley got the gig. Little did she know she would ultimately replace Clare as Bachelorette when the hairstylist found love just two weeks into filming. Reports of the transition surfaced on Aug. 3 when Entertainment Tonight reporter (and Bachelorette host Chris Harrison's girlfriend) Lauren Zima confirmed the news. Still, nothing is for certain, as ABC has not officially confirmed or denied the news. Still, even the network has been dropping hints of the drama to come. And if that isn't enough to convince you it's happening, there are plenty of other clues that will.\n\nTayshia conveniently took a month-long social media break.\n\nTayshia went from posting to Instagram at least once a week to completely dropping off the platform for over a month. Her final post before the hiatus was shared on Aug. 4, a day after her Bachelorette news broke, but it was sponsored content, so it could have been scheduled in advance. She didn't return to Instagram until Sept. 12, when she shared a photo to celebrate her 30th birthday. \"I am 30, I am definitely flirty, And I’m fkn THRIVING!!!\" she wrote. Perhaps that's because she found love?\n\nChris Harrison is dropping all the hints.\n\nIn an Oct. 6 interview, Refinery29 asked Harrison why Tayshia hasn't appeared in early show promos. Naturally, he went around the question with his answer, saying that this season is \"all about Clare. Up until the time… it doesn’t need to be. And people will have to watch and see if that happens.”\n\nIn a Sept. 29 interview with ET, the host admitted that Tayshia's \"not not the Bachelorette,\" adding that the season \"goes up on the Mount Rushmore of wild seasons of Bachelor and Bachelorette.\"\n\nClare may have accidentally spoiled it.\n\nIf Clare did leave the show, she may have confirmed it by making her presence known on social media and liking (then immediately unliking) a tweet congratulating Tayshia on the new role. (This piece of evidence also surfaced on Aug. 3.) Plus, in an extensive July 31 Instagram Live, per The Daily Mail, franchise authority Reality Steve said he could confirm that Tayshia was at the La Quinta Resort & Club, where quarantined filming took place.\n\nTayshia's good friend Demi Burnett corroborated the speculation.\n\nWhen Demi joined Reality Steve's Instagram Live, he asked her what Tayshia's been up to. The former Bachelor in Paradise star said she wasn't \"in the loop\" after being on vacation, but admitted that she tried to text Tayshia and noticed her messages didn't go through. She added that her texts turned green, which, for a thread between two iPhones, indicates that a person's phone is off. In conclusion, Tayshia's phone was likely turned off and was perhaps being held by The Bachelorette production.\n\nWhen the show premieres on Oct. 13, more details will be revealed, but as Harrison told ET, it's definitely going to be an \"explosive\" season.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6082476377487183}
+{"content": "Garden Vegetable Soup\n\nThis delicious garden vegetable soup recipe tastes like a garden in a bowl.  The layers of delicious flavor are what really sets this soup apart from others.  Onion and garlic provide a rich, earthy flavor that’s the perfect contrast to the freshness of zucchini, pepper and basil.  Tomatoes and vinegar add just a hint of sharpness while a little sprinkle of shredded Parmesan brings the whole dish together.\n\n\n1 tablespoon olive oil\n2 cloves garlic, minced\n1 large red bell pepper, chopped (about 1 cup)\n2 cups Swanson® Natural Goodness® Chicken Broth\n1 cup canned crushed tomatoes\n2 teaspoons red wine vinegar\n0.25 cup thinly sliced fresh basil leaves\n4 teaspoons shredded Parmesan cheese (optional)\n\n\nHeat the oil in a 4-quart saucepan over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook for 2 minutes or until tender-crisp, stirring often. Add the zucchini and red pepper and cook until tender-crisp.\nStir the broth, tomatoes and vinegar in the saucepan and heat to a boil. Reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook for 10 minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Season to taste. Sprinkle with the basil.  Top with the cheese, if desired.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8553442358970642}
+{"content": "Providing You with\na Fresh Perspective\n\nr 630.240.5196\n\n\nWhat led Dan into coaching was his desire to help others succeed. Find your inner strengthOnce he started down this path he never looked back. Dan found that he has a real talent for helping people find their inner strengths and talents and bringing them to the forefront in a way that best benefits their business. He does this by listening closely to what their challenges are, what their goals and objectives are and what they perceive to be the obstacles preventing them from reaching those goals and objectives. Together they build a strategy that fits the situation and environment and begin the task of tackling the obstacles. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to first take an unvarnished assessment of your situation and then realistically determine the best course of action and embark on that journey. Having a trusted advisor on that journey makes it much smoother sailing.\n\nGreatness is within reach\n\nGreatness is within reach\n\nDan works with all types of people in all types of industries. Although Dan was in sales for years, He was also in management and ownership. This gives Dan a unique perspective, allowing him to clearly view a situation from several points of view, which is vital when putting together and implementing a sound strategy. This also makes him equally effective in his company–wide coaching of executives, management and sales team members, having performed in each role himself.\n\nAre you ready to start reaching\nyour goals and objectives?\n\n\nPC Week", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6018567681312561}
+{"content": "Internships and Career Development\n\nInternships are experiential learning opportunities that allow you to link your coursework and skills to a real-life work environment. They can be paid or unpaid and can vary in time commitments based on the employer’s needs and your schedule. Internships allow you to gain resume-ready work experience and develop your transferrable skills while helping establish your own professional network.\n\nKeep in mind that different types of internships have different requirements; some may require specific coursework or expertise, have varying work hours, or may only be looking for students in a particular class year. Note that internships are generally competitive and building your resume with community service, student organization leadership, and other activities can help give you an edge in your application.\n\nTypes of Internships\n\nDrew offers different types of internships. Different types of internships might be more helpful for you than others depending on your needs and goals.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6975057125091553}
+{"content": "Global advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson announced today the launch of Climate Transition Pathways (CTP), a new accreditation framework enabling providers of insurance and financing to identify companies with robust climate transition strategies.\n\nRowan Douglas, Head of the Climate and Resilience Hub at Willis Towers Watson said;\n\n“To ensure that organisations in high-carbon industries transition effectively, in line with what the science indicates is needed, they require robust transition plans and the ability to execute successfully against these. By incubating Climate Transition Pathways (CTP), we are helping lead the industry in ensuring these organisations are supported through an orderly transition and can continue to access insurance and benefit from a greater level of certainty around the future availability of risk capacity, helping them deliver a more sustainable future.”\n\nAs countries, businesses and investors increasingly move towards more climate resilient models, financial institutions and insurance providers face growing pressures to adopt risk models that take account of the impact of the transition to a low carbon world on the companies and businesses that they engage with. Insurance company Allianz, for example, announced that it would no longer to provide insurance or financing to coal-based businesses after 2022, unless they present robust and credible transition plans.\n\nCommenting on the establishment of the CTP, Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance and the Prime Minister’s Finance Adviser for COP26, said:\n\n“To achieve net zero we need a whole economy transition – every company, bank, insurer and investor will have to adjust their business models, develop credible plans for the transition and implement them. As insurers take steps to align their underwriting activities with the transition, companies will increasingly need to display that they have the right plans or risk losing access to insurance. Willis Towers Watson’s work to develop tools to assess companies’ transition plans is a valuable contribution to this process to ensure that every professional financial decision takes climate change into account.”\n\nWillis Towers Watson also announced the formation of a CTP governance committee, with members including ‘change agency’ consultancy Volans, and climate resilience-focused investment organization the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI). Committee members will be responsible for creating industry-specific solutions, based on the Assessment for Low Carbon Transition (ACT) methodology, to develop an accreditation model to review business commitments consistent with the move to a net-zero carbon environment.\n\nSean Kidney, CEO, CBI said:\n\n“Our climate and environmental challenges are extraordinary. Responding to those, and to consumer and regulatory pressure, all businesses are reviewing their sustainable credentials. They need tools to help them do so. We are delighted to be collaborating with Willis Towers Watson and be part of the Governance Committee which will pioneer Climate Transition Pathways and provide a standard which will help businesses move to a more sustainable future.”", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5772380828857422}
+{"content": "The genetic bases of aggression and violence: Part one- role of the chromosomes\n\n\nAggression and violence are behavioral problems rejected by the society if they are used in an inappropriate time or place. The bases and causes of aggression or violence have been discussed for decades and continued till now. Some- times the environmental factors become accepted more than the genetic factors as a risk factor for aggression, while in another time the genetic factors win the predominance by introducing accepted evidence. This study enlightened the role of genetic factors either they are chromosomal or at gene level on the development of aggression. Part one of this study focused on the relation between chromosomal changes (Klinefelter syndrome, Jacobes syndrome and telomeres length) and aggression, violence and other risky psychological disorders. This study concluded that genetic factors )chromosomal alterations) are one of the main risk factors for aggression, violence, crime and their related psychological and mental disorders.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9966764450073242}
+{"content": "832. Proceedings in the House of Lords after the opening of Parliament.\n\nWhen the House of Lords resumes its sitting a bill of a formal character, the Select Vestries Bill, is read a first time1. Immediately afterwards, the Lord Speaker2 reports the Speech to the House, and an address thanking Her Majesty for her most gracious speech3 is moved and seconded by lords to whom the duty has been entrusted by the government. The debate on the address is then adjourned4 on a motion by the Leader of the House, who congratulates the mover and seconder and comments generally on the Queen's speech, as do the other party leaders.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9539088010787964}
+{"content": "Philosopher Scholar\n\n\nBy Juergen Schmidhuber on April 15th, 2009\n\nThis gets more fascinating with each read!\n\nDaniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains\n\n\nHe considers himself a “movement chauvinist.”\n\nA related video on movement and the brain, [Why the Brain is Built for Movement Anders Hansen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9p3Z7L0f0U).\n\nAnother related video: The Moving Mind: Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Fitness | Michael Mannino\n\nEmbodied cognition - movement is necessary for the mind.\n\n“The brain is a dynamical system, and the mind is an emergent, self-organizing, embodied, process that happens because of movement.”\n\nCreatures which don’t move often don’t have a brain. Example of a sea squirt.\n\n\n― Daniel Dennett\n\nThe brain is a complex system: self-organization, emergence, pattern formation, coordination dynamics\n\n“The mind is a pattern of movement.” - embodied cognition\n\nHe shows a clip of Alva Noë: You Are Not Your Brain\n\n“Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking for the value of money in the composition of a dollar bill or trying to find dancing in the musculature of a dancer.” - Alva\n\n“We must perceive in order to move, but we must also move in order to perceive,” James Gibson, Psychologist.\n\nAre Brains Bayesian?\n\nBy John Horgan on January 6, 2016\n\nKicking things off was Joshua Tenenbaum of MIT’s brain and cognitive science program, who tries to “reverse engineer” human minds and replicate their performance in computers. As he explains on his website (which links to papers on the Bayesian brain and related topics), “bringing machine-learning algorithms closer to the capacities of human learning should lead to more powerful AI systems as well as more powerful theoretical paradigms for understanding human cognition.”\n\nHis presentation reprised his co-written 2012 paper “Bayesian just-so stories in psychology and neuroscience”, which evokes a famous complaint by biologist Stephen Jay Gould about the flimsy, ad hoc style of some evolutionary accounts of biological traits. Gould compared such explanations to “just-so stories,” fanciful tales about how the leopard got his spots and the camel his hump. In the same way, Bowers contended, Bayesian models can replicate virtually any cognitive task, given tweaking of prior assumptions and input. They are so flexible that they are immune to falsification, much like the explanations that evolutionary psychology offers for human traits.\n\nSo who wins the Bayesian-brain debate? I hate to be so predictable, but I must give the nod to Bowers, the skeptic. My coverage of brain-and-mind research over the last few decades has left me with a strong bias against alleged breakthroughs.\n\nImperfect Bayesian inference in visual perception\n\nPublished: April 18, 2019\n\n\n\nAuthor summary:\n\n\nIs Artificial General Intelligence a Mathematical Pattern?\n\nPosted Mar 28, 2018\n\n“If achieving artificial general intelligence is indeed a pattern that already exists, uncovering it involves mathematics, the science of patterns. Mathematicians look for patterns to form a conclusion, called a conjecture, and set out to support the proposition by creating a proof, or theorem.”\n\nIn sum, is AGI a mathematical pattern that can be implemented? Definitely maybe.\n\nThe humanity switch: How one gene made us brainier\n\n3 May 2012\n\n“When it comes to brain development, slow and steady wins the race. A single ancestral human gene that made two copies of itself may have helped the evolution of our large brains 2.5 million years ago, as our ancestors were diverging from australopithecines.\n\nParadoxically, it seems the effect of the extra copies was to slow down individual brain development. This allowed time for neurons to develop more and better connections with one another.\n\nGene duplications are rare in human history: only about 30 genes have copied themselves since we split from chimps 6 million years ago. Few have been studied, but those that have encode genes that are very exciting, says human geneticist Evan Eichler of the University of Washington in Seattle. Many are involved in brain development.”\n\n\nPublished on Jun 28, 2019\n\n“Octopus, squid and cuttlefish – collectively known as cephalopods – have strange, massive, distributed brains. What do they do with all that neural power? Dive into the ocean with marine biologist Roger Hanlon, who shares astonishing footage of the camouflaging abilities of cephalopods, which can change their skin color and texture in a flash. Learn how their smart skin, and their ability to deploy it in sophisticated ways, could be evidence of an alternative form of intelligence – and how it could lead to breakthroughs in AI, fabrics, cosmetics and beyond.”\n\nJeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast\n\n\n\n\nNumenta - Advancing Machine Intelligence with Neuroscience\n\nYouTube comment: Cleon Teunissen\n\n40 minutes in: the view presented by Jeff Hawkins strongly reminds me of the views presented by Marvin Minsky in his 1986 book ‘The society of mind’. Highly recommended, that book.\n\nMinsky offers a theory of psychology (both cognitive psychology and personality psychology). Minsky presents that the evidence suggests that we should think of the psyche as a multitude of cooperating agents. This society strives to reach decision by concensus, but that is not always possible.\n\nMinsky discusses: how is our brain able to process language so fast, given how slow neurons are? Minsky suggests massive parallellism. When words enter the auditory center they spread thoughout all of the language center, and all possible associations are generated, including the most farfetched. All those associations in the overall context are compared with each other simultaneously, one that outcompetes all others makes it to the level of conscious thought. Almost always the winning assocation is in fact the correct one. All that in a fraction of a second. Minsky offers that this is why puns strike us as funny; a “wrong” meaning, that otherwise would not make it to the level of conscious thought, is suddenly justified.\n\nWhat the brains of people with excellent general knowledge look like\n\nFirst published: 28 July 2019\n\n“The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin using magnetic resonance imaging. “Although we can precisely measure the general knowledge of people and this wealth of knowledge is very important for an individual’s journey through life, we currently know little about the links between general knowledge and the characteristics of the brain,” says Dr. Erhan Genç from the Department of Biopsychology in Bochum. The team describes the results in the European Journal of Personality on 28 July 2019.\n\nThe researchers examined the brains of 324 men and women with a special form of magnetic resonance imaging called diffusion tensor imaging…The participants also completed a general knowledge test called the Bochum Knowledge Test, which was developed in Bochum by Dr. Rüdiger Hossiep. It is comprised of over 300 questions from various fields of knowledge such as art and architecture or biology and chemistry…The result: People with a very efficient fibre network had more general knowledge than those with less efficient structural networking.”\n\n\n\n\nAUGUST 30, 2019\n\nIn a paper published in Nature Communications, the Blue Brain researchers have shown that the trick lies in combining these two views. By integrating data from two recent datasets—the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas and Janelia MouseLight—the researchers identified some of the key rules that dictate which individual neurons can form connections over large distances within the neocortex. This was possible because the two datasets complemented each other in terms of entirety of the neocortex and the cellular resolution provided.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9808074235916138}
+{"content": "Veuillez appuyer sur la touche entrer ⏎ pour valider la recherche\n\nTips and Tricks\n\nHow often should you wash your bra?\n\nHow often should you wash your bra?\nShare on Facebook\n\nLet's be honest, we women, do not wash our bra twice a week ...\n\nBut what about the cleaning frequency recommended by the experts? The Tip Hero website has done some research ...\n\n\nSalesmen from Rigby & Peller, a UK lingerie store, met the Huffington Post. In the field of bras for 75 years, these guys know a lot about it!\n\nThe director of one of the chain's stores in New York, Candece Etafo, gave a lot of information about the frequency and the cleanling of this garment that we wear almost every day.\n\nSo, the store recommends washing your clothes after three uses and alternating models at least three times in between ... How many of you sincerely wash their bras as frequently?\n\n\"You stretch them. Would you do that to your favorite pair of shoes? Your favorite jeans? No\", she explained.\n\n\nNow that you know how often to wash them, here is how to maintain them.\n\nEven if there are several \"laundry detergents\", no need to pay a fortune.\n\nThe Racked website reports that the best way is to wash them by hand. You dilute some ordinary detergent in cold water and gently wash your bras. Once clean, simply hang them to dry.\n\nFor the laziest, just insert them into a mesh lingerie bag and put it into the washing machine, but set the cycle for delicate clothing.\n\nThe washing process of bra already seems a little less complex, isn't it?\n\nSource: · Photo Credit: Fotolia\n\nOur most popular ...", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5315971374511719}
+{"content": "Studying a Language at University\n\nStudying a Language at University\n\nPosted in Courses, Student Experiences on Apr 28, 2021 by\n\nUniversity Finder\n\nStudying a language (at any level) is something that requires a fair bit of skill, and not to mention a whole heap of dedication. If you are contemplating continuing your language learning at university level, you are bound to have a few questions. Read below for a few tips from an English Literature and German graduate on how to make the most of your language skills at degree level.\n\nBefore starting my joint-honors degree, I wondered how big the “jump” would be between my A Levels and 1st year. Every open day, I would quiz fellow students about everything to do with their language degree. How was their year abroad? What did they struggle with most? How intense are the language classes? How confident were they in their language fluency?\n\nOf course, learning a language is very subjective. You may be great at discussing political unrest in your second language, but you might struggle with reading a classic cookie recipe! This is something that is super important to bear in mind before your first language seminar. It can be intimidating to resume speaking a language that you (probably) haven’t been rigorously practicing over summer - particularly when you have to start speaking in front of a whole new class of people. Some people in your classes may be better than you, and some may struggle more than you. But as any good language learner knows - the most important aspect when speaking a language is confidence. You may not have the widest vocabulary or the best grasp of complex grammatical structures, but if you sound confident when speaking what you do know, your speaking skills will soon become your biggest asset.\n\nNow maybe you too share the concern over how big the “jump” is between A-Levels and your first year?\n\nFrom my perspective, this jump is far more manageable than the jump between GCSE and A-Level. This is not to say it is easy, but rather it is more manageable. The main focus in first year is usually to get a better understanding of the culture, and ensure everyone is on the same base level. This means you will likely have a lot of grammar to go over, and there will be a lot of reading to make your way through.\n\nOne nice difference is the ability to choose your own modules aside from the core language content. Everyone will have compulsory language modules, to ensure your speaking, grammar, reading and writing are improving. Aside from these though, you will be able to select other language based modules, which are usually culture based. This could be anything from studying the works of Kafka to exploring the turning points in German history. It is worth exploring the optional modules at all of the universities you are considering, as some will have more variety than others.\n\nThe main difference between A Level and university is that you are expected to do a lot of the learning on your own. The workload is large, and you will only have around 4 contact hours per week for the core language side of things. You will need to dedicate a large chunk of your time to revising and constantly being involved with your language. Think of it as a baby always crying out for attention. Try to incorporate it into all aspects of your life. Listening to a podcast, watching a film, writing your shopping list - all of these simple everyday activities can be turned into language learning opportunities by simply switching the language. Instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix in English, why not watch the first half in your second language? Try writing a few lines in your journal in your second language before switching back into English. There are lots of small ways to keep the work up outside of class, and it will go a long way in helping to improve your language skills.\n\nFinally, think about why you want to study a language. For me, the idea of making it to A Level and not being 100% fluent in the language I had dedicated so many years to didn’t sit well with me. Perhaps you want to travel around South America and would love to feel confident in your Spanish skills. Or maybe you have a particular career in mind that involves languages.\n\nWhatever your reasons may be, learning a language will never be something you regret.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.5922144651412964}
+{"content": "Inspired by the octagon silhouette, the Okta Collection imbues refined elegance with ornate details. From architecturally clean lines and sharp angles to diamond-studded patterns, the collection gathers together a variety of streamlined and modern pieces, including bracelets, rings and earrings.\n\nAs timeless and sophisticated as the geometric shape they evoke, each of these pieces stands on its own to make a unique style statement, alternating telltale shapes, simplified compositions and a minimalist aesthetic.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9982661008834839}
+{"content": "There Is a Mid-Winter Festival Hidden in Plain Sight\n\n\n\n\nCandlemas—now my favorite neglected holiday.\n\nFrom Happiness Pony #34, January 31, 2014.\n\nTranscranial Direct Current Stimulation\n\nMuch like Boris Karloff in the classic Frankenstein movie, I’ve attached electrodes to myself. One is on my left eyebrow, the other high on my right forehead. When I flip the switch, I see a flash of light, and a thousandth of an ampere of current surges through my head. The electrodes burn slightly. Some other practitioners of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation report increased focus, greater creativity, or relief from severe depression. I just feel weird. It reminds me of my first earthquake. An earthquake is not quite like having your body shake, or your chair shake, or your house shake. The world shakes. The world, a fixed frame of reference you’d always taken for granted, becomes unfixed. A milliamp through the brain is nowhere near as earth-shaking, but it’s just as weird. You know that feeling you have when an electric shock isn’t being applied to your brain? That feeling goes away, and with it one more assumption about the way life works.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9597861766815186}
+{"content": "Sitting Meditation\n\n\n\nWhen we start practicing meditation, we should practice in all postures in all our daily activities. Such as when we walk, stand, sit or lie down. This is called practicing meditation in the four postures.\n\nTherefore, sitting meditation is not the only technique that we will practice. However when we start our meditation practice, it is desirable that we set a routine of having a sitting meditation session in the morning and in the evening, even if these sessions may last only 15 minutes at the beginning.\n\nImplements for sitting meditation\n\nA meditation cushion is a useful implement that helps us maintain a good sitting posture. We need to choose the right cushion as later on, we will need to be able to sit for an hour or one and a half hours without experiencing sore legs. The cushion should help us achieve a comfortable posture. In particular, our thighs should not be pressed too hard against the cushion thus preventing good blood circulation.\n\nA good meditation cushion should suit the person’s morphology. Someone with long legs should use a higher cushion. The height of the cushion should be such that our knees touch the floor when we sit at the edge of the cushion. It is desirable to use a small cushion or a folded towel as hand rest.\n\nThe purpose of the meditation cushion is the keep our back straight, while spreading the weight of the body over a triangle formed by the base of our spine and our two knees. The aim is to achieve a stable sitting posture so that when we have purged our mind of all thoughts and entered samādhi, we need not be concerned with keeping our body and spine straight. This is achieved by us having already a straight posture at the beginning of the sitting meditation session which would be continued when we enter samādhi.\n\nA sitting meditation mat is a small square mat that we sit on. If the floor of room where we practice is covered by carpet, we would not need a sitting mat; however we would need one if the floor is covered in timber or tiles. If we don’t have a sitting mat, we can use a folded towel instead.\n\nSitting meditation posture\n\nThe sitting meditation posture is as follows:\n\n  • our two knees touch the floor, and if they don’t we need to have something to put between them and the floor;\n  • our spine is straight, we can check by mentally checking that our ears are above our shoulders;\n  • our head is straight, we can check by mentally checking that the tip of our nose is aligned with our navel;\n  • our two arms drop naturally alongside the body;\n  • one hand is placed on top of the other, the two thumbs are touching, we may use a small cushion to support the hands;\n  • we have our gaze pointed down to a spot about two to three hand-spans in front of us, and not pointed straight ahead; and\n  • we sit relaxed and comfortable.\n\nThe sitting posture that we can see in the statues of Buddha is called the full-lotus position. This posture is difficult to achieve but it is the best because it keeps our body stable, as our legs are locked together, and therefore we do not risk having the body unsteady when we enter samādhi.\n\nA more common posture is the half-lotus position. It consists of having one leg over the other. If we experience sore legs when we sit in the half-lotus position for a while, we may use what is called the Burman-style half-lotus position where one leg is placed in front of the other, thus alleviating the soreness caused by having one leg pressed onto the other.\n\nThose who have knee or leg problems that prevent them from sitting comfortably on the floor can sit on a chair instead. When you sit on a chair, you also need to have your back straight, your head straight, your two feet lying on the ground, and your arms, hands and gaze positioned as in the normal sitting meditation posture. You need to choose a chair’s height so that your thigh and lower leg form a square angle. The important thing is that you should not sit with your back slumped or press your back against the backrest, but should sit with your back straight. In this way, when you have stopped wandering thoughts, you will experience beneficial physiological effects on the body and on psychosomatic illnesses.\n\nA correct sitting posture is important because it helps us enter samādhi more easily, by helping us control our mind more easily. In contrast, if we use a too large cushion that presses too hard against the thighs, we will experience sore legs very quickly. Or if we don’t sit with our head straight, we will experience neck or back soreness when we sit for a length of time. If the cushion is too high or too hard, or if we sit with our spine too taut, we will experience a sore back after a half-hour sitting. If we sit with our back slumped, we will tend to feel sleepy or have difficulty breathing. In all of these situations, our mind will focus on the area of pain and will not experience serenity.\n\nWhen we practice correctly and have stopped wandering thoughts, i.e. we are experiencing samādhi, we will experience a physiological effect that pulls our back up straight. Conversely, if our back is already straight, it will make it easier for us to enter samādhi.\n\nPractice steps\n\nWhen we practice sitting meditation, we should wear ample and comfortable pants and should not wear hard materials such as jeans or tight pants. Also, we should avoid having a heavy stomach as this will not produce good results. Lastly we should avoid windy locations.\n\nWhen we practice and experience sore legs, we should stretch and massage our legs before resuming our posture and our meditation. We should not endure the pain, as this will only trigger the sympathetic nervous system resulting in us sweating or feeling dizzy.\n\nWhen we start practicing, we may sit in front of a mirror to check our posture, but it is not advisable to sit in meditation in front of a mirror.\n\nThe wordless awareness mind\n\nThe essence of meditation is maintaining awareness. Awareness is the state of mind that recognizes clearly what is happening in the external world and inside the body. For example, when there is warmth in the body, we are aware that there is warmth in the body. When there is a sound, we are aware that there is a sound. But once awareness has occurred, it stops there, without any further thoughts. This is the awareness of the wordless awareness mind.\n\nThere are several levels of awareness achieved through the wordless awareness mind:\n\n  • the first level is wordless awareness.\n  • the second level is a longer and steadier flow of wordless awareness. It is called silent awareness, which is awareness without any inner words arising.\n  • the third level is called awakening awareness. It is a clear and complete awareness of what is happening without any attachment. This awareness comes from the wordless awareness mind and not the consciousness.\n  • the fourth level is called wordless cognitive awareness\n\nIn reality, awareness has no boundaries, no divisions. It consists of states of mind that evolve continuously. When we practice, once our wordless awareness becomes steady and longer lasting, we enter silent awareness. As this silent awareness, without any inner talk and inner dialogue, becomes even more stable and strong, it gains a clear and complete quality and becomes awakening awareness. When the awareness experiences are repeated, committed to memory and become part of our cognition, we have a steady flow of wordless cognitive awareness, clear, complete and without any attachment. The various states of awareness are a process by which the wordless awareness mind becomes steadier, stronger, clearer and deeper.\n\nObstacles when practicing sitting meditation\n\nThe obstacles we face when practicing sitting meditation are all related to not being able to maintain awareness.\n\nOne obstacle that beginners face is falling into a state of torpor. The practitioner would feel sluggish, dreamy. His/her body would slump, requiring occasionally to be jerked back into position. The meditator may even feel sleepy and drowsy. There are several ways to alleviate this problem. The first is to maintain awareness; this may involve using inner talk repeatedly if we are still at the stage of using inner talk. If we have a clear awareness, we will not fall into torpor. The second technique is to maintain a correct sitting posture, in particular by ensuring that our head and back are straight. This will help us maintain alertness and avoid torpor. We may fall into sleepiness if our head is bent down when we have stopped wandering thoughts. The third technique, if the others fail, is to temporarily stop the sitting meditation session, do some walking meditation, and then resume the sitting meditation.\n\nAnother obstacle is having the mind falling into blankness or nothingness. This is the situation where our awareness is hazy. We don’t know what we are doing and at the end of the session, we couldn’t tell how the session was. This problem also comes from not maintaining awareness.\n\nIf we have managed to eliminate all thoughts and achieve a still mind but do not experience any spiritual insights, we may experience what is called deluded samādhi. This is also due to not maintaining awareness. When we maintain awareness, we activate our wordless awareness mind and, as a result, spiritual insights come forth. The deluded samādhi problem arises when we have stopped thoughts but do not maintain awareness, thus not activating the wordless awareness mind.\n\nAnother problem that meditators may encounter is the occurrence of psychosomatic illnesses, or becoming irritable, difficult, overly engaged and judgmental while not experiencing spiritual insights. Some people have mistakenly called these problems “being possessed by demons”. However, they are a consequence of incorrect practice. They are the consequence of exerting effort, of applying intention and concentration, which activate the verbal areas of the mind and the sympathetic nervous system. This, in turn, causes the release of a number of biochemicals that have harmful effects on the body and cause the mind to become agitated, resulting in psychosomatic illnesses.\n\nWhen we practice correctly, we experience physiological effects such as the secretion of saliva and a feeling of warmth in the body, but we may also experience other bio-actions such as a feeling of lightness in the body, or a loss of feeling in the arms and feet. This may be caused by the shutting down of sensory pathways when we are in deep samādhi, but may also be simply the fruit of our imagination.\n\nComing out of meditation\n\nWhen we have sat in meditation for a period of time, for example for one hour, our limbs have become accustomed to immobility. When we end our meditation session, we need to allow our blood circulation to slowly come back to normal by first making slow and small movements, and progressively making more pronounced movements.\n\nThe practical steps for coming out of meditation are:\n\n  • Move the two hands, wiggle the wrists, rub the two hands together and gently rub the eyes with the hands. Repeat about three times.\n  • Then open the eyes.\n  • Gently rub the face, forehead and head with the palm of the hands. Use the fingers to gently massage the head in order to improve blood flow. Rub the neck with the hands.\n  • Rub each arm with the other hand.\n  • The legs probably feel numb. Slowly unfold each of them in turn and massage them.\n  • If the back feels tired, massage the lower back and use the closed fists to gently pound the upper back.\n  • Then get up slowly. You may continue with some walking meditation.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.814479410648346}
+{"content": "From 2012.igem.org\n\nRevision as of 15:32, 25 September 2012 by Lbwang (Talk | contribs)\n\n\nThe main circuit is designed to detect the presence of fatty acid in the intestinal environment and produce the peptide drug (GLP-1 in this case) and cell penetrating peptide (CPP) as response. There are two core systems: double repressors and quorum sensing.\n\n\n\nDouble Repressors\n\nThe double repressor system consists of the genes encoded Tet Repressor Protein (tetR) and lac reprresor (lacI). We put tetR downstream of fad promoter (Pfad) and lacI downstream of tet promoter (Ptet). The DNA sequence encoded GLP-1 and CPP are placed downstream of lac promoter (Plac).\n\n\nIn the absence of fatty acid, a constitutive expressed fatty acid metabolism regulator protein FadR binds to Pfad, which represses the transcription of tetR and makes Ptet free of TetR. Therefore LacI is expressed, binds to Plac and blocks the production of GLP-1 and CPP. After intake of a fat-rich meal, the fatty acid biosensor FadR is inhibited by the fatty acyl-CoA, which leads to the expression of TetR. The repression of the transcription of lacI by TetR frees the Plac from LacI and leads the final production of GLP-1 and CPP. When there is lactose in the intestinal environment (after drinking milk), the lactose can halt the repression of Plac directly by binding to LacI. GLP-1 and CPP can also be produced in this case.\n\nQuorum Sensing\n\nIn order to amplify the response and to recruit other bacteria to work together when there are only a few of bacteria sense the fatty acid, a quorum sensing system is also included in our circuit. We place luxI downstream of Pfad and another tetR downstream of lux promoter (Plux). At the same time, the expression of LuxR is constantly driven by a constitutive promoter. When a single bacterium detects the fatty acid, LuxI is expressed and it catalyzes the synthesis of N-Acyl homoserine lactone (AHL). AHL activates the LuxR and binds to Plux, results in extra expression of TetR and amplifies the production of GLP-1 and CPP. AHL can be released into the environment and other bacteria that uptake the AHL can be recruited and start producing GLP-1 and CPP as well.\n\n\nAppetite Regulating Hormone\n\nObesity has been regarded as chronic disease recent decades. It is reported that obese people are in a higher risk of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension. Nowadays, there are 1 billion people encountering over-weight problem, and 30 million people are diagnosed of obesity. Modern dietary pattern has been considered the major cause contributing to the phenomena.[12]\n\nIncretins are a group of gastrointestinal hormones secreted by endocrine cells in small intestine that mainly work to increase insulin levels. Among all the incretins, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is one of the most widely used appetite inhibiting hormone for treating obese patients [1]. In normal physiological condition GLP-1 is secreted by intestinal L cells after a meal, promoting insulin release and inhibit energy intake [2]. The effect on feeding is signaling through G-protein coupled receptor in solitary tract and brainstem [3]. Beside appetite regulating effect, GLP-1 is also well known for its insulinotropic effect, which is useful for treating type II diabetes[14].\n\n[[File:NTU-Taida-Circuit-GLP-multi-functions.png|500px|thumb|center|GLP-1 is an incretin that has multiple function, including appetite regulation.[[#Ref10|10]]]]\n\nWe want to generate a device which is not only helps people annoyed by obese problem, but also potentially effective for treating patients with type II diabetes. The half-life of GLP-1 in plasma is pretty short (5 minutes) because of the degradation by DPP-4 peptidase in serum[13], which is one of the reasons why we are thinking about using supplementary GLP-1 to treat obese patients. In addition, previous study has shown that patients with type II diabetes can be treated with delivery of GLP-1 plasmid construct into hepatic cells[4]. Therefore, by applying the similar philosophy to our bacterial device, we are looking forward to building a device that secret GLP-1 into intestinal lumen when the host is replete.\n\nFatty Acid Biosensor\n\nin order to regulate the release of GLP-1, we decide to use a fatty acid biosensor which will switch on when the intestinal environment is filled with fatty nutrient. Our team chose fatty acid as a sensor of metabolic states for two main reasons. First, fatty acid is considered as the major cause to obesity because of their highly calorigenic effect. Second, GLP-1 level increases once the blood glucose concentration rises, but there is no significant GLP-1 secretion when the free fatty acid concentration increases in blood stream [[#Ref15|15]]. Therefore, we hope to compensate this weakness in the appetite regulating mechanisms. By designing the device that secrets GLP-1 on sensing fatty acid around, we aim to make a dietary bacteria.\n\n[[File:NTU-Taida-Circuit-GLP-time-reponse.png|500px|thumb|center|The difference of physiological GLP-1 response between carbohydrate meal and fat meal.[[#Ref15|[[[15]]]]]]]\n\nThermal Promoter\n\nPhs thermal promoter (toxin, anti-toxin)\n\nE. coli is pretty sensitive and responsive to temperature changes. We brought promoter Phs, located within dnaG, and transient induced to temperature upshift, to our circuit. As described by Wayne E. Talyor et al., Phs can forward upregulation of a series of proteins. The increase activity of Phs promoter is partially compatible with the increase synthesis of sigma factor. The quick respsonse of Phs is suitable since its the sigma factor synthesis peaks 10 minutes after the temperature upshift, and so does Phs RNA levels. The increase ratio before and after the temperature can be more than 20 folds. On particular note, Phs is lack of consensus region over -10 region, which explains its poor activity in 30 Celsuius degree. Thus, Phs is marked as a candidate in our circuit, which can only be functional after ingestion into human body.\n\nWe incorporate toxin and anti-toxin into our circuit, as a sensitive device to the environment. Holin, a membrane bound protein, can form complex with each other and trigger the disruption of the membrane. Anti-holin, which is bound to inner membrane, can bind and inactivate Holin. We put Holin under lac repressor control, and when temperature raises, the synthesis of Holin is repressed by LacI, and anti-Holin synthesis also add on to circumvent the lysis of the bacteria. However, when the temperature goes down, the synthesis Holin would not be suppressed, and thus poise for the cellular lysis. This design can make sure that our E. coli would not spread and grow outside of human body.\n\n\nModified promoter cI with CIts\n\nThis circuit involves a thermosensitive cI promoter under the expression of a strong promoter, J23119, and is followed by a CI promoter (PcI) region and reporter of desire. The whole composite circuit is designed by Harvard iGEM team, 2008. Under conditions demonstrated before, its increase of reporter expression after temperature upshift is minimal (1.8 fold). And thus, we design novel cI promoter region with alterer binding affinity to CIts repressor in search of better efficiency. The circuit aims to provide stable and sustainable GLP-1 synthesis inside human body, that is, the bacteria showed no ability to secret GLP-1 outside of human body under room temperature, under which the PcI is suppressed by CIts.\n\n\nStability and Safety\n\nEvery GM system that will function outside lab will face two major problems:system stability and safety! Without selective pressure ,we have to deal with plasmid instability ; to make our coli colonized bowel we have to use recA+ strains which may cause plasmid multimer. Our GM coli will also contact with many kinds of bacteria at the risk of horizontal gene transfer.\n\nThe following segment is our struggle against these obstacles.\n\nStability of Delivery System\n\n\nAs our system will function outside the labrotory and human gut lack for antibiotic selection pressure, the vector stability is the critical point that determine whether our system is applicable or not. Inspired by natural plasmid & mobile gene element, we cope up with vector instability by incorporating partition system, Multimer resolution system and toxin antitoxin system these modules into our design.\n\n\nSources of plasmid instability:\n\n  1. Segregational instability\n\n    Plasmids are unevenly distributed inside bacterium, after cell division, some progeny might loss plasmid.\n\n  2. Burden Effect\n\n    The plasmid free cells sure will grow better than those bearing plasmids because they don't have to spend energy/resources on our pepdEX system, so this growth rate difference will finally eliminate plasmid-bearing bacteria in population\n\n  3. Dimer Catastrophe\n\n    Homologues recombination may cause plasmid multimers which will increases segregational instability and burden, this is the reason why most lab coli are recA1 mutants. But so that our coli must able to colonize gut, it should be recA+ wild type strain. That's the problem!\n\n\nStabilization Modules\n\n1. Multimer Resolution System:Tn1000(gamma delta) resolution system\n\nstructure of MRS\nTo deal with multimerization, we clone an cassette which encodes an autoregulated resolvase(serine type recombinase)from E.coli F plasmid transposon tn1000(tn3 family). Its promoter region consists of 3 sub-sites(res site) and can process recombination. This cassette can resolve multimer that formed during replicative transposition, so it can also resolve plasmid multimer providing plasmid stability by avoiding dimer catastrophe. For this reason, it is multimer resolution system(MRS) that provide analogous function as E.coli chromosome XerCD/dif but acts independent of cell cycle, DNA localization and may have higher efficiency on plasmids compared with slow XerCD system.\n\n2. Partition System:from Pseudomonas putidaKT2440\n\nJust like many low copy plasmid, bacterial chromosome distribute chromosome evenly to their progeny by certain dynamic system. These systems include SMC like proteins, type Ia partition system and so on. Type Ia partition system segregate chromosome/plasmid in a process akin to Eukaryotic mitosis,it can be found on most eubacteria but E.coli is not the case.\nPrevious study have shown that when provide parAB of P.putida in trans, the low copy plasmid(mini F)carrying conserved parS site can be stabilized in E.coli.(Anne-Marie etl. 2002)pSB2K3 is mini F plasmid thus can be stabilized by this way too, we make a new version of pSB2K3 with parS site. This plasmid that have lower gene dosage(copy number)and can be partitioned is an ideal vector to harbor our pepdEX system.\n\n3. Post-Segregation Killing:srnBC toxin-antitoxin system\n\nNo matter how well partition system and multimer resolution system work, inevitably there still will have some bacteria losing plasmid. We sentence them to death to solve the problem.\nNTU-Taida-TAgrenade.png Work hard or Die hard!!!\nType I toxin-antitoxin srnBC is an ideal executor which belongs to hok/sok homologues, it expresses stable toxin encoded RNA and short lived antitoxin RNA that can neutralize toxin RNA by RNA interaction and RNase III cleavage. It acts as post segregation killing system, which kills bacteria when it loss the DNA(genomic islands, plasmids, mobile gene elements) that contains it. Therefore we use it to reduce plasmid loss rate and make applications without antibiotic selection more feasible.\n\n4. Reduce Burden Effect\n\nBesides these modules, reducing the burden effect is also important to the system stability. Well designed system and lower gene dosage may help.\nHigh level gene expression and gene dosage cause burden effect. If having the same outcome, low copy plasmid is preferred to high copy ones. If having the same outcome and not for regulatory purpose, stabilizing mRNA is preferred to overexpression it. Place yourselves in E.coli's position, reduce its metabolic burden as much as possible then it can work for you.\n\nModeling and Application\n\nHow to model plasmid instability:\n\nWe use Cooper's model (Cooper, N.S., M.E. Brown, and C.A. Caulcott, A ) to model plasmid instability, and set a protocol to suggest users which modules can be used to prove their system stability. Click upper button \"modeling\" for detail or press following link.\n\nNTU-Taida-Negative du.jpg\n\nSafety of Delivery System\n\nMany turn off strategies have been developed, most of these are the inducible suicide system that can be activated at certain condition. For instance, in our project, we plan to use temperature and small molecule as activating signals( following picture). When the course of treatment ends, administration of small amount of tetracycline agonist will induce bacterial to commit suicide, leaving human body also cause suicide gene activation thereby avoid recombinant strain/gene polluting. And splitting suicide system to provide repression in trans can prevent plasmid transfering to wild type strains. There have been many off-the-rack parts can be used.\n\nnew idea about safety\ngeneral scheme of suicide system\n\nHowever, these design cannot totally eliminate the risk of horizontal gene transfer(HGT), which recombinant genes can move to other organisms independent of suicide system. So besides suicide system, we have a new idea to deal with these kinds of HGT risks by RNA interaction.\n\nAlthough bacteria lack for RNAi pathway, expressing well designed antisense RNAs have been shown to have inhibitory effect on target RNAs through competitive inhibition, and recent study showed that peptide nucleic acid (PNA) that antisense to antitoxin RNA 5' sequence can cause bacteria death. Putting appropriate antisense RNAs on untranslated region of transcripts may interfere target RNA function or translation. This property might be used to prevent HGT. For instance, HGT is more likely to occur between related species like lab E.coli & O157, laboratory E.coli have inactivated all its hok/sok toxin-antitoxin system by mutation, but wild bacteria especially pathogenic bacteria usually have more active TA locus on its chromosome like E.coli O157. we plan to put a stem loop from hok mRNA which can pair with sok RNA 5’sequence on UTR of antibiotic resistance genes we used in pepdEX system. IF wild bacteria steal our antibiotic resistance genes and express it, its antitoxin will be competitive inhibited and its toxin will express and kill the thief thus preventing HGT between lab & wild coli. This idea can have wide extension. Besides targeting antitoxin (functional RNA) of type I TA, designing antisense sequences that target RBS to down regulate targeted protein is also possible. Targeting antitoxin of type II TA, essential genes for metabolism, housekeeping genes and any sequences exist in potential HGT receivers but not our coli can be used. Even if the design cannot kill thieves, it can weaken receivers and reduce advantages antibiotic genes bring about thus reduce possibility and danger of HGT.\n\nIn the past the repression efficiencies of antisense RNA in bacteria are low, but after invention of the paired termini antisense RNA(PTasRNA) method and incorporate U turn/YUNR motif etc., this idea will become more and more feasible.\n\nnew idea about safety\nIs it possible to use RNA interaction to avoid HGT?\n\n\n  2. The gastrointestinal tract and the regulation of appetite.\n  4. Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Plasmid Construction and Delivery for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.\n  6. Unexpected Functional Diversity among FadR Fatty Acid Transcriptional Regulatory Proteins.\n  7. Oral biodrug delivery using cell-penetrating peptide\n  8. Efficiency of cell-penetrating peptides on the nasal and intestinal absorption of therapeutic peptides and proteins.\n  9. Cellular Uptake of Arginine-Rich Peptides: Roles for Macropinocytosis and Actin Rearrangement\n  10. Biology of Incretins: GLP-1 and GIP\n  12. Obesity and Overweight\n  13. Active glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1): Storage of human plasma and stability over time.\n  15. Attenuated GLP-1 secretion in obesity: cause or consequence?", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8429704904556274}
+{"content": "Year: 2021\n\n\nJUNO-Nominated Rapper,\n\nDerek Christoff, better known as D-Sisive, is a four-time Juno-nominated rapper. He was voted as Now Magazine’s “2012 Best Rapper in Toronto”, won the 2009 SOCAN Songwriting Prize, and was even nominated for a Much Music Video Award.\n\nThen he disappeared from the spotlight on account of mental health and addiction issues, and stopped making music completely. Cypher Season1 marked his return to music-making and the public eye, as he triumphantly reinvented himself as a songwriter, and mental health advocate. Now watch him soar to new heights in Season 2.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9845774173736572}
+{"content": "I want to calculate the total $\\rm{NO_2}$ amount in a year using satellite Sentinel-5p NO2 dataset. But the problem is sentinel satellite data stored in $\\rm\\frac{mol}{m^2}$ unit. But I have to compare it to lb or ton or any other unit to compare $\\rm{NO_2}$ amount with ground-level $\\rm{NO_2}$ measurement.\n\nExample: In our satellite dataset, we have tropospheric $\\rm{NO_2}$ column number density which unit is $\\rm\\frac{mol}{m^2}$. We want to calculate the total yearly $\\rm{NO_2}$ of California. So we have summed all the year data of California. Then we get a total yearly $\\rm{NO_2}$ 4200 $\\rm\\frac{mol}{m^2}$. I want to convert this to gram or ton or lb. For example, the total yearly $\\rm{NO_2}$ of California is 35000 ton.\n\nAlso, if I convert that $\\rm\\frac{mol}{m^2}$ to $\\rm\\frac{molec}{cm^2}$, is it then possible to convert it to total gram or ton?\n\nResearch: I have asked that question in here. After getting answers, I thought I have found the solutions. But after some more research, it turns out not easy. Because in satellite data what we get is tropospheric vertical column number density and convert them to total mass like total $\\rm{NO_2}$ in gram or ton is not straightforward. These forum posts (#1, #2, #3) also somewhat similar to mine, but I didn't get quite a solution to my problem.\n\nEDIT: I know that we can easily multiply by area in $\\rm m^2$ to cancel out $\\rm m^2$ in the unit and multiple by $\\rm{NO_2}$ molar mass, but this is not a ground-based problem. We are talking about satellite imagery dataset especially tropospheric vertical column density. #1, #2, #3 These posts shows why it is different for converting satellite imagery units to ground-based units.\n\n  • $\\begingroup$ Your question reduces to relative easy unit conversions/multiplications, but I am not sure, if I detailed enough well. If something is not clear, feel free to ask it and I will improve my answer. $\\endgroup$ – peterh Mar 12 '20 at 15:35\n  • 1\n    $\\begingroup$ \"So we have summed all the year data of California\": Not sure if you can do that. NO$_2$ might have a longer (or shorter) lifetime than the temporal resolution of your satellite data, so you might end up counting the same molecule multiple times (or missing some molecules). $\\endgroup$ – Jean-Marie Prival Mar 12 '20 at 15:49\n  • $\\begingroup$ @Jean-MariePrival What I did is use reduceRegion function of google earth engine to sum no2 of an entire year. I know this has a problem. But that is different. But I want to know how to convert my yearly total no2 (mol/m^2 ) to other units ( ton, gram, lb ) $\\endgroup$ – Niyamat Ullah Mar 12 '20 at 15:58\n  • $\\begingroup$ The question is utterly unclear. If you have a uniform mass/area number and want to know the mass, you multiply by the area. If the distribution is not uniform, you must integrate. If you are, by contrast, not sure what your numbers mean you should ask about that. $\\endgroup$ – Peter - Reinstate Monica Mar 12 '20 at 23:42\n  • 1\n    $\\begingroup$ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_density#Column_density This is relevant $\\endgroup$ – Gimelist Mar 13 '20 at 4:27\n\n$\\rm \\frac{mol}{m^2}$ shows the amount of $\\rm{NO_2}$ in the atmosphere over a square meter of surface area - in mols.\n\nThe molar mass of the $\\rm{NO_2}$ is $14+2\\cdot 16=46$. It means, the mass of 1 mol of $\\rm{NO_2}$ is $\\rm{46g}$.\n\nThe surface area of the Earth is 510million $\\rm{km^2}$. Thus, 1 $\\rm \\frac{mol}{m^2} \\rm{NO_2}$ translates to $\\rm{46 \\frac{g}{m^2} \\cdot 5.1 \\cdot 10^8 km^2}$, what means a total mass of $23.46\\cdot 10^9 \\rm t$ in the whole atmosphere.\n\nHere we assumed a constant distribution of the $\\rm {NO_2}$ in the atmosphere, which is typically not the case in earth science-related problems. Also your research question is about the visualization of a highly non-level distribution. Here you need to integrate (or, considering your digital evironment, sum).\n\n  • $\\begingroup$ Thanks! I have added an update. Would you please like to see! $\\endgroup$ – Niyamat Ullah Mar 12 '20 at 16:05\n\nYour Answer\n\n", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8466070890426636}
+{"content": "Article sponsored by\n\nSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University\n\nThere’s no shortage of scientific studies projecting a bleak future for the planet and her people, but none have led to real change. It’s clear we need better ways to envisage the futures we want.\n\nTake, for example, the current review of Australia’s federal environment law. Among its recommendations are that developers consider the effect of their project on “specified climate change scenarios” — essentially computer-generated models of the future. These models are important. But achieving a radically different tomorrow will require more than a purely technocratic approach.\n\n\nStorytelling can help in this task. In the following vignettes, we’ve imagined three possible futures for Australia. They involve different challenges, trade-offs and worldviews. We hope these stories stimulate new ways to consider the consequences of our current decisions and actions. So now, imagine you are in the year 2050 …\n\nBoy takes photo of burned landscape\nCan we imagine a future of childhood wonders lost? Shutterstock\n\n1. Basic needs\n\n\n\n\n\nNature considered “useful” is doing well. Brisbane’s restored mangroves are flourishing; the city no longer floods, even with sea-level rise. But there is little funding to protect wildlife, and iconic species such as mountain pygmy possums are extinct.\n\nFirefighter battles bushfire\n\n2. Wildlife rules\n\n\n\nYou welcome preservation of this iconic species. But the region’s traditional Dharug clans were not consulted in setting up the reserve. You wonder why they continue to be excluded from walking the Country of their ancestors.\n\nAustralia has a significant wildlife-conservation sector, supported by the military, which has created many “green” jobs. But society as a whole is disconnected from nature: most people now experience it via zoos and tree museums.\n\n\nA bleached reef\nUnder one scenario, the Great Barrier Reef has been decimated.\n\n3. Climate first\n\nYou munch breakfast from locally farmed oats. As you inject your carbon-neutral caffeine hit into an arm vein, you feel a wave of nostalgia for a good ‘ol long black in a mug.\n\n\nSwift parrot in a tree hollow\nIn one imagined version of the future, wind farms decimate swift parrot numbers. Markets for Change\n\nYour Unity BCI (Brain Computer Implant) receives drone footage from the alliance. It shows Australia’s red centre covered in solar farms, agricultural lands swamped by biofuel crops and South Australia’s Flinders Ranges dotted with nuclear reactors.\n\nThe clip closes with images of carbon-capturing radiata pines dominating vast landscapes of the Adani and Rocky Hill carbon sanctuaries. You wonder what it’s like inside — carbon sanctuaries are closed to all except the Carbon Rangers. Even Traditional Owners are excluded from the Country they sustained for millennia. Meanwhile, corporations benefit from green energy ventures while social inequality rises.\n\n\nRead more: Renewable energy can save the natural world – but if we’re not careful, it will also hurt it\n\nImagination is key\n\n\nTogether, the three scenarios raise questions such as whether:\n\n  • revolutionary economic interventions should be used to address social inequality\n\n\n\n\n\nWoman sits in cafe with laptop\n\n\nSo how might this apply to the review of Australia’s environment laws? Further reform should involve a range of groups coming together to discuss questions such as: what do we value? What do we want to change? What trade-offs are we willing to make? By collectively deploying our imaginations, we may create better futures for all.\n\nref. ‘You wake up with lab-engineered coffee’: how our imaginations can help decide Earth’s future –", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7661504149436951}
+{"content": "Streptococcal pharyngitis explained\n\nStreptococcal pharyngitis\nField:Infectious disease\nSynonyms:Streptococcal tonsillitis, streptococcal sore throat, strep\nSymptoms:Fever, sore throat, large lymph nodes\nOnset:1–3 days after exposure\nDuration:7–10 days\nCauses:Group A streptococcus\nRisks:Sharing drinks or eating utensils[1]\nDiagnosis:Throat culture, strep test\nDifferential:Epiglottitis, infectious mononucleosis, Ludwig's angina, peritonsillar abscess, retropharyngeal abscess, viral pharyngitis\nPrevention:Handwashing, covering coughs\nTreatment:Paracetamol (acetaminophen), NSAIDs, antibiotics\nFrequency:5 to 40% of sore throats\n\nStreptococcal pharyngitis, also known as strep throat, is an infection of the back of the throat including the tonsils caused by group A streptococcus (GAS).[2] Common symptoms include fever, sore throat, red tonsils, and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck.[2] A headache, and nausea or vomiting may also occur.[2] Some develop a sandpaper-like rash which is known as scarlet fever. Symptoms typically begin one to three days after exposure and last seven to ten days.[3]\n\nStrep throat is spread by respiratory droplets from an infected person.[2] It may be spread directly or by touching something that has droplets on it and then touching the mouth, nose, or eyes.[2] Some people may carry the bacteria without symptoms.[2] It may also be spread by skin infected with group A strep.[2] The diagnosis is made based on the results of a rapid antigen detection test or throat culture in those who have symptoms.\n\nPrevention is by washing hands and not sharing eating utensils.[2] There is no vaccine for the disease.[2] Treatment with antibiotics is only recommended in those with a confirmed diagnosis.[4] Those infected should stay away from other people for at least 24 hours after starting treatment.[2] Pain can be treated with paracetamol (acetaminophen) and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen.[5]\n\nStrep throat is a common bacterial infection in children.[6] It is the cause of 15–40% of sore throats among children[7] and 5–15% among adults.[8] Cases are more common in late winter and early spring.[9] Potential complications include rheumatic fever and peritonsillar abscess.[2] [6]\n\nSigns and symptoms\n\nThe typical signs and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis are a sore throat, fever of greater than 38C, tonsillar exudates (pus on the tonsils), and large cervical lymph nodes.[9]\n\nOther symptoms include: headache, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain,[10] muscle pain, or a scarlatiniform rash or palatal petechiae, the latter being an uncommon but highly specific finding.[9]\n\nSymptoms typically begin one to three days after exposure and last seven to ten days.[3] [9]\n\n\n\nStrep throat is caused by group A β-hemolytic Streptococcus (GAS or S. pyogenes).[11] Other bacteria such as non–group A β-hemolytic streptococci and fusobacterium may also cause pharyngitis.[9] It is spread by direct, close contact with an infected person; thus crowding, as may be found in the military and schools, increases the rate of transmission.[12] [13] Dried bacteria in dust are not infectious, although moist bacteria on toothbrushes or similar items can persist for up to fifteen days.[12] Contaminated food can result in outbreaks, but this is rare.[12] Of children with no signs or symptoms, 12% carry GAS in their pharynx,[7] and, after treatment, approximately 15% of those remain positive, and are true \"carriers\".[14]\n\n\nProbability of StrepManagement\n1 or fewer<10%No antibiotic or culture needed\n2 11–17%Antibiotic based on culture or RADT\n3 28–35%\n4 or 5 52%Empiric antibiotics\n\nA number of scoring systems exist to help with diagnosis; however, their use is controversial due to insufficient accuracy.[15] The modified Centor criteria are a set of five criteria; the total score indicates the probability of a streptococcal infection.[9]\n\nOne point is given for each of the criteria:[9]\n\nA score of one may indicate no treatment or culture is needed or it may indicate the need to perform further testing if other high risk factors exist, such as a family member having the disease.[9]\n\nThe Infectious Disease Society of America recommends against empirical treatment and considers antibiotics only appropriate when given after a positive test. Testing is not needed in children under three as both group A strep and rheumatic fever are rare, unless a child has a sibling with the disease.\n\nLaboratory testing\n\nA throat culture is the gold standard[16] for the diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis, with a sensitivity of 90–95%.[9] A rapid strep test (also called rapid antigen detection testing or RADT) may also be used. While the rapid strep test is quicker, it has a lower sensitivity (70%) and statistically equal specificity (98%) as a throat culture.[9] In areas of the world where rheumatic fever is uncommon, a negative rapid strep test is sufficient to rule out the disease.[17]\n\n\nDifferential diagnosis\n\nSee also: Acute pharyngitis. As the symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis overlap with other conditions, it can be difficult to make the diagnosis clinically.[9] Coughing, nasal discharge, diarrhea, and red, irritated eyes in addition to fever and sore throat are more indicative of a viral sore throat than of strep throat.[9] The presence of marked lymph node enlargement along with sore throat, fever, and tonsillar enlargement may also occur in infectious mononucleosis.[18] Other conditions that may present similarly include epiglottitis, Kawasaki disease, acute retroviral syndrome, Lemierre's syndrome, Ludwig's angina, peritonsillar abscess, and retropharyngeal abscess.[19]\n\n\nTonsillectomy may be a reasonable preventive measure in those with frequent throat infections (more than three a year).[20] However, the benefits are small and episodes typically lessen in time regardless of measures taken.[21] [22] [23] Recurrent episodes of pharyngitis which test positive for GAS may also represent a person who is a chronic carrier of GAS who is getting recurrent viral infections.[8] Treating people who have been exposed but who are without symptoms is not recommended.[8] Treating people who are carriers of GAS is not recommended as the risk of spread and complications is low.[8]\n\n\nUntreated streptococcal pharyngitis usually resolves within a few days.[9] Treatment with antibiotics shortens the duration of the acute illness by about 16 hours.[9] The primary reason for treatment with antibiotics is to reduce the risk of complications such as rheumatic fever and retropharyngeal abscesses.[9] Antibiotics prevent acute rheumatic fever if given within 9 days of the onset of symptoms.[11]\n\nPain medication\n\nPain medication such as NSAIDs and paracetamol (acetaminophen) helps in the management of pain associated with strep throat.[24] Viscous lidocaine may also be useful.[25] While steroids may help with the pain,[11] [26] they are not routinely recommended.[8] Aspirin may be used in adults but is not recommended in children due to the risk of Reye syndrome.[11]\n\n\nThe antibiotic of choice in the United States for streptococcal pharyngitis is penicillin V, due to safety, cost, and effectiveness.[9] Amoxicillin is preferred in Europe.[27] In India, where the risk of rheumatic fever is higher, intramuscular benzathine penicillin G is the first choice for treatment.[11]\n\nAppropriate antibiotics decrease the average 3–5 day duration of symptoms by about one day, and also reduce contagiousness. They are primarily prescribed to reduce rare complications such as rheumatic fever and peritonsillar abscess.[28] The arguments in favor of antibiotic treatment should be balanced by the consideration of possible side effects, and it is reasonable to suggest that no antimicrobial treatment be given to healthy adults who have adverse reactions to medication or those at low risk of complications.[29] Antibiotics are prescribed for strep throat at a higher rate than would be expected from how common it is.[30]\n\nErythromycin and other macrolides or clindamycin are recommended for people with severe penicillin allergies. First-generation cephalosporins may be used in those with less severe allergies and some evidence supports cephalosporins as superior to penicillin.[31] [32] These late-generation antibiotics show a similar effect when prescribed for 3-7 days in comparison to the standard 10-days of penicillin when used in areas of low rheumatic heart disease.[33] Streptococcal infections may also lead to acute glomerulonephritis; however, the incidence of this side effect is not reduced by the use of antibiotics.\n\n\nThe symptoms of strep throat usually improve within three to five days, irrespective of treatment.[34] Treatment with antibiotics reduces the risk of complications and transmission; children may return to school 24 hours after antibiotics are administered.[9] The risk of complications in adults is low.[8] In children, acute rheumatic fever is rare in most of the developed world. It is, however, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in India, sub-Saharan Africa and some parts of Australia.[8]\n\nComplications arising from streptococcal throat infections include:\n\n\n\nPharyngitis, the broader category into which Streptococcal pharyngitis falls, is diagnosed in 11 million people annually in the United States.[9] It is the cause of 15–40% of sore throats among children[7] [9] and 5–15% in adults.[8] Cases usually occur in late winter and early spring.[9]\n\nNotes and References\n\n  1. Web site: Strep throat - Symptoms and causes . Mayo Clinic . 24 January 2020 . en.\n  2. Web site: Is It Strep Throat?. CDC. 2 February 2016. October 19, 2015. live. 2 February 2016.\n  3. Book: Jr. [edited by] Allan H. Goroll, Albert G. Mulley. Primary care medicine : office evaluation and management of the adult patient. 2009. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Philadelphia. 9780781775137. 1408. 6th. live. 2016-09-15.\n  4. Harris. AM. Hicks. LA. Qaseem. A. Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Acute Respiratory Tract Infection in Adults: Advice for High-Value Care From the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. Annals of Internal Medicine. 19 January 2016. 26785402. 10.7326/M15-1840. 164. 6. 425–34. free.\n  5. Weber. R. Pharyngitis.. Primary Care. March 2014. 41. 1. 91–8. 24439883. 10.1016/j.pop.2013.10.010.\n  6. Book: Török. edited by David A. Warrell, Timothy M. Cox, John D. Firth; with guest ed. Estée. Oxford textbook of medicine infection. 2012. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 9780191631733. 280–281. live. 2016-10-10.\n  7. Shaikh N, Leonard E, Martin JM . Prevalence of streptococcal pharyngitis and streptococcal carriage in children: a meta-analysis . Pediatrics . 126 . 3 . e557–64 . September 2010 . 20696723 . 10.1542/peds.2009-2648 .\n  8. Shulman. ST. Bisno, AL . Clegg, HW . Gerber, MA . Kaplan, EL . Lee, G . Martin, JM . Van Beneden, C . 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+{"content": "People v. Carpenter (1999)\n\nAnnotate this Case\n[No. S006547. Nov 29, 1999.]\n\nTHE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID JOSEPH CARPENTER, Defendant and Appellant.\n\n(Superior Court of San Diego County, No. CR83684, Herbert B. Hoffman, Judge.)\n\n(Opinion by Chin, J., with George, C. J., Baxter, Werdegar, and Brown, JJ., concurring. Concurring opinion by Kennard, J. (see p. 1064). Dissenting opinion by Mosk, J. (see p. 1065).)\n\n\nFern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Kent Barkhurst and Charles J. Press, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.\n\nDaniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood, Laura Whitcomb Halgren and Steven T. Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.\n\n\n\nTwo juries have convicted defendant of being the \"Trailside Killer\" who, in 1980 and 1981, assaulted hikers on remote paths in Santa [21 Cal. 4th 1029] Cruz and Marin Counties, raped some, shot seven to death, and wounded an eighth. Both juries returned a verdict of death, and the courts imposed judgment accordingly.\n\nThe case we now review, tried in San Diego County following a change of venue, is the appeal from the second judgment of death. The jury found defendant guilty of these crimes in Marin County: the first degree murders of Cynthia Moreland, Richard Stowers, Anne Alderson, Diane O'Connell, and Shauna May, the rapes of Alderson and May, and the attempted rape of O'Connell. It found true special circumstance allegations of multiple murder and, as to Alderson, May, and O'Connell, rape murder. It also found that defendant personally used a firearm as to each crime. After a penalty trial, the jury returned a verdict of death, and the superior court imposed that sentence. Later, the same court granted defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus and vacated the judgment. We reversed that decision, thereby reinstating the death judgment. (In re Carpenter (1995) 9 Cal. 4th 634 [38 Cal. Rptr. 2d 665, 889 P.2d 985] (Carpenter I).) This appeal is automatic.\n\nPreviously, we affirmed defendant's first judgment of death, rendered in Los Angeles for his Santa Cruz County crimes. (People v. Carpenter (1997) 15 Cal. 4th 312 [63 Cal. Rptr. 2d 1, 935 P.2d 708] (Carpenter II).) We now affirm the second.\n\nI. Facts\n\nA. Guilt Phase\n\n1. Prosecution Evidence\n\nOn October 11, 1980, Cynthia Moreland and Richard Stowers were fatally shot in the head near a hiking trail in a heavily wooded area of Point Reyes National Seashore. Hikers heard gunshots in the area sometime around 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. that day. Moreland's and Stowers's bodies were discovered on November 29, 1980, lying facedown near each other.\n\nTwo days after the first shooting, on Columbus Day, October 13, 1980, Anne Alderson was fatally shot in the head from close range near a hiking trail on Mount Tamalpais. A caretaker of a nearby inn last saw her alive around 5:30 that evening. Her body was discovered two days later. It was clothed, but the vagina contained sperm, indicating she had had sexual intercourse around the time she died.\n\nOn November 28, 1980, Diane O'Connell and Shauna May were fatally shot in the head at Point Reyes National Seashore. Hikers heard shots in the [21 Cal. 4th 1030] area around 3:10 p.m. that day, followed by more shots about 10 minutes later. The next day, O'Connell's and May's nude bodies were discovered lying facedown side by side about 200 yards from the bodies of Moreland and Stowers. A pair of panties was in O'Connell's \"mouth and nose area,\" and a bloodstained second pair was by her arm. Physical evidence indicated O'Connell had also been strangled, probably while still alive, by something like a narrow piece of cord or wire. No sperm was found on her body. May's vagina and rectum contained sperm, indicating she had had sexual intercourse around the time she died. A vague ligature mark was found on May's left wrist.\n\nThe prosecution presented evidence of the March 29, 1981, murder of Ellen Hansen and attempted murder of Steven Haertle in the Santa Cruz Mountains. These crimes were the subject of defendant's earlier trial. In essence, a gunman confronted Haertle and Hansen on a hiking trail, said he wanted to rape Hansen, and then shot both, killing Hansen. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 345-346.) fn. 1 The prosecution linked defendant to the crimes of this case primarily by showing that defendant shot Hansen and Haertle, and that the same person committed both the Santa Cruz and the Marin County crimes. It presented much of the same evidence of identity as at the first trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 347-349.) We summarize that evidence.\n\nBallistics evidence established that a single gun, a .38-caliber Rossi revolver, was used in each of the killings. Documentary evidence showed that Mollie Purnell, defendant's friend, purchased that gun shortly before the first killing. Purnell testified she bought the gun for defendant and gave it to him at his request. Shane and Karen Williams, both bank robbers, testified that defendant gave them the gun on May 13, 1981, shortly before his arrest. Shane hid the gun in a vacant lot after defendant's arrest and later told the police where he hid it. The police found and seized the gun. Other witnesses also connected defendant to a similar-appearing gun. The Haertle/Hansen gunman was clean-shaven. Around the time of that shooting, defendant, who had been clean-shaven, started to grow a beard. Haertle and another witness identified defendant as the gunman at a physical lineup and at trial. Other witnesses could not identify anyone at the physical lineup (at which defendant was bearded) but did identify him in court. One witness identified a different person at a physical lineup but identified defendant in court. Two witnesses connected the gunman to a red Fiat similar to one defendant owned. Several witnesses said the gunman wore a gold jacket containing [21 Cal. 4th 1031] distinctive lettering like a jacket that defendant's girlfriend had brought from a bar in Montana and that defendant sometimes wore. Evidence showed that the day before the Haertle/Hansen shooting, defendant purchased a pair of Nike shoes with a size and pattern identical to shoeprints the gunman left behind. The jacket and the shoes were never found. Around early April 1981, defendant told his girlfriend the jacket had been stolen from his car. After defendant's arrest, a bag containing an unexpended .38-caliber bullet was found in another of his cars. A semen stain on Alderson's panties was of a type consistent with about 15 to 19 percent of the Caucasian population, including defendant.\n\n2. Defense Evidence\n\nAt the first trial, defendant did not contest his identity as the gunman. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 349 & fn. 2.) At the second trial he did.\n\nAn expert testified that a Nike shoe of defendant's size that the police purchased for comparison purposes could not have left the shoeprints at the Haertle/Hansen crime scene because the shoeprints had 28 ridges in one region, while the comparison shoe had 29 ridges. Defendant presented evidence questioning the ability of one witness to observe the gunman and his car, and impeaching the testimony of another who connected him to the murder weapon. Defendant presented an expert who claimed the serological analysis of the semen stain on Alderson's panties was unreliable. He presented evidence suggesting that the gunman wore a jacket different from the one from the bar in Montana, and that the .38-caliber bullet in the bag did not actually come from his car. He also presented several witnesses challenging Mollie Purnell's credibility.\n\nSeveral witnesses testified about seeing a man who could have been the Haertle/Hansen gunman. One witness testified that on the day of the shooting, she saw the man a few miles from the crime scene pumping gas into a car quite different from a red Fiat. Another witness testified that she saw the man the morning before the shooting; he did not look like defendant. Another witness testified she saw a man wearing a jacket like the gunman's shortly before 5:00 p.m. on March 19, 1981, near the scene of the shooting; he did not look like defendant. Two witnesses testified that they saw the man near the crime scene the day before the shooting. They described the man somewhat inconsistently with defendant's appearance. One said the man appeared unshaven, with one or two days' growth of beard on his face. In court, however, one of these witnesses said defendant looked similar to the man; the other positively identified him as the man.\n\nOne of defendant's employers testified that he was working with her at her business called Gems of the Golden West in San Francisco on October 13, [21 Cal. 4th 1032] 1980-the day Alderson was killed-until after 4:30 p.m., possibly until 5:30 to 6:00 p.m.\n\nDefendant testified on his own behalf, denying any involvement in these crimes. He said he knew Mollie Purnell but denied ever receiving the Rossi revolver from her. He admitted wearing the jacket his girlfriend had brought from Montana but denied telling her it had been stolen. He believed \"she lost it one night when she got drunk.\" He admitted purchasing the pair of Nike shoes the day before the Haertle/Hansen shooting. He also described in detail his activities during the relevant times. He said he saved receipts and other documents that could establish what he had been doing in case his parole officer ever asked.\n\nDefendant testified that on October 11, 1980-the day Moreland and Stowers were killed-he took his father shopping, then took his mother to a foot clinic. He produced some documents they received from the clinic that day. They left the foot clinic around 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. and did additional shopping, arriving home around 5:45 p.m. On October 13, 1980, he worked at Gems of the Golden West until 5:30 to 6:00 p.m., then went home. On the day May and O'Connell died, the day after Thanksgiving 1980, defendant was at his parent's house fixing a broken toilet. Defendant said he started growing his beard on March 24, 1981. He spent much of the day of the Haertle/Hansen shooting in Redwood City with four men, whose real names he could not remember, discussing defendant's idea for a business involving adult key chains. He went home that day around 3:00 p.m.\n\nBank records showed that defendant's father's credit card was used for a purchase at one of the places where he said he was shopping on October 11, 1980. The proprietor of the business estimated that the purchase might have occurred around 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.\n\n3. Rebuttal and Surrebuttal\n\nThe prosecution presented evidence that the number of ridges on Nike shoes of the type involved in this case varies slightly, even on shoes of the same size. Accordingly, although the shoes the police purchased for comparison purposes in this case could not have made the shoeprints found at the Haertle/Hansen crime scene, another pair of shoes of the same make and size might have.\n\nAn examiner of questioned documents testified that someone intentionally altered the date on two of the documents that defendant produced to show that he had been at the foot clinic the day Moreland and Stowers was killed, [21 Cal. 4th 1033] to read October 11, 1980. On both documents, the second numeral of the day of the month was changed. One of the changes was from \"0\" to \"1\"; the other was from an unknown numeral to \"1.\"\n\nOn surrebuttal, a podiatrist with the foot clinic testified that the clinic was usually open on Saturday mornings, but not on Fridays. October 10, 1980, was a Friday. However, by the end of 1980, the clinic did see patients on weekdays.\n\nB. Penalty Phase\n\n1. Prosecution Evidence\n\nThe prosecution presented much of the same evidence about defendant's numerous earlier crimes and convictions as it did in the previous trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 349-350.) As to one of the incidents, the prosecution proved only the convictions; it did not present evidence of the crimes themselves. It also presented evidence of an altercation on December 23, 1980, in which defendant pulled out a gun and threatened to kill the other person.\n\nThe prosecution also presented evidence of the rape and murder of Heather Scaggs, the other crimes that were the subject of the first trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 346-347.) Scaggs, defendant's coworker, was last seen alive on May 2, 1981, the morning she was scheduled to go to Santa Cruz with defendant. Hikers found her, dead of a gunshot wound to the head, on May 24, 1981, in a mountainous area of Santa Cruz County. Physical evidence indicated the victim had had sexual intercourse near the time of death. The same .38-caliber Rossi gun used in the other crimes was used in this one.\n\n2. Defense Evidence\n\nAs it did at the first trial, the defense presented considerable evidence in mitigation. (See Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 350.) It presented evidence defendant had an unhappy and abused childhood, he stuttered, he was a good employee, he behaved well in prison, and he was a loving father to his three children. Several experts testified on his behalf. Dr. Ernest Bryant, a neuropsychologist, opined that defendant has a \"mixed personality disorder with borderline narcissistic, and antisocial features.\" Dr. Craig Haney, another psychologist, testified that defendant's early institutionalization in juvenile facilities worsened his preexisting psychological problems, that various institutions diagnosed but failed adequately to treat his psychological problems, and that defendant became dependent on institutional structure and procedure for adequate psychological adjustment. [21 Cal. 4th 1034]\n\n3. Rebuttal\n\nThe prosecution presented testimony from defendant's first wife, one of his parole officers, a state rehabilitation counselor, and two experts who disagreed with some of the defense experts' opinions.\n\nII. Discussion\n\nA. Jury Selection Issues\n\n1. Failure to Provide the Jurors Adequate Compensation\n\n[1] Before trial, defendant challenged the jury selection process on certain grounds and requested an evidentiary hearing. Later, he withdrew the bulk of the challenge, reserving only his \"objection to the granting of hardship excuses for jurors based upon their inability to survive on a five dollar a day ... stipend for probably six months of jury service in this capital case.\" He argued that hardship excuses would inevitably \"deny him a representative cross-section of the community.\" The court stated it would grant an evidentiary hearing on the question if defendant wanted one, but defendant did not want one. Instead, defendant relied solely \"on a common sense and legal objection to hardships,\" arguing that the $5 per day stipend would inevitably \"discriminate against racial groups.\" Absent a supporting evidentiary showing, the court denied defendant's challenge. It also denied his request to \"state for the record the race, ethnic background, age, and sex of all persons excused for financial hardship in this case,\" observing that what is relevant is the \"entire jury pool,\" not the jurors selected for this trial.\n\nDefendant argues that the \"failure to provide adequate compensation to the jurors resulted in at least 124 prospective jurors being excused based on financial hardship and deprived [him] of his right to due process and to a fair and impartial jury drawn from a representative cross-section of the community under the state and federal constitutions.\" Our response to similar arguments in Carpenter II applies here. \" 'In order to establish underrepresentation, and thus denial of an impartial jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community, a defendant must make a prima facie showing: \"(1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a 'distinctive' group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in the venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this underrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury selection process.\" [Citation.]' [Citations.] [¶] As might be expected, many prospective jurors were excused for hardship .... We have already held that persons excused [21 Cal. 4th 1035] for hardship or persons of low income do not constitute a cognizable class, and that the court need not pay jurors more than the statutory amount. [Citations.] To the extent defendant argues to the contrary, the argument thus fails.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 351-352.)\n\nDefendant argues that the \"effect of offering such a small amount as a jury fee was to exclude the poor, as well as African-Americans and Hispanics.\" In Carpenter II, we were skeptical that any correlation between hardship excusals and cognizable classes such as race and sex \"would lead to a prima facie showing of a 'systematic exclusion' ....\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 352.) Defendant, however, has not even made that showing. He declined the court's offer of an evidentiary hearing. The court was correct that any correlation of this nature among the jurors actually called for this case would prove nothing that is legally significant. The relevant bodies are the \" ' \"venires from which juries are selected,\" ' \" not the specific group of jurors called in any given case. (Ibid.) Defendant has established no basis for relief.\n\n2. Excusing Certain Prospective Jurors Because of Their Views on the Death Penalty\n\n[2a] Defendant contends the court erroneously excused for cause three jurors because of their views on the death penalty. [3] \"A prospective juror may be excused for cause if that juror's views on the death penalty 'would \"prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.\" ' [Citations.] ... On review, if the juror's statements are equivocal or conflicting, the trial court's determination of the juror's state of mind is binding. If there is no inconsistency, we will uphold the court's ruling if it is supported by substantial evidence. [Citations.]\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 357.) A juror's bias need not \"be proven with unmistakable clarity. [Citations.] Rather, it is sufficient that the trial judge is left with the definite impression that a prospective juror would be unable to faithfully and impartially apply the law in the case before the juror.\" (People v. Rodrigues (1994) 8 Cal. 4th 1060, 1146-1147 [36 Cal. Rptr. 2d 235, 885 P.2d 1].) Under this standard, we uphold the court's rulings in this case.\n\n[2b] The first juror was an attorney who wrote on a questionnaire that he once toured San Quentin and saw the gas chamber, which he found \"revolting.\" He wrote, \"this would affect my decision-making in the second half of a bifurcated first degree murder trial.\" At voir dire the parties and court questioned him at length on his views. The court then excused him in a lengthy oral ruling. Among other things, the court noted that the prospective [21 Cal. 4th 1036] juror said he believed a life sentence is \"tougher\" than the death penalty, which \"is absolutely contrary to the California scheme of punishment\"; that the court was not sure whether \"he actually believes that or not ... because I believe that his attitude in response to the questions ... was extremely combative\"; and that often, \"rather than answer the questions directly, there was a deflection and an attempt for him to state what his views are.\" The court \"really got the impression that the man was using this forum as some sort of a soap box for his own personal views about the death penalty.\" Accordingly, the court found the prospective juror \"substantially impaired ... in making the choice of penalties.\" The record supports the court's ruling. The prospective juror gave lengthy, often nonresponsive, and sometimes inconsistent answers. Under the circumstances, an appellate court must defer to the findings of the trial judge, who was actually present and could observe the juror.\n\nThe second juror was equivocal in her answers. Several times she said she did not \"know\" whether she could vote for the death penalty. Other times she stated she could follow the law and indicated she could return either verdict. The third juror expressed the view that life without parole was the harsher of the two penalties. He also said he was \"predisposed\" towards life in prison, although he could vote for the death penalty. At times, the juror said he did not \"know\" if his views would impair his ability to consider the case; other times he indicated he could return either verdict. After questioning the juror twice, the court dismissed him. It noted that \"in viewing the demeanor of the juror, I found him to be acting under significant stress .... And it seems to me that he really has some deep-seated views with respect to capital penalty and certainly the two penalties involved.\" It found the juror \"would be substantially impaired in performing his duties.\" Again, under these circumstances, we must defer to the trial court's rulings.\n\nDefendant argues the trial court erred in considering the jurors' views that life without parole is the harsher punishment. These views, however, are part of the entire picture the court may consider. (People v. Millwee (1998) 18 Cal. 4th 96, 147 [74 Cal. Rptr. 2d 418, 954 P.2d 990].)\n\n3. Excusing Certain Prospective Jurors for Cause\n\n[4] Defendant contends the court erroneously excused two other jurors for cause. \" 'In general, the qualification[s] of jurors challenged for cause are \"matters within the wide discretion of the trial court, seldom disturbed on appeal.\" ' \" (People v. Holt (1997) 15 Cal. 4th 619, 655-656 [63 Cal. Rptr. 2d 782, 937 P.2d 213].)\n\nThe first juror indicated doubts that he could fairly judge the credibility of a witness who admitted to using drugs. The court and parties questioned him [21 Cal. 4th 1037] at length on two separate occasions. At times his answers seemed to be contradictory, which was one reason the court recalled him for additional questioning. Ultimately, however, the juror said that because of his past experiences, he did not know if he would react logically to evidence of drug usage. The court excused him, finding \"that his state of mind is such that if narcotics evidence is entered into the case, that that very well could prevent him from acting with entire impartiality and to the prejudice of the substantial rights of both parties ....\" The second juror described two negative experiences he had with the San Diego police and expressed concerns about how he would react to evidence of drug usage. After close questioning, the court excused the juror, finding the juror's views on the police \"troublesome\" and also finding he \"would be extremely biased against any witness called who has either used narcotics or, particularly, sold narcotics ....\"\n\nWe cannot say either ruling was an abuse of discretion. The question was close as to both jurors. Both gave some answers indicating they could be fair jurors, others indicating they might not. The judge, who was present and could observe them, could judge their credentials far better than an appellate court reading a cold record. Moreover, any error was harmless. \" '[T]he general rule [is] that an erroneous exclusion of a juror for cause provides no basis for overturning a judgment.' ... Defendant has a right to jurors who are qualified and competent, not to any particular juror.\" (People v. Holt, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 656.) The actual jurors of this case were qualified and competent.\n\nIn arguing that any error was reversible, defendant cites People v. Hamilton (1963) 60 Cal. 2d 105, 128 [32 Cal. Rptr. 4, 383 P.2d 412]. That case does not aid defendant. There, during the penalty trial, a sitting juror was erroneously excused in favor of an alternate after that juror had made statements indicating she favored the defense side. We found the error prejudicial. \"[I]f the record shows (as it does here), that, based on the evidence, that juror was inclined toward one side, the error in removing such a juror would be prejudicial to that side.\" (Ibid., italics added.) Removing during trial a selected juror who favored one side based on the evidence is far different from excusing one or two of many prospective jurors before the jury was selected and any evidence was presented. The rule of Holt applies here, not Hamilton. (People v. Holt, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 656.)\n\n4. Denying a Defense Challenge for Cause as to One Juror\n\n[5] Defendant contends the court erroneously denied his challenge for cause to one prospective juror who eventually sat on the jury. Our review of the record discloses no error, but even if we assume error, it would not be [21 Cal. 4th 1038] reversible. Defendant accepted the jury without exhausting his peremptory challenges. Defendant may not complain on appeal that the court failed to excuse the juror when he could have done so himself. (People v. Bolin (1998) 18 Cal. 4th 297, 314-316 [75 Cal. Rptr. 2d 412, 956 P.2d 374].)\n\nB. Pretrial Issues\n\n1. Alleged Impermissible Multiple Prosecutions\n\n[6] In Carpenter II, defendant argued that the two Santa Cruz County murders should have been tried separately. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 361-362.) Now he argues that all of the Marin County and Santa Cruz County crimes should have been tried together. He claims that trying him separately for the crimes committed in each county violated Penal Code section 654 and \"his rights to due process, and to a reliable penalty determination.\" Just as we disagreed that the Santa Cruz County crimes had to be tried piecemeal, so, too, do we disagree that all the crimes in both counties had to be tried together.\n\nAs pertinent, Penal Code section 654 provides that when an \"act or omission ... is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law,\" an \"acquittal or conviction and sentence under any one bars a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other.\" fn. 2 Defendant argues that this provision bars prosecution of the Marin County crimes after he was convicted of the Santa Cruz County crimes. He relies principally on Kellett v. Superior Court (1966) 63 Cal. 2d 822 [48 Cal. Rptr. 366, 409 P.2d 206]. In Kellett, the defendant was standing on a public sidewalk with a pistol in his hand. He was charged with and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of exhibiting a firearm in a threatening manner. We held that this conviction prohibited a later prosecution for the felony of possessing a concealable weapon by a felon arising out of the same facts. Kellett bears no similarity to this case. Whatever the scope of that decision, the murder of separate victims on separate days in separate counties is not a single act or even a \"course of conduct\" (id. at p. 827) requiring a single prosecution. (See generally, People v. Cuevas (1996) 51 Cal. App. 4th 620 [59 Cal. Rptr. 2d 146].)\n\nPenal Code section 790 generally places venue for a murder charge in the county (1) where the fatal injury was inflicted, (2) where the victim died, or (3) where the body was found. Santa Cruz County was the site of all three for the murders charged in that county, Marin County the site of all three for the murders charged in that county. Defendant waived his right to be tried in [21 Cal. 4th 1039] those counties when he successfully moved to change venue. But no authority permitted, and none compels, murders committed in different counties to be tried together. (See People v. Bradford (1976) 17 Cal. 3d 8, 13-17 [130 Cal. Rptr. 129, 549 P.2d 1225] [When criminal behavior began in one county and ended in another after a police chase, the crimes committed in each county were properly tried separately in that county.].) fn. 3\n\nBecause evidence of some of the crimes of the other county was presented in each trial, defendant contends the successive prosecution violated due process. It did not. (Ciucci v. Illinois (1958) 356 U.S. 571 [78 S. Ct. 839, 2 L. Ed. 2d 983]; People v. McLain (1988) 46 Cal. 3d 97, 121, fn. 6 [249 Cal. Rptr. 630, 757 P.2d 569].) We also disagree that trying both sets of crimes separately resulted in an unreliable penalty determination. fn. 4\n\n2. Evidence Allegedly Obtained in Violation of Defendant's Miranda Rights\n\n[7a] Defendant moved to suppress evidence he claimed was obtained in violation of his rights under Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436 [86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694, 10 A.L.R.3d 974]. On May 13, 1981, defendant's parents told the police that Dr. Stamper was the family optometrist. Sergeant Brook went to the doctor's office the same day and was told that defendant's mother was a patient but not defendant. Sergeant Brook testified at the suppression hearing that he was dissatisfied with the information he had received from the office and had decided to return to investigate further. He questioned defendant after his arrest on May 15, 1981, and asked further questions after defendant invoked his right to counsel. Defendant told him that he had ordered some glasses from Dr. Stamper. The next day, another officer went to the doctor's office and interviewed various employees, including Jacqueline Purcell.\n\nThe prosecution did not present evidence of defendant's statement, but Purcell testified at the guilt phase that on May 2, 1981, defendant came to the doctor's office to have his glasses repaired and to order a new pair of glasses with the model name \"Hillside.\" She sometimes saw him wearing a [21 Cal. 4th 1040] baseball cap. The court refused to suppress that evidence, finding that the police inevitably would have discovered Purcell as a potential witness. In a detailed oral ruling, the court specifically \"accept[ed] and credit[ed]\" Sergeant Brook's testimony. It found that Sergeant Brook was still very interested in Dr. Stamper's office, and had he \"not received the direct information from [defendant] on May 15th, that he ... or some other investigator would have gone back to Dr. Stamper's office ....\" In addition to Sergeant Brook's testimony, the court noted the sheer size and scope of the investigation into the serial killer case in determining that the police would inevitably have discovered Purcell's information.\n\nThe parties agree that Sergeant Brook obtained defendant's statement in violation of the Miranda rules. Accordingly, the statement itself was inadmissible; it was not admitted. Defendant argues that the court also had to suppress Purcell's testimony as the fruit of the poisonous tree. (See generally, Wong Sun v. United States (1963) 371 U.S. 471 [83 S. Ct. 407, 9 L. Ed. 2d 441].) The Attorney General responds that the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine does not apply to a noncoerced statement taken in violation of the Miranda rules. (Compare Oregon v. Elstad (1985) 470 U.S. 298 [105 S. Ct. 1285, 84 L. Ed. 2d 222] and Michigan v. Tucker (1974) 417 U.S. 433 [94 S. Ct. 2357, 41 L. Ed. 2d 182], with People v. Schader (1969) 71 Cal. 2d 761, 778-779 [80 Cal. Rptr. 1, 457 P.2d 841].) We need not resolve the question because we uphold the trial court's application of the inevitable discovery rule.\n\n[8] Evidence need not be suppressed if the prosecution can establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the information would inevitably have been discovered by lawful means. (Nix v. Williams (1984) 467 U.S. 431, 444 [104 S. Ct. 2501, 2509, 81 L. Ed. 2d 377]; People v. Boyer (1989) 48 Cal. 3d 247, 277-279 & fn. 18 [256 Cal. Rptr. 96, 768 P.2d 610]; Green v. Superior Court (1985) 40 Cal. 3d 126, 136-137 [219 Cal. Rptr. 186, 707 P.2d 248] (lead opn. of Kaus, J.); People v. Gesner (1988) 202 Cal. App. 3d 581, 591-592 [248 Cal. Rptr. 324].) As this is essentially a question of fact, we must uphold the trial court's determination if supported by substantial evidence. (See People v. Boyer, supra, 48 Cal.3d at p. 263; People v. North (1981) 29 Cal. 3d 509, 513 [174 Cal. Rptr. 511, 629 P.2d 19].) Deferential review is particularly necessary when, as here, the factual determination depends in part on judging a witness's credibility. [7b] Here, substantial evidence supports the court's finding. Sergeant Brook, whose testimony the court specifically credited, testified he had intended to return to the office to investigate further. Urging his own view of the evidence, defendant argues the police might not have discovered the information absent the Miranda violation, but we have no basis on which to overturn the court's determination. [21 Cal. 4th 1041]\n\nDefendant also argues that the inevitable discovery rule should not apply because of the \"flagrancy\" of the unlawful conduct. We implicitly disagreed in People v. Boyer, supra, 48 Cal.3d at pages 277-279. Although Sergeant Brook clearly violated the prophylactic Miranda rules, the record does not suggest that defendant's statement was coerced or otherwise involuntary. In those circumstances, federal law (and California law today) allows even the statement itself to be used for impeachment. (People v. Peevy (1998) 17 Cal. 4th 1184, 1192-1193 [73 Cal. Rptr. 2d 865, 953 P.2d 1212].) When, as here, the evidence would have been discovered lawfully even absent the Miranda violation, \"the deterrence rationale [of the exclusionary rule] has so little basis that the evidence should be received. Anything less would reject logic, experience, and common sense.\" (Nix v. Williams, supra, 467 U.S. at p. 444 [104 S.Ct. at p. 2509], fn. omitted.)\n\nMoreover, any error would have been harmless, whether measured by the reasonable doubt standard applicable to federal constitutional error (Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18, 24 [87 S. Ct. 824, 828, 17 L. Ed. 2d 705, 24 A.L.R.3d 1065]) or the reasonable probability standard applicable to errors of state law (People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal. 2d 818, 836-837 [299 P.2d 243]). The issue of guilt was not remotely close. The trial court correctly described the evidence of defendant's guilt as \"overwhelming.\" (Carpenter I, supra, 9 Cal.4th at p. 645.) The evidence of identity was so strong that defendant did not contest it at the first trial. Defendant's friend, Mollie Purnell, purchased the gun used to commit all the crimes. Purnell and other witnesses connected him to that weapon. It is unreasonable to suppose that Purnell, Shane Williams, who told the police where to find the murder weapon, and Karen Williams, Shane's wife and partner in crime, all chose to commit perjury to help convict an innocent person of capital crimes. In addition, \"[r]egarding the Hansen/Haertle crimes, there were multiple eyewitness identifications, evidence regarding the distinctive jacket both the gunman and defendant wore, shoeprint evidence, and evidence that defendant owned a car similar to the gunman's.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 362.)\n\nAt the second trial, defendant did attempt to establish a doubt as to his identity as the gunman but did little to diminish the force of the prosecution evidence. Defendant presented virtually no alibi evidence other than his own testimony. An employer testified that he was at work with her until as late as 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. the day Alderson was killed. Even if one believes the witness could remember that particular day with such precision, the testimony proved little. The victim was seen alive around 5:30 p.m. that day, and her body was not discovered until two days later. Defendant presented documentary evidence that he claimed supported his testimony regarding [21 Cal. 4th 1042] some of his activities the day Moreland and Stowers were killed, but even crediting those documents, they did not prevent him from being the killer on that date. Moreover, an expert testified that someone intentionally altered the date on two of the documents.\n\nDefendant also presented the testimony of some witnesses who saw a person who might have been the gunman but presumably was not defendant. The evidence may have shown a few false leads, or that some witnesses noticed the gunman's jacket but did not particularly note his face at a time when there was no reason to. It did little else. Moreover, two of these witnesses testified that defendant did look like the person they saw. Defendant presented evidence showing that a particular shoe similar (not identical) to one he purchased could not have made the gunman's footprints, but other evidence established that the shoes he purchased could have made the footprints; they were of the same size and pattern.\n\nDefendant testified, denying the crimes and describing in great detail his activities during the relevant times, but his testimony was far from convincing. He admitted wearing the distinctive jacket and purchasing the shoes similar in size and pattern to those of the gunman. He also admitted knowing Purnell and others who connected him to the murder weapon. Testifying after he reviewed telephone records, he admitted he had numerous telephone conversations with Purnell during the relevant times, including four the day before she purchased the eventual murder weapon, one the day after she purchased it, and others around the time she received it. He denied that these conversations related to her purchasing the gun for him and claimed she was lying. He also denied his other acquaintances' testimony that connected him to the murder weapon. He admitted owning a red Fiat like the gunman's, which he said he purchased on March 25, 1981. He also admitted that when he talked to the police a few days before his arrest, in response to their questions about his vehicles, he told them about one of his cars but not the Fiat. He claimed he understood the police to be interested only in the cars to which he had access on May 2, 1981, and he did not have access to the Fiat on that date because it was \"in the shop.\" Defendant testified he was at work all day the day Alderson was killed. On direct examination, he referred to some records that he said showed he had typed a response to a certain business letter from Hong Kong that day. On cross-examination, the prosecution confronted him with his employer's records showing that the letter from Hong Kong was itself dated the day Alderson was killed. Defendant then acknowledged that he could not have written the response when he said he did.\n\nIn light of the trial as a whole, Purcell's testimony was insignificant. Any error in allowing her to testify was harmless. [21 Cal. 4th 1043]\n\n3. Search and Seizure Issues\n\nAt trial, defendant moved to suppress various items of evidence. He contends the court erred in denying the motion. As a threshold matter, the Attorney General argues that because defendant made a similar motion to suppress evidence in the first prosecution (see Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 362-366), he is collaterally estopped from relitigating the searches' legality. (See generally, Lucido v. Superior Court (1990) 51 Cal. 3d 335, 341 [272 Cal. Rptr. 767, 795 P.2d 1223, 2 A.L.R.5th 995]; People v. Sims (1982) 32 Cal. 3d 468, 484 [186 Cal. Rptr. 77, 651 P.2d 321].) The Attorney General makes a similar argument as to other issues that are common to both prosecutions. We need not decide whether and to what extent collateral estoppel applies here, for none of the contentions have merit. In considering the issues, we bear in mind that because \"these crimes were committed before the 1982 adoption of Proposition 8, its provisions do not apply.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 362.)\n\n[9] As in the earlier appeal, defendant challenges a search warrant for the search of his home, person, and cars. He makes one argument not made in the first appeal. He argues the warrant was overbroad because it did not \"particularly describ[e] the ... things to be seized.\" (Cal. Const., art. I, § 13.) He does not clearly specify what evidence admitted at trial was seized under a provision that he claims was overbroad, but he appears to challenge the admission of maps and \"Sierra Club materials ... including books, hiking schedules, and maps of Mt. Tamalpais.\" The warrant authorized the seizure of \"National or State Park brochures, maps, receipts, or literature; and road maps.\" The authorization was appropriate. The police had probable cause to believe defendant was a serial killer of victims along isolated hiking trails. Under the circumstances, the range of potential relevant evidence was quite broad. \"[I]n a complex case resting upon the piecing together of 'many bits of evidence,' the warrant properly may be more generalized than would be the case in a more simplified case resting upon more direct evidence.\" (People v. Bradford (1997) 15 Cal. 4th 1229, 1291 [65 Cal. Rptr. 2d 145, 939 P.2d 259], quoting Andresen v. Maryland (1976) 427 U.S. 463, 481, fn. 10 [96 S. Ct. 2737, 2748-2749, 49 L. Ed. 2d 627].) Items showing familiarity with the crime scenes were clearly relevant to connect defendant to these crimes.\n\nThe remaining portions of the warrant that defendant challenges as overbroad also seem reasonably directed to the seizure of relevant evidence. But we need not decide the question definitively. Defendant has not identified any item seized under any of these other provisions that was admitted at trial. Accordingly, even if we assume some provision of the warrant was overbroad, defendant has not shown that any evidence should have been [21 Cal. 4th 1044] suppressed. (People v. Camarella (1991) 54 Cal. 3d 592, 607, fn. 7 [286 Cal. Rptr. 780, 818 P.2d 63]; Aday v. Superior Court (1961) 55 Cal. 2d 789, 797 [13 Cal. Rptr. 415, 362 P.2d 47].)\n\nDefendant also argues the affidavits supporting the warrant contained material misstatements and omitted material facts, and the search of his home exceeded the warrant's scope. On the latter point, defendant challenges only one item of evidence actually admitted at trial, a pair of athletic shoes. Our discussion rejecting similar arguments in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 362-364, also applies to these contentions.\n\nDefendant challenges the seizure and subsequent search of his Chevrolet station wagon. We rejected most of the arguments in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 364-365. Defendant makes new arguments that some of the information supporting probable cause was stale, and that the affidavits supporting the warrant omitted more material information than he argued before. Having considered the new arguments, we continue to find there was probable cause to search the vehicle and that the supporting affidavits were not substantially misleading. Defendant also challenges the seizure of the bullet from that car. We previously rejected a similar argument. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 365.) To the extent defendant's current contention differs from his previous one, we find nothing warranting a different outcome.\n\nFinally, defendant argues the police unlawfully obtained his federal prison and parole records. His federal probation officer allowed the police to review the records when they were investigating these crimes. Later the police obtained copies of some of the records from federal authorities. Defendant argues these events violated the federal Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. (5 U.S.C. §§ 552, 552a.) Assuming that the acts cover these records (see United States v. Miller (10th Cir. 1981) 643 F.2d 713, 715), the Privacy Act allows disclosure \"for a routine use ....\" (5 U.S.C. § 552a(b)(3).) The probation officer testified that he provided the information to the police under agency rules stating that approved routine uses include \" 'providing assistance to federal, state, local or foreign enforcement officers investigating a violation of law.' \" Defendant does not challenge the accuracy of this testimony. \"Consequently, no violation of the Privacy Act occurred.\" (United States v. Miller, supra, 643 F.2d at p. 715; see also Little v. F.B.I. (D.Md. 1992) 793 F. Supp. 652, 655, affd. (4th Cir. 1993) 1 F.3d 255.) Because defendant has shown no violation of the acts, we need not decide whether a violation would require the suppression of evidence. [21 Cal. 4th 1045]\n\n4. Denial of Motion to Suppress Identification Evidence\n\n[10] After defendant's arrest, several witnesses viewed him in a six-man physical lineup. Defendant contends the lineup was impermissibly suggestive. We rejected a similar argument regarding the same lineup in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 366-368. As we held in that case, nothing in the lineup caused defendant to \" 'stand out' from the others in a way that would suggest the witness should select him.\" (Id. at p. 367.) \"[A]s a whole, the lineup was not 'unduly suggestive.' \" (Ibid.)\n\nAlthough two defense attorneys attended the lineup, defendant also contends his right to their assistance was violated because they were not allowed to be present at interviews with the witnesses just before and after the lineup. He relies solely on People v. Williams (1971) 3 Cal. 3d 853 [92 Cal. Rptr. 6, 478 P.2d 942]. In Williams, defense counsel was present for the lineup, but after viewing it, the witness \"was taken outside the viewing room for the purpose of making his identification. Appellant's attorney asked permission to accompany [the witness] and listen to any identification made by him\" but was not permitted to do so. (Id. at p. 855.) Under these facts, we found a violation of the defendant's right to an attorney. Defendant argues a similar violation occurred in this case. We rejected a similar argument in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 368-369, and distinguished Williams partly on the basis that here the actual identifications occurred in the presence of defense counsel. Defendant now makes the new factual argument that two of the witnesses, one who identified him at the lineup and one who selected someone else, made the actual identifications after the lineup in defense counsel's absence.\n\nIn response, the Attorney General argues first that, because the lineup was held before formal judicial proceedings had begun, defendant was not entitled to counsel at all. (Kirby v. Illinois (1972) 406 U.S. 682 [92 S. Ct. 1877, 32 L. Ed. 2d 411]; United States v. Gouveia (1984) 467 U.S. 180, 187-188 [104 S. Ct. 2292, 2296-2298, 81 L. Ed. 2d 146].) He notes that the holding of People v. Bustamante (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 88 [177 Cal. Rptr. 576, 634 P.2d 927], which established a contrary rule under state law, applied prospectively only (id. at p. 102), and that the lineup of this case occurred months before that decision. It appears that at the time of the lineup, formal charges had been filed for the Santa Cruz County crimes but not the crimes charged in this case. We need not decide whether defendant's right to counsel applied only to the Santa Cruz County crimes because there was no violation of the right as to any of the crimes.\n\nThe evidence was conflicting whether the two witnesses made their identifications during the lineup or afterwards. The witnesses themselves [21 Cal. 4th 1046] testified they received and marked identification cards after the lineup. However, the detective who escorted the witnesses individually to and from the lineup testified that the witness who identified defendant did so in the lineup room. The victim, Haertle, testified he marked his identification form in the lineup room, suggesting that the detective's pattern was to have the witnesses fill out the card in the lineup room. The trial court could reasonably have credited the detective's testimony, concluding that the two witnesses, who testified long after the lineup, merely forgot they had received the lineup card during the lineup. The court did not expressly resolve this factual question, but \"[a]n order is presumed correct; all intendments are indulged in to support it on matters as to which the record is silent, and error must be affirmatively shown.\" (Corenevsky v. Superior Court (1984) 36 Cal. 3d 307, 321 [204 Cal. Rptr. 165, 682 P.2d 360].) We must \"view the record in the light most favorable to the trial court's ruling and defer to its findings of historical fact, whether express or implied, if they are supported by substantial evidence.\" (People v. Miranda (1993) 17 Cal. App. 4th 917, 922 [21 Cal. Rptr. 2d 785].) The record shows the trial court was aware of the decision of People v. Williams, supra, 3 Cal. 3d 853. Because substantial evidence supports an implied finding that the witnesses made their identifications in the lineup room, defendant has not demonstrated error.\n\nMoreover, we see no basis to exclude any evidence even if either or both of the two witnesses had actually marked the lineup card in counsel's absence. The Williams court expressly limited its holding to its facts and \"express[ed] no opinion on any case which may arise in a different factual setting.\" (People v. Williams, supra, 3 Cal.3d at p. 857.) In this case, the interviews were tape-recorded, which \"minimized the concerns that led to the adoption of the Williams rule.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 369.) Unlike Williams, counsel here could listen to the recording of the interview, and thus be \"fully apprised\" of what occurred. (People v. Williams, supra, 3 Cal.3d at p. 856.) Williams was narrowly decided. As Justice Mosk's strong dissent, joined by two others, noted, defense counsel must not be allowed to interfere with a police investigation. (Id. at p. 860 (dis. opn. of Mosk, J.).) The Attorney General urges us to overrule Williams. We need not do so on these facts, but we decline to extend its holding to a case like this where the subsequent interview was recorded.\n\nC. Guilt Phase Issues\n\n1. Evidentiary Rulings as to One Witness\n\nA witness testified on direct examination that one weekend in September or October 1980, when she was 14 years old, she went to Mollie Purnell's [21 Cal. 4th 1047] home in Modesto with her boyfriend. Defendant showed her and the boyfriend a \"big handgun\" and talked about \"burglaries and thieving and things like that.\" She understood defendant \"to be a professional thief, that's what he said, and a burglar and things like that.\" The next day she went with defendant to San Francisco. On the way, they stopped at a park. Defendant showed her what he called his \"thief kit,\" a suitcase containing another gun, woven wire like the kind used to hang pictures, and strips of nylon or cloth. Referring to the nylon or cloth, defendant said, \"This is what I use to gag people with.\" Referring to the wire, he said, \"This is what I use to tie them up with.\" The witness testified that the gun she saw at the park was smaller than the one she saw earlier that weekend. The second gun looked like the gun used in the killings. The first time she told anyone about seeing two different guns was two days before her testimony at this 1988 trial.\n\n[11] A pretrial hearing was held regarding the admissibility of much of this testimony. Defendant contends the court erred in admitting the testimony about seeing the two guns. As he did at the pretrial hearing, defendant cites People v. Riser (1956) 47 Cal. 2d 566, 577 [305 P.2d 1], which held inadmissible evidence that the defendant possessed weapons other than the murder weapon. The trial court here allowed evidence that the witness saw defendant with a gun that could be linked to the murder weapon; at the same time, aware of the Riser case, the court also indicated doubt about admitting evidence of a gun that could not have been the murder weapon. This ruling was correct and fully consistent with Riser. The witness said the gun defendant showed her at the park looked like the murder weapon. Accordingly, the testimony was admissible. (People v. Neely (1993) 6 Cal. 4th 877, 896 [26 Cal. Rptr. 2d 189, 864 P.2d 460].)\n\nDefendant also contends the court should not have admitted evidence about the first, larger gun defendant showed the witness. He argues that because this gun could not have been the murder weapon, Riser requires its exclusion. (People v. Riser, supra, \"47 Cal.2d at p. 577.) However, defendant did not object to testimony about this larger gun. The witness did not mention seeing two guns until two days before her trial testimony, long after the pretrial hearing. In light of the court's earlier expressed doubt about admitting evidence of a gun that could not be linked to the murder weapon, it may well have excluded evidence of a different gun had defendant objected at trial. Defendant's objection at the pretrial hearing to any testimony about gun possession was not sufficient to preserve an objection to the actual testimony about two different guns. (People v. Morris (1991) 53 Cal. 3d 152, 190 [279 Cal. Rptr. 720, 807 P.2d 949].)\n\nThe record strongly suggests the defense did not object to this new testimony for a tactical reason. Once the court admitted evidence of the gun [21 Cal. 4th 1048] similar to the murder weapon, the witness's recollection of two different guns may have helped the defense by casting doubt on her credibility. This part of her testimony was inconsistent with the boyfriend's testimony. Indeed, at a hearing to discuss the permissible scope of cross-examination, the court stated the belief that \"it was a mistake for the prosecution to bring up the second gun.... [M]aybe they felt they had to. I think it certainly hurts this girl's credibility.\" The district attorney explained he had just learned about the second gun shortly before her testimony, that he had told the defense about it, and that \"if it's going to come out, it might as well come out.\" In his argument to the jury, defense counsel used this belated recollection of two guns to challenge her credibility. Defendant cannot fail to object to the evidence and use it in jury argument, then argue for the first time on appeal that it should not have been admitted.\n\nDefendant contends the court erred in admitting the witness's testimony about seeing the wire in defendant's possession. At the pretrial hearing, the court delayed a ruling on the admissibility of this evidence pending foundational evidence that the wire could have been used in committing the O'Connell and May murders. During trial, the doctor who performed the autopsy testified outside the presence of the jury that a wire like the one the witness described could have made the marks found on O'Connell's and May's bodies. After hearing this testimony, the court admitted the wire evidence. The ruling was correct. Evidence that defendant possessed an object that might have inflicted the marks on O'Connell and May around the time they were murdered tended to show his identity as the killer. Because, as defendant notes, the description of the wire was \"generic,\" and the pathologist could not state with certainty that a wire inflicted the marks, the inference \"may have been weak, but that does not make the evidence irrelevant. The fact that many persons may similarly have possessed such [objects] may diminish the strength of the evidence, but it does not make it irrelevant.\" (People v. Freeman (1994) 8 Cal. 4th 450, 491 [34 Cal. Rptr. 2d 558, 882 P.2d 249, 31 A.L.R.5th 888].) Defendant also argues the evidence should have been excluded as unduly prejudicial under Evidence Code section 352. However, evidence of wire possession is not inherently prejudicial. (People v. Freeman, supra, 8 Cal.4th at p. 492.) The court acted within its discretion in admitting the evidence.\n\n[12] Defendant also contends the court erred in admitting his statements that he was a \"professional thief\" and describing his use of the nylon or cloth and the wire. At the pretrial hearing, the court ruled the witness could testify that defendant said he was a \"thief,\" but disallowed use of the word \"professional\" as unduly prejudicial. It also offered to give a limiting instruction on how the jury could consider that evidence. It allowed the [21 Cal. 4th 1049] testimony that defendant said he used the nylon or cloth to gag people and the wire to tie them up. Defendant first argues the evidence was inadmissible hearsay. He did not object on that basis at trial so may not raise the issue now. (People v. Green (1980) 27 Cal. 3d 1, 22 & fn. 8 [164 Cal. Rptr. 1, 609 P.2d 468].) Moreover, a hearsay objection would have lacked merit. Evidence Code section 1220 provides that \"Evidence of a statement is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered against the declarant in an action to which he is a party ....\" The evidence was of statements, defendant was the declarant, the statements were offered against him, and he was a party to the action. Accordingly, the hearsay rule does not make the statements inadmissible. Defendant argues that the statements were not \"admissions.\" The argument is irrelevant to the hearsay question. Evidence Code section 1220 refers to a \"statement,\" not an \"admission.\" It is true that the section heading refers to \"Admission of party,\" but the heading is irrelevant to its construction. (Evid. Code, § 5.) The hearsay rule does not compel exclusion of any statement offered against a party declarant, whether or not it can be described as an admission.\n\nConcluding that defendant's statement was not excludable under the hearsay rule does not, of course, necessarily mean it was admissible. Defendant did object to the statements under Evidence Code section 1101, which generally prohibits evidence that merely proves the defendant had the propensity or disposition to commit the crime charged. (See People v. Guerrero (1976) 16 Cal. 3d 719, 724 [129 Cal. Rptr. 166, 548 P.2d 366].) The court properly admitted the statement about defendant's being a \"thief,\" offered not to prove its truth, but to indicate the circumstances in which defendant showed the witness the gun and suitcase. These circumstances were relevant to her credibility, which was a material issue. (People v. Hawkins (1995) 10 Cal. 4th 920, 951 [42 Cal. Rptr. 2d 636, 897 P.2d 574].) The court acted within its discretion in concluding the prosecution was not limited to eliciting that defendant showed her the items but could also demonstrate why. His bragging about being a thief helped explain why he showed her the items and why she would remember the events. To limit the witness to stating that defendant showed her the items without mentioning what he said would artificially make her account less believable. In light of the physical evidence indicating the killer gagged O'Connell and bound or strangled her and May with wire, defendant's statements that he used the nylon or cloth to gag his victims and the wire to tie them was also directly relevant to show he committed the crimes in this case. Defendant points out that there is no evidence the victims were robbed. This circumstance did not compel exclusion of the statements. The jury could reasonably find defendant was bragging about his use of the gun and other objects in committing the crimes in this case but was prudently understating matters. [21 Cal. 4th 1050]\n\nDefendant also argues the court should have excluded the evidence as unduly prejudicial. At the pretrial hearing, the court did exclude the word \"professional.\" fn. 5 When the witness actually testified several months later, she used that word. Defendant did not object at that time. If he had, the court would no doubt have stricken it. Under the circumstances, defendant has waived the right to object to that specific word. (People v. Morris, supra, 53 Cal.3d at p. 190.) In the context of this case, none of the statements were particularly prejudicial. Defendant was charged with being a serial killer, not a thief. The trial court could reasonably find it highly unlikely the jury would convict defendant of being a serial killer despite a reasonable doubt on that score because it heard evidence that he described himself as a thief, professional or otherwise. It did not abuse its discretion. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 380.) fn. 6\n\n[13a] Finally, defendant argues the court improperly limited his cross-examination of the witness in two respects. First, defendant sought to cross-examine her about her probationary status in a juvenile matter at the time she first spoke with law enforcement about this case. The court ruled that defense counsel could not ask her whether she was on probation but could ask her whether she had a juvenile case, and could \"develop with her whether she thought in any aspect of that juvenile case she was going to get any benefit in this case or anybody made any promises to her about any aspects of the juvenile case.\" Second, defendant sought to question her about the facts underlying her juvenile adjudication, in which she allegedly used a gun. The court ruled that the defense could ask the witness about her familiarity with guns, but it did not allow the defense to go into the details of the juvenile case. On cross-examination, the witness denied knowing much about guns. The defense again sought to go into the details of the facts underlying the juvenile matter. The court ruled that her testimony did not \"open up the door.\" It found the underlying facts were not \"probative with respect to ... what has been offered by the prosecution,\" and that \"it just would be cumulative and totally a waste of time for [the defense] to probe into ... the underlying circumstances of her juvenile case.\" We find no error.\n\n[14] \" '[A] criminal defendant states a violation of the Confrontation Clause by showing that he was prohibited from engaging in otherwise [21 Cal. 4th 1051] appropriate cross-examination designed to show a prototypical form of bias on the part of the witness, and thereby, \"to expose to the jury the facts from which jurors ... could appropriately draw inferences relating to the reliability of the witness.\" ' (Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986) 475 U.S. 673, 680 [106 S. Ct. 1431, 1436, 89 L. Ed. 2d 674] (Van Arsdall), quoting Davis v. Alaska (1974) 415 U.S. 308, 318 [94 S. Ct. 1105, 1111, 39 L. Ed. 2d 347].) However, not every restriction on a defendant's desired method of cross-examination is a constitutional violation. Within the confines of the confrontation clause, the trial court retains wide latitude in restricting cross-examination that is repetitive, prejudicial, confusing of the issues, or of marginal relevance. (Van Arsdall, supra, 475 U.S. at pp. 678-679 [106 S.Ct. at p. 1435] ....) California law is in accord. (See People v. Belmontes (1988) 45 Cal. 3d 744, 780 [248 Cal. Rptr. 126, 755 P.2d 310].) Thus, unless the defendant can show that the prohibited cross-examination would have produced 'a significantly different impression of [the witnesses'] credibility' (Van Arsdall, supra, 475 U.S. at p. 680 [106 S.Ct. at p. 1436]), the trial court's exercise of its discretion in this regard does not violate the Sixth Amendment.\" (People v. Frye (1998) 18 Cal. 4th 894, 946 [77 Cal. Rptr. 2d 25, 959 P.2d 183].)\n\n[13b] As he did at trial, defendant relies heavily on Davis v. Alaska (1974) 415 U.S. 308 [94 S. Ct. 1105, 39 L. Ed. 2d 347]. In Davis, a \"crucial witness for the prosecution\" was on juvenile probation both at the time of the events about which he testified and at trial. (Id. at pp. 310-311 [94 S.Ct. at pp. 1107-1108].) Because of state rules requiring confidentiality of juvenile adjudications, the trial court refused to allow any cross-examination about the witness's juvenile court history. The court found the blanket prohibition violated the defendant's right to confront witnesses. However, that decision does not require courts to permit any cross-examination the defense may wish regarding juvenile proceedings. (See Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986) 475 U.S. 673, 678-679 [106 S. Ct. 1431, 1434-1435, 89 L. Ed. 2d 674].) Here, the trial court considered the state of the evidence and Davis v. Alaska, supra, 415 U.S. 308. It permitted the defense to inquire into whether the witness had a juvenile case and whether she received any promises or expected any benefits regarding that matter. It did not preclude the defense from presenting evidence she did receive any promises or benefits; the defense did not claim it had any such evidence. Moreover, the defense did not claim, and the record does not indicate, that the witness was on probation when she testified several years later. The record does not establish the prohibited cross-examination would have produced \"a significantly different impression of [the witness's] credibility ....\" (Delaware v. Van Arsdall, supra, 475 U.S. at p. 680 [106 S.Ct. at p. 1436].) Accordingly, we find no abuse of discretion. [21 Cal. 4th 1052]\n\nWe also find the court did not abuse its discretion in not permitting the defense to probe into the facts underlying the juvenile adjudication. Defendant argues that because the facts allegedly involved the witness's use of a gun, the evidence showed she was familiar with guns, contrary to her trial testimony. Her familiarity with guns was of marginal relevance. Defendant argues this familiarity shows she could have fabricated her testimony about seeing the two guns. Her testimony, however, was not particularly technical; she would not have needed great knowledge about guns to invent it. Courts may \"prevent criminal trials from degenerating into nitpicking wars of attrition over collateral credibility issues.\" (People v. Wheeler (1992) 4 Cal. 4th 284, 296 [14 Cal. Rptr. 2d 418, 841 P.2d 938]; see also People v. Lavergne (1971) 4 Cal. 3d 735, 744 [94 Cal. Rptr. 405, 484 P.2d 77] [\"A party may not cross-examine a witness upon collateral matters for the purpose of eliciting something to be contradicted.\"].)\n\nMoreover, rather than being \"crucial\" (Davis v. Alaska, supra, 415 U.S. at p. 310 [94 S.Ct. at p. 1107]), this witness was minor in the context of the entire case. Even assuming the court permitted the prosecution to elicit too much information, and the defense too little, we would find the error harmless under any standard.\n\n2. Other Evidentiary Rulings\n\n[15] Defendant contends the court made several other erroneous evidentiary rulings. One witness testified that in February 1981, defendant said he carried a gun in his van. The witness never saw the gun. Another witness testified that in February or March 1981, defendant showed her a gun that \"looks like\" the murder weapon. The court ruled both items of evidence admissible over objection. We find no error. Although the witnesses did not establish the gun necessarily was the murder weapon, it might have been. Unlike People v. Riser, supra, \"47 Cal.2d at page 577, this evidence did not merely show that defendant was a person who possesses guns, but showed he possessed a gun that might have been the murder weapon after the first and before the last of the killings. The evidence was thus relevant and admissible as circumstantial evidence that he committed the charged offenses. (People v. Neely, supra, 6 Cal.4th at p. 896.)\n\nAnother witness testified over objection that around late April or early May 1981, defendant told her \"there is just really nothing like the power of a gun to achieve the ends you want\"; \"it was really the ultimate challenge to get away with murder\"; and rape \"is really an ultimate achievement, to do something like that.\" The court excluded any statements about \"robberies.\" Defendant contends the evidence was inadmissible character evidence under [21 Cal. 4th 1053] Evidence Code section 1101 and should have been excluded as unduly prejudicial under Evidence Code section 352. The Attorney General argues, first, that the claims are not cognizable on appeal because defendant failed to object on those grounds at trial. We disagree. Defendant specifically invoked Evidence Code section 352 at trial. Although he did not specifically cite Evidence Code section 1101 in objecting to these statements (he did in making similar objections to other items of evidence), he did object on the ground that the statements merely showed he was a \"criminal\" and a \"bad person.\" Under the circumstances, the specific nature of the objection was sufficiently clear to preserve the issue.\n\nThe contention, however, lacks merit. Evidence that defendant talked about using guns and committing murder and rape soon after the rapes and murders in this case, all involving use of a gun, was circumstantial evidence that he committed the charged crimes. Unlike People v. Guerrero, supra, 16 Cal. 3d 719, which defendant cites, where the prosecution presented evidence the defendant committed an uncharged crime, the prosecution here did not suggest these statements showed defendant committed crimes other than those of this case; rather, these statements were admitted to show he committed these crimes. Defendant argues the statements were merely \"part of a philosophical conversation about crime.\" If so, they were of little relevance. But, from the evidence as a whole, the jury could reasonably find they were a very general reference to the charged crimes, which made them relevant to whether he committed them.\n\nDefendant also contends the record fails to show the court considered the prejudicial effect of the evidence. However, a court need not expressly state for the record it engages in a weighing process every time it makes a ruling. (People v. Crittenden (1994) 9 Cal. 4th 83, 135 [36 Cal. Rptr. 2d 474, 885 P.2d 887].) The record as a whole shows the court was well aware of, and consistently performed, its duty under Evidence Code section 352 to balance the probative value of evidence against any prejudicial effect.\n\nA defense witness testified on direct examination that he was defendant's employer at a trade school in Hayward. They \"became friends.\" The witness also operated another business called \"Moon Tide\" at the same location. He testified that time sheets indicated defendant was at work until 2:15 p.m. the day another defense witness said she saw a man who might have been the gunman near the scene of the Hansen/Haertle shooting. On cross-examination, the witness said defendant was also involved in the Moon Tide business. Over objection, the witness testified defendant invested about $2,000 into the business. The prosecution was allowed to introduce into evidence a letter dated November 16, 1980, that defendant wrote to the witness demanding repayment of this money by November 30, 1980. The letter threatened [21 Cal. 4th 1054] after that date to \"turn[] on the vigorish clock,\" i.e., to charge the amount of interest \"used in the loan sharking business,\" which would make the witness owe about $10,000 by December 1. The amount owed would \"increase rapidly\" after that. The letter said, \"either pay me now or pay me a lot more later,\" and concluded, \"Your old pal, now your ex-old pal.\"\n\nDefendant contends the letter was irrelevant and inadmissible \"character\" evidence. The court admitted the letter as relevant to the witness's \"credibility with respect to bias and prejudice\" and also relevant in light of defense cross-examination of Mollie Purnell. Previously, the defense had elicited from Purnell that defendant told her he wanted the gun to \"move money\" for the \"Mafia.\" We see no error in light of the defense evidence. As the court found, evidence that the witness and defendant were not merely friends and employer-employee was relevant to the witness's credibility and to the reliability of the employment records used to establish the partial alibi. \"Evidence showing a witness's bias or prejudice or which goes to his credibility, veracity or motive may be elicited during cross-examination.\" (People v. Howard (1988) 44 Cal. 3d 375, 428 [243 Cal. Rptr. 842, 749 P.2d 279].) Moreover, the evidence was relevant to corroborate the testimony the defense elicited from Purnell in an apparent attempt to discredit her testimony. Defendant argues the letter should have been excluded as too prejudicial. We disagree. The letter was relatively innocuous. As the court noted, the reference to the \"loan sharking business\" was not much different from the \"Mafia\" reference the defense itself elicited from Purnell. The court acted within its discretion in admitting the letter.\n\n3. Photographs\n\n[16] The prosecution sought to admit a number of photographs of the murder victims. The court excluded some as unduly prejudicial but admitted others over defense objection, including three of victims O'Connell and May. The court admitted one to show the mark on O'Connell's neck, which was relevant to whether the wire that one witness said defendant showed her could have inflicted it. The court admitted two to support the pathologist's testimony regarding the manner of death and sequence of shots. Defendant contends the court erred in admitting the photographs and violated his federal constitutional rights. \"Because defendant objected only on statutory grounds, the constitutional arguments are not cognizable on appeal.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 385.) Moreover, \"The court did not abuse its broad discretion in admitting the photographs.\" (Ibid.) They were relevant for the purposes identified. The court carefully exercised its discretion in excluding photographs it found unduly gruesome and admitting others it found less gruesome. [21 Cal. 4th 1055]\n\nBefore the prosecution rebuttal argument to the jury, defendant objected to the prosecutor's displaying photographs of the victims while alive. The court ruled that the prosecutor could not \"use the photographs to try to inflame the passions of the jury,\" but it allowed him to use them to argue that the victims looked alike. After this portion of the prosecution argument, defense counsel noted for the record that the prosecutor displayed the photographs in a row before the jury for about 25 minutes. The court found nothing improper. It noted the photographs were not placed \"where the jury would be looking. [The prosecutor] has been standing in front of the jury, and the photographs are off to the side. And I didn't see any jurors paying particular attention to the photographs after they were discussed.\"\n\nDefendant contends that the prosecutor committed misconduct by displaying the photographs before the jury for such a lengthy period. He argues that the prosecutor's argument regarding the similarities of the victims was brief, and the prosecutor therefore used the photographs not only to illustrate the similarities but also to appeal to the passions and sympathy of the jurors just before they began to deliberate. Although displaying potentially inflammatory photographs for an unnecessarily lengthy period might be improper in some circumstances, we find no misconduct here. As the trial court's rulings and observations demonstrate, it guarded against improper use of the photographs while permitting their proper use. The prosecutor's conduct neither rendered defendant's trial fundamentally unfair nor constituted a deceptive or reprehensible method to attempt to persuade the jury. Accordingly, we reject defendant's claim of misconduct. (See People v. Smithey (1999) 20 Cal. 4th 936, 959-960 [86 Cal. Rptr. 2d 243, 978 P.2d 1171].)\n\n4. Impeachment With Prior Convictions\n\n[17] Defendant had numerous prior felony convictions. Over defense objection, the prosecution sought to impeach him, should he testify, with four of the convictions, three for robbery and one for vehicle theft. At a pretrial hearing, the court permitted impeachment with only two of the convictions, described as \"felonies involving theft.\" The court found the convictions not too remote, even though defendant had suffered them 17 years before trial, \"because of the defendant's long period of incarceration.\" Defendant had been incarcerated all but two of the years between the convictions and trial. Defendant contends the court erred.\n\nThe Attorney General argues first that the issue is not cognizable on appeal because defendant did not renew his pretrial objection at trial, and he elicited the convictions himself on direct examination. We disagree. The pretrial objection and hearing were adequate to preserve the issue under the [21 Cal. 4th 1056] standards of People v. Morris, supra, 53 Cal.3d at page 190. Moreover, the defense elicited the convictions only after the court ruled the prosecution could do so. Defendant obviously believed it was better for the jury to hear of the convictions from him first rather than from the prosecution later. He did not have to take this step at the cost of losing his right to appeal the ruling that caused it. (People v. Turner (1990) 50 Cal. 3d 668, 704-705, fn. 18 [268 Cal. Rptr. 706, 789 P.2d 887].)\n\nHowever, the court did not err. As the parties and court recognized at trial, \"Because defendant's crimes occurred prior to the adoption of Proposition 8 in June 1982, ... the governing law was People v. Beagle (1972) 6 Cal. 3d 441 [99 Cal. Rptr. 313, 492 P.2d 1], not People v. Castro (1985) 38 Cal. 3d 301 [211 Cal. Rptr. 719, 696 P.2d 111].\" (People v. Turner (1994) 8 Cal. 4th 137, 199-200 [32 Cal. Rptr. 2d 762, 878 P.2d 521].) But even at the time of the crimes, \"No witness including a defendant who elects to testify in his own behalf [was] entitled to a false aura of veracity.\" (People v. Beagle (1972) 6 Cal. 3d 441, 453 [99 Cal. Rptr. 313, 492 P.2d 1].) The two convictions clearly bore on veracity, neither was similar to the charged offenses, and, as sanitized, they were not similar to the behavior with which defendant was charged. Defendant testified despite the court's ruling. All these factors supported admitting the priors. (Ibid.) Defendant relies solely on their remoteness. Citing People v. Antick (1975) 15 Cal. 3d 79 [123 Cal. Rptr. 475, 539 P.2d 43], which found convictions suffered 17 and 19 years before trial too remote, defendant contends the court was required to exclude all of the convictions. However, as the trial court noted, defendant had been incarcerated most of the intervening time, which reduces the strength of the claim that he led a \" ' \"legally blameless life.\" ' \" (People v. Turner, supra, 8 Cal.4th at p. 200, quoting People v. Beagle, supra, 6 Cal.3d at p. 453.) Moreover, the fact that defendant suffered felony convictions in 1960, then again in 1970, also diminishes the remoteness factor. The court did not abuse its discretion in permitting impeachment with a small part of defendant's felony convictions.\n\n5. Alleged Prosecutorial Misconduct\n\n[18] In a contention related to one raised in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 410-412, defendant contends the prosecutor committed misconduct in presenting and arguing evidence indicating the gunman had returned to the crime scene a few days after shooting Hansen and Haertle and urinated on the spot where Hansen's head had lain.\n\nIn the prosecution case-in-chief, an investigating officer testified that he was called back to the crime scene on April 4, 1981, arriving around 1:30 [21 Cal. 4th 1057] p.m. He observed new shoeprints. \"The length, the width, and the class characteristics were the same\" as the shoeprints the gunman left behind. Although the prints were similar, the witness could not state for sure that the same shoes made both sets of prints. It also appeared someone had urinated on the spot where Hansen's head had lain. As noted in the factual summary, the defense later presented expert testimony that, because of a discrepancy in the number of ridges, a sample pair of shoes could not have left the original set of footprints. The prosecution countered with expert testimony that another pair of shoes of the same make and size might have. The defense also presented evidence from defendant's employer that defendant was with her all day on April 4, 1981, beginning at 8:00 a.m.\n\nDefense counsel argued to the jury that the gunman returned to the scene on April 4, 1981, and defendant could not have been the gunman because he had an alibi for that day. The prosecutor responded that as he listened to the testimony and argument about the shoes, he \"decided to go back to [April 4] because the defense indicated that he was with [defendant's employer]. [¶] And we've all counted ridges and heard about counting ridges on March 29th, and it dawned on me that we've never counted ridges for April 4th, not one expert. You can count them for yourselves, but I went back and looked at [a photograph of the April 4, 1981, shoeprints]; I counted the ridges, and I counted 31. [¶] You go in and take a look at those exhibits, and you can count for yourselves. So what significance that evidence has now, I don't know, but I counted 31 ridges on those footprints.\"\n\nDefendant argues the prosecutor committed misconduct by arguing facts not in evidence and failing to make a timely disclosure of false testimony and exculpatory evidence. The claims are not cognizable on appeal because defendant failed to object at trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 396, 411.) Moreover, the contentions lack merit. We have already rejected similar claims of false evidence and failure to disclose. (Id. at p. 411.) The investigating officer testified only that the shoeprints were similar, as indeed they were; he claimed nothing more. There was also full disclosure. \"The prosecution knew nothing the defense did not know.\" (Ibid.)\n\nThe prosecutor's argument to the jury was proper comment on the evidence. (People v. Thomas (1992) 2 Cal. 4th 489, 526 [7 Cal. Rptr. 2d 199, 828 P.2d 101].) Contrary to defendant's claim, he did not testify but merely argued the evidence. The relevant exhibits were in evidence. As the prosecutor told the jurors, they could count the ridges for themselves. Defendant contends the argument was improper in light of what we said in Carpenter II: \"We have examined the exhibits. At first glance the shoeprints appear to be identical. Upon closer inspection, however, there does seem to be a slight [21 Cal. 4th 1058] discrepancy in the number of ridges. Whether this is because different shoes made the prints or because of the nature and quality of the prints is beyond this court's expertise. Neither side presented evidence on the question.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 411.) Defendant argues that if \"assessing the number of ridges\" is beyond this court's expertise, it is also beyond the prosecutor's expertise. However, the prosecutor did no more than what we did, or what anyone could do; he noted the discrepancy in the number of ridges. He did not claim to know the significance of the discrepancy. Moreover, in this case, both parties did present expert testimony.\n\nThe precise significance of the evidence may be debated. For example, in Carpenter II, defendant argued on appeal the discrepancy meant the gunman did not return to the crime scene. In this trial, he argued the gunman did return to the scene and, because defendant claimed an alibi for the time of the gunman's return, he could not have been that gunman. One possible inference is that defendant did return but simply wore another pair of shoes of the same size and make. Even if one credits the employer's alibi testimony, defendant might have returned to the crime scene before 8:00 a.m., a time when fewer people would be around. The jury heard all the evidence and could judge the matter for itself. In any event, this entire question was trivial in light of the overall evidence of guilt.\n\n6. Failure to Give Unanimity Instruction\n\n[19] As to the murders of Alderson, O'Connell, and May, the court instructed the jury on felony murder as a theory of first degree murder. It also instructed that if the jury unanimously agreed defendant was guilty of first degree murder, it was not required to agree on a theory. Defendant argues the instruction was erroneous. We have repeatedly rejected the argument. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 394-395, and cases cited.) Any error was also harmless. As to the murders of Moreland and Stowers, the court instructed only on premeditation as a theory of first degree murder. The jury convicted defendant of the first degree murder of those victims, thus finding premeditation. It is hard to imagine how the jury could find defendant premeditated those killings and not the others. Moreover, as to the other three victims, the jury also found defendant guilty of rape or attempted rape and found true the rape-murder special circumstance. The jury thus unanimously agreed with a first degree felony-murder theory. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 395.) [21 Cal. 4th 1059]\n\nD. Penalty Phase Issues\n\n1. Refusal to Order a Separate Penalty Jury\n\n[20] Defendant asked the court to impanel a new jury for the penalty determination. The court denied the motion. Defendant contends the court erred. We disagree.\n\nReflecting the Legislature's long preference for a single jury to determine both guilt and penalty (People v. Bradford, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 1353), Penal Code section 190.4, subdivision (c), requires the guilt jury to decide the penalty unless the court discharges that jury \"for good cause shown.\" Defendant argues good cause existed here. The trial court expressed the view that it was \"almost automatic\" that the jury, which had found defendant guilty of the charged crimes, would find he also killed Heather Scaggs once the prosecution proved the same person committed that crime. Defendant argues this observation shows that the jury would be unable to perform its duty properly. It did not. The comment reflected the state of the evidence, not jury bias. fn. 7 The jury's guilt verdict was based on the evidence. If the jury also found defendant killed Scaggs, which was, indeed, almost certain given the evidence, that finding would also be based on the evidence, not bias. The trial court does not \"abuse its discretion in declining to impanel a new jury based upon the assertion that the jury at the penalty phase might be prejudiced by having heard the evidence of the capital crimes.\" (People v. Bradford, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 1354.) Defendant had the opportunity to try to raise a reasonable doubt that he killed Scaggs. That he was unlikely to succeed before this jury, or any other that heard the evidence, provided no cause to impanel a new jury and effectively retry the entire case. The court acted within its discretion in following the preferred procedure. (Id. at p. 1353.)\n\n2. Reliance on the Hansen/Haertle Crimes as Aggravating Evidence\n\n[21] At the guilt phase, the prosecution presented evidence of the Hansen/Haertle crimes to prove defendant's guilt of the charged offenses. The court instructed the jury it was only to consider the evidence as it bore on guilt and not to prove defendant had a \"bad character or ... a disposition to commit crimes.\" At the penalty phase, the prosecution did not again [21 Cal. 4th 1060] prove defendant committed those crimes, but it relied on them as aggravating circumstances under Penal Code section 190.3, factor (b) (criminal activity involving force or violence). Defendant contends this reliance was improper, the prosecutor committed misconduct in arguing those crimes to the jury, and defense counsel were incompetent for not objecting. He argues that because the guilt phase evidence was admitted only for the limited purpose of showing guilt, and the prosecution did not prove the crimes again at the penalty phase, \"there was insufficient evidence ... for the jury to find that those crimes constituted aggravating evidence ....\"\n\nThe claims of insufficient evidence and misconduct are not cognizable on appeal because defendant failed to object or otherwise raise the issue at trial. (People v. Montiel (1993) 5 Cal. 4th 877, 928 & fn. 23 [21 Cal. Rptr. 2d 705, 855 P.2d 1277]; Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 413.) Moreover, any objection would have lacked merit. Defendant relies on People v. Champion (1995) 9 Cal. 4th 879, 946-947 [39 Cal. Rptr. 2d 547, 891 P.2d 93]. That case involved guilt phase evidence that was unrelated to any aggravating factor under Penal Code section 190.3. Nothing in that opinion suggests that the jury could not consider guilt phase evidence that was related to an aggravating factor. Evidence is admitted at the guilt phase, as in any criminal trial, solely to prove guilt, not to prove the presence or absence of aggravating or mitigating factors under Penal Code section 190.3. But the penalty jury may consider all evidence relevant to aggravation or mitigation, whether admitted at an earlier phase for another purpose or at the penalty phase. (Pen. Code, § 190.4, subd. (d); People v. Medina (1995) 11 Cal. 4th 694, 778-779 [47 Cal. Rptr. 2d 165, 906 P.2d 2].) In other words, the prosecution is not required to prove again at the penalty phase all guilt phase evidence that relates to an aggravating factor.\n\nThe prosecution presented overwhelming evidence at the guilt phase that defendant committed the Hansen/Haertle crimes. The crimes involved force and violence. The prosecution properly argued, and the jury properly considered, that evidence in aggravation under Penal Code section 190.3, factor (b).\n\n3. Admission of Defendant's Conviction for Escape\n\nOver defense objection under Evidence Code section 352, the court admitted evidence of defendant's 1970 conviction for escape. Defendant contends the court erred. We disagree for the reasons we stated in rejecting defendant's similar contention in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at page 402.\n\n4. Evidence of Prior Unadjudicated Criminal Acts\n\n[22] Defendant renews a number of arguments we have already rejected regarding the evidence of unadjudicated crimes. Because the court instructed [21 Cal. 4th 1061] that the jurors may consider evidence of another crime only if they believed beyond a reasonable doubt he committed it, presenting the evidence did not infringe on the presumption of innocence. (People v. Visciotti (1992) 2 Cal. 4th 1, 69-70 [5 Cal. Rptr. 2d 495, 825 P.2d 388]; People v. Benson (1990) 52 Cal. 3d 754, 809-810 [276 Cal. Rptr. 827, 802 P.2d 330].) The jury need not unanimously decide the truth of unadjudicated crimes. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 401.) Using a \"death-qualified\" jury is permissible. (Id. at p. 402.) The court did not err in admitting evidence of crimes for which charges were never brought or were dismissed as part of plea bargains, and on which the statute of limitations had expired. (Ibid.)\n\n5. Limitations on Defense Expert Testimony\n\n[23] As at the first trial, Dr. Haney testified at length about defendant's incarceration in various institutions and other matters, and the court placed a few restrictions on the scope of that testimony. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 403-404.) Defendant contends the court impermissibly limited the expert testimony in violation of his right to present mitigating evidence. We disagree. As we explained in greater detail in rejecting a similar contention in Carpenter II, the trial court retains discretion to exclude expert testimony, including hearsay testimony, that is unreliable or irrelevant, or whose potential for prejudice outweighs its proper probative value. (Ibid.)\n\n\"Each of the challenged rulings came within the court's discretion.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 403.) The court allowed Dr. Haney to testify that when he interviewed defendant's mother in 1983, she was \"a very intelligent person, very complex, very strong even at an advanced age.\" It sustained as irrelevant other questions regarding what she was like at that particular interview, held two years after the crimes and many years after she raised defendant. The court also found irrelevant testimony about some of the details of her background, which was based on another doctor's report. Contrary to defendant's argument, however, the court did not exclude testimony concerning her \"behavior.\" It permitted much evidence on that subject. Although it found that evidence of the mother's \"upbringing ... goes too far afield,\" it expressly permitted evidence about what the mother \"did in relationship to\" defendant. The court also excluded certain photographs from a 1947 newspaper article regarding conditions of confinement at Napa State Hospital, where defendant had been incarcerated. That ruling also came within the court's discretion, as did a similar ruling at the first trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 403-404.)\n\nAs in the first trial, \"The trial court allowed defendant reasonably wide latitude to present his mitigating evidence consistent with California law of [21 Cal. 4th 1062] evidence. The few restrictions it placed on the extensive expert testimony neither abused its discretion nor violated defendant's right to present mitigating evidence.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 404.)\n\n6. Prosecution Expert Rebuttal Evidence\n\n[24] At the first trial, the prosecution presented the expert testimony of Drs. Thomas Szasz and Stanton Samenow to rebut the defense expert testimony. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 405.) Defendant moved to exclude similar testimony at the second trial. At the hearing on the motion, the court stated it had read the transcript of the testimony at the first trial. It eventually allowed both experts to testify but restricted the scope of their testimony. Defendant contends the court erred in permitting them to testify at all.\n\nDefendant contends Dr. Szasz's testimony violated his right to present mitigating evidence and to present a defense and was not proper expert testimony. We disagree for essentially the reasons we stated in rejecting defendant's similar arguments in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 405-407. Defendant correctly notes that in Carpenter II, we found the contentions he makes here not cognizable because he failed to object on those grounds at trial. (Id. at p. 405.) However, we also rejected these contentions on the merits for reasons that apply here. The right to present a defense and mitigating evidence, including expert testimony, does not include the right to present evidence free from rebuttal by contrary expert testimony. (Id. at p. 406; see also People v. Smithey, supra, 20 Cal.4th at pp. 964-967.) We also note that, in an apparent attempt to weaken Dr. Szasz's credibility, defendant himself elicited much of the testimony that he now cites. Although defendant may argue that the court should not have allowed the witness to testify at all, he may not assert that testimony he elicited himself was itself inadmissible. (People v. Moran (1970) 1 Cal. 3d 755, 762 [83 Cal. Rptr. 411, 463 P.2d 763].)\n\nDefendant argues that Dr. Samenow's testimony violated his right to individualized sentencing. Again, we disagree for essentially the reasons we stated in rejecting defendant's similar argument in Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pages 407-408. As in the earlier trial, \"The penalty jury certainly learned of defendant as a 'uniquely individual human being[]'; it heard a massive amount of evidence about defendant, including testimony from Dr. Samenow himself.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 408.) Indeed, in Carpenter II, defendant argued that the court's rulings in this trial restricting the witness's testimony showed that the earlier court erred. (Id. at p. 408.) We disagreed. But if, as we found, the earlier court's rulings were proper, [21 Cal. 4th 1063] the rulings in this case, more favorable to the defense, were certainly not error of which defendant can complain. Defendant makes one argument regarding Dr. Samenow he did not make in Carpenter II. He complains that some of the testimony was impermissible evidence of future dangerousness. The contention is not cognizable because defendant did not object on that ground at trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 405.) Moreover, to the extent Dr. Samenow's testimony might suggest defendant will remain dangerous, the testimony was proper rebuttal to the defense evidence. (People v. Mattson (1990) 50 Cal. 3d 826, 878 [268 Cal. Rptr. 802, 789 P.2d 983].)\n\n7. Refusal to Give Special Instruction on the Meaning of Life Without Possibility of Parole\n\n[25] Defendant contends the court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that the punishment for life without possibility of parole means \"the defendant will be confined in prison until he dies, without the possibility of parole or release.\" The court did not err. (People v. Arias (1996) 13 Cal. 4th 92, 172-173 [51 Cal. Rptr. 2d 770, 913 P.2d 980].) The requested instruction in this case was worded slightly differently than the one in Arias, but, contrary to defendant's contention, it was identical in substance and contained the same inaccuracy.\n\nDefendant attempts to distinguish Arias by arguing that here, unlike that case, the prosecutor \"suggested\" to the jury in argument that defendant might pose a threat to the community at large. (Cf. People v. Arias, supra, 13 Cal.4th at p. 173, fn. 30.) Defendant does not appear to, and cannot, directly challenge the prosecutor's argument on this basis, for he failed to object at trial. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 413.) Moreover, the prosecutor did not argue, or even \"suggest,\" that defendant might be released into the community or otherwise pose a danger to the community outside prison. Defendant pulls from context widely scattered snippets of the prosecutor's lengthy summation and asserts that, in combination, they contain this suggestion. They do not. fn. 8 Moreover, if defense counsel at trial believed the prosecutor made some improper suggestion, they could have objected and easily clarified the matter. They did not.\n\nDefendant also argues the failure to give the instruction violated his right to present, and have the jury consider, mitigating evidence. It did not. [21 Cal. 4th 1064] Defendant was permitted to present, and did present, a wide array of evidence he considered mitigating. No one suggested to the jury that defendant might be released if given life without parole or that the jury should not consider any of the defense evidence.\n\n8. Other Contentions\n\nDefendant renews a number of arguments we have already rejected. California's death penalty law does not fail to narrow adequately the class of offenders eligible for the death penalty. Moreover, defendant, a serial killer, would be death-eligible under almost any reasonable narrowing scheme. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 419-420.) Prosecutorial discretion in deciding whether to seek the death penalty is constitutional. (Id. at p. 421.) The court need not have instructed on burden and standards of proof more than it did. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 417-418; People v. Holt, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 682-684.) It need not instruct \"on the presumption of life.\" (People v. Arias, supra, 13 Cal.4th at p. 190.) It need not delete inapplicable statutory factors or designate aggravating and mitigating factors. (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at pp. 420, 421.) The jury does not have to make written findings. (Id. at p. 421.) Proportionality review is not required. Moreover, if it were, it is inconceivable defendant would benefit from it. (Ibid.) The \"Three Strikes\" law did not abolish the death penalty. (Ibid.)\n\n9. Cumulative Prejudice\n\nDefendant contends the cumulative effect of guilt and penalty errors was prejudicial. There was, however, no error to cumulate. As in Carpenter II, this trial was \"remarkably error free.\" (Carpenter II, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 422.) Moreover, for the reasons we stated in rejecting a similar contention in Carpenter II, this was not a close penalty case. (Id. at pp. 422-423.)\n\nIII. Conclusion\n\nThe judgment is affirmed.\n\nGeorge, C. J., Baxter, J., Werdegar, J., and Brown, J., concurred.\n\n\n\nConcurring.-In In re Carpenter (1995) 9 Cal. 4th 634 [38 Cal. Rptr. 2d 665, 889 P.2d 985], I joined Justice Mosk's dissenting opinion, which concluded that this court should grant defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus and vacate the judgment in its entirety on the ground that Jury Foreperson Barbara Durham was biased against him. (Id. at pp. 660-687 (dis. [21 Cal. 4th 1065] opn. of Mosk, J., concurred in by Lucas, C. J., and Kennard, J.).) Although I have not departed from that view, the question whether Juror Durham was biased is not at issue here. As Justice Chin's majority opinion explains, none of the claims defendant raises in his appeal is meritorious. I therefore concur in the majority's reasoning and result.\n\n\n\nI dissent.\n\nI would have affirmed the judgment of the superior court on habeas corpus, in which, on the facts there disclosed, it granted relief to David Joseph Carpenter from its earlier judgment of death because the jury foreperson was demonstrably biased against him at trial. (In re Carpenter (1995) 9 Cal. 4th 634, 660-687 [38 Cal. Rptr. 2d 665, 889 P.2d 985] (dis. opn. of Mosk, J.).)\n\nTherefore, I cannot now join in affirming the judgment of death on appeal.\n\nAppellant's petition for a rehearing was denied January 19, 2000. Mosk, J., was of the opinion that the petition should be granted.\n\nFN 1. At the guilt phase, the trial court excluded as unduly prejudicial evidence of the rape and murder of Heather Scaggs, the other Santa Cruz County crimes. (Carpenter I, supra, 9 Cal.4th at p. 641.)\n\nFN 2. We quote the current version of Penal Code section 654. It was substantially identical at the time of the crimes and trials.\n\nFN 3. In 1998, long after defendant's trials, Penal Code section 790 was amended to permit murders committed in different counties to be tried together in certain circumstances. (Pen. Code, § 790, subd. (b); Stats. 1998, ch. 549, § 1.)\n\nFN 4. Defendant does not specifically argue the separate prosecutions violated the prohibition against double jeopardy. That argument would also lack merit. \" '[T]he murder of two persons, even by the same act, constitutes two offenses, for each of which a separate prosecution will lie, and ... a conviction or acquittal in one case does not bar a prosecution in the other.' \" (People v. McLain, supra, 46 Cal.3d at pp. 120-121, quoting People v. Majors (1884) 65 Cal. 138, 146-147 [3 P. 597].)\n\nFN 5. In addition, the prosecution did not offer, and the court indicated it would not have admitted, evidence indicating that defendant made a sexual advance towards the witness when he showed her the gun at the park.\n\nFN 6. It is not clear whether defendant also contends the court erred in not giving a limiting instruction, as it offered to do. If he does, the contention lacks merit. He did not request a limiting instruction; the court has no sua sponte duty to give one. (People v. Collie (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 43, 63-64 [177 Cal. Rptr. 458, 634 P.2d 534, 23 A.L.R.4th 776].)\n\nFN 7. The evidence of Scaggs's murder, first presented at the penalty phase, provided yet additional compelling evidence of defendant's guilt. It would be utterly unreasonable to suppose that some hypothetical real killer (who looked like defendant, wore a distinctive jacket like defendant's, wore shoes of the same size and pattern as a pair defendant purchased the day before one of the murders, and drove a red Fiat like defendant's) had obtained the murder weapon from defendant's friend, then used it in Santa Cruz to kill defendant's coworker who, when last seen alive, was scheduled to drive to Santa Cruz with defendant.\n\nFN 8. As part of his chain of reasoning, defendant asserts the prosecutor \"agreed that [defendant] would probably behave well in prison.\" However, the prosecutor agreed only that defendant had occasionally behaved well in prison in the past, not that he would behave in the future. In responding to defense evidence of certain good prison behavior, the prosecutor argued that defendant \"did\" behave on those occasions, and that \"[t]here is absolutely no dispute that that's how he operated with those people in that particular context.\" Citing other evidence, the prosecutor then argued that even in the past, defendant had not always behaved well in prison.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.7065033912658691}
+{"content": "Iris Bed - (Preorder)\n\nLilly Bear Studio Props\n\n\nAdorable bamboo crib/bed.\n\nTHIS PROP IS A PREORDER ITEM. These props should be arriving by June 2021. \n\nThese props are one of a kind and the perfect prop for newborns, sitters and even little kids!\n\nEach prop is unique, varying in character, size, and colour. May vary from pictures. \n\nIf you order a RTS (ready to ship) item and a PRE-ORDER item in one order everything will ship together as you were charged a single shipping rate. If you would like your RTS sooner, versus waiting for it to be shipped with your made to order pre-order wood prop/s - PLEASE make a separate order.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9994136095046997}
+{"content": "Robredo laments lack of support for ‘Otso Diretso’ in Mindanao\n\nBy Raymund Antonio\n\nVice President and opposition leader Leni Robredo lamented the apparent lack of support for “Otso Diretso” senatorial candidates from Mindanaoans during the campaign period.\n\nVice President Leni Robredo (OVP / FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN)\nVice President Leni Robredo (OVP / FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN)\n\nRobredo, who is the chairperson of the once ruling Liberal Party, cited the low voters preference for opposition bets in Mindanao, which she said can be attributed to the prominence of President Rodrigo Duterte.\n\n“Sa Bicol po kasi, iyong sa survey, from the very start, mataas iyong walo. Actually, sa buong Pilipinas, dito sila sa Bicol medyo consistent. Iyong mas problema talaga iyong Mindanao,” she said.\n\n(In Bicol, based on the surveys, from the very the start, the eight candidates have high ratings. Actually, in the entire Philippines, they have been consistent here in Bicol. The problem really is Mindanao.)\n\n“Iyong problema talaga sa Mindanao kasi dahil siguro kasi oposisyon, iyong mga sympathetic kay Presidente,talagang dina-down,” she explained.\n\n(The problem is Mindanao because they are from the opposition, the people sympathetic to the President really turned them down.)\n\nThe administration candidates have a solid support base in Mindanao after it has become Duterte’s stronghold. He is the first Philippine president from Mindanao.\n\nIn various pre-election surveys, they were overwhelming top choice of Mindanao residents compared to the Otso Diretso candidates.\n\nThe Vice President said they were banking on other areas, where the opposition bets have solid numbers like Bicol.\n\n“So ang hope natin na iyong lakas nila sa Bicol iyon din iyong, parang, magko-compensate—magko-compensate sa hina sa ibang lugar,” she said.\n\n(So our hope they are strong in Bicol, it would compensate for the weakness in other areas.)\n\nJust last week, Robredo even worked harder to convince the people from\nBicol to vote for the “deserving” Otso Diretso bets.\n\nThe Vice President campaigned for the opposition senatorial candidates by herself during a motorcade in Sorsogon and launch of her “Ahon Laylayan” coalition in Masbate, Catanduanes, and Naga City. #MatalinongBoto2019", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6819937825202942}
+{"content": "Okashi Crate\n\nWhat is Okashi Crate?\n\nOkashi Crate is a subscription box that comes with plethora of Japanese snacks, candies and drink included a snack that you have just chosen ,to make every single one of you happy and to enlighten your day.\n\nWhat is inside my crate?\n\nYour crate will be filled with snacks, candies and drink that are limited-edition, seasonal and most of all are exclusive only in Japan. Better yet, some could be purchasable only in certain areas in Japan.\n\nWhat can I get in my first crate?\n\nYou will get tons of different snacks, candies and drink that you have never seen before, plus one snack from the choices we offer. All items will be selected one by one and be packed with the utmost care. Wait and see till you find out what’s inside!\n\nWhat is the difference between yours and another Japanese snack subscription?\n\nMost of all, the biggest difference from others is that you get to choose one snack from the choices we offer to curate your own crate! OR, you can leave us with the choosing process and make you crate a complete mystery. How exciting!\n\nCan I purchase a past crate?\n\nYes, past crates will be available for purchase on our website at the beginning of next month. We will officially announce all items that were curated so stay tuned! However, please be advised the service of “SNACK OF THE MONTH” will not be applied in past crate.\n\n\nCan I customize my box for other restrictions and food allergies?\n\nUnfortunately, customization for all items is not possible, but you can only choose one snack from the choices we offer every month. Please note that you can check ingredients and allergy information by scanning QR code on your booklet for further information from our website. DON’T FORGET TO CHECK BEFORE ENJOY EATING OUR SNACKS!\n\nWhat should I do if snacks are expired?\n\nWe will guarantee that no expired items will be included in your crate!!! There is “Best Before Dates” or the kanji “賞味期限“ label on every snacks to indicate expiration date (Please be advised that some of manufacture in Japan may show expiration date labels start from YYYY/MM/DD) ,but only chewing gums are not required for expired indication due to their ingredients.\n\nDo not panic If you found the snack is to be expired, please send a photo of expired snack to us at obachan@okashicrate.com. Take it easy and enjoy the goodies we offer!\n\nHow long can I enjoy my snacks and candies after the “best before date”?\n\nActually, \"Best Before Dates\" or the kanji “賞味期限“ are an indicator of peak quality that manufacturer claim for product’s freshness, taste, nutritional value so you can still eat items even they are over-dated but please be aware that the flavor and texture might not be as good.\n\nAre the snacks and candies for vegetarian/gluten-free/halal?\n\nGenerally, we do not curate our crates with snacks that includes any meat. But it does not mean we are targeting customers who are vegetarian or halal. For your better understanding, we provide ingredients and allergy information of monthly's crate on our website. Please scan the QR code on your booklet for further information from our website.\n\nWill you provide nutritional/ingredients?\n\nYou can check ingredient and allergy information by scanning the QR code on your booklet for quickly and easily access.\n\nCan I get a free crate to review on my vlog/channel?\n\nWe do offer free crates for sponsored review.\nPlease contact us at obachan@okashicrate.com and we will get back to you. \n\nWhen is the cut-off for ordering next month’s crate?\n\nThe cut-off date for the next crate will be the LAST DAY OF THE MONTH.\nFor example, the cut-off-date for January crate will be 31th December 23:59 PST.\n\nCan I get a refund if I don’t like my crate?\n\nWe do not accept any requests for refund unless you have reached the requirements we propose. But please let us know if you're not happy with our crate. We are willing to get any feedbacks and suggestions from you. All your comments are helpful to make us improve for the future subscription boxes.\n\nWhat is price in my country’s currency?\n\nBasically, the prices shown on our website are in USD. However, you can convert into a currency you wish to see the price in your country by clicking the \"Currencies Button\" on the lower right corner.\n\n\n“SNACK OF THE MONTH” can be chosen from the choices we offer on our website that will be changed every month. We are confident to announce that Okashi Crate is the ONLY Japanese subscription box who offers this kind of service.\n\nWhat happens if I do not select any snacks for the month?\n\nIf you do not choose any item from our choices, we will choose them for you without any notice.\n\nWhy can't I select snacks of the month?\n\nThere are two reasons. Either there might be issues with the connection of your computer or the webpage for selecting snacks is closed. The page will be closed automatically once one or two of snacks out of the options are sold out.\n\nCan I skip my crate for this month?\n\nWe are sorry, but you cannot skip your crate for the month.\n\nHow can I change my subscription plan?\n\nThe only time that you can change your subscription plan or cancellation is until 3 days prior to the upcoming billing date (renewal date), which will be charged on the same day of the week you originally signed up.\n\nHow do I cancel my subscription?\n\nLogin to “My Account” and go to \"Manage Subscription\" ,then click \"Cancel\" to unsubscribe the upcoming subscription and your cancellation period is until 3 days prior to the upcoming billing date (renewal date)Please keep in mind that you can not cancel your current subscription once you have placed an order.\n\nIs it possible to purchase a crate without subscribing?\n\nUnfortunately, you cannot purchase our crate without subscribing. The option you could take is to subscribe Okashi Crate for a 1-month plan then deactivate your subscription 3 days before your next billing date.\n\nCan I cancel by subscription halfway and get a refund?\n\nWe do not accept any refund even you make cancel during your subscription. It is because the benefit of charges being made in advance of the crate for long-term subscription is that the price of boxes each month will be set to a lower price.\n\nI forgot to cancel my subscription. Can I return the crate?\n\nPlease keep in mind that our system is auto-renewal. If you don't want to continue the journey with us, please cancel your subscription through 'My Account' prior to the upcoming billing date (renewal date)! Once your subscription on Okashi Crate has renewed, there will be no exceptions for any refund.\n\n\nWhen will you ship my crate?\n\nOnce we confirm your order, we will have your crate shipped within one or two business days. For example, if you placed order on December 1st(Tue.), your crate will be shipped December 2nd (Wed.), and if you placed an order on December 4th (Fri.), your crate will be shipped on December 7th (Mon.).\n\nHow long does it take for my crate to be delivered?\n\nYour crate will be arrived within 2 days to 4 weeks from ship date but the amount of days for shipment may differ depending on destination country.\n\nHow does your rolling shipment system work?\n\nWe have set our goal to ship your crates within one or two business days once you have subscribed our crate.\n\nHow do I change my shipping address?\n\nYou can make any changes on your shipping address or personal information by logging in to “My Account”. If you wish to change your shipping address after your crate has been shipped out from our warehouse, please contact us at obahcan@okashicrate.com\n\nWhat should I do if I made a mistake with my shipping address?\n\nThese mistakes happen countless times, which is why we ask you to be extra careful when registering your shipping address. If we ever confirm your crate being returned to us, we will reship your box to the correct address within an additional charge which depends on destination countries for the shipping fee. However, if there is no sign of your crate being returned, we have no choice but to ask you to repurchase your crate for the month.\n\nWhat should I do if my crate is damaged?\n\nPlease contact your local post office or DHL due to damage can be occurred during the shipping.\n\nWill customs delay my crate?\n\nIt is possible. All shipments from overseas must be held in customs during the clearance process which may lead to having your crates be delayed for arrival.\n\nMy crate has been sent back to you. Can you resend my crate?\n\nOf course! We will have your crate taken care for reshipping. However, please be advised that there will be an additional charge of 20 USD.\n\nDo you do international shipping?\n\nAbsolutely! We ship our crates worldwide!\nWith exception of countries such as Japan, North Korea, Russia, India, China, due to high risk of missing and lost parcel, undeliverable, customs etc.\n\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nWhat sort of shipment methods do you have?\n\nCurrently, we are using Japan Post and DHL only. Carrier will be chosen depending on the destination country.\n\nIs it possible to us other couriers besides DHL?\n\nWe may consider when such requests are made going forward. Okashi Crate will promise and do our best to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.\n\nI didn’t receive my crate. Can you send it to me again?\n\nYour crate may have arrived at your shipping address, but you were not there to get it. In this case, the parcel will be held at a local post office or DHL within a certain period. We recommend you to contact the local post or DHL for rescheduling your delivery.\n\nIf you do not contact any of the them within the deadline that is given, we kindly ask for your understanding that any compensation will not be made.\n\n\nI checked my tracking number but why the status hasn’t changed?\n\nProbably because one, the crate has not been shipped from our warehouse or two, the Japan Post or DHL has not yet scanned the invoice for updating the status.\n\nMy package has marked as delivered but why I haven’t received it?\n\nYour crate will be shipped by Japan Post or DHL. Therefore, please contact the two carriers for further details.\n\nWhat does “retention” mean?\n\nIf the tracking status is shown as “Retention”, it means either your crate is being held due to customs clearance, or you were not present at your shipping address for receiving. Furthermore, since the world situation has been changing within a phenomenal speed due to the pandemic of COVID-19, delays of delivery is inevitable. So don’t panic and please contact the carrier for further details regarding the tracking status.\n\nWhat does “arrive at collection” mean?\n\nIf the tracking status is shown as “Arrive at Collection Point”, it means your crate has been delivered to its final destination with your shipping address being excluded. Generally, you do not need to contact the carrier for requesting delivery but if you wish to acquire an accurate answer, please contact Japan Post/DHL.\n\nWhy is my crate not shipped with a tracking number?\n\nDue to services provided by Japan Post and DHL, only packages to certain countries comes with tracking numbers.\n\nBilling and Payment\n\nWhat payment methods can I use?\n\nCurrently payments that we accept are listed as below:\n\n・American Express\n・Apple Pay\n・Master Card\n\nWhen will I be charged?\n\nFor first time subscribers, you will be billed on the day you register your subscription, and for auto-renewal subscribers, you will be charged on the same day of the week you originally signed up. As for the withdrawal date, please contact your credit card company for further details.\n\nCan I pay in a currency other than USD?\n\nWe are sorry, Okashi Crate will only accept payments in USD.\n\nDoes shipping cost include international customs and taxes?\n\nThe shipping fee does not include any additional cost such as customs fee and taxes.\n\nWhat can I do if my credit card does not get accepted?\n\nThe credit card company you have registered may not be approved by Okashi Crate. Please once again, check your credit card company if it's listed in our approval list or not.\n\nFor long-term subscription, is it all charged in advance?\n\nAll payments will be charged in advance.\n\nHow can I reactivate my cancelled subscription?\n\nLogin to “My Account” and go to \"Manage Subscription\" ,then click \"Re-activate\" to continue your journey with us.\n\nWhy does it show payment error?\n\nIf you’re having trouble with your payment getting approved, please check if any sort of information is mistaken.\n\nWhat is your refund policy?\n\nIf you have a case with packages being lost or double subscribed by mistake, please contact us to so we can figure out if you qualify to receive a refund. Please be sure to give out information such as order number, and the reason for requesting a refund. Canceling your subscription will not issue any refund. Therefore, if you fail to cancel your subscription before the next billing date, you will not be refunded.\n\nHow does the customs work?\n\nCustom fees and taxes will be charged separately by customs and not to be included in the shipping fee since it varies depending on the destination country. Therefore, no refunds will be accepted even if the cost above does not match your expectations. \n\n\nIs it safe to receive an international shipment in this pandemic situation?\n\nOkashi Crate is closely monitoring the pandemic situation due to COVID-19. According to WHO and Robert Koch Institute, there is no conclusive evidence that an infection with any type of coronavirus is possible through contact with objects or packages, including those arriving from areas where cases have been reported. In addition, FDA has officially announced that there is no evidence to determine if a box or container is contaminated with the virus.\n\nOkashi Crate hopes for you and your family’s full safety and health. We will always be with you every step of the way for your long journey with us!", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.965709388256073}
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+{"content": "“Weigh days” in ED recovery\n\nYour worth can never be defined by a number\n\nWeigh day in recovery This used to instil dread and fear into me and so I want discuss this further as I’m willing to bet it’s a common experience in recovery.\n\nI’ve already talked about my tenuous relationship with the scales. However in early recovery when we are “ nutritionally rehabilitating” the scales can be important in therapy. Weight restoration can be an integral part of ones recovery.\n\nI was doing my usual re-reading old journal entries and so many were about “weigh days”.\n\nFor me, I used to experience extreme anxiety leading up to weigh day and then days following.\n\nWhy is “weigh day”so traumatic for someone in recovery?\n\nPeople with eating disorders tend to obsess over numbers, whether it’s calories, clothes sizes, or the frigging number on the scale. The numbers torment us. We live by them, we fear them. Therefore on the days I had managed to gain weight my eating disorder voice would throw a full on wobbly, if I’d lost it would throw a full on wobbly. You cannot appease an eating disorder.\n\nFor my family the “weigh days” were important to them, they were afraid it was one of the only ways the could tell if I was “doing ok” or slipping because of the secretive nature of ED. This reinforced the anxiety as-well, the concern of feeling like a failure or the threat of more focus being placed on me. But, I had lied before, many times and so I respected the validation they needed whilst I rebuilt trust.\n\nThe “target weight” issue\n\nI personally don’t feel that “target weights” are helpful to most of us with EDs. I completely get why health professionals use them, but I personally feel that they have the potential to perpetuate trepidation and internal judgements that exceeding that target weight is to be feared or avoided.\n\nRealistically most of us go way over. We go over because we need to, it’s called overshoot and it’s natural. It’s your bodies way of protecting you in case another famine arises. It’s why when people continually diet end up heavier because their bodies no longer trust them. However eventually when you let go of the diet BS, your body figures it’s shit out. But try rationalizing that with someone fighting an ED voice and going against an entire society who shares the ideology weight gain is a negative.\n\nI believe holding on to my target weight kept me stuck, every time I got close to I’d bail on my recovery efforts, if I surpassed this arbitrary number I slipped. Until I let go of weighing and ate unrestricted. For some I imagine having a rough idea of a target may help them but for many like myself it can be a sticking point.\n\nI know that, eating disorders love to hold on to numbers, to manipulate our thoughts and behaviors. Mine convinced me I needed to know my weight in early recovery to “monitor progress to “check”. Let’s cut through the crap, my eating disorder wanted to know the number as a “form of control” to ensure I wasn’t “gaining too much, too fast” it colluded with the numbers and therefore my behavior. This was continual until I was willing to accept my motives to know the number was not healthy.\n\nAdditionally certain values held specific connotations to previous relapses, or behaviors. For example the “target weight” hurdle was a huge trigger. I found it almost impossible to reach or pass when I knew the value because my eating disorder voice would get so much louder.\n\nRecovery is hard enough, why make it harder for yourself by observing the scales? If you follow the recovery process, eating enough, not engaging in behaviors your body will recover and reach its natural weight without your eating disorder trying to complicate/ control things along the way.\n\nFor a while, I couldn’t know my weight, or (when agreed with my therapist) we reduced the weigh days.\n\nThere are pros and cons to this. Weight provides teams with anthropological information about recovery.\n\nRegardless of whether it’s vital you are weighed you do not need to know your weight, you have the right when you attend a medical appointment to be blind weighed.\n\nFast forward to now, I’ve been in recovery for a while, there are days where I feel a draw to the scales. I know it’s never about the scale and I return to my recovery tool box to find what I need. I do not weigh myself. If I have to be weighed I would like to think it would cause little more than an internal stir.\n\nIf I have the situation where I have to be weighed:\n\nI will likely follow my own healthy voice’s advice and ask for the number not to be made known to myself. Because, weight has no value to who we are. We do not need to know. It’s not worth giving the unhealthy part of my brain ammunition.\n\n“Recovery Burnout”\n\nMaintaining momentum in recovery is exhausting.\n\n\n\n\nThis definition is also applicable to recovery don’t you think?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHypothalamic amenorrhea #1\n\nThis post is not intended as medical advice and I am not an expert. I write this with lived experience, the intention of raising awareness and promoting self advocacy.\n\nHave you lost your period?\n\nLosing your period is never something that should be taken lightly, it can be a serious indicator that your body is functioning suboptimally.\n\nWhat is Hypothalamic Amenorrhea?\n\nThe absence of a period for 3 or more months related to an problem with the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is situated in the brain it connects our endocrine system to our central nervous system. It has many roles- it basically acts as a regulator for many of our bodies systems. It is the main regulator of the pituitary gland which is the where central regulating hormones are released. Some of those hormones include reproductive hormones, needed for menstruation.\n\nHypothalamic amenorrhea- When the control centre of the brain that regulates hormone secretion– is turned off.\n\nWhy does this happen?\n\nThere are several factors that can lead to disruption to the hypothalamic signalling. This post is focusing on the reproductive aspects- hypothalamic amenorrhea. My intention is to give a brief outline to help you understand 1.why it happens, 2. Why doctors don’t necessarily consider it when they see someone in front of them.\n\nFactors that lead to HA:\n\nEnergy deficit, this is the biggest factor and can occur due to a plethora of reasons. One of those is dieting. Whether this is through intermittent fasting- where the regular signals are not being maintained, caloric deficit, or excluding specific food groups such as cutting carbs/ fats, they all disrupt the signalling from the hypothalamus.\n\n◦ If your hypothalamus perceives energy deficit it shuts down non vital functions of the body. It keeps you alive, it’s like a book balancer. What you don’t “need” it cuts. Menstruation is a function of reproductive health. Therefore, it is not a vital component to staying alive. Therefore it shuts off this non vital function, in order to preserve other functions including keeping your heart beating. This is another reason why we tend to feel COLD ALL the time when we are in energy deficit or have HA- the generator shuts off the heater to conserve other functions.\n\nWeight loss regardless of your size. You can have HA at any BMI. Firstly, If you lose weight it’s likely related to energy deficit, however when you lose weight you lose important regulating hormones (leptin) which are in fat cells and this is part of the feedback system to the hypothalamus.\n\nStress. Something that puts stress on your body can disrupt periods. This may be through emotional or physical stress. Cortisol turns off the hypothalamus. Therefore it can cause you to lose your period.\n\n◦ For similar reasons to above- exercise especially high intensity exercise can raise your cortisol by placing stress on your body. Additionally it can lead to energy deficit and weight loss and so it’s continues the issue. This is part of “female athlete triad”\n\nUnfortunately HA is a common issue, however it’s not always recognized. Partly because it’s not understood and there are many misconceptions around HA. For instance people inhabiting in larger bodies are often rewarded for their weight loss efforts and exercising, but we know that HA can occur at any size. But often we are not as open with healthcare professionals about our lifestyle and they often don’t enquire.\n\nWhen women lose their periods they are sometimes then commenced on the contraceptive pill to “restart” their cycle, or in some instances diagnosed with Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).\n\nUnfortunately this is a problem because the management of PCOS- is often the complete opposite of HA. The contraceptive pill does not address the underlying issue, energy deficit. A bleed induced by the oral contraceptive pill is not a real period. If you took the pill away likely the person would not bleed.\n\nI lost my period for a long time, thankfully I have healed from HA personally.\n\nWhen in the depths of my eating disorder I did not advocate for myself or share my situation with healthcare professionals. I was advised at times to take hormones, I was not advised to stop/ reduce my exercise or eat more for instance. Getting a diagnosis is challenging because one, we don’t share and two it’s not always on the healthcare professionals radar.\n\nHowever sharing knowledge with health professionals can help raise awareness.\n\nI am no expert, I write this purely from personal experience and getting to know people within the recovery community.\n\nI encourage anyone who has lost their period to seek medical advice, there are many reasons for this not just HA. But if you are someone who could be at risk of this you may need to advocate for yourself here.\n\nI’ll write a separate post about some of the myths and issues associated to HA.\n\nJournaling #1 ED recovery\n\nJournaling can be a game changer in eating disorder recovery. It has been for me.\n\nYour journal can become one of your most powerful allies, it can become a well honed tool from your ever growing recovery toolkit. It’s versatile and you can scribble anything you like anywhere. There’s no right or wrong way to journalling. Journals can be sculpted to wherever you are at in your recovery. Journals can be used for outpouring your thoughts or completing specific activities.\n\nIf you’ve not tried the whole journaling shizzle out yet, I highly recommend you give it a go.\n\n\nJournalling gives us a safe space to churn our thoughts on to the page in all their ugliness or beauty depending how you view it. Thoughts you wouldn’t otherwise exorcise.\n\nThe journal itself can be used as a recovery tool, through various journalling exercises and practices you can solidify some of the groundwork from therapy sessions etc.\n\nSometimes the journal can be as simple as your listening ear when your struggling with an urge. Often the time it takes to write out the thoughts and feelings around a behaviour or an urge is long enough for the urge to pass and you’ve got written evidence of what led to the feeling or thought to help you next time it occurs. Win. Win.\n\nWe often take progress we’ve made for granted, but re-reading journals can really help you see each tiny step you’ve made even when you feel like you’re stationary.\n\nI’ve never been a “big sharer” of my thoughts or feelings (until I was well into recovery and now I write a very un-private blog with all my craziness laid bear). However journalling helped me to share some of my most shameful thoughts, fears and emotions without judgement. Part of the eating disorder problem is the inability to share, or express difficult emotions or the feeling that what we have to say is wrong etc. It’s this rhetoric that keeps us locked in. Journalling releases a lot of this and makes it easier to begin to talk outside of the pages.\n\nKeeping a journal can help us to identify recurring themes, thought patterns, processes especially those that occur around our eating disorder “self”.\n\nAlthough my eating disorder is not your eating disorder we all share some common thoughts patterns that make us similar, which is why I write this blog in the first place. If it resonates with one person I’m glad I write. I find reading about what has helped others in recovery not only inspires and motivates me it actually strengthens my recovery. I remember reading about journalling on NEDA and completing some journal prompts from the “8 Keys To Recovering from eating disorder recovery workbork” and they really helped get me started in journalling in early recovery. Now journalling is part of my daily routine. Mostly in the form of gratitude practice, but I will elaborate on gratitude later.\n\nOnce I have written the thoughts out on to page, it becomes so much easier to see them for what they are; THOUGHTS. Just because we have a thought does not make it true.\n\nFor example, an old entry of mine in June 2019:\n\nI couldn’t make a single decision about what to eat for dinner, I stood in the kitchen for ages agonising over whether to add oil to the pan, all I could hear was how fat I’m becoming and how unhappy I will be\n\nI reminded myself restricting has never resulted in happiness, I was not able to add the damn oil tonight, but I know I am capable of making hard choices and I will find the courage to do it”\n\nAfter writing thoughts like this out on paper over and over, I began to believe my healthy voice again. Restriction doesn’t make me happy, neither does endlessly pursuing “skinny” They are just thoughts and my truth is I can be happy living an unrestricted life at any size.\n\nMy next post I’ll share some journal prompts that have helped me.\n\nBut for now, perhaps try and think about if you were to go to bed and wake up recovered ( I know I wish right?!) what would that look like, what are some of the things you would do and feel as someone without an eating disorder? How would your life be different?\n\nCan you scribble somethings you have learned this week? What is helping you, what’s holding you back. What have you discovered about yourself?\n\nThere are somethings in life we are never meant to control. Nor should we..\n\nSome things are not supposed to be controlled. They are not our personal responsibility. Weight is one of them. I repeat, your weight is not your personal responsibility or choice.\n\nThis may sound controversial because we have been taught that our weight is inversely correlated with health. But this is oversimplified and largely untrue.\n\nWe cannot “healthily” manipulate what’s not supposed to be manipulated.\n\nYour weight, much like your height or eye color is predetermined, by genetics. But it’s influenced by environment, your health, your diet history, & both diet and exercise. The latter two are only small contributors. With all the other factors that you have no influence over, it’s futile trying to micromanage. If you go too far in one direction, your body will fight it to live in homeostasis.\nIf you are genetically built to live in a larger body you will never have a “healthy” smaller body regardless of all the exercise or dieting you do. It just won’t work, the body will fight it and you will see all of the negative effects of this.\nThe larger body you were born into was healthy.\n\nWhat’s prompted this post is following announcements from the UK governement they may financially reward weight loss in a campaign to “fight obesity”. They talk about providing incentives with subscriptions to restrictive diets such as weight watchers and slimmers world. This is such a harmful campaign. Further more, this announcement was released in the middle of national eating disorder awareness week, the theme of this was Binge Eating Disorder (BED) (1). Binge eating disorder sufferers are already statistically less likely to seek help than any other eating disorder, despite it being the most prevalent eating disorder. 1 in 50 people in the UK are expected to be affected by BED. A staggering 40% of people in the US following weight loss programmes meet the criteria for BED (2). BED is a serious mental disorder with physical side effects. People with BED, consume large quantities of food quickly without feeling in control, it is NOT the same as “over indulging”. Patients often restrict heavily between binges which fuels the cycle. Often patients with BED do live in larger bodies, they are “obese” by societies definition. The UK government’s message is damaging and harmful to those with BED. Weight stigma is a huge problem in society and in healthcare. Patients with BED are stigmatised, invalidated and often do not seek help. They are too commonly prescribed restrictive diets as an answer. However evidence has proven time after time, binges follow restriction.\n\nCampaigns like this, will have a ripple effect, making access to treatment all the more difficult. More patients are likely to develop eating disorders such as BED, following restrictive diets will not end well.\n\nI anticipate- the “obesity crisis” will increase after everyone regains the weight they lose and more, furthermore it is encouraging disordered eating, which will raise the incidences of eating disorders. Without tackling the core issue of weight stigma, many of those eating disorders will go undetected. “Atypical anorexia” is another diagnosis used by the DSM-V ( diagnostic, statistic manual psychiatric disorders) to diagnose patients with anorexia but are not underweight according to BMI. However Anorexia can manifest in any body shape or size. The difference is the weight stigma those suffering with anorexia in a larger body experience. They are often congratulated for their disordered behaviours, not taken seriously making access to help more difficult.\n\nLet’s discuss BMI. The BMI was invented by a Belgian mathematician in the early 19th century. Lambert Adolfe Quetelet was a mathematician, statistician, sociologist with an interest in anthropometric sciences (3). Anthropometric study is essentially is body measurement study. He had no medical training. He has since been heavily criticised for his population studies of BIPOC and labelling people of colour as “separate species”. One of Quetelet’s areas of interest was in the “average man”, he used data including height and weights to help him determine this.\nHis studies were largely population based, cohort studies, mostly including white European males. He developed a formula to calculate a ratio of body weight to height squared, after an observation that there were weight and height variations within populations. More specifically that weight did not appear to be directly proportional to height, he discovered weight varied in proportion to height squared. This became known as the Quetelet index, before Ancel Keys renamed it the BMI in 1972. Ancel keys a famous physiologist, attempted to prove correlation with obesity, BMI and poor health. He did not succeed.\nThe BMI was not used to determine health it was to show “population averages”. It was designed to track population’s weights. It did not measure adipose tissue, or account for muscle. Once again it primarily referenced white European men.\n\nIt can therefore not be used as a predictor of individual health status, at best it’s a population screening tool, particularly if that population is white, male and European.\nIt identifies potential “population risk” of certain diseases such as diabetes, coronary artery disease. However an individual’s BMI, in isolation is not helpful, as a person can have a high BMI but very little visceral fat which has been associated as a greater risk factor. Muscle mass contributes significantly to weight and therefore BMI.\n\nInterestingly, the optimal BMI for mortality is actually within the “overweight” category on the BMI scale. The most optimal BMI statistically from latest studies is actually 27 (4). Yet the BMI scale has not been updated to reflect the definition or risk stratification. Go figure.\n\nThe more I learn the less I know, but the more I want to know. Nutritional science is an incredibly complex field of science. It’s also a very difficult area to interpret. I am relatively confident in my ability of interpreting scientific papers coming from an oncology background, but I do not feel equipped to interpret and advise patients on nutritional science. The studies I tend to go to as my default for information and decision making in my career comes form the “gold standard” of evidence, which is data from meta-analysis of randomised control trials.\n\nMeta-analysis analyses data from big randomised trials. (For anyone non medical or non scientific, randomised control trials (RCT) are the holy grail of investigating an intervention. It involves studying two groups, randomised to receive the intervention or a placebo. The difference in the two groups is studied. For example a group of patients with diabetes are randomised to receive a new blood sugar lowering drug. One group gets the drug, the other does not. The changes in their blood sugars are observed. You can control for variables because people are selected based upon specific characteristics, such as age, starting blood sugar levels for example.\n\nNutritional science is difficult to interpret, because, the studies are largely cohort studies (population based), i.e. you cannot ethically conduct randomised control trials in this field (i.e. you couldn’t restrict a particular nutrient from a group). You cannot control the variables that vary like you can in an RCT (you have no idea how much carbohydrate someone eats compared to the next or how their body actually uses it). Interpreting them is difficult. Therefore I feel uncomfortable ever promoting something I have little or no understanding in. Examples that have come from nutritional science are: the “carbs are bad”, high fibre diet and colorectal cancer risk reduction, ketogenic diet, vitamin E and reduced risk of developing alzheimers. But, unlike medical studies, we cannot control variables in the studies and then apply them to individuals or draw cause and effect. Vitamin E, has been shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimers, but when you look at how, it is not actually understood. Therefore taking a supplement that is not that same as the vitamin E absorbed from a persons diet is just not generalisable.\n\nAt medical school we get minimal training on nutrition, yet we are asked important questions that I feel we are ill equipped to provide. I find it concerning when people advocate things such as low carb diets as a one size fits all, pun intended. It’s an issue, there are so many shades of grey. However I am confident in my knowledge and the evidence surrounding BMI, and weight bias. Weight bias is dangerous and our lack of understanding or inappropriate use of nutritional science is concerning. Nutrition is also a luxury and we do not acknowledge this. I am a white middle class female, I acknowledge my privilege, what this means is I am fortunate to be able to choose what I eat. Many people are not as fortunate and they eat what they can, therefore prescriptive diets by nature are also not available to a large population, and yet they are stigmatised for choices that are actually not really a choice.\n\nThe BMI was never intended to be used as the measure of individual health, that is is used for today. It is also not applicable to a wider population as it included a narrow cohort. Yet we base such importance on a number that never had any intention for medical use.\n\nFor anyone who has received weight stigma or bias, please understand you are not alone. Binge eating disorder is serious and everyone should be able to access help. We can be healthy at any size.\n\n  1. BEAT Eating disorder Awareness Week: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/edaw\n  2. BEAT information page BED: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/types/binge-eating-disorder\n  3. Quetelet index: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17890752/\n  4. BMI associations and mortality: Change in Body Mass Index Associated With Lowest Mortality in Denmark, 1976-2013 Afzal, S., Tybjærg-Hansen, A., Jensen, G. and Nordestgaard, B., 2021. Change in Body Mass Index Associated With Lowest Mortality in Denmark, 1976-2013. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2520627?resultClick=1\n\nRecovery isn’t about never making mistakes\n\nSetbacks will happen, because life happens.\n\nWhether you are just starting recovery or have been on the the path for some time setbacks are inevitable.\n\nIt’s okay. It doesn’t mean you can’t recover, I absolutely believe recovery is possible.\n\nBut not preparing for setbacks is setting yourself up to fall. After all perfectionism is part of the issue right?!\n\nI am happy that I will one day consider “succeeding at anorexia” as my biggest failure. A setback or relapse does not mean you have failed at recovery.\n\nSetbacks teach you things and pave the way for what might be ahead. They prepare you for a fulfilled life without your eating disorder.\n\nI’m hoping my latest setback will help you.\n\nI’m not ashamed I momentarily took my foot off the recovery pedal. It happened, I’m back in control and wiser for it.\n\nWhy did it happen?\n\nWell if you’ve read any of my previous posts you will know I am a firm believer that eating disorders have a strong neurobiological component fueled by energy deficit. Energy deficit being the match to the flame if you like. The physical and psychological symptoms that follow being the fire that is contributed by everything else such as environment, stress etc. The important thing is the match in the genetically vulnerable.\n\nI have just finished a set of night shifts. Night shifts to the average person without a history of an eating disorder can reap havoc on health, both physically and mentally. They disrupt your natural circadian rhythms, they can be socially isolating and routine can become difficult.\n\nI’ve worked shifts for years. I know it’s a time where previously I have allowed my eating disorder to thrive. Therefore, armed with this knowledge I planned to avoid falling into the trap of my eating disorder.\n\nKnowing I cannot allow myself to slip into energy deficit I made preparations to attempt to combat this. I ate more before work and before I slept, I planned out snacks to take with me.\n\nBut life happened. I missed some breaks and a few snacks. I was lacking sleep and so my appetite was lacking, I hadn’t made self care and routine a priority.\n\nI didn’t think much of it in the craziness of the shifts, but when I found myself unable to eat 3 meals a day when I came off my shifts I knew I had slipped.\n\nI haven’t had “fear foods” for sometime.\n\nI haven’t thought about engaging in disordered behaviors such as concealing what I was/ or wasn’t eating, for months.\n\nI haven’t listened to the voice tearing me to shreds in the mirror for the longest time ever.\n\nBut suddenly it was all there I was right back in it. I found myself wanting to control my intake, to compensate for every “ unhealthy” choice I was making. I recognised a familiar welcome feeling of emptiness that in truth I had actually forgotten. The emptiness euphoria made me contemplate giving up on recovery. After all if I’ve fallen so easily after so long, what’s the point in continuing? The intense draw to the scales returned, I had to fight to not give in to the temptation. I know that no number on that scale would have had any importance, but to my eating disorder it would have been used as firewood.\n\nI danced with the temptation of a full blown relapse. However, I reminded myself it was all lies. If I didn’t put this match out I’d be amidst a wild fire that only wants to destroy.\n\nI needed help. I needed support. I’m not ashamed of that.\n\nMy eating disorder tried to make me carry the weight of shame. But that’s another reason I knew I needed to put the match out.\n\nI enlisted support from my support network. I chose to let them in. For the few days following, making decisions around eating felt like an impossible task. The thoughts were so loud. I have now reinforced routine, I challenged the “fear foods” that re-emerged and I prioritised taking care of myself by resting, talking and eating. Instead of pulling myself apart and focusing on “failure” I’ve chosen to treat myself with compassion.\n\nI feel back on track. Ive bounced back. With more knowledge and information for my next set of nights- I need to prepare further. I will carry more snacks on my person. I will increase my intake. Self care, such as yoga, journalling and talking each day will be a priority and not an after thought.\n\nMy tool kit is more substantial.\n\nRecognising a slip is vital to enable you to seek help and the support you need.\n\nRecognising it early can help you get out quickly.\n\nIt’s obvious to me these slips came from:\n\nSkipping meals (no matter how innocent)\n\nEating in isolation.\n\nBlasè attitude “no big deal”\n\nThese are known triggers for me. Knowing your triggers can help you prevent and identify potential setbacks/ relapses.\n\nPreventing setbacks is not always possible.\n\nBut planning what to do in the event is key.\n\nMake your relapse prevention plan. Update it with each learning experience.\n\nSeek help.\n\nMost of all- choose to get back on track. Choose to put the match out, don’t start the fire. A moment of struggle doesn’t mean failure. Be kind to yourself and keep going\n\nCheck these out:\n\nRelapse prevention plan mirror-mirror: https://mirror-mirror.org/recovery/607-2\n\nRelapse prevention/ recovery maintenance sheets from cci: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/-/media/CCI/Consumer-Modules/Overcoming-Disordered-Eating—Part-B/Overcoming-disordered-eating—09—Relapse-Prevention.pdf\n\nTwo years in recovery..WAKE UP CALL\n\nTW and this may be difficult to read.\n\nYesterday a memory came up on my Facebook feed.\n\nA trip we made to Sri Lanka in March 2019. My final wake up call before seeking help for my eating disorder.\n\nIt was not the wonderful experience that it should have been, or our pictures from our travels captured. They say “a picture paints a thousand words’, but most of what you see is what my eating disorder did for years, fake an exterior. It was this trip that I for the first time in 15+years, began to see how much of an issue my eating disorder really was.\n\nFor years my eating disorder had concealed the negative impact it was having on me.\n\nMy eating disorder was slowly killing me. If you are starving, you’re slowly dying. My friend if you need this sobering reminder, people die from eating disorders. We forget this when we are dancing with the devil. Or perhaps, we no longer care, when it’s painful to sit, or our body is covered in fine hair because we can no longer keep ourselves warm. We ignore message after message from our bodies until, if we are lucky we WAKE the FUCK up. It’s not just us that our eating disorders impact upon. Truthfully when engaging in behaviours and driven by the numbers, I didn’t worry about the effect each action could have on my partner, parents, brother, friends. But our actions do matter, If I had have continued I would have likely ended up as a stark statistic. Remember, YOU matter, your life matters and you affect many people’s lives. Please wake up.\n\nThat trip I felt completely lost and trapped in my relentless behaviours that had been by my side for years. I had no idea how I was ever going to step outside of the grips my eating disorder held on me. But I knew something needed to change or I would slowly but surely die.\n\nWhat made me wake-up?\n\nI realised I wasn’t living. If I wasn’t living, what was I? It became so obvious to me on this trip because Sri Lanka is full of beauty, but I felt nothing but cold.\n\nI was done with the comments from peers and concerned looks. I hated it.\n\nI was done with feeling nothing but bone cold, ALL OF THE TIME. Even in 30 degrees heat. I wanted to see past the brain fog and constant chatter.\n\nI didn’t want to live like that anymore. I couldn’t live like it anymore.\n\nThis was not the first time I had had a moment of clarity, a few years prior I knew things were far from in control, but I didn’t seek help. I thought I could fix myself by eating a little more. Things got better for a time, but without support things soon descended back to the familiar chaos and calm of my eating disorder.\n\nBut this trip was different. Something needed to alter. I had reached “rock bottom” and I had to crawl out.\n\nI wanted to be present, to share the experience but my eating disorder bled into everything. It was all encompassing. I was afraid for the first time. I was scared this was either going to be my life, or it would take my life.\n\nIt was the first time I realised how much stronger the eating disorder voice had become and how buried I was. I feared I had lost myself forever, I couldn’t recall when I was last in the driver’s seat of my thoughts. This was a sobering moment, at the same time I felt powerless to do anything about it.\n\nThese moments of clarity would pass again, and my eating disorder would begin to fool me once more that I was in fact fine, convinced me I wasn’t “sick enough” or that I even had an issue. However my healthy thoughts, were desperate to be heard and me listen. And so, it was this trip, I shared with my partner some of my story, although by this time it was hardly a secret.\n\nEven though this trip was incredibly painful, I remain grateful for it, because it was like a wake up call and it kickstarted my true recovery process. Seeing pictures of the trip makes me sad for memories and experiences my eating disorder stole from me but I’m so thankful to be where I am now. Writing this.\n\nIf you’re in this dark place, THERE is always hope, It is never too late to seek help. And, you don’t have to go at it alone. You don’t have to have answers. Choosing to reach out of help is the biggest step, the rest will follow if you trust in the process and take that massive leap of faith.\n\nThere are stages we go through prior to starting recovery and then during recovery itself. I think we flip flop between them whilst we go to war with the two voices in our head. But we can all win, it is possible.\n\nTo me the stages look something like this:\n\n◦ The “I’m fine. I’m just super healthy. I’m totally in control” stage.\n\n◦ “Something’s not quite right with what I’m doing, but it’s ok right? I know I can stop if I want to. But I don’t want to” stage.\n\n◦ The “Shit, I can’t stop. Well better just keep going. It will pass. It’s not that big a deal?” Stage\n\n◦ The, “Ok, I think this is probably a problem. Not sure I want to do anything about it. But not sure how long I can keep going on like this” stage\n\n◦ “Ok, I’m so done with this, I can’t keep living this way. But I don’t feel I have any control. I’m not sure I can stop” stage. This is the point I got to when I sought recovery. It’s one of the scariest decisions I’ve ever made.\n\n◦ “Let’s try this recovery malarkey out. What do I have to lose? But I’m so scared of the thought of change”. Stage\n\n◦ The, “Oh my god, this is way too hard. I’m never going to recover. Why even bother trying” stage. I think it’s common here, we often resort to old behaviours intermittently whilst making small changes in recovery. But the small changes matter and count.\n\nThen something clicks/ it’s like a switch. Recovery becomes easier. It’s still bloody hard but it’s less of a monster than the one that’s been dictating your life. This stage, you start to question your eating disorder thoughts, your own thoughts start to become clearer and in the foreground more frequently.\n\nIt doesn’t take much for your ED to lure you back, a slip or relapse happens. But you learn from them and each slip you get wiser. Recovery gets stronger, you get stronger.\n\n◦ Now you really want this, recovery feels achievable . You begin to see who you really are, what your life can be without this hitchhiker. You remain vigilant and know how recovery can look and you make it your mission to not go back. You’ve got this. Your actions and thoughts are all protective of your recovery, you have worked harder than anyone will ever know to be here.\n\nRecovery is always possible, no matter how deeply trapped, lost or afraid you feel. Wake up, and rejoin the world, you deserve a full life and the world deserves to have you in it.\n\nCheck out the links below for seeking support/ starting the conversation:\n\n  1. https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/recovery-information/tell-someone\n  2. https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/toolkit/parent-toolkit/how-to-talk-to-a-loved-one\n  3. https://www.ed.org.nz/getting-help/what-to-do/\n\nVacationing with an Eating Disorder..\n\nVacationing then vs Now\n\nWe have just returned from a few days holiday, which I feel incredibly lucky to be able to do for numerous reasons, 1. We live in a place we can travel at present and secondly my eating disorder was not allowed to dictate my behaviour for the first time in many years.\n\nWhy are holiday’s so hard for people with an eating disorder? Often in the midst of an eating disorder we use behaviours to cope with uncertainty, change or triggering situations. Firstly, you are away from home, your regular environment. This can be full of uncertainty and planning can go out of the window. Tonnes of food challenges can arise. Challenges you may not have foreseen, such as not being able to follow a regular schedule, a meal plan. Eating out and experiencing new dishes. All of these things can be extremely triggering. It’s hard to imagine if you’ve never experienced an eating disorder.\n\nHere’s how a holiday for me used to look like:\n\nWeeks leading up to vacation:\n\nEnormous anxiety and dread. Escalation in behaviours in response to increased thoughts and fears regarding the uncertainty of said trip. I would buy into the “ prepare for the summer body diet culture crap” and it would set my eating disorder into a frenzy.\n\nThen the event would arrive, no matter how much “ event restriction/ compensation” I had undertaken I would still feel ridiculously out of control and fearful that my constant was about to change. I would not be able to predict every meal and therefore calculate my intake. Holidays can be inactivity. This used to terrify me, how was I going to hide my “craziness’, fit in my ridiculous workouts in new territory? All the while Hitchhiker ‘HH’ would be telling me I was disgusting. How can anyone be present and relax on holiday when this is going on?\n\nChanging experience of holidays’ with time and at various points in recovery;\n\nOnce I commenced recovery the anxiety around the trips shifted to a different kind of anxiety. When you start recovery, especially early on, you need to eat very regularly. Holidays can make important established routines very tricky to follow. I would worry if I would be able to eat the food available. Eating in front of people can be immensely anxiety provoking and largely, trips involve eating out. It’s a point where you are challenging ‘fear’ foods and there’s all kinds of food challenges that can happen on trips which for the person experiencing an eating disorder is overwhelming.\n\nSome restaurants very unhelpfully have nutritional values on their menus which can be a minefield for those of us trying to recover from an eating disorder. Trying to do the “ right thing for recovery” when in an already stressful situation and then presented with your demons on a plate, in every sense is really freaking hard. I used to use one hand to block out the numbers. Or ask someone I trusted to look at the menu, find something I’d like and pick until I could deal with this. Until I got to this point, my eating disorder was too strong and it would not allow me to choose what ‘I desired’. This adds to the stress, feeds the eating disorder and makes the time really challenging. It gets better, I promise.\n\nYou can’t switch your calculator of a brain off overnight. It takes time and practice and many situations and repeated actions until your brain doesn’t equate the numbers with relevance. But it can be helpful to go to places you don’t know the nutritional value, because your well trained brain sometimes doesn’t switch off for familiar items. Now I can go to a restaurant with the nutritional values and choose what I desire without coercion. It irritates me that the diet industry even seeps into the catering industry and influences our choices. (I spent ages in recovery with a black marker pen scrubbing out nutritional values on boxes etc) Now I don’t automatically read or know the content of EVERYTHING. IT is possible to train your brain to stop paying attention with effort. Black marker pens are brilliant for this.\n\n\nWhat my life would look like after I returned from a holiday:\n\nA completely false sense of guilt for the “loss of control”. I say false because, I was not in control on any of the trips. I had abided by my eating disorder rules and stipulations. I might have eaten something slightly outside of ‘HH” rule book and paid an enormous price of guilt, shame and most importantly regret for all the things ‘HH’ made me miss out on because I listened.\n\nI would return from holiday, unhappy, compensate for my warped view of the trip and over value I placed on it and nothing would change because an eating disorder is a constant event planning, life of restriction.\n\nA Vacation now:\n\nLeading up to the holiday, the old neural pathways are fragile and the ‘HH’ thoughts do get louder. The thoughts around compensating return. But the big difference now, I know these thoughts are lies. The do not lead to me feeling happier, more confident on my holiday, more relaxed and present. No the complete opposite. Therefore, I have to be vigilant I have to make an effort to do the opposite.\n\nVacations are a trigger. Knowing triggers, helps you plan and prevent slips or relapses or in the event of either recover from them quicker.\n\nMy husband and I talked about the trip prior. He knows my triggers pretty well now.\n\nFor me, this meant, making sure we always have ample snacks around incase we get caught somewhere ( we spent 6 hours driving and quite remotely at times).\n\nWe knew some of the foods would be challenging- so I set myself some food challenges. Like eating spontaneously on the road, eating foods that are deemed as “unhealthy”. When realistically no food is unhealthy it’s all fuel.\n\nIt was going to be the first time on a beach in my togs since I weight restored. This was a huge one. Putting on swimwear for the first time, since weight restoring is a whole new chapter in recovery. I’ve gotten used to wearing larger clothes to my previous weight restored body. That was a challenge in itself. But putting on swim wear is next level discomfort and vulnerability. Society tells us, to go to the beach we need to be “bikini/ beach/summer body ready”. Just putting it out there now, “bikini/summer body’s” do not exist. It’s a societal fat phobic term, the body you inhabit in, is beach ready whenever. If it can get you to the beach, it’s ready!\n\nLearning to adapt. This has been a massive one for me. Whether it’s adjusting to body image, which is something that naturally creeps in on vacation. Being surrounded by different body sizes, it is important to feel as comfortable in your skin as you can. Wearing clothes that make you feel comfortable helps. My body is very different now in recovery, feeling confident and comfortable is hard. It is possible my friend, you shift your focus to the activities you are participating in, rather than the body you are in. I am grateful to this body because it’s this body that allows me to enjoy rather than fixate and agonise. No matter what body you are in in the midst of an eating disorder you won’t be happy.\n\nBut for the body image stuff: I tried to think about it this way..\n\nWhy is it, the least interesting thing about someone, their appearance is what we judge them on so heavily?\n\nPersonally, I think I have nice eyes, but that is one of the least interesting things about me.\n\nThere is nothing interesting about your, shape, weight or appearance. I don’t care how much you weigh or size jeans you wear.\n\nThis has helped me this week when I found my thoughts drifting to judging my recovering body. Instead I know I was mean on a paddle board, I am funny and a kind person, that’s way more interesting than worrying about the other crap.\n\nI’m at a place in my recovery where I can eat out, and this can be regularly. I found this really difficult previously. Even so, my old thoughts were there on occasion but each meal I challenged them and moved on. That doesn’t mean I found the holiday as easy as someone who has never experienced an eating disorder. I still had to choose recovery at least 3-6 times a day and not let those decisions impact upon my plans or activity. But I did not engage in the ‘HH’ thoughts.\n\nThe holiday was more free and flexible. I felt present. I wasn’t bone cold in 25 degree heat. I wasn’t calculating. Goofy yes, calculating no.\n\nThis level of flexibility and freedom is something that has come with persistence and time.\n\nHoliday’s are a time for rest and recuperation from the craziness of our day t day lives, for people with eating disorders they can instil extreme anxiety which diminishes any prospect of relaxation and enjoyment. But there are ways of managing them. As outlined above I think some of this will depend on the stage one recovery to the extent of planning and support required around them. But they should not be as stressful, so I hope if you are someone with or supporting someone with an ED, you can find someways of reducing the anxiety.\n\nThings that I have found to be helpful when planning trips:\n\n1. Talking with your treatment team before (and after)\n\n2. Planning for potential triggers\n\n3. Identifying potential triggers and a plan in the event of trigger-what’s in your toolkit\n\n4. Planning food challenges for the stage of recovery, with appropriate support.\n\n5. If following a meal plan, how the trip might be helpful or detrimental and planning around this\n\n6. Wearing clothes that make you feel good.\n\n7. Making sure you always have appropriate fuel available\n\n8. Do you need to know where you are eating? (again I think very individual) I did at some stages.\n\n9. What activities will you be participating in\n\n10. Who are you going to be travelling with, are you supported/ triggered by them.\n\nAll of these are or have been part of my own trigger prevention and plan. This is growing/ changing as I encounter potential triggers or progress through recovery. You might have some similarities but you WILL have your own.\n\nStrength in vulnerability.\n\n“Strength in vulnerability” Sound like opposites to you?\n\nI have lived my entire life holding this belief. With the sense that showing vulnerability was demonstrating weakness. How incorrect this belief is.\n\nFrom the wise words of Brenè Brown:\n\n“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy,courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.” (1)\n\nThis concept is a difficult one, when we have spent our entire lives believing weakness and vulnerability are one of the same.\n\nBut for me, I didn’t truly understand the meaning of vulnerability. Why is it such a difficult emotion for us to experience, why do we numb it?\n\nBrenè Brown defines vulnerability as “uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure”.(1) I feel this depicts eating disorder recovery in one sentence, it’s beautiful; and it’s true.\n\nPeople in recovery are anything but weak, I am yet to meet or speak to someone with an eating disorder who I consider weak. The people I have come across are some of the strongest, kindest, most resilient people I’ve encountered on all parts of my life.\n\nEating disorders are encompassed by guilt, shame and fear of being vulnerable. Feelings and emotions are viewed as weakness. During recovery, emotions that had been buried, lost or numbed are reclaimed and owned. Sometimes, all at once!! Some days in early recovery it’s a cluster fuck of emotions. Recovery is learning to tolerate these emotions and not numb out. This is embracing vulnerability.\n\nVulnerability for me has been, fear of being perceived as weak, judged, failure or a disappointment.\n\nMy eating disorder numbed everything,including these feelings but at the cost of all my positive emotions.\n\nExploring vulnerability has opened up my authentic self. I have never felt so vulnerable than these past 18 months, admitting my imperfections, my shadows.\n\nI don’t see vulnerability as a negative now. It’s neither positive or negative, it’s just part of what makes us all human.\n\n“Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”(2)\n\nWhy shouldn’t we show vulnerability if it’s the foundations of how connections are made, creativity and passion is discovered? Connection can overshadow shame.\n\nYesterday I did something I would have never imagined myself doing, even a few months ago.\n\nI shared my experience with anorexia publicly on my personal facebook account. It’s National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) week in the US, which will be followed by the UK and Australasia next week. And So I decided, why not share my most “feared” secret with the hope of encouraging others to seek help, de-bunk myths and stigma and challenge attitudes.\n\nI’m not going to pretend it was easy. It was more terrifying than either of the bungee jumps, sky dives I’ve done. Not nearly as scary as starting recovery, which is why I felt so compelled to do this . I know I am not alone but I am lucky, so lucky I have had help and support. It took nearly 2 decades to seek the help, which is sad, because this is not uncommon.\n\nIf my share changes one attitude, helps one person reach out for help then a little bit of fear is nothing. I’m fortunate I have found my voice. Many people remain struggling in silence. I’m not advising everyone to share their stories. It’s taken a long time for me to reach a place of acceptance and resilience. I know there will be some negativity from sharing such. It will come from ignorance. I feel equipped to deal with these because the majority of responses have been positive and most importantly I didn’t do it for the external validation. I am happy enough with who I am, I did it for those who are not. Those battling stigma and shame everyday.\n\nThere’s tons of ways to raise awareness for a subject, not everyone will comfortable with sharing personal accounts and that is ok. Have a look at some of the links below, NEDA and BEAT of how we can raise awareness and fight stigma.\n\nFor a deeper look at vulnerability, shame and guilt I recommend checking out:\n\n1. Brenè Brown: TED-Ed https://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o\n\n2. Brenè Brown: Book; https://www.amazon.com/Daring-Greatly-Courage-Vulnerable-Transforms/dp/1592408419\n\n3. NEDA awareness week: https://www.integratedeating.com/blog/2021/2/22/national-eating-disorders-awareness-week-2021\n\n\n4. BEAT: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/edaw\n\n\n1. Brene Brown (2017). Daring Greatly : How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.\n\n2. Brenè Brown: The Gifts of imperfections.\n\nOCD and anorexia…\n\nOCD and eating disorders…\n\nStatistically people with eating disorders are more likely to experience co-morbid diagnoses, such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety, borderline personality disorder. There’s a lot of research investigating whether they are biologically, genetically connected.\n\nWhen I was six it used to take me almost three hours to go to bed. I developed obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). There are many overlapping features of OCD and eating disorders. I’m not sure that my OCD at times was separate from my eating disorder. I think it was like a shape shifter that adapted to fit my eating disorder.\n\nThe DSM-5 characterises OCD by negative repetitive thoughts that are intrusive and often result in compulsive behaviours to pacify the anxiety evoking obsessions. Common obsessions include ‘cleanliness, tidiness, numbers and many others.\n\nMy OCD was not your stereotypical “super clean and tidy” kinda picture. No it carried many similarities to my eating disorder compulsions but it did not relate to food. It began after several people close to me passed away before I was old enough to understand death or process emotions. I developed an intense fear of anyone else around me dying, or becoming sick. I began engaging in ritualistic behaviours. This involved counting, repeating certain phrases, running on the spot, avoiding certain numbers, turning light switches on and off and many more. I would perform these rituals or act out compulsions until I felt a sense of calm. The common denominator between my OCD and anorexia was the intense dread or fear of something happening if I did not perform X behaviour. (Fear in childhood death, fear from eating disorder weight gain). The only way I could silence my eating disorder voice was through compulsions and rituals.\n\nIt took a lot of child therapy to reduce these behaviours and challenge the thought patterns. Exposure therapy, similar to that in eating disorder recovery. I would cut a ritual a week until I was free. (A bit like reducing eating disorder behaviours). The exposures were ranked in order of fear and challenged with support.\n\nBut….. even though I was only six, I knew the thoughts were nuts. They were not ego-syntonic unlike the intrusive eating disorder thoughts where I believed my thoughts. For example, with an ED thought I truly believed my thoughts such as I “had to eat X number of calories or purge a chocolate bar” it wasn’t until these thoughts were challenged in therapy I could see they were disordered, I would not expect a friend to exist on the little I was eating, nor would I expect them to purge a chocolate bar. I could see after these challenges how distorted my thinking was around myself. I continue to use this, if I wouldn’t expect a friend to do something then why should I expect myself?\n\nAnother disparity between my ED and my OCD, I was far more resistant to giving up my eating disorder cognitions than I was my OCD thoughts and behaviours, even though I was just a child. I can make sense of this, neuroplasticity is much harder as an adult. But I do believe this is a distinction between my OCD and my eating disorder.\n\nI feel it’s highly possible that having the predisposition and the appeasement provided to me by rituals definitely contributed to my developing of an eating disorder.\n\nI believe they are both shape shifters. I can draw separations from the two disorders however there was some symbiosis within. For example, there were aspects to my anorexia that from the outside would be very difficult to draw a distinction from OCD. I had ritualistic cleaning behaviours “I had to engage in” to allow me to eat. I would clean the kitchen, from top to bottom prior to consuming anything. If I was interrupted I would start again. This may have been a part of my restriction, although I think more likely it was a separate entity to cope with the anxiety of eating. I don’t feel the thoughts surrounding this were related to the eating disorder.\n\nEating with very specific cutlery, is a completely different scenario. People with eating disorders often develop strange obsessions around cutlery. In my opinion (and I am only speaking from experience and talking to others who have had the same weird obsessions) this is very eating disorder driven. It serves several functions in the eating disorder. 1. Using a teaspoon (crazy) is a form of restriction. Small bowls, plates all the same. We have to stop. Using the same cutlery can feel “clean” this is an overlap.\n\nMy compulsive exercise is driven by my eating disorder. But personally I believe the compulsions and pathways were ignited and learned in my childhood. I would run on the spot or up and down the stairs for hours to feel my heart beating to feel alive. I imagine, my eating disorder reactivated this preformed pathway and used it. My drive to move when in the depths of my eating disorder was very different to when I was a six year old terrified of mortality but it still pacified my anxiety. The two disorders numb emotions that clearly I needed to find more constructive ways of coping with. My anxiety from my eating disorder was fear of weight gain, I was not afraid of this when I was six. The result of movement however, was the same, it appeased the discomfort short-term and clearly I had learnt this subconsciously as a child. This is just my simpleton thought and explanation. They both distract my brain, when I’m worrying about food or washing my hands, clearly I’m not worrying about the thing my disorders are protecting me from. But neither are healthy.\n\nFor me, overcoming my eating disorder has been so much harder than OCD. Again some of this will have been my easier to sculpt paediatric neural pathways, rather than my years of entrenched adult pathways. But I also feel it’s the eating disorder itself. We don’t want to recover, not initially from an eating disorder. This is very unlikely to be the case with someone suffering from OCD. I doubt there’s few people who decide that they want to keep their OCD, or that it’s a ‘friend’.\n\nCognitive behavioural therapy, has helped me with both. I guess that’s the good news about the two coinciding disorders, they are sometimes treated together. But I think it’s been more beneficial from an eating disorder perspective, because those of us with eating disorders have very distorted cognitions that can take some convincing. Whereas, I know that no one is going to die if I don’t wash my hands 37 times, I know it’s a ridiculous thought even though it causes similar anxiety. But I would have argued until I had no more breath that some of my eating disorder perceptions were not unhealthy. For the previous, it was more a case of changing my relationship with the thought- for example, when I get the thought “everyone is going to die if I don’t wash my hands 37 times” I have confronted not participating in the behaviour and “urge surfing, delaying or distracting” so many times now that I don’t feel the same anxiety and I am committed to not performing the action of washing my hands 37 times. No one has died. My brain knows this. For the latter, I have had to develop an extensive toolkit that is ever growing. When I experience a disordered thought, like; a food is “good or bad” and resultant anxiety I challenge the cognition, food does not carry moral value. And to avoid the behaviour I use a skill from the toolkit, self compassion, opposite actions.\n\nSame same but different….\n\nMy eating disorder meant I had to eat the same things, same time, I would chew everything a specific amount of times (this was not OCD). It could easily have looked that way. I would eat in the same order. But these all served the eating disorder and were part of restriction.\n\nI was extremely rigid with my rituals and compulsions. These were common to both.\n\nMy OCD did not cause my eating disorder but I strongly believe there is a connection, that is biological, genetic and psychiatric. I do not feel that my OCD diagnosis was important in my recovery from anorexia. I’m not sure I even really discussed it with my therapist but I think it is useful to understand the possible connection as not addressing co-existing disorders may make recovery more difficult. The treatments are similar but with variances. We are all complex individuals and so it’s possible for some not drawing a distinction may be ok in recovery but for others it may require addressing them together and with focus on specific aspects.\n\nOne thing I know for sure, the anxiety is never about the donut or the heart beating.\n\nCheck these out:\n\n  1. https://www.amazon.com/What-When-Brain-Stuck-What/dp/1591478057 This is written for kids, but it has some really helpful principles\n  2. “8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder” WORKBOOK by Carolyn Costin, this is so helpful it has lots of exercises, to challenge healthy self vs eating disorder self. https://www.carolyn-costin.com/books\n\nYou are NOT your Eating Disorder…\n\nYou are not “anorexic, or insert ED\n\nIt’s never been you.\n\nYou have experienced anorexia/ bulimia, BED\n\nIt has been with you.\n\nI recently shared a post on instagram after hearing a person with an eating disorder referred to as their disorder. “They’re bulimic”\n\nIt infuriated me. I wanted to remind that individual “they are not their eating disorder” It’s hard enough for the person to seperate themselves from this idea without it being fuelled externally. It continues the shame and stigma attached to these complex disorders.\n\nI see this identity as the sufferer playing underdog to their eating disorder, but that does not mean they are that disorder. Most times the underdog prevails eventually.\n\nThis notion was something really important for me to hear when I first started the recovery process. From day one my therapist repeated this mantra, that I was not my eating disorder. Even when I didn’t see it or believe it.\n\nWe often attach our identities to the the eating disorder, because we have lost touch with who we truly are. That does not make the identity true or real.\n\nStill not convinced? Picture this. You would not call a person suffering from cancer, “cancer”. The principle is the same for us experiencing an eating disorder. A person is not “cancer” anymore than a person is “anorexia, bulimia or Binge eating disorder” You have an eating disorder, it is not you.\n\nWhen we embark on recovery, there maybe times where it is easier for the person to hold on to that identity whilst discovering who they are without that disorder. REGARDLESS, It is still helpful to be reminded that they are not their disorder. The disorder is acting as their safety blanket. Of course, early in recovery you will return to the safety of that blanket. But it’s a blanket, it is not part of you. Eventually you don’t need the warmth the blanket offers.\n\nDuring recovery I think it’s important to explore who you want to become? Who is that identity?\n\nPicturing who I want to be, what I want my life to look like helps me stay in recovery from anorexia. It helped me to see myself separately to the disorder I was fighting. Our values are completely incongruous. I don’t have all the answers and I’m still learning. That’s recovery and growth.\n\nWhen we are amidst the throws of an eating disorder, for most of us our world becomes very small. There’s very little room for anything beyond- food, exercise and concerns with these. It’s all consuming and incredibly isolating. But- it’s not really what most people want from life.\n\nEating disorders restrict EVERYTHING.\n\nWho wants to be 80 years old and look back on their life, and all it’s filled with is fear and anxiety over eating, body image, exercise. None of it matters. If we are lucky to reach an old age I want to look back on what my life was filled with, not an eating disorder. It is never too late to make this change. I don’t care if you have been the underdog to your eating disorder for 50 years, there is always hope you can recover.\n\nMy journal has been my haven for my recovery but also exploring who this recovered person is, what her goals, aspirations, values and worth are.\n\nI promise you, my recovered self is not fixated on dietary restraint, exercise or control over shape. My recovered self is loud, doesn’t care for other people’s judgements, grateful for the process of getting from A-B and not just being at B.\n\nThat brings me onto my next point. G. R. A. T. I. T. U. D. E…\n\nIt is easy when we are having a tough time to focus on the negatives. But one thing I have learnt from recovery is there is always something to be grateful for. Even in the darkest of times when you don’t feel there is anything to be grateful about. There will be. Start small on those days. Gratitude, has really helped me ground myself and shift from the “all or nothing” thinking we so often experience with eating disorders. Black and white thinking is a prominent trait we share. I promise you, if you give gratitude practice a go, it’s very hard to stay in a negative space. I make it a daily practice now. I get it, you think I’m full of crap. I thought the person who suggested it to me was too. I thought it was hippy bull crap and I’d be making daisy chains. No.\n\nTry this…\n\nEveryday for a week, think of at least 2 things you are grateful for. It can be as big as you want or small as you want. Aim to build up to more than 2. Some days this will feel harder than others. It’s these days you need to find things. The way you see yourself and the world around you will improve.\n\nYou will discover your life beyond they eating disorder even if you don’t see it now.\n\nBut for those who need to hear it again… “You are not your eating disorder”\n\nPlease people stop it with the before and after pictures.\n\nBefore and after pictures are harmful on so many levels.\n\nFirstly you see the diet industry, so called “wellness” industry’s using pictures to market their false products.\n\nThe premise of the so called before and after picture in this setting, suggests that image and weight is the marker of health. Which people, if you have read any of my blogs or IG posts you know this is bullshit. Like the Bullshit Mass Index (BMI).\n\nNone of these elements reflect a persons health and the idea that manipulating your body, or image is a way to get healthy in most instances is simply ludicrous.\n\nBefore and after pictures in the eating disorder community are extremely dangerous. They are often posted on social media. Without a trigger warning, monitoring and to the most vulnerable of audiences. They serve no place in recovery. Why?\n\n1. It promotes the unhelpful myth that eating disorders affect only the emaciated. Sadly this is still the image the media portrays of someone struggling with an eating disorder. Which is not helping to raise awareness, reduce stigma or educate about Health At Every Size.\n\n2. They inadvertently promote ‘thinspiration’. For those of you not familiar with this colloquialism it’s a term well recognized in the eating disorder community that encourages thinness and can lead to very unhealthy comparisons and behaviors. For this reason alone no matter how well intentioned before and after pictures are dangerous.\n\n3. Just because someone has gained some weight, or lost it’s not reflection of health status. You have no idea of the physical or mental state behind the picture.\n\n4. The can invalidate a person’s recovery. Seeing someone’s pictures may make an individual question their recovery and why they haven’t “recovered” like the post. The pictures do not portray the enormous effort, energy and mental struggle involved in recovery. They are not true depictions.\n\nI have written on previous posts, mentally I was at my most screwed up, difficult place when I first weight restored. To show a before and after picture at this point declaring my “recovery” would have been incredibly inaccurate. This is not helping to raise awareness that weight restoration is only part of the recovery process. Mental recovery takes far longer.\n\nWhen all consumed by my eating disorder there was barely a day went by that I didn’t take a photo to “check” my progress. It was almost a big of an issue as the scales and weighing. People with eating disorders use the camera as a form of body checking. Body checking is not a healthy behavior and does not help in recovery.\n\nPhotos-are personal. For some people keeping photos of themself at their sickest can maybe act as a reality check, or reminder of why they recovered. For others I can imagine it would be detrimental, like holding on to “sick clothes” regardless the photos should never be shared to show ‘before and after’.\n\nSocial media is a mind field for ‘before and after photos’ and it’s feeding the fat shaming, stigmatizing society we live in. So please if you’re thinking of posting a before and after pic, think before you do.\n\nWhy and who are you really doing it for, what message are you really trying to convey? If in doubt don’t share.\n\nWhat we want to tell you about our eating disorders, but find hard…\n\nEating disorders are secretive, preoccupying and feel extremely shameful. They are rarely openly discussed and stigmatised.\n\nBelow are things I would have never felt able to share with others before I found my voice in recovery. However I wish I had said them sooner to help you understand. Hopefully this might give voice to other’s experiencing recovery and wish they could share some of the things going on in their heads.\n\n1. Weight restoration does not equate to recovered. In fact, this part is probably the toughest, most brittle part of recovery. On the surface I may appear “well, healthy or recovered” but I am just about holding it together. You have no idea based on my appearance how I am. Likely I am fighting strong thoughts and urges to undo this courageous work. Mental recovery takes so much longer than the physical recovery.\n\nMy eating disorder was at its loudest when I reached my “target weight” and then exceeded. Regaining weight, gaining weight is harder than you will ever know for someone who is recovering from an eating disorder. They are fighting every thought, every second, every minute of every day waiting for a moment of inner peace. Weight gain is a small part of recovery, but possibly the toughest part. Once we regain weight, (weight we should never have lost) often people assume we are recovered and support lessens. This is arguably the point we need your support the most, please help to encourage us to keep going. And so I implore you, please do not comment on my appearance. Well placed comments can fuel this cruel deceptive eating disorder voice that I am trying so hard to move away from.\n\nStatements, however true and well meaning, such as “you look healthy or better” can really harm someone’s recovery. Comments such as have you lost weight? Can ignite the path to destruction or send my brain into a frenzy that I have failed at recovery. I cannot win when it comes to body shape comments. So please keep them to yourself.\n\n2. Recovery is a choice I have to make, every minute of every day. You cannot make me recover or do it for me, but I value your support. My recovery is my responsibility. My choices, my decisions are what keep me on the path to recovery. It is a full time job. One incorrect decision can set me back. BUT….. If I do slip, please do not give up on me. Recovery is not linear. Hope is a very important value of my recovery. I will very likely get back up again and continue on my journey to recovery. Please help me to see that a small slip does not mean I have failed at recovery but if I need reminding how far I have come, help me to see past this lapse. Hold hope.\n\n3. Things you do not pay any thought to such as trying something new to eat, eating out at restaurants may be very hard for me. People with eating disorders are ridiculously good at hiding what’s going on beneath the surface, but know that just because I appear cool calm and collected there is likely a tornado rushing around in my brain. Sometimes I just want a distraction, I always want to hear you and not what’s going on in my brain and being present with you.\n\n4. Never, ever comment on my food choices, volume or timing of food. You do not know how hard it is for me to eat 5-6 times a day or alongside others. Likely if I am eating with you, I trust you. Comments like, are you really going to eat that?, congratulating me for eating, Don’t you like XYZ?, are only going to feed unhelpful thoughts and make eating and decision making more uncomfortable than it likely already is.\n\n5. I do not ever want to hear about your “weight loss attempt, diet”. If you are someone close to me, know that sharing this with me is insensitive, unhelpful and extremely triggering. I have worked incredibly hard to reframe my implicit biases and unlearn this detrimental cognition.\n\n6. I do not want my eating disorder to be an elephant in the room. I want to be able to be open with you. Talking about it as you would any other medical problem will help break the shame cycle. I do not wish to be defined by my eating disorder, there is so much more to me than this, however my recovery is an important part of my life. I want you to be part of my life, my authentic life.\n\n7. Shame is something I feel very deeply, it fuels my problem. I feel frustrated and angry I am in this position and it makes it hard for me to ask for help and talk openly as much as I wish I could. I am grateful that you show up for me especially when I am finding it hard to show up for myself.\n\n8. I do not think everyone else is fat. I do not see myself how you see me. Regardless of how much weight I lose I will never feel satisfied. But it is not about weight and food. The sicker I became the more warped my view of myself became, making it really hard to see myself and the crazier and more lost I felt. We are fully aware of the self destruction but that makes it harder to think rationally because we do not understand why we cannot stop. The impossible standards my eating disorder held for me, are not the same standards I hold for everyone else, so no I do not see everyone else as “overweight, or fat” I just simply cannot see myself.\n\n9. No one would choose to have an eating disorder, Choosing a life of rules, unhappiness, isolation and emptiness is not a choice anyone would make. I did not choose to develop an eating disorder, I didn’t wake up one day and decide to have anorexia it’s not how it works.\n\n10. It’s not as simple as eating and that being the end of the story. I have many neural pathways and thought processes I have to unlearn. I believe in full recovery. I need to believe in full recovery. But I do not know how long it will take. Right now I see myself in recovery, meaning for me I have “disordered thoughts” which can disappear for days and then return out of the blue. In certain situations, I can still feel extremely distressed at times.\n\nI’m not sure that recovery is a destination, I think it’s a process where these thoughts and associated emotions do disappear with time and effort. But likely remaining “recovered” and preventing the cognitions from returning will require much less energy. I believe this effort becomes like second nature, similar to riding a bike. Once you’ve learned you don’t forget, its more like protecting yourself from falling off at times of risk.\n\nSee a post I recently wrote for recovery warriors magazine: https://www.recoverywarriors.com/how-i-broke-the-rules-by-ordering-movie-popcorn/\n\nIf you find this helpful, feel free to share!\n\nFullness. Is not the enemy.\n\nDuring recovery from an eating disorder you require at times “abnormally” large amounts of food.\n\nMakes sense when we have deprived ourselves for so long. When you start to eat again and repair the damage it requires energy. Food is that energy.\n\nI’m writing this because fullness was something I avoided at all cost in my eating disorder. I feared it. I felt “cleanest, euphoric” when I was empty. But that’s not clean and it’s not healthy.\n\nI’ve talked about extreme hunger on previous posts. But I think it’s something that is really feared because as a society that breeds “clean eating or orthorexia” as normal eating it makes the process of nutritional rehabilitation even more frightening and shameful. It’s harder to learn to eat intuitively when “wellness blogs”, magazines, platforms are subtly promoting orthorexia. Orthorexia is not healthy. It’s a disorder in itself. Obsessing about eating cleanly and healthily will not help you to recover from a restrictive eating disorder.\n\nI am wary of any social media platform or magazine that calls itself “wellness or healthy living” because they focus on eating and exercise as if they are the only things that factor into a person’s health. I feel anyone from an eating disorder background should steer clear of the information from these types of platforms because it’s 1. Not helpful to our recovery, 2. Feeds the obsession with numbers, 3. Reinforces false beliefs that you have to micromanage your body and lastly they promote the societal stigma around shape.\n\nRant over.\n\nI have just come off a set of nights. Nights have always been a playground for my eating disorder behaviors. The altered routine, long hours and busyness has allowed my “HH” to justify restriction, skipping meals, compulsive movement. This set of nights I was adamant “HH” would not get to dictate.\n\nKnowing that old situations tend to stir up old pathways I wasn’t surprised I suddenly felt I was wading upstream and the “HH” voice became louder. But I was better equipped to deal with the bullshit.\n\nThe old voices of “walk the long way, count your steps, you don’t need to eat, are you seriously gonna eat that?, that’s disgusting” played like a broken record.\n\nI made myself a contingency plan: I took in lots and lots of snacks meaning I could not be in a place without food.\n\nI ate between walking to cases.\n\nI knew the days after nights would be a bit trickier because of the old neural pathways. Therefore I enlisted support early. I told my husband. We planned out our meals, my snacks. I think this is helpful because in the midst of my ED, I wouldn’t have shared, I would have struggled on and likely engaged in the behaviors ending up deeper.\n\nTherefore identifying potential triggers is a big thing in recovery. Something that deserves a post in itself. It’s unsurprising old memories, situations activate entrenched pathways. We are creatures of habit. Most of recovery is unlearning old habits. Exposure to old situations, places that are tied to unhealthy behaviours has been an integral part of my recovery.\n\nMy nights finished yesterday and last night we had takeout. I felt full, uncomfortably full. This caused a few moments of turmoil. However I know having eaten “a lot” of food in the early stages of recovery, fullness settles on its own. You do not need to do anything, it passes. It is normal. My fullness last night was just because I had eaten a little extra. Big deal. Don’t judge your fullness. In the early phases of recovery, fullness can be excruciating because of the gastroparesis. Gastroparesis is basically where your gut is so out of practice at digesting and undernourished the emptying is really slow. Often your gut can’t keep up with your mouth and brain, but like all things in recovery it gets better. Eating is the medicine.\n\nYou eat, repeat and move on.\n\nNormal eating is sometimes over eating, sometimes eating slightly less. Fullness is not something to fear or avoid.\n\nGiving less F*cks\n\nGiving less f*cks has been very important in my recovery. I feel giving less f*cks is liberating.\n\nI do not mean, I don’t care about anything. Far from. I have learned that giving too many f*cks is part of my problem. So learning what to get rid of in my giving a f*ck bucket has been energy freeing. Freeing up the genuine give a “f*cks” like my family, friends, career, running, sketching, my cat, helping others.\n\nI care a lot about my job, my career and everything it represents. However my profession is a breeding ground for perfectionism and comparison. Both things I have had to work very hard at challenging for my eating disorder recovery. Right now recovering from my eating disorder is priority so that my future self can be my best version in all areas of my life including my career. That has meant some things I have given too many f*cks about previously I simply cannot afford to anymore.\n\nAs part of my core values and self worth it is important to me to work hard, be good at what I do. But how that’s defined does not have to rely on single peer comments or being aware of every statistic from every journal ever. It comes from so much more holistically.\n\nAnother thing I have found to help me in recovery is to “let go of comparison”\n\nThere is a popular phrase, “compare and despair” which I believe is very relatable.\n\nI believe it is innate in us all to compare ourselves to our peers. But what we compare is what I believe causes us harm and dis-regulation. It can come at a huge detriment in recovery.\n\nBody comparison is common and meaningless. For instance, I recall early on in my recovery my therapist at the time challenging this very process. I used to compare my body to other people’s bodies all the time. She explained, that we carry biases. We tend to only see what our brain filters and we have a very selective attention. Therefore I remember one of my challenges was to walk through a crowded street, take notice of the diversity. Sure enough we all come in many shapes and sizes and our appearance is irrelevant.\n\nThis exercise made this particular comparison easier to stop. Knowing the bias I harboured meant I could be accountable and when I found myself comparing, I could call myself out on it. Additionally challenging why I was trying to compare. Realising that what you see externally does not translate to what’s beneath the surface and so we are comparing to a false ideal we have created. How do we know the richer, slimmer person is any happier than ourselves.\n\nYour eating disorder will never tell you you are as good as the person you are comparing to. Importantly, why would we want to be anyone other than ourselves?\n\nGetting out of other people’s business..\n\nI had a massive problem with comparing what I was eating to what everyone else was eating. I was in everyone’s business. But just as what I am eating is no body else’s business, it is of no relevance to me what anyone else is eating. I no longer could tell you what every single person at a social gathering did or didn’t eat because it doesn’t matter!!!\n\nComparing your eating disorder to someone else’s, completely futile and not comparable even within the same diagnostic label. Comparing others’ recovery and feeling you’re doing it wrong or not as deserving or vice versa. Just stop it, this is the eating disorder. Your recovery is your own. Your body is your own with it’s own requirements. Letting go of this has made recovery much more free.\n\nThere are many situations we can find ourselves drawing comparisons, status, aesthetics, character traits, possessions, families, sporting prowess, holidays, weddings, education, careers the list is endless when you think about it. It’s problematic when it’s black and white and impacts upon our thinking style. I’m not saying you will never compare yourself to someone again, I believe it’s ingrained in us all from an evolutional perspective, where historically it would have been a survival advantage. However there are ways I have learnt to lessen the unhelpful comparisons.\n\nWe live in a competitive society\n\nWe are told on a daily basis on many platforms to be the “healthiest’, richest, most successful. Women are made to compare themselves to other women constantly. It’s all external measures and rewards. Competition can be healthy, but recognising when it’s a problem is important.\n\nFor me, as long as I know am performing at my best, whether it’s at work or any other aspect of my life, I do not need to compare myself to my peers.\n\nI know when I’m doing ok in this, because I don’t feel like I’m constantly striving and never achieving, I can feel grateful in little wins. This is not the case when perfectionism is in the foreground and unhealthy competition, then I never feel satisfied or recognise achievements big or small.\n\n\nPractising daily gratitude has really helped with this mindset shift. Seeing celebrations in the small things, there is something to be grateful every day, even on days where it’s hard to feel gratitude. This helps me filter my ‘Give a f*ck bucket”.\n\nIn my profession, I am yet to meet someone who in their final moments, talks about how much money they made, or how gorgeous they were in their youth. No they always talk about what matters, family, friendships and experiences.\n\nStop basing how you see yourself by comparing yourself to others. One thing is guaranteed is there will ALWAYS be someone who appears to be ranking better than you on some standard. You are good enough just as you.\n\nFeel free to share", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.8551898002624512}
+{"content": "Quick Answer: What Does Dieu Et Mon Droit Mean?\n\nWhat is Finland’s motto?\n\nFinland actually does not have an official motto..\n\nWhy is a unicorn on British passport?\n\nWhat’s the significance of the unicorn in the British coat of arms? … The lion is the national animal of England, and the unicorn represents Scotland; both of which are part of the British empire.\n\nWhat does Honi soit qui mal y pense mean?\n\nmotto of the Order of the Garterhoni soit qui mal y pense. / French (ɔni swa ki mal i pɑ̃s) / shamed be he who thinks evil of it: the motto of the Order of the Garter.\n\nWhy is England a lion?\n\nIn the Middle Ages, the lions kept in the menagerie at the Tower of London were Barbary lions. English medieval warrior rulers with a reputation for bravery attracted the nickname “the Lion”: the most famous example is Richard I of England, known as Richard the Lionheart.\n\nWhat does Honi mean in French?\n\nHoni comes from the Middle French verb honir, which means to shame, disgrace, dishonor. It is never used today. Honi is sometimes spelled honni with two n’s. Both are pronounced like honey.\n\nWhat does Hon y soit qui mal y pense mean?\n\nHoni soit qui mal y pense (UK: [ɒnɪ ˌswɑː kiː mal iː ˈpɒ̃s] or US: [ˌoʊni ˌswɑ ki ˌmɑl i ˈpɑ̃s]) is a Middle French maxim, meaning “shamed be whoever thinks bad of it”, usually translated as “shame on anyone who thinks evil of it” and used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter.\n\nWhat is Garter Day UK?\n\nGarter Day Every June, a grand procession of the knights takes place at Windsor Castle, accompanied by a marching band and Officers of the Order, all in grand ceremonial dress. The day begins with The Queen formally investing any new Companions with the Order’s insignia in the Throne Room of the Castle.\n\nWhat Colour passports are being issued now?\n\nIt is the first time in almost three decades that blue passports will be used, replacing the standard-issue burgundy passports that were rolled out in 1988. The new design, which has been championed by Brexiteers, will be issued from March, with all new passports set to be blue by mid-2020.\n\nWhich country has the best motto?\n\nThe (Brief) Stories Behind 15 National MottosBelgium — Eendracht maakt macht, L’union fait la force and Einigkeit macht stark. … Canada — A Mari usque ad Mare. … Chile — Por la razón o la fuerza. … Czech Republic — Pravda vítězí … France — Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité … Greece — Ελευθερία ή θάνατος (Eleftheria i thanatos) … India — सत्यमेव जयते (Satyameva Jayate)More items…•\n\nWhat is the motto of England?\n\nDieu et mon droitEngland: Sovereign’s motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right).\n\nWhy is there French on the British passport?\n\nOn the front of the British passport,on the Royal Coat of Arms, there are French words such as “Dieu et mon droit” and “Honi soit qui mal y pense.” … It’s believed King Richard I used “Dieu et mon droit” as his battle cry in 1198 when defeating Philip II of France at the Battle of Gisors.\n\nWhy is French on passports?\n\nFrench was the lingua franca of international relations at the time that passports were developed. Lingua franca being latin for “French”, but the phrase in English basically means “the language commonly used”. These days the lingua franca of international relations is English.\n\nWhat is Italy motto?\n\n\nWhat does God and my right mean?\n\nThe motto is French for “God and my right”, meaning that the king is “Rex Angliae Dei gratia”: King of England by the grace of God. It is used to imply that the monarch of a nation has a God-given (divine) right to rule. … Another Old French phrase also appears in the full achievement of the Royal Arms.\n\nWhat is the Queen’s motto?\n\nSapientia et Doctrina StabilitasQueen’s motto is Sapientia et Doctrina Stabilitas, generally translated from the Latin as “Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times.” The phrase is adapted from Isaiah XXXIII.\n\nWhat do the 3 lions of England mean?\n\nThe lions have a history going back to the 12th century, when a standard with three gold lions on a red field was carried into battle to inspire the troops. … In 1154, two lions became three when Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine, who – yes, you’ve guessed it – also had a lion her family crest.\n\nDoes Queen Elizabeth have a passport?\n\n\nHow many English monarchs are there?\n\n61 monarchsThere have been 61 monarchs of England and Britain spread over a period of approximately 1200 years.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6345378160476685}
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+{"content": "Indian classical music performance | Wikimedia Commons\nIndian classical music performance | Wikimedia Commons\nText Size:\n\nWho were the new listeners? When were new music associations or sabhas formed and what was their raison d’etre? Recent social histories of music in India have emphasized the importance of colonial cities spawning new middle-class listeners whose enthusiasm sustained performers and musicians who were displaced from older patronage spaces and made their way to cities such as Madras. The colonial cities (notably Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras) were not only able to absorb influx of musicians and performers who moved out of their older centres of patronage (courts and salons) but were able to sustain new and emerging forms of musical entertainment, and technology, thereby becoming exciting spaces of listening and desire.\n\nListeners, mostly upper castes, Brahmins and Vellalas who traditionally featured as patrons and performers in the city replicated spaces of performance but with noticeable differences. Performances were organized in public spaces sponsored by the associations they formed to promote musical performances supported by tickets and subscriptions. Madras by the end of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century saw a proliferation of sabha(s) or music associations that started off as small meeting places for religious discourses (harikatha), subsequently organized stand-alone music concerts, of musical soirees in the houses of patrons and performers.\n\nWhat stands out in the survey made by the L’Armands on the basis of references to sabha culture and activities in the local newspaper, The Hindu, was the vitality of the entertainment scene, a predominantly musical one, and the close association of sabha culture with the circuits of religious festivity that involved music. Clearly, listening to music in the early days of sabha culture was both part of an older habit of participation in religious practices that included music and performance, as well as of making and marking it as a form of high entertainment.\n\nAlso Read: How as a young boy, Hariprasad Chaurasia came to choose music over wrestling, flute over sitar\n\nEarly on, therefore, there was no clear sundering of music as religious and secular one except in relation to the sites in which these were performed. But that changed, as religious discourses and performances gave way to standalone music concerts that were seen as an important form of high culture entertainment, which demanded attentive listening, and exemplary standards. The spatial restructuring of music thus became important; for it was here that a new set of possibilities emerged for articulating a standard for taste and for a systematic repertoire for public concerts.\n\nBy the 1930s the religious associations waned and sabhas emerged as the major connoisseurs and patrons of classic music performances and concerts. As the work of L’Armand and L’Armand clearly demonstrated, the number of harikatha performances had dropped dramatically by 1938, sabhas gave up their role as organizers of religious functions and focused on arranging music concerts. There was also an increase in the popularity of vocal performances; the L’Armand estimates refer to an increase in numbers from 14 public vocal concerts from 1898 to 69 in 1928, to 170 in 1948 and to 310 in 1968. The shift away from harikatha performances to standalone public concerts that attracted larger numbers of listeners who were prepared to attend ticketed performances persuaded sabha organizers to combine the roles of entrepreneur and publicist, to take the initiative in debating standards for performance and conventions for listeners.\n\nMany connoisseurs, even sabha organizers, shared their experiences in writing, thereby producing a community of shared readers/listeners whose interlocution was decisive in consolidating the musical public. In producing aesthetic values, the recourse to both imperatives of social etiquette as well as of interiorized appreciation was obvious. The lexicon adopted predictably emphasized ideas of standards, of a new soundscape that played down excessive rhythmic displays and emphasized the primacy of emotionalism (bhava) in musical rendering and interpretation.\n\nAlso Read: India’s ‘shy’ classical musicians made way for theatre’s entry into gramophone record books\n\nSabha(s) or music associations were thus pivotal to the cohering of a public sphere for music in twentieth century Madras. As P.S. Iyer in his 1921 address before the Academy of Karnatik Music pointed out, ‘It is obvious on the very face of it that it is this Academy of Karnatik Music and these Sangeetha Sabhas that ought to give the lead to the whole of Southern India in the matter of our musical development and especially in arriving at and fixing that common standard.\n\nWhat Madras does today, the rest of the presidency will come to do in course of time. It is from here that all movements, political, social or musical will come to do in course of time. Besides so far as I know there are no Sabhas or Academies of the kind that we have here in the mofussil, therefore, it is not too much to hope that our Academy and our Sangeetha sabhas will take the initiative in this matter. They ought to do it for this; if for no other reason, that no other organization can do it. If they too fail to do it, will not the public (italics mine) lay at their doors the charge that they are guilty of a gross dereliction of duty?\n\nLike so many others of his class and orientation, Iyer was gesturing to the importance of a public he understood in terms of a social collective, whose interests had to be safeguarded by undertaking a reform effort that would preserve and rejuvenate a musical tradition, whose artistic and moral worth was vital for both the immediate constituency of listeners as well as for the larger entity of the nation that was being forged. The ‘public’ here was a discursive space constituted by publicists such as Iyer himself to work for a common mutual interest, and wherein concrete suggestions and practices could enable a rational sociability and critique. Evidently at one level, this was a far cry from older spaces of temples, where people met to listen to music, were moved by it and saw it as an extension of a personalized experience of devotion. They were also distinct from court and salon displays where music duels were common, carrying with them important connotations of individual patronage, discretion, and taste. The new public was obviously different from both these spaces and represented an actual and discursive space where the performer and the audience worked in tandem to consolidate an aesthetic.\n\nAlso Read: The only constant amidst changing circumstances and fortunes was SD Burman’s unfettered quest for perfectness in music\n\nIyer was especially eloquent in this regard, founding the Academy of Karnatik Music, he said he hoped that his academy would ‘give lead to the whole of southern India in arriving and fixing a common standard. There are a few men in the sabhas who are justly regarded as musical experts. These men should hold a preliminary meeting for the purpose of settling certain details as to the way musical reform should be carried out as to evolve a common standard out of the welter of popular tastes that prevails at the present’. In a similar vein, Abraham Pandithar, organizer of the Tanjore Sangeet Vidya Sangam, expressed his intention of researching the principles of melody and microtones more carefully and found it necessary to organize a ‘sabha of vidwans so that they may be systematized’. Pandithar was equally interested in local musical practices and Tamil compositions that had been forgotten.\n\nThe logic of reform was thus built into the sabhas as they assumed the responsibility   of producing if not a common taste a common set of standards that would guide the presentation of a classical concert. It was the structuring of the concert, its repertoire, its potential as a means of communicating the veracity of an established lineage and style that was at the heart of their project that surprisingly did not take long to cohere or win the confidence of the actual artistes and performers. The first sabhas were tentative and had to go through a correction course by the mid-1920s when there was a music boom of sorts and when there was too much music available and a lot if it was seen as below standard. There was thus a hungry public for aural stimulation, eager to listen to a range of music from theatre music to early Carnatic concerts making it all the more essential to define a classical tradition and style.\n\nBy 1929, the leading members of the existing sabhas and important public personages and the professional elite of Madras city met to discuss the possibility of forming a larger federation of associations that would enable successful arrangement of concerts on a commercial basis, of endorsing a set of standards to develop and refine a distinct classical style for public concerts in the city. The federation was not thought of as a grand cartel; just a loose coming together of the city sabhas working towards a common schedule of concerts, of setting certain minimum standards for public concerts (in terms of repertoire, etiquette, and accompaniment conventions) that would eventually produce and consolidate a new mode of performing and listening within an expanded milieu of socialization that was seen as a key site for self-definition and social identity.\n\nThis ideal was realized in the form of the Madras Music Academy (established in 1929) that came into being as a professional body that not only sponsored concerts but encouraged open and active discussion among experts who were constituted as an Experts Committee that would debate technical musical issues within the framework of modern protocols and associational practices.\n\nThis excerpt from Music, Modernity, and Publicness in India edited by Tejaswini Niranjana has been published with permission from Oxford University Press. \n\nSubscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram\n\nWhy news media is in crisis & How you can fix it\n\n\n\n\nSupport Our Journalism\n\n\n\n  1. It is hightime that Doordarshan provides a 24 x 7 HD channel for Indian classical music so that music is preserved\n    and classic muscians are rewarded. This will act as a bulwark against global corporates like Youtube, Spotify etc. Just act\n    before it is too late. The huge library is also better utilised.\n\nComments are closed.", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.6043983697891235}
+{"content": "Crew-1 Astronauts Safely Splash Down After Space Station Mission\n\nNASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)\n\n\n\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon, carrying NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, returned to Earth in a parachute-assisted splashdown at 2:56 a.m. EDT off the coast of Panama City, Florida. Crews aboard SpaceX recovery vessels successfully recovered the spacecraft and astronauts. After returning to shore, the astronauts will fly back to Houston.\n\n\n\n\nNASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission launched Nov. 15, 2020, on a Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts named the spacecraft Resilience, in honor of their families, colleagues, and fellow citizens and highlighting the dedication displayed by the teams involved with the mission and demonstrating that there is no limit to what humans can achieve when they work together. Crew Dragon Resilience docked to the Harmony module’s forward port of the space station Nov. 16, nearly 27 hours after liftoff.\n\n\nOverall, Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi traveled 71,242,199 statute miles during their 168 days in orbit (with 167 days aboard the space station), completing 2,688 orbits around Earth. With splashdown, the crew also broke the American crewed spacecraft mission duration record of 84 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes, set by the final Skylab crew in February 1974.\n\n\n\n\nThroughout their mission, the Crew-1 astronauts contributed to scientific investigations and technology demonstrations, in addition to spacewalks and public engagement events, while aboard the orbiting laboratory. From studying protein crystal developmentto advance new drug discoveries, to demonstrating robotic assistant technologies, their work advances exploration of the universe while bringing benefits back to Earth.\n\n\nThey also grew crops in both the Advanced Plant Habitat and Veggie plant growth facilities, and conducted tests of a new method for producing semiconductor crystals. The astronauts contributed hundreds of pictures of Earth as part of the Crew Earth Observation investigation, one of the longest-running investigations aboard the space station, which contributes to tracking of natural disasters and changes to our home planet. The crew also tested a new tape dispenser, designed and produced by students as part of the High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH), during the mission.\n\n\nIn early 2021, the Crew-1 astronauts had significant roles to play in five spacewalksoutside the orbiting laboratory. Glover completed his first four spacewalks, including three alongside Hopkins, whose total number of spacewalks is now five. Noguchi joined NASA’s Kate Rubins on the fourth spacewalk of each of their careers. During the spacewalks, the astronauts connected cables on the recently installed Bartolomeoscience platform, prepared the station for upcoming solar array upgrades, serviced the station’s cooling system, and completed other station maintenance tasks.\n\n\nOn April 5, all four Crew-1 astronauts boarded Resilience for a port relocation maneuver, moving their spacecraft from the forward-facing port to the space-facing port on the Harmony module. The move allowed for the forward-facing port to receive four Crew-2astronauts upon their arrival to the station April 24. Later this year, SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Services mission is scheduled to dock at the newly vacant zenith port, bringing with it the first pair of new solar arrays.\n\n\nThe Crew-1 flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which has worked with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil to the space station.\n\n\nThe second splashdown of the Commercial Crew Program comes just over one week after the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission, the second long-duration mission. The Crew-2 astronauts launched April 23 and will live and work aboard the station until their return to Earth in about six months.\n\n\nResilience will return to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair in Florida for inspection and processing. There, teams will examine the spacecraft’s data and performance throughout the flight. The next NASA and SpaceX crewed mission is Crew-3, currently targeted for launch no earlier than Oct. 23. Crew-2 astronauts are scheduled to return to Earth Oct. 31, about a week after welcoming their Crew-3 colleagues to the orbiting outpost.\n\n\nThe goal of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station. This has already been proven to provide additional research time and increase the opportunity for discovery aboard humanity’s testbed for exploration, including helping us prepare for human exploration of the Moon and Mars.\n\n\nLearn more about NASA’s Commercial Crew program at:\n\n\nRelated posts\n\n\n\n%d bloggers like this:", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9646341800689697}
+{"content": "Major in Sociology (BA) with a concentration in of the following areas:\n\nCriminal Justice\n\nCriminal Justice is the scientific study of the social phenomenon of crime. Through their studies, students become familiar with law enforcement theory and practice, correctional theory and practice, and criminal law. It prepares students for careers in law enforcement, corrections, and court services as well as graduate work (e.g. law school).\n\nFamily Studies - Social Work\n\nThis concentration is ideal for students seeking to pursue careers and graduate work in sociology or social work, social service agencies, public policy, community development, advocacy, education, local/state/federal government agencies, health services, (family) law, among other sectors. Students exploring “the family” as an emotional, economic, historical, and sociocultural institution. Families hold great paradoxes. On one hand, they are a deeply mundane and ordinary part of the human experience; and on the other hand, families can contain incredible drama and pain, along with profound love. They both shape our individual lives and social world, and are fundamentally shaped by our society, history, laws, and existing inequalities. In various classes, students look at cultural notions of what families “should be” and social realities of what families actually have been/are in terms of marriage, relationships, race, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, nationality, popular culture, law and social policy.\n\nSocial Inequality and Social Justice\n\nThis concentration investigates how social structural factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class and their intersections relate to power, social status, wealth, income, and criminal justice. Through their classes students gain knowledge about these issues but also skills that will guide students as the create a more just and fair world for all. This concentration is relevant for students interested in careers related to human or social services, nonprofit and community organizations, social advocacy, activism and social policy settings, and research and government agencies as well as graduate work.\n\nAcademic Sociology\n\nIn this concentration students explore and analyze the functions and institutions of societies, which include but are not limited to social stratification, race and ethnicity, gender, the family, and laws.\n\nMinor in Sociology\n\n  • Any 6 units in Sociology and/or Social Work", "pred_label": "__label__1", "pred_score_pos": 0.9965588450431824}