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Welcome to KJB Images!

I'm Kent J Burkhardsmeier—a photographic artist based out of Florida, USA. KJB Images represents my photographic art works.
My outdoor pieces feature nature's beauty and the emotions it invokes within me.

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my vision

I’m inspired by outdoor nature (al fresco) where I find peace and comfort. The openness and serenity found within nature move me. The outdoors stirs up emotions that act as motivation for my images and poems.

My images embrace time and place with room to meander, quiet to relax the mind, and space to ponder. They are an invitation to enter the realm within, to soothe the soul, and to experience solace.

I create surreal, transitional art—realism infused with a touch of abstraction or ambiguity—using photographic tools and artistic techniques.  My artwork exhibits a painterly style suggestive of landscape watercolor paintings; layered, relaxed palette, subtle details, and enriched through textured fine art medium.

Poetry flows from conversations shared in the presence of nature, her elements, and shared wisdom. Listening with an open and calm heart, allows whispers passed along from generations.

Landscape Photographer Kent J Burkhardsmeier of KJB Images

Photograph by Claudia Johnstone

inspired peace,

serenity within nature

embrace, meander, relax, ponder

enter the realm

to soothe and experience solace

create art, touch ambiguity

painterly, layered, subtle, textured art

poetry flows in presence

her wisdom with open heart,

whispers passed

my background

A modest and humble upbringing, surrounded by vast and open landscape — I grew up in North Dakota, USA with beauty emanating from commonplace. Here I developed an appreciation for the simpler aspects of life, explored the outdoors, started photographing, and uncovered a passion to travel. College and a successful business career provided opportunities to live in distant lands (Colorado, Florida, Texas, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Italy, and the UK) — always appreciating and exploring.

Travel offers me an opportunity to create new images to amplify my artist voice. Each image reveals a paused reverence; in harmony with the essence of my childhood and the mindfulness of the place.

why nature first

  1. Prioritize the well-being of nature over photography.

  2. Educate yourself about the places you photograph.

  3. Reflect on the possible impact of your actions.

  4. Use discretion if sharing locations.

  5. Know and follow rules and regulations.

  7. Actively promote and educate others about these principles

Photographs by Claudia Johnstone


Extinction Events

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Noted ecologists Anne and Paul Ehrlich warn that human-driven extinction events are undermining the planet's life support systems.

As we indicated in an earlier column, the extinction of non-human
species is a matter of major concern to biologists … and
it should be of extreme concern to all
human beings.

There are several reasons for this. First of all, the
acceleration in extinction of populations
or of entire species can be viewed as the
removal of essential parts (sometimes analogized with
rivets) of the life-support systems of Spaceship Earth more rapidly than natural “repair” processes can
replace them. And, although there’s considerable redundancy
in such systems, the ultimate impact of continuing
extinctions is clear: the loss of essential ecosystem

The services provided by ecosystems, as you may recall,
include such essentials as the amelioration of the climate,
the disposal of wastes and recycling of nutrients, the
generation and maintenance of soils, and the control of the
vast majority of crop pests and transmitters of human
diseases. Humanity has no satisfactory way of replacing
these free services should they be lost, and civilization
cannot persist without them.

Furthermore, the accelerating rate of extinction is itself
a measure of the increasing level of attack that humanity
is launching on Earth’s ecosystems. Each time a population
is destroyed, one less component is available to help
perform vital services for us. In short, biologists are
worried in principle about the “popping of rivets” from our
spaceship, and are frightened because they see the
rivets disappearing at an ever more rapid pace.

There are other reasons for concern over the extinction of
populations and species, as well … including the fact
that the disappearance of plants or animals often results
in the loss of direct economic benefits (ecosystem services
are considered indirect benefits) and the loss of aesthetic
values. Moreover, in the name of plain old-fashioned
compassion, we should take care not to eliminate any more
of our fellow “passengers” than we already have in the
short time man has trod this Earth.

The Passing of the Passenger Pigeon

The most dramatic cause of extinction is direct
endangering, usually by overexploitation. And the
classic example is the fate of the passenger pigeon. This
fascinating, graceful, pretty bird–with a slate blue
back and deep pink breast–didn’t coo like a dove, but
produced “shrieks and chatters and clucks.” Its greatest
claim to fame was the enormous size of its populations …
in fact, it may well have been the most abundant bird that ever existed. John James Audubon observed a flock
that passed overhead for three days in a row, sometimes at
the incredible rate of more than 300 million birds an hour.
Alexander Wilson–co-founder, with Audubon, of American
ornithology–estimated that another flock contained
two billion birds! The passage of such huge
numbers in flight created a roar of wings that could
actually be heard half a dozen miles away!

These pigeons, which originally lived throughout eastern
North America, fed on the fruits of forest trees,
especially acorns and beechnuts. They nested in narrow
colonies as much as 40 miles long and several miles across.
Their droppings in roosting areas piled up inches thick,
killing all the vegetation below the trees and–in
time–the trees themselves.

This country’s early settlers had no trouble, as you’d
imagine, adding the passenger pigeon to their diets. The
nesting grounds were so crowded that adult birds were
always being injured or killed, and succulent squabs were
constantly knocked out of their nests … so a hungry
person could simply wander through a colony and pick

As the human population increased, however, two things
began to happen: First, railroads pushed through the
wilderness and enabled professional hunters to ship the
birds to centers like New York. Second, the great
oak and beech forests in which the birds nested began to be

Profit hunters devised ingenious ways of killing the
pigeons in large numbers. They suffocated entire flocks by
burning grass or sulfur under their roosts. The birds
were also batted down with long sticks, blasted with shotguns, fed grain soaked in alcohol and picked up dead drunk, or netted (after which their heads were crushed with
pincers). One trapping device depended upon a decoy
bird–with its eyes sewed shut–tied to a perch
called a “stool” (“stool pigeon” thereby became a part of
the language).

The disappearance of the species was startlingly rapid.
After the Civil War, so many millions of the birds were
shipped from the Middle West to New York that live pigeons
were even used as targets in shooting galleries. But the
huge flocks were by then already gone from the coastal
states and–by the 1880’s–were dwindling
everywhere. In 1878 one hunter shipped some three million
birds from Michigan, the passenger pigeon’s final
stronghold. The last wild bird was seen in that state just
11 years later, and the final captive pigeon died in the
Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Her name was Martha.

A Delicate Balance

Economic extinction (reduction of the passenger pigeon
population to a level where hunting was no longer
profitable) preceded biological extinction. The last birds
in the wild were not killed by Homo sapiens , but
perished as a result of “natural causes.” Habitat
destruction was not a major factor, however, because even
today large areas of forest suitable for the pigeons exist
in the eastern United States. Apparently the ability to
form huge flocks was essential to the birds’ survival. Once
their populations became too small to maintain sufficiently
large breeding colonies, nesting failures, inbreeding, and
mortality from predation must have escalated and pushed the
species to extinction.

Other species, too, are known to have been wiped out by
direct human intervention. The dodo, a flightless bird that
once inhabited Mauritius, was eliminated a couple of
centuries ago by early European settlers. Its story is not
as well documented as is that of the passenger pigeon,
but the fact is commemorated in the phrase “dead as a
dodo.” Furthermore, at least it’s suspected that
thousands of years ago–at the end of the last glacial
epoch–Stone-Age hunters played a major role in the
extermination of many species of large mammals, including mammoths, woolly rhinos, and ground sloths. Today,
numerous other species are endangered as a result of human
persecution. Elephants are slaughtered for their ivory;
rhinos for their horns (thought by some cultures to have
aphrodisiac qualities); whales for their meat;
cheetahs, snow leopards, and other cats because they
threaten livestock; and antelopes for “sport.” Sea
turtles are chased for their shells, and their nests are
robbed of eggs. Collectors pay large sums for rare fishes,
amphibians, reptiles, and especially birds. And, closer to
home, the “cactus craze” has become so extreme that many
species are faced with extinction. Even national parks
are being stripped of these key desert plants.

Primates–monkeys, gibbons, chimps, and
gorillas–are much sought for medical research. (The
standard practice in collecting primates is to shoot a
group of adults and then capture the young!) Unhappily, the
research is much too often poorly designed and utterly
useless. And saddest of all, only a small proportion of the
specimens gathered for experiments or collections ever
survive the journey.

Cruel Evictions

In spite of all this, the second major cause of
extinction–habitat destruction–is much more
important than the first. For every species and population
endangered because of direct human action,
thousands are threatened by the inadvertent loss
of suitable places in which to live. Often these are
relatively obscure organisms–insects and other
invertebrates, small plants, and so on–whose jeopardy
or eventual passing goes completely unmarked.

For example, the plight of the Bay checkerspot butterfly is
typical of many temperate-zone organisms. The
insects occupy patches of serpentine grassland in the San
Francisco Bay area, where the food plants required by their
caterpillars grow. Long-term research has shown that the
separate populations of this insect are subject to periodic
extinction by drought, and it’s suspected that other
colonies may occasionally be wiped out by the fires that
maintain the local chaparral habitat.

But before the Bay Area was developed, the losses were not
catastrophic. The vacant “islands” of serpentine grass
would be repopulated, after a decade or so, by migrant
individuals from a nearby island where the butterflies had
survived. Thus, a shifting checkerboard of populations

Things began to change late in the last century, however,
as the human population of San Francisco and its
suburbs grew. Gradually, islands of serpentine became sites
of human habitation. The entire process accelerated rapidly
following World War II, as servicemen returning from the
Pacific decided to settle in beautiful California. More and
more checkerspot colonies disappeared under homes, shopping
centers, fast food outlets, and freeways.

Then, during the mid-1970’s, a drought pushed additional
populations to extinction. As a result, the Bay checkerspot
is now endangered. The few remaining populations are
probably too far from the “empty” islands for migrant
individuals to repopulate them before extinction overtakes
the still existing colonies.

Habitat destruction, of course–in the form of the
conversion of its river home into a lake behind the Tellico
Dam–is the sole threat to the snail darter. The
conversion of virgin land to cities, farms, and pasture is
decimating the rich flora of South Africa’s Cape region,
threatening an orchid in Russia, and destroying a
beautiful buttercup in New Zealand.

The Destruction Grows

The list is long and depressing. All the fish
populations in some 300 Adirondack lakes have been
exterminated by acid rains. Siberian tigers are
disappearing as their forest home is cleared. Desert
animals and plants in the American Southwest are being
destroyed by offroad vehicles (a carefully driven dirt bike
degrades an acre of land in a 20-mile journey … a
four-wheel-drive vehicle, more than three acres in the same
distance). Rats, goats, burros, mongooses, and various
other animal and plant “weeds” that have been moved around
by humanity so degrade habitats that native
species–especially on islands–go extinct

All over the globe, at an ever-increasing pace, populations
of all sorts of organisms are being paved over, plowed
under, grazed away, flooded out, stripmined, poisoned,
invaded, and–above all–destroyed as forests are
cleared. This last cause of extinction is especially
serious because of the mounting assault on tropical rain
forests, which may contain two-fifths or more of
all the Earth’s species. If current trends
continue, most of this enormous reservoir of life’s
diversity will be gone early in the next century … and
our spaceship may have lost enough rivets to make the
survival of society impossible!

For more details on the way other organisms are forced
to extinction and a discussion of ecosystem services and
the consequences of their loss, see
Extinction by P.
Ehrlich and A. Ehrlich (Random House, 1981) upon which this
column is based.

In November 1981 Anne and Paul Ehrlich, and their
friend and coauthor John Holdren, will join MOTHER EARTH NEWS for a
unique South Pacific Seminar nn the idyllic islands of
Bora Bora and Raïa-téa.

Paul Ehrlich (Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of
Biological Sciences, Stanford University) and Anne Ehrlich (Senior
Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford) are
familiar names to ecologists and environmentalists everywhere. As well
they should be. Because it was Paul and Anne who–through their writing
and research–gave special meaning to the words “population,”
“resources,” and “environment” in the late 1960’s. (They also coined the
is today.) But while most folks are aware of the Ehrlichs’ popular
writing in the areas of ecology and overpopulation (most of us–for
instance–have read Paul’s book The Population Bomb), far too few people
have any idea of how deeply the Ehrlichs are involved in ecological
technical journals and college textbooks). That’s why it pleases us to
be able to present these semi-technical columns by
authors/ecologists/educators Anne and Paul Ehrlich.


Met Gala 2022: Emma Chamberlain spotted wearing a necklace from the Maharaja of Patiala! Seeing the pictures, users heard the truth

Met Gala remains in the news every year due to the fashion sense of celebs. Kim Kardashian got the most buzz at the Met Gala event of 2022, her transformation surprised everyone present there. But in the midst of all this, popular internet sensation Emma Chamberlain also grabbed everyone's attention with her looks at the Met Gala 2022. Emma arrived at the Met Gala wearing a historic neckpiece, which has now come into the limelight. Emma was seen in a Louis Vuitton outfit at the Met Gala 2022. Emma looked pretty in a full sleeve crop top and white skirt. With this, he wore a beautiful neckpiece around his neck. It is claimed that the neckpiece that Emma wore was the noble chokerpiece of Maharaja Patiala Bhupinder Singh. For this reason, now more noble chokerpieces are being discussed on social media than Emma's looks. Many people are telling him the truth too.

After the pictures of Emma surfaced on social media, now people are telling her the truth. Some say that the neckpiece that Emma is wearing has been stolen from India. One user wrote, ' #Thanks Cartie. These are the jewels of the Maharaja of Patiala. This is a stolen jewel in Indian history, not a fancy piece given to celebs. Outrageous on many levels. Another user wrote, 'When stolen goods are flaunted on the global stage.'

Learn the history of the neckpiece
The Maharaja of Patiala had De Beamers, the seventh largest diamond in the world, which was placed in the middle of his necklace. He bought it from the famous company Cartier. It is claimed that the Maharaja had given the company the task of making necklaces in 1928. The necklace suddenly disappeared after the Maharaja's son Yadwinder Singh wore it in 1948. The necklace was recovered 50 years later by Cartier representative Eric Nussbaum in London. At that time, the necklace did not have De Beers stones and Burmese rubies. So Cartier planned to reassemble this neckpiece without the de Beamers and other original stones.


Women's Habit: Men dislike these habits of women, it comes to ending the relationship

Whether it is a man or a woman, every human being has some special habits. These habits need to be controlled when one is in a relationship. Because many times it is because of these habits that the relationship comes on the verge of breaking up. Actually, there are many habits related to nature which cause estrangement in mutual relationship. By the way, most of the habits of men are talked about. But there are many habits in women too. Because of which a man considers it better to shun his partner. So let's know what are the habits that can put women's relationship at risk.

Unnecessarily controlling a partner
No matter how much society changes but some things never change. Very rarely will it be seen when a man can tolerate the rule of his female partner. In most of the relationships, if the woman wants to impose her will on the man, then in such a situation, men consider themselves good in keeping distance from the female partner.

At the beginning of the relationship, the girlfriend often ignores her boyfriend. And thinks that her partner should follow her. Initially every boyfriend likes this. But gradually over time this habit is not liked by the mail partner at all. If these habits persist in the relationship for a long time, then men start distancing themselves from their partner.

Burning sensation
Women need to control their jealousy. Many times women feel jealous of every friend and co-worker their male partner knows. Women feel that their partner should not leave them. In such a situation, she starts doubting her partner. As a result, soon men start getting influenced by this behavior of women.

Do not give space
In most relationships, it is heard that men do not want to give personal space to women. But sometimes women also interfere in the work of their spouse. She keeps an excessive eye on his personal life and doubts. In such a situation, men do not like this habit of women at all.


United States Faces Section 301 Challenges at the WTO and CIT

The United States faces Section 301 challenges in both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Court of International Trade (CIT).

Headquartered in New York City, the CIT is a federal court in the United States that resolves civil actions arising from the customs and international trade laws of that country.

At the international level, the WTO panel in DS543 found that Schedules 1 and 3 of tariffs against China were inconsistent with the United States’ WTO obligations.

However, according to an analysis by the US Congress, because the United States appealed the WTO panel report and the Appellate Body cannot hear the appeals, it is likely that the dispute will not be resolved within the framework of the settlement of WTO disputes.

In other words, for the United States and China to reach a resolution, the issue may need to be negotiated outside the WTO.

Section 301

Since there is no final decision by the WTO Dispute Settlement Body that Schedules 1 and 3 are WTO-inconsistent, the United States could argue that it does not have an international legal obligation to eliminate tariffs.

But, based on the same analysis, it has been suggested that appealing a dispute in circumstances where the dispute cannot be final may result in a separate violation of the international obligation in good faith, and may entitle another Member to the WTO to impose countermeasures (eg, increase tariffs) to address the dispute.

In any case, China can try to use the panel’s report as a lever in the negotiations.

The other two disputes remain pending before the WTO, but China has taken no formal action beyond requesting consultations with the United States.

At the national level, the United States faces numerous challenges to Lists 3 and 4 before before the CIT.

If the United States loses to the CIT (or on appeal), the Biden Administration may have to eliminate the fees.

Such action may address at least part of the WTO panel’s conclusion regarding Schedule 3, and could affect, according to the analysis of the US Congress, the trade negotiations between the United States and China.

Furthermore, if at any point the WTO panel report on Lists 1 and 3 becomes final and China seeks to enforce the panel’s findings, then any action taken by the United States pursuant to a possible CIT order to remove the Schedule 3 tariffs could also affect litigation in the WTO.

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Reducing symptoms of:

Migraine severity and duration

Photophobia and screen intolerance

Concussion and ABI post injury vision issues

Sensory Processing Disorder and Autism visual processing

Vestibular Disorder balance problems and dizziness

Post-stroke vision issues

Photosensitivity in epilepsy

Tourette related tics

ADHD distractibility

Anxiety in high

...and symptoms of other neurological disorders where vision is affected

Visual Stress can lead to a cluster of visual, perceptual and physical symptoms that are similar to these diagnoses.  Fortunately, reducing symptoms is possible with the same solutions used to reduce visual stress: precision tinted lenses, coloured paper and overlays, screen tinting software, and specialty lighting.

Reduce recovery time

When Visual Stress is reduced, more energy is available to focus on healing and to work on therapy and rehabilitation. The term ‘cognitive dollars’ is used to explain how there is only so much cognitive energy (dollars) the brain can apply to solve problems throughout the day. If it spends it all trying to manage problems with the visual system (where 80% of our sensory information comes from) the daily cognitive energy bank is drained and there is less available to spend on recovery – or for some, just making it through the day.

Reduce medication and cost

Research into migraines, epilepsy and many personal reports have indicated that some individuals are able to reduce the medications they take to manage symptoms. This can be attributed to the use of filters that help reduce the effect of visual triggers as well as environmental modifications.

Since you may require less medication and less time for rehabilitation therapies and learning strategies, you may also be able to reduce your overall expenses.

Note: While Opticalm offers assistive tools and technologies to help manage and reduce symptoms of visual stress, they are not meant to replace prescribed therapies or medications for your specific diagnosis.


WCPS Earns National School Public Relations Award

Goldsboro, N.C. –Wayne County Public Schools (WCPS) recently received notice that it earned a National School Public Relations Association 2017 Golden Achievement Award, the second highest national honor given by the association for exemplary public relations activities, programs, projects and campaigns.

“Wayne County Public Schools received this award because of our efforts in the area of strategic communications planning and engagement,” states Ken Derksen, WCPS Communication and Public Relations Officer. “Earlier this school year, the district began launching a five year Strategic Communications Plan. Through communication strategies, objectives and action steps, this plan is being used as a vehicle to transform how we as a district communicate with and engage our students, staff, and various stakeholder groups.”

The Strategic Communications Plan was developed using input from parent and stakeholder meetings held during the 2015-16 school year. The comprehensive plan was modeled after an innovative school transformation process used for improving struggling schools. At the center of the plan were three Transforming Communications Initiatives that focus on the following areas:

  • Engagement and Awareness

  • Trust, Transparency, and Brand Identity

  • Crisis Communications

“Mr. Derksen believes that successful public relations programs require the input, actions and talents of various stakeholders,” states Dr. Michael Dunsmore, WCPS superintendent. “As such, he has worked closely with my administrative cabinet, directors, and principals over the past 18 months to develop and implement communications and engagement strategies through his communications plan that will directly support each of the focus areas in the district’s five year Strategic Plan. Moving forward, he has recently launched a number of committees in order to garner valuable input and insights from school personnel, parents, community members, and other stakeholder representatives.”

NSPRA’s Golden Achievement Award recognizes exemplary work in all aspects of school public relations, communication, marketing and engagement. Award judges sought outstanding achievement in the four steps of a public relations program: 1) analysis of the need; 2) planning to meet the need; 3) execution and communication of the program; and 4) formal evaluation.

“We are committed to cultivating a culture across our school district that reflects effective information sharing, good customer service, and meaningful public engagement,” adds Dr. Dunsmore. “This national award affirms the value of the ongoing work taking place here in Wayne County.

Congratulations to Mr. Derksen for this achievement!


Threads and Thread Synchronization in C#

CsharpProgrammingServer Side Programming

Using Synchronization, you can synchronize access to resources in multithreaded applications.

A mutex can be used to synchronize threads across processes Use it to prevent the simultaneous execution of a block of code by more than one thread at a time.

C# lock statement is used to ensure that a block of code runs without interruption by other threads. A Mutual-exclusion lock is obtained for a given object for the duration of the code block.

Thread pool in C# is a collection of threads. It is used to perform tasks in the background. When a thread completes a task, it is sent to the queue wherein all the waiting threads are present. This is done so that it can be reused.

Let us see how to create a thread pool.

Firstly, use the following namespace −

using System.Threading;

Now, call the threadpool class, using the threadpool object. Call the method QueueUserWorkItem.

ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(Run));

The Mutex class in C# is a synchronization primitive that can also be used for interprocess synchronization.

Let us see how to create a new Mutex −

private static Mutex m = new Mutex();
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Ask the Captain: Did the damaged Boeing 777 have to dump fuel before making emergency landing?

John Cox
Special to USA TODAY

Have you ever dumped fuel because the plane was damaged and had to land as soon as possible? Did the recent damaged Boeing 777 at Denver dump its fuel before emergency landing?

– RG, Asheville, North Carolina

I have never dumped fuel on any flight. Most of the airplanes I flew did not have fuel-dumping capability.

I have not heard if the Boeing 777 that experienced engine failure over Denver dumped fuel or not. Based on the request to return immediately, it is doubtful if they dumped fuel.

After the engine suffered the uncontained failure, there was a significant vibration which would have encouraged an immediate return and landing. The pilots would have completed the appropriate checklists, reprogrammed the flight management system and then been ready to land.

United Airlines engine failure on Boeing 777:  What travelers need to know

United Airlines engine failure: FAA orders thermal imaging for fan blades

On multi-engined aircraft, are the engines counter-rotational?

– Daju, Ohio

On jets they are not, but the shafts within the engine (low pressure and high pressure) usually do rotate in a opposite directions.

Most turboprops are not counter-rotating. However, some reciprocating engines on twins are counter-rotating.

John Cox is a retired airline captain with US Airways and runs his own aviation safety consulting company, Safety Operating Systems. The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of USA TODAY.


Atazanavir and Cobicistat Tablets for Oral Administration (Evotaz)- FDA

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Specifically, they proved that ordering and concatenation are together sufficient for the construction of an additive numerical representation of the relevant magnitudes. An johnson graham representation is one in which addition is empirically meaningful, and hence also multiplication, division etc.

A hallmark of such magnitudes is that it is possible to generate them by concatenating a standard sequence of equal units, as in the example of Atazanavir and Cobicistat Tablets for Oral Administration (Evotaz)- FDA series of equally spaced marks on a ruler. Although they viewed additivity as the hallmark of measurement, most early measurement theorists acknowledged that additivity is not necessary for measuring. Examples are temperature, which may be measured by determining Cobicista volume of a mercury column, and density, which may be measured as the ratio of mass and volume.

Nonetheless, tea tree is important to note that the two distinctions are based on significantly different criteria of measurability. As discussed in Section 2, the extensive-intensive distinction focused on the intrinsic structure of (Evtoaz)- quantity in question, i. The fundamental-derived distinction, by contrast, focuses on the properties of measurement operations.

A fundamentally measurable magnitude is one for which a fundamental measurement operation has been found. Consequently, black box warning is not an intrinsic property of a magnitude: a derived magnitude can become fundamental with the discovery of new operations for its measurement. Moreover, in fundamental measurement the numerical assignment need not mirror the structure of spatio-temporal parts.

Electrical resistance, for roche 80, can be fundamentally measured by connecting resistors in a series (Campbell 1920: 293). This is considered a fundamental measurement operation because it has a shared structure with numerical addition, even though objects with equal resistance are not generally equal in size.

OOral distinction between fundamental and derived measurement was revised by Atazanavir and Cobicistat Tablets for Oral Administration (Evotaz)- FDA authors.

Brian Ellis (1966: Ch. Fundamental measurement requires ordering and concatenation operations satisfying the same conditions specified by Campbell. Associative measurement procedures are based on a correlation fir two ordering relationships, e. Derived measurement procedures consist in the determination of the value of a constant in a physical law. The constant may be local, as in the determination of the specific density of water from mass and volume, or universal, as in the determination of the Newtonian gravitational constant from force, mass and distance.

Henry Kyburg (1984: Ch. Duncan Luce and John Tukey (1964) in their work on conjoint measurement, which will be discussed in Admlnistration 3. The previous subsection discussed the axiomatization of empirical structures, a line of inquiry that dates back to the early days of measurement theory.

A complementary line of inquiry within measurement theory concerns the classification of measurement scales. Stevens (1946, 1951) distinguished among four types of scales: nominal, ordinal, interval Administratio ratio. Nominal scales represent objects as eisenberg jewelry to classes that have no particular order, e.

Ordinal scales represent order but no further algebraic structure. For example, the Mohs scale of mineral Administratikn represents minerals with numbers ranging from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest), but there is no empirical significance to equality among intervals or ratios of those numbers.

The Kelvin scale, by bayer pets, is a ratio scale, as are the familiar scales representing mass in kilograms, length in meters and duration in seconds. As Stevens notes, applied mathematics article types are individuated by the families of transformations they can undergo without loss of empirical information. Empirical relations represented on ratio scales, for example, are heart vessels and transplantation under multiplication by a positive number, e.

Linear interval scales allow both multiplication by a positive number and a constant shift, e. Absolute scales admit of no transformation other than identity. Two issues were especially contested. Several physicists, including Campbell, argued that classification and ordering operations did not provide a sufficiently rich structure to warrant the use of numbers, and hence should not count as measurement operations.

The second contested issue was whether a concatenation operation had to be found for a magnitude before it could be fundamentally measured on a ratio scale. The debate became especially heated when it re-ignited a longer controversy surrounding the measurability of intensities of sensation.

It is to this debate we now turn. One of the main catalysts for the development of mathematical theories of measurement was an ongoing debate surrounding measurability in psychology. These differences were assumed to be equal increments of intensity of sensation. This law in turn provides a method for indirectly measuring the intensity of sensation by measuring the intensity of the stimulus, and hence, Fechner argued, provides justification for measuring intensities of sensation on the real numbers.

Those objecting to the measurability of sensation, such as Campbell, stressed the necessity of an empirical concatenation operation for fundamental measurement. Since intensities of sensation cannot be concatenated to each other Cobicisfat the manner afforded by lengths and weights, there could be no fundamental measurement of sensation intensity. Moreover, Campbell claimed that none of the psychophysical regularities discovered thus far are sufficiently universal to count as laws in soulman johnson sense required for derived measurement (Campbell in Ferguson et al.

All that psychophysicists have shown is that intensities of sensation can be consistently ordered, but order by itself does not yet warrant the use of numerical relations such as sums and ratios to express empirical results.

The central opponent of Campbell in this debate was Stevens, whose distinction between types of measurement scale was discussed above.

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Will Second Generation Biofuels Lead to Bioinvasions?
Smith, A.L., Klenk, N., Wood, S., Hewitt, N., Henriques, I., Yan, N. and Bazely, D.R. 2013. Second generation biofuels and bioinvasions: An evaluation of invasive risks and policy responses in the United States and Canada. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 27: 30-42.

In regard to biofuels, and noting that (1) "many of the most popular second generation crops proposed for cultivation in the U.S. and Canada are not native to North America," and that (2) "some are known to be invasive," the authors write that "the development of a large-scale biofuel industry on the continent could lead to the widespread introduction, establishment, and spread of invasive plant species if invasive risks are not properly considered as part of biofuel policy."

What was done
In light of these unwanted potentialities, Smith et al. evaluated "the risk of biological invasion posed by the emerging second generation biofuel industry in the U.S. and Canada by examining the invasive risk of candidate biofuel plant species, and reviewing existing biofuel policies to determine how well they address the issue of invasive species."

What was learned
First of all, the seven Canadian researchers uncovered evidence that "numerous potentially invasive plant species are being considered for biofuel production in the U.S. and Canada," yet they state that the invasive risk of these projects "receives little to no attention in these countries' biofuel policies." Secondly, they identified "several barriers to integrating invasive species and biofuel policy, relating to policy analytical capacity, governance, and conflicting policy objectives."

What it means
As a result of their several disturbing findings, Smith et al. conclude their report by stating they "recommend that governments act now, while the second generation biofuel industry is in its infancy, to develop robust and proactive policy addressing invasive risk," noting that "policy options to minimize biological invasions include banning the use of known invasive plant species, ongoing monitoring of approved species, and use of buffer zones around cultivated areas."

And in closing, they warn that "time is limited," such that "if federal and provincial governments do not act soon, they will be faced with closing the barn door after the horse has bolted."

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The Meaning Of Health And Its Importance For Managers

Health, as defined by the earth Health Organization, is usually a situation where “the human body’s techniques complete usually and successfully continually.” Various meanings are also put on in the past for various purposes. Such as, wellbeing is recognised as very important to the treatment and prevention of sickness and harm. It refers to conditions of great well being who has entireupkeep and clean up, and safeguards in the personalbody and mind, and soul. It’s a condition of being that presents true goal and significance to a person’s living.

The principles of wellness and overall health are interdependent and structured. They often times come together with each impacts the other up to a point. There exists a range of what’s deemed great health. To the a person end of the range, you can find ailments and scenarios which are typically known as typical, for example physical appearance, emotive overall health, and gratification, and balancedexercise and dieting, as well as other patterns and life-style selections.

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An important element of a sound body is usually a reasonable stability of loss and profile, which includes appropriate sophistication inside the natural ecosystem, emotional health, and mental wellness. In other words, deficiency does not have to mean don’t have, and and it’s crucial that you possess some complexity, jewel emotional or thought, while in the real environment. A bodily healthy man or women in most cases manage to shift with no discomfort, all of which will not often practical knowledge pain or downfall. Mental health, in contrast, normally calls for additional efforts compared to body can withstand, and also a psychological wellbeing prognosis is manufactured every time a individual activities four or five if not more significant or nominal symptoms that interfere with working typically in various areas.

The second component a healthy body is satisfactory occurrence. The lack of disorder or impairment won’t automatically indicate a situation of proper health and fitness fairly, it may well suggest circumstances of restriction. Disease or disability brings about boundaries, and a healthy body enables some extent of limitation. Such as, whilst a literally healthy person who suffers from brittle bones, thigh joint disease, or diabetes mellitus just might keep perform productively for some time, she would probably be can not go after any strenuous pastime without using added health care gear.

Another piece of wellness is a great treatments for the outward symptoms or complications with the illnesses. In the absence of good health policy, any adverse health professional could well be limited by recommending prescription drugs or physiotherapy, which are often surgical and expensive (and therefore, risky) with the patient. And some medication is often perilous, others can alleviate signs and symptoms, but are unable to treat the ailment. Good health plans give men and women the freedom to pick treatments for which there is no pharmaceutical drug, but which don’t lead to more damage than the conditions they are meant to take care of.

Another primary factor to consider in the word a sound body would be the rate of indicators and complications. Her probabilities of buying a different ailment are small, however a healthy one who experiences no indications or complications of your disease for many years might be regarded as nutritious. A healthy one that ordeals only one manifestation or complications (which should always be along with a high check) for much very less time of energy need to be diagnosed as acquiring a lack of indicators, and her probabilities of choosing a illness are higher.

A healthy distinction plays the main tool for dealing with ailment setting up and danger health plan. It details when scarcity of signs or problems signify that a person has become illness free. Additionally, it highlights the level of damage or inability brought on by insufficient the condition. Finally, it recognizes that a short period of health issues followed by restoration is not necessarily a proper end result. A great classification needs to be accommodating ample to support the phrase balanced and must evaluate the relative benefits ofway of living and conduct, and family genes to specific effectively-currently being.

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Published:July 6, 2021

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An indigenous Alberta lawyer is under social media attack after saying she would help burn down Catholic churches across the country.

And Naomi Sayers said she would be glad to defend anyone charged with arson after setting fire to a church.

“It’s sad what’s happening to @HarshaWalia. But let me be clear, I would help her burn it all down.,” Sayers tweeted on Sunday.

“And that would light our way forward. And also, I would help defend anyone charged with arson if they actually did burn things.”

Sayers was responding to a social media blitzkrieg against Harsha Walia, the head of the BC Civil Liberties Association, who had earlier tweeted ‘Burn it all down’ in a comment on the rash of fires across the West.

Walia on Monday told an indigenous leader her four-word text had been taken out of context.

On her website, Sayers said she “has a broad public law practice with a focus on indigenous law, administrative law (regulatory law), environmental, energy and mining law, criminal law and corporate law.”

She is licensed in both Alberta and Ontario.

One social media user, Dean Skoreyko, of BC, said he will file a complaint with the law societies in both provinces.

“Ps. Burn it all down. Doesn’t literally mean, burn it down. But just in case, I can also defend, both civil and criminal,” Sayers tweets later.

A spree of arson and other acts of destruction have been occurring against Christian churches, focused mostly on indigenous Catholic congregations. The acts range from petty vandalism to lighting fires in or around the churches, destroying many.

As of publication, there have been at least 23 attacks against churches – including at least five completely destroyed by fires, at least three damaged by fires, and more than 15 vandalized to varying degrees.


Thursday, April 9, 2020

Another Addition to The Opioid Crisis? Insys Theraputics Bribes Doctors to Increase Their Profit (2012-2015)

Insys Theraputics Inc. is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on giving patients cannabis and
Sybsus Drug
novel drug delivery systems. Novel drug delivery systems are systems that improve drug potency control drugs to give patients a therapeutic effect, provide greater safety and target a drug that helps a specific area. Insys’ vision is “To improve the quality of patient care by building a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on cannabinoids and novel drug delivery systems that address unmet patient needs”(Insys). John Kapoor, founder and former CEO of Insys, created a highly addictive opioid, Subsys. Subsys is a liquid form of fentanyl and is much stronger than morphine. Mr. Kapoor originally created Subsys to help those with cancer control their pain. Originally, patients had to be 18 years of age or older and had to be currently or previously using opioid therapy for their cancer pain. Patients were told to spray the liquid under their tongue. Kapoor claims he created this company after he witnessed his wife die of cancer. He said “ I wanted to believe in Subsys perhaps too much. I never wanted Subsys to be prescribed to patients who did not need it” (Thomas).

Starting in May of 2012 and ending in December of 2015, Kapoor and other top executives bribed practitioners to prescribe the spray outside the usual course of the professional practice. Kapoor was helped by Babich, Burlakoff, Simon, Lee, Rowan, Gurry and other supporters. They used bribes and kickbacks, such as covering fees for speakers and marketing events, food and entertainment, administrative support, and paid fees to other pharmacies to make this all happen. In March 2012, the company planned and funded a marketing program called the “Speaker Program ''. The Speaker Program was created to increase the awareness of the spray and its use. They held peer-to-peer educational lunches and dinners.  Later in 2012, Insys, misled insurance companies into agreeing to pay for the drug. They falsified the identity and location of the employer of the fentanyl, misrepresented the patient's diagnosis, the pain being treated, and the patient's prior medication taken (United States District Court District of Massachusetts).  More than 8,000 people died from overdosing after using this drug. There are many stories that illustrate the tragic outcomes of all of this.  Sarah Fuller was one patient that was prescribed Sybsus when she shouldn't have been. Recently, a federal judge sentenced John Kapoor and six other Insys executives to prison for “racketeering conspiracy.” Racketeering is a criminal activity in which a person or organization engages in a ‘racket.’  John Kapoor, CEO, and founder, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture that is due at a later date.  The other six employees were also sentenced to prison for a time ranging from 26 to 33 months. Insys agreed to pay $225 million to settle fraud charges which led them to bankruptcy. The company said they would continue to operate while they come up with a plan to pay back their creditors.

Patient Sarah Fuller who was prescribed wrong drug
Stakeholders are anyone affected by the decision or actions made by the business. In my opinion, the stakeholders affected the most are the doctors and insurance companies. The doctors and insurance companies are the ones who are receiving the bribes and being lied to by upper management. Upper management, patients, the community and the business itself are also stakeholders of this case. Upper management includes John Kappor, CEO and founder as well as the six other members that joined him in bribing and lying to doctors to increase their sales.

Individualism has two points of views by Milton Friedman and Tibor Machan. Both philosophers agree that the only goal of business is to make a profit within the law. Machan adds in that "“The primary obligation of the business is to maximize profit but the direct goal of profiting may need to be met by indirect goals not aimed at profiting and business people may have other goals and those goals may at times be prioritized over the goals of profit-maximizing” (Salazar). Insys' goal was to make more profit by bribing doctors to write false prescriptions and lying to insurance companies to cover the cost of the prescription. Insys’s CEO and six other employees were helping out with these bribes. After being caught bribing doctors and lying to insurance companies, Insys was in trouble with the law, which resulted in several charges against the company. Insys owes $225 million to cover all the charges against them which, in turn, led them to file for bankruptcy. Bankruptcy is not a way to maximize profit as it destroys the company. An Individualist would not agree with the way Insys tried to maximize profit.

A Utilitarian would deem this case as unethical. Utilitarians use the stakeholders' approach that maximizes happiness for all. Happiness is the only value of measure and can be defined as pleasure and absence of pain and is sometimes interpreted as the satisfaction of desires. This makes this case unethical because Insys Therapeutics was not maximizing happiness for anyone except for themselves. Doctors were being bribed to write false prescriptions that hurt their patients. Patients were killed from overdosing on this drug. Insurance companies were also lied to which in the end does not make them happy that they covered the cost for false prescriptions. The only happiness that came out of this case was for Insys during the period of time their sales increased.

Kantianism focused on the four basic principles of the theory as well as their right motivation. The principles say to act ethically one must act rational and make rational decisions while respecting others and being motivated by goodwill. To determine if one was motivated by goodwill, Kantians use three formulas; The Formula of humanity, autonomy and the universal law. Under the formula of humanity, it states “ Act in such a way you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means” (Kantian Business Ethics). Insys Therapeutics bribed doctors and lied to insurance companies as a means to increase their sales which shows they were not motivated by goodwill.   Additionally, Kant says the only right motivation comes from the duty or moral law, meaning you will do something because that's the right thing to do. The motivation for Insys did not come from doing the right thing. Insys knew that using bribes and lying to other companies was not an ethical or legal way to increase their sales. Overall, a Kantian theorist would see Insys’s actions as unethical because of the way they tried to increase their sales.

Virtue Theory

Virtue Theory has a different take on a business's actions compared to other theories mentioned before. Virtue Theory is based on Aristotle's functions. Aristotle is an ANcient Greek Philosopher who developed the virtue theory. Aristotle focused more on the character traits of one. The character traits must promote wellness or flourish of the individual in society( Salazar, 22). One should act in good character and avoid any vicious or bad character traits. The first trait Insts did not obey is courage which is defined as “risk-taking and the willingness to take a stand for the right ideas and actions" (Business Ethics and Virtues). Insys did not stand up against the wrong idea and action of using bribes to increase their sales. Along with using these bribes, they were not honest with the insurance companies which violates the honesty virtue. Insys lied to insurance companies to get them to cover the cost of these prescriptions.  The next virtue is temperance. Temperance is defined as “reasonable expectations and desires” (Business Ethics and Virtues). Again, using bribes and lying is not a reasonable desire to increase profit. I also don't think Insys also should have ever expected these doctors to agree to accept these bribes. Lastly, the virtue trait justice is not followed due to the fact they were not following fair practices. They were working hard to increase their sales but not doing it in a way that is legal or ethical. Insys did not follow any of the virtues in business.

In my opinion, Insys Therapeutics acts were unprofessional and did not follow proper business ethics. Every day we hear and read about the opioid crisis that our world is facing.  The CDC states that in 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses (CDC). These overdoses start with patients becoming overly addicted to their drug they were given. I don't understand why Insys would want to contribute to this crisis but they did and they hurt many people. John Kapoor hurt his own company, doctors, other companies, patients and many other people. More than 8,000 people overdosed from Sybsus. They knew that they were doing it and not following proper business ethics. Every person knows that you should not lie or use bribes to make more money. They put so much effort behind these bribes and programs they created to increase their profit just to get caught and file for bankruptcy. I believe they could have put that effort into following proper business ethics to increase their profit. It may have taken longer but the business would still be in good hands and have the same reputation before any of this. I think it goes to show that Insys does not care about others besides themselves and their profit after this case.
CEO and Founder John Kapoor

Action Plan
Insys Therapeutics has a long road ahead of them till their company is back to “normal” business, if it ever even gets back to that point. There are many steps that need to be taken to get back to that way of business. Their first step is to apologize to those they hurt like the doctors, insurance companies, families and the general public. Insys needs to write a personal apology to all the patients that were affected by this drug. They also need to apologize to the families that lost loved ones from overdosing on the drug. Doctors and insurance companies deserve an apology for putting them in the awkward position of using bribes and being lied to. Lastly, the public deserves an apology for contributing to the opioid crisis and assuring them that they won't do it again. Insys may also want to change their mission statement to one that is focused on the needs of their customers. A new mission statement that could work is “We are focused on caring for our patients by offering them cannabinoids and novel drug delivery systems that address their unmet needs.” This mission statement shows customers that they are focused on helping them. Along with a mission statement, they should lay out the core values that they will now follow. Some new core values might include honesty, commitment, innovation, and trust. Insys needs to be committed to their patients' needs by creating new products. They need to be honest with those who they work with and create trust with them.

Another option Insys has is to rebrand the whole company which includes changing the name of the company and their logo. Currently, when we hear Insys, this is the only thing we think of. A new name will blur out this case for the company and so will the logo. Hopefully, a new name and logo will bring a new set of business to them. They may also want to hire new or fire former employees as a new start to ensure no unethical practices will be done again by the same people. This may also bring back trust in the company. Lastly, I believe Insys should create a system that locks up the drug so patients aren't able to use the drug whenever they want. This lock could be on the spray bottle or just kept in a lockbox that only authorized people know the password to. If Insys Therapeutics carries out this action plan or some aspects of it, they may no longer have a negative reputation. Some may forgive them and give them a new start and try to do business with them again.

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Microsoft Total Liabilities vs Accounts Payable Analysis

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Microsoft Corp financial indicator trend analysis is infinitely more than just investigating Microsoft Corp recent accounting drivers to predict future trends. We encourage investors to analyze account correlations over time for multiple indicators to determine whether Microsoft Corp is a good investment. Please check the relationship between Microsoft Corp Total Liabilities and its Accounts Payable accounts. Additionally, see Stocks Correlation.

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Total Liabilities vs Accounts Payable Correlation Analysis

The overlapping area represents the amount of trend that can be explained by analyzing historical patterns of Microsoft Corp Total Liabilities account and Accounts Payable. At this time, the significance of the direction appears to have very strong relationship.
The correlation between Microsoft Corp's Total Liabilities and Accounts Payable is 0.88. Overlapping area represents the amount of variation of Total Liabilities that can explain the historical movement of Accounts Payable in the same time period over historical financial statements of Microsoft Corp, assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical values of Microsoft Corp's Total Liabilities and Accounts Payable is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these accounts tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which Total Liabilities of Microsoft Corp are associated (or correlated) with its Accounts Payable. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when Accounts Payable has no effect on the direction of Total Liabilities i.e., Microsoft Corp's Total Liabilities and Accounts Payable go up and down completely randomly.

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Deferred Income Tax is recorded on Microsoft Corp balance sheet and a result of income already earned and recognized for accounting, but not tax, purposes. Also, differences between tax laws and accounting methods can result in a temporary difference in the amount of income tax payable by a company. This difference is recorded on Microsoft Corp books as deferred income tax. Sum of the carrying amounts as of the balance sheet date of all liabilities that are recognized. Principal components are Total Debt; Deferred Revenue; Trade and Non Trade Payables; Deposit Liabilities; and Tax Liabilities.

Accounts Payable

An accounting item on the balance sheet that represents Microsoft Corp obligation to pay off a short-term debt to its creditors. The accounts payable entry is usually reported under current liabilities. If accounts payable of Microsoft Corp are not paid within the agreed terms, the payables are considered to be in default, which may trigger a penalty or interest payment, or the revocation of additional credit from the supplier. Accounts payable may also be considered a source of cash, since they represent funds being borrowed from suppliers. Given these cash flow considerations, suppliers have a natural inclination to push for shorter payment terms, while creditors want to lengthen the payment terms.
Most indicators from Microsoft Corp fundamental ratios are interrelated and interconnected. However, analyzing fundamental ratios indicators one by one will only give a small insight into Microsoft Corp current financial condition. On the other hand, looking into the entire matrix of fundamental ratios indicators, and analyzing their relationships over time can provide a more complete picture of the company financial strength now and in the future. Additionally, see Stocks Correlation.Net Cash Flow Investment Acquisitions and Disposals is likely to gain to about 3.6 B in 2022, whereas Selling General and Administrative Expense is likely to drop slightly above 27.5 B in 2022.
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Consolidated Income44.28 B61.27 B70.46 B76.02 B
Direct Expenses46.08 B52.23 B47.01 B37.81 B

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201720182019202020212022 (projected)
Inventories2.66 B2.06 B1.9 B2.64 B2.37 B2.11 B
Receivables26.48 B29.52 B32.01 B38.04 B34.24 B27.24 B
Accounts Payable8.62 B9.38 B12.53 B15.16 B13.65 B14.72 B
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income(2.19 B)(340 M)3.19 B1.82 B1.64 B1.45 B
Total Assets258.85 B286.56 B301.31 B333.78 B383.85 B325.37 B
Current Assets169.66 B175.55 B181.91 B184.41 B212.07 B191.21 B
Assets Non Current89.19 B111 B119.4 B149.37 B171.78 B185.34 B
Cash and Equivalents133.77 B133.82 B136.53 B130.33 B149.88 B139.71 B
Cash and Equivalents USD133.77 B133.82 B136.53 B130.33 B149.88 B139.71 B
Total Debt81.81 B78.37 B71 B67.78 B77.94 B69.52 B
Debt Current4 B5.52 B3.75 B8.07 B9.28 B8.25 B
Debt Non Current77.81 B72.85 B67.25 B59.7 B68.66 B61.57 B
Total Debt USD81.81 B78.37 B71 B67.78 B77.94 B69.52 B
Deferred Revenue32.72 B37.21 B39.18 B44.14 B50.76 B43.76 B
Shareholders Equity82.72 B102.33 B118.3 B141.99 B163.29 B137.38 B
Shareholders Equity USD82.72 B102.33 B118.3 B141.99 B163.29 B137.38 B
Goodwill and Intangible Assets43.74 B49.78 B50.39 B57.51 B66.14 B54.01 B
Inventory2.66 B2.06 B1.9 B2.64 B3.03 B2.84 B
Investments1.86 B2.65 B2.96 B5.98 B5.39 B6.2 B
Investments Non Current1.86 B2.65 B2.96 B5.98 B5.39 B6.2 B
Total Liabilities176.13 B184.23 B183.01 B191.79 B220.56 B187.99 B
Current Liabilities58.49 B69.42 B72.31 B88.66 B101.96 B85.14 B
Liabilities Non Current117.64 B114.81 B110.7 B103.13 B118.6 B102.85 B
Trade and Non Trade Payables8.62 B9.38 B12.53 B15.16 B17.44 B13.96 B
Property Plant and Equipment Net36.15 B43.86 B52.9 B70.8 B81.42 B87.85 B
Trade and Non Trade Receivables26.48 B29.52 B32.01 B38.04 B43.75 B36.31 B
Accumulated Retained Earnings Deficit13.68 B24.15 B34.57 B57.05 B65.61 B70.79 B
Tax Liabilities32.93 B35.51 B31.77 B29.56 B34 B36.68 B

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skunk_web2014 has already proven to be a very active year for rabies in Arizona.  So far this year, there have been 70 animals reported positive for rabies.  Last year at this time there were 40 animals reported positive.  We’re seeing an especially high number of rabid skunks this year.  39 skunks have been reported so far, all of them coming from Southern Arizona.  We have noticed that every few years we have an increase in rabies activity (an epizootic) among wildlife in Arizona.  Arizona’s 3 most common animal reservoirs are bats, foxes, and skunks.

These animals carry their own distinct rabies virus variant or “strain”.  When rabies activity within these animal groups increases (like what’s happening with skunks in Southern Arizona) the risk of rabies “spillover” into other mammal species, such as bobcats, coyotes, javelinas, cats, dogs, horses, or cows, increases.  When spillover rabies occurs in domestic animals, the risk to humans is increased.  That’s why it’s important to keep rabies vaccinations up-to-date for your pets and livestock. Unvaccinated dogs, cats, and ferrets exposed to a rabid animal may have to be euthanized or kept under a strict quarantine for 6 months.  So don’t take that risk and vaccinate your pets!

In Arizona, we see an increase in rabies activity in wildlife this time of year.  People who are camping, hiking, or hunting should avoid touching, handling, or adopting wild or stray animals.  Hunters should always wear gloves and protective eyewear when field dressing game to protect them from many diseases, including rabies.  You should always secure all food sources so not to attract wildlife.

Lastly, notify your local animal control or Game and Fish if you see wild animals acting out of the ordinary or a large number of dead skunks or foxes.  Rabies in humans is 100% fatal, but the good news is that it is 100% preventable through prompt appropriate medical care.  So be sure to call your healthcare provider and county health department if you are bitten by a wild animal or have been exposed to their saliva.


*foundationClass formed in 2016 at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (KHB) as an art educational platform and resistance toolkit designed to facilitate access to art academies for people who have immigrated to Germany and are affected by racism. *foundationClass embraces ongoing movements for transformation and resilience by evolving toward an environment that calls for sustainable patterns of assembly and solidarity.

In a mirror lying on a window are reflected a building, parts of a crow and a fence, blue sky and the initial letters of the collective name.

*foundationClass*collective, Berlin, 2021, photo: Mohamad Halbouni, courtesy the artists

The collective is a group of artists with different experiences who met through the educational platform *foundationClass at KHB and formed the *foundationClass*collective. The group is committed to working against the isolation faced in the art world because of its exclusion mechanisms. *foundationClass*collective is in a transformative space, constantly searching and learning about what a collective could be.

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40. Why Britain Lost

The above image from the painting Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull, on display in the US Capitol Rotunda, depicts the capitulation of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia, in October 1781. This engagement ended the last major campaign of the Revolutionary War.

What Factors Contributed to Great Britain’s Failure to Subdue the American Rebellion?

— His Majesty’s forces lacked the military capacity to conquer and control the vast geographic expanse encompassed by Britain’s North American colonies without receiving more support from the Loyalist population (commonly referred to as “Tories” by those opposing them) than the latter were able or willing to provide.

— The rebels did not necessarily have to win battles in order to succeed, but only needed to persevere until the British Parliament exhausted its willingness to expend the mother country’s blood and treasure in this cause, as it did in the wake of the Yorktown disaster.

— Foreign assistance, especially from France but also Spain and the Netherlands—ranging from covert aid in the beginning of the conflict to more conspicuous intervention later on—sustained the American war effort and eventually drew Britain into a global struggle that diverted military and naval resources from its efforts to suppress America’s bid for independence..

Geography as Destiny

I want to amplify the geographic constraints that militated against the possibility of British success. The Crown’s forces never demonstrated an ability to seize and dominate the immensity and wilderness of the territory that comprised the thirteen provinces along the Atlantic coast. Their base was always the Atlantic Ocean and the navigable rivers stretching upcountry from it. British naval assets were essentially useless in the American interior where the crown’s military ambitions were thwarted by rebel opposition and the difficult terrain and hardships of moving an army about, which the letters of General William Howe (commander of the British army in America from 1775 to 1778) to Lord George Germain (Britain’s principal war strategist) and others in London often cited. Moreover, the nature of that terrain was especially problematic for the Crown’s military designs as its predominantly hilly and forested expanse was very different from the Low Countries where most British officers had their formative military experience and was naturally advantageous to those fighting a defensive action, who were usually rebel soldiers.

Finally, Britain’s effort to defeat the colonial insurrection faced the very formidable challenge of an enormous ocean. Each item utilized by the British expeditionary force had to travel three thousand miles across the Atlantic in sluggish transports. And the distances involved were problematic from the standpoint of communications. Even a swift vessel carrying urgent messages rarely made the voyage from England in much less than two months, while some dispatches took anywhere from three to seven months to reach their intended recipient.

Bottom Line

Ultimately, Great Britain’s failure to subdue the American rebellion may well have been the worst calamity ever suffered by its empire, a defeat that at the time constituted a stunning and humiliating setback for the eighteenth century’s most vaunted global power. But history offers numerous examples of a militarily superior force being frustrated by the stubborn reality of geographic expanse and an uninviting terrain. So Napoleon and Hitler learned when they assailed Russia, as did America in Vietnam—and the forces of “Mad Vlad” are, as we speak (or type), contending with in their barbarous enterprise against a free people.

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Russia–Germany Relations after the Pandemic: Together or Apart?

04 Jun , 12:00–13:15
Joining Forces to Advance Development
Pavilion G, conference hall G5

During the pandemic, the world has changed radically, with new challenges and problems appearing – from global digital trends to a renewed understanding of ethics in an era of massive global transformations, including in bilateral relations. Germany and Russia share a close historical and genetic link. In spite of the destructive complexities in bilateral dialogue, it’s important that both sides aren’t drawn into a ‘game of mutual recriminations’, which is harmful to fruitful dialogue and cooperation. Do Germany and Russia still share common ground? Will the pandemic provide an unprecedented opportunity to find new pathways for cooperation? How will relations between Russia and Germany change in the ‘fight for global vaccines’? Will the renewed global political infrastructure adjust Russia and Germany’s bilateral agenda? How will bilateral dialogue between the two countries change in light of the EU’s policy of renewed multilateralism headed by Germany? What new prospects for successful partnerships can the ‘green economies’ of Germany and the EU open up, and what new opportunities might emerge through the Energomash partnership?

Alexander Rahr, Deputy Chairman, Verband der Russischen Wirtschaft in Deutschland

Vladimir Ilichev, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Evgeny Primakov, Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)
Falk Tischendorf, Official representative of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany) in Russia, Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner BEITEN BURKHARDT Russia
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University
Frank Schauff, Professor, Hochschule Wismar - University of Applied Sciences
Matthias Schepp, Chairman, Russian-German Chamber of Commerce; Delegate of the Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in the Russian Federation
Klaus Ernst, Chairman of the Committee for Economics and Energy, Bundestag


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