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This Article focuses on the case of the Second Amendment right to bear arms and gun control to examine whether the Constitution has fostered a pathological rights culture of rights without responsibilities and regulation. We offer some preliminary thoughts about “ordered gun liberty” – the individual right to bear arms in relation to responsibilities, virtues, and regulation. This article addresses a conundrum concerning this right: there is no individual right that cries out more for governmental encouragement of responsibility concerning its exercise and for governmental regulation to promote safety and to protect from harm, and yet there is no individual right whose defenders more strenuously reject such governmental promotion of responsibility and regulation. We argue that, notwithstanding the rhetoric of rights absolutism, ordered gun liberty supports a “reasonable right to bear arms” that also recognizes the proper role of regulation. We highlight several dimensions of responsibility talk in the discourse concerning the individual right to bear arms, including in District of Columbia v. Heller itself. We address the myth of strict scrutiny for Second Amendment rights, pointing out the wide latitude that protecting an individual right to bear arms, like other rights, leaves for government to encourage responsible exercise of the right. We argue that a form of intermediate scrutiny analogous to that of Moore v. East Cleveland under the Due Process Clause is a strong candidate for the appropriate framework for thinking about rights and responsibilities under Heller for gun control regulation, as is the undue burden standard of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. As a practical example of appropriate regulation, we discuss regulations to protect children from guns in the home – a context in which Second Amendment rights intersect with fundamental parental liberty, family privacy, children’s own rights and needs, and governmental authority to protect children from harm or evils and further their healthy development. We argue that, notwithstanding the NRA’s rejection them, safe storage, or Child Access Prevention laws, are a reasonable regulation aimed at preventing unnecessary injury and loss of life and do not unduly burden Second Amendment rights or fundamental parental liberty or religious liberty. While the NRA advocates exhortation and education over regulation, we counter that, in light of the developmental differences between children and adults – pointed out in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence – supplementing gun education (focused on avoiding guns) with actual regulations requiring adults to take steps to keep children safe is likely to be more effective. We also argue that the privacy of the home is not unduly burdened by medical practice aimed at taking a public health approach to ameliorating risks to children by encouraging responsible gun storage. Comments Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-37 Recommended Citation Linda McClain & James Fleming, Ordered Gun Liberty: Rights with Responsibilities and Regulation, 94 Boston University Law Review 849 (2014).	https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/230/
Finlay MacDonald appointed Director of Piping Live! festival Virtuoso piper and long-time teacher and leader at the National Piping Centre has been appointed Director of the Piping Live! Glasgow International Festival of Piping. He follows in the footsteps of his former boss, Roddy MacLeod, who left the post in January. MacDonald’s appointment comes at a time when Piping Live!’s 2020 status is unknown due to uncertainty with how long the COVID-19 crisis lasts. The festival is run under the auspices of the National Piping Centre, which has had to suspend its search for the Director of Piping position, which also became vacant with MacLeod’s resignation. Roddy MacLeod had held both roles since their respective inceptions, and he had played a central part in establishing both the Piping Centre and Piping Live! over the last two decades. “We are still concluding interviews and some have taken place, but because of the current circumstances, the process is taking longer than expected,” said National Piping Centre Administration Director Alberto Laidlaw. Regarding Piping Live!, Laidlaw added, “We are assessing the situation on a daily basis and taking advice from the relevant government bodies. We are hoping that we can run Piping Live!, but public safety is the main concern and we will make a decision based on that as soon as possible.” The weeklong festival is currently still scheduled from August 9th to 16th, with more than 200 performances at a multitude of venues around the National Piping Centre and Glasgow’s City Centre. The festival leverages the influx of pipers, drummers and enthusiasts in Glasgow for the World Pipe Band Championships. The 2020 World’s are still scheduled for August 14-15 at Glasgow Green. The pipe band world is on edge hoping for the event still to take place, but also expecting an announcement from Glasgow Life and the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, which put on the event together. The RSPBA has already cancelled its first three major 2020 championships, and at least one Grade 1 band, Manawatu Scottish of New Zealand, has cancelled its plans to attend. Like other “non-essential” Scottish businesses, the National Piping Centre has had to close its premises, but continues to teach via its extensive online instruction capabilities. Finlay MacDonald has played a central role with the National Piping Centre, particularly with the institution’s Bachelor of Music (Piping) degree program with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, also in Glasgow. While not generally a participant in solo or band competitions, he has established himself as a performer and recording artist, as well as a consultant for many pipers and Celtic folk groups for their own concerts and recordings.
: Spied BMW i8 Mule Looks More Production Ready with Hoffmeister Kink and Other Updates View Single Post <!img class="inlineimg" src="multisite-style/bmwi/statusicon/post_old.gif" alt="Old" border="0" /> 02-21-2013, 06:30 PM # 68 bimmerjph Colonel 21 Rep 2,025 Posts Drives: 2002 BMW 325i Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Tennessee iTrader: ( 0 ) Quote: Originally Posted by Red Bread This is sort of like saying that a candle only burns because of the wick. Hydrogen remains cost prohibitive to isolate and is highly flammable, evaporates from storage and really doesn't make any sense for cars. You say highly flammable as if gasoline isn't LOL. It (hydrogen) makes much more sense than electricity. Mostly because there is only problems with the hydrogen infrastructure, not the cars as is with electric.	http://bmwi.bimmerpost.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13520522&postcount=68
I have several audio dramas that are in the audiobook (.m4b) format in iTunes. My problem is that when I sync my 5th gen iPod to iTunes, they don't show up in Music>Playlists, they show up under Music>Audiobooks. This is really driving me crazy, because I want the audiobooks in Music>Playlists, but the only workaround is to convert them to a different format. How do I easily convert the audiobooks to a standard audio file format that will show up in Music>Playlists on my iPod? Asked Active 5 years, 6 months ago Viewed 12k times I dug around for quite a long time to find this answer and finally found out that under the info box, there is a drop-down menu in the Info box under Info>Options: And the drop-down menu allows you to choose where it will show up: All that converting was done for nothing...	https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/40292/how-do-i-easily-convert-an-audiobook-m4b-to-a-standard-audio-file
October 20-22, 2016 Chair David Hetzel ’72 opened the meeting, welcomed the committee, and introduced new members. Roger Woolsey, Director of the Center for Professional Development (CPD), shared information on new initiatives and provided an update on fall recruiting and employment activities: - Student participation in the Employer Connections Fair and the Graduate School Fair broke records, with approximately 1,100 students attending the employer connections fair to connect with 112 employers. - While education, technology, and research positons are in the top 5 fields represented among the 6,000+ internship and job opportunities listed in DartBoard, the CPD still faces the challenge of raising the visibility of opportunities outside of finance and consulting. - This fall’s on-campus recruiting program has more than twice as many applications as past years (726 juniors and seniors filing over 9,000 applications for just under 200 positions). New initiatives: - The creation of a donor-funded Women’s Professional Circle with a focus on juniors and seniors and with the goal of increasing confidence, encouraging networking, and creating connections to alumnae. - The 3rd year of the Professional Development Accelerator program for first-year students has seen an increase in the number of students enrolled and the percentage of students completing the required milestones. - The CPD has begun to pilot the use of resume books for selected populations of students, with an eye towards expanding their use in the coming year. The committee’s 3 working groups delivered updates on their ongoing projects: - The Career Connections Speed Networking event hosted by the Alumni-Student Working Group and the CPD on Thursday evening was a great success, with approximately 70 students in attendance, meeting with 25 members of the Council. - The Alumni-to-Alumni working group has completed the draft of a toolkit for planning career events that will be shared with the Communities Executive Council and introduced to club and group leaders by CAGOW this winter. - Earlier this fall, the Special Projects Group completed our third iteration of a resume review project, with 50 resumes of current students reviewed by alumni councilors prior to the busy fall recruiting season. - The Committee also interviewed 9 alumni councilors, with the goal of producing short video clips with career advice for students. These videos will be edited and produced by the College’s Media production group and then shared in DartBoard and via other channels to students. The Committee finished the meeting with a discussion kicked off by Vice Chair Cuong Do ’88, who asked members to think about how we could maximize the impact that we can make as a committee and how we can push to make experiential learning work for every student at Dartmouth. Committee members discussed ways that we can scale our work to reach more students and the importance of connecting directly with students and faculty to inform the work of our committee. We see the House Communities as the perfect vehicle for bringing together students, faculty, and members of the Council in service to the professional development of our students. We will propose our ideas to the Executive Committee and hope that we can harness the talent of the Alumni Council to help support our future efforts.	http://alumni.dartmouth.edu/content/213th-session-committee-summary-professional-development
Project Launch:Jangas, Peru is a small, middle class town in the Andes, nearly 3,000 meters above sea level and surrounded by fertile farm area. The town has a pre-school with about 75 students, and a primary and secondary school with about 500 students. To promote environmental sustainability and improved nutrition, World Connect's Kids to Kids Program awarded a $487 grant to create a sustainable agriculture educational center to train school children in organic gardening and modern, small-animal husbandry. The municipality supplied the land and irrigation for the project, as well as the professional support to plan the project. Guest lecturers were invited to present and to teach on the topics of conservation, nutrition, small business management, and agricultural practices. After receiving initial start-up costs, the project plans to fund itself with earnings from the vegetables and small animals raised. Any extra earnings will be invested to grow the project. Project Update: An organic garden was successfully launched at both the health post and in the primary school, and a food pyramid mural was painted at the Jangas Health Post to promote nutrition. Parents and kids were trained on the importance of eating healthily, and 30 primary school students were trained on how to make organic compost. In addition, local health promoters were trained in basic business principles to help understand how to run a small business selling fruit and vegetables. Towards the end of the project, a “Vegetable Festival” was held where more than 300 townspeople came and learned about nutrition, vegetable planting and recycling, and 22 mothers participated in a healthy cooking competition. The festival was met with tremendous community support and was a creative way to promote nutrition. The vegetable harvest has been solid each year, and has generated revenue that has gone back to the community. In 2012, the gardens generated more than 1500 PEN (approximately $534), and in 2013 about 1350 PEN (approximately $480). Most of the money from the gardens goes to the church to be distributed to needy families, while the rest is saved for seeds and other materials to keep the gardens up and running.	https://worldconnect.global/projects/planting-future-jangass-sustainable-agriculture-educational-center
By the closing date for nominations for positions in the Taupo Local, no nominations had been received. In accordance with the Rules of the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union, nominations are hereby called again for the following positions: PRESIDENT TAUPO LOCAL VICE PRESIDENT TAUPO LOCAL SECRETARY TAUPO LOCAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS TAUPO LOCAL Nominations close on 23 June 2016 and must be delivered to the Branch Office by midday on that date. No late nominations will be accepted. Address to: Branch Returning Officer NZ Professional Firefighters Union P O Box 303 235 North Harbour Auckland Proposers and Seconders must be financial members of the N.Z.P.F.U. Attached to this notice is a sample nomination form to be used (or photocopied for use) which complies with Union Rule B.11. Candidate Biography: B.11.5 Candidates shall be entitled to submit, with their nomination form, a biography to be published to members prior to the voting. The biography shall not exceed one side of one A4 sheet of paper. It may include a photograph if desired, and artwork and/or typewritten information. B.11.5.1 Candidates shall be entitled to submit biographies in typewritten form, or in clear hand writing, in which case the Branch Secretary shall arrange for the biography to be typewritten prior to publication.	https://www.nzpfu.org.nz/news/triennial-election-of-taupo-local-officials/
What Is a Summary of the Cuban Missile Crisis? A summary of the Cuban Missile Crisis would be that there was a 13-day worrisome military and political standoff in October of 1962 due to the nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba, which ended when the United States allowed the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to remove the Cuban missiles as long as the U.S. did not invade Cuba. It began when the U.S. discovered that the revolutionary leftist leader Fidel Castro of Cuba, who had aligned his country with the Soviets, had missiles. At the time, the U.S. was in a Cold War with the Soviets. The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991 and was a series of political and economic disagreements. Both countries spied on one another, and this is how the missiles were first discovered in Cuba. Khrushchev was the first to propose the offer to the Cuban Missile Crisis and the U.S. was quick to accept. What many people do not know is that U.S. President John F. Kennedy also agreed to remove the U.S. missiles that were in Turkey in order for Khrushchev to take the missiles out of Cuba. This was a frightening time in the U.S. history and in the world as many people thought that there was going to be a nuclear world war.	https://www.reference.com/world-view/summary-cuban-missile-crisis-52c2fd4c8376a455
There’s two types of non-profit legal entities (NGOs) – associations and foundations are envisaged in the Bulgarian legislation. In addition, the Juridical Persons with Non-Profit Purposes Act (JPNPA) also provides for two different statuses under which any association or foundation can exist: status in private benefit and public benefit status. The decision on which of the two statuses to be held by each organisation is taken by himself by the particular NGO (by its founders or by its supreme body). When choosing the purposes, activities and status of the organisation for public or private benefit, the two types of NGOs are fully level. NGO’s cannot carry out commercial activity. Non-profit-making legal entities may engage in additional business only if this activity relates to the subject-matter of the principal activity for which they are registered and provided they use the proceeds of the additional business to achieve the objectives set out in the statutes. The commercial activity is subject to the conditions and the order determined by the laws, which regulate the corresponding type of commercial activity. These legal entities do not distribute profit from any activity. Public or private benefits Each NGO is obliged to identify as an organisation for private or public benefit upon its establishment. The determination shall be made in the statutes or in the instrument of incorporation and shall be entered in the court register. NGOs in private benefit can change their status and be defined for public benefit, but the opposite is impossible. NGOs in public benefit receive tax relief from the state and the opportunity to manage state and municipal properties under a lighter regime. Establishment of an association When establishing an association for private benefit, a minimum of 3 founders are required, regardless of whether they are physical or legal persons. If the association is in the public interest, the founders must be at least 7 individuals or 3 legal entities. In order to establish an association it is necessary to hold a constituent assembly in order to decide on the name, seat and address, status, objectives, object of activity, adoption of statutes and the first governing body. The decisions to be taken at the constituent assembly shall be recorded in a record. The court registration of the association shall be filed with the district court at its registered office with a request for its entry in the court register. Establishing a foundation The foundation is established by a unilateral constitutive act. Lifetime this is done by a donation, which must be done in writing with a notary certification of the founder’s signature, but after his death – by will. The statutes provide property, name, headquarters and address of the Foundation, the objectives and means for achieving them, and the first composition of the Foundation’s bodies. It is also necessary to prepare a drafting act. It details the Foundation’s organs, powers, way of work, termination. It shall be open a special bank account on which to make the specified donation in case it is in money. The court registration of the foundation shall be filed with the district court at its seat requesting its entry in the court register. Main differences between association and foundation - The association has members as long as the foundation does not have - When establishing a Foundation, the founder (s) may reserve certain rights to him / her to take part in the management afterwards. - Different organ structure. The obligatory bodies of the associations are the General Assembly and the Managing Authority. For foundations, the type of organs depends on the will of the founders and the benefits in which they operate (usually have a supreme body and a governing body); - Different requirements by establishment. It is sufficient for the establishment of an association to have the minimum number of founders (3 to 7 or more). To establish a foundation, it is enough to have one person – founder, regardless of whether it will be determined for private or public benefit. However, in order to establish a foundation, it is obligatory for the founder to make a foundation grant (in money or other property).	https://bgcompany.net/articles/registration-of-ngo-in-bulgaria-foundations-and-associations-private-and-public-benefit/
The utility model discloses a well-cementing pressure control valve, which mainly solves the problem that the sleeving or other equipment is damaged because of a systemic pressure instability in the case of the cementing operation. The utility model is characterized in that a valve body (3) is in female connection with a pressure regulation tube (4). The middle of the pressure regulation tube (4) is traversed with a control rod (8) that is connected with a needle valve (6) at the lower end. The lower end of the needle valve (6) is arranged on a valve base (1). The control rod(8) is sheathed with a spring (7), both ends of which are respectively contacted with the pressure regulation tube (4) and the needle valve(6). With the well-cementing pressure control valve, the different pressure balance values can be set and adjusted with the features as an accurate setting of pressure, a rapid reduction of pressure, a swiftness of reaction rate, a reliability, and a handiness, etc.
Pritzker Levine LLP represents employees who have been subjected to unfair workplace practices in violation of federal and California laws. These unlawful practices can take many forms, including discrimination, harassment, or retaliation on the basis of age, race, gender, national origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy-related status or disability or perceived disability. Employers also may improperly take advantage of workers by not permitting them to take meal or rest breaks, by failing to pay workers for all the hours they work (such as overtime or time spent performing work-related tasks outside of usual or normal employment hours), or by not reimbursing employees for expenses that employees must pay themselves to complete work tasks. Pritzker Levine LLP attorneys have successfully litigated a wide variety of cases arising from the unfair treatment of employees. To learn how our employment attorneys can help you, or to discuss a possible unfair employment claim, please contact Elizabeth Pritzker at [email protected] or call 415-692-0772 for a free consultation.	https://pritzkerlevine.com/practice-areas/unfair-employment-practices/
45% of American workers have saved less than $25,000 for retirement, and 26% have saved less than $1,000. Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2018 Will you outlive your retirement income? Are your financial expectations for the coming year realistic? Our financial newsletters are designed to provide helpful information on a wide variety of financial topics. Simply click on one of the newsletter topics below to read the article in its entirety. December - Hot Topic: The Ag Economy: Tough Times for Farmers in 2019 Farm bankruptcies rose in 2019, despite billions in federal support. This article discusses the effect on rural communities and regional economies. - Online Shopping Tips As web-based retail sales continue to grow, these tips may help ensure a safer online shopping experience. - What’s Required of the Executor of an Estate? 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March - Taking a Team Approach to Retirement Savings Even if you and your spouse have separate retirement accounts, you may still be able to craft a unified savings and investment strategy. - Bridging the Gap Between Retirement and Medicare Eligibility See three options that may help you bridge the health insurance coverage gap between retirement and Medicare eligibility. February - Need to Tap Your 401(k)? Proceed with Care Explore an overview of rules and tax consequences for 401(k) plan hardship distributions and other early withdrawals. - Looking Back, Looking Ahead See the indicators economists rely on to understand the past, present, and potential future direction of the economy. - Getting Real About Retirement This article features a worksheet and relevant information to help estimate retirement expenses and income. January - Are Your Designated Heirs Up-to-Date? The New Year might be a good time to review and update beneficiaries on estate documents, insurance policies, and financial accounts.	http://www.themchalefinancialgroup.com/learning_center/newsletters/
The effort to rebuild snapper populations in South Australian waters has commenced with the delivery of adult breeding snapper to the South Australian Research and Development Institute's West Beach facility to kick start the Marshall Liberal Government's $500,000 restocking program. The restocking program is expected to produce 150,000 juveniles over two years for release into South Australia's Spencer Gulf. The project was one of the response measures to the snapper closure announced earlier this year to help stocks recover from critically low levels. Minister for Primary Industries and Regional Development Tim Whetstone said the restocking program is a significant step in the recovery of the iconic fish. "The $500,000 restocking program and introduction of 150,000 juveniles into our gulf waters, is an important element in our plan to help our South Australian snapper stocks recover," said Minister Whetstone. "The juveniles will be reared for up to 100 days at SARDI's West Beach facility before being released to give them the best chance of survival. We want to create a sustainable snapper fishery for future generations of recreational and commercial fishers and the snapper restocking program is a key part of that. "Earlier this year we received alarming assessments showing snapper biomass in Spencer Gulf has reduced by an estimated 23 per cent and by 87 per cent in Gulf St Vincent over the past five years. "Low numbers of juvenile snapper entering the fishery over a protracted period is a contributing factor to the reduction in snapper numbers in our coastal waters. "On the back of this scientific information I was left with no choice but to extend the snapper closure in the gulfs and West Coast through to 31 January 2023. "Unlike the former Labor Government I was not going to take a back seat and watch this species decline and put at risk the chance of our grandchildren being able to catch this iconic species in South Australian waters. "Mother Nature needs a helping hand when it comes to breeding snapper and this scientific restocking program aims to fill the gap. By growing snapper fingerlings in a controlled environment we hope to enhance survivability of eggs enabling them to grow to fingerling stage before releasing them into the Spencer Gulf. "The restocking program incorporates collection of adult broodstock as well as fertilised snapper eggs from Spencer Gulf to maximise production of fingerlings for release in 2020, as well as establishing reliable hatchery production into the future. "SARDI scientists have been liaising with counterparts in New South Wales and Western Australia, to learn the lessons from their respective snapper enhancement programs." Chair of the Minister's Recreational Fishing Advisory Council, Graham Keegan, said the restocking program was a fantastic step for the snapper recovery program. "We welcome this State Government initiative and SARDI's work so far in making this happen," said Mr Keegan. "This is a significant project, particularly for the Spencer Gulf area, where there hasn't been any substantial recruitment for quite a number of years. "Having seen what is being achieved in Western Australia we believe a similar initiative in South Australia is a vital step towards recovering our own snapper stocks." As part of the restocking program, SARDI is undertaking a $121,000 infrastructure modification at the Aquatic Science Centre to enable egg hatching, larval rearing, live feed and broodstock maintenance systems to be implemented on site. Minister Whetstone said these alterations have already commenced and are expected to be completed by the middle of January. "We are committed to having sustainable fisheries and this restocking program together with other scientific research initiatives we are instigating as part of our snapper recovery efforts have been decided with this big picture in mind." "We want to do all we can to restore populations so our recreational, commercial and charter boat fishers can be out in the water plating quality fish and growing the South Australian economy," Minister Whetstone said. As well as the snapper restocking project other support measures include commercial fee relief, increased science funding and a charter boat diversification grant program.	https://www.pir.sa.gov.au/alerts_news_events/news/sardi/sardi_tanked_up_for_snapper_restocking
Keywords: Main institution: CRIA Participant institutions: n.a. Funding: FCT Reference: CONT_DOUT/119/CRIA/4038/10779/3/2008 Starting date: 01-09-09 More information: The programme I would like to develop over the next five years is interested in the mobilisation of the concept of heritage in the context of contemporary formations of modernity. It focuses in particular on issues related to the commoditisation of culture and nature as delight-values” exchanged in the tourism contact zone, the politics and poetics of international nature conservation programmes, and the role of hospitality in identity formation processes. While it is relatively easy to analyse the ideologies and ontological grounding of contemporary heritage politics, it is less easy to understand the special allure” of heritage that seems to make it such a successful concept in current policy making, identity formation processes, media representations and tourism. What is this allure”? How has the concept of heritage become so successful? To approach these questions I suggest fieldwork based research on heritage formation processes in the Western Indian Ocean. Different stages of this fieldwork have been ongoing since 1998. I am focusing here, on one hand, on the significations of heritage in the cultural economy of tourism especially in terms of a transnational cultivation of delight-values”. On the other hand, I am investigating how the concept of heritage has been mobilised by international nature conservation policy makers, and how notions of natural beauty underpin the nexus between marine science, conservation lobbies and international nature politics. Through fieldwork in Madagascar, I am studying how the concept of heritage flows in between different international, national, regional and micro-local scales of policy making and social life, and how its magic” is ultimately captured at the micro-local level. Focusing on forms of hospitality practice at this level, I am studying how different social actors in a coastal village in South Western Madagascar establish sympathetic connections with objects, people and practices associated with international conservation politics in order to evoke the magical qualities associated with this powerful” foreign” realm. I think that, based on these observations, I will be able to develop a paradigm of social cohesion that results less from forms of violent coercion and acculturation, than from active strategies to appropriate the magical” qualities respectively associated with the magical” other.	http://cria.org.pt/wp/en/cultivating-the-magical-other-heritage-politics-and-formations-of-modernity/
1836 – Texas Revolution: Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. 1896 – Ethiopian victory over the Italian forces in the Battle of Adwa. 1956 – Morocco gains its independence from France. 1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. This page was last modified on 5 May 2017, at 03:08.	http://www.infogalactic.com/info/March_2
How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method? How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses? Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers? A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . . Use the animation to help you work out how many lines are needed to draw mystic roses of different sizes. How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares? Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need? The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves. What's the largest volume of box you can make from a square of paper? What is the minimum number of squares a 13 by 13 square can be dissected into? What would be the smallest number of moves needed to move a Knight from a chess set from one corner to the opposite corner of a 99 by 99 square board? How could Penny, Tom and Matthew work out how many chocolates there are in different sized boxes? Jo made a cube from some smaller cubes, painted some of the faces of the large cube, and then took it apart again. 45 small cubes had no paint on them at all. How many small cubes did Jo use? Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153? Imagine you have an unlimited number of four types of triangle. How many different tetrahedra can you make? A game for 2 players To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar. Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next? Watch these videos to see how Phoebe, Alice and Luke chose to draw 7 squares. How would they draw 100? If you can copy a network without lifting your pen off the paper and without drawing any line twice, then it is traversable. Decide which of these diagrams are traversable. Rectangles are considered different if they vary in size or have different locations. How many different rectangles can be drawn on a chessboard? Four rods, two of length a and two of length b, are linked to form a kite. The linkage is moveable so that the angles change. What is the maximum area of the kite? Points P, Q, R and S each divide the sides AB, BC, CD and DA respectively in the ratio of 2 : 1. Join the points. What is the area of the parallelogram PQRS in relation to the original rectangle? Can you maximise the area available to a grazing goat? ABCD is a regular tetrahedron and the points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges AB, BD, CD and CA. Prove that PQRS is a square. Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions of. . . . Imagine an infinitely large sheet of square dotty paper on which you can draw triangles of any size you wish (providing each vertex is on a dot). What areas is it/is it not possible to draw? Is it possible to remove ten unit cubes from a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that the surface area of the remaining solid is the same as the surface area of the original? A cyclist and a runner start off simultaneously around a race track each going at a constant speed. The cyclist goes all the way around and then catches up with the runner. He then instantly turns. . . . Is it possible to rearrange the numbers 1,2......12 around a clock face in such a way that every two numbers in adjacent positions differ by any of 3, 4 or 5 hours? In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry? This problem is about investigating whether it is possible to start at one vertex of a platonic solid and visit every other vertex once only returning to the vertex you started at. The triangle OMN has vertices on the axes with whole number co-ordinates. How many points with whole number coordinates are there on the hypotenuse MN? Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create. Show that among the interior angles of a convex polygon there cannot be more than three acute angles. The whole set of tiles is used to make a square. This has a green and blue border. There are no green or blue tiles anywhere in the square except on this border. How many tiles are there in the set? Some puzzles requiring no knowledge of knot theory, just a careful inspection of the patterns. A glimpse of the classification of knots and a little about prime knots, crossing numbers and. . . . Start with a large square, join the midpoints of its sides, you'll see four right angled triangles. Remove these triangles, a second square is left. Repeat the operation. What happens? Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces? Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom. An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles. Can such a tetrahedron be constructed where the side lengths are 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 units of length? Build gnomons that are related to the Fibonacci sequence and try to explain why this is possible. Generate three random numbers to determine the side lengths of a triangle. What triangles can you draw? Some students have been working out the number of strands needed for different sizes of cable. Can you make sense of their solutions? Can you find a way of representing these arrangements of balls? What is the shape of wrapping paper that you would need to completely wrap this model? When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we didn't...? Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct. On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares? Bilbo goes on an adventure, before arriving back home. Using the information given about his journey, can you work out where Bilbo lives?	https://nrich.maths.org/public/topic.php?code=-68&cl=3&cldcmpid=507
by Karen & Grace Morris A mini book is one of the simple creation themed crafts that will help your kids remember what happened on each day. Fold four sheets of paper in half. Cut on the fold so that you have eight sheets 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Draw a number one on the first piece of paper. Make the number one 1 inch wide. Color the number black. With a yellow crayon make lines around the one to look like sparks of light. Write “Let there be light. Gen. 1:3” Draw a number two on a separate piece of paper. Cut the two in half using a zigzag line. Using the pieces as a pattern draw the number on a page of your book. Color the top half of the two a light blue. Color the bottom half a darker blue. Write the Bible verse for Genesis 1:6 and Genesis 1:8 on the top of your page. On the third page of your book draw a number three that is 1 inch wide. Color the three blue to represent the water. Color the rest of the page brown. Add trees and flowers or other plants to the page. Write the words of Genesis 1:9 and 1:11 on your page. For day four color the four blue. Color around the four with a yellow crayon. Make sure that you press hard and cover the page with a lot of the wax from the crayon. Color over the yellow with a black and blue crayon. With a sharp instrument such as a ruler etch out a moon, sun, and stars. You should be able to see the yellow sun, moon, and stars through the black. Draw a five for the next page. You will want to etch some birds and fish on the letter five so color the bottom half with an orange crayon and the top half with a light blue. Color over everything with a dark blue crayon. Etch “m” shapes for birds on the top half. On the bottom make a triangle attached to an oval for fish. Color around the five with a blue crayon. Write the words for Genesis 1:20 on your page. On the sixth page draw a six then add eyes for a man and the animals. Next write the words of Gen 1:24 and Gen 1:26. For day seven draw a seven. Add “zzzz” for God resting. We are finished. Write Genesis 2:2 on this page. Another easy to make creation themed crafts. Mark the center of both of the paper plates. Divide one of your paper plates in seven pie shapes. For day 1 glue a piece of foil on the pie shape. For the second day cut one dark blue and one light blue pieces of paper and glue to the next pie shape. Cove the next pie shape with brown paper. Add green triangles for trees and a blue strip for water. For day 4 cover your section with black. Add a circle and “C” shape for the sun and moon. Also, add some star stickers. The next section is blue for sky and water. With a marker add some “m” shapes for birds. Make an oval with a triangle at one end out of orange paper for fish. Glue a piece of green paper on the next section. Cut out a man and woman from paper. Add your favorite animals. On the next section, with a marker add “Zzz” for God resting. On the second paper plate cut out a pie shape that is 4 inches wide at the rim. Square the end of the pie so that you will have enough room to add the brad. Push the brad through the center mark on both plates. Add the words “The days of creation” on the top plate. Teach Genesis to children. Make it fun with these day by day creation themed crafts. God Creates the Heaves and the Earth, Light, and Darkness – Genesis 1:1-5 Do you realize that the light did not come from a bulb, fire, or even the sun? Amazing! Paint half of the mason jar black. It looks cool if you leave spaces between the brush marks so that the light will shine through the black. Let dry. Turn on the candle and place inside the jar. Enjoy the light and darkness. God Creates the Atmosphere – Genesis 1:6-8 The Bible gives us a simplified version of what God created. In reality, the atmosphere is something complex. If it didn't contain the types and right amounts of gasses, then it could not have supported life. He gave it layers to later protect us from the sun's radiation. First, cut the straw into two pieces that each measures 1 1/4 inches. Put aside, but keep it near. You are going to want it later. Take your ornament and take off the cap. Push your balloon inside. Wrap the opening of your balloon on the opening of the ornament so you have something like a funnel. Use an actual funnel to pour the rice into the balloon. Remember to pour slowly. Jiggle it around after each small pour to make sure the rice gets into the balloon. Use just enough rice. You don't want it to touch the walls of the ornament but you want it big enough to look like a planet. Remember, the reason why we are not using a green balloon is that God hasn't made the plants yet. And even though there seems to have been water, the sea wasn't made until the third day as well. Take the balloon off of the opening of the ornament. Very carefully tie to secure it. However, be careful to not drop your balloon inside the ornament, it is very difficult to retrieve once it is inside! Cut a long piece of twine. Tie one end of the twine on the end of the balloon where the rice beings. Wrap it several times and tie again. Fold the end of the balloon and tie it down with the twine wrapping it a few more times. Cut two more long pieces of twine. Hold the center of one piece of twine at the base of the balloon and tie so you have an end on either side. Make sure it is secure by tying it a few times. Do the same with the other piece so that you now have four loose ends. Hold your two straws so that the base of your balloon is between them. Take one of the loose ends of twine and thread it through one of the straws. With the same end slip it into the other straw. Do the same to the other three strings so that there are two ends on each side of the straws. At one of the straws, sides take the two twines ends and knot them together. Do the same to the other side. Making a triangle that sides are 1 inch above the straws, tie the four ends of twine together. To make an ornament hanger, make a loop that is 1 1/2 inches and then knot the lose ends. Cut the excess twine to finish the world's atmosphere. God Creates Dry Land, the Sea, and Plants – Genesis 1:9-13 We know that in Genesis 1:2 there was already water. It is only now that God made some of that water into the sea. And the dry land for us to walk about. On this day God planted beautiful gardens. Gardens filled with flowers, trees, veggies, grass, and everything that grows in the dirt. Take a whole sheet of your green paper and glue it with a glue stick to your cardboard. Cut your cardboard so it is the same size as the green paper. This is your land. Making a whole sea for this craft is a little difficult. But you could make a river or a lake. Cut off the desired length of your blue tissue paper. To make a river, glue with the glue stick in an “S” shape on your land. Take as many mixed beans and green bottle caps as you like to create rocks, bushes, and hills. Just glue them down on your dry land with your hot glue gun. Make trees by cutting green triangles from paper and gluing them on toothpicks with the hot glue gun. Make a dot of hot glue on your dry land. Quickly grab one of your trees and stick the end in the dot of hot glue. Grab something that your tree can lean against (such as a glue stick). Without bumping your tree repeat the process until you have the desired number of trees. When one of the dots of hot glue has dried you can move the object the tree was leaning against to another tree that needs it. When the whole thing is dry, you can remove all of your objects. Your trees should stay upright. God Creates the Stars, Planets, and Moons – Genesis 1:14-19 This must have also been the creation of time. As it even says in Genesis 1:14 “And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.” Clean your rocks as best as you can. To make Mercury, take your second smallest rock. Paint it gray with a sponge. In the pictures I am using a sponge to try to make craters. Though because of the roughness of the rock, it doesn't matter if you use a sponge or not. A foam brush will work just as well. To make Venus, take your forth smallest rock. Paint it with a foam brush alternating between orange and yellow. Venus actually looks like it has a whitish color because of its surface clouds. But the surface is much cooler to paint with it's orange and yellow colors. To make Earth (that's your planet!), take your fifth smallest rock. With a brush paint green continents. It doesn't have to be exactly like the real Earth. It can be difficult to draw every continent on a small rock. Then paint the ocean blue. To make Mars (that's where I live!), take your third smallest rock. Paint one side a dark red with a foam brush and paint the rest a bright red. To make Jupiter, take your largest rock. Paint white and brown strips with a brush. To make Saturn, take your second largest rock. Paint it light brown color with a foam brush. To make Uranus, take your third largest rock. Paint it a very light blue that is almost white with a foam brush. To make Neptune, take your fourth largest rock. With a foam brush paint it blue (my favorite color!!!). To make Pluto, take your smallest rock. With a brush, paint with a thin layer of white and brown paint giving it a nice texture. To give Saturn a ring, place it on your cardstock. Draw around the rock. Around that circle draw a 1-inch ring. Color the ring a light brown color that is close to what you painted Saturn with a marker. (The ring will look kind of like a doughnut). Cut out the ring and the center so that it would fit snugly around the rock. Attach the ring to it by putting the rock through the hole until it won't fall out. With the glue stick, glue all of the black pieces of paper to the poster-board and let dry. Place the pompom on the center of where all of the corners of the black paper met. This will be the sun. Place your planets on the black paper. Have Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto farthest from the sun. With your white crayon draw the orbit paths of the planets. All of the planets have a large oval around the sun. Except for Pluto which intersects its path with all of the planets orbits. Take your star stickers and stick them all over your solar system. God Creates Fish and Birds – Genesis 1:20-23 Both the skies and the waters were filled with the first creatures. Penguins, parrots, chickens, ducks, doves, seagulls, and crows. Goldfish, catfish, sharks, angelfish, trout, salmon, and bass were created. Cut your straws so that they are approximate 4 inches each. Make sure that you are not exact though. For this craft, it is good to have different sized straws. Please note that you will want the number of straws as the number of birds you plan on making. Take your blue paper and glue it with the glue stick to the cardboard. Take your blue tissue paper and glue with a glue stick all over the blue paper to make the waves in the water. First, take your clay and start modeling it into fish and birds. You don't want to use a lot of clay to make them, as you have limited space on your paper. To make a fish, take a small piece of clay and model it into a narrow oval. This is the base of your fish Take a tiny piece of clay and roll it until it is a small snake shape then bend it into a “V” and attach it to the bottom the base of your fish. This is the fish's fins. To make the tail, flatten another small piece of clay, carve the end making two triangles. Attach the tail to the end of the base of your fish. An optional step is to make little dots of clay and attaching them to the fish for spots. To make a bird, take a small piece of clay. Mold it so that the ends are narrow and the center is more round. This is the bird's base. Take a very tiny piece of clay and make it into a triangle shape to make a beak. Attach the beck on one of the ends of the bird's base. Take another small piece of clay and roll it so that it is a snake shape, blending it slightly to make wings. Attach the wings to the bottom of the bird's base. You don't want to make too many, as too many would make it too crowded. I found that a good number to start with is three birds and three fish. Take each bird you have made and carefully stick a straw through the center of the body. On the other ends of your straws, form your extra clay into flat surfaces. This way when the clay dries it will make a stand for each of the birds. Allow some time for your clay to become hard. On the brand of clay that we used it said that it can take 72 hours for the clay to harden completely depending on the thickness of the piece. When harden you can continue with your craft. Take your bird stands and place them randomly all over the blue paper. Now your birds are in the sky! Place your fishes in the desired places on the water, enjoy. God Creates Animals – Genesis 1:24-25 – and Man – Genesis 1:26-31 & Genesis 2:4-7 On the sixth day, God created all the animals which breathed air. This would include a ton of different animals. Such as puppies, kittens, bunnies, cattle, sheep, horses, spiders, ants, and worms. You name it, God made it. God also made man on this day. Color the animals and people. Even though the picture shows the animals and people cut out it is easier to color first then do the cutting. Cut along the outside lines of the parade. Fold to cut out the spaces, but don't cut out the individual animals. You want it to be like a chain. God Rests – Genesis 2:1-3 God probably doesn't get sleepy. Neither does He need to rest. As it says in Isaiah 40:28 God neither “faints nor is weary”. Regardless, God made the seventh day of the week special, holy, because He rested on that day. It doesn't state that He was tired, but more like He ceased from creating from that day. He saw His creation as “very good” in Genesis 1:31. First, you will want to cover your work area with newspaper. Take your jumbo craft sticks and hot glue them side by side. This is the bed's base. To make your bed's legs, take two regular size craft sticks. Hold one of them flat and the other one pointing up. Hot glue them together. Hot glue one of its ends to a corner of the base of the bed. Continue until you have four legs. Flip your bed over. On each of the two long sides and one of the short sides of the bed base, hot glue one of the regular size craft sticks on their sides. On the other short side hot glue four of the regular size craft sticks on top of each other. This will be the headboard. With a paintbrush, paint mod Podge all over one of the sides of your bed frame. Be sure to cover it evenly and to cover all the cracks. Mod Podge with make you bed frame stronger and make it nice and shiny. Let dry. When dry, flip the bed and paint this side with Mod Podge as well. Let dry. When dry, flip your bed over so that it is upright. With a black marker write on the headboard “Day 7 God Rests”. Take one of your sponges (yellow is a good color for this) and place it on the bed frame. This will be the mattress. Take your other sponge (purple is a good color) and cut it so it measures 1 by 2 3/4 inches. This will be a pillow. Place on the mattress on the front of your bed near the headboard. To make a blanket, cut a 10 by 3 3/4 inch piece of red fleece. Fold 1/2 inch on the short side. Cut a 1 by 5 1/2 inch strip of white fleece. Sew it on the folded end of the red fleece so the folded end can't be lifted anymore. Wrap the red blanket around the mattress. We are beautifully and wonderfully made, by an awesome God. How great thy art, how great thy art! We can capture God's beautiful painting by recreating it with creation themed crafts.	https://www.kgmcrafts.com/creation-themed-crafts.html
Select the semester and course offering above to get information from the correct course syllabus and course offering. The course is divided into the following parts: 1. Development, infrastructure and planning the historical development of cities and the infrastructure and role, driving forces behind development in society, the actors of the planning, the Swedish administration system, regional and municipal planning, transports, traffic and sustainable city development, the concept of sustainable development. 2. Natural resources and sustainable infrastructure physical preconditions for land use (soil - water and ecology), technical infrastructure for water - and drain, waste, energy, impact of land use, EIA. 3. Real estate development planning-, building- and environmental legislation, construction, operation and funding of infrastructure and legislation about land acquisition, compensation and changes of real property division, profitability calculations and construction cost, economic policy instruments, assessment of the building from economic and social perspectives. 4. Buildings and civil engineering structure building construction (construction and installation technique), civil engineering structure (geotechnics, roads and rail, bridge structure and tunnels), building material, the environmental impact of buildings and risks. 5. The professional role and ethics the professional role, ethical aspects in the urban development and technical development, professional ethical considerations and dilemmas, working environment, risks and risk assessments. In part 1-4, the teaching consists of lectures interleaved with exercises and essays that are written in groups within the theme of each part. Each part is completed with a written examination. Part 5 is carried out as seminar. In the course, study visit is also included. After the course, the students should be able to: No information inserted Entry requirements to the Degree Programme in Civil Engineering and Urban Management (CSAMH). No information inserted No information inserted Course literature is specified in the course instructions of the course. Course literature is specified in the course instructions of the course. A, B, C, D, E, FX, F Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability. The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.	https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/AI1527
The reason is your learning rate alpha is too large for this optimization problem. Start with a really small value (< 0.000001) and you will observe a decrease in your cost function. Keep in mind ... There is no need for pandas module to be installed because your data is generally stored in spark RDD or spark dataframes objects. The only interest I have found using Spark with pandas is when you ... I guess differences in accuracies between class 0 and class 1 come from the class_weight parameter you have used. Class 1 will benefit from this overweighting towards class 0. You could try to play on ... Below is an example of XOR dataset for classification. As you can see, decision trees perform pretty poorly on this dataset. Reason is decision trees splits space into rectangular regions. Therefore ... Simple decision trees have some limitations listed below. Fortunately, some of these can be fixed used ensemble learning techniques (think bagging, boosting...). Concerning limitations : Trees tend ... This is a bit tricky. Using pandas data, sklearn only accepts input variables (features) with type pandas.Dataframe. In your code variable sex_train in pandas.Series type. Try the following code : ... I agree with most of the answer. However, I think you are missing some points including the cross-validation step. I try below to provide an overview of a common machine learning project. I assume a ... Keep in mind that the number of executors is independent of the number of partitions of your dataframe. You set the number of executors when creating SparkConf() object. https://spark.apache.org/docs/... In parametric models such as linear regression, logistic regression and multi-layers perceptrons, weights are updated with regards to the "difference" between the output of your model and the real ... It depends of the algorithm you are using. For a linear model (linear / logistic regression, SVM...), you need to create dummy variables meaning features "Sex_M" and "Sex_F" as you noticed. However, ... Here is just a guess, but according to me, the linearSVC might perfoms better than SVM with linear kernel because of regularization. Because linearSVC is based on liblinear rather than libsvm, it has ... In my opinion, I recommend to use the following approach to develop spark jobs for a big Data Context : First, develop your spark in local mode on your computer. Use a simple subset of data from your ... I assume the results you show have been evaluated according to a train-validation-test split approach. With the information you have provided, it is possible to figure your confusion matrix. It has to ... Ridge or L2 regularization is used to prevent over-fitting when having multi-col-linearity in your features. Here is an example : suppose you want to train a linear regression model on following ... In my opinion, scikit-learn raises an error because updated_df is composed of 2 features (columns) with list formats. Therefore, for a given observation x_i : x_i = [arg1_i, predicate_i] = [[... Bagging (and features sampling) aim to reduce variance by providing low-correlated trees. Estimators can then be aggregated together to reduce variance. Reason is simple decision trees tend to quickly ... I think the second method will yield less correlated models than the first method. It is particularly true with decision trees which tend to quickly overfitting in the bottom nodes. It will help ... I think second job will benefit more from spark than the first one. The reason is machine learning and predictive models often run multiple iterations on data. As you have mentioned, spark is able to ... This is because you have an imbalanced dataset towards class 0. I have taken a look on the logistic regression coefficient you get. On the below chart 1, I have plotted the decision boundary you get ... The purpose of the Word2vec is it will itself learn a hidden structure in your text data. If "recovery" comes after rap and music is because Eminem is more frequent with these context words than with ... You have instantiated a sparkContext object with "local" mode configuration. It means you have allocated ressources for a single multi-core Java Virtual Machine on your computer. In this configuration,... Even if you don't have ratings or reviews, you can use the customer purchases to help creating your model and selecting the most appropriate one. If the customer has bought the product, you can ... I think that you have to train your model first. To do that in sagemaker, you can do the following. I assume that you want to train a machine learning model without using a python script as an entry ... I have taken a look on your code. You obtain same errors results for each alpha value because your regularization strength is too small. Replacing : alphas = np.logspace(-40, -18, n_alphas) with : ... Usually you need to generate the ROC curve and choose the threshold within the training data. Then, with the selected threshold, you have the possibility to report accuracy, sensitivity, recall ... If less than 20-25% of behavioral data is missing, maybe you could try to impute missing data using one of the following solutions : Impute missing behavioral data using some business rule or by ... Using Spark, there is no notion of "mappers" or "reducers". Each task you perform is Spark is achieved by executors (JVM with allocated ressources). Executors also have the ability to split themselves ...	https://datascience.stackexchange.com/users/18434/theudbald?tab=answers
The lake effect / by Erin McCahan. Book Available copies - 1 of 1 copy available at George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library. Current holds 0 current holds with 1 total copy. \|Location\|\|Call Number / Copy Notes\|\|Barcode\|\|Shelving Location\|\|Status\|\|Due Date\| \|George H. and Ella M. Rodgers Memorial Library\|\|Y MCCAHAN\|\|34510010881306\|\|Teen Area - Fiction\|\|Available\|\|-\| Record details - ISBN: 9780803740525 - ISBN: 0803740522 - Physical Description: 391 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: New York, NY : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, Content descriptions \|Summary, etc.:\|\| \| "The summer after senior year of high school, Briggs Henry works as a personal assistant to an eccentric elderly woman in a house on the shores of Lake Michigan, and finds himself distracted by the mysterious girl next door"-- Provided by publisher. Search for related items by subject \|Subject:\|\|Coming of age > Fiction \| Summer employment > Fiction. Serbian Americans > Fiction. Old age > Fiction Dating (Social customs) > Fiction Family problems > Fiction. Michigan, Lake > Fiction. \|Genre:\|\|Bildungsromans \| YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary.	http://evergreen.rodgerslibrary.org/eg/opac/record/94411?query=9780803740525;qtype=keyword;fi%3Asearch_format=;locg=4
This multimedia case shows the complete process of brand creation, construction and management. Comprised of the steps that must be taken in the process, tools and strategies for communication, and the types of decisions that must be faced when managing a brand, students will learn a model that can later be used in other markets and sectors or with other products, as well as understand key factors of the creative process and the search for efficient solutions for communication-based business problems. Various videos with people who actively participated in the creation of the Aquarius brand are included, such as Marcos de Quintos, Chief Marketing Officer for The Coca-Cola Company, and Miguel García, Creative Director of Sra. Rushmore. It also includes several graphs in which students can analyze market tendencies, competition in the sector, or the rise in non-carbonated beverages in the Spanish market. This data is available in an Excel spreadsheet which the student can download and use to carry out a study. At the end of the case, several dilemmas which Aquarius faces are brought up, requiring the student to consider different strategies in order to resolve the future challenges Aquarius will be faced with.	https://iepublishing.ie.edu/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=bebidas
Just looking at somebody shivering is enough to make us feel cold, new University of Sussex research has found. Volunteers who watched videos of people putting their hands in cold water found their own body temperature drop significantly. The research by scientists in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School shows that humans are susceptible to ‘temperature contagion’. Neuropsychiatrist Dr Neil Harrison, who led the research, suggests that such unconscious physiological changes may help us empathise with one another and live in communities. He said: “Mimicking another person is believed to help us create an internal model of their physiological state which we can use to better understand their motivations and how they are feeling.” “Humans are profoundly social creatures and much of humans' success results from our ability to work together in complex communities - this would be hard to do if we were not able to rapidly empathise with each other and predict one another's thoughts, feelings and motivations.” For the research, which was published in the journal PLOS ONE, 36 participants each watched eight videos of actors putting their hands in either visibly warm or cold water. At the same time, the temperature of their own hands was measured. Their hands were significantly colder when watching the ‘cold’ videos. However, the ‘warm’ videos did not cause a change. Dr Harrison explains: “We think that this is probably because the warm videos were less potent - the only cues that the water was warm was steam at the beginning of the videos and the pink colour of the actor's hand (whereas blocks of ice were clearly visible throughout the duration of the cold video). “There is also some evidence to suggest that people may be more sensitive to others appearing cold than hot.” Dr Harrison worked on the project with Sussex colleagues Ella Cooper and Professor Hugo Critchley, who is Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, and scientists in Cambridge, London and Germany. Notes for editors University of Sussex Press Office contacts: James Hakner and Jacqui Bealing. 01273 678888 / [email protected] The journal article You Turn Me Cold: Evidence for Temperature Contagion can be accessed on the PLOS ONE website. Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is a partnership between the universities of Sussex and Brighton and the NHS.	https://www.sussex.ac.uk/news/article/28354-feeling-cold-is-contagious-scientists-find
Mapping the Conquests of Alexander the Great. Interesting historical map of the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Sea regions under Greek Rule. The map has excellent toponymic detail throughout, including extensive notes, trade routes, etc. The various routes of Alexander the Great are shown on the map. This is a finely engraved map from Chatelain's monumental seven-volume Atlas Historique, one of the most famous and popular works of the early 18th century. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. Chatelain proved a successful businessman, creating lucrative networks in London, The Hague, and then Amsterdam. He is most well known for the Atlas Historique, published in seven volumes between 1705 and 1720. This encyclopedic work was devoted to the history and genealogy of the continents, discussing such topics as geography, cosmography, topography, heraldry, and ethnography. Published thanks to a partnership between Henri, his father, Zacharie, and his younger brother, also Zacharie, the text was contributed to by Nicolas Gueudeville, a French geographer. The maps were by Henri, largely after the work of Guillaume Delisle, and they offered the general reader a window into the emerging world of the eighteenth century.	https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/71095/carte-historique-cronologique-et-geographique-de-lempire-g-chatelain
Lessons from the Wrongfully Convicted If you’ve been wrongfully convicted of a crime, you can learn a few lessons and take hope from the following story. In February 1996, Kristine Bunch of Decatur County, Indiana, was convicted of arson and felony murder after a fire in her mobile home claimed the life of her 3-year old son. A State arson investigator testified that the fire had started in two places and that Bunch had used a liquid accelerant such as kerosene lighter fluid to start both fires. A forensic analyst with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) corroborated the State investigator’s testimony. He noted that “a heavy petroleum distillate” was present in floor samples taken from both the living room where the fire started and from the bedroom where the child died. A judge sentenced Bunch to concurrent prison terms of 60 years for murder and 50 years for arson. Bunch would spend the next 17-years fighting the convictions from prison. Bunch’s lawyers eventually learned that, contrary to the ATF analyst’s testimony, the investigators had not found heavy petroleum distillate in the bedroom, nor anywhere in the trailer. Instead, they had only found kerosene, which could have reasonably spilled from the kerosene heater that the family had used during the winter months. The lawyers argued that his evidence entitled Bunch to a new trial, claiming that the ATF had violated her rights by withholding this critical information. They also argued that fire science developments constituted new evidence of her innocence. The trial court denied relief for Bunch in 2010, but two years later, the Court of Appeals of Indiana reversed the conviction and held that Bunch was entitled to a new trial. Despite the State’s appeal, the Indiana Supreme Court declined to disturb the Court of Appeals’ decision. A month later, Kristine Bunch walked free from prison. A few months later, the State dropped the charges against her. What should a person who has been wrongfully convicted take from this experience? - Don’t Be Afraid to Fight Yes, fighting wrongful charges takes an enormous amount of energy and even more patience, but it can pay off. Bunch waited 17-long years for justice, but she is now free and living with her family. A skilled and dedicated criminal defense lawyer can help this dream become your reality. - Use your time in prison well. It is tempting to want to give up when you’ve been wrongly convicted of a crime. Bunch used her time to earn two undergraduate degrees in prison, one in anthropology, the other in English from Ball State University. Her efforts to improve herself despite her situation may well have reinforced her credibility and played a role in the State dropping the charges. - You might be compensated for your wrongful conviction As of 2019, Indiana law provides exonerated people who are “actually innocent” with up to $50,000 in compensation for each year of wrongful imprisonment in exchange for their agreement not to sue the State. This law helps compensate exonerated people for the years they lost in prison, enables them to better reintegrate into society, and helps them feel a sense of justice. Bunch has applied for this program and may be entitled to up to 850,000 for the time she was imprisoned. If you believe you have been wrongfully convicted of a crime, don’t hesitate to contact the criminal defense lawyers of Razumich & Associates as soon as possible. We stand ready to fight for your rights.	https://www.lawyersreadytofight.com/2021/03/09/lessons-from-the-wrongfully-convicted/
Oh, ho hum just a little weekend in Paris. Living in Germany, sometimes I pinch myself when I look at a map and see that living in central Europe has its perks. Like the ability to get to so many cities and places in a short time. For Americans living in Europe, distance is nothing to us. My wife’s family lives in New York State & mine in North Carolina, and we have driven the 600 mile trip many times before. Or, living in North Carolina, many people will drive 4 hours to get to the coast. But, knowing that Paris is just a 3 hour train ride from our home in Germany, it is crazy for us to now take advantage of the proximity. Amanda & I have both been before to Paris, but not together. Also, her brother Josh & sister-in-law Audrey were visiting for the first time, so they also went along. Paris is a beautiful, romantic city. With it being so close, we will be back before we return home to the States. On this weekend, I had just arrived back from visiting my family in North Carolina for Christmas on the 3rd of January, and our train left the next morning at 7:30am. After 3 hours, we were in the heart of Paris headed to our hotel, which already had our rooms available. After checking in and dropping our stuff in the rooms, we headed out for a walk through Paris. Our first stop was lunch at a nearby Cafe, then to the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs Elysees to the Louvre Museum, and then to Notre Dame Cathedral. We did not quite make it to Notre Dame, because that’s when the rains came, so we took the Metro back to our hotel. That night after dinner, we watched the Eiffel Tower lit up at night, including its light show at the top of the hour. After, we called it a night. The next day after checking out, we took the Metro to Montmartre, which is the highest point in Paris to see the artsy community there and to walk around the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica. From there, we headed back to the train station in Paris to head back to Germany. It was a great trip!! Arc de Triomphe stands 50 meters high (165ft) by 45 meters wide (150ft) by 22 meters (75 feet) deep. Originally built to honor those that died during the French Revolution, throughout history numerous parades have been conducted around the structure both by invading armies and by the French in celebrations of victories across numerous wars. The Arc stands at the end of the street Champs Elysees with the Louvre Museum at the opposite end. A large traffic circle and throngs of tourists are the types of action the Arc sees today. Our walk continues down the fancy Champs Elysees. Why fancy? This is where all of the high-end shops and boutiques are located. Napoleon wanted a grand entryway into Paris. What was originally intended as a wide street to parade his military strength, is today home to Louis Vitton and Chanel and on and on. We were surprised that Paris still has its Christmas Markets running? In Germany, ours ended on 24 December. If ever vising Paris or can find this treat in a specialty shop Stateside, these delicious things are called Macarons, which are little cake-candy things that come in different flavors. Where this Egyptian monolith stands is the site where the large guillotine stands were located in the Place de la Concorde, which is one of the largest open squares in Paris. This was the location of where King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette were beheaded during the French Revolution…you know….of the “Let them eat cake” fame. Of course, many were beheaded here…. On our walk, we made it to the Louvre Museum. We did not tour inside, but took in the sights and sounds outside. So leaving the Louvre and headed to Notre Dame, you cross this famous bridge that has become decorated with “Locks of Love”. The tradition here is that you and your loved one write your name on a lock, attach it to the fence, and throw the key into the River Seine. This will ensure that you will always be together. Along the Left Bank of the River Seine, are these wooden book stands (Les Bouquinistes), where dealers sell souiveneers, old books, maps, etc. After dinner, we walked over to the Trocadero plaza to catch our glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. I remembered seeing the Eiffel Tower the last time I visited in 2003 and at the top of each hour, it lit up in hundreds of twinkling lights. Amanda had not seen that before, so we waited 45 minutes until the show….but what a view! Day 2: after checking out, we visited Montmartre, which is the highest point in Paris. At the peak of Montmartre sits the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The small town square in Montmartre is setup with artists painting and selling their artwork. A tradition that has been in place here since the days of Monet and Renior. Our trip in Paris has ended, and now time to find our train back to Germany…..hey, what is this….why am I coughing…I sure hope I am not getting sick??	https://worldthruoureyes.com/2014/01/09/a-weekend-in-paris/
Lift Off! Lift Off! You have until July 10 to submit your questions about the final shuttle launch, or space, in the comment box below. NASA’s Leland Melvin is taking 20 Here There Everywhere readers’ questions! Don’t forget to include your first name, age, and state/country. July 8, 2011 — The space shuttle Atlantis blasted into space from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at around 11:30 a.m. today, marking the last space shuttle to ever go into space. An estimated 1 million people turned out to watch the four astronauts lift-off for their 12-day mission . Commander Chris Ferguson , Pilot Douglas Hurley , and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim are taking a year’s worth of supplies to astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) and will be performing experiments. After this mission, astronauts traveling to and from the ISS will take the Soyuz capsules . Rainy weather threatened to delay the launch as lightning struck nearby. And just when it seemed like everything was a go, the countdown clock stopped 31 seconds before launch, though seemingly for technical reasons. At lift-off, the announcer exclaimed that Atlantis’s departure was the “start of a sentimental journey into history”. Though it may be years before another manned space flight, this final mission doesn’t mean the end of the space program. The space shuttles don’t go into deep space but rather stay in orbit around Earth. And after 135 missions and clocking over 500 million miles between the five shuttles, NASA will be setting its sights farther out in space. While NASA has performed some amazing science in space, … the science behind getting a shuttle off the ground to hit 26 times the speed of sound in just 8 minutes is pretty cool in its own right. You can watch NASA’s brief animated video on the science behind launching a space shuttle by clicking here. To hear members of the space shuttle team, including astronauts, describe a launch as a feeling like no other, click here. To watch NASA’s half-hour retrospective on the shuttle program, click here (it’s really good). Can’t wait for the years of schooling and rigorous training? Click here to learn how to launch your own alkaseltzer rocket (just please do it with an adult for safety’s sake). Or watch here:	https://htekidsnews.com/lift-off/
“Soul surfers” consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppressed for religious reasons, has been undergoing a revival, and enjoins reverence for and protection of nature. This subset of the global surfing community should be understood as a new religious movement—a globalizing, hybridized, and increasingly influential example of what I call aquatic nature religion. For these individuals, surfing is a religious form in which a specific sensual practice constitutes its sacred center, and the corresponding experiences are constructed in a way that leads to a belief in nature as powerful, transformative, healing, and sacred. I advance this argument by analyzing these experiences, as well as the myths, rites, symbols, terminology, technology, material culture, and ethical mores that are found within surfing subcultures." Pan-en-theism means everything is part of God even though God is more than everything added together. Developed by process theologians in the 20th century, but with precedents in many world religions, it is the view that the whole universe is unfolding within the mind and heart of a single life -- God -- in much the way that a living embryo develops within a womb. God is a womb-like Consciousness in whose life the universe unfolds, and the oceans and waves on our small planet, along with us, are among the cells in whose Life all things unfold. This does not mean that everything that happens on our planet or anywhere else is God's will. The hills and rivers, the trees and stars, the oceans and the surfer -- all have their integrity and independence; all have power of their own which cannot be overridden by the divine life. God is all-loving, but not all-powerful; just as a Mother in whose womb an embryo unfolds may well be deeply loving, but not all powerful. Many tragedies occur that even God cannot prevent. They affect God even as they affect the world. God, too, can suffer. Still, just as a mother has a will, a desire, that her embryo enjoy safety and happiness, so it is with the Life in whom the universe unfolds. God is Love. God's aim is that we love our neighbors and the whole of life as we love ourselves. Spirituality is the act of connecting with this Love. The word "spirituality" means many things, but most deeply it means becoming fully alive in whatever ways are possible, relative to the circumstances at hand, in a loving way, and in consonance with the Life in whose mind the universe unfolds. There are many moods the spiritual alphabet. Indeed, so we learn from the work of Mary Ann and Frederic Brussat in Spirituality and Practice, there is one and sometimes two for every letter: attention, being present, creativity, connectedness, courage, devotion, enthusiasm, faith, forgiveness, gratitude, hospitality, imagination, justice, listening, meaning, nurturing, openness, peace, play, questing, reverence, silence, transformation, unity, vision, wonder, X (the mystery of life), yearning, and zest for life. The practice of surfing can open a person to many of these moods. It may be part of a new religion, as Bron Taylor suggests, and it may also find its home in a more traditional religion such as Christianity, as the video "Spiritual Surfing" makes clear, as narrated by an Episcopal priest. Surfing is a trans-religious practice that can be enfolded into many different religions and also practiced by people who are "spiritually interested but not religiously affiliated." It is a form of meditation and faith. It is faith that waves will come, even in tough times, filled with fresh possibilities for life and love, no matter what the circumstances. And it is faith that we can respond to these waves creatively, with skill and effort and a little balance., to help build a world that is good for all, as best we can.	https://www.openhorizons.org/surfing-as-spirituality.html
The utility model relates to a battery thermal management module and a power battery. The battery thermal management module comprises a first temperature adjusting plate (1), a second temperature adjusting plate (2) and a heat conducting sheet (3) attached to a battery cell (6), wherein the heat conduction sheet is provided with a first side and a second side which are opposite to each other, thefirst side is in contact with the first temperature adjusting plate surface, the second side is in contact with the second temperature adjusting plate surface, the first temperature adjusting plate isa heating assembly or a cooling assembly, and the second temperature adjusting plate can be switched between a heating mode and a cooling mode. According to the technical scheme, the battery thermalmanagement module can adjust the temperature of the battery to enable the battery to always work in a proper temperature range.
I am running a binary logistic regression with compositional predictors that sum to 100% (demographic categories). I've looked at several postings about this, but can't find a good solution to my problem. Would dropping a single predictor be useful in cases where 0% of the data comes from that category? I.e., if my predictors are race, and I drop "Hispanic/Latino", the hispanic/latino rate in my data ranges from 0% to 6% in each of my cases, so in many/most cases the data is still correlated. Would a transformation be appropriate here? I do have the ability to calculate a (rough) number for each category, since I do have the total number of individuals in each case, but I am more interested in effect of the proportion of the racial categories on my independent variable. I've found these, but they don't present a solution. What regression model to use when independent variables are percentages to predict % outcome?	https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/255499/binary-logistic-regression-with-compositional-proportional-predictors
At the end of this article, you will find a link to download Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything pdf by Wizards RPG Team, A magical mixture of new rules options for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Before you download the book, take some minutes and read about the book. Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is a sourcebook for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, published in 2020. The book is a supplement to the 5th edition Dungeon Master’s Guide and Player’s Handbook. Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is billed as a spiritual successor to Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. The book “Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything” contains some content that originally appeared in Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide (2015), Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica (2018), Eberron: Risingfrom the Last War (2079), and Mythic Odysseys of Theros (2020). Originally published: 17 November 2020 Author: Wizards RPG Team Pages: 192 Genre: Role-playing game How the Book is Organized Chapter 1 Chapter 1 brims with new features and subclasses for the classes in the Player’s Handbook, and it presents the artificer class, a master of magical invention. The chapter also offers feats for groups that use them. Chapter 2 Chapter 2 contains patrons who can become one of the driving forces behind your group’s adventures. Chapter 3 Chapter 3 sparkles with new magical options, including spells, magical spell books, artifacts, and magic-infused tattoos-available for both player characters and monsters to use. Chapter 4 Chapter 4 holds various rules that a DM may incorporate into a campaign, including rules on sidekicks who level up with the player characters and on supernatural environments. The chapter ends with a collection of puzzles ready to be deployed in any adventure that the DM would like to spice up with some puzzling. Everything in this book is optional. Each group, guided by the DM, decides which of these options, if any, to incorporate into a campaign. You can use some, all, or none of them. We encourage you to choose the ones that fit best with your campaign's story and with your group's style of play. Whatever options you choose to use, this book relies on the rules in the Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide, and it can be paired with the options in Xanathar's Guide to Everything and other D&D books About Wizards RPG Team That Wrote Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything pdf Wizards RPG Team is an innovator in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as tabletop. Fifth edition D&D draws from every prior edition to Create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide. From the Writers of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything pdf Here is what RPG Team has to say about Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything pdf. “The book offers a host of new options for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, and our journey through those options is accompanied by the notes of the wizard Tasha. Creator of the spell Tasha’s hideous laughter, Tasha’s life is one of the most storied in the D&D multiverse. Raised by Baba Yaga, the mother of Witches herself, Tasha adventured across the world of Greyhawk and became the friend and sometimes enemy of other famous adventurers, like Mordenkainen.” “In time, she ruled as the Witch Queen and later changed her name to Iggwilv-a figure of legend who is whispered about, feared, and admired. Written for players and Dungeon Masters alike, this book offers options to enhance characters and campaigns in any Dungeon & Dragon world, whether you’re adventuring in Greyhawk, another official D&D setting, or a world of your own creation.” “Much of the material in this Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything originally appeared in Unearthed Arcana, a series of online articles that Wizards RPG Team publish to explore rules that might officially become part of the game. Some Unearthed Arcana offerings don’t end up resonating with fans and are set aside. The Unearthed Arcana material that inspired the options in the book was well received and thanks to feedback from thousands of D&D fans, has been refined into the official forms presented in the book.” Ten Rules to Remember About Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything 1. The Dm Adjudicates the Rules: The rules of D&D cover many of the twists and turns that come up in play but the possibilities are so vast that the rules can’t cover everything. When you encounter something that the rules don’t cover or if you’re unsure how to interpret a rule, the DM decides how to proceed, aiming for a course that brings the most enjoyment to your whole group. 2. Exceptions Supersede General Rules: General rules govern each part of the game. For example, the combat rules tell you that melee weapon attacks use Strength and ranged weapon attacks use Dexterity. That’s a general rule, and a general rule is in effect as long as something in the game doesn’t explicitly say otherwise. The game also includes elements-class features, spells, magic items, monster abilities, and the like that sometimes contradict a general rule. When an exception and a general rule disagree, the exception wins. For example, if a feature says you can make melee weapon attacks using your Charisma, you can do so, even though that statement disagrees with the general rule. 3. Advantage and Disadvantage: Even if more than one factor gives you advantage or disadvantage on a roll, you have it only once, and if you have advantage and disadvantage on the same roll, they cancel each other. 4. Reaction Timing: Certain game features let you take a special action, called a reaction, in response to an event. Making opportunity attacks and casting the shield spell are two typical uses of reactions. If you’re unsure when a reaction occurs in relation to its trigger, here’s the rule: the reaction happens after its trigger, unless the description of the reaction explicitly says otherwise. Once you take a reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your next turn. 5. Proficiency Bonus: If your proficiency bonus applies to a roll, you can add the bonus only once to the roll, even if multiple things in the game say your bonus applies. Moreover, if more than one thing tells you to double or halve your bonus, you double it only once or halve it only once before applying it. Whether multiplied, divided, or left at its normal value, the bonus can be used only once per roll. 6. Bonus Action Spells: If you want to cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 bonus action, remember that you can’t cast any other spells before or after it on the same turn, except for cantrips with a casting time of 1 action. 7. Concentration: As soon as you start casting a spell or using a special ability that requires concentration, your concentration on another effect ends instantly. 8. Temporary Hit Points: Temporary hit points aren’t cumulative. If you have temporary hit points and receive more of them, you don’t add them together, unless a game feature says you can. Instead, you decide which temporary hit points to keep. 9. Round Down: Whenever you divide or multiply a number in the game, round down if you end up with a fraction, even if the fraction is one-half or greater. 10. Have Fun: You don’t need to know every rule to enjoy D&D, and each group has its own style different ways it likes to tell stories and to use the rules. Embrace what your group enjoys most. In short, follow your bliss!	https://ettron.com/tashas-cauldron-of-everything-pdf-download-dungeons-dragons/
According to the U.S. Constitution, the purpose of copyright is "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts." Most everything in print and on the internet is protected by copyright. This means that the creator of an original work has exclusive rights to how it is used and distributed. Use this guide to learn the basics of copyright, fair use, file sharing, and more. You can also check out the copyright crash course from the University of Texas to learn more about the ins and outs of copyright. The U.S. Copyright Act can be found at Title 17 of the United States Code. The U.S. Copyright Office also provides information on copyright. Copyright protects original works fixed in a tangible medium. Examples include movies, poetry, prose, software, artwork, musical notation, recorded music, animations, video, a web page, blog posts and comments, architectural drawings, or photographs. Check the works you are using for statements about copyright, ownership, and intellectual property rights. It is your responsibility to respect these rights since you can be liable for any infringements. Works in the public domain, such as a work first published in the United States before 1923, are no longer protected by copyright. Use the digital copyright slider to determine whether a work published in the United States is in the public domain or covered by copyright. You can sometimes use copyrighted items for teaching and research purposes under fair use provisions or specific educational exceptions. Works with an open license such as a Creative Commons license can also be legally shared with appropriate attribution or other specified conditions. UA intellectual property policy Arizona Board of Regents intellectual property policy We are here to help you learn about copyright rules and know how to use information ethically. We offer one-on-one and small group consultation on topics related to rights and intellectual property issues in teaching, research, and publishing. We are also available for class lectures or other presentations. If you have any questions, contact our copyright librarian, Ellen Dubinsky.	https://new.library.arizona.edu/research/copyright
Not all dinosaurs were large meat-eaters with a bite strong enough to crush a car. Some of these reptiles were large herbivores that wanted to find a meal and stay out of harm’s way. That doesn’t mean they were powerless or that fights between them if they had actually happened, wouldn’t be interesting. Today, we’re going to take a look at a battle between Triceratops vs Styracosaurus and demonstrate which of these herbivorous dinosaurs would win a battle and why. We’ll break down the important factors and take an educated guess at what would happen if these two creatures came into conflict. Comparing a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus What Are Key Differences Between a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus? The most significant differences between a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus include their size and their morphology. Triceratops was a dinosaur that weighed up to 20,000lbs and stood 10ft tall with a large frill protecting its neck, two protruding horns, and a horn on its “nose”. Styracosaurus was a dinosaur that weighed about 6,000lbs and stood up to 7ft tall including its 2ft-long frill spikes that also had a 2ft-long horn protruding from its “nose” area. These dinosaurs have some similarities, but we can parse the differences and get a good look at which was the stronger, deadlier animal in a fight. What Are the Key Factors in a Fight Between a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus? The key factors in a fight between a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus include their size, speed, defenses, and offensive capabilities. We are going to explore these four elements, determine which of the dinosaurs was superior in each respect, and then use that information to decide the winner of the bout. Triceratops vs Styracosaurus: Size A Triceratops was larger than a Styracosaurus. The average Triceratops could stand up to 10ft tall, grew 30ft long, and weigh up to 20,000lbs. The Styracosaurus was a dinosaur that weighed about 6,000lbs, stood 5.9ft or up to 7ft, and measured 18ft long. The Triceratops weighed at least twice as much and was significantly larger. The Triceratops has the size advantage in this fight. Triceratops vs Styracosaurus: Speed and Movement Estimates suggest that the Triceratops could run at speeds up to 20 mph using an ungainly gallop. This dinosaur was a quadruped, after all. Its powerful legs could help it build up speed, but it’s unclear how long it could maintain that velocity. Unfortunately, we know very little about the movement speed of the Styracosaurus. We can only estimate that it could top out at about 15-20 mph. The Triceratops has the speed advantage in this fight. Triceratops vs Styracosaurus: Defenses The Styracosaurus was a thick-bodied dinosaur that had some protections in its body. For example, the bony frill that protected its neck had several long spikes protruding from it, each measuring between 6 inches and 2ft long. This dinosaur also had spikes that protruded from its cheeks, too. These elements each protected the dinosaur, but it’s also possible that its frill was for temperature control rather than defenses. The Triceratops also had a frill, but it lacked the large spikes of the Styracosaurus. Still, the frill would protect the Triceratops’ neck from carnivores. The massive size of this dinosaur was also an important type of defense that would keep smaller predators away. All in all, Triceratops had more formidable defenses owing to their large size. Triceratops vs Styracosaurus: Offensive Capabilities The Triceratops was an herbivore that actually had rather powerful offensive powers. This dinosaur had three horns. Two of them were positioned pointing forward from its head, measuring 3-4ft long and the third was on the “nose” of the dinosaur and measured 1-2ft. These horns and the frill may have been more of a mating signal than a weapon, but they could have been somewhat analogous to antlers in deer in that they were used to battle other Triceratops for breeding purposes. Either way, the Triceratops could be dangerous by either stabbing other dinosaurs with their horns or trampling them. Styracosaurus had a large horn on its nose, but the truth is that very little information about its purpose exists. If it did get into a fight for its life, the chances seem good that the dinosaur would attempt to use that 2ft horn to inflict some damage. Outside of that, it might be able to stomp otherwise use blunt force impacts to fend off others. Who Would Win in a Fight Between a Triceratops and a Styracosaurus? A Triceratops would win a fight against a Styracosaurus. However, these two dinosaurs, even if they had lived at the same time and location, would probably not fight each other. The size difference and the fact that they are herbivores would limit the amount of conflict they had with each other. Still, the first thing we have to consider here is the size differences. Triceratops was far larger, relatively fast, and almost certainly used its horns to fight other dinosaurs even if it was members of its own species. However, we don’t have the same information about the Styracosaurus. In a battle, the Triceratops would probably charge the smaller dinosaur using its long horns and mighty power. A hit from this charge would jam the horns deep into the body of the Styracosaurus, causing severe internal damage and knocking over the smaller dinosaur. That could be a killing blow. In fact, it would be hard for the small herbivore to shrug that off and counter. If it did try to attack again, the chances are that the Triceratops would renew its attack and perform another horn attack. The smaller Styracosaurus could still do damage to the Triceratops if it was able to ignore its instincts to stay away from larger, stronger, and more dangerous dinosaurs. However, there is a much larger chance that the Triceratops would find the strength to counter this assault and turn the fight into an absolutely brutal affair. In the end, either dinosaur could probably kill the other, but the Triceratops is the most likely winner. The Featured Image Thank you for reading! Have some feedback for us? Contact the AZ Animals editorial team.	https://a-z-animals.com/blog/triceratops-vs-styracosaurus-who-would-win-in-a-fight/
3.2 Integrative leadership The integrative leadership model (Bryson et al., 2015; Crosby and Bryson, 2005a; Crosby and Bryson, 2005b; Crosby and Bryson, 2010) highlights the challenges of aligning or integrating the structures and processes of collaboration. This challenge is familiar to anyone who has participated in an inter-organisational forum or project. In the early days, collaborative projects can be dominated by discussions to determine terms of reference, agree decision-making processes and accountability structures. These processes and structures then contribute to the continuing leadership of the collaboration – they make certain things possible, and others impossible. In other words, leadership of collaborations is enacted through processes and structures, as well as individuals (Huxham and Vangen, 2000). Activity 4 Aligning processes and structures Think back to a recent example in your own experience, and consider how much time the group spent constructing terms of reference, agreeing how to work together, determining how to make joint decisions and how each collaborating organisation is accountable to the other. (If you cannot think of an example from your experience, then think about the Local Planning Group in this week’s instalment of Ellen’s story. What processes would be it be important to agree in the first instance? How might these processes enable or limit future collaboration?) - how did this initial work enable further collaboration? - what processes was it important to put in place? - what limitations did the agreed structures and processes place on the continuing collaboration? Comment Clearly, it makes sense to take time to determine how to collaborate, for example whether decision-making will be through consensus, majority decisions, or by authorised individuals. It is also important to reflect on how collaborative projects and forums will account to the collaborating organisations, without being dominated by organisational interests. This is a key task for leadership. However, this is not to suggest that it is possible to reach a point beyond organisational interests. Instead, the integrative leadership model suggests that collaborations should be deliberately designed to take account of different interests, strengths, and weaknesses, so that organisations complement each other in the endeavour to focus on that which is shared – achievement of a shared project, delivery of integrated services, transformation of a neighbourhood, service or community of need.	https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=105460&section=3.2
Scientists and engineers working at the Joint European Torus (JET) have achieved a record performance for sustained fusion energy. It is the clearest demonstration of the potential for fusion energy to deliver safe and sustainable low-carbon energy in almost 25 years. Researchers from the EUROfusion consortium – a team of 4,800 scientists, engineers, experts, students and staff from across Europe, including Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK) – completed the fusion experimental campaign with the same fuel mixture to be used by future commercial fusion energy power plants. EUROfusion scientists and engineers worked on the Joint European Torus (JET) jointly with scientists and researchers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), the largest operational tokamak in the world, which is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. They achieved a record of sustained fusion power in the form of heat during a five-second pulse – the duration of the plasma created by the JET machine. This produced a record 59 megajoules of fusion energy, more than doubling the previous record of 21.7 megajoules set in 1997 at JET while generating a vast amount of scientific data. It is a major step forward on fusion’s roadmap as a safe, efficient and low carbon energy. JET is the largest existing fusion device in the world, on whose design the ITER project is most closely modelled. JET was built and has been operated in Culham, UK, as a Joint Undertaking of the European Community since 1977 under the Euratom Research and Training Programme. JET operated under the new Contract for the Operation of the JET Facilities (NJOC), Euratom Research and Training Programme Article 10 bilateral contract between the Commission and the CCFE between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2021. During the past 7 years the EU contributed almost half a billion EUR to the operation of JET through this contract. Following the conclusion of NJOC, the responsibility for the JET Facility has been fully transferred to the UK, which is the owner and operator of JET. JET is key to the European Research Roadmap to the Realisation of Fusion Energy. Results from crucial experiments conducted in the tokamak are a major boost for ITER. ITER is a large-scale experiment designed to prove the scientific and technical viability of fusion as a new energy source, and to take fusion energy to the threshold of industrial exploitation. It is supported by the EU and other major international partners. Background European fusion laboratories collaborate through the consortium called EUROfusion - the European Consortium for Development of Fusion Energy - in line with the long-term strategy set out in the European research roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy. The EU contributed €679 million to EUROfusion through the Euratom Research & Training Programme 2014-2020. ITER is a fusion energy research project under construction in Cadarache, in the South of France, supported by the European Union as its biggest contributor and other major international actors (China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the USA). ITER aims to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy. It will also provide guidance to Europe’s demonstration power plant DEMO, which will be designed to put electricity to the grid.	https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/fusion-energy-breakthrough-world-leading-joint-european-torus-facility-2022-02-09_en
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Non-invasive imaging of kupffer cell status using radiolabelled mannosylated albuminMahajan, V., Hartimath, S., Comley, R., Stefan-Gueldner, M., Roth, A., Poelstra, K., Reker-Smit, C., Kamps, J., Dierckx, R. & de Vries, E., 1-Apr-2014, In : Journal of Hepatology. 60, 1, Suppl., p. S180-S181 2 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › Academic DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-8278(14)60503-1 Final publisher's version - Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology and Targeting - Science and Engineering Faculty Board - Molecular Neuroscience and Ageing Research (MOLAR) - Nanotechnology and Biophysics in Medicine (NANOBIOMED) - Guided Treatment in Optimal Selected Cancer Patients (GUTS) - Biopharmaceuticals, Discovery, Design and Delivery (BDDD) - Vascular Ageing Programme (VAP) Background and Aims: Kupffer cells are responsible for maintaining liver homeostasis and have a vital role in chronic hepatotoxicity and various liver diseases. Positron Imaging Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive imaging technique that allows quantification and visualization of biochemical processes by monitoring the distribution of molecules labelled with positron imaging isotopes. We aimed to develop a methodology for noninvasive PET imaging of Kupffer cell status in liver. Methods: Our strategy was to target CD206 receptor that selectively takes up mannosylated albumin. Thus mannosylated albumin (mHSA) was synthesized and coupled to radionuclide-18F. Thereafter the pharmacological properties of this radiotracer were explored in a range of pre-clinical models including cells and wistar-rats. Whole-body PET images were acquired 30/60 minutes after injection of 5-15 MBq of radiotracer-[18F]B-mHSA. Results: Hepatic uptake at 30 and 60 min was high whereas accumulation in the kidney was even higher, due to metabolism in liver and renal clearance. Blocking studies with a 20 fold excess of unlabeled tracer revealed saturable tracer uptake. In immune-related organs such as the bone-marrow, spleen, and liver radio-tracer uptake was highest at 30 minutes post injection and decreased thereafter. Ex-vivo biodistribution indicated lowest tracer uptake in non-target organs. Tracer uptake reaches a plateau in 45 min for RAW cells and in 60 min for murine Kupffer cells. Conclusions: [18F]B-mHSA is readily labelled, is stable in plasma and displays binding affinity for the CD206 receptors. This method allows quantitative and non-invasive imaging of liver function by using expression of the Kupffer cell specific CD206 receptor with special interest in liver toxicity and the early events leading to liver fibrosis.	https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/publications/noninvasive-imaging-of-kupffer-cell-status-using-radiolabelled-mannosylated-albumin(e1ea087f-0f93-4e99-8155-e5d21af4d16a).html
Pese a que el 'Millo' ganó en el Santiago Bernabéu, el 'Xeneize' presentó una demanda para que le den la victoria de la final por los incidentes ocurridos en el Monumental Por: Hugo Avalos 29 de Enero 2019 · 14:53 hs Para Boca Juniors, la herida de la final ante River Plate parece que nunca cicatrizará. Menos con la decisión que tomó Daniel Angelici junto a la directiva. Presentaron una demanda ante el Tribunal Arbitral Superior (TAS) para que lo proclamen campeón de la Copa Libertadores 2018. El Xeneize vuelve a apostar a los escritorios para que le den ganada la final del torneo continental. Presentó una serie de argumentos formales ante el TAS, basándose, por supuesto, en los incidentes ocurridos el pasado 24 de noviembre en el Monumental. Los incidentes en los que se basa Boca para pedir la Copa Libertadores por ganada Como detalla Doble Amarilla, la directiva de Boca Juniors, con Daniel Angelici a la cabeza, contrató a un prestigioso estudio de abogados para que puedan respaldar la presentación que habían hecho días antes de la final en el Santiago Bernabéu. El objetivo es que le den por ganada la Copa Libertadores, debido a los incidentes ocurridos con el micro xeneize en las inmediaciones al Estadio Monumental y que hirió a algunos jugadores. Conmebol ha hecho caso omiso a las presentaciones de Boca Juniors desde la final suspendida. La última fue el 6 de diciembre cuando el Tribunal de Disciplina del organismo desestimó el pedido de darle por ganada la definición. Angelici y compañía irán atraviesan su última oportunidad de quedarse con el título, pese a que, dentro de la cancha, el que lo ganó en buena ley fue River Plate.
ALSO AVAILABLE IN OTHER FORMATS: Book Information - Format: Paperback - ISBN: 978-1-7849-9431-0 - Pages: 312 - Publisher: Manchester University Press - Price: £17.99 - Published Date: June 2020 - BIC Category: USSR, Soviet Union, Russia, History, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / Historiography, Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship, Former Soviet Union, Ussr (Europe), Humanities / Historiography, History, Modern History - Series: Issues in Historiography Description Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Did 'Stalinism' form a system in its own right or was it a mere stage in the overall development of Soviet society? Was it an aberration from Leninism or the logical conclusion of Marxism? Was its violence the revenge of the Russian past or the result of a revolutionary mindset? Was Stalinism the work of a madman or the product of social forces beyond his control? The book shows the complexities of historiographical debates, where evidence, politics, personality, and biography are strongly entangled. Debates on Stalinism allows readers to better understand not only the history of history writing, but also contemporary controversies and conflicts in the successor states of the Soviet Union, in particular Russia and Ukraine. Reviews '[.] explains - in clear and lucid terms - why Stalinism is important, and why it is still important today.' Professor Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University ' [...] Edele is to be commended for his exposition of the intricate, intense debates over the past half-century within Anglo-American academia and more recently within the Soviet successor states, notably Russia and the Ukraine. History Australia '[...] this book presents an excellent overview of some of the conflicts over Stalinism and an incisive analysis of some of the themes within that debate. It is a welcome addition to our literature on this subject.' The Russian Review '[...] His approach to debates among historians about Stalinism is biographical, contains a good deal about their infighting, and seeks to define - and complicate - schools of thought. That he has made a worthy contribution to Manchester University Press' series on Issues of Historiography is a testament to the magnitude of his reading, the sharpness and consistency of his argument, and the unusual politicisation of the subject he has chosen.' Labour History "demonstrates that a historiographical essay (a genre many students consider boring) can be interesting reading. excellent medicine against . [historical amnesia] for all students of Stalinism."	https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994310/debates-on-stalinism/
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United to End MND – a campaign led by charities MND Scotland, the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation and MND Association, as well neurologists and people living with MND – calls for £50 million of UK Government funding over five years to target MND research. To catapult the campaign, patients throughout the UK have now written and signed a personal letter to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which will be presented at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday 21 September, by rugby legends Doddie Weir and Rob Burrow. Speaking to BBC Breakfast today (16 September) to launch activities, Doddie said: “We are continuing to fight to try and make a difference, and to try and find a cure for this horrific issue of MND. The UK has the best researchers in the world and at the moment we’re nearly there to find a stoppage or a cure. So this letter, and the money from the Government, will make a massive difference. This will give a lot of hope to people with MND. We need to take it to the next level and with that we need the Government’s help.” Before his departure to London, Doddie is leading the charge by sending the patient letter on a relay across the nation, to encourage more people living with MND to sign it, starting with a tweet to fellow MND campaigner, Euan MacDonald in Edinburgh. Euan, who has MND, is the co-founder of the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research. He was joined there by Dr Suvankar Pal, Consultant Neurologist from the University of Edinburgh and Rachel Maitland, MND Scotland’s Chief Executive, who are showing their support for the letter. The letter states ‘MND is a death sentence’ but that ‘research has now reached a point where a cure or life-saving treatments can be found’. It continues ‘The current piecemeal and protracted approach of funding individual projects will not deliver the life-saving treatments we need…we urgently appeal for action and investment now’. Euan said: "I very much believe the goal of finding treatments for MND is achievable. The letter and supporting statements highlight the personal impact this disease has had on families like mine and others up and down the country. We are trying to ensure other people's children, spouses, parents and siblings don't have to go through what ours have. I'd like to appeal to the Prime Minister to back MND patients and have confidence in UK Science achieving what may have previously seemed impossible - a cure for MND." Currently the UK Government's funding for targeted MND research stands at less than £5 million a year, which the campaign coalition says is not enough. £50 million from the UK Government over five years would fund a virtual institute for MND Research, providing the infrastructure needed for accelerating treatments for MND. With the support of MND charities and neurologists, campaigners are taking the call directly to Downing Street and people living with MND still have the opportunity to add their signature here: patientsunited2endmnd.org. Dr Suvankar Pal, the Co-Lead Investigator of MND-SMART, the UK's biggest drug trial for MND, said: "This is an exciting time for MND research with many centres across the UK working on important areas ranging from drug discovery to delivery of treatment trials. We fully support this initiative which promotes collaborative working and much needed investment in research with the aim of delivering new treatments for MND in a timely way." Rachel Maitland, MND Scotland's Chief Executive, said: “We are united here today to ensure the voices of those living with MND are heard by the UK Government. The average life expectancy for someone with MND is just 18 months from diagnosis. People like Doddie and Euan do not have time to wait, and neither does our search for a cure. “We are only able to fund the pioneering research taking place at the Euan MacDonald Centre, and other institutes across the UK, because of the generosity of our supporters. MND isn’t incurable, it’s just under-funded. Together, we will beat MND, but we cannot do it without the UK Government’s support.” To find out more about the campaign visit www.mndscotland.org.uk/united or tweet your support @MNDScotland @MNDAssoc and @MNDoddie5 using #United2EndMND.	https://www.mndscotland.org.uk/latest/news/mnd-letter-relays-the-country-in-bid-for-50-million/
Q: Some Metro (Universal) apps freeze on lost focus? I don't know if it's possible to fix this, but I'd love to know; I've found that a few of the universal apps, (candy crush is an example) freeze when they lose focus. I was wondering if its possible to change that I remember the Instagram app did that at one point in the past and it was quite frustrating given I was trying to watch a livestream, it would just stop playing when it went unfocused. A: The Store apps have a more complex lifecycle than Win32 applications: Before Windows 8, apps had a simple lifecycle. Win32 and .NET apps are either running or not running. When a user minimizes them, or switches away from them, they continue to run. This was fine until portable devices and power management became increasingly important. Windows 8 introduced a new application model with UWP apps. At a high level, a new suspended state was added. A UWP app is suspended shortly after the user minimizes it or switches to another app. This means that the app's threads are stopped and the app is left in memory unless the operating system needs to reclaim resources. When the user switches back to the app, it can be quickly restored to a running state. By default, apps that are not in the foreground are suspended which results in power savings and more resources available for the app currently in the foreground. The suspended state adds new requirements for you as a developer because the operating system may elect to terminate a suspended app in order to free up resources. The terminated app will still appear in the task bar. When the user click on it, the app must restore the state that it was in before it was terminated because the user will not be aware that the system closed the app. They will think that it has been waiting in the background while they were doing other things and will expect it to be in the same state it was in when they left it. In this topic we will look at how to accomplish that. To continue doing work, the apps must support background tasks: There are various ways for apps that need to continue to run when they are in the background such as background tasks, extended execution, and activity sponsored execution (for example, the BackgroundMediaEnabled capability which allows an app to continue to play media in the background). Also, background transfer operations can continue even if your app is suspended or even terminated. So the apps you use don't support this and get suspended as expected. In the Windows SDK, there is a tool to disable the lifecycle for an app "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Debuggers\x64\plmdebug.exe" /enableDebug <PackageFullName> Do this for the apps you want to continue.
Hadrian’s Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Many of its forts are as large as Britain’s most formidable medieval castles, and the wide ditch dug to the south of the Wall, the vallum, is larger than any surviving prehistoric earthwork. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30,000 soldiers and labourers at the behest of an extraordinary emperor, the Wall consisted of more than 24 million stones, giving it a mass greater than all the Egyptian pyramids put together. At least a million people visit Hadrian’s Wall each year and it has been designated a World Heritage Site. In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its mighty shadow. The result is a unique and fascinating insight into one of the Wonders of the Ancient World. The Author Alistair MoffatAlistair Moffat was born in Kelso, Scotland in 1950. He is an award winning Writer, Historian and former Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Director of Programmes at Scottish Television. He is the founder of Borders Book Festival and Co-Chairman of The Great Tapestry Of Scotland. You may also like… - Paperback \| Pub: 06 Mar 2017 From the early fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth, the Anglo-Scottish borderlands witnessed one of the most intense periods of warfare and disorder ever seen in modern Europe. As a consequence of near-constant conflict between England...	https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-wall/
is a researcher and writer based in Washington, DC. He is the co-author, with Marc Micozzi, of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (2009) and Your Emotional Type (2011). Today, studies increasingly show that many non-human beings feel. Elephants appear to feel grief, while dolphins and whales express joy, or something much like it. Parrots can become cranky, pigs and cows terrified, chickens saddened, monkeys seemingly embarrassed. Experiments have shown that rats become agitated when seeing surgery performed on other rats and that, when presented with a trapped lab-mate and a piece of chocolate, they will free their caged brethren before eating. There’s even evidence that rats take pleasure in being tickled. None of this will come as a surprise to pet owners or anyone who has observed virtually any kind of animal for any length of time. Science is rediscovering what Charles Darwin, in his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) concluded: that the variations between humans and other species in their capacity to feel and express emotion are differences in degree rather than in kind. It’s a short step from there to recognition that individual animals have personalities, and to reckon that not only do they live – they have lives. Sentience – the capacity of an organism to feel – is fundamental to being alive. If human beings have souls, they must be more about sentience than consciousness. We are motivated far more by passion than by intellect – what we feel deeply is what drives us, for good and ill. In his book Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Life (1970), the late psychoanalyst Alexander Lowen meditated on these connections, proposing that ‘The soul of a man is in his body. Through his body a person is part of life and part of nature … If we are identified with our bodies, we have souls, for through our bodies we are identified with all creation.’ As long as we are alive – and therefore feeling – we are connected to one another and to the natural world. We are, in a word, ensouled. In the end, soul may be a profound matter of fellow feeling. The stronger the capability of a given species for fellow feeling, the more that species can be said to exhibit soulfulness. To view things in this way offers another important step in humanity’s progression towards understanding its place in creation – and to appreciate the inheritance we hold in common with other sentient beings on this increasingly small, restive, and fragile planet.	https://aeon.co/ideas/do-only-humans-have-souls-or-do-animals-have-them-too?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6d982cb113-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6d982cb113-68979101
Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST), Kenya and University of Reading, United Kingdom won a Global Challenge Research Fund – Networking Grant on “Improving food security in Arid and Semi-Arid (ASAL) regions of Northern Kenya through transformation of the camel milk supply chain”. The Global Challenge Research Fund – Networking Grant Workshop was organized by the collaboration between Meru University of Science and Technology (MUST), Kenya, as the lead institution, University of Reading in the United Kingdom, University of Petra in Jordan, The International Society of Camel Research and Development (ISOCARD), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Tharaka University College (TUC) and Ngamia milk suppliers, Nanyuki. The Vice-Chancellor of MUST, Prof. Romanus Odhiambo informed the participants that the University is in support of scholarly collaborations that create an impact in our communities. He added that through advocacy and technology transfer, people learn new or developed ways to solve problems. As part of the activities for the networking grant, MUST as a lead institution played part in organizing the first virtual camel milk international workshop in February 2021 which was a success attracting over forty-five (45) participants, seven (7) universities from Kenya and several international universities. The Vice-Chancellor thanked the Government of Kenya through the National Research Fund (NRF) for the Fund’s continued execution of the institution’s mandate in facilitating research for the advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation. He said that this has greatly propelled our country globally in terms of research and innovation. Prof. Odhiambo stated that MUST has put in place pragmatic policies and procedures on research and innovation in order to avail a conducive environment for conducting research and innovation by the University faculties. He also indicated that MUST’s research and innovation culture is supported through mentorship and training. The Vice-Chancellor also informed the participants that our University Chancellor, Dr. James Mwangi gifted us an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre which serves as an effective hub for great minds to collaborate and build on ideas aimed at making our world a better place. Meru University of Science and Technology has over fifty-six (56) on-going research projects. MUST envisages establishing itself as the Centre of excellence in camel products research. This workshop, therefore, forms the basis for strong collaboration between the participating institutions to develop bigger research proposals, compete for international funding for impactful research and organize bigger conferences in the discipline.	https://www.must.ac.ke/global-challenge-research-fund-networking-grant-workshop/
Our report covers the critical market information considering the rapid progression & wide-ranging impacts of COVID-19 virus on the global economy, and help you understand which countries or business segments are likely to get most affected. The report starts with the key takeaways (chapter two), highlighting the key trends and outlook of the global Corporate M-Learning. Chapter three provides the research methodology of the study. Chapter four further provides ecosystem analysis along with PEST analysis for each region. Chapter five highlights the key industry dynamics in the Corporate M-Learning , including factors that are driving the market, prevailing deterrent, potential opportunities as well as future trends. Impact analysis of these drivers and restraints is also covered in this section. Chapter six discusses the global Corporate M-Learning scenario, in terms of historical market revenues, and forecast till the year 2027. Chapter seven to eleven discuss Corporate M-Learning segments by type, deployment, organization size, end-user, and geography across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, South and Central America. They cover market revenue forecast, and factors driving and governing growth. Chapter twelve describes the industry landscape analysis. It provides detailed description of various business activities such as market initiatives, new developments, mergers and joint ventures globally along with a competitive landscape. Chapter thirteen provides the detailed profiles of the key companies operating in the global Corporate M-Learning. The companies have been profiled on the basis of their key facts, business description, products and services, financial overview, SWOT analysis, and key developments. Chapter fourteen, i.e. the appendix is inclusive of a brief overview of the company, glossary of terms, contact information, and the disclaimer section.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MARITIME INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA AND THEIR IMPACT ON LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA. BY BASHIR YUSUF JAMOH ABSTRACT The paper is devoted to the examination of recent developments in the Nigerian Maritime Industry and how these developments, individually and collectively have impacted the management of logistics and supply chains in Nigeria. It draws from already existing literature, academic articles, empirical studies and information gathered on the related issues under examination. The approach adopted is an expose on the maritime industry from birth to date. A brief summary of this is discussed, highlighting the recent developments. An examination of the challenges facing practitioners and management of logistics and supply chains is visited, to measure qualitatively, any effects, positive or negative implications, caused directly or indirectly by the developments in the maritime industry. Finally proffer suggestions in the areas where improvements can be made. A brief history of the Nigerian Maritime Industry is presented from a chronological perspective from the events that led to its creation; through its growth process, and responses to challenges in its growth path till present and future. Challenges that led it to each growth stage in its evolution are examined, to provide an insight from an objective perspective. Shipping in Nigeria is agreed to have started in the second half of the last century. This fortune is said to be by courtesy of foreign shipping lines. It all began with Woreman Line developing into a shipping company in 1894. Their first ship “Theresa Henrietter” left Hamburg for West Africa on the 24th of March 1849. Elder Dumpster began operations in Nigeria in 1892 with their first vessel “Fore runner”, followed by the British company Palm Line after the Second World War. Nigeria entered into sea borne trade with the formation of the Nigerian National Shipping Line in 1958. By 1970 it had accumulated 12 owned vessels from a poor start with three used ones. By 1977 it added 12 additional new ones, bringing the fleet to 24. They are all grounded today or scrapped…..	https://www.bashirjamoh.com/recent-development-in-maritime-industry-in-nigeria-2017/
Dr. Alain Ptito is Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. He has worked as a Neuropsychologist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital since 1983 and he is now Director of the Psychology Department at the MUHC. Dr Ptito’s research program involves the investigation of the mechanisms involved in cerebral reorganization and plasticity in patient populations (Hemispherectomy, Callosotomy, Parkinson’s Disease, stroke and head injury) and his clinical work includes the neuropsychological assessment of these patients. Dr. Ptito studied Clinical Psychology at McGill University (1975) and obtained Post-Graduate Degrees in Experimental Psychology (1979) and Neuropsychology (1986) from the Université de Montréal. His Doctoral Thesis examined residual vision in the blind field of patients who underwent a hemispherectomy. He is a Member of the Order of Psychologists of the Province of Québec and of the Société des Experts en Évaluation Médico-légale du Québec. His research has been funded by CIHR, NSERC, FRSQ, ONF-REPAR, CASM/NHL and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. For the past several years, he has been using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate motor recovery in stroke and the neural substrates of residual vision in the blind visual field following hemispherectomy. He has also demonstrated that this technique, along with Diffusion Tensor Imaging and evoked potentials, can be used to explore the neural mechanisms underlying traumatic brain injury, particularly in athletes. With his research team, he has reported that there are abnormal activation patterns following traumatic brain injury and that fMRI can serve as an objective method to assess the severity of the injury and subsequent recovery. Aside from his work with athletes, he is now using the results of his research for the traumatic brain injury population at large, including soldiers, athletes, motor vehicle accident victims and children. In recent years, Dr. Ptito has explored new methods of treatment namely High Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on abnormal patterns of functional brain activity, while simultaneously estimating its ability to reduce post concussive symptoms, including depression and cognitive impairment following mild traumatic brain injury. He will also begin to investigate a new Neuromodulation treatment approach (stimulation of the tongue) in combination with intensive physical therapy for improvement of gait and balance following mild to moderate traumatic brain injury.	https://neuromtl.com/team/dr-alain-ptito/
MAS Response to Parliamentary Question on Green Bond Grant Scheme MAS published the reply of Tharman Shanmugaratnam of MAS, to the Parliamentary question on plans to expand the Green Bond Grant Scheme, with stricter regulations to ensure the adherence to the definition of eligible expenses. In his response, Mr. Shanmugaratnam emphasized that more work needs to be done globally to develop common standards and definitions and to enhance disclosure and reporting, in an effort to further reduce the greenwashing risks. Greenwashing involves a situation in which unsubstantiated or false claims on the environmental contribution of one’s products, services, or business activities are made. Mr. Shanmugaratnam stated that the Green Bond Grant Scheme of MAS was launched three years ago to catalyze the green bond market in Singapore. In February 2019, MAS lowered the minimum issuance size from SGD 200 million to SGD 20 million to support more issuers, including medium-sized enterprises. MAS also expanded the scope of the scheme to include social and sustainability bonds and renamed it the Sustainable Bond Grant Scheme. Even with changes to the scheme, issuers of green bonds are required to have in place a green bond framework based on internationally accepted principles—governing the use of proceeds, the evaluation and selection of projects, and reporting on the allocation of proceeds to eligible projects. Issuers are also required to obtain independent external reviews to assure investors that their frameworks are robust and not subject to “greenwashing.” MAS is looking into developing a grant scheme for green and sustainability linked loans, which could potentially be more relevant to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as the loan proceeds can be used for general corporate purposes so long as borrowers meet relevant sustainability metrics. This is because, beyond green bonds, having access to a wider range of sustainability financing options would facilitate SMEs' adoption of sustainable business practices. MAS will calibrate the minimum qualifying loan amount to better meet the needs of SMEs. Keywords: Asia Pacific, Singapore, Banking, Securities, Green Bonds, Green Bond Grant Scheme, Sustainable Finance, ESG, Climate Change Risk, MAS Previous ArticleIMF Publishes Reports on 2019 Article IV Consultation with Australia Related Articles \| \| News APRA on Changes to Reporting Obligations for Banks Due to COVID-19 APRA, in collaboration with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), published a letter outlining temporary changes in reporting obligations for authorized deposit-taking institutions and registered financial corporations, in response to COVID-19. April 01, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News OSFI Outlines Capital Treatment for Some COVID-19 Mitigation Measures OSFI issued a letter outlining how federally regulated banks should treat the new capital made available to small and medium-size enterprises (SME) through the recently announced government programs. March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News APRA Announces Deferral of Capital Reform Implementation APRA announced that it is deferring the scheduled implementation of Basel III reforms in Australia by one year. March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News BaFin Explains Regulatory Measures to Address Impact of COVID-19 BaFin has released new developments and important information about COVID-19 and its effects on the financial and banking system. March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News ECB Updates Recommendation on Dividend Distribution Policy of Banks ECB updated its recommendation to banks on dividend distributions. March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News EC Amends Implementing Standards on Supervisory Reporting Under CRR EC published Regulation 2020/429 that amends the Regulation 680/2014, which sets out implementing technical standards on supervisory reporting of institutions under the Capital Requirements Regulation or CRR (575/2013). March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News HKMA Announces Deferral of Implementation of Final Basel III Package HKMA announced its plans to defer the implementation of final Basel III package, inline with the timeline announced by the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS). March 30, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News BCBS Defers Implementation of Final Basel III Standards by One Year BCBS has announced deferral of the implementation date of the final Basel III standards by one year, to January 01, 2023. March 27, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News EC Regulation on CCR Mitigation for Covered Bonds and Securitizations EC published the Delegated Regulation 2020/447 with regard to regulatory technical standards on the specification of criteria for establishing the arrangements to adequately mitigate counterparty credit risk, or CCR, associated with covered bonds and securitizations. March 27, 2020 WebPage Regulatory News \| \| News IFRS Publishes Statement on Its Work During the COVID-19 Crisis IFRS, in its statement, emphasized that it shares global concerns about the impact of COVID–19 and is supporting its stakeholders by reconsidering timelines of its meetings and publications, providing information on the application of IFRS 9 on financial instruments, and offering calendar updates on ongoing activities.	https://www.moodysanalytics.com/regulatory-news/mar-05-20-mas-response-to-parliamentary-question-on-green-bond-grant-scheme
Rally in Brookville raises awareness of animal cruelty in Jefferson County Protestors line the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Brookville Saturday during an animal cruelty rally inspired by Angel, a terrier mix who was recently found abandoned and in very poor condition. (Photo by Matthew Triponey of The Punxsutawney Spirit) BROOKVILLE — When members of the Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals in Coolspring found Angel, a terrier mix, she was "very, very bony, just a walking little skeleton," said Margo Stefanic, the founder and president of the organization. Stefanic said the dog was "very unhealthy" and seriously malnourished, a description that was backed up by a veterinarian after she was discovered. Angel had been left restrained in the backyard of her former owner's residence in Rose Township, where she had not been given water or food. "We were very saddened," Stefanic said. "We were very saddened to know that somebody could look away and just leave a little animal like that secured in the backyard, unable to get to any food, any water, any anything." The Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals nursed Angel back to health and, last Saturday, brought her outside for a rally against animal cruelty in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse. The Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals is a state-certified, non-profit organization which has a mission to provide for the well-being of animals by providing shelter, food and veterinary care for every animal that comes to them. "We as a group of people are very, very active in animal rights," Stefanic said. "We care very much about the well-being of all animals, protecting them and caring for them since they can't speak for themselves." The reason for the rally that day, Stefanic said, was Angel. "She's created quite a stir amongst the animal lovers in this area ... We really want to bring her out into public to let people know that this is going on right in their backyard, and it's unacceptable," Stefanic said. She added. "We want people to know Angel is a survivor." The purpose of the rally was mainly to raise awareness of animal cruelty in the area and to drum up support for the Willow Run Sanctuary for Animal and its efforts to prevent it, whether by aiding animals who are victims or by appealing to state and local governments to impose harsher penalties on those who commit it. "We're going to reach out and form an organization of people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is and address the proper state officials to perhaps see about getting current laws amended, new ones started, maybe old ones ousted or whatever the case may be," Stefanic said. Stefanic said that some of the current inadequacies in the law, as she sees them, are penalties that are too soft. She said they could go further by imposing tougher fines or perhaps having perpetrators spend a night or two in jail. However, she emphasized the importance of not blaming local public officials for the county's response to animal cruelty situations. "They're only limited to what the law says, so you can't have animosity against ... a judge, or a state trooper, or the police, whether that's borough police or whomever," Stefanic says. "If what Angel's perpetrator ultimately receives is a misdemeanor, it's not their fault. You have to go to the higher-ups." Stefanic said that the campaign started in Angel's name was not intended or expected to change any laws and that the demonstration was to be more of an educational experience for members of the local community. However, she indicated that they would be addressing the state legislature about the issue in the near future. Stefanic said that she doesn't believe that Jefferson County has any particular prejudice making its residents unaware of incidents of animal cruelty, but rather that lack of awareness of such acts is more likely widespread across counties and states. She hoped that the rally and the rest of the campaign would get the process of awareness started for the local area. "We don't have all the answers, and we're not know-it-alls ... but we know right from wrong for the most part; your common sense tells you," Stefanic said. "We would like to reach out to people." She said she hoped the campaign would let people know who to call if they witness or suspect animal abuse and possibly allow the Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals to start up other projects. Stefanic mentioned a desire to perhaps start a community pet food bank to help people who can't care for their animals anymore. Stefanic said that she considers animal abuse as existing on a broad spectrum, with some of the better-known incidents involving physical abuse and malnourishment sitting at the top and lower-level acts occupying the bottom. "Abuse can come right down to the fact that maybe your neighbor has their dog tied our 24/7," Stefanic said. "We've seen all too many times the pounded mud with no grass around a post and a doghouse. I think that, to a lesser degree, is definable to me as an abuse situation. Maybe other people would disagree with that, but, of course, it can go from something as little as that to as big as malnourishment." The campaign, Stefanic said, can address only the situations brought to its attention, but that lower-level abuses like the one described would "be enough for us to wake up and leave our coffee mug at the table and go do something about if if we could." Stefanic said that people should care about animal abuse because it reflects upon the community in which it occurs. "People should care about this issue because it's the integrity of a specific geographic location," Stefanic said. She added, "It has to do with the mental intelligence of a human being to treat animals correctly. If you care about the community in which you live ... you'll care about the way you're taking care of your animals." Stefanic said that the response so far to the campaign has been a positive one. "We can't really speak for the people who might be opposed to what we're doing because they haven't come forward ... For the most part, people are on board with this, and people would like to see better treatment of animals." Stefanic said that if anyone feels strongly about animal cruelty and wishes to help, they can do so by keeping the Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals aware of any potentially abusive situations so that steps can be taken to help the animal or animals involved. Documentation from the sanctuary lists the following as signs of animal cruelty: poor body condition and noticeable trauma, lack of food/water, lack of shelter, lack of sanitation, abandonment, the animal being tied or caged, there are any chains or padlocks around or embedded into the animal's neck, the animal shows evidence of being trained for fight or having been used for such, the animal's behavior is abnormal, there are too many animals living on one property and an owner is seen being overtly violent against the animal. The sanctuary also recommends taking the following four steps to address a witnessed act of animal cruelty: be prepared to reach out to local authorities and inform them of the situation, follow up with law enforcement afterward, document the details as best as can be done and be prepared to testify. The Willow Run Sanctuary for Animals can be reached via the following methods: by phone at (814) 849-7466, by email at [email protected][2] or on its Facebook page. Stefanic said concerned residents can also report suspected animal abuse directly to the police.
I attended the 2018 Learning Forward conference with the intent to learn more about PLCs and how I could help our district implement them more effectively. While I learned many valuable lessons regarding leadership and teamwork, I came away with an overall sense of how every presentation I sat through was excellent, and how it all came down to the presenter. Now, my background is in English Rhetoric so it should come as no surprise I value a good presenter. That said, the conference and it’s participants reminded me of how important presenting skills are, and they are skills. No one is born a wonderful presenter. Fast forward to the other fun part of conferences for an English teacher, buying books, and I was delighted to see The Choreography of Presenting by Kendall Zoller and Claudette Landry. “Like a great dance partner, an excellent presenter leads others with ease and confidence. By showing how verbal and nonverbal communication shape every aspect of a successful presentation, this engaging book helps readers develop the underlying skills for polished, successful public speaking.” This book uses the metaphor of dance to educate those who don’t know the first thing about presenting as well as remind those of us who could always stand to improve upon existing skills. Along with narratives of both positive and negative experiences from the authors’ presenting past, there are useful charts that provide step-by-step practice on certain elements. Have a presentation coming up? There are places in the book to reflect on your practice. The parts of the book I particularly enjoyed were those focused on movement- hand, eye, and even full body. The “dance” you do while presenting really does matter. “A still hand gesture is the visual correlation to an auditory pause.” While this book is meant for educators, I plan on utilizing it with my AP Capstone Seminar students next year. It’s applicable and understandable. New presenters and old alike, I encourage you to read the 124 pages. You won’t regret it, and you’ll come away a more effective presenter.	https://englishtechie.com/tag/education/
When Rio de Janeiro will be in the international spotlight as a venue for the 2016 Olympics, probably the whole world fell in love with this pearl of Brazil. Girls on the beach of Ipanema really tall, tanned, young and cute. It is a place where you can look at others and show themselves. Statue of Christ the Redeemer attracts visitors to the mountain of Corcovado: it is the largest work in the Art Deco style. Carnival party in Rio - it's a fantastic orgy banquets, music, dance, costume and noisy celebration.	http://eselfarm.info/page/rio-de-janeiro/brazil/default.html
Berlin: the well-travelled genius of Ackermann Franchesca Hashemi is a journalism student who has lived in Glasgow’s West End for five years. Arising from her recent visit to Berlin, this article explores conceptual art in a city that’s become it’s modern champion – Berlin. Franz Ackermann is a German-born, Berlin-based but nomad-made painter, illustrator and installation artist. His latest exhibition, Hills and Doubts, is a spatial concept constructed for the Berlinische Galerie of Modern Art, which runs until the end of March (2014). Hills and Doubts embodies the best of Ackermann. It plays on the relationship between murals, oil paintings and photographs while powering the key theme of tourism, which the artist sees as a form of globalisation. The initial concept was to create one giant mural across a continuous wall section. The outcome is a series of murals framed against a precise backdrop of graphics and tilted panelling. There are connotations of pop-art montage here, with the sublime colours and contrasting personalities of each piece. Or, we recognise similarities in the hazardous yet beautiful cut n’ paste of Henri Matisse – Hills and Doubts is so forcefully abstract we can’t help but think ‘genius’. Yet influence for the Berlinische design comes from 15th century artist Joachim Patinir, who created panoramic landscape paintings during the Northern Renaissance. His work, like Ackermann’s, subjects the environment. It may be a warped perception or decent replica, all we know for certain is that while the image filters through artist then viewer’s eyes it champions the idea of an old philosophy in new art. The spatial premise of Hills and Doubts boasts modern significance. Twentieth century Situationist art at it’s finest, Ackermann has cemented a reputation for making good use of colossal spaces. Standing at 50 metres high by 10 long, Hills and Doubts are lucidly coloured. Surprisingly this has a calming yet catastrophic feel, with the overall perception of the installation being distorted – regardless of how we try to view it. The idea is emphasised with the slightest shift of a viewer’s stance, as they capture the intensity of smaller details. The shocking pink fairground scene becomes lost and entangled in a web of intricity. The detailing paint is a form of expressionism, which Ackermann says reflects the world wide web. It’s the manner we choose to communicate and portray ourselves. Also leaving our personal personality open to social media’s interpretation. A particularly poignant image lies on the largest format canvas, strung in the midst of Hills and Doubts: a shopping mall labyrinth with wide stepped panatone escalators. It’s dominance is glaringly obvious and highlights a brutal consumerism second-nature to ideas linked with mass money. Ackermann, speaking on the launch night in February, said: “This mural is high up under the ceiling, hung more like a monitor, tilted in a very aggressive way.” Amidst the luminosity, the finishing on the canvas has a subdued, gleaming and tackless effect. As the viewer stands before the mural, the situation is reminiscent of a consumer overwhelmed by a variety of objects, colours and items. Desert of humans the piece loses reality and almost bends at the sides. The viewer – or consumer – peers from beyond the fishbowl in a mediated glaze, ascending or descent from the steps above, waiting to be taken via the next level. It circumferences Ackermann’s lifelong subjectivism to the arts, with major focus on globalisation. He sees, we see, but who is right? It’s a philosophical endeavour and cosmologically apt, however the fact remains at some point the images on the wall were looking at Ackermann, albeit from a different environment. He is said to have taken inspiration from India and Tarlaba??, photographing segments of the trip and reproducing the images with mixed media. Varnished pictures from abroad are layered on top of a hilly microcosm of art. Its frequency catapults with each wall that’s viewed. Some smaller murals, like the neon yellow ball, are pretty little things, but again, when viewed close up, hoard a wealth of meanings. Today we call this style environmental art, conceptual or abstract. However the most accurate definition of Ackermann’s work is hard to coin. It’s easier to think of his famous mind mapping technique which plays on the Berlin-based artist’s seasoned travel. Foreign destinations provide the springboard to documenting a cultural landscape; an apt way to document reality. The artist sees tourism like colonialism, where armies of travellers board the same entity to reap the benefits of a dutiful war: package holidays, gap years and ‘unique’ city breaks. It hones the Western ideal of taking power to foreign destinations, the dominance which is felt in many of the Hills and Doubts. Lest we forget this is not a sad piece of work. It is monumental in showcasing what we each cannot see. Technicolour abstractions and opposing size formats represent a a urban scene. It is all but perception.	http://westendreport.com/berlin-well-travelled-genius-ackermann/
Each Director of the Company will act in good faith in the best interests of the Company and collectively oversee and appraise the strategies, major policies, processes and performance of the Company using care and diligence to ensure that the Company’s long term sustainability is assured. Directors will not misuse their position on the Board to advance personal interests nor to represent particular constituencies. Directors will not use information available to them as Board members to advance personal interests or agendas. Directors are required to inform the Board of any conflicts or potential conflicts of interest they may have in relation to particular items of business. Directors must absent themselves from discussions or decisions on those matters. The Company’s Constitution and Australian corporations law specifies the minimum and maximum number of directors of the Company. The Directors must elect one of their number as Chairman. Role and Responsibilities of the Board The Company has established the functions reserved to the Board. The Board has primary responsibility to shareholders for the sustainability and relevance of the Company by guiding and monitoring its business and affairs. The Board is responsible for: - providing leadership and setting the strategic objectives; - appointing a Chairman; - overseeing the Company, including its control and accountability systems; - appointing and removing the Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director, or equivalent; - ratifying the appointment and the removal of senior executives; - providing input into and final approval of management’s development of corporate strategy; - reviewing, ratifying and monitoring risk management, internal control, codes of conduct and legal compliance; - monitoring senior executives performance and implementation of strategy; - ensuring appropriate resources are available to senior executives; - approving and monitoring the progress of major capital expenditure, capital management, acquisitions and divestitures; and - approving and monitoring financial and other reporting. Role and Responsibilities of Senior Executives The Company has established the functions reserved to senior executives. Those who have the opportunity to materially influence the integrity, strategy and operation of the Company and its financial performance are considered to be senior executives. The functions delegated to senior executives are: - managing and administer the day-to-day operations of the Company; - making recommendations to the Board on corporate strategy, risk management, internal control, codes of conduct and legal compliance; - supervising other staff and represent them to the Board; and - exercising such specific and express powers as are delegated to them by the Board from time to time. Nomination of Other Board Members The Board has adopted the following Policy and Procedure for the Selection and (Re) Appointment of Directors. In determining candidates for the Board, the Board follows a prescribed process whereby it evaluates the mix of skills, experience, expertise and diversity of the existing Board. In particular, the Board considers the particular skills and diversity that will best increase the Board’s effectiveness. Consideration is also given to the balance of independent Directors. Potential candidates are identified and, if appropriate, are offered appointment to the Board. Any appointment made by the Board is subject to ratification by shareholders at the next Annual General Meeting. The Board recognises that Board renewal is critical to performance and the impact of Board tenure on succession planning. An election of Directors is held each year. Each Director must not hold office (without re-election) past the third Annual General Meeting of the Company following the Director’s appointment or three years following that Director’s last election or appointment (whichever is the longer). However, a Director appointed to fill a casual vacancy or as an addition to the Board must not hold office (without re-election) past the next Annual General Meeting of the Company. At each Annual General Meeting a minimum of one Director or one third of the total number of Directors must resign. A Director who retires at an Annual General Meeting is eligible for re-election at that meeting. Re-appointment of Directors is not automatic. Membership of the Board of Directors is reviewed on an on‑going basis by the Chairman of the Board to determine if additional core strengths are required to be added to the Board in light of the nature of the Company’s businesses and its objectives. Code of Conduct Directors, officers, employees and consultants to the Company are required to observe high standards of behaviour and business ethics in conducting business on behalf of the Company and they are required to maintain a reputation of integrity on the part of both the Company and themselves. The Company does not contract with or otherwise engage any person or party where it considers integrity may be compromised. Directors are required to disclose to the Board actual or potential conflicts of interest that may or might reasonably be thought to exist between the interests of the Director or the interests of any other party in so far as it affects the activities of the Company and to act in accordance with the Corporations Act if conflict cannot be removed or if it persists. That involves taking no part in the decision making process or discussions where that conflict does arise. Each Director and senior executive is required to advise the Chairman of the Board of any reports of unethical practices by any Director, executive or employee of the Company. The Chairman of the Board will investigate the matter and report back to the Board as a whole. Security Holder Communication Policy The Board seeks to inform security holders of all major developments affecting the Company by: - preparing half yearly and yearly financial reports and announcing these reports to the ASX; - preparing quarterly reports in accordance with the listing rules and announcing these reports to the ASX; - making announcement in accordance with the listing rules and the continuous disclosure obligations; - maintaining the Company’s website and hosting all of the above on the Company’s website; - annually, and more regularly if required, holding a general meeting of shareholders and forwarding to them the notice of meeting and proxy form; and - voluntarily releasing other information which it believes is in the interest of shareholders. The Company’s investor relations program is based on actively engaging with security holders at the Annual General Meeting, meeting with them upon request and responding to security holder enquiries from time to time. The Annual General Meeting enables shareholders to receive the reports and participate in the meeting by attendance or by written communication. The Board seeks to notify all shareholders so they can be fully informed annually for the voting on the appointment of Directors and so as to enable them to have discussion at the Annual General Meeting with the Directors and/or the auditor of the Company who is invited to the Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting is held each year at a convenient time and place and all security holders are encouraged to attend and participate. The Company’s website provides facilities for security holders to subscribe to email updates and thereby receive communications from the Company by email. Risk Management Policy The Board is conscious of the need to continually maintain systems of risk management and controls to manage all of the assets and affairs of the Company. The Company has established a policy for the oversight of material business risks and the management of material business risks. Risk management is a process of continuous improvement that is integrated into existing practices or business processes. The terms of these risk management policies are: - liaise with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate at each stage of the risk management process and concerning the process as a whole; - define the basic parameters within which risks must be managed and set the scope for the rest of the risk management process; - identify the risks to be managed; - identify and evaluate existing controls. Determine consequences and likelihood and hence the level of risk. This analysis should consider the range of potential consequences and how these could occur; - compare estimated levels of risk against pre-established criteria (utilising a risk matrix) and consider the balance between potential benefits and adverse outcomes. This enables decisions to be made about the extent and nature of treatments required and about priorities; - develop and implement specific cost-effective strategies and action plans for increasing potential benefits and reducing potential costs. Allocate responsibilities to those best placed to address the risk and agree on target date for action; - the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of sound risk management. In carrying out this responsibility, senior managers review the adequacy of internal controls to ensure that they are operating effectively and are appropriate for achieving corporate goals and objectives; - the Board is responsible for oversight and for providing corporate assurance on the adequacy of risk management procedures; and - managers at all levels are to create an environment where managing risk forms the basis of all activities.	https://gev.com/corpgov/
Vol. 16, Issue 22 (30 Jun. 2020), pp.363-378, 16 p. Publisher Université Hassiba Ben Bouali Laboratoire Mondialisation and Économies Nord Africaines Publication Date 2020-06-30 Country of Publication Algeria No. of Pages 16 Main Topic Earth Science , Water and Environment Topics Abstract EN It is currently difficult to ignore the negative impacts of industrial activities on the environment, including the pollution. In return, we cannot favor the protection of the environment versus the economic side of the business, because this threatens its ability to continue. In order to achieve a production model that protects the environment without compromising the sustainability of the business, decision-makers have adopted the cleanest production concept with its various technologies. This production method contributes to the reduction of pollution at the source instead of treating at the end of the pipe, These technologies also promote the efficient use of raw materials, water and energy. The application of some of the cleanest production technologies in the AQS Steel Complex in the Balara area has helped reduce environmental pollution in its various forms. This is due to the rational use of resources, which has helped reduce waste and increase environmental efficiency; the resulting waste has been treated efficiently by recycling part and selling another. The rest is dumped in private landfills, authorized by the state or sold to specialized bodies if it is hazardous wast American Psychological Association (APA) بوحبيلة، إلهام. 2020. دور تكنولوجيات الإنتاج الأنظف في حماية البيئة من التلوث : دراسة حالة الشركة الجزائرية القطرية للحديد و الصلب AQS. مجلة اقتصاديات شمال إفريقيا،مج. 16، ع. 22، ص ص. 363-378. https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-954352 Modern Language Association (MLA) بوحبيلة، إلهام. دور تكنولوجيات الإنتاج الأنظف في حماية البيئة من التلوث : دراسة حالة الشركة الجزائرية القطرية للحديد و الصلب AQS. مجلة اقتصاديات شمال إفريقيا مج. 16، ع. 22 (2020)، ص ص. 363-378. https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-954352 American Medical Association (AMA) بوحبيلة، إلهام. دور تكنولوجيات الإنتاج الأنظف في حماية البيئة من التلوث : دراسة حالة الشركة الجزائرية القطرية للحديد و الصلب AQS. مجلة اقتصاديات شمال إفريقيا. 2020. مج. 16، ع. 22، ص ص. 363-378.	https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-954352-%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%81-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AB-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3
About 20–30% of all cancers exhibit chromothripsis, a catastrophic genetic event in which sections of the chromosome effectively shatter into multiple pieces, but can’t reassemble correctly, resulting in missing, duplicated, or misaligned DNA sequences. Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) studying mouse models and human tumors now report on new insights into the mechanism that underpins chromothripsis, which implicates failure of the cell’s genetic repair system, and overexpression of the Myc oncogene. Chromothripsis and another type of genomic instability, chromoanasynthesis, are involved in many different tumor types and some congenital diseases. Research teams including the DKFZ scientists have previously identified chromothripsis in cancers such as aggressive childhood brain tumors, but the triggers for this kind of genomic chaos haven’t been understood. In their latest studies, Dr. Ernst’s team tested the effects of genetically switching off the homologous-recombination (HR) repair or non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) DNA repair mechanisms—the two major repair processes for DNA double-strand breaks in mammalian cells—specifically in neural precursor cells in mouse models. They found that the animals developed medulloblastoma and high-grade glioma brain tumors, which commonly exhibited chromothripsis. In the majority of cases, genomic chaos was accompanied by Myc oncogene amplification. “If the DNA repair is defective and Myc nevertheless stimulates the division of these damaged cells, the risk of chaos in the genome is particularly high,” Dr. Ernst comments. Their results indicated that Myc amplification wasn’t just consequential to DNA repair inactivation. “We showed in the mouse models that, even though Myc overexpression alone is not sufficient to induce catastrophic events, amplification of Myc and Mycn are linked with catastrophic events, and may not simply represent a consequence of these in all cases,” they write. The team also discovered significant Myc/Mycn amplification in human brain tumors with complex genome rearrangements. Further analyses again indicated that the correlation may be causal. “… this association is not merely due to a selective advantage provided by the oncogene as a consequence of the massive rearrangement, but may in some instances be related to a possible facilitation of catastrophic events by Myc or Mycn activation,” the authors write. The link between DNA repair defects and complex genome rearrangements was subsequently found in other cancer types, including melanoma. “Therefore, inactivation of HR and NHEJ factors is linked with complex genome rearrangements across various tumor entities,” they continue. “Altogether, our findings on the tight links between DNA repair deficiencies and catastrophic events and on synthetic lethality approaches bear the potential to identify targets for new therapeutic strategies for tumors with complex genomic rearrangements,” the authors conclude.	https://www.genengnews.com/news/genomic-chaos-insights-suggest-therapeutic-option-for-some-cancer/
Cultural Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed - Description: - Multiple TIFF and layer files pertaining to Cultural Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed Growth and development not only threaten lands of high value for water quality and habitat, but also cultural lands that directly connect many citizens in the Bay watershed to the land. Important in preserving heritage and traditional values, cultural lands often define sense of place. The objective of the cultural assessment is to identify lands that provide cultural assets and further inform preservation efforts with spatial information about cultural lands. This spatial information about cultural resources can provide an added value to land preservation because cultural lands provide a historic perspective for interpreting land and people's relationship with it. Additionally, the value of an historic or cultural site is often intrinsically tied to the landscape context in which it is located. MORE INFORMATION - - Creator: - Chesapeake Bay Program - Provider: - PASDA: The Pennsylvania Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - Resource Class: - Datasets - Theme: - Society and Inland waters - Temporal Coverage: - 2000 - Place: - - Access Rights: - Public - Format: - Files - Language:	https://geo.btaa.org/catalog/169a688a-571c-4942-b558-0ae3d263c122
Sports do more good for society than we realize, but none of it would be possible without the fans. I enjoy sports, but I’m not a die-hard fan. I am, however, a passionate fan of sports fans. As we roll into the busiest part of the sports calendar—a few months that typically include March Madness, baseball’s opening day, the Masters, the Indy 500, the Kentucky Derby, the NBA, and NHL playoffs, and, this year (knock on wood), the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games—it’s worth considering the role sports play in so many of our lives. That role has never felt so crucial as during the past year. The shutdown of live sports last March—at the same time that many of us found ourselves stuck at home, simultaneously bored and scared — showed how integral they are to our day-to-day existence. There may be more content to stream than ever, but sports are different. The uncertainty of their outcomes demands they be watched in real-time. Last spring fans found themselves starved. When the games returned, the ratings went through the roof. Major League Baseball’s opening day game on ESPN was MLB’s most-watched regular-season game in nine years, drawing 4.4 million viewers. Another winner was European soccer. Ratings for the first game aired in the U.S. were 564 percent higher than for the last before the shutdown. Plus the WNBA saw its average viewership for the entire season increase by 68 percent. In fact, spectator sports have a long track record of helping heal individuals and communities following traumatic events. After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urged baseball’s major leagues to carry on playing. The New Orleans Saints helped uplift their city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, culminating in their 2010 Super Bowl victory. The Boston Red Sox took center stage in the #BostonStrong campaign in response to the marathon bombing in 2013. More recently, I traveled to Las Vegas to interview survivors of the worst mass shooting in American history, the 2017 One October tragedy. When someone who has been shot at and is afraid to leave home tells you they got through it because of the city’s new NHL team, the Golden Knights, it makes an impact. When someone who was shot in the chest and nearly killed explains why they went to a hockey game the day after being released from the ICU, it makes an impact. Of course, at the present moment, most of us can’t actually go to the games. The question of whether fans will be able to attend the Tokyo Olympics—or whether the Games will even take place remains open. But even when we can’t pass through the turnstiles at Chicago’s Wrigley Field or Barcelona’s Camp Nou, spectator sports make a number of often unacknowledged positive impacts on the lives of those who follow them. Murray State University psychology professor Dr. Daniel Wann, considered the nation’s leading researcher of sports fan behavior, has spent three decades studying the specific mental health benefits of fandom. Everything from having higher self-esteem to feeling less tension. According to Wann, fans are significantly happier, achieve higher GPAs in college, and enjoy better jobs and more stable personal relationships than non-fans. Beyond these benefits, sports can make a positive political impact. Witness the awareness raised by NBA and WNBA players about the Black Lives Matter movement. After a uniquely challenging year, and with the future looking brighter yet still uncertain, we as individuals and as a society can use all the help we can get. As you tune into tonight’s game, take a moment to appreciate not only what sports give to fans but also what fans give to sports. While the focus is often aimed at what happens on the field, without the people watching in the stands and at home, none of the aforementioned societal impacts would be possible. Give yourselves a hand, sports fans.	https://www.hemispheresmag.com/people/why-im-rooting-for-sports-fans/
Hephthalite. Silver drachm imitatating Hormazd IV, with two countermarks. ca. 7th AD. The coin being imitated is a Sassanian drachm of Hormazd IV who ruled from AD 579-590. There are two Hephthalite countermarks. Mint : The mint mark does not make sense for an official Sassanid coin, but it appears to be an incorrectly written designation for BISH. This odd form of the mint mark is what suggests this is an imiatative type, rather than a countermarked official Sassanid coin. These coins were probably struck in Afghanistan. Date : Year-11 which would be AD 590 if this were an official Sassanid coin, but as this is an imitative coin it could be made any time for a century or so after that. These are generally said to be 7th to 8th century coins, but these are so close in style to the official Hormazd IV types that they cannot date much after the official coins. Size : 29.5 x 32.3 Weight : 3.62 grams. Grade : the base coin is good Fine / about Fine, the countermarks are both gVF. Obverse : Head of Hormazd VI right, with an inscription naming him around. Countermarks : The obverse is countermarked with a King's head. This same countermark is seen coin Hephthalite coins from Afghanistan that imitate coins of the Sassanid King Peroz (see Mithiner Ancient #1465 to 1480). The reverse has a countermark that appears to be a stylized version of the Hephthalite tribal name "ALChOON" which appears on many Hephthalite coins.	https://www.vcoins.com/cn/stores/calgary_coin/27/product/hephthalite_silver_drachm_imitatating_hormazd_iv_with_two_countermarks_ca_7th_ad/70642/Default.aspx
Credibility is a valuable tool to have in your public speaking toolbox. Especially if you’re aiming to give a persuasive speech, it is useful to have the facts on your side. This is why statistics in public speaking can elevate your speech to the next level. Look at the following two approaches: Ocean pollution should be something of prime concern for all of us. We are losing precious species that are going extinct every year. We should all look into what approach we can take to reduce it. Or. Each year, 8 million tons of plastic end up in our oceans. In fact, 80% of all marine debris is currently plastic. As you can imagine, this has devastating effects on marine life. As you can see, rather than merely talking about the adverse effects of pollution, statistics help you add a quantitative backing by showing impact. Table of Contents - Why you need to use statistics in your speech - How do you know which statistics to include? - Some Common Statistics Used in Speeches - How to insert statistics into your speech naturally? - How to amp up the impact of your statistics? - Explain your statistics - Wrapping up, Why you need to use statistics in your speech Are you still on the fence about whether to use statistics in your speech? Maybe you’re wondering if you might risk boring the audience while trying to add some credibility. This is precisely why we have below a handy list of benefits of using statistics in your speech: Credibility First of all, adding statistics displays that you have come prepared. It is that touch of subconscious audience work that ensures they are taking your words much more seriously. Citing reliable resources makes sure that your speech is informative. Audiences are much more likely to pay attention when they are getting something out of the speech. In this case, it could be knowledge or awareness. Pictures may speak a thousand words, but with facts, you can move an entire room by speaking volumes. Better Impact Facts are often associated with being plain cold numbers. However, that isn’t always the case. Numbers are actually an excellent way to incite an emotional response from your audience. People have become quite numb to people preaching about the need for change. But numbers help people face the reality of the situation and tend to have an overall better impact. Maintain Interest No matter how well you pad your content and add in body gestures as well as transitions, spoken word tends to get repetitive after a point. In order to make an impactful speech, you need to maintain your audience’s interest for much longer. You can do so by integrating statistics every now and then to pique interest. It will also give the audience a good reason to keep listening as they might want to know the cause behind an interesting statistic. Add Realism Many speakers begin to make public speaking about grandiose gestures while forgetting that it is actually about building a connection with the audience. Using facts in your speech can help your audience connect better to your message. How do you know which statistics to include? Nowadays, information is an abundant resource. It is easy to find statistics on nearly any topic you pick. As such, you might find yourself confused about which information to include and what to exclude. Don’t worry! We’ve compiled a list of questions to ask yourself when deciding whether or not a statistic should be included in your speech: Source Check As information becomes abundant, it also becomes diluted. There are several websites on both sides of any argument. This is where reliable sources come in. Besides, what data are you more likely to believe? Something off of a blog or a proper source from the organizations associated with your topic? Make sure you cite your sources so that your facts can make the impact you desire. Accuracy Using statistics can be a double-edged sword. They can make you gain but also lose credibility. If you’re not certain about the accuracy of a fact, you are better off not using it. It is not a good idea to get the audience questioning your research as it might hamper your main message as well. Impact When it comes to statistics, the main thing you aim for is impact. Think about what this number does for your audience. Is it meant to surprise them or aware of them? Is it meant to pique interest or a powerful note to end on? Deciding the purpose of the statistic can help you decide whether or not including it is beneficial to your speech. Alignment with Your Message At the end of the day, adding statistics to your speech should help your main message. There is no amount of credibility or accuracy that will sway the audience if this alignment is not well thought of. Even if the statistic is surprising or impactful, make sure you do not include it just for the sake of it. It should have a meaning, and only then will it be able to support your speech. Some Common Statistics Used in Speeches There are many forms in which statistics can be utilized. Some of the common uses of statistics in a speech format are as follows: - Findings from a survey or discussions of such research that include data value. - Comparison data that present disparity or similarity between benchmarking results. - Research papers and findings with meaningful charts and figures that outline significant variables. How to insert statistics into your speech naturally? Public speaking is an art form. There are all these invisible ropes that go into it. Sure, you can simply bark a number at the audience, but we’re here to learn how to make sure it makes the most impact. The important thing to remember is that the statistic needs to be backed up by context. For instance: the fact that Instagram has over 500 million daily users, you might assume that this is a big number. However, without context, there is no way to know. But what if I complimented it with the data that Snapchat, on the other hand, has about 238 million daily users. This information makes the statistic a lot more meaningful. So, how can you insert a statistic more meaningfully into a speech? - First and foremost, tie your statistic with a relatable comparison. - Use your story-telling skills to turn cold hard facts into a story that touches hearts. If you are giving a statistic of events or diseases that affect human life, saying one in every 1000 people can numb people out. But if you take one close example and humanize that statistic, people are likely to care much more. - Check your statistics regularly to make sure it is up to date. Similarly, you can show growth or decline through comparison with an earlier statistic. This can help your audience visualize the impact of a change. - Follow up your statistics with explanations on exactly what it means. Don’t feel like your audience will feel patronized. They are there to listen, so make full utilization of their time and attention. How to amp up the impact of your statistics? We’ve learned how to insert statistics into your speech, but the more important lesson is, how to make sure it lands? A mere fact does not add anything to your speech if it isn’t able to amaze your audience. - Create a build-up. Don’t just let them have the statistic as it will lose it’s shock value. Make sure to spin some intrigue. You can go with, “Get ready because I’m about to tell you a shocking fact that will change your mind about the soft drinks companies…” - Use pauses to your advantage and lets the audience teeter at the edge of their seats. - When giving out data, speak slowly and articulately so that your audience can follow along easily. Changing your pace will also signify the importance of your statistic. - Give your audience time to absorb your information by letting them simmer in it with a brief pause. - Use body gestures to your advantage. Utiliza your arms wide open to signify magnitude or your facial expressions to convey sadness or surprise. You can lead your audience in any direction based on your delivery. Explain your statistics - No matter how tempting to go for complex and multi-color coded charts, stick to simple. Your statistic is only as strong as how much your audience is able to grasp it. - Cite your sources. Whether the data is from a reputable peer-reviewed journal or a random blog about your topic will make a big difference to your credibility. So make sure to uphold it with good sources, and then, remember to flaunt them. - Plain data does not wow the general audience. So try to make your statistics as visually pleasing and easy to follow as possible. - When using charts and graphs, the key points might be clear to you, but your audience might not understand exactly where to look. So double-check your labels and highlight any significant sections of your graphs. Wrapping up, Credibility is a large portion of what makes our content stand out. People will remember an impactful speech more than a factually correct one. As such, no matter how important your statistic is, how you package it is arguably one step more important. Make sure you give your illustrations and correlations just as much practice time as your research. Remember that humans will remember how you made them feel much more than a number they will forget on their way home. So you need to weave a statistic just about the same way you’d weave a story.	https://publicspeakingresources.com/value-statistics-speech/
Daily pocket philosophy for our workshops We do not intend to create a school, but rather to fit up workshops in which you learn by practising. Professionals trained in the various subjects will oversee the activities. The core of the suggested activities should follow these 11 approaches : 1. Learn to be grateful to the materials we are going to use. They lend themselves to us to become works of art and craft through a dialogue, full of respect and awareness, between our hands and our hearts. 2. Have Nature as a model in order to learn the laws of Harmony and Beauty. 3. As far as possible contribute to silence in our workshops in order to increase our concentration, to respect your companions' concentration and to remain open to the subtle language of life in each one of us. 4. To strike a balance between individual and collective work ; for it is in our very core that we find our own riches and the way to grow and progress in our evolution. 5. To live in a spirit of service, to respect differences and to share, to look for what brings us together, gratefully and with love. 6. The major outcome of our work is to gradually discover our own unfoldment and inward peace. It is also the sale of our created works which will enable us to live on our activities, to keep our Centre going and then to enable us to helps those that need it most. 7. Our created objects will be made with natural materials and as much as possible with recuperated materials (wood off-cuts, stones, iron scrags, ceramics and so on) left over by society which more than often encourages squandering and overlooks the origin of the materials we use. 8. We wish to make headway by encouraging what is simple, useful, beautiful, realizable and easy to produce. 9. We are grateful to Nature for her welcome and her food. We have chosen using « permaculture » as an expression of our respect towards her and towards ourselves, too. 10. Gandhi used to say : «First make the change in yourself of that which you want to change in the world.». We are not claiming to change the world through our action, but we wish to contribute to it in a small way, improving ourselves step by step, letting also others do so. 11. « Honoring Life » it is loving her through the right action and through respect. It is in the act of sharing that everything assumes a shape in the heart of Love. What sets our hearts singing Gratitude The best of any life is yet to be lived, for it is always ahead of us. Life is nothing but a training, at times very hard, at time very sweet but it is always a game and a dream. When we know why we are here, there wells up in us a deep sense of gratitude towards life and the need to devote oneself, body and soul to the night action, so that this game and this dream should become a celebration. It is a new opportunity to walk together towards the ultimate goal of our realisation. Here we express our deep gratitude to all those who wish to take part with us in the realization of this project. Through the bridges and on the paths of love in action, we will contribute, in a small way, to a new present and a better future.	https://www.les-ponts-des-arts.com/en/petite-philosophie/
Over 130 organisations and experts globally have called on the South African Department of Trade and Industry to Fix the Patent Law in an open letter delivered this morning. You can find a PDF of the open letter here. The Fix the Patent Law campaign thanks all signatories for their support for improving access to medicines in South Africa! **Update as of 21st October; an additional group of organisations and experts since signed the letter bringing the total to over 140. You can see an updated version of the open letter here. — Civil society open letter to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) regarding the Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property (IP) of South Africa, 2013 This is a joint letter from academics, experts, civil society and advocacy organisations working on intellectual property issues to improve access to affordable medicines and advance global health. We are writing in support of a number of proposed reforms to South Africa’s intellectual property law as it relates to access to medicines, and to offer specific recommendations to further improve the recently published Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property (DNPIP), 2013 (Government Gazette Vol. 579 No. 36816). South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has expressed its intention that reform of the intellectual property system will balance patients’ rights with those of patent-holders. Given South Africa’s high burden for both communicable and non-communicable diseases, this is a positive step towards addressing the current imbalance in the system in a manner conducive to social and economic welfare, the protection of public health, and the transfer and dissemination of technology, especially in sectors of vital importance to socio-economic and technological development. The DNPIP proposes several reforms that would make use of pro-public health flexibilities allowable under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). Many other countries, including India and Argentina, have already incorporated TRIPS flexibilities into their national laws, and others, like Brazil, are initiating comparable pro-health patent law reforms. These countries and others have also implemented TRIPS-compliant flexibilities to procure more affordable medicines and to strengthen domestic pharmaceutical capacity. We think that intellectual property law reforms are essential for South Africa to meet its human rights obligations, including the right to health and the right of access to medicines. Below we outline several recommendations to ensure the proposed IP reforms will positively impact access to medicines by preventing excessive patenting and other barriers to generic entry in order to allow competitive price reductions on medicines and medical technologies (including diagnostic tools). Where valid patents do exist that price medicines out of reach, we provide recommendations for improving measures to mitigate this. Recommendations: 1. Patentable Subject Matter Exclusions and Patentability Criteria: Chapter 2 of the DNPIP notes that South African legislation should enact stricter criteria for granting a patent, and exclude from patentability “diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods…including new uses of known products.” We support these principles, but recommend that additional criteria also be put in place in South Africa, to exclude from patentability or to clarify lack of inventive step with respect to new forms of known medicines or their components (salts, polymorphs, esters and other derivatives), new dosages and formulations, and new combinations of known medicines or components. These exclusions from patentability or clarifications of inventive step are all compliant with Article 27.1 of TRIPS, and countries such as India, Argentina and the Philippines have already put such criteria in place. Strict subject matter exclusions and patentability criteria prevents originator pharmaceutical companies from obtaining multiple patents on the same drug—a practice known as “patent evergreening,” which keeps medicine prices high by preventing the entrance of generic competitors. Additionally, a high standard of innovation should incentivise investment in true innovations—new molecular entities and new classes of medicines. Given that the majority of the most important pipeline antiretrovirals are derivatives of known compounds, we believe that implementing stricter patentability criteria is critical in ensuring more affordable access. Both DNA and cDNA sequences should also be explicitly excluded from patentability, as they are products of nature—cDNA sequences in particular are relevant to developing therapeutic products. Adopting this exclusion is essential if South Africa is to develop a rich biotechnology/biosimilars sector. In addition the DNPIP must reject the introduction of utility model patents in South Africa in regard to pharmaceutical products, which grant exclusive rights to pharmaceutical companies for incremental changes to products, undermining innovation and blocking access to generic equivalents. 2. Patent Examination System: In order for subject matter exclusions and stricter patentability criteria to be applied effectively, it is essential that South Africa examines pharmaceutical patent applications to determine whether they meet these requirements. Chapter 1 of the DNPIP recommends the use of a substantive search and examination system to determine whether applications, especially in the pharmaceutical sector, are valid or not. We strongly support this system, as it would effectively prevent multiple patents being filed on minor variations to known compounds. However we note that in the long run this should be a single system, not approached in conjunction with the current depository registration system as suggested in the DNPIP. If a phased-in approach is deemed necessary, it is essential that pharmaceuticals be among the first product areas to be examined. The cost effectiveness of establishing a substantive patent examination system can be offset with filing, application and renewal fees that can meet the one time cost of upgrading infrastructure and the ongoing human resources needed to administer such a system as seen in the case of the Indian Patent Office which has consistently generated a revenue surplus since inception. 3. Pre- and Post-Grant Patent Opposition: Chapter 1 of the DNPIP notes that South Africa should provide for a pre- and post-grant opposition mechanism within national law to enable third parties to oppose weaker patents that fail to meet patentability standards. This is an important additional check to ensure that only true innovation is rewarded with patent protection. In India a third party (including generic manufacturers, researchers, civil society organisations, and other interested persons and entities) can oppose a patent while the application is pending, and for one year after it is granted. This is done by submitting evidence to the patents office detailing why the patent should not be granted. We support the implemention of an opposition procedure system in South Africa which would simplify the process for challenging patents and allow the patent office to benefit from the inputs of various stakeholders. In addition, we believe that South Africa should adopt an extended time-period for post-grant opposition with respect to pharmaceutical patents adopted during the non-examination period. South Africa has granted a much higher rate of pharmaceutical patents than other countries, including the United States and European countries. 4. Access to Patent Information: In addition, it is essential for South Africa to improve the transparency surrounding patent applications in order to support a patent opposition mechanism (as well as compulsory licensing provisions). All applicants must be required to disclose the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) of the pharmaceutical subject matter applied for, either at the time of filing or subsequent to it becoming available, to prevent applicants from obfuscating the subject matter being applied for. This practice is commonplace and increases the difficulty in identifying patents and patent applications that relate to a specific medicine. As well as complicating the opposition procedure, lack of clarity with respect to patents covering medicines also adds significant transaction costs for generic companies attempting to make a freedom to operate decision that will ultimately be borne by the procurer. In addition all patent and filing information must be made publicly accessible through a user-friendly mechanism. This is essential to ensure the success of a patent opposition mechanism that relies on third parties using this information to challenge weak patents. 5. Improved Access Flexibilities: Chapter 1 and 2 of the DNPIP acknowledges the need to modify existing legislation and regulations to address the difficulties in utilising both compulsory licensing and parallel importation measures which have resulted in neither provision being successfully used to date on a pharmaceutical product. We support these amendments and recommend additional criteria to support their effective use: i. Compulsory Licensing: Compulsory licenses must be authorised in cases where: medicine prices prohibit access, supply is inadequate to need, there is a need for multiple suppliers to avoid stock-outs and shortages, the patent holder has refused to grant a voluntary license on reasonable terms, the medicine is an “essential facility,” there is a need for a novel fixed dose combination medicine comprising ingredients patented by multiple rights holders, or the medicine is not being adequately worked in South Africa. In addition to these grounds, there should be specific allowance of compulsory licensing to remedy anti-competitive behaviour, as authorised by TRIPS Article 31(k), and a more general “public interest” ground for compulsory licenses. On top of this, South Africa should set up a simple, expeditious administrative procedure for hearing applications for compulsory licenses, clarify and regulate royalty rates and specify time periods for negotiations. The DNPIP must also clearly differentiate between compulsory licensing and public non-commercial use (or government use) and emergency or urgent need licenses, which do not require prior notification or negotiation with the patent holder (though notification and payment of adequate compensation is required after-the-fact) and can be used by governments to provide medicines in the public sector or be granted in the case of a public health emergency. ii. Parallel Importation: Legislation must be qualified by the principle of international exhaustion to allow for the importation of medicines into South Africa if the medicines have been placed on the market anywhere in the world by the patent owner, or by any party authorised to use the invention. Such amendments should allow the parallel importation of both branded and legitimately produced generic medicines, as in the case of Kenya and the Philippines. Moreover it is essential that South Africa revise its regulatory framework to rectify the overly narrow grounds for parallel importation and to streamline procedures so as to eliminate the need for a full registration procedure. 6. IP Enforcement: Chapter 9 of the DNPIP discusses the seizure of generic medicines by customs agents. We recommend that the difference between generic medicines, counterfeit medicines that misuse a properly registered trademark, and unregistered, unsafe, and substandard medicines that mislabel their ingredients or do not meet applicable safety, efficacy and quality standards be recognized and that these categories of medicine be treated differently and appropriately to help mitigate any improper seizures or destruction of generic drugs and to counteract counterfeit drugs and redress true threats to public health. 7. Competition Policy: Chapter 5 of the DNPIP discusses the relationship between IP and competition law. The DNPIP acknowledges that competition law may be used to counteract the potentially negative effects of patent protection on public health. Under TRIPS countries are able to regulate practices they consider to be anti-competitive, including—but not limited to—anti-competitive licensing practices. South Africa should explore greater regulation of voluntary licenses in the pharmaceutical sector to avoid this. Furthermore South Africa must make use of a range of remedies to address anti-competitive practices, including compulsory licensing. As TRIPS does not define anti-competitive practices, South Africa has significant flexibility to determine for itself what conduct in relation to exclusive rights in IP is to be considered anti-competitive for the purposes of the Competition Act. We strongly recommend that references to compulsory licensing as an exception to an exclusive right be removed from the text as compulsory licensing is an integral part of the principle of balance that lies at the heart of patent protection. 8. Patent Exceptions: South Africa must adopt into national law broader limited exceptions to patent rights for the purposes of commercial and non-commercial research and education. Such exceptions are fully authorised by TRIPS Article 30 and have been previously implemented by countries such as Brazil. 9. Data Exclusivity: Chapter 1 of the DNPIP refers to data exclusivity as a hindrance to generic competition, but we recommend that data exclusivity be removed completely from the text. TRIPS Article 39.3 refers to undisclosed test or other data that is submitted to governments for the purpose of obtaining marketing approval and that it takes considerable effort to originate, and requires protection against “unfair commercial use” of such data. This is distinguishable from data, marketing or regulatory exclusivity such as that granted in the United States and Europe, which prevents medicines regulatory authorities from referring to or relying on test data submitted by the rights holder (for a specified period of time) in order to register their generic equivalents. Data exclusivity serves no purpose other than to provide firms with de facto market exclusivity when they are unable to legitimately obtain a patent. It prevents generics from entering the market and allows firms to set monopoly pricing on medicines that do not meet patentability standards. TRIPS Article 39.3 does not require data exclusivity, which is now widely accepted as a TRIPS-plus measure that negatively impacts on access to medicines. Data exclusivity goes beyond data protection into the realm of pseudo-monopoly and should be avoided. We urge the Department of Trade and Industry to take on board our recommendations to improve the proposed reforms of the Draft National Policy on IP. Despite expected opposition from the US, EU and the pharmaceutical industry, these reforms must be rapidly adopted through the legislative process in order to enable improved access to quality and affordable medicines. By pursuing the reforms discussed in the DNPIP, South Africa is exercising its lawful right to use TRIPS-compliant flexibilities to fulfill its constitutional obligations and protect the right to health of its people. Yours sincerely, Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa SECTION27, South Africa Doctors Without Borders (MSF) South Africa Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF), South Africa AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), Southern Africa World AIDS Campaign, South Africa and Kenya Centre for Civil Society, University KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa HIV Clinicians Society, South Africa The Stop Stock Outs Project, South Africa Ndifuna Ukwazi (Dare to Know), South Africa People’s Health Movement, South Africa Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB), South Africa Oxfam, South Africa Pan-African Treatment Access Movement (PATAM), Africa The African Community Advisory Board (AFROCAB), Africa AIDS Law Project (ALP), Kenya National Empowerment Network of People living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya, Kenya Global Coalition of Women Against AIDS in Uganda, Uganda Positive-Generation, Cameroon Coalition 15%, Cameroon Treatment Access Watch, Cameroon Cameroon TB Group, Cameroon Ghana AIDS Treatment Access Group (GATAG), Ghana Omega Project Management Foundation, Ghana Lawyers Collective, India Delhi Network of People Living with HIV (DNP+), India Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (APN+) Positive Malaysian Treatment Access & Advocacy Group (MTAAG+), Malaysia East Europe & Central Asia Union of People Living With HIV The Latin America & Caribbean – Global Alliance for Access to Medicines RedLAM- Red Latinoamericana por el Acceso a Medicamentos, Latin America Health Action International – AIS Latin America and the Caribbean LACCASO – Latin American and the Caribbean Council of AIDS Organizations Health Action International – AIS Ecuador Health Action International – AIS Nicaragua Colombian Medical Federation, Colombia IFARMA Foundation, Colombia Misión Salud Veeduría Ciudadana, Colombia Health Action International – AIS Colombia Políticas Farmacéuticas, Chile Red Peruana Por Una Globalización Con Equidad RedGE, Peru Health Action International – AIS Peru GTPI/Rebrip (Working Group on Intellectual Property from the Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples) Working Group on Intellectual Property (GTPI) Brazil ABIA – Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association), Brazil Conectas Direitos Humanos (Conectas Human Rights), Brazil FENAFAR – Federação Nacional dos Farmacêuticos (National Federation of Pharmacists), Brazil GAPA/SP – Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS de São Paulo (Support Group for AIDS Prevention in São Paulo), Brazil GAPA/RS – Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção à AIDS do Rio Grande do Sul (Support Group for AIDS Prevention in Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil GESTOS – Soropositividade, Comunicação e Gênero (GESTOS – HIV+, Communication and Gender), Brazil GIV – Grupo de Incentivo à Vida (Incentive to Life Group), Brazil GrupoPela Vidda/SP (Group for Life in São Paulo), Brazil Grupo Pela Vidda/RJ (Group for Life in Rio de Janeiro), Brazil GRAB – Grupo de Resistência Asa Branca (Resistance Group Asa Branca), Brazil IDEC – Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (Brazilian Institute for Consumers Protection), Brazil RNP+/MA – Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Maranhão, Brazil Fundación GEP, Argentina Red Argentina de Personas Positivas (REDAR Positiva), Argentina GEP Foundation, Argentina Bolivian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (REDBOL), Bolivia Health Action International – AIS Bolivia Caribbean-International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) – LATCA, Guatemala MSF Access Campaign, International Third World Network, International Restless Development, International Knowledge Ecology International People’s Health Movement, Global Health Action International Global Open Society Foundations Public Health Program, USA Health GAP (Global Access Project), USA, Uganda, Kenya African Services Committee, USA Treatment Action Group (TAG), USA American Medical Students Association (AMSA), USA Act-Up Philadelphia, USA Progressive Intellectual Property Institute, Cleveland, USA I-MAK – Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge, USA Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), USA Public Citizen, USA Health Action International, Europe HIV i-Base, UK STOP AIDS, UK Student Stop AIDS Campaign, UK FoTAC (Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign), UK Health Poverty Action, UK Solthis – Solidarité Thérapeutique et Initiatives contre le SIDA, France Act-Up Paris, France Coalition Plus, France Farmamundi, Spain Act Up-Basel, Switzerland Action against AIDS Germany Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), Norway All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH, Ukraine Academics/Experts Catriona Towriss, Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Professor Brook K. Baker, School of Law, Northeastern University, US & Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Professor Yousuf Vawda, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa David. K Levine, EUI and WUSTL, USA Matthew Kavanagh, University of Pennsylvania, USA Eduard Grebe, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa Rory Horner, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK Ellen ‘t Hoen, LLM, The Netherlands Israel Osanmoh. GcIB, MIB, Founder, BIKON-PEE Trans – Continentals Foundation, Australia David Kwesi Afreh, Omega Project Management Foundation, Ghana Lonias Ndlovu, Senior Lecturer, University of Zululand, South Africa Chikosa Banda, University of Malawi: Chancellor College, Malawi Matthew Flynn, Georgia Southern University, USA Dr Phoebe Li, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex, UK Peter Drahos, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Australia A/ Prof Caroline B Ncube, University of Cape Town, South Africa Suerie Moon, Harvard University, USA Professor Joan Rovira, Department of Economics, University of Barcelona, Spain Juan Carlos Tealdi, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Patrick Bond (Senior Professor), School of Built Environment & Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Tebello Thabane, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Holly Cheng, RN, University of South Florida, USA Professor Michael Davis, member US Patent Bar, Cleveland State University, USA Michelle Childs, UK/Brazil Sharon Ekambaram, Head of Dr Neil Aggett Unit, MSF, South Africa Marlise Richter, International Centre for Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University, Belgium & School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa Zackie Achmat, South Africa Ujjwal Kumar, Formerly National Consultant (Trade & Health), MOHFW, Government of India, India Srividhya Ragavan, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law, USA Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga, Bolivia Ian Proudfoot, MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit Tom Ellman, MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit Eric Goemaere, MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit Emmanual Fajardo, MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit Mwenya Mubanga, MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit Andrew Mews, Head of Mission, MSF South Africa and Lesotho Gilles Van Cutsem, Medical Coordinator, MSF South Africa and Lesotho Els Torreele, OSF, USA See http://www.i-mak.org/roadmap/. See e.g. Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics from the most recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court.	https://www.fixthepatentlaws.org/over-130-international-organisations-experts-demand-patent-law-reform-in-south-africa/
Nonviolent Communication — dancing our way to empathic connection We live in a time of divisiveness. We find ourselves at odds with loved ones, family members, friends, business associates, clerks and shopkeepers, and other people we encounter in person and online. We witness divisiveness on the TV news and read about it in publications, both in print and online. Divisiveness permeates our culture, but more importantly, it permeates our language. We blame, complain, indict and criticize others or watch other people do these things. Sometimes, others target us with their pain or anger. The assaults may be verbal, physical, economic or social. As a result, most of us suffer from intellectual and emotional overload. We’re stressed out and we’re exhausted. The reason the upheaval in our culture stresses and exhausts us is that we lack effective tools for dealing with our personal reactivity to it. Indeed, one reason that we, as a society, cannot find solutions to the conflicts in the world is that we cannot deal with what’s going on inside each of us. We function in a constant state of arousal. Our fight-or-flight mechanism turns on whenever we engage with someone who disagrees with us, or even when we hear about some conflict that does not directly involve us. We need tools that allow us to navigate these turbulent times. Tools exist, but most of us don’t know about them or have not learned to use them. Let’s change that, now. One of the effective tools we can use to help us learn to deal with our stuff, with our reactions to things that trigger us, is Nonviolent Communication (NVC). NVC teaches us to give ourselves empathy, to empathize with others, to speak kindly and candidly, and to connect effectively with others. NVC Dance I’ve written previously about NVC. Now, I want to describe a process known as NVC Dance. NVC Dance helps us grasp the principles of Nonviolent Communication quickly and thoroughly by making the process tangible, while simultaneously guiding us through the steps of recognizing where we get hung up, empathizing with ourselves and others, identifying our needs and the needs of others, and finally, developing effective strategies to meet everyone’s needs. Bridget Belgrave and Gina Lawrie created NVC Dance as a way to speed people’s understanding of Nonviolent Communication and to facilitate the process of transforming fight-or-flight reactivity into effective strategies for dealing with things that trigger us. They have created nine dance “floors,” patterns for managing specific types of reaction. I’ll describe the most basic “floor” here. It provides what almost anyone needs to “dance” their way out of their stress and change the dynamics of challenging situations. We create a dance floor by printing the names of the five steps on sheets of paper (I’ve laminated mine with easily-applied, self-adhesive lamination pouches so I can use them again and again) and lay these “cards” on the floor. I used to lay the cards in a straight line, but I’ve become freer and now place them randomly because I’ve found that random placement helps me flow through the process more easily than a linear pattern does. When the pattern is linear, there’s a tendency to try to conform to the pattern and feel that one makes progress, then regresses, which interferes with spontaneity and creates disappointment. This point will become clear when you actually do an NVC dance. The Five Basic NVC Dance Steps: Sankalpa: A short statement of your intention or resolve for the exercise. Blaming, Complaining, Indicting, Judging — It’s all about the other person. Observations — Make objective statements about your situation. Feelings — List all the feelings that comprise your reaction to this situation. Needs — List what you need now, in order to resolve this situation. Strategies and Requests to make right now —Start the process of transformation by doing this now. When doing an NVC dance, having a partner can be helpful. All the partner need do is ask, “Where are you now?” or “What dance step are you doing now?” whenever the partner feels that you’ve changed from one step to another but you haven’t recognized that yet. Sankalpa — Resolve or Intention We start at the side of the dance floor, from where we can observe the all steps, and offer a sankalpa, a “resolve” or intention for our exercise. Express your sankalpa (resolve) positively. Say what you want, not what you don’t want. We might say something like, “I want to move into a happier space (relationship) with my sister,” or “I want to feel the passion I used to feel.” If we experience a problem where we work, we might say, “I want a harmonious relationship with my boss (or co-worker).” Take a moment to feel the deep sentiment of your positive desire. Blaming, Complaining, Indicting, Judging When we feel ready to begin, we step onto the dance floor and state what challenges us at this time. We might say something like: “My spouse is being a jerk” or “My boss thinks I’m lazy.” Generally, people start by telling the story of their suffering. This puts them at the “Blaming, Complaining, Indicting, Judging” step of the NVC dance. When we see ourselves doing this, or our partner points that out, we step to that card. Notice that blaming, complaining, indicting (accusing) and judging (condemning) express violence towards another person, or against a part of oneself. “That was awful” expresses both our complaint and our judgment, whether we say it to someone else, or to ourselves. If we continue with “You haven’t practiced enough,” we blame and make an indictment (accusation) about the target of our violent message. Most of us blame and complain throughout our day. The weather is “bad,” our morning coffee “isn’t hot enough,” on our way to work the traffic is “terrible,” while at work my boss is “nuts,” “there’s not enough time” for lunch, the afternoon “drags on,” the ride home is “too long”, the evening news is “awful” and at bedtime, I’m “dead” tired. We also indict (accuse) or criticize (judge): “I’m an idiot,” “my coworkers suck,” “my boss is a jerk,” “people don’t know how to drive” and “all politicians are crooks.” There’s a constant violent chatter inside our heads. This emerges as we tell our story of suffering, so we place ourselves by the “Blaming, Complaining, Indicting, Judging” card and stay there until we change our story into an objective description of our situation. Observations In order to step to the “Observations” card, we have to change our way of describing our experience. We must stop telling the story of our suffering and produce a more objective statement about what is happening to us. We might say: “My spouse wants me to stay home with him/her but I want to have an evening with my guy/gal friends” or “My boss told me that my productivity was below his expectations.” These statements provide more objective descriptions — unbiased observations — of what actually transpired. In the first example, we reflect that the spouse expressed a desire that we stay home. In the second example, we reflect that the boss criticized our productivity because it did not meet his expectations. When we speak nonviolently, we try to tell our story as objectively as possible, without using words that convey blaming, complaining, indicting (accusations) or judging (using words that convey guilt or lessor merit such as “you screwed up,” “moron,” “ugly,” “bad,” etc.). Changing our story from reactivity to objectivity creates space in our awareness between our self, the witness of our experience, and our reactivity, our thoughts and feelings about a situation. Most of us get caught up in and overshadowed by our experience when triggered by specific situations. Personally, I like the vision of opening a space between oneself and one’s experience, which happens to be one of the first goals of mindfulness practice and a natural consequence of practice of the Transcendental Meditation® program. It conveys the idea that we are not our experience. We are the experiencer (witness) of our experience. Making this distinction opens a door to the possibility of changing how we react to situations. Changing our story, making it an objective statement, also creates clarity. Clarity is another valuable result of using NVC. When you remove the words that express your reactivity to a situation, you gain clarity. When you become clear about a situation, finding your needs becomes much easier. Clarity also helps open you to finding what others need, and hence to solutions that meet everyone’s needs. Feelings Once we have succeeded in making objective statements about our experience, we might list the feelings that comprise our experience. Most of us label our feelings as “good” and “bad” feelings, but “good” and “bad” are judgment words. If we avoid using them and instead use labels like “pleasurable” and “unpleasant,” we leave ourselves with just a list of feelings that we associate with specific situations. When we express our feelings objectively, for example, when we say “When my spouse asks me to stay home with him/her when I’ve planned an evening with my buds, I feel frustrated and resentful,” or, in the second example, “When my boss says my productivity is below his expectations, I feel frightened that I’ll be replaced by someone more competent,” it’s time to move to the “Feelings” card on the dance floor. Even at this “feeling” stage of the NVC Dance, you can begin to reprogram your thinking, your reactivity to experience. In the first example, how does it feel to you to say, “When my spouse asks me to say home with him/her when I’ve planned an evening with my buds, I realize that my spouse has needs that he/she is trying to satisfy”? In the second example, try saying, “When my boss says my productivity is below his expectations, I understand that he has goals and expectations that I cannot meet. Therefore, we need to talk about how realistic those goals and expectations are.” Try right now to reframe a situation you currently experience. Just describe your experience briefly, reflect on it and try reframing your description in objective terms. Does this new way of describing your situation change your feeling about yourself? Does it open doors to further, productive conversation? Needs Identifying our feelings is not the end of the dance. Underlying our feelings and motivating them are human needs. Our society generally does not teach us to recognize these needs. They often, and for some, usually remain hidden. Our needs produce feelings in a manner analogous to the way the ocean floor produces waves on the surface of the ocean. Just as the floor of the ocean creates waves that crash onto the beach, needs motive the feelings that crash onto our conscious experience. The list of universal human needs is very long. To make the list manageable, we group these needs into categories. Physical sustenance and security comprise the most basic of our needs. Physical sustenance includes air, food, water, shelter, rest and activity. Security includes physical and emotional safety, stable social structure, and peace of mind. Next on our list of needs comes connection. We need to feel connected with others. This requires trust, attention, affection, intimacy and nurturing support. We need to feel that we have a place in society, that we are known, understood, accepted, appreciated, respected, and trusted. Connection, the feeling that one is part of and in communication with a family and a community, leads to meaning, the sense that our life has purpose, that we belong and that we matter. We need to be included, to participate and to share in the experience of our family and our community. Furthermore, we need to matter, to have a meaningful role, a purpose, and to make a contribution. In order to accomplish this, to play our part, we need a clear sense of who we are, both in the deepest transcendental sense and in the sense of being a person with specific characteristics and capabilities. We also need to understand what our talents are, how our creativity operates, and what we are capable of learning and doing. We need to recognize our faith, our hope, and our inspiration, and we need to know that we are alive, present and beautiful. To manifest all these qualities and to meet all these needs, we need freedom. We need freedom to choose. We need individual autonomy and the power, the space and the opportunity to be responsible for our lives, to use our talents and skills, and to support the lives of our family members and of those around us. Finally, we need freedom to enjoy our lives, to play, to give and receive pleasure, and to have fun. As our story unfolds on the NVC dance floor, we find that we uncover the needs that motivate our feelings. When this happens, we move to the Needs card on the floor and stay there until we realize that we have shifted, either back in complaining, making objective statements, expressing feelings or to the last step, developing strategies. When we find that our statements have shifted, we move to the appropriate card. When we have clarity about our situation, our feeling and our needs, we can move on to developing strategies to meet those needs. Because our needs often remain hidden under our feelings, which may also go unrecognized, our strategies to meet those needs may fail to fulfill our needs and even may produce painful consequences. Psychologist Marshall Rosenberg, who formalized Nonviolent Communication, described those ineffective attempts to meet needs as “tragic expression of unmet needs.” Again and again, people do things in an effort to meet their needs that produce pain in others and themselves while not really satisfying their unmet and generally unrecognized needs. For example, we may act aggressively because our need for safety or appreciation has not been met. We may bully others because our own need for power and autonomy remains unfulfilled. We may speak sarcastically because our ability to experience joy, humor and to have fun is blocked by our karmic shadows. This brings us to the core of NVC. After physical sustenance and security, our most basic need is for connection — connection with ourselves and with others. To have connection, we must have empathy, the sense of knowing, accepting and appreciating oneself and others. The key to having empathy is developing the ability to sense the needs motivating ourselves and others. This requires that we see the pain of unmet needs that finds expression in behaviors that are either self-destructive or that hurt others. I’ll not discuss here the reasons needs go unfulfilled and unsatisfied. It often isn’t necessary to uncover those reasons. Just recognizing one’s needs and finding effective strategies to meet those needs generally is sufficient to change one’s life. Recognition of needs lays a basis for empathy and creates clarity. Empathy creates connection and clarity opens the door to discovery of effective strategies to meet those needs. The immense value of NVC lies in its ability to increase our capacity to make ourselves happy and satisfied by fulfilling our need to connect with ourselves and with others. Strategies or Requests to make right now The dance is not yet complete. We’ve come a long way when we’ve developed the ability to recognize needs, and to establish empathy and connection. However, we still have to develop effective strategies and know when to use them. Most people, in their reaction to a situation, jump from Step #1 (Blaming, Complaining, Indicting and Judging) to Step #5 (Strategies or Requests to make right now). That is, we make an immediate response, one that rarely gets us what we want and need. However, when we walk through the dance and complete the first four steps, we get ready to take action. We get prepared to say or do something that will be heard and respected. People who feel empathic connection, who feel that their feelings and needs are being heard and respected, open themselves to hearing what others need. They work towards mutual understanding and mutual fulfillment of needs and desires. They find solutions that meet everyone’s needs, so everyone comes away feeling satisfied. Often, our strategy to meet our needs will be presented in the form of a request. Making requests that others will accept is something of an art. NVC guides us to use words that feel safe, kind and respectful. Let’s go back to our two examples. In the first example, we established that both parties have needs — you want to have time with your buds and your spouse wants time with you. Your first request might be, “Is there some way that we can work it out so that both of us get our needs met?” That’s a request for dialogue towards resolution. It opens the door to finding a mutually satisfactory solution. That solution might be an agreement that you spend time with your spouse either before or after you spend time with your buds. Your second request might be more specific, and also come in the form of a question, “Would you be content if I spend time with my buds tonight, and you and I spend time together tomorrow evening?” This is a request for acceptance. It is extremely important that a request not be a demand. That is, you have to be willing to accept “no” in response to your request. Many times, people ask something of others with the expectation that the other person will respond positively. That’s a demand. If your spouse asks you to take out the trash, is it really okay to say, “I’m busy. I’ll do it tomorrow.”? Your rejection of the request will land you in the doghouse. The reason your spouse will get angry is that it really wasn’t a request. It was a demand; your spouse expected immediate compliance and got angry when you didn’t comply. Your NVC request must express sincerely your desire to have a need met without you begging or pleading. Begging or pleading plays on another’s need to be compassionate and makes it seem like you are trying to manipulate them into doing something they really aren’t inclined to do. It is, therefore, the same as making a demand. It means you are trying to get something without simultaneously meeting another’s needs, and it’s just as unlikely to get your needs met as a demand is. Another important point about making requests is that they be doable in a timely way. When we request something using NVC, it must be something the other person can do now, or very soon. In our first example, your spouse has a need for attention and has asked that that need be met very soon, which does not mean three days from now. It’s something you can do, soon. If you use NVC, your response to your spouse’s request reflects that. In our example, you propose planning times to be with your buds and with your spouse within a time frame that satisfies both your needs. If your spouse feels heard and respected, then she just might be willing to wait until tomorrow to spend time with you. Continuing with our example, if, when you offer a mutually satisfying solution, you get a hostile response, start with an observation such as, “You don’t seem pleased with my suggestion,” which you offer as a way of continuing the conversation. Continuing right away with a direct question about what a person needs may be taken as aggressive. Your spouse likely needs respect and consideration, in other words, to feel that you have heard, respect and consider your spouse’s needs. You could suggest that finding a mutually satisfying solution will leave both of you feeling heard and respected, and continue the dialogue, offering feedback whenever it seems appropriate to confirm your understanding of what your spouse is trying to convey. This is called “reflective listening.” Reflective listening means expressing to those with whom you dialogue your understanding of what they are saying. Reflective listening helps the person with whom you dialogue to feel heard. Only when your spouse feels heard and seems receptive, should you ask your spouse what needs aren’t being met. Don’t mention your own needs until your spouse feels that you have understood their needs. In our example, your spouse will probably make a suggestion for scheduling time together as soon as your spouse feels heard, accepted and respected. We’ve been talking about making requests of other people, but we can also make requests of ourselves. Instead of making negative commands to yourself such as “Don’t eat so much” and “Stop wasting time!” we can say to ourselves, “Please take only as much food as you actually need” and “Please use the time available effectively.” Treating ourselves kindly in this way produces the same results as treating someone else kindly. Not only do we become our own friend, we come to see ourselves as someone of value, someone worth knowing. This attitude finds expression in our speech and behavior towards others, who then reflect it back to us, making our relationships even richer. Self-empathy and requests-to-oneself work together to transform our inner dialogue from one of hostility and violence to one of friendship, peace and support. As we master speaking to ourselves nonviolently, we cease being our own critic, our own worst enemy. As our inner critic fades away, our spontaneity and creativity shine forth. Life just gets more and more enjoyable. One final point about NVC requests: NVC requests must be for someone to do something, not to not-do something. “Please stop yelling” sounds like a request, but it actually is a demand and it asks for the absence (cessation) of something rather than the doing of something. In NVC, we might say, “If you need to yell, please respect my need for peace and quiet, and go outside to do that.” Of course, you have to be prepared for the person to whom you make the request to either not do it or to propose an alternative solution that better meets their needs too. A request is still part of a dialogue. You may still have to negotiate a strategy that meets everyone’s needs. Realistically, sometimes not all needs will be met. However, that doesn’t mean that you have failed. Even if you agree to disagree, you still have your connection, your delicious relationship. Connection generally proves to be more valuable than, say, peace and quiet. You may find that you can live with your connection and accept that some less essential need does not get satisfied. NVC and Social Attitudes By now, I trust that you realize that the NVC approach differs significantly from the common (almost universal?) “give-and-take” view of life. Some would use the even more extreme and violent phrase “dog-eat-dog world” to describe their attitude toward life. Give-and-take and dog-eat-dog imply that someone gets more and someone gets less, which generally leaves someone dissatisfied and unhappy. NVC seeks to create balance in relationships by creating connection and seeking strategies that meet everyone’s needs. Of course, not everyone believes in social equality; not everyone is committed to the ideal of an egalitarian society. Racism and xenophobia (fear of those we see as different from ourselves) abound and seem to be resurgent at this time. NVC provides a compelling explanation for this resurgence. Expressing racist and xenophobic attitudes has been “politically incorrect” for some decades. This means that many people have suppressed the public expression of their feelings about “others.” These people have not been engaged in an ongoing dialogue about inclusion and equality. They feel alienated, marginalized. Feelings have built up about that, strong feelings that now find expression in our political discourse. From the NVC perspective, ongoing nonviolent dialogue on social issues provides a path to creating an inclusive society. NVC takes us from the surface level of consideration of social issues, such as racism, to the needs that underlie and motivate our social (and racist) attitudes. The dialogue may proceed slowly due to the enormous fear, the intense self-righteousness and the strident religious morality that motivates racism and xenophobia. These factors cause racists to cry aloud about cultural suicide and to refuse to consider the merits of an inclusive society. Their fear, egotism and moral percepts make racists unreceptive to strategies that build connection. These people need to be heard before any conversation about accepting differences can begin. Toward that end, I advocate listening — be prepared to spend a lot of time listening — and occasionally asking something like, “What is it about that that bothers you?” I love this question. It’s from the Option Method but serves us well in nonviolent dialogue. This question takes the conversation deeper. Asking repeatedly and listening reflectively moves the discussion to progressively deeper levels until core needs are revealed. Reflective listening gives others the opportunity to clarify their thinking, which in itself often brings people to see the fallacies in their logic that arguing points of logic will not. For example, pointing out the inconsistency of accusing people of color of destroying your culture while simultaneously being friends with a Black or Hispanic coworker isn’t likely to move the conversation forward. However, if you can take the discussion to the person’s needs, they just may recognize on their own that their blanket statements about persons of color just don’t make any sense. Though NVC dialogue may take a long time, the outcome — empathic connection – is well worth the investment. It also takes time and lots of practice to learn to speak without violence. Practicing NVC challenges us to recognize and break old habits of thinking and speaking with violence. I suggest using the NVC Dance as a way to recognize violence in your speech and to practice nonviolent speech. The violence will show up in the “blaming, complaining, indicting, judging step (Step #2 in the list below). You’ll find it by listening to your own story as you tell it. The nonviolent speech will show up in the Observations step and in the Strategies step. Another valuable exercise for learning to speak nonviolence is to look at things you’ve written — letters, email messages, etc. — and strike out all words that blame, complain, indict (accuse) or criticize (judge). The goal of this exercise is to reduce your message to a statement of facts without any judgment or even emotional reaction. This may be a very illuminating experience because you may find that you delete most of the modifiers that you commonly use, leaving you with a much shorter, clearer and objective message. Doing the NVC Dance Before you step onto the “dance floor,” stand at the side of the floor and make a short statement of your intention for the exercise. This sankalpa or resolve is the Attention Step, which doesn’t have a number because we do it before we start an NVC dance. Having stated your intention, step onto the dance floor. Begin telling the story of your situation. Listen as you speak and assess what kind of statement you are making. Stand on or beside the card that names the kind of speech you are using. If you are blaming, complaining, indicting or judging, stand by that card. Then try to make objective statements about your situation. As you do this, move to the Observations card. If you find that you are naming or describing your feelings, move to that card. If you start clarifying your feelings and your story, move to the Observations card. At some point, usually when you have clarified the story of your situation and described your feelings objectively, you begin to recognize and express your needs. When that happens, move to the Needs card. When you have the complete picture of your situation, when you recognize your feelings and have identified your needs, you are ready to develop a strategy to meet your needs. Move to the last card and either make a request of yourself right then, or plan what you will do to meet your needs and the needs of others who are part of your situation. You will find that you move around the dance floor as you go through the exercise. It’s unlikely to be linear from Step #1 to Step #5. Most people start at Step #1, jump to #3 (Feelings) or #5 (Strategies and Requests), then jump around for a while before getting to Step #2 (Observations). The dance may be quite erratic before one finds an objective description and well-defined feelings and needs. Only when you have gained clarity about your situation, your feelings and your needs are you ready to move to #5 (Strategies and Requests), so don’t rush to get there. Explore your situation thoroughly and you’ll arrive at strategies that truly can meet your needs, and the needs of those involved in your situation. You can print these words on sheets of paper and use them to help you learn where you are in the NVC Dance as you describe your experience of a challenging situation. Simply stand on or next to the card that labels the nature of what you are saying as you tell your story. Practice, practice, practice! Changing the way we think takes time. Be patient with yourself as you learn to recognize the violence in your thinking and speaking. Accept the fact that at times you slip back into using words and phrases that express violence (blaming, complaining, indicting and judging). When this happens, pause and give yourself empathy, then, empathize with others. Consider how you could seek to meet your needs nonviolently. Listen for the needs that others express, particularly the needs hidden in expressions of pain and fear that emerge as anger, hostility, bullying and other forms of aggression. You’ll find that as you get consistent at hearing the pain and fear of others, you will become less reactive and clearer about your needs in every situation. You’ll be able to connect with people as never before and you’ll find solutions with others that meet everyone’s needs. There is enormous gratification and fulfillment in this. If we step back to see a larger picture, we can easily imagine the value of Nonviolent Communication becoming a cultural norm. This isn’t far-fetched. NVC is the norm in many indigenous cultures around the world, including some Native American cultures even to this day. NVC supports democracy by encouraging and enabling people to accept and meet the needs of everyone, which is remarkably egalitarian. The Founding Fathers of the United States of America inscribed democracy and NVC principles in the U.S. Constitution, principles that Benjamin Franklin got from some Iroquois Indians. Some people see these nonviolent, fundamental principles of our democracy threatened by capitalist greed and competitiveness. They seek to enliven these democratic values in our society. Some even see these as fundamental Christian values and point to the Golden Rule as a basic tenant of Christianity, and of our democracy. Therefore, we have reason to hope that we can create a more peaceful, egalitarian society by enlivening these fundamental values of our society and by learning to speak nonviolently. Best wishes in your quest for a nonviolent life. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions or need help with your dance.	https://www.partnershipforwellbeing.com/single-post/2016/12/28/nonviolent-communication-dancing-our-way-to-empathic-connection
Home › Forums › Motherhood › Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky – audiobook download · 9780521674935 - This topic is empty. - AuthorPosts - Anna AmeenGuest Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky 🔍 Language and Mind — Read More 🔍 - Language: english - ISBN: 9780521674935 (052167493X) - Release date: December 1, 2006 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press - Author: Noam Chomsky - Genres: philosophy, linguistics, language, psychology, science, essays, classics, education, politics - Format: paperback, 190 pages About The Book This is the third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky’s influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky’s early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the ‘biolinguistic’ approach that has guided Chomsky’s work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind. Hardback Language and Mind on Audible. MOBI ebook Language and Mind Noam Chomsky download on reader. Hardcover book Language and Mind buy cheap. TXT ebook Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky read online iOS on Booktopia. PDF book Language and Mind by Noam Chomsky on Walmart. MP3 Language and Mind read for Mac.	http://www.designingmoms.com/forums/topic/language-and-mind-by-noam-chomsky-audiobook-download-%C2%B7-9780521674935/
Description: Mysterious and ethereal coyotes howl, yip, and bark across the lonely deserts and plains of Oregon. These authentic sounds were captured in wild areas and speak to the soul of America's Wild West. \| \| Social Media Link: https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/archive/Mammals/Coyotes/Coyotes-Loud-Family-of-Wild-Coyotes-Calls-after-a-Kill-in-the-Oregon-Desert-with-Crickets/877987 \| \| Artist or Group: Tyler Hulett \|\| \| \| Keywords: coyote coyotes canine wolf yip howl bark yelp scream call communicate night nighttime dark mystery eerie scary otherworldly western north america usa desert great basin high desert wilderness prairie lone lonely wildness authenticity simple simplicity \| \| Sound Category > Subcategory \| Mammal Sound Effects Canines \| coyote sound effects \| Extended Properties \| Duration: 2:09 Tempo: Med Fast BPM: 148 \| Arrangement: \| Instruments: Vocal Mix: Instrumental Language:	https://www.audiosparx.com/sa/summary/play.cfm/crumb.2/crumc.0/sound_iid.877987
Although I eat bananas quite a lot, somehow every time we buy bananas on hot summer days – within a few days they begin to show signs of distress and leave me no choice but to bake something out of them because they are too soft to eat. These banana oatmeal cookies are perfect for using “tired” bananas, especially if you want to change a little and not make banana bread again (although it is one of the best cakes there are). They are soft and chewy in texture, with a delicate taste of cinnamon and brown sugar and lots of oatmeal. If you prefer, you can add all kinds of additions such as chocolate chips, chopped nuts or raisins, but the truth is that I like them just the way they are – simple, soft and a great snack or a sweet breakfast. Banana Oatmeal Cookies Based on this recipe with my changes and adjustments. Servings 40 cookies Ingredients For the cookies: - 150 grams very soft butter - 240 grams (1 cup) dark brown sugar - Pinch of salt - 1 tsp. vanilla extract - 1 tsp. ground cinnamon - 1 large egg - 200 grams (2 large units) ripe bananas, mashed - 250 grams (1 3/4 cup) all-purpose flour - 1 tsp. baking soda - 20 grams (2 tbsp.) cornstarch - 250 grams (2 1/2 cups) oatmeal Instructions - Preheat the oven to 180c and line a baking pan with baking paper. - In a mixer bowl with a paddle attachment, whip butter, sugar, salt, vanilla and cinnamon at high speed until a uniform, soft and creamy mixture is obtained. - Add bananas and mix until they are assimilated in the mixture. - Add the egg and continue to blend until incorporated. - Add flour, baking soda, cornstarch and oatmeal, and continue to blend only until large chunks of dough are formed. - With 2 teaspoons or an ice cream scoop, create small balls of dough and arrange in increments on the pan. - Flatten the cookies a bit with your hands to get about 1-2 cm thick discs. - Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden. - Cool completely and serve. Recipe Notes - On cold days you can keep the cookies in a sealed jar at room temperature for up to 3 days. - In the summer, it is recommended to store them in a sealed container in the refrigerator. If you do not like cinnamon, you can omit it.	https://www.lilcookie.com/banana-oatmeal-cookies/
This secretly vegan Biscoff cake is the best of both Speculoos cookies and deliciously tender and soft cake. With cookie butter baked throughout the sponge cake layers, crushed Biscoff cookies, and biscoff cookie butter, this cookie butter cake is an absolute showstopper. Ingredients Units Scale Vegan Biscoff Cake: - 300 ml unsweetened dairy free milk, room temperature - 2 tsp apple cider vinegar (to be mixed with dairy free milk milk) - 460 grams all-purpose flour or gluten free 1:1 baking flour + 1 tbsp arrowroot or cornstarch - 2 tsp ground cinnamon - 2 tsp baking powder - 1 tsp baking soda - 200 grams granulated sugar - 150 grams salted vegan butter (I recommend Flora Plant butter or Miyokos), room temperature - 170 grams unsweetened applesauce, room temperature - 150 grams biscoff cookie butter - 2 tbsp vanilla extract (yes, 2 tablespoons!!) - Optional (but recommended): 1/4 tsp vanilla powder - 2 cups vegan butter, softened - 4 cups organic powdered sugar - 1 tsp vanilla extract - 2–4 tbsp unsweetened dairy free milk - 8–10 Lotucs cookies, crushed - 1/3 cup biscoff cookie butter, heated for 30 seconds until drippy Instructions - Prep:Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease three 6″ cake pans with cooking oil, and line them with parchment paper. Set aside. Prepare the vegan buttermilk. Combine the dairy free milk with the apple cider vinegar, and set aside to sit for 5-6 minutes. You can weigh and measure the remaining ingredients during this time. - Whisk the dry ingredients: In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda. Set aside. - Make the batter: In a stand mixer with paddle attachment or a large bowl with hand mixer, cream together the vegan butter and sugar until fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Scrape down the sides as needed. Then add in the applesauce, biscoff cookie butter, and vanilla extract. Mix again on medium speed until combined, scraping down the sides and at the bottom of the bowl as needed. Add in about half of the dry mixture, along with half of the vegan buttermilk, and mix on medium speed until just combined. Add in the remaining dry mixture and vegan buttermilk, and mix on medium speed until there are just no more dry streaks. Make sure to scrape the bottom of the bowl as well as the sides. - Divide the batter between the three cake pans evenly, and bake for 35 minutes in 6″ cake pans, or until the toothpick comes out clean. (for three 8″ cake pans, bake for 27-30) - Remove from the oven and allow the cakes to cool in their pans for 10 minutes, then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely. Once cooled completely (there is absolutely no warmth to the touch!), then you can prepare your buttercream. - When ready to frost the cakes, add vegan butter to a large bowl or stand mixer and cream for 2-3 minutes. - Add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time, continuing the beat the mixture until it’s a thick buttercream. - Add in vanilla and 2-4 tablespoons of coconut/almond milk and continue to beat until desired texture. Assembly: - To assemble the cake, pipe or spread about 1/2 cup vegan buttercream onto one top of a layer. Pipe a border around the top. Then sprinkle in about 1/4 cup of the crushed lotus cookies, plus a tablespoon drizzle of biscoff cookie butter. Place the second layer on top and repeat. Then place the third layer on top and coat with a crumb coat. Place the cake into the fridge to chill. - Smooth the edges of the cake with a bench scraper, then apply the final layer of frosting. To create a drip, gently drip the biscoff spread over the edges of the cake. Then pipe the remaining frosting on top. Add Lotus cookies if desired and enjoy! Notes Biscoff spread & cookies: You can find both in bigger grocery store chains. If you’d like gluten free, there are similar style cookies called Partake, and those are gluten free. There is also this wonderful recipe for a gluten free biscoff cookie butter.	https://thebananadiaries.com/vegan-biscoff-cake/print/26006/
Coming up on the slightly-flattened hill of Newgrange, it's hard to imagine that this is an entirely man-made structure. Layers of stone and earth, surrounded by enormous stones. I was surprised to learn that the mound had been 'lost' for thousands of years, and it really made me start to look at any other too-regular-looking hump in the earth as another possible passage grave. The gently-rounded hummocks of grass that dot the countryside suddenly take on an entirely new possibility. Newgrange is only one of many megalithic burial sites in Meath county -- Knowth, Dowth, Fourknocks, Loughcrew and Tara are the best known. There are 300 passage tombs in Ireland, only a few of which are this size and extent. These mounds in the Boyne Valley date to around 3200BCE, which makes them some of the oldest structures on earth. People still argue whether these are primarily burial mounds (they are technically passage graves), temples, observatories, or something else entirely. It seems unlikely that the enormous hillocks and stacked stone were built without some large significance -- even if they are burial mounds, they must have ceremonial importance. Newgrange was "lost" for almost four millennia -- the top of the mound sagged and the stones beneath were covered under layers of turf, just another soft hill in Ireland. It was rediscovered in 1699 when a local landowner started excavating for stones.	http://www.phouka.com/tr/ireland/photos/neolithic/newgrange/01-new.htm
It’s Health Information Week 5-11 July 2021 #HIW2021 To mark Health Information Week, here’s a reminder of some of the information available from Versus Arthritis. For your patients: We offer an extensive range of plain-English guides covering: - Conditions – explaining the causes, how the condition is diagnosed and treated and aspects of self-care. - Drugs, surgery and other treatments – covering when the different treatment options might be used, the likely benefits and any risks that people need to be aware of. - Daily living and managing symptoms – including information on diet, exercise, aids and adaptations, joint protection, sex and pregnancy. All our patient-facing information is available online and most titles are also available to order, free of charge, as printed booklets. And for you or your students Why not check out the following learning resources? Clinical assessment of patients with musculoskeletal conditions – covering history-taking, GALS and REMS examination techniques. Core skills in musculoskeletal care – online learning developed with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) but freely available to all healthcare professionals. Red Whale webinars – free webinars delivered in collaboration with leading healthcare education provider Red Whale, covering topical issues in MSK care. MSK decision support tools – eight tools to be used in consultation with patients covering four common pain problems, each from a primary care and a secondary care perspective. Healthcare conversations podcasts – the first of which discusses how best to use the decision support tools. Related information - About arthritis Read about arthritis - including each type of condition, exercise, treatments, symptoms, real experiences, data, information for young people and professionals. - Healthcare professionals Discover the latest news, guidance, resources and videos about MSK conditions and join our network for updates aimed at healthcare professionals and students.	https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/healthcare-professionals/professional-network-and-clinical-updates/network-news/june-2021-network-news/it-s-health-information-week/
Personal boundaries help us state what is and isn’t acceptable to us. Setting boundaries has various benefits for promoting overall mental health and well-being. Boundaries can help you assert what you’re OK and not OK with. Personal boundaries in relationships are necessary because you may feel resentful and exhausted without them. Many have found that setting boundaries improves your mental health and mood. Without limits, it’s hard to be self-aware and independent. If you go along with what everyone else says and does and don’t ever speak up for what you want to do, you’re sacrificing your desires for other people. Boundaries are essential for maintaining your interpersonal relationships. When you set boundaries, you may find your life much more fulfilling. A boundary is a rule or limit you set with another person to express what you deem acceptable and unacceptable. When you build good boundaries with others, you state your needs and wants in an assertive but not aggressive way. You also may discuss things you don’t like or feel comfortable with. Boundaries are important because you can feel taken advantage of or resentful without them. There are various other reasons why limits may be necessary. Here’s a deeper dive into types of boundaries. So you don’t get walked over Boundaries require assertiveness to be effective. If you have trouble expressing and speaking up for what you need, you may find yourself in spaces you don’t want to be in. When you’re assertive with others, you take care of yourself and your needs. Assertiveness doesn’t mean that you can’t ever compromise, but compromising to the point that you aren’t enjoying yourself or your life signals that you need to implement some boundaries. So you avoid burnout You may have heard people say they’re burnt out. Burnout is a type of mental and physical exhaustion caused by chronic stress. It may leave you feeling blue and having difficulty focusing or accomplishing tasks. The level of exhaustion you feel can come from many forms of not setting boundaries. For example, if you start taking work home with you and sacrifice your personal time to complete tasks for your job, this can be overwhelming because you aren’t keeping good boundaries between your work and professional life. So you can form and maintain healthy relationships Your relationships with others can greatly benefit from healthy boundaries. When you set healthy boundaries in your relationships, you probably aren’t resentful of others often because you are stating what you are and aren’t OK with. Boundaries are a necessity in relationships so you can have a healthy balance of independence and interdependence on each other. Boundaries are limits that we place on many areas of our lives. Whether this is with work or your relationships, boundaries are necessary to keep you — and your relationships healthy. When you don’t have solid boundaries, the lines between your needs and desires and those of another person can get blurred. They’re also necessary for preventing emotional exhaustion and keeping you from becoming a doormat. For more on healthy boundaries, consider checking out these books: - “Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself” by Nedra Glover Tawwab - “Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life” by Henry Cloud Remember, boundaries get easier with practice. Setting limits can be one of the highest forms of your self-care.	https://psychcentral.com/relationships/the-importance-of-personal-boundaries
Scientists discover why tarantulas come in vivid blues and greens — ScienceDaily Why are some tarantulas so vividly coloured? Scientists have puzzled over why these large, hairy spiders, active primarily during the evening and at night-time, would sport such vibrant blue and green colouration — especially as they were long thought to be unable to differentiate between colours, let alone possess true colour vision. In a recent study, researchers from Yale-NUS College and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) find support for new hypotheses: that these vibrant blue colours may be used to communicate between potential mates, while green colouration confers the ability to conceal among foliage. Their research also suggests that tarantulas are not as colour-blind as previously believed, and that these arachnids may be able to perceive the bright blue tones on their bodies. The study was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on 23 September, and is featured on the front cover of the current (30 September 2020) issue.	https://dimensionextreme.com/tag/tarantulas
Dithiocarbamate pesticides are widely used in agriculture and residues are frequently detected in UK-produced and imprted fruit and vegetables. Dithiocarbamates are relatively unstable and rapidly degrade to CS2 if the samples are homogenised at room temperature. Samples requiring dithiocarbamate analysis are not homogenised but cut into segments prior to analysis. Using this segmentation procedure losses due to degradation are reduced but imprecision due to sub-sampling are significantly increased. One replicate sub-sample (comprising 2-3 segments) can contain a residue (expressed as CS2) above the MRL whilst another replicate sub-sample drawn from the same primary sample may not contain a detectable residue. Consequently MRL exceedances could be missed and samples containing a mean residue below the MRL may be reported as an MRL exceedance. The Analytical Sub-Group of the Pesticides Residue Committee have stated that this situation is unacceptable and action is required to find a solution and thus provide more acceptable results. Preliminary experiments have demonstrated that the addition of dry ice during the comminution of frozen samples will improve the homogeneity of sub-samples but will not prevent losses of dithiocarbamates pesticides occurring. The consensus opinion of the ASG is that an analysis, which underestimates the mean residue concentration but gives improved precision, is more acceptable. Before cryogenic processing can be introduced it will be necessary to demonstrate that analysis of samples containing incurred residues (rather than spiked residues) does not give significantly lower mean results compared to the segmentation method. To evaluate the stability of incurred dithiocarbamate residues during storage of samples (-20 oC) that have been processed cryogenically, samples will be re-analysed at regular intervals after the original analysis. The variability of the distribution of incurred residues in lettuce (a problematic commodity), will be evaluated by the analysis of the individual halves of 10 lettuce heads taken from a sample found to contain a high concentration of incurred residue during screening. If cryogenic sample processing can be implemented for dithiocarbamates the following benefits could result; 1) More reproducible results at lower cost. The need for an additional sample segmentation procedure will be eliminated and costs reduced. Most samples for the PRC programme are cryogenically processed so one or two of the sub-samples could be used for dithiocarbamte analysis removing the need for additional sample processing. 2) Because the results are more reproducible the total number of replicate analyses could possibly be reduced. 3) If the residues are relatively stable in frozen cryogenically comminuted sub-samples then it may be possible to provide a archive sub-sample in cases where results are disputed. This is not possible with the current segmentation procedure because the precision is not sufficient to allow meaningful comparisons of results generated in different laboratories. Objective Dithiocarbamate pesticides start to degrade on contact with enymes and chemicals released from damaged cells of fruits and vegetables. This occurs when samples are comminuted at room temperature. In order to minimise degradation, segments (typically 2-3 per sample), are taken from a 1-2 kg sample and analysed immediately. This approach provides such poor precision the results of duplicate analysis can be very different (e.g. less than the reporting limit and greater than the MRL for sub-samples of the same primary sample). Therefore the mean of 2 or 4 replicate analyses are reported. The Analytical Sub-Group of the PRC have stated that this is unacceptable and have requested that action is taken to address the problem. The proposal is to evaluate cryogenic milling; it is expected that losses (perhaps 50-60% for some dithiocarbamate compounds) may occur but much better precision (1) compared to the segmentation procedure will result. If the precision is considered acceptable and the mean results from cryogenic sample processing and segmentation are not statistically different, then it should be possible to implement the use of cryogenic sample processing for the analysis of dithiocarbamates in the PRC programme. If this proves to be the case then cost benefits would result because the need for additional sample processing by segmentation would no longer be required (as most samples are already comminuted in the presence of dry ice for the analysis of other pesticides). It is proposed that each sample will be analysed in duplicate by each of the two processing methods. One sample will be treated as normal and 4 sub-samples (50g) will be prepared by segmenting (2 will be analysed immediately and 2 will be retained for analysis if considered necessary). The remaining sample (~1 -2 kg) will be cryogenically milled and 2 randomly selected sub-samples (50g) will be analysed using GC-FPD (2). There was a request from PSD to consider the use the LC-MS/MS method, reported by Brewin et al (3) for the analysis of ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDC) fungicides, instead of the GC-FPD method. The LC-MS/MS method is not considered to be appropriate because; 1) it only includes the analysis of ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDC) fungicides and not all classes of dithiocarbamates. 2) the method is much more complex than the CS2 method and thus would significantly increase the cost of the proposed project. 3) the GC-FPD determination method should provide sufficient precision to demonstrate that most variability occurs during the sample processing step. However, If in the future the LC-MS method could be simplified to reduce costs and extended to include other classes of dithiocarbamates (e.g. via the CRL laboratories) then its application should be considered especially as the [-SCSNHCH2CH2NHCSS] chain is less volatile than CS2 and unlikely to suffer the same losses during cryogenic sample processing. The Specific Objective is: 1) To evaluate the application of cryogenic sample processing for the analysis of dithiocarbamates, in an attempt to improve the precision and reduce the cost of this analysis. Project Documents Final Report : Improving the reproducibility and cost efficiency of the analysis of dithiocarbamates (233k) Time-Scale and Cost From: 2006 To: 2007 Cost:	http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&Completed=1&ProjectID=14829
Auditory Verb Generation Performance Patterns Dissociate Variants of Primary Progressive Aphasia Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 24;13:887591. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.887591. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a clinical syndrome in which patients progressively lose speech and language abilities. Three variants are recognized: logopenic (lvPPA), associated with phonology and/or short-term verbal memory deficits accompanied by left temporo-parietal atrophy; semantic (svPPA), associated with semantic deficits and anterior temporal lobe (ATL) atrophy; non-fluent (nfvPPA) associated with grammar and/or speech-motor deficits and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) atrophy. Here, we set out to investigate whether the three variants of PPA can be dissociated based on error patterns in a single language task. We recruited 21 lvPPA, 28 svPPA, and 24 nfvPPA patients, together with 31 healthy controls, and analyzed their performance on an auditory noun-to-verb generation task, which requires auditory analysis of the input, access to and selection of relevant lexical and semantic knowledge, as well as preparation and execution of speech. Task accuracy differed across the three variants and controls, with lvPPA and nfvPPA having the lowest and highest accuracy, respectively. Critically, machine learning analysis of the different error types yielded above-chance classification of patients into their corresponding group. An analysis of the error types revealed clear variant-specific effects: lvPPA patients produced the highest percentage of "not-a-verb" responses and the highest number of semantically related nouns (production of baseball instead of throw to noun ball); in contrast, svPPA patients produced the highest percentage of "unrelated verb" responses and the highest number of light verbs (production of take instead of throw to noun ball). Taken together, our findings indicate that error patterns in an auditory verb generation task are associated with the breakdown of different neurocognitive mechanisms across PPA variants. Specifically, they corroborate the link between temporo-parietal regions with lexical processing, as well as ATL with semantic processes. These findings illustrate how the analysis of pattern of responses can help PPA phenotyping and heighten diagnostic sensitivity, while providing insights on the neural correlates of different components of language.	https://www.gbhi.org/news-publications/auditory-verb-generation-performance-patterns-dissociate-variants-primary
The exine, or outer layer of a pollen grain or spore, is extremely varied in structure. Decades of research have attempted to discover the underlying developmental mechanisms that give rise to the enormous diversity of pollen and spore exines. The organization of the exine starts with the establishment of an elaborate glycocalyx, a cell coat, within which the subsequent accumulation of sporopollenin occurs. Ontogenetic studies using transmission electron microscopy of over 30 species from many different groups have shown that the sequence of structures observed during development of the exine corresponds to the sequence of self-assembling micellar mesophases (including liquid crystals) observed at increasing concentrations of surfactants. This suggested that self-assembly plays an important part in exine pattern determination. Some patterns resembling separate layers of spore and pollen grain walls have been obtained experimentally, in vitro, by self-assembly. However, to firmly establish this idea, columellate and granulate exines, the most widespread forms, needed to be simulated experimentally. Gabarayeva and colleagues prepared mixtures of substances analogous to those known to occur in the periplasmic space of developing microspores, then left the mixtures undisturbed for specific periods of time to allow the process of self-assembly to occur. They developed their method further by using new substances analogous to those present in the periplasmic space and performing the experiments in a thin layer, more closely resembling the dimensions of the periplasmic space. Their results show that simple physico-chemical interactions are able to generate patterns resembling those found in exines, supporting the idea that exine development in nature involves an interplay between the genome and self-assembly.	https://www.botany.one/2019/04/mimicking-pollen-and-spore-walls/
The self-assembly of viral capsids is an essential step to the formation of infectious viruses. Elucidating the kinetic mechanisms of how a capsid or virus-like particle assembles could advance our knowledge about the viral lifecycle, as well as the general principles in self-assembly of biomaterials. However, current understanding of capsid assembly remains incomplete for many viruses due to the fact that the transient intermediates along the assembling pathways are experimentally difficult to be detected. In this paper, we constructed a new multiscale computational framework to simulate the self-assembly of virus-like particles. We applied our method to the coat proteins of bacteriophage MS2 as a specific model system. This virus-like particle of bacteriophage MS2 has a unique feature that its 90 sequence-identical dimers can be classified into two structurally various groups: one is the symmetric CC dimer, and the other is the asymmetric AB dimer. The homotypic interactions between AB dimers result in a 5-fold symmetric contact, while the heterotypic interactions between AB and CC dimers result in 6-fold symmetric contact. We found that the assembly can be described as a physical process of phase transition that is regulated by various factors such as concentration and specific stoichiometry between AB and CC dimers. Our simulations also demonstrate that heterotypic and homotypic interfaces play distinctive roles in modulating the assembling kinetics. The interaction between AB and CC dimers is much more dynamic than that between two AB dimers. We therefore suggest that the alternate growth of viral capsid through the heterotypic dimer interactions dominates the assembling pathways. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first multiscale model to simulate the assembling process of coat proteins in bacteriophage MS2. The generality of this approach opens the door to its further applications in assembly of other viral capsids, virus-like particles, and novel drug delivery systems.	https://einstein.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/a-multiscale-model-for-the-self-assembly-of-coat-proteins-in-bact
Published Friday, 18th September 2020 Tuesday 22 September 2020 marks Car Free Day, a global event that supports the use of sustainable travel to help improve the environment. In Sutton we are ambitious to create safer, active greener streets in our borough and we are working hard to support active travel by making it safer and easier for people to walk, scoot or cycle locally. This Car Free Day we are encouraging residents to leave the car at home, get active and embrace the many benefits of walking and cycling. Walking briskly or cycling for a total of just 20 minutes a day has a positive impact on your mental wellbeing and reduces your risk of chronic illnesses. This year we have introduced a programme of measures to support pedestrians and cyclists, making active travel easier than ever before. Our new schemes include: People across Sutton have really appreciated the better air quality and safer environment with fewer cars on the road which allowed many people to discover, or rediscover, the benefits of cycling and walking in the borough. However, as more of us began venturing out on the roads to head back to work or school, the traffic and air pollution levels began to rise again. In Sutton, many journeys made by motor vehicles are two miles or less. This Car Free Day we want to remind residents and visitors to the borough that switching to sustainable methods of transport wherever possible will help improve personal wellbeing along with the overall health of the borough. In addition to our Safer, Active, Greener Streets programme we continue to invest in a range of initiatives across the borough designed to support sustainable transport, including:	https://www.whatsoninsutton.com/car-free-day-2020/
If you have quarantine fatigue, welcome to the club. Spring has always been my least favorite season and this pandemic only confirms it. Our new normal even affects the healing process. While death will become all of us, this outbreak has altered the way in which we say goodbye to our loved ones. In 2010, I wrote a piece for Huffington Post on the etiquette of funerals, but a lot has changed since then. When the shelter-in-place order began, one of my first thoughts was I hope a family member doesn’t pass during this period. While it hasn’t happened to me, death has come to a member of my volunteer family. The deceased’s wife Liz had this to say on the passing of her husband Al: “My husband passed away last week after a long battle with lung cancer. While this was not unexpected, I miss him terribly. The really sad part of this shelter-in-place situation is not being able to hold his Memorial service, not being able to have my friends over to my house, not being able to meet friends in a restaurant, and not being able to donate his clothes at this time when many people are in need.” Closure marks an important transition in life and is an important part of the healing process. A Year Of Firsts Fundraisers have been postponed. Graduations and Mother’s day are cancelled. But can we do the same for funerals? Covid-19 has forced families to put their grieving process on hold at a time when we’re supposed to provide support and assistance to them. How To Honor The Deceased - - Reach Out To The Family Of The Deceased. Try the old-fashioned way: by a telephone call. - Ask How You Can Help. Whether it be offering up food or making calls on behalf of the family, doing something is always better. - Offer Up A Prayer. If you have a favorite one, the words might be comforting to the family. - Write A Condolence Note. A few short sentences offering sympathy is a good start, and always something positive about the deceased. - Share Video Memories. I can’t think of a better gift than sharing treasured memories. I have many from when my own mother passed, and I treasure them 17 years later. - Offer To Help Plan A Memorial Service. It may be months from now but planning is stressful and time consuming. Help take a load off. For the time being (I’ve been saying this since March), we must live as one, or as one newspaper put it “Together, Apart.” Services will happen in the future, but with distance, and maybe even without hugs.	https://lisagrotts.com/pandemiquette-loss-in-the-time-of-a-pandemic-mourning-six-feet-apart-golden-rules-gal/
In search of such captivating moments, we, the click KGPians hit an offbeat road. Leaving behind the well-known paths, those gol chakkars, we took …..the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost About the Place Bishnupur, a world heritage site marked by UNESCO, famously known for its temples and terracotta artifacts has its own story to share. Every nook and corner of this place, will showcase its history, its glorious past amidst the ruins. Those red brick walls, rubble of the grandeur still mirrors the past. The Photographer's Paradise Besides being a paradise for the Architecture Photography, Bishnupur offered us some excellent street photography and portraits. While having our breakfast, our shutters focused on the lively atmosphere of the place. Local people also jovially posed in front of our cameras giving us the perfect portraiture to click on. The Subject is in the center and thus the whole attention is onto him. A closer look would have been better. With the framing set perfectly and the subject placed in the center the picture look natural. Our first destination was “Rasmacha”. We spent there a big chunk of time to capture every tiny details of that place. We tried to absorb the history as well clicking the memories to cherish. We left from there to our next destination – “Shyamrai Temple”. At a distance this two temple looks ordinary. But if you observe its tiny details, you will be astonished to find such enchanting art work of Bengal. Every bit has its own uniquenessand symmetry is so well defined in those minute arts. We tried to capture every frame and lastly took group picture in front of this monument. We left for our next destination known as – “Large Gateway”. Then we visited a dilapidated temple nearby to “Large Gateway”. The name of this temple is “Lalaji Temple”. Our energy was boosted by the nimbu pani to have a go for the “Jorbangla temple”. Jor Bangla Temple in Bishnupur was built by Raghunatha Singha in 17th century. The architecture of this Temple is unique and is one of the prioritized monuments on Archaeological Survey of India’s list. It has Panch Ratna design which means five tower structures. Curved ceiling of the Temple is influenced by Islamic architecture giving it unique blend. It has beautiful terracotta sculptures on depicting various scenes from Ramayana, Krishna Leela and Mahabharata. Other paintings and sculptures include royal hunting sights, musicians and dancers. Way its drawn makes this beautiful art seemingly very alive. We took some photographs of the local vendors. We also bought some items as a souvenir of this trip. We had to wait for our train to kgp for around 2 hours. Hence again we dived into some photo shoots of Bishnupur station, avoiding the curious gazes of local people. The Symphony of Symmetry and Lines A series of straight lines when fill up the frame it adds to the beauty of the place as well as the artistic approach of photographing. The lines circulating a centered prominent subject not only follows symmetry but also the perfect framing of the same. Some more examples showcasing perspective in architecture “Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.” Bonus: Focus at the centered subject and Voila! Its Bokehlicious!!! It is a mandate in photography to avoid triangles in unnecessary positions. However some adds to the beauty of it. And a slight touch of Symmetry with a little more perspective give you the right picture to click on. Two different World of the Steady and the Dynamic merged together by the middle signal post. What and Where to Click, a Photo Tour to Bishnupur. Reviewed by Arnab Naskar on Monday, December 31, 2018 Rating:	https://blog.clickkgp.com/2018/12/what-and-where-to-click-photo-tour-to.html
Media reporting about vehicle manipulation [1, 2] raises the question of whether data in the vehicle network can actually be influenced by manipulation. Can a manipulated device or internally implanted device with a remote control function influence vehicle behavior? And what countermeasures can be taken to prevent such manipulation? Today’s vehicles are highly complex systems, which consist of networked sensors and actuators and continually transmit important data over bus systems. In the vast majority of cases, the information being transmitted is in raw data format. A plausibility check, if such a check is even possible, has limited effectiveness. The receiver is unable to verify whether the data was actually supplied by the desired sender or whether it was fed in by an outside electronic control unit, i.e. whether it is authentic data. The data is freely accessible as well, so an analysis of the bus information can be used to determine signal contents. The transmission is neither confidential nor authenticated. This was the problem that engineers at Vector were confronted with. Their task was to come up with an implementation for secure communication over a CAN network which could be used flexibly and could also be integrated with AUTOSAR-3.x basic software. Key protection goals, along with authentication, included preventing replay attacks. It would be desirable to implement communication that could not be accessed externally. For the encryption method, the specialists chose the AES algorithm . From today’s perspective this method is considered cryptographically secure. It involves symmetrical block encryption with a block length of 128 bits. It generates 16 bytes or a multiple of 16, which the sender transmits to the receiver. It is advantageous that some microcontrollers already have very fast hardware implementations of this algorithm. Since a CAN message can transmit a maximum of 8 data bytes per frame, a decision was made to utilize the ISO transport protocol (TP) that was already included in the communication stack for the transfer. This required simplifying the CAN configuration and protocol for unidirectional communication with a fixed 1:1 relationship between sender and receiver.	https://www.eenewsautomotive.com/content/encrypted-signal-transmission-autosar-can-fd-network
The Exhibition as well as the actual building of the cans’ structures take place in Malls or open public spaces all around the USA. Then, the different designs compete against each other’s locally, nationally and internationally to win titles for the best structures. I participated in the New York one. During the building night all the teams are supposed to build their design, all at once and with unlimited time. Strolling around and watching the whole process from scratch of the different teams was exciting. We were all willing to see how our design turns out as well as other teams’. In order to build the cansculptures, teams are allowed to use some other materials to help stacking the cans but by no means they could stick them or tie them together. The whole point is that they are easily deconstructed to donate them afterwards. The origins of the Canstruction idea was inspired by a group of New York Architects in the early 90’s. Then it started spreading all around the country and eventually internationally. I find it a very creative way to help prevent hunger. It turns volunteering and donating into a way to be creative and innovative while inspiring people to help those who needed most.	https://www.architect-us.com/blog/2016/11/time-for-canstruction/
As an Associate Developer at BRINK, you will be a part-time member of our team, working closely with our developers to build, perfect, and maintain web applications. Your tasks will include front-end development, content management, and quality control. You will work closely with designers to actualize their prototypes. You will take on the simpler tasks to free up our more senior team members and will learn a lot in the process at an early stage in your career. A Typical Day: Career Growth: We are seeking an entry-level Developer for this position. Your next promotion would be Developer where you will be expected to independently oversee and consult on the technical aspects of any given project. Employment Details: This is a part-time, hourly position with the potential to grow into a full-time salaried role with benefits. Good Junior Developers at BRINK: Qualifications: You will likely have experience working on, or managing, web applications and/or websites in either a hobby or professional setting. We want to see stuff you’ve worked on. That can be in the form of GitHub and Codepen projects, a portfolio site, or a reasonably sized zip file of code samples. We will pay you $15/hr and want between 12 and 16 hours a week from you. It could lead to a full-time job offer with our team, depending on performance and client workload. You’ll have a great experience either way. Equitable Opportunity Employer BRINK does not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage applicants from historically marginalized or underrepresented communities, and we are committed to fostering and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce where all voices in the room are heard and respected.	https://brink.com/why-not/career/associate-developer/
Ford County, IL - Ford County Public Health Department is asking public to wear purple on Thursday, June 15, 2017 in effort to raise awareness about elder abuse in our community. According to Illinois Department on Aging, many adults who live at home are at risk of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation by family members and others close to them. Victims of abuse are often isolated, and they may be afraid or unable to seek help for themselves. In many cases, the only person outside the family who sees the victim is a health care professional, home care provider, financial institution, or other helping professional. Therefore, it is critical that individuals know how to report cases of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation for investigation and services. Ford County Public Health Department’s Adult Protective Services Program responds to the following types of abuse: The Illinois Adult Protective Services Act directs the Illinois Department on Aging to establish an intervention program to respond to reports of alleged abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, and self-neglect of adults living in a domestic setting and to work with the adult in resolving the abusive situation. The program provides services to people over the age of 60 and to adults with disabilities age 18-59, who may be victims of abuse as described above. The Adult Protective Services Act provides that a person — who in good faith reports suspected abuse or cooperates with an investigation — shall be immune from criminal or civil liability or professional disciplinary action. It further provides that the identity of the reporter shall not be disclosed except with the written permission of the reporter or by order of a court. Anonymous reports are also accepted. To report suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation, or self-neglect, please call toll-free 1-866-800-1409, 1-888-1327 (TTY) or call the Ford County Public Health Department,a local adult protective services provider agency serving Ford County. Callers should be prepared to report the alleged victim’s name and address, what happened, where and when it happened, and who the suspected abuser might be, circumstances which led to the report, and whether the alleged victim is in immediate danger. While reporting is voluntary for most individuals, certain professionals are mandated to report their concerns of abuse, neglect or financial exploitation. For more information on Adult Protective Services, please visit:	https://fordcountyphd.org/news-and-press/news-and-press/article/world-elder-abuse-awareness-day
Q. How does concentration of a pesticide change once it enters a food chain. Ans: Concentration of a pesticide increases once it enters a food chain. Q. In an ecosystem, rats feed on grains. Name the trophic level to which the rats belong. Q. What will be the consequences if all the carbon of all fossil fuel is converted into carbon dioxide ? Ans: Amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will increase leading to global warming. Q. If all the wastes we generate is biodegradable, what effect will this have on the environment ? What value will be imbibed if people are made to understand that generation of waste should be restricted to be biodegradable only ? Ans: (a) It will lead to eco friendly environment, waste product would be converted into re-usable form. (b) Mutual respect to health and environment conservation. Q. In a colony, it was decided to remove a green park and construct an air conditioned shopping mall. Children of the colony took out a march against this decision with several placards to make the colony people aware of the importance of green plants. a. What are the ill effects of air conditioners? b. Design two placards which the children would have carried? c. Is the action taken by the children justified? d. How does the ecosystem get affected when plants are removed? a. They release CFCs that deplete ozone layer. b. Green plants are our green lungs and water purifying systems. c. Yes, they are trying to protect the environment. d. Food chain is disrupted and drastic climatic changes occur. Major part of biota is lost. Q . It is often advised to stop our vehicles engine at red light and also to drive car / vehicles at constant speed. Based on the above statement, answer the following question. 1. Which type of fuel is used in vehicles? Is it renewable or non renewable. 2. How can you contribute towards saving these fuels at your level? => Opting for CNG as a motor fuel instead of petrol & diesel. Associated Value : The learners will adopt all these fuel saving techniques in their life. Q . Number of vultures is decreasing remarkably. Now days which is a matter of concern. 1. Vultures belong to which category of animal. 2. What is their role in nature to maintain ecological balance. Ans: i. Scavenger ii. Help in recycling in nature by eating dead animals. Q . Newspaper reports about the alarming increase in pesticides level in packed food items Some of states have even banned these food items. 1. What are the sources of these pesticides in these food items. 2. Name the biological phenomenon associated with accumulation of pesticide in the food chain. Ans: 1. Chemicals (Pesticides, Fertilizers) used in agricultural practices. 2. Biological magnification. Associated Value : The learners will be able to apply rational approach while using such pesticides and will be more careful towards using packaged food. Q . Ozone depletion / Ozone hole is a cause of concern now a days. 1. What are the causes of ozone depletion. 2. As students what steps will you advise to reduce ozone depletion. Ans: 1. Chlorofluoro carbon (CFCs) released into atmosphere disintegrate the ozone molecule. 2. Stop using devices that release CFCs. Associated Value : The learners will be more educated and will be more vigilant & judicious towards using equipments /chemical that produces CFCs in order to protect ozone layer. Q . Acid rain is causing damage to monuments / Buildings etc. and also harm the flora and fauna. 1. What is the cause of acid rain. 2. What essential changes in our daily life can lie done to prevent acid rain / damage caused by acid rain. Ans: 1. Oxides of Nitrogen & sulphur released from vehicular & industrial emissions on mixing with rain water produces acid rain. 2. Traveling in metro (MRTS) instead of fossil fuel driven vehicles. Associated Value : The learners will adopt Eco-friendly lifestyle so that lesser amount of (No)x and (So)x released into atmosphere which are the main contribution factor causing Acid Rain. Q . Plastic production is increasing day by day in spite of the fact that plastic is harmful for the environment. Based on the above statement answer the following. 1. What are the harmful effects of plastic usage? 2. In our day to day situation what are the alternatives that we can use instead of plastics. Plastic cause harm to the cattle / animals if enter inside their alimentary canal. ii. Paper bags / jute bags can be used instead of plastic bag. Associated Value : The learners will be discouraged to use plastics as a source of packaging, storing as it is non biodegradable. be subjected to melting; causing additional cost of machinery and an unnecessary strain on the energy sources. Also it will lead to environmental pollution. These all factors are ignored during reuse e.g. using the plastic bottles again for drinking water will save the energy. Q. Construct an aquatic food chain showing four trophic levels. Ans: Hydrilla →Scorpio→ Fish → CraneQ. To protect the food plants from insects, an insecticide was sprayed in small amounts but it was detected in high concentration in human beings. How did it happen?	https://www.scc-education.com/2015/10/our-environment-question.html
Who’s in control? Using emotional intelligence in the workplace This bite size session is designed to help individuals understand how to be emotionally intelligent in the workplace. The session focuses on developing emotional intelligence skills so that individuals will be better able to manage their own impulses, communicate with others effectively, manage change well, solve problems and use humour to build rapport in tense or challenging situations. A trainer led workshop combining theory with practical and relevant activities. This highly interactive session blends discussion with the application of skills.	https://platinum-ts.co.uk/courses/whos-in-control/
Consciously or not, I’ve found myself drawn to a number of lifestyle design blogs over the past few weeks. They’re filled with stories about individuals actively pursuing unconventional ways of thinking and living. Spending time with my baby and being a good husband are the most important things to me. This involves time and support that I must provide. Also, I work full time in a conventional setting. I’m not as adventurous as I’d like to be and do not have a strong enough desire to be an entrepreneur to strike out on my own. Actually, I still consider myself an entrepreneur, but I only have one client: the company I work with. Despite all these factors that seem to point to the conventional life, I think I’ll still be able to participate in extreme lifestyle design during bit of time I have left over. And that may be what makes this journey and set of experiments unique. Can I be an unconventional thinker and passionately pursue my ideal day and life while still fulfilling my duty in what is most important in my life: loving my wife and baby? This is a difficult question to ask. As a husband and father, there are sacrifices I must make to care well for my family. However, I have ‘me’ time in the cracks, and I don’t think that I am, right now, the best possible version of my self. And this is because I am not making full use of the cracks. So, my goal and mission will be to use that extra time to become the best possible version of myself. I know that writing this, and the fact the my wife reads it, will mean that I’ll have at least one person to hold me accountable and to be able to witness my progress.	https://jonathanfrei.com/2009/10/can-a-husband-and-father-be-a-radical-lifestyle-designer
On March 14th, North Korea’s state news agency praised countrywide efforts to raise COVID-19 awareness and urged continued public vigilance to keep the number of cases in the country at zero. Indeed, North Korea is notably absent from among the 127 countries currently listed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 World Map website. Considering the virus originated in China and the first country outside of China to experience a spike was South Korea, North Korea’s claim of zero cases is highly dubious, and hiding a contagion is incredibly reckless. While the scope and scale of the virus in North Korea is only guessable at this point, the country’s response to the problem is tiresomely predictable. This is not the first time the country has demonstrated stubborn adherence to opaqueness and misinformation. The 1990s bore witness to a disastrous famine in North Korea made worse due to delayed international relief caused by information suppression designed to preserve the power of the party system and the Kim regime. The welfare of the North Korean people has long been subordinate to the “big rocks” of the Kim regime—keeping the party elite happy and advancing the nuclear program. During the famine of the 1990s, as North Koreans in the outlying provinces starved, the government continued funneling resources into its nuclear program while supplying priority rations to the Korean Workers Party and redirecting international food aid to the military. Robert Collins’ seminal report, “Marked for Life,” describes in intricate detail the Songbun caste system through which these abuses were carried out. A safe assumption is the current iteration of the Kim regime will resort to the same tactics previously deployed during the famine. Prioritized efforts to contain the spread of the virus and triage infected patients will favor party elites and the military. While this caste system approach has an obvious deleterious impact on those in the outlying areas, it could also wind up harming the regime. The approach threatens the viability of one of the few remaining sources of regime revenue—the markets that the regime regularly extorts through compulsory fees, kickbacks and bribes. North Korea’s system of interconnected markets located throughout the country is fed through a logistical network that begins at points located along the border between China and North Korea. Disruption to this network would dry up streams of revenue that would otherwise flow into the regime’s coffers. Acutely aware of the regime’s dependence on the market system and the potential for disruption, Kim Jong Un is left with two payoff scenarios: (1) go back to the negotiating table with the U.S. and seek sanctions relief for some denuclearization or (2) seek attention by conducting a military provocation that exceeds even the Trump administration’s threshold of ignorability. COVID-19 creates complications for both scenarios. Global attention is now entirely focused on containing the spread of COVID-19. The U.S. has adopted an “all of government approach” that will preempt any interest in near term diplomacy with North Korea. If not for COVID-19, the timing might be perfect for North Korea to conduct a provocation. There is past evidence of North Korea conducting strategically timed provocations to influence approaching South Korean National Assembly elections or to garner attention during stalled nuclear negotiations. With National Assembly elections scheduled for April 15 and nuclear negotiations with the U.S. going nowhere, both conditions are currently applicable. However, due to COVID-19, North Korea would risk tremendous scorn by the international community, and possibly more sanctions, at a time when it needs international support. Although incompatible with the usual repertoire of maintaining opaqueness and distorting information to preserve the regime, the most optimal payoff for North Korea would be to meld with the international community and immediately begin transparent reporting of COVID-19. This would add North Korea to the global accounting of the pandemic, with the obvious benefit of being eligible for obtaining international support during a critical window of time while virus rates are rapidly increasing throughout the world. Resorting to the failed caste system tactics from the 1990s famine will not only bring great harm to the North Korean people, but could also, in a twisted sort of irony, cause insurmountable problems for the regime. George Hutchinson is a PhD student in Public Policy at the Schar School of Policy and Government and a Senior Regional Planner with SecuriFense, Inc. He has a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in Logistics Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology. He previously served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, specializing as a Northeast Asia Foreign Area Officer, Logistics Readiness Officer, and Korean linguist. He has published articles in the International Journal of Korean Studies, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and the Air Force Journal of Logistics, as well as reports by the Korea Economic Institute of America and Marine Corps University Press. George’s research interests include U.S. defense and foreign policy as they relate to Northeast Asian and the Korean Peninsula. Photo can be found here.
Three Remain In Custody, Man Stable In ICU Three men remain in police custody, a 23-year-old man is in stable condition in the ICU, and police have recovered a quantity of jewellery and other items from individuals who were robbed at the Fairmont Southampton Resort, the police confirmed today. In addition, Police are appealing for anyone who saw any of these incidents or has any information that can assist investigators, anyone who was the victim of any other crimes, or anyone who may have video footage of these incidents to please contact them. Incidents: Melee, Man Found Unconscious, Robberies Early on New Year’s Eve day were multiple incidents at the resort, with police confirming they responded to reports of a “melee where projectiles were thrown,” a male found unconscious after “he was set upon by a group of males, a male “robbed of his helmet and cellular device in the parking lot,” and another male “robbed of his chain whilst attending a room party.” Fairmont Southampton’s Comments Shelley Meszoly, Regional Director of Sales & Marketing at Fairmont Southampton, previously said, “The safety and security of our guests and colleagues is always our number one priority at Fairmont Southampton. “Our property security includes extensive internal protocols and a wide range of measures in place to safeguard our buildings and to protect our guests and colleagues. “As always, on New Year’s Eve, additional security measures were in place and local police authorities were onsite throughout the evening to support the efforts of the hotel’s security team. “In response to the isolated incidences at the resort last evening, additional police were called in to secure the situation and ensure the safety of everyone onsite. “We are cooperating with local law enforcement on their ongoing investigation and to ensure that the most effective safety and security plans are in place at the hotel, providing a safe environment for all visitors and colleagues. Minister of Economic Development and Tourism Jamahl Simmons Comments Minister Simmons said, “Violence and criminal activity of any sort have no place in our society. We condemn the incident in the early hours of New Year’s Day and encourage members of the public to assist in the investigation. “I have reached out to the General Manager at resort and have offered our support and encouragement. “As we seek to grow our economy and attract more visitors to our shores, each of us have a responsibility and a role to play in preserving the peaceful and tranquil reputation for which we are globally renowned; not just for our visitors but for each of us who call Bermuda home.” Today’s Police Statement A police spokesperson said, “Police can confirm that three men remain in police custody as a result of the incidents that took place at the Fairmont Southampton Resort and a 23-year-old man is listed in stable condition in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit after being assaulted. “Police have also recovered a quantity of jewellery and other personal items from individuals who were robbed. “Officers will be liaising with hotel management to establish if any other offences were committed overnight by those engaged in this irresponsible bad behaviour, with a view to reviewing security protocols going forward. “As enquiries continue, police are specifically appealing for: - “Anyone who was at the Fairmont Southampton on New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day and saw any of these incidents or has any information that can assist investigators - “Anyone that may have had their jewellery taken from them at the premises during these incidents or was the victim of any other crimes - “Anyone who may have mobile phone video footage of these anti-social incidents at Fairmont Southampton “To call Acting Detective Chief Inspector Dave Greenidge at the Criminal Investigation Department on 247-1185 or e-mail [email protected]. Alternatively, persons with relevant information can call the independent and anonymous Crime Stoppers hotline 800-8477.” Read More About Comments (18) Trackback URL \| Comments RSS Feed Should we set up a COI? After all this type of behavior has no place in our society. Sure . A COI that will be carefully and deliberately set up so that YOU are the one who ends up looking like the cause of the problem ! Just me? Flip …it’s always my fault! And I wasn’t even there. This is absolutely disgusting. At one of our top resorts on the Island. How did this situation escalate without Security intervening. These thugs need to be taught a lesson on how NOT to act when out. I hope they are held responsible for cleaning up there mess and have them do other odd jobs around the hotel. Yes it is .. but I blame the leaders of this country, We have to have PUNISHMENT for people that disrupt the normal life and laws. Until then this will go on and on…Follow the lead of some countries that do not have this type of problems… Government just wants to talk about it . Waste money setting up programs.. IF you stamp it out we will not need to talk and set up programs.. Deeds not words Security at the fairmont hotel should be fired. WHY were 14/15 year old kids allowed to run in and out of rooms, WHO rented these rooms, WHY was NO deposit taken, how many tourists were disturbed, never mind,Bermuda has gone down the toilet long ago,it’s just no one has the guts to press the flush. I so agree, facts of the rocks. Flush them out!! These are questions that Southampton P should be responsible for answering for sure! They so dropped the ball on this one. Very poor management indeed. This is not my culture. DISGUSTING!!! Where were the parents that allowed their kids to attend such ignorNce. Wait a minute they were out and about having a good time just as their unruly kids were. Disgusting behavior on all counts. Charge the parents for the monsters they have created. Name and shame all of them. let have the information of the adults, pictures and names who are accountable. Shameful! Disgusted!! Have they just RUINED it for us Locals? Im surprised that for a 3-4 star (or is it a 5 star) hotel they did not take a deposit before checkin in. What gives? I find that very strange for SouthP. People were on here saying how going down the beach on Christmas Day and being friendly was ‘not Bermudian culture’. I guess this behavior is the Bermudian culture I keep hearing about. Getting drunk, acting like lowlifes, having fights, and robbing people. Ask OJ for clarification .(Notice how silent he’s been over all of this ?) He’s the expert on ‘two Bermudas’ ! Bermuda needs to get it’s act together STAT!! Post their faces all over the media most will be embarrassed at the exposure outside their gang culture.At the very least the public will have an idea whom they are dealing with(not my apt you wont).What sickens me is family and friends championing their cause and then whining about antisocial behavior to co-workers and whomever.	http://bernews.com/2018/01/men-remain-in-police-custody-man-stable-in-icu/
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5 technologies that will influence the security sector in 2019 One of the traditions of the beginning of the year is to write about the technologies that promise to impact the security sector in the coming months. Figuring out the future is never an easy task, as new technologies and resources will become increasingly important in the long run. What interests us particularly is to observe those that, in the short term, begin to add value. For 2019 we observe that these technologies are extensions of the same ones that we identified the previous year and that they were established as opportunities for the next year -which is optimal- so that they are increasingly useful for the industry and, of course, for consumers. . 1. Artificial Intelligence For the most skeptical, Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears as a promise that never materializes, but its progress differs from industry to industry and from application to application. In the electronic security industry, deep learning is mainly used for video analytics, but the technology will be present in many other applications and products in the future. One of the trends in highway infrastructure, for example, is the use of video analytics for Automatic Incident Detection (AID). Traditionally, this is done on the basis of fixed algorithms. What’s new for this year is that with deep-learning , that traffic analysis capability will reach a new level: the detection capability will be constantly updated, which increases the accuracy of that tool. 2. Cloud and Edge Computing Few organizations in the public or private sphere are not yet using the cloud at some level. On the contrary, many of them have already transferred the entire infrastructure to a cloud-based model, that is, centralized in one or more data centers. However, even with ever-increasing capacity data centers, the exponential increase in data volume can become overwhelming. And this scenario is particularly critical in areas like video surveillance, where data demands are still significant. It is in the center of this tsunami of data that the market tends to win with the benefits of Edge Computing or Edge Computing. In simple terms, as the name suggests, edge computing places more data processing at the ‘edge’ of the network, close to where the data is collected by the sensor and before transfer to the data center. For our industry, resource means processing data within the camera itself to significantly reduce data storage and transfer bandwidth demands. Additionally, data can be anonymized and encrypted before being transferred, addressing security and privacy issues. 3. Cybersecurity Security against cyber attacks is relatively new. For many years physical security was analog. IT teams cared little about cameras. However, with the popularization of digital video surveillance, the situation has changed and requires new adaptations from market professionals, as will be observed more intensely this year. Recently, the governments of some countries prohibited certain manufacturers from supplying equipment, citing risks of foreign interference and virtual invasion. A law signed by the president of the United States prohibits any official of the American government from using devices made by some Chinese companies, whether they are subsidiaries or affiliates. Australia, too, largely excluded Chinese companies out of national security concerns. Bloomberg announced that chips made in China were discovered that could be used to spy on American companies. This new reality will further require IT teams to be up-to-date on potential vulnerabilities in network-connected equipment. 4. Smart technologies to benefit the environment Video analytics are already used as an operational planning tool by organizations seeking to improve energy efficiency in offices, with consistent positive benefits for the environment. One of the examples is the use, in offices, of cameras equipped with intelligence to identify the number of people in the environment and regulate the air conditioning based on that data. Another critical aspect that can benefit from these corrective sensors and fundamentals is air quality. Whether inside buildings or in the external urban environment, negative health impacts and associated costs are becoming an increasing problem. Smart sensors will play a central role in solving the problem globally. These applications add value to organizations through efficiency and economy, in addition to helping them achieve their own environmental and sustainability goals. 5. Integration between sensors for intelligent responses Individually, sensors can provide significant benefits. However, the main trend for 2019 will be the combination and integration of various sensors to stimulate ‘intelligent’ actions. For example, in a smart city, a camera can, already this year, identify that a vehicle has just parked in a prohibited place and automatically trigger a loudspeaker with a pre-recorded message alerting the driver of the violation. In the event that it remains in place, the control center may receive an alert with visual information from the vehicle and apply a penalty.	https://digitallatestnews.com/5-technologies-that-will-influence-the-security-sector-in-2019/
Q: Solving a PDE by Fourier Series I want to solve the following PDE: $$\begin{cases} u_t=u_{xx}+1\\ u_x(0,t)=0, \quad u(1,t)=0\\ u(x,0)=\cos\left(\frac{\pi}{2}x\right) \end{cases}$$ using a Fourier series. The thing that is throwing me off is the $+1$ in the PDE. I tried using separation of variables and it got messy, since $u(x,t)=A(x)B(t) \implies A(x)B'(t)=A''(x)B(t)+1 \implies \frac{B'(t)}{B(t)}=\frac{A''(x)}{A(x)}+\frac{1}{A(x)B(t)}$ and so it cannot be said both sides are constant since the RHS has a term in $t$. I know that $\cos\left(\left(\frac{\pi}{2}+n\pi \right)x\right)$ satisfies the required boundary conditions, and I could solve this for $u_t=u_{xx}$ quite easily to give a fourier series $$u(x,t)=\frac{a_o}{2}+\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty a_n e^{-t(\pi(1/2+n))^2}\cos\left(\left(\frac{1}{2}+n\right)\pi x\right)$$ where $a_n=2\int_0^1\cos\left(\frac{\pi}{2}x\right)\cos\left(\left(\frac{\pi}{2}+\pi n\right)x \right)dx$. Due to orthogonality of these, I know that they simplify but I can't quite work out how since the coefficients of $x$ aren't integers. Can I use this to find a solution for $u_t=u_{xx}+1$? Is it as simple as adding a $t$ term to the exponential term in the fourier series or does that ruin the result? I then need to determine the limit $\displaystyle u_\infty(x)=\lim_{t \rightarrow \infty}u(x,t)$ explicitly, and I am not quite sure what that means. A: I will answer your very last question of determining the limit of your solution: I followed @science's hint with separation of variables, then applied your boundary and initial conditions, to obtain the solution $$u(x,t)=\frac{a_0}2+a_n e^{-(\frac{\pi}2 +2\pi n)^2 t} \cos\left(\left(\frac{\pi}2 +2\pi n\right)x\right)-\frac 12x^2,$$ where $$a_n = 2\int_0^1 \cos^2\left(\left(\frac{\pi}2 +2\pi n\right)x\right) \, dx$$ is a Fourier coefficient, for every $n\in \{0,1,2,3,4,\ldots\}$. We know that $\lim_{t \to \infty} e^{-(\frac {\pi}2+2\pi n)^2t}=0$ and find $a_0=1$. Hence, we conclude $$u_\infty(x)=\lim_{t \to \infty} u(x,t)=\frac 12(1-x^2).$$
Does a power like the US know what it is doing in a region as important and complex as the Middle East? The question may sound like a provocation, but from its answer stem enormous implications for the international system. This is not an issue raised only by critics or enemies of the US. Increasingly more allies, partners and friends alike, wonder if Washington has a clear strategy towards the Middle East, if it foresees the possible consequences of its actions or rather if, as some believe, it is gradually dissociating itself from the region as part of its announced strategic shift towards Asia and the Pacific. The experience of successive US administrations in the Middle East during the last decade cannot be described as very successful. Large projects of regional transformation, risky military adventures, costly reconstruction programmes and questionable methods in fighting against fanaticism have not given the US the security, new alliances or sympathies of hearts and minds that had been promised. All too often, US policies have given rise to results contrary to those desired and whose long-term consequences go against American national interests. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was presented as an investment to transform the country into a faithful US ally. The new Iraq was to be an example for the democratisation of other neighbouring countries as well as a base to act, if necessary, against the Iranian regime. The reality, a decade later, is nothing like the foreseen plan: Iraq is a fractured country, plagued by violence and whose government is in the hands of close allies of Iran. The regional rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its hegemonic aspirations cannot be understood without the involuntary help of the US. On the one hand, in 2001 it put an end to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan (enemies of the Iranian ayatollahs), thus placing in power in Kabul groups allied to Tehran. On the other hand, in 2003 the George W. Bush Administration toppled Saddam Hussein, who had acted as a barrier against Iranian ambitions in the Arab neighbourhood. Unwittingly, neoconservatives in the US handed over the Bagdad government to Shia leaders over which Iran exerts great influence. Syria has become a new source of bewilderment regarding the objectives and leadership capabilities of the US in the Middle East. What started in March 2011 as a pacifist uprising against the totalitarian regime of Bashar al-Assad has become a proxy war whose price is being paid by the Syrian population. In this war, the regime and its foreign supporters (Iran, Russia and Hizballah) fight against the rebels and their allies (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the US and Jordan, among others). Although Syria is suffering one of the bloodiest conflicts so far in the 21st century, capable of destabilising the entire Middle East and putting the interests of the US and its allies at risk, the Obama Administration has opted for an extraordinary passivity. Not even the ‘red line’ declared by Obama –Assad’s use of weapons of mass destruction– seems relevant. The facts have demonstrated that the latter must have understood he had the ‘green light’ to continue making use of Scud missiles, military aircraft, heavy artillery and, presumably, chemical weapons on a limited scale against populated areas, in the name of the fight against ‘terrorist groups’. When Libyan rebels were at risk of being annihilated in Bengasi by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops in March 2011, the Obama Administration opted for ‘leading from behind’ during the military campaign approved by the UN Security Council. In the case of Syria, and after 27 months of massacres involving the direct intervention of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Hizballah Lebanese militia, it seems that Obama wants to take a step back and remain uninvolved with the conflict, delegating his policy to countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Obama’s policy towards Syria is exasperating a multitude of Syrians suffering the consequences of the conflict. He is also receiving harsh criticism from analysts and politicians from within the US –some of which had opposed the invasion of Iraq– as they observe that the interests of their country are being damaged in the short term (radicalisation of the uprising, weakening of their allies, image of powerlessness in the eyes of Russia and Iran) and in the long term (less ability to influence the future of Syria and the future of the region). For a decade now, it seems that US administrations are intent on employing the wrong arguments in the Middle East to justify policies that, in the long run, are counterproductive and increase instability. It already occurred with the alleged weapons of mass destruction and the alleged connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Another argument employed a decade ago was that strong sanctions against the Syrian regime would result in its moderation and yielding to the US, when in reality the sanctions delivered the country into the arms of Iran and the Assad regime contributed to the destabilisation of Iraq. Something similar could occur in Syria, as Washington is refusing to support rebel groups that oppose the Assad regime by alleging that there are radical and Jihadist elements among the rebels. It is evident that these groups exist (in part, because timely action was not taken to prevent radicalisation), but there are also other rebels who want their country to be free and without extremists. Why they are not receiving more external support is difficult to understand. North Africa and the Middle East are undergoing a period of deep socioeconomic transformations that have serious political implications, of which we may have only seen the beginning. The impression is that the US is acting on the basis of reactive measures and it does not have a clear vision as to what future for the region is in its interest. The speech Obama delivered in Cairo in 2009 seems very distant, as do the expectations that he would be able to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians, as made evident last March in his visit to the Middle East. One risk of Washington’s ‘passive policy’ is that its rivals will see their suspicions confirmed that the US is willing to accept a fait accompli, even if it is contrary to its interests. This is leading many secular inhabitants of the Middle East to criticise the attitude adopted by the US Administration, which they judge to be complaisant toward the Islamists who are rising to power, especially in Egypt, despite their abuses and doubtful competence as rulers. It is surely premature to declare that the US has opted to retreat from the Middle East, although the indications are there. Those who believe so argue that the foreseeable energy independence of the US, thanks to new technologies like fracking (hydraulic fracturing used to extract non-conventional gas and petroleum from the subsoil) might favour a ‘minimalist’ foreign policy in the Middle East. It is, however, hard to imagine that Washington would be aloof to the future of the State of Israel or the energy resources that exist in the Gulf’s Arab petro-monarchies. When the US gradually retreated from Europe after the Second World War it left behind solid structures that guaranteed stability and security. If the country retreats now from the Middle East it will leave nothing of the sort, but rather huge sources of instability and conflict. Perhaps the question heading this commentary should read: does the US know what it wants in the Middle East? And a second question deserves to be mentioned: is Europe aware of what that entails?	https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentaries/does-the-us-know-what-it-is-doing-in-the-middle-east/
EDITORIAL: Many Americans don’t get enough sleep Thursday It’s a rare day when we don’t receive an email (or two or three or four) pointing us to some study, done by some group, that just screams, “We did this to make (or spin) a specific point for a specific reason.” Such is life in the communications business in the internet age. A lot of those emails wind up in the trash. Those that in our judgment have relevance to our readers get a second look. One that has (a.) an eye-catching subject line; (b.) has gotten its data from reputable sources (instead of coming across as making it up on the fly over coffee); and (c.) deals with a basic human need is likely to wind up in the latter pile. That’s why we’re talking about sleep — something people definitely need and many of them don’t get enough of. A website called The Sleep Judge, which reviews and rates mattresses, pillows and other sleep accessories, used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to examine sleep habits in the U.S. The BRFSS interviews more than 400,000 adults each year — the CDC calls it “the largest continuously conducted health survey system in the world” — to collect data on people’s health-related risk behaviors and events, chronic health conditions and use of preventive services. The National Sleep Foundation says people ages 18 to 64 should get between seven and nine hours of sleep each night. The CDC recommends at least seven. According to The Sleep Judge’s analysis of the BRFSS data, however, 35.7% of Americans in that age group fail to follow those recommendations. That’s a minority, but a significant one. The reasons? Well, if you’re in bad health, it’s going to adversely impact your sleep. (If you’re in good health, the reverse is true.) If you’re worried about your employment (especially) or relationship statuses, you may toss and turn. Specific weather conditions can keep you awake, and smokers according to the data generally have trouble sleeping. Localizing this, Alabama and New York are tied for seventh place (at 38.6%) on the list of states whose residents don’t get adequate sleep, behind Hawaii, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Michigan, and ahead of Georgia and Virginia (tied for 10th). We’re aware — researchers are too — that people are different and there are plenty of night owls who function fine on six hours of sleep or less each night (or day for third-shift workers, that’s certainly a wild-card variable). The recommendations we cited are just that, not mandates. We understand some folks find themselves prioritizing solvency, survival and their futures over sleep by working multiple jobs or pulling all-nighters to get college work done. In general, however, inadequate sleep certainly qualifies as risky behavior. According to Harvard University’s Department of Sleep Medicine, it can make you cranky and less alert; can affect your concentration, judgment and memory; amplify your risk for accidents; and contribute to ailments like diabetes, heart disease and obesity. Night owls aren’t immune from an eventual reckoning. Don’t let your bed be a stranger in your life. Never miss a story Choose the plan that's right for you. Digital access or digital and print delivery.
China sends its 4th Human Spaceflight Shenzhou-9 into Space Shenzhou-9, China’s 4th human spaceflight launched from the Jiuquan satellite launch centre in Gansu state. The spacecraft which is 30.3 feet long and 9.1 feet diameter is on the 1st manned docking mission and it will lay the foundation for Chinese plans to establish a space station by 2020 Shenzhou-9 may take at least 20 days to execute this space mission. During the mission the crew will perform automated docking procedure followed by scientific experiments, technical tests and physical exercises conducted in the space lab. The crew will perform manual docking with the Tiangong-1 or Heavenly Palace Space Laboratory Module, which has been revolving around the earth since 29 September 2011. Although China has assured the world that it will not indulge in space warfare, it is spending billions of dollars to realize its ambitious space programs. China had disclosed a 5-year space programme, in which it declared to establish a space lab and collect sample from the moon by 2016. Earlier, the Chinese government had proposed a mission to land on the moon and to create a manned space station by year 2020. Some major milestones reached by China in chronological order: - 1999: China started its manned space programme with the launch of Shenzhou-1 without any crew on board. - 2001: Shenzhou-2 blasted off with animals on board. - 2003: China launched its 1st manned space craft. - 2008: It performed a space walk. - 2011: it did an unmanned docking between a module and rocket. The launch of Shenzhou-9 is an indication of China’s fortitude to achieve technological advancement at par United States and Russia. RELATED NEWS:	https://www.gktoday.in/current-affairs/china-sends-its-4th-human-spaceflight-shenzhou-9-into-space/
Soldiers and police at SANParks entrance gates during strike A hyena spotted during a game drive from the Rhino Safari Walk Lodge in the Kruger National Park. Image: MARIANNE SCHWANKHART South African National Parks (SANParks) management on Wednesday confirmed that “a number” of employees are on strike to demand higher wages but encouraged visitors not to cancel their planned trips to affected game reserves. “We have activated our contingency plans in all parks and will be monitoring the situation closely‚” said SANParks Head of Communications Janine Raftopoulos. “The South African Police‚ Services (SAPS)‚ South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and volunteers from the Working for Water have been posted at entrance gates to ensure safe passage to all those entering our parks. “Guests travelling to any of our parks should continue with their plans as we aim to ensure that they enjoy their stay. “We are also waiting for the finalisation of picketing rules‚” Raftopoulos said. The strikers are members of the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (Hospersa). The union stated that visitors to the parks would be affected in various ways. “The industrial action will affect operations at all of the 19 national parks managed by SANParks across South Africa. They include the Kruger National Park‚ Agulhas National Park‚ Mokala National Park‚ Namaqua National Park‚ Mapungubwe National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park to name a few‚” Hospersa said in a statement. “During the industrial action‚ the day-to-day services like housekeeping and visitors’ activities like guided walks and game drives will be disrupted while petrol filling stations will remain unmanned. “Visitors will have difficulty accessing the parks at entrance gates and camp receptions where services will also be affected‚” Hospersa said. The strike action follows a wage deadlock. Hospersa is demanding a 9% increase for their members while SANParks is offering 6% salary adjustment and a 1% pay progression with a total offer of 7%‚ according to SANParks’ Raftopoulos. She said the protected strike followed a conciliation meeting‚ facilitated by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)‚ which had failed to resolve their salary dispute. She confirmed some employees “have abandoned their work stations in different divisions and parks”. “After assessment of all National Parks we have found that there are pockets of areas where staff members either did not report for work or reported and then left as a result of the envisaged strike.” She emphasised: “We have contingency plans in place for all parks to be able to serve our visitors. We do however encourage those who wish to make reservations do so via the Internet at www.sanparks.org for a speeder service.” Website launch special All Sunday Times articles free to read for a limited period! SIGN UP
1. Conceptual painters are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. 4. Formal painting is essentially rational. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. 6. If the painter changes his/her mind midway through the execution of the piece he/she compromises the result and repeats past results. 7. The painter's will is secondary to the process he/she initiates from idea to completion. His/Her wilfulness may only be ego. 8. When words such as landscape and still life are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the painter who would be reluctant to make painting that goes beyond the limitations. 9. The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept. 10. Ideas can be works of painting; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical. 11. Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed. 12. For each work of painting that becomes physical there are many variations that do not. 13. A work of painting may be understood as a conductor from the painter's mind to the spectator's. But it may never reach the spectator, or it may never leave the painter's mind. 14. The words of one painter to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept. 15. Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the painter may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally. 16. If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about painting, then they are painting and (not) literature; numbers are (not) mathematics. 17. All ideas are painting if they are concerned with painting and fall within the conventions of painting. 18. One usually understands the painting of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the painting of the past. 19. The conventions of painting are altered by paintings. 20. Successful painting changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions. 21. Perception of ideas leads to new ideas. 22. The painter cannot imagine his/her painting, and cannot perceive it until it is complete. 23. The painter may misperceive (understand it differently from the painter) a work of painting but still be set off in his/her own chain of thought by that misconstrual. 24. Perception is subjective. 25. The painter may not necessarily understand his/her own painting. His/Her perception is neither better nor worse than that of others. 26. A painter may perceive the painting of others better than his/her own. 27. The concept of a work of painting may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made. 28. Once the idea of the piece is established in the painter's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the painter cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works. 29. The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course. 30. There are many elements involved in a painting. The most important are the most obvious. 31. If a painter uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the painter's concept involved the material. 32. Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution. 33. It is difficult to bungle a good idea. 34. When a painter learns his/her craft too well he/she makes slick painting. 35. These sentences comment on painting, but are (not) painting. bibliography:	https://www.buypichler.com/sentences-conceptual-painting
Everyone should have its own Detroit The development of Kryvyi Rih started with a postal station and later – with a provincial Jewish town. In the 19th century it was surrounded by estates of landlord families of Kolachevsky, Kharin, Yanitsky, Halkovsky, Kharchenko... The Kodaky development Imagine a village, being attended by sightseeing tours from countrywide and international delegations. Department store’s counters display salmon, caviar, and a local Shuba salad. The locals are involved in work within 135 occupations according to local schoolchildren’s calculations. For its time the village architecture is unique, local architects’ work is award-winning. But what do we have nowadays? Are given statements still true? If this village ever existed? Labor What to do with factories that no longer work? Most postmodern urban theories and neoliberal urban reforms have grown with the need to overcome the industrial heritage, the need to renovate and convert empty industrial buildings and abandoned industrial areas. When one is in the intellectual bubble of the creative class, one can really get the impression that the whole industry of Ukraine died in the 1990s. In this case, it is obvious that the gentrification of "empty" industrial buildings is an urgent need of Ukrainian cities. However, the largest industrial enterprises, hubs and even regions of Ukraine continue to operate without solving either the social or environmental problems of their employees and the cities in which they are located. Given this, the gentrification tool is unlikely to help, as the problem has been misidentified. If we do not see the factory, then, accordingly, we do not see the labour, and therefore in the end we do not see the people who work. It may be nice to be wrong, but Ukrainian society and Ukrainian economy have not yet moved from the industrial state to the post-industrial one. Perhaps it is worth reformulating the question from "what to do with factories that do not work" to "what to do with factories that still work and have people working there"? Maidan as eternal loss and eternal return of the public space Over the last 30 years, Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv has been a place of the constant political redefinition of space. A place, where ideological and physical control and commercialisation have been colliding and coexisting with each other alongside attempts to ‘bring public dimension’ from below.* The squat is a squat Nowadays, the word "squat" is contained in the dictionary of fashionable terms, somewhere next to "low-fi" and "hub". The squating rhetoric is being actively appropriated by cultural industries and neoliberal economy: they open cafes and design schools under the name of squat, they shoot popular films with the focus on this topic. But not long ago the squating, i.e. self-acquisition of empty buildings, was a necessity and social mission for certain communities. Power The phenomenon of power is seen as a part of politics and economics, that’s why a no less powerful actor ― the Architect — is overlooked. The creator, the demiurge who sets up conditions for life of millions. Isn’t it the highest manifestation of power to determine the future? In this model, however, architecture completely loses its subjectivity. It is a mere product of the architect’s efforts. However, if we assume that the architect is not a creator, but a politician (the one, who struggles for power), then architecture can be considered as a material embodiment of politics. With this approach, architecture enters into foreground. It can be a scene of historical events or personal dramas, or a tool in customer’s hands, or criminal evidence, or an individual actor that constructs reality and streamlines processes. Architecture is a place to realise the right to power, from Agora to the Palace of Westminster. Architecture is an accelerator of a social protest, from Taksim Square to squats in Berlin. Architecture is a participant of a power struggle, from Tiananmen Square to Maidan Nezalezhnosti. Sacralised power in architecture of Kyivan Rus': second Constantinople and new Jerusalem Modern secularised society that has witnessed the world ‘being gradually uncharmed’ primarily perceives sacral architecture through its direct function ― realisation of the right to religious freedom, or as an example of historical and cultural heritage of a certain period. Such somewhat perfunctory and careless approach to the sacred was typical for historic landmark restoration in the Soviet Union, where the victory over religion was so obvious and final that there was no need to look beyond aesthetics in sacral architecture. That’s why modern replicas were in more demand than careful conservation and demonstration of findings. The Golden Gate of Kyiv with the remarkably grotesque church at the top of the construction is indicative of such approach. From solitude to community, from caves to the Renaissance An average person takes the monastery and way of living in it as something completely isolated from ordinary secular life, or even being secretive to some extent. However, the founding of monasteries and their development have a long and exciting history. Sacral Nowadays, freedom of religion is enshrined in the main international legal instruments, as well as Ukraine’s fundamental law. Article 35 of the Constitution says that everyone shall have right to freedom of beliefs and religion, and this right shall include the freedom to profess any or no religion. However, it was not easy for religion to get to this point. That was a long way from the struggle for the right to profess, to the struggle against any dissent. From limited political rights of people of different faiths to clandestine churches during Soviet times. One day religion could have unlimited opportunities and neglect rights of others, but the next day it could become oppressed. Further to Mykola Bazhan’s message, one should ask, ‘Who are you, Cathedral, an oppressor or a defender?’ Religion has always been a part of society, just as religious architectural objects have always been a part of our urban spaces. Sacral buildings are often the only thing left from the past. To what extent these artefacts are accurate in representing historical reality? Are we correct in interpreting their role and place in society’s culture? The language of Cossack Baroque Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a prominent master of modernist architecture, once said that architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. What we call Cossack Baroque is in fact a local assimilation of a broader European cultural narrative in the ХVIІ-XVIII century. The diversity of local dialects within one architectural language is one of the key features of Baroque in general. As an architectural style, Cossack Baroque involved an immense variety of local contexts that existed in this cultural field at that period of time. Even today Baroque makes us overcome the dichotomy of high and low styles, as its full value should be appreciated through the categories of genuineness, authenticity, and distinctiveness. The order The main component of the Ukrainian urban architectural heritage is the eclecticism of classical styles. In the 20th century, neoclassicism was superseded by Soviet modernism, leaving a legacy of contrasting patches in the thick of the pre-Soviet era. The period of independence is characterized by an inclusive approach to the development, often chaotic and extemporaneous. One of its widespread trends was the desire to restore classical styles of architecture amid the search for lost identity and forgotten skills. The order is still used in newer construction, but its typology is not just altered, it is distorted and twisted. Language Is there the world beyond language? According to analytic philosophers, logical structure of a language puts limits on how we explore and understand the world. Is then architecture possible beyond language? Architectural styles, for instance, are just the tip of the iceberg from architecture’s perspective. Dig a little deeper — and there is a set of codes and structures connected by a central line. They form an architectural expression, a story, a thought, a plot, and all together — architectural language. There is no expression and, therefore, no creative process and architectural activities beyond language. Do we know architectural language well enough to be fluent in it? Do we need an ‘interpreter’ or a ‘translator’? Unfortunately, the issue of architectural language has not been thoroughly studied yet. Usually, multiple ‘languages’ and ‘dialects’ are translated with the help of only one dictionary — classical architecture. As a result, not only exact meaning is lost, but also numerous possible nuances and interpretations. Do we then understand this language well enough to comprehend not only what architecture says, but also who speaks through it? Do not we modify an original idea through the prism of our own or well-established interpretations? Will there be a name of a building left, when there is no building? Classicism: ordering the Wild Field without asking it The architecture of classicism in Ukraine was originally created within the modernization project of empires. From the point of view of its builders, it served as proof of the existence of civilization and the implementation of a kind of civilizational mission. On the other hand, such modernization was in its own way beneficial not only to the imperial center, but also to some extent to the periphery. However, this fact does not change the essence and character of Russian classicism in Ukraine – it is colonial. Stalinism heritage: is the architecture to blame? The Stalin age in Ukraine is a difficult, traumatic and controversial time. It also makes the perception of the cultural heritage of that era, architecture in particular, difficult. The post-totalitarian trauma of the Ukrainian society prevents the comprehension and perception of those difficult and painful pages of history. The collective memory is at the denial stage, at the stage of oblivion. But unless the past is understood, we cannot overcome its consequences. The comprehension of the heritage of the past is a necessary stage for further development. Order Architecture is all about putting things in order, bringing organised forms into this world and structuring scattered fragments into integral systems. An architect is destined (and at the same time doomed) to constantly improve everything: materials, places, structures, environments, reality and even societies. Classical architecture uses fundamental concepts of canon, type and prototype to put everything in order. It is, in fact, a set of order system rules. However, modernism is hostile to chaos no less than its principle opponent — academic architecture, and manifests norms, standards and unification just the same. Ordering process, however, inevitably reaches its limit. Beyond this limit, order transforms from a tool of progress and rationalisation into a tool restricting and inhibiting creative exploration and diversity. The same goes for historical modernisation processes that usually take place in the name of improvement. Political despotism and the lack of rule of law transform declared values in their opposites, i.e. progress — in stagnation, order — in restrictions, involvement — in colonisation and assistance — in suppression. A progressive idea becomes conservative and hostile. Ukrainian architectural modern Ukrainian architectural modern is one of the most unusual phenomena in the history of Ukrainian architecture. Simply put, it is seen as a purely ethnic style that used "folk motifs." But this is the wrong way. The architecture of this period became part of the global nation-building process. There is a key difference that distinguishes Ukrainian architectural modern from many other styles. It was not forced by the state but arose as a result of base horizontal construction of a new national identity. To be able to implement this idea, the local Ukrainian elite needed, firstly, resources, secondly, professional training, and thirdly, the ideological base. Therefore, architectural modern can be called the child of three major great ideas of its time: modernism, nationalism and social democracy.* Chose your mixed-use residential cluster! Modern and cushy business class quarters at a favorable price. Built in accordance with state-of-the-art international standards this high-quality estate will bring peace of mind and confidence for you and your family. There’s no need to worry since buying an apartment in our residential cluster you’ll get a turn-key ready designed dwelling. For you lead architects and designers have developed a unique design – a PremiumSmartLoft style rooms. Italian plasterboard and Japanese 3d-floors – our young team uses luxury materials only. And the’s a little secret – in order to add some personality to each apartment we apply the newest AI technologies! Nation-building The long nineteenth century, as Eric Hobsbawm labelled the period from 1789 to 1914, was the period when modern nations were formed. National projects were aimed first at uniting disparate social groups through a sense of common identity and culture and then at developing relevant political institutions. In this context, architecture served as a manifestation of a new identity embodied in space, as a materialised metaphor for distinctiveness and sovereignty and nation’s ability to establish its own traditions. From the very beginning, the Ukrainian national project was stateless and fiercely competed with other projects. That is why Ukrainian intellectuals sought artistic solutions primarily in the rural culture and folk tradition. This is how “the new Ukrainian style” was formed. Later it would be called Ukrainian architectural modernism. The term ‘nation-building’ is more deeply rooted in the Western tradition. Here obvious reference to architecture does not seem accidental. Can we talk today about the emergence of a new Ukrainian style, Ukrainian post-modern architecture, insofar as social and cultural contexts are reflected in architecture? Water Goodbye, old Dnipro! That year, in the spring, you will wake up as already young Dnipro! Dnipro of electricity of the future, wide and free, like this stormy sea. Geo Shkurupii, Dmytro Buzko Across the field Across the field which lies near my home, I walk the same road every day, but every day I come to a new place. Anna Yutchenko Resource Land, water, forests, mineral deposits — all these resources exist only for architecture to utilise them. World architecture criticism of the 1970s-1980s attributed such approach to modernist architects, while post-Soviet critics — solely to Soviet ones. The crisis of modernity in Ukraine coincided with the Chornobyl disaster, which seemed to make environmental protection a priority issue and made it clear that the ‘resource approach’ had run its course. However, today, despite general condemnation of Soviet economic management methods and abundance of environmental theories, management models are no less resource-intensive. Moreover, stakeholders have a great and continuing interest in resources: they struggle for, spend, buy, appropriate, exhaust and destroy them. While nominally still a ‘public’ good, natural resources are hardly public de facto; much less we perceive them as such. Society does not notice ‘public property’ and therefore is unaware of its loss. Nowadays, architecture has become a part of material cultural heritage and turned into our public good. Not only forests, water and land, but also landmarks have become abstract, vulnerable and invisible elements of our reality. Just as other public goods, architectural heritage is a non-renewable resource. Will we be able to leave anything for future generations or just waste everything now? Subway in the city's infrastructure: a complex of significance From the construction of the first Belle Époque tube in London to the present day, the subway is like no other transport infrastructure associated with scientific and technological progress and still serves as a sign of a high level of "civilization". The architects of the end of the "long 19th century", as well as the "short 20th century" did not imagine the city of the future without the subway. This type of public transport is still perceived by urban residents as an unconditional benefit, occupying an important place in the identity and evoking a sense of pride and affection. Open city Slavutych is the last city in the Soviet Union, an “atomograd” (or “nuclear city”) that was meant to replace the tragically famous Prypyat, devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on April 26, 1986. Thus, a small town with a population of 25,000 people was at the center of political events in the last years of the USSR, becoming almost the last attempt of the state to respond to the deep political, economic and social crisis that followed the catastrophe. And the involvement of architects and builders of the eight republics of the USSR in the design and implementation of Slavutych – an attempt to "strengthen" the fading friendship of the Soviet peoples at the time of its collapse. Infrastructure Infrastructure is a source of pride, a political promise and an indicator of culture, progress and even civilising missions of states. Parisians are proud of their sewers, Romans — of their roads, and Londoners — of their underground, just as Kyivans do. In Latin, ‘infrastructure’ literally means ‘below a building’ or ‘below/beyond a structure’. Therefore, infrastructure is often the most inconspicuous object of the architectural environment. Can, however, ‘superstructure’ exist without the basis formed by ‘infrastructure’? Infrastructure connects network elements, offers comfort, ensures safety and security, and provides freedom of movement and equal access to resources. These are not unnecessary sources of pride or unprofitable subsidies we get rid of by reducing social, transport and cultural infrastructure. What we lose is, perhaps, the most important tool of democracy, inclusiveness and horizontal engagement of communities. Typical rest Formerly, rest meant only recovery after exhausting work and consisted of sleep, time for food, and a Sunday visit to church. The upper strata of society had access to a variety of rest or unlimited rest. Instead, the modern era has offered such forms of rest as tourism. Now travel out of necessity (business) or need (natural disasters, war) has acquired research, cultural, entertainment purposes or even lost them altogether. The urbanization processes of the 19th century and the resulting availability of public transport (rail, tram, shipping) rapidly increased mobility for the masses, making freedom of movement the new norm. Of course, only the bourgeoisie could afford a full vacation or trip. Their request stimulated the formation of architectural typologies of hotels, boarding houses and resorts. Dacha – a place to escape The Renaissance literature begins with The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio – the story about ten young men and ladies from prosperous families go to a country estate escaping from the plague & entertain each other by sharing the stories. The Decameron is not just about the plague, however, it’s also about a new age, since its characters are brave enough to criticize the Church, the foundation stone of the medieval community. It’s not about escaping from the epidemic, but also it’s an escape from the society of that period, that was finding itself in a crisis. Rest Work and fatigue go hand in hand. There is a need to rest, of course. Rest and work are two interrelated categories within a day and a calendar year. Is there a direct correlation: less work ― more rest? Or the more we work, the more we rest? For a long time, only privileged segments of society could enjoy leisure time. Others had to fight for an opportunity to rest, for leisure duration and quality, and limited working hours. Different political systems offered different approaches to the problem of collective recreation. Architectural topologies evolved from country villas and hotels to a network of health resorts, boarding houses, recreation centres, and even the whole recreation areas. While work has been always a social need, leisure has become a public good only recently. Under current conditions, it is important to ask yourself: is rest a luxury or a right nowadays? “The fifth line” as a weapon against competitors After the Second World War, the attitude towards Jews in the USSR changed dramatically as compared to the interwar period. Until then, the Jewish people had been regarded as a “loyal” minority without a conceivable homeland outside the USSR. (Although as far back as the mid-1930s they were unofficially squeezed out of the administration higher-ups, with an opportunity left for them to pursue careers in the fields of science and culture). However, after the proclamation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Communist party leadership and security services began regarding Soviet Jews, who were cultural professionals, worked at universities or medical institutions, as being a threat. In the territories that had undergone Nazi occupation during the war, this attitude was further intensified by the consequences of three years-long exerting ideological influence of outright anti-Semitic propaganda upon the local population. Interdetermination “Interdetermination” is a visual study the purpose of which is to distillate the relations between the human body as an environment projection pattern and the environment itself that forms social and cultural practices around this body. Affordances and constraints The concept of affordances and constraints is consistent in its duality: the two phenomena are impossible and unthinkable without each other. Architecture requires extensive material resources, and therefore always depends on those, who can provide them. On the one hand, availability of resources defines the category of affordances, on the other — architect’s dependence on resources is always associated with constraints, set up by a customer, state, society or other stakeholders. Architects have to align their design with reality and implement it as applicable. For instance, natural factors and nature itself are both affordances and constraints for an architect (that’s what accounts for drama in their relationship). There are also such rational constraints as a project budget or state construction regulations and rules. Ideally, a system of public standards, just like laws, is supposed to protect public interests from architectural failures. Architects are only partially constrained by these norms, which quite often become a starting point for creative exploration and encourage looking for unconventional solutions. But what if constraints are irrational and not only limit architects’ affordances, but suffocate them as creators, personalities and representatives of a certain group or nation? Just like political or social censorship. In this case, there are only two, rather unpromising, options for an architect left: to adapt and disappear as a creative thinker or to voluntary or forcibly leave the profession. Natalia Chmutina – “the Iron Lady” of Ukrainian architecture Natalia Borysivna Chmutina (1912–2005) — an outstanding Ukrainian architect, honoured academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture, People’s architect of Ukraine, PhD in architecture, professor. Do (not) build like girls do Every one of us, both boys and girls, after having finished school need to make a tough choice of our future trade. We do not always choose it on our own though. Our family and the society assert all along that this occupation “doesn’t befit women/men”, “you won’t make much money with it”, “this is not a prestige profession”. Even if you managed to get what you had craved for and entered your dream architectural college, the challenges do not end there. Visibility and presence What can be more visible than architecture? The mere existence of architectural objects inevitably proves the existence of an architect. However, although our environment has plenty of constructions and even towns and cities, designed and built by women, female architects remain invisible for some unknown reason. Women’s contribution to the world culture is ignored, no matter how accurate and sound evidence of the quantity and quality of the architecture created by women is. All arguments are refuted by the same old statement: ‘There are no women in architecture’. This hopeless discussion has been going around in circles for several decades now, triggered by an inevitable need to prove the contrary. However, lack of visibility goes hand in hand with another problem — lack of voice. Architecture is a message, rather than just material volumes of buildings and spaces they occupy. One should not only exist, be visible and recognised to express oneself in architecture, but also to have the opportunity and right to speak. Moreover, your voice should be strong enough to control and materialise your message. Therefore, a voice in architecture is an attribute of a role, position, authority and power, rather than just of a mere presence. Here we get to the next round of contradictions: it is impossible to build and, therefore, express oneself without a voice, but a woman cannot get her voice and become visible unless she builds something. However, even if a female architect overcomes all obstacles, finds her voice and builds plenty of objects, can we be sure that future generations will not deny her existence, because ‘there are no women in architecture’? Pioneer camps The first children's summer camps appeared in the late 19th century in the United States and Europe. There are mentions of children's camps also in the Russian Empire. The ideas underlying the support of the camps by private individuals and statesmen in the capitalist West and in the early USSR were very similar. Both believed that urban industrialized space is harmful to children who have to spend more time in nature. It was also widely believed at the time that skilled professionals could better raise children than their own parents. In the context of these views, children's camps became institutions and spaces that were to combine the functions of rehabilitation, recreation and education. Childhood memories Every summer my brothers and I used to go to the summer cottage that belonged to our mom’s parents. Childhood The architecture of the 18th-19th century tended to neglect children. The architecture of the 20th century, in its turn, perceived children as a problem: no political or social matter could be settled without addressing it. Only delegating childcare to a state could solve the issue of equality and access to work. There could hardly be a project of a city or a district without a kindergarten, school, medical facility etc. That was true for both capitalist and socialist countries. However, while some obtained their rights, others had their rights still limited in the 20th century. Architecture of childcare facilities defined children as objects, deprived of their identity and right to decide over their own bodies and creativity. Several generations of Soviet children were deeply traumatised by growing up within the education system of that period, and architecture, perhaps, played an important role in the process. There is scarcely a post-Soviet family with no legends of scary kindergartens, brutal schools, gloomy hospitals, and summer camps, where children were forced to stay. There are good reasons, why stories about children escaping from educational institutions become manifests of rebellious generations in times of social changes, e.g. Oliver Twist, Antoine Doinel from The 400 Blows, Kostya Inochkin from Welcome, or No Trespassing and Lena Bessoltseva from Scarecrow. Is another architecture possible? Architecture that would be a friend, rather than a jailer. Architecture that would support, rather than re-educate. Architecture that would create opportunities, rather than barriers. This leads to another question: Is the Ukrainian society ready to change its attitude to children and their rights? Crimean Tatar modernism – an architectural project that did not happen The biography of Moisei Ginzburg (1892–1946), one of the main theorists of Soviet constructivism, reveals some episodes related to the Crimea. Those remained on the margins despite the researchers’ thorough focus on the creative career of the architect. I am inviting the readers to cast a look at how Ginzburg tackled the Crimea issue, and to see whether the experience he gained during his stay on the peninsula influenced his growth as an architect. Everybody wants to live by the sea Hidden memories of the peoples, nations and states struggling for possession of the Crimean peninsula along with the artist’s personal memories are transformed in a semi-documentary display of imagery and distinctive architectural forms that tells the story of the land, its past and, consequently, its future.* Appropriation Architecture is accustomed to the phenomenon of cultural appropriation: from using relics that crusaders took from Constantinople to build St. Mark's Basilica to the wave of rampant appropriation of Asian, African, Middle Eastern architectural heritage in the period of eclecticism (historicism, revivalism). Architects, often guided by far-fetched understanding of exotic culture, synthesised multiple variations of orientalism (Moorish style, Chinoiserie, Japonisme, Mudéjar style etc.) that flooded streets of London, Paris, Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv in the second part of the 19th century. Modernism’s attitude to appropriation and orientalism was more subtle, and its interpretations were less obvious: form- and space-based approach to heritage of donor cultures superseded vulgar borrowing of separate elements or décor. In particular, Le Corbusier and Moisei Ginzburg used Islamic folk architecture to develop their own modernist method. Unlike mass culture, architecture still deftly avoids ethical evaluation of appropriation and tries to stay within the confines of aesthetics and customers’ preferences. Addressing the phenomenon of heritage (in its unity of material and immaterial forms) could fill in this gap. Destiny of indigenous heritage could complete the logic chain, where material appropriation (colonisation, expropriation, appropriation of relics and valuables and occupation) inevitably follows immaterial one. Appropriation, therefore, goes hand in hand with exploitation and suppression, displacement and extermination of peoples and their cultural heritage. At first, they just ‘like’ your culture, then they start copying it, and finally they want to appropriate your house and land. Renaissance migration and immigration: ideas, people, style In his essay "Migration, Tolerance and Intolerance", Umberto Eco proposes to distinguish between the concepts of "migration" and "immigration". Immigration is when a small group of people moves from one country to another. Accordingly, this phenomenon can be politically controlled, limited, stimulated, or taken for granted. Recalling They once left Ukraine – on the eve of the First World War, between the wars or during the perestroika, but still call themselves Ukrainians. They took with them memories of mountains, Hutsul legends about forest spirits, their native language, and created their own Ukraine — somewhere overseas — as an alternative reality that might have existed in our country as well if we had not been in the arms of empires for a long time. However, history does not know a conditional mode, so now here in mainland Ukraine, we are trying to deal with the postcolonial consciousness and traumas of the Soviet past, and they, the Ukrainians of Canada, are proud of their national identity and research Ukrainian culture and history. Together with embroidered shirts and chests, they managed to take out a part of the Ukrainian soul and preserve it. A striking example is the preserved Ukrainian spelling of the 1920’s. However, they failed to completely isolate themselves from the cultural influences of another continent, so a strange surzhyk of Ukrainian and English languages was formed in Canada, and sometimes Canadian Ukrainian sounds exotic to us. Migration To what extent is a migration process crucial for spreading architectural styles and ideas? On the one hand, talented immigrants accepted rules of new societies, getting an opportunity to implement things that were impossible back home. On the other — diasporas created authentic architectural phenomena, which went far beyond their limits, becoming a desirable asset for representatives of wider social groups. It should be noted that diasporic architecture was often ‘more national’ than homeland one. There was also a third trend of encouraging ‘professional migration’. In that case, local elites ‘bought’ an architectural style to be a part of a prestigious phenomenon. All three trends have one thing in common: migration boosts development and enriches culture of the party ‘receiving’ a migration wave. The question of ownership of architectural heritage goes beyond the national problem and becomes a matter of cultural diplomacy, international relations and law. Who is then responsible for preserving heritage that has no ‘advocates’ and protectors? For instance, heritage of peoples that no longer live on certain territories, have lost their identity, have been forcibly displaced or wiped out. What should we do with material evidence of contribution of those, who are no longer with us and, therefore, who do not have us anymore?	https://ukrarchipedia.com/en/labor
The invention relates to a special vehicle lamplight detection and analysis system and a detection method thereof. The system comprises a guide rail, a base trolley, an upright post, a light receiving box, an optical system, a camera, a singlechip processing system, an embedded computer data processing system, an ultrasonic ranging system and a ranging alarm system, wherein the camera below the light receiving box acquires a vehicle license plate and vehicle information, and the ultrasonic ranging system informs a driver of the proper position of the test distance through an alarm lamp. A method for judging the highest light intensity of a light spot center by using a middle photocell and judging the light spot symmetry of a high beam by judging the light spot shift angle through the upper, lower, left and right photocells and a method for calculating the offset are used, and the states of the photocells above and below a light and dark cutoff line and the photocells in the direction of a 15-degree or 45-degree angle are judged, so that the position of the light and dark cutoff line of the low beam is judged, and the illumination qualities of the high beam and the low beam are detected.
Returning to SXSW after multiple appearances since its US premiere in 2008, Zona Tango can be defined as the most eclectic project of the Argentine gifted composer, arranger and multiinstrumentalist Pedro Menéndez: a galvanizing force blending electronics, tango, jazz, folk and contemporary elements beyond any traditional limits. Recognized as a pioneer of the avant-garde fusion style in his country, Pedro Menendez's unique performance and composition style can be appreciated throughout his vast discography and a long career of national and international live performances in Latin America, North America, Europe and Taiwan. "Zona Tango Meets Hispanoamerica" is the 4th coming work of Zona Tango: a new mix challenge of Spanish roots and Tango cadences.. Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.	https://schedule.sxsw.com/2019/artists/2007082
Tracking dendritic shrinkage of retinal ganglion cells after acute elevation of intraocular pressure. To investigate dendritic changes of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and the rate of dendritic shrinkage after retinal ischemia induced by acute elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP). After elevating the IOP to 110 mm Hg for 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes, a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (CSLO) was used to serially image the retinas of the Thy-1 YFP transgenic mice in vivo for 1 to 3 months. Dendritic and axonal arborizations of 52 RGCs were visualized and followed longitudinally. Dendritic field, dendritic branching complexity (modified Sholl analysis), axonal diameter, and cell body area were measured. A total of 426 longitudinal measurements of dendritic field and dendritic complexity were analyzed for estimation of rate of change with linear mixed modeling. There were no morphologic changes of RGCs after 30 (n = 12) or 60 (n = 12) minutes of ischemia. After 90 minutes of ischemia (n = 19), 78.9% of RGCs showed progressive loss of dendrites, axon, and cell body, 5.3% had only mild reduction of branching complexity and shrinkage of dendritic field whereas 15.8% showed no morphologic changes. All RGCs lost dendritic and axonal arborizations after 120 minutes of ischemia (n = 9). The rates of reduction of dendritic field were 11.7% per day (95% confidence interval, 5.0%-18.4% per day) after 90 minutes, and 15.1% per day (10.3%-19.9% per day) after 120 minutes of ischemia. RGCs demonstrated dendritic shrinkage after 90 to 120 minutes, but not after 30 to 60 minutes of ischemia. In vivo imaging of dendritic changes could provide a sensitive approach to measure the rate of dendritic shrinkage after acute IOP elevation.
Welcome to Cutie PITooties Pit Bull Rescue! Making the world a better place- one pit bull adoption at a time. CPPBR is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based out of Austin, Texas. We are dedicated to the protection and rescue of the American Pit Bull terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier and other pit bull type and bully breed dogs. CPPBR helps to find responsible, nourishing and safe homes for dogs of these breeds who are facing euthanasia. It is our hope to restore to them the positive image that they deserve and end breed discrimination, neglect and abuse. We will strive for this through public education on responsible pet ownership including the importance of proper health care, socialization, and population control through spay and neuter.	http://www.cutiepitooties.org/
The mysterious object known as Kamoʻoalewa appears to be a wandering fragment of the moon, the researchers report online November 11 on Communications Earth & Environment. The violent history of the moon is written on his face. Over the course of billions of years, space rocks have perforated craters on its surface, expelling debris. Now, for the first time, astronomers may have spotted the rubble of one of those ancient collisions in space. Discovered in 2016, Kamoʻoalewa, also known as 2016 HO3, is one of the five known quasi-satellites of the Earth. These are rocks that attach quite close to the planet as they orbit the sun. Little is known about Earth’s entourage of space rocks because these objects are so small and faint. Kamoʻoalewa, for example, it is the size of a Ferris wheel and it moves away from the Earth between 40 and 100 times as much as the moon, since its orbit around the sun is intertwined in and out of that of the Earth. This left astronomers to wonder about the nature of such rocks. “An object in a quasi-satellite orbit is interesting because it is very difficult to enter this type of orbit, it is not the type of orbit in which an object in the asteroid belt could easily find itself trapped”says Richard Binzel, a planetary scientist at MIT not involved in the new work. Having an orbit nearly identical to that of Earth immediately raises the suspicion that an object like Kamo’oalewa originated in the Earth-Moon system, he says. The researchers used the Large Binocular Telescope and Lowell Discovery Telescope, respectively in Safford and Happy Jack, Arizona, to scan Kamoʻoalewa in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths. “The real treasure is in the infrared”says Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Light at those wavelengths contains important clues to minerals in rocky bodies, helping to distinguish objects such as the moon, asteroids and terrestrial planets. Kamoʻoalewa: maybe not just speculation Kamoʻoalewa reflected more sunlight at longer or redder wavelengths. This pattern of light, or spectrum, looked unlike any other known near-Earth asteroid, Reddy and colleagues found. But they looked like grains of silicate rock from the moon brought back to Earth by Apollo 14 astronauts. “For me”, says Binzel, “The main hypothesis is that it is a fragment ejected from the moon, by a crater event”. Martin Connors, who was involved in the discovery of Earth’s first known quasi-satellites but was not involved in the new research, also suspects that Kamo’oalewa is a small fragment of the old moon. “This is a well-founded proof”says Connors, a planetary scientist at Athabasca University in Canada. But, he warns, “This does not mean that it is right”. More detailed observations could help confirm that Kamoʻoalewa is made of lunar material. “If you really wanted to put that nail in the coffin, you would want to go visit, or meet with this little quasisatellite and make many close observations”says Daniel Scheeres, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder not involved in the work. “The best thing would be to get a sample.” The Chinese space agency has announced plans to send a probe to Kamo’oalewa to collect some rock and bring it back to Earth at the end of this decade.	https://pledgetimes.com/kamo%CA%BBoalewa-could-be-a-piece-of-the-moon-orbiting-us/

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