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उनकी संयुक्त सुनवाई करनी होगी। हमें यह देखना है कि क्या सभी आरोपी याचिका का समर्थन करते हैं या विरोध। स्टेशन और ट्रेन में खाने की डिलेवरी के लिए पैसेंजर्स के पास मेन्यू भी होगा पेंशन के लिए जाएंगे कोर्ट एमसीए उपाध्यक्ष आशीष शेलार ने कहा कि मुंबई क्रिकेट एसोसिएशन (एमसीए) की हुई एक मैनेजिंग कमेटी की बैठक में शाहरूख पर लगे प्रतिबंध को समाप्त करने का निर्णय लिया गया। रिवाल्वर रानी फिल्म के सेट डिजाइनर की मौत, मुंबई जाने से पहले हुआ हादसे का शिकार डीसी ईशा कालिया की तरफ से इस संबंध में बाकायदा सेहत विभाग के अधिकारियों के साथ बैठक की थी। इसके बाद पूरे जिले में फॉगिंग और स्प्रे के आदेश दिए गए थे। हालांकि कुछ एरिया में उचित फॉगिंग न होने के मामले भी सामने आए थे। साथ ही अधिकारियों को कहा गया कि डेंगू के प्रति लोगों को जागरूक करें। इतना ही नहीं जिले के सभी सरकारी अस्पतालों में डेंगू का इलाज फ्री है। सोने और चांदी के दाम गिरने से सराफा व्यापारियों को इसका लाभ मिल रहा है। ज्वेलर्स भी राखी के ट्रेंड को समझ रहे हैं, इसलिए ऐसी राखियां बनाई हैं, जो सिर्फ रक्षाबंधन के लिए ही नहीं हैं। ब्रेसलेट फॉर्म में</s> |
Outline and assess sociological explanations of why some groups are more likely to be victims than others
Many sociologists argue that crime is not randomly patterned; some groups within society are much more likely to be victims of crime than others. Gender, ethnicity and social class are three key characteristics that may influence the likelihood of victimisation. However, it is very difficult to measure rates of victimisation because relatively little crime is reported to the police. This means that a huge proportion of crime is “hidden” (referred to as the ‘dark figure of crime’) and for every hidden crime, there is a potential hidden victim.
Feminists such as Walby, Walklate and Allen believe that female victims are ignored and/or hidden. They link this to the patriarchal nature of society, meaning that it is in the interests of men to cover their crimes by discouraging women from reporting crimes they have been a victim of. For example, Hall argued that only about 8% of rape is reported. This may be due to low prosecution rates, fear of not being believed, having to relive the trauma by giving testimony and through fear of being blamed. There are high-profile accounts of rape victims being ‘blamed’ for their victimisation. For example, in the 1980s, a High Court Judge claimed that “women who say no don’t always mean no”. The New Right perspective in particular has been criticised for putting the emphasis on the responsibility of victims for their own victimisation.
However, in contrast to feminist views, statistically males are significantly more likely than females to be victims of crime. It could also be argued that male rape victims are even more likely to be ‘hidden’ than female victims, due to the perceived added social taboo of being a male rape victim. The Crime Survey for England & Wales (a national victimisation survey) today also estimates the rate of reported rapes at significantly higher than Hall’s 8%.
Statistics have also shown that ethnic minorities are more likely to be victims of crime within the UK. Left Realists Lea & Young argued that young black males are the most likely to be victims of crime in Britain, often through the actions of other young black males, but also through racist practices by the police. This is supported in part by the Macpherson Inquiry into the racially motivated murder of Stephen Lawrence. Macpherson found evidence of institutional racism within the Metropolitan police force, suggesting that they were taking cases where the victim was black less seriously and pursuing them less rigorously. This may mean ethnic minorities are less likely to report crimes against them to the police. Marxists like Castles & Kosack have argued that capitalism promotes racism to justify poor treatment/pay in work of ethnic minorities and this increases the chances of those ethnic minorities being victims of crime.
Marxists and Left Realists would also argue that working-class people are more likely than wealthier people to be victims of crime. In particular, Marxists would claim that many poor people around the world are victims of corporate crime. Marxists claim that the illegal and immoral practices of corporations around the world are considered normal under capitalism. This means that many victims of corporate crime do not know they are victims, and therefore these crimes go unreported and are hidden. For example, the illegal practices of the banking industry – leading to a global financial crisis – devastated the lives of individuals, groups and whole societies around the world. The capitalist system protects these criminals from prosecution and therefore their victims are not recognised.
The Marxist arguments can be accused of being reductionist; placing the blame solely on capitalism. Left Realists have argued that, although victims of corporate crime should be taken seriously, victims of street crimes and violence are a more immediate concern. Corporate crime arguably impacts middle-class people just as much as the working-classes. Nonetheless, working-class people overall are significantly more likely to be victims of crime. Perhaps contradicting the Marxist view, however, the main offenders are not the bourgeoisie, but are other working-class people.
Overall, there are some convincing sociological explanations for the increased chances of victimisation of certain groups in society. However, the difficulties in measuring victimisation – leading to an unknowable amount of ‘hidden victims’ – makes it impossible to confirm the true rates of victimisation of different groups.
Crime & Deviance
A2 Unit: G673 |
Oklahoma Expands Oil, Gas Drilling Regulations to Prevent Earthquakes
Oklahoma is revising and expanding its oil and gas regulations in response to a sharp rise in earthquakes across the state which has damaged homes and spurred concerns regarding the state’s energy industry.
However, the broadened rules fall short of the more drastic measures that had been expected after last month brought an influx of significant earthquakes.
According to a July 17 Reuters report, Oklahoma is one of several states in the central U.S. to have seen a sharp increase in the number of earthquakes it has seen since 2009. Scientists have attributed the increase to the injection of briny waste water — a byproduct of oil and gas production — into the ground.
Today, Oklahoma sees approximately two earthquakes above magnitude 3.0 per day. Before 2009, there were about two of these earthquakes per year.
Contrary to popular belief, however, the earthquakes are not a result of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” even though about 95% of new wells being drilled are hydraulically fractured. Instead, researchers say they believe the quakes stem from the re-injection of the briny waste-water created during oil and natural gas production.
As part of its new regulations, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission has expanded its “Areas of Interest,” or regions of the state hardest-hit by these earthquakes, and has added a series of restrictions for 211 disposal wells.
Drilling rig operators in the affected areas will now be required to display proof that they aren’t injecting water below the state’s deepest rock formation. Other well operators will be required to inject water at a shallower depth, as well.
With global proved oil reserves growing by approximately 27% over the last 10 years, giving enough supply to meet another 53.3 years of worldwide production, Oklahoma’s revised rules are an important step to making sure the oil and gas industry can thrive without threatening others’ safety.
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बुक में दर्ज हो जाएगी. अभी बाहरी दीवार पर 54,000 वर्ग फुट क्षेत्र में पेंटिंग की जा रही है. इस बीच केजरीवाल पर सनसनीखेज आरोप लगाने वाले मिश्रा भी सदन में मौजूद थे लेकिन वह अपने निर्धारित स्थान से इतर दूसरे स्थान पर बैठे थे। हालांकि मिश्रा ने सदन में ईवीएम की गड़बड़ी के पक्ष में अपनी बात रखी। 5880 को पाने में हमने एक साथी राम दुलारे को खो दिया। हम यहां भी नहीं रुके और प्वाइंट 5685 के लिए चढ़ाई शुरू कर दी। सूरज निकला ही था कि बारूदी सुरंगों ने हमारे पांच साथियों की जान ले ली। ऊपर से पाकिस्तानी सैनिक अंधाधुंध फायरिंग कर रहे थे। ब्लैक आइलाइनर और रेड पाउट का एक अच्छा कॉम्बिनेशन हो सकता है. हाइलाइटर या ब्रॉजर का इस्तेमाल करें और लोगों को अपना मुरीद बनाने के लिए तैयार हो जायें. यह किसी भी एज ग्रुप पर परफेक्ट लगता है क्योंकि यह हर स्किन पर सूट करता है. इसलिए रेड लिप्स्टिक चुनें और वैलेंटाइन डे को और भी खास बनायें. उत्तरी दिल्ली के गुलाबी बाग स्थित अंधा मुगल इलाके में बदमाश ने पुलिस टीम पर गोली चला दी। पुलिस आरोपी को गिरफ्तार करने उसके घर गई थी। बदमाश के परिजनों ने पुलिस टीम</s> |
फर्स्ट क्लास क्रिकेट में उनके आंकड़े हैरान कर देते हैं. यहां उन्होंने 230 मैचों में 908 विकेट लिए और 4343 रन भी बनाए. नई दिल्लीः संजय लीला भंसाली की बहुप्रतीक्षित फिल्म पद्मावती को भले ही सेंसर बोर्ड से मंजूरी मिल गई हो लेकिन इसकी रिलीज पर संकट बरकरार नजर आ रहे हैं. शनिवार को जैसे ही पद्मावती का नाम बदलकर पद्मावत कर रिलीज होने की खबरें आईं, वैसे ही राजपूत करणी सेना की ओर से भी बयान आ गया. राजपूत करणी सेना ने आरोप लगाया है कि अंडरवर्ल्ड के दबाव में पद्मावती को मंजूरी दी जा रही है. करणी सेना ने एक बार फिर धमकी दी है कि जिस भी हॉल में पद्मावती दिखाई जाएगी उसे तहसनहस कर दिया जाएगा. रतलाम। नईदुनिया प्रतिनिघिळर्ऊि्झ। भोपाल में आयोजित किसान महोत्सव व उसमें मुख्यमंत्री शिवराजसिंह चौह रुझान: कर्नाटक में चला मोदी का जादू, बीजेपी 115 नॉट आउट रतनगढ़ माता मंदिर के दर्शन कर वापस लौट रही ट्रैक्टरट्रॉली अनियंत्रित होकर सोमवार पलटी गई। हादसे में ट्रॉली में सवार एक महिला की मौके पर ही मौत हो गई, जबकि एक दर्जन से श्रृद्धालू घायल हो गये। जिन्हे इलाज के लिये सामुदायिक स्वास्थ्य केन्द्र में भर्ती कराया। सूचना पर पहुंची पुलिस ने महिला के शव को</s> |
सेब के बीज वाले हिस्से को अलग कर लें। फिर सेब को मीडियम साइज के क्यूब्स में काट लें। लक्ष्य का पीछा करते हुए, भारतीय सलामी बल्लेबाज तेंदुलकर और प्रभाकर ने शानदार बल्लेबाजी की, क्योंकि उन्होंने 161 रन के शुरुआती स्टैंड पर टीम को अच्छी जीत के लायक बनाया। प्रभाकर 60 के स्कोर पर आउट हो गए, लेकिन तेंदुलकर ने शानदार शतक जमाया। वह 112 रनों पर नॉट आउट रहे और भारत ने 16.5 ओवर रहते हुए मैच जीत लिया।तेंदुलकर की पारी में 15 चौके और एक छक्का शामिल था। इस शतक के दम पर तेंदुलकर 3000 वनडे रन बनाने वाले सबसे कम उम्र के बल्लेबाज बन गए, वह अपने 22वें जन्मदिन से तब 15 दिन पीछे थे। अत्याचार की कोई भी घटना समाज, देश पर कलंक है गद्दी में ये मूर्तियां है स्थापित नयी दिल्ली, 19 अक्टूबर (भाषा) केंद्र और प्रदर्शनकारी किसानों के बीच मध्यस्थता करने की मेघालय के राज्यपाल सत्यपाल मलिक की पेशकश पर किसान नेताओं ने मंगलवार को कहा कि भाजपा सरकार को पार्टी में सही सोचने वाले लोगों की सुननी चाहिए और जनवरी से रुकी पड़ी वार्ता बहाल करनी चाहिए। कांग्रेस ने सिर्फ आदिवासियों को वोट बैंक समझा पीएम जांच में यह भी बात सामने आी</s> |
Taiwan lies off the southeast coast of the Asian Continent, where the tropical and subtropical zones come together. Surrounded by the sea and dominated by high mountains created by tectonic action over the eons, the country features a full range of climates and terrains from the tropical to the frigid. The variations in weather, geology, and elevation give Taiwan an unparalleled richness of flora and fauna, including many endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world. Taiwan is, in fact, a northern-hemisphere microcosm and natural treasure house that, truly, must be seen to be believed.
If you want to know how beautiful Taiwan really is, you have to come and see for yourself. You will be amazed at the diversity of ancient species this beautiful and relatively young island has to offer. Come and explore its numerous mountains, forests, wetlands and oceans, and find an incredible collection of natural ecosystems.
Flora and Fauna
Taiwan harbors a great diversity of organic life, and some variations are rarely found elsewhere in the world. An example is the black forest similar to that in Germany, with vegetation going back 30 to 60 million years, such as Taxus sumatrana, mangrove, Taiwan isoetes, and the rare high-altitude grass plains. The world's oldest amphibian, the Formosan salamander, can also be found here, as well as the Formosan black bear, the Mikado pheasant and the land-locked salmon. The beautiful azalea, cherry blossom and maple leaf are also subjects of admiration. If you want to experience this diverse animal and plant life, consider a visit to one of Taiwan's national scenic areas, national parks or forests, or nature reserves, as these form the most ideal outdoor natural resource learning opportunities in Taiwan.
Taiwan's national parks, including Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan), Taroko, Yu Mountain (Yushan), Shei-Pa, Kending (Kenting), Kinmen, Dongsha Atoll, and Taijiang, form the back garden of Taiwan and in themselves are natural treasure-houses. Next to beautiful sceneries, they provide the shelter to unique animal and plant life, including insects, fish, and birds. The natural reserves actually form miniature ecosystems that not only provide a protected environment but also offer a great alternative for recreational activities, environmental education and academic research. Here, visitors can get away from their hectic lives in the city and enjoy the serene environment.
Taiwan is surrounded by oceans and therefore has a long coastline, which offers different sceneries wherever you go. The West Coast mainly consists of sand dunes, sand beaches, sand bars and lagoons, and its straight coastline is rather monotonous. The East Coast on the contrary presents a dramatic coastline of towering cliffs that almost directly descend into the deep sea. The coastal plains here are very narrow. The rock formations at the North Coast alternate with beautiful bays and offer the most varied coastal landscape of Taiwan, while the South Coast mainly consists of coral reefs. The offshore islands of Taiwan also offer a great variety of geographical landscapes that are characteristic for the region, such as the basaltic rocks of the Penghu islands, the granite rocks of Kinmen, and the marine erosions of Matzu.
Butterflies: Some 17,000 different species of butterflies are known around the world; almost 400 can be seen in Taiwan, 50 of which are endemic to the island. There are many different sites where you can go to watch them dance in the air, including Doll Valley in Wulai near Taipei, Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan) National Park, Mt. Jiaoban, and Mt.Lala along the Northern Cross-Island Highway, Qilan near Taipingshan (Ta-ping Mountain) , Guguan, Li Mountain (Lishan) , and Cuifeng along the Central Cross-Island Highway, Nanshan River and Huisun Forest near Puli, Shanlin River (Sunlinksea) in Nantou County, Butterfly Valley in Maolin near Kaohsiung County, Sheding Park and Nanren Mountain (Nanrenshan) in Kending (Kenting) , and Butterfly Valley in Taitung.
Birds: Because of its warm and humid climate, Taiwan has extremely rich vegetation which attracts many birds. Located at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, it is also a favorite resting area for migrating birds. Resident and migrating birds total some 440 species, and endemic birds such as the black-faced spoonbill and the Sterna leucoptera can be seen here. Sites for watching these migrating birds include the Guandu swamplands in the northern Taiwan, Yilan swamplands, mouth of the Exit Dadu River in the central Taiwan and Gaopin River in the southern Taiwan. Other bird-watching sites are the Penghu islands, Matzu, Wulai, Mt. Hehuan, Xitou, Ali Mountain (Alishan), Yangming Mountain (Yangmingshan) National Park, Yu Mountain (Yushan) National Park, Shei-Pa National Park, Taroko National Park, Kending (Kenting) National Park, Kinmen National Park, Taijiang National Park, Northeast Coast National Scenic Area, and East Coast and the East Rift Valley National Scenic Areas. |
खुद के लिए क्यों ना कर लें कुछ लोग है जो फिर भी आपकी आलोचना करेंगे. नई दिल्ली: आमतौर पर नमकीन और पराठों में इस्तेमाल होने वाली अजवाइन खाने का स्वाद बढ़ाती है. अजवाइन के छोटेछोटे बीजों में कई गुणकारी तत्व मौजूद होते हैं. अजवाइन सर्दीजुकाम, बहती नाक और ठंड से निजात पाने की अचूक दवा है. इसमें भरपूर मात्रा में एंटीऑक्सीडेंट और जलनरोधी तत्व पाए जाते हैं, जो न सिर्फ छाती में जमे कफ से छुटकारा दिलाते हैं बल्कि सर्दी और साइनस में आराम देते हैं. लेकिन क्या आप जानते हैं अजवाइन महिलाओं के लिए भी काफी फायदेमंद होता है. यह महिलाओं के लिए एक खास जड़ी बूटी है खासकर प्रसव के बाद यह महिलाओं के लिए काफी फायदेमंद मानी जाती है. : बेटी के जन्म के बाद विराट कोहली की पत्नी का ग्लैमरस फोटोशूट, अनुष्का शर्मा के पर बात करने लगे लोग [बॉलीवुड न्यूज] दिल धड़कने दो ने लगातार दर्शकों को सरप्राइज देने का प्लान बना लिया है। तभी तो कलाकारों के फर्स्ट लुक के साथ साथ अब फिल्म के पोस्टर्स भी रिलीज किये जा रहे हैं। प्रियंका चोपड़ा के लुक को रिवील करने के बाद अब फिल्म के तीन पोस्टर्स रिलीज किए गए हैं। होम न्यूज़ होली</s> |
आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 48 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 49 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 50 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 51 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 52 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 53 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 61 कैवेलरी 62 कैवेलरी 63 कैवेलरी 64 कैवेलरी 65 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 66 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 67 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 68 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 69 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 70 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 71 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 72 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 73 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 74 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 75 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 12 मार्च 1971 के भारत पाक युद्ध के दौरान भारत की एकमात्र आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट जिसे विदेशी जमीन पर उतार गया। 76 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 81 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 82 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 83 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 84 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 85 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 86 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 87 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 88 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 89 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट 90 आर्मर्ड रेजिमेंट आगे पढ़ें कैवेलरी ऑफिसर्स एसोसिएशन[2000] वीरता पुरस्कार परंपरा 17732000। महानिदेशक यंत्रीकृत बल, सेना भवन, नई दिल्ली 110001 द इंडियन आर्मर: भारतीय आर्मर्ड कोर का इतिहास 19411971 मेजर जनरल गुरचन सिंह संधू विज़न बुक्स , नई दिल्ली, 1987, 8170940044 इज़्ज़त: ऐतिहासिक अभिलेख और भारतीय कैवेलरी रेजिमेंट का प्रतिमा विज्ञान 17502007 अशोक नाथ द्वारा। सशस्त्र बलों हिस्टोरिकल रिसर्च सेंटर, भारतीय संयुक्त सेवा संस्थान, नई दिल्ली। बाहरी कड़ियां भारतीय आर्मर्ड कोर आर्मी की आधिकारिक वेबसाइट भारतीय सेना अहमदनगर भारतीय सेना के सैन्यदल भारतीय सेना की रेजिमेंट सम्मिलित रक्षा सेवा</s> |
फेल होने की स्थिति में भी इसे सुरक्षित नजदीकी एयरपोर्ट पर लैंड कराया जा सकता है. विमान में जनरल इलेक्ट्रिक का जीई90बीएल इंजन लगा है, जो 1.15 लाख पाउंड का थ्रस्ट जेनरेट करता है. यह विमान को 351.5 टन तक का वजन लेकर उड़ान भरने में सक्षम बनाता है. यह एयरक्राफ्ट 43,100 फीट की अधिकतम ऊंचाई पर उड़ान भर सकता है. समाचार कहानियां लिखने में, संक्षेप में कभी नहीं: इमर्जेंसी को लेकर कटघरे में सोनियामेनका गांधी ! शाहरुख खान ने भी दिया न्योता कम वाट का लगाएं एलईडी सुनील खुश मिजाज शख्स हैं राज्य के संस्कृति मंत्री अमरजीत भगत का इस मामले में कहना है कि उनको पूरे मामले की जानकारी है. इस समस्या को हल करने के लिए सरकार द्वारा उचित कार्रवाई की जाएगी. लेकिन अब सवाल ये उठ रहा है कि जब मंत्री को इस मामले की जानकारी है तो क्या महेशपुर जब अपना अस्तित्व खो देगा तब कोई कार्रवाई की जाएगी. सिद्धार्थनगर। एक नवंबर से जिले के 52 क्रय केंद्रों पर धान की खरीद शुरू होने के बाद भी अब जनपद में एक क्विंटल धान भी नहीं खरीदा जा सका है। इस कारण समितियों के सचिवों का हड़ताल पर होना बताया जा रहा है। इससे क्रय केंद्रों</s> |
Carrying out a project as complex as the Human Microbiome Project took considerable efforts and coordination among the 80 institutions involved. Baylor College of Medicine and its collaborating institutions were integrally involved in much of the work including:
Defining who is healthy, normal
Dr. Wendy Keitel, professor of molecular virology and microbiology, and director of the Vaccine Research Center at BCM, said the upfront process defining who could take part in the study involved a tremendous amount of time and input in the form of conference calls, meetings and expert panel discussions.
"What is normal?" she said. "This has to be clearly defined and regarded as a reference set."
A panel of experts in microbiology, infectious diseases, and the microbiome were assembled several years in advance to strategize on the ideal number of body sites and subjects to sample, and the best way to do so.
"Jim Versalovic and Wendy Keitel and their group came up with the protocols needed to handle collection of samples from human subjects," said Dr. Sarah Highlander, associate professor of molecular virology and microbiology at BCM. She was chair of the working group that came up with a manual of procedure on how to process those samples in the laboratory. Four centers came together to determine the best way to extract DNA to ensure consistent results.
"Defining what was a "normal" subject for the Human Microbiome Project was a bit of a challenge," said Dr. Kjersti Aagaard, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at BCM. "What we were really seeking to find were 'reference' subjects, or folks that had likely minimally perturbed microbial communities. For these reasons we recruited men and women who were not obese, not on medications, and did not have chronic health problems. While this is perhaps not what is regarded as truly reflective of the current state of health or lifestyle for many, we felt that it would yield the most robust reference cohort available."
Keitel and her group had significant experience in recruiting subjects for studies, based on their vaccine work.
In the end, they recruited 150 of the 300 subjects needed for the study. Researchers at Washington University recruited the other 150. Results from 242 subjects were reported in the two Nature papers.
As the researchers interviewed people who wanted to take part, they had to discuss the risks– which were minimal. One concern is privacy. Would their microbiomes be identifiable in the public databases where they would be placed? Dr. Amy McGuire, associate professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at BCM, was a leader in the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Microbiome Project and helped define the risks in that effort. One mitigating factor was that while the sequences of the subjects' microbiomes with no personal identifiers would be available on the public database, their genomes or personal genetic code would not be.
Dr. James Versalovic, professor of pathology & immunology, pediatrics, molecular and human genetics and molecular virology and microbiology, helped design the methods of clinical sampling.
"I was just the facilitator," he said. Keitel, Dr. Kjersti Aagaard, Dr. Shital Patel, Dr. Jim Katancik, chair of periodontology at University of Texas Dental School at the time, and others were in the trenches, taking samples.
Subjects had to be instructed on the use of topical medicine, soaps, mouthwashes, hand sanitizers, bathing, showering and swimming before they came in for sampling. Researchers wanted them to have had as similar experiences as possible before the sampling, and they even gave them a bag of hygiene products to use in the days prior to the sampling.
At each visit, nine specimens were collected from the oral cavity and oropharynx: saliva, buccal mucosa (cheek), gums, palate, tonsils, throat and tongue soft tissues, and the tooth biofilm above and below the gum. Skin specimens were collected from the creases behind each ear and the two inner elbows, and one specimen for the nostrils. Three vaginal specimens were collected from different areas of the vagina.
Subjects brought in a stool specimen in a special jar, which represented the microbiota of the lower gastrointestinal tract. Many people were asked to return for additional sampling to find out how stable the microbiome is over time.
At BCM, the work occurred in a single clinic area, making it easier for subjects to appear for their sampling procedures. Aagaard said the clinicians arrived at the clinic two afternoons a week for two years in order to carry out the procedures.
"It was a labor of scientific love", she said. "How many times in one's life do we have the opportunity to work on a 'big team science project' which will literally write scientific history? We had an incredible team of physician scientists, and an amazing group of subject volunteers."
Processing the samples
"We really had a superb atmosphere in which to do this," said Highlander. She credits Keitel, Versalovic and Dr. Janet Butel, chair of molecular virology and microbiology, for setting up the physical infrastructure that made that possible. The laboratory in which the samples were logged, processed and DNA extracted and catalogued before being sent for sequencing is just around the corner from the clinic. The close proximity of clinic and sample processing lab permitted rapid transfer of samples and easy communication between the two groups.
Graduate student Bonnie Youmans in Highlander's laboratory and Matthew Ross in the lab of Dr. Joseph Petrosino, assistant professor of molecular virology and microbiology, worked together to set, organize and code the thousands of samples that resulted. With the help of two technicians they extracted DNA from all the samples and packaged and sent them for sequencing at the four Genome Sequencing Centers that were part of the project.
A good deal of that sequencing took place at Baylor College of Medicine's own Human Genome Sequencing Center. Before that could begin in earnest, protocols for sequencing microbiome samples were needed.
Crucial to that was a mock community involving 20 bacteria developed by Highlander, said Dr. Kim Worley, associate professor in the Human Genome Sequencing Center. That community enabled experts in the Human Microbiome Project to develop analysis methods that enabled them to define the least and most common members of the microbial communities in samples where the DNA in the community varied ten-thousand fold between the most abundant and least abundant species. It also helped them fine tune methods for processing raw sequencing data.
"From some microbes, we did whole genome sequencing to get a better idea about the genes and therefore the functions provided by the different kinds of bugs," said Worley. "What's important? Is it the different species or is it that species in the mix have genes that carry out this or that function?"
In many instances, they used the conserved 16s ribosomal RNA gene to identify the different types of species of bacteria in a sample, which involved less sequencing.
"We participated in different phases of the sequencing", she said, "During the early Jumpstart phase, we finished a number of bacterial strains to use as references for this phase of the project." said Worley. "In total, we completed 191 bacterial genome sequences for the project that will be used as references for many ongoing and future human studies of the impact of the microbiome in health and disease. We also contributed to 16S and whole genome shotgun sequencing of the DNA from human samples."
Applications of the results to other analysis are ongoing. Versalovic is looking at how the microbiome is involved in chronic abdominal pain found in children and comparing the microbiomes in the intestines of children and adults as part of his work. He has published one study on the issue already and is hoping that the new microbiome information will further inform that work.
Aagaard has described the vaginal microbiome in pregnancy in a paper that appears today in the journal PLoS One. |
तरह से मेरे करियर को फिर से शुरू करने की जरूरत है। उन्होंने कहा कि लेकिन मैं उम्मीद कर रही हूं कि कहानी 2 अच्छा करेगी। मैं काम कर रही हूं और इसे लेकर मैं बहुत खुश हूं। मैं एक फिल्म के सफल या असफल होने को लेकर चिंतित नहीं होती। जयपुर ग्रामीण : 10 वीं कक्षा की छात्राएं नहीं बता सकी टीसी शब्द का अर्थ, एसडीएम ने जताई नाराजगी गंगा घाटों पर जुटे स्नानार्थी, मंदिर में चढ़ाया बेलपत्रफूल विधायक राठौर की ओर से हाईकोर्ट में दायर याचिका में कहा गया है कि एक महिला ने उन पर रेप का आरोप लगाते हुए रिपोर्ट दर्ज कराई है। सभी आरोप निराधार हैं, वह पुलिस जांच में सहयोग को तैयार हैं। उन्होंने यह भी बताया है कि एक वर्ष पहले उन्होंने महिला के खिलाफ ब्लैकमेलिंग का केस भी दर्ज कराया था। जांच के बाद महिला व उसके पति समेत दो अन्य को जेल भेजा गया था। निचली अदालत ने कोविड काल में दोनों को रिहा कर दिया। जेल से बाहर आने पर महिला ने बदले की भावना से उनके खिलाफ दुराचार का झूठा केस दर्ज कराया है। ट्रक हड़ताल:जरूरी चीजों की सप्लाई बंद करने की दी चेतावनी,छठवें दिन भी जारी रही हड़ताल</s> |
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) include constellations of Earth-orbiting satellites that broadcast their locations in space and time, of networks of ground control stations, and of receivers that calculate ground positions by trilateration. GNSS are used in all forms of transportation: space stations, aviation, maritime, rail, road and mass transit. Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) play a critical role in telecommunications, land surveying, law enforcement, emergency response, precision agriculture, mining, finance, scientific research and so on. They are used to control computer networks, air traffic, power grids and more.
At present GNSS include two fully operational global systems, the United States' Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian Federation's GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS), as well as the developing global and regional systems, namely Europe's European Satellite Navigation System (GALILEO) and China's COMPASS/Bei-Dou, India's Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) and Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS). Once all these global and regional systems become fully operational, the user will have access to positioning, navigation and timing signals from more than 100 satellites.
In addition to these, there are satellite-based augmentation systems, such as the United States' Wide-area Augmentation System (WAAS), the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), the Russian System of Differential Correction and Monitoring (SDCM), the Indian GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) and Japanese Multi-functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (MSAS). Combining them with proven terrestrial technologies such as inertial navigation, will open the door to new applications for socio-economic benefits. The latter are applications that require not just accuracy, but in particular reliability or integrity. Safety-critical transportation applications, such as the landing of civilian aircraft, have stringent accuracy and integrity requirements.
The successful completion of the work of the International Committee on Global Navigation Systems (ICG), particularly in establishing interoperability among the global systems, will allow a GNSS user to utilize one instrument to receive signals from multiple systems of satellites. This will provide additional data, particularly in urban and mountainous regions, and greater accuracy in timing or position measurements. To benefit from these achievements, GNSS users need to stay abreast of the latest developments in GNSS-related areas and build the capacity to use the multi-GNSS signal.
Thus the specific objectives of the implementation of the GNSS priority area of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications are the demonstration and understanding of GNSS signals, codes, biases and practical applications, and the implications of prospective modernization. |
नहीं जाते हैं, तो आपको विंडोज 10 को फिर से स्थापित करने के लिए मजबूर किया जा सकता है। ब्लॉकचैन टेक्नोलॉजी का इस्तेमाल शेयर बाजार के आधुनिकीकरण को एक कदम आगे ले सकता है। इसे एक सुरक्षित स्थान पर रखें, जहां आप सभी डिवाइस खो देते हैं और फ़ाइलों का नाम प्रमोशन और कांटेस्ट बदलने के बावजूद पहुंच प्राप्त करेंगे ताकि यह स्पष्ट न हो कि इसमें क्या शामिल है।प्रमाणीकरण के सक्रियण के बाद, यह डेटा साइट से खो जाएगा। आदेशों के बीच की दूरी दो लगातार खुले ऑर्डर और कीमत के बीच और पहली ओपन लिमिट ऑर्डर के बीच न्यूनतम दूरी संभव। फोटो होस्टिंग पर कमाई विशेष फोटो होस्टिंग के माध्यम से इंटरनेट पर पोस्ट की गई छवियों को देखकर वेब पर पैसा बनाने का एक आसान तरीका है। भुगतान, एक नियम के रूप में, 1000 विचारों के लिए लगभग 200 रूबल है। आपका कार्य। वे संकट में पड़ गए, लेकिन वे अनैतिक कुछ भी नहीं कर रहे थे, उन्हें सिर्फ एक बचाव का रास्ता मिला। 133. मानव शरीर के किस अंग प्रमोशन और कांटेस्ट द्वारा यूरिया को रक्त से फ़िल्टर किया जाता है? गुर्दे। प्रधानमंत्री जन धन योजना में खाता खोलने के लिएआपको ऊपर दिए गए दस्तावेजों की</s> |
दिन में 17 लोग मारे गए हैं जिनमें विपक्षी दल के कार्यकर्ता हैं. एक सुरक्षाकर्मी भी मारा गया है. रात में एक चुनाव अधिकारी सहित तीन लोग मारे गए थे. अगला लेखड्राई फ्रूट्स, लड़ियां, गिफ्ट पैक... इस दिवाली जरूरत की चीजें मिलेंगी महंगी किताब में है भविष्यवाणी का जिक्र चीन बोला हम सहयोग करेंगे लेकिन... भोपाल कोरोना महामारी के इस दौर में जब कई लोग जब अपने सगों को छोड़ दे रहे हैं, वहीं आपदा में अवसर तलाशने वाले कई निजी एंबुलेंस संचालक लोगों को अस्पताल छोड़ने के नाम पर कई बार दस गुना तक किराया वसूल रहे हैं। ऐसे में अपनी पत्नी के गहने बेचकर कोरोना संक्रमितों को अपने ऑटो से निः शुल्क अस्पताल पहुंचाने वाले जावेद खान नामक ऑटो चालक के खिलाफ पुलिस ने कारर्वाई की है। एक तरफ इंसानियत की ऐसी मिसाल पेश करने वाले जावेद खान को देशभर में लोग सलाम कर रहे हैं, तो वहीं पुलिस का उन्हें गिरफ्तार करने के पीछे तर्क ये है कि, वो भले ही लोगों की सेवा कर रहे हैं, लेकिन उन्होंने ऑटो में ऑक्सीजन सिलेंडर लगाने की अनुमति नहीं ली है। जिले में गुरुवार को सिर्फ 22 केंद्रों पर 2886 लोगों ने कोरोना की वैक्सीन लगाई गई। मुंबई :</s> |
Prime Ministers Andris Skele of Latvia and Tiit Vahi of Estonia met in Vilnius and agreed on a temporary compromise in the looming conflict over maritime border demarcation and fishing rights in the Gulf of Riga. Under the arrangement, valid until August 1, Latvia in effect accepts the demarcation line drawn by Estonia. However, Latvian trawlers will operate unrestricted in the major fishing grounds around Estonia’s Ruhnu island. (BNS, April 15)
Yeltsin Decree on Defense Privatization. |
खिलाफ विभागीय कार्रवाई की जाएगी। केंद्रीय मंत्री उमाश्री भारती का 21 का प्रवास कार्यक्रम लक्ष्य का पीछा करने उतरी सौराष्ट्र पर छत्तीसगढ़ की गेंदबाज गरिमा ने चार विकेट चटकाकर टीम को दबाव में ला दिया। पूरी टीम 44.4 ओवर में 97 रन बनाकर ऑलआउट हो गई। जिसमें मेघना जाम्बुचा ने 43 गेंद में 14 रन, रिद्घि रूपारेल ने 24 गेंद में 10 रन, रीना सवासदिया ने 19 रन बनाए। एसडीएम अजीत कुमार, सीओ नरेश कुमार, कंपिल एसओ वीरपाल सिंह और कायमगंज कोतवाल भुवनेश्वर कुमार पुलिस बल के साथ मौके पर पहुंचे। कुंवरपुर गांव के रहने वाले विनोद कुमार ने घटना की तहरीर देकर गांव के नवी आलम, यासीन और उसकी पत्नी मीना के खिलाफ पशु क्रूरता अधिनियम की रिपोर्ट दर्ज कराई है। एसओ वीरपाल सिंह ने बताया कि आरोपियों को जल्द पकड़ा जाएगा। आंध्र प्रदेश पुलिस ने लाल चंदन की तस्करी के एक मामले में आरोपित किए जाने के बाद पिछले कुछ दिनों... पढ़े एनांउसर से बाइक टकराई संसद में मोदी सरकार पर जोरदार हमला बोलेंगे उन्होंने नागरिकों से अपील की है कि वे अधिक से अधिक संख्या में शिविरों में जाकर लाभ उठाएं. भामाशाह सुविधा शिविर का प्रथम चरण के दौरान आगामी 31 जुलाई तक शिविर आयोजित किए जाएंगे.</s> |
Eczema in children: everything you need to know
A common disease with solutions to provide soothing relief
It itches and can even make your children a bit irritable: no one wants their child to have to deal with eczema. A basic understanding of the condition, however, will reveal just how common it is but also that treatments can help improve outcomes. The first approach to fight against eczema is to develop your understanding of the disease and to bust certain myths.
What does eczema in children look like?
There are several different types of eczema, but atopic eczema is the most common, so we will start there.
Atopic eczema in children
Atopic eczema is also known as atopic dermatitis. Both terms refer to the same condition. Let’s start with its characteristics.
Atopic eczema symptoms
- Dry or very dry skin
- Red patches
- Thickening of the skin
- Marks from scratching
Red patches appear and can quickly become covered in little vesicles. They then ooze, which causes scabs to form when this fluid dries. All throughout this progression, the eczema patches itch and produce an overwhelming urge to scratch. Fortunately, flare-ups are followed by periods of remission: atopic eczema presents in alternating periods of flare-ups and remission.
How long will my child have atopic eczema?
Over time, eczema flare-ups are likely to become less frequent. In all likelihood, your child’s eczema will go away by the time they are a teenager, but it could continue into adulthood.
Where on the body are patches located?
In children with atopy, eczema patches most often appear in the folds of the elbows and knees and on the wrists and ankles, but other areas of the body can also be affected.
How to alleviate your child’s atopic eczema
There is no cure for atopic eczema, which means you cannot prevent flare-ups from coming back. But you can provide suitable treatment for flare-ups. Indeed, you can treat eczema in order to provide soothing relief and even reduce the frequency of flare-ups.
Treat it as fast as possible:
The sooner you act, the better your chances of alleviating and delaying the onset of the next flare-up.
A combination of two treatments is used to reduce the frequency and severity of atopic dermatitis flare-ups.
Calm flare-ups with an extinguishing treatment
Delay the onset of the next flare-up: repair your skin
Emollient skin care
Adjusting your daily habits
There are a thousand little things you can do to improve life with atopic eczema and reduce flare-ups. Tips on how to scratch less, simple ways to talk about it at school, or things you should avoid doing and activities you can absolutely enjoy if you take the proper precautions!
Why does my child have atopic eczema?
Atopic eczema is caused by a malfunction in the skin and in the defense mechanisms: your child has atopic skin. Atopic skin is more porous than normal skin and is thus unable to act as a proper barrier. What is more, it is abnormally reactive to its environment... This causes red patches to appear, along with itchy flare-ups.
Inflammation is triggered by a combination of environmental factors, allergens, irritants, microbes, scratching, overheating, etc.
A genetic predisposition
This hypersensitivity to the environment, known as atopy, is hereditary and thus runs in the family.
Keep an eye out for other types of atopy
Atopic eczema is a sign that your child has atopy, which means their skin is hypersensitive to the environment. They could, therefore, develop other manifestations of atopy, such as asthma. Symptoms of asthma include nighttime coughing, wheezing or shortness of breath during physical activity.
Other forms of atopy:
Contact eczema in children
An allergic reaction
Although atopic eczema is by far the most common, there is another type of eczema known as allergic contact eczema. This type of eczema differs from atopic eczema in terms of its onset. It is an allergic reaction that occurs when the skin comes into contact with a given substance: costume jewelry or a shower gel, for example.
Solutions and treatments
Eczema is treated with topical corticosteroids. To prevent recurrence, however, you must identify the triggering allergen so that you can avoid it in the future. Some simple questions can sometimes help to identify the allergen, but allergy tests do a better job of unveiling the culprit. |
कि मामले की जांच कराई जा रही है। दोषी पाए जाने पर खुलेआम फायरिंग करने वाले शख्स पर कार्रवाई भी की जाएगी। सुन्दर रूप इस धरा का, आँचल जिसका नीला आकाश, पर्वत जिसका ऊँचा मस्तक, उस पर चाँद सूरज की बिंदियों का ताज नदियोंझरनो से छलकता यौवन सतरंगी पुष्पलताओं ने किया नई दिल्ली। यदि कोविड19 की वजह से आपकी नौकरी चली गई है और आपके सामने नकदी संकट खड़ा हो गया है, तो अब आपकी कार आपको इस समस्या से बाहर निकाल सकती है और इस मुश्किल वक्त में आपके लिए आवश्यक नकदी का इंतजाम करने में मददगार हो सकती है। अब आप बोली लगाकर खरीद सकेंगे मनपसंद कार, कार्स24 ने शुरू की पुरानी कारों की लाइव ऑनलाइन नीलामी सुविधा ऑटो टेक कंपनी कार्स24 ने एक नया प्रोडक्ट बाजार में पेश किया है, जो उपभोक्ताओं को उनके वाहन के बदले ऋण देने का काम करेगा। यह ठीक गोल्ड लोन की तरह है, जहां ग्राहक अपना सोना गिरवी रख बैंकों से ऋण लेते हैं। अब आप अपनी कार को चलाते हुए नकदी समस्या से भी निजात पा सकते हैं और आपको अपनी कार बेचने की भी जरूरत नहीं पड़ेगी। कार्स24 का यह विशिष्ट लोन ऑफर उपभोक्ताओं को उनकी कार के बदले</s> |
A medical device is any apparatus, appliance, software, material, or other article—whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application—intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:
Medical devices vary according to their intended use and indications. Examples range from simple devices such as tongue depressors, medical thermometers, and disposable gloves to advanced devices such as computers which assist in the conduct of medical testing, implants, and prostheses. Items as intricate as housings for cochlear implants are manufactured through the deep drawn and shallow drawn manufacturing processes. The design of medical devices constitutes a major segment of the field of biomedical engineering.
The global medical device market reached roughly $209 billion in 2006.
Medical device manufacturing requires a level of process control according to the classification of the device. Higher risk; more controls. When in the initial R&D phase, manufacturers are now beginning to design for manufacturability. This means products can be more precision-engineered to for production to result in shorter lead times, tighter tolerances and more advanced specifications and prototypes. These days, with the aid of CAD or modelling platforms, the work is now much faster, and this can act also as a tool for strategic design generation as well as a marketing tool.
Failure to meet cost targets will lead to substantial losses for an organisation. In addition, with global competition, the R&D of new devices is not just a necessity, it is an imperative for medical device manufacturers. The realisation of a new design can be very costly, especially with the shorter product life cycle. As technology advances, there is typically a level of quality, safety and reliability that increases exponentially with time.
For example, initial models of the artificial cardiac pacemaker were external support devices that transmits pulses of electricity to the heart muscles via electrode leads on the chest. The electrodes contact the heart directly through the chest, allowing stimulation pulses to pass through the body. Recipients of this typically suffered infection at the entrance of the electrodes, which led to the subsequent trial of the first internal pacemaker, with electrodes attached to the myocardium by thoracotomy. Future developments led to the isotope-power source that would last for the lifespan of the patient.
Based on the New Approach, rules that relate to safety and performance of medical devices were harmonised in the EU in the 1990s. The New Approach, defined in a European Council Resolution of May 1985, represents an innovative way of technical harmonisation. It aims to remove technical barriers to trade and dispel the consequent uncertainty for economic operators, to facilitate free movement of goods inside the EU.
The core legal framework consists of three directives:
They aim at ensuring a high level of protection of human health and safety and the good functioning of the Single Market. These three main directives have been supplemented over time by several modifying and implementing directives, including the last technical revision brought about by Directive 2007/47 EC.
Directive 2007/47/EC defines a medical device as (paraphrasing): Any instrument, apparatus, appliance, software, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, together with any accessories, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application, intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of:
This includes devices that do not achieve their principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological, or metabolic means—but may be assisted in their function by such means.
The government of each Member State must appoint a competent authority responsible for medical devices. The competent authority (CA) is a body with authority to act on behalf of the member state to ensure that member state government transposes requirements of medical device directives into national law and applies them. The CA reports to the minister of health in the member state. The CA in one Member State has no jurisdiction in any other member state, but exchanges information and tries to reach common positions.
In the UK, for example, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) acts as a CA. In Italy it is the Ministero Salute (Ministry of Health) Medical devices must not be mistaken with medicinal products. In the EU, all medical devices must be identified with the CE mark.
In September 2012, the European Commission proposed new legislation aimed at enhancing safety, traceability, and transparency.
Medical machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory that is:
On September 25, 2013 the FDA released a draft guidance document for regulation of mobile medical applications, to clarify what kind of mobile apps related to health would not be regulated, and which would be.
The term medical devices, as defined in the Food and Drugs Act, covers a wide range of health or medical instruments used in the treatment, mitigation, diagnosis or prevention of a disease or abnormal physical condition. Health Canada reviews medical devices to assess their safety, effectiveness, and quality before authorizing their sale in Canada.
The regulatory authorities recognize different classes of medical devices based on their design complexity, their use characteristics, and their potential for harm if misused. Each country or region defines these categories in different ways. The authorities also recognize that some devices are provided in combination with drugs, and regulation of these combination products takes this factor into consideration.
The Medical Devices Bureau of Health Canada recognizes four classes of medical devices based on the level of control necessary to assure the safety and effectiveness of the device. Class I devices present the lowest potential risk and do not require a licence. Class II devices require the manufacturer's declaration of device safety and effectiveness, whereas Class III and IV devices present a greater potential risk and are subject to in-depth scrutiny. A guidance document for device classification is published by Health Canada.
Canadian classes of medical devices correspond to the European Council Directive 93/42/EEC (MDD) devices:
Under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recognizes three classes of medical devices, based on the level of control necessary to assure safety and effectiveness. The classification procedures are described in the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, part 860 (usually known as 21 CFR 860). The USFDA allows for two regulatory pathways that allow the marketing of medical devices. The first, and by far the most common is the so-called 510(k) process (named after the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act section that describes the process). A new medical device that can be demonstrated to be "substantially equivalent" to a previously legally marketed device can be "cleared" by the FDA for marketing as long as the general and special controls, as described below, are met. The vast majority of new medical devices (99%) enter the marketplace via this process. The 510(k) pathway rarely requires clinical trials. The second regulatory pathway for new medical devices is the Premarket Approval process, described below, which is similar to the pathway for a new drug approval. Typically, clinical trials are required for this premarket approval pathway.
Class I devices are subject to the least regulatory control. Class I devices are subject to "General Controls" as are Class II and Class III devices. General controls include provisions that relate to adulteration; misbranding; device registration and listing; premarket notification; banned devices; notification, including repair, replacement, or refund; records and reports; restricted devices; and good manufacturing practices. Class I devices are not intended to help support or sustain life or be substantially important in preventing impairment to human health, and may not present an unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Most Class I devices are exempt from the premarket notification and a few are also exempted from most good manufacturing practices regulation. Examples of Class I devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.
Class II devices are those for which general controls alone cannot assure safety and effectiveness, and existing methods are available that provide such assurances. In addition to complying with general controls, Class II devices are also subject to special controls. A few Class II devices are exempt from the premarket notification. Special controls may include special labeling requirements, mandatory performance standards and postmarket surveillance. Devices in Class II are held to a higher level of assurance than Class I devices, and are designed to perform as indicated without causing injury or harm to patient or user. Examples of Class II devices include acupuncture needles, powered wheelchairs, infusion pumps, air purifiers, and surgical drapes.
A Class III device is one for which insufficient information exists to assure safety and effectiveness solely through the general or special controls sufficient for Class I or Class II devices. Such a device needs premarket approval, a scientific review to ensure the device's safety and effectiveness, in addition to the general controls of Class I. Class III devices are usually those that support or sustain human life, are of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health, or present a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Examples of Class III devices that currently require a premarket notification include implantable pacemaker, pulse generators, HIV diagnostic tests, automated external defibrillators, and endosseous implants.
The classification of medical devices in the European Union is outlined in Article IX of the Council Directive 93/42/EEC. There are basically four classes, ranging from low risk to high risk.
The authorization of medical devices is guaranteed by a Declaration of Conformity. This declaration is issued by the manufacturer itself, but for products in Class Is, Im, IIa, IIb or III, it must be verified by a Certificate of Conformity issued by a Notified Body. A Notified Body is a public or private organisation that has been accredited to validate the compliance of the device to the European Directive. Medical devices that pertain to class I (on condition they do not require sterilization or do not measure a function) can be marketed purely by self-certification.
The European classification depends on rules that involve the medical device's duration of body contact, invasive character, use of an energy source, effect on the central circulation or nervous system, diagnostic impact, or incorporation of a medicinal product. Certified medical devices should have the CE mark on the packaging, insert leaflets, etc.. These packagings should also show harmonised pictograms and EN standardised logos to indicate essential features such as instructions for use, expiry date, manufacturer, sterile, don't reuse, etc.
The classification of medical devices in Australia is outlined in section 41BD of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and Regulation 3.2 of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 2002, under control of the Therapeutic Goods Administration. Similarly to the EU classification, they rank in several categories, by order of increasing risk and associated required level of control. Various rules identify the device's category
|Classification||Level of Risk|
|Class I - measuring or Class I - supplied sterile or class IIa||Low - medium|
|Class IIb||Medium - high|
|Active implantable medical devices (AIMD)||High|
Medical devices such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, operating room monitors, defibrillators, and surgical instruments, including deep-brain stimulators, can incorporate the ability to transmit vital health information from a patient's body to medical professionals. Some of these devices can be remotely controlled. This has engendered concern about privacy and security issues, human error, and technical glitches with this technology. While only a few studies have looked at the susceptibility of medical devices to hacking, there is a risk. In 2008, computer scientists proved that pacemakers and defibrillators can be hacked wirelessly via radio hardware, an antenna, and a personal computer. These researchers showed they could shut down a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker and reprogram it to deliver potentially lethal shocks or run out its battery. Jay Radcliff, a security researcher interested in the security of medical devices, raised fears about the safety of these devices. He shared his concerns at the Black Hat security conference. Radcliff fears that the devices are vulnerable and has found that a lethal attack is possible against those with insulin pumps and glucose monitors. Some medical device makers downplay the threat from such attacks and argue that the demonstrated attacks have been performed by skilled security researchers and are unlikely to occur in the real world. At the same time, other makers have asked software security experts to investigate the safety of their devices. As recently as June 2011, security experts showed that by using readily available hardware and a user manual, a scientist could both tap into the information on the system of a wireless insulin pump in combination with a glucose monitor. With the PIN of the device, the scientist could wirelessly control the dosage of the insulin. Anand Raghunathan, a researcher in this study, explains that medical devices are getting smaller and lighter so that they can be easily worn. The downside is that additional security features would put an extra strain on the battery and size and drive up prices. Dr. William Maisel offered some thoughts on the motivation to engage in this activity. Motivation to do this hacking might include acquisition of private information for financial gain or competitive advantage; damage to a device manufacturer's reputation; sabotage; intent to inflict financial or personal injury or just satisfaction for the attacker. Researchers suggest a few safeguards. One would be to use rolling codes. Another solution is to use a technology called "body-coupled communication" that uses the human skin as a wave guide for wireless communication. On 28 December 2016 the US Food and Drug Administration released its recommendations that are not legally enforceable for how medical device manufacturers should maintain the security of Internet-connected devices.
The ISO standards for medical devices are covered by ICS 11.100.20 and 11.040.01. The quality and risk management regarding the topic for regulatory purposes is convened by ISO 13485 and ISO 14971. ISO 13485:2003 is applicable to all providers and manufacturers of medical devices, components, contract services and distributors of medical devices. The standard is the basis for regulatory compliance in local markets, and most export markets. Additionally, ISO 9001:2008 sets precedence because it signifies that a company engages in the creation of new products. It requires that the development of manufactured products have an approval process and a set of rigorous quality standards and development records before the product is distributed. Further standards are IEC 60601-1 which is for electrical devices (mains-powered as well as battery powered), EN 45502-1 which is for Active implantable medical devices, and IEC 62304 for medical software. The US FDA also published a series of guidances for industry regarding this topic against 21 CFR 820 Subchapter H—Medical Devices. Subpart B includes quality system requirements, an important component of which are design controls (21 CFR 820.30). To meet the demands of these industry regulation standards, a growing number of medical device distributors are putting the complaint management process at the forefront of their quality management practices. This approach further mitigates risks and increases visibility of quality issues.
Starting in the late 1980s the FDA increased its involvement in reviewing the development of medical device software. The precipitant for change was a radiation therapy device (Therac-25) that overdosed patients because of software coding errors. FDA is now focused on regulatory oversight on medical device software development process and system-level testing.
A 2011 study by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and Paul Brown of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that most medical devices recalled in the last five years for "serious health problems or death" had been previously approved by the FDA using the less stringent, and cheaper, 510(k) process. In a few cases the devices had been deemed so low-risk that they did not need FDA regulation. Of the 113 devices recalled, 35 were for cardiovascular issues. This may lead to a reevaluation of FDA procedures and better oversight.
In 2014-2015 a new international agreement, the Medical Device Single Audit Program (MDSAP), was put in place with five participant countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and the United States. The aim of this program was to "develop a process that allows a single audit, or inspection to ensure the medical device regulatory requirements for all five countries are satisfied".
Medical device packaging is highly regulated. Often medical devices and products are sterilized in the package. Sterility must be maintained throughout distribution to allow immediate use by physicians. A series of special packaging tests measure the ability of the package to maintain sterility. Relevant standards include:
Medical device cleanliness has come under greater scrutiny since 2000, when Sulzer Orthopedics recalled several thousand metal hip implants that contained a manufacturing residue. Based on this event, ASTM established a new task group (F04.15.17) for established test methods, guidance documents, and other standards to address cleanliness of medical devices. This task group has issued two standards for permanent implants to date: 1. ASTM F2459: Standard test method for extracting residue from metallic medical components and quantifying via gravimetric analysis 2. ASTM F2847: Standard Practice for Reporting and Assessment of Residues on Single Use Implants 3. ASTM F3172: Standard Guide for Validating Cleaning Processes Used During the Manufacture of Medical Devices
In addition, the cleanliness of re-usable devices has led to a series of standards, including:
The ASTM F04.15.17 task group is working on several new standards that involve designing implants for cleaning, selection and testing of brushes for cleaning reusable devices, and cleaning assessment of medical devices made by additive manufacturing. Additionally, the FDA is establishing new guidelines for reprocessing reusable medical devices, such as orthoscopic shavers, endoscopes, and suction tubes.
With the rise of smartphone usage in the medical space, in 2013, the FDA issued to regulate mobile medical applications and protect users from their unintended use, soon followed by European and other regulatory agencies. This guidance distinguishes the apps subjected to regulation based on the marketing claims of the apps. Incorporation of the guidelines during the development phase of such apps can be considered as developing a medical device; the regulations have to adapt and propositions for expedite approval may be required due to the nature of 'versions' of mobile application development.
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गहरा लगाव रहा है। शादी के बाद उन्होंने प्राथमिक शिक्षिका के रूप में पढ़ाना शुरू किया। बाद में पातालगंगा में ग्रामीण बच्चों को पढाने के लिए एक छोटे से स्कूल की शुरुआत की। ऐसा ही दूसरा स्कूल जाम नगर में खोला। बारा : विकास खंड कौशांबी के मेडरहा गांव में श्रीमद् भागवत कथा की शुरुआत शुक्रवार से हुई। इससे पूर्व भक्तों ने कलश यात्रा निकाल कर लोगों को कथा स्थल में पहुंचने का संदेश दिया। कथा वाचक ने पहले दिन कथा के महात्यम को बड़े रोचक ढंग से प्रस्तुत किया। (2) शिवलिंग उपासना का प्रारंभिक पुरातात्विक साक्ष्य हड़प्पा संस्कृति के अवशेषों से मिलता है। प्रेग्नेंसी में वास्तु टिप्स अधिकांश पोलिग बूथों की सुरक्षा व्यवस्था होमगार्डों के भरोसे रही। अतिसंवेदशील केंद्रों पर तो अर्धसैनिक बल नजर आए लेकिन अन्य बूथों पर सिविल पुलिस के सिपाही और होमगार्ड सुरक्षा ड्यूटी में लगे रहे। यह लोगों में खासी चर्चा का विषय बना रहा। होमगार्डों की ड्यूटी का पार्टियों के एजेंटों ने खूब फायदा उठाया। एसडीएम इकबाल मोहम्मद ने कहा कि दियादाह घाट से मजदूरों द्वारा गड्ढा खोदकर रेत खनन की जानकारी मिलने पर मंगलवार की दोपहर कार्रवाई के लिए पुलिस फोर्स भेजा था। लेकिन पुलिस टीम को देखकर सभी मजदूर भाग गए। अब</s> |
Commander of the USS Constitution and notable for his victory over the British frigate HMS Java under Captain Henry Lambert during the Anglo-American War of 1812.
Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741
Danish explorer best known for his explorations of the North East Coast of Asia and the western coast of North America. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea et al were named in his honour.
Robert Fitzroy 1805-1865
Royal Navy officer and scientist. Captain of HMS Beagle during Darwin's expedition to Tierra del Fuego.
FitzRoy was a pioneering meteorologist who invented the daily weather forecast and established the British Meteorological Office in 1854.
Thomas Masterman Hardy 1768-1839
Royal Navy officer who commanded Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805. As he walked the decks with Hardy, Nelson was shot by a sniper aboard the French ship Le Redoutable. Mortally wounded, Nelson lay below decks when he uttered his famous words 'Kiss me, Hardy'.
Robert Maynard 1684-1751
Royal Navy Lieutenant aboard HMS Pearl. Famous for defeating Edward Teach, the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard in 1718.
Edward John Smith 1850-1912
Master of RMS Titanic which sank on her maiden voyage on the night of 14 April 1912 after hitting an iceberg. Captain Smith was one of the 1517 souls lost aboard Titanic. |
सुडौल बनाने के लिए प्रतिदिन कुछ महीने तक पपीता खाना चाहिए। इससे कमर पतली व सुडौल बनती है। 10 ग्राम पपीते का गूदा, 10 बूंद नींबू का रस, आधा चम्मच गुलाब जल एवं 10 मिलीलीटर टमाटर का रस मिलाकर चेहरे व शरीर के दूसरे अंगों पर लेप करें। लेप करने के 15 से 20 मिनट बाद हल्के गर्म पानी से साफ चेहरे को साफ कर लें। इस तरह कुछ दिनों तक इसका प्रयोग करने से त्वचा कोमल, चिकनी व मुलायम बनती है। यदि प्रसव के बाद स्त्री के स्तनों में दूध न बनता हो तो उसे प्रतिदिन पपीते का सेवन करना चाहिए। इससे स्तनों में दूध बढ़ता है। चेहरे का रंग निखारने के लिए एक कप पपीते का रस व एक कप अमरूद का रस मिलाकर दिन में 2 बार पीना चाहिए। इससे कुछ ही दिनों मे चेहरे पर चमक आ जाती है। सभी त्वचा रोग में पपीते का रस, गाजर का रस और आधी मात्रा में पालक का रस मिलाकर दिन में 2 बार पीने से त्वचा रोग ठीक होता है। चेहरे के मुहांसे, कील, झाईयां आदि को दूर करने के लिए पके पपीते व आलू का रस मिलाकर दिन में 23 बार चेहरे पर लगाएं। इससे चेहरे के</s> |
I have three teenage boys. They are about as forgetful as any human being is capable of being. They routinely forget all kinds of things ranging from appointments, to chores, to homework assignments. With the older guys, I used to joke that when they forgot something, they werehaving a senior (in high school) moment.
Of course, the concept of the senior moment is a label that many older people give to the situations in which they forget something. Most of us assume that our memories are going to get worse as we get older, and so age must be the reason that we forget after the age of 55.
It is true that there is a general cognitive decline starting in your 20s. And your memory will get a bit worse as you age. But unless you have suffered brain injury, those declines are not precipitous. Indeed, there is some evidence that your beliefs about your memory abilities are at least as important to your ability to remember as any changes in brain function.
An interesting study making this point was presented in a paper by Ayanna Thomas and Stacey Dubois in the December, 2011 issue of Psychological Science.
These researchers took advantage of a strange memory phenomenon known as the Deese Roediger McDermott effect after the researchers who discovered and popularized it in research. To get a sense of how this effect works, read the following list of words slowly.
butter, food, eat, sandwich, rye, jam, milk, flour, jelly, dough, crust, slice, wine, loaf, toast
Now, close your eyes for a second and remember as many of the words you can. Without looking back at the list, ask yourself, was the word sandwich on that list? How about the word bread? The word sandwich was indeed on the list. But how about bread? It actually is not on the list, but about half the people given this list will answer that they saw the word bread.
Lists like this are constructed by taking 15 words that are highly associated with some other word (in this case, bread). When you study the list, the words make you think of the associate, and later you act as if you saw that word as well.
Studies show that college students typically mis-remember seeing the associated word about 50% of the time. The researchers speculated that if older adults are worried that their memories get worse with age, they might be even more likely than that to mis-remember seeing the associated word.
Participants in this study were either older adults (with a mean age of 70) or younger adults (with a mean age of 19). They began the study by studying several lists of words like the one I just showed you. After that, half the participants had a paragraph read to them about age-related declines in memory. The other half had a paragraph read to them about psychology research unrelated to age. The first group was expected to be more concerned about the effects of age on memory than the second. Finally, participants saw a number of words and were asked whether they had appeared on the lists they studied. Several of these words were the associates that were expected to lead to false recognitions.
The younger adults were not affected by hearing about age-related declines in memory. They responded that they had seen the associated word about 50% of the time regardless of what paragraph they had read to them. Older adults who heard a paragraph about research in general also said they recognized the associated word about 50% of the time. However, the older adults who heard about age-related declines in memory said they recognized the associated word about 70% of the time.
The idea is that when older adults are concerned that they are experiencing memory problems, they do not focus as carefully on their knowledge about where they encountered words as they do when they are not worried about their memory. In actuality, older adults had pretty good memory overall. They correctly recognized about 85% of the words they had actually studied before and only said that they had seen words that had not been studied about 10% of the time. So, older adults got worse on the memory test just because of their concern about memory.
These findings are one more reason to stamp the concept of a senior moment out. As you get older, worrying about declines in memory is far more damaging to your ability to think than any actual declines in memory ability. So relax. When you get older, you probably aren’t that much more forgetful than your typical teen. |
Economy Improves, School Spending Continues to Fall - So What Gives?
As the news headlines regarding the current U.S. economy continue to improve, there is one area that is still feeling the squeeze from the recession years: K-12 public school spending. A report this month from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that 34 states are contributing less funding on a per student basis than they did prior to the recession years. Since states are responsible for 44 percent of total education funding in the U.S., these dismal numbers mean a continued crack down on school budgets despite an improving economy.
In practical terms, these findings make sense. Property taxes pay much of public education costs and that revenue source is still low. Overall, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that districts collected just over 2 percent lower on property taxes ending in March than in the year before. Furthering the problem is the fact that while states have been cut throat in reducing spending, they have not been as vigilant in raising revenue sources through taxes and fees.
Loss of federal aid to states is also a problem. Even if a state does not need emergency federal funds for specific education needs, they must use school money to cover the cost of natural disasters or other projects that are no longer receiving aid from the federal government.
In extreme cases, like in Philadelphia and Chicago, individual districts have had to tap into other money and reserves to cover the basics of public education in their areas. Take a look at some of the most-telling numbers from the CBPP report on school spending:
• 14. This is the number of consecutive quarters state revenues have increased, despite stagnant or reduced school spending.
• 1.3. This is the percent that state funding fell for elementary and secondary schools from last school year.
• 20. This is the percent that Oklahoma and Alabama have sliced on student spending since the recession began in 2008.
• 13. This is the number of states, including Wisconsin and California, that have cut school spending budgets by more than 10 percent since the recession began.
• 15. This represents the number of states that have lower school spending budgets than they did one year ago.
• 72. This is the amount in dollars that New Mexico increased its per student spending for the current school year. It may seem like a bright spot, but barely dents the $960+ the state has cut per student in just the past five years alone.
• 20,100. This is the number of teaching jobs that were added in August - but that figure is still over 320,000 less than education jobs in 2008.
• 12. This is the percent that funding to low-income Title I schools has decreased since 2010, from $17 billion to $15 billion.
• 11. This is the percent that special education funding has been slashed since 2010, from $13.5 billion to $12 billion.
• 57. This is the amount of administrators that believe they will need to reduce class sizes this school year to offset budget cuts.
• 16. This is the number of states that cut pre-K educational per student funding in the 2011 - 2012 school year and 27 had to reduce enrollment numbers.
What do the numbers all mean?
The fact that state revenues are on the upswing but K-12 spending is still at recession-levels is disheartening. It seems that a reprioritization needs to take place in the 34 states that are still in the red when it comes to per student spending today as opposed to 2008. Less state spending on education certainly affects the learning experience but it also impacts other areas of the economy. Unemployed teachers and administrators have less to pump back into the economy and the viscous cycle of K-12 underfunding is furthered.
If we cannot fully fund our public schools how can we expect things like the achievement gap to close or high school graduation rates to rise? It was understandable that budgets had to be slashed when the bottom dropped out of the economy but now that we are in a more stable place, it is time to get back to funding what matters most: the education of our K-12 students.
Why do you think that per student spending is still falling? |
शुरू हो जाएगा। यूनिटेक समूह और अन्तरिक्ष बिल्डर्स भी आवासीय टाउनशिप विकसित कर रहे हैं। अन्य डेवलपर्स रिलायंस अनिल धीरूभाई अम्बानी समूह , और शामिल हैं। चण्डीगढ़ एक शहर और एक संघ भारत के राज्यक्षेत्र कि हरियाणा और पंजाब के भारतीय राज्यों की राजधानी के रूप में कार्य करता है। एक केंद्र शासित प्रदेश, के रूप में शहर सीधे केन्द्रीय सरकार द्वारा नियंत्रित होता है और या तो राज्य का हिस्सा नहीं है। चंडीगढ़ पंजाब उत्तर, पश्चिम और दक्षिण के लिए, और हरियाणा राज्य के पूर्व करने के लिए राज्य द्वारा है। चंडीगढ़ चंडीगढ़ राजधानी क्षेत्र या ग्रेटर चंडीगढ़, चंडीगढ़, और शहर के पंचकुला में भी शामिल है जो का एक हिस्सा और , , मोहाली, में ज़िरकपुर का शहर माना जाता है। यह शिमला के दक्षिण पश्चिम के अमृतसर और सिर्फ 116 मी दक्षिणपूर्व स्थित 260 किमी उत्तर न्यू दिल्ली, 229 मी है। चंडीगढ़ आजादी के बाद भारत में प्रारंभिक नियोजित शहरों में से एक था जो अंतरराष्ट्रीय स्तर पर अपनी वास्तुकला और शहरी डिजाइन के लिए जाना जाता है। , जो बदल से पहले की योजना बनाई गई स्विसफ़्रांसीसी आर्किटेक्ट पोलिश वास्तुकार और अमेरिकी नियोजक अल्बर्ट मेयर द्वारा द्वारा शहर का मास्टर प्लान तैयार किया गया था। अधिकांश</s> |
गतिविधि की कथित दूसरी पीढ़ी है, इसमें प्राथमिक रूप से सहयोग और साझे के लिए दर्शकों को प्रदान की गई हुई जानकारी रखने की क्षमता एक विशेषता है। वेब 2.0 अनुप्रयोग अक्सर वेब सेवाओं का प्रयोग करते हैं और सामान्य रूप से इसमें आधारित उपयोगकर्ता इंटरफेस होता है, जो वेब सिंडिकेशन, ब्लोग्स और विकीस का उपयोग करते हैं। जहां एक ओर वेब 2.0 के लिए कोई निर्धारित मानक नहीं हैं, यह मौजूदा वेब सर्वर आर्किटेक्चर और सेवाओं के उपयोग द्वारा निर्माण की विशेषता रखती है। इसलिए वेब 2.0 भी कुछ विशेषताओं को प्रदर्शित करता है एसा कहा जा सकता है। कुछ टिप्पणीकार मेशप को वेब 2.0 अनुप्रयोग मानते हैं। बिजनेस मेशप शब्दप्रयोग को एसे वेब अनुप्रयोगों के वर्णन के लिए बनाया गया था, जो एक से अधिक स्रोतों से सामग्री को संयोजित करके, सर्विस ओरिएंटेड बिजनेस अनुप्रयोगों के कई लक्षण रखनेवाले, एकीकृत उपयोगकर्ता अनुभव देते हैं। एक कथात्मक तरीके से सेवाओं से बने अनुप्रयोग हैं। वेब 2.0, मेशप और के संघर्ष के बारे में विवाद जारी है, जहां कुछ लोगों का कहना है कि वेब 2.0 अनुप्रयोग, मिश्रण और बिजनेस अनुप्रयोगों का एक साकार रूप हैं। वेब 2.0 वेब आधारित अनुप्रयोगों के कथित, शीघ्र विकसित होने वाले एक सेट का</s> |
का जमावडा न रहे। बैठक में अपर कलेक्टर अरूण कुमार विश्वकर्मा, जिला पंचायत सीईओ अंजू अरूण विश्वकर्मा, एसडीएम डिंडौरी महेश मण्डलोई, एसडीएम शहपुरा काजल जावला, सहायक आयुक्त जनजाति कार्य विभाग डॉ. संतोष शुक्ला, मुख्य चिकित्सा एवं स्वास्थ्य अधिकारी डॉ. रमेश मरावी सहित विभागीय अधिकारीकर्मचारी मौजूद रहे। तेजऐश्वर्या का मामला दो परिवारों को नहीं, उनके आपस का है कर्क राशि के लोगों का दिन सामान्य रहेगा. आज मातापिता की सलाह आपके लिए कारगर साबित होगी. संतान की ओर से खास समाचार मिलेगा. आज गंभीर मामलों को शांति और बातचीत से सुलझाने की कोशिश करें. यह आदेश आज रात 12 बजे से लागू किया जाएगा। यूपी सरकार की कैबिनेट में यह फैसला आज लिया गया है। 10: तो अब काले बल्ले से धोनी लगाएंगे हेलिकॉप्टर शॉट? बता दें कि 2019 से पहले विपक्षी एकता के प्रदर्शन के बीच कुमारस्वामी ने बुधवार को कर्नाटक के 24वें मुख्यमंत्री के तौर पर शपथ ली। गठबंधन सरकार में कांग्रेस के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष जी परमेश्वर ने भी डिप्टी सीएम के पद की शपथ ली। शुक्रवार को होने वाले बहुमत परीक्षण के बाद मंत्रिमंडल में अन्य सदस्यों को शामिल किया जाएगा। शपथ के साथ साथ विपक्ष ने भारतीय जनता पार्टी को अपनी ताकत भी दिखाई है। जो नेता</s> |
प्रधानता होनी चाहिए. 55 कैंक्री ई का दूसरा नाम जैनसन () भी है. यह अपने तारे 55 के बहुत निकट परिक्रमा करता है. इसका भार पृथ्वी से लगभग 8.63 गुना है और यह किसी मेन सीक्वेंस स्टार के पास खोजा गया पहला सुपरअर्थ प्लैनेट है. इसे अपने सूर्य की परिक्रमा करने में 18 घंटे लगते हैं और यह अब तक ज्ञात सबसे भीतरी ग्रह है. इसकी खोज 30 अगस्त, 2004 को हुई थी. 2010 तक मिली जानकारियों के आधार पर हम यह मानते रहे कि इसे तारे की परिक्रमा करने में 2.8 दिन लगते होंगे. अक्टूबर, 2012 में यह पता चला कि यह मुख्यतः कार्बन से बना है. लेकिन हाल के अवलोकनों से यह स्पष्ट हुआ है कि इसमें हमारे अनुमान से कहीं कम कार्बन है. यह ग्रह हमसे 40 प्रकाश वर्ष दूर है और इस तक पहुंचना फिलहाल संभव नहीं है. यदि हम हीरों की तलाश में इस तक जाने का सोचेंगे तो मिशन पर ही इतना खर्च आएगा कि हम घाटे में रहेंगे. ( ) मुंबई. बॉलीवुड एक्ट्रेस और मॉडल पूनम पांडे ने अपने पति सैम बॉम्बे के साथ एक बार फिर से चर्चा में है. गुरुवार यानी 5 नवंबर को दोनों को गोवा के चापोली डैम में</s> |
By Francine Kershaw and Grace Goldberg (originally published November 17th, 2016, on OpenChannels)
Genetic data is often overlooked and geneticists are rarely at the top of the marine planning party guest list. This results in a significant gap in the protection of evolutionary processes, that are essential for the long-term survival species in the face of environmental change. Genetic tools provide unique information useful for marine protection in a way that complements other approaches, such as satellite tracks and habitat mapping.
So why isn’t genetics being systematically used in marine spatial protection? Research suggests that genetic data is considered valuable by planners and policy-makers, but that it is also generally dispersed, inaccessible, or misunderstood.
Fortunately, this is a problem that we can solve.
The Geospatial Genetics project—a collaboration between NRDC, WCS, UCSB, and the IUCN Joint SSC/WCPA Marine Mammal Protected Area Task Force—is empowering geneticists with the tools they need to more actively engage in marine protection. The project helps geneticists to mobilize their data by transforming it into geospatial maps and then visualizing it in SeaSketch. Maps are deeply intuitive and can easily be explained in the planning and policy arena.
In addition to providing a space for the genetics community to view and contribute geospatial information, a rich set of collaboration tools specifically support iterative planning discussions, in-person and remotely. Participants have access to discussion forums, that facilitate map-based conversations. The SeaSketch survey tool has also allowed project partners to solicit specific feedback from the community, including the submission of spatial plan ideas “sketched out” on the map.
The project is currently helping geneticists engage with the Task Force’s initiative to identify Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs), a knowledge tool to guide conservation and management efforts. Guidance on how to identify IMMAs was released in October and a chapter on genetics was included, helping to mainstream genetics into the policy conversation.
The Task Force has also just completed its first expert regional workshop to identify 41 candidate IMMAs in the Mediterranean. There are five other workshops planned in major ocean regions over the next five years.
Looking forward, the Geospatial Genetics project is actively seeking support to continue to enable geneticists to actively engage with the IMMA identification process by providing the support they need to mobilize their data and participate in the upcoming regional workshops. More broadly, the project aims to continue to build the international community of geospatial geneticists interested in becoming more actively engaged in the policy arena.
It’s time for geneticists to brush off their party wear.
To learn more about SeaSketch supporting collaborative research, contact Grace Goldberg ([email protected]). |
में एंटीइंफ्लेमेट्री तत्व पाए जाते हैं। हिंदी न्यूज़ उत्तर प्रदेश पीलीभीत बहनों ने राखी बांध लिया रक्षा का वचन मलीहा ने आगे कहा परिषद को इसलिए समयसमय पर अपने रिजॉल्यूशन के इम्प्लिमेंटेशन की समीक्षा करते रहना चाहिए। खासकर, लंबे समय से लंबित पड़े मुद्दों के ऊपर जैसे जम्मू कश्मीर। मलीहा लोधी ने कहा कि अगर परिषद अपने रिजॉल्यूशन को लागू करने में विफल रहता है तो इससे ना सिर्फ दुनिया के सामने परिषद कमजोर होगा बल्कि संयुक्त राष्ट्र पर भी उसका असर पड़ेगा। बॉक्स ऑफिस पर इस शुक्रवार दो फिल्मों ने दस्तक दी है। पहली विद्युत जामवाल की जंगली और दूसरी मोहनीश बहल की बेटी की डेब्यू फिल्म नोटबुक। फिल्म जंगली में विद्युत जानवरों के डॉक्टर राज का किरदार निभा रहे हैं। जिसका बचपन एलिफेंट रिजर्व में बीता है। विद्युत के अलावा आशा भट्ट, अतुल कुलकर्णी और मकरंद देशपांडे की अहम भूमिका है। जंगली का डायरेक्शन हॉलीवुड डायरेक्टर चक रसेल ने किया है। फिल्म का बजट करीब 45 करोड़ रुपये है। सलमान खान के प्रोडक्शन की फिल्म नोटबुक एक रोमांटिक म्यूजिकल फिल्म है। सलमान खान ने एक बार फिर से न्यूकमर्स को लॉन्च किया है। फिल्म में प्रनूतन बहल और जहीर इकबाल मुख्य भूमिका में हैं। बता दें कि प्रनूतन</s> |
In recent years, science education has been taking note of the idea of ‘threshold concepts’. The idea came out of studies in how students learn economics by Erik Meyer and Ray Land, but has much wider application.
We’ve done a bit of study in this at Waikato, particularly for electronics – see for example Jonathan Scott and Ann Harlow (N.B. Full references are listed at the end.)
The basic idea is that some concepts in a subject are by their nature exceedingly difficult to learn. That’s because they typically require a change in the way a student thinks about something. They’re not just another fact to remember, or another technique for solving a problem, but transform the whole approach a student will take to something. With a threshold concept, there’s no ‘going-back’; once you have grasped it, the way you do things will change. Since students typically build knowledge on the foundation of what they already understand (or believe they understand) fitting in something that involves a shift in their fundamental thinking isn’t easy. A threshold concept may need to be presented to students many times before it gets grasped. The first time students are presented with it, it is likely to result in a sea of perplexed faces.
It’s tricky to give an example of a threshold concept for a general audience, because many are very specific to a discipline. Thinking back to childhood, one might recognize an example in understanding where money comes from. A very young child doesn’t get it – money is simply something that comes from Mum’s purse that can be exchanged for useful stuff. When Mum says "No, we don’t can’t afford it", the child is perplexed. "But there’s money in your purse", he thinks. "You can always go to the bank and get some more." At some point he learns that there isn’t an endless supply of it – it gets earned – even the stuff that comes from the ATM – and at that point his thinking about it changes.
I ran into a threshold concept in a lecture on Friday. This one pertains to units in physics. In particle physics, one often talks about the mass of elementary particles as being in the unit MeV/c2. (N.B. It’s tricky to write equations in MoveableType – the ‘2’ here means ‘squared’.) For example, the mass of an electron is 0.511 MeV/c2.
What does this mean? Well, MeV (mega electron volt, or a million electron volts) is a measure of energy. One electron volt is the energy that an electron acquires when it is accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt. It’s equal to 1.6 times 10 to the power of -19 joules. Students don’t typically have a problem with this – it’s just another unit – in the same way one can measure speed in metres per second or kilometres an hour or miles per hour, one can measure energy in joules (the S.I. unit of energy) or electron volts, (or kcal for that matter).
Now, recall Einstein’s famous E=mc2 equation, relating the rest-mass energy E of a particle to its mass m. Divide both sides by c2, and we get E/c2 = m. That is, an energy divided by a velocity squared is a mass. Students are with me so far.
But now the threshold. I say we can write mass as so-many MeV/c2 (a MeV divided by the speed of light squared.) This they don’t like. Why? Because it involves the speed-of-light as part of the unit. The trouble is grasping what MeV/c2 represents. It’s sort of an equation but not quite. I think the problem here lies with the fact that my students don’t fully understand units in general – they have the idea they are a tag-on at the end of a number, rather than something that is absolutely integral to the quantity itself. What’s curious was that if I wrote the mass of an electron as (0.511 MeV)/c2, they were happy. It’s an algebraic equation – take the 0.511 MeV, and divide it by the value for the speed of light squared. But shift the brackets to 0.511 (MeV/c2) and suddenly it’s a conceptual jump too far.
It certainly appears to be a threshold for them, and, according to the literature, I can’t expect them to grasp it quickly. Thinking back to my student days, I didn’t grasp it quickly, either.
Land R, Cousin G, Meyer JHF and Davies P (2005). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (3): Implications for course design and evaluation. In Rust C (ed.) Improving Student Learning – equality and diversity. Oxford: OCSLD.
Meyer JHF and Land R (2003). Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge (I): linkages to ways of thinking and practising. In Rust C (ed.), Improving Student Learning – ten years on. Oxford:OCSLD.
Meyer JHF, Land R and Davies P (2006). Implications of threshold concepts for course desing and evalutation. In Meyer JHF and Land R (eds.) Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: threshold comcepts and troublesome knowledge. London and New York:Routledge.
Scott J, Harlow A, Peter M and Cowie B. (2010). Threshold Comcepts and Introductory Electronics. Proceedings of Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney. |
अब अखिलेश की अगुवाई वाले धड़े से गठबंधन की उम्मीद है, वहीं भाजपा ने स्वीकार किया है कि अगर इस गठबंधन में मूर्त रूप लिया तो उसे अपनी चुनावी रणनीति में आमूलचूल बदलाव लाना होगा। बता दें यह एक मारुति सुजुकी 800 बॉडी है, जो एक मारुति सुजुकी जिप्सी चेसिस पर लगाई गई है। जिप्सी की चेसिस पर व्यापक काम किया गया है ताकि यह सुनिश्चित किया जा सके कि मारुति 800 की बॉडी इस प्लेटफॉर्म पर पूरी तरह से फिट बैठ जाए। अचानक एक छोटा सा बच्चा जो करीब १० साल का होंगा अपनी बहन जो कि करीब ८ साल की होंगी के साथ मेरे पास आया और मुझसे कुछ पैसे मांगे. सुबह से चल रही हवा से लोगों को गर्मी से मिली राहत सीरीज जीतेगा ऑस्ट्रेलिया या कैनबरा में होगा फैसला? निश्चय ही, चिंताएं तर्कसंगत हैं और परिस्थितियां थोड़ी बेहतर होतीं अगर सरकार ने एक खाका प्रसतुत किया होता। लेकिन, संकेत इस बात के हैं कि सरकार विनिवेश के प्रतिकूल नहीं है। हो सकता है कि अगर बाजार 10,000 अंक के स्तर पर होता तो इन संकेतों को सकारात्मक तौर पर लिया जाता, शायद 15,000 अंक के स्तर पर तारतम्य जोड़ पाना कठिन लग रहा है। महाराष्ट्र के</s> |
और इससे मोटापा तो बिल्कुल भी नहीं आता. आप सोच भी नहीं सकते की सिर्फ एक बड़ा सा तरबूज आपको ढेरों बिमारियों से बचा सकता है. प्रशासन राहत कार्य में जुटा है। हालांकि बारिश की वजह से जगहजगह पानी जमा हो गया है, जिसकी वजह से राहत के काम में दिक्कतें आ रही हैं। भगत सिंह द्वारा प्रस्तुत ये विचार न केवल सावरकर के विचारों के अनुरुप हैं, बल्कि गुरुजी के विचारों का गुच्छा के अनुसार भी है। यह साबित हुआ कि भगत सिंह ने सावरकर की पुस्तक 1857 स्वतंत्रता का युद्ध का अंग्रेजी अनुवाद प्रकाशित किया और इसे क्रांतिकारियों के बीच प्रचारित किया गया। कुछ लेखकों ने दावा किया है कि सावरकर और भगत सिंह की मुलाकात रत्नागिरी में हुई थी, लेकिन इसकी कोई निर्विवाद पुष्टि नहीं हुई। जाम की स्थिति पूरी तरह से खत्म हो जाए इसके लिए हम हर दो दिन बाद फुटपाथ खाली कराने का अभियान चला रहे हैं। बावजूद इसके दुकानों के बाहर फुटपाथ दुकानें लगा ली जाती हैं। प्रभावी कार्रवाई शुरू कर रहे हैं। कोरोना वायरस संक्रमण की दूसरी लहर के चलते बीसीसीआई ने आईपीएल सीजन को बीच में स्थगित करने का फैसला किया था, जिसके बाद कयास लगाए जा रहे हैं कि बचे</s> |
तेज गेंदबाजी आक्रमण है और यहां भारत को सावधान रहने की जरूरत है। अब आपके के स्मार्ट फोन के लिये जरुरत बन चुका है कन्डोम सब्सक्रिप्शन में लाइव स्पोर्ट्स, हॉटस्टार स्पेशल, ब्लॉकबस्टर मूवी और टीवी शो कंटेंट शामिल हैं। इसके अलावा पांच हजार मेगावाट की छह परियोजनाएं और निर्माणाधीन हैं। रीवा सौर परियोजना के लिए मध्य प्रदेश ऊर्जा विकास निगम और सोलर एनर्जी कार्पोरेशन ऑफ इंडिया की ज्वाइंट वेंचर कंपनी के रूप में रीवा अल्ट्रा मेगा सोलर लिमिटेड कंपनी का गठन किया गया। इससे उत्पादित विद्युत का न्यूनतम टैरिफ 2 रुपये 97 पैसे यूनिट की दर से दिल्ली मेट्रो और प्रदेश की पावर मैनेजमैंट कंपनी को दिया जा रहा है। परियोजना 1590 हेक्टेयर क्षेत्र में स्थापित है। बिजली ट्रांसमिशन निगम ने राज्य का पहला गैस इंसुलेटेड सबस्टेशन (जीआईएस) का निर्माण कर लिया है। यह राज्य का पहला जीआईएस है। इसके निर्माण में करीब 2.5 वर्ष का समय और करीब 226 करोड़ रुपए खर्च हुए हैं। इस सबस्टेशन से निर्माण धीन स्मार्ट सिटी में बिजली आपूर्ति की जाएगी। 220 केवी हाइटेंशन लाइन जो ऊंचे टॉवर के माध्यम से जोड़ी जाती है। इस सबस्टेशन के लिए हटिया ग्रिड2 से करीब 6 किमी भूमिगत करके जैप आईटी तक लाकर जोड़ी गई है। जेडीयू</s> |
रायगढ़ से लेकर अमहदाबाद तक हडकंप मचा गया है। रोजगार कार्यालयों के आंकड़ों से खुलासा, कांगड़ा में सबसे ज्यादा बेरोजगार पंजीकृत पालमपुर नौकरी की आस में प्रदेश भर में हर माह करीब 12 हजार नए लोग रोजगार कार्यालयों में अपना नाम दर्ज करवा रहे हैं। छोटे से प्रदेश में सालाना पंजीकरण का आंकड़ा काफी कुछ बयां कर रहा है। 2016 में रोजगार कार्यालयों क्षेत्रवासियों के द्वारा कई बार पर्यटन विकास के लिए बजट की मांग तो की गई, लेकिन इसके बाद भी शासन ने कोई पहल नहीं की : हैदराबाद के अस्पताल में डॉक्टरों द्वारा एक ऐसी दुर्लभ बीमारी की सर्जरी की गई, जिसमें बच्ची को अचानक हंसी आ जाती थी. इस बीमारी के इलाज के लिए डॉक्टर्स अभी जुटे हुए हैं. आप पार्टी के मेंबर तो यहां पर दिख जाएंगे लेकिन इन मेंबर्स का नेता कौन है किसकी मॉनिटरिंग में रसीद या फिर ऑन लाइन मेंबरशिप का काम चल रहा है इसकी जानकारी किसी को नहीं है। बेवसाइट के थ्रू जुड़े डॉ। दिवाकर तेजस्वी ने बताया कि एक वीक के अंदर स्टेट लेवल कमेटी का गठन किया जाना है। इसके बाद ही आगे कोई काम होगा। औराई थाने के कटौझा में सड़क हादसे में जख्मी महिला की इलाज के</s> |
Payroll processing for a single pay period can sometimes take two or three days to complete because it is a detailed process. One of the most time-consuming (and first) tasks of payroll processing involves figuring employees’ time. During performing the calculations, you must also convert the employees’ time.
Gather hourly employees’ weekly time sheets. Hourly employees are paid based on their hours worked within the current pay period--the period of time for which they are being paid. The time sheets should reflect each employee’s regular, overtime, vacation, sick or personal time used for that week. Some employees use time sheets that are completed by hand; others punch time clocks. Ensure that the employee and his manager or supervisor signs the time sheet. If it's not signed, return it for the appropriate signatures.
Go through the time cards and convert military time to regular time. If the time sheet is completed by hand, you most likely can skip this step because the employee would have used regular time to record his hours. If the employee uses a time clock that records his punches in military time, you must convert it. Use the following example to convert military time to regular time: In--900; lunch in--1300; lunch out--1400; out--1900 equals in--9 a.m.; lunch in--1p.m.; lunch out--2 p.m.; out--7 p.m. The employee should be paid for eight regular hours and one hour of overtime, provided he has 40 regular hours for the week.
Change decimals to minutes. The employee’s time sheet might reflect decimals instead of minutes. Use the following formula to do the conversion: 0 - .25 equals 15 minutes 26 -.50 equals 30 minutes .51 - .75 equals 45 minutes .76 - .99 equals 60 minutes
Round up hourly employees’ time to the nearest quarter hour. The employee or the time clock generally records the exact punches (e.g., 8:13 a.m. or 7:06 a.m.); round up as follows: 8:13 a.m. equals 8:15 a.m. 7:06 a.m. equals 7 a.m.
Total the time sheet columns based on your conversions for each day. The regular and overtime columns should both be converted. For example, your regular column conversion reflects: Monday: 8 hours Tuesday: 7 hours and 30 minutes Wednesday: 6 hours and 15 minutes Thursday: 8 hours Friday: 7 hours and 45 minutes The regular column total should read 37 hours and 30 minutes. |
September is National Preparedness Month. This month serves as a reminder for all Californians to ensure they have a plan in place in the event of an emergency or natural disaster, such as a large flood or wildfire.
As we have seen most recently with the devastating wildfires across the State, it is crucial that Californians are prepared. Having an emergency preparedness kit on hand and ready to go will ensure that you and your family will be ready whenever disaster strikes.
Emergency preparedness kits should include essential items that will help sustain you, your family, and your pets for several days. Always make sure your preparedness kit is customized to meet the unique needs of your family and remember to periodically check supplies and refresh water, food, batteries, and first aid items when needed.
Below is a list of items to get you started:
- Water (one gallon per person per day for at least three days, for drinking and sanitation)
- Food (at least a three-day supply of non-perishable food)
- Battery-powered or hand crank radio and a NOAA Weather Radio with tone alert
- First aid kit
- Extra batteries
- Whistle (to signal for help)
- Dust mask (to help filter contaminated air)
- Plastic sheeting and duct tape (to shelter in place)
- Moist towelettes, garbage bags, and plastic ties (for personal sanitation)
- Wrench or pliers (to turn off utilities)
- Manual can opener (for food)
- Local maps
- Cell phone with chargers and a backup battery
The Centers for Disease Control also started recommending in 2020 that families have additional items in their emergency preparedness kit to prevent the spread of Coronavirus and other infectious diseases.
The following items are now recommended:
- Cloth face coverings (for everyone ages 2 and above)
- Hand sanitizer
- Disinfecting wipes to disinfect surfaces
Additional items for consideration, include:
- Prescription medications
- Non-prescription medications such as pain relievers, anti-diarrhea medication, antacids, or laxatives
- Prescription eyeglasses and contact lens solution
- Infant formula, bottles, diapers, wipes, and diaper rash cream
- Pet food and extra water for your pet
- Cash or traveler's checks
- Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records saved electronically or in a waterproof, portable container
- Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person
- Complete change of clothing appropriate for your climate and sturdy shoes
- Fire extinguisher
- Matches in a waterproof container
- Feminine supplies and personal hygiene items
- Mess kits, paper cups, plates, paper towels and plastic utensils
- Paper and pencil
- Books, games, puzzles or other activities for children
For more information on how and where to store your emergency preparedness kit, check out Ready.gov.
And for more information on National Preparedness Month be sure to visit the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services website. |
Latest science: which habitats should we restore first?
Conservation isn’t just about preserving pristine natural habitats. To thoroughly address the climate and extinction crises, we also need to restore ecosystems that have been degraded or converted to other uses. But where to start? BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart discusses a new study he co‑authored.
Which factors make some locations higher priority than others?
The benefits and costs of restoration vary substantially across the world. The amount of carbon that would be captured by restoring a site differs depending on habitat and location, and the biodiversity value of locations also varies. Added to this, habitat restoration is much cheaper in some locations than others.
How did you explore these trade-offs?
We collaborated with scientists at the International Institute for Sustainability in Brazil – along with other institutions – to use an approach called ‘linear programming’. Through this method, we calculated the optimal distribution of restored sites under three criteria (minimising extinctions, mitigating climate change and minimising costs) under 1,200 different scenarios.
What were the key findings?
Priority areas for restoration varied wildly depending on which of the criteria we focused on. Overall, we found that restoring 15% of converted lands in priority areas could avoid 60% of expected extinctions while capturing 299 gigatonnes of CO2 – 30% of the total CO2 increase in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution. Importantly, we found that it is much more cost-effective to optimise across multiple criteria simultaneously. This highlights the importance of spatial planning and pursuing climate and biodiversity goals simultaneously rather than separately.
Which kinds of habitat are important for restoration?
All biomes have an important role, but priority areas tended to be concentrated in wetlands and tropical and subtropical forests. These sites typically had high carbon stocks, high species diversity and considerable loss of natural habitat.
What were the limitations of the study?
We focused exclusively on areas that had been converted to other uses, since the costs and benefits of restoring degraded ecosystems are less well known. We also did not consider the way climate change is affecting the distributions of species, biomass and agricultural production. Finally, at local and national scales it is critical to consider socio-economic issues such as social equity and land tenure.
How can we turn information into action?
Governments have made bold commitments to restore ecosystems, including in relation to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), Bonn Challenge, New York Declaration on Forests and the Paris Climate Accord. Our methods and results can help nations to develop efficient spatial plans that ensure such restoration delivers maximum benefit for biodiversity and climate change, while minimising costs.
Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration is published in Nature.
“Priority areas tended to be concentrated in wetlands and tropical and subtropical forests. These sites typically had high carbon stocks, high species diversity and considerable loss of natural habitat.”
Stuart Butchart, BirdLife Chief Scientist and co-author of the paper
From new forest corridors to the production of shade-grown commodities, restoration work in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay is crossing country borders and taking landscape conservation into new realms of ingenuity.
Through our world-leading science, unique local-to-global policy reach and extensive on-ground conservation work around the globe, BirdLife is uniquely placed to guide on why and how we need to restore nature to build back better from COVID-19, tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, and improve health and well-being, as part of wider and long-term efforts to achieve an equitable, carbon-neutral, nature-positive future for all.
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If you have done any kind of work with an html editor, than you have probably run into this term.
I actually first heard about it back in the mid 1980's when computers were still quite basic - mainly a storage system or a spreadsheet program that would make users cry today.
WYSIWYG is an acronym.
It stands for: What You See Is What You Get.
What it means is pretty much this:
When using an editor and choosing the font, colors, alignment, text types, etc - usually from a bar across the top of the editor, all of these choices will be shown as you type along.
Your finished product will look like it does as you prepare it.
No surprises - what you see is what you get.
Without this feature, you better know some basic html and the different names for fonts and colors so you can code the webpage and have it look correct.
WYSIWYG makes our life so much easier, and many computer users today don't know what it is like to not have this feature on an editor. |
Sortify is an original BrainPOP game in which students categorize and sort information from BrainPOP movies into bins representing key concepts. With the Musical Instruments data set, students can practice sorting instrument tiles into bin categories such as brass, string, valved, and rhythm. Students earn more points when sorting tiles into bins labeled with more complex concepts, such as the instrument's continent of origin. Students may also earn bonus points for accurately sorting all tiles into only four bins. Scores for Sortify will vary based on the combination and difficulty of the selected bins. Accruing the highest possible score indicates that a student has understood the topic enough to strategically group and categorize key concepts and ideas.
This page provides lesson ideas for BrainPOP's Sortify game. The ideas are adaptable for any subject area and any grade level (K-12.) Learn how the Sortify game can be used as a playful assessment tool or practice activity that requires students to categorize topic-specific tiles into the bins where they belong. See more »
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades K-5, students will use BrainPOP resources to become familiar with percussion instruments. They will also practice playing the instruments on a given cue. This lesson plan is aligned to Common Core State Standards. See more »
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades K-3, students use BrainPOP Jr. resources to identify characteristics of woodwind instruments. Students then create and play their own original woodwind instrument. This lesson plan is aligned to Common Core State Standards. See more »
In this lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades K-3, students use BrainPOP Jr. resources to identify and explore characteristics of percussion instruments. Students then create and play their own percussion instrument. This lesson plan is aligned to Common Core State Standards. See more »
In this musical genres lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades K-8, students use BrainPOP resources to conduct independent and/or collaborative research on a selected musical topic. Students will share their research about a musical genre, instrument, musician, or aspect of learning music with the class using web 2.0 tools or other presentation methods. This lesson plan is aligned to Common Core State Standards. See more »
In this set of activities adaptable for grades K-3, parents and educators will find ideas for teaching about musical instruments. These activities are designed to complement the BrainPOP Jr. Musical Instruments topic page, which includes a movie, quizzes, online games, printable activities, and more. See more » |
KLOO MFL Language Resources for school at
This video looks at KLOO as French and Spanish MFL resources for schools. We look at what language content is contained in a game of KLOO including:
– what word types are learned
– how grammatically correct sentences are made
– how you can learn foreign words as you play through Discovery Learning
– the word themes of each deck.
– how much foreign language knowledge you need to be able to play
00:10 What language do you learn when playing KLOO?
00:17 Deal 7 cards
00:28 To start a sentence play a red card first
00:32 Play with Pronouns and Verbs
00:36 How to built a foreign sentence by following coloured arrows
00:46 Using Nouns and articles
00:53 Using adjectives
00:59 Connectives and conjunctions
01:09 Gender Agreement
01:14 Expressions and Phrases
01:18 Clues to translate foreign words and build vocabulary
01:22 Using Discovery Learning to build vocabulary
01:35 How much language do you need to know to play KLOO?
01:48 What foreign vocabulary will you learn?
01:55 Learn French, Spanish and Italian vocabulary about People
01:58 Learn French, Spanish and Italian vocabulary about Places
02:00 Learn French, Spanish and Italian vocabulary about Clothes
02:02 French, Spanish and Italian vocabulary about Everyday Objects
02:05 French, Spanish and Italian vocabulary about Everyday Eating & Drinking
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT KLOO MFL Resource for Schools
What do you learn when playing KLOO? Let’s take a look.
In most games of KLOO, you are dealt seven cards. To score points, you need to make a foreign sentence. The longer the sentence, the more you score. But it’s really easy.
To start your sentence, you play a red card. With red cards, we get to play with pronouns and verbs.
To build your sentence, you just need to follow the colojured arrows. So we are learning grammar too.
So we play a blue card next. That’s a noun with its article in agreement. We can play yellow or green card next.
We’re going to play yellow. That’s an adjective.
Now, a greed card. Green cards are connected to make our sentence longer.
We can now play another blue card now, and another yellow. There’s more gender agreement here.
We can also play a purple card here. So we learn great expressions too.
We also get clues to translate words we don’t know. In this way, we use discovery learning to build vocabulary as we play. You would score a lot of points for this sentence, and learned a lot of language too. And this is just one hand.
How much language do you need in order to start playing KLOO? None. You can play and learn as an absolute beginner, or even if you’re more advanced. Just be ready for how fast you learn.
What about vocabulary? What sort of words will you learn? Each deck covers particular language themes such as people, places, clothes, everyday objects and eating and drinking. And with every deck, you can make three million sentences. That’s a lot of language and a lot of fun.
KLOO, the multi-award winning MFL game that packs a lot of language.
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About KLOO as an MFL Resource
KLOO provides fun language resources and games for schools. In the UK KLOO games are ideal for key stage 2 and key stage 3 French and Spanish. KLOO language Games are available in French, Spanish and Italian.
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कमल चौहान, बालक राम, भागमल, मातबर सिंह, फतेह सिंह, विक्रम सिंह, सरदार सिंह, भगतराम, धनसिंह, महेन्द्र सिंह आदि ने उघान अधिकारी से शीध्र जाली उपलब्ध कराने की मांग की है। जिला उघान अधिकारी एमपी शाही ने बताया कि जिला स्तर से एलांटमेंट किया गया है। लेकिन शासननिदेशालय स्तर से अभी बजट जारी नहीं किया गया है। बजट मिलते ही जाली उपलब्ध करा दी जाएंगी। आपको बता दें कि भारत में कंपनी ने 2 को दिसंबर 2018 में लॉन्च किया था। इस स्मार्टफोन की कीमत भी ज्यादा नहीं थी जिसकी वजह से हर बजट के लोग इसे आसानी से अफोर्ड कर पा रहे थे। इस स्मार्टफोन में जबदरस्त फीचर्स दिए गए थे जो ग्राहकों को काफी पसंद आए थे साथ ही इसका कैमरा भी काफी अच्छा है। पुलिस ने इस गिरोह की संचालिका के बेटे और दोनों जोड़ो को गिरफ्तार कर लिया है. उनसे इस धंधे में शामिल अन्य लोगो के बारे में पूछताछ की जा रही है. छापेमारी के दौरान लखनऊ व बरेली की दोदो कॉलगर्ल पकड़ी गईं हैं. इनके संग रंगरेलिया मनाते हरदोई व सीतापुर के एक एक युवक को भी दबोचा गया है. पुलिस ने चारों आरोपियों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई शुरू कर दी है. घरेलू ऑटोमोबाइल कंपनी टाटा</s> |
सड़क मार्ग से पहुंचा जा सकता है। रेल मार्ग तंजावुर का रेलवे जंक्शन त्रिची, चेन्नई और नागौर से सीधी रेलसेवा द्वारा जुड़ा हुआ है। इन्हें भी देखें बृहदीश्वर मंदिर कावेरी नदी तंजावूर ज़िला बाहरी कड़ियाँ अद्भुत है तंजौर का वृहदीश्वर मंदिर तंजावुर वीणा को शीघ्र हासिल होगा भौगोलिक संकेतन का दर्जा सन्दर्भ तंजावूर ज़िला तमिल नाडु के शहर तंजावूर ज़िले के नगर यह भारत की प्रमुख लोककलाओं में से एक है। इन्हें भी देखें लोककला चित्रकला संस्कृति लोक कला यह भारत की प्रमुख लोककलाओं में से एक है। इन्हें भी देखें लोककला चित्रकला संस्कृति लोक कला यह भारत की प्रमुख लोककलाओं में से एक है। इन्हें भी देखें लोककला चित्रकला संस्कृति लोक कला पिथौरा भारत के छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के महासमुन्द ज़िले में स्थित एक नगर है। चित्रकला पिथौरा अपने चित्रकला के लिए प्रसिद्ध है। यहां राजा राइ और सेना आदि की तसवीर दीवाल पर बनाए जाते थे ये नगर प्राचीन काल से छत्तीसगढ़ जो की राजा अकबर के समय रतनपुर के नाम से जाना जाता था चित्रकला से प्रसिद्ध हुए। शिक्षा पिथौरा में बहुत से प्राइवेट स्कूल है। गवर्नमेंट गर्ल स्कूल पहले पिथौरा महल के नाम से जाना जाता था यहाँ गवर्नमेंट रणजीत कृषि हायर सेकेंडरी स्कूल है जहां बहुत</s> |
The Great Lakes Poets
World famous for its stunning landscapes, rugged fells and beautiful lakes, it is little wonder the Lake District, Cumbria inspired some of England’s most famous poets to write some of their best works.
William Wordsworth, the Lake District´s best known son, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned some of their most famous works while living in the Lakes at the end of the 18th Century.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge had already written ´The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner´ and ´Kubla Khan´ by the time he was persuaded by Wordsworth to move to the Lake District.
Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1770 and was educated at Hawkshead Grammar School, along with brother. The school is still open to the public, and the poet´s initials can be seen carved on his original desk. Wordsworth went on to complete his education at Cambridge University, before travelling widely with Coleridge who became a great friend of the poet.
Both poets decided to return to the Lake District to live, and found great inspiration from the countryside, and the landscapes to write some of their most famous poems.
Wordsworth was much more political than many people realised, and he had firm ideas about the conservation of the Lake District and of the damage a direct rail link to Windermere may bring to his beloved home. He feared that mass tourism would change the Lakes forever and his romantic poetry was an answer to the industrial revolution.
He campaigned to keep the railways from destroying the region, and much of his poetry reflected his love for the Lakes. His best known poem is ´Daffodils´ – often referred to as ´I wandered Lonely as a Cloud´ which he was inspired to write while out walking with his sister, Dorothy in Ullswater.
Wordsworth turned down the position of Poet Laureate several times as he did not want to write to order, but eventually accepted the post when he was in his seventies. The poet stuck to his principles however, and never wrote a piece of official poetry. Wordsworth died in 1850, aged 80.
Coleridge´s life went from bad to worse in the Lake District after his marriage failed and he turned to opium. He left the area in 1803 and never fully recovered. He had co-written ´Lyrical Ballads´ during his time in the Lakes, but Coleridge suffered from mental health problems later in life associated with his opium use.
Robert Southey was the brother-in-law of Coleridge and a well-known poet in his own right. He was Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843 when Wordsworth took the post. Southey was very close to Coleridge´s children, and he wrote the children´s story, ´The Three Bears´ for them.
Wordsworth´s house, Dove Cottage is still open to the public in Grasmere, and is now a museum, which celebrates the lives of the Lakeland poets. Visitors can see manuscripts by Matthew Arnold and Thomas de Quincey who later lived in the cottage. Quincey was famous for his ´Confessions of an English Opium Eater´ which is ironic, as he later succumbed to this addiction.
The inspiration for many of Beatrix Potter´s tales, Hill Top Farm is the 17th Century farmhouse where the author bought in 1905. It was initially used as a holiday home and later a permanent residence. Many of her ´treasures´ are still on display, and Hill Top Farm was the model for Samuel Whiskers illustrations and many others included in her books.
If you are planning to explore the Lake District and walk in the footsteps of the region´s former famous poets and writers, check out the incredible choice of romantic cottages and spa hotels in Windermere. |
One of the first way to reduce food waste is making sure you’re storing food the right way to reduce it going bad too soon. So here are tips for how to reduce food waste by keeping produce fresh.
First of all, certain fruits and veggies should not be stored in the fridge at all, including tomatoes, bananas, avocados, onions, garlic, eggplants, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, winter squash and most summer melons. That should free up some space in your crisper already!
- Moisture and freezing are your enemies.
- Your greens need a certain amount of airflow.
- Whole heads of lettuce will last far longer than loose-leaf salad greens.
- Keep your greens dry with paper towels. This is one of the few times when paper towels are invaluable, so use them without guilt — don’t substitute tea towels because they’re too heavy. Replacing ruined fresh greens is more expensive than a couple of paper towels, and they’re compostable, anyway.
- Always store your greens in the vegetable crisper drawer of your fridge, where temps are a bit warmer and humidity is a bit higher. Avoid the back of the fridge proper because that’s the spot where accidental freezing is most likely to happen. Frozen lettuce = liquified lettuce. Gross.
Storing Loose-Leaf Greens
Wash the greens in a bowl full of cold water (even if they’re “pre-washed”) and pick out any rotten leaves. Dry the greens thoroughly, preferably in a salad spinner, which removes excess water without bruising the greens.
If you don’t have a salad spinner, spread the washed greens out on paper towels, loosely roll them up in a cylinder, and gently pat them dry. Discard, reuse or compost the damp towels.
Then line the bottom of a perforated storage container (best) or plastic produce bag with one dry paper towel. Loosely tumble your greens into the container, and cover them with a second dry paper towel. Close and store it in the vegetable crisper bin of your fridge. Replace the paper towels when they become damp or stained, about once every two or three days.
Also search out and discard any leaves that are going rotten. This will keep the rest of the greens from following suit. We’ve all heard the saying about one bad apple in the barrel: unless it’s removed, it’ll infect all the healthy ones.
Properly stored, you can expect loose-leaf greens to last approximately seven to ten days.
Storing Whole Heads of Lettuce
Don’t wash until ready to use. Leave the head intact and wrap in dry paper towels, which will absorb excess moisture. Place in a perforated storage container or plastic produce bag and store in the vegetable crisper bin in your fridge. Once every two or three days, replace any dampened or stained paper towels with dry ones.
Properly stored, and depending on the type of lettuce, you can expect whole heads of lettuce to last approximately one to three weeks. Those with dense, tight heads, like Iceberg, last the longest.
- Slightly wilted greens can be revived to crispness by soaking them in an ice water bath for a few minutes.
- Another advantage to whole heads of lettuce: if the outer leaves start to go bad, simply peel those leaves off and compost them. The inner leaves should still be perfectly edible.
- Since greens can bruise so easily, a perforated storage container is preferable to a bag, which can get squashed against other items.
- If you do use a bag, blow some air into it before loosely twisting off the opening, and give the greens inside a shake so they’re nice and loose. The air will keep the bag inflated, allowing for better airflow and protection from squishing.
- Trust your instincts: if it smells gross or looks slimy, replace it or compost it.
- The longest-lasting lettuce varieties are Romaine and Iceberg. They tend to stay fresh longer than any other.
Grow Your Own and Avoid Storage Altogether
If you eat salads every day, consider growing your own salad greens. They’re super easy (even in the winter) and, trust me, there’s nothing like eating a salad of freshly harvested greens still warm from the sun. Then you can avoid messing around with storage altogether! Take a few moments to select just the mature outer leaves to harvest instead of cutting out an entire head. Leave the crown intact, and it’ll grow back indefinitely.
You can also extend the life of certain grocery store veggies by regrowing them from their bases. Romaine lettuce, celery, green onions, leeks, lemongrass and fennel can be magically regrown from their roots in a glass of water.
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शहर के निजी अस्पताल में भर्ती कराया है. भाजपा प्रदेश महामंत्री सुरेश भट्ट की अध्यक्षता में शनिवार को कुमाऊं संभाग कार्यालय में बैठक हुई। इसमें नगर निगम के पार्षद शामिल रहे। इन पार्षदों को अपने क्षेत्र में पीएम मोदी की सभा के लिए लोगों को निमंत्रण देने के लिए कहा गया है। कांग्रेस9 सीटें जीती पीएमओ के मुताबिक उन्होंने कहा कि पोषण अभियान को सरकार के पूर्ण दृष्टिकोण के साथ प्रत्येक राज्य में मिशन मोड में लागू किया जाना चाहिए। जिला प्रशासन सर्किल रेट में बढ़ोतरी करने जा रहा है, जिसकी आपत्ति मांगी है लेकिन इसमें पहली बार प्रशासन ने लोकेशन चार्ज शामिल किया है। यह एक्सप्रेसवे और मेट्रो के आसपास के फ्लैट व घर की रजिस्ट्री पर अतिरिक्त शुल्क के रूप में सात से 12 फीसद तक लिया जाएगा। इस शुल्क बढ़ोतरी ने उन एक लाख से अधिक घर व फ्लैट खरीदारों की मुसीबत बढ़ा दी है, जो वर्षों से अपने फ्लैट में रह रहे हैं, लेकिन कई कारणों से अभी तक रजिस्ट्री नहीं करा सके हैं। इन पर अतिरिक्त आर्थिक बोझ पड़ना तय माना जा रहा है। नेफोवा संस्थापक इंद्रीश गुप्त ने बताया कि शुक्र है कि आरबीआइ ने अपने रेपो रेट की दरें नहीं बढ़ाईं अन्यथा घर</s> |
As school begins for most students over the next few weeks, I am reminding myself of those common errors many students make on their homework. So here are a few, not in any particular order. They all make me twitch madly.
Lead/led. Did you know that “led” is the past tense of the verb “lead”? Neither do many of your fellow students. Some of them might include the following phrase in their homework: “He felt lead to talk to the judge.” Well, I get stumped. He felt lead? Does it mean he felt like lead, thus making it hard to walk? Or perhaps he reached out and rubbed some lead, which then inspired him to go talk to a judge (who probably should have tossed him out of court for going around feeling lead).
Him/her, he/she. I know many college professors will contradict what I say here. When referring to a generic person in their writing, students may feel led (!) to say “him/her” instead of just “him.” This caves in to that politically correct rubbish that wants to give equal treatment to men and women in all forms of communication. First, please remember that as a woman, NOT politically correct, I will never take offense at someone who uses “he” instead of “he/she.” Second, remember that the generic person about whom we write is a human, part of the human race, and “he” used in place of “he/she” suffices to cover all of humanity. So does “she,” if you must. I do, however, warn my students that when they get to university, they will have to follow the directions of their (usually politically correct) professors. But when writing for me, use one pronoun: either he or she, but not both.
Very, really. Boring, unspecific writing can cause even the most dedicated reader’s mind to wander. Don’t just tell me that the man was very mad or really mad. Tell me HOW mad; tell me how that looked or sounded. In very cold weather, tell me how cold. What does that feel like, look like? If you really, really want to communicate degree of pain or cold or desire, then leave off the very and the really and use more descriptive words. Really.
Be-verbs–also known as the joy-killer. Once told that they cannot use more than one be-verb per paragraph, they begin longing for it, begging for it, using it more often, losing major points for it. Be-verbs (am, is, was, were, are, be, been, sometimes being) are more passive than others. Can you figure out a way to say it without using those be-verbs? “He was running for President” could change to simply “He ran for President.” Easy!
I had a student once who had the formula figured out. He would replace every be-verb with maintain, exist as, subsist as, and a few others. Trouble was, those verbs then became his crutch, and he overused them. The poor guy was banned from using those replacement verbs for the duration of the school year, on top of only one be-verb per paragraph. He thought he might die, but he graduated and even went on to do well in college. He became an engineer, figuring out formulas for doing things easily and well. And people can understand his writing, too. |
में उपलब्धियां गिनाने के लिए कांग्रेस ने कर रखे हैं अलग इंतजाम नई दिल्ली ऑस्ट्रेलिया के एडम जाम्पा और केन रिचर्डसन इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग (आईपीएल) बीच में ही छोोड़कर व्यक्तिगत कारणों से घर लौट रहे हैं। जोड़ी की फ्रेंचाइजी रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बैंगलोर (आरसीबी) ने सोमवार को एक बयान में इसकी पुष्टि की। आरसीबी ने अपने ट्वीट में कहा, एडम जाम्पा और केन रिचर्डसन निजी कारणों से ऑस्ट्रेलिया लौट रहे हैं और आईपीएल 2021 के बाकी बचे मैचों के लिए सेलेक्शन हेतु उपलब्ध नहीं रहेंगे। रॉयल चैलेंजर्स बैंगलोर प्रबंधन उनके फैसले का सम्मान करता है और उन्हें पूरा समर्थन देता है। हिंदी न्यूज़ उत्तराखंड अल्मोड़ा प्रो. जया उप्रेती को परिसर का डीएसडब्लू बनाया > राज्य > उत्तरप्रदेश > अन्य > सहारनपुर में जहरीली शराब से अब तक 64 लोगों की मौत, सूबे में ताबड़तोड़ छापेमारी पटना, 10 मई (हि.स.)।बिहार में कोरोना की दूसरी लहर आने के बाद महावीर मंदिर के बाद गुरुद्वारा भी सेवा करने के लिए आगे आया है। राजधानी पटना के लोगों को ऑक्सीजन की कमी ना हो इसके लिए पटना साहिब तख्त श्रीहरमंदिर गुरुद्वारा कोरोना पीड़ित मरीजों को मुफ्त में मेडिकल ऑक्सीजन सिलेंडर देगा। 6 अप्रैल से स्टार भारत पर कॉमेडी की दुनिया के दो आइकॉनिक शोज साराभाई</s> |
"Lec 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory" Death (PHIL 176) Two more views regarding the metaphysical key to personal identity are discussed: the body view and the personality view. According to the body view, an individual is identified in terms of his or her physical body. According to the personality view, an individual is identified by his or her unique set of beliefs, desires, memories, goals, and so on. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Review of Soul Theory 03:07 - Chapter 2. The Body Theory of Personal Identity 25:47 - Chapter 3. Equating the Brain with the Identity -- Implications of the Body Theory 32:35 - Chapter 4. Physicalists: Personality as the Key to Personal Identity 46:39 - Chapter 5. Soul, Body, and Personality -- Is There a Correct View? Assessment by Torture Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2007.
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The fourth edition of CDI Lier is just around the corner. From February 26 to March 1, the top of the dressage can be found in Belgian Lier to participate in this highly appreciated competition. Partly due to the fine accommodation and the sporty atmosphere, CDI Lier is not only loved by Belgian dressage riders, but also by riders from neighboring countries.
What CDI Lier makes, according to the participants, a nice event to compete is the fact that different classes are offered. Participants can register with the Children, Ponies, Juniors, Young Riders, U25 and the 4 * Small and Big Tour. Great prizes can be won at all categories where cash prizes can be as high as € 9,000 with a total prize pool of € 40,000.
In addition to the inviting program for the participants, CDI Lier is also particularly attractive for visitors to come and watch. There are several stands from Kingsley Saddles, Rosa Collection, Semper Fi, Jolly Lodger and Lydia DeHertoge where various equestrian items are offered. On February 29 Tineke Bartels gives a clinic where dressage enthusiasts can indulge themselves.
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An expert witness explains complex issues to judges and juries.
Stillwater, Ok May, 1 (The Oklahoma Post) –
Expert witnesses help courts understand the complexities of domestic abuse, including why victim-survivors and offenders do what they do.
Expert witnesses can testify based on their general knowledge of the subject and/or on the specifics of a given case.
Testimony of someone trained in psychology is vital to domestic abuse cases.
The R. Kelly case of alleged sexual exploitation, violence, and coercive control raises complex questions for most of us—as well as the judge and jury. People may wonder how R. Kelly managed to persuade his alleged victims to stay in his home, in some cases for years. Both sides are likely to bring in expert witnesses. Let’s look at what expert witnesses do in cases of domestic abuse and coercive control.
Expert witnesses educate judges and juries in both criminal and civil courts. They base their opinions on scientific, technical, or specialized knowledge. Expert witnesses can help the courts understand that domestic abuse is not caused by anger, jealousy, mental illness, substance abuse, or by the victim’s actions.
Expert witnesses also help the courts understand what victim-survivors do to survive. This protects victims from being pathologized or blamed for the consequences of the abuse.
The judge reviews the expert’s credentials and agrees to admit their testimony before allowing them to speak. The lawyer who engaged the expert questions them first; then the lawyer from the other side cross-examines the expert.
Expert witnesses testify in two different ways:
General Expertise: This is when an expert knows little to nothing about the specific case and testifies about domestic abuse in general. The lawyers can still ask hypothetical or “what if” questions that demonstrate how the information might pertain to a specific case.
Case-Specific: Here, expert witnesses write reports and often testify to the facts specific to a case. They review associated materials which might include police or medical reports, psychological evaluations, guardian ad litem reports, court documents, and relevant photographs or records of texts. The expert may also conduct a domestic violence/coercive control interview and assessment with the alleged victim.
General Expertise Testimony
Expert witnesses are likely to teach the court about:
Research on coercive control and domestic violence
Definitions of the issue and explanations as to why it occurs
Explanations as to why a victim might recant, lie, comply with, defend, or stay with the abuser
The characteristics, beliefs, tactics, motivations, and behaviors of offenders
The consequences victims face when they try to protect themselves or their children
The impact of trauma on adult and child victims and witnesses
Changes in abuse frequency and severity over time
Additionally, if the expert is familiar with the case, the expert could discuss:
The “natural history” of the couple from the time they met until the present day
Ways the survivor tried to moderate the abuse for self-protection or to protect others
The psychological, medical, and financial impact of the abuse on the victim-survivor
The impact of the abuse on children or other family members
The findings of a domestic violence/coercive control assessment the expert completed with the victim/survivor
Recommendations for custody/visitation
The validity of previous assessments and evaluations by other professionals
Here are some examples of civil cases where an expert witness may prove key:
Pre- or post-nuptial agreements or other contracts: An expert witness can evaluate whether a pre- or post-nuptial agreement or other contract was coerced, and therefore should be set aside.
Immigration: Often, a domestic abuse victim’s immigration status is tied to her spouse or sponsor. Or, an asylum seeker seeks relief from deportation because she faces domestic homicide or severe violence in her home country.
Benefits: During divorce proceedings, a domestic abuse survivor may have been too afraid to raise the issue of abuse or demand her rightful half of the abuser’s assets or retirement pay. A domestic violence expert may be able to help a survivor recover these benefits, even after a great deal of time has passed.
Divorce: An expert witness can help the court understand the need to protect victim-survivors from divorce or custody agreements that would put them at risk or enable further abusive control.
Custody/visitation: In family court, an expert can describe the evidence of domestic abuse and explain the victim’s survival behaviors. Where relevant, the expert can offer an opinion of any potential danger to the children if the abuser is granted custody or unsupervised visitation. The expert can counter claims of “parental alienation syndrome” which abusers’ attorneys sometimes use to wrest custody from a protective parent
Vexatious litigation or litigation abuse: The expert can educate the court about the ways an abuser may file frequent court petitions to control, harass, or impoverish the victim.
Here are some examples of criminal cases where an expert witness may prove key:
Felonies: Domestic abuse experts educate the courts in cases involving stalking, assault, murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, and other felonies. They may be especially important where abusers try to defend themselves by saying the sexual activities were consensual, or that the violence resulted from a fight rather than abuse, or that the victims had freely given away their assets.
Mitigating circumstances: Experts teach the courts about the pressures on domestic abuse victims in cases where the abuse victim assaulted or killed the abuser, or where the abuser pushed the victim into committing another crime.
Child abuse or neglect: Sometimes a domestic abuse victim faces charges related to the injury or death of a child. The expert witness can provide important contextual information.
Whenever the courts need to understand domestic abuse, an expert can provide testimony, including in grand jury hearings, plea negotiations, trials, sentencing, and clemency or parole hearings.
When I testify as an expert witness, I remind whoever hires me that I am not “on” either side. I am hired to educate the courts based on my expertise.
Authored by Lisa A. Fontes
Lisa A Fontes Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship.
Posted with Permission from Author. Story Originally Published Posted August 25, 2021, in Psychology Today
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The Next Human Century Began on This Day
On this day in economic and financial history...
The scientific field of genetics can trace its origin to Feb. 8, 1865, the date friar Gregor Mendel first presented his Experiments on Plant Hybridizationto the scientific public. The paper outlined what has since become the commonly accepted theory of genetic inheritance, which Mendel explored through the pea plants in his monastery. Mendel's discoveries were too far ahead of his time, and it was not until the start of the 20th century that his ideas became widely accepted.
Genetics eventually led to the discovery and manipulation of DNA, which has since given way to genomics, which in our time relies on sophisticated technology to sequence and analyze the structure of an organism's entire set of hereditary information. Genomics is an exciting field, with plummeting sequencing costs suggesting that routine use will soon be possible. Illumina and Life Technologies are presently seen as industry leaders, but the rapid pace of technological progress in genome sequencing may not allow them to hold that position for long. Both have been the target of buyout interest recently, and the deep pockets of a major biotech company might accelerate the progress of sequencing advances to the point where you'll have your genome sequenced at the doctor's office with every physical before the decade is out.
New kid on the stock market
For many years, the New York Stock Exchange was the only real game in town for serious investors. On Feb. 8, 1971, that finally changed when the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation, or Nasdaq went live for the first time, offering quotes on 2,500 over-the-counter securities. Its electronic trading system has since become the standard, greatly easing and enhancing the flow of shares around the investing world. Nasdaq became the first exchange to facilitate online trading, and it also formed the first intercontinental link of securities markets with the London Stock Exchange in 1992. Allowing online trades gives Nasdaq a legitimate right to call itself "the stock market for the next hundred years."
The Nasdaq's life began with its signature Nasdaq Composite index in action. Over the years, this index has become known as the tech-heavy alternative to the more conservative Dow Jones Industrial Average , particularly during and after the dot-com bubble.
The Nasdaq began at 100 points on that Feb. 8, and the Dow was at 882 points. From then until the day before 1987's Black Monday, the Nasdaq grew 300% -- twice the rate of the Dow. From the day of the crash to the peak of the Nasdaq in March 2000, the Nasdaq index gained 1,300%, well more than double the Dow's 470% gain. Despite the huge decline that followed its dot-com peak, the Nasdaq remains firmly in the lead of this race. From the Nasdaq's opening to its 40-year anniversary in 2007, the index grew 2,700% to the Dow's 1,300%. Maybe investing in the future is a better option than playing it safe, after all.
The dawn of the modern airline
The first modern passenger airliner took off on its maiden flight on Feb. 8, 1933. That was the day Boeing set passenger airline service on the path to ubiquity. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (where you can glimpse the first D-model 247 Boeing ever built) states that this airliner revolutionized air transportation when it entered service. At a top speed of 200 miles per hour, the 247 was 50% faster than its competitors. Its basic design -- all-metal body, an engine on each wing, retractable landing gear, and autopilot -- is still familiar to modern jet airliner passengers today.
The 247 was less capable than it might have been, because Boeing's early design collaboration with United Air Lines, its first customer, showed that pilots were afraid of the original concept's extreme capabilities relative to the aviation infrastructure and skill sets then in place. The pilots also objected to the use of Pratt & Whitney Hornet engines, which were not commonly used at the time and were more powerful than P&W's popular Wasp engines. The slimmed-down, power-limited 247 thus had its weight reduced from eight tons to slightly less than seven tons, which reduced the number of passengers it could carry from 14 to 10. Despite these limitations, it still far exceeded the abilities of other passenger aircraft and could make a 20-hour, seven-stop trip from New York to Los Angeles, cutting nearly eight hours off the time needed by other airliners.
Boeing didn't get to enjoy its dominance for long. Less than three years later, Douglas Aircraft launched the hugely successful DC-3, which continues to fly in parts of the world to this day. Boeing eventually got the last word when it merged with McDonnell-Douglas in 1997.
The fall of an auto pioneer
On Feb. 8, 1936, William C. Durant, the founder of General Motors, filed for bankruptcy. Like many others, he had lived large before and during the Roaring Twenties, but the Great Crash of 1929 had devastated him along with the rest of the country. Reporting nearly $1 million in debt, Durant listed his assets as worth a total of $250.
Durant was the son of a successful investor and the grandson of a railroad magnate who became mayor of Flint, Mich. Born already on third base, Durant stole home when he used family money to create a horse-drawn wagon company in 1884. His innate business acumen was superlative, and the Flint Road Cart Company, as it was called, eventually became the world's biggest wagon company. Durant leveraged this success into ownership of Buick in 1904, which was a brilliant move into an upstart industry that would have otherwise destroyed him. In 1908 he cobbled together a number of smaller auto companies to form General Motors. Three years later, he was overextended and lost control of the company. He founded Chevrolet that year, took control of it in 1914, and a year later had engineered a buyout that brought him back to GM with enough of a stake to regain his leadership of the company.
By 1920, Durant was ousted by DuPont, which had by then taken a substantial stake in the automaker. He left with a fortune of $90 million, which he lost in the 1920 crash. GM went on to become the world's largest automaker in 1931, making him perhaps the only known entrepreneur to create corporate category-leaders not only in one product, but also the product that replaced the first. He went on to found Durant Motors, which never got very far, but he later became "probably the most powerful individual force in the market," with the combined assets of his investing consortium totaling nearly $1.3 billion, according to The New York Times. He lost his grip on that massive pile of money in the Crash of 1929, which proved far worse than the crash in 1920. Durant Motors failed in 1933. After his bankruptcy, Durant spent the rest of his life managing a bowling alley.
Where do we go now?
Google Maps, one of Google's most important and widely used products, launched on Feb. 8, 2005. It went live with little fanfare, entering beta with an announcement posted to the company's official blog by product manager Bret Taylor. After six months, it was available for all users.
Originally the product of two Danish brothers that Google "acqui-hired" in 2004, Google Maps has grown to become the de facto mapping standard for millions of people around the globe. A 2012 feature in The Atlantic highlights the depth of Google's commitment to making better maps. Google's Street View cars, which help flesh out the ground-level data on Maps, have driven more than 5 million miles, and they now generate more image data every two weeks than Google had in the two years after the service launched. A team corrects and enhances everything by hand, ensuring that every frame of map data has the maximum possible utility for its users.
Google's Maps could eventually become as important for the company as its core search product, especially if those self-driving cars wind up taking the highways by storm. Its value was evident in 2012 when a furor broke out over Apple's attempt to replace Google Maps in the iPhone with its own mapping app, which drew much derision for its inaccuracies. When Google finally relaunched a downloadable Maps app, it became an instant hit, with more than 10 million downloads in its first two days in the App Store. There would have been more downloads, but a number of Apple Maps users were probably stuck in Guadalajara after trying to find their favorite Mexican restaurant.
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तो आपको यही किराया चुकाना होगा. इतना किराया चुकाने के बाद ही आप घर जा सकेंगे. गुजरात की राजनीति में ओवैसी की एन्ट्री, ने की राज्य में प्रदेश अध्यक्ष की घोषणा अधिकारी ने बताया कि एनडीएमए की 2008 में तैयार की गई रिपोर्ट को उसी साल प्रकाशित भी कर दिया गया. इसे कार्रवाई की रूपरेखा में तब्दील करने के बाद तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह को सौंप दिया गया. शुरुआत में योजना पर कुछ काम किया गया. हालांकि, जल्द ही संबंधित मंत्रालयों के रोड़े अटकाने के कारण योजना अधर में लटक गई. एनडीएमए के 2005 से उपाध्यक्ष पूर्व सेना प्रमुख लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल एनसी विज ने 18 को बताया, नौकरशाहों को लग रहा था कि भारत को ऐसी तैयारी की कोई जरूरत नहीं है क्योंकि कई मंत्रालय पहले ही ऐसे काम कर रहे हैं. सार्वजनिक उपक्रमों के लिए समयसीमा ग्रुप ए और बी में तदर्थ या स्थायी क्षमता में कार्यरत किसी कर्मी ने 35 साल की आयु से पहले सरकारी सेवा में प्रवेश किया है तो उसकी आयु 50 साल पूरी होने पर या तीस वर्ष सेवा के बाद, जो पहले आती हो, रिटायरमेंट का नोटिस दिया जा सकता है। अन्य मामलों में 55 साल की आयु के बाद का नियम है।</s> |
The population of New Zealand in 2022 is 5,124,100.
This figure comes from stats.gov.nz and is based on the 2018 census, which reported a population of 4,699,755.
New Zealand is the 123rd largest country in the world by population and the third largest in Oceania (after Australia and Papua New Guinea).
New Zealand’s North Island has a population of 3,519,800 people, and its South Island has a population of 1,076,300. Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand, with a population of 1,454,300 people.
How many people live in New Zealand today
The latest official figures show that the population of New Zealand is 5,124,100 in June 2022.
Statistics New Zealand, the government statistical office who produced this estimate, also publishes a New Zealand population clock which shows up to the minute predictions of how many people live in New Zealand.
New Zealand’s population is growing at a rate of 0.8% per annum. Or, put another way, this means that there is one birth in New Zealand every nine minutes and one death every fifteen minutes. In addition net migration (immigration minus migration) produces a new resident every six and a half minutes.
For a developed nation, New Zealand has a relatively high population growth rate. This is partly because of high levels of immigration (estimated at 60,000 per year) and partly because it has a higher birth rate than most developed countries.
Although growth is expected to slow slightly in coming years, New Zealand’s population is likely to reach 5 million by 2026.
Largest cities in New Zealand
Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand. The capital city is home to 1,454,300 people (June 2015 estimate). It is the only city in New Zealand with a population of more than one million people. Auckland’s people are younger and more ethnically diverse than the national average.
Other cities in New Zealand with a population of more than 200,000 people are Wellington (398,300), Christchurch (381,800) and Hamilton (224,000).
Auckland is the largest city on New Zealand’s North Island and Christchurch is the largest city on South Island.
|Tauranga||130,800||Bay of Plenty|
|Rotorua||56,800||Bay of Plenty|
New Zealand census
New Zealand holds a census every five years.
The most recent census was scheduled to take place in 2011, but it was postponed because of the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch. Instead, the most recent New Zealand census was held in 2013. The next census will take place in 2018.
Much of the information in this article is derived from the 2013 census results.
Ethnic groups and immigration
There are four major ethnic groups in New Zealand – Maori, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, and Asian.
Source. Note: totals add up to more than 100% because people were able to select more than one ethnicity in the 2013 census.
The Maori were the first group to arrive in New Zealand. No one is sure of the exact date of their arrival but recent scientific evidence, including radiocarbon dating, indicates that they arrived from East Polynesia somewhere between 1250 and 1300 AD.
Europeans first ’discovered’ New Zealand in the 15th century, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that the first permanent settlers arrived. While European settlers prospered, a combination of disease and war between Europeans and Maori led to a dramatic decline in the Maori population – from around 86,000 at the time of the first European settlement to just 42,000 in 1896. Life expectancy at birth fell from over 30 years before European arrival to an estimated 25 years for Maori men and 23 for women.
In the years that followed, immigration from Europe (mainly Great Britain) and Australia saw the overall population of New Zealand increase to almost 1 million people at the end of the 19th century. Restrictions on immigration were imposed – first in the 19th century to restrict the number of immigrants arriving from China and, later, in the 1920s and 1930s to restrict immigration from anywhere but Great Britain.
New Zealand’s close ties with its Pacific Island colonies led to increasing immigration from the 1940s onwards. Although increasingly independent, many Pacific islands (for example the Cook Islands) have a constitutional relationship with New Zealand and their citizens are New Zealand citizens able to settle freely anywhere in the country. Today, around 300,000 (7.4%) of New Zealand’s population is counted as Pacific islander.
In recent years New Zealand’s immigration policy has undergone a dramatic shift and is now based on a points system. As a result, immigration from Asia has increased significantly – to the extend that 471,708 (11.8%) of New Zealanders reported in the last census that their ethnicity was Asian.
In total, more than 25% of New Zealanders reported in the 2013 census that they were born outside of New Zealand.
Christianity is the largest religion in New Zealand, although it is in decline. The percentage of Christians has fallen from 58.9% in 2001 to 47.6% in 2013.
This corresponds with a rise in the number of people who report that they have no religion – up from 29.6% in 2001 to 41.9% in 2013.
Other religious groups of significant size are Hindu (2.11%), Maori Christian (1.4%), Buddhist (1.5%) and Islam (1.2%).
|Object to answering||4.44%||6.90%|
Catholics are the largest group of Christians in New Zealand, with 12.6%, followed by Anglican (11.8%) and Presbyterian (8.5%).
English is the most common language in New Zealand – it is spoken by 96.1% of people. This is followed by Maori (3.7%), Samoan (2.2%) and Hindi (1.7%).
For many years, the use of Maori was discouraged in New Zealand and the number of speakers declined dramatically.
However, the Maori language has undergone a resurgence in recent years. In 1987, Maori was declared an official language of New Zealand and a number of Maori language TV channels are now broadcast.
Samoan is the most prominent non-official language, followed by a number of other languages spoken by immigrants to New Zealand – for example, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, French and German.
Literacy rate and Education
New Zealand’s literacy rate (reported by UNESCO) is 99% for both men and women.
Education in New Zealand is compulsory for children aged 6-16. Most are taught in free state funded schools but there is also a number of private schools and home schooling is allowed.
New Zealand invests heavily in tertiary (university) education. There are 469,107 students in tertiary education in New Zealand (2009 data) and more than 50% of New Zealanders hold a tertiary qualification.
New Zealand spends 6.2% of GDP on education.
New Zealand’s territory is 268,021km2 (or 103,483 m2).
This gives a population density (based on the New Zealand 2016 population) of 17.2 people per km2 or 44.4 people per km2.
New Zealand is one of the least densely populated countries in the world and is roughly as densely populated as Zambia or Sudan.
Other New Zealand demographics
Latest data (2012-14) shows that life expectancy for females in New Zealand is 83.2 years. Life expectancy for males in New Zealand is slightly lower, at 79.5 years.
Non-Maori females have the highest life expectancy – at birth they can expect to live to 83.9 years. Non-Maori males can expect to live until 80.3 years.
Life expectancy for Maori in New Zealand is lower than for non-Maori, although the gap is narrowing. In 2012-14, the average life expectancy at birth is 77.1 years for a Maori female and 73.0 years for a Maori man.
Pacific Islanders also have a lower than average life expectancy, although slightly higher than the Maori life expectancy. Pacific Islander life expectancy at birth (2012-14) is 78.7 years for a female and 74.5 years for a male.
Statistics New Zealand have a handy calculator that you can use to estimate your life expectancy.
Median age in New Zealand is 38.0 years. Female median age is 38.9 years and male median age is 36.9 years.
Birth rate and death rate
New Zealand’s birth rate is 13.27 births per 1,000 people.
This compares with a lower death rate of 6.87 deaths per 1,000 people.
New Zealand’s fertility rate is 1.99 births per woman.
New Zealand population pyramid
Here is a New Zealand population pyramid (2016).
We also recommend taking a look at this interactive New Zealand population pyramid.
New Zealand population growth table
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In parts, this work is based on/includes Statistics New Zealand’s data which are licensed by Statistics New Zealand for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. We would like to thank them for providing such a detailed resource. They have a comprehensive and easy to understand series of articles on their site that contain data and information about the population of New Zealand and we recommend visiting. |
Scientists Pull a Fast One:
Let's Change the Meaning
of the Word "Nutritious."
It's the Pesticides, Dorks!
A study published last week by two Stanford researchers, Crystal Smith-Spangler, MD and Margaret Brandeau, Ph.D. in the Sep. 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine1 claims that organic produce is no more nutritious than conventional food.
But this sensational claim ignores a primary concern consumers have about the safety of today's industrialized food supply and what it serves up: unhealthy doses of pesticides.
The Stanford study acknowledges that organic food comes with substantially lower pesticide residues. But it claims organic food is not more nutritious because both organic and conventional produce meet EPA standards for pesticide residues most of the time. It does confirm that organic produce is less contaminated with detectable levels of pesticide.
Yet millions of Americans vote with their dollars at Whole Foods every day. The 40-year success of the organic foods industry shows that substantial segments of the public question the very concept of “safe” levels of pesticide residues below which measurable effects allegedly don’t occur.
The Chicago Tribune reports2 that the EPA has placed a chemical industry lobbyist in charge of the program that decides whether household chemicals are safe. This lobbyist has a long history of claiming that fire retardants and other chemicals added to household products are safe in concentrations hundreds of times above current standards. Practices like these feed the public’s concerns.
There’s also a substantial body of research suggesting that pesticides and the crops genetically modified to tolerate them may be affecting the public in ways that may not be reflected in current safety standards.3-6
Pesticides are often tested by exposing lab animals to relatively high doses for relatively short periods of time, compared to the exposures humans get in real life,7 in part for economic reasons.8 Pesticides are usually tested one at a time, and analysts often assume that the effects of pesticide combinations can be arrived at by addition9 instead of multiplication (aka: synergistic effects.) This practice can underestimate the effects of combinations of pesticides, the kind of complex randomized exposures humans receive from the food supply.10
UK researchers recently tested three widely used toxins in combination for their effects on human brain cells. They observed significant damage to the cells’ ability to generate energy and protect themselves from inflammation.11
The kind of inflammation observed, along with the falloff in energy production the inflammation creates,12 has been shown to have adverse effects on human moods,13-15 on childrens’ ability to learn,16 autism17,18 and appears to invite the onset of neurodegenerative diseases19,20 including dementia21,22 and Alzheimer’s Disease.23
The conventional agriculture community is aware that combining many pesticides appears to enhance their effects beyond what one would expect by simply totaling their separate actions. A growing body of evidence suggests that old models underlying the EPA’s safety standards may be flawed, and that current standards are far too relaxed if the goal is to protect the most vulnerable members of society: children.24-26
For decades the only long-term issue screened for by pesticide testing was cancer. More recently it’s been determined that endocrine disruptors, chemicals that interfere with or enhance the action of hormones, may also be a major risk.
Children are more vulnerable than adults27,28 and especially the developing fetus. Damage can occur at exposure levels encountered commonly today.29,30
By accepting EPA "safe" levels for pesticide exposure at face value and subsituting a highly-technical definition of "nutritious" for the one in common usage, Smith-Spangler and Brandeau ignore a principal reason some consumers prefer organic food and consider it more "nutritious" than conventionally-produced food.
Researchers may decide, for technical reasons, that the presence of pesticides in our food supply doesn't matter. For the rest of us ... there's plenty of hard evidence supporting the idea that organic food is more "nutritious."
1. Smith-Spangler C, Brandeau ML,. Are organic foods safer or healthier than conventional alternatives?: a systematic review. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Sep 4;157(5):348-66.
2. Hawthorne, M. Chemical firm's champion now EPA expert. Chicago Tribue Sep. 20, 2012.
3. Relevant research indexed here.
4. Verma, C., Nanda, S. A Review on Impacts of Genetically Modified Food on Human Health. The Open Nutraceuticals Journal, 2011. (4):3-11.
5. de Vendômois JS., Roullier F., A comparison of the effects of three GM corn varieties on mammalian health. Int J Biol Sci. 2009 Dec 10;5(7):706-26.
6. Vandenberg LN, Colborn T, Hormones and endocrine-disrupting chemicals: low-dose effects and nonmonotonic dose responses. Endocr Rev. 2012 Jun;33(3):378-455.
7. Alink G., Barlow S., et al. Safety and nutritional assessment of GM plants and derived food and feed: the role of animal feeding trials. Food Chem Toxicol. 2008 Mar;46 Suppl 1:S2-70.
8. Boobis AR, Ossendorp BC., Studying toxicants as single chemicals: does this strategy adequately identify neurotoxic risk? Neurotoxicology. 2005 Aug;26(4):491-510.
9. Gennings C., Carter, WH. Jr., A Unifying Concept for Assessing Toxicological Interactions: Changes in Slope. Toxicological Sciences 2005 88(2): 287-297.
10. Cory-Slechta DA. Studying toxicants as single chemicals: does this strategy adequately identify neurotoxic risk? Cory-Slechta DA. Neurotoxicology. 2005 Aug;26(4):491-510.
11. Coleman, MD., JO'Neil, JD., et al. A Preliminary Investigation into the Impact of a Pesticide Combination on Human Neuronal and Glial Cell Lines In Vitro. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e42768.
12. Sas K., Robotka H., Mitochondria, metabolic disturbances, oxidative stress and the kynurenine system, with focus on neurodegenerative disorders. J Neurol Sci. 2007 Jun 15;257(1-2):221-39.
13. Kodydková J, Vávrová L,Antioxidative enzymes and increased oxidative stress in depressive women. Clin Biochem. 2009 Sep;42(13-14):1368-74
14. Behr, GA., Moreira, JCF., Preclinical and Clinical Evidence of Antioxidant Effects of Antidepressant Agents: Implications for the Pathophysiology of Major Depressive Disorder. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 22012:609421.
15. Vaccarino, V., Brennan, ML., et al. Association of Major Depressive Disorder with Serum Myeloperoxidase and other Markers of Inflammation: A Twin Study. Biol Psychiatry. 2008 64(6):476–483.
16. Marks, AR>, Harley, K. Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Attention in Young Mexican-American Children: The CHAMACOS Study. Environ Health Perspect. 2010 118(12):1768–1774.
17. Rossignol1, DA., Frye, RE., A review of research trends in physiological abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders: immune dysregulation, inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and environmental toxicant exposures. Mol Psychiatry. 2012 17(4):389–401.
18. Adams, JD., Audhya, t., Nutritional and metabolic status of children with autism vs. neurotypical children, and the association with autism severity. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2011 8:34.
19. Rao AV, Balachandran B. Role of oxidative stress and antioxidants in neurodegenerative diseases. Nutr Neurosci. 2002 Oct;5(5):291-309.
20. Deschamps V., Barberger-Gateau P., et al. Nutritional factors in cerebral aging and dementia: epidemiological arguments for a role of oxidative stress. Neuroepidemiology. 2001 Feb;20(1):7-15
21. Glade MJ. Oxidative stress and cognitive longevity. Nutrition. 2010 Jun;26(6):595-603.
22. Dröge W., Schipper HM., Oxidative stress and aberrant signaling in aging and cognitive decline. Aging Cell. 2007 June; 6(3): 361–370.
23. Ramesh, BN., Rao, S., et al. Neuronutrition and Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 2010 19(4):1123–1139.
24. Colborn, T. A Case for Revisiting the Safety of Pesticides: A Closer Look at Neurodevelopment. Environ Health Perspect. 2006 114(1):10–17.
25. Freire C., Lopez-Espinosa MJ., Prenatal exposure to organochlorine pesticides and TSH status in newborns from Southern Spain. Sci Total Environ. 2011 409(18):3281-7.
26. Freire C, Ramos R, Newborn TSH concentration and its association with cognitive development in healthy boys. Eur J Endocrinol. 2010 163(6):901-9.
27. Liu J, Schelar E., Pesticide exposure and child neurodevelopment: summary and implications. Workplace Health Saf. 2012 May;60(5):235-42.
28. Biello D., Bad for bugs and brains? A common pesticide may interfere with a child's brain development. Sci Am. 2012 Jul;307(1):22.
29. Rauh VA, Perera FP, et al., Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 May 15;109(20):7871-6.
30. Rauh V, Arunajadai S. Seven-year neurodevelopmental scores and prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos, a common agricultural pesticide. Environ Health Perspect. 2011 Aug;119(8):1196-201. |
पर श्रद्धा सुमन अर्पित किए गए। उनके जीवन वृतांत की जानकारी छात्रछात्राओं को दी गई। छोटे राज्य की बड़ी उड़ान, वैक्सीनेशन में नंबर1 बन पाई पहचान, अब नए टारगेट पर नजर हिंदी न्यूज़ उत्तर प्रदेश बिजनौर बिजनौर में बेवजह सड़कों पर घूम रहे पुलिसकर्मियों को भी नहीं बख्शा सरकार ने अब विभिन्न विभागों, बोर्डो और निगमों में आउटसोर्स आधार पर नियुक्त करीब 25 हजार कर्मचारियों के लिए नीति निर्धारण का फैसला किया है. सोमवार को उत्तराखंड के सीमए त्रिवेंद्र सिंह रावत रिस्पना नदी को पुनर्जीवित करने को लेकर रिस्पना नदी के उद्गम स्थल शिखर फॉल पहुंकर इसकी आधार शीला रखने जा रहे हैं. शिखर फॉल स्थित मकडेत गांव में सीएम के कार्यक्रम का अयोजन किया जाना है. जिसको लेकर ग्रामीणों में भी काफी उत्साह देखा जा रहा है. लोगों का कह हर बिंदू को पढ़ें और ठीक से समझें सिद्धार्थनगर : अनुसूचित जाति वित्त एवं विकास निगम के अध्यक्ष डा. लालजी प्रसाद निर्मल ने कहा कि सिद्धार्थनगर की पहचान गौतम बुद्ध व कपिलवस्तु से है। बुद्ध के अस्थि कलश को कपिलवस्तु संग्रहालय लाने का पूरा प्रयास किया जा रहा है। अनुसूचित जाति के लोगों को रोजगार से जोड़ने का प्रयास हो रहा है। भाजपा शासन में भ्रष्टाचार मुक्त प्रदेश बना</s> |
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These directions are in widespread use in describing Imperial features and businesses. For example, the Spinward Marches is a sector at the extreme spinward fringe of the Imperium; Rimward Lines is an important interstellar transport company. Finally, within the Imperium, the term coreward is also used to indicate the direction of Capital, the Imperial core. There is some potential for confusion if the term is accepted out of context. |
What They Are & How To Prepare ThemNigerian foods are diverse and exciting. They are often unrefined natural foods, rich in dietary fibers, low GI carbohydrates and a wide range of highly nutritious and vitamin rich combination.
When people talk about foods eaten in Africa in general, and Nigeria in particular, they tend to forget that items highly sought after in Western countries like cassava, yams, plantain, palm oil, coconut and coconut oils, Nigerian brown beans, and rice do not grow in the West.
|This is Fried Ripe Plantain, the Nigerian way, also called dodo. It is a common accompaniment to a dish of rice.||This is a dish of jollof rice, served with mio mio and salad, as well as king prawn shrimps and fresh fish. Hmm.||A Plate of egusi soup and assorted meat and fresh fish. Another great Nigerian soup.|
Most of these items come in from Africa, Asia and South America, yet they make up the bulk of Nigerian and African foods. What about those tropical fruits like oranges, tangerines, mangoes, pawpaw, African bread fruit, banana, African bush mango, carrots, to name but a few, these are everyday food items that make up the Nigerian food dish.
The list of foods eaten in Nigeria is literally inexhaustible. Being the most populous country in Africa, with about 160,000,000 inhabitants (population of 160 million) and over 500 totally different ethnic groups and languages (according to Wikipedia), all reflecting different cultures, cutting across different natural geographic zones including the Sahara desert, the Green Savanna, the thick Tropical Rain Forest, with different soil tendencies and properties, it is easy to see how diverse the staple food across the vast region called Nigeria could be.
A list of common Nigerian foods that cuts across most of the above lines, covering the major ethnic groups in nigeria, including Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Urhobo, Efik, Ibibios, Itsekiris, Binis, Ishans, Idomas, and many others, include:
- Nigerian Stew
- Afang Soup
- Banga Soup or Palm Fruit Soup
- Bitter Leaf Soup
- Egusi Soup also called Melon Soup
- Edikang Ikong Soup
- Okro Soup
- Ogbono Soup
- Gbegiri Soup
- Melon Peppersoup
- Atama Soup
- Groundnut soup
- Ofe Nsala
- Ofe Onubu (Bitter leaf soup)
- Ofe Oha
- Ewedu soup
- vegetable sauce
- Owo soup
- Green leaf Sauce
- Miyan kuka
- Miyan kabewa
- Miya yakwa
- Miya taushe
- Yam porridge
- Plantain Porridge
- Potato porridge
- Beans porridge
- Asa Iwa
- Ekpang Nkokwo
- Pepper Soups fish, goat meat, chicken
- Isi ewu
- Moi Moi
- Jellof rice
- White Rice
- Fried Rice
- vegetable rice
- Pounded Yam
- Tuowo Masara
- Egun Obobo
- Fried Plantain or Dodo
- Lafun or Cassava fufu
- Cassava Fufu
- Asa Ibibot (Corn kernel Porridge)
- Akara Mboro (Banana balls)
- Akara Cake (bean fritters)
- Akamu, Ogi or Pap
- Abacha Ugba (African Salad)
The above list is not exhaustive as mentioned earlier. If you have a Nigerian food recipe item you are looking for or you want to show up here, you can submit it using the discussion box below.
Why Nigerian Foods
For Nigerians in Nigeria, it is obvious that they will continue to enjoy the delicacies of their inheritance, with it's attendant health benefits. They need to be confident that well prepared African food, be it Nigerian or Ghanaian, or Zimbabwean, is rich in nutrients and constitutes a very balanced source of carbohydrates, proteins, fat, minerals, and essential vitamins.
For the Nigerian in diaspora, and even more so for their offspring born abroad and living in the West, it is important that they do not relegate their Nigerian food dishes to the background, in favour of Western diets. This is strictly for health and nutritional reasons. Medical evidence abounds that the unrefined African food is superior in helping to maintain good health.
Below are evidence based scientific reasons why you should regularly include Nigerian food items in your menu if you can. We shall discuss a few of the African food items that make up a typical Nigerian food dish.
Plantain is a component of many Nigerian food recipe, like plantain porridge, dodo and rice, plantain fufu, epuoruo, boiled plantain and pepper soup serving, and more. This is eaten regularly across Southern, Eastern and Western Nigeria.
It has been shown to be rich in low GI carbohydrate (good for weight loss diet, and for diabetic patients) that helps in ensuring a slow release of energy over extended period of time. More recently, it has been demonstrated in many studies to be rich in soluble plant fibres that helps protects the gut against many infections, and even against Crohn's disease (Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology Journal, 2010 - nature.com).
If you suffer with Crohns disease, try plantain in your diet for six months and see how it will help.
Cassava is almost "ominipresent" in Africa and certainly in Nigeria. From it comes a vast range of Nigerian food recipes like gari, eba, lafun, tapioca, cassava dough, cassava fufu, boiled cassava meal, starch served with banga soup, cassava chips, cassava based bread, ...
Cassava is world acclaimed to be gluten free. It is a good substitution for bread, and wheat products, in the diet of those who suffer with coeliac disease, and other related gluten "enteropathies".
It is also very rich in dietary fibre, and it is again a low GI carbohydrate. It is superior to potatoes, wheat, and rice in this regard.
Bitter leaf is simply the leaf of the plant called Vernonia amygdaline. It is proven to be very rich in phytochemicals that protects the body against various cancers and help in the treatment of liver cancer in particular. A few years ago, a UK journal carried the following heading, "A diet Rich In Phytochemicals Offers Best Anticancer Effects", showing that this often ignored Nigerian vegetable has yet untapped potentials (Journal - Oncology Times: 25 September 2005 - Volume 27 - Issue 18 - p 36-37).
Time and space will fail us if we were to list other components of Nigerian food items like Ogbono that is shown to be very good weight loss agent, as well as a good aphrodisiac (sexual enhancing agent). Palm oil, that is now recognized to offer protect from heart attacks, Nigerian honey beans, yam, cocoyam that are now finding place in many western diets.
Nigerian honey beans for example is a uniquely sweet beans, that if you taste it once, you will never touch baked beans again or any type of beans.
Where To Buy Nigerian Foods Online
Are you looking for where to buy Nigerian food online? Thankfully, you do not need to take a cheap flight off to Lagos or anywhere in Nigeria to get your food again.
You can buy common Nigerian and African foods including garri, egusi, amala, rice, yam, plantain, indomie, pounded yam, banga soup paste, gbegiri, edikaekio, owo and pepper soup ingredients, online from The African food Shop Online.
Nigerian Foods: Have Your Say
Do you have a great story, idea, or fantastic Nigerian food recipe to share with visitors to this site? Whatever are your thoughts about Nigerian food recipes and comments, have your say here? Share it!
Please feel free to comment on postings submitted by other users below. |
Wed, 14 Feb|
The Lemon Stand
The NUS Valetine's Comedy Show
This Valentine's Day, treat your sweetheart to laughter. Thank me later.
Time & Location
14 Feb 2024, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The Lemon Stand, 12 Queen St, #01-02, Singapore 188553
About the event
NUS has started their very own Stand-Up comedy group and they are great! (Shouldn't they be studying?) Not on Valentine's Day! Get your favourite guy or gal and come and see the show!
The Lemon Stand provides a full bar of drinks, free popcorn for each table and a food menu of bits and bites which you can find on our website.
At The Lemon Stand we do our best to bring together the comedic arts and the community with an entire venue created just for Comedy in Singapore so we hope you come out and enjoy your night with lots of laughs and entertainment!
Tickets are non refundable or exchangeable 24 hours before shows and Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.
The minimum age to attend shows at The Lemon Stand Comedy Club is 18+ years and content is considered for a mature audience only. Thank you for your understanding.
The Lemon Stand Comedy Club is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event for all. If you need reasonable accommodation and are wheelchair-bound, please contact Liam McDonald at +65 9106 4920.
All requests must be made before booking of tickets. We will attempt to implement late requests but cannot guarantee they will be met. In the event of a sold out show, seating will be assigned by date or purchase. |
खोल सके। इसलिए चैंबरों का पानी बाहर आ रहा है। हमने इसके लिए फिर से एनएचएआई को पत्र लिखा है, जल्द ही पानी की निकासी शुरु हो जाएगी। दून अस्पताल में ब्लैक फंगस के मरीज लगातार बढ़ रहे हैं। अस्पताल में तीन मरीजों में और ब्लैक फंगस के लक्षण मिले हैं। अस्पताल में अब ब्लैक फंगस के चार संदिग्ध मरीज भर्ती हुए हैं। एक मरीज की हालत गंभीर बताई गई है। मरीजों में आंखें सूजने, फैलने एवं निशान बनने के लक्षण मिले हैं। आयुष्मान वार्ड, चार नंबर वार्ड, चेस्ट वार्ड एक 62 वर्षीय, एक 63 वर्षीय पुरूष मरीज एवं दो 45 एवं 40 वर्षीय महिला मरीज भर्ती है। एक विभाग के डाक्टर तो मरीजों की सुध लेने को तैयार नहीं है। सूत्रों ने बताया कि प्रबंधन की ओर से डाक्टरों एवं कर्मचारियों को ताकीद किया गया है कि वह मरीजों के बारे में बिल्कुल कुछ न बोले। दीपिका ने कहा था कि मैंने रणवीर से शादी की क्योंकि वो मेरे बड़े स्टार होने और उनसे ज्यादा पैसा कमाने से परेशान नहीं हुए। उन्होंने इस बात का सम्मान किया। आज से सात साल पहले रणवीर का करियर ये नहीं हुआ करता था। तब उन्होंने मेरी सक्सेस को बड़े ही सहज तरीके</s> |
रूम के बाहर तीन स्तरीय बेरिकेट्स लगाए गए हैं। सम्बन्धित पक्ष के अलावा किसी को भी कोर्ट रूम में नहीं जाने दिया जाएगा। सलमान के साथ आए उनके बॉडीगार्ड शेरा समेत अन्य बांउसर को बेरिकेट से पहले रोक लिया जाएगा। पुलिस के आला अधिकारी स्वयं व्यवस्थाएं देख रहे हैं। राजनांदगांव। शहर से 8 किमी दूर ग्राम डिलापहरी के आंगनबाड़ी केंद्र में अमृत योजना का दूध पीने के बाद दो बच्चियां बीमार हो गईं। आंगनबाड़ी सहायिका ने बुधवार की सुबह केंद्र में दूध का वितरण किया। दूध पीते ही दोनों बच्चियों को पेट दर्द व उल्टी होने लगी। इसके बाद उन्हें मेडिकल अस्पताल में दाखिल किया गया। हांलाकि डाक्टरों ने बच्चियों की तबीयत बिगड़ने की वजह को कुछ और ही बताया है, लेकिन दूध पीने के कुछ देर बात बिगड़ी सेहत के चलते एक बार फिर क्षेत्र में अमृत योजना के दूध को लेकर दहशत फैल गई है। करणी सेना कर रही है फिल्म प्रदर्शन का विरोध संवाद सूत्र, बसिया : आरसी प्राथमिक विद्यालय लोंगा विद्यालय भवन का स्थानांतरण मरियमपुर कोनवीर नवाटोली में करने को लेकर जिला शिक्षा अधीक्षक द्वारा बीईईओ बसिया को जांच कर प्रतिवेदन उपलब्ध कराने का निर्देश दिया था। विद्यालय स्थानांतरण के विरोध शुक्रवार को लोंगा गांव के</s> |
Arson, or the act of intentionally setting a fire, is a criminal offense that can often lead to large fines and significant prison time. The National Fire Protection Association collected statistics from 2010-2014 to gain a better understanding the frequency of intentional fires as well as their outcomes. The numbers are staggering.
According to a report from the National Fire Protections Association (NFPA), on average, fire departments across the United States responded to over 250,000 fires that were intentionally set per year. Structure fires were reported as 19% of the total intentional fires but accounted for 87% of the civilian deaths and 86% of the civilian injuries. With those statistics, it is important we quickly bring arsonists to justice. The newest way to combat an arsonist is to catch them on video.
The vast majority of the population is permanently connected to their mobile devices; posting images and videos of the world around them. Whether they are posting on their favorite social media platform or checking their fantasy sports teams, cell phones are the common denominator, where users have the power to create a large volume of web content. With the emergence of web investigations, we now have the opportunity to put all of this content to good use.
How Can Social Media Investigations Impact the Outcome of Arson Cases?
In 2017, the Milwaukee Fire Department was alerted to a residential structure fire. After arriving on scene, the firefighters conducted a search of the structure and found an elderly male, badly burned, and carried him out of the house. The gentleman was later pronounced dead on the scene. The investigation was already underway when fire investigators were made aware of a cell phone video that had been circulating social media sites. The video showed a female subject dumping the contents of a red gas can into the first-floor windows that she had broken.
The fire not only endangered the man and also the emergency services personnel that responded to the scene. After investigators were able to view the cell phone video, they made quick work of finding the suspect. Through social media, investigators were able to not only see the video, but gather witnesses and reports. Open source intelligence gathering can be a vital method in solving crimes, including arson. Social media intelligence experts have the tools and the knowledge to locate crucial evidence in specific regions and gather intel that can aid law enforcement agencies. The proper contact and information can lead to less deaths from arson and a faster response to the crime. When conducting an important investigation, SMI Aware can be your leader in web and social media investigations.
SMI Aware’s team of experts conduct in-depth web & social media investigations and deliver key findings that can solve a case. |
के बाद हैंडलर की तरफ से मांबेटे को जेहादी साहित्य, विडियो व अन्य सामग्री भेजी जाने लगी। इसी उकसावे में आकर मांबेटे को फंडिंग के लिए तैयार हुए। महिला के ससुरालवाले भी उसके दिन भर फेसबुक व चैट में व्यस्त रहने पर नाराजगी जाहिर करते थे। लेकिन उन्हें इल्म नहीं था कि वह आतंकी संगठनों के संपर्क में है। वित्त मंत्री अरुण जेटली ने एक कार्यक्रम में कहा है कि अमेरिका पाकिस्तान के ऐबटाबाद से ओसामा बिन लादेन को... पढ़े बनारस में दक्षिण भारत के उचक्कों का गैंग सक्रिय पिछले महीने भी ब्राजील नौवें स्थान पर ही था। दसवें स्थान पर बेल्जियम की टीम है। ऑटोमोबाइल कंपनियों के प्रॉफिट एस्टिमेट में एक बार और कटौती का दौर चल सकता है। वित्त वर्ष 2020 के लिए तय टारगेट हासिल करने के लिए जरूरी मंथली टारगेट का लेवल बढ़ गया है। वित्त वर्ष 2020 के लिए ऑटोमोबाइल कंपनियों के अनुमानित में 1535% की कमी की गई है। ऋषभ पंत ने 40 गेंदों पर 69 रन की धमाकेदार पारी खेली. जिसमें उन्होंने 9 चौके और 2 छक्के भी लगाए. पंत और डिकॉक के बीच 81 गेंदों पर 115 रन की साझेदारी हुई थी. ऋषभ पंत की इस पारी की तारीफ उनके कप्तान जहीर</s> |
टैक्स जुलाई महीने में अभी तक 54 हजार 915 लोगों की सैंपल जांच की गई है। इनमें महज 6 लोगों की रिपोर्ट में करोड़ों का संक्रमण पाया गया है। बीते दो दिनों में कोई भी संक्रमित नहीं मिला है। यह राहत की बात है। जिले में हर दिन रैपिड एंटीजन किट के अलावा टू नेट और आरटीपीसीआर से जांच की जाती है। इन सबके बीच आम लोगों के द्वारा हर जगह लापरवाही भी देखने को मिल रही है। यह भी पढ़िए: कोहलीरोहित विवाद में कूदे खेल मंत्री अनुराग ठाकुर, दिया ये बड़ा बयान मैंने अपनी फसलों का पंजीकरण मेरी फसल मेरा ब्योरा के तहत करीब डेढ़ माह पहले करवाया था। जिसमें कपास, नरमा व बाजरे और मूंग का पंजीकरण करवाया हुआ है। मूंग की फसल पकने के बाद मैंने कटाई करके कढ़ाई भी कर ली है, लेकिन मेरे पास कोई मैसेज नहीं आया अब मैं उस फसल को कहां पर बेचूं यह भी पता नहीं है। मलाला यूसुफजई कम उम्र में नोबेल विजेता बनीं दिसंबर की सर्दी की ठंडक से जहां लोग घरों से भी बाहर आने को तैयार नहीं हैं, वहीं केदारनाथ धाम में कड़ाके की ठंड व बर्फ के बीच नेहरू पर्वतारोहण संस्थान (निम) ने सीमेंट का बड़ा</s> |
Even before the break of dawn, some passengers were on the observation deck. J.J. and I noted that some had already staked out their place with table and chairs. Munching their Danishes and drinking their coffee, pointing cameras or mobile devices, it was a long waiting game.
Bridge of Americas signaled the beginning of the Panama Canal, approximately 51 miles of waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic, dividing North and South America.
The Panama Canal reduced the time for ships to travel while avoiding the hazardous Cape Horn around the tip of South America.
Before the United States, Columbia and France controlled the territories surrounding areas of the Canal. Due to problems with engineering and mortality from malaria, France terminated involvement and in 1904 the USA took over the project. The canal opened in 1914 and controlled the Canal zone until the Torrijos-Carter treaties.
Today the Canal is operated by the Panamanian government, surrounding land owned by Columbia and the dock is operated by China.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has ranked the Canal as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
David McCullough’s “The Path Between the Seas is recommended by Chris Roberts as the most reliable and historically accurate reading. |
सामूहिक प्रयासों से संभव हो पाया है। आप सब की समस्याओं को जल्द से जल्द समाप्त करना हमारी प्राथमिकता है। उन्होंने कहा कि मसूरी में भी चिकित्सालय शीघ्र ही जनता को समर्पित किया जाएगा। हिंदी न्यूज़ उत्तर प्रदेश चंदौली ईसीआरकेयू ने रेलवे पर आरोप लगाया विश्लेषकों का कहना है कि डब्बा ट्रेडिंग मुख्य तौर पर काले धन को वैध में तब्दील करने या ऐसे बाजार में पैसा लगाने के लिए है जिसमें व्यक्ति को अपने नाम का इस्तेमाल न करना पड़े। निवेशकों को ऐसे सौदों के लिए पैन नंबर देने की जरूरत नहीं होती है और न ही केवाईसी, या किसी तरह की जांच की जरूरत होती है। इसमें किसी तरह का एसटीटी, जिंस लेनदेन कर या आयकर चुकाने की जरूरत नहीं होती है, क्योंकि इसमें निपटान नकदी में और खासकर साप्ताहिक आधार पर होता है। पूर्व राष्ट्रपति का कोरोना संक्रमण के बाद आई जटिलताओं की वजह से 31 अगस्त को 84 साल की उम्र में निधन हो गया था. कॉलेज प्रशासन ने तय विद्यार्थियों के लिए २६ से ३१ दिसंबर तक मैसूर शैक्षणिक भ्रमण तैयार किया। इस टूर की कर्ताधर्ता बायोटेक विभाग की एचओडी सौम्या खरे को बनाया गया। कॉलेज ने यह कहकर शैक्षणिक भ्रमण की मंजूरी दी थी</s> |
बंद कर दिया गया है। घायलों का इलाज किया जा रहा है। मृतक यात्रियों और घायलों के बारे में विस्तृत ब्योरे का इंतजार किया जा रहा है। मौके पर राहत और बचाव दल पहुंचा हुआ है और घायल यात्रियों के अस्पताल पहुंचाया जा रहा है। लखनऊ : उतर प्रदेश में अब दलितों की जमीन बेचे जाने पर किसी प्रकार की पाबंदी नही है, वो जिसे चाहे अपनी जमीन बेच सकते है। उतर प्रदेश के राज्यपाल राम नाइक ने इससे जुड़े अध्यादेश को मंजूरी दे दी है। इसे लाने का मकसद ब्रिटिशकाल के पहले से चले आ रहे राजस्व कानून में बदलाव लाना है। राजभवन के एक प्रवक्ता ने जानकारी दी कि राज्यपाल ने राजस्व संहिता अध्यादेश 2015 को मंजूरी दे दी है। ऑस्ट्रेलिया के गोल्डकोस्ट में हुए राष्ट्रमंडल खेल में स्वर्ण पदक जीतने वाले लखनऊ के जीतू राई और वाराणसी की पावरलिफ्टर पूनम यादव को 5050 लाख रुपये का नकद पुरस्कार दिया जाएगा। रजत पदक जीतने वाले बुलंदशहर के बॉक्सर सतीश कुमार और मेरठ की सीमा पुनिया को 3030 लाख रुपये मिलेंगे। इसके अलावा मुजफ्फरनगर की महिला पहलवान दिव्या काकरान, मेरठ के निशानेबाज रवि कुमार और पैरा ऐथलीट सचिन चौधरी को 1515 लाख रुपये दिए जाएंगे। बास्केटबॉल खिलाड़ी बरखा सोनकर,</s> |
वे 10 पारियों में 27 की औसत से सिर्फ 271 रन बना सके हैं. 2 अर्धशतक लगाया है. यानी कोहली ने अब तक 2021 में एक भी टेस्ट शतक नहीं लगाया है. रूट की बात करें तो 19 पारियों में 64 की औसत से 1153 रन बना चुके हैं. 228 रन उनका सबसे बड़ा स्कोर है. स्ट्राइक रेट 56 के आसपास है. वहीं कोहली का स्ट्राइक रेट 43 है. यानी रूट भारतीय कप्तान विराट कोहली से 4 गुना से अधिक रन बना चुके हैं. ऑस्ट्रेलिया ने जीता तीसरा टी20, भारत ने 21 से किया सीरीज पर कब्जा बखरी डरहा में तोड़फोड़ व आगजनी मामले में 25 लोग गिरफ्तार नई दिल्ली। : शारीरिक बीमारियों से मुक्ति पाने और अच्छे स्वास्थ्य के लिए उचित व्यायाम के साथ सही एवं संतुलित आहार भी बहुत जरूरी है। हमारे शरीर को कई पोषक तत्व प्रदान करने के लिए फल भी बहुत महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाते हैं। दूसरी ओर कुछ फल एवं सब्जियां ऐसी भी हैं जिन्हें सुपरफूड कहा जाता है। उन्हीं में से एक है एवोकाडो। जो कि एक बड़े आकार का गूदेदार फल होता है जिसके अंदर एक बड़ा बीज भी होता है। आइए जानते हैं कि पोषक तत्वों से युक्त एवोकाडो हमारे शरीर के</s> |
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
Epistaxis is a nosebleed. A nosebleed occurs when the blood vessels near the surface of the nasal cavity are injured or damaged.
CARE AGREEMENT:You have the right to help plan your care. Learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. Discuss treatment options with your caregivers to decide what care you want to receive. You always have the right to refuse treatment.
Cautery treatment may cause an opening in your nasal septum. The septum is the thin wall in the middle of your nose that separates your nostrils. Nasal packs may cause discomfort or damage to nasal tissues. They may increase bleeding, make it difficult to breath, or lead to a serious infection. Without treatment, your nose may continue to bleed. You may have trouble breathing or you could lose a lot of blood. This can be life-threatening.
WHILE YOU ARE HERE:
- Vasoconstrictor: Caregivers may apply this medicine into the inside of your nose or to the nasal packing. A vasoconstrictor helps make the blood vessels narrower to control the bleeding. This also decreases the swelling inside your nose and helps you breathe easier.
- Sedation: You may need sedation if you have nasal packing or other treatments that are uncomfortable.
- Antibiotics: This medicine is given to help treat or prevent an infection caused by bacteria.
- Blood pressure medicine: This is given to lower your blood pressure. A controlled blood pressure helps protect your organs, such as your heart, lungs, brain, and kidneys. Take your blood pressure medicine exactly as directed.
- Blood tests: You may need blood taken to give caregivers information about how your body is working. The blood may be taken from your hand, arm, or IV.
- A CT , or CAT scan, takes pictures of your skull and brain. You may be given contrast liquid before the scan. Tell a healthcare provider if you have ever had an allergic reaction to contrast liquid.
- An MRI of the head takes pictures of your brain, blood vessels, and skull. You may be given contrast liquid to help the pictures show up better. Tell a healthcare provider if you have ever had an allergic reaction to contrast liquid. Do not enter the MRI room with anything metal. Metal can cause serious injury. Tell a healthcare provider if you have any metal in or on your body.
- Nasal packing: Your caregiver may pack your nose with a cotton plug, tampon, or gauze bandage to control bleeding.
- Cautery: Your caregiver uses an electrical device or a chemical to seal the injured blood vessels. This may be done to stop bleeding or to prevent more bleeding.
- Balloon device: A balloon device may be placed at the back of your nose to stop the bleeding.
- Embolization: A blocking agent is injected into the bleeding vessel to stop the blood flow.
- Surgery: You may need surgery to tie an artery if the bleeding does not stop. Surgery may also be needed to correct a deformity or fix damaged tissues in the nose. Blood clots in the nose may also be removed to prevent infection. Injury to the other parts of the nose, nerves, or blood vessels may also be treated with surgery.
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में टिकट बेचने के आरोप मीडिया रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि जांच में यह सामने आया है कि सुनील राठी के साथ कुख्यात प्रमोद राठी का भाई बागपत के गागनौली निवासी रवि, बागपत के खेकड़ा निवासी प्रशांत, मुजफ्फरनगर के भौराकलां निवासी 50 हजारी हरीश का भाई आदेश हत्या के समय मौकाएवारदात पर मौजूद थे। इस दौरान पहली गोली उपरोक्त तीनों में से एक बदमाश ने चलाई और फिर राठी ने बंदी से पिस्टल लेकर मैगजीन को खाली कर दिया। मध्य प्रदेश जो कृषि प्रधान राज्य है और जहां 10 में से सात आदमी खेती का काम करते हैं तथा 77 फीसदी आबादी ग्रामीण है, वहां खेती में इस प्रदर्शन से लोगों को संतुष्ट होना चाहिए था। बीते 13 वर्ष से अधिक समय से प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री के पद पर काबिज और चौथे कार्यकाल के लिए प्रयासरत शिवराज सिंह चौहान की स्थिति मजबूत होनी चाहिए थी। परंतु ऐसा नहीं है और शिवराज को इस वर्ष अपनी सबसे कठिन लड़ाई लडऩी पड़ रही है। जबकि 2013 के पिछले चुनाव में उनकी पार्टी ने कांग्रेस को नौ फीसदी के मत अंतर से पीछे छोड़ा था। विरोध करने वाले अब बनेंगे पुलिस के ब्रांड एंबेसेडर, घरघर जाकर करेंगे ये काम 9.वैश्विक दूरसंचार कंपनियों</s> |
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“Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.”(Maria Montessori)
Imagine, if you will, forty-five 8th graders waiting for a plane to depart. A woman asked if we were all “taking a vacation.”
“It’s not a vacation,” exclaimed Sabelle, “it’s an EXPERIENCE!”
She couldn’t have said it better. The trip we take with our 8th graders each May to Pigeon Key, Florida is an experience. This year I had the opportunity to go on the trip for the first time, and I can only describe it as life-changing . . . for my students . . . and for me.
I have been on powerful multi-day field experiences with my students many times before, but nothing compares to this one.
It is so much more than a field trip. What is it exactly? It seems impossible to properly capture the magnitude of this trip – the awe and wonder, the beauty, the precious time. So what is it? Here’s my best answer.
It is an immersive marine biology study.
It is a hands-on exploration of human impact and the critical importance of conservation of our natural world.
It is a time for students to face personal challenges and to reflect on their growth.
It is an opportunity for students to develop and demonstrate leadership skills.
It is a rite of passage marking the conclusion of junior high and the readiness to move on to high school.
Perhaps Qualey’s words, taken from her journal, best capture what it is that students are seeking from this experience.
“Hopefully I change on this trip to be a better person. I’m really trying to think positive, so I can come home with a new attitude and learn how to love myself.”
Over and over again, the most powerful moments for me were the opportunities to view the experiences on this trip through my students’ eyes and to witness their transformative power. The only way I can properly capture that is by sharing students’ written journal reflections and their spoken comments.
(Note: Although, there were 45 students on this trip, the majority of the student comments in this post were written by those in my “grading group.” I believe that they are an accurate reflection of the thoughts and feelings of all the students. While we generally use pseudonyms to protect students’ privacy, in order to be able to give them credit for their written work, names in this post have not been changed.)
For many of our students, this was their first experience on a plane. During the days leading up to the trip, they shared their fears about what could happen on the flight. As we settled into the aircraft on the morning of the trip, I could see the anxiety on their faces, even though most of them were trying to conceal it. Our group was split up, so many students were sitting with strangers. How I wished that I could be seated next to each of them – to provide reassurance and to watch their eyes grow wide as they went above the clouds for the first time.
The poem that Hadiyah wrote in her journal that evening best captures the worry, wonder, and exhilaration that so many of them experienced.
“Her hand was steady and safe
Replacing my mom and dad at the same time for small moments.
Rising turned the clouds into grass and the people into ants.
Laughter crowded the aisle way;
Familiar voices taunted my ears.
I awed as the sky never seemed to end.
Imagination flooding my mind —
It was impossible to pull my eyes away,
Ground like a hot wheel track beneath me,
Clouds casting giant shadows that I never noticed before.
The higher we went the more of a map I saw,
While voids of clouds all over
Making me feel like a drawing on a piece of paper.
The sky never seeming to end,
Glancing at my peers seeing their excitement and glee.
Time seemed to go slow
Stretching out every moment
The pain in my ears traveling to my head
What a lovely flight of mine
What a lovely time of mine”
It is easy to minimize the level of challenge of a first flight, and the sense of pride that comes with conquering this fear. This is what Michael wrote about that experience, “When I got off the plane I felt a sense of accomplishment because it was my first time being on an airplane, and I conducted myself in a professional manner.”
Every time I looked at them on this first day, I felt as if my heart would simply burst with love. They were so open and vulnerable and tender. Such joy written on each of their faces. And finally, after 2 flights, a long bus ride, and a ferry trip, we arrived on Pigeon Key
On Pigeon Key http://pigeonkey.net/contact/
Pigeon Key is a five-acre island accessible only by boat, which is dedicated to marine research, education, and the preservation of the history of the island.
The island truly feels remote — like getting away from it all. It is, figuratively and literally, “off the grid,” getting its water from a pipe that runs along 7-mile Bridge (Henry Flagler’s extension of the old Florida East Coast Railway) — and 95% of its electricity from a solar array, with the remaining 5% coming from on-island generators.
Without the distractions of traffic, commercialism, and electronic devices, students were able to experience the natural world in a way that they had never done before.
Sam wrote, “The United Leaders group went out to the dock and did morning meeting. It was so peaceful on the dock. When I felt peaceful I finally got the feeling of where I was. I saw the sun rise over the water and the palm trees making gentle waveing motions, I felt so excited to be in the place I am.”
Practicing “solo time” is a regular component of our Montessori philosophy. It requires students to spend a period of time in silence. While they are generally in proximity to one another during this time, they are not permitted to interact. They may draw, read, journal, reflect, etc., but they may not do work or sleep. While we typically conduct solo time in the classroom, being on Pigeon Key allowed the experience to be so much richer. Students who often grumble about disliking solo time were begging to be able to do it longer. Many of them recorded their experience in their journals.
Nasiha: “I loved solo time because I got to look at the bright sky going down by the horizon. It was so beautiful. It made me feel so peaceful and calm. Usually I don’t like solo time because I never see the point, but now I like it because of the outside feel and the view.”
Cornell: “The solo time was literally the best solo time I’ve ever had. Like at first I was worried but then something helped me out, and I could really focus. It’s like you never notice how beautiful everything is with all the negativity around America and humanity. During the solo time I got to see nautical beauty and worry about nothing. It was like the first time I have been able to fully not worry about anything. It was pretty cool too, like I wanted there to be more time.”
“It was like the first time I have been able to fully not worry about anything.”
This was our classroom.
We had presentations on squid and shark – followed by dissections of each.
My favorite lesson, however, was on species commonly found in tide pool areas of the Florida Keys. We then went tide-pooling and had close encounters at the touch tanks with the creatures we found. The students utterly transformed during this. They were so full of joy and delight. I loved seeing them this way.
Within minutes of wading in the water, all the students were eagerly engaged in turning over rocks, investigating, identifying, and handling what they found . . . and just having fun together. The air was full of cries of: “Oooh look what I found.”
“Wait, what’s this?!”
“Look, that’s a big one!”
“Oh my God what’s that?”
The kids were far more successful at finding things than I was, but Arianna helped me out.
“Hey Ms. Taylor, these are those anemones that grab onto you when you touch them!”
“Look, touch them. They grab onto your finger!”
“Whoa! How did you know they would do that?”
“We learned about it in our lesson yesterday!”
At the touch tank: Michael didn’t want to handle anything. When I insisted, and held his hands while placing first a sea urchin and then a brittle sea star into them, he exclaimed, “I’m not even scared. . . Oh, yes, I am!”
While nocturnal tide-pooling, I overheard this priceless exchange between Destiny and Jermiah:
“I found a sea star!”
“No, WE found a sea star!”
“Well, I found it!”
“Well, I picked it up!”
Hadiyah described the impact of this lesson in her journal, “One thing that was a surprise for me was how fun the touch tank was. All the organisms were so cool. I wish I could have stayed with them forever.”
The Coral Reef
But snorkeling at Looe Key and Sombrero Reef were perhaps the most intense experiences of the entire trip. We had been preparing for this for months, but our work began in earnest with snorkeling practice on our first day on Pigeon Key. Although a few students were ready and willing to jump right in and use their snorkel gear, many others were not. We had a few non-swimmers, and some who had never been to the ocean before.
Cornell was initially fearful just walking in the shallows – he held my hand, and we had to countdown from 10 and go underwater together in order to get him to get his head wet. The PK staff worked intensely with him and within 30 minutes we heard, “I’m doing it! I’m swimming!”
Next, it was time to jump off the dock with snorkel, mask, and fins – demonstrate being horizontal with face in the water, and dive and clear a snorkel pipe. Cornell didn’t wait until the end of the group this time, and only needed a countdown from three. Off the dock he went. Thirty minutes earlier, he couldn’t swim and was nervous to wade!
But snorkeling at the reefs brought another level of challenge. We took a boat out to the site, which is in the middle of the ocean – no land anywhere to be seen. The water was deeper, and even in the shallow areas, in order to protect the coral, we were not allowed to stand. However, once we put out faces in, we were immediately immersed in an underwater world of colorful life.
All but one of our 45 students made it into the water. While snorkeling at Looe Key, we saw several fairly large reef sharks. As a result, a number of students didn’t stay in the water for very long on that first day.
They were disappointed in themselves, and most of them set a goal to spend more time in the water the next day at Sombrero Reef. Almost all of them did this, and experienced the pride that comes with meeting a challenge you’ve set for yourself.
Michael: “Another very powerful part of this trip was when we went snorkeling because I was very scared to even get into the water. This really changed my view on deep waters and swimming near dangerous animals because I didn’t want to stay in the water for one second on the first day, but on the second day, I was aggravated I even had to get out!”
Alvin: “At Pigeon Key I overcame my fear of snorkeling with sharks. I am most proud of myself for being gritty in everything I did down in Pigeon Key. It made me realize that I have to be gritty in everything I do in my life.”
Cornell: “The trip also helped me understand the beauty of the world. Like seeing all those fish and coral. I got so much salt water in my mouth from laughing/smiling when I saw how amazing everything was. It was amazing to just look at it for minutes and sort of just see natural beauty. It’s so beautiful, you know? The world where it’s natural and protected.”
Hadiyah’s Snorkeling Poem once again manages to express the many thoughts and feelings that snorkeling at the reef elicited.
“Fear crept up my spine
The water like a Gatorade blue
Acting like it had secrets to hide
The deepness threatening me
But under me, something filled with wonder
Jumping so quick I almost missed it
Switching snorkles as fast as people end relationships.
Drawing in excitement
Wanting to see everything I ever learned
Curiosity like a small child and a TV
Pain in my eyes and throat couldn’t stop me.
Not then, not ever
The type of beauty that could make a grown man cry
It gave a sense of courage.
A sense of passion.
Together one minute
Alone the next.
The thank yous
It felt like days under there.
Permanently burned in my brain
Fragments never to be forgotten
Having new friends
And cherishing them, all in three hours.”
Maria Montessori was right. True education “is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.” These lessons can’t be learned in the classroom.
On this trip, the students learned as much about themselves, and each other, as they did about the world around them. They had opportunities to view themselves, and each other, in a new light. They had fun together, and as they did so, they saw themselves changing and growing, and they saw strengths in one another.
Zakeerah’s journal noted a typical adolescent concern, and the tender way her peers took care of her.
“I was worried that no one would want to sit next to me on the bus, and then Dorey took my face in her hands and said, ‘You are a smart and beautiful person.’ If I could have blushed I would have. Then Takko sat next to me on the bus.”
Hadiyah: “I got to know Sam a lot more today. He is really chill and smart. I like that we are closer now. I already knew he was funny, just not THAT funny.”
Michael: “I was really skeptical about how I would fit in with the other 8th graders I didn’t really know. I think this experience really changed my outlook on a lot of things . . . This trip also helped me bond with a lot of my classmates, who I usually don’t talk to or haven’t really got a chance to know. I didn’t really take to heart not judging a book by its cover, but once I got to meet and bond with a lot of the other 8th graders in Pigeon Key, I felt like I had been lost because I could have found these people and talked to them earlier.”
And Qualey, who noted at the beginning of the trip that she hoped to learn to love herself, later wrote: “I don’t know, but today, I see myself changing in a good way, and I’m so proud of myself for growing up and trying to be a positive young lady.”
On this trip, I had the privilege of watching them grow up right before our eyes.
We hold a rite of passage ceremony on our final night on the island. (This ceremony is a well-kept secret at Gamble. Older students, even older siblings, don’t share the details of this ritual with younger students.) As a part of this closing celebration, students receive packets of letter from teachers and family members – each letter acknowledging the student for the gifts the writer sees in them. They read these letters during their final solo time. It is incredibly powerful for them.
Michael: “It was very impactful for me when I read my letters from the teachers and my family because it showed how much others appreciate me, and I never really knew that so many people actually cared about me. That really lit up my day because I was already a bit mad because I didn’t want to go home.”
Closing Ceremony Poem Excerpts
“I cried harder at each letter that filled my mind.
Before we were all blinded teenagers.
Thinking nobody cared,
Nobody could come close to understanding.
When everybody tried to.
Teachers crying, students crying
Everyone crying because
They really care for
Each other. Some tears
Of joy, other tears of
Disappointment or sorrow.
We’re being set free
Like baby birds finally
Learning to fly. Uncomfortable
At first, but later confident
Because we have the tools
We need to succeed in life.”
And There is Magic
The Pigeon Key trip is an intense week full of many, many powerful experiences. Each of these moments swirled together spark sheer and absolute magic.
One evening as we were preparing for bed, Qualey looked up at me and asked, seemingly out of nowhere “Ms. Taylor, Do you think I’m going to be ready for high school next year?”
And my response: “Oh, Qualey, I know you’re going to be ready for high school next year,”
There were so many vulnerable and tender moments like this. It was an absolute honor to get to participate in and witness students’ transformation. It is experiences like these that make teaching worth all the challenges. It is why teachers do what we do. We get to stand beside children, and to serve as their guides.
The school year ended mere days after returning to Cincinnati, and our two-year time together came to an end. These students will move on to our high school program next year. I will miss them.
This is Hadiyah’s response to what she would tell future students.
I feel the same way.
**This trip is a monumental opportunity for our students, but as you can imagine, it is quite expensive. The cost per student is $1,700. With 70% of our students eligible for the Federal Free Lunch Program, this amount is a significant hardship for many of our families. This year, we were able to provide upwards of $12,000 in scholarships through contributions made to the Gamble Montessori Foundation; however, even with that support, only about half of our 8th graders were able to go on the trip. My dream is that someday they will all get to go. If you are interested in helping with this, I am more than happy to provide further information about how to donate, and about how financial aid decisions are made. Feel free to contact me at [email protected] |
Almonds are a popular food consumed on their own or as an ingredient in many sweet and savory foods around the world. L-lysine is an essential amino acid found in many foods, including almonds. In the September 2005 edition of “Plant Foods in Human Nutrition,” a team of researchers led by Florida State University professor Shrihdar K. Sathe, Ph.D., reviewed the l-lysine content and other nutritional characteristics of several varieties of almonds popular in the United States.
Sathe and colleagues report that there are three popular varieties of American almonds, commonly known as Carmel, nonpareil and Mission, based on their shape or area of origin. All three store their protein in the form of amandin, a storage protein unique to almonds that contains relatively little l-lysine. The l-lysine content varies slightly -- less than 3 percent -- between varieties of almonds.
MDConsult.com says that l-lysine plays an important role in growth, wound healing, calcium absorption and the conversion of dietary fats into energy. L-lysine is “essential,” which means that the body must obtain it from foods because it cannot make it on its own. A diet low in l-lysine leads to muscle breakdown in order to free l-lysine for essential activities. Sathe and colleagues say that almonds are a poor source of l-lysine.
The Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine says that the estimated average requirement for l-lysine varies by age and body size. Infants need the most, proportionately, about 40 milligrams per pound of body weight. Children between 1 and 3 need about 26 milligrams per pound of body weight per day, and children between 4 and 12 need about 20 milligrams. L-lysine requirements stabilize around the age of 13. Both adults and children 13 and older require about 16 milligrams per pound of body weight. A single serving of almonds contains about 145 milligrams of lysine.
Vegans who rely heavily on almonds for protein might become deficient in l-lysine. Symptoms of l-lysine deficiency, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, include fatigue, nausea, dizziness, loss of appetite, agitation, bloodshot eyes, poor growth, anemia and reproductive problems. A doctor can diagnose l-lysine deficiency with blood tests or dietary history. Treatment consists of increasing consumption of foods rich in l-lysine, such as soy products and legumes for vegans and poultry, fish and dairy products for all others.
The l-lysine content of almonds has attracted attention because of a purported relationship between nut consumption and herpes outbreaks. While almonds contain little lysine, they are rich in another amino acid, l-arginine, which is thought to trigger activation of the herpes simplex virus. L-lysine also appears to enhance calcium absorption, a potentially important application for people who suffer from osteoporosis. However, compared to cow’s milk and soy milk, almond milk contains very little l-lysine and calcium, making it a poor choice for people attempting to treat osteoporosis through diet. |
दुकान और दफ्तरों में कूलर व एसी के कारण ट्रांसफार्मर पर लोड बढ़ गया है। इससे ट्रांसफार्मर और केबल जलना शुरु हो गए हैं। बिजली की चरमाई हालत के चलते शहरवासियों को न दिन का चैन है और न उनकी रात की नींद पूरी हो पा रही है। एग्जाम्पल के रुप में मंडे मार्निग रामबाग डिविजन के अंर्तगत कई मोहल्लों में सुबह के समय बिजली गुल हो गई। जिसके चलते लोगों को बिजली के साथ ही पानी की समस्या से भी जूझना पड़ा। शाहरुख खान ऐसे शख्स हैं जो अगर बात बिगड़ भी जाए तो संभाल लेते हैं। चलते चलते के समय जरूर उनके और ऐश्वर्या के बीच खटास आई लेकिन बाद में दोनों के रिश्ते अच्छे हो गए। तेलंगाना में दुष्कर्म व हत्या में तीन को मौत की सजा बनारस के ब्लॉक एवं शहर से एकएक प्राथमिक स्वास्थ्य केंद्र को चयनित किया गया है, जिसमें प्राथमिक स्वास्थ्य केंद्र शिवपुर, राजघाट एवं दुर्गाकुंड का चयन किया गया है। वहीं सेवापुरी से पचवार, चोलापुर से दानगंज, चिरईगांव से सारनाथ, हरऊआ से पुवारीकला, अराजीलाइन से राजातालाब एवं मिर्जामुराद और बड़ागांव से दान्दुपुर के प्राथमिक स्वास्थ्य केंद्र को हेल्थ एंड वेलनेस सेंटर में तब्दील किया जाएगा। क्या आपको पता है, मंगल सूरज से</s> |
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The importance of vet checks for looking at dogs holistically
"Behavioural problems and physiological medical problems have been treated separately for years, but behaviour depends on an animal's health and vice versa. Some behaviour problems are caused totally or partially due to medical problems. But this comes with its own diagnostic challenges for vets as apart from behavioural changes there are no other indications of illness. Camps. T, Amat. M, et al (2019)
Something that has encouraged and conversely put some clients off on initial contact is the recommendation of a Veterinary check to establish whether sudden behaviour changes or rescue dogs could be suffering with pain or ill health which has caused the change in behaviour.
When a dog presents with a new behaviour we have to explore all of the changes within yours and your dogs life, whether you have moved home, someone has moved in or out, any surgery, any attacks or incidents, a new dog in the home, sudden periods of separation and much more which could influence behaviour or if there's anything medically happening.
Dogs are very good at hiding pain and illness, we have to be mindful that no two dogs will show the same behaviours of expression of pain, especially dependent on their pain threshold as some injuries or pain may be slow in developing to big gestures of limping or vocalisations. There can be more subtle signs such as changes in pupil dilation, restlessness, changes in appetite or behaviour, increased or reduced physical activity and even a bite from a normally friendly dog.
Some people also think that when we say this that we mean a booster appointment for a vaccination.
Within another research study researchers found that veterinarians were criticised for not discussing or investigating behavioural problems with dog owners, so the researchers set up on a fly on the wall approach. 17 consultations were set up with 6 veterinarians, the dog owners were asked to share their concerns about behaviour which resulted in 58 behaviours of concern across the total and found that only 10 of the consultations out of 58 had been discussed. With the dog owners having to bring up the topic of behavioural concerns that they had. Roshier, A. L. (2013)
A previous study five years earlier observed wellness appointments and health problem appointments and found that 90% of the conversation focused on the health problem focusing on the biomedical data whereas in wellness appointments, 50% of the conversation is based on gathering information and 27% based on owner education and that due to dogs only going to the vets when unwell or for boosters is the only opportunity to discuss welfare. Shaw.J, et al (2008).
Which as a form of confusion that we find when discussing vet checks with dog owners makes sense as to why when we ask or recommend a Vet check that dog owners (guardians) typically tell us that nothing was wrong and or discussed at the booster appointment.
There were also two main barriers found in the question of: "Do you have any concerns?" in that dog owners felt embarrassed or that the behaviour was trivial and that dog owners need a flow of conversation to be able to open up. Robinson. J. D, (2001)
This second part is really important because when we use a client centred approach with dog owners (guardians) and help them to feel empowered, more people do talk at ease and even though emotions come up, there is no sense of embarrassment. When we actively listen this helps people to talk, and empowers the dog owner to speak up about how you feel, how behaviour might be affecting you and then we come full circle to how we can help. Because both ends of the leads are equally important.
This study goes onto discuss welfare in dogs and dog owners (guardians) legal duties under the Animal Welfare Act (2006) which I have discussed before. The study finishes with the conclusion of understanding animal and owner needs for best welfare practice aimed at vets. Short, C. E. (1998)
But all professionals who work with dogs have an ethical duty of care to best inform dog owners (guardians) education on why vet checks are vital and why doing particular things with dogs and meeting their biological needs is so important. This is why we also share a welfare responsibility for dogs who we work with because we need to best support the primary caregiver and families of their dog.
So if your dog is showing changes in behaviour or you have a new dog and you're worried about some of the behaviours, please don't be worried about reaching out for help and discussing these worries. Either with your vet or reach out to a behaviourist. You should always be made to feel empowered, valid and supported.
There are no silly questions or concerns, if you are worried about something it's much better to ask and if you aren't happy with the answer you can absolutely get another opinion. This doesn't make you a "Karen or a Kevin" as many people do worry they will quickly become a social media slur and considering people's feelings and worries as much as we might chuckle at these expressions of names to label someone difficult, the truth is more people dare not speak up when something is bothering them because of silly social media quips.
Always speak up, always ask questions, your feelings are valid and there is nothing to be embarrassed about and even if you cannot pinpoint how your dog could be ill or in pain, remember they hide pain and unwellness well, circling back to journals yesterday this is where journals come in handy paired with your vet and behaviourist.
Camps T, Amat M, Manteca X. A Review of Medical Conditions and Behavioral Problems in Dogs and Cats. Animals (Basel). 2019 Dec 12;9(12):1133. doi: 10.3390/ani9121133. PMID: 31842492; PMCID: PMC6941081.
Roshier AL, Foster N, Jones MA. Veterinary students' usage and perception of video teaching resources. BMC Med Educ. 2011 Jan 10;11:1. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-11-1. PMID: 21219639; PMCID: PMC3025976.
Shaw J. R., Adams C. L., Bonnett B. N., Larson S., Roter D. L. (2008) Veterinarian-client-patient communication during wellness appointments versus appointments related to a health problem in companion animal practice. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 233, 1576–1586
Robinson J. D. (2001) Closing medical encounters: two physician practices and their implications for the expression of patients' unstated concerns. Social Science and Medicine 53, 639–656
Short, C.E. (1998) “Fundamentals of pain perception in Animals,” Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 59(1-3), pp. 125–133. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-1591(98)00127-0.
Image description: a mint green background with a shaded green category circle. Within the categories are sleep, with a grey wolf dog sleeping on a pink bed.
A Wheelchair user with their back to the screen playing the chair game with a cream and grey wolfdog with the category title of "Time to train new protocols."
A category called "diet" with the sodapup honeycomb slow feeder with raw food in the centre with vegetables, fish, liver and eggs in the outer of the bowl.
A Vet with blonde short hair, white medical coat and green scrubs stood with a dark grey and tan Wolfdog with the category "vet check".
A category called opportunities for mental enrichment with a dark grey and tan Wolfdog behind an xpen fence, within a Doggy Enrichment Land. A green wall with the bottom of a picture frame and a music speaker. There is a destruction box filled with balls, a Kong, a lickimat, a snuffle mat, an orange bed, a bone, an ostrich twist and a loose ball.
The last category is "Keep a journal" with a lined journal with green edges and rainbow dividers.
For Miyagis Dog Training |
रास्ते से बाइक पर सूअर का मांस इंदौर ले जाया जा रहा है। इस पर वन अमले ने एसडीओ प्रदीप पाराशर के मार्गदर्शन में कार्रवाई करते हुए पुंजापुराउदयनगर के पास घेराबंदी कर बाइक सवार दोनों आरोपितों को पकड़ा। आरोपित देवसिंह ने पूछताछ में बताया कि उसका भाई महेश इंदौर में रहता है। सूअर का मांस उसे देने जा रहे हैं। रेंजर ने इस पर देवसिंह से कहा कि मोबाइल से भाई को फोन लगाओ और कहो कि इंदौर के तेजाजी नगर आ जाए। रेंजर के कहे अनुसार आरोपित ने फोन लगा दिया। इसके बाद वन विभाग की टीम दोनों आरोपितों को लेकर तेजाजी नगर पहुंची। इंदौर में आरोपित महेश इस बात से अनजान था कि उसके भाई को वन अमले ने हिरासत में ले लिया है। वह अपने भाई देवसिंह के कहे अनुसार तेजाजी नगर आ गया। यहां वन अमले ने उसे गिरफ्तार कर लिया। तीनों को गिरफ्तार कर कांटाफोड़ वन विभाग के दफ्तर में लाया गया। आरोपितों ने पूछताछ में ठाना निवासी 43 वर्षीय महेश पुत्र गुलाब व 50 वर्षीय रमजान पुत्र मोहम्मद के नाम भी बताए। इस पर वन अमले ने इन आरोपितों को भी गिरफ्तार कर लिया है। पाकिस्तान के प्रतिबंधित टेस्ट बल्लेबाज शारजील खान ने घरेलू</s> |
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