Training vs Teaching; Knowing the Differences
Whether you're training someone to operate a crusher safely or how to repair and maintain a system of conveyors, there are stark differences between teaching someone how to do something and actually training them to perform their tasks properly.
Too often we "teach" someone how to do something and assume they have a grasp on the task, then move on. However, if we focus on truly making cultural changes in our organizations that revolve around a safer and more productive workplace, many other cost-savings will occur, including:
 1. Reduced worker's compensation claims & premiums
 2. Reduced equipment and site/location damage
 3. Improved maintenance conditions of equipment
 4. Improved productivity
 5. Enhanced employee morale
This is just to name a few. Too often checking a box in the company manual becomes the goal and we "miss the forest for the trees." Training is a never-ending process. Why? Because nothing is ever stagnant in your operation. There are almost daily changes involving equipment, processes, personnel, products or facilities, and the list goes on. Each change requires training or re-training to make sure each employee can become familiar and comfortable with the changes.
And if you rent heavy equipment to augment your current fleet, like many of our customers do, the task of training becomes even more important as new equipment is introduced into your operational mix.
Let's look at the differences in the pure definitions of teaching vs. training.
Train – To instruct as to make proficient. To guide the mental, moral, development of, etc…
Teach – To show how to do something. Instruct. To give knowledge, insight, etc…
When you conduct training, it is very important that the person who is doing the training be an experienced person that is able to convey the information to the trainees. There are many people with experience, but they may lack the ability to transfer than knowledge in an understanding way. Conversely there are also people that can convey information very well, but lack the experience to thoroughly train your employees.
As we've stated previously, training is more than a one or two-day affair. It must be ongoing and ingrained in your organization. A couple of things you can do to institute ongoing training programs are:
 1. Create ownership at all levels. Whether it starts at a VP level or with your Safety Officer, each and every person must know the expectations and be proactive in bringing ideas and opportunities to improve safety conditions to the table.
 2. Regular meetings. These meetings should not only address new training needs, but also review of OSHA standards and the expectations of your organization as well.
 3. Inspections. Along with your employees, walk their areas and departments and provide them opportunities to point out changes and areas of improvement.
 4. Keep records. All meetings, attendees, topics etc… Have someone take notes and file them. Keep all training records in employee files for reference, and keep a simple spreadsheet handy of all training, what it covered, the date it occurred, and when refresher training will be required in the future.
 5. Make safety part of your culture. Posters, reminders on paycheck stubs, celebrating safety milestones, contests, t-shirts, hats and other awards are all small things you can do to permeate your organization with your safety mantra.
An ongoing training program will pay for itself in the long run. And since you look at your employees as family, ensuring their safety is just the right thing to do. Remember "train" your employees, don't "teach" them, and the payoffs will be great…for everyone involved.


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FANADZO, M et al. Crop production management practices as a cause for low water productivity at Zanyokwe Irrigation Scheme. Water SA (Online) [online]. 2010, vol.36, n.1, pp. 27-36. ISSN _PHONE_.
Generally, smallholder irrigation schemes (SIS) in South Africa have performed poorly and have not delivered on their development objectives of increasing crop production and improving rural livelihoods. Limited knowledge of irrigated crop production among farmers has been identified as one of the constraints to improved crop productivity, but research that investigates the relationship between farmer practices and productivity is lacking. A monitoring study was therefore conducted at the Zanyokwe Irrigation Scheme (ZIS) in the Eastern Cape to identify cropping systems and management practices used by farmers and to determine how these were related to performance. Evidence from 2 case studies showed that water management limited crop productivity. Irrigation application and system efficiencies were below the norm and irrigation scheduling did not take crop type and growth stage into account. Monitoring of 20 farmers over a 3-yr period showed that cropping intensity averaged only 48% and that the yields of the 2 main summer crops, grain maize (Zea mays L.) and butternut (Cucurbita moschata) averaged only 2.4 and 6.0 t·ha-1, respectively. In addition to poor water management, other main constraints to crop productivity were inadequate weed and fertiliser management and low plant populations. The results indicated that a lack of basic technical skills pertaining to irrigated crop production among farmers was a possible cause of inadequate management. In this regard, it is expected that farmers could benefit from 'back to basics' training programmes in the areas of crop and irrigation water management. Research needs to focus on labour-saving production technologies, establishing farm-specific fertiliser recommendations, the identification and use of affordable sources of nutrients, as well as strategies to improve plant population in maize by preventing bird damage to newly-planted stands.
Keywords : smallholder irrigation schemes; cropping pattern; constraints to crop productivity; research agenda.

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I certainly haven't seen any original records, so you may be right that Alivia is a typo for Alicia. On the other hand, if it's a mistake, then it's a mistake that many people have made. Google "Alivia Braose" or "Alivia de Braose" and you'll find numerous geneological pages that reference her. Curiously, some of these websites also call her Aline, a name which is supposed to be related to Adeline, not Alice.
I looked for some more medieval Alivias and came across two more: both of them named Alivia Bassett, both living in the 13th century. The second Alivia Bassett is *also* called Aline in some sources. She was the mother of a famous English lord named Hugh le Despenser the Elder, and is referred to as Alivia by more than one source. So I suppose Alivia is somehow related to either Alice or Aline.
BTW, all my "research" comes from the internet, so there's always the possibility that there are some of the websites I've seen aren't too reliable. :)


Defend or Rescue are map objectives used throughout the Fire Emblem series
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Defend and Rescue are similar in nature as both require the player to complete a map by preventing an enemy unit from reaching a certain tile.
In Defend maps, players must prevent the enemy from reaching a specific tile on the map, usually one that is positioned behind the player's starting position or at a far side Village. If an enemy unit ends their turn on that tile or next to the village, a Game Over immediately triggers. To clear the map, players must either Survive a certain number of turns before the enemy is force to retreat or must rout all enemies that appear.
Rescue requires that the player kill specific units on a map before they reach a certain tile which is usually a distance away from both the enemy and allies. Maps that feature this objective usually revolve around an character being kidnapped. If the objective is solely Rescue, only the highlighted unit must be defeated. Occasionally, this is paired with Rout the Enemy as well.


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Model CB-08-P - Single Bar Sickle Mower
Aim of the cutting process: green feed plants can be cut to precisely the size you want; harvesting can be completed with minimum loss and optimum speed. This is how the sickle moves to perform the cutting. During this process, the working length is 76.2 mm for long guard and 50.8 mm for short guard. The machine's cutting can change according to different types of plants. The guards have been hot forged. Even if the Baran sickle bar mower with its modern and well-designed construction, is used for many years,it still guarantees perfect performance. The Baran sickle bar mower is a three-point linkage mower attached to the lower links and to the upper link bracket of the tractor. An efficient cut can be applied for cutting lentils, chickpeas, trefoil and meadow with this machine. It offers the following advantages:
- Cleaner cutting and the crop doesn't get broken by this machine. The machinery mows the crops without spoiling.
- Feed plant doesn't get dirty with this machine.
- An automatic system prevents failures occurring if some unexpected hits happen during the cuting process. It Works without vibration.
- The machinery works with high capacity and at high speed.


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If you want to go beyond the basics of creating and producing
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"european" in a sentence
- Adjective: European 'yûru'peeun
Noun: European 'yûru'peeun
- Of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe
- A native or inhabitant of Europe
Derived forms: Europeans
See also: Europe
Type of: denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
- It was built after a european model.
- The europeans produced mainly war planes.
- Certainly it captivated the european writer.
- It is a voice of european public opinions.
- european nations are relatively modest in size.
- europeans and jews do not readily assimilate.
- The tour took in six european capitals.
- I don't care much for these european potatoes.
- I accompanied him on his european travel.
- I still carry european pollution.
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Released January 29, 2021.
Roughly 220 million tons of MSW are landfilled each year, across 1,500 MSW landfills (MSWLFs). One metric for the cost of disposal is the gate rate or tipping fee, i.e. the amount charged per ton for disposal at the landfill. EREF routinely surveys active MSWLFs across the U.S. to estimate the average MSWLF tipping fee nationally, regionally and on a state-by-state basis. The primary goal of the study is to track changes in MSWLF tip fee, and explore the relationship between tip fee and MSW management practices.
Results from this study will provide insight into the following types of questions:
- What is the average MSWLF tipping fee, and how does it vary across the U.S.?
- Are MSWLF tip fees increasing or decreasing each year?
- How does tip fee correlate to other MSW management practices (e.g. WTE, recycling)?
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Lightworkers and Earth Angels are here to bring light, love and healing to the planet.
Think of Lightworkers like living, walking Spirit Guides and Earth Angels as living, walking Angels.
This doesn't necessarily mean that they are free of ego, pains and problems, but it does mean that deep down in their soul, they contain the memory of what it is like to guide people from the Divine realms.
Essentially, both Lightworkers and Angels have this knowledge buried deep inside of them because in their past incarnations this is what they spent their time doing.
The key difference between the two, is that Lightworkers would have guided people from Higher realms, whereas Earth Angels would have guided people from the Angelic realm.
This doesn't mean that one is higher than the other, it is just a different type of guidance.
Lightworkers would have:
- Guided people/animals on a more day-to-day level
- Helped people to know which path to take
- Steered and directed people towards following their passions and their purpose
- "Arranged" meetings of Soulmates and Twin Flames
- Provided comfort and support in times of need
- Offered guidance and intuitive advice
Earth Angels would have:
- Worked to create the soul path and soul contract with the person/animal before they were incarnated
- Helped the soul to find the perfect family to incarnate into
- Guided people/animals, so they could fulfil and understand their soul path and soul lessons
- Worked with people on a more subconscious level through their dreams and mediations
- Sent reminders of their soul journey and life path through angel numbers and Universal signs
- Offered physical protection and healing when needed
Both Lightworkers and Earth Angels would have worked as a team for the highest good of the various people, animals and plants that they were caring for.
Even though they have the power and knowledge to do this work, occasionally Lightworkers and Earth Angels are returned to Earth in order to do their work in human form.
They still carry this knowledge buried within, but in a way, they have to learn how to access it and use it while they are on their earthly journey.
Sometimes this knowledge may emerge subconsciously, and other times it can emerge consciously, but eventually it does always reveal itself.
Usually both Lightworkers and Earth Angels will find themselves drawn to the world of healing, metaphysics, plant medicine, intuition, mediumship, crystals, fairies and so on.
Both Lightworkers and Earth Angels may also appear wise beyond their years and carry an innate knowledge and understanding of energy, different dimensions and higher realms.
You can read about common Lightworker signs here and common Earth Angel signs here.
Just like Lightworkers and Earth Angels served a different purpose in the Divine realms, they also serve a different purpose on Earth.
On their Earthly journey Lightworkers are here to:
- Remind people about the "light" within
- Remind people of their innate healing ability
- Remind people of the healing power of plants, crystals, herbs etc.
- Remind people how to work with their intuition
On their Earthly journey Earth Angels are here to:
- Remind people about the temporariness of life
- Remind people that they are love and connected
- Remind people that there is more to life than this lifetime
- Remind people how to work with higher realms
Of course, what Lightworkers and Earth Angels are here to do is so much bigger than anything described on these lists and there is certainly a lot of crossover too.
Essentially, both of these beings are here to help bring faith, love, hope and gratitude back to the planet and the way that they do this will be as unique as they are.
In order to remind people of these things, Lightworkers and Earth Angels first need to remember all of this themselves. Eventually, Lightworkers and Earth Angels will be forced to remember all of this by going through some type of crisis or deep awakening process.
Once this awakening has occurred, there is often a deep knowing for both Lightworkers and Earth Angels that this is who they are. Even though Lightworkers and Earth Angels have this knowledge, they are still on their own Earthly journey and still here to learn things on a human level.
Lightworkers and Earth Angels are not immune from the human world, however the more they can access the hidden knowledge within, the easier it will be for them.
Read Next: An Angelic Prayer for Lightworkers
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This discussion paper prepared by John Snow, Inc., in collaboration with the California Association of Public Hospitals and California Health Care Safety Net Institute, defines whole-person care as the coordination of health, behavioral health, and social services in a patient-centered manner with the goals of improved health outcomes and more efficient and effective use of resources. The paper uses the following conceptual framework for advancing whole-person care:
- identify the target population
- provide patient-centered care
- coordinate services across sectors
- share data
- create financial flexibility
- engage collaborative leadership.
The paper describes several models of whole-person centered in the safety net nationally, including dual-eligible demonstrations, safety net accountable care organizations, accountable care communities. The insights from the review of these models include:
- development of coordinated systems requires collaboration between stakeholders and services across multiple sectors to provide person-centered care
- high-risk care management is frequently an entry point into whole-person care because high-risk individuals are often interacting with health, behavioral health, and social service systems
- flexible payment methods are a key facilitator for whole-person care
- approaches to whole-person care can be combined in mutually reinforcing manners, and can provide learning opportunities across whole-person care initiatives
- committed leadership matters tremendously, though it can come from different sectors.
The paper was funded by the Blue Shield of California Foundation.


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Why is My Light Switch Hot?
If one or more of the light switches in your home are warm or hot to the touch, it's usually a sign there's too much electrical power running through it. There are several reasons why this happens.
When a Light Switch Feels Warm
One of the most common electrical questions we get asked is if it's normal for a light switch to feel warm.
It's perfectly normal for light switches, particularly dimmers, to feel a little warm when the lights are on. The warmth you feel comes from an electrical component called the triac (triode for alternating current) which varies the amount of electricity that passes through to the light fixture. If the dimmer switch is dedicated to a single bulb, or a load of 100 watts or so, you might feel a little heat. Once the load gets above 300 watts, though, it's not unusual for the heat to be more noticeable.
When a Light Switch is Hot
If a light switch is too hot to touch, it's likely a more serious problem. The top three reasons this happens are:
 - The switch is overloaded. Just like wall outlets, light switches are limited in how much power they can handle. Different switches are rated for different power levels and if the switch is overloaded there's a serious risk of fire. The switch should be replaced with one that's designed to handle the amps a fixture requires.
 - The switch is failing. Light switches wear out and when this happens small sparks on the electrical contacts are emitted when the light is turned on or off. Over time, the contacts don't meet properly and electricity flows more freely, creating heat. This, too, is a fire hazard.
 - Faulty or improper wire installation. Even if the wiring was professionally installed, it can become loose or broken due to age. These bad connections can then cause the wiring to spark and generate heat. They can also bottleneck the current flow, which also gives off heat. Faulty wiring should always be replaced by an experienced, licensed electrician.
When to Call For Help
There are electrical problems you can usually fix yourself but, as electrical work can be dangerous, it's almost always recommended to call in a professional. Along with a hot light switch, it's a good idea to call in the pros if:
 - The lights dim when using a major appliance or when the HVAC unit goes on.
 - One socket of an electrical outlet's not working.
 - A light switch doesn't solidly connect in the on or off position.
 - You have an old "fuse" system in your home.
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The only way for antlr to lex X number of characters to make a token is for you to keep your own counter and use a semantic predicate. You might find it easier to do the initial lexing by hand or use another lexer toolkit and then hand that off to antlr.
If I were doing it myself based only on the example you give, and I would make my own table of lengths and token types and make my own object implementing TokenStream (which is just one method--nextToken()). Then I would just read the specified number of characters, create a token object with the correct type, and bump my table pointer to the next position for the next token.


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 1. 1. ACS 301 September 18, 2008 Qualitative vs Quantitative Research
 2. 2. Key themes The nature of quantitative research The nature of qualitative research The pros and cons A tangent into feminism
 3. 3. What do quant researchers worry about? I want to know what causes something else. I really spend a lot of time wondering how to measure things. I wonder how small patterns generalize to big patterns. I want to make sure others can repeat my findings.
 4. 4. Steps In Quant Research
 5. 5. What is a concept? "… categories for the organization of ideas and observations" (Bulmer, 1984: 43)
 6. 6. What is a measure? Something that can be counted. Age Height Number of books
 7. 7. What is an indicator? Something that "indicates" the presence of something else. GDP IQ Number of hospital visits
 8. 8. Benefits of measuring Fine differences Consistent device Precise estimates of relationships Reliability Validity
 9. 9. What's wrong with quantitative research? They always seem to measure artificial things and say they're really precise. Yeah and they treat people like they're test tubes or something. It's the way they do things…it makes it hard for people to see their research as relevant to them. Well their research is just so static. Real life actually changes.
 10. 10. Would you use quant research in this example? Researchers want to study poverty in a small, urban housing unit. The property managers say that turnover in the apartments is high. Researchers wonder if the housing unit has some effect on poverty.
 11. 11. Qualitative vs. Quantitative Interpretivism Natural science model Epistemological orientation Constructionism Objectivism Ontological orientation Inductive, generating theory Deductive, testing of theory Role of theory in research Qualitative Quantitative
 12. 12. What do qual researchers worry about? I want to see the world through the eyes of my respondents. I want to describe the context in a lot of detail. I want to show how social change occurs. I'm interested in how things come to be. I really want my research approach to be flexible and able to change.
 13. 13. Steps in qualitative research
 14. 14. Concepts in social theory "Sensitizing" concepts provide a "general sense of reference and guidance" "Definitive" concepts a "prescriptions of what to see" " Thus, with clear concepts theoretical statements can be brought into close and self-correcting relations with the empirical world" (Blumer, 1954: 5).
 15. 15. Dependability Confirmability Credibility Transferability " Trustworthiness"
 16. 16. What's wrong with qualitative research? It's just so subjective. Well good luck trying to re-create those results! You just can't generalize it. How am I supposed to know how many people have the same experiences? That's because they often don't tell you how they did what that did.
 17. 17. What does feminism have to do with qualitative research? We want our voices heard! Yeah but we kind of also want to know the numbers of discrimination.


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Posted 09 April 2007 - 11:40 AM
I am studying the words kruptos and phanero. What I am wondering is if any of you know what the best way to translate these words are? My research shows that kruptos is primarily hidden/concealed; Phanero is primarily revealed/known. However, in Romans 2.28 – 2.29 they has been translated as inward and outward. i have found no other occurrence for this in the English texts. This brings question to the translation.
Can any of you help me to understand why SHOULD be translated inward and outward?
Within context it can maintain the idea of conceal or revealed and still make plain sense.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 07:22 PM
"28. Which is one outwardly (ho en tośi phanerośi). Ioudaios (Jew) has to be repeated (ellipse) with the article, "the in the open Jew" (circumcision, phylacteries, tithes, etc.). Likewise repeat peritomeś (circumcision).
29. Who is one inwardly (ho en tośi kruptośi). Repeat Ioudaios (Jew) here also, "the in the inward part Jew" (circumcision of the heart peritomeś kardias and not a mere surgical operation as in Col. 2:11, in the spirit en pneumati, with which compare 2 Cor. 3:3, 6). This inward or inside Jew who lives up to his covenant relation with God is the high standard that Paul puts before the merely professional Jew described above. Whose praise (hou ho epainos). The antecedent of the relative hou is Ioudaios (Jew). Probably (Gifford) a reference to the etymology of Judah (praise) as seen in Gal. 49:8."
The "Gal. 49.8" is from the Accordance text. It should read Gen. 49:8.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 08:30 PM
It appears to me that this verse should possibly read...
[UPDATE: Right you were Rob! That was an accident of hurried writing. It didn't even match my notes ]
Then not he who [is] a revealed Jew, neither he who [is] revealed circumcised in the flesh.
In other words this "Jew" is showing off circumcision and Jewishness to gain praise. It's not about whether or not he is a real Jew.
But he who is a hidden Jew and his heart is circumcised by the Spirit not he who is praised of people but of God.
This hidden is connected to Jesus' statement of entering a prayer chamber and not praying in front of other to be thought righteous. Because the Father who sees in secret (phaneros) will reward.
I understand the want/need to try to make this an inward and outward issue but there are words for that. Why would Paul use words that specifically mean concealing or revealing? Reading it as an inward issue makes it possible that a Jew of birth is not one of heart. This doesn't seem to fit within context. Nor does it seem to fit with in NT practice.
I am willing to read it as inward outward if I can gain a clear reasoning.
Edited by yetsirah, 16 April 2007 - 05:12 AM.
Posted 11 April 2007 - 09:30 AM
It seems Paul's very point is that Jews of birth are not necessarily Jews of heart. That would also seem to be his point in Romans 9:6-13. Whatever way you interpret Paul's words in this passage, sufficient weight must be given to the flesh/heart contrast he sets up, which is very common in his epistles, especially Romans and Galatians. The flesh/heart contrast gives rise to the outward/inward translation so common in English versions. The Greek words themselves might not usually mean inward/outward, but the contrast Paul establishes is so common in his writings that translators have perhaps seen it as more weighty than the typical word usage.
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Dragon Age and Diversity in Fantasy Video Games
Dragon Age has always been on the frontlines when it comes to diverse protagonists, though it is far from the only game to offer this. And giving gamers a chance to play as various genders, races and sexual identities is an awesome thing. But it also makes storytelling more complicated, because if the story doesn't reflect this diversity, it only makes sense in a world where there is no discrimination based on these things.
Some fantasy universes actually go in that direction. Not always wholly successfully or consistently – frequently the implication is that the universe is all equal, but it just so happens that most people in power are straight white males. This is probably partly a result of lingering prejudices and partly thanks to pseudo-medieval tropes tied to the fantasy genre. It can break the suspension of disbelief just a little, but overly, it's not such a big deal.
Many other universes, on the other hand, decide to keep some form of systemic injustice, usually in the form of fantastic racism. Dragon Age is just one of them. And this is where the complications come into play. Because ultimately, complete freedom in character creation makes sense only in a world without structural injustice. That means an utopia, and nice as it might be to live in one, they are rather boring as far as narratives go, proving little in the way of tension for the story to use. The most interesting tales usually employ conflict with society in some ways, and that almost always means systemic oppression.
But once you do incorporate structural injustice, can you really afford to give players complete freedom in what character they come up with?
Let me use the three Dragon Age games as an example here, to illustrate the problems inherent in this approach.
As I said, its world is not one where the universe pretends at no prejudices and your character has, in fact, no background, their race and gender influencing nothing at all. No, Dragon Age limits your choice to a few available backstories, and with these backstories go specific dialogue options and even quests in the game. Where games like Elder Scrolls do the equivalent of colourblind casting, with all the problems it entails, Dragon Age theoretically does the equivalent of writing roles for minorities, telling their particular stories.
But. (There is always a but.)
The different games are a very good example of the different ways in which one can deal with such an approach, and different measures of success.
In some ways, the best example of how to do it is Dragon Age: Origins.
There are specific origin quests for different character backgrounds picked, and most of them are even quite well-done. They also have tie-ins later in the game, where you get a chance to meet characters already familiar to you. Mostly, whenever something arises where your origin would likely make you react in a specific way, you actually get the option to do so. There are a few slip-ups, but nothing major. Great job, right?
But the only reason why Origins can be this good at story customization is because, at its core, it is a fairly generic hero story.
A novice comes into a mysterious order, their mentor dies, and the task of saving the world falls to them. Individual subquests then have you circling through all the places your past can tie in to, so that every fantastic race has a chance at their customized experiences. The mysterious order in question gives the hero legitimacy beyond any background they might have. It is a decent formula to make it work, but unfortunately unless you want to make all of your games effectively identical, it can only be used once.
Dragon Age II decided to go a different way and limit the number of background choices. There is, effectively, only one backstory, just slightly tweaked depending on your character's class. In most ways, they decided to abandon the path of different origins in this installment. I still mention it in this article, though, because in spite of this, they rather ironically managed to mess it up. Because they still let you to pick your character's class, and it just so happens that the central conflict of the game is all about mages and their discrimination.
The oppression of free mages is supposed to be everywhere. So when you play for one such free mage, publicly casting your free magic everywhere the entire game and the most you get for it is slight lip service…well, that is just a little strange.
The lesson should be pretty obvious here: if you make oppression of a particular group one of the central themes of your story, and yet your hero, belonging to that group, never really experiences it, then you are doing something wrong. It weakens the story by making the odds less, it breaks the suspension of disbelief, and it adds to the feeling that your protagonist is really just a generic stand-in. I really shouldn't need to spell this out.
Mages? What mages? There are no mages here, what are you talking about? What, does that look like a staff and robes and a mage cowl to you? Naah…
Apparently someone should have spelled it out to the game creators, though, because the very same problem appears again in Inquisition. That game returned to more diverse origin stories, but didn't actually keep the different origin quests, only giving you your character background in a very brief summary. Later, too, the specific quests tied to your origins were just tabletop missions that took two clicks to solve, and some of them with deeply problematic implications to boot. All of that is a pity, but doesn't touch the main problem, the one carrying over from Dragon Age II. Just as people would not treat a mage and a non-mage the same in a world that hates mages, so, too, the treatment of other oppressed groups would be much different from the privileged ones.
On my first playthrough of Inquisition, I was a free elven mage, an intersection of two despised groups (she was a woman, too, but let's pretend we buy the fiction that there is hardly any sexism in the world of Dragon Age for now). On the second, I was a human noble, so two privileged groups. The character starts the game in a very vulnerable position, and they were both treated the same.
To put it quite plainly, that is not how it would go.
In fact, given the circumstances of the beginning of the game and if I see the way the noble character is treated as base comparison, I am quite certain the free elven mage would actually be dead. Beaten to death by an angry mob. Because these are things that actually happen in the world, and they would certainly happen in the world Dragon Age is set to take place in.
It is not that you never encounter any racism when playing as an elf in Inquistion – there are a few cases of casual remarks. But nothing near to what would be realistic in the setting we're meant to believe in. Nothing that would actually influence the story in a meaningful way.
There is one nice case, though, that well-illustrates what this game actually does. When the protagonist encounters her scout in what is essentially an elven mass grave of a genocide, the scout comments that it just seems sad there are so many dead elves. If you play for an elf, you can stare at her incredulously and then quote an ancient oath at her to make her realize that yeah, you have in fact thought about this before and it seems quite sad to you, since it was the genocide of your bloody ancestors she's talking about. She blushes and apologises to you for not realising it was this personal for you. This kind of casual erasure is brilliantly captured, and it is also what the game does all the time.
Lavellan is sad because everyone constantly speaks over her where elves are concerned. That is my headcanon for why she so often wears an expression like this, anyway.
It is nice to have this one shout-out, but when you go through the plains where the genocide happened and collect quest points for landmaks commemorating the killings of individual elven heroes, the elven protagonist is allowed no reaction. When you have to listen to one of the companions expound on how your heroic knights were probably just thieves and murderers, you are allowed no reaction. When you come to an elven temple, two of your companions (one of them actually not even an elf) translate the elven writing for you. And, best of all, at one point when you find a crucial piece of elvish history, your own elvish character suggests that you could give it to the Chantry – as in, the religious institution responsible for the genocide. Oh, and also one your character has been kind-of affiliated with from the start of the game, because why not?
You see the problem?
There is a lot of elvish material in the game; it's one of the cornerstones of the story. But it's treated in exactly the way all non-Western cultures are treated in the real world. Namely, simply exploited without any regard for the actual people it might tie in to. Much like with romance, though much less amusingly, the creators of the game brilliantly captured the same aspects of racism and orientalism in the structure of their story itself. The elves have always been a stand-in for racial minorities from our world, and here they are, always an object and never truly a subject, even when one of them is the supposed protagonist. The very same thing, to a lesser degree, goes for the mages.
Now the question: is this a problem when the cultures and races in question are not actually real races, but instead Thedas elves or, you know, wizards?
My answer is, yes


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Before a single barrel of crude oil is shipped to an awaiting ship at Saudi Aramco's terminal in Ras Tanura, operators must certify the purity of the crude oil in their tanks. A new technology, called ground level optical water cut (GLOW), allows to check the water content of a crude oil shipment in a safe and timely manner.
Traditional methods used by the industry for verifying the water content of crude oil have not changed much over the decades. In most oil terminals around the world, an operator is sent to the top of a crude oil tank to lower a depth gauge coated with chemicals that identify how much water rests. Strong winds or rains have been a constant challenge, preventing operators from the risk of climbing tanks for hours or even days — a costly delay for both the company and its customers.
The GLOW innovation allows operators to verify the water content of a crude oil shipment in a safe and timely manner, without putting operators at risk. It utilizes an optical glass and a series of pipes in a closed looping system, extended into the tank. The system provides the same accuracy with much less risk of exposure to heights and toxic gases. This will reduce the total man-hours by more than 80% over the conventional method.
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"The main reason for this technology is safety for the operator," said Shaker M. Al Mahrous, manager of Saudi Aramco's Terminal Operations. "The GLOW device will disrupt the conventional way of performing water cut activity and will reset the industrial standards. This solution eliminates the main cause of incidents in the industry, which is falling from heights.
"And yet, this solution still allows us to provide the verification that our customers need. GLOW allows us to see what water is in the tank in an instant, without the risk to our personnel," he added.
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Rice Water for Skin, Hair and Health
The craze of using rice water is catching up very fast. If you have not yet heard of it, rice water is highly beneficial for certain health issues and also in taking care of the skin and hair. Let us first see the health benefits:
 - instantly energizes the body due to the high concentration of carbohydrates
 - provides instant relief from diarrhea
 - has been used successfully to treat gastroenteritis
 - prevents cancer
 - controls high blood pressure
 - helps in preventing Alzheimer's disease
 - reduces the body temperature or internal heat of the body
 - prevents constipation
In short, I would say it provides all the health benefits that eating rice would provide. But, more than that, rice water has been used as a face wash and a hair wash.
 - Washing your face with rice water makes your skin very soft and it also helps in improving the complexion
 - Is a great substitute for toner and firms up your skin
 - Helps in reducing the size of the pores on your skin
 - Washing your hair with rice water brings shine in the hair and helps to keep it healthy. Follow up with cold water rinse.
 - Powdered rice grains are also used as body scrub and they make your skin extra soft
How to make rice water?
I have read at many places that the water used to wash rice prior to cooking is rice water. But, that is not the actual rice water. You may collect it but it will not give you the full benefits. Instead, you should boil the rice in more water than usual quantity you use so that the rice does not absorb all the water and strain the extra water. This water is the actual rice water which is full of nutritional benefits. You may drink it or let it cool to use as a face wash or a hair wash. You may even garnish it with various spices and herbs. Read this article for step by step instruction on how to cook rice water.
Watch the video to learn how you can use rice water in various ways. But, make sure you cook the rice water the proper way.
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 hi dear i have a question how often shd we use tis rice water and if we boil the rice it also contain salt as we add salt in the rice is it ok to use such water on yr skin
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 oops!!! I didn't see about the salt part. yes, don't add salt as it dries out the skin if used on a daily basis. actually, we do boil rice without adding salt.
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 do not add salt while cooking the rice. You add it when u want salt later. One benefit u dont need loads of salt
 the curries and other side dishes will add the salt ok bye
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 Well, the whole point of rice water is to place the RAW RICE into warm/hot water to leave behind all the healthy benefits. At that point, you'd drain the rice water off and THEN you start to add ingredients to your rice, that including the salt. You add anything to your rice while making your rice water.
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 Delicious Rice water Recipe:
 1 Cup rice
 1 Cinnamon stick
 1/2 Gallon of cold water
 put the rice and the cinnamon stick(cut in half)in a bowl with 3cups of water wait for about an hour and put in a blender use a strainer to pour the water in to your 1/2 gallon of cold water so the rice and cinnamon stay on the strainer and not on water,add Sugar to your rice water and enjoy :)
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 If you add salt then may be fat increase so you can drink it like a normal water and use like a normal water on face and hair
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 Hey Fatima
 You can use the rice water any number of times you want. There is no limit. And, yes, there is no problem in drinking rice water with salt or using it on skin. But, make sure not to use it on hair because salt is not good for hair.
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 hi dear thnks for the reply i was wondering whether the starch water we get whn we cook the rice is it safe for the skin
 dear i have one more request can u also post something for a perfect make up as u knw its the season of marriages and we all go out so please can v have some articles on tat
 i actually want to knw how can u get a glow on the face like the shiny look katrina has i mean wht kind of a bronzer or wht is used to get tat affect thnks in advance
 4. Anonymous says
 Can you please tell me what rice protein does for your skin? I have seen this in facial products, but have been unable to find any info on it. Is it the same as what you are speaking of?
 Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day.
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 hey…rice protein makes skin soft, firmer and lightens the skin tone too…so using rice water helps in keeping skin soft….hope this answers your doubt…do get back if you have questions…would love to clarify them :)
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 hey, yes, in the video, the rice is not boiled…I have provided the link for the instructions for boiled water…you can use the drained water too but I am not sure how much it really helps with keeping the skin face clear!!!
 6. shruthy says
 hye! diz s shruti..im 21 yrs old..n i have regular break outs.. so can yo help me out by giving some korean natural home remedies.. thanx in advance! :) :)
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 hey Shruti…I am sorry but I can really not help you with Korean remedies coz I am not Korean…but I have posted on acne skin care so you can go through them…hope this helps :)
 8. Anonymous says
 hi dere…Liked ur info…well just wanna know a homemade cleanser nnd one more thing for how many days we can store the boiled rice water..Esha..
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 hi Esha…I am sorry but I didn't get the point of homemade cleanser….boiled rice water should ideally be consumed on the same day I suppose..actually you can make it in adequate quantity and if any extra is left, just drink it…it is very nutritious and healthy for intake too :)
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 Hi Swati
 I was reading another article on rice water and it said tht the water left after washing the rice has to be used.And yur post says that the water left after cooking the rice has to be used. Please advise
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 Hi Ariya…welcome to my blog….I have mentioned this point in the post that many people advise that collecting that water is beneficial for skin but actually that water is more of dirty than full of benefits from rice..that's what I feel and I have drunk the rice water from boiling so I know its a bit different in texture than the water collected from washing rice…so my advise would be to get boiled rice water…hope this helps :)
 12. Anonymous says
 When you use rice-water you have to use the water left over from rinsing the rice. Because it is full of impurities, you should separately boil this water. I have found that if you refrigerate it the product lasts longer. Tip: try adding green tea while boiling and it becomes a great skin-care product ^__^
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 Love your blog :) found this just a few days before my marriage it was great but if I had known this before It would've been just great, my bad luck.. nevertheless…
 I found this tip very useful and forced it on my husband too.. He also liked it.. hehe :) I just wanted to know if we can preserve this water?? usually when I cook thr is a lot of rice water left out and i collect everything. Its not possible to use the whole thing. So I was just wondering if it can be refrigerated or preserved in some other way?
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 thanks a lot Madhuri and welcome to the blog…hope you will keep enjoying it :)
 yes, you can keep the water I guess…I am not very sure but I don't think it will get spoiled if refrigerated but not more than 3 days!!!
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 Yes you are right.. I had kept it outside for several days and what I noticed was that the starchy texture is gone and it becomes just plain thin translucent kind of water.. So it becomes useless for what we actually want to achieve. So use it the same day or maximum the next day not more than that.
 16. Anonymous says
 hi… but does having the boiled rice water result in weight gain??
 please advice as i was told that if u consume it everyday it results in weight gain.
 thanks so much
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 well…as far as my experience with the rice water, I didn't notice any weight gain and I had taken rice water for a long time!!! but, may be its possible because it has starch. But, if you take brown rice water, that will not cause any such effects. hope this helps :)
 17. Anonymous says
 hey loved your tip, just one doubt


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Summary of findings from the Esperanza's expedition, September - December 2011.
During the three-month 'Defending Our Pacific' expedition, the Esperanza monitored the Pacific Commons and visited Pago Pago in American Samoa, Nauru, and Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. In December, Greenpeace and the government of Palau conducted a joint fisheries enforcement operation in Palau's national waters. Greenpeace assisted in apprehending and detaining a licensed vessel engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, failing to report via its vessel monitoring system and catching and finning sharks, a practice banned in Palauan waters.
The Esperanza encountered 63 fishing vessels in total during the expedition, including an overt, illegal, stateless and unmarked purse seine vessel operating with six other support vessels in what appeared to be a group operation. Fishing vessels were also sighted transiting through Pacific countries' waters. Catches of sharks were particularly high on a number of vessels; in several cases the Esperanza crew took action, inspecting and documenting vessels at the invitation of their captains, and releasing endangered species and other bycatch from tuna longline hooks.
The expedition showed that longline fishing in the Pacific Commons remains rampant.
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BACKSTORY: The case of the unlikely Holocaust scholar
Robert Jan Van Pelt
Robert Jan Van Pelt
How did a secular Jew, who didn't even know he was Jewish until he was 11, become the world's authority on Auschwitz?
Living in Holland with his family, the boy came home one day during the Six Day War and found his mother in tears. She feared that she was living the nightmare of World War II all over again, and confided in her son that they were Jewish. She had been hidden during the war and wanted to spare him her fate.
That boy, Robert Jan Van Pelt, grew up to become a historian at the University of Waterloo's school of architecture. He became a renowned scholar on the architecture of Auschwitz and was called as a witness in the David Irving Holocaust denial trial in England. He prepared a documentary on Auschwitz for BBC News. His entire professional career has been devoted to expose the lie of Holocaust denial and to teach the truth of what happened
during the war years.
The life story of this journey toward Holocaust scholarship is remarkable. As a young boy, he was unable to attend high school due to grave illness and was home-schooled instead. But still he passed the university entrance exams and was admitted. He considers himself a kind of survivor to this day and identifies with his mother and all those who have overcome the most serious obstacles to testify to the value of life.
The real moment of epiphany, however, came during his PhD defence. His thesis was on the Cosmic Speculation of King Solomon's Temple. One of the professors asked him if there is any building in our time that rivaled the Temple of Solomon in importance. Unprepared for the question and before really having a chance to think, he said, "Yes. Auschwitz."
Thus a career was launched.
That career has led to a realization that both Rome and Jerusalem have shaped the history of Western civilization. Van Pelt's research has attempted to find the balance, to retain the belief that we can enjoy the accomplishments of Western civilization and not lose the spiritual life offered by the Judeo-Christian faith
As a historian of architecture, van Pelt feared that the architectural legacy had morphed from creations such as the Parthenon and the Pantheon into the concentration camps and the crematoria. What, indeed, had happened to what we consider "civilization" in order for such a transition to have taken place? Reflecting on the meaning and implication of the camps, forces consideration of what it means to be civilized. For that reason, van Pelt's work is not morbid but rather a necessary corrective in the quest to understand what it is to be human.
What is unique and important about his research is the emphasis on physical evidence. Other scholars examine historical forces, events that occurred and effects on people and their lives, which are all valid approaches. Van Pelt's rigorous and focused attention on the construction of the camps, and methods of mass murder, constitute irrefutable evidence of historical truth and a wakeup call to the conscience of humanity.
His current project is called The Evidence Room. It will be exhibited at the 2016 Architecture Biennale in Venice, attended by well over 200,000 visitors and attracting worldwide media attention. The project is an example of a new discipline: architectural forensics. The exhibit will consist of life-size casts of key pieces of evidence – for example, gas columns, blueprints, contractors' bills – that demonstrate conclusively that the camp was purposely designed as a factory of death. After Venice, the exhibit will travel to a number of cities.
With each passing year, there are fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors to bear witness. They embody the memory of a tragedy so unspeakable that some would like to see it erased. Fortunately, there are scholars like Van Pelt who are dedicated to making that malignant objective virtually impossible.


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Nuclear waste is normally a major environmental headache, but it could soon be a source of clean energy. Scientists have developed a method of turning that waste into batteries using diamond. If you encapsulate short-range radioactive material in a human-made diamond, you can generate a small electrical charge even as you completely block harmful radiation. While the team used a nickel isotope for its tests, it ultimately expects to do this using the carbon isotope you find in graphite blocks from nuclear power plants.
The batteries wouldn't generate much power, but their longevity would be dictated by the life of the radiation itself. Researchers estimate that a carbon-based battery would generate 50 percent of its power in 5,730 years. Most likely, the batteries would be used in high-altitude drones, pacemakers, spacecraft and anywhere else replacing the battery is either very cumbersome or impossible. You could see interstellar probes that keep running long after they lose solar power, for example.
Any practical implementations are likely a long way off, and there are some conspicuous problems. Cost, for one. Diamond is expensive, so it might not be feasible to convert large amounts of nuclear waste into batteries. That's assuming the technology works as well as intended, too. Still, it raises hope that the leftovers from nuclear reactors won't just sit there posing a threat — they might actually do us some good.
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Virtualizing the Embedded World: Vista Over Linux in a Cell Phone?
Motivation for Running a Hypervisor on Embedded Systems
While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM.
Servers and desktops are not alone, virtualization is also a perfect fit for embedded devices too.
Virtualization benefits are well understood for the traditional server consolidation purposes. Hypervisors, aka virtual machine monitors (VMM) are common in almost every data center, saving equipment, power and management costs. Embedded applications, ranging from terabit routers, hardware appliances, media-rich set-top boxes to cellular phones and media players can all benefit from virtualization.
At a glance it may looks like an over kill to run virtual machines on embedded systems (see Figure 1). Embedded systems might be resource limited, having limited memory/CPU/latency/scheduling. They are also often tailor-made to match specific hardware/software combinations. Deeper insight reveals many advantages of virtualization for embedded:
- Consolidation--Expensive custom-made hardware increase the motivation to consolidate several physical devices into a single one. Consolidation also helps to reduce complexity for distributed environments--All the virtual machines live on the same physical server, there are no risks of network partitioning, hardware failures are atomic and a common high availability (HA) solution deal with them while collapsing many scenarios.
- Security--Breaking into the cellular phone management/java stack won't jeopardize the communication stack and the main cell if each of them is run in a different virtual machine (VM). The VM environment is a big sand box for untrusted code.
- Reliability--Isolate privileged code and prevent/reduce entire device failures
- Management and rapid development--Even if running RTOS for managing the hardware, there is no need to settle for its limited management capabilities. A management VM running Windows can run the user interface, making both users and developers life easier.
- Hardware virtualization--VMM is an exact fit for hardware virtualization, dynamically divide and unit physical resources along with their virtual controller. Large, distributes embedded machines such as routers can be split and unite along with the router engine machine, executed as a VM.
- Efficiency--In the multi-core era many physical cores are under-utilized, some not even initialized since the embedded software was uni-processor
- New exciting features--Sophisticated features like snapshots, live migration, external hibernation can enhance embedded products that tend to demand high availability, upgradability (even remote kernel upgrades), etc
- Law--Unlinkage of the GPL code from proprietary code can be easily obtained using virtualization
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- 1. Motivation for Running a Hypervisor on Embedded Systems
- 2. Motivation for Running a Hypervisor on Embedded Systems
- 3. Motivation for Running a Hypervisor on Embedded Systems
- 4. Motivation for Running a Hypervisor on Embedded Systems
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text: Nicotine salt is the natural form of nicotine found in tobacco leaves. Nicotine derived from tobacco leaves is slightly acidic with a pH of approximately 5. However, the most commonly used form of nicotine in e-liquids is called freebase nicotine. Freebase nicotine is slightly basic with a pH of approximately 8. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14 where lower pH values indicate a more acidic substance, while higher pH values indicate a more basic substance. The chemical process for making the nicotine derived from tobacco leaves more basic is called de-protonation. This is the process that turns a natural nicotine extract into a freebase nicotine extract.


Denmark zoo's killing of giraffe criticized
The images out of the Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday were startling. An 18-month-old giraffe, sprawled on the floor during a public necropsy, zookeepers examining the body while children and their parents looked on.
Staff at the Danish zoo euthanized the healthy giraffe, saying it was not needed for breeding and its genetic similarity to other giraffes could harm the overall European population. The giraffe, named Marius, was shot in the head, publicly dismembered and fed to the zoo's lions, despite offers from other zoos to take the animal.
Wednesday, Jyllands Park Zoo in western Denmark said it might cull one of its giraffes, coincidentally also named Marius, to make room for future breeding endeavors.
Resulting outrage swiftly made its way across the pond, but zoos in the U.S. say this would not happen in an American facility because accredited zoos have a policy against using animals as food.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums oversees more than 200 facilities in the United States, including the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. Pittsburgh zoo officials couldn't be reached for comment.
The zoos association has various centers, including the Population Management Center at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and the Wildlife Contraception Center at the St. Louis Zoo, to monitor animal populations.
"There are very different philosophies between European practices and the AZA," said Sharon Dewar, public relations director for the Lincoln Park Zoo, which houses the population management center. "We only breed animals that we are assured can be cared for and housed for the entirety of their natural life."
In a statement released Monday, the association's executive director Kris Vehrs said: "Through the AZA Species Survival Plan program, these methods include science-based breeding recommendations and cooperating to plan for adequate space. AZA's Wildlife Contraception Center and AZA's Population Management Center help AZA members with the expertise and planning to manage animal populations.
"The Copenhagen Zoo is well known for the quality of its conservation programs. The facility is a member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and their programs and procedures vary from those of the AZA."
After the incident in Denmark, many questioned why the zoo did not pursue transferring Marius or imposing some form of contraception to prevent reproduction. The zoo released a statement on its website outlining its decision.
"In Copenhagen Zoo we let the animals breed naturally. With naturally we mean that they will get young within the same intervals as they would in the wild," said zoo scientific director Bengt Holst in the statement. "Contraceptives have a number of unwanted side effects on the internal organs and we would therefore apply a poorer animal welfare if we did not euthanize."
A statement from the European association said the group "fully supports the decision of the zoo to humanely put the animal down, and believes strongly in the need for genetic and demographic management within populations of animals in human care."
The Jyllands Park Zoo in Denmark is not EAZA-accredited, and association officials stated they do not support the decision to euthanize the second Marius.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Jorg Jebram, who oversees the European endangered species program for giraffes for the association, said until recently, contraception required sedation, which puts giraffes at risk to break their necks when they fall.
The U.S. association employs a species survival guide, which evaluates all species every one to three years and gives recommendations to zoos whether to breed animals based on factors including housing availability and population size. If it is deemed not advisable, zoos can employ a number of contraceptive methods.
Ms. Dewar deferred to the association for large-scale policies on culling, but said "it is not part of the discussion" at the Population Management Center.
"It is certainly the philosophy of North American accredited zoos that... for any offspring, we guarantee a sustainable home for its natural life," said Ms. Dewar.
Additionally, at the Lincoln Park Zoo, deceased animals would never be fed to other animals at the zoo, she said.
Other American zoos offered similar sentiments.
"We don't use euthanasia of our animals for population management," said a spokeswoman from the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
A spokeswoman for the San Diego Zoo said there is strict criteria for euthanasia, and it is considered only for the physical and psychological health of the animal, not for population management.
"The goal is always very careful planning," said Christina Simmons, public relations manager for the zoo. "There are a number of contraceptive options: chemical, surgical and separating animals."
Animal welfare groups also voiced opposition to the Danish zoo's decision.
"The Copenhagen Zoo is obviously not practicing modern zoo operations," said Lisa Wathne, captive wildlife specialist for the Human Society of the United States. "They should not have produced the giraffe in the first place if inbreeding and lifetime care was a concern."
PETA, which opposes zoos generally, believes that while accredited American zoos make more efforts to control breeding than some of their European counterparts, they make questionable ethical decisions.
"You'll find questionable ways of disposing of surplus animals," said Carney Anne Nasser, counsel for captive animal law enforcement for PETA. "There are instances of animals being sent from zoos to roadside menageries. This is definitely a real issue here as well."
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Just about every day we zap coffee, make a cup of tea, or heat up soup in the microwave. Likely you've been using ceramicware — we've all heard plenty at this point about the dangers of reheating in plastics — many of which claim to be "microwave safe." With reports of lead in everything from water to jewelry to toys, at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute (GHRI) we wondered if there could be lead or other toxic substances in the ceramic mugs, bowls, and plates we use for nuking, and that exploration led to an even bigger question: What does it mean to be truly microwave safe?
What we discovered is that there is no true universal definition. To some it might mean that heavy metals don't leach into foods while, to others, it might involve ceramicware not getting so hot as to burn you when you remove it from the microwave. So we examined ceramicware from major manufacturers to see just how safe it truly is to use in your home.
Read on to find out the, and.
At the outset, we were most concerned about toxic chemicals in ceramicware. To find out if substances like lead and mercury were present and could be leaching into food when the vessels were heated, the Kitchen Appliances & Technology Lab at GHRI purchased samples of eight brightly colored mugs from leading brands or retailers and sent them to an independent lab to be tested.
First, we tested according to a standard procedure to see if they contained any lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury. Lead was found in at least one sample of each mug, arsenic in all of them, and in a few, cadmium. None of the mugs were found to contain mercury.
Once we determined that, yes, there were heavy metals in the mugs, our next question was, "Do they leach into food?" We tested two additional samples according to the standard method used by dinnerware manufacturers. This procedure calls for allowing an acetic solution (water with acid added) stand in the ceramicware overnight and then testing it for toxins. Before dinnerware is sold in the US, it must be tested according to this method and found to not have more than the low levels of heavy metals allowed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Our results: None of the test mugs leached lead, cadmium, or arsenic.
But we weren't satisfied and here's why. When this standard test method is performed by manufacturers, they use new mugs and acetic solution that is at room temperature. We wondered if mugs that have been aged by repeated microwave heating and dishwasher cleaning, and, second of all, using boiling solution in the test procedure could give different results. After all, consumers typically boil liquid in microwave dinnerware, so it's important to know if heavy metals leach under these circumstances.
We "aged" samples of our mugs by putting them through a month's worth of microwaving and washing in the dishwasher. Then we retested our aged samples as well as two new samples, using them to bring acetic solution to a boil in the in the microwave. This time we found that one of our test mugs, Pfaltzgraff Artisan Red, did leach lead, although in amounts lower than those allowed by the FDA.
When it comes to "microwave-safe" mugs, it's not just toxic substances we were concerned about. Another discovery we made while testing ceramicware: All, our mugs were labeled as microwave safe and yet some of them got so hot in the microwave that if we weren't careful there was a risk we'd be burned. We dug around, speaking to microwave and ceramicware experts and found out there's no standardized definition for the term "microwave safe". But a standard test method for determining if ceramics get too hot to handle does exist. However, it's not mandatory for manufacturers to perform the test and determine that their products stay cool enough for safe handling before claiming they're microwave safe.
We once again aged mugs and tested them, as well as new mugs, according to the standard procedure to find out just how hot they get when they're used to bring water to a boil, as they might be if you were making a cup of tea or cocoa. Temps above 140°F, are generally considered too hot to handle and hot enough to cause burns, depending on how long they're in your hand. We found both aged and new samples of several mugs got hotter than allowed by the standard. However aged samples were more likely to get hot and to reach even higher temperatures than new samples.
Right here on GoodHousekeeping.com, we conducted a survey of 2,000 consumers to find out how often you use your microwave and what you think "microwave safe" means. We heard from over a thousand of you. Here's what you told us.
- 49% of you told us that "microwave safe" means that a product will not break, crack, shatter, or become damaged in some way when it's heated in the microwave oven. "I figure it means that the dish won't break into a million pieces!" "You can use it in the microwave without fear of it blowing up."
- 36% of you think that "microwave safe" means that a product is safe for use in the microwave but can't say what that specifically means.
- 32% of you think "microwave safe" means a product won't leach harmful or toxic chemicals or substances into food.
- Only 15% of you consider "microwave safe" to mean that a product won't get hot when heated in the microwave. "That you won't burn your hand getting it out!!" "It lets the microwaves go to the food and doesn't heat."
All this confusion despite the fact that 63.6% of you said you use your microwave ovens several times a day and 98% of you look for microwave safe ceramicware when you're out shopping. We advocate that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) create a standard definition of "microwave safe" and make it mandatory that products labeled "microwave safe" meet a version of ASTM Standard C1607, revised to call for testing pieces that have been aged by subjecting them to repeated microwave and dishwashing cycles before testing.
What You Can Do:
- Don't take it for granted that dinnerware labeled microwave safe won't get too hot when heated in the microwave. When you're out shopping for microwave-safe dinnerware, purchase just one piece and test it out by using it in the microwave before springing for an entire set.
- Be careful when you're removing an item with hot liquid or food from the microwave oven. Keep pot holders nearby where they're easy to find and use.
- Don't allow children to use the microwave unsupervised. If kids aren't old enough to use the stove or the toaster, they shouldn't be using the microwave.


Role Of Biochip Advancements In Next-Generation Sequencing
Role Of Biochip Advancements In Next-Generation Sequencing
A group of researchers from Seoul National University explores the role advancements in biochip technology are playing in driving groundbreaking scientific discoveries and breakthroughs in medicine via next-generation sequencing, aka high-throughput sequencing.
There have been many experimental successes and failures within the biochip field, and one of the most important things they point out in their review is that these were not done in vain. These technologies are now moving forward and being applied in real-world settings.
The researchers provide a review of current state-of-the-art biochip technologies, separated into two main categories: microfluidicand micromanipulation-based methods. They said microfluidic-based methods use micrometer-sized fluidic channels to compartmentalize biological targets to analyze each and every target, while micromanipulation-based methods use optical devices to pick out the biological target of interest. The biggest differences between these methods are throughput and depth. Microfluidic-based methods have higher throughput, but the micromanipulation-based methods can provide deeper data for the biological targets.
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Insights you Need: Key learnings from the HealthXL Community
HealthXLs digital health meetings bring the leaders in digital health together. We have run 8 interactive masterclasses so far this year, where key experts from the HealthXL community have shared their expertise in trending areas of digital health. We felt it was about time to look back at the highlights of the most noteworthy sessions over the last few months. Keep reading to learn the key takeaways from 3 of our top masterclasses.
The Regulation of Digital Therapeutics (DTx)
Regulation is an absolute essential for DTx companies who want to be incorporated into clinical and payer activities. What are the must know do's and dont's when attempting to take a DTx product through regulatory pathways in the US? We explored this during different masterclasses led by key HealthXL members, BlueBridge Technologies and AmalgamRx.
Here's what we learned:
- In the US, regulations relating to Medical Devices, Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), General Wellness Products and Clinical Decision Support Software all have elements that can be applied to DTx products and inform regulatory thinking. While there are a range of regulatory classifications possible for DTx products, many are expected to be Class II devices.
- In the US, understanding the interplay between the three approval pathways, PMA/De Novo/510k, and ''regulatory programs'', Breakthrough Device/Safer Technologies (STeP), is important. Regulatory programs are voluntary programs for manufacturers. The FDA is selective on which DTx are eligible for which programs, so getting into these programs means the FDA prioritizes you, which might reduce the pre-market authorization burden, study designs may be more flexible, etc. Even if you are eligible for any of these programs, you still have to go through the regulatory pathways (e.g 510k).
- In Europe, the MDR (Medical Device Regulation) recently replaced the MDD (Medical Devices Directive) which was created 25-30 years ago, when there were no smartphones. With the new MDR, there are specific sections for SaMD and remote monitoring devices (Rule 11 for software in Annex VIII). The EU is moving towards new regulatory rules for SaMD whereas the US is moving more towards the certification of company culture excellence (Pre-cert program).
- Regulatory frameworks for SaMD are a changing landscape and digital health companies should not try to get around regulators but rather engage with them. Early engagement with regulators and having data to support this engagement is key to saving time and resources and it helps in the reimbursement process.
We are running this masterclass again in September, stay tuned! You can see all our upcoming meetings here.
Trial design for digital health products
There are a broad variety of digital health solutions, but in order to thrive and be successfully adopted, prescribed and reimbursed, it is essential to clinically prove their efficacy and safety. How to design trials for digital health tools so that they are rigorously validated and regulated? In this masterclass led by Akili Interactive we learned:
- As a framework to consider study design, we described the following: 1) Descriptive Trials (surveys/qualitative reports) as a means for hypothesis generation; 2) Analytical Trials that are experimental/randomized for hypothesis testing; and 3) Observational analytical trials for the generation of RWE (Real-World Evidence).
- Ideally experimental, hypothesis testing trials should have three arms, two control arms - treatment as usual and an active control. If there is a crossover element to a study, consideration needs to be given to wash out periods and the halflife of treatment effects.
- In relation to Study Participants and Recruitment, along with considerations for representativeness, enriching for responders/compilers is an important consideration for digital therapeutics trials. Allowing for roll over studies should also be considered and used where budget allows.
- There is a balance to be struck between endpoints required for regulatory approval and those that will be useful in the future to convince stakeholders of the utility of DTx. This becomes real as decisions need to be made around sample sizes and how to increase study power. However, the primary focus of the hypothesis testing trial is for regulatory approval and that should be the guiding principle for decisions on endpoints. A further consideration on data being collected is to ensure there is a good reason for collecting the data while simultaneously protecting patient privacy.
We are running this topic again in September, stay tuned! You can see all our upcoming meetings here.
How can pharma use digital education to engage HCPs?
Covid-19 has shaken up the traditional pharma model, leading to the inevitable necessity to use digital tools to have meaningful touchpoints with HCPs. In a masterclass led by Figure1 we learned:
- Time of outreach for maximum impact: the right time is perhaps outside their workday, but there are insights that might be useful at certain points in a physicians' workflow (before they see a patient, during the patient consultation, or after).
- The shift in focus for pharma (or anyone who creates content targeted at HCPs) should be on how content is created - be genuine, meet them at a peer level.
- Engage in bite-sized content that is targeted, easy to ingest, and give them the answer quickly and effectively, perhaps delivered by a fellow physician.
- Language and communication: If something sounds like marketing jargon, doctors know it! Things that sound more personable are likely to get greater engagement.
- Pharma companies are continuing to use text and stat heavy presentations. While popular and effective two decades ago, this will not engage physicians now.
Learn more about this topic here.


Test the Spirits
1 John 4
1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but a test the spirits, whether they are of God; because b many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: c Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess 1 that Jesus 2 Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than d he who is in the world. 5 e They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and f the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. g By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
 1. Cross References
 1 Corinthians 14:29
 2. Cross References
 Matthew 24:5
 3. Cross References
 Romans 10:8 - 10
 1 Corinthians 12:3
 1 John 5:1
 4. Cross References
 John 14:30
 John 16:11
 Of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
 5. Cross References
 John 3:31
 6. Cross References
 John 15:19
 John 17:14
 7. Cross References
 1 Corinthians 2:12 - 16
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