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Together, our goal is true, life-long engagement of all learners to enable them to accomplish anything and be successful in today’s world.
The Program Department works with school-based staff to enhance teaching and learning activities. We support schools and the divisional community as a whole through the services of our consultants and coordinators.
We support teaching and learning by:
- assisting with the development and selection of materials
- collaborating with school teams on initiatives and projects
- coordinating and delivering professional learning
- highlighting current research and thoughtful practices
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"Digging a hole to China" might be a favorite childhood pastime, but, perhaps not surprisingly, it's not actually geographically accurate. The point opposite you on Earth, which is about 20,000 kilometers away, is almost certainly in the ocean. This is true not just if you live in North America, but virutally anywhere on Earth.
As we learn in this new video from RealLifeLore, that's due to how big the Pacific Ocean is—it takes up almost an entire side of the globe. There are some exceptions. Madrid, Spain and Auckland, New Zealand are almost exactly opposite each other, as is Santiago, Chile and a few cities in China. Commenters on the video who live on opposite sides of the world and watched the video at the same time are already comparing notes, which is pretty neat.
The video also tackles the question of how you could get to the furthest point away the quickest. On that front, the news isn't great: Commercial jets can currently go no more than about 17,000 kilometers at once. For the time being, we're stuck with connecting flights. | <urn:uuid:39581b11-edaa-4076-9882-ebc6ff9607fa> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a25994/opposite-side-of-the-world/ | 2020-09-28T22:54:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600401614309.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20200928202758-20200928232758-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.96144 | 230 |
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism, George Hawley
George Hawley has written a book that is a timely exploration of the past and present of American conservatism, mapping various schools of thought within the American right. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism focuses particularly on conservative voices in the wilderness, those that do not appear to be in the driver's seat of the political conversation. Since the 2016 presidential election, of course, it seems Hawley has unintentionally written what, in parts, is a kind of guidebook for making sense of what is a not particularly stable—but certainly existent—conservative coalition that maintains a skeptical yet very faithful relationship with the Republican Party. For good reason, Hawley consistently notes that the conservative establishment appears to have a weak grip on power.
Hawley's book offers nine chapters worth of case studies. Chapter 2 focuses on the purges that have made American conservatism at key moments and that have also delineated the criteria by which these “right-wing critics” of conservatism are determined. In the quite prescient conclusion of this chapter, Hawley notes that “organized conservatism's weakness will open up a new space for right-wing ideological movements that have long lived on the fringe” (p. 73). This chapter details the purges of members of the John Birch Soc
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William Dorcena Joins Salem Five as Bank is Named Approved Lender for the City of Boston
Salem, Mass., January 28, 2019 – Salem Five announced today that William Dorcena joined its team as a senior loan officer, based out of its Boston office at 52 Congress Street. Dorcena joins the Bank as they are named an approved lender for the City of Boston. Dorcena comes with years of experience working with homebuyers in the city and is skilled in all mortgage programs, including those offered through the Boston Home Center.
Dorcena started his professional career in financial services at John Hancock where he managed notable initiatives for the company, including its sponsorships of the Boston and New York City Marathons. “Will’s commitment to excellence, extensive experience and strong community ties make him the perfect fit to grow our lending presence in Boston,” said Ed McDonald, president of Salem Five Mortgage. “He has the skillset to assist anyone with purchasing a home, from first-time homebuyers to those looking to downsize. His focus is always to ensure that his clients make the best decisions for their needs.”
A former trustee of Roxbury Community College and past board member of the New England Press Association, Dorcena completed his undergraduate studies at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management and earned an MBA in entrepreneurship and global management from Babson College’s Olin Graduate School of Business.
A Dorchester native, Dorcena now resides in Hyde Park with his wife and two children, where he is an active member of the community, coaching youth sports and continuing work with area non-profits.
Salem Five Bancorp is the parent bank holding company of Salem Five (www.salemfive.com), a mutual institution founded in 1855. Salem Five aims to make money less complicated and thereby make customers’ lives simpler and easier by offering sophisticated retail and commercial banking products, personalized service and innovative technology. Salem Five is one of the largest Massachusetts-headquartered banks with $5 billion in assets and 34 retail branches in Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk and Suffolk counties and southern New Hampshire. Divisions include Salem Five Mortgage Company, which has financed more homes than any other Massachusetts bank; Salem Five Investment Services which offers financial and retirement income planning, portfolio review and money management; and Salem Five Insurance Agency, which provides personal and commercial insurance. Salem Five deposits are insured through the FDIC and DIF. Salem Five Mortgage Company’s NMLS # is 4662. Equal Housing Lender. Securities are offered through LPL Financial, member FINRA/SIPC. Life insurance products are offered through LPL Financial or its licensed affiliates. Insurance and investment products are not FDIC insured, not bank guaranteed, may lose value, not a deposit, and not insured by any federal government agency.
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“It was my hardest race ever”, says Julius van den Berg after riding 200 km in the break in last weekend’s Ronde van Drenthe.
"At first I wanted to wait for the final, but once I was at the front of the bunch I could not hold back". It was a long day for him, with both the fast pace and the hard taking him beyond his limits. "I was feeling good, but at the end things got really tough and I was so tired. It was definitely my hardest race ever". Now he faces his first goal of the season, Tour de Normandie, with satisfaction after the first races of the year.
"It was a really hard race but also a good training. We raced again in Rucphen the next day and it was really good to see that my recovery was fast and I was feeling good again. That gave me confidence for Tour de Normandie."
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When Bodies Became Art
Despite his short career, Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), who died an early death at the age of twenty-nine, is regarded as one of the most consequential representatives of Italian post-war art. The artist would have celebrated his eightieth birthday on July 13, 2013. The Städel paid tribute to this key figure of the European avant-garde after 1945 with its exhibition “Piero Manzoni. When Bodies Became Art” to mark the occasion exactly fifty years after the artist’s death. The extensive show was the first Manzoni retrospective ever to be staged in the German-speaking world and the first comprehensive presentation of his oeuvre in a museum outside Italy for more than two decades. The exhibition highlighted the radical character of the artist’s multifaceted position. More than one hundred works from all phases of Manzoni’s career offered complex insights into an oeuvre between Art Informel still persuasive and influential today, and the emergence of a new concept of art, Modernism and neo-avant-garde, art and the everyday world.
Images: Piero Manzoni, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
CURATOR: Dr. Martin Engler, Städel Museum
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Heirloom Natural is designed for quilters that want a soft drape-able batting with a traditional look. Heirloom Natural is made with 100% Natural cotton and is needle punched for additional strength. Shrinkage of 3-5% and may be quilted up to 4" apart.
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If you make Self Assessment payments on account and are due to make a payment in July 2020, then you have the option to defer payment until January 2021. If you are in financial difficulty as a result of COVID-19 and you chose to defer, then you simply don’t pay the amount due in July.
There isn’t an application process – if we don’t receive your payment we will automatically treat it as a deferral. You should remember to cancel any direct debit payments you’ve set up so you don’t pay us accidentally. We will not charge interest or penalties on deferred payments, provided it is paid in full by 31 January 2021.
If you are in financial difficulty due to COVID-19 then you have the option to pay the deferred amount:
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment which enhances the body’s natural ability to heal.
By breathing 21% up to 100% oxygen in a soft or hard chamber that is designed for the whole body, the atmospheric pressure can be increased and controlled.
It is used for a wide variety of treatments either in a clinic environment or for Health at Home.
Under normal circumstances in our day to day living, oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells.
With HBOT, oxygen is dissolved into more areas of the body’s straight away.
The oxygen is dissolved into areas such as the plasma, the cerebral spinal fluid (fluid that surrounds the brain and spine), the central nervous system fluids, the lymph system and the bone.
It can be carried to areas where circulation is diminished or blocked. In this way, extra oxygen can reach all of the damaged tissues and the body can support its own healing process.
The increased oxygen greatly enhances the ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria, reduces swelling and allows new blood vessels to grow more rapidly into the affected areas. It is a simple, non-invasive and painless therapy.
This accelerated healing effect of HBOT is one of the reasons over 600 NFL players use our soft, portable chambers which can travel with them to games.
What are the benefits of HBOT?
It has long been known that healing many areas of the body cannot take place without appropriate oxygen levels in the tissue. Most illnesses and injuries occur, and often linger, at the cellular or tissue level.
In many cases, such as circulatory problems, non-healing wounds and strokes, adequate oxygen cannot reach the damaged area and so the body’s natural healing ability is unable to function properly.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides this extra oxygen naturally and with minimal side effects.
Oxygen therapy improves the quality of life of the patient in many areas when standard medicine is not working.
Many conditions such as stroke, cerebral palsy, head injuries, and chronic fatigue have responded favourably to HBOT.
You can find more information on how Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy works here.
What conditions does HBOT treat?
Hyperbaric oxygen is used to treat all conditions which benefit from increased tissue oxygen availability, as well as infections where it can be used for its antibiotic properties, either as the primary therapy, or in conjunction with other drugs.
Are there different types of chambers?
Yes, there are basically two types of chambers: hard shell and soft shell portable chambers.
Over the past 10 years there have been far more research and studies into the benefits of the soft shelled chambers, far more affordable then the hard shell, with rental options, allows a far greater percentage of the population to have access this emerging and beneficial therapy.
For more information on the types of chamber we supply, see our Models page.
If you have any further questions on Hyperbaric Chambers or Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy you can call us on 01403 740 128. Alternatively you can use our online contact form to contact us.
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1954-1978 Harley Davidson Sportster XLH / XLCH-1000 Parts Catalog Manual
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This is the complete Parts Catalog manual for the 1954-1978 Harley Davidson Sportster XLH / XLCH-1000. This Service Manual has easy-to-read text sections with top quality diagrams and instructions. They are specifically written for the do-it-yourselfer as well as the experienced mechanic. With step by step instruction & highly detailed exploded pictures & diagrams to show you how to complete the required job correctly & efficiently Using.
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A Electric tractor Toyota 4CBTY2 (used) performed with:
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(Victor Valley)– Starting August 20, San Bernardino County Public Health Clinic in Barstow (303 E. Mountain View St., Barstow) will offer COVID-19 testing the first, second and third Thursday of every month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Call 1-800-722-4777 to make an appointment or visit https://sbcovid19.com/testing-sites/ for appointment information.
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The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems initiative has recently developed an online remote sensing app (https://remap-app.org) for making maps of ecosystems, landcover and land change with freely available satellite data.
Remap’s development was funded by Google in an effort to make land cover mapping quick and accessible to everyone. In particular, Nick Murray and colleagues wanted to get users with little background in remote sensing making high quality maps to support ecosystem monitoring programs and conservation, with:
– No need to download spatial data
– No need to think about remote sensing classification methods
– Users simply need to develop a training dataset interactively or by uploading their own data
– Quantify the area of each ecosystem class, area change (from 2000 to 2017)
– Download a GeoTIFF of the classified map
For more info go to the website, launch the app and work your way through the quick-start guide (https://remap-app.org/tutorials).
Also see the preprint paper describing remap in detail (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/11/01/212464).
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Don’t Conceal Your Age. Instead, Slow Aging at the Cellular Level.
For thousands of years, humans have been coming up with new and inventive ways to conceal the effects of aging. And the reason is simple: nobody likes getting old. Fortunately, scientists today know … ( read original story …) | <urn:uuid:73d0f0f6-b2dd-461a-b888-aba1296966a4> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://skincarebizz.com/dont-conceal-your-age-instead-slow-aging-at-the-cellular-level/ | 2020-09-30T10:09:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.916657 | 64 |
A whitewashed waiting room. Metal chairs.
The humming violence of a striplight.
The worst is when your name is called.
No, the worst is when they tell you why you’re here.
Tack-tack went the noise in the darkness,
which I thought was my heart on the mattress
or the clock down below in the kitchen
not the carpenter knocking nails in my coffin.
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. He edited The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry with Andrew Motion, and has published several collections of his own, including The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, A Discoverie of Witches and, most recently, Shingle Street, 2015. He is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, London. | <urn:uuid:d925ba65-28cf-4f04-9ce0-ef8933e8c37e> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://thescores.org.uk/blake-morrison/ | 2020-09-30T10:28:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.929666 | 191 |
Student Review of ‘Breakkup': Relationship Advice App
My friend was telling me that his roommate continually talks about his x-girlfriend. I mean he really whines about her. So being the good friend that I am, I did a little research and located the perfect defense against friends who want nothing more than to chew your ear off about their relationships.
Breakkup is an iPhone app that harnesses the power of community to provide you or your friends with relationship advice.
Breakkup allows you to pose relationship questions to a forum so that other dramatic heart-broken people just like you can answer.
Or perhaps when your friends can’t relate to your relationship issues, or are just tired of hearing about them, it’s nice to be able to turn to complete strangers who aren’t regulars at your favorite watering hole.
- BreakkUp lets you submit your relationship issues and posts them on a “latest drama” lists via the app or the web.
- There are 20,815 other registered users that can access via the web or the app.
- A perfect place to vent about your issues.
- Price: Free
- There isn’t a huge amount of people giving solid advice.
- The app is only available on iPhone.
- You run the risk of outing yourself.
Also, check out Neverlikeditanyway.com
It is a site where you can sell all your old gifts and things from your past relationship(s). I mean just because your heart is broken, doesn’t mean your wallet should be!
Maximillian Garland | Bright Futura Columnist
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Kelly’s parents came to NZ over twenty years ago to escape political persecution and start a new life and hopefully have their children be offered opportunities that weren’t readily available in China and Cambodia. Kelly, in her own words says that "by completing my commerce degree, I feel that I will not only further my career, but I will also pay tribute to my parents who worked very hard for myself and my siblings to live a better life."
Kelly enjoys art, tutoring younger students, photography, computers, and spending time with family and friends. She has always had a passion for business since she was a little girl. She will be the first person in her family to attend university where she will complete a Bachelor of Commerce. She would one day would like to own her own business or add value to another business through her qualifications. | <urn:uuid:c5b007e1-4779-498f-8ef3-3e33c168213a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.firstfoundation.org.nz/scholarship-student/kelly-zhuang | 2020-09-30T10:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.985313 | 170 |
Can you create a new opera...
- Education Professionals
African singing is explored in this Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 secondary music video.
Fronted by presenter and composer Howard Goodall, this installment focuses on African singing, with performances from Formby High School.
African singing is often based on simple, repetitive structures which are fun to sing and easy to teach to new singers.
Steve Cook, at Formby High School, presents the popular Afrika Mundo choir, composed of older students, and they sing songs from Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Many of the students in Afrika Mundo are singing leaders and perform and run workshops with primary schools too.
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It occurs to me that some of the major differences between Newman and Manning’s later careers can already be glimpsed in their early lives. Specifically, in the reasons they converted.
Cardinal Manning converted after Newman when, in 1850, the Privy Council forced the Church of England to ordain an Evangelical who denied the salvific efficacy of Baptism. This move so shocked Manning that he immediately saw that the Church of England was essentially a political construct without any share of the Apostolic inheritance. It could not resist the demands of the state. And thus, he betook himself to Rome.
Newman became a great theologian; Manning became a great ecclesiastical politician. Newman suffered many troubles with controversies and the censure of the authorities; Manning labored as part of the Catholic establishment and did more than anyone else in England (and, due to his role at Vatican I, arguably the world) to advance the cause of Ultramontanism.
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The lions, leopards and monkeys all show that it is truly Spring with mothers and babies playing with each other.
Just so you don’t worry too much about my safety, the elephants I photographed have been rescued and are habituated to people. They are now free.
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A sense of purpose in life is what keeps us focused. Whether it’s our careers, our children, or our hobbies, there is a driving force that carries us day to day. As we age, our children grow up, and we may retire from our career, leaving many with a sense of loss of purpose. Silver Comet Village in Powder Springs, Georgia, believes retirement should be whatever you want it to be. Life is a journey. Whether you’re looking for an active, exciting retirement experience, or a relaxed, slow ride through retirement, Silver Comet Village wants to help you live purposefully.
Create a Bucket List
What are your “someday” goals? The experiences or “to-do” list items that you’ve been waiting your whole life to complete. Some people may have simple retirement goals like travel more or relocate to a sunnier state, while others, like Anne Lorimor, dream bigger! Anne is an Arizonian who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro… twice!
Anne embarked on her first expedition up the tallest freestanding mountain in the world at the age of 85. She successfully climbed the mountain, but then discovered another older woman had taken her title as the oldest woman to climb the mountain. So, a few years later, at the age of 89, she successfully climbed the mountain to become the oldest person to reach the top yet again!
Your bucket list goals don’t have to be as extreme as Anne’s, but the first step to discovering a purposeful lifestyle is to understand what really matters to you.
What Does Purposeful Living Look Like for You?
A U.S. Health and Retirement Study found that a stronger purpose in life was associated with decreased mortality. However, there is no cookie-cutter way to define purposeful living. It’s based on each person’s history, preferences, and passions. As you reflect on past stories or experience new things, ask yourself these three questions:
- Did I learn something new?
- Did I help others?
- Did I love what I was doing?
As Mark Twain once said, “the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why."
Purposeful Living at Silver Comet Village
The search for a purposeful lifestyle may leave you wondering how you can craft meaningful experiences and memories during your retirement years. Silver Comet Village is a retirement community that is dedicated to providing our residents with a truly unique and eventful retirement experience.
Our community in Powder Springs, Georgia, hosts frequent engaging physical, spiritual, and mental activities; we are determined to deliver the retirement our residents seek and deserve. We are also conveniently located near the Silver Comet Trail, a trail that stretches over 60 miles. If you’re seeking a retirement full of engagement, ample activities, social opportunities, and a true sense of community, Silver Comet Village may be the answer for you and your retirement.
Above all else, Silver Comet Village recognizes the value of sharing stories to promote purposeful living. For this reason, we are embarking on a journey to collect these stories and compile them in a way that each resident will have a priceless legacy to give to their loved ones.
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Apostle Paul Children's Activities
The Apostle Paul wrote most of the New Testament, which makes him a popular Bible study topic. The information on Paul’s life is plentiful and the New Testament s full of his adventures and epistles, which are letters. To make him easier for children to study, Paul’s life can be divided into several parts.
1 Paul's Conversion
Acts Chapter 7 begins the story of Paul’s conversion from Saul, a persecutor of Christians to Paul, an apostle of Christ. The study of Paul’s conversion is a good subject for children in upper elementary through middle school. To guide a student in the study of Paul’s transformation, instruct him to locate Acts Chapters 7, 9, 13, 22, and 26 in the Bible. Have the children read these chapters and fill in a “tell It your way” worksheet as they read. Use each question to lead a discussion about Paul.
2 Paul is Shipwrecked
Acts 27 and 28 tell how Paul became shipwrecked while being held prisoner on a boat that was battered by a fierce storm. Paul and his party were washed ashore. To make this story more enjoyable for young children, read Acts 27 and 28 using a children’s Bible. Reinforce the message by teaching the children the song “The Shipwreck” to the tune of “We Have an Anchor.”
3 Paul's Journeys
Paul is known for his travels. He believed God was sending him on long journeys to share the gospel and start new churches. Acts Chapter 16 gives details of one of Paul’s difficult journeys. To remind students of Paul’s many missionary journeys, have each child make paper “go tell others” suitcases. Instruct them to fill the paper suitcases with pictures of things that they’d need to take with them on a trip. Use this craft to start a discussion about what Paul might have packed and why.
4 Paul The Prisoner
Paul was imprisoned and brutally beaten for preaching Christianity. He wrote most of his optimistic epistles while in prison. He was joined in prison by other Christians, including his traveling companion, Silas. Acts 19 tells of Paul and Silas singing hymns as they were shackled and reeling from beatings. According to the Scripture, an earthquake damaged the prison and freed them. Soon after, the jailer and his household converted to Christianity. In addition to, or in place of reading Acts 19 with the class, assign roles and have the children perform the skit “Paul and Silas in Prison.”
- 1 “The Holy Bible, New International Version”; 1996
- 2 Faith Kids Sunday School Bible Bytes: Saul to Paul
- 3 The Garden of Praise: The Shipwreck
- 4 Danielle’s Place: Bible Crafts and Activities for Sunday School
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I would be very grateful if you could spend a little time (about 10 minutes) completing our new on-line survey concerning people’s perception of animals and their intelligence and emotions. You will first be asked to complete a few questions related to your age, educational background, diet and pet ownership, however this information will only be used in the context of the survey and will remain completely confidential. You will then be asked to rate 35 images of alien creatures on how likely you think each creature is capable of intelligence, experiencing emotion and feeling pain.
The link to the survey is below. We are constructing a version for kids which will become active in a couple of days.
Please ask your friends and colleagues if they would consider completing the survey as we need to collect as many responses as possible.
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Another month forgotten. My apologies! What have you been reading? Hopefully the (continued) lock down in some parts of the world (US, at least) have meant you have time for reading, and the warmer weather means you can do so outside.
I usually split what I’m reading into business, technical and fun books, but you are welcome to post however you’d like!
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I have completed BCA(3 years) + MCA(2 Years) from IGNOU in India, I am on H4 and planning to pursue MS in Computer Scince or MIS
Do I have to appear for GRE & TOEFL both?
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Liberia: Ex-TWP Political Leader Faults 54th Legislature for Nation’s Current Economic Woes
Monrovia — Ahead of the much-publicized December 30 protest, the former Standard Bearer of the former ruling Grand old True Whig Party is calling on all political party leaders to join him in preserving Liberia’s costly and hard-earned democracy by publicly discouraging their supporters’ participation in such protest.
Mr. Eric W. Olson wants organizers of the “Weah Step Down campaign” to utilize the democratic process available in solving the down trend of the economy and the hardship being faced by Liberians.
Mr. Olson, further stated that with the level of growing economic tension, delays in the already harmonized salary payments for civil servants, compounded by the shortage of Liberian dollars banknotes, such protest seeking the step down of the President is dangerous and undemocratic.
He believes that the legitimate democratic process to address these issues has not been pursued.
“If our fellow compatriots under the banner of Council of Patriots (COP), really want to show their patriotism. They should join me in petitioning the voice of the people through the National Legislature, who is constitutionally empowered to rein in the Executive Branch and address all these issues instead of reverting to a protest that has the propensity of disrupting our already fluid and volatile democracy” the TWP former political leader emphasized.
Mr. Olson expressed extreme disenchantment in the Legislators for been so quiet and failing the people they represent by holding the Executive accountable.
He furthered that the cardinal functions of the lawmakers who are the direct representatives of the people is to check-mate the Executive, something the TWP former political leader asserted has failed to do.
According to him the legislators, who are the people’s deputies, have failed to inform the citizens on the prevailing economic crisis that has created serious tension among ordinary citizens.
Mr.Eric Olson said: “There have been no public hearings on the economic crisis, none on the lack of the Liberian Dollars in circulation, and none on the delays in civil servant salaries payment. These conditions created serious hardship for all of us, and most dreadfully, nothing on why President Weah has given no explanation of what his government has been doing to resolve these issues. No wonder, COP has taken this stance to protest”.
The former Political Leader of the Party which ruled Liberia for over a century noted that while it is right of the citizens to assemble peacefully, the volatility of the country’s situations makes it counterproductive.
“(Like the rice riot of 1979) and stated, “Not everything that is RIGHT is EXPEDIENT”. It is our appeal for COP to call-off the protest and its intent as we together pursue the most appropriate medium to resolve these situations” Mr. Olson recounted.
The former TWP Leader then called on all citizens especially all opposition leaders to join him in his effort at discouraging the staging of a demonstration which could jeopardize the fragile peace of the country and the region at-large.
Liberia’s Justice Ministry recently warned organizers of the December 30 “Weah-Step-Down” Campaign that the plan is “unconstitutional” and portends an act of treason.
In a December 2, 2019 letter addressed to the Council of Patriots, Minister Frank Musah Dean, argued that the planned protest is in violation of the law.
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China is making preliminary preparations to send a manned mission to the Moon, a space official said.
The project is expected to receive government approval and funding shortly, said Yang Liwei, Deputy Director General of China Manned Space Agency, who in 2003 became the first Chinese astronaut to travel to space, reports Efe.
The mission will be the culmination of China's two ongoing space programmes, the Shenzhou manned missions and the Chang'e lunar probes.
Nine men and seven women from China have flown on the Shenzhou missions, whose main objective is to set up a permanent space station.
The next mission, Shenzhou - 12, will be launched in 2018.
China has already sent three missions to the Moon (the last one in 2013 was the country's first mission to land on the Moon's surface) and it will send the next two missions in 2017 and 2018.
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Effect of intrinsic rewards on task performance of employees: Mediating role of motivation
International Journal of Organizational Leadership,
2015, Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 33-46
AbstractThe basic purpose of this study was to examine the effect of reward management system, especially intrinsic rewards on task performance with the mediating role of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation of employees working in the banks in the capital of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. The secondary purpose of this study was to explore what level of performance these employees demonstrate towards their organizations when they are rewarded intrinsically and when they are motivated due to these reward management system accordingly. In this study, we collected data through self-administered questionnaires applying correlational explanatory research design. We distributed 300 questionnaires among which 290 were returned resulting in a response rate of 96%. The analysis of the data revealed that intrinsic rewards have positive impact on task performance of employees working in banks and motivation and its dimensions, i.e., intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and job satisfaction mediated this relationship. Considering the importance of appreciations received by bankers in the form of rewards and their effect on extra role performance and sophisticated management, policy makers should take necessary steps for improving the reward management system which will increase the task performance of employees because they will be motivated by these performance appraisal techniques.
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Kalamazoo Brothers Take 3rd In ‘Michigan Trout Addicts’ Tourney
An annual trout fishing tournament across Michigan was held over the weekend and two brothers from the Kalamazoo area came home as the 3rd place winners. Chris and Tim Bachman landed some big catches as their high ranking in the Michigan Trout Addicts tourney included their top three catches of 18.5", 21.5" and 22" for a total of 62", just 8" less than the 1st place winner 'River Reapers' who won the tournament at 70". Team 'M&M' finished in 2nd place at 68".
The Bachman brothers have been fishing together since their childhood days growing up in Kalamazoo County's Cooper Township. In recent years, they started competing in several trout fishing tournaments. Part of what makes their partnership unique is the production of their own fishing accessories under their business name 'Bachman Spinners' which are what they have used in competition, including this past weekend's tournament in the U.P.'s Schoolcraft County. All their fish were caught on a spinner they call the 'Gold Hoghunters'.
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The LEGO Group is channeling up to US$400 million over three years into accelerating its sustainability and social responsibility efforts.
As part of a push to make packaging sustainable by 2025, LEGO will phase out single-use plastic bags from its boxes. Starting next year, the company is planning to trial Forest Stewardship Council-certified recyclable paper bags (pictured) rather than individual plastic packaging.
LEGO plans on investing some of the $400 million into creating more sustainable products, with the goal of achieving zero-waste and carbon-neutral operations.
The company plans to divert any waste away from landfills by 2025, as well as lowering drop water use by 10% by 2022.
The new funds will cover both long-term and ongoing costs. In a statement, CEO Niels Christiansen said LEGO “cannot lose sight of the fundamental challenges facing future generations. It’s critical we take urgent action now to care for the planet and future generations.”
Since LEGO’s products have remained largely unchanged (bricks made today fit those made more than 40 years ago, according to LEGO), the company is putting new programs in place to encourage people to donate their used bricks to children in need. The LEGO Replay initiative was piloted in the US in 2019, and will be rolled out in two additional unnamed countries by the end of 2022. | <urn:uuid:42a464b8-4bd1-4a9b-aed8-52874c047923> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://kidscreen.com/2020/09/15/lego-to-invest-us400-million-on-sustainability/ | 2020-09-30T09:39:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.947934 | 283 |
Premium automatic opening, eight panel sports umbrella with a strong 190T showerproof polyester canopy which has 76cm ribs. It has a windproof eight rib fibreglass frame and a fibreglass shaft with a soft EVA hand grip. Other features include plastic tips, a Velcro tie and the option of full colour sublimation branding on the white panels.
White/Orange, White/Pink, White/Red, White/Bright Green, White/Dark Green, White/Light Blue, White/Royal Blue, White/Navy, White/Purple, White/Black.
Dia 1300mm (open) x L 1025mm (includes handle).
: 250mm x 150mm (one colour).
: White panels only - 250mm x 150mm.
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Carton Dimensions: 102 cm x 22 cm x 18 cm
Carton Cube: 0.04 m³
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If one side of 7-mile Isle La Motte — the Goodsell Fossil Preserve — is evidence of evolution, the other is faith-based: St. Anne’s Shrine attracts thousands of pilgrims every year. Fifty-seven years after Samuel de Champlain “discovered” it, in 1609, Fort St. Anne became Vermont’s first settlement. The first Mass was celebrated at the site of the shrine — now a rustic, open-air chapel in a spectacular natural setting. Don’t miss the roomful of discarded crutches. Summertime services are conducted Saturday evenings at 7 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 9 and 10:30 a.m. | <urn:uuid:25f0d810-bfc8-49b6-82d3-72f13c2b7625> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/isle-la-motte-st-annes-shrine/Location?oid=2244868 | 2020-09-30T09:21:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.932734 | 146 |
We used graphical user interface–based automated analytical tools from Next Gen Diagnostics (Mountain View, CA) and 1928 Diagnostics (Gothenburg, Sweden) to analyze whole genome sequence (WGS) data from 102 unique blood culture isolates of Staphylococcus aureus to predict antimicrobial susceptibly, with results compared to those of phenotypic susceptibility testing. Of 916 isolate/antibiotic combinations analyzed using the Next Gen Diagnostics tool, there were 9 discrepancies between WGS predictions and phenotypic susceptibility/resistance, including 8 for clindamycin and 1 for minocycline. Of 612 isolate/antibiotic combinations analyzed using the 1928 Diagnostics tool, there were 13 discrepancies between WGS predictions and phenotypic susceptibility/resistance, including 9 for clindamycin, 3 for trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole, and 1 for rifampin. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was not assessed by Next Gen Diagnostics, and minocycline was not assessed by 1928 Diagnostics. There was complete concordance between phenotypic susceptibility/resistance and genotypic prediction of susceptibility/resistance using both analytical platforms for oxacillin, vancomycin, and mupirocin, as well as by the Next Gen Diagnostics analytical tool for levofloxacin (the 1928 Diagnostics tool did not assess levofloxacin). These results suggest that, from a performance standpoint, with some caveats, automatic bioinformatics tools may be acceptable to predict susceptibility and resistance to a panel of antibiotics for S. aureus.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Journal||Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease|
|State||Published - Jul 2020|
- Staphylococcus aureus
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)
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Pearson Allied Health Services is a leading private disability-services provider and with the continued rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, it has never been a more exciting time to consider a career in the disabilities sector.
We recognise that our staff are one of our greatest assets and are proud of the fantastic work they do and the positive outcomes they assist our participants to achieve. At Pearson Allied Health Services, we pride ourselves on having a happy and inclusive work culture as well as providing a comprehensive staff induction and professional development program.
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Breastfeeding for ≥12 mo is recommended for optimal infant nutrition but may hold maternal benefits as well. Indeed, lactation has been associated with lower long-term risk of diabetes in the mother, but the mechanism by which it imparts sustained postweaning effects on glucose tolerance remains unclear. In this context, we postulated that lactation could potentially induce postweaning beneficial effects on glucose tolerance by modifying the natural history of insulin sensitivity and/or pancreatic β-cell function over time. Thus, in this study, we evaluated the relationships between duration of lactation [≤3 mo (n = 70), 3-12 mo (n = 140), and ≥12 mo (n = 120)] and trajectories of insulin sensitivity/resistance, β-cell function, and glycemia over the first 3 yr postpartum in a cohort of 330 women comprising the full spectrum of glucose tolerance in pregnancy, who underwent serial metabolic characterization, including oral glucose tolerance tests, at 3 mo, 1 yr, and 3 yr postpartum. The prevalence of dysglycemia (pre-diabetes/diabetes) at 3 yr postpartum was lower in women who breastfed for ≥12 mo (12.5%) than in those who breastfed for ≤3 mo (21.4%) or for 3-12 mo (25.7%)(overall P = 0.028). On logistic regression analysis, lactation for ≥12 mo independently predicted a lower likelihood of prediabetes/diabetes at 3 yr postpartum (OR = 0.37, 95% CI 0.18-0.78, P = 0.009). Notably, lactation for ≥12 mo predicted lesser worsening of insulin sensitivity/resistance (P < 0.0001), fasting glucose (P < 0.0001), and 2-h glucose (P = 0.011) over 3 yr compared with lactation ≤3 mo but no differences in β-cell function (P ≥ 0.37). It has thus emerged that adherence to current breastfeeding recommendations reduces future diabetic risk through sustained postweaning effects on insulin sensitivity/resistance but not β-cell function.
Keywords: breastfeeding; diabetes; insulin sensitivity; lactation; prediabetes.
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8” FBS Coil (Includes carbon fibre stem)
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We study how personal experiences affect individual risk taking. To separate the intertwining effects of personal experiences and wealth changes, our identification strategy relies on the decision to keep unexpected inheritances of risky assets. Experience derives from investments in banks that defaulted in the aftermath of the financial crisis. To differentiate the effect of personal experiences, we classify the degrees of experiences into first-hand experiences from personal losses, second-hand experiences from the losses of close family members, and third-hand experiences from living in municipalities where banks defaulted. We find that third-hand experiences result in marginally lower risk taking. Second-hand experiences have a relatively stronger negative effect, whereas the effect of first-hand experiences on risk taking is strongly negative. Overall, our results demonstrate that personal experiences aside from changes in wealth explain substantial heterogeneity in individuals’ risk taking.
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|Publication status||Published - 2016|
|Event||The 43rd European Finance Association Annual Meeting (EFA 2016) - BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway|
Duration: 17 Aug 2016 → 20 Aug 2016
Conference number: 43
|Conference||The 43rd European Finance Association Annual Meeting (EFA 2016)|
|Location||BI Norwegian Business School|
|Period||17/08/2016 → 20/08/2016|
- Risk taking
- Financial crisis
- Household finance
Andersen, S., Hanspal, T., & Meisner Nielsen, K. (2016). Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Do Personal Experiences or Wealth Changes Affect Risk Taking?. Paper presented at The 43rd European Finance Association Annual Meeting (EFA 2016), Oslo, Norway. | <urn:uuid:b35022d3-7e65-40cb-a7db-980db9d8e161> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://research.cbs.dk/en/publications/once-bitten-twice-shy-do-personal-experiences-or-wealth-changes-a | 2020-09-30T09:43:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.819432 | 345 |
What is Roll Racing?
Roll Racing is the latest form of Motorsport event to hit Australia, catering for a recreational Motorsport customer who likes to drive their car and have fun in a safe and controlled environment without the fear of being busted on the street.
The concept is that you race another vehicle form a rolling start of around 40klms/hr. You set off from the marshaling point and in the first area before the lights you get up to 40klm/hr, once the lights turn from orange to green you race along the front straight to the finish line about 250mtrs away to see who has the quickest car, then you can return back to the marshaling area and you can race someone else and keep going all night.
The secret to Roll Racing is not to have the most HP, biggest tyre or fattest wallet (although all those things help) it’s to have a well set up car that can get the power to the ground and use it correctly. At events around the country some of quickest cars there have been 400hp Corolla’s, 500 HP Rotors and VL Commodores who all have extremely well set up street cars, which they drive to Roll Racing and drive home, true street cars. Roll Racing is open to all types of vehicles from domestics, imports and super cars all battling it out under lights to see who really has a fast car.
The track opens at 6.30pm and we will run as an open track were you can keep coming back and lining someone else up to have another run. Towards the end of the night around 9.30 to 10pm we will run an eliminator to see which car is the fastest on the night and invite the 2 cars in the final back for the next event where they will receive a VIP package to the next event where possible they will be given the 1st and 2nd garages so everyone knows they are the ones to beat.
We limit the number of Roll Racing entries to 150 at Sydney and 110 at Perth per night to ensure that everyone gets as many runs as possible.
How much does it cost?
Roll Racing entries at Sydney Motorsport Park start from $65 per entry which includes Vehicle entry + Driver Entry + Tunnel access + support vehicle, at Perth from $75
You also require a RACERS Licence which gives the entrant personal liability coverage under RACERS insurance but does NOT cover your vehicle information for details on benefits included with your RACERS licence can be found HERE You can get a Day licence for $20 or a yearly licence for $75.
Passengers can ride along at Roll Racing and passenger bands can be bought on the day from the drivers briefing area for $20. You will need to sign the waiver and have the same safety gear as the driver, Helmet – enclosed shoes – non flammable neck to ankle to wrist clothing. You will need to be over 18 years of age to ride along as a passenger. If you are entered as a driver in the Roll Racing event you can also ride along as a passenger which is included in your $65 entry fee.
Things to check over on your car before competing
Make sure your car is in good working order and fit for the purpose of the event. Make sure that your brakes are in good condition, that your suspension (bushings, ball joints) are in good condition as well. Prior to competing your car will be checked for suitability.
Clean out your car interior of loose objects that may move around during hard maneuvering. Fuel, Tyres, Tools, Water bottles, CDs, sunglasses, are all things that could cause issue when Roll Racing so remove them from your car so they don’t get in the way.
What about insurance?
As part of your entry fee it will give the entrant personal liability coverage under RACERS insurance but does NOT cover your vehicle. Coverage for your vehicle depends entirely on your own insurance policy and you should ask your insurance provider if you have any questions. Generally, insurance companies will NOT cover your car for damage while participating in a Motorsports event.
- Registration Office open 5.30pm
- Gates open at 6pm
- Drivers briefings start at 6.10pm – if you are late we will have rolling breifings through the night
- Roll Racing circuit open 6.30pm – 9.30pm
- Roll Racing Eliminator 9.30 -10.30pm. Pit exit closes at 9.30pm so you need to be in the marshalling lanes beforhand
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Alexey Ikonomou is a Creative Director with Ashton Design in Baltimore
Alexey Ikonomou has acquired a diverse professional background and a wealth of design experience. As a creative director, he excels at team building through inspirational creative guidance. His approach to projects starts with a holistic understanding of the overall goals followed by the implementation of a plan for strategic differentiation.
Alexey deepened his expertise in establishing brand strategy during his time at Atlanta-based Antista Fairclough, where he worked on brand development and packaging design for Fortune 500 clients such as Anheuser-Busch, British Petroleum, and Gillette. He furthered his appreciation for industrial and architectural design as environmental graphic designer at the global architectural firm RTKL, where he worked on numerous projects in the U.S. as well as Great Britain, Korea, Portugal, and Dubai.
Since joining Ashton Design, Alexey Ikonomou has been a design lead on prominent identity and environmental graphics projects in mixed-use development and retail projects, universities and private schools, residential, hospitality, sports venues and stadiums such as Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Dodger Stadium.
He holds dual bachelor degrees in business/marketing and mass communications/advertising from Towson University and received his graduate degree in graphic design at Portfolio Center in Atlanta, where he received the prestigious national design award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD). Alexey Ikonomou serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Art and Design at Towson University.
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Choose a Spoon or Spatula or set of two. Made from the locally harvested Tamarisk plant, an invasive to out Utah riverbanks. Its beautifully grained wood is light and sturdy, great for heavy cooking or just spooning up cheerios. Size is 12" in length for spatulas and spoons. Baby spoons are about 6" long with a bite sized bowl. Hand wash with soap and water. Oil when dry. | <urn:uuid:6e28f566-7e78-4b47-98df-585c2148ea12> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://shop.triassicstone.com/products/tamarisk-utensils | 2020-09-30T08:34:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.90921 | 90 |
Laptop starts with random characters on the screen
Laptop displays some random characters on the screen with initial manufacturer’s logo. Random characters are scattered all over the screen and appear as soon as you start the laptop. You can distinguish vertical rows or random characters.
1. Shared video memory failure.
2. Video card failure.
3. LCD screen failure.
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Today’s episode is extremely powerful and motivating. Our guest is Tal Gilboa – we met her recently on Koh Phangan in Thailand, and her story was incredible to discuss in person.
Tal is an Animal Liberation Activist, she founded the Israeli Animal Liberation Front, and she was the winner of Israel’s 2014 Big Brother television show.
On top of all that, she’s a mother of 3!
Tal is an absolute powerhouse, holds nothing back, her approach to vegan activism is hardline, and she is one strong force to be reckoned with!
Her life is fascinating and our conversation was something we didn’t expect.
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Bennett Lareau-Meredith is a nurse practitioner who cares for patients with a variety of reproductive health needs. They have a particular interest and expertise in caring for transgender and nonbinary people, as well as other members of underserved and marginalized communities. Lareau-Meredith provides a wide range of gynecologic services, from routine preventive care to insertion of IUDs and Nexplanon (a contraceptive implant) to endometrial biopsy (a diagnostic procedure in which a tissue sample is taken from the uterine lining) and colposcopy (a magnified examination of the cervix after an abnormal pap smear). Their approach to care is patient-centered and trauma-informed (rooted in an understanding of the possible influences of an individual's or community's trauma history).
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Situated in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala holds a special spot in the heart of mountain lovers. With a heavy Tibetan influence, this small town from Himachal Pradesh houses several followers of Buddhism. The reason this town is so popular among tourists all over the world is not because of the snow-capped peaks of the Kangra Valley, but because it also displays the colonial influence quite vividly. If you are planning a vacation to Dharamshala but do not want to stay in the city then this list of resorts near Dharamshala will take away all your worries regarding the stay.
6 Resorts Near Dharamshala
So, here are the best resorts near Dharamshala that offer not only a good stay but are also located in the most gorgeous settings. Keep scrolling to check out!
1. Gagan Resorts
Gagan resorts are located quite close to the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. It is quite beautiful and situated amid the gorgeous mountains of the Kangra valleys. You will be able to enjoy the spectacular views of the glorious mountains from every corner of the property. The rooms of this resort are accompanied by desks, private bathrooms, individual balconies, and sitting areas as well. You will not only be able to access free wi-fi connections but also get a free private parking space as well. The resort also has an in-house restaurant that allows you to enjoy delicious meals prepared by the chefs.
Location: Village, Dharmkot, Dharamshala
Price: INR 2,500 for a super deluxe double room
2. Camp Dharamshala Resort
Camp Dharamshala resort is the place to be if you want to live in a combination of natural beauty as well as luxuries. The resort offers luxurious tents to its guests who not only have sophisticated and comfortable beds, but they also come with individual bathrooms with all the modern amenities. Each tent also comes with a sitting area as well. Not only will you get to rent a car from the resort, but you will be able to hire bikes as well. You will be able to enjoy continental breakfasts during your stay in the resort. As the property is located amid the natural ambiance of Dharamshala, you will be able to see the views of the mountains quite easily.
Location: Lunta , Khanayara road Khanyara Road, Dharamshala
Price: INR 4,500 for a deluxe double room
3. Resort Nibbana
Nibbana is such a resort in Dharamshala that you will be able to experience the beauty of Dharamshala quite easily genuinely. All the rooms of the resort come with flat-screen tv sets, private bathrooms with showers and free toiletries, wardrobes, hairdryers, electric kettles, and other essential amenities as well. You can taste the delicious continental breakfast offered every morning during your stay in the resort. The resort allows its guests to rent bikes and cycles so that they could explore the area quite quickly. Apart from all the fantastic points, this resort also comes with a garden and an open terrace as well.
Location: Khanyara Road Village Lunta, Dharamshala
Price: INR 7,700 for a standard king room
4. Resort Prakriti Aalay
If you are interested in experiencing the authentic Dharamshala, Prakriti Aalay resorts are the best for you. Not only does the resort offer 24-hour front desk service, but it also allows its guests to use the garden and the terrace that is present on the premises of its property as well. All the rooms of the resort come with wardrobes, desks, individual bathrooms and balconies, sitting areas, and other essential features as well. As the property has an in-house restaurant, you will be able to enjoy a hearty vegetarian breakfast as well during your stay out there. You can relax in the playground of the resort or play indoor games during your stay.
Location: Sukkar Khas Adjoining Rivulet Manooni, Dharamshala
Price: INR 6,800 for a deluxe room
5. Resort Dev Bhoomi Farms
Dev Bhoomi Farms is one of the unique resorts near Dharamshala. This property offers individual cottages to its guests. All the cabins come with attached bathrooms with showers and free toiletries and other essential features as well. Not only will you get to access free wi-fi connection, but get a free private parking space as well.
Location: Village Patni, Passsu P.O Dari, Near Dari Ground, Dharamshala
Price: INR 6,400 for a one-bedroom villa
6. Asia Health Resorts
Asia health resorts are quite popular in Dharamshala as it is also a spa. You can play Billiards or engage in a game at PlayStation 3 during your stay in the resort. The rooms are accompanied with necessary amenities as well. You will be able to enjoy the fabulous dishes prepared by the in-house restaurant of the resort named Reflection.
Location: Strawberry Hill, Near Dal Lake, Dharamshala
Price: INR 7,500 for a super deluxe double room
All these resorts near Dharamshala are beautiful and set in amazing locations. Not only they offer cozy stay, but the hospitality provided by them is impressive as well. You will have a great time in any one of these resorts as they are luxurious and sophisticated. So, don’t wait for these resorts to get booked and plan your vacation to Dharamshala now with TravelTriangle.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Resorts Near Dharamshala
A. Some of the popular resorts near Dharamshala are Himgiri Resorts, Rakkh resort, Gagan resorts, and many more.
A. If you visit Dharamshala with your family, you will have no problem finding the resorts which are perfect for you. Some of the most famous resorts are Sterling Dharamshala resort, Pride Surya mountain resort, Wildleaf Anupam resort, and many more.
A. HPCA stadium is one of the most-visited places in Dharamshala. Hence there are several resorts located in the area of the HPCA stadium in Dharamshala. Some of them are Camp Lungta resort, Dev Bhoomi farms resort, Prakriti Aalay resort, and many more.
A. Unmarried and newly-married couples quite often visit Dharamshala. Some of the resorts that are perfect for couples are Camp Dharamshala resort, Asia health resorts, and many more.
A. Even though the resorts in Dharamshala vary from one another on several aspects. The average price for a retreat in Dharamshala per night is around INR 4500.
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Absolute Return + Alpha (AR) was launched in September 2009, as a subsidiary of financial publisher Euromoney Institutional Investor.AR was formed when two magazines, Alpha and Absolute Return, were combined. The magazine publishes both online and print content. Its main focus is the hedge fund industry and its 3,500 fund managers, but the magazine also covers significant financial events and global research. The magazine features hedge fund rankings according to assets under management rankings, an annual ranking of the 25 highest paid hedge fund managers, and monthly tables of U.S. hedge fund performance data.
American singer Selena has released five studio albums, three live albums, one soundtrack and twenty-one compilation albums. Credited for elevating a music genre into the mainstream market, Selena remains the best-selling Tejano recording artist whose posthumous releases continue to outsell those of living musicians. As of 2015, the singer has sold 60 million copies worldwide, and was named the "Top Latin Artist of the '90s" and "Best-selling Latin Artist of the Decade" by Billboard magazine. In 1995, Selena was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame, the Hard Rock Cafe's Hall of Fame, the South Texas Music Hall of Fame, and the Tejano Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Selena's career began as lead vocalist of Los Dinos in 1980. She signed with EMI Latin nine years later as a solo artist though her band continued to tour with her. She released her self-titled debut album that same year, which peaked at number seven on the U.S. BillboardRegional Mexican Albums chart. With Selena, the singer outsold other female Tejano artists. She released her second album Ven Conmigo in October 1990; it peaked at number three on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. Ven Conmigo was later certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 50,000 units, the first recording by a female Tejano artist to do so. As of 2010, Ven Conmigo had sold 500,000 copies in the United States. According to music critics, her next recording Entre a Mi Mundo (1992), was the "breakthrough album" of her musical career. The album and its lead single, "Como la Flor", helped launch the singer's career in Mexico.Entre a Mi Mundo peaked at number one on the Regional Mexican Albums chart for eight consecutive months; and was certified 6×platinum by the RIAA, signifying shipments of 600,000 units. Entre a Mi Mundo became the first Tejano recording by a female artist to sell over 300,000 copies.
Magic: The Gathering Limited Edition is the first Magic: The Gathering card set. It premiered in a limited release at Origins Game Fair in 1993, with a general release that August. The initial print run of 2.6 million cards sold out quickly, and a new printing run was released in October 1993. These two runs are known as Limited Edition Alpha and Limited Edition Beta, or just Alpha and Beta for short. Although Alpha and Beta are referred to as different sets by some, officially they are the same set; Wizards of the Coast had expected that people wouldn't necessarily be able to tell the two press runs apart. Beta fixed a number of misprints and errors on cards. The printer accidentally used different corner rounding dies for the second run, resulting in Alpha cards being noticeably distinct in shape and appearance from Beta cards and all subsequent cards. The Beta printing also included a revised rulebook with a number of clarifications, although creator Richard Garfield's short fiction "Worzel's Tale" was removed to make room.
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The eve of the apocalypse brings a new era for Bass Science. An electronicproduction unit whose beats bounce on the cusp of the future, Bass Sciencecreates diverse productions that are lit with innovation and laden with the low endfor a fresh and far-reaching musical experience.
Bass Science is Mattb, a prolific producer whose eclectic sound has beencultivated from a wide range of influences, from his homes in London and Japan to Los Angeles, and many places between. Also the brainsbehind the record label Made In Glitch, Mattb is a beat pioneer who has madepowerful contributions to Japan’s glitch hop scene as well as the global bassmusic movement.
The newest sounds from Bass Science encompass thisdivergent world, fusing glitch hop, IDM and dub into a heady electronic blend thatilluminates brainwaves and fires the dance floor into action.From filthy, floor-slapping bangers to fast-hitting funk and deep, dubby mind-benders, Bass Science has won fans worldwide as well as the support of suchtastemakers as Mary Anne Hobbs and Annie Nightingale.
Touring through Asia,Europe and the U.S. at both large festivals and influential club nights, In 2007 Mattb.founded MadeInGlitch, the label collective started producing successful parties throughout Tokyo,bringing international artists to Japan such as edIT (Glitch Mob), Megasoid, Mochipet.
Made In Glitch can be without a question regarded as one of the first and most influential record label dealing with bass music: over the years the label released music produced by artists such as Salva, Bass Science, Nasty Nasty, Ill Gates, Unlimited Gravity, Gladkill, Samples, DEV79.
Mattb has been working in the advertising for the Music Industry since 2003 providing project management and production music for Oakley Sportwear, Mizuho Corporate Bank, The american Motorcycle Association, Yamaha, Pegeout Japan, amongst others, collaborating also with Bruce Dunlop Associates in Sydney on the award/winning Legends Are Born FIFA WORLD CUP 2006 promotional campaign for Starhub Television Asia.
This very last project included music production and sound designing for a series of seven commericals and won several collaborative awards including the PROMAX ASIA BEST IDENT and BEST ANIMATION awards in 2005 .
During 2008/2009 Mattb worked with Square Enix on an official Final Fantasy Remix projectOver the past years he has dazzled crowds at distinguished festivals and clubs from the United Kingdom’s Glade Festival to Los Angeles’s Low End Theory, with gigs spanning China, Japan, Europe and US and Canada along with sharing stages with STS9, Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing, Elliot Lipp, edIT, Zeds Dead, Eoto, Mochipet, Robot Koch, SI-BEGG, Richrad Devine and Hatcha.
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British weapons sold to Saudi Arabia to use in Yemen have been declared illegal by the court of appeal because of their inidiscriminate nature which have contributed to the deaths of thousands of Yemeni civilians, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has announced.
"Campaigners have welcomed a Court of Appeal decision to overturn a 2017 High Court judgment which allowed the UK government to continue licensing the export of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen," the organisation said in a press release.
In April, CAAT went before the UK Court of Appeal to overturn a 2017 High Court judgment which allows the government to continue with arms exports to Saudi Arabia.
In their judgement, the court on Thursday accepted CAAT's appeal, branding it "irrational and therefore unlawful" to have previously approved the exporting license to Saudi Arabia without prior assessment on the humanitarian risk.
"The question whether there was an historic pattern of breaches of international humanitarian law ... was a question which required to be faced," the three judges - Rt Hon Sir Terence Etherton; Lord Justice Irwin and Lord Justice Singh - said as they concluded their verdict.
CAAT welcomed their victory, but said they should not have had to go to court to begin with.
"We welcome this verdict, but it should never have taken a court case brought by campaigners to force the Government to follow its own rules," Andrew Smith of CAAT said.
"The Saudi Arabian regime is one of the most brutal and repressive in the world, yet, for decades, it has been the largest buyer of UK-made arms. No matter what atrocities it has inflicted, the Saudi regime has been able to count on the uncritical political and military support of the UK."
He emphasised that the arms sales must now stop immediately.
"The bombing has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. UK arms companies have profited every step of the way. The arms sales must stop immediately."
The Yemen war entered its fourth year in March. Described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, the war between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the Saudi and UAE-backed government has left millions on the brink of famine.
At least 10,000 people are estimated to have been killed in the Yemen war since March 2015, although rights groups say the death toll is much higher.
British and American-made bombs may have killed or injured more than 1,000 Yemeni civilians, including women and children.
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Mr. Chairman and members of the Commission, I am Edwin O’Brien, since last October, the Archbishop of Baltimore. The Archdiocese of Baltimore runs east from the Appalachians across 9 counties and the City of Baltimore to the Chesapeake Bay. It numbers more than a half million Roman Catholics in more than 150 parishes. Its institutions include four colleges and universities, two of them seminaries; four Catholic hospitals; 86 elementary and secondary schools; and a good many social-service programs. I speak here today on behalf of this community and, in the matter of capital punishment, our Church’s teaching. I am joined by Mrs. Mary Sullivan, a valued member of the staff of our Maryland Catholic Conference.
I am pleased to be here also with Bishop Sutton and Bishop Schol representing the Episcopal and United Methodist Churches in Maryland. I appreciate your accommodating me today, Mr. Chairman. Recognizing that this afternoon’s agenda is full enough without me, I shall be brief.
I acknowledge at the outset that I am something of a late-comer to the position I espouse here today. Until relatively recently, like many I suppose, my view about capital punishment was the view of most Americans: I thought it served a purpose. If it did nothing else, I thought, it was a deterrent — the prospect of its imposition would prevent the wrongful taking of human life. But that was then.
In 1995, the year the Holy Father visited Baltimore, Pope John Paul II published an encyclical letter he titled Evangelium Vitae, the “Gospel of Life.” In it, he called upon Roman Catholics, other people of faith, and all people of good will to respect life, God’s great gift, and to defend it at all of its stages, from conception to natural death. Woven into the fabric of that exhortation was an appeal to end capital punishment – to stand against the killing of even those who have committed murder and, in doing so, have affronted God’s dominion and denied their own and their victims’ God-given humanity. If other bloodless means of punishment is available to protect society from murderous violence, the Pope said, then these should be employed as being more in keeping with the common good. In contemporary society, he said, such means are at our disposal.
The Holy Father’s appeal subsequently was reflected in our Church’s official Catechism, in homilies and other statements delivered during his visits to the United States, and in the teaching of Church leaders and bishops’ conferences, national and local. I had the privilege of hearing this appeal from Pope John Paul in person during his 1999 visit to St. Louis, when he declared that: “The dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform.” This was a real moment of conversion for me, a turning point, so to speak.
The Maryland bishops’ conference published its own pastoral letter on capital punishment in late 2000. I’ve brought copies for each of you. I’ve also brought several copies of a publication released by our state conference in 2005. Entitled Re-Examining the Death Penalty, it focuses not only on our Catholic Church’s teaching, but also on the practical arguments for ending government’s reliance on lethal punishment for its response to lethal societal violence. [This has been a popular item. These few copies are all we have left.]
One can’t expect that papal guidance will have the same effect on secular society as it does upon the Catholic community, particularly upon those of us who are joined to the Holy Father in priesthood. I certainly felt its impact; so did our community. In the years since Evangelium Vitae, Catholic opposition to the death penalty and support for a “bloodless” alternative to executions each has grown precipitously.
Several years ago, with the help of the Mason-Dixon polling organization, our state conference undertook to measure statewide sentiment in the matter of capital punishment, asking first whether the death penalty is supported or opposed, and then whether the sentence of life without parole is an acceptable substitute for executions. I’ve provided copies of the results of that poll. They show that while statewide support for the death penalty is at 56 percent, Catholic support is at 53 percent, and while statewide preference for life without parole as an acceptable substitute for the death penalty is at 63 percent, Catholic support is at 71 percent.
While the Holy Father’s persistence in the cause of death-penalty repeal might have affected general popular opinion in the matter – at least marginally, perhaps significantly — one recognizes that other factors are contributing to a dramatically changed popular regard for capital punishment. This surely is true in the case of the Catholic community, as well. I know such factors as the increasing evidence of error in death-penalty proceedings, the demonstrable biases which infect so many death-penalty proceedings, and the inequities which too often mark defense efforts in death-penalty cases have weighed heavily in the formation of my own conscience. I expect that this is true in a good many other cases, as well.
These factors are the principal focuses of others you will hear from in the course of these proceedings, individuals far more qualified than I to make clear their relevance to the important work entrusted to you by the General Assembly. I should like to make only one additional point. It has to do with those who most directly suffer the consequences of murderous violence.
I know something of the pain that untimely death causes. It is often inconsolable, and though it diminishes with time, it endures. The sense of loss lasts, too, never diminished, a void that cannot be filled. There is a difference between those who lose a loved one in war, and those whose loss is an outcome of wanton violence. In the former case, the risk of death is assumed with the putting on of a uniform. There is pain, to be sure, and a lasting sense of loss, but these are somehow rendered explainable by a lost loved one’s involvement in national purpose. In the latter case, there is no such assumption, no explanation. The families and loved ones of murder victims have a special claim on our prayers, a special need for the caress of our helping hands, a special need for our encouragement to seek solace, understanding and ultimate judgment in a loving God. | <urn:uuid:1df5fe7f-4ead-4f96-b98f-a72d90f7fd96> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.archbalt.org/death-penalty-testimony-of-archbishop-edwin-f-obrien/ | 2020-09-30T09:10:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.967989 | 1,355 |
The number of Internet Service Providers is increasing at an unprecedentedly high rate. Unlike in the past, the ISPs in Nepal are now reaching every nook and cranny of Nepal. As a result, the number of internet users has also increased recently, thereby creating a huge market in the web space. At the same time, the increasing number of the internet users has also made it imperative that the businesses and professional register their presence in the online space.
This is precisely why the number of people who are registering and hosting their own websites is growing up day by day. And these new participants of Nepal’s website markets are not just big business houses. A large number of professionals like doctors, engineers, lawyers as well as small businesses are venturing into this vast market provided by the web space. So, we can safely say that there is a huge group that is interested in website development business in Nepal.
In this context, we would like to introduce Nepal’s professional web designing services offered by www.bhasanepal.com. In addition to being Nepal’s affordable, popular and most trusted website designing, developing and maintaining company, Bhasa Nepal’s front end website creating company provides you with the most responsive, premium and top-ranking websites in Nepal. Besides, the websites designed by us are exceptionally functional and browseable with rich contents. At the same time, they also come with the effective and alluring layout.
The reason why you should choose us for the creation, development, and maintenance of your websites:
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Given that Warner Music Group has recently had an IPO, I thought it would be interesting to compare the company to privately held UMG, which we own via Bollore. UMG and Warner, along with Sony, make up the "big three" music labels owning 80-90% of revenue-producing music.
History of Warner Music
In 1957, an actor for Warner Brothers movies made a hit song for an independent record company. Sensing a missed opportunity, Warner created Warner Bros. Records in 1958. This served as a platform for numerous acquisitions, including Atlantic Records. Atlantic paved the way for WMG's success, and during the 60s and 70s became the home of hit artists such as Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Bette Midler, Neil Young, and Cream. Today, WMG traces its roots back to 1811 via their Chappell and Co subsidiary, which was purchased in 1987. That firm was once called "one of the best publishers" by Beethoven himself.
Uniti Group is a weird little company that trades 9x EBITDA and arguably a ~20% free cash flow yield to the equity.
The company owns fiber optic cables and copper wires and leases them to ISPs, mobile wireless providers, and businesses.
Owning fiber-optic cables can be a good business. Fundamentally, they are the key asset behind a roughly $70b market in the US - fixed broadband internet (and increasingly important in mobile wireless as well). Once deployed, fiber is costly to compete with: the only real way to do so is to “overbuild” your own fiber. Estimates of the cost to run fiber to one household varies between about $700 for telcos to wire existing customers to $1250 per home for a near-nationwide build-out. Costs are even higher in some rural areas where homes are far apart.
Insurance is a strange business, because unit costs are not known ahead of time and are different for every customer. Sometimes these costs are not fully known for decades, such as when asbestos claims surfaced in the 1970s and resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in liability for manufacturers and insurance firms.
Not only are costs not known ahead of time, but they are different for each customer. In some cases the factors most heavily influencing claims are random. Who can know which coastal town in Texas is more likely to be hit by the eye of a hurricane? For car insurance, though, the customer is in much more control. While there is certainly still lots of randomness to car insurance claims, an aggressive driver has a much different risk profile than a conservative one.
Since this factor -- how someone drives -- is both heavily correlated to insurance risk and knowable ahead of time, car insurance companies make a big effort to quantify it. In the early days of auto insurance, this was pretty tough. Insurance companies had to make an educated guess based on age, gender, and driving history (tickets, accidents, insurance claims). Over time, though, insurance companies have gotten more sophisticated at collecting data.
Clayton Christensen is an HBS professor that coined the term "disruptive innovation".
His theory states that disruption is made possible by low-end (read: cheap) or new-market footholds. Incumbents have little incentive to match prices with low-end disruptors since it would hurt their margins. This allows the disruptor to gain market share with little direct competition. Eventually, their product improves and becomes "good enough" for a large segment of the market. At this point it may be too late for incumbents to change course. Often the disruptor has developed new manufacturing or distribution methods (with the original goal of lowering costs) that make their strategy harder to imitate for the market leaders.
In my view, Christensen's theory focuses too much on price.
The number of investment ideas and full-fledged stock writeups in the public domain has got to be at an all-time high. Whether its on Value Investor's Club, SumZero, Seeking Alpha, or simply on twitter, there are probably multiple writeups on the vast majority of publicly traded equities.
I look at all the above. But one of the places I enjoy browsing for ideas the most is in quarterly investor letters. The folks at r/securityanalysis make this process extremely easy by collating a vast array of publicly-available letters. Here is the posting for Q3 if you want to check it out.
Below are a few ideas from that post that I thought were interesting.
To my wife's chagrin, I'm slightly obsessed with another woman. The other woman is smart, accomplished, and ... 76 years old.
Her name is Judy Faulkner. Here are some of her accomplishments:
Perhaps now you understand why I think she's so cool.
What multiple would you pay for a business with the following EBITDA profile?
To help you out a bit, allow me to include a couple more details:
Does 10x EBITDA sound like the right number?
Today's post is on Verint Systems (VRNT), a software company started under Comverse Technology in the 1990s and IPO'd in 2002.
I decided to take a look at this company because it's in the software business -- an industry I like -- and it was trading near a 3-year low price. We find that screening for this level of negative sentiment provides good hunting ground for stocks that are affected by cognitive biases. For more background on our cognitive bias framework for finding undervalued stocks, see here.
Here's a look at their numbers over the last few years:
What is clear at a glance is that this company is not exactly a rocket ship: sales appear to be growing at a mid-single digit rate in recent years and are nearly flat since 2015. Adjusted EBITDA margins are flat at around 20%, lower than many software companies. Shares outstanding are up more than 50% since 2013, probably evidence of the company's looseness with share issuance for acquisitions and employee compensation.
In an idea shamelessly stolen from Andrew Walker of Rangeley Capital, I’ve decided to start writing down my thoughts on stocks more often. Some of these thoughts may be quite long, as today’s is. Some may be merely a paragraph or two. But either way, I think putting my thoughts out into the world more frequently will help clarify them.
Today’s stock is Pershing Square Holdings, which trades as PSH on both the LSE and Euronext exchanges. In this post I may refer to PSH (the fund itself), PSCM (the asset management company), and Bill Ackman (the billionaire founder of both entities).
What this is
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High-rise condominium developer Century Properties Group Inc. is investing P1.5 billion to build a residential building with the interior design of Italian luxury fashion house Missoni.
The 52-tower residential building, Livingstone, is the fourth tower to rise in CPG’s six-tower Pasig riverside Aqua Private Residences project in Mandaluyong City, which was estimated to cost a total of P7 billion.
In a press briefing on Friday, CPG President and CEO Jose Marco Antonio said the group, through subsidiary Century Limitless Corp., was ready to bring to the market additional residential units in Acqua, following the market success of the first three towers—the 43-story Niagara, 45-story Sutherland and the 47-story Dettifoss.
The upcoming residential buildings in Acqua, designed as a riverside “residential eden” amid an urban jungle, are all named after the great waterfalls of the world. The residential units in Livingstone, named after the most majestic waterfall in Africa, are expected to be turned over to buyers by 2016.
The six-tower Acqua project brings to the local market new property inventory with sales value of P15 billion, of which Livingstone will account for P3.5 billion, Antonio said.
Acqua Livingstone will offer 645 units for pre-selling prices averaging P145,000 per square meter for the first tranche. This means the smallest unit of 27 square meters is selling for P3.9 million while the largest unit with 140 sqm is selling for P20.3 million.
“In the Philippines, Century has found a market appreciates high design and haute couture living,” Antonio said.
Missoni, founded in 1953 as a knitwear label in Italy by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, grew into a fashion empire run by three generations of the Missoni family. Globally recognized for its creative use of patterns and prints, Missoni earned the acclaim of the fashion world throughout the decades for elevating knitwear to an artistic form, and for its inventiveness and consistently progressive style.
In 1996, the Italian fashion house diversified into furniture, home accessories and interior design through the brand MissoniHome. It was one of the first fashion lines to branch out into home lines like Versace, also a partner of CPG in another residential project.
There are also two Missoni-branded hotels in the world, one in the Edinburgh, Scotland, and another in Kuwait.
CPG plans to sell the units to domestic end-users such as young upwardly mobile professionals, overseas-based Filipinos and foreign buyers. With 70 percent of CPG’s sales coming from the international market, Antonio said CPG had the biggest overseas market share among Philippine high-rise condominium developers.
“We feel we’re following the money trail,” he said.
The Livingstone tower offers the rich and colorful MissoniHome-designed living space.
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PHNOM PENH – After listening to diners at the table next to hers speculate about how her father had found “such a young prostitute,” Anya Minko snapped. “He’s my dad, you perverts!” she yelled.
Anya is half-Thai. Her father, Chris Minko, is white.
In Phnom Penh, a city renowned for sex tourism and almost weekly pedophilia scandals, many people are swift to connect the dots when they see a middle-aged white man with a young girl of Asian descent. Sex tourists are so common that the term “sexpat” is commonly used throughout Southeast Asia, the Khmer Times reports.
“We’re victims of this sexpat cliché,” Ms. Minko told the Khmer Times. “You can tell from the way people look at you. You’re eating peacefully with your dad, and you see people whispering and staring at you.”
Sometimes the criticism is subtle – like customers who fall silent and stare at fathers and daughters when they walk into restaurants. But often it is more overt, with vigilantes who photograph them while they walk along the Riverside threatening to report them to the police, or accusing the father point-blank of pedophilia.
Sometimes, NGOs who fight child prostitution even have informants stalk them.
“The western press’s manic fixation on abusive sex in Cambodia has made the country’s name synonymous with pedophilia, unfairly and inaccurately so,” wrote long-time Cambodia resident Casey Nelson in a blog post in 2011. While the Cambodian sexpat stereotype is often accurate, it also affects innocent fathers and daughters, forcing them to change their lifestyles to avoid harassment.
According to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, Asian sex tourists outnumber Western sex tourists in Cambodia. But white men continue to be the main targets of suspicion.
Alan Parkhouse is Australian and is the chief sub-editor of the Sunday Bangkok Post, as well as the former editor-in-chief of the Phnom Penh Post. He said he had given little thought to the sex-tourist stereotype until arriving in Phnom Penh on a visit with his teenaged Thai step-daughter.
“We were standing on the Riverside. My step-daughter hadn’t been outside Thailand before, so she was shy and holding my hand. Western people walked by and kept whispering or giving me or her dirty looks. We didn’t understand why. Then it dawned on me – I’m a western man with a 14-year-old girl hanging on him.”
The harassment is not always so subtle. Casey Nelson has lived in Phnom Penh for more than 20 years, and in a 2011 blog post, he wrote about walking on the riverfront with his daughters, aged seven and nine at the time.
According to Mr. Nelson’s account, a female Italian tourist started snapping photos of him and his daughters. “Photo you, Internet, you pedo…for police,” she said. Mr. Nelson confronted her and demanded that she delete her photos, but the woman refused. “I was accused of being a pedophile,” he wrote, “for absolutely no other reason than being a white male in the company of brown children – my son and daughter.”
Mr. Minko, who has raised Anya alone after the death of his wife, faces this sort of harassment regularly.
“This whole fucking pedophilia industry gets on my nerves,” he said. “When I’m walking around with my daughter, wherever we go, people make the assumption that I’m an old sexpat and she’s a hooker.”
Do No Harm?
The tourists accusing these fathers and daughters of sex crimes usually have good intentions – they see themselves as crusaders against child prostitution. When they arrive in the country, they are greeted with billboards and ads on tuk-tuks that urge “responsible tourists” to report possible human trafficking, and they oblige.
These publicity campaigns are usually funded by the country’s legion of anti-sex trafficking NGOs. As part of its 2014 “Child Safe Tourism” campaign, World Vision distributed 120,000 stickers with a hotline to call if tourists see “a child who you believe is at risk of abuse.”
These programs cause some tourists to jump to conclusions about who is a sex predator and who is not. International media coverage of pedophiles in Cambodia feeds into the perception of rampant sexual abuse of minors.
“From their exposure to the press, tourists… think that pedophiles are as common as cockroaches,” Mr. Nelson wrote in his blog post. “Any white man with an Asian-looking child must be a pedo who can simply waltz through tourist areas in broad daylight with a prepubescent child on each hand.”
Along with enlisting tourists, NGOs use a network of Cambodian informants – many of them tuk-tuk drivers or scooters – to get information about child prostitution rings. Some expats who have lived in the country for more than a decade have been tailed by these informants as they drive through the city with their daughters.
Stories abound on popular expat forum Khmer440.com about motodops who followed fathers home, snapped photos of them walking into their apartment, and questioned their gatekeepers or neighbors.
“We train tuk-tuk drivers as informants, and in addition, we have established a larger network of people at restaurants for the same purpose, to report suspicion of child abuse,” said Seila Samleang, executive director of anti-human trafficking NGO APLE. In 2014 alone, APLE trained 109 tuk-tuk drivers and 61 informants to report suspicious men.
Mr. Samleang denied allegations that his organization trained informants to photograph or follow suspected pedophile sex tourists. He did confirm, however, that other NGOs have trained informants to photograph white men with girls suspected of being underage prostitutes.
Sometimes the investigations uncover child prostitution. But other times, the truth is more innocuous – the suspected sex predator and child prostitute are just a father and daughter, taking a walk to buy ice cream along the Riverside. For these families, the surveillance is taxing. “I get really paranoid, because people take random photos of me walking with [my dad],” Ms. Minko said.
On the Defensive
When she and her father were eating at a Riverside restaurant, they heard German tourists at the neighboring table claiming that Anya was a prostitute. She was 14 at the time. Her father could not tolerate it. “I finally answered the guy in German. I said, ‘Stop making assumptions,’ and slammed his head into the table,” Mr. Minko recalled.
Fathers and daughters who face this sort of daily harassment develop ways to deal with it. Sometimes they confront their accusers directly. “But we can’t walk along the street being aggressive every day,” Mr. Minko said.
The constant judgment has forced them, they say, to behave like they are, in fact, guilty of a crime. They eat only at certain restaurants where the staff and patrons all know them well. They have stopped taking walks on the Riverside. They shop at only certain markets, and rarely go out together. Ms. Minko said she no longer rides on the back of her dad’s motorcycle.
“We tend to stick to a Khmer circle of friends, at one restaurant and at the market,” Mr. Minko said.
Mr. Parkhouse said his daughters figured out from a young age how to avoid harassment. “I would make sure people heard me call him ‘Dad’ so they would realize I was his daughter,” said Michelle Parkhouse, Alan’s half-Thai daughter who currently lives in Sydney.
“It’s so sad that Anya can’t go with her father to certain places,” Mr. Minko said. “It’s sad the way it’s impacted our family.”
Prejudice Without Borders
Ms. Minko wrote a post about this problem on Facebook, and it was immediately flooded with comments by others – mainly Eurasian girls – who have faced the same stereotype in Thailand, Vietnam, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. “It’s really getting on my nerves that they are looking down on you and your family without knowing you at all,” wrote one commenter.
Mr. Parkhouse said Phnom Penh is not the only city with a “sexpat” stereotype. When he was in Bangkok, a city notorious for its red light district, he got into a taxi with his daughter Michelle, who was 14 at the time. “The taxi driver asked us if we’d like to go to a short-time hotel,” he said, referring to the hotels where rooms can be rented by the hour for sex.
“Michelle went ballistic on him in two languages. But [the cab driver] was unrepentant – he just said it’s a common sight, an Asian girl with a western man,” Mr. Parkhouse said.
Despite the complex mix of races and ethnicities in Southeast Asia, the simplistic assumption persists that a white man and a Eurasian girl cannot be related, leading tourists to assume the worst. “Things are such a melting pot here,” Ms. Minko said, “but still there are these racist assumptions.”
By Jonathan Cox – Khmer Times
Jonathan Cox is presently a reporter at the Phnom Penh daily Khmer Times. Formerly a staff writer at hyperlocal news sites DavidsonNews.net and CorneliusNews.net, and a contributing editor at Charlotte Magazine. I have bylines in the New York Times India Ink Blog and WFAE.org. | <urn:uuid:375ac224-0535-4b01-9a12-99a2093d5dd1> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.chiangraitimes.com/featured/sexpat-stereotype-takes-toll-on-daughters-and-fathers/ | 2020-09-30T10:13:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.967683 | 2,118 |
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Training and certification in information technology can be a tricky endeavor–standards and areas of job demand change quickly, and getting a degree is oftentimes not a sure ticket to finding a job. But Chicago-based Computer Systems Institute is trying to change all of that, by guiding students based on long-term trends and the instructors’ own past professional experiences. We recently spoke with CSI cofounder Ella Zibitsker about the school’s offerings.
What does CSI do?
CSI teaches non-IT as well as IT professionals the computer skills that lead to either the jobs opportunities or significant career improvements. We train people in Web, A+, MCSE, Java, Cisco, Oracle, Linux, and many other areas.
You’re one of the few schools in the area that offers e-learning. Can you talk about the school’s online courses and how your services differ from other distance-learning programs?
CSI’s e-learning courses are interactive and time-flexible. Each course provides ample time to learn the material, do interactive labs assignments, test new skills and knowledge, and prepare for certifications. The courses are designed for IT professionals by education professionals and are accepted by major corporations nationwide. What makes our courses so attractive to the students is a live e-tutor, who is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And, of course, CSI offers to all of its students career advising and job placement assistance. The cost of the courses varies from $699 to $3,500. CSI graduates should inquire about discounts.
The current offering includes C#, all levels of Java, WebSphere, CCNA, CCNP, and more. We will continue to add new courses to satisfy the growing demand for new skills, whether in programming, networking, or wireless technologies.
What areas of the IT industry are still seeing a high demand for workers?
Today, companies’ brand of Web developers–those who can create more than a Web site and who can develop enterprise-strength Internet applications that integrate with legacy systems–are in high demand.
No doubt, times are tougher for Web developers. Gone are the hiring frenzies of upstart dot-coms and interactive design companies. But major corporations still need to integrate a spectrum of legacy systems into the Web-based applications that are reaching their customers, business partners and employees.
And while salaries for IT positions in areas such as the help desk and e-commerce have remained flat, compensation for security positions has grown 2 percent to 3 percent overall this year, according to a survey by Foote Partners LLC, in New Canaan, Conn.
But security manager hopefuls, consider yourselves forewarned: While many may want the job, only those with experience in the trenches are getting hired.
Networking experienced the hottest growthÑat 24 percentÑof any job category in the 2002 Salary Guide survey of 1,650 CIOs by tech recruiting company RHI Consulting, in Menlo Park, Calif. And out of the 133 categories of IT skills and certifications, salaries for networking jobsÑspecifically, engineering and operations jobsÑwere the two highest-growth areas.
Finally, the sellers’ market for IT skills may be over for some, but for certified DBAs with the right skills, there’s been little if any drop-off in demand or career opportunity. Why? The recession hasn’t altered the fact that, as enterprises continue to become increasingly dependent on enterprise resource planning and e-commerce systems, they are relying on the smooth running of the databases that underlie those systems in order to stay in business.
Which areas are saturated with IT workers?
Cobol, Visual Basic, entry-level Java, Oracle (development and database administration), and A+ job markets are pretty much saturated. But the problem with those is not the skills themselves, it a lack of the right combination of skills. Knowledge of PC and Web development tools; operating systems and languages; and databases and object-oriented technology is essential for programmers. In addition, they have to be business-savvy.
What’s next for CSI?
More online course and degree programs. And of course, we’ll continue providing the Chicago community with excellent education.
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Located at La Brea in southwest Trinidad, the Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world. Known to many as the 8th wonder of the world, the lake is the major supplier of asphalt to the international market.
Fondly called the "Eight Wonder of the World" by villagers is located on Trinidad’s south-western coast, the La Brea Pitch Lake, is still a source of amazement and mystery.
It is the largest commercial deposit of natural asphalt in the world - one of only three in known existence - and holds approximately 10 million tonnes of asphalt. A recent study connected to the European Space Agency, discovered there are living microbes beneath the asphalt’s surface, which may one day help answer the question whether or not life exists on other planets! Spanning some 109 acres, the lake appears like a huge oval-shaped car park, but on closer inspection, it looks like very dark clay, with rough undulating patches. Its asphalt has been used to pave roads and airport runways around the world, including the roadway in front of Buckingham Palace in England, La Guardia Airport in New York, the Lincoln Tunnel which connects New York to New Jersey, as well as numerous roads in several countries.
Visitors can walk on the surface and you might feel it is alive - with its hissing and burping sounds. Small pools of water form on it during the rainy season and you can bathe in them. They contain high levels of sulfur and villagers claim they are the fountains of life, good for curing anything from skin conditions to joint pain. British adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh claimed he 'discovered' the pitch lake in 1595 on his search for El Dorado. However, it was the Spanish who started to refine the pitch in 1792 and called it ’Tierra de Brea’, meaning land of pitch - the name eventually became La Brea.
First called ’piche’, the Amerindians believed it was created by the Gods as punishment. Legend has it the lake swallowed an entire tribe after they ate humming birds which were believed were the souls of their departed ancestors. To date, numerous Amerindian artifacts have been unearthed onsite, including a bench carved in the shape of an animal (with the carver’s name still clearly visible). Some of these can be viewed at the onsite museum. Indications of prehistoric life in Trinidad and Tobago have also been found - the rib and thigh of a giant sloth, along with a tooth identified as belonging to a mastodon. You can also enjoy the flora and fauna around such as water rose, nymph lilies, and bird of paradise. Bird watchers can enjoy glimpses of Herron, hummingbirds, kingfishers and sandpipers fluttering by. It’s best not to take on the pitch lake on your own - go to the Visitor Centre and ask for a tour guide - the experience will be worth it! | <urn:uuid:b1442457-a689-4be1-b1a8-674026796b18> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.destinationtnt.com/blog/10-of-the-most-unique-hike-and-tours-in-trinidad/ | 2020-09-30T10:07:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.969411 | 614 |
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Rather than just touring around the world, these bikers are opting to explore the Nagaland countryside -- braving the monsoon weather and unpaved roads
Kohima: As part of the annual trip, the Nagaland Motorcycle Club (NMC)‘s Kohima Chapter rode 72 km to Zhavame village from Kohima on Saturday and Sunday. In all, 19 Naga chiefs and three pre-inductees camped overnight at the scenic village located near the Manipur state border in a thatched traditional house built for accommodating tourists.
Speaking with EastMojo, founding member of NMC, Peter Rutsa, said, "Our state is blessed with rich diverse culture, hospitable villagers and a beautiful landscape. Citizens often choose to travel out of the state rather than explore our own scenic land. Besides bringing us closer socially and creating better understanding among tribes and communities, it in turn gives a much needed boost to our local economy. And NMC always grabs opportunities to travel beyond the urban settlements of Nagaland -- keeping this in mind."
Zhavame village is popularly known for its rich varieties of organic fruits and vegetables, particularly seasonal apples and cabbages, which are produced on a commercial scale. The village is nestled below Mt Kapamodzü which stands at 2,620 m and is the fourth highest peak in Nagaland.
Touring rural areas could be challenging and for the NMC, the main challenge is the natural elements -- the monsoon rain and the poor roads -- "which are regular features and is part of rural tourism but can take its toll on man and machine", said Rutsa.
In winter, the frozen roads become a challenge for vehicles and Rutsa's advice is "for visitors to engage SUVs, preferably 4x4s or motorcycles that perform well off-tarmac roads for mobility, satisfaction and safety".
"But the worst moment was when some bikers could not ride to the top of Kapamodzü peak due to the tough terrain, slippery monsoon road and lack of experience," Rutsa said recalling the trip.
Zhavame village is ideal for trekking, rock climbing, para gliding, downhill cycling, extreme motor sports and other rural tourism activities. Although with no road signs, it is reachable via Tadubi town in Senapati district of Manipur at a shorter distance.
Rutsa excitedly recounted the trip saying, "Zhavame village is a perfect destination for people looking for a getaway from urban activities -- without much hassle for short durations... Weekend visits and overnight halts at the village during spring and winter when Kapamodzü is in full bloom with wild flowers or when its summit turns white with snow and frost is captivating."
Rutsa continued, "The rice beer of the village is second to none, partly because it is not commercially produced... For the more adventurous, camping on top of mount Kapamodzü which dips below minus 15°C in winter for the purpose of star gazing, watching a spectacular clear celestial sky well into the night and to view the sun rising over the mighty Saramati mountain are mesmerising, unforgettable experiences!"
"Nagaland has tremendous potential for rural, adventure, cultural, eco, agri and culinary tourism besides others which NMC has experienced through various tours and travels. With required level of support from the government and active participation of village communities, rural tourism in Nagaland will not fail to uplift the life of villagers and the villages,” he added.
"The best part was when an elderly villager prayed for NMC before our departure from the village,” Rutsa added.
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Talk to your family about your post-graduate plans and gain their support of your goals. Have those critical conversations with them about expenses and budget.
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Tips on how to create a repository from applications in the past downloaded right into a listing.
There are a few eventualities wherein it’s in particular attention-grabbing to create a neighborhood repository of device in binary kind . deb as:
Set up on a computer with out web connection,
Set up on a computing device with a sluggish web connection by means of easy 56K modem RTC
Set up-a birthday party the place there are many machines to be put in together with a broadband web connection no longer quick sufficient.
In all circumstances, this system can keep away from downloading applications on the net which might be already existing in the neighborhood in as a minimum one computer is correctly put in within the conventional method by means of the online.
There’s some other answer with using apt-cacher that doesn’t require the set up of apache.
The utility dpkg-scanpackages you want on the server computer is on hand within the bundle dpkg-dev .
This documentation will probably be to be had with Breezy, Dapper and Edgy if packets that have been downloaded to check the model put in in the community on the shopper by way of CD-ROM.
Arrange your computer so by the use of conventional excessive-velocity Web the use of a file sources.checklist classical and take into account that to position all of the important device.
As soon as achieved, appear on this folder to substantiate that each one applications are there as a file. deb :
/ Var / cache / apt / archives /
In my instance, I create a neighborhood folder that incorporates the applications . deb in Apache2 and known as ubuntu_local.
Open a terminal (or console) with Purposes / Utilities / terminal and turn into root (= tremendous-administrator) with the command:
sudo-i <ENTER> (then sort your password)
Replica the complete folder archives and programs deb that accommodates the foundation of your Apache2 net server with the command:
cp-rf / var / cache / apt / archives / var / www / ubuntu_local
Then go to that folder with:
cd / var / www / ubuntu_local /
and record all of the applications contained in with the command:
dpkg-scanpackages /. / dev / null Applications.gz
At this level, your server is nearly prepared, you simply set your laptop to claim that someone can get these programs in Apache2 to try this, run the two following instructions:
chmod 755-R / var / www / ubuntu_local /
adopted with the aid of:
chown-R www-information: www-knowledge / var / www / ubuntu_local /
Your native server is able to check, launch your net browser and enter this deal with:
(Server_ip server shall be changed by way of the ip tackle of your laptop within the LAN)
If a big checklist seems with all of the instrument and the Applications.gz, it's all just right, if now not, repeat above, you forgot one thing …
ln-s / var / cache / apt / archives / var / www / ubuntu_local /
It’s now not important to make use of dpkg-scanpackages or (relying on native safety insurance policies) to vary the permissions by the use of chmod / chown. As well as, your native repository will all the time be "up to date".
Step three: Put together the native consumer tool looking ahead to set up to hook up with server native repository
On the consumer, you simply do a customary set up with the CD-ROM Ubuntu, the community works, you now simply want to improve a file sources.record that connects to your native server.
To do that, open a terminal (or console) with Functions / Utilities / terminal and develop into root (= tremendous-administrator) with the command:
sudo-i <ENTER> (then sort your password)
then replica the sources.record file to make a backup reproduction with:
cp / and so forth / apt / sources.checklist / and so forth / apt / sources.record.previous
– And edit the sources.checklist file with:
gedit / and so on / apt / sources.checklist
delete the entire rows in and change them with this:
# # Depot native intranet deb http://192.168.zero.four/ubuntu_local /.
on this instance with the server ip 192.18.zero.four native, you’ll want to shop your file.
– Then run the updating device sources with the command:
then the replace in the neighborhood with:
apt-get set up package_name
package_name = bundle title to put in.
In your knowledge, you’ll set up the package deal w32codecs proprietary video codecs in four seconds as an alternative of three minutes in most cases required for downloading by way of the Web.
Word that some programs could have of their filenames, "% 3a" which returns an error with apt-get improve or in any other case, on this case, merely rename the bundle, changing "% 3a" with ":".
rename 's /% 3A /: /' *. deb
it’s actually enough so as to add that in his sources.listing
deb file : / media / doc / ubuntu_local /.
Right here is my deposit on an exterior arduous pressure … however merely adapting to a cdrom or different …
TODO: make a CD / DVD autorun is known straight away by way of synaptic or adept.
(Don’t fail to remember that the dpkg-dev is pre-requisite)
Create directories (p.exe you wish to have to have the debs within the listing monDepot) ~ / monDepot /
cd ~ mkdir-p monDepot /
Reproduction your deb in ~ / monDepot /. It’s higher to avoid wasting the deb wished straight away on this folder when downloading. Which you could additionally put them in subdirectories of ~ / monDepot /.
Within the listing, you are going to want a file "Applications.gz". This file will likely be created mechanically via a script that you just create. Programs.gz should certainly include knowledge on the debs you simply put within the listing. To facilitate the updating of Programs.gz, create a script (the usage of gedit), as an example miseAjour.sh:
cd gedit monDepot miseAjour.sh
Write in these two traces:
# / Bin / bash cd ~ / monDepot / dpkg-scanpackages. / Dev / null Programs.gz
Give up gedit (saving). We’d like the script or executable, that’s to claim he has the x:
chmod + x miseAjour.sh
Each and every time you click on on this script, the file descriptions will probably be up to date.
At last, we should inform our new synaptic deposit. Within the menu of synaptic you sort "deposits – add" and click on "customise" and set:
deb file : / dwelling / myName / monDepot /.
When you click on the replay deposits (after the alternate you simply made, synaptic does it robotically) you will have your new deb the whole thing good within the synaptic. For every new deb in monDepot you obtain, run the script and made miseAjour.sh reread its deposits Synaptic (with the aid of clicking on the button with two arrows) or
apt-get replace .
helpful for putting in packages on a pc with out web subject matter iso file / listing media/cle_usb/xubuntu-eight.04.1-computer-i386.iso mount / media / iso
sudo mkdir-p / media / iso
mount the file:
sudo mount / media/cle_usb/xubuntu-eight.04.1-pc-i386.iso-t iso9660-o loop / media / iso /
take a look at the meeting:
ls / media / iso / # will have to convey within the different pool and dists directories
ls / media / iso / dists # must exhibit the listing of alternative hardy (since the iso is eight.04)
observe the directories existing in pool:
ls / media / iso / pool provides major limited #
then add this in its / and so forth / apt / sources.record
deb file : / media / iso / hardy major constrained
don’t disregard to replace with synaptic
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The announcement came today. Here’s a review I wrote of her book, Native Guard, a few years back:
Natasha Trethewey’s recent collection brings poetry back into the home. Or at least, it brought it back into mine. The elegant simplicity of her style often draped over complex forms is soft and inviting even when the subject matter is cold, stricken, and calloused.
The presence of her mother invades every page. Indeed, for Trethewey, poetry becomes the monument for her mother: the physical marker on the landscape of history. It is a marker that history would just as soon forget, much like the Louisiana Native Guard, the first officially sanctioned regiment of black soldiers in the Union Army and the focus of the second section. Trethewey’s poetry creates a space for remembrance.
But she does not travel into this space without hesitation. The opening poem, “Theories of Space and Time,” illustrates her acknowledgment of what this trip might cost: “You can get there from here, though / there’s no going home.” The photograph someone snaps along the way and presents upon your return shows a different you. Nothing is quite the same again. But the will to remember, to create a history that remembers, (thankfully for us) overcomes the poet.
One of my favorite poems, “What the Body Can Say,” deals with the inability to reconcile sign and signified without a mediating context. In this case, the context is the body that figures forth “something” unnameable. As with the scarred back of the slave in “Native Guard,” the body becomes the organ of speech, saying what the mouth or pen does not. This thought is wonderfully reinforced by the image of a notebook crosshatched in two different hands: one the hand of a white southerner, the other the hand of a black Native Guard soldier (this begs the questions: does Trethewey consider the work of the poet painful or traumatic?).
The need for a human contextualizing agent comes up again and again throughout the first section: the poet offers herself as context in “Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971”; “What is Evidence” again depicts the scarred body, contrasting it with the (less meaningful) historical document; “Letter” emphasizes the fragility of signs, especially ones outside the body (e.g. in the form of a letter to a friend); and “After Your Death” depicts the emotional magnitude of bodiless signs in the context of grief.
Section 2 of Native Guard deals primarily with untold history. Stories that both the orthodox accounts and the landscape itself has forgotten. Section 3 is more personal and explores the role of the poet, our poet, in matters of race, the South, and the African-American’s position among the two. Poems like “Incident” weave form with meaning with subtlety to overscore powerful images while poems like “Monument” go straight for the jugular: “At my mother’s grave, ants streamed in / and out like arteries, a tiny hill rising / above her untended plot.”
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The pituitary gland and sella are located below the center of the brain in the center of the cranial base (Fig. 8.1). Access to the sella is limited from above by the optic nerves and chiasm and the circle of Willis, from laterally by the cavernous sinuses and internal carotid arteries, and from behind by the brainstem and basilar artery. The vital structures protecting its superior, lateral, and posterior borders have led to the preferred surgical routes to tumors of the gland being from below through the nasal cavity and sphenoid sinus or from anteriorly between the frontal lobe and the floor of the anterior cranial fossa. This chapter focuses on the microsurgical anatomy important in performing the various subcranial and transcranial approaches to the sellar region. The chapter is divided into two sections: the first section deals with the relationships in the cranial base around and below the sella, and the second section deals with the relationships in the suprasellar and third ventricular regions (17). Special emphasis is placed on the transnasal route to the sella, because this route is the one most commonly selected for dealing with pituitary tumors.
The sella can be reached by several routes through the nasal cavity (11, 17). The nasal cavity, wider below than above, is bounded above by the anterior cranial fossa, laterally by the orbit and the maxillary sinus, and below by the hard palate (Figs. 8.2 and 8.3). This cavity is divided sagittally by the nasal septum, which is formed anteriorly and superiorly by the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid and inferiorly and posteriorly by the vomer, with an anterior bony deficiency occupied by septal cartilage. The nasal cavity opens anteriorly onto the face through the anterior nasal aperture and posteriorly into the nasopharynx by way of the posterior nasal apertures. Each posterior nasal aperture, measuring approximately 25 mm vertically and 13 mm transversely, is bordered above by the anterior aspect of the sphenoid body, below by the posterior margin of the hard palate formed by the horizontal plate of the palatine bones, medially by the nasal septum formed by the vomer, and laterally by the medial pterygoid plate.
The lateral nasal wall usually has three medially directed projections: the superior, middle, and inferior nasal conchae, below each of which is a corresponding superior, middle, or inferior nasal meatus (Figs. 8.2 and 8.3). The paired sphenoethmoidal recesses, located above and behind the superior nasal conchae and in front of the upper anterior aspect of the sphenoid body, are the site of the paired sphenoid ostia, which communicate between the nasal cavity and the sphenoid sinus. The upper half of the lateral nasal wall, corresponding to the medial orbital wall, is composed, from anterior to posterior, of the frontal process of the maxilla, the lacrimal bone, and the orbital plate of the ethmoid bone. The extremely thin lacrimal and ethmoid bones, occupied by the ethmoid air cells, separate the nasal cavity from the orbit. The nasolacrimal groove and canal, the site of the lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal duct, respectively, pass downward in front of the anterior end of the middle nasal concha and open into the inferior nasal meatus. The frontoethmoidal suture, located at the junction of the roof and medial orbital wall, is situated at the level of the roof of the nasal cavity and the cribriform plate. The anterior and posterior ethmoidal foramina, which transmit the anterior and posterior ethmoidal arteries and nerves, are located in or just above the frontoethmoidal suture. These arteries and nerves exit the ethmoidal foramina and enter the anterior cranial fossa at the lateral edge of the cribriform plate. The anterior ethmoidal artery, a terminal branch of the ophthalmic artery, supplies the mucosa of the anterior and middle ethmoidal sinuses and the dura covering the cribriform plate and the planum sphenoidale. It gives rise to the anterior falcine artery intracranially. The posterior ethmoidal artery, usually smaller than the anterior ethmoidal artery and absent in up to 30% of the ophthalmic arteries, feeds the mucosa of the posterior ethmoidal sinus and the dura of the planum sphenoidale. The average distance between the anterior lacrimal crest of the maxilla’s frontal process and the anterior ethmoidal foramen is 22 to 24 mm; between the anterior and posterior ethmoidal foramina, 12 to 15 mm; and between the posterior ethmoidal foramen and the optic canal, 3 to 7 mm (11). In midline transfacial procedures, these arteries may be divided between the periorbita and the medial orbital wall. Care should be taken to prevent damaging the optic nerve, which is sometimes located immediately behind the posterior ethmoidal foramen.
The lower part of the lateral nasal wall is formed, from anterior to posterior, by the maxilla, the perpendicular plate of the palatine bone, and the medial pterygoid plate. The eustachian tube opens into the nasopharynx along the posterior edge of the medial pterygoid plate. The root of the middle nasal concha attaches to the lateral nasal wall near the junction of the orbit and the maxillary sinus. Thus, the medial wall of the maxillary sinus is bounded medially by the middle and inferior nasal meatus and the inferior nasal concha (Figs. 8.2 and 8.3). The maxillary sinus communicates with the middle nasal meatus through an opening located in the medial wall just below the roof of the sinus.
The pterygopalatine fossa is situated just outside the lateral wall of the nasal cavity between the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus anteriorly and the pterygoid process posteriorly (Figs. 8.2–8.4). The pterygopalatine fossa contains the pterygopalatine ganglion, which receives the vidian nerve (nerve of the pterygoid canal), the segment of the maxillary nerve and its branches located just anterior to the foramen rotundum, and the internal maxillary artery and its terminal branches. This fossa communicates laterally with the infratemporal fossa through the pterygomaxillary fissure and medially with the nasal cavity via the sphenopalatine foramen, which transmits the corresponding nerve and vessels. The internal maxillary artery exits the infratemporal fossa to enter the pterygopalatine fossa by passing through the pterygomaxillary fissure. The greater and lesser palatine arteries and nerves arise from the maxillary artery and nerve and descend in the greater and lesser palatine canals, which are separated medially from the nasal cavity by the thin perpendicular plate of the palatine bone.
The sphenoid bone is located in the center of the cranial base (Figs. 8.3 and 8.5) (21, 22). The intimate contact of the body of the sphenoid bone with the nasal cavity below and the pituitary gland above has led to the transsphenoidal route being the operative approach of choice for most sellar tumors. The neural relationships of the sphenoid bone are among the most complex of any bone. The olfactory tracts, gyrus rectus, and posterior part of the frontal lobe rest against the smooth upper surface of the lesser wing; the temporal lobe rests against the inner surface of the greater wing; the pons and mesencephalon lie posterior to the clival portion; the optic chiasm lies posterior to the chiasmatic sulcus; and the IInd through VIth cranial nerves are intimately related to the sphenoid bone and all exit the cranium through the optic canal, superior orbital fissure, foramen rotundum, or foramen ovale, all foramina located in the sphenoid bone (Fig. 8.6).
The sphenoid bone has many important arterial and venous relationships: the carotid arteries groove each side of the sphenoid bone and often form a serpiginous prominence in the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus, the basilar artery rests against its posterior surface, the circle of Willis is located above its central portion, and the middle cerebral artery courses parallel to the sphenoid ridge of the lesser wing. The cavernous sinuses rest against the sphenoid bone, and intercavernous venous connections line the walls of the pituitary fossa and dorsum sellae.
In the anterior view, the sphenoid bone resembles a bat with wings outstretched (Fig. 8.5). It has a central portion called the body; two lesser wings, which spread outward from the superolateral part of the body; two greater wings, which spread upward from the lower part of the body; and two pterygoid processes with their medial and lateral pterygoid plates directed downward from the body. The body of the sphenoid bone is more or less cubical and contains the sphenoid sinus. The superior orbital fissure, through which the oculomotor, trochlear, abducens, and ophthalmic nerves pass, is formed on its inferior and lateral margins by the greater wing and on its superior margin by the lesser wing. The inferior surface of the lesser wing forms the posterior part of the roof of each orbit, and the exposed surface of the greater wing forms a large part of the lateral wall of the orbit, the floor of the middle fossa, and the roof of the infratemporal fossa. The optic canals are situated above and are separated from the superomedial margin of the superior orbital fissure by the optic strut, a bridge of bone that extends from the lower margin of the base of the anterior clinoid process to the body of the sphenoid. The narrowest part of the optic canal is closer to the orbital than the intracranial end. The optic canals average 5 mm in length, and are of a conical configuration, tapering to a narrow waist near the orbit end. The sphenoid ostia open from the nasal cavity into the sinus. The infratemporal crest divides the inferior from the lateral parts of the greater wing and separates the temporal fossae. The lateral pterygoid muscles arise between the infratemporal crest and the lateral pterygoid plate. The area lateral to the infratemporal line gives origin to the temporalis muscle. The pterygoid (vidian) canal courses from anterior to posterior through the junction of the pterygoid process and the sphenoid body.
In the superior view, the pituitary fossa occupies the central part of the body and is bounded anteriorly by the tuberculum sellae and posteriorly by the dorsum sellae (Figs. 8.1 and 8.6). The chiasmatic groove (sulcus), a shallow depression between the optic foramina, is bounded posteriorly by the tuberculum sellae and anteriorly by the planum sphenoidale. The frontal lobes and the olfactory tracts rest against the smooth upper surface of the lesser wing and the planum sphenoidale. The posterior margin of the lesser wing forms a free edge, the sphenoid ridge, which projects into the sylvian fissure to separate the frontal and temporal lobes. The anterior clinoid processes are located at the medial end of the lesser wings, the middle clinoid processes are lateral to the tuberculum sellae, and the posterior clinoid processes are situated at the superolateral margin of the dorsum sellae. The dorsum sellae is continuous with the clivus. The upper part of the clivus is formed by the sphenoid bone, and the lower part is formed by the occipital bone. The carotid sulcus extends along the lateral surface of the body of the sphenoid.
The depth of the sella turcica is the greatest distance between the floor and a perpendicular line connecting the tuberculum and dorsum. Sellar length, defined as the greatest anterior-posterior diameter of the pituitary fossa, may occur at the level of the tuberculum sellae or below. Sellar width is defined as the width of the horizontal plateau of the sellar floor between the carotid sulcus. The volume is calculated by applying the simplified mathematical formula for the volume of an ellipsoid, namely, volume (cm3) = 0.5 (length × width × depth in mm)/1000. The upper limit of normal depth is 13 mm; length, 17 mm; width, 15 mm; and volume, 1100 mm (15).
The superior aspect of each greater wing is concave upward and is filled by the pole of each temporal lobe. The foramen rotundum, ovale, and spinous are located, from anterior to posterior, near the junction of the body and greater wing. When viewed from inferiorly, the vomer, a separate bone, frequently remains attached to the anterior half of the body of the sphenoid, and its most anterior portion separates the sphenoid ostia.
The pterion and the keyhole are two important anatomic landmarks in the region of the greater wing in the lateral view (Fig. 8.5). The pterion is located over the upper part of the greater wing and approximates the site of the lateral end of the sphenoid ridge. The keyhole is located just behind the junction of the temporal line and the zygomatic process of the frontal bone, several centimeters anterior to the pterion. A burr hole placed over the pterion will be located at the lateral end of the sphenoid ridge. A burr hole placed at the keyhole will expose the orbit in its lower part and dura over the frontal lobe in its upper part.
The sphenoid sinus separates the cavernous sinuses, the cavernous segments of the carotid arteries, and the optic, extraocular, and trigeminal nerves. In addition, it separates the pituitary gland from the nasal cavity. The sphenoid sinus is subject to considerable variation in size and shape and to variation in the degree of pneumatization (Figs. 8.5, 8.7, and 8.8) (4, 8). It is present as minute cavities at birth, but its main development takes place after puberty. In early life, it extends backward into the presellar area and subsequently expands into the area below and behind the sella turcica, reaching its full size during adolescence. As the sinus enlarges, it may partially encircle the optic canals. When the sinus is exceptionally large, it extends into the roots of the pterygoid processes or greater wing of the sphenoid bone and may even extend into the basilar part of the occipital bone. As age advances, the sinus frequently undergoes further enlargement associated with absorption of its bony walls. Occasionally there are gaps in its bone, with the mucous membrane lying directly against the dura mater.
There are three types of sphenoid sinus in the adult: conchal, presellar, and sellar types, depending on the extent to which the sphenoid bone is pneumatized (Fig. 8.5). In the conchal type, the area below the sella is a solid block of bone without an air cavity. In the presellar type of sphenoid sinus, the air cavity does not penetrate beyond a vertical plane parallel to the anterior sellar wall. The sellar type of sphenoid sinus is the most common, and here the air cavity extends into the body of sphenoid below the sella and as far posteriorly as the clivus. In our previous study in adult cadavers, this sinus was of a presellar type in 24% and of the sellar type in 76% (15). The conchal type is most common in children before the age of 12 years, at which time pneumatization begins within the sphenoid sinus. In the conchal type, which is infrequent in the adult, the thickness of bone separating the sella from the sphenoid sinus is at least 10 mm.
The depth of the sphenoid sinus is defined as the distance from the ostium of the sphenoid sinus to the closest part of the sella (Fig. 8.8). In the adult, the average anterior-posterior diameter of the cavity has been found to be 17 mm (range, 12–23 mm) (4). This measurement defines the length of the path within the sinus through which instruments must pass to reach the sellar wall and is important when selecting instruments for transsphenoidal surgery. The speculum most commonly used for transsphenoidal surgery is 9 cm in length and its tip should be placed anterior to the sphenoid sinus. In reaching the floor of the sella turcica, the depth of the sphenoid sinus (2 cm or more) is added to the 9 cm length of the speculum. Thus, after traversing a distance of 11 to 12 cm, the dissecting instruments must then enter the sella turcica and be able to reach above the sella if a suprasellar tumor is present. The distance may be greater in the presence of acromegaly; therefore, it is important that transsphenoidal instruments have shafts at least 12 cm in length. Some transsphenoidal instruments have shafts 9.5 cm in length, barely long enough to reach through the speculum into the sphenoid sinus. The fact that important neural and vascular structures are exposed either in the lateral sinus wall, directly lateral to the sella, or above the diaphragma sellae, especially if the latter is defective, has led the author to prefers blunt rather than sharp ring curettes for dissection in these areas.
Another measurement important in transsphenoidal surgery is the thickness of the anterior sellar wall and sellar floor. In our previous study, in the sellar type of sinus, the thickness of the anterior sellar wall ranged from 0.1 to 0.7 mm (mean, 0.4 mm) as compared with 0.3 to 1.5 mm (mean, 0.7 mm) for the presellar type. The thickness of bone covering the sinus was defined at the planum sphenoidale, tuberculum sellae, anterior sellar wall, sellar floor, and the clivus. The thickest bone was found at the clivus and tuberculum sellae and the thinnest along the anterior sellar wall (15, 21).
The septae within the sphenoid sinus vary greatly in size, shape, thickness, location, completeness, and relation to the sellar floor (Fig. 8.9). The cavities within the sinus are seldom symmetrical from side to side and are often subdivided by irregular minor septae. The septae are often located off the midline as they cross the floor of the sella. In our previous study, a single major septum separated the sinus into two large cavities in only 68% of specimens, and even in these cases, the septae were often located off the midline or were deflected to one side (15). The most common type of sphenoid sinus has multiple small cavities in the large paired sinuses. The smaller cavities are separated by septae oriented in all directions. Computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging of the sella provide the definition of the relationship of the septae to the floor of the sella needed for transsphenoidal surgery. Major septae may be found as far as 8 mm off the midline (15).
The internal carotid artery rests directly against the lateral surface of the body of the sphenoid bone, and its course is marked by a groove in the bone, the carotid sulcus, that defines the course of the intracavernous portion of the carotid artery. As the sphenoid sinus expands and its walls resorb, the carotid sulcus produces a prominence within the sinus wall below the floor and along the anterior margin of the sella (Figs. 8.6, 8.8, and 8.10) (4, 15). This prominence is most pronounced with maximal pneumatization of the sphenoid and varies from a small focal bulge to a serpiginous elevation marking the full course of the carotid artery along the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus. The carotid prominence can be divided into three parts: the retrosellar, infrasellar, and presellar segments. The first part, the retrosellar segment, is located in the posterolateral part of the sinus. This segment of the prominence is present only in well-pneumatized sellar-type sinuses in which the air cavity extends laterally in the area below the dorsum. The second part, the infrasellar segment, is located below the sellar floor. The third part, the presellar segment, is located anterolateral to the anterior sellar wall. Of the 50 specimens we examined, 98% had presellar, 80% had infrasellar, and 78% had retrosellar prominences (15, 17). Any part of the prominence may be present and the others absent. If all three parts are present and connected, they form a serpiginous bulge marking the full course of the carotid artery. In the normal sinus, the presellar part extends to the anterior sellar wall. The anterior sellar wall is located anterior to the carotid prominence when the sella is greatly expanded by tumor.
Only the presellar part of the carotid prominence is present in a presellar type of sphenoid sinus, and it is this part that is also most frequently present in the sellar type of sinus. The corresponding arterial segments are slightly longer than the segments of the prominence because of tortuosity of the artery. This tortuosity, although present, is limited by the dural walls of the cavernous sinus, particularly if the artery is encircled by a ring of bone formed by the union of the anterior and middle clinoid processes. Serial coronal sections through the cavernous sinus show that the artery does not always nestle into the bony carotid sulcus on the intracranial surface of the sphenoid bone, but is separated from it by an extension of the cavernous sinus.
The bone separating the artery and the sphenoid sinus is thinner over the anterior than the posterior parts of the carotid prominence and is thinnest over the part of the artery just below the tuberculum sellae. In our study, a layer of bone less than 0.5 mm thick separated the artery and sinus in nearly 90% of sinuses, and areas of absence of bone between the artery and the sinus were present in nearly 10%. Such defects in the bone separating the sphenoid sinus and carotid arteries may occur bilaterally. In our study of 50 sinuses, the bone separating the artery and the sinus was as thick as 1.0 mm (4). The bone over the carotid arteries was frequently as thin or thinner than that separating the anterior surface of the pituitary gland and the sphenoid sinus. The intracranial surface of the sphenoid bone was covered by periosteum, and this and the sinus mucosa separated the air cavity and carotid arteries if no bone was present.
The proximity of the carotid prominences to the midline is important in pituitary surgery. The transverse separation between the carotid prominences of each side was measured at the level of the tuberculum sellae, anterior sellar wall, sellar floor, dorsum sellae, and clivus. The shortest distance between both carotid bulges into the sphenoid sinus is usually located at the level of the tuberculum sellae (Figs. 8.4, 8.7, and 8.10). In our specimens, the shortest distance between both carotid prominences of each side was located just below the tuberculum in 72%, at the level of the floor of the sella in 20%, and at the clivus in 8% (4).
The optic canals protrude into the superolateral portion of the sinus. The superior orbital fissure produces a smooth wide prominence in the midlateral wall below the optic canal, and the maxillary nerve frequently protrudes into the inferolateral part. There are areas where no bone separates the optic sheath and sinus mucosa (Figs. 8.2, 8.10, and 8.11). In nearly 80% of the optic nerves, less than 0.5 mm of bone separated the optic nerve and sheath from the sinus. Care must be taken to avoid damage to the nerves in the transsphenoidal approach, if a dehiscence of the bone covering exposes them in the sinus. Injury to nerves exposed in the sinus wall may explain some cases of unexpected visual loss after transsphenoidal surgery (13, 20).
A pneumatized diverticulum of the sinus, called the opticocarotid recess, often extends laterally into the optic strut between the optic canal and the prominence overlying the carotid artery and superior orbital fissure (Figs. 8.2, 8.10, and 8.11). This pneumatization may extend through the optic strut into the anterior clinoid process, thus creating a channel through which cerebrospinal fluid can leak into the sinus after an anterior clinoidectomy with resulting cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea.
The diaphragma sellae forms the roof of the sella turcica (Fig. 8.1). It covers the pituitary gland, except for a small central opening in its center, which transmits the pituitary stalk. The diaphragma is more rectangular than circular, tends to be convex or concave rather than flat, and is thinner around the infundibulum and somewhat thicker at the periphery. It frequently is a thin, tenuous structure that would not be an adequate barrier for protecting the suprasellar structures during transsphenoidal operation. In an earlier anatomic study, Renn and Rhoton (15) found that the diaphragma was at least as thick as one layer of dura in 38% and in most cases it furnishes an adequate barrier during transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. In the remaining 62%, the diaphragma was extremely thin over some portion of the pituitary gland. It was concave when viewed from above in 54% of the specimens, convex in 4%, and flat in 42%. Even when flat, it lies below the plane of the upper surface of the anterior clinoid process so that a medially projecting supradiaphragmatic lesion, such as an aneurysm, may seem on neuroradiological studies to be located below the anterior clinoid and within the cavernous sinus when they are above the diaphragm in the subarachnoid space.
The opening in the diaphragm’s center is large when compared with the size of the pituitary stalk. The diaphragmal opening was 5 mm or more in 56% of our cases, and in these, it would not form a barrier during transsphenoidal pituitary surgery. The opening was round in 54% of the cases, and elliptical with the short diameter of the ellipse oriented in an anterior-posterior direction in 46%. A deficiency of the diaphragma sellae is assumed to be a precondition to formation of an empty sella. An outpouching of the arachnoid protruded through the central opening in the diaphragma into the sella turcica in approximately half of the patients. This outpouching, if opened, represents a potential source of postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leakage (13).
When exposed from above by opening the diaphragma, the superior surface of the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland is lighter in color than the anterior lobe (Fig. 8.1). The anterior lobe wraps around the lower part of the pituitary stalk to form the pars tuberalis (16, 21). The posterior lobe is softer, almost gelatinous, and is more densely adherent to the sellar wall. The anterior lobe is firmer and is more easily separated from the sellar walls. The gland’s width is the same or more than either its depth or its length in most patients. Its inferior surface usually conforms to the shape of the sellar floor, but its lateral and superior margins vary in shape because these walls are composed of soft tissue rather than bone. If there is a large opening in the diaphragma, the gland tends to be concave superiorly in the area around the stalk. The superior surface may become triangular as a result of being compressed laterally and posteriorly by the carotid arteries. As the anterior lobe is separated from the posterior lobe, there is a tendency for the pars tuberalis to be retained with the posterior lobe. Small intermediate lobe cysts are frequently encountered during separation of the anterior and posterior lobes.
Pituitary Gland and Carotid Artery
The distance separating the medial margin of the carotid artery and the lateral surface of the pituitary gland is an important consideration in transsphenoidal surgery (Figs. 8.6, 8.7, and 8.10). There is often a separation between the lateral surface of the gland and the carotid artery. In our cases where the artery did not indent the gland, the distance between the gland and artery varied from 1 to 7 mm (average, 2.3 mm); however, in approximately one in four cases, the artery protruded through the medial wall of the cavernous sinus to indent the gland (Fig. 8.1J) (9, 15). In these cases, the gland loses its spherical shape and conforms to the wall of the artery, often developing protrusions above or below the artery. In these cases, it would be difficult to remove the entire gland during transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. Such residual fragments may explain the pituitary function that remains after attempted hypophysectomy. Intrasellar tumors are subjected to the same forces, which prevent them from being spherical, and the increased pressure within the tumor increases the degree to which the tumor insinuates into surrounding crevices and tissue planes. Separation of these extensions from the main mass of gland or tumor may explain cases in which the tumor and elevated pituitary hormone levels persist or recur after adenoma removed.
The proximity of the carotid arteries to the midline is extremely important in pituitary surgery. In a previous study, the shortest distance between the two carotid arteries was found in the supraclinoid area in 82% of the cases, in the cavernous sinus along the side of the sella in 14%, and in the sphenoid sinus in 4% (15). Arterial bleeding during transsphenoidal surgery has been reported as due to carotid artery injury, but may also have arisen from a tear in an arterial branch of the carotid, such as the inferior hypophyseal artery, or by avulsion of a small capsular artery from the carotid artery (13).
Intercavernous Venous Connections
Venous sinuses that interconnect the paired cavernous sinuses may be found in the margins of the diaphragma and around the gland (Figs. 8.1, 8.6, 8.11, and 8.12) (15). The intercavernous connections within the sella are named on the basis of their relationship to the pituitary gland; the anterior intercavernous sinuses pass anterior to the hypophysis, and the posterior intercavernous sinuses pass behind the gland. Actually, these intercavernous connections can occur at any site along the anterior, inferior, or posterior surface of the gland, or all connections between the two sides may be absent. The anterior intercavernous sinus may cover the whole anterior wall of the sella. The anterior sinus is usually larger than the posterior sinus, but either or both may be absent. If the anterior and posterior connections coexist, the whole structure constitutes the “circular sinus.” Entering an anterior intercavernous connection that extends downward in front of the gland during transsphenoidal operation may produce brisk bleeding. However, this usually stops with temporary compression of the channel with hemostatic foam or with light coagulation, which serves to glue the walls of the channel together.
A large intercavernous venous connection called the basilar sinus passes posterior to the dorsum sellae and upper clivus connecting the posterior aspect of both cavernous sinuses (Figs. 8.6, 8.7, and 8.11). The basilar sinus is the largest and most constant intercavernous connection across the midline. The superior and inferior petrosal sinuses join the basilar sinus. The abducent nerve often enters the posterior part of the cavernous sinus by passing through the basilar sinus.
The cavernous sinuses are located on each side of the sphenoid sinus, sella, and pituitary gland (Figs. 8.6, 8.7, and 8.11). They extend from the superior orbital fissure in front to the petrous apex behind and surround the horizontal portion of the carotid artery. The medial wall of the paired cavernous sinuses form the lateral boundary of the sella. Sellar tumors frequently extend into the cavernous sinus (9). The cavernous sinuses are described in greater detail in Chapter 9.
The intracavernous portion of the carotid artery begins lateral to the posterior clinoid process where it leaves the foramen lacerum and turns abruptly forward to enter into the cavernous sinus (Figs. 8.6–8.8, 8.10, and 8.11). It then passes forward in a horizontal direction for approximately 2 cm and terminates by passing upward along the medial side to the anterior clinoid process, where it penetrates the roof of the cavernous sinus. The cavernous carotid is relatively fixed by the bony ring formed by the anterior and middle clinoid processes and the carotid sulcus, but despite this, large extensions of pituitary tumor may produce lateral displacement of the artery.
The branches of the intracavernous portion of the carotid artery that supply the sellar contents are the meningohypophyseal trunk, the largest intracavernous branch, which gives rise to the inferior hypophyseal artery, and McConnell’s capsular arteries, which arise directly from the internal carotid artery (Figs. 8.6, 8.7, and 8.11). The meningohypophyseal trunk arises at the level of the dorsum sellae at or just before the apex of the first curve of the carotid where it turns forward after leaving the carotid canal. The inferior hypophyseal artery arises from the meningohypophyseal trunk and passes medially to the posterior pituitary capsule and lobe, and anastomoses with its mate of the opposite side after supplying the dura of the sellar floor. McConnell’s capsular arteries are frequently absent and, if present, arise from the medial side of the carotid artery and pass to the capsule of the gland or the dura lining the anterior wall and floor of the sella.
The location of the nerves in the wall of the cavernous sinus are, from superior to inferior, the IIIrd cranial nerve superiorly and then the trochlear, ophthalmic, and abducens nerves (Figs. 8.6 and 8.10). The oculomotor, trochlear, and ophthalmic nerves lie between the two dural leaves of the lateral sinus wall. The abducens courses within the sinus on the medial side of the ophthalmic nerve and is adherent to the carotid artery medially and the ophthalmic nerve laterally. The IIIrd and IVth cranial nerves enter the dural roof of the cavernous sinus with the IIIrd nerve in front and medial to the IVth nerve. The IIIrd nerve enters the cavernous sinus slightly lateral and anterior to the dorsum sellae, almost directly above the meningohypophyseal trunk. The ophthalmic nerve enters the cavernous sinus wall inferiorly and slopes slightly upward to depart through the superior orbital fissure (Fig. 8.6). The VIth cranial nerve enters the lower part of the posterior wall of the sinus, bends laterally around the proximal portion of the intracavernous carotid, and runs parallel to the ophthalmic nerve between the ophthalmic nerve and intercavernous carotid. It usually enters the sinus as a single bundle, but may also be split into two bundles in the subarachnoid space before reaching the sinus. After entering the sinus, it may split into multiple, as many as five, rootlets as it courses between the internal carotid artery and ophthalmic nerve, but these collect together to form a single bundle that passes through the superior orbital fissure.
SUPRASELLAR AND THIRD VENTRICULAR REGION
This section of the chapter deals with the neural, arterial, and venous relationships in the suprasellar and third ventricular regions that are important in planning surgery for pituitary adenomas and tumors arising in the sella. The anatomy important to dealing with tumors within the third ventricle is dealt with in Chapter 5.
Ventricular and Cisternal Relationships
Tumors arising in the sella often extend upward into the suprasellar cisterns to compress the floor of the third ventricle and involve the circle of Willis and deep cerebral venous system (Fig. 8.13) (25). The area involved by those tumors arising in the sellae corresponds to the anterior incisural space located between the free edges of the tentorium and the front of the midbrain. The anterior incisural space corresponds roughly to the suprasellar area. From the front of the midbrain it extends obliquely forward and upward around the optic chiasm to the subcallosal area. It opens laterally into the sylvian fissure and posteriorly between the uncus and the brainstem.
The part of the anterior incisural space located below the optic chiasm has posterior and posterolateral walls (14, 19). The posterior wall is formed by the cerebral peduncles. The posterolateral wall is formed by the anterior third of the uncus, which hangs over the free edge above the oculomotor nerve. The infundibulum of the pituitary gland crosses the anterior incisural space to reach the opening in the diaphragma sellae. The part of the anterior incisural space situated above the optic chiasm is limited superiorly by the rostrum of the corpus callosum, posteriorly by the lamina terminalis, and laterally by the part of the medial surfaces of the frontal lobes located below the rostrum.
The anterior incisural space opens laterally into the part of the sylvian fissure situated below the anterior perforated substance. The anterior limb of the internal capsule, the head of the caudate nucleus, and the anterior part of the lentiform nucleus are located above the anterior perforated substance. The interpeduncular cistern, which sits in the posterior part of the anterior incisural space between the cerebral peduncles and the dorsum sellae, communicates anteriorly with the chiasmatic cistern, which is located below the optic chiasm. The interpeduncular and chiasmatic cisterns are separated by Liliquist’s membrane, an arachnoidal sheet extending from the dorsum sellae to the anterior edge of the mamillary bodies. The chiasmatic cistern communicates around the optic chiasm with the cisterna laminae terminalis, which lies anterior to the lamina terminalis.
The optic and oculomotor nerves and the posterior part of the olfactory tracts pass through the suprasellar region and anterior incisural space (Figs. 8.6, 8.11, and 8.13). Each olfactory tract runs posteriorly and splits just above the anterior clinoid process to form the medial and lateral olfactory striae, which course along the anterior margin of the anterior perforated substance.
The optic nerves and chiasm and the anterior part of the optic tracts cross the anterior incisural space. The optic nerves emerge from the optic canals medial to the attachment of the free edges to the anterior clinoid processes and are directed posteriorly, superiorly, and medially toward the optic chiasm. From the chiasm, the optic tracts continue in a posterolateral direction around the cerebral peduncles to enter the middle incisural spaces. The optic nerve proximal to its entrance into the optic canal is covered by a reflected leaf of dura mater, the falciform process, which extends medially from the anterior clinoid process across the top of the optic nerve. The length of nerve covered only by the dura of the falciform process at the intracranial end of the optic canal may vary from less than 1 mm to as much as 1 cm (15). Coagulation of the dura above the optic nerve just proximal to the optic canal on the assumption that bone separates the dura mater from the nerve could lead to nerve injury. Compression of the optic nerve against the sharp edge of the falciform process may result in a visual field deficit, even if the compressing lesion does not damage the nerve enough to cause visual loss. Normally, the optic nerve is separated medially from the sphenoid sinus by a thin layer of bone, but if the sinus is well pneumatized, this bone is absent, and the optic nerves may protrude directly into the sphenoid sinus, separated from the sinus by only mucosa and the dural sheath of the nerve (4, 15).
The optic chiasm is situated at the junction of the anterior wall and floor of the third ventricle (Fig. 8.13). The anterior cerebral and anterior communicating arteries, the lamina terminalis, and the third ventricle are located above the chiasm. The tuber cinereum and the infundibulum are posterior to, the internal carotid arteries are lateral to, and the diaphragma sellae and pituitary gland are below the optic chiasm. The suprachiasmatic recess of the third ventricle is located between the chiasm and lamina terminalis. The infundibular recess extends into the base of the pituitary stalk behind the optic chiasm. The relationship of the chiasm to the sella is an important determinant of the ease with which the pituitary fossa can be exposed by the transfrontal surgical route (Figs. 8.13 and 8.14). The normal chiasm overlies the diaphragma sellae and the pituitary gland, the prefixed chiasm overlies the tuberculum, and the postfixed chiasm overlies the dorsum. In approximately 70% of our cases, the chiasm is in the normal position; of the remaining 30%, approximately half are “prefixed” and half “postfixed” (15).
A prominent tuberculum sellae may restrict access to the sellae, even in the presence of a normal chiasm. The tuberculum may vary from being almost flat to protruding upward as much as 3 mm, and it may project posteriorly to the margin of a normal chiasm (15). A prefixed chiasm, a normal chiasm with a small area between the tuberculum and the chiasm, and a superior protruding tuberculum sellae do not limit exposure by the transsphenoidal approach, but they limit the access to the suprasellar area provided by the transcranial approach. There are several methods of gaining access to the suprasellar area when these variants are present. One is to expose the sphenoid sinus from above by opening through the tuberculum and planum sphenoidale, thus converting the approach to a transfrontal-transsphenoidal exposure. If the chiasm is prefixed and the tumor is seen through a thin, stretched arterial wall of the third ventricle, the lamina terminalis may be opened to expose the tumor, but this exposure is infrequently used for pituitary adenomas, and they more commonly form craniopharyngiomas and gliomas involving the third ventricle. If the space between the carotid artery and the optic nerve has been enlarged, by a lateral or parasellar extension of tumor, the tumor may be removed through this space (16, 23).
An understanding of the relationship of the carotid artery, optic nerve, and anterior clinoid process is fundamental to all surgical approaches to the sellar and parasellar areas (Figs. 8.6 and 8.13). The carotid artery and the optic nerve are medial to the anterior clinoid process. The artery exits the cavernous sinus beneath and slightly lateral to the optic nerve. The optic nerve pursues a posteromedial course toward the chiasm, and the carotid artery pursues a posterolateral course toward its bifurcation below the anterior perforated substance into the anterior and middle cerebral arteries in the area.
The oculomotor nerve arises in the interpeduncular cistern from the midbrain on the medial side of the cerebral peduncle and courses between the posterior cerebral and superior cerebellar arteries (Figs. 8.6 and 8.13). The oculomotor nerve courses in the lateral wall of the interpeduncular cistern and forms the pillars to which Liliquist’s membrane attaches. Liliquist’s membrane arises from the arachnoid membrane covering the dorsum sellae and separates the chiasmatic and interpeduncular cisterns. The uncus of the temporal lobe is situated lateral to the oculomotor nerve. The oculomotor nerve pierces the roof of the cavernous sinus and slopes downward in the superolateral corner of the cavernous sinus.
The trochlear nerve is the longest and thinnest cranial nerve (Fig. 8.6). It arises from the midbrain below the inferior colliculi and passes around the brainstem near the junction of the midbrain and pons to reach the lower margin of the tentorial edge. The trochlear nerve pierces the medial edge of the tentorium and enters the roof of the cavernous sinus just behind the anterior tentorial attachment.
The abducens nerve arises at the lower margin of the pons and passes above, below, or is split into two bundles by the anteroinferior cerebellar artery (Fig. 8.6). It passes upward in the prepontine cistern and turns forward at the upper border of the petrous apex, where it pierces the dura to enter the posterior part of the cavernous sinus.
The trigeminal nerve arises on the posterior fossa from the midpons. The posterior root passes above the petrous apex to enter Meckel’s cave, which is located lateral to the cavernous sinus. Meckel’s cave extends forward to the level of the trigeminal ganglion. The nerve divides into the three divisions at the anterior edge of the ganglion. The ophthalmic division courses in the lower anterior part of the cavernous sinus. The maxillary nerve courses just below the cavernous sinus, where its medial side produces a prominence in the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus, just before exiting the foramen rotundum, to enter the pterygopalatine fossa.
The arterial relationships in the suprasellar area are among the most complex in the head, because this area contains all the components of the circle of Willis (6) (Figs. 8.15 and 8.16). Numerous arteries, including the internal carotid and basilar arteries and the circle of Willis and its branches, may be stretched around tumors in this area. The posterior part of the circle of Willis and the apex of the basilar artery are located in the anterior incisural space below the floor of the third ventricle; the anterior part of the circle of Willis and the anterior cerebral and anterior communicating arteries are intimately related to the anterior wall of the third ventricle; both the anterior and posterior cerebral arteries send branches into the roof of the third ventricle; the internal carotid, anterior choroidal, anterior and posterior cerebral, and anterior and posterior communicating arteries give rise to perforating branches that reach the walls of the third ventricle and anterior incisural space; and all the arterial components of the circle of Willis and the adjacent segments of the carotid and basilar arteries and their perforating branches may be stretched around suprasellar extensions of pituitary tumors (17).
The carotid artery is the most medial structure within the cavernous sinus. The internal carotid artery exits the cavernous sinus along the medial surface of the anterior clinoid process to reach the anterior incisural space (Figs. 8.4, 8.6, 8.15, and 8.16). After entering this space, it courses posteriorly, superiorly, and laterally to reach the site of its bifurcation below the anterior perforated substance. It is first below and then lateral to the optic nerve and chiasm. It sends perforating branches to the optic nerve, chiasm, and tract and to the floor of the third ventricle. These branches pass across the interval between the internal carotid artery and the optic nerve and may serve as an obstacle to the operative approaches directed through the triangular space between the internal carotid artery, the optic nerve, and the anterior cerebral artery. The internal carotid artery also gives off the superior hypophyseal artery, which runs medially below the floor of the third ventricle to reach the tuber cinereum and joins its mate of the opposite side to form a ring around the infundibulum.
The ophthalmic artery, the first branch of the internal carotid artery above the cavernous sinus, usually arises and enters the optic canal below the optic nerve (Figs. 8.7, 8.8, 8.10, and 8.11). Its origin and proximal segment may be visible below the optic nerve without retracting the nerve, although elevation of the optic nerve away from the carotid artery is usually required to see the segment proximal to the optic foramen. The artery arises from the supraclinoid segment of the carotid artery in most cases, but some arise within the cavernous sinus or rarely as a branch of the middle meningeal artery (9, 12, 15).
The posterior communicating artery arises from the posterior wall of the internal carotid artery and courses posteromedially below the optic tracts and the floor of the third ventricle to join the posterior cerebral artery (Figs. 8.15 and 8.16). Its branches penetrate the floor between the optic chiasm and the cerebral peduncle and reach the thalamus, hypothalamus, subthalamus, and internal capsule. Its posterior course varies, depending on whether the artery provides the major supply to the distal posterior cerebral artery. If it is normal, with the posterior cerebral artery arising predominately from the basilar artery, it is directed posteromedially above the oculomotor nerve toward the interpeduncular fossa. If the posterior cerebral artery has a fetal-type configuration in which it arises predominantly from the carotid artery, the posterior communicating artery is directed posterolaterally above or below and lateral to the oculomotor nerve.
The anterior choroidal artery arises from the posterior surface of the internal carotid artery above the origin of the posterior communicating artery (Figs. 8.15 and 8.16). It is directed posterolaterally below the optic tract between the uncus and cerebral peduncle. It passes through the choroidal fissure behind the uncus to supply the choroid plexus in the temporal horn, sending branches into the optic tract and posterior part of the third ventricular floor that reach the optic radiations, globus pallidus, internal capsule, midbrain, and thalamus.
The anterior cerebral artery arises from the internal carotid artery below the anterior perforated substance and courses anteromedially above the optic nerve and chiasm to reach the interhemispheric fissure, where it is joined to the opposite anterior cerebral artery by the anterior communicating artery (Figs. 8.15 and 8.16). The junction of the anterior communicating artery with the right and left A1 segments is usually above the chiasm rather than above the optic nerves. The shorter A1 segments are stretched tightly over the chiasm, and the larger ones pass anteriorly over the nerves. Displacement of the chiasm against these arteries may result in visual loss before that caused by direct compression of the visual pathways by the tumor. The arteries with a more forward course are often tortuous and elongated, and some may course forward and rest on the tuberculum sellae or planum sphenoidale. The anterior cerebral and anterior communicating arteries give rise to perforating branches that terminate in the whole anterior wall of the third ventricle and reach the adjacent parts of the hypothalamus, fornix, septum pellucidum, and striatum. The recurrent branch of the anterior cerebral artery, frequently encountered in the area, arises from the anterior cerebral artery in the region of the anterior communicating artery, courses laterally above the bifurcation of the internal carotid artery, and enters the anterior perforated substance.
The bifurcation of the basilar artery into the posterior cerebral arteries is located in the posterior part of the suprasellar area below the posterior half of the floor of the third ventricle (Figs. 8.11, 8.15, and 8.16). A high basilar bifurcation may indent the floor. The posterior cerebral artery courses laterally around the cerebral peduncle, above the oculomotor nerve, and passes between the uncus and the cerebral peduncle to reach the quadrigeminal cistern. Its branches reach the floor, roof, and posterior and lateral walls of the third ventricle. The thalamoperforating arteries are a pair of larger perforating branches that arise from the proximal part of the posterior cerebral artery in the sellar region and enter the brain through the posterior part of the third ventricular floor and the lateral walls. The author is aware of several cases in which damage to the thalamoperforating branches occurred during transsphenoidal surgery after opening of the posterosuperior part of the tumor capsule, with resulting coma and death.
Veins do not pose a formidable obstacle to operative approaches to the suprasellar area and lower part of the third ventricle as they do in the region of the roof and posterior third ventricle, because the veins in the suprasellar region are small. The suprasellar area is drained, almost totally, by tributaries of the basal vein. The basal veins are formed by the union of veins draining the suprasellar area, and proceed posteriorly between the midbrain and the temporal lobes to empty into the internal cerebral or great vein. The internal cerebral veins course in the roof of the third ventricle and are only infrequently involved in pituitary adenomas. They originate just behind the foramen of Monro and course posteriorly within the velum interpositum. They join above or posterior to the pineal body to form the great vein.
DISCUSSION AND OPERATIVE APPROACHES
The fact that the pituitary fossa is usually separated from the sphenoid sinus by only a thin layer of bone led to the transsphenoidal route being used for operations on sellar tumors as early as 1907 (Figs. 8.2, 8.8, 8.10, and 8.11) (2, 10, 24). The approach subsequently fell into disfavor because of the high incidence of complications and the difficulty in operating through such a deep, narrow exposure. The modern redevelopment of this approach began with Dott and Bailey of Edin burgh (3) who learned the technique from Cushing and later taught it to Guiot of France (7). Guiot reintroduced this technique, using radiofluoroscopy to visualize the depth and position of the surgical instruments, and this, in combination with the illumination and magnification provided by the operating microscope, afforded the possibility of a safer approach and more accurate visualization of normal and pathological tissues (7, 8). Guiot taught the method to Hardy of Montreal (8) and both Guiot and Hardy’s work reflects the improvement in the procedure brought about by the use of the operating microscope and radiofluoroscopy. Since its reintroduction, it has become the method of choice for removal of nearly all micro- and macroadenomas of the pituitary gland and selected other sellar tumors, including tumors with suprasellar extensions if they extend from and are centered above an enlarged sella turcica. The use of the transsphenoidal approach for clival and upper midline posterior fossa lesions is reviewed in Chapter 6 of the Millennium issue of Neurosurgery (18).
Several routes through the nasal cavity have been used to reach the sphenoid sinus (Fig. 8.17). The sublabial approach is directed under the lip and submucosally along the nasal septum to the sphenoid sinus. The transseptal approach avoids the oral cavity and is directed through a small incision along one side of the columella and submucosally along the septum. The endonasal approach, used in recent years by the author, is directed through one nostril, between the concha laterally and the nasal septum medially, and does not require an incision in the nose before reaching the anterior face of the sphenoid. This discussion, in addition to examining the sellar anatomy, also focuses on the microsurgical anatomy of the nasal cavity and other surgical routes to the sella.
Sublabial Transsphenoidal Approach
The head is positioned in a pinion head holder, with lateral fluoroscopy, with the head tilted or rotated so that the surgeon’s direction of view is through the patient’s nasal cavity sphenoid face in front of the sella. The whole procedure is performed using the operating microscope. The upper lip is elevated to expose the buccogingival margin, which is incised transversely from one canine fossa to the other. In the subperiosteal dissection, the upper lip is elevated to expose the osseous nasal floor, the nasal spine, and the lower edge of the lateral rami of the maxilla. The nasal spine and the lateral rami are preserved. With experience, the surgeon can work around rather than removing the nasal spine. We also avoid breaking off the thin edge of the lateral rami during the opening of the speculum, because healing may produce an annoying callus beside the nose. Using subperiosteal and subperichondral dissection, the mucosa is elevated from the nasal septum along the path directed to the sphenoid face.
The nasal speculum is inserted under fluoroscopic control between the septal mucosa on one side and the adjacent septum, with the handle facing superiorly (Figs. 8.17 and 8.18). Dissection misdirected into the area of the cribriform plate may result in a leak of cerebrospinal fluid or a loss of the sense of smell. When the speculum is correctly positioned, the sphenoid ostia situated on each side of the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid will usually lie at the superior end of the exposure. The ostia should mark the upper margins of the opening into the sphenoid sinus. Opening the speculum pushes the remaining cartilaginous and osseous septum to one side and the mucosa on the septum to the other side. Opening the blades of the speculum will provide sufficient compression of the conchae for adequate exposure. Removal of the nasal conchae is not required. If the speculum has been inserted correctly, the junction of the vomer and perpendicular ethmoid plate with the sphenoid face will be oriented vertically in the center of the area between the blades of the speculum, as is essential to maintaining the approach in the midline. There is no need to reposition the speculum during the remainder of the procedure. In the past, it was common to remove a piece of the nasal septum using a knife, scissors, or a Ballinger swivel knife to be used as a splint for closing the sella at the end of the operation, in which case, an anterior strut of septal cartilage should be preserved to maintain a normal postoperative nasal contour. However, the author avoids taking any of the septum and uses the bone harvested in opening the face of the sphenoid sinus to close the sella. A small biodegradable burr hole cover may also be cut to the appropriate size for use as a splint for closing the sella.
The transseptal approach used a short incision adjacent to the columella, usually on the right side, at the mucocutaneous junction (Fig. 8.17). The incision is carried down to the anterior part of the cartilaginous septum and, by using subperichondral dissection, the exposure is advanced submucosally along the anterior edge of the columella to the left side of the nasal septum. The submucosal dissection is directed, by using fluoroscopy, to the sphenoid face. The posterior septum is separated from the sphenoid face in an area of sufficient size, usually 1.0 to 1.5 cm, to allow the tips of the speculum blades to be advanced submucosally along the sphenoid face. With an osteotome, a piece of bone large enough to serve as a splint for sellar closure can usually be harvested from the sphenoid face at the time of opening the sphenoid sinus.
The author has used this type of transsphenoidal approach for the last four years. The view of the microscope is directed through one nostril between the nasal septum and nasal conchae to the sphenoid face below the ostia (Figs. 8.4 and 8.17– 8.19). No incision is needed in the anterior part of the nasal cavity. In the endonasal approach, a hand-held nasal speculum, inserted under fluoroscopy into one nostril between the conchae and nasal septum, is opened to compress the conchae and septum sufficiently that the endonasal transsphenoidal speculum can be advanced through one nostril to the sphenoid face. Removal of the conchae is not required. The junction of the nasal septum with the sphenoid face is the most reliable landmark for maintaining the exposure in the midline. The sphenoid ostia are situated on each side of the perpendicular ethmoid plate and mark the upper limit of the opening into the sphenoid sinus. Dissection misdirected into the area of the cribriform plate is to be avoided. The endonasal speculum is placed in the nasal cavity so that the crest on the sphenoid face at the septum’s junction with the perpendicular ethmoid plate is positioned vertically between the tips of the speculum blades.
Management of Sphenoid Sinus and Sella
The anterior wall of the sinus is opened with a small bayonetted osteotome to yield an exposure in the anterior wall approximately 1.0 to 1.5 cm in diameter. The opening may be tailored to extend predominantly to either side, depending on the size, shape, and location of the tumor. The opening is enlarged to allow passage of instruments of sufficient size and angle to remove the tumor.
The configuration of the interior of the sinus and the location of the septa are noted. The septae may vary in number and position and frequently deviate from the midline (Figs. 8.4, 8.9, and 8.19). The septae are not to be used as a guide to the midline, but may be used as landmarks based on where the preoperative computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging show them to be located in relation to the sella and the tumor. The mucosa of the sphenoid sinus is pushed laterally from the septae as needed to expose the anterior sellar wall. The mucosa is preserved because it facilitates normal sinus drainage. Usually, the mucosa on each side of the septae near the midline of the sinus can be pushed laterally to obtain a clear view of the sinus cavity and the anterior sellar wall. The floor of the sella turcica is usually seen as a smooth bulge in the superior part of the sinus if the opening into the sinus has been positioned correctly based on fluoroscopy. The sella should lie directly ahead of the tips of the speculum on fluoroscopy. The chiasmatic sulcus may produce a subsidiary bulge into the sinus and this, lying superior to the sellar floor, should not be mistaken for the sella turcica. The prominences overlying the optic canals, superior orbital fissure, and maxillary nerve, located in the lateral part of the presellar portion of the sphenoid sinus, are not normally visible with the operating microscope and should not be searched for if the exposure is in the midline; however, they can often be identified using straight and angled endoscopes (Figs. 8.2, 8.8, 8.10, and 8.20). The prominences in the sinus walls overlying the carotid arteries are frequently exposed at the lateral edge of the anterior sellar wall and are not to be confused with the prominence overlying a tumor. The carotid prominences are located just lateral and anterior to the anterior wall of the sella (Figs. 8.2, 8.8, and 8.10). In a few cases, the nerves and arteries will be covered by only sinus mucosa and dura, and in others, the bone covering the optic nerves will be very thin. Therefore, the nerves passing through the optic canal, superior orbital fissure, and foramen rotundum could be injured in the transsphenoidal approach if vigorous attempts are made to strip or curette the mucosa from the walls of the sinus, or if the nasal speculum is advanced to lie within the sinus and is forcefully opened against its lateral walls. The nasal speculum should not be advanced into the sinus, because this does not increase the exposure and may cause damage to the poorly protected arteries and nerves within the sinus walls. Septae within the sinus are removed as needed to expose the anterior sellar wall. The bulge of the sellar floor is usually identifiable, unless the sinus is of a presellar or conchal type, in which case the sellar bulge may not be apparent. However, the floor of the sella turcica should be directly ahead of the long axis of the blades if the speculum has been positioned correctly on lateral fluoroscope and the vertical septal crest is positioned between the tips of the speculum blades.
A thin sellar floor facilitates the transsphenoidal approach. In nearly all adults, the floor will be less than 1 mm thick, and in two-thirds of adults, it will be less than 0.5 mm thick (1, 15). In the latter case, breaching the floor is accomplished by pressure on the bone with a small dissector, curette, or gentle tap on an osteotome. If the bone is thicker than 1 mm, it may be necessary to use the firm, but controlled, tap of a hammer against the osteotome or to remove the anterior wall with a drill.
If a drill is used to breach the sellar floor, the drilling is stopped while there is still a thin plate of bone that can be removed with a small bayonetted bone curette. The sellar opening should not extend along the anterior wall to the chiasmatic sulcus or tuberculum sellae, because an opening in this area is difficult to close, and may be associated with a high incidence of cerebrospinal fluid leakage. The opening in the sellar wall may be enlarged with a Kerrison rongeur if needed. The bone from the face of the sphenoid is saved for use in closing the sella.
By using a No. 11 scalpel blade on a bayonet knife handle, a short vertical incision is made in the dura in the midline. A small blunt right-angled ring curette is inserted through the small vertical dural opening, and the dura is separated from the anterior surface of the gland or tumor. After freeing the dura, a 45-degree-angle alligator scissor, rather than a knife, is selected to open the dura in an x-shaped cut from corner to corner, because a pointed knife may damage the carotid arteries in the far lateral corners of the exposure. The sellar dura is lifted away from the gland or tumor with the distal blade of the 45-degree-angled scissors, so that it can be seen that the cut does not extend into any structure deep to the dura. In some cases, the carotid artery may protrude through the medial wall of the cavernous sinus and indent the tumor and the gland and should not be mistaken for the tumor. Incising the dura on the diagonal from corner to corner provides a wider opening than a cruciate incision directed vertically and horizontally. The upper leaf of dura may be further incised in the midline if exposure over the top of the gland is needed.
After removing the tumor, the thickness of the diaphragma, the size of its opening, and the arrangement of the arachnoid around the pituitary stalk may be apparent. Excessive exploration and dissection, after the tumor is removed, is not a necessary part of most operations for pituitary adenomas and is to be avoided if possible because it may open into the cerebrospinal fluid-filled cisterns. In closing, the sella is filled with a pledget of crushed fat taken through a small skin incision from the subcutaneous tissues of the abdomen. A stent of thin bone, taken from the sphenoid face, is fashioned to fit through the sellar opening to close the defect in the sellar floor. The stent is fitted inside the sellar opening so that it fits snugly inside and overlaps the margin of the sellar opening from inside so that intrasellar and intracranial pressure will press the bone against the opening. The author avoids taking any nasal septum and uses a biodegradable burr hole corner, cut to the appropriate size and shape, if the bone from the sphenoid face is not available, as is frequent with reoperations. The sphenoid mucosa is repositioned and the ostia are inspected to make sure they are open. The sphenoid ostia may be enlarged if they seem small. No packing is placed in the sphenoid sinus unless the tumor has eroded the sellar walls and has filled the sphenoid sinus.
The transsphenoidal speculum is removed after the surgeon has ascertained that hemostasis in the sella and sphenoid sinus is satisfactory. The long hand-held speculum is reinserted, and the walls of the nasal passage on the side of the approach is inspected to make sure that hemostasis in the nasal mucosa is satisfactory and that there is an adequate opening in the anterior wall of the sphenoid sinus, preferably at the site of the ostia, for drainage of sinus secretions. The handheld speculum is then inserted into the opposite nasal passage to make certain there is no bleeding on that side. If hemostasis is excellent, as is almost always the case, no packing is left in the nose. The sphenoid ostia are also inspected to make sure the sphenoid ostia are of adequate size to promote sinus drainage, because an inadequate route of sinus drainage may lead to infection or development of a mucocele. The sinus mucosa is preserved, if possible, because it is essential to normal sinus drainage. Secretions collect in a sinus from which all the mucosa has been stripped unless the sinus has been obliterated with fat and closed.
The posterior wall of the sphenoid sinus forming the clivus may also be opened in the area below the sella with an osteotome or drill (Figs. 8.2 and 8.20). After the initial opening is completed, it can be enlarged with a Kerrison rongeur. If necessary, the clival opening can be extended upward by removing the floor of the sella turcica and downward by removing the floor of the sphenoid sinus.
All of these procedures are performed by using the magnified view and intense light provided by the operating microscope, which may at times be supplemented with the use of endoscopes advanced into the sphenoid, where they are helpful in identifying the structures in the wall of the sphenoid sinus. Advancing the endoscope into the sella is of less value because the tumor, bleeding, and the downwardly herniating diaphragm often obscure the endoscopic view (Fig. 8.20).
Subfrontal Exposure of the Suprasellar Region
A tumor situated between, above, or below the optic nerves and chiasm in the chiasmatic and lamina terminalis cisterns may be approached through a small frontal bone flap with frontal lobe elevation to expose the involved optic nerves and chiasm (Figs. 8.21 and 8.22). The bicoronal (Souttar) scalp incision from the subfrontal approach is located behind the hairline. The scalp flap is reflected forward as a single layer and a small frontal bone flap is positioned just above the supraorbital margin and extending up to the lateral edge of the superior sagittal sinus. The lateral burr hole, above the orbital rim, is positioned at the keyhole site and the medial burr hole usually extends through the front and back wall of the frontal sinus.
This approach is selected for a pituitary adenoma only if the sphenoid sinus is not pneumatized, the sella is small or not of sufficient size to reach the suprasellar extension of the tumor, or if there is an unusual suprasellar extension of the tumor that cannot be reached by the transsphenoidal approach. The subfrontal approach is most commonly used for lesions located between the upper surface of the pituitary gland and lower surface of the optic nerves and chiasm. A pterional craniotomy would be performed if there was a need to expose the area lateral to the anterior clinoid process and supraclinoid segment of the internal carotid artery, and an orbitozygomatic craniotomy might be considered if there was major involvement of the cavernous sinus.
After the area below the frontal lobe is reached, one of four routes may be followed to the tumor. The most commonly used route is the subchiasmatic approach directed between the optic nerves and below the chiasm (Figs. 8.21 and 8.22). Other routes that may be used are the opticocarotid approach directed between the carotid artery and the optic nerve; the transfrontal transsphenoidal approach achieved by drilling off the planum sphenoidale to approach the sella by a combined route; and the lamina terminalis approach directed above the chiasm, medial to the optic tracts, and usually above the anterior communicating artery (20). The subchiasmatic approach is most commonly used because most tumors elevate the chiasm and open the space between the optic nerves and chiasm. The optic carotid approach would be used if the tumor opened or protruded through the space between the optic nerve and carotid artery and the tumor was difficult to reach by the suprachiasmatic approach. The transfrontal-transsphenoidal approach would be used if the chiasm was prefixed and there was a large amount of tumor in the sphenoid sinus, and the lamina terminalis approach would be selected if the chiasm was prefixed and the tumor presented through a thin stretched lamina terminalis.
The fact that the carotid arteries, trigeminal nerves, and optic nerves may be exposed by removing the thin wall of the sphenoid sinus offers the possibility of another surgical approach to these structures; tumors located below and medial to the optic nerve within the optic canal could be approached from this direction; fractures through the optic canal compressing the optic nerve might be decompressed through the sphenoid sinus; and the second trigeminal division might be approached from this direction (Figs. 8.4, 8.8, 8.10, and 8.19). The length of carotid artery exposed in the wall of the sphenoid sinus offers the possibility that the intracavernous segment might be exposed by the transsphenoidal approach for trapping procedures, inserting catheters for obliteration of fistulas, or for specialized contrast studies. The close proximity of the cavernous sinus to the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus offers the possibility that the cavernous sinus might be entered through the thin sphenoidal wall for insertion of wire or other materials used to thrombose arteriovenous fistulas within the cavernous sinus.
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Content from: Rhoton AL, Jr. The sellar region. Neurosurgery 2002;51(4 Suppl):335-374, 10.1097/00006123-200210001-00009. With permission of Oxford University Press on behalf of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.
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If you are an MBA or Master’s applicant, your preparation has probably been affected by the social distancing measures and some canceled services during the Covid-19 outbreak. You might have to study for and take your admissions tests at home, or postpone them altogether.
In any case, there are some steps you can take to get accustomed to this new routine.
Check test updates
First and foremost, make sure you have the latest information about the admissions tests you signed up for and the requirements of business schools and universities. For example, English language proficiency exams such as IELTS have been suspended only in specific locations according to local government measures and recommendations. Other tests such as GRE and GMAT now have at-home versions.
At the same time, some business schools such as London Business School (UK) and Johnson Graduate School of Management (US), which usually require GRE or GMAT scores for admission, have temporarily changed their policies. If you already have a shortlist of universities where you plan to apply, check their current admissions procedure so that you know what steps to take next.
Make the most of online tutoring
As test organizers have made some exams available online at home and are working to provide additional guidance for test takers, you can still get the high score you need. Working and studying at home is a good opportunity to invest some more time in preparing your MBA or Master’s application.
Of course, one option is to make your own study schedule and keep track of your progress by yourself. If you are well-organized and already have a solid base for your preparation, self-prep might be enough to get the score you need.
However, if you don’t feel comfortable with the format and structure of an aptitude test such as the GMAT, it will be a good idea to seek professional advice. Test prep providers and tutors have online alternatives to help you and guide you.
Take study breaks
While it is very important to follow your study schedule at home to be able to get the results you want, taking a break once in a while is just as important. Our brains need rest to make space for new information and to store what we have already learned in our long-term memory.
Many experts suggest the Pomodoro technique to introduce structure in your home studying. It works like this – spend 25 minutes reading or practicing and then take a five-minute break. Rewarding yourself after a productive day of test preparation is also a great idea, according to The Economist:
The reward could be an extra hour of binge-watching your favorite show, eating an indulgent dessert, taking a nap or anything else that you enjoy. This will reinforce good study habits and, of course, it will be a well-deserved treat.
Get fresh air
Staying at home is the responsible thing to do at the moment. However, you also need to stay active and get fresh air when possible to help you recharge physically and mentally.
As long as you follow the official precautions in your home town and country, you should still be able to take a walk while keeping your distance from other people. Maybe you can step out in your backyard or on to your balcony or do some exercises regularly throughout the day.
Look after yourself
Finally, preserving your emotional well-being is essential to be able to overcome these challenging times. If you miss social interaction, try connecting with friends on a video chat platform. Don’t hesitate to explore new activities at home such as cooking or creating art.
Be mindful of the news and information you consume every day as this can make you anxious and distract you from your day-to-day job and studies. In an article for U.S. News & World Report, Tiffany Sorensen, who is a professional tutor, suggests:
You can decide on a fixed number of sources you will read or watch each day, or you can limit your browsing to a specific time frame – for instance, from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day or only in the early morning.
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The Management Company for Assets Arising from the Banking Sector Reorganisation (Sareb) has completed the sale of a loan portfolio without mortgage guarantee to Axactor. The sale comprises financial assets with a par value of €2,335 million.
The transaction – code-named Navia – was completed via a competitive process that allowed Sareb to divest its portfolio of smaller loans that had been left without mortgage guarantee following their foreclosure.
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Sinusitis is an infection and/or inflammation of one or more of the sinus cavities. The medical term, acute sinusitis, is used interchangeably with sinus infection. However, even though it is not always an infection, it is almost always treated with an antibiotic, often inappropriately. Chronic sinusitis is a persistence or reoccurrence of acute sinusitis.
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By following Dr. Ivker’s free Quick Fix program you can reduce the severity, the symptoms and the time to recovery – naturally, without antibiotics or drugs.
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If you have more than one sinus infection in a year, have chronic sinusitis and recurring sinus symptoms, you too can cure your chronic condition, just like Dr. Ivker and thousands of others have done. Get educated: Dr. Ivker’s Sinus Survival On-line Kit. The tutorial series highlights the 10 elements to preventative sinus health to eliminate chronic sinusitis, future sinus infections, and the majority of recurring sinus symptoms, including most allergies and symptoms. The secret to this program is becoming educated on the contributing factors of your inflammation and to follow a road-map to treat the underlying causes which create your symptoms.
What Causes a Sinus Infection? Do I Have a Sinus Infection
A sinus infection is caused by inflammation of the para-nasal cavities caused by irritation of the mucous membrane. There are four pairs of nasal cavities. Inflammation, irritation and or infection can result in one or more nasal cavities. There are a number of factors that contribute to causing this inflammation, most of which can be reduced or eliminated, if you know how (Gold Member Tutorial Kit).
Irritants to the sinuses can be a multiple of varying factors. The chronic sinus sufferer usually has a list of inflammatory factors working against them.
The precursor to inflammation resulting in a sinus infection:
- Any inflammation of the sinuses (mucous membrane)
- Food Allergies causing inflammation
- Barometric pressure changes or temperature changes
- Candida overgrowth or fungal sinusitis
- The common cold
- Viruses, Bacteria
- Stress, Anger and Emotions
- Positive ions
- Cold Air, Dry Air
- Inflammatory foods & Caffeine
The Mucous Membrane is one continuous tissue extending from the tip of the nose to the smallest airway in the lungs. In a sense, it’s like Goretex, a strong protective shield. It allows you to breathe and it protects you from the elements. Because it connects all three parts of the respiratory tract, and when there is infection in the nose, it can easily affect the sinuses and lungs. That is why the common cold often results in a sinus infection, or in people with higher susceptibility, bronchitis or even an asthma attack.
1). Inflamed Mucous Membrane: When the mucous membrane becomes inflamed, the tiny ostia-sinus drainage ducts, connecting the sinus cavities to the back of the nose, which are the diameter of a pencil lead (2mm), get blocked. It doesn’t take much swelling to block these tubes.
2). First Sinus Symptoms: Some of your first symptoms can be a sinus headache, pain behind your cheeks and eyes, and nasal congestion. (Those who follow the Sinus Survival program are armed to take quick action when they feel these symptoms to reduce the inflammation, eliminate the symptoms and to return their sinuses back to optimal health before they get another sinus infection).
3). Additional Mucus Production: The sinuses then produce additional mucus which then create more sinus pressure and headaches.
4). Immobilized Cilia: The additional mucous can immobilize the cilia lining the mucous membrane (whose role is to flush pollutants and particles from the sinuses), obstructing normal sinus drainage and limit the exchange of oxygen from the nose to the lungs (making you feel tired and sluggish). Think of cilia as the cleaning crew of the mucus membrane who have millions of tiny hair-like strands waving back and forth to rinse the sinus and nose from unwanted pollens, particles and viruses.
A biofilm created by harmful bacteria creates dysfunction in the cilia which allow the infected mucus to become stagnant inside the para-nasal cavities creating a dirty and clogged mucous membrane which becomes more irritated, more swollen and infected (think of a cesspool) to present a list of symptoms as a result:
- Sinus Pain behind the eyes, cheek bones, teeth)
- Sinus headache)
- Post nasal drip)
- Runny nose)
- Nasal congestion, the feeling of mucus being “stuck” and won’t drain)
- Green nasal discharge, in the nose and draining down the back of the throat)
- Sluggishness, tiredness, unrested sleep)
- Possible fever)
- Difficulty in recall, “my brain hurts”)
- Joint pain, feeling achy)
- Coughing due to post nasal drip (may become worse at night, especially when sleeping)
How to Eliminate a Sinus Infection Naturally
Follow the Free Dr. Ivker Quick Tips Program – Free Silver Membership
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Additional Links of Interest:
- Why Antibiotics Don’t Work – there’s a better way
- Inflammatory and non-inflammatory foods for the sinus sufferer
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Java Software Engineer / Developer (Ultra Low Latency Linux TCP/IP). Are you a low latency technologist seeking a new role where you can apply your skills on complex systems? You could be joining a tech driven e-trading company as a key part of a small collaborative team discussing ideas, pair programming and creating world class trading systems.
The work is challenging and complex as a Java Software Engineer you will focus on improving and scaling an ultra-low latency, high throughput messaging system, designed for e-trading within the Fixed Income markets which handles around 20 thousand events per second. You'll be continually learning and trying new things to make incremental improvements, solving problems and seeing the results of your work.
You'll be based in modern offices based in the City with a relaxed working environment (sociable, casual dress code). Driven by technology this company is able to offer a remote interview / onboarding process and work from home during the current social distancing measures.
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Don't believe everything you hear about stress!
December 21, 2017
When it feels like there are a million things to do, stress can feel paralysing. We appreciate that some stress keeps us at the top of our game by focusing on a deadline rather than our social media however, too much stress and we think we will crack unable to deal with the job at hand together with life's pressures. For years we have heard people saying stress makes you sick it increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. And we all know how hard it is to admit especially to an employer we are suffering from stress for fear of seen as not coping with the volume or intensity of work.
Good employers invest quite a lot, these days, in ways to help workers bust their stress – on site massage, yoga, meditation or a gym in the workplace or free biscuits being another .
Basically, we have all turned stress into the enemy – but Kelly McGonigal from TED talks shares a different view - one which could just possibly change everyone's minds! McGonigal a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University talks about a Harvard study which tracked 30,000 people over eight years.
Asking people, “how much stress have you experienced in the last year?”’ The doctors also probed whether participants believed that stress was bad for their health – and then looked at the records to see who died. ‘People who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 per cent increased risk of dying. But,’ McGonigal continues, ‘that was ONLY true for the people who also believed stress was also harmful for your health. People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die – in fact, they had the lowest risk of dying of anyone in the study, including people who had very little stress.’ Which, as she points out, makes ‘BELIEVING that stress is bad for you’ get into the 15th largest cause of death, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV Aids and homicide…’
This inspiring new research shows that stress may only negatively affect your health if you believe it will. Learn strategies for stress reduction by re-framing how you view stress — turning it from a negative into a positive and using it to build resilience and connection to others. Listen the the whole talk to make up your own mind. | <urn:uuid:74455515-7f01-424c-83dd-97c56432cffd> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.tenminutemassagecompany.co.uk/single-post/2017/12/21/Dont-believe-everything-you-hear-about-stress | 2020-09-30T09:03:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.977218 | 520 |
For the men and women who work in these departments, these dogs are a lot of things: both beloved pets and co-workers. They come to mean a lot.
So when one former fire dog had to be put down, his human colleagues got together to give him a beautiful send-off, honoring his years of service.
For years, a dog named Quincy was a key part of the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department.
Not only did he find a forever home, he found his destiny: it soon became clear that Quincy had the right temperament to be in the fire department. The previous arson dog had just retired, so Quincy underwent six months of accelerant-detection training to take up the job.
He was invaluable in sniffing out the causes behind fires. “He’s another tool in our toolbox that we use to determine the cause of a fire,” Neuberger said. “For Quincy, it only takes minutes. Sometimes, seconds.”
Quincy served as an arson dog for ten years before retiring in 2018. He worked about 300 calls during his career.
Sadly, Quincy started facing serious health issues. At 12-years-old, it became clear that he was terminally ill and would need to be put down.
But first, this hero dog would get one last visit from his former co-workers: shortly before he was set to be euthanized, over a dozen firefighters showed up to pay their respects.
It was a sad day for everyone. You can see tears in the firefighters’ faces as they pet and say goodbye to Quincy.
But the most emotional moment came when Quincy got his “last call.” The department arranged a dispatch call, like the hundreds Quincy heard during his career, only this time it was a special one just for him.
A voice over the radio touts his amazing career in the department, and then concludes: “Today, he will rest in peace.” You can hear crying in the background.
It was a beautiful, fitting final tribute for a brave dog who dedicated his life to helping others. Quincy was put to sleep shortly after.
“RIP, Quincy,” Clearwater Fire & Rescue wrote on Facebook. “Enjoy all of those wonderful smells with that amazing nose of yours in your next chapter.”
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Traditional concrete can develop cracks through recurring freeze-thaw cycles over time. Cracks expand as it freezes, potentially letting water seep in further pulling it apart. Just as concrete deteriorates, steel structures do too due to inevitable corrosion. The rusted steel eventually wears the entire structure, threatening a crash if not inspected by a safety engineer. Innovations in building materials are rapidly disarming hazards posed by old materials—a British steel company patented a new form of colour-coated steel, galvanized steel, being used as additional protection against adverse environmental factors. Read more here
.Researchers have pondered whether materials could be made as such to bounce back from harsh conditions and vulnerabilities. How about self-healing concrete? Or recycled waste used in insulation works? The construction industry can shave off billions in reworks and repairs of faulty building work while cutting down greenhouse gas emissions. Day by day, the industry is marching toward a progressive era of reusable construction materials and nullifying options that serve no one.Modern construction materials breed modern construction methods. They will bring more strength, safety, and cost-efficiency to structures of tomorrow that’ll enhance their longevity and usability.Here are five new materials boosting the construction sector’s growth.
One of the first scientists to create self-healing concrete, Dr. Schlangen of Delft University has demonstrated that the material can be joined back if its half-sliced pieces are put together and heated in a microwave. This technology innovation can save companies $90 million annually.
Self-healing concrete will help build structures that last—from small shops to skyline-expanding high-rises. These structures will carry minimal repairs and would facilitate easier maintenance. Project owners want to ensure their build not only stays functional in its lifetime but offers incremental benefits to end users, for this to become a widespread reality, builders will have to consider self-healing concrete more aggressively since construction costs are higher with regular concrete that also poses durability threats as the climate worsens.Using the right materials is only half the battle, making decisive shifts on jobsite is the other half. New building materials will need the consensus of all stakeholders down to the last subcontractor on the project. Without it, flaws in construction processes emerge faster than realized which leads to reworks. Contractors are pressed to extend timelines lest quality suffers and to ensure they’re on track, they use punch lists. Get more info
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Studying the effect of built environments on occupants, safety and environment specialists are closer to home with their understanding of indoor air quality. Many indoor air cleansing solutions have been introduced but none as efficient to recognize as a permanent fix to continuing air contamination affecting respiratory health. With traditional solutions, more carbon is emitted into the atmosphere, deteriorating outdoor air as well.Thanks to Cal Poly School of Architecture’s assistant professor, Carmen Trudell, who invented a passive air-cleaning system that puts bricks used on the building’s exterior to filter out toxins and pollutants in the air as it lives inside the space. The air will get funnelled into an internal cyclone filtration section separating heavy elements and dropping them down a hopper at the wall’s base. This pulls clean air into the building with maintenance being only to the extent of removing and emptying the hopper periodically.
Building energy-efficient structures will never go out of style—and, the industry is evolving at breakneck speed to accommodate environmental costs into the build process. One such endeavour is to make cement perform as an energy-saving agent through the process of polycondensation of raw materials including industrial waste, silica, water, alkali, and river sand. Conducted at room temperature, the process uses less energy.
As is popularly echoed, the future is in part influenced by the past—so when researchers look to eco-friendly
new construction materials, they need to grasp what didn’t work with old alternatives. A surge in interest in Roman concrete has thus been stumbled upon as it embodies less energy than the popularly used Portland cement while being much more durable beyond the traditional lifespan of modern architecture. Unexpected weather incidents endanger our infrastructure and buildings for which stronger and energy-efficient materials are important to ensure projects endure the coming times.
Widely used 50 years ago, timber’s use is declining today. But cutting-edge engineering has made timber stronger and durable to support heavy structures.Researchers have developed laminated timber, also called glulam, to create a more water-resistant and durable replacement for wood. This has made timber highly cost-efficient with its current use in projects saving wood usage. Wooden structures absorb a ton of energy and this development couldn’t have been more opportune. Substituting wood with laminated timber would cut down about 3,000 tons of carbon emissions gradually increasing as more builders adopt it.
Reprocessed Scrap Material
Turns out the trash isn’t trash, after all, recycling can make the worst material beneficial. Builders have pioneered the use of recycled scrap such as cardboard, plastics, leftover metal to build structures registering minimal carbon footprints.When cardboard’s recycled, it’s used for high-quality cellulose insulation that outperforms traditional insulation. Replacing dry processes that generated incalculable filth and dust, cellulose insulation renders air clean. Another scrap material recycled is plastic—from small bags to large containers, recycled plastic can last a few times that cuts new plastic production by a significant number. An unprecedented innovation, PET (polyethylene terephthalate) carpets have given a new lease of life to plastics, turning them into fibrous soft reusable carpets with no expiry date that can be used in insulation.
Making materials sustainable isn’t a fad. It’s here to stay. It has been having a big impact on construction in multiple ways beyond direct construction activities. It has helped construction companies expand engineering teams for R&D and safety implementation as these new building materials require periodic upgrades like any new technology.As the industry opens up to eco-friendly substitutes, construction projects would gradually substantially reduce harmful environmental effects. Conscientious builders will get in on the fun early on, leverage competitive edge, and win more bids and public goodwill as they seek to improve the economic status of the sector through redefining how materials are made and used. | <urn:uuid:d66d921a-0609-40e1-9b1c-7b3270d68cdb> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/2019/08/top-modern-construction-materials-boosting-the-sectors-growth.html | 2020-09-30T08:25:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.936322 | 1,318 |
Regina Wilson is a firefighter for the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) and a 9/11 first respondent. She currently works in Engine Company 219, which shares quarters with Ladder Company 105. She has been a member of the department for 18 years and is 1 of only 57 women in a workforce of over 10,700 firefighters. Ms. Wilson is the first female President of the Vulcan Society, an organization of African American Firefighters, EMT’s, Fire Inspectors, Fire Marshals and civilian employees that allows any FDNY employee the opportunity to join regardless of race or ethnic background.
Since the start of her career, Regina has assisted in every FDNY Recruitment drive to help hire applicants for the position of Firefighter and EMT. She was also a proud to serve in the rescue and recovery efforts of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and also Hurricane Sandy in New York. She recently helped pass New York state legislation to update all references to police and firefighters to be gender neutral and to encourage more women to follow in her footsteps.
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Visit ban to TOS VARNSDORF company
These measures are continually adjusted to become even more severe with the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
Ban on visits to TOS VARNSDORF a.s. beginning on March 16, 2020 at 6:00 AM. This applies to the entire company premises.
This visit ban applies until further notice and has one exception: an urgent visit to TOS VARNSDORF a.s. is approved by the General Director Ing. Jan Rydl jr. | <urn:uuid:7a372ba6-0d01-49a0-8822-d5ff25ebc5dc> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.tostrade.com/news/visit-ban-tos-varnsdorf-company.html | 2020-09-30T08:37:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.922171 | 114 |
Water Cooled Twins Technical Talk
I've got a little problem when commuting these days: my '16 Street Twin stalls quite a lot when riding in the city.
At first I blamed myself for misusing the clutch but after a while, I realised it wasn't me but the bike.
- The bike stalls when I twist the throttle very lightly. The... | <urn:uuid:75e3a5b2-08ae-4350-8c79-a1dfbb6239b5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.triumphrat.net/tags/stalling/ | 2020-09-30T09:02:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.939745 | 74 |
Indian Wells caught people off guard when Dominic Thiem was able to overcome the domination of the Big 3 to secure his first Masters 1000 title. Heading into Miami, who has the ability to challenge the Big 3 this time around?
Tagged: Big 3
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You will specialise in an area that is closely related to a field of practical application such as healthcare, dependable systems or learning and knowledge management.
The two-year Master’s in Computer Science comprises 120 credits and is taught entirely in English. It features a clear international orientation. The programme’s overall focus is on the development of ICT systems in their societal context, technological aspects and applications of embedded systems, and on the development process of sophisticated software systems. The programme is organised in semesters. Each semester contains 20 weeks, and is subdivided in two quartiles. The unit of credit is the European Credits (EU). One EC stands for 28 hours of study-load. An academic year is 60 EC. The master’s programme is 120 EC.
While your first year will centre on a core curriculum, you will still have the freedom to customise much of your own programme in line with your own interests and ambitions, subject to approval by the programme mentor. A typical first-year timetable comprises six required courses (30 credits), electives related to your specialisation (20 credits) and a number of electives in other disciplines (10 credits).
In your second year you will either take additional specialisation courses or go on an internship (20 credits) The remaining 40 credits in the second year are devoted to your graduation project, which involves a literature study and your master’s thesis. The graduation project forms an integral part of your specialisation and will be the crowning achievement of your master’s at the University of Twente. | <urn:uuid:64be88b5-105c-43c6-9a4e-c5cc4e675213> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/master/programmes/computer-science/programme/ | 2020-09-30T08:57:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402123173.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930075754-20200930105754-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.9296 | 321 |
Dennis McNett, creating works under the moniker “Wolfbat,” creates wild woodcarvings, sculptures, and installations A new show at Heron Arts in San Francisco, titled “Hallowolfbat,” is an ornate, largescale adventure into McNett’s practice, with some of the creatures crafted for this show up to 10 feet tall. At the opening, the street was closed off and rock act High on Fire performed.
“The artist looks deep into the unknown while harping from traditional tattoo imagery, making creepy creatures feel antiquated and legendary,” a statement says. “McNett has an uncanny ability to transform a space into one of his dungeons of relic and relish with puppets coming to life, taunting and teasing the audience. The artist’s installation interacts with his viewers, making the HALLOWOLFBAT spectacle enjoyable for young and old.”
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Welcome to Jaisalmer and Hotel Sanjay Villas.
Our hotel is constructed throughout with the golden stone, laced with beautiful and unique Jaisalmeri carved features. Located near the beautiful sunset point which is one of the quiet area in Jaisalmer but still within a walking distance to the main market and the UNESCO world Heritage site, Jaisalmer Fort. Managed by honest, helpful and friendly people. This is where you will find real "peace" in Jaisalmer. | <urn:uuid:696dcffa-4cf7-491c-9081-5ee9328c5d3b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://hotelsanjayvillas.in/ | 2020-10-01T22:59:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.946355 | 99 |
Open for Business
It has taken a while, but Pegasus Pulp is finally open for business. If you want to know more, visit out About us and FAQ page.
You can also visit Cora’s website and blog for regular updates.
Finally, we are launching with the following three e-books for sale:
The Other Side of the Curtain, a thrilling spy tale set in East Germany in 1966
Outlaw Love, a tale of hangings and lesbian bandits in the Old West
Rites of Passage, a coming of age story set in a pirate society on a world with two moons
Buy our books at Amazon.com, Amazon UK and Amazon Germany with more formats coming soon. If the books are not yet live, please be patient and check back tomorrow.
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Search capability added to the Groups page
When you go to your groups page there is now a button to display the number of athletes in a group and any subgroups.
You can now see a full list of all of the groups, the number of subgroups in that group, and the number of athletes. Select a Group and they will load
The example here shows that you can open the search dropdown to see a complete list of all of the athletes and subgroups available for a specific group. If you click on one of the groups (e.g. All Star Squad), this will load the group and you will be able to save the group, or any of the subgroups (as shown in the image in the step below). | <urn:uuid:dddd30f1-1505-485c-8833-05f6492f7693> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://profilersports.screenstepslive.com/s/builder/m/590/l/83649-search-capability-added-to-the-groups-page | 2020-10-01T22:12:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.890464 | 151 |
APPLICANT INFORMATION – ALL INFORMATION MUST BE CLEARLY PRINTED. Full Legal Name: Date of birth Mo/Day/Yr: Age: SSN: Ethnicity: Street Address: Gender: Male Female Prefer not to say City: State: ZIP Code: Email: Home Phone: Cell Phone: Are you a citizen of the United States? YES NO If no, are you legally authorized to work in the U.S.? YES NO SCHOOL INFORMATION School (Tacoma Public School Required): Address: Expected Graduation Date (Mo, Yr): *June, 2015 Graduates are not eligible. Current Grade level: Do you have a documented disability/IEP? YES Phone: If yes, will you need accommodations on the work site? YES NO Please explain: _________________________________________________________ NO GPA: Are you currently credit deficient? YES History of disciplinary actions: Have you ever reported to Truancy Court? YES NO NO Are you currently or have you ever been in Foster Care? YES NO AVAILABILITY nd SJ253 mandatory 20-hour orientation week: June 22 , 2015 – June 26th, 2015 SJ253 work calendar: July 1st, 2015 – August 14th, 2015 Please list the hours of your availability: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday From To Comments concerning availability: _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you have summer vacation plans? YES Do you plan to attend summer school? Are you presently employed? YES YES NO NO NO If yes, when?: _________________________________________________________ If yes, where? ________________________________________________________ CERTIFICATIONS (EXAMPLES: WA FOOD HANDLER CARD, CPR, ETC.) 1. 2. Do you have a valid WA Driver’s License? YES NO Will you need assistance with transportation to work? YES Do you live near a bus line? YES NO NO SKILLS INVENTORY – PLEASE CHECK SKILLS RELATED TO YOUR ABILITY Working Outdoors Food Service Providing Customer Service Basic Typing and/or Data Entry Fire/Emergency Training Operating Phone Systems Working with Children Gardening/Landscaping Working in an Office Setting Managing Inventory Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) Creating Arts and Crafts EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Employer: From (Mo/Yr): To (Mo/Yr): Position: Employer’s Phone: / / Employer’s Address: Description of Job Duties: Reason for Leaving: EMERGENCY CONTACT Name of Emergency Contact: Emergency Contact’s Address: Relationship to you: Emergency Contact’s Phone: TEACHER REFERENCES (AT LEAST TWO) – REQUIRED Teacher’s Printed Name Teacher’s Email Address: Teacher’s Signature: 1. 2. ESSAY ESSAY PROMPT: Why is participating in the Summer Jobs 253 internship program important to you? Instructions: As you respond to the essay prompt, think about who will read your statement and what you want them to understand about you. While your personal statement is only one of many factors we consider when making our acceptance decision, it helps provide context for the rest of your application. Essays must be typed, double spaced, and a minimum of 650 words. Please attach your completed essay to the Summer Jobs 253 student application. PARENT/GUARDIAN SIGNATURES I certify that the information provided is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any falsification may cancel any terms, conditions or privileges of employment. I understand submitting a completed application does not guarantee placement in the Summer Jobs 253 program and late applications will not be considered. Signature of applicant: Date: Signature of parent/guardian: Date: Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 Please return the completed Summer Jobs 253 application to your career counselor. Late applications will not be considered.
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Since 2015, Your Theatre, Inc. and WHALE have led an active team effort to save the First Baptist Church in Downtown New Bedford. After a highly successful feasibility study funded by the Mass Cultural Council CFF Feasibility Funds and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, we moved forward to repurpose the church as a permanent home for Your Theatre, Inc. and other performing arts partners while also retaining a home for the congregation. As a collaborative theatre space and a local history exhibit of “Robert’s Rules of Order”, this project will further connect a historic neighborhood to New Bedford’s growing creative economy.
In 2019 the First Baptist Church building has been renamed the Steeple Playhouse. Steeple Playhouse, once renovated will offer a variety of spaces to be utilized by local and surrounding area arts and community partners. | <urn:uuid:0f9de911-2192-4ec8-981d-e8442109b171> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://steepleplayhouse.org/about/ | 2020-10-01T22:32:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.950172 | 173 |
WWE Champion and acclaimed movie star Randy Orton has suffered a serious knee injury during a pit stop match with AJ Styles in Pennsylvania.
The two wrestling legends went one-on-one during the informal event but the play had to be stooped after merely two minutes when Orton collapsed in the ring.
There is no immediate information available about the extent of injury suffered by Randy Orton but it did seem like a severe one in the video shared on social media as the pro wrestler could not continue the fight and was assisted to the backstage.
The 39-year-old wrestler might not be able to participate in the upcoming final RAW showdown of the decade scheduled for today in Hartford, Connecticut.
Fans and colleagues the world over expressed concern for Randy Orton and wished him a speedy recovery.
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Glory in defeat: how Japan fell in love with a racehorse who couldn’t win
In 2003, spirits were low in the remote, seaside city of Kochi, Japan, which had been hit particularly hard by a nationwide, decade-long economic downturn. The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere tells the story of the tenacious but winless Kochi-based racehorse Haru Urara (meaning ‘glorious spring’) who became a peculiar ray of hope in Japan during a period in which few people felt as if they were winning. Despite never finishing first in over 100 career races, the lovable, Hello Kitty hood-wearing horse still managed to save her local racetrack, inspire a struggling city and become a national symbol for trying your hardest in the face of adversity and defeat. A heartening underdog story splendidly told, this short documentary by the US-based director Mickey Duzyj was a film festival favourite in 2016, screening at the Sundance Film Festival, the SXSW Film Festival and the Hot Docs Festival, where it won Best Short Documentary.
Director: Mickey Duzyj
Producers: Mona Panchal, Yuka Uchida
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Photography of Familiar Shapes and Patterns in Smoke
Have you ever watched smoke rise from a fire and form shapes in the air? In a photo series entitled “Smoke,” photographer Thomas Herbrich made order out of chaos and captured images of these familiar shapes and patterns as they formed in smoke.
After taking around 100,000 photographs, Herbrich narrowed it down to a final 20, in which the viewer can recognize common objects in the smoke like faces, flowers, swirls and more. This phenomenon where people see shapes and patterns in random images and data is called “pareidolia.”
On his website, Herbrich explains his photography mindset and style:
My pictures are about the spectacular, the entertaining; always with a touch of mystery. They are created with much attention to detail, and I do believe that one can feel this. For me, a good picture is like the first line of a story, the viewer would like to know how the tale continues. So they are always ‘pictures, that tell a story’.
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More than 10 million titles spanning every genre imaginable, at your fingertips. Get the best Books, Magazines & Comics in every genre including Action, Adventure, Anime, Manga, Children & Family, Classics, Comedies, Reference, Manuals, Drama, Foreign, Horror, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Sports and many more.
Title: - Maps Of Time An Introduction To Big Full Version
File Type: PDF EPUB MOBI.
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Kaj Ailomaa has announced the release of Ubuntu Studio 14.04, a customised variant of Ubuntu with a range of multimedia and content creation programs for audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing: "We're happy to announce our latest LTS release. Ubuntu Studio 14.04 will be supported for three years. Since it's just out, you may experience some problems. Read about them under known issues. Short list of new features: the installer has a new plugin which allows you to choose which packages to install out of our workflows - audio, video, graphics, photography and publishing, so you no longer need to install all the packages; Linux low-latency code is now merged with Linux generic, so it's better streamlined and follows all Linux generic changes more exactly; EFI support. | <urn:uuid:2d38ccb8-a561-4a98-80b0-cfc71c4bcde7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://buahmerah.baliwae.com/product_info.php?products_id=3274 | 2020-10-01T23:29:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.942913 | 165 |
The Big Shootout is the next competition, and Capital Metro President Fred Gilliam will compete against Leander Mayor and Capital Metro Board Member John Cowman.
They’ve met on the course before, and Fred has consistently won (which sort of makes sense, since he’s been in the public transportation industry for three decades). But, Mayor Cowman is both a competitor and a good sport.
The final competition is the amateur team competition, and I’m beginning to get nervous. I was talking big this morning, boasting about team “Death on the Yard” and our mad skills. Now I’m having a hard time remembering how to open the doors and kneel the bus. Uh-oh. | <urn:uuid:f887ced6-d20d-4338-a1b2-5c794c1c1ff2> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://capmetroblog.com/2009/04/05/ceo-gilliam-vs-board-member-cowman/ | 2020-10-01T23:12:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.945695 | 151 |
This cutting-edge interdisciplinary degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education not only prepares you to teach the next generation of innovators, it provides the specialized training necessary to earn your state STEM teaching license. Through hands-on learning opportunities, you’ll develop your education philosophy, create a portfolio and hone your classroom-management skills during your pre-practicum and practicum student-teaching. It’s your chance to take what you’ve learned at Merrimack and apply it at one of the primary, elementary, middle or junior high schools in the area.
Upon successful completion of the STEM program, you’ll be well equipped to teach science, technology, engineering and math in the classroom. Positions may include early-childhood STEM teacher, elementary school STEM teacher, guidance counselor, moderate disabilities STEM teacher, STEM program school administrator, and tutor in one of the STEM disciplines. Use the Career Insight tool below to see real-time labor market data on jobs in this field. | <urn:uuid:9286f3f8-0ca0-438a-87c1-f417a457ab4d> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://career.merrimack.edu/channels/stem-education/ | 2020-10-01T23:32:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.894084 | 211 |
Kota Deltamas is one of the developments of “Global City” from Sinar Mas Land and Sojitz, which is to be a new independent city that contributes greatly to the regional region in particular and Indonesia in general. Covering an area of 3,200 Hectares, 7% of the area is developed as a Business center, thus, Kota Deltamas fulfills one element of an ideal city by presenting a business region from national standards to international standards. This may attract local companies and multinational companies to develop.
Kota Deltamas is located in a very strategic location along the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road with direct toll access from the toll road at KM 37. Kota Deltamas is located near the international transportation and logistic lanes, with the distance approximately 50 km from Tanjung Priok (Jakarta’s main international port) and around 60 km from Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Jakarta’s international airport). Moreover, the Indonesia Government has announced the plan to build a second main toll road between Jatiasih-Cikampek which is connected to Jakarta Outer Ring Road, this toll road will be located in the south area of Kota Deltamas, making it an additional access to Kota Deltamas. | <urn:uuid:5727cb43-e659-41e7-8cde-88fc407425c3> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://deltamas.id/en/business/ | 2020-10-01T23:00:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.931041 | 274 |
lexical meaning, grammatical meaning, referential approach, functional approach, “basic triangle”, denotative component, connotative component, seme, types of connotations, causes (historical/ linguistic), metaphor, metonymy, results of development of meaning.
2. Explain the basis for the following jokes:
1. Caller: I wonder if I can see your mother, little boy. Is she engaged?
Willie: Engaged! She’s married.
2. Professor: You missed my class yesterday, didn’t you?
Unsubdued student: Not in the least, sir, not in the least.
3. The weather forecaster hadn’t been right in three months, and his resignation caused little surprise. His alibi, however, pleased the city councel.
“I can’t stand this town any longer,” read his note. “The climate doesn’t agree with me.”
4. “Papa, what kind of robber is a page?”
“It says here that two pages held up the bride’s train.”
3. Specify lexical and grammatical meaning of the following words:
water, tables, data, spectacles, promise.
4.Identify the denotative and connotative elements of the meanings in the following pairs of words:
to conceal – to disguise, to choose – to select, to draw – to paint, money – cash, photograph – picture, odd – queer.
5.Define the type of transference which has taken place:
1. The wing of a bird – the wing of a building, the eye of a man – the eye of a needle, the hand of a child – the hand of a clock, the heart of a man – the heart of a matter, the bridge of a river – the bridge of a nose, the tongue of a person – the tongue of a bell, the coat of a girl – the coat of a dog, the tooth of a boy – the tooth of a comb.
2. Green grass – green years, black shoes – black despair, nickel – a nickel (coin), glass – a glass, copper – a copper (coin), Ford – a Ford, Kashmir (town in North India) – cashmere, Damascus (town in Syria) - damask.
6.Trace the process of narrowing of meaning in the words:
starve, undertaker, deer, meat, bread.
Theme 5: Semantic Relations of Words and Structure of the English Lexicon
1. Comment on the terms:
a) polysemy, LSV, subordination, coordination, types of LSVs;
b) synonyms, criteria of synonymy (conceptual, semantic, definitional analysis, interchangeability), ideographic synonyms, stylistic synonyms, absolute synonyms, dominant synonym, euphemisms;
c) antonyms, gradable, complementary, contradictory, contrary, absolute, derivational;
2.Write out from a dictionary all the meanings of the following words. Comment on the semantic structure of the words:
ball, sheet, scandal, sentence, hand, case, to take, to come, to feel, to let.
3.Single out the denotative and connotative components of meaning of the synonyms in the following examples:
1. At the little lady’s command they all smiled. On hearing the story George grinned. 2. Noticing that they were no longer alone, he turned and again began examining the lustre. June had gone. James had said he would be lonely. 3. The child was shivering with cold. The man shuddered with disgust. 4. I am surprised at you. He was astonished to hear this. 5. It’s impolite to stare at people like that. The little boys stood glaring at each other ready to start a fight. The lovers stood gazing into each other’s eyes. 6. He grew white with anger. “It’s a damned shame,” Andrew burst out, forgetting himself in a sudden rush of indignation. 7. He was an elderly man at the time of his marriage. He was an aged man, but not yet old.
4.Using the semantic criterion prove that the rows of words are synonyms:
angry – furious – enraged, to shout – to yell – to roar, fear – terror – horror, to cry – to weep – to sob, to walk – to trot – to stroll, to desire – to wish – to want, to like – to admire – to worship.
5.Find the dominant synonym in the following groups of synonyms:
1. to glimmer – to glisten – to blaze – to shine – to sparkle – to flash – to gleam. 2. To astound – to surprise – to amaze – to puzzle – to astonish.
3. to saunter – to stroll – to wander – to walk – to roam.
4. scent - perfume – smell –odour – aroma.
5. to brood – to reflect – to meditate – to think.
6.Comment on the stylistic usage of the synonyms. Point out euphemistic, archaic, poetical and dialectal synonyms:
good, deep, narrow, clever, young, to love, to reject, to give, strong, to laugh, joy, evil, up, slowly, black, sad, to die, to open, clean, darkness, big.
8.Change the sentences so that they express the contrary meaning by using antonyms. State whether they are absolute or derivational:
1. All the seats were occupied. 2. The room was lighted by the strong rays of the sun. 3. He added three hundred to the sum. 4. I came in while you were asleep. 5. The door was closed and locked. 6. Light curtains hung on the windows. 7. The little boy was outside the car. 8. He drew two crooked lines.
9.Find antonyms in the proverbs. Translate them into Russian:
1. After a storm comes a calm. 2. A god beginning makes a good ending. 3. Be swift to hear, slow to speak. 4. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 5. Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals. 6. Faults are thick when love is thin. 7. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
10.Make up a complete analysis of the homonyms in italics. Translate the sentences into Russian:
1. He couldn’t bear to speak. First catch your bear and then divide the skin. They both, bare-armed, descended the hill. 2. All of them bowed low. It is the hour when from the boughs the nightingale’s high note is heard. Before them stood an Indian with an arrow and a bow. 3. She rose too. The white lane wound down the hill between tall rows of elms. When she left the room, an odour of rose lingered about the nursery.
11.Give as many examples of euphemisms as possible for the words:
to die, devil, God, be pregnant, a lavatory, poor, mad, stupid, drunk, prison.
To see eye to eye with, to lead by the nose, wind in the head, to stretch one’s legs, to throw dust in smb’s eyes, to stew in one’s own juice, to put/ throw salt on smb’s tail, more dead than alive, to pin back smb’s ears, to pull the devil by the tail, a heart of oak, to pass the time of the day, to make good time, backward(s) and forward(s), to be in the dark, to be in the black.
3.Consult the dictionary and state themeaning and origin of the following phraseological units. Translate theminto Russian.
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I asked this question on the simple questions thread, but after asking twice I didn't recieve an answer, so I thought I would ask here.
I was just wondering if there exists legit versions of the pokemon games translated into mandarin? The reason I ask is I can't read Japanese and I have been...
Question: Does there exist mandarin versions of the pokemon games? The reason I ask is I'm slowly learning chinese and it would be helpful to play through a game using chinese characters, especially the black and white when it's released.
I tried searching the internet and I couldn't find...
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Should probably post this in the ask a question thread, but I'm sure there's no problem posting here ..
I've never done this before, so I'm wondering how this works? If you preorder the...
Bulbasaur-Venusaur without a doubt. Not really sure why .. just something about the way they're designed.
Cyndaquil-Typhlosion for sure. Cyndaquil is just kind of .. cute and bad ass at the same time and typhlosion is absolutely vicious.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this question. If it isn't, please let me know :).
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GROWING IMPORTANCE: 'The world is now overwhelmed by COVID-19, but several signs point to China’s international importance growing further with this crisis,' says Senior Research Fellow Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr. The image shows UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and China's President Xi Jinping.
China from careful participant to budding development partner
While the rest of the world is shutting down China is restarting its machinery after months of strict infection measures. China’s role as a development actor may grow.
'After SARS in 2003, the last thing China wanted was another corona virus crisis. But China is good at navigating out of crises and we may expect the Chinese to maintain or strengthen their role as an international development partner,' says NUPI senior researcher Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr.
He has over the past year led a project on China and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on China’s overall engagements as well as specific contributions within international health and education, peace operations, aid, infrastructure building and the environment.
The other researchers are NUPI-colleagues Cedric de Coning and Kari Osland and Elling Tjønneland from CMI. Gørild Heggelund from FNI also contributes to the research on environmental politics. The project was supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Link to relevant publications is included at the bottom of this page.
Active partner with limitations
'The trend is the same in all the areas we study. China’s role is growing and its resources, whether speaking about aid, trade or investments, are of major importance for many developing countries. However, the level of Chinese influence varies and so does the more and less direct relation to specific SDGs,' says Gåsemyr.
The project publications highlight China’s dual role as a major power and a still developing country.
Although the active research was completed before the new corona spread into a global pandemic, the reports on China’s growing role as a sustainable development actor are as relevant as ever.
'We include studies of Chinese contributions to international health, and with the corona crisis unfolding, we see China playing a key role in the delivery of health-related equipment and aid to both high-income- and developing countries. COVD-19 is hitting hard and with a wide range, and Chinese contributions to development finance, other forms of aid and peace operations may also prove vital for fighting the pandemic. The project reports offer a valuable window into China’s engagements in these areas,' says Gåsemyr.
'There is now good reason to ask if COVID-19 may turn into a humanitarian awakening for China, leading to the Chinese increasing their contributions and becoming a major humanitarian actor in the future? Meaning more humanitarian aid, but still based on Chinese principles for development support,' says NUPI colleague Cedric de Coning.
Promoting its interests
The publications offer a nuanced picture of China’s growing role as an international development partner and points to clearly positive as well as more problematic aspects of Chinese contributions, also with consideration to Norwegian interests.
'Chinese aid is increasing but much is tied to certain goods and services, which is a practice Norway and many other donor countries have long abandoned. Importantly, China is getting much more active in promoting its own development principles, also regarding UN resolutions, as we have seen several times in the UN Human Rights Council in the last few years. China shares many Norwegian development interests but does not promote individual political or civil rights, which, seen from Norway, makes some Chinese initiatives problematic, since we attach so much importance to this,' says Gåsemyr.
- Comprehensive report on Nordic-China cooperation
- What does China really want in the Middle East?
- European countries differ in how they talk critical issues with China
- New report on China and multilateral development banks
He emphasizes that Chinese contributions to the Sustainable Development Agenda are now so significant that ignoring them are like sticking one’s head in the sand, considering how the world is functioning.
'The question is not if, but how, we should deal with China in relation to countries and development issues where Norwegian and Chinese actors meet. The world is now overwhelmed by COVID-19, but several signs point to China’s international importance growing further with this crisis. Norway should thus have an active policy for how to both cooperate with and challenge China on development- and sustainability issues,' argues Gåsemyr.
Foto: John Taggart/Reuters/NTB Scanpix
2018 - 2019 (Ongoing)
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Mallo Cup Dark
Say hello to decadent dark chocolate, gooey marshmallow goodness, and some extremely satisfied taste buds. Dark chocolate Mallo Cups have everything you love about our classic milk chocolate Mallo Cups, but with the deliciously bitter-sweet flavor of decadent dark chocolate.
- chocolate, sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, MILK Fat, SOYA lecithin [E322], natural flavors, vanilla, corn syrup, water, dextrin [E1400], EGG whites, salt, guar gum [E412], artificial flavors, potassium sorbate [E202]
- Allergy Advice Contains
- Milk, Egg, Soya
- Allergy Advice May Contains
- Celery Free, Crustaceans Free, Fish free, Gluten Free, Lupin Free, Molluscs free, Mustard Free, Nut free, Sesame Free, Sulphites Free
- Storage Type
- Cool and dry
- Country of Origin
- Nutritional Information Per 100 g
- Energy: 2092 KJ / 500 Kcal. Protein: 4,8 g. Carbohydrate: 61,9 g. -Of which Sugars: 45,2 g. Fat: 26,2 g. -Of which Saturates: 16,7 g. Fibre: 2,4 g. Salt: 0,27 g.
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The new KFC in Gainsborough is now open for business.
The restaurant is on the site of the former Magistrates’ Court, in Roseway off Church Street, which had been empty since the court closed in 2008.
A spokesman for KFC said:
“The restaurant will create approximately 40 career opportunities in the local community, and we look forward to welcoming residents into the store.”
Along with teams of other contractors, Impress Paving Ltd, had to work to a tight time frame to bring the KFC build together, working in not so ideal weather conditions at times.
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In the Cage has showed up on the CBC Books winter reading list, which you can check out in full by clicking this line. I got some fine company on there, with folks like David Chariandy, Eliza Robertson, Katherena Vermette, Michael Redhill, and more.
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The term political system, in its strictest sense, refers to the set of formal legal institutions that make up a government. More broadly defined, the term political system encompasses actual as well as prescribed forms of political behavior—not only the legal organization of a government but also the reality of how a government functions. Over time people have developed a variety of political systems to meet the particular needs of their country or community.
Political systems with the same kind of legal arrangements and institutions often function very differently. For example, in democratic countries a parliament is generally an important and effective part of the government. In undemocratic countries, however, a parliament may have little power; it may exist only to give the government the appearance of a democracy. Similarly, a constitution may provide the framework within which the political life of a country is conducted; or it may be no more than a piece of paper, its provisions bearing almost no relationship to the reality of political life in that country.
Thus, political systems must never be classified in terms of their legal structures alone. The fact that two countries have similar constitutions with similar institutional provisions and legal requirements should never—by itself—lead to the conclusion that they represent the same type of government. To be useful, the study of governmental types must always go hand in hand with an investigation of the actual facts of the political process.
A traditional monarchy is a government based on the undivided rule of a single person. Supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as the head of state and who achieves that position through heredity. Succession traditionally passes from father to son or follows other arrangements within the ruling family. The monarch holds absolute power and may be much like a dictator. By the early 21st century, examples of traditional monarchies were limited mostly to Arab countries including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Oman.
Constitutional monarchy is a more recent form in which a monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government. Although the monarch remains the head of state, it is largely a ceremonial role. The constitution allocates the bulk of the government’s power to the legislature and judiciary. Examples of constitutional monarchies include the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Cambodia, and Thailand. These systems may also be called constitutional democracies (see below).
In a dictatorship one person or a small group holds absolute power. Dictators usually resort to force or fraud to gain political power, which they maintain through the use of intimidation, terror, and the suppression of basic civil liberties. They may also use techniques of mass propaganda to sustain their support among the public. Although there may be a constitution in place, it does not effectively limit the dictator’s power.
As hereditary monarchies declined in the 19th and 20th centuries, dictatorship became one of the two main forms of government in use by countries throughout the world—the other being constitutional democracy. In 20th-century Latin America, dictators often achieved power through the military and attempted either to maintain the privileged elite or to institute far-reaching social reform, depending on their class sympathies. In Europe’s communist and fascist dictatorships of the 20th century, a charismatic leader of a mass party used an official ideology to maintain his regime as well as terror and propaganda to suppress opposition. Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler and the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin were the leading examples of dictatorships. In countries in postcolonial Africa and Asia, dictators have often kept power by establishing one-party rule after a military takeover.
Supreme power in a democracy is vested in the people. They vote in regularly held elections to decide which political party, from two or more opposing ones, shall lead the government. A government in which the people elect their leaders can also be called a republic. The elected government must act within the laws and safeguards of a constitution, which defines the powers of the government and protects the rights of individuals. Rights that are generally guaranteed in democracies include freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
The two major types of constitutional democracy in the modern world are exemplified by the United States and the United Kingdom. The United States is the leading example of the presidential system; the United Kingdom is the classic example of the parliamentary system. The U.S. presidential system is based on the doctrine of separation of powers. The federal government is divided into three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial—that share power and are independent of one another. The U.S. president, who leads the executive branch and is the head of government, is elected separately from the members of Congress—the legislature. This arrangement allows for a system of checks and balances, as each branch serves as a check on the power of the other two. (See also United States government.)
In contrast to this strict separation of powers, the British parliamentary system provides for the integration of the legislature and the executive. Members of the executive—the prime minister and the Cabinet—are members of Parliament, the British legislature. The prime minister, who is the head of government, is the leader of the political party that holds the most seats in Parliament. Because of this integration, the prime minister needs the constant support of Parliament for the government to function.
A third type of constitutional democracy is the hybrid presidential-parliamentary system, exemplified by France. In such systems there are both a directly elected president and a prime minister, who is appointed by the president. The president is elected separately from the legislature and serves as head of state. If the president’s party controls a majority in the legislature, the prime minister is generally a secondary figure, responsible for the day-to-day running of the government and managing the president’s legislative agenda. The office of prime minister is more important, however, when one party controls the presidency and a rival party controls the legislature. During such periods the president normally appoints the leader of the parliamentary majority as prime minister, and the two must share power.
In all countries there are varying levels of administration below that of the national government. Government units range in size and importance from, for instance, the U.S. states or Canadian provinces down to local (city and town) governments. These levels of government are necessary to run a country effectively and to respond to local needs.
Countries can be classified as either unitary or federal based on how they distribute governmental power between the levels of government. In a unitary system, the central (or national) government holds most or all of the power. The central government delegates authority to the lower units and can take that authority away at will. A great majority of countries are unitary systems, including France, Great Britain, Poland, Spain, Japan, and many Latin American and African countries. In a federal system, the states or provinces have certain powers that cannot be taken away without their consent. Examples of the federal system include the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Switzerland, India, and Australia.
In federal systems, the state or provincial units are usually empowered to grant and take away the authority of their own subunits in the same manner as national governments in unitary systems. Thus, though the United States is federally organized at the national level, each of the 50 states is in a unitary relationship to the cities and local governments within its territory. (See also municipal government; state government.)
In Aristotle’s Politics, he described three categories of government activity—deliberations concerning common affairs, decisions of executive magistrates, and judicial rulings. Aristotle believed that the most significant differences among constitutions concerned the arrangements made for these activities. This threefold classification is not precisely the same as the modern distinction among legislature, executive, and judiciary. He intended to make only a theoretical distinction among certain governmental functions; he stopped short of recommending that they be assigned to separate bodies of government. Indeed, since Aristotle held that all power should be held by one man, he never considered the concept of separated powers.
The 18th-century French political philosopher Montesquieu was the first to make the modern division among legislative, executive, and judicial powers. To promote liberty, he asserted, a state must divide these powers among three separate institutions. After Montesquieu, the concept of separation of powers became one of the main doctrines of modern constitutional government. Nearly all modern constitutions provide for the separate establishment of legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The characteristic function of all legislatures is the making of law. In most political systems, however, legislatures also have other tasks, such as appropriation of funds, approval of treaties, impeachment of executive and judicial officials, and acceptance or refusal of executive nominations. Legislatures, then, are not simply lawmaking bodies. Furthermore, they do not have sole control over the function of making law. In most governments the executive has a power of veto over legislation, and, even where this is lacking, the executive may have some powers of legislation. Judges often share in the lawmaking process as well, through the interpretation and application of laws or, as in the U.S. system, by means of judicial review of legislation. Similarly, administrative officials exercise quasi-legislative powers in making rules and deciding cases that come before administrative tribunals.
Legislatures differ greatly in their size, the procedures they follow, the role of political parties in legislative action, and their vitality as representative bodies. In size, the British House of Commons is among the largest with more than 640 members; in contrast, numerous small island countries have legislative bodies with fewer than 20 members. Bicameral, or two-house, legislatures are common in many countries, particularly those with a federal system of government, such as the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India. Unicameral, or one-house, legislatures are typical in small countries and in those with a unitary system of government, such as New Zealand and Denmark.
Political executives are government officials who determine and direct government policy. They include heads of state and government leaders—presidents, prime ministers, premiers, chancellors, and other chief executives—and many secondary figures, such as cabinet members and ministers, councilors, and agency heads. By this definition, there are several thousand political executives in the U.S. national government, including the president, dozens of political appointees in the Cabinet departments, in the agencies, in the commissions, and in the White House staff, as well as hundreds of senior civil servants. The same is true of most advanced governments, for the making and implementation of government policy require very large executive and administrative establishments.
The crucial element in the organization of a national executive is the role assigned to the chief executive. In presidential systems, such as in the United States, the president is both the political head of the government and also the ceremonial head of state. In parliamentary systems, such as in the United Kingdom, the prime minister is the national political leader, but another figure, a monarch or elected president, serves as the head of state. In mixed presidential-parliamentary systems, such as that of France, the president serves as head of state but also wields important political powers, including the appointment of a prime minister and cabinet to serve as the government.
In nearly all political systems, the 20th century saw a remarkable increase in the powers of chief executives. The office of the presidency in the United States, like the office of prime minister in the United Kingdom, has greatly enlarged the scope of its authority.
Like legislators and executives, judges are major participants in the policy-making process. Courts, like legislatures and administrative agencies, establish rules of behavior having the nature of law. The process of judicial decision making is distinctive, however, because it is concerned with specific cases in which a person has come into conflict with society by violating its norms or in which people have come into conflict with one another. In addition, the courts use formal procedures that contrast with those of legislative or administrative bodies.
Court systems are found in all advanced political systems. Usually there are separate civil and criminal courts divided between the national, state or provincial, and local levels. This is the pattern of judicial organization in the United Kingdom, for example. Some countries, such as France, distinguish not between civil and criminal courts but rather between courts that handle all civil and criminal cases and those that deal with administrative cases or challenges to the administrative authority of the state. Reflecting the federal organization of its government, the United States has two court systems: one set of national courts and 50 sets of state courts. By contrast, Germany, which is federal in governmental organization, has only a single court system.
The often-quoted prologue to the U.S. Constitution sums up the purposes of government as to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty.” In a general way these have always been the goals and functions of government. Dictatorial governments, of course, have not been too concerned about liberty, and they have considered the general welfare only insofar as it promoted the government’s well-being.
The basic roles of government may be summed up by saying that they should make it possible for a society to defend itself from attack, and they should preserve order within a society so that all citizens may live in peace and pursue their individual endeavors. The phrase “general Welfare” is open to wide interpretation and is difficult to define. In Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, it is presumed that government has large responsibilities for the welfare of most aspects of citizens’ lives. Thus, welfare there has to do with cradle-to-grave economic security, housing, jobs, health care, education, and old-age care.
In the United States, however, the idea of general welfare has not been quite so broadly defined. Policy has always been the result of compromises between those who oppose wide-ranging plans for a large array of public programs and those who endorse them. That individuals should look after their own financial security was so well-ingrained in the American character that it was only after the economic disaster of the Great Depression (1929–40) that financial welfare plans were adopted in the U.S. There is still debate about the merits of such programs as unemployment insurance, social security, food stamps, and other assistance programs.
The issue of the role of government in relation to economic functions will probably never be settled. Indeed, the extent of government controls on the economy remains one of the main differences between countries with socialist and capitalist systems. In socialist countries (including those with communist systems), the government owns or regulates business and industry, while in capitalist countries the economy is mostly in private hands. Nevertheless, the lines between socialism and capitalism are often blurred. For example, the United States has a capitalist system, but the government involves itself in the economy through regulatory agencies such as the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission. And in communist China the trend in the early 21st century was toward increased private enterprise and a reduction in the central government’s role in managing the economy. | <urn:uuid:6c38063f-1140-4803-93a8-e5d1e03a7511> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/political-system/605579 | 2020-10-01T22:46:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402132335.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20201001210429-20201002000429-00198.warc.gz | en | 0.965093 | 3,109 |
Financial Network, Inc. (FNI) was looking to evolve its credit strategy and loan-origination services after more than 30 years in business – but the “astronomical” fees they were paying to use Oracle Database were keeping them from it. They needed to move on, and chose MariaDB to power their growth. Let’s take a look at how (and why) they did it.
“We were doing business, we were making money, but we didn’t have money to put back into the business – to make the business thrive, to expand our marketing, to go after new customers, as well as to be competitive with other companies that fill the same little niche that FNI does. MariaDB has allowed us to do that.”
—William Wood, Director of Database Architecture, FNI
Here are five main factors that sealed FNI’s decision to escape Oracle in favor of MariaDB:
1. ROI. As the quote above shows, FNI needed significantly greater ROI from its database solution in order to grow its business. Wood explains, “When we looked at the price to migrate to MariaDB from a licensing and vendor cost standpoint, it didn’t compare. Oracle is out of the ballpark.”
2. Scalability. Oracle’s onerous $47,500-per-processor pricing model had FNI’s hands tied. Wood explains, “We couldn’t afford to upgrade hardware because going from a quad-core processor to the latest and greatest that has 96 cores … can you imagine the cost of that? Moving to MariaDB, the scalability is there.” Wood sums up MariaDB’s enterprise open source model and per-server licensing fees this way: “It’s simple. It just makes sense. It’s a good way to do business.”
3. Encryption of data at rest. “That was the clincher for us,” says Wood. Getting a similar feature from Oracle required a pricy add-on, whereas advanced enterprise security is built into MariaDB subscriptions, at no extra cost.
4. Truly supportive support. “You look at these big companies like Oracle and [IBM’s] Informix. It’s astronomical just to get that license, and then once you’re licensed, then you’re hit every year after for support,” laments Wood. “MariaDB beats them out of the water. The support is great. They’re responsive in a very timely manner. I can’t say enough good about them.”
5. Migration assistance. “You can greatly shorten your migration from any other database to MariaDB by leveraging onsite training – training from a developer standpoint, training from a database administrator standpoint – and we did that, and it helped us to be successful,” Wood explains. And now migration is even easier: shortly after FNI took its first MariaDB server live in production, a new MariaDB version debuted, introducing built-in Oracle-compatibility features.
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