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Mindfulness for Time Management
Can you experience true happiness when there is so much to do?
Continuing with the theme from my last post - I have too many things on the go! All of them are wonderful, incredible opportunities that I don’t feel I can say no to. Talking with other grad students this seems to be a pretty constant theme.
I once heard a Dharma talk on the topic of “shiny items” given by Sr.Annabelle (the first western monastic ordained by Thích Nhat Hanh). She discussed the dangers of “shiny objects”, defined as tasks or life opportunities that are shiny because of how meaningful, inspirational or exciting they are. These shiny items can be dangerous. Because of how much we value them we will compromise our own wellbeing in order to attain or experience them.
I have many shiny things in my life right now. The fact that they are shiny doesn’t make them “bad”. They are all truly wonderful gifts and opportunities for learning and growing. But their importance to my life means I need to be extra mindful and skillful with how I navigate them.
So, here is the big question: if we aren’t going to say no to the opportunities, what choices are we left with other than feeling overwhelmed and overworked? Below is my current answer...
The other day I found myself again waking up to another week of what I would describe as robot work. This means that I need to be 150% efficient for the entire week and stick to my carefully planned out schedule of tasks.
As I mixed my morning smoothie (because I have to get vitamins sometime...) I noticed that the narrative in my mind was not positive. It was not overly negative, but there was no sense of excitement or joy towards the work I would be doing that day. I was simply planning what needed to happen and resigning myself to getting through it.
But this was all wrong! Every task on my plate that week was connected to a shiny thing - something I applied to do or said yes to because of how exciting and meaningful it is to the life and the work. In that moment I realized something fundamental: if I couldn’t find a way to do the work with joy then I shouldn’t do it. As the wonderful interpesonal neurobiologist Dan Siegel would say “simple, not easy”.
Once I had this insight I took some time for further reflection. I knew I wouldn’t necessarily be able to fix or change things right away, but wanted to give myself the opportunity to look a little more deeply at my own current narrative to see how I might better support myself.
Some of the questions I found it helpful to reflect on were:
Are the projects/tasks I have said yes to actually bringing me happiness and joy?
If the majority of the time they are causing me suffering, what choices/structures can I put in place to better support myself?
How much can my awareness of my own narrative shift my perspective in order to help me reframe the situation?
If I am unable to make practical or mental adjustments to alleviate my suffering, should I find a way to put one of my shiny things down?
If I am unable to put anything down, how can I best care for myself within the business and make healthier choices in the future?
For myself this week, I found that just having this mindful insight and choosing to reframe my thoughts was enough to bring back the joy. A major part of this setting an intention to cultivate a sense of appreciation for each task I was engaged in. I also focused on treating each task as a mindfulness exercise, trying to keep my mind on the present moment and not wander to thoughts of other tasks outside of the one I was currently completing. This helped my mind to slow down and appreciate what I was doing.
I am truly grateful for the work that I get to engage with in my life right now. It is all work that I have chosen to do. So in the end, if it isn’t bringing my happiness to do it, I think my responsibility towards myself is to re-examine and adjust. Because my life and my choices are all mine, and I choose happiness over suffering.
Suggested Practice: Mindful Dance Break!
At the heart of engaged mindfulness is the intention to transform suffering. But why do we want to transform suffering? The simple answer is to touch happiness and joy. All of this takes practice, from being able to notice and name our suffering, to having the strength to transform it and then the capacity to touch happiness.
Setting the theory aside for a moment, here is a little something I like to do to embody joy/happiness in the middle of an intense workday!
Prep: pick a time an hour or two into your work schedule and set an alarm to remind you to take a break (if this activity is not possible to do in your place of work, set an alarm for when you arrive at home as a way to transition from the workday). Select a song that you enjoy dancing to. Be aware of what seeds are watered in you (anger, sadness, happiness, joy etc. ) by listening to this song and be mindful to pick something that will be fun/healthy for you on this particular day.
Set up: When the alarm goes off, stop whatever work you are doing (if you need to take a few more minutes to wrap something up that is not an issue). Close your computer or task. Stand up and find a spot where you have a little space to move around (if you are in a public place you might want to choose a bathroom stall or walk outside). You will be listening to the song next, so if you need to put on headphones for the space you are in go ahead and do this.
Practice: Once you are ready, close your eyes or pick a point to focus on. Intentionally follow a few in and out breaths. Take a moment to notice how your mind and body are doing today. Set an intention to not ruminate on your work for the next few minutes. It is only a break if you actually stop doing the task both physically and mentally. Before you start the song, you might like to imagine how you would dance as a five year old child, without judgment or fear - and maybe even with some silliness. If you are a hesitant dancer, you can start slow by just bouncing your legs in time to the rhythm - but if you can - I highly encourage you to just go for it with your entire body. The intention is to be playful and touch joy. Now, start the song and dance!!!
Afterwards: How do you feel now? As I like to say, mindfulness is a choose your own adventure, so this might totally work for you, or it might not. The point is to experiment and see what works. For me, a little dance break always brings some insta-happiness.

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Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I loved having all of our little chicks at home in the nest, but I must confess that I also felt pretty good dropping them off at school yesterday morning. It’s good to get back in a routine (and not have to load/unload the dishwasher twice a day). We’re back with another new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches, and this week our friend from the snowy Northeast, Linda Callahan, is our hostess. She has a super versatile sketch for us that I think you’ll love:
Since today is the first day of Sale-a-Bration (woohoo!!), I thought I should use some Sale-a-Bration products. I’ve used two stamp sets for this card. One will be obvious, but you may have to look closely for the second one. Each Sale-a-Bration set is FREE with any $50 purchase.
I’m not sure why, but I love the Hey, Chick stamp set. All of the chickens are adorable and I love the sentiments. I stamped the images on watercolor paper and colored with an aquapainter.
The other stamp set that I used is another Sale-a-Bration set called Delicate Details. It has some fun border images, and I love how it is photopolymer and therefore easy to line everything up. I stamped one of the borders on the strip of Cherry Cobbler card stock with Basic Black ink.
We hope you’ll join us and make your own card using the sketch. We love to see what you create! Meanwhile, be sure to venture over to the Freshly Made Sketches site to see what the design team has created for your inspiration.
Enjoy your Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by!

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Expecting a dog for her birthday, a girl is upset and furious when she gets a tortoise instead, but soon learns that even a tortoise can be a good pet.
""Daddy always said it takes a man of peace to stop a war." Based on the true story of Paul Robeson's visit to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, comes this recollection of his bravery and activism by his granddaughter, Susan Robeson, with her debut book. When Susan was a child her father and grandfather told her family stories over and over. Grandpa Paul was a great man, a singer with a deep and rumbling voice, a man of peace and principle who worried about the safety of the children and families living in countries at war. His songs were always full of emotion, and evoking the African-American spirituals of his own father's childhood, he was able to communicate even with people who didn't speak the same language. Though it was dangerous, Robeson went to Spain and traveled to the front lines of the war (in a Buick!). There, he asked the soldiers to set up speakers facing the fighters on both sides of the battlefield. And then he sang.... With gorgeous illustrations from the fine artist Rod Brown, When Grandpa Stops A War celebrates the activism and achievements of the great Paul Robeson, and shows readers the power of art in times of discord and war."--Provided by publisher
A young biracial girl searches for the perfect color word to describe herself.
A reclamation of the Mexican serenata tradition, follow the story of a young boy who asks his father if there is a song for a boy who loves a boy.
Iris's kitchen is transformed into a busy bread lab one Saturday thanks to her favorite aunt, a plant scientist who helps farmers grow grain. Together they make whole wheat sourdough bread with just four ingredients, beginning with a mysterious goo called a "starter" that's teeming with invisible microbes. To Iris, bread making seems like magic, but it's really science!--Provided by publisher
Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables
"No one understands the abstract pictures that Niko draws until a new friend sees the thought and feeling within his shapes and forms"--Provided by publisher
Surveys the life of the singer, actress, and civil rights activist, describing her childhood, early years in vaudeville, and achievements as the first African American actress to be offered a studio contract
"Disappointed that she can't go on a snowboarding trip with her friend, Ava escapes to her room, where she finds that the power of imagination and her own creativity take her farther than any snowboard could. At the same time, she learns that life's tradeoffs aren't always bad"-- |cProvided by publisher
Jo can't wait to get to the playground

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ELYRIA — Getting 11 different minds to agree on how to spend a large lump sum of unexpected money is not easy.
City Council members proved that with the multiple discussion needed to come up with a plan for the $3.4 million windfall the state’s Office of Unclaimed Funds returned to the city several months ago from a long forgotten life insurance plan. When the announcement was first made that Elyria would be the recipient of the largest amount of unclaimed funds in state history, the ideas of how to spend the money were in abundance.
Monday the actual plan was voted on by Council. Road projects will encompass a large majority of the money.
While Mayor Holly Brinda originally recommended the city use more than $2 million of the money for the 49th Street bridge reconstruction project, Council members OK’d just about $1.8 million for the project, which aims to eliminate the clover leaf maze of on ramps and exit ramps near Midway Mall.
Councilmen Vic Stewart, D-at large, and Garry Gibbs, R-3rd Ward, voted against the ordinance. Both have long said the project does not offer enough benefit to Elyria to justify using so much of the money.
The next chunk of the money — $800,000 — will go toward the Middle Avenue street construction project. It is a project Council unanimously voted to fund.
Councilman Marcus Madison, D-5th Ward, said the project is the most important one to affect his ward in years by transforming the street into a boulevard-type thoroughfare befitting a street that serves as the gateway to the city.
All 11 Council members voted in favor of putting $500,000 in the Street Resurfacing fund, spending $174,000 on technology and software upgrades and $75,000 for a new time clock system.
It also was decided that $60,000 would go toward new security measures at Elyria City Hall, but Madison and Councilman Mark Craig, I-4th Ward, voted against the idea.
“I know we took a long time to come up with a plan on how to spend all of this money,” said Councilman Jack Baird, R-at large. “The mayor and the administration worked hard to come up with this funding plan, and we took the time to discuss this and I think we have come to what I consider mostly good decisions.”
The remaining $50,000 will be spilt among the street resurfacing program and the Parks Department, which was decided on later in the meeting.
Correct list of streets to be resurfaced
A miscommunication between the Engineering Department and the Utilities Department led to the circulation of an incorrect list for the 2013 street resurfacing program.
Monday night, City Council unanimously passed an ordinance outlining what streets will receive work this year.
The following list makes up the current program:
- Cambridge Avenue from Prospect Street to Garford Avenue.
- Colgate Avenue from Park Avenue to University Avenue.
- Canterbury Court from Whitman Boulevard to the cul-de-sac.
- Canterbury Court from Windsor Drive to Whitman Boulevard.
- Crestview Drive (asphalt portion only).
- Fourth Street from Middle Avenue to West Avenue.
- Chadwick Drive.
- Lowell Street from Huron Street to just past Penfield Avenue.
- Beebe Avenue from Poplar Street to the cul-de-sac.
- Bennett Drive east of Georgetown Avenue.
- West River Road (Griswold Road to state Route 57) pavement joint sealing.
- Underwater bridge inspection services.
- If funds are available, intersection safety improvement (signals and crosswalks).
Contact Lisa Roberson at 329-7121 or email@example.com.

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In what is (slightly comically) known as my ‘spare time’ I am Secretary of the Scottish Independence Convention. We issued a statement celebrating the date being set for Independence Day, and stated that the Scottish Independence Convention believes this is about some real choices:
- You can leave London to decide who we invade, what we cut, who gets the breaks – or you can choose for yourself.
- You can choose to believe in the right to advantage or to believe that a man’s a man for a’ that. Britain can’t be egalitarian – Scotland can.
- You can chose to believe that you aren’t the best person to decide the future of your country or you can choose to believe that you are.
Britain is institutionally, structurally, demographically, culturally incapable of being egalitarian. This doesn’t seem controversial given everyday experience and the mass of historical examples over the last 100 years. It’s not surprising given the pull of The City, the concentration of capital in London, the demographics of the SE and the political culture of England. It’s not very controversial given the amount of resources and energy go into the military and the monarchy or given Britain’s historical role as an imperial power.
These simple observations irked Scottish Labour’s Duncan Hothersall who put up a spirited (if utterly empty) defence of the UK as home to endless progressive policies over the years, saying:
“I’m talking about advance of egalitarianism in the UK. Seems to me to have been slow but relentless.”
This seemed a little over-optimistic so – because it’s Friday and we’re feeling kind we’ve compiled some infographics to help educate Duncan and friends on the subject. If you have difficulty recognising the Relentless Egalitarianism of Duncan’s Brittania please share this with friends.
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A locally famous but technically unknown shipwreck close to ORV Ramp 55 in Hatteras village has made another appearance after a week of rough seas and high winds.
The shipwreck, which is appropriately located just across the street from the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, comes and goes as it is unceremoniously covered with sand, and then revealed after long periods of strong northeast winds.
The last time the wreck was this visible was in October 2017, when it made waves on social media for its sudden appearance – or rather, reappearance.
The Ramp 55 wreck is currently quite visible for beachgoers, and is well above the surface – a phenomenon which has occurred sporadically for at least the past 10 years.
The origins of the Ramp 55 wreck are not concretely known, but the wreck was studied in detail more than a decade ago in an excavation by the National Park Service and a group of then high school students.
It was hoped at the time that the ship could be moved and transported to a museum, but the remains were too large – and too heavy – to transport.
Even so, the study brought some clues about the ship’s identity, and three ships from the late 1800s or early 1900s were identified as vessels that could be connected to the wreckage
Though it has not been determined if the ship is any of the aforementioned wrecks, it is known that the vessel was a six-mast schooner built out of oak and pine sometime between 1870 and the early 1900s.
It was a sturdy vessel, measuring approximately 220 feet long and 50 feet wide.
Visitors can take a peek the newly uncovered shipwreck on the beach – at least for a while – by heading a half-mile south of Ramp 55 in Hatteras village.
The excursion to see the wreck also presents a fine opportunity to explore the nearby Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum at the same time. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.

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Our colleagues in the Windows team recently published a great video on the work and passion of community activist Mark Covington which we wanted to share.
Mark was born and raised in Detroit and like many other Americans he lost his job in 2008, forcing him to move back home with his mother and grandmother while he figured out what do next.
He grew tired of seeing vacant lots in his neighborhood and decided to take action. In 2008 he began converting a vacant lot into the Georgia Street Community Garden. Since then the project has grown and developed and it now includes a media center and library that provides a wide variety of books and six PCs that are available for people to come and use.
The Georgia Street Community Garden has evolved from humble beginnings to a fully-fledged community hub.
It's a great story.

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Brea, CA, January 27, 2023 – Bolin Technology expands its leadership in Pro AV with the introduction of the company’s groundbreaking, dual-stream Dante AV PTZ cameras. Making their debut at ISE 2023 in Barcelona, the new D412UH and D220UH are the first PTZ cameras in the AV-Over-IP industry to offer simultaneous hardware and software codec streaming to multiple endpoints, providing total flexibility in network bandwidth and image quality selection. The D Series dual-stream cameras will be joined by another new D Series camera at ISE – the D2-220H Dante AV-H.264 camera – ideal for AV over IP applications.
Bolin Technology will exhibit in Hall #5 Stand H110 during ISE, which runs from January 31-February 3 at the Fira Barcelona Gran Via.
Using either the new D412UH (4K) or D220UH (HD) cameras, the user can designate a Dante AV Ultra or Dante AV-H stream depending on the output locations. No matter the need or destination, these dual–stream cameras can send the video flow that best fits the destination with the quality Dante-enabled devices are known for.
Prior to the introduction of the Bolin dual-stream cameras, integrators and customers were forced to choose between Dante AV Ultra™ or Dante AV–H™, which limits flexibility and video stream options from the primary video source. The D412UH and D220UH remove that limitation completely.
“With our new dual-stream cameras, it’s not an either/or proposition for customers and integrators,” said Hoi Lo, CEO, Bolin Technology. “This capability enables maximum flexibility when designing and deploying Dante AV™ when contemplating a choice between high-quality streaming and low-bandwidth limitations. With just one camera, customers can select either Ultra or H streams to send to multiple locations, depending on the application. If you have a giant screen in front of thousands of people, for example, you will choose Dante AV Ultra™. On the other hand, if you are using the stream for confidence monitoring or an overflow room, you may want a less bandwidth-heavy stream delivered to the overflow room than the main stage, so Dante AV–H™ is a good choice.” Both streams are available for routing with Dante Controller and can co–exist on the same Dante AV™ network.
The hardware-based Dante AV Ultra™ video stream is designed for applications that need the lowest latency and completely synchronized audio and video, such as broadcast contribution. Dante AV-H™ is a software-only approach designed to allow equipment manufacturers to incorporate Dante video and audio compatibility into existing H.26x-based IP video product designs, such as PTZ cameras, encoders, and decoders.
“If Dante is your foundation for digital audio delivery, these two cameras are an ideal fit to ensure optimal video delivery,” added Lo. “Users have the option to select the low latency, high-quality, and rock-solid synchronization of Dante AV Ultra or the low bandwidth requirements and quality of Dante AV-H. We can’t wait to show it to the Pro AV community during ISE.”
Bolin’s D412UH processes 4K video, and the D220UH is designed for full HD video resolution. Both the D412UH and D220UH are scheduled for delivery in late March 2023.
The new D2-220H (H.264) is a compact camera that sends simultaneous USB 2.0, HDMI, and IP streams, including Dante AV–H™. This PTZ camera joins Bolin’s Dante AV™ product line, offering customers a native Dante AV–H™ stream, along with direct-connect USB 2.0 and HDMI for connectivity in videoconferencing, education lecture hall, classroom, huddle room, and live venue applications. The D2-220H’s small size, impressive build-quality, and 1080p60 image make it an ideal solution for AVoIP. The D2-220H is available for pre-order now with a projected shipping date of March 2023.
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I first came to Beijing from my home town in Jilin province in the north-east of China seven years ago. I had seen a woman in my village beaten in the street by a man one evening. Later the case went to a local court, where I was a witness. The fight was over land rights. When it reached the court, we learned that the man whom I had seen hitting the woman was a relative of a court official, and the case was dropped.
I knew that cases could be appealed in the highest court in the land, so I decided to travel to Beijing and lodge a complaint against local officials. It is the Chinese people’s ancient right to have their complaints of injustice heard.
But shortly after arriving in Beijing I was arrested by plain-clothes police officers. They manhandled me off the streets and dragged me into a dark, cold room, where I was struck and forced to my knees. They said they were teaching me a lesson for trying to file a complaint. I couldn’t understand it at first. I believed that in Beijing I would find the justice that corruption in my province prevented. But instead I was being punished.
I was detained in a yard behind a court. When I was released I was told never to return to Beijing to complain. But with every blow my thirst for justice had grown, not diminished. I visited 10 justice departments in Beijing, but each turned me away. I was now seeking justice for myself as well as redress for the corruption in my home town.
Many months passed and I continued to stay in Beijing petitioning. I was convinced that I would find someone who would listen to my complaint. One morning I left my apartment on the outskirts of the city and walked to a ministry building. At the front of the office stood a flagpole where every morning guards raised the flag. I managed to attach my petition to the Chinese flag. Guards immediately flew towards me and grabbed me. I was eventually returned to my home town, where I was detained for two weeks. They said I had disturbed public order.
Then I was sent to a high-security police station. Two policemen dragged me into a laundry room, where they sat me on a chair, tied my legs together and took turns prodding me with an electric baton, smacking my face, my head, my body. I tried to bash my head against the wall, hoping to knock myself out to stop the pain, but they put a helmet on my head to keep me awake.
Then I was forced to sign a confession. I remember during the electric torture, while I was falling in and out of consciousness, one guard told me he had no choice. They were just doing their jobs, just following orders. I never understood my crime. I never knew if it was speaking out against the official, or if it was taking the complaints to Beijing.
In 2005, I went back to Beijing, for international human rights day. This time I was going not to petition against corruption but to protest against human rights abuses. On my way to Tiananmen Square I was arrested by plain-clothes police who took me to a police station where they struck me with batons. Soon after, I was sentenced without trial to two years in a women’s rehabilitation camp, estranged from my family and friends, who were told I was a criminal.
Every week in Beijing there are protests, organised by petitioners who come to the city hoping to right the wrongs committed by local leaders. Instead, they are silenced, imprisoned and told never to return. Now the protests are against the party, the same party we believed would bring justice against corruption in our home towns. I came to Beijing believing the party would address corruption – it is our right to petition. Instead I’ve seen the real face of the party. China is afraid of its own citizens.


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I’ve read this book a bunch of times, the first of which was when I was 9. I needed a book to read and asked my dad for a suggestion. Vonnegut is what he gave me. I reread BoC in order to write about the experience of reading it at such a young age for Celia’s comp zine Atlas of Childhood about children’s books.
"Every time you went into the library," said the book, "the Creator of the Universe held His breath. With such a higgeldy-piggeldy cultural smorgasbord before you, what would you, with your free will, choose?" p. 263


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This was taken when these 4 girls last got together back in July, up in Hanmer. They may not see each other that often, but when they do it's just as if they've never been apart.
This layout was made for the January Tic Tac Toe challenge at Scrap Our Stash.
Here's the challenge...
I used the bottom row - twine (on the button and tag), paper clips (gorgeous Paige Evans ones) and the colour blue (in the denim of ribbon and also in the background.
The background papers are also Paige Evans, the flair and woodie are from Cocoa Vanilla, the chipboard is from WOW, and the stickers are Simple Stories. I used Prima Watercolour pastels for the background, Tim Holtz crayons on the flower and there's also a 49 & Market stamp. The title is a Kaisercraft die.
I'm so happy with the way this one turned out!


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One of the leading figures in the world of Latin Jazz, trumpeter/conguero Jerry González is well known for his years of experience with jazz giants such as Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner and Jaco Pastorius and Latin music greats Tito Puente and Eddie Palmieri, as well as founding member of "Conjunto Libre" and "Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino", but it is as leader of Jerry González and the Fort Apache Band that his status as one of the music’s most innovative voices and the greatness of his artistic vision became widely recognized.
"The most influential modern Afro-Caribbean Jazz Group of the past 30 years" - Downbeat Magazine
"There are still real innovators wandering throughout the world and Jerry González is one such musical nomad" - All About Jazz
"Jerry is the last bohemian. This guy lives for music. He only has music in his head. When he is playing, he is never joking" - New York Times
"Andy and Jerry González changed the face of Latin jazz, in fact, they defined that hybrid" - Arturo O’Farrill
"If Latin Jazz has enjoyed a golden era through the past two decades, it's largely thanks to the efforts of the trumpeter and conguero Jerry González" - JAZZIZ


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07 May 2020
A tribunal has cancelled an enrolled nurse’s registration and disqualified him from reapplying for registration for five years after he had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient.
In November 2011, Mr Stephen Sedgman was part of a mental health treatment team for Patient X, an inpatient at the hospital where he worked. Patient X had been admitted to the hospital three times in total that year following suicide attempts.
Following Patient X’s discharge from hospital, a sexual relationship developed between her and Mr Sedgman. The relationship lasted almost six years, ending around December 2017.
In the course of the relationship, Mr Sedgman had conversations with Patient X that adversely impacted on her perception of being able to access care within the hospital’s organisation. As a result, Patient X experienced significant distress and difficulties in accessing acute care during times of crises.
In February 2018, Patient X disclosed Mr Sedgman’s name to her treating psychologist, who made a notification to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
In March 2018, the NMBA took immediate action to suspend Mr Sedgman’ registration. The NMBA subsequently referred Mr Sedgman to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (the tribunal).
The tribunal took into account that Mr Sedgman’s conduct had involved multiple breaches of the Code of professional conduct for nurses in Australia (2008) and had a severe, adverse impact on Patient X’s health.
The tribunal found that Mr Sedgman’s conduct constitutes professional misconduct, reprimanded him, cancelled his registration and disqualified him from re-applying for five years.
The tribunal’s decision is published on the Austlii website.

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Variations in Teens' Perception of Risk Factors for Teen Motor Vehicle Collision Injuries
- Author(s): Chen, Katherine L.;
- Cooper, Jill F., MSW;
- Grembek, Offer, PhD;
- Henk, Russell H., PE;
- Tisdale, Stacey M.
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Teen drivers, especially males, are known to be at greater risk of being involved in a motor vehicle collision than any other age group. While novice teen drivers’ primary risk factors are commonly known, less is known about what teens perceive as risk factors for peers getting hurt or killed in motor vehicle collisions. This mixed methods study uses survey data from the Teens in the Drivers Seat (TDS) program in California to explore (1) teens' perceived risk factors for motor vehicle collision injury; and (2) the relationship between perceived risks and age, gender, and driving experience. Findings may inform future program development and expansion for TDS and other teen driver safety programming.

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Organic–inorganic metal halides (OIMHs) with high-efficiency solar spectrum-like emission are attracting broad and current interest. Here, five 0D Zn-based hybrid halides are synthesized based on aromatic organic cations with different carbon-chain lengths: C6H5CH2NH3+ (PMA+) and C6H5(CH2)4NH3+ (PBA+). (PMA)2ZnCl4 exhibits the highest photoluminescence quantum yield of 37.2% of reported Zn-based white-emission OIMHs. The emission spectrum of (PBA)2ZnI4 indicates a color rendering index of 98, which is the highest among single-component white-light-emitting phosphors. Spectral characterizations and density functional theory calculations demonstrate that the extremely broad emission of (PBA)2ZnI4 originates from the synergistic emission of organic cations and self-trapped excitons. The optical properties of the obtained (PMA)2ZnBr4, (PMA)2ZnI4·H2O, and (PBA)2ZnCl4 are also characterized for comparison, and with the same organic cations, the PLQY decreases from chloride to bromide to iodide. This work demonstrates that the selection of appropriate organics and halogens can enable fine tuning of single-component white-light emission, satisfying varying needs for solid-state lighting.
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Frequently Asked Questions about Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home
When we speak about Udawalawe National Park the next thing comes to our mind is the Udawalawe Elephant transit home. Udawalawe Elephant Transit home plays a major role in bringing up the orphan Elephant calves and releasing them back to the wild.
Udawalawe National Park lies on the boundary of Sabaragamauwa and Uva province in Sri Lanka. The Udawalawe reservoir on the Walawe River was built for two reasons: to offer a sanctuary for wild animals driven from their natural habitat and to safeguard the reservoir's catchment area. The reserve was formed on June 30, 1972, and it has a total land size of 30,821 hectares (119,00 sq mi). Before the region was designated as a national park, shifting cultivation was practiced there (chena farming). Once the national park was established, the farmers gradually disappeared. Colombo is 170 kilometers away from the park. Waterfowl and Sri Lankan elephants need Udawalawe as a habitat. It is a well-liked vacation spot and the third-most.


Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2019
5-6 September 2019 – London, United Kingdom
We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for the Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2019 to be held from 5-6 September 2019 in London, UK.
IntelliSys 2019 will focus in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys provides a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence. It is part of the conference series started in 2013.
The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.
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IntelliSys 2019 proceedings will be published in the Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” and submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character.


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By QMC + PARA-PRAXIS
Connection to Harringay Warehouse District
Our design is connected to the Harringay Warehouse District by way of being an attempt to reflect the quintessential social and productive relations endemic to the district past, present and future. Please see full proposal outline for further elaboration.
Hard Soft Bodies
A metonymic machine and social activator, our design for the Tottenham Pavilion is conceived as an amalgam composed of two opposing tectonic conditions of hard and soft bodies, which function as symbolic forms and actual spatial containers that are loaded with social connotations and possessing certain equivalencies with our own bodies as spatiotemporal constructs existing within socioeconomic milieu.
The Hard Bodies
Sedimentary, stratified, stacked and classified, the hard bodies are both a metaphor for the principle contents found in the warehouses of Harringay Warehouse District; goods neatly stacked in enfilades of storage racks and the specific embodied labour and social relations represented by these objects existing within the regimented space of industrial supply chain. However, in our design, unlike the neatly sorted and stacked goods in packaging boxes ready to be delivered at a moment’s notice, these hard bodies are skewed and disorientated containers that frustrates the rationalizing tendencies of capital and the forces of gentrification.
The Soft Bodies
Diaphanous, blurred, mysterious and transcendental, the soft bodies compressed and exuding forth between the hard bodies, are metaphors for the palpable creative and social energies found and to be amplified in Harringay Warehouse District, which transcend rigid social boundaries and the strictures of corporeality. In the age of digital media, the soft bodies also function both literally as screens for the projection of light and images and also as the ubiquitous projector which mediates our consciousness and anonymous digital presence.
Although the pavilion consists of only a simple stacking of plywood boxes and illuminated pneumatic structures, by forming social containers and replacing industrial produced ‘things’ with a myriad of creative social activities, the design speaks of the very tension and complex dynamism that exist in Harringay Warehouse District.


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Deepika Padukone who is regularly at the headlines of the news has once again stolen the show. Now, the actress has beat Priyanka Chopra by becoming the Sexiest Asian Woman for the first time.
She is all set to make her debut next year with Hollywood film “XXX: The Xander Cage” that features Vin Diesel as the male lead actor.
Last two years, Priyanka Chopra was honoured by this title but now her position has been taken by Bajirao Mastaani.
Deepika said to one of the leading newspaper, “Well, it does bring a smile to my face, but sexy means different things to different people. For me, it’s not just physical. For me, being comfortable with who you are, is sexy! Confidence is sexy! Innocence and vulnerability is sexy.”
The award is given by UK-based newspaper Eastern Eye every year. This time Priyanka Chopra has achieved the runner up position. Talking about the TV Stars, Jamai Raja’s Nia Sharma secured the third place and received the title of Sexiest Television Star and TV Actress Drashti Dhami received fourth position.
Other celebrities who was honoured with awards includes Alia Bhat, Sanaya Irani, Katrina Kaif, Sonam Kapoor, Mahira Khan, Nita Ambani, Gauhar Khan.

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Michigan-based Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust, owner of the Shoppes at Fox River’s first phase in Waukesha, paid $15.1 million for the Kohl’s-anchored Nagawaukee Shopping Center in Delafield.
The 113,617-square-foot shopping center at the northeast corner of the interchange at Interstate 94 and Highway 83 neighbors a Sentry Supermarket that was not part of the sale. It was sold by Told Development Co., which built the center and opened it in 1994, according to the company’s website.
It becomes the third Wisconsin shopping center owned by Ramco-Gershenson, of Farmington Hills, Mich. The company last year bought the Shoppes at Fox River in Waukesha for $23.8 million, and owns a shopping center in Madison.
Ramco picked up the Nagawaukee center in a larger deal involving four shopping centers and totaling $105.9 million. The deal also included two shopping centers in Boulder, Colo., and one in St. Louis.


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There used to be a time when you could only use a software application after purchasing a license. While this worked in many ways, it also limited the growth potential of millions of small businesses, given the huge high costs. … Continue reading

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Photo courtesy of Ron Baraff / Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.
Carrie Furnace breaks ground on tech/flex space with a film studio in the works
The monolithic steel-era ruins of the Carrie Furnace have long been a popular backdrop for film and video — from the Christian Bale crime thriller “Out of the Furnace” to “American Ninja Warrior” to Wiz Khalifa’s music videos. Now, the massive site along the Monongahela River is getting its own movie studio.
“This will be the first purpose-built sound stage facility in the region,” says Dawn Keezer, director the Pittsburgh Film Office. “It’s really needed by our clients. We had 11 projects shoot in 2021. We’ll have 10 projects shoot this year. They’ll be bringing with it about $200 million in new money to the economy, and we’re talking about 10,000 jobs.”
While funding and the final design for the studio are pending, Carrie Furnace is getting its first new building, a 60,000-square-foot tech/flex space designed to attract the kinds of companies that are fueling Pittsburgh’s economy. Officials from the city, state and neighborhoods helped break ground for the project on Thursday morning.
“This Carrie Furnace site was the economic epicenter of this region and created family-sustaining jobs for so many,” says Don Smith, president of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC) which is developing the site.
“And we all know about the difficulties that happened with the deindustrialization of the United States; it certainly hit Pittsburgh harder than most. But thanks to the efforts of so many folks, there’s been a steady stream of focus and investment in bringing this site back to life.”
The building and infrastructure will cost $20 million coming from a combination of public and private grants and loans and equity provided by RIDC.
Rivers of Steel will continue to preserve the remaining Carrie Furnace steel mill as a national historic site, showcasing the region’s industrial heritage.
“When my grandfather immigrated from Ireland and landed in Swissvale, he got a job at Carrie Furnace,” says Congressman Mike Doyle. “And he worked there for 40 years. And his son, Mike Doyle, worked a few miles down at the Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock for 30 years. And his son worked two summers at J&L (Steel) and said, ‘I don’t want to be a steelworker.’”
Doyle notes that he helped secure $3 million in the House’s 2023 spending bill for the film production facility.
“All of us who grew up here are proud of the legacy our fathers and grandfathers left us,” says Doyle. “They did hard, dangerous work here at Carrie Furnace, and they did it to support their families … that’s why it’s been a labor of love for me to work to preserve Carrie Furnace.”


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Directed by Felix Feist
Starring Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale, Jr., Ellen Corby
The Big Trees (1952) is a fun Kirk Douglas picture about loggers after the redwoods of northern California. Douglas did it for free to get out of his Warner Bros. contract. To me, the real stars of the film are Director Of Photography Bert Glennon and Patrice Wymore, who looks incredible thanks to Glennon’s masterful use of Technicolor.
It’s airing on INSP TV as part of their Saddle Up Weekends all through July — part of a solid lineup of classic films and TV.

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Lucknow Super Giants, the new IPL 2022 team will face IPL 2021 defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the 7th Match of IPL 2022 on Thursday, 31st March at Brabourne, CCI. The match will start at 7:30 pm IST.
Lucknow Super Giants threatened to become the first team to defend a target in IPL 2022, but late blows from Gujarat Titans’ batters David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, and Abhinav Manohar ensured it was Gujarat Titans who won the battle of the new teams.
Chennai Super Kings too lost their opening fixture against Kolkata Knight Riders, when their batting flopped but the presence of all-rounder Moeen Ali may increase their chances of winning against Lucknow Super Giants. The form of Lucknow Super Giants skipper KL Rahul, who was out without scoring against Gujarat, may prove to be vital if Lucknow wants to beat CSK.
Moeen Ali has been one of the best performers for the yellow army in 15 matches, Moeen Ali picked 6 wickets and made 357 runs with the highest score of 58 at a strike rate of 137.30 and hit 19 sixes and 31 fours for the MS Dhoni-led team. KL Rahul’s caliber as a batter is not in doubt, but when it comes to taking on the leadership role, it’s not the same for the Karnataka batter. The former Punjab Kings captain’s IPL record as skipper doesn’t justify his talent.
Lucknow Super Giants vs Chennai Super Kings: Live Streaming Details, When And Where To Watch LSG vs CSK Live In Your Country? IPL 2022, Match 07, LSG vs CSK
The LSG vs CSK, IPL 2022 match 7 will be live telecast on Star Sports Network. Star Sports is the official broadcaster of IPL 2022 in India. The match will be available to watch on Star Sports 1, Star Sports 3, and Star Gold 2 channels.
Fans can watch the online live streaming of the match on the Disney+ Hotstar app. However, viewers need a subscription to watch the matches live on the app.
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Synthesis and characterizations of ultra-low sintering temperature BaTiO3/BaO–ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3 glass ceramic composite
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Novel ultra-low temperature co-fired ceramic composites consisting of BaTiO3 and BaO–ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3 (BZBB) glass were successfully produced under 500 °C, and their sintering behavior, phase composition, microstructure and dielectric properties as functions of sintering temperature were investigated. The XRD and SEM results showed that there was no reaction between the glass and the ceramic but the Bi24B2O39 was formed in all samples during sintering process. This indicates that the BZBB glass not only acts as sintering aids but also involves in crystal phase formation. The composites with 60–90 wt% of BZBB glass frit could be densified at a sintering temperature of 450 °C for 30 min, and exhibited widely adjustable dielectric constant (35–133) and acceptable dielectric loss (<0.012). In addition, the composites showed good compatibility with Ag electrode, which suggests their suitability for various dielectric applications with ultra-low sintering temperature.
Most of the known commercial ceramic materials with excellent dielectric properties usually need high sintering temperatures [1, 2]. So, it is important for them to reach ultra-low sintering temperatures (<650 °C) to enable further integration with plastic substrates, semiconducting devices and silver-based electrodes [3, 4, 5]. Additionally, an ultra-lower sintering temperature would decrease energy consumption and enable better control of volatile compounds [6, 7]. Barium titanate (BaTiO3), a well-known ferroelectric material, is widely used as a dielectric for multilayer ceramic capacitors, electro-optic devices and thermistor. However, the sintering temperatures of BaTiO3-based ceramics must be above 1300 °C, which is too high for ultra-low temperature co-fired ceramic processing . To our knowledge, it is very effective to lower sintering temperature of ceramics by adding some low-melting glass materials. Hence, various kinds of glass compositions, such as BaO–B2O3–SiO2 , ZnO–B2O3–SiO2 , and ZnO–B2O3–Li2O–Nb2O5–Co2O3 , have been used to decrease the sintering temperature of BaTiO3 ceramic. However, these studies have just regarded the glass as additive, and the sintering temperature of these glass compositions was still higher than 800 °C, which failed to meet the demand of ultra-low sintering temperature.
The development of ultra-low sintering temperature materials with a sintering temperature <650 °C is still in its infant stage and currently only a handful of materials with good properties are available for practical applications in this rapid and demanding sector of microelectronics. Recently, Yu and co-workers [11, 12] prepared a low softening point zinc borate (3ZnO–2B2O3) glass and studied the densification and dielectric properties of the SiO2-filled 3ZnO–2B2O3 glass/ceramic composites. They found that the composites could be densified at the sintering temperature of 650 °C for 30 min and the optimum content of SiO2 addition could improve the dielectric properties of composites. Chen et al.  reported that Al2O3 ceramics could be sintered at a rather low temperature of 450 °C with the addition of a large amount of B2O3–Bi2O3–SiO2–ZnO (BBSZ) glass, which still have applicable relative dielectric constant values and affordable losses. And they  also prepared BaTiO3 ceramic by adding 50–90 wt% BBSZ glass at an ultra-sintering temperature of 450 °C. Typically, these composites with an addition of 70 wt% BBSZ glass possessed the optimal dielectric properties which relative dielectric constant was 132 and dielectric loss was 0.0056 at 100 kHz.
In this work, the new low-melting BaO–ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3 glass was added into BaTiO3 ceramic to prepare glass/ceramic composites at low sintering temperature (below 500 °C). Simultaneously, their densities, phase composition, microstructure evolution, dielectric properties and compatibility with Ag electrode have been investigated.
2 Experimental procedures
The nominal composition of the glass/ceramics was x BZBB–(1−x) BaTiO3 (wt%, where x = 0.5, 0.55, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9). Powders of analytical reagent grade comprising Ba(OH)2 (≥99.0%), ZnO (≥99.0%), Bi2O3 (≥99.0%), and H3BO3 (≥99.0%) were used as starting materials to prepare the BZBB glass with a composition of 35 mol% Bi2O3, 16 mol% ZnO, 33 mol% B2O3, 16 mol% BaO. The well mixed powders were melted in a corundum crucible at 910 °C for 1 h. The melt was quenched in water to form amorphous glass. Subsequently, the obtained glass was ball-milled with deionized water for 24 h after being dried and crushed. Commercial BaTiO3 powders (>99.7%) with different amounts of BZBB glass were mixed in ethanol solution for 10 h with a small amount of polyethylene glycol as dispersant. After being dried, the mixed powders were pressed into Ф10 mm pellets without any binder. The pressed composite disks were sintered at 425–500 °C for 0.5 h with a heating rate of 3 °C/min and cooling in the furnace. As a comparison, pure BZBB disks were also fabricated in the same manner, excepting that their sintering temperature is 400 °C, which is under their deformation temperature.
Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC, Model STA449C, Netzsch) was used to analyze the crystallization behavior of the BZBB glass. For DSC experiments, approximately 10 mg of samples were fired in flowing air from 50 to 650 °C at a heating rate of 10 °C/min. The bulk densities of sintered samples were measured by the Archimedean immersion method using water as medium. The temperature-dependent shrinkage behavior of samples was characterized by using thermomechanical analyzer (Netzsch DIL402EP, Germany). The crystal structures of these samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction diffractometer (XRD, Model D8-Advance, Bruker, Germany) at room temperature. Microstructures of these samples were studied by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM, Model S-4800, Hitachi, Japan) with an energy-dispersive spectrometer (EDS). For electrical measurements, these samples were polished by using an automatic polishing machine (Model UNIPOL-802, Shenyang Kejing Auto-instrument Company, China) to achieve parallel, smooth faces, and silver electrodes of 10 mm in diameter were sputtered on both faces through magnetic sputtering. The measurements of dielectric constant and dielectric loss from 1 kHz to 100 MHz were performed using a Precision multifunction LCR meter (Model HP4292A, Agilent) at room temperature.
3 Results and discussion
In order to assess the sintering behavior of the composite ceramics, the DSC curves and dilatometric curves of BZBB/BaTiO3 composite are shown in Fig. 1. It is apparently observed that a weak endothermic peaks located at 353 °C in the DSC curve of the BZBB glass (Fig. 1a), which can signify its deformation temperature. The deformation temperature is a reference of softening and sintering temperatures for the BZBB glass. Thus, the softening temperature of BZBB glass is about 353 °C. With further increasing temperature up to 509 °C, there is only one exothermic peak, which indicates presence of a single crystalline phase and is consistent with the XRD results in Fig. 3. It is also noted that the 60 wt% BaTiO3–40 wt% BZBB glass composite displays similar deformation and crystallization temperature compared to the BZBB glass sample. Figure 1b shows the shrinkage behavior of BaTiO3 ceramic with 60–80 wt% of BZBB glass. The onset shrinkage temperature for three samples is during 355–363 °C, which is similar to the deformation temperature of the glass, as shown in DSC curve. With the increase of glass content, the shrinkage rate increases from 7.7 to 14.6%. Additionally, the slope of the shrinkage rate shows that the densifications of samples occur more rapidly within a relative short temperature range. It is clear that high addition of BBSZ glass could promote the densification of the samples at even low temperatures and short dwell time. Considering that the results are very similar, the shrinkage behavior of the samples with other addition of glass is not shown here.
The bulk density of samples with different addition of BZBB glass sintered at 425–500 °C for 0.5 h is shown in Fig. 2a. Although the composition of samples is different, the bulk density curves have a similar tendency with sintering temperature. As can be seen, the bulk density gradually increases and then slightly decreases with the increase of sintering temperature, and the maximum bulk density is achieved at 450 °C in all samples. The degradation of bulk density at temperatures above 450 °C is perhaps because the viscosity of glass phase would reduce quickly and the gas could be wrapped inside the samples forming closed pores before they were exhausted . Figure 2b illustrates the bulk density, relative density, and theoretical density of the composites with different glass content sintered at their suitable sintering temperature (450 °C). Evidently, both bulk density and relative density increase gradually with the increase of glass content. When the glass concentration is >60 wt%, bulk density and relative density exhibit high value over 5.22 g/cm3 and 83%, respectively. The dashed line denotes the theoretical density of samples which is calculated by the measured density of BZBB glass (6.93 g/cm3) and BaTiO3 powder (5.85 g/cm3). It is noted that the bulk density of samples with 80–90 wt% glass is even higher than their calculated theoretical density, which may be attributed to the precipitation of an extra phase from glass.
Figure 3 depicts the XRD patterns of BaTiO3 ceramics with different BZBB glass contents sintered at 450 °C for 0.5 h. It can be observed that there are distinct peaks related to BaTiO3 structure (dashed lines) and a certain amount of amorphous glass phases which background distributing at 20°–35° in all samples. The clear existence of BaTiO3 phase indicates that it may not be heavily involved in the process of crystallization driven by the glass at such a lower sintering temperature. Besides, an extra crystalline phase also appears in all the samples. In order to confirm it, the XRD graph of BZBB glass sintered at 450 °C for 0.5 h is also shown in Fig. 3. The extra crystalline phase could be identified as Bi24B2O39 (PDF-#29-0227), which is consistent with earlier reports by He et al.  and Rejisha et al.  in the similar glass system. It is worth noting that the height of Bi24B2O39 peak increases with the glass concentration, while the intensity of the BaTiO3 peaks decreases. Therefore, the results suggest that the BZBB glass not only acts as sintering aids but also involves in crystal phase formation. And the bulk density of samples with 80–90 wt% glass is higher than the theoretical value as shown in Fig. 1b, which may be caused by the formation of Bi24B2O39 phase with a larger density.
The backscattered electron images (BEI) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) spectra of composites with 60 and 90 wt% addition of BZBB glass are shown in Fig. 4. It can be seen that three phases are co-existed in all samples from the backscattered electron images. The EDS analysis indicates that the dark area represents the BaTiO3 phase, the light grey refers to the BZBB glass, and the white area is denoted as Bi24B2O39 phase. It also can be observed that BaTiO3 particles are uniformly distributed in the composite which illustrates the dielectric powders are well covered and evenly diffuse into the melted glass during sintering process. It means that BaTiO3 can stably exist in the glass phase, which is advantage to the regulation on the dielectric properties of the glass/ceramic composite. Meanwhile, the content of BaTiO3 phase decreases while the flower-like Bi24B2O39 phase increases with the increase of glass concentration, which could further confirm the XRD observation. Moreover, densest surface morphology and lowest porosity indicates that a dense glass/ceramic composite has been successfully obtained at such a lower temperature.
In order to investigate the phase composition dependence on the sintering temperature, the crystal structures of these samples have been analyzed by X-ray diffraction diffractometer. Figure 5 illustrates the XRD patterns of the 60 wt% BZBB glass-40 wt% BaTiO3 composites sintered at 425, 450, 475, 500 °C for 0.5 h, respectively. The XRD pattern of the sample sintered at 425 °C reveals that there is only BaTiO3 phase in the sample. When the sintering temperature is above 450 °C, the second phase Bi24B2O39 mentioned above appears in samples and the intensity of the diffraction peak increases with the temperature. There is no significant change in the height of the diffraction peak of BaTiO3 peaks for all the samples. Thus, it can be proposed that the BaTiO3 would not react chemically with the BZBB glass matrices during the sintering procedure.
To further study the densification behavior, the microstructural changes of the sintered composites have been analyzed by SEM. Figure 6 shows the typical SEM images of fractured surfaces of 60 wt% BZBB glass-40 wt% BaTiO3 samples as functions of sintering temperature. It appears that sintering temperature has an important effect on the sintering behavior of glass/ceramic composites. As seen in Fig. 6a, a distinct porosity microstructure is observed in the specimen sintered at 425 °C, which suggests the densification process of specimen is not completed. As the temperature rises up to 450 °C, the pores in the sample disappear and specimen reveals a dense microstructure (seen in Fig. 6b). However, further increase in sintering temperature would deteriorate the microstructure, and the amount of the pores of sample distinctly increase, as shown in Fig. 6c, d. The variation in microstructure is in well agreement with the trend of bulk density as shown in Fig. 2a. It was notable that the BaTiO3 was hardly found in the fracture section, which was attributed to the BaTiO3 particles that were covered by a large amount of glass phase. The microstructure change could be explained by the densification process. In the process of sintering, the BZBB glass begins to wet and form liquid which spreads across the BaTiO3 particles as the sintering temperature rising to the softening point. The melting glass prefers to occupy the lowest energy configuration, such as smaller grains and pores. Then the grains are rearranged and resulted in a more compact structure due to the forces induced by the capillary liquid bridges among small grains after the liquid layers touch each other . Nevertheless, excessive sintering temperature leads to a large amount of glass generates the liquid phase, they will leave behind large pores that are difficult to remove . Thus, the suitable choice of sintering temperature is very important for the preparation of glass/ceramic composites.
It is well known that the densification of glass/ceramic composites with a relatively large amount of glass can be described by conventional three-stage liquid phase sintering process, i.e., particle rearrangement, dissolution and precipitation, and solid state sintering. According to the reactivity between glass and ceramic, the densification of glass/ceramics composites can be further classified as nonreactive, partially reactive, and completely reactive systems . Based on the above discussion of bulk densities, XRD and SEM results, the densification and microstructure evolution may be attributed to a nonreactive type during the sintering process, which has been given in other literatures [12, 21]. For this work, a high BZBB glass content in composites is chosen to prevent direct contact between the BaTiO3 particles in the early stage of sintering. The BZBB glass just plays a binder role during the sintering process. Thus, the sintering model in this paper is believed to be three-stage sintering process: glass redistribution and grains rearrangement, closure of pores, and viscous flow.
Figure 7 shows the dielectric properties of composites with 50–90 wt% of BZBB glass sintered at different temperatures. In comparison, the pure BZBB glass sintered at 400 °C for 30 min obtained εr of ∼28 and tanδ of ∼0.009 at 100 MHz. It is observed that the dielectric constants of composites reveal a trend of increasing firstly and then decreasing with the increase of glass content at each fixed sintering temperature from Fig. 7a. Obviously, the decrease of dielectric constant may be mainly due to that the BBSZ glass possesses lower dielectric constant. It was reported that the dielectric properties of the composites depended on the bulk densities, microstructures and dielectric properties of each phase . Thus, it is reasonable for composites with 50 and 55 wt% BZBB glass to have such lower dielectric constant owing to their poor densification degree as shown in Fig. 2. Besides, as seen in Fig. 7b, the changes of dielectric losses of composites are also associated with bulk density and microstructure variation. It is also found that the dielectric property depends not only on the amounts of glass addition, but also on the sintering temperature. As glass <60 wt%, the dielectric constant increases with increase of the sintering temperature. This could be attributed to the densification of the composites was greatly improved with raising sintering temperature. As glass ≥60 wt%, however, the dielectric constant firstly increases and then decreases with an increase in the sintering temperature. The increase in the permittivity of the samples is mainly due to the increase in densification. However, the samples will be burned out as the sintering temperature rises, which will result in the reduction of dielectric constant. The Additionally, the dielectric loss of composites decreases with the increasing of glass content and composites with 60–90 wt% BZBB glass have the dielectric loss below 0.012, which may be attributed to the addition of low loss component BZBB glass and dense microstructure. Interestingly, as shown in Table 1, glass/ceramic composites with 60 wt% BZBB addition sintered at 450 °C has a εr of 133 at 100 MHz, which is 4 times higher than that of BaO–B2O3–SiO2/BaTiO3 glass ceramics sintered at 900 °C in other literature . The volume resistivity (ρv) of different glass addition is also presented in Table 1. The results show that glass addition markedly improve the volume resistivity for this glass/ceramic composites. As we know, the combination of high dielectric constant, low loss and the volume resistivity is of technical significance.
Dielectric properties and volume resistivity of composites with different addition of glass sintered at 450 °C
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1.25 × 1012
2.71 × 1012
4.36 × 1012
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The chemical compatibility between these composites and silver electrode was investigated by co-firing the BaTiO3 with 60 wt% BZBB glass with Ag electrode. Figure 8 shows the XRD pattern, SEM, and EDS results of the co-fired sample sintered at 400 °C for 1 h. Obviously, there is no formation of another new phase except for Ag, BaTiO3, and Bi24B2O39 from the XRD patterns (Fig. 8a), which indicates that no chemical reaction has taken place between the glass ceramic matrix and Ag. This observation is also confirmed by SEM micrographs and EDS analysis (Fig. 8b, c). The results show that the glass ceramics sheet matches Ag electrodes well and Ag won’t diffuse into the composite. In conclusion, BaTiO3/BZBB composites could be selected as suitable candidates for ultra-low temperature co-fired ceramic application because of its ultra-low sintering temperature, adjustable dielectric properties, and good compatibility with Ag electrode.
A series of glass/ceramic composites based on BaO–ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3/BaTiO3 with an ultra-low sintering temperature of 425–500 °C were prepared by solid state reaction. The sintering behavior, phase composition, microstructure, dielectric properties and compatibility with Ag electrode were investigated. The XRD, SEM and EDS results display that BaTiO3 particles could be uniformly distributed in the glass and only crystallization phase Bi24B2O39 could be found. The densification and the microstructure evolution could be attributed to a nonreactive type where the glass played a binder role during the sintering process. Results showed the dielectric properties of composites are strongly dependent on the glass content and sintering temperature. Typically, with the amount of BZBB glass increasing from 60 to 90 wt%, the dielectric constant increased from 35 to 133 at the frequency of 100 MHz. A better compatibility with Ag electrode suggests that the composite could be a promising candidate for ultra-low temperature sintering applications.
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51502349) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51672310).
- 4.H.T. Yu, J.S. Liu, W.L. Zhang, S.R. Zhang, Ultra-low sintering temperature ceramics for LTCC applications: a review. J. Mater. Sci. 26, 9414–9423 (2015)Google Scholar


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Jewelry is always a special part of my life. Not only do I enjoy wearing it, but I love creating it as well. I have always collected beads throughout all my travels and gathered any special treasures found in vintage stores and estate sales. My coffee table was soon inundated with beads and became a creative factory where I would spend countless hours just creating away. Pretty soon, my friends started wearing some of my funky creations and I would love to hear people asking them where they got it from. Each piece I make is one of a kind and I hope people love wearing them as much as I love creating them.
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Jujube and green tea extracts protect human fibroblast cells against UVB-mediated photo damage and MMP-2 and MMP-9 production.
Avicenna J Phytomed. 2020 May-Jun;10(3):287-296. PMID: 32523883
Objective: Oxidative stress and ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiation are known as principal inducers of DNA damage and modulators of gene expression in aging process and skin photoaging, which are associated with upregulation of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Because of the antioxidant capacity of jujube and green tea, we decided to determine their protective effects of human fibroblast cells against UVB-induced photo-damage and reduction of MMP-2 and MMP-9 expression.
Materials and Methods: We exposed human fibroblast cells to different doses of UVB (0-20 mJ/cm) with or without different concentrations of jujube and green tea extracts. Cell viability was assessed using MTT assay. Total antioxidant capacity and free radical scavenging activity of cell supernatant were assessed using FRAP and DPPH methods, respectively. The concentrations of MMP-2 and MMP-9 in the samples were determined by ELISA kits.
Results: Fibroblast cells viability, 24 hr after UVB irradiation, reduced about 70% compared to the controls. Pre-treatment of the cells with jujube extract (8 mg/ml) increased the cell viability by almost 85% while green tea (0.5 mg/ml) protected the irradiated cells by 71%. Also, MMP-2 and MMP-9 content decreased in a concentration-dependent manner in the cells pre-treated with jujube and green tea extracts.
Conclusion: These data suggest that jujube and green tea could be useful to attenuate solar UVB light-induced oxidative stress and skin photoaging and can be suggested as a potential candidate for the development of new anti-UVB medicines and cosmetic products.

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It may appear like a far-fetched dream but the two major countries in SAARC, India and Pakistan, could join forces to fight the impending economic crisis.
The South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was created to tackle the “common problems and aspirations” of the South Asian people. It was also created to look out for their welfare and assist in economic issues. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently called on SAARC to work together to form a strategy to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Regional cooperation would not only help mitigate the spread of the virus but also help with the crippling long-term effects of the economic crisis which is bound to worsen. The sooner steps are taken to mitigate the situation the sooner life for people can start to return to normal.
On March 15, the eight members of the regional bloc held a video conference to discuss a joint strategy on mitigating the spread of COVID-19. Pakistan was the only country that chose not to be represented by its head of state, but by by the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on health, Dr. Zafar Mirza. India announced a COVID-19 fund and pledged $10 million towards it. Modi has suggested a portal to track virus carriers and a Rapid Response team of Indian doctors. Afghanistan pledged 1 million dollars. Pakistan later pledged three million dollars to the fund to support regional efforts and asked for the funds to be overseen by the Secretary General of SAARC. The SAARC Disaster Management Centre has also launched a website for sharing information on COVID-19 in the regional languages.
Restoring a dormant SAARC is a good idea. A large segment of the population of the world, nearly one-fifth, is represented by the South Asian countries. Mutual cooperation can help foster peace in the region. The fact that SAARC has thus far not prospered has been blamed on the strained relations between Pakistan and India. India has attributed security issues as one of the reasons it has distanced itself in the past. Both countries have also in recent days accused the other of violating cease-fire terms. The 2016 summit that was to be held in Islamabad had been cancelled due to India refusing to attend. In New York, at a meeting of SAARC foreign ministers, Pakistan’s foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, walked out in protest. He stated that Pakistan is unwilling to engage with India, “...until and unless they lift the siege (on Kashmir)...”


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Security Metrics released their third study on unencrypted card data; the results were astonishing as 63% of businesses do not encrypt credit cards. This means that businesses are storing the 16-digit Primary Account Number (PAN) in the clear. 7% of businesses are storing the magnetic stripe data found on the back of the card. Not only is storing unencrypted card information reckless—putting organizations and their customers at risk—it violates Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).
We see signs every day that inform us about safety measures an organization is taking. We have all seen these examples:
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These types of signs are common in business. They show customers, partners, and employees what’s being done to protect the business and help reduce the organization’s risk and liability.
As if the recent data compromises affecting more than 115,000,000 cardholders among Target, Neiman Marcus, Michaels, Aaron Brothers, Marriott and Sheraton, to name a few, are not enough, experts are predicting data breaches may increase in 2014. Are your payment security measures as strong as they could be? Wash away all the marketing hype and hyperbole, and learn why TrustCommerce clients rest well, knowing that their customers’ data is secure. These best practices protect payments and reduce the risk and liability associated with accepting electronic payments.
How can merchants address the threat of a payment data compromise?
Credit and debit cards have rapidly become the preferred payment method across the globe. We all swipe our credit cards at the check-out counter and enter our credit card numbers into e-commerce websites, usually with little thought to where the data ends up. But there are people waiting on the other end of that transaction ready to capture payment data and use it fraudulently.
Network intrusions and data compromises continue to plague the payment card industry. At the 2012 RSA Annual Security Convention, RSAʼs Executive Chairman, Arthur Coviello, told the audience, “Our networks will be penetrated. We should no longer be surprised by this.” His statement came within months of the disclosure that RSA, one of the worldʼs largest and most respected security companies, had been breached and the code to SecureID, their two-factor authentication solution, stolen. Mr. Coviello then told the attendees, “The reality today is that we are in a race with our adversaries and right now, more often than not, they are winning.”
On May 13, 2011 news broke of Michaels arts-and-crafts stores falling victim to debit-card data theft.
“Thieves tampered with the retailer’s debit-card processing equipment at about 80 stores from Massachusetts to Washington, according to the chain’s corporate parent, Michaels Stores Inc.
The thefts apparently involved the use of electronic devices called skimmers that allowed crooks to record information from shoppers’ debit cards and steal their personal identification numbers, or PINs.1”

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Ricœur’s concept of the fault [la faute] is broad, and neither French nor English provides a term which would do it full justice. It expresses the basic awareness that all is not right with the world, that existence as I live it is always a flawed existence. This is the awareness expressed in symbols of evil and myths of the fall, in the Platonic myth of the world running backwards, as well as in the philosophical concepts of the fall or of the bondage of passions. Using the term in its broadest sense (rather than in Ricœur’s own more restricted, clinical sense), we can say that the concept of the fault points to the pathological distortion of existence.
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In honor of the first Ray Bradbury novel I ever read [Dandelion Wine, from 1957], I’m going to talk about Taraxacum Officinale, the common Dandelion. While some forms of Dandelion are native to
Poor Ray Bradbury must have felt a little overwhelmed by dandelions, in his later years, as digital technology, one of his pet peeves [see here], became so prevalent and essential to modern life. How far might we have gotten with the technology we had, if we hadn’t gotten so obsessed with the newfangled devices? Is “colonizing” the internet the reason we don’t have a Moon colony?
More importantly, wouldn’t a Moon colony disrupt the natural environment of the Moon, desolate as it is? Our childhoods, our origins, and everything that becomes familiar is subject to change -- whether it be flowering weeds from across the sea, electronic storage of information, where the brain once entertained itself with objects that actually exist, or strange-looking water-filled skin-sacks that need a strong, metal enclosure filled with gas to even survive.
For the record, I’m not opposed to the digital age, a moon colony, or even Taraxacum Officinale. There’s just a certain amount of sadness that comes with clearing away the old to make way for the new. I often wonder why we’re always in such a rush to do it.


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