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Minister for Education (Sweden) Develops policy and delivers services via the Ministry of Education and Research (Sweden) (Swedish: Utbildningsdepartementet) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Member of the Swiss Federal Council and Head of the Department of Home Affairs Develops policy and delivers services via the Federal Department of Home Affairs (Switzerland) (German: Eidgenössisches Departement des Innern; French: Département fédéral de l'intérieur; Italian: Dipartimento Federale dell'Interno) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Minister of Education (Thailand) Develops policy and delivers services via the Ministry of Education (Thailand) (Thai: กระทรวงศึกษาธิการ; RTGS: Krasuang Sueksathikan) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Secretary of State for Education Develops policy and delivers services via the Department for Education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Minister of Education (Northern Ireland) Develops policy and delivers services via the Department of Education (Northern Ireland) (Irish: An Roinn Oideachais; Ulster Scots: Männystrie o Lear or Depairtment o Leir) Minister for the Economy (Northern Ireland) Develops policy, higher and further Education and delivers ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills Develops policy and delivers services via the Scottish Government Learning and Justice Directorates | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Minister for Education and Skills Develops policy and delivers services via the Department for Education and Skills (Wales) (Welsh: Yr Adran Addysg a Sgiliau) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
United States Secretary of Education Develops policy and delivers services via the United States Department of Education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Minister of Education and Culture (Uruguay) Develops policy and delivers services via the Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
Minister of Education and Training (Vietnam) Develops policy and delivers services via the Ministry of Education and Training (Vietnam) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_minister |
i.play, also known as the Intelligent Play System is an interactive playground designed in collaboration between Progressive Sports Technologies Ltd and Playdale Playgrounds. The i.play has switches and lights which light up and make sounds, requiring participants to push them to earn points.The development and evaluat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.play |
The politico-media complex (PMC, also referred to as the political-media complex) is a name given to the network of relationships between a state's political and ruling classes and its media industry. It may also encompass other interest groups, such as law (and its enforcement), corporations and multinationals. The te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Before Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type in 1450, most information was delivered by town criers, ministers from the pulpit, or bartenders. Town criers spread information and news including royal edicts, police regulations, important community events and war news. These early methods of communication were often d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Corantos, which were semi-regular pamphlets that reported the news, are an example of the early politico-media complex. Popular in England, corantos reported mostly foreign news as the royal government attempted to control what domestic news reached the masses. Corantos eventually would become regular periodicals that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers".Although print media in the West has suffered from declining adver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Newspapers and magazines open two-way dialogues between readers and journalists. Some studies have shown that the print media are more likely to reinforce existing political attitudes of the masses than change them.Reporters Without Borders, an international non-governmental organization that promotes freedom of the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The press is censored in the People's Republic of China through the Golden Shield Project known worldwide as the Great Firewall of China. Reporters Without Borders ranks China's press situation as "very serious," the worst possible ranking on their five-point scale. China's press was ranked 173rd out of 179 countries i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Middle Eastern print media is mainly paid for by private funders, either a specific family or specific government party. Some Middle Eastern newspapers and magazines have been accused of having obvious political ties. Many countries in the Middle East and Africa have harsh government restrictions as to what can be publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Reporters Without Borders has said that journalists in Israel "enjoy real freedom of expression despite the existence of military censorship." However, Professor Yoram Peri of the University of Maryland has said that Israel experienced a media control crackdown as the government censors coverage of military action cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Eritrea is currently a one-party "transitional government" which has yet to enact its ratified constitution. Other African countries at the bottom of the 2009 Press Freedom Index include Syria (165) and Somalia (164). Both countries exhibit little journalistic freedom and are infamous for their unstable transitional go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Where newspapers used to represent an exclusive connection between readers and advertisers, print media now competes with the power of the Internet. Because of declining advertising revenue and shrinking audiences, print press has been described as declining. Today a little more than half of Americans read a newspaper ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
However, a 2004 report notes that 55 million newspapers are sold daily in the United States, and newsprint still plays a significant role in the politico-media complex.In addition to economic struggles and readership decline, newsprint has also struggled with losing readers' trust. Surveys have found that people tend t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The only news medium that people trust less than newspapers is print magazines.Some old people out there have speculated that the youth today are more visually inclined, and are therefore less likely to be influenced by written political news or propaganda. One Pew Center study found that 28% of the younger generations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The early American radio industry was composed of commercial shipping companies that used radio for navigation, and amateur radio enthusiasts who built radios at home. This mixture of military, industry, and community went unregulated until the Radio Act of 1912, which required all ships to use radio communication and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Jonathan Reed Winkler, a noted WWI historian, said: “It was only during World War I that the United States first came to comprehend how a strategic communications network-the collection of submarine telegraph cables, and long-distance radio stations used by a nation for diplomatic, commercial and military purposes- was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
and Radiola helped established a new channel for the politico-media complex to enter into thousands of American homes. By 1919 the oldest licensed American radio station, KDKA, from Pittsburgh, PA began broadcasting regular music shows, and soon music, educational programming, sports coverage and eventually news covera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The close politico-media complex between government and radio was evident in 1924 when the Republican and Democratic National Conventions were covered, while the conventions of the other parties were ignored. Candidates made the eve of election speeches, the first instance of radio broadcasting that was meant to affect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
By 1935 about 2 in 3 American homes owned a radio. Politicians would continue to use the radio in World War II, in which the radio was used primarily for news transmissions and the spread of propaganda. One example of radio propaganda came from Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Ruth Hayakawa, June Suyamawho, and Myrtle Lipton colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
These women hosted anti-American programming intended to lower American soldiers' morale and illustrate the use of governments' use of the media to influence the public or their enemies. However, many people, such as Iva Toguri D'Aquino and Allied prisoners of war, were forced against their will to participate in these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The American international radio program, the Voice of America, founded during World War II, became a critical part of the Cold War era "public diplomacy," which aimed to spread democratic values and popularize American policies abroad. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman described the Cold War conflict as a "struggle, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Programming included unbiased news coverage, musical programs, and Special English broadcasts, which was intended to help listeners master American English. The VOA was not alone in its international broadcasting efforts, the United States Central Intelligence Agency supported Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Other nations also used international radio as propaganda. For example, Deutsche Welle (DW), the German international radio program was a major broadcaster during the Cold War. By 1965 DW aired 848 hours of programming to the Soviet Union and abroad and reached 5% of the USSR population weekly by 1980. Deutsche Welle's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The Golden Age of Radio may have only lasted from 1935–1950, yet radio is still an active medium in the politico-media complex. Today there is extensive radio programming on politics. An example is the Rush Limbaugh Show, which broadcast the political commentary of late Rush Limbaugh, referred to by listeners as "Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
One of the film's most powerful forms is national cinema, for which there are entire books for individual countries and varying definitions. Through the cinema, ideological groups within specific countries can construct and reinforce their collective identities through film, as well as the identities of what is conside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Ulf Hedetoft said that "in the real world of politics and influence, certain nationalisms, cultures, ideas, and interpretations are more powerful, assertive and successful than others. Where the less influential ones are not necessarily less self-congratulatory, they are certainly more inward-looking and always carry t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Propaganda is a way that politics can be represented and manipulated in film. Russian producers Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin are credited with the birth of propaganda aesthetics, for which the underlying assumption was that by manipulating cinematic images representing reality, they could manipulate spectato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
According to Furhammar and Isaksson, it was Russian filmmakers who were the "masters of montage" and discovered film's power to create the convincing illusion with cutting, rhythmic editing, and a didactic approach. When sound became possible, documentaries have been said to become more politically powerful with the us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
A comparison of the first three installments of the American series Why We Fight and the Nazi documentary Sieg im Westen (Victory in the West) demonstrates how convincing even two opposing interpretations of the same events can be. The first covers years in a couple of hours but its density disguises any omission of tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The House Committee on Un-American Activities, for example, did this with Operation Abolition in 1960 and Nazi newsreels depicted scenes of the Allies' defeat at Dieppe as real scenes from the Normandy invasion just a few days afterward to convince the audience of the Reich's success. The Audience's political affiliati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
What amazes Henry Giroux, as he explains in "Breaking into the Movies", is that such blatant ideological messages were ignored by critics and the general public, and that society may be incapable of testing the present against the past has implications for post-industrial oppression in the West and the strategies for r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Despite the strong patriotism and nationalism of Americans, overtly political films have never been well-received in the U.S. while films that have represented politics inconspicuously (such as in the form of propaganda) have remained popular. Besides Frank Capra, no other major American filmmaker has seriously present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Capra's films are characterized by the same basic formula according to which the fundamental American values of fairness and honesty are challenged by the corruption and cruelty of politics. Ronald Reagan later extensively quoted the speech made by Mr. Deeds in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) where he expresses his disgu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
After the hero of Meet John Doe realizes his need for others, he discovers and attempts to expose a fascist bidder for presidency planning to take advantage of his club support. He fails in the midst of a violent mob with the depressing conclusion that the American public is a credulous crowd that is susceptible to man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Lindholm and Hall observe that "the problems that defeated Capra has also undercut later attempts by American filmmakers to portray the complex relationship between individualism and citizenship in the United States" and claim that Hollywood has instead adopted the paranoia of politics that Capra had tried to overcome.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
have followed a trend of focusing on the flawed character of leaders, such films like Citizen Kane (1940) and Nixon (1995). Otherwise, they show the corruption of power, such as in The Candidate (1972) and Primary Colors (1998). Other films, like A Face in a Crowd (1957) and All the King's Men (1949), follow the warnin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
While films can be overtly political they can also depoliticize and oversimplify what is inherently complex, such as class struggle. Film, as it contributes to mass culture, has been criticized for reducing the concept of class to stereotypes and predictable formulas that promote superficial understandings of ideology.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The mass media have always influenced the political process, but never more so than with the innovation of the television. As it is the most popular means by which voters obtain information on candidates and the news in general, television is a powerful means by which political groups can influence the public.This tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Because newscasts were national, aired political campaigns were able to impact viewers across the country and spread influence nationwide.Rick Shenkman analyzes the media's impact on politics in his book, Just How Stupid Are We? : Facing the Truth About the American Voter, and observes that American voters have gained ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
By prioritizing news stories, the news media play a significant role in determining the nation's political reality; they provide the political information that will be regarded as fact and indicate to viewers how much importance to attach to each topic according to how much air time they dedicate to a given issue and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
In his book, Politics After Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India, Arvind Rajagopal examines Hindu nationalism during the late 1980s and 1990s in India. Rajagopal analyzed the role of the media in the public's construction of national, cultural, class, and regional identity. More sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
His discussion of television revolves around the industrial and cultural politics of the serialized epic Ramayan. The serial epic, which generated unprecedented viewership, is based on the epic story of the Hindu god Ram and aired on Doordarshan, India's state-run television. Rajagopal argued that the national telecast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
24)The epic was broadcast on national television and sponsored by the ruling Congress government. Rajagopal argued that Congress assumed that the mere sponsorship of the epic would aid its electoral future by bringing in the majority Hindu vote. On the contrary, it was the electorally weak Hindu nationalist political b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The BJP did so by avoiding the media effects framework attempted by Congress and articulated a complex relationship between the televised Hindu epic and its own Hindu nationalist beliefs instead. The BJP mobilized the public around the symbol of Ram, the lead figure of the serial, but strategically reworked the symbol ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Articulating the temple restoration project within its electoral promise, the BJP, not surprisingly, went on to form the national government in the next general election,p. 43 illustrating that, as Rajagopal argues, television is capable of profoundly impacting politics. Central to the BJP's success was the party's str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
In the “Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt,” Lila Abu-Lughod suggested that a nation's television should be studied to answer larger questions about the culture, power, and modern self-fashioning of that nation. Abu-Lughod focuses on Egypt and investigates the elements of developmentalist ideolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Their contents reflect the changing dynamics of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in the Middle Eastern nation of Egypt, while at the same time trying to influence and direct these changes.Another group who studied the impact of television on politics included Holli Semetko and Patti Valkenburg. In their studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
News frames are "conceptual tools which media and individuals rely on to convey, interpret and evaluate information", which set the parameters "in which citizens discuss public events" and are in a mode of "persistent selection, emphasis, and exclusion". Framing is selecting "some aspects of a perceived reality" to enh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
21) and to "narrow the available political alternatives. "News frames utilize the framing effect, or when relevant attributes of a message – such as its organization, content, or structure – make particular thoughts applicable, resulting in their activation and use in evaluations. The framing effect has shown to have l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The Internet has given the world a tool for education, communication, and negotiation in political information and political roles and its use by individuals and organizations has increased and continues to significantly increase. This rapid increase can be compared to the boom of the television and its impact on polit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
However, there are many controversies regarding the PMC in the medium as the Internet can encourage and facilitate the practice of providing bits of information extracted from a far wider context or biased information, which leads to public cynicism toward the media.The relative ease of entry into publishing through In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Boothroyd was also found to have operated prior his appointment to the Arbitration Committee other contemporary accounts—a practice in Wikipedia known as 'sock puppetry'—to give undue weight through appearing as different identities to a particular point of view as opposed to representing a neutral point of view (NPOV)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The impact of the internet on politics has been notable, as this form of media has more current information than others as it is constantly being updated. Another advantage is its capacity to have extensive information in one place, like voting records, periodicals, press releases, opinion polls, policy statements, spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Users, nonetheless, remain susceptible to bias, especially on websites that represent themselves as objective sources. Email is heavily used among numerous levels of government, political groups, and even media companies as a means of communicating with the public which plays a significant role in the political-media c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
In 1993 the United States Congress and the White House began using it for internal communication and as a means of communicating with the general public. During the Clinton administration, a director for email and electronic publishing was appointed and by the summer of 1993, the White House was receiving 800 emails pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The United States Presidential campaign in 1996 between sitting-President Bill Clinton and Bob Dole was one of the first campaigns to utilize the Internet on a national level in the US.With so many campaigns using the Internet, it raises a significant amount of money in a shorter period of time compared to any other me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Blogs are a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blogging started to become popular in the early 2000s and was used mostly by highly educated, highly paid, males. Around 2004 blogging became more mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Some discussion forums are actually groups or organizations that set up a discussion for a specific purpose about one issue or person in politics. Some problems with discussion forums include the lack of personal contact, which allows people not to take responsibility for posts, such as personal attacks on others. Bias... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
An e-Government is a government that is inter-networked through digital technology for mass media distribution and communication for voters, taxpayers, schools, hospitals, etc. It has been described as a new way to transform government programs by closing the gap between distance and time. This idea has been said to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The first major reappraisal of the relationship between a political elite/class and the media in a major modern Western PMC, with respect to the decline of representative political and legal processes and the consequent erosion of and dangers to the public interest in a Western democracy, is captured in excerpts from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
We depend on the media, and that applies still more to Governments. It is an unavoidable observation that Parliament has behaved with extraordinary cowardice for many years... We are faced with a scandal of expanding proportions, including hacking, allegations of interference in police investigations, and claims that p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
It is clear from today’s debate that this is the will of the House, and we are committed to making it happen. These comments refer to the apparent effects of the relationships between the members of (the UK) parliament and those that form the UK Government, the Metropolitan Police and News International (NI ) and the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
The Parliamentary turmoil resulted in the UK government instituting a three-pronged public judicial examination known as the Leveson Inquiry into the relations and interactions between the media and the public, the media and the police and the media and the politicians. Its findings were published November 29, 2012 bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico-media_complex |
Psyllium , or ispaghula , is the common name used for several members of the plant genus Plantago whose seeds are used commercially for the production of mucilage. Psyllium is mainly used as a dietary fiber to relieve symptoms of both constipation and mild diarrhea, and occasionally as a food thickener. Allergy to psyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Psyllium has been used as a thickener in ice cream and other frozen desserts. A 1.5% weight/volume ratio of psyllium mucilage exhibits binding properties that are superior to a 10% weight/volume ratio of starch mucilage. The viscosity of psyllium mucilage dispersions are relatively unaffected between temperatures of 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Dietary supplements containing psyllium are sold mainly to aid weight loss, although there is little scientific evidence for such effects. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Psyllium is mainly used as a viscous, soluble dietary fiber that is not absorbed by the small intestine. The purely mechanical action of psyllium mucilage is to absorb excess water while stimulating normal bowel elimination. Although its main use has been as a laxative, it is more accurately regarded as a dietary fiber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a health claim on food labels for dietary psyllium as a soluble fiber – if consumed regularly – that would reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering blood cholesterol. Clinical research demonstrated that seven grams or more per day of soluble fiber from psylliu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
In 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a qualified health claim for psyllium as a possible benefit for people with diabetes, requiring FDA-approved wording on a product label: "Psyllium husk may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, although the FDA has concluded that there is very little scientific evid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Psyllium has been found by meta-analysis of clinical trials to significantly reduce blood pressure in people suffering from hypertension. Psyllium has not been shown to have the same effect on individuals with normal or elevated blood pressure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Psyllium fiber dietary supplements are used in veterinary medicine to treat sand impaction in horses to aid in elimination of sand from the horse's colon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Fiber generally has few side effects. Psyllium can cause bowel obstructions or bezoars, if taken without adequate amounts of water. Gas or stomach bloating may also occur. Choking is a hazard if psyllium is taken without adequate water as it thickens in the throat. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Psyllium can cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. Psyllium may act as a potent inhalant allergen capable of eliciting asthma symptoms. Health care professionals at geriatric care hospitals, who are frequently exposed to psyllium in the laxatives administered to patients, are commonly IgE sensitized to psyll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
The soluble fiber in psyllium is the polysaccharide heteroxylan, a hemicellulose.Psyllium is produced mainly for its mucilage content. The term mucilage describes a group of clear, colorless, gelling agents derived from plants. The mucilage obtained from psyllium comes from the seed coat. Mucilage is obtained by mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Mucilage yield amounts to about 25% (by weight) of the total seed yield. Plantago-seed mucilage is often referred to as husk, or psyllium husk. The milled seed mucilage is a white fibrous material that is hydrophilic, meaning that its molecular structure causes it to attract and bind to water. Upon absorbing water, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
The genus Plantago contains over 200 species. P. ovata and P. psyllium are produced commercially in several European countries, Russia and surrounding countries, and India. Plantago seed, known commercially as black, French, or Spanish psyllium, is obtained from P. psyllium, also known as P. arenaria. Seed produced fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Isabgol is the common name in India for P. ovata. it is known as Ispaghol in Pakistan. India dominates the world market in the production and export of psyllium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Plantago ovata is an annual herb that grows to a height of 30–46 cm (12–18 in). Leaves are opposite, linear or linear lanceolate 1 cm × 19 cm (0.39 in × 7.48 in). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
The root system has a well-developed tap root with few fibrous secondary roots. A large number of flowering shoots arise from the base of the plant. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Flowers are numerous, small, and white. Plants flower about 60 days after planting. The seeds are enclosed in capsules that open at maturity. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
The fields are generally irrigated prior to seeding to achieve ideal soil moisture, to enhance seed soil contact, and to avoid burying the seed too deeply as a result of later irrigations or rainfall. Maximum germination occurs at a seeding depth of 6 mm (1/4 in). Emerging seedlings are frost sensitive; therefore, plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Seed is broadcast at 5.5 to 8.25 kg/hectare (5 to 7.5 lb/acre) in India. In Arizonan trials, seeding rates of 22 to 27.5 kg/ha (20 to 25 lb/acre) resulted in stands of 1 plant/25mm (1 inch) in 15 cm (6 inch) rows produced excellent yields. Weed control is normally achieved by one or two hand weedings early in the growi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Control of weeds by pre-plant irrigation that germinates weed seeds followed by shallow tillage may be effective on fields with minimal weed pressure. Psyllium is a poor competitor with most weed species. Plantago wilt (Fusarium oxysporum) and downy mildew (Peronospora alta) are the major diseases of Isabgol. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
White grubs and aphids are the major insect pests. The flower spikes turn reddish brown at ripening, the lower leaves dry and the upper leaves yellow. The crop is harvested in the morning after the dew is gone to minimize shattering and field losses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
In India, mature plants are cut 15 cm above the ground and then bound, left for a few days to dry, thrashed, and winnowed. Harvested seed must be dried to below 12% moisture to allow for cleaning, milling, and storage. Seed stored for future crops has shown a significant loss in viability after 2 years in storage. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Introduced in 1934 by G.D. Searle & Company, Metamucil was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1985. The name is a combination of the Greek word for change (meta) and the class of fiber that it utilizes (mucilage). In its early years, Metamucil achieved sporadic drug-store distribution as a "behind the counter" product - s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Since 1974, the brand was also marketed to consumers by print and TV advertising and became available in food outlets. Flavored versions were added in 1979. The brand is sold as powdered drink mixes, capsules and wafers in a variety of flavors. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
Metamucil contains psyllium seed husks as the active ingredient. It is manufactured in Phoenix, Arizona, by Procter & Gamble. When first marketed to consumers in 1974, Metamucil was marketed as a laxative. The advertising slogan at that time was "If not nature, then Metamucil". Procter & Gamble sought to make Metamucil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyllium |
== Early history (1898–1930) == After the Spanish–American War (1898), Filipinos became US nationals, the US Army trained and recruited Filipinos as Volunteer Auxiliary and Contract Nurses to serve in the Philippines focusing on tropical diseases. Several were sent to the US (San Francisco and New York City) for furthe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Filipino_nurses_in_the_United_States |
Some stayed in the US for employment. Since that time a continuous influx of Filipino nurses worked in New York City, and made a contribution to the demands of healthcare at that time. The Philippine Nurses Association – New York was established in 1928 by the Filipino nurses with the goals of promoting cultural unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Filipino_nurses_in_the_United_States |
The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that is dedicated to preserving the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage around the world. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_World_Monuments_Watch |
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