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I go to quite a few meetings at school. This is kind of a given when you have a child with special needs. And since I have more than one child with special needs — well, you get the idea.
Last week, I attended a meeting at my oldest son’s school. The focus of the meeting was to teach all of us — my son, his aide, me and the OT how to use the electronic keyboard/personal planner that he is using at school this year.
So, there we were, squished in a little resource room with extremely yellow walls, bookshelves full of videos and binders, and a trapezoidal table around which we were grouped. Bless my son, he manages to make even meetings be so not typical. How does he do this, you might ask? Well, he kept us laughing by the little asides that he would say to me after doing his part on the keyboard.
J: That is my speech teacher. Mom, she’s a lot younger than you.
Me: (laughing) Oh, really? Well, thank you, J. Mom needed that one today.
J: (a bit mournfully…in a detached sort of way) Mom, I flooded the bathroom today.
(Everyone falls out laughing.)
Me: J, honey, you’ve got to not use a whole roll of paper, okay? That is what does it. Remember that, okay?
(I don’t think that he’ll be remembering…
I turn around to see J’s aide doubled over laughing and silently say thanks that she has a good sense of humor.)
J: Mom, I don’t think that E would like to see Hercules, because, at 93 minutes, it might be too long for him, since he is only 4.
Me: J, are you sure that Hercules has 93 minutes?
J: Yes, and it might be too long for E.
So then we notice that the movie Hercules is on a high shelf in the room. Finally, the curiosity overcomes me and I get it down to check the running time. Of course, it’s 93 minutes.
The World According to J
How old someone is compared to someone else = who cares?
Remembering not to flood the bathroom = not important.
Running time of various movies = important.
Laughing = better than crying, always.
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Missouri death row inmate Russell Bucklew is scheduled to die on Tuesday. But Bucklew suffers from a rare medical condition, and his lawyers say the execution drug that will be used could come with gruesome consequences and constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
For nearly all his life, Bucklew has been afflicted with cavernous hemangioma, a rare disease that causes tumors to form in his face, head, neck, and throat. Prison staff intend to use pentobarbital, a sedative, to execute him, but this could cause his tumors to burst. Cheryl Pilate, one of Bucklew’s lawyers told the Associated Press on Monday, he would likely experience “a gruesome execution with choking and gagging on blood and the infliction of excruciating pain.”
Bucklew, who is 49 years old, has been on death row for more than 20 years for the 1996 murder of Michael Sanders in Cape Giradeau, Missouri. Sanders was the new boyfriend of Bucklew’s former girlfriend Stephanie Ray. Bucklew shot Sanders in front of his children, Ray, and her children and then kidnapped Ray and took her to a secluded area. After raping her, he drove her to the St. Louis area as a hostage where a high-speed chase and shootout with a state trooper ensued. Bucklew was arrested and held in the Cape Girardeau County jail but escaped a few months later in June by hiding in a trash can that was taken out of the prison. While on the run, he went to the home of Ray’s mother and attacked her with a hammer, but she survived. Two days later, Bucklew was apprehended and jailed. In 1997, he was convicted of kidnap, rape, and murder, and sentenced to death.
Missouri first attempted to execute Bucklew in May 2014, but the US Supreme Court granted a stay in order to allow Bucklew’s claims that his execution would be painful to work its way through the lower courts. Bucklew’s lawyers argued that given his illness, he could not be humanely executed, and this cruel and unusual punishment would be a violation of the Eighth Amendment. In Glossip v. Gross, the US Supreme Court said that when the Eighth Amendment is used to challenge a method of execution a “reasonable alternative” must be proposed by the inmate.
In the 2014 appeal, Bucklew’s lawyers suggested that the state use nitrogen gas to execute him. (The state of Oklahoma recently proposed it as an alternative to lethal injection.) According to court documents, Dr. Joel Zivot, a professor of surgery and anesthesiology at Emory University said that “substantial risk” exists that Bucklew will “suffer from extreme or excruciating pain.” But last June, a federal judge ruled that because Bucklew could not actually show that death by nitrogen would reduce the risk of suffering, his execution should proceed.
Missouri uses a one-drug protocol in its executions in which death row inmates are injected with a large dose of the sedative pentobarbital. According to a Buzzfeed News report, the state’s drug supplier is a pharmacy with a history of selling contaminated drugs, and anti-death penalty advocates argue that contaminated pentobarbital would also cause a painful death for Bucklew.
Last week, in the appeal Bucklew’s lawyers filed with the US Supreme Court, they asked for the court to spare his life and painted a grim picture of what could happen during the execution. “As he struggles to breathe through the execution procedure,” they wrote, “Bucklew’s throat tumor will likely rupture…filling his mouth and airway with blood, causing him to choke and cough on his own blood.”
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Ideal for GARDEN and CONTAINER PLANTING
We strongly suggest planting enough so you can give in to urges to snip some for indoor enjoyment; it’s bound to happen. Iris plants are tall and slim. Plant them in large containers and plan to add other bulbs, perennials or annuals to fill out the area around their ankles.
- Planting Location: Sun/semi-shade
- Planting: Fall (September-November) prior to first frost, or Spring (until May) after last frost.
- Planting Depth: 1 inch (2.5 cm), top of the rhizome should stick out just above the soil
- Planting Distance: 8 inches (20 cm)
- Flowers In: May-June
- Flowering Height: Approx. 35 inch (88 cm)
How to Grow
Easy to Grow:
1. Select an area with full sun or semi-shade
2. Dig a hole 1 inch (2.5 cm) deep
3. Place the bulb in the hole, with pointed side up
4. Space bulbs 8 inches (20 cm) apart
5. Cover with soil and water thoroughly
Plant in groups of 3, 5 or more, in well-drained soil. Bulbs will benefit from a handful of compost added to the planting holes.
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Sorry, we are currently sold out of Red Claw Emperor Scorpions (babies). Please click above to view a similar product on our affiliate's site.
The Emperor Scorpion belongs to the Scorpionidae family.
These scorpions are native to Tanzania.
Size and Longevity:
Emperor Scorpions range from 3.5 inches to 5 inches long, and their average life is 5 to 7 years.
Scorpions do well in captivity but are generally aggressive toward humans. Like most scorpions, Emperor Scorpions are nocturnal, which means they sleep during the day and come out at night to eat.
Habitat and Cage:
Scorpions do not need much room because of their relatively small size. Emperor Scorpion gets along with other scorpions and can be housed together, but it is not recommended to have any more than 3 scorpions in one enclosure. A 2.5 to 20 gallon tank is sufficient housing depending on the amount of scorpions.
Substrate consisting of sand and/or soil is recommended along with a few inches of moist peat moss for humidity control. The terrarium should be set up so that the temperature is between 75°F and 90°F with a humidity of 60 to 70%. Using a low wattage bulb will help maintain the temperature and humidity of the enclosure as well. There should be enough hiding places so that there is at least one for each scorpion in the enclosure (more than one hiding place is recommended). Not providing adequate hiding areas can lead to stress and fights which can cause health problems and a shorter life span.
A wide and shallow water dish is the optimal way to ensure the scorpion can get to the water it needs and has enough to survive. The water should be changed daily to keep it fresh and free of dirt and other toxic things that may build up over time.
Feeding and Handling:
Young scorpions feed off of pinhead(baby) crickets while adults feed off of adult crickets. Adult scorpions eat 2 to 3 crickets per week. Scorpions will not eat dead insects, so any dead crickets in the enclosure should be discarded.
Handling a scorpion is not recommended without the proper equipment such as foam-covered tweezers, a cup, or some other means of picking it up without being stung. All scorpions are venomous, but is only deadly if the recipient is allergic to the venom. The sting is most often said to be just a little more painful than a bee sting.
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I feel like I’m always talking about the love/hate relationship I had with lit classes back in the day. Instead of talking about what a bad idea it is to take 15 credits for your major PLUS a “fun” lit class on the side, I’m going to talk about this article that HarperCollins tweeted awhile ago. (Sorry I’m just now getting to write about it.)
I, for one, was so happy to see this article (thanks, Lithub!) because I cannot figure out how to view the required reading for my university’s lit classes now that my student ID has been inactive for a good five years. (Aaand now I feel old.) While I’m not going to “read along” with these lit classes, I think I’ve found a number of books to add to my TBR.
Professor Anne McClintock’s Pleasure, Power and Profit: Race and Sexualities in a Global Era (Princeton University) sounds like something I would have wanted to take when I was in college, but ultimately would have been too afraid of. I just feel like I’m not the right person to write academic essays on race and sexuality, but reading these books? Sounds like a good way to expand my horizons.
💜 Making Sex by Thomas Laqueuer
💜 Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
💜 Porn Studies by Linda Williams
💜 Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry by Frederique Delacoste
💜 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
💜 Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Getting back to my linguistics background, I think Professor Serguei A. Oushakine’s course on Language, Identity, Power (also Princeton University) sounds amazing. I love everything about words, from the study of how they’re pronounced (phonetics) to the small pieces of words (phonology) to how we put those pieces together (morphology) and how words are combined to create meaning (syntax). Even more than that, I love analyzing the different possible meanings of the same few words. A whole class on how words can shape identity is right up my alley.
💚 The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
💚 The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
💚 Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes
💚 Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler
💚 Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu
💚 Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
Are you currently enrolled in any lit classes, or have you taken any that you’ve really enjoyed? My favorite was a course by Professor Nete Schmidt called Criminal Utopias. I was inspired to find the syllabus after reading this article, and it seems to have changed a bit in the seven years or so since I took the course. Currently, the required reading is:
💙 Kallocain by Karin Boye
💙 Red Wolf by Liza Marklund (new!)
💙 Don’t Look Back by Karin Fossum
💙 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
💙 Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
💙 Sidetracked by Henning Mankell
💙 The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen (new!)
💙 excerpts of George Orwell’s 1984, Thomas More’s Utopia, Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, and Harry Martinson’s Aniara, among others
If you’ve found any great lit classes (or just a great book from a lit class), please let me know!
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Outrage + Optimism / Special Series
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History will look back at the 2020s as the most decisive decade in human history. The choices we make now will determine the kind of world this generation – and all those yet to come – will inhabit. As we often discuss on this podcast, science demands that we halve global greenhouse gas emissions by the end of this decade, to eventually reach net zero by 2050. Doing so will pull us away from the cliff’s edge, into a world that is cleaner, more equal, safer, healthier and with an abundance of jobs and opportunities. This simple scientific truth means that we must shift the systems that underpin the global economy to new, low carbon ways of operating and protect nature at the same time. This is unprecedented but it is in our hands to achieve. The only question is whether we can shift fast enough to avert the worst impacts of climate change. We’re at the turning point – and everyone needs to play their part to make it happen faster. Can we count you in?
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Lout Meaning in Urdu
Lout meaning in English to Urdu is بے ڈھنگا شخص (Be dhangha shakhs). Lout synonym words are included Clod, Gawk, Lubber, Lummox, Lump, Oaf. Similar words of Lout are also commonly used in daily talk like as Lout, Lout, and Loutish.
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Lout Definition & Meaning in English
- (v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.
- (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
- (n.) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
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Lout is an English word that is used in many sentences in different contexts. Lout meaning in Urdu is a بے ڈھنگا شخص - Be dhangha shakhs. Lout word is driven by the English language. Lout word meaning in English is well described here in English as well as in Urdu. You can use this amazing English to Urdu dictionary online to check the meaning of other words too as the word Lout meaning.
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Field experiments were carried out between July and December 2010 and 2011 at research station of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Obafemi Awolowo University, Moor Plantation, Ibadan, to determine the effects of time of harvesting on kenaf seed physiological maturity and quality. Kenaf seed of 10 genotypes were collected at seven harvesting periods. Seeds were harvested at 5 day interval from 15 to 45 days after flowering (DAF). Significant variation was observed in all the kenaf genotypes for all the parameters studied. Maximum seed quality as measured by seed viability, moisture content, seed mass and germination percentage were obtained at 35 DAF. However, seed quality of kenaf genotypes reduced thereafter with age and pre-harvest sprouting on mother plant occurred. Maximum seed weight (mass maturity) was achieved at 35DAF in both years when average seed moisture contents were 20.58 and 19.28%, respectively. For high seed quality, kenaf is better harvested at 35 DAF which could be regarded as the point of physiological maturity.
Key words: Kenaf, harvesting period, seed quality, mass maturity, physiological maturity.
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Water safety and drinkability is a common concern when travelling to destinations in Europe, South America, and other areas around the globe. Illness from waterborne pathogens can ruin a holiday or business trip in short order.
Can you drink tap water in Barcelona? Yes, both the EU and the World Health Organization (WHO), confirm that the tap water in Barcelona, Spain is perfectly safe to drink. However, most people drink bottled water, as it tastes better
If your upcoming travel plans include time spent in Spain’s beloved city of Barna (Barcelona), here’s everything you need to know about the drinking water:
The capital and largest city of Catalonia, Barcelona is the second-most populous city in Spain, with a population of around 4.8 million people. It’s also one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Mediterranean Sea. In the US, Barcelona is probably most well known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics.
When travelling abroad, many people’s first concern is the safety of the local water for non-residents. This is a wise and valid concern, as the tap water in Barcelona doesn’t particularly taste very good.
However, based on the results of frequent testing by local water regulators and the Barcelona Public Health Authority, along with the reported findings of noted scientific bodies like the EU, and the World Health Organization (WHO), it’s perfectly safe for both locals and visitors to drink the tap water in Barcelona directly from the tap with no health or safety concerns.
It should probably be stated that what these reports are really saying is, “no health or safety concerns beyond those that are typically a risk factor in public drinking water.
Regardless of your location, or the amount of filtering it is subjected to, some rare strains of local E. coli can still show up in the water, which can cause diarrhoea to new visitors, who’s gastrointestinal systems are not used to dealing with the strains.
This is true of tap water in all parts of the world, including the US and Great Britain.
Where Do the Concerns Over Barcelona’s Tap Water Come From Then?
Some of the concerns over Barcelona’s water safety may stem from the fact that nearly all restaurants, bars, and hotels in this region only serve bottled water. This observation, especially by tourists, can lead to the assumption that the tap water is unsafe.
Bottled water is preferred by these establishments purely for legal, and aesthetic reasons (again, it tastes better), and not due to any health concerns.
In fact, local government regulations in Barcelona have banned bars, restaurants, and hotels from serving tap water. These prohibitions are most likely due to pressures from the powerful bottled-water lobby, which represents a significant portion of the revenue from local tourism.
It’s also important to note that while taste may vary greatly when comparing the local tap and bottled water, what comes from the tap is still every bit as healthy as what’s in the bottle.
This is good news, as up to 25% of Barcelona’s bottled water actually comes from the tap! This water is then “rested” to allow the chlorine to evaporate.
The Aigües de Barcelona performs water quality tests on a daily basis, following the guidelines of the EU Drinking Water Directive (source).
Their official recommendation is the use of a Brita brand water filter to remove excess chlorine and provide a fresh, clean taste to the local drinking water. A water filter not only assures water safety and drinkability but is significantly more friendly to the environment than purchasing bottled water.
Where Does Barcelona’s Tap Water Come From?
The majority of Barcelona’s tap water comes from the Llobregat river.
With its headwaters high in the Serra del Cadí (Catalonia, mountains), and flowing down into the sea, south of Barcelona, the picturesque Llobregat has been the water source for this region for untold millennia.
Unfortunately, the Llobregat river is also known to contain extremely elevated levels of hard minerals like potassium and magnesium, as well as various carbonates. The river picks up these contaminates as it flows through extremely salty areas around Súria, some 50 miles north-west of Barcelona.
Above this area, the waters of Llobregat taste clean and sweet, but everything below is hard and salty. Barcelona uses desalinization plants, but they are prohibitively expensive to run, and can only filter around 20% of the city’s water needs.
To further deal with these hard minerals, high amounts of chlorine are added to the water to remove these and other contaminates.
Water Filtration in Barcelona
Once freshwater has been extracted from the Llobregat river, it’s piped to local silting facilities, and subjected to the standard filtration methods:
- Stones and sand are purged.
- Chlorine dioxide is added to the water to oxidize the iron and magnesium
- Through decantation, particles of mud are filtered to the bottom of the tanks, leaving only clarified water at the top.
- The clarifies water then passes through a micro-sand filter.
- Next, the water flows through ozone and activated carbon filters, where the ozone triggers the precipitation of organic compounds and microorganisms, making it easier to remove them through activated carbon filters.
- The water is passed through ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, and remineralization processes.
- Finally, a chlorination process is carried out (creating the majority of the off-putting smell and taste) to ensure that safe water arrives at every home and business.
Why Does Barcelona’s Water Taste Bad?
Even after all of these filtration processes, Barcelona’s water remains extremely ‘hard,’ with high concentrations of calcium and magnesium ions.
The main culprit, however, in the local water’s often off-putting taste is due to the fact that, like that most cities skirting the Mediterranean Sea, Barcelona must add large amounts of chlorine to disinfect their public water.
The resulting taste can be off-putting to Western (and even local) palates. If you’ve ever swallowed a mouthful of swimming-pool water…you get the idea.
How Can I Make the Tap Water in Barcelona Taste Better?
Yes, there are a few simple ways to greatly increase the palatability of hard tap-water, like that found in Barcelona. If fact, it’s remarkably easy to “de-chlorinate” tap water, anywhere in the world.
- The easiest (and free) method of purging the excess chlorine in any tap water is to fill a pitcher directly from the tap (unfiltered) and then leave it in the refrigerator for 12 to 24 hours. By the time it has sat that long, as much as 90% of the chlorine will have evaporated, taking the off-putting flavor with it. Plus, it’s nice and cold!
- Invest in a water filter. Filters save on the time and expense of buy, transporting, and storing water bottles and is much better for the environment.
Reasons to Choose Barcelona Tap Water, Despite the Smell
- It’s cheaper. Tap water (assuming that you’re playing the bill) costs less than 1/20 of bottled water. According to the E.P.A., for the same price as a fancy bottle of water (about $2), you can get roughly 1,000 gallons of tap water.
- It saves water. It takes seven liters of water to produce 1 finished liter of bottled water.
- Microplastics. The country of Spain dumps more plastic in landfills than most other European countries.
In landfills, these plastics break down into microplastics, tiny contaminants that seep into the groundwater, rivers, and eventually into seas and oceans. Microplastics both absorb emit chemicals and harmful pollutants and can take hundreds of years to biodegrade.
Global plastic production expected to triple by 2050
- BPA and BPS. plastics marked with recycling codes 3 or 7 can release a chemical called bisphenol A (BPA), while BPA-free plastics can release bisphenol S (BPS).
In humans, exposure to these chemicals has been linked to chronic diseases like type II diabetes, asthma, and various forms of cancer. Animal studies suggest that exposure can impair brain and immune system development in utero, the results of which can be passed on generationally.
- Recyclable, really? Studies by Science Advances performed between 1950 and 2015, show that less than 1 percent of used plastic is recycled more than once, and nearly all used plastics eventually ends up in landfills or in the ocean.
Different Does Not Equal Bad
It should be noted that, though some destinations, typically those in developing countries, may have higher risks of contaminates, disease, and/or other pollutants, generally speaking, it’s not something “bad” in the water that leads to the dreaded Montezuma’s Revenge.
Most often, it’s merely that the pathogens in the water are different than those familiar to the visitor’s immune systems, while locals, who have grown up adapting to the local water supply (and accompanying pathogens), can drink it without problems.
In other words, water from the taps in our homes is every bit as likely to sicken the locals in the country we’re visiting, as theirs is to sicken us, as their immune systems are equally unprepared for it. Vomiting and diarrhea are simply the human body’s natural means of defense against any unknown bacteria and pathogens.
In fact, even in the United States, 1.1 million people get sick from tainted tap-water every year.
In a world already suffering from an excess of xenophobia, it’s important to remember that “different” and “bad” are not the same thing. Not in cultures, and not in water.
Like most things in life, it’s a matter of perspective.
Tips for Drinking Safely
There are a few simple preventative measures you can take to decrease your risk of developing a water-borne illness while travelling. Here are some of them:
Talk To The Locals
Ask locals about the quality of the tap water (customers at a local market are a great source). Also, your hotel concierge is likely to have the most experience with tourists-related questions and issues.
Typically, if the water is unsafe, there will be a sign posted near the faucet in your room and complimentary bottles to drink from.
Check online reviews from other tourists who have visited that area. If there have been problems with the local water, you likely find dozens, if not hundreds, or reviews on the subject.
One or two reviews can be subjective, but twenty-five reports of illness probably mean that there’s an issue.
It’s More Than Just What You Drink
If the tap water is suspected to be unsafe to drink, you don’t want to brush your teeth or take medications with it, either. Swimming in local water, or showering with it can be problematic if it gets in your mouth.
Surprisingly, one of the most frequent, and often overlooked culprits is ice. Bottled or filtered water poured over ice cubes made from tap water kinda defeats the purpose.
It’s probably safer to drink beverages directly from the can or bottle than to risk glasses or mugs hand-washed in tap water. And, if those packaged drinks have been chilled on ice, the exterior of the bottle or can be contaminated as well.
Finally, don’t forget that contaminated water can sneak onto your plate as well.
Salad greens, fruits, and other vegetables are often rinsed directly below the tap, as are raw seafood ingredients for dishes like sashimi or ceviche.
Be Certain That the Bottle You Bought is Sealed.
Sometimes enterprising (and unethical) business owners will refill their “safe” water bottles from the tap…which, of course, defeats the purpose. It’s rare, but it happens, so always check the seal.
Insurance is Important.
Sometimes, no matter how careful you are, disaster strikes anyway. Diarrhea, giardia, hepatitis A, typhoid, and cholera are debilitating conditions and can quickly become expensive as well, if a hospital stay, extended hotel accommodations, or re-booking of flights is required due to illness.
Whenever possible, acquire adequate travel insurance to cover potential health and medical expended while you’re out of the country.
As mentioned above, there are a number of reasons to avoid plastic water bottles. However, if it comes down to that, or the risk of dehydration and related sickness, buy the bottle!
Please just be sure to dispose of them responsibly.
Skip the Disposables.
A popular all-in-one approach to keeping safe drinking water at hand, is the use of self-contained filtration and purification bottles. These durable containers combine filter and water bottle (check for the “BPA Free” label) making them a convenient way to have clean, safe drinking water wherever you go.
Always read the product descriptions and instructions carefully before investing in a filter/bottle combo. The don’t all work the same, or kill the same pathogens.
The effects of water-borne illnesses most often result in flu-like symptoms, like:
- Aches and/or chills
- Dizziness or vertigo
- If travelling alone, contact a friend or relative back home and let them know what’s going on.
If You Do Get Sick
It may take several days, or even up to a week, for these symptoms to pass on their own, but pass they will. If they don’t, or if they worsen, seek medical attention immediately.
In the meantime:
- Stay hydrated with bottled sports drinks, and boiled, purified, or bottled water
- Avoid alcoholic or caffeinated beverages (both increase dehydration).
- Oral rehydration and anti-diarrheal meds may be helpful, as well.
- Get plenty of rest and avoid strenuous activities (sweating = dehydration).
These (and other) water-related issues are, of course, not limited to Barcelona.
Water Quality in Other Cities
Travelling to many of the major cities of Spain, requires some caution and research, as water quality varies in the extreme from region to region. In some areas, the water is safe and tastes fine.
Other’s like Barcelona have extremely hard water, requiring an excess of chlorine treatment, but are still safe (if unpleasant) to drink. In some cities, the water is not at all fit for drinking can present a serious danger of illness, especially for visitors.
Luckily, most cities fall into the first two categories, with less than 5% of the total drinking water in Spain deemed unsafe.
The Consumer and Users Organisation (OCU) releases regular testing reports on the water quality found in various areas of Spain, from best to worst.
Here are a few of their most current findings:
Best Drinking (Tap) Water in Spain
- San Sebastian
- Las Palmas
Worst Drinking (Tap) Water in Spain
- Ciudad Real
- Palma de Mallorca
According to the CDC: “Although municipal water in [European] cities and urban areas may be treated and safe to drink, water quality in rural areas can be less certain. CDC recommendations reflect an abundance of caution, and travellers are encouraged to drink bottled water if any doubt exists.”
Eat, Drink & Be Merry!
While it’s true that drinking local water can be risky for visitors to any new part of the world, the fact is that this is more typically the case in developing countries and rural locations, and not major metropolitan areas like Barcelona.
These former locations run a higher risk that water sources may be polluted by industrial and agricultural run-off, and that water-safety infrastructure, if any, may be decades out of date.
So yes, you can definitely drink the tap water in Barcelona without undue fear of illness…you just might want to hold your nose while you do.
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DreamPlan Home Design Software is a completely free software that allows you to create 3d home designs and decorate them using different tools. You can build both interior, and exterior of your home and also alter the terrain of your surroundings. The software provides some great and easy to use features. It is also very lightweight (less than 4MB) and hardly takes any time to download and install. The good thing about this software is that you can save your projects and access them some other time.
This home design software can be best used by you to create a digital model for your new home. You can use this software to create a model for your own house, exactly the way you want your home to look like. Apart from that, this software can also be used for professional purpose.
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- Easy to use
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Check it out here!
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Hurricane Preparedness Tips From Sheriff Tony Mancuso
As we are currently seeing some of the damage that is hitting New Orleans, we realize that we have also been faced with storms in the past. There have been far too many to name and regardless of whether it is a tropical storm or hurricane, one thing you want to do is make sure that your family is protected.
Earlier today, Sheriff Tony Mancuso released some worthy tips that you should consider along with your family and friends on how to prepare for Tropical Storm Barry and the chances of it forming into a hurricane over the weekend. While there are times that we have ridden out the storms before, we need to hold account for the what-ifs under these circumstances.
Check out the list of helpful tips below from Sheriff Mancuso.
BEFORE A HURRICANE
- Plan an evacuation route.
- Have disaster supplies on hand (flashlights and extra batteries, first aid kit and manual, battery-operated radio and extra batteries, emergency food and water, non-electric can openers, essential medicines, cash, credit cards and sturdy shoes).
- Make arrangements for pets.
- Ensure that family members know how to respond after a hurricane.
- Teach children how and when to call 9-1-1, police or fire department.
- Protect windows.
- Trim back dead or weak branches from trees.
- Check into flood insurance.
- Develop an emergency communication plan so that family members can reunite if separated.
DURING A HURRICANE WARNING
- Listen constantly to a battery-operated radio or television for official instructions.
- If in a mobile home, check tie-downs and evacuate immediately.
- Store valuables and personal papers in a waterproof container on the highest level of your home.
- Avoid elevators.
IF AT HOME:
- Stay inside. Keep away from windows or glass doors.
- Keep a supply of flashlights and extra batteries handy. Avoid open flames such as candles.
- If power is lost, turn off major appliances to reduce power “surge” when electricity is restored.
IF YOU MUST EVACUATE:
- Leave as soon as possible. Avoid flooded roads and bridges.
- Unplug appliances and turn off electricity and the main water valve.
- Tell someone out of the storm area where you are going.
- Elevate furniture to protect it from flooding, if time permits.
- Bring pre-assembled emergency supplies and warm protective clothing.
- Take blankets and sleeping bags to shelter.
- Lock up home and leave.
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Researchers said the results, presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session, should prompt a re-evaluation of clinical guidelines and that the arm, currently used in a minority of cases in the United States, should be the preferred approach for most catheter-based heart procedures.
The study did not show a significant reduction in one of its two primary endpoints, a composite rate of death, heart attack or stroke 30 days after a catheterisation procedure. However, the second primary endpoint, which included those events plus major bleeding, showed a significant reduced risk in patients receiving a catheter via the arm (known as the radial approach) rather than the groin (the femoral approach).
The study, called the Minimising Adverse Haemorrhagic Events by Transradial Access Site and Systemic Implementation of AngioX Programme (MATRIX), randomised more than 8,400 angiogram patients at 78 hospitals in four European countries to receive angiogram via the arm or the groin. All patients had acute coronary syndrome, a condition that includes the two types of heart attack: ST-elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, or unstable angina (a type of severe chest pain that is due to the buildup of plaque in the heart's arteries). Key findings of the study include:
- Overall, 9.8 percent of patients receiving radial access suffered major bleeding, death, heart attack or stroke within 30 days (vs. 11.7 percent in those receiving femoral access).
- Major bleeding occurred in 1.6 percent of patients receiving radial access and 2.3 percent of patients receiving femoral access.
- Death occurred in 1.6 percent of patients receiving radial access and 2.2 percent of patients receiving femoral access.
The researchers attributed the fact that the study did not meet its other co-primary endpoint to a higher-than-usual bar for statistical significance, a result of the inclusion of two co-primary endpoints in the study rather than only one. The study found no differences with respect to rates of heart attack or stroke.
"I believe the evidence from our study should compel a switch to the radial approach as the preferred method," said lead author Marco Valgimigli, MD, PhD, associate professor of cardiology and senior interventional cardiologist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands. "I hope that a new generation of interventional cardiologists will be specifically trained in the radial approach and that more medical centres will build up their expertise in this procedure."
MATRIX is the first large trial to show radial access improves patient outcomes and that it reduces dangerous bleeding beyond the bleeding that can occur near where the catheter is inserted. U.S. interventional cardiologists currently use the arm for catheter-based heart procedures in less than 15 percent of cases, while their counterparts in Europe use the radial approach in nearly 50 percent of cases.
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Source: American College of Cardiology
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With the release of The Monitor this week, Infometrics economists Brad Olsen and Gareth Kiernan joined Stuff Business Editor Susan Edmunds for a live chat to talk about the state of the economy.
Below are written answers to the reader questions they were not able to get to within the half-hour video interview.
What are the economists’ view of Christmas as the key spending period for retail; and what do they think about the sustainability of this model with many shops relying on Christmas spending for as much as a third of their annual revenue take. What does this annual surge in retail spending mean for inflation too?
Retailers are always looking for ways to make their sales less seasonal and spread activity more evenly throughout the year – hence sales or promotions at other times of year. For those store types with the most extreme reliance on Christmas, their revenue pattern much more favours an online model than traditional bricks and mortar because they don’t face the same fixed costs throughout the year.
* Live chat: Your questions about the economy answered
* Watch: The Monitor Economy chat with Brad Olsen, Gareth Kiernan of Infometrics
* Video chat: After level 4 lockdown, what next for the economy?
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t be too concerned about the inflationary effects of a regular spending surge that h*pens every year, but disrupted supply chains and other supply constraints at the moment could exaggerate some of the demand pressures and add to inflationary momentum. The other point I’d make about the sustainability of it is the labour supply – if we’re operating with a permanently tight labour market, then getting hold of staff for one or two months to meet the Christmas rush could become increasingly difficult. Once again, though, this constraint can be got around (at least to some extent) by online selling rather than in-store retailing. Also, the timing of school and university holidays means there is always likely to be a pool of potential workers looking for more hours in the lead-up to Christmas.
What would an economy look like that is not dependent on continued population growth? I consider this to be an important question in the 21st century given the negative impacts humans are having on the environment.
We could look like J*an has for the last 30 years – struggling to achieve any economic growth, and a semi-permanent oversupply of housing (and therefore no property price inflation). The government’s fiscal position could also come under pressure from the costs (superannuation and healthcare) associated with the ageing population at the same time as tax revenue was being squeezed by the stagnant economy and shrinking workforce. In this situation, the government’s economic policies would need to focus on achieving productivity growth – not so much to overcome labour supply constraints (although that might be necessary given the ageing population), but to achieve growth in real incomes and economic activity that enable the economy to evolve and remain dynamic, rather than falling into the kind of stasis that is best illustrated by the decline of parts of the central North Island, for example (their fortunes ebb and flow a bit, but the effects of population decline between the mid-1980s and early 2010s were pretty obvious).
In the previous paragr*h, I’m making the assumption that economic growth, as c*tured by GDP, is good, which might not be the case given some of the environmental outcomes we’ve seen over the last 50 years or so. In that case, we need a broader measure of wellbeing than the simple metric of GDP per c*ita. However, we would also need to accept that our standards of living might not be as high going forward as we’ve got used to (at least as currently defined). If we’re serious about addressing issues such as climate change or water quality, then we probably need to accept that international travel might be less attainable or more expensive than in the past; that we need to pay more for our milk and meat because of reduced supply and/or environmental mitigation costs; that the consumer mentality that has become more pervasive over the last 70 years needs to be scaled back.
What do the economists think of the banks making it much harder for lenders to get home loans under the new rules requiring nitpicking of people’s historical expenditure? Is that fair for people to be asked about what they bought two years ago?
I don’t know if anything is ever fair in the housing market! The banks are taking a cautious *proach to lending for two reasons: they will have genuine concerns about property values and the potential for a house price reversal, with its implications for their balance sheets; and they will be conscious of Reserve Bank regulations and oversight, and would prefer to put in place their own lending restrictions than have them imposed by the Reserve Bank.
One of the big issues in the housing market at the moment is that borrowers face paying a much higher proportion of their income to service the mortgage throughout the life of the loan than previously. For example, the repayments on a mortgage of $500,000 with a mortgage rate of 5 per cent are higher than the repayments of a mortgage of $650,000 with a mortgage rate of 2.5 per cent – which helps explain the 30 per cent increase in house prices over the last year.
Buyers have been desperate to get into the market, and so seem to have ignored the fact that mortgage rates weren’t going to stay at 2.5 per cent forever. So the much larger debt to start with means that they will face larger repayments in future when interest rates rise. The implication is that household budgets for recent/current buyers will be significantly squeezed and they will have much less room for discretionary spending. On that basis, I can understand the banks trying to find as much evidence as possible that borrowers have control over their spending habits (particularly in situations where the deposit is coming from sources other than personal saving, which historically would have been an indicator of good financial management).
At certain points in the housing cycle, money flows out of Auckland as property owners cash up.
Using the current economic system in the future we’ll see more disparity between the rich and poor. Do you believe that he overflow of Auckland property owners cashing up and moving thus pushing up prices around New Zealand can continue indefinitely? It can’t. How can infinite wealth compete with limited resources (houses or land)?
In previous housing cycles, we’ve seen a similar phenomenon where money has flowed out of Auckland and into housing in other parts of the country, as prices and yields in provincial NZ have initially got left behind Auckland and so looked much more attractive to potential buyers.
The population movements over the last 18 months might have been a bit more extreme than in previous cycles, but I think the dynamic is largely the same.
I’m not sure that the wealth is as infinite as you believe (tighter lending conditions should effectively limit the pool of potential buyers during 2022), or that the supply of houses or land is as limited as you believe – rising house prices are a clear signal to developers to push ahead with more subdivisions, build more houses, etc (and there is obviously a larger potential supply of land in other parts of the country than there is in Auckland) These dynamics should slow the housing market next year.
Nevertheless, there are clear structural supply issues that need to be addressed, most starkly demonstrated by the massive increase in the state house waiting list over the next six years.
Whether the National Policy Statement on Urban Development, Medium Density Residential Standards, and RMA reforms achieve improvements remain to be seen. Housing affordability metrics are certainly stretching credibility, and it is difficult so see house prices rising further on this basis. I agree that the disparity between the rich and poor is only getting worse at the moment, and major reform is needed to address the accumulation of wealth that generally seems to favour the rich getting richer.
There’s a lot of talk about the Government’s Covid-19 wage subsidies being handouts. I’m keen to know from a technical standpoint are these a more effective investment in our economy than, say, a flag referendum or unusable conference venue.
It’s difficult to answer this question without doing a proper cost-benefit analysis. However, you’re right to guess that not all government spending is equally effective in generating economic activity. Arguably the biggest positive that has come out of the wage subsidies is that it prevented more job losses and/or business failures during a period of significant uncertainty and when many businesses were unable to operate (and so had their cashflow materially affected).
I think the general assessment from most economists is that the economic disruption last year would have been much more significant, and much more consequential, without the wage subsidies in place.
It’s hard to know how much of the wage subsidy money ended up in households’ pockets, but given our estimates that 25 per cent to 35 per cent of the economy was unable to operate at alert level 4, and recognising that many of those businesses that were able to operate wouldn’t have claimed the wage subsidy, it seems reasonable to assume that a lot of it did (and therefore flowed through into retail spending etc).
The immediate, direct, and widespread nature of this *proach means that it was entirely *propriate for the situation (even if the magnitude of the 12-week payment and the spread of businesses covered was, with hindsight, probably excessively broad). As a point of comparison, consider what effects the NZ Upgrade Programme (announced in late 2019) and the government’s “shovel-ready” projects have had on the economy so far! Much slower, less direct, and effects that are initially much more concentrated in limited industries within the economy.
The Government’s wage subsidy response may have been too broad, in hindsight.
About $26b in international visitor spend has dis*peared since borders closed how long can the economy shake off the loss of 20 per cent of its export earnings?
Without wanting to belittle the plight of tourism operators, I’d argue that we have already shaken off these effects very well. One caveat is that the loss of spending by international tourists has been mitigated by increased spending by domestic holidaymakers, as well as the effects of significant monetary and fiscal stimulus that have resulted in a lot of money sloshing around the economy.
Notwithstanding these effects, businesses have shown an encouraging and surprisingly good ability to pivot and ad*t – and the overall economic outcomes have also been helped by a constrained labour supply and low unemployment rate, meaning there has not been a big pool of underutilised resources.
My lingering concern is that the government’s planned staging of the border reopening (if it comes to pass) will open up international travel to Kiwis from mid-February, but doesn’t have any clear timeline or pathway for visitors to come to NZ, given that non-residents will still need to isolate for seven days from the end of *ril onwards. It’s not an attractive proposition to spend half your holiday in isolation, and NZ risks getting left behind as international tourism returns to normal. If, at the same time, we’re losing NZ spending overseas, then the net export position potentially starts to become unsustainable.
We have been keeping 27 per cent of our total savings in high growth funds it seems that the only profit increase over the past year came from our monthly top ups should we convert to cash?
Ouch! I wonder what your fund provider is doing! I look after two pools of investment for different entities. One is in a growth fund and has increased by about 21 per cent over the last year (noting that it’s gone sideways since August). The other has only been running since the start of June, and is in a broad US sharemarket tracker rather than a growth fund, but it has risen 17 per cent during that time. Some of that’s due to exchange rate movements but, even putting those aside, it’s up 8.6 per cent. Given the current high-inflation environment, I definitely wouldn’t recommend converting to cash – you would probably see the real value of your money eroded by inflation more quickly than at any time in the last 30-odd years. I’d have a close look at what your growth fund is made up of and try and understand why it has failed to keep pace with market increases, at least up until August or September this year.
What effect do you think the increase in government debt will have on constraining the growth of the New Zealand economy over the short, medium and long term?
Historical experience suggests that, by and large, the government will simply look to roll the debt over, and let the real value of it get reduced by inflation and economic growth, rather than repaying it (with the latter presumably being accompanied by tax increases and/or reduced spending).
So I don’t think there’s necessarily a big crunch coming five years down the track in terms of fiscal policy.
Nevertheless, there is an element of “bringing forward” future growth by borrowing, both for households and the government, so we do think that medium-term trend growth in both household and government spending will be slower than we would otherwise have forecast had Covid-19 not occurred.
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A Place Where Spirituality and Martial Arts Intersects
Martial arts is more than just learning defensive and attacking techniques. In this blog, we take a holistic look at martial arts including the spiritual aspect, the different types of schools and the exercises you can do to keep your body fit and healthy. We take a look at how to stay focused, strong and centred in a chaotic world through martial arts training and spirituality.
Martial Arts Disciplines
One aspect of this blog is dedicated to the different martial arts schools. Here we look at the various disciplines and styles that you can find all over the world. We take an in-depth look at what they have to offer, the advantages, disadvantages and how to connect it into your daily life.
Few people realise just how important spirituality is in our daily lives and with regard to martial arts. It doesn’t matter what religion your practice or what your world views are, marital arts is about mastering the self and becoming aware of your body, your soul and your environment. Linking spirituality into your program is not only natural, it is necessary for further development.
When not at class, it is important to keep your body strong, fit and energised. In our exercise blog will cover the different exercises you can do to improve your training. Whether you are looking to focus on balance, on strengthening your core, fitness or improving your technique, we will give you the lowdown on what works and what doesn’t. We will also give you tips and tricks on how to keep your energy levels up throughout the day.
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When people establish a business, they do so with hopes that their business will grow and expand exponentially. Unfortunately, not many companies achieve this objective, and this is because they do not employ the right strategies in running their businesses. Therefore, if you want to take your business to the next level, you need to make sure you are playing your card right. For instance, employing the right marketing strategies means that you will attract many customers, which will help you make great profits. Additionally, efficient marketing is significant in helping one to build a brand name which can also be very instrumental in promoting the growth of a business. Besides effective marketing, there are numerous things that you need to do to allow your business to grow exponentially.
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1.Quality Produced Graphite electrode,
2.For steel making electric arc furnace,
Name : Graphite electrodes of general power (EG-RP) are manufactured for operation at currents with a density of not more than 17 A / cm2
The Graphite electrode RP is used in an electric smelting furnace or an arc furnace of a total power for smelting steel, silicon, yellow phosphorus, etc.
Our advantages : Manufacturer from China; Buy directly from the factory; High-quality products; Profitable price; We can produce various specifications in accordance with customer requirements.
“SOONHI Refractories” Graphite Electrode EG / RP Features
1 High-quality graphite electrode
2 For EAF steel arc furnace
3 Competitive price
4 Free consultation
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A family farm converted to organic lavender farming in order to diversify their offer of products and services in an environmentally sustainable way.
Projects & Practice
Organic and biodynamic farms cooperate to jointly acquire conservation tillage equipment (subsoilers and no till seeding machine) to enhance soil quality, reduce pollution and maximise their soil’s capacity to act as a carbon sink
Organising a series of awareness raising and capacity building activities for environmental NGOs in Mayotte.
An example of sustainable cultivation of olive trees and extraction of olive oil using innovative ultrasound techniques.
‘Nos Oignons’ is an association that supported the preparation and implementation of three RDP funded projects that promote social farming in Wallonia.
Supporting vulnerable people and facilitating their re-integration into society through small volunteer jobs on local farms.
An environmental NGO implemented a project to preserve and maintain an old clay pit that provides shelter to a number of rare and endangered species.
Restoring a wetland ecosystem and creating an observation area, for ecological, hydrological, educational and touristic purposes.
A cooperation project brought together local farmers, inhabitants and public services managers to jointly define and promote soil preservation technics adapted to the local environment.
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Manchester Indoor Softball League is organized by BSUK and supported by Manchester Softball League (MSL). Like the outdoor game, the indoor game is a friendly co-ed (or mixed-sex) sport for adults. Many MSL teams and players play in the indoor league over the Autumn and Winter months as a way to keep sharp, hone skills and stay fit in a fun and friendly environment.
New players: Since the Manchester Indoor Softball League was established in 2014, over 150 new players have been introduced to Softball. Indoor softball is an easy and accessible way to learn the game in preparation for the outdoor softball season.
Everyone is welcome!
What is Indoor Softball?
Indoor Softball is played by two teams of eight players as a variation of slowpitch softball in a contained court with a pitcher pitching an underarm delivery to a batter. In Indoor softball each batter receives only a single pitch (a strike is an out and a ball is a walk) and innings are not defined by the number of outs but instead are played against the clock. As a starting point, you can download our Guide to Indoor Softball as a reference for playing the game.
Facebook: Manchester Indoor Softball League
Venue: Fives Soccer Centre, Trafford Way, Trafford Park, Manchester, M17 8DD
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Call for unique, modern, and non-traditional takes on the standard birdhouse to be displayed in the Popps Packing gardens and various outdoor spaces.
Finished houses must be move-in-ready, equipped for install, and dropped off at Popps Packing with completed intake form.
Repurpose an old sculpture into the perfect birdhouse, or maybe you have a bird house that is ready to go, or make something new! Ideally, your birdhouse will be weather resistant, be able to house an actual bird (or birds, or bats, or bees), and be unique. Check out this link for some advice on bird house dimensions if you want to design for a specific species.
Think outside the box! Be innovative! Birds don’t just live in trees.
Drop off dates:
Mon. April 22, 12-6pm
Tues. April 23, 5-8pm
Wed. April 24, 12-6pm
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, April 27, 2019
Please RSVP via email if you’re interested in participating and for all questions. Email email@example.com
Popps Packing will take a 33% commission on all sales. Limit one birdhouse per artist.
Why do birds use birdhouses?: Birds are looking for nesting cavities in which to build their nest. Song birds that use tree cavities are not capable of creating their own nesting cavities because their beaks are specialized for hunting insects or gathering seeds. In an undisturbed ecosystem songbirds such as wrens, chickadees and nuthatches look for tree cavities created by other birds such as woodpeckers.
Tree cavities provide shelter for birds from predators. There are two kinds of cavity nesters: those that create their own nesting cavities (primary cavity nesters) and those that use pre-existing cavities (secondary cavity nesters). Insects or pathogens have also been found to assist in formation of cavities that are used by cavity nesters.
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Three hundred asthmatic children aged 3 to 15 years, and 100 age-sex-neighborhood matched controls, were studied for environmental risk factors for asthma during 1986 to 1987. In 98% of the asthmatic patients, exposure to house dust aggravated the symptoms. In 97% of the cases, the symptoms were more severe at home; in more than 50%, the symptoms persisted throughout the year. Significantly more cigarettes were smoked in the homes of the allergic children than in the control homes. House dust samples from homes of 20 asthmatic and 20 nonasthmatic children were examined for the presence of house dust mites. Twelve species of mites were identified, of which Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, the most prevalent (97%), was found in all samples examined. The average number of mites per gram dust was 447 in homes of children with asthma, and 399 in homes of controls. Although dust and mites seem to be the most important factors causing allergies in Gaza and most of the children are exposed to large numbers of mites in their homes, it appears that those who are genetically predisposed and who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke are at greater risk for allergic symptoms.
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Green and environmental
Owners, Architects, Engineers turn to clay brick when they want a material that is durable, low maintenance and flexible.
Clay brick is at the forefront of green building. It is energy efficient, produces minimal waste, and can be recycled.
Clay brick products offer superior protection against the elements, outside noise, fire, and structural failures that occur over time. Clay brick does not support mold growth, rot or dent as other housing materials, but remains durable through all climate conditions.
With proper installation, clay brick is considered maintenance free and a good investment, adding on great resale value. Clay brick products are environmentally friendly in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving waste management. Clay brick products provide healthier living conditions and will cut energy cost through consistent thermal mass, making it more economical to heat and cool buildings.
Clay brick products provide owners, architects, engineers and others with an attractive, durable, naturally made building material that is the forefront of Sustainable Building Communities.
Clay Brick – natural sustainability in design and construction
The building and construction industry uses three billion tons of raw materials annually
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AUSTRALIA should consider having a one-child policy to protect the planet, an environmental lobby group says.
Sustainable Population Australia says slashing the world's population is the only way to avoid "environmental suicide".
National president Sandra Kanck wants Australia's population of almost 22 million reduced to 7 million to tackle climate change.
Restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is "one way of assisting to reduce the population", the former Democrats parliamentarian said.
More people meant more coal-fired electricity, cars, houses, water use and food production, all of which increased greenhouse gas emissions, she said.
Ms Kanck, who has one child, expects her campaign to generate a hostile reaction.
Sustainable Population Australia, which has about 1300 members, is so worried about climate change it is preparing a formal submission to the United Nations.
It has also applied to attend high-profile world climate talks in Copenhagen in December.
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An incredible piece of culinary equipment is a wood-fired oven. The fact that the wood-fired pizza oven can be made to perform to its full potential with the use of a few straightforward strategies and recommendations is what makes its presence in the kitchen all the more notable. The management of a pizza oven that is fired by wood might be challenging. In contrast to an oven that is fueled by gas, it does not always come with an instruction booklet. It is possible that your first attempt at cooking could be a frustrating one, particularly if you are overly excited to make your pizza recipe.
But worry not. You might be overestimating the level of difficulty involved. The best pizza chefs in the world provide their tried-and-true advice and recommendations for using a wood-fired oven. The fun comes from making mistakes and learning from them.
1. Get the fire going right away
It is sufficient to start the fire in your oven one to two hours before using it; in contrast to a conventional range, in which the temperature rises quickly, a brick oven requires more time to reach the desired cooking temperature.
One thing to keep in mind regarding the temperature of the oven is the fact that dough requires a different temperature. Some dough’s can be baked well around 500 degrees Fahrenheit, while others turn out best between 900 and 1000 degrees. Refer to the perfect temperatures for wood-fired cooking.
2. Set aside enough time to cure
Curing your newly purchased oven is one of the most typical wood-fired oven blunders. Perhaps because they’re so anxious to create something delicious and meaty, or because they don’t have enough time to do it properly.
Curing refers to the process of letting the mortar to dry out completely once it has been mixed. It extends the life of your pizza oven and ensures that it performs at its best. Building a little fire for five days and leaving it burning for four or five hours is a good place to start. Cracks will appear in all authentic ovens, but with proper curing, the number of cracks will be reduced.
3. Heating the oven
To get the brick oven going, you have to do things a little differently than you would with your typical home oven. So, have you ever wondered how to effectively and safely heat a wood-fired oven? Choosing a hardwood with a diameter of no more than 2-3 inches is a good place to start.
Non-biodegradable materials such as newspapers and plywood are not ideal. There is little heat value in the ash, but the ashes can impart a distinct flavour to the pizza because of their smoke. They’re also not good for the environment.
Stack the woods in a teepee formation in the middle of the oven’s floor to begin. Building a log cabin is another alternative. Set up in the most expansive way possible to heat up a greater area. While a match can be used, butane torch should be used and ignited for 60 seconds at the centre of wood pile. An even fire start can be achieved by using this method.
4. Maintaining a steady temperature
Maintaining a consistent temperature in the oven is the next most important step after turning on the oven. The free passage of air is ensured by a bright and active flame. Airflow is impeded when the fire is overburdened with large logs. Instead, use a few pieces of wood to keep the temperature stable. Before starting to cook your pizza, you should use more coal than fire. Have you checked the top benefits of wood-fired food, yet?
5. Keep it clean
The nicest outdoor pizza oven in the world won’t survive long if it isn’t properly cared for. First, let your wood-fired oven to cool completely, preferably overnight, before attempting any repairs. Use an oven brush or rake to remove the leftover ashes, embers, and wood refuse from the oven. Use a steel or metal brush to avoid removing any stubbor material when cleaning up food scraps.
For the most part, when it comes to wood-fired oven cooking, mistakes may be turned into learning opportunities rather than obstacles. Using these five wood-fired oven tricks can take the stress out of your next cooking experience!
Author Bio: Hello everyone, I am Erika Rhein, a professional writer, and blogger. Here you can see my skill which gives you brief ideas on understanding all the concepts with different themes. I adore writing a blog on many topics, like Home Improvement, Automotive, Business, Health, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Pet, etc.Sydney Unleashed is one of Australia’s premier entertainment publications exploring the latest in lifestyle trends. From Sydney’s finest restaurants, cafes and bars to the hottest in gadgets, products, and home entertainment, Sydney Unleashed is your one-stop lifestyle platform.
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Interviewer: Dimitar Bozhilov
Date of interview: March 2002
My ancestors came to Bulgaria from Spain in the 15th century when they were expelled by Queen Isabella – and were accepted by the Ottoman Empire. All Jews who originate from Spain are called Sephardi. The language we speak is Old Spanish – Ladino, which is very precious, because it is spoken almost nowhere else. As far as I know, this language is maintained only in Toledo and fewer and fewer people speak it now – mainly people of my generation. The young ones don’t know Ladino, because we couldn’t pass it on to them, and therefore it is becoming extinct. Until 1944 [9th September 1944] we used to speak that language, and I also spoke it as a child. It has been passed on from generation to generation, but after 1944, an assimilation of the Jewish population began in Bulgaria and that language ‘declined’. I myself feel guilty for not having taught that language to my children. They don’t understand it, and on some occasions, when my husband and I wanted to communicate something confidential to each other, we spoke Ladino.
I remember my paternal grandmother and my maternal grandfather from the time I was about 5 years old. At the beginning of the 20th century, my paternal grandparents, Israel and Reina Sabitai, had had twelve children, but four of them died from diseases when they were still infants. My father’s family used to live in a yard in the Jewish quarter, known as Iuchbunar , and more precisely, Konyovitsa, on the corner of Positano Street and Pernik Street. This is the house where my father’s family used to live and where I was born on 15th January 1929.
My father had a brother who was killed in the Balkan War [the First Balkan War] . One of his sisters went to the city of Plovdiv to work as a maid for a wealthy family, but the son of the landlord raped her and she, incapable of bearing the disgrace, drowned herself in the Maritsa River. Thus, four brothers and two sisters remained in Sofia, where they lived together in the same yard. Their small houses were positioned close to each other in a common yard. My father’s brothers’ names were Avram, Sabath and Yakov. My father’s name was Yosif, although he was the firstborn son – and according to the Bible, he was supposed to be called Avram. My father was an Anglophile and I have heard that he often argued with his brother Avram, who was a Russophile. My father’s sisters were called Buka, the elder one, and Esther, whom we used to call Sterina. Being the eldest of the family, my father was the most respected.
My father’s elder sister, Buka, had four girls and one boy. One of the girls went to Palestine illegally in 1932-33. She was followed by my aunt’s son. At that time they were forced to go to Palestine illegally, using different routes. In 1939 my aunt Buka, her husband Buko and their children Reni and Mati decided to emigrate to Palestine, too. They took their chance with a small Turkish sailing vessel, which wasn’t quite stable and somewhere close to the Turkish coast it sank. The whole family drowned. Only a few people survived this disaster.
Since my paternal grandmother’s name was Reina, the girls in all the families of her children were named after her. My birth name was also Reina and I graduated from high school under that name. But when I was appointed to work for the Ministry of Interior, I received documents where my name was written Raina. Due to that printing error, my name is Raina now. Despite that fact all my relatives and friends know me as Reina.
My mother’s parents, Shabat and Rebecca, came from the town of Berkovtsa. My mother became orphan at a very early age - her mother died when she was 5 or 6. I don’t even know my grandparents’ family name. Her father remarried, but his second wife was a nasty woman who treated my mother very badly. From her father’s second marriage she had five stepbrothers and stepsisters. Being a child herself – she helped to look after them and took on too much – she became a hunchback as a result of the heavy work.
My father, Josif Sabitai, was born in Sofia in 1900. He was a tinsmith and plumber. In 1928, a year before I was born, the winter was severely cold. Many water pipes and taps had cracked. That created plenty of work for my father and, putting a lot of efforts into it, he managed to make his fortune. And in the place of the one-roomed house, he built a house with two rooms, kitchen and a toilet inside, which was a great rarity at that time. We had hot water from a coal-heated boiler, too, which my father, being a very skilled craftsman, had connected to the stove. Four children were born in that house – one boy and three girls (including me). All the children used to sleep in the same room: my sisters and I on the bed and my brother on the divan. My parents occupied the smaller room. We grew up in such conditions and lived this way until 1946, when my brother went to France and the divan was vacated.
In 1928 my father established a Jewish society called Mitzvah Zion. This society engaged in charity and helped poor citizens of Jewish origin in Sofia. My father took part in the public life of Jews in Sofia. Together with the other well-off citizens of Jewish origin, he helped with the allocation of financial funds and different articles to his poorer compatriots through the Mitzvah Zion society.
The houses in the Jewish quarter were densely positioned – yard next to yard. Only Jewish families lived around us. There were some Bulgarian families living in the next street, and I had a very good personal friend, whose name was Kristinka. Later on, being teenagers, we used to go out together, too. Our relations [with the non-Jewish neighbors] were always very good. There were, however, such times, when Bulgarian boys teased us with the words: ‘Come on, Moshe, go to Palestine!’ My mother had taught me to answer: ‘O.K., but you don’t let us go!’ I didn’t like those moments, but otherwise people treated us very well. Apart from that, my mother was a very compassionate woman and she would constantly ask me to take leftovers from our food to people who were poorer than us.
Our family was comparatively well off because my father had succeeded in changing his fortune through his work as a tinsmith and plumber, and had even managed to open a scrap warehouse. The house he had built was at the corner of Pernik and Positano and for that time, it was one of the best in the quarter.
During the winters we used coal for heating and we had a shed full of coal. My mother used to give a bucket of coal to everybody who would ask her for some – she never refused anyone and always showed compassion for those poorer than us. There were many poor people at that time. The poorest Jewish families lived in our quarter. Wealthier Jews lived in the more central part of Sofia. When the Law for the Protection of the Nation was introduced, the wealthier Jews had to move out of the city center, because they were denied the right to inhabit the area beyond Hristo Botev Boulevard, and they moved to our quarter.
There was a Jewish school at Osogovo Street in our quarter and one downtown – where Hotel Rila is now. Currently, a great dispute for the hotel land is under way, because the Jewish community started a lawsuit to get its property back. The building of the central Jewish school was destroyed during the bombings of Sofia during World War II.
My elder sister studied at the Jewish school until 4th grade. When my time to go to school came, my parents sent me to a Bulgarian school for reasons I never knew; therefore, I didn’t study Hebrew. I went to a nursery school before going to the Vassil Levski school at Dimitar Petkov Street where I studied until 4th grade. Then I went to an elementary school at Pirotska Street. My most favorite subject was chemistry. Later on, I was interested in astronomy and read a number of books on astronomy, which I borrowed from libraries. I was greatly impressed by the fact that the most luminous star on the horizon was not Venus, but Sirius – the constellation Canis Major.
My brother Israel was born in 1923 and he is now an architect. He completed his primary education at a Jewish school. In 1946 he went to Paris as a delegate to a Jewish conference and remained there. When he was a small boy everybody addressed him with the diminutive Israeltiko. This name Tiko stuck with him and that is why we all called him by that name. The documents he was issued in France were in the name of Tiko Josiford –Yosif turned into Josiford. He has been living there for many years.
He is married and has three daughters, who are still not married even though they are of age. He has two specialties – architecture and urbanism. In order to be able to teach, he had to specialize in Algeria where he lived for ten years, and then devoted himself to his professorship. My brother managed to come to Bulgaria no sooner than 19 years after his departure, because then he was on the records as a non-returnee, who had emigrated without the authorities’ official permission. He managed to come only due to the fact that his name was now Tiko Josiford, and not Israel Yosif Israilov. This is why the Bulgarian authorities could not establish his real identity. He arrived by car via Yugoslavia, with his wife and one of his children.
My elder sister Rebecca was born in 1929. She worked as a dressmaker. She got married and had two children, Mariana and Mario, who are also married and have one child each. In 1986, unfortunately, Rebecca was run over by a police car and died.
My other sister’s name is Ziumbiula [Ziumbiul means hyacinth], whom we all called Zelma. She was born in 1931 and graduated from the Medical University as a doctor. For a long time she worked as a doctor in Bulgaria, then went to Algeria where, at the same time, my brother was doing his specialization. He took both my mother and my sister to live with him. My sister lived there for some time; then she married a Belgian. Naturally she moved to Belgium where she spent ten years and gave birth to a girl. She separated from the Belgian and returned to Bulgaria. Now she is a pensioner. Her daughter had a good relationship with a young Belgian, whom she married, and now they live in Vienna. Currently [in 2002] my sister is staying with them, helping to look after their baby.
Until 1944 we used to celebrate all the Jewish holidays, as we were supposed to. We celebrated Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, during the eight days of which we could eat only unleavened bread – matzah and boyo. [In the past poorer Jews used to make bread only with water and flour, without any salt and years , this was called boyo.] No bread was brought to the house [during Pesach]. For Pesach all kitchen utensils had to be replaced. Special utensils were brought out for the holiday and taken back to the basement for the rest of the year. My mother used to do the whole preparation for the holiday. She used to make pastry from matzah and she made the famous burmoelos, sweet or salty ones, from the saturated and squeezed matzah with eggs added to it, which we had for breakfast every day [during Pesach]. My mother would go out in the yard and cook burmoelos for us on a brazier. She also used to cook leek hamburgers, which we called leek-made friticas. Everything on the table was kosher. When a chicken had to be cooked, I was sent to the synagogue where the chicken had to be killed by the shochet according to a special ritual. There was a special butcher shop in the quarter where kosher meat was sold –beef because no pork was allowed into the house.
Especially for Pesach, our house, being the largest one, was stripped of all its furniture – beds, wardrobes and so on – and all other families, living in our yard, would put a table in the empty room and gather there to prepare the meals necessary for the holiday. My father, who was the eldest, used to read the Haggadah in Ladino. We always had matzah, boyo and a special mixture, made of walnuts, some marmalade, dates and sultanas on the table. All these were mixed together and placed on a lettuce leaf. It was done for the welfare of the country, which was then Palestine. This meal was called acharosa [charoset]. When my father was reading the Haggadah a piece of matzah and boyo were wrapped in serviettes and given to us, the children, and we had to throw them over our backs in order to be ready to go to Palestine. Everybody had to eat from the meal mentioned in the Haggadah. On the following day my parents used to put their best clothes on and go to the synagogue. My mother would always put a hat on and my father, a long tallit, made of Shantung silk with the traditional black ribbons and fringes at the edges, and a kippah.
My family used to celebrate Sabbath. My mother did the shopping and cooking on Fridays. On Friday nights the whole family gathered. The traditional meals like chicken, ritually killed in the synagogue, pastry with minced beef bought from the kosher butchery, and chicken soup or meatball soup from that minced meat were served. I remember that there was even one pear on the table, my father would cut it into four pieces and would give a piece to each of us, his children. On Friday night before Sabbath and on Saturday morning we used to go the synagogue. The atmosphere on Sabbath was always more special and more solemn than on other days. The table was always rich and full of kosher food. On Sabbath my father also used to read the Torah people’s history in Ladino.
We celebrated Purim, too. We used to walk the streets masked, and the children gave performances, for which we were given money. We celebrated Fruitas . The first day of this holiday is when almonds in Palestine begin to blossom. I was born on this holiday. The date of the Purim holiday changes with respect to the official calendar, therefore my birthday does not always coincide with the holiday. I always celebrate my birthday on 15th January. For Purim mothers used to tie up 40 different fruits, put them in a pouch and in the morning, when we awakened, we would all find such a pouch next to our beds. Positano was the main Jewish street at that time and there were many shops there, from which one could buy such fruits. Every family would buy fruit according to their possibilities, so that Fruitas could be celebrated.
The other big holiday is the Festival of Light or, as we call it, Chanukkah. According to the history of this festival when the Roman Empire devastated the Temple and placed their idols there, five thousand warriors calling themselves Maccabees, liberated the temple. They wanted to light a candle in the Temple, but couldn’t find that special oil which had to burn. Finally they found a mug with a tiny quantity of that oil, which had to be treated in advance in order to make it burn. It happened so that that small quantity of oil kept burning for eight days and this is why there are special candelabras for this holiday and every day of it one candle more is lit to commemorate it.
On Yom Kippur nothing is eaten until sundown. The last meal before the fast is at six o’clock the previous night. I remember that we, children, did not eat in memory of all who had died for Palestine (then). We, children, used to carry only a quince in our hand, which we were supposed to only smell and we had to show our tongues to prove that we hadn’t eaten anything – when the tongue was white, it proved that you hadn’t eaten and that you had endured the hours you were not allowed to eat.
When I was a child I knew a lot of games, which are not played nowadays. Boys and girls used to play The King-Gateman. This game wasn’t only known by the Jewish population in Sofia. Two boys hold each other’s hands above their heads to make a gate. All the others line up in a queue and pass between them, singing: ‘King-and-Gateman! Open the gates and let the King’s army pass through! Open, close, leave only one man!’ When the last word is sung, the two boys, through whose ‘gate’ the others pass, suddenly drop their hands and catch somebody. The last one to remain takes the place of one of ‘gate-boys’ and so everything is repeated on and on. We also used to play a men’s game, ‘jelick’, we would dig a hole, put a piece of wood on top of it and with another piece of wood had to throw it out as far as possible.
When I was a child we went on holidays very often. We had to do it because my father suffered from sciatica, and every summer we used to go to the hot mineral spas in Gorna Banya [a village close to Sofia, which is now a district of Sofia]. We used to load a horse cart with our luggage, rent a room in the village and spend a month there. We went to Gorna Banya for three years, then to Ovcha Kupel for three years. At that time my mother took good care of all her four children and used to make ‘chateau’ for us every morning. It is made of well-beaten egg white, and then the yoke and sugar are added, all this is stirred well and is eaten with bread. I will not forget an incident, when our whole family of six persons had gathered in an alcove in Ovcha Kupel to have our meal and a woman who was a tenant in the same house, asked mother whether all the children were hers. My mother answered with a saying in Ladino: ‘Your eye – in a basket!’ This meant to protect oneself from bad thoughts of other persons.
In 1939 the Law for the Protection of the Nation was adopted and all Jews had to wear yellow badges. I was already 10 and had to wear one. I remember that there was another girl of Jewish origin in the School of Economics where I studied. We both wore badges, but that was not a big problem because the other girls didn’t pay attention to it.
Before we were interned, we started selling our belongings. Villagers bought our furniture dirt-cheap. We sold absolutely everything. A lot of goods remained in the house. For example, my mother had prepared a suitcase full of dowry for us, the three girls. She gave it to some acquaintances of hers for safekeeping, but we never saw it again. In 1943 we were interned to the town of Ferdinand [today Montana]. We were isolated there in a Jewish quarter and were permitted to go out for only two hours a day. Something funny happened there. My father had an employee from Ferdinand in his tinsmith workshop in Sofia – he was called Peno. This man Peno had a tinsmith workshop in Ferdinand. My father got in touch with him and he became Peno’s worker. We were not allowed to work then, but my father used to sneak into his workshop to help him.
Ferdinand was a small town with a population of about 5,000. We lived in terrible conditions. Initially we were accommodated in a school with another ten families. We, children, however, couldn’t feel the impact of the situation as it was felt by our parents, who strived for our bare existence. On the other hand we, the youths, led an exceptionally organized life – perhaps our Jewish gene was such – and that helped us cope with the adversities. The authorities allowed us to go out only between 5 and 7pm. We were banned from going out at any other time. We always used to get together during those two hours of freedom, organizing countless literary evenings with lots of poetry reading and songs. We didn’t feel bored then – we read a lot and exchanged books amongst ourselves. I remember that there were times when I read 50 pages an hour. We had a very intensive and rich cultural life because we had nothing else to do. We were not allowed to work or to go out, and this enabled us to occupy ourselves with arts.
After some time, we were allowed to rent a house and, we rented a three-roomed village house with a family that hade been our neighbors in Sofia. The owners went to live in the barn; two rooms were occupied by our parents and in the third room our fathers knocked up two rows of wooden plank-beds, where the lot of us – six children – slept. We lived like that till 9th September 1944. Then we received a notice that our house had been sold. That notice stated the amount for which it had been sold and the taxes charged, calling on my father to receive the money from the sale. My father said that he had no house for sale and that he didn’t want to receive any money. Thus the sale of the house didn’t materialize.
When we went back to Sofia around 9th September 1944, we found strangers living in our house. We filed a lawsuit straight away in order to recover possession of it. During that period we lived with one of my father’s brothers, who occupied a room and a kitchen. He moved to the kitchen and let us have the room. After a while we managed to regain possession of our house, which still exists at Pernik Street. Currently this house is unoccupied. For a long time my niece lived there, but she bought an apartment and moved away. We tried to lease it, but things didn’t work out, and we now prefer to keep it empty.
During the internment, Jewish men endured an incredible stress and it was their shoulders, which were overburdened with worries to provide for their families. Many young men died due to the huge torment they were subjected to. These include my father, too, who died at the age of 47. The fathers of a number of my relatives and friends passed away young as a result of what they had lived through.
I remember that after 9th September 1944, we received aid from the Joint – not financial aid, but mainly foodstuffs and clothes. We were entitled to six pieces of clothing per person and, being six in the family, we got a lot of clothes. Since my elder sister had learnt to sew, my father instructed us to take large sizes of clothes, which my sister altered to make them fit. I remember tasting margarine for the first time in my life then and we were also given chocolates and blankets. This aid started in the first years after the war and continued till 1948/49, when a large part of the Jews immigrated to Israel. During the big economic crisis in Bulgaria in the 1990s we also received considerable aid in foodstuffs.
After 9th September 1944, I became a member of the Uniform Youth Students Union and I had leftist convictions. Afterwards, I also became a member of the Revolutionary Youth Union . This club of this organization was at Strandja Street in our district. It was there that I met my husband. He was a member of the Communist Party, but I wasn’t.
I met my husband in 1946. We went out for three years before we got married. I was 19 when I got married in 1948 and moved to Bratya Miladinovi Street, where my two daughters were born. Thus, my mother and one of my sisters remained in our house at Pernik Street. In the 1980s we were given an apartment, and then my mother and my sister moved to the house at Bratya Miladinovi Street.
My husband was a young Ashkenazi Jew – a German Jew. At that time it was very prestigious to interbreed, because German Jews were one step more eminent than us, the Spanish Jews, the Sephardi. My husband’s name is Haim Blumenfeld. His father, who came from Romania, deserted the Romanian army during the Balkan War and found himself in the town of Haskovo, where he met my husband’s mother. After they got married, their first baby was a girl who was four years older than Haim. When he was barely six months old his family went to Palestine. His mother was a machine knitter, his father, a tinsmith. They took all the equipment they needed for practicing their trades to Palestine. They lived there for six years, but couldn’t adapt to life there. So, they sold all their equipment and returned to Bulgaria via Turkey.
My husband studied at a Jewish school until 5th grade. After about 40 years, when the relations between Israel and Bulgaria were re-established, somehow suddenly all his knowledge of Hebrew came back to him. Our three visits to Israel and the numerous guests that started coming here, completely restored his Hebrew and he started speaking the language quite fluently. Everybody was surprised, but Hebrew was obviously very well taught in Sofia at that time.
Before we were interned, I had studied at a vocational school for one year. Later we were denied right of education, but when we returned to Sofia, I passed the 6th grade exams [which corresponds to the 10th grade at high school in the present educational system] and a year later I graduated with a diploma. I started working as a commercial worker in shops and warehouses. Wherever I worked I have never experienced any problems due to my Jewish origin. But I felt a covert assimilation of the Jews, which manifested itself in the fact that we could not openly speak Ladino and also in the uneasiness caused by our different-sounding names.
My husband didn’t allow us to speak Ladino at home and when we had to say our names, he would always ask me do give my name first, which sounded more Bulgarian – particularly after the mistake of my name-change from Reina to Raina. His family name Blumenfeld was unintelligible for Bulgarians. We had an incident when even a medical nurse found it difficult to write his name. Despite all this I am very proud of my family name. Even when my second daughter was born and I was told I had a baby girl, I felt sorry that there was no one to inherit my family name.
When our first daughter was born in 1949 we had to name her after someone from my husband’s clan. Chaldeans, however, have a tradition not to give a child the name of a living grandfather. This is why my first daughter was named after her great-grandfather on my husband’s side, whose name was Hertzel. So we gave her the name of Hertzelina Blumenfeld. My second daughter’s name is Zoya. She was born in 1953. I wondered for six days after she was born what name I should give her. Then I asked my elder daughter, who at that time attended a nursery school, and she said she wanted her younger sister to be called Zoya.
All my relatives immigrated to Israel in 1948/49. During the years that followed, my ties with them were very limited. My husband worked for the Ministry of Interior and for that reason his sister couldn’t go to Israel. In the 1960s and the 1970s relations between Bulgaria and Israel were not very good. We had certain problems with the authorities and were summoned to give explanations. When my husband was sent to the Soviet Union to study in 1964, his sister took advantage of that and left for Israel. We were also summoned to give explanations about my brother who had emigrated to France in 1946 and was declared a non-returnee.
My husband and I went to Hungary on holidays soon after the events of 1956 . I was against the provoked military actions even more so because I had seen very young men there whose hair had turned completely white from the horrors they had seen. Now I positively evaluate Eastern Europe’s opening to the West. This terminated the division and confrontation between different societies. This change facilitated world politics.
My elder daughter Hertzelina graduated as pharmacist and now owns two chemist shops. She is well off, but is preoccupied with the problems that small businesses are currently experiencing in Bulgaria. She has to spend whole days [working] to solve bureaucratic things. Her husband is a textile engineer, but it is very difficult for him to find a job. My younger daughter is an economist. Her husband is also economist, and it was not until a few months ago that he found a job with a company for trademark alcohol. Both of my daughters have mixed marriages – they married Bulgarians. They have two children each – Zoya’s sons are called Martina and Andrey, and Hertzelina has a son, Victor, and a daughter Irena. Zoya’s sons observe Jewish traditions and they emigrated to Israel two years ago [in 2000]. With the assistance of our relatives who emigrated there in 1948/49, they succeeded in settling very well. They adapted themselves very quickly and learned the language. They even managed to come back to Bulgaria twice.
I retired in 1984. A woman of 55 is capable of working longer, but my husband broke his leg and I had to stay home to look after him. Before the political change in Bulgaria in 1989 our life was better. My husband had a good salary and a pension then. We had a better life, traveled a lot, and had good friends. We used to go to the movies, to theater, and to restaurants all the time. I am used to this way of life and now I miss cultural life very much. Before 1989, my husband and I used to go on holiday very often, and when he was offered a plot of land at the seacoast, he refused to take it, because whenever we wanted to go on holiday we could go anywhere. Our elder daughter, however, got very enthusiastic about the idea of having a villa and she takes great pleasure in going to Lakatnik, where she has a piece of land and a house.
I have been a widow for two years now. My husband died in 2000. I had a very good life with him and I miss him terribly now. I live alone. Now, together with members of the Golden Age Club of our Shalom organization in Sofia, I often go to concerts and to the theater whenever I have a chance. The problem is that I have to come home quite late and with the current rate of crime this is a bit frightening. I have a friend who lives in the same block of flats as me and although she is much younger than me, we go out and come back together. I always take two invitations to concerts or theater performances – one for my friend – and thus, I satisfy my passion for cultural life. My daughter even finds that I lead a much more diversified life than her. I participate in the management of the Section ‘Disabled Persons’, because I am myself a disabled person. There we also have organized life. We meet once a month, deliver communications and try to go to some theatrical or musical performance. The community pays for the tickets.
I went to visit my brother in France the year that my husband passed away. My brother invited me to cheer me up because I was crushed with grief. We went to the Rossini Festival in Italy, then I visited my niece in Vienna. She took us to the synagogue twice. The Vienna synagogue is very nice, but ours in Sofia is more beautiful. The community there, however, is better. The singers in the synagogue in Vienna were very good tenors and sang magnificently. I liked it so much that when we went out, my sister, my niece and I started singing a Jewish song in Hebrew. Then a woman came to us and hugged us because we had made an impression on her – being Jews and knowing that song.
I have been to Israel three times – in 1966, 1987 and 1992. Within half a century only, Israel has turned the desert into a garden. Despite all efforts of the Jewish state, the situation continues to be depressing due to the conflicts with the Arabs. People in Israel live from day to day and do everything as best as they can, because they aren’t sure if they’ll live to see the next day. I think that America must direct its efforts towards terrorism in Israel, too, where terror against the population has increased lately.
My children have their own commitments. They have set up their lives well and have no time for me. The Jewish community helps me diversify my life. On Mondays and Wednesdays I attend the Health Club, where I was the bursar for a few years. I participate in the Ladino Club where I hope to regain my knowledge of that language. Next summer a meeting of Ladino speaking Jews called Esperanza will be held and I will take part in it. I also attend the Golden Age Club and participate in all events organized by it.
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13 December 2005
Disarmament Commission Agrees on Agenda for 2006 Session
NEW YORK, 12 December (UN Headquarters) -- After a two-year deadlock over its agenda, the United Nations Disarmament Commission today reached agreement on a provisional agenda for its substantive session in 2006, which included an item on nuclear disarmament, and closed its organizational session for 2005.
By agreeing on the agenda item on nuclear disarmament in today's resumed organizational session -- "Recommendations for achieving the objectives for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons" -- the Commission now had a complete provisional agenda for its usual three-year cycle of consideration. The universal, deliberative body mandated to make recommendations in the field of disarmament would meet from 19 to 28 April 2006.
The second item, which had been agreed at the organizational session in July, reads as follows: "Practical confidence building measure in the field of conventional weapons". The agenda also includes the following: "the issue of measures for improving the effectiveness of the methods of work of the Disarmament Commission". Members had agreed in July that the last item would be considered in plenary at the 2006 substantive session, with "equitable time allocated to it".
Reviewing the path leading to today's agreement, the Commission Chairman, Sylvester T. Rowe (Sierra Leone) recalled that the item in question on nuclear weapons had read as follows in July: "Recommendations for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects, in particular for achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament". Following the introduction of an amendment by one delegation -- "Recommendations for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons" -- the session was suspended without agreement.
In anticipation of the General Assembly's adoption last week of the resolution on the Report of the Disarmament Commission, the Chairman had asked the Secretariat to distribute to Commission members a compromise proposal on the substantive item on nuclear disarmament, which was agreed today, so that the Commission could start substantive work early next year.
The operative portion of the draft resolution, adopted on 8 December, had welcomed efforts made by the Commission during its organizational meeting in July towards achieving the Commission's objectives. The Assembly also recommended that the Commission intensify consultations on those efforts, with a view to reaching a definitive agreement before the start of its substantive session next year.
The Bureau, which had not been fully constituted at the organizational session this year, still had some vacancies, specifically two Vice-Chairmen from, respectively, from the Groups of African States and Eastern European States. The Chairman appealed to regional groups to try to come up with candidates for the 2006 substantive Commission session, as well as suggestions for the chairmanship of the subsidiary bodies, and let the Secretariat know the "state of affairs" of the Bureau by February.
The Chairman thanked members for their cooperation. The consultations in the summer had been very intensive, and there was general agreement that "some progress" had been made, although the views concerning that progress might vary from one delegation to another. There was a feeling that something had been achieved and that no one wanted to go backwards, he recalled.
The Disarmament Commission will meet again at a date and time to be announced.
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1. Learn to say "I don't eat meat" in the language of the country you are traveling/living in. Be aware that even if you use the word "vegetarian" or "vegan" it may not always mean that the dish is actually vegan. The people you meet in your host country may have a different understanding of the word altogether. Some cultures think vegetarians just avoid red meat or think fish is ok. It may not be clear that you also do not want to eat very clear that not only do you not eat meat, but you also do not eat meat oil, fish oil, oyster sauce, dried shrimp, etc. This is particularly difficult with soups. Saying you are allergic may help make it clear.
2. Learn to write "I don't eat meat" in the native language. This can be particularly useful in countries where it is hard to be understood like in China.
3. Research before you go so you already know some places you can eat if all else fails. This can also help you identify the best places to dine. Our Guides for expatries have all a "Pubs, Cafes and Restaurants" section under Entertainment.
4. Know the staples. Find out what makes up the local cuisine and if anything you don't want to eat is commonly used like beef fat for frying vegetables. Many places have started to substitute soy and other alternative products so feel free to ask.
5. Enjoy local fruits. Mango, fig, pineapple, pomegranate and coconut never tasted better than when they are fresh from the market or straight off the tree. Eating the local fruits can also make your trip being more culturally authentic.
6. Enjoy raw and understand the problem areas. It is often said "If you haven't picked it, peeled it, cut it or boiled it yourself, don't eat it." Know that thicker skinned fruits and veggies are best and make sure you peel them yourself. It is also a good idea to possibly pick up a knife when you get to the host country so you can instantly peel and eat without having to worry about using someone else's possibly tainted utensils.
7. Learn to love rice. Rice is a staple for over one and half billion people worldwide and you are likely to encounter it often when you travel. Tasty, nutritional, and totally vegetarian. Find local toppings and sauces like soy sauce, peanut sauce, chutneys, seaweed flakes, fresh fruit and steamed veggies, and tofu.
8. Eat at the aperitif. It may be hard to find a main course without meat, but there are usually appetizers that are completely meat free. You can sometimes ask for an appetizer to be expanded into a full meal. An added bonus is that they are usually cheaper !
Consult our FAQ made by the most frequently asked questions and specific terms of expatriation.
You can ask details, information and post comments on the forums.The list of all the questions in the website language is available in one click, ordered by refreshed date or by number of hits.
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THIS week it’s all about the eighties as we continue our look back into the history of the Rolls-Royce factory.
A number of exciting events dominated the decade, including two in the early autumn of 1980.
Rolls-Royce Motors announced its merger with Vickers PLC, making it the largest part of a bigger and more financially secure group of companies.
Sir David Plastow was the first managing director of Rolls-Royce Motors and guided the motor car division of the old company through the traumatic experiences of 1971, until it emerged in a much stronger position.
Also in 1980, the Silver Shadow range was replaced by the most advanced of all Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars – the Silver Spirit range.
In 1985, just 79 years after the formation of Rolls-Royce Limited, the 100,000th car to be manufactured by Rolls-Royce left the production line.
A parade and pageant were held in August of the same year to celebrate the achievement.
The company was honoured to receive a royal visitor to the factory on July 24, 1987, as the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip turned up to tour the facilities.
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When there is alleviation,
when things work out
because of His wish-
do not resist
Also endure false attacks from your
spouse, family members
and other people.
When there is a solution and the Beloved removes suffering, the lover is not be overly righteous nor obstinate to those changes. The lover is also not stubborn about leaving the home in her quest for the Beloved. She sees all as the Beloved's lilas, and thus, all events in her life are endured. In every situation, Hari is the refuge.
If the lover's worldly partner is indifferent to the Beloved, let it be. Compassion for all the lover's associates is never forsaken. The lover wishes all to enjoy the victory, yet if there is no divine inclination, to be inflexible or overly righteous in any situation is never resorted to. In struggle with anyone, animosity becomes the bhakta's poison and always delays the ultimate festival.
When the festival is delayed or worse, forgotten, when the senses focus on other things and don't remember Hari, these diversions obstruct the flow of nectar throughout the senses and being. When the attention turns towards the Beloved, then the senses can be devotionally employed in the romance. She can make Him garlands, sandal paste and other treats. These offerings are then taken as prasada, as His grace. What is pure, delightful and offered, consecrates within and without and adorns the lover with virtues and ornaments that the Beloved keeps His eye on.
It deepens as the lover becomes absorbed into the dharma and drama of the Beloved. Then, things do not necessarily have to be renounced, they simply are given up, offered, and then enjoyed again. The Beloved returns the offerings. In the Beloved's pleasure, divine enjoyment for all participants is one of the blessed rewards.
The divine pain and its deliverance are seen as either Hari's examination or events rising because of past karmas. When the divine body is entered and used to traverse and serve in the Beloved's realms of lila pleasure, then there are no more delays. It is the bhakta's greatest asset and used for the Beloved's pleasure. By just understanding that the cause and supplier of all things is the Beloved, everything is offered back and never employed for any self gain. This is liberation.
In worldly matters, complication can arise from anywhere. Dilemmas can occur because of something that is desired, but not received. The mayic possibilities are endless. Whatever the case, the true lover will not direct negative emotion towards any sentient being. She knows it is disruptive to not only the Hari relationship, but to Hari's lila-creation as well.
As the lover's relationship deepens, the way she relates to people in her world changes. In the divine process, sometimes people who are not sensitive to the transformation become jealous. They are not seeing the process. Even if they aggressively confront the lover, she withstands the attacks and keeps her attention upon the Beloved.
Conflict can come from the work place, from employees or employer, conflict can arise from circumstances where wealth is distributed. Even if the aggression is without cause and clearly contrary to the higher sensitivities of dharma, the lover will not lower herself to engage at the level her aggressors. She understands the protective aura of the Beloved and endures. This ability to withstand all situations extends to relationships with associates of her Beloved who because of some negligence or personal
trait, turn upon the their fellow lover. Still, she does not falter in her Hari position.
When everything is seen as a play of karma that is working itself out for a higher cause, the lover is able to refrain from anger even while withstanding the force of suffering. Devotional fortitude is what allows the lover this ability. Hari's perfect connection to all things is her focus. She sees Him just before her, as well as to both sides. In that blessed state, she employs her devotional perspectives to avoid and transform all negativities. The illumination of the Beloved's presence is her protective
This was kindly translated by Shyamdas. His numerous books (in English) on Pushti Marg are well worth firstname.lastname@example.org
Return to Shyamdas's articles
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Teeth Whitening in Vero Beach, FL
Out of all the cosmetic dental treatments currently available, teeth whitening is consistently one of the most requested at dentist offices in America. In fact, a survey by the American Association of Orthodontists found that almost 90 percent of patients ask for this treatment. This is because professional tooth whitening is a very quick way to make your smile look remarkably better—just in time for important social and professional engagements. Learn more about what this popular cosmetic treatment entails.
Why Teeth Whitening?
Our teeth are naturally the color of a white eggshell, but as time goes on that color changes due to eating and drinking foods that stain the enamel. Patients who are regular smokers also often develop stains on the teeth due to the tar in cigarettes. In-office teeth whitening by a dentist is usually the only reliable way to get rid of stubborn stains. Having a white smile is important to people because it makes them look younger and healthier.
Types of Teeth Whitening Treatments
There are two main options for having your teeth professionally whitened. Your dentist can provide you with a take-home tray that you’ll wear over the course of a few weeks. But the best option, if you want to see a significant smile improvement, is to just have your dentist whiten your teeth in the office. The process takes about 60-90 minutes and leaves your teeth looking up to four shades whiter.
Keeping Your Teeth White After Treatment
You can take steps to ensure that your teeth stay whiter for as long as possible after you have them whitened at the dentist’s office. Here are a few key tips:
- Drink everything with a straw when possible, including coffee, tea, and wine
- Brush and floss regularly, especially after drinking or eating something that’s dark in color.
- Work with a specialist to quit smoking if you want to keep your teeth white.
For more information on Teeth Whitening in the Vero Beach, FL area,
call Raymond A. Della Porta, II DMD at (772) 567-1025 today!
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With the presentation of isolations and self-detachment because of the pandemic, every one of us invested significantly more energy in our home. Working somewhat under these circumstances is certainly not a simple assignment. Self-disconnection has isolated teams. It has turned into an issue for the people who are accustomed to working intimately with partners when you can reach them by and by whenever. Notwithstanding, the act of virtual team building utilizing gamification adjusted to the association, its team, and undertakings permit you to lay out shared figuring out, help representative execution, keep up with contribution in a typical reason, and work flawlessly even a good off.
1.Work has come to your home
Moving to remote work is difficult for any association. In certain associations, compelled to move to working from home, the circumstance was extreme and tense. The norms and cutoff times are something very similar, however the apparatuses accessible for work are badly designed and new. Accordingly, each undertaking team building turned out to be considerably more tedious.
In any event, for those turning out from a distance for quite a while, it has been difficult to leave the work space and re-energize, so weariness can set in.
What are the advantages of team building in this climate?
It, most importantly, is the development of an affectionate team. Individual experts should fabricate a team able to do mutually tackling issues, deciding, and accomplishing objectives. Individuals need to besides the fact that their work yet additionally comprehend what their general work means for different representatives and undertakings.
2.Strengthening the connection between workers
Raising staff spirit;
The development of correspondence, initiative abilities;
Expulsion of boundaries that forestall 100 percent acknowledgment of the capability of representatives;
Building joins among offices and division, including ensuring archives can be effectively changed over from word to PDF records;
Recognizing the qualities of each team part;
Tracking down better approaches to tackle issues.
What can remote team building be like?
With the change to remote work, many organizations chose to offer moral help to their teams. Parties, film screenings, conversations, and different topical gatherings have relocated on the web. Here is only a little rundown of practices that organizations use to keep representatives in isolation:
3.Virtual morning reflections
Arbitrarily gathered espresso visits;
An extremely durable casual talk of the team for correspondence beyond work;
Direct inquiry to the CEO;
Video visits with just a single rule: discussing work is illegal;
Virtual film evenings with Skype or Zoom conversation;
Online book club;
Team internet games, tests;
Bunch practice in Skype or Zoom;
The assortment of realities on some point working together;
Drinking espresso is additionally team building
In the event that team building is coordinated, considering the team’s advantages, it assists with stopping strain and see the positive in your life and work. To change to casual associations with partners, you want to create some distance from the work setting, basically for a brief time frame.
4.How to make it happen?
For instance, you can take on an energetic test together. Transforming the opposition into a clash of ambition is significant not. Every representative ought to have the chance to take part and offer in the outcome. Pick events that won’t require some investment yet will permit you to help and yet again join representatives. These can be morning social events with espresso or virtual gatherings one time each week, in which you can take part consistently or turn on voluntarily.
You can likewise consider making a Funny divert in your business correspondence stage for images or other entertaining, non-business related things that can ease pressure, express feelings, and lay out a feeling of predictability as though you are in the workplace.
Remembering this as you explore a remote team can make a much needed refresher for your workers, prompting a more joyful and more useful team.
Team building can likewise be utilized to give acknowledgment to representatives by featuring the work explicit workers are doing and the ways of behaving that have lead to the beneficiary getting the acknowledgment. By integrating acknowledgment into the team building you can send major areas of strength for a to each participant about your organization values and how that affects the progress of the association.
Maybe the critical advantage of an appropriately arranged team building movement is further developed correspondence between representatives. Charming, fun exercises empower workers to get to know one another, make a superior comprehension of one another and separate walls of question by empowering individuals to zero in on what they share practically speaking as opposed to their disparities.
Team building exercises can be a strong method for creating coordinated effort and trust, further develop inspiration, support qualities, and address shortcomings. Be that as it may, they should be have a genuine reason and be appropriately arranged to have a certified effect.
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Although plumbing is an integral part of our daily lives, we tend to take it for granted. What makes plumbing, and even more importantly, modern, efficient plumbing, so important to us?
There are many reasons to be plumbers so we have listed the top reasons that plumbing is so important. This might help you consider why it may be worth having several good plumbers on hand.
- Safe Water
It is assumed that water used daily is safe for drinking and other purposes. Water in the past could have been easily contaminated.
Groundwater is a common source of water in many regions. Even where there are reservoirs, the water comes from nature. It is treated and filtered before being transported to homes or other buildings. We should be thankful for safe water.
- Efficiency Increases
Modern plumbing systems are efficient in delivering clean, safe, and usable water to our homes, offices, and other buildings. They are also energy-efficient. Water and its efficient use make it possible to have energy-efficient heating systems both in commercial and domestic settings.
A professional plumber company can take a look at your system to determine if there are any ways to improve it. There may also be cost savings to be found.
- Everyday Comfort
We take our water supply for granted, as we have already said, but many things go on behind the scenes to make sure we get the daily comforts we need from our water supply.
Being able to make a cup or two of coffee, take a bath, and even water the plants is not something that most people can afford. However, it takes a lot of effort as well as an efficient plumbing system.
- Worldwide Hygiene
It is important to remember that, while we have water at our fingertips whenever we need it, others are less fortunate.
It is impossible to overstate the impact that plumbing innovations have had on reducing the spread and elimination of water-borne diseases in developed countries. There is still work being done in the developing nations to make clean and healthy water available in areas where it is not currently.
- Attractive Interiors
Modern plumbing systems, fixtures, and furnishings enable us to enjoy beautifully designed, stylish, and modern bathrooms and kitchens. There are always new designs on the market so it’s worth keeping an eye out for the latest trends.
Your local plumber company can help you find the perfect bathroom for you or to replace your kitchen fixtures.
- Keeps Small Plumbing Issues From Growing
A small leak in a pipe may appear insignificant at first. Even a tiny leak can prove costly. The expert states that a faucet that leaks at a rate of 1 drip per second could result in more than 3,000 gallons being wasted each year.
This seemingly minor leak can quickly grow into a major problem in your home. Our plumber Castle Hill will find it early and save you time and aggravation.
7.Improves Plumbing Performance
Regular maintenance will ensure that your plumbing continues to work smoothly. Your pipes and drains won’t have any problems and larger systems will work as usual. Routine maintenance can improve the efficiency of your plumbing, which will help you save money on your energy bills.
Our experts can immediately fix any problems and maintain your plumbing. This will help improve its performance.
- Increases The Life Span Of Your Water Heater
Our plumbing maintenance plan includes regular inspections and flushing of your water heater. This will help keep it looking new. It will last longer if it works as it should and is free from sediment, sharp and clean parts, and other obstructions.
You can save money over the years by working at a high-efficiency level and not having to replace your heater as soon as it is necessary.
9.Offers Priority Service
Priority service is one of the many benefits of our plumbing maintenance plan. We consider you special and offer priority service.
10.Provides Discounts On Repairs And Plumbing Purchases
You will also receive priority service and discounts. You can expect significant savings when you need to repair or replace a component of your plumbing system.
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Running for Health, Wellness, Fitness and Community
Season 2021 Episode 20 | 26m 46s | Video has closed captioning.
In past years, the sport of running has faced criticism over its lack of diversity and representation of people of color. Organizers are partnering with advocates to promote the physical and mental health benefits from running, and they are designing new initiatives to increase support and awareness of the sport within communities of color.
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Trip to Perm, last city of Europe
09 de noviembre de 2018
It is time to visit Russia, more specifically Perm which is located on the slopes of the Urals and is considered the last city in Europe. While the whole world is sure that Europe ends in Perm, its inhabitants are convinced of the opposite: Europe is just beginning here. A mixture of ethnics and different somatic traits, contrasted traditions. Perm, place of refuge of Tsar Michail Romanov, an inspiration for Pasternak in his Doctor Zhivago where Perm hides behind the name of the city Jurjatin and also place of the Soviet gulags, is unique in its style and history. Čechov defined Perm very boring and too hot in summer, we defined it as fascinating, almost addictive and in the middle of two contrasting Europe. Perm was a very important industrial center in the past. According to local legend, the inhabitants of the Russian city of Perm had salty ears. Being an industrial capital near some of the largest metal and salt mines, it was said that the workers had taken to Perm so many bags of salt behind them that a salty layer had stuck to their skin. However, for some years the city has been striving to get rid of this image of industrial capital of Russia to obtain a new recognition: to be the capital of culture. But we ask ourselves, can a powerful industrial city, full of factories and forests, become the brilliant capital of literature, music and contemporary art? The inhabitants of Perm are sure of their strengths and their cultural heritage, so they use all their skills to achieve this goal. They proudly exhibit their wooden gods or bronze medallions in "animal style", claiming their indigenous ancestry. We also toured the city with an illustrious guide, the collaborator of the University of Perm, Alexander Shchepetkov, a wise geographer and a lover of Soviet architecture and literature, an art enthusiast in all its manifestations, a a multifaceted man, so brilliant that we were completely spellbound by his stories, so much that we do not want to end this wonderful journey together. We discover the city until its secrets and more recondite anecdotes, wanting to get lost in so much culture and mystery.
Lees het volledige nieuws
Natalya Troyanova, Manager of Semya supermarket chains, gave us a unique opportunity, the possibility of knowing the city and its origins, and after this inexplicable journey, Natalya took us to visit Semya's largest supermarkets, in different parts of Perm. We were speechless when we noticed that every 400 meters there was a Semya supermarket, almost all open 24 hours. We were also impressed to see that this so young Manager, directed a special affection and helped us impeccably in our visits and master class with an innate sweetness and passion for her extraordinary job. The role of Manager Galina Aristova was the most fundamental. She was like the director of a concert that takes place in a wonderful theater, she marked the times and the duration of our explanations, due to our busy schedule. A determined, pragmatic woman who did not stay calm until she heard the last word of our presentation, only at that moment she relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief.
Our presence was important for the formation of the team of store managers about the cava culture, its origin, its elaboration process our regulatory regulations and our classifications, in comparison from the point of view of elaborating other products like the Schaumweine of Germany and the Prosecco. Russians are always curious, always well informed and previously ready for all situations. Russia is a country where culture is a central component in the lives of people, you only need to see the amount of theaters and museums frequented by schools with very young children.
We carried out our presentations using our audiovisual materials, our power point presentations and …a lot of fun and empathy with the audience of participants. Semya is a reference, We would almost say a lifestyle. People walk through the streets with ecological bags of straws, as if they feel represented by the philosophy of this enterprise. The sales team works with many promotions, taking care of the range of products up to the last detail.
As regards the promotion of wines and cavas, they dispose of an online list. The sommelier and expert Evgenij Sazonov together with Yulia Shipiguzova deals with the most important decision: to choose wines. The option of having the online letter is not at all banal. Consumers are between 23 and 50 years old and very often use their mobile phones and computers, so they prefer to rely on technology, avoiding paper abuse and having less impact on the environment and avoiding the incentive to alcohol consumption at all times. The most successful cava for the clients, according to a market study, turn out to be our semi dry Lacrima Baccus (women adore the sweet aromas), Heretat de Lacrima Baccus and Summum brut and in all the stores, they are ALWAYS on the front line, with a good visibility, reason of pride for our winery. Following our program, we visited, with much encouragement in the heart and little in the body, due to the -8 degrees, two restaurants of high standard of the city which are called Chin chin and Gastroport, two MUST of the city. The attendees to our presentations left the restaurants with very good feelings and, above all, with happy memories of our visit. This trip in a city perhaps forgotten by tourists, has opened our eyes about the different facets of Russia, about its inhabitants, great lovers of bubbles and about its expansive and warm behavior, the opposite of the typical Russian climate, very cold and penetrating. We cannot wait so long, we would like to come back very soon and describe more.
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5 factors that can make a dog bite case a hard one
Over the years it has been seen that dogs are the best companion a one can get. They tend to stick together with one person all their life and that too without any complaints. But sometimes things can turn out to be different as well. It has been seen that many times a dog bites a person for some various reasons. Many times a person tends to recover in few days but sometimes it might take up to few weeks or even months in some cases. It all depends upon the severity of the injury . There are many cases and situations which can worsen the conditions and sometimes make it a difficult and hard case. If you were surfing the internet for it then luckily you have landed on the right page. This article will guide you through dog bite lawyer and 5 factors that can make a dog bite case a hard one.
When one is unfortunately involved in a dog bite, the first thing that comes into mind is whether he is infected with rabies or not. It is one of the key factors to look for when one is bitten by a dog. If so, then this can make your dog bite case a hard one and you may then need to contact dog bite lawyer. It is basically transferred through the saliva of a dog who himself is infected. If unfortunately the dog is infected with rabies then you will have to rush towards the hospital for further vaccination. Many people tend to show some common symptoms just after some time after being infected.
Tetanus is one of the most common side effect of a bite from dog. It basically uses bacteria as it's medium to spread. The bacteria is called Clostridium tetani and it spreads through it. These mainly targets deep bite wounds and due to this reason one can even fell ill for a longer time than expected.
This case is quite rare as compared to tetanus but is deadly and shall never be underestimated. This can be spreader if one has contact with a dog or if he has come too close to him. It can also be caused by scratches and one shall immediately seek consultation from dog bite lawyer in this case.
Not many people know about MRSA but people should be aware about this case too. MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and it can infect people even when some animals don't show symptoms. Due to this reason it is recommended that one shall vaccinate himself just after the dog bite and be prepared.
As per study, pasteurella is tend to be detected in more than half of the dog bites that are infected. A clear big red infection is seen at the bite site which can't be ignored at all due to hmits appearance. It is very painful and one shall contact the doctor as soon as possible.
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DEVELOPING AN Effective, Diverse, and Collaborative Health Workforce
What is the Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education?
On July 1, 2022, the Center for Interprofessional Health Education (CIHE) joined forces with the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) to establish the Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education (CICHE), in a true community-campus collaboration to strengthen the development and distribution of an effective, diverse, and collaborative health workforce for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond.
Affecting the distribution of health professionals throughout KY
Affecting interprofessional team collaboration
What Can We Help With?
Area Health Education
From UK health professions student rotations to mobile simulators, UK AHEC facilitates many operations to serve all Kentucky regions.
CICHE and its partners are devoted to facilitating interprofessional education experiences.
Check out our center directory and get connected to one of our staff.
CICHE Board of Directors
The CICHE Board of Directors meets twice annually and is composed of Deans of nine colleges here at UK:
- Agriculture, Food and Environment
- Communication and Information
- Health Sciences
- Public Health
- Social Work
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Center for Interprofessional Community Health Education
On July 1, 2022, the University of Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC) joined forces with the Center for Interprofessional Health Education (CIHE) to establish the Center for Interprofessional and Community Health Education (CICHE), in a true community-campus collaboration to develop an effective, diverse, and collaborative health workforce for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond.
Area Health Education Center
Through UK AHEC, CICHE is engaged in a collaborative effort with the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville Health Science Center and eight regional centers to positively affect the distribution of health professionals throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The eight regional centers, or AHECs are strategically located throughout the state. To learn more about the importance of AHECs, please visit the National AHEC Organization Website.
Center for Interprofessional Health Education
The Center is dedicated to providing leadership and sustaining the infrastructure that enables our students to acquire the critical competencies of interprofessional team-based care. CIHE got its name in 2014 when the University of Kentucky Center for Interprofessional HealthCare Education, Research and Practice decided to focus on the educational implications of interprofessional education. The original center was established on June 14, 2010, by the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for the explicit purpose of promoting teamwork and excellence in patient- and community-centered care through interprofessional education, research, and practice.
Core Competencies of Interprofessional Team-based Care
1) Values / Ethics - Work with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values
2) Roles/Responsibilities - Use the knowledge of one’s own role and those of other professions to appropriately assess and address the healthcare needs of the patients and populations served
3) Interprofessional Communication - Communicate with patients, families, communities, and other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease.
4) Teams and Teamwork - Apply relationship-building values and the principles of team dynamics to perform effectively in different team roles to plan and deliver patient- and population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
These competencies are taken from the Interprofessional Education Collaborative's Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice.
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The oil curse is illustrated once again. This time it’s Venezuela that pays the price. If for the general public, the image of an incapable and corrupt government has been sold, the invisible part of the iceberg reveals an extreme oil issue. Currently in the hands of China and Russia, the United States has the cruel need to appropriate this black gold.
Even if the US has become the world’s largest oil producers, the poor quality of their oil forces them to incorporate extra heavy crude oil from Venezuela to produce kerosene or diesel.
Without this exhausted oil, the energy supremacy of the USA hangs by a thread.
The American Dilemma
Thanks to shale oil, the USA has become the largest oil producer in the world. If the lightness of the shale is ideal for petrochemicals, pesticides or plastic, diesel and kerosene require mixing it with a heavier crude. To produce these fuels, refineries in the country import more than 500,000 barrels / day of extra heavy crude oil from Venezuela.
Canada could help Washington, but limited transportation capacity and significant costs of Alberta’s oil sands are hampering the process.
In order not to shoot himself in the foot with the heavy financial sanctions imposed by President Trump on the Maduro regime, the US continues to accept deliveries of crude but deposits payments into blocked accounts. Who between Caracas and Washington can last the longest, the question is asked.
26% of American oil can be refined.
The remaining 74% must be mixed with heavy or exported crude.
Trump: one stone several shots
President Trump’s strategy rests on several pillars: public opinion, the 2020 elections and money.
Donald Trump castigates the excesses and the incapacity of a government “socialistBy highlighting the precariousness of the Venezuelan people and the lack of investors. This message kills two birds with one stone. Internally, it allows you to enter the frontal with Democratic candidates “Openly socialists” in the 2020 election and the external way of splitting the world between the bad guys and the good guys.
This perception is reinforced by the sending of humanitarian aid, which has taken a Hollywood communication turn, when it should be organized in a neutral and independent manner. This suspicion of Cheval-de-Troie was reinforced by, John Bolton, the National Security Advisor. His notepad revealed: “5,000 American soldiers in Colombia.”
On John Bolton’s notes block:
5,000 American soldiers in Colombia.”
More discreetly, the same John Bolton is working on the real objective of overthrowing President Maduro by his protégé: oil.
ExxonMobil and Chevron are expected to take over Venezuela’s oil facilities and supply American refineries. The French,, English and Spanish are also involved in this reflection, hence the immediate cooperation of President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Ministers Theresa May and Pedro Sánchez.
“We are currently chatting with large American oil companies. It would make a difference if we could get American companies to produce oil in Venezuela. We both have a great interest. It would be good for Venezuela and the people of the United States.”- John Bolton, National Security Advisor ()
See 5min40 seconds for oil
The country alone is illustrating the current oil paradox. Cheap oil runs out and it becomes more and more expensive to extract a barrel.
A member of OPEC, Venezuela potentially has the largest oil reserves in the world and its economic returns are 96% assured by this windfall.
Historically, Venezuela has never recovered from the currency and debt crisis of the 80s and 90s. The drastic regimes imposed by the IMF and the World Bank ultimately only succeeded in mounting the impoverished population against the right-wing president .
Liberalism carried by the Americans was intended to revitalize the private sector and attract international investors. In an attempt to increase oil production, Caldera privatized the oil sector. Despite efforts, Venezuela reached its peak oil in 1997 with 3.5 million b / d.
When Hugo Chavez took power in 1999, production had already decreased by 1 million b / d. and corruption ravaged the country.
Today, with the illusion of sitting on an oil wealth, the blame is essentially on the socialist economic model of the Chavez and Maduro governments.
There is no doubt that the casting errors and corruption damaged the extraction of the precious liquid. But much of Venezuelan black gold requires huge amounts of money, advanced techniques and professional management. As long as the barrel held above $ 100, the equation could be resolved. With the fall of the barrel in 2008 and 2014, Venezuela suffered the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1990s.
If in the USA, shale oil or Canadian shale sands have seen billions of dollars of foreign investors like European pension funds flow, private banks or Venezuela was not so lucky.
On the contrary, Caracas had to continually fight against justice and the vulture funds (eg Crystallex or Pharo Gaia Fund Ltd) of American investments to reimburse, with indecent rates, loans made. In this financial disaster, from Bush to Obama, Washington will have done everything to move towards the current situation.
From 1998 to 2013, Chavez failed to understand the importance of injecting money into the oil system. He diverted this money for his own use but also to reduce poverty by going from 55 to 34%, to educate 1.5 million adults and with the help of Cuban doctors to offer 70% of the population a free health system.
As soon as the barrel fell in June 2014, the government ran out of money to support oil production and its social programs.
The crank return was edifying with more than 3.5 million Venezuelans forced to go abroad to simply eat. In a few years, the country has fallen into disrepair.
Average oil production Venezuela since its peak oil in 1997.
Tomorrow, the one in charge of Venezuela will inherit a country whose agony will only match the speed of the decline in its oil production.
If for Russia and China the risks are summed up by the loss of tens of billions of dollars in receivables and assets as well as influence in Latin America, President Trump must absolutely guarantee the importation of conventional or very heavy crude oil to ensure the production of fuels for his trucks and planes.
Small nations more vulnerable to oil variations were thought to be more vulnerable. The very uncomfortable position of the USA demonstrates this paradigm shift. We are producing more and more oil, less and less good quality but more and more expensive. The equation has no solution in the current economic system.
The speed at which Venezuela has collapsed can only encourage us to find oil independence, otherwise we will suffer the same fate.
Are we all on the way to becoming Venezuelans?
The 3 largest oil imports, from American refineries in the South of the USA
in thousands of barrels per day
Source: RBC Capital Markets
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Hemoglobin is a protein found in the red platelets. These cells are answerable for hefting oxygen around the body.
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Individuals with low hemoglobin levels may require extra treatment if taking enhancements and changing the eating routine don’t show adequate outcomes.
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Contingent upon the reason for low hemoglobin and the medicines endeavored, it might take as long as a year for levels to arrive at a solid reach.
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Govt has issued G.O Ms No 414 dated 4.6.2007 , establishing a Mission called MEPMA , for formulating strategies to implement poverty reduction programmes in urban areas.
All the 30 lakh poor families will have improved quality of life by accessing services from all organizations through their own strong self reliant and self managed institutions.
Objective of the Mission :
To enable the urban poor particularly the poorestof the poor to eliminate poverty and vulnerability in a sustainable manner and improve their quality of life in urban areas.
MEPMA is registered as society under AP societies registration act bearing No: 1120/2007 dated 10.7.2007 with
Hon'ble Chief Minister - Chairman,
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Principal Secretary to Govt Rural development,
Principal Secretary to Govt Women Development & child welfare,
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MISSION FOR ELIMINATION OF POVERTY IN MUNICIPAL AREAS (MEPMA)
(A Govt. of AP Nodal agency for Urban Poverty Alleviation)
A platform of Urban (Women ) Self Help Groups (SHGs) for Empowerment.
The Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) is a Government of AP Society forming part of Department of Municipal Administration & Urban Development. It was launched on 1st September, 2007 by the then UPA Chairperson. XXXXXXXX, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is the Chairman of Governing body whereas XXXXXXXX, Hon’ble Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development Department is the Vice Chairman. The Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration, is the chairman of MEPMA’s Executive Committee. Mission Director, MEPMA, and her team implement the urban poverty alleviation schemes. The district units are headed by Projects Directors.
Empowerment of urban poor women, especially those residing in slums, is the main objective of MEPMA.
a) Forming the urban women into Self Help Groups (SHGs) and encouraging internal savings and internal lending :
Under the aegis of MEPMA 10-12 urban women form into Self Help Groups (SHGs). Around 20 SHGs constitute one Slum Level Federation (SLF) . A Town Level Federation (TLF) comprises of 25-35 SLFs. MEPMA encourages internal savings and internal lending among the members.
- 23.94 lakh women forming into 2.33 lakhs Self Help Groups
- Savings / Corpus of 2.33 lakh Self Help Groups (SHGs) - Rs. 1165.13 Cr
- Savings / Corpus of 8344 Slum Level Federations (SLFs) - Rs. 137.06 Cr
- Savings / Corpus of 188 Town Level Federations (TLFs) - Rs.4.43 Crs
b) Disability Intervention :
· As part of Mainstreaming of person’s walk disability is poverty en dictation programmes , total No.of PWD SHGs are 4,952 with 0.86 Lakes PWD Members.
· Total No.of Town Vikalanga Samakhyas (TVS) are formed - 82
· 111 PWD voluntaries are indentified & trained for social mobilization of PWD support through TLF
· The cooperation of Bhagavan Mahaveer Vilalangula Seva Samakhya MEPMA has facilitated conducting of 11 camps for differently abled persons in 10 district collectors approval.
c) Capacity Building of Community Based Organizations :
For this purpose periodical trainings are organized through - Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Centre for Good Governance (CGG), Dr.Marri Chennareddy of Institute for Human Resource Development (MCR HRD), Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies (RCUES) etc. The CRP strategy is being followed in capacity building of SHGs.
1. Member's training has been taken up in 2,04,000 SHGs
2. Book-keeping training has been imparted to 2,04,000 SHGs.
d) Creating access to credit by providing Bank Linkage :
So far more than Rs.25155.62 Crores of bank loans have been provided to 2.11 lakhs SHGs includes repeated dosages . The idea is to provide soft loans to meet day-to-day needs like education, health and other social needs and take up income generation activities to improve their economic condition. The main motto is to protect the urban women from the clutches of money lenders, micro finance institutions etc., who charge exorbitant rates of interest.
The Govt of A.P’s interventions earlier through Pavala Vaddi (Interest at 3% per annum) Scheme have led to reimbursement of interest portion to the extent of Rs.333.85 Crores.VLR scheme it is implemented from 1-1-2012, under the scheme the taotal intrest will be reimbursed to the eligible SHGs. As on date eligible VLR amount is Rs. 121.62 Cr to be disbursed SHGs and Rs.11.50 Cr has been credited to SHG accounts.
e) Loans with Subsidies for self employment units :
Undesr Urban Self Employment Programme (USEP) MEPMA would arrange subsidy of 25% of the total loan for setting up Micro Business Enterprise.
·So far 37,935 units have been established under USEP
Under UWSP, towards setting up of group enterprises, MEPMA provides subsidy to the extent of 35% of the total loan amount.
·So far 278 units have been established under UWSP.
f) STHREE NIDHI (State Level Women Credit Cooperative Society)
Sthree Nidhi is a Govt.of A.P. Credit Institution formed as a society. It is a credit cooperative society of the SHG Women, by the SHG women and for the SHG women . Out of the total of 10 Directors on the Board of Sthree Nidhi , three Directors are from the Urban SHGs. It aims at providing “Credit Gap Funding” arising out of “Ban on Micro Finance Institutions” . Each Slum Federation is being provided with a mobile phone and CUG Sim Card. Within 48 hours of receipt of request for loan through the mobile phone, credit is arranged at the door step of the SHG by way of direct credit to the concerned SLF account. Loans availed in Sthree Nidhi are also eligible for Vaddi Lenni Runalu(VLR),on regularly repayment of loans. As on date 1535 SLFs have availed Sthree Nidhi loans amounting to 60.63 Cr.
g) Social Security Measures :
1. ABHAYA HASTHAM (ABH) : Insurance linked old age pension schemes :
Against the contribution of Rs 365/- per member per year, they would be entitled for availing all Insurance benefits to the subscribers and scholarships to their children’s as applicable under JBY and Rs 500/- as pension per month after completion of 60 years of age.
2.55 lakh members have been enrolled under ABH, out of which 14904 members are getting pensions. 3010 No. of death claims are settled. 117031 No of children are provided with scholarships.
2. JANA SREE BIMA YOJANA (JBY) : Scholarship linked insurance scheme :
Against the contribution of Rs 100/- per member per year, the members would be entitled for Rs 30000/- / Rs 75000/- on natural death / accidental death and scholarships of Rs 1200/- per child up to two children studying 9thto 12th standard in their family.
6.40 lakhs members are enrolled under Janasree Bima Yojana (JBY) during 2013-14
h) Placement linked skill trainings : 2.20 lakhs of unemployed youth are provided placement linked skill trainings and 1.80 lakhs of them are given placements in various sectors. Under the novel scheme of RAJIV YUVA KIRANALU, MEPMA aim set providing skill training and placement to 4 lakhs unemployed youth by March, 2015.
i) Market linkage to the SHG entrepreneurs and their products:
MEPMA facilitated marketing to SHG products by providing access to marketing the products in NUMAISH and regional level exhibitions conducted in major cities like Warangal, Vijayawada & Tirupati etc.,
j) Better Health & Nutrition awareness :
1.4826 Health CRPs are trained for orienting SHG Members on Community Health & Nutritition.
2.3864 SLFs have mobilized health savings to a tune of Rs 3.50 Crs
To reduce the vulnerability of slum residents to diseases and ill health , so far more than 230 integrated Health Camps have been organized by MEPMA in the slum localities.
k) So far 1.05 lakhs street vendors have been profiled by MEPMA to organize them into groups in the lines of SHGs.
l) Community Resources Centers (CRCs) & Mahila Swasakthi Bhavans (MSBs):
To provide the SHG women with a platform for interaction and to take up developmental activities under their groups and associations 361 CRCs have been sanctioned and construction has been completed for 298 CRC. A total of 132 Mahila Swasakthi Bhavans have been sanctioned are under construction.
The main motto of MEPMA is that socio economic development of urban poor should be done a through a participative model.
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This week I interview Mary Burns, author of PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST, a wonderful historical novel about the painter John Singer Sargent. I consider it one of the best historical novels I've ever read. Ms. Burns embedded photos of some of Sanger's work along with some of her own work in her answers to my questions. Unfortunately, I was unable to make them transfer to this blog. Chalk that up to my technical ineptness.
You can read more about Mary at http://www.maryfburns.com
1. You have a background as a lawyer, but you have obviously developed an interest in art along the way. Are you a painter?
I studied art in high school and college, and really loved painting watercolors as well as doing pen and ink drawings, but I haven’t done anything in years. And, other than literature classes, Art History was my favorite subject in college. Lately, though, I’ve been making stained glass windows—I just finished the final window in a “Four Seasons” series that I started about six years ago.
2. What was your inspiration for writing PORTRAITS OF AN ARTIST? (I saw your answer on Amazon but want to include it here.)
I saw a huge exhibit of Sargent paintings in Washington, D.C. in 1999. I was not familiar with his work. The painting that intrigued me the most was the enormous (7 x 7 foot) “Portraits d’Enfants”, also known as the “Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.” Seen in person, up close, the painting is haunting and mysterious, with heavily laid-on swashes of pure white paint that leap out of the utter darkness of shadows in the background. The oldest daughter, Florence—I was to learn all their names in time—is more in shadow than light, her face not even visible. I remember thinking, what kind of portrait is that? In fact, it wasn’t even clear that the two girls standing in the back (next to Florence is Jane) are “daughters”—they’re dressed more like servants, with the younger two girls—Mary Louisa standing with her arms “at ease” and baby Julia on the floor—looking like stiff, dressed-up dolls. I kept thinking, there’s a story here, there’s some dark, uncanny, psychological tale hidden—and exposed—by all this paint. Who was this artist, and why did he paint a portrait like this?
3. I loved the format you used of writing about Sargent from the viewpoint of the subjects of his paintings. What made you think of using this technique?
My first draft of Portraits of an Artist was written in “close” third-person. It was solid writing, I thought, but frankly, a little boring. There was a sort of relentless forward motion that was rather tiresome. So I re-wrote it. I briefly tried a First Person POV with one of the major characters, Violet Paget, who was a long-time friend of Sargent’s, but then the book became all about her, which was not what I wanted. Then I wrote it with Sargent as the teller of the tale. It didn’t take very long to realize that that was very restricting, although his First Person voice brought a great deal more vivacity and immediacy to the story. It was easier to care about Sargent and what he was going through—but he had to be in every scene! I couldn’t reveal what other people thought about him, or felt about him, and that—it became clear to me—was turning out to be the essence of my book: how to understand a mostly inscrutable, intensely private person who nonetheless was a huge success in the art world of the late 19th century. Having written the whole book from Sargent’s POV, though, was a very fruitful exercise, as I now felt I was thoroughly in his head—I had mapped his motivations, his feelings, his responses, so I really, really knew him. I pondered the notion of having multiple First Person voices, and then it hit me: the portraits would be the characters! They would tell the story of Sargent, from their points of view—each with his or her own voice—reliable or unreliable—vain, sincere, spiteful, honest, blinded by love or lust—and from those “portraits” of Sargent by his own “portraits”, the reader would be able to hear and understand the impact that Sargent had on all those people—lovers, friends, teachers, clients, judges—and infer some sense of who the man himself had been.
4. You obviously did an incredible amount of research on Sargent, his subjects, and his paintings. Did you use books, interviews, the Internet? Did you travel to Paris for research?
Sadly, when I actually was in Paris back in 2000, this book was so far from my mind that I didn’t even think to visit places Sargent lived in or had frequented. But the memories were there when I finally did determine to write the book. I read TONS of biographies, of Sargent as well as his contemporaries and friends, and bought lots of beautiful art books, put together by Sargent’s great-nephew, Richard Ormon, who lives in London and is the “keeper” of the Sargent flame. The internet was, of course, invaluable, particularly one site – www.jssgallery.org – which has almost every painting Sargent ever painted, and where it is located today. I still have the stack of books I used in a corner of my office.
5. Florence is such an enigma in the story. Tell us a little of what you know about her in real life.
I actually knew very little about Florence and her sisters when I wrote my book. The story about her in the novel is completely made up, as are the excerpts from her diary. When I was finished with the final manuscript, a non-fiction book titled “Sargent’s Daughters” came out, written by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts American Arts curator, Erica Hirshler, and I bought it instantly and devoured it. Incredibly, how I had portrayed the four girls, especially Florence, was not at all at odds with their real lives. Florence was a rather odd duck, never evincing the slightest interest in marrying or attending the usual social events. She was an avid player of the relatively new sport of golf—which she introduced to the Boston area, inspiring the local rich folks to build a course at a country club in Newport. She and a cousin, Jane Boit Patten, nicknamed “Pat” to distinguish her from the innumerable Jane’s and Jeanie’s in the family, became fast friends and in later years, lived in what was called a “Boston marriage”, two spinster ladies living together.
6. Who is your favorite character in the story aside from Sargent himself?
Violet Paget, without a doubt. I loved her! I read two biographies of her, and numerous letters as well as parts of her own writing, under her pen name Vernon Lee. She seemed to me a charming mix of naivete, intellectualism, feistiness and good humor. She and Sargent were the best of friends throughout their lives.
7. Which of Sargent’s paintings is your favorite and why?
There are so many! But I have to say that, for now, I’m in love with “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” (below) – which is the painting that ‘ends’ my novel.
8. Do you own any Sargent paintings or prints?
Sadly, no. I wish!
9. I loved the novel, and I hope you’ll write another with art and an artist as the subject. Do you have any plans for this?
I’m thinking of doing something with Gustave Caillebotte, another “impressionist”, a little older than Sargent, who painted the unbelievably stunning “Rainy Street in Paris” which is at the Art Institute of Chicago (where I grew up, and visited it regularly!).
10. What are you working on now?
Actually, I’m working on being the webmaster for the Historical Novel Society Conference in June in St. Petersburg, Florida (www.hns-conference.org) which is taking up a lot of time right now! Plus author events and such for my book. But I have started a couple of different things that are very different from either of my two historicals, although I’m not prepared to say much about them at this time! Read More
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1967: UN Security Council Resolution 242
United Nations Security Council Resolutions 242, adopted in 1967 after the Six Day War, defines guidelines to arrive at the desired goal of a peaceful environment in the Middle East. It aims to establish ‘a just and lasting peace in the Middle East’ between Israel and its neighbours. Israel has accepted these resolutions, and recognises them as the basis for all peace negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. Resolution 242 is a remarkably succinct document (291 words) with key provisions and principles. It has become the central document of the Middle East diplomatic effort.
The language of Resolution 242, painstakingly drafted and carefully worded by its British sponsors, was the product of long and exhaustive debate in the United Nations. Resolution 242 applies to ‘every state in the area’ of the Middle East, and therefore does not refer to Palestinians because it applied only to existing states. It explicitly calls for the Israeli armed forces to withdraw ‘from territories occupied’ in the June 1967 war – specifically not from ‘the territories’ or ‘all the territories’.
The omission of the definitive article ‘the’ in front of ‘territories’ in the binding English version of the resolution is of the highest significance, and should not be derided as mere wordplay or legal acrobatics. Some five and a half months of debate and diplomacy over the resolution’s wording produced several draft versions – such as ‘from the territories occupied’ (the Arab states) and ‘all territories occupied’ (the Soviet Union). All such versions were defeated in the UN General Assembly and Security Council, and the British version was unanimously adopted on 22 November 1967. Thus, the debate over which version of Resolution 242 is binding – the English or French version (which uses a definitive article – ‘des territories’) – is less complex than usually thought. In the UN, the binding version of any resolution is the one that is submitted to the voting body. In the case of Resolution 242, the English version takes precedence over the French version.
In other words, the resolution calls for a withdrawal from an undefined portion of territory, and only to the extent required by ‘secure and recognised boundaries’ in order for Israel to establish defensible borders. There is no demand on Israel to withdraw from all the territories captured in 1967.
In fact, Lord Caradon, Britain’s UN representative at the time and the principal author of Resolution 242, said, ‘It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967…That’s why we didn’t demand that the Israelis return to them and I think we were right to do so.’ Furthermore, the resolution requires ‘respect for and acknowledgment of…[every State’s] right to live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries.’ Eugene Rostow, US undersecretary of state for political affairs between 1966 and 1969 and a key player in the production of Resolution 242, has written, ‘Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 rule that the Arab states and Israel must make peace, and that when “a just and lasting peace” is reached in the Middle East, Israel should withdraw from some but not all of the territory it occupied in the course of the 1967 war. The Resolutions leave it to the parties to agree on the terms of peace.’
1973: UN Security Council Resolution 338
In the later stages of the Yom Kippur War – after Israel thwarted the Syrian attack on the Golan Heights and established a bridgehead on the Egyptian side of the Suez Canal – international efforts to stop the fighting were intensified. US secretary of state Henry Kissinger flew to Moscow on 20 October and, together with the Soviet Union, the United States proposed a ceasefire resolution in the UN Security Council. The Security Council met on 21 October, and by 14 votes to none, adopted Resolution 338, which called on the warring parties to cease fighting and resume diplomatic efforts in accordance with Resolution 242. In fact, Eugene Rostow, US undersecretary of state for political affairs between 1966 and 1969 and a key player in the production of Resolution 242, has written, ‘Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 rule that the Arab states and Israel must make peace, and that when “a just and lasting peace” is reached in the Middle East, Israel should withdraw from some but not all of the territory it occupied in the course of the 1967 war. The Resolutions leave it to the parties to agree on the terms of peace.’
1974: Separation of Forces Agreement: Israel and Egypt
After the Yom Kippur War, efforts were made to reach an agreement on separation of forces between Israel and Egypt, and between Israel and Syria. Efforts to conclude an agreement on separation of forces between Israel and Egypt that were made at kilometre 101 and later in Geneva failed. US secretary of state Henry Kissinger successfully narrowed the gap between the parties, bringing about the conclusion of an agreement. Before the signing of the agreement, the Israeli government approved it and issued a statement. A day later, the agreement was signed at kilometre 101 by the chiefs of staff of the Israeli and Egyptian armies.
1975: Interim Agreement between Israel and Egypt
The Interim Agreement provided for a limited forces zone, a UN supervised buffer zone, an Israeli and an Egyptian electronic surveillance station and an additional station to be manned by 200 American civilian technicians as part of an early warning system. The American presence was specified in a separate agreement between the United States, Israel and Egypt. Egypt regained access to the Abu Rudeis oil fields. The duration of the agreement was to be at least three years, with an annual extension of the mandate of the UN Emergency Force (UNEF). The details were prepared by Israeli and Egyptian delegates who met in Geneva as a military working group.
1977: Israel’s Self-Rule Plan
In December 1977, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin announced his autonomy plan. The plan for the first time formally suggested that the solution to the problem in the West Bank and Gaza Strip involved some combination of self-rule and shared rule. The plan called for administrative autonomy of the Arab residents in the West Bank and Gaza districts, and the election of an 11-member Administrative Council (among other provisions). Palestinian leaders rejected Begin’s self-rule plan.
1978: Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords, mediated by US president Jimmy Carter, brought together Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to negotiate a framework agreement that led to the Israel-Egypt peace treaty (signed in 1979). The negotiations – which were based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 – were concluded by the signing of two frameworks.
The first agreement (the ‘Framework for Peace in the Middle East’) established a framework by which to pursue a negotiated peace between Israel and the Arab states and their neighbours. It offered a gradual approach, by means of an interim agreement. In addition, it established a format for conducting negotiations for the establishment of an autonomy regime in the West Bank and Gaza for the Palestinians. The second agreement (the ‘Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel’) stipulated a full Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt promised full diplomatic relations with Israel, and to allow Israeli passage through the Suez Canal, the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba.
1979: Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty
The Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt led to the signing of a negotiated peace treaty on 26 March 1979. The agreement was signed in Washington, DC by US president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israel prime minister Menachem Begin. It was the first peace treaty signed between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours. Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their historic agreements. The peace treaty led to a full Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula by April 1982, in exchange for full diplomatic relations and the demilitarisation of the Sinai.
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Proper 15b, (August 16, 2015)
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Rev. Todd A. Peperkorn
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for today is the Gospel just read from St. John chapter six.
I don’t think we fully appreciate the depths to which our Lord, Jesus Christ, gives us Himself. His love for you is not a passing shower, which comes once in a blue moon, a divine El Nino that we hope will land just right. His love for you isn’t an inconvenience to Him. He isn’t one who only comes to you when things get really, really bad. Nor is His love for you, His participation in your life, just a matter of showing up for the big game, while all the mundane work, the practice and drudgery of everyday life, well, with that you’re left on your own. No, when you eat His flesh and drink His blood, as Jesus Himself says, He abides or remains in you and you abide in Him.
We live in a time and an age all about choice. I choose what to eat and where to live. I choose who to marry and whether to carry my child to life outside the womb. I choose how to look, what to wear, where to go to school. I can choose whether to be black or white, male or female, who or what to love, and I can make myself into anything and anyone I want to. For many, it seems as though I can choose whether to live or die, whether to murder to keep life. Everything is a choice, every decision is mine and mine alone.
The problem, of course, is that it’s all a lie from Satan, who wants nothing more that to get you and me to believe that this so-called freedom he offers means to be free from God and from anyone and anything else. The freedom that Satan would have you believe is nothing more than velvet shackles, a bondage as strong as death itself, that has no more freedom than the narrow walls of a coffin. This freedom means you are separated from life, from the family of God, and you are joined together with death itself. Satan’s goal is to cut you away from God and from the eternal life in Him which is yours by grace alone. Don’t believe him. Repent.
So what does it mean, then, for Jesus to say that He abides in you and you in Him? What it means is this. Jesus Christ, who is the very image of God the Father from eternity, He gives Himself to you completely, utterly, without question and knowing full well the consequences of His action. This is not just a choice that He makes. Far from it. His nature, His very character as God-in-flesh is that He gives Himself wholly to you, that He remains in you and you in Him. You have always been in His mind and heart, from before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1). And that love, that enduring loyalty and faithfulness to you, that is what shows you how God our Father really looks at you, His beloved.
Now this has some very real, earthy consequences for you and me today. It means that as you sit in fear of the future, He sits with you. It means that as you fret and worry about how to pay the bills or what to tell your children, He feels that worry as His own. It means that the regret you have of sins past are His, and it means that whatever has come or whatever will come, it means that He is there, not just as an observer, but that He takes your life into Himself, and that there is nothing, nothing you will face that He will shy or run away from.
What’s more, this also means that His indestructible life is now yours. You now have life in you, real, abudant life that will reach its fullness in the resurrection of the body. You have the seed of eternity in you, and that we cannot even know how wonderful and amazing that seed will be as it sprouts and grows up into Him who is our head.
All this is yours by water and Word, preaching and Eucharist. There is no place else to go that can compare to He who is your life and your hope. When Jesus said those words to the Jews and the crowds, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven,” (John 6:51 ESV) there were many that turned away. God cannot give Himself to man like that. Bread and wine, His body and blood? Surely not. God doesn’t work that way. God must be away, apart from us, He is too far above us to come down as real meat and drink indeed.
But He does. He comes now to you, “This is my body, this is my blood,” and in that Word-made-flesh comes life, a life in Him which means a life in each other. Do not be afraid of the past or the future. It is all secure in Him. Jesus asked the disciples if they would leave now that He has said these words. Peter’s response is the confession of the Church to this day, ““Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”” (John 6:68–69 ESV)
That Holy One of God is yours now. Come, receive Him who is your life. And this life will never end, for the future is secure in Him, and is now secure in you.
Believe it for Jesus' sake. Amen.
And now the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in true faith to life everlasting. Amen.
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Dr Bala S Kumble
Human nature is a bit funny. After the COVID-19 crisis is over, we don’t know if unethical individuals will still act and continue to be what they were before or learn a “moral” lesson🤔
History has taught us that the current Coronavirus like incidences are not new. I’m sure Hindus have gone through this when human society almost vanished, and hence “Sanathana Dharma” came into Vogue.
History also tells us that with the rise of Buddhism, the Indian society became negligent, and went into decline. As Buddha spoke of “Nirvana” – nothing after death, the there was the simultaneous emergence of the Charvaka philosophy. People interpreted it as “Enjoy everything now, do what you want to do, as there is nothing after life”. I think we live like that in the current context.
Fortunately then, some spiritual leaders like Shankara (I consider him more as a Scientist & Philosopher, than a religious leader), Ramanuja and Madhawa, who re-set Hinduism to counter Christianity and then Islam’s aggressive moves. In a crisis like this, we need strong leaders, to re-set Ethical ways
The author Dr Bala S Kumble is Managing Director InnovaSierra, Melbourne, Australia.
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The report, commissioned by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), draws on survey responses from over 300 public and private schools. Most startlingly, it found that over 40 percent of schools have not investigated a single case of sexual violence over the past five years. McCaskill told the Associated Press,
On first blush, a parent would think that’s good, they don’t have a problem with sexual assault on their campus. But it’s not good, it’s very bad, because that means they are either in denial or incompetent.
That statistic could be because of the deeply inadequate amount of training for school officials. The report found that “more than 20 percent of schools in the national sample provided no sexual-assault response training for faculty and staff. More than 30 percent provided no training for students.” Law enforcement officials at 30 percent of the schools say they, too, have received no training
The report also uncovered drastic problems with the judicial process for sexual assaults:
More than 40 percent of the nation’s largest public schools allow students to help adjudicate sexual assault cases. More than 20 percent of institutions in the national sample give the athletic department oversight of sexual violence cases involving student athletes.
There are clear potentials for conflicts of interest when cases are handled this way. McCaskill was particularly concerned with the involvement of athletic departments in cases involving their own students. The Washington Post reports McCaskill saying, “‘I think it would scare just about any victim into the shadows.”
Despite figures showing that 1 in 5 college women will be sexually assaulted at some time during their four years in college, , few schools are doing much to learn about the problem on their campuses. Although a White House task force has recommended that schools conduct campus “climate surveys” to allow students to share their experiences with sexual assault they might not otherwise report, McCaskill’s study found that just 16 percent of schools conduct surveys of this kind.
Thankfully, some good is likely to come as a result of unearthing this new information, as Politico reports,
McCaskill (D-Mo.) plans to use the findings to inform legislation she’s writing with a bipartisan team that includes Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). They plan to release the bill, which would tighten campus disciplinary proceedings, in late August or early September as students head back to campus.
While it’s great to gather as much information as we can about this nationwide problem through surveys, the real work of legislating to drastically curtail the frequency of sexual assault is on its way.
Photo of Sen. Claire McCaskill courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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British Steam merchant
|Completed||1922 - John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Aberdeen|
|Owner||Ellerman´s Wilson Line Ltd, Hull|
|Date of attack||15 Sep 1939||Nationality: British|
|Fate||Sunk by U-36 (Wilhelm Fröhlich)|
|Position||58° 20'N, 2° 00'E - Grid AN 4533|
|Complement||20 (0 dead and 20 survivors).|
|Route||Hull - Tyne - Trondheim|
|Cargo||500 tons of coal and coke, 150 tons of general cargo and 150 tons of nickel and copper|
|History||Completed in March 1922 |
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At 19.05 hours on 15 Sep 1939 the unescorted Truro (Master John Charles Egner) was stopped and searched by U-36 about 150 miles east of Kinnaird Head. The ship carried contraband, so the crew was ordered into the lifeboats and the ship sunk with a torpedo after a first torpedo was a dud and the Germans were not able to hit the ship with their guns due to high seas. The survivors were picked up by the Belgian trawlers Nautilus and Edwaard Van Flaaneren, transferred to one of the trawlers and landed at Aberdeen on 17 September.
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Policy responses around the world are massive in scale and constantly changing. Covid-19 Policy Watch captures it in simple, easy-to-compare form.
Yesterday New Zealand recorded zero new cases of Covid-19 for the second consecutive day. As almost everyone agrees, that is a tremendous achievement – albeit one that has meant great sacrifice and setback for many people.
The New Zealand government, as with governments everywhere, took the decisions it did after looking to the world. Politicians and health experts and phalanxes of amateurs looked at what had happened and was happening around the globe and designed the response drawing on all that evidence, much of it perplexing and apparently contradictory.
The Covid-19 crisis is the most dramatic and sudden example of what has been called “synchronous failure” in a generation at least. The pace at which we can collect and absorb what is happening across the planet is unprecedented – and government measures, unimaginable just months ago, cascade. Lockdowns, border closures, quarantines, social distancing: almost overnight these otherworldly concepts have become staples of discussion both in policymaking and at the virtual watercooler.
To capture some of this extraordinary moment in policymaking – both in terms of the health measures and the economic rescue packages – the Policy team, who many will be familiar with for their comparison tool at the last general and local elections, have combined with journalists and researchers from around the world to create Covid-19 Policy Watch. This time Policy reinvents the system from those elections to track government responses to the virus the world.
It lays out a chronology of government actions dating back to February. “We hope this can function as a kind of first draft of the history, when analysed in light of the varying pace of the virus’s spread in different countries,” says Policy’s Asher Emanuel.
Covid-19 Policy Watch encompasses 26 countries, which together account for three-quarters of all reported cases. You can look at each country’s actions individually, or compare the decisions side by side across five categories: economy; households; healthcare; movement of people; and government.
It’s a brilliant way, too, to review a timeline of the measures undertaken, whether in New Zealand or elsewhere.
What did these countries do about schools, and when? What lockdowns, if any, were instituted? How strict were they and how and when might they end? What was done to cushion the economic hammer blow?
Explore Covid-19 Policy Watch here.
The countries in full:
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- South Korea
- United Kingdom
- United States
The Spinoff is proud to be the New Zealand partner for Covid-19 Policy Watch
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In 1917, RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed that an endownment be set up “for the purpose of doing good in the world.” In 1928, when the endownment fund had grown to more than US $5,000,
it was renamed The Rotary Foundation and it became a district entity within Rotary International.
Five Trustees, including Klumph, were appointed to “hold, invest, manage and administer all of its property…..as a single trust, for the furtherance of the purposes of RI.
Two years later, the Foundation made its first grant of $500 to the International Society for crippled Children. The organisation,
created by Rotarian Edgar F. “Daddy” Allen, later grew into the Easter Seals.
After Rotary;s founder, Paul P. Harris, dien in 1947, contributions began pouring into Rotary International and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund was created to build the Foundation.
That year, the first Foundation program – the forerunner of Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships – was established. In 1965-66, three new programs were launched:
Group Study Exchang, Awards for Technical Training and Grants for Acticities in Keeping with the Objective of The Rotary Foundation, which was later called Matching Grants.
The Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) Grants program was launched in1978 and Rotary Volunteers was created as a part of that program in 1980. PolioPlus was announced in 1984-85 and
the next year brought Rotary Grants for University Teachers. The first peace forums were eld in 1987-88, leading to the Foundation’s peace and conflict studies programs.
Throughout this time, support of the Foundation grew tremendously. Since the first donation of $ 26.50 in1917, it has received contributions totaling more than $1 billion.
To date, more than one million individuals have been recognised as Paul Harris Fellows – people who hav given $ 1,000 to the Annual Programs Fund or have had that amount contributed in their name.
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Leading board certified pediatrician Dr. Nudrat Nauman of Advanced Pediatrics, located in Las Vegas, Nevada, has extensive experience in diagnosing and treating abdominal pain and discomfort in children. There are multiple causes for abdominal problems in children including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroenteritis, acid reflux , constipation, food allergies and sensitivities and many more.
IBS is a disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that affects the large intestine and is characterized by a group of symptoms that include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, and/or constipation. However, it's a diagnosis of exclusion, which means that Dr. Nauman will look for all other causes of abdominal pain that need to be looked at and ruled out.
The causes of IBS are not well understood. However, certain triggers are believed to cause or worsen flare-ups. These include:
IBS and many other abdominal problems are treated with lifestyle and dietary changes, and sometimes medication. Avoiding trigger foods, drinking plenty of liquids, taking fiber supplements, exercising, and using stress management techniques are usually first-line treatment recommendations.
Gastroenteritis is one of the common causes of abdominal pain in children. The cause is usually a virus spread through contaminated food or water or contact with someone who is infected. Frequent hand washing is the best prevention. Symptoms of gastroenteritis commonly include:
Fever and chills
The most worrisome complication of gastroenteritis is dehydration, especially among babies and children. Fluids lost through diarrhea and vomiting need to be replaced.
Colic is characterized by abdominal pain and excessive crying in infants, usually under the age of 4 months. While the exact cause isn’t known, there are a number of theories. One is that colic is due to an imbalance of healthy bacteria in the intestines of infants. The good news is that while 10-20% percent of infants suffer from colic, it usually resolves spontaneously by the age of 4 months and doesn’t cause any lasting damage.
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Do’s and Don’ts for Taxpayers Who Get a Letter or Notice from The Irs
April 30, 2021
The IRS mails letters or notices to taxpayers for a variety of reasons including if:
They have a balance due.
They are due a larger or smaller refund.
The agency has a question about their tax return.
They need to verify identity.
The agency needs additional information.
The agency changed their tax return.
Here are some do's and don'ts for taxpayers who receive one:
Don't ignore it. Most IRS letters and notices are about federal tax returns or tax accounts. The notice or letter will explain the reason for the contact and gives instructions on what to do.
Don't panic. The IRS and its authorized private collection agencies generally contact taxpayers by mail. Most of the time, all the taxpayer needs to do is read the letter carefully and take the appropriate action.
Do read the notice. If the IRS changed the tax return, the taxpayer should compare the information provided in the notice or letter with the information in their original return. In general, there is no need to contact the IRS if the taxpayer agrees with the notice.
Do respond timely. If the notice or letter requires a response by a specific date, taxpayers should reply in a timely manner to:
minimize additional interest and penalty charges.
preserve their appeal rights if they don't agree.
Do pay amount due. Taxpayers should pay as much as they can, even if they can't pay the full amount. People can pay online or apply for an Online Payment Agreement or Offer in Compromise. The agency offers several payment options.
Do keep a copy of the notice or letter. It's important to keep a copy of all notices or letters with other tax records. Taxpayers may need these documents later.
Do remember there is usually no need to call the IRS. If a taxpayer must contact the IRS by phone, they should use the number in the upper right-hand corner of the notice. The taxpayer should have a copy of their tax return and letter when calling. Typically, taxpayers only need to contact the agency if they don't agree with the information, if the IRS request additional information, or if the taxpayer has a balance due. Taxpayers can also write to the agency at the address on the notice or letter. If taxpayers write, they should allow at least 30 days for a response.
Do avoid scams. The IRS will never contact a taxpayer using social media or text message. The first contact from the IRS usually comes in the mail. Taxpayers who are unsure if they owe money to the IRS can view their tax account information on IRS.gov.
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S. China Sea Dispute Blamed Partly on Depleted Fish Stocks
May 16, 2012
by Daniel Schearf
BANGKOK - China and the Philippines have announced temporary bans on fishing in areas of the South China Sea they both claim as sovereign territory. The bans may help cool tempers after ships from the two sides faced off in April. But, political analysts say a more permanent solution is needed to address a cycle of conflict partly caused by depleting fish stocks.
China every year imposes a ban on fishing for several weeks in a northern part of the South China Sea.
Beijing says the restriction, used for more than a decade, allows fish stocks to replenish.
While the Philippines and Vietnam complain it is just another way for China to assert its claims on maritime territories that they also dispute.
Ian Storey is with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He says while Beijing's annual ban on fishing may seem like a good idea for fish stocks he agrees it may have an ulterior motive.
"Well, I think the primary reason for this fishing ban is for China to be able to demonstrate its claimed sovereign rights in the South China Sea," said Storey.
Storey says if the dispute was taken to the international court of justice Beijing could cite the ban as an example of exercising effective and continuing jurisdiction in support of its territorial claim.
Kim Bergmann is editor of the Asia-Pacific Defense Reporter and Defense Review Asia. He says the unilateral ban had put China and the Philippines on a path of confrontation.
"But, now that Manila has also come up with its own ban I think that that's a way of making sure, or at least, assisting a process of negotiation, and it's likely, in my opinion, to reduce tensions at least in the short term rather than heighten them," Bergmann noted.
Filipino and Chinese ships faced off last month over Chinese fishing in the disputed Scarborough Shoal, known as Huangyan Island in China.
The tensions led to protests from both sides to respect their sovereign territory.
China claims most of the South China Sea, putting it in conflict with competing claims by Brunei, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
One of the central drivers of the South China Sea dispute is competition over mineral and fishing-rich areas.
Bergmann says geologists believe the South China Sea contains enormous reserves of oil and natural gas, much of it in disputed areas.
"Cumulatively, the South China Sea probably has about 80 percent of the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia," Bergmann added. "So, we're talking many billions of barrels of oil and many trillions of cubic feet of natural gas."
The ongoing tensions have prevented comprehensive surveys of oil and gas deposits.
But when it comes to fishing the South China Sea is known to be rich. The region provides about ten percent of the world's catch, but growing demand means fish stocks are more quickly depleted.
Storey says competition for fish has led to conflict at sea.
"Certainly, fishing vessels are operating further out and for longer periods because fish stocks are being depleted," Storey explained. "What needs to happen is there needs to be an agreement among various countries in Southeast Asia and China to try and preserve these fish stocks. But, because of the territorial dispute that hasn't happened."
China's halt to fishing will go through August 1 while the Philippines did not indicate a time period for its ban.
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Hide. Run. Bury. Welcome to the 21st century’s default approach to failure. Sure, we enshrine motivational mottos like “Fail fast, fail often,” but moving those sentiments into our hearts is anything but easy.
Pride dogs us. Ego protests. And the pain of disappointment — not to mention the pain of embarrassment — can be overwhelming. While a few brave souls confide their losses to trusted friends, the one thing we never do is share our failures to be recorded and watched in perpetuity.
Maybe we should.
Long-term success comes from embracing our failures, not denying them. And the bigger the stage, the better the embrace. As proof, here are 11 TEDx Talks — “x” meaning independently organized, so there’s a good chance you haven’t seen them yet — to help you transform your failures.
1. Why you should let your fears guide you
From homeless and suicidal to an internationally recognized branding expert, Leonard Kim’s 2017 presentation at UC Irvine doesn’t shy away from the dark side of failure. The twist, however, isn’t so much about being led into the light. Instead, it’s about the positive role fear can in those moments of darkness as well as life itself.
“It was then I decided to end it all. I wrote a letter and said goodbye, but was too scared to send it to my grandmother, and too scared to send it to my mom; so I sent it to my former girlfriend, and surprisingly, that letter was the thing that changed my life.”
2. Risk you!
Far from a listless 20-something, Isvari Mohan has more accomplishments than people twice her age. She’s a graduate of Georgetown Law, former columnist at the Boston Globe, and published novelist. And yet, in opposition to hard-and-fast plans about who you want to be, Isvari’s “Risk You!” is a love letter to embrace experimentation, changing passions, and the unknown.
“Risk is hope we’re acting on now. It’s not the payoff that makes us happy. It’s not what we’re going to get at the end. It’s the risk. It’s the hope that maybe there’ll be a payoff and the adrenaline that maybe we’re gonna fail.”
3. Upwardly mobile
Diagnosed with a rare form of dwarfism at two years old, Brandon Farbstein’s 3’ 8” stature is only a small part of his story. As a teenager, Brandon’s doctor recommended he begin using a wheelchair or scooter. “I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life,” recalls Brandon, “having to constantly look up at people. Well, more than I have to already.” So instead, he turned to social media where he found not only the funds to design his own mobility device, but a calling that would shape his personal and professional future.
“Don’t let other people, even a doctor, dictate the experience you’re going to have. Take the advice you need, then have the courage to innovate your own solution.”
4. Why I read a book a day (and why you should too)
“It’s good to learn from your mistakes,” said Warren Buffett, “it’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” Tai Lopez embodies both of those principles. Mixing his own failures with hard-won lessons from others, Tai majors on shortcutting life’s the learning curve by investing in mentors, whether in person or on a page.
“I wrote a letter to the smartest person I could think of, my grandfather, and I was like, ‘Will you tell me how to design my life?’ Three days later, I got this letter back, ‘Sorry, Tai, I can’t help you. The modern world is too complicated. You will never find all the answers from just one person. If you’re lucky a handful of people along the way will point the way.’ So much for my shortcut, but seven days later a package came. It was books.”
5. Are you biased? I am.
As the Global Head of Human Resources for Roche Diagnostics in Switzerland, Kristen Pressner is the last person you’d expect to harbor prejudice. It turns out, that unlikeness is what makes Kristen’s admission — an “unconscious bias” that women make better supporters than providers — so raw and impactful. Moreover, her honesty offers a way forward for others struggling with the same hurdles.
“I have a bias against women leaders. I have a bias against myself.”
6. The golden age of social entrepreneurship
Don’t let this talk’s title or introduction fool you. While Manu Goswami — an immigrant from Singapore and one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20 — digs deep into the future of social entrepreneurship, the heart of his message centers on the struggles of being singled out as “different.” Citing a lifelong speech impediment, Manu’s story highlights the power of rejection, empathy, and getting back up.
“In no way do I consider myself an anomaly or an exception to the rule. I am the rule.”
7. Why smart is messed up
Most people wouldn’t turn to a high schooler for child care recommendations. But, then again, Noa Mintz isn’t your typical high schooler. The teenage founder of Nannies By Noa — now one of New York’s largest child care placement agencies — traces her atypical roots back to a pivotal conversation that redefined the meaning of “smart.” Rather than look to traditional sources like grades and popularity, Noa found it in the very place most of us would never think to look.
“The principle of my middle school saw the potential I had before I even saw it. One day he said to me, ‘Fail forward.’ I was so desperate for advice I took it, and it stuck with me.”
8. Borderline millennial disorder
Next to suicide or physical maladies, struggling with social media can sound trite. But Ryan Foland, an international speaker and communication strategist, found that his difficulty connecting online represented something larger. Ryan’s passion for sharing his insights was hindered by minimal experience with the technology most Millennials navigate natively. His solution deftly mixes humor with practical steps for overcoming that disconnect.
“Some days I feel like a Gen X and some days like a Millennial, so I did some soul searching and searching online, and it turns out I have borderline millennial disorder.”
9. Reprogramming your brain to overcome fear
Is it possible to change your brain’s fundamental response to fear? CEO of OL Consulting, rocket scientist, and “modern-day ‘Hidden Figure,’” Olympia LePoint, says yes. How? It starts with naming your fears, training your brain to “flip” them — i.e., to replace negative self-talk with positive — and then rebuilding your brain’s neurological pathways by taking action in direct opposition.
“The truth is this: if we do not have a way to reprogram our minds to overcome fear, we will never be successful at our own missions in life.”
10. Stoic optimism
From a revolt under Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to a fire that destroyed most of Thomas Edison’s factory, history’s most significant achievers have all faced equally significant obstacles. And that’s profoundly good news. Why? Because as Ryan Holiday points outs in case after case after case, life isn’t defined by what happens to us, but by how we respond.
“What blocked your path is now the path. What once impeded action, advances action. The obstacle is the way.”
11. 100 days without fear
What do spiders, stand-up comedy, and quitting your job all have in common? They’re just three of the 100 fears Michelle Poler decided to face in her journey to understand fear itself. In addition to unearthing seven core fears behind the rest, Michelle’s final takeaway is perhaps the most powerful we’ve seen so far … and the perfect note to end on.
“After facing 100 fears, not even one time was the actual challenge worse than what I had in my head before. So WTF are we so afraid of?”
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As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m a novice apple guy who bought a house in 2015 that already had two mature but long unkempt apple trees in the yard. The apples that year were small, diseased, misshapen, and bug-riddled. I ate four bites. Heeding the wisdom on this forum and elsewhere, this past year, I pruned in late winter, thinned and bagged fruit in spring, and sprayed 5-6 times with a mix of Spinosad and Captan. When the fruit ripened, I determined with 90-something percent accuracy that the trees are a Golden Delicious and a Jonathan.
We collected hundreds upon hundreds of apples this fall, picking from around Labor Day to early October. I focused on the Golden Delicious apples because that tree is 3-4 times the size of the other, because it had so many apples, and because the apples were unlike any I had ever tasted in my life (first time to eat a tree-ripened apple). I picked many of the Jonathan apples a little too late–overripe and rather mealy. We gave away several hundred apples to at least 11 families by my count. We also bought a new fridge, relegating the older one to the basement for apple storage.
Now to the topic at hand.
Lessons I learned:
(1) Apples picked overripe don’t unripen in storage. See middle apple in front row.
(2) Apples stuck in the crisper don’t last nearly as longed as apples stored in plastic bags. See front row of apples.
(3) Apples dropped unceremoniously in the plastic grocery bags that are open last longer than those in the crisper but don’t last nearly as long as those in a closed bag. See far left apple on back row.
(4) Apples that stayed in their sandwich bags in which they grew and then placed in another plastic grocery bag that is closed up pretty well last a long, long time. See right three apples on back row.
(5) Shriveled skin does not equal poor tasting fruit. See left and right apples in front row.
(6) Remember rules (1), (3), and (4) above 7-8 months from now.
I took the pic below today, so these apples have been in the fridge since sometime between early September and early-to-mid October, so 4-5 months.
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This article describes how fortuitous mathematical moments should be noticed, encouraged, embraced, and capitalized upon.
Deanna Pecaski McLennan
Chris Harrow and Justin Gregory Johns
Problems to Ponder provides 28 varying, classroom-ready mathematics problems that collectively span PK–12, arranged in the order of the grade level. Answers to the problems are available online. Individuals are encouraged to submit a problem or a collection of problems directly to firstname.lastname@example.org. If published, the authors of problems will be acknowledged.
Surani Joshua, James Drimalla, Dru Horne, Heather Lavender, Alexandra Yon, Cameron Byerley, Hyunkyoung Yoon, and Kevin Moore
The Relative Risk Tool web app allows students to compare risks relating to COVID-19 with other more familiar risks, to make multiplicative comparisons, and to interpret them.
Process-oriented, question-asking techniques provide a framework for approaching modern challenges, including modality pivots and student agency.
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Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) often enter their teacher preparation programs with procedural and underdeveloped understandings of area measurement and its applications. This is problematic given that area and the area model are used throughout K–Grade 12 to develop flexibility in students’ mathematical understanding and to provide them with a visual interpretation of numerical ideas. This study describes an intervention aimed at bolstering PSTs’ understanding of area and area units with respect to measurement and number and operations. Following the intervention, results indicate that PSTs had both an improved ability to solve area tiling tasks as well as increased flexibility in the strategies they implemented. The results indicate that PSTs, similar to elementary students, develop a conceptual understanding of area from the use of tangible tools and are able to leverage visualizations to make sense of multiplicative structure across different strategies.
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THE Revd James Harley (1873-1943) was born in Antigua, 30 years after emancipation, to a white father and a black mother. Anglicanism had arrived with the English settlers, and the Harley family worshipped at the church of respectability, All Saints’ Pentecostal Episcopal Church.
As a young man, Harley wrote: “It was my dream to become a minister in the Pentecostal Church,” despite the fact that the churches at the time had designated pews, the front of the church being reserved for the plantation and colonial officers’ families. Even if no family members were present, no other worshipping parishioners were allowed to sit in the empty pews; it was an accepted part of attending church.
The young Harley studied at one of the best schools on the island, the Mico School, then at Spring Gardens Teachers’ Training College, and then worked in primary schools. But, by the end of the 19th century, sugar production in the Caribbean had deteriorated drastically, together with any tangible opportunities for black people to achieve real power and influence.
As a mixed-race man in a society predicated on the hierarchy of race, Harley may have found that his lighter skin afforded him certain perceived privileges; but, in reality, these were limited. Any real opportunities for advancement lay outside the island, especially if he wanted to pursue a professional career as a minister.
So, in 1899, he made the 400-mile journey across the Atlantic, arriving in a United States that still had notions that black people were intellectually inferior and could not function efficiently without the disciplined work of the plantation. Despite the Civil War, there remained a fear of black people, especially black men, who were portrayed as raving savages, uncontrollable without the slave-master’s whip. Lynching was an ever-prevalent threat. It was an era steeped in horrific racial prejudice. Three years earlier, the historic case of Plessy v. Ferguson had implemented the overt racial separatist laws in the South.
HARLEY also had to navigate the complex racial tensions within Black America. There was a belief among African Americans that West Indian Blacks considered them to be inferior. The colonial education system in the Caribbean instilled an attitude of English superiority and dominance throughout the Empire, so that class was as important to Black West Indian identity as colour-consciousness.
The Black West Indian, therefore, became the Black Englishman abroad, which clashed with American culture and led to significant tension. Harley would have been viewed with even greater suspicion because of his mixed-race heritage.
His goal in reaching New York had been to attend the oldest seminary of the Episcopal Church and a leading centre for Anglican theological education, the General Theology Seminary. But, whether deliberately or by accident, he was sent to King Hall, the theology school for training black students for holy orders at Howard University, in Washington, DC.
Harley found himself in an American state where he did not plan to be, in a college that he knew nothing about. But, making the best of it, he took the preparatory certificate, and went on to read law, earning his degree in two years instead of the stipulated three. After graduating, Harley rejected several offers to practise law, opting instead to take another degree, in Semitic languages, at Harvard University, and to study for a year at Cambridge Episcopal Theological School. A gifted scholar, he was awarded prizes for essay-writing and debating.
To support himself, he worked as a Sunday-school teacher, lay preacher, and choir master at St Luke’s, the city’s first independent black Episcopal congregation, and one of the most influential churches among the Washington black elite. It was at St Luke’s that Harley met his future wife, Josephine Maritcha Lawson. The Lawsons were part of a concentration of old families, bound together by background, good breeding, occupation, respectability, and colour, making them an exclusive group known as the “Black 400”.
IN 1907, Harley came to England to take a theology degree at Jesus College, Oxford. He then moved to Manchester College, but left after a year, writing: “I was falling out with friends over the college’s Unitarian teaching.” He also made history as the first black student to take the Anthropology Diploma at the Pitt Rivers Museum. He was joined by Josephine; the couple were married at Oxford Register Office on 1 July 1910.
Equipped with 11 years of education, Harley theoretically had the world at his feet, with the choice of any number of professions. Yet he regarded all the knowledge that he had acquired as preparation for his childhood ambition to become a minister in the Pentecostal Church.
He applied for a curacy in Shepshed, Leicestershire, and was sent by the Bishop of Peterborough to Jesus College, Cambridge, to be examined for the diaconate.
During the examination, he had to give an account of himself; he was well aware, as a colonial British West Indian, with time spent in the US at the seminary in Cambridge, Mass., and his year “excursion” to Manchester College, that the panel wanted reassurance that his form of Anglicanism was aligned with the Church of England way rather than with Protestant Episcopalian teaching.
He wrote: “The chaplain, who is the dean of college, was quite satisfied with my papers. My invitation to have lunch with the Lord Bishop and Lady Mary Glenn, at Peterborough Palace, I took as a sign of acceptance for Holy Orders.”
He was ordained on 19 September 1909.
ST BOTOLPH’s, Shepshed, where Harley served as curate, was constantly packed when he preached, even once the novelty value of a black minister had waned, much to the disdain of some of the old guard. His methods soon brought him into conflict with the 78-year-old Vicar, the Revd William Hepworth — a man from a different generation, who had been at the church for 30 years.
Harley had gained many supporters within the congregation, however. There is even a record of a petition signed by parishioners who sought to “protest most strongly against the unjust censure passed upon the Rev. J. A. Harley, in our presence, on the evening of St Andrew’s Day, for courageously doing what he felt to be his duty”.
When Harley eventually felt compelled to resign, six months later, the parishioners presented him with a framed testimonial and a purse of £30 in gold. The Leicester Chronicle also reported on the events: “During the past few weeks, [Harley] had pursued a vigorous policy, and has made various efforts to resuscitate church work in all its branches, and large congregations have been attracted to the church to listen to his straight talks and outspoken sermons.
“His two visits to the Sunday Morning Men’s Adult School, and the helpful address he gave were a true sign of his broadmindedness, and the regret at his departure is very genuine.”
ANSWERING an advertisement in the Church Times secured Harley his second curacy, in Chislet, a scattered parish consisting of five small rural hamlets, eight miles from Canterbury. This community, in deepest rural England, made up of poor white agricultural workers, was in stark contrast to the bustling city environment that the couple were used to.
The Vicar, the Revd Reginald Kent, wrote to the Bishop of Peterborough with the following assessment of his new curate: “James Harley is by birth a West Indian graduate of Washington (America) [. . .] a man of good education, but he is also a West Indian in character — very excitable, and rather difficult to order.”
Once again, however, Harley proved to be extremely popular, and Kent was forced to revise his opinion. He wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury, asserting that ‘‘Harley is, without doubt, a far-and-away above average curate in abilities and powers. He is proven in teaching. The people all like him, and want him to stay.”
Indeed, in one of his own letters to his alumni at Yale University, Harley writes: “At Chislet, I painted the church with my own hands, and collected enough to have it thoroughly furnished and restored. The church is crowded when I preach, thanks to (1) dear Old Eli and Mr Fox, and (2) to Fair Harvard.”
But, in the end, it seems that jealousy got the better of Kent, and a feud arose, centred on a disagreement about Harley’s stipend. The Archbishop was persuaded to support Kent in a letter to Harley: “It is clear to me that Mr Kent is increasingly convinced that this is not the right parish, perhaps not the right (sort of) parish for you. You are older than a man in Deacon’s Orders. You clearly have a difficulty in working happily and loyally in a subordinate position. And in the conditions of a rural parish like Chislet.
“If you work on quietly and usefully until the time comes for going, I will be able to testify to that point in your favour. If, on the other hand, difficulties are allowed to arise, or if you seem to be forming a faction in the parish, or if, in short, your departure becomes the occasion of unrest, in which you appear to be in any way responsible, I should be in honour bound to state those facts to any Bishop.”
HARLEY was forced to move on yet again, but not before his parishioners had presented him with a silver tea-service and a testimonial.
He next took a post in the parish of St Leonard, Deal, 20 miles from Chislet, which had a more cosmopolitan feel, because Deal was one of the first ports of call for ships sailing from East India and the West Indies on their way to London. After all the trials, tribulations, and scrutiny, Harley was finally ordained priest on 11 June 1911, in Canterbury Cathedral.
It is unclear exactly when Harley left the parish: the Deal Mercury reported on a service he gave after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and his name appears as a visiting preacher on All Deal parish magazines dated September 1915 and 1916. But we know that, at some time during this period, Harley responded to a call to undertake secular war work.
Too old to enlist, he trained as a toolmaker at the University of London, and then returned to Shepshed to work in a munitions factory. He was also active in the recruitment effort, giving rousing talks to young men in a Shepshed cinema.
ALL this activity led to Harley’s reinvention as a local politician: he was elected as a Labour member of Shepshed Urban Council in 1927. Outspoken and provocative, he produced a weekly newspaper, The Charnwood Bulletin, which scrutinised the actions of the local council. He was defeated at the polls in 1930, but, two years later, he regained his seat as an independent member, which he held until his death in 1943.
His contribution to the people of Shepshed was recognised with the naming of a street, Harley Close, in his honour.
Harley’s church career could easily be dismissed as troublesome: some might argue that his own attitude and behaviour contributed to the way he was perceived and treated by presiding vicars and the church hierarchy.
His identity as the “West Indian Englishman”, which seemed to go hand in hand with a refusal to capitulate or be subservient, combined with his strong sense of self-purpose and social justice, and his ability to connect successfully with his parishioners, was misinterpreted as arrogance, disobedience, and disloyalty.
What is clear is that the factors of race and jealousy played an integral part in the way he was treated by the Church. Amid the complexities of religion, politics, and race in the early 20th century, Harley’s was a life of determination, personal conviction, and survival which can only be regarded as a triumph.
Pamela Roberts is a creative producer, historian, and the author of Black Oxford: The untold stories of Oxford University’s black scholars. She is writing a historical biography about James Harley.
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Learning how to say thank you in Swedish is very important as Swedes are known for their politeness. Knowing how to say thank you and to reply properly can absolutely leave a good impression on your Swedish friends or just any random Swede you meet. As Swedish is often ranked as one of the easiest languages to learn for English speakers, let’s take a look at how to say thank you in Swedish and how you can reply like a true Swede!
It’s All About “Tack”
Tack – Thank you
Tack is the most common one to say thank you in Swedish. As my Swedish tutor once told me, Swedish people say this anytime and anywhere. It is pronounced like “tuck” in English. This is the simplest way to say thank you in Swedish. It can be used on all occasions and situations.
-Jag köpte vin från systembolaget. (I bought some wine from the store.)
-Tack! (Thank you!)
Tack, tack – Thanks for your thanks!
This may sound a bit odd, why repeat a thank you? But Swedes will always say another “tack” after your “tack.” I have asked a Swede once why they do this, and the answer I got is that you can never get tired of hearing “thank you”, right?
-Tack för att du körde mig hem. (Thanks for giving me a lift home.)
-Tack, tack. (Don’t mention it.)
Tackar tackar – Thanks!
This sounds a bit cute. Tackar tackar is mostly used among friends and family members. This is a rather informal way to say thank you, but hey, you can absolutely use it with your Swedish friends.
-Fisken på middagen smakade mycket gott. Bra jobbat! (The fish for the dinner tasted really delicious! Good job!)
-Tackar tackar. (Thanks!)
Tack ska du ha – Thanks shall you have
This literal translation is “Thank you is what you are going to have”. This sounds a bit indirect, but it is used widely among Swedish people.
-Jag hittade din plånbok på golvet. (I found your wallet on the floor.)
-Oj! Tack ska du ha. (Oh! Thank you!)
Tusen tack – A thousand thanks
This means “A thousand thanks” in Swedish. Tusen is thousand in Swedish. Compared to other phrases, this one is less common in Sweden. However, Norwegians use this a lot when it comes to saying thank you.
-Jag har en underbar dag här i Oslo. Tusen tack! (I have a wonderful day here in Oslo! Thank you so much!)
Tack så mycket – Thank you so much
This is also a very common way to say “Thank you so much” or “Thanks a lot” in Swedish. Mycket means “much” in English. This, of course, means more than a single “tack” when it comes to showing your gratitude.
-Tack så mycket för att du kom hit. (Thanks so much for coming here.)
Tack för maten – Thanks for the food
This translates to “Thanks for the food.” in Swedish. If you are invited to dine with a typical Swedish family, this is your go-to phrase. After dinner, you can say these phrases by earning a round of respect from your host and all family members. You can replace “maten” with other objects you’d like to thank.
-Tack för maten. Jag har en underbar kväll. (Thanks for the dinner. I have a wonderful evening.)
Stort tack – Big thanks
Stort means “big” in English. You can use this when you want to thank someone who has been very helpful to you.
-Jag sparade en kanelbulle åt dig. (I saved you a cinnamon bun.)
-Stort tack! (Thank you so much!)
Tack själv – Thank you
Själv means “self” in English. Thanks yourself is what a Swede would say. Just another way to reply others’ thank you. Similar phrase can be found in Danish as they might say “Selv tak.”
-Tack för att du följde med mig på festen. (Thanks for coming to this party with me.)
-Tack själv! (Thank YOU!)
The Magical Response to Tack: “Varsågod”
Varsågod – You’re welcome
The only phrase you have to remember when you hear someone say “tack” is this: Varsågod. It can be the universal solution when you don’t know what to say in a conversation. It can also mean “Here you are.” when you are passing something to another person.
-Tack för att du gillar mitt Facebook post. (Thanks for liking my Facebook post.)
-Varsågod. (You’re welcome.)
Inga problem – No problem
Inga is translated into “no”, which means “no problem” in Swedish. This phrase is very commonly used by Swedes.
-Tack så mycket för hjälpen! (Thanks so much for the help.)
-Inga problem. (No problem.)
Det är lugnt – It’s nothing
Lungt means calmly. When you try to calm somebody down, you can say “Ta get lungt”. So, when replying to thank you, this can mean “It’s nothing”, “Don’t worry about it.” This may sound slightly informal. It is best to use it among friends only.
-Tack så mycket för att du tar hand om min katt. (Thank yo so much for taking care of my cat.)
-Det är lugnt. (It’s nothing.)
Ingen fara – No danger
Fara can mean danger. This is also a way to reply to thank you, as in saying “ No worries”, “Don’t mention it.” Or you can use this when you are forgiving someone for doing something unpleasant.
-Tack för att du hjälpte mig att flytta. (Thank you for helping me move.)
-Ingen fara. (No problem.)
Ingen orsak – No cause
Orsak can mean reason or cause. This is the same meaning as “Ingen fare” and “Inga problem.”
-Tack för att du diskade. (Thank you for doing the dishes.)
-Ingen orsak. (No worries.)
Inte alls – Not at all
Inte alls means not at all in Swedish. It is also another way to say “No worries” in Swedish.
-Tack för att du lånade din bil till mig. (Thank you for lending me your car.)
-Inte alls. (Not at all.)
Gärna – Gladly, My pleasure
Gärna means gladly, or yes please in many scenarios. For instance, when someone offers you something to eat or drink, you can then use this phrase, or as a way to show you that you don’t mind doing some extra work for somebody else.
-Vill du ha en kanelbulle? (Would you like a cinnamon bun?)
-Ja, gärna. (Yes, please.)
Ingenting att tacka för! – Nothing to thank for!
Ingenting means nothing. Tack is the verb form to say thank you. This can be translated into “There is nothing to thank for!”
-Ingenting att tacka för! Det är mitt jobb. (It’s nothing! It’s my job.)
Don’t Forget How to Say Please
Tack – Please
Other than thank you, Tack can also mean “please” when you are asking a favor. Actually, you can add tack at the end of any sentence to sound politer.
-Jag vill ha en kopp te, tack. (I want to have a cup of tea, please.)
Snälla – Please
Snälla is used when you’re asking someone to do a job or begging someone.
-Köp mig en ny bil, snälla! (Buy me a new car, please.)
Var snäll och… – Please
Similar to the last one, you can put an action behind the “och” to request somebody to do something. This may sound like a demand.
-Var snäll och sluta röka här. (Do not smoke here, please.)
Swedes Say “Thank You” All the Time
If you ever find yourself wandering around Stockholm and anywhere in Sweden, you can definitely notice how shy and polite Swedish people are. Perhaps it is the weather that makes them not talk so much, but when it comes to saying thank you, it would be a different story. I remembered my first time shopping at a supermarket in Sweden and the clerk replied to my “tack” with a “tack”. Just like that. As I said before, “Thank you” is never enough in Sweden. There is nothing better than a simple “tack” to get to know a Swede as they are all very polite and friendly, which became an important image of Swedish culture and Sweden. This little “tack” has also made me start learning Swedish in the first place. There are many good ways to learn a language, as for the Swedish case, I’ll say that learning how to say “tack” can promise you to have a very good start indeed, and make you behave like a true Swede.
Start Learning Svenska (Swedish) Now!
Even though Swedish is a rather unpopular language to learn, there are still many online learning recourses for Swedish now. Of course, there are also many good language learning apps available on our phones, making it even easier to speak Swedish. However, there is nothing more efficient to have a real person helping out to learn a language. AmazingTalker has a wide variety of tutors that can take your language skill to the next level, including ones for unpopular languages like Swedish! You can customize the lessons for your progress, needs, and schedules. Now you already know how to say thank you in Swedish, why not go all the way through to explore more about Sweden? All of this and more, only at AmazingTalker
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In my experience everybody knows for sure unit testing is a good thing. But then again it puzzles me why nobody is actually doing it... I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that everyone thinks that unit testing pays back over time or in the long run. This is not true! There is a more immediate payback on your investment that pays off from the very first line of code! The returns on Unit Testing grow exponentially over time...
All projects go relatively smooth the first few months until they reach a certain point where the skeletons start falling out of the closet... Regression bugs start to appear at an alarming rate, it takes longer to detect errors, more time is spent in the debugger than actually writing code, it gets harder to add new functionality,etc,...
Unit testing will:
- Reduce the time spent in the debugger
- Reduce time to test your code as a developer
- Enables you to refactor
Reduce the time spent in the debugger
if you consistently write (good) unit tests you will be focusing on smaller portions of your code and thus preventing you to have to step through your whole application. When running all your unit tests you will automatically see when you break existing functionality, like this you will hunt down the likely cause a lot quicker (probably it was that last bit of code you changed).
Reduce time to test your code as a developer
When you unit test your code those little forms with one "test" button will be of the past. An other thing which will save you tremendous amounts of time is that it is no longer needed to step through a series of screens before you actually get to the functionality you want to test.
If you have unit tests you can refactor those methods and classes that grow an keep growing... Everybody knows these little black holes in any application that are a pain to modify and every team member is reluctant to make modifications out of fear to break something else.
NDepend Enables you to quickly identify where problems will start arising. Find below some useful queries.
Types that are to big and need to be slimmed down
WARN IF Count > 0 IN SELECT TYPES WHERE
NbLinesOfCode > 500 OR
NbILInstructions > 3000
ORDER BY NbLinesOfCode DESC
for more information: http://www.ndepend.com/Metrics.aspx#NbLinesOfCode
Methods that are to big or to complex
WARN IF Count > 0 IN SELECT METHODS WHERE
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ILNestingDepth > 4
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(Bloomberg Business) — Debt can feel like an anchor tied to your feet. Credit cards and payday loans can drown borrowers in interest charges, student loans can ruin graduates’ post-college plans, and underwater mortgages can trap homeowners.
Debt can also be a buoy. A student loan can help workers go back to school and get better jobs. Mortgages can help families build home equity and, ultimately, wealth. Even a credit card can come in handy in emergencies. Pulling out the plastic may be the only way for a cash-poor worker to repair the car that gets her to work.
Americans’ love/hate relationship with debt is on full display in a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Most everyone uses debt, the study finds, but we also judge each other for overusing it. Perhaps surprisingly, the most enthusiastic about debt are older Americans.
That could be the wisdom of age. Pew’s data do suggest debt isn’t so dangerous when used responsibly. The study looked at the baby boomers who have the most debt. The top third of the generation by debt have a median load of $200,000, $162,500 more than the median boomer overall, but these especially indebted boomers also have a median net worth of $298,500. They’re worth more than twice the median boomer and earn 68 percent more.
The “silent generation,” born 1928 to 1945 and now mostly retired, have the least debt of any generation, a median load of just $3,540. But that’s largely because they’ve already paid off their debt. The third of that generation with the least debt, a median of zero, have a median net worth of $637,000.
But while many members of the baby boom and the older silent generation took out debt while also building substantial nest eggs, the data suggest that younger Americans haven’t been as lucky. One problem was the housing bubble, which inflated and deflated just as Generation X was entering their prime working years. When the boomers were, on average, 34 in 1989, they had, adjusting for inflation, $52,897 in debt. When the middle of Generation X turned 34 in 2007, they had an inflation-adjusted $118,391 in debt. Most of that increase was housing debt.
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“Pack 2 + Pack 3” is the most used cheat for Highlights™ Shapes on iOS and Andorid devices. “Pack 2 + Pack 3” for Highlights™ Shapes usually costs $2.99 if you are buying in app. We also have 6 other cheats for Highlights™ Shapes which you can find below on the list in hack tool.
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Encinitas, CA– On Saturday June 25th, I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD), in partnership with the City of Encinitas and other partners, is hosting the seventh annual Zero Waste Fair from 10AM-1PM at the EUSD Farm Lab. We are back in person, so come ready to experience a wide array of zero waste activities, including:
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This one-of-a-kind event will highlight tips on low waste living, composting, recycling, sustainable swaps for everyday products, and more. All are welcome – from beginners to the sustainable lifestyle to zero waste experts. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to discover local zero waste businesses, and can enter an opportunity drawing to win a variety of eco-conscious prizes!
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Paid parental leave and child care – are these a women’s issue or a family issue or a broader societal issue? How do we make the system fair for everyone, including single income families and single parents?
While watching the Australian current affairs show Q&A where the audience asks panel members questions, a viewer’s tweet appeared on screen twittering something along the lines of ‘It’s not fair if women get six months holiday after having a baby’.
That tweet crystalised for me so much of what is amiss with how we, as a society – and the panelists that night – argue about parenting and child care.
I understand that people who haven’t experienced something can find it difficult to appreciate what it’s like for those who have. And I understand that people will disagree on the things in a society that need to be funded by government, and to what extent.
But with having children, even if we have not had our own, we all know it’s necessary for at least some people to have them in order for the rest of us to exist. And for our communities, the corporations we work for, the stores we shop in, the sporting teams and arts organisations we support, to exist as well.
And anyone with even a little imagination ought to be able to see how much work is involved in looking after children, especially a young baby.
Six months holiday?
Two-hourly feeds, each taking half-an-hour, as many nappy changes and vomits, connection/play/nurturing time, the mountains of washing, the physical exhaustion – and all that with hardly any sleep, hardly qualifies as a holiday in my view. Not to mention the physical recovery from birth, and also getting done all the things everyone else has to do as well, such as shopping, cooking, cleaning, tax returns.
Unless you can or want to outsource raising your child, the whole thing is bloody hard work!
The idea that caring for children is not work and is a ‘lifestyle choice’ is, I believe, the reason we have such difficulty finding solutions for integrating the raising of children with other kinds of work, and is also a major issue for feminism today (and, as I argue in another post, for the future of our environment).
For what’s the point in having more women on boards if there’s no one to care for the children who will be the future customers of the corporations their mothers work for?
Do women take over the business world and men care for children?
If one parent in a relationship has to give up outside work to care for children because there is no flexibility in the workplace regarding hours worked – which is currently the norm for many families, why put more money into education if once people have children one person out of every two won’t be able to use that education?
And if it’s expected that one parent give up outside work to care for children, then what do single parents do?
Why do child support payments stop in Australia when the youngest child turns eight? Are eight-year-olds now deemed old enough to care for themselves outside school hours, with no adult supervision?
We, as a society, need to deal with these questions.
Paid parental leave and child care, everyone says, is the answer. But is it?
Imagine how the future looks if we all pay another person not very much to care for our own children while that carer pays even less for someone else to care for their children.
Where does it stop? Do you have a class of child carers who are not allowed to have children of their own?
And how do you know the child carer assigned to your child in the centre you deliver your child to is raising your child in the way you would like, and connecting with them in the way that nourishes them most?
What about the wellbeing and perspective of your child?
It seems our society has come to believe that the work involved in raising children is akin to other work you can outsource easily, such as cleaning or gardening. Is that really the way we want to go as a society?
With all the knowledge we now have about child development and how a child’s early experiences of attachment and belonging will affect the kind of adult they will become, do we really believe that our children are not worth the time and effort we give to a corporation or a brand?
Paid parental leave has to be part of the solution – but it’s only a solution for those parents who are employed as employees.
What if you are self-employed, a freelancer, an actor, a medical professional in private practice, a mother or father who wants to care for their baby well past six months and your family relies on only one income? What if you’re a single parent because your partner has died, become disabled, left? Just because a person is not an employee of a large company or government department doesn’t mean they don’t work and that their family doesn’t need an income!
Does your family and child not deserve the same financial support as that of someone who has negotiated paid parental leave with their employer?
Maybe it ought to be governments that support children entirely and not employers or parents? That way all children and families get the same treatment.
Society needs to restructure so all roles are valued
The television show I was watching when that tweet came up featured four panelists who all had their own ideas about raising children. These included a 1950s fantasy, which existed only for a few back then anyway (privileged white women in the West), to essentially allowing kids to care for themselves thus freeing up time for parents to do ‘real’ work.
The fairly obvious conclusion to me is that the way our society is structured needs to change entirely if we want both male and female children to grow up into men and women who feel they can participate in life fully, taking time to experience work that’s both unrelated to child-raising and also related to child-raising.
Because at present the world is set up to support work outside the home, and family and home are secondary, or are seen as support structures for real work. That can’t work unless all individuals – men and women – who do the so-called real work have a support structure at home – an unpaid, full-time ‘wife’.
I listened to each of the four panelists on that show – each with very different views, arguing for rights for their own interest group (women, gay people, patriarchal Christians, and young people wanting ‘new’ kinds of relationships), all so that we could have a better world for the people in it.
If we want to create a world that’s better for the people in it, then that includes the children in it
Yet none made the connection that a better world would involve raising children in such a way that those children would feel as if they were valued members of the world (and of their own family).
The panelists also expressed their opinions with total disrespect towards their fellow panelists’ opinions, and seemed unable to see even a smidgeon of truth in the other’s ideas – even in the other’s concerns.
None of the panelists appeared to be nasty people – in fact they all really cared for the world, as they saw it. They all had major vulnerabilities and fears that they expressed publicly but instead of trying to find a common thread or concern – they rubbished what each other said.
The audience cheered for their favourites and booed the others.
Any solution requires that we accept each other’s differences
It made me wonder how we were going to find solutions to the problem of parental leave and child care when esteemed public figures such that those panelists were, who were all concerned about their children, could not even relate with respect towards each other.
It also made me wonder how we are going to teach our children – our species’ future – to deal with difference and find ways to see the world from another’s perspective, to see that there is always more than one truth, to see that the person who works in the home is just as valuable as the person who works outside the home, and that children are as valuable as adults.
To me, each panelist had real concerns and good ideas to offer (and also not-so-very-good ideas), but each also was so blind, and so felt it okay to put down what they couldn’t understand about another’s viewpoint. In Voice Dialogue terms, there was no aware ego whatsoever.
And that’s something we all need to work on if we are to find effective solutions to paid parental leave, child care, and having children.
If you’re not familiar with what an aware ego is, see my explanation here. And here’s an explanation of what Voice Dialogue is, the technique to awaken an aware ego process which allows you to unhook from the dominant part of your psyche, along with its narrow perspective, rules and judgements, and to experience and then really understand the perspective of another.
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Gender-based violence has a heightened impact on Venezuelan women and girls who seek international protection, after fleeing massive human rights violations in their home country, warned Amnesty International today on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
“While countries across the Americas have an obligation to protect all Venezuelans who seek safety in their territories, it is women and girls who are at disproportionate risk from violence and discrimination. States have a pressing duty to ensure a gender-sensitive response to those seeking protection,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International.
“The entire international community needs to take ownership of the second largest human mobility crisis in the world, as per the international principle of shared responsibility. Civil society organizations, human rights defenders and international organizations provide much needed relief to Venezuelans in the most precarious situations, but states must guarantee their human rights are protected, particularly of those who are most vulnerable to violence and discrimination, such as women and girls.”
Amnesty International recently partnered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in a two-year project to support the protection of women, girls and people of diverse sexual orientation and gender identity in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador, responding to the urgent needs of Venezuelans seeking protection.
States have a pressing duty to ensure a gender-sensitive response to those seeking protectionErika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International
In Peru, one of the main host countries of Venezuelans, Amnesty International’s research shows how migrant and refugee women face gender-based violence and discrimination on a daily basis, which is often reinforced by having an irregular migratory status in the country, including pending asylum claims that seem endlessly stalled. Having interviewed survivors of gender-based violence, human rights defenders and public authorities, the organization confirmed how Venezuelan women suffer harassment at the workplace, on the streets and in educational centers; sexual blackmail to sustain jobs or homes; physical and psychological abuse; and a constant fear of being returned to Venezuela.
While gender-based violence affects women of all nationalities, whether Venezuelan, Peruvian, or Colombian, and the official reporting channels are the same for all, migrant and refugee women predominantly from Venezuela face additional challenges to access justice, protection and support. These include discrimination based on their nationality; stereotyped comments that hypersexualize them by state agents who are supposed to protect them; a lack of information; and a fear of reprisals, such as deportation, that often discourage them from reporting violence against them.
Amnesty International urges the Peruvian authorities to strengthen efforts to build capacity of public officers on the prohibition of discrimination based on gender, migration and other status, and to ensure that they are aware of existing legal mechanisms to attend survivors of gender-based violence without a regular migratory status in the country. In addition, it is essential that authorities widely disseminate information on the rights of migrant and refugee women to access justice, protection and support services regardless of their immigration status.
For more information or to request an interview, please contact Duncan Tucker at [email protected]
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Rare British Honduras note one of few available
- Published: Nov 18, 2017, 5 AM
Stack’s Bowers Galleries will be offering one of only three known 1894 British Honduras $1 notes at its Jan. 12 to 13 auction in New York City. The note is from the first British Honduras issue, of which no issued examples are known of any of the five higher denominations. The other two known examples of this denomination are the Pick plate note, which is in terrible quality, and one reportedly in a private British Honduras collection. The upcoming auction piece is graded Very Fine 20 Net, Splits and Rust, by Paper Money Guaranty, and is estimated at $30,000 to $50,000.
It is signed by E.B. Sweet-Escott, as colonial secretary (later governor) of British Honduras, and commissioners of currency C. Melhado and H.C. Usher. The design features floral borders, lathe work and stars within circles. The note bears Crown above CC (for Crown Colony) watermarks, an official ink stamp indicating Belize as the city of issue, and the date OC[tober] 17, 94. The left margin is serrated where a counterfoil was once attached.
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The note has an interesting history and pedigree. The auctioneer says in a press release that it is even rarer and more desirable than the elusive Zanzibar notes that have recently sold for record prices. The 1894 British Honduras issue was withdrawn and destroyed after only two months, while the Zanzibar series ran for 20 years. The note issuance for British Honduras was scaled for an insignificant colonial backwater with a minuscule population and economy, while Zanzibar was for centuries one of the world’s major spice sources and slave exporters, operating as an international seaport at the nexus of the trade routes of Africa, Arabia, India, and Asia.
The note is from the family of Albert E. Morlan, who acquired it in Belize when it was issued. He was there because he was named the American consul in Belize by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882. After quitting to set up a business in New Orleans, with branches in Belize and other Central American cities, he was reappointed consul by Grover Cleveland in 1895.
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When he died in 1926, the note passed to his son Edward, from Edward to his son, Charles, and from Charles to his daughter, the consignor and the great-granddaughter of Albert.
Visit the firm’s website to see other lots in the auction.
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Exercises and Tasks
You are nearing the end of your two-week stay in New York. Write an email home to your best friend in which you
- describe what you have seen over the past two weeks
- write about how New York is different from other places you have seen
- state why you would or wouldn't want to live in such a big city
Write an email of about 200 - 300 words.
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There was a time when people could hardly believe that musicians would be able to create quite a fortune for themselves. This widespread notion about musicians didn’t wither away until some maestros started exploring lucrative options to sell their creations. Thanks to these stalwarts who busted many myths and mesmerized all with their creativity. Not only did the world take notice of them, but they also hauled in a lot of royalty money to their bank accounts. These richest stars have created quite a stir in the music industry and earned unending fame after recording chart-toppers, alongside endorsing several brands and deals.
Being in the 5th position in terms of wealthiest musicians around the globe, Herb is worth $850 million. If you can recall Rise, the sensual disco anthem released back in 1979. You will surely be able to tell just how impressive was his style. Since his Rise days, Herb has come a long way, eventually establishing himself as one of the most iconic figures in the pop music scene.
Herb, however, stands a tad unusual, since his fame wasn’t really from the conventional urban, pop or rock music. His stardom was gradual, right from the time his career took off as the instrumentalist and composer of the group- Herp Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. He is the proud recipient of nine Grammy’s and produced five albums that reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. What more?
Hip hop artists have their loyal fan-following, and P. Diddy has used his ability to cash on the rising fame. His potential in diversifying his earning streams is similar to Dr. Dre, who began early on in his career as a rapper and producer. The music of the 1990s and even early 2000s spun absolute magic and led many other businesses to stem to the limelight as well. Diddy also followed in his footsteps.
The man started as a talent director at Uptown Records, before giving the label Bad Boy entertainment a name to reckon with. At present, he has a net worth of roughly $855 million, thanks to several other ventures like clothing, fragrance, and more. Diddy told during an interview that it was a customer service lesson that he took when he was just 12 years of age that helped him attain entrepreneurial success, aside from making great strides as a musician.
In his entire career run, Jay won 19 Grammy’s and sold a record 100 million albums throughout the world. Naturally, that makes him the third richest musician across the globe, with a net worth of about $900 million. Now any smart person can decipher that mere music, and album sales wouldn’t have helped him amass such terrific fortune. But the empire that the man has built is truly inspiring and requires a different level of tact.
In addition to assisting artists like Rihanna, Kanye West, and Nas, the rapper did a fantastic job with his super successful urban clothing line- Rocawear. Also, Tidal, the music streaming service that he launched, is going great guns. Like every successful man in showbiz, Jay-Z’s huge empire is not just based on his musical talents, but also on his clothing line, his sports club, entertainment labels, as well as his immensely successful streaming service.
Anybody who grew up in the early 1960s’ England must be familiar with the global cynosure for the dreams and hopes of an entire generation that came of age during that decade – The Beatles. When we talk about The Beatles, Paul McCartney is a name that is bound to pop up in the middle of every discussion around that iconic brand. Billboard Hot 100 recorded a massive 32 number one hits from him, copyrights for close to 25000 songs, and more.
With a never-ending six-decade surpassing career span, the former music artist has a rough net worth of $1.2 billion. Now Paul is undoubtedly a versatile person, especially after having donned the hats of an actor, a director and even, a writer. He’s known as a ‘bonafide legend,’ and the music business will practically be at a loss without him or his support.
And finally comes the number one wealthiest musician in the world! It is no surprise that Andrew possesses a net worth of close to $1.28 billion. Such has been his widespread popularity that Webber’s name is synonymous with that of Broadway! His rich work in music defines the current generation and how they take it forward. Most of his musicals have been more than decades old. Webber won a Grammy, and his albums also won nominations many a time.
It is no mean feat earning huge bucks in a world where competitors keep vying for the top spot. Whether it’s plain music or add-ons, each one of these celebrity figures has toiled hard to grab a position that defines them at present. But this is not an exhaustive one. After all, there’s a lot of money floating around, and no one with a creative soul and aspirational spirit will sit still or fall short of cash.
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A dedicated notebook for your music practice can be an incredibly useful tool for aiding your musical learning and keeping you on track. In this post I’ve listed some of the benefits of keeping a music notebook, and suggested some ways you can use your notebook to your advantage.
What are the benefits of keeping a notebook?
It functions as a memory aid so you don’t forget useful bits of information from your lessons.
It helps you to practise efficiently and with clear aims.
It helps you to communicate with your teacher so that they can tailor lessons around you better.
It helps keep you focused on long-term goals, as well as week-to-week tasks.
It serves as a great record of your progress. Whenever you feel like you’re stuck in a rut or not progressing as quickly as you’d like, you can flick back through your notebook and see how far you’ve come since you started. This can be encouraging and interesting to look back on.
What should I write in my notebook?
Make notes during or directly after all of your lessons so that you can remember what you covered, any helpful tips from your teacher or general points of interest. Your teacher may make lesson notes in your book for you during the lesson (or email them to you afterwards), or you may prefer to do this yourself. When I make notes in my students’ lessons I always write down:
What pieces we played, and which specific bars we focused on (and for what specific reason)
The warm-ups or scales we did (these may be related to the pieces you’re learning, or your teacher may have assigned them to remedy a particular technical issue)
Any new information learned (with diagrams or visual representations if that’s helpful)
Two or three specific homework tasks for the week (avoid being broad here – having small, clear and achievable goals is best)
The date of the lesson clearly at the top of the page.
Keep a practice log, writing a few notes each practice session. You don’t need to write much here (the majority of your practice time should usually be spent playing, after all), but outlining your aims for the session and then evaluating your progress at the end can really help to focus your mind and make the most out of the time you have. Use the notes from your previous lesson to inform your practice goals – in turn, your teacher can then glance through the notes you made at home and use them to inform the direction of the lesson (I find it so useful when students keep notes).
If you have any questions or technical issues between lessons, write them down in your notebook. This will ensure that you don’t forget to ask them during your lesson, and helps you to make the most of the time you have with your teacher. Again, be as specific as possible – if you were unsure of how the rhythm of bar 15 was meant to sound, write that down.
Keep a list of pieces or songs that you would like to learn in your notebook. You can also write about music you’ve been listening to that you’d like to ask questions about or analyse with your teacher. This is really helpful for those times when your teacher asks you what you’d like to learn next and your mind goes blank, leaving you struggling to name any piece of music in existence! It also helps your teacher to get a better idea of your tastes so that they can tailor lessons to fit you.
You can use your notebook as a place to write down transcriptions of melodies when practising aural skills, or even your own compositions. If you are noodling around and discover a sequence of notes or chords that you like, write them down so that you can remember and develop them later. Similarly, if you manage to work out the notes to a song by yourself, put them in your notebook for future use.
Here is a template I made for a practice log entry that you can use as the basis for your notes between lessons.
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Many benefits of mulching include reducing weeds, improving soil organic matter, and reducing water runoff. But what other benefits does it have? Here are a few:
The study found that mulching reduced the density of weeds, biomass, and seedling height in a plot. The results are consistent with those from other studies on the topic. The number of weeds in control plots was the highest for two crops, sweet potato, and turmeric. This difference is attributed to the lack of physical constraints on weed seedlings and their growth. Mulching reduced the biomass of these two weed species by up to 56% and 79%, respectively.
In addition to reducing weeds, mulching Montgomery, AL, also helps conserve moisture and reduce soil temperature. It also reduces soil erosion and supports irrigation water and runoff infiltration. While the benefits of mulching are numerous, there are some specific considerations you must take into account.
Improves soil organic matter
Improving soil organic matter can have many benefits for agricultural production. Increasing soil organic matter reduces water availability, fertility, and compaction problems. It can also help reduce the risk of disease, insect, and parasite infestations. On the other hand, when soil organic matter is low, more fertilizer and water inputs are needed to maintain yields. This can lead to higher costs for the farmer. But the benefits of improving soil organic matter far outweigh these costs.
Soil organic matter helps retain carbon in the soil and keeps it out of the atmosphere, reducing greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Manure has benefits when applied in a raw state, while biochar is produced by converting biomass into a low-oxy environment. Biochar is another method that improves soil organic matter. Adding organic matter to the soil will improve its structure and nutrient content.
Reduces water runoff
There are many advantages of mulching crops. Not only does mulch keep moisture in the soil, but it also reduces weed growth and prevents soil erosion. Furthermore, it supports the infiltration of irrigation water and runoff. Finally, it also protects the soil surface from raindrops and weeds.
A layer of mulch can reduce the amount of irrigation water required by crop plants. Organic mulch can act like a sponge, retaining irrigation water. Additionally, it can reduce runoff. For example, one study found that straw mulch reduced water runoff by 43%. Further, a layer of mulch in the soil profile improved soil porosity. Thus, the environmental benefits of mulching are substantial. However, consider these factors if you are starting in organic farming.
Reduces soil erosion
The application of mulch covers reduces soil erosion by up to 97%. The use of mulch is highly beneficial to farmers because it rehabilitates abandoned land and directs water to the area planted. The use of stone mulch, for example, dramatically increases plant production. In addition, it reduces the formation of drainage channels during heavy rain. However, while mulching is effective, it may not always be cost-effective or environmentally friendly.
Many people are unaware of the agricultural and environmental benefits of mulching. In developing countries, agricultural production is a significant economic contributor. However, extensive land clearing has increased soil erosion risk, making water catchments vulnerable to natural disasters. Cellulosic fibers are gaining worldwide attention for their potential application in soil erosion control due to their biodegradable and physical properties. However, research has been limited compared to natural fibers, and biodegradable polymers are expensive.
Many benefits of mulching are related to plant health and safety. Mulch materials conserve moisture, reduce evaporation, and regulate soil temperature. They also increase the number of beneficial organisms in the soil, which can help reduce disease risk. Mulch materials can also reduce the need for harmful chemicals and pesticides. However, if the mulch is not removed regularly, it can encourage the growth of disease-causing pests and weeds.
In addition to reducing weeds, mulches improve seedling performance and yield. They also increase water retention in soil and reduce evaporation. Depending on the mulching type, mulches can boost plant growth and creation by improving soil temperature, decreasing weed species, and enhancing soil moisture. Moreover, mulches improve the development of various crop plants. For example, mulches allow crop plants to extend their root systems and increase biomass and height.
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Financial preparation is an important part of the investment process. In plain English, it is investing for the future. Financial preparation is a systematic means of spending your future or money to accomplish certain goals. Financial preparation is not only vital for retirement benefits, however likewise for protecting versus unforeseen events like layoffs or rate boosts. Nevertheless, with all the buzz in the media about preparing for retirement, it is many times overlooked by the regular customer. Nevertheless, why should you hang around and cash currently when you could invest that time and also money at a far more helpful point in your life?
Financial preparation is very vital. Without it, you might find yourself in the awkward situation of living paycheck to paycheck. The easy truth of the issue is that financial preparation aids you to live listed below your means, if situations ever before emerge in which you are called for to live over your means. Generally use, a monetary preparation plan is basically a detailed evaluation of a person’s present and also future economic placement by using different present recognized aspects to anticipate upcoming income, property worths, and expenditure plans. Although monetary preparation is commonly done by specialists as well as can be rather pricey, it deserves the initiative. Not only will it assist you through challenging times, however it will certainly also give you a sense of accomplishment and also a guidebook for achieving your individual and also professional objectives.
There are a variety of methods to tackle beginning your look for the best economic planning consultant or monetary coordinator. One means is by examining your local phone directory site and noting the top 3 or 4 firms in your city. One more is to ask your family, friends as well as colleagues for referrals. The Net has opened up a whole new globe of prospective resources, as well as utilizing websites such as Yelp and Google Places can offer a riches of information for both customers and services.
A lot of monetary planning consultants will certainly feature a resume as well as cover letter. See to it you completely check out every one, evaluating not only their certifications yet their individuality too. While there may be some individuals that have been working in this field for decades, others might have just graduated from university and also still be starting. So it’s important to find a person with a passion wherefore they do who’s additionally able to communicate their passion clearly.
For example, if you are interested in coming to be much more economically independent, after that a terrific financial investment advisor would be a person that wants developing long-term objectives for their customers. Ideally, they would be able to go over asset management, retirement preparation, and tax methods as they associate with their clients. Additionally, their capacity to properly interact their investment viewpoint and also vision ought to be incomparable.
One more significant location of consideration when choosing your economic preparation consultant is your existing financial situation. Is your savings price up, down, or stagnant? Are you positive that you can proceed making your arranged settlements on your bank accounts? Are you looking forward to increasing your cost savings rate? As soon as you understand just how much money you presently need to deal with, after that you will certainly be able to resolve your long term objectives for your investments. This enables you to enhance your financial investments securely while maintaining a practical degree of comfort concerning the future of your financial savings plan. rawad alame
Certainly, conserving cash is only part of the picture. You also need to take a close look at your investing routines. As you function in the direction of reaching your economic objectives, are you handling brand-new expenses that do not accompany your savings objectives? Or are you remaining within the amount of funds you currently have in order to address every one of your other needs? There’s a huge distinction in between being conservative with your money and also overspending, as well as maintaining your financial planning on the right track while being reasonable with your costs behaviors.
Finally, you ought to additionally take into consideration the specialist nature of the advisor you select. While there is some overlap in the area of investment preparation and also economic planning, you might want to speak with an economic coordinator as opposed to simply a financial investment organizer. An economic organizer has the education and learning, experience, as well as expertise necessary to help you accomplish your objectives. They can aid you make lasting decisions, provide aid with tax planning, and typically assist you to satisfy all of your long-term financial goals with a combination of excellent investments, wise investing, as well as expertise and also awareness.
Apart from capital estimates, several of the various other financial planning methods made use of consist of projecting, price of funding, functioning resources management, long term financial investment purposes, and also liquidity funding. A variety of monetary advisors adopt various techniques for anticipating the demand for a product and services. Cost of capital evaluation is also generally made use of by these financial consultants. This analysis determines the exact price of capital that can be obtained for reaching your set objectives and also objectives. Working capital monitoring assists the company in establishing the precise quantity of cash needed for present operations in addition to future operations.
On the other hand, long term financial investment purposes and also remedies are additionally thought about by monetary coordinators. These consultants offer lasting financial investment options to their customers. Another crucial strategy utilized by these advisors is property management. This strategy entails the identification, assessment and control of suitable exclusive or public possessions for attaining the collection objectives as well as purposes.
It is extremely crucial to make certain that you trust the proficiency of your economic coordinator. Before hiring a consultant, you have to meet him or her and also inspect his or her credentials. You must make certain that your monetary planner has enough experience, she or he is hired, and that she or he adheres to good ethical principles. Furthermore, you have to make certain that the consultant under consideration is signed up with the correct regulatory authority. The regulatory authority will certainly guarantee that the consultant has an impressive online reputation as well as the needed licenses and certifications. Rawad Roy Alame
If you are not satisfied with your choice, do not wait to search as well as find an additional consultant. There are several companies that focus on offering finance consultancies and advisers to their clients. You can get in touch with such firms online and also discover the best money experts in your location. You can contrast their services and fees and pick one of the most suitable economic organizer that fulfills your details objectives and goals in your funds.
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Don’t let the winter weather stop your from being productive. Even if you can’t go out and aren’t used to being at home all day, there are plenty of things you can do to keep yourself occupied.
Unpredictable weather can put a dampener on your day—plans to work on your ebook design could go askew.
You may find yourself looking out the window, wondering when it will stop snowing and how that will affect the rest of your week.
But that doesn’t have to be the only way you spend a snow day. You can be more productive than you think, if you keep an open mind.
We look at a few ways to be productive during snow days.
Get Through Your Emails
Nobody tells you how many emails you have to answer as an adult—one’s inbox is constantly inundated with messages from friends, colleagues, potential clients, third parties, and spam.
Most people skim through their email subject lines to decide which ones are or aren’t important, and which ones are spam, finally opening only the emails that are urgent.
There are ways to sort out your emails using filters so you don’t miss the email offering you Google analytics help or the ones from your manager telling you about a new project.
But what about the rest clogging up your inbox? They may not be urgent, or even important, but replying to those emails could lead to long-lasting collaborations.
A snow day is the perfect opportunity to clean out your inbox and your spam folder—where important emails sometimes end up.
This process will make you feel productive and organised.
Keep in Touch with Colleagues
You may not be the only person affected by heavy snowfall—many of your colleagues will be struggling to get to work and be stuck at home just as you are.
If nobody you regularly communicate with or collaborate with is in the office, you may think you can’t be productive, but that isn’t exactly true.
Technology has made it possible to stay in touch with people even from a distance—and not only via email.
Collaboration tools allow you to connect with your colleagues whenever you need to—as long as they’re available.
If you need to speak to your colleagues or managers to tick tasks off your list, you can, thanks to technology.
Do Some Repetitive Work
There are somethings that can only be done in an office—especially if you are relying on files on your office computer.
These tasks are perfect for a day when you can’t go out but want to accomplish some work.
Repetitive tasks keep you occupied and are better accomplished when you aren’t in a busy office being interrupted by colleagues and managers.
Spend Time Researching
Just because you aren’t sitting in your office, doesn’t mean that you can’t expand your mind and become a better worker.
A snow day is the perfect opportunity to spend some time researching—time that you rarely have in the office and that you don’t want to give up your free time for.
Any concerns about not being productive on your unexpected day in will disappear because you will actually end up being enriched by the time you get back to work the next day
Another great way to be productive during a snow day is to try a few experiments that you haven’t been able to.
An office environment has a number of perks, but it can be unforgiving when you are trying something new without knowing what results will ensue.
Use your snow day to try out a few work experiments that you can then report on.
Some may be successful; in which case you can take the results to work the next day and share it with your team.
But even if the experiments are failures, it doesn’t mean that you’ve wasted your day in. By trying something new and not succeeding, you definitively know what you should avoid.
Being productive doesn’t only mean ticking things off your list—it’s also about going beyond your usual routine and trying something out of the box.
Feel free to try a few experiments on a snow day and you can have some interesting news to share with your team and managers when you next get back to work.
Be Productive this Winter
Snowy weather can be difficult to deal with, even if you have lived with it all your life. But just because a snow day has forced you to stay indoors, doesn’t mean you can’t be productive.
We have outlined five ways that you can still be ‘at work’ even while you’re at home:
Clearing up your inbox is a good way to stay productive—you can feel organised and be more efficient when you get back to work the next day.
Staying in touch with colleagues so you can continue working on your projects together is possible with the use of the right tools.
To keep your mind off being at home, do repetitive tasks that wouldn’t be easily accomplished at work.
You can also spend your snow day doing research, which you wouldn’t be able to do at work without interruption.
And finally, a snow day is a great time to conduct work experiments that you can share with your team the next day at work.
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Hungary and Poland have “parted ways,” Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, referring to his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orbán’s recent statement made in Baile Tusnad in Romania.
During a meeting with Polish farmers on Friday, the head of the Polish government was asked if he agreed with the statement made by Orbán on July 23, when he said that the war in Ukraine had shaken the Polish-Hungarian cooperation that constituted the axis of the Visegrad Group.
Orbán assessed that the goals of both countries are the same “but the problem is of the heart,” claiming that Hungarians see the conflict in Ukraine as a war of two Slavic nations, whereas Poles “feel that they are also fighting in it.”
“I confirm the words of PM Orbán, that Poland and Hungary have parted ways,” said Morawiecki; however the Polish prime minister added that Poland did not believe it was a part of the conflict. “The war is being waged by Ukrainians,” he stressed.
Morawiecki also pointed out that the “heroic struggle of the Ukrainians is supported by arms — mainly U.S., but also British, Polish, and from many other places — from the entirety of Europe to aid in defending their sovereignty.”
The Polish prime minister explained that his country remained determined to help Ukraine “resist the overwhelming forces of the enemy and the brutal Russian invasion.”
“We want Ukraine to survive and keep its territorial integrity, its sovereignty. I believe this will happen,” Morawiecki added.
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While teaching as an associate professor in Ithaca College’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Paula Ioanide has also been working on how to improve higher education by making it more inclusive from the ground up.
Over the past decade, Ioanide has been collaborating with a group of scholars to form the anthology “Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines,” a work that challenges the underlying biases present in many academic disciplines. Ioanide’s essay, “Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement is Necessary,” was recently published as a chapter of the anthology.
Opinion Editor Meredith Burke spoke with Ioanide about her chapter, its relevance today and how it relates to her work at the college.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Meredith Burke: For our readers, could you provide a brief overview of your chapter?
Paula Ioanide: It’s called “Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances,” so it’s obviously focused on privileged students in the classroom. … Affect refers to the academic term that, essentially, is thinking about the role of emotion and embodied responses that are not necessarily always consciously intended or held. … It’s in the context of a collection “Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness Across the Disciplines,” which is the product of a 10-year collaboration between very amazing scholars across different disciplines and fields. … And what we were getting together to think about is the way that the disciplines in presuming a kind of universalism … have a lot of racial and gendered assumptions. … The essay is sort of a meditation on why privileged students refuse to learn even when evidence is presented to them about racism, about sexism, and then it proposes some pedagogical strategies that teachers can use to deal with that refusal.
MB: Why do you think it’s important that we discuss the topic you explore in your essay?
PI: I think a lot of people presume that what we do in the classroom is that we give people knowledge and information based on evidence, and students actually absorb the evidence. I’m making the claim that most of the time students refuse that evidence based on their emotions and belief systems, even on subjects that are not gender or class. … The point here is that the power of belief and emotion actually severely trumps our ability to cognitively receive and integrate knowledge. … Basically, I want to think along with my colleagues about what pedagogical methods actually work to increase learning the classroom.
MB: What pedagogical methods do you find combat this resistance?
PI: I found that you have to actually engage students’ emotions consciously as opposed to what we tend to do in the classroom and what most of us have been trained to do, … which is to keep the conversation abstract and only intellectual. … An example of this would be, let’s say, a very contentious debate is taking place in the classroom around race and racism, … the professor’s tendency is to want to move away from the conflict. … What I’m trying to do is argue that if you’re doing that, you’re being ineffective pedagogically at making people be conducive to learning. And I base that in the research of social psychology … that engages the question of emotions, of affect, and the question of learning to see what kind of best practices we might adopt.
MB: How have you witnessed this resistance at the college?
PI: Every single class I’ve ever taught, I tend to have a few students who are clearly refusing to accept the information that’s being presented to them because it challenges their belief systems, the way they’ve been taught to see the world. When the information that’s presented challenges your belief systems and the way you’ve been taught to see the world, it challenges your sense of who you are. And when it challenges your sense of who you are, our tendency is to defend ourselves emotionally by being defensive, self-protective and to basically not want to integrate our knowledge. … This tends to happen much more for privileged students than students who have experiences with discrimination because students who have experiences with discrimination have an entry point or an access point to knowledge that shows, for example, that systemic racism persists.
MB: Any final thoughts?
PI: We’re in a moment of transition for Ithaca College. … I think the future of higher education, in general, is calling for a much more diversified curriculum that actually reflects the experiences and diverse perspectives of our students who are increasingly coming from different racial, ethnic and international locations. And so, for me, this is a sort of call to my colleagues and to faculty across Ithaca College to think very strategically and collaboratively about how we can continue working and evolving in not just the way that we teach, the pedagogical method, so that they become more inclusive … but that becomes a lens through which we teach our material regardless of what it is. … The deeper you look into the disciplinary formations of any discipline, you find that it’s very heavily involved in the ideologies of the time during which it was evolved. … For, me this essay is really about two things: How do we diversify the curriculum, not as an add-on, … but much more how do we teach what we teach … so that we are actually honest about where our disciplines came from and be self-critical in the ways in which many of our disciplines emerged with these heavy histories?
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Startpage says Microsoft’s Toying with Search Engine Results Will “Sting Bing”
NEW YORK – Startpage.com, The World’s Most Private Search Engine, is welcoming Web users upset by revisions to Microsoft’s terms of service. Bing has announced new changes that suggest it will alter search results using cloud-based personal information.
According to Startpage, Microsoft is claiming unprecedented new powers over user data. Under the old terms, contents of emails sent through its Hotmail service might be used “solely to the extent necessary to provide the service.” Starting September 27, Microsoft can pry into Hotmail messages and its other cloud services, such as Skydrive, to profile users and deliver them targeted advertising — even change the search results they receive.
Startpage spokesperson Dr. Katherine Albrecht denounced Microsoft’s new policies.
“Hotmail users will be stunned to learn that their emails are now fair game,” she says. “People don’t like being spied on and served censored search results. If I send an email to somebody, I don’t expect my comments to be reflected in my search results the next day. Email messages should be private and so should search results, and the twain should never meet.”
Startpage plans to launch a competitor to Hotmail called Startmail early next year. “We want to give our users the security of knowing their email is never read and their search results are not biased or tampered with in any way. We don’t collect or store any personal information. Nada, zilch, zero,” said Albrecht.
The company anticipates Microsoft’s changes will ultimately “sting Bing” and drive even more Web users to Startpage and next year, to Startmail.
In the last year, Startpage searches have jumped 140 percent, to well over 2 million searches per day. Albrecht correlates the company’s impressive growth with the decline of privacy standards at other major search engines.
About Startpage and Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Startpage by Ixquick is an award-winning search engine that is third-party certified and fully anonymous. Startpage boasts the best privacy policies on the Internet: No search records stored. No IP addresses recorded. No tracking cookies used.
Startpage has earned the coveted EuroPriSe “trust mark” for outstanding privacy and data handling practices. It is also certified by Certified Secure and registered with the Dutch Data Protection Authority.
It is the only search engine to offer a free proxy service, and the first to offer SSL encryption. For more information, please see http://www.startpage.com.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht is an internationally known consumer advocate, syndicated radio host, bestselling author, and the VP of Marketing for Startpage.com, The World’s Most Private Search Engine. Katherine holds a doctorate in Consumer Education from Harvard University.
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Learnkit has published content about Blended Learning and The Flipped Classroom but our subscribers have consistently asked: What’s the difference? There are a number of articles explaining each learning methodology but it’s tough to find anything that clearly explains the difference between the two and when to use one over the other. To help clear … Continue reading Blended Learning and The Flipped Classroom: What’s the Difference?!
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Jewish collectors were the most open to the "new painting,"of the Impressionists, one of those is contained in this portrait, Gaston Bernheim de Villers. This painting from 1910 shows how Renoir had broken with the much of the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings.
Paris, France, Cagnes, France, Style: Impressionist, School: Impressionism, Movement: Impressionist, French, Painting; husband; wife;, Painting
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Paris, France; Cagnes, France
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Unknown, "Portrait of M. and Mme. Bernheim de Villers A Couple: M. and Mme. Bernheim of Villers" (2022). Art and Art History Collection (Saskia). 3226.
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What is eduroam?
eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community.
eduroam is available for our staff and students to use while visiting other participating institutions. In addition, those visiting any of our campuses from a participating eduroam institution will be able to connect to the Internet through our eduroam system. At the current time, most universities participate in eduroam. However, most K-12 school districts do not. In fact, Carson City School District is one of the first if not the first K-12 school district in Nevada to have a working eduroam system in place. As additional school districts across the state jump on board, access to eduroam will become more widely available. To find a participating eduroam institution, please use the eduroam Locator Map.
eduroam is provided as a convenience for our traveling users and visitors from other participating eduroam institutions.
How do I connect?
On your device, go to the wifi settings screen and select eduroam.
Enter your district username in the form of (firstname.lastname@example.org) and your password.
When prompted, accept the certificate.
You should now be connected to the eduroam network.
Please note that eduroam is not available to CCSD staff and students while on a CCSD campus. It is intended to be used while visiting an outside institution.
The Department of Innovation & Technology is unable to troubleshoot non-district owned technology or reset the password for credentials from another organization.
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Pacorro is a Boy name. The name is originated from ‘Spanish’ origin. The baby name Pacorro means “Eagle”.
Origin of the name is: “Spanish, diminutive of Francisco; Native American”
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The pronunciation of the name is: “Not available”
Pacorro Name Meaning:
The name Pacorro means “eagle”. It is a masculine baby name.
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On common, learners in the British isles facial area £50,000 of personal debt by the conclude of a a few-12 months BA study course. Fashion college students, on the other hand, are expected to pay back out even additional, burdened with the expenses of sourcing their own products for samples and final collections. As CSM graduate Hannah Karpel mentioned in her documentary, Breaking The Course Ceiling, these overheads are forging a two-tier process, in which the doing work-course are in danger of getting to be extinct. Insert to this a harrowing charge of living crisis – where a person in ten pupils are applying foods banking institutions – and the obstacles to a respectable training have created barricades.
In the meantime, the manner market is dealing with a extremely unique challenge entirely, blighted with an abundance of deadstock, squander, and extra materials. All also knowledgeable of this disparity, Burberry has just launched the second iteration of its ReBurberry initiative, donating over 12,000 metres of fabric to a lot more than 30 fashion educational institutions and universities throughout the British isles – from the Edinburgh College of Art to the College of Brighton. Initially introduced in conjunction with the British Fashion Council in 2020, the motivations of the undertaking are two-fold: fostering the following generation of style and design expertise when laying a blueprint for a circular economic climate. “By equipping students with these products and equipment to assist their creativeness prosper, we can all create a far better upcoming for our industry,” Nicole Lovett, the brand’s accountability programme director, claims.
Fashion brands have donated surplus fabrics to vogue schools in advance of, but, traditionally talking, this has always been on an advertisement-hoc foundation, primarily benefitting London colleges. “This initiative suggests prospect,” Hayley Cochrane, a manner student at the Edinburgh Faculty of Artwork, suggests. “It makes it possible for the designers of tomorrow to deliver new everyday living to the most magnificent designer fabrics, that as students we would if not not have been capable to operate with, although also letting us to website link our instruction and layouts with one particular of the most important names in the market.” Leila Eskandary-Miles, a fashion and company experiments university student at the College of Brighton, agrees, noting that “if far more companies were being to use this round tactic to their individual extra, equally up-and-coming designers and the surroundings would reward.”
ReBurberry, thus, is about environment an illustration, not just to the broader marketplace, but to the students themselves. “Using the leftover fabrics as section of this initiative has actually designed me assume about how I can be resourceful with my materials,” Georgia Bate states, who also reports manner and organization at Brighton. “It’s inspired me to take a look at other resources to include into my designs, which may possibly not commonly be considered as cloth,” she adds, acquiring included recycled brown paper alongside Burberry’s luxury donations. And in time, these lessons will arrive to condition the students’ skilled contributions. As Luca McCarry, an additional Brightonian can attest: “Reducing waste in the trend industry is important to the potential of the business and ought to be at the entrance of extra organisations’ minds. The quicker the manner field results in being a circular economic climate the better, not just for the atmosphere, but for designers far too.”
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In a bid to investigate the reputation that cruise holidays have amongst 18 – 25 year olds, an independent online cruise travel agent has revealed that a third of young adults would like to embark on a cruise holiday, but many worry that other passengers would be ‘much older’ than them.
As part of ongoing research into the holiday habits of Britons, an independent online cruise travel agent has conducted research amongst 1,327 18 – 25 year olds across the UK who have never been on a cruise holiday; in a bid to discover their attitudes towards them.
The research, conducted by www.Bonvoyage.co.uk, was conducted with an aim of investigating the reputation that cruise holidays hold amongst holidaymakers of different age groups across the UK; particularly given the stereotype that often sees cruising as a favourite amongst older holidaymakers.
According to the research, just over a third, 34%, of the young adults asked said that they would like to embark upon a cruise holiday. In a bid to investigate further, these respondents were asked why they were yet to embark on a cruise. According to the results, the majority, 51%, were ‘concerned’ that other passengers would be ‘much older’ than themselves. In contrast, 28% of respondents believed that a cruise would be ‘much more expensive’ than an alternative beach holiday.
More than a fifth, 21%, of the respondents who took part in the study stated that they do plan to embark on a cruise holiday in the ‘near future’; whilst 38% said it is ‘unlikely’ they will be enjoying a cruise holiday any time soon.
When asked if they believed they had experienced a great variety of holidays, the majority, 86%, of the respondents said ‘no’. Of the respondents who admitted to having not experienced a variety of holidays, a third, 34%, explained that they had ‘never had the opportunity’; whilst 35% said they were ‘worried’ that they wouldn’t ‘enjoy different holidays’ to the type they were used to.
A further 13% of the respondents who stated they hadn’t enjoyed a variety of holidays explained that they simply ‘lacked imagination’ when choosing a holiday.
Chris Brown, co-founder of bonvoyage.co.uk, spoke about the results of the study:
“It was really interesting conducting this research, as it gave it us insights into the perceptions non-cruisers have towards cruise holidays. It wasn’t too surprising to see that people think cruise holidays are expensive because they are often marketed as a luxury holiday, however, they certainly don’t all come with a luxury price tag.”
“It can often be forgotten that cruise holidays offer the opportunity to visit a variety of countries, countless bars and restaurants and have beautiful scenic views; all of which I am sure would appeal to the younger generation. They’re certainly not just for older holidaymakers, and there are cruises available to suit all ages and tastes!”
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The region is considered as Africa’s Silicon Savannah with a high mobile penetration, home grown digital financial innovations like M-PESA that is now being exported in other countries and a fast growing tech start –up ecosystem.
Statistics indicate that about $63.6 billion is transacted in aggregate in a single year on mobile money platforms in the East African Community (EAC) countries. This corresponds to 46 percent of the total GDP of the EAC in the most recent statistics.
Mobile is a key factor in the region’s start-up ecosystem where many tech start-ups now use the technology as the primary platform to create solutions that address various socioeconomic challenges.
According to the GSM Association, a trade body that represents the interests of mobile network operators globally, over half of all mobile money services in the world are in Sub-Saharan Africa, which remains the fastest-growing mobile market in the world.
In addition, the region is expected to have 500-million cell phone subscribers by 2020.
Despite these successes, the InsurTech innovations still lags behind.
If we are talking of such high numbers in mobile phone penetration, it is high time insurance companies develop of taking advantage of these untapped sector to increase insurance uptake, grow their premiums while in the meantime allowing a majority of customers to enjoy diversified insurance services.
At the moment, insurance firms are yet to go mobile, with only few companies having mobile driven products but still mainly sourced through agents, brokers, or directly by insurance companies.
Mobile technology has the potential to positively impact the insurance industry by attracting new customers and retaining former policy holders.
Insurance companies have a huge task ahead of them of introducing real innovation in the sector through collaborations with tech start-ups that have solutions for the sector.
We are in an era where consumers are demanding to transact with ease and eradicating all the tedious process of transactions.
Digital innovation is not going anywhere and is in fact, set to dominate.
More InsurTech companies are set to emerge in the region and challenge the dominance of the traditional ways of taking up premiums.
Kenyan insurance is only 2.83 per cent leading her East African counterpart Uganda and Tanzania which stands at 0.77 per cent and 0.68 per cent respectively.
By Sebastian De Zuleika – Founder, Market Minds, UK.
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With many internet sites claiming all sorts of things, you may be wondering if eye exercises for myopia really work.? Can we do eye exercises and affect the amount of myopia, or are all short sighted people condemned to a lifetime of glasses, contact lenses or laser surgery?
To understand the effectiveness of eye exercises for myopia we first need to understand a little about what myopia is, the causes and how we can treat it using eye exercises.
Myopia is short sightedness or nearsightedness, and it refers to a condition where near objects are clear but distant object appear blurry.? It is often corrected by optometrists using a minus or concave lens.
The cause is a little less clear (excuse the pun!).? While genetics and diet play a role, most experts believe that the main cause of myopia is excessive near work.? Hence the condition happens most frequently to those who spend large amounts of time doing concentrated near work.
Myopes tend to be people like book worms, computer geeks and students.? Accountants are frequently myopic, as are heavy internet users or computer gamers.? One recent phenomenon which has seen a massive spike in the number of shortsighted young people is the rise of hand held technology, including tablets, iPods, smart phones and the like.
All of these strongly suggest that too much near work stresses the visual system to the point where it collapses, causing it to adapt by letting the distance go blurred to preserve near vision
But Do Eye Exercises for Myopia Control Really Work?
As a behavioral optometrist I use eye exercises as a means of helping to treat short sightedness every day.? If you understand that the root cause of myopia is excessive strain due to excessive near work, then you can look for the signs.
In my practice I can measure not only when myopia is happening, but also see the changes to a person?s focus and eye teaming abilities which accompany the onset on the condition.? If this is the case, I have a selection of eye exercises for myopia which are proven to work in the majority of cases, and all of these exercises have to do with reducing the stress on vision and especially focus and eye teaming abilities.
Here on this site you will find a number of eye exercises for myopia which you can try at home for free.? If you want to get really serious about stopping myopia, we also have a complete series of vision therapy for a fraction of what you will pay in an optometrist?s office.
As with all therapies, eye exercises for myopia require a level of commitment and small changes in the way you do things, but this is a small price to pay to stay out of full time glasses, isn?t it?
When you consider that the alternative is hundreds of dollars for glasses or contact lenses, or thousands of dollars for laser surgery, eye exercises for myopia control are extremely cost effective and, more importantly, they actually work.
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The most important research area of our department is the development and implementation of data analysis algorithms to search for the different expected types of gravitational-wave sources. This includes continuous-wave and inspiral signals in data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.
Searches for weak gravitational-wave signals are very compute-intensive. In some cases, the lack of computing resources makes the searches substantially less sensitive than would be possible using the same experimental data, but with infinite computing power.
For this reason, one of the central activities of the group is to maintain and increase the computing resources available to us. The group operates the ATLAS computing cluster, which is the world's largest and most powerful resource dedicated to gravitational-wave searches and data analysis.
It also plays a leading role in the Einstein@Home project, which uses computing power donated by the general public to search for gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission from neutron stars.
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Concerned with the lack of skilled artisans to repair the historical structures of America, one private college works hard to fill that gap. The American College of Building Arts is a private learning institution located in Charleston, South Carolina. They are bringing up the next generation of blacksmiths, carpenters, stone carvers, and more. Their emphasis is on training highly skilled craftsmen able to create new and also restore historical landmarks. Their students, upon graduation, have ended up all over the world and across the United States. They have repaired famous landmarks like Mount Vernon, but also have made their own impact on American architecture by creating structures that are built to last for hundreds of years.
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In an emergency, you might not have your cellphone or social media to stay in contact with your loved ones and emergency services.
Depending on the severity of the situation, your conventional means of communication might become useless paperweights. That’s where HAM radios come in.
They don’t rely on service providers and complex public networks to communicate with each other.
They’re essentially walkie-talkies on steroids, and they’re a lot more reliable in an emergency.
Users are heavily regulated for a number of reasons, but a licensed HAM radio enthusiast can use their radio as a hobby, emergency communication device, and as a way to listen to emergency information that might not be available via traditional means.
In fact, if you check out my guide to Faraday cages, you can combine a HAM radio with one to have the most reliable communication system possible. Today, I’m going to teach you a little bit about HAM radios by focusing on the emergency uses of HAM radio communication, and I’ll show you some of the best HAM radios you can throw in your survival kit.
Top 9 HAM Radios For Preppers
As I said, HAM radio users are regulated pretty heavily.
You’ll need a license to be able to legally operate one, and there are a few different licenses that you can pursue.
Each type of license covers a different level of HAM radio usage. This is mostly because of the fact that HAM radios can reach beyond our U.S. borders, and it’s important that users conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.
They can also be used for illegal activity, and ensuring that all HAM users are licensed and regulated helps to prevent that from happening.
The Technician License
The Technician’s license is the first license that you’ll have to get to start operating a HAM radio.
It gives you basic privileges, and it allows you to operate your radio on any frequency over 50-MHz.
However, you’ll have limited privileges when it comes to transmitting your voice or using Morse code on below 30-MHz.
This license is best for people who just want to listen to emergency information or communicate casually.
The General License
A General license removes nearly all of the limitations that come with a Technician’s license.
In fact, it allows you to do just about everything besides access a few high-frequency bands.
Obviously, that makes this the license that is most useful for preppers because of how much freedom it gives, but it’s a bit harder to get, and it’s not necessary for basic use.
The Amateur Extra License
The Amateur Extra license is for serious HAM enthusiasts.
It gives you the ability to access every frequency, and it’s the most difficult license to attain.
It’s not really necessary for preppers to attain an Amateur Extra license, but it’s an option if you really enjoy HAM radio.
Handheld VS Mobile VS Base Units
Each one is good for a different use, and each one has its own pros and cons.
Handheld units are exactly what they sound like.
They look like high-tech walkie-talkies, and they function in a similar way. Handheld HAM radios are typically a lot cheaper than larger units, and they’re convenient for when you may need to communicate while you’re away from home.
However, they’re not perfect for every use. Handheld radios are powered by batteries, and that greatly reduces their power output.
That can make it difficult to communicate over long distances, and that might be necessary in an emergency. They’re also difficult to use in a car.
In order to keep from experiencing a lot of issues such as batteries dying and being distracted, you’ll have to use several aftermarket accessories.
Mobile and base units have the same pros and cons.
The only difference between the two is that one is mounted in a vehicle, and the other is made for at-home use. These units have a lot more power output than handheld units, and they’re a lot easier to hear due to their advanced audio systems.
They also broadcast their signal at full power for the duration of the time that they’re on.
You don’t have to worry about batteries. The downside to using a mobile or base unit is that you’ll need an antenna.
Mobile units will typically add an abnormally large antenna to the top of your vehicle, and base units can require towering masses of metal on your roof or in your yard.
So, you obviously have to commit to these units a little more than you do handhelds.
What’s Your Goal?
You can save money and time by understanding what you want a HAM radio for before you buy one.
The licenses get more expensive as you progress, and larger base units require a much larger financial investment. If you just want to listen to emergency broadcasts or contact your licensed family members, you can get by with a handheld radio and a Technician license.
If you want to contact a large variety of people and really delve into HAM radio communication, you’ll need to invest more money and time into it. I personally don’t think you need any more than the basics for survival purposes, but HAM radio is a popular hobby for a reason.
You might end up wanting to go beyond the basics at some point.
If you can’t afford to install a giant antenna and base radio, you shouldn’t try to.
It’s overkill for most survival needs, and it can set you back quite a bit financially. I suggest creating a budget before you buy a radio, and try to stick to that budget when you start shopping.
You don’t need much to properly communicate in a survival situation.
Different licenses grant you access to different frequencies, and some radios aren’t strong enough to access certain frequencies.
Before you buy a radio, you need to understand what band you’ll need access to for your desired use.
Short-Range Emergency Communication
Short-range communication doesn’t require a lot with HAM radio technology.
A Technician license with let you use any band over 50-MHz, and that’s all you really need for this type of communication.
Home HF Communication
This type of communication will most likely require you to get a General license.
A Technician license gives you access to some high-frequency stations, but you’ll be limited in what you can do with it.
For home HF communication, you’ll want access to UHF and HF bands.
This is where you’ll start to need an Amateur Extra license to broadcast on higher frequencies.
A General license will do the trick in a lot of cases, though.
If you’re using a handheld unit, you’ll be able to access UHF and VHF bands on the go.
If you want to access HF bands, you’ll need to install a mobile base unit in your vehicle, and you’ll want to pursue more advanced licenses for unlimited band access.
Buying your first HAM radio
All the information above can be a lot to take in at first.
The video below has some extra information that you can use when you want to buy your first HAM radio.
HAM Radio Reviews
I’ve reviewed the best HAM radios available, and I’ve made those reviews available in the following sections.
They’re divided into the three main categories of HAM radios, and there’s a few options in each category.
BAOFENG BF-F8HP (UV-5R 3rd Gen) 8-Watt Dual Band Two-Way Radio
This is an upgraded version of the popular UV-5R 2nd Gen from BaoFeng.
It has a battery that lasts a lot longer than the previous model, and it has a power output rating of 8 watts.
That’s a fairly good amount of power for a handheld, and the battery life makes it more reliable for survival.
However, It’s still a handheld unit, and you shouldn’t expect it to do much more than other handheld units.
I really like the shell on this unit. Communication is key in a survival situation, and a lot of handheld HAM radios are pretty easy to break.
The shell on this one is a lot stronger, and it can handle being banged around quite a bit. It also protects the built-in high-gain antenna.
- Great shell
- Long battery life
- High-gain antenna
- 8 watts of output
- Not good for long-distance communication
- Limited band access
WouXun KG-UV9D Plus Two-Way Radio
- Lot of band access
- Channel memory is high
- Great speakers
- 2000Mah battery for long battery life
- Shell isn’t as durable
- Very high price
This Kenwood is a really nice radio for people who are serious about getting into HAM radio.
It’s extremely pricey, but it features IF filtering, APRS certification, and it has GPS features.
It can also work well for HAM enthusiasts that have the license necessary for more long-range communication.
However, it’s very pricey, and I only recommend it if you’re very serious about using it.
- VOX / semi-VOX (requires headset)
- Auto clock
- APRS certified
- Amateur radio compliant
- IF filtering for clear communication
- It’s very expensive. The features are worth it for more advanced HAM enthusiasts, but beginners should go with a cheaper option.
The ICOM IC-A120 packs plenty of power into a small package.
It’s small enough to be moved from your vehicle to your home with ease, and it has 36 watts of power output that doesn’t change with constant use. What I like the most about the IC-A120 is its user-friendly interface.
It doesn’t have any complicated keypads or text-style buttons.
It uses a knob, a few buttons, and a simple digital display.
That limits the functionality of the unit when its compared to more robust units, but it makes it easier for beginners to get the hang of.
- User-friendly interface
- Low price
- 36 watts
- Small size
- While it’s good for beginners, the limited functionality might make it less useful for more advanced users.
- Doesn’t cover all bands
TYT MD-9600 GPS Dual Band DMR Mobile Transceiver 50-Watt Car Truck Radio
This is the third generation of TYT HAM radios, and it’s a fairly advanced radio.
It features newly upgraded speakers, keypad lights, and the ability to be programmed via a home computer.
I personally don’t recommend this radio to new users because it’s a little difficult to set up.
If you’re willing to deal with a long setup process, it’s a great radio, and it’ll last for a very long time.
- Long lifespan
- Advanced radio capabilities
- FCC certified
- Accesses most bands
- Weighs less than 3 pounds
- The difficult setup process is a bit much for some users
- It’s twice the price of the ICOM, and it doesn’t offer everything you need
BTECH Mobile UV-50X2 50 Watt Dual Band Base, Mobile Radio: VHF, UHF Amateur (Ham)
- Automatic features make life easy
- It’s not as powerful as other mobile units. It only has a 50-watt power output. That’s still not bad, though.
FT-2980R FT-2980 Original Yaesu
This Yaesu model is built to last.
It features an over-sized heatsink that keeps you from needing to install a cooling fan in your vehicle, and it has all of the features you need for amateur radio.
It’s also the most powerful unit that I’ve reviewed in this category with its massive 80-watt power output.
It’s not able to do everything that the most advanced mobile units can, but it can do enough to keep the majority of HAM operators happy.
- Large heatsink
- Lots of output
- Large display
- User-friendly keypad
- It’s the cheapest mobile unit I’ve reviewed, but that also means it doesn’t have a lot of features.
Eton Elite, The Classic AM/FM/LW/VHF/Shortwave Radio with Single Side Band
Out of the two base units that I reviewed, this is the least expensive, and it’s still not cheap.
It costs a little under $400, but it packs a ton of power.
It can pick up every radio wavelength including AM,FM, LW, SW, SSB and VHF aircraft band frequencies; 360° rotating AM antenna pulls in even the weakest signals for full, bold sound.
- Can pick up nearly any frequency
- Great for shortwave and AM
- IF DSP ability
- It’s a bit pricey for a beginner unit
- The interface is confusing for a lot of users
Yaesu Original FT-991A
- Great display
- Full access to any band
- 100-watt output
- Upgrades every feature of the previous model
- I can’t recommend this to new users. It costs nearly $1500, and a lot of the features are aimed at more advanced users. If you have the skills and license necessary to use the more advanced features, it’s great. Otherwise, you need to go with the other option that I reviewed.
The Original Yaesu mobile radio that I reviewed is the clear winner among all of these options.
FT-2980R FT-2980 Original Yaesu
- Large heatsink
- Lots of output
- Large display
- User-friendly keypad
It may not be enough to satisfy more advanced users, but it has plenty of features and power output for preppers to use reliably.
In fact, the more simplistic design of it can make it a lot easier for preppers to use.
I hope that you liked this article, and I hope you’ve learned a little bit about HAM radios.
If you did, I’d love read your comments, and I hope that you share it with your friends.
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Manipulate a WCF request / response using a custom encoder
Message Encoders are an interesting component within WCF channel stack. It’s primary job is to transform Message instances to and from the wire. While it has an independent existence within a WCF binding stack in the form of a Message Encoding binding element, in essence it is closely integrated with the underlying transport layer. This is unlike to any other binding elements, example a security binding element. Check out this MSDN article on message encoders for more details.
Today I will concentrate my discussion on custom encoders. I will present a very simple example to demonstrate the power of a custom encoder to resolve a seemingly complex scenario. For those who are yet to work with custom encoders, you can find more details here. There is also a MSDN sample which demonstrates a custom text encoder.
Consider a scenario where you are trying to consume a non - .NET web service from a WCF client application over MTOM. The client is configured with the following binding:
Ideally things should work if both the participating components have identical implementation of the same standards. More often than not, things don’t follow the ideal path. In this scenario, a MTOM encoded response from the web service fails with the following exception:
<ExceptionType>System.Xml.XmlException, System.Xml, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089</ExceptionType>
<Message>Root MIME part must contain non-zero length value for 'charset' parameter in Content-Type header.</Message>
at System.Xml.XmlMtomReader.ReadRootContentTypeHeader(ContentTypeHeader header, Encoding expectedEncodings, String expectedType)
at System.Xml.XmlMtomReader.Initialize(Stream stream, String contentType, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas quotas, Int32 maxBufferSize)
at System.Xml.XmlMtomReader.SetInput(Stream stream, Encoding encodings, String contentType, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas quotas, Int32 maxBufferSize, OnXmlDictionaryReaderClose onClose)
at System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReader.CreateMtomReader(Stream stream, Encoding encodings, String contentType, XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas quotas, Int32 maxBufferSize, OnXmlDictionaryReaderClose onClose)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.MtomMessageEncoder.TakeStreamedReader(Stream stream, String contentType)
Let’s have a look at the incoming response to get a better understanding of things:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
content-type: application/xop+xml; type="application/soap+xml"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Base64Encoded data goes here
From the highlighted error message above, one can understand that the issue is with missing ‘charset’ parameter in Content-Type header. Check the root MIME header portion (highlighted above). Even though a charset parameter is present as part of HTTP header, it is indeed missing in the root MIME header. WCF does not like that. There are 2 ways to go about here: either we modify the service to generate a working response or we customize the WCF client so that it accepts this response. We will discuss about the later option. That’s where a custom encoder comes into picture.
With the help of a custom encoder we can modify the response to accommodate a charset parameter in the correct place. This is not possible either with a message inspector or a custom channel as either works on a Message instance. Note the error is thrown before a Message instance is created by MTOM encoder. Primary customization will go inside ReadMessage method:
public override Message ReadMessage(ArraySegment<byte> buffer, BufferManager bufferManager, string contentType)
Algorithm we need to follow out here:
- Convert ArraySegment<byte> buffer into a string
- Manipulate generated string to accommodate the charset parameter
- Recreate ArraySegment<byte> and pass it back to the mtomencoder by calling MtomMessageEncoder.ReadMessage.
Things become interesting if you have a binary data imbedded in the response, for example an image. In that case the first step becomes critical. Ideally we will use the following code to generate a string:
byte incomingResponse = buffer.Array;
string str = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(incomingResponse);
This will work for a text attachment, not for an image. This will not generate any runtime errors though. WCF client will be able to process the response (which means that the issue with ‘charset’ parameter is resolved). However the downloaded binary image, present in the response, will be corrupt. That is because of the encoding format used in the above line. We cannot convert a base64encoded image into string via UTF-8 encoding. If we want to retain the encoding, we need to use Convert.ToBase64String. In that case, we will not be able to perform any string manipulation operations.
I decided to overcome this catch22 situation by converting the first ‘n’ bytes of an incoming response into string, instead of the entire response. This makes sense in this particular scenario since the size of the response till root MIME header will more or less be constant. Hence I wrote the following code piece which does the job of inserting a ‘charset’ parameter into a ‘Content-Type’ header:
//Convert the received buffer into a string
byte incomingResponse = buffer.Array;
//read the first 500 bytes of the response
string strFirst500 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(incomingResponse, 0, 500);
* Check the last occurance of 'application/xop+xml' in the response. We check for the last
* occurrence since the first one is present in the Content-Type HTTP Header. Once found,
* append charset header to this string
int appIndex = strFirst500.LastIndexOf("application/xop+xml");
modifiedResponse = strFirst500.Insert(appIndex + 19, "charset=utf-8");
//convert the modified string back into a byte array
byte ma = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(modifiedResponse);
//integrate the modified byte array back to the original byte array
int increasedLength = ma.Length - 500;
byte newArray = new byte[incomingResponse.Length + increasedLength];
for (int count = 0; count < newArray.Length; count++)
if (count < ma.Length)
newArray[count] = ma[count];
newArray[count] = incomingResponse[count - increasedLength];
* In this part generate a new ArraySegment<byte> buffer and pass it to the underlying MTOM
int size = newArray.Length;
byte msg = manager.TakeBuffer(size);
Array.Copy(newArray, msg, size);
ArraySegment<byte> newResult = new ArraySegment<byte>(msg);
With that we have resolved an interop issue using a custom encoder. Likewise we can extrapolate the usage of a custom encoder to other scenarios where we need to operate on a request / response prior to it being acted upon by an encoder.
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It is almost impossible to characterise or identify the ethical shopper – you can’t know just from looking at them, that is for sure! In my talks when describing the “ideal customer” I use the anecdote of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman – dressed in her “usual” attire she didn’t look like the ideal customer, but later, dressed more akin to the shop attendant’s expectations, she did – and that was the big mistake. Huge. I am sure you can recall the scene… Judging a customer on outward appearance. The same applies to identifying the ethical shopper. So, how can you ensure you maximise customers?
Personally, I recommend retailers present their brand and their shopping experience in a way that expresses their values and will resonate with and attract their ideal customer. Everything from your shopfront, signage, choice of colours, window design, social media content, website, store layout, fixtures, products on offer and packaging has an impact on a customer – making the difference between attraction and conversion or being overlooked.
It is so important to put yourself in the shoes of an ethical shopper – what would appeal to them, how can you express that, visually and through signage, so that they know you meet their needs?
You need to make it as easy as possible for them to shop with you. They want to have a simple and convenient experience that allays any concerns that they are spending with a business which conflicts with their own values. They are looking for reassurances that you, your business, your product range, and even the way you do business, aligns, as much as can be expected in a consumer-facing industry, to those needs.
You can do this in a number of ways – you can obviously talk to your customers, in person or on social channels – find out what matters to them, why they chose to spend with you vs. alternatives, what are they looking for – I can almost place money on it that phrases like shop local, carbon footprint, packaging/plastic waste, quality and provenance, supporting the community, etc will come up.
There may be more – and your existing loyal customers may hold the key to helping you attract more like them. Once you have the picture in your mind’s eye as to what attracts existing customers you can emphasise that in your business communications – your website, window, social content, etc – every single touchpoint that a customer, and more importantly a potential customer, has with your brand.
And a word on social content – don’t just broadcast, like, share and comment on others who would align to your values and appeal to your customers – this way you maximise potential engagement and can increase your own reach and following by being seen as a “voice” on the relevant topic – whether that be around net zero targets, plastic waste or carbon footprint of imported food items. It doesn’t matter, what matters is you become part of the conversation and position your business within that.
Ethical shoppers are growing in number as more and more significant voices are speaking out on topics like climate change, plastic waste and the harmful impact that has on the environment. Social media has a huge role to play in this, as a digitally connected generation learns more and more about their impact on the planet.
They not only make more ethical choices themselves, they influence others – e.g. parents, friends, colleagues. This can be evidenced by the growing number of people following plant-based diets, and, accordingly, the response of mainstream food producers to answer that demand.
You have the opportunity to tap into something that is not likely to go away any time soon, so make sure you maximise that by engaging with customers and potential customers via all channels – digital and physical – so that your brand is the go-to for those that share your values and appreciate what you have to offer.
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Online Tutorials Are Now Live
The Creative Dimension Trust are very excited to announce that our new Online Workshops will be posted to our website 24 hours after the live session!
On Friday 3rd April 2020, The Creative Dimension Trust hosted our first online workshop: Puppet Making with Sian Kidd. During her first workshop, students followed along as Sian showed them how to make a cheeky little puppet out of cardboard, a toilet paper roll and string. We are happy to announce that all of our online workshops will be recorded and posted to our Online Tutorial page 24 hours after the live session so that students across the world can follow along at home.
We have an exiting range of incredible workshops lined up over the next couple of months all hosted by the best craft specialists and artists in the UK, including:
- Puppet Making with Sian Kidd
- Architectural Model Building and Paper Folding with Adam Williamson
- Mask Making with Emma Brassington
- Grisaille with Sarah Hocombe
- Eco-Fashion Upcycling with Jose Hendo
- Eggshell Inlay with Rian Kanduth
- Building up a Thematic Composition with Rene Gonzalez
To find out more and to register for the online workshops, visit the Online Workshops page now.
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The Recording Session window is where recordings are made without the aid of the Wizard. To open this window, click the Record button on the main toolbar.
The recording options appear in the upper section of the Recording Session window and are detailed below.
Start recording only when audio start
This feature minimizes the hassle of starting your player and clicking the Record button as close as possible. When this feature is checked, you can click the Record button, and the recording will not commence until audio is played through your player. This is great for situations where your computer and record player are physically nowhere near each other.
Auto-split files based on noise floor
This is the auto-file splitter. It uses the noise floor sample you obtained in the noise sample stage (see the Background Noise Measure section of this manual) and detects when a track on your record or cassette has finished. The setting Duration at which noise floor must be maintained lets you set how long the noise floor level must be present in the audio (in seconds) before the software determines that the track has ended. Set this duration a little longer if you are recording from a 78 RPM record (up to 10 seconds), and set it a little shorter if you are recording a 33 RPM at 45 RPM speed.
After you have finished recording all your tracks on an album (or one side of an album), the auto-splitter will simply time-out after a short while and recording will automatically stop.
Play back audio while recording
When enabled, this feature will play the input audio simultaneously while it is being recorded. This allows you to listen to what you are recording, which is particularly useful if you would like to manually split your recording into individual tracks.
Discard recorded files that are shorter than
When enabled, this feature will discard the recorded file if the length is less than the specified parameter.
Recording Volume Level
This is where you can monitor the volume level of your recordings. If the volume level looks too high or low, you can go back to the recording calibration stage and adjust the recording volume as appropriate. See the Recording Volume Calibration section of the Wizard for more information.
The recording controls are located at the bottom of the Recording Session window.
Record: Start the recording.
Pause: Pause the current recording. Clicking Record will resume the recording.
Restart: Discards the current recording and begins a new one.
Stop: Stops the current recording.
Split: Stops and saves the current recording and begins a new one. This is useful for manually splitting the incoming audio into separate tracks.
Discard: Discard the current recorded file.
This is where you are shown a variety of details related to the current recording.
Recording state: This tells you the nature of the current recording state. If there is no recording occurring, it says "Idle". If recording has started it will initially say "Waiting for audio stream" while waiting for the audio to start.
File name: This is the name of the file currently being recorded to.
File info: This tells you the file type information about the file, such as its format, sample rate and number of channels.
Recording time: This is the recording time of the current file.
Please note that if you stop a recording before two seconds have elapsed the recording will be discarded, as recordings of such a short length are considered of no use.
Total recording time: This is the total recording time of all files recorded in this session, plus files that are sitting in the main window list.
Space remaining on disc: If you are burning your files to CD or DVD, this says how much space is left on the disc that you currently have in your drive.
Hard drive space remaining: This shows how much space is free on the hard drive you are recording to.
Minimizing Golden Records
If you have started recording and want to do something else while waiting for it to finish, right click the system tray icon on the right bottom of your screen and choose "Minimize Golden Records" to minimize the program to the system tray. When the recording process is over, a balloon will appear above the Golden Records tray icon letting you know the software has finished its job. To restore the program you must then click on the system tray icon.
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TO BRING AWARENESS,
ACCOUNTABILITY, & TRANSPARENCY
TO SEXUAL VIOLENCE
AGAINST ATHLETES AT ALL LEVELS
THE ARMY OF SURVIVORS
SUPPORTING SEXUAL VIOLENCE SURVIVORS IN SPORTS
CHANGING SOCIETY THROUGH RESOURCES, ADVOCACY, AND EDUCATION
The Army of Survivors is the only national organization advocating for and supporting child athlete survivors of sexual violence. We focus on these survivors because their numbers are staggering. A recent study indicated that 13% of student athletes are victims of sexual assault through their participation in sport (1).
These athletes need a voice.
Our organization was created by a group of more than 40 survivors of sexual violence. We are a diverse pool of athletes who competed at all levels: gymnasts, divers, runners, softball players, volleyball players, and more. Our combined history and experiences allow us to raise awareness of the systemic problem of sexual abuse against athletes. Our goal is to end sexual assault against young athletes by ensuring perpetrators and enablers are held accountable, creating transparency in reporting, building an environment in which athletes do not fear retaliation when reporting abuse, and advocating for change to protect survivors.
Child USA | Champion Women | MSUFCU | Shinola | SNAP | Me Too MSU | Reclaim MSU | MSU Relationship Violence & Sexual Misconduct Expert Advisory Workgroup | MSU Museum | University of Michigan Ross School of Business | Belles Against Violence | Courage First | HBO | Voices of Hope
Click here to download a guide to a trauma-informed approach to meetings and spaces.
Download Our 2019-2020 Annual Report
Title IX Changes
The Army of Survivors strongly opposes the new rules relating to Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance.
The rollback of Title IX protections for survivors is devastating. While we advocate for changes within the new Title IX ruling, survivors on college campuses should know they still have protections under Clery Act and Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Below are some resources to learn more.
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Bringing hope, support and opportunities for a better tomorrow through
microenterprise training, mentoring and ongoing support.
Here Is How It Works
We meet with each village group before committing to work with them. We have so many village communitiese asking for our support, it is important there is an undertanding of expectations and commitment by each participant. Frequently the groups prepare special presentations as to why they should be selected.
The Biashara Village Ventures program (developed by OneLove) is delivered over 5-6 intense training days. The program covers all aspects of starting and successfully managing a business. Our mamas often walk miles to attend (sometimes with babies on their back). We provide a lunch at each session and take frequent activity breaks to stay energinized in the intense heat.
As part of the training program, we also teach our mamas how to facilitate structured peer mentoring sessions so they can continue to work together, solve their business challenges, and support each other.
These mentoring sessions often identify where there is a need for us to expand or create new curriculum.
Access to Capital
After the business training is complete, we then move into Phase II of the program. This includes teaching the them how to establish their own peer lending groups - VICOBA (Village Community Banking).
This provides access to working capital to start or expand their ventures. Loans are also taken to pay for education for their children.
Success and Celebration
Such happy days! Upon completion of the business training and establishment of the VICOBA groups we have Graduation Celebrations that are full of song, dance and a special meal (prepared by the mamas). Each woman receives a Certificate of Achievement which is very special to them since many never had the opportunity to attend school. It is so rewarding to see them publically recognized in front of their partners and children.
Follow-up and Monitor
We follow up with program graduates regularly to assess how their ventures are thriving or changing. Meeting the mamas at their own businesses also allows us to provide individual mentoring specific to their needs.
In October of 2021, we launched a broader based evaluation process where we will be surveying approximately 200 program graduates and 6-8 VICOBA groups.
OneLove travels into rural areas to deliver entrepreneurial training, primarily to village women. The Biashara Village Ventures program provides the business training and support needed to create sustainable businesses that in turn impact the well-being of impoverished children and families. The program is delivered in modules that are highly participatory and include both exercises and opportunities for discussion to maximize the learning.
To date, OneLove has been responsible for the start-up of over 2,500 village businesses.
Why village entrepreneurs? Why women?
A large number of women (particularly those in villages) operate in very poor environment with little prospect of being able to work their way out of poverty. They often have a double or triple workload, combining economic activities while looking after the household and providing family care. Many women stay close to their home village, lack contact with the outside world and face mobility/transportation constraints.
As a result, many villagers never have an opportunity to access resources often available in more developed centres and they seldom have opportunities for education or training. These women are often engaged in family survival strategies and businesses spring up out of necessity. Having said this, they are often creative, entrepreneurial, determined and very hard working. With even a small amount of training, tools and support they are better positioned for success.
Rental of catering dishes special events
Growing fruits and vegetables
Making straw hats and rugs
Bead making and jewelry
Roasting maize (corn)
Market stall with farm products
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By: Robert Bartram
Vongai is abundantly clear about what self-stigma means to her. It is, she says, "when I blame myself, I limit myself to certain things, I am ashamed, I isolate myself, I get depression, I'm not confident of anything. I feel inferior." All this because, at the age of 39, she was diagnosed with HIV. She was unable to work properly, convinced herself that people were always sneering at her, and could not speak to anyone.
But that has all changed thanks to Beyond Stigma. Beyond Stigma bases its activities on the 'The Work' philosophy devised by Byron Katie. It tackles the cause and source of all stigma - our individual selves. During the period that practitioners undertake The Work, they come to see that all stigma derives not from the external world, but the inside. In short, we force these negative and destructive thoughts on ourselves.
That's why Vongai is now so determined to help others as well. And she is just as specific about how to vanquish self-stigma: by undertaking the Inquiry-Based Stress Reduction (IBSR) programme. The reason in part, she says, is that individuals don't need to work with others for it to be successful, and all self-care can be undertaken on one's own. The effect on Vongai herself has been transformative, and she is certain that it can be just as successful for anyone else.
In the past, she was always worried that her injured leg would drag behind her. She would focus unduly on this, causing her great anxiety even when she was sitting down. Now, however, she does not worry about this at all, and does not care how she looks when she is walking. In the past, she was very nervous in company and would often not speak up at meetings or other large groups. Now, however, she is open and engaging at all public gatherings and will happily talk about the benefits of challenging self-stigma associated with HIV.
At work, she is much more confident about her day-to-day tasks and even realised that she deserved promotion. Before, she would have lost her temper any time someone asked her about what she was doing, perceiving it as an attack and that she was not up to her job. "You are looking down at me," she would shout at her interlocutor. But now when she has such an encounter, she is much calmer, and just lets the situation run its course, which it always does in her favour.
But the most remarkable change has been with her family. She used to argue a lot with her son, whom she thought was lazy because he was not interested in doing his school work or even reading. It made her particularly angry because she was paying expensive school fees. However, having worked on herself through IBSR, she began to see that she needed to show him more respect and give him his space. Now she just tells herself that she has done her best to encourage him. This softer approach has worked wonders. Her son began to read much more and after a while approached his mother and told her that he would do his best to pass his school exams that year.
Everyone around Vongai - family, friends, colleagues - has noticed the change in her. She knows the secret to her success, and is desperate to let everyone in on it too. Whenever she sees others in distress, she automatically suggests that they undertake the IBSR programme. No problem is too great for the Work, she asserts, happily confident in her transformed self and the new lease of life it has given her.
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Dawson Street Mixed-use Development
Built as part of Joshua Dawson's 1700s grand plan for the lands east of Grafton Street, PKA's remodelling of 51a, b & c Dawson Street is an exemplar in the adaptation and reuse of protected structures.
Amalgamated in the early nineteenth century, the properties were in a dilapidated condition when purchased by our clients in 2016 and their overall condition did little justice to their location on one of the most important streets of Georgian Dublin.
PKA remodelled the three houses from top to bottom: providing suites of serviced offices on the upper floors of 51a and b; upgrading the ground floor retail / restaurant units; and converting the top floors of the Dawson / Duke Street corner into a stylish duplex apartment.
At first floor level the three units were combined to accommodation our client's company headquarters; The Duke Street corner's sixties' 'picture window' was replaced by a contemporary steel screen modelled on the adjacent Georgian sashes.
The dilapidated condition of 51c facilitated the insertion of a two-storey duplex apartment; with its own front-door from Duke Street leading to an en-suite bedroom at second floor level, and a double-height kitchen / dining / living room above.
The programme of conservation works included major structural repairs, restoration of remaining elements of historic fabric, wet and dry rot treatments, as well as the installation of new facilities and services.
The philosophy underpinning the project is that that protected structures must evolve if they are to last, and that the combination of contemporary interventions with conservation of the historic fabric that the project has delivered makes an architecture that is richer than either on its own.
Size: 1,305 sqm
Reference: On application
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- GOAL 4: Quality Education
- GOAL 5: Gender Equality
- GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality
- GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
- GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
- GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal
Tratos has long enjoyed gender equality. Half of the company’s Holding Board are women; half of its shareholders are women. The company actively promotes women to senior management roles and values the benefits a balanced team brings to Tratos.
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If one or both of your eyes are looking a little red, you may be suffering from a case of conjunctivitis, also referred to as "Pink Eye."
As one of the most common and treatable eye ailments in both children and adults, conjunctivitis may be due to viral or bacterial causes or develop as a result of exposure to allergens or irritants. At the office of South Florida Eye Health, we'll determine what's causing your symptoms and provide the most appropriate course of care to protect the health of your eyes.
When the transparent tissues that line the inside of the eyelid and cover the white part of your eyeball are irritated and inflamed, it makes the small blood vessels in the conjunctiva more visible. Along with exhibiting a pink-look or redness, your eyes may feel gritty, itchy, or teary. You might also experience a clear, yellowish, white or green discharge from your eye as well as crusting of the eyelids or lashes.
While conjunctivitis that is caused by allergens or irritants is not contagious, Pink eye of viral or bacterial origin can be easily spread. Children, office workers, college students, along with anyone else who works closely with others, are at a higher risk of exposure to these germs. With conjunctivitis, it's essential to remember that proper hygiene, taking care not to rub your eyes, and not sharing personal items like cosmetics and towels are the best ways to stop the germs from spreading. Take care not to wear contact lenses if your eyes are red and irritated. Wear your prescription eyeglasses until our doctor gives you the all-clear to go back to wearing contacts.
Most cases of Pink eye seen by our office are typically mild and easy to treat. However, it's especially important to get prompt care if you experience moderate to severe pain, significant eye redness, light sensitivity, blurred vision, a pre-existing eye condition, worsening symptoms despite antibiotic treatment, or are immune-compromised. Also, newborns with symptoms of conjunctivitis require immediate care.
At the office of South Florida Eye Health, we're dedicated to providing the highest quality of skilled and compassionate eye and vision care. For more information on our office and the many services that we provide, give us a call today.
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How to order new resources (items not held by the Library):
Via Subject Readings
If you use Subject Readings, add the citation details to your reading list. When you submit your list, the Library will recognise citations not in our collection. For ebooks/books we'll aim to purchase it, for articles/book chapters we'll source a copy via Document Delivery. For support creating a reading list and adding resources, see the subject readings guide for staff.
Via Library SEARCH
Search for the resource in Library SEARCH. Ensure you tick 'Show results outside UOW Library' in the left hand panel. Click the item's title. Under 'How to get it', complete the Purchase Request form or Document Delivery form (for article/book chapters).
Contact us for guidance
Our Liaison Librarians can work closely with you to identify and select the best quality resources for your needs (including open access material) and can help you order resources.
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The difference between Salt and Ice melt can be a confusing to know which is best. This specifically is relevant as the first snow fall approaches and you’re preparing your winter supplies. There are many pros and cons to each option, so it is important to know your specific needs and where the product is going to be used. Continue reading for information to help you choose the right product for you and your family.
Rock salt is made from sodium chloride and is commonly used by local governments and contractors who are involved in snow and ice management. One of the reasons for this is that it is more cost effective than ice melt as well as that it is much more accessible to buy in bulk. Rock salt effectively lowers the freezing point of water and provides instant traction when applied. Rock salt is There are a few factors to consider before purchasing this for your winter needs:
- It is more corrosive to metal, concrete, and stonework.
- Is not pet friendly (can be harmful to animals’ paws).
- It is not effective when applied when the temperatures are around -10 degrees Celsius.
- Has more chance to harm your lawn or landscaping (cheaper is more damaging).
So, if you have a lot of stonework or concrete around your property or want to keep your furry friends paw safe, it is important to remember that the more you use, the more chance you’ll have of potentially causing harm to your beautiful lawn/landscaping or your pets.
Ice Melt is also made of sodium chloride along with magnesium chloride pellets and calcium chloride. These extra components have a two-fold effect. It makes the product safer for our hardscapes, lawns and pets but it often costs more than you would for a bag of regular rock salt. Ice melt works faster than rock salt, but it does not provide instant traction for slippery situations. The following factors also should be considered when making your decision:
- Is safer for metal, concrete and stonework.
- Can be pet friendly (check the label before purchase).
- It is effective in temperatures below -10 degrees Celsius.
- Is less likely to damage your lawn or landscaping.
Ice Melt is a safer alternative but just like rock salt, the more you use of any product creates buildup. Because this product works faster and helps with the prevention of snow and ice build up you should be using less overall.
The difference between salt and ice melt really does boil down to your needs, budget and climate. Either option can work but this article with other resources should help you make the final call. Stay safe and warm out there folks!
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Staggering Online Harassment Statistics—How to Protect Yourself in the Virtual World?
Everyone is online—people of all ages, vocations, personal interests. But how many of these people have had some unpleasant experience on the Internet? Quite a few, according to recent findings. Be it cyberstalking, sexual harassment, or some other form of abuse, people all around the country and worldwide are facing security problems every day.
Not only does online harassment of any kind make you uncomfortable when it happens, but it can leave long-lasting harmful consequences on your health, too. According to the Pew Research Center, cyber harassment can result in mental and emotional stress, as well as fear for one’s safety.
What Do Online Harassment Statistics Show?
With Internet usage growth, the problem of online security has become more prominent. Online harassment statistics show that more and more people report some form of abuse on social media platforms and other online venues. Here are the most staggering figures that prove how big a problem online harassment is:
- According to Statista, in January 2020, 44% of Internet users experienced some form of online harassment, with 28% reporting severe abuse (physical threats, stalking, sexual harassment, etc.)
- Another Statista report shows that 77% of the victims were harassed on Facebook, while Twitter ranked second with 27% of the victims reporting abuse on this platform
- According to The Pew Research study, 27% of Americans don’t want to post something online because they fear being harassed, while 13% of them even stopped using an online service for the same reason
Online Harassment Statistics—Adults
Even though they are more aware of security problems online than their children, many adults still become victims of cyber harassment. Let’s see what the statistics say:
- The Pew Research suggests that four in ten adults (41%) experienced harassing behavior online
- The same report indicates that 18% of adults have been victims of severe abuse, including physical threats and sexual harassment
- The Pew Research report also shows that 66% of adults have witnessed harassing behavior online
Online Harassment Statistics—Minors and Teenagers
Considering that 95% of teens in the U.S. are online, it comes as no surprise that they are often the ones being harassed in the virtual world. Here’s what the figures say:
- According to Ipsos, one in four parents reported that their child had been cyberbullied
- About 37% of young Internet users have been bullied online (between the ages of 12 and 17)
- Statista findings suggest that 52% of teenagers state that they often or sometimes come across racist hate speech on social media platforms, while 12% of teens say that they frequently encounter this form of harassment
- The same report shows that 52% of teenagers often or sometimes encounter sexist abuse, while 14% of them say that this form of harassment is frequent on social media.
What Counts as Online Harassment?
To be able to identify online harassment, you need to learn what it means when someone is harassing you. Some small signs of abuse might be tricky to spot, but it’s vital that you do if you want to avoid further complications. Here are the most common
- Harassment involving sexism
- Harassment involving racism
- Making direct personal threats
- Hate speech
What Doesn’t Count as Online Harassment?
You should be on alert for even the smallest signs that hint at abuse, but you also need to know what doesn’t constitute online harassment. Someone’s behavior might be annoying, but no matter how much it bothers you, it won’t necessarily count as harassment.
There are two crucial questions to answer to determine whether you’re dealing with a harasser: is the person in question hurting you intentionally? Did it happen just once or repeatedly? If the answer to both of these is affirmative, you need to take action against the abuser.
How to Protect Yourself From Online Harassment?
To avoid becoming the next victim of online harassment (or going through this frustrating experience again), keep in mind the following suggestions on how to deal with an abuser:
Take advantage of all available tools to block the abuser. All social media platforms offer an option to block anyone you want, so use it. Should the perpetrator continue to harass you by making harassing phone calls, you should install a call-blocking app.
Remember one thing—the abuser is waiting for your reaction to their harassing behavior. Don’t give them that pleasure. No matter how much it bothers you, don’t respond to the harassing content.
If blocking doesn’t work, you should report the person in question. Social media platforms have an option to report anyone who’s abused you in any way, so do not hesitate to contact social media representatives and report the abuser.
Don’t delete the abusive content before you take a screenshot or a photo of it. You will need a piece of evidence to prove that you’ve been harassed.
Report Online Harassment to the Police
If the situation becomes alarming, and you need to take more drastic measures to protect yourself from online harassment, you should file a police report. If you decide to take this step, you should check with the local authorities what exactly the reporting process involves. In most states, you will need to:
- Bring at least some evidence to prove online harassment
- Describe your relationship with the abuser
- Describe the abuser’s harassing act
- Provide all the information you have about the harasser (name, email address, social media account details, username, phone number, etc.)
If you believe that your safety is jeopardized and that the abuser may start harassing you in person, too, make sure you file for a restraining order against that person.
How Can DoNotPay Help You Fight Online Harassment?
Have you tried everything to put an end to online harassment, but nothing works? Not even the police can protect you from the cyber abuser? There’s no need to panic—DoNotPay has got you covered. We have designed a simple and efficient solution to help our users stop online abuse as soon as possible. Here’s what you need to do:
- Log in to your DoNotPay account via the web browser
- Go to the Relationship Protection section
- Choose Safety and Stalking
- Type in the name of the abuser (if applicable)
- Rely on DoNotPay to get through to the social media representatives and report the abuser. We will ask for their account and activity to be investigated. DoNotPay can also tell the representatives to block the person in question so that they can’t contact you again
What Else Can DoNotPay Do to Help You?
You don’t know how to stop a stalker? Whether you have a problem with stalkers online or in the real world, DoNotPay can help you. If you don’t know how to stop some other form of harassment, we’ve got you covered there, too.
And that’s not all—you can use our app when you find yourself in other problematic situations, from suing companies in small claims court to disputing traffic tickets. You need to log in to your account on DoNotPay via the web browser, and then pick the service that meets your needs:
- Helping you manage massive bills
- Getting revenge on robocall scammers
- Preparing paperwork for a small claims court lawsuit
- Dealing with credit card-related issues
- Protecting you from other forms of harassment
- Skipping long phone queues when calling customer support
- Canceling subscriptions and memberships you no longer use
- Disputing traffic tickets
- Scheduling DMV appointments fast and easy
- Getting compensation when the airline cancels or delays your flight
- Appealing parking tickets
- Fighting speeding tickets
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