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Most parents don’t think twice about teaching their kids how to shave. It’s a rite of passage that’s been around for generations. But for some parents, the thought of their child wielding a razor can be a bit daunting.
If you’re one of those parents, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know about teaching your kid to shave.
The first thing you need to do is gather your supplies. You’ll need a sharp razor, a good shaving cream, and a mirror. Once you have everything you need, it’s time to start teaching your child how to shave.
The first thing you need to do is show your child how to hold the razor. They should grip it tightly, but not so tight that their hand starts to shake. Once they’ve got a good grip, they need to start shaving in short, strokes.
It’s important to teach your child to shave slowly and carefully. They should avoid going over the same spot multiple times, as this can lead to irritation. And, of course, they should always be careful not to cut themselves.
Once they’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to start teaching them how to shave different parts of their face. The most important thing is to start with the cheeks, as this is the area that’s most likely to get razor burn.
- Choose the right razor
- A good razor for a beginner is one that is easy to handle and has a guard to protect against nicks and cuts
- Prepare your child’s skin
- Wet the area to be shaved and apply a shaving cream or gel
- Show your child how to hold the razor
- Hold the razor in your dominant hand and place your other hand on the area to be shaved to stretch the skin
- Teach your child how to shave
- Show them how to move the razor in small, even strokes in the direction of hair growth
- Rinse the area
- Once your child has finished shaving, rinse the area with warm water and apply a moisturizer
What is a good age to start shaving?
There is no definitive answer to this question as it is entirely personal preference. Some people may choose to start shaving as early as puberty, while others may wait until they are much older. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide when they are comfortable starting to shave.
There are a few things to consider when making the decision to start shaving. For example, some people may find that shaving helps to improve the appearance of their skin. Others may start shaving in order to reduce the amount of body hair they have.
No matter the reason, it is important to make sure that you are prepared before starting to shave. There are a few things you will need in order to shave properly. First, you will need a good quality razor.
It is important to find a razor that is comfortable to use and that will not cause any irritation. Second, you will need to find a shaving cream or gel that works well for your skin type. Finally, you will need to have a good aftershave product on hand to help soothe your skin after shaving.
Once you have all of the necessary supplies, you are ready to start shaving. Be sure to start by shaving in the direction of hair growth. This will help to prevent any irritation or razor burn.
Take your time and be careful not to press too hard on your skin. After you have finished shaving, be sure to apply an aftershave product to help soothe your skin.
How do I teach my daughter to shave?
Assuming you would like tips on teaching your daughter how to shave:
The first step is to make sure she has all the supplies she needs: a sharp razor, shaving cream, and a clean towel. It’s also important to have a conversation with her about why she’s shaving and what to expect.
Next, show her how to wet her skin and apply the shaving cream. Then, demonstrate how to hold the razor and shave with smooth, even strokes. It’s important to avoid shaving too close to the skin, which can cause irritation.
Finally, help her rinse off the shaving cream and inspect her skin for any nicks or cuts. If everything looks good, she’s all set! Teaching your daughter how to shave can be a daunting task, but following these simple steps will help make the process go smoothly.
What age do you teach a girl to shave?
There is no definitive answer to this question since it varies based on personal preference. Some parents choose to teach their daughters to shave when they reach puberty, while others wait until they are a bit older. Ultimately, it is up to the parent to decide when the time is right.
If you are considering teaching your daughter to shave, there are a few things to keep in mind. First, make sure she is ready mentally and emotionally. This is an important milestone and she should be comfortable with the idea before proceeding.
Next, consider her physical readiness. Is she experiencing any hair growth in the areas she would shave? If not, she may not be ready just yet.
Once you’ve determined that she is ready, it’s time to start teaching her how to shave. Show her how to lather up her skin with shaving cream and how to use a razor. It’s important to stress the importance of safety and to go slowly at first.
Encourage her to practice a few times before taking the plunge and actually shaving. This will help her get a feel for the process and make sure she is comfortable with it. Finally, be there to support her through the process.
Shaving can be tricky and it’s normal for her to make a few mistakes at first. Just be patient and help her through it until she gets the hang of it.
Teaching son to shave!!! How To Shave For Beginners
It’s no secret that teaching a kid to shave can be a daunting task. But with a little patience and the right tools, it can be a breeze! Here are a few tips on how to teach a kid to shave:
1. Choose the right razor. A safety razor is a great option for beginners. 2. Start with a dry face.
Wetting the face beforehand will make the hair softer and easier to shave. 3. Use shaving cream. This will help reduce irritation and make the shaving process smoother.
4. Shave in the direction of the hair growth. This will help prevent razor burn. 5. Rinse the razor after each stroke.
This will help keep the razor clean and sharp. 6. Rinse the face with cool water after shaving. This will help soothe any irritation.
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N-S-82 Brezinka is a middle weight independent infantry casemate. This fortification was built between the years 1935 - 1938. It is one link in the chain of forts which had to protect the Czechoslovakian border against German and Hungarian attack.
Construction of the casemate started on the 28th of June 1937 and it was for the most part finished in September 1938. The garrison of the casemate comprised of 32 men. The main armanant of "Brezinka" composed of a L1 4,7 gun. The casemate was also equiped with several heavy machine guns of the type Vz.37 7,92mm machine gun.
Today the main part of "Brezinka" is reconstructed to its former condition.
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By Guest Blogger Matthew Brault, Statistician, Health and Disability Statistics Branch, U.S. Census Bureau.
As most visitors to this blog are aware, the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990 represented a major milestone. The law guaranteed equal opportunity for people with disabilities in public accommodations, commercial facilities, employment, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications. A common question, however, that still pops up during discussions of disability policy is, “How many people with disabilities are there in the United States?”
Coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of the ADA, the Census Bureau released a new report – Americans With Disabilities: 2010 – that presented a new look at the prevalence of a wide range of specific disabilities, the degree of severity, and the well-being of the population with disabilities. The report showed the number of people with disabilities increasing over the previous five years to 56.7 million people in 2010 (54.4 million in 2005), while the proportion of the population with a disability remaining unchanged at 18.7 percent of the civilian non-institutionalized population.
The Americans With Disabilities: 2010 report also shows the prevalence of specific disability types. For instance, about 8 million adults had difficulty seeing; 9 million adults had difficulty with an activity of daily living (ADL); and 4 million adults had a learning disability. Furthermore, disability is often co-occurring with around 11 million individuals experiencing both physical and mental disabilities.
Measuring disability in surveys, however, is not an easy task and different surveys can generate very different estimates of the size of this population. “With a disability” in one study may not be the same as “with a disability” in another. Depending on the definition used, the context of the questions or methods in which the data are collected, estimates of the size of the population with disabilities have ranged from 22 million (from the American Housing Survey) to 62 million (from the National Health Interview Survey).
The Census Bureau report’s estimate of 56.7 million people with disabilities comes from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), which uses a comprehensive set of disability questions assessing difficulty on a number of dimensions including communication, physical and mental functions. Disability statistics from this survey are used by agencies such as the Social Security Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Administration on Aging to assist with program planning and management. The SIPP measure has been the primary statistic for estimating the size of the population with disabilities since the early 1990s.
Disability and functioning are continua ranging from “able to do most or all basic activities with little or no difficulty or help from technology or another person” to “completely unable to do most or all basic activities, even with assistive technology or other aids.” Under this gradient, most people fall somewhere in between. We use categories like “with a disability” and “with no disability” to make it easier to describe the population, even though the threshold for how much difficulty constitutes a disability may not be clear.
Perhaps some of the difficulty in defining disability along this continuum is also found in the issue of choosing which activities should be included in the disability measure. The American Community Survey (ACS) – a great survey for looking at the social, economic and housing characteristics of sub-national geographies like states, counties, and metropolitan areas – uses questions on six specific types of disabilities. With fewer dimensions of disability, the ACS shows a smaller number of people with disabilities (36 million, or 12 percent), but provides statistics at more localized levels.
Researchers, advocates, and policymakers should be aware of the reasons for the different estimates of the number of people with disabilities in the U.S. No one survey estimate is “right” or “wrong” as all surveys must make choices about the type and nature of disability they intend to measure. With the SIPP’s comprehensive set of questions on various disabilities, the Census Bureau (and many across the federal government) have used Americans with Disabilities report estimates, like the current estimate of 56.7 million people with disabilities, and so it is widely accepted as the measure of the size of this population.
For presentation slides and more information from a July 27, 2012 C-SPAN segment on the Americans With Disabilities report, visit this link.
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We are officially more than halfway through the year! Although the July heat may tempt you to stay inside, there is actually a lot that needs to be done in your lawn and garden in July. Don’t let that hard work you did in the spring go to waste! If you have questions about anything we include here or need products we recommend, please visit our garden center and one of our staff should be able to get you the information or product you need.
Fruits and Veggies
- Side dress (fertilize) your garden vegetables. Garden Tone is a great choice.
- Plant your fall vegetable garden now! (Check out this site for when to plant what in NC)
- Beans, carrots, brussel sprouts, and tomatoes
- Start broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower in peat pots to transfer in mid-August.
- Prune fruiting canes of raspberry and blackberry plants. Prune dieback on blueberry.
- Spray cucumber, squash, tomato and eggplant if insects are observed. (We recommend and carry Captain Jack’s Dead Bug or Insect Killing Soap.)
- Look for blossom-end rot on tomatoes (more info in the Growing Tomatoes blog post).
Shrubs and Lawns
- Change direction every time you mow.
- Mow north to south one mowing, then east to west the next.
- Check lawn perimeters near woods for weeds like poison ivy, honeysuckle and kudzu and spray with herbicide.
- Feed zoysia lawn with fertilizer. DO NOT feed tall fescue.
- Maintain 3.5-4 inch mowing height for fescue and 1.75-2 inches for zoysia and bermuda.
- Check these shrubs for insect pests and treat with insecticide: arborvitae, azalea and pyracantha.
- Spray for Japanese beetles as needed (Triple Action Fertilome is a great product for getting rid of Japanese beetles).
- Prune dieback limbs on rhododendron, azalea, and mountain laurel.
Flowers and Trees
- Prune white pines and narrowleaf evergreens like juniper early this month (like today!).
- Prune maple, dogwood, birch and elm trees.
- Deadhead annuals and perennials that need it (see this blog post on deadheading).
- In addition to deadheading, annuals that have gotten leggy or overgrown should be trimmed back. Look for stems that aren’t looking so good and snip them off. Don’t cut back more than one-third of the plant. And don’t fear! In a week or so, you will see a difference in your annuals that will delight you!
- Divide and transplant your irises and daylilies. Transplanting irises can be a little tricky. Check out this site for some advice.
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- Now is a great time of year to look for spots that need additional shade trees.
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When taking your family on a road trip, you want to ensure everyone gets there safely. In other words, it means doing everything you can to avoid car accidents that could result in serious injury or even death. Making sure your family vehicle has the best safety features available is a good place to start protecting your family.
Safety Features to Look for in a Family Vehicle
Ask if the following features are included in the vehicle you’re considering before making your next car purchase. These are the top ten features to look for in a family vehicle.
1. Outstanding crash test results
Examine the vehicle’s crash test results before making a purchase. Vehicles are tested for front and side-impact crashes by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The cars are rated on a five-star scale by the federal authorities.
2. Compatibility with child safety seats
You must ensure that your child’s safety seat is suitable for the car before purchasing a family vehicle. A child safety seat will not fit in all vehicles. When you go for a test drive, check out the child safety seat.
3. Advanced frontal airbags
Airbag technology has progressed in recent years. Sensors in advanced frontal airbag systems analyze occupant size, seat position, crash severity, and other factors to determine the appropriate level of inflation. This improves the effectiveness of airbags. It also lowers the chances of an airbag-related accident.
4. Airbags for side-impact and side curtain
Side-impact airbags are intended to protect passengers in case of a side-impact collision. Request that the backseat be fitted with side-impact airbags. In case of a side-impact crash, side curtain airbags protect the occupants’ heads. These airbags can also keep passengers from being ejected from the car.
5. Active head restraints
A common result of a rear-end collision is whiplash. Neck injuries can be avoided with active head restraints.
6. Stability control
Many new vehicles come equipped with stability control, a great safety feature. Sensors are used in this system to detect any prospective sliding or rollovers. If the system detects any instability, it applies the brakes to specific wheels to avoid severe sliding. During an emergency, stability control assists drivers in maintaining control. Because heavier cars are more prone to sliding and rollovers, this feature is crucial.
7. Antilock braking system
On slippery surfaces, this system prevents skidding. The technology helps drivers maintain control of the vehicle by preventing the wheels from locking up.
8. Tire pressure monitoring system
If you’re buying a used car, check if it includes a tire pressure monitoring system. Underinflation is the most common cause of tire flats and blowouts. A tire pressure monitoring system alerts the driver if a tire is underinflated. Inspect the tire pressure levels once a month if your car does not have a tire pressure monitoring system.
9. Rear parking sensors
Many of the newer, larger vehicles come equipped with rear parking sensors, including rearview cameras. For large family vehicles, blind spots are a major issue. Rear parking sensors are a great purchase because you may not notice little children running around behind your car. It improves the safety of your vehicle and is quite handy.
10. Automatic crash notification
Automatic crash notification systems are already standard in today’s vehicles. These systems will alert emergency responders to come to your help. The system also provides authorities with your location. These systems also provide roadside assistance for less serious issues such as flat tires.
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“In Europe, we have launched a 750 billion euro plan, called The Next Generation of the EU.. One of the Plan’s goals is to support environmental transitions in Europe. 10% of Europe’s plan, about 70 billion euros, will be for investments in green infrastructure, a circular economy and sustainable mobility only in Italy, ”explained the head of government.
The national restoration and recovery plan will be the subject of two different meetings of the Council of Ministers. This is what we learned from government sources. A CDM is scheduled – even if not called yet – tomorrow, to test the original text. On Monday and Tuesday, Prime Minister Draghi will present the plan to the Chambers, which they will show by a vote after his disclosure. Only then, from April 28 to 29, is there a second Council of Ministers, for the final review and vote of the NRP, before submitting it to the European Commission, scheduled for 30. April..
At Palazzo Chigi in the morning, Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Economy Minister Daniele Franco met together with the team leaders, the Minister related to the recalled dossier. On the table The draft NRP will be submitted to the Council of Ministers tomorrow. A meeting lasted about two hours.
National recovery and recovery plan Total amount is 221.5 billion, of which 191.5 goes to Recovery fund and 30 billion to supplement fund. This is what appears from the inserted tables in the document that the CDM should examine. You are on duty: digitization, innovation, competitiveness and culture, with 42.5 billion VND; green revolution and ecological transformation with 57 billion; infrastructure for sustainable mobility with 25.3 billion; education and research with 31.9 billion VND; integration and association with 19.1 billion VND; health with 15.6 billion.
By 2026, GDP will be 3 percentage points higher thanks to the interventions envisaged in the National Recovery and Recovery Plan, We still read it in the draft prepared for the CDM. Average GDP growth in the period 2022-2026 will be 1.4 points higher than the period 2015-2019. Productivity growth goals through innovation, digitization, and investment in human resources are outlined.
The six missions of the National Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan will also be accompanied by two structural reforms in the judiciary and public administration, a draft prepared from the perspective of the Council of Ministers. The draft mentions other reforms considered “facilitating”, such as simplifying licensing, authorization, and interference with procurement code. The government is also thinking “sector-specific reforms such as new regulations on renewable energy production and railway program contract interventions”.
Because of what cares administering the NRP, having “direct responsibility of the relevant governance structures: ministries and local and territorial agencies for the implementation of investments and reforms within agreed timeframes and regular, correct and effective management of resources “, We read in a draft presentation by Pnrr. “Monitoring, reporting and transparency,” it writes, will “focus on the Ministry of Economy, which oversees and controls progress on reforms and investments and acts as a single point of contact. to contact the EU Commission “.
Highest share of 30 billion of ‘additional’ Recovery funds they will enrich the mission of “Green Revolution and ecological transformation”: green, according to the draft, will amount to nearly 12 billion, (11.65) of which 8.25 is for Superbonus. Pictures are still the subject of the profile. Another 6.13 billion will be for digital and mobile respectively (from broadband and 5G it takes 1.4 billion to remote monitoring system of bridges, tunnels and viaducts obtained 1.15 billion), 3 , 25 billion will be for projects related to the mission of “Inclusion and cohesion” and 2.89 for health.
The new national recovery and recovery plan certifies 19.72 billion for health, it is learned from the Department’s sources. In total, 15.62 billion will be envisaged in the NRP, plus 1.71 billion React Eu, plus 2.39 billion in additional funds.
Resources for education and research are increasing in the new draft of the National Recovery and Recovery Plan. This is what emerged from a comparison between the figures from the previous draft NRP and the new table, which was distributed to ministers. In the previous NRP, with a total value of 210.9 billion, resources devoted to education amounted to 26.66 billion. In the new draft, worth 191.5 billion, education instead is 31.9 billion, of which 24.1 billion for new projects and 7.7 billion for existing projects.
A very complex plan, confirming 6 quests and 16 components for the Restoration Plan: is what appears from the draft and the new panels. Unlike the old draft, 39 axes were identified for development of interventions (previously they were “lines” and had 48), divided into 135 investments and 7 reforms, respectively. Among the three issues are related to public administration (transition, access and skills), followed by reform of the industrial property system, compulsory training for schools, and active labor policy. and medical territorial reform.
From the renewal of the superbonus to 2023 as an “essential” for the NRP evaluation to the correct documents verifying the details of the projects: this is – according to what we learn from government sources of the Movement – the proposals that the M5S made this morning to the Palazzo Chigi summit on the Restoration Plan. Attention to youth, women and the South are other points required by the M5S, with the approval of the Plan by Congress as formal but with “real participation”. In the planning chapter, out of requirements, “no” for the incinerator and agreed to green hydrogen appears. | <urn:uuid:b9d59cc6-2acd-4742-8c78-361a6ea11ade> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://internationalhubnews.com/recovery-draghi-70-billion-infrastructure-and-green-mobility-politics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.936017 | 1,220 | 1.671875 | 2 |
A survey from the Children’s Society found 28% of families expect to borrow cash to get through the festive season, with those in London, the North East of England and Wales being particularly likely to do so.
More than half (54%) of families who have already found themselves in problem debt this year plan to borrow more to cover the cost of Christmas, the research found.
Families were considered to have problem debt if it had fallen behind on the repayments of bills or credit commitments. Families with debt, but who were keeping up with payments were not included as being in problem debt.
The research among 2,000 people found that, on average, parents spend £340 on Christmas presents alone.
Matthew Reed, chief executive of the Children’s Society, said: “All parents - particularly those who are struggling - need to be aware how difficult it can be to shake off Christmas debt.
“No one wants children to miss out on the fun and excitement of Christmas, but neither would anyone wish parents to wake up on New Year’s Day with a nasty hangover of debt.”
The Children’s Society, as part of its Debt Trap campaign, is calling for more support for families with children who fall behind on bills and repayments. It wants to see a 12-month “breathing space” scheme introduced, to give struggling parents a period of protection to put their finances back on track.
Here are the percentages of families who expect to borrow money to cover costs of Christmas by region, according to the Children’s Society:
* North West, 17%
* North East, 37%
* Yorkshire and the Humber, 11%
* East Midlands, 25%
* West Midlands, 23%
* East Anglia, 18%
* London, 36%
* South East, 28%
* South West, 30%
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is a town located in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
. As of the 2000
census, the town had a total population of 4,049.
Geography\nCarlyss is located at 30°11'34" North, 93°22'27" West (30.192655, -93.374104)1
According to the United States Census Bureau
, the town has a total area of 31.0 km²
). 31.0 km² (12.0 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
Demographics\nAs of the census
, there are 4,049 people, 1,473 households, and 1,132 families residing in the town. The population density
is 130.5/km² (338.0/mi²). There are 1,668 housing units at an average density of 53.8/km² (139.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.46% White, 0.84% African American
, 0.25% Native American
, 0.25% Asian
, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 0.86% from two or more races. 1.19% of the population are Hispanic
of any race.
There are 1,473 households out of which 38.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.0% are married couples living together, 10.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 23.1% are non-families. 18.1% of all households are made up of individuals and 4.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.75 and the average family size is 3.13.
In the town the population is spread out with 28.7% under the age of 18, 9.3% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 99.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $37,358, and the median income for a family is $41,583. Males have a median income of $36,042 versus $19,063 for females. The per capita income for the town is $17,956. 9.7% of the population and 8.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 12.1% are under the age of 18 and 10.4% are 65 or older. | <urn:uuid:2a716024-d82a-4069-9711-b49181a0aa73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.fact-index.com/c/ca/carlyss__louisiana.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959138 | 613 | 1.78125 | 2 |
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Insensitivity to Caregivers Stings
Caregiving is often a 24/7 role, and as the loved one declines the caregiving responsibilities increase. The physical and emotional toll of watching a loved one decline coupled with the increase in caregiving demands, lack of sleep, change in routine, and added responsibilities can result in a very stressed caregiver with fragile emotions. Some caregivers experience “role reversal”; activities and responsibilities that were once performed by the loved one now fall to the caregiver to address, in addition to all the other caregiving duties. There are many individuals who have never cared for a chronically ill person or a loved one who is experiencing memory loss, thus increasing physical limitations and have no appreciation for what goes into caregiving.
The Caregiving Reality
For many, caregiving activities involve some degree of bathing, toileting, grooming, feeding, assisting with walking or moving into a chair, meal preparation, medication administration, dressing changes, therapies, and keeping the loved one safe. In the event that the loved one does not sleep or requires assistance with repositioning, toileting or medications at night, that results in the caregiver is not getting sufficient rest, therefore, putting their health at risk. Beyond the physical activities associated with caregiving, the caregiver still must keep the household going. Additionally, the tasks of shopping, laundry, bill paying, house cleaning and maintenance, and potentially working, can all represent functions that caregivers must address and worry about.
Although friends and family are well-meaning, they don’t always have a behind the scenes appreciation for what the caregiver is doing or experiencing. It is important to realize that remarks or questions can be interpreted by the caregiver as inappropriate, rude, demeaning, stupid, devaluing or insensitive. When stressed caregivers are tired and frustrated, they often experience heightened sensitivity to criticism. Individuals who do not know what to say, or don’t think through the implications of their remarks are unaware of the lasting impact of what they have said to a caregiver.
Particularly stinging are comments relating to the mood of the caregiver such as “cheer-up”, “Why are you struggling?”, “you look tired/worn out”, “you should not have to provide the care”, “put your loved one in a facility”, “your loved one does not even know/appreciate what you are doing for them” depict the type of comments that leave caregivers upset and frustrated.
To be supportive of caregivers
- Acknowledge what they are doing
- Acknowledge that the role is stressful
- Make a reference to something they are doing that is making a difference for a loved one
- Offer words of encouragement such as:
- What you are doing is important
- You are making a difference for your loved one
- Your loved one is lucky to have you
- You have a very special relationship with your loved one
- I admire what you are doing
- I support the effort you are making for your loved one
- I would be honored/lucky to be cared for like you are doing
- Smile & give a hug
- Offer specific assistance – Bring a meal, do a chore, run an errand to lighten the load of the caregiver
- Making judgements about their caregiving role
- Criticizing what they are doing
- Talking down or treat the caregiver or loved one as a child
- Making the conversation about the non-caregiver and their experiences
- Referencing a future reward for their caregiving responsibilities
- Comparing caregiving experiences, each is unique yet there are commonalities
Consequently, caregivers who are at the receiving end of insensitive remarks have the choice as to how they respond. There may be times that ignoring or not responding to the comment is best, hence the individual runs the risk of focusing or dwelling on the insensitive remark and having it impact the relationship. Responding calmly is an art. Sharing that the comment was hurtful or insensitive, along with the feeling evoked may help avoid future hurtful comments. There may be individuals the caregiver wants to engage in addressing the specifics of a comment that could result in brainstorming or specific requests for assistance and support.
If you know a caregiver, go out of your way to do something special for them, lighten the burden that they are carrying. You will both feel better after your act of kindness has been received. Check out Home Hospice Navigation: The Caregivers Guide for additional suggestions and resources. | <urn:uuid:e8a6a298-58ed-48f4-9d52-63b125d8f934> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://judithsands.com/insensitivity-to-caregivers-stings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957651 | 962 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The church has expanded to Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Canada, Curaçao, Ecuador and Spain. In 2006, Genoveva Negrón, a local of Mayaquez, was a member of the 53rd crew of the Spaceward Bound program at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. The program is designed to train astronauts to journey to travel to the moon between 2018 and 2020. The program also serves to train astronauts for the exploration of the planet Mars in future missions. She needed to spend two weeks in an surroundings in Utah that NASA scientists consider to be similar to that of Mars and work as a lot as 15 hours a day. Negron can be an educator and creator who in 2015, started to conduct research on digital simulation with virtual actuality.
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- “I wish to recommend that the president get some historical past lessons concerning the Puerto Rican relationship with the United States,” she said in a House session.
- Ferré maintained that his allegations had been knowledgeable by girls from one of the factories in the town of Cayey.
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At the guts of the case was the query of whether girls had been coerced into being sterilized and if that is the case, if latinas were targeted. At the top of the trial in 1978, the decide ruled that neither of the charges have been true, citing “misunderstandings’ as a result of truth the ladies hot puerto rican sex primarily spoke Spanish. The judge blamed their misery from the process on “cultural background” that made these ladies consider that their worth was in their capacity to have youngsters. Another cause of the choice was that voluntary knowledgeable consent was not a authorized requirement till 1974, after the case was determined.
In July 2015, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla nominated Colonel Marta Carcana for the position of Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard, a position that she unofficially held since 2014. On September 4, 2015, she was confirmed as the first Puerto Rican woman to steer the Puerto Rican National Guard and promoted to Major General. Puerto Rican ladies in the cinema industry have expanded their horizons beyond the sphere of appearing. Such is the case of Ivonne Belén who’s a documentary movie director and producer.
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Although she was raised by comparatively liberal dad and mom, Capetillo’s first encounters with labor unions came when she worked as a e-book reader at a tobacco company after the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico. She began writing opinion essays throughout that time, criticizing the labor situations tobacco workers were uncovered to and advocating for women’s rights. Who is succesful and willing to spread the seed of justice; do not hesitate, do not fret, do not run away, go forward!
After residing in the island for five years the settlers had been granted a “Letter of Naturalization” that made them Spanish subjects. The Spanish colonists, feared the loss of their Taino labor drive as a outcome of protests of Friar Bartolomé de las Casas at the council of Burgos at the Spanish Court. The Friar was outraged at the Spanish treatment of the Taíno and was capable of safe their rights and freedom.
All these and other stratagems made it possible for States and territories to sidestep the Constitutional amendments intended to provide universal suffrage. The naval rank of Captain is the equal of Colonel within the other US armed forces.
On December 14, 2012, Soto was educating her first grade class at Sandy Hook Elementary School when Adam Lanza compelled his method into the school and began to shoot employees and students. After killing fifteen students and two teachers within the first classroom, Lanza entered Soto’s classroom. Soto had hidden a quantity of youngsters in a closet, and when Lanza entered her classroom, she informed him that the youngsters have been in the college fitness center. When a quantity of kids ran from their hiding locations, Lanza started shooting the scholars. Soto was reportedly shot while making an attempt to shield them with her physique. On October 30, 1950, the Nationalist Party called for a revolt against the United States.
Family planning clinics might be found in factories that provided free sterilization because of a USAID grant. Through this program, Puerto Rican girls became the guinea pigs for U.S. pharmaceutical corporations who had been creating the fashionable birth control tablet . This paper presents an overview of Puerto Rican historical past, its traditional effect on Puerto Rican women, and its applicability in treating the Puerto Rican feminine drug person. The paper focuses on objects of historic and cultural significance and contains data gathered from selected interviews of Puerto Rican females in treatment. What has been compiled here is a description of characteristics, traits, and attributes that distinguish Puerto Ricans from other ethnic teams and people traits traditionally attributed to their women.
After the Great Depression of 1929, the world economy was in crisis. The United States promoted agriculture to enhance the economy and the lives of its residents. Puerto Rico, as a half of the insular possession of the United States, was included on this plan. Thus, an economic plan was implemented to increase the agricultural output of the island. The sugar and tobacco industries turned the main supply of labor. Men often worked within the fields while ladies did different duties within the factories, similar to rolling tobacco leaves. Governor Muñoz Marin and his cupboard were involved about the possible electoral repercussions of coercive sterilization insurance policies. | <urn:uuid:b5f41e34-d4f0-4329-b59e-3bd7c1b159fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sksglamour.com/uncategorized/whats-puerto-rican-beautiful-women/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965892 | 1,425 | 1.796875 | 2 |
(1) And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
A. (2) And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel.
B. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.
C.(3) And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day?
D. And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
A’. (4) And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho.
B’. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.
C’.(5) And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day?
D’. And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
A”.(6) And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan.
B”. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2A.(7) And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
2B.(8) And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
2C.(9) And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. (10) And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
2D,(11) And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2C’.(12) And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
2B’.(13) He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; (14) And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
2A’.(15) And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
3A. 16 And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley.
3B. And he said, Ye shall not send.
3C. 17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send.
3A’. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
3B’. 18 And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
4A. 19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
4B. 20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
4B’. 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
4A’. 22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
5A. 23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel:
5B. and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
5C. 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD.
5B’. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
5A’. 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria. | <urn:uuid:a3f5dcbe-2c52-4ece-8d65-2d43d7c51166> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chiasmusxchange.com/2015/08/28/2-kings-21-15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.971995 | 1,265 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Majorca/Mallorca is an island of Spain located in the Mediterranean region, whereas the Republic of Ireland is an island country located in the North Atlantic in Europe. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between Majorca and the Republic of Ireland regarding various aspects.
Is Majorca bigger than the Republic of Ireland?
The total area of Majorca is 3,640.11 sq km, and the total area of the Republic of Ireland is 70,273 sq km. Majorca is smaller than the Republic of Ireland by 66,632.89 sq km. Majorca is around 19.31 times smaller than the Republic of Ireland.
Area of Majorca: 1,405.45 sq mi ( 3,640.11 km2 )
Area of the Republic of Ireland: 27,133 sq mi ( 70,273 km2 )
Based on the Eurostat data, the total population of Majorca as of 2019 was estimated to be around 923,608.
Based on the Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data, the total population of the Republic of Ireland as of 1st September 2021, is estimated to be around 4,998,608.
Here is some more data comparison between Majorca and the Republic of Ireland.
The capital city of Majorca is Palma, and the capital city of the Republic of Ireland is Dublin.
Republic of Ireland: English, Irish
Human Development Index
HDI of Majorca (Spain) as of 2019: 0.904
HDI of Republic of Ireland as of 2018: 0.955
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Coordinates of Majorca:
39° 37′ 0″ N, 2° 59′ 0″ E
Coordinates of the Republic of Ireland:
53° 25′ 0″ N, 8° 0′ 0″ W
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Seven more faith and belief groups are to be permanently represented in the National Service of Remembrance.
This year’s service marks the centenary of the First World War, with the aim that the inclusion of new groups is reflective of the diverse faiths and beliefs that contributed to Britain’s war efforts.
Minister for Faith Lord Bourne said: “It’s absolutely right as a modern, multi-faith society that we step up our efforts to honour those of other faiths for their contribution.
“Because of their bravery and selflessness, we are afforded the privileges and luxuries we enjoy today.”
The groups to be newly represented are: The Zoroastrians, The Coptic Christians, The Jains, The Baha’ís, The Humanists, The Spiritualists and The Mormons.
At present there are 15 faith and belief groups included in the ceremony.
The service, held on the Sunday nearest to November 11 at 11am each year, commemorates British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who lost their lives in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
The Chair of Greater Manchester Humanists, Guy Otten, spoke to Mancunian Matters about the groups’ incorporation into the National Remembrance Service.
“We’re very pleased, we’ve arrived somewhere where we were once marginalised and ignored.”
Whilst Humanism doesn’t depend on a God or transcendental figure, they strongly believe in morality and benefitted the war effort by giving comfort to those who didn’t hold a particular belief or faith.
“Humanists UK have been pressing to be given the chance to contribute to the memorial service,” said Otten.
“Unbelief has grown in the last 50 years,” he added, making their addition reflective of modern Britain.
“We live in a diverse society and we all understand there shouldn’t be discrimination between different belief systems and religions.”
This year’s service will be held on Sunday at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London and will end with a march past of war veterans as a gesture of respect for their fallen comrades.
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Prof. Dr. Chaturbhuja Nayak
DHMS (Hons.), Dip.NIH (Hons.) MD (Hom.)
Chairman, Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Committee & Chairman, Special Committee on Fundamental Research, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India, New Delhi. Formerly: Director General, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy.
“You can have brilliant ideas, perform a ground breaking research, write results with great proficiency, but if the paper is not published so that it can be cited, criticized or praised, all efforts are wasted.” – Robert B. Taylor
This statement of Taylor explains the significance of publishing the research outcomes in reputed journals. But if we do not meaningfully communicate the research findings through publication, we fail to meet the ultimate purpose of the medical research, i.e. benefiting the ailing folk, since the medical research has a direct bearing with the people’s health. Scientific writing of a research is an important art that every author must adapt in order to share his researches in an efficient way. Documenting the case reports treated in Homoeopathy with the evidences is also a kind of scientific writing. With challenges to Homoeopathy increasing, documentation of homoeopathic cases has become a serious issue in the field of medical writing. It is pertinent that clinicians learn to report their successful cases following the right method, so that the editorial team will take interest to publish their case reports. Improper case reporting often gets rejected for publication, in spite of the best results and their supporting evidences.
Before writing a case report, it is pertinent that the author/researcher should go through the instructions/guidelines laid down by the journal for authors how to write case reports. The number of words of a case report should ideally be limited to 1500-2000 words.
Why to publish Case Reports?
It is pertinent to know the important points that make a case worth reporting in medical journals, including Homoeopathy journals. These may cover the following:
Relating to general medical domain1,2:
- To present: a case of unusual disorder; of unusual etiology; a challenging differential diagnosis; a new insight into the pathogenesis of disease; unusual or puzzling clinical features of a condition.
- To confirm/reject a clinical hypothesis.
- To highlight the lacuna(e) in health care, their causes, consequences and remedial measure(s).
- To describe improved or unique technical procedures.
- To report unusual drug-drug, drug-food, or drug-nutrient interactions or describe rare or novel adverse drug reactions.
- To make an original contribution to the literature.
- To stimulate further research.
- To benefit the entire medical community.
Relating to Homoeopathy:
- To present profile of a patient recorded following a standard case –recording format, as per homoeopathic principles.
- To illustrate case-processing, according to the principles of Homoeopathy, which includes analysis and evaluation of symptoms, miasmatic diagnosis, totality of symptoms.
- To demonstrate the unique method(repertorial/non-repertorial) adopted for determining the similimum for the patient.
- To justify which potency, dosage & repetition schedule worked for the patient.
- To justify the first and subsequent prescriptions and present their responses.
An interesting, puzzling or surprising case adds to the acumen of homoeopathic physicians, and benefit the profession as well as patients at large. A well-documented case report will not only improve the knowledge of the clinicians, teachers and students, but also inculcate confidence in them for dealing with similar cases in future.
Case Reporting: Limitations2
- The management of patients in the OPDs of a hospital occurs primarily in an uncontrolled environment. As a result, the clinician can do a little to prevent patients from introducing a variety of confounding factors into their lives. These factors may affect patient’s response to the medical care provided to him/her. One may argue that the results thus obtained may not be due to the treatment provided.
- The single-case reports cannot be generalized. It will be difficult to conclude, based upon the observations of a single patient, that any particular treatment strategy will be effective for other patients.
- As per homoeopathic principles, the choice of remedy is customized, individualistic and personalized. The totality of symptoms covering the mental symptoms, physical generals and characteristic particular features of each patient will determine the selection of remedy for that particular patient. Thus, even if a group of patients suffer from a particular disease, each of them may require different medicines, basing upon individual personalities and characteristics. This individualistic approach is also applicable to the choice of potencies, dosage and repetition schedule for each patient.
Thus, case-recording, case-processing and treatment strategies documented in a particular case report may not be applicable to other cases, even if suffering from same clinical condition.
Study designs for Case Reporting2
- Retrospective Design
This is the most common design used by the authors, for documenting their case reports. But, such designs have a potential weakness too. Here, the authors may provide the best possible care for the management of the case, but may not have used the best available outcome measures to record any real change in patient’s health.
- Prospective Design
In this design, the author determines the plan for patient care and data collection, before- hand. The clinician reviews the literature to determine the best outcome measures to assess patient’s progress. The clinician has prior knowledge how to evaluate the patient and deliver a specified predetermined management plan. Measurements of the patient’s condition can be done before, during and after managing the case and can be tracked in future. Thus, such design improves the patient management in practice.
COMPONENTS OF A CASE REPORT1,2,3,4
Title of a case report should be brief but informative. It should be succinct and clearly suggest the theme of the case. It should be neither too short nor too long. It may contain the clinical condition (diagnosis) and the intervention. Sensationalisation of the title is to be avoided.
An abstract allows the readers to quickly scan the contents of an article to determine whether it is relevant to merit further reading. It may be written within a range of 100-200 words. An abstract should convey the gist of the case report covering the areas like: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion (IMRAD).This section may also include: case presentation and conclusion. But the structure of an abstract mainly depends upon the instructions of a particular journal.
The keywords unlock the doors to get useful information about the case. Such key elements of the presented case should be written in 2-5 words. These keywords will facilitate easy retrieval from electronic databases and create interest in the readers for further reading.
In this section, background information about the patient as well as his/her clinical condition should be provided. An explanation should be given why the case report is novel or deserves review. Then, a comprehensive literature review corroborating the author’s claims should be given with adequate citations chronologically. The literature review should list the strategy and extent of the search and include the particulars of the database searched. This will provide enough material for the readers to reproduce search easily. The literature review should be brief and concise, provide back-drop and uniqueness of the case.
- Case Profile (Methods & Results)
Under this heading, the author should describe the clinical setting, like the place and period of study; and also the study design. This section should include the demographic information about the patient, e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, occupation; presenting complaints, h/o present complaints; physical generals, mental symptoms and characteristic particulars; past, family, personal, treatment and psycho-social history of the patient; relevant physical examination findings; diagnostic methods, laboratory findings, imaging and questionnaires; final diagnosis; criteria for assessment/outcome measures etc.
Thorough case-processing should be reflected which includes: analysis & evaluation of symptoms; totality of symptoms; miasmatic assessment; repertorial analysis; prescribing strategy; first prescription (choice of remedy, potency, dosage, repetition of remedy) etc. An adequate follow-up including subsequent prescriptions of the patient should be given in this section, besides any adverse drug reactions and unanticipated events; the patient’s present status at the time of reporting and any further prosed treatments.
In this section, one should be careful to include only the information needed to convey the case. Tables that demonstrate ‘before and after’ care measurements may help the reader better understand the outcome.Photographs or illustrations of diagnostic procedures, radiographs or treatment procedures can be included which will be helpful in conveying a clear message to readers. Authors should not provide confusing and superfluous data, e.g. vital signs reported as normal, routine laboratory tests etc.
This is a very vital part of case reporting where the author explains and discusses the case and provides his/her opinion about it. Discussion should compare the case with previously published literature, evaluate the case for accuracy and derive new knowledge and/or applicability to practice. Salient differences between the case and what is known in the literature should be presented. The rationale for the management of the case should also be discussed here.
The limitations of the case, along with the significance of each limitation, faults in the case or quality of reporting also need to he stressed upon in this section. The author can also share other possible reasons for the outcome of the case, such as the natural history of the disorder or other factors. Suggestions or hypotheses regarding the significance or outcome of the case and why the care provided may or may not have been beneficial should also be highlighted. This should be followed by some suggestion for future inquiry into the topic.
While concluding the case report, an author must mention what has been learnt from the case report. He must relate to the original purpose of the paper. However, it is advisable that the author refrains from far reaching, unsupported or general statements. In this section, the author should write briefly the take-home message and lesson he/she learnt from treating the present case. Recommendations for future research on the related areas of the case should also be included in conclusion.
The staff who have assisted the author(s) in the treatment of the case and preparation of the manuscript, but who do not meet the criteria necessary to be named as author(s), should be acknowledged in this section.
One must be cautious in the use of tables. These should not be used for small amounts of data that could be conveyed clearly and succinctly in a sentence. The tables should be simple and self-contained but require no further explanation. The data shown in a table should not be reiterated in sentences within the text.
Figures, graphs, photographs or illustrations make case reports interesting to read. These should be self-contained and fully interpretable. Captions for each figure should he provided. If the author wishes to use previously published figures of the patient or illustrations, permission must be obtained from the concerned publisher. Photographs/photocopies of those relating to lab test reports (including histopathology, x-rays, ECG etc.); skin lesions; wounds and other anatomical parts may be provided. If identifiable people appear in figures, a signed document from the patient should be submitted to the journal in which the paper is to be published. In all other cases, the author must block out any identifiable features of the patient.
Take home points for an ideal Case report are –the report should be objective, focused and devoid of any fantastic claims or far reaching consequences. Observations of the case should not be generalized to other patients. Such a case report, when submitted to a journal, is likely to be accepted by the editors for publishing it in the journal. Even if a case is submitted to a journal as per its guidelines, the editor(s) might still ask for some revisions or clarifications in the paper and in such cases, the author(s) should comply to the suggestions of the reviewers or editorial team.
- McCarthy Laine H, Reilly Kathryn EH. How to write a case report. Family Medicine. March 2000;32(3):190-195.
- Green Bart N, Johnson Claire D. How to write a case report for publication. Journal of Chiropractic Medicine. Summer 2006;5(2):72-82.
- Cohen Henry. How to write a patient case report. Am. J. Health – Syst. Pharm. October 2006;63:1888-92.
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This webinar broadcasted on July, 7th discusses how the standard model for developing new medicines is often not profitable enough for pharmaceutical companies to produce therapeutics for the thousands of rare diseases known to exist. In the past, pharmaceuticals designed for common diseases have been repurposed for patients with rare diseases. However, that is all changing: new drug design methodologies allow us to contemplate designer medicines for very small groups of patients or even individuals.
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We have read and heard a lot about the disparities in the cost of care from one hospital or clinic to another. We have read and heard a lot of grumbling about the uneven availability of health care services in this country. Many of us have been outraged to learn that Pharma companies can charge whatever they want for drugs that they have developed because our elected representatives passed legislation that provides Pharma with this discretionary power.
These same laws allow Pharma to provide a percentage of the direct cost of the medications to doctors. Although a mandate in the Affordable Care Act requires information on Pharma payments to physicians be made public via the CMS Open Payments online database, this is little consolation to thousands of patients who bear the brunt of this inequality in our payment system.
Because our system is so dysfunctional and our cost of care so elevated, there are daily instances of patients declaring bankruptcy because they cannot afford their prescription drug costs. There are also too many situations where patients are dying prematurely because they simply cannot afford to obtain the medications that could restore their health.
In America, the average health expenditure per individual patient is approximately $8,200 per year. That is at least one and a half times the amount per patient compared to other developed countries across the world. Among a broad range of hospital services (both medical and surgical), the average price in the United States is 85 percent higher than the average in many countries, including: Canada, the Netherlands, Japan and the relatively affluent European countries such as France, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
More outrageous is that our outcomes compared to these countries are far worse. The Commonwealth Fund in a report in 2014 entitled “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall” that the United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but consistently ranks dead last. The Countries compared included in order of ranking:United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia. Germany & Netherlands (tied), New Zealand & Norway (tied) France, Canada, United States, last. This assessment included prior surveys and national health system scorecards as well as data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The report was based on rankings on key indicators including:
1. Quality: effective care, safe care, coordinated care, and patient-centered care.
2. Access: The most notable way the U.S. differs from other industrialized countries is the absence of universal health insurance coverage. Other nations ensure the accessibility of care through universal health systems and through better ties between patients and the physician practices that serve as their medical homes.
3. Efficiency: The U.S. has poor performance on measures of national health expenditures and administrative costs as well as on measures of administrative hassles, avoidable emergency room use, and duplicative medical testing.
4. Equity: The U.S. ranks a clear last on measures of equity. Americans with below-average incomes were much more likely than their counterparts in other countries to report not visiting a physician when sick; not getting a recommended test, treatment, or follow-up care; or not filling a prescription or skipping doses when needed because of costs.
5. Healthy lives: The U.S. ranks last overall on all three indicators of healthy lives — mortality amenable to medical care, infant mortality, and healthy life expectancy at age
In 2012, The Institute of Medicine issued another of their sentinel reports: Best Care at Lower Cost, consisting of several key recommendations including recommendations on our infrastructure, our ability to deliver patient-centered evidenced-based clinical care, our paying closer attention to population health, payment structures that reward best care as the lowest possible cost, equity on cost and outcomes of care, and a culture of care that supports and encourages best practices and continuous improvement.
There is not very much in our current health care system that meets any of these goals.
One bizarre example in our system of policies that have “No Rhyme or Reason” is the way in which durable medical equipment, (DME) is handled. DME includes such devices as: iron lungs, respirators, intermittent positive pressure breathing machines, medical regulators, oxygen tents, crutches, canes, trapeze bars, walkers, inhalers, nebulizers, commodes, suction machines, and traction equipment purchased by a payer and kept in the patient’s home.
Although payers usually cover the cost of DME hardware, they often refuse coverage of the medication required to make the device functional. I recently ran into this problem when I developed severe bronchial asthma, pulled out my nebulizer that Medicare had paid for, was refused coverage on the medication I needed. Although my physician wrote the necessary prescription, the pharmacy informed me that I needed prior approval from my payer. After several hours, I learned from the pharmacist that the cost of the medication out-of-pocket was $20 which I quickly paid. Not all medications are that inexpensive, nor can all patients afford to make the payment. If you cannot get the medication to operate the device, it is useless.
My niece, who has Type I diabetes, had a similar experience with even more serious consequences. The payer of her health insurance agreed to pay $8,000 for a new pump, sensor and specific glucometer that work together to regulate her insulin. However they have consistently refused to pay for the specific test strips that work with the glucometer and are needed to check her sugars and determine how much insulin to direct the pump to give her. Test strips are not a simple $20 bill. Over time they cost hundreds of dollars and have to be used several times a day.
To add to the inequity, customized durable medical equipment and medications are paid at rates that are determined item by item, by the regional carrier, based on competitive bidding. Thus, the pricing of such devices differ by region or location with no standards for how the prices are determined This type of the disparity also carries over to the pricing of procedures and treatments such as MRIs, colonoscopies, etc. from one medical clinic to another, even, within the same geography.
Although no one wants to see the US move to a national health system, (which most developed nations in the world have), we need to figure out a way to monitor pharma and payers so that price gouging patients, payments to doctors and the disconnect about what is covered and what is not covered becomes more transparent, logical and equitable. We cannot continue on this path. It is undemocratic, unfair, unethical, and makes a sham of our national obligation to help all patients receive basic health services.
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As we now know it, war gaming started in Germany about 165 years ago, where the term Kreigspiel was applied to a game played on a map rather than on a chessboard. Here at the Naval War College, war games have been played for just over a hundred years.
"What Is a War Game?,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 42:
4, Article 6.
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As a Principal Engineer with Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Graham Conway knows whereof he speaks when it comes to automotive matters—engines in particular. And when it comes to automotive engines, the most widely debated topic in recent years has been the impact of electric propulsion versus the gasoline engine that we’ve all relied on for the past hundred or so years. When presented with the chance to talk to the TEDxSanAntonio crowd about this question, and, specifically, whether or not the evolution to electric vehicles is truly in the interest of the planet, Graham jumped at the chance.
“I wanted to send a message to the widest possible audience that our current thinking on how to improve the planet for future generations is inherently flawed. The industry is moving in the wrong direction and we will pay for it in the future.”
But that initial notification call didn’t go quite as planned:
“I misheard Ali say he ‘was calling from FedEx’, and my mind raced as to what I had ordered and forgotten about. I was quite dismissive, assuming it was a spam call, and wanted it to end. Ali was understandably shocked when I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. It took a good thirty seconds to a minute to finally understand that he was actually from TEDx … at which point I instantly remembered I had applied and was overjoyed.”
Communication difficulties aside, once Graham began seriously pondering the structure and content of his talk, the potential impact of it quickly became apparent.
“The subject matter is important to me because I think, as an industry, we are being pressured into looking at technologies which may not be the best answer for right now. I think the audience will be a little baffled at the thought electric vehicles may not be the right answer, right now.”
As a consultant to car companies and parts suppliers, Graham is uniquely qualified to offer his views on this important topic, though he concedes that it will be tough, given his engineering background, to get through it all without showing any technical diagrams.
“The key for me is to not turn this into one of my usual engineering presentations. Ideally I don’t want to show a single graph at all … but I’m not sure if I’m capable of that. Trying to condense complicated and abstract engineering/science problems into a relatable delivery is without question my greatest challenge.”
Anytime we challenge conventional thinking (e.g., electric cars are cleaner than gasoline-powered ones), there is a risk of pushback. But it’s a challenge Graham is looking forward to.
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Antibiotics are drugs used to treat infections, and work by killing bacteria. According to a research charity by the name of Nesta GPs reportedly prescribe about 90% of all antibiotics used in the UK. A recent study has shown that 76% of GPs prescribe antibiotics without being completely sure if a patient needs them and 44% of GPs admitted to prescribing antibiotics to patients despite knowing for certain that the drug would have no effect.
Why would a GP prescribe antibiotics if a patient doesn’t need them?
It may sound mad that a doctor would knowingly give a patient treatment that won’t benefit them. If a doctor was unsure as to whether antibiotic treatment is appropriate, tests should be performed. It’s often common however that a GP will prescribe antibiotics just-in-case an infection is bacterial, as test results take time to come back. To patients with clear viral infections like the flu, a doctor will ideally explain why antibiotics aren’t necessary in their case, and the patient will accept this information and move on.
Unfortunately, some patients will argue with their doctor until they get antibiotics. In fact, 55% of 1000 GPs asked claimed they have felt pressurised by patients to prescribe antibiotics. Some patients feel like their appointment was a waste of time if they leave without treatment, hence can put pressure on their doctor to give them a prescription. Others have different beliefs about what’s causing their symptoms or just can’t comprehend that antibiotics won’t make them feel better.
What can a GP do if a patient pressures them to prescribe antibiotics? They can outright refuse to prescribe them, but this will no doubt anger patients who are for-whatever-reason desperate for antibiotics, possibly putting them off visiting the doctor in the future. They can try and educate the patient further on why they don’t need antibiotics, but with ten minutes scheduled per consultation there is only so much explaining that can be done. So occasionally GPs give in and prescribe antibiotics despite knowing they won’t work.
Trust your GP.
So how does this lead to resistance?
Every time you give someone antibiotics you are giving bacteria in their body a chance to work out how the drug works. Over-prescribing antibiotics (to people who don’t need it or who could get better without them) increases this risk. Like humans, bacteria have different genetic mutations to each other and some bacteria have genes that allows them to survive when facing certain antibiotics. When exposed to the antibiotic, the bacteria will survive, reproduce and pass on their survival or ‘resistant’ gene to other bacteria. Soon enough you’ll have a huge population of bacteria that aren’t affected by the antibiotic that was once commonly prescribed to destroy it and make a patient better.
What does resistance mean for society?
Antibiotic resistance is really, really scary. Think about how far medicine has come in the past hundreds of years – we can now perform organ transplants, joint replacements and cure some people of cancer. Antibiotic resistance can threaten all of the wonderful, life-improving procedures that scientists worked so hard to develop. Is there any point in giving someone a heart transplant if they’re probably going to die from an infection whilst recovering? People will and are dying unnecessarily from infections that were once easily curable.
We have a finite number of antibiotics around that we can use, and as resistance grows we are running out treatment options. If you’re unlucky enough to be infected with MRSA, there’s currently only one antibiotic that could treat you, and there are already reporting’s that some bacteria are developing resistance to that.
What can we do to prevent antibiotic resistance?
We need to stop over-prescribing antibiotics to patients who don’t need them. Perhaps some of our GPs need to be a bit tougher with antibiotic-demanding patients. Developing new antibiotics would also help– having new drugs that bacteria aren’t resistant to would save lives whilst scientists could think of a longer-term solution to resistance.
What can YOU do?
Trust your GP! Don’t pressure them into giving you antibiotics, they’d suggest them if they thought they were needed. If you do require antibiotics follow your prescription carefully – take the right dose for as long as you are meant to.
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Despite the efforts of public sector agencies, bullying rates in Victoria have failed to shift in around a decade.
Concerned that the problem isn’t being fixed, the Victorian Public Sector Commission has announced it will make 2017 “the year of anti-bullying work”, launching a new strategic agenda to tackle the problem.
The VPSC’s data points to a sustained problem across the Victorian public sector. The commission’s annual People Matter survey shows that around one in four public sector employees witness what they believe to be bullying and one in five experience behaviour that feels like bullying.
Bullying leads to poor outcomes on a range of wellbeing measures and can damage organisational performance and budgets. for example, while 60% of people who have not experienced bullying say they rarely think about leaving their organisation, among people who had experienced bullying, this is only 19%.“It’s not just a matter of removing a bully or a victim from a bad situation…”
The commission will be rolling out a range of initiatives through the remainder of the year in three main waves: setting the agenda, presenting options and channelling effort.
“We’ve had several strands of work on bullying underway for a while now,” says Dr Damian West, deputy commissioner at the VPSC. “In recent months we’ve taken stock of that work and sought to position it for best effect.”
First up, the commission will release a collection of case studies on government agencies that have improved their reported bullying rates. The studies show that significant improvements are possible, though organisations have to be dedicated to it.
“We found that it’s not just a matter of removing a bully or a victim from a bad situation, though that can help and may be necessary,” said West. “There’s often a cultural change exercise that has to occur as well.”
Predictive model to help pinpoint bullying
Later in the program, prevention and early intervention will take centre stage. The commission is looking at the organisational context in which bullying occurs, and has a new data tool, the psychosocial safety climate model, which should provide agencies with predictive insight into where bullying might occur in the future.
A prevention best practice guide is planned for September-October 2017.
Bullying is a major roadblock to the VPSC’s legislated mandate of strengthening the efficiency, effectiveness and capability of the public sector, says West.
“Bullying is not only bad for what it does to individuals at an interpersonal level, it can wreak havoc on workplaces,” he argues. “It’s one of those areas where striving to make things better for people is also smart business.”
The commission is working closely with government organisations and the Community and Public Sector Union to build on the work many are already doing in this space. The Department of Health and Human Services, for example, has been making major inroads into the problem since the Victorian Auditor General’s Office published its in March last year.
“Like so much else in government, good outcomes on bullying are a collective effort,” West said. | <urn:uuid:74537db1-fcf4-47ef-b479-821adaf6eed5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themandarin.com.au/78236-can-bullying-quashed-public-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957508 | 665 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Elbe-Elster is a Kreis (district) in the southern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Teltow-Fläming, Dahme-Spreewald, Oberspreewald-Lausitz, Meißen, Nordsachsen and Wittenberg. The district has a partnership with the Märkischer Kreis.
|• Total||1,889.4 km2 (729.5 sq mi)|
(31 December 2020)
|• Density||54/km2 (140/sq mi)|
|Time zone||UTC+01:00 (CET)|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC+02:00 (CEST)|
|Vehicle registration||EE, FI, LIB|
The district was established in 1993 by merging the former districts (Kreise) of Finsterwalde, Bad Liebenwerda and Herzberg.
The district is named after two rivers - the Elbe river forms the western border with Saxony, the Black Elster (Schwarze Elster) is a tributary of the Elbe and runs through the district. The district is part of the Lusatia region. The fens along the Black Elster are a habitat of several rare animals, like common kingfishers, beavers and Eurasian otters.
Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)
Coat of armsEdit
The coat of arms was granted in 1995. The lion in the bottom left derives from the county of Meissen (see Saxony), to which the southern area of the district belonged historically. The black bars derive from the Saxony-Wittenberg county as the area around Bad Liebenwerda belonged there in the past. The red bars derive from the oldest coat of arms of Brandenburg, and the bull is the symbol for the Lower Lusatia area were the district is located.
Towns and municipalitiesEdit
|1seat of the Amt; 2town|
- "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2020". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2021.
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CWA’s Vice President of Government Relations, Doreen Denny penned the following opinion piece published on CNSnews.com highlighting Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, arguing the definition of sex in federal civil rights law in the context of employment. Doreen argues that the Justices should consider DOJ’s recent conclusions about the impact of gender identity-based claims on women in a Connecticut sports case in their deliberations.
“The Supreme Court announced it will resume oral arguments by teleconference in May. Several high-profile cases are being decided and opinions in these cases are sure to break through the latest news of the coronavirus pandemic.
Among them is Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC, arguing the definition of sex in federal civil rights law in the context of employment. If the Court rules sex under Title VII includes “gender identity,” it would effectively rewrite federal law and invalidate policies and practices which treat men as male and women as female.
The Justices would do well to consider DOJ’s recent conclusions about the impact of gender identity-based claims on women in a Connecticut sports case in their deliberations in Harris.
Late last month, Attorney General William Barr signed a Statement of Interest in the federal case about the meaning of sex and equal opportunities in women’s sports. Three Connecticut high school female track athletes have been forced under state athletic association policy to compete against male runners identifying as girls.
Connecticut officials have rejected the concerns of female athletes, claiming federal law compels them to allow students to compete according to the gender with which they identify. Racing against males with built-in physical advantage, the female plaintiffs have lost opportunities to excel in their sport, including state and regional titles.
But, in a 13-page statement, the Department of Justice (DOJ) flatly rejects the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) claim that Title IX requires classifying transgender students according to their perceived gender, not their biological sex:
“Title IX and its implementing regulations prohibit discrimination solely ‘on the basis of sex,’ not on the basis of transgender status, and therefore neither require nor authorize CIAC’s transgender policy. To the contrary, CIAC’s construction of Title IX as requiring the participation of students on athletic teams that reflect their gender identity would turn the statute on its head.”
Barr’s statement offers multiple reasons why dismissing “on the basis of sex” as binary and immutable would be fallacy and should move us a step closer to protecting an equal playing field for every female student athlete in America:
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There's is always going to be another federal election to determine whether or not there'll be a new leader of the Canadian federal government or if current leaders will continue in their position. A lot of people are clamoring for change but not enough of those people actually go out and vote to have their opinion heard.
The usual sentiment is, "my vote doesn't matter so why should I vote?" Your vote does matter though! That's the thing. Just because every election results in low voter turnout doesn't mean that has to be the case. You can make a difference. Every vote counts. Not enough people get out to cast their vote on election day. No matter the election, no matter the country.
Why not change that and make a difference? That way when the election comes and you vote you'll have helped out your party a great deal. Who can vote? To be eligible to vote in any election in Canada you have to be the age of voting majority, which is 18, and be a Canadian Citizen. Voting really is as simple as that.
Don't think you can easily get out of voting just because you were born in Canada but you've been out of the country for the past few years. You can still vote in the upcoming election if you've been away from Canada for five consecutive years or less. In order to make your vote count from overseas you have to verify that it's only been less than five years, register for a special overseas voting ballot and then wait for a voting kit that will arrive to you by mail to your current address sent by Elections Canada. That kit will have everything you need to make your vote count.
If you're a registered voter in Canada you will receive a registered voter's information card in the mail. This card confirms that you are eligible to vote in the upcoming election and tells you where your voting booth is. Bring this card with you when you go to vote. If you know you're eligible to vote in Canada and didn't receive a registered voter's information card in the mail you still have the option of registering in person at your nearest voting station. Just make sure to bring a piece of ID that has your name and current address on it as well as a valid signature such as your driver's license or two pieces of ID that can supply the above information such as your health card and hydro bill. Get voting! | <urn:uuid:858d493a-66da-4ddf-935e-98ea14cd76ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thedailygrind.ca/Who_Can_Vote.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.981901 | 481 | 2.3125 | 2 |
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This month, in preparation for Issue 5: “The Hybridity Issue,” we’ve dedicated our Friday Prompts to exploring how collage, mixing and hybridization can be meaningful (and generative) practices for poets interested in exploring the narratives and critical concerns of the Asian American community.. Thus far, we’ve looked at hybrid form and mixed media; today we’ll be talking about hybridized language.
In contemporary poetry, quirky mixtures of the high and low, archaic and contemporary, and the scientific and colloquial are so common that we’re no longer surprised when a writer quotes a religious text–the Bible, for instance–and then, without skipping a beat, relays the one-liner they heard while waiting for an oil change. This kind of modulation, frequently used for ironic or comedic effect, can also be deployed for more serious purposes–and, I suspect, is a mode we’ve come to embrace because miscegenated language reflects our cultural moment in a way that elegant, seamlessly constructed prose does not. Just Google “best place to get tacos” or “Jeremy Lin is awesome” and see what comes up.
For many Asian American poets, however, linguistic hybridity is more than just an intellectual exercise. Many of us are multilingual, or come from families whose histories are told in multiple tongues (two, at least, and sometimes more–I’m thinking here of Korean-Brazilian writer Larissa Min, who writes in the linguistic spaces between Portuguese, English and Korean). And even if our tongues aren’t split by language, the idea of linguistic difference–our grandparents’ English versus our own, our professors’ English versus our aunties’–is important for more than theoretical reasons. It’s freighted with cultural, and thus, emotional weight. Our split tongues matter–even if, as is the case for me, a fourth-generation Japanese American, our “mother tongue” is little more than a myth, a conspicuous silence that, in its marked absence, tells us something about our history. Continue reading “Friday Prompt: Working With Hybrid Language” | <urn:uuid:f0287ec2-7c85-45c7-b1f9-1030829f1b4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/tag/larissa-min/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.925392 | 453 | 1.789063 | 2 |
That has upset the National Federation of the Blind, which has been the public face of lobbying efforts to get a law passed. Automakers asked the NHTSA for the extra time because they aren't comfortable with the Proposed Rule as written, and a contingent of EV and hybrid owners have fought the ruling because they don't like having their cars make more noise – part of the appeal of said vehicles is precisely that they're quieter than normal ICE cars. In the meantime, carmakers are creating their own noises - or in some cases they aren't including any extra noise at all while they await the final rule - and their own implementations, some of which can be turned off, some of which are automatic.
Beyond the blind, the safety imperative is driven by studies that show that EVs and hybrids are 20-percent to 100-percent more likely to hit a pedestrian compared to an ICE vehicle. The counterpoint to those figures is that hybrids and EVs are less than two percent of the cars on the road, so even with the expanded likelihood we're still talking about tiny numbers. | <urn:uuid:f3c5092b-c1f7-4a14-b9f4-26860b35fe35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autoblog.com/2015/01/31/noise-rules-for-evs-to-help-blind-pedestrians-pushed-back-to-201/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984059 | 217 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The terms stress at work or work related stress are becoming words we as personal injury lawyers increasingly hear. In 2018/19 almost half of the working days lost due to work related ill health were a result of stress, anxiety and depression.
What is Work Related Stress?
The HSE defines stress as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them”. ‘
Employees can suffer work related stress or mental illness as a consequence of many different factors. Issus such as workplace bullying, difficulties adjusting to organisational change a workplace, being unable to cope with the demands of a job or changing demands of a job, insufficient support from management, being unable to control they way work is done (sometimes where employees are asked to do things in a manner they feel is unsafe) and not having their role and responsibilities properly set out for them are common reasons given by employees for work related stress.
What does my employer have to do to protect me from Work Related stress?
All employers have a duty to take reasonable care for the safety of their employees and this incudes injuries to mental health caused by workplace stress. However, stress affects different people in different ways. What causes stress to one person may not cause stress to another. Skill and experience, age, disability and issues outwith the workplace can all effect how an individual employee reacts to stress. Therefore, an employer only requires to take active steps where they either knew or ought to know that job they require an employee to do causes not only stress but a risk that the employee might suffer a psychiatric illness as a reaction to that stress.
Can I make a claim against my employer for work related stress?
Claims for damages for work related stress can be very difficult to prove. You must prove:
- You have suffered a recognised psychiatric condition such as depression or anxiety. Simply feeling “stressed” would not be enough.
- The condition was caused by your working environment
- Your employer knew or ought to have known that there was a risk you might suffer a psychiatric illness as a consequence of stress at work. This could be that there were obvious things happening in the workplace which ought to have put your employer “on notice” or that you were previously absent due to a psychiatric condition and insufficient support was put in place following your return to work
- Your employer did not do all that was reasonable in the circumstances to keep you safe from a work related psychiatric injury
- If your employer had done all that was reasonable in the circumstances you would not have suffered a psychiatric injury caused by work related stress.
What can I do if I am suffering from stress at work?
If you are suffering stress at work do not suffer in silence. Where you can, make sure your employers is aware so they can put support in place for you. Speak to someone, a friend, spouse, partner, GP about it. Helpful advice can be found on the NHS website and there are many other organisation who can assist you in getting your mental health back to a better place. | <urn:uuid:1f7da432-adc7-4a96-bd8d-9df8f678cafe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jacksonboyd.co.uk/a-quick-guide-to-stress-at-work-claims/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982168 | 624 | 2.25 | 2 |
On Valentine’s Day, a rare burst of Arctic air spread across the central US and into Texas, dropping temperatures there into the single digits and nearly causing the state’s power grid to collapse. A state known for its abundant energy resources saw widespread failures of natural-gas and electricity systems that left more than four million Texans without power for days.
The proximate cause of Texas’s grid failure is now well understood. Frigid temperatures drove electricity demand to a new winter record that exceeded even the “extreme” demand scenario considered by the state’s power grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. Then dozens of natural-gas power plants and some wind turbines rapidly went offline, plunging the Texas grid into crisis. To prevent the whole grid from going down, ERCOT ordered utilities to initiate emergency blackouts and disconnect millions of customers.
Scientists are still working to determine whether the fast-warming Arctic is driving more frequent breakdowns of the “polar vortex,” which precipitated the Texas freeze. But we know that climate change is making extreme weather like heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and flooding more frequent and more severe. Any of these events can push our critical infrastructure to the breaking point, as happened in Texas. How can we prepare?
Climate resilience will require investment of up to $100 billion per year globally in our infrastructure and communities. But careful planning can help our scarce resources go further.
Looking back, Texas’s troubles offer several key lessons for how to make both critical infrastructure and vulnerable communities everywhere more resilient to climate extremes.
Assessing future risks
First, it’s worth noting that grid failure alone did not lead to the intense suffering and loss of life Texas residents faced.
Natural-gas wells and gathering lines also froze, cutting gas production and supply for the state’s pipelines and power plants in half just as demand soared. Elsewhere, water treatment plants lost power, and frozen pipes caused water distribution networks to lose pressure. Frozen roadways prevented residents from traveling safely.
The connections between these infrastructure systems keep the lights on and taps flowing in good times but can compound failure when things go bad.
Extreme weather also tends to cause multiple parts of critical systems to fail at the same time. These kinds of simultaneous failures are far more probable than one might think. If 10 power plants each have a 10% chance of failure but these probabilities are all independent, the chance that they all fail simultaneously is infinitesimal (0.00000001%).
A 1% chance that 10 power plants all fail at once is far more worrisome. So building resilient infrastructure means paying close attention to extreme events that can slam large parts of the system all at once, whether that’s a winter storm, wildfire, hurricane, or flood.
Lastly, the worst human impacts of any infrastructure failure don’t come from the outage itself. They come from exposure to freezing temperatures, a lack of clean water to drink, dwindling food supplies, and the fear that help may not come soon enough. So the magnitude of suffering is determined not only by the magnitude of the infrastructure failure but also by each community’s ability to weather the storm.
Historically marginalized communities usually have the fewest resources to protect against the human costs of infrastructure failures. In Texas, people experiencing homelessness were the most likely to be exposed to freezing temperatures. Shelters, limited by social-distancing requirements, quickly reached capacity. Many low-income neighborhoods were among the first to face power outages. And people of color are disproportionately represented in both groups in Texas.
In light of what happened in Texas and the ongoing threat of climate change everywhere, how can communities shore up their local resources and critical systems to prevent the same thing from happening where they live?
Tomorrow’s resiliency starts now
We should start with the weakest links in our infrastructure. Energy systems can and should be made resilient to extreme weather. Wind turbines operate in Antarctica, gas plants in Alberta, and gas wells in Alaska. Weatherization can be costly, but the most affordable steps, such as winterizing wind turbines or using heat tracing and insulation to keep pressure sensors from freezing up at natural-gas or nuclear power plants, can be well worth it.
Deciding how much to invest to reduce the impact of rare events is a tricky calculus, but it’s one that should hinge not just on the likelihood of an event, but on the severity of its consequences.
At the same time, we can never protect every inch of our infrastructure against the full range of possible disasters. So we should also diversify the supply of critical resources such as electricity wherever possible. Natural-gas power plants, which make up two-thirds of Texas’s generation capacity, were the most significant contributor to supply shortages there. If the grid has a mix of generation sources in different locations, each of which is susceptible to different types of extremes, it will be more resilient to any single event.
Going forward, any new infrastructure we invest in has to be prepared for not only today’s climate, but also the climate we’ll have decades into the future. For each upgrade we make, we must decide what range of climate extremes it should be able to withstand—and recognize that the past is no longer a safe guide to future extremes.
For things like pipelines, which are expensive to upgrade once they’re in the ground but relatively inexpensive to weatherize at the outset, new projects should plan for the worst-case scenario based on climate projections over their expected lifetime.
For components that are easier to replace or retrofit, or for operational changes like altering reservoir operations at hydropower dams, we can take a wait-and-see approach. In these cases, we may spend less on upgrades now but should still put processes in place today that will allow us to make them when it becomes clear they’re needed. Smart preparation and adaptation can reduce the cost of resilience.
Our planning also cannot end with physically hardening our systems. No matter what improvements we make to the electric grid, we have to also be prepared for the reality that it will, at some point, fail again.
Being prepared requires a thorough accounting of all the possible reasons power grids and other vital systems might fail. For each reason, we should map out how compounding simultaneous failures could affect other infrastructure systems and communities. Grid failure will have different effects depending on whether it’s driven by extreme cold or extreme heat. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution.
For cold weather, preparedness means spending the money to weatherize homes so people can stay warm. It means insulating and replacing water pipes to withstand the cold. It means making plans to open warming centers and distribute bottled water. It means providing emergency transportation for people who rely on electricity for medical treatments like oxygen, and having a strategy to reach and help those who are homeless. And it has to start with the most vulnerable communities, who have the most to lose.
Resilience is more than just preparing for disasters. It’s an opportunity to invest in our communities for fair weather as well as foul. Climate adaptation comes with a hefty price tag, but it can make our cities more livable, our water cleaner, and our homes safer. The cost of inaction—in both dollars and lives—is far greater. | <urn:uuid:e5ec469b-b6a4-4e1a-b0ed-fbd11be51361> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newzone.eu/blog/as-the-texas-power-crisis-shows-our-infrastructure-is-vulnerable-to-extreme-weather/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939083 | 1,526 | 3.484375 | 3 |
*Update* - The IntelliJ IDEA Payara Tools Plugin has been released and offers a better alternative to the solution discussed in this blog. Read more here about the Plugin.
If you want to run and debug your application from within an IDE using Payara Micro, you need to take different steps and use a different configuration then when you run the application with Payara Server. With Payara Micro, you can start the runtime from a jar file with no previous installation step. In this blog, I'll show you the steps to use IntelliJ IDEA with Payara Micro and how you can perform a hot reload of the application.
Payara Micro Maven Project
For those who are not yet familiar with a Payara Micro project, let us go over the important parts of the project file.
The initial packaging of the project is a WAR artifact. We can launch this as such by specifying this file when starting the Payara Micro instance.
You can also add the Payara Micro Maven plugin to the pom.xml file. This allows you to wrap that war file inside an executable jar file, together with the Payara Micro runtime. Now you can copy the runtime together with your app as a single file.
Since Payara Micro is based on the Java EE Web profile (within the addition of a few other frameworks), most of the time you have enough to declare this in the Maven project file.
And you probably also want to add the MicroProfile dependencies typical for a micro-services type of application for which Payara Micro is ideally suited. Since Payara Micro is also a MicroProfile implementation, putting the dependency with a provided scope is sufficient.
Configure within IntelliJ IDEA
The preferred way of starting Payara Micro is using the following command:
java -jar payara-micro.jar app.war
You can also debug it remotely via the standard JDWP protocol on port 9009 using the following command:
java -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=9009 -jar payara-micro.jar app.war
IntelliJ IDEA has a specific run configuration for running JAR based applications. That one is ideal for configuring the IDEA when you develop an application running on Payara Micro. It allows running and debugging applications with Payara Micro seamlessly from within IDEA.
Before you configure it, make sure you have a Payara Micro version downloaded from our download page.
Then you can follow these steps:
- Select the menu entry run/edit Configuration or the toolbar equivalent action.
- Click on the + icon in the top left corner of the popup
- Select the "JAR Application" as a new configuration.
You will now have a screen where you can fill in all the details about your environment.
- Path to JAR: This is the location of the Payara Micro JAR file on your computer that needs to be run. Make sure you include the full path and the jar name as in the example below.
- VM Options: Here you can specify additional options like memory settings or system properties.
- Program arguments: Here we need to indicate where the application artifact is. This can be the war produced by maven or the exploded version (directory containing the unpacked version of the war). This last option is useful if you want to reload your code without restarting Payara Micro completely. More information on this below.
- JRE: The Java version you want to run your application with. Remember that Payara Micro works without any issue on JDK 8 and also on JDK 11 since Payara Micro 5.192.
- Build before launch: This is a very important aspect of the configuration. Don't forget to select to build your application artifact (exploded or regular war based on what you have specified in the program arguments). This ensures that your changes are all compiled and packaged before Payara Micro is started when you click the run or debug buttons within IntelliJ IDEA.
That's all that is required to have your Payara Micro application started or debugged when you click on the familiar run and debug buttons in IntelliJ IDEA.
Application Reloading to Speed Up Development-Test Cycle
Instead of restarting Payara Micro and the application each time when you change some code, you can also ask for a redeploy of the application. This will speed up the development - test cycle for the developer.
It is achieved by running the exploded war and a file with the name .reload at the top level inside it. Payara Micro checks for the timestamp of this file regularly, and if it was updated, it reloads the application.
This can be achieved by putting a few plugins into the Maven project file.
Whenever you want to perform a reload of the application, execute the following command:
mvn package -Preload
The two plugin configurations work together to have the .reload file with an updated timestamp whenever we call the maven commands.
With the 'copy-rename' plugin, we can copy any source file to the Maven target folder. We link the copy phase of this plugin with the generate-sources Maven lifecycle phase so that the file is always available when packaging starts. This plugin is useful since it allows us to copy a file outside of the maven source directory so that we are sure that it is never packaged under normal conditions.
With the Maven ant plugin, we easily call the touch functionality of the ant system so that we are sure that the file has an updated timestamp. The timestamp is also updated in the case the file already exists because we didn't perform a clean earlier.
Do not forget to create and empty file in the src/payara directory as indicated in the plugin configuration.
Using IntelliJ IDEA for developing Payara Micro Applications.
Since IntelliJ IDEA has a configuration option for running a JAR application, which is what we need to run Payara Micro, you can easily integrate Payara Micro with the IDE in your development environment. You just need to indicate where Payara Micro is stored on your machine and where the application is built with Maven, for example.
With a few additional plugins, you can optimize the development - test cycle since only the application is reloaded, just as you can with Payara Server by redeploying the application.
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Welcome to the programming section of my website.
This section is devoted to Actionscript programming. You will find below some of my interactive programs that I created, including games. As promised, I developed for you a system of score saving in my games. After a long while of wait when some of you could train, you are now able to take place among the ten top scores of my games, and in several levels. Good luck!
What about having a look at my newest program: "Life"? This program pretty much looks like an MMORPG (which is what inspired me in the beginning).
Note: For the programs to function, you must have version 7 or later of Flash Player installed. In case the do not appear properly, please download the latest version of Flash Player.
If you wish to discover my work on fractals, it's here.
I hope you enjoy your visit!
|Aligned||This is the first game I have programmed. Align the three squares to get points. Please read help (only in French, sorry) before playing.|
|Rotations||This deals with a colored ring which moves according to a combination of four rotations. The program allows you to modify various parameters to get a customized shape.|
|Bouncing balls||Here is a small squared box in which two circular balls move according to gravity and friction. Some collisions are not entirely faithful to physics laws but they seem to do... You may also move the balls yourself.|
|Snake||And here is the very famous game of snake. If however you do not know the rules of the game, a help page is at your disposal for you to get to know them.|
|Pix||I present you once again a game I invented. It combines luck, speed and strategy. Your mission is to delete all the black pixels.|
|Protons and electrons||Watch these two protons and electrons continuously attracting and pushing back each other, hoping (in vain) that they form a dihydrogen molecule. They might nearly manage to do this if you move them...|
|3D Function||This is a graphic calculator in 3 dimensions. Simply choose a function and watch the result from the angle you like.|
|Life||Have fun taking your character from one side to another of your screen. Click on the ground and your character will hasten to join the pointed place. You may even ask your friends to connect and chat with them!
Note: The program regularly synchronizes with the data bases. During this time, the buttons turn white and are disabled. To delete your message, simply send an empty message.
|A*||An implementation of the famous pathfinding algorithm A*.
User's guide: click and drag to draw obstacles or erase them. Up arrow for the start. Down arrow for the arrival. Spacebar to launch the algorithm. Refresh the page to make a new test.
|Ants colony||An attempt of ant colony algorithm|
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When it comes to ensuring repairs are carried out, those who own property in a tenement building are much more likely to endure challenges than owners of other property types. At Masson Cairns, our expert residential property lawyers offer specialist legal advice to help you address some of the most common problems.
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With the abundant natural landscapes, diverse ethnic cultures, and convenient train transportation, Yunnan has been a new star for China train tour. Let’s check this following 7-day Kunming, Dali, Lijiang itinerary. This tour is designed for everyone whoever wants to experience the China high-speed train or plans to discover the charming Yunnan. You will have a chance to touch the stone peak that formed 270 million years ago, walk along the Erhai lake to see the reflection of Cangshan mountains on the water, step into the Dali ancient town to taste the local snacks and reach the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain whose main peak is 5596 meters above the sea level. I am sure this Yunnan high speed train tour is not only an enrichment of knowledge and experience, but also of course a big show-off to anybody. Join us and leave yourself a memorable and dazzling China train tour in Yunnan.
Glad to meet you at Kunming, the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province. You will meet your guide at the airport, and then you will be transferred to your hotel.
Possessing the subtropical monsoon climate and located in the low latitude plateau, Kunming is featured by “spring all the year round” and enjoys the reputation of “Spring City” in China. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces Dianchi Lake in the south. The scenery by the lake will definitely meet your taste.
Your 7-day China tour will start! As one of the top ten hot tourist cities in China and one of the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China, Kunming has a great number of national famous scenic spots. Today, you will pay a visit to three unmissable attractions.
Here comes the first one: Stone Forest which will take us about 1.5 hours and 85 kilometers from Kunming city center. The forest has been rated as “World Geopark” and “World Natural Heritage Scenery” by the United Nations. It owns a spectacular set of limestone groups and karst landscape. Known as the most spectacular in the world since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Stone Forest is composed of seven scenic areas: Naigu Stone Forest, Majorand Minor Stone Forests, Zhiyun Cave, Long Lake, Moon Lake, Dadie Waterfall, and Qifeng Cave, each of which has its own characteristics and tells different natural scenery. One more interesting thing is that about 300 million years ago, the Stone Forest was a vast sea. After a long period of geological evolution, it finally formed a very precious geological relic, covering many types of karst landforms on the earth. Here you will see sword-shaped, mushroom-shaped, tower-shaped, column-shaped stone peaks, as well as natural bridges, cone-shaped peaks and so on. Stone Forest boasts not only charming sights but also special festival culture. Torch Festival is the most solemn and grand traditional national festival here. It is generally held on the 24th of June of the lunar calendar every year and lasts for three days. It has been passed down for more than 2,000 years.
Your guide will take you to the nearby restaurant for lunch. After that, you will visit the second attraction: Yuantong Temple. We will spend about 1.5 hours and drive about 85 kilometers from the Stone Forest to the temple. Located on Yuantong Street in downtown Kunming, the temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Kunming, with a history of more than 1,200 years. Serving as an important Buddhist cultural resort and tourist attraction, it is now the seat of the Buddhist Association of Yunnan Province and Kunming City and also enjoys a good reputation in Southeast Asia. In ordinary temples, the terrain inside is higher than the gate. Differently, the more you go inside the Yutong Temple, the lower the terrain. This is very rare in Chinese temple architecture. Just like a beautiful South China garden, you can appreciate the green hills and gurgling springs while enjoying the Buddha statues and mural. Strolling around it, you will have a sense of quietness in a noisy city.
Then you will visit a lake park, one of the most beautiful parks in Kunming—Kunming Green Lake Park. It got its name because of its green water in all directions, green bamboo in four seasons, and green willows in spring and summer. In the beginning, it was a part of Dianchi Lake, but later it became an independent lake facing Yunnan University as the water level dropped. People also like to call it “an emerald embedded in Kunming”. Since 1956, Siberian seagulls have been flying to Kunming from November to the following March, and they have long been friends with the locals. At that time, visitors can see groups of seagulls flying over. Citizens will wave a loaf of bread in hand while the seagull will also fly down and takes it away. That is the scenery of Kunming and the tacit agreement between Kunming people and seagulls every winter. Such a harmonious scene brings people peace and happiness: the joyful cries of seagulls and the people throwing food. If lucky, you will see fashionable women expertly posing for photos with seagulls. Besides, lotus flowers are in full bloom from the end of June to August.
This morning, we will head for Yunnan Nationalities Museum(closed each Monday)to enjoy unique local handicrafts. The museum stands in a national tourism resort and covers an area of 133,300 square meters. The building group combines the style of courtyard and corridor. It is a national first-class museum, the largest ethnic museum in China, and a well-known museum in Asia. Taking protecting and promoting national culture as its duty, the museum has a collection of more than 40,000 sets (pieces) of ethnic cultural relics with certain historical, scientific, and artistic value, among which ethnic costume cultural relics are the most complete in China. The Dongba scriptures of the Naxi people(a minority in Yunnan Province) are treasured here. The scriptures use ancient language and paintings to express the content of Dongba religion's religious activities.
Your Dali tour is waiting to say hello after you enjoy the museum and you will be transferred to the train station and take an estimated train D3803 15:04-17:28 to Dali. Your local guide in Dali will then transfer you to the hotel.
Dali is the place people yearn for in their hearts. Dali is as beautiful as a painting all year round, famous for four scenic themes “wind, flower, snow, and moon”. Here, you can take a boat along the lake, experience the Buddhist culture, and seek history in grottoes. How amazing it is! Immerse yourself in the romance of the ancient city, feel the elegance of Dali in the sunset, and pursue the vanity of modern times in the beautiful night.
After finishing the breakfast, you will pay a visit to Three Pagodas and Chongsheng Temple firstly. The Three Pagodas is located in the Chongsheng Temple. Built from 824 of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the pagodas symbolized the history of Dali City and recorded the Buddhism development in the area. As its name shows, Three Pagodas include three ancient independent pagodas forming a symmetrical triangle which is unique in China. The middle pagoda—Qianxun Pagoda is 69.13 in height, and the other lower two stand to the south and north sides of it, both 42.19 meters. Qianxun Pagoda possesses many sculptures of Buddha made of gold, silver, wood or crystal, Buddhist scriptures, and more than 600 various Chinese herbal medicine, playing an essential role in explaining the ancient history of Dali City.
Then, we will go to an attraction that visitors must have a look at—Erhai Lake. Interestingly, “Erhai” means “a sea shaped like an ear” in Chinese, and that is the name origin. The Dali people consider it to be their “mother lake”. Actually, it is the second-largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province, about 42.58 kilometers long, with a maximum width of 9.0 kilometers from east to west. The surface area of the lake is 256.5 square kilometers. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, locals will row wooden boats into the lake to enjoy the golden moon reflected in the lake. Apart from that, Cangshan Mountains that surround Erhai Lake is another famous attraction. There is a legend of Cangshan Mountains and Erhai Lake. An Emperor’s daughter had just got married, but her husband had to fight in a war and did not return after over ten years. People said he was dead; the princess began to cry day and night. And her tears turned to be the Erhai Lake. When her husband came home, the princess is dying. The husband felt heartbroken, so he swore to God that he wanted to turn into a mountain and accompany the Erhai Lake. Hence, they two stayed with each other forever. When the pure white snow on the Cangshan Mountains is mirrored in Erhai Lake, the majestic scenery makes people impressed. Also, the two spots are the first shooting choice for many movies and TV series.
Lunch will be in the local restaurant, and then you will visit the Dali Old Town. The town, with a span of 1,200 years, was once the capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom (738-902). It faces Erhai Lake to the east and Cangshan Mountains to the west. The city wall, traditional Bai ethnic minority folk houses, ancient buildings, temples, and streets lined with shops, restaurants, bars, and hotels act as a nice place to hang out.If you go there during the day, you can carefully admire the buildings of the ancient city. At night, whether it is the glittering tower, the performances on the street, or the lanterns street, all make people feel delightful. Nothing is better than eating snacks while visiting the ancient city. Rushan is a specialty dairy product of Dali. Pour the boiled milk into the sour papaya juice. The milk will coagulate into lumps. Then press it into the shape of a fan and let it dry. The dried Rushan can be steamed or fried. It is the food that the locals like. If you also like to eat dairy products, don't miss it.
This morning, we will pick you up from your hotel and then drive to Lijiang City. It will be about two hours and twenty minutes (170 KM). Lijiang Ancient Town, also named Dayan Old Town, was a former trading town and a stop for traders carrying goods on the Ancient Tea Horse Road. It serves as a UNESCO World Heritage Site attraction. Different architectural styles of Han, Bai, Yi, Tibetan, and Naxi nationalities cooperate and decorate the ancient town. The town is featured by ancient cobbled streets, stone bridges, and waterwheels decorated with flowers. There are hundreds of shops full of silverware, shawls, flower cakes, and snacks. Moreover, most of the small ornaments are made by local people.
The streets are paved with red breccia and built along mountains and rivers. Water plays a role of great importance. The main water source, Black Dragon Pool (Heilongtan) owns many streams which can reach every family and street. Willow trees grow everywhere and almost 350 varied and inimitable bridges stand in the little town. Additionally, Mufu (Mu Clan’s Mansion), the residence of the Naxi people’s Mu clan who were in charge of Lijiang, covers an area of 28,000 square meters, with 162 rooms in total and 11 tablets given by emperors, reflecting the ups and downs of the Mu family history. Xu Xiake (a Chinese travel writer and geographer) once spoke highly of the Mufu building. A saying goes that “One fails to reach Lijiang without going to Mufu”. Sifang Street, aka “Rice Noodles Street”, situates in the town center and is one of the busiest places. Festivals will be celebrated here each year when a stage is set for singing and dancing. In addition, you will also see the Big Waterwheels rotating by the river flowing through the town which is a landmark here.
This morning, you will visit another must-see attraction, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. As the southernmost snow mountain in the northern hemisphere, it is well-situated above Lijiang Ancient Town and its 13 snow-capped peaks look like a flying “Giant Dragon”, so it is called “Jade Dragon”. With altitudes of at least 4,000 meters, the 13 peaks are covered with snow all the year, among which the Shanzidou Peak boasts the highest altitude of 5,596 meters. The mountain is also called the “Natural Glacier Museum” for it has all types of glaciers. Popular activities here are taking a cable car or hiking up the mountain to enjoy the snow scenery.
You will go to the Spruce Meadow by cable car. It is a huge lawn hidden in the primeval spruce forest and is located at the eastern foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, 3,240 meters above sea level. The legend goes that it is the place that the first death for love in Naxi happened. Their happy life was destroyed by a feudal polygamous marriage. They want to get the pure love only between the two of them. So, they come to the Spruce Meadow and suicided together. As time goes, tragedy has become a romantic story appealing to numerous lovers to come here. You will see beautiful lassies from Naxi Minority and Yi Minority who wear colorful clothes singing and dancing on the plateau or in the forest. Their clothes are dotted with ethnic features. You may have a chance to take photos or dance with them hand in hand.
The last place to view is Blue Moon Valley, which lies in the valley on the south side of Spruce Meadow, just like a blue moon inlaid under Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The lofty and magnificent snow-capped mountains, azure blue lakes, and beautiful canyon scenery here are known to people at home and abroad. Also, the white mud at the riverbed will be swirled up when it rains, making the water as white as milk, so that is how it owns the other name White Water River (Baishui River).
1. Make sure to carry portable oxygen canisters before climbing the mountain in case of high-altitude sickness, and you can buy them at the town supermarkets or the cable car station.
2. Prepare warm clothes and thick gloves for coldness; down jackets are also available to rent in the scenic area.
An estimated train D8790 16:42-20:11 will greet you in the afternoon to go back to Kunming. Your tour guide will wait at the station and take you to the hotel.
Time flies! Your China tour welcomes the last day, and we will take you to the airport according to your flight and you will fly back to your sweet home. We are looking forward to serving you again in the other cities of China. Wish you all the best!
If your flight is in the late afternoon, you can visit the Kunming Flower and Bird Market which is the biggest, most attractive shopping market in the city. It is a place with distinctive characteristics and full of life interest. In the narrow half-kilometer-long street, you will see shops standing in abundance and crowds of people stopping for searching for something amazing. There are 300 fixed areas for selling flowers, birds, fish, insects, jewelry, handicrafts, antiques, coins, and so on. Orchids, camellias, lilies, and tulips bloom in profusion, and birds such as parrots, mynahs, thrushes, and cuckoos sing leisurely. That is a good experience!
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CLIMATE WEEK: SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2021
September 20-26, 2021, is Climate Week in Pennsylvania, and the bicameral, bipartisan Pennsylvania Legislative Climate Caucus is pleased to share this list of events, legislative actions, and resources around the need for climate action in Pennsylvania and throughout the United States.
Climate Week Schedule of Events
Climate change is the most serious and immediate environmental threat confronting Pennsylvania, the United States, and the world. The time for climate action is now. Good climate policy is good economic policy, and climate legislation that protects our environment and our current and future generations can also help us support Pennsylvania’s workforce, build stronger, healthier communities, and advance Pennsylvania’s economic goals.
The Legislative Climate Caucus convenes to research, evaluate, discuss, and raise awareness about legislation, appropriations and related matters in ways that affirm evidence-based, peer-reviewed science, the acceptance that climate change is real and human-made, the importance of environmental justice, and the necessity for a renewable energy future. Further, the Climate Caucus operates to uphold the charge of environmental stewardship as laid bare in Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. | <urn:uuid:f00ddb0b-9624-4edf-b33c-197bc909cd41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pahouse.com/ClimateCaucus/News/?id=121127 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.91584 | 242 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Nana’s New Porch – Te Mahau Hou o Kui written by Marie Munro, illustrated by Rachel Doragh & translated by Piripi Walker
Published by Nana’s Shed Books, an imprint of Kelsey House Productions
Nana’s New Porch – Te Mahau Hou o Kui is fully bilingual. It combines the characters of Nana’s Shed – Te Wharau o Kui and Bella’s Fringe who team up to use their Kiwi ingenuity and imaginations to resolve another of Nana’s problems.
Nana’s back porch is draughty and old, it’s dangerous, slippery, rickety and cold.
He kauanu te mahau o Kui, he kino, parori, mania, tawhito.
Nana’s New Porch – Te Mahau Hou o Kui is a story that revels in the active imaginations of Kiwi kids, especially those who enjoy building things, teamwork, creativity and experiencing their local environments. The text has been translated into te reo Māori by Piripi Walker, NZSTI, who has “kept the words simple and clear so the rhythm is right, and each sentence will stand up well when delivered aloud.”
Nana’s New Porch – Te Mahau Hou o Kui appeals to early childhood, ESOL and Year 1 and Year 2 teachers, librarians and teachers of te reo Māori, especially for its literal translation.
• Bilingual text (English and Māori), Māori/English Glossary and Useful Phrases.
• In line with Ministry of Education requirements for “Beginning to use te reo Māori Levels 1-2” (simple, short dialogues, phrases and sentences, simple questions. Simple reo Māori words, phrases and sentences with some complex or less familiar reo Māori phrases and sentences).
• Colourful illustrations that, while imaginary, reflect real environments in which New Zealand children live. They also provide lots of fun to the text and add context to assist understanding for ESOL learners.
• Flowing, easy-to-read, rhyming English text with precise translation into te reo – to assist teachers and children learning the language.
• Child-centred storyline that introduces real-life construction industry knowledge.
• Focus on the process for a project, teamwork, cooperation and the Kiwi can-do attitude.
• Day-to-day New Zealand content.
• Appeal for boys and girls who are wildly imaginative, innovative and willing to try everything.
About the author
Marie Munro is a former primary school teacher who has been writing professionally for 30 years – as a journalist, desktop publisher, editor of community newspapers and, more recently, as a learning designer for the construction industry. Marie is passionate about getting children to engage with, and thoroughly enjoy, books. She is semi-retired and has decided to use her leisure time to turn the invisible “Magic Story Book” of her classroom years into visible storybooks for the enjoyment of children and the people who share books with them.
About the illustrator
Rachel Doragh, who is responsible for the te reo Māori content, vibrant illustrations and book design, is an artist with a love of words and pictures. She studied English Literature and Art History at Victoria University and has brought those interests together in graphic design. She is a mother, part-time school librarian, artist and graphic designer.
About the Translator
Piripi Walker (Ngāti Raukawa) studied te reo Māori at Victoria University and has been Director of Language Studies at Te Wānanga o Raukawa. He is a translator for health and educational groups, and for Māori and non-Māori organisations. He has translated a range of children’s books, including Margaret Mahy’s He Raiona i roto i ngā Otaota – A Lion in the Meadow, Gay Hay’s Te Papangarua a Tiwaiwaka – Fantail’s Quilt, Gavin Bishop’s Koinei te Whare nā Haki i Hanga – This is the House that Jack Built, Ian Munro’s This Dog – Ko Tēnei Kurī, and Marie Munro’s Te Wharau o Kui – Nana’s Shed, Nana’s New Porch – Te Mahau Hou o Kui, Nana’s Veggie Garden – Te Māra Kai a Kui, Lucas’s Car – Te Waka o Lucas, and most recently This Dog – Ko Tēnei Kurī. | <urn:uuid:73e1bedd-6e72-4c2c-b8c5-b97d872745f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mitchellstudios.co.nz/product/nanas-new-porch-te-mahau-hou-o-kui-by-nanas-shed-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.91578 | 1,014 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Suppliers have been granted a lot more independence to handle people remotely for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic, which include the use of business video conferencing resources these types of as FaceTime, Skype and Zoom. But analysts warn those people resources had been by no means meant for affected person-service provider communication and could pose stability and privacy hazards to organizations.
Final thirty day period, the Workplace for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Wellness and Human Services Division (HHS) decided to waive HIPAA penalties for using typically obtainable video conferencing resources to handle people remotely. The conclusion is proving to be a double-edged sword, in accordance to David Holtzman, government advisor for healthcare cybersecurity organization CynergisTek Inc. It presents healthcare organizations with a lot more resources to handle people at dwelling, but the resources may perhaps not adhere to the identical data safety and details stability safeguards as HIPAA-compliant platforms.
“I want to be distinct I feel this is a flawlessly reasonable and acceptable class of action that HHS has taken,” he claimed. “At the identical token, I lament the actuality that the resources and systems that we are allowing ourselves to use apparently do not have privacy and stability controls and … are particularly vulnerable and inclined to unauthorized accessibility and hacking or are just mainly insecure. The market in which these systems work is mainly unregulated. There are no procedures it can be the wild, Wild West.”
Holtzman claimed it can be significant that healthcare organizations recognize the hazards connected with non-traditional telehealth resources, the use of which is most likely only short term. He advisable that healthcare CIOs and CISOs make it a point to designate what video conferencing resources are acceptable and educate providers on how to use the resources properly and securely.
Worries with business video conferencing resources
Holtzman claimed just one of his most important worries with buyer-grade video conferencing resources is that several vendors are not clear about the stability measures designed into the systems to safeguard individual details. Nor do they have to be clear.
“These systems had been by no means intended for use as the medium to trade the most individual details in between a healthcare service provider and a affected person,” he claimed.
David HoltzmanGovt advisor, CynergisTek
Throughout the pandemic, stability and privacy troubles have plagued Zoom, a video conferencing tool launched in 2011 that gives a essential support for free of charge. But Alla Valente, a Forrester Investigate analyst masking stability and threat, claimed although the troubles with Zoom are effortlessly obvious in headlines right now, she also has comparable worries about other business video conferencing resources.
Even though Apple encrypts its products, if healthcare providers are using its videotelephony support FaceTime to interact with people, Valente claimed that most likely implies they are using individual products and not HIPAA-compliant laptops. Even the buyer-grade variation of Microsoft’s Skype platform shops some video phone calls on its servers for up to thirty days as outlined in the privacy and conditions of use arrangement, Valente claimed.
OCR did not handle these stability worries in its HIPAA penalties waiver, nor did the federal company give greatest tactics on how to secure these business-grade video conferencing resources for service provider use.
“Where the [HIPAA penalties] waiver really fell shorter is that … they failed to go that following action to say, ‘OK, if you use these, these are the stability configurations you require to make positive you’re enabling on the physician’s conclude, but then also on the affected person conclude,'” she claimed. “There are privacy notifications, individual configurations, what can be stored, what can be accessed — all of those people granular particulars the waiver failed to even contact upon.”
In an FAQ about its conclusion to make it possible for the use of business video conferencing resources, OCR did handle stability to a diploma, indicating several typically obtainable remote digital communication products involve stability characteristics that can safeguard digital individual health details. The OCR claimed video resources as effectively as messaging resources like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts and Apple’s iMessage are inclined to aspect conclude-to-conclude encryption, which implies messages in between the sender and receiver are non-public and cannot be altered by a third party.
Nevertheless Zoom is going through course-action lawsuits that declare the on the web meetings service provider overstated its conclude-to-conclude encryption capabilities on its buyer-grade platform. Facebook, which owns Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, is an additional firm that’s experienced its reasonable share of privacy and stability worries.
Zoom does give a HIPAA-compliant video teleconferencing platform, but people and even providers could have a really hard time distinguishing in between a vendor’s buyer-grade products and its leading, a lot more secure choices like Zoom’s healthcare product. Valente claimed that’s why healthcare CIOs and CISOs should be involved when it will come to determining what video conferencing resources to use.
“I will not feel that persons really recognize the variance in between, let us say, common Skype and Skype for Small business,” Valente claimed. “These business applications normally have a leading providing and then a free of charge or reduced-priced providing and they will not offer you the identical advantages. But [healthcare organizations] require to be really thorough even if they feel they are using anything that is at a leading level and recognize what are the stability configurations that have been enabled for that use.”
Opening Pandora’s box
Valente claimed not only do healthcare CIOs and CISOs require to feel about the shorter-expression hazards connected with using business video engineering resources, but the prolonged-expression implications as effectively.
When the COVID-19 crisis is about and the HIPAA waiver is rescinded, healthcare organizations will have to revert to a lot more traditional stability requirements for telehealth services, which could be a rude awakening for organizations that permitted the use of business video engineering resources that are not HIPAA-compliant, Valente claimed.
She argues that using business-grade resources now could make compliance troubles down the highway, as providers and people get utilised to accessing treatment in the identical way they interact with pals and family.
“You’re opening up Pandora’s box,” she claimed. “So feel about what do you require to place in area now to make positive that when the waiver is lifted, you’re functioning back again at the identical requirements you the moment experienced.”
Even though privacy and stability are the most important worries, Forrester Investigate analyst Arielle Trzcinski claimed CIOs should also put together for an interoperability struggle. Commercial video conferencing resources may perhaps be easy, but they could make a headache for providers when the resources are not able to combine with the EHR the identical way a traditional telehealth platform can.
“As we feel about more fragmenting the affected person journey by using issues that are not built-in with the EHR, issues like FaceTime or Facebook Messenger, that produces even a lot more of an administrative load for the clinician that now has to document all of that details in a individual procedure,” she claimed.
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Intergenerational climate injustice is increasingly being championed by young people as a legal issue. Disturbed by government inaction on climate change, they are taking their governments to court over climate injustice, and winning. Such drastic steps to protect their future has, unfortunately, become essential. However, framing intergenerational climate injustice solely within a legal framework limits the stakeholders and the scope for change.
Young people are not only citizens of countries and the responsibility of governments. They are members of families and communities which have not been paying sufficient attention to this injustice. By focusing on the roles and responsibilities of all parties to an injustice, the principles of restorative justice compel us elders to address the harm being felt by the young people in our circles, or what the science is telling us they will experience in future. It personalises climate change through a process of recognising harm, acknowledging our own role, and making amends to our own kin. It seeks to change behaviour.
Drawing on traditional conflict resolution practices of indigenous communities, the modern framework was developed in the US in the 1970s to complement formal criminal justice systems and has formed the basis of New Zealand’s juvenile justice system since 1989. It has subsequently been adapted and applied in a broad range of contexts, from addressing historical, systemic injustice to working through interpersonal conflicts in school and work environments. Howard Zehr, one of its founding fathers, has defined it as a “set of principles, a philosophy, an alternate set of guiding questions” (1). The following principles could help individuals to focus on the importance of their own actions in the overwhelming puzzle that is climate mitigation.
Individuals have agency over their own consumption and voting patterns, even when faced with the enormity of climate change. Research has found that believing in the impact of individual action, also known as an internal locus of control, supports pro-environmental behaviour (2). The intergenerational apology proposes that we can strengthen our internal locus of control in two ways: firstly, by acknowledging our roles as elders, consumers and citizens in the global system that has led to anthropogenic climate change; secondly, by holding ourselves accountable for our individual actions within our own kinship circles.
Accountability is a core principle of restorative justice and is the step after acknowledging the harm felt by the victims (1). It requires offenders to face up to what they have done. Having accepted that climate change disproportionately affects young people we know, a restorative justice framework requires that we stop making excuses for continuing with behaviour that we know is harmful.
Given the global complexity of climate change, these excuses seem reasonable – one more flight or steak is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things. And our neighbour’s footprint may far outstrip ours. But by focusing on our role in the current and future needs of our young people, a restorative justice lens doesn’t let us deflect the responsibility we hold for our own consumption patterns.
Likewise, a restorative justice perspective requires us to examine our role in government action to mitigate climate change. Governments can only legislate and implement appropriate measures if their citizens enable and compel them to do so. In June 2021, the Swiss voted against proposed national legislation to sharpen climate measures and in February 2022, voters rejected increased state taxes on higher polluting vehicles. In democratic countries at least, individual voters play an essential role in government policy. We can’t blame climate change on weak government action when we vote against mitigation measures that might affect our back pocket.
A key strength of applying a restorative justice lens to the issue of intergenerational climate injustice is its concern with making amends for the harm done. According to this principle, all actors in the system that has led to climate change – governments at national, regional and local levels, international entities, corporations, institutions, communities and individuals – are compelled to change the behaviours that are causing harm.
A potential stumbling block of an intergenerational climate apology between older and younger kinship members is that an apology is so closely associated with the word ‘sorry’. Arguably the least significant of a three-step process, this highly charged word and its implied guilt can raise our hackles and overshadow the more important phases of acknowledgement and amendment, the most effective of which is a change in behaviour (3).
In order to avoid getting hung up on it, the meaning of ‘sorry’ is not prescribed in an intergenerational apology. It can be the same ‘sorry’ we use to express sympathy at someone’s loss of a loved one or a job, or it can be the ‘sorry’ we use to acknowledge our wrong-doing. In this context, it is not overly important because an intergenerational apology is about what comes after the word ‘sorry’. It is about making amends by reducing our consumption and voting for our governments to take transformative action to address climate change.
Offenders as victims
Recognising that offenders may also be, or have been, victims is a particularly relevant aspect of restorative justice. This does not absolve them from taking responsibility or making amends for their harmful actions; recognition and restitution are corner stones of restorative justice (1). However, accepting that climate change offenders can also be victims of our economic and social systems respects the difficulty of choosing to live sustainably.
Carbon inequality refers to the proven link between CO2 emissions and higher income, and therefore consumption capacity (4). This inequality is greatest between countries of the North and South, meaning that richer countries pollute the most. However, there are many economic victims in the global North who do not have the spending capacity to consume at the same dangerous levels as their wealthier compatriots. According to OECD research, income inequality in member countries is at its highest in 50 years and is being exacerbated by COVID-19, the war in the Ukraine and a range of country-specific issues.
Beyond all those struggling to meet their basic needs in the gig economy, in care work or on social benefits are those who feel hollowed out by the treadmill of work and lifestyle pressures. While this constant pressure for growth has brought us an enviable standard of living and convenience, it has compromised other aspects of our well-being. However, choosing to jump off this treadmill is difficult for a myriad of personal psychological and financial reasons.
Just as we ‘boomers’ can identify as victims, so young people can be identified as offenders. They are still flying for long weekends away in Barcelona, accumulating fast fashion and unnecessarily updating their phones. They are the perpetrators for future generations. We boomers latch onto their behaviours with relish as a great excuse to continue doing nothing to reduce our own emissions. But from a dual perspective of offender and victim, it is easier to understand that young people are behaving as we have raised them – as consumers – and they face exactly the same challenges as us ‘boomers’ in changing their behaviour.
To a greater or lesser extent, we are all offenders and victims of the addictive nature of the consumption economy. But us elders have been offending for longer and have to take responsibility for this – and take the lead on it when our young people are lagging behind.
Old ideas, radical results
Restorative justice recognises its debt to ancient ideas and practices of communal healing and restitution. This call to recognise and act on personal responsibility runs through the world’s great religions and philosophies. “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own.” (Stoic philosopher, Epictetus). Its latest reincarnation is found in the billion-dollar mindfulness industry.
Rehashed ideas never seem radical (or at least not until they are relabelled and monetised on social media!). But actually enacting ancient wisdom is radical. If we all acted on what was within our control, we could make a radical difference to global mitigation efforts.
The intergenerational apology is proposed as a lens to zoom in on the impacts of climate change as experienced now and in the future by the young people we know. By making the threat of climate change personal, it provides us with an opportunity and the motivation to change our own environmentally damaging behaviours in the interests of those we love and are responsible for.
- Zehr, Howard. The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Good Books.
- Pavalache-Ilie, M., Unianu, E. (2012). Locus of control and the pro-environmental attitudes. Procedia. Social and Behavioral Sciences. 33. 198-202
- 5. Slocum, D., Allan, A., and Allan, M. (2011) An Emerging Theory of Apology. Australian Journal of Psychology.
- Kartha, S., Kemp-Benedict, E., Ghosh, E., Nazareth, A. and Gore, T. (2020). The Carbon Inequality Era: An assessment of the global distribution of consumption emissions among individuals from 1990 to 2015 and beyond. Joint Research Report. Stockholm Environment Institute and Oxfam International. | <urn:uuid:39b5b22a-524c-49f4-9a00-f3f961c2d37f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weve-got-this.org/2022/05/02/338/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950084 | 1,930 | 3.453125 | 3 |
China is hard for the outsider. The best-laid plans can get lost in deep tangles of bureaucracy and incomprehension in this huge nation. So the sheer courage of a retired Australian primary school teacher who has spent years navigating Chinese bureaucracy to help disabled Chinese children is worth some attention.
And Linda Shum, a devout Christian grandmother from Gympie in Queensland, has had a lot of attention. She’s been interviewed for Australian newspapers, magazines and television and she has taken it all in her stride, concentrating exclusively, it seems, on bettering the plight of the kids who have dominated her life, both in China and Australia, for so many years. Publicity, after all, can bring donations.
Now approaching 70, Linda first visited China in 1998 with a Christian group. Driven by an outsize maternal instinct, she was appalled by the dirt and neglect she witnessed in the state-run orphanage in Jiaozuo, a lesser city in the province of Henan. Determined to make a difference, she kept going back to the Jiaozuo orphanage, and within a few years she had set up COAT, the Chinese Orphans Assistance Team, which grew to encompass foster homes and a school.
China Baby Love is the story of Linda’s life and, on an intersecting line, the story of ABC journalist Jane Hutcheon’s tangential connection to Linda and Linda’s almost obsessive drive to look after a pack of disabled kids.
These are kids with cerebral palsy, or spina bifida, or cleft palates, kids who can’t walk, kids who can’t see, kids who can’t talk, kids who were left behind or literally pushed away by their parents, kids who are the physical fallout of China’s now-abandoned One Child policy.
When it was in force, the One Child policy meant most Chinese would-be parents were only permitted one child, so naturally, they wanted a healthy, intelligent and industrious child (preferably a boy). In later years this lone child would have to care for not only his or her parents, but probably his or her grandparents as well.
So children who had physical or mental difficulties were often abandoned, left to under-staffed institutes or orphanages to care for – where they were often tied to their beds or to potty-chairs, left largely to themselves and deprived of physical affection. If they were particularly unwell, Hutcheon recounts, they could be left to die alone, untended, in notorious “dying rooms”.
These days, China is far better at caring for abandoned and disabled children and institutionalised children are mostly warm and well-fed, although often bored – pacing, rocking, or left in front of a television, and still sometimes tied up – “for safety”.
Hutcheon, who is partly Chinese herself, was the ABC’s China correspondent at one time. She grew up in Hong Kong, she speaks both Mandarin and Cantonese and there is a form of abandonment in her family history – so she ticks most of the boxes needed to appreciate Linda Shum’s motivations and the obstacles she has had to overcome.
China Baby Love is a straightforward account of Linda’s work in China, with sympathy for her various physical ailments (cancer, neuropathy, vision and weight difficulties), admiration for her sheer determination, and a certain respect for her Pentecostal religion. Hutcheon doesn’t profess to be Christian but, she writes, “I’ve discovered amazing people who do incredible things in the name of God and Jesus, and Linda is one of them”.
Although she is an ardent Christian, Linda doesn’t proselytise in China, and her over-riding desire is to help these “throwaway” children, regardless of how many compromises she has to make with the Chinese authorities and how much she has to hold her evangelist Christianity in check.
I interviewed her in Jiaozuo a few years ago, and stayed in the multi-storied building where a number of the kids live and go to school, and I saw no evidence of preaching. The Chinese authorities have expressly forbidden it, and Linda made it clear to all foreign volunteers involved in the project that proselytising was not permitted, and repeated offences would see the offender chucked out. She told me that living an honourable life, according to religious principles, was her way of demonstrating the purpose and value of Christianity.
For Linda, the kids are all-important, and everything – including the religion held close to her heart – gives way before their needs. She has pushed and struggled and wangled and negotiated – but she hasn’t given in, and she has made a world of difference to a lot of unlucky children who haven’t had much of a start in life.
As Hutcheon writes: “She has rescued around 300 children from dismal institutions and provided an education for at least 200 others who were once deemed incapable of learning”.
And watching Linda in Jiaozuo, with kids clambering all over her, kids in her lap, kids lighting up at the very sight of her it’s easy to see the source of her inspiration and determination: it’s all there in the wonky smiles and fluttering hands. It’s the kids – they need her.
China Baby Love
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Welcome to this very special auction by Pangaea Auctions. They are offering over 600 lots that will hit the auction block on September 9th, 2017 with incredibly low start prices ensuring great buys and investment level purchases. This collection represents a collector’s quality selection of Chinese, Native American, European, and American antiques, jewelry and collectibles of the highest quality and importance ranging in historical periods from prehistoric to 18th Century to the 20th Century. A spectacular lot line up for bidders with enough variety to suit every collector ranging from the 18th century to 20th Century with museum quality items. Absentee bidding is available right up until auction day, with the live action kicking off at 8AM Pacific Time.
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Lot 3 presents an opportunity to bid on a rare Chinese Rock Crystal Sculpture of a Dragon Serpent emerging from the sea. The catalog description shares the stunning work:
” Estimated more than 75 yrs. old. Chinese art is visual art that, whether ancient or modern. Early “stone age art” dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures. Chinese art has arguably the oldest continuous tradition in the world. Traditional Chinese painting involves essentially the same techniques as Chinese calligraphy and is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink. As with calligraphy, the most popular materials on which paintings are made of paper and silk. Chinese ritual sculptures from the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties come from a period of over a thousand years from c. 1500 and were cast with complex patterns and zoomorphic decoration, but avoid the human figure. Smaller figures in pottery or wood were placed in tombs for many centuries afterwards, reaching a peak of quality in the Tang Dynasty. Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade. Sculptors of all sorts were regarded as artisans and very few names are recorded. Chinese ceramic ware shows a continuous development since the pre-dynastic periods, and is one of the most significant forms of Chinese art. Most later Chinese ceramics, even of the finest quality, were made on an industrial scale, thus very few individual potters or painters are known. Many of the most renowned workshops were owned by or reserved for the Emperor, and large quantities of ceramics were exported as diplomatic gifts or for trade from an early date. (Wikipedia) Size and/or Weight: See Measurement Photo.”
Beautiful Navajo jewelry is featured at Lot 35. With a great opening bid of only $150, this exceptional creation is open for bidding. The full description is as follows:
“Large Allen Chee Sterling Silver Eagle Cuff Bracelet Paired With A Running Bear Shop Sterling Silver Eagle Ring. Silver Tested. Bracelet Size Ring Size 10. Estimated more than 50 yrs. old. The Navajos are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. After the Cherokee, they are the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. Until contact with Pueblos and the Spanish, the Navajos were largely hunters and gatherers. The tribe adopted crop farming techniques from the Pueblo peoples. The practice of spinning and weaving wool into blankets and clothing became common and eventually developed into a form of highly valued artistic expression. Silversmithing is an important art form among Navajos. Atsidi Sani c. 1830–c. 1918 is considered to be the first Navajo silversmith. He learned Silversmithing from a Mexican man called Nakai Tsosi “Thin Mexican” around 1878 and began teaching other Navajos how to work with silver. By 1880, Navajo silversmiths were creating handmade jewelry including bracelets, tobacco flasks, necklaces and bracers. Later, they added silver earrings, buckles, bolos, hair ornaments, pins and squash blossom necklaces for tribal use, and to sell to tourists as a way to supplement their income. The Navajos’ hallmark jewelry piece called the “squash blossom” necklace first appeared in the 1880s. Turquoise has been part of jewelry for centuries, but Navajo artists did not use inlay techniques to insert turquoise into silver designs until the late 19th century. (Wikipedia) Size and/or Weight: See Measurement Photo’
Pangaea Auctions are extremely grateful to their collectors and galleries for selecting them to represent such a high quality body of work. This important event will begin live bidding at 11:00 AM Eastern US Time on Saturday September 9th, 2017. Absentee bidding is available right now on iCollector.com. Bidders can join the live auction from any internet enabled device. Pangaea Auctions conducts only four auctions per year to ensure quality lots at a low start price. The entire catalog is available today with photos and detailed descriptions ready for browsing through iCollector.com | <urn:uuid:0fe05753-afc0-4866-a1ae-20bdbe4276b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://auctionnews.icollector.com/native-american-fine-jewelry-and-ethnographic-tribal-museum-collection-live-on-september-9th/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957857 | 1,179 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Important events of 4 July
Freedom Day is a government occasion in the United States celebrating the Declaration of Independence of the United States, on July 4, 1776. The Continental Congress pronounced that the thirteen American provinces were not, at this point subject (and subordinate) to the ruler of Britain, King George III, and were presently joined together, free, and autonomous states. The Congress had casted a ballot to pronounce autonomy two days sooner, on July 2, yet it was not proclaimed until July 4.
Freedom Day is usually connected with firecrackers, marches, grills, jubilees, fairs, picnics, shows, ball games, family gatherings, political talks, and functions, notwithstanding different other open and private occasions commending the history, government, and customs of the United States. Freedom Day is the national day of the United States.
362 BC – On 4 July Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, drove by Epaminondas, vanquished the Spartans.
414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields capacity to his more seasoned sister Aelia Pulcheria, who ruled as official and broadcasted herself ruler (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
836 – Pactum Sicardi, a harmony arrangement between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is agreed upon.
993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is sanctified as a holy person.
1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song tradition, Arab, and perhaps Amerindian spectators close to the star Zeta Tauri. For a while it stays sufficiently splendid to be seen during the day. Its leftovers structure the Crab Nebula.
1120 – Jordan II of Capua is blessed as sovereign after his newborn child nephew’s passing.
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin routs Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes massacres Guy of Dampierre.
1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì gives up to the Papal leader Gil de Albornoz.
1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) starts.
1534 – Christian III is chosen King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe show up at Roanoke Island
1610 – The Battle of Klushino is battled between powers of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War.
1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is established in New France (presently Quebec, Canada).
1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, where the Iroquois surrender lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British states, was marked in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are received in the Province of New York, one of numerous fights against the British Parliament’s Coercive Acts.
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is embraced constantly Continental Congress.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. powers under George Clark catch Kaskaskia during the Illinois battle.
1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is declared to the U.S. individuals.
1817 – In Rome, New York, development on the Erie Canal starts.
1826 – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, individually the second and third leaders of the United States, kick the bucket that day, on the fiftieth commemoration of the appropriation of the United States Declaration of Independence. Adams’ final words were, “Thomas Jefferson endures.”
1827 – Slavery is canceled in the State of New York.
1831 – Samuel Francis Smith states “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 merriments.
1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s initially significant distance railroad, opens among Birmingham and Liverpool.
1838 – The Iowa Territory is composed.
1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a little lodge on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s record of his two years there, Walden, will turn into a touchstone of the natural development.
1855 – The primary version of Walt Whitman’s book of sonnets, Leaves of Grass, is distributed In Brooklyn.
1862 – Lewis Carroll recounts to Alice Liddell a story that would develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its continuations.
1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi gives up to U.S. powers under Ulysses S. Award following 47 days of attack. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate armed force is repelled at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia pulls back from the war zone in the wake of losing the Battle of Gettysburg, flagging a conclusion to the Confederate attack of U.S. region.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is caught by British soldiers and caught fire, finishing the war and compelling King Cetshwayo to escape.
1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway’s previously booked train from Montreal shows up in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, following six days of movement.
1887 – The originator of Pakistan, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to happen twice, bringing about a year with 367 days.
1894 – The brief Republic of Hawaii is declared by Sanford B. Give.
1898 – En course from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne slams into another boat and sinks off the shoreline of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American legislative head of the Philippines.
1903 – The Philippine–American War is formally closed.
1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots happen after African-American fighter Jack Johnson takes out white fighter Jim Jeffries in the fifteenth round. Somewhere in the range of 11 and 26 individuals are murdered and hundreds increasingly harmed.
1911 – A monstrous warmth wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 individuals in eleven days and breaking temperature records in a few urban communities.
1913 – President Woodrow Wilson tends to American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
1914 – The burial service of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his significant other Sophie happens in Vienna, six days after their deaths in Sarajevo.
1918 – Mehmed V passed on at 73 years old and Ottoman king Mehmed VI climbs to the seat.
1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a fruitful assault by the Australian Corps against German situations close to the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
1918 – Bolsheviks murder Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian schedule date).
1927 – First trip of the Lockheed Vega.
1934 – Leo Szilard licenses the chain-response structure that would later be utilized in the nuclear bomb.
1939 – Lou Gehrig, as of late determined to have Amyotrophic horizontal sclerosis, educates a group at Yankee Stadium that he views himself as “The most fortunate man on the substance of the earth”, at that point reports his retirement from significant class baseball.
1941 – Nazi violations against the Polish country: Nazi soldiers slaughter Polish researchers and journalists in the caught Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga gathering places: The Great Choral Synagogue in German involved Riga is ignited with 300 Jews secured in the storm cellar.
1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea closes when the city tumbles to Axis powers.
1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the biggest full-scale fight in history and the world’s biggest tank fight, starts in the town of Prokhorovka.
1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator plane collides with the ocean in a clear mishap minutes after departure, killing sixteen travelers ready, including general Władysław Sikorski, the president of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government estranged abroad; just the pilot endures.
1946 – The Kielce massacre against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
1946 – After 381 years of close ceaseless frontier rule by different forces, the Philippines accomplishes full freedom from the United States.
1947 – The “Indian Independence Bill” is introduced before the British House of Commons, proposing the autonomy of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign nations: India and Pakistan.
1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first communicates.
1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American writer William N. Oatis to ten years in jail on charges of secret activities.
1951 – William Shockley declares the development of the intersection transistor.
1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day confirmation of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star banner of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, very nearly ten and a half months after the fact (see Flag Acts (United States)).
1961 – On its first journey, the Soviet atomic controlled submarine K-19 endures a total loss of coolant to its reactor. The group can impact fixes, yet 22 of them kick the bucket of radiation harming over the accompanying two years.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The demonstration became effective the following year.
1976 – Israeli commandos assault Entebbe air terminal in Uganda, saving everything except four of the travelers and group of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian psychological oppressors.
1976 – The U.S. commends its Bicentennial.
1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the primary force substation for the Washington state legislative hall in Olympia, in solidarity with a jail strike at the Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
1982 – Three Iranian representatives and a writer are abducted in Lebanon by Phalange powers, and their destiny stays obscure.
1987 – In France, previous Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the “Butcher of Lyon”) is indicted for wrongdoings against mankind and condemned to life detainment.
1994 – Rwandan slaughter: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is caught by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, finishing the destruction in the city.
1997 – NASA’s Pathfinder space test lands on the outside of Mars.
1998 – Japan dispatches the Nozomi test to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space investigating country.
2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 accidents on way to deal with Irkutsk Airport slaughtering every one of the 145 individuals on board.
2004 – The foundation of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City.
2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and gets European Champion for first time in quite a while history.
2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2006 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery dispatches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The occasion increased wide media consideration as it was the main transport dispatch in the program’s history to happen on the United States’ Independence | <urn:uuid:ecb87d25-7ff0-4557-84f7-a8300c520711> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://vicharaks.com/4-july/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.907436 | 2,562 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Over 34 million Americans have diabetes according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's why proper medical care for diabetes in San Antonio, TX, is an important topic to discuss with your doctor, Dr. Dan Hoyumpa of Texan Family Clinic.
If you've been diagnosed with diabetes, then you probably know that it can affect almost every organ in your body including your eyes, heart, and nervous system.
Some complications of untreated diabetes include:
- Kidney disease
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Foot ulcers
- Nerve damage
However, you shouldn't let that scare you. Proper diabetic care from Dr. Hoyumpa can help delay the onset of diabetic complications or prevent them entirely.
Diabetic Treatment Plan
With diabetes, it's important to act fast. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential for preventing complications. Diagnosing your diabetes in San Antonio, TX, would typically occur after your lab work at Texan Family Clinic.
After your diagnosis, your doctor will develop a personalized treatment plan for your condition. This treatment plan aims to keep your blood glucose levels within the normal range. Your doctor also keeps an eye on your organs, monitoring the effect your diabetes has on them to ensure your wellness.
Aspects of Your Diabetes Care Plan
When your doctor develops an action plan for your diabetes, you'll need to follow through with it if you want to enjoy a healthy life.
Your treatment plan might involve the following:
- Check your blood glucose levels daily at home
- Assessment of your hemoglobin A1C levels with your healthcare provider every quarter
- Taking your medications such as insulin injections
- Reporting side effects of your medication to your doctor
- Learning to control your hypoglycemic episodes
- Proper diabetic foot care
- Switch to a healthy lifestyle including a diabetes-friendly diet and exercise
- Routine eye exams to check for damage
- Routine checkups at the Texan Family Clinic to assess your organ function
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Solitary joint equipment couplings are also used to link two nominally coaxial shafts. In this application the device is named a equipment-variety adaptable, or flexible coupling. The one joint permits for slight misalignments this kind of as set up problems and alterations in shaft alignment thanks to functioning problems. These kinds of equipment couplings are usually limited to angular misalignments of one/4â1/2°.
Gear couplings are typically constrained to angular misalignments, i.e., the angle of the spindle relative to the axes of the related shafts, of 4â5°. Universal joints are capable of larger misalignments.
Gear couplings and common joints are employed in comparable applications. Equipment couplings have higher torque densities than universal joints created to match a provided area whilst common joints induce reduced vibrations. The restrict on torque density in common joints is thanks to the minimal cross sections of the cross and yoke. The gear enamel in a gear coupling have higher backlash to allow for angular misalignment. The extra backlash can lead to vibration.
Every single joint is composed of a 1:one equipment ratio interior/external gear pair. The tooth flanks and outer diameter of the external gear are topped to let for angular displacement amongst the two gears. Mechanically, the gears are equivalent to rotating splines with modified profiles. They are called gears because of the comparatively large size of the tooth.
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Exactly how To Collaborate With Website Design Services
Web layout encompasses a variety of disciplines and also skills in the creation and maintenance of web websites. These consist of site graphic design; web site user interface layout; content monitoring; authoring, that includes standard coding and proprietary applications; site advertising and marketing; as well as Online search engine Optimization (Search Engine Optimization). It also covers website design and navigation, photo pictures, video clip, and internet animation. In short, it covers everything that enters into building as well as maintaining a website – from visuals design to site interface and also content management systems. One of the most important element when it pertains to a web site layout is its functionality. Individuals need to be able to communicate with the website quickly and also find what they are trying to find conveniently too. If the site layout is not well-designed, users will find it challenging to navigate or utilize the site. Additionally, if the internet site layout is not well-designed, it develops variances throughout the website and makes it challenging to attain a unified style throughout. Functionality is an important aspect that can not be overlooked when it involves a properly designed site design. One more crucial factor in site design is to make certain that it is totally receptive. This implies that it adjusts to any screen size or resolution and makes web pages easier to make use of on various internet browsers, such as Web Traveler and also Firefox. To achieve a totally receptive style, you have to produce a design overview that specifies the way each page of your website need to look. It likewise needs the use of suitable technology to support every one of the various internet browsers and devices that will certainly be used by your audience. Web page web content must be meticulously contacted fit your audience. Composing web content for your web site can sometimes be complicated because you wish to interest a wide variety of people. Because of this, it is frequently encouraged to have expert website design services to execute some initial writing, before the material is moved to the design stage. This guarantees that your content will certainly be clearly comprehended by your audience and also increases your opportunities of attaining a great first impression. Many people make the blunder of creating their website in isolation. While this might function well in many cases, it is likely to trigger some issues when attempting to reach a broad audience, specifically if the target market does not share your same vision for how your web pages should work. In order for your web site to work well, you should make certain that you include helpful details with your websites, so that your audience can get an idea of how you assume. There are several elements entailed when it comes to the procedure of site design. These include aspects such as your key text, background images, web page navigation, animation and more. Great internet developers will work to make sure that all of these elements collaborate in harmony to accomplish a pleasing result for every page of the website. Your web developers will certainly utilize different strategies and also methods to help them come up with an appealing internet site layout, but ultimately you will certainly be the one to manage how it looks, including deciding on the color design and also overall aesthetics. | <urn:uuid:7cba1e0e-4331-4170-b90f-a547f7bb98ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://clazwriters.com/10-mistakes-that-most-people-make-33/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947661 | 639 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Revelation, June 1829–B [D&C 18]
Revelation, , Seneca Co., NY, to , , and the future twelve disciples, June 1829. Featured version, titled “Chapter XV,” typeset [ca. early 1833] for Book of Commandments, 34–39. copied this revelation [ca. Mar. 1831] into Revelation Book 1, but the pages on which it was copied were removed at some point from that volume and are no longer extant. The version found in the Book of Commandments and featured below is the earliest extant version. For more complete source information, see the source note for the Book of Commandments.
JS dictated this revelation in , New York, within the first few days of June 1829. Although the first portion of the revelation is addressed to , the remainder provides direction for Cowdery and jointly, including a call for them to find twelve . The revelation then speaks to an intended future audience for JS’s revelation, addressing these unidentified twelve disciples. Previous revelations had always addressed the individuals directly involved as they or a scribe recorded the words JS dictated.This revelation opens with an admonition that “rely upon the things which are written,” especially the finished portion of the manuscript of the Book of Mormon. Just weeks earlier Cowdery had recorded from JS’s of the an account of Jesus Christ choosing twelve disciples and calling them to lead the church that he established. The revelation featured here then describes the duties of twelve leaders yet to be selected, using terminology similar to the Book of Mormon manuscript, including the responsibilities to preach, , and “ and to declare my gospel, according to the power of the which is in you, and according to the callings and gifts of God unto men.” While the Book of Mormon uses both disciples and apostles, distinguishing between the twelve “disciples” in America and the twelve “apostles” in Jerusalem, the terms seem to refer to comparable offices. This revelation uses the term disciple to describe the calling of the twelve, but it is unclear whether in 1829 JS and Cowdery thought of the terms disciple and apostle as interchangeable, as they did later.It is also not known when and began to search for the twelve disciples or . At a of the church on 26 October 1831, Cowdery informed those in attendance that he had recently been told that the twelve “would be ordained & sent forth from the Land of Zion.” In February 1835, when twelve apostles were called, Cowdery stated that since the time of this revelation in 1829, “our minds have been on a constant stretch to find who these Twelve were.” | <urn:uuid:ef6f01b6-4e7d-4899-97a7-9c45b1f88453> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://js12.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-june-1829-b-dc-18/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963976 | 580 | 2.015625 | 2 |
- Remember that just a listing of alternatives isn’t what makes a statute “divisible” under Descamps.
- The list has to be a list of alternative elements that creates different offenses, not a list of alternative means of committing a single offense.
- A recent Fourth Circuit case affirmed this reading ofDescamps.
NOW THE BLOG:
In a post I put up three months after Descamps v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 2276 (2013), came out, I made the point that a statute isn’t “divisible” under Descamps just because it lists a number of alternatives separated by the word “or.” (See “More on Descamps” in the September 2013 link at the right.) I pointed out language in Descamps that suggests the need to inquire into whether the list is a list of “alternative elements,” which “effectively creates ‘several different crimes,’” Descamps, 133 S. Ct. at 2285 (quoting Nijhawan v. Holder, 557 U.S. 29, 41 (2009)), or whether the list is instead a list of “alternative means” of committing a single crime. I also pointed out a footnote addressing – and accepting – the dissent’s concern that statutes listing mere alternative means would not be treated as divisible. The conclusion that follows from this language and analysis is that a statute isn’t divisible simply because it lists alternatives. The list has to be a list of alternative elements creating separate crimes, not just a list of alternative means of committing a single crime.
A recent Fourth Circuit case that got discussed in a presentation by local DFPD’s Jim Locklin and Kurt Mayer at our recent CJA appellate panel training confirms this reading of Descamps. The case is United States v. Royal, 731 F.3d 333 (4th Cir. 2013). The statute before the court in that case was a Maryland battery statute that case law held could be satisfied by either “offensive physical contact,” which would not qualify as a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act, see Johnson v. United States, 559 U.S. 133 (2010), or infliction of “physical harm,” which would qualify as a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Royal, 731 F.3d at 341.
The court held that the mere fact that there were two alternatives was not enough to make the statute divisible, however. What mattered beyond this was whether the alternatives were alternative “elements” or alternative “means.” The court looked to how the Maryland courts treated the offense and noted that jurors were not even required to unanimously agree on which of the two alternatives had been proven. The court concluded:
Rather than alternative elements, then, “offensive physical contact” and “physical harm” are merely alternative means of satisfying a single element of the Maryland offense. Consequently, because “[t]he dispute here does not concern any list of alternative elements,” the modified [categorical] approach “has no role to play.” Descamps, 133 S. Ct. at 2285.
Royal, 731 F.3d at 341 (emphasis in original).
So here’s some authority to cite beyond just my blog (which I’m afraid isn’t formally citeable authority). If even the Fourth Circuit takes this position, certainly the Ninth should. | <urn:uuid:44841e7f-7f7e-4729-8bfc-65b6c1f8e696> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.kmbllaw.com/more-on-whats-a-divisible-statute-under-descamps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936639 | 758 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Many of the migrants flooding into Europe are hiding their true place of origin and claiming to be Syrian.
Documents scattered only meters from Serbia’s border with Hungary provide evidence that many of the migrants flooding Europe to escape war or poverty are scrapping their true nationalities and likely assuming new ones, just as they enter the European Union.
A Pakistani identity card is seen in the bushes, a Bangladeshi one in a cornfield. A torn Iraqi driver’s license bearing the photo of a man with a Saddam-style mustache, another one with a scarfed woman displaying a shy smile.
Many of those travelers believe that using a fake document — or having none at all — gives them a better chance of receiving asylum in Germany and other western European states.
That’s because the surest route to asylum is to be a refugee from war and not an economic migrant fleeing poverty. That fact has led to a huge influx of people claiming to be Syrian.
Serbian border police say that 90 percent of those arriving from Macedonia, some 3,000 a day, claim they are Syrian, although they have no documents to prove it. The so-called Balkan corridor for the migrant flight starts in Turkey, then goes through Macedonia and Serbia before entering the European Union in Hungary.
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Reading and Phonics
We are very proud of our new library area. We enjoy sharing books together as a whole school and reading with our reading buddy. If we find a book which really captures our interest, we sometimes ask if an adult will share it with everyone.
As a school we visited our local library in Helston. We learnt about the history of the library and we all were able to become members. This has enhanced our love of reading at Coverack School and we cannot wait to visit with our families. | <urn:uuid:eaa3c9f9-6871-4d83-9d89-a3f57bd742e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coverack.cornwall.sch.uk/website/reading_and_phonics/116274 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97839 | 105 | 1.601563 | 2 |
JetBlue Airways is only five days away from entering the Boston market by establishing a presence at Logan International Airport. The VP of strategy for JetBlue considers the range of potential competitive responses that he might expect from such established airlines as American Airlines, so he can anticipate and prepare. As the largest major carrier operating out of Logan, American had more at risk than the other major carriers and had not yet decided how best to compete with the LCCs. How would American respond?
This case is a counterpart to S-0116, which takes the perspective of the incumbent, American Airlines. Instructors who wish to teach S-0229 will also need accompanying materials S-0250 and S-0118. | <urn:uuid:f1e2fbe9-8790-4c4b-aebe-80d36fb91314> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://store.darden.virginia.edu/the-battle-for-logan-airport-jetblue-airways-versus-american-airlines-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957086 | 143 | 1.625 | 2 |
What is mould?
Mould is a type of fungi, in the same family as mushrooms, that is widespread in the environment. Mould can grow in your home in damp areas, especially where there is inadequate ventilation. There is a much higher risk of mould growing and spreading in humid areas, after periods of heavy rain, after water damage, or if there has been flooding. It is common to find mould growing in bathrooms, in laundries, under sinks and on window sills where there is condensation. If moisture builds up inside the home, mould may grow on furniture. Mould can also be found growing and spread via air conditioning systems within the home. If you can smell a musty smell in an area of your home, there is a high chance that mould is growing.
Who is most at risk from mould?
There are many different types of mould that have the potential to make people sick. People most at risk from mould include:
- People with asthma
- People who suffer from allergies and hay fever
- Young children and babies
- The elderly
- People with weakened immune systems
- People with lung conditions
What are the health effects of mould?
Mould has the potential to trigger a range of health problems, including:
- Runny or blocked nose
- Eye or skin irritation
- Respiratory infections
- Inhalation of mould spores can trigger asthma attacks
It is difficult to tell one type of mould from the other, therefore it is important to remove and control any mould growth in your home, whether you are an owner occupier or in a rental property. In addition to the negative health effects of mould, it can also damage the surfaces it grows on.
How can I reduce the risk of mould in my home?
Where ever possible, try to prevent mould by:
- Always using exhaust fans when cooking, washing and showering.
- Ensure ventilation when using clothes dryers.
- When the weather permits, open windows to allow fresh air ventilation.
- Repair sources of water leaks such as roof leaks, blocked gutters and burst or leaking pipes (or request landlord do this work).
- Limit the use of humidifiers.
- Ensure fresh air ventilation when using evaporative coolers.
- Clean and dry any areas affects by water spills or leaks immediately.
San-Air Removes and Prevents Mould in your home or office
If your home or office has a musty smell, there is a high chance mould is growing. It is important to treat the mouldy areas as soon as possible, and to prevent mould re-growing. If you are looking for a solution to stop mould in your house naturally, read on.
How can San-Air can help?
San-Air Mould Remover Spray and San-Air Mould Gone Gel removes and prevent moulds, without toxic and harsh chemicals. It is a 100% natural mould remover. San-Air’s highly effective natural ingredients kill and prevent further mould growth, but are not harmful to people, pets or plants.
All San-Air Mould treatment products have been independently validated to remove 99.9% of mould, spores, bacteria and germs. These products are certified food-safe and provide 24/7 protection from mould growth and airborne spores. San-Air will stop mould in your house.
It is important to note, that for extreme and widespread mould growth, such as severe conditions resulting from rising damp or flooding, it is important to consult an expert in mould remediation. For all other domestic mould problems, read on for how San-Air can keep your home safe from mould.
How does San-Air work?
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At African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) we believe that there is nothing African, Asian, American, or European about good journalism. While the contexts within which it is practiced may be different, and may indeed inform the final product, good journalism shares many characteristics that have universal appeal.
- Good journalism does not merely inform, it provides information that has meaning for people’s lives.
- It provides information that is significant and relevant.
- It offers context and perspective.
- It explains issues and helps to educate and enlighten audiences.
- It offers analysis and depth.
- It provides a civic forum that both informs and engages the public.
- It drives public debate on the issues of the day, including rarely discussed subjects that affect people’s lives.
- It asks the right questions and provides a forum through which they can be answered.
- It is credible and authoritative.
- It upholds the value of diversity.
- It is truthful and accurate.
- It is fair and impartial.
- It is independent (from vested interests, be they political or commercial).
- It is enterprising.
- It is interesting.
What it Takes
A good understanding of the institution(s) or communities you cover. How do they work? What are the key processes? What is the jargon of the institutions? What is the language of the community? Who are the key players? What are the ‘other voices’ that are rarely covered?
Cultivating human sources in the institution(s) or community; having a diverse source base.
Understanding the other potential sources of information, including documentary evidence.
A willingness to go beyond official institutions e.g. Parliament, City Hall, the Police to the community. What are the key concerns of the community? Is it crime, defilement, poor roads, lack of electricity, or all of the above? What is the central government and/or local authorities doing about them? What are the other stakeholders doing about them?
An inquisitive mind.
A broad, all-round education.
A multi-disciplinary understanding of issues.
A love of current affairs.
Enterprise and creativity.
A good command of language.
Continuing training and education.
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A documentary about vaccination produced two years ago by the students at Carlsbad High School is finally released to coincide with National Immunization Awareness Month. The film, “Invisible Threat,” about the “the science of disease and the risks facing a society that is under-vaccinated” faced backlash from the anti-vaccination movement from the start when UT San Diego first reported about making of the documentary.
The students were baffled by the attacks from the anti-vaccination community who accused the school of receiving funding from pharmaceutical companies to make what the group called a propaganda film.
“We’re an extracurricular film club,” Mark Huckaby, a graduating senior who narrated the film, told the Los Angeles Times. “It’s just not cool.”
The idea for the film came from the San Diego Rotary Club, the main financial sponsor of CHSTVfilms, the award-winning film and broadcast journalism extracurricular club.
The service organization has been working to the improve the vaccination rate in San Diego County for the past 20 years. The group has seen immunization exemption rates rose from 1.09 percent 15 years ago to 4.49 percent last school year.
So far this year, the number of whooping cough cases have reached epidemic proportion and public health officials say unvaccinated children are partly to blame. San Diego County typically has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country.
Students, however, bristled at the idea of doing a pro-vaccination film.
“We said, if we do this, we have to do this on our terms,” Bradley Streicher, one of the students told the LA Times. “We wanted to explore this from both sides.”
In making the documentary, the students read studies, talked to public health officials and parents who are against vaccination as well as a holistic practitioner who treats unvaccinated children. In the end, some who had initially believed that vaccination causes autism changed their minds.
“It was all social controversy. There was no science controversy,” Allison DeGour, an incoming senior, told the Times.
The 40-minute film was completed in 2013 and shown to a few selected audiences is strongly pro-vaccine.
Public health officials praised the documentary, saying it is one of the best films on the subject of vaccination.
“It is a wonderful movie,” Dr. Trish Perl, an infectious-disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Medicine told the Times. “I would have loved it to be shown in my children’s school.”
The students said they were saddened by the strong reaction they got from the film. In all, 16 students worked on the documentary — writing, shooting, editing and appearing in the fim.
“We really took pride in the work we did as students,” Streicher told the Times. “It’s sad to see that people would call it into question.”
Because of the strong criticism, many at Carlsbad High School still have not seen the documentary. In June, the school’s Parent-Teacher Student Association had to cancel a planned screening for fear that anti-vaccination activists would show up and protest, as they had at a previous screening.
The group did not want to expose the students who worked on the film to a situation “where people could get on campus and harass them.”
At the urging of students and community members, the film’s producer Lisa Posard, whose daughter wrote the script, finally agreed to release the documentary on the Internet on Aug. 1, to coincide with National Immunization Awareness Month.
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If you’re wondering how to start boating for the very first time, you may feel a little intimidated—and that’s completely normal! You probably have a lot of questions like, “where do I buy or rent a boat,” “how do I operate or drive the boat,” “what do I do with the boat,” and “where do I go on the boat?”
Phew, take a deep breath—because we’re here to help. For starters, our friends at Discover Boating, BoatUS, and the National Safe Boating Council can help you answer many of those basic buying, safety, and seamanship questions.
And when it comes to where to go and what to do, here at KnowWake, we’ve got you covered!
How to Start Boating
1. Find Places to Go Boating Near You
Let’s start with where to go boating. If you’re renting a boat, your journey will start at one of your local marinas. You can find marinas and service locations right within your KnowWake app.
On the flipside, if you already own your own boat, your day will likely start at a nearby boat ramp. Identify your preferred launch ramp within the map and that’s it! You’re one step closer to getting out on the water.
2. Try Different Boating Activities
Once you’re out on the water, you might still be wondering where to go, in addition to wondering what to do. Use the app to explore popular spots and destinations that have been pinned by other KnowWake community users. You’ll find everything from dockside dining restaurants, to snorkeling and dive sites, marine life sightings, and so much more.
Enjoy the sunshine while day cruising, stop for a swim at a sandbar, go scuba diving, cast your line at a favorite fishing location, or make some waves with watersports in a designated Orange Wake Zone.
3. Connect with Friends and Other Boaters in Your Community
In general, boaters are a friendly crowd (yes, there is some logic behind the well-known “boater’s wave”). Encourage your local boating crew to download KnowWake so you’re able to share each other’s favorite locations.
You’ll also find it easy to connect with other KnowWakers in the area for raft ups at closeby party coves or meet ups at the local sandbar.
4. Discover Locations for Fueling, Service and Maintenance
Eventually, in between all the fun you’ll be having boating, there’ll be a time where you realize your fuel gauge is running on E. Or, maybe you’re in need of a small repair or a postseason tune-up?
Whatever the case may be—you guessed it—you’ll find it in your KnowWake app.
5. Keep on Boating!
Now, see…that wasn’t so hard was it?! The first step to becoming a lifelong boater is to start boating!
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A blockade and recurring violence have put relentless pressure on the health system in the Gaza Strip.
Since the Great March of Return protests in March 2018, thousands of Gazans have suffered gunshot wounds. This is a huge trauma burden on the fragile health system.
When specialist care is missing, gunshot victims often risk limb amputation. Very few people are allowed to travel outside of Gaza to get such care.
Mayada was lucky to get the treatment she needed to save her leg at Gaza’s first Limb Reconstruction Centre. With EU humanitarian support, the World Health Organization and Palestine Health Ministry launched this centre of excellence in 2020 for the treatment of gunshot wounds.
Over 80% of Gaza’s population is aid-dependent.
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I remember times when the hose nozzle was a premium thing, so you just placed your thumb over the hose end and made a stream. I also remember when I was a kid, mom asked me to water strawberries and I took a hose, turned on the water and with a flow from the hose, which came out like a jet and killed all strawberries. I opened their roots and broke all the leaves. Needless to say that my mother from time did not allow me to water plants without a hose nozzle.
I also remember times when hose nozzles mostly were made from plastic, and they broke, started to leak, stopped spraying like twice a year. That’s the reason why these days I’m choosing hose nozzle carefully. And remember – with a good hose nozzle you can easily clean the best fire pits!
It’s obvious that a good hose nozzle will be made from high-quality materials, will last a very long time under any conditions and is easy to use. Right now I own two hose nozzles, one is a cheap one but made for higher pressure, and I use it for cleaning car tires and other stuff which is hard to wash. And another nozzle is for 10$ at a local shop, made from metal and it’s not bad. Two years it’s staying outside in the dirt and snow and water, and it’s still working ok. Ok, it leaks a little bit and because of sand changing the sprinkling type is not that easy, but it still works excellent. And hey, it was 10$.
After buying a hose and hose splitter you will need also a hose nozzle or nozzles, so you can wash your car, (I do not suggest doing it in your lawn or garden, because all the bad stuff, oil, fuel and road dirt gets in your ground and it’s bad for it) water your plants without doing any damage to them and save water and money. Some people are watering their lawn and plants without a hose nozzle, just using a simple hose and I can say that don’t do it because it’s dangerous to plant roots and overwatering is highly possible.
The bottom line of hose nozzles is that manufacturers are making them last no more than 2 years. They just know that you will need them anyway and they are not putting much effort and good materials into them. So, there is no perfect nozzle, all of them have their own cons and pros, but you will never find a very durable, comfortable and multi-functional nozzle.
Anyway, I have made a list and some information for you so choosing a hose nozzle will be easier for you.
How To Choose Best Hose Nozzle
1. Material from which hose nozzle is made
The most important thing in my opinion. Nozzles sprayer and the handle mostly come in two materials – metal or plastic. Expensive nozzles are made from metal or very durable plastic, but cheaper mostly are made from plastic.
The 10$ nozzle I got from a local shop is mixed material, the sprayer is plastic with a metal turning ring, and the handle is of metal. I like it, it feels great, is durable and does not give you that cheap feeling.
BUT, I suggest you yo avoid nozzles which are made entirely of plastic because they break very easily and are degraded by the sun.
Metal nozzles are the best choice because tend to last very long. I even know one lady who is using the same metal nozzle for 8! years. So, before choosing the right material do like this – handle can be from plastic, but I suggest going for metal. The sprayer needs to be made from metal, that’s most important. Hose connection point can also be from plastic, but I highly recommend choosing metal.
IN ONE SENTENCE – AVOID ENTIRELY PLASTIC NOZZLES.
2. Hose nozzle spray type
Some gardeners are OK with just simple types, rain and jet, but I suggest you choose as many types as possible because each of them has a different purpose. But you can also just write down what you want to water and then check what kind of spray it needs. If you need to water large areas, then you need to choose a nozzle that offers wide spraying. Of course for that, you may need a high volume of water, but tap water should be enough. If you mostly water pots or deep garden beds then choose a nozzle with a longer handle. For pots, I’m using a sprayer type called mist. It’s very safe and good for your plants and it water excellent plus it’s also washing the plant.
For another reason, there is no point to buy a nozzle with fewer spraying types, so I would suggest buying a nozzle with as many spray types as possible.
3. Hose nozzle styles
Pistol grip nozzle
Like the heading says, this nozzle looks like a pistol. These nozzles have a handle like a pistol and a lever or trigger which turns on the water. There are two types of triggers – one which you control by squeezing a handle with your fingers or on the back where you press it with your palm.
Of course, there is a nozzle from where the water comes out. Some of the nozzles have attachments that you can add, but they are pretty hard to find.
You can turn off the water and also control the flow rate by releasing the trigger.
This type of nozzle usually is made of aluminum or plastic. They have a lot of moving parts so be careful when choosing this kind of nozzle. I suggest you avoid buying plastic ones. They are breaking after the first drop.
This is my favorite type of nozzle. My 10$ nozzle has eight spraying types. Usually, nozzles have from 2 to 8 spraying types. To change a pattern, you need to turn the ring, and that’s it! Easy, fast and efficient. Dial hose nozzles are perfect for all types of watering, with a mist pattern you can water plants in pots, with a jet or soak you can wash your car or pavement, with a shower you can do the bigger garden watering,
Usually pattern types are – jet,fan,flat,cone,shower,mist,center spray and soak.
These nozzles, as I said in the beginning, are made from plastic/metal. But if in any case, you bought a plastic nozzle, remember to put in the shade when not using it and don’t leave it outside over the winter.
Watering Wand nozzle
You can buy this type of nozzle if you need to water some exact places, like hanging pots or deep garden beds. Usually, you can extend the handle and get an even longer handle. They are great if you have a big garden, but do not have a walking path. So you can reach all plants without using a jet stream which is not healthy for your plants. Mostly watering wands comes with a dial ending so you can choose different patterns and a trigger, so you don’t need to turn off the faucet or hose splitter.
Fan hose Nozzle
If you need to water only small gardens or outdoor plants, then this nozzle is perfect for you. It sprays water in a fan-shaped pattern. Most of them don’t have water control (some more expensive have a shut-off valve). I like them because you can do your job quickly and of higher quality.
I call them – car washing nozzles because you can find them in all car part shops or automotive care sections. This nozzle generates very high-pressure water and a huge amount of it, so it’s good for washing cars. You can change from a light mist to a large stream just by twisting the nozzle. Remember, that large spray can be too strong for plants, so with a Fireman nozzle, you should be careful.
Mostly they are made of metal, and some of them even have a rubber coating. Usually, they are unbreakable because they are meant to use in rough circumstances. So don’t worry if you drive over by it with a car.
Twist Hose Nozzle
This type of nozzle has a simple straight barrel that you can twist to control the water amount. You can also change a spray pattern by turning the end of it. If you turn to the right, it will spray a mist, but if you twist to the left, it can spray a hard stream. On that side, you can also turn off the water completely. Mostly these nozzles last forever, but they are not as comfortable as a dial. This is that second nozzle I own, and I like it.
4. Quick Connect
If you have more than one nozzle or you are using a hose for different things I suggest buying a nozzle with quick-connect because screwing the nozzle of each time will be tedious and time taking. And it’s not okay for connection rings also. The quick-connect system allows you to the simple snap nozzle on it. Quick connectors are made of metal or plastic. Plastic connectors tend to crack and leak water over time, so choose a metal quick connection system.
5. Nozzle flow rate
Usually, all nozzles have flow rates from 2.5 to 5.2 gallons per minute. But it highly depends on the pattern and water pressure. Some of the manufacturers are saying that their nozzle has a flow rate of 6 gallons per minute, but this is bullshit. Flow rate it’s a thing you should not care about. Only if you have some particular washing or watering plants where you need high pressure or a lot of water.
6. Shutoff Valve
Shutoff Valve is the thing that most breaks. A shutoff valve is a thing that turns off water either by rotating the barrel, releasing the trigger or moving a valve. You should look for a valve that is made from durable materials such as metal or high-quality plastic. It should also be solidly attached and should not move when at off position. | <urn:uuid:cd354d18-5c2b-487b-8ba7-929849f9de75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forgardening.org/reviews/best-hose-nozzle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960473 | 2,099 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The winter of 2015 was Worcester’s third snowiest on record, according to the National Weather Service. You probably witnessed it – and have tried to block it from memory.
Brace yourself, because another winter is on the doorstep, and forecasts call for a repeat of the frigid temperatures that made last winter even more unbearable. As for the snow, it’s wait-and-see. Mild temperatures earlier this week will not last, and cities and towns will be awaiting the season’s first snowfall.
They may also be keeping their fingers crossed that the winter of 2016 does not try to outdo its predecessor.
Remnants of this year’s winter storms lasted well into spring, and Worcester struggled, quite literally, to keep its head above all the snow. There might even be a few people still digging their way out of receding monster snowbanks. If you were around last winter, you remember the nightmare of towering piles of snow blocking your view when pulling out of side streets and sidewalks that were barely passable in spots - not to mention the shoveling and snow blowing.
You are forgiven if, at times, you thought it might never end. The city’s Department of Public Works felt your pain.
You might know the DPW as the men and women who keep Worcester’s roads, streets and highways salted, sanded and clear. Last winter, clear was the objective, but not necessarily the end result. Some critics did not think the DPW was up to the task, although city officials went out of their way to praise the street-clearing efforts.
By taking a look at this past year and how the city and some towns handled the storms, there is plenty of insight into what to expect in the future — from spending to the morale of residents and city workers.
“It was a pretty epic winter,” said Matthew Labovites, the DPW’s assistant commissioner of operations. “While it wasn’t the record setting winter for total snowfall, the record setting year was ’95 to ’96. I was here for that and it was worse in some ways. The difference being, we didn’t get 90 inches in a three week period like we did last [winter].”
The Weather Channel confirms Worcester’s record-setting season was indeed the winter of 1995-96. That year, 132.9 inches of snow fell, beating out the winter of 2015 by more than a foot.
This past winter was not far behind, though. The Weather Channel clocked snowfall in Worcester at 119.7 inches. And while it conflicts with that count, Worcester’s own 2016 budget report put the count at 112.2 inches.
Regardless of who you ask, January through March this year was a rough time for Massachusetts residents – especially in Worcester.
“Late January to Late February, that was pretty incredible,” said Labovites. “I think for that three-week period, if there is such a thing as a record for three weeks, I think we kind of cooked that record.”
There is no award for “snowiest three weeks.” Even still, the season’s busiest month, February, was no slouch in the snow department: 53.4 inches of snow slammed Worcester in that period.
While the winter might have been slacking a bit overall, there was plenty of cause for alarm at its height.
Worcester also came in behind Boston for most snowfall in a month, but there are times when it does not pay to come in first.
As if that record was not enough, the season-opening storm, Juno, kicked off the snow festivities with three days of intense precipitation at the end of January. Worcester was ready to tap out after 34.5 inches in a weekend. Little did it know that its days would be spent buried under a never-ending blanket for the next month.
“I’ve been doing this long enough to know that we usually get slammed in the first week of January,” said Labovites. “When we got through three weeks of January with no snow we were saying, ‘Oh boy, this is interesting.
“If we get lucky enough to not have a plowable event in November or December, it’s almost guaranteed in the first week of January - usually just a few days after the new year.”
This past winter was an exception. Temperatures stayed relatively mild and the ground was devoid of anything but mud and dead grass.
If lack of snow early in the season is a sign of things to come, Worcester might be in for another wild ride in 2016. The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a rough time for New England again this season. “The Northeast, Ohio Valley, northern Plains, and Pacific Northwest should brace for a slew of snow,” the Almanac reads.
It has been a mild fall so far and local weather reports indicate the pattern will not change for at least a few more weeks.
Boston.com cites the National Weather Service as saying Worcester averages 17 “snow events” in a given season. Worcester’s most recent annual budget report counted 17 winter/snow related events in fiscal year 2015. What 2016 holds in store remains to be seen.
“We don’t put too much stock in what the forecasts are for the entire winter. We don’t want to get caught ill-prepared if that forecast doesn’t go as planned. We’re always kind of evolving and tweaking the program in order to improve it,” said Labovites.
Will Lynch, 22, hails from Maine but was here as a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute until December 2014. He stayed in the city through the winter, until May.
“It seems like Worcester doesn’t have their stuff together compared to Maine,” said Lynch. “They were going out at 2 in the morning with dump trucks and vehicles that were picking up the snow, but it seemed like too little too late,” Lynch said of Worcester’s efforts. “I feel like, if they did a little bit in the beginning of February at the first big storm, it would have been a little better.”
Make no mistake, though, the city’s trucks were working their plows to the metallic bone. Worcester’s denizens had a tough time digging themselves out, and it often seemed like a losing battle. Local news sources reported complaints of freshly-shoveled drives and sidewalks immediately filled with snow as plows made new passes through the city.
Many problems stemmed from the city’s on-street parking situation.
Only so many homes can resort to street parking, which makes it difficult for plows in the thick of the winter. One constant struggle was making sure the streets had enough clearance for through traffic.
Snow was not Lynch’s only problem.
“One thing I surprisingly forgot to mention was that my car was broken into during a storm one Sunday night,” he said. “I think it speaks more to the character of some areas of Worcester as opposed to the winter.”
Worcester has its share of crime, but Lynch did not attribute the break-in to any sort of escalated crime rate in his area. It seemed to him that it was a matter of bad luck.
“My car was essentially snow-locked for about two weeks prior, so I think a local resident noticed and decided to break in. Shoveling broken glass and snow in and around the car was certainly not very fun,” said Lynch.
Dennis O’Brien, 64, a longtime Worcester resident, lives in the Elm Park area. He observed snow clearing struggles firsthand. His apartment complex is one of the lucky few to have off-street parking. But with so much snow, even parking in a lot comes with its downsides.
“The building management hires a plow company and they do a great job,” O’Brien said. “If you’re still parked in your space [when they plow], they’ll just plow right past you. So you’re gonna have to get up in the morning and shovel yourself out.”
Worcester is not the only city to struggle with plowing and snow removal. Surrounding, smaller towns reported having an easier time keeping their roads clear. They still dealt with the constant back-and-forth battle of clearing the roads, while clashing with commercial parking and plowing, but their streets are not nearly as congested as those in the city. It is even more of a struggle when snow removal is not an option.
“We didn’t move any snow last year. We were able to avoid moving snow,” Shrewsbury Town Manager Daniel Morgado said. “A couple of our sidewalks along Route 9 got pretty bad. But you gotta balance that. You not only have people trying to clear sidewalks, you have commercial areas with parking lots to clear. Sometimes they get overzealous and push it out into the road.”
Another of Worcester’s neighboring towns, Auburn, may have had fewer complaints from residents when it came to sidewalks. That is because the town does most of them itself.
“We actually plow the majority of sidewalks, versus Worcester, I know they have a city ordinance where the residents are responsible,” said William Coyle, Auburn’s DPW Director.
The DPW facilities maintain a legion of trucks and plows, and stockpiles of salt and sand. but a huge contributing factor in plowing is the number of local companies and drivers that the city employs.
“We’ve got some new contractors [this year],” Labovites said. “We lost a few contractors after last winter, and we’ve gained some new contractors. Seventy-five to 80 percent of the equipment is hired equipment.”
Signs recruiting plow drivers are posted around the city, even on the Mass Pike. Both the city and the state are still looking to fill contractor positions.
“We haven’t fully filled our contractor supply,” Labovites said.
It takes a large quantity of private companies and employees to fill the ranks of the city’s army of snow plow and removal equipment. Labovites pointed to the oddly mild fall the region had this season to account for the lack of potential workers at the ready.
The state surely competes for, and wins, some of the plows available to Worcester.
The city’s got a budget and snow plowing and removal are the only budget items municipalities are allowed to go over. So, do they? And if they do, how much?
Despite a raging winter and mounds of snow that could have easily been mistaken for mountains, Worcester’s budget does not change much from year to year.
In recent years the city has budgeted $4 million for plowing and snow and ice removal. Fiscal 2015 was the time the budget was that high, but over the last five years the budget has come within the same ballpark.
DPW Commissioner Paul Moosey has approved the same amount for fiscal 2016.
This past winter saw Worcester’s snow plowing and removal budget overshot by over $2.5 million; $6.5 million was spent trying to keep up with Mother Nature.
Fortunately, snow removal is the only part of a city or state budget that can go into a deficit. When a town or city goes over budget, money comes from other areas of the budget that year, or carries over into the next fiscal year until it is paid off.
“There’s no major changes between last winter and this winter, as far as prep,” said Labovites.
Worcester’s fiscal 2016 budget essentially mirrors spending predictions for 2015.
You can put all your chips on the predictions that come out of the Old Farmer’s Almanac, but the fact of the matter is, weather is unpredictable. Trusting the Almanac can be a bit like trusting a psychic. Sure, it is fun to try to figure out what might happen in the future. It is exciting when the predictions turn out to be true— and if we can lay the cliches on thick, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Realistically, however, it is nearly impossible to predict the weather beyond a few days to a week out. There is just no way for a city to plan for a devastating winter like the winter of 2015.
Worcester budgeted nearly $500,000 in fiscal 2015 – $481,065, according to the budget – toward overtime pay for city workers in anticipation of the job ahead. Even with overtime in the budget, allotted funding could not keep up.
For the most part, towns and cities are expected to rely on their own resources in order to keep their streets clear. Budgets are often tight and equipment can spread thin. In times of emergency, though, the state can step in. And in times of extreme conditions, the federal government steps in as well.
In Shrewsbury, Morgado was grateful for any assistance, whether on the state or federal level, but emphasized funding comes entirely from within the towns and cities.
“[The] state contributes nothing. It’s entirely federal,” he said.
Shrewsbury spent just over $1 million last winter; doing so put them over budget by about $140,000.
Coyle estimated Auburn received roughly $90,000 during Juno. Neither Labovites nor the Worcester budget report indicated any federal monetary support for the city.
“You have to document hours, wages, snow removal cost, roof clearing,” Coyle said. “All those costs can be taken into consideration and then [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] reimburses you a percentage of the total cost.”
FEMA is willing to reimburse up to 75 percent of costs for any specific storm declared a disaster. A town can expect 100-percent reimbursement if the state kicks in the additional money.
“It’s a certain disaster relief,” Coyle said. “Federal disaster assistance might be the declaration that provides reimbursement. There was a [FEMA] disaster declaration during the Jan. 26-28 blizzard. When they make that declaration, that allows us to be reimbursed for the cost of snow removal during that time frame.”
Money is not the only way FEMA, or the state-level Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency contribute. When times were tight in Massachusetts, MEMA made appeals to FEMA for assistance. Cities that were shorthanded received equipment from the state, as well as outside the state. Plows and equipment came from as far away as Pennsylvania in order to combat the snowfall.
Across the board, those interviewed said narrow streets and curb-to-curb plowing were a big issue.
“I don’t think anyone understood how bad it was going to be until we were right in the middle of it,” said O’Brien. “Last year, we did have a plow-able event the day before Thanksgiving. That led to contractors shutting down their operations. That kind of brought the construction season to a close. Whereas since this year has been so good and we haven’t seen any snow . . . contractors aren’t really thinking about the season.”
Parking issues plague the city and hinder snow plowing everywhere. Snow banks alone are bad enough. Cars take up valuable real estate, which pushes all that extra snow to places that are often impossible to deal with. Signs advertise winter parking bans on many streets, but in many neighborhoods there is no other place to park.
“Parking was definitely an issue,” said Lynch. ”Parking was probably the first thing to me, a huge hassle. You could still use both sides of the road at the beginning of January. The spots got cut in half. It becomes a premium to find a spot anywhere near where I lived.”
Streets and parking lots are already stressed for many of the city’s schools. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as well as others, rely on on-street parking where parking garages and lots are insufficient.
When times are at their most dire, there is at least one backup plan to alleviate congestion on some of the city’s narrow streets. You may not have heard about it, but when storms hit the hardest, municipal parking garages open up to the public for free overnight parking.
The problem with the plan: Not everyone knows about it.
O’Brien lives just three blocks from a parking garage and had no idea the garages were open to the public during storms.
“I was looking around on the Worcester city website,” he said. “I saw a flashing banner: ‘parking garages are free tonight.’”
O’Brien said he was willing to make the short trek to park off-street. He was also sure others would be willing to do the same had they known it was an option.
“If everybody knew about it, would they use it? Who knows? I think it’s a good idea. I just don’t think it’s getting enough publicity,” O’Brien said, ”I’ve got to figure there are municipal garages outside of the downtown area. Or at least parking lots.”
O’Brien said he was one of only a handful of people to park in the garage near his home. Most other cars remained on the streets through the barrage of storms throughout the winter.
Labovites noted that the free overnight parking in garages is not a regular thing.
It happens in emergencies, he said, and there is not a lot of time to get the word out.
“I believe there was social media,” he said. “In a normal winter we don’t do [overnight parking in garages]. It would have been a short window of time we were able to advertise that. I don’t know exactly all the avenues that were used to advertise.”
Should the winter of 2016 pick up where 2015 left off, city-owned garages could see an increase in overnight parking. A short trek to pick up your car in the morning beats hours of digging, hands down.
Ignorance is not necessarily an excuse in light of winter parking bans. Many suffer the unfortunate luck of getting plowed in. Some cars, however, are likely to be towed. The DPW makes a coordinated effort with the Worcester Police Department during most storms to remove illegally parked cars the road and get them out of the way.
Once plows are ready to hit the roads, a team of seven to eight Worcester police officers is put together. The officers convene at the DPW facility and work closely with the snow team in ticketing and towing cars found to be violating the winter parking bans. Labovites estimates roughly 300-400 cars are towed during each storm, so, if nothing else, ignoring the city’s postings can be detrimental to your wallet.
“For us to do a good job, we have to have that level of cooperation and enforcement,” said Labovites.
As far as sidewalk ordinances and their enforcement, there might be hope for the future, but the general consensus seems to be: Don’t hold your breath.
O’Brien said he did not see the WPD enforcing the shoveling ordinance.
“The ones that aren’t [shoveling], maybe somebody is getting a ticket,” he said.
Tips for the Future? Plan ahead. Move your car if you can. Schedule a plow service to keep your driveway clear of snowbanks and park off-street whenever possible.
With snow piling up faster than you can say, “Come on, man. I just shoveled that,” it can be super frustrating during the winter months. Your street is non-existent. Your car is behind a wall of densely-packed snow. Your neighbor is out screaming obscenities into the freezing night about his shiny new parking ticket. No one can blame you for lashing out, especially when there does not seem to be any option but to keep digging.
There is not a whole lot the average person can do in a storm besides keep shoveling. First and foremost, officials say, stay cool. Give it some time.
“Be patient and be realistic,” said Labovites. “It seems as years go on that people get less and less patient. That makes our work with snow more challenging.”
The DPW saw a lot of stress alleviation and a shift in attitude as news reports came in from other parts of the state. Boston, specifically, saw nearly as much snow as Central Mass during 2015. Boston’s February snowfall dwarfed Worcester’s by 11 and a half inches (thanks again, Weather Channel).
Worcester’s DPW customer service line sees a lot of action — often complaints —during the height of winter storms. Sometimes, angry residents call as early as an hour into a storm wondering why their street has not yet been plowed.
“Customer service is trained to respond patiently,” said Labovites.
Complaints are warranted sometimes.
“The city just up and forgot to plow a street in my neighborhood,” said local resident Anna Bogart. “A resident on that street did the job for them with her snow blower.”
Labovites said he realizes residents see their immediate surroundings as the most important area during a snow storm.
“It is simply not practical or feasible for us to do removal on residential streets,” he said.
Instead, the DPW’s focus for snow removal is on main roads, highways and arteries. Many residents expect snow removal as they shovel their walkways and driveways for the umpteenth time.
“It takes a number of hours [to plow] after a snow storm,” Labovites said. “In an average storm it takes three to four hours once snow stops just to finish plowing.
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There is concern that the internet is playing an increasing role in self-harm and suicide. In this study we systematically review and analyse research literature to determine whether there is evidence that the internet influences the risk of self-harm or suicide in young people.
An electronic literature search was conducted using the PsycINFO, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, and CINAHL databases. Articles of interest were those that included empirical data on the internet, self-harm or suicide, and young people. The articles were initially screened based on titles and abstracts, then by review of the full publications, after which those included in the review were subjected to data extraction, thematic analysis and quality rating.
Youth who self-harm or are suicidal often make use of the internet. It is most commonly used for constructive reasons such as seeking support and coping strategies, but may exert a negative influence, normalising self-harm and potentially discouraging disclosure or professional help-seeking. The internet has created channels of communication that can be misused to ‘cyber-bully’ peers; both cyber-bullying and general internet use have been found to correlate with increased risk of self-harm, suicidal ideation, and depression. Correlations have also been found between internet exposure and violent methods of self-harm.
Internet use may exert both positive and negative effects on young people at risk of self-harm or suicide. Careful high quality research is needed to better understand how internet media may exert negative influences and should also focus on how the internet might be utilised to intervene with vulnerable young people.
Citation: Daine K, Hawton K, Singaravelu V, Stewart A, Simkin S, Montgomery P (2013) The Power of the Web: A Systematic Review of Studies of the Influence of the Internet on Self-Harm and Suicide in Young People. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77555. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077555
Editor: Antonio Verdejo García, University of Granada, Spain
Received: April 3, 2013; Accepted: September 4, 2013; Published: October 30, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 Daine et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The authors have no current external funding sources for this study. KD completed the work as part of a master’s degree. KH, VS and AS are employed by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. KH is an NIHR Senior Investigator. PM and SS are employed by the University of Oxford.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
The media has received considerable attention for its possible role in contributing to suicide through contagion, predominantly in youth , . While initial attention focused on newspapers, TV and films , , , increasingly attention has turned to the internet , , because it is accessible, affordable in most countries, and largely unmonitored.
Despite concern about its negative impact, the potential support provided by the internet should not be overlooked . Acceptance, alleviation of loneliness and shame, and creation of intimacy from internet sources may be factors that mitigate destructive desires. The internet may provide a bridge for vulnerable adolescents, giving them instant access to social networks and providing the anonymity to create or discard identities. Yet it is only speculation whether the internet is providing a safe haven, or a space where dangerous behaviours are normalised and encouraged.
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil, with high levels of stressful circumstances, developmental issues, and psychopathology, and hence of self-harm . Self-harm, defined as intentional self-injury or self-poisoning, irrespective of type of motivation or extent of suicidal intent , usually begins and becomes most frequent between the ages of 13 and 15 years, particularly in girls . Suicide is the second most common cause of death for young people worldwide and the most common cause in females aged 15–19 years .
Internet use increased globally by 566.4% between December 2000 and June 2012 . The freedom afforded by online discussion and activity may enhance the potential for the internet to exert positive and/or negative effects on users’ psychological health . Vulnerable adolescents, susceptible to bullying, victimisation and social exclusion, may be most at risk of the negative influences of the internet.
There has been much speculation and media reporting about suicide contagion and suicide pacts originating from the internet. Although there is strong evidence indicating that suicide contagion is a significant phenomenon , , direct associations with internet use are unclear. Previous research has focused on how the internet is used by suicidal people and what information is available , , . Studies are, however, often rapidly outdated, and may be speculative and not systematic, or reliant on evidence from single case studies. An analysis of current evidence is needed in order to better understand the type of influence that the internet may have on young people at risk for self-harm or suicide, and to directly inform future intervention and prevention research. We have therefore conducted a systematic review of current empirical evidence on possible influences of internet use on the risk of self-harm or suicide in young people under the age of 25 years. Specifically, our aim was to identify the extent of evidence about both negative and positive influences of the internet on the risk of self-harm and suicide in young people.
This review adheres to the guidelines detailed by the Cochrane Collaboration Handbook for Systematic Reviews .
An electronic literature search was conducted on December 26th 2011 for all articles printed between 1991 and 2011, in the English language. 1991 was chosen as the starting date for the review as August 1991 was the date on which the internet was made available as a public service. (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml). The databases searched were PsycINFO, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, and CINAHL. The following terms were searched for in titles, abstracts and subject headings to maximise sensitivity:
‘Internet’, ‘blog’, ‘online social network’, ‘website*’, ‘chat room*’, ‘online forum*’, ‘virtual’, ‘cyber*’, ‘web site*’, ‘facebook’, ‘twitter’, ‘myspace’, ‘bebo’, ‘online’, ‘world wide web’, ‘chatroom*.
‘Self harm*’, ‘selfharm*’, ‘suicid*’, ‘distress*’, ‘self injur*’, ‘emotion*’, ‘problem*’, ‘suicidal behaviour’, ‘suicidal ideation’, ‘attempted suicide’, ‘self-injurious behaviour’, ‘self mutilation’, ‘automutilation’, ‘psychological stress’
‘Adolescen*’, ‘child*’, ‘teenager*’, ‘young person*’, ‘young adult*’, ‘young people*’
In the first stage of screening reference titles (n = 4,313) were manually screened by one reviewer (KD). Titles that clearly had no relevance to the study were discarded; and all discarded titles were confirmed by a second reviewer (PM). Duplicates were removed and the remaining titles with abstracts (n = 1830) were divided between five reviewers for screening, with all titles screened by KD. Studies were forwarded to the second stage of screening if they met the following criteria:
published paper in journal or book;
population was young people below age 25 (young adults);
and included use of the internet by individuals who experienced suicidal ideation, self-harm, or were suicidal.
Papers forwarded to the second stage of screening (n = 225) were categorised by two reviewers according to the criteria in Table 1. Any discrepancy between categorisation was resolved through group consensus. Papers in category 1 (n = 16), i.e. that investigated the internet and self-harm or suicide and reported empirical data in a sample under the age of 25, were forwarded for detailed analysis of their methodology and content. Quality was assessed according to the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme . This programme assesses in detail the following aspects: population studied (e.g. how representative the population is, whether there are clear inclusion and exclusion criteria, and presence of any biases); data collection (e.g. whether the methods are clearly described, use of validated instrument, inter-observer and intra-observer biases); study design (e.g. appropriate methodology which is clearly stated); and results (e.g. whether the results are clearly outlined, confounding variables are accounted for and conclusions reflect the analysis). A quality rating for each paper of low, medium or high was obtained using these quality standards.
Method of Analysis
The papers were grouped into three categories according to the methodology used: qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods. A data extraction sheet, developed by the authors, was used to record specific findings, identify themes, and ascertain potential biases, limitations and weaknesses. The data extraction sheets and quality ratings were double checked and any inconsistencies were clarified by consensus of all the reviewers (all authors). The data extraction sheets were then examined systematically to identify the results. The studies were amalgamated and grouped according to their perceived influence, either negative or positive.
A flowchart for results of the search strategy is detailed in Figure 1. Whilst many of the papers that passed the first screen were of some relevance, only 16 papers reported primary empirical data and were forwarded for data extraction. A total of 14 studies were reported in the 16 papers included in the review. The characteristics and content of these papers are summarised in Table S1. Six studies were from the USA, two from the UK/Ireland and one each from Germany, Israel, New Zealand, China, Japan and Korea. The methodology was predominantly quantitative, this approach being used in nine studies, a qualitative approach in two studies, and mixed methods in the remaining three.
Quality of Included Studies
The quality of the included studies, using rigorous quality assessment and ratings, varied, with eight of the 14 studies being rated as high quality (Table S1), two rated as medium quality and six rated as being of low quality. Almost all the studies relied on subjective data from self-reporting in the form of questionnaires on and off line and semi-structured and structured interviews. Those studies that did not use this form of data collection were observational studies that analysed “posts” left on forums; these had the least potential for bias.
Several studies were limited to active users, such that the results are not necessarily generalisable to passive users , , , , , . Three of the four qualitative studies report on the same dataset , , and also did not acknowledge the likely impact of forum moderation by the authors themselves. Criteria for the removal of posts that were deemed ‘triggering’ or ‘challenging’ were also not defined. The authors of one of these studies generalised their aim to explore what young people who self-harm think about online discussion forums, yet the results were specific only to the population that used forums, not the general population of young people who deliberately self-harm as stated (19). Some studies lacked clarity concerning whether the influence of the internet was positive, negative or neutral , , , . Furthermore, the use of validated outcome measures was limited and sometimes the measures selected did not enable the interpretation of internet influence .
Despite limitations, it should be noted that often studies were highly innovative and employed novel methodologies to gain access to a vulnerable and hard-to-reach population , . For example, in one study in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted via email to enable a less intrusive mode of response . Furthermore, five of the studies included a study population of over 1000 participants , , , , .
In reporting the findings we have grouped these into studies providing evidence of positive influences and those showing negative influences, with the specific type of media use described within each category. Positive influences are defined as results indicating perceived alleviation or reduction of psychological distress, including reduced suicidal ideation and actual or attempted self-harm. Negative influences are defined as results which reported or interpreted psychological distress, self-harm or suicidal ideation of any kind. This includes cyber-bullying, which was reported in two of the papers. It should be noted that some findings from the studies cannot easily be categorised as negative or positive. They require further investigation to understand if they may act as moderators or mediators of distress. They may not be either of these, but may help to clarify the influence of the internet on the risk of suicide and self-harm in young people.
Internet use is described in relation to the use of internet forums, or general internet use including information websites, media articles, blogs and static non-interactive media. Any deeper categorisation was prohibited due to lack of reference to specific types of internet media in the results of the studies.
Seven studies reported positive influences of internet forums, including four qualitative studies, two mixed methods studies and one quantitative study.
Internet forums are a type of community , with membership created by participants through narratives and discussions promoting opportunity for involvement . Primary objectives of forum users are to develop relationships and connect with others , and to seek empathy and support rather than advice . Of 3219 posts on an internet forum informal support was the most common type of exchange (28.3%) . Forums have also been used to meet people with similar problems and more generally as a coping mechanism , , . The total number of posts created and received in the first two months of forum use was associated with lower levels of distress in the third month . Evidence was found for reinforcement of positive behaviours, including congratulations on not cutting, support for efforts not to self-harm, and encouragement to see GPs for help . However, there was no consensus amongst participants that forums prevented a reduction in self-harm or that membership increased the likelihood of self-harm . Forum anonymity was emphasised as beneficial and preferable, and participants reported that more knowledge could be gained from forums than from information sites.
In two studies potentially positive influences of other internet media were found. In one it was suggested that youth reporting self-harm may be using the internet to connect with others and that this may alleviate psychological distress . In the other, evidence was presented that some participants viewed interactive media as a form of support .
In five studies there was evidence of negative influences of internet forums. In one study self-harm appeared to be discussed in a routine and potentially normalising manner . Safety and empathy were key themes but not the prevention or reduction of self-harm. In another study, forum content regarding the concealment and effects of self-harm accounted for 9.1% (n = 292) of the total posts analysed . There was also an association between sharing self-harm techniques and negative attitudes towards disclosure. Involvement for destructive reasons was endorsed by 14.5% (n = 24) of forum users and 18% (n = 30) stated that finding a suicidal partner had some relevance to them . Discussion forum use was significantly associated with increases in suicidal ideation whereas social networking site use was not . It was also noted that hopelessness was related to increased forum use. In the last of the studies in this category, although lower levels of distress were correlated with forum use, participants overall did not report a decrease in distress and some participants showed signs of worsening distress .
Negative influences of other internet media were found in seven studies. General internet use appears to be a source of exposure to both suicide and self-harm, with 59% (n = 429) of participants in one study saying they had learned about suicide from an online source . Of 15 adolescents who had carried out violent acts of self-harm in New Zealand, 80% had been exposed to suicide or self-harm-related material on the internet, and of 34 who self-harmed by cutting 73.5% had been exposed to such material . In another study, suicidal ideation was significantly associated with searching online for information about suicide .
Adolescents who self-harm appear to have higher rates of internet use than other adolescents , and internet use or online gaming exceeding five hours per day was associated with suicidal ideation and planning . Moderate or severe addiction to the internet was associated with increased risk for self-harm , and increased levels of addiction were related to increased depression and suicidal ideation .
We found two quantitative studies focused on cyber-bullying and self-harm. In one study it was suggested that cyber-bullying may have a significant influence on self-harm, and that this association may be mediated by negative emotions . In the second study, cyber-bullying also appeared to increase rates of attempted suicide for both victims and perpetrators, with rates increasing by 1.9 and 1.5 times respectively . Forms of cyber-bullying occurred most often via email (18.3%), instant messaging (16.0%), MySpace (14.2%), and chat rooms (10.0%).
We have conducted what is to our knowledge the first systematic review of empirical evidence on potential influences of the internet on adolescents at risk of self-harm or suicide. This is clearly an area of research that is in its infancy, with just 14 studies meeting the criteria for this review. Of the included studies, eleven were conducted in Western countries, the remaining three being from Asia. The predominant research methodology was quantitative. The methodology in just over half of the studies was of high quality, with nearly half of the studies having low or medium quality methodology. Greater heed was paid to studies of higher quality.
The results indicate both positive (9 studies) and negative influences (12 studies) from the internet, with some studies reporting both negative and positive influences. Specifically, some users of online forums perceive them as supportive communities that provide a means of coping , , , , , . Equally, use of online forums can be associated with feelings of hopelessness and increases in suicidal ideation , and it is unclear whether forums alleviate distress , . Interactions on online forums may reduce the threshold for self-harming by normalisation of the behaviour . More general internet use seems to be a source of exposure to suicide and self-harm material, and higher usage rates appear to be associated with increased depression, suicidal ideation and self-harm. In assessing the results it is important to consider the focus of the study, the quality of the methodology and the methods used, all of which may influence the results. Of the nine studies reporting positive influence seven of these related to internet forums rather than general internet use. It may be easier to access young people who are using an internet forum, indeed three of the papers refer to one dataset relating to an internet forum which was created by the researchers. Only two of the studies reporting positive influence used purely quantitative methodology: the others used qualitative (five) or mixed methods (two). This was in contrast to the studies reporting negative findings, where eight out of twelve employed quantitative methods. Interestingly, the qualitative studies reporting negative influences also reported positive influences, perhaps highlighting a greater range of perspectives from the qualitative studies. Of note, the quantitative studies mainly appeared to be of high quality, an important factor to take into account when assessing the mostly negative influence reported in these studies. Muehlenkamp similarly found that the specific methodology used in studies influenced prevalence figures for self-harm behaviour reported in adolescent populations.
Only English language publications were included. We did not examine the grey literature or contact experts in the field to find additional studies, thus there may be some publication bias.
Much of the research was focused on the use and influence of internet forums. It is important to note that internet forum users are a self-selecting population, and the extent to which the internet attracts adolescents with elevated distress levels and susceptibility to its negative effects is unknown. Furthermore, it is difficult to investigate the effects of internet forums on passive users, who may comprise a notably different group of adolescents. Validated outcome measures were rarely used, which limits the ability to interpret significant results and draw clear conclusions .
It is important to highlight that while in several studies associations between specific types of internet use and self-harm, suicidal ideation and hopelessness were identified, it was not possible to disentangle cause from effect. For example, while more extensive internet use was found to be associated with self-harm, this does not mean that internet use caused the self-harm. On the other hand, it would be difficult and unethical to manipulate internet use and examine its effects on self-harm.
Implications for Future Research
More rigorous research is needed to clarify the positive and negative influences of the internet on young people at risk of self-harm and suicide focusing on the mediating and moderating factors, in order to harness the benefits and minimise the negative impact.
Research concerning online forum users included primarily female samples. The potential impact of gender should be investigated in future research, to determine the extent to which effects may vary between the genders.
The association between internet use and violent methods of self-harm , and the impact of exposure to self-harm and suicide material online , should be further investigated. It is unclear which form of internet media may be most influential. For example, more violent or graphic imagery might have greater effects on psychological processes but currently this is unknown. Future research could have important implications for informing policy regarding internet censorship to reduce exposure to harmful materials.
There are no known online interventions to date that specifically target young people at risk of self-harm or suicide. Given the suggestion that adolescents who self-harm are frequent users of online forums , future research should investigate possible interventions that could utilise this online medium to minimise the risk of self-harm.
The purpose of this review was to analyse the empirical evidence to date on the possible influence of the internet on the risk of suicide or self-harm in young people. The dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of the internet means that research will always lag behind actual developments. The internet appears to have potential to exert both a positive and a negative influence on vulnerable young people. The internet may normalise self-harm, provide access to suicide content and violent imagery, and create a communication channel that can be used to bully or harass others. Conversely, the internet is also used as a support network and a coping mechanism, and can connect people who are socially isolated.
Detailed enquiry about internet use should be included in clinical assessment of young people at risk of self-harm or suicide. This is particularly important given evidence that exposure to others who are self-harming is a major risk factor for self-harm , , , the fact that such exposure may occur through the internet, and that exposure to self-harm and suicide on the internet may be associated with potentially more dangerous methods of self-harm .
This review highlights the fact that the internet is dynamic and driven by its users; its accessibility and increasing use suggest that it could be an effective mode of intervention delivery. For example, interactive forums run by healthcare workers may be a possible strategy for informing and supporting young people to minimise the risk for self-harm.
Included studies: characteristics, methods, aims, outcomes and quality.
The authors thank Professor John Powell and Dr. Joanna Adams for their suggestions at the beginning of the study. Professor Keith Hawton is a National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator.
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Renewable energy has a key role to play in supporting the green recovery and responding to the climate emergency – that’s the message from Lesley Griffiths as a new report shows good progress towards meeting Wales’s ambitious renewable energy targets.
Published today as day two of Wales Climate Week gets underway, the Energy Generation 2019 report shows over half (51%) of Wales’ energy needs are met from renewables and Wales is 83% of the way towards meeting its local ownership target of 1GW by 2030 – with 825 MW of renewable energy capacity in local ownership.
The report also showed:
- Approximately two thirds of renewable electricity generated in Wales comes from wind;
- In 2019, there were 72,841 renewable energy projects in Wales, 3,841 more than in 2018.
- 94% of renewable energy projects (68,560) in Wales are locally owned.
- Clocaenog wind farm was the largest project commissioned in 2019. Built on the Welsh Government woodland estate, it is the second largest onshore wind farm in Wales and provides an annual community benefit fund of £768,000.
- Energy generation in Wales is now coal-free.
As part of Wales Climate week, the digital conference will today focus on transforming our energy system whilst building a resilient economy following Covid-19.
Welcoming the report, Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs Minister, Lesley Griffiths said: “I first commissioned our Energy Generation reports in 2017 to get a full picture of our transition to renewable energy against our ambitious targets. I am pleased the 2019 figures reveal positive signs, despite the challenging market conditions faced by developers, and we are making good progress against our targets.
“Since the last report, we published our policy on local ownership of energy generation, which explains how we expect all new energy projects to include an element of local ownership, and how this means more of the benefits can be retained in Wales. This year’s figures show a record number of locally owned projects and we are 83% on our way to meeting our 1GW target by 2030.
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The Third ‘R’ of an effective learning environment relates to developing students’ sense of responsibility for their learning and classroom environment.
To effectively manage this long-term process, graduate teachers need to clarify their position in, and plans for their classroom learning environment. My personal approach has been influenced by my teaching philosophy and relief teaching experience in TRIBES schools.
I hope to create a classroom learning community where I facilitate, rather than dictate, the learning process. I want to develop my students’ skills for cooperation and higher-order thinking; enabling them to become active, informed and multi-literate learners. This means I will be ultimately positioning myself as a co-learner in the classroom community, using students’ questions, skills, and talents to drive the learning process, within the boundaries of the set curriculum. For this to work, I will need to develop the ‘Third ‘R’.
As a relief teacher, I have observed and researched various avenues for developing this in the classroom, with each strategy building on the last.
1) Developing Classroom Rules with Students
While classroom rules are an essential feature of virtually every classroom; to be truly effective, students need to be given the opportunity to “own” their class rules by negotiating them with their teacher.
This sense of ownership ensures students share the responsibility for the effective running of the learning environment.
2) Differentiating & negotiating curriculum, themes, and learning experiences to reflect students’ interests, talents and expertise
With the pressures of an overcrowded curriculum, the need to meet system priorities (e.g. NAPLAN), and rigorous assessment and reporting demands, it is often difficult to negotiate core curriculum content with students.
What we can do; however, is differentiate the curriculum to reflect students’ interests, special talents, multiple intelligences, skills, and community resources. This can be achieved through Term themes (eg. Colonial Australia, Under the Sea, The Solar System); open-ended learning tasks (e.g inquiry projects); use of Blooming SMART matrixes; teaching higher-order thinking skills; and weaving students’ questions through unit learning experiences.
A step up from this might involve students negotiating assessment criteria and presentation mediums. Developing shared rubrics, and encouraging students’ to use different technologies/learning products (eg. PhotoStory, PPT, short movie, podcast) to share their learning, are powerful ways to involve students in the learning process.
If a student has a special skill (eg. film-making), why not encourage them to use it in class – to share their learning and to teach others? Teachers DON’T have to be technological experts – use your more knowledgeable students’ as “peer teachers” instead.
The move to negotiating curriculum requires a shift in thinking on behalf of both the students and the teacher. Our students tend to be used to being passive receivers of information, and may lack the necessary skills and understandings to actively participate in their learning. Therefore, teachers need to explicitly teach the necessary social and cooperative skills prior to negotiating curriculum with their students. Also, teachers need to adjust to their new role and status in the classroom, moving away from being the ‘font of all knowledge’ towards being a “life-long learner”.
This is NOT an easy process, requiring extensive professional research and reflection, but implemented effectively, the rewards are life-long.
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3) Explicitly teaching social or “working together” skills, which underpin collaborative learning
I have now taught in 21 schools in the Perth (Western Australia) metropolitan area, and I have only seen the explicit teaching of social skills in three, upper primary classrooms.
In our society, there is an incredible need to teach social skills as part of the everyday curriculum. By doing so, we are not only helping those children with special needs, but all our mainstream students as well. As the global economy increasingly requires collaborative, active learners & knowledge workers, this has become a pressing learning priority.
Social, or interpersonal skills can be effectively integrated across the curriculum (under the Listening / Speaking strands of the new Australian Curriculum), and reinforced across a range of learning activities.
Drawing upon my reading in this area, I would suggest focussing on one social skill each week; spending perhaps 30-40 minutes/week explicitly exploring what the skill looks/sounds/feels like, role-playing social situations, and incidentally reinforcing its’ use across the curriculum.
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4) Develop a classroom community based on the four TRIBES agreements
While I have seen the enormously positive impacts of the TRIBES approach in some extremely challenging schools, my professional knowledge or training in its application is minimal at present.
I will seek to develop my understandings in this area over the coming months, and eventually plan to undertake formal TRIBES training. I will update this post then.
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Security and stability: the Netherlands and Seychelles
The Netherlands is your partner in promoting peace and stability.
Lasting peace requires long-term cooperation with local and regional partners, so that we can respond when trouble spots emerge and prevent new conflicts from arising.
The Netherlands participates in United Nations (UN) missions to help promote peace and protect civilians. Since 1947 more than 125,000 Dutch troops have taken part in over 60 UN peace missions.
The Netherlands also supports reconstruction efforts in countries affected by war.
UN Security Council seat
In 2017 and 2018 the Netherlands and Italy will share a seat on the United Nations Security Council.
During their membership the Netherlands and Italy will focus their efforts on:
- conflict prevention
- the protection of civilians during conflicts
- the rule of law
- the effects of climate change on peace and security.
Security and stability: the Netherlands and your country or region
For more information on this topic, contact the embassy or consulate.
The economy of The Seychelles is depending on fishery and tourism for a great deal. Thus, the islands are hugely depending on maritime security. They are for that reason an important partner in counter-piracy missions, for instance the EU mission Atalanta [link] in which amongst others the Royal Netherlands Navy participates. On The Seychelles a tribunal and a prison for maritime crime have been established with international support. | <urn:uuid:416be455-9789-423a-ab2a-e6def1c24355> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/your-country-and-the-netherlands/seychelles/and-the-netherlands/security-and-stability | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.916626 | 300 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Prosperity usually is the first theme of politics. It is rather unpredictable in the never ending sequence of economic boom and recession and yet so meaningful and consequential for politicians vying for position and power. For many Americans prosperity means steady employment and satisfactory pay. Unemployment is a curse regarded with fear and apprehension. It seems to obsess many politicians; their eyes are glued on the numbers which are adjusted and readjusted continually. All want to know: what are today's numbers?
Some politicos and newsmen like to focus on the employment figures of major American corporations. It disturbs them greatly to observe business reducing employment in the United States and simultaneously increasing it in off-shore branches abroad. In their view, it is unpatriotic business behavior to desert their laboring countrymen and replace them with alien labor abroad. A new word describes their conduct; they are "outsourcing" American jobs.
It is true, numerous companies in the fields of information technology and manufacturing are known to outsource jobs to countries where wages are lower. Some observers even predict that by 2008 a quarter of all technology jobs will be located in lesser-developed countries with lower labor costs. Unfortunately, they do not explain; they merely spread fear which weakens judgment and invites that which they fear.
Throughout most of the 20th century American workers earned higher wages and enjoyed higher standards of living than their peers abroad. Yet there was no outsourcing of jobs to countries with cheaper labor. On the contrary, many foreign jobs found their way to the U.S., giving employment to a rapidly growing population. Many millions of immigrants flocked to these shores, seeking and finding employment with wages among the highest in the world. Yet labor costs, when calculated per unit of output, were among the lowest in the world. They were low because American labor was very productive.
Labor productivity and labor costs are a direct function of the tools and equipment used by labor. A 500-horse power tractor makes a farmer more productive than a team of mules or horses. Economists speak of the amount of productive capital invested per head of population that determines labor productivity and income. The amount of capital investment in turn depends on a number of psychological, sociological, and institutional factors such as the common habit of saving and investing, the regard and concern for the future, the safety of savings and investments, the laws and regulations that limit their use, and the level of capital taxation. In other words, people who are future-oriented, who are free and secure in their possessions, tend to be productive and prosperous. If they remain true to their proven ways from generation to generation, they may even excel all others.
Capital investment indeed is an important determinant of rates of income. Yet we must not overlook the effort and skill in the use of capital. Power tools and equipment that are used twenty-four hours a day make human labor more productive than tools used only eight hours or just five, four, or even fewer hours. Moreover, workers who lack the necessary skills to use the equipment efficiently and reliably are less productive than better-trained labor. And workers who work grudgingly and reluctantly, who call strikes and slow-downs undoubtedly are less productive than others who are eager and diligent. Angry workers may force employers to close their doors forever or move their jobs somewhere else.
China is a favorite corporate destination in the search for cheaper labor. Last year, foreign corporations invested some $60 billion in Chinese industrial facilities; this year, they are expected to invest more than $70 billion. Many corporation executives apparently do not realize that doing business with communist political authorities is highly speculative. In fact, it may prove to be outrightly reckless and foolish in years to come. After three years of futile negotiation, Chinese authorities, for instance, forced three oil and gas corporations, Shell, Exxon-Mobil, and Gazprom, to leave the country, leaving behind their designs, field-development plans and technology. A British utility firm that had built and was running a waste-water treatment plant in Shanghai was forced to pull out after the Beijing government suddenly decreed that a fifteen percent return, which had been agreed upon when the investment was made, was illegal. It takes courage, patience, and much labor to navigate through the country's opaque bureaucracy, to cope with ever changing rules and regulations, and deal with communist officials who distrust and despise entrepreneurial profits. Moreover, to contend with piracy and outright fraud in a communist legal system tends to be outrightly disheartening.
A business project fraught with danger, uncertainty, or perplexity requires a higher return than one without such impediments. An investment in China or any other country where political and institutional conditions are antagonistic to private capital surely merits a double-digit return consisting not only of ordinary business return but also an additional political risk premium. Loan funds offered to the U.S. Treasury may yield three or four percent; funds extended to a government or enterprise in many foreign countries may need to earn some twenty percent or more. If they yield lesser returns, the investment, in our judgment, is imprudent and foolhardy. Yet some investors may be tempted in hope of improving conditions in the future.
Some businessmen run away to other countries because they are unhappy in their own, and then run back to their own because they fail abroad. Most have no choice but to bravely meet all difficulties and challenges at home. A few corporate leaders interested in economic ideas and policies even venture to participate in intellectual discussions about the ideological and institutional setting of business. Some may reach out to their own employees, offering economic instruction which may make them more knowledgeable and productive. Others may support schools and foundations specializing in economic education or underwrite media programs dealing with economic issues. They all labor in the dissemination of economic and social ideas that shape public opinion and thereby influence the institutional setting of business.
Few economic problems, if any, are as meaningful and consequential as the questions of employment and unemployment. They are discussed and explained by every school of economic, social, political, and ethical thought; every religion visits the poor and unemployed. Yet the causes of their plight are rarely discussed without preconception, predilection, emotion, and bias. It is more popular to charge "unpatriotic business behavior," "malicious outsourcing," or "employer greed" than to analyze the demand for labor. Few speakers and writers have the courage to analyze and point at popular labor laws and regulations that paralyze the market and condemn millions of men and women to a life of chronic unemployment.
A few economists dare apply basic economic principles to human labor. They insist that free labor markets would suffer no mass unemployment -- just as free goods markets suffer no chronic surpluses. And they argue that every mandatory boost in labor costs reduces the demand for labor -- just as government fixing of prices that are higher than market prices reduces the demand for economic goods. Many politicians are attorneys, counselors, and solicitors unschooled in the intricacies of inexorable economic principles; they revere the power of manmade law. To command improvements in income and living conditions, they may legislate a minimum wage or impose valuable fringe benefits which raise the cost of labor and thereby reduce the demand for labor. They create surpluses of labor especially of workers directly affected by the minimum wage law and other fringe benefits. Having created a surplus, they grant generous unemployment benefits which they exact from some hapless taxpayers.
In order to eradicate the evil of mass unemployment, economists would merely remove the institutional restraints and lower the costs imposed on labor. Every dollar of cost reduction undoubtedly would increase the demand for labor by many thousands of unemployed workers. Every rescission of labor restraint would render many idle Americans productive again. Economists would immediately reduce the burden of fringe costs that weigh heavy especially on unskilled labor; the fringes may actually double labor costs and cause much unemployment. A five percent rate of national unemployment always hides the fact that fifty percent of unskilled labor may be unemployed; the rate may even be higher for minority youth in inner cities. When seen in this light, labor laws that boost the cost of labor inflict much economic harm on the poor and breed much social strife. They gnaw at the very foundation of society.
Labor fringes are costs to those individuals who are forced to pay them; they are benefits to those who enjoy them. Because every reduction in benefits would be spurned, condemned, and vilified, no matter how baneful it may be for the young and unskilled, some economists are proposing a simple moratorium of labor-cost legislation and regulation, that is, a temporary halt in adding costs; it would give the labor market a chance and time for readjustment. A ten-year moratorium may suffice to reduce significantly the unemployment rate. It undoubtedly would allow our minority youth to work again.
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade,
AG James informs New Yorkers of their rights under the Reproductive Health Act of 2019
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today continued her fierce defense of reproductive freedom in the wake of the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade (deer) and Family planning c. Casey (Casey) by posting a notice in multiple languages reminding New Yorkers that abortion is legal and safe in New York State.
New York State has strong protections in place to ensure that anyone who could get pregnant can get an abortion. In 2019, the state legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act, codifying protections for deer and ensuring access to safe and legal abortion.
“Even with today’s Supreme Court ruling overturning deerabortion remains legal in New York,” said Attorney General James. “The people of New York – and anyone who may come here for treatment – have my word that New York State has been and will continue to be a safe haven for access to abortion. I do not I will never stop fighting to protect the freedom to make our own decisions about our lives and our future.
New York guarantees access to abortion care and prohibits discrimination and harassment in reproductive decision-making. New York requires abortion insurance coverage and provides public funding for abortion. Abortion services in New York are confidential.
New Yorkers are encouraged to consult the Office of the Attorney General’s notice on abortion access if they have questions about their rights. The advisory is available in English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, Polish, Bengali and Arabic, with additional translations to come.
New York guarantees access to abortion care:
- New York guarantees the absolute right to abortion up to 24 weeks after fertilization.
- Abortion is allowed after 24 weeks if the fetus is not viable or if the life or health (including mental health) of the pregnant person is in danger.
- In New York, minors can responsibly access abortion or other reproductive health services without parental notification or consent.
New York prohibits discrimination and harassment for reproductive decision-making:
- State law prohibits employment discrimination based on “reproductive health decision making,” which may include the decision to use a particular drug, medical device, or medical service.
- The New York Clinic Access Law prohibits anyone from using force, the threat of force, or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone (or attempt to do so) because they are seeking reproductive health services.
Abortion services in New York are confidential:
- A health care provider generally cannot release medical records or any information regarding a pregnant person’s appointment or procedure without their consent.
- This includes not telling their partner, parents or guardians, or anyone else without their permission.
- Employers are prohibited from accessing an employee’s personal information regarding their or their partner’s reproductive health decision-making.
New York requires abortion insurance coverage:
- New York provides public funding for abortion.
- New York requires state-regulated private insurers to cover “medically necessary” abortion care.
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Oligodontia may compromise the harmonious development of the masticatory system. The quantity and quality of agenesis determines the type of approach and the complexity of rehabilitative therapy. We present a case of a patient affected by oligodontia and maxillo-mandibular skeletal alterations, corrected by orthodontic and orthognatic surgical treatment, assisted by prosthetic-presurgical rehabilitation of the lower arch. After surgery the occlusion was finally restored by a definitive prosthesis modeled on the presurgical one and supported by the same residual dental elements. Photographic and cephalometric analysis have shown the stability of the results at 20 years follow-up. The case presented shows that the final prosthesis on the residual teeth in patients affected by oligodontia may represent a possible alternative to implanto-prosthetic rehabilitation, presenting lower cost and requiring less time for definitive occlusal rehabilitation.
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"American Creed" Documentary Discussion; Author Lara Lillibridge
There is a lot in the United States that divides us. Just flip on cable TV or check your Twitter feed. We have differences over politics, difficulties with race relations, disagreements over immigration, health care and economic policy. But we are Americans. Is there still a common ideal that unites us? A shared American cause? What does it mean to you to be an American?
We'll talk with two of the Americans featured in the PBS documentary, "American Creed," made by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize winning historian David Kennedy.
Then, we'll meet Lara Lillibridge and talk about her new memoir, "Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home."
- Sgt. Tegan Griffith, U.S. Marine Corps, American Creed
- Terrence Davenport, Social Entrepreneur, American Creed
- Danielle Sarver Coombs, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Kent State University
- Lara Lillibridge, Author, "Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home"
Additional Event Information:
American Creed: A Community Conversation
Thursday, April 5
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration and Reception
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Screening and Discussion
Idea Center® at Playhouse Square
*The launch of American Creed, a PBS special co-produced by Citizen Film and WTTW, is catalyzing a robust national public engagement campaign made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). A national series of community and school-based conversations with public media stations around the country and with Facing History and Ourselves’ national network of students and teachers supported by The Allstate Foundation, will provide students and the community opportunities to engage with the idea of a unifying national identity based on shared ideals. | <urn:uuid:8678a931-820d-4dc7-8b18-1d2cb97005ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-ideas/american-creed-documentary-discussion-author-lara-lillibridge | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.93977 | 417 | 1.898438 | 2 |
JUNEAU, Alaska – Alaska elections will be held for the first time this year under a unique new system that scraps party primaries and uses ranked choice voting in general elections.
The Alaska Supreme Court last week upheld the system, narrowly approved by voters in 2020.
It calls for an open primary in which all candidates for a given race appear on the ballot, regardless of party affiliation, followed by ranked voting in the general election. No other state conducts its elections with this combination, which applies to both state and federal races.
Supporters hope the new system will help ease partisan rancor and encourage civility and cooperation among elected officials. Critics worry it will dilute the power of political parties, or that minor party candidates will get drowned out. Some are skeptical, too, that the system will work as intended.
A sponsor of the initiative, independent former state lawmaker Jason Grenn, has said Alaska is a test case for similar efforts being considered in Nevada and elsewhere.
Here is a closer look at what's happening in Alaska:
HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK?
In the past, the winners of each party's respective primary advanced to the general election.
Under the new system, there will be one ballot, available to all registered voters, with each candidate in a given race. The top four vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, head to the general election. Voters in the general election then can rank candidates by order of preference.
A consensus winner is selected if no one wins more than 50% of the first choices.
Another change: Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor will team up at the outset. Previously, candidates for each office ran separately for the primary, and the winners of each party primary were paired for the general election.
Maine uses ranked voting for state-level primary elections, and for federal offices only in general elections.
Ranked voting is also used in a number of cities for local elections, including New York.
WHICH RACES ARE AFFECTED IN ALASKA?
All state and federal races are subject to the new rules. That includes this year's races for U.S. Senate, Alaska's lone U.S. House seat, its governor and lieutenant governor posts and legislative seats.
Some have seen the system as potentially helping Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has a reputation as a moderate and has at times been at odds with Alaska party leaders, including in her criticism of former President Donald Trump.
Murkowski lost her party primary to a tea party candidate, Joe Miller, in 2010 but won the general election with a write-in campaign. She won her primary easily in 2016, the year Trump was elected.
Trump has backed Republican Kelly Tshibaka for this year's Senate race, and Tshibaka has been endorsed by state party leaders.
Murkowski, in announcing her reelection bid in November, said the strength she offers is that "for me, it has always been about reaching out to all Alaskans,” not just Republicans. She said she hopes one outcome of the system is that candidates might be more civil toward one another.
WHY DO THIS?
Scott Kendall, an attorney who helped write the Alaska ballot initiative, said the new system gives voters choices. The reason for ranked voting is to avoid “distorted” outcomes, he said.
If there were four candidates under the prior system, “you can imagine someone winning with 28% of the vote and being a very extreme individual because three moderates over here divvied up the rest of the vote," Kendall said.
“You don’t want a situation where you get a candidate far outside the norm because a small group supported them. So it’s to get that moderate candidate — prevent the parties from being kind of an artificial gatekeeper to our choices," he said.
The hope is that more work gets accomplished, particularly in the state Legislature, he said.
The system was unsuccessfully challenged by a group that included Anchorage attorney Kenneth Jacobus; Scott Kohlhaas, a Libertarian who made a failed bid for state House in 2020; Bob Bird, chair of the Alaskan Independence Party; and Bird's party.
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Spain is a country located in Southwestern Europe, whereas Nevada is a state in the Western Region of the United States of America. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between Spain and Nevada regarding various aspects.
Is Spain bigger than Nevada?
The total area of Spain is 505,990 sq km, and the total area of Nevada is 286,382 sq km. Spain is bigger than Nevada by 219,608 sq km. Spain is around 1.77 times bigger than Nevada.
Area of Spain: 195,360 sq mi ( 505,990 km2 )
Area of Nevada: 110,577 sq mi ( 286,382 km2 )
According to the Eurostat, World Bank data, the total population of Spain as of 2019 was estimated to be around 46.94 Million.
Based on the United States Census Bureau data, the total population of Nevada as of 2019 was estimated to be around 3.08 Million.
Here is some more data comparison between Spain and Nevada.
The capital city of Spain is Madrid, and the capital city of Nevada is Carson City.
Human Development Index
HDI of Spain as of 2019: 0.904
HDI of Nevada as of 2018: 0.902
UTC + 0 to UTC + 1
(Western European Time and Central European Time)
UTC + 1 to UTC + 2
(Western European Summer Time and Central European Summer Time)
UTC − 8 (Pacific Time Zone)
UTC − 7 (Mountain Time Zone)
UTC − 7 (Pacific Daylight Time)
UTC − 6 (Mountain Daylight Time)
Coordinates of Spain:
40° 0′ 0″ N, 4° 0′ 0″ W
Coordinates of Nevada:
39° 19′ 44.04″ N, 116° 37′ 52.32″ W
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Lunch & Learn: A Positive Start To 2018
January 26, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Do resolutions scare you? Make you nervous? Consume you with guilt? With every ball drop, are you reminded of another year of dropping the ball on those resolutions you set out to achieve? Not this year! In this Lunch & Learn presented by Ohio State Sports Medicine psychologist, Dr. Steve Graef, you will obtain tested strategies for making sure 2018 is your best year yet. Experience growth, accomplish more, and live the life you want to live by making New Year’s Resolutions a thing of the P.A.S.T.
Healthy lunches and beverages will be provided. Biometric screenings and health coaching sign-ups will be available from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. outside of the Ross Heart Hospital auditorium
This event is sponsored by Buckeye Wellness and is open to all faculty, staff, and students.
The webcast will be available at go.osu.edu/HealthandWellnessLunchandLearn (not active until program starts).
Webinar attendees: The program will be available at 11:58 a.m. and will last approximately 50 minutes. To view the webinar, copy and paste the link above into your Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser. Webcast viewers will not be able to submit questions for the Q&A session at the end of the program.
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A bundle of sensitive British Ministry of Defence documents, found by a member of the public at a bus stop, contained information about the 23 June HMS Defender incident near the shores of the Crimea, as well as other sensitive military information, the BBC has reported, citing the obtained papers.
The documents, dated 21 June, reportedly contained an analysis of the potential consequences of the warship's passage through the waters, deemed by Russia as part of its territory. They also purportedly included information regarding the UK's operations in Afghanistan amid the US withdrawal from the country and London's thoughts on new US President Joe Biden and his administration.
The British Ministry of Defence did not explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents cited by the BBC. However, the ministry did admit that an employee had reported the loss of sensitive papers, refusing to delve into detail about the matter.
The papers, cited by the British broadcaster, suggested that London expects increased threats towards its military personnel in Afghanistan, should the country decide to leave individuals behind following the US pull-out. The troops are reportedly already lacking awareness about the situation on the ground and even though they haven't faced Taliban attacks for over a year, this could change in the future. According to the papers, London isn't ruling out a complete withdrawal of its own forces.
The 50-page treasure trove of documents, which include emails and presentations, also contains notes on a session of the UK-US Defence Dialogue that took place on 21 June. The briefing notes suggested that the new US administration has "much continuity" with the previous one in terms of its focus on China and the Indo-Pacific region in general. Furthermore, London apparently doubts that Washington's policy towards its allies has changed with the arrival of Joe Biden and seeks confirmation of promised greater US engagement with Europe, the documents claim.
"We should use the meeting to see how much the administration is prepared to share, or whether its stated ambition of consulting more with allies is truer in principle than in practice", a portion of the briefing notes reportedly said.
London Planned Provocation Near Crimea, Expected Harsh Reaction From Moscow
The BBC report also goes into detail about the UK's deliberations on HMS Defender's passage from the Ukrainian port of Odessa to Batumi, Georgia. Per the obtained documents, two plans were on the table: a longer route around the Crimean Peninsula, and a shorter one where the warship would pass as close as 19 kilometres off Crimea's coast.
The second plan meant that Defender would sail right through the waters that Moscow considers its territory since a 2014 referendum during which the overwhelming majority of the peninsula's residents voted in favour of joining Russia. However, western countries do not recognise the results of the referendum (and apparently Crimeans' rights to self-determination), and thus the UK described the second route as crossing "Ukrainian territorial waters".
The same documents, cited by the BBC, show the UK realised it would be Moscow, not Kiev, who would react harshly to HMS Defender's "innocent passage". In international maritime law the term "innocent passage" is used to describe the peaceful movement of a military vessel through another country's territorial waters, which is only acceptable if this country does not object to it. Yet, international law does not permit this in cases where the status of waters is disputed – as is true with the waters off Crimea.
Still, London apparently did not bother itself with the peculiarities of international maritime law in this case, but rather with the potential response by Moscow to its actions:
"Following the transition from defence engagement activity to operational activity, it is highly likely that RFN (Russian Navy) and VKS (Russian Air Force) interactions will become more frequent and assertive", the documents obtained by the BBC said.
Even understanding that Russia's response might range from "safe and professional" to "neither safe nor professional" (according to the documents), Britain chose to send HMS Defender right into the waters off of the Crimean Peninsula. The papers cited by the BBC offer an insight behind the two motives for this decision.
First, London reportedly believed that taking a safer route for the HMS Defender would be understood by Moscow as a sign of the UK "being scared/running away". The papers also suggested the British government thought it would allow Russia to say that London had "belatedly accepted Moscow's claim to Crimean territorial waters".
Second, the UK apparently sought to make a PR stunt out of the bold passage of its warship through the Russian-controlled waters, the documents show. According to the report, London believed the journalists from the BBC and Daily Mail, who were on board the warship on the day of the incident, 23 June, would provide an "independent verification of HMS Defender's action".
Instead, the journalists witnessed how a Russian military vessel and a group of Su-24M fighter jets steered the HMS Defender away from Crimea's waters. The Russian Defence Ministry said the Russian warship had to fire a warning shot and that one of the jets had to drop bombs in the British destroyer's path because of the HMS Defender's refusal to heed warnings demanding it leave Russian territorial waters immediately. The Kremlin strongly condemned the UK's actions and summoned the country's envoy to deliver a note of protest.
London initially dismissed Russia's statements about its military firing warning shots as "Russian disinformation", claiming that Moscow had simply carried out "gunnery exercises" nearby. Yet later, the chief of Britain's defence staff, General Nick Carter admitted that the 23 June incident near Crimea could create the risk of an "unwarranted escalation". | <urn:uuid:70dfc011-6a53-4966-bbc2-6264adff59ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sputniknews.com/20210627/sensitive-uk-mod-docs-reportedly-suggest-london-planned-hms-defender-provocation-as-media-stunt-1083252621.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964031 | 1,132 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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Stricter trade regulations are finally funneling compulsory trade practitioners in Ontario, helping Canadians find tradesmen who are duly licensed and insured to carry out their jobs. According to an article in the Plumbing and HVAC magazine, the Ontario College of Trades is finally holding tradesmen more accountable by charging and enforcing fines on uncertified companies and individuals conducting business in the compulsory trades, including plumbing.
Legitimate contractors have looked forward to this change for quite some time as uncertified companies have gone without punishment in the past after working on project deals without having the necessary qualifications. The College has issued this statement on the matter:
It is an important safety measure that the public and businesses confirm the qualifications of tradespeople they are hiring to do the work of a compulsory trade,” remarked Bob Onyschuk, director of compliance and enforcement for the College.
The college currently has 41 enforcement officers throughout Ontario. They can issue tickets up to $195 to an individual and $295 for an employer. Repeat offences can result in charges being laid and up to $10,000 in fines.
The fines are supposed to regulate the plumbing profession and guarantee that each worker meets the standards set for the field. The same goes for other tradesmen in Ontario such as electricians, construction workers, heating and air conditioning mechanics, and heavy machinery operators.
The crackdown on unlicensed trades is a vital step in ensuring the welfare of both customers and certified tradesmen who enter into a contract or a project. Clients are assured that the person they hire has the necessary skills and training to provide the services being paid for, and plumbing professionals know that they are in a business which values fairness and quality workmanship, and rewards those who adhere to lawful standards and requirements.
Along with other trustworthy Ontario contractors, this improvement gives an edge to companies like Harris Plumbing Inc. that employ reputable professionals in the York Region and Simcoe County, ready to provide quality services any time a client needs a plumber in Barrie, Aurora, Muskoka, and other localities.
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"O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer." - The Exsultet
January 14, 2022
"Mitigating cosmic indifference by shaking the Gods out of their apathy towards us. How? By humans showing as much compassion to lower-order beings like animals as what you would hope a God would demonstrate towards humans in similar times of need."
We can answer the problem of “why does evil and suffering exist or are allowed to exist if there is a God?”. We can answer this in multiple ways. ‘Felix culpa’, for one. The one I favour the most is simply because for the exact same reasons plenty of humans who are kind-hearted and compassionate can only save a few animals at a time, one place at a time. Kind and loving humans cannot unfortunately be everywhere all at once to deliver all lower-order beings from suffering, and neither can loving gods erase all the suffering and evil bringing great misery to us humans. As powerful and as loving as they can be, even they are not powerful enough to be omnipresent and omniscient; they are ‘simply’ higher-order beings themselves as far as humans are concerned. Perhaps, in a Voltaire-esque fashion, no divinity is naturally powerful enough to be all-knowing and all-encompassing, thus it would be necessary to evolve and reinvent ourselves (and others?) into a climactic omnipresent omniscience. Whether we actually COULD is a different matter! It is interesting to note all the many different ways humans interact with animals, insects, so on, and how the presence of humans, human societies, constructs and artificialities, interact with said insects and animals in a myriad of different ways and in near-infinite fashion: for example, a baby animal lost from its mother's nest found and whisked away by people who find it and care for it. Like the gods above us, only humans can do so much to help despite how miraculous such actions would appear to other such animals. Along these lines of thought, let’s imagine how gods, aliens, so on, interact with humans in ways analogous to how humans interact with animals. Disappearances, unexplainable events, abductions (and safe returns!), UFOs, and so on. But even a cosmic Good Samaritan might not be powerful enough to return a human in need to its original time and place after caring for them, just like how a human would struggle to identify exactly which nest a baby bird fell out of after nursing it back to health, nor would it easily determine which fully-grown bird is the parent out looking for it. I am sure many cosmic Good Samaritans said, “to hell with the prime directive, this human needs our help!”.
Similar to the above paragraph, we can also answer, at least in part, the riddle of why higher-order beings (divinities, aliens, spirits) are so ‘quiet’, and why the Fermi paradox seems unresolved. Again, for similar reasons why humans communicate with animals and insects so infrequently, and vice versa. And when communication is somewhat semi-successful between life separated by different orders, it is usually low-resolution communication, and in both directions. We can play with a dog by throwing a stick for it to fetch, and the dog can notify you when it’s hungry and wants to bed fed; but a human cannot (yet) read The Bible to a dog in terms that it can understand, nor can the dog vocalise more nuanced problems and causes of discomfort in times of need that may require specialised attention, which can leave a person guessing: a thorn in his paw? Stomach ache? Lost his favourite toy? Doesn’t want to be put down? These all require high-resolution communication.
January 15, 2022
Non-duality troubles me, as I am highly invested in clear dichotomies. I am very confident with what is good, as well as what is bad; what is kind, and what is evil. I do not have trouble conceptualising it, I understand nondualism and I ‘get it’, but I think in a universe of non-duality, it would be necessary to ‘invent’ duality, to again paraphrase Voltaire. Non-dualism troubles me morally and ethically I mean, not conceptually or intellectually. However, now I find myself troubled with dualism. As a lover of “The Good Guys”, that which is good and beautiful, that which the white side of YinYang represents, I find the concept of ‘balance’, ‘opposites’ also troubling. I look at YinYang and think to myself, I am not comfortable seeing just as much evil and suffering as there is goodness and compassion. Even in balance and symmetry, there is still too much suffering, too much work to be done; if we balance good and evil on a pair of scales and they are both in perfect balance, that tells me that there is still far too much evil, and keeping this balance risks being a cop-out. So that stimulates my imagination to imagine the abolition of suffering across the whole of the multiverse, which I can confidently say is impossible. However, let’s imagine far future technology that could grant its users the ability to achieve even impossible tasks riddled with paradoxes…
January 19, 2022
Felix Culpa! The problem of Evil! A God can be loving and caring of His humans and still allow Evil to exist (perhaps out of some ineffable necessity unknown to us), just like how, in a similar way, a farmer can love and care for a chicken, but still be required to kill it to feed him and his family.
January 21, 2022
I like the idea of the two opposing forces, black and white, good and evil, whatever, having a shared and mutual enjoyment of the thrill of the challenge, the fight, thus have a begrudging respect and gratitude for the existence of each ones opponent, as well as gratitude for existing themselves to be able to experience something so incredible; the experience of standing in front of your opponent, face to face, winner takes all. Like Moriarty and Holmes, or two chess grandmasters. Although it could be argued that Holmes and Moriarty and the two chess grandmasters both fit (I mean, where all four of them fit) into the white side of the YinYang, representing order, intelligence, mastery, civilised manners, so on, and that other Lightsiders would not want to lower themselves to the levels of some of those in the Black side (low enough to be equal to the Blackside, for those of the Light were superior to begin with, arguably), if the Black is reserved for those that harm children, animals, exploit the vulnerable and destroy souls; people who are not worthy of that aforementioned respect and gratitude, mutual or otherwise, basically. Nor are such evildoers capable of imparting such respect onto those who do Good because evil has twisted them too much.
January 24, 2022
Quasi-Socratic: I know nothing, except that I suffer. I know nothing, except knowing that I suffer.
Quasi-Descartean: I suffer, therefore I am; I am, therefore I think; I think, therefore I suffer; I suffer, therefore I think; I think, therefore I am; I am, therefore I suffer; I suffer, therefore I suffer; I suffer, therefore I suffer, therefore I suffer, therefore I suffer, therefore I suffer, therefore I suffer, therefore…
January 25, 2022
If God's wisdom thought it necessary to include evil within creation, then some extreme religious fanatics could feel divinely sanctioned to commit evil acts if they believe they are doing God's work, or indeed, God's 'dirty' work that no other religious devotees would dare approach. If they believe that the existence of evil creates more total good in this universe than however much total good would be produced in a universe where evil never existed at all (thought to be one of the reasons God allowed evil to exist in the first place), then these religious fanatics who commit evil acts could convince themselves that what they are doing is in fact good; or, good with extra steps!
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Configure Virtual Host on Apache web server
Virtual host is a feature of apache web server. This feature helps to setup several domains on one single server. Also we can put several other rules according to domain names. First of all let’s try to know what are the important issues make us use this features.
- We can define different domains as virtual hosts
- We can put different modules for different domains.
- We can use ssl and tsl security according to client’s requirement on domains.
- We can get report according to the domain name using virtual host facility.
We can configure a virtual host using two components. IP address and domain name. if we configure the virtual host using IP address then we need to get a single IP for every single virtual host separately. But if we create virtual host using domain name then we just need to put the record on our DNS server and we can get more than one domain name on a single IP address.
So it is recommended that to create virtual host using domain names and put rules and allow modules according to the domain names.
Now let’s learn how to create a virtual host on a apache server.
First of all we need to make sure that our apache web server is installed properly and working. Now there are two ways to setup virtual host. We can put the configuration directly in the httpd configuration file or we can create and use configuration file separately.
But the basic configuration is same for both the cases. So let’s know about what are the configurations we need to put into configuration file. The basic lines to put into the configuration lines are given below.
<VirtualHost (IP ADDRESS or Domain Name)>
Well these above lines are the basics; we can add more lines to configure more issues to a virtual host.
Now if we want we can easily put this on the httpd.conf file. It will work. But the only issue is that this is not the best practice.
Let’s talk about the best practice. To create a virtual host we should follow the below steps.
- Create two folders in /var/www/html directory named sites-registered and sites-enabled. Run the below commands.
#mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-registered & mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-enabled
- Now open /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and insert the below line.
- Now save and exit this file. Then go to the following directory.
- Create and edit a file using vim. We will take a virtual host for the domain name test.local and let’s name the file as text.conf. so run the following command and edit the file.
Now put the below text into this file.
- Once the above step is done. There are only 2 more steps we need to complete and then we can restart the service to active these changes. On this step we need to link this file with sites-enabled directory and create a link file in there. For that fun the below command.
#ln –s /etc/httpd/sites-registered/test.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/test.conf
- Now restart the httpd service and active our virtual host. So run the below command.
#systemctl restart httpd.service
After this we can create an index and put some text to confirm if the file is working or not.
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When you stop and think about it, the human body is pretty amazing. In fact, it is like a complex machine, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We tend to take for granted all of the functions that your body does with relative ease. From breathing to holding a glass, swallowing, digesting food, sleeping, walking, and running, just to name a few. However, just like any machine, there are times when parts need to be serviced. Caron Chiropractic specializes in providing non-invasive but highly effective treatments for all types of aches, pains, and injuries you may face and help prevent future issues. We can help your body achieve and maintain optimal health so that you can be active while taking good care of your body. Fred is our job. Caron Chiropractic offers safe and effective chiropractic care that improves daily function, decreases pain and discomfort and can help your body heal after an injury.
Chiropractic Treatment Can Provide You Relief
The treatment of lower back pain is common to all chiropractic practices, at least in the United States if not all over the world. If you have been in a severe car accident, or if you have fallen off a ladder while cleaning debris out of the gutters, lower back pain is simple to explain. What is not so simple to explain is why you woke up one morning with lower back pain, without there being any other precipitating event to cause it. Fortunately, chiropractic treatment can provide you relief whether the cause of your lower back pain is known or if there is no obvious reason for it.
If a car accident has caused an obvious misalignment of the vertebrae in your spine, we can use an appropriate combination of our treatment options–which include spinal rehabilitation, massage therapy, acupuncture, laser therapy, and Arthrostim–to provide relief. Those same treatments can be used to help relieve the pain and discomfort of a spinal misalignment that is the result of years, or perhaps decades, of gradual misalignment that suddenly results in lower back pain.
Chiropractic Care Can Treat Many Conditions
Lower back pain is not the only condition we treat. Chiropractic treatment can also help with insomnia, headaches, neck pain, anxiety, carpal tunnel syndrome, fibromyalgia, arthritis and a variety of other health conditions. The members of our staff are here to help you get back to full chiropractic health. Please feel free to call us at (651) 255-9999 with questions or to schedule an appointment. | <urn:uuid:de7254e0-0b5c-4528-97b9-e593a15662a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caronchiro.com/keeping-your-body-healthy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936373 | 530 | 1.578125 | 2 |
BYU student engineers Casey Messick and Caleb Lystrup worked hard to take the skills they learned in the classroom to manufacture and market a unique accessory to make year-round “hammocking” possible.
Each year as the weather grows warmer, BYU students and Provo residents alike sling up their hammocks and enjoy peaceful afternoons outside, said BYU physics teaching major Megan Morganson. However, once the weather gets colder in the fall, these outdoor enthusiasts are often forced to pack things up and wait out the winter indoors.
“Hammocking is the perfect activity and it’s so relaxing,” Morganson said. “But the worst part of it is trying to relax while it’s freezing cold outside.”
After a miserable, freezing camping trip, Messick and Lystrup recognized many would enjoy hammocking for the other six months of the year. They teamed up to design the SHEL, an insulated hammock accessory that keeps users warm during cold winter nights but is still perfect for spring and summer afternoons.
“Our first prototype was just us frankensteining two sleeping bags together,” Lystrup said. “It was really just us trying to validate our original idea. But now, the SHEL is a product that helps you overcome the elements. It’s minimalist and might seem too good to be true, but it’s really just a well engineered product.”
The pair decided to enter their completed prototype in the BYU Student Innovator of the Year competition. Their inventive design and the subsequent marketing earned the team first place in the competition and also helped them take home the Audience Favorite award.
But Messick and Lystrup were not satisfied with a few awards. The pair used their Student Innovator of the Year winnings to finance the creation of their new company, Khione Outdoor Gear, and now plan to begin mass-producing their designs. Messick and Lystrup hope Khione will soon offer a wide variety of products suited for outdoor enthusiasts, as the SHEL will soon be launched as the company’s flagship product.
“We talk to people and find out what they want,” Lystrup said. “We’ll get to the point where we can start to make what people are really interested in.”
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During the period 1971-1972, while I was serving as Commander Submarine Division 41, I became very interested in a number. It dealt with Mk 37 torpedo effectiveness. At the time, the Mk 37 was the submarine ASW torpedo, the Mk 48 still being only in its operational test and evaluation phase. NOL White Oak published a quarterly document that laid out the probability of kill (Pk) for the Mk 37. Interestingly enough it was 0.37, and consequently easy to remember. What it conveyed was that, all other things being equal, the average submarine would need to fire three Mk 37s to be reasonably sure of a kill against an enemy submarine during an engagement. Presumably the P1c number was also used to help generate the total number of torpedoes that would have been needed in wartime in an all-out conflict with the USSR. The Mk 37 P1c number thus had two levels of significance for ASW operations, the first at the tactical level, and the second at the strategic (logistic) level.
A thorough reading of the NOL publication indicated that all Mk 37 submarine torpedo firings were used in arriving at the P1c number. Every torpedo firing that produced a torpedo firing report was an input into the NOL number. That seemed reason-able at first glance. However, on reflection I began to have second thoughts. Were all submarine torpedo firings equally valid in arriving at a P1c that would be a guide for wartime operations? The answer, of course, is a resounding “No”. When an SS or SSN completed overhaul and commenced refresher training, it turned to torpedo firing as soon as crew proficiency permitted, since that was the primary reason for its existence. However, early torpedo firing exercises, like all other exercises and drills, were rarely conducted at an advanced level. Submarine crews coming out of overhaul (or commissioning), like surface ship and aircraft crews, have to learn to walk before they can run. I dare say that most early torpedo firing exercises started with simple problems, with the target movement constrained, and the firing submarine having a fairly good idea of opening range, target speed, and direction of approach. Hits in these early exercises were gratifying to the fire control party and the torpedomen, but have little to do with the accurate estimate of a wartime P1c. As time progressed, exercises increased in complexity and uncertainty, until toward the end of the firing submarine would have very little information about possible targets.
I am not suggesting that submarine commanding officers tried to load the dice to make their division and squadron commanders think they were tactical bot shots. On the contrary, tactical training in something as complicated as a bearings only sonar approach is a gradual progression and a building up of many skills. At some point, of course, initial refresher training is over and the individual submarine reaches a state of reasonable proficiency in torpedo firing. Logically, wartime P1c determination for any weapon system should start to be measured at the end of refresher training, rather than from the beginning of refresher training.
What then was the real P1c for the submarine-fired Mk 37 torpedo? It certainly wasn’t 0.37, since some of the firings that contributed to that number were more nearly tests of torpedo tube operation and guidance wire payout performance than of sensor operation and fire control party ability to solve for target motion. Was it 0.25, or perhaps even as low as 0.20? If the latter, then it would have taken five Mk 37s per enemy submarine engagement rather than the three allocated earlier. That would be a 66 percent increase in total weapons required, a not insignificant difference. The correct answer is that nobody knew, because some of the data input into the NOL calculations was irrelevant.
The point of the discussion is that operational submariners need to look very carefully at numbers, in particular at the derivation of submarine weapon systems P1c, to ensure that they reflect the level of performance that can be expected from trained crews operating under conditions of uncertainty. We of course must provide the trained crews. Wartime and our enemies will provide the uncertainty, whether we like it or not. We should not fool ourselves by accepting calculated weapon systems P1c numbers blindly. We need to examine carefully what goes into P1c numbers calculations, and to insure that we are not getting garbage out. What is in a number is significant, both at the tactical and strategic levels. | <urn:uuid:3728236e-aa73-4525-a25a-a81d79f122c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.navalsubleague.org/1996/whats-in-a-number | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974504 | 911 | 2.40625 | 2 |
As WDB celebrates 25 years of existence, its vision of creating “social businesses” invested in the upliftment of women in South Africa gives a new take on making a meaningful difference in the corporate workplace.
You could call WDB a revolutionary organisation of sorts. Starting off with a basic business plan in a small room in Hillbrow, with the desire to take on poverty and offer rural women loans that would give them a leg-up into creating their own businesses and change their lives, was a giant leap of faith for Mrs Zanele Mbeki and her team of tenacious women for whom any glass-half-empty scenarios were simply out of the question.
Fast-forward to 1996, and you have Faith Khanyile and Tania Slabbert hatching plans to take on corporate South Africa and change the world through a little investment company called WDB Investment Holdings (WDBIH).
Khanyile reflects: “WDBIH was started in 1996 mainly to secure the financial sustainability of the WDB Trust. The ethos behind the formation of WDBIH was to continue with increasing the participation of women in the economy in South Africa. The aim was to create a for-profit business to support a not-for-profit development organisation.”
The early days of WDBIH weren’t easy, Khanyile says. “Without a balance sheet, it was very difficult to find ways to fund our operation and raise funds for investments.”
Slabbert says that in order to find money to feed the trust programmes and to allow the company to grow, they had to innovate. “We began to offer our services as consultants to companies, giving them advice on their transformation processes for a fee. As we grew bolder and more knowledgeable, we began to negotiate for part of the dividends from our investments to be paid to us and we also began to insist on being allowed at least one board seat on each of our key investments.”
It was a new South Africa, with new dynamics in the business world, but in terms of gender, the shifting boardroom goalposts were a constant challenge.
“It was a challenging time because we were redefining what the new South Africa was going to be, especially for women in business. We were pioneers and it’s never easy to be at the frontline of driving change,” says Khanyile.
After democracy, the advent of black economic empowerment (BEE) in the country began to open doors for WDBIH. “We started as a small BEE participant in the various BEE deals that were taking place then, following the democracy in 1994, but as we did more deals, we developed a track record and we were now invited to larger transactions, such as FirstRand transactions, Bidvest and many others. We went from being a very small investment company to becoming a really significant participant and player in the BEE landscape in South Africa.”
For the WDBIH team, holding on to the organisation’s autonomy was simply non-negotiable.
Khanyile explains, “Our independence was important because we wanted to control our future. We did not want to invite investors who would come in and change our vision or change our strategy; we were clear in terms of our vision and we wanted to control that.”
When it comes having a solid vision, WDB management has never wavered. “Our vision then and today is to increase the participation of women in the South African economy. All the way from grass roots to the boardrooms of South Africa,” Khanyile says.
A social business for women’s empowerment
The WDBIH figures are impressive, to say the least. “To date, WDBIH … starting from nothing so to speak, to net asset value of R3-billion, but also being able to distribute dividends to the tune of R200-million to the WDB Trust, and the WDB Trust having reached closed to 200 000 female entrepreneurs in rural areas,” says Khanyile.
For many companies, the bottom line is the Holy Grail, and then, further down the track, comes the focus on corporate social investment (CSI) programmes and having some kind of social impact. Too often, CSI programmes are seen as a “good to have” or an essential PR exercise but, according to Khanyile and the dedicated team at WDB, creating a true “social business” is the only way forward.
“We are a social business for women’s empowerment. WDB Investment Holdings was really were created solely to drive the WDB vision of making an impact in the lives of rural women in South Africa. So that’s really what we are about – we are making a social impact on women.”
Khanyile says that, looking back over the years, it is sobering to see what can actually be done with solid vision and incredible teamwork. “I am really very excited that we were able to build such a significant business over the period.”
Onwards and Upwards
While 2016 is offering the opportunity to look back at lessons learnt and the successes over two decades, the team continues to focus on growing its portfolio of investments. Khanyile and her team have recently launched the Enterprise Development Fund to target the “missing middle” and grow women-owned businesses.
“In our pursuit to really make sure that the women’s participation in the economy is significant, we recently started an Enterprise Development Fund that finances female entrepreneurs with loans from R50 000 to R300,000 rand. The whole idea behind this fund is to provide financial access to female entrepreneurs as well as business development support, mentoring and access to markets.
WDBIH has also just entered into a partnership with Seed Engine and has established WDB Seed Fund, which is hoping to initially raise about R100-million to support small and medium-sized businesses, as well as businesses that can create jobs that can be meaningful in South Africa.
What does the future hold for WDB?
WDBIH has “grand plans for the future”, says Khanyile. “We want to continue to impact South Africa at large; we want to scale up our Enterprise Development, SMME Funding initiative. From the investment portfolio, we are also looking to diversify into other strategic sectors in South Africa – such as renewable energy, fast-moving consumer goods and infrastructure, so we have got huge aspirations for the future and we are very excited about it.” | <urn:uuid:1a535191-54c2-48de-ab97-148b3e46320d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wdbtrust.org.za/2016/09/01/brave-new-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976185 | 1,366 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Did you know there was a Thuringian Tuscany? Yup, neither did I until today — which I learned today when I was supposed to be getting to know Bad Sulza. Either way, this “Tuscan” region spreads beyond Thuringia, right into Saxony-Anhalt.
As for Bad Sulza itself, this rural town is actually 10 districts (plus two settlements), and found along the Ilm River. It’s known as both a spa and wine town, found only 15km from Naumburg and 18km from Jena.
Now that you know where you can find Bad Sulza, let’s get back to wine stuff. Seems like a perfect place to have an annual Weinfest (Wine Festival) every August, does it not? Plus there are also quite a number of walking trails along the vineyards. Simply beautiful.
Hiking along said vineyards isn’t the only activity that’ll allow you to enjoy the countryside. Ambitious types can cycle along the Ilmradweg, a 124km bike route that meanders right on through.
Enjoying the great outdoors isn’t limited to just hiking and cycling — there’s an array of activities here in Bad Sulza to keep everyone busy (and happy). It’s your choice if you want to go horseback riding, take a carriage ride, play miniature golf or tennis, go canoeing, or go fishing.
If you choose to go fishing you can get a permit over at the town’s Tourist Information Center, as well as arrange bike rentals.
History lovers aren’t left out of things to see and do either, by the way. You’ll find a memorial to 300 Soviet POWs who died here during World War II, as well as five steles detailing significant events during the Nazi years.
To go back further in history why not start at one of Bad Sulza’s old churches. I think my favorite is the Dorfkirche (Village Church) in Neustedt, but I’m sure you’ll have your own after seeing the ones in Gebstedt and Reisdorf, and the the Church of St. Vitus in Auersedt, the Church of St. Wigbert in Bergsulza, and Johannes Church in Dorfsulza.
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Coaching the front line on “soft” skills is one of the more challenging areas for hospitality managers and trainers today. Szende’s book was crafted to aid development and honing of such skills through realistic cases categorized by type and addressing a diverse range of personnel topics, including:
- Sensitivity toward an individual’s religion and faith
- Handling gossip
- Teaching the acceptance of criticism and avoiding defensiveness
- Identifying humor vs. sarcasm
- Gaining trust and rapport
Several of the book’s chapters speak specifically to conveying respect while establishing authority and achieving desired outcomes, such as Dealing with Employee Problems and Problem Employees; Building Your Leadership Credibility; When Employees Are Challenging Your Leadership; and Encouraging Others.
“Case Scenarios in Hospitality Supervision is an invaluable resource for hospitality managers and educators in an era when all sectors of the hospitality industry are appraising their service philosophies to heighten the guest experience,” said Jim Gish, senior acquisitions editor, Delmar. “From meeting human-resources requirements to managing a diverse workforce, Case Scenarios in Hospitality Supervision provides the tools necessary to maximize individual and team performance in any guest-service opportunity.”
Additional highlights of Case Scenarios in Hospitality Supervision include:
- Short, thought-provoking scenarios that depict dilemmas often encountered by new managers and first-level supervisors.
- A “who’s who” for the individuals in each case-study scenario ties into the Royal Hotel organizational chart and employee listing in the preface, helping students to better understand the varying roles within a hotel management structure.
- Electronic access codes are provided so that readers may review the case studies online; submit answers to the case-study questions electronically; and actively participate in an online discussion forum.
The Instructor’s Manual (ISBN: 978-14283214103, $14.95) for Case Scenarios in Hospitality Supervision contains detailed exploration of each case and suggestions for guiding student discussions.
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It is relatively simple to repair a leaky sink drain P trap without calling in a plumber, which will also prove to be extremely expensive. If you notice that water is gradually dripping to the floor, then clearly water is leaking through a crack in the sink drain P-trap. There could be two reasons as to why this water is dripping to the floor: firstly, the connections between the P-trap could be loose and secondly the pipes could have cracked or become obstructed with debris causing water to leak. With some basic knowledge about plumbing, and a few plumbing tools on hand, this task can easily be done yourself at home. This task should only require a few hours of your time.
Step 1 – Turn off Water Supply
The first step is to completely turn off the water supply before attempting to discover the exact cause of the leak. This can be done by simply turning off the cut-off valves which are located near the sink. This shall be a useful step unless you want a floor full of water.
Step 2 – Check Joints of P-trap
Now the next step is to figure out what exactly the leak is being caused by. To ensure your own safety, put on a pair of rubber gloves and eye goggles before continuing on with the next step. Also, place a small pan or bucket under the sink drain in case water leaks when the sink drain is opened up. Using a wrench, check the nuts or bolts of the sink drain P-trap. There could be a crack between the two pipes if the nuts are not tightly bolted. Fix the crack by tightening the nuts with the wrench. Use a piece of plumber’s tape as well to ensure that the two pipes are tightly connected to each other and are not loose. Rubber washers which are fixed around the pipe connections can also be replaced. However, if a crack is still apparent in the P-trap, then move onto the next step.
Step 3 – Check Condition of Sink Drain and Replace if Necessary
If tightening the bolts does not even help repair the crack, the next step is to check the condition of the pipes and the P-trap. If it is apparent that the P-trap is damaged and the crack cannot be fixed using plumbers' tape, etc, then the sink drain will need to be replaced. Rust could have caused the sink drain's condition to deteriorate. A new sink drain P-trap can easily be purchased from a hardware store and put in place of the old one. The above steps should definitely get rid of the crack in the sink drain P-trap and ensure that there is no longer any water dripping onto the floor from the sink drain. | <urn:uuid:57903be8-54c0-41c1-a45a-1c4846d914da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-repair-a-crack-in-a-sink-drain-ptrap | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960816 | 547 | 2 | 2 |
In DayZ Standalone, Character Status can be described as the overall state and well-being of a player's character. A character's status is defined by a complex, ever-changing system of stats, values, and attributes and their interactions with one another. The status system can be broken down into three primary categories:
|Stats||Numerical representations of a specific facet or aspect of a character's body, state, or well-being|
|Conditions||Changes, either temporary or permanent, to a character's state or body that differ from the norm|
|Modifiers||Temporary effects that normally change character stats either gradually or instantly|
Managing and monitoring your character's status is an extremely important part of DayZ. Not only to prevent death, but your character's status also impacts your ability to perform certain activities, how resistant you are to diseases, how quickly you can recover from injury, as well as many other effects.
A Stat is a DayZ Standalone players do not see their character's raw stats. Instead, they are conveyed to the player in more subtle ways, UI badges in the HUD, changes in character animations or visual effects, or specific audio cues. Almost all stats have Modifiers or cause certain Conditions when they reach a specific threshold., a numerical value that represents a specific facet of a character's body or state at that moment in time. In
There are approximately 14 character stats in DayZ Standalone, with the most important of them represented in the HUD. These stats can be broken down into four groups in order of (general) importance: Critical, Core, Survival, Action. It is important to note that not all of a character's stats need to be, or even can be, consistently monitored. For players old and new the Critical and Core stats are, in general, the stats that players need to be most aware of.
Conditions are changes, either temporary or permanent, to a character's state or body that differs from the norm. Conditions are typically the result of an action, but can also be the result of a stat change or even another condition. Most conditions also tend to cause one or more modifiers.
|Condition||Common Cause||Stats Affected||Possible Effects|
|Bleeding||Wound sustained from injury||Blood Shock||Shock Damage, Unconsciousness, Death|
|Unconsciousness||Shock Damage, Blood Loss||None||Unable to see, hear, move|
|Burn||Fireplace, Hot Object||Health||None|
|Foot Pain||No Shoes/Ruined Shoes||Health||Bleeding|
Illness & Disease
Beyond the more obvious physical injuries, Survivors are also subject to contracting various illnesses or diseases. Infection can occur in a variety of ways, ranging from drinking dirty water to contact with another infected survivor.
|Brain Prion Disease||Disease||Consumption of Human Steak or Fat from dead humans||Tremors, Uncontrollable Laughter||Permanent||Suicide|
|Chemical Poisoning||Illness||Consumption of Disinfectant, Gasoline or Alcohol Tincture||Blood Loss, Water Loss||Charcoal Tablets|
|Cholera||Disease||Consumption of unclean water||Vomiting, Blurry Vision, Dehydration, Fever||Tetracycline Pills|
|Common Cold||Disease||Contact with infected Survivor, Exposure||Sneezing||Tetracycline Pills|
|Hemolytic Reaction||Illness||Improper Blood Transfusion||Blood Damage||None|
|Influenza||Disease||Contact with infected Survivor, Exposure||Coughing, Sneezing, Fever||Tetracycline Pills|
|Salmonellosis||Disease||Consumption of raw meat, rotten food, or eating and drinking with bloody hands||Vomiting, Health Damage
|Wound Infection||Disease||Using undisinfected rags, bandages, or sewing kits or letting a wound heal itself||Health Damage, Tremors, Fever, Blurry vision, Water loss, Pain Noises, Stamina regeneration loss||Permanent||Tetracycline Pills, if on stage 1 disinfectant can be used on the wound|
|Gas Poisoning||Illness||Exposure to a Contaminated Zone without the correct safety equipment||Coughing, Vomiting, Bleeding, Unconsciousness, Health Damage, Death||PO-X Antidote, or IV Blood Bag with blood collected from someone outside of the gas and not afflicted with Gas Poisoning themselves|
Exposure is a term used to describe poor health or death due to a lack of protection from prolonged periods of extreme temperatures or environmental conditions. It is also often a reference to poor health or death due to starvation, dehydration, poisonous substances, or any combination of these things.
Eating too much food or drinking too much water too quickly. Can lead to Vomiting.
The player is freezing due to a lack of warmth. Loss of body heat is caused due to prolonged exposure to cold weather, not wearing heavy enough clothing, and/or high levels of humidity. It results in rapid loss of energy and, if left unmanaged, the player could freeze to death.
Treatment for hypothermia includes increasing your body temperature and re-energizing yourself. Get out of the cold and into warm, dry clothing. You can also use a heatpack or start a fireplace and be warmed by its heat. Increased activity like running also helps.
The overall level of water saturation affects a character's clothing and possessions. Characters get wet when they are exposed to rain or when entering a body of water (partially when wading, fully when swimming). As a character's level of wetness rises, a status indicator in the HUD appears to warn you of your character and your items being wet. After leaving the body of water or getting out of the rain, the character's level of wetness will decrease gradually until they are completely dry.
A character's level of wetness has no direct effect on their health, instead, it affects clothing by reducing its heat insulation value as well as equipment by making saturated items heavier (and this reducing maximum stamina). This will cause a reduction in the character's body temperature, which can be beneficial if they are suffering from hyperthermia (being too hot), otherwise, it may cause them to eventually suffer from hypothermia (being too cold).
If a character has gotten wet, there are a few options for getting dry again.
- Run around for a while. If you keep moving, especially at a quick pace, you will "air dry" over time.
- Wring out your clothes. If you open the inventory screen and drag wet clothing to your hands you will have the option to wring them out (twist them to get the water out). Each spin of the action timer equates to a reduction in one level of wetness (Drenched -> Soaked -> Wet -> Damp), dramatically speeding up the drying process. (This is pointless, of course, if you are still in the rain.)
- Sit next to a fireplace. This is by far the most effective method, particularly fast when combined with wringing out your clothes. This will completely dry both you and your items in a matter of minutes.
Modifiers are effects that normally cause changes, either gradually or instantly, to character stats. Modifiers can also cause changes in everything from character animations, to control or even visual effects. Some modifiers may have a visual or audio cue, while others are represented in the HUD.
Injury is commonplace in Chernarus and Survivors should expect to become injured at some point or another. Injuries can be caused by a wide variety of actions and events; from attacks by the Infected or wild animals to falling to violent encounters with other Survivors, injuries come in many forms. The effects of these injuries can range from minor inconvenience (pain, limping, etc.) to life-threatening (severe bleeding, unconsciousness, etc) and everything in between. Some injuries, such as falling several stories from a building or ledge, will kill a character instantly.
|Injury Type||Common Cause||Stats Affected||Possible Effects|
|Scratches, Bites||Infected, Wolves, Bears||Health, Shock||Bleeding, Unconsciousness|
|Cuts, Punctures & Lacerations||Bladed Tools & Weapons||Health, Blood||Bleeding|
|Blunt Force Trauma||Blunt Tools & Weapons||Health, Shock||Unconsciousness|
|Gunshot Wound||Firearm||Health, Blood, Shock||Bleeding, Unconsciousness|
|Impact Injury||Fall from height, Car Accident||Health, Shock||Unconsciousness, Fracture|
All stats can be restored or treated through natural regeneration or medical treatments. While slower, natural regeneration or allowing a character's immune system to fight off disease only requires that the character stay fed and hydrated. Medical treatments, on the other hand, are much faster, but require the use of medical supplies.
See Also: Blood
See Also: Health
Health recovers slowly, over time on its own. While Health is always regenerating, the rate at which it does so depends primarily on your Blood level, which is in turn affected by your Energy and Water levels. Additionally, every part of your body, including your overall health, regenerates at the same speed at the same time.
Much like in life, however, natural regeneration is the only way to restore Health. There are no items or treatments that will cause your character to instantly regain missing Health.
If a survivor is injured, Codeine Pills and a Morphine Auto-Injector can be used to reduce shock and allow a Survivor to gradually or immediately gain back some if not all stamina. Codeine Pills and Morphine help little with broken bones.
See Also: Shock
Unlike Health & Blood, Shock regenerates relatively quickly and, with one exception, all of the time. Taking Shock damage will stop the regeneration effect for approximately 15 seconds. Regeneration speed is affected by the character's state of consciousness; with slower regeneration occurring while a character is unconscious.
See Also: Stamina
As long as a character is not performing an action that is physically exhausting, they are regenerating Stamina. The speed of its regeneration is dependent on what the character is doing at that moment.
As Stamina is more or less a representation of a character's current level of fatigue and already has an extremely quick recovery time, there are no medical treatments available to restore Stamina.
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Become a Mentor
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Our Guiding Principles
The Boys to Men method is to provide a group forum where the boys and men go around the room and discuss their problems and challenges. The mentors contribute by sharing the mistakes and poor choices they made as teenagers, and use their experience to help boys avoid making the same mistakes.
We currently have over 60 weekly group meetings at 33 schools and 2 open community locations throughout San Diego County. To be a mentor at one of our school partner locations, we ask for a minimum commitment of one hour a week for one school year.
In addition, we also offer opportunities for mentors to volunteer at our Adventure Mountain Weekend retreats.
All mentors are required to attend a mentor orientation and receive ongoing feedback and training from Boys to Men staff before and after the weekly group sessions.We encourage prospective mentors to visit a group and “kick the tires” before making a commitment. In order to schedule your first group meeting, please contact our Mentor Coordinator or call our office.
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Phenylketonuria is an inborn genetic disorder, in which decreased metabolism of the amino acid phenylalanine. It is a rare genetic disorder that increases the level of phenylalanine in the blood and causes problems throughout the body. Phenylketonuria is major causes of seizures, intellectual disability, mental disorder, and behavioral problems.high prevalence of phenylketonuria across the globe is driving the growth of market. For instance, according to the Boston Children's Hospital, around one in 15,000 babies are born with PKU in the United States every year.
Growing number of pipeline of product for treatment of phenylketonuria is boosting the growth of market. For instance, CNSA-001 developed by Censa pharmaceuticals, Inc. is under Phase 2.
The Phenylketonuria market accounted for around USD 858.2 million in 2018 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.3% during the forecast period, 2019–2026.
Phenylketonuria market is segmented by product type, rout of administration and distribution channel.
On the basis of product type, the market is segmented into drugs and dietary supplement.drug is further segmented into kuvan and biopten.
Based on rout of administration, the market is segmented into oral route and parenteral route.oral route is further segmented into tablets & capsules, syrups and powder.parenteral route is further segmented into intravenous and subcutaneous. oral route is expected to hold major market share owing to dose flexibility and acceptable size and volume.
On the distribution channel, the market is segmented into hospital pharmacies, drug stores, online pharmacies and pediatric clinics. hospital pharmacies is expected to hold major market share over the forecast period.
Geographically, the phenylketonuria market is segmented into four North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and the Middle East & Africa (LAMEA).
North America is dominating the market and expected to grow over forecast period.According to the CanPKU in U.S. Phenylketonuria test is recommended as the first condition widely tested for through newborn screening. Increasing research and development and development for development of advanced treatment is propelling the growth of market. For instance, May 2018, U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Palynziq (pegvaliase-pqpz) for treatment of phenylketonuria.
Europe accounted for second largest share for phenylketonuria market. Increasing number incidences of phenylketonuria in several European countries is boosting the growth of market. For instance, according to the NHS England, during 2015–2016, it was estimated approximately, 1 per 10,000/14,000 diagnosed with phenylketonuria. Furthermore, Different nonprofit organization work for management of phenylketonuria is fueling the growth of market. For instance, - European Society for Phenylketonuria and Allied Disorders, has been published in the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases for increasing awareness of phenylketonuria.
Some of the key players in the phenylketonuria market include ambrooke Therapeutics, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited, American Gene Technologies International, Inc., Danone Nutricia, Dimension Therapeutics, Inc., Synthetic Biologics, Inc., SOM Innovation Biotech SL, Codexis, Inc., BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Erytech Pharma SA, among others.
By Product Type
By Rout of Administration
By Distribution Channel
|Market Size||USD in Billion By 2030|
|Forecast Units||Value (USD Million)|
|Report Coverage||Revenue Forecast, Competitive Landscape, Growth Factors, Environment & Regulatory Landscape and Trends|
|Segments Covered||by Product Type (Drugs, Dietary Supplement) Rout of Administration (Oral Route), Distribution Channel (Hospital Pharmacies, Drug Stores)|
|Geographies Covered||North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, LAME and Rest of the World|
|Key Companies Profiled/Vendors||ambrooke Therapeutics, Daiichi Sankyo Company Limited, American Gene Technologies International, Inc., Danone Nutricia, Dimension Therapeutics, Inc., Synthetic Biologics, Inc., SOM Innovation Biotech SL, Codexis, Inc., BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc., and Erytech Pharma SA, among others.|
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Yield and fruit quality of Nagpur mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) as influenced by evaporation based drip irrigation schedules
Journal Title: Scientific Journal of Crop Science - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2
To identify the critical stages of irrigation water requirement of bearing Nagpur mandarin through drip irrigation system a field experiment was conducted on 7-9 years old bearing Nagpur mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) based on evaporation replenishment (ER) irrigation scheduling during 2009-12. The plant growing period was divided into 6 stages, 2 months each, starting from January to December and the effect on water use, tree growth, fruit yield and quality was studied. The irrigation water quantity given per day per plant under different treatments in various months varied from 21.3-158.5 liters per plant, 17.5-153.4 liters per plant and 20.9-164.5 liters per plant in different months during 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. The highest quantity of water was applied under the irrigation scheduled at 80 % evaporation replenishment (ER) treatment and it varied from 46.8-164.5 liters per plant in 2009-12. The average mandarin plant height was 4.57-4.83 m, stock girth was 51.5-56.3 cm and canopy volume 62.4-71.2 m3. The only canopy volume was found significant among the various scheduling treatments. The fruit yield and quality was significantly affected under various evaporation replenishment (ER) based drip irrigation scheduling treatments. The highest fruit yield (17.25 and 21.48 tones per ha) higher TSS, juice percentage and lower acidity was observed under irrigation at 80 % ER in stages I-V and 30 % ER in stage VI during the study period. The highest TSS to acidity ratio (12.7 and 12.4) was found in the irrigation schedule with 80 % ER in stages I-V and 30 % ER in stage VI during 2010-12.
Authors and Affiliations
P. S. Shirgure*| National Research Centre for Citrus (ICAR), Nagpur, Maharashtra-440 010.
The effect of zinc on yield and yield components of sunflower (Helianthus.annuus L. )under drought stress
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P. S. Shirgure* (2013). Yield and fruit quality of Nagpur mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco) as influenced by evaporation based drip irrigation schedules. Scientific Journal of Crop Science, 2(2), 28-35. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-1005 | <urn:uuid:f6f70d88-4825-479e-a813-35e649cd4938> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://europub.co.uk/articles/yield-and-fruit-quality-of-nagpur-mandarin-citrus-reticulata-blanco-as-influenced-by-evaporation-based-drip-irrigation-schedules-A-1005 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930926 | 848 | 2.046875 | 2 |
They looked like enormous sleeping bats. Until you moved closer. Then the faces became visible under the layers of glass. He had seen exhibits similar to these before in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford; primordial insects trapped in amber. But these were unmistakably human heads. Those that faced him had their eyes shut; their hair was smooth, and their features, though distorted, were peaceful, and even beautiful. Taking out a rock-cloth, he rubbed the surface briskly. No sparks. It was difficult to see in the half-light. He had left his pocket torch back at the pensión.
It was only a beginning, but the past two weeks’ field-work had already yielded results. The guide, Jorge, knew the terrain blind. They had struck out every morning at daybreak in a battered Toyota pickup and had returned after dusk, laden with organic soil samples wrapped in aluminium foil. He had taken hundreds of photos of recent road-cuts. Each colour-coded cross-section was a diagram of geologic time; the distinctive dark grey colour and mafic compostion at the base was almost certainly late Pleistocene, whereas the younger yellowy-orange layers could be dated to somewhere around the end of the last Ice Age. Other deposits revealed the fallout from three small and seven medium size, maybe even larger, explosive Holocene eruptions, stretching over a period of 7,500 years, more or less. He would have liked to have gone on discovering and compiling the material evidence, but time was limited; the laboratory in Pasadena where the samples would be chemically analysed for carbon dating was becoming impatient. And not only this, but things had taken a strange turn – he was getting noticed.
The previous Sunday – Jorge’s day off – he had been picked up by the local police. They took him quite by surprise. He had spent the day out by the lagoon, taking a packed lunch with him and sitting there among the reeds, surrounded by flamingoes and volcanic ash. He had been dozing when a body came between himself and the sun. He looked up and saw the outline of a uniform.
– Está por acá! – the figure said, raising its arm.
Before he could get up onto his feet another figure stood over him. This one was shorter, also in uniform.
– Qué hace por acá, señor?
He started to explain that he had been sleeping and then interrupted himself and asked if there was anything wrong. The two policemen seemed uninterested and turned to each other instead. Then the smaller one said:
– Venga con nosotros, por favor.
Fifteen minutes later they were back at the little two-roomed barracks in the village. They asked for his passport and then he had to wait while they filled out a report in the adjoining office. Flies buzzed around a small triangle of sunlight on the floor. A little faded almanak reading “No hay mejor amigo que El Señor” hung askew on the cracked plaster wall and an ancient ceiling fan helped circulate the stifling air.
The lieutenant came back and asked him for his signature. He looked over the flimsy pink form quickly and saw that it contained nothing but the details of his passport, the date and point of entry to the country and the expected duration of his visit. The comments section was left blank.
The sun was low in the sky when he reached the dusty highway leading back to the village. A maze-like pattern of 4×4 tyre-tracks led off on either side, but he stuck to the public road, although this would considerably lengthen his journey. He knew that there had been no volcanic activity in the area for at least 8,000 years. He also knew that no human head could survive intact the massive temperatures and pressures generated in the lava flows produced by volcanic eruptions. This train of thought led him unexpectedly to the Hungarian archaeologist he’d met here the previous summer, who had told him to look out for old mine shafts strewn with shards of obsidian, that strange volcanic glass that Pliny named after the traveller who supposedly first discovered it. Over a couple of bottles of malbec in the hostel on New Year’s Eve, she had explained to him that you could learn a lot about pre-Columbian peoples’ economies and ways-of-life by studying the geographic distribution of bits of worked volcanic glass. It had been a highly valued commodity in a civilization where iron was unknown, she said, and was unique in that it had had both ritualistic and everyday uses at all levels of society. The earliest European chroniclers had mentioned with dread the macuahuitl, a thick wooden club with three obsidian blades on either side, capable of chopping off a horse’s head with one blow. She had seemed to relish this description, and drew her hand lengthwise across the side of her neck bearing her wine-stained teeth.
There was a bus leaving on Tuesday and another on Friday. The village would get busier in the New Year; prices for beds would be hiked up as backpackers arrived from the city, and this weekend, to celebrate a total lunar eclipse (due to occur shortly after 2am on Monday) cyclists from this village and the next would compete in a 50k road race that took in the surrounding countryside. There would be a festive atmosphere in town, with old folks sitting out on the porches chewing coca leaves and children dressed in traditional costume.
It was not till many years later that Claudia Svjerni, research professor of ancient civilizations at the Universidad Libre de Buenos Aires, recalled her drunken conversation with that scrawny, sun-burned Austrian. Taking advantage of the two week’s pre-term vacation, she took a plane to Mendoza to visit the newly opened Museo del Altiplano. The Museum, funded jointly by the Argentinian government and a Canadian mining consortium, had been purpose-built to house the by now infamous ´Wall of Heads`, a discovery made several years previously by two American meteorite hunters amongst the lunar-like volcanic plains of Catamarca. Despite the fact that almost 13 million dollars had been spent in transforming a disused train station into a state-of-the-art cultural-interpretive centre, curated by an international group of scientists, the exhibition had stirred up a considerable storm of dissent from the start. The exhibits had been labelled “kitsch” and “totally out of context” by the influential Revista Antropológica del Sur, and the city of Santiago de Catamarca had taken a lenthly, unsuccessful suit against the Federal government, demanding the return of the heads to their native province.
Claudia was pleasantly surprised to discover that the exhibition was for the most part well-laid out, informative, and despite the rather steep entry fee, apparently well worth a visit. Given the unprecedented nature of the find – over two dozen mummified human heads lodged in a shelf of rare transparent volcanic glass, and almost perfectly preserved after a period of over four hundred years – it was no wonder that controversy had ensued. The only thing that slightly grated on her nerves was the pan-piped music that greeted the visitor on entering the main hall. Nothing, however, not even the glass-cased array of obsidian projectiles, darts, knives, daggers and clubs, could prepare the visitor for the experience awaiting him in the last dimly lit, temperature-controlled room:
Twenty seven sleeping heads, each inserted in its bubble-shaped niche, lit from the left by spotlights that diffracted crazily through the glass. Some of the heads were in profile, but mostly they faced outwards. Her audioguide explained that, whereas no contemporary evidence had yet emerged to support this conjecture, the heads had almost without doubt belonged to an expeditionary force of Spanish soldiers. Whether they had been killed in Catamarca or elsewhere was unclear as no other remains had been unearthed. The cleaness of each decapitation made it likely that each neck wound had been caused by a single blow with a heavy obsidian bladed club, probably from behind. In modern times, due to the discovery that an obsidian blade can reach almost molecular thinness, this versatile material had found a less gruesome but equally clinical application, being used in open-heart and eye surgery. The sensible, matter-of-fact voice in her earphones continued – “It is thought that each of these heads represents a different phase in the lunar cycle. The indigenous people believed that the Moon was made of silver and that each night it arose from the centre of the Earth banishing the Sun from the sky until daybreak. It is probable that this expiatory sacrifice was occasioned by …” An awful sense of recognition came over her as she came to the final row of heads. There, a familiar face, a pale waxing gibbous, three-quarters full, was nested amongst its swarthier companions. | <urn:uuid:65ad01ea-7de1-4922-bf04-5e54c29f145c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ruabreathnach.com/2011/04/07/moon-glass/?replytocom=19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982706 | 1,884 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Lawmakers expected to approve statewide anti-bullying proposal
LANSING, MI (MPRN) - Michigan is one of just three states without an anti-bullying law to protect students in K-12 schools. The state Legislature is expected to approve a proposal this week that would require all schools to adopt anti-bullying policies.
Experts and students say it's time to have a law in place as bullying in schools becomes a growing concern.
Samantha Torres is an eighth grader at Slauson Middle School in Ann Arbor. She recently wrote a letter to Governor Rick Snyder, urging him to consider the concerns of students as he looks at anti-bullying proposals. In the letter, Torres says teachers and adults do not know the extent of bullying in schools.
"With the more physically bullying, people are pushed around in hallways a lot, people get into fights that are pretty brutal in the end," Torres says. "People just use their words too to hurt other people and most of that is when the teacher isn't watching or there is no teacher."
Torres says she and her friends have been bullied before. She says she is a very religious person and a classmate once told her via text that her religion was "stupid." Torres thinks harassment through text and the internet are quickly becoming the most hurtful and pervasive types of bullying at her school.
That's probably true, says Glenn Stutzky. He is a social work professor at Michigan State University. He says five years ago a target of a bully would be harassed about three times a day. Now, he says, a kid could be bullied between 10 and 20 times a day.
"Technology has allowed bullying to go mobile and it's this type of bullying is not bound by geography, you don't have to be in the same place and it's not bound by time," Stutzky says. "It's like being electronically bound to your tormentors. You can't get, you know, away."
Stutzky says the things that happen in a home that a child witnesses during the earliest years of their life are still the biggest factors that contribute to bullying behavior. He says bullies choose their targets by honing in on gentile children because the bullies perceive those kids as weak.
Larry Schiamberg teaches human development and family studies at MSU.
"I don't think anyone bullies another person without getting some sadly, some level of satisfaction and gaining some level of apparent control over the other person," he says.
Schiamberg says victims and bullies have the similar emotional make-up. He says bullies can easily become victims, and victims can easily become bullies. Schiamberg says it's important to encourage kids to report bullying if it happens to them or they see it happen to others in order to help break the cycle.
"When we define bullying as bullying we are talking about continuity of behavior," Schiamberg says. "This is not simply one nasty comment, this is not simply one maybe abrupt push, this is not simply one behavior. This is behaviors repeated over time."
"And I think a lot of times people have just looked at this as just a rite of passage," says Kevin Epling. "It's normal, everybody went through it "
Epling is a father whose teenage son Matt killed himself ten years ago after being bullied.
"Today it's much different - the technology has changed it quite a bit," he says.
Epling has been an advocate for an anti-bullying law in Michigan. Though he supports the anti-bullying proposal before the state Legislature, he says it still needs some work. He would like the proposal to include stronger rules about cyber-bullying. Epling also says he'd like the law to explicitly state some of the common characteristics of bullying victims. Advocates for gay and lesbian students say that would offer kids better protection.
Professor Glenn Stutzky says he is excited the bullying issue is being talked about. He says public dialogue about bullying can advance anti-bullying legislation.
"Now I'm really encouraged because I feel like we're reaching a tipping point where we can make some significant progress," he says.
There is already an anti-bullying policy in Samantha Torres' school district in Ann Arbor. The policy lists characteristics that are protected from bullying, such as sexual orientation and gender. Even so, Samantha says many of the mean comments made between students still go unnoticed by most people.
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The Shard is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, the 105th tallest building in the world and the fourth tallest building in Europe. Renzo Piano, the project's architect, designed the Shard as a spire-like sculpture emerging from the River Thames. Piano's design met criticism from English Heritage, who claimed the building would be "a shard of glass through the heart of historic London", giving the building its name, the Shard.
Piano proposed a sophisticated use of glazing, with expressive façades of angled glass panes intended to reflect sunlight and the sky above, so that the appearance of the building will change according to the weather and seasons.
The Shard was designed with energy efficiency in mind. It is fitted with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, operating on natural gas from the National Grid. Fuel is efficiently converted to electricity and heat is recovered from the engine to provide hot water for the building.
The building is designed to maintain its stability under very onerous conditions, with its post-tensioned concrete and composite floors, load-bearing pillars and tapering shape giving it a sway tolerance of 400 millimetres (16 in).
In 2014, The Shard claimed first place at the Emporis Skyscraper Awards, recognising buildings over 100 m (328 ft) completed in the previous twelve months. The Emporis judges hailed the building as "a skyscraper that is recognised immediately and which is already considered London's new emblem".
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A weakening low pressure system moving across Ontario into New York will cause our sunshine to fade behind clouds this afternoon.
This low pressure system has a long history of big thunderstorms and hail as it moved across southern Canada in the last couple of days. But it should be weakening to just some rain with isolated thunder tonight.
Under thickening clouds, temperatures today climb to near 80° in southwestern New England, but only in the 60s in eastern and northern areas. Wind is from the east and southeast 10 to 20 mph.
Rain develops first around dinner time in northern New England and then spreads toward the south and east, covering much of New England by midnight. The exception is likely northern Maine, and perhaps Connecticut, staying mostly dry. It’s a chilly start tomorrow in the 40s and low 50s.
Rain should taper to scattered showers by lunchtime tomorrow, with sunny breaks in the afternoon and high temperatures in the 60s to low 70s. Maybe 80° in Connecticut.
Tomorrow night should be mostly dry, some patchy low clouds and fog possible, low temperatures again in the 40s and 50s.
Another weather front coming at us from the west should turn our wind around. Having it come in from the south and southwest in much of New England Sunday, that will pull in warmer and more humid air, but also a chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm in western New England.
There should be a few hours of sunshine Sunday morning, especially in eastern New England before the clouds thicken up with a high temperature in the 70s to near 80°. Much cooler though in New Hampshire and Maine.
That front will move into New England and slow down Sunday night and Monday with a chance of showers and thunderstorms continuing, probably more humid with temperatures on Monday again close to 80°. The temperature may go down a little bit with less humidity after showers and storms slowly move out on Tuesday, as seen in our First Alert 10-day forecast. | <urn:uuid:b227d4d6-3261-4dda-97f3-d5df7e4f1f50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcboston.com/weather/stories-weather/mostly-dry-cool-friday-before-overnight-showers/2403163/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950072 | 404 | 2.125 | 2 |
The most crucial part of every human being is their face. Our face is the main thing seen by others, and it plays a vital role in our personality. We express our emotions, eat, talk and do all actions with the help of face. These are the reasons why we care more about our face as compared to any other part of the body.
Most of the individuals use many types of cosmetics like facial cream, face wash, and moisturisers for the maintenance of their skin. But all these efforts will go in vain if there is any skin tag or mole on our face. As we get older, the chances of growth of moles, warts and tags increases. Skin tags make you feel embarrassed in front of your friends, family and relatives. They can ruin your good looking face and make you a figure of fun.
The one and effective solution for the removal of skin tags is using Skingenix tag remover. The manufacturer claims that the use of Skingenix will help you remove all skin tags without causing any pain.
What Are Skin tags?
Skin tags are also known as acrochordon. There is no fixed shape of skin tags. However, their size is similar to a rice-grain. They can develop on any portion of the body. The main reason for the growth of skin tags is friction when any part of your body rubs against skin or cloth they cause skin tags.
The skin tags consist of fibre and blood cells, and they usually don’t cause any pain, but they affect your personality a lot. The bubble-like structure on your skin also irritates you. The skin tags not only grow on the face. You can find them on your neck, upper chest, underarms and buttock folds.
Skin tags affect your looks and make you feel embarrassed in family gatherings. People having skin tags face difficulty while wearing jewellery and shaving. It can affect your social life. People with skin tags don’t like to go to the beach, swimming pool and parties.
No one is entirely confident about the appearance of skin tags, but apart from friction, scientists found the below reasons responsible for the presence of skin tags.
- Health issues like diabetes
What Is Skingenix?
Skingenix is a brand new product that has anti-ageing effects. It is a scientifically proven cream that contains only natural ingredients. Skingenix is the most trusted product in the market that effectively removes all the rashes, skin tags and itchiness. Skingenix is a cost-effective solution as compared to other methods for removing skin tags.
The other traditional methods for the removal of skin tags are burning, surgery and freezing. But none of the above techniques is recommended because they are expensive, painful, lengthy and also there is no security of long term results. Because of the above reasons, dermatologists developed this unique cream which provides you with forever results.
The result of this cream is speedy and effective. Skingenix not only cleans the tags but it also stops the reappearance of these ugly tags. It prevents the hydration supply to acrochordon and removes them permanently. After the application, you only have to wait for some hours or in some cases, maximum a day for its results. If you want a smooth and fresh look with clear skin, then you must choose Skingenix. To know more about the product continually read the whole article.
How does it work?
If you are one of the individuals who are suffering from skin tags, then you must use Skingenix. Instead of spending your money and time in painful surgery and other long methods, try this cream once. The working of the Skingenix is unique, and it targets the root of the problem. Its unique working process indicates that it is a complete, best and genuine way to diminish the skin tags. To help you understand better, we below describe the whole process in three steps.
The existence of skin tags depends on the hydration supply. Means as long as skin tags receive hydration supply they will keep on growing. As we said, it kills the root of the problem means this cream stops the hydration supply to skin tags. Now with hydration supply, the growth of the skin tags also comes to an end. Now they don’t grow further, and you no longer need to worry about their presence.
The second step involves the removal of skin tags by drying them. Skingenix soon drains the area around the skin tags. Immediately the dry skin tags will automatically fall off. The skin where skin tags are present become apparent, and you will be able to feel the smoothness of the skin.
The final and most crucial step for the removal of skin tags is preventing them from recurrence. Many similar products like Skingenix may help you in the removal of skin tags, but they don’t provide you with permanent effect because after some time the skin tags will start growing again. So it is better to choose a trusted and legal product like Skingenix, which not only removes the skin tags but also stops their further growth. The advanced ingredients used in the Skingenix will create a boundary line around the area of skin tags. Hence the user will never face the same problem again.
In this manner, you can peel off all the skin tags with the help of this potent cream. It also helps in the regeneration of skin cells which results in a brighter and charming look. It will improve the quality of your skin and make it clear.
How To Use?
Skingenix is a self-use product means you can use it at your home. The use of this cream is straightforward, but you have to keep some precautions because using any product ideally is very important. So follow the below steps to use the product.
- Clean the area around the acrochordon where you have to apply the Skingenix solution. Cleaning is essential to avoid all kinds of infection.
- Immediately wash your hands with any soap.
- Now take some cotton.
- Next, put a few drops of cream on the cotton ball.
- Directly, put the cotton on the skin tag and wait for the result.
- It is suggested to keep the cotton on acrochordon for at least 8 hours so as the skin absorbs the cream properly.
- Now again wash your hands.
- If you feel the bondage of cream irritating during the daytime, then it will be better if you use it at night. Remember the cotton once put on the skin tag should not be distributed.
- After 8 hours, remove the cotton and see the results. The acrochordon must be destroyed within this time.
- If you don’t see the results, then you should try again with all precautions.
- If your skin has multiple acrochordons, then follow the same steps every time to destroy all of them.
The Skingenix is an extraordinary combination of several natural ingredients which help provide numerous skin benefits. This unique cream is better than its competitors only because of its quality. Skingenix is not a scam, but it is tested and certified by skin experts. Skingenix was used on different skin types, and there are no side effects of its usage. The customers who used the Skingenix also found it helpful for them, and no one complained about its adverse effects. The reason for its health benefits is the use of below ingredients.
Aloe Vera is widely used in cosmetics and skincare products. The raw aloe vera is also beneficial for skin and hair problems. It is used in Skingenix to reduce itching, inflammation and irritation of the skin.
Turmeric has many antioxidant properties, and it is used to improve the skin tone. Use of turmeric will provide you with fresh and more shiny skin. There are several other health benefits of using turmeric. It reduces dark circles, spots, and it heals your skin. The turmeric extracts are included in the Skingenix because of its antiseptic and skin-benefiting qualities.
Vitamin E is an excellent component to reduce dead skin cells. The use of vitamin E helps in the renewal of skin and lessen the dark circles.
Extensive use of cosmetic and beauty products damages the skin. Use of cosmetics by the modern age sometimes leads to premature skin. Use of Vitamin C helps in the fight against dark spots and prematurely of skin. It also controls pigmentation.
Retinol helps your body in the regeneration of skin cells. It makes your skin clear by reducing moles and scars.
Hyaluronic acid is one of the essential components of our body. It is responsible for firmness, moisture, and plumpness. It removes toxins from the body and provides moisture to skin cells to make your skin healthy, clean and youthful.
Collagen is a protein which has anti-ageing effects. It controls the appearance and looks of your skin. Its presence in the body increases the elasticity of the skin and reduces the wrinkles, fine lines and scars. Apart from the skin benefits, it is also beneficial for tissues and joints.
The use of Skingenix brings a lot of health benefits for you. The list of all its advantages is:-
- Easy To Use – Usage of Skingenix is simple. It comes with a nozzle that helps you in applying the solution. It prevents the wastage of cream.
- Pain-Free – Using Skingenix for the removal of skin tags is a pain-free method as compared to surgery and other old methods. This cream will help you remove scars, moles and tags without causing any harm.
- Chemical Free – The composition of Skingenix is chemical-free. The company claims that it is made of only natural ingredients and doesn’t contain any harmful substance. Skingenix has no side effects and is suitable for both men and women.
- Remove All Types Of Scars – This cream removes all kinds of scars and moles without hurting you. Once you apply the cream on the skin tag, you will see a clear skin in just 8 hours.
- Prevent Recurrence – The best thing about the Skingenix is it doesn’t give you a short time benefit, but it also prevents the recurrence of the skin tags.
- Fast Working – The Skingenix only takes 8 hours for its results which is much better and faster than other similar methods for the removal of skin tags.
- Reduce Dark Circles – This product provides you with clear and healthy skin. It fights against dark circles, wrinkles and moles and provides you with many skin benefits.
Only natural products make Skingenix, so there are no side effects of it on our body. The product is designed under the supervision of experts, and it is tested for quality and results. No use of chemicals and other harmful components makes it a prior choice for everyone who wants to remove the skin tags. Hence you no need to worry about its side effects. However, we recommend you to follow some precautionary measures while using the product to eliminate all kinds of mishappening.
- Never use the cream on wounded skin.
- Avoid direct contact with eyes and use it with care.
- If you are suffering from allergies and other skin issues, then you must consult with your physician first.
- Keep it away from children because it is not suitable for minors. Both male and female adults can use it.
- If the use of Skingenix causes any irritation and discomfort, then you must discontinue its usage and consult with a doctor immediately.
Where To Buy?
Skingenix can be purchased through its official website. We suggest you not to buy the Skingenix from any other website or offline store because it might be a scam to you. The company only sells the product only on its official website on different packages. The list of all options you have to make a purchase is as:
- 30-day supply: one bottle for $59.99 with free shipping
- 60-day supply: one bottle for $49.99 with free shipping
- 90-day supply: one bottle for $44.99 with free shipping
One bottle is suitable for one-month usage.
- Visit the official website by clicking here.
- Select your desired package
- Add your shipping details
- Add your payment method
- Click on order now.
- It is suited for all types of skin including dry, sensitive and oily.
- It doesn’t cause pain as compared to other methods.
- Simple to use and faster results
- Removes skin tags for forever.
- Composed of only natural ingredients and there are no side effects of it.
- It is useful for all body parts of the body.
- It is a cost-effective method as compared to other methods for removal of skin tags.
- Can only be purchased from its official website.
- It is not ideal for individuals below 21 years of age.
There is no return policy or money-back guarantee mentioned on its official website. But as the results of the product are always right, you don’t need to return or exchange the product. However, you can buy its trial package for initial usage; if you think it is helpful, you can order more bottles. For more updates, refer to their official website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does it really work?
Yes, the Skingenix works. Many people used this product and found it helpful and useful.
Where can I buy this product?
The product is available for the purchase on its official website in three different packages.
Does it have any side effects?
No, the product doesn’t have any harmful effects. It is made up of only natural ingredients and doesn’t contain any chemical additive. Also, the product is certified and tested by experts for its results.
If you feel embarrassment while going to the swimming pool because of ugly skin tags, you are advised to use Skingenix. The results of this product are fantastic and helpful for many individuals. The use of this supplement is straightforward, and it doesn’t cause any harm to your body. It is a cost-effective solution as compared to other methods.
The product is available for purchase in three different packages; you can buy one out of them. The company offers free shipping, but there is no return policy mentioned on the official website. The outcome of this product is harmless for everyone, and I don’t think you will find any issues. So if you want excellent and clear skin, you must purchase Skingenix. | <urn:uuid:02f07101-3368-4d82-8820-372187436ac9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.un-foodsecurity.org/skingenix-review | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93604 | 3,119 | 1.734375 | 2 |
There have always been those who support abortion for racist reasons. Though the majority of pro-choice people do not fall into this category, arguments based on racism have been used to support the legalization of abortion from the very beginning. The argument that abortion cuts down the number of minority children is sometimes put forth.
The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (now called NARAL Pro-Choice America) is one of the oldest pro-choice organizations in the United States. It was founded in 1969. One of the founders was Lawrence Lader, a pro-choice activist who wrote a book called Breeding Ourselves to Death. In this book, Lader puts forth many arguments as to why anti-abortion laws should be done away with. On page 23 of the book, he makes the following statement:
Above all, society must grasp the grim relationship between unwanted children and the violent rebellion of minority groups.
In this argument, he advocates abortion to control what he saw as the “violent” non-white citizens. He is perpetuating the stereotype that minority children grow up to be violent adults and utilizing a racist stereotype to frighten white people into supporting his cause.
Aiming his rhetoric, perhaps, at white upper-class men and women in the 1960s, he used the fear of African-American violence to get them to support abortion. Perhaps people who felt threatened by the civil rights movement were his intended target for this rhetoric.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who worked with Lader, wrote the book Aborting America in 1979. Nathanson was involved in NARAL from the beginning. He would later become pro-life and record the famous video “The Silent Scream,” which showed an ultrasound of a baby being aborted.
In Aborting America, Nathanson described conversations with Lader about how best to promote the pro-choice cause. In the book, Nathanson recounts what Lader told him one day:
We’ve got to keep the women out in front…. And some blacks. Black women especially. Why are they so damn slow to see the importance of this whole movement to themselves? (1)
So here we see that Lader doesn’t hesitate to use African-American women to advance his cause, even as he uses racist rhetoric to frighten upper-class whites into supporting NARAL. His frustration that African-American women don’t seem to have the desire to abort their children frustrates him, perhaps because he views them as a demographic that should be having abortions.
In the book The Ambivalence of Abortion by Linda Bird Francke, there is a quote by pro-choice activist Michael Bracken:
It’s not that obvious to some black women that abortion is the right decision. It’s only later on that poor or black women realize they don’t want more children tying them down. They need more pressure to abort. (2)
Again, we see a white man frustrated that African-American women are not embracing abortion as much as he wants them to. It is difficult to interpret Bracken’s statement as anything other than a racist remark.
Feminists for Life documented another racist quote made by NARAL member Nancy White. She made the following statement during a speech advocating abortion rights:
The 54% of Black children born to unwed mothers are not productive members of society. Teenagers never make good mothers….single mothers have bad children. (3)
The ironically named White perpetuates the stereotype that African-Americans are not “productive members of society” if they are raised by single mothers. It is both an insult to African-Americans and a slur on single mothers, many of whom are hardworking and dedicated parents.
These are just a few quotes that show that there are racists among abortion advocates, or, at least, individuals who are willing to perpetuate racist stereotypes to promote legal abortion.
1. Bernard N Nathanson, M.D. with Richard N Ostling. Aborting America (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979) 53
2. Linda Bird Francke The Ambivalence of Abortion (New York: Laurel) 1982 p 70
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Java Man and the Discovery of the ‘Missing Link’ in Evolutionary Theory
The second half of the 19th century was an incredibly exciting and contentious time for exploring the origins of human kind. Darwin’s theory, ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection’ had been published in 1869 and caused an uproar of controversy. It seemed at odds with the Christian account and debate of new ideas coming from the scientific community now reached fever pitch. Could this radical new challenge to the religious creationist line possibly be right?
Having a theory was one thing, but it was up to the scientists to offer (as was their method) conclusive proof. Physical evidence would be needed to fill in the gaps. Darwin had come up with quite a piece sparked by his observations of finches in The Galapagos Islands. Did it add up? One of the first new pieces of evidence which seemed to lend more weight to the theory came in the shape of Java Man.
The Java Man discovery
Java Man is the name given to a set of fossils belonging to an extinct hominin that were discovered on the Indonesian island of Java. The fossils were found towards the end of the 19 th century and were the first known fossils of a species of archaic humans known as Homo erectus. The discovery of Java Man caused much controversy, and for some time, was even thought to have been a hoax. Although the discovery was not taken seriously at that time, Java Man was eventually classified as a Homo erectus , and earned its place in the history of human evolution.
The story of Java Man begins in the 1880s, when a Dutch anatomist and geologist by the name of Eugène Dubois traveled to Southeast Asia. A student of Ernst Haeckel, who in turn was a proponent of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, Dubois’ was on a mission to find the ‘missing link’ between humans and apes. He started his work on Sumatra, another Indonesian island. When Dubois heard about the discovery of ancient human bones near Wajak, a Javanese village not far from Tulung Agung, in eastern Java, he moved to that island. Incidentally, the discovered human bones were later identified as belonging to a modern human, as opposed to an ancient one, as previously thought.
The three main fossils of Java Man found in 1891–92: a skullcap, a molar, and a thighbone, each seen from two different angles. ( Public Domain )
In any case, Dubois arrived on Java in 1890, and began his work in August 1891 along the Solo River at Trinil. His ‘team’ consisted of two army sergeants and 50 East Indian convict laborers. In October of that year, a skullcap was discovered, and not long after, a femur, as well as a tooth, was found in the same pit. Using mustard seeds, Dubois measured the cranial capacity of the skull, and concluded that the owner of the skullcap had a small brain. As for the femur, Dubois noticed that it was modern looking, and regarded it as evidence that its owner had an upright posture. Initially, Dubois named his discovery Anthropithecus erectus (meaning ‘erect man-ape’), though later changing it to Pithecanthropus erectus (which translates as ‘erect ape-man’).
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1922 reconstruction of a Java Man skull. The Skull and brain-case of Pithecanthropus, the Java Ape-Man, as restored by J. H. McGregor from the scant remains. The restoration shows the low, retreating forehead and the prominent eyebrow ridges. ( Public Domain )
A predictable rejection
Dubois published his find in 1894, which caused a storm of controversy at that time. His claim that he had discovered the elusive ‘missing link’ met with resistance from both the scientific community and the general public. This experience embittered Dubois, who decided to lock up the fossils in a trunk for the next three decades. This secretive behavior led to some speculation that the Java Man was a hoax. Dubois died a bitter man in 1940, as his discovery had not been taken as seriously as he had desired. Four years later, the remains were examined by Ernst Mayr, an American biologist, and Java Man was re-classified as a homo erectus .
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Confirmation from further finds
Subsequently, more fossils of homo erectus were found in Java, specifically at Sangiran and Modjokerto, thus providing a better view of this extinct hominin species. According to the entry for Java Man in the Encyclopaedia Britannica , Java Man had an average cranial capacity of 900 cubic cm, and its skull is described as “flat in profile with little forehead”. On the top of the head is a crest, which was attached to powerful jaw muscles. Moreover, Java Man had “very thick skull bones, heavy brow-ridges, and a massive jaw with no chin.” Whilst Java Man’s teeth were similar to those of modern humans, they also had some ape-like features, such as “partly overlapping canines”. Lastly, the femurs showed that Java Man walked upright, and it has been estimated that this species could grow to a height of 170 cm (5 feet 8 inches).
A 1922 reconstruction of the skull of Java Man based on the Trinil 2 find. ( Public Domain )
Finally, it may be said that specimens of homo erectus were also discovered in China during the 1920s and 30s. Although this confirmed Dubois’ theory that Java Man was a species of early human, the Dutchman himself refused to accept it, as he considered the Chinese fossils to be “degenerate Neanderthals”.
Top image: The original fossils of Java Man, National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, the Netherlands. Photo source: Wikimedia.
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