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New Delhi: One of the most notorious intelligence services in the world, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence was started in 1948, just a year after the country gained independence from India.
The power of ISI is so much that it is sometimes referred to as a state within a state.
It was founded by a British army officer, Maj Gen R Cawthome, then Deputy Chief of Staff in Pakistan Army.
Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the president of Pakistan in the 1950s, expanded the role of ISI in safeguarding Pakistan's interests, monitoring opposition politicians, and sustaining military rule in Pakistan.
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When the hard enamel is worn down or gums have receded, causing the tiny dentinal tubule to be exposed, pain can be caused by touching your teeth with hot or cold foods and beverages, or exposing them to cold air. Exposed areas of the tooth can cause pain and even affect or change your eating, drinking, and breathing habits. Taking a spoonful of ice cream, for example, can be a painful experience for people who have sensitive teeth. Tooth sensitivity is one of the most common complaints among dental patients. Some toothpastes contain abrasive ingredients that may be too harsh for people who have sensitive teeth. Tooth sensitivity can be reduced by using a desensitizing toothpaste; having your dentist apply sealants and other desensitizing and filling materials, including fluoride; and decreasing the intake of acid-containing foods.
If a tooth is highly sensitive for more than three or four days and reacts to hot and cold temperatures, it’s best to get a diagnostic evaluation from your dentist to determine the extent of the problem.
The main cause of bleeding gums is the buildup of plaque at the gum line. This will lead to a condition called gingivitis, or inflamed gums. Plaque that is not removed will harden into tartar. This will lead to increased bleeding and a more advanced form of gum and bone disease known as periodontitis. Bleeding gums can happen for a number of reasons, from gingivitis to a side effect of pregnancy. Changing your oral care routine can also make your gums bleed. We recommend brushing and flossing regularly and getting your semi annual dental visit in to stop your gums from bleeding. Certain medicines also increase the likelihood that your gums will bleed. If changing your oral care habits, adjusting your medications, and maintaining a healthy diet doesn’t help your gums stop bleeding, your next step should be to make a dental appointment.
Tooth decay, also known as a cavity, occurs when bacteria living in your mouth make acid that begins to eat away at your teeth. Untreated tooth decay may cause infection, extreme pain and the loss of tooth. The decay process begins with the unnoticeable damage to the enamel of your teeth and then steadily progresses to deeper layers of the tooth, eventually leading to the pulp. The pulp of your teeth contains highly-sensitive blood vessels and nerves. Proper oral hygiene includes brushing your teeth regularly, flossing regularly and brushing your tongue. If possible brush your teeth twice a day – morning and night.
The top causes of tooth decay include: Poor Oral Hygiene, Improper Nutrition, Sugary Foods, Acidic Foods and Drinks, Dry Mouth Issues, Tooth Grinding, Genetics, Age and Avoiding the Dentist.
If your tooth is broken, chipped, or fractured, see your dentist as soon as possible. Otherwise, your tooth could be damaged further or become infected, possibly causing you to end up losing the tooth.
Most dental problems don’t have any symptoms until they reach more advanced stages, so don’t wait for things to hurt! It is best to get a thorough dental exam, and diagnose and treat problems early. Waiting often makes problems more difficult and more expensive to fix.
One of the main causes in the permanent dentition are fights and sports injuries. Researchers have developed methods of saving most of these teeth. These knocked out teeth can often be re-implanted under favorable conditions. If the tooth can be replanted within minutes after the accident, there is a greater chance the tooth will be retained for life.
After the accident, the tooth should be located and picked up by the crown or enamel portion and NOT the root. If the tooth is dirty or contaminated, it should gently be rinsed with milk or water. Do not store the tooth in water.
It should be noted that if a primary (baby) tooth is knocked out, it should NOT be replanted as it could damage the permanent tooth bud in formation. Parents should NOT try to place the baby tooth back into the socket, and should immediately seek the advice and treatment of their dentist.
Gum disease begins when plaque adheres at and below the visible edge of your gums. If plaque is not removed every day by brushing and flossing, it hardens into tartar (also called calculus). Tartar promotes a bacterial infection at the point of attachment. In these early stages, gum disease is called gingivitis.
Your gums may be a bit red, but you may not notice anything. As gingivitis gets more serious, tiny pockets of infection form. Your gums may be puffy and may bleed a little when you brush, but it is not painful. Over time, the infection destroys the gum tissue. Eventually, you may be at risk of losing one or more teeth.
Prevention is the most important factor in the fight against gum disease. It is essential to keep your teeth and gums clean. Brush your teeth properly at least twice a day and floss at least once every 24 hours.
Using proper brushing and flossing techniques is equally important. Be sure to see your dentist regularly for professional cleaning and dental exams, so that he or she can detect any early signs of gum disease, and provide appropriate treatment.
If you have gum disease, getting rid of plaque and tartar gives your gums a chance to get better. That's why in the early stages of gum disease, the best treatment is:
Cleaning by your dental hygienist to remove built-up tartar, brushing twice a day to remove plaque and flossing once a day to remove plaque.
How often you go for dental exams depends on your oral health needs. The goal is to catch small problems early. For many people, this means a dental exam every six months. Your dentist may suggest that you visit more or less often depending on how well you care for your teeth and gums, problems you have that need to be checked or treated, how fast tartar builds up on your teeth, and so on.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Do I floss every day?
- Do I brush twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste and follow my dentist's instructions on how to brush properly?
- Do I eat a well-balanced diet, including food from all food groups, and limit sweets and sticky foods?
- Do I smoke?
- Do I have a history of cavities or gum disease?
- Is my overall health good?
The answers to these questions are all factors that affect your oral health. They will help you and your dentist decide how often you need to visit for dental exams. It's worth noting that you should not determine your need for dental care on what your dental plan covers.
It's important to get an early start on dental care, so that your child will learn that visiting the dentist is a regular part of health care. The first step is to choose a dentist for your child.
Canadian Dental association encourages the assessment of infants, by a dentist, within 6 months of the eruption of the first tooth or by one year of age.
It's important to make the first visit a positive experience for your child - one reason why it's best to visit before a problem develops. If you think there is a problem, however, take your child to the dentist right away, no matter what age.
If you are a nervous dental patient, ask your spouse or another family member to take the child for the appointment. If your child senses that you are nervous, he or she may feel nervous too. When you talk to your child about going to the dentist, explain what will happen without adding things like "it won't hurt" or "don't be scared."
Be sure to get an early start on regular dental care at home. Start cleaning your child's mouth with a soft damp cloth before teeth come in and continue with a soft toothbrush once he or she has a first tooth. Limit the number of sugary treats you give your child, and focus on healthy food choices from the very beginning.
How often you need to have x-rays also depends on your oral health. A healthy adult who has not had cavities or other problems for a couple of years probably won't need x-rays at every appointment. If your dental situation is less stable and your dentist is monitoring your progress, you may require more frequent x-rays.
If you are not sure why a particular x-ray is being taken, ask your dentist. Remember that dental x-rays deliver very little radiation; they are a vital tool for your dentist to ensure that small problems don't develop into bigger ones.
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the punishment into a mere natural or human chance, and that chance to the opportunity of a virtue, and that virtue to the occasion of a crown.
3. It is of great use for the securing of families, that every master of a family order his life so, that his piety and virtue be as communicative as is possible; that is, that he secure the religion of his whole family by a severe supravision and animadversion, and by cutting off all those unprofitable and hurtful branches which load the tree, and hinder the growth, and stock and disimprove the fruit, and revert evil juice to the very root itself. Calvisius Sabinus laid out vast sums of money upon his servants to stock his house with learned men; and brought one that could recite all Homer by heart, a second that was ready at Hesiod,--a third, at Pindar,—and for every of the lyrics, one; having this fancy, that all that learning was his own, and whatsoever his servants knew, made him so much the more skilful. It was noted in the man for a rich and prodigal folly: but if he had changed his instance, and brought none but virtuous servants into his house, he might better have reckoned his wealth upon their stock, and the piety of his family might have helped to bless him, and to have increased the treasure of his master's virtue. Every man that would either cut off the title of an old curse, or secure a blessing upon a new stock, must make virtue as large in the fountain as he can, that it may the sooner water all his relatives with fruitfulness and blessings. And this was one of the things that God noted in Abraham, and blessed his family for it, and his posterity: 'I know that Abraham will teach his sons to fear me.' When a man teaches his family to know and fear God, then he scatters a blessing round about his habitation. And this helps to illustrate the reason of the thing, as well as to prove its certainty. We hear it spoken in our books of religion, that the faith of the parents is imputed to their children to good purposes, and that a good husband sanctifies an ill wife, and 'a believing wife, an unbelieving husband;' and either of them makes the children to be sanctified, 'else they were unclean and unholy;' that is, the very designing children to the service of God is a sanctification of them; and therefore St. Jerome calls Christian children "candidatos fidei Christianæ.' And if this very designation of them makes them holy, that
is, acceptable to God, entitled to the promises, partakers of the covenant, within the condition of sons; much more shall it be effectual to greater blessings, when the parents take care that the children shall be actually pious, full of sobriety, full of religion; then it becomes a holy house, a chosen generation, and an elect family; and then there can no evil happen to them, but such which will bring them nearer to God: that is, no cross, but the cross of Christ; no misfortune, but that which shall lead them to felicity; and if any semblance of a curse happens in the generations, it is but like the anathema of a sacrifice; not an accursed, but a devoted thing: for so the sacrifice, upon whose neck the priest's knife doth fall, is so far from being accursed, that it helps to get a blessing to all that join in the oblation. So every misfortune, that shall discompose the ease of a pious and religious family, shall but make them fit to be presented unto God; and the rod of God shall be like the branches of fig-trees, bitter and sharp in themselves, but productive of most delicious fruit. No evil can curse the family whose stock is pious, and whose 'branches are holiness to the Lord.' If any leaf or any boughs shall fall untimely, God shall gather them up, and place them in his temple, or at the foot of his throne; and that family must needs be blessed, whom infelicity itself cannot make accursed.
4. If a curse be feared to descend upon a family for the fault of their ancestors, pious sons have yet another way to secure themselves, and to withdraw the curse from the family, or themselves from the curse; and that is, by doing some very great and illustrious act of piety, an action ‘in gradu heroico,' as Aristotle calls it, an heroical action.' If there should happen to be one martyr in a family, it would reconcile the whole kindred to God, and make him, who is more inclined to mercy than to severity, rather to be pleased with the relatives of the martyr, than to continue to be angry with the nephews of a deceased sinner. I cannot insist long upon this: but you may see it proved by one great instance in the case of Phineas, who killed an unclean prince, and turned the wrath of God from his people. He was zealous for God and for his countrymen, and did a heroical action of zeal: "Wherefore" (saith God)," Behold I give unto him my covenant of peace, and he shall have it, and his seed after him; even
the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel." Thus the sons of Rechab obtained the blessing of an enduring and blessed family, because they were most strict and religious observers of their father's precepts, and kept them after his death, and abstained from wine for ever; and no temptation could invite them to taste it; for they had as great reverence to their father's ashes, as, being children, they had to his rod and to his eyes. Thus a man may turn the wrath of God from his family, and secure a blessing for posterity, by doing some great noble acts of charity; or a remarkable chastity like that of Joseph; or an expensive, an affectionate religion and love to Christ and his servants, as Mary Magdalen did. Such things as these which are extraordinary egressions and transvolations beyond the ordinary course of an even piety, God loves to reward with an extraordinary favour; and gives them testimony by an extraregular blessing.
One thing more I have to add by way of advice; and that is, that all parents and fathers of families, from whose loins a blessing or a curse usually does descend, be very careful, not only generally in all the actions of our lives (for that I have already pressed), but particularly in the matter of repentance; that they be curious that they finish it, and do it thoroughly for there are certain voreρńμara μeravoíaç, “leavings of repentance,' which make that God's anger is taken from us so imperfectly: and although God, for his sake who died for us, will pardon a returning sinner, and bring him to heaven through tribulation and a fiery trial; yet,-when a man is weary of his sorrow, and his fastings are a load to him, and his sins are not so perfectly renounced, or hated as they ought, the parts of repentance, which are left unfinished, do sometimes fall upon the heads or upon the fortunes of the children. I do not say, this is regular and certain; but sometimes God deals thus: for this thing hath been so, and therefore it may be so again. We see it was done in the case of Ahab; he "humbled himself, and went softly, and lay in sackcloth," and called for pardon, and God took from him a judgment which was falling heavily upon him: but we all know his repentance was imperfect and lame: the same evil fell upon his sons; for so said God: "I will bring the evil
upon his house in his son's days." Leave no arrears for thy posterity to pay; but repent with an integral, a holy and excellent repentance, that God being reconciled to thee thoroughly, for thy sake also he may bless thy seed after thee.
And, after all this, add a continual, a fervent, a hearty, a never-ceasing prayer for thy children, ever remembering, when they beg a blessing, that God hath put much of their fortune into your hands; and a transient formal God bless thee,' will not outweigh the load of a great vice, and the curse which scatters from thee by virtual contact, and by the channels of relation, if thou beest a vicious person: nothing can issue from thy fountain but bitter waters. And, as it were a great impudence for a condemned traitor to beg of his injured prince a province for his son for his sake: so it is an ineffective blessing we give our children, when we beg for them what we have no title to for ourselves; nay, when we convey to them nothing but a curse. The prayer of a sinner, the unhallowed wish of a vicious parent, is but a poor donative to give to a child who sucked poison from his nurse, and derives cursing from his parents. They are punished with a doubled torture in the shame and pain of the damned, who, dying enemies to God, have left an inventory of sins and wrath to be divided amongst their children. But they that can truly give a blessing to their children, are such as live a blessed life, and pray holy prayers, and perform an integral repentance, and do separate from the sins of their progenitors, and do illustrious actions, and begin the blessing of their family upon a new stock. For as from the eyes of some persons there shoots forth an evil influence, and some have an evil eye, and are infectious, some look healthfully as a friendly planet, and innocent as flowers; and as some fancies convey private effects to confederate and allied bodies; and between the very vital spirits of friends and relatives there is a cognation, and they refresh each other like social plants; and a good man is a friend to every good man and (they say) that a usurer knows a usurer, and one rich man another, there being by the very manners of men contracted a similitude of nature, and a communication of effects: so in parents and their children there is so great a society of nature and of manners, of blessing and
i Διαμένει οὖν τούτων φιλία, ἕως ἂν ἀγαθοὶ ὦσιν· ἡ δ ̓ ἀρετὴ μόνιμον. Arist.
cursing, that an evil parent cannot perish in a single death; and holy parents never eat their meal of blessing alone, but they make the room shine like the fire of a holy sacrifice; and a father's or a mother's piety makes all the house festival and full of joy from generation to generation. Amen.
THE INVALIDITY OF A LATE OR DEATH-BED
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light (or, lest while ye look for light), he shall turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.— Jeremiah, xiii. 16.
GOD is the eternal fountain of honour and the spring of glory; in him it dwells essentially, from him it derives originally; and when an action is glorious, or a man is honourable, it is because the action is pleasing to God, in the relation of obedience or imitation, and because the man is honoured by God, and by God's vicegerent: and therefore, God cannot be dishonoured, because all honour comes from himself; he cannot but be glorified, because to be himself is to be infinitely glorious. And yet he is pleased to say, that our sins dishonour him, and our obedience does glorify him. But as the sun, the great eye of the world, prying into the recesses of rocks and the hollowness of valleys, receives species or visible forms from these objects, but he beholds them only by that light which proceeds from himself: so does God, who is the light of that eye; he receives reflexes and returns from us, and these he calls 'glorifications' of himself, but they are such which are made so by his own gracious acceptation. For God cannot be glorified by any thing but by himself, and by his own instruments, which he makes as mirrors to reflect his own excellency; that by seeing the glory of | <urn:uuid:4fa08ffb-c6e8-4a73-931d-58d6fadde9a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.ad/books?id=iUc7kuFlwVAC&pg=PA462&vq=%22beware+of+him,+and+obey+his+voice%3B+provoke+him+not,+for+he+will+not%22&dq=editions:OXFORD590230206&lr=&hl=ca&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979534 | 2,688 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Did you just happen to be sitting beside your boyfriend when his phone lit up and it was a text from his ex? If you’re like me, your mind suddenly panics, “my boyfriend still talks to his ex should I be worried?”
Admittedly, it would leave you a bit concerned and uncomfortable. You probably even had one of your panicked, twisted chain reaction thoughts and wondered what the two of them were up to.
However, the plain fact that your boyfriend still talks to his ex might not be a bad thing. Sometimes it suggests a healthy way of dealing with personal realities.
And let’s be honest for a second: If your boyfriend was the kind of guy who struggles to get a girlfriend in the first place, you’d probably never have been attracted to him to start with.
While your past relationships might have ended on a sour note, his might have been perfectly cordial and mutual, leaving no reason for detachment.
So before you overreact, there are a few things to consider, and being rational about the situation might be the best way to go about it.
Try running it through a step-by-step process before losing your mind over the lack of knowledge regarding their conversations.
1. Don’t Overreact
The first and most important step is to remain calm. Don’t overthink the situation at hand. Even if you can’t help thinking about it, at least keep a hold on your reactions.
Things will only get worse if you have a mini-outburst and say something unnecessary before truly knowing what’s going on between them.
Maybe they’re just catching up after a while; maybe it’s just friendly and harmless small talk.
Whatever it is, you will certainly put yourself in a precarious position if you overreact.
2. Have an Open Conversation
Addressing the situation openly and neutrally might be the best start to understanding what’s going on. Make your feelings about it heard, but don’t limit the conversation to that.
There are always two sides to a story, and knowing both sides is important.
The chances of knowing his honest opinion on the matter are low if you don’t have an open and honest conversation about their relations, how often they talk, and other major details.
3. Gauge His Reaction
Most concerns about these situations arise from doubts about whether or not your boyfriend still has feelings for her.
You can gather insights about this by his initial reaction to your concerns – is he awkward and trying to avoid a conversation or is he being casual and carefree with his response?
Ideally, your boyfriend broke up with her. It was his decision and he was certain about it. If that is the case, you take his word for it and leave it at that.
Even if that isn’t the case, time heals a lot of wounds. It could be that she just reminds him of everything that was wrong with his life, or just that he has grown over the whole fiasco.
If he’s not over her and still thinks about her, his initial reaction to the matter will certainly give you a hint.
If he tries being tight-lipped about it and does not delve into how he feels about the whole situation, you might get an idea that he still has some feelings for her.
4. Understand His Side
Asking him to open up about his breakup might work well for the both of you. It might put a lot of your doubts to bed while also showing him that you aren’t averse to talking about uncomfortable things in his life.
Selfish motives left aside, such a conversation can also lead to understanding why he actually talks to her.
It could just be irregular small talk. Maybe they broke up because he wasn’t physically attracted to her anymore. People change and their preferences evolve.
On the flip side, if there seems to be no reason for them to talk, and there is a regular exchange of texts, snaps and calls, things might look a bit worrisome.
Without being excessively intrusive, knowing why he talks to her will help you understand his reasoning behind it, and therefore help you make an informed decision about your feelings regarding the matter.
5. Make Him Understand Your Side
Once you understand how he feels about her and where she stands in his life, the next step is to make him understand how you feel about it.
While you might not want to come out with everything you feel about him talking to her, a brief insight into your thinking might be a good precedent to see how he reacts.
This might take a week or two, but you will know if he really cares about how you feel or if he finds it important to maintain his equation with his ex. If she doesn’t matter in his life as much as you do, he will certainly respect your feelings and act accordingly.
If he is unwilling to change his ways to make you feel a bit more comfortable, it’s another sign that he cannot do without talking to her.
This type of a conversation also serves as a chance you’re giving him to figure out his relationship to her. A lack of a reaction sometimes helps understand a person’s true feelings toward something.
Once you have been through all these steps, you have done two things: been rational and patient about the process and given him enough time and space to address the situation.
By this time, you also know if there is a cause for concern.
Ideally, he explained where she stands in his life and it does not come in the way of your relationship whatsoever. He has moved on and you are the most important thing in his life.
If that is not the case, you’ve given him enough space to have a conversation with you about it. You’ve also given him enough time to change his ways while spelling out how it affects you.
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of the flesh, incentives and arguments to sin; therefore both of them are punished, as being guilty by consociation.' But then thus it was also before the fall for by this it was that Adam fell. So the same Prudentius :
Hæc prima est natura animæ, sic condita simplex
The soul was created simple and pure, but fell into vice by the evil combination with the flesh.' But at first the appetites, and necessities, and tendencies, of the body, when it was at ease, and health, and blessed, did yet tempt the soul to forbidden instances; much more will this be done, when the body is miserable and afflicted, uneasy and dying. For even now we see, by a sad experience, that the afflicted and the miserable are not only apt to anger and envy, but have many more desires, and more weaknesses, and consequently more aptnesses to sin in many instances, than those who are less troubled. And this is that which was said by Arnobius, "Proni ad culpas, et ad libidinis varios appetitus vitio sumus infirmitatis ingenitæ:""By the fault of our natural infirmity, we are prone to the appetites of lust and sins d."
7. From hence it follows, that naturally a man cannot do or perform the law of God; because being so weak, so tempted by his body; and this life being the body's day, that is, the time in which its appetites are properly prevailing; to be born of Adam, is to be born under sin, that is, under such, inclinations to it, that as no man will remain innocent, so no man can of himself keep the law of God; " Vendidit se prior, ac, per hoc, omne semen subjectum est peccato. Quamobrem, infirmum esse hominem ad præcepta legis servanda;" said the author of the commentary on St. Paul's epistles usually attributed to St. Ambrose".
But beyond this there are two things more considerable; the one is, that the soul of man being divested by Adam's fall, by way of punishment, of all those supernatural assistances, which God put into it; that which remained was a reasonable soul, fitted for the actions of life and of reason, but not of any thing that was supernatural. For the soul, being immerged in flesh, feeling grief by participation of evils from the flesh, hath and must needs have discourses in
d Lib, 1. advers. Gentes.
e In cap. 7. Rom.
order to its own ease and comfort, that is in order to the satisfaction of the body's desires; which, because they are often contradicted, restrained, and curbed, and commanded to be mortified and killed, by the laws of God, must of necessity make great inlets for sin; for while reason judges of things in proportion to present interests, and is less apprehensive of the proportions of those good things which are not the good things of this life, but of another; the reason abuses the will as the flesh abuses the reason, And for this there is no remedy but the grace of God, the Holy Spirit, to make us be born again, to become spiritual; that is, to have new principles, new appetites, and new interests.
The other thing I was to note is this; that as the devil was busy to abuse mankind, when he was fortified by many advantages and favours from God so now that man is naturally born naked, and divested of those graces and advantages, and hath an infirm sickly body, and enters upon the actions of life through infancy, and childhood, and youth, and folly, and ignorance; the devil, it is certain, will not omit his opportunities, but will with all his power possess and abuse mankind; and upon the apprehension of this, the primitive church used, in the first admission of infants to the entrance of a new birth to a spiritual life, to pray against the power and frauds of the devil; and that brought in the ceremony of exsufflation, for ejecting of the devil. The ceremony was fond and weak, but the opinion that introduced it was full of caution and prudence. For as Optatus Milevitanus said, "Neminem fugit, quod omnis homo qui nascitur, quamvis de Christianis parentibus nascitur, sine spiritu immundo esse non possit ; quem necesse sit, ante salutare lavacrum, ab homine excludi ac separari f." It is but too likely the devil will take advantages of our natural weaknesses, and with his temptations and abuses enter upon children as soon as they enter upon choice, and indeed prepossess them with imitating follies, that may become customs of sinfulness before they become sins; and therefore with rare wisdom it was done by the church, to prevent the devil's frauds and violences, by an early baptism, and early offices.
8. As a consequent of all this, it comes to pass, that we being born thus naked of the divine grace, thus naturally
f Lib. 4. contr. Parmen.
weak, thus encumbered with a body of sin, that is, a body apt to tempt to forbidden instances, and thus assaulted by the frauds and violences of the devil; all which are helped on by the evil guises of the world, it is certain, we cannot with all these disadvantages aad loads soar up to heaven; but, in the whole constitution of affairs, are in sad dispositions to enter into the devil's portion, and go to hell: not that if we die before we consent to evil, we shall perish; but that we are evilly disposed to do actions that will deserve it, and because if we die before our new birth, we have nothing in us that can, according to the revelations of God, dispose us to heaven; according to these words of the Apostle; "In me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing ""
But this infers not, that in our flesh, or that in our soul, there is any sin properly inherent, which makes God to be our present enemy; that is, the only or the principal thing I suppose myself to have so much reason to deny ; but that the state of the body is a state not at all fitted for heaven, but too much disposed to the ways that lead to hell. For even in innocent persons, in Christ himself it was a hinderance or a state of present exclusion from heaven; "he could not enter into the second tabernacle" (that is, into heaven), "so long as the first tabernacle of his body was standing;" the body of sin, that is, of infirmity, he was first to lay aside, and so by dying unto sin once, he entered into heaven; according to the other words of St. Paul," Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God"," it is a state of differing nature and capacity; Christ himself could not enter thither, till he had first laid that down, as the divine author to the Hebrews rarely and mysteriously discourses.
9. This is the whole sum of original sin, which now I have more fully explicated than formerly; it being then only fitting to speak of so much of it, as to represent it to be a state of evil, which yet left in us powers enough to do our duty, and to be without excuse (which very thing the Belgic confession in this article acknowledges), and that not God but ourselves are authors of our eternal death in case we do perish.
But now though thus far I have admitted as far as can be consonant to antiquity, and not unreasonable, though in
Rom, vii. 18.
h 1 Cor. xv. 50.
i Heb. ix. 8. vii. 27. v. 2, 3.
Scripture so much is not expressed; yet now I must be more restrained, and deny those superadditions to this doctrine, which the ignorance, or the fancy, or the interest, or the laziness, of men have sewed to this doctrine.
Adam's Sin is in us no more than an imputed Sin, and how it is so.
10. ORIGINAL sin is not our sin properly, not inherent in us, but is only imputed to us, so as to bring evil effects upon us: for that which is inherent in us, is a consequent only of Adam's sin, but of itself no sin; for there being but two things affirmed to be the constituent parts of original sin, the want of original righteousness, and concupiscence, neither of these can be a sin in us, but a punishment and a consequent of Adam's sin they may be for the case is thus:
One half of Christians that dispute in this article, particularly the Roman schools, say, that concupiscence is not a sin, but a consequent of Adam's sin: the other half of Christians (I mean in Europe), that is, the protestants, generally say, that the want of original righteousness is a consequent of Adam's sin, but formally no sin. The effect of these is this, that it is not certain amongst the churches, that either one or the other is formally our sin, or inherent in us; and we cannot affirm either, without crossing a great part of Christendom in their affirmative.
There have indeed been attempts made to reconcile this difference; and therefore in the conference at Worms, and in the book offered at Ratisbon to the emperor, and in the Interim' itself they jumbled them both together, “saying, Originale peccatum est carentia justitiæ originalis, cum concupiscentiâ." But the church of England defines neither, but rather inclines to believe that it consists in concupiscence, as appears in the explication of the article which I have annexed. But because she hath not determined, that either of them is formally a sin, or inherent in us, I may with the greater freedom, discourse concerning the several parts.
The want of original righteousness is not a thing, but the privation of a thing, and therefore cannot be inherent in us; and therefore if it be a sin at all to us, it can only be such by imputation. But neither can this be imputed to us as a sin formally, because, if it be at all, it is only a consequent or punishment of Adam's sin, and unavoidable by us: for though Scotus is pleased to affirm, that there was an obligation upon human nature, to preserve it; I doubt not but as he intended it, he said false. Adam indeed was tied to it, for if he lost it for himself and us, then he only was bound to keep it for himself and us; for we could not be obliged to keep it, unless we had received it; but he was, and because he lost it, we also missed it; that is, are punished, and feel the evil effects of it. But besides all this, the matter of original righteousness is a thing framed in the schoolforges, but not at all spoken of in Scripture, save only that "God made man upright,' that is, he was brought innocent into the world, he brought no sin along with him, he was created in the time and stature of reason and choice; he entered upon action when his reason was great enough to master his passion, all which we do not: it is that which, as Prosper describes it, made a man 'expertem peccati, et capacem Dei ;' for by this is meant that he had grace and helps enough, if he needed any, besides his natural powers; which we have not by nature, but by another dispensation.
11. Add to all this, that they who make the want of original righteousness to be a sin formally in us, when they come to explicate their meaning by material or intelligible events, tell us it is an aversion from God; that is, in effect a turning to the creature, and differs no otherwise from concupiscence, than going from the west directly does from going directly to the east; that is, just nothing. It follows then, that if concupiscence be the effect of Adam's sin, then so must the want of original righteousness, because they are the same thing in real event: and if that be no sin in us, because it was only the punishment of his sin, then neither is the other a sin, for the same reason.
But then for concupiscence, that this is no sin, before we consent to it, appears by many testimonies of antiquity, and of St. Austin himself: "Quantum ad nos attinet, sine peccato semper essemus, donec sanaretur hoc malum, si nunquàm | <urn:uuid:53f4a4fa-3951-46a2-876c-d122e5e4f33b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.il/books?id=ryq8WovDFOIC&pg=PA80&focus=viewport&vq=%22Sin,+taking+occasion+by+the+commandment,+wrought+in+me+all+manner+of%22&dq=editions:HARVARDHH1D1C&lr=&hl=iw&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968282 | 2,757 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Watch Out! Your Epidermis is Exposed!
Skin Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention
If you work in an office, you know the feeling of longing to be outside on a beautiful day. If you work outside every day, however, you may have the desire to be in air conditioning, away from the heat of the sun. The sun’s heat may support the existence of life on Earth. However, too much sunlight can cause skin cancer–if you work outside for your career, or you’re generally outside often, you understand the risks associated with too much sunlight. On one hand, you’re effortlessly getting your fix of Vitamin D. On the other hand; there’s a fine line between just enough and too much sunlight.
Are you at a high risk for developing skin cancer? According to cancercenter.com, the following risk factors may elevate your risk for skin cancer.
1. Age. Over time, the accumulation of UV exposure increases your risk. The older you are, the more time you’ve spent in the sun–which puts you at a higher risk of skin cancer.
2. Gender. Men face double the risk that women have to develop certain skin cancers.
3. Skin, hair, and eye color. Colored eyes (blue and green), red or blonde hair, and extremely pale skin are factors that increase your risk.
5. Genetics. Family history of certain cancers and other skin diseases may increase your risk.
6. Smoking. Being a smoker can increase your risk of more than one type of cancer.
7. Chemical exposure. Exposure to certain chemicals puts you at a higher risk of skin cancer. If your job requires that you work with specific chemicals, you should be aware of your increased risk.
8. Lifestyle. Outdoor laborers and tanning bed users are at a higher risk for skin cancer.
Regardless of your risk factors, sun exposure should be taken very seriously. Take preventative measures to protect yourself from skin cancer.
➢ If your career does not require that you wear a hard hat, wear a hat to protect your face from sunlight when exposed to UV rays for twenty minutes or more.
➢ Employees are entitled to safety in the workplace. When possible, use a tarp or umbrella to defend yourself against harmful sun rays.
➢ Long hours spent in the sunshine can cause serious strain on your eyes. Don’t forget sunglasses to protect your vision!
➢ Clothing provides additional protection from the sunlight. Wear light cotton fabric or linen to keep cool and protect yourself at the same time.
➢ As you know, sunscreen is considered the most effective shield against harmful UV rays. However, for sunscreen to fulfill its purpose, you must remember to reapply hourly.
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Liopropoma incandescens is a smoking hot new species of basslet from one of our absolute favorited groups of marine fish, the Liopropoma. Like so many of its congeners this new species of Liopropoma wasnot just swimming around on some shallow reefs waiting for normal divers to discover it.
In a story that is becoming quite familiar, deep diving specialists Brian Greene, Luiz Rocha & Co dove to bone crushing depths of over 400 feet to collect just one lonely specimen as the holotype for this new species. We’d say the dive was worth it because the gorgeous new incandescent basslet is glistening with beautiful colors.
Liopropoma incandescens has a salmon pink body, yellow accents in the unpaired fins and a degree of lightly defined yellow markings on the face and top of the body. This color scheme together with the small black tail spots edged in blue is highly reminiscent of the Caribbean cave basslet, Liopropoma mowbrayi, its Atlantic twin.
The single holotype collected has a modest length of just 54 mm or about two inches but another large individual approximately 10cm/4 inches long was also observed in the vicinity, so we can expect to see larger examples of this species. That’s a big IF because the likelihood of deep diving collection of ornamental fish in this part of the world is incredibly unlikely, but in the meantime we look forward to at least seeing what this fish looks like at an adult size. [ZooKeys] | <urn:uuid:cefcf410-d1e4-4be3-ac8a-43d5f5aac955> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reefbuilders.com/2019/07/16/liopropoma-incandescens-is-a-brilliant-new-species-of-basslet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927583 | 319 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Lockdown in Havering: Covid-19 cases still rising every week
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Covid-19 cases in Havering have risen by a minimum of 21 per cent every week since mid-September, according to the latest government data.
Figures published the day before a planned second national lockdown showed that whilst measures like the “rule of six” and the regional tiered system had been followed by reductions in the spread, cases had nonetheless continued to rise.
In the most recent full week of data – the seven days up to Thursday, October 29 – cases increased in Havering by 21.4 per cent.
On October 29, there were 482 confirmed cases in the borough, giving an infection rate of 185.7 cases per 100,000 people.
On Monday, October 26, Havering registered its highest ever number of new cases in one day – 96.
But overall, the figures suggested successive measures had had an impact in Havering – just not quite enough.
Between mid-September and early October, cases were rising by up to 57pc per week.
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The “rule of six” was introduced in mid-September, but Covid-19’s incubation period means it takes two or three weeks to see the results.
By mid-October, Havering’s rate of spread had reduced by roughly two-fifths - but cases were still rising each week by between 29 and 30pc.
At that time, government introduced regional, tiered measures. Two weeks later, in the week up to October 29, the rate of spread dropped by roughly another third.
However, cases still rose by 21.4pc and parts of the borough now had infection rates comparable to much of the north-west and the midlands.
The government has a seven-tier scale for measuring how severe an area’s infection rate is, based on cases per 100,000 people.
In communities with fewer than 100,000 people, infection rates are converted into an equivalent of per 100,000 so they can be objectively compared.
Havering’s latest figure of 185.7 puts it at the top end of the third-worst category, but if cases have continued growing at the same rate then it will soon enter the second-worst category.
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Smart home systems are revolutionizing entertainment and convenience. They also contain loads of personal information that make them popular targets for cybercriminals. However, those who understand smart home security threats and the risks associated with them can plan accordingly. Then, these individuals can ensure their smart home devices are properly protected.
5 Smart Home Security Threats You Need to Know About
Research indicates a smart home equipped with multiple internet-connected devices could be exposed to more than 12,000 hacking or unknown scanning attacks weekly. Meanwhile, the global smart home market is growing. As more people purchase smart devices for their houses, expect the number of smart home cyberattacks to increase.
You cannot stop smart home cyberattacks, but you can learn about common smart home security threats and how to stop them. That way, you’ll be well-equipped to keep your smart home system secure.
Now, let’s look at five common smart home security threats and how to counter them.
1. Identity Theft
Cybercriminals can attack a smart device company. If successful, hackers can gain access to personal information from all of the company’s smart device users. From here, they can use this information to steal your identity.
When you set up a smart device, share minimal personal information. If the company that supplies the device is breached, you can limit the risk that hackers can access and use your personal information for malicious activities.
If a smart device company reports a data breach, follow the business’ instructions to respond to the incident. In many instances, a company will offer free credit monitoring services after a data breach.
2. Location Tracking
Smart home devices are designed to protect your personal information. Yet, there can be times when a smart device makes your home easily accessible. In these instances, cybercriminals can spy on you and track your location.
To guard against location tracking, set up a separate network for your smart home devices. This network can help you hide your home address from cybercriminals. You can use the network for all of your smart home devices, regardless of whether multiple family members use them or you live alone.
Additionally, watch for phishing attacks across your smart home devices. Cybercriminals have previously used phishing attacks to target Amazon Alexa and Google Home users. Keep an eye out for suspicious email messages relating to smart home devices. If you don’t know the sender or have concerns about an email’s safety, do not click on any links or download attachments within the message. Otherwise, you risk launching dangerous software that can penetrate your smart home devices and provide hackers with access to your home address and other personal information.
3. Home Intrusion
Smart home locks, surveillance cameras, and other security devices can help you live safely. Conversely, these security devices are susceptible to cyberattacks. If breached, hackers can deactivate these devices. Cybercriminals can then burglarize your home or let accomplices do it for them. They may be able to lock you out of your home, too.
It helps to install a security alarm and door braces in conjunction with smart security devices. This ensures you can consistently guard against home intrusions, even if your smart security devices are breached.
4. Unpatched or Outdated Software
Software for smart home devices must be updated frequently. Failure to update this software can create security gaps that cybercriminals can use to penetrate smart devices.
Install the most up-to-date smart home device security patches. You can set up automatic security updates for most smart home devices. You can also sign up for email or text alerts from smart home device companies, so you can receive ongoing notifications about software updates.
5. Third-Party App Security Vulnerabilities
You can use third-party apps to control your smart home devices from your smartphone or tablet. You must give your authorization to use a smart home app on your mobile device. And if your smartphone or tablet falls into the wrong hands, anyone may be able to use it to control your smart home devices.
Use only authorized smart home device apps. Furthermore, with each smart home device app, set up separate permissions to perform different functions.
Additional Smart Home Security Factors to Consider
If you are considering smart home devices or already use them, prioritize security. In doing so, you can find the best ways to protect against current and emerging smart home security threats.
Typically, it helps to build and maintain a smart home security strategy. As you craft this plan, consider where you live and the security risks you face.
Of course, you need to evaluate how you’ll use your smart home devices. For instance, you may purchase smart home devices to protect your home during the summer storm season. On the other hand, you may buy smart home devices to help you maintain your landscaping. But with every smart home device you purchase, you need to secure it.
Finally, watch the smart home device market. Artificial intelligence and other new technologies are enhancing smart home security. Learn about these technologies, and you may be able to use them to secure your smart home like never before.
Security remains an integral part of smart home devices. Take security seriously, and you can reap the full benefits of your smart home system.
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“In the exercise of His will He gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
Know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all filthiness and all that remains of wickedness, in humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls.” (James 1:18-21 NASB)
Startling amount of resistance in the church to taking personal responsibility concerning Jesus’ call to repentance. “Acknowledge Him is all it takes to secure your place in heaven.” Deceivers denying the power of God in their own lives belittle God’s call to holiness and the sanctifying work of the Spirit. (1 Peter 1:2)
Resisters say, “faith is repentance and works deny faith.” Appearing godly, they challenge God’s expectations with their worldly morality and human excuses. How little they understand God’s ways, nor do they fear Him. What value has repentance when refusing to obey the One whom they say they believe?? “Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?” (Romans 6:16 NASB)
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LAHORE: Severe heat wave has impacted the vegetation, water resources and most importantly the livestock in the Cholistan region, said sources from Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD).
According to sources, the severe heat wave had also triggered the evapotranspiration by 1.5 mm/day to 3.5 mm/day, which impacted the soil moisture, water table/resources and vegetation in the region.
They said the high temperature had also caused heat stress which affected livestock mortality. Furthermore, they added, high variation in the daily diurnal temperature increased the probability of high mortality in grazing cattle.
PMD sources have further pointed out that the heat wave has also enhanced the probability of the drought emergence in the Cholistan region.
Director PMD Shahid Abbas pointed out that the ongoing attention of the government agencies towards the area has brought the severity of loss down in the Cholistan region. Also, he said, a number of non-government organisations have become active to help out the residents of the region, which has also played the due role in controlling the situation.
It may be noted that a number of NGOs have displayed banners in the city, urging the citizens to contribute financially to bring the Cholistan region out of the severity.
The banners under the tag of “Cholistan Emergency Relief” have displayed rates of cooked rice, water tanks, taps and essential foods for the citizens. Also, Alkhidmat Foundation of Jamat-e-Islami was active in supplying essential goods to the residents of the region and head of the party has also visited the area recently.
The catastrophe caused by the severe heat wave in Cholistan had impacted the water reservoirs, vegetation and livestock badly. Due to abnormal increases in daily maximum temperature, the heat stress situations had arisen in the region.
The Cholistan comprises three districts, namely Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, and Rahim Yar Khan. The total area of Cholistan is 6,655,360 acres and the largest area of Cholistan is present in Bahawalpur, which is 4,028,217 acres. The length of Cholistan is 480 km and the width ranges from 32 to 192 km. The human population of Cholistan is 155,000 whereas the livestock population is 1,318,000 while the livestock is mostly consisting of camels, sheep, goats and Cholistani Cattle.
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BOSC (the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) is normally part of ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology), but for the first time this year, it teamed up with The Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) instead. For us, this presented an exciting opportunity – like a regular BOSC but with the added bonus of training days and the chance to interact with Galaxy contributors during the CollaborationFest hackathon (and the rest of the conference too).
Our agenda at the conference ended up being quite full:
We delivered a training session on the 26th of June: Handling integrated biological data using Python (or R) and InterMine. Leyla Ruzicka from ZFIN was kind enough to travel up from Eugene to Portland, to help us deliver the UI portion of the training. Once we’d familiarised users with how InterMine worked a little bit, Daniela introduced the API side of things, and then we spent the remainder of the session working through a series of exercises in Jupyter notebooks, live-coding on a projector so others could learn about our code and follow along themselves.
While we did recommend to people that they try to install the InterMine Python client, we also managed to work around the issue for anyone who didn’t have things installed, thanks to binder. You can still see the tutorial exercise notebooks and work through them, and we have the same set of notebooks with answers if you get stuck or need a hint. This was the first time we worked through the exercises interactively onscreen this way, but it seemed to work well! I’m hopeful we can continue providing the API portion of our tutorial this way in the future.
We had planned to do an R section, but actually ran out of time to do this – the tutorial was about two and a half hours in total. If an R tutorial is something of interest in the future though, please do let us know! You can do this via comments on this article, twitter, pop by chat.intermine.org, or email us at info – at – intermine – dot – org.
InterMine 2.0: More than fifteen years of open biological data integration
[Slides link] We were very pleased to have a talk accepted as well as the training, giving us a chance to introduce InterMine to others and talk about its history. While I was talking I mentioned that we were ranking at just under 300 stars on our main GitHub repo, and the audience kindly help bump it up and over 300!
One of the topics I focused on during the talk included a massive thanks to all of the work our broader community does to help keep InterMine become and remain a great resource. Afterwards, Lorena Pantano raised the question: how do you get others to adopt your work and contribute to it?
Personally, I’ve been working at InterMine for three years now, so I certainly can’t attest to the entirely of the history – much of this is doubtless down to the team’s great work and Gos’s great vision (and grant writing!) – but I also think one of the most important parts is probably down to making it easy for others to use your work: good developer docs, tickets that explain issues clearly, help documentation for end-users, etc. I’d love to hear more thoughts about this in the comments!
Birds of a Feather sessions
Daniela and Yo both ran separate Birds of a Feather unconference-style sessions over lunch. Yo’s BoF focused on getting (and keeping) more open source contributors – Nicole Vasilevsky was kind enough to keep notes for this session. Thanks, Nicole!
Meanwhile Daniela shared the InterMine approach to implement stable and persistent URIs and the possible related issues, inspired by other data integrators and the lessons learnt in the Identifiers for the 21st century paper; some attendees have also contributed providing their own solutions.
During the CollaborationFest hackathon, Daniela and Yo were able to complete (yeahhhh!!) the integration between Galaxy and InterMine thanks to invaluable help of Daniel Blankenberg.
On the next Galaxy release, the new InterMine plugin will be available and will allow to import data (from InterMine) into Galaxy and export lists of identifiers (e.g. proteins, genes) from Galaxy (into InterMine) by selecting the mine instance from the InterMine registry. Watch this space – we’ll hopefully arrange to get some details on the Galaxy training network to explain how to run the data imports in each direction. | <urn:uuid:3fa8897e-2aad-4230-a21e-c7d75f52a0a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intermineorg.wordpress.com/tag/bosc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94858 | 951 | 1.5625 | 2 |
21 Dec 2005-14 May 2006. The wonders of ancient Egypt are on show at the Centro de Exposiciones Arte Canal in a two-part exhibition including 120 pieces on loan from the Cairo Museum. The first section features a 3D film made by British Museum experts allowing visitors to make a virtual voyage inside a 2,800 year-old mummy, the priest Nesperennub. Seven rooms house the second part of the exhibition, focussing on the pharaohs and their history (A1), the images of the king (A2), the pharaoh as intermediary between gods and man (A3), the pharaoh as guardian of the world (A4), the pharaohs property in Egypt (A5), the pharaohs palace (A6) and the death of the pharaoh (A7). Admission: combined film and exhibition 6, concessions 4, under 6s free. Film or exhibition only 3, concessions 2. Tues-Sun 10.00-21.00, Thurs 10.00-24.00, Mon 10.00-18.00.
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Less than half of Utah undergrads finish in 6 years
SALT LAKE CITY – Less than half of students who enroll in Utah’s colleges and universities finish bachelor’s degrees within six years, but that’s not simply because a significant portion of the state’s young people go on missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Avoiding student debt could be one factor in the state’s below-average college graduation rate, according to a report released this week.
Students who leave for missionary work are generally excluded from federal calculations that put Utah’s graduation rate at about 47 percent, according to the Utah Foundation, a state think tank.
That’s lower than the national average, and not finishing college is costly for both students and for the state, which spent about $67 million from 2003 to 2008 on students who enrolled but didn’t come back for a second year, according to the report released last week titled “Steps Forward in Higher Ed.”
About 15 percent of Utah students who started in 2004 interrupted their studies to serve two-year missions for the Utah-based LDS church, and that does play a big role in Utah’s college landscape. Students who start school after missions are more likely to be married and have families, and juggling those competing demands is tough.
“It never gets easier, the older you get,” said Dave Buher, Utah commissioner of higher education. But it’s worth the time: People with a college degree earn significantly more money over their working lives, and the gap between those with high school and secondary degrees has only grown wider over the last generation, the report states.
Balancing family and school isn’t the only thing stretching out college careers. Utah has one of the country’s lowest percentages of residents with student debt, and not because the state has relatively low tuition, said Shawn Teigen, research director on the report.
“Maybe it’s a cultural thing. We want to pay for school as well as go and not incur debt,” he said. But with tuition on the rise and states, including Utah, increasingly shifting the cost of a public education to students, it’s hard to work through school.
“Time is the enemy of graduating,” said Teigen. Avoiding debt too much can put a degree and its potential for higher earnings out of reach.
The report calls on college administrators to define a specific path to graduation, and asks lawmakers to consider offering extra funding to schools who hit graduation-rate targets.
But the state’s graduation rates do improve over a longer eight-year time frame, showing a different path to a diploma doesn’t mean graduation is out of reach.
South Jordan resident Elizabeth Cantiberos started school at 19 but put her studies on the back burner to get married and become a mother.
After her marriage ended, though, she needed a degree.
“I didn’t realize how fast time slips away,” she said.
Now 31, Cantiberos finished her welding degree at Weber State University in December, and got a job before she graduated.
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Recommended is an introduction to Social and Organisational Psychology.
The aim of this course is to give students insight into the social psychological processes that play a role in the field of work and organizations with regard to culture and diversity. The world of people in organizations has changed dramatically in past years as more ethnic minorities are entering the labour force and as women are moving into traditionally male-dominated fields and into higher managerial positions. Organizations are also increasingly operating on a global scale, managing workforces consisting of many nationalities and in different countries. In the coming decades this diversity is expected to grow as these processes continue.
This course provides insight into classic and current theories and research regarding the impact of diversity on group processes, motivation and performance. It pays particular attention to the challenges that are presented by a diverse labour force in recruitment and selection, evaluation, leadership, and decision-making. It also addresses how stereotypes and prejudice can influence personnel decisions and career development; how group composition affects team work and how motivation is impacted by group processes.
By the end of the course students will be expected to understand the key concepts and theories presented in the course and their relationship to each other, and are expected to be able to apply these to issues relevant to culture and diversity at work.
Culture and Diversity at Work (2010-2011):
Mode of instruction
The course will consist of a series of six lectures.
Students’ understanding and ability to apply the knowledge acquired in class will be tested in a 40-item multiple choice exam. The information presented in lectures will be part of the exam material.
From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please see the information concerning fraud .
Information on blackboard.leidenuniv.nl:
The syllabus for this course.
The class literature.
Sheets for each lecture (available just before each lecture commences).
A document with links and descriptions of websites where you can find more information and documents relevant to Culture and Diversity at Work.
A document with referrals to literature relevant to Culture and Diversity at Work.
The literature for the course consists of current and classic literature regarding social psychological processes relevant to Culture and Diversity at Work. The assigned papers and chapters will be made available through Blackboard.
Enrolment for study activities of courses of the first semester will take place from 7 July till 30 August 2010. Introduction and enrolment for courses of the second semester will take place in January 2011. More information will be available at the website of the Institute of Psychology.
NB: Exam registration will take place via uSis, and will be open between a month and a week before the (re)exam. Students who haven’t registered, cannot participate in the exam.
Dr. Colette van Laar
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|Title||The gravitational potential of X-ray Faint Eliptical Galaxy IC1459|
|Author||Dr Yasushi Fukazawa|
|Description||We found that the gravitational potential of X-ray bright elliptical galaxies generally consists of two components; a small-scale galaxy component and a largely extended component beyond galaxy scale. On the other hand, X-ray faint elliptical galaxies seem to possess only the galaxy-component. If it is true, elliptical galaxies must be classified into two types by only X-ray observations, and it becomes important for the study of the evolution of elliptical galaxies. In order to confirm this, we propose to observe an X-ray faint elliptical galaxy IC1459 with Newton.|
|Publication||No observations found associated with the current proposal|
|Instrument||EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2|
|Mission Description||The European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESA's second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations.
Since Earth's atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis.
|Publisher And Registrant||European Space Agency|
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Greetings to all. See you again this time to continue our discussion on simple tips for managing home maintenance and cleaning. During the school holidays, inviting children to participate in house cleaning activities is one of the recommended practices. Not only in the house, even gardening activities are also suitable to fill your child’s time as well as bring them closer to nature.
Replace Your Furnace Filter
Located usually to the side of your furnace is a filter that helps capture dust, germs and debris, stopping them from circulating around your home. When these filters are clogged and dirty, they not only stop filtering the air, they make it harder for your furnace to do its job. Pull out the current filter and take it with you to the center of the house the first time you replace it. This will allow you to get the right type for your furnace and make sure it fits properly. Take the time to replace them at least quarterly, or as recommended by your furnace manufacturer.
Clean Your Water Conditioning Condenser
If you have a central air conditioner, your air conditioning condenser can be home to a lot of leaves, dirt and other debris. This can prevent it from condensing properly, leaving too much moisture in the air, which then leaves your home feeling overheated. Did you know, there are some tips you need to know so that the aircond lasts longer and incurs less maintenance costs.
You will save on aircon maintenance costs while saving your pocket.
Vacuum Dryers Your Duct Exhaust
The ducts that run from the back of your clothes dryer to the holes that leave your home can become clogged with absorption over time. Slightly damp linen can cling to the interior of the channel, building up so that it cannot leave efficiently. This can be a fire hazard if the fiber build up becomes hot enough.
Once a year, disconnect the exhaust duct from the vent and drain the inside. Look at the channel as you work on it; replace it if it becomes cracked, rusty or compromised.
Note If There Is A Change In The Bill
One way to identify if there are any problems with your home is to observe the bills from month to month. If your water bill suddenly increases dramatically even though the number of people in the house is the same, there may be a leak in the pipes or water tank. Get the services of a plumber to check if there are any problems. Try to look at the roof drain pipe too.
Congratulations on getting to the last bits of this article. I hope that you get the answers to your important questions. Let me explain the reasons why you need to buy a home as soon as possible. Now the weather is quite hot and for those who have air conditioning at home, of course, use it often. But the most important aspect is in terms of maintenance. How to reduce costs? | <urn:uuid:310db27c-8e5c-4702-be34-9ac2845a2652> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opssmedia.com/tips-for-home-maintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952816 | 590 | 1.859375 | 2 |
With respect to recognizing CBD oil obtained from hemp and CBD oil obtained from marijuana, there are multiple viewpoints to consider. If you are keen on buying high CBD hemp but don’t know the difference, here's the brief of contrasts between the most critical points:
1. The Level of Cannabinoid (CBD)
Most CBD oils accessible in the market are full-spectrum extricates. This means they have CBD apart from a range of other cannabinoids and terpenes that are found in cannabis plants. At present, the primary contrast between CBD oil from hemp and cannabis is the proportion among THC and CBD.
Hemp-determined CBD oil typically contains high convergences of CBD, yet its THC content doesn't surpass the legitimate 0.3% breaking point.
Hemp-determined CBD oil typically contains high convergences of CBD, yet its THC content doesn't surpass the legitimate 0.3% breaking point. While cannabis got oil is sourced from specifically reared high-CBD strains, it additionally accompanies noteworthy measures of THC, going somewhere in the range of 5% and 30%.
Indeed, some high-CBD hemp strains can have equivalent degrees of THC and CBD. Which carries us to another issue with respect to the contrasts between CBD oil produced using hemp and cannabis.
All hemp-inferred items are legitimate in the United States. This applies to both government and state laws. The present lawful status of hemp is managed and regulated under the 2018 Farm Bill. Under this law, companies are legally allowed to grow, have, make, and offer CBD hemp items. Transportation across state fringes is legitimate as well. With cannabis CBD oil, it's an alternate story. The US states reserve the privilege to present their own cannabis laws.
An aggregate of 47 states has medical cannabis programs, while 10 states (in addition to Washington D.C.) have sanctioned cannabis for medical and recreational use. Be that as it may, on the government level, cannabis stays an illegal substance and its development, ownership, deals, and transportation are viewed as an administrative offense.
This implies regardless of whether you're found shipping cannabis CBD oil between two states where cannabis is legitimate, you can be arraigned for sedate dealing since that is the thing that it is as per the US government
Luckily, government organizations have just given rules to investigators to quit implementing these laws against medical marijuana patients and non-clinical clients having modest quantities of cannabis oils for individual use.
3. Impact Profiles
Because of its low THC content, hemp-determined CBD oil has no inebriating consequences for the user. As it were, you won't get high off of high CBD hemp items. Rather, you may feel loose, more alarm, liberated from physical and mental distress. You may notice positive changes in your general prosperity on account of how CBD functions in the endocannabinoid system. CBD obtained from cannabis can make the users feel high, despite that the psychoactive impacts of such items are less serious since CBD level THC's inebriating properties. Moreover, cannabis determined CBD oil goes about as a solid pain-relieving, relaxant, high, and can handle a wide scope of ceaseless, frequently treatment-safe, conditions.
Full-spectrum CBD hemp oils are named as dietary enhancements and can be found among other over-the-counter items in drug stores, wellbeing stores, headshops, and claim to fame stores the nation over. The primary motivation behind utilizing high CBD hemp oil is to reestablish the compound balance in the body by animating the human endocannabinoid system and upgrading the general nature of one's life. Most organizations selling high CBD hemp strains or products are generally not permitted to make medical cases about the benefits of CBD hemp oil, yet most of them emphatically urge you to have your own experience in that respect. With respect to cannabis-made CBD oils, you can discover them just in medical or recreational dispensaries relying upon the state you live in and the underlying laws. | <urn:uuid:364e2bfe-6ccd-4496-9660-58d155ab9144> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laprogressive.com/sponsored/cbd-oil-made-from-hemp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957331 | 835 | 1.804688 | 2 |
“Soldier On” Chooses Toronto Guitar School to Deliver Guitar Course
Toronto Guitar School is proud to have been chosen to deliver a special guitar course for members and veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces in Ontario through the Force’s “Soldier On” program. Course participants are learning to play guitar with the help of Toronto Guitar School instructor Sol Younan, who lives with Cerebral Palsy, has done wide-ranging research and is an advocate of accessibility in Music Education through work with the Easter Seals and the MukiBaum Foundation. Sol also holds an A.R.C.T Diploma in Guitar Pedagogy from the Royal Conservatory of Music, where he studied with one of Canada’s leading guitarists and composers, William Beauvais.
Mark Ritter, who has both an ARCT in Classical Guitar Performance and a B.A. in Guitar Performance from Humber College, bringing a wealth of experience in helping guitar students manage postural and other physical issues, will also be delivering lessons through this program. Mark’s focus is to make lessons fun and engaging through a personalized approach that factors in each students’ goals and musical interests. The objective of the guitar course is to give the members and veterans the opportunity to enrich their lives through focused engagement in music learning, which can have short and long-term therapeutic benefits. The following is from the Soldier On website:
“Soldier On is a program of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) which contributes to the recovery of ill and injured CAF members and veterans by providing opportunities and resources through sport, recreational, and creative activities. Soldier On is recognized for improving the quality of life of the ill and injured and is a highly visible and integral component of the Department of National Defence, and the CAF’s commitment to the care of ill and injured members. Generous Canadians support the program through donations and fundraising to the Soldier On Fund, which is managed by Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services.
Since 2007, Soldier On has supported over 8800 ill and injured members using sport and physical recreational activities to enable social support, build confidence in their abilities and realize their full potential. Soldier On provides members with a safe environment to challenge themselves and become inspired in ways that they may not have thought possible, contributing to and providing a gateway to enhance ones’ well-being. This re-introduction to an active lifestyle provides opportunities to develop new skills, build confidence and meet peers with similar challenges.
Many ill/injured members credit Soldier On with helping in their recovery, overcoming their challenges, opening doors to other life opportunities, and assisting in their transition to civilian life.”
Soldier On video:
If you would like to learn more about, or support the Soldier On program, please visit their website at www.soldieron.ca
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Today, we have more mental health concerns than we did a decade or two ago. Mental health awareness is an increasing concern as more people are struggling with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety. In fact, anxiety is one of the most common mental disorder.
All kinds of professionals, from medical specialists to scholars are seeking the different ways we can improve our mental strength and deal with mental health problems. They are looking into the different ways we can improve our mental strength.
I am not an expert, but my interest in psychology and personal development has led me to study the different ways to improve mental strength, deal with anxiety, avoid and fight depression and live happier and fulfilling lives. Here are some ways you can improve your mental strength.
Self-awareness is the key to taking charge of your life and mental health. Self-awareness involves becoming aware of who you are and why you behave the way you do.
To be self-aware, you need to understand your origin, your personality, and identity and how these influence the person that you are today. Your childhood and upbringing do influence how you behave and the decisions you make today.
If for example, you experienced some form of trauma in your childhood, it can influence your mental health today. It can lead to anxieties when you are in certain situations or depressive tendencies.
Self-awareness helps you explore such things as your childhood and upbringing and how they influence your behavior today.
Understanding your personality as well can be a door to understanding how your mind works. For example, for the longest time, I didn’t know how much my introversion influenced my decisions.
I questioned why I didn’t fit in certain situations until I understood my personality and accepted my behavior. It’s only through self-acceptance that you can start improving your mental health.
I often say if I had one gift I could give to everyone, it is the gift of self-awareness. I created a self-awareness guide to help individuals explore their self-awareness and practice it to get a clear understand of who they really are.
Work on your emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the next step to becoming self-aware. In fact, self-awareness is the core of emotional intelligence. Once you fully understand yourself and your emotions, you stand at a point whereby you can fully take charge of your emotions.
“Self-awareness is knowing one’s emotions. It is recognizing a feeling as it happens”- Daniel Goleman.
Emotional intelligence involves recognizing your emotions as they happen and taking charge of them. As aforementioned, one of the most common mental health issues has to do with anxiety.
Having emotional intelligence, in this case, is recognizing when you are becoming anxious, the root of the anxiety and taking charge of the situation.
If something is giving you anxiety, when you are emotionally aware, you can choose to leave the situation, get a distraction or face your anxiety hands on.
Gaining emotional intelligence will help you manage a lot of other emotions such as anger and sadness which can be very harmful to your mental health.
Step out of your comfort zone
Getting too comfortable in our comfort zones can make us develop anxiety when we get out of these zones. If you stay in your comfort zone, you’ll never grow.
It’s important that you take on some activities that make you uncomfortable, since its these situations that help you improve. If for example, social events give you anxiety, you can challenge yourself to attend a social event about once a month.
Facing some of what you fear will make you realize that they are not probably as bad as you thought they would be. Some of the things seem really big and scary in our minds but when we get to the situation we realize it is not that bad.
Your mind will learn to adapt every time you teach it to confront and embrace something new and you develop mental strength.
“Resilience is a person’s ability to grow in the face of terrible problems’- Boris Cyrulnik
I have written about resilience in the past and discussed it in a podcast since I believe that developing resilience is one of the most applicable ways to develop mental strength.
By becoming more resilient, we can avoid depression and prepare our minds for difficult events that can happen to us. We cannot control what happens to us but we can control our reaction to it.
Resilience is developed by making our minds so adaptable and ready for change, such that when change or misfortunes happen, they don’t lead us into depression.
This can be achieved by accepting that misfortunes can happen, separating events that happen to us from actual life and trying not to personalize the events. I have discussed this under 3 thoughts that can completely transform our lives; a step towards emotional maturity.
Mental health challenges such as depression happen when we allow the events happening around us affect you as a person. Developing resilience, therefore, can tune our minds to be stronger such that when bad things happen, we are at a point of mental strength and our mental health is not affected.
‘To turn natural sadness into depression, all you have to do is blame yourself for the disaster that has befallen you’ Dorothy Rowe.
Just like exercise is good for your physical health, it is good for your mental health. Exercise helps us get out of our head and focus on our physical aspect. This means that we don’t overthink situations and therefore our mental health improves.
When you are focusing on physical activity such as swimming, cycling, running or jogging, hiking, your mind is largely on the activity and not much on the issues going on in your mind. This means that you avoid plunging deep into your problems and it is a very healthy form of distraction.
Working out also releases some chemicals called endorphins which trigger a positive feeling in our bodies. You see, most mental health challenges such as anxiety and depression take place when we are not feeling so great about ourselves and the situations we are going through.
However, when you get some exercise, you feel great, become more productive and therefore, improve the outlook on yourself as a person and of the situations, you are going through as well.
Thought-stopping is used in therapy as a technique to interrupt, remove and replace negative and destructive thoughts. I recommended thought stopping in my previous article on why you are anxious and what to do about it.
Thought-stopping is whereby you issue the command STOP when you are experiencing some repeated and negative thoughts. For example, if you start thinking ‘I am a failure, I am worthless, I will never amount to anything’, you consciously say STOP!! You stop yourself from going that drain and replace these thoughts with positive thoughts.
Mental health challenges such as depression and anxiety are formed when you create certain thought patterns usually from irrational thoughts. Thought stopping, therefore, can help you prevent or manage anxiety and depression and generally improve your mental health.
Develop a positive attitude
“Possessing a great attitude is like having a secret weapon”- John Maxwell, Today Matters.
A positive attitude can help you get through so many unfavorable situations. When you possess a positive attitude, your reaction to things that happen to you is that of optimism, knowing that things will get better.
You don’t take the events that happen to your life as an attack to you as a person, but as independent events that can happen to anyone and that you will pull out of these events.
You can develop a positive attitude by knowing and acknowledging that you re the captain of your ship and you determine how your life turns out and how you react to what happens to you.
A positive attitude can also be developed by thinking positive thoughts and surrounding yourself with positive people. I recommend the book Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman.
Get some self-care and find a balance
Another way of developing a healthy mind is by getting some self-care. Your mental health could be suffering if you are buried to the neck by activities and events.
If you have work, school, family and a lot of things to take care of you may feel as if you are drowning. As a result, you are likely to develop anxiety and/or depression especially when you feel that things are getting out of your control.
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Facilitative leadership is a style of leadership that is very people-centered. It creates results and drives up quality by creating, then supporting, a positive culture within the workplace. Achievement occurs through relational processes instead of authoritative statements and demands.
This leadership style focuses on creating effective group processes, positive teamwork, and change management within the workplace.
Just because there is a relationship between a leader and their team doesn’t mean there is a lack of expectations. Facilitative leaders must build trust. That comes from an ability to provide instructions which are consistent and clear. Leaders must also value the individual qualities of team members and encourage ongoing development.
Here are the advantages and disadvantages of facilitative leadership to examine.
List of the Advantages of Facilitative Leadership
1. It provides a positive work environment.
When employees are involved in a positive work environment, it reduces the amount of turnover experienced by the employer. The primary reason why people stay at a company is that they like the people with whom they are working. At the other end of the equation, the primary reason why people quit their jobs is because they struggle to work with their direct supervisor. Facilitative leadership works to solve both of these problems.
2. It can reduce the effects of change.
Every workplace goes through a process of change eventually. Someone practicing the facilitative leadership style can help to guide their team through these changes with lower levels of stress and anxiety compared to the other styles. That is because these leaders focus on making sure everyone feels welcomed and happy at work. Even though there is still difficulty with the necessary changes, people who feel like they are important are more likely to stick things out.
3. It is a way to invite feedback.
Facilitative leadership invites their team to provide feedback about the unacknowledged items that lie just below the surface. It may include invisible beliefs, unconscious bias, or even different thinking patterns. Most teams need to discuss these under-the-surface topics to maximize their productivity. These leaders work with their team to identify these issues, create awareness for potential problems, and then speak with a truth that won’t hurt the feelings of everyone else.
4. It allows for a team to take ownership of a project.
When employees are directed to accomplish certain tasks, the amount of ownership they take in the process can be somewhat minimal. Through facilitative leadership, a team can receive the direction they need without feeling like they are being completed directed and micromanaged. That allows them to take ownership of the decisions they make, which creates more individualized responsibility within the team environment.
5. It operates from a position of restraint.
The goal of a facilitative leader is to maximize the number of contributions generated by the entire team. That means their first instinct is to operate from a position of restraint. They take a methodical approach to the decisions which need to be made to ensure the actions taken produce the best possible results. It is a process which prevents leaders from feeling like they are on an island, encouraging collaboration throughout the team to work smarter instead of harder.
6. It focuses on building up the capacities of individuals and groups.
Facilitative leaders are focused on more than just the immediate task that must be completed. They also focus on having their team learning and working together to help them become more productive in the future. This process occurs at the team level and the individual level. The goal is to solve future problems by working to solve current issues first. Over time, this allows more employees to achieve their long-term career goals when the consistent coaching is provided by this leadership type.
7. It is easier to manage conflicting opinions.
Facilitative leaders invite discussion when decisions need to be made. That gives them access to different opinions and perspectives that can lead to a more effective outcome. These discussions can generate many different conflicting opinions, which offers the potential of reducing team productivity. These leaders, through their active listening, are able to manage circumstances like these to keep the team moving forward, even if some people happen to disagree.
8. It creates a nonjudgmental workplace.
Facilitative leaders do an excellent job of drawing out the opinions of others in a way that is objective. People do not feel like they are being manipulated into their thoughts or actions with this leadership style in place. They also feel safe to share their own thoughts, even if they run contrary to what everyone else thinks or believes. One of the top priorities of this leadership style is to ensure that everyone feels like they are on equal footing.
9. It improves the learning processes of the workplace.
Adults tend to learn the best when they feel a need to learn something new. They are more engaged when they have input into what they are doing, whey they do it, and how they can learn. Facilitative leaders focus on all these key points, ensuring that the content they offer through each interaction relates to the developmental changes that employees require. Over time, this process improves the overall learning environment, which helps workers retain more information.
10. It limits the size of groups.
Facilitative leaders look at the practical scenarios that are available in any given situation. They limit the number of people who are included in a group to ensure there is a maximum level of interaction available. They might organize a meeting by ensuring that everyone is positioned in a way that allows them to see and hear the information being presented. Even something simple, like calling each worker by their name, helps to foster the trust that these discussions help to create.
List of the Disadvantages of Facilitative Leadership
1. It can be difficult to deal with conflicts.
All relationships deal with conflict at some level. Leaders who prefer the facilitative style tend to be less proactive when dealing with issues that create conflict when compared to other leadership styles. That can reduce the effectiveness of a team’s productivity over time. It may also cause some employees to believe that their direct supervisor has a preference for other employees over them, which creates a further reduction in productivity.
2. It can create complacency in the workplace.
Facilitative leaders focus on providing positive feedback to their direct reports. Even if an incorrect decision is made, this leadership style puts a priority on discussing the positive outcomes instead of addressing the mistake. Over time, this approach can lead to poor individual performances because the employees have become complacent. There is no constructive criticism to encourage growth, so there is no reason to work hard at being better.
3. It takes more time to implement the fundamentals.
Facilitative leaders prefer to use active listening skills when they are engaging with their team. That means they will summarize what they’ve heard the other person say to ensure that they are on the same page. They will paraphrase items that may not be fully understood. Questioning and reflecting are also part of the process. When the entire group is involved, it may take more time to make a decision than it would with other leadership styles.
4. It may create opportunities for others to take over control.
Facilitative leaders want their team to take responsibility for the decisions they make. Although that is a positive attribute, it is also something that can be taken advantage of by someone who may have their sights set on a management position. This leadership style is discouraged from taking complete control of most situations, which means some leaders may be seen as ineffective. Should that occur, the leaders using this style may find it difficult to get work done.
5. It can create too many leaders, which leads to confusion.
When everyone is given an opportunity to take the lead on their own part of a project, a team may find itself with too many leaders. Should that occur, the end result is almost always confusion. Multiple “leaders” on a team may offer conflicting messages to everyone else. Some may even disagree with what the supervisor expects and encourage the team to abandon ship. For facilitative leaders to be effective, there must be a balance found between full inclusion and full control to benefit everyone.
These facilitative leadership advantages and disadvantages show that it is an effective style when change is taking place in an organization. Leaders using this style can encourage more teamwork by inviting more people into the process. Although these extra steps do take a chunk of time away from a team’s overall productivity, the positives of this leadership style often outweigh any disadvantages which may be present.
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58 rows Their work was used to illustrate books exploring the real-life countryside on which the fictional county of Wessex was based: B. Windle & E. New (ill.). The Wessex of Thomas Hardy (London, New York, J. Lane, ). Charles G. Harper. The Hardy country; literary landmarks of the Wessex.
The Wessex Novels (6 Volume Set) Hardcover – by Thomas Hardy (Author)5/5(1). Wessex Series. 4 primary works • 4 total works. Book 1. Wolf Solent. by John Cowper Powys. Ratings 54 Reviews published 31 editions. Book 2. A Glastonbury Romance. by John Cowper Powys. Ratings 47 Reviews published 7 : John Cowper Powys.
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Vol. 18 has imprint: London, Macmillan, 1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- 2. Far from the madding crowd -- 3. The mayor of Casterbridge -- 4. A pair of blue eyes -- 5. Two on a tower -- 6. The return of the native -- 7. The woodlanders -- : "The Wolf of Wessex is a breathtaking novel that sweeps the reader into a dark and dangerous world.
Dunston is a brilliant creation - a reluctant hero, scarred by the brutal warrior’s life he has led. But circumstances throw him into a quest for justice with the young and headstrong Aedwen and a cracking tale it is.
Dunston is my kind of hero/5. Wessex Learning E-Book Portal. Sign In to read your E-book. Email. Password. Submit. Forgot Your Password. Quick Links. Home; Find a book; My Account; Create an Account; My Orders; Return Policy; E-Book Instructions; Get Connected.
Twitter; Facebook; Contact Us. Phone: In addition to his great "Wessex Novels," Thomas Hardy wrote Wessex Tales (), a collection of six stories written in the s and s that, for the most part, are as bleakly ironic and unforgiving as the darkest of his great novels -- Jude the Obscure.
But this great novelist The Wessex novels book and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between, he wrote a number of books that/5. A wealth of exciting Sherlockian treasures. Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers Vol. 4: January - June By Mattias Boström, Mark Alberstat, Leah Guinn and Matt Laffey $ The 12th book of The Last Kingdom series will be published in the UK on 3 October and in the US on 26 November Read More.
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers. These seven tales, in which characters and scenes are imbued with a haunting realism, show considerable diversity of content, form and style, and range from fantasy to realism and from tragedy to comedy/5(21).
The woodlanders (Thomas Hardy's works. The Wessex novels) [Hardy, Thomas] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The woodlanders (Thomas Hardy's works. The Wessex novels)/5(87). The Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy;: An appreciative study, Hardcover – January 1, by Randall Williams (Author) › Visit Amazon's Randall Williams Page.
Find all the The Wessex novels book, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Are you an author. Author: Randall Williams. Welcome to the home of The Wessex Astrologer and Flying Horse Books.
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(Hermann Lea, Thomas Hardy's Wessex, xvii) Hardy set his "Novels of Character and Environment," as he did most of his other novels, poems and short stories, around the market town of Dorchester ('Casterbridge'), near his boyhood home at Bockhampton, on the edge of 'Egdon' Heath.
John Cowper Powys (/ ˈ k uː p ər ˈ p oʊ ɪ s /; 8 October – 17 June ) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of St.
Michael and All Angels Parish Church, between and Although Powys published a collection of poems in and his first novel inhe did not gain Genre: Novel, poetry, philosophy.
The fifth novel in Bernard Cornwell’s epic and bestselling series on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. BBC2’s major Autumn TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series.
To King Alfred he is the ‘lord of battles’. He has gained riches, loyal men and a beloved wife/5. THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY: The Saga of Wessex (The Saga of Wessex and the Danes Book 1) - Kindle edition by CULLEY, H A.
Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY: The Saga of Wessex (The Saga of Wessex and the Danes Book 1)/5(8).
The Kingdom of Wessex remains the last stronghold against the Danes. The story covers about 40–45 years by the end of season 4. Season 1 covers the years –, season 2 from –, season 3 from –, and season 4 takes place about – The fictional protagonist is Uhtred of No.
of episodes: 26 (list of episodes). Dysfunctional Families in the Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy examines the diverse portrayals of dysfunctional families in Thomas Hardy's novels, which are used as a frame of reference for studying socio-historical changes in Victorian : THE WESSEX NOVELS (all 18 volumes including the first edition of JUDE THE OBSCURE) by Hardy, Thomas.
London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 18th volume: Macmillan and Co., [Together, 18 volumes.] All in matching original dark blue-green cloth with front cover monogram device in gilt. First Uniform and Complete Edition of Hardy's prose -- including three first : Hardcover. Hard Cover.
Condition: Good. *** BOOK in good condition. Navy boards with gilt titling and decoration to spine and impressed logo 'TH' on front. Spine heavily rubbed on back fold. Light shelfwear to edges and corners.
Top edge of textblock gilt. Browning to prelims. pp with a map of the Wessex of the novel. Wessex is central to the study of early medieval English history; it was the dynasty which created the kingdom of England. This volume uses archaeological and place-name evidence to present an authoritative account of the most significant of the English Kingdoms.4/5(1).
I always love writing the HWMP books but this one was just a blast from start to finish. As always, let me know if you like it 🙂 It’s exclusive to Amazon but, with their apps for iPad, phone, PC and even Nook, everyone should be catered for.
It’s also in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon’s new service that works a bit like Netflix for books. When Hardy's novels were first published in a uniform edition, in the 's, the title given to the series was "The Wessex Novels". And when the final and definitive edition of his work was assembled, inthat edition was known as "the Wessex Edition".
The Books of the Century (French: Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the one hundred most memorable books of the 20th century, according to a poll conducted in the spring of by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le g: Wessex novels.
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The eBooks can be accessed on two computers. BBC Culture contributor Jane Ciabattari polled 82 book critics from outside the UK, to pick Britain’s best novels ever – this is what some had to say about the top choices. Wessex Weddings Series.
5 primary works • 5 total works. Normans and Saxons, conflict and desire. These novels are set in eleventh century England, in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.
Book 1. The Novice Bride. by Carol Townend. 97 Ratings 10 Reviews published 19 editions. The Last Kingdom is a TV show about the viking invasion of England, adapted from author Bernard Cornwell's book series The Saxon a show with vikings, epic sword fights, and English history, it should be a hit, given the huge demand for all of those.
Unfortunately, the series can seem a lackluster compared to some other notable medieval epics on TV, failing to do justice to. Quality textbooks at affordable prices. Receive 15% off your next purchase by joining the Marketing Experience Studio. The Hardy country; literary landmarks of the Wessex novels Item Preview remove-circle Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.).
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8vo. Illus with wood engravings by Peter Reddick. Hardcover housed in Very Good slipcase with light shelf wear. Product Information. The Woodlanders is a novel by Thomas Hardy.
It was serialised from May to April in Macmillan's Magazine and published in three volumes in It is one of his series of Wessex story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. Harper. London: (first 17 volumes) Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.; (18th volume) Macmillan and Co., Plus: WESSEX POEMS and Other Verses.
With Thirty Illustrations by the Author. Londo. The Observer Best books of Observer critics pick their must reads offrom life in 50s Harlem to a tale about the Troubles via Michael Wolff’s lurid profile of Donald : Rachel Cooke.
Thomas Hardy's Works - The Wessex Novels: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far From The Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Return of the Native, The Woodlanders, Jude The Obscure, The Trumpet-Major and Robert His Brother, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Desperate Remedies, Wessex Tales, Life's Little Ironies and A Few Crusted Characters, A Group of Noble.
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Wessex Stitchery is a book devoted to the study of the motifs and arrangements of stitches (on even-weave fabric) that reflect a style of embroidery made popular, apparently, during the Victorian age by a British lady – a fact I found sort of disappointing, as I thought it was a more “historical” approach to embroidery, with roots.
The best way to get more familiar with this technique is to purchase the Wessex Stitchery book (). I have tried to combine several of the stitches into a bookmark sampler of sorts.
The colors are bright, the design elements pretty simple. The Kingdom of Wessex (c. CE or c. CE) was a political entity founded by the West Saxon Chieftain Cerdic (r. CE) in CE in the Upper Thames Valley of modern-day Britain which would later evolve into the modern nation.
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What Happened In History Year 1689
Historical Events for the Year 1689
- 22nd January » The Convention Parliament (1689) Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II of England James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to Fra
- 12th February » The Convention Parliament (1689) Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II of England James II, the last Catholic Church Roman Catholic Monarchy of the United Kingdom British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
- 13th February » William III of England called William and Mary II of England called Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
- 12th March » The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 16th March » The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 11th April » William III of England William III and Mary II of England Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain Britain.
- 18th April » Bostonians rise up 1689 Boston revolt named in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros.
- 20th April » The former king, James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
- 24th May » The Parliament of England English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration 1689 Act of Toleration protecting Protestantism Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 27th July » Glorious Revolution: The Battle of Killiecrankie ends.
- 5th August » One thousand five hundred Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, Quebec or Lachine in New France.
- 21st August » The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.
- 27th August » The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Tsardom of Russia or Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
- 26th October » General Enea Silvio Piccolomini named General Piccolomini of Austria Fire of Skopje 1689 e.g burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after.
Famous Birthdays in 1689
- 3rd February » Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741)
- 27th February » Pietro Gnocchi, Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer (d. 1775)
- 15th May » Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English author (d. 1762)
- 24th May » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1769)
- 26th June » Edward Holyoke, American clergyman and academic (d. 1769)
- 9th July » Alexis Piron, French playwright (d. 1773)
- 19th August » Samuel Richardson, English author (d. 1761)
- 1st September » Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Bohemian architect, designed Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral (d. 1751)
- 30th September » Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (d. 1753)
- 22nd October » John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
- 3rd November » Jan Josef Ignác Brentner, Czech composer (d. 1742)
- 23rd December » Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer (d. 1755)
Famous Deaths in History for 1689
- 6th January » Seth Ward (bishop) called Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
- 27th January » Robert Aske (merchant) or Robert Aske, English merchant (b. 1619)
- 18th March » John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
- 16th April » Aphra Behn, English author and playwright (b. 1640)
- 18th April » George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor or Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)
- 19th April » Christina, Queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
- 8th July » Edward Wooster, English-American settler (b. 1622)
- 12th August » Pope Innocent XI (b. 1611)
- 26th November » Marquard Gude, German archaeologist and scholar (b. 1635)
- 29th December » Thomas Sydenham, English physician (b. 1624)
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A balanced diet to help control joint pain caused by autoimmunity
A balanced diet can help relieve symptoms by maintaining overall health, controlling body weight, and improving physical functions and immune system.
You should aim to eat less fatty, oily, and salty food, and eat more vegetable, fruits, grains, breads, rice, and noodles.
Before starting a new dietary plan, please consult your physician.
Recipes that might help relieve symptoms
Roasted soy-ginger salmon and broccoli (2 servings)14
|Big broccoli florets or bagged broccoli||2 cups|
|Low-sodium soy sauce||2 tbsp|
|Sesame oil||1 tsp|
|Freshly grated ginger||1 tsp|
- Pre-heat the oven to 220°C (425°F)
- Cut the salmon into two roughly equal pieces
- Place the salmon with skin-side down and broccoli closely but not touching each other in a small and heavy baking pan, pie dish can also do it
- Whisk the seasonings to blend in a bowl
- Drizzle the seasonings evenly over the salmon and broccoli
- Bake until the broccoli is tinged with brown and small white beads of fat begin to appear on the salmon surface, or bake it for 10-15 minutes
It is best to select salmon that is about 2.5-4cm thick.
You can scale up the portion easily to prepare for 4, 6 or 8!
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It is great to have the salad for lunch!
Regular exercise will help enhance your quality of life
BENEFITS OF REGULAR EXERCISE16
- Train up your muscles to enhance joint protection and reduce joint pain
- Strengthen your bones to lower the chance of developing osteoporosis
- Improve the range of motion of your joints
- Reduce stiffness in the joints to increase flexibility
- Achieve effective weight control to enhance organs (e.g. the heart and lung) functions
- Resume physical fitness to improve the overall health
- Build up self-confidence and maintain a positive attitude
Resting the body is important, especially during a flare-up. While lots of rest is important, too much can lead to a sedentary lifestyle and more pain.
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Prescription Writing That Is Problematic
Patients seek medical care in hopes of improving their medical conditions. They do this trusting that the physician who diagnoses and treats them has their best interests at heart. But negligent or self-serving physicians write out prescriptions that lead to serious complications and even death every single day in this country. When that happens, patients would be wise to seek the assistance of a local personal injury attorney.
Facts About Medication Usage
Although the population has increased by only about 20 percent in the past few decades, prescription drug usage has increased by roughly 85 percent. Equally startling is the fact that more than half of Americans take four prescriptions a day, and the number of Americans who take five or more prescriptions daily has increased by 300 percent in the last 20-30 years. Among seniors, nearly one in ten take 10 or more medications each day. While it’s true that drug companies have created more medicines to address a variety of conditions in recent years, one has to wonder: are we overdoing it when it comes to medication consumption? Associated issues of concern include:
- Over 50 percent of medications received by patients is prescribed by two or more providers, increasing the possibility of miscommunications and problematic drug interactions;
- Over the counter medications, reportedly taken by eight in ten Americans on a regular basis, also have the potential to have negative interactions with prescriptions;
- Physicians often fail to inventory the drug intake of their patients in order to eliminate unnecessary medications;
- Studies indicate that 90 percent of medicine combinations have the potential to create health problems, and half of those are severe.
It’s bad enough that doctors sometimes get too busy to notice that what they’re prescribing could have potentially deleterious effects on patients. But there are other issues with prescriptions, as well:
- Doctors often prescribe one medication to address the side effects of another;
- When conditions are misdiagnosed, the wrong medications are prescribed, compounding problems for the patient;
- When patients are given medications as a first response to a medical condition, rather than recommending dietary or lifestyle changes, the patient is subject to potential side effects.
These issues each have the potential to wreak havoc on various body systems, from the circulatory system, to the central nervous system, from the respiratory system to the digestive system, and more.
How Serious is the Issue?
More than a million people were rushed to emergency rooms as a result of dangerous drug interactions during the period studied, and one in ten of those people died as a result of complications of that drug interaction. At least half of those visits to the ER, and half of the associated fatalities, could have been prevented with better monitoring and dispersal of patient’s medications.
After a Prescription Drug Problem
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If your aging parent needs more attention in their later years, you may feel uncertain about your options. Who’s going to care for them as they get older? How much will their care cost, and how will you pay for it?
Though talking with your parent about money can be difficult, it’s a necessary conversation to have. You should know and understand what they want so you can give them the care they need and deserve without sacrificing your financial future.
Sit down with your parent and have an open discussion with them about how they want to approach their care as they get older. It’s a good idea to have this conversation with them before they start needing assistance.
That way, you can get a clear understanding of what they’d like to do and begin making a plan to help them fulfill their wishes. Don’t be surprised if your parent brings up the subject with you first.
Take a look at some of the options that may be available to your parent.
The costs of long-term care will vary greatly depending on the option your parent needs. Living in a nursing home or skilled nursing facility permanently tends to be the most expensive option, while an assisted living facility – which provides a lower level of care – can be more affordable.
Having your parent remain in their own home and receive assistance from a home health aide is often more affordable than having them move into a nursing home, especially if they’ve paid off their mortgage.
If you or a sibling has room, letting your parent live with you can be the most cost-effective option. However, there are other costs to consider before you invite your parent to move in.
In some cases, insurance can help to cover the costs of long-term care in a nursing or assisted living facility. Your parent might have purchased a long-term care insurance plan in anticipation of needing to use it one day. They might also have a life insurance policy that will cover the cost of living in a nursing home. In the case of home health care, Medicare will provide coverage for short-term care, but only for intermittent care.
When talking to your parent about what they want, you should review any insurance plans they have to get a clear idea of what they cover and whether that coverage will be adequate.
Inviting your parent into your home and caring for them yourself can seem like the most budget-friendly option. Plus, if you have kids, they’ll get to spend more time with their grandparent.
Before you make that kind of commitment, ask yourself if you’ll have the time to do it. The average caregiver provides about 20 hours of care each week. If you’re working outside the home and have small children, it can be tricky to find an extra hour or two each week, let alone 20.
You may need to rearrange your work schedule or stay home to care for your parent, which can affect your ability to plan for retirement, save for your children’s college education, or reach other financial goals.
Before you invite your parent to move in with you, take a close look at your finances and budget to confirm that you can afford to provide their care.
Even if your parent doesn’t need help with daily living activities, having them move in with you will increase your living expenses. You’ll need to buy more groceries and might see an uptick in your utility bills.
If they do need care, whether from you or from a home health aide, calculate how much that will cost and run the numbers to see if it works with your budget. Can you make ends meet if you have to stop working or work fewer paid hours? What can you cut from your budget to accommodate having your parent live with you?
It’s important to plan ahead and consider all options so that you can give your parents the love and attention they deserve, while not jeopardizing your own financial future. We have free resources available to help you get started in our Online Learning Center.
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“Rewrite my essay please,” this is exactly what many pupils state when they’re maybe perhaps not able to produce their documents from scratch. University training involves lots of educational work, and pupils have to focus on their projects, documents, along with jobs to enable them to advance to your next degree. Generally, program teachers and teachers give projects with their pupils to evaluate their standard of understanding when it comes to a specific subject or concept.
- Academic Degree
- Amount of pages
Rewriting a paper will help you to get high markings, that could help shore your grades up during the period of your studies. Your performance academically is crucial throughout college because it could have an effect in your individual and professional life in future years.
While you learn in university, the possibilities are high that you’ll need to write lots of essays on comparable subjects. Throughout every semester of any scholastic 12 months, written pieces will soon be assigned for your requirements, and are crucial in terms of your academics are involved. You stand to register impressive grades when you write quality texts. Nonetheless, some circumstances may hinder you against discovering your essay. It may be some problems related to your loved ones, work, or perhaps you would not have the prerequisite abilities to complete the job.Continue reading | <urn:uuid:f0746f0a-b42b-4954-97aa-33b952fea0f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.madex.com.pl/category/how-to-write-a-persuasive-essay-outline/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971214 | 268 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539)
- First Guru of the Sikhs. Founder of Sikhism.
- Preached the equality of all humans. Guru Nanak said that all people are the children of one God.
- Guru Nanak spoke against tyranny, social injustice, religious hypocrisy, empty rituals and superstitions.
- Traveled extensively throughout India and foreign lands to spread his message.
- There are 947 hymns from Guru Nanak Dev included in Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh holy book).
- Born in Talwandi, now known as Nankana Sahib.
Guru Angad Dev (1504-1552)
- Compiled the biography of Guru Nanak Dev, known as the Janam Sakhi.
- Introduced Gurmukhi script and encouraged people to learn Punjabi.
- There are 63 hymns from Guru Angad Dev included in Guru Granth Sahib.
- Started a school at Khadur Sahib to teach children through Gurmukhi alphabet.
- Compiled the hymns of Guru Nanak Dev and spread his teachings.
- Guru Amar Das further institutionalized the free communal kitchen called langar among the Sikhs.
- Guru Amar Das not only preached the equality of people but also tried to foster the idea of women's equality. He tried to liberate women from the practices of purdah (wearing a veil) and preached strongly against the practice of sati (Hindu wife burning on her husband's funeral pyre).
- There are 869 hymns from Guru Amar Das included in Guru Granth Sahib.
Guru Ram Das (1534-1581)
- Founded the city of Amritsar in 1574.
- The standard Sikh marriage ceremony known as the Anand Karaj is centered on the Lawan, a four stanza hymn composed by Guru Ram Das.
- Spread Sikhism in North India.
- Organized the structure of Sikh society.
- Guru Ram Das stressed the importance of kirtan (hymn singing), which remains an important part of Sikh worship.
- There are 638 hymns from Guru Ram Das included in Guru Granth Sahib.
Guru Arjan Dev (1563-1606)
- Compiled the Guru Granth Sahib in 1604.
- Built the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib).
- Started the practice of daswandh (tithe) - contributing one tenth of one's earnings for community purposes.
- Author of Sukhmani Sahib bani - the Prayer for Peace.
- First Sikh Guru to be martyred. Guru Arjan Dev was imprisoned and martyred in 1606 by Emperor Jahangir for not amending the Adi Granth, the Sikh holy book to reflect his views. Guru Arjan Dev was made to sit on a scorching iron plate and had boiling sand poured over his body. Guru Arjan Dev tolerated this pain and sat there chanting hymns.
- There are 2312 hymns from Guru Arjan Dev included in Guru Granth Sahib.
Guru Hargobind (1595-1644)
- Transformed the Sikhs by introducing martial arts and weapons for the defense of the masses.
- Guru Hargobind put on two swords - one signifying miri (secular power) and other piri (spiritual power).
- Built the Akal Takht in 1608 at Amritsar in Punjab.
- He was imprisoned in the fort of Gwaliar for one year. When he was released he insisted that his 52 fellow prisoners, who were Rajput kings, should also be set free. To mark this occasion the Sikhs celebrate Diwali (bandi chod divas).
- Fought four battles with the Mughal rulers which were forcing people to become Muslims.
Guru Har Rai (1630-1661)
- Continued the military traditions started by his grandfather, Guru Hargobind.
- The Guru made his son, Guru Harkrishan, the next Guru at the age of only five years.
- Defended the integrity of the Guru Granth Sahib by refusing to modify it's words.
- Made Sikhism strong and popular.
Guru Harkrishan (1656-1664)
- Became Guru at the age of five.
- Guru Harkrishan cured the sick during a smallpox epidemic in Delhi.
- Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in New Delhi was constructed in the Guru's memory. This is where the Guru stayed during his visit to Delhi.
- Guru Harkrishan died of smallpox at the age of eight.
- Before Guru Harkrishan died, he nominated his granduncle, Guru Tegh Bahadur, as the next Guru of the Sikhs.
Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621-1675)
- Build the city of Anandpur Sahib.
- Sacrificed his life upholding the "right to freedom of religion". Guru Tegh Bahadur was responsible for saving Kashmiri Hindu pandits who being persecuted by the Mughals, but had to lay down his own life to protect their freedom of religion.
- Guru Tegh Bahadur was martyred by Emperor Aurangzeb because he would not become a Muslim. Gurdwara Sis Ganj in Chandani Chowk, New Delhi is located where he was martyred.
- Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib in New Delhi is located where the Guru's body was cremated.
Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708)
- In 1699, Guru Gobind Singh baptized the Sikhs and created the Khalsa (the "Pure"). The Khalsa consists of Sikhs who have been baptized and dedicate themselves to living by the high standards of the Sikh Gurus at all times.
- Instructed the Sikhs to keep the five K's.
- Compiled the 1428 page Dasam Granth Sahib.
- Author of several banis (hymns) which Sikhs recite daily: Jaap Sahib and Chaupai.
- Wrote his autobiography, the Bichitra Natak.
- Instructed Sikh males to use the last name of Singh (lion) and Sikh females to use the last name Kaur (princess).
- All four of Guru Gobind Singh's sons were martyred by the Mughals.
- He instructed the Sikhs to follow Granth Sahib as the Guru after him.
- The Guru Granth Sahib is the holy book of the Sikhs.
- It is the eternal spiritual guide of the Sikhs. The hymns provide broad guidelines for harmonious living.
- Compiled by Guru Arjan Dev, it has writings of the Sikh Gurus and other saints.
- The Granth Sahib is kept in all Gurdwaras and in many Sikh houses.
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Technology is booming, a cliche perhaps, but the computing industry as a whole had a turnover of some $150 billion last year. Obviously, it will continue to grow and expand in the coming years.
One of the biggest areas of the computing industry is gaming, and most people aged 4 to 20 have at least one video game console, whether it’s a mobile phone, a dedicated gaming console, a laptop or some combination of these. Whether it’s shooting zombies or gambling at hellspin.com, gaming offers an escape from everyday reality (and plenty of us have needed that in the last couple of years). Fact is, people spend a lot of time and money looking for a new gaming experience.
Beyond spending money to enjoy a gaming experience, can you make money playing a game? You can, it’s true. The gaming industry offers a lot of ways to make money. Even if there is no purpose, you can get good money by doing these activities in your spare time from work and other things.
So, here’s seven ways to can make money playing games.
1. Create a Gaming Blog
Creating a blog for gamers can be an effective way to attract an audience – and blogs can definitely benefit their owners; there’s more than just advertising revenue, you can attract sponsors as well as manufacturers who may give you free gear.
Some of the easiest options include:
- Content creation, such as the review and testing of gaming equipment (keyboard, mouse, Gamer chairs, video cards, and so on)
- Placing affiliate links in the content seller from whom you can buy the equipment
- If the user reads the link and buys a product, the seller makes the affiliate fees for selling (typically 5-15% of the cost of goods).
Getting heavily into eSports requires a big investment, but the returns can be significant as well. Cyber-athletes spend a lot of time, money and effort developing their skills, and the barrier to entry can be high … so entering the world of eSports to make money can be challenging.
At some tournaments, there can be significant prize money at stake, so if you think you will do well at eSports, it’s best to develop your skills and join a league and see how you go.
3. Game Channel on YouTube
Making money on YouTube is how many people have made their millions, but it is by no means easy to make it big as a content creator. It’s easy enough to start your own channel and to develop gaming content for others, but you will need good ideas and good equipment to make it work.
After all, it’s about finding a niche – if you do the same thing as everyone else, you’re not going to stand out. Standing out is what’s important, this will grow your subscriber numbers, which will grow your access to advertising revenue, sponsors and more.
4. TWITCH Gaming Channel
Twitch is a streaming video service for gamers. This unique platform supports millions of game fans worldwide – and there are hundreds if not thousands of gamers who have turned Twitch streaming into a full time, permanent job. As with the other ideas, though, you will need to be good at what you do – not only at playing the games, but making unique enjoyable content that people will want to watch.
Twitch integrates with most platforms such as Xbox 360, Xbox One, Sony Playstation 3 and 4, as well as with other devices, such as Amazon Fire TV and Google Chromecast, allowing fans to broadcast content. Twitch gives players an excellent opportunity to earn money from video games.
The process is simple: more views – more income. As soon as you have at least 500 regular video views, you will be able to apply for participation in the TWITCH affiliate program. Profit depends on the number of subscribers. Twitch will pay $ 2.5 for each new subscriber.
However, it should be remembered that work on Twitch requires good communication skills, advanced gaming abilities, and great perseverance.
5. Game Tester
Become a video game tester and be paid to play new release video games? Sounds too good to be true, right, but the role does exist. Your job here is to play video games and provide detailed reports and feedback on some aspects of the test games. However, while some companies require certain technical knowledge from their testers, others just want gamers to play beta games.
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A QUARTER OF the northern hemisphere’s land is covered by permafrost, defined as ground that remains at or below 0°C for at least two years in succession. Most of this is above the Arctic Circle, a part of the world that is warming at a rate double the global average, with significant consequences for the rest of the planet. Arctic permafrost is thought to contain some 1.7trn tonnes of carbon, most of it in frozen organic matter. That is double the amount of the stuff currently residing in the atmosphere. Rising temperatures mean that much of this material may turn into carbon dioxide and methane as the ground thaws and micro-organisms get to work. That will drive further warming, causing a feedback loop of more melting and yet more greenhouse-gas emission.
These risks are re-emphasised in a paper just published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. It warns that warming of the top three metres of permafrost alone could result in the release of 624m tonnes of carbon a year by 2100, a figure similar to the current emissions of Canada or Saudi Arabia. But a thawing Arctic poses other, more immediate, problems. Another paper published in the same journal highlights the threat posed to circumpolar infrastructure as the ground beneath it thaws.
Thawing permafrost is a particularly unpredictable environment on which to build. As its ice content changes and the volume of liquid water increases, the soil can experience vertical movements of up to 40cm a year and its capacity to bear weight drops dramatically. This can lead to landslides, to the subsidence of individual buildings, and to the appearance of cracks and deformities in long, linear structures such as roads and pipelines.
The conclusions drawn by lead author Jan Hjort, of the University of Oulu, in Finland, are stark. Of the 120,000 buildings, 40,000km of roads and 9,500km of pipelines currently built on permafrost, up to half are expected to be at high risk by 2060. By then, he estimates, the bill for maintenance could exceed $35bn dollars a year.
Russia is the country most threatened by such changes. Almost 65% of Russian soil is permafrost, and it is here that 60% of the Arctic’s human settlements and almost 90% of its population can be found (see maps). Russian sites are also more likely than those in other parts of the Arctic to contain heavy apartment buildings and large industrial facilities. North America’s permafrost, which makes up half of Canada’s territory and more than three-quarters of Alaska’s, tends to be more sparsely populated than Russia’s, with human impact dominated by roads, airstrips and oil pipelines. Nonetheless, degradation is still an issue. Authorities in the Northwest Territories, one of Canada’s largest and most northerly regions, calculate that permafrost-induced damage amounts, even today, to $41m a year, which is about $900 per resident.
Dr Hjort’s paper also looks at the Arctic conditions which prevail in mountainous regions at lower latitudes. Nearly half of the Tibetan plateau, for example, is covered by permafrost, and this area contains 200,000km of roads and 3,900km of railways. The cost of repairs here runs into the tens of millions of dollars a year. In the European Alps, by contrast, a combination of higher investment and more favourable conditions mean thaw damage is minimal.
Dr Hjort and his colleagues suggest three approaches to increasing resilience, some of which have already been implemented to various extents in different Arctic locations. First, enhance the extraction of heat from thawing soil near structures which need protecting. This can be done by adding porous stone layers to road beds to generate convection, which helps hot air to escape. Decreasing the angle of embankment slopes also helps, by increasing wind flow and reducing the accumulation of snow, which traps heat. Second, limit heat intake by the ground. This means insulating the embankments of roads by increasing their thickness, and also increasing the reflectivity of paved surfaces to minimise the amount of solar radiation absorbed. Third, the ground can be reinforced to create better foundations. One way to do so is to replace layers of permafrost with more stable materials. Another is to thaw the permafrost in a controlled manner, and then build on that consolidated layer.
None of this innovative construction will help, however, if there is a lackadaisical approach to maintaining what has been built. In an earlier study cited by the authors, which looked at the period from 1980 to 2000, most damage to structures in areas of Russia where permafrost abounds was found to have arisen as a result of poor maintenance. Climate change will make that worse. But if local authorities cannot even get the basics right, then large sections of the Russian Arctic may end up being abandoned altogether.
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Raipur. The District Education Officer of Raipur has issued an order for the appointment of Denial Officer. You heard that right.
The school education department in Chhattisgarh has come up with this unique and extraordinary idea. The department has now created the post of denial officer. The officer shall bear the responsibility to refute every news related to the school education department in the media. For this, the District Education Officer of Raipur, Assistant Director D.S. Chouhan has been appointed as the nodal officer.
The District Education Officer in an order said that according to the instructions received from the Directorate of Public Instruction, any negative news in the print or electronic media against the School Education Department, must be denied the very same day. The Nodal Officer must prioritise this and therefore check the newspapers daily. In that too the news related to the school education department must be seen. After examination and analysis, a press release of the rebuttal is to be prepared and issued to the press through the Public Relations Department after taking approval from the Head of Office.
If the published news is related to the state government, then before issuing the rebuttal, the information must be discussed with the Director of Public Instruction, Secretary or Principal Secretary. The Nodal Officer, District Education Officer and District Education Officer will issue a final release bringing the matter to the notice of the Joint Director. Joint Director Education has to give this information to Director Public Education. The funny thing is that in this entire order nothing has been written about any procedure for checking the facts raised in the news and taking action against those responsible. | <urn:uuid:060191f2-1684-44cd-a4a0-9e575ddf123d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dispatchnews.in/hi/uncategorized-hi/the-district-education-office-creates-the-post-of-a-denial-officer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968458 | 334 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Indian Christian History, Top Movies/TV
Juliet Stevenson performs Mother Teresa with her humble, gently loving spirit in this profound movie. She is most concerned with offering care, comfort to the masses who are starving, sick, dying. She shows courage, focus, sacrificial unconditional love despite much resistance. In her commitment to prayer, following her Lord’s leading in all, and love for all, which includes her enemies and those who reject her faith, she is an incarnate example of what the Bible describes as pure religion.
This film is based on the powerful true story of Graham Staines, a missionary in India. He serves the leper population in India. With his sons, he meets an unexpected, tragic fate that his wife handles with great Christian courage, faith, and dignity. The story is told through the eyes of a fictional young journalist who goes undercover intending to expose Staines as illegally proselytizing leprosy patients. However, the journalist finds a man who has given himself completely, unselfishly. | <urn:uuid:033d1241-3a4c-47d8-8e74-cdec916d6b4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pinterest.com/dehoward/indian-christian-history-top-moviestv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962699 | 220 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Inner Sanctum Mysteries—Franchise Collection
Mill Creek Entertainment
1943, 1944, 1945 / 63, 64, 61, 62, 66 Min. / 1.33:1
Starring Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carroll Naish, Evelyn Ankers
Cinematography by Virgil Miller, Paul Ivano, Maury Gertsman
Directed by Reginald LeBorg, Harold Young, John Hoffman, Wallace Fox
For the first eight years of his career, Lon Chaney Jr. was just a face in the crowd—that all changed with 1939’s Of Mice and Men. The role of Lennie Small, a man-child who didn’t know his own strength, elevated the 33 year old actor to stardom but also typecast him as the perennial victim of circumstances—a B movie Hamlet. Offscreen, Chaney behaved more like Falstaff—his favorite pastimes were drinking, brawling, and more drinking. If Hollywood began to view him as a loose cannon, the actor sealed his own fate when he signed on as Larry Talbot, a discontented aristocrat who was more at home baying at the moon.
After the success of The Wolf Man, Chaney became Universal’s go-to monster—he needed a break from the make-up chair as much as he longed for a more conventional leading man’s role. The Inner Sanctum mysteries could have done the trick—the franchise was based on a popular radio show and came with a built-in audience. It was close to a sure thing for Universal Studios but not for its star—Chaney was cast in his most unconvincing light yet—ladies’ man, scholar, portrait painter, scientist. Though the actor himself may have struggled, each film in the series thrived thanks to the familiar Universal trappings—sleek photography, pulse-pounding music, and a steady parade of the studio’s most desirable starlets. And then there was that disembodied head…
The head was owned by David Hoffman—pale-faced and sunken-eyed, the actor was most effective as window dressing for suspense films and spook shows—he appeared for mere seconds in William Castle’s 13 Ghosts and he’s the most unnerving thing in the movie. Hoffman acted as the unofficial host of the Inner Sanctum films, leering from within a crystal ball where he implicated the audience itself; “… the mind. It destroys, distorts, creates monsters, commits murder! Yes, even you without knowing can commit murder!” Those monologues were the only thing remotely creepy about the films. Though trade magazines suggested classic horror, these were standard issue mysteries that focused on psychological Sturm und Drang—turgidly acted and melodramatic to the nth degree. And the more nth, the better.
In The Wolf Man Chaney was branded with the Pentagram, a supernatural Scarlet Letter. The curse of the Inner Sanctum is the stuff of commonplace soap operas—fate is determined by malicious neighbors, monomaniacal bobbysoxers, underhanded bosses, and unfaithful wives. Chaney himself insisted on the tortured voiceovers that materialize whenever he suffers his latest indignity—which means they appear a lot. Those soliloquies—unintended parodies of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude—were the heart and soul of the Inner Sanctum. Written in hyperventilating prose, they were the work of writers who established themselves in the swamps of pulp fiction including future director Edward Dein, Black Mask scribe Dwight V. Babcock, and M. Coates Webster who made his mark with western fare starring Roy Rogers and Allan Lane. Viennese-born director Reginald LeBorg was assigned to direct the first film in the series, Calling Dr. Death. Production began in October of 1943 and under LeBorg’s guidance it became the template for the series. Chaney was no stranger to the concept—in spring of that same year he appeared on the Inner Sanctum radio show in Ring of Doom. Though a longtime fan of the weekly thriller, it was the first and only time he made an appearance (Universal was not happy about their star’s extra-curricular activity).
In that April 4th broadcast Chaney played a gangster in love with a snake dancer—things are no less discombobulated in LeBorg’s film; the actor plays a catatonic medico who “might” have murdered his wife, a two-timing mega-shrew played by the ravishing Ramsey Ames. Patricia Morison is Chaney’s love-sick nurse who relies on a hypnotist’s metronome to expose the real murderer. Gale Sondergaard was slated to take Morison’s part but those plans went poof—more’s the pity—but the imposing Sondergaard’s very presence would have tilted the mystery in a different direction (a few years later Morison starred in her own Inner Sanctum-like show as a crime-busting psychiatrist in a TV series, The Cases of Eddie Drake).
LeBorg was back for 1944’s Weird Woman which remains the most purely enjoyable of the series and for good reason, it has a crackerjack premise; a college campus is beset by a turf war among faculty members, some of whom might be moonlighting as Satan’s little helpers. The story originated in Fritz Leiber’s Conjure Wife—also the basis for 1962’s Burn, Witch, Burn, a finely crafted take on witchcraft directed by Sidney Hayers.
Leiber’s tale is a satire of academia—a dog-eat-dog universe where tenure is valued over everything—even your soul. Chaney is a college professor caught between the South Sea charms of his new bride and a green-eyed librarian determined to end the marriage. Anne Gwynne plays the superstitious island flower and Evelyn Ankers is her bitchy antagonist—the question is, which is witch? Reasonable suspects abound and all eyes are on the terrifying Elizabeth Russell as a faculty wife whose social climbing turns deadly. Ankers is the main attraction of this quasi-spook fest—the voguish actress, usually cool as a cucumber, gives one of the more amusing camp performances of the 40’s—her every expression comes with its own cymbal crash.
Such exuberance was nowhere to be bound in LeBorg’s next leading lady. Aquanetta, the curvy but blank-faced co-star of 1944’s Dead Man’s Eyes, was a bona fide mystery woman at the time (her origins were kept deliberately opaque) and she plays, appropriately enough, a figure model who has a hand in the blinding of an up and coming artist played by Chaney—the incident sets off a string of murders that circle back to the pin-up girl. Is she innocent or out for blood? Chaney is literally in the dark but that doesn’t stop him from investigating. A blind detective was also as center stage of 1942’s Eyes in the Night directed by Fred Zinneman. That thriller starred Edward Arnold as a sightless Sherlock with his very own canine Watson, a seeing-eye dog. Unfortunately the screenplay Dwight Babcock turned in for Dead Man’s Eyes isn’t nearly so witty.
This would be the last Inner Sanctum for LeBorg but he wasn’t done with guilt-ridden head cases—he was in the director’s chair for 1963’s Diary of a Madman in which a possessed Vincent Price converses with the air in between knife murders. It was left to Harold Young to take charge of 1945’s The Frozen Ghost, a poetic title for a prosaic tale about suspended animation and mind reading. Luci Ward, who worked her way up from the Warner Bros. secretarial pool, wrote the script, a tangled affair with echoes of Leni’s Waxwork and Curtiz’s Mystery of the Wax Museum. Chaney plays a clairvoyant who’s convinced he caused the death of an audience member. The telepath goes incognito at a wax museum (of all places) where the thick plot grows even thicker with plastic surgeons and demented sculptors vying for screen time. Ankers is back and Elena Verdugo, Chaney’s bubbly gal-pal from House of Frankenstein, is still working her schoolgirl crush on Lon. Martin Kosleck is the wax-worker with murder on his mind and the normally mild-mannered Milburn Stone takes the opportunity to show off his dark side.
All the Inner Sanctum films flirt with that dark side—the sick kick of an EC comic—but the filmmakers usually pulled back from the hard stuff. That said, 1945’s Strange Confession opens with a jolt worthy of Crime SuspenStories. In this peculiarly diverting melodrama directed by John Hoffman, Chaney plays a struggling chemist who shows up at the door of an old friend while toting a decapitated head. Flashbacks tell the story of how and why he came to acquire this grisly memento. J. Carroll Naish, who played the needling detective on Lon’s trail in Calling Dr. Death, finds his own dark side as Lon’s odious employer who’s headed for a beheading. The movie was a remake of 1934’s The Man Who Reclaimed His Head starring Claude Rains as a pacifist driven to murder. Hoffman’s retelling stays true to the original’s tale of betrayal and revenge but M. Coates Webster’s shallow dialog makes it impossible for Lon to approach Rains’ moving portrayal.
Directed by Wallace Fox, 1945’s Pillow of Death is missing David Hoffman’s head-in-a-fishbowl act which is a little odd because his eerie warning, “… even you without knowing can commit murder!”, is precisely the plot of this final Inner Sanctum film. A lawyer in love with his secretary is suspected of suffocating his wife. There are plenty of red herrings (some of them so obvious as to wear a sign around their necks) but George Bricker’s screenplay is disjointed enough that one suspects they were making it up as they went along.
Chaney survived the Inner Sanctum experience but not the studio—he left Universal that same year after finishing just one more film (The Daltons Ride Again). His shot at the “conventional leading man” role was fated to be anything but conventional—but thanks to Lon and his strung-out asylum-mates, the Inner Sanctums remain preposterously diverting entertainment.
Upon their inception in 2002, Minnetonka, Minnesota’s Mill Creek Entertainment made their mark with budget-minded home video releases—much of their catalog was made up of also-ran material and the quality showed. Not so with their new Blu ray release of Inner Sanctum Mysteries—Franchise Collection. The films look absolutely terrific, at times as good as the hallowed Universal Legacy collections. Virgil Miller, Paul Ivano, Maury Gertsman, and Jerome Ash were the cinematographers for the series and Mill Creek’s work brings out the best in their work. Mill Creek has also included some excellent extra-added attractions including:
A 55 minute documentary, This is the Inner Sanctum: Making a Universal Mystery Series.
A history of the radio show presented by Martin Grams Jr., The Creaking Door: Entering the Inner Sanctum.
An archival interview with Martin Kosleck, Mind Over Matter.
Commentaries from C. Courtney Joyner and Regina LeBorg on Calling Dr. Death, Just Humphreys and Del Howison on Weird Woman and Peter Atkins and Joyner on Strange Confession.
A booklet is included in the set with information on the series from Joyner and a guide to accessing “digital bonuses”—streaming options for standard definition versions of 1943’s Lady of Burlesque and the 1948 one-off Inner Sanctum, which shares the spirit but none of the hyperbolic panache of the Universal series.There are also options to stream three Inner Sanctum radio shows, Boris Karloff in The Tell-Tale Heart, Peter Lorre in The Black Sea Gull, and Mary Astor in Melody of Death.
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Anna L. Davies, Transcript Correspondent
In a partnership with Stratford Ecological Center, Ohio Wesleyan University’s Monnett Garden will get a honey producing and observation apiary on April 22 for students of all majors to use.
The apiary is financed by an approximately $1,000 Theory-to-Practice grant written by junior zoology and nonfiction writing double major Meg Deeter. The grant Deeter received will cover the costs of beekeeping equipment and a stipend for a current lecture series about beekeeping by Stratford apiarist Dave Noble.
Noble’s last two lectures have been about the pollination industry and the honey bee genus Apis, respectively. Stratford will be providing the hives for no charge and will act as the main apiary caretaker and owner. “It’s a growing trend for campuses to have apiaries, and I wanted to bring that here,” Deeter said.
“I’m hoping for a foundation for students like me. I’m not the first and I won’t be the last. I want it to be something that stays when I’m gone.” “My main goal is to have a hands-on experience for parasitology and entomology students,” Deeter said.
Deeter said the apiary would still be open to students of any major. “I emphasized in my grant that this project would be interdisciplinary,” she said. “I don’t like the sciences and the arts being separated.”
Deeter said she was inspired to start the apiary over the summer while interning at a fish and wildlife center and watching her boss breed honeybees. While staying late in parasitology lab last semester, Deeter also overheard OWU professor of zoology Ramon A. Carreno mention wanting an observation hive.
“I also want an outreach for kids. Dave Noble helps with OWjL (Ohio Wesleyan Junior League) and wants to bring kids here to campus to study our apiary,” Deeter said.
Noble’s focus is getting young people interested in bees. “I came to bees when I was in college. My mentors started keeping bees when they were eight,” he said. “10,000 kids on average come to Stratford every year on field trips. I get to interact with all of them,” Noble said.
Like Deeter, Noble said he also wants science, humanities and social science college students to get involved. “I’m a huge proponent of the liberal arts because you have a specific major but get exposed to all these other things to create a wide foundation for life,” Noble said.
Noble’s next lecture is on March 28 and will be about threats to honeybees. The series continues with an April 11 lecture on honey bee genetics and an April 18 lecture on how to not get stung.
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La hormiga y el chapulín Big Book
In this retelling of a traditional tale, Ant prepares for winter while Grasshopper sings, plays, and naps. When winter arrives, poorly-prepared Grasshopper is not only hungry but now has no time to sing, play, and nap.
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Live in the South and in the market for a new car? Need to replace some light bulbs?
Chances are you think a little less than other Americans that your choice will have an impact on the environment.
A University of Michigan survey released Tuesday found that Southerners are less likely than Americans elsewhere to believe that energy affects the environment.
The survey, done by the university's Institute for Social Research and the Energy Institute, found that 69 percent of Southerners felt their energy choices had either "a fair amount" or "a lot" of environmental impact.
In the Midwest, 77 percent of the public said their energy choices have a fair amount or more impact, while 79 percent said such in the West and 82 percent in the Northeast.
The quarterly survey is conducted via phone interview with roughly 500 households nationwide per month. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent.
Difference in perception
One key -- though perhaps subtle -- distinction is that Southerners say they worry about energy's impacts to the same extent as other Americans do, said John DeCicco, research professor at the UM's Energy Institute and the survey director.
It's just that not as many Southerners believed that energy was having a detrimental impact.
"We don't see a distinction in how much they worry about it," he said. "We do see a fair amount of distinction in their perception of whether energy actually is affecting the environment."
Reliability and affordability concerns
Indeed, when it comes to concerns about energy reliability or affordability, Southerners are no different from other Americans, the survey found.
On average, they pay the same amount for home energy as the rest of the nation (Westerners pay the least, according to University of Michigan researchers). A little over half the nation worries about energy affordability, while about one third worries about reliability, both slight increases from the previous survey, in January 2014.
Other insights from the latest energy survey:
- On average, Americans believe that gasoline would become unaffordable if it hit roughly $5.89 per gallon, about 70 percent higher than the U.S. average gasoline price of $3.44 per gallon for the months the survey was taken.
- A monthly home energy bill of roughly $400 would be unaffordable for most Americans households, an amount double the average self-reported energy bill of $190 per month.
- Consumers appear to be notably more sensitive to increases in the price of gasoline than they are to increases in home energy bills.
- Consumers worry much less about the reliability of energy than they do about its affordability and impact on the environment.
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When the world was created,
G-d made everything a little bit incomplete.
Rather than making bread grow out of the earth,
G-d made wheat grow so that we might
bake it into bread.
Rather than making the earth of bricks,
G-d made it of clay so that we might
bake the clay into bricks.
Why? So that we might become partners
in completing the work of creation.
— from the Midrash
This evening, September 4, 2009, Pundit Aide-de-Camp James Matthew Elmer, Jr. will wed Maureen Margaret Gides at what will surely be a ceremony both meaningful and beautiful at the Saint Sebastian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
James is a good man and a conscientious aide. We wish him and his new bride every happiness.
In selecting Labor Day weekend for their nuptials, the couple certainly picked an auspicious time for a wedding — and that comes from personal experience.
For it was ten years ago this week, Labor Day weekend of September 1999, September 5th to be exact, and this writer was in a hotel room, putting on top hat and tails and preparing to take an elevator ride down to a beautiful room at The Plaza Hotel in The City of New York where my betrothed awaited and where we would be wed.
I have been thinking of what lessons I could draw from my decade of marriage to pass along to James, and I thought of the selection from the Midrash that I put at the top of this article.
Because I was having a Jewish wedding and many of the guests were not Jewish, I prepared a little booklet to explain the ceremony and I selected this excerpt because I had been inspired by my own parents.
Dating since they were kids in high school, my parents married young and partnered with one another to create a life and build a family. It wasn’t until years later… sitting in a hospital room in Houston, Texas, while my father, suffering from leukemia, underwent chemotherapy in preparation for a stem cell transplant from his identical twin brother… that I fully understood that for all our efforts, we are all also in partnership with G-d.
The ten years Debbie and I have been married have been years of work and commitment, leavened with joy and pride.
On the business front, we’ve surely spent much time and effort building a business, including launching the Pundit. We’ve worked hard to build a reputation and we’ve been fortunate to see some reward from that effort. Ken Whitacre, with whom I founded PRODUCE BUSINESS and who, along with my brother, Barry Prevor, was best man at my wedding, was kind enough to write a piece in the Pundit when I was given an important award earlier this year. The piece was titled Prevor Wins An Award, But Industry Gets The Prize.
Yet the greatest work of the past 10 years has certainly been procreative — two little gentlemen named William and Matthew.
Debbie and I have shared our lives with the industry. When we first got married, the Pundit published a piece titled Marriage to a Produce Man in Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS. The article identified Forthrightness, Empathy, Necessity, Work and Perishability as five lessons learned by growing up in a produce family that I thought would help in marriage.
It was just after 9/11 and William was born. The world looked a little scary at that moment, and two new parents saw their role as protecting that little guy. Yet we were never pessimists and saw the hand of a divine providence in the fact that William was born on October 19, 2001, the same date we had launched PRODUCE BUSINESS in 1985. We called the piece we wrote about the birth, Faith in the Future.
Then there was Matthew. I wonder if he will ever know how precious he is… because we almost lost him. To this day I think of myself standing outside the delivery room because they wouldn’t let me in, and then I shudder, as I did that very day, when I suddenly realized that all those people around me were sent by the hospital to be near me if they had to tell me something awful. The article about the experience was called No Accidents In Life.
As with many in our age brackets, while we are busy raising families, we also sometimes get opportunities to say thanks to our own parents for all they did for us. When my father was ill and I traveled to Texas to help, it was Debbie who manned the home front. I wrote a Special Note about the experience and included the famous Dylan Thomas poem, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
Then there have been the industry friends and family we’ve had fun with. We stole off to Las Vegas with some industry friends, swooped into town to attend the 40th birthday of another, did a cruise with family and friends, and a barbeque in the backyard out in Los Angeles and countless fun times with others.
Of course, life is bitter mixed with sweet, and we’ve known sadness as well. As when we went to the Animal Kingdom Lodge with our friends the Nuccis, and Joe Nucci suffered a fatal heart attack, or when I gave a Eulogy at the United Nations Chapel for an industry consultant, Stan Silverzweig.
And as quick as you blink, ten years is over: Building a business, having children, helping your parents — living and dying with family and friends. It just happened so fast. Then it starts to hit you. If I just blinked my eyes and we traveled ten years from our wedding day, that means if I blink again, William, my second grader, will be 17-years-old and Matthew, my kindergartener, will be 16-years-old. Now the boys leap on me when I walk in the door; ten years from now, I suppose they will be distracted by friends and girlfriends and who knows what activities?
If I were to give James advice, it would be that life quickly gives people roles, and, especially if you have children, it is easy to focus on all your jobs and forget to focus on each other.
Some of it is inevitable. I’ve traveled so widely and so often — think how wonderful it would be to have Debbie with me in Cape Town or London or Sydney — but we have an obligation to our children, so I mostly travel alone.
But whatever the circumstances, one can always pay more attention to one’s spouse.
My grandmother, Bebe Prevor, was not a schooled person, yet she was very wise. When my father told her that he wanted to marry my mother, my grandmother asked, “Are you compatible?” I think that is a crucial question. Debbie and I have occasionally disagreed over the ten years (of course, in the end Debbie was always right and I was wrong — recognizing that is another key to a happy marriage), but never, not once, have we disagreed on anything I would think of as a core value.
But a marriage is more than just a partnership to raise the children, and as I think about blinking my eyes a couple of times and think of the children off on their own, I’m resolved to try to make my priority this second decade to let my wife know how much I love her.
As you read this, Debbie, our boys and your friendly Pundit will be jetting off to the Las Casitas Resort at the El Conquistador in Puerto Rico. A long weekend to celebrate ten years, two boys and the creation of a family — or to go back to the piece we started with — to celebrate our chance to be a partner in perfecting the work of creation.
* * * * * *
My grandfather, Harry Prevor, who was an auction buyer and wholesaler in New York on the old Washington Street market, taught me a song with a wry look on marriage. It was an old Eddie Cantor classic called Makin’ Whoopee. Michelle Pfeiffer did a rendition of the song in The Fabulous Baker Boys with Jeff Bridges as her accompanist.
She is not as hot or as sultry as my Debbie, but thought you might enjoy the song:
Of course, between basketball, the school play, piano lessons, soccer, swim lessons, chorus, homework, etc., we don’t really have that much time for going out in high style. In our house — and I guess this is all about marriage when you have young children — we are at the stage where life involves a different take on the song. Cookie Monster from Sesame Street (before he became politically correct and declared cookies a “sometimes food”) did a version called Eatin’ Cookie:
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Volume 612, April 2018
|Number of page(s)||6|
|Section||Planets and planetary systems|
|Published online||27 April 2018|
NELIOTA: First temperature measurement of lunar impact flashes
IAASARS, National Observatory of Athens,
2 Scientific Support Office, Directorate of Science, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA/ESTEC), 2201 AZ Noordwijk, The Netherlands
3 Chair of Astronautics, Technical University of Munich, 85748 Garching, Germany
4 Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece
Accepted: 2 January 2018
We report the first scientific results from the NELIOTA (NEO Lunar Impacts and Optical TrAnsients) project, which has recently begun lunar monitoring observations with the 1.2-m Kryoneri telescope. NELIOTA aims to detect faint impact flashes produced by near-Earth meteoroids and asteroids and thereby help constrain the size-frequency distribution of near-Earth objects in the decimeter to meter range. The NELIOTA setup, consisting of two fast-frame cameras observing simultaneously in the R and I bands, enables – for the first time – direct analytical calculation of the flash temperatures. We present the first ten flashes detected, for which we find temperatures in the range ~1600 to 3100 K, in agreement with theoretical values. Two of these flashes were detected on multiple frames in both filters and therefore yield the first measurements of the temperature drop for lunar flashes. In addition, we compute the impactor masses, which range between ~100 g and ~50 kg.
Key words: Moon / meteorites, meteors, meteoroids / surveys
© ESO 2018
The estimation of the impact flux of near-Earth objects (NEOs) is important not only for the protection of human civilization, but also for the protection of space assets, which could be damaged or at least perturbed even by small, mm- to cm-size impactors. A recent example that reveals this necessity was the Chelyabinsk event in 2013, which was caused by a 20-m impactor and member of the NEO population. This collision was responsible for 1500 injured civilians and a few thousand damaged human assets in the area (Popova et al. 2013). The precise flux density of objects in this size range is not yet well known. A promising method for constraining NEO flux densities in this size range is via the detection of impact flashes on the Moon.
A plethora of laboratory impact experiments have been conducted over the last 40 years initiated primarily to study spacecraft shielding, using mainly metallic materials (Holsapple et al. 2002, and references therein). Apart from these technical experiments, hypervelocity impacts (impact speeds v > 1 km s−1) are also studied at small scales. One important goal is to extrapolate the results to larger size and velocity scales, towards the understanding of the collisions on planetary surfaces by asteroids and comets or even among the small bodies, for example the inter-asteroid collisions in the Main Belt. It has been clearly shown that several impactor parameters, such as the impactor’s size, density, velocity and impact angle affect the collision outcome, for example, the crater formation and the size and speed of the ejecta plume (Ryan & Melosh 1998; Housen et al. 1999; Housen & Holsapple 2003, 2011; Avdellidou et al. 2016, 2017). Observations have shown that, for example, highly porous objects tend to be destroyed tens of km above the surface of the Earth, as was the case with 2008 TC3 (Jenniskens et al. 2009; Bischoff et al. 2010) and the Benesov bolide (Borovicka et al. 1998).
Telescopic surveys, such as the Catalina Sky Survey (Drake et al. 2009) and Pan-STARRS (Chambers et al. 2016), are continuously discovering new objects, which are verified by follow-up observations from observers all around the world. Space missions such as WISE and the Spitzer Space Telescope, along with spectroscopic observations, provide valuable data to start characterizing the physical properties of NEOs, such as their diameters, albedos, and spectral types. Over 16 300 NEOs have been identified (HORIZONS System 2016, as of August 2017) of which only 1142 have known diameters d (Delbo’ et al. 2017), with the smallest ones being less than ten meters. The NEO population consists of small bodies delivered from the source regions of the Main Belt via mean motion and secular resonances with the planets (Bottke et al. 2000, 2002). Currently, the completeness of the observed sample is at d ~ 1 km, as surveys are not able to massively detect NEOs that are smaller than a few tens of meters in diameter. In fact, the very small bodies are usually detected when their position on their orbit comes at close proximity to Earth. For example, the 4-m near-Earth asteroid 2008 TC3 was discovered only 19 h prior to its impact on Earth and immediate radar observations provided its size (Jenniskens et al. 2009).
During the last decades, advances have been made by several groups leading to a better estimation of the sizes of small impactors and their flux on the Moon, correcting for the Earth as a target. This was done by calculating the luminous efficiency η of the detected flashes, which is defined as the fraction of the impactor’s kinetic energy (KE) that is emitted as light at visible wavelengths (L), that is, L= η × KE. Great uncertainties occur during these calculations when the events originate from sporadic NEOs (those not associated to meteor streams), since the collisional velocity of the meteoroids on the Moon is unknown. Several authors adopt average impact speeds for the lunar surface spanning a wide range between 16 and 24 km s−1 (Ortiz et al. 2000, 2002; Suggs et al. 2014). Uncertainties in the speed estimation lead to uncertainties of the luminous efficiency value η. The current estimations of the luminous efficiency of the lunar impactors range over an order of magnitude resulting in weakly constrained masses. However, when the impact events are linked to a known meteoroid stream, this unknown parameter can be constrained (e.g., Bellot Rubio et al. 2000) yielding masses that can be appended to the current known impactors’ size distribution (Harris et al. 2015) and can also be used for further studies.
Apart from the NEO flux and size distribution, the lunar surface serves as a large-scale impact laboratory to study the impact events. The term “large-scale” refers both to the impactor sizes and speeds when comparing them to laboratory-based hypervelocity experiments, where the sizes of impactors are typically a few mm and the speeds below 8 km s−1 (e.g., Burchell et al. 1999). The collisions of NEOs on the Moon give rise to several phenomena that can be detected and further studied, such as impact cratering (Speyerer et al. 2016), seismic waves (Oberst & Nakamura 1991) and the enhancement of the lunar atmosphere with sodium (Verani et al. 1998; Smith et al. 1999).
The light flash produced by an impact depends on several parameters, including the mass and speed of the impactor. Even when the mass and speed are known, the different combinations of mineralogical compositions of both the target and impactor will affect the result. Pioneering laboratory experiments were conducted more than 40 years ago, using dust accelerators and photomultipliers with filters at several wavelengths, allowing the estimation of the plasma temperature (Eichhorn 1975, 1976; Burchell et al. 1996a,b). Therefore the study of impact flashes could provide insight to the complex problem of energy partitioning during an impact event, when the majority of physical parameters are constrained or measured (e.g., mass and speed of the impactor, crater size, ejecta speed).
The NELIOTA project1 (Xilouris et al., in prep.) provides the first lunar impact flash observations performed simultaneously in more than one wavelength band. In Sect. 2 we present the instrumentation, observation strategy and the first ten lunar impact flashes from NELIOTA, providing their durations and magnitudes. In Sect. 3, we focus on the first ever measurement of impact flash temperatures using our two-colour observation technique, while in Sect. 4 we present a new approach to estimate the impactors’ masses. The discussion and conclusions are given in Sect. 5.
NELIOTA has upgraded the 1.2-m Kryoneri telescope2 and converted it to a prime-focus instrument with a focal ratio of f/2.8 for lunar monitoring observations. The telescope has been equipped with two identical Andor Zyla scientific CMOS cameras, which are installed at the prime focus and are thermoelectrically cooled to 0°. A dichroic beam-splitter with a cut-off at 730 nm directs the light onto the two cameras (2560 × 2160 pixels2, 6.48 μm per pixel), which observe in visible and near-infrared wavelengths using R and I Cousin filters, respectively. The maximum transmittance of each filter is at λR = 641 nm and λI = 798 nm, corresponding to a maximum quantum efficiency of ~50% and ~40%, respectively. The field-of-view of this setup is 16.0′× 14.4′. We use the 2 × 2 binning mode, which yields a pixel-scale of 0.8″, as it best matches the 1.2–1.5″ average seeing and results in a lower volume of data. Currently, the NELIOTA system has the largest telescope with the most evolved configuration that performs dedicated monitoring of the Moon, in search of faint lunar impact flashes.
Observations are conducted on the dark side of the Moon, between lunar phases ~0.1 and 0.4. The maximum lunar phase during which observations can be obtained is set by the strength of the glare coming from the sun-lit side of the Moon. The observations begin/end ~20 min after/beforethe sunset/sunrise and last for as long as the Moon is above an altitude of 20°. The altitude limit is set due to limitations from the dome slit. The cameras simultaneously record at a frame rate of 30 frames-per-second or every 33 ms, in 2 × 2 binning mode. The exposure time of each frame is 23 ms, followed by a read-out time of 10 ms. The observations are split into “chunks” that are 15 min in duration. At the end of each chunk, a standard star is observed for calibration purposes. The standard stars have been carefully selected (a) to be as close as possible to the altitude of the Moon and (b) to have similar color indices to the expected colors of the flashes (i.e., 0.3 < R − I < 1.5 mag). Flat-field images are taken on the sky before or after the lunar observations, while dark frames are obtained directly after the end of the observations. The duration of the observations varies between ~25 min and ~4.5 h, depending on the lunar phase and the time of year.
The novelty of the NELIOTA instrumentation setup is that it simultaneously acquires data from two detectors and at two different wavelengths. This setup enables the validation of a flash from a single telescope and site, since a real event that is bright enough will be detected by both cameras at the same position and at the same time, whereas cosmic ray artefacts will only be detected by one camera at any given position and time. Although satellites are also common artefacts, they are typically recorded as streaks. Satellites moving at low enough speeds so as not to show up as streaks in our 23-ms exposure time have to be far away – assuming, in the worst case, an object with a perigee of 300 km, the apogee has to be at least at 17 500 km to result in an apparent movement of less than 1 pixel per 23 ms. At this distance, an object with a reflectivity of 0.5 would need to be at least 2 m in size to be detected as a magnitude-11 flash. Geosynchronous satellites could also produce artefacts due to reflection of sunlight off their solar panels. However, since their positions are well known and clustered around a declination of approximately zero, they pose no major concern as artefacts, as they can be ruled out by using available catalogs of geosynchronous satellite positions.
This paper presents and analyzes the first ten flashes that were validated during the testing phase and the first months of the NELIOTA campaign, from February to July 2017. These flashes originate from sporadic NEOs. We checked various orbital catalogs of satellites and could not find any objects in front of the Moon at the times of the detected flashes. We note that the synchronization of the cameras during the frame acquisition for these flashes is better than 6 ms. All validated flashes are made available on the NELIOTA website within 24 h of the observations.
The data reduction is performed automatically by the NELIOTA pipeline (described in Xilouris et al., in prep.) using the median images of the respective calibration files (flat and dark images). These master-images are used to calibrate the data of the Moon as well as those of the standard stars. The pipeline searches for flashes on the images, after computing and subtracting a running, weighted average image, which removes the lunar background.
Due to the nonuniform background around a flash, which is caused by surface features of the Moon (e.g., craters, maria) and earthshine, we performed photometry of the flashes on background-subtracted images. We created these images by subtracting a median lunar image based on the five frames before and five frames after the event. Aperture photometry with the AIP4WIN software (Berry & Burnell 2000) was then performed for both the flashes and standard stars observed nearest in time for each flash. Optimal apertures corresponding to the maximum in the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of the flux measurement were used for the flashes to avoid adding noise from the subtracted background, while large apertures were used for the standards. Since the standard stars are observed at approximately the same airmass as the lunar surface, we can compute the flash magnitudes in each filter as: (1)
where mstar and mflash are the calibrated magnitude of the standard star and the magnitude of the flash, respectively, and S and F are the fluxes of the star and flash for the same integration time. All photometric measurements and error determinations were independently computed using the IRAF3 apphot package and were found to agree within errors with the results from AIP4WIN.
Table 1 presents the date and universal time at the start of the observation for each impact flash detection, its R and I-band magnitude and error, the durationrecorded in I, as well as the temperature and mass measurements are described in the following sections. The flash durations are estimated by multiplying the 33-ms frame rate by the number of frames the flash was detected on and are thus upper limitsto the real flash duration. The durations range between 33 and 165 ms, in agreement with previously reported values (e.g., Yanagisawa & Kisaichi 2002). We note that Flashes 2, 6, 7, and 10 were detected over multiple, consecutive frames. Flashes 2 and 10 are the brightest flashes in the current dataset and had simultaneous detections in both bands in consecutive frames. They are used below to measure the temperature evolution of the flashes.
The NELIOTA observations provide the first observational evidence for the temperature of impact flashes. Since we measure the emitted flux density in two different filters (R and I), we can determine the flash temperature by comparing the intensities in the two wavelength bands. Assuming black-body emission (Eichhorn 1975; Burchell et al. 1996b; Ernst & Schultz 2004; Suggs et al. 2014), a given temperature will result in a specific ratio between the measured intensities in the R and I-bands.
The ratio of the energies E1∕E2 released in two different wavelengths depends only on the temperature T. Here we present an analytical method for calculating the temperatures of the NELIOTA flashes. The Planck formula is given by: (2)
where h = 6.62 × 10−34 kg m2 s−1 is the Planck constant, c = 3 × 108 m s−1 the speed of light, kB = 1.38 × 10−23 kg m2 s−2 K−1 the Boltzmann constant, T and λ the temperature of the flash and the wavelength of the photons, respectively. Dividing the Planck formula with the energy E = hc∕λ per photon, we obtain the photon radiance per wavelength LP(λ, T): (3)
Equation (3) is now linked to the absolute flux, fλ, of the flash as: (4)
where Ω is a constant. Since the observations are performed simultaneously at two different wavelengths, R and I, we measure the two instrumental fluxes for the flash (FR and FI) and for the standard star (SR and SI ). These measured fluxes are linked to theabsolute ones (fR, fI and sR, sI) with the factors ξR and ξI, which depend on the instrument and atmospheric transmission. Therefore, for each λ we get: (5) (6)
Using the color of the standard star (R − I), which is known from the literature, and the ratio of Eq. (6) we obtain the value of the ratio of ξI ∕ξR, (7) (8)
The ξ value is now used to find the ratio of the flash flux in both filters fR∕fI using Eq. (5). From the ratio of Eq. (4), substituting the LP (R, T)/LP(I, T) expressions from Eq. (3) and the fR∕fI using Eq. (5), we have: (9)
and thus thetemperature T becomes theonly unknown parameter, which is calculated numerically using Eq. (9).
For eachevent, we performed 105 Monte Carlo simulations in order to compute the standard deviation of each temperature measurement. At each iteration, random numbers were obtained from the observed flux distribution. The values of fR and fI were extracted from a Gaussian distribution centered at the nominal value of each flux, while adopting the standard deviation that resulted from the photometry. All temperatures and their uncertainties are presented in Table 1.
The multi-frame Flashes 2 and 10 enable us to calculate the drop of the temperature for the first time, as they have simultaneous detections in both bands in consecutive frames. We find a temperature decrease of 1325 ± 104 K for Flash 2 and 20 ± 73 K for Flash 10, that is, between the first detection and the subsequent one 33 ms later. The temperature evolution appears very different for each case and indicates a large difference in the impactor size, as a larger and heavier object will take longer to cool. A larger sample of multi-frame flashes from NELIOTA will allow us to determine the cooling behavior of the flashes and its relation to the impactor mass. Figure 1 illustrates the light curve evolution for the four multi-frame flashes and temperature evolution for Flashes 2 and 10. The data are plotted at the end of the frame read-out of the corresponding measurement. All I-band light curves have a similar slope. Flash 2 presents a steeper decrease in the R-band than in the I-band.
Dates, universal times (UT), magnitudes in each filter, duration recorded in the I-band and listed forthe first entry of each flash, temperatures and impactor masses of the first ten NELIOTA flashes.
The first step for the mass estimation is to derive the luminosity L of the impact event. Given that observations up to now were mostly carried out using a single R-band filter, the value of L was not well constrained (Bellot Rubio et al. 2000; Bouley et al. 2012; Ortiz et al. 2015; Madiedo et al. 2015; Suggs et al. 2014, 2017). In this paper, we are able to estimate T for the first time from the two wavelength bands provided by NELIOTA, and therefore can directly derive the luminous energy. Assuming black-body radiation from a spherical area, the bolometric energy is expressed in Joules as: (10)
where σ =5.67 × 10−8 W m−2 K−4 is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, A = 2πr2 the emitting area of radius r for a flash near the lunar surface, T the flash temperaturederived above, and t the exposure time of the frame when the photons were integrated. However, this calculation is not straightforward since we do not know the size of the radiating plume. A reasonable assumption is that the flashes are not resolved and thus the area is smaller than the pixel-scale (0.8″), which corresponds to a linear distance of ~1500 m at the center of the Moon’s disk.
where r is the radius of the radiative area, D the Earth–Moon distance at the time of the observation and ϵ the emissivity, which we assume to be 1. The monochromatic flux of the flash fλ can be calculated from: (12)
therefore Eq. (11) can be solved for the unknown area of radius r. For the error estimation in r, we followed the approach described for the T error estimation. We performed Monte Carlo simulations for the absolute flux estimation using Eq. (12), by randomly selecting flash magnitudes (mλ) from their Gaussian distribution, with centers and standard deviations from the values of Table 1. This procedure was repeated for each filter and returned the absolute fluxes with their 1σ values. In turn, these values were used as input for new Monte Carlo simulations, the calculation of r, and the final value comes from the average of the A-value that was found for each filter. We use a simple average of the two derived areas (one for each filter) for a single event since the differences were small. The luminosity of the flash L, which now can be easily derived from Eq. (10), is just a fraction η (luminous efficiency) of the impactor’s initial kinetic energy KE: (13)
where vo = 9.3 km s−1, in order to estimate the luminous efficiencies η1 and η2 for two extreme impact velocities, 16 km s−1 and 24 km s−1 (Steel 1996; McNamara et al. 2004), respectively. Table 1 presents the resulting masses, which range between 0.3 and 55 kg for η1 = 1.07 × 10−3 and 0.1−20 kg for η2 = 1.29 × 10−3.
Upper panel: light curves of the four multi-frame events in the I (filled circles; solid line) and R (open circles; dotted line) bands. Lower panel: temperature evolution for Flashes 2 and 10.
NELIOTA is the first lunar monitoring system that enables the direct temperature measurement of observed lunar impact flashes, thanks to its unique twin camera and two-filter observation setup. Until now, the temperature could only be estimated, as it was based on modeling or experimental work. For example, Suggs et al. (2014) used T = 2800 K from Nemtchinov et al. (1998). Cintala (1992) suggested that the flash temperatures, which depend on the type of material on the lunar surface, should range between 1700 K and 3800 K. The agreement of the values we obtain for the first NELIOTA flashes ( ~1600 to 3100 K) with the theoretical range is of great importance for estimating the luminosity of an impact flash and therefore its mass and size.
The estimation of the masses of the impactors is a challenging procedure because many factors contribute to the mass uncertainty. The uncertainties of the observed fluxes contribute to the temperature estimation, which propagates to the calculation of the radiating area A and then to the calculation of the bolometric luminosity L. However, the parameter that has the most important effect for the mass estimation is the luminous efficiency. Luminous efficiencies derived from laboratory experiments (Ernst & Schultz 2005) tend to be smaller by a few orders of magnitude compared tothe ones derived from observations. Previous studies have proposed various values for the luminous efficiency, for example, η ~ 2 × 10−3 from observations of lunar Leonids (Bellot Rubio et al. 2000). While we compute η from Eq. (14) to be ~ 1.1–1.3 × 10−3, other extreme values have been used for the sporadic impactor population. Specifically, when values in the range 10−3 < η < 10−4 are used, the mass of the same impactor can differ by an order of magnitude, even larger than the one we calculate here. Since large uncertainties exist in the calculation of the mass due to the unknown impact velocity, any estimation of the size will also be uncertain. Despite these uncertainies, our mass estimates (100 g to 55 kg) are at least an order of magnitude higher than the values (0.4 g to 3.5 kg) reported by Suggs et al. (2014).
The impactors can be either asteroidal or cometary in origin, implying a difference in the density. Even if we consider the scenario that the bodies are near-earth asteroids, their densities can span a large range. Bulk densities of asteroids differ according to their mineralogy and macroporosity (Britt et al. 2002; Carry 2012). However, there now exists a large collection of meteorites, pieces of asteroids, and an advanced knowledge of their densities. Average bulk densities of meteorites are between 1600 and 7370 kg m−3, where these extremes correspond to carbonaceous and iron meteorites, respectively (Consolmagno & Britt 1998; Britt & Consolmagno 2003; Consolmagno et al. 2008; Macke et al. 2010, 2011a,b). For all these reasons, new laboratory experiments using several types of materials will be very important for understanding impacts and the flash-generation mechanism, as they will provide a database of the impact parameters and their correlations (mass, impact speed, composition, flash duration, etc.).
In summary, we report the first ten lunar impact flashes detected by the NELIOTA project, using the 1.2 m Kryoneri telescope. The multi-band capability of the NELIOTA cameras enables us to directly measure the temperatures of the impact flashes for the first time and to estimate the impactor masses. We find the measured temperature values ( ~1600 to 3100 K) to agree with previously published theoretical estimates, as discussed above. Furthermore, our sample contains four multi-frame flashes, two of which offer the opportunity for the estimation of the temperature evolution of the flash. We find a decrease of 1325 ± 104 K for Flash 2 in 33 ms, while the decrease in the same time interval for Flash 10 (20 ± 73 K) is consistent with zero. This difference is likely related to the fact that the impactor producing Flash 10 has a mass that is an order of magnitude larger than that of the impactor producing Flash 2. We also note that Flash 10 does not appear as a point source. We expect future detections of multi-frame and multi-band flashes with NELIOTA to provide a large enough sample for it to help determine the temperature evolution properties of impact flashes. Furthermore, our mass estimations rely on direct measurement of the luminous energy, given the directly measured temperature. The mass estimates that we report (100 g to 55 kg) are higher than previous estimations, despite the range of values assumed for the impact velocities and the resulting values of η.
Obtaining NEO flux densities requires increasing the number of measurements of lunar impact flashes made during meteor showers. These will be important for estimating the impactor sizes, since their impact velocity will be constrained. NELIOTA is expected to contribute to detections of stream impact flashes, which will also constrain the critical, yet uncertain, value of η. The multi-band capability of NELIOTA will generate valuable statistics on the temperatures of impact flashes and their evolution. The comparison of these measurements with the laboratory results will provide insight to the physics of impact flashes.
AL, EMX, AD, IBV, PB, AF and AM acknowledge financial support by the European Space Agency under the NELIOTA program, contract No. 4000112943. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency NELIOTA project, obtained with the 1.2-m Kryoneri telescope, which is operated by the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. Thanks to Danielle Moser, Robert Suggs and Steven Ehlert (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) for discussions and comments on the manuscript. CA would like to thank Regina Rudawska and Elliot Sefton-Nash (ESTEC/ESA) for input.
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La Catrina is the stylish female figure that is the most popular symbol of Día de los Muertos. This Day of the Dead woman comes back to life every year.
Día de los Muertos is not Mexican Halloween
To many north of the border, the phrase “Day of the Dead” might evoke notions of zombies, but “Dia de los Muertos” has beautiful and complex celebrations.
Although people do grieve for their lost loved ones, many approach this holiday with cheerful memories and a celebration of life.
The elegantly attired female figure, La Catrina, also joins the party.
La Catrina’s origin runs deep from the indigenous traditions of Mexican culture that have their roots in Aztec reverence for and worship of the dead.
The Aztecs revered their departed relatives. Ancestor worship was integral to their belief that those who had died had merely moved on to the next life. It was, and still is, a time of celebration – of “rebirth” into the afterlife.
Many believe that Catrina originated from the goddess of death worshiped by the Aztecs. It was believed that she protected and helped to usher departed relatives into the next stages of the afterlife.
The “goddess of the dead” eventually transformed into the Lady of the Dead.
La Catrina – Enigmatic Symbol of Dia de los Muertos
Undoubtedly, the most famous Dia de los Muertos symbol is that of La Catrina – the very tall female skeleton attired in her elegant long dress, fancy shoes, and her elaborate feathered hat.
La Catrina makeup and La Catrina costumes are everywhere during the Day of the Dead celebrations as women want to adopt her look.
La Catrina made her reappearance in the 20th-century works of the artist Jose Guadalupe Posada.
He was a very controversial political cartoonist yet well-admired by many people. Posada’s satirical depictions of skeletons were his way of reminding people that in the end, they would all wind up dead.
Many believe that his drawings of a female skeleton decked out in her elegant feathery attire was his way of poking fun at the wealthy Mexicans who pretended to be European aristocrats.
Posada wanted to remind people to stop pretending to be something that they were not.
Posada’s message with images like Catrina was that no matter the color of your skin, how rich or poor you are, or what level of society you live in, you will all end up as skeletons.
He liked to say that “Death is democratic.”
Fast forward to Diego Rivera, the famous artist, and husband of Frieda Kahlo. Rivera immortalized La Catrina in his 15-foot mural, “Dreams of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park.”
He even depicted himself as a child holding her hand in the front row. Rivera gave her that fashionable dress and flamboyant feathered hat which she is famous for today.
From that point forward, La Catrina became the dominant symbol for a whole host of Day of the Dead activities and celebrations.
In fact, La Catrina is so incredibly popular that you can see many different statues of her offered for sale at many Mexican markets. Whether made of wood, clay or paper mache, Catrina is always elegantly attired including her famous feathered hat.
Many tourists bring back this 100% Mexican symbol as a reminder of their travel adventures.
Day of the Dead originated in Southern Mexico.
In Northern Mexico, where there is a far stronger European rather than indigenous influence, the Day of the Dead was not celebrated.
It’s only recently that this celebration became popular and adopted by people in the northern states and in parts of the US.
La Catrina appears everywhere, even in cemeteries where people joyfully and cheerfully remember their departed loved ones, offering them beautiful flowers, as well as some of their favorite foods and drinks when they were in the land of the living.
You’ve heard of “curbside service?” Well, this is “graveside service.” 🙂
La Catrina is an integral part of how many, but not all, Mexicans view death and the afterlife. There are still many Mexicans who do not celebrate this indigenous tradition.
From November 1st (“Day of the Innocents”) through November 2nd (aka “Day of the Dead”), La Catrina will make her appearance as part of the festivities.
You’ll hear people shout, “¡Vivan nuestros antepasados!” or in English “Long live our ancestors!”
When looking at La Catrina, the fashionable female skeleton, think of her more like Mamá Imelda from the movie “Coco.”
Dia de los Muertos is a charming and heartwarming way to remember departed relatives. It is a great opportunity to celebrate life with the stories, recipes, music, and art of our multifaceted Mexican culture.
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NARRATOR:Listen to part of a lecture in a plant ecology class.
FEMALE PROFESSOR:So far we've covered biodiversity in the hardwood forests here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from a number of angles.We've looked at everything from how biodiversity relates to species stability, to competition for forest resources, and more.But now I want to discuss what's called pedodiversity.
Pedodiversity is basically soil diversity.When we analyze pedodiversity within an area, we're measuring how much variability there is in soil properties- and how many different types of soil there are in a particular area.So, we look at soil chemistry- for example, how much nitrogen or magnesium there is in the soil in one spot- and we compare it with the chemistry of the soil a short distance away.
Until recently there hasn't been a whole lot of attention paid to pedodiversity. But that's changing rapidly. More and more studies are being done in this field.There's a link between biodiversity and pedodiversity... an obvious relationship between soils and flora and fauna.Which is why pedodiversity really should be considered in forest management.
A high degree of soil variability in a small area is common, particularly within forests.If you compare soils from a forest with soils that don't come from a forest, the amount of variability will most likely be greater in the forest soil.It generally has more diversity.
Um, OK, there are three main causes of pedodiversity within old-growth forests here in our region of Michigan.
One is tree species. Different species have different influences on soil formation and soil properties.For example, pine trees drop pine needles, and those needles add a lot of acid to the soil.The organic litter of another tree species might add less acid but more of something else.A lot of different types of trees in an area might mean more pedodiversity.
Another cause? Gaps created when trees fall. You see, where there are gaps-open areas-in the forest, the soil there changes.Um, for instance... without a tree to absorb radiation from the Sun, to offer shade, the full intensity of that radiation reaches the ground. The soil where the tree used to be heats up.And without a tree to soak up moisture from the ground, the soil remains wetter than in the surrounding forest.With a higher temperature and more moist conditions, the process of organic matter decomposition speeds up.In other words, organic matter gets broken down and added into the soil more quickly in these gaps than in the surrounding forest.
OK, and the third cause: trees being uprooted.When a tree is uprooted, it might fall into some other trees on its way down, thus falling only part way over, or it might crash all the way down to the forest floor.Either way, if its roots are pulled up from out of the ground as the tree topples over, then there's usually a big hole- a pit-left in the ground where the roots used to be.And there's still a lot of soil attached to the roots... clinging to the roots.As that soil is eventually shed from the roots by rain and wind and the movement of squirrels climbing around, things like that, um, as the soil is shed, it drops down and forms a little hill of dirt-a mound.
Pits and mounds have significantly different soil properties than other areas in the forest.You get a redistribution and mixing of soil as deep roots are ripped up from the ground.Rock fragments can be pulled up too, if they've gotten entangled with the roots over the years.So rock fragments from the subsoil can end up concentrated on the surface.
There are forest-management implications I want to point out.Forest management impacts soil quality.And when we better understand pedodiversity, we will be better able to predict the impact of forest management on soil.But in general, for positive impact, forest-management practices should mimic natural forest processes.And the goal should be to promote pedodiversity, and through this, biodiversity in general.
I have a handout-an article on pedodiversity in a section of forest near here.I want you to read it because it makes a point that I've only touched on.From what I've been saying about the causes of pedodiversity, you might assume that the relationship between forest dynamics-what happens to the trees- and pedodiversity is a one-way street.As the article explains, forest dynamics affects pedodiversity, but pedodiversity also affects forest dynamics.It's worth bearing in mind.
Professor: But now I want to discuss what’s called pedodiversity …. There are three main causes of pedodiversity within old-growth forests here in our region of Michigan.
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On February 18, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets control (OFAC) announced a $507,375 settlement with BitPay, Inc. (BitPay). This civil settlement resolved apparent violations of multiple sanctions programs related to digital currency transactions, and is the second OFAC enforcement case brought against a business in the blockchain industry. This case follows OFAC’s December 2020 civil enforcement action against another blockchain industry company, BitGo, Inc. (BitGo), for alleged violations of multiple US sanctions programs related to digital currency transactions. See our prior blog post on the BitGo action here.
BitPay, based in Atlanta, Georgia, offers a payment processing solution for merchants to accept digital currency as payment for goods and services. The apparent sanctions violations relate to digital currency transactions on the BitPay platform between individuals located in Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea region of Ukraine (annexed by Russia) and merchants in the United States and elsewhere. OFAC acknowledged that BitPay screened its customers, the merchants, against US sanctions lists, but stated that BitPay had reason to know that purchasers dealing with the merchants were located in comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions because the company had location information, including Internet Protocol (IP) address data, about those persons. This case was not voluntarily disclosed, but OFAC found that the violations were not egregious.
According to OFAC, BitPay allowed persons in comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions to conduct approximately $129,000 worth of digital currency transactions with BitPay’s merchant customers. As described in OFAC’s enforcement release, between approximately June 10, 2013, and September 16, 2018, BitPay processed 2,102 transactions from individuals with IP addresses located in the sanctioned jurisdictions. The transactions related to BitPay’s payment processing service. BitPay allegedly received digital currency payments on behalf of its merchant customers from those merchants’ buyers, who were located in sanctioned jurisdictions. BitPay then converted the digital currency into fiat, and then relayed that currency to its merchant customers.
BitPay collected certain pieces of information on the buyers including the buyers’ name, address, email address, and, starting in November 2017, the buyer’s IP addresses. However, BitPay’s transaction review process did not appropriately analyze this location and identification information, resulting in persons located in the comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions making purchases from US merchants.
OFAC has previously cited companies for violations based, at least in part, on a failure to implement IP geo-blocking in a number of non-blockchain contexts, including actions targeting Amazon, Toronto-Dominion Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank, and in the BitGo action noted above.
Pursuant to OFAC’s Enforcement Guidelines, OFAC identified two factors that it determined to be aggravating factors:
- BitPay failed to exercise “due caution or care for its sanctions compliance obligations” by allowing persons in sanctioned jurisdictions to transact with BitPay’s merchants using digital currency for approximately five years, while BitPay allegedly had sufficient location information to screen those customers; and
- BitPay conveyed $128,582.61 in economic benefit to individuals located in several sanctioned jurisdictions, thereby damaging the integrity of those sanctions programs.
However, OFAC also found a number of mitigating factors:
- BitPay implemented certain sanctions compliance controls as early as 2013, including due diligence and sanctions screening efforts on its merchant customers, and formalized its sanctions compliance program in 2014;
- BitPay provided employee training, including to senior management, that merchant sign-ups from Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea, as well as trade with sanctioned individuals and entities, were prohibited;
- BitPay is a small business and had not received a penalty notice or Finding of Violation from OFAC in the previous five years from the date of the earliest apparent violation;
- BitPay cooperated with OFAC’s investigation into the apparent violations and terminated the conduct that led to the violations; and
- BitPay implemented a series of measures intended to minimize the risk of a recurrence of the conduct in question. The controls included blocking IP addresses that appear to originate in comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions, checking physical and email addresses of merchants’ buyers to prevent completion of an invoice if BitPay identifies a sanctioned jurisdiction address or email domain associated with a sanctioned jurisdiction, and launching BitPay ID, a customer identification tool that is mandatory for merchants’ buyers who wish to pay a BitPay invoice of $3,000 or above.
The company could have faced a statutory maximum civil monetary penalty of $619,689,816, but the penalty was reduced to $507,375 in accordance with OFAC’s Enforcement Guidelines.
The enforcement release highlighted the importance of having an appropriate risk-based compliance program and emphasized that companies providing digital asset services should take steps to mitigate sanctions risks associated with such services. The agency’s Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments lays out factors it looks for when reviewing such programs. With respect to sanctions screening, OFAC noted that this case “emphasizes the importance of screening all available information, including IP addresses and other location data of customers and counterparties, to mitigate sanctions risks in connection with digital currency services.” Taken together, OFAC’s recent actions against BitGo and BitPay suggest the agency is placing increased focused on the blockchain industry and that companies that have not adopted and implemented a robust OFAC compliance program may be at risk in future enforcement actions. | <urn:uuid:92b59ea1-02f9-467a-914d-0b26375d16ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.steptoeinternationalcomplianceblog.com/2021/02/ofac-announces-second-enforcement-action-targeting-a-digital-asset-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955429 | 1,144 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Veerayatan stands on the three pillars of Seva (service to humanity), Shiksha (education for all), and Sadhana (self-development) to inspire and empower lives.
Veerayatan is derived from the words ‘Veer’ for Lord Mahavir and ‘aayatan’ which means holy place. In keeping with its meaning, the organization unanimously serves all socio-economic-religious classes. Run by the radiant, Acharya Shri Chandanaji, it was inspired by the teachings of Tirthankar Mahavir and Rashtrasant Amar Muniji Maharaj.
Since its inception in 1973, Veerayatan has transformed several lives; those who weren’t as much as acknowledged as part of society. It has served as a beacon of hope for millions. It has facilitated incredible impact through extraordinary service towards alleviating human suffering.
Our journey sees turmoil as we continually work in the remotest and most in-need pockets of the world. But we strive to bring about a tangible change to maximum people irrespective of their backgrounds with the undeterred guidance and leadership of Acharya Shriji. It is with her clairvoyance, courage, and compassion that Veerayatan is a world-renowned philanthropic organization today.
Veerayatan was founded with the mission to directly work towards the care of humanity through health, education, and spirituality without distinction.
It is based on three core pillars:
SEVA – service to humanity
SHIKSHA – education
SADHANA – spiritual development for inner peace
As of 2016, Veerayatan is actively enabling meaningful projects across the globe. Acharya Shriji envisions the organization’s efforts to grow in leaps and bounds in the future.
- Seva Mandirs, which include medical camps, eye surgeries, and post-surgery care for the most underserved populace.
- Schools, colleges, hostels, and vocational training that aim to empower masses with an earning ability and skill.
- Rehabilitation and emergency relief programs in the wake of natural calamities.
- Brahmi Kala Mandir: An art gallery comprising inventive media to better understand life, culture, and religion.
- Guest houses and libraries.
- Prayer halls, spiritual retreats, and inspirational programs for all age groups.
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==== INCIDENT SUMMARY ====
The WINDIGO FIRE is located on the Umpqua National Forest, about 33 miles southwest of LaPine and 10 miles northeast of Lemolo Lake in the State of Oregon.
The location of the fire is also about six miles south of Crescent Lake, off Forest Service Road 60 on the Douglas and Klamath county divide.
The fire started on July 30, 2022, from an unknown cause, which is under investigation.
The fire is burning in an area with heavy timber (litter and understory), medium logging slash, and two feet in height. There are snaps, the terrain is very steep and there is limited access.
It is burning to the east of the POTTER FIRE.
==== CURRENT STATUS ====
Fire behavior is active with group torching, short-range spotting, and single tree torching.
The fire has consumed about 1,500 acres of timber, medium slash, and brush.
“Suppression efforts are underway for the Windigo Fire, which began Saturday afternoon in the Windigo Pass area off Forest
Service (FS) Road 60 on the Douglas and Klamath county divide. Ground and aviation resources responded quickly to the fire which is actively burning in timber. Today’s efforts continued to focus on identifying and establishing a primary containment line as part of the full suppression response to the fire. A Type 2 Incident Management Team arrived today to manage this fire and the Potter fire to the north on the Willamette National Forest. There is poor visibility from California wildfire smoke and a Red Flag Warning for lightning will be in effect from Noon today through 11:00 p.m.” – NWCC
==== INCIDENT COOPERATORS ====
Lead Fire Agency is the USDA Forest Service.
Oakridge Fire & EMS, Umpqua National Forest, Pacific Crest Trail Association.
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Activism from Your Couch: Three Projects in Silicon Valley Taking Comments Online
Colma's El Camino Real Project, Sunnyvale and San Mateo County's Active Transportation Plans
While COVID19 continues to keep many of us in our houses and apartments, we’re looking for more ways that people can stay involved as advocates while sheltering in place. Here are three projects in the Silicon Valley that are currently taking public comment: the Active Transportation Plan in Sunnyvale, the El Camino Real Bike/Ped Improvements Project in Colma and the San Mateo County Active Transportation Plan for unincorporated parts of the County.
The City of Sunnyvale is working on an update to its Bicycle Plan for the first time since 2006, and this time they’re taking a larger view of transportation.
“We’ve been working on the Sunnyvale Active Transportation Plan for awhile, and it’s really important because they’ve combined their bike plan, pedestrian plan and Safe Routes to Schools Plan into one document,” explains Emma Shales with the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (SVBC)
While the draft plan appears to be a step forward for the city, there are some concerns that it doesn’t go far enough. At the March 12 outreach meeting, residents pushed for more projects and even a “Safe Routes to Work” Plan. For its part, SVBC listed five suggestions on their blog to make a good draft plan a great final plan:
- We recommend Sunnyvale set a 10 percent bicycle mode share goal by 2030.
- We encourage City of Sunnyvale plan for at least 50 miles Class I and Class IV bike infrastructure and at least 120 miles of planned improved infrastructure to create a truly safe bikeable, walkable city.
- We recommend the plan includes a plan and methodology to do “quick build” projects that get pilot and demonstration projects on the ground faster and cheaper.
- We request Sunnyvale evaluate potential bicycle infrastructure using our newly developed bicycle network evaluation tool before making high, medium, and low project rankings final.
- We encourage Sunnyvale budget to invest at least $40 million over the next 10 years, or $4 million per year for implementation, adjusting for inflation going forward.
Comments are due on the Sunnyvale Active Transportation Plan at 11:59 p.m. on April 19, so there’s no time like the present to chime in. You can do so online.
Colma may not be the largest city in Silicon Valley, but Shales gives us a big reason to pay close attention to this project.
“It has a BART station on El Camino that’s used by a lot of people from outside the town,” writes Shales. “Even though we’re working on bike lanes on El Camino in a lot of cities, nobody has really implemented anything yet. They could be the first.”
Efforts are underway to create a series of bike lanes along El Camino Real through various cities and two counties between Daly City and San Jose on the Peninsula. And while the city is listing various alternatives for each segment, all of them include connected bikelanes.
The best way to provide feedback is through the city’s website which provides an easy way to compare alternatives. SVBC has suggestions on which alternatives are the best to go forward. You can read more about their ideas, here.
As noted last month, when we were still in the early days of shelter in place, Streetsblog spoke with Sandhya Laddha with SVBC and Julia Malmo-Laycock with San Mateo County about the ongoing efforts to produce a plan for the unincorporated parts of San Mateo County.
The plan will combine policies, recommendations and projects that can help “create more livable communities” according to the project goals. The Active Transportation Plan is the first of its kind for Unincorporated San Mateo County.
The draft plan recommendations have received high marks from advocates, both for the efforts to bring people into the process and for the projects it proposes.
“We are really appreciative of the efforts the County is taking for active transportation in the unincorporated areas – these areas, since they do not fall under any city jurisdiction often get neglected, while they could be great connections between different jurisdictions,” said Laddha.
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the working group proposes to enshrine in the Constitution the immunity of former presidents. As reported by RIA Novosti, said the head of the Duma Committee on state construction and legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov.
“that spoke today including regarding integrity. The President of the Russian Federation, has ceased execution of the powers, possesses inviolability, we have it. It is also stated that other guarantees can be provided in accordance with Federal law. This too we discussed and this is also the amendment exists,” said the co-chair of the working group.
he Also said that the Constitution can be amended, according to which the Russian President will have the right to dissolve the state Duma if it does not approve more than a third of the Cabinet.
“there was a norm that says that if not approved by more than a third of the Cabinet, the President may dissolve the State Duma and appoint new elections. I pay attention to is the new norm,” said Krasheninnikov.
the Chairman of the state Duma Vyacheslav Volodin said earlier that amendments to the bill on amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation extended until March 2 this year.
January 15, Vladimir Putin during his address to the Federal Assembly announced the amendment of the Constitution. In particular, it is suggested to establish the basic document the status of the State Council, as well as give the Duma the right to approve the candidate for Prime Minister.
Later there was created a working group to prepare amendments to the Constitution. Co-chair, was appointed the head of the constitutional Committee of the Federation Council Andrey Klishas. It includes only 75 people from different fields, including writer Zakhar Prilepin, athlete Yelena Isinbayeva, pianist Denis Matsuev and others.
In late January, the working group on the Constitution has allocated to the thematic subgroup, which included the units of “Social issues, science, culture”, “International law”, “Federal the legislative and Executive power”, “Judicial power and the Prosecutor’s office” and “single public authority, local self-government”.
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Written by: Greg Ellifritz
My friend Claude Werner (a former instructor at the Rogers shooting school) recently wrote an internet post which reminded me of a good drill that I had forgotten.
The drill came out of Gila Hayes’ excellent book “Effective Defense- The Woman, The Plan, The Gun”. As a side note, Gila’s book is a great resource for all students of self protection, not just women.
In her book, she suggests that a baseline minimum competency standard for a defensive pistol should be the ability to shoot five rounds into a five inch circle from five yards in five seconds. She uses this standard to determine whether an individual gun is suitable for a shooter. She thinks that if you can’t meet that standard, you shouldn’t use that weapon for self defense. I agree.
Claude suggested an additional standard…doing the above five times in a row to ensure consistency and to verify that you didn’t get lucky when you met the standards the first time. Thus the 5 x 5 drill was born.
This drill is a fair and realistic standard that most shooters will be able to attain with some practice. Shooters who practice a lot might need a little more difficult challenge. How about the 6×6? Six rounds into a six inch circle from six yards in six seconds performed six times in a row. If you want to make it more challenging, draw from the holster (as the original 5×5 is done from a ready position).
I did the 6×6 drill for fun. I used 5 different weapons. Glock 21, Ruger LCP, S&W 242 (a strange L-frame snubby that was only made for 1 year, but the only snub .38 I had at the time that held at least 6 shots), Browning Buck Mark .22LR semi auto, and S&W 317 .22lr revolver.
It was a good drill and excellent practice.
Here are the results:
Glock 21 .45acp (from ALS holster)
Mean time- 4.74 seconds
Group size- 2.3″-4″
Mean Group size- 2.71″
Ruger LCP .380 (from ready position)
Times 4.55-6.6 seconds
Mean time- 5.72 seconds
Group size- 3.5″-4.5″
Mean Group size- 3.97″
S&W 242 .38spl (from Galco leather belt holster)
Times 4.3-5.22 seconds
Mean time- 4.68 seconds
Group size- 2.8″-4.25″
Mean Group size- 3.3″
I also did 2 out of the 6 runs with the .38 using only the Crimson Trace laser grips. Those 2 runs were:
Times 4.3- 4.62 seconds
Mean time- 4.46 seconds
Group size- 3.75″-4.25″
Mean Group size- 4.0″
Browning BuckMark .22 (from ready)
Times 2.1-2.78 seconds
Mean time- 2.49 seconds
Group size- 2.5″-4″
Mean Group size- 3.23″
S&W 317 revolver (from ready)
Times 2.88- 4.1 seconds
Mean time-3.35 seconds
Mean Group size- 5.3″
– The test was easy with a full sized gun (even out of the holster). The next evolution is to do the test from concealment with movement on the draw.
– It was much more challenging with the pocket pistol
– The limiting factor with the .380 wasn’t accuracy (as I assumed it would be), it was speed. On half of the runs, I had to stop mid-string and adjust my grip. The little gun just moves around too much! When I adjusted my grip, I went over the time limit. If I didn’t adjust, I was fine. Maybe, using Gila’s criteria, the LCP isn’t the gun for me! I seldom carry the gun by itself, but I often carry it as a backup piece at work. I should probably think about carrying my J-Frame or Glock 42 more regularly.
– The .38 shot almost as well as the Glock. That surprised me. It’s a fun gun to shoot and I need to carry it more often. Don’t overlook the effectiveness of those K and L-Frame snubs…especially for home defense. They hold six to eight rounds, have a short barrel (which make them tough to grab), and nice triggers. For someone who doesn’t have the desire to master the manual of arms of a semi-auto pistol, these make great home defense pieces.
– The laser sped up my times, but made my group size larger. When I shot using the laser, I always had at least one very big “flyer” which really expanded my group sizes. I’m not really sure what to think of this. It may be solely the result of me not being the most experienced laser sight user, or it could be something else. The difference wasn’t really different enough to make me worried.
– The .22s performed very well. For people on a limited budget (who may already have a .22 handgun) these may be weapons that can be reliably used in self defense. Would you like to be hit six times in the left eye in under 2.5 seconds, even if it’s just a .22? I wouldn’t. I often recommend a .22 revolver to people who are extremely recoil shy, but I may start looking at the more reliable semi-autos. That BuckMark shot the rounds the fastest and made the smallest group of any of the guns I tested. The revolver didn’t perform as well, but it certainly passed the test. The .22 certainly isn’t the best handgun for self protection, but it may be a viable option for some.
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In the New Testament, the word “saint” is used mostly by Paul in his letters. The word itself derives from the Greek word hagiazo, which means —to set apart, to sanctify or make holy. So a saint is someone who has been sanctified. According to Paul, this happens when we are justified and stand in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. He has cleansed us of our sins. The predominate use of the word saint in the New Testament is someone who has saving faith in the Lord Jesus.
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One person adds up to one million but the change doesn’t stop with that million, there are billions out there who are yet to change. But before we conclude that we need the change, let us speculate the present conditions.
In the metropolitan city of Delhi women don’t feel safe as they are told every day how vulnerable they are. It’s not that the news channels are exaggerating the issue but in reality the women feel unsafe. Some won’t start a conversation with a stranger even when they are in dire need. All they can expect is terror and violence and some have already started learning self defense. I chose the example of Delhi because it is the city where most incidents have occurred in the recent past. But the problem is not just with one city, it is everywhere. The following pictures were clicked in Sector 17 Chandigarh when a candle march protest was held after Delhi gang rape.
Man is called a social animal, but sometimes I fear that we are not social any more. Even animals have a sense of faith which has been observed and proven. (You can learn about it at mother nature work) Then why has man become so unfaithful? Why a daughter can’t trust her own father? Why a girl has to feel like an object put on display?
There is no one single answer to these questions. All these things are inter-related and we need to find a solution which works for all. Whether it be Delhi or Patna, girl or boy, young or old, we need to make sure that the change effects everyone everywhere.
We can start with common habits. The advertisement industry has got more creative and can inculcate good behavior by using themes like following:
A girl has been feeling low all day and her parents take her to a social gathering even though she has got no interest. They pick up their neighbors and drive to their destination. They all did their chit-chat on the way while the girl sat silent. As all are excited about the party they quickly get off while the girl is sitting alone on the back seat, feeling weird. Just then a boy who was traveling along, opens the door for her with a smile on his face. The girl can’t stop herself from smiling. The sense of importance and respect given by the boy, changes her mood and the moment she gets off the car she is ready to party.
“A gentleman would always treat women with respect.”
This can be an ad for men’s wear or the car itself. (I am not sure)
Already we have people with great ideas which resulted into ads like these:
The most basic thing we can do is to give respect to women. Reading the news-paper and calling names to the culprits, to the government and to the mother land is not going to solve anything. We need to think because we have been given the power to think, we need to act because we have been given the courage to act and we we need to be strong because the dark side has always got more heads. A simple example would be the way war heroes are being treated in Bengal: War heroes or rape victims?. If only the society (that is us), would understand the very basic norm of humanity we all can solve the problem for sure. Let alone humanity, the basic sagacity can save us from such disasters. God has given us a brain, the instrument that made us the master of our planet. Why not use it constructively?
All I can say for now is that we all have some good and some bad inside us. There are also parts of our country where women are treated with utmost respect. There are people who have died for such causes and are relentlessly fighting for the right. We all need to bring the change together and we all need to play our parts by understanding the problem and making our decisions accordingly. If you are reading this article, then you are definitely acquainted with the problem. The change that I have been talking about starts with you. If you can make sure that all women in your family are treated with respect, then you have brought the change. If you can make sure that you will stop or report any incident of wrongdoing without making any excuses, then you have brought the change. If you can make sure that you would think about the severity of the problem and ways in which it can be solved, then you have brought the change.
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Chief among Joseph Biden’s plans to reverse President Trump’s anti-LGBTQ policy initiatives is undoing the transgender military ban, but with at least two military service chiefs on the record as being hesitant — if not outright opposed — to the change, that may require a more substantial effort than expected.
Reversing the transgender military ban, which was implemented administratively under Trump, could be done easily with another administrative change. After all, the policy of open service initiated by former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter under former President Obama could simply be duplicated.
However, if the military service chiefs resist, a change that could in theory be done on Day One during a Biden administration may be prolonged.
Douglas Wilson, who served as Pentagon chief of public affairs under Obama and was the first openly gay person confirmed by the Senate for a senior defense role, predicted in an email to the Washington Blade “there would likely be some pushback,” but said it wouldn’t be impenetrable.
“Before the Trump ban, there had been general overall acceptance of the Ash Carter policy, which — while initially internally controversial — was essentially accepted over time,” Wilson said. “[I’m] not sure in these times if this would be the issue on which chiefs would fall on their swords in opposition to Biden’s change. I would think they would be expecting it if Biden wins.”
Unlike other presidential appointments, who customarily resign their positions at the end of a presidential administration, the service chiefs under Trump would continue serving in their roles if Biden wins the election and stay in place after he takes the White House.
A look at the confirmation hearings for the military service chiefs reveals their mixed views on transgender service. The Army chief of staff is on the record in opposition to transgender service and the Marine Corps commandant has expressed hesitation. Meanwhile, the uniform leaders for the Navy and Coast Guard have signaled they’d welcome transgender service. In between is Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who has chosen his words very carefully.
The service chief most clear about objecting to transgender military service is Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville. In a May 2019 questionnaire prepared by the Senate Armed Services Committee, McConville responded in the negative when asked if transgender military service in the Obama years had impact on unit cohesion or morale.
“In my experience, a service member with a medical condition who has been non-deployable for multiple periods of significant duration could negatively impact readiness – especially in a high-demand, low-density [military occupational specialty],” McConville said. “Non-deployable soldiers can negatively impact a unit’s force readiness, especially smaller units or in highly specialized areas with a very small population.”
Those remarks — generalized and based on a hypothetical framework — fly in the face of comments before that time from service chiefs, who each affirmed to the Senate Armed Services Committee that transgender service didn’t impair unit cohesion.
Hesitant about transgender military service in his confirmation hearing was Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, who in April 2019 hedged by denying any negative impact on unit cohesion, but expressing concern about “gender dysphoria,” often a defining characteristic of being transgender.
“I am not aware of any specific impacts,” Berger said. “Gender dysphoria is a serious medical condition. Treatment of any medical condition can impact readiness.”
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley chose his words carefully during his confirmation hearing in July 2019 under questioning about transgender service from Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).
“I don’t believe there’s anything inherent in anyone’s identity to prevent them from serving in the military,” Milley said. “It’s about standards, not an identity.”
Although Milley said he sees no problem with transgender troops, he also tempered that by saying service members need to meet the military standards, which currently bar transgender service.
“I think that, in my view, we’re a standards-based military, as you point out,” Milley said. “We’re concerned about the deployability and effectiveness of any of the service members.”
“So if you meet the medical, behavioral health, the conduct standards and physical standards, etc., then it’s my view that you should be welcomed in,” Milley added.
The Navy appears to have the service chief most amenable to transgender service. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday affirmed in August 2019 during his confirmation hearing he sees no problem in any capacity with allowing transgender people in the military.
“I am unaware of negative impacts on unit or overall Navy readiness as a result of transgender individuals serving in their preferred gender,” Gilday said.
Just last week, the Navy granted its first-ever waiver under the transgender ban to an officer facing discharge, allowing her to stay after she sued to remain in the service. The waiver, however, was granted by the acting secretary of the Navy, who would be expected to resign at the end of the Trump administration.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Karl Schultz, who pledged last year a “dedicated campaign” to increase diversity in his service, in April 2018 also dismissed concerns about transgender service in his confirmation hearing.
“I am not aware of any disciplinary or unit cohesion issues resulting from the opening of the Coast Guard to transgender individuals,” Schultz said.
Although the Coast Guard technically isn’t a service because the Department of Homeland Security, not the Defense Department, has jurisdiction over it, it has a tradition of following the personnel policy set by the Pentagon, including on transgender service.
The incoming Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Charles Brown, is in the middle of his confirmation process and hasn’t yet publicly commented on transgender service. The service chief for the newly created Space Force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond, wasn’t asked about the issue before his confirmation.
Will Biden put his money where his mouth is with his campaign pledge and lay down the law with the service chiefs?
Jamal Brown, national press secretary for the Biden campaign, reiterated the presumptive Democratic nominee’s commitment to the transgender community in response to the question from the Washington Blade.
“Joe Biden believes that ‘bigotry is bigotry, prejudice is prejudice, and hate is hate, no matter where we find it,'” Brown said. “Transgender Americans should have the right to serve the country they love and, in this time of a global pandemic, our nation should be tapping the talents and skills of every person who is willing to serve.”
Brown also affirmed Biden would direct the Pentagon to implement openly transgender service, but didn’t disclose anything about process or timing.
“As president, Biden has made clear that he will direct the U.S. Department of Defense to allow transgender service members to serve openly, receive needed medical treatment and be free from discrimination,” Brown said.
Tension between a U.S. president and the military service chiefs over LGBTQ military service has occurred before. In 2010, when legislative repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was moving through Congress, Obama left implementation to then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates broadly speaking, but on one occasion made his position clear with the service chiefs.
At the time, not all the service chiefs were on board with repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Marine Corps Commandant James Conway opposed allowing openly gay people in the military and warned gay and straight service members shouldn’t share housing.
But Obama delivered the service chiefs an ultimatum: Accept the change or resign.
As revealed in a 2014 report from BuzzFeed, then-Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp recalled Obama being unwilling to compromise with service leaders during a meeting in 2010 over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
“We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Papp said. “I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn’t agree with it — if any of us didn’t agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things.”
There were no resignations. When “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed and Obama, then-Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta certified the military was prepared, each of the services implemented openly gay service. Conway, still in charge of the Marine Corps, conceded afterwards there were no problems with the change.
Amanda Simpson, deputy assistant defense secretary for operational energy under Obama and the first openly transgender woman presidential appointee, told the Blade she doesn’t think implementing transgender service “would need to come down” to Biden giving service chiefs an ultimatum.
“I cannot speak to what a President Biden would enact, but I would encourage a first step to return to the policy that was in place and working at the end of the Obama-Biden administration allowing open transgender military service,” Simpson said.
Simpson added she thinks a President Biden would be a strong commander-in-chief and would direct the military staff accordingly.
Would the service chiefs keep to their views they expressed on transgender service during their confirmation hearings or would they agree to Biden’s plan to implement it? The Space Force didn’t respond to the Blade’s request to comment and spokesperson for the Navy and Air Force flat-out declined to comment.
Maj. Craig Thomas, a spokesperson for the Marine Corps, told the Washington Blade the service would implement any change directed under a new administration — but would provide its recommendation if asked by defense leadership.
“The simple answer is if the DOD changes the policy, the Marine Corps will abide by it,” Thomas said. “If the secretary of defense seeks input from the services, the Marine Corps would provide its recommendation. However, once a decision is made, we follow the guidance set forth by our civilian leadership.”
Asked a follow-up question on what the recommendation of the Marine Corps would be, Thomas declined to answer the hypothetical and said as of now “there is no recommendation or additional discussion.”
“Moreover, in my previous response I was speaking generically about DOD passing any new policy,” Thomas said. “Sometimes they ask for input and sometime it’s not needed. The key point is once a decision is made, the services carry it out to the best of their abilities.”
Lisa Novak, a Coast Guard spokesperson, said the service will follow the policy set by the Pentagon, but also praised transgender service members.
“The Coast Guard’s policy has always aligned with the Department of Defense’s policy concerning transgender military service,” Novak said. “There are many transgender service members serving today with honor and distinction. The Coast Guard will continue to treat all service members with the respect and dignity that they deserve.”
An Army spokesperson deferred entirely to the policy set by the Pentagon on the issue.
“The Army executes Department of Defense military personnel policy, including policy on military service by transgender persons,” the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon continues to enforce the transgender military ban as implemented by former Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Defense Department has insisted the transgender military ban is not a ban, but a medical-based policy applying to all service members, pointing out they’re free to identify as transgender and remain in the armed forces.
Nonetheless, current policy — which the Pentagon implemented after Trump tweeted in 2017 he’d ban transgender service members “in any capacity” — requires the discharge of any service member who’s diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a defining characteristic of being transgender, or seeks transition-related care. Individuals with a history of gender dysphoria can only enlist if they’re willing to serve in accordance with their sex designated at birth.
The policy has an exemption to allow transgender service members to continue serving if they came out when open service was instituted in 2016 under the Obama administration. Additionally, the policy allows senior defense officials to grant waivers to transgender individuals facing discharge wishing to enlist in the armed forces.
Jessica Maxwell, a Defense Department spokesperson, declined to comment on the speed with which it could reverse course and implement transgender service under a Biden administration.
“The department speculates on neither future election results nor potential changes from those results,” Maxwell said.
At the end of the day, if Biden is elected president, he would become commander-in-chief and the service chiefs would be bound to his orders. Any Biden order to lift the transgender military ban would supersede their objections.
Aaron Belkin, director of the San Francisco-based Palm Center, said the implementation of transgender military service — regardless of whether Biden or Trump is in charge — would be easy to accomplish.
“All of the service chiefs testified in 2018 that inclusive policy for transgender personnel worked, and the very good regulations spelling out that policy remain in effect, even though they have been superceded by Trump’s ban,” Belkin said. “Because inclusive policy remains in effect, the next administration can seamlessly and immediately end the Trump ban by canceling the regulation that contains it. Literally, this should take a day or two, and it doesn’t matter who’s running DOD.”
Former Ambassador Daniel Baer explains it all on Ukraine crisis
Expert downplays strategic thinking behind Putin’s move
Daniel Baer, who worked on LGBTQ human rights and transatlantic issues as one of several openly gay U.S. ambassadors during the Obama administration, answered questions from the Washington Blade on Ukraine as the international crisis continues to unfold.
Topics during the interview, which took place weeks ago on Jan. 27, included Putin’s motivation for Russian incursions, the risk of outright war, predictions for Russia after Putin and how the crisis would affect LGBTQ people in Ukraine.
Baer was deputy assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and U.S. ambassador to the Organization of Security & Cooperation in Europe.
The full interview follows:
Washington Blade: What’s your level of engagement with this affair? Are you doing any consulting work? Is the administration reaching out to you at all?
Daniel Baer: I actually think the White House is doing a pretty good job of recognizing that they need to not only have press conferences, but also talk to other people who are trying to figure out how to be constructive critics, idea generators from the outside.
Blade: OK, so you’re being solicited and engaging on this issue. My next question for you is why do you think Putin is doing this at this time?
Baer: So, I guess taking a step back from the whole thing, one of the things about a problem like this is that everybody is searching for the right answer assuming that there is a like comfortable or compelling or intellectually accurate answer, and I actually think we’re just in a really hard moment.
I don’t know why he’s doing it now. And in fact, I think that one of the puzzles that we haven’t solved yet is that all the things that he says are the reasons that he’s doing it — that he feels encirclement by NATO, … or that the situation in Ukraine is untenable — none of those things have changed. Setting aside the fact that they’re spurious, it’s not like there’s been some new move in the last 12 months that has precipitated [a reaction] on any of those fronts that you can say, “Oh, well, he’s responding to the recent meeting where Ukraine was offered membership in NATO, or he’s responding to a change in government in Ukraine that it’s clearly anti-Russia, or any other move that we’ve done.” The explanation just doesn’t hold water, and so I think we need to look for alternative ones.
The best I can come up with is actually just a broad — it doesn’t actually explain this particular moment, but I think you could look at the timing of his life. He has, I don’t know, 10 years left. And during those 10 years, it’s unlikely that Russia is going to grow more powerful; it’s much more likely that it’s going to become at least relatively and probably nominally less powerful. And so, if you’re unhappy with the status quo, and you feel like you’re a declining power, and you don’t have endless time, there’s no time like the present. And you’ll make up whatever reasons you need to in order to justify it.
I also think there’s a tendency on our part to attribute far more “strategery” to Putin than there necessarily is. I mean, he’s a bully and a thug. I think the whole Putin’s playing chess and we’re playing checkers is actually completely inverted. We’re in our own heads that there’s some kind of nuanced position that would mollify him. He’s just a gangster and he’s taking a punch because he has one. And I don’t think it gets much more complicated than that. And so, I guess the answer to why he’s doing this now, because the international conditions are such that he feels like the United States is focused domestically, the Ukrainians are not moving forward with succeeding to build — they’re kind of in stasis on building a European state— and he has, you know, he has the space to take a punch, so he’s contemplating doing it, or he’s already decided to do it. And he’s just extracting as much as possible before he takes it.
Blade: That leads me to my next question: What is your judgement of the risk of out and out war?
Baer: I don’t know because I have two hypotheses that cut both ways. One is that I think Putin is vastly underestimating the degree of resistance. On the other hand, I think that nothing short of domination is satisfactory. And so, I don’t know. I guess I think there’s a 90 percent chance that he does something, and I think there’s a 75 percent chance that what he does is not an all out invasion or ground invasion, at least not at first, but rather something that is aimed at confusing us. So some sort of hybrid or staged or false flag kind of attack in tandem with a political coup in Kiev, where he works to install a more Russia-loyal leader.
The thing with the ground invasion is that Russian soldiers’ moms are one of the only, like, powerful political forces in civil society in Russia. I just don’t see any way that a ground invasion doesn’t involve massive Russian casualties, even if they will be dominant. The people who are going to impose the consequences on him will be the Ukrainians, not the rest of us, and he should not invade, and if he does, we should, frankly, work hard to make it as painful and difficult for him as possible.
Blade: What will that look like?
Baer: I think we should at that point continue — we shouldn’t pause, we should continue to send the defensive equipment and backfill as much as possible their ability from an equipment basis to resist.
Blade: So if we were to look at a model for past U.S. engagements. I’m thinking Greece under President Truman, which was so successful that nobody really knows about it, I don’t think. Is there any model we should be looking toward, or not looking toward?
Baer: No, I guess. I’m not sure there’s any good historical model because obviously, any of them you can pick apart. I do think that one thing that has gotten lost in a lot of the analysis — and this goes back to Putin being a gangster thug, and not being such a genius — is there’s a moral difference between us. The reason why Putin gets to control the dialogue is because he’s willing to do things that we aren’t willing to do — as gangsters are, as hostage-takers are — and so yes, they get to set the terms of what we discussed, because we’re not holding hostages. We’re trying to get hostages released. And the hostage-taker has an upper hand and asymmetry because they are willing to do something that is wrong.
We shouldn’t lose the kind of moral difference there. Nor should we lose sight of the fact that Ukraine is being menaced. And I’m not saying it’s our obligation [to intervene militarily], certainly not our obligation. They aren’t a treaty ally. We have neither a political obligation nor a moral one to necessarily risk our own lives, our own soldiers in defense of Ukraine. But if Ukraine wants to defend themselves, there’s a strong moral case to be made that anything, short of risking our own lives, is something that is morally good. We generally believe that self-defense from lethal threat is a reasonable moral cause and assisting others in defending themselves is too — I think there’s a lot of back and forth that get glossed over whether that’s a provocation or whatever, and I want to say to people stand back, look at this: we’ve got one party that is attacking another. And the question is, does the other have a right to defend itself? Yes. And if they have a right to defend themselves, and they also have a right to have whatever assistance people will offer them in defending themselves.
That doesn’t mean that they get to demand that we show up and fight in the trenches with them, of course, and I don’t think there’s any serious people who are recommending that but it’s a good thing to help them. It’s not like a technical thing. It’s a good thing to help
Blade: Getting into that moral background, one thing I want to ask you was about the significance of what would happen in this concept of democracy versus autocracy. First of all, how much is Ukraine a functional democracy, in the sense that if we’re defending Ukraine, we are defending a democracy, and what signal do you think it would send if that Ukrainian government fell to Russian autocracy?
Baer: I think the institutions of government that the Ukrainian people have are not worthy of the Ukrainian people’s own demonstrated commitment …
They are not worthy of the Ukrainian people’s own demonstrated commitment to the idea of democratic institutions. So the answer is today’s Ukrainian government is a mixed bag and it’s very hard to build, on the rot of a Russian fiefdom, a functioning democracy, so I think it’s a mixed bag. I don’t want to sound like I’m minimizing [the changes], or that they’ve completely bungled an easy project. It was always going to be a hard project, and it was never going to be linear.
But I think that what we’ve seen from the Ukrainian people — by which I mean not Ukrainian people, but people of Ukraine — is that there is a broad part of society that a) does not want to live under a Russian thumb and b) sees its future in kind of European style democracy. And so I think that if there was, there’s no question that the Russian attack would be in part about subjugating the people of Ukraine and forcing them to live under some sort of new Russian satellite. And I think that there’s little space for serious argument that that’s something that the people of the country wish to have.
Blade: But I’m just kind of getting at — you’re kind of minimizing that this is a strategic move by Putin, but if he were to successfully dominant Ukraine it becomes a Russian satellite isn’t that saying like, “Well, ha ha West, you thought the Cold War was over and there’s going to be just be a unipolar world in the future but no, we’re gonna we have this we’re back and we’re gonna create a multipolar world for the future.”
Baer: Yeah, I mean, my answer to the Russians who always raise the multipolar world to me is, “Fine, it’s going to be a multipolar world. What makes you think that Russia is one of the poles?” Poles by definition draw people to them, they are compelling and a pole attracts, magnetically or otherwise, and there is nothing attractive about the model that Russia is pursuing. And if the only way that you can be a pole is by subjugating, to force your neighbors, you are proving that you are not one.
I think the benefits for Russia are far smaller than Putin thinks and I think the consequences for the rest of the world of allowing a violation of international order to go forward are much larger than many people recognize.
Blade: But that was their approach when they were the Soviet Union. They were subjugating the Eastern Bloc through Russian force. They did have, in theory, the concept of their worldview of you know, of socialism, or whatever you want to put it charitably, was going to be the right way to go. Is there really that much of a difference?
Baer: Yeah, however disingenuous it was, they did have an ideology . So you’re right, that was a key distinction. The other thing is that the Soviet Union in relative size — its economy and population etc. — was much larger than Russia is today. And Russia is shrinking, and its economy is less diverse than the Communist one was. I think it’s a delusion to think that they’re going to kind of rebuild an empire, even if yes, because of their willingness to do awful things, they could potentially for a time politically control through violence, their neighbors. I just don’t — in a multipolar world, I don’t see Russia being one of the poles, at least not on its current path.
Blade: How would you evaluate the U.S. diplomatic approach to this issue?
Baer: There’s been very clear over-the-top effort to include the Europeans at every step — meetings with them before each meeting and after each meeting, to force conversations into fora that are more inclusive and stuff like that. And I think that Secretary Blinken is rightly recognizing the need to kind of play a role of kind of keeping everybody on the side while we test whether diplomacy whether there’s anything to do, whether there’s any promise with diplomacy.
I think there’s kind of, sometimes kind of, two camps in U.S. foreign policy circles. One is like: We should give the Russians what they want because it just doesn’t matter that much. War is much worse than anything that we would give them. And another is that we can’t give them an inch and we have to punch them in the face whenever we can. And I think both of those are kind of knee-jerk positions that have become a bit religious for people and neither of them is paying attention to the practical challenge that’s in front of the administration, which is like this guy’s threatening to invade and we need to identify whether there’s any opportunity for a functional off ramp, and that doesn’t mean we do that in a vacuum and ignore the long-term consequences, but our problem is not a religious one, it’s a practical one. And I think they’re doing a pretty good job of threading the needle on that and being not too far forward and not too far back.
Blade: Do you see any significant daylight between the United States and Europe?
Baer: No, I mean, no more than the minimum that is possible. There’s a lot of talk about Germany these days. Look, I think some of the things they say are not particularly helpful, but I don’t actually think that in the long run, if Putin invaded, I don’t think that they would hold up sanctions or anything like that. So I think they’re on our side, even if they’re talking out of both sides, in some cases.
Blade: I am wise to the fact that this is a nuclear power. It might be a little old school, but could escalation get that far?
Baer: There can’t be war. There can’t be war between NATO and Russia. It should be avoided. Obviously, there can be, but it should be avoided.
Blade: How committed do you think President Biden is to protecting Ukraine?
Baer: Reasonably so. I think he’s enough of an old school trans-Atlantist that he understands that this isn’t just about Ukraine.
Blade: I was wondering because he had those comments from his press conference about “minor incursion” and I’m just wondering if you’re reading anything into that or not.
Baer: No, I think that was that was a — I think broadly speaking, everything he says is in line with the kind of view that you would expect. And of course, one sentence can catch [attention]. That wasn’t what he meant. What he meant was that he didn’t want to draw a “red line” that would prejudge policy in response to something short of the most extreme scenario.
I think it is a good caution to not obsess over a single sentence and to look at the broad considered policy statements.
Blade: What do you think if you were looking for developments, like what would you be looking out for is significant in terms of where we are going to be going in the near future? This is one thing to keep an eye out for but is there anything else that you are kind of looking out for in terms of the near future?
Baer: I guess I would look out for whether or not the United States joins meetings of the so-called Normandy Format, which is the France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia grouping, which has so far been unsuccessful, but I think can only be successful as the United States joins it, but the Russians, I think have misgivings with the idea of our joining it.
Blade: I’m not at all familiar with that. What makes this forum particularly so —
Baer: So it was started in the summer in like June of 2015, on the margins of some meeting between Merkel and Hollande. The French and the Germans are very committed to the idea that they might be able to mediate peace between Ukraine and Russia. It was supposed to implement the Minsk Agreement, and it just hasn’t been productive so far. I don’t think that the Russians will do anything — I don’t think the Ukrainians feel comfortable negotiating anything without the Americans at the table. And I don’t think the Russians feel like anything is guaranteed without the Americans at the table. So I just, I’m fine with France and Germany taking the lead, but I think the U.S. has to be there.
And there was a meeting of this group in Paris yesterday, and which the U.S. was supportive of, and so I’m watching to see whether or not the United States gets added in some ad hoc way, whether there are future meetings. I guess the reason I would watch it, if the U.S. were to join future meetings that would signal to me that it’s actually there’s some diplomacy happening there.
That’s meant to be focusing mainly on the existing Russian invasion, the occupation of the Donbas, so that’s not about the threat of the new invasion, but it would be interesting to me if there was forward movement on other parts of Ukraine. The announcement of the American ambassador is one. I think that last week movement of troops into Belarus was a game changer for the U.S., because there are all kinds of new implications if you’re using a third country as your launchpad for war, and so it complicates things and it also looks more serious if you’re starting to deploy to third countries and stuff like that. So I think that was that last week, you noticed a difference in the U.S. tone and tenor in response to that.
So things like that. But in general, like what I would do and I don’t think people always catch this is because there’s a boiling frog aspect to it. There are statements coming out from the White House or State Department. Almost every day on stuff related to this and like last week, there was a noticeable change in the tenor as the U.S. became less, I think more pessimistic about the prospects of diplomacy and those I don’t have anything better to look for in those statements as tea leaves, in terms of what the U.S. assessment is of the prospects of the escalation are, so it’s bad.
Blade: Right. That’s very sobering.
There’s a lot of talk, and I’ve just been seeing some like about in terms of, there’s like comparisons to Afghanistan and making sure that all Americans are able to get out of Ukraine. Is that comparing apples to oranges?
Blade: And could you unpack that a little bit? I mean, I can kind of guess the reasons why. How is that apples to oranges?
Blade: Well, the level of development in Ukraine in terms of infrastructure and transport and stuff like that is not comparable to Afghanistan. I think it would be– if there were a Russian invasion–you would definitely want to, obviously, for safety reasons, it’s not safe to be in a war zone, so you would want people to be able to evacuate and you’d have to plan for that.
A major concern [in Afghanistan] was also that there were tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of locals who had worked for the Americans. The Americans that are in Ukraine are not a departing occupying power. There’s just not the same footprint there — the Americans are in Ukraine or there as business people or young [people working on] democracy assistance or whatever. And it’s just it’s a different context.
Blade: Why do you think the Russians put up with Putin? I mean, this is a country that was a world power and I would think has some economic potential just given its sheer size, first of all, and they do have oil to offer people. So why aren’t the Russians like angry at him for obstructing their participation in the global order as opposed to just putting up with him for years and years and years.
Baer: Successful instrumentalisation of cynicism. The lack of a belief in an alternative will keep you from fighting for it.
Blade: That’s pretty succinct.
Baer: I mean, I don’t think there’s any question that the people of Russia could be better off or different in terms of kitchen table issues, and ease of navigating the world, prospects for their future for their children’s future. The amount of money that Putin has invested into military modernization that Russia can ill afford, while he’s cut pensions and social services and health care. It’s just it’s objectively true that the average Russian person would be better served by a different leader. But he’s done a very good job of effectively selling off the country for profit and persuading people through repression and propaganda that there is no alternative.
Blade: And Putin won’t be around forever. Once he finally goes, is an alternative going to emerge, or will it be the next guy in Putin’s mold?
Baer: I think it’s far from clear that what comes after Putin isn’t worse and bloody. Regimes like this don’t reliably have stable transitions.
Blade: Wow, okay.
Baer: Yeah, we shouldn’t… we should be careful about wishing… wishing for his demise.
Blade: That’s good to know. It’s kind of a frightful note for me to end my questions. But actually before I sign off, there’s one more thing too because I do kind of want to talk about the intersection about your old job in democracy and human rights and then a Venn diagram of that with your experience in Eastern Europe in particular. Do you have a sense of what’s at stake for LGBTQ people in Ukraine or if they’re in more danger right now than they would be otherwise?
Baer: That’s a good question. I mean, my knee jerk reaction is yes. That — as mixed of a picture as Ukraine has been in the last seven years, or eight years — there have been meaningful steps forward, and certainly, in terms of visibility.
I guess, in the sense that Ukraine is better than Russia today, if you’re gay, if Russia is going to occupy or control Ukraine we can expect that it will get worse because it will become more like Russia.
Trump ribbed Pence for thinking ‘it’s a crime to be gay,’ new book says
Former president openly wanted gay Fox News analyst for Supreme Court
Donald Trump, in the days before he took office after the 2016 election, openly contemplated naming an openly gay Fox News contributor to the U.S. Supreme Court amid concerns from social conservatives about his potential choices and ribbed former Vice President Mike Pence for thinking “it’s a crime to be gay,” according to the new book “Insurgency” detailing the former president’s path to the White House.
The key moment between Trump, Judge Andrew Napolitano and Pence took place during the transition period after the 2016 election when Trump invited the other two for a meeting at Trump Tower. That’s when Trump reportedly took the jab at Pence.
“During their meeting, for part of which Mike Pence was present, Trump ribbed Pence for his anti-gay rights views,” the book says. “Addressing Napolitano, Trump gestured toward the archconservative vice-president-elect and said, ‘You’d better be careful because this guy thinks it’s a crime to be gay. Right, Mike?’ When Pence didn’t answer, Trump repeated himself, ‘Right, Mike?’ Pence remained silent.”
The potential choice of Andrew Napolitano, who was fired last year from Fox News amid recently dropped allegations of sexual harassment from male co-workers, as well as other TV personalities Trump floated for the Supreme Court, as detailed in the book, were among the many reasons conservatives feared he wouldn’t be reliable upon taking the presidency. Ironically, Trump would have been responsible for making a historic choice for diversity if he chose a gay man like Napolitano for the Supreme Court, beating President Biden to the punch as the nation awaits his selection of the first-ever Black woman for the bench.
The new book — fully titled “Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted” and written by New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters, who is also gay — identifies Trump’s potential picks for the judiciary as a source of significant concern for conservatives as the “Never Trump” movement was beginning to form and expectations were the next president would be able to name as many as four choices for the Supreme Court. Among the wide ranges of possible choices he floated during the campaign were often “not lawyers or judges he admired for their legal philosophies or interpretations of the Constitution,” but personalities he saw on TV.
Among this group of TV personalities, the books says, were people like Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, whom Trump “regularly watched and occasionally planned his flight schedule around, directing his personal pilot to adjust the route accordingly so the satellite signal wouldn’t fade.” Trump told friends Pirro “would make a fine justice,” the books says.
Trump potentially making good of his talk about naming Napolitano as one of his choices for the Supreme Court “would have been doubly unacceptable to many on the religious right,” the book says. Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge, was friendly with Maryanne Trump Barry, Trump’s sister and a federal judge with a reputation for liberal views, such as a ruling in favor of partial-birth abortion, and is also gay, both of which are identified in the book as potential concerns by the religious right.
Napolitano and Trump were close, the book claims. Napolitano, as the book describes, had a habit of telling a story to friends about Trump confiding to him the future president’s knowledge of the law was based on Napolitano’s TV appearances. Trump told Napolitano: “Everything I know about the Constitution I learned from you on Fox & Friends,” the book says.
The book says the meeting with Trump, Pence and Napolitano when the former president took a jab at Pence in and of itself suggested Trump “was indeed serious about giving the judge some kind of position in the government.” Napolitano, known for making outlandish claims as a Fox News contributor —such as the British government wiretapped Trump Tower — never took a post in the Trump administration.
The new book isn’t the only record of Trump ribbing Pence for his anti-LGBTQ reputation. A New Yorker profile in 2017 depicted a similar infamous meeting with Trump and Pence in which the former president joked about his No. 2’s conservative views. Per the New Yorker article: “When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, ‘Don’t ask that guy— he wants to hang them all!'”The incident described in “Insurgency” was similar to the meeting detailed in the New Yorker profile.
Trump ended up making a list of names he pledged he’d limit himself to in the event he was in the position to make a selection to the Supreme Court and made good on that promise based on his selection. By the end of his presidency, Trump made three picks to the bench who were each confirmed by the U.S. Senate: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
But Trump limiting his options to the list of potential plans was not a fool proof plan for conservatives. To the surprise of many, Gorsuch ended up in 2020 writing the majority opinion in the case of Bostock v. Clayton County, a major LGBTQ rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which determined anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination and illegal under federal civil rights law.
The Washington Blade has placed a request in with Trump’s office seeking comment on the meeting with Pence and Napolitano as described in “Insurgency.” Napolitano couldn’t be reached for comment.
Human Rights Campaign’s ex-president sues over termination, alleges racial discrimination
Alphonso David alleges he was terminated unfitly
Alphonso David, the former president of the Human Rights Campaign terminated by the board after he was ensnared in the Gov. Andrew Cuomo scandal, sued the nation’s leading LGBTQ group on Thursday, arguing he was fired as a result of racial discrimination “amid a deserved reputation for unequal treatment of its non-white employees” and was explicitly told he was paid less because he’s Black.
David, speaking with the Washington Blade on Thursday during a phone interview, said he came to the decision to file the lawsuit after practicing civil rights law for 20 years and “never thought that I would be a plaintiff.”
“But I’m in this chair, I was put in this position,” David said. “And as a civil rights lawyer, I couldn’t look the other way. It would be anathema to who I am and it would undermine my integrity and purpose for the work that I do. And so I have to go through and make a very, very difficult personal decision to file this lawsuit.”
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, accuses the Human Rights Campaign of violating new state and federal laws for terminating David, who was the organization’s first person of color and Black person to helm the LGBTQ group in its 40-year history. The lawsuit also contends the Human Rights Campaign contravened equal pay law in New York by paying David less than his predecessor, Chad Griffin.
After a public dispute with the board in September amid an independent investigation of his role in the Cuomo affair, the Human Rights Campaign boards unceremoniously fired David and shortly afterward announced a still ongoing search for a new president. David was named nearly a dozen times in the damning report by New York Attorney General Letitia James, suggesting David assisted in efforts by Cuomo’s staff to discredit a woman alleging sexual misconduct in Cuomo’s office. David has consistently denied wrongdoing.
But the lawsuit is broader than the termination and describes an environment at the Human Rights Campaign, which has faced criticism over the years for being geared toward white gay men, as a workplace where “non-white staffers were marginalized, tokenized, and denied advancement to high-level positions.” After a speech David gave on issues of race and indifference in the context of HRC’s mission, the lawsuit claims a board member complained about him referring too much to being Black, but faced no penalty from the organization.
Specifically named in the report is Chris Speron, Senior Vice President of Development, who expressed concern about “alienating” white donors and specifically “white gay men” after David issued a statement on the importance of Black Lives Matter after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. The lawsuit claims Speron pushed David to “stop mentioning in his public statements and remove from his bio the fact that he was HRC’s first Black President in its history.” Speron also was critical of hiring a Black-owned consulting firm and “criticized a Black staff member for attending a meeting with the consulting firm without a white person present,” the lawsuit claims. Speron couldn’t immediately be reached for comment to respond to the allegations.
In terms of equal pay, the lawsuit says HRC’s co-chairs informed David he was underpaid compared to his predecessor because he’s Black. But the lawsuit also acknowledges in 2021, just before news broke about the Cuomo report, the Human Rights Campaign in recognition of David’s work renewed his contract for five additional years and gave him a 30 percent raise.
David, speaking with the Blade, said he was in “shock” upon experiencing these alleged incidents of racism, maintaining he had kept quiet at the time out of concern for the greater good of the aims of the Human Rights Campaign.
Asked whether as president he considered implementing racial sensitivity trainings for his subordinates, David said “yes,” but added many trainings aren’t effective and said the power in organizations like the Human Rights Campaign is often spread out.
“There are people within the organization that have a fair amount of board support because they bring in the money because they are responsible for overseeing the money,” David added.
Joni Madison, interim president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement after the lawsuit was filed the organization is “disappointed that Alphonso David has chosen to take retaliatory action against the Human Rights Campaign for his termination which resulted from his own actions.”
“Mr. David’s complaint is riddled with untruths,” Madison said. “We are confident through the legal process that it will be apparent that Mr. David’s termination was based on clear violations of his contract and HRC’s mission, and as president of HRC, he was treated fairly and equally.”
Madison adds the individuals accused of racism in the lawsuit “are people of color and champions of racial equity and inclusion who provided support and guidance as Mr. David led the organization,” without naming any specific individual. The boards for the Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation who made the decision to terminate David, were comprised of seven independent directors, five of whom were Black.
The racist environment, the lawsuit says, culminated for David in September 2021 amid an independent investigation of his role in the Cuomo affair conducted by the law firm Sidley Austin LLP at the behest of the organization. According to the lawsuit, the board co-chairs contacted David late at night before Labor Day weekend to tell him to resign by 8 a.m. the next morning or be terminated for cause. When David asked whether the Sidley Austin investigation had made any findings against him, or if a report would be issued explaining what he was accused of doing wrong, the board co-chairs refused to say, the lawsuit says.
As is publicly known, David declined to resign and took to Twitter to complain about the board, which subsequently issued a statement disputing his claims. He was then fired “for cause” under his contract.
The termination, the lawsuit says, signified differential treatment of David because he is Black, taking note the Human Rights Campaign under his predecessor had “endured repeated, serious, scandals — many of which involved HRC’s mistreatment of Black and other marginalized individuals,” but Chad Griffin was never terminated “for cause.”
Both the Human Rights Campaign Foundation board and the Human Rights Campaign board voted to terminate David. A source familiar with the vote said no one voted “no” in either case. The campaign board vote was unanimous and there were two abstentions in the foundation board vote, the source said.
The source familiar with the vote said David never told the Human Rights Campaign he was helping Cuomo during his time as HRC president nor did he disclose he was talking to the New York attorney general. The first board members heard about it was when it hit the press, the source said.
Meanwhile, the lawsuit says David “performed extremely well as HRC president, by any measure,” navigating the organization through the coronavirus epidemic and boosting fundraising by 60 percent. (The Blade has not yet verified this claim.) It should be noted the Human Rights Campaign cited coronavirus as the reason it laid off 22 employees, as reported at the time by the Blade.
David, asked by the Blade how he sees the alleged racist culture at Human Rights Campaign infused in his termination, said “Black and Brown people are treated differently and have been for years in this organization,” citing a “Pipeline Report” leaked to the press in 2015 documenting an environment in which employees of color were unable to thrive.
“And so, the fact that I’m being treated differently now, in the fact that a different standard is being applied to me is just simply consistent with what they’ve always done,” David said. “You know, we go back to the Pipeline Report: Imagine if I was leading the organization at the time, and there was a report that was issued, that said that anti-Semitic remarks were being made within the organization, and that women were being discriminated against within the organization or some other marginalized group and that one of the senior vice presidents used a derogatory remark. Do you think I would still be at the organization or would they have fired me?”
David concluded: “There’s a different standard and a double standard that they’ve applied for decades, and I’ve just now been one casualty — another in a long series of casualties based on their systemic bias and discrimination.”
Among the requests in the prayer for relief in the complaint is a declaration the Human Rights Campaign’s actions violated the law; restoration of David to his position as president; an award of the compensation he would have received were he still on the job as well as punitive damages. Asked by the Blade whether any settlement talks have taken place, David said that wasn’t the case and pointed out the lawsuit was recently filed.
Legal experts who spoke to the Blade have doubted the validity of a review by Sidley Austin on the basis it was among the legal firms agreeing in 2019 to help with the Human Rights Campaign entering into litigation to advance LGBTQ rights, an agreement David spearheaded upon taking the helm of the organization.
David, in response to a question from the Blade, said the independent investigation into his role in the Cuomo affair “is a sham and I believe it was a sham,” citing the lack of transparency of findings.
“One of the first instances that caused me concern,” David said, “is I suggested to the organization that we conduct an independent review, and they came back to me and said, ‘Here’s our press release history,’ and the press release never mentioned that I actually suggested that they do this review. And when I challenged them on that, they told me that they thought it would be better for the press to review a complaint or receive a statement that showed that they were bringing this investigation as opposed to I’m recommending and push back even more. And then they said ‘Well, we will put in the statement that you are cooperating.’ So from the very beginning, they were not honest about what they were actually doing.”
Representing David in the lawsuit is the Chicago-based employment law firm Stowell & Friedman, Ltd. and and Chicago-based attorney Matt Singer. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Eric Vitaliano, a George W. Bush appointee, an informed source familiar with the case said.
The lawsuit was filed in New York as opposed to D.C. because David is a New York resident and much of the discriminatory behavior took place in New York, the source said. The pay disparity alleged in the lawsuit is expressed in percentages as oppose to hard numbers pursuant to rules for the judiciary in New York, the source added.
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National Healthcare Agreement: PI 03-Prevalence of overweight and obesity, 2013 QS
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The Australian Health Survey (AHS) was collected, processed, and published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS operates within a framework of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975. These ensure the independence and impartiality from political influence of the ABS, and the confidentiality of respondents.For more information on the institutional environment of the ABS, including the legislative obligations of the ABS, financing and governance arrangements, and mechanisms for scrutiny of ABS operations, please see ABS Institutional Environment.
The AHS is conducted every three years over a 12 month period. Results from the 2011-12 National Health Survey (NHS) component of the AHS were released in October 2012.
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Many health-related issues are closely associated with age; therefore data for this indicator have been age-standardised to the 2001 total Australian population to account for differences in the age structures of the States and Territories. Age standardised rates should be used to assess the relative differences between groups, not to infer the rates that actually exist in the population.
The 2011-13 Australian Health Survey collected measured height and weight from persons aged 2 years and over. For the purposes of this indicator, Body Mass Index (BMI) values are derived from measured height and weight information using the formula: weight (kg) / height (m)2.Despite some limitations, BMI is widely used internationally as a relatively straightforward way of measuring overweight and obesity.
The AHS is conducted in all States and Territories, excluding very remote areas. Non-private dwellings such as hotels, motels, hospitals, nursing homes and short-stay caravan parks were also not included in the survey.
The exclusion of persons usually residing in very remote areas has a small impact on estimates, except for the Northern Territory, where such persons make up a relatively large proportion of the population. The response rate for the 2011-12 NHS component was 85 per cent. Results are weighted to account for non-response.
As it is drawn from a sample survey, the indicator is subject to sampling error. Sampling error occurs because only a small proportion of the population is used to produce estimates that represent the whole population. Sampling error can be reliably estimated as it is calculated based on the scientific methods used to design surveys. Rates should be considered with reference to their Relative Standard Error (RSE).
Estimates with RSEs between 25 per cent and 50 per cent should be used with caution. Estimates with RSEs greater than 50 per cent are generally considered too unreliable for general use.
Data for Northern Territory in 2011-12 is not comparable to previous years due to the increase in sample size.
RSEs for adult overweight and obesity rates by State/Territory and Remoteness Areas are generally within acceptable limits, except for remote areas in New South Wales and Tasmania where rates are considered too unreliable for general use.
The breakdown by State/Territory and SEIFA quintiles for adults in general has sampling error within acceptable limits. For children, remoteness and SEIFA disaggregations by State/Territory should generally be used with caution.
Adult overweight and obesity rates by age and sex generally have acceptable levels of sampling error at the State/Territory level, though some of the rates for females in Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory should be used with caution.
Sampling errors for BMI data for adults by State/Territory are generally within acceptable limits, though rates of underweight for most States/Territories should be used with caution. The underweight rates for children in New South Wales, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory should be used with caution.
Rates of overweight and obesity for adults by State/Territory and disability status are within acceptable limits. For children with disability, rates of overweight and obesity should generally be used with caution.The accuracy of overweight and obesity rates, particularly at the finer disaggregation levels is expected to improve in the 2014 reporting cycle with the use of the core sample of 34,000 people. For information on AHS survey design, see the Australian Health Survey: Users’ Guide (cat. no. 4363.0.55.001) on the ABS website.
The methods used to construct the indicator are consistent and comparable with other collections and with international practise.
Most surveys, including CATI health surveys conducted by the States and Territories, collect only self-reported height and weight. There is a general tendency across the population for people to overestimate height and underestimate weight, which results in BMI scores based on self-reported height and weight to be lower than BMI scores based on measured height and weight.
The age- and sex-specific cutoff points for BMI categories for children are from the work of Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM & Dietz WH 2000, “Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey”, BMJ 320:1240.The AHS collected a range of other health-related information that can be analysed in conjunction with BMI.
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Marilla Lima had Zika virus while pregnant. Her 2 1/2-month-old son, Arthur, has microcephaly — a birth defect characterized by a small head and severe brain damage.
Zika is a disease caused by Zika Virus that is caused by a bite of an infected mosquito. Zika virus was first discovered in 1947 and is named after the Zika forest in Uganda. In 1952,most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week after being bitten by an infected mosquito. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika. For this reason, many people might not realize they have been infected. Once a person has been infected, he or she is likely to be protected from future infections.
A group of Brazilian doctors found a link between Zika and the rising number of babies born with microcephaly in the their country. Microcephaly refers to abnormally small head for newborn babies; it may lead to development delays and often comes with other development problems like sight and other congenital diseases.
Laboratory tests found that Zika targeted key cells involved in brain development in the womb and then destroyed or disabled them, they said. Another research shows that Zika may cause Guillain-Barre, a rare condition in which the body’s immune system attacks a part of the nervous system that controls muscle strength.
Usually, the Zika virus disease is relatively mild and requires no specific treatment. People affected with the Zika virus should get plenty of rest, drink enough fluids, and treat pain and fever with common medicines. If symptoms worsen, medical care and advice should be sought immediately.
As of 2016, no vaccine, preventative drug or specific treatment is available. But work is underway towards developing a vaccine for the Zika virus. However, scientists say it may take several years before the vaccine could be rolled out. The best form of prevention is protection against mosquito bites.
Unlike Ebola, Zika does not spread from person to person, has a low mortality, and does not kill healthcare workers. Therefore, it warrants a different response, according to a commentary published Friday by a British think tank Chatham House.
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Objective—To identify causative organisms, treatment, outcome, and prognosis for dogs < 1 year old with community-acquired infectious pneumonia.
Design—Retrospective case series.
Procedures—Dogs were considered to have community-acquired infectious pneumonia if they had clinical signs of primary respiratory tract disease in conjunction with radiographic evidence of alveolar disease and positive results following bacterial culture of tracheal wash fluid.
Results—Most dogs were hypoxemic at the time of initial examination, with pulmonary function becoming worse during the first few days of hospitalization before improving; 57 (88%) dogs survived to discharge. Bordetella bronchiseptica was isolated from tracheal wash fluid from 32 (49%) dogs, and other organisms, predominantly gram-negative enteric bacteria, were isolated from the other 33 (51%). Dogs with Bordetella pneumonia were significantly younger (median, 14 vs 21 weeks), were significantly more likely to have been obtained from a pet store (19/31 vs 7/32), had been owned for a significantly shorter time prior to the onset of illness (median, 18 vs 90 days), had significantly higher PvCO2 values at initial examination (median, 48.7 vs 41.3 mm Hg), were significantly more likely to receive supplemental oxygen (25/32 vs 16/33), and had significantly longer hospitalization times (mean, 7.2 vs 4.9 days) than did dogs with pneumonia caused by any other organism.
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I recently bought some sustainable pads and panty liners from TOTM (Time Of The Month) and I thought I would share my thoughts. It has been a while since my last review on this blog, so it seemed like the perfect time. I have spoken about period pants before, but I still much prefer pads to them. I want to be as sustainable as possible, but my period is so painful and gives me so much grief that I need something quick and convenient. I have mentioned on Instagram that I have endometriosis and am constantly fatigued to the point where I can’t get out of bed, so something easy is essential for me.
Who is TOTM?
TOTM is a sustainable period care brand created to end the stigma around periods. The tampons, pads and liners are made with certified organic cotton. They are much more than their products as they raise awareness, bust taboos about periods and empower menstrual wellbeing.
Why should you choose TOTM?
They are sustainable:
- Plastic-free packaging and products
- Certified organic cotton -> grown without toxic synthetic pesticides and under sustainable farming practices
- Organic cotton produces 94% fewer greenhouse gases, 88% less water, 62% less energy than conventional cotton production
- Made in a facility powered by renewable energy
- Registered with The Vegan Society
- Ethical Accreditation with a top Ethical Company Index Score of 100
- ICEA certified
- Climate-neutral -> offset their business activities through carbon offset projects
They give back:
- Donate products to causes across the UK
- Work with employers to make products available in employee bathrooms
- Taboo-breaking campaigns
- Menstrual wellbeing education
- Donate 1% of their online sales to Endometriosis UK -> they have already donated over £20,000!
- Provided 25,000 pads/tampons to frontline healthcare workers in the pandemic
- Supported the Welsh Government Period Dignity Grant to provide period care products for schools
- Support City to Sea’s Rethink Periods Schools Programme in 2021
- Through their Gift a Pack of Pads scheme and Donate Next Order option for subscribers, customers can support In Kind Direct -> a UK charity that delivers essential products to people who need them
I ordered the medium absorbency pads* which cost £3.18 for 8 pads. Compared to an unsustainable packet of pads, it is much more expensive but they are honestly the comfiest pads ever! Feeling comfy is definitely essential when on your period, and these are much comfier than any other pads I have worn. I’m a bit of a pad snob because I’m very particular about the ones I buy, but I would definitely recommend TOTM’s pads. Not only are their pads sustainable, but they are hypoallergenic which is something I always look out for as I am allergic to most things (including non-hypoallergenic plasters).
The liners* cost £3.60 for 28 unwrapped, but you could get wrapped ones which cost 20p extra. I find this a bit expensive too, but I only really use them on the last few days of my period. Once again, these are super comfortable! I think that with a panty liner, it’s nice to not be able to feel it, but I normally do. No fear, with TOTM’s liners, you can’t feel them which is probably what makes them so comfortable!
You can get £5 off your order with this link*
Have you tried any TOTM products?
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Personal usage of of the web during work (PWU) is still a matter of debate. Should it be allowed or is it another form of procrastination, disadvantageous to the employers. Should employers limit PWU through monitoring and Internet usage policies? PWU can vary between reading news to watching pornography, is this all bad?
Employees can use the Internet in a variety of ways not always harming their employees. It could enhance the work of some employees. There are many kinds of PWU behaviors. In short a lot of questions starting to be answered with some recent research. The first question is what is PWU exactly and what kind of PWU behaviors do exist?
A recent study looked at this important questions and came up with another but probably useful definition and classification. It only looked at Web surfing behaviors not other forms of online activities such as email. This study appealed to me because it’s viewing PWU not a priori as bad but as a constructive behavior. PWU can provide a necessary break from drudgery or intense endeavors. It can help putting the family/work balance to more appropriate proportions. This e.g. in contrast with the term cyberloafing.
Cyberloafing is defined as ‘‘the voluntary act of employees using their companies’ Internet access during office hours to surf nonjob-related Web sites for personal
This study found after cluster analysis four types of PWU
- The work/family PWU cluster. It includes activities where employees tend to personal affairs at work and there is a threat of production deviance as employees attend to personal business on company time instead of work. This type of PWU may serve to reduce stress as employees take a ‘‘break’’ from their work-related duties. Employees may also be working during personal time and this behavior can be a trade of.
- Hedonic PWU. Those are using the Internet for their personal pleasure, enjoyment. Looking for entertainment and amusement. It can temporarily relief stress and improve their mood.
- Self-development PWU. Especially knowledge workers could benefit from searching for educational informative information and current events. This self development may simultaneously benefit the organization
- Organizational Citizenship PWU. Interest and monitoring the external environment of the organization may also be of benefit to the organization.
In short, PWU has many faces and most of them of benefit to the organization. Keep in mind that Dr Shock might be biased on this subject but at least one can certainly defend the opposing view that not all PWU is bad and disadvantageous to the employers.
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Court of Protection
Henry Hyams have a dedicated team of specialists who are able to advise you on all aspects of the law surrounding mental capacity.
Planning for your future
You may have planned for the future of your family by having a Will prepared. Have you considered what would happen to the family if you were to suffer from a loss of mental capacity? A person can lose mental capacity for numerous reasons such as involvement in an accident, brain injury or dementia. Losing mental capacity has an impact upon every aspect of your life.
We can help you plan for this. We can draft a Lasting Powers of Attorney document for both financial and personal welfare. A Power of Attorney is a document you prepare while you still have mental capacity. It comes into effect once you lose your capacity. It appoints a person you trust to make decisions about where you should be cared for, the care you receive and your finances.
We can also advise you about drafting an Advanced Decision document to refuse certain medical treatment.
Dealing with Incapacity
If a loved one has already lost their mental competency then it is not possible to obtain a Lasting Power of Attorney. You have to make a formal application to the Court of Protection to become their “deputy”. This allows you to make decisions for the other party relating to their financial affairs and health. You will need to provide detailed medical evidence to the Court of Protection before your application will be granted.
If you are considering either a Lasting Power of Attorney or applying to become a deputy, we will offer an honest, friendly discussion to enable you to reach a final decision. We can then assist you by drafting the document or application for you and liaising with the appropriate authority on your behalf.
Decisions will need to be made about individuals who do not have capacity and who have not planned for their future. These can be important decisions about where they are living and the care they are receiving. When people involved in their care disagree, this inevitably will have to be dealt with in the Court of Protection. This is a very specialist area of law. We are regularly instructed by the Official Solicitor to act on behalf of the incapacitated person as well as acting for family members involved. We have a dedicated team of barristers we regularly instruct on complex matters.
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It's important to keep your eyes wide open, in anything really. Yoga is just one activity that is easy to target people because of our romanticization of how things are done in the East. Most people believe yoga came from India. It did not. Furthermore, stop glamorizing India. Its treatment of women is deplorable. It was women who brought yoga to older women in the US, but since women were not "allowed" or sacred enough, we give credit to a man with long dark hair, with white linen flowing clothing and the easy to lead groups of people followed blindly. So much to learn. Look up "the dark side of yoga".
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From: Timber Harvesting Editors
An Oregon district judge has refused to dismiss a 2016 lawsuit filed by counties with state forests within their borders that claimed state officials have refused to maximize timber revenues from lands that counties donated to the state years ago. Attorneys for the state had claimed “sovereign immunity” in the matter—a doctrine that county governments can’t sue the state government—and while the judge initially allowed it as a possible defense, his most recent ruling says that in this case, counties can sue the state to enforce their contract rights.
At issue are timber sale revenues from state lands that were initially donated to the state decades ago, along with accompanying legislation that the lands should be managed for the “greatest permanent value” and revenues shared with the counties. According to the suit, state forestry officials began reducing timber revenues in favor of recreational and environmental protection priorities 20 years ago via an internal policy change. As a result, the counties believe they have been shortchanged and are asking the state for more than $1 billion in revenues in the years since.
The judge’s ruling clears the way for the trial to begin, says counties’ attorney John DiLorenzo, adding that maybe the Oregon Department of Forestry will take the case seriously. Claiming that until now the state head treated the suit with derision, believing it would be easily dismissed, “This should be a signal to state policymakers the court is taking this case quite seriously.” | <urn:uuid:8c3f485b-6df5-41eb-a812-40bf5204425f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://timberharvesting.com/oregon-judge-rules-immunity-not-defense/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97173 | 304 | 1.84375 | 2 |
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Fri 12 Aug 2022, 10 am
Online event via Nguyen Art Foundation Facebook livestream
From the organizer:
In the previous discussion, as part of our public program series for ‘Illuminated Curiosities’, Andrew Yang shed light on practices that are at the intersection of art and science. That said, the convergence of the two disciplines is not always visible as scientific knowledge can take a much more subtle form of influence. Much like other artists featured in the current exhibition, whose visual presentation may not reveal a direct link to science, Diem Phung Thi’s art-making methodology registers a logic en par with scientific processes.
Known as one of the most important sculptors of Vietnam, Diem Phung Thi (b. 1920, Vietnam; d. 2002, Vietnam) started making art in Paris at the age of 39 after abandoning a career in dentistry. She is renowned for her radical yet minimal seven modules system – dubbed as seven characters, seven musical notes, or seven signs – which enabled countless possibilities of form. To what extent has her former training and practice influenced, or perhaps informed Diem Phung Thi’s artistic articulations? Our lecturer, Le Thuan Uyen, will present a preliminary account of Diem Phung Thi’s journey into the arts and how science, particularly her former practice, might have played a role in her art. Uyen will also expand on the complex relationship between art and science in the mid-twentieth century in Europe, where Diem Phung Thi began her artistic endeavour.
* Guest speaker: Le Thuan Uyen
* Language: Vietnamese only (video documentation of the event will be subtitled in English and published online at a later date)
Lê Thuận Uyên is a curator/ writer based in Vietnam. She has recently been appointed as the Artistic Director of The Outpost – a privately funded organization dedicated to the development of visual art and culture, located in Hanoi. Driven by her former training in political science, Uyen is interested in alternative histories of Vietnam, exploring personal narratives that are rendered absent, sidelined or undesirable by the official record. Her curatorial projects often involve close collaboration with artists, seeking to unpack artistic articulations and stimulate critical, creative enquiries.
Some of her past curatorial projects include: Domestic Bliss (Ilham Gallery, KL, 2019); Gang of Five Chancing Modern (Hanoi, 2017); Sindikat Campursari (Jakarta, 2016); Embedded South(s) (co-curator, Sàn Art, online, 2016); Skylines With Flying People 3 (co-curator, Hanoi, 2015-17); Miền Méo Miệng (assistant curator, Bildmuseet Umea, 2015);… She was a resident curator at Art in General (NYC) from April–August 2017 through a fellowship with the Asian Cultural Council. Lê has worked and collaborated with various artists, providing administrative support and programmes for spaces including Nha San Collective, San Art, The Factory Centre for Contemporary Art, APD (Centre for Art Patronage and Development), The Nguyen Art Foundation.
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The Boogie verification debugger (tool paper). The Boogie Verification Debugger (BVD) is a tool that lets users explore the potential program errors reported by a deductive program verifier. The user interface is like that of a dynamic debugger, but the debugging happens statically without executing the program. BVD integrates with the program-verification engine Boogie. Just as Boogie supports multiple language front-ends, BVD can work with those front-ends through a plug-in architecture. BVD plugins have been implemented for two state-of-the-art verifiers, VCC and Dafny.
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At Moodle, we aim to be the best LMS for supporting education in any environment, with an emphasis on accessibility. As a free open source product, users can download direct from our site to experience the features of Moodle, or use one of the demo sites.
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How big is a red lionfish?
Lionfish are often seen as an enemy to many fish tanks, but they can actually make great pets. For those who don’t know how big these creatures get in adulthood – 18 inches! That’s bigger than some people kneeling down on dry land! As well as having really sharp teeth with dark markings all over them because their coloration makes it hard for any prey animal not just notice what lies beneath its mouthful of flesh…or fins if you’re feeling friendly towards these types o aquatic life forms.
How big is a red lion fish?
Lionfish are a pesky and juicy fish that native to the Indo-Pacific. They’ve made their way beyond our oceans, though they’re not too common yet! The largest of these creatures can grow up 15 inches long but most only reach about 1 foot in length – making them perfect candidates for your next aquarium adventure
The red lions varied significantly based on where you find them; some were found far away from any other type while others had several different variations within their coloration schemes (eihgtying between blackish brown or yellow).
What is the largest species of lionfish?
The largest species of lion fish is the Pterois volitans, which can grow up to 47 cm (18 5 inches) in length! These ocean giants live about 10 years on average. While they’re not really pets because their feeding requirements are very high and there may only be a few small ones at any one time,think tank equality instead; these fierce creatures would make excellent additions for anyone who has room enough inside his/her aquarium due large size alone makes them intimidating competitors against other types of marine life.
How big do lionfish get in aquarium?
The Lionfish is a fast-growing fish that can reach 15 inches in size. It needs at least 120 gallons of water to live comfortably, and its numerous hiding places make it difficult for predators such as cats or goldfishes to catch this aquatic creature without some help from you!
What does the red lionfish?
The red lionfish is not only one of the most colorful sea creatures but also has venomous spines that can kill you in a matter of seconds. It lives on coral reefs throughout Indo-Pacific oceans, where it gets its common name from long fins resembling those belonging to lions’ manes (which makes sense since they’re called ‘lions’). More recently though these beautiful fish have been found growing up north too–in parts unknown!
Is red lionfish venomous?
Lionfish are not poisonous, which means their toxin can be delivered through the needlelike spines on its body. When compared to other types of toxins that must enter your system by ingestion in order for them work magic-ly enought Lionfishes have no way delivering any sort into you because they don’t possess this skill either!
What happens if you get stung by a lion fish?
Lionfish are coated with venomous spines that can cause a painful sting. The risk of infection and other complications increase if you’re allergic to them, so it’s important for anyone who has had contact with this type fish previously or will be handling one during their day to day life at work (like fishermen) should receive immediate medical attention!
How long do red lionfish live?
10 to 18 years old.
At some point in their lives, most people will experience the difficulties of growing up. The process is not always easy and can be difficult for both parents as well as young adults themselves; yet it’s essential that we remember there are plenty ways support them through these changes if they need help with anything at all even just being able talk about what’s happening inside or outside home without feeling too embarrassed because this could make an important difference when trying times arrive later down road.
What can eat a lionfish?
Lionfish have no natural predators in their invasive range. A large variety of fish can taste delicious, but it’s most likely grouper or snapper who will get there first with some help from other larger sea creatures like eels and sharks!
What is the smallest lionfish?
Lionfish are everywhere! Lionefishes have an interesting appearance that is both bold and colorful. The Fuzzy Dwarf lion fish can be found in warm waters around the world, but it’s not actually called “fuzzy” for its furlike patterning this animal has large fins with distinct colorbands on them which give off quite a intimidating vibe when they dance across your tank glass at night time (or during day).
What do red lionfish eat?
Lionfish are dangerous fish. Not only do they eat just about any other type of sea life, LionFishes biological makeup makes them especially hungry for invertebrates like crabs and lobsters! So if you have a reef near your home or business- beware: The lion is coming to get its prey…
In addition to being known as an appetizing delicacy in many parts around the world (seafood restaurants especially), there’s some serious potential economic benefits from converting this invader into something useful such losing weight with less fatty acids intake by replacing old catch items like salmon; improving quality due increased protein content found within muscle tissue while maintaining flavor.
Can you keep lionfish with other fish?
Lionfish are typically kept with other small, schooling fish that they will not eat. So if you want your pet to stay safe from being eaten alive by this aggressive predator then make sure it’s somewhere between 2 – 5 inches long and remember there is no defense against its large mouth!
How did the red lionfish get to Florida?
Lionfish have been spreading quickly through the waters of Florida, and it’s not just because they taste delicious. The fish was introduced to this area in order for people who owned aquariums or collected souvenirs from their vacations at sea-life centers outside since before 1990 could share them with friends back home but now populations are declining due largely on how dangerous these creatures can be!
Is lionfish edible?
Lionfish are not just a pretty face, they’re actually delicious! The flashy creatures have been catching the attention of hungriest predators for years now, and people love them. Once stripped off their venomous spines before being cleaned up like any other fish in your grocery store freezer section (or fresh outta water), this tasty treat becomes an easy seafood meal that will please even those who don’t normally consume much raw meat products at all…
How much does a lionfish weigh?
Lionfish are a tricky fish to find in the wild. They’re usually found within 200 miles (321 km) of their origin, but it can be up seas or even on remote islands! These heavily-predatory creatures have 11/2 – 3 pounds weight and grow as long as 30 inches before reaching maturity at about two years old when they’ll weigh between 15 – 20 ounces total length (around 454 g). Lionfishes’ average lifespan is around three decades so these big predators don’t stay small for very long if you catch them young enough… | <urn:uuid:d44276c9-3f2f-4748-b8c3-36a36229a86e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.congofishes.net/how-big-is-a-red-lionfish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961008 | 1,510 | 2.765625 | 3 |
COVID-19 has highlighted underlying vulnerabilities that undermine South African citizens’ quality of life, writes Tijs van den Brink of Royal HaskoningDHV.
These include growing inequality, limited and/or aging infrastructure, and a shortage of public resources to address these challenges – but applying smart city principles to all cities, and not only flagship projects, can help address some of these vulnerabilities.
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Smart cities put people and the environment at the heart of high-tech developments that use data and technology (digital transformation) to drive service delivery and quality-of-life improvements for residents.
But to support these efficiencies, flagship smart cities often put the technology at the centre and want to implement all innovations at once, which comes with high upfront capital investments that are recovered through higher property values and rentals.
This immediately excludes the majority of the population from ever being able to afford to live in a smart city. And, in a country with one of the greatest inequality gaps, everything possible needs to be done to guard against deepening the chasm between lower and higher income groups.
The ability to earn a return on high smart city investments depends on external factors, like economic downturns and requirements to include social housing. These factors can make smart city flagship projects unviable, as was the case with the shelved Chinese-led development in Gauteng.
What’s more, flagship smart cities are not always replicable – technologies piloted in new-build projects can’t always be retrofitted to existing infrastructure.
However, there Is immense opportunity – that is both scalable and replicable – in making existing cities smarter, more people-centric, and better able to address some of the vulnerabilities mentioned earlier. So how can South African cities be made smarter? By following these three steps:
Step 1: Gather data
Data is the foundation of everything in a smart city, because knowing exactly what is going on within the city, and what the implications of those events are, helps authorities make better decisions, faster.
Ideally, data should be gathered in (near) real-time from a wide range of sources and sensors. Insights should be presented in a way that allows decision-makers to act as events unfold and helps them to understand how patterns evolve over time. Using this data and technology layer as a foundation, cities can build digital twins and other applications for public use.
That said, accessing accurate, relevant, and real-time data is a challenge in South Africa. When it comes to infrastructure, authorities often don’t know exactly what exists, what state it’s in, or what it’s being used for.
That means that South African cities must start gathering information to paint a true picture of what they have to work with. Only then can their managers plan how to make cities more liveable and better maintained.
Step 2: Experiment rapidly
Rapid experimentation is the only cost-effective way to quickly learn which technologies work in the local context, prior to larger scale rollouts.
To make this happen systemically, clear plans that prioritise what experiments will be conducted in which cities are needed, to form a solid business case for both the current setting and how the experiments will be replicated and scaled to future applications.
Remember, these experiments can fail – and it’s okay if they do, as long as they’re stopped immediately and that the lessons learnt are shared widely to prevent future misallocations of funding.
An interesting example when it comes to smart experimenting is the Count Dropula smart water meter launched during the peak of Cape Town’s water crisis in 2018. Developed by a University of Stellenbosch associate professor, the meter helped schools rapidly address water leaks by notifying them immediately of consumption spikes. Once installed at 350 schools, Count Dropula saved almost 550 million litres in 17 months.
Step 3: Partner broadly
Learning from and partnering with the private sector has additional benefits. A 2018 MGI report found that “more than half of the initial investment that needs to be made [in service and infrastructure systems] by the public sector would generate a positive financial return, which opens the door to partnerships”.
This is particularly relevant for a government that is fiscally constrained as it responds to an unprecedented pandemic, as South Africa’s government is. A broad partnership with the private sector, academia, and NGOs also allows for more creative and diverse uses of available data.
On a broader scale, it requires connecting urban development with public-sector initiatives, like the Presidential Commission for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Johannesburg’s Tshimologong Precinct, and Ekurhuleni’s Drone Accelerator Programme.
Ultimately, making our cities smarter is a sustainable and impactful way to improve quality of life within urban areas. Although often associated with wealthy areas, the smart city concept can be applied to lower-income areas, to unlock the transformative impact that technology can have on people’s quality of life. | <urn:uuid:bdf2b8d1-8fd6-44bc-8946-04a8c0fe4536> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.business-it.co.za/we-should-be-making-cities-smart-not-just-building-new-smart-cities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940795 | 1,038 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Leanbiome Cedar Rapids Iowa
LeanBiome is a new dietary formula produced to boost digestion health. As the name explains, it targets the microbiome of the body and makes considerable modifications to it. Offering probiotic as well as prebiotic pressures to the body, it claims to reveal exceptional lead to the type of weight management leanbiome cedar rapids iowa.
Weight loss is monotonous and also hard, however there are many manner ins which you can make use of to make it convenient. Obviously, you would feel sad when you have to quit consuming your favorite fast food as well as control snacking. Taking aid from a few products would certainly make this battle much easier. Among these products is the LeanBiome dietary mix, a weight reduction supplement made with 100% natural active ingredients.
Everyone has a different metabolic rate, as well as cutting the calories might not necessarily help them reduce weight. Regardless of quiting on your favored foods and still no results appearing can be aggravating as well as prompt people to stop their weight loss journey mid-way.
Can You Lose Weight Using Probiotics?
Probiotics are living microorganisms that aid in food digestion, boost resistance as well as control all body functions. In contrast to the common image of ‘bacteria’ as pathogenic pressures, many of them are in fact valuable for health as well as are essential to live a healthy life. There are numerous researches to reveal the potential of these probiotics as well as prebiotics in maintaining health and wellness which is why using supplementary forms of these 2 is extremely usual.
There is no magic in probiotic-based weight loss. The visibility of these beneficial microorganisms aids the body procedure and also digest food entirely and also burn persistent fat layers for energy production.
The variety in the microbiome suggests it has almost all bacterial strains that are required to make improvements in wellness. But this equilibrium can be impacted by a change in diet or lifestyle. The signs of disrupted microbiota include level of acidity, windiness, irregular defecation, sluggish feeling, and also weight gain. As quickly as you start taking probiotics, these concerns fix, and the exact same occurs when you begin taking a probiotic supplement.
From the information gathered, LeanBiome can conveniently be described as one of the top probiotic supplements these days, as well as there are lots of reasons to trust this item. As per the main website, it controls brain and also body sychronisation as well as controls the psychological as well as physical sides of excessive weight at the same time. The outcomes include a faster and also much better fat burning within a few weeks. This moment may differ in all customers, as well as the extremely overweight individuals might take 3 to 6 months to see visible adjustments in health.
What is LeanBiome?
LeanBiome supplement is a weight reduction formula made with probiotic and prebiotic pressures. According to the main site, this probiotic mix works with clearing the body from toxic substances, oxidative stress and anxiety, totally free radicals, and various other waste products preventing weight management.
Lot of times, when the prominent weight-loss diets and also the most reliable exercises fall short to function, the body needs a metabolic makeover. Taking a probiotic supplement everyday regulates cravings, lowers state of mind swings, as well as improves digestion and also stress and anxiety while changing the fat storage capability of the body.
There are 30 pills in each bottle of LeanBiome, as well as this one bottle is enough for the entire month. Every capsule is made with specific nutritional ingredients, playing a handy function in weight loss. It might work without diet and also workout, but the faster results are observed when the supplement is used alongside a healthy diet plan and also active way of life.
Just How Does LeanBiome Assist in Weight Reduction?
LeanBiome aids the efficiency of the body to absorb, shed as well as build up fat from the food. It is based on an easy mechanism that bacterial stress in the body are involved in food digestion as well as weight administration. Diet plan tablets are often regarded as harmful as well as risky, which holds true when you are selecting an artificial product. If you are utilizing an all-natural product, there are lower dangers entailed, as well as they are much better than any trending diet regimen pills brand name.
LeanBiome is one of these items that are easy to use and risk-free for lasting use. It enhances metabolic rate and also makes the body usage every one of the calories gotten from food. The outcomes include far better digestive system health as well as resistance, which displays in the form of better quality of life.
What is Inside the LeanBiome Formula?
The largest reason individuals fall for scams in the supplement sector is that firms conceal details from them. Many of these individuals do not even inspect the ingredients tag, not to mention the various other information, which is an incorrect approach, according to wellness experts. One need to always take notice of the active ingredients he is about to take and also understand if any of these active ingredients is related to adverse effects.
Every component contributed to the LeanBiome formula is picked after undergoing the research study information showing its benefits. Using the original dietary resource can also assist acquire the probiotics, but the supplement form has a better potency than food; plus, it gives you multiple stress in one small capsule, as well as you do not need to consume a lot of probiotics rich foods everyday. It is a vegan/vegetarian-friendly item, without nuts, soy, dairy, BPAs, as well as genetically changed ingredients.
Although the exact resources for the LeanBiome components are not stated, the company guarantees they are trusted. The production occurs in the US, in an FDA-certified center. The final product is securely packed into costs plastic bottles as well as secured to maintain the top quality. The business also mentions that it inspects every set with a third-party testing facility to prevent the danger of contamination.
Greenselect Phytosome( GSP): this is an organic extract made from environment-friendly tea yet with reduced high levels of caffeine degrees as well as greater catechin levels. It suppresses cravings, controls food desires, clears the body from toxic substances, and also saves from overindulging. Consequently, the body starts shedding added fat and also keeps a healthy weight.
Bifidobacterium longum: the supplement form of this bacteria can reduce body fat, enhance insulin feedback, control blood pressure and also transform metabolic process entirely.
Lactobacillus Plantarum: while various other LeanBiome ingredients service weight management, this microbial pressure particularly helps get the weight back. It regulates blood glucose levels and makes sure there is no free-floating sugar in the body.
Bifidobacterium breve: this LeanBiome ingredient has natural anti-obesity advantages. It controls bowel movement, saves from swelling, diarrhea, and stomach discomfort, and also prevents digestive tract diseases.
Bifidobacterium lactis: next in LeanBiome active ingredients is Bifidobacterium lactis, which minimizes tummy fat. It also saves from digestion problems, especially in more youthful grownups.
Lactobacillus Rhamnosus: this stress promotes fat burning and removes fat from the troublesome areas, including the belly, upper legs, hips, as well as arms. It also saves from reabsorption of fat as well as putting on weight after losing it as soon as.
Lactobacillus paracasei: it lowers persistent body fat and solutions the underlying problems that make it difficult to drop weight. It includes inflammation, contaminants, oxidative stress and anxiety, complimentary radicals, and others.
Lactobacillus Fermentum: this stress offers cholesterol monitoring and also immunological benefits, straight impacting gastrointestinal wellness. It also saves from breathing infections and kidney and also liver illness.
Bifidobacterium bifidum: the surname in this checklist is Bifidobacterium bifidum, which makes digestion far better and also much faster. It additionally regulates the horrible bacteria in the gut as well as avoids common digestive problems.
Inulin: This component is prebiotic, which regulates defecation and also help in digestion. Without inulin, problems such as windiness, bowel irregularity, and also level of acidity may turn up, making food digestion uncomfortable. In addition to that, inulin aids in the development and spread of probiotic microorganisms and contributes alongside them in maintaining digestive tract flora.
Lactobacillus gasseri: this LeanBiome active ingredient is a probiotic stress that speeds metabolic rate, targets persistent fat, as well as manages appetite altogether. It works with minimizing BMI and assists the body decline one whole dress size.
In spite of being an all-natural product, LeanBiome is not suitable for minor youngsters as well as expectant and also nursing ladies. It is also not advised if a person suffers from underlying health concerns. If an individual does not understand the role of probiotics in fat burning, speak to a physician to find out the advantages of probiotic supplements.
Note: The LeanBiome weight loss supplement is solely offered online as well as can be purchased via the official web site at an affordable cost using this web link.
- A basic, all-natural, and also quick means to go down all undesirable weight
- Fat decrease from the stubborn areas such as the tummy, thighs, and so on.
- High power levels throughout weight management as well as no weak point or inactive sensation
- Healthy and balanced intestine microbiota, with an excellent balance in betweenadvantageous and hazardous germs
- Natural components without adverse effects or threats
- Easy to use capsule type, premium packaging, as well as a travel-friendly bottle
- Refund plan appropriate on all orders of LeanBiome
- No prescription is needed, however the basic age limitation applies to all consumers
- Regulated cravings, and also reduced food aversions, especially to harmful, fried, and highly refined foods.
- Improved resistance and protection from pathogens triggering stomach conditions
- Limited availability, and also the only means to acquisition is through the official website.
- Not available at pharmacies, warehouse stores, and also Amazon.com
- Supplies are marketing fast, and also there is a high possibility of stock ending
- Not appropriate for minor individuals, expectant as well as breast feeding mothers
Individual results might vary
Where to Acquire LeanBiome? Is it Cost effective?
LeanBiome is readily available available on the main internet site here. You can place an order online, as well as it will be supplied to your doorstep within three to 5 days. Purchasing from the official internet site conserves you from on the internet fraudulence and also provides you a chance to enjoy promos and also discounts.
Do not think a person calling himself an authorized dealer due to the fact that the business has none. The orders are received by the company team and also dispatched from the stockroom directly.
It is not a costly item and also just needs a tiny wellness spending plan. There are three ways to buy it; you can buy one, 3, or six packs of containers. Acquiring the package loads saves more cash and gives you much more bottles for a lower rate.
Right here are the latest prices information.
- Obtain 30-day supply for $59.00 + $9.95 United States Shipping
- Get a 90-day supply for $240 + Free United States Delivery
- Obtain a 180-day supply for $540 +Free US Shipping
If you are just a couple of extra pounds above your target weight, utilizing one bottle would be enough. But if you have even more weight to lose, consider buying a 3 or 6 bottle pack. The bundle loads save you from the initiatives of acquiring one container monthly. As the firm has no registration deal as well as the item is always available in minimal supply, a package pack is definitely a much better choice.
LeanBiome Reimbursement Policy
The outcomes can be different relying on a lot of factors, and it is likewise feasible for LeanBiome to show no results on a user. If you see no changes in your weight regardless of utilizing this item for a few weeks, do not shed hope, your money is conserved with the firm.
All LeanBiome orders come with a 180-day money-back assurance. If there are no results or the development appears extremely slow-moving, the client can speak with the firm as well as launch a reimbursement demand.
The company has an active client assistance group ready to aid clients with reimbursements. Upon get in touch with, it would certainly request for the order number, contact details, and also banking information to verify from documents as well as initiate the refund process.
The company may ask to return the bottles by sending them to the firm address. Do not throw used or brand-new containers, as well as keep them risk-free in case you are asked to send them back.
The refund deal is just valid on orders purchased from the official internet site. It does not facilitate the orders made through unapproved resources. Here are the contact details of the company.
The moment to obtain the reimbursements is up to 180 days after buying the product. The demands received by the firm hereafter time will certainly not be taken into consideration or accepted. So enjoy the timeline thoroughly. And also, this moment suffices to see the weight reduction as well as metabolic changes in the body. Stay with the usage guidelines and also provide this product a full possibility to show its effects. Talk to the company if you do not see it working.
LeanBiome Final Remarks
LeanBiome pills aim to boost the visibility and results of advantageous microorganisms inside the body. They can improve food absorption, digestion, as well as use to produce power, with no fat accumulation to make the body obese. This is a blend of probiotic and also prebiotic strains, as well as every one of them has scientific evidence of its effectiveness.
There is no way this supplement can fail for an individual, but if the customer is miserable, he can look for a complete reimbursement within 180 days of acquisition. If you have determined to give it a try, do not believe any longer and also check out the official web site today to validate the orders. The supply is offering quick, and it might finish quickly. Acquire LeanBiome while it is still readily available utilizing this straight link to the main internet site. | <urn:uuid:e37ad2b1-080b-4b45-9672-e7205ae5a464> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartauthorsitesmain.com/leanbiome-cedar-rapids-iowa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959682 | 3,029 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Good Human. It’s competition time.
We live in a world that appears to be crazier than ever right now, where we are constantly bombarded with bad news and terrifying atrocities. A scary kind of madness seems to have the whole planet in its grip.
But isn’t that just one part of the story? Don’t people just love to share the awful stuff, it kind of rolls off our tongues involuntarily. We fill newspapers and social media, and our own awkward silences with gossip and moans. We aren’t always our best selves. We don’t always play fair. Could we be more tolerant, more helpful, and more selfless? Probably yes.
We worry and fret about pretty much every worst-case scenario imaginable. But what about the good stuff? Why aren’t we focusing more on what lifts the corners of our mouths and makes our hearts pound (in a good way)? It’s like we thrive on doom and gloom and melodrama.
Not at Yoga Leggs because we like uplifting news, positivity, random acts of kindness and compassion. We like generosity. We like nice people that offer a helping hand. We like folks that show they care.
And what should be most important above all else in this crazy world is how we treat our fellow earth dwellers. We should always help people that need help.
We had a little brainwave, explained in our recent blog post Are you a good human? Do you know any? We decided that we want to hear more happy stories, we want to be inspired, and we want some good news for a change.
We believe that there are a whole lot of good humans out there doing tremendous things. All acts of loving-kindness, large or small are so important to humanity at this present time. Being kind and showing compassion is definitely a skill some people might need a little practice with. Team Yoga Leggs would like to celebrate the beautiful ones already qualified and putting those talents to good use.
Basically we would like to say thank you; thanks for making the world a better place. Thanks for spreading love and giving hope and for caring and being decent. Thank you.
Most good humans are pretty modest and humble so as their friends and colleagues, sisters or teammates we need you to nominate the good guys and tell us about any good deeds that may have restored your faith in human nature and made you proud to know them. Once a month we will be rewarding one lovely kind-hearted soul with a Yoga Leggs gift.
To nominate your good human for January please email firstname.lastname@example.org by the end of January. The first winner will be selected at random and announced 2nd February. And thereafter each month.
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Looking back at America's longstanding ties to Afghanistan
Clip: 11/25/2021 | 8m 4s | Video has closed captioning.
It's been three months since the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan, but America's involvement there didn't begin after Sept. 11, 2001. It began decades earlier, after the Soviet Union invaded that country in 1979 and the U.S. began working with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to counter its rival's influence. Nick Schifrin spoke with one of the key architects and partners in that effort.
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The fruit of all our R&D work has been gathered together in these different geospatial libraries. These represent our development bases for all our future client applications.
GeoAPI is an OGC project for which Geomatys is the main contributor. So much more than a geospatial library, the project has become an OGC standard and also meets the ISO standards. GeoAPI promotes interoperability between the systems and flexibility for the users who switch from one implementation to another.
Apache SIS is an Apache Foundation project. This geospatial library is fully Open Source. It provides the building blocks that Geomatys uses for all its activities. Apache SIS is a GeoAPI implementation that is robust and respects the international standards.
Geotoolkit is an Apache SIS extension. The documentation for this Java library allows fast and easy take-up and integration. This full API allows metadata, spatial reference systems, coordinate transformations and raster image manipulation to be managed. This project is constantly evolving and being used in production for several large-scale projects. | <urn:uuid:a479a5d3-5e15-4108-b369-0bc1b7d04815> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geomatys.com/products/geospatial-libraries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.904851 | 233 | 1.695313 | 2 |
In its recent decision in Fairstone Financial Holdings Inc. v. Duo Bank of Canada (Fairstone), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) (Court) addressed the interpretation of material adverse effect (MAE) clauses and ordinary course covenants in M&A transactions. Such provisions are of renewed interest to many prospective buyers, sellers and target companies in view of the ongoing effects of COVID-19.
Fairstone provides some important considerations for parties negotiating purchase agreements. In particular:
Interpretation of MAE provisions
Burden of proof and constituent elements of an MAE
Rule of contractual interpretation (i.e., contracts should be read and interpreted as a whole, with a specific determination that it would be inappropriate to allow the ordinary course covenant to override the MAE provision).
On February 18, 2020, Duo Bank of Canada (Duo) agreed to purchase all of the shares of Fairstone Financial Holdings Inc. (Fairstone) for a purchase price calculated on the basis of Fairstone’s tangible shareholders’ equity (subject to adjustment at closing) plus a premium. Closing was originally scheduled for June 1, 2020, with an outside date of August 31, 2020.
On May 27, 2020, Duo advised Fairstone that it was not obligated to close the transaction on the basis of the occurrence of a MAE and breaches by Fairstone of the “ordinary course” covenant and other specific covenants related to COVID-19. In response, Fairstone and its shareholders sued Duo for specific performance.
The Court found that Fairstone had not breached the share purchase agreement (SPA) and ordered specific performance of the transaction.
MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT
The SPA stated that Duo was permitted to terminate the agreement if an MAE in respect of Fairstone occurred between the date of signing and the date of closing. MAE was defined in the SPA as a condition that has (or would reasonably be expected to have) a material adverse effect on the business of Fairstone, taken as a whole, except to the extent that:
Such material adverse effect resulted from any of a number of specified clauses, which included: (a) worldwide, national or provincial emergencies, (b) changes in the markets or industry in which Fairstone operates, and (c) the failure to meet forecasts
Certain of such specified causes did not disproportionately affect Fairstone relative to others in its industries or markets.
In determining whether an MAE had occurred pursuant to the SPA, the Court examined:
The burden of proof that an MAE had occurred
The constituent elements of a MAE
The application of the exceptions or “carve-outs” provided in the definition of the MAE
The application of the disproportionate effect provision contained in the definition of MAE
The Court found that the burden of proof to establish that an MAE occurred falls on the party making such assertion, in this case Duo. Additionally, the Court established that the appropriate burden of proof to demonstrate that a MAE “would reasonably be expected to have” occurred was on a balance of probabilities. Assuming the initial assertion that an MAE had occurred succeeds, the burden of proof then shifted to Fairstone to establish that one of the carve-outs to the definition of MAE applied. Finally, the burden of proof shifted back to Duo in its assertion, in accordance with the exceptions to certain of the carve-outs, that one or more of the carve-outs should not apply because of a disproportionate impact to Fairstone relative to others in Fairstone’s industries or markets.
Moving to the elements of an MAE, the Court noted that the definition of MAE used in the SPA was not helpful, as it referred back to itself. Instead, the Court pointed to a widely used MAE definition in American jurisprudence: “…the occurrence of unknown events that substantially threaten the overall earnings potential of the target in a durationally-significant manner”, which contains three elements: an unknown event, a threat to overall earnings potential and durational significance.
Examining these three constituent elements, the Court found that Duo had met its burden of proof, on a balance of probabilities, to demonstrate that an MAE arose between signing and the determinative date. In considering the “unknown event” aspect of the definition, the Court found that although COVID-19 was a known event at the time the parties entered into the SPA, there was no evidence that either party appreciated the effect that COVID-19 would have on Fairstone’s business. The Court also accepted that COVID-19 posed a threat to Fairstone’s earning potential. Finally, on the question of the durational significance of the effect of COVID-19 on Fairstone’s business, the Court found that that the evidence suggesting an adverse impact to Fairstone’s business for approximately two years was durationally significant from the perspective of a reasonable purchaser in Duo’s circumstances.
The Court next considered whether any of the carve-outs to the definition applied. Perhaps most interestingly, the Court held that the lack of express reference to “pandemic” in the emergency carve-out was not determinative of the parties’ intent to exclude pandemics from the carve-out, but rather that a broad interpretation of the provision was appropriate. In making this decision, the Court found that a broadly worded carve-out was “consistent with a general principle underlying MAE clauses of allocating systemic risks to the purchaser while leaving company-specific risks with the seller”.
Ultimately, the Court concluded that Fairstone fell within the three carve-outs referred to above. The Court also rejected the argument that COVID-19 disproportionality affected Fairstone relative to others in the market or industry. Accordingly, although the constituent elements of an MAE were proven, the Court was satisfied that an MAE had not occurred on the basis of the carve-out provisions.
ORDINARY COURSE COVENANT
The SPA also contained an ordinary course covenant requiring Fairstone to operate the business, to the extent lawfully permitted, in the ordinary course between the date of the SPA and closing of the transaction, and that any actions taken outside of the ordinary course would require consent by Duo, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. The SPA defined “ordinary course” to mean actions taken by Fairstone consistent with past practice and taken in the ordinary course of normal day-to-day operations.
Duo argued that Fairstone had breached the ordinary course covenant by taking the following measures in response to COVID-19:
Changing its operations from a branch-based system to an online system
Changing its collection practices by implementing a national deferment program
Reducing employee headcount and providing daily pay premiums to certain employees
Revising accounting practices by changing the way in which it calculated loan-loss reserves in the second quarter of 2020.
The Court considered interpretations of the “ordinary course” expression in various contexts and determined that despite the actions taken in response to COVID-19, Fairstone did not operate its business outside of the ordinary course. While the Court did not set out a universal rule for determining ordinary course conduct, it did provide guiding principles and a list of factors to consider when determining whether an action was taken in the ordinary course.
The Court accepted that there are systemic economic changes that will affect a business in the ordinary course and that prudent steps taken by a business in response to such changes that do not have a long-lasting effect or impose obligations on a purchaser can be actions taken in the ordinary course. The Court found that Fairstone’s actions did not fundamentally change the nature of the acquired business, impose long-term obligations or dispose of assets or portions of the business.
Additionally, Fairstone’s conduct was consistent with that of other businesses in the same industry and the Court found that the changes Fairstone made were to keep its business operating as normally as possible in light of COVID-19.
The Court also rejected Duo’s position that the ordinary course covenant required Fairstone’s conduct to be “consistent with the past practices” of Fairstone and “taken in the ordinary course of normal day-to-day operations” prior to signing of the SPA. In rejecting Duo’s position, the Court held that the practical effect of this interpretation would mean that Fairstone could not have operated its business in the ordinary course during the pandemic as anything it did in response to COVID-19 would be operating outside of the ordinary course. In addition, this interpretation would override the emergencies exclusion in the MAE covenant and to do so would not read the contract, but instead as a series of unrelated, standalone provisions.
On whether Fairstone’s conduct was “consistent with past practices”, the Court indicated that “consistent” does not mean “identical” and found that Fairstone’s conduct was consistent with steps that it had taken during past economic contractions and that the operational changes were consistent with past practices “in that they allowed Fairstone to continue its normal day-to-day business operations of lending to consumers, managing the consumer loan portfolio and collecting on its consumer loan portfolio”.
The Court added that even if Fairstone’s actions were outside of the ordinary course, it would have been unreasonable for Duo to withhold its consent to such actions had it been asked.
This determination can be contrasted to the decision in AB Stable VIII LLC v. Maps Hotels and Resorts One LLC (AB Stable), in which the Delaware Court of Chancery found that the target company’s response to COVID-19 was so extensive that its business was not conducted in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice such that the buyer was relieved from its obligation to complete the transaction. The Delaware court also rejected the argument that the target company’s responses to COVID-19 were reasonable or similar to that of other businesses. Although the facts in AB Stable differed from those in Fairstone, the Delaware court applied a plain reading of the purchase agreement and noted further that the MAE provision in the purchase agreement was to be read separately from the ordinary course covenant, in contrast to the court in Fairstone.
Fairstone provides guidance on the interpretation of MAE provisions and ordinary course covenants in Canadian M&A transactions and when it may be possible for a purchaser to terminate a transaction as a result of unforeseen events such as COVID-19. While the particular facts and circumstances of Fairstone contributed to the Court’s analysis and findings, it is a message for M&A participants to consider MAE clauses and ordinary course covenants carefully in the context of each transaction.
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Considered in Grand Committee
This Government want to do all they can to help hard-working people who have been affected by the current recession. Although levels of redundancies have not reached those seen in the recession of the early 1980s and 1990s, the devastation caused to communities by that experience, when whole industries were wiped out, are still fresh in the nation’s memory.
Recently, we have had the sad news that 2,000 people in the steel industry in the UK are going to lose their jobs. Each redundancy is the story of a career cut short, not out of choice but because of economic circumstances. For those individuals and their families, redundancy comes as a massive shock. When it happens, the Government have to be there for people. They have to help them through that situation and into another job. So it is right that, at this time, we do all we can to improve the situation for hard-working men and women.
We have made considerable progress in this area during the past 10 years. When we first came into office, the weekly limit had increased by only £5 a week over the previous six years, yet the annual uprating formula that we introduced back in 1999 has meant that the weekly limit has almost tracked average earnings for the past 10 years and increased by 6 to 7 per cent for the past three years—well above average earnings in that period. That is a far better record than any Government have had from the inception of the redundancy scheme back in 1965.
In addition to this financial support, we have introduced measures to help business and avoid the need for redundancies, but that is not all. We believe that you cannot simply stand aside and watch from the sidelines when people are losing their jobs. You have to step in and say, “We can help you to get a second chance”. That is why we have made it easier for people to get access to training to help them get back into work as quickly as possible. That is what we will be doing in the case of those steel workers. Those are just some of the things that we have already done to make a difference but we know that we have to do more.
The evidence might show that many people find work quickly after being made redundant, but that period between jobs can be tough—especially for those with families or loved ones to support. So, in the April Budget, we committed ourselves to raising the limit for statutory redundancy pay by £30. This order implements that commitment by providing for a one-off uprating to the statutory redundancy limit using a power contained in the Work and Families Act 2006. It increases the limit from £350 to £380 on 1 October 2009 instead of waiting until the next annual uprating round in February 2010, thereby giving immediate help to employees.
For the benefit of those noble Lords not fully acquainted with the intricacies of redundancy pay, I shall give a brief explanation of how this benefit is calculated. There are two elements to the calculation. First, you work out the number of weeks’ service that are payable to the person made redundant. That figure depends on their age and length of service. Up to the last 20 years’ service can be counted. Once you have worked out the number of weeks’ service that are payable, you multiply that figure by the weekly limit or actual pay, whichever is the lesser. Secondly, the capping mechanism is introduced. The limit is currently capped at £350. In other words, anyone earning that amount or more will have their number of weeks’ service multiplied by £350. So today’s proposals put an extra £30 a week into the redundancy calculation and, therefore, directly into the pocket of those most in need during this time of economic woe.
Besides the immediate help that an increase in redundancy pay will provide, the order has a number of associated benefits. First, it does not simply apply to the redundancy calculation alone, because other payments are linked to the weekly redundancy limit, including unfair dismissal awards and payments made to employees where their employer has become insolvent. Our order retains the link with these payments, effectively increasing their limit, too. This assistance is worth around an additional £15 million of support per year, provided directly from the Exchequer to redundant employees.
Secondly, our order addresses the problem of deflation. As things stand under the annual uprating formula, if deflation continues until the autumn, the limit could fall by £10 per week in February 2010 due to it being linked to the retail prices index. I am sure that noble Lords appreciate that in the current economic climate a fall would hit those already suffering the most. Our order rectifies this problem by suspending the annual uprating round for the redundancy limit in spring 2010, ensuring the limit will not fall.
So there are a number of clear benefits to the order. However, I am sure that noble Lords will also want to know the costs associated with this measure. We have calculated that the Exchequer would have to pay out from £15 million to £29 million per year, while the cost to business is estimated at between £51 million to £77 million per year. We accept that these are significant costs, but it is absolutely right to provide additional help to employees who are made redundant while keeping the additional costs on employers and the Exchequer to an acceptable level.
Of course, the order is not a panacea. No Government can ever say that they can stop a recession having an impact in terms of people losing their jobs or companies experiencing its effects. In the long term, the best way of avoiding redundancies in the future is to ensure that businesses are strong and able to take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technology and from increasing competition abroad. But future plans do not influence what happens today. Today, we must ensure that adequate provisions are in place during this time of unprecedented economic turmoil and that those made redundant are properly and fairly compensated for their service. For those reasons, I commend the order to the House.
I thank the Minister for introducing the order. We on these Benches are acutely aware of the effect that redundancy can have on people, and we have great sympathy with anyone made redundant. This order increases the weekly limit for a second time in six months; it has gone up since 1 January this year by over 15 per cent. It also removes the annual reassessment of the weekly cap, due in 2010, as the Minister said, when a fall is forecast in the RPI. So we think that there is a real risk that employers will in future have to make more redundancies than they would otherwise have had to in order to make the savings that they need to avoid being pushed into insolvency. That seems to us to be of questionable wisdom on the part of the Government. Furthermore, the Government have created an additional real and unnecessary problem for the many employers who offer enhanced redundancy schemes, which are based on a multiple of statutory redundancy pay. So what are the Government, who have created the problem for them, planning to do to assist them? With this order, the Government, in their anxiety to please their paymasters, are doing something that they may later regret.
From these Benches, I welcome this order. The two fundamental points that the Minister made are absolutely germane in the current situation. First, it is extremely important that with the uprating there should be an acceleration of the payments being made to those worst hit by what is happening in the economy. That acceleration is welcome. Secondly, the statement being made that the Government will ensure that an uprating, which might, in a deflationary world, result in people getting less from next spring, should not take place. For those two reasons, we welcome the order.
We believe that we have a good case for increasing the limit to help employees made redundant, particularly during the current recession. It is absolutely right for the Government to take action to prevent the collapse of the banks and to support business through the recession. It is right for us to help ordinary people as well as those people in difficult times. We have carefully considered the impact on employers, and the estimate is that the £30 increase would cost them an additional £51 million to £77 million per year. We accept that those are substantial additional costs, but stand by our view that we have struck the balance about right. There were calls to increase by an even larger amount, but we believe that we have got the balance right. We feel that we have had an excellent record over the past decade and that we now stand in the middle ground between those calling for no increase at all and those calling for a very substantial increase. We do not believe that the £30 increase is too onerous a burden for business. It is right to point out that businesses are vulnerable in what is a difficult economic climate. However, we weighed up the small increase against the needs of employees, who have shown loyalty to a company and deserve to have that loyalty recognised. We believe that the order strikes the right balance for both employer and employee.
It is unfortunate that the noble Lord, Lord De Mauley, used the derogatory phrase paymasters, as we are acting in the interests of fairness, not meeting any vested interests. We have also ensured that we are doing our best to help businesses in a number of different ways, whether it is the £270 million of guaranteed loans that have been offered to 2,855 businesses under the enterprise guarantee scheme, or the 135,000 businesses that we have helped to retain more than £2.4 billion of working capital by deferring tax payments. We have done our best to stimulate the automotive sector via the vehicle scrappage scheme, which has resulted in 50,000 orders since going live on 18 May.
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Tuesday April 28, 2020
Southern Transitional Council breaks with wartorn state’s internationally recognised government
Fighters with Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council drive past a separatist flag as they deploy in the southern city of Aden. Photograph: Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images
The Saudi Arabian-backed government in Yemen has warned of a catastrophe if the country’s powerful separatist movement forges ahead with its declaration of self-rule over the key port city of Aden and other southern provinces.
The Southern Transitional Council’s armed forces were deploying on Sunday in Aden, the interim seat of the internationally recognised government backed by the Saudi-led military coalition that had until now included the STC.
The United Arab Emirates, unlike Saudi Arabia, has backed the STC, so the move has the potential to create tensions between two close Gulf allies against one another, complicate the task of securing a national agreement to end to the five-year civil war, and possibly restore the geographical division that existed in the former British colony before unification of Yemen in 1990.The STC made its move on Saturday, announcing emergency rule in Aden and all southern governorates, but there were early signs that many of these governorates will not follow the STC’s lead, leaving the political map of Yemen even more fractured.
The STC said it had acted because the Riyadh agreement, a deal between the STC and the UN backed government of Yemen brokered by Saudi Arabia last November, was not bring implemented.
In an effort to stem the scale of the southern rebellion, the foreign minister of the UN-recognised Yemen government, Mohammed al-Hadrami, condemned the STC’s move as “a resumption of its armed insurgency … and an announcement of its rejection and complete withdrawal from the Riyadh agreement”.
He called for Saudi Arabia to take “decisive measures against the continuing rebellion of the so-called Transitional Council”.
Hadrami claimed the governors of Shabwa, Socotra, Mahrah and Hadramout had all rejected the STC declaration. However, in Aden on Sunday the STC seized all the major institutions including the port.
Saudi Arabia described the STC move as escalatory, and the UAE foreign minister Anwar Gargash insisted “frustration with the delay in implementing the Riyadh agreement should not be a reason to change the situation unilaterally”.
The UN special envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths said he found the STC move concerning. “Now, more than ever, all political actors must cooperate in good faith, refrain from taking escalatory actions, and put the interests of Yemenis first,” he stressed.
The STC’s move, if it takes root, will complicate international efforts to start reconciliation talks as well as any coordinated effort to stave off an outbreak of coronavirus.
The separatist movement has been pressing for years for greater autonomy and recognition in any national peace talks. Last year the STC rebelled against the UN-recognised government and seized Aden, and violence spilled over into territory to the west of the city.
Saudi Arabia brokered a deal between the two sides on 5 November to form a more inclusive government and place all forces under state control, but the agreement, involving a withdrawal of forces, has hardly been implemented.
For five years Riyadh has been using its air power in an attempt to reinstate the Hadi government to power across the country by defeating an Iranian-supported Houthi rebellion.
But in recent months Riyadh, faced by the division within the ranks of the forces it backs in Yemen and its own inability to win militarily, has been sending signals that it wants to end the war if the Houthis will compromise.
On Friday Saudi Arabia announced it was extending its two-week-old, thinly observed unilateral ceasefire by a four weeks, in a move welcomed by the UK and the UN special envoy Martin Griffiths.
Griffiths says he has been trying to convene virtual talks to forge “a permanent comprehensive and mutually agreed ceasefire”, but says this requires the cooperation of all sides.
The STC, which has said it wants to be included in any political negotiations, pulled out of committees implementing the Riyadh deal in January. The STC says the Hadi government is gripped by corruption and continually refuses to pay salaries of public-sector staff.
The UAE, which like STC opposes the Islamist Islah party that forms part of Hadi’s government in the south, has withdrawn its forces from Yemen over the past 12 months but retains ambitions to control commercial ports across the south. The UAE regards the Islah party as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which it opposes across the Middle East. | <urn:uuid:fe0ed5df-adc2-434d-a7f9-382671de06fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2020/Apr/177932/crisis_in_yemen_as_aden_separatists_declare_self_rule.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961851 | 983 | 1.929688 | 2 |
IMPORTING AND EXPORTING TO AND FROM THE U.S
Are you interested in importing or exporting goods to or from the United States? If you are new to the world of importing and exporting, there is a lot of new information for you to learn. Customs rules and regulations can seem a bit overwhelming at first, but there is a lot of helpful information available to help you navigate the requirements.
When you import goods to the United States, there are certain rules and regulations that you need to follow. Usually you must declare goods entering the country to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to make sure you are complying with the country’s regulations.
In addition, when you import items to the U.S., you often have to buy some type of permit or license. While the CBP does not make people importing goods purchase a license or permit, other U.S. agencies sometimes require permits and/or licenses, depending on the commodity that you are importing. In order to conduct business in a particular region of the U.S., you may also have to purchase a special license from a particular state or local government. In addition, some commodities, for example, have import quotas to limit the volume entering the U.S over a set amount of time. For more information on commodities that are subject to quote, see this page on commodities.
The documentation required by the CBP does require some important information. Before importing goods to the U.S., you’ll want to make sure that you have an importer number or an IRS business registration number. If you are not in business, or if your company is not registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you may be able to use your social security number. You can also ask for an importer number when you submit your customs paperwork, specifically Form 5106. You should have this form ready at the CBP port of entry for the Entry Branch.
For those planning to do regular importing to the U.S., the CBP has published a helpful document covering a wide range of topics about importing to the U.S. For example, check out this helpful 200+ page document for importing information with topics that include:
- Entry process
- Packaging goods
- Special marking requirements
- Prohibitions and restrictions
- Rules pertaining to motor vehicles and boats
- Import quotas
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Before you start importing goods to the United States, you can contact the port of entry where your items will arrive. U.S. Ports of Entry, (and this includes sea, land or air) have CBP offices for your convenience. There are about 329 U.S. ports of entry. It is helpful to note that ports of entry are also responsible for inspections related to agriculture in order to protect against diseases that could damage crops, animals, and the environment in general.
When you contact the port of entry, make sure you are able to provide detailed information about the items you are importing to the U.S. Questions you might be asked include the following:
- Place where the items are from or made
- Merchandise composition
- Planned use for the items
- Pricing/value so that the shipment value can be calculated
If you are confused about the classification of your merchandise, you may want to check out the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) which includes tariff guidelines to classify your items.
If you are exporting goods from the United States, you can also get some helpful information from the CBP. Depending on the items that you are interested in exporting, you may be required to purchase an export license from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or the Department of State. It is also possible that you may need a Shipper’s Export Declaration or SED. There are specific rules and regulations about exporting cars or other motor vehicles,
If you are new to importing or exporting, you may want to get help from a licensed customs broker. Customs brokers are individuals or corporations that are licensed and regulated by the CBP to help those importing or exporting meet Federal import and export requirements. There are more than 10,000 licensed Customs brokers in the U.S. Licensed customs brokers have passed the Customs Broker License Examination. | <urn:uuid:0c00677b-4bff-475a-ab57-29f85d1e1513> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cargo-experts.net:443/internationalshippingblog/page_id_9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9349 | 898 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The Tour aims to open up not just the history of Glasgow Central Station but also connect it with the great social history of Glasgow and its people. Glasgow Central Station is far more than just a transportation hub for passengers. It has been a meeting point for countless romances, a crossroads of historical events and the first sight of Glasgow for millions.
Our Tour Guides Paul Lyons and Jackie Ogilvie, bring all this to the tours. They will transport you through time with powerful storytelling. With emotion and humour as the stories weave through and around major historical events of not only Glasgow and Scotland but also the World, all of which have a Glasgow Central Station connection. Prepare to be informed, moved, and entertained on Glasgow’s number one tour | <urn:uuid:68feec27-291f-4808-8091-2d5d0605b965> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://glasgowcentraltours.co.uk/glasgow-central-tours.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946262 | 151 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Wrath of NatureA spell from Xanathar's Guide To Everything
Casting time: 1 Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You call out to the spirits of nature to rouse them against your enemies. Choose a point you can see within range. The spirits cause trees, rocks, and grasses in a 60-foot cube centered on that point to become animated until the spell ends.
Grasses and Undergrowth. Any area of ground in the cube that is covered by grass or undergrowth is difficult terrain for your enemies.
Trees. At the start of each of your turns, each of your enemies within 10 feet of any tree in the cube must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 4d6 slashing damage from whipping branches.
Roots and Vines. At the end of each of your turns, one creature of your choice that is on the ground in the cube must succeed on a Strength saving throw or become restrained until the spell ends. A restrained creature can use an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Rocks. As a bonus action on your turn, you can cause a loose rock in the cube to launch at a creature you can see in the cube. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 nonmagical bludgeoning damage, and it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or fall prone.
Page: 171 from Xanathar's Guide To Everything
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No strategy can work without effective management and efficient processes. To help you successfully put theory into practice, we will assist you in designing and implementing governance structures that will facilitate change and enable you to effectively act on your key sustainability concerns.
Successful sustainability management requires that sustainability be embedded in the company’s core business. This requires active engagement of top-level management as well as the adaptation of the company’s central governance structure to ensure that sustainability measures are implemented across individual departments. sustainable will help you establish a governance structure that considers the particular organizational features of your company and clearly defines roles and responsibilities to help you achieve your sustainability goals.
The definition of sustainability action fields helps to frame the company’s strategy with regard to material sustainability issues. After prioritizing your sustainability concerns, it is essential to specify the themes the action fields cover and formulate goals for each field. A detailed but clear description of the company’s material sustainability concerns is important to determine the responsible business divisions and to create a framework to undertake the necessary implementation actions. Precise topics and clear objectives must be formulated for each sustainability action fields.
Sustainability management should aim to permanently integrate sustainability into existing business processes. To continuously monitor the company’s progress towards its target, the use of specific indicators is recommended. Our experts will help you develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tailored to your specific objectives that enable your managers to evaluate and steer the sustainability implementation process. KPIs can be created to track different levels of implementation, e.g., to measure the impact and progress over time for key sustainability action fields or for individual sustainability measures. sustainable helps companies to establish fact-driven monitoring systems that are intuitive and easy to apply. | <urn:uuid:d3eab350-08b0-4a6f-8f8b-f41b6a99d284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sustainable.de/en/services/sustainability-management/governance-structures-and-processes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.911593 | 350 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Nǐ hǎo Friends!!
We are just northeast of Center City and we have been transported to a slice of the Orient near the heart of Philly. Welcome to Philadelphia’s Chinatown! Though a small neighborhood, this ethnic enclave packs so much amazing culture and uniqueness that it was actually on the top five things I HAD to see in Philadelphia! So come along as we soak in some foreign culture and be all refined and shit.
The Friendship Gate greets you on the corner of Race & Arch Street and has been greeting the millions of visitors to Chinatown since 1984! The Gate is the first authentic Chinese Gate built in America by artisans from China and was shipped here, piece by piece. My photo does not do it justice, it sparkles in the sun like no tomorrow.
It’s like being in China once you walk into this neighborhood! With a thriving Chinese population, Chinatown Philadelphia has been the home to countless of Chinese immigrants since the 1870’s, when Cantonese immigrants first set up laundry shops and restaurants in the area. Though the Asian population of Chinatown is a mere 1,300, the area lures in a whooping 250,000 Asian immigrants from across the city and neighboring states. Who can blame them for making the trek though? From Chinese bakeries, resaurants, grocery stores, general stores and places of worship, Chinatown legit has anything you would ever want or need.
Chinatown is a fighter, with the desire to not only survive but thrive in a constantly changing urban environment. Throughout Philly’s history, Chinatown has been threatend with destruction in the name of urban reneawl. Some parts were lost but much of the core of Chinatown persisted, grew and now is yet another cultural gem in a city deeply rooted in culture and history. This is especially true as so many Chinatowns across the United States are dying off, Philadelphia’s Chinatown seems to be surviving the test of time.
Grab yourself a bubble tea and wander down the streets. The stores are amazing to pop in, the food is delicious and you can almost buy anything you could think of. There are a ton of Chinese and ethnic eateries to choose from and the ethnic grocery stores can’t be beat in variety, selection and unsual products. I mean how many American grocery stores sell live pigeons? Not gonna lie, I was tempted to buy one for ten bucks just to set it free but I resisted. So please stroll around, our strolling lead us through the streets and into an enchanting park decked out for a special event.
The Chinese Lantern Festival is not a permenant exhibit but it was a delightful surprise to find in Franklin Square, which is right in the eastern boundary of Chinatown. The park is a beautifully restored square that featuring an elaborate fountain and offers the citizens of Chinatown a lovely and inviting green space to enjoy.
During the day the Lantern Festival is free to stroll, and if you’re feeling like you got deep pockets you can come at night when all the displays are lit up for a nominal fee. Since at night we most likely would be either at a bar or back in Glenside, we opted to stroll gratis. Despite the exhibits not being lit up, they were incredible.
Stunning! I can’t tell you how stunning these displays were. Each displaying either different Chinese folktales or different deities, they are magical. We saw both young and old strolling, taking pictures and enjoying these terrific temporary pieces of art.
Incredible. Cities across the US have Chinese Lantern Festivals, I saw one before in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and it was just as beautiful (You may want to go google when the next one is in your town) Regardless though, if you find yourself in downtown Philadelphia step a few feet out of downtown and check out Chinatown for a piece of the exotic. You won’t be disappointed!
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Here is a quick tip from François Beaufort to test the battery health of your Chromebook. All you have to do is enter the Chrome OS command line using Ctrl + Alt + T and enter the following command:
That will run a (very) short test and tell you how good your battery is now.
My Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550 shows 69% and I found at least one more 5 550 user with similar results on Google Plus. Pixel users seem to get around 90 – 95, and there are people reporting CR48 still holding up at 100%. Test your battery health now and let me know in comments!
A quick note on Batter Health from Wikipedia:
State of health (SOH) is a figure of merit of the condition of a battery (or a cell, or a battery pack), compared to its ideal conditions. The units of SOH are percent points (100% = the battery’s conditions match the battery’s specifications).
Typically, a battery’s SOH will be 100% at the time of manufacture and will decrease over time and use. However, a battery’s performance at the time of manufacture may not meet its specifications, in which case its initial SOH will be less than 100%.
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How An Unexpected Tech Will Revolutionize The Battlefield Experience For Soldiers
Up to this point, 3D printing has been something of a niche technology, as continual improvements are made to the experimental hardware and software. One of the areas that researchers are investigating is 3D-printed food, and experts at the Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Massachusetts have been looking into ways that Army rations could be produced remotely in the future.
Meals made to order means there's less waste and more variety, something that can have a significant impact when crates of food need to be transported thousands of miles. Another scenario is that soldiers could download and print out a dish based on the ingredients they've managed to forage from wherever they happen to be. While it's still some way from becoming a reality, it points to the potential that 3D printing technology offers.
"The benefits of actively participating in the advancement of 3D printing to the Army are great," said Andy Davis, Army Manufacturing Technology program manager, when speaking to Army Technology magazine. "Coupled with the reality of being able to minimize or eliminate support tooling, 3D printing has nearly limitless applications."
And one of those applications relates to food. The reality of the Army ration system means that meals are produced on a massive and uniform scale, but even if 3D chefs can't improve the taste, they can at least create something more personalized and tailored towards a specific soldier's diet. For now, most 3D food printers output a customized paste or confectionary mixture, but refinements to the technology are being made all the time.
"We're interested in maybe printing food that is tailored to a soldier's nutritional needs and then applying another novel process to render it shelf stable, if needed," says Lauren Oleksyk of the Natick Research Center. "Another potential application may be 3D printing a pizza, baking it, packaging it and putting it in a ration."
There's no set date for when 3D-printed rations might arrive or even when testing might begin, but it's an interesting glimpse into how the future of food on the battlefield or in the disaster zone might look. | <urn:uuid:281c269c-04dc-4690-9d16-863f659d7804> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.askmen.com/news/tech/3d-printed-rations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957157 | 455 | 2.71875 | 3 |
The February issue of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology includes State-of-the-Art Reviews on pharmacologic considerations for COVID-19 in pregnancy and the technique and diagnostic potential of first-trimester fetal neurosonography, an individual participant data meta-analysis of Foley catheter vs oral misoprostol for induction of labor, a propensity score matched analysis of the risk of COVID-19-related outcomes in pregnant vs non-pregnant women, a study on the prediction of pre-eclampsia in twin pregnancy by maternal factors and biomarkers at 11–13 weeks’ gestation using data from the EVENTS trial, and a study on vessel morphology depicted by 3D power Doppler ultrasound as a second-stage test in adnexal tumors that are difficult to classify.
Pregnancy and COVID-19: pharmacologic considerations
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked controversies surrounding the use of certain pharmacologic interventions in pregnancy. In this State-of-the-Art Review, D’Souza et al. summarize published evidence and critically appraise international guidelines in order to provide an expert opinion regarding pharmacologic considerations unique to the care of pregnant and postpartum women with COVID-19. The interventions covered include antenatal corticosteroids, magnesium sulfate, low-dose aspirin for prevention of placenta-mediated conditions, indomethacin for prevention of preterm birth, thromboprophylaxis, intrapartum analgesia and anesthesia, mechanical ventilation and experimental drugs for COVID-19 in the setting of clinical trials.
First-trimester fetal neurosonography: technique and diagnostic potential
Most brain abnormalities are present in the first trimester, but only a few are detected so early in gestation. In the axial planes, a ‘basic’ examination of the fetal brain may be performed in accordance with current ISUOG guidelines for first-trimester ultrasound examination. However, using this approach, only the most severe or lethal brain abnormalities can be picked up sonographically at 11–13 weeks. In this State-of-the-Art Review, Volpe et al. describe how best to assess the normal fetal brain by first-trimester expert multiplanar neurosonography and demonstrate the early sonographic findings that characterize some major fetal brain abnormalities, including ventriculomegaly, open spina bifida, Dandy–Walker malformation and agenesis of the corpus callosum.
Foley catheter vs oral misoprostol for induction of labor: individual participant data meta-analysis
While a number of randomized controlled trials comparing Foley catheter and oral misoprostol use for induction of labor (IOL) have been conducted, results regarding which is the safer and more efficient method are inconclusive. Kemper et al. performed an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials to compare the effectiveness and safety of Foley catheter and oral misoprostol for IOL. For women undergoing IOL, Foley catheter was found to be less effective than oral misoprostol, as it was associated with fewer vaginal births. However, while no significant difference was found in maternal safety, Foley catheter induction may reduce adverse perinatal outcomes. The choice of using Foley catheter or oral misoprostol for IOL should therefore be personalized. Watch the accompanying video abstract:
Pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 infection are at higher risk of death and pneumonia: propensity score matched analysis of a nationwide prospective cohort (COV19Mx)
There are limited, unmatched data reporting low complication rates in pregnant women with COVID-19. Martinez-Portilla et al. compared COVID-19-related outcomes between 5183 pregnant and 5183 non-pregnant women after adjusting for potential risk factors for severe outcomes using propensity score matched analysis, representing the largest cohort of pregnant women with COVID-19 at the time. It was found that pregnancy is a risk factor for death, pneumonia and intensive care unit admission in SARS-CoV-2-infected women of reproductive age. The information from this study strengthens the evidence that pregnant women are indeed at higher risk of severe adverse outcomes.
Prediction of pre-eclampsia in twin pregnancy by maternal factors and biomarkers at 11–13 weeks’ gestation: data from EVENTS trial
Using data from 1798 twin pregnancies in the EVENTS trial, Benkő et al. validated a previously developed model for screening for pre-eclampsia (PE) by maternal characteristics and medical history in twin pregnancies, and developed and examined the predictive performance of new models based on maternal characteristics and history, MAP, UtA-PI, PlGF and PAPP-A in screening for PE with delivery at <32 and <37 weeks’ gestation. In the assessment of risk for PE in twin pregnancy, the same prior model based on maternal characteristics and medical history as reported previously can be used, but in the calculation of posterior risks it is necessary to use the new distributions of log10 MoM values of UtA-PI, MAP and PlGF according to gestational age at delivery with PE.
Vessel morphology depicted by three-dimensional power Doppler ultrasound as second-stage test in adnexal tumors that are difficult to classify: prospective diagnostic accuracy study
For tumors that are difficult to classify as benign or malignant using subjective assessment or using the IOTA LR-1 model, a second-stage test capable of correctly classifying difficult tumors as benign or malignant would be valuable. Sladkevicius et al. assessed whether vessel morphology depicted by 3D power Doppler ultrasound improves discrimination between benignity and malignancy if used as a second-stage test in adnexal masses that are difficult to classify. It was found that vessel morphology may slightly improve discrimination between benign and malignant adnexal tumors that are difficult to classify by subjective ultrasound assessment. For tumors in which the IOTA LR-1 model yields an ambiguous result, subjective assessment is superior to vessel morphology as a second-stage test.
Coming up next month…
- A European multicenter study finding that fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion reverses the natural history of right-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Preview the Accepted Article.
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At the end of 2014, another industrial cleaning solution that produces toxic effects in humans and the environment began the phase out process for discontinuation of use on U.S. soil: AK225 — also known as Asahiklin. This means that many companies and organizations across the nation have already phased out — or are in the process of phasing out — AK-225 and the AK-225 derived solvent spray cleaners below that are used for the following applications.
- For precision cleaning: AK-225, HCFC-225ca, HCFC-225cb
- For defluxing: 225AES, 225T, and 225ATE
- As carrier or heat transfer fluid: HCFC-225ca, HCFC-225cb
- As a coolant: HCFC-225ca, HCFC-225cb
- For drying after alcohol azeotrope use: 225AES, 225T, and 225ATE
- For displacement drying: 225DH
- For vapor degreasing: AK-225
- For oxygen cleaning: 225G
- For aerosol applications: AK-225
Users of AK-225 and associated solvent spray cleaners are government mandated to discontinue using the solutions, but Ecolink offers an incentive that can add a silver lining to replacing AK-225 aerosol acquired in conventional cans. When choosing a replacement solution (FluoSolv CX, for example), users can receive the solvent in aerosol cylinders instead of handheld aerosol cans. Using cylinders instead of cans can offer the following advantages.
- Better price per unit for volume of aerosol
- Less room required for solvent storage (36 pounds of aerosol per cylinder)
- Fewer empty solvent containers (simpler to refill / recycle)
- Refined nozzle control over the solvent stream
- Easy to transport through the facility on two-wheel dolly
Imagine if the aerosol section of your solvent storage area contained compact aerosol cylinders instead of cans. If you use lots of aerosol, you’re looking at a nice increase in floor space thanks to the small footprint of the cylinder compared to the equivalent amount of cans. Plus, remove the need to store cans in multiple locations in large facilities by implementing the cylinder and dolly option. There are lots of reasons to replace AK225 aerosol; our cylinders are one.
Making the Changeover
At a time when eco consciousness has penetrated the industrial sector like never before — a time when the nation, states, and local municipalities pass legislation that regulates or bans toxic substances and practices — companies need a way to make critical solvent replacements, and get on with business, as usual.
That’s what we help you do at Ecolink. Whether cylinders or cans are the right solutions for your solvent spray cleaners, we can provide the AK225 replacement you need, and supply it in the form of scheduled shipments or on an as-needed basis. Save money by purchasing in bulk, or save money by buying on-demand. We serve companies and organizations of all sizes.
Request a Free Sample
To get started on receiving an AK225 aerosol replacement, give us a call today at (800) 563-1305, or use our contact form. Whether a stock product or a custom product is the right option, we’ll send you a free sample to test before you place an order. We look forward to helping your organization improve the safety of its operations with solvent spray cleaners. | <urn:uuid:2dc2f86e-ac06-4bf1-ab82-41f94be2cab1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecolink.com/info/category/aerosol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.885252 | 713 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Software-based implementations of deep neural network predictions consume large amounts of energy, limiting their deployment in power-constrained environments. Hardware acceleration is a promising alternative. However, it is challenging to efficiently design accelerators that have both low prediction error and low energy consumption. Bayesian optimization can be used to accelerate the design problem. However, most of the existing techniques collect data in a coupled way by always evaluating the two objectives (energy and error) jointly at the same input, which is inefficient. Instead, in this work we consider a decoupled approach in which, at each iteration, we choose which objective to evaluate next and at which input. We show that considering decoupled evaluations produces better solutions when computational resources are limited. Our results also indicate that evaluating the prediction error is more important than evaluating the energy consumption. | <urn:uuid:c3add857-9efe-49f2-a6dd-5b2f659c01f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vlsiarch.eecs.harvard.edu/publications/author/113411/Adams%2C%20Ryan%20P?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933834 | 166 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Yintai New Materials The main products include
Yintai New Materials The main products include:
Color aluminum, color-coated sheet (polyester Paint plate, aluminum plate, cold plate, stainless steel plate, Cold Rolled , home appliance plate, high weather resistance plate, printing plate etc);
Galvanized steel sheet (building materials, home appliance plate, deep drawing board, fingerprint resistant plate).
The products are widely used in architectural decoration, household appliances, war industry, automobile, transportation, animal husbandry, metal products and other industries to meet the application needs of different users.
Yintai products are widely sold in more than 30 provinces and municipalities in China, and exported to more than 50 countries and regions, such as Europe, South America, southeast Asia and Africa. It's the production and management of metal plate processing and sales in the integration of professional iron and steel companies.
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- Spot the cyclist campaign in Taupo
- Tokoroa North School - how to be safe on a bike
- Road Safety Innovation and Achievement Awards
- Horowhenua Council staff bike their way to record books
Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation’s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road.
Safer Routes trial project started in January 2004
Includes Nelson and Manukau and Papatoetoe
10 most frequently asked questions about riding to work
Ever glance enviously at the cyclists whizzing past while you're stuck in traffic? Joining 'em is easy.
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My article on the book will appear on Matthew's site on Wednesday 16th April (don't worry, I'll remind you...), but in the meantime, to celebrate the occasion, here's my review of Stephen King's debut published novel.
|N.E.L. paperback (1986 edition)|
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not at the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
“Carrie” is a deceptively simple novel, told in an epistolary format that takes in accounts from academic textbooks, a commision report and Sue Snell’s autobigraphy (“My Name Is Sue Snell”, published in 1986) and set in the then near-future of 1979 (though I couldn’t work out why). There are no chapter breaks but the book is broken into three parts.
Part 1 – Blood Sport opens on Carrietta White, who has lived her life abused not only at home (by her unstable, religious zealot mother Margaret) but also by virtually everyone she comes into contact with, from classmates, to passers-by and teachers. Carrie is 16 and, to everyone’s disbelief, is experiencing her first period, which terrifies her. Not quite understanding why, her classmates taunt and jeer at her, throwing tampons and sanitary towels at her (“Plug it up, plug it up!”) to cover their own disgust. Her teacher, Miss Desjardins (perhaps the most sympathetic adult in the book), tries to help but Carrie is sent home where her mother beats her, locking her away to pray for forgiveness. But the start of menstruation seems to have also unlocked a latent talent in Carrie (which she has been able to harness, briefly, in the past) for Telekinesis. As her classmates are put into detention, one of them - a bully called Chris Hargensen - plots revenge and the course of the story is set in that one moment, with everything afterwards leading inexorably to destruction.
Sue Snell, another classmate who was involved in yelling “Plug it up!” feels terrible about the incident and asks her boyfriend Tommy to take Carrie to the prom. And this act of simple friendship and making amends, seals their fate.
Part 2 - Prom Night. Chris and her greaser boyfriend Billy Nolan go to a local farm and kill two pigs, collecting their blood and placing it in buckets over the stage. They rig the vote for Carrie and Tommy to win “Prom King & Queen” and as they sit on their thrones, all hell literally breaks loose.
Part 3 - Wreckage, follows the devastation that comes to the town once Carrie has left the Prom. I won’t give away what happens but since the ending is alluded to through the course of the book, it’s safe to say that Carrie makes her feelings of injustice felt and no-one is safe.
King himself has commented that he finds the book to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify” and I’d agree, it’s a harsh novel that looks at high school life with an eye for the viciousness that’s present in everyone (King was teaching at the time, so we can assume he was writing what he saw). He paints the outsider well, the desperate need to close in on yourself as the world gathers around you, joking and taunting and life seems full of things that you don’t quite understand.
Sue Snell is essentially good and does what she does for the right reasons, though she pays the price of losing her boyfriend and his unborn child. Tommy is a good kid, a jock with heart who isn’t actually hurt by Carrie though I found it troubling that she spent the last part of the novel thinking that he’d set her up. The real horror, though, is in the characters of Chris and Billy. She is very manipulative, using sex to get what she wants but in Nolan she’s finally met her match, since he’s not one of the frat boys who will roll over and do everything she wants him to. In fact, I think he’s the real monster of the story and his casual violence is key to that. On nights when his Mum and her latest boyfriend are arguing, he takes off cruising for stray dogs, later putting his car away with “its front bumper dripping”.
But everything, of course, centres around Carrie. In my minds eye she looks, obviously, like Sissy Spacek but that’s not the picture King paints. His Carrie is “a chunky girl with pimples on her neck and back and buttocks, her (wet) hair completely without colour. She looked the part of the sacrificial goat, the constant butt” and at one point, she “looked around bovinely”. She wants to get on with her life and fit in, she craves for normality and tries to be rebellious but nothing ever really seems to work. Her menstruation not only brings her powers to a level she can control, it also opens the world up to her a little more, even if it’s just teasing glimpses. She feels stronger, she takes a stand with her mother but part of the novels cruelty is that she never quite achieves what she wants to. It changes her though and other characters, as well as the reader, sees this. When Tommy asks her out, she seems different and he can’t quite work it out and when he goes to pick her up (in a beautifully written moment), she seems comfortable in her own body for once.
Margaret White looms over the whole book, cruelly abusive and living in fear of God in a house chock full of gruesome religious imagery. Adding to the overall feel of unease are little throwaway moments that impact heavily, from Margaret’s actions to Billy Nolan and his dripping bumper. There’s also a quick line about a character seeing a drunk in New York, saddled with a goitre who is leading away by the hand a little girl with a bloody nose and I found that image heartbreaking.
King is quoted as saying of the book “it reminds me of a cookie baked by a first grader — tasty enough, but kind of lumpy and burned on the bottom." As a seasoned horror reader, coming to this fresh, I would say that it’s a pretty damned good cookie.
Strikingly well written, with a wonderfully tight plot that runs like clockwork as the pieces fall into place, this is a terrific read that I wish I hadn’t waited forty years to get to. Very highly recommended. | <urn:uuid:8966ec0d-3538-4262-8306-f19350b171e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://markwestwriter.blogspot.com/2014/04/carrie-by-stephen-king.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973752 | 1,414 | 1.609375 | 2 |
According to PETA the brand – which boasts a number of products free from animal ingredients – has been added to its list of companies and brands that don’t test on animals and will soon feature the PETA US cruelty-free bunny logo.
The accreditation is likely to prompt debate among cruelty-free consumers, due to parent company Proctor & Gamble’s animal experimentation status. In addition, Herbal Essences is sold in China, where tests on animals are required for many products. But according to PETA, ‘the brand has worked within Chinese regulations to make sure that will never happen’.
“Herbal Essences’ parent company, Procter & Gamble, has partnered with PETA US for many years to end animal testing in the beauty industry around the world, with notable changes made in regions such as China,” says PETA.
“The company is also collaborating with PETA US scientists on a variety of efforts to replace the use of animals in deadly toxicity testing. PETA US and Herbal Essences will continue to work together to ban animal testing globally.”
Alternative testing methods
“For years, we have been a pioneer in animal testing alternatives,” Lisa Jennings, Vice President, Global Herbal Essences, said in a statement sent to Plant Based News.
“[PETA US’] cruelty-free credential and logo provide consumers with the assurance they are looking for as they choose their shampoos and conditioners. We’re proud to have passed [PETA US’] stringent verification process to join their trusted list of cruelty-free brands.”
‘Ending animal testing’
“Procter & Gamble has shown a commitment to ending the use of animals in tests wherever and whenever possible and has worked for years to develop and promote non-animal methods,” added PETA US Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo.
“PETA US is pleased to collaborate with the company’s scientists to spare animals suffering in deadly tests, and we’re delighted to welcome Herbal Essences to our cruelty-free list.
“Procter & Gamble’s work with the PETA International Science Consortium includes co-authoring a paper describing non-animal approaches to assess respiratory toxicity and participating in a consortium that works with the US Food & Drug Administration to gain regulatory acceptance for non-animal tests.” | <urn:uuid:bf032f26-ba95-4a43-aba9-4e24263fb61a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/herbal-essences-cruelty-free-accreditation-peta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935827 | 512 | 1.546875 | 2 |
I have just finished reading a book called 'The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It is about going against the face of conventional farming and vegetable gardening by growing things in a semi-wild state.
Most of the book is about Mr. Fukuoka's experiments with rice-growing in Japan in a non-traditional way, but it is his philosophy about simple living that interested me most, and his ideas about the random growing of vegetables using, what we would call 'permaculture' methods. Using green manures, weeds and straw as mulches, randomly sowing seeds and letting the plants do their own thing - fascinating stuff, I will certainly be using quite a few of his ideas during the next growing season. One of his theories is that insects walk in straight lines, so if you plant a straight row of veg, they will just walk along the row and munch the lot, whereas, if you sow haphazardly they will have trouble finding the next plant. Simple idea, but effective, I would think.
As you can see, we haven't had any frosts yet, so the allotment garden is still going strong, and I am loathe to get rid of anything that is still showing plenty of colour.
And for a final picture I just had to show you my monster Purple Sprouting Broc plant
Come next spring there should be plenty of dinners to come out of this plant - if it survives through the winter, that is! | <urn:uuid:bffc22de-dfd5-46b9-a51b-df66340735cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awomanofthesoil.blogspot.com/2011/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975684 | 308 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The sanctions have been lambasted by Italy's pro-choice activists, who have appealed to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to swiftly abolish them.
“These fines are damaging to women,” Dr. Silvanna Agatone, president of the Free Italian Association of Gynaecologists, Laiga, told The Local.
Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978, but many women are forced to have their pregnancies terminated in secret because of the growing number of doctors who refuse to perform the operation for religious reasons.
The new fines replace a 'symbolic' fine of €51, which had been given to women who obtained an illegal abortion, and was aimed at encouraging them to denounce doctors who performed it as well as encourage them to use the state healthcare system in case any complications arose.
“Now if women have complications it is unlikely that they will go to a public hospital for treatment, because if the doctor who treats them reports their illegal abortion they will be heavily sanctioned,” Agatone added.
“It is not uncommon for women to experience life-threatening septicemia after an abortion. They should be made to feel comfortable about getting treatment, without fear of reprisal.”
The same 1978 law that introduced abortion in Italy – 'Law 94' – also legally gives doctors the right to refuse abortions on moral grounds.
It is estimated that nationwide, 70 percent of doctors and nurses are conscientious objectors, a figure which rises as high as 90 percent in some provinces.
“For example, a woman might not get a response to an abortion request made through a state hospital for two or three weeks. Even then, requests are often rejected and they are forced to move to other cities to try to get a response from a different health authority,” Agatone added.
Women in Italy are entitled to terminate a pregnancy within the first three months.
After 90 days, abortions are only allowed if the foetus is badly harmed or the mother’s life is at risk.
But when medics attempt to slow down requests, the women are forced into having an illegal abortion simply because they run out of time.
Whether or not the government will abolish the fines remains to be seen.
Reflecting the country's conservative stance on abortion, it has long failed to implement an EU law that has seen medical abortions provided in other European countries for women who are up to 61 days pregnant.
In Italy, medical abortions are only issued during the first 41 days of pregnancy – another fact which makes the process more difficult and encourages illegal abortions. | <urn:uuid:ca9e291d-4aaa-4858-8c8b-e412df4d2b2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.it/20160224/anger-as-italian-women-to-be-fined-up-to-10k-for-secret-abortions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968516 | 532 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Along the lines of my last post, I’ve tweaked another game that I have used previously — the marshmallow challenge. My goal was to illustrate how economic development can be considered a collective action problem in which trust plays a key role. Here are the rules of the game:
Each team has 18 minutes to build a tower topped by a marshmallow using the materials provided.
The members of the team that builds the tallest tower earn 25 points each.
A “Red” player secretly placed on your team gets 25 points if their real team wins.
If a team correctly identifies its Red player, each team member wins 25 points. Only one guess per team.
The debriefing discussion included my brief description of Rousseau’s stag hunt scenario, and these questions:
If one considers the height of a tower as an indicator of a society’s level of economic development, why did some societies (teams) develop more quickly than others?
Did cultural values promote trust among team members?
What was in each person’s best interest? Were these interests achieved?
How did having a Red on your team affect your team’s behavior?
Who do you think the Reds were? Why?
How does it feel to be accused of being a Red?
At the very end of the discussion, I revealed that there were no Red players.
The class had ten students that I divided into three teams. One team’s tower collapsed when time expired, but none of the teams exhibited a high degree of dysfunction due to suspicions about the identity of its Red player. As usual, I think the game would work better in a class with more students.
In an attempt to rectify the failure of my previous classroom game on ethnic heterogeneity, democracy and dictatorship, I created another game that included a loss aversion component. I intended the game to demonstrate the concepts found in Mancur Olson’s 1993 article, “Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development” (The American Political Science Review 87, 3). Here are the rules for game’s initial version:
Each person gets a playing card and 4 chips.
The class is divided into small groups.
The person with the highest card value in each group is a bandit.
The game has five rounds.
Each group’s bandit confiscates 1, 2, 3, or 4 chips each round from every other group member. This decision is made by the bandit. The bandit has to confiscate at least 1 chip from each group member each round, assuming the group member has a chip.
After round 1, 2, 3, and 4, each non-bandit gets 1 additional chip if they have ended the round with > 0 chips.
The person in each group with the most chips after round 5 earns points equivalent to the number of chips in their possession.
Version 2 of the game has the same rules as Version 1, plus:
A bandit can switch to a different group after each of rounds 1-4. The bandit with a higher value card turns another group’s bandit into an ordinary person.
The new bandit takes the eliminated bandit’s chips and can keep them or distribute some or all of them in any manner to members of their new group.
Version 3 has the same rules as Versions 1 and 2, plus:
Members of a group can eliminate a bandit if (a) they have card suits different from the bandit’s suit, and (b) the combined value of their cards exceeds the value of the bandit’s card. If a bandit is eliminated, the bandit’s chips are distributed equally among the challengers.
A bandit can retain control if (a) group members with cards of the same suit as the bandit’s decide to ally with the bandit and (b) the combined value of cards of this suit exceeds that of the bandit’s challengers.
Before play started, I stacked the deck with cards from only three suits because of the small class size — thirteen students are registered for the course, but only eleven showed up. I divided these eleven students into three groups.
For all versions of the game, all bandits confiscated the same number of chips from their group’s members in each round, even though the rules did not specify that they had to do this. In Version 1, one bandit confiscated all the chips from every group member in one round, which ended that group’s game play for the remaining rounds — demonstrating that it’s better for a stationary bandit to extract only a portion of wealth from the populace at any given time. During Version 2, no bandit changed groups, and in Version 3, no one tried to eliminate a bandit.
This game worked better than the last one, but it still needs a much larger number of participants for it to function as intended.
I recently ran a game in two classes that I had hoped would demonstrate the effects of ethnic heterogeneity in dictatorships and democracies. The basic mechanics of the game:
The class is split into groups. Each person gets a playing card. Card suit represents ethnicity, though I didn’t tell students this. A card’s numeric value equates to the power level of the person holding it. If someone in a group has a face card, then the group is a dictatorship. The person in the group with the highest value face card is the dictator, who makes all decisions. If no one in the group has a face card, then the group is a democracy, with decisions made by majority vote. The numeric values of the cards don’t matter.
The game is played in multiple rounds, with a greater number of points at stake in each round — I used five rounds, worth 3, 5, 7, 10, and 15 points, respectively. These points count toward the final course grade. In every round, each group allocates its points to its members according to the rules above. If anyone in a group is dissatisfied with how the points were distributed, the person can recruit a cluster of allies who have cards of the same suit to challenge the distribution. In a dictatorship, the challenge succeeds if the cluster’s combined power level exceeds that formed by the dictator’s allies. In a democracy, the challenge succeeds if the cluster’s total power level exceeds that of the rest of the group. When there is a successful challenge, the group has to distribute its points in a different way. Each round had a time limit of just a few minutes, and if a group failed to successfully allocate its points before a round ended, the group’s points for that round disappeared.
My youngest is currently getting stuck into her school’s debating society. Weekly topics range from getting rid of the monarchy to pushing vaccine mandates, with pupils getting dropped into a side at random, and at short notice.
You might well have done the same yourself when you were younger; I didn’t, mainly as I was too busy being awkward and gangly.
My daughter really likes the approach, both for the range of topics (which we often end up discussing over the dinner table) and for the reflection it promotes about how to make an effective case.
The other day as we sat at the orthodontist, waiting for a replacement retainer (hers, not mine), we were deep into whether a technocracy was better than a democracy when she raised a concern.
The format of debates requires you to defend a position, regardless of what you believe. So far, she’s not found herself pushing something she strongly disagrees with, but she felt uncomfortable about the thought of it.
Indeed, your beliefs – and any objective facts – count for nothing in formal debating. Yes, you can bring evidence, but it is in compelling presentation and investment in the logic of ‘your’ side that you can usually prevail. Put differently, debating seems to care more for what is convincing than for what is grounded in evidence.
At which point we wave from our PoliSci benches and give a big ‘hello’.
I noted that when I allocate students into my negotiations, I often like to put people in roles that don’t fit their own views, on the grounds that it’s a good exercise in learning to empathise. You might find it axiomatically true that X is right, but there are others out there who (strongly) disagree, so perhaps by trying to put yourself in their shoes for a bit you might better understand where they’re coming from.
But you see already the potential for a replication of the same dynamic as that debating society: maybe everyone focuses on ‘winning’ rather than the empathy.
In the debating society the format is very much focused on that competition, so it’s a real issue. For negotiations, I hope we have more latitude to limit the problem.
Most obviously, I never judge negotiation exercises on who ‘wins’, and often there is no clear ‘win’ available in basic structural terms. Secondly, the debrief that always follows is about process and substance, with consideration of the differing value judgments, how they arise and their impact. And finally there is often a degree of integration: progress towards agreements is usually about finding common ground rather than domination.
However, the orthodontist discussion did give serious pause for thought. In an age when politicians sometimes seem to be willing/able to say anything to gain support/profile, there is a danger that simply giving students rhetorical skills breeds a false impression that all truths are equal and find their value only in how well you speak of them.
Yes, the scientific method does point us towards the essential need for evidence, but maybe this isn’t enough. Empathy cannot be presented as a equivalent of sympathy or of equivalence, but as a tool for improving our understanding of contested spaces and topics, with which we can then work to find more inclusive ways forward, working together.
Maybe I’ll suggest that as a future topic for someone’s debating society.
Today we have a guest post from Michelle Goodridge, academic librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University. She can be contacted at mgoodridge [at] wlu [dot] ca.
After a casual conversation about classroom games with my colleague Professor Andrew Robinson, we created a foreign policy simulation for his course, HR 100 Human Rights and Human Diversity. We had two goals for the simulation: first, have students explore why state actors fail to advance human rights domestically and internationally, and second, measure the simulation’s effectiveness in helping students achieve desired learning outcomes.
Orienting the exercise around human rights instead of international trade.
Dividing students into three teams of high and middle-income pro-human rights. democracies, two teams of low-income democracies indifferent to human rights, one team of a high-income state that is anti-human rights, and one team representing an NGO.
Introducing the political objective of re-election.
Creating different winning conditions for each team.
To form teams, students picked one of several different colored t-shirts that we had laid out around the classroom. Each team received a corresponding packet of instructions and resources. I had the role of The Trader who accepted the geometric shapes produced by teams in exchange for political support units. Andrew injected human rights crises into the simulation via PowerPoint. The simulation ran an hour, with defined victory conditions that needed to be met to have a winner. Often none of the teams met its victory condition, which came as a shock to the students, but it helped illustrate the complexity of international relations.
After the game concluded, we took time to debrief the students, and this is when students made robust connections between the simulation and concepts they had been studying. I can only assume this is because verbalizing these responses right after the exercise is easier than writing them down a week afterward.
We attempted to measure the effectiveness of our Human Rights Foreign Policy Game with pre/post test evaluations. The evaluation results were anonymized, coded, and analyzed using SPSS. We found that the richest data came from students’ responses to the evaluation’s open-ended questions. So far, we have run this simulation in six semesters, and we will probably continue to use it in the future because of the high percentage of students reporting that it helped them learn. For more details, please see our article “Objective Assessment of Pedagogical Effectiveness and the Human Rights Foreign Policy Simulation Game,” Journal of Political Science Education 17, 2 (2021): 213-233, DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2019.1623048.
Today we have a guest post from Eric Cox, an associate professor at Texas Christian University. He can be contacted at e[dot]cox[at]tcu[dot]edu.
Does the online Statecraft simulation improve student learning when used as a key component of international relations classes? I explored this question in a Journal of Political Science Education article through a controlled comparison of two IR course sections taught during the same semester. One section was randomly chosen to participate in Statecraft, the other was assigned a research paper. The primary finding of the study was that students in both sections performed similarly on exams when controlling for other factors.
Statecraft is a turn-based simulation that divides students into “countries” that they govern. Each country must choose its form of government, economic system, and other attributes. Players also choose whether to focus on domestic spending priorities such as schools, hospitals and railroads, or on military capabilities. They must deal with terrorism, the melting of Ice Mountain, pirates, and rumors. The simulation is, to put it mildly, complex. I have been using it for just over a decade.
To try to put the students doing the research paper on an equal footing with those engaged with Statecraft, I dedicated several days of class to instruction in research writing skills and peer review. The students in this section spent roughly the same amount of time in class on their paper as the students in the Statecraft section did on the simulation. Both groups also wrote about the same amount.
At the end of the semester, I compared class performance on three exams and gave students a brief survey on their experiences. The initial findings were surprising: the research paper class did much better on exams but were less satisfied with the research assignment than the Statecraft students were with the simulation. I obtained access to students’ GPA when entering the course, and re-ran my analysis with GPA, whether students were taking the course for a grade, and whether students were political science majors as controls. Once these controls were introduced, the effect of Statecraft went away. The strongest predictor of course performance was their incoming GPA. Students with high prior GPAs made As, B students made Bs, and so on. Academic performance was independent of the research paper or Statecraft assignment. However, students in the Statecraft section showed a strong preference for the simulation over a traditional research paper, and students in the research paper section indicated they would have rather done Statecraft. Subsequent student evaluations have also demonstrated the relative popularity of Statecraft.
That said, my use of Statecraft has evolved, something I discuss in detail in my chapter of Teaching International Relations. Foremost, I dedicate class time to the simulation, and draw examples from the simulation when discussing IR theory, issue areas, and current events. Students have indicated that the simulation gives them a greater appreciation for the complexity of international relations and the challenges leaders face.
Editor’s note: previous posts on Statecraft can be found here.
Two weeks ago, students in my economic development and environmental politics course played my simulation on freshwater resource scarcity in Asia. If my memory is correct, it was the first time running the simulation in the physical classroom, and I was interesting in whether students behaved differently in the face-to-face environment compared to a prior iteration of the simulation that occurred online.
The underlying mechanics of the simulation were unchanged: six teams, each representing a different country with one or more transnational rivers crossing its territory. Turn by turn, the population expands, more food must be produced, and water demand increases, yet countries are building dams upriver and rainfall declines because of climate change. Eventually a country has a famine and millions of refugees spill into its neighbors.
This time around I added a victory condition: members of the team with the greatest percentage growth in GDP per capita when the simulation ended earned five points (out of a thousand) toward their final grades. I put a copy of the simulation’s spreadsheet, which shows how actions taken by teams affect water availability, food production, hydroelectricity generation, and GDP, on the LMS and encouraged students to experiment with it before the simulation started.
Student did seem more engaged with the simulation in the classroom than they had online, though it was far easier for me to observe their interactions. The real surprise was how baffled students were about the cause and effect relationships built into the spreadsheet. Growth in GDP requires growth in hydroelectric capacity, which only comes from building dams. Yet teams were hesitant to build dams. By the end of the simulation, China, for example, had stockpiled enough of a reserve to have constructed over one hundred dams, yet it had built only a handful. The largest change in GDP among the six teams? Only 1.1 percent over a twelve year period.
Students clearly had not tried to figure out the spreadsheet before the simulation started, and none of them seemed to understand the relationship between economic growth, food, and water. Consequently, many of them flailed about helplessly as their country’s water supply steadily dwindled. When asked during the debriefing why they chose inaction instead of action, I got mostly blank looks. As I’ve noted before, many students seem to have little understanding of cause and effect; instead, in their worlds, stuff just happens. While I would prefer not adding multiple assignments to the course to force students to work with the simulation’s causal relationships before the simulation actually begins, it might be necessary.
As I’ve mentioned before, part of my new role involves designing a negotiation exercise of an online, asynchronous programme.
This presents a number of rather basic problems, so consider this a bit of my attempt to try and work them out.
First up is the asynchronicity.
A fundamental part of negotiating is interaction, so if you can’t do that there-and-then, you have to deal with a major challenge. In this case, our usual cycle for students is a week, within which we set work for them to fit around their other commitments. Since most of our students are working, or have other major life obligations, that means it’s really hard to ask for anything speedier.
Even if most could turn things around in a matter of days, we can’t be certain that everyone can, so those not able to would suffer in the exercise.
Secondly, there a debrief issue.
The materials we produce are intended to be used for several years: our role is relatively separate from delivery, as our system of associate lecturers handle most of the pedagogic queries and support. If we accept that negotiation must have debriefing (and I certainly do), then how do we fit that into this system? Is it my work, or associates’, or do we have some generic points to reflect upon, and how would any of these models operate?
Finally, we have the tiny question of scale.
I don’t know how many students will be using this exercise in any given presentation (as we call our delivery), so I need a negotiation that can cope with both a large number of participants and a varying number of participants. Our plans say 80, but that’s neither here nor there, except in the most general of terms.
Oh, and I have to assume none of the students will have any prior experience in negotiating.
So what to do?
I’ve been working around some different abstracted options for a while to handle all of this, and it might be useful to consider these for a while. They vary by how much of a ‘negotiation’ they involve, since that interaction issue strikes me as the most fundamental one.
Obviously, the starting model is a set-up where there is direct student-to-student negotiation: it’s prototypical and best allows them to develop practical skills. But it needs much time, much support and debrief. Plus you have to work out roles.
So maybe you could have instead a ‘negotiation’ with an automated interlocutor: a ‘chose-your-own-adventure’ approach, effectively, but with a computer programme rather than a paper-based text. It can be played individually, paths/outcomes are fixed so feedback is easy, but it’s not so very much like actual negotiating.
A different direction would be to ask students to do the prep work for a negotiation: drawing up negotiating briefs, setting out positions and the like. This is crucial part of negotiating, so it’s prototypical, but without the pointy end of testing out ideas. It’s more manageable for support and debrief, but probably isn’t as engaging.
And most distantly of all, you could ask students to study a real-world negotiation, through the lens of some theory. That’s also a good skill to learn, but it’s not so hands-on as any of the others.
In short, it’s a world of compromises.
For our purposes, we really want to build practical skills, so we’re currently closest to the first option: the ‘proper’ negotiation. As we often discuss here, the purpose of the exercise needs to be clear to you and to the student, otherwise it’s pointless making choices. In that sense, having the discussion with the rest of the team was an essential step in moving this on.
My tentative model right now looks like the following, working within the constraints I have.
In my 4 week block for this, and alongside other work they need to do, I’m planning to give students a crash course in how to negotiate (week 1); two (and maybe three) rounds of negotiating (weeks 2-4); and some debriefing (week 4).
The block topic is international challenges to political stability, so I’ll be using a climate change topic as the substantive focus, which also allows me to use a UNFCC-style format, with a couple of hundred roles that I can allocate to individuals. Those roles will have an order, so we start by populating key representative states (in terms of the different preferences) and then work through to everyone else, so we can accommodate the varying numbers. Probably that means making a generic position pack, plus some headlines for each role, with some requirement to expand on that through their own research.
The training would be some materials on practical negotiating, plus an option to download a small crisis game, to play offline with friends/family or even just to muse upon.
The main section would then require students to post positions/text on a forum each week, ideally to build a single text for final approval. This will require relatively simple technology, but does rely on students to be able to build coalitions and engage in discussion, which will be an issue for some.
To keep debrief viable, we’d probably need to start with a draft text – to keep things within relatively clear bounds – then provide cues to students to aid their own reflection, with some debrief points that could track key issues within the draft. This should make it more possible to keep associates on top of what’s gone on.
And that’s about as far as I’ve got on this.
There are lots of practicalities to work through, at all steps, but we think the basic design is viable. As I work through those, I’ll write more, but I’d love to hear thoughts.
Today we have a guest post from Elia Elisa Cia Alves, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), and Ana Paula Maielo Silva and Gabriela Gonçalves Barbosa, State University of Paraíba (UEPB), of Brazil. Elia Elisa Cia Alves can be contacted at eliacia [at] gmail [dot] com.
The Challenge Game was developed by a group of professors at the State University of Paraiba and the Mettrica Lab in Brazil. It is suitable for teaching concepts in international relations theory, such as state survival within an anarchic system, the security dilemma, alliances and the balance of power, and hegemony.
To play this game in the classroom, you will need 1) approximately 8 to 50 students who can play either individually or in teams, depending on the purpose to which the game is put, 2) candy, points, or some other reward that can be distributed, and 3) a method of determining the winner of a challenge between two parties, such as dice (high roll wins), rock-paper-scissors, or an online random number generator. Also, the rules of the game should be visible to students during the game.
The game is played in four rounds of approximately ten minutes each. A challenge is a one-candy bet (a loss results in one piece of candy being taken away) with a 50% probability of winning. Any individual or team that is challenged must participate in the challenge. Only one challenge should occur at a time so that the instructor can note what happens. A student or team that ends up with zero candy can no longer issue challenges; they are “dead” for the remainder of the round.
Round 1: Each student starts with one piece of candy. The winner of a challenge takes one piece of candy from the loser and can then challenge someone else. Any student who loses all of his or her candy is out of the game for the round. Depending on class size, the instructor may want to limit each student to a maximum number of challenges.
Round 2: Candy is distributed unequally among students. Most students should have 1-2 candies, a few students should have 3, and only a couple of students should have 4. The instructor may want to allow students to form alliances, in which case students can borrow candies from each other if needed. However, the loan is optional.
Round 3: Group students into teams. Distribute candy unequally among teams as in Round 2. Each team represents a nation-state. Students within a team decide, using any decision making method they choose, whether the team challenges any other team. As in Round 2, the instructor might allow teams to form alliances.
Round 4: Group students into teams and distribute candy as in Round 3. The professor grants special rules to only teams that have the greatest number of candies, such as altering their odds of winning a challenge. After the game, the professor should debrief the class to link theoretical international relations concepts to students’ experiences of the game. In our JPSE article, we suggest several questions that can be used as part of the debriefing. | <urn:uuid:d3560e32-234e-43da-836f-2d2168687abb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://activelearningps.com/category/simulations-and-games/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963154 | 5,701 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Today’s read is from Michelle Easton, the president of the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women, an organization she founded in 1993 to put forward conservative women role models to prepare young women for leadership. Here’s an excerpt:
My own professional career has been as an educator, a lawyer, and a leader of a women’s organization. However, as I wrote How to Raise a Conservative Daughter, I realized what a crucial role fathers must play to increase their daughters’ chances of success in life.
When dads show girls tenderness, gentle discipline, and loving approval, they create confident and courageous daughters.
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Memoirs of Sollogub-Dovoĭno. The memoirs are entitled "Russkai︠a︡ emigrat︠s︡ii︠a︡ i russkoe menśhestvo v Polśhe, 1920-1926" and describe his life in Chelm Province in the early twenties.
Typescript memoirs that cover especially 1903-1941. Also included are copies of letters and manuscripts mostly on religious themes.
Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials of Afrikan P. Bogaevskiĭ. The bulk of the collection concerns emigre Cossacks in Europe, but there are also materials from the Civil War. There are letters from such White Generals as Petr Krasnov, Aleksandr Kutepov, and Petr Wrangel, and many letters from various persons to Bogaevskiĭ's widow after his death. Manuscripts include Bogaevskiĭ's addresses ("obrashchenii︠a︡") to the emigre Cossacks and his memoirs about the Cuban campaign of 1918. Subject files concern the Civil War, emigre Cossacks and related matters. Printed materials touch on Bogaevskiĭ's death and funeral.
Typescript memoir "Ekskursiia 51-ogo vypuska Gelsingforskoi Aleksandrovskoi Gimnazii v Estoniiu, 1927 god" that concerns Russian education in Finland and Estonia in the interwar period.
Aleksandra A. Smugge Memoirs, 1959 250 pages
The memoirs of Smugge, nʹee Gori︠a︡chkina, which cover the 1880-1955 period, begin with a vivid description of her early life in Irkut︠s︡k. She then chronicles the years she lived and studied in Geneva and Paris before returning to Siberia and thence moving to Harbin, Port Arthur and, in 1902, to Vladivostok. The next section of the manuscript deals with her marriage to Evgeniĭ M. Smugge, a railroad engineer, and their life and work in Turkestan (1907-1910) and Odessa (1910-1911 and 1916-1920). The memoirs then turn to the Civil War period and the Smugges' evacuation via Constantinople to Yugoslavia where they lived until 1925. Following a description of the 1926-1944 period, when the Smugges lived in Riga, the memoirs end with the evacuation to Germany and their life there. A few revised sections are appended to the very end of the manuscript. The memoirs are in 5 notebooks and total ca. 250 pages.
Aleksandra Gol'shtein Papers, 1876-1937 4500 items
Most of the collection consists of letters to Golśteĭn; there are some as well to her second husband, Vladimir A. Gol'shtein. The materials reflect Gol'shtein ties to Russian liberalism and populism and also to both French and Russian art and literature. There are groups of cataloged letters from Renʹe Arcos (15), Mykhailo Drahomaniv (52), Andrʹe Fontainas (31), Renʹe Ghil (32), Viacheslav Ivanov (17), Petr Lavrov (49), Vladimir Vernadskii (20), and Maksimilian Voloshin (29). There are also items by Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Henri Martin Barzun, Henri Bergson, Ivan Bunin, Sergei Diagilev, Paul Fort, Vladislav Khodasevich, Aristide Maillol, and Odilon Redon. Manuscripts are chiefly by Golśhteĭn, and include her memoirs on Drahomaniv. There are also poems by Voloshin and by Konstantin Bal'mont. Subject files deal with such topics as the Russian famine of 1891-92 and the Russian Liberation Committee at the time of the Civil War. There is a copy of Gol'shtein's book, "Serf Life in Russia."
These papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, subject files, photographs, and printed materials. Most of the collection concerns Bashmakov's ethnographical work in France in the 1920s and 1930s, including correspondence, many manuscripts, lectures, notes, and copies of his publications. Subject files concern emigre monarchism in France, and the death of Father Georgiĭ Spasskiĭ. There are copies of the Russian version of Bashmakova's memoirs, "Perezhitoe." Cataloged correspondence in the collection consists of letters from Petr Krasnov and one or two items each from Henry Field, Evgeniĭ Miller, Petr Wrangel, and Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev. There are also photographic slides representing ethnographical types from the Caucasus.
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Popov Papers, 1920-1939 0.5 Linear Feet
Papers consist of correspondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials. The materials relate to Popov's business, especially in the 1930s.
Correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials and photographs of Vetlit︠s︡. The correspondence includes letter drafts by Vetlit︠s︡, and letters from R. Shubovich. The collection consists primarily of Vetlit︠s︡'s manuscripts pertaining to horse breeding and horse-racing in Russia, Yugoslavia, the First and Second World Wars, and the 1917 revolution in Russia. Some of the manuscripts describe Vetlit︠s︡'s childhood and family, and his memoirs are included in the form of a letter. The printed materials consist of clippings of articles by Vetlit︠s︡.
The collection consists of correspondence from such ballet and theater personalities as Sergeĭ Khudi︠a︡kov, Sergeĭ Lifar,́ Nadezhda Nikolaeva-Legat, Alekander Sanin and Vera Trefilova. There is also one letter each from Zinaida Gippi︠u︡s, Nadezhda Teffi, Boris Zaĭt︠s︡ev and Vladimir Zeeler. In addition, there are several typed manuscripts by Pleshcheev, including his book-length biography of E.N. Roschina-Insarova, and clippings of newspaper articles by Pleshcheev. | <urn:uuid:80aa2a99-75b3-4908-bda4-98becaa6b93b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.empireadc.org/search/?f%5Baccess_subjects_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Emigration+and+immigration+--+Soviet+Union+--+20th+century | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.891055 | 1,393 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Do- Moisturize with WATER-based products If water is not the 1st ingredient listed on the ingredients list of your current conditioner or main styler, you’re probably missing out on moisture. Our TréLuxe 360° Curls collection includes all water-based products, with botanical blends like our 360° Curls Complex, to deliver maximum moisture for days, while strengthening hair strands. 3. Do- Protect your curls Curly hair is often prone to tangling. When detangling, you want to use the least possible resistance, to protect strands from breakage. Our Untie The Knot Nourishing Leave-in Conditioner is great for finger detangling, allowing you to remove tangles and single strand knots without putting too much stress on your strands. For best detangling results, detangle while hair is soaking wet. Once curls are cleansed, detangled, and conditioned, you want to seal in the moisture, and protect your tresses from any harsh effects of mother nature. This is best done with a product that blends H2O and natural oils. Our Curl Supreme 4-in-1 Hydrating Creme is a dense, but grease-free, multi-use product, formulated to strengthen, hydrate, protect, and style your curls, whether you have a loose or tight curl pattern. Curl Supreme contains light natural oils like apricot oil and avocado oil, in addition to shea nut butter and coconut oil. The Don'ts 1. Don’t over-do it with heavy oils. This will leave hair limp, weighed down, and prevent water from penetrating through the oils and to your hair and scalp. 2. Don’t use products that leave residue on your hair and are hard to wash out. If your styling products are super-difficult to remove when cleansing, that’s a sign they may be more than what your hair needs. 3. Don’t over manipulate your curls. This often happens with excessive heat styling, or using harsh chemicals that permanently change your curl pattern, but can also happen with improper braiding techniques. Did these tips help? If so, signup for our e-newsletter here for more tips + product discounts sent straight to your inbox! | <urn:uuid:06f22ef1-c30d-4b71-bf85-e9984d5187cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://discovertreluxe.com/blogs/education/curl-dna-the-science-of-keeping-curly-hair-moisturized | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945607 | 1,075 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Know More About Hong Kong Family Office Advisor
A family office is a style of investment management that concentrates on the wealth and needs of families. They typically include advice on the estate, trusts, and succession planning as well as project management. With the increasing number of individuals becoming more wealthy, family offices are becoming an increasingly popular option for wealth management.
A family office advisor is a financial consultant who helps families with their wealth and investment planning. They can provide advice on everything from estate planning to retirement savings, and help families to make smart decisions about their money. A family office advisor can also help families to navigate the complex world of investments. For those who want to increase their financial knowledge, or want to learn about the unique family business structure and how it can work for them, you may navigate on the link. A family advisor can provide valuable training.
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The advisors often have an MBA or similar degree in finance or accounting. If you are looking for a professional to help guide you through your wealth management needs, consider contacting a Family Office Advisor. One key task of a family office is to help members of the family invest their money wisely.
By working with a team of experienced financial advisors, a family office can help families navigate the complex world of investments. In addition to helping families make informed investment decisions, a family office can also provide estate planning and tax advice. A family office can also play an important role in helping families during difficult times. | <urn:uuid:9935b093-798f-4266-8ca1-22f49333e22c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forumrpg.org/know-more-about-hong-kong-family-office-advisor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972088 | 296 | 1.742188 | 2 |
PHOTO COURTESY OF WASHINGTON POST PUBLICATIONS
By Liz Sly
Ludly of Capital Pictures
As the Taliban continue to seize control of Afghanistan’s south, foreign journalists are increasingly crowded out of the country. The Washington Post’s Liz Sly says Khalida Popal, a former National Football League star and NATO gold medalist in 2004, gives firsthand accounts of life under the Taliban, which took control of the country’s second-largest city of Mazar-i-Sharif Sept. 15.
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Popal also provided the Washington Post with her own account of a drive to Kabul from the town of Gulbahar, where she lives.
After a three-hour drive through vast fields and fields of spring wheat, her convoy came to a checkpoint. The policemen – all men – approached Popal’s car. Popal, wearing a niqab covering her face but allowing only her eyes to be seen, explained that she is a big supporter of women’s rights and that she was on her way to see her daughter and grandchildren.
Instead of questioning her, one of the officers pulled out a gun and began to examine her face. One had his finger on the trigger. She was nervous, and asked the others for help. “It’s the Taliban,” Popal recalled the men saying.
They’re Muslim but…the Taliban say they respect Afghan women’s rights, she told me.
She repeated that she came to the checkpoint because of her support for women’s rights. Two men, including one with a gun, then returned to the car. One pointed the gun at Popal’s head, and the others demanded that she leave the country.
She said she has no home in Kabul. If she came back, it’s like crossing the border to Pakistan, which is no way to live, she says.
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Title: The Plurinational State of Bolivia
Population Change: 1.39
National Average Age: 26
Urban Percentage: 69
Christian Population: 9,730,000
Christian Percentage: 89
Introduction: Bolivia is a country in central South America with a varied terrain spanning Andes Mountains the Atacama Desert and Amazon Basin rainforest. At more than 3500m its administrative capital La Paz sits on the Andes’ Altiplano plateau with snow-capped Mt. Illimani in the background. Nearby is glass-smooth Lake Titicaca the continent’s largest lake straddling the border with Peru.
Overview: Bolivia named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and countercoups. Democratic civilian rule was established in 1982 but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty social unrest and illegal drug production. ++ In December 2005 Bolivians elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule in 1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's traditional political class and empower the nation's poor indigenous majority. In December 2009 and October 2014 President MORALES easily won reelection. His party maintained control of the legislative branch of the government which has allowed him to continue his process of change. In October 2011 the country held its first judicial elections to select judges for the four highest courts. MORALES has publicly described the elected judiciary as a failed experiment that has not resolved judicial backlogs or extended pre-trial detention. He has called for a public referendum on the judicial system. | <urn:uuid:e5359f6b-0221-452b-b9aa-84835e89955a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://find.bible/countries/BO/maps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957858 | 365 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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