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Exact Construction Date: 1961
Primary Materials: Brick
Historic Use: Holy Cross High School for Boys and Mother Theodore Guerin High School for Girls
Current Use: Guerin College Prep
(at time of survey)
Building Classification: Building
Primary Type: Education
RT Milord, general contractor. Set on a 23-acre campus, the boys’ school opened in 1961, followed by the girls’ school in 1962. Low enrollment caused the Holy Cross School for Boys to close in 2004 and the remaining school to reopen as a coed school, renamed Guerin College Prep, in 2005. It operated through the 2019-20 school year, after which the decision was made to close. The school was inaccessible during the survey. However, from historic photos, the interiors of the chapel and the gymnasium exhibit architectural significance.
The schools were demolished in August 2021. The exterior mosaic entitled “Our Lady of River Grove” was saved from demolition.
Roof Form: Flat
Surveyors: J.E., S.H., L.M. Mother Guerin HS photos: Rosanne Dattalo Eiternick
Survey Date: 11/15/2010
Noteworthy Classification Features:
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The Moving Average Convergence and Divergence (MACD) is a staple in most trading platforms. It is a basic trading indicator that measures the difference between two moving averages and assesses the direction of the trend based on it. If the difference between the two moving averages is positive, then the trend is said to be bullish. If it is negative, then it is said to be bearish.
The most popular method of trading the MACD is by taking the trade on the cross of the midline, which is zero.
Fratelli MACD Forex Trading Strategy is a custom indicator that determines the main trend direction. It does this by printing three lines, white, blue and yellow.
The blue and yellow lines act as the main trend lines. However, unlike most trend lines, these are printed mostly as straight lines during flat market conditions and start to slope only when the market is starting to trend. The blue line is the top line and the yellow line is at the bottom. The white line act as a signal line, which hugs the price action quite closely.
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A typical strategy based on this strategy alone would be to trade whenever the white line crosses above the blue line or the white line crosses below the yellow line.
Timeframe: preferably 15-minutes and 1-hour charts
Currency Pair: any
Trading Session: any
How to trade with Fratelli MACD Forex Trading Strategy
Buy (Long) Trade Setup
- Price should be above the blue line of the easy-forex-system indicator
- The Fisher_Yur4ik indicator should print lime histogram bars
- Enter a buy order as soon as the Fratelli_MACD crosses above zero and prints lime dots
- Set the stop loss at the fractal below the entry candle
- Close the trade as soon as the Fisher_Yur4ik indicator prints red histogram bars
Sell (Short) Trade Setup
- Price should be below the yellow line of the easy-forex-system indicator
- The Fisher_Yur4ik indicator should print red histogram bars
- Enter a buy order as soon as the Fratelli_MACD crosses below zero and prints magenta dots
- Set the stop loss at the fractal above the entry candle
- Close the trade as soon as the Fisher_Yur4ik indicator prints lime histogram bars
How to download and install an indicator?
In order to install the indicator on your MT4 platform, you need to follow these steps:
- Click on the “Download Indicator” button located at the bottom of the post.
- Save the file to your computer.
- Extract and move the files into the MT4>Indicator folder of the MetaTrader4 software file directory.
- Restart your Metatrader platform.
- Navigate to “Indicators.”
- And select the "Fratelli MACD Forex Trading Strategy" template to apply it on the chart.
Note: This indicator was developed by T. Morris. AtoZ Markets does not carry any copyrights over this trading tool.
Should you trade with this custom indicator on your own at all?
Before you start trading with the Fratelli MACD Forex Trading Strategy, you'll want to read this.
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Need an research paper on quantitative and qualitative (dose clothes price influence cambridge ef student to purchase). Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism. Stating precisely, as per the recent trend, the clothing price is getting cheaper than the previous trends. Correspondingly, in order to examine this notion, the students from the EF studies of Cambridge region will be observed in this study as subjects to answer the question as to whether they are being influenced by the clothing price.
The prime objective of the study is to analyse the recent prices of clothes in the area of Cambridge region in contrast with the trend observed around the globe. Besides, the study will also evaluate the extent to which, the recent clothing price has been affecting the purchasing power of EF students from the Cambridge region, based on the hypothesis developed below.
In the recent scenario, dressing style has become an important matter for the young generation, which is considered as a mechanism of imprinting one’s personality and superiority from their counterparts in the society. Observably, a large number of clothing or textiles companies have been paying more attention towards delivering quality services providing fashionable clothes to its consumers, based on their tastes and preferences. According to Allwood & et. al. (2006), the modern day clothing materials are getting cheaper, increasing scope for innovation in the industry dimensions. Notably, the modern trend clothing style is recognised as more fashionable rather than expensive and diverse, which indicates the perception of its users to differentiate themselves from others within the society. Allwood & et. al. (2006) further elaborated that in the year of 2000, aggregated consumer expenditure amounted at around US$1 trillion that also indicates the expanding boundaries of the industry. | <urn:uuid:34a23393-beec-458e-8beb-c022100bd580> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlineessayhelp.net/need-an-research-paper-on-quantitative-and-qualitative-dose-clothes-price-influence-cambridge-ef-student-to-purchase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956212 | 344 | 2.015625 | 2 |
I’ve written before about the big fiscal challenges facing the Queensland Government, and about how concerning it is that the Queensland Treasury is now as reliant as it is on volatile revenues such as royalties (see Qld Govt increasingly dependent on volatile royalties revenue). The volatility of royalties adds additional difficultly to developing the State Budget, because the Government can’t be confident future royalties estimates will be realised. Forecasting royalties can be challenging because the Treasury needs to make assumptions about variables that are difficult to forecast such as coal production, international coal prices and the exchange rate. So, I don’t intend to criticise Treasury, but rather would like to point out that the Government needs to consider that some of the money it thinks it has to spend might not actually turn up.
Consider the revisions in royalties estimates that occur within just one Budget year. The chart below compares Queensland Treasury’s forecast of royalties at the time of each Budget (typically held in June) with the revised estimate for that Budget year roughly six months later, and then with the actual royalties figure that eventuated. Unfortunately, at Budget time, typically, the Treasury appears to have been significantly over-estimating the royalties that would be available for governments to spend.
The chart shows that, even over six months, Treasury’s estimates of royalties can change by hundreds of millions of dollars. Indeed, between June and December last year, the previous Government revised the royalties estimate for 2014-15 from $2.85 billion to $2.51 billion, a downward revision of $340 million. Given the downturn in the resources sector, it is possible the 2014-15 estimate could be revised down further at Budget time later this year. And the Treasury must certainly be starting to worry about how robust those forecasts of $3-4 billion per annum in royalties from 2015-16 onward are now. | <urn:uuid:6e764296-7a4c-4c2b-b4e1-8a0d51e6edc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://queenslandeconomywatch.com/2015/03/18/queensland-treasurys-forecasting-record-on-royalties/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950864 | 380 | 1.875 | 2 |
Reading A1, Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Family & Relationships, Listening or Seeing A1, Literature, Poetry, Theatre, Family & Relationships
impossible = pas possible
So it is a negative meaning.
The 'si' in effect contradicts the first statement.
Vous n'avez aucun DVD en anglais ? ---> Si, j'en ai quelques -uns
Hope this helps!
Tu ne vas pas autravail? — Si, j’y vais!
You don’t go to work? — Yes (of course) I go there. (Literal translation)
Thanks Chris. I did understand the “Si” was used as a contradictory “yes”, but I have never seen it used with anything but “ne ...pas” as in your example and the examples in the grammar lesson. It seems that it is used if negation is implied?
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When I try to install ChemDraw, I get a 1631 error.
In version 6.0 we moved to the Microsoft Windows 2000 install technology. According to Microsoft, the explanation for a 1631 error is that the Windows Installer service failed to start. There are two parts to the ChemDraw installation now. The first part installs the Windows 2000 installer pieces (it is irrelevant if you are using Windows 9x or NT- these pieces need to be installed to then install our software). The second part installs our software. This is all done by launching our setup application.
It is possible to run the two parts of the install separately. Open the Install folder on the ChemDraw cd-rom. Double click on the instmsiw.exe (Windows NT) or instmsia.exe (Windows 9x). (Windows 2000 users have these pieces built in, so this step should not be necessary). Once this installs (a restart may be necessary), double click on the CS ChemDraw Ultra 6.0.Msi file (note: substitute Ultra for Pro or Std accordingly). This should install our software.
If this does not solve the problem, try copying the Install folder over to the hard drive, and then run the setup program from the hard drive.
If you are still having a problem, we will need you to generate a log file to figure out what is going on. To generate a log file:
Go to the Start Menu and choose Run, and then type the following:
msiexec /i "D:\INSTALL\CS ChemDraw Ultra 6.0.Msi" /l*v log.log
where "D" is the letter of your cd-rom drive containing the ChemDraw Ultra cd-rom. The click OK to generate the log file. The installation log file that gets generated is called log.log. Use the Windows Find File utility to find it, and then send it to email@example.com | <urn:uuid:0a17b084-d101-41a9-9124-ea7856c2e24c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://informatics-support.perkinelmer.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408239758100-When-I-try-to-install-ChemDraw-I-get-a-1631-error- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.855804 | 408 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The review, published by Expert Review of Vaccines, a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal, looks at the effectiveness of the world’s most-used COVID-19 vaccines from 79 real-world studies.
The data shows that both the AstraZeneca vaccine, a viral vector vaccine, and ‘mRNA’ COVID-19 vaccines, offer equivalent protection against hospitalisation (91.3%-92.5%) and death (91.4%-93.3%) regardless of age, with no statistical difference between them.1 While data available at the time of review relates to Delta and earlier variants, available statistics indicate similar findings on serious COVID-19 outcomes resulting from Omicron.
Professor Guy Thwaites, Director of the Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam and one of the study’s authors, said: “The data reveals how the world’s most widely used vaccines protect people against the very worst outcomes from COVID-19. With the virus set to have a significant global impact for the foreseeable future, the new data serves as important information for the region’s policymakers as they put strategic plans in place for the continued protection of their populations.”
Mr James Teague, president of AstraZeneca (Thailand) Company Limited, said: “Vaccines have been crucial in saving lives and enabling countries in Southeast Asia to move from the most critical phase of the pandemic towards living with COVID-19. As governments consider the implications of the virus becoming endemic, the published data provides reassuring evidence that the ability of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, and the available mRNA vaccines, in preventing people from being hospitalised or dying is equivalent.”
The data, reviewed by infectious disease experts from across Asia, comes from VIEW-hub, an interactive platform for visualizing global data on vaccine use and impact developed by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the International Vaccine Access Center. The platform is updated on a weekly basis to include global real-world studies on vaccine effectiveness. The 79 real-world studies reviewed included comparative effectiveness data for AstraZeneca’s vaccine and mRNA vaccines, specifically BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273. The VIEW-hub platform is not currently designed to capture the safety outcomes of these studies, preventing similar safety comparisons.
AstraZeneca’s vaccine is a ‘viral vector’ vaccine, which means a version of a virus that cannot cause disease is used as part of the vaccine, so if the body is exposed to the real virus later it is able to fight it. This vaccine technology has been used by scientists over the past 40 years to fight other infectious diseases such as the flu, Zika, Ebola and HIV.
AstraZeneca and its global partners have released over 3 billion vaccine doses to more than 180 countries, and approximately two-thirds of these doses have been delivered to low- and lower-middle income countries. Based on model outcomes assessing COVID-19, the AstraZeneca vaccine is estimated to have helped save over 6 million lives between 08 December 2020 and 08 December 2021.
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Published : Aug 18, 2022
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EMEKE OBANOR, NIGERIA
NIGERIA: THE HAPPINESS OF LEARNING
Some of them were as young as 13 when they were kidnapped by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram. They were brainwashed. They should give up any desire to hope for schooling as a girl. They were freed during an operation by the Nigerian military. Or were able to flee. Now they are back at school. Back where they are allowed to learn and flourish. Where they are allowed to read, write and calculate. Where images are not prohibited. Where a globe shows what the world looks like. Where they can learn English, biology and history.
Now they get to look at comics and use pencils again. They are allowed to own exercise books again. And they finally get to be curious young people again. Everything that an extremist ideology regards as Western and depraved - and certainly not in line with the severely restricted rights of a woman who is not supposed to think independently.
Some of them are 15 years old, like Fanti, who wants to be a nurse one day. Or 16 or 17. Photographer Emeke Obanor provided them with a safe space by not showing their faces. He knows about their fear and lost ability to trust, despite their bravery.
Photographer: Emeke Obanor, Nigeria
Emeke Obanor, born in 1972, taught himself photography. He became well known for his creative and artistic abilities, with a talent for art and aesthetics. His skills brought him recognition far beyond the borders of his country.
He has won various awards at the international level, including the Global Peace Photography Award in Austria. Although his visualizations are minimalistic and innovative in their beauty, Obanor sees himself as an activist. He strongly feels it is his “obligation” to make his photographs testimonies of a “compassion for the oppressed”. | <urn:uuid:e5c508d5-c9aa-4c69-a3f6-aa4d8254c145> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unicef.de/informieren/aktuelles/photo-of-the-year/contest-2021/-/emeke-obanor/255516 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.989163 | 399 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Orange County Office of Emergency Management Message
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Below, is taken from Orange County Office of Emergency Management 11:30 am, Sep. 12, 2017, Press Briefing
It’s been more than 24 hours now since Hurricane Irma impacted Central Florida. The Orange County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) remains at a level 1 so that Orange County’s recovery can help the community and citizens return to normal day-to-day activities.
Orange County personnel have been working around the clock, as well as first responders, Utilities, Public Works and community partners. For official Orange County emergency information, visit www.ocfl.net/Irma.
- The majority of Orange County shelters closed at 10 p.m. last night.
- The morning of Sept. 12, approximately 90 stranded passengers were being transported back to airports to catch flights.
- Orange County is hosting approximately 70 individuals in shelters who will need longer-term assistance. The American Red Cross will be stepping in to help with that support.
- There is extensive flooding in the Orlo-Vista community. Orange County Fire Rescue (OCFR) and National Guardsmen helped to rescue more than 135 individuals, as well as their animals.
- Some individuals have stayed behind. Today, OCFR will continue going door-to-door today encouraging residents to seek safety.
- Similar to our neighbors across the state, Orange County continues to experience significant power outages.
- Reports this morning suggest that more than 300,000 household remain without power.
PUBLIC WORKS/TRAFFIC SIGNALS:
- Orange County monitors nearly 600 traffic signals.
- With the power out, many of our traffic signals are still out.
- OCFR reported 35 traffic accidents last night, a few of which involved vehicles crashing into law enforcement.
- When approaching an intersection and the light is out – drivers are required to make a 4-way stop – even if you do not see immediate oncoming traffic.
PUBLIC WORKS/DEBRIS ASSISTANCE
- As of noon today, five sites were open. On Sept.13; five more will open. Please continue to check ocfl.net for location information.
- If you live in one of our cities, please check with them on how their debris pick up will plan/locations will work.
- Curbside debris pick up assistance will not begin before Thursday morning. Please check ocfl.net for details.
- The Orange County landfill is open with regular hours.
- Garbage service resumed today. This is for regular garbage. Orange County will pick yard waste. If it will fit in your container, Orange County will pick it up. Larger items will be picked up at a later date.
- Daily garbage service has been moved back by one day in Orange County. If you were Monday pickup, you are Tuesday this week moving through Saturday.
- Orange County is asking residents to conserve water. The storm placed a considerable strain on our pump stations.
- Please reduce how often you are flushing toilets.
- Please also refrain from running washing machines and dishwashers. And please don’t take long showers now.
- We also ask that if you conserved water in a bathtub, do not drain that water yet.
- Orange County has dispatched 12 damage assessment teams in the field yesterday, more today. Their focus is on safety.
- Based on the 311 calls and inspections, we believe that all roads are passable. However, there may be some limbs. Call 311 if you are aware of any roadways that are not passable.
PUBLIC SAFETY REMINDERS:
- Be careful with food that may have spoiled with power outages.
- Tip, Toss and Cover. There is a lot of water collecting in small items. Empty them to help minimize the potential for mosquito-borne illnesses.
- PLEASE be careful with generators and chainsaws. This is a time in which accidents can easily happen.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE/CONSUMER FRAUD
- One of Orange County’s main goals is to help residents recognize fraud and teach them how to avoid becoming a victim.
- A valid license is the first indication that your contractor might be qualified to do the job. According to the Orange County Consumer Fraud Office, you should do the following when hiring a contractor:
- Avoid door-to-door solicitors.
- Insist on references, a proper license, bonding and insurance. Check out credentials.
- Make sure the contract can be broken if you don’t receive financing. Hire a contractor with a real office, not just a post office box address.
- For more information on the Orange County Consumer Fraud Office and protecting yourself from fraud call 407-836-2490 or 311, or email [email protected].
Be sure to call the gas station before venturing out because some of the gas stations, even though with gas, but without the power to allow the gas to be pumped.
Be sure to also check out: If Not Now, Then When Should We Talk About Climate Change?
Photographed, gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker
More about the community at www.WindermereSun.com
~Let’s Help One Another~
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The World Council of Churches has called on Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to restore the Hagia Sophia as a mosque.
In a letter to Mr Erdogan, the Council, which represents more than 500 million Christians and counts 350 churches as members, said the move would sow division.
The letter from Ioan Sauca, interim general secretary, says the Council feels “grief and dismay.”
“By deciding to convert the Hagia Sophia back to a mosque you have reversed that positive sign of Turkey’s openness and changed it to a sign of exclusion and division,” Sauca wrote.
He added that the decision “will inevitably create uncertainties, suspicions and mistrust, undermining all our efforts to bring people of different faiths together at the table of dialogue and co-operation…
“In the interests of promoting mutual understanding, respect, dialogue and co-operation, and avoiding cultivating old animosities and divisions, we urgently appeal to you to reconsider and reverse your decision.”
Meanwhile, Pope Francis said he’s “pained” by Turkey’s decision to convert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque.
Speaking at a service in the Vatican, the Roman Catholic leader added that his “thoughts go to Istanbul.”
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church has already condemned the move. Greece, home to many millions of Orthodox followers, called it an “open provocation to the civilised world.”
And the Church in Russia, home to the world’s largest Orthodox Christian community, immediately expressed regret that the Turkish court had not taken its concerns into account when ruling on Hagia Sophia.
Hagia Sophia’s complex history began in the year 537 when Byzantine emperor Justinian built the huge church overlooking the Golden Horn harbour
It remained in Byzantine hands for centuries apart from a brief moment in 1204 when Crusaders raided the city.
In 1453, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II captured Istanbul (formerly known as Constantinople) and performed Friday prayers inside Hagia Sophia.
The Ottomans soon converted the building into a mosque, adding four minarets to the exterior and covering ornate Christian icons and gold mosaics with panels of Arabic religious calligraphy.
After centuries at the heart of the Muslim Ottoman empire, it was turned into a museum in 1934 in a drive to make Turkey more secular.
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Type of Impairment
Origin of Impairment
Further personal information
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Sport specific information
When and where did you begin this sport?
She experienced skiing for the first time at age four during a family holiday at the Alta Sierra Ski Resort in California, United States of America. At age 11 she tried adaptive skiing at a ski camp in Colorado for children with cerebral palsy.
Why this sport?
While on a holiday at the Breckenridge Ski resort in Colorado, United States of America, she took group lessons but became frustrated after experiencing initial difficulty. She later got involved in the resort's adaptive ski school after seeing other children with an impairment learning how to ski.
Club / Team
National Sports Center for the Disabled [NSCD]: Winter Park, CO, USA
She trains at the National Sports Center for the Disabled [NSCD] in Winter Park, CO, United States of America.
Copper Mountain, CO, USA
Kat (IPC, 10 Feb 2018)
Rock climbing, surfing, hiking, horse back riding, playing with her pet cat and dog, reading. (Facebook page, 29 Sep 2018)
In August 2017 she fractured the fibula bone in her leg while skiing in Mount Hood, OR, United States of America. (IPC, 10 Feb 2018)
Sporting philosophy / motto
"I believe that it's very important to inspire others with my story. The more people who hear it, the more I can inspire them to think outside the box of what they believe they can do." (sandiegouniontribune.com, 09 Feb 2018)
Awards and honours
She has been presented with the Life without Limits Award and the Richard Sandberg Award by United Cerebral Palsy of San Diego in the United States of America. (katrinaschaber.com, 29 Sep 2014)
Her sister Angelina has competed in volleyball at national level in the United States of America. (sandiegouniontribune.com, 09 Feb 2018; advancedeventsystems.com, 01 Jan 2015)
To become a high school history teacher. (sandiegouniontribune.com, 09 Feb 2018)
At age eight she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. "The worst day of my life was the day I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Now I realise it was a blessing because I never would have been able to do this [sport] and meet such wonderful people from all over the world." (thecoastnews.com, 21 May 2012)
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Dethroned Ntabazinduna chief, Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni, recently said that there are 5.5 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora who should be allowed to vote in the 2023 elections.
Ndiweni, who is the chairperson of MyRight2Vote pressure group, based in the United Kingdom, said both ZANU PF and ZAPU promised Zimbabweans the right to vote during the liberation struggle, therefore, diasporans should not be denied their fundamental right.
Ndiweni argued that holding an election without citizens based abroad would render the outcome illegitimate. Said Ndiweni:
As a person who has been complaining about diaspora voting, this is a burning issue. It is a human right to be allowed to vote.
About 5.5 million Zimbabweans in the diaspora have been denied their right to vote.
To make things worse, this human right was promised during the war of liberation by ZANU PF, by ZAPU.
So, we have a deep historical basis for demanding this right because wherever we look, this right was given and it has been taken from the Zimbabwean populace in the diaspora.
The population in the diaspora is nearly 50% of the voting population in Zimbabwe. This is a formidable percentage.
Ndiweni’s comments came weeks after Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda (ZANU PF) said electoral laws should be amended to allow for diaspora vote.
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He spent some of his childhood in an orphanage, playing soccer as a way to dull the intense pain of loss, eventually taking up running at a school near Nairobi, where he was discovered by Loroupe.The Olympic Refugee Team Was Created to Offer Hope. Some Athletes Are Running Away From It|Vivienne Walt|July 8, 2021|Time
Under the deed, control of both the chocolate company and the orphanage passed to individuals who sat on the board of Milton Hershey’s bank.
Movies may portray the typical adoption as a childless couple saving an unwanted baby from a crowded orphanage.The Baby Brokers: Inside America’s Murky Private-Adoption Industry|Tik Root|June 3, 2021|Time
When he was nine months old, a Dutch couple adopted him from an orphanage, making Kaper one of about 1,100 children adopted from abroad to the Netherlands that year.Despite mixed results, south Asian adoptees turn to DNA tests|Bhavya Dore|October 20, 2020|Quartz
They are adopted children who spent part of their early life at an orphanage.
By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.
The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.
In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.Dancing Grandpas, Morgan Freeman Impressions, and More Viral Videos|Jack Holmes|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.In the Killing Fields of Ukraine with Children Who Saw the MH17 Horror|Anna Nemtsova|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?
One-half of all income from my estate was to be paid to the church, the other half for orphanage entertainment.David Lannarck, Midget|George S. Harney
She sold the Bartholomew house, entered you boys in the orphanage in January 1942.
Your recollection is that your brother Lee was taken from the orphanage home before you and Robert were?
The next time she came to the hospital, Kate had much to ask her about the Orphanage.Daybreak|Florence A. Sitwell
That home of affluence was not mine,—it was only the asylum of my first days of orphanage.Ernest Linwood|Caroline Lee Hentz | <urn:uuid:0c5133d7-5a29-45f9-bba3-38e6e3128043> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dictionary.com/browse/orphanage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959054 | 588 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Reasons Why Your Left Arm Feels Like It Has Pins and Needles 1. Problems with the Circulation or Pressure of the Blood. When you sleep in an unusual posture that prevents blood from flowing through your body as it should, you may experience poor blood circulation. Additionally, it may happen if you are wearing a piece of jewelry that is too tight, such as an arm band.
The compression of nerves can be caused by pressure being applied to a particular region of the arm or leg.This is a common cause.When the pressure is released and the location is altered, this problem almost always goes away very immediately.The sensation of pins and needles that does not go away might be an indication of a more serious problem, such as an injury to a nerve or inflammation.
Why do I have pins and needles in my left arm?
Pinched nerves are often the consequence of poor posture, which can occur while sleeping or sitting for extended periods of time.As a direct consequence of this, you can feel a heaviness in your left arm, followed by a prickling sensation.2.Inadequate Circulation of the Blood Your left arm might be hurting or tingling for a number of reasons, one of which is that your circulation is poor.
Why do I get pins and needles when I Sleep?
The vast majority of people have, at some time in their lives, had moments of fleeting paresthesia.If you sleep with your arm under your head or sit with your legs crossed for an extended period of time, you run the risk of developing this condition.Pins and needles are sensations that are caused by continuous pressure being applied to a nerve.The sensation disappears as soon as there is a reduction in the pressure.
What causes left arm numbness or tingling?
On the other hand, the following are some of the more significant reasons of numbness or tingling in the left arm that need seeking medical attention: When a person is having a heart attack, the coronary artery in their heart becomes clogged.Because of this obstruction, blood flow is restricted, which might result in numbness in the left arm.Pain or pressure are common symptoms of a heart attack, which can also manifest in the chest, neck, arm, face, or back.
When should I worry about my left arm tingling?
If an individual has a history of cardiovascular disease or a high risk for developing the condition, they should seek emergency medical assistance if they suffer tingling or numbness in their arm for no apparent reason.If tingling or numbness in the arm doesn’t go away after a few days, it might be a sign of a more serious underlying medical condition that has to be treated with either physical therapy or surgery.
How do you know if left arm pain is heart related?
It may be an indication of heart issues if the soreness in your left arm is accompanied by additional symptoms such as discomfort in the middle of your chest and shortness of breath. There may be an underlying injury if your left arm is also red and swollen in addition to the other symptoms.
How do I stop my left arm from tingling?
- If you wake up with tingling or numbness in your arms frequently, you might want to experiment with changing the way you sleep. It is possible to avoid sleeping on your arms by using a wedge pillow
- If you notice that your arm is going numb during the day, you could try to boost circulation by doing some easy exercises.
- Try to avoid making the same motions with your shoulders, arms, wrists, and fingers
Is left arm pain a symptom of anxiety?
Pain in the left arm is a common symptom of anxiety.It is likely to be transitory if it is brought on by muscular tension or an anxiety attack; but, persons who suffer from anxiety disorders are also at risk of experiencing persistent pain.Anxiety is a disorder that may be treated.A medical professional may provide counseling, medication, or practices for stress management as forms of treatment.
Which arm goes numb if your having a stroke?
Stroke.If a blood artery in your brain breaks or becomes clogged, it is possible that your brain will not receive the necessary amount of blood and oxygen.Numbness can occur in a number of different parts of your body, including your left arm, if you have a stroke.A headache and a sense of disorientation are two more symptoms, in addition to difficulties with speech, coordination, and balance.
What does angina arm pain feel like?
Although some people (particularly women) may experience a severe, stabbing pain, others report that their abdomen feels tight, dull, or heavy. reaches your arms, neck, jaw, or back, among other places.
Does left arm pain always mean heart problems?
Even though a heart attack or angina are the most likely causes of discomfort in the left arm, this symptom can also be caused by other, less serious conditions. If arm pain is accompanied by other symptoms such as shortness of breath, nausea, chest discomfort, or dizziness, it is imperative to seek emergency medical assistance.
Can dehydration cause tingling?
Tingling or numbness in the fingers or toes, or the sensation that some areas of the body are ″falling asleep.″ Even in physically demanding settings, there is either no perspiration or significantly reduced sweating.
Can High BP cause tingling?
Kidney failure can be caused by conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure (also known as hypertension). If your kidneys are not working properly, fluid and waste products may build up in your body, which can cause harm to your nerves. When kidneys fail, patients frequently experience tingling in their legs or feet.
Can a blood clot cause numbness in arm?
Blood clots can induce a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from excruciating pain to numbness, and from icy coldness to scalding hotness, depending on where they form in the body. In addition, not everyone will present with the same set of symptoms. In certain cases, there may be no outward manifestations of the condition at all.
Should I go to the ER for left arm pain?
Discomfort in the left arm that is not accompanied by chest pain might take the form of a throbbing or stabbing aching, and it may be accompanied by other symptoms such as headaches or muscular weakness.Visit a physician if the pain is severe or if it lasts for an extended period of time.If the pain was caused by an injury or if there are any other symptoms that might indicate a stroke or heart attack, you should seek immediate medical attention.
What part of your arm hurts when you have heart problems?
One of the most prominent symptoms of a heart attack is discomfort in the left arm. This discomfort typically appears all of a sudden in a person who is experiencing a heart attack, worsens with activity and improves when they are at rest, and is typically accompanied by other signs and symptoms.
How do I know if my arm pain is serious?
Seek immediate medical attention if you have any of the following:
- Arm, shoulder or back pain that comes on abruptly, is abnormally intense, or is accompanied by pressure, fullness or squeezing in your chest (this may signify a heart attack)
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Biden administration can’t overlook the Balkans when sanctioning Russia
As Western economic sanctions tank Russia’s economy, the Kremlin and its supporters are scouring the globe for jurisdictions to use to evade sanctions. Moscow appears to have set its sights on the Western Balkans, long plagued by corruption and malign Russian influence. Washington and its Western allies must work to combat Russia’s illicit financial networks and broader malign influence in the Western Balkans while expanding our own economic ties to the region.
Exploiting corruption in the Western Balkans is central to the Kremlin’s efforts to cultivate influence in the region. This problem began decades ago. As the former Yugoslav states liberalized their economies after the 1990s, festering corruption exposed openings for Russian manipulation. Under Vladimir Putin, Moscow has used the corrupt actors who benefited from this kleptocracy to exploit economic, ethnic, and religious fissures in Balkan societies, in order to use that instability to challenge the United States and our allies. Western disengagement has compounded the problem, allowing Russia and China to fill the void through corruption and “debt-trap” investments in critical areas such as energy and security.
This inattention may ultimately weaken the impact of Western sanctions against Russia. Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Russian influence is particularly strong, have refused to sanction Russia. Serbian media reported in early April that nearly 300 Russian persons, including many in the IT sector, had opened companies in Serbia since Moscow invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, likely reflecting an attempt to dodge Western sanctions by re-registering Russian firms in Serbia. And although Albania, Montenegro, and others have developed Russia sanctions regimes in line with EU sanctions, they may be unable or unwilling to enforce them if Moscow can prevail upon their leadership through either political pressure or corruption.
For a Biden administration that’s declared fighting corruption and Russian sanctions evasion to be top priorities, this should be a call to action. While the Kremlin has a head start, the West can wield a combination of economic incentives and pressure to undercut Russia’s efforts in the Western Balkans. Washington and its European allies should leverage existing regional institutions to strengthen their political and economic influence. In concert, the Western allies should use sanctions to expose and disrupt Russian illicit financial schemes and discourage regional actors from working with Russia.
The newly minted Open Balkan initiative represents the West’s best opportunity to build and effectively utilize economic leverage in the region. Established by Albania, North Macedonia, and Serbia in 2021, the project aims to promote ties between the three countries by ultimately creating a single market for goods, services and capital.
The Open Balkan initiative could enable the West to exploit its greatest advantage over Russia in the Western Balkans: economic clout. Europe’s economic ties to the region dwarf Russia’s, which are concentrated mostly in the energy sector. While Russia dominates Serbia’s energy industry, Russia is only Serbia’s fifth-largest trading partner, lagging behind Germany, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania. Russian trade with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Croatia, and Montenegro is similarly limited. By spurring Western investment in the region, using the Open Balkan initiative as an instrument for incentivizing regional players to embrace anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and other rule of law measures, Washington and its allies could work to limit Russia’s influence.
While the Open Balkan initiative’s underlying concept is sound, the West must ensure this prospective asset does not turn into a long-term liability by perversely facilitating Russian and other illicit finance.
Unless properly policed, a single market in the Western Balkans could create opportunities for Russian sanctions-evasion networks and transnational criminal organizations to move Russian capital into and through regional economies. For these reasons, trade liberalization initiatives such as Open Balkan require strong institutions that can track and thwart illicit financial schemes involving Russia or other malign actors.
Western governments should pair the promise of economic opportunity with sustained pressure to strengthen the rule of law and defenses against illicit finance. Washington and its allies should also encourage Western companies to invest in the Western Balkans — but on the conditions that regional governments and their private-sector counterparties comply both with international anti-corruption and anti-money laundering standards and with Western sanctions against Russia.
Along with these economic carrots, Washington and its allies should wield the stick. The West should threaten and, if necessary, impose sanctions against regional actors who continue to facilitate Russian illicit finance or other malign Russian activity in violation of U.S. sanctions against Moscow. Executive Order 14033, signed by President Biden in June 2021, offers an additional tool for the administration to do so, authorizing sanctions against persons who are involved in corruption or undermine security or democracy in the Western Balkans.
As Russia’s invasion in Ukraine continues, more Western sanctions are likely to follow. Russia’s cultural and political influence and economic presence in the Western Balkans offers the Kremlin a chance to establish one or more jurisdictions for sanctions evasion in the middle of Europe. Through a combination of carrots and sticks, the United States and its allies can foil Russia’s plans.
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Dave Kirby from Switch Packaging offers some insight and advice on the power of packaging. First published in April 2021.
One thing that I love about the packaging industry is that it is always evolving. Recently, packaging is beginning to be considered as a product with its own functions, features, and uses, consequently resulting in becoming a fundamental part of a product.
The power of packaging identity
Digital sales are on the rise meaning packaging is the first physical point of contact consumers have with a brand. So, take advantage of this. Packaging should offer a positive and unique brand experience offering a sense of connection through personalisation, quality and design.
Statistics show every year 95% of new products fail. Robert Lockyer, CEO of Delta Global, says “packaging trumps the gift itself”, and if you consider major brands such as Apple, known for their clean, minimalistic packaging resulting in unboxing videos on social media or Tiffany & Co with their little blue box being more recognisable than the jewellery, you understand where Robert is coming from.
In fact, a sales increase due to packaging has been proven by the beer company Coors, seeing a 5% increase in purchases by changing the can it came in, having a direct impact on the company’s overall appeal.
The power of protecting the environment
Taking packaging to a whole new level is whether the materials used are sustainable. Environmentally friendly packaging has been on the rise since the 1980s and is the longest-standing trend and businesses are taking sustainability a step further in creating a circular economy.
A circular economy involves designing and promoting packaging and how it can be reused, repaired and remanufactured. If your packaging is of higher quality, the more useful it’ll be by the consumer, i.e. the more likely they’ll use it for home storage. You could opt to add value-adding innovations such as embedding seeds between biodegradable materials for the consumer to plant, plant-able tissue paper or zips that double-up as hair ties – improving the quality, functions and supporting the question, is packaging becoming the product.
So, do I agree that packaging should be considered as part of the product?
The simple answer is yes. We have seen first-hand how impactful protective and beautiful packaging design can positively impact brand image and sales, especially when using sustainable materials.
We understand the importance of packaging, especially sustainable packaging. We believe packaging should encompass everything the business stands for by focusing on brand values, purpose, demographics and design.
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Library budgets continue to shrink but expectations remain the same, or even increase. Librarians and information professionals are forced to get creative. This interesting information came to us from Talking New Media in their article, “Cambridge University Press embarks on project to improve discoverability of library resources.”
Cambridge University Press has embarked on a huge project to improve the discoverability of resources and ensure that MARC (machine-readable cataloging) records across all eBooks are top notch.
A MARC record is the bibliographic record a library needs for their online catalogues. Once a MARC record is uploaded, users are able to access the resource described within.
Over the last year, Cambridge University Press has been through over 24,000 titles and updated or enhanced their metadata according to the requirements of librarians and researchers. There are plans for further investments in the next year. This is a win-win situation for all – publishers, librarians and users.
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United States Aid to Israel Now Exceeds $90 Billion
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Richard H. Curtiss is executive editor of The Washington Report from Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). When he retired from the US foreign service, he was chiefinspector of the US Information Agency. Curtiss is also the author of A Changing Image: American Perspectives of the Arab-Israeli Dispute and Stealth PACs: Lobbying Congress for Control of US Middle East Policy. This essay is reprinted from the September 1999 issue of The Washington Report.
For many years the American media reported that "Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid," or that "Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid." But the two figures were seldom combined to give the true total of at least $3 billion in US foreign aid to Israel every year.
Most Americans have caught on to that media deception by now. But starting in the summer of 1999, as Congress put together a new budget for fiscal year 2000 (which began Oct. 1, 1999), taxpayers who ask their congressional representatives what they are doing about aid to Israel are hearing a new mantra: 'We're cutting it." They may even hear that 'We're reducing Israel's economic aid every year for ten years until it's phased out entirely."
That is true. Israel is slated to take an annual $120 million cut in economic aid in FY 2000 and every year thereafter for nine years until there is no more foreign economic aid for Israel.
Starting at the same time, however, US military aid to Israel is slated to increase every year by $60 million. So in ten years US military aid to Israel will increase to a total of $2.4 billion annually, which does not count extras from the Pentagon's budget.
Therefore the scheduled reduction of total annual foreign aid to Israel is only $60 million annually, a decrease of two percent per year. In ten years the total reduction in Israel's foreign aid will be only 20 percent.
That will leave Israel, with a population smaller than Hong Kong's, as still the largest recipient of US foreign aid, by far. It receives more than a third of US bilateral foreign aid. And when US foreign aid to Israel, and to Egypt for keeping the peace with Israel, are combined, they are more than half of total bilateral US foreign aid world-wide.
Other US foreign aid recipients are all developing nations that either make their military bases available to the US, are key members of international alliances in which the US participates, or have recently suffered some crippling blow of nature such as earthquakes, floods or droughts.
Israel does not fit those criteria. Its 1997 per capita gross national product is $16,180. That puts it on a par with Ireland and well above Spain. Other than Israel, for many years no country with a comparable per capita GNP has received American foreign aid.
In fact, from 1949 through 1997, the total of US aid to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean combined was $64,127,500,000 –considerably less than the $71,077,600,000 Israel received in the same 1949 through 1997 time period. According to the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, DC, in mid1999 the sub-Saharan and Latin American and Caribbean countries have a combined population of 1.142 billion people, while Israel's mid-1999 population is 6.1 million people.
Over the next three years Israel's direct foreign aid total increased to $80,097,600,000. But that's not the whole story. In fiscal years 1993, 1996 and 1997 reporters for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs found extra items for Israel buried in the budgets of the Pentagon and other federal agencies that increased annual US aid to Israel by an average of 12.2 percent. It is conservative to assume that such a 12.2 percent hidden increase has prevailed over all of the years Israel has received US foreign aid, adding $9,771,907,000 to the total.
And that's not all. Israel receives its annual foreign aid appropriation during the first month of each fiscal year, instead of in quarterly installments as do other foreign aid recipients. That has enabled Israel to earn another $1.947 billion in interest from advance payments.
Therefore, as of October 31,1999, the Israeli government will have received $91,816,507,200 in US aid from fiscal year 1949 through fiscal year 2000. That's the number you should write down. It does not include an additional $10 billion in loan guarantees collected by Israel, since the ultimate cost to the US of those loan guarantees to Israel cannot be estimated.
That's a cumulative total of $15,051.98 in US taxpayer assistance for every man, woman and child in Israel, still not counting the loan guarantees.
|Foreign Aid Grants and Loans||$80,097,600,000|
|Other US ft.id (12.2 % of Foreign Aid)||9,771,907,000|
|Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments||1,947,000,000|
|Total Benefits per Israeli||$15,052|
Generous as it is, that's considerably less than the actual cost to US taxpayers. Since until very recently the United States ran an annual national budget deficit, every dollar of aid the US gives Israel has had to be raised through US government borrowing. It would be educational to calculate what the US has paid in interest over the past 50 years on the more than $91 billion it borrowed to give to Israel. Undoubtedly it would show that by now the cost to US taxpayers has been well over double the actual amount received by the government of Israel.
There are many other costs of Israel to US taxpayers. They include most or all of the nearly $50 billion in US foreign aid provided to Egypt since it made peace with Israel in 1979. Ever since then, Egypt has received two-thirds of whatever amount the US gives Israel each year.
Costs of Israel also include deductions from their US income taxes by American Jewish and other friends of Israel who donate about one billion dollars annually to tax-exempt US organizations which pass these donations on to affiliated Israeli groups.
There also have been immense political, military and commercial costs to the US for consistently supporting Israel in all of its disputes with the Palestinians and all of its Arab neighbors. Because Congress has never tied US aid to Israel to Israeli performance at the peace table, this immense outlay by American taxpayers actually hinders the peace process by encouraging Israeli intransigence.
Direct US taxpayer aid to Israel now amounts to $75,260 for every Israeli family of five. It would be interesting to know how many American families of five have received as much help from the US government as do the families of everyone who chooses to become a citizen of Israel.)
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|Author(s):||Richard H. Curtiss|
|Title:||United States Aid to Israel Now Exceeds $90 Billion|
|Sources:||The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 19, no. 4 (July/August 2000), pp. 52f.; reprinted from The Washington Report of Middle East Affairs, September 1999.|
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Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, or something similar that states”:
“Most over night successes are at least 10 years in the making.”
With our constantly changing work environment, many of us as leaders and teams might consider ourselves currently going through the “10 years in the making”. Maybe we’re in the first month, or maybe we’ve already surpassed the 10 years.
No matter where we fall on the timeline, most leaders and teams want to go faster or have more. While there are lots of ingredients to becoming an “over night” success, here are three simple reflections for the journey:
- The First Reflection – Time has the same relationship to success, as an amateur has to a champion. Every champion today, was first an amateur, that took time to become a champion. Every success of tomorrow, requires time from today. There is a process of learning and developing, practicing and growing, and training and studying.
- The Second Reflection – There is a positive attitude needed for success, to work through the mistakes, failures, and losses. When it comes to our hopes and dreams, there are three possible answers from the universe, no matter what you believe: yes, not now, or there’s something else. It’s easy to be positive and optimistic and hopeful when the answer is yes, and exactly what you want. Where positive attitudes are so important is when we are in the game of the “10 year journey” and we’re losing and don’t know the final score. Champions don’t need to know the final score. They have an attitude that believes the final score will be in their favour.
- The Third Reflection – Champions get the right to compete for the top position, achieve the number one status, be the best in the world, and reach their hopes and dreams, through several wins along the way – And they take the time to celebrate those wins, whatever size they are, because they all have a part in the overall success.
Our speed on our journeys to success will be influenced by the time that we invest daily, our unwavering attitudes of optimistic belief, and celebrating every win that is progress along the way.
Final Reflection – We might always want to go faster, and that’s okay, as long as we can exert some level of patience to avoid being Johathan Winters who said:
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Gooseberries are native to the Northern-Hemisphere and can grow in a range of soil types, creating many regional sub-species like the Indian Gooseberry, also known as Amla in the Hindi language.
Amla’s is notable for it’s high vitamin C content, making it a powerful skin supplement used in Ayurveda practice to help heal wounds faster and maintain skin tightness. Amla also has very high fibre per 100 gram-serving despite the low calorie count, outperforming other foods like oats and bananas by being an easy way to maintain digestive health without excessive calories.
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This Article Supplies A Short History Of Flags In Various Nations
Content writer-Lindberg Newton
If you have an interest in the history of flags, you have actually probably noticed that national flags were first utilized as the personal banner of rulers. Gradually, making use of personal banners as flags of locations befalled of favor as well as the practice was changed by nationwide flags. Even maritime republics had their own nationwide flags as very early as the 12th century, although these were mainly made use of for marine identification.
While the very first flags were not rectangular, their usage has been documented throughout history. Flags were utilized by ancient peoples as a method to signal, consisting of the earliest Greeks. The usage of flags in war has actually remained to this day, as shown by the use flagpoles on ancient Greek coins and also in burial place carvings. Old militaries brought battle criteria, which were totemic symbols and mobile rallying factors. The Romans, on the other hand, used vexilloids to represent their army. The dragon standard of a military unit from Scythia had a versatile tail.
The history of flags has many elements. In the past, flags were utilized to note an area or specific leader throughout fight. As centralized armies changed private knights, flags ended up being a method of identification and race. Although https://qz.com/quartzy/1303522/the-new-rainbow-pride-flag-is-a-design-disaster-but-a-triumph-for-lgbtq-inclusiveness/ held critical worth, the threat to those that lugged them came to be too great. Because of this, flag carrying was banned throughout World War I. In the 18th century, flags had symbolic definitions and also were used as signs to advertise political beliefs.
The United States flag was first recognized by Congress in 1777. Prior to the fostering of the flag, flags did not have thirteen red stripes or fifty stars. They originally stood for thirteen swarms, so the number of celebrities in the flag was thirteen. Throughout its history, the flag was transformed at the very least 27 times. As the nation expanded, brand-new states were contributed to the United States, and new states indicated a brand-new celebrity in the leading left corner of the flag. In 1960, Hawaii ended up being a state.
Throughout human background, flags have actually played a crucial function. From recognizing nations to connecting and also transporting products, flags have actually offered a selection of objectives. They are frequently adorned with fascinating tales. Civil flags, as an example, are not emblazoned with a nation's coat of arms, as well as are flown by private citizens rather than soldiers. In the past, civil flags were typically flown by civilians to note a civilian manned structure.
There are several various historical sources relating to the style of the American flag. In 1776, flags were not conveniently offered off the rack. A lot of flags were made for naval usage, so the upholster and sail maker of ships were contracted to make them. This is the origin of red stripes in the American flag. If this holds true, the history of flags is more complicated than the majority of people recognize. While there are https://www.pressadvantage.com/organization/star-spangled-flags regarding that developed the first American flag, this is only an outline of what took place.
The United States flag, additionally called the Stars and Stripes, was embraced by lots of other countries. Its pan-Arab color scheme inspired the flags of Tunisia, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan, and also the United Arab Emirates. A number of these countries make use of the very same colors as well as signs, so the layout is universal. Lots of nations of the Slavic region also have their own flags. For this reason, the background of flags is fairly intriguing.
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A learned Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, b. at Compiègne, France, 30 April, 1654; d. at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, 18 October, 1721. After receiving his classical education in the Jesuit College at Compiègne, he entered the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Rémi at Reims as novice at the age of seventeen, and took vows on 12 August, 1672. He made his philosophical and theological studies partly at Saint-Rémi, partly at the monastery of Saint-Médard in Soissons whither he was sent to study philosophy under François Lamy. In 1681 his superiors sent him to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés to assist his confrère Thomas Blampin in editing the works of St. Augustine. Coustant's chief contribution to this publication, which remains the best edition of St. Augustine's works, consisted in the separating of the spurious from the genuine writings. He also aided his fellow Benedictines Edmond Martène and Robert Morel in making the indexes for the fourth volume containing the commentaries on the Psalms. In an appendix to the fifth volume he collected all the spurious homilies and traced them to their true sources.
The learning and acumen which Coustant displayed in his share of the edition of St. Augustine's works did not remain unnoticed by the Abbot General of the Maurist congregation. When Mabillon suggested a new edition of the works of St. Hilary of Poitiers, it was Coustant whom the abbot general selected for this difficult undertaking. There was before this time practically only one edition of this great Gallic Doctor of the Church, namely the defective and uncritical one published by Erasmus (Basle, 1523). The subsequent editions of Miraeus (Paris 1544), Lipsius (Basle, 1550), Grynaeus (Basle, 1570), Gillotius (Paris 1572), and the one issued by the Paris Typographical Society in 1605 were little more than reprints of the Erasmian text. After making himself thoroughly conversant with St. Hilary's terminology and train of thought, Coustant compared numerous manuscripts with a view to restoring the original text. In an extensive general preface he proved the Catholicity of Hilary's doctrine concerning the birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary, the Holy Eucharist, Grace, the Last Judgment, the Holy Trinity, and other Catholic dogmas. The preface is followed by two biographical sketches of the saint, the former of which was composed by Coustant himself from the writings of Hilary, while the latter is a reproduction of the life written by Fortunatus of Poitiers. Each treatise is preceded by a special preface stating its occasion and purpose, and the time when it was written. Difficult and obscure passages are explained in foot-notes. This edition of St. Hilary is a model work of its kind and ranks as one of the most esteemed literary productions of the Maurist Congregation. It was published in one folio volume at Paris in 1693 and bears the title: "Sancti Hilarii Pictavorum episcopi opera ad manuscriptos codices gallicanos, romanos, belgicos, nec non ad veteres editiones castigata, aliquot aueta opusculis", etc. The work was published with a few additions by Scipio Maffei (Verona, 1730) and by Migne, P.L., IX and X.
Coustant's love for study did not prevent him from being an exemplary monk. Though often overwhelmed with work, he was punctual in attending the common religious exercises and found time for private works of piety. After completing the edition of St. Hilary's works he requested his superiors to release him temporarily from literary labours and to allow him to devote more of his time to prayer and meditation. The wish was granted, though not as he expected. He was appointed prior of the monastery of Nogent-sous-Coucy. After three years he was, upon his own urgent request, relieved from the priorate and returned to Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For some time he worked on the new edition of the Maurist Breviary; then he assisted his confrère Claude Guesnié in making the elaborate general index in the works of St. Augustine.
Immediately upon the publication of St. Augustine's works in 1700, Coustant was entrusted by his superiors with the editing of a complete collection of the letters of the popes from St. Clement I to Innocent III (c. 88-1216). To understand the colossal labour which such an undertaking entailed, it must be borne in mind that very little had been done in this direction before. There were, indeed, the papal decretals from Clement I to Gregory VII, collected by Cardinal Antonio Caraffa and published by Antonio d'Aquino in 1591, but they were incomplete and their chronological order was frequently incorrect. There were also the "Annales" of Baronius and the "Concilia antiqua Galliae" of the Jesuit Jacques Sirmond and other works containing scattered letters of the popes; but no one had ever attempted to make a complete collection of papal letters, much less to sift the spurious from the authentic, to restore the original texts and to order the letters chronologically.
After devoting more than twenty years to this gigantic undertaking, Coustant was able to publish the first volume in 1721. It contains the letters from the year 67 to the year 440, and is entitled "Epistolae Romanorum Pontificum et quae ad eos scriptae sunt a S. Clemente I usque ad Innocentium III, quotquot reperiri potuerunt. . ." (Paris 1721). In the extensive preface perhaps of 150 pages Coustant explains the origin, meaning and extent of the papal primacy and critically examines the existing collections of canons and papal letters. The letters of each pope are preceded by a historical introduction and furnished with copious notes, while the spurious letters are collected in the appendix. Coustant had gathered a large amount of material for succeeding volumes, but he died the same year in which the first volume was published. Simon Mopinot, who had assisted Coustant in the preparation of the first volume, was entrusted with the continuation of the work, but he also died (11 October, 1724) before another volume was ready for publication. About twelve years later, Ursin Durand undertook to continue the work; in his case the Jansenistic disorders in which he became involved prevented the publication of the material he had prepared. Finally the French Revolution and the dissolution of the Maurist Congregation gave the death-blow to the great undertaking. A new edition of Coustant's volume was brought out by Schönemann (Göttingen, 1796); a continuation, based chiefly on Coustant's manuscripts and containing the papal letters from 461-521, was published by Thiel (Braunsberg, 1867). There are extant in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris fourteen large folio volumes containing the material gathered by Coustant and his Benedictine continuators. Coustant also took part in the controversy occasioned by Mabillon's "De Re Diplomatica" between the Jesuit Germon and the Maurist Benedictines. In two able treatises he defends himself and his confrères against Germon who disputed the genuineness of some sources used in the Benedictine edition of the works of St. Hilary and St. Augustine.
TASSIN, Histoire Littéraire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (Brussels, 1770), 417 sqq.; PEZ, Bibliotheca Benedictino-Mauriana (Augsburg, 1716, 345 sqq.; LE CERF, Bibliothèque historique et critique des auteurs de la congr. de Saint-Maur(The Hague, 1726) 62 sqq.; MOPINOT in Journal des savants (Paris, January, 1722); HERBST in Theologische Quartalschrift (Tübingen, 1833) 438 sqq.; SDRALEK, ibid.(1880) 222 sqq.; KERKER in Kirchenlex., s.v.: KUKULA in Wiener Sitzungs-berichte (1890, 1893, 1898); VALENTI, Los Benedictinos de S. Mauro (Palma Mallorca, 1899), 199; HURTER, Nomenclator, II, 1103 sqq.
APA citation. (1908). Pierre Coustant. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04454a.htm
MLA citation. "Pierre Coustant." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04454a.htm>.
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20% of American workers have lost their job during last 5 years
Roughly one-in-five American workers have been laid off during the last half-decade, according to a recent report, raising new doubts about exactly how secure job stability really is within the United States.
The report, published last week out of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, found that roughly 30 million Americans — or around 20 percent of the workforce — have lost a job during the last five years.
Additionally, the pollsters found that Americans that unexpectedly end up out of work have a hard time recovering and regularly end up making less money once they’re rehired, if hired at all. A survey of 1,153 Americans taken by the Heldrich Center determined that around half of the laid-off workers who did manage to find work after being laid off were paid less than at their previous position, and a quarter said those new jobs were just temporary.
“Laid-off workers who found another job seldom improved their financial situation,” the report found. “Two-thirds said their new jobs either paid less than their previous one (46%) or paid the same (21%).”
“While the worst effects of the Great Recession are over for most Americans, the brutal realities of diminished living standards endure for the three million American workers who remain jobless years after they were laid off,” Heldrich Center Director Carl Van Horn, a co-author of the study, said in a statement. “These long-term unemployed workers have been left behind to fend for themselves as they struggle to pull their lives back together.”
"While a majority of Americans were affected by the Great Recession, those who had long-term periods of unemployment experienced severe, negative changes in their standard of living," the actual study concluded. "While job growth has been consistent, it has been insufficient to produce enough full-time jobs for everyone.”
According to the researchers at Rutgers, however, the grim news doesn’t end there: furthermore, the Heldrich Center study revealed that over 70 percent of the Americans surveyed said they have less in savings and income than they did five years earlier, and over 80 percent rated their personal financial situation as either “fair” or “poor.”
“Fifty-five percent of the long-term unemployed say they will need to retire later than planned because of the recession, while 5 percent say the weak economy forced them into early retirement,” the study continued.
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The United States of Africa is the only solution to heal wounds left by the Berlin Conference 1885 Chaos in the Pan African Parliament revealed how Colonial languages continues to divide Africa. There is need for Africa to have a common national Language and Swahili has proven to unify hundreds of different ethnic groups in East and Central Africa. Embracing it as a Language of African Unification will eradicate misunderstandings among People of African Descent not only in Africa but throughout the world. The French Assimilation policy was designed to transform African way of life and thinking to that of the Colonizer and this has led to turmoil in Francophone states. Decolonization of Africa is extremely important in ensuring that Africans regardless their Region begin to see themselves as citizens of the African nation. In order to have a functional Pan African Parliament there is need to include representatives from the Caribbean, Pacific and other countries all over the world with Black Presence. Pan African organizations have to be granted observer status to monitor the activities of the Pan African Parliament and provide Advisory role to PAP and the African Union Pan Africanism is a borderless idea and doesn’t end within the African continent but seeks to unify all people of African Descent throughout the world. Africa must unite and be restored to what it was before the colonizers came. For Africa to regain its lost respect and dignity we need one military ,one currency ,one President, one parliament and it is upon this vision that Pan African Parliament was established.
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Wikipedia: a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. The term permaculture was developed and coined by David Holmgren, then a graduate student, and his professor, Bill Mollison, in 1978. The word permaculture originally referred to “permanent agriculture”, but was expanded to stand also for “permanent culture”, as it was understood that social aspects were integral to a truly sustainable system as inspired by Masanobu Fukuoka’s natural farming philosophy.
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Public health workers prepare for emergencies of all kinds, but the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic has far exceeded any tabletop exercise. Strong leadership in health departments is critical. While agency leaders juggle multiple response efforts in their communities, their responsibility to staff is greater than ever.
“[The COVID-19 pandemic] has illuminated the cracks in the foundation of our society that have been there for a very long time that some people have the privilege to just walk over and breeze past, but many others knew…[were] there,” Dr. Powell told de Beaumont staff during a recent talk spanning her education, career, and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fetal tissue has been used in biomedical research for decades, contributing to advances in vaccine development and HIV drug testing. Current research into macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and Parkinson’s could lead to therapies that could improve the lives of millions of patients. But new federal restrictions on the use of fetal tissue, which become effective Sept. 25, will halt some studies and have a crippling effect on others.
In the wake of the #MeToo movement and other social justice campaigns, the use of trauma-informed care is growing. From asking personal questions in a sensitive manner to making sure to consider a patient’s whole history, teaching hospitals and medical schools are incorporating tenets of the approach into many forms of care.
ADAPTABLE is among the hundreds of research-related projects made possible through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, more commonly known as PCORI. As a significant supporter of comparative effectiveness research (CER), PCORI fills a gap in clinical research with its spotlight on research that evaluates two or more health care interventions and strategies while also integrating patient perspectives throughout the process.
Environmental health services, from asthma home visiting programs to lead testing, can help protect children from the dangerous environmental exposures they encounter every day. But the problem for parents and caregivers is accessing such services, a new analysis from APHA’s Center for Public Health Policy shows.
American life expectancy continues to decline, with high mortality rates largely fueled by suicide and drug overdoses — both growing public health crises that reflect deficiencies across many social determinants of health.
Public health is tackling disparities in asthma severity and management by going to the source. Home visits, in which community health workers come to people’s homes to assess potential asthma triggers and offer holistic solutions to illness, can be especially beneficial to low-income families who may lack the resources and support to make their homes conducive to easy breathing.
A community that promotes health equity provides adequate modes of transportation for all users. Pedestrians, public transit riders, bicyclists and others can all get around safely and easily in such an environment. A “complete streets” approach ensures that such mobility conditions are met, making for more liveable communities.
As the national conversation on sexual violence amplifies, the public has become more aware of the scope of the problem and its detrimental toll on survivors.
While recent discussion has largely focused on issues of consent and accountability, it has also opened the door to envisioning a culture in which sexual violence is not committed in the first place — a goal that can be worked toward through principles of public health.
Navigators continue working to get people insured, despite cuts: Attacks on ACA spur enrollment concerns
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The plastic containers are the most cost effective and best resolution to storing food. They’re now more common than they ever were. They come in several shapes, sizes, and even colours. They’re easy to wash they usually may even be positioned within the dish washer. You do not have to be anxious in regards to the sturdiness of the plastic, or the plastic contaminating your food, as a result of the plastic used in manufacturing these containers are a a hundred% safe.
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While some things are ordered straight from the restaurant, sometimes one can find a third celebration is the one doing the precise work. In that case, they take your selection and pick it up and deliver it to you. As a result of they offer this beneficial service they have a tendency to cost a charge to do so. In any case, they need to make cash someway. The cost is often worthy simply so you shouldn’t have to do the work, but you want to pay attention to any costs earlier than you pay for something.
Event planners must also inform the catering firm if the occasion is for a specific celebration. Though catering companies put together the food and handle the meal, they perform additional capabilities as properly. A Christmas party would require totally different decorations than a party held in July. If the planners have a selected theme in thoughts, they need to inform the caterer about their chosen them. The catering firm may decline to brighten for the party in some circumstances. Politely declining the supply to brighten doesn’t mean the company cannot handle the food. It simply means the decorations are beyond that firm’s means.
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BALTIMORE — U.S. sales of existing homes cratered 8.5% in March with real estate activity stalled by the coronavirus outbreak.
The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that 5.27 million homes sold last month, down from 5.76 million in February. The decrease was the steepest since November 2015.
The situation will likely get worse, said Danielle Hale, chief economist at realtor.com.
“Going forward, we’ve seen both home buyers and sellers report being less confident and many are making adjustments to the process,” Hale said. “Already, sellers are getting less aggressive with asking price growth, and we’re seeing roughly half as many new listings come up for sale this year versus last year.”
Home-buying had been steady for the first half of March because of low mortgage rates and the finalization of contracts signed in prior months, only to collapse in response to COVID-19 burying the economy in a likely recession. Businesses and schools have closed and millions of Americans have lost their jobs.
Sales in March were still 0.8% higher from a year ago, when mortgage rates were higher than now.
The real estate market was already facing pressure from a shortage of sales listings and prices climbing faster than incomes, a linked set of problems that intensified last month.
The number of homes for sale in March plunged 10.2% from a year ago, to 1.5 million. This shortage appears to be most pronounced among entry level homes. The total number of sales of homes worth less than $250,000 has fallen over the past year because there are so few available.
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While extremely delicious and the finishing touch on traditional recipes like chicken piccata, capers can be an expensive store-bought item for the home cook. You don't have to give up on taste in the name of being thrifty, though. When traditional capers just aren't in the budget, or you'd like to opt for a homemade version, pickled nasturtium buds or pods are an inexpensive substitute for pricey capers.
Nasturtiums are wildly weedy plants that are known for their edible flowers. While the flowers and leaves have a warm, tangy flavor, the buds or pods have a distinct mustardy flavor, and when pickled, can taste remarkably similar to traditional capers. Even better, pickled nasturtium pods are extremely inexpensive (even free if you can find them) and easy to make.
Gather the ingredients.
After the nasturtium blossoms fall off, pick the half-ripened (still green) nasturtium seed pods. Continue picking as long as the seed crop continues.
Pour cooled mixture over nasturtium seeds in an airtight container and refrigerate for one week.
Keep the mixture refrigerated and use the nasturtium pickles in sauces, dips, casseroles, soups, stews, and as edible decorations. You can substitute for capers 1-to-1 in any recipe.
- If you decide to forage for nasturtium pods, be sure that you pick them at their optimal stage. The nasturtium plant doesn't usually begin forming seedpods until late in the summer. Around that time of the year, you can find them attached to the stems underneath the foliage, where they develop in clusters of three. After the nasturtium blossom withers and falls away, you will want to pick the half-ripened seedpods—they will still be green and soft. As the pods mature, they will turn yellowish at which point they are no longer palatable.
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Employment and Working Conditions of Selected Types of Platform Work
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de Groen, Willem Pieter; Kilhoffer, Zachary; Lenaerts, Karolien; Mandl, Irene
Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing. The types of work offered through platforms are ever-increasing, as are the challenges for existing regulatory frameworks. This report explores the working and employment conditions of three of the most common types of platform work in Europe. For each of these types, Eurofound assesses the physical and social environment, autonomy, employment status and access to social protection, and earnings and taxation based on interviews with platform workers. A comparative analysis of the regulatory frameworks applying to platform work in 18 EU Member States accompanies this review. This looks into workers’ employment status, the formal relationships between clients, workers and platforms, and the organisation and representation of workers and platforms.
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‘If you think you can bully our country, all I can do is recommend you read some history books’.
– David Davis, former Brexit secretary at a Brexit rally calling for Theresa May to ‘chuck Chequers’.
Much of Britain’s current Brexit shambles has its origins in mythologies about the Second World War. A prominent recent example is Joe Wright’s much acclaimed film Darkest Hour, particularly the unlikely scene where Winston Churchill – for the first time in his life – descends into the London Underground. The implausibility of the scene did not worry Conservative Brexit-supporting commentator Charles Moore who thought that ‘regardless of its historical accuracy’ the film’s great merit was that it was ‘superb Brexit propaganda’. According to Moore, it showed ‘that it is sometimes both possible and necessary, if continental Europe is going one way, for Britain to go the other.’ US journalist John Cass likewise hailed the film for charting directions for a European West ‘that often seems lost and almost eager to capitulate to a diminished future.’
One moment in Churchill’s tube trip captures the film’s myth-making power: the recitation of a verse from Lord Macaulay’s famous poem Horatius. Churchill has ntered the tube carriage at St. James Park station with the apparent purpose of listening to the Voice of the People. He starts to bond with ordinary Londoners before – for no obvious reason – launching into a recitation of a stirring verse from Macaulay’s pastiche of ancient Rome:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods.
Crucially, the verse is rounded off by a neatly dressed West Indian called Marcus Peters. Churchill – moved to tears, but strengthened and stiffened in his resolve – re-emerges into the sunlight at Westminster Station and proceeds to the Commons, where he tells the assembled MPs that there will be no negotiation and no surrender.
What can we make of this startling scene, which underpins an unshakable myth of British valour, drawing a line from Macaulay’s Whig imperialism to Churchill’s heroic wartime resolve to the current moment of Brexit?
Marcus Peters is an improbable creation for several reasons, as we will see. But his basic function here is clear enough: he allows the ‘Myth of the Blitz’ to be extended from the ‘plucky’ East End to the British Empire. This scene not only transforms Churchill into a purported multiculturalist, but also mutates Europe’s role from Britain’s ally against Nazi Germany into an obstacle or irrelevance to British victory. Macaulay’s verse plays a key part in these transformations.
To understand what is going on here we need first to go back to Macaulay himself and his Whig belief that England’s special destiny was to lead the world from darkness into light. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was perhaps the most famous nineteenth-century British historian and essayist but he was also a prominent Whig politician and powerful speaker, who spoke out for reforms like Catholic Emancipation and the abolition of disabilities for Jews, as well as parliamentary reform. The basic narrative of his five-volume History of England was of the triumph of English enlightenment, above all constitutional liberty, in the years following the 1688 ‘Glorious Revolution’ and the defeat of absolutism. The pageant of progress he presented rested on the stirring deeds of Great Men. They – like Horatius – had fought against the odds and triumphed. As a result Britain (or rather England) had moved away from bigotry, admitting Catholics, Dissenters and Jews into the blessings of English liberties. The other key aspect of Whig progress was the avoidance of the mob rule which emerged in France after 1789 – represented in England by the demands of Chartists, Owenites, socialists and the like.
Macaulay’s Whig world view was universalist in principle, but constantly undercut by the narrowness of his empathy. His readiness to exclude those deemed inferior can be seen in his attitude to the Irish during the famine, and perhaps most notoriously, Robert Sullivan argues, in his brief stay in India. As Legal Member to the East India Council (1834-7) Macaulay pressed forward with the Anglicising agenda of Governor-General William Bentinck, regarding India, and particularly Hindu India, as sunk in a morass of superstition and idolatry.
In two areas in particular he pushed for reform, with mixture of blithe self-confidence and considerable energy: the subsidising of English language education and the ‘modernisation’ of the penal code. In both cases he was bolstered by his unshakable belief in European cultural superiority, resting on the Greek and Roman classics, as rejuvenated by the humanists in the sixteenth century. As his famous – or notorious – Minute on Education (1835) put it, ‘a single shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.’ While Macaulay anticipated the day, however remote in the future, when India might be capable of self-government by an Anglicised Indian elite, he nonetheless lacked understanding for much of what lay outside his Anglocentric sphere.
This imperial conviction continued long after he returned to England to build an extraordinarily successful literary career. Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome, written alongside his History of England, were the foundation of his fame and fortune. In these four ‘ballads’, parallels between Roman valour and England’s imperial mission are striking, amounting to what Sullivan calls an ‘ersatz national epic’. Horatius and his two fellow soldiers hold off the Etruscan enemy at the gates of Rome, while behind him the bridge into the city is destroyed. He then entrusts his fate to ‘Father Tiber’ and jumps into the river. Horatius survives and prospers. The river takes him safely to the opposite bank, where he is greeted by the Senate and later heaped with honours. His heroic survival against the odds underpins a fantasy of national harmony:
Then none was for a party
Then all were for the state.
Then the great man helped the poor
And the poor man loved the great.
Even the Etruscans, though foreign enemies, were still capable of recognising Horatius’s valour. Transmuted onto Indian soil, they were like the martial Muslims who Macaulay contrasted to the priest-ridden, effeminate Hindus.
As for the other people of the British Empire, Macaulay (in contrast to his evangelical abolitionist father Zachery) showed little interest in slavery or slaves, past or present. As he wrote to his sister Hannah, although he hated slavery ‘from the bottom of [his] soul’, he was ‘made sick by the cant and the silly mock reasons of the Abolitionists…the nigger driver and the negrophile – are two odious things to me’. He opposed distinctions based on colour but undermined his own position through assumptions of cultural and historical superiority. As Catherine Hall puts it, ‘Exclusion and equality were wedded together in the liberal imperial state’. Macaulay’s contempt for the non-English world also applied to the ‘gibberish of the negroes of Jamaica’ – and no doubt to Marcus Peters’ ancestors.
The route from Macaulay’s stirring verse to Churchill’s imperialism was a well-trodden one. Macaulay’s Lays became standard fodder for several generations of public school boys, in Britain and the Empire. But the optimistic claim by Richard M. Langworth of The Churchill Project, in his review of Darkest Hour, that they were part of ‘an education British subjects of all stations once received’ (emphasis added) merely reinforces the myth of multicultural British equality. In Churchill’s case, a recitation competition at Harrow led him to memorise the poems, and their tales of derring-do doubtless shaped and reinforced his belief in British imperial superiority. In the case of India, Churchill’s contempt for Hinduism and his hatred of Gandhi provided a clear echo of Macaulay. And it is well established that Churchill’s indifference to Indian suffering had appalling consequences in 1943 when he refused to support measures to mitigate the disastrous Bengal famine.
Churchill’s most likely response to hearing Marcus Peters recite Macaulay in the London tube would have been sheer amazement. During the Second World War there were only a small number of West Indians working in the London docks (more worked in Liverpool). And the odds were heavily stacked against one of them emerging through the West Indian education system and the dominant ‘pigmentocracy’ to gain a Macaulayite education. Biographies of C. L. R. James and Eric Williams have highlighted deep tensions felt by the few West Indians who were recruited for this education. Williams later recalled that he had learnt the Latin dictum that ‘the plantation economy ruined Italy, but had not the slightest idea of how it had ruined the West Indies and was even then ruining Trinidad’. But the fantasy West Indian of Darkest Hour is clearly a more conformist case – not far from the Anglicized Indian elite envisaged by Macaulay.
Marcus Peters’ appearance is Brexotic mythmaking in another sense. It involves a directorial decision not to feature any of the large group of foreigners who really were travelling on the London Underground in May 1940: mainly Jewish refugees, from Germany, Austria, the ‘Sudetenland’ and Poland, who had fled to Britain from Nazi Germany and in some cases were fighting in the British armed forces. But showing these refugees would clearly have detracted from the filmmaker’s message, reminding audiences that Britain fought the war not only to save itself but to liberate continental Europe and did so alongside thousands of Europeans.
It is not surprising that the implication that Britain was actually fighting against Europe in the Second World War pervades the Brexiteer press. Indeed, it is for this reason that The Daily Express was able to hail Theresa May’s assertive response to her humiliation at the Salzburg summit in September 2018 as ‘her finest hour’ in a ‘war’ with the EU.
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During the pandemic, some have expressed that “ it was especially helpful to have staff and other residents to be together with my loved one, when we couldn’t be with them….they weren’t alone”.
Despite what many people may think, assisted living communities today are not like residences of the past. They serve as an independent option focusing on the independency of the senior but offering the assistance as needed.
What are some of the reasons people decide to research options of Assisted Living?
Often, a change of medical condition or cognition changes, increased number of falls, overall frailty, and nutrition are top reasons people start the research for Assisted Living communities. Sometimes, difficulty managing domestic finances or other money problems may attribute to the search.
Loneliness and social isolation have been linked to poor health outcomes and many seniors suffer from isolation for the following reasons:
- They are retired and no longer have socialization in the work environment
- They can no longer easily attend social events because of physical ailments or transportation issues
- Their friends and spouse may have passed away
- They often feel like they are missing a purpose in their life
In assisted living, seniors can easily socialize with peers, not only in common areas but also through planned, structured activities like cultural events and field trips. Seniors can feel comfort and companionship in knowing that their peers are going through similar aging difficulties.
2. A safer living environment.
Families often must make home modifications and hire in-home care to make the home safe for seniors. From medical alert systems to shower grab-bars, wheelchair-accessible ramps and more — these expenses can add up. Assisted living communities, however, are designed for accessibility and increased senior mobility, helping seniors avoid falls and accidents and providing access to medical assistance, whether it is medical staff within the community or accessibility to a nearby hospital. The medical oversight is peace of mind.
3. Daily fitness.
Many seniors are likely to engage when they have other seniors to engage with in Activities. Assisted living communities offer fitness and physical therapy programs to keep seniors active, this includes cardio drumming, endurance and strength-building workouts, interactive movement for fitness. Opportunities for physical fitness in assisted living go far beyond what family caregivers can easily provide at home when there are possibly no other seniors to interact with.
Seniors often choose not to cook for themselves. This may be due to lack of physical incentive to cook, the taste buds are altered for various reasons, eating alone is not appealing to them, access to food supply may be limited. As an alternative, they lose nutritional value or even forget to eat which can lead to health issues.
In assisted living, residents are served three meals daily and snacks which may be tailored to their specific medical conditions, such as difficulty swallowing, diabetes or heart health.
5. Help with activities of daily living (ADLs).
Activities of daily living (ADLs), housekeeping and yard work can often be a burden to seniors. Having the details of living taken care of in an assisted living community allows seniors the freedom to enjoy aging while taking advantage of assisted living activities and amenities. Assisted living provides expert help with ADLs to allow seniors more independence for the activities that make them happy, which in turn offers a better quality of life.
The expense to allow a family member to remain at home, who needs assistance, socialization and/or meals, often comes with a cost:
- Counting on hired help can leave you stranded….even if you use a company, if caregiver does not show up or your loved one tells the they don’t need them to come, families are left to find caregiver replacement.
- The average cost to have someone come into the home can run $18.00-$25.00 per hour
- Often, when someone needs to come in the home, they are often needed for longer than planned hours because of the need for interaction as well as medical or domestic needs.
- If you hire an outside source from 12-24 hours per day, the average cost runs between $6,696.00 per month to 18,600.00. Assisted Livings average $4,500-$8,500.00 per month.
- Cost of food is also not included in the caregiver cost for in home care but it is included in your monthly base rate cost for an Assisted Living
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Our staff includes engineers and scientists who have spent their careers executing power plant engineering and power plant construction projects. Whether building a 1,230-megawatt power project on a remote island in Indonesia or providing environmental compliance solutions to meet government regulations, We have the global reach and expertise to execute challenging and complex power projects, large or small.
OUR CONSTRUCTION AND ERECTION CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:
- Survey and soil investigation
- Site development works – levelling and grading, compound wall and fencing, roads and drains, railway sidings, ash ponds, green belt and landscaping
- Complete civil and structural works for power plant including piling, equipment foundations, powerhouse building, plant and non-plant buildings, township and facilities
- River/seawater intake works, CW system, plant reservoirs and pump-houses
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How to Develop a Hardware Refresh Cycle
A hardware refresh cycle is when you upgrade you or your company’s hardware and software as needed. Benefits include saving information, increasing efficiency, and improving safety. Here’s how to develop a hardware refresh cycle:
1. Assess Your Hardware Needs
Any hardware refresh should start with a closer look at your systems. This means knowing what kind of hardware it is, how old it is, and how much storage is used. This will better prepare you for the updates.
2. Future Needs
After knowing what hardware you have or what it is lacking, you will want to conduct some research and decide what routine updates will be required of your hardware in the future. This is also a good time to locate receipts, and know purchase dates and any warranties you may have.
3. Disposal of Old Hardware
After assessing your current hardware, you may need to upgrade the system completely. In order to do this, you will want to make sure the hardware company has a warranty program. If they do, you may be able to get it replaced at a lower price. If not, this is when you will want to wipe your system and properly dispose of it.
4. Different Types of Hardware
You may not know that there are many different types of hardware including, personal computers, central processing units, random access memory, hard disks, internal hard drives, mobile devices, and servers. It is important to choose the right one for you or your business.
Once you have an idea of what software you want, you can choose to either purchase it or lease it. Both have their pros and cons. For more information on buying vs leasing IT equipment, read here.
Keeping your hardware up-to-date will not only increase productivity, but it will also improve your business’ safety. It is important to conduct a hardware refresh cycle regularly.
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If you recently lost one or more of your teeth, you might be looking into which tooth replacement option is best for you. When you spoke to your dentist about the matter, they recommended dental implants. During the conversation, they threw out several terms you’ve never heard before in relation to the procedure. Being unsure of what all your treatment entails can be a bit nerve-wracking, so we’ve compiled a guide to explain the meanings of some common dental implant terms you should know.
What Are Dental Implants?
Dental implants are replacements for tooth roots that are typically made of titanium due to its strength, durability, and ability to fuse to bone over time through a process called osseointegration. Dental implants are ideal for patients who have good oral health and need to replace one or more missing or compromised teeth. Though they are designed to last upwards of 25 years, with proper care and regular dental appointments, they can even last a lifetime.
Terms You Should Know
Knowing the basics of a dental implant procedure can help you feel more comfortable and more confident in the treatment you’re receiving. Some of the terms you should know include:
- Abutments are connectors attached to or built into dental implants to hold the replacement crown, bridge, or denture in place.
- Bridges attach to the dental implants to replace missing teeth 2-3 consecutive.
- Ceramic is material made from heat-hardened clay that’s often used to make the restorations placed on top of dental implants since it’s strong, durable, and looks good
- Dentures can either be removed or are permanently attached to the mouth to replace multiple teeth.
- Implant-retained crowns have implants under them that attach to your jawbone.
- Osseointegration is the process through which dental implants fuse with the jawbone to stabilize them.
- Prosthesis refers to the crown, dentures, or bridge that’s being attached to the implant.
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St Saviour's College Newsletter Term 2 Week 10
“In order to educate it is necessary to step out of ourselves and be among young people, to accompany them in the stages of their growth and to set ourselves beside them.” Pope Francis
The past semester has seen many opportunities for our students to grow academically, spiritually and culturally. St Saviour’s College continues to provide our #MercyGirls with multi-faceted learning opportunities that both extends them and enriches them as young people.
In the past week alone, we have had students engaged in a range of different experiences, including:
- RACQ Docudrama (hosted by SSC, and attended by St Mary’s College and St Ursula’s College);
- Macbeth ‘Shake & Stir’ performance (hosted by SSC, and attended by St Mary’s College);
- Our ‘Deadly Sisters’ performing for St Saviour's Primary School;
- The Interact ‘Great Debate’ against the East Toowoomba Rotary Club (SSC took out the win!);
- Tuesday night Volleyball (SSC won the overall C2 Division!);
- Our Homeclass Random Acts of Kindness bingo;
- The ‘Peaceful Kids Program’, facilitated by Mrs Fiona Goodall, working with SSC as a pilot school;
- Health presentations from Liz Ham, National Health Promotion Manager of the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation for all year levels;
- Year 7 RE excursions to St Patrick’s Cathedral and St Luke’s Anglican Church;
- A presentation to Caritas Australia Director, Mr Andrew Knife, a Project Compassion $1500 donation; and
- Rosies Outreach at Wilsonton Heights Park, coupled with more than 100 items being donated by the SSC community.
All of these experiences lend themselves to the richness of an holistic education for our young women.
All of these experiences are made possible because we have staff who step out of themselves and be among young people, to accompany them in the stages of their growth.
I am so proud of all our staff and the opportunities they provide for our young women, both inside and outside the classroom.
I am so proud of all our girls who embrace these opportunities to learn, and to grow and to extend themselves, both inside and outside the classroom.
I am so happy that, after what has been an incredibly busy Semester, we can all take a break!
Special thanks to our dedicated staff who work tirelessly to ensure that our #MercyGirls experience life in all its fullness here at St Saviour’s, preparing them to become empowered young women for the future.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), I will be travelling via Wellcamp to Cairns and on to Aurukun in Cape York, accompanying our boarders home. I can’t wait to share of my experiences, and I very much look forward to meeting Delphina’s, Nikaela’s and Rayziah’s families.
I will also be travelling with Ms Tanya Brown (who will be going onto Cooktown) and Ms Jesse Bolton (who will be travelling onto Horn Island).
There is so much work that goes into the planning of this travel and I thank our boarding staff for their dedication and commitment to this. I acknowledge with gratitude Ms Jesse Bolton, our former Boarding Manager, who has been supporting the upskilling and transition of Ms Tanya Brown, who has agreed to take on the role of Acting Boarding Manager for the remains of the year.
McAuley Residential House is such a critical part of who we are as a College, and I wish all our boarders treasured times with their families and loved ones over the break, and wish our boarding staff two weeks of rest and replenishment.
Thank you for all your efforts in what has been an extremely busy semester.
This week, families from Years 7 to 10 will receive their daughter’s report cards. Please take the time to read through these with your daughter and reflect on both her challenges and successes. I congratulate the girls for their efforts and trust that they will use this time of rest to prepare themselves for even greater things in Semester Two!
I acknowledge the service and commitment of Ms Yvonne White who finished up at the College last week. We wish Yvonne all the very best for the future and thank her sincerely for her 16 years of dedicated service to the College in her role as Finance Officer.
May God bless each of you and your families and may you enjoy a safe and happy holiday, savouring time and memories with those you love.
Blessings for the weeks ahead.
Date Claimers for Term 3
- Pathway Information Evening (Yr 9-11 Families) - Monday 2 August
- Winter Showcase - Thursday 5 August
Deputy Principal - Curriculum
Students in Years 7-10 will have their reports published to the Parent Portal tomorrow, Friday 25 June. These reports are a formal record of your daughter’s academic achievements and learning behaviours across semester one. The report gives a progress mark on several areas of College life including overall academic achievement, application, participation, completion of homework, readiness to learn and behaviour.
Reports in the Parent Portal
As we move into a more ‘paperless’ society, we will again make use of our Parent Portal to upload our reports. In Term One, you would have received an email detailing your Family Code, and instructions on how to log into the Portal. The reports may be accessed under “School Resources” option.
Contacting a Teacher
Whilst there are no formal parent teacher interviews scheduled until Term Four, we invite you to contact your daughter’s teachers if you have any clarifying questions or would like more information on her progress.
Requesting a Hard Copy of your Daughter’s Report
If you would like to collect a ‘hard copy’ report, please contact the College by telephoning 4637 1600 or by email email@example.com and we will have one printed and in the office for collection on Friday 16 July.
If you have any questions about the report provided, please do not hesitate to contact us at the College.
Timetable Changes in Semester Two
The beginning of semester two will see many girls change subjects. Students in Years 7 and 8 will change elective subjects and students in Years 9 and 10 may opt to continue with their current elective options or change to try a different subject that links to their interests or future pathways. These timetable changes may cause some other small changes to your daughter's teachers for some subjects.
Year 11 and 12 Unit 2 and 4
Students in Years 11 and 12 are now close to the midway point of Units 2 and 4. Whilst the holidays is always a good time to re-energize and regenerate, there will also be a need, particularly for Year 12 students who are preparing for External Examinations in Term Four, to do some revision, study and planning for the coming term. Some time may be dedicated these holidays to planning their study schedule for the coming busy term to ensure they are best placed for success in their upcoming mock exams and in preparation for the final exams which start in October.
Year 10, 11 and 12 attended Macbeth Performance
Students in Years 10, 11 and 12 were treated to an outstanding performance of a modernised interpretation of Macbeth presented by theatre company, ‘Shake and Stir’. The girls were joined by their St Mary’s College counterparts in the Callaghan Centre to view the performance on Tuesday. It was a challenging, sophisticated performance of the classic play – which will be subject of the Year 12 external exam this year.
Assistant Principal - Mission and Student Wellbeing
A Prayer for Walking Forward Together Through Winter
In the midst of Winter, when the days are cold and wind can pierce, remind us of the warmth of your love.
In the midst of Winter, when days are short, dawn comes late, and dusk arrives early, remind us that in the darkness your light still shines.
In the midst of Winter, when the flowers of spring still lie hidden in the earth, when leaves are off the trees, and the world can seem bleak, remind us that Spring is but a short time away.
And when in our lives we feel as if we are experiencing a season of Winter, reach out to us with the power of your presence so that we may feel the warmth of your love and see your light that alone can take away the darkness of our soul.
Lord of all the Seasons, we take this moment to pray for those in our world who are cold and have nowhere to sleep; those in our community experiencing a Winter of the heart and; those who live in the dark, that they may all know the warmth and light of our love.
Father, we ask in our prayers this morning that You shelter us, sustain our spirit and help us to keep our candle of community burning brightly as we weather this winter. Together, as one voice, walking forward together on one path, we are stronger.
We ask this in Jesus’ name.
Term 2 Outreach - Rosies our friends on the Street
Mrs Candice Brazier from our College teaching staff accompanied Natalya and Nguweneza at this month’s Rosies Street Retreat. Mrs Brazier said the girls represented St Saviour’s College beautifully and were a big help to the Rosies' volunteers last Sunday.
Both girls were humbled by the experience. Nguweneza made the comment that she had learnt so much (how to make all the different drinks and foods). Natalya is a seasoned Rosies volunteer, and said she appreciates the wonderful volunteers working together to form a very effective team.
Youth Ministry Movie and Milos
We had 45 girls attend our fundraising event in the Media room. This coincided with celebrating the fact that the students packed more than 100 donated items into Ms Brazier’s car for Sunday’s Street Retreat! What an achievement, girls! Thanks.
Sowing Seeds of Hope
Year 7 and Year 9 students were out and about in our community this week in their RE lessons. The Year 7s took part in a walking tour of St Patrick's Cathedral, taking in the visual symbols, focal points and other areas in the Cathedral of which the students may not have been aware. This tour connects with their recent learning on ways people pray and the sacraments.
This term, our annual enrichment opportunity for Wellbeing was once again the Student Wellbeing Expo. The girls that nominated to take part, came up with the initiative of forming a group of student/peer help-givers, advocates and mentors for mental health and wellbeing issues. Here is a write up from the student team:
The S.W.A.T team - Student Wellbeing Action Team
- Our mission is to “swat” away mental health stigma and promote help-seeking.
- The SWAT team meets every Monday at first break, and we are using Microsoft Teams to manage information sharing and record keeping.
- We have already presented on school Assembly promoting the SWAT team and our mission.
- We have organised for all year 7s, 8s and 9s to be trained in the Teen Mental Health First Aid course. This will be rolled out in Term 3. This will ensure that student help-givers are trained to provide peer support.
- All staff at the College will also be trained in Youth Mental Health First Aid by the end of this year.
- The SWAT team will be leading several wellbeing initiatives starting in Term 3 e.g. Denim for Dolly day.
- At today’s meeting we received confirmation from the College Leadership team for approval of a Wellbeing Wall. The wall will be featured in Mercy Court for all students to access and will be a chalkboard that can be for positive affirmation writing and for promoting wellbeing initiatives.
SRC Homeclass RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS Challenge!
Our SRC Bingo initiative to promote collegiality and engagement in Homeclass, and provide some healthy competition, has proven to be a hit amongst the staff and student body. After playing two 'Wildcard' cards on Monday, Goretti and Xavier tied for first place:
* Goretti - 11 points
* Xavier - 11 points
* McAuley - 6 points
* Coolock - 1 point
Student Leadership - Ozanam Vinnies Leadership Camp
The St Vincent de Paul Leadership Camp was attended by Kiara McMahon and Abbey Crothers. The girls spoke about their rewarding experience on assembly last week. Here is an excerpt of the speech they gave on our last weekly assembly:
On the 14th of May, Abbey and I attended the Ozanam Vinnies Leadership camp at Emu Gully where we did various activities to improve our leadership skills. It was a great experience where we were able to make friends, learn new skills, gain trust in our team and also expand out of our comfort zone. At the beginning of the camp, we formed groups and came up with a list of goals we wanted to achieve which allowed us to leave our comfort zone and create leadership skills for our future. I think one important lesson all of us learnt was being a leader isn’t always just being at the front but also leading from the middle and back.
One of the activities that demonstrated this was the second activity where we went through a tunnel. Leadership was shown throughout the whole activity by the people opening the lid to inside the tunnel for the rest of the team, the people inside the tunnel guiding the person behind them and people helping others get out. All this shows leadership in the front, middle and back. The camp also allowed us to share and hear other stories and our pathways to leadership and the goals we strive to achieve. In the future, we have more leadership days, the Buddy program and the sleep out.
Caritas – Project Compassion
If we can stretch our minds back to our Mission Focus for Term One – as a community we banded together, inspired by the energy and passion of the Youth Ministry Team to raise much needed funds for Caritas Catholic Missions.
Each assembly, you might recall during the Lenten season, we learned about the plight of people who were living the world’s largest Refugee Camp in Cox Bazar, in Bangladesh. This fortnight, we were able to make a real difference in the lives of all those many stories we heard.
We were honoured to invite Mr Andrew Knife, the Director of Caritas Australia – back to our College assembly. College Principal, Ms Sharon Collins and representatives of the Youth Ministry handed over the giant cheque for an impressive ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, to go towards improving the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable and raising the awareness of how fragile our environment is as well. We thank Mr Andrew Knife taking time out of his very bust work schedule to visit with us once again, and we hope these funds will help your organisation into the future.
Useful Support Links for Students
The College maintains its commitment to doing all they can to support all students attending St Saviour’s to feel safe, loved and that they belong. The College promotes social and emotional learning (SEL), which is about developing the ability to care for others, make responsible decisions, establish positive relationships, and handle challenging situations. These skills are essential for developing resilience and the personal attributes that promote wellness, prevent illness and support recovery. The College also employs a best practice model of engaging with families and to provide a restorative approach to conflict within the community, and actively encourage:
- Active partnerships with other schools (St Mary’s College, St Saviour's Primary School. Our Mercy partner schools and other Toowoomba Diocesan and Catholic Colleges).
- Family Engagement by invitation to our regular College events, our fortnightly newsletter, social media platforms (check out our Facebook and Instagram pages!)
- Strong community ties with local support and social justice agencies such as Toowoomba Transition Support Services, St Vincent de Paul, St Patrick’s Parish.
- Intervention and Postvention strategies on campus for identification and referral for students who may need support, across all year levels.
- A supportive Wellbeing Team, trained and with experience in restorative practices and mental health and wellbeing, consisting of:
A fulltime Psychologist as our College Counsellor, Ms Renee Hunter.
Assistant Principal: Mission and Student Wellbeing, Mrs Heather Hagemann
Middle Leader Student Wellbeing, Mrs Juanita Doherty
Middle Leader Student Wellbeing Support, Ms Alice Cavanagh
Please contact one of us if you would like further information, assistance or support, regarding your child’s wellbeing. Below are some useful sites for external support, regarding wellbeing and mental health:
Beyond Blue is one of Australia’s best known mental health and wellbeing support organisation. They provide support programs to address issues related to depression, suicide, anxiety disorders and other related mental illnesses. Along with a comprehensive website, the beyond Blue Support Service provide 24/7 phone support, Chat online 1pm-12am / 7days a week, email support and a range of community chat forums 1300 22 4636 www.beyondblue.org.au
Kids Helpline is a free Australian telephone and online (webchat and email) counselling service for young people aged between 5 and 25. 1800 55 1800 https://kidshelpline.com.au
1300 MH CALL: Mental health access line
1300 MH CALL (1300 642255) is a confidential mental health telephone triage service that provides the first point of contact to public mental health services to Queenslanders. 1300 MH CALL is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will link to the caller’s nearest Queensland Public Mental Health service.
eheadspace provides free online and telephone support and counselling to young people 12 - 25 and their families and friends.
Call 1800 650 890, 9am-1am AEST / 7 days a week. https://headspace.org.au/eheadspace/
Student Reminders of College Guidelines and Expectations
Bullying (inclusive of cyberbullying)
There is no place for bullying at St Saviour’s College. Bullying is a repeated pattern of behaviour, which includes name-calling, taunting, mocking, making offensive comments, kicking, hitting, pushing, theft, inappropriate text messaging, sending offensive or degrading images by phone or internet, producing offensive graffiti, gossiping, excluding people from groups, and spreading hurtful and untruthful rumours.
Cyberbullying is a repeated pattern of behaviour, defined as, ‘the aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or herself’. St Saviour’s College is committed to promoting responsible and positive use of social media sites.
Cyberbullying behaviour can include:
- abusive texts and emails
- hurtful messages, images or videos
- imitating others online
- excluding others online
- humiliating others online
- spreading nasty online gossip and chat
- creating fake accounts to trick someone or humiliate them
How common is it?
In the 12 months to June 2017:
- 1 in 5 Australian young people reported being socially excluded, threatened or abused online.
- 55% sought help from their parents, 28% from their friends; 38% blocked the offending social media account; 12% reported it to the website or platform.
- 1 in 5 Australian young people (15% of kids, 24% of teens) admitted behaving in a negative way to a peer online - such as calling them names, deliberately excluding them, or spreading lies or rumours. Of these, more than 90% had had a negative online experience themselves.
Here at the College, members of our community are modelled respectful behaviour, with our positive interactions with one another. There is no room for negativity at St Saviour’s.
- White long-sleeved blouse (red piping)/ white short sleeved blouse (red piping)
- College striped skirt
- College tie
- College blazer (optional)
- College formal hat
- Black opaque tights
- College V-necked pullover
- Black leather lace up shoes (no buckles, casual styles, raised heels, coloured stitching or eyelets are permitted)
Have a safe but relaxing holiday break and look after one another. We look forward to seeing you all next term, and we also welcome some new students who will be joining our community!
Assistant Principal - Mission and Student Wellbeing
Peaceful Kids Program
At St Saviour’s College we care as much about our students' academic success as we do their social and emotional wellbeing. This term our St Saviour’s community was blessed to have Fiona Goodall come to our school every Tuesday morning, from 8am to 9am, to facilitate the Peaceful Kids Program with a small group of our students.
Fiona Goodall is the Director of Making Connections Toowoomba. Fiona has over 20 years experience working with school aged children on the autism spectrum and with other developmental disorders, and their families.
‘Peaceful Kids’ is a Mindfulness and Positive Psychology based program designed to:
- Lessen symptoms of anxiety and stress in children
- Teaches children to self-calm
- Empowers children to manage their own anxiety and stress symptoms
- Builds emotional resilience
- Develops emotional intelligence skills
- Teaches children life-long skills to manage stress and prevent stress build up
- Supports children so they know that they are not alone with suffering from anxiety
Our Girls Learnt About
- Basic theory on Mindfulness and how it affects the brain and lessens stress and anxiety
- The different ways to practice Mindfulness and integrate it into their lives
- Their feelings and how this relates to anxiety and stress levels
- Understanding stress and how it relates personally to them
- Understanding triggers for stress and how to calm down when feeling stressed
- Physical symptoms of stress and learning to identify when they need to take time out to calm themselves
- Worrying and how it affects their happiness
- Different types of thinking that increase anxiety or lessen anxiety
- Noticing their own self-talk and how this affects worrying and stress levels
- Creating a balanced lifestyle including lots of chill-out time and being in the flow
- A range of Mindfulness meditations
- Positive psychology exercises
- Techniques to lessen worrying
- A variety of coping strategies
- A variety of problem solving strategies
- Journalling and expressing their worries
- Facing challenges and fears step by step
- Preventative strategies to help prevent stress build up
- Being attuned to their own bodies and minds
- Being in the flow more regularly and enjoying more of the present moment
If you would like to learn about Mindfulness and Positive Psychology and its benefits, the following links may be useful to outline the science and evidence-based research that the program is based on:
If you would like to know more about Fiona Goodall and her services, please visit:
From the Design Studio
The Year 7 Design students have wrapped up the semester with their final assessment piece – Christmas in July. The brief had students designing and producing a craft, textile or food item and packaging. Some very creative items were produced including marshmallow snowmen, peppermint creams, decorations and reindeer cupcakes.
The Year 9/10 class have just finished the Bluebird Café task where students designed menus and produced food items to be sold in their café each Thursday. After a slow start, students couldn’t get enough of the tasty treats that were on offer each week and waited in anticipation for the ever changing menu to be released. The Bluebird Café was a great success and I am sure both staff and students will eagerly await its return in 2022.
Finally, we will be entering into the Cobb & Co Hanging Basket Display again this year. Students will design and produce the basket which will be displayed at the museum during the Carnival of Flowers. All students are welcome to participate in this activity and we will be meeting in MR12 at first break every Thursday. See Mrs Johnson or Mrs Holmes if you need more information.
Business, Design, Humanities
Remember if your book is overdue and you are getting overdue notices – log into Library online and renew your books yourself. When you log in your borrowed items should be able to be seen, as you hover over the item you should see the ability to renew the item.
Browse our new book images below – check them out online through our Library online catalogue or visit the library and see them on display. Display books can be borrowed too, so you don’t have to wait to read it, come in and borrow it!
New Manga books:
Senior Fiction is a section for our Year 10-12 year levels and we are processing new books for this area all the time too. Check out some new books in this section below:
Book Week is Coming!
Each year, schools and public libraries across Australia spend a week celebrating books, and Australian authors and illustrators. Teachers and librarians conduct activities relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
Check out the announcement of the shortlisted books for 2021 here:
New Book Choice
This book resonated as a high interest and topical choice. Come in and check it out:
When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
The novel tells the story of a biracial girl, Lily, who learns about her heritage when her family moves in with Lily's Korean grandmother. Invokes the Korean version of “once upon a time…’ story. The book was well received and won the 2021 Newbery Medal.
Read Over the Holidays!
Just keep reading … just keep reading … just keep reading
Keep reading over the holidays, you only get better with practise. Visit your public library, read online, download an audio book or an eBook.
Read your borrowed library books.
See you next term!
Thank you to boarding staff, admin leaders and most importantly the students who have welcomed me into the Acting Head of Boarding role. My thanks and appreciation to Ms Jesse Bolton for her guidance and support during this transition period.
Some of our most recent activities have included:
Toowoomba Languages and Cultural Festival, the girls enjoyed being immersed in culture through displays, food stalls and musical performances.
Technology free day has recently challenged the girls to participate in an upcoming event next Term, which will culminate in a public performance, but I won’t spoil this secret anymore, watch this space.
Last week, a large group of girls went to support our local basketball team - the Mountaineers - and enjoyed watching Miss Jorja in action. A big thank you to Ms Jesse Bolton for organising the tickets and Mr Rod Hickey for driving the bus to facilitate this activity. The girls had a great time with Nickaela participating in an on court challenge, great effort Nickaela!
With much excitement we held a Disco in the school hall last weekend. The girls were enthusiastic and became involved in all facets of planning this event, with a music play list, canteen, setting up the hall and not forgetting - some very impressive dance moves. Our best participants for the evening were Ruth and Deb, great effort girls. We hope to invite some other schools to another Disco next term after the success of this one. Our recycling efforts funded all expenses and we made a profit from our canteen sales, we are planning our next activity with the help of our recycling dollars.
Keeping Warm this Winter
Some of the girls recently received a beautifully crocheted blanket courtesy of the Wellbeing Ladies from Coolah in NSW. Ms Nicole Booth’s Mum is a member of this group and the girls, especially from Cape York areas, struggle with Toowoomba’s climate compared to their warmer temperatures at home. Ms Booth is a constant support to McAuley House, both students and staff, we are truly blessed to have her expertise and guidance available to us.
Boarders' travel day is Monday 12 July 2021. Please note that staff will be involved in professional development, therefore we ask you to plan your arrival for after midday, if possible.
Best wishes for a happy, restful break with your girls, we look forward to seeing everyone for a busy Term 3.
Acting Head of Boarding
From the Careers Centre
Grandshake are offering a free, short 40-minute Upskilling Micro-credential called The Fundamentals of Communication. The course will give you communication soft skills to help you navigate your life and future career. Being able to clearly express your ideas, empathise with others and ask for clarification from peers, is critical to succeeding in a collaborative workplace. Simply click on the link, https://bit.ly/3fAZVkd and master the art of persuasion!
Grandshake Virtual Work Experience
Grandshake helps young people figure out what is next BEFORE they leave school by working with schools, employers and parents to give students the skills and experience they’ll need for the workforce, now and into the future. Grandshake collaborates with schools and national and multinational employers to give students virtual work experience, career education and mentoring opportunities that really work for them. Opportunities for virtual work experience are available in the following fields:
- Systems and Signals Operation - Systems and Signals Operator virtual work experience at Grandshake
- Civil Construction Cadet - Civil Construction Cadet virtual work experience at Grandshake
- Junior Environmental Planner - Junior Environmental Planner virtual work experience at Grandshake
- Junior Digital Engineer - Junior Digital Engineer virtual work experience at Grandshake
- Communication and Sustainability Cadet - Communication and Sustainability Cadet virtual work experience at Grandshake
- Drone Pilot - Drone Pilot virtual work experience at Grandshake
School Based Apprenticeship Sign Up
What Type of Engineer Should You Be?
Engineering is an incredibly diverse career. From environmental to digital, chemical to civil, electrical to medical, if you’re innovative and a great problem solver, there’s bound to be an engineering pathway to match your passion. If you would like to find out what type of engineer could match your interests, take a look at this quiz from Grandshake. It only takes a few minutes and could help you narrow down your future study options. Take the quiz here: https://www.grandshake.co/post/types-of-engineering-quiz
Careers Centre Information Sessions Feedback Survey
The Careers Centre holds Information Sessions for parents throughout the year. These sessions can range from Pathways Planning in Senior School, Entry to Medicine, School-Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships and Vocational and Training offerings. We would appreciate your feedback as to the best time to hold these sessions. Please use the form below to indicate your preferred time.
5 High-paying Careers for Creative Minds
If you’re creatively minded, trying to find that ideal role can feel like making a choice between passion or pay. There are creative careers out there that do not mean letting go of hopes for a good salary. Whether you’re interested in designing our roads and cities, love telling stories, or really want to create the next Minecraft, there are opportunities for you. Click here to see Seeks suggestions of high-paying careers that might interest you. They include:
- User experience designer
- Communications manager
- Instructional designer
- Civil designer
- Games designer
Have you heard of an Educational Psychologist, Engraver, Importers and Exporters?
Educational Psychologists investigate learning and teaching and develop psychological techniques to foster the development and skills of individuals and groups in educational settings. A postgraduate degree in psychology or two years of supervised postgraduate experience with a registered psychologist is needed to work as an Educational Psychologist.
Engravers inscribe letters, figures and designs on metal, glass, wood, rubber, plastic and other surfaces. You can work as an Engraver without formal qualifications however, they may be useful. Training is available through VET (Vocational Education and Training).
Importers or Exporters manage the operations of importing or exporting establishments. Either extensive experience or a formal qualification in commerce is needed to work in this field. VET and university are both common study pathways for Importers and Exporters.
14/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Hospitality (Front of House) - Jillys Café
15/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Business - Berny’s on West
24/12: 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Business School-Based Traineeship Totally Workwear
26/21: Year 12 - Certificate III in early Childhood Education and Care – New Childcare Centre opening at Westbrook
27/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Painting and Decorating with Travis Keen Painting
28/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Hairdressing at Air Hair Studio
29/21: Year 10 - Certificate III in Cabinet Making Sir Lancelot's Kitchens, Bathroom and Joinery
30/21: Years 10 and 11 - Certificate III in Hospitality (Front of House) - various positions
31/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Business – Customer Engagement (2 positions) Dental Practice at Highfields and Drayton
32/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III in Dental Assisting (2 positions) Dental Practice at Highfields and Drayton
33/21: Years 10, 11 and 12 - Certificate III Baking – Bakery Cakery, Uni Plaza
34/21: Year 10 - Certificate II in Warehousing Operations - Reece Toowoomba
35/21: Years 10 and 11 - Certificate III in Fitness – Premier Conditioning
SBA vacancies are advertised each fortnight in the newsletter and will be emailed directly to all students in Years 10, 11 and 12. If you wish to apply for a vacancy, please ensure you have completed the SBA Referral form, your resume is updated and that you follow the application directions in the advertisement. Once these documents are finalised, hand them (or send via email) to Mrs Cocks (firstname.lastname@example.org) for submission on your behalf (unless the advertisement has specifically stated that you need to apply online or visit the business directly).
Career Development Practitioner
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Present-day stage in the development of worldwide spacecraft technology is characterized by an increasing use of electric propulsion (EP) for solving a broad spectrum of problems: from a correction of a spacecraft position in orbit to a radical change of its flight trajectory and implementations of interplanetary missions. The application of electric propulsion allows a significant reduction of the spacecraft mass as a consequence of propellant saving. This, in turn, provides substantial cost savings of the mission.
In Israel, for over 20 years, research and development in the electric propulsion field is being carried out. As a culmination of present Israel’s experimental research and developments in the EP area, a thruster system based on the Hall thruster was built for the joint French-Israeli satellite (project “Venus”). Israel’s research and developments in the EP area can be defined as having a high level, but Israel is able to become one of the leaders in this promising area. An indicator of this are the results of the recent successful tests of a new concept of a small power Hall thruster CAMILA, proposed and developed at ASRI-Technion. The performance of the thruster, obtained in the tests, is, probably, the best in the world in the range of powers from 150 to 500 W.
In order to significantly expand the investigations in the field of the electric propulsion in Israel, an Electric propulsion laboratory (EPL) was established at ASRI-Technion.
General Description of Electric Propulsion Laboratory
The Electric Propulsion Laboratory (EPL) is located on the ground floor of the ASRI new building. The laboratory is divided into two halls, the Experimental and Machine halls. 3D-layouts of the Experimental and Machine halls are presented in Fig.1.
Fig.1: 3D-layouts of the Experimental and Machine halls
In the Experimental hall, which occupies a floor space of 52 m2, the following equipment is located:
- A vacuum chamber with volume of 3.2 m3 together with three cryopump heads and vacuum fittings (Fig.2 and Fig.3);
Fig.2: Vacuum chamber in the Experimental hall
Fig.3: Cryopump heads on the vacuum chamber
- Power supplies for the thruster and measuring units (Fig.4);
Fig.4: Industrial cabinets with power supplies in the Experimental hall
- Three mass flow controllers (Fig.5) .
Fig.5: Xenon feedline equpment
Control of the vacuum equipment, thruster, and diagnostics is performed from the soundproof room (Fig.6) in the hall.
Fig.6: Soundproof room in the Experimental hall
The Machine hall, having a floor space of 20 m2, is intended for placement of compressors for the cryopums, fore-vacuum mechanical pump (Fig.7), compressors for producing compressed air, and chillers for cooling the compressors.
Fig.7: Roots pumping system and Helium compressors in the Machine hall
The Laboratory is completed with the different diagnostics needed for the comprehensive experimental investigations of the Hall thrusters including cathodes compensators.
We shall notice here only the most important of them:
- A device to measure the thrust of the electric rocket engines. The measurements of the thrust along with measurements of the propellant mass flow rate, mentioned in the previews paragraph, are the most responsible. As a device for the measurements of the thrust, the SEMS-200 was chosen. The manufacturer of the device is Platar Ltd (Moscow Aviation Institute, Russia), having a large experience in building such devices. The SEMS-200 is intended to measure the thrust of the electric rocket engines in the range from 1 mN to 200 mN. The device operates with the use of a pendulum suspending with feedback. The thrust is defined from the magnitude of electrical current needed to put the pendulum into the starting position.
- The system for probe measurements of the distributions of plasma and electric field parameters both outside and inside acceleration channel. The system consists of electrical probes and motorized positioning assembly to move the probes.
The positioning assembly allows with the accuracy not worse than 0.2 mm and velocity up to 30 mm/s 2D-mapping the acceleration channel of the thruster.
Electric Propulsion Laboratory Planned Activities
The Laboratory activities will be focused on the following directions.
- Creation of the scientific basics for essential improvement of Hall thruster’s performance.
- Much attention will be given to investigations on the optimization of the design and operation modes of Hall thrusters intended to meet the potential needs of Israel’s space program.
- Taking into account that in Israel, the production of cathode-compensators for electric rocket engines is absent – a situation which is quite unacceptable for a country endeavoring to self-supply with crucially important components of the thruster, in the laboratory, works on scientific support of the cathode-compensator production in Israel will be carried out. It will also conduct research of cathode-compensators based on new principles of operation. Such cathodes can potentially possess high value properties.
Besides, attention will be given to the following topics:
- Research and development of new high-informative diagnostics to provide monitoring of thruster health in the course of ground-based tests and especially in flight.
- Custom-solving problems arising in the course of operational development of new thruster design requiring a high scientific qualification or/and the use of specific diagnostics or software.
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Aden is the UK's AY-d@n and US's AH-den. It is located near the Red Sea (the Gulf of Aden) at 170 km (110 miles) east of Bab-el-Mandeb. The city is home to approximately 800,000. Aden's natural harbour is located in the crater a dormant volcano. It now forms a peninsula that connects to the mainland via a low isthmus. Front Bay was the first harbour to be used by the ancient Kingdom, Awsan, between the 7th and 5th centuries BC. On the opposite side of the peninsula is the modern harbour. The Gulf of Aden is named after Aden.
Aden is made up of several sub-centres. Crater was the original port city. Maalla was the modern port. Tawahi, also known as Steamer Point during colonial times, and the resorts at Gold Mohur are all part of the main centre. Khormaksar is located on the isthmus connecting Aden with the mainland. It houses the city's diplomatic missions and the main offices for Aden University. Aden International Airport, which was formerly the British Royal Air Force station RAF Khormaksar (Yemens second largest airport), is also here. The sub-centres and Al-Mansura are located on the mainland. These were once an oasis area. Madinat ash-Shab, formerly Madinat al-Itihad, is now the capital of South Arabian Federation. It also houses Aden University's large power/desalinization plant and additional faculties.
Aden surrounds the eastern end of the vast, natural harbour that forms the modern port. This made it necessary to create the Cisterns at Tawila, Aden's reservoirs.
New Delhi ( (listen), Hindi: [ˈnəiː ˈdɪlːiː] Naī Dillī) is the capital of India and an administrative district of NCT Delhi. New Delhi is also the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House, and the Supreme Court of India. Delhi itself is often considered as a hub for international trade.
The foundation stone of New Delhi was laid by Emperor George V during the Delhi Durbar of 1911. It was designed by British architects Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker.
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What is BEST?
BEST provides free vision screenings and financial assistance to Texas residents for medically urgent eye treatment with a referral from your ophthalmologist.
How Do I Qualify for the Treatment Program?
To be eligible for the program, you must:
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Be a Texas resident
- Not have insurance or any other resource in which to pay for treatment
- Not be legally blind
- Have a qualifying medical need with a referral from your ophthalmologist
What Services Are Available?
BEST program services include:
- Blindness prevention education/resources
- Vision screenings to identify conditions that may cause blindness
- Urgent eye medical treatment to prevent blindness
Blindness Prevention Education/Resources
If you do not qualify for financial assistance for BEST treatment, the BEST program specialist can provide other resources that may meet your needs.
What is a Vision Screening?
Vision screenings are a non-diagnostic tool that assess a person's risk of vision loss and eye disease. Vision screenings are provided by certified vision screeners, and results of the screening are discussed with each participant. Participants whose results indicate a possible vision problem will be recommended for a follow-up eye exam with the participant's health care provider. Participants without health coverage will be provided referral resources and related information to obtain a follow-up eye exam or eye treatment.
Vision screenings occur throughout Texas at specifically scheduled locations. Please contact firstname.lastname@example.org for the latest vision screening schedule. Vision screenings are conducted throughout the year.
In order to prevent blindness, an ophthalmologist may recommend various treatment and/or surgical procedures for those who have a medically urgent eye condition. If an applicant is determined eligible for BEST, financial assistance will be provided to cover the cost of the recommended eye treatment and/or surgery. Please see below on possible qualifications for eligibility.
What is Medically Urgent?
A medically urgent condition is an eye condition that an eye care physician has recommended for treatment/surgery and, if left untreated, could lead to blindness. Common conditions are:
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Retinal detachment
Any other medical condition must be determined to be medically urgent by both the referring ophthalmologist and the BEST program specialist or the HHS medical consultant or his or her designee.
Note: The BEST program is unable to cover the cost of cataract surgery, implants or transplants.
How Do I Apply for Eye Medical Treatment Services?
The BEST Application for Treatment can be found below. We recommend you complete the first page and sign the second page. Your ophthalmologist must complete the rest of the application to determine treatment needs. Once the application is complete, the eye doctor's office may fax or email the application directly to the BEST program specialist, as directed on the application. Once the completed treatment application is received, the application will be reviewed to determine if you meet eligibility criteria and it will be processed. When funds are available, the BEST program specialist contacts your ophthalmologist’s office to approve treatment and obtain date(s) of treatment service.
Should the Ophthalmologist Submit the Application?
Yes. Form 6499, Application for Treatment, includes information to calculate individual costs for requested medical treatment(s). The most common procedures are provided; however, the ophthalmologist may use the blank lines to enter a procedure code that is not listed. The BEST program specialist may be contacted to obtain the correct fee for unlisted procedures.
Make sure to include the total cost for each provider in the respective billing information section:
- Physician fee
- Anesthesiology fee
- Facility fee
Instructions for providing the required billing information about physician-prescribed drugs are contained in that section.
- All completed applications must be legibly printed or typed.
- The treatment application must be signed by the applicant, the treating physician and/or the anesthesiologist and facility, if required.
- If a treatment application is incorrect (i.e., total fees, missing information, etc.), the BEST program specialist will ask for the application to be corrected and resubmitted before the treatment application can be processed.
The treating physician can submit the application by faxing it to 512-438-3014 or emailing it to email@example.com. Please mark it to the attention of the BEST program specialist.
The BEST application and accompanying instructions are routinely updated to reflect programmatic changes. The effective date is indicated in the upper right-hand corner of each page. Only the most updated application will be considered accurate and complete. All others will need to be resubmitted using the most current application.
If you are a physician and are seeking guidance on BEST procedures, please refer to the Vendor Procedures Handbook. If there are any questions, please contact the BEST program specialist at: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
May I Use My Own Ophthalmologist?
Yes, but they must become a vendor with the state of Texas first. All physicians, facilities and anesthesiologists wishing to partner with the BEST program must complete an Ap-152 Application for Texas Identification Number form. This form may be obtained by contacting the BEST program specialist via email at: email@example.com. A 74-176 Direct Deposit form will also be provided. This process may take up to 10 business days.
What is the Payment Rate for Treatment Services?
Payment for eye-related medical services is based on the Maximum Affordable Payment Schedule. For your convenience, a list of commonly requested treatment services and the maximum allowable payment for each procedure is included on the application form.
Are There any Restrictions on Payment for Eye Examinations?
The BEST program does not pay for routine eye examinations that are unrelated to requested medical treatment. However, the program will pay for diagnostics and testing that are submitted with a treatment request. An application for diagnostics only must be made on behalf of an applicant with 20/25 vision or worse in the better eye with best correction, or for an applicant who the treating physician suspects may need treatment. Follow-up eye examinations covered by a global treatment period are the responsibility of the treating physician.
When Can Treatment Services be Provided?
The following are processes that must be completed before treatment services can be provided:
- Receipt of a current and complete Form 6499, Application for Treatment
- When funds are available for treatment services, the first person on the wait list will be contacted. People will be served according to the order in which they are on the wait list.
- When a person has been determined eligible, the treating physician’s office will be notified that funds are available to proceed. The BEST program specialist will ask for the date of the surgery before a purchase order will be processed.
- When the date of surgery is known, a purchase order will be processed and faxed or emailed to the appropriate parties (i.e., treating physician, facility fee or anesthesiologist).
How do I Submit a Claim or Payment?
To process payment for treatment services, the BEST program must have two required documents:
- An invoice detailing the date of service, service provided and dollar amount
- A report from the treating physician that includes:
- A summary of the treatment services provided
- Post-treatment corrected visual acuity (Snellen equivalent, right eye/left eye)
- Post-treatment visual field restrictions, if relevant (right eye/left eye)
- Future prognosis
- A copy of the operative report for surgical procedures and/or a copy of the treating physician's written interpretation and report, when applicable as indicated in the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code description.
Once the documents are received, a warrant will be issued for services received.
Does BEST Pay for Prescription Drugs?
BEST only will pay for ophthalmic prescription drugs needed to prevent blindness. Payment for the cost of covered prescription drugs is limited to the number of refills prescribed by the ophthalmologist or one year, whichever is less. The BEST program will not pay for a name-brand drug if a generic alternative is available.
The following are the procedures for payment for prescription drugs:
- Before authorization is granted for the payment of prescription drugs, the applicant must obtain pre-approval from the BEST program specialist by having their physician submit a completed BEST Application for Treatment.
- The physician must provide a copy of the applicant's prescription with the completed application.
- The applicant must designate the pharmacy they will use on the application and must obtain prior approval from the pharmacy that they will agree to participate in the program.
- All billing information in the “Physician-Prescribed Drug Treatment” section of the application must be completed by the applicant's chosen pharmacy. The pharmacy must fax or email a price quote for the requested prescription drugs along with their completed portion of the application.
- Payments for approved prescription drugs shall be made only to the applicant's pharmacy of choice.
- Upon approval, the BEST program specialist will contact the applicant to inform them if they are eligible and will issue a voucher to the designated pharmacy to order the prescription drug.
What Else Do I Need to Know?
The program only pays for the actual provision of treatment services. It does not pay cancellation charges, charges for missed appointments, consultation fees or any other charge incurred.
May I Use BEST Treatment Services More Than Once?
The BEST program often has a greater demand than there are funds available; therefore, treatment services can only be provided one year from the date of your last treatment. You may reapply one year from your last treatment.
How is BEST Funded?
The BEST program receives donations from Texas residents who choose to donate $1 when they apply or renew their driver's license or identification card at the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Whom Should I Contact for Questions?
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Coral reefs across the Caribbean are undergoing unprecedented rates of decline in coral cover during the last three decades, and coral recruitment is one potential process that could aid the recovery of coral populations. To better understand the effects of climate change on coral larval ecology, the larvae of Porites astreoides were studied to determine the immediate and post-settlement effects of elevated temperature and associated oxidative stress. Larvae of Porites astreoides were exposed to 27 °C (ambient) and +3. 0 °C (elevated temperature) seawater for a short duration of 24 h; then, a suite of physiological parameters were measured to determine the extent of sublethal stress. Following the +3. 0 °C treatment, larvae did not show a significant difference in maximum quantum yield of PSII (Fv/Fm) or respiratory demand when compared to controls maintained at 27 °C. The addition of micromolar concentrations of hydrogen peroxide did not impact respiration or photochemical efficiency. Catalase activity in the larvae increased (>60 %) following exposure to elevated temperature when compared to the controls. Short-term larval survival and settlement and metamorphosis were not affected by increased temperature or the H2O2 treatment. However, the settled spat that were exposed to elevated temperature underwent a 99 % reduction in survival compared to 90 % reduction for the control spat when examined 24 days following the deployment of 4-day-old settled spat on settlement tiles in the field. These results show that short-term exposure to some stressors might have small impacts on coral physiology, and no effects on larval survival, settlement and metamorphosis. However, due to post-settlement mortality, these stressors can cause a significant reduction in coral recruitment. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Dr. Aparna Wagle Shukla
What is the Dystonia Coalition?
Dystonia Coalition is an international collaboration between clinical experts, researchers, and patient advocacy groups to advance dystonia research for finding better treatments. The coalition was established in 2009 with the support of the Office of Rare Diseases Research in the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the NIH. In the last decade, over 50 sites that provide care to dystonia patients and are interested in advancing research have become members of this coalition. These sites are spread across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In addition to the clinical providers and researchers, there are at least 17 patient advocacy groups committed to the coalition's core activities. The patient advocacy groups play an integral role in identifying the critical needs for the dystonia community from a clinical and scientific perspective. Patient advocates recognize the needs of the community through focused workshops. They work with researchers to design appropriate studies and facilitate patient recruitment to accomplish successful and timely completion. They play an active role in organizing meetings to discuss the annual progress, identify challenges for research, and brainstorm ideas for further advancement of research. Some of the patient advocacy groups are also involved in actively finding and funding dystonia researchers, especially the young and new to the dystonia field.
What is the mission of the Dystonia Coalition?
Dystonia is a rare disorder which, according to what NIH accepts, is a condition affecting fewer than 200,000 patients in the US. A rare disease poses many unique challenges for the patients, clinicians, and the committed researchers. The patient community may not receive optimal care due to a limited understanding of the disease and the availability of experts. Then the clinicians may not have access to expert guidance or guidelines for management, and the researchers cannot assemble large groups of individuals for participation in clinical studies. Unfortunately, there is also less enthusiasm for funding research for a rare disease. To pursue research in dystonia is further challenging as there is significant heterogeneity. The clinical presentation can vary from one individual to another. The age of onset for symptoms can vary from childhood to adulthood. Some individuals have clear genetic etiology, but the exact cause cannot be ascertained in the vast majority. There is a lack of understanding of natural history for the progression of dystonia symptoms. Currently, we do not have biomarkers that could help in monitoring drug trials for dystonia. Thus, many fundamental challenges can hamper dystonia research.
The Dystonia Coalition aims to understand the disease better, develop appropriate tools to monitor patients in clinical trials, and identify biomarkers valuable for clinical research. It has brought hundreds of dystonia providers and thousands of patients to a common platform to facilitate large-scale collaborations to address these critical knowledge gaps. The main ongoing projects for the Coalition include the natural history project, development of diagnostic and rating tools for cervical dystonia, development of similar tools for blepharospasm and laryngeal dystonia, the establishment of objective measures for assessment of symptoms, monitoring outcomes with a patient-centered approach, and building a large biobank through the collection of DNA samples. Their ultimate goal is to accomplish "clinical trial readiness." The current projects are essential for developing effective candidate treatments and ensuring their high likelihood of success.
What has the Dystonia Coalition accomplished so far?
The efforts of the Dystonia Coalition have led to many significant clinical and scientific achievements. Before the coalition existed, the definition of dystonia had certain missing elements, and the approach for categorizing various forms of dystonia varied among clinicians and researchers. Differences in diagnosis and classification approach invariably led to confusion in the interpretation of many studies. We now have a revised definition for dystonia and a new scheme to classify patients consensually agreed upon by an international team of experts and patient advocates. Then over the last decade, many multicenter projects have been completed successfully. These projects have contributed to understanding the evolution patterns for specific forms of dystonia, the determination of clinically employable measurement scales, and the development of objective tools which could be more sensitive for monitoring clinical symptoms. Due to a broad collaboration network, clinical data, video recordings, and DNA samples for over 3000 patients are available for sharing with researchers worldwide. We can characterize the symptoms better, assess the risk of clinical spread of motor symptoms, recognize the importance of co-occurring nonmotor symptoms commonly, understand the treatment patterns, and identify factors that drive a positive response to the available medical and surgical treatments. Many new young investigators have now joined the dystonia field. These efforts are indeed impressive and commendable.
How does the Tyler’s Hope Foundation and the Dystonia Coalition connect?
The Tyler’s Hope Foundation and the Dystonia Coalition have common goals. They both engage in keeping the health care providers and the researchers well informed on the needs of the dystonia community. They both are interested and involved in finding financial and non-financial resources for the dystonia researchers. They both aim to promote awareness and education for dystonia through meetings and webinars. The Tyler’s Hope Foundation focuses on genetic dystonia, mainly DYT-Tor1A dystonia. To bring together patients with this genetic diagnosis and guide clinical studies for these patients, Tyler’s Hope maintains a registry of DYT-Tor1A dystonia patients, Dystonia International Patient Registry. On the other hand, the Dystonia Coalition that focuses on all forms of dystonia, is involved with the Global Dystonia Registry to support future clinical trials. As a patient advocacy group, the Tyler’s Hope Foundation is closely supporting the Dystonia Coalition efforts. Together these organizations plan to advance the pace of clinical and translational research to find better treatments and ultimately a cure for dystonia.
The Dystonia Coalition: A Multicenter Network for Clinical and Translational Studies
Gamze Kilic-Berkmen, Laura J. Wright, Joel S. Perlmutter, Cynthia Comella, Mark Hallett, Jan Teller, Sarah Pirio Richardson, David A. Peterson, Carlos Cruchaga, Codrin Lungu and H. A. Jinnah. Front. Neurol., 08 April 2021
Dr. Aparna Wagle-Shukla
Dystonia is the third most common type of movement disorder. Dystonia occurs due to abnormal firing of brain signals that cause excessive and involuntary or out-of-control muscle contractions. As a result, patients develop abnormal twisting postures, involuntary movements, and lose motor control. Dystonia can affect muscles in either a single or multiple body regions. Examples of such regions include eyelids, face, jaws, neck, vocal cords, torso, limbs, hands, feet, or the entire body. For example, in some individuals with a genetic mutation in a gene called ‘DYT-TOR1A,’ the whole body is commonly affected, and such dystonia is referred to as generalized dystonia.
How is dystonia managed?
Focal symptoms in a single body region are usually controlled with oral medications and/or botulinum toxin injection treatments. However, when dystonia is generalized, a significant majority of patients require additional surgical treatments. Many times, dystonia is accompanied by other motor symptoms such as tremor, parkinsonism, and myoclonus. Recently, dystonia has been found to affect patients’ mood, sleep, cognition, and balance, referred to as nonmotor symptoms. Therefore, many patients require multidisciplinary care to treat the numerous aspects of dystonia symptomatology successfully.
What oral medications are available for treating dystonia?
Oral medications for dystonia control the abnormal firing of brain signals. These medications modulate the functions of brain chemicals such as acetylcholine, gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, glutamate, and dopamine that are usually involved in the signaling process.
Animal models have shown acetylcholine signaling involving muscarinic receptors in the basal ganglia neurons is abnormal in dystonia. These neurons are located at the base of the brain. In a knock-in mouse model, drugs blocking these receptors (anticholinergic) were observed to reduce dystonia. Medications blocking acetylcholine effects at the muscarinic receptors have been among the oldest treatments available in clinical practice. Trihexyphenidyl (Artane) and benztropine (Cogentin) are commonly prescribed anticholinergic medications and have been observed to effectively treat dystonia symptoms. However, these two drugs non-selectively block all types of muscarinic receptors in the brain (M1, M2, M3, M4, and M5). Thus, side effects related to off-target stimulation such as confusional behavior and constipation are major limiting factors. Scientists have found that selectively blocking M4 receptors, which are highly concentrated in the basal ganglia neurons, will likely result in better clinical outcomes. These selective drugs, with potentially greater benefits and fewer side effects, are currently in the development phase. They will need to be tested and proven to be beneficial in clinical trials before they can be prescribed in clinical practice
Drugs targeting GABAergic receptors, including benzodiazepines (clonazepam, diazepam, and lorazepam) and baclofen, are other commonly used agents for treating dystonia. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter. An increase in GABA signaling leads to the alleviation of excessive muscle contractions. A recent survey involving more than 2000 dystonia patients found benzodiazepines were the most common oral drugs prescribed for individuals with generalized dystonia, whereas botulinum toxin injections (another powerful muscle relaxant) were most frequently employed for treating focal dystonia. Zolpidem is a medication that also modulates GABA receptors in a slightly different way. It was used in a small study of 34 patients with focal dystonia. The study found significant improvements, but further research is needed on whether the clinical benefits can be extended to generalized dystonia, such as the DYT-TOR1A dystonia. Dopamine and dystonia have a complex relationship as medications that increase dopamine or decrease dopamine can improve clinical symptoms in certain forms of dystonia. Drugs such as levodopa-carbidopa, pramipexole, and ropinirole increase dopamine signaling, and drugs like tetrabenazine and deutetrabenazine decrease dopamine signaling through dopamine depletion.
Drug development can be an extremely lengthy and costly process. Thus, many clinical trials repurpose drugs to leverage their pharmacological properties for benefiting a broader range of clinical applications. One example is escitalopram (Lexapro), a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a drug frequently used to treat pain and depression and generally well tolerated was recently found to improve cervical dystonia symptoms. The benefits were observed to be independent of their influence on mood circuitry. Another example is Perampanel, a drug antagonizing the action of glutamate neurotransmitter and approved for the treatment of epilepsy. Perampanel was recently tested in focal dystonia as the target receptors are widely distributed in the basal ganglia neurons. The target receptors are also seen in other neurons like the cerebellar neurons important for dystonia. While the drug was safe and tolerated by most patients, further studies are needed to confirm clinical efficacy.
What are the general principles for using oral medications?
Oral medications should be initiated at low doses and titrated up slowly to avoid off-target side effects, especially in older patients. Sometimes for certain medications like anticholinergic drugs, peak benefits are observed only weeks after maintaining constant doses. If the peak benefits are not adequate or are short-lasting, a further buildup of doses is recommended. If dose-limiting side effects develop with further escalation, an additional line of therapy is needed to achieve the best possible symptom control.
Are treatments available if a specific cause or etiology is identified?
In some individuals with dystonia, a specific cause can be identified. For example, when dystonia occurs due to a deficiency of enzymes needed to synthesize dopamine, the replacement of dopamine is found to alleviate symptoms (dopa-responsive dystonia). Sometimes dystonia is related to abnormalities in protein or lipid metabolism or deposition of heavy metals in the brain (e.g., copper, iron). In these circumstances, once the diagnosis is confirmed, appropriate specific therapies can be initiated.
Update on current and emerging therapies for dystonia; Karlo J Lizarraga, Duha Al-Shorafat & Susan Fox. Neurodegener. Dis.Manag. (2019) 9(3), 135–147
Anticholinergic drugs rescue synaptic plasticity in DYT1 dystonia: role of M1 muscarinic receptors. Maltese M, Martella G, Madeo G et al Mov. Disord. 29(13), 1655–1665 (2014
Dystonia treatment: patterns of medication use in an international cohort. Pirio Richardson S, Wegele AR, Skipper B, Deligtisch A, Jinnah HA. Neurology 88(6), 543–550 (2017).
Discovery of the first selective M4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonists with in vivo anti-parkinsonian and anti-dystonic efficacy. Mark S. Moehle, Aaron M. Bender, Jonathan W. Dickerson, et al. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.12.324152
Who is Cristopher Bragg?
DR. CRISTOPHER BRAGG
Dr. Cristopher Bragg is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His lab studies cellular mechanisms underlying hereditary dystonias, with a current focus on three forms in particular: DYT1 dystonia, DYT6 dystonia, and X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). He also serves as the Director of the MGH Collaborative Center for X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (CCXDP), an international consortium focused exclusively on a rare syndrome that is endemic to the Philippines.
What are DYT1, DYT6, and XDP?
THAP1 DYT-6 MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
DYT1 and DYT6 are both generalized dystonias that typically develop in childhood or adolescence. They are often designated as “isolated” or “pure” dystonias, because in most patients, dystonia is the sole or primary symptom.
XDP, in contrast, usually arises in adulthood, most often during the third or fourth decade of life. Unlike DYT1 and DYT6, XDP combines features of both dystonia and parkinsonism often in a temporal progression. The pattern that has been documented most frequently consists of an initial focal dystonia that spreads to other body regions— as parkinsonian symptoms also emerge over time. Some patients, however, may exhibit parkinsonian signs as the first symptom and experience a milder course of disease progression,— and the reasons for this heterogeneity are not yet understood.
What causes these disorders?
XANDRA BREAKEFIELD PHD
The genetic cause of DYT1 was discovered in 1997 by Drs. Xandra Breakefield and Laurie Ozelius at Massachusetts General Hospital. It was the culmination of many years of painstaking work that took place long before the human genome was sequenced, when the methods for finding disease-related genes were still in their infancy. They found that DYT1 patients had a specific deletion in a small stretch of the TOR1A gene, which encodes a protein termed torsinA. Since that first report, a small number of additional mutations in TOR1A have been found, but the vast majority of DYT1 patients all appear to share the same original gene variant.
LAURIE OZELIUS PHD
DYT6 dystonia is associated with mutations in the THAP1 gene. Unlike DYT1, which is caused by the same gene deletion in nearly all cases, DYT6 has been linked to a large number of different mutations in THAP1. It is not yet known if these different mutations account for differences in symptoms, as so far there are no clear relationships between variants in THAP1 and patterns of clinical disease.
While cases of DYT1 and DYT6 have been found in multiple patient populations around the world, XDP has arisen uniquely among individuals with ancestry to the island of Panay in the Philippines. It is caused by the insertion of a long stretch of DNA called a “retrotransposon.” Retrotransposons come in several varieties, many of which have been derived from ancient viruses that deposited their genetic content into our genomes millions of years ago. They are considered “mobile DNA” because of their ability to move from one chromosome to another by reinserting copies of themselves into other genomic locations - a discovery first made by Dr. Barbara McClintock for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1983. All living organisms contain various forms of mobile DNA. In humans, these elements are scattered throughout our genomes; most are completely benign and have lost their ability to move over the course of evolution. However, a few types of retrotransposons are still active, and within the Panay population, one such example has become inserted into a gene called TAF1, thereby disrupting its function and causing XDP.
Why study these syndromes together?
XDP DYSTONIA WHICH IS VERY COMMON ON THE ISLAND OF PANAY
Despite the differences between DYT1, DYT6, and XDP, the proteins that are affected in these syndromes play inter-related roles within cells. The DYT6 protein, THAP1, and XDP protein, TAF1, both reside within the cell’s nucleus and regulate how genes are turned on or off, a process known as transcription. The DYT1 protein, torsinA, acts within the adjacent envelope that surrounds the nucleus and is important for its shape and organization. Numerous research studies over many years have characterized how torsinA functions within the nuclear envelope and how the mutation that causes DYT1 dystonia may compromise this cellular compartment. Less is known about THAP1 and TAF1, but recent studies are now revealing how transcription in DYT6 and XDP cells is affected by the dystonia-related variants in these genes.
The Bragg lab studies these and other dystonic syndromes together by analyzing patient cells and characterizing their patterns of gene transcription, which can reveal cellular pathways that are affected in these cells. The overall goal of this work is to look for any defects that may be common to multiple forms of dystonia. If such deficits exist, then they may represent potential targets for designing new therapies that would be of broad benefit to patients with dystonia.
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Gene Therapy for DYT-1 Dystonia and other diseases?
We sat down with one the experts on gene therapy for DYT-1 dystonia and other central nervous system diseases and we picked his brain on this topic. The interview was fascinating!
Who is Edgar Rodriguez?
Dr. Edgardo (Edgar) Rodríguez-Lebrón has 20 years of experience in the gene therapy space with a focus on diseases of the nervous system. He has engineered and developed gene-based therapies to prevent or reverse neurodegenerative processes caused by the accumulation of toxic mutant proteins. He is currently Scientific Advisor to Tyler's Hope, Chief Science Officer of Andante Biologics and a co-founder of early-stage biotech companies developing molecular therapies for CNS diseases. He holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment at the University of Florida where he trained as a graduate student. Go Gators!
Often, diseases that affect the brain are caused by genetic mutations that prevent the normal function of a gene. In other cases, genetic mutations can cause a gene to ‘gain’ a new function that is toxic to the brain.
Gene therapies are a class of medicines designed to specifically (i) replace a missing genetic function, (ii) block a ‘gained’ toxic genetic function, or (iii) limit or enhance cellular pathways to support overall brain function.
What is a viral-based gene therapy?
What makes AAV a desirable vector for CNS-targeted gene therapies?
What are some recent major developments in AAV CNS gene therapy?
Recent developments include:
What are some of the major hurdles still being faced by AAV-based gene therapies?
How can an AAV-based gene therapy be used in DYT1 dystonia?
Applications to DYT-1:
What is on the horizon for AAV-based gene therapies as it applies to DYT1?
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Dr. Aparna Wagle Shukla weighs in on the "Top 5" things you need to know about COVID-19 and dystonia care
COVID-19 and Dystonia Care: What do you need to know?
While we patiently wait for the COVID-19 crisis to resolve, we approached leading dystonia experts for tips and advice on caring for patients. We were fortunate to sit down with one of the leading clinical and research experts, neurologist Dr. Aparna Wagle Shukla. She shared with us her “top 5” tips for dystonia care during the COVID crisis.
Who is Dr. Aparna Wagle Shukla?
What should every dystonia patient know about the Corona virus?
THERE IS NO VACCINE FOR COVID AT THE CURRENT TIME WHICH MEANS PREVENTION IS THE KEY.
What are important precautions every dystonia patient should take at home?
How important is social distancing for dystonia patients? What is the risk of COVID-19 in dystonia?
What should a dystonia patients know about medication management during the COVID-19 crisis? What about the need to see a doctor during the COVID crisis?
What do you tell dystonia patients with deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices during the COVID-19 outbreak?
There are so many exciting projects going on in dystonia research that it has become hard to keep up with all of the advances. We sat down with one of the worlds top dystonia and Parkinson imaging researchers (Dr. David Vaillancourt) to talk about the “top 5” updates in therapies and in dystonia imaging research.
Who is David Vaillancourt?
1) What is imaging and how is it used in dystonia?
2) What is a specific example in humans for how imaging is being used in dystonia?
3) What is a specific example in animals for how imaging is being used in dystonia?
4) How can imaging be used in humans to assess a new therapeutic (e.g. drug, device)?
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In Matthew 14:22-33, we find an account of a storm that hit the disciples boat and led Peter to walk on the water. While reading those verses I was captivated by the verses before and after the ones that said he walked on the water.
Have you ever been in a storm? This storm took you by surprise. To this day you can’t understand why it happened and the end result still leaves you with questions. In those situations, I believe that we may never know all the ‘whys’ and maybe we aren’t supposed to.
In verse 22 after feeding the five thousand, it says that ‘immediately Jesus MADE His disciples get into the boat and go before to the other side while he sent the multitudes away. He then went up to the mountain alone to pray and he stayed there until evening. The next verse takes us to the seas and tells us that ‘the boat was in the middle of the sea, tossed by the waves for the wind was contrary’.
Now my mind is trying to analyze and I have come to the conclusion that I think Jesus was interceding in prayer and was made aware of the situation that his disciples were encountering. Why? The verse says ‘now in the 4th watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea’ but it was just turning evening when he went to the mountain to pray. When the disciples saw the figure of Jesus in the storm, they thought he was a ghost and they cried out in fear…but immediately Jesus spoke to them “Be of good cheer, it is I, do not be afraid”.
The next verse is the reference to Peter walking on the water. Now notice that Peter got out of that boat and stepped on the water, the waves were boisterous and so strong that they were tossing this enormous fishing boat. (I am assuming it was a fishing boat because of the fact that about 1/2 of the disciples were fisherman.) Could it be that Jesus didn’t calm those waters because he wanted to show Peter what Peter was made of? Peter walked on that water my friend; he walked on it as long as he kept his eyes on Jesus. The moment he looked at those boisterous waves he was overcome with fear and he started to sink. Jesus of course rescued him and asked Peter, “why did you doubt”?
But this is the part that I want you to get; verse 32 says, “and when they got into the boat, the wind ceased”. Jesus didn’t calm the storm for Peter and the disciples until Peter had experienced walking on the rough sea. Is that your story? Have you gone through a storm and until you ‘got in the boat’ the storm didn’t cease?
I believe there are things that we experience as children of God that he knows we can survive. There are things we go through that make us ‘run to him’ and there are trials that test our faith and when we look back over these times, we can see where God’s plan did work in our lives. If Jesus doesn’t ‘calm the storm’ when you think he should, just remember this story of Peter. Peter was the only disciple that really, personally (as recorded) experienced the amazing supernatural ability of this magnitude. HE WALKED ON WATER AND THAT WATER WAS A TURBULENT STORMY SEA.Whatever you are going through you might have to step out of the boat and walk on the water and trust your wonderful Jesus that he will be there for you. I pray that you see the storm you have experienced from a different light.
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Read more on this subject: Science, Medicine and Technology
News Story Source: https://newatlas.com by Nick Lavars
An international team of researchers has succeeded in whittling this process down to mere minutes, demonstrating a new technique where they not only form quickly, but do so at room temperature.
Although the idea of creating diamonds in a laboratory in just a few minutes would be an appealing one for jewelers, rappers or those looking to pop a certain question, that's not quite the aim of this type of research.
Artificial versions of this famously hard material could find use as new cutting tools to slice through ultra-hard materials, new kinds of protective coatings or other industrial devices where hardness is a desirable attribute. And recently we've seen some promising techniques developed that can turn fossil fuel molecules into pure diamonds, or make them from carbon nanofibers with the help of superfast lasers.
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The DICT Development Group
2 definitions found
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) :
1. n. The question mark character (?, ASCII 0111111).
2. interj. What? Also frequently verb-doubled as ?Ques ques?? See wall.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
"?", ASCII character 63.
Common names: query; ITU-T: question mark; ques. Rare:
whatmark; INTERCAL: what; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook;
Question mark is used, along with colon for C's lazy
triadic "if" operator (similar to the IIF function in
Visual Basic). The expression x?y:z evaluates x, then if x
is true it returns y else it returns z.
In Unix shell file name patterns, question mark matches
any single character.
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Location: Qingdao, China
Completion date: 2014
Sino Sculpture Group
This mirror polishing stainless steel sculpture named “ShangShanRuoShui”, means “The best is like water”.
The sculpture is 4 meters high, fabricated by hand forging with stainless steel. The surface effect of this piece is achieved by two surface treatments, the flat part is mirror polishing, and the ripple part like water is hairline by stainless steel. The stainless steel sculpture is customized for the Expo in Qingdao in 2014.
This sculpture is presented in the state of flowing water shape, which well interprets the theme of the exhibition "From the earth, for the earth".
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Impact of Diablo Canyon closure needs studying
We didn’t pull any punches when we wrote about California’s war on business in the April 22 edition of the Business Times.
For a classic example of the kind of thinking that’s just wrong about California’s path forward, it’s worth looking at opposition to SB 968.
Introduced by Sen. Bill Monning, a Democrat from Santa Cruz, the bill would require PG&E and the California Public Utilities Commission to conduct an independent, in-depth study of the economic impact of closing the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant, the only nuclear power station on the West Coast.
It has drawn broad-based support, has Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Santa Barbara Democrat, as a co-sponsor, and an amended version is slated for a committee hearing on May 2.
But the bill isn’t enough for a couple of fringe anti-nuclear groups who have been vocal in their opposition. Their agenda is to end nuclear power production on the Central Coast without regard to economic impacts or the fact that Diablo Canyon has an operating license that’s good until the middle of the next decade.
What the Monning bill does is begin the hard work of finding a new way forward for the San Luis Obispo County economy in the event the plant is closed. Diablo Canyon is the county’s largest non-government employer, it has an impact of around $1 billion in 2013 dollars and, to date, no study of how to mitigate the impact of a possible plant closure exists.
For those who haven’t kept up with the Diablo Canyon story, PG&E and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have been reassessing seismic risks in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and the discovery of new faults offshore. Meanwhile, state regulators have been assessing the environmental impact of the discharge of warm water into the Pacific Ocean.
The point that the opponents of the study miss is that SB 968 doesn’t render a judgment on nuclear power. What it calls for is a well-reasoned assessment of how SLO County can move forward economically if the plant is closed. Given that Diablo Canyon is now within a decade of possible closure under its current NRC license, it seems like the perfect time to be thinking about what’s next.
The opponents of such a study are knee jerk opponents of anything that might benefit private sector jobs. And that’s exactly what California’s war on business is all about.
Desalination plant looks viable
The city of Santa Barbara and the Montecito Water District have been holding discussions about using some of the water from Santa Barbara’s desalination plant to help the wealthy hamlet alleviate a severe water shortage.
While it’s too early to say what a final agreement might look like, the talks do underscore one reason why this time is different when it comes to desalination and drought relief. The plant, now under reconstruction, will be a lot more productive than the original design from the 1990s when it becomes operational.
And that means Santa Barbara could supply water to surrounding towns or even, at least theoretically, to those at some distance. Selling water or water rights at attractive rates was not feasible a couple of decades ago.
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Parents share the questions their children have been asked by friends and classmates over the years, from being in an orphanage to whether they know their "real" parents.
Adoption at School: Questions from Peers, the Family Tree, and More
Expert advice and personal stories about adoption at school—from talking with the teacher about adoption to preparing your child to answer questions from classmates to adapting the family tree and other sticky assignments.
Adoption kismet paired my moody, socially awkward self with an upbeat, sociable son who volunteers to wear his school mascot costume, runs for student council, and is unfazed by the thought of speaking in front of his whole school. Every day I am awed (and exhausted).
A mother seeks advice in selecting a school for her daughter, who is biracial. How to weigh general diversity vs. specific racial representation vs. distance from the family’s home?
Although we knew our South American-born son would face challenges growing up in a predominantly white middle class suburb, we were totally unprepared for what was to come.
"Going to college provides the time and distance for young adult adoptees to experiment with and sort out their own interests and self-expectations."
When it comes to adoption, teachers can be part of the solution. The key is to explain it to students in age-appropriate ways.
“We have always tried to make sure our internationally adopted son feels proud of his heritage. This year, when the class was writing about Thanksgiving, he asked if he could skip the assignment because people from his birth country do not celebrate Thanksgiving. I know I need to talk to him, but I’m not sure where to start.”
We asked our readers: How did you decide whether to introduce the topic of adoption at your child's school? What actions did you take, if any, to start explaining adoption to classmates or teachers? What advice do you have for other parents about how to best interact with your child's teachers?
As parents, how can you help make sure that your child and all the students at her school feel included and supported? Educate teachers about the five As!
Do you tell the teacher that your child was adopted at the start of a new school year? See parents' answers.
Avoid sit down lectures and look for teachable moments to get your teen to open up.
The family tree project can be a particularly tricky one for kids who are adopted. Here's how one family tackled the assignment.
Sometimes school brings tough situations, like teasing, tricky assignments, and nosy questions. When should kids handle things on their own, and when should a parent step in?
How can you help your child answer adoption questions with confidence—and handle any queries that come your way?
If your child is the giver or receiver of unkind behavior, read on.
As your child progresses through elementary school, she should take more responsibility for handling tricky assignments. Here's how to hand off the reins.
The family tree assignment is a perfect opportunity to answer your child's questions about adoption.
Picky eating is common in children—and as a parent, it’s probably driving you crazy. Here, simple strategies (like using a cookie cutter!) help make sure your child gets enough to eat.
Families share their experiences with school and adoption issues.
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Each year after the breeding season ends, male reindeer shed their impressive, branching antlers that they grow. Lenni, the six-year-old European forest reindeer at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park, shed quite a set of antlers this year.
Lenni's antlers weighed in at a combined 23 pounds (10.5 kilograms), about the same as a 1-year-old child, the park noted in a release. Each antler was 37 inches (94 centimeters) tall and 31.5 inches (80 cm) wide.
"The shed antlers are quite striking and are the largest ones from the three males in the Park this year," said Douglas Richardson, the park's animal collection manager.
Male reindeer, called bulls, grow their antlers each year from bony stubs on their heads called pedicles. The antlers are made of bone covered by a furry skin, called velvet, that has blood vessels that provide oxygen to the growing bone.
Antlers can grow up to 1 inch (2.5 cm) a day. When they are fully grown, they shed the velvety skin, revealing the bone beneath, according to the statement.
Antlers grow bigger each year as a bull matures, though their size can also depend on the health of the animal. The antlers signal the male's robustness to prospective mates.
Bulls use their antlers to fight each other during the breeding season.
"They are a sign of maturity and strength," Richardson said in the statement.
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11.05.2020 | International Energy Agency forecast for 2020
The International Energy Agency (IAE) expects global electricity demand to fall by five percent in 2020, and by as much as ten percent in certain regions severely affected by the Covid 19 pandemic. This decline will affect all forms of production, with the exception of renewable energies, where a slight increase is expected in 2020.
The current Covid 19 pandemic is primarily a global health crisis, but it also has a significant impact on the world economy, energy consumption and CO2 emissions. «The Covid 19 pandemic is the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades. The drop in demand this year will dwarf the effects of the 2008 financial crisis», comments the IEA.
Its analysis of daily data up to mid-April shows that countries that have imposed a full lockdown have seen a 25 percent average weekly decline in energy demand (all energy sources) and countries that have imposed less stringent restrictions have seen an average 18 percent decline.
Global energy demand fell by 3.8 percent overall in the first quarter of 2020, with the impact most noticeable in March when lockdown measures were imposed in Europe, North America and elsewhere.
More graphics can be found here (PDF).
The Corona crisis caused electricity prices to collapse sharply at the beginning. This applies to both the spot and forward markets. Axpo experts already see a recovery in forward prices. However, it is difficult to provide reliable long-term data on the impact of the corona crisis on energy consumption and the development of wholesale electricity prices.
Nevertheless, the IEA has dared to forecast the current year on the basis of the data it has collected. It has quantified the energy effects of the global recession triggered by the pandemic, which is caused by months of restrictions on mobility and social and economic activities. The scenario anticipates only a slow recovery from the lockdown recession and assumes a significant permanent loss of economic activity in 2020.
The result: energy demand shrinks by 6 percent overall (USA: - 9 percent/EU: - 11 percent). In percentage terms, this is the largest decline in 70 years and, in absolute terms, the largest ever. The impact of Covid-19 on energy demand in 2020 would be more than seven times greater than that of the 2008 financial crisis, and global CO2 emissions are expected to fall by 8 percent to the level of 10 years ago.
Changes in electricity consumption during the lockdown have led to a significant drop in overall electricity demand, with consumption levels and patterns on weekdays similar to those on a Sunday before the crisis.
According to the IEA's 2020 estimate, global electricity demand will fall by 5 percent, with a 10 percent decline in some regions. At the same time, the lockdown will lead to a significant shift towards low-carbon power sources such as wind, photovoltaics, hydropow-er and nuclear power. Having overtaken coal in electricity production for the first time in 2019, they will further extend its lead this year, accounting for 40 percent of global electricity generation - 6 percentage points ahead of coal.
Electricity generation from wind and solar energy will continue to increase in 2020 and will be boosted by new projects completed in 2019 and early 2020. According to the IEA, these forms of energy benefit from low operating costs and, in many countries, preferential access to the electricity grid.
This trend has an impact on the demand for electricity from coal and natural gas, which are increasingly caught between low overall electricity demand and increasing production from renewable energies. As a result, the combined share of gas and coal in the global power mix will decline by 3 percent in 2020 to the 2001 level.
«This is a historic shock for the entire energy world. Only renewables will survive the unprecedented slump in electricity consumption», says Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the IEA. «It is too early to determine the longer-term effects, but the energy industry that will emerge from this crisis will be very different from the one before it.»
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Bachelor of Commerce degree is designed to let students improvise an organization’s productivity by advancing their statistical skills. They are trained to critically evaluate analytical problems for the identification and resolution of complex problems through self-directed research. Communication of different ideas in both written and oral formats in diverse and multicultural environments would be improved. It helps them to gain proficiency in the use of appropriate information technologies effectively from diverse sources.
This blog will take you through some of the career opportunities that you can avail after pursuing a degree in commerce:
E-commerce consultants: The professionals in this domain develop an online marketing strategy in collaboration with the IT department to establish site analytics. They supervise e-commerce marketing teams and create graphs to track product sales and monitor the development of tailored marketing campaigns. Researching and identifying potential affiliates to formulate the ways to optimize user experience is a part of their job. They maintain contact with the IT department to ensure the system security and knowledge of best practices in marketing to create strategic plans.
Accountant: A career as an accountant is also an interesting option for many graduates. An accountant analyzes and researches the accounting data to provide financial information and prepares reports to maintain financial security by following internal controls. They compile liability, asset, and capital account entries by analyzing the account information and document the financial transactions by compiling account information.
Customer relations managers: The role of a customer relations manager is to maintain profitable relationships with its key customers by resolving their complaints efficiently and quickly. They oversee the relationship with customers by keeping them updated on the latest products in order to increase sales and expand the customer base by up and cross-selling. Conducting business reviews using CRM programs to understand the key customer individual needs and to address them in a timely manner.
E-commerce trade analysts: E-commerce analysts collaborate with the IT department to evaluate the accomplishments of an organization’s online presence. They report changes by analyzing customer reviews, online sales, and rankings to make well-informed advertising decisions. They also track a company’s advertising campaign results, search engine ranking, web analytics, and branding across a website.
Financial Risk Manager: The experts in this domain make recommendations to reduce the risk by implementing an insurance strategy. They work with traders to calculate the risk associated with specific transactions. Forecast and monitor market trends by considering the proposed business decisions and research to assess the severity of the risk by liaising with underwriters.
Logistics managers: Logistics managers are involved in planning and managing transportation, logistics, customer services, and warehouses to check whether they comply with the laws and regulations. They maintain metrics to analyze the data and evaluate performance to implement the strategic mechanisms for improvements. They liaise with fraud detection managers and negotiate with manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, and consumers to meet productivity, cost, timeliness targets, and accuracy.
Financial Analyst: A financial analyst analyses the financial data to prepare reports on the above and communicate the insights to the management for exploring various investment opportunities. They develop financial models, initiatives, and policies to provide a financial forecast that may improve financial growth. They evaluate the financial performance to identify the trends by consulting the management team to develop long-term commercial plans.
The scope of bachelor of commerce degree is just not limited to particular subject expertise but encompasses a wide range of industries. With a degree in bachelors of commerce, you will be able to critically evaluate new research findings, ideas, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies in a specialized field of study to recognize and understand the ethical responsibilities of individuals and organizations in a society. | <urn:uuid:4c10705a-4421-4d48-9783-5e42af5566a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.notwhattheyseem.com/how-important-is-bachelor-of-commerce-degree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936537 | 723 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Hibernating Myocardium is a state when some segments of the myocardium exhibit abnormalities of contractile function. These abnormalities can be visualised with echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR), nuclear medicine (PET) or ventriculography.
The phenomenon is highly significant clinically because it usually manifests itself in the setting of chronic ischemia, that is potentially reversible by revascularisation via cardiac catheterization. The regions of myocardium are still viable and can return to normal function. There develops a new steady state between myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial function, MBF reduced and in consequence function is reduced too. | <urn:uuid:575a6f9a-ac79-4a94-9e94-88f47d26551b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hilarispublisher.com/scholarly/hibernating-myocardium-journals-articles-ppts-list-1597.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.878512 | 141 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Ohana Naturals has been serving Medical Cannabis patients in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2008. Due to its effectiveness and minimal side effects, we see cannabis as a superlative treatment for many of the ailments that plague us all, young and old.
The body's endocannabinoid system is only beginning to be understood here in the U.S. Cannabis has proven to be a successful medicine for centuries all over the world, and recently, even the AMA publicly recognized cannabis as having medical benefits.
In order to support patients in the healthiest way possible, we offer coconut oil medicated capsules in four formulations of both Indica and Sativa/Indica Hybrid, as well as a topical medicated skin balm.
Cannabis is a superior anti-inflammatory and pain reliever and can even relieve the itch of mosquito bites. Our medicated Love Balm increase pleasure and sensation during intimacy while providing long-lasting, non-drying lubrication with no silicone or petrolatum.
Coconut oil has been a dietary and beauty staple for millennia. It's a powerful destroyer of all kinds of microbes, from viruses to bacteria to protozoa, many of which can be harmful, and provides your body with high-quality fat that is critical for optimal health.
Around 50 percent of the fat in coconut oil is lauric acid, which is rarely found in nature. In fact, coconut oil contains the most lauric acid of any substance on Earth.
Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, a monoglyceride that can actually destroy lipid-coated viruses such as HIV and herpes, influenza, measles, gram-negative bacteria, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia.
This is undoubtedly part of what makes it so medicinally useful—both when taken internally and applied externally.
Studies have show that intake of coconut oil can help our bodies mount resistance to both viruses and bacteria that can cause illness. Even more, it also can help to fight off yeast, fungus and candida.
The oils found in the coconut have a positive antioxidant action in the body. This means they help our body stop the damage to other healthy fats and tissues in our body. Oxidation is considered a major contributor to cardiovascular problems and skin aging. Coconut oil can actually help our bodies reduce the need for antioxidant intake.
Coconut oil can also positively affect our hormones for thyroid and blood-sugar control. People who take coconut oil also tend to have improvements in how they handle blood sugar since coconut can help improve insulin use within the body. Coconut oil can boost thyroid function helping to increase metabolism, energy and endurance. It increases digestion and helps to absorb fat-soluble vitamins.
Love Your Lady Parts Skin Balm
How could I resist that amazing feminist marketing? This product is designed and marketed for use on skin, the vulva, and inside the vagina. What It Was Like To Use: The maker told me that to alleviate cramps, I should put a heaping spoonful** into my vagina and let it melt into my pussy walls. This worked really well, relaxing my vagina in around 15 minutes and not causing any numbness. However, it was pretty messy (a spoonful of anything in there is going to create some mess); I actually used it with a pair of THINX so I didn’t have to remain horizontal forever. But the relief was excellent and it didn’t make me feel loopy.
- Marley Russell at Bustle.com
** Start with 1/4 Tablespoon
and reapply if needed.
"The LIFT product reduces severity of my episodes of pain and, most importantly, reduces my anxiety related to pain. I am able to interact with my healthcare practice clients with less distraction from my health problems and noticed a clear improvement in my energy and attitude at the end of the day. I regard LIFT as an essential part of my daily health support program."
- Male 60’s
"They act as a mild sleep aid when I have difficulty dozing off. They naturally make me feel tired and I wake up feeling well-rested and alert. They are a life-saver in times that I experience pain from a current or past injury. The pain is dulled to a manageable level without slowing other motor or brain functions. Times when I'm feeling rundown or rumin-ating on negative anxiety thoughts, this helps to intervene and set me into a positive frame of mind and pleasant mood, ready to take on my day."
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday that the migration challenge could determine Europe’s fate, hours ahead of a Brussels summit where E.U. leaders are expected to clash over the way forward.
“Europe has many challenges but migration could end up determining Europe’s destiny,” she told German lawmakers.
The path the E.U. chooses could decide if the bloc is viewed by others as a credible defender of the values it espouses, she said.
Europe can decide to “overcome the challenge in a way that people in Africa or elsewhere believe that we are guided by our values, and that we take a multilateral rather than a unilateral approach,” Merkel added. “The alternative would result in a situation where “no one will believe in our value system that has made us so strong.”
“That’s why the stakes are high,” said the German leader, who is also battling a domestic rebellion over her decision in 2015 to open Germany’s borders to asylum seekers fleeing war and misery in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
If a deal cannot be reached between all 28 of the bloc, Merkel said that a compromise must be found among “a coalition of the willing,”
But the guiding principle of any accord must be multilateral and must not put disproportionate weight on frontline countries, she stressed.
“Certainly that’s not a perfect solution, but it’s a start toward better control and order” of the migration problem, she said.
The stakes for Merkel are particularly high, as her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has given her an ultimatum to find a solution at Thursday and Friday’s summit to curb new arrivals, failing which he would defy her and turn away migrants at the border.
If Seehofer carries through with his threat, it could spell the end of Merkel’s coalition with his CSU party.
EU summit today on immigration policy is a litmus test for European values : compassion, solidarity and multilateralism vs callousness populism and unilateralism . Let us hope that Europe at least will keep its sense of humanity & Merkel & co will carry the day #MigrationEU
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This visualizer is a basic alluvial plot generator, illustrating the use of gradients in category-based visualizations with a hopefully useful working example.
See this article for a quick definition of the profound difference between an alluvial plot (which this example creates) and a Sankey diagram (which is a whole other affair).
An alluvial plot generally tracks the distribution of a number of discrete items across a set of dimensions. In the example data for this tool, the items are portfolios of homes to be sold, and the dimensions are properties of the homes — though you can put in whatever dimensions you want, and as many as you want.
The format of each line is:
label, weight, (position in dimension 1), (position in dimension 2).... etc.
The tool on this page uses gradients (optionally) to try and visually relate the leftmost and rightmost dimension. Given the example data, the aim is to relate ‘home type’ and ‘condition’ despite the other dimensions present — so we can get a feel at a glance for how much of our total portfolio is in condition ‘new build’, and how closely that condition correlates with, say a home type of ‘flat’.
One of the color schemes given here, ‘redlook’, is part of an experimental visualization style that’s intended to show relationships that may cross each other, without using transparency or blending. It’s not really practical but I love the starkness so I’ve left it in. | <urn:uuid:7cb3c403-2a1a-4374-943a-a831da88d38b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.datasmith.org/2013/09/21/an-alluvial-plot-generator-with-gradients/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.882435 | 332 | 2.125 | 2 |
Display equipment includes cathode ray tubes (found in old style TV sets and computer monitors) and flat panel TVs, computer monitors, such as plasma and liquid crystal displays (LCD) and LED TVs.
Cathode ray tubes (CRT) contain hazardous phosphor powder, leaded glass, copper and other rare metals. These materials can be re-used to make new products. Panel and funnel glass from the cathode ray tubes are also recovered.
Most flat panel TVs and monitors use mercury lamps to light the screen. To remove the lamps, the appliance must be disassembled before processing the screen. Components are recovered though a manual disassembly process and fractions are sent to specialist plants for further recycling.
- Hand dismantling
- Cathode ray tubes separation (Pb, Ba)
- Crushing and metal removal
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We send Your offers via contact forms to the sites ofcompanies via any countries and domain zones of the world in any languages.
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WHAT IS THE MAILING OF WEBSITES BY CONTACT FORMS?
This is a type of mailing using the feedback forms that are located in the contact section of the website and filled by our software automatically with a rate of a few thousand feedback forms per 1 minute, while the alphabetic and numeric code from the pictures (CAPTCHA) is also solved.
After that, the correspondent e-mails including your business offers are sent to the e-mails of companies.
When sending mailing by contact contact forms, it turns out that each website sends an e-mail “to itself” and, therefore, all messages arrive in the inbox of the exact electronic address in which the organisation receives the business information.
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Fast 100% informing of organisations and internet resource owners about new commercial offers.
Search of new customers that other types of advertisements cannot find.
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1.one hundred percent delivery of commercial messages.
2.Expansion of the customer base.
3. Expansion of the market share.
4.Mailings based on regionality and topics.
5. Sending e-mails to directors.
6. Conducting tenders and studying demand.
7. Conducting marketing campaigns.
8. Conducting surveys and studying public opinion.
9. High-speed notification.
11. Entering the markets of other countries.
1.When sending mailing by contact forms, all letters arrive in the inbox. When sending mass e-mails, this can reach up to five percent.
2.When sending mailing by feedback forms it is possible to send a few million messages per day to inbox folders. When sending mass e-mails a few thousands arrive in the inboxes, the rest often either do not reach or fill the junk.
3. When sending mailing by feedback forms a message does not get blocked by mails because it is sent from different websites. When sending e-mail newsletters it is possible to send a few thousands of those but nevertheless all the IP addresses from which the mailing is done will be banned.
4. When sending mailing by contact forms the very little amount of macro-synonims is used to form text and headings of the letter. When sending mass e-mails, it is necessary to use synonyms («macros») for each word and create thousands different headings.
5. Many companies deliberatelly hide their e-mail address and only leave a contact form for contacting with them.
6. When sending e-newsletters, your business offer can be delivered to every employee of the organisation, (which causes irritation) compared to mailing by contact forms where the letter is received at the electronic address specifically set up for cooperation offers.
7.Fifty percent of business emails are placed on free mail servers, they are poorly "searchable" by e-mail address, but when sending mailing by contact forms through these e-mail servers, all letters are hundred % delivered to the recipients.
8. Only 30%-40% of businesses are placed in the directories within two-three years, and all the other ones are already placed in our VOIS databases and are waiting for your business offers.
Thus that e-mails of organisations from directories are full of spam, which means that they will not have such profit as when sending mailing by contact forms using our the newest VOIS databases.
9. Any kind of stop words in the body or headings of the letter can be sent through forms. When sending e-newsletters, such letters either do not reach the recipient or end up in junk.
The list of stop words of mails includes almost all words and phrases that encourage your potential customers to take active actions.
1. Increasing the customer base.
2. Quick notification of marketplaces about new commercial offers.
3. Reaching out directors.
5. Conducting tenders.
6.Conducting marketing campaigns.
7.Studying public opinion and conducting surveys.
8. Searching for customers abroad.
Reasons for ordering this service:
1. 100% delivery of your letters and cooperation offers to millions of businesses all over the globe.
Every site sends a letter to itself so all filters of mails are bypassed.
2.Mailing by contact forms is an great way in in terms of conducting all sorts of marketing researches, surveys and studies of social opinion on any kind ofdirection and type of activity.
When sending mailing by contact forms, you will definitely know that your letter has been delivered to 100-percent of consumers of your service and product and if a product or service is "badly promoted", then the potential problem lies in in something else, for example in cost.
At the same time, within 1 week you will see demand for your products and services, you will not have to spend money on rent and other more time-consuming and expensive marketing events.
3.Mailing by feedback forms is the quickest and the most economical way to get your service or product to the markets of other states.
4. Mailing by feedback forms is a great tool for conducting all sorts of tenders.
5.Daily update of the database, as more than one hundred and fifty thousand new sites, appear all over the globe daily, and you, in turn, get new potential clients.
6. Full geographical scope for all countries of the world.
7. We offer customers that you will not find through other advertisement.
When sending mailing by feedback forms, you will be able to get to that part of your potential clientele, that are impossible to find automatically in another way.
For instance, you will be able to send a commercial offer to those potential clients that were previously unavailable due to filters of mail systems while sending mass e-mails.
In reality, there is a very paradoxical situation: organisations that got into the directories are literally spammed with all sorts of commercial offers while very little or no e-mails are sent to the rest.
8. Unique technique of solving the CAPTCHA.
There are special services for decoding alphanumeric code (captcha/CAPTCHA). It costs 1$ to solve thousand captchas.
It turns out that, processing 1 million websites our robot unravels a million captchas, which costs thousand $ only to unravel captcha/CAPTCHA, and we provide this free for you!
9. By ordering mailing by contact forms, you are promoting your product or service not to separate people, but to entire collectives, for instance domain zone .com, where more than 150 million business firms from all over the world are collected (we have samples of them from all international zones for every country).
10. Mailing by contact forms also includes a subtype of SMS mailing
Electronic address that is linked to the feedback form is the main email of organisations through which orders and cooperation offers are sent. This mail is also set up for phones as it is necessary to respond to the information very fast so as not to misplace the application or the relevance of the cooperation offer.
11. The base of countries also includes all joint companies from all countries of the world closely related to or working with this country, for instance, national communities and diasporas.
BAN, sanctions of mail systems and search engines?
These mailings are an alternative to sending mass e-mails, therefore search sanctions and "Ban" do not apply to them.
Mail service delivers the data of e-mails to the inbox folder, as it moves through the "warm channel" from the new IP address of the site to the corporate electronic address of the same site.
In simple language, these mailings "live in e-mails" and filters of mail systems do not react to them, because mail systems have a certain trust in communication channels between sites and corporate e-mail addresses.
You can buy our databases separately from the mailing by sending us a enquiry by contact form.
MORE THAN 2000 VOIS DATABASES BY DOMAINS AND COUNTRIES.
COLLECTIONS OF DATABASES BY THE MAIN CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD.
COLLECTIONS OF DATABASES BY THE MAIN WORLD LANGUAGES.
COLLECTIONS OF DATABASES BY THE MAIN CMS.
SELECTIONS BY THE MAIN COUNTRIES.
HOW TO MAKE AN PROMOTIONAL OFFER FOR MAILING BY FEEDBACK FORMS:
The simplest text + a few headings, the main goal is to interest the future client, and they will read the rest on your site.
Most likely, all ads on your subject are already on the networks, enter the necessary requests into the search engine and choose the most successful ones.
The headings are substituted by a carousel from text file.
Only text messages are sent, links are inserted without problems, they are all "clickable". If the potential customer needs pictures or more specific information, then you should forward the potential customer to visit your website.
In the letter:
Text without pictures, since pictures do not pass through the feedback form.
Your contact details:
Internet resource address:
Fields to fill in:
E-mail for autoresponces:
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Some Things To Be Aware Of When Purchasing California Group Health Insurance
Maintaining your health is imperative if you want to lead a rich, rewarding life. However, there is so much information on this broad subject that it can be hard to know what to study. That is why this article is a comprehensive compilation of facts and tips designed to help you to lead a healthy lifestyle.
When it comes to health insurance make sure you are not overpaying for drugs. When your doctor prescribes your medication make sure to ask if a generic is available on the market. If there isn’t ask him if there is another drug on the market that will have a comparable therapeutic effect at a fraction of the cost.
When seeking good small business health insurance in California, be sure to do an online search first. By seeking good insurance policies and rates online, you can compare many policies side-by-side and get a good idea of which ones will really suit your needs and your pocketbook. Additionally, if you educate yourself on what the lowest priced insurance companies offer, you can sometimes use that knowledge to negotiate a better deal with a higher-ranking company.
One of the Small Business Group Health Insurance California health insurance options that may be offered to you during your employer’s open enrollment season is an HMO. You might want to choose this option if you want to keep costs low and are willing to coordinate your care through a primary care physician. Under an HMO, the number of options you have for choosing a provider may be more limited than under a more flexible plan.
To save the most on your health insurance plan, use an online calculator to compare the costs of several different plans. Also, take into account your own physical health. For instance, if you are young and generally healthy, opt for a plan that has a higher per visit deductible, rather than an expensive monthly premium.
Look out for health insurance policies that also offer eye and dental care converge. Some health plans now include this extra converge and these plans could save you a lot of money. Paying separately for dental procedures, lens, glasses, annual eye, and dental checkups, etc. can really add up.
It is imperative that one buy health insurance these days, with medical bills so high. It’s important to find an insurance company that covers good providers, so take a look at the covered institutions and physicians before committing to the purchase, particularly if you already have physicians you know and trust.
If you and your spouse are both offered health insurance coverage through your employers, review both policies carefully before making a decision. You may save money by going with just your policy, or just your spouse’s. It also might be less expensive to insure each of you separately.
Choosing your health insurance plan is an important decision. If your employer is offering the insurance, you may have a few options to pick from. Don’t automatically choose the cheapest option. You need to compare deductibles, co-pays, and what services are covered or excluded on each plan.
When considering a health care insurance plan from your employer, be sure to check if your prescriptions are still covered in the coming year. The supported brands and types of medication can vary from year to year. Also, always choose a generic brand if possible. Also, be sure to see if there are any discounts such as having your prescriptions sent via mail.
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One basic rule of thumb to understand in Catholic/Protestant conversations is that it is not the case that Catholics rely on Sacred Tradition and Protestants don’t. Rather, Catholics (and, by this, I mean “educated Catholics speaking out of the Magisterial teaching of the Church”) rely on Sacred Tradition and know they do, while Protestants rely on (parts) of Sacred Tradition and (usually) don’t know they do.
So, for instance, despite Paul’s prescriptions (directed only at clergy of his day) that a man must be the husband of but one wife, nowhere in the text of Scripture is it made clear that Christian marriage must be monogamous for all (a fact that did not escape Luther or John Milton). Nowhere does Scripture spell out or that the Holy Spirit is a person, much less the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son. Similarly, you will look in vain for instructions in Scripture on how to contract a valid marriage (unless you buy this list of “Top 10 Ways to Find a Wife, According to the Bible”):
10. Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, trim her nails, and give her new clothes. Then she’s yours. – (Deuteronomy 21:11-13)
9. Find a prostitute and marry her. – (Hosea 1:1-3)
8. Find a man with seven daughters, and impress him by watering his flock.- Moses (Exodus 2:16-21)
7. Purchase a piece of property, and get a woman as part of the deal. – Boaz (Ruth 4:5-10)
6. Go to a party and hide. When the women come out to dance, grab one and carry her off to be your wife. – Benjaminites (Judges 21:19-25)
5. Have God create a wife for you while you sleep.-Adam (Genesis 2:19-24)
4. Kill any husband and take his wife. -David (2 Samuel 11)
3. Cut 200 foreskins off of your future father-in-law’s enemies and get his daughter for a wife -David (I Samuel 18:27)
2. Even if no one is out there, just wander around a bit and you’ll definitely find someone. -Cain (Genesis 4:16-17)
1. Don’t be so picky. Make up for quality with quantity. – Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3)
….which doesn’t really help much). The fact is, the Bible says “Marriage is good” but gives us not one word of instruction on how to do it. That’s because Scripture is not and never was intended to be the Big Book of Everything. And yet, of course, Protestants all over the world get married, believe in God the Holy Spirit, and have but one spouse because, as James Dobson says, God’s plan is one man and one woman. How do they do this when Scripture is so unclear?
They do it by, whether they realize it or not, accepting Sacred Tradition percolated to them from the Catholic Church through the Protestant tradition. It’s the same way they know that the books of the Bible they accept are supposed to be books of the Bible. It’s the same way they know that public revelation closed with the death of the apostles even though Scripture is completely silent on the matter (Revelation 22:18-19 doesn’t count since that passage refers to the Book of Revelation, not to the Bible which was not fully collated—and from which Revelation was sometimes excluded—before the late 4th Century.)
Retention of Catholic Sacred Tradition fragments has kept Protestantism in such sanity as it still possesses. So when the Bible Answer Man appeals to “historic Christianity” in understanding what the Bible means, that’s typically a good thing. He’s appealing to Sacred Tradition and agreeing with the Church. It’s Eupocrisy in action!
However, in those places where Protestantism attempts to reject Catholic Sacred Tradition, the narrative suddenly and wrenchingly changes. Suddenly, the demand is made for nothing less than an explicit proof text from the Bible. It works like this:
- If a thing is condemned by the Church, but permitted by the Protestant (say, gay marriage) the demand is for an explicit text forbidding it (“Show me where Jesus said one word about not allowing gay marriage! That’s just the Church imposing its purely human ideas on what Jesus came to say.”).
- Conversely, if a thing is allowed by the Church but condemned by the Protestant, the demand is for an explicit text commanding it. So, for instance, we get demands like, “Where in the Bible do you find anyone asking us to pray to dead people? That’s just the Church imposing it’s purely human ideas on what Jesus came to say.”
Note how the terms of the argument shift to suit the “Heads I win, tails the Church loses” agenda. It’s no longer good enough to say (as the Protestant generally does when, for instance, arguing for the divinity of the Holy Spirit), “Here are biblical passages which, taken together, point to the reality that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person even though there is no text that says ‘The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity’.”
No, arguing from such obvious implication is out the window. In many circles, even a nearly algebraic piece of logic like
- Jesus is God.
- Mary is his Mother.
- Therefore, Mary is the Mother of God.
…gets rejected as “inbred reasoning” since Catholics can’t produce that Bible verse which says explicitly “Mary is the Mother of God.” Suddenly, only direct, explicit testimony and instruction in legally watertight language will do.
How this works on the ground can be seen everywhere. The Protestant who wants to permit abortion points out that there is no unequivocal commandment in either the Old or New Testament saying “You shall not have an abortion” and evinces absolutely no interest in how the texts we do have (“You shall not murder”, for instance) have been universally read by the Church from the earliest times. Likewise, the Protestant who dogmatically rejects, say, prayer to the saints simply ignores you if you point to the fact that Scripture show us that the dead (like Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration) are aware of what’s happening on earth, that we are told that “we shall be like Christ” (who intercedes for us), that the Body of Christ is One (not split in two by death) and that the early Church understood all this to imply that we can ask prayers of the dead just as we ask them of the living.
As remote as the flaky pro-choice Episcopalian and the starchy Bible-thumping Fundamentalist preacher may seem to be from each other, they share a deep commonality in the way they reject whatever aspect of Catholic teaching they dislike. From liberal to conservative, the argument proceeds: “Unless the Bible explicitly commands what I forbid or forbids what I want to do, then the Catholic teaching I dislike is ‘unbiblical’.” (Of course, the word “Bible” is not unbiblical–even though it also never appears in Scripture—because the word “Bible” is a fragment of extra-biblical Christian tradition generally acceptable to Protestants.)
Indeed all the various forms of Protestantism have this (and only this) one feature in common. They may differ on Mary, or baptism or the divinity of Jesus or even the existence of God (if you include Unitarians as a particularly robust form of Protestantism that has jettisoned more of Catholic teaching than its predecessors). But they all agree on erecting semi-permeable membranes in which some (but not all) elements of Sacred Tradition are allowed through (different bits for different groups). Those elements that are allowed through are called “the witness of historic Christianity” or “the clear implication of Scripture” or “the obviously reasonable position”. Those not allowed through are called “human tradition” or “myths” or “the unbiblical teachings of Rome” or “relics of patriarchy” or “ancient superstition” (even when they are the obvious testimony and practice of all the apostolic communions in the world since the beginning of the Church.) Finally, to the filtered-in elements of real apostolic theological and moral teaching are stapled sundry human traditions like sola scriptura or some theory about predestinarianism or the “perspicuity of Scripture” or the need to speak in tongues or (in the past) the curse on Canaan as a biblical basis for American chattel slavery or (more recently) the glories of homosexuality or abortion.
Of course, as history goes on and at least some sectors in Protestantism allow the centrifugal force of Private Judgment to move them further and further from both Sacred Tradition and (inevitably, given the logic) from Sacred Scripture as well, you reach a point where appeals to Scripture as an authority in debate don’t matter since Scripture is, after all, simply the written aspect of Tradition. Sooner or later, it occurs to people trending away from acceptance of Apostolic Tradition to ask, “If I’ve rejected everything else the Church says, why should I care about its ‘holy’ writings? I can find a hundred German theologians who say of the supposed ‘word of God’ what I’ve been saying of ‘Sacred Tradition’ all along.”
For the present, many (graying) Evangelicals still retain a deep reverence for the sacred writings of Holy Church (though there are some signs that the itch to deconstruct Scripture will wreak enormous damage among those who come to clearly face the choice between the pole in Protestantism that seeks the Apostolic Tradition and the pole that seeks to keep deconstructing until nothing, including Scripture, is left).
For those still in this betwixt and between stage, who reverence Scripture and have this conflicted grasp of an Apostolic Tradition coming to them through a semi-permeable membrane, what is needed is a paradigm shift: the realization first of the shell game that is played in order to filter out Catholic traditions according to the preferences of the particular Protestant tradition one adheres to and second, a willingness to acknowledge the possibility that when this is honestly done, it will be found that no Catholic doctrine—none whatsoever—actually contradicts Scripture and that all that is essential in Scripture is also essential in Catholic teaching.
That’s a terrifying prospect if one has accepted any of the various myths by which the sundry Protestantisms justify the rejection of whichever bits of Catholic teaching they reject. All the myths ranging from “I listen only to the Bible alone and not to the traditions of men!” to “I accept Tradition within reason, except that church tradition is never accepted as equal in authority to canonical scripture. It is always subject to revision provided a scriptural basis can be found” are equally doomed if that turns out to be so, which is why those committed to the sundry Protestant schemas require not new information as an alteration of the will: a willingness to consider the possibility that there is no conflict between Catholic Tradition and Scripture and that every apparent conflict is just that: apparent and not real. Once that possibility is squarely faced and accepted, the argument for receiving all of Sacred Tradition rather than simply the bits you like can naturally follow in a rather reasonable way. But first, the membrane(s) must go. | <urn:uuid:8a047f89-f4f5-40b5-a100-db4f070f32ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicexchange.com/the-semi-permeable-membranes-of-the-various-protestantisms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948273 | 2,515 | 1.90625 | 2 |
As policymakers all over the world intention to chop carbon emissions and meet local weather targets, new analysis factors to a important group whose opinions might assist to form power planning for the higher: the customers.
By bearing in mind the demographics and preferences of US racial teams, clarified by means of a nationally consultant survey of three,000 US residents, researchers led by Kyushu College created a ‘fascinating’ electrical energy era combine for 2050 that features 50% extra power from renewable sources than projections primarily based on present plans and insurance policies.
“Within the US, customers are being given an increasing number of methods to decide on their power supplier, so listening to and understanding these voices is essential,” says Andrew Chapman, affiliate professor at Kyushu College’s Worldwide Institute for Carbon-Impartial Analysis (I2CNER) and chief of the research.
“In mild of this, we got down to develop an power plan that includes the broad vary of voices and the quickly shifting demographics of the US after which in contrast it with the present top-down plan through which power targets are set by policymakers.”
To develop their power plan, the worldwide workforce of researchers from Kyushu College, Nagasaki College, and the College of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign surveyed 3,000 individuals within the US in 2020 on their preferences, consciousness, priorities, and different opinions relating to power applied sciences, insurance policies, and points.
Contemplating solely future building tasks wanted to interchange energy vegetation on the finish of their life and to satisfy predicted progress in power consumption, they allotted roughly 2.4 billion kWh of electrical energy producing capability out to the yr 2050 primarily based on the preferences of every racial group and the expected future racial demographics of the nation.
The resultant power combine consists of almost 61% renewable-based electrical energy in comparison with 42% envisaged below the projected 2050 power combine in line with the US Vitality Info Administration primarily based on present plans and insurance policies.
However, nuclear energy is diminished by over half and coal-based era by over three quarters within the researchers’ plan in comparison with the projections. Pure gasoline is comparable in each circumstances, indicating that customers are conscious of the sensible want for a secure power provide.
“There seems to be sturdy assist for an additional emphasis on applied sciences that can assist to realize emission and local weather targets when planning the longer term power system, as indicated by a powerful want to maneuver away from fossil and nuclear towards renewables,” notes Chapman.
“Although every racial group prefers totally different sources sooner or later power combine, all teams acknowledge the necessity for a secure power provide, combining pure gasoline with their desire for renewables, led by photo voltaic and wind.”
Variations in regional preferences additionally emerged. For instance, alongside the west coast, there was considerably increased significance positioned on coping with local weather change and realizing an equitable power system. Sooner or later, such enter could possibly be used to form power plans that leverage divisions amongst energy grids throughout the US.
The researchers observe that their plan’s allotment of hydroelectric and geothermal era could possibly be unrealistic due to how lengthy such tasks take to plan and implement. Moreover, respondents persistently indicated a wholesome economic system as one among their priorities, so balancing prices and employment alternatives should even be thought-about in power system design.
“Along with shopper preferences seeming to assist extra renewables than present plans, we additionally discovered that preferences have been linked to consciousness, which is likewise strongly linked to training,” feedback Chapman. “Thus, power training is prone to be one other necessary facet for reaching carbon discount targets and inspiring participatory power system design.” | <urn:uuid:e3b091ca-39e6-40ed-8746-9196ec383736> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allhealthbooks.com/listening-to-the-people-results-in-a-more-sustainable-future-energy-system/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941422 | 773 | 2.421875 | 2 |
FRS 4: Capital instruments
Find links to the accounting standard, technical summaries, useful guides and other resources on FRS 4 collated by ICAEW Library & Information Service.
The accounting standard FRS 4 set out the way in which reporting entities treated capital instruments in financial statements. It was issued by the Accounting Standards Board in December 1993.
This standard and all other old UK GAAP FRSs have been withdrawn for reporting periods starting on or after 1 January 2015. Topics within the treatment of capital instruments in financial statements are covered by Section 11 of FRS 102 under new UK GAAP.
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Financial Reporting Standard 4: Capital Instruments
This is the full text of the original standard as issued by the Accounting Standards Board in December 1993.
FRS 4 was withdrawn following the implementation of FRS 25: Financial Instruments: Disclosure and Presentation and FRS 26: Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement with the exception of ‘material on the measurement of debt and gains and losses on the repurchase of debt’, which remains applicable for entities that do not have to apply the measurement requirements of FRS 26.
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This page is about the monster. For the player species, see Minotaur.
|A large muscular human with the head of a bull. It makes its home in secluded labyrinths.|
Minotaurs are moderately powerful creatures which serve as the final challenge of every Gauntlet: they guard the exit -- and the pile of treasure left behind by the last few adventurers foolish enough to challenge them. They are armed and heavily armoured, carry a stack of deadly javelins, and can counter melee attacks with vicious headbutts, making them dangerous opponents at any range. They do appear sometimes outside of a Gauntlet in the Depths and the Vaults - or earlier, like in a rare vault in Shoals.
Tips & Tricks
- Be sure to examine them before the fight to know just how heavy a hitter they're going to be. A bare-handed minotaur is much less of a threat than one wielding an artefact executioner's axe.
- Their javelins hit hard, which makes ranged combat a risky proposition for lightly armoured characters. Invisibility or a scarf of repulsion can help tilt the odds back in your favor. Alternatively, some maps may allow you to run and hide between shots until you've exhausted their ammo supply, then blast them with impunity.
- You do not have to kill the minotaur. You can sneak or blink past, grab the loot, and run.
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The state is considering removing the parent opt-out option from the passenger restriction law, but they also encourage parents to have conversations about teen passengers, the need to put away cell phones while driving and to pay attention to what is happening outside of the vehicle instead of what is happening inside of it.
Another option being considered by the state is a stronger no texting while driving law. Currently in Iowa texting while driving is a secondary offense, meaning only adults can be cited as long as they were pulled over for another offense. For teenagers, the use of a cell phone or texting is considered a primary offense, but enforcement is not easy because officers cannot always distinguish if a person is a teen or adult driver.
Continuously educating teens of the dangers of distracted driving is a powerful tool. An Iowa high school’s prom and post prom committee staged a mock accident using two vehicles that were involved in real crashes. The high school students sat on bleachers as participants from Fire, Police, Emergency Medical and even a transport medical helicopter re-enacted a drunk driving accident, whereby the jaws of life were used to extract a passenger, a bloody student was placed in a body bag, another was carted off to the helicopter and the teen posing as a drunk driver was handcuffed and led away. Many teens walked away understanding they are not invincible.
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The Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST) advances the quality and success of tourism operators through an array of training programs dev
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A visit to Trichy and Thanjavur is always a reminder of India’s diversity. As you walk through the most exquisite temples in Trichy, an atmosphere surcharged by the presence of thousands of worshippers surrounds you. It affects you most when you see the young and old, rich and poor, standing in queues for a personal communion with their beloved deity.
The Lord above
Trichy is known for its temples, while Thanjavur is popular both for its temple architecture as well as its silk saris. In Trichy, you trek up 400 steps to receive blessings from Lord Ganesha inside the Rock Fort temple, said to be thousands of years old. As the steps simmer in the scorching heat, people run up them. The experience awaiting them is worth the effort. Besides, the view is breathtaking.
Divinity for all
Trichy and Thanjavur can be visited over a weekend by train from Cochin. The famous Sri Brahadeeswarar temple (or Bragatheeswarar) temple is a special place. It is said that Chola king Rajarajan Cholan dedicated the temple to the Dalit or downtrodden sections of society — possibly the first step towards the eradication of caste in the country.
Compared to many other temples and religious monuments in the country, this one is less commercial. An interesting thing to do is walk through the temple complex in a mundu or veshti (traditional garment worn at the waist) like the locals and discover the serenity within.
The Sri Brahadeeswarar temple is said to leave no shadow on the ground. You can’t help but marvel at the vision of those who built it. Just how ahead of the times were they?
This world heritage monument is a must-see. Equally amazing is the precision and longevity of the paintings on the ceilings, all in natural colours.
Another must is a visit to the Thanjavur palace. The upkeep is not up to the mark but, interestingly, a part of the palace is still used by the royal family. One of the souvenirs to pick from the palace museum store is a reverse glass painting done in the Thanjavur style. A visit to Thanjavur is a call to learn more about India and her infinite beauty. An invitation not just to indulge your wanderlust, but also to grow spiritually.
How to get there
Trichy and Thanjavur are well-connected by air, rail and road.
Trichy (or Tiruchirapalli)
The local bus service is available round the clock and connects most tourist spots. You can catch it from the central bus stand or the Chinthamani or Mani Guard Gate bus stand. If travelling in a group, it is better to hire a cab. Better still, an air-conditioned one. It is hot and humid in Trichy from May to September. Indian Airlines offers direct flights to Trichy from Chennai and Kochi. There are also good rail connections with other southern cities and towns such as Ernakulam, Madurai, Chennai and Tuticorin.
Web site: http://www.trichy.com/
The nearest airport is Trichy, about an hour’s drive away. You can also drive down from Chennai or cities like Ernakulam, Thiruvananthuram, Bangalore and Kochi. By rail, Thanjavur is connected to Chennai, Madurai and Chidambaram.
Web site: http://www.thanjavur.com/
- Trichy: 65 kilometres
- Madurai: 200 kilometres
- Chennai: 350 kilometres
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Normally I am a big fan of simplifying investment concepts, because I think that people who peddle investment information try to hold onto their relevance by making topics more difficult than they have to be. Big investment companies talk about the massive number of metrics they look at without telling you that most of the metrics add nothing to the prediction, and can actually lead astray. However, oversimplifying is not much better, and I wanted to discuss another way to think about diversity.
I will make a 1 paragraph TLDR at the end for those of you that do not want to read a long exhaustive article on diversity.
I am not counteracting any well established principles of diversity, but when I was taught about diversity it always ended up being overly broad. It was asset classes and sectors. These are very large categories, and I understand that the models and concepts imply diversity within the categories. I just wanted to shine some more light on this, because I think it gets short shrift. Diversity works at multiple levels.
The Common Approach to Diversity
Diversity is a way of reducing risk by spreading it around in the hope that returns can be maintained at reasonable levels. This is how I describe diversity as I was taught and how I read about it. I prefer to think about it as limiting catastrophic failures, though as I discuss at the end you really can’t protect against the downside of catastrophic failure. The point is that diversity is supposed to protect you from the risk of one stock.
Imagine flipping a coin with the risk of losing $1 per loss. The reward for winning is an unrealistic 10x. The reason I am not using the real odds is that you don’t bet on stocks like you’d bet on a coin or sports. It is possible for all your choices to come out a winner. Interestingly it is easier picking 10 stocks that are all winners (6%+ annual gains, which is a conservative return but solid), than it would be to call a horse race and properly guess the placing of each and ever horse. To account for this I am increasing the reward for the coin toss drastically.
You have only $1 since you pissed away all your other money on soda and cotton candy. Now you need money for insulin and a dentist. You can bet any amount you like. Would you bet your only dollar on one toss? Consider that if you put 10 cents per toss, each success would give you another dollar. Over the long run the tosses should be about 50% on each face. You are calling it in the air however, in this case it is perfectly random anyway so it doesn’t really matter. You can call heads every time and get near 50% over the long run. For our purposes just assume you got 50% for calling all heads. Now you have $5. Had you bet 100%, then the first toss could have made $10 or lost all your money. Now that might be a bet you want to take, but why would you?
Consider that you might do a bit better than 50%, and as long as you do at least 10% you are back where you started. There is a small chance that you could get 0% and lose everything, but that chance is equal to you getting 100%. If $1 was all you had the 0% ($0 left) is a negative of a greater magnitude than a 100% ($10 left) would be a positive. That sentence was confusing, but it means that the extreme negative event is more bad than the extreme positive event would be good. Getting shot once is far more to cry about than not getting shot 10 times is to cheer about.
This lengthy example was a type of diversity. It is true that it is only one game and you can just have equal bets, but the number of the bets is a type of diversity. You spread the risk of loss over numerous chances giving yourself a strong chance of coming out ahead even with some losses. No one can predict anything precisely so you need to position yourself to reap as much reward and evade as much loss. You can’t find rules this beneficial in the real world. At least you can’t be sure. There might be a mix of stocks that can give you something resembling a return like this, but you can’t ever know that. The odds and payouts are not set out for you in such a structured and consistent way.
None of that was particularly common per the section title, but let me fit it to the mold. If you spread your investment portfolio over numerous stocks and sectors you reduce the risk, while keeping the hope of solid returns alive. Asset allocation is the most common diversity model (broadly there are different allocations designed for specific goals). Asset allocation is well covered all over the place, I just feel that the discussion of techniques that apply within the asset classes is not covered. It is technically covered in stock analysis in general, but I want to tie it to the theory of diversity. The common approach to diversity would mean playing more than the quarters game, while I want to focus on the individual components, i.e. individual bets. Not groundbreaking, but important. It has been a while since I’ve written anything and I am easing back in with a simple enough topic, which I endeavor to make more complex.
The true goal of writing about something that you will understand if you read 10 other articles is to actually refine your knowledge after you read those 10 articles. I know you would think that the goal would be to not have to read those other 10 articles, but you’re better off reading them and this one. I would never presume to replace other articles, because I learn best when I learn from numerous sources. It allows me to impart my own brains to the synthesis and come up with something better. To use a map metaphor, I like to know all the roads and then decide which one is best rather than being told the best road. This is partly because people and GPS devices can be wrong, with the former usually being wrong. The other reason is that conditions change and I should be able to move with those changes.
Spread the Risk like Butter, Hope for Delicious Toast
Take a lesson from the venture capital industry. Instead of aiming for the bulls-eye do your research and give yourself the best chances. It would be great if you could set your self up for a few major gains even if the majority of your choices don’t pan out. One Apple in 1999 can wipe out a lot of losses in a portfolio and can even make gains. You should not overly divide your portfolio and really to implement any sort of real diversity I would start with at least $25,000, but a lot of the best diversity techniques probably won’t kick in until the $50k-$100k range. You want to get the point where using minimum $5k positions is not a massive exposure.
I am going to introduce you to the brainstorming portion of the article. Have you ever found that reading about other people’s “systems” is not particularly useful? I mean some are actually applicable, but this one is not one of them. It is just to give some example of diversity in practice, and to throw out ideas that might be incorporated. So that is what I want to do.
Diversity is more about lessening risk though, but the concept still applies. Basically imagine that you wanted 10% of your portfolio in banking stocks. The thing about me is that I do not like having 6 different banks because that is what mutual funds are for. So now I am chipping away at excess diversity. I would find my top 2 choices and probably go for 7% as my winner and 3% as my secondary. This divides the $5k position between 2 stock. In this case, I would look for a high risk and high reward stock as the smaller stake. That way you add a little spice to your investment. Even my primary position would not be all widows and orphans. The point is to give yourself some safety while allowing yourself to capture the big movers. Banks aren’t the best example, but technology has a lot of gems. There are safe tech stocks and risky ones. You should have a couple of the safe ones, but have a couple of ones with serious potential. Ones with the best potential also have the potential to scare you to death.
Too much diversity can be a bad thing. That is why using ETFs and mutual funds can be a sloppy way to achieve diversity. They have their place, but you should structure some of your money in a multitude of potentially high return investments. The diversity in the risky assets can maximize the potential for gains, especially if you’re good at research. The only problem is systematic risk, because you really can’t protect against that. You could try a mix of long and short, but that still carries quite a bit of risk. Prior to the crash stocks were doing well so when do you short? At the bottom. I am not a huge fan of shorting, mostly because I can’t see myself ever doing it effectively. I prefer to capture downside by buying puts, which is also a great way to protect your major investments. It costs a bit, but it might be worth it when you get edgy. If you are already up substantially it might be worth it, but if the stock pays no dividend and stays flat for too long you’re better off selling than just buying puts over and over. Those are topics for another day.
Just remember that if you pepper your high risk investments throughout your portfolio you can increase the diversity within asset classes. Along with an allocation mindset you can increase the overall diversity of your portfolio. This can allow you to undertake more risk and try to capture higher returns. The goal is to spread the rate of failure so that the most likely consequence is to come out ahead. In the coin toss game above you’d be ahead with a win ratio greater than 1 out of 10. We all wish we could have that, but even getting out even at 50% would work out well enough. Mix that with some standard safe investing plus some income, and you’d be fine. The secret to success is giving yourself the highest probability of coming out ahead, and that is usually by taking part in a lot of smaller probability contests. We tend not to think in terms of probabilities. You want loss to be on the small end of the probability spectrum, but you’ll never eliminate it. There will always be a chance that even the most diversified portfolio succumbs to a zombie apocalypse.
TLDR and Conclusion
Diversity is not just a way of managing risk, it is a way of giving yourself permission to invest in riskier things as long as you give yourself the best chance of coming out ahead. In order to do this it isn’t the best choice to differ the risk across asset categories. Instead you should diversify the risk within the category by mixing safer stocks with riskier ones. If you do your research well and choose the right stocks you won’t need the really boring ones, because the probability of you coming out ahead will be greater. Imagine a 30% chance of loss with subsets of greater and lesser loss. A 20% chance of being basically even, and a 50% chance of coming out ahead with subsets of greater gains. Risk will always exist. You can cut potential returns off at the knees and go for very safe investments, or you can go with riskier investments with greater returns but between the lot the chance of success is higher. It is just like playing multiple hands of blackjack simultaneously instead of using your whole bet on one hand. | <urn:uuid:ffd2fd1b-a70d-4288-8bd4-a8f49e574ad2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://themarketarchive.com/unsimplifying-diversity-investing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968136 | 2,404 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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About Pyramid Model Consortium
The Pyramid Model is a positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) framework that uses systems-thinking and implementation science to promote evidence-based practices. We created The Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children to help early educators build skills for supporting nurturing and responsive caregiving, create learning environments, provide targeted social-emotional skills, and support children with challenging behavior. Finally, we provide local, national, and global early childhood programs with comprehensive training, proven methods, and free resources.
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The purpose of the article is to show you how to manually install the Fluke-434-II, Fluke-435-II, Fluke-437-II, Fluke-438-II USB driver.
1. Go to link provided to download the Fluke-430 Series II USB driver to your desktop
2. Create a folder on your desktop called Fluke driver. Unzip the file you downloaded from the Fluke website to the Fluke driver folder on your desktop.
3. Turn on instrument.
4. Connect USB cable to instrument and 2.0 USB port on computer do not use 3.0 USB port.
5. Open the computers Device Manager by right clicking on Windows Icon in bottom left corner of computer screen.
6. Select Device Manager in the list by left clicking on that item.
7. Once the Device Manger window opens look down list looking for directory named Other Devices and inside that directory will be a USB Serial Port with an exclamation point.
8. Right click on the item in the Other devices directory USB Serial Port and select properties.
9. Right click on the driver tab and select update driver, select Browse my computer for driver software.
10. Navigate the browser to your desktop and select the Fluke driver folder and install.
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Sample Topic: Group Therapy for kids struggling with the loss of a family member.
Step 1 - Identify the main ideas - Group Therapy for kids struggling with the loss of a family member
Step 2 - Brainstorm Broader, Related and Narrower Terms. Consider the language that an expert would use.
Use the Boolean Operators AND, OR and NOT to create search statements to enter in databases, Spartan Search, Google, etc.
Wildcards allows you to search for multiple terms with the same root at once by using an asterisk.
Search for exact phrases using quotation marks.
Once you find a good article:
Information & Research Help
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Korean beginners: module 3
Time: 19:35 - 21:05
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.
Course Code: LKR103
Duration: 11 sessions (over 11 weeks)
What is the course about?
This course is for near beginners to acquire basic knowledge of the Korean language and culture through mostly speaking and listening.
This is a live online course. You will need:
- Internet connection. The classes work best with Chrome.
- A computer with microphone and camera is best (e.g. a PC/laptop/iMac/MacBook), or a tablet/iPad/smart phone/iPhone if you don't have a computer.
We will contact you with joining instructions before your course starts.
What will we cover?
making appointments and plans, the weather, clothes, your health.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- talk about appointments and plans-I want to /shall we?
-talk about the weather
- talk about clothing- colours and sizes
-talk about your health and symptoms.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is for those who have completed beginners modules 1 and 2.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
The lessons are based on the communicative approach. The emphasis is put on speaking and listening. There will be pair and group work as well as role-plays. Audio-visual techniques will be included whenever appropriate. Please note, students are expected to participate in oral classroom activities and to do some homework.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Textbook: Sejong Korean Conversation 1.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
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Saffron Walden Museum: "Object in Focus" partnership project with the Horniman Museum
Objects in Focus is a loans programme run by the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, funded by Arts Council England.
The aim of the programme is to improve access to their collections and strengthen partnerships with other museums and cultural organisations by offering a range of objects for loan free of charge.
From July until November, Saffron Walden Museum is loaning some tattoo design examples from the Horniman Museum, which illustrate tradition tattoo methods and designs. These tattoo models are from Sarawak, Borneo and date to the 19th century.
The display also includes a tattoo implement from Fiji, made from a bone plate with a bamboo handle, which has been decorated with plaited coconut fibre. It was collected in Viti Levu in 1876.
Further information about the Objects in Focus programme is available at: https://saffronwaldenmuseum.swmuseumsoc.org.uk/object-in-focus-partnership-project-with-the-horniman-museum/
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“All through the year we waited” as the song lyric goes, but in this case regarding Frontierado instead of Christmas. The first Friday of every August marks this holiday devoted to the myth of the old west rather than the grinding reality. For some of us the celebration kicked off Thursday night, for others they wait until the actual day of Frontierado to hold their festivities. Enjoy yourselves today and tonight, and enjoy the leftovers on Saturday and Sunday.
CHARLIE SIRINGO – Like a real-life Harry Flashman of the American West, Charles Angelo Siringo, cowboy, bounty hunter and lawman, fought alongside or against some of the biggest names of his era. Siringo crossed paths with the likes of Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, the Wild Bunch, Tom Horn, Clarence Darrow, Kid Russell, Will Rogers, William Borah and many others.
Charlie was born February 7th, 1855 on the Matagordo Peninsula in Texas. In 1867 he began doing ranch work in whatever positions his youthful frame could handle. By April of 1871 he was working for Abel “Shanghai” Pierce as a full-fledged cowboy. Siringo went on to work on cattle drives throughout Texas, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma (then called Indian Territory).
In 1876 our hero rose to the position of trail driver and led his subordinate cowboys in herding roughly 2,500 head of Longhorn Cattle from Austin, TX along the Chisholm Trail to Dodge City, KS. Spring of 1877 found Charlie once again serving as trail driver from Austin to Dodge City.
On his trips to iconic Dodge City, Siringo had supposedly friendly encounters with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson and witnessed an altercation between a pair of Dodge City merchants and Clay Allison, the notorious gunfighter and bullying rancher.
While in Dodge City a few days after the 4th of July, 1877 Charlie signed on with David Beales and Deacon Bates to work in their cattle drive from their closing Colorado ranch down to the Texas Panhandle, where they were establishing THE legendary LX Ranch in what later became Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Potter and Randall Counties in Texas.
On this cattle drive led by Trail Boss Bill Allen, Siringo met Owl-Head Johnson, the famed cattle drive cook and mess wagon driver. Charles and the others encountered buffalo herds and roughly 300 Apaches from Arizona. He would work for the LX Ranch for years.
Like any veteran of several years’ worth of cattle drives and cowboying, Siringo had already had assorted exchanges of gunfire with would-be rustlers. In 1880, when some LX Cattle were rustled during a jaunt in New Mexico, Charlie got to pursue the biggest rustler of them all, Billy the Kid.
The Kid and his gang had stolen the cattle, so Charlie Siringo joined up with Sheriff Pat Garrett’s posse pursuing Billy and his gang all the way through December of 1880, when Billy was captured. His appetite for that sort of action whetted, Siringo spent 1881 and 1882 bounty hunting and taking down active rustling operations.
In 1884 Charlie married Mamie Lloyd and gave up cowboying to open a store with her in Caldwell, KS. He also began writing his memoirs (At age twenty-nine!), little realizing the most active period of his life still lay ahead of him. Siringo’s autobiography A Texas Cow Boy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony, was published in 1885 to much acclaim.
It proved so popular that in 1886 Charlie moved his wife Mamie and new-born daughter Viola to Chicago, where the ever-enterprising figure published a 2nd Edition partnered with Dobson Publishing. Siringo, his wife and daughter were rooming at a boardinghouse on Harrison Avenue when the May 4th Haymarket bombing and riot happened just a few blocks away.
Outraged by this incident and longing for another change of career, Charles A Siringo went into the Chicago office of the storied Pinkerton Detective Agency on June 29th and applied for a position, listing Pat Garrett among others as references. Garrett replied back with a recommendation and the Pinkerton Agency hired Siringo. Charlie was delighted, but as the years went by, he would grow as disillusioned with the Pinkertons as Dashiell Hammett would decades later.
After some minor work regarding the aftermath of the Haymarket Affair, Siringo was assigned to shadow some banking officials suspected by their superiors of crooked behavior, investigated a missing persons case and recovered some stolen jewelry. Autumn of 1886 saw Charlie at last get his wish to be transferred west, and he was reassigned to the recently opened Pinkerton office in Denver, CO.
This was when Jefferson “Soapy” Smith was still the crime boss running Denver and much of Siringo’s detective work that winter involved exposing a few corrupt lower-level politicians in the Mile High City. He also corralled some of Soapy’s crooked street car conductors, who had devices for double-punching their rings, letting them charge the company for a much larger amount of work than they had actually done.
In the spring of 1887 Charlie was sent on a mission to deal with the Archuleta County Uprising, which involved vote fraud, then as now a thorn in the side of the electoral process. Next he spent 2 months pursuing a Wells Fargo stagecoach robber down into Mexico and from there to El Paso, TX and finally to the thief’s home in Leavenworth, KS where he had the police place him under arrest. While following the robber he kept a record of every purchase the man made with his stolen cash, as evidence.
Not long afterward, Siringo and 3 other Pinkerton men were dispatched to Roseta, CO, where they broke into the Bassick Mine one night on behalf of the Agency’s client, millionaire David Bryan of Minnesota. There was a dispute over ownership and the well-armed and well-stocked Pinkerton 4 held off the Bassick & Associates’ men for several days, at one point reinforced by 2 hired gunmen from Silver Cliff, CO. In the end the courts did as David Bryan wanted, and appointed a custodianship over the mine while the legal battle raged on.
October of 1887 found Siringo assigned to work undercover on a ranch whose female owner had hired the Pinkerton Agency to gather evidence that the ranch’s foreman was working with her new partner to skim money from her.
Once that case was finished, our hero compiled an after-attack investigation report on the Ute Indian Meeker Massacre for the Pinkerton Agency’s biggest client – the U.S. Government. That investigation took place in White River and Milk Creek, CO during the Ute War.
During the winter of 1887 into 1888, Charlie Siringo was assigned to infiltrate a gang of wanted fugitives who were passing themselves off as honest ranchers in Wyoming at a spread called the Keeline Ranch.
This was a particularly dangerous undercover mission because the rival Rocky Mountain Detective Agency had already lost three of their operatives who tried to infiltrate the gang. Led by Tom Hall, the Keeline Ranch outlaws were shrewdly suspicious of newcomers and had, one after the other, sniffed out and lynched the RMDA men, leaving them to be found dead dangling from tree branches.
Given Wyoming winters, the gang was basically hunkering down until they could resume activities in the spring. Siringo rode into the area and used clever multi-layered false identities to convince the outlaws’ friends in the area that he was a fugitive himself.
Beginning at the Roundup Number 5 Saloon, an establishment friendly with the Keeline Ranch desperadoes, Charlie ran a masterful deception in which his surface identity of Charlie Henderson was meant to be seen through, with any digging by the gang resulting in them finding out that he was “actually” a real-life fugitive gunman named John Pumphry.
“John Pumphry” was a closed case from the Pinkerton files, a killer who had fled the country years earlier, so Siringo could be fairly confident that the gang would not know that and would accept that he really WAS Pumphry using the alias Charlie Henderson. Tom Hall and company bought it and our hero spent the winter partying hard with the gang, all the while compiling information and covertly getting it mailed off to his superiors in Denver from time to time.
While posing as Pumphry, Charlie also unearthed a lot of hot bonus information that was not of any particular use to the Pinkerton Detective Agency for any of its current cases but might be useful in the future.
Among that intelligence was the name of a criminal who, for $500, would break arrested outlaws out of city or county jails via hacksaws concealed on his person like a spy. Under false names he would get himself jailed in the same slammer as the target his clients wanted busted out, then use his concealed tools to get them out, with anyone else in the cells welcome to escape, too.
Other information involved a fugitive network running from western states to New Orleans, LA, where outlaws paying their way along that network would be taken by ship to Buenos Aires, Argentina to work in outlaw gangs in that country. (Talk about aggressive recruiting!)
Shortly before spring arrived, Siringo managed to slip away and reach Cheyenne, WY, where the Pinkertons’ client, the D.A.’s office run by Kalter Skoll, was located. Charlie’s testimony to the Grand Jury, backed up by his filed reports, succeeded in getting that Grand Jury to issue arrest warrants for all of the Keeline Ranch Gang that the detective had been able to identify. Wyoming lawmen then surrounded that ranch in great force and brought in the outlaws.
Next up for Charles Siringo was catching the Denver & Rio Grande train robbery gang of the Smith Brothers (and one sister), followed by a big shakeup at the Denver Field Office. Siringo later said he did not trust a lot of the other operatives at the Denver office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and had written a friend that he considered the atmosphere there to be as deadly as when he was out in the field.
Charlie’s instincts proved rock-solid, as 1888 saw a Pinkerton Home Office corruption investigation of the Denver fiefdom of the office Chief (called only “Superintendent A” in Siringo’s memoir). That man was found to have been offering all manner of extra services to Denver officials under the Pinkerton flag but keeping all the charged money for himself and his equally corrupt subordinates.
“A” and his cronies were fired and replaced. James McCartney, a man that Charlie came to admire, replaced that corrupt administrator after running the investigation that rooted out “A’s” misdeeds.
After that, Siringo was assigned to go undercover in the “Paddy Mack (Patrick McNamarra)” Gang of ore thieves. The client was the Aspen Mining & Smelting Company, a silver mining company that was losing a lot of its ore to Paddy and his gang. When Charlie was through the gang and their fences had all been brought down and Paddy himself was dead.
And so it went, year in and year out. Naturally, assorted cases resulted in dead ends, but for the purposes of this Frontierado item I’m focusing on Siringo’s cases which had definitive outcomes.
Mamie Siringo passed away in 1890 and Charles sent their daughter Viola to be raised by his late wife’s aunt and uncle.
February of 1891 saw Charlie assigned to an investigation on behalf of Pinkerton’s new client New Mexico Governor L Bradford Prince. For 6 months the detective looked into the attempted assassinations of politician Thomas Catron, University of New Mexico President Elias Stover and others.
Siringo’s investigation was unearthing evidence involving everyone from the Santa Fe Ring of corrupt landowners & lawyers to the populist Las Gorras Blancas movement. Obviously powerful people didn’t like where any of this was headed and the client shut down the investigation before Charlie could prove any culpability. Not wanting his New Mexico sojourn to be a complete waste, the detective bought 265 acres of land to establish his Sunny Slope Ranch near Santa Fe.
In 1892 our hero was sent to Idaho to investigate corrupt union officials on behalf of their management opposition, the Idaho Mine Owners Protective Association. At the end of this 14 month investigation Charlie’s evidence and testimony helped put 18 of the criminals in prison.
Siringo married again in 1893, this time to Lillie Thomas, with whom he had a son William in 1896. They divorced when Lillie was insistent on moving to Los Angeles, but Charles did not want to go. She took their son with her.
It was in the 1890s that Charlie met lawman Joe Lefors and Tom Horn, the gunfighter and future killer for hire, who was also working as a Pinkerton Detective. Siringo wasn’t shocked by Horn’s later troubles, since he judged the man to be amiable but with a dark side to his personality.
Come 1899 and Charlie was assigned to the Pinkerton Squad hired by “Mr E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad” to chase Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch faction of the Hole In The Wall Gang. That stellar outfit also featured Joe Lefors, Lord Baltimore and others. While working undercover at one point as a criminal named Charles L Carter, Siringo met and interacted with Butch, the Sundance Kid, Kid Curry and other members of the gang.
Over the next 4 years our hero was able to obtain crucial intelligence to arrest some lesser gang members and to disrupt their elaborate methods of communication (including “drop-hole” mail locations) but the only big name that Siringo landed was Kid Curry (who later escaped prison).
In 1907 Charlie’s growing disillusionment with the Pinkertons’ methods against labor unions and striking miners hit the boiling point. He was assigned as the bodyguard for the prosecution’s State’s Evidence witness Harry Orchard (real name Albert E Horsley) in the Idaho trial of Big Bill Haywood.
Orchard had confessed to killing 17 people during the Idaho Labor Unrest, including the bombing murder of former Governor Frank Steunenberg. Orchard had turned State’s Evidence and was testifying that he had been hired to kill Steunenberg at the behest of 3 labor leaders, including Bill Haywood.
The Haywood Trial began on May 9th, 1907 and ended on July 29th. Famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow was part of the legal team defending Haywood. During the trial suspicions were raised that Orchard had really killed Frank Steunenberg over his own grievances with the late governor, and was being “put up to” implicating labor leaders who were foes of many of the Pinkertons’ clients.
Siringo fulfilled his bodyguard duties to keep Orchard alive during the trial but when Haywood was acquitted on July 29th, a turning point was reached. During the trial’s testimony the detective may have had some suspicions he had about his employers confirmed. He then thwarted an attempt by unnamed “anti-labor forces” to kill Clarence Darrow, Bill Haywood and the other 2 labor leaders that Orchard had accused of hiring him – Moyer and Pettibone. Soon after, Charlie resigned from the Pinkerton Agency and married his new wife, Grace.
In 1909 Charles and Grace divorced, and he worked a few cases for the William J Burns Detective Agency. Then he moved to his Sunny Slope Ranch in New Mexico, where he wrote a lengthy book about his experiences with the Pinkertons.
The Pinkerton Agency’s lawyers took action to prevent the book from being published, claiming it violated the confidentiality agreement that Siringo, like all Pinkerton operatives, had signed at the start of his employment. The Agency had its lawyers take such swift action against Charlie because in 1907 Morris Friedman, another former Pinkerton employee, had published his book The Pinkerton Labor Spy, which had already given the Agency a major black eye in terms of public image.
With the famed Charles Siringo now authoring another tell-all book of his own it looked like exposes by former Pinkerton men might become what the spurt of exposes by former CIA men was to the 1970s. The Pinkerton organization acted to shut off the flow of revelations about its questionable methods of operation.
The legal proceedings dragged on for years and in the end Charlie was only allowed to publish the book with the Pinkerton name changed to Dickenson. Other parts of the book also had to use pseudonyms as a condition for publication. Assorted place names and dates also had to be redacted, but in the end A Cowboy Detective was published in 1912.
In 1913 Charlie married again, this time to Ellen Partain, but his marital track record remained unbroken and the pair soon divorced.
Boiling with anger over the legal battles with the Pinkertons, in 1915 Siringo privately published a much more explosive account of Pinkerton activities and influence. While also attacking the dangers of Anarchists, the book, titled Two Evil Isms – Pinkertonism and Anarchism, claimed that Pinkerton agents participated in much scandalous and illegal conduct on behalf of their monied and powerful clients. Among those activities: having Pinkerton operatives engage in vote fraud by voting many, many times under different names for the candidates favored by those clients (which, if you’ll recall, included the U.S. government).
The Pinkerton organization hit the roof! Through their lawyers they made it so that it was against the law for many years to sell any more copies of the book. They also wanted to take legal action against Charles Siringo personally, but New Mexico Governor William C McDonald blocked their extradition attempts against Siringo.
The year 1916 saw Charlie become a New Mexico Mounted Patrolman at the age of 61. He oversaw their efforts against the lingering rustling activities in the state until 1918, when his health forced him to retire. He moved to Los Angeles, where, like many Old West heroes of the past he became popular among entertainers like silent film western star William S Hart, comedian Will Rogers and others.
During the late Teens and the Roaring Twenties Siringo even hung around with fellow Old West icons Wyatt Earp and Kid Russell, who was now a world-famous artist. Charlie sold his New Mexico ranch because he needed the money, and he also worked as a consultant on a few silent movie westerns, including William S Hart’s classic 1925 film Tumbleweeds.
Siringo had a bit part as an aging cowboy in the 1924 movie Nine Scars Make A Man and possibly others which are among the countless silent films lost forever. He also penned two more books, History of Billy the Kid (1920) and Riata and Spurs (1927). In 1919 he had published a pamphlet collecting many of the old (as in 1870s and 1880s) cowboy songs that men like him had actually sung to cattle to calm them. It was titled The Lone Companion of a Lone Star Cowboy.
Charles Angelo Siringo passed away in Altadena, CA on October 18th, 1928, and was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery.
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The VMT is home to 18 crude oil storage tanks, 14 of which are in service. Each tank has a capacity of 510,000 barrels, features a conical fixed roof, and is supported by 61 interior columns. The storage tanks are paired within containment dikes that hold 110 percent of the volume of both tanks, which accounts for water and snow accumulation. The tanks provide temporary storage capacity for incoming crude oil and hydrocarbon vapors that off-gas from inventory are carefully managed by the Power Vapor Facility.
The power-generation facility on the VMT, Power Vapor’s primary facilities include three steam boilers each with an output of 175,000 pounds/hour at 600 psi at 750F. The facility manages vapors from the tank farm and tanker loading activities; Berths 4 and 5 are both connected to Power Vapor. The plant can produce at least 50 percent of power requirements for the VMT from the vapor system; the rest is supplemented by ultra-low sulfur diesel.
About 20 tankers a month load at the Terminal. Alyeska does not own the tankers, but conducts all tanker loading and, through the Ship Escort/Response Vessel System (SERVS), is contracted as primary response action contractor in the event or threat of an oil spill from a tanker carrying TAPS-transported crude. The VMT originally had four operational berths; Berths 1 and 3 are now out of service. Berths 4 and 5 are operational, both with vapor-recovery arms.
Alyeska does not own the tankers loaded with crude at the Valdez Marine Terminal. They are owned by shipping companies who contract with producers to carry crude oil to market. The entire berthing and loading process takes about a day to complete, and the largest tankers carry up to 2 million barrels of oil.
Tankers carry ballast on the way to the Valdez Marine Terminal. Ballast is water taken on by a tanker to stabilize the ship when it is not carrying crude oil. Today, many tankers have separate tanks for water and cargo, but some still carry ballast and crude oil in the same compartment. The Ballast Water Treatment plant can process any ballast contaminated with oil.
Alyeska, through its Ship Escort/Response Vessel System (SERVS), is the primary oil spill response contractor for the shipping companies and provides response equipment and personnel in the event or threat of an oil spill.
Ballast Water Treatment
This water treatment plant treats around 9 million barrels of water a year. Approximately 35% off that is storm ballast from tankers, which is water taken on by tankers to stabilize the ship when empty. The rest is a combination of industrial waste water generated from operations and storm run-off collected from process areas around the VMT. Water is treated through a series of settling tanks, Dissolved Air Flotation Units, air strippers, thermal oxidizers and biological treatment tanks before it is safe to discharge into Port Valdez. Each year, the plant collects approximately 75,000 barrels of recovered crude and returns it to the system for loading onto tankers.
Valdez is often referenced to as “Snowtown, USA;” the snowiest town in America. While that means Valdez employees and their families get to enjoy all forms of winter recreating, it also translates into a significant effort to keep the VMT running throughout the winter, when storms can dump as much as three feet of snow in a day! Loaders and other heavy equipment clear miles of roads around the VMT all winter, and crews are on site to manually remove snow from tank tops and other process areas where machinery is not permitted. | <urn:uuid:e51bf879-4b3e-4d00-813b-e7ce989c1748> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alyeska-pipe.com/valdez-marine-terminal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94898 | 769 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The countdown begins for the Final National Senior Certificate exams. 99 days until the first matric exam. Here is when the exams will take place and how you can prepare for them.
The 2022 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams will take place on Monday 31 October 2022. Grade 12 learners will be writing English Paper 1 as their first exam.
Learners may access the exam timetable from the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) website. The timetable will show when learners will be writing which subjects and how long each paper will be.
In preparation for the exams, the Basic Education Department suggests that learners work through past papers as it will give them a better understanding of which questions to expect in their final exams. Both past paper questions and memos can be found on the DBE website.
Learners are encouraged to make use of mobile notes, mnemonics and mind map to help them study. Mobile notes are great for studying key concepts and easy to make so that you can take them wherever you go.
A mnemonic code is a useful technique for learning information that is difficult to remember. In the code, each work stands for something else for example “Roy G. Biv” for the colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
Mind maps are helpful tools because they who information that we have learnt in the same way that our brains “see” information. Adding pictures to the mind map will also help in remembering certain concepts.
On the day of the exam, learners should ensure that they have all their necessary stationery, such as pencils, pens, an eraser, a sharpener and a calculator with new batteries. Matriculants will also need their ID card or document, examination admission letter and their stickers with their name and exam number (if applicable). | <urn:uuid:fa24cd2e-ba77-4f38-9c5c-c0f9eba3ec48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://debbieupdate.com/when-final-matric-exams-for-2023-will-commence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941327 | 383 | 2.265625 | 2 |
In any society, one fundamental field in which gender is expressed is technology. Technical skills and domains of expertise appear to be divided between the sexes, shaping masculinities and femininities.
In the contemporary West, which pioneered industrialization, allowing it to dominate the worldwide production of material and intellectual goods, of commodities, services, and desires, technology is firmly coded as male. Men are viewed as having a natural affinity with technology, whereas women supposedly fear or dislike it. Men actively engage with machines, making and using them. Women, too, may rely on machines but are effectively regarded as passive beneficiaries of the inventive flame. The modernist association of technology with masculinity translates into gender-specific everyday experiences, historical narratives, employment practices, education, the design of new technologies and the distribution of power across a global society that sees technology as the driving force of progress.
The exhibition analyzes the material worlds we are creating through technology and technology’s role in shaping local and global configurations of power, forms of identity, and ways of living. It draws on radical feminist and ecofeminist theories from the 1970s until now that criticized and revised the nexus tying new technologies and techno-science to patriarchal ideas. Its agenda is both intellectual and political. The works of the artists included in the show go beyond critique to think and enact other kinds of knowledge, skills, and bodily practices regarding the use as well as production of (new) technologies.
Curators: Anne Faucheret, Vanessa Joan Müller
Installation view: Hysterical Mining, Kunsthalle Wien 2019, Photo: Jorit Aust. Courtesy the artists
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From the VRchives: Vienna Biennale 2019. Hysterical Mining @kunsthallewien Vienna, presented from 29 May to 6 October 2019 the exhibition draws on radical feminist and ecofeminist theories to analyse the material worlds we are creating through technology and technology’s role in shaping local and global configurations of power, forms of identity, and ways of living click the link in our bio for further details #fromthearchives #360 #360art #360photo #ViennaBiennale2019 #KunsthalleWien #Vienna #gallery #exhibition #art #installationart #sculpture #drawing #abstract #geometry #contemporaryart #modernart #seemoreart #GalleriesNow #lifestyle #ID15255 | <urn:uuid:cda84231-c2e6-4a07-8c26-802ff26050fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.galleriesnow.net/shows/vienna-biennale-2019-hysterical-mining-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.903527 | 500 | 2.609375 | 3 |
With all of the health benefits that cabbage is said to have, you may wonder if it is safe to give some to your cats.What Are The Health Benefits For Humans Who Eat Cabbage?Because of all the fiber that cabbage contains, it is also perfect for your digestive health.When you cook cabbage, you lose some of the nutritional benefits, so look for recipes and meals that include raw cabbage.There is a possibility that cats get some of the same nutritional benefits from cabbage that humans do, but it is not significant enough that your cat needs to have cabbage in their diet.What Are The Best Vegetables To Give A Cat?They don’t need any vegetables in their diet to survive.Cook the carrots thoroughly and then cut them into small bite-sized pieces.Red cabbage packs many of the same nutritional benefits that the other varieties of the cabbage do.Whenever you introduce a new food in your cat’s diet, make sure that you start with a minimal amount.If cabbage does not sit well in your cat’s stomach, it will be best to find out with a small amount rather than a significant amount.A cabbage leaf, boiled, cut up, and put over your cat’s food from time to time is safe.Cat’s don’t need cabbage to survive, and although it works for an occasional treat, there are likely other vegetables that are easier to prepare and feed to your cat. .
Healthy Fruits and Veggies for Pets – Trupanion Pet Care
Adding fruits and vegetables to your pet’s diet will help ensure that they’re getting plenty of essential nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, to help them stay strong and healthy and boost their immune system.Onions, garlic, wild mushrooms, avocado, and rhubarb are all poisonous to pets, and corn is also a common allergen.Corn may be an allergen, however it is a lot less common then others (including beef, dairy, wheat, chicken and egg in dogs).Symptoms of a food allergy include sickness, diarrhea, and skin problems, however your veterinarian will be able to confirm for sure if your pet has an allergyand can advise on the best course of action. .
Can Cats Eat Cabbage or Red Cabbage?
How To Feed Cabbage To Your Cat.Do include red cabbage in their diet, you can:.Are There Any Downsides To Cabbage In Your Cat’s Diet?The report mentions that some fruits and vegetables, including red cabbage, contain polyhydroxyphenols, a plant-derived anti-thiamine.However, if you are feeding your cat a homemade diet this is something to consider.With saying this, being fed in small amounts raw cabbage shouldn’t cause significant drops.Cooking helps deactivates this compound, making cooked cabbage safer than raw cabbage for this purpose.In conclusion, cabbage and red cabbage are healthy vegetables to feed your cat in moderation.Lightly cooking before being fed, and only feeding in moderation occasionally throughout the week is the best way to include cabbage in their diet.If you are feeding a completely homemade diet, some moderation in the amount of red cabbage being fed should be had. .
5 Dangerous Foods You Should Avoid Giving Your Cat
Onions, garlic, shallots, and scallions can cause damage to your cat’s red blood cells and lead to anemia.Cats with symptoms of lethargy, weakness, reduced appetite, pale gums, and orange to dark red urine should be taken to the vet immediately.Salmonella and E. coli can also be transmitted to humans, so be careful to properly wash your hands after cooking and keep your cat away from these raw foods.Keep your cat from eating raw bones as well—she could choke on them, injure her digestive tract, or damage her teeth.Chocolate contains substances called methylxanthines, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea, high body temperature, muscle tremors, abnormal heart rhythm, abdominal discomfort, increased thirst, and seizures.Ingestion can cause vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, disorientation, trouble breathing, coma, and even death.Cats have trouble digesting the lactose in milk, which can cause an upset stomach or diarrhea.Because kittens only drink from their mother’s milk for a few weeks, their digestive systems are often not equipped to handle a reintroduction to lactose.Even a small amount of grapes and raisins can cause your cat to become ill — they can even lead to rapid development of kidney failure.Without a sufficient amount of taurine, cats can develop heart disease, vision and dental issues.Here are some easy tips for preventing your cat from eating dangerous and toxic foods:.
Eight Human Foods That Your Cat Can Safely Eat
Dr. Buchoff also points out that when you add vegetables to your cat's diet, you're providing them with a healthy helping of phytonutrients, which provide valuable bioflavonoids and phenols that impart extra health benefits and can help fight against cancer, autoimmune disease, and infections.If you're wondering if there are any human foods that you should never offer as a treat for your pet, Dr.
Buchoff says the answer is a resounding yes.Iceberg lettuce will just make everything too runny, or give your cat diarrhea, and the onions will cause anemia.".This simple step in your cat's regular food prep will prevent your cat from chronic dehydration as a result of only eating dry food, which Dr. Buchoff warns can lead to all sorts of diseases, notably hyperthyroidism and urinary tract diseases, including kidney failure.".
The Importance Of Greens For Cats
Perhaps it’s because grass contains nutrients such as folic acid or it could help remedy and prevent constipation.Do I, Asheville’s natural veterinarian, think it’s a good idea to give your purr-bucket something green to munch on, especially if they live inside?Even if your feline is an indoor/outdoor cat, offering her bits of kitty salad is lovely and will be much appreciated.If you happen to have too little natural light, the situation can be remedied with grow lights.Sprinkling Barley Cat on your cat’s food will not only enhance the taste but may also enhance nutrient absorption.I have found, the cats that adore grass will pretty much also eat any other plant or veggie in sight.Safe green plants include coleus, corn plant, dracaena, and spider plant. . | <urn:uuid:5dcfc9df-03d0-46a5-8512-8109ddc95fc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.easygrowvegetables.net/vegetable/cabbage/is-cabbage-ok-for-cats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937494 | 1,361 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The life of a sailor is composed of the excitement of exploration, its fun and duties, but also from the associate dangers. They can be of different nature, but they are either cause by the weather, crew members being washed overboard, fire or injury. All these dangers can be kept under control, with a little attention and the rigorous instructing all the sailors have to pass before hopping on board.
The safety of the sailors and the crew on board is the highest priority. Before being assigned to different mission, all the sailors are trained to survive in harsh conditions that might be generated by different accidents. All the sailors are checked for good health conditions, the ability to swim and float in the sea water. The second stage training consists of being able to handle a canoe in severe weather conditions. Each canoe is equipped with a minimal survival kit. The requisite includes fire extinguishers, life jackets, water pumps, harnesses and nets, radio equipment and the equipment to locate and communicate the position of the canoe via GPS.
Because each sailor that leaves in a mission has to return home safely, different governments around the world and the Polynesian Voyaging Society have settled down a set of safety and emergency procedures. It has eight chapters that describe in detail all the dangers and emergency procedures that a sailor might face at sea. Each thick chapter is a mandatory lecture for all the sailors, because it not only contains the steps and procedures that have to be followed under certain circumstances, but also different means to prevent and avoid the risk of danger and emergency.
Even all eight chapters treat equally all the accidents that might happen at sea, the most potential damage faced at sea are the high winds, that might break, spar, boom or mast the vessel. | <urn:uuid:27e3d988-bbc2-483f-9358-c171f3eee665> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dawn-trust.org.uk/dangers-of-life-at-sea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959508 | 350 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Legacy of TMI, power of gas industry makes subsidies uphill battle
Three Mile Island nuclear plant incident – President Jimmy Carter, second from left, visits the nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pa., USA, April 4, 1979. The plant started leaking radioactive steam, Thursday, March 28, contaminating the area. (AP-Photo)
(Harrisburg) — Pennsylvania is the latest state to debate whether to provide a rescue package to its nuclear power industry, but the commonwealth’s unique history and current energy landscape may make subsidies a tougher sell here.
The nuclear industry has struggled with stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheaper natural gas and renewables, and high operating costs. Its response in part has been to make a controversial, but often successful, pitch to state governments to create so-called zero emission credits — effectively broadening the definition of what counts as clean energy.
It’s worked in Illinois, New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. But Pennsylvania is different.
Cost is ‘a little hard to swallow’
“Three Mile Island is the only plant facing an imminent shutdown, and Three Mile Island is the only plant with all this baggage associated with it,” said David Hess, a former state environmental secretary and lobbyist who worked for Exelon, owner of Three Mile Island’s Unit 1 reactor.
TMI’s Unit 2 reactor partially melted down in March 1979, an event which caused tens of thousands of people to evacuate central Pennsylvania. Hess said Exelon (which did not own Unit 1 at the time) may not have realized the legacy was, “as strong as it was–especially with the 40th anniversary and all the media coverage.”
Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry, which has been growing its share of electric power generation — in direct competition with nuclear plants — provides “more of a counterweight, in terms of a political presence, opposing the proposals,” Hess said.
State aide to nuclear plants was challenged in court. However, earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case from the Electric Power Supply Association, a power industry trade group, after lower courts upheld the New York and Illinois programs.
The Supreme Court’s decision clears the path for Pennsylvania to implement similar subsidies.
Two bills under consideration in the state House and Senate would provide an approximately half-billion-dollar annual subsidy to nuclear plants. Public hearings have been held on both. More hearings on the House version are scheduled for April 29 and May 6.
Rep. Donna Bullock (D- Philadelphia) is undecided on the bailout bill. Both the House and Senate measures would cost the state’s electric customers about half-a-billion dollars annually.
“That’s a little hard for me to swallow, to spend this amount of money, and not have any advances when it comes to cleaner energy, and to not have any advances when it comes to more affordable energy,” Bullock said.
The nuclear industry argues the design of the power market is flawed, because it’s focused on delivering the cheapest electricity in the short-term, and it fails to consider the valuable long-term assets nuclear power brings to the table — like carbon-free emissions.
‘What did we do for people who make buggy wheels?’
In remarks at the Upstream PA 2019 oil and gas conference in State College last week, Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Bradford), who chairs the Senate Environmental Resource and Energy Committee, said he does not see a lot of support for the subsidies.
“Some of these things, it’s really time to close them,” Yaw said, referring to nuclear plants. “When the nuclear industry came into my office I said, ‘I don’t understand why we should be doing something for you. What did we do for the people who used to make buggy wheels?’ Some things just have a natural life cycle.”
A state utility regulator also sent a memo to legislators last week, noting his opposition to the Senate version of the nuclear bill, SB 510. Public Utility Commissioner Andrew Place said there are less expensive ways to achieve similar goals — citing carbon pricing and energy efficiency, among other things.
Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf have chosen their words carefully on issue of nuclear subsidies — generally saying it’s an important issue they’re willing to discuss.
In a February interview for StateImpact Pennsylvania’s documentary Three Mile Island: The New Nuclear Dilemma, Exelon’s Senior Vice President of State Governmental and Regulatory Affairs David Fein said he did not think it was awkward for the company to be asking for a subsidy on the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident.
“I think the performance of the station since that time is exceptional,” Fein said. “Exelon didn’t own the station when the accident happened, and there’s a reason why people hire Exelon to run their nuclear stations.”
At a hearing on the House bill last week, Exelon said HB 11 must be passed (as currently written) by June 1 in order to avoid the planned early retirement of Three Mile Island in September. Only nine voting days remain on Pennsylvania’s legislative calendar before that deadline.
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The questions that children have about divorce are not the same as the questions that adults ask. You’re worried about how to divide your 401(k). Your child just wants to know where they’re going to live.
Because of these differences, parents sometimes inadvertently make divorce harder for their children than necessary. They fail to give them the information and assurance that they seek. You must take the time to consider their questions if you really want to put the kids first.
8 common questions children have when their parents divorce
Your children may certainly have unique questions about your specific situation, and you have to take that into account. However, here are eight common questions to get you started as you think of things from their perspective:
- Where am I going to live? Will all of us still live together or not?
- Do I get to stay in the same school and will I see my friends?
- Why are you both choosing to get a divorce?
- Is this divorce my fault in any way?
- Is the divorce forever, or is it a temporary thing that may eventually result in you both getting back together?
- When is the divorce going to happen and when it is going to be done?
- Are we going to have to move out of our house? What happens to all of our stuff?
- Will I still get to see/live with my brothers and sisters?
All of these questions can be very important to your child, so it helps to have the answers thought out before you have that first big discussion.
When you’re a parent who is about to get divorced
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An online employee management system is a distributed software developed to systematically maintain employee data and other important information of an organization. These online systems eliminate human error and therefore save companies a lot of time and money. The system helps keep both professional and personal details of the employees who work within an organization safe and secured. It lowers the burden and pressure on the HR department. Thanks to the advancement of technology, that has offered the most convenient solutions that make the management work faster and easier.
Some of the important benefits of an online employee management system include
- Better accuracy and efficiency
- Boost profitability
- Exists few compliances risks
- Less occurrence of manual errors
- High level of productivity
- Low cost
- High level of motivation
By implementing an online employee management system, you can easily push the mountains of your organization and expand your business in all corners of the globe. With the help of this system, it is easier than ever to handle a remote workforce.
What is an online employee management system?
An online employee management system is a kind of software developed to manage an organization’s employee details systematically and conveniently. The software has been structured to monitor, assess and control employees’ working hours in an accurate and organized manner. Along with this, the payroll of employees can be managed on time. With the help of this system, human resource activities can easily be managed.
For any business, its employees are its true assets. However, managing an organization’s employees is not an easy task. It is difficult to perform, especially when the number of employees increases and the business expands. When the number of employees is high, it becomes harder to manage and control the entire workforce.
Why is an online employee management system important for your organization?
Just imagine a situation where employees’ important data is available in a centralized database system 24/7, and you can access the data anytime. Having this access is one of the most important benefits that an employee management system offers.
What are the benefits of an employee management system?
- It improves workforce management efficiently
If you have started operating a business under dozens of workers or if you have a multinational business set up, then relying on the manual workforce to manage and handle employee data is nothing but a nightmare. Moreover, when you opt for tracking data manually, there is a higher chance of human error. However, you can avoid this situation with the help of this management system that smoothens the entire work procedure.
- It improves employee engagement
The online management system offers many ways to improve employee engagement and workplace motivation. This software system comes with many effective features. One of them is a performance management system that helps evaluate and monitor workers’ progress.
- It helps to keep your employee information safe
Through this software, you can keep your employee information safe and secured.
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Pharmaceutical Benefit Management and the Use of Psychotropic Medication for Children and Adolescent
Approved by Executive Committee January 12, 2009
To be reviewed January 2014
Clinical research and the development of new and effective psychotropic medications have changed the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry. The informed uses of psychotropic medications have improved the lives of children and adolescents who suffer from psychiatric illness. However, many of these medications are used “off label” or carry cautions and “Black Box” warnings mandated by the Food and Drug Administration. Achieving the appropriate balance between clinical effective use and the known risks and side effects associated with these treatments requires individualized medical decision making. To provide the optimal treatment, the child and adolescent psychiatrist must have access to a full range of psychotropic medications. Restrictions and limitations placed upon a physician’s choice among medications expose children and adolescents to unnecessary medical risks and the potential for non-compliance. These complications ultimately impact the quality of the child’s life and result in an overall increase in health care costs.
Insurance companies and policy makers have turned to Pharmaceutical Benefit Management (PBM) as a means to control the escalating costs of medications and to reduce overall healthcare expenditures. PBM strategies may involve the restriction of formulary choices and the requirement of pre-authorization of treatment before a prescription can be filled.
The AACAP supports formulary design and benefit management practices that:
- Maintain patient safety as a primary focus in the context of clinically driven risk/benefit analysis.
- Recognize that the choice of a specific psychotropic medication must be based on the individual needs and circumstances of each child or adolescent.
- Are informed by the best available evidence about outcomes and conform to the practice parameters endorsed by the AACAP
- Make available to children and adolescents all psychotropic medications and preparations when deemed medically necessary, and
- Make formulary information and restrictions readily available.
The AACAP opposes benefit management practices that:
- Interferes with the doctor-patient relationship
- Include pre-authorization and appeals processes that are so- time consuming they prevent optimal care
- Are driven primarily by cost at the expense of efficacy, safety and other quality indicators
The Principles of Practice of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP, 1982) require the primary concern of the physician be the welfare and optimal development of the child or adolescent. Child and adolescent psychiatrists affirm their ethical obligation to inform children and parents of the safest and most effective treatment available for their condition and to prescribe only the most appropriate medication for the patient. | <urn:uuid:45a84961-7c45-4855-ac9f-cd86a215d6dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Advocate/Policy_Resources/AACAP/Policy_Statements/2009/Pharmaceutical_Benefit_Management_and_the_Use_of_Psychotropic_Medication_for_Children_and_Adolescent.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917462 | 532 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Introduction: Soft Latching Power Switch ON / OFF Circuit
Simplest Soft Latching Power Push Switch ON/OFF Circuit
This soft Latching Power Switch circuit design contain only two transistor, resistors and momentary push button switches,so this is one of the cheapest way to get your work done
You can use any Transistor in this circuit, just it will need to find proper ressistance value accordingly, cheap don't always worst this circuit only consumes 1.8 Micro Amperes at off state
You can really improve this circuit by replacing mosfet's instead of transistors
Step 1: You Will Need
1. 1 kilo ohm ressistors *2
2. bc547 and bc557
3. Two push buttons
Step 2: Circuit Diagram
Follow this circuit Diagram
Step 3: Watch Full Tutorial
1 Person Made This Project!
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Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism
Popovic, Srdja; McClennen, Sophia A.
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winner, Srdja Popovic, was a leader in the revolution that brought down the Milošević regime in Serbia and he contin-ues to help protestors around the world learn effective, sometimes humorous, nonviolent tactics. In 2020, he teamed up with Sophia A. McClennen to study the concept of "dilemma actions," which offers a structured, strategic approach to fighting back against authoritarianism, as well as for defending democracy.
Cornell University Press
Political Science; progressive social movements; laughtivism; dilemma actions; public kissing and Erdogan; Gandhi's Salt March; Estonia's Laughing Revolution; Arab Spring tactics
9781501756054 (print)9781501756061 (epub)9781501756078 (PDF ebook)
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
reading order; structural navigation; display transformability
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Lama is a title for a teacher of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism.
The name is similar to the Sanskrit term guru, meaning "heavy one", endowed with qualities the student will eventually embody.
The Tibetan word "Lama" means "highest principle", and less literally "highest mother" or "highest parent" to show close relationship between teacher and student.
This is a list of some well-known Lamas in Tibetan .
Rinpoche, also spelled Rimboche and Rinboku, is an honorific term used in the Tibetan language.
It literally means "precious one", and may refer to a person, place, or thing—like the words "gem" or "jewel".
The word consists of rin (value), po (nominalizing suffix) and chen (big).
The word is used in the context of Tibetan Buddhism as a way of showing respect when addressing those recognized as reincarnated, older, respected, notable, learned and/or an accomplished Lamas .
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Buddhism to Western students in Nepal.
The FPMT has grown to encompass over 160 Dharma centers, projects, and services in 37 countries.
Since the death of Lama Yeshe in 1984, the FPMT's spiritual director has been Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU
Rheumatologists • Internists • Family Physicians • Physician Assistants • Nurse Practitioners • Nurses • Pharmacists
After completing this live activity, participants should be better able to:
Special Issues in the Management of Autoimmune Diseases
- Explain the historical and contemporary role of placebos in medicine.
- Describe the prevention and treatment of infections associated with biologics and other immunosuppressive therapies.
- Review the pharmacokinetic effects of anti-drug antibodies when utilizing biologic therapies.
- Discuss the safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with autoimmune diseases.
- Outline current vaccination recommendations in patients with rheumatic diseases.
- Discuss the signs and symptoms suggestive of developing early arthritis.
- Evaluate current clinical evidence on the efficacy and safety of cannabinoid therapy in rheumatic disease pain management.
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
- Outline the roles of current and emerging therapies for RA including immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory, and disease-modifying therapies for individualized treatment plans.
- Evaluate emerging data on pathophysiology and predictive biomarkers for early identification of RA.
- Discuss the role of interventional therapies for knee osteoarthritis.
- Review current guidelines for the management of osteoarthritis.
- Review current diagnosis and treatment strategies for the various manifestations of localized and systemic scleroderma.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
- Explain antinuclear antibodies testing to diagnose systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
- Recognize the clinical presentation of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) in patients with lupus.
- Review the efficacy and safety data on new treatment options for SLE.
- Recognize systemic vasculitis and develop a plan for treatment.
Severe Raynaud’s Disease
- Evaluate therapeutic options for the management of Raynaud’s disease.
- Describe how myositis-specific autoantibodies define different types and subtypes of inflammatory myopathies.
- Review current American College of Rheumatology (ACR) vasculitis guidelines.
- Integrate imaging options to aid in the diagnosis of axial spondylarthritis and develop an evidence-based therapy plan for patients.
- Outline evidence-based choices for initial and second line therapies in psoriatic arthritis.
Autoimmune Skin Diseases
- Develop a strategy for identifying and managing cutaneous adverse reactions.
- Review emerging gout guidelines and their implications in clinical practice.
Complex Cases: Interstitial Lung Disease in RA, Renal Disease, Decreased Bone Mass (osteoporosis)
- Evaluate strategies to diagnose and manage patients with renal disease and decreased bone mass.
- Initiate a management plan for patients on bisphosphonate therapy while balancing the efficacy and adverse effects of treatment.
- Outline a treatment plan for interstitial lung disease in patients with rheumatic diseases.
Accreditation and Designation statements
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Global Academy for Medical Education. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physician Continuing Medical Education
September 10, 2020 – September 12, 2020 - The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 17.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
September 15, 2020 – December 30, 2020 - The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 17.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Pharmacist Continuing Education
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this knowledge based continuing education activity for 17.0 contact hours (1.7 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
(Universal Activity Number - JA4008162-9999-20-2199-L01-P
Type of Activity (select one): Knowledge
Include minimum hardware, software, internet connectivity and connection speed requirements for accessing the internet-based activity.
Policy on Privacy and Confidentiality
Please see final activity for the policy on privacy and confidentiality that relates to this internet activity.
Continuing Nursing Education
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 17.0 contact hours. Pharmacotherapy contact for Advance Practice Registered Nurses will be indicated on your certificate.
Interprofessional Continuing Education
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 17.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
ABIM MOC Points
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn 17.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest. | <urn:uuid:c6e5859d-30b6-49df-b783-fcd74c3603bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://rhe.globalacademycme.com/conferences/annual-perspectives-rheumatic-diseases-2020/cmece-credit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.850929 | 1,303 | 2.125 | 2 |
About This Course
A one-day training course for legal professionals who have to deal with digital evidence. The course will look at the types of digital evidence that is routinely produced for legal proceedings and the potential issues surrounding that evidence.
The course will provide an overview of the forensic principles, techniques and terminology used by forensic investigators. The aim is to provide the candidate with a level of understanding so they can interpret forensic reports and assess the authenticity and integrity of the digital evidence. A reference manual will be provided to each candidate along with a certificate of completion confirming the number of training hours undertaken.
Who should attend?
The course is aimed at legal professionals who are required to deal with digital evidence. No previous experience is required.
1 – Introduction to Digital Forensics
- Define Digital Forensics
- Legal Considerations
- Integrity of Digital Evidence
2 – Investigation Fundamentals
- Best Practice Guidelines
- The Four Principles of Computer-Based Evidence
- Identifying Electronic Sources of Evidence
- The Four Levels of Computer Data
- Types of Data
3 – Forensic Techniques / Terms Explained
- Forensic Image
- Forensic Clone
- Hash Values (digital fingerprint)
- Forensic Acquisition Reports
4 – What Happens to Deleted Data?
- Live Data
- Deleted Data
5 – Types of Digital Evidence
- Types of Digital Evidence
6 – Understanding Digital Evidence
- Time and Date Stamps (what you need to know)
- File Metadata (the hidden information)
- Internet History
- Email Headers
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Now what's the use of alternating opposites? All ancient cultures were obsessed by duality. Think about Cain and Abel, Yin and Yang, Remus and Romulus, Chaos and Order, Newton and Leibniz, or if your cultural background is quantumphysics: matter and anti-matter. All creation is the product of two counteracting extremities. Joyce knew: If not for human imagination, twins are unbelievably incredible.
Happy birthday to my twinbrother Alfons!
1twin adj 1 Born with one other or as a pair at one birth (~ brothers, ~ sisters). 2a having or made up of 2 similar, related, or identical units or parts b being one of a pair, esp of officially associated towns (ME, fr OE twinn twofold, two by two; akin to ON tvinnr two by two, OE twa two)
2twin n 1 either of 2 offspring produced at 1 birth 2 either of 2 people or things closely related to or resembling each other 3 twin, twin crystal a compound crystal composed of 2 or more related crystals grown together in an orientated matter
3twin vb vt 1 to bring together in close association 2 to form into a twin crystal ~vi 1 to become paired or closely associated 2 to give birth to twins 3 to grow as a twin crystal
Silence please:Programming in progress
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Intellectual property rules that intrude with this strategy of development-making would, on this view, be counter-productive. On the other hand, it is often argued that the blatant theft of new ideas, unique designs, and design details by bigger firms is what often contributes to the failure of many smaller or unbiased design companies.
What are the 3 components of fashion?
FASHION COMPONENTS include silhouette, details, texture, and color.
Photo courtesy of Amanda StevensJade Young’s collection, “Dazzling Affairs,” is impressed by a fantasy aesthetic and her favourite shade, pink. Photo courtesy of Mark SalondakaHelen Park was influenced by the 2020 keep Fashion & Shopping-at-residence order and the need to be outside. Her assortment “Under the Sun” is an ode to her appreciation of literally being underneath the sun.
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August, 2021 –– It is definitely hard enough to make it out of a refugee camp, but to become successful in another country, this is definitely a one of a kind story of sheer determination and resolve.
Born in Gaza Strip in Palestine, Anwar Faisal is the third of six siblings. The Gaza Strip has long been a very dangerous, unstable, and poor area with lots of political conflicts and diplomatic strife between Palestine and Israel. Faisal always had big dreams for his future and realized that good education would play a key part in helping him achieve these goals.
Anwar graduated from high school in Gaza and went to Egypt in the early 70s to study at Ain Shams University, located in Cairo. After graduating, Faisal headed to Saudi Arabia to work in the construction industry.
“I was helping people with tiling, plastering, and carpentry services as a mercenary. I worked there for one year and was paid the minimum wage,” Anwar Faisal recalled.
“The situation in this country was getting worse. I couldn’t even get a driver’s license and residency. I decided to move to UAE, Abu Dhabi, where I started my job as a purchase manager (steel, concrete) in a big company named “Kortoba”,” Faisal added.
Faisal’s pursuit of higher education and determination to succeed led him to the U.S. to get a master’s degree and Ph.D. in Business Management. He studied English at Boston University for six months but had to put a halt on his dream due to financial concerns.
“I had to work security at BU, at first part-time. Then, I finally got a full-time job which qualified me to have tuition remission (free tuition),” Faisal said.
Qualifying for free tuition at a well-known university in Boston was a big relief for Anwar who was making $4.70 per hour while working 80 hours a week.
After completing his master’s degree, his adviser, Prof. George Gitter, recommended him for a Ph.D.
“During that summer of 1983, I was working two jobs: security and real estate. My Professor discovered that I would be do better in real estate than working on my Ph.D. and he withdrew his recommendation letter for the Ph.D. after 3 months,” Faisal said.
“Professor Gitter noticed that it would be better for my future to continue doing real estate instead of wasting 4 years on a Ph.D program. I believe Professor Gitter had a good vision for his students,” Faisal continued.
In 1984, Anwar Faisal was already heavily involved in the real estate industry and was currently living at an apartment on Queensberry St. After finding an envelope one day informing him that buildings 56 to 58would be converted to condominiums, he was given the opportunity to purchase it at the cost of $59,900. This was his first purchase, a one bedroom, 590 sq.ft apartment.
Anwar Faisal continued mastering his crafts in real estate partnering with other people and investing in more properties even after the real estate disaster in 1987 when the interest rate was at 11% and inflation was high. Over the years, Faisal ended up working independently. He started working alone and made sure to manage his finances wisely so he was able to continue buying units from auctions. After 10 years, he was advised by one of his bankers to step up and start buying buildings instead of apartment units.
“I believe this is the best advice I had received after Dr. Gitter’s advice. I started buying buildings aggressively (all the rental units), I was very lucky to get a big project in Fenway with 201 units. It was a “grand slam” or home run for me,” Faisal shared.
Currently Anwar Faisal owns thousands of units in the Greater Boston Area. His success in the real estate industry provided him the means to help other people by giving one-third of his income to various charities. He also developed two mosques in Brighton for the Islamic community.
“I really wanted to help the poor people in Gaza Strip where I was born by performing some acts of compassion and kindness. I was supporting a hundred families and students, handicapped and disabled persons and orphans until this time increased to 1000 families who are getting help from me on monthly basis (paying for food, medicine, and rent) as well as students getting the scholarship, which is increasing each semester. Also, I decided to build a hospital in Gaza,” he said.
Anwar Faisal is also a sponsor of The Boston Islamic Seminary and The Palestinian Cultural Center of Peace as well as an active sponsor and supporter of all the mosques and Islamic schools and hospitals annually at St. John’s Hospital and another hospital in Israel. Anwar Faisal is also the co-founder of Yusuf Mosque in Brighton.
As a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, Anwar Faisal’s contribution to the community here and abroad is a success story we hope others would emulate.
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Cultural heritage is a public good and yet, some people loot and sell antiquities for profit. Τhey violently remove ancient artefacts from the soil or the bottom of the sea, they plunder Byzantine churches, grabbing icons, murals or sacred vessels. Τhey even steal precious objects from museums. International rings of antiquities smugglers traffic the stolen goods towards illegal markets.
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Investments from three levels of government mean there will soon be 36 more safe, affordable places to live in New Glasgow.
The new affordable housing units, called Coady’s Place, will be maintained by the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council. “We know addressing the housing crisis requires community partners and all levels of government to come together. It’s initiatives like Coady’s Place that make a real difference in our communities and provide a sense of security,” said Premier Tim Houston. “We will continue to do everything we can to make sure Nova Scotians have a place to call home.”
Under the federal government’s Rapid Housing Initiative, the Province is providing $3 million for operating support and to help ensure affordability. The federal government is contributing $2 million and the Town of New Glasgow is providing a property-tax exemption for the next 20 years.
Our government wants to ensure that everyone in Canada has a safe and affordable place to call home. The Rapid Housing Initiative will go a long way to supporting those who need it most by quickly providing 36 new affordable housing units for individuals and families. This is the National Housing Strategy at work.Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion
Today’s announcement is a strategic investment that will help address one of the core issues facing our community – affordable housing. I’m thrilled to announce a federal investment of over $2 million right here in Pictou County that will see 36 families gain access to safe, affordable housing through our government’s National Housing Strategy.Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, and Member of Parliament for Central Nova
Our council and staff understand the importance of safe, secure, affordable housing options for our citizens. The Nova Scotia Co-operative Council is a trusted organization and the Town of New Glasgow is proud to make an annual investment of a taxation exemption for the next 20 years so the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council can continue their good work in creating housing solutions in our community.Nancy Dicks, Mayor, Town of New Glasgow
We are thrilled to have brought Coady’s Place to life in New Glasgow. Since acquiring the facility in February, we have expanded the facility and renovated every unit. We will have ‘heads on pillows’ in all 36 units by July 1. What a wonderful way to celebrate Canada Day! While the project is uplifting for the team and the community, it is also heart-wrenching that there is so much need. We have 82 applications for 36 units. Demand far exceeds our supply, which is why we are committed to a phase two, which will see an additional 20 duplex style, two- and three-bedroom homes developed on the land owned by Coady’s Place.Dianne Kelderman, President and CEO, Nova Scotia Cooperative Council
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Scripture Tattoos allude to certain statements or expressions from the sacred texts like the Bible, Quran or other strict books or distributions. Tattoo workmanship is anything but another type of craftsmanship and individuals have been inking their skins throughout recent centuries. Truly, tattoos go so far back that they have been found on the body of a 5300-year-old mummy which utilized tattoo as a treatment.
Inspirational Examples of Scripture Tattoos for Women
These lovely words from a famous bible verse have been placed near the collarbone. Notice the splash of feminine attitude that ties the words in a beautiful style. In addition, the cursive writing style unleashes a touch that is near perfect in passing the message.
Definitely, a scripture tattoo quote to consider. The glorious sentence is inked in two lines that are overlapping. This part of the body is suitable to get inked with long letters that have elaborate flourishes and done with some loops.
The letters of this remarkable tattoo are inked in bold on the shoulder blade to proclaim the power of seeking the way. With the verse in two lines in a larger font, the citation completes the tattoo in a smaller font giving the impression of slanting inwards.
This bold verse is written in a script similar to uncial. Added is a skull that sits near the knee and is artistically decorated to improve its detail. Such scripture tattoo ideas are a beautiful tribute to the words in the scriptures.
An artistic cross is a break from the standard and more rigid crosses seen in other scripture tattoos. Inked is a dark leafy tree designed with the super-trendy cross design. It is a unique use of a famous quotation from the scriptures.
Yet another rendition of the popular Philippians 4:13 verse, the font of this piece is simple and to be loved and it makes the placement on the shoulder blade so neat – a lovely reminder to her that she is never alone.
What an adorable tattoo that is as girly as it is uplifting. The feather in this piece is to be loved together with its integration of the birds. Done purposely to correlate with the verse, it is a whimsical, yet meaningful scripture tattoos idea.
This beautiful verse is almost as gorgeous as the flowers attached to it. Not to mention is the cursive writing of the text. A pinch of two red flowers makes it makes it a hit for religious females. The tattoo is nothing short of stunning.
Quotes in such scripture tattoos for girls appear rather blunt but are definitely true. Strong lines have been inked and the confident curves in a traditional font express the lengthy sentence in four lines. Overall the vertical pattern sits well on the shoulder blade.
A bold ode to the book of Isaiah for women not shy about their faith, the words appear under a water wave in the simple bible verse tattoo. Scripted dark fonts also stand out in such scripture tattoos for women when placed near the heel.
A dark feather tattoo that contrasts well with fair skinned women. It is simple yet beautiful and its effect is to be loved. Thin strokes on the feather and the cool font of “Psalm 91:4” are beginning to look like the tattoo is best placed on the rib.
This is a very simple yet adorable bible verse tattoo with a background that appears as if the text is written on paper. Inked on the inner arm of the woman, it provides an uplifting reminder of Christ in a glorious and elegantly lettered three-word sentence.
This script looks subtle on the inner arm. The flowing design makes it almost look like it is handwritten. The addition of the simple cross right below completes the design. Tattoo ideas for women like this are simply magical and cute at the same time.
A truly comforting inking that features only the citation is a stunning gift for any woman. The inner arm is a great place to get inked with short scripts of these tattoos ideas. The stylish calligraphy font remains dark and bold.
Sitting on the rib is the wonderful quote that just expresses a simple point. The cursive writing makes the three words delightful, sweet and girly. Tatted directly on the skin, it is surely inspiring for the religious women out there.
This religious script tattoo design runs from the ribs to the back. Confident curves and thin lines magnify the effect the phrase has. Inking is neatly done and a citation together with an abbreviation is added below the line at the end.
This wrist script tattoo is just perfect for a religious woman. Complete loops form part of the letters in the two words that make up this wrist tattoo design. It is fresh and black and remains short and to the point.
Inked on a woman’s foot is a verse of Psalms 23:6’. Elegant lettering marks the words. This lengthy bible verse is worn nicely with an excellent choice of fonts and sizes. It is compact with no overflow of words over the curve of the foot.
The Christian phrase in the religious tattoo design runs in only two lines. The design is minimalist and features a traditional font. Check out these lines placed on the inner arm, sending a powerful message from the woman who chooses to have them inked.
Running along the length of the upper arm is this trendy verse from the Bible. Complete loops and joined letters make the script flow on the arm, looking like it is almost a handwritten design. This body art keeps design uniformity in the numbers too.
Just above the wrist sits the Bible verse tattoo as a simple reminder. The delicate design is beautiful and is to be loved. With the writing appearing slightly raised above the skin, the fresh tattoo is just perfect reminder on the woman’s arm.
A glorious sentence is inked on the woman’s arm in a vertical pattern. Note the old style faint font design employed by the artist. Loops and arches are part of the design forming beautiful patterns on this script talking about trust.
Smooth lines and curves have been used to ink the words in this inspirational tattoo. Addition of the cross to the left and within makes the piece more adorable. The words appear slightly elevated with the cross shadow in the background.
Living on the side of the woman’s foot is a simple yet elegant phrase. The piece is delicate and pretty and serves as a reminder to the woman that she is a servant. The font here is simple but lovely.
In the tattoo, the citation appears as if it is printed, which is a less popular way of tattoo design. The capital letters and symmetry achieved in the print font comes out as clearly bold in this scripture tattoo design.
Here I am. Send me. This scripture tattoo can be ideal for religious missionaries or people who have a noble advocacy or cause to advance. It reflects the decision made by prophet Isaiah who started his prophetic ministry with this verse. So, to inspire the tattoo bearer and to remind him his life-long mission, this is an excellent scripture to have.
But love will last forever! This scripture tattoos idea is excellent especially before entering the bond of marriage. It will forever remind what binds the couple and what will enable them to withstand all trials and tribulations to protect the sanctity of their marriage.
Psalm 61:2. People who may be suffering from depression and all other forms of psychological problems may find comfort in the promise and hope this scripture tattoo design brings. It can motivate them to seek God and dwell in the shadow of his love.
God is within her, she will not fail. For women who are going through a difficult time in their lives, be it divorce or separation, death of love ones, loss of job, this scripture tattoo for women can spark hope within them. Or when they aim for incredible things, this is reassuring.
Proverbs 31:25-26. For a loving, faithful and responsible husband, this one of the great tattoo ideas for women and can be an excellent Mother’s Day surprise. It edifies the wife and exalts her noble character. It also signifies that she and the family’s future is well secure and properly taken care of by the husband.
Grace upon grace. It signifies the abundance of grace God appropriates to his children. So, no matter how sinful the tattoo bearer may think of himself, how he may have fallen farther from His grace, this assures him that he can still draw closer to God. It is one simplest yet most powerful scripture tattoos there is.
Psalm 46:5. There may be times when young women are inundated with problems and issues in life, that all seems to be lost and hopeless, they can draw inspiration and hope from this. It promises that God is every present in times of trouble. Definitely it is one of the great scripture tattoos for girls.
Walk by faith. As you pursue difficult and life-changing decisions, you may find yourself in unfamiliar territories. You may think you’ve lost track. But this is one of the scripture tattoo ideas that may remind you what you have made this decision in the first place. Placing it on either foot will keep you push forward.
Psalm 46:5. For women to embark on a solo journey may be very challenging. For example, raising a child by herself is indeed difficult – financially, emotionally, and physically. This scripture will definitely inspire and drive her keep pushing forward. She indeed will not fail.
Ephesians 3:17. This scripture will strongly and constantly remind us to where our foundation is laid upon. By placing this scripture on either arm with a tree on the side, it suddenly becomes a powerful way to do introspection.
Walk by faith. There are times in your walk when you feel seemingly hopeless and defeated. But as you look down, you’d see this tattoo. Then you’re reinvigorated and motivated to further advance in your pursuit. Placing this on your feet is one of the tattoos ideas that may unwittingly inspire others before you realize it.
By grace alone. Physically, the feet bear the brunt and rigors of daily grind. And a tattoo with such inspiring scripture serves as a loving reminder that you have been invested with so much grace for you to withstand all the trials and tribulations.
Let your faith be bigger than your fears. The bigger the ambitions and goals, the bigger the stakes and risks, but keep your eyes on the prize. This inspirational tattoo will constantly keep you on track. When placed on the wrist, you will easily see and remember your motivations.
He walks with me. For introverts, anti-socials, solo parents, and missionaries, this is another excellent tattoo idea. It is serves as a beacon of hope and gives a sense of security. There is no more powerful assurance than hearing I am always with you no matter what situation you are in.
John 3:16. Probably the most frequently quoted verse in the Bible richly deserves a more ingenious tattoo style. So, presenting the scripture in a Love pattern gives proper justification and treatment. After all, this is the message it wants to convey.
Jeremiah 29:11. If you are searching for hope and a spark in your seemingly lethargic life, this scripture may be it. The elements in this tattoo, a mechanical clock, a wheel, a compass, a tree and a flower, greatly depict this hope and promise.
Psalm 46:10. One of the most authoritative scriptures is Psalm 46:10. It asserts that God is in full control of everything. Growing up and going through different phases in life, this tattoo concept can be a constant reminder to never fret nor waver.
Jeremiah 17:9. This is such a powerful rebuke. So, when tattooed on the body, it will let you realize that there are things beyond our understanding especially in the matters of the heart. This can be one of the nicest tattoo ideas for women.
Romans 5:8. How many times should you be reminded how great a love you’ve been vested with? Countless times! And this tattoo pattern strongly evokes the appreciation of the beloved and the honor and appreciation it pays back to the lover.
Salt. This arm tattoo represents the several of the noblest attributes the person received. Being a salt, that person has a very powerful purpose to pursue while embodying the blessings and benefits of being a chosen and new creation.
Rock. When troubles engulf a person and the enemies surround him, this tattoo idea vanquishes all fears and frights. The promise of this scripture can easily calm the troubled soul. The calligraphy used excellently befits and honors the power of the Lord.
Proverbs 31. One of the best ways to honor a wife and mother is having this tattoo. When you run out of gift ideas for the most momentous occasion in the life of your wife or mother, have this scripture tattooed on your body.
Philippians 4:13. Isn’t it wonderful to be assured that you can do all things because someone makes it rather easy and light for you? And if you are going to have a tattoo to display this scripture, there is no better to have it than on either shoulder.
In this world… Clouds hovering over the map, with the scripture superimposed, is yet another awesome graphical representation of God’s promise. And by placing in on either arms, as you flex it you will be performing a habitual display of power to overcome whatever your situations may be.
Philippians 4:13. Having this scripture tattooed on your arms will only reflect your faith and belief that you can do so many things. As you motion your arms, you are demonstrating the ability to progress and achieve. And the tattoo’s calligraphy is beautiful, too.
Popularity of Scripture Tattoos for Women
Scripture tattoos for women usually include phrases from religious books and are considered one of the most popular tattoo forms in recent times. They are more popular among Christians.
Scripture tattoos are very much popular amongst young ladies and college going girls. They use them to show off their thoughts and ideas to the world. Apart from fashion and style, these tattoos for women can also be connected with spirituality.
In some cultures, they are believed to protect women, mostly pregnant women, from unknown bad powers. For many people, it is not only an art form, but also serves as a “road signs” to marking one’s spiritual journey.
Significance of Scripture Tattoos
Simple and visible script tattoos on your body can remind you of the spiritual teachings and sentiments and can be a source of great inspiration and strength in tough times. This way, you can remain connected with your cultural roots. Some women experience a higher sense of spirituality after getting these tattoos.
Additionally, they are a smart and easy way to create a fashion statement. Temporary tattoos can give you the freedom to try out different phrases, fonts, and colors too.
Tips on Getting a Scripture Tattoo
1.) Choose an appropriate phrase
Choose a phrase that can be a source of inspiration for you and one that you would like to read and hear again and again. Mostly, girls choose the phrase according to their religious beliefs. Or some may choose a quote from a famous person or according to their profession.
However, scripture tattoos for women mostly consist of religious phrases, especially from the bible. Once you have chosen the perfect quote, then you are ready to proceed.
2.) Make sure the spelling is correct
It is important to verify that the spelling and also the phrase is correct. If you are taking it from the Bible, you can verify once before starting the inking process. It is quite embarrassing to have a spelling mistake which would be pointed out by friends and relatives.
Do not forget to capitalize words that should be capital such as God. It would be hard to modify it once it is inked, so it is better to verify before starting. Spelling mistakes might not occur in English scripted tattoos but are common in tattoos done in foreign languages.
3.) Choose an appropriate place for your tattoo
This is very much important for permanent tattoos. A temporary tattoo might be replaced in few months. But in case of permanent tattoos, you must make sure that the placement is such that it will look beautiful even after changes in your body due to weight and the aging process.
Most women prefer to get a tattoo on their wrists and ankles, which makes the tattoo visible even when they are wearing any sort of clothes. However, you can get a tattoo on your neck, waist or take help from the tattoo artist.
Scripture tattoos can sometimes need a lot of space, so make sure that you have the required space in the area chosen for tattooing. Remember, the goal is to pass the inspirational message so you may want to draw it in the exposed areas.
4.) Size of tattoo and of the font matters a lot
The script and phrase used in the tattoo must be easily readable, at least from a distance of 10 inches. The very small font can just seem like a blob of ink rather than convey a message. If you do not have the required space for a larger phrase, you can choose to shorten it without changing the meaning. So choose the font size and style wisely.
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New Design of a Fractional Order Controller Based on Padé Approximation to Enhance a Stable Power System Load Frequency
This paper introduces a design technique of a novel fractional order (FO) proportional-integral-Derivative (PID) controller. The new control technique is a strategy to design a power system stabilizer (PSS) based on Padé approximation (PA). This control strategy is to enhance power system load frequency stability. Load frequency oscillations always follow disturbances that may occur at any point and at any time in power systems, and can affect its performance. This type of PSS controllers is designed specially for the damping of load frequency state variations in power systems. The simple single synchronous machine connected to an infinite bus (SMIB) power system model is taken under study in this paper. Design, analysis and stability tests of the proposed FO-PID controller and its effectiveness are performed for different cases in the proposed power system. MATLAB package is used to carry out the different simulations of power system model with its control strategy. Simulation results in different situations are presented, compared and discussed between two main cases; with system classical control, and with the proposed control strategy. These results present and show the important effects of FO-PID-PSS-PA controllers on the reduction of load frequency oscillations in the proposed power system.
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"We want to make more people aware of the sport and also make sure that any para-rider knows that they can ride horses as well as their able-bodied compatriots."
Margaret Duprey is a woman with a mission – to raise USD 800,000 (EUR 650,000) to help support the efforts of the US para-equestrian dressage team in the run up to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
Duprey, from Wellington, Florida, spoke to Paralympic.org about the fundraising.
Paralympic.org: How did this fundraising challenge start?
Margaret Duprey: “I’m just a supporter and someone who thought that the high performance para-equestrian dressage group needs funding, so I spearheaded a challenge along with the Barnfield Foundation. Both of us match dollar for dollar donations as they come in and, at the last count, we had raised nearly USD 700,000. We are looking for USD 800,000 to be raised.
How did you develop your interest in para-equestrian dressage?
Through US team member Rebecca Hart. I’ve been a supporter and fan of hers for a while, and helped her compete at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics. Whenever she comes to Florida she stays with us at our farm and she’s someone that has inspired me.
I have high performance dressage horses and show jumping horses. I’ve been riding for most of my life. I got more and more interested in dressage when I got tired of falling off going over jumps, so dressage became my interest in the 70s.
What’s the profile of the sport in the USA?
It’s not as big as it should be and that’s something that we’re trying to improve. We want to make more people aware of the sport and also make sure that any para-rider knows that they can ride horses as well as their able-bodied compatriots.
How will you use any money you raise?
The money will help the riders prepare for the Paralympics in 2016.
The money will help bring riders over to Europe to gain the experience of international competition and to help them develop plans to take their sport further. The goal is to help fund training sessions, clinics and any other needs necessary for the high performance para-riders. For example, earlier this year, Rebecca came to Europe in the spring to see the venues, her competition, and to see how she would fit in. It was a great and inspiring trip for her, but she had to pay for the trip herself. This is where these funds will be of great assistance for the riders and the growing discipline.
And how do you fundraise?
We have a lot of individual donations - the minute we announced the challenge, it went out on social media and that very same day someone from the West Coast called up and donated USD 25,000. It’s been by word of mouth, engaging conversations and raising awareness for this need that has brought more people to this fundraising initiative.
How do you see the potential of Team USA?
We have to do our homework if we want to win a medal, and this is where the development programme is. We want to make sure that we get on the podium. The team we have is very young, but they had a great experience at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 and they want to come back to Europe next year and win.
And what will you do next if you raise that USD 800,000?
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Posts tagged ‘geopark’
Join us in discussion with Les Brown of Cave Rescue, for musings on precognitive drawing and the momentum of a project. Also not be be missed: discussion of a porcupine in a cave and nonlinear time. (Play audio file below.)
See our previous post and related images similar topics here.
Ireland leaks people…. as well as rain. For 40 days and 40 nights we wandered the Geopark, listening to its many voices and as our van rattled away at the end of our trip, our eyes too began to leak.
Listen here to our praises for the Geopark and its cross-border homelands. (For those of you that are unfamiliar with the area, Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark is comprised of lands in both Éire and Northern Ireland.)
Curious about the bell and squeaks on this audio segment? The bell is a permanent resident in Anna’s van and the squeaks are the sound of shifting gears.
Listen here to our fears for the Geopark and decide for yourself – are our words romantic indulgence or premonition?
A very big and real threat now hangs over “our” Geopark and its beloved people, places and things. A license has been issued to the powerful mining company, Tamboran Resources, for the extraction of shale gas within the Geopark using the controversial process of “fracking.”
Far from Ireland Claire and I have been blogging away without doing anything until one day we realised that some of the most precious nature reserves are threatened along with the fresh water supply and clean air. We have written to Fermanagh Councillors with our concerns. Read our letter and the responses of individuals here – Dear Anna and Claire.
We agree with Councilor, Barry Doherty, (Sinn Fein) for Erne West when he says “We have so much natural beauty above and below the ground in this part of the world that to even contemplate fracking this area is surprising if not down right crazy.”
We join present inhabitants, organisations and councilors in demanding a moratorium on the license so that the Geopark vision keeps strong and the people, places and things of all Ireland remain vital and alive.
Map: a visual representation of an area; a symbolic depiction
highlighting relationships between elements such as objects, regions, and themes.
As you can imagine, maps were important on our DREAMING PLACE
traveling residency, in more than one way!
We often depended on them to be shown places and information by others and to navigate roadways, paths, fields, parks and estates.
We mapped our journey in sound and in drawing and in some ways on this blog. We also discussed creating interactive maps as an outcome from the residency. These maps may still be on the way….stay tuned!
But there is really something special about maps that draw on senses other than sight for their creation or perception. Here is one example……
“…Marshallese navigational charts are not like our western-style maps; fishermen didn’t use them to measure distance or count miles. Instead, they used them as memory aids, reviewing them before a journey but not bringing them along. It is said that a fishermen would study his charts, leave them behind, and then lie on his back in the canoe, the better to feel the rise and fall of the ocean swells. He interpreted the map with his body memory, not with his eyes.”
Creative ideas can be illusive. If you approach them too quickly or too directly, they may turn tail and be lost. But like wild creatures they can be lured from their hideouts if conditions are favorable, perhaps at a particular time of day by a special treat. A ritual pot of tea, a piece of music, the sound of a waterfall or a beautiful pattern.
It may be enough to go outdoors and sit on a tree stump to allow the ideas to flow. It’s exciting to consider some of the forms and patterns we observe outdoors have companion patterns inside our bodies;, the swirl on our finger tips, the filigree of veins and in the very patterns of our lives and relationships.
So enjoy your shower or walk the edge of the lough and let the bubbles rise.
These Dreaming Place audio footprints were recorded at the watery edge of Lough McNean, Marble Arch Caves Geopark.
In our wanderings through the landscapes of the Marble Arch Caves Geopark, we came across many incredible decaying homesteads, architectural remnants of abandoned dreams left to be reclaimed by plants, land, water and weather.
It is as if abandoned architecture and belongings continue
to poignantly describe the cycles of history:
“better days” along with famine, economic hardship, immigration and
the forgotten dreams of this place.
Claire has a moment of revelation beside the waters of Poll Sumera, a magical place on the lower slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain. It is here that the waters that gather in the folds of the mountain’s flanks disappear into a labrynthine network of underground rivers to re-emerge sometime later at the fabled birthplace of the famous River Shannon; Shannon Pot.
Remember this lovely springer spaniel from the beginning of our journey? It turns out that scientists agree with us that non-human dreamers, like this lovely 4-legged, have a rich dream life.
So, according to scientists (as represented on Wikipedia’s dream page), “Sleeping and dreaming are intertwined….REM sleep and the ability to dream seem to be embedded in the biology of many organisms that live on Earth. All mammals experience REM. The range of REM can be seen across species: dolphins experience minimum REM, while humans remain in the middle and the opossum and the armadillo are among the most prolific dreamers.”
Apparently there have been studies that have “observed dreaming in monkeys, dogs, cats, rats, elephants and shrews [and] ….There have also been signs of dreaming in certain birds and reptiles.
Here is another interesting twist offered on Wikipedia:
In 1954 the theta rhythm was discovered by two scientists at the University of California at Los Angeles when experimenting with rabbits, shrews, moles and rats. The theta rhythm is the oscillatory pattern of electric activity in the brain. [Interesting discovery, but the idea of experimenting on animals makes me cringe!] This discovery lead to a commentary published in 1972 that explained differences in Theta Rhythm where defined by respective animal behaviors. Awake animals showed high Theta Rhythm when behaving in ways that where crucial to their survival, for example: eating and reproducing. This apparently was a response to a changing environment. The theta rhythm occurs during REM and studies suggest it “reflected a neural process whereby information that is essential to the survival of the species” is gathered throughout the day and is “reprocessed into memory during REM sleep”. In conclusion: “dreams may reflect a memory-processing mechanism inherited from lower species”.
Some scientists argue that humans dream for the same reason other mammals do. From a Darwinian perspective dreams would have to fulfill some kind of biological requirement or provide some benefit for natural selection to take place. Antti Revonsuo, a professor at the University of Turku in Finland, claims that centuries ago dreams would prepare humans for recognizing and avoiding danger by presenting a simulation of threatening events. This threat-simulation theory was presented in 2000.
This makes sense in a way, as we humans are in fact mammals. But how, I wonder, does this theory fit into modern human dreaming patterns? If dreams served to prepare us for danger in the past, what purposes do they serve now?
If you would prefer a religious/spiritual perspective over science, here is another take:
“God sleeps in stone, breathes in plants, dreams in animals, and awakens in man”
– Hindu Proverb
Our dream of making some of the audio footage we recorded during our travels through the Marble Arch Caves Geopark into a 30-minute radio feature is becoming reality….We are hard at work on our radio show, Anna in Devon and Claire in New Mexico, listening to footage, comparing notes, editing and stringing sounds together. The show is forming roots, taking shape and growing and changing in the process, much like potatos growing underground.
Listen below to a description of ideas for DREAMING PLACE radio, as described to Ignatius Maguire during our tour of his traditional farm, his potato fields and the special pot designated for potato washing:
Since this was recorded, we have had oodles of ideas and time in front of the computer editing. We are very excited to share the results with you. We plan to post “preview” segments of the upcoming radio show here on the blog and we would love your feedback. Tell us what you think!
When the first DREAMING PLACE radio show is finished we will of course let you know when and where it will be aired so that you can tune in on your radio or via live streaming online.
We climbed in the wide branches of two famous, ancient, entwined male and female Yew trees on the Crom estate. They are reputedly the oldest Yew trees in Ireland and possibly in all of Europe. According to the National Trust website, the trees were planted in the 17th Century, but other websites proclaim the trees to be much older – as many as 800 years.
The Yew Tree is now a rarity in Ireland, but the tree still has a mythic cultural prominence. Rich in mythology, symbolism and historic and prehistoric cultural uses, Yew trees are shrouded with mystery and power. The large, majestic trees have a commanding presence, not least because all parts of the Yew tree contain poisonous alkaloids, except for the bright red arils encasing its seeds.
As we climbed, swung and perched in the grand branches of the trees, we mused about the dreams shared and the hundreds of years of history witnessed by the arboreal pair. What do Yew trees dream of? How many dreamers have taken refuge in the protection of these trees and which of their dreams were caught in the great web of their branches?
We are sure that dreams and yew trees are tied up together somehow and here is a bit of proof. Read about a Yew dream from the 1600’s “Somnium ex Eubernea porta” from Mrs. Cl., of S. here.
For more information about Yew trees visit the Ancient Yew Group at www.ancient-yew.org.
Are dreams wild?
To help us discover more about Wildness we posed the question, “What is wild?” to Martina Magee, Geopark Development Officer and Education Director for Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark.
Listen to Martina’s response here:
On the theme of WILD….During an interview with cave geologist Les Brown he spoke about WILD CAVES…..which intrigued us. He explained that Show caves such as Marble Arch Caves (Marble Arch Caves Geopark) and Kents Cavern (English Riviera Geopark) have been altered to accommodate visitors, yet wild caves remain unmodified by humans and retain their essential wild nature. Find our recent post with Les Brown here.
We dreamt our collaboration into existence with 4 legs, 2 noses and 2 x 6th sense.
During our traveling residency, we “dreamed the world” in our own collaborative image by encountering two headed animals.
A two headed, two armed kid on the ferry cavorting up on deck in spitting rain alerted us to our double headed state;
a donkey with two heads watched us pass from an emerald field,
a double yellow kayak held us in its smile,
we laughed and cried,
the twin cultures of Cavan (Eire) and Fermanagh (N.Ireland) welcomed us,
we walked a bridge linking two cultures,
we spoke and were silent,
we dreamed by day and night,
we laughed at the double entendre,
we met Geopark officers from both sides of the border,
we listened to two trees kissing,
we remembered and we forgot,
we caught the landscape gazing at its reflection,
we experimented with ancient and modern,
we followed a bifurcation,
we walked a ridge joining two borders,
we looked east and west,
we ate breakfast side by side,
we spoke and listened,
we matched-up splitting images, played at duppies, captured mirror images with our cameras while the hills reflected in the sky,
we heard the drip, drip of water as it echoed into a cave,
we dreamt double,
we learned of old and new traditions,
we drew from twin imaginations,
we did science and art,
we pedaled sister bikes,
we heard how Bridget and her dad saw two houses where there was once one and thought they were tipsy,
we learnt Gallic and English names of towns and people,
our nostrils smelled in tendem,
we followed two rivers,
we minded and not minded,
we saw through the looking glass,
we worked with dual purpose,
we dreamed up past and future lives.
The lower flanks of Cuilcagh mountain are now cosily blanketed in revived boglands rich in species who make up the ecology of this very special habitat. Incredibly, as recently as the nineties this elemental bog was endangered because of the commercial extraction of peat for fuel. It looked like a giant carpark (parking lot), a land with its skin peeled back. A lot of TLC later and these “badlands” are again home to a huge variety of wildlife.
We are not experts but the commercial rape of the land by the large turf industry seems like quite different thing from the traditional small scale harvesting of neighbourhood turf for winter fuel. This image shows the peat after it has been cut drying in the Marble Arch Caves Geopark breeze.
Funnily enough the drizzle doesn’t seem to affect the drying process too much.Turf has been burned here since the bronze age and in the Geopark, we noticed burnt mounds that look a lot like burnt peat. (The demands of blogging mean that I may not have time to check all this info so do feel free to comment and correct please.) And a turf fire, as it is called here, is surely the smell of home. Adan a young guy who farms his family homelands on Galloon Island could NOT believe we had NEVER smelled a turf fire, not ever. He simply rejected the idea, what total deprivation….
We vowed to light a real fire and found an opportunity at MacGrath’s cottage and lit one just for the craic. Our English, Valencian and New Mexican burning experiences have led us to burn mostly wood and never turf. The very idea of burning the earth itself seems strange to us. But it was the first fossil fuel.
I know that lots of you have no tradition of burning turf fuel. So here is a short explanation. Turf is peat and comes from the buildup of mosses and other vegetation where the accumulation of dead vegetation exceeds the decay. The reason this can happen is that in the wetland environment the mosses are not able to break down for lack of oxygen. The fungi and bacteria that recycle the dead mosses cannot live in this waterlogged environment and decay is halted. Gradually, gradually there is a buildup of vegetation which becomes compacted and swallows up the surface stones and features. Peat that forms in these conditions on the sides of mountains is called Blanket Bog. Lowland bogs are slightly different, but essentially the process is the same. Turf that is burnt in homes in Northern Europe have normally taken hundreds or even thousands of years to form.
Turf extraction, as we know, is not sustainable, (mostly) which is why lots of us now prefer to buy non-peat based composts.
In these Geopark lands, turf drying in the fields is still a relatively common sight; one that attracts our attention. And many families have a cut in a newly harvested field. They must go down and shift the peat once it has dried and stack it at home. Tur, as we found out, burns almost without flame and is red hot. It burns more like coal rather than wood. We stoked and blew under the turf all night trying to get some flame before we understood the error.
Drawing has a special place near the top of our now bulging dreamers toolkit! It’s fun and useful and a methodology that travels well.
Collaborative drawing is a way people can dream together. It’s also a valuable way to explore experiences, connections and ideas.
As our drawing grows our adventures deepen. Like the ancient fossilized coral reefs under our feet here at Marble Arch Caves Geopark, the nooks and cranniess created by our pens are home to interesting and unusual inhabitants. For the time we are here the rich biodiversity of our imaginations and dreams forms part of the wider Geopark ecology.
Dreams, thoughts and imaginings of people, places and things are part of the distinct ecologies of the planet.
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