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(NEXSTAR) – Inflation is now at a four-decade high, and efforts by the Federal Reserve to curb it aren’t taming it thus far. Some fear an impending decision by the Biden administration regarding student loan forgiveness could only make it worse. But will it?
President Biden is expected to make a decision on federal student loan forgiveness within the next two months, according to reports. In April, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill that Biden was considering expunging at least $10,000 per borrower.
An analysis by the Federal Reserve found that sort of forgiveness would result in roughly 11.8 million borrowers – slightly more than 31% – having their entire balance eliminated. That would result in an estimated $321 billion in federal student loans being forgiven.
Some have argued student debt cancellation could lead to an economic boost, giving currently debt-burdened borrowers the opportunity to spend money on items they may have been holding out on, like a car or a house. That spending boost may not be ideal in the eyes of the Fed, which is trying to stabilize costs by making borrowing more expensive.
Still, some experts believe student loan forgiveness won’t have a large impact on inflation, including White House Senior Advisor Brian Deese. While speaking with reporters in May, Deese said that the economic impact of any student loan forgiveness proposal “would be across the course of years or a couple of decades.”
He added that the impact on inflation “in the near term is likely to be … quite small.”
Student loan forgiveness wouldn’t put money directly in borrowers’ pockets like stimulus checks, which were intended to be used for spending and stimulating the economy. Instead, forgiveness would either end or reduce the payments borrowers need to make on their federal student loans.
David Lazarus, business and consumer news contributor for Nexstar’s KTLA, agreed forgiveness would have a limited impact on inflation but noted that “it could affect the Fed’s efforts to cool the economy, which would create more urgency for further rate hikes.”
“Loan forgiveness could provide people with more disposable cash,” he explained. “While it’s not a certainty that people would go on spending sprees, it would allow for more shopping. That, in turn, would strengthen the economy, making it even more difficult to bring down sky-high consumer prices.”
In February, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit public policy organization, estimated canceling all of the $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt held by Americans would increase the inflation rate by anywhere from 10 to 50 basis points, or 0.1 to 0.5 percentage points in the 12 months after repayment is scheduled to begin. The current U.S. inflation rate is 8.6%.
The Committee hasn’t released an estimate on how inflation would be impacted by forgiving $10,000 per borrower, but the organization continues to call both the payment pause and debt cancellation “regressive and inflationary.”
Payments on federal student loans remain paused until August 31. Biden could approve another extension on the payment moratorium in light of rising interest rates, and depending on the state of the economy in August, according to the Associated Press.
Since Biden took office, his administration has approved $25 billion in student loan forgiveness.
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The sails were shut up like a fan, the helm put a-starboard, and on we flew in the new direction. Two hours later, and "Sail ho!" again cried a dozen voices from different parts of the ship. "Where away?" "Right ahead, sir." The news went round the Juniata like an electric shock, and we were all wound up to a high pitch of excitement, feeling now certain that the chase was the selfsame pirate who had robbed the English brig.
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Author: Harry Gringo
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Network topology plays an important role in many network operations. However, it is very difficult to obtain the topology of public networks due to the lack of internal cooperation. Network tomography provides a powerful solution that can infer the network routing topology from end-to-end measurements. Existing solutions all assume that routes from a single source form a tree. However, with the rapid deployment of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the routing paths in modern networks are becoming more complex. To address this problem, we propose a novel inference problem, called the weight inference problem, which infers the finest-granularity information from end-to-end measurements on general routing paths in general topologies. Our measurements are based on emulated multicast probes with a controllable "width". We show that the problem has a unique solution when the multicast width is unconstrained; otherwise, we show that the problem can be treated as a sparse approximation problem, which allows us to apply variations of the pursuit algorithms. Simulations based on real network topologies show that our solution significantly outperforms a state-of-the-art network tomography algorithm, and increasing the width of multicast substantially improves the inference accuracy. | <urn:uuid:4ed525ec-3b66-40e5-acd9-ebe02b571cac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/multicast-based-weight-inference-in-general-network-topologies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935577 | 256 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Lee R. Raymond
- Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Minnesota (May 16, 2011).
- PhD, chemical engineering, University of Minnesota (1963).
- BSc, chemical engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1960). ,
Lee R. Raymond was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil from 1999 until he retired in 2005 with a nearly $400 million severance package, one of the most generous in history. Raymond worked at Exxon and affiliates for his entire career. He served as director of Exxon and Exxon Mobil Corporation from 1984 to 2005. He was Chairman and CEO of Exxon in 1993, and continued to work with the group after it merged with Mobil Oil Corporation in 1999. ,
Raymond was elected chairman of the American Petroleum Institute (API) from 1996 to 1997 and again in 2001. A 1998 Communications Plan suggested API was working with several groups to promote “uncertainty” about climate change science and links to fossil fuels around this time. According to the document, “victory will be achieved when […] Average citizens ‘understand’ (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom’. ” While Raymond’s name doesn’t appear directly in the documents, representatives from both API and Exxon Corp were listed as “GCSCT [Global Climate Science Team] members who contributed to the development of the plan.” , , ,
Raymond has also been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a fossil-fuel-funded think tank whose members have consistently questioned established science around human-caused climate change. In his 2012 book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, journalist Steve Coll noted that Raymond knew Vice President Dick Cheney “very well.” In the 1990s, while Cheney served as chief executive at Halliburton, his company regularly provided services to Exxon. Both Raymond’s wife, Charlene, and Cheney’s wife, Lynne, regularly met at retreats and meetings hosted by AEI. ,
Raymond has maintained various other corporate connections and board seats. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an emeritus Trustee of the Mayo Clinic, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member and past Chairman of the National Petroleum Council, and is Lead Independent Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Exxon & Climate Change Denial
ExxonMobil has spent tens of millions of dollars funding organizations questioning the existence of man-made climate change. From 1997 to 2005, Exxon gave at least $19.5 million in grants to climate change denial organizations. A total of at least $35 million in grants went to climate change denial groups between 1997 and 2016 with over $5 million of those donations earmarked for climate change. Many grant recipients were members of the Cooler Heads Coalition.
Climate Investigations Center noted that Lee Raymond was responsible for promoting Ken Cohen, formerly Legal Counsel for Exxon, to the position of Vice President for Public and Government Affairs. Steve Coll wrote in Private Empire:
“Ken Cohen and his public affairs shop, in tandem with the K Street office in Washington, oversaw contributions to free-market advocates who published, spoke out, and file lawsuits to challenge policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or assess the long-term impact of global warming.”
Stance on Climate Change
In Private Empire, Coll described Lee Raymond, as “notoriously skeptical about climate change and disliked government interference at any level.” While leading ExxonMobil, Raymond was one of the few CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to openly oppose the Kyoto Protocol.
Archived documents suggest Raymond was briefed on climate change issues as early as 1985, although he continued to be skeptical for many years after. For example, in a 1997 speech before the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing, China, Raymond outlined his views on climate change:
“First, the world isn’t warming. Second, even if it were, oil and gas wouldn’t be the cause. Third, no one can predict the likely future temperature rise,” Raymond said.
November 8, 2005
Lee Raymond: “The climate – the climate has changed every year for millions of years. If we weren’t here, the climate would change. It has to do with sun spots, it has to do with the wobble of the Earth, and it has – there are all kinds of things that come and go. If you talk to a geologist, he will tell you the Earth, over its history, has been much warmer than it is now and much colder. There have been times in the Earth’s history where there has been no ice on the Earth. No ice on the Earth. Man didn’t have anything to do with it. So now, the question is, given that there is natural variability – that we know. That’s not an unknown. We don’t know what it is, but we know that it’s changing all the time. Now, the question is, is part of what’s happening related to something other than natural variability? And if so, how do you determine what that is? And the reality is, the science isn’t there to make that determination.”
Charle Rose: “But why do a bunch of scientists from the National Academy and some scientists from the United Nations even say, well, we think it is?”
Raymond: “Well, there are a lot of other scientists that don’t agree with them.”
Rose: “You think it’s 50/50? I mean, I don’t know, I’m asking this out of – I mean, is there an even split or is it 90/10?”
Raymond: “Wait a minute, Charlie. Science isn’t – science is not a democratic process, where everybody gets together and votes.”
Rose: “I know that.But I’m asking, is it – it’s also, there is this reality. Ninety percent of the people can say, we believe, we believe that humans contribute to the emissions in the air in a significant way that causes global warming. Ten percent can say, we see no evidence of that, we think it’s a natural variance, and climate is a natural change. That’s you know, you choose to believe the 90 percent or you choose to believe the 10 percent or –”
Raymond: “I don’t know. Ninety percent of the people thought the world was flat. No? Right?”
“Our analysis indicates that the current state of climate science is too uncertain to provide clear answers to many key questions about climate change. Even if global warming were a proven threat — which it is not — targets agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, fail to provide a fair, practical or cost-effective solutions,” Raymond wrote.
October 13, 1997
In a speech at the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing, China, Raymond presented three questions: “Is the Earth really warming? Does burning fossil fuels cause global warming? And do we now have a reasonable scientific basis for predicting future temperature?” In his response, he cited a range of common myths regarding climate change:
“In answer to the first question, we know that natural fluctuations in the Earth’s temperature have occurred throughout history – with wide temperature swings. The ice ages are a good example,” Raymond claimed, revealing his belief in a common climate change myth.
“In fact, one period of cooling occurred from 1940 to 1975. in the 197Os, some of today’s prophets of doom from global warming were predicting the coming of a new ice age. — Myth #2
“Some measurements suggest that the Earth’s average temperature has risen about half a degree centigrade since the late 19th century. Yet sensitive satellite measurements have shown no warming trend since the late 1970s. In fact, the earth is cooler today than it was 20 years ago.” — Myth #3
“We also have to keep in mind that most of the greenhouse effect comes from natural sources, especially water vapor. Less than a quarter is from carbon dioxide, and, of this, only four percent of the carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere is due to human activities – 96 percent comes from nature.” Myth #4
“Forecasts of future warming come from computer models that try to replicate Earth’s past climate and predict the future. They are notoriously inaccurate. None can do it without significant overriding adjustments.” Myth #5
“[T]he case for so called global warming is far from air right. You would think that all the uncertainty would give political leaders pause. Unfortunately, it hasn’t, and officials continue to insist that agreement is needed in Kyoto.”
November 14, 1996
Lee Raymond spoke at an American Petroleum Institute event while he served as API‘s chairman of the board. During his talk, text of which is republished and annotated at Climate Files, Raymond described “so-called global climate change” as “the issue that perhaps poses the greatest long-term threat to our industry.” Raymond also questioned the science and described global warming as a “theory”: ,
“Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. But scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate,” Raymond said.
On Gay Rights
Lee Raymond found himself in conflict with gay rights organizations after he denied corporate benefits to same-sex partners of his employees, Steve Coll noted in his 2012 book Private Empire. The following interchange was quoted in the book, according to an interview with an executive who served as a director of the Exxon corporation during the Lee Raymond era and recalled the interchange:
“Do you discriminate against people based on sexual preference?” the director asked.
“Of course not,” Raymond answered.
“Then why don’t you say it?”
“Well, it’s not required by law.”
ExxonMobil Climate Ads
Greenpeace’s Polluterwatch project compiled ExxonMobil and Mobil ads from 1972 to 2004. As Polluterwatch reported, the ad series fully contradicted the findings of their own scientists regarding climate change.
Below are those released since Lee Raymond became a director in 1984:
June 7, 2004
“While there can be little doubt that wind and solar will grow rapidly, these start from a very small base, and even with extremely rapid growth, will only supply about one-half of one percent of the world’s energy in 2020. The predominate energy sources will remain oil and gas.” [14:00]
“In the decades ahead, carbon dioxide emissions from greater fossil fuel use will climb. We simply do not yet have the economical solutions or technologies that would permit us to meet future energy demands without carbon emissions growth, and as important, we do not know how to increase economic growth without increasing energy use.” [27:50]
“The danger exists that economic activity will be compromised due to the efforts to meet the commitments that have been made. This is the fundamental reason that the developing world has been very cool to Kyoto.” [29:13]
“In my view, the most sensible and fundamental avenue to meet rising energy needs throughout the world, as well as to address greenhouse gas emissions concerns is through a long-term effort in energy research and development. Much, if not most of this will be privately sponsored research.” [29:40]
“We don’t run this company on emotions. We run it on science and principles.”
October 13, 1997
“Let’s agree there’s a lot we really don’t know about how climate will change in the 21st century and beyond,” Raymond said in his speech before the World Petroleum Congress in Beijing.
“We need to understand the issue better, and fortunately, we have time,” he said. “It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.”
May 9, 1982
“We see governments come and go,” Lee Raymond once remarked according to The New York Times.
Raymond has noted that ExxonMobil’s interests were global rather than focused on the United States. At an industry meeting in Washington, Raymond was asked whether Exxon planned to build more refineries the US.
“Why would I want to do that?” Raymond asked, as an executive recalled it to Steve Coll.
“Because the United States needs it … for security,” the executive replied.
“I’m not a U.S. company and I don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the U.S.,” Raymond said.
Lee Raymond teamed up with former Chesapeake Energy CEO and Founder Aubrey McClendon to frack wells in Ohio. At the time, McClendon was under investigation by the SEC for his previous financial dealings while he was at Chesapeake. DeSmog reported McClendon received a permit permit to frack five wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources on November 26.
“The Ohio Department of Natural Resources awarded McClendon’s new company, American Energy Utica LLC, five horizontal well permits Nov. 26 that allows oil and gas exploration on the Jones property in Nottingham Township, Harrison County,” an article in The Business Journal explained. “In October, American Energy Utica announced it has raised $1.7 billion in capital to secure new leases in the Utica shale play.”
Raymond was listed as s a director of of American Energy Ohio Holdings LLC, according to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings. The Wall Street Journal reported the company raised $1.35 billion for Mr. McClendon’s new firm, American Energy Partners LP, however “The extent of Mr. Raymond’s participation isn’t clear; he declined to comment, as did American Energy.” Raymond’s son, John Raymond, served as Managing Partner, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Executive Officer of Minerals & Energy Group, initially the largest capital investor in the venture. John Raymond also served as a partner. , ,
News that Lee Raymond would be tapped to lead a panel on America’s energy future was met with criticism from environmental groups. Over 60,000 letters were sent to the Energy Department to protest Raymond’s appointment.
“ExxonMobil is currently the worst of the oil giants fueling America’s oil addiction,” said Shawnee Hoover, campaign director of Exxpose Exxon. “Putting Exxon’s Lee Raymond in charge of solving America’s energy crisis is like putting Jack Abramoff in charge of solving political corruption.”
December 12, 2000
Religious shareholders in ExxonMobil filed a resolution charging Lee Raymond with misleading investors at the company’s annual meeting. The resolution filed by Patricia Daly of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey said:
“We believe that ExxonMobil has misinformed shareholders about global warming with inaccurate statements and unreliable information. In addition we believe CEO Lee Raymond made inaccurate statements and used unreliable information when discussing global warming at the May 2000 Annual Meeting.”
“Shareholders are potentially vulnerable to the financial costs of global warming and have the right to a full and accurate assessment about it, not the half-truths and half-science that ExxonMobil offered them last year,” said Daly. “We are very concerned that management has so little regard for investors that they are willing to make misleading and disingenuous statements in a shareholder meeting. This is simply a terrible abuse of the truth by ExxonMobil.”
Scientist Lloyd Keigwin, whose work was repeatedly used by ExxonMobil to make the case there is uncertainty about climate change, supported Caldwell’s argument. Raymond had cited Keigwin’s temperature data from the Sargasso Sea during the May 2000 meeting. “So the issue isn’t only: is the earth warming but why is it warming,” Raymond had concluded.
Keigwin responded in a December 11, 2000 letter: “I believe ExxonMobil has been misleading in its use of the Sargasso Sea data. There’s really no way these results bear on the question of human induced climate warming. I think the sad thing is the a company with the resources of ExxonMobil is exploiting the data for political purposes,” he said.
August 10, 2000
ExxonMobil ran an ad in the Washington Post titled “Political cart before the scientific horse” that was severely critical of the draft synthesis report of the US National Assessment on climate change. On September 26, 2002, Michael MacCracken, a retiring senior scientist for the Office of the U. S. Global Change Research Program, wrote a letter to Lee Raymond wherein he responded to ExxonMobil’s critical comments on the draft of the report.
“Without having participated in the Federal Register review process that had led up to the draft report being made available for public comment (after two rounds of technical review), nor having participated in the public meetings discussing the draft report and its contents until the very end, the ExxonMobil proceeded to make a number of charges in the advertisement, generally based on rather poor understanding of what was being done and why the National Assessment was being undertaken.”
He proceeded to address each of ExxonMobil’s charges with a detailed response, including the claim that climate models “are not yet capable of predicting Earth’s global
climate,” that “global models simply don’t work on a regional level,” and other charges.
“More thorough consideration and investigation should have been given by ExxonMobil to the content and process of the National Assessment,” MacCracken concluded.
Under Raymond’s leadership, ExxonMobil released a four-part series of Op-Eds on climate change that appeared in a number of newspapers. The articles were titled Do No Harm, Unsettled Science, The Promise of Technology, and The Path Forward on Climate Change. Raymond wrote the ads “summarize our views on this important issue.” Exxon’s publications promoted supposed uncertainties regarding climate change science and opposed actions like the Kyoto Protocol.
A group of environmentalists, having bought shares in ExxonMobil, attended the corporation’s annual meeting in Dallas where they criticized the corporation’s policies. One activist shouted for a “long-term solution to global warming.” Lee Raymond responded by quoting from the debunked Oregon Petition:
“There is no convincing scientific evidence that any release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will in the foreseeable future cause catastrophic heating of the earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the earth’s climate,” Raymond began. He continued in his own words: “I’m not saying you’re wrong. What I am saying is there is a substantial difference of view in the scientific community as to what exactly is going on.”
Raymond provided a statement in a 1998 ExxonMobil pamphlet titled “Global Climate change: everyone’s debate” claiming that “Even if global warming were a proven threat — which it is not — targets agreed on in Kyoto, Japan, fail to provide a fair, practical or cost-effective solutions.”
View the complete document below, via Climate Files
Global Climate Change Everyone’s Debate(Text)
November 11, 1996
Lee Raymond spoke at an American Petroleum Institute event while he served as API‘s chairman of the board. During his talk, Raymond contended that many Americans share a “distorted view” that fossil fuel use poses a threat to the environment.
During his speech, text of which is republished and annotated at Climate Files, Raymond described “so-called global climate change” as “the issue that perhaps poses the greatest long-term threat to our industry.” Raymond said of the Kyoto Protocol:
“Right now, a United Nations-led effort is moving toward decisions in 1997 to cut the use of fossil fuels, based on the unproved theory that they affect the Earth’s climate.”
Raymond urged that “we in the industry provide a voice of common sense … [by] getting people to look at the science surrounding the issue, the economics of the policies being proposed and the impact on them as individuals.” On the science, Raymond contended that “scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate.”
Near the conclusion, Raymond proposed a plan, citing success of a coalition fighitng the Btu tax.
“Addressing these and the other long-term issues we face will require that we do a better job of convincing others — Politicians and the public alike — of the merits of our case. To do that, we’ll need to draw on a third ‘C’ — cooperation.
“In dealing with important issues in the past, we’ve been most effective when we’ve kept a clear focus on our common interest. The coalition we formed to defeat with Btu tax is an excellent example.
“On that issue, we brought together various groups within the industry. We mobilized our employes. We gained the support of small business. We worked with other trade groups and associations. And we even picked up the support of a wide range of energy consumers. In the end, we all came together and cooperated to defeat an ill-conceived and onerous proposal.”
Raymond also identified the auto industry as an ally in their fight:
One example is our close cooperation with the automobile industry in research programs on both sides of the Atlantic. Recently, they have become engaged in the global climate issue and are active, aggressive allies. They, in turn, have gained the support of others, and I expect that circle of support will continue to expand.”
During his European tour from July 11 to 26, apart from reporting on Exxon’s business results, Raymond discussed the importance on staying “focused” on external issues. “One such issue,” he reported, “and probably the most important external issue, is the theory of ‘global climate change.’”
“Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases – especially carbon dioxide – are causing or will cause global temperatures to rise. But more than 96 percent of the carbon dioxide is naturally produced in the environment, and it has nothing to do with human activity. It and the other greenhouse gases are necessary for life to survive on Earth. Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.
“The lack of scientific understanding on this subject has not prevented activists from politicizing it and seeking to stir up all kinds of fears. They do so in an effort to force wrenching changes in our lifestyles and in the economies of the world’s industrialized nations, with their real objectives often obscure. Such attempts represent a threat both to sound science and sound economics,” Raymond claimed.
According to Raymond, in developing nations, “the most pressing environmental problems are related to poverty and not global climate change.” He added, “Addressing these problems will require economic growth, and that will necessitate increasing, not curtailing, the use of fossil fuels.”
“This does not mean that we will inevitably experience grave consequences from global warming. We should keep in mind that some Cassandras of global warming were predicting the coming of a new ice age 20 years ago. And so, it makes little sense today to adopt economically punishing policies on the basis of uncertain predictions,” he said.
“Our first priority ought to be to improve scientific understanding. Exxon is helping with that process by conducting its own research and by supporting that of others, including a major research effort at M.I.T. on the science, economics and policy options of potential global warming.”
In the fall of 1996, Raymond published an article in the Exxon publication The Lamp titled “Climate change: don’t ignore the facts.” According to Raymond, “Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases – especially carbon dioxide – are causing world temperatures to rise and that burning fossil fuels is the reason. (See Global Warming – What to Think? What to Do?) Yet scientific evidence remains inconclusive as to whether human activities affect global climate.”
In the spring of 1996, Exxon Corporation released a publication titled “Global warming: who’s right? Facts about a debate that’s turned up more questions than answers,” that included a statement from Lee Raymond promoting uncertainty on climate change science. Climate Files noted the piece also cited Exxon-funded climate change deniers throughout.
In an interview with The New York Times following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Raymond had a differing version of the company’s cleanup efforts at the time of the spill. He blamed Alaskan officials for not granting permits to use cleanup equipment. ”We had a lot of cleanup equipment on the ground, but we couldn’t get the permits to use it until it was too late,” Raymond said.
Raymond also countered suggestions by experts that the oil company’s spill response could have been slowed by the departure of nine of its oil spill specialists during staff cutbacks. ”We have people all over the world trained to handle oil spills, even if they don’t have the exact title of oil spill specialist,” he said.
The Exxon Valdez spill is considered one of the most devastating human-cased environmental disasters in history.
In a later deposition on the spill, Jim Sherman, a lawyer for the State of Alaska, asked Raymond what, if anything, he felt Exxon did wrong:
Jim Sherman: “I asked you a moment ago … what, if anything, you felt Exxon did wrong, and I think your answer began by saying, well, you didn’t really think it was a matter of right and wrong.”
Raymond: “Well, I don’t mean to be argumentative, but assigning blame isn’t the same as being right or wrong.”
Sherman: “Well, do you think the State of Alaska’s actions in the first seventy-two hours after the spill in regard to dispersant use were wrong?”
Raymond: “My own view is that dispersants should have been applied. If you are suggesting that the state didn’t think they should be applied, then I guess we would have a difference of view. And since I’m right, I guess by your supposition you are wrong.”
Sherman: “By those same terms, did Exxon do anything in the course of the weeks that followed the spill that was wrong?”
Raymond: “The state may have a view on that and I have a different view.”
- American Petroleum Institute (API) — Former chair in 1996-97 and 2002-03. Also chair of Climate Change Committee. Listed as “director and a member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee” in a 2005 press release. ,
- American Energy Ohio Holdings LLC — Director, according to 2013 SEC filings.
- JPMorgan Chase & Co. — Lead independent director. Director Since 2001. Director of J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated from 1987 to 2000.
- Mayo Clinic — Emeritus trustee.
- Council on Foreign Relations — Member.
- National Petroleum Council — Member and past chairman.
- American Enterprise Institute — Former member, board of trustees. Elected at AEI‘s December 12, 2003 meeting. ,
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — Former trustee.
- President’s Export Council — Former member.
- The Business Council — Member (as of November 1995).
- The Business Roundtable — Member (as of November 1995).
- Trilateral Commission — Member (as of November 1995).
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) Global Infrastructure Investors L.P. — Listed as a “Senior Advisor” to the KKR Infrastructure Team. as of 2010.
- United Negro College Fund — Director (2005 press release).
- American Society for Engineering Education — Member of the National Advisory Council (2005 press release).
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — Trustee (2005 press release).
- Business Council for International Understanding, Inc. — Honorary trustee (2005 press release).
- The Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations — Member.
- The American Council on Germany — Member (2005 press release).
- The Emergency Council for American Trade — Member (2005 press release).
- The Singapore-U.S. Business Council — Member (2005 press release).
- The Secretary of Energy Advisory Board — Member (2005 press release).
- 21st Century Campaign of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers — Member, the Executive Committee (2005 press release).
- National Academy of Engineering — Member (2005 press release).
- The University of Wisconsin Foundation — Member (2005 press release).
- Decision Sciences International Corporation — Advisor.
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) — Trustee.
- Esso Inter-America Inc. — Director (1983).
- Lee Raymond does not appear to be active on social media.
- Steve Coll. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (May 2012).
- “Lee R. Raymond: Honorary Degree Recipient,” University of Minnesota. Archived May 25, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/tnECf
- “BOARD OF DIRECTORS,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. Archived May 23, 2018. Archive.is URL: https://archive.li/zMj0L
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CineFix is back after a long hiatus with a brand new list highlighting the 10 best uses of music in movies, instances where music is used inside the film to further the plot…but not musical numbers or scores. There’s actually a word for this if you want to forgo a rip on your Word-of-the-Day Calendar: Diegetics. Within this concept are a whole lot of extremely specific uses for music in films: music provided by characters in a scene, contrapuntal scoring (or music provided to underscore a scene wildly out of sync with that particular scene’s gravity; think The Mickey Mouse March in Full Metal Jacket or the closing number from The Life of Brian), songs character choose to play that help define that character (ex: Peter Quill dancing to “Come And Get Your Love” in Guardians of the Galaxy), and a whole bunch of more esoteric musical film categories. Diegetics, people.
Diegetic sound. Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: voices of characters. sounds made by objects in the story. music represented as coming from instruments in the story space ( = source music)
Frances McDormand has made a distinguished career largely working with the Coen Brothers (one of whom to which she is married) and director Wes Anderson. Both-and the smartest directors for whom she’s worked-have utilized her ability to disappear into roles. You rarely hear people talking about a “Frances McDormand movie”. They talk about the characters she creates. A lot of actors get credit for epitomizing the blue-collar American, but I don’t think any actress embodies that niche better than McDormand, though her range allows her to do pretty much whatever she wants whenever she wants.
Continue reading Frances McDormand’s 10 Best Movies
Music makes or breaks a film. We’ve talked about movie scores before and how vital they are to the success of a film. Today, let’s turn it around and look at what happens when movies look at music. How big a part of your daily life is music? This whole list came about as a side effect of a seven hour drive I had to make yesterday, the entirety of it spent yodeling to a vast library of songs (to be fair to me, it was not as bad as yodeling….it was getting very raspy though in the last two hours). Continue reading Top 5: Music Movies
Nine. “Aloha” is only said nine times in Aloha, which-when you think about it-is pretty amazing restraint. However, the fact that I was disinterested enough in what was going on with the plot to keep a running “Aloha” tally, doesn’t bespeak well of the whole endeavor. Continue reading Movie Review: Aloha (2015) *And Aloha to Cameron Crowe*
So the big question with Aloha is: which Cameron Crowe is going to show up? The phenom who wrote and directed Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, the super weird guy who adapted Vanilla Sky or the guy on a downward career spiral that spat out Elizabethtown and We Built a Zoo. I like this trailer. A lot. I think it has potential and, as always in a Crowe film, a stellar ensemble cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, Danny McBride, Jay Baruchel, Alec Baldwin and John Krasinski.
The film opens May 29, 2015 and the official synopsis is below:
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him. | <urn:uuid:b130a1b8-e37b-479e-8b3b-88a7c5404c8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justkillingti.me/tag/almost-famous/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957525 | 808 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Royalty rates play a crucial role in shaping the digital music broadcasting industry. If rates are too high, the ability of digital broadcasters to provide the public with access to music is impeded. If rates are too low, then recording artists do not receive a fair return on their endeavors. And if rates are inconsistent across different delivery mechanisms, then some business models are favored over others.
Today, the playing field in American digital music broadcasting is anything but level. For example, Internet radio companies can be compelled to pay over 60% of their revenue in sound recording performance royalties. By contrast, Sirius XM satellite radio currently pays only 8% of gross revenue. To make matters even more complicated, these rates are evolving over time in complex and sometimes unpredictable ways, making it nearly impossible for digital audio broadcasters to make reliable projections regarding their future content acquisition costs.
This new paper examines how the current patchwork of rates reflects a two-tiered system in American copyright law that partitions non-interactive digital audio services into two categories, each with its own standard for statutory performance royalty rate determinations. Services such as Internet radio that have the misfortune of being subject to the more onerous “willing buyer/willing seller” standard can face extremely high rates, while those such as Sirius XM satellite radio that are often associated with the more balanced standard known as “801(b)” enjoy much lower rates. Furthermore, access to the 801(b) standard is limited to certain services that were “preexisting” in 1998, the year that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was enacted.
The current copyright royalty landscape creates significant inequities among current market participants. It also furnishes a strong disincentive to potential new market entrants and to the introduction of innovative new business models for delivering digital music. The good news is that these shortcomings can be addressed through simple, focused legislation to provide all non-interactive digital music broadcasters – not just a favored few – with access to statutory royalty rates determined according to the 801(b) standard. This would stimulate innovation and growth in a key segment of the broadcasting industry. | <urn:uuid:046ffef1-0ec2-485a-b6b9-a9276ad9ad63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/digital-music-broadcast-royalties-the-case-for-a-level-playing-field/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950739 | 435 | 1.867188 | 2 |
If human beings have any hope of prolonged survival on an additional planet, it will depend on the extraterrestrial ground beneath their boots. Thanks to the exorbitant price of shipping merchandise and resources by spacecraft, astronauts ought to capitalize on what they locate. On Mars, this implies rocks, dust, and small else.
Researchers have dreamed up dozens of makes use of for Martian filth, like as soil for planting, cement for landing pads, and, perhaps, coagulants for fatal bleeding. There is a hitch, though: There’s no Mars filth on our planet. Totally none. As an alternative, Earth minerals will have to simulate Martian stuff. A cottage industry for this faux-alien make a difference has bloomed, offering soils customized to resemble those people identified on other planets, asteroids, and the moon.
About 30 different Martian simulants have been formulated according to one recent assessment study by materials experts, generating up for Earth’s comprehensive deficiency of Mars dirt. Two U.S. purveyors are amongst the top sources: The Martian Yard in Austin and College of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab. NASA’s Extraterrestrial Supplies Simulation Laboratory, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, also would make soil simulants and rock analogues for in-home use. So do some personal spaceflight corporations.
“Demand has been heading up steadily,” planetary scientist and Exolith Lab founder Daniel Britt explained to The Everyday Beast. The lab, which began formulating simulants in 2015, now has extra than 1,000 consumers. Some could buy just a number of dozen pounds of the things. Some others have picked up 10 tons of simulant in shipping containers. Exolith Lab supplied 80 times the quantity of soil in 2021 than it did in 2018.
Of course, not just any filth will do. “The base line below is that when you’re likely to be operating in alien environments, they are alien,” Britt claimed. Earth has considerable oxygen, lively tectonics, liquid drinking water and dwelling points that warp or corrode soil in strategies that really don’t arise on Mars or the moon.
It necessitates curation, and typically pulverization, to develop into a good stand-in for Mars soil. Rocks and minerals might be cooked to take away organic options, crushed into powder, blended, moistened, and dried out, ahead of the simulant can be a handy investigation device.
Pretend Mars dust has been mixed with human blood protein into a brick-like composite. It has been spiked with nitrogen-correcting germs to coax crops to expand. It has been sintered to produce clay, then spun into a bowl on a potter’s wheel.
Christian Kastrup, who research how blood clots at the University of British Columbia, hypothesizes that sterilized Mars soil could be utilized akin to gauze, plugging up undesirable wounds. A few years back, Kastrup and his colleagues learned that human blood plasma reacts with a mineral in Earth soil, triggering clotting.
“We believe that our blood normally responds to silicates that are in soil,” Kastrup explained to The Day by day Beast. He couldn’t say still what his lab has observed employing Mars simulants—the experiments are underway—but Mars, it turns out, has people identical silicates. The target is a dressing, which astronauts might not have had area to pack, for injuries “much larger than what you’d use a Band-Aid for,” Kastrup explained.
Using Earth-certain dirt as a cosmic substitute is a follow that dates back to preparations for the Apollo missions. Different rocks ended up crushed into powders to forecast what the early astronauts may well come upon. Moon simulants are however employed, way too, due to the fact the authentic stuff is so important. Apollo astronauts collected 842 pounds of lunar rocks, sand and dust. NASA doles that things out by the milligram.
The to start with generation of Mars soil simulants was designed in the 1990s. Johnson Space Center’s Mars-1 was orange soil from a Hawaiian volcano. The shade was proper, but the contents have been lacking. “It was not a excellent match to the things that’s essentially on the floor,” Colorado University of Mines geology professor Kevin Cannon, who assisted produce Exolith Lab’s Mars simulant while at UCF, advised The Each day Beast
About a 10 years right after Mars-1’s debut, Greg Peters, then at the Extraterrestrial Materials Simulation Laboratory, and his colleagues created the Mojave Mars simulant. In California’s Mojave Desert rises Saddleback Mountain, redder than the bordering landscape. Peters knew the location well—it was close to a borax mine in which his father experienced labored for many years.
Samples he collected from the butte were being promising. “It turns out, it is a fair chemical match” to Mars, Peters, a technological know-how supervisor at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Study Centre in California, instructed The Everyday Beast. The simulant was perfectly received—NASA had about 10 tons of the stuff, and the paper describing the simulant has been cited much more than 100 periods.
It also motivated two Austin park rangers to acquire their very own faux-Martian filth. In the mid-2010s, the pair, equally house admirers, released a Kickstarter presenting planters entire of the Mojave soil. The Martian Backyard was born. The company has given that made an “in-household blend” manufactured by combining the Mojave Mars basalt with iron oxide, Mark Cusimano, 1 of the former rangers and Martian Garden’s chief technology officer explained to The Daily Beast.
Martian Backyard has provided classrooms, NASA, personal organizations, and universities, Cusimano mentioned, at a couple of pounds to 10,000 lbs an purchase.
In Florida, in the meantime, Cannon and Britt produced their simulant from scratch, primarily based on Mars surface info collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover was outfitted with an X-ray diffractometer, the to start with robot to have these types of an instrument on an additional earth. “It pretty properly tells you all of the minerals that are existing in the sample and in what proportions,” claimed Cannon.
Exolith Lab’s Mars World wide Simulant attracts from resources throughout the earth. It has obtained rock from normal structures in Idaho and Greenland, as properly as commercially offered minerals, these kinds of as iron ores intended for earning ceramics.
“Some of these minerals are rather challenging to get,” claimed Cannon, who now will make bespoke simulants for Kastrup and other consumers. He has sourced a mineral referred to as plagioclase, making up 40 percent to 50 per cent of Mars rocks and soil, from waste at the Stillwater platinum mine in Montana.
The moment gathered, the minerals are crushed and combined. At to start with, Exolith Lab’s undergraduates utilized sledgehammers to smash rocks to measurement. The lab has due to the fact subbed out the undergrads for industrial mills at first created for mining, which pulverize minerals involving metal plates. Mars soil shouldn’t come to feel like seashore sand, Britt said—the product or service is far more jagged, with no the advantage of waves to wash away the sharp factors.
The final result is a cocktail of rocks with names like anhydrite, ferrihydrite, hematite, magnetite, olivine, plagioclase and pyroxene. It is not a great mineral match to Mars. “You can introduce additional slight substances that are present in the soil,” Cannon explained, but “it’s all a trade-off between the scale, the expense and the precision.”
In actuality, perfection could be harmful. Exact replicas of some asteroids, for case in point, would be unlawful to market in states like California thanks to the space rocks’ large concentrations of carcinogenic chemicals. “We consider not to eliminate our prospects,” Britt explained. Handling the content Exolith Lab provides, he extra, is about as harmless as sitting down on seaside sand.
One working day, it will no for a longer period be legitimate that our planet lacks Martian dirt. NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2020, is outfitted with what Peters termed “the most complicated system that is ever been set to one more planet”: a 7-foot-extended drill-tipped arm, which will collect samples of Mars to be sealed in tubes. If all goes very well, a different robotic mission will retrieve all those samples and return them to Earth in the 2030s.
“When that sample return takes place, that’s heading to be a large activity-changer,” Cusimano stated. With the authentic write-up in hand, scientists will complete the deepest probe however into the contents of Mars dust, wringing fine specifics from the alien matter. Earth’s mineral mimics should only get improved. | <urn:uuid:cb74b7c7-e829-4960-9ada-a9fac486b03c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mucici.xyz/the-business-of-fake-martian-dirt-is-blasting-off.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93853 | 1,954 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Untreated, the infection can engulf the entire affected nail, causing it to become dis-coloured, thickened, and very difficult to cut. The appearance of the nail can be embarrassing, causing distress for many sufferers.
Moreover, the fungus can easily spread between nails, leading to poor foot health, hygiene, and increasing the risk of serious foot problems, for example, ingrown toenails and ulcers.
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For the delicts of the same classification practised 28/03/2007 after, he prevails, for the time being, Law 11464/07, that he determines> direct consequncia of the practised delict – he is reduced so only to the letter of the Law. Our Legislative one, and in result our Judiciary one, legislates in the direction to reduce the jail population in detriment of its victims. In recent years the action of the activists of human rights of infractors took advantage incontinenti on the same rights of the citizen who does not transgress and lives in compliance with the Current law. The social behavior of the people, companies and institutions, does not leave doubts. In this Country if it never spent in such a way with security! Today the families plan its lives in function of a pretense inalcanvel security.
The natural aspiration of economic, social and cultural growth is preceded of the permanent concern with the personal and familiar security. The possibility to be victims of an assault or physical violence> it is latent and present in each minute of our existence, although to be Brazilian and to live in a Country without ethnic conflicts or politicians. The contained perspectives of impunity in our legal system, however, stimulate and determine the precocious behavior insolente and of our delinquents, gifts and futures. Valter Lopes. | <urn:uuid:73a4a603-c5e0-4de8-aa35-40824c70acc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.goldfarbgold.com/our-legislative-country | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921523 | 276 | 1.90625 | 2 |
PhotoGRAPHIC: The Life of Graciela Iturbide delves into Iturbide’s history and photographic works with the guiding vision of the artist herself. From the Sonora Desert to Juchitán, India and the American South, the graphic novel tells of Iturbide’s explorations throughout the world, all caught through the lens of her camera.
ROSEGALLERY presents PhotoGRAPHIC, an exhibition of the recently released graphic novel PhotoGRAPHIC: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, published by the J. Paul Getty. Accompanying works by the legendary photographer, ROSEGALLERY will present the novel in its entirety, with original drawings by Zeke Peña and prose by Isabel Quintero. Photographs, illustrations and prose come together to illuminate the artistic power of Iturbide’s life and work. | <urn:uuid:357edf0e-87a3-4bd1-ad8c-809f68c29006> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rosegallery.net/exhibitions/25-photographic-in-conjunction-with-j.-paul-getty-museum-for/overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918101 | 184 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Driver fatigue has received increased attention during recent years and is now considered to be a major contributor to approximately 15-30% of all crashes. However, little is known about fatigue in city bus drivers. It is hypothesized that city bus drivers suffer from sleepiness, which is due to a combination of working conditions, lack of health and reduced sleep quantity and quality. The overall aim with the current study is to investigate if severe driver sleepiness, as indicated by subjective reports of having to fight sleep while driving, is a problem for city based bus drivers in Sweden and if so, to identify the determinants related to working conditions, health and sleep which contribute towards this. The results indicate that driver sleepiness is a problem for city bus drivers, with 19% having to fight to stay awake while driving the bus 2-3 times each week or more and nearly half experiencing this at least 2-4 times per month. In conclusion, severe sleepiness, as indicated by having to fight sleep during driving, was common among the city bus drivers. Severe sleepiness correlated with fatigue related safety risks, such as near crashes. | <urn:uuid:018b7df4-bc2d-4e6d-a6b5-0b457e9f7732> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ashleighfiltness.net/publication/anund-2016-factors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985024 | 224 | 2.59375 | 3 |
关于“恋物志” About Little thing
《Little thing 恋物志》 一本时尚而有艺术感的针对都市喜欢fashion和创意生活的年轻女性读者的杂志. 倡导大家关注身边细小的美丽的事物, 树立自己的时尚态度. 杂志结合读者对时尚创意生活需求提供时尚专题介绍, 品牌故事, 搭配, 服饰文化, 插画, 创意手工等专题内容, 通过针对性的内容创造亲切的阅读感受和恋物的共鸣.
<Little thing> is a young female fashion magazine that combining the feeling of fashion, artistic and creative lifestyle. It targeted to those cities youth female who embrace fashion, art, have her own attitude and style. Within Little thing, we present customized content based on target reader’s needs towards her creative fashion lifestyle, covering fashion feature study, special brand story, styling, clothing culture analysis, illustration, creative craftsmanship… aiming to create friendly reading experience and romance through careful selected contents.
我们的风格 Our Style
清新 自然 本真 玩味
Fresh Natural Origin Fun
Fashion with appetency, trendy with her own style
Gentle feminism perspective, profound care for people
Combine geniality and literature
为什么叫“Little thing” Why Little thing？
“Little thing”是小事物的意思.我们希望通过杂志能引起读者共鸣,关注身边细小点滴的美丽事物, 关注自己,在恋物的同时树立自己的时尚态度,寻找和收集自己的喜爱.
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The New Yorker, July 24, 1926 P. 7
Dilatory Domiciliates in Summer Social Register on increase. 13,000 names of shore and mountain dwellers, but little change in fashionable resorts. Good places are Newport, Southampton, Bar Harbor. These places have grown larger to give birth to East Hampton and Northeast Harbor. Cal. and Fla. not popular, with exception Palm Beach. Rapid spread of isolated country places on shore lines from N.Y. to Canadian border, such as Millbrook, N.Y. Today nice people even live in Forest Hills. Le Grande Monde grown so large it stretches from Bernardsville & Peapack, N.J. to Mount Desert Island in Maine. Newport, Bar Harbor & Southampton blaze like three emeralds in stomacher, instead of as they used to, shining solitaire. | <urn:uuid:4a8e79cc-8346-4d3a-ac25-c4f0cd54b702> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1926/07/24/dilatory-domiciles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897205 | 175 | 2 | 2 |
Timothy Dahlin D.Min.
This project had as its purpose to identify issues that evangelical leaders in Latin America raise regarding discipleship and ministerial formation in their contexts and, second, to identify effective ways in which these issues might be addressed through a program created by ProMETA, a training institution with which the researcher works. The researcher had taught an online course focusing on biblical models of discipleship. The students, who represented five Latin American countries, expressed dissatisfaction with the current practice of discipleship in evangelical churches in the region. This motivated the researcher to carry out this project. Following a review of relevant literature which highlighted contextual, theological and educational concerns, the researcher conducted a qualitative inductive investigation. He interviewed eleven leaders representing Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Argentina in a sequence of three interviews. Those interviewed included pastors, individuals dedicated to youth and discipleship ministries, a seminary professor, and a representative of a ministry devoted to training leaders in the Majority World. They expressed serious concerns about the current practice of discipleship as being limited in scope, overly cognitive in its nature, and giving insufficient attention to the assimilation of the life and teaching of Jesus. Participants also noted that current church practice was not responding adequately to rapid changes in the region. The group affirmed the value of a program at a level other than masters to address these needs. They recommended a curriculum focused on providing an adequate vision of discipleship, character development, and tools to implement discipleship in the local setting. The group interviewed provided many suggestions for the promotion and implementation of such a program. They also affirmed the importance of local leadership and the involvement of the local church for the success of such a program. | <urn:uuid:21f039a8-350a-41c6-af62-02436c59ccf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rim.atla.com/index.php/taxonomy/term/11884 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954012 | 352 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The two American aid workers getting treated in Georgia for Ebola are isolated in a special ward that some staffers at Emory University Hospital call “Noah’s Ark.” But they’re not the first Americans ever quarantined for Ebola on US soil.
A decade ago—according to a little-noticed article in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases—a virologist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland was working in the facility’s Biosafety Level 4 lab, famous for its depiction in Richard Preston’s 1994 book The Hot Zone. This still-anonymous researcher was working with mice infected with a mouse-adapted variant of Ebola Zaire. After the scientist injected four of them with an immune serum, the fifth mouse kicked. The needle bucked and pierced the virologist’s glove and skin. She followed procedure: She squeezed the wound to force out the infected blood, decontaminated her full-body protective suit in the lab’s chemical shower, poured a liter of sterile water on her hand, and scrubbed with povidone-iodine for 10 minutes.
Nobody really thought the virologist was infected, but everyone wanted to be sure. So her bosses at USAMRIID sent her to “the Slammer,” more formally known as the Medical Containment Suite (and nicknamed for the sound the doors made when they shut behind you). The Slammer, part of USAMRIID’s facility at Ft. Detrick, was for 30 years the only patient isolation unit in the US. Built in the early 1970s, it had two 180-square-foot rooms so that scientists working on the worst of the worst diseases could lock themselves and their potential infections inside, keeping outbreaks from ever breaking out. The suite saw about 20 patients over its lifespan, all researchers who were thought to have been exposed to monsters like Lassa, Machupo, and Junin. None ever actually became ill. The Ebola-exposed virologist was the first person to use the suite in 15 years; she spent 21 days there. She was fine.
Even though it never housed an actual sick person, the Slammer became the blueprint for a half dozen similar facilities around the country—negative pressure air, HEPA-filtered ventilation and single-pass air to keep airborne evils inside the room. Medical staff dress in full-body “moon suits,” walk through doors with airtight gaskets and decontaminate themselves and supplies three ways, with an autoclave, an ultraviolet light box and a disinfectant dunk tank.
After bioterrorism scares in the wake of 9/11 and SARS concerns in 2003, other facilities started thinking about building their own slammers. USAMRIID knew it might need to treat its own researchers as they handled deadly and weird diseases, but hospitals around the country had tumbled to a truth beyond that: The kinds of diseases their own patients might get exposed to were changing—for the worse. So the hospitals had to change, too.
It’s built like a concrete box. We want to keep our germs inside.The Care and Isolation Unit in Montana, opened in 2005 by the National Institutes of Health to serve lab workers at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, hasn’t yet served an infectious disease patient, only a handful with tuberculosis or contagious bacterial infections. The rooms look like everyday hospital rooms—white, sterile, a TV and window for entertainment. That’s because St. Patrick Hospital retrofitted three of its ICU rooms to make the unit. In fact, it still serves as ICU space when the wing is overrun. “It’s great to have the rooms at the ICU because we can quickly move infectious patients and have an experienced nursing staff right there,” says George Risi, the unit’s infectious disease adviser. “But one of the big aspects with cases such as Ebola or SARS is overcoming health care worker reluctance.” | <urn:uuid:7dae14c3-742f-4230-8b74-1486ac463234> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-isolation-units-contain-the-worlds-deadliest-diseases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959946 | 841 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Concurrent administration of coenzyme Q10 and alpha-tocopherol improves learning in aged mice.
The main purpose of this study was to determine whether supplemental intake of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ) (ubiquinone-10) or alpha-tocopherol, either alone or together, could improve brain function of aged mice, as reflected in their cognitive or psychomotor performance. Separate groups of aged mice (24 months) were administered either CoQ (123 mg/kg/day), or alpha-tocopherol acetate (200 mg/kg/day), or both, or the vehicle (soybean oil) via gavage for a period of 14 weeks. Three weeks following the initiation of these treatments, mice were given a battery of age-sensitive behavioral tests for the assessment of learning, recent memory, and psychomotor function. In a test that required the mice to rapidly identify and remember the correct arm of a T-maze, and to respond preemptively in order to avoid an electric shock, the intake of alpha-tocopherol plus CoQ resulted in more rapid learning compared to the control group. Learning was not significantly improved in the mice receiving CoQ or alpha-tocopherol alone. None of the treatments resulted in a significant improvement of psychomotor performance in the old mice. In a separate study, treatment with higher doses of CoQ alone (250 or 500 mg/kg/day) for 14 weeks failed to produce effects comparable to those of the combination of alpha-tocopherol and CoQ. The apparent interaction of CoQ and alpha-tocopherol treatments is consistent with the previous suggestion, based on biochemical studies, that coenzyme Q and alpha-tocopherol act in concert. Overall, the findings suggest that concurrent supplementation of alpha-tocopherol with CoQ is more likely to be effective as a potential treatment for age-related learning deficits than supplementation with CoQ or alpha-tocopherol alone.
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Join us Wednesday, October 20 at 6:00pm for a meeting as part of PA IPL‘s ongoing partnership with Jewish Earth Alliance (JEA).
In this meeting we will be discussing what is currently included in the Build Back Better Act, what has been or might be eliminated, and most importantly what can concerned citizens do.
Our main speaker will be Emily Wirzba, Manager of Government Relations at the Environmental Defense Action Fund. She has the inside story. Emily will talk for about 10 minutes and answer questions. We will discuss what citizens can and must do to get climate solutions passed.
You can register here for this event.
We hope to see you then, and in the meantime keep pressuring Senator Casey and your US Congressperson to support all of the climate solutions in the Build Back Better Bill. If you need help on how to call or email them and what to say, please contact Phyllis for assistance.
Register now and receive an email providing the Zoom link for the meeting.
Part of PA IPL’s Ongoing Partnership with Jewish Earth Alliance
Jewish Earth Alliance and PA Interfaith Power & Light are co-sponsoring this informational and motivational meeting on Sunday, September 19 at 7:00pm.
TOPIC: No More Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuels
SPEAKER: Rob Altenburg, Senior Director for Energy & Climate for PennFuture
We will be discussing the report Rob and PennFuture wrote about subsidies for fossil fuels. Register here for this event.
Recognizing that the time is now to pass far reaching climate actions by the federal government, the Jewish Earth Alliance and Pennsylvania IPL formed a coalition to advocate for climate actions with our federal elected officials. Each month we hold an informational session where we discuss a specific topic relating to environmental sustainability/environmental justice and then help people to write letters to their senators and representative on this topic. The Jewish Earth Alliance provides the topic, background information, and template letter to customize.
REGISTER HERE for Sunday, September 19th.
Part of PA IPL’s Ongoing Partnership with Jewish Earth Alliance
Speakers: Odette Mucha, Mid-Atlantic Regulatory Director and Federal Liaison Vote Solar; and
An inspirational spiritual speaker.
Jewish Earth Alliance and PA Interfaith Power & Light are co-sponsoring this informational and motivational meeting on Wednesday, September 1 at 7:30pm.
The US still gets 60% of its electricity from fossil fuels. Electrical generation is a major source of carbon emissions, second only to transportation. To avert the worst effects of climate change we need to use 100% clean renewable energy such as from solar or wind. A federal Clean Energy Standards (CES) would mandate progress toward the use of renewables for the entire country, which would be a tremendous step toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.
Democrats are aiming to pass a budget under the rules of reconciliation, offering another opportunity to remediate the climate crisis. Their proposed $3.5 trillion budget includes CES, and other climate solutions such as electric car incentives and energy efficient buildings. Members of Congress need to hear our call for comprehensive CES that accelerates the transition to renewable energy, with justice for communities harmed by fossil fuel.
REGISTER HERE for Wednesday, September 1st.
Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light is happy to be partnering with Jewish Earth Alliance (JEA) for a new initiative to help Pennsylvanians voice their position on climate change with a real impact. On August 4th at 7:30PM, PA IPL’s Policy Manager, Amani Reid, will partner with PA IPL member and PA Coordinator for JEA, Phyllis Blumberg, to host the first in a new series of monthly information and training sessions to assist and encourage political letter writing.
JEA will be providing ongoing training and templates for a monthly letter writing campaign to local, state, and federal officials. The meetings will take place on the first Wednesday of each month and will provide a template, information, and guidance for all those interested in amplifying the message of Climate Justice.
Letter writing to our elected officials is one of the most straightforward and important ways we can communicate our moral and ethical stance regarding Climate Justice. Legislators are legally obligated to track such communications so letters are an effective and direct way to inform officials and convey our position, made all the more powerful by our collective voice and as a community of faith and conscience. Your letters can and will make a difference with policy makers so that they live up to their moral obligation to save our planet.
This month we have two fantastic speakers joining us:
- Rabbi Nathan Martin, President of the board of the Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light will give us spiritual inspiration.
- Roger Stephenson, the northeast regional director for advocacy for the Union of Concerned Scientists. He believes that each of us can point to something that motivates us to take action and Roger’s motivations are wildlife and his grandchildren. When he’s not working with scientists and advocating for climate he’s birding, paddling, or playing with his grandchildren.
- The title of his presentation is The ABC’s of the Infrastructure Bill: Airports Bridges and Climate and Why Your Activism and Advocacy Matter. You will learn that every politician distills an issue into three components: ink, money, and votes. According to Roger, advocacy takes this into account and is incredibly important to face off against polluters’ money in politics, to help neighbors become aware and care, and to join in the effort to speak truth to power.
Write to your Federal Senators and Representative. Once you learn more about the importance of climate in the infrastructure bill and how the Jewish Earth Alliance makes it quite easy, through their background information and template letter, for everyone to write letters to their federal officials, we hope you will write to your members of Congress now and for the next few months.
This month we are writing letters to our US Senators and Representative on the importance of including crucial climate measures in infrastructure legislation. You can highlight measures to drive down carbon emissions, further environmental justice, and fund resilient infrastructure. All of these measures have been eliminated in the current bipartisan infrastructure bill. We need to stay involved to show we care about climate infrastructure! | <urn:uuid:4bd482ed-b80b-41e9-9970-a14507916e1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paipl.us/tag/pa-ipl/page/5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93233 | 1,295 | 1.523438 | 2 |
With reports of a $16 billion Justice Department settlement with Bank of America following on the heels of other big payouts by misbehaving banks, it may seem that corporate crime these days is mainly an issue for the financial sector. The big banks have plenty of blemishes on their record, but then again so do other large corporations when it comes to areas such as environmental compliance.
After all, it was only four months ago that Anadarko Petroleum had to pay $5.1 billion to resolve federal charges that had been brought in connection with the clean-up of thousands of toxic waste sites around the country resulting from decades of questionable practices by Kerr-McGee, now a subsidiary of Anadarko. This settlement set a record for an environmental case, surpassing the $4 billion in penalties BP had to pay in 2012 as part of its guilty plea on criminal charges relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite high-profile cases such as these, environmental offenses are being prosecuted in a less than vigorous manner. This problem is brought home in a recent analysis by The Crime Report website produced at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
In a review of enforcement data in the EPA’s ECHO database, The Crime Report found that the agency has become increasingly disinclined to bring criminal rather than civil charges against violators. In recent years, the report notes, fewer than one-half of one percent of violations trigger criminal investigations, which require the involvement of the Justice Department to proceed in court.
Part of the problem is that criminal cases are much more difficult to pursue. The Crime Report quotes attorney Mark Roberts of the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency as saying: “I think a criminal prosecution will be defended much harder … If you’re in that tiny percentage that gets charged criminally, you want to win.”
While delivering the bad news about weak prosecution, The Crime Report makes it easier for researchers and activists to access data about environmental violations. It took data from ECHO and created an interactive map that provides summaries by EPA region and by urban area, and also allows zooming in on specific facilities. When an urban area is chosen on the map, a table appears below showing the largest penalties overall, with breakdowns by categories such as Clean Air Act violations and Clean Water Act violations.
This is especially useful for clusters of heavily polluting facilities such as those in what is informally known as Cancer Alley between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Yet a look at the data for this area shows the limitations not only of the EPA’s criminal prosecutions but its enforcement activity in general. Drilling down shows dozens of facilities that were often found to be in non-compliance yet were hit with little or nothing in the way of penalties during the past five years.
There are some fairly significant fines, such as the $198,000 paid by PCS Nitrogen in Geismar and the $84,000 paid by the Total Petroleum Styrene Monomer Plant in Carville. Yet, for the most part, the data paint a picture that is a far cry from the right’s depiction of the EPA as a tyrannical force preying on defenseless businesses.
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The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), has successfully implemented the Polar Science and Cryosphere Research (PACER) scheme, which includes the Antarctic programme, Indian Arctic programme, Southern Ocean programme, and Cryosphere and Climate programme. Click on the ‘Download PDF option provided below to know more on-
- What is PACER Scheme?
- What are the focus areas of the PACER scheme?
- What are the primary elements of the PACER scheme?
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The medical savings account or MSA is a relatively new feature that is now common to many of the top medical aid plans. Despite how prevalent they are, many people still find them quite bewildering and battle to fully understand how they work. It is important that a member grasp the concept in order to get the most out of it. Not understanding it correctly could leave you out of pocket or without the means to pay for treatment or medication.
What is a MSA?
A percentage of your monthly medical aid contribution goes into a separate account known as the MSA. The conditions vary from one plan to the next but the idea is that the MSA is used for non-hospital or day-to-day expenses. These could include, amongst other things, GP visits, dentist visits, blood tests and medication.
Although you pay the contribution monthly, the full annual amount is normally available at the start of the year. Expenses and medical bills for all members on the plan are deducted as they are paid and you will get regular statements or you can view your remaining balance online.
If you leave the plan at any point in the year and do not transfer the fund over to a “new†plan with the same medical aid, you will be liable for any shortfall. In other words, if your expenses for the year to date are more than you have paid from your monthly contribution, you will have to pay the difference back to the medical aid. Conversely, if your MSA is in credit and you have contributed more than you have claimed, they will refund the balance to you. If you have a credit balance at the end of the year, it will be carried over to the following year.
Once the annual amount is exhausted, most plans have what is called a self payment gap. You can read more about it on our article on the subject but in short, it means that you will be responsible for day to day payments up to a specified limit after which you will receive above threshold benefits. Normal hospital cover and chronic medication is not affected in any way when your MSA is depleted.
It is important to note that co-payments can not be funded from your MSA and have to be paid by the member. The particular plan might also place specific limits on certain areas of health care so even if you have funds available in your MSA, if you have reached the limit for that area or procedure, you will not be able to claim it from the MSA.
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Putting the Industrial into IoT With Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) APIs
Using an IoT device with a very good RESTful API for programming, monitoring, and management makes for an open accessible environment for any programming language.
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When you hear about the Internet of Things (IoT), you often hear about the hopeful consumer side of thing, like with Nest thermostat, and the next wave of Internet-connected devices that will change our personal worlds forever. Personally, when I think about the concept of Internet-connected devices actually seeing adoption, and getting traction, I think of it being applied in an industrial setting.
The RESTful programmable automation controllers (PACs) APIs out of Opto 22 resemble this vision of IoT which I have in my head. APIs making everyday objects used in a variety of industrial processes, programmable, and accessible over wired or wireless networks. Making everything from manufacturing to water and energy facilities more automated and efficient, while potentially generated data that can be used to monitor, and optimize these industrial workflows — this is IoT.
The dream of home automation just doesn't do it for me. I just don't buy the Jetsons vision of the home, but I can buy into the potential for IoT making the industrial processes which we depend on to make our world operate more efficient. Consumer IoT seems like a bandwagon to me, but proven industrial equipment manufacturers like Opto 22 realizing the potential of web API infrastructure, and baking it into the devices they manufacture, seems like real world IoT business to me.
Published at DZone with permission of Kin Lane, DZone MVB. See the original article here.
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Parenthood is tough. When it hit home that a little one would be relying on me, some days I came close to panicking. When parenting is looming and you have a disability, you face unique challenges. Here is some great advice for finding self-confidence in the midst of your worries, and preparing your home and life for your bundle of joy.
Modify your environment
When your baby arrives, you’ll need every tool at your disposal to ease your parenting burden. After all, when your little one is colicky or needs a new nappy, and you got up at 3 am. every morning for the last week, easy and uncomplicated will make all the difference in the world. It starts with making your environment as functional and efficient as possible, and simple home fixes can be a tremendous boon to parents with disabilities. Improving your accessibility is something you should do now, rather than waiting until your baby arrives. Take a hard look at your home and think about ways to make it easier to navigate. For instance, zero-step entrances make it easier to get in and out of your home, whether you’re moving in a wheelchair or pushing a stroller. Consider installing a ramp if you don’t already have one. Widening doorways is another plus, providing extra elbow room whether you’re carrying your baby or just a bundle of groceries. Consider installing offset or expandable hinges to give you a few extra inches – it can save your knuckles and is an inexpensive solution. Think about installing skid-resistant flooring to prevent slips. Also, consider creating a dedicated playroom for you and your youngster. By establishing a specialised area, you can set it up for ease of movement and functionality. Furniture can be secured to walls to prevent pieces from toppling over, and it allows you and your baby to use the majority of floor space for playing together.
Use great equipment
Assistive equipment is a big benefit, and there are lots of options depending on your needs. For instance, Independent Living Centre WA recommends using a portable security belt to help hold your baby, or using a specially designed stroller that clips to wheelchairs. Cribs that open from the side rather than drop down can be easier to access, and adapted baby seats can be attached to wheelchairs. One idea is to have equipment specially modified if you can’t purchase it ready to meet your needs. Some traditional baby items are helpful, too, like bibs with hook-and-loop closures which are easy to manipulate, and breast-feeding pillows that can support your baby in your lap. A changing table that allows for height adjustment can ease hygiene and dressing issues, and disposable diapers with hook-and-loop closures can be easier to manage with certain mobility limitations. Look for baby clothing that is easy to put on and take off as well, like pullover tops and pull-on pants.
Bathing your baby is a significant concern, and some experts recommend never doing so alone. Have a towel and bath mat at hand and never leave your infant unattended. Some parents opt for baby bathtubs, and some parents choose to employ washable tables with adjustable leg heights. There are also commercially available bathing and changing table combinations, or you could even use an inflatable water toy designed for your baby to sit in, since the soft sides and waterproof material lend themselves naturally to the chore. Please note, don’t use lotions or moisturizers prior to bath time as it can hinder your gripping ability. Instead use products that provide a talc-like grip. Bathing can be tricky. When you’re struggling with finding solutions, NHS Choices suggests connecting with other parents with disabilities for ideas and support.
Confident and clever
Facing parenthood is daunting, but with clever modifications and equipment, you can approach it confidently. Evaluate your needs and prepare ahead of time. You’ll be a terrific parent with these smart strategies!
This article was written by Ashley Taylor from disabledparents.org.
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by Stephen Kuusisto
I teach English at The University of Iowa and some of my classes are
focused on disability in the literary arts. One book that I like to
give my students is the groundbreaking history of disability in the
movies The Cinema of Isolation
by Martin Norden. This book shocks students when they first encounter
it, for few realize that movies have featured disabled characters from
the very beginning of the film industry. What’s even more eye opening
is how poorly Hollywood has treated people with disabilities from day
one. The old footage rolls again and students see malevolent and
monstrous "cripples" for disability functioned in these old films as a
metaphor rather than just being a part of daily life.
When those early movies weren’t using people with disabilities as
figures of moral judgment they eagerly used them as low comic
characters whose afflictions were funny because the lame tried to walk
or the blind tried to do the work of the sighted. "Low comedy" means
humor that relies on slapstick or vulgarity. "The Three Stooges" are a
good example of low comedy. In turn, of course, "High comedy" uses
verbal sophistication and artful disguises to achieve its effects.
Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure or All’s Well That Ends Well are good examples of the genre.
What the students find out all too quickly is that first in movies,
and then in television, people with disabilities have been almost
uniformly presented as "figures" who represent immorality or
ineptitude. Between these two poles one also finds Victorian
representations of absolute purity like Charles Dickens’ "Tiny Tim" who
stands for the angelic compensations of suffering and whose presence in
the story is necessary if Scrooge is to be redeemed. Alas, Tiny Tim is
as unreal as all the other stock disabled characters in TV and film
When my students look for contemporary depictions of real people
with disabilities in the media they discover that the field is still
quite narrow. Some of them point to the current "reality TV" series "Little People, Big World"
on the Learning Channel. Others point to "Monk", a detective show that
features a leading man who solves crimes because he has an
obsessive-compulsive disorder. In the movies there have been some
notable triumphs over the past thirty years like "My Left Foot" and
"Children of a Lesser God" and students eagerly mention Marlee
Maitlin’s character on the hit TV show "The West Wing".
There have been some undeniable advancements in the representations
of people with disabilities in Hollywood and the TV industry.
Nevertheless it remains hard to find substantive mainstream reporting
about disability on network or cable TV. When disability does appear on
the nightly news or as part of a daytime interview program like "The
Oprah Winfrey Show" often presented as an "overcoming story"- a
narrative in which a person with a disability is either cured by means
of medicine or spiritual belief, or in turn they are distinguished by
their ability to inspire others by successfully denying that they have
any kind of limitation. As any person with a disability can tell you,
we need better reporting.
Real people with disabilities are impatient for change and ready to
take their places in the media arts. I believe that our time is coming
– perhaps slowly, but surely.
Disability in the media is the topic of the next Disability Blog Carnival, to be hosted on Blog [with]tv Thursday, January 10. JOIN US!
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The IBF reports a year on year increase of almost 30% in the number of properties listed for sale.
There were also increases in the number of property transactions and in the level of mortgage drawdowns.
However, the Federation notes that the situation in the capital is a key driver behind the trends.
In a commentary accompanying the report, Investec’s chief economist Philip O’Sullivan believes that the improving economic backdrop should underpin a gradual recovery from here.
He also largely dismissed concerns of a property price bubble developing in Dublin.
“Based on the CSO’s Residential Property Price Index, this move has only resulted in the -57% peak-to-trough fall in Dublin prices improving to a ‘peak-to-current level’ of -51%,” he points out.
“The low volume of transactions seen at the trough in the cycle may have exaggerated the extent of the fall,” he concludes.
Mr O’Sullivan also proposed the introduction of temporary tax incentives as a means of alleviating the current shortage of family homes in Dublin.
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Cloud solution service suppliers have massive, full-time groups which may be exclusively devoted to proactively monitoring and staying current with cloud security issues and threats, 24 hours a day. Cloud-based expertise was born within the final decade and developed, as a core precept, with a completely different mindset and understanding of not solely what was attainable but what was wanted to be successful for ERP platforms. As enterprises undertake digital applied sciences in each part of the business, they are essentially changing the way they function. Manufacturing Resource Planning developed from early Materials Requirement Planning methods by including the mixing of further information, corresponding to employee and financial wants.
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From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : SN5 Starship
Mains level : Commercial crew programme by SpaceX
SpaceX has successfully test-launched its “Mars ship”, a stainless steel test vehicle called SN5, and which is a part of the Starship spacecraft.
Elon Musk’s aerospace company has been putting continuous wins on the board ever since it became the first privately funded group to put a payload in Earth orbit.
What is Starship?
- Designed by SpaceX, Starship is a spacecraft and super-heavy booster rocket meant to act as a reusable transportation system for crew and cargo to the Earth’s orbit, Moon and Mars.
- SpaceX has described Starship as “the world’s most powerful launch vehicle” with an ability to carry over 100 metric tonnes to the Earth’s orbit.
- Starship has been under development since 2012 and is a part of Space X’s central mission to make interplanetary travel accessible and affordable and to become the first private company to do so.
So what all can Starship do?
- SpaceX is planning its first cargo mission to the red planet by 2022 and by 2024, the company wants to fly four ships including two cargo and two crewed ones to Mars.
- Once functional, the Starship spacecraft will enter Mars’ atmosphere at a speed of 7.5 km per second and will be designed to withstand multiple entries.
- Starship is also expected to help carry large amounts of cargo to the Moon, for human spaceflight development and research.
- Beyond the Moon, the spacecraft is being designed for carrying crew and cargo for interplanetary missions as well.
A quest for reusability
- Therefore, the company is working on building a fleet of reusable launch vehicles, capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system.
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Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Thursday attempted to clarify comments he made earlier in the day suggesting that the African American population is not as “diverse” as the Latino community.
“In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all,” Biden tweeted Thursday night.
“Throughout my career I’ve witnessed the diversity of thought, background, and sentiment within the African American community,” he went on. “It’s this diversity that makes our workplaces, communities, and country a better place.”
The former veep made the head-scratching “diversity” remark during a roundtable interview with black and Hispanic reporters released Thursday.
Biden was responding to a question asking if he would “re-engage” with Cuba’s Communist government, to which he responded, “yes,” before comparing beliefs of blacks and Latinos.
“By the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things,” Biden went on in the interview.
Biden on Twitter later pledged commitment to African Americans.
“I will always listen, I will never stop fighting for the African American community and I will never stop fighting for a more equitable future,” he added.
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On March 9 President Bush signed into law the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act, officially ending an extended campaign by civil liberties groups to put some limits on the expansive powers handed to the President on a silver platter six weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bush and the Justice Department’s press office touted the bill’s “safeguards for civil liberties,” and Representative James Sensenbrenner Jr. claimed to find thirty civil liberties protections in the law. But no one should be fooled: This was a bitter disappointment for civil liberties proponents. So what went wrong?
It’s not for lack of trying. The Bill of Rights Defense Committee launched an impressive grassroots campaign almost immediately after the Patriot Act was enacted; eventually eight states and nearly 400 towns, cities and counties passed resolutions condemning the act’s civil liberties abuses. The ACLU and others entered into coalitions with conservative groups in hopes of pulling a Republican Congress along. Unlike in 2001, this time Congress held multiple hearings before acting. And the disclosure in December that President Bush had authorized warrantless wiretapping of Americans for years showed once again that this is not an executive worthy of trust with open-ended powers.
But in the end, Congress voted to extend all sixteen provisions that were originally set to expire on December 31, making only minor modifications to a handful. The new law, for example, requires the FBI director or deputy director to approve requests for library and medical records, and permits recipients of such “Section 215” orders to disclose them to lawyers to challenge them in court. But the Section 215 power remains incredibly broad; it doesn’t even require the government to show that the person whose records are sought has any connection to terrorist activity.
As I have previously argued [see “The Missing Patriot Debate,” May 30, 2005], the principal problem with the reauthorization debate was that most of the act’s worst provisions were not even on the table. These include sections making it a crime to offer “expert advice” to a proscribed political group, regardless of its content; allowing the government to freeze the assets of suspected charities without any showing of wrongdoing, and based on secret evidence; and permitting foreign nationals to be locked up without charges, deported for innocent political associations and kept out of the country for endorsing any group the government labels as “terrorist”–under a definition so capacious that it could include the African National Congress and the Israeli military.
Why weren’t these issues even up for discussion? Largely because conservatives didn’t express concern, and so the liberal-conservative coalition that drove the debate wrote them off, focusing instead on the few parts of the law that conservatives found offensive. In the end, we didn’t even see much progress on those.
The hurdles to any real reform are underscored by the fate of another recent legislative effort. In December Congress passed the McCain amendment, which bars US officials from subjecting anyone, anywhere, to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. The Bush Administration had interpreted the prohibition, which originally derives from a human rights treaty, as not applying to foreigners held outside our borders–freeing it to “waterboard” suspects held at secret CIA “black sites” abroad. The human rights community attacked that position for the outrage to human dignity it was: The right to be free of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment cannot turn on the color of one’s passport.
But at the same time that it enacted the McCain amendment, Congress simultaneously adopted another one, named for Senators Lindsey Graham and Carl Levin, that restricts habeas corpus review for enemy combatants held at Guantánamo (Levin got involved to ameliorate what would have otherwise been an even more restrictive bill). The Justice Department recently argued, in a case challenging the force-feeding of a Guantánamo hunger striker, that the Graham-Levin amendment renders the McCain amendment unenforceable for Guantánamo detainees.
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The beginners’ course is an eight week introductory programme running on Thursday mornings (10am-12.30pm) or Friday evenings (from 6.30pm-9pm).
15.09.2022 until 10.11.2022. (Thursday mornings). Term time only
16.09.2022 until 11.11.2022 (Friday evenings). Term time only
This course is an excellent starting point for absolute beginners to learn how to select, use and hold hand tools, understanding technical processes and developing their own designs and style. These foundation skills need to be in place so that you can progress, if you wish, to more complicated techniques explored in the Improvers course.
NOTE: All tuition, tools, and materials are included but not silver, which must be purchased by yourself – your tutor can advise. Fewer than 4 participants on the course means it is at the tutors discretion whether the class runs.
Please read the full Terms of Booking, and particularly the REFUNDS policy within those terms BEFORE making your booking.
The beginner’s course is about introducing you to as many processes as possible and is based on the acquisition of skills. This course is not outcome based i.e. we do not aim to make a finished piece of jewellery each session, although you will finish 3 or 4 pieces (dependant on yourself) by the end of the course. Each two and a half hour session is designed to give you maximum hands-on practical time in the workshop, getting used to selecting, holding and using the tools efficiently.
- Exploring the texturing of metals by embossing, hammer texturing, etching & stamping.
- Correct use of a piercing saw e.g. fitting blades & how to drill holes in metal.
- Introduction to using and making your own wire.
- Introduction to silver soldering techniques
- How to effectively design & make your own jewellery
- Polishing your work to a high standard of finish
A list of essential tools will be provided if you wish to set up your own workbench at home along with a list of trusted suppliers for all your jewellery making needs.
After completing the beginners course, you could always enrol on the improvers course to extend your skills, using the workshop tools and equipment and the support of your tutor. We also have the “BENCHspace Collective” where we get together to sell our jewellery at pop-up events and artists/ craft markets, this is a supportive way to start selling and promoting your work.
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Learn how to model social and economic networks and their impact on human behavior. How do networks form, why do they exhibit certain patterns, and how does their structure impact diffusion, learning, and other behaviors? We will bring together models and techniques from economics, sociology, math, physics, statistics and computer science to answer these questions.
Social and Economic Networks: Models and AnalysisStanford University
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Very important course. My suggestion to the Prof. if he can increase the course length and include more details that would be much better or he can come up with advance course on the same series.
Interesting survey of modern network theory, from Erdos-Renyi random graphs, to SIS ("flu") models, and games on networks. Rather academic at times, without the rigour.
Really enjoyed this course. The professor is really good and covers quite a lot of ground during the lectures. Good way to get into complex networks! Probably gonna do some studying on my own now :)
An excellent and very useful course. Recommend with no reserves to anyone willing to understand the world from a well structured perspective
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Unfortunately, Baku has many enemies in the international arena: from a number of American congressmen, MEPs and members of the Russian State Duma enjoying the money of the Armenian lobby to all kinds of “experts” in the international media, NGOs, “think tanks” and political parties. There are many reasons for this, including the extensive Armenian diaspora, shortcomings of our own diplomacy, and the world powers’ global interests in the region of the South Caucasus. What is sad is that there are ethnic Azerbaijanis among the anti-Azerbaijani and anti-Turkish “troops” supported by those financial injections.
One of them is political scientist Eldar Mamedov, an expert on Iran, whose family comes from the glorious Azerbaijani region of Lankaran. Mamedov, or Mamedovs, according to his passport, was born in Riga, Latvia, on December 13, 1972. He studied there, worked there in banking, and managed Parex Bank’s office in Azerbaijan. He served at the Latvian Foreign Ministry and at the Latvian embassy in Spain and the United States. Mamedov’s diplomatic career was a springboard for his subsequent employment in Brussels in 2007, where he now lives and works as a foreign policy adviser to the Social Democrat group in the European Parliament. According to our sources, he is currently not married, and his ex-wife, Natalia Sisoyeva, is an assistant to MP A. Ameriks.
For many years, Mamedov has been writing articles and pieces aimed at discrediting Azerbaijan in the West and preventing it from getting closer to Brussels and Washington. He posts his materials in social media and sends them to a number of foreign resources and expert blogs, which are mostly read by the academic and political science community. Azerbaijan has been in his sights for a long time. Back in 2010, Hurriyet Daily News published his article “Dark days for freedom in Azerbaijan and Turkey”, in which he voiced accusations against official Baku and Ankara in a human rights context. Ten years later, on October 2, 2020, in The American Conservative, he labeled Baku’s counteroffensive operation to liberate the territories occupied by Armenians as “an offensive by the Azerbaijani army”. The article also cited reports about Turkey supporting Azerbaijan by allegedly sending Syrian fighters to the war zone.
Since Eldar Mamedov is not your run-of-the-mill Twitter troll, but rather an analytical-minded person who works in the European Parliament, we decided to examine the motives behind his journalistic efforts in more detail. In the course of our little journalistic investigation, we were able to establish that Mamedov visited the Islamic Republic of Iran on June 22-25, 2007. There, presumably, he met and formed long-term cooperation with the Iranians, who had been keeping an eye on Mamedov since his diplomatic service in the Latvian Foreign Ministry. Notably, that short trip to Iran happened at the same time as Eldar Mamedov took a job in the European Parliament. Since then the Iranians have had another champion in Brussels, who can be galvanized or switched to sleep mode, depending on the needs of foreign policy. Occasionally it would take a comical turn. For example, for a long time Mamedov posed as an ardent liberal and, therefore, an opponent of the Iranian government. But at the same time, he was repeatedly seen in the IRI embassy in Belgium, in particular in 2010 and 2012, at the height of the US-Iran standoff. It is possible, of course, that he went there to uphold liberal values.
Or take more recent events. As Israeli Ambassador Deek’s famous Tales of Tabriz flash mob spread around, Mamedov decided to make his Iranian “partners” happy with posts about Nizami Ganjavi’s “Persian” origins:
Nezami Ganjavi was a great Iranian poet. The fact that he happened to live on the territory that today is part of the Rep of Azerbaijan does not make him an “Azerbaijani poet”. Better to use it to build bridges rather than claim a historically baseless exclusive Az ownership. https://t.co/YqjAecLdRg
— Eldar Mamedov (@EldarMamedov4) July 29, 2022
Not surprisingly, it was Mamedov who was asked by the Iranian diplomatic mission in Brussels in 2018 to organize a lobbying effort to support the “nuclear deal” that Donald Trump had scrapped, and to actively lobby the IRI in the European Parliament. The Iranians spare no expense to promote their own interests, and the established contacts have been reactivated. It is no secret in European diplomatic circles that Mamedov is now the main “coach” for Iranian diplomats in Belgium and personally prepares talking points and narratives for their communication with European politicians. Mamedov also mediates contacts between Iran and European think tanks such as the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Neither does he ignore political foundations. Several years ago Mamedov organized closed-door discussions with representatives of Iran and Europe at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brussels. And in the leading European media he pushes targeted talking points (often under the nominal authorship of his acquaintances) for his secret employers in order to manipulate public opinion, experts and politicians to renegotiate the “nuclear deal” on terms favorable to Iran.
But let’s take a look at our pseudo-compatriot’s publications on Azerbaijan. One of Mamedov’s articles on the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s website on May 27, 2021, is “Why is there no criticism of Israel in Azerbaijan”. In his analysis, he claims that Azerbaijan is providing Israel with a staging ground for intelligence activities against Iran, information that cannot be confirmed by any serious source.
In his July 22, 2020 piece in Responsible Statecraft, Mamedov urges Azerbaijan to be “vigilant not to let itself to be manipulated by extra-regional anti-Iranian agendas”. Familiar rhetoric, isn’t it? It sounds like Mamedov was possessed by the spirit of an IRGC brigadier general while he wrote the article.
On social media, Mamedov is also actively promoting curious ideas in tune with Armenian guidelines. One of his recent tweets reads that “the EU’s bet on Azerbaijan as a serious alternative to the Russian gas is short-sighted and unrealistic.” One wonders who might be so concerned about the gas deal between Azerbaijan and the EU…
As a matter of fact, it is interesting that Mamedov has been openly supporting the Armenian side over recent years. Perhaps this is covered by his overall Iranian royalties, who knows. On social media, Eldar shares anti-Azerbaijani posts of Armenian Twitter activists. In one of his retweets, he even thanks an Armenian agitator for commenting on his publication criticizing the Azerbaijani leadership and the “illiberal” opposition:
Thanks to @GoldenTent for re-upping my old piece on the illiberalism of Azerbaijani opposition. Sadly, not only 8 years later I have been proven right, but there are so many more examples of nationalist populism that make that opposition not so different from the Aliyev’s regime. https://t.co/OegdAhrgdl
— Eldar Mamedov (@EldarMamedov4) August 1, 2022
It is possible that his lucrative friendship with Iran inspired Eldar Mamedov’s love for Armenian content in most positive ways. Luckily for him, there are enough sponsors there. And since appetite comes with eating, we can assume that Eldar Mamedov will not stop there. After all, as we know, money has no smell.
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Off-Line Oil Filtration Program
In addition to the in-line filter in hydraulic and lubrication oil systems, it is generally beneficial to condition the oil using an external filter unit, e.g. for oil filling and off-line filtering of oil in reservoir during full production.
With an independent extra-fine filtering (off-line filter unit), the purity and quality of the oil and plant will be improved in relation to regular filtering (in-line filter). Fine particles in particular will be absorbed, avoiding early wear and tear of system components and prolonging the life of the oil.
To prevent negative and uncontrolled effects on the hydraulic and lubricating oil system through the use of contaminated handling and decanting methods, and to prevent contamination of the system through the addition of new oil which is not completely clean, oil should always be filled through a fine filter in an external filtering unit.
Further advantages of using an off-line filter unit include:
– The possibility of replacing elements without stopping the system
– The large capacity of the filter elements
– The possibility of using the filter for filling and draining the system
– A water-absorbing filter can be integrated with a particle filter element, providing a filter unit capable of absorbing fine particles and condensed moisture.
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Was Paris 11/13 a False Flag Event?
A Matrix for Evaluating Possibilities
Robert David Steele
Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/falseflagmatrix
Full text and graphics below the fold.
It is with sadness that I observe that most people – including extremely intelligent and accomplished people – appear to have lost their critical thinking faculties over the past quarter century. When I have the temerity to suggest that Paris may have been a false flag event intended to
- legalize the illegal US war against Syria by invoking the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Article 5 protection clause;
- or that it is a means for the party in power in France to lock down the country (neutralizing the extreme right challenging its loose authority);
- or that Saudi Arabia and Turkey gain from international publicity consistent with their export of state-sponsored terrorism;
- or that Israel is always happy to both punish France for supporting the Palestinians and considering a boycott of Israeli products while also frightening more French Jews into moving to Israel to fill up the illegal settlements being built there at U.S. taxpayer expense
I get three reactions:
- one third tell me that it is high time someone put all this in writing at a time when the mainstream media and even alternative media have been bribed or intimidated into avoiding any challenge to the official narrative;
- one third tell me I am most certainly a lunatic and perhaps a traitor (remember this is how America treated Daniel Elsberg on Viet-Nam and the Dixie Chicks on Iraq); and
- one third don’t notice – they don’t read much and are largely oblivious to world events.
Me? I think for a living. I am a professional intelligence officer who has spent a quarter century trying to reform a terribly dysfunctional secret intelligence community, and for varied reasons, I feel compelled to live up to my personal motto, “the truth at any cost lowers all other costs.”
I believe the American public – and other publics – need to know the answer, now, to the question: “Was Paris 11/13 a false flag?”
I have no direct knowledge. I do know how to directly investigate such an event, to include deep examination of the forensics of each scene and each weapon, each body, accounting for every object and person at every moment across the event spectrum, I am pretty sure that has not been done and will not be done in the case of the recent events in Paris. Hence this is a speculative essay intended to provoke thought among those who believe that the truth at any cost lowers all other costs.
What Is a False Flag?
A false flag event is one in which the alleged perpetrators, their motives, and the outcome are fabricated. It generally includes very real dead people and often includes very real terrorists using very real bombs and bullets, but the entire script, the enabling logistics, and the prepared narrative that quickly follow are designed to meet the needs of the “deep state” and its financial masters – both of which are very international in nature, with no national loyalties to speak of….for the “deep state” a few French casualties are no different than, say, a few Palestinian casualties.
The origin of the false flag concept is traced to naval warfare, where ships could achieve a form of tactical surprise in the open ocean by flying the flag of the enemy they planned to attack once close enough to do some unexpected damage.
False flag attacks by authorities in power against themselves are classic means of justifying internal repressive measures needed to deepen control of the population, or elective wars against others. False flags have been widely used by the US in the aftermath of World War II, generally as a means of deepening the power of controlled puppet regimes, or as a means of inspiring the election of “owned” candidates, or as a means of justifying sanctions or other measures intended to lead to regime change.
False flag operations are used by individuals and organizations – including political parties – not only by government. From fake death threats to forged poison pen letters to abusive surveys ostensibly from the party to be discredited to deep perjury and orchestrated smear campaigns, the false flag concept is one that is now very common to socio-economic systems in which cheating is considered acceptable behavior, and corruption is inherent in the political and economic environment.
False flags in cyberspace are very common now, and some attacks that have been blamed on international terrorists appear to have originated with the Reservists working for the U.S. Cyber Command associated with the National Security Agency (NSA).
Have False Flag Operations Been Documented?
I find that the one third wishing to think me a lunatic or traitor is quick to dismiss all suggestions that false flag operations may have been documented. Despite hundreds of ably researched and proven studies, this mental group goes deaf, dumb, and blind when presented with facts.
Key Indicators of a Modern False Flag
- Early Warning and Public Alarm. First give them something to fear, then show them what to fear, and keep them in fear. This includes a constant churning out of alleged local terrorists such as have been produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in what one author calls “The Terror Factory.”
- Scheduled Official Exercises Coincident with the Event. From 9/11, when Dick Cheney scheduled a national counterterrorism exercise so he could control the government, armed forces, and the day in detail, to the most recent attacks in Paris, scheduled official exercises are the single greatest indicator that a catastrophic event is in fact planned and being orchestrated.
- Prepared Media Narrative. From the earliest understanding offered up with respect to “Manufactured Consent” and the more recent “Weapons of Mass Deception” that in the case of Paris have also been joined by “Weapons of Mass Migration,” we consistently see a media that has been pre-positioned – in some cases leading anchor personalities “coincidentally” being on site – and pre-briefed, with a narrative and story line ready to roll.
- Blocked Public, Media, and First Responder Access. The sponsors of very public false flags are slowly learning they need to block priests and rabbis from attending to the alleged wounded, they need to block both media and first responders from access to interiors of the locations where the alleged bombs exploded and bullets flew (those pesky upholstered chairs without a sign of shrapnel or fire stand out in the most recent event), and they need to shut down or block hand-held video that may reveal false flag activities – for example, alleged shots to the head of terrorist with no sign of impact or blood thereafter.
- “Attackers” Die, Actors Live. Evidence continues to mount that many attackers across multiple incidents have been trained by the US military (some sheep-dipped out as alleged dishonorable or administrative discharges), or are active informants for the FBI or local intelligence or police service (as in France), or think they are contractors participating in an exercise where they are a “Red Team” and everyone is supposed to be shooting blanks. Surviving attackers – and actors hired to play surviving victims or relatives — are generally there to support the narrative.
- Hospital Triage, Real Estate, and Statistics. The absence of real victims showing up in hospitals (or vastly smaller numbers than alleged to have been killed and wounded), the odd sale of real estate before and immediately after an event, the disappearance of the individuals alleged to have lost relatives, and inconsistent statistics are all indicators of a false flag but must be addressed with care.
- Prompt Official Refutation or Dismissal of Expert Voices. As modern false flag operations have matured, perpetrators have been learning how difficult it is to counter formal highly qualified critics of the official narrative. While controlling the media is helpful, when families, firefighters, architects, engineers, and military as well as intelligence professionals all converge on facts that are compelling, the authorities are challenged. So far they are able to drown out the experts, but the timeline toward public disclosure is shortening – it took 25 years for the truth about US Government involvement in the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King to be fully documented, 9/11 is on a fifteen year disclosure track, these new false flags and regime change operations (Georgia, Ukraine, Syria, Azerbaijan is next) are on a five to ten year track.
- Crack-Down on Alternative Voices. As the Internet makes it possible for intelligent people with integrity to challenge the official narrative, we are seeing more and more punitive expeditions, from threatened investigations to incarceration to murder disguised as suicide. Those who question authority join the ranks of the unemployed, are libeled and slandered, are black-listed without their knowing, added to spam and “hate crime” lists, “inadvertently” put on the “no fly” list or are blocked from entering specific countries, and when all else fails – for those very rare individuals whose voices gain traction– murder most foul (never mind that Gary Webb needed two bullets in the head to commit suicide). It merits observation that there is no due process by which a blocked individual can challenge their back office assassination.
- Fast Track Legislation (Already Written) and Bogus Investments. The Patriot Act is a classic example of legislation written before an event and passed immediately after the event without being read or debated. The “deep state” and its financial masters have an agenda that includes an insatiable demand for taxpayer investments (mostly funded by debt levied on future generations). We now know that Iraq was based on 935 lies that led to a cost to the taxpayer of over $4 trillion, with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a direct spin-off. In the absence of intelligence and integrity – evidence based strategy and policy – post-event legislation and budget initiatives should be regarded with great suspicion.
- Who Benefits? Following the money is a major part of this, but benefits can be calculated in domestic political advances, military-police-industrial investments, “coincident” decisions favoring specific financial interests, and more.
So Where Are We on Paris 11/13 as a False Flag?
Below is a simple matrix for considering the possibilities of each of six major actors – not necessarily the legitimate governments within each of those state, but perhaps rogue actors with undue influence and discretionary authority – being engaged in a false flag campaign to legitimize the US war on Syria, bring France into the war, destabilize Europe, Balkanize the Middle East, and spread the Wahhabist brand of Islamic terrorism.
My over-all conclusion is straight-forward. Absent compelling evidence to the contrary, the public must assume that Paris 11/13 was a false flag, and resist all attempts to declare war, increase the militarization of the police, and spend more on domestic surveillance while reducing civil liberties. This was, in my view as an observer and intelligence professional, a false flag operation.
As a citizen and voter and patriot, I will not vote for anyone stupid enough to claim that ISIS has a life of its own apart from Saudi Arabia and Turkey with inputs from Israel, the US, France, and the disenfranchised officers of Iraq. We need adults with intelligence and integrity leading us, not ideologues and traitors who will tell any lie and pay any price in our blood, treasure, and spirit for their personal gain.
Below I will list just a few of references I consider to be helpful.
Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeg, “NATO Is Harbouring the Islamic State,” InsurgeIntelligence, November 19, 2015.
Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq, “Why Was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?,” Ceasefire Magazine, May 17, 2013.
Akleh, Elias, “Another France’s False Flag Attack,” Intifada: Voice of Palestine, November 17, 2015.
Barrett, Kevin. “Another French false flag?, Veterans Today, November 13, 2015.
Burks, Fred. “Origins of ISIS aka Islamic State,” WanttoKnow.info, November 26, 2015.
Burks, Fred. Prescription for a World Crisis. Global Outlook, Issue 13 Annual 2009, False Flag Operations, How Wars Are Started By False Flag Operations, Global Outlook, 2009.
Chuckman, John. “Friday the 13th in Paris and the Ugly Truth of State Terror,” Foreign Policy Journal, November 20, 2015.
Crubaugh, Joe. “10 false flags operations that shaped our world,” March 7, 2007.
Donahue, Patrick and Rainer Buergin, “Syrian Passport in Paris May Be Planted, German Minister Says,” BloombergBusiness, November 17, 2015.
Durden, Tyler. “Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President,” ZeroHedge, November 25, 2015.
Editor. “42 ADMITTED False Flag Attacks,” WashingtonsBlog.com, February 9, 2015.
Editor. “False Flag,” Wikipedia, accessed November 21, 2015.
Editor. “Paris Attack – Inside Job – PSY-OP – Like Mumbai and Gladio Attacks,” Shoah: The Palestinian Holocaust, November 16, 2015.
Engdahl, F. William. “Erdogan’s Dirty Dangerous ISIS Games,” New Eastern Outlook, August 24, 2015.
Hagopian, Joachim. “Paris Attacks: Another False Flag? Sifting through the Evidence,” GlobalResearch, November 19, 2015.
Judge, Anthony, “Dying to Live, Living to Die, Lying to Live, and Living a Lie, Laetus in Praesens, November 13, 2015.
Lendman, Stephen. “Washington Bears Full Responsibility for Paris Attacks,” ThePeoplesVoice.org, November 19, 2015.
Mathew, Binu, “10 Reasons Why The Paris Terrorist Attack Could Be A False Flag Operation,” CounterCurrents.org, November 16, 2015.
Mongoose, Erdogan’s Dirty Dangerous ISIS Games — Turkey Goes to War on Arabia, Russia, and the West, Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog, November 26, 2015.
Mongoose, Understanding Paris – NATO, Gladio, Beligium & False Flag Terrorism — the Original Full-Length BBC Movie, Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog, November 21, 2015.
NEOnline/GK, “All Paris attackers were EU nationals,” NewEurope, November 20, 2015.
Onfray, Michel, “French Joined the Americans in War on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali…Reap As Ye Sow…,” Phi Beta Iota Public Intelligence Blog, November 15, 2015.
Parry, Robert, “Hitting Saudi Arabia Where It Hurts,” Consortiumnews.com, November 23, 2015.
Parry, Robert. “Tangled Threads of US False Narratives,” Consortiumnews.com, November 19, 2015.
Quinn, Joe. “Paris Attacks Reveal Bizarre ISIS Strategy and NATO’s Strategy of Tension in Europe, Sott.net, November 15, 2015.
Roberts, Paul Craig. “Another Paris False Flag Attack?,” Dissident Voice, November 14, 2015.
Roberts, Paul Craig. “The Paris Terror Attacks: Washington Refines Its False Flag Operations,” GlobalResearch, November 16, 2015.
Rusticus, “Questions for Operation Gladio, German Intelligence Amidst Paris Carnage,” Activist Post, November 14, 2015.
Swift, Sebastian. “5 Confirmed False Flag Operations and How to Spot Them in the Future,” Anti-Media, July 14, 2015
NOTE: There are a number of YouTube videos and audio podcats addressing Paris false flag and Gladio themes. I have chosen not to list them, they are easy to find.
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Companies have perk fever, offering everything from gym memberships to pet insurance and ride-share stipends. While these popular recruiting one-liners sound cool, too often these benefits miss the mark of having a real impact on wellness.
What is real wellness? With seventy five percent of employees in doubt about their financial security, every employer should make sure they’re offering the benefits that will have a real bottom-line impact on long term wellness.
Here are three ideas:
MAKE RETIREMENT SAVING EASIER
Retirement saving doesn’t have to be complicated or daunting, but many employees feel like it is. The 68% of working-age people (25-64) that do not participate in an employer-sponsored 401(k) plan are hard evidence that employers need retirement benefits that are easier for plan participants.
To get more of your employees enrolled and active in your 401(k) plan, consider using auto enrollment or auto escalation tactics. Auto enrollment lets a company enroll an employee into the company’s plan unless the employee opts against this. According to studies, less than 1% of workers that are automatically enrolled into a retirement plan choose to opt out. Auto escalation allows for annual increases in 401(k) contributions and has been found by SHRM to be favored amount 401(k) participants. Either of these methods will greatly boost 401(k) participation and retirement savings.
In addition, a third option is Genius Save, and easy way to make investing easier for those with student loans.
HELP TACKLE THE TOUGH QUESTIONS
Navigating the financial climate can be difficult and stressful. Currently, 46% of employees spend 2-3 working hours per week on personal finances. Smart companies leverage benefits to battle the productivity killer known as financial stress.
To really help your employees, focus on the tough questions and subject matter like budget planning, asset monitoring, and credit monitoring. Here are some key questions the majority of employees face:
HOW MUCH SHOULD I BE SPENDING?
63% of Americans don’t have $500 in emergency savings, but this is preventable with a real budget. Help employees answer, “How much should I be spending” by offering budget planning. Whether in the form of meetings with a Certified Financial Planner or access to innovative robo-advisors, every little bit helps.
Budget benefits can help eliminate personal finance stress and help get employees through major financial life moments, like starting a family child, a home purchase, or getting married.
HOW MUCH AM I REALLY WORTH?
Network is a mystery for most employees. Offering employees access to an asset monitor calculator, such as SmartAsset, can help them get answers about net worth.
HOW IS MY CREDIT?
It can be tricky to know how to build credit or reverse negative credit history. Offering external consumer credit counseling can teach how to build and improve credit. In addition, credit monitoring can help protect against identity fraud through a fee-based service.
OFFER REAL STUDENT LOAN HELP
According to American Student Assistance, 76% of student loan borrowers say a student loan benefit would be a deciding factor in employment.
This financial wellness benefit does more than just attract when recruiting, our data shows that the average savings of 38 percent creates real financial wellness for employees.
To learn more, talk to us about our Genius Advisor service and Genius Match to start helping your employees crush student loans in a few weeks.
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Cantaloupes have sparse leaves and need a lot of sunshine and heat to mature their fruit. Their roots are delicate and require high nutrition and lots of water. For all that effort, you’ll be rewarded by the ripest, sweetest cantaloupes you’ve ever tasted. Follow along with this handy how to grow cantaloupes guide and grow refreshing flavor this summer.!
Cantaloupes (musk melons) & Honeydews: Cucurbita melo
Easy in a greenhouse or cloche, or outdoors in long, warm summers. Difficult without these conditions.
Season & Zone
Season: Warm season
It is essential to start seeds indoors or in a greenhouse mid to late April. Transplant at the end of May or first week of June, when the plants are 5 weeks old. Optimal soil temperature for germination: 20-25°C (68-77°F). Seeds should sprout in 5-10 days.
Sow seeds 1cm (½”) deep. Set transplants 60-90cm (24-36″) apart in rows 1.5-2m (5-6′) apart.
Ideal pH: 6.0-6.8. Choose a warm, well-drained soil. Add dolomite lime and compost or well-rotted manure to the bed and ½-1 cup of complete organic fertilizer beneath each transplant. Cantaloupes need really warm growing conditions. Use black plastic mulch, cloches, or floating row covers. Success may improve in raised beds. Melons plants require 8-10 weeks of good, hot growing weather from the middle of June to the end of August. During that time, a melon vine must grow 5-9 leaves before starting to flower, then set 4 or more male flowers before making its first female flower, and then ripen its fruit before cool, damp weather sets in. Melons do not ripen off the vine. During the entire growing season, make sure to provide ample water.
Fruit will ripen in late August to early September. Ripe cantaloupe will easily detach from the vine when light finger pressure is applied to the stem.
In ideal conditions at least 60% of seeds will germinate. Usual seed life: 3 years. Per 100′ row: 60 seeds, per acre: 5.2M seeds.
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GETTING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR CANDLES
Before you light your Lluma candle please ensure that you read this!
For ideal burning, it is so important to·always keep the wick trimmed to 5mm! You can trim the wick before lighting or whilst it is alight. This ensures the wick does not curl and cause the candle to burn unevenly, preventing·wax build up on·one side. Remember to remove any wick debris from the candle.
When you first light your candle you should burn it for one hour for every 2.5 cms of diameter. In other words, allow the melted pool of wax to spread to the very edge of the candle the first time it is lit. This·allows the wax to pool to the outside rim and then each time you subsequently light your candle it will “remember” to burn out to the rim, instead of tunnelling down the middle.
Avoid draughts – This can cause uneven burning.
Avoid direct sunlight – In some cases this can cause fading to certain candles.
Remove labels and decor from candles before burning.
While our Lluma candles do not drip if taken care of properly, it is wise to always burn your candle on safe holders or plates. The colouring, wax or·heat could damage furniture and surfaces.
Fragranced candles sometimes have a tendency to smoke more than others so keeping the wick at 5mm is more important.
Never leave candles unattended.
Always keep candles out of reach of children and pets.
Never burn a candle completely. Dispose of it when it gets to 2.5 cms from the base.The most important thing to remember is to keep the wick trimmed to 5mm!
Burn times quoted on this site are approximate and will depend on conditions. Remember your candle will burn faster and unevenly in a draught!
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Wilbur W. Griggs, Jr., helped to save three children from burning, Farmville, Virginia, March 4, 1969. Four small children were unattended in a bedroom in a one-story section of a frame dwelling when fire broke out in the adjoining living room. Noticing flames at the living room window, Griggs, 35, quality control manager, and two other men ran to the porch of the dwelling. One man opened the living-room door and, guided by screams of the children, crawled into the dwelling. Griggs did likewise; but their path was blocked by flames and they returned to the porch. While the third man went to summon firemen, Griggs and the first man ran to the side of the house. The first man forced open the door of the kitchen, which adjoined the bedroom, and in dense smoke crawled into the dwelling. Griggs, following, located and opened two windows. The first man crawled into the bedroom, where flames covered one wall and part of the ceiling. He located the bed and called out that he had found the children. Two of them, one at a time, were taken by the man to the bedroom doorway, from where Griggs carried each to the outside. When Griggs crawled back to the doorway and met the man with another child, both men were feeling effects of the smoke. They crawled out of the dwelling. The third man removed the last child. Soon afterward the bedroom ceiling collapsed.
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JAMES CITY COUNTY — The Island Loop Drive on Jamestown Island in Colonial National Historical Park will be closed intermittently during the final weeks of March and in April, May and June to protect migrating turtles.
The tour road, which has a three-mile short route and a five-mile long route, will close to allow turtles to move safely through their wetland habitat, according to a March 22 release from Colonial National Historical Park.
Park staff and trained volunteers will routinely monitor turtle activity and additional closures may occur sporadically throughout the year as needed.
The National Park Service will close the road to vehicle traffic at the gate just past the Jamestown Island Visitor Center.
“The 1950’s development of the Jamestown Island tour roads were built in a way that crossed wetlands, becoming a barrier between upland areas and marsh ecosystems,” the release said. “These two habitats are used by five of the eight documented turtle species in the park.”
The turtles live in ponds, wetlands and the forest floor or inside fallen logs. They can crawl or hop distances of a few hundred feet, or more than a one-fourth mile, in their range to feed and breed.
Closing the road helps reduce the risk of turtles being crushed by car tires.
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Balance of good fats & bad fats can aid in good cardiac health
Scientists from University of Cambridge examined the diets of 2,500 people aged 40 - 79. Results indicating that to remove all fat from your diet may not be the safest approach to could cardiac care post heart disease.
They found those who ate foods rich in omega 6 – a fatty acid present in vegetable oils, nuts and seeds – significantly reduced their risk of heart problems.
But those who had simply cut their intake of unhealthy saturated fat did not reduce their risk to the same extent.
The researchers suggest the ‘balance of fats’ in our diets could be the key to preventing coronary heart disease, which is the UK’s biggest killer.
The Many Vital Roles of Cholesterol and the Myths & Truths
- Cholesterol is produced by almost every cell in the body.
- Cholesterol in cell membranes makes cells waterproof so there can be a different chemistry on the inside and the outside of the cell.
- Cholesterol is nature’s repair substance, used to repair wounds, including tears and irritations in the arteries. Many important hormones are made of cholesterol, including hormones that regulate mineral metabolism and blood sugar, hormones that help us deal with stress, and all the sex hormones, such as testosterone, oestrogen and progesterone.
- Cholesterol is vital to brain function
- Cholesterol is vital to the function of the brain and nervous system.
- Cholesterol protects us against depression; it plays a role in the utilization of serotonin, the body’s “feel-good” chemical.
- The bile salts, needed for the digestion of fats, are made from cholesterol. Cholesterol is the precursor of vitamin D, which is formed by the action of ultra-violet (UV-B) light on cholesterol in the skin.
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A HR manager has told how she was diagnosed with low iron by doctors – before medics later discovered the terrifying truth.
Paige Gouge was suffering from headaches and seizures for several weeks – which was eventually found to be an incurable brain tumour.
26歳, from Bishop’s Stortford, ハートフォードシャー, says her life was quickly turned upside down after the deadly diagnosis in December.
Doctors concluded that her symptoms were the result of Stage Four glioblastoma multiforme, which generally carries a survival rate of 12 に 18 数週間.
The tumour on her left frontal love has seen Paige undergo brain surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and IVF treatment to freeze her eggs.
She also been told she cannot drive and been forced to stop work.
And now she says the late diagnosis has left and her family feeling “extremely disheartened.”
彼女は言った BBC: “I know that with my amazing family and friends by my side I can get through this.
“I am determined to do so for them.”
After having surgery to remove the tumour, she added the 癌 is almost guaranteed to return and normally does so within the first couple of years.
Her fiancee, Taylor Allen, had since been desperately trying to find medical options to the disease – which previously killed her father, マーク, when she was six-years-old.
The couple believe she may have a “second chance at life” via specialist treatment in ドイツ and have set up a GoFundMe page for “ground-breaking treatment.”
Her beau Taylor says the treatment, costing £100,000, is a “glimmer of hope.”
Writing about her condition online, Paige said: “I was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, the same tumour which sadly killed my father in June of 2000.
“Although the NHS has been incredible, due to this being a Grade 4 腫瘍, it’s almost guaranteed to return. Sadly it seems that the Standard of Care provided by the NHS isn’t enough to beat this disease, so we have had to start exploring alternative options.
What are the symptoms of a brain tumour?
A brain tumour is a lump in the brain which is caused when brain cells divide and grow in an uncontrolled way.
による NHS, the symptoms of a brain tumour depend on its severity and which part of the brain is affected.
しかしながら, there are common signs that people can look out for if they are worried.
The most common signs of a brain tumour include severe, non-stop headaches and seizures.
Nausea, vomiting and drowsiness are also often symptoms.
Other signs can include vision or speech problems, paralysis, and even changes to a person’s behaviour such as having difficulty remembering things.
“After months of research and many consultations, we have found groundbreaking treatment in Germany which could give me a second chance at life.
“Sadly this treatment is very expensive, so we have no option but to do everything we can as a family to raise the money and get me this extremely important treatment which I desperately need.
“The treatment is essentially a personalised vaccine made from parts of my tumour which will help my immune system to recognise the foreign cancer cells and destroy them.
「幸いなことに, I have some favourable mutations in my tumour, which should make this treatment even more effective, which is why we are so certain this is the best avenue to go down.”
Paige’s brother Ryan Gouge said he is now set to run next years London Marathon in an effort to raise money for brain tumour research.
Online he wrote: ”Paige is currently going through treatment, and for someone so young showing so much fight and belief, it is truly my inspiration to do my bit.
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The fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old named Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, this August triggered weeks of riots and looting, as well as nonstop media coverage. The press quickly developed a formula for reporting on the “unrest,” as the media still call such violence: select some aspect of Ferguson’s political or civic culture; declare that feature racist, by virtue of its being associated with Ferguson; disregard alternative explanations for the phenomenon; blame riots on it. Bonus move: generalize to other cities with similar “problems.”
Some examples: Ferguson’s population is two-thirds black, but five of its six city council members are white, as is its mayor. Conclusion: this racial composition must be the product of racism. Never mind that blacks barely turn out to vote and field practically no candidates. Never mind that the mayor ran for a second term unopposed. Is there a record of Ferguson’s supposed white power structure suppressing the black vote? None has been alleged. Did the rioters even know who their mayor and city council representatives were? The press didn’t bother to ask. But this “problem” is disturbingly widespread, in the media’s eyes: MOSTLY BLACK CITIES, MOSTLY WHITE CITY HALLS, announced a New York Times front-page story on September 29, complete with a sophisticated scatter-graph visual aid.
Example: Ferguson issues fines for traffic violations; 20 percent of its municipal budget comes from such receipts. If people with outstanding fines or summons don’t appear in court, a warrant for their arrest is issued. Conclusion: this is a racist system. The city is deliberately financing its operations on the backs of the black poor. The only reason that blacks are subject to fines and warrants, according to the media, is that they are being hounded by a racist police force. “A mostly white police force has targeted blacks for a disproportionate number of stops and searches,” declared Time on September 1. What is the evidence for such “targeting?” Time provides none. Might blacks be getting traffic fines for the same reason that whites get traffic fines—because they broke the law? The possibility is never contemplated. The most frequently summonsed traffic offense is driving without insurance, according to the New York Times’s “exposé” of Ferguson’s traffic-fine system. Perhaps the Times’s editors would be blasé about being hit by an uninsured driver, but most drivers would be grateful that the insurance requirement is being enforced. Might poor blacks have a higher rate of driving without insurance than other drivers? Not relevant to know, apparently.
The next highest categories of driving infraction are blasting loud music out your car and driving with tinted windows. Attend police-community meetings in poor areas and you will regularly hear complaints about cars with deafening sound systems. Should the police ignore such complaints? Are they ignoring similar complaints in white areas because they want to give whites a pass? Do Ferguson’s white and black drivers blast loud music from their cars at the same rate? We never learn. Tinted windows pose a possibly lethal threat to the police during traffic stops, since they prevent officers from assessing the situation inside the car before approaching. Ignoring this infraction puts officers’ lives at risk. Should the police nevertheless do so? Such is the implication, if doing so would mean fewer fines for black motorists. The New York Times quotes a victim of the racist Ferguson traffic-enforcement system, who was fined for driving without a license. Why was his license suspended—was he driving drunk? Did he hit someone? We will never know. What is the crime rate in the black areas of Ferguson? Also something that the mainstream press is not interested in finding out.
But the most ubiquitous “Ferguson is racist” meme was the most familiar: the police force is too white. Four of Ferguson’s 53 officers are black. This imbalance must be the result of racism and must itself cause racist enforcement activity. How many qualified black applicants to the force applied and were rejected? Not an interesting question, apparently.
The “too-white police force” meme, which the New York Times generalized into another front-page article (MOSTLY WHITE FORCES IN MOSTLY BLACK TOWNS, September 10), complete with another impressive set of graphs, is of particular interest in light of the federal government’s current investigation of New York City’s sprawling Rikers Island jail complex. In August, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York issued a report denouncing the “deep-seated culture of violence” among Rikers corrections officers towards adolescent inmates. He accused guards of handcuffing juvenile inmates to gurneys and beating them. Rikers has been bedeviled by such claims of officer abuse of inmates for years. The resulting problem for the “abusive white cops” meme is that the Rikers’ officer force is about two-thirds black. (New York’s population is 23 percent black; no one has complained about the racial imbalance among Rikers guards.) This August, the Detroit Police Department emerged from 11 years of federal oversight for alleged abuse of civilians, including a pattern of unjustified shootings. The Detroit force, too, is about two-thirds black. The U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation of the New Orleans Police Department in 2010 for a pattern of civil rights violations; in 2012, the Justice Department imposed on the New Orleans PD the most expansive consent decree in the nation to try to rein in the alleged unconstitutional behavior of its officers, the majority of whom are black.
Now perhaps these civil rights allegations against these majority black forces are trumped up. But if so, perhaps similar allegations against majority white forces are, too. Or maybe the race of officers has little to do with whether they can police fairly.
The facts in the Ferguson shooting remain unknown. A videotape captured the 300-pound Brown committing a strong-arm robbery minutes before his encounter with the police. Brown’s supporters claim that officers stopped him for walking in the middle of the street and then shot him in cold blood, either in his back or when his hands were up. The Ferguson police department has not released the officer’s account of the shooting, but the officer’s supporters allege that Brown had fought viciously with him while resisting arrest. A grand jury is under enormous pressure to charge Officer Darren Wilson with murder for shooting Brown, with the usual threats of even more vicious riots to come should the grand jury fail to deliver an indictment. Officers have been shot at in and around Ferguson, violence which the authorities hastily discounted as related to the ongoing protests; death threats against officers have been made. Whether or not an uncontested account of the incident will ever emerge, it is certain that the media spin on Ferguson itself has been driven by facile and ultimately dangerous preconceptions. | <urn:uuid:8bc2acf0-0a5c-45d8-9d07-cd64e8f63fa4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.city-journal.org:443/html/ferguson%E2%80%99s-unasked-questions-11439.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962913 | 1,449 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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As usual, cartoonist Zunar has captured succinctly in a picture (above) what might otherwise take a thousand words to describe. It is a battle between the new more inclusive Malaysia and the old Malaysia, where the politics of race and religion reigned supreme. Pests (the toxic old communal politics) are now trying to devour the young shoots of a vibrant new nation.
This second cartoon (below), drawn a couple of months ago at an Aliran dinner in Penang, shows us that the roots of race and religion run deep. While the crowds celebrated the fall of the rotting BN tree on 9 May 2018, uprooting the poisonous roots hidden beneath the ground will take a lot more hard work and awareness-raising.
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Inspired by a dream, this 1985 commercial variant starts with a board-building phase. The game appears in Pritchard's Classified Encyclopedia.
The game starts with the players building the board. A central 2x2 square (properly colored) is placed first, then the players alternate turns adding a square of their own color. A square must be attached orthogonally adjacent to an existing square of the opposite color (so that the board is guaranteed to be connected and properly colored). The board will likely be irregular and have gaps; pieces can only move through/on squares that exist (knights can leap over gaps).
The board is then divided in half (how exactly?), and players place their pieces on their half of the board. The pawns are placed first, again alternating between players, then the other pieces.
Pawns do not have an initial two-step, and there is no castling. Pawns can promote (how exactly?).
In Ed Friedlander's applet, the board seems to be constrained to a 12x12 area, and is then divided such that each player "owns" the largest number of ranks on their side whose number of squares does not exceed 32. (Thanks to Joost Brugh for the comment on that page noting this.) As far as I can tell, Ed doesn't allow promotion.
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A popular and spectacular houseplant, Fatsia japonica produces huge, dark green, deeply divided palmate leaves. The architectural shape makes it a dramatic, tropical feature, and these magnificent plants really need very little attention.
Also known as the Castor Oil plant or Japanese Aralia, Fatsia plants are native to southern Japan, Korea and Taiwan where they grow in moist shaded areas and will easily reach 5m (16ft) in height. As a houseplant, it grows to just a fraction of that size, but the amazing leaves still maintain their handsome glossiness, growing up to a foot across.
Happiest in a shady part of the house, away from direct sun, with good moisture levels. It shouldn't be allowed to dry out but shouldn't sit in water either. Once mature, unusual, exotic-looking umbrellas of creamy white flowers are produced in the autumn, followed by deep maroon berries.
Leafy tropical houseplants like this help to clean the air in your home and can actually improve the environment, clearing the air, removing toxins and adding valuable oxygen to the air that we breathe.
Fatsia japonica holds a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, so you can be sure that this is a proven performer.
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If you want to freeze strawberries for smoothies, you must first clean them properly. Rinse them thoroughly under running water. Do not soak them, as this will ruin their natural flavor. Cut the stems off the strawberries, and slice them into pieces before freezing. To avoid sticking together, flash freezes them individually. If you can’t find flash frozen strawberries, you can purchase them in the store. You can also use frozen strawberries in smoothies and other desserts.
How to Freeze Strawberries for Smoothies?
It’s simple to freeze strawberries, and the procedure is the same whether you’re storing a few berries or several baskets. Although entire strawberries can be frozen with their tops still on (did you know that the tops are edible? ), I find that they are too large to blend well and must be thawed before being cut into smaller pieces for jam or baked items. Instead, it is preferable first to chop the berries into pieces and remove the tops. You can finally use these strawberries for your favorite smoothies.
- Removing the tops, cutting the berries, freezing them in a single layer, and storing them in an airtight container may all be done in four simple steps.
- Hull the strawberries or slice the tops off to remove them.
- Chop the strawberries: How you do so is entirely up to you. Medium-sized strawberries can be cut into slices or cubes, although I usually quarter them. Consider how you will utilize them and make cuts accordingly. If your favorite muffin recipe, for instance, asks for sliced strawberries, use that instead!
- Strawberry slices can be frozen in a single layer if spread out on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. The strawberries should not be stacked or tightly packed because you want each piece to freeze separately. Place the tray in the freezer and let it stay there until the strawberries are completely frozen.
- Transfer to freezer bags: For long-term storage, transfer the frozen strawberries to freezer bags. Since each piece was individually frozen, they won’t clump together, allowing you to remove only the amount you need.
- To prevent freezer burn on the remaining strawberries, it is preferable to utilize frozen strawberries within a few months and make sure to push any air out of the bag after removing any.
What is the Strawberry Smoothie Recipe?
- Two hundred grams of fresh strawberries must be rinsed, hulled, and chopped beforehand. This amount of chopped strawberries equates to 1.25 cups. If you want to make a thicker strawberry smoothie, you can also use frozen strawberries.
- Strawberries, either fresh or frozen, should be added to a blender.
- Next, chop and include one medium-sized banana.
- Add one-half cup of light coconut milk (not the thick cream). Add 1/4 to 1/3 cup of creamy coconut milk to a smoothie to make it more comprehensive.
- If you’d like, you can also include a sweetener, such as raw sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, or maple syrup.
- With the jar lid on, mix the contents until they are smooth and creamy. Add a small amount of coconut milk and blend the smoothie once more if it’s too thick.
Pour the strawberry smoothie into two glasses and serve right immediately. I advise adding some strawberries cut into slices, chopped almonds, or dried fruits to the glasses as a garnish.
For the most delicate flavor and taste, I advise drinking the newly mixed smoothie as soon as it is created.
Since the recipe calls for coconut milk, it will go wrong if it is stored at room temperature for a few hours in a warm environment, and in the refrigerator, it may go rotten.
How to Keep Strawberries Fresh?
Strawberries must be placed in the refrigerator if you want to increase their shelf life. The following instructions will show you how to store them in an airtight container in a single layer for the best results.
- Only wash strawberries right before eating them. When strawberries are cleaned, they are instantly exposed to moisture, and moisture on fresh fruit causes mold to grow. Strawberries should not be washed before storing them and should only be washed before consumption.
- Keep the berries whole. Strawberry parts that have been chopped up will not keep as long as whole strawberries. Please keep the entire basket in the same condition you found at the supermarket or farmers’ market, including the green-leaf tops.
- Use paper towels to line a plastic or glass container. These paper towels will soak moisture and prevent mold growth on your berries.
- Put the strawberries inside the container in a single layer. It is simpler to fit all of your strawberries into a single container. Don’t be afraid to utilize more than one container if you require them to keep that single layer. Strawberries can, of course, be stacked on top of one another (just as they would be in their original container), but doing so allows mold to spread from fruit to berry quickly. Think about layering a paper towel to reduce moisture and contact between layers.
- Refrigerate the container after completely sealing it. Strawberries that are dry and sealed should be kept in the fridge for at least seven days. But you should consume them sooner if you want the freshest flavor.
What is the Vinegar Bath When it Comes to Storing Strawberries?
Regarding This Method: Berries that have just been picked naturally have mold spores on them, which is what eventually causes them to deteriorate. These spores are eliminated by rinsing strawberries in vinegar, which prevents the berries from being harmed.
How to Do It: Mix two cups of water with one cup of white vinegar to use this technique. Whole strawberries should be added to the mixture and gently stirred for about a minute. Next, clean water should be used to rinse the berries (this mini colander is perfect for washing berries). Place the strawberries on a tray covered with a dish towel and let them air dry. Put them back in the original container in the refrigerator once they are scorched.
Did it succeed? We weren’t expecting the results because other publications extol the virtues of this storage strategy. To be specific, we even tested the procedure twice. The strawberries had withered leaves and soft patches and appeared ragged and black. The berries didn’t look good, but there was no trace of mold.
When strawberries are washed, water is absorbed, hastening the deterioration process. The strawberries maintained the moisture they had absorbed even after being spread out to dry, which reduced their freshness. It’s better to hold off on washing strawberries until you’re about to use them in a recipe.
What are the Benefits of Strawberries for Health?
The risk of several chronic diseases is lowered by eating strawberries.
- Strawberries may help prevent cancer, reduce blood sugar levels, and improve heart health.
- Heart health The leading cause of death worldwide is heart disease.
- Berries, or berry anthocyanins, have been linked in studies to better heart health.
- In an extensive observational study, including thousands of people, berry eating is linked to a decreased risk of heart-related fatalities.
- According to research in middle-aged persons with established risk factors for heart disease, berries may enhance HDL (good) cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood platelet function.
Strawberry Uses Include
- Enhance blood antioxidant levels
- Lowering oxidative stress,
- Decreasing inflammation,
- Enhancing vascular function
- Enhance the oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol and lower your blood lipid profile.
Much research has been done on the impact of freeze-dried strawberry supplements on type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome, mainly in overweight or obese people.
Participants saw a marked reduction in several essential risk variables, such as LDL (bad) cholesterol, inflammatory markers, and oxidized LDL particles, after taking supplements for 4–12 weeks.
Blood Sugar Control
Your body converts carbohydrates into simple sugars during digestion, then releases these sugars into your bloodstream.
Your body subsequently releases insulin, instructing your cells to take the sugar from your bloodstream and use it as fuel or storage.
Obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease are all linked to unbalanced blood sugar management and high-sugar diets.
Comparatively to a carb-rich meal without strawberries, strawberries appear to slow down the digestion of glucose and lessen increases in glucose and insulin after a meal high in carbohydrates.
To avoid metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, strawberries may be beneficial.
Prevention of Cancer
Uncontrolled cell development is a hallmark of the condition known as cancer.
Oxidative stress and persistent inflammation are frequently connected to the development and progression of cancer.
Several studies indicate that berries’ capacity to combat oxidative stress and inflammation may help them prevent various cancers.
It has been demonstrated that strawberries can prevent the growth of tumors in both human liver cancer cells and animals with mouth cancer.
Ellagitannins and ellagic acid, which have been demonstrated to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells, maybe the primary agents responsible for strawberries’ preventive properties.
Before drawing any firm conclusions, the further human study is required to advance our understanding of how strawberries affect cancer.
What are the Adverse Outcomes of Consuming Strawberries?
Although allergies are not prevalent, strawberries are typically well tolerated, especially in young children.
People sensitive to birch pollen or apples may get symptoms from strawberries due to a protein in them, a condition known as pollen-food allergy.
The common symptoms include mouth itching or tingling, hives, headaches, swelling of the lips, face, tongue, or throat, and breathing difficulties in severe cases.
The anthocyanins in strawberries are thought to be connected to the allergen-causing protein. Those who would otherwise be allergic typically tolerate colorless, white strawberries well.
Also, strawberries contain goitrogens that may interfere with the thyroid’s ability to operate in those with thyroid issues.
What are the Nutritional Facts About Strawberry?
91% of strawberries are made up of water and carbs (7.7 percent ). They only have trace amounts of protein (0.3%) and fat (0.7 percent ).
3.5 ounces (100 grams) of raw strawberries contain the following nutrients:
- 32 calories
- Water makes up 91%.
- 0.7 grams of protein
- 7.7 grams of carbs
- 4.9 grams of sugar
- 2 grams of fiber
- 0.3 grams of fat
Fresh strawberries have a very high water content, resulting in a very low overall carbohydrate load of fewer than 8 grams per 3.5 ounces (100 grams).
Less than 6 grams of net digestible carbohydrates are in the same serving size.
These berries have a fair amount of fiber and simple sugars like glucose, fructose, and sucrose that make up most of their carbohydrates.
The glycemic index (GI) of strawberries is 40, which is a comparatively low value.
As a result, strawberries are considered safe for those with diabetes and shouldn’t cause significant blood sugar rises.
Strawberries’ carbohydrate content is made up of fiber, about 26%.
3.5 ounces (100 grams) of strawberries contain 2 grams of soluble and insoluble fiber.
Dietary fibers are crucial for feeding your gut’s beneficial microorganisms and promoting digestive health. They aid in illness prevention and help people lose weight.
Pre-frozen strawberries will come in handy when you’re ready to make a smoothie. They will be prepared to go within an hour or eight hours and can be easily measured. Thawing strawberries will allow them to release their juice but will be less firm than fresh ones. The freezing process expands the water inside them and breaks down the cell structure. This will result in slightly mushier strawberries, but they’re still delicious!
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In computer science, the range searching problem consists of processing a set S of objects, in order to determine which objects from S intersect with a query object, called the range. For example, if S is a set of points corresponding to the coordinates of several cities, find the subset of cities within a given range of latitudes and longitudes.
The range searching problem and the data structures that solve it are a fundamental topic of computational geometry. Applications of the problem arise in areas such as geographical information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD) and databases.
There are several variations of the problem, and different data structures may be necessary for different variations. In order to obtain an efficient solution, several aspects of the problem need to be specified:
- Object types: Algorithms depend on whether S consists of points, lines, line segments, boxes, polygons.... The simplest and most studied objects to search are points.
- Range types: The query ranges also need to be drawn from a predetermined set. Some well-studied sets of ranges, and the names of the respective problems are axis-aligned rectangles (orthogonal range searching), simplices, halfspaces, and spheres/circles.
- Query types: If the list of all objects that intersect the query range must be reported, the problem is called range reporting, and the query is called a reporting query. Sometimes, only the number of objects that intersect the range is required. In this case, the problem is called range counting, and the query is called a counting query. The emptiness query reports whether there is at least one object that intersects the range. In the semigroup version, a commutative semigroup (S,+) is specified, each point is assigned a weight from S, and it is required to report the semigroup sum of the weights of the points that intersect the range.
- Dynamic range searching vs. static range searching: In the static setting the set S is known in advance. In dynamic setting objects may be inserted or deleted between queries.
- Offline range searching: Both the set of objects and the whole set of queries are known in advance.
Orthogonal range searching
In orthogonal range searching, the set S consists of points in dimensions, and the query consists of intervals in each of those dimensions. Thus, the query consists of a multi-dimensional axis-aligned rectangle. With an output size of , Jon Bentley used a k-d tree to achieve (in Big O notation) space and query time. Bentley also proposed using range trees, which improved query time to but increased space to . Dan Willard used downpointers, a special case of fractional cascading to reduce the query time further to .
While the above results were achieved in the pointer machine model, further improvements have been made in the word RAM model of computation in low dimensions (2D, 3D, 4D). Bernard Chazelle used compress range trees to achieve query time and space for range counting. Joseph JaJa and others later improved this query time to for range counting, which matches a lower bound and is thus asymptotically optimal.
As of 2015, the best results (in low dimensions (2D, 3D, 4D)) for range reporting found by Timothy M. Chan, Kasper Larsen, and Mihai Pătrașcu, also using compressed range trees in the word RAM model of computation, are one of the following:
- space, query time
- space, query time
- space, query time
In the orthogonal case, if one of the bounds is infinity, the query is called three-sided. If two of the bounds are infinity, the query is two-sided, and if none of the bounds are infinity, then the query is four-sided.
Dynamic range searching
While in static range searching the set S is known in advance, dynamic range searching, insertions and deletions of points are allowed. In the incremental version of the problem, only insertions are allowed, whereas the decremental version only allows deletions. For the orthogonal case, Kurt Mehlhorn and Stefan Näher created a data structure for dynamic range searching which uses dynamic fractional cascading to achieve space and query time. Both incremental and decremental versions of the problem can be solved with query time, but it is unknown whether general dynamic range searching can be done with that query time.
Colored range searching
The problem of colored range counting considers the case where points have categorical attributes. If the categories are considered as colors of points in geometric space, then a query is for how many colors appear in a particular range. Prosenjit Gupta and others described a data structure in 1995 which solved 2D orthogonal colored range counting in space and query time.
In addition to being considered in computational geometry, range searching, and orthogonal range searching in particular, has applications for range queries in databases. Colored range searching is also used for and motivated by searching through categorical data. For example, determining the rows in a database of bank accounts which represent people whose age is between 25 and 40 and who have between $10000 and $20000 might be an orthogonal range reporting problem where age and money are two dimensions.
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Review the vocabulary and learn the name of professions and occupations through our short story that explains where our characters work and how they dress up. Learn and have fun!
Little Smart Planet
65% of kids between 3 and 5 years old watch videos every day. Little Smart Planet creates a pack of 55 videos to help kindergarten kids 3 to 5 to understand their first concepts directly in English. The videos have songs, which is the best way to communicate kids the contents. This way kids learn numbers, colours, food, animals, weather seasons and many others concepts applied in kindergarten in a fun way. | <urn:uuid:da6e556b-df76-4134-966b-c220a72bc81c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joinhighbrow.com/video/little-smart-planet/all-about-professions/26fe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941196 | 119 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Hand sanitizer is a fluid, gel, commonly used to kill bacteria or germs on the hands. In many ways, handwashing with cleanser and water is by and large preferred by people. Hand sanitizer is less messy and quickly eliminate sorts of germs, for example, norovirus and Clostridium. As not at all like cleanser and water can do that. Sometimes in the market, some low-quality hand sanitizers are also available so please avoid it. Companies like Biocorp, provide its very genuine and effective hand sanitizer franchise in the market and definitely you can rely on the quality.
Well, hand sanitizers can depend on one of two sorts: alcohol-based or alcohol-free. Alcohol-based items regularly contain somewhere in the range of 60 and 95 percent alcohol, ordinarily as ethanol, isopropanol, or n-propanol. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers successfully kill specific kinds of microorganisms. Well, for the finest hand-sanitizer Biocorp Lifesciences is on top. Our company provides a quality product at the best prices. Choosing us for Hand Sanitizer Franchise is a great business option.
The worldwide hand sanitizer market has been watching incredible growth, due to the rising COVID-19 cases around the world. According to reports,alcohol-based sanitizers convey the capacity to execute over 99.9 % irresistible germs while guaranteeing the clean and germ-free hands.
The worldwide hand sanitizer showcase is required to observe huge income development over the years because of the rising spread of the coronavirus. As undertakings, governments, and non-benefit associations collaborate to control the effect of the coronavirus, the hand sanitizer market is extending at a noteworthy rate. Regarding the type, the market scene is additionally divided into fluid, gel, liqud and others. Among these, the gel type section has developed over the figure time period. Moreover, the gel type hand sanitizers are grown by a CAGR of – 2% somewhere in the range of 2020 and 2026.
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To conclude, we can say, Pharma Franchise for Hand Sanitizer is a great business in recent times. Rising Coronavirus cases increase the demand for such products. It is well said by health experts that every person should keep a hand sanitizer along with him. So people who willing to start their business investing in Hand Sanitizer franchise business are a great work platform. | <urn:uuid:a3af64ac-9674-42cd-8a1b-59ff61f4c6c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biocorplifesciences.com/what-is-hand-sanitizer-and-does-it-keep-your-hands-germ-free/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945609 | 666 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Children crave your attention? Give it to them.
- Ditch the make-up: chances are you look nicer without it and your skin will be happier.
- Accept a messy house. (Not a dirty house.)
- Find some funky hats or scarves for those bad hair days.
- Eliminate the television or put a cloth over it.
- Wear comfortable clothes for plenty of movement, turn on some music and boogie!
- Involve children in cooking – They can chop or grate vegetables, mix ingredients, taste test.
- Involve children in laundry – Show them how to load the washing machine and set aside a certain day for “family folding.”
- Involve children in cleaning – Using nontoxic products like vinegar and water, give them a water bottle and cloth and let them polish cabinet doors, windows and furniture.
- Eliminate a schedule (as often as possible), embrace flowing in the moment. – Outside of work or school, try to keep obligations and activities to a minimum or eliminate them all together for a while. Think simple activities: bubbles, chalk, dancing, singing, coloring, nature walks.
- Sit and be with your children, they will thank you!
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A rapid and general moulding strategy that uses carbohydrate glass as a sacrificial template for the formation of vascular networks in engineered tissues is reported online this week in Nature Materials. The approach may enable the scaling up of engineered tissue scaffolds that maintain their function at physiological densities, and that may be used as therapeutic replacements.
Without vascular networks that can deliver nutrients and oxygen and remove metabolic byproducts, tissues quickly develop a necrotic core that suppresses their function. But constructing perfusable three-dimensional vascular tissues in the laboratory has only been possible through slow and complex procedures that are usually restricted in the types of materials and cells that can be used.
Using a mixture of glucose and sucrose, and taking advantage of three-dimensional printing, Christopher Chen and colleagues made a network of glass filaments and encased it with a suspension of living cells in their extracellular matrix. After crosslinking the matrix, the researchers dissolved the filaments in cell media. The filaments flowed out of the network leaving behind channels that could be perfused with blood within minutes.
The researchers also demonstrate that the approach is compatible with many types of cells, extracellular matrices and crosslinking strategies, and that it allows for independent control of the network geometry and cell type, both in the lining of the vascular channels and between them.
Engineering: Just add water to activate a disposable paper batteryScientific Reports
Planetary science: Origins of one of the oldest martian meteorites identifiedNature Communications
Physics: Beam vibrations used to measure ‘big G’Nature Physics
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Italian companies measure their environmental footprint with EFFIGE, the new project funded by the LIFE Unit of the European Commission under the 2016 call.
European surveys and national studies show how the market demands more sustainable products. The Life EFFIGE project is designed to meet this need through the adoption of Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) a method of computing the environmental footprint of products and services promoted by the European Commission with the Recommendation 179/2013/UE.
EFFIGE, experiences this method in four manufacturing sectors – foundries, furniture, agro-food and catering – involving many companies in this business. The companies participating in the project will also be involved in improving the environmental footprint of their products and services by planning strategic actions aimed to create more sustainable products and features that can make them more competitive. | <urn:uuid:5b589f58-ed40-4778-a38b-fee5e18ed095> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifeeffige.eu/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945035 | 164 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Whether you are associated with a judge case or perhaps you’re just curious about just how data bedrooms work, there are numerous benefits to using a single. In court proceedings, large amounts of documents are often sold. Many of these files are confidential, and the capability to access all of them via a digital data bedroom makes it effortless for intercontinental teams. Additionally , these online data areas allow teams to access all of the files they want at a person central site. If the stability of one party is endangered, documents can be set to view-only.
The legal industry is definitely notorious intended for mountains of paperwork. But electronic doc sharing has changed the way legal professionals share records with clientele and other companies. With a electronic data room, companies can share docs quickly and securely. The life sciences sector is dependent on the intellectual real estate, so they need to protect it to protect their particular reputation and maintain it safe. By saving their consumer files in a secure info room, they can give the clients the confidence they must feel comfortable with all their services.
Once conducting mergers https://thedataroom.online/how-data-rooms-helping-businesses-with-deals-asset-purchases-joint-ventures-more/ and acquisitions, firms often have to share a great deal of confidential information. Using a digital data place is the most protected way to conduct these kinds of a transaction. Sharing this sort of intimate docs with other firms can be nerve-wracking, so businesses can use a VDR application to ensure their particular files stay secure. The best part is, these programs can be terminated at any time. The security of these virtual data rooms is first class. | <urn:uuid:9b0ec5d5-8001-4508-a3e7-0bf11b2691c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oadcph.com/just-how-data-rooms-are-aiding-businesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931947 | 348 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Bluetooth 5.0 low energy module provides longer range
With the PAN1780, Panasonic Industry Europe launches a new Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy module based on the Nordic nRF52840 SoC single-chip controller. [via]
An output power of up to +8 dBm and the high sensitivity of the nRF52840 in combination with the LE coded PHY make the module very attractive for applications that require a long range. The Bluetooth 5.0 features enable a higher symbol rate of 2Mbps using the high-speed LE 2M PHY. Furthermore, the new LE advertising extensions allow for much larger amounts of data to be broadcasted in connectionless scenarios. Besides BLE5.0 with the qualified Bluetooth mesh profile stack it supports 802.15.4 and NFC-A. With its Cortex M4F processor, 256kB RAM and the built-in 1MB flash memory it can easily be used in standalone mode, thereby eliminating the need for an external processor, saving complexity, space and cost. Complementary available is the PAN1780AT, a variant with additional AT Command Set. Operating in a temperature range of -40 up to +85°C and from a supply voltage of 1.7V up to 5.5V, the 15.6×8.7×2.0mm unit features an ARM TrustZone Cryptocell 310 security core that supports a secure boot process. It also integrates a temperature sensor.
compare NRF52840-DK prices: https://www.oemsecrets.com/compare/1/USD/NRF52840-DK
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|“||The Scatter Laser is capable of inflicting considerable damage; however, accuracy suffers greatly as the range to target increases.||”|
– Engineering description, XCOM: Enemy Unknown
|“||▪ An application of laser technology to the shotgun
▪ Most effective at close range due to beam diffusion
▪ Like other shotgun variants, the Scatter Laser has a high base chance to cause critical hits
|– Tactical Info, XCOM: Enemy Unknown|
- The "laser shotgun" design appears to be counterintuitive, as, unlike a ballistic weapon, there seems to be little point in splitting laser beams. However, this is hardly a new idea in science fiction - both Spacehounds of IPC by E.E. "Doc" Smith and The Puppet Masters by Robert Anson Heinlein feature "fan beam" mode for rayguns, which spreads several beams across a horizontal plane. It also appears that the energy required to messily tear a human target in two in a millisecond is comparable to the output of a conventional rifle.
- The Scatter Laser appears to work on a pump action, like a regular shotgun. It's possible that what's ejected and replaced are either burnt out heatsinks or spent power cells.
- This is the only laser weapon that does not have an EXALT equivalent.
|XCOM: Enemy Unknown Weapons|
|Grenades||Alien Grenade • Flashbang Grenade • Frag Grenade • Gas Grenade • Ghost Grenade • Needle Grenade|
|Heavy||LMG • Heavy Laser • Heavy Plasma|
|Launcher||Rocket Launcher • Blaster Launcher|
|MEC||Minigun • Railgun • Particle Cannon|
|Pistols||Pistol • Laser Pistol • Plasma Pistol|
|Rifles||Assault Rifle • Laser Rifle • Light Plasma Rifle • Plasma Rifle|
|Shotguns||Shotgun • Scatter Laser • Alloy Cannon|
|Sniper||Sniper Rifle • Laser Sniper Rifle • Plasma Sniper Rifle| | <urn:uuid:5bb80e87-4955-4388-8475-c2682c55b08b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Scatter_Laser_(XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.809295 | 455 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Midwest Center for Youth & Families offers specialized residential treatment for children and adolescents with complex mental illnesses. Conditions we treat include (but are not limited to) bipolar disorder, borderline features, depression, severe ADHD, suicidal and self-harming behaviors as well as the long term effects of low self-esteem.
We serve males 12–18 and females 10–18. Our locked and secure therapeutic residential units are separated by age and gender.
Midwest Center of Kouts, Indiana
South Shore of Valparaiso, Indiana
Program and Treatment Facts
At Midwest Center for Youth & Families, we understand the challenges parents face when caring for a child with a complex mental illness. We work to give families new tools and techniques to help children who feel angry, sad and fearful. Please call us today so we can discuss your child’s needs and explore what we can do to help.
Midwest Center for Youth & Families is tracking outcomes to help ensure better outcomes for our patients. The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale for Children is a clinician’s rating of the level of severity of a patient’s functioning and symptoms obtained through a structured interview conducted with the patient. Our quarterly results show that we are treating more acutely ill patients at admission than the national average, but our improvement with these patients is almost twice the national average!
DBT, originally developed by Marsha Linehan in 1979 to treat Borderline Personality Disorder patients, has been tested and proven by others to be a very effective treatment program. DBT seeks to validate feelings and problems. And it balances acceptance by challenging residents to make productive changes. Studies have shown that DBT reduces the rate of self-injury and suicide attempts, and connects with kids to help keep them engaged in the treatment process. It works because youth learn they can manage their issues without resorting to self-defeating behaviors.
We work hard to continually improve our treatment and program outcomes for youth and families, it is very important to us what our residents and families tell us about how their lives have been improved by our program.
Patient Satisfaction Surveys taken during the 4th quarter of 2019 showed that:
In addition, residents shared the following comments about their treatment at Midwest Center:
Find out how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) at Midwest Center for Youth & Families can help your child find hope and healing. Call 888-629-3471 for a no-cost, confidential assessment. If you or your loved one need immediate medical assistance, contact 911 or seek the nearest emergency room. | <urn:uuid:dffa3227-d55c-4b29-aab7-1709a691de08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://midwest-center.com/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936873 | 530 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Management of Research Projects in the Historic Environment: The MoRPHE Project Managers' Guide
This guide will help you plan and run an effective project. It is written for those planning research and research and development (R&D) projects in the historic environment.
Research and R&D projects funded by Historic England will be required as a condition of grant or contract to follow this guidance. Specifically this means:
- using in all communications the terminology for project roles, project stages and project documents covered in this guide and associated project planning notes, and as defined in the Glossary
- providing the key documents in the format set out in Appendix 2, with an accompanying document control grid and contact details
- following supplementary guidance for particular project types set out in the accompanying series of Project Planning Notes, and specific guidance for funding applicants.
For others working in the historic environment sector, the guide provides good practice advice based on project management both in the sector and in industries as varied as construction and IT.
Statement of Good Practice
1. An Overview of MoRPHE
2. The Project Lifecycle
3. Adapting MoRPHE
Appendix 1: Planning Techniques
Appendix 2: Key Project Documents
- Series: Guidance
- Publication Status: Completed
- Product Code: HEAG024
If you require an alternative, accessible version of this document (for instance in audio, Braille or large print) please contact us:
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The Platform guides its work to tackle undeclared work according to four strategic priorities:
- cooperation and joint action
- mutual learning
- increasing knowledge
- communication and reporting
Each strategic priority and its activities are interlinked and reinforce each other.
Following the setting up of the European Labour Authority in 2019 (ELA), the Platform was integrated into ELA as a permanent working group.
Cooperation and joint action
Platform members and observers are part of a unique EU-wide network where they can benefit from cooperation and joint actions. These include joint inspections and campaigns, which are tailored to meet local needs.
Capacity-building activities, which include staff exchanges and joint activities, mutual assistance projects, and dialogues for peer learning and cross-border actions, promote self-reflection, practical support from peers and can help bring about new policy approaches.
The Platform focuses on learning from successful approaches, tried and tested in other European countries.
Mutual learning activities through workshops and seminars help members and observers exchange information and improve how they prevent and tackle undeclared work.
Outputs from these activities including learning resource papers and executive summaries can be found in the virtual library.
Studies, surveys and reports on relevant and pertinent topics, which encourage informed policy-making and structural reform, are published by the Platform.
In addition, the Platform produces materials such as:
- executive summaries
- learning resources
- practitioner toolkits
- transferable practices from its various activities (good practice fiches)
All studies, surveys and documents are available in the virtual library.
Communication and reporting
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Director Alfonso Cuarón's film Gravity just had an amazing weekend, raking in a record-breaking $55.6 million at the box office. There was just one little snag: Beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson showed up on social media to poke some scientific holes in the story about astronauts stranded in space.
The internet's favorite astrophysicist took to Twitter last night with a string of fact-checks of Cuarón's film, questioning everything from why the movie's space debris orbited from East to West to why the hair on Sandra Bullock's head didn't float as freely as it should have in the weightlessness of space.
"The film #Gravity should be renamed 'Zero Gravity,'" wrote Tyson, who will be hosting the Fox documentary Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey next year. His other nitpicks, which he called "Mysteries of #Gravity," included why "satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher" and "how Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another." Tyson did, however, give the film credit for drawing attention to the very real Kessler syndrome (aka the problem caused by all the debris floating in space that causes *Gravity'*s big bang) by tweeting "the film #Gravity depicts a scenario of catastrophic satellite destruction that can actually happen." (Check out more of Tyson's tweets above.)
Last year, the astrophysicist offered a similar critique for Titanic, which he took to task for misplacing the stars above Rose's head near the end of the film.
“Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen," director James Cameron said after reshooting to correct the mistake. It seems as though it would be difficult for Cuarón to reshoot to correct the issues Tyson brought up, but it'll be interesting to see if he responds to the critique.
Of course, as soon as Tyson's tweets began hitting the web, many users responded to remind him that, Gravity is, in fact, just a movie. "Quick. Someone tell @neiltyson what science fiction means," read one @ reply. Another reminded the vocal science advocate that "for all it's bullshit I bet Gravity creates some future NASA staffers in a generation."
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By Dominique Eugene, MA, LMFT, RPTS, NTP & Melinda Nelson, RDH, NTP, Beekeeper
There are those who argue it is ridiculous to consider how honey was used in ancient times as being useful in modern day. Others may preach how the chemical breakdown of honey has a negative nutritional impact on the body. Some will even dismiss bees and their products as being “nonsense”, not really having any healthful properties. Consider for a minute how many things in nature have been proven helpful to mankind in easing ailments; wheat-grass, Aloe Vera, for that matter, all herbs used to support and heal our bodies, along with fruits and vegetables. Why couldn’t honey be useful internally? As society becomes fed up with being overdosed, dumbed down, overfed and numbed a revitalized interest in natural cures is making a come back. The possibility of the many uses of honey is being studied and has been supported by research. In recent years, more information is coming out in favor of honey as a better alternative sweetener because it is not refined sugar.
If one wishes to argue that honey is “manufactured from nectar picked up from flowers by the bees—then predigested, vomited and stored for their own future use with preservative added” (Burroughs, p. 18) then it is understood why animosity exists towards any kind of benefit that honey would have. The National Honey Board (NHB, www.honey.com
) reports “82 percent of households currently use processed honey, which has been heated and pasteurized, and can contain botulism and High Fructose Corn Syrup, (HFCS). Processed honey is not as antibacterial as raw honey, and is dangerous for diabetics and infants under 12 months old” (http://tinyurl.com/3hfkyh
Processed honey is just another refined sugar, habit forming because it is a strong stimulant. It causes an excessive reaction because it needs to be oxidized by the gastrointestinal tract creating a toxic environment and a “variety of digestive ills.” Like an explosive fuel it burns with intense heat and burns out quickly, causing a shock effect on the nervous system and other organs. Similar to the effects of some drugs, the organs work very hard and very fast with no nutritional benefits. The exhilaration is followed by a crash leaving the body craving for another fix (Beck, p. 30).
What about raw honey not gathered as mentioned above? What about the modern day believers and researchers that say “raw honey is the safest sugar to use, but you should not use it in excessive amounts” (www.mercola.com, pure gold raw honey). That disclaimer does go on to say “if you have elevated insulin/leptin levels you will need to minimize your use of any sugar–including raw honey”. Can it be that honey has beneficial properties, moderation being the key to success?
The ancients used honey as a “special formula for many health concerns–both for food and to support wide range of body functions” (IBID). What is in honey that makes it amongst nature’s most incredible foods? Now that we can test for vitamins and minerals we know honey has both. It is laden with riboflavin, thiamine, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, nicotinic acid and vitamin C. In fact, the more pollen in the honey the more Vitamin C it has (Beck, p. 20).
According to studies that have been done and reported on www.naturalnews.com
raw, unprocessed honey is known to be “a superfood that provides antioxidants, minerals, vitamins, amino acids, enzymes, carbohydrates, and phytonutrients.” Raw honey digests faster requiring little to no energy to burn off without oxidation, no shock to the nervous system or organs, and no cravings (Beck, p. 30). It is known to increases calcium absorption, hemoglobin count, and to treat or prevent anemia caused by nutritional factors. Raw honey can help arthritic joints. It fights colds and respiratory infections. It helps boost gastrointestinal ulcer healing. It works as a natural and gentle laxative, aiding relief of constipation. It supplies instant energy without the insulin surge caused by white sugar and it is known to be helpful against allergies and hay fever.
We believe people should do research to ensure quality choices. It’s not good enough to trust that all honey is natural. Store bought honey can have additives and be stripped of its important nutritional value. We hope to demystify raw honey and advocate a revival due to its many nutritional benefits. The following is a list of studies, associations, and web pages to be used as a starting point.
Apitherapy is the medical use of honeybee products.
From the 1st International Symposium on Honey and Human Health, http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2007/11/usa-1st-international-symposium-on.html
the following is a listing of research symposium reports that discuss the varied topics of honey. Refer to the above link for copies of these researches:
- The Effect of Honey on Prostaglandins
- Honey Protects against the Hypertriglyceridemic effect of Fructose
- Metabolic Risk for Diabetes with Short and Long Term Sleep
- Honey Protects Against Homocysteine Elevation in Rats
- Sleepless in America
- Melatonin and Sleep – a Role for Honey
- Two Studies Relating Melatonin, Sleep and Memory Processes
- Nighttime Caloric Intake is not Associated with Weight Gain
- The Significance of the Regulatory Effect of Liver Glycogen in Human Metabolism
- Honey and Its Effect on the Immune System
- Chronic Stress and Obesity: A New View of “Comfort Food”
- Glucose vs. Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Human
- The Importance of Adequate Liver Glycogen during Recovery Sleep
- Honey, Sleep and the HYMN Cycle-1
- Physiology of Sleep and Psychology of Dreams
- Honey, Mental Fatigue (Neurasthenia) and Physical Fatigue (Myasthenia)
For more on uses of raw honey refer to http://www.naturalnews.com/z021506.html
Burroughs, S. (1976). The Master Cleanser with Special Needs and Problems. Burroughs Books.
Beck, F. B. and Smedley, D. (1971). Honey and Your Health: A Nutrimental, Medicinal and Historical Commentary. Silver Spring, MD: Bantam Books.
Campbell-McBride, N. (2004). Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural treatment for Autism, Dyspraxia, A.D.D., A.D.H.D., Dyslexia, Depression, Schizophrenia. UK: Medinform Publishing.
(2008). Finally, You Can Indulge Yourself Again With the Natural Sweet Power of Raw Honey — Guilt-Free!
(2007). The healing power of honey: From burns to weak bones, raw honey can help.
(2008). FDA Quietly Acknowledges MedicalBenefits of Honey.
(2008). Raw Honey: Exploring the Benefits of This Ancient Superfood.
(2008). Honey, what do you think?
1st International Symposium on Honey and Human Health
Dominique is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Registered Play Therapist & Supervisor and NTP in Los Angeles County, CA. She believes in a holistic approach to mental well-being. For more information on and to contact Dominique, please refer to her web page www.DominiqueEugene.com.
Melinda is a Registered Bee Keeper and NTP in Orange County. She collects, stores and sells her RAW honey. For more information on Melinda, please contact her at (714) 534-5586, or email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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GOD’S UNBREAKABLE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM
Four thousand and one hundred years ago, yes 41 centuries ago God made a promise called a covenant with a man we know named Abraham. God did not only speak this promise, it was dramatically displayed by a ceremony called “cutting a covenant”. In the style we know was known to Abraham from his culture God took the slaying, dividing, and laying out of sacrificial animals on the ground as a setting for His Promise made to Himself and for Abraham that could never be broken. We call this Promise the Abrahamic Covenant.
In Genesis 12:1–3, God declares that His primary focus will be on His promises to Abraham. Genesis is written in the first 11 chapters with all the world in focus, but starting in Genesis 12 God turns His attention toward one small nation, Israel, through whom He promised to progressively accomplish His redemptive plan. God planned for Israel’s mission to be “a light to the Gentiles” (Is. 42:6). In Genesis 12 God promised three elements:
a land, multiplied descendants (seed), and His Special Blessing.
This 3-fold promise became, in turn, the basis of the covenant with Abraham (Gen. 15:1–20). All the rest of Scripture bears out the fulfillment of these promises.
15:7 to give you this land to inherit it. That a specifically identifiable land (see vv. 18–21) was intimately linked with Abram’s having many descendants in God’s purpose and in the Abrahamic Covenant was clearly revealed and, in a formal ceremony (vv. 9–21), would be placed irrevocably beyond dispute.
GOD CUTS A COVENANT WITH HIMSELF FOR ABRAHAM
In Genesis 15 we find one of the greatest events in the history of salvation, The Lord Himself commemorated it with a special sign. He ordered Abram to make a “cutting of the covenant” by sacrifices divided into two piles. Then, when the sun had set, God appeared in the night as “a smoking firepot with a blazing torch… and passed between the pieces” (v. 17) in the traditional figure-eight pattern of the covenant, signifying that his promise was unconditional and that he (God) would be torn asunder like the pieces if he failed to keep his promise. To be sure, Abram’s unwavering faith displayed at this great moment (cf. Romans 4:10ff.) did suffer some future lapses, but his faith also grew to towering proportions through the hard times that were to come.
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Vol. 50 No. 4, 2011
Associations between the Scallop Pedum spondyloideum (Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia, Pectinidae) and Hard Corals on the West Coast of Thailand
Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59 655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Patrick Scaps (2011) Associations between the nestling and facultatively boring pectinid Pedum spondyloideum
and scleractinian host corals are reported for the 1st time from the
west coast of Thailand, Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean. Pedum individuals used 14 hosts, including the previously unrecorded species of Cyphastrea serailia, Favites abdita, Galaxea astreata, Montipora caliculata, and Pachyseris rugosa. In addition, this is the 1st time that associations between Pedum and the calcareous hydrozoans, Millepora dichotoma and Mil. exaesa, were observed.
Key words: Pedum spondyloideum, Scleractinian corals, Calcareous hydrozoans, Indian Ocean, Thailand.
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Bonnie Brae is located east of University Avenue between Mississippi and Exposition avenues, Steele Street and University Boulevard. The community was developed in the 1920’s on land that had been granted to the Kansas Pacific Railroad in 1870. The railroad was eventually sold to farmers and it later became part of the town of South Denver.
Bonnie Brae means “pleasant hill” in Gaelic. George Olinger, an active Denver businessman began accumulating property in the area and strived to recreate the aura of a peaceful Scottish village in Denver.
Many of the homes in Bonnie Brae were constructed during the 1920’s and 1930’s utilizing innovative architectural compositions. Home styles in Bonnie Brae range from charming Cape Cods and tidy brick ranches to two-story Brick and Frame homes, English Tudors and some of the best examples of International Style and Art Moderne Architecture.
Winding streets surrounding an elliptical-shaped park make Bonnie Brae a serene residential oasis in the midst of the city. As Bonnie Brae grew, many businesses opened along University Boulevard. Today the thriving commercial area between Exposition and Ohio streets still functions as the “Main Street” of one Denver’s most charming neighborhoods.
The community’s quaint commercial district is within walking distance of most homes where residents can enjoy a wide variety of restaurants ranging from fine dining and coffee shops, to ice cream parlors and sports bars. Dolly Madison Dairy opened in the 1940’s, now the Bonnie Brae Ice Cream and the Bellaire Restaurant, now the Campus Lounge, in 1961…and both remain in business today.
Bonnie Brae has had an organized neighborhood association for many years. There is an annual picnic in late summer where neighbors can reconnect and enjoy a variety of food and activities. The association’s mission is to provide a conduit with the city, assist in community development, and facilitate any efforts to improve the quality of life in Bonnie Brae. | <urn:uuid:c49e344f-7e5d-4429-aa18-a36b96731a0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegerwingroup.com/neighborhoods/bonnie-brae/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955436 | 408 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Making the Most of Your Apprenticeship
With many apprenticeships over subscribed, gaining a coveted place is something to be celebrated. It is also something to be taken very seriously because an apprenticeship is a fabulous opportunity to learn about a potential career directly from the people that know best.
There are a number of ways to make sure you are getting the most out of your apprenticeship and, while there should be plenty of help and support available to you, it is the responsibility of the apprentice themselves to really maximise the opportunity.
How to Make the Most of Your ApprenticeshipAlthough there are no set rules regarding reviews for apprenticeships, it is often the case that you will be asked for a review during your employment. The fact that you’re now essentially in employment rather than in school means that it is your responsibility to ensure you review is completed. Ask your tutor to contact your employer or ask your employer directly.
You should have reviews with both your college tutor and your employer to assess your progress and give advice as to how you can improve. Even if you think you’d rather not have a review, it is far better for your long term potential to know what you do well and what you can improve on. See it as a positive experience and push your tutor and/or employer to commit to a time and date.
Tutor and CollegeThere are a great number of resources available to you at college, both on a one to one basis with your college tutor and simply as a student of the college. These can be social clubs or discount gym memberships on a practical level, right through to access to assistance with writing your CV or job applications when the time comes.
Making the most of your apprenticeship also means making the most of your college. On the days that you are in college, simple things like buying your lunch in the subsidised canteen will help save you money, you can also use cut price reprographics and the library. You will probably find that you are entitled to some discounts in certain shops and on rail, bus and coach travel. Every little helps!
Knowledge & CompetencyThe ultimate purpose of an apprenticeship is to build the knowledge and competency based skills of the young person in a particular career, whether that’s car mechanics, hairdressing or carpentry. Making the most of your apprenticeship means maximising the knowledge and competency based skills that you learn by really pushing yourself to challenge your potential.
The basis of knowledge and competency skills is found in the balance of attending college and learning from people with experience in your field. Use the knowledge of people around you to gain an insight into what you do and do not want to replicate in your own career. It really is a terrific opportunity that can stand you in good stead for the future. | <urn:uuid:ee128ce4-0ac6-4cf2-9a16-1d4cbbe7c92d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.anapprenticeship.co.uk/making-your-apprenticeship.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970578 | 574 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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As coronavirus pandemic is racing throughout the world, governments and the people are applying all available measures, including lock-down, social-isolation, working from home, closing of universities, colleges and schools, frantic search for vaccine and, business suspension. The continual heroism shown by health workers has been applauded in many countries. This is the way mankind reacts to sudden and, apparently, insurmountable situations.
In most developed parts of the world, life expectancy, defined as the number of years of life a person is expected to live from the time of his or her birth, has been increasing since the turn of the 20th century. These gains in life expectancy have been made possible, thanks to the advances in medical science for the control and cure of diseases, use of antibiotics, increases in the quantity and quality of food supply, application of refrigeration in food preservation, provision of clean water and advances in environmental hygiene. These achievements were possible as a result of disease prevention and health policies adopted over the years. This article is a discussion of man’s attempt to control infectious diseases. For a more detailed, survey the reader is referred to an excellent monograph by Sylvia Noble Tesh, entitled Hidden Arguments.
The death rate in Europe had been falling steadily since 1770. However, people were faced with such uncontrollable epidemics, as tuberculosis and other respiratory infections. Those diseases claimed up to two-thirds of the reported deaths; the remaining one-third was caused by a variety of other infections. Most of these diseases were accepted by the people with much forbearance, since the outbreaks were closely connected with the lifestyles of the people. Among the poorest segment of the community with substandard accommodation, outbreaks of typhus, cholera, plague and yellow fever occurred so rapidly, and resulted in death so quickly, that they evoked mass hysteria and terror.
The disease typhus had a long history in Europe. It first occurred in Spain during the civil war of 1489. During the next 400 years that disease accompanied every war and revolution that took place in Europe. In the late 18th century typhus had also become a peacetime disease, appearing in tenements built around new factories of the Industrial Revolution and had commenced to attack and kill city dwellers in large numbers. In England and Wales, as claimed by some historians, the death rate from typhus in 1848 was 14 per 1000. With this frightening death rate typhus more than any other disease contributed to the reversal in the then downward trend in the overall death rate at that time.
Next to typhus as a mass killer came cholera, which was a little known disease in the 19th century. Before 1817 this decease occurred regularly only in India. But from then on it suddenly took off from the Indian subcontinent and began to spread all over the world with pandemics lasting for 6 to 22 years. It was documented that between September 1830 and January 1831 there were 8431 cases of cholera in Moscow, of those 4588 were fatal. In Scotland there was an epidemic in 1832, and it claimed 10 000 lives. In 1849 the disease killed 15 000 people in France. Neither did other countries escape that tragedy; in America, Asia, the Near East and Africa the disease decimated many populations.
The terror evoked by the epidemic of the Black Death and the plague was so overpowering that during the next 100 years following its departure people still felt jittery at the thought or mention of the decease. In 1822, so the story goes, when the body of the poet Shelly was washed up ashore in Tuscany, Italy, the town authorities prevented Shelly’s friends from reaching it, as they strongly believed that the poet had died of the plague. According to Creighton in his History of Epidemics, there were rumours of the plague in London in 1799.
That overpowering dread of the bubonic plague was exacerbated by the knowledge that somewhere in Africa and the Americas many communities were affected by endemics of yellow fever. However, the people’s concern was not exactly justified, since only the southern regions of Spain and Portugal were affected by the yellow fever epidemics. The decease never affected Asia, but it wreaked untold havoc in the Americas. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the awesome devastating power of the disease is illustrated by the following statistics: in 1793, according to Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, the State of Philadelphia lost a tenth of its population to yellow fever; in 1798 the decease claimed 1,600 lives in New York. It was said that Americans dreaded yellow fever more than they did cholera.
Recently, 2014-2016 ,Ebola virus outbreak occurred in West Africa, since its first discovery in 1976. Between 2014 and 2016, the virus had killed in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea 3,956, 4,809 and 2,543, respectively. In Democratic Republic of Congo, an ongoing multi-drug randomized- conr0l treatment trial is being conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of drugs used in the treatment of Ebola patients.
Various theories were bandied about as the bases for the treatment and prevention of those infectious diseases. Sylvia Noble Tesh discusses those theories exhaustively. For the present, it suffices to summarise them briefly and discuss their social implications.
The first of them was the contagion theory. From the beginning of the 19th century it was popularly believed that from the time of the Black Death all illnesses were contagious and, therefore, every victim should be isolated from healthy people. The phrase ‘la quarantina’ was coined by the Venetians during the Black Death to prevent ships suspected of carrying the sick from docking. Traditionally, the normal period of la quarantine was 40 days during which the ships’ crews and cargoes waited offshore or on a nearby island. At times these quarantines were so drastic that whole ports were closed down completely. Along the Black Sea some ports were even closed down for two years. The disruption in shipping resulted in economic hardship, since commodities could not be allowed in or out.
In other countries similar quarantine measures were instituted and enforced sometimes with military assistance. Around some infected towns and cities military cordons were set up. Sometimes healthy people were allowed to move in and out, but at times whole cities and their environs were completely sealed off to keep the sick in or the healthy out. In 1793, as the story goes, during the yellow fever epidemic of Philadelphia, residents of Baltimore denied entry into their city to anyone who had been in Philadelphia in the previous seven days. Similarly, in Moscow, shortly following the appearance of cholera in Russia, the authorities tried to protect their city simply by closing all the roads to it. As the epidemic spread, other Russian cities were so protected. The quarantine was extended to physical objects too. Suitcases and trunks belonging to travellers were taken from them, fumigated and returned to them, or kept at checkpoints for up to two weeks, even though the travellers were permitted to continue on their journeys.
In addition to isolating cities and towns from one another, authorities in some cities quarantined houses where any one fell ill and refused the entire household from going in or out until the patient recovered or died. In other areas the authorities actively searched out the sick and forced them out into isolation hospitals. During the cholera epidemic in Russia, the police who were charged with getting identified patients into hospitals became over-enthusiastic and actually took the law into their own hands, seizing anyone who looked suspicious, including the sick, the convalescing, the well-recovered, the drunks and down-and-outers and the handicapped. These unfortunate persons were “dumped unceremoniously into the dreaded cholera carts and hauled willy-nilly into the lazarettos, with the police oblivious to the weeping and wailing of whole families often trailing the waggons.”
Those quarantine measures brought in their wake social and behavioural upheavals. Personal relationships suffered in all the areas under quarantine. Rowel graphically described in 1793, during the Philadelphia epidemic, how people quickly acquired the habits of living with fear: “Handshaking was abandoned, acquaintances snubbed, everyone walked in the middle of the street to avoid contaminated houses. Those wearing mourning bands were regarded as dangerous, as were doctors and church ministers. When along the streets, people manoeuvred in passing to get windward of anyone they met.” It was said that the fear of contagion so gripped the people that they even abandoned their family members who showed signs of illness. Clearly, those quarantine measures were becoming ridiculous. It was not unexpected then that some people began to voice their opposition to them. For instance, one John C. Gunn, the 19th century US Navy surgeon, denounced quarantine in the following words: “Humanity demands that the idea of contagion should be discontinued….since it calls forth the worst features of the human heart, in its ungovernable terror, and frequently causes even the mother to desert her dying child, the sick and the friendless stranger to languish, uncared for and shunned.”
Throughout history the principle that every disease was contagious was enriched by whatever xenophobia and prejudice prevalent at the time. Take for example, during the Black Death thousands of Jews were executed for their ‘presumed role’ in causing and spreading the disease. Perhaps, as many as 6000 Jews lost their lives in Strasbourg alone in 1349, according to Philip Ziegler. In subsequent plague epidemics, it was said, grave diggers, lepers, suspected witches and Jews were unjustifiably subjected to ridicule, torture, ostracism or even death for the same reason. In Brazil the 17th century yellow fever epidemic was used as an excuse to restrain women: all prostitutes were expelled from cities or, at worst, jailed; and upper-class ladies were forbidden from leaving their houses unless accompanied by their husbands, slaves or parents.
The next theory to be considered was known as the supernatural theory, the origin of which is lost in antiquity. In simple societies people had the simple notion that all diseases and sufferings were due to evil spirits or witchcraft. Early in the 19th century it was accepted, at least partly, by almost every religious sect that people were affected by disease because they went against God’s commandments. So strongly held was this belief that during the 1721 smallpox outbreak in Boston some puritans refused the newly discovered preventive technique of inoculation on the ground that it was against God’s laws. However, there were many who questioned the supernatural theory, and even among those who were deeply religious there were doubts as to whether disease could be prevented or treated simply by piety and prayer.
The third theory, known as personal behaviour theory, held that people by their unhealthy lifestyles caused their own disease. Thus, to prevent diseases attention was focused on the improvement in diet, personal hygiene and the lessening of emotional tension.
The fourth was the miasma theory, which was based on the idea that disease is associated with the environment. The concept of environmental implication was subjected to differing interpretations. In the 19th century many believed that the air was poisoned by such natural phenomena as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, great storms, tidal waves, blazing comets and thunder and lightning. It is thus not hard to see why people were left helpless to fight or prevent disease, apart from merely fumigating the infected air.
The idea of air fumigation originated from the time of Hippocrates who was said to have ordered his followers to burn fragrant leaves, flowers and ointments during epidemics. Basically three methods were applied to fumigate the air: great bonfires were lit up in city streets; artilleries were shot or cannons fired into the air; and people took personal precautions to keep clean the air immediately surrounding them by using “sweet-smelling oils such as eau de cologne, onions or even dead toads. Some people shewed garlic or tobacco constantly, doused themselves with vinegar and carried camphor bags and smelling bottles”.
The most striking aspect of the atmospheric theory of disease control was that it identified some aspects of disease which were connected with human activities, a point which today’s friends of the earth would not disapprove. The pestilential air was a heterogeneous mixture of foul odours from decaying carcasses and corpses, decomposing garbage, slaughterhouse wastes and animal and human excrement. The air blowing over or emanating from decaying organic matter was rightly thought to be injurious to the body and dangerous to breath in. Note the similar present-day idea that the air polluted with radioactive fall-outs, asbestos dusts and factory chimney emissions is dangerous to breathe. To ensure that the air in cities was pure, the authorities prescribed that streets be cleared of garbage, the dead buried sufficiently deeply, overcrowded rooms adequately ventilated, and the air emanating from cesspools, sewers and privies controlled.
It was generally agreed that the Industrial Revolution brought in its wake changes in air odour. As people migrated into the towns and cities in search of jobs, there arose the pressing need for accommodation. Some unscrupulous businessmen erected makeshift dwellings around the emerging factories. Those dwellings had no sewage system. It was said that in some English cities as many as one hundred persons used a single privy. Since some of the houses were built back-to-back, passage of air through rooms was severely restricted. The unpaved streets in front were used as the most convenient avenue for discharging domestic refuse. Back-yards and side lanes wherever available were covered deep with filth. No wonder then that the surrounding air was thick with foul odour.
The poor conditions in which the workers and their families found themselves propelled some well-meaning people to advocate improvements in social conditions. Among the advocates was one Edward Chadwick who in 1842 produced a Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Populations of Great Britain. That report recommended massive reforms, including the establishment of sewage systems able to carry household wastes and their odour away from towns and cities, provision of piped water supply to every home and the setting up of a centralised administration to be in charge of house drainage, street sewage, water supply, land drainage and road structure. The publication of the report was considered a significant milestone in the ten-year struggle for parliamentary support for the environmental approach to disease control. Although the report was opposed by a large number of influential people, physicians included, who favoured the contagion theory, water company directors, exponents of local, as opposed to centralised, government and the editors of The Times, it ushered in the passing by Parliament of the Public Health Act of 1848 which officially sanctioned the miasma theory and laid the foundations for the famous sanitary “revolution” of the 19th century. So, a new understanding of the importance of sanitation, hygiene and clean water re-enforced the demand for major developments in water supplies, building regulations, sewage disposal and public health education. Consequently, by the beginning of the 20th century, it was accepted that governmental action for public health should go hand in hand with provision of individual health care by doctors. All these resulted in the highly developed sanitary and medical services which we in the United Kingdom enjoy today.
At this juncture, the part played by medical sciences deserves some mention. Medical science provided a new understanding of the causes of disease. In 1880 the causes of typhoid bacillus, leprosy and malaria were discovered. The bacilli causing tuberculosis, cholera, diphtheria, Escherichia coli diarrhoea and pneumococcal pneumonia were discovered sequentially from 1882 to 1886.
Poor nutritional state of the working class exacerbated the effect of infectious diseases. In Great Britain a new public health crisis occurred in 1900 when the government, faced with the possibility of losing the Boer War, decided to embark on a recruitment campaign. It happened that so many young men, who reported at the recruitment centres, were considered too small and sick to enter the army. A special committee was scrambled, and soon it was established that malnutrition was the primary cause of the ill health and poor physical and mental performance of the young men. Studies were then conducted in Britain and many European countries to estimate the numbers of malnourished children. Results from the British studies evoked public concern, as they showed that 30 and 60% of children in Edinburgh and Manchester were, respectively, malnourished. A subsidised school meal service was started in 1926 to provide needy children with food to enable them make effective use of the education provided. School milk clubs and cheap milk were promoted, and cod liver oil was added to the milk to prevent rickets. School feeding schemes increased rapidly throughout the 1930’s, although by mid 1930’s the emphasis switched to use of milk instead of whole meal. This decision was unfortunate, as it exacerbated, rather than reduced, the deficit in energy intake.
Boyd Orr galvanised public opinion in the 1930’s by emphasising the link between poverty, poor diet and poor health. With the publication of his study on Food, Health and Income in 1936, there was united action by religious and women’s groups and by various voluntary organisations urging the government to provide free milk to the vulnerable groups in society, and those included infants, school children and pregnant and lactating mothers.
There are a few conclusions to be drawn from the above. Man’s attempt to contain disease has been a long, drawn-out struggle, involving the use of drastic and, at times, inhumane methods. One obvious result of the struggle is that today, at least in developed countries, some of the infectious diseases are things of the past, standards of living have risen tremendously, and people are generally better fed, and live longer and healthier. However, the struggle to contain infectious diseases continues, albeit in a more refined and human-friendly way. Medical science played, and is still playing, an important part in establishing the basic causes of many diseases. Government and the people are aware of the link between adequate nutrition, housing, sanitation and provision of medical care, on the one hand, and the maintenance of good health, on the other. At the present time research on the aetiology of diseases like AIDS, CJD (the human form of mad cow disease), cardiovascular disorders, cancer and many of the psychosomatic disorders is being vigorously pursued, with the aim of fully understanding and eradicating the diseases. It is apparent that the war against human maladies will continue, as long as there is the wish and the will of societies to increase both the quantity and quality of life for the citizens. | <urn:uuid:ff2db5d6-4b36-465c-8589-fdce3f991069> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://agenutrition.co.uk/disease-prevention-a-historical-overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981955 | 3,885 | 2.75 | 3 |
Liposuction is not to be used as a weight loss tool, but it can play an important role in removing some unwanted fat that remains despite a healthy diet and regular exercise.
WHY DO PATIENTS SEEK LIPOSUCTION?
Patients typically seek this procedure for areas of localized fat that persist despite a fairly constant weight loss and exercise regimen.
BRIEF SURGICAL FACTS
This procedure can often be done with a local anesthetic for small areas of fatty tissue. A general anesthetic is required for multiple areas and for larger areas. The incisions are small, and most patients are off of work for only two to three days. Recovery is fairly rapid as far as resuming normal activity. There may be minor to moderate pain and swelling for up to 4-6 weeks. Compression garments typically have to be worn for between 2-4 weeks.
Small incisions are made near the areas of fatty tissue. We employ what is called the tumescent technique, where fluid is injected into the areas to help minimize blood loss. Also this will be used as a local anesthetic. Fat is then suctioned through small cannulas and the incisions are closed. Patients are then typically put on a compression garment. Bruising and swelling can last for 6-8 weeks, but resumption of activity is fairly rapid.
DR. JANE ROWLEY’S THOUGHTS ON LIPOSUCTION
“While we can suction fat from almost anywhere on the body, the concern is what happens to the skin after the fat is suctioned. A lot of areas of the body have fairly poor skin elasticity, and this can be worse in some patients than others. Some areas just naturally do better with liposuction than others, such as the outer thighs, hips and the chin or submental region. Areas that do not do well are typically the inner thighs, the abdomen (especially after pregnancy), and the arms. It is important that patients do not view this as a weight loss tool. It is for localized areas of fat and it can give exceptional and dramatic results if used on the right patient in the right areas.” | <urn:uuid:cf07756a-0df1-49c2-b4fc-bebd17d7530b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rowleyplasticsurgery.com/lubbock-plastic-surgery-procedures/liposuction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95888 | 457 | 1.617188 | 2 |
I sincerely believe human nature is innately good. I also sincerely believe human nature has a strong desire to fit into social structure. This need to fit in often causes the voices of the squeaky wheel to go unchallenged. Parties with special interests often take advantage of these opposing forces of human nature by speaking their mind at public forums.
Having the courage to speak publicly is viewed as a form of strength and leadership because it is associated with confidence. Unfortunately it is human nature to assume that someone with courage is also representing truth when voicing thier concerns publicly. A person with special interests sincerely believes in thier cause, however, they will also know deep down that thier special interest is not beneficial to the community at large.
When a person with a special interest speaks in a public forum this internal conflict gives rise to hyperbole, but the inaccuracies of the speech are easily dismissed given that the courage being displayed is associated with a benevolent agenda. Special interests in community matters is not benevolent by definition.
This situation occurs frequently at civic gatherings. The silent majority sits quietly, allowing the situation to play itself out. A community with an HOA has a small board of directors who are themselves part of the community. All too often a small group with special interests overwhelms the even smaller group of elected representatives and the majority is left unheard. This is especially true when the board meetings are poorly attended.
These public displays are uncomfortable, further widening the gap between benevolent and non benevolent forces. It discourages the benevolent community leaders and eventually these leaders give up the good fight and the community is overrun by special interests groups. Nobody wins when this occurs.
Preventing such things is a simple matter of participation and positive feedback. A larger turnout at a board meeting is all it takes for the silent majority to be properly represented at a meeting. This encourages a benevolent board and discourages non benevolent leaders from taking actions in thier own special interest.
To learn more about this, do some of your own research on civic engagement using the website:
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Kenneth R Hammond’s book Beyond Rationality-the Search for Wisdom in a Troubled Time was published in 2007. Ken Hammond is a man in his 90s and this book and really all his writings have a frankness that is easy to like. He is quite willing to look at the people and themes in the world of judgment and decision making and tell you what he thinks. He is clearly a learned man, and I enjoy his discussions about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abraham Lincoln, and recent politicians. Hammond says a lot in this book, but I am going to try to limit my discussion of it to three posts.
The above image is Egon Brunswik, who was Ken Hammond’s mentor. The picture is at the beginning of Beyond Rationality.
Rationality has been the tool that we use to combat uncertainty. After 5000 years, everyone still seems to have his own definition. Part of the confusion is the continuing struggle between intuition and analysis. As Hammond says, he will go beyond rationality in this book because we need to, and search for wisdom.
The book is about judgment, the core cognitive process by which we are judged by others. Hammond quotes a man of the seventeenth century, Francois Duc La Rochefoucauld: “Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment”. To have a poor memory is easily forgiven, but judgment equates to wisdom. Wise people are respected and fools are respected by no one. Hammond then looks at what mistaken judgment is.
There are two ways to evaluate judgment. First, is it empirically correct? This is correspondence competence. Second, is it logically correct? This is coherence competence. You do not use logic to determine whether or not the light bulb is on. This requires correspondence competence. You may use logic to try to figure out why it is not on. If someone tells you a story, you would tend to evaluate it on coherency–is it logical and consistent-rational.
Hammond says that trial lawyers have an old saying that illustrates the difference between coherence and correspondence: “If the facts are against you, pound the law. If the law is against you, pound the facts. If both the law and the facts are against you, pound the table.” The twentieth century brought something new in looking at judgment-experimentation. Much has been learned and will be learned. Scientists faith in our ability to reason has been diminished in recent years. We are less certain we can be rational and we are less certain that we want to be rational. This is not the first time that reason has been opposed. Jean Jacques Rousseau, pursued such a path in the eighteenth century. But this time, the status of rationality is being tested on an empirical basis and in many respects found wanting.
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In 2021 SIANI created awareness surrounding accelerating action, fostering engagement, and mobilising youth to transform global food systems to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable...
Traditional food systems and indigenous people's knowledge about nature must be part of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
Welcome to a seminar about the role of multi-stakeholder cooperation for achieving sustainable and nutritious food accessible for all.
Välkommen till ett seminarium som belyser vikten av sektorövergripande samarbete för att lyckas göra hållbart producerad näringsriktig mat tillgänglig för alla.
Welcome to a multi-stakeholder discussion about opportunities and challenges to scale-up agroforestry.
Have you ever considered that you’re not the only one who decides what food ends up on your plate? On the occasion of World Food Day 2018, which will mark the 73rd anniversary of FAO's founding...
The #13 HLPE report collects success stories of multi-stakeholder partnerships, providing hands-on strategies and tools for governments and non-state actors to learn from the existing examples.
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of children’s art” has been being held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum for many
years. Its goal is presenting of exhibitions of children’s work, promotion of the best
works of young artists, involvement of children in fine art. A significant component of
the gallery is series of lectures “World of fine art”. Its main task is general art
education of pupils – introduction of history of fine art, education of high aesthetic
sense through contemplation of the best pieces of art, graphic art and sculpture.
Within the framework of this educational project the leading research
officer of the museum, art historian, Merited Artist of Ukraine A.M.Nadezhdin hosted
informational events in Kirovohrad children’s school of art named after O.O.Osmerkin.
The events were dedicated to the 125th anniversary of O.O.Osmerkin.
On March 13, 2017 a lecture and video presentation on
the theme “Female images in O.O.Osmerkin creative work” took place. It was dedicated
to the 8th of March. Pupils together with their teachers listened to professional artistic
narration about peculiarities of creative pursuit of O.O.Osmerkin, particularly in
portrait genre, and stories of painting of beautiful female characters. A bright
illustration of an artistic trip through the gallery of the artist’s oeuvre became a
travelling exhibition of reproductions “Female portrait in O.O.Osmerkin creative work”,
which was shown by the museum in the foyer of the school.
On March 23, 2017 was organized a lecture video
presentation on the topic of “Theatre in O.O.Osmerkin work” to the International
Theatre Day (March 27), during which pupils and teachers of the school had unique
opportunity to get acquainted with original photographs of O.O.Osmerkin in theatrical
costumes from the family album, which were given to the museum by the artist’s widow
Nadiia Heorhievna. Also they were lucky to see rare copies of photo and documentary
materials from Russia State Archive of Literature and Art (Moscow, Russian Federation),
which show theatrical activity of the artist. A jewel of the event became a wonderful
exhibition of puppets created by young artists under the supervision of a teacher
T.L.Bondar, displayed in the foyer of the school. The exhibition was dedicated to the
International Day of Puppeteer – professional holiday of workers of the puppet dramatic
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Bobbie Gallagher, BCBA and a parent of two young adults with autism, answers the question: How can issues of sexuality impact the lives of students with autism and other developmental disabilities?
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Bobbie J. Gallagher, Behavior Analyst and Special Education Consultant
Bobbie is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and Founder of the Autism Center for Educational Services, LLC. She is currently a private consultant to families, schools, and agencies, and adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where she is also pursuing her PhD in ABA.
Critical Conversations: Importance of Safety
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There are many instances where the criminal justice system generally fails women; such instances include attitudes of some policemen and women when women and other gender non-conforming persons report cases of rape, sexual violence, domestic violence, and harassment.
How many times have you heard of survivors being asked questions such as: "What were you wearing? Why were you at the bar at that time of the night? Why did you drink his alcohol and expect not to sleep with him?"
It is as if these questions seek to convey a message that it serves you right, you deserve what they did to you. We desperately needed a total shutdown moment seeing how women in particular are violated at the drop of a hat.
Once again, thank you to those courageous women, some of them had to walk bare-breasted to drive their pain and anguish home.
It could not have been easy for them to bare it all other than as a desperate sign of a cry for help. Here is a message for us men: it can't be business as usual, we should take heed and be allies to the women's struggle.
We should be teaching our boys at an early age how to behave properly, and not teach our girls that they should be submissive, they should be followers and that they are in the world to serve men.
I asked one of the participants of the march, Suzan Maloka, what her impressions were. This is what she said: "The gender machinery in our country has been weakened by differences on how poverty impacts on us all, different races. The march reflected lack of support from white ladies, it is like they are just beneficiaries of our efforts as any wins include all women.
"It is worse with Indians and coloured people, you could hardly see them.
"The activism of political parties is swallowing up the activism of women, it's all about what is a priority to a specific party. I sense that none of the political parties sent their members, except the ANC with its own march. So basically, the march was not seen as serious as other issues as Save SA or corruption." | <urn:uuid:b0facb04-94c9-4dff-8737-cda151bae8a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2018-08-08-proper-that-women-themselves-led-the-march-against--abuse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985446 | 428 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Borkum, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog, Wangerooge - these are the East Frisian Islands. The seven islands are among the most popular tourist destinations in Germany. Here you will find information and interesting facts as well as travel options to each of the islands.
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Over the past two decades of guiding ritual arts, people often ask, “Where do I start?” As my entry into ritual included little guidance or an excess of disorganized instruction, I hold this question as precious and worthy of a thoughtful reply.
Before a more structured answer, know that the path is anything but linear. This is partly due to generations of cultural disruption and the reality that so many seekers must now piece together teachings from here and there to fit their circumstances. This is also because, even in the best of circumstances, the journey is non-linear. We start in one place and circle back to teachings and life lessons, often years later, in unpredictable detours and complex weaving through time.
One can generalize a bit based on cross-cultural teachings and commonalities in ritual pedagogy despite the fact that we have unique life circumstances. Below I’ve sketched four basic stages along with some personal examples, corresponding areas of training, and ways to seek out that support. The framing “layers” or “stages” is somewhat arbitrary; your mileage may vary, and embodiment takes time. Links to offerings that I share in the world are just one form of support to inhabit each stage of practice. These are notes scribbled on a napkin after the first few decades of ritual immersion; please, for the love of the Earth, don’t take this as dogma or some official map of the path.
Layer One: Animist Worldview, Ritual Foundations, and Personal Healing
Animism is a shorthand, academic way of referring to a way of seeing the world that recognizes that living humans are just one kind of person and that all the other people are also legit and worthy of our respect and consideration. These others include our ancestors, the animals and plants, mountains and rivers, planets and stars, the gods, the elemental powers, and 1,001 others for whom English categories often fail us. We’re one face of a complex, living universe and being an adult includes grappling with the implications of that for personal ethics, interpersonal relationships, home and belonging, vocation, and spiritual practice (or lack thereof).
If you weren’t raised with an embodied ethic of inter-being or inter-relatedness, this is a great place to begin as these things are learnable and the path is nothing if not rooted in core values. If you’re open to an academic approach, I find Harvey’s work Animism: Respecting the Living World to be accessible and culturally respectful to Indigenous peoples. For a more poetic work by an Indigenous author, Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass is beautiful.
Animism, Indigenous wisdom, earth spirituality, ecopsychology, shamanism, paganism, eco-dharma, or just Earth-friendly etiquette; find any way to anchor your core values in an ethic of relationship that extends beyond the human realms. This is critical at the start of the path and at every subsequent stage as our humanity and potential is inseparable from the Earth and other-than-human relations. This is part of the inheritance of all peoples, even if it means sifting through centuries of colonialist, imperialist rubble to find the living heart of your ancestral traditions.
Ritual, ceremony, or spiritual practice by whatever name is the most fundamental way in which core values are transmitted from generation to generation. Whether it’s ritual to thank those whose bodies we eat for sustenance, a practice of honoring our ancestors as our extended cultural body, or diverse forms of meditation and prayer to cultivate grounded power and presence in the world; rituals invite us to embody our core values in intentional and relational ways.
Most often, ritual arts are learned within the vessel of a specific lineage of practice. For many, this is an easeful choice and for others finding an accessible teacher, community, and teachings that speak to your heart can feel daunting or discouraging. Furthermore, the actual pedagogy of ritual arts often proceeds through implicit rather than explicitly learning, meaning “do this and trust” rather than “we do this because of these assumptions and with this intended outcome.”
For folks who have little frame of reference, being able to question and to discuss the basics of ritual in non-dogmatic ways can build trust and feel empowering. In this spirit, I guide a year-long course Initiations: A Life of Ritual that helps participants to learn these fundamentals in the vessel of supportive community. This offering can also be helpful to those immersed for years in established traditions who wish to refine the effectiveness of their practice or for people who want more compelling language and frameworks for talking with others about their experience with ritual.
Personal healing can take many forms and is inseparable from the path in a larger sense. For better or worse, we relentlessly filter our experience of the world through the lens of our personal story, including unresolved traumas, as well as through our cultural filters and the contours of our unique soul-level destiny or calling. When we prioritize our healing around this-life pain and hardship, we not only encourage more love and kindness to flow, we also become more efficient students able to learn without excessive fear or projection onto our teachers.
In my journey, personal healing has been enhanced by twenty-five years of participation in various forms of psychotherapy, mentorship, bodywork, spiritual healing, and community ritual. This is in addition to holding my interpersonal relationships as a terrain of ongoing accountability and essential practice. Healing is often vulnerable and scary and not as sparkly or sexy as spiritual systems or ritual. And there’s no way around the vulnerable mess of actual healing and maturation, especially considering the epidemic levels of interpersonal and cultural violence. In whatever form that’s right for you, prioritizing your healing and wellness is also a way to honor your ancestors and the importance of your unique gifts in the world.
Layer Two: Ancestral Healing, Cultural Literacy, and Personal Integration
Ancestral healing is both selfish and service, personal and cultural healing. When we help those in our lineages who are not yet at peace to assume their place as wise and kind ancestors, we, in turn, receive the benefit of being down-lineage from a more healed matrix of ancestral influence. Ancestral healing focused on blood lineage ancestors also situates our personal healing in a wider family and cultural context. Challenges that seemed personal begin to look more systemic, cultural, and intergenerational, and we experience more connection both through ancestral blessings and also inherited hardships.
Ancestor ritual and reverence has been a significant part of my life’s work over the past fifteen years, and there are numerous ways to engage. The book, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing is a thorough and practice-oriented manual also available in Chinese, Croatian, and as an audio book.
In-person lineage healing intensives provide a three-day immersion in ancestor work and, in the last year, have been held in eight countries and guided by fifteen teachers of diverse ancestries. The annual five-month Ancestral Lineage Healing Online Course is accessible to anyone with an internet connection and includes abundant additional resources and time for live interaction, including with a team of trained supporters. And finally, personal sessions with people trained to guide ancestral healing work is a great way to get started, to get unstuck, or to stay well resourced on the journey. The ancestral lineage healing practitioners are amazing and, if needed, there are options for low-income sessions. Follow whatever pathway helps you to shift from thinking about your ancestors to directly engaging them and allow for a cycle of ritual repair and tending until your specific lineages are a source of potent, sustained support for your life.
Over the past fifteen years of guiding others in ancestral healing work, I’ve observed again and again that personal and familial healing gradually gives way to more explicitly cultural healing. Of course, the personal and cultural are inseparable, but consider ancestral lineages as you might think of a specific person. If someone is in acute agony due to an injury, it’s probably not the time to deconstruct the gender binary or uproot internalized white supremacy. When enough healing has occurred to reduce the pain to manageable levels, new pathways of reflection and introspection open up. Likewise, if your lineage dead are acutely troubled ghosts, they first need healing and reconnection with the older, healthy collective of the ancestors. At that time, from their new-found place of wholeness, their journey and our own often become indistinguishable, and our ancestors can become more conscious allies for the critical work of cultural transformation.
Cultural literacy includes taking personal inventory of how your education about the world is incomplete or reflects problematic biases. In my case, since my early twenties, I’ve been fairly conscious with respect to the ecological crisis due to immersion in environmental activism, attuned to LGBTQ equality due to coming out as bisexual at age seventeen, and critical of American imperialism due to studies abroad in Europe, Latin America, and North Africa. In the last decade, I’ve had to actively pursue ongoing education concerning legacies of racism in North America, the importance of an embodied feminist ethic as a cis-gendered man, and how my experience growing up middle class shaped my views on socio-economic class, privilege, and accessibility. I’ve also become more able to recognize and respond to anti-Semitism, ableism, and more subtle forms of colonialism and erasure of the voices of diverse Indigenous peoples.
This education is ongoing for me and for anyone else who seeks to be a culturally conscious human being. Staying open to ongoing cultural education is selfishly useful in that we get to enjoy more meaningful relationships and more opportunities to deliver on our gifts in the world. A Yoruba proverb states, “May my character not interfere with my destiny.” Similarly, we can intend that our cultural conditioning and blind spots not interfere with our ability to realize our potential. Where are you already secure in your embodied ethic of cultural healing, and where do you feel more vulnerable and in need of growth?
Ancestral healing is not a substitute for this ongoing cultural education; however, seeing our lives in a broader ancestral context can lead us to ask more insightful questions around ways that systemic troubles like patriarchy, white supremacy, settler-colonialism, and empire intersect our lives and lineages. Although my offerings don’t presume to address this vast terrain of potential learning, I do attempt to weave aspects of cultural literacy throughout, and all ancestral healing practitioners are trained to facilitate lineage-level cultural healing work with the ancestors. Consider identifying one gap in your current knowledge, work for a period of time to remedy that, and in doing so, affirm an ethic of life-long learning.
Personal integration refers in this context to the movement toward congruency between worldview, core values, and everyday life. Sustained personal and ancestral healing combined with increased cultural awareness can lead to significant changes in our relationships, our vocation, and how we chose to spend our time. This reorganization is rarely predictable, but a common theme might be something like embracing the journey or committing to a values-driven life.
One of the most important ways to facilitate these changes is to find allies on the path, people who share your values and can kindly hold you accountable to your potential. This may include work with living teachers and mentors, just make sure this mentorship helps you to come home more and more to yourself in authentic ways. This is also a time to care for your physical health and to honor meaningful long-term relationships with people who truly are able to honor your growth even if they do not have the same experience. Ancestral healing, ritual work, and cultural inquiry can all change our daily flow, our habits, and our very body. Allow for this, and value yourself enough to call in the support you need.
Consider finding ways to deepen your understanding of the intersections of culture and ritual with heart, mind, and psyche, even if you have no interest in the practice of clinical mental health per se. Staring in October of 2020 I’m guiding a new online course in this inter-disciplinary terrain titled Animist Psychology: Earth, Ancestors, and Mental Health. Finding teachers and traditions that speak to your soul in as many ways as possible at the same time can help to unravel harms incurred as a result of cultural fragmentation. Be hopeful there are such voices and guides who can speak specifically to your life path and that you can be well-resourced through the challenges of further psychological, cultural and spiritual integration.
Layer Three: Animist Ritual, Belonging, and Land as Body
Animist ritual refers to a relational orientation to practice that proactively includes the other-than-humans. Insofar as many Indigenous traditions relate at depth with local powers whose bodies are the land and larger webs of kinship, these systems could be considered animist. But place-oriented ritual that respects the personhood of the others is not unique to Indigenous peoples, or rather all of our ancestors at some point could be considered indigenous to somewhere. And relating with other modes of consciousness is a particularly strong and sacred capacity of human form.
I encourage this gradual migration of focus after a cycle of ancestral healing because I find that the other-than-human relations are more inclined to trust living humans who are consciously accountable to and in relationship with their ancestors. There’s something about approaching the mountains and rivers as a more ancestrally whole person that makes a difference in the depth of connection.
There are hundreds of ways to expand into this terrain of relationship; however, I recommend engaging with some instruction, whether with a living teacher, tradition, or some other form. We offer a five-month annual online course Practical Animism: Reclaiming Kinship through Earth-Honoring Ritual. The work is place-oriented, culturally mindful, and well-resourced by a team of supporters. Along with ritual skills to support direct contact with our extended kin, also expand your knowledge of the human and other-than-human histories near to your home. Value the culture of oaks and fungi, lakes and water birds, wind, and weather.
Although belonging often arises as an important theme during ancestral healing work, as we become more settled in our specific cultural skin other layers of belonging often call for attention. One of these is affinity with land and place, and how we feel or struggle to feel a sense of belonging. Do you feel a sense of earth-level belonging with the area where you live? Have you ever felt a deep and sustained belonging in this lifetime?
Belonging can be such a tender and painful topic for other-than-Indigenous peoples because of the harms inflicted by colonialism and empire and how these unresolved aggressions function as an ancestral curse upon the children of the colonizers. One of the drivers of the idealization of and dehumanizing hunger toward Indigenous peoples, especially by those of settler-colonialist ancestries, is the perception that Indigenous people feel a greater sense of belonging, a kind of permission to enjoy sustained devotional relationship with the land.
But belonging can’t be stolen, bought, or transferred; it’s a function of sustained relationship over time. And in the case of those forcibly relocated or those who killed or removed others by force, layers of ancestral grief function as gateways to a more profound sense of connection with land and place. If ancestral healing doesn’t function as a catalyst for grieving, tapping into the deeply human instinct to belong almost certainly will lead to weeping with the Earth for all the troubles of recent centuries.
“Land as body” is to say that the language of relationship is misleading or at least incomplete by suggesting that humans and the land are two, still separate or separable. The illusory split between humans and nature runs throughout modern cultures, laws, institutions, and even the grammar of most languages of conquest. The psychological toll of this false perception is exile from the intimacy we long for and which, maddeningly, surrounds us. The result of this false split is catastrophic as we careen further into ecological meltdown on Earth.
And yet to experience the land as our extended body is differently devastating. There are no longer environmental problems, only human confusion made manifest as horrific desecration of life and the holy. Facing the troubles that we have unleashed as a species on our extended kin and knowing those troubles within these very bodies is part of the deepening of the path and one way in which our sense of self changes through depth animist ritual. Navigating these waters calls for trusted human allies, a fierce commitment to self-love, and a resilient sense of humor.
Layer Four: Clarifying Destiny, Accessing Power, and Leadership
When we’ve engaged in depth healing from this-life challenges and well as from ancestral inheritances, and when we’ve also made an effort to become a more culturally aware and congruent human being, what next? When we know in our bones that we are also the land and we seek, from a place of love and humility, to embody that ethic in our daily lives, where to focus on the path of cultivation?
In my experience, the more integrated and stabilized we become, the more we can receive clarity about our specific destiny or instructions during this lifetime. This is not the same as vocation, although the two may overlap. By destiny, I mean the unique bundle of ancestral blessings and other soul-level affinities that we bring to Earth along with the ways those capacities intersect the specific circumstances of our lives. Self-expression in the deepest sense, self in service.
Clarifying destiny is not typically a singular event but rather an iterative process of receiving guidance, implementing instructions, and circling back for another helping. This may feel straightforward, or it may be deeply intuitive and informed by dreams, visions, or other pathways of spirit contact and communion. What matters is that our sensitivity increases around what is on our path, what is for us, and what is somehow otherwise. And that we find ways to embrace limitation, to surrender to the narrowing of focus, and to accept the taboo on wasting our precious life.
To the degree that we consult the ancestors, the land, and our ancient star-self on the subject of our destiny in this lifetime and we also arrive at some clarity as a result of that inquiry, the focus then shifts to living the vision. The seeker becomes fertile compost for the tremendous effort, cunning, grace, and tenacity required to actually birth something from the realm of vision into the density of this dimension. And this brings us full circle back to the efficacy of ritual.
To manifest something major, whether it be raising a healthy child, founding a successful organization, or overseeing a nurturing classroom, we need people who back us. Often this means other living humans, but these sponsors may also include the ancestors, spirits of place, and other elder powers. Success without relationship is rare and real power is almost always sourced from relationships.
Which relationships you’ll need to cultivate will, of course, depend upon where you’re headed. The Ancestral Healing Practitioner Training aims to fill a niche for the small demographic of people called to guide ancestral healing work as one part of their vocation. Otherwise, you’ll typically need to apprentice with people who have blazed a trail before you or at least those with relevant skills for the journey. Ask your ancestors and other supportive powers in spirit to guide you to the right people and situations to deliver on the goodness you brought to Earth.
Leadership is often narrowly constructed to refer to someone in a position of structural power or authority, such as the president of a company, a politician, or a famous artist. In this sense, it’s not everyone’s path to be an outward or visible leader, nor is that type of role somehow better than any other role. Taken in a more expanded sense, leadership can refer to anyone who responsibly embraces the fullness of their specific destiny with courage, humility, and grace. In this way leaders also inspire and tangibly assist others around them to live up to their potential, irrespective of the outer expression of that potential or whether there is any money exchanged or connection to vocation per se.
Implications of an animist worldview are such that one’s service may not be limited to care for other living humans. Some are called to sustained engagement with plants, animals, or fungi; some focus their ethic of care with the human dead or with those not yet born; some care for systems and institutions or for ecosystems in all their complexity; some work on even more esoteric realms with spirits of place or other unseen powers. The common thread is relationship and learning to express love, wisdom, an ethic of profound interdependence in whatever relational terrain corresponds to our specific life path and calling. There is no personal enlightenment, no awakening apart from others. And if you beg the old gods for more responsibility in service to life and all that’s sacred, they will most certainly provide. | <urn:uuid:0bde9f9f-5308-463b-8f9c-1259bafe02df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ancestralmedicine.org/where-to-begin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945938 | 4,339 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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The new Estacada mobile map is full of technology! It is powered with NFC wireless zones by TapStand.com that allows you to touch the map with an NFC enabled phone to be shown online content such as directions, pdf maps, website information and more. NFC is not an app and doesn’t need to be downloaded, your phone either has it or it doesn’t. Most Android, Windows, and Blackberry smart phones have NFC but it might need to be turned on in your settings. NFC settings are often in connections or networks, the same place you turn on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. iPhone now supports NFC in iOS 11 or later with the Wander Bit App available in the app store. If your phone doesn’t have NFC you can still use most features by scanning QR codes. You may need to download a QR code reader from the app store. You can also connect via Wi-Fi to Estacada Station to bring up the app on your phone and then enter a number on the map to see online content. | <urn:uuid:495fb939-7a5e-4787-b84a-92e40bb7bb5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://estacada.mobi/help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937498 | 213 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Dr Melrose Stewart MBE is a health and well-being enthusiast with a specific focus on the challenges of ageing. She received an MBE in 2020 for services to physiotherapy. As one of the experts on the multi award-winning Channel 4 TV documentary “Old Peoples’ home for 4 Year Olds”, she sees the adoption of intergenerational activities as an effective and enjoyable way of overcoming some of the mental and physical problems associated with it.
Melrose believes that, given that we all age, it is not something to be feared, denied or covered up, especially when pressures from friends, family, media and society are pushing us to think otherwise. Her mission is also to counteract the negative stereotypes and rhetoric surrounding getting old.
In addition, Melrose sees the fight for equity and justice as a fundamental part of her activities. She was founder member of the BAME Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and is a current member of Her Majesty’s Judiciary s in Employment and Disability Appeals and Personal Independent Payment Tribunals.
Talks, TV & Media
|Intergenerational Connections and Hope||15 September 2021||Home Care Expo|
|Are we more lonely?||13 September 2021||Leeds International Festival of ideas 2021|
|Inspiring intergenerational connections post COVID-19||9th July 2021||The Royal Society|
|Experiences of a Windrush Physiotherapist||24th June 2021||The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy|
|The ties that bind in intergenerational connections||26th March 2021||NEACO East Coast College|
|Why we should consider racism in Primary Care||6th October 2020||BESS 2020 International scientific meeting|
|Race and Health Equity||19th August 2020||BESS 2020 International scientific meeting|
|Degree Awarding Gaps: What can we do?||27th October 2020||University of Birmingham|
|Understanding the benefits of intergenerational working||18th June 2020||Elevate - the arena of physical activity, health and performance|
|The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on our BaME colleague||7th May 2020||National Allied Health Professionals webinar|
|When generations age together||9th March 2020||Panel Croft|
|Intergenerational Connections and Hope||17th /18th March 2020||Home Care Expo|
|Raising expectations in intergenerational interventions – Should we?||27TH February & 4th March 2020||CACHE|
Jamaica Diamond Jubilee – Celebrating Jamaican head teachers in the UK 1948-72
Jamaica Diamond Jubilee – Celebrating Jamaican head teachers in the UK 1948-72 Jamaican pioneer headteachers In this year of Jamaica’s 60th Independence celebrations, join me in commemorating, and paying special tribute to four distinguished Jamaicans who travelled to the UK and became its first Black head teachers during 1948-72. After their arrival from the Caribbean […]
Should they stay or should they go? A tale of four statues
Should they stay or should they go? A tale of four statues Betty Campbell Mary Seacole […]
Golliwogs, Blackface, and Watermelon Smiles
Golliwogs, Blackface, and Watermelon Smiles The recent disclosure of England batsman, Alex Hales, blackening his face to attend a New Year’s Eve fancy dress party in 2009, Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, describing Black people as having ‘watermelon smiles’, and golliwogs being constantly described on social media as favourite childhood toys, are all strong indications […]
Black History Month: Lecturer discovers link with Borders
My Jamaica, My Scotland – A Journey of Discovery
My Jamaica, My Scotland – A Journey of Discovery “I was born in Jamaica but made on three continents – Africa, the Americas, and Europe.” Never have these words been as true as in my case. I have always been intrigued how, as a black Jamaican-born woman, I became endowed with a name so strongly […]
Old, senior, elder – Are you referring to me?
I am an “older person”, but older than whom? Older than everyone younger than me, of course! We know that when we are we are talking about older people, we are indeed talking about old people. So why refrain from saying ‘old’ when we readily use ‘young’ to mean the opposite? Put simply, it is […]
Constructing intergenerational connections – and then came COVID-19!
Constructing intergenerational connections – and then came COVID-19! Since the airing of the multi-award-winning, Channel 4 TV series Old Peoples Home for 4 year Olds (OPH4YO) in 2017, I have been overwhelmed by the growth and interest in developing intergenerational (IG) activities. OPH4YO was a social experiment that brought old people and young children together […]
Let the Old Die? – A Point of view
Let the Old Die? – A Point of View Suggesting culling the elderly at a time of financial or other crisis now seems an assured route to notoriety for someone seeking attention in the media or elsewhere. So, it is no surprise that this suggestion has again reared its ugly head in the current Coronavirus […]
Reconciling Honour against the Atrocities of Empire
The offer of the award of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) triggered feelings of both honour and discontent at the historical abuse of nations dispensed by the British Empire. I recognise and acknowledge similar conflicts expressed by fellow descendants of the empire. David Olusoga writes of ‘links to the systematic domination, […]
Taking advantage of the benefits of ageing
Taking advantage of the benefits of ageing Healthy ageing does not usually depend on having a lot of money, but every little bit helps. Therefore, I continue to be alarmed at the number of people of pensionable age who are completely unaware of the social security benefits to which they are entitled. Equally troubling is […]
Ageing in the Diaspora
Ageing in the Diaspora This blog explores ageing in the diaspora mainly from a personal perspective. However, it could be typical of the many individuals who have relocated from the place of their birth to live in the UK. General ageing and diasporans in the UK The World Health Organisation projects that by 2050, the […]
What are we saying about being fat?
Tuesday 06 August was not only the 57th Anniversary of Jamaica’s political independence from the UK – with all that portends – but also my very first opportunity to review the newspapers on BBC Radio London with Vanessa Feltz. As fortune would have it, two headliners that day were just up my street: first, the…
The Conversation – What happened when we introduced four-year-olds to an old people’s home
Lying on the floor pretending to roar like a lion can do wonders for an elderly man’s well-being. That’s not a scientific fact, but it was one of the surprising and memorable moments we observed while making a television program which introduced a group of very young people with residents of a retirement village…
Will the NHS long-term plan actually change health inequalities for BAME communities?
Dr Melrose Stewart writes that the NHS long-term plan is far from revolutionary when it comes to addressing healthcare inequalities. When evaluating a “new” initiative such as the NHS long-term plan, it is natural to ask what is in it for the constituencies of which one is a member or have extensive direct involvement with…
Imagine an NHS without the Windrush Generation
The growth and development of the NHS is inextricably linked with the journey and experiences of the Windrush Generation and similar migrants Like thousands of other people arriving from the Caribbean who followed the call to come to the ‘Motherland’ to build Britain’s public services, my mother and father left everything and everyone they loved… | <urn:uuid:e565203d-2291-4396-980f-ce2afdd0349e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://melrosestewart.com | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945851 | 1,714 | 1.570313 | 2 |
It’s our bodies’ largest organ and this time of year it really takes a real battering. Cold outside temperatures lower the ambient humidity and to add insult to injury, we dry it out further with central heating, wood burners and air conditioning. Skin is a key feature of our bodies’ first physical defence barriers, designed to be water-tight with closely bonded cells and an oily layer on the surface, the acid mantle, designed to keep moisture locked in. However, as we age, our skin loses moisture more readily from its uppermost layers and secretions from the oil glands, plentiful in youth, naturally diminish.
Harsh detergents such as sulphates, almost ubiquitous in cleansing products, break this down further and the skin can become irritated, itchy and inflamed. Dry skin also tends to appear older, as it loses its lustre, absorbing light rather than reflecting it. But there are ways to combat our skin’s winter blues….
My top 10 tips to keep your skin hydrated:
1. Drink. It’s important to stay hydrated, especially with the onslaught of the party season and the diuretic effects of alcohol. Drink plenty of non-alcoholic, non-carbonated fluids, preferably without sugar (it promotes skin ageing) or artificial additives.
2. Sweat. Aerobic exercise incites that post work-out rosy glow resulting from increased blood flow to the skin, delivering the nutrients which help it to repair and regenerate. Exciting news – it’s been proven to reverse the microscopic changes associated with ageing in only a few weeks! A real incentive to get those trainers on and head out despite the sleet!
3. Ditch the sulphates. Check before you buy shampoos, shower gels and hand wash products. Sodium laureth sulphate (SLS) or potassium or ammonium equivalents (PLS/ALS) are usually the second ingredient after water. Even products for babies and sensitive skin often contain them, despite their well-recognised irritant effects. Alcohol gels are even worse. Where possible, wash with an emollient cream or lotion. You won’t get the lather but your skin will look and feel so much better.
4. Not too hot. Bathe with warm, not hot water and preferably only once daily and don’t stay under water any longer than necessary.
5. Spare the brush. Only exfoliate your body in areas such as elbows, knees and feet where dry skin accumulates and can crack.
6. Moisturise. Products containing anti-inflammatory oat extracts and oils such as almond, olive and coconut are soothing and help to restore the acid mantle. For the face, neck and décolletage, look out for products containing Vitamin E, hyaluronic acid, glycerin, panthenol (Vitamin B5), Niacinamide (Vitamin B3) and ceramides. If you can afford to, invest in really good skincare products such as the iS Clinical range.
7. Go Non-Bio. The enzymes in biological washing detergents can be irritant to skin. Non-bio detergents are not only much gentler but may also be better for the environment too.
8. Everybody needs sunscreen. Even in the winter. Factor 50 every day – it helps slow down the skin ageing that contributes to dry skin (not to mention skin cancer) but don’t forget your daily dose of vitamin D3 1000u.
9. Feed your skin. Skin needs basic building blocks to maintain its health. Vitamins A, C and E, Zinc, Omega-3, Lycopene and Selenium are all really important and can be found in oily fish nuts, seeds, leafy green vegetables, avocados, tomatoes and brightly coloured fruit, especially berries and citrus. Soy, dark chocolate, green tea and red wine (in moderation) are also beneficial.
10. Supercharge. Consider an uber-hydrating skin-boosting facial. The Calecim Stem Cell Plasma facial delivers growth factors and hyaluronic acid directly into the skin without the need for injections – no downtime and immediate results. For a deeper treatment, targeting pigmentation and fine lines, now is the ideal time to try a chemical peel to stimulate collagen, reduce fine lines and pigmentation.
Our skin needs extra TLC in the winter months and it’s absolutely possible to keep it glowing and fabulous though the party season and beyond.
Love, Julia x
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3, August 2017
The United States has issued a ban prohibiting its citizens traveling to North Korea, following the death of an American national who was imprisoned in the Asian country over espionage charges.
The measure was introduced on Wednesday after American officials said the risk of arrest by North Korean officials presented an “imminent danger to the physical safety” of US citizens. The ban will come into effect on September 1.
“All United States passports are declared invalid for travel to, in, or through the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] unless specially validated for such travel,” read the restriction in the US government’s Federal Register.
Strict warnings against traveling to North Korea were already in place before the ban was first revealed last month following the death of university student Otto Frederick Warmbier who died after falling into a coma in a North Korean prison.
Warmbier, 22, spent 17 months in a North Korean jail over spying charges and was released to his family back in the US after falling into a coma due to a “severe neurological injury.” He died on June 19.
North Korea has detained at least 17 American citizens over the past decade and three of them remain imprisoned there, according to official reports.
The US says it is concerned by the North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. Pyongyang, in response, accuses Washington of plotting with regional allies to topple its government.
North Korea has so far conducted a total of five nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009, 2013 and twice in 2016, and numerous missile test-launches.
Pyongyang has defied sanctions and international pressure, saying it will continue to strengthen its military capability to protect itself from the threat posed by the presence of US forces in the region.
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Congenital deafnessThat is, no sound can be heard after birth. This can happen on one side of the ear or on both sides, to varying degrees. The main factors leading to congenital deafness include the following:
1. Caused by genetic factorsCongenital deafness
Hereditary deafness is a genetic material, that is, deafness caused by abnormalities in genes and chromosomes. Parental inheritance or close relatives have the potential to affect their hearing. Parents have congenital deafness, and the child born is susceptible to the disease. But not all the children born are deaf. Some parents have no deafness, but if they are married, the incidence of deafness is higher. In addition to auricular malformations, middle ear malformations, external auditory canal atresia, inner ear hypoplasia, or with mental retardation.
2. Causes of pregnancyCongenital deafness
Maternal infections cause congenital eyesight in the fetus. During pregnancy, especially during the first 3 months, it is the most critical time for fetal organ formation and a critical period for the development of auditory augers. During this period, pregnant women are infected with rubella virus, sputum cell virus, toxoplasma, influenza disease, mumps virus, etc., can be transmitted to the fetus through the placenta, or due to the toxic effects of other substances, such as the mother taking streptomycin early in pregnancy, Gentamicin, kanamycin and other drugs, hinder the inner ear feel normal epithelial development, leading to congenital deafness, and often sensorineural deafness. Most children with iodine deficiency and endemic cretinism are accompanied by deafness or hoarseness. In addition, various toxic diseases, diabetes, nephritis, etc. during pregnancy, abdominal x-ray irradiation, long-term deep anesthesia and various toxic substances can affect the development of the fetal inner ear auditory nerve, thereby causing congenital deafness.
3. Damage caused by maternityCongenital deafness
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Dark Skies SPD
Preserving our skies: Light pollution and the need for darkness in the borough
Under Policy ENV4 of the adopted Local Plan 2030 – those seeking planning permission must be asked to demonstrate they have considered where any external light shines, when it shines, how much it shines, lighting types and any possible ecological impact. These issues can then be considered by the council as part of the planning application.
The SPD below provides further guidance on the policy requirements. The SPD also:
- Raises awareness about what we can all do to minimise light pollution and why this is important;
- Raises the profile of dark skies and how this is an environmental asset that is often not considered but one we are increasingly at risk of losing;
- Identifies a broad area which could form a ‘dark sky protection zone’ in the future.
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Relying heavily on diesel fuel for power generation and being plagued by intermittent energy supply and high costs, the Maldives has taken a step further towards meeting its paramount need for clean and sustainable energy with Chinese Sungrow’s latest supply of 2.7 MWp of solar inverters and 700 kW / 333 kWh of energy storage.
The islands of Addu, Villingili, Kurendhoo, Buruni, and Goidhoo are now equipped with PV diesel hybrid energy storage microgrid, capable of meeting 30% of local energy demand, bringing the island nation closer to its goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2019.
In the shipment, the Chinese manufacturer has packed the entire PV and energy storage system solution, including PV and battery inverters, the energy management system, and lithiumi-ion batteries produced under the Sungrow-Samsung SDI joint venture, which can be fully integrated into the existing diesel network and help utilize the abundant solar resources.
“Sungrow has developed a complete system solution for load-shifting, peak-shaving, micro-grid, and frequency regulation. By the end of 2016, Sungrow has successfully completed over 400 energy storage projects globally and has an accumulated installation of over 1GWh. We’ll continue to support the Maldives in their efforts to reduce power cost and protect the environment,” said Professor Renxian Cao, President of Sungrow.
With the highest point on the 1,190-island archipelago standing at just 2.4 meters above sea level, the Maldives stands out as one of the countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, as the rising sea levels continue to swallow its coastline. Moreover, the nation’s primary industries of tourism and fishing are now seriously jeopardized as nearly two-thirds of the archipelago’s coral reefs are reported to have been bleached due to high temperature stress, as well as local factors such as pollution and industrialization. Amid these critical environmental challenges, the need for projects that help tilting energy mix towards renewables is pressing.
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What’s the Deal with Pet Insurance?
It covers your pet so you don’t have to choose between a broken leg or going broke.
Your pet wants you to read our newsletter. (Then give them a treat.)
Health insurance is a hotly debated subject but anyone who’s practically ended up back in the ER after receiving an ER bill will probably (read: definitely) make no bones about the urgency of coverage. Pet insurance can protect your cat or dog — and your wallet — too. The truth is, no matter how proactive you are about your pet’s wellbeing, accidents happen: your cat could develop a coconut-sized hairball, your pup could tear their ACL at the dog park, or — worse — your pet could be diagnosed with cancer. In any case, you shouldn’t have to hesitate to make the right call when your pet’s life is on the line. Here’s everything you need to know about pet insurance for when your dog or cat needs more than TLC.
So, what is pet insurance?
Much like with your own coverage, pet insurance will foot a percentage of your pet’s medical bills, but it works pretty differently than human health insurance. Dr. John Iovino, DVM, explains: “We’re not tied to insurance companies, so I accept any insurance [a patient] has.” This means there’s no ‘in-network’ and ‘out-of-network’ red tape to deal with, nor surprise bills showing up at your door weeks later. Keep track of your receipts and records because most policies require that you pay a vet upfront, then submit paperwork to be reimbursed. Once you’ve filed a claim, the insurance company will typically ask your vet for details on the diagnosis and treatment plan, then cut you a check after you’ve met your deductible and if the procedure is covered.
What does pet insurance cover?
Not all policies are created equal. As a baseline, coverage usually includes accidents, emergencies, hospitalizations, and illnesses. Beyond that, it’s kind of a choose your own adventure. Some plans cover wellness exams, pet vaccinations, and other preventive care, such as dental cleanings. Others offer extra coverage (at a cost) for alternative medicine like physical therapy and acupuncture. We recommend reading the fine print.
The biggest drag that your pet’s insurance coverage has in common with yours is a hard stop at pre-existing conditions. You won’t be blacklisted from taking out a policy for your pet, but care tied to that specific condition will come out of your wallet. Ergo, it’s a smart move to sign up for pet insurance while they’re still the picture of health. “Once you get the stamp that everything is normal after your pet’s first physical exam, if a problem comes up later, insurance will be totally willing to take care of it,” says Dr. Iovino.
How much will I have to fork over?
Costs depend on which company and what plan you choose. Most plans have monthly premiums that range from $15 to $59, dependent on your specific policy and your pet’s breed, age, and history — so the final number is still a question mark, sorry. Your deductible. i.e. how much you pay before benefits kick in, can also vary plenty depending on coverage options, annual benefit limits, and cost share (what percentage of services you pay for versus how much the insurance company covers). The deductible range on most pet plans can leap from $100 to $1,000 per year, so it’s worth shopping around. And if there’s more than one animal in your household, keep your eyes open for plans that offer multi-pet discounts on premiums.
How do I shop around?
How many reviews did you read before splurging on your Peloton? Doing your due diligence (research, reading reviews, asking your vet for their recos) is a good start. If the options seem endless, Pawlicy Advisor is a useful tool for comparing plans side-by-side and getting quotes, while Pet Insurance Review offers honest reviews from real pet parents. Dr. Iovino points out that it’s also worth checking with your own insurance company since some now offer pet insurance as part of the human benefits package.
Does this even apply to me?
New pet parent? Then yes, and you can quote me. Or Dr. Iovino — as a vet, he is all for pet insurance for new cats and dogs, as it puts owners in the right mindset of sparing no expense for their animals. (If you’re a new dog parent, also consider your pup’s breed as many — especially purebreds — are predisposed to hereditary health conditions that you’ll want to cover before they become pre-existing conditions.) Even elderly pets and those with pre-existing conditions can benefit. If some premiums are out of your price range, check out ‘accident only’ plans, which will only set you back about $10 a month but can save you $10,000.
It’s heartbreaking that the second most common reason why dogs and cats are surrendered to shelters is because pet parents are unable to afford pet-care costs. Insuring your pet will give you the peace of mind that you won’t have to waver when presented with an estimate for your cat or dog’s critical care. It also means that Dr. Iovino can do his job: “It’s really discouraging to work through cases when people just can’t pay. If insurance allows them to move forward with diagnostics and treatment, then I’m happy because I can actually do something for their pet,” he says. “If you want to 100% guarantee that you’re going to do as much as you can for your pet’s health — financially — then you need an insurance plan.”
There are no stupid questions — well, when it comes to your dog’s health.
Trust me, I’m a vet.
Amy Marturana Winderl
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Escape The Movies! SEL Boom Card About Friendship and Bullying
About This Product
In this escape room based on bullying behaviors and friendship skills, students will navigate through different areas of the movie theater. There are 4 rooms to explore and there are 2 puzzles to solve in each room. Students will collect letters to enter the final phrase "Be an ally" at the end to terminate play. Topics covered are; behind the back and face-to-face bullying, hurtful versus friendly teasing, friendship qualities, qualities of people who bully, understanding others' perspectives, bystanders versus upstanders, and not holding grudges (forgiveness). The movie theater theme relates to many of these topics in a clever and fun way. There are GIFS and even sound effects! Simply download the PDF and click on the image for instant Boom Card Access. The final answer to escape the movies is "be an ally". The bathroom message is "the mirror", the trash message is "forgive" and 3-d glasses message is "understand".Here is the preview link-just copy and paste! https://wow.boomlearning.com/deck/q-QwHxDcRictmxfeapw?ref=tptTo use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for modern Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have a Boom Learning account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with "Fast Pins," (a form of play that gives instant feedback to students for self-grading Boom Cards). For assignment options that report student progress back to you, you will need to purchase a premium account. If you are new to Boom Learning, you will be offered a free trial of our premium account. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.
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As marketers continue to devote considerable effort to figuring out consumer behavior patterns of young consumers, more attention has been focused on corporate social responsibility in marketing. As I have written elsewhere, the issue is complex, yet it is pretty clear that the Milton Friedman’s view that companies best serve society by making products efficiently and offering them at affordable prices is not widely held by Millennials. For example, a 2016 Cone Communications study found that 75% of Millennials indicated that they would take a pay cut in order to work for a socially responsible company.
It might seem that appealing to consumers more interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR) would be straightforward – the company’s efforts in this realm might simply be emphasized. Yet, it is well documented that Millennials are known to be more price sensitive and less brand loyal than their older counterparts. Moreover, balancing a profit motive and taking stands on a social issue is tricky. With this in mind, it is important to consider what types of promotion of CSR efforts are effective in targeting younger consumers.
Academic research suggests that authenticity, fit between the company and the cause, and the company’s commitment level play a role. To get insight into the topic I interviewed MaryLeigh Bliss, VP of Content and Editor-in-Chief at YPulse, a firm specializing in research on young consumers. Bliss believes that Millennials do care about what the brand they buy stand for, citing a YPulse study showing that they try to buy from companies who are socially responsible and whose values line up with their own. Yet, she also acknowledges that the importance of CSR to young consumers does not mean that promoting these efforts is always easy. In navigating this complex terrain, the following points should be kept in mind.
1) Young Consumers Expect Companies To Be Socially Responsible. Many Will Not Pay More Because Of CSR Efforts.
With expectations now higher for companies, price premiums may not be part of the equation associated with a company being socially responsible. As YPulse’s Bliss states:
“Because it has become an expectation that brands will have social good efforts tied to their products, not all young consumers are willing to pay more for them. In addition, we're talking about a very price-conscious generation. They're generally thinking of price first, quality second, and the values of the brand someplace after that. That being said, there is some openness to an increase in price in exchange for making a positive change in the world. “
She cites eco-friendly products as a niche where one of the company’s studies showed that over a third would pay 10% more for eco-friendly products. While there are some openings like this, the bigger issue is that at the same price point, Millennials and Gen-Z may favor a brand they associate with CSR.
2) Authenticity Matters A Great Deal, But It Is Very Complex
Consistent with prior research, Ypulse’s research shows that authenticity is of paramount importance to Millennials in judging CSR efforts and promotional campaigns. Bliss states, “We know that authenticity is incredibly important to Millennial consumers - though we've found that's not the exact word they think of when describing what brands appeal to them. Instead, they think of a brand that is true to themselves, which is something we measure in our brand tracker. That ongoing survey interviews over 80,000 13-39-year-olds annually to assess their relationship to and affinity for brands. Questions about whether a brand is trustworthy, supports causes, is recommended to others, and has a bright future are specific examples of the 16 core diagnostics that determine a brands’ success among young consumers.”
YPulse’s tracking studies show that Dove, Nike and Netflix are companies that score among the highest on the "true to themselves" and that, not surprisingly, these brands are also highly popular with young consumers. Bliss does offer one very concrete piece of advice for companies trying to build authenticity stating, “in terms of CSR, it's key for brands to take direct, clear action to support the causes that they say they support: 93% of 18-36-year-olds agree, "If a brand voices their support of a social issue, they should also be making an active effort to help the cause."
3) Not All Young Consumers React the Same Way To CSR Programs, But There Are Some Commonalities
Based on YPulse’s panel studies, Bliss believes some generalizations about attitudes toward CSR programs. She states, “We always look at differences between age groups and gender and usually find slight variations on the same theme. For example, the majority of both males and females tell us that buying products from brands that have social good components makes them feel better about spending money - but females are slightly more agree to this than males.” However, she cautions, “But of course there are times that different segments of Millennials do not agree. Interestingly, to continue comparing genders, the majority of males (57%) agree that brands should only get involved with causes that are directly related to the products they sell, while the majority of females disagree with this same statement. So while they both want brands to be involved in social good, they might not agree exactly on the way that brands do so.
It seems to me that the take away from the above generalizations is that CSR is highly important to young consumers, but that it is also delicate. Companies that commit to issues that resonate with a large number of consumers and are viewed as authentic enhance the chance of a successful campaign. Efforts that are short-term or cursory are likely to be a mistake. | <urn:uuid:8bcab4f1-ff84-498c-a6f6-7006b9973173> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlesrtaylor/2019/04/30/what-makes-a-csr-message-resonate-with-millennials-and-generation-z/?sh=739b28797fc7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968075 | 1,167 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Fried dumplings with cheese
Region: Northern Serbia
- 5 dl water
- 80 g butter or margarine
- 200 g of soft flour
- 100 g grated hard cheese
- 2 eggs
- Oil for frying
- 30 g grated cheese for garnish
- Unleash the boiling water, butter or margarine, and when melted, pour all of a sudden the amount of flour and cheese and stir over the fire until the dough starts separating from the pot.
- Remove pot from the heat, allow to cool, and mix in eggs one by one.
- Pull out the spoon dough dumplings and let down the heated oil and fry them on both sides until golden brown.
Fried dumplings with cheese are made of cooked dough. You can cook dumplings as indicated in the recipe. The garnish you can choose as desired. Ready-made dumplings at will roll into scraped cheese and serve with vegetables. After frying, noodles you put on paper towel in order to drain excess oil, although it should be noted that this dough almost does not absorb fat.
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This category is all about the people. Candid photos should capture RIT people in their natural element. These images should be in the moment, never posed, showcasing the amazing things our people are doing. This photographic style should capture moments of real emotion, spirit, and achievement. This can include smiles, laughter, and other positive expressions, as well as introspection and hopeful reflection.
To capture the uniqueness of the individuals at RIT, while also conveying the sense of movement in “On to Something,” we can use portraits that incorporate a blurred background. These photos use a shooting technique called motion blur that slows down the shutter speed. Not only do these portraits capture our people in the moment, they bring a lot of movement and personality to the brand.
To show the diversity of our people and our programs, use overhead perspectives to capture the real work environments of our students. When scouting for these photos, look for desktops, workspaces, common areas, gathering spaces, and other types of work stations to help convey the wide range of studies that the RIT community explores every day.
One way to invoke the feeling of “On to Something” is to use long exposure to capture multiple people working in a single shot. To help convey this sense of motion and momentum, focus on active shots of individuals or groups of people moving through work spaces, or groups of people working at adjacent work stations.
The use of portraiture puts a human face to our university. We want to show RIT students, faculty, and staff in the best light, which means capturing them with authenticity—no need for photo effects or heavy editing.
Our portraiture can range from lighthearted and warm to serious and resolute. When capturing portraits, the focus should be on the individual. Subjects should be looking at the camera, from within an environment, not a studio. Overly stylized photos don’t reflect the genuine nature of the RIT brand. Ensure that these shots always feel natural and not staged.
Inside and outside the classroom, we want to show individuals and groups pursuing their passion and doing what they love. Using dramatic angles and capturing subjects intensely focused on the task at hand or posing next to their work, these images express energy, emotion, and determination. When taking these photos, look for unique perspectives, close-ups, depth of field, dramatic light, interesting environments, and action.
Detail photography is a great way to highlight RIT’s many unique aspects. We can highlight our processes, tools, equipment, and achievements. We can also use these shots to showcase the everyday beauty of our campus.
The goal here is to capture some of the small things that add up to a bigger picture. When photographing around campus, it’s always a good idea to zoom in on a wide shot and snag a few shots of what makes the composition unique. People can be present, but the focus should be less about the individual and more about what they’re doing or what they’re interacting with, at a much closer level.
These images serve as a window into our areas of study and the tools of our trades. Objects can offer interesting and unexpected ways to visually represent an idea.
This style is important to maintain consistency throughout the library. To get the best result, objects should be shot in a studio on a white background with good lighting. From there, a designer will need to cut out the object from the background. Be sure not to overuse this style; it’s more of an accent to our primary styles. | <urn:uuid:f6e6d1fb-76a6-48b8-b58d-269ed4637172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rit.edu/brandportal/photography | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.92631 | 777 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Tapping students’ rich algebraic ways of reasoning during out-of-school activities — such as sports, social networking and video games — generates personalized connections
Can students learn algebra from Instagram and video games?
Teaching researcher Candace Walkington, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, thinks so.
Walkington’s new study, funded by the National Academy of Education, will test that idea.
“In previous work, I found that students draw upon rich algebraic ways of reasoning when pursuing their out-of-school interests in areas like sports, social networking and video games,” said Walkington, whose research focus is evidence-based effective teaching. “Making connections to these topics in algebra class can improve long-term understanding of algebraic ideas.”
The new study asks pre-algebra students to author their own algebra stories based on their personal interests.
Students in middle schools in Dallas Independent School District will describe how linear relationships approximate what they encounter in their everyday lives, such as how they accumulate followers on Instagram or score points in a video game over time, said Walkington, an assistant professor of teaching and learning.
Approximately 200 pre-Algebra students in eight classrooms at schools in the Dallas Independent School District are participating in the study. Based on results from earlier research, Walkington hypothesizes that authoring the stories will elicit students’ interest in the content to be learned by drawing on their knowledge about home and community.
A pilot version of the study begins Spring 2015. The full study starts Fall 2015.
Walkington was awarded the grant as part of the Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the National Academy of Education. The $55,000 grant supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.
Making math accessible and captivating is critical for encouraging learning
Algebra is a gatekeeper to many careers and to higher-level mathematics, making it critical for students to master, Walkington said, but students struggle to understand the abstract representations.
“Students often can’t see the connection between their world and algebra,” she said. “Exploring ways to connect math to their lives, experiences and knowledge is critical for making it accessible and captivating. That’s especially true when considering students from diverse backgrounds.”
Walkington’s previous studies — including participation in the Measures of Effective Teaching Project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and her long-time collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center — have focused on how abstract mathematical concepts can be grounded in students’ out-of-school interests, experiences and everyday reasoning practices.
“These studies combine cognitive theories related to activation of prior knowledge with motivational theories related to the development of interest in order to understand and intervene upon students’ mathematical understanding,” Walkington said.
Search for effective teaching drives quantitative, qualitative methods
Walkington’s study uses qualitative and quantitative methods to compare an experimental group to a control group. She will look at how the intervention elicits students’ interest in learning algebra, and at the impact on students’ classroom discussions, on learning algebra concepts and promoting a positive outlook toward math.
“Personalizing instruction has the potential to improve learning and attitudes in algebra courses that are a key barrier to academic advancement and economic attainment,” said Walkington, a professor in SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education & Human Development.
Walkington’s NAE study at Marsh Middle School in Dallas will provide personalized learning interventions for seventh and eighth grade math students. The study complements a new grant recently awarded to Dallas Independent School District by the Gates Foundation to build personalized learning models in eight DISD schools. Walkington will provide professional development to the eight teams, and is planning a research study that describes the process all eight schools go through as they build personalized learning models on their campuses.
The research is critical for establishing evidence-based criteria for teaching.
“There actually hasn’t been an extensive body of research showing if the customized approach is effective, for whom it’s effective, or what content it’s effective for. So there’s a lack of evidence,” says Walkington. “At the same time, we have this rise of technological systems in the schools with amazing potential to individualize instruction to each student.”
New design studies build and expand on previous findings
One of Walkington’s recent studies, published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, draws data from Pennsylvania classrooms using an in-school intelligent tutoring system for Algebra I. The software personalizes instruction to match the pace of each student, detects a student’s current state of knowledge, determines which kinds of problems to present and what feedback and help are needed, and tracks each child’s progress.
Walkington took that a step further by adding student interests and hobbies into the software. After surveying ninth grade students about their interests, Walkington wrote math problems around those interests. The problems were programmed into the software, so problems are presented in the context most appealing to each individual student.
“We found that students receiving personalization performed better on the math lesson than students presented problems that weren’t customized to their interests. We also found that one or two months later – on future lessons that weren’t personalized – those students who had received personalization were still doing better,” Walkington said.
That study has been expanded to another group of high school students. In a recent paper presented at the Educational Data Mining Conference in London, Walkington demonstrated that personalization improved students’ interest in mathematics, which in turn improved achievement for those not interested in math initially. Ongoing studies in Houston and San Antonio schools allow students the choice of personalized context for each problem.
“We think the combination of personalization and choice is going to have even more impact than personalization by itself,” she said. Early results from these studies support this hypothesis.
Innovative strategies help struggling fifth and sixth graders
Walkington earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Texas A&M University, and had planned to have a career as a financial mathematician. She changed her career path after completing a National Science Foundation graduate teaching fellowship at a high-poverty rural school in Iola, Texas.
There Walkington discovered firsthand the satisfaction of designing innovative strategies to help struggling fifth and sixth graders learn math. The experience brought back memories of her own seventh-grade struggle with algebra, which had threatened to derail her interest in math.
“We’re focusing on the sixth- to ninth-grade math when students start to lose interest. At the same time they also start to become deeply interested in things outside of school, like music and sports,” Walkington says. “In this next study we’re hoping we see that personalization also gives them a more positive outlook toward mathematics and shows them how much they like math class.”
While working on her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, Walkington collaborated on research geared toward identifying what teacher behaviors are a strong predictor of student success on standardized math tests. The research was incorporated into the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching Project, one of the largest research efforts in U.S. history to identify and understand effective teaching. The project is shaping educational policy nationally.
Walkington and research colleague Michael P. Marder, executive director of UTeach Science Program, University of Texas at Austin, contributed protocols to the MET Project based on their findings, including one finding that classrooms where the teacher focuses specifically on students deeply understanding math have higher test scores compared to classrooms where teachers focus on drill and standardized test preparation. In addition, they also found that classroom management was a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for learning.
Walkington’s research appears in a new groundbreaking book about the MET Project, “Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems: New Guidance from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project,” (Wiley, July 2014). Walkington, who led a team that analyzed 1,000 video math lessons of teachers around the country to code effective teaching, is first author on a chapter. — Margaret Allen
SMU is a nationally ranked private university in Dallas founded 100 years ago. Today, SMU enrolls nearly 11,000 students who benefit from the academic opportunities and international reach of seven degree-granting schools. For more information see www.smu.edu.
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Before joining the “MEDLIT-International Media Studies: Media Literacy as a Media Competence Program for Social Change” under the campaign “Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education”, I haven’t realized how media can affect the society in overall. This has been changed after I attended the project; I now understand the effects of media on our society and realize the importance of Media Literacy skills. The Media Literacy is now becoming the significant knowledge that the world citizens should have in order to survive in a media society, especially in Thailand where media is playing important roles in all aspects of people’s life. Thailand is now becoming a digital society where people take amount of information from a wide array of media sources such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and so on. Thais, however, don’t have enough media literacy knowledge. That means they don’t know how to think critically, how to become a smart consumer of product and information, and how to create media responsibly. I cannot imagine what the future of Thai society will be if our citizens are unaware of the effects of media. I, therefore, have the ultimate goal to promote media literacy skills to my students so that they can survive such a digital society and this would not be in my mind if I hadn’t joined this project.
In terms of the difficulties I faced when joining the project, at first, I didn’t know much about media knowledge because I am not in the media field. This makes me sometimes not understand when listening to the lectures and I had to put a lot of effort in order to understand the concept of media literacy. I, however, thought that I have studied more so that I could be a part of the project. My solution is that I spent a lot of time reading and searching information related to media literacy concepts as well as other knowledge about other concepts related to media areas. By doing this, I exactly gained a lot of knowledge about media literacy and other areas related to media. Apart from knowledge, I also learned how to cooperate and work with people from different backgrounds and cultures. That means I have experienced the intercultural cooperation; I have to be aware of individual differences. I personally understand more about individual and cultural differences and realize that they are important when I have to work in groups and cooperate with people from different backgrounds. In addition to understand more about differences among individuals, I learned working skills when we had a chance to exchange our perspectives. That is that I can learn from their shared experiences and I can apply such knowledge to my daily practices and work.
In terms of the effects of Media Literacy on my own personal practices, I am now more concerned when I use social media. I always think before I would like to post my messages and pictures on media channels. Furthermore, I am really interested in applying MOOC in my courses after I learned how to produce MOOCs and realize how MOOCs can benefit learners as well as lecturers. | <urn:uuid:2c6f23e3-4bbc-4173-b4ae-9b037d1474dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medlit.vision/2018/03/19/wachirapong-yaemtui-swu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968205 | 612 | 2.40625 | 2 |
* Date : 2015-11-18
Korean Diaspora's Dining Table in Hawaii
Hawaii is known as a melting pot.
Just like a melting pot in which various ingredients mix together, Hawaii boasts a diverse array of cultures, ancient and new.
Choi Jae-won is a 2nd generation Korean American who works as a French food chef in Hawaii. He came to Hawaii when he was 10 years old, and he thought that recent Korean food fever in Hawaii was caused by the popularity of K-dramas and K-pop. He's a chef, but he doesn't know much about Korean cuisine.
So this time, he sets out to retrace Korean food's history in Hawaii.
And the story begins with picture brides.
In 1903, the fate of the Korean Empire was hanging by a thread from power struggles. Meanwhile, Hawaii's sugar cane plantations were having their own problems with Japanese laborers' ongoing strikes for higher wage. Hawaii had to bring substitute laborers, and Korean men became the solution. They became Korea's first official generation of emigrants.
However, a problem surfaced. There were no women Korean men could marry in Hawaii. This led to the arrival of picture brides in 1910. Marriages were arranged with just a photo of each other, and brides were just around the age of 20 when they arrived in Hawaii. It was only after their arrival that the picture brides found out that their soon-to-be husbands were up to 30 years older. Men only had pictures of themselves when they first arrived in Hawaii, so they wound up lying about their age.
Most of the picture brides were elites. They operated a restaurant for the laborers and found ways to survive. That was the beginning of Korean food history in Hawaii. Picture brides who came to Hawaii had experienced Japan's invasion of Korea. When the March 1st Movement broke out in 1919, picture brides began selling homemade kimchi to raise an independence fund. Korean foods like kimchi were popular among immigrant laborers. Many 2nd generation children grew up eating their kimchi and Korean food. As a result, Hawaii became the first place in the world to set up a kimchi factory.
The history of Hawaii's Korean food began in the hands of picture brides.They sold kimchi to support their homeland's independence movements.
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Today Murli Brahma kumaris : 6 December 2018
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|Essence:||Sweet children, in order to create your fortune, engage yourselves in God’s service. Mothers and kumaris should be eager to surrender themselves to the Father. The Shiv Shaktis can glorify the Father’s name.|
|Question:||What good advice does the Father give all the kumaris?|
|Answer:||O kumaris: You should now show wonders. You have to become like Mama. Now let go of the opinions of society and become conquerors of attachment. If you become a half-kumari, there would be a flaw in you. You have to remain safe from colourful Maya. Do God’s service and thousands will come and bow down at your feet.|
Om shanti. You are the Shiv Shaktis who have a lot of enthusiasm. You should be eager to surrender yourselves to the Father. This is known as Godly intoxication. The Father has to look to see who is sitting here in front of Him. In fact, the seating arrangement in class should be such that the teacher is able to see everyone. This then becomes like a satsang. However, what can one do if the destiny of the drama is fixed in this way. You cannot be made to sit numberwise in class. Children are eager to see the Father’s face. In the same way, the Father is also eager. It is as though there is darkness in a home without children. You children bring light into the home. You bring light into the whole world, not just into Bharat.
Song: Mother, o mother, you are the bestower of fortune for all!
Om shanti. This song is also a scripture for you. The Gita is the jewel of all scriptures. All the scriptures including the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Shiva Purana, Vedas, Upanishads etc. have emerged from this. It is a wonder ! People say that you play songs from films and that you don’t have any scriptures. We say that whatever meaning is extracted from these records, the essence of the Vedas and the Granth etc. also emerges from them. (The song was played). This is Mama’s praise. There are many mothers, but the main one is Jagadamba. This Jagadamba opens the gate to heaven. Then she herself first becomes the master of the world, and you children are also definitely with the mother. There is the praise of that One: You are the Mother and Father. It is Shiv Baba who is called the Mother and Father. In Bharat, there is Jagadamba and Jagadpita. However, Brahma is not mentioned as much, nor are there as many temples to him. There is a temple to Brahma in Ajmer, which is very well known. Brahmin priests also live there. There are two types of brahmin: Sarasidh and Pushkarni. Those who live in Pushkar are called Pushkarni. However, those brahmins do not know this. They say that they are the mouth-born progeny of Brahma. The name “Jagadamba” is very well known. People do not know as much about Brahma. If someone receives a lot of wealth, he believes that he has the blessings of the sages and saints. He does not consider that to be a blessing from God. The Father says: No one, apart from Me, can give blessings. I even praise the sannyasis. If those sannyasis did not remain pure, Bharat would have burnt to death. However, the Bestower of Salvation is only the one Father. Human beings cannot grant salvation to human beings. Baba has explained that all of you are the Sitas in the cottage of sorrow. There is pain experienced in sorrow. Why would there not be an experience of sorrow when you have an illness? If you fall ill, you would definitely wonder: When will I get better? It is not that you want to remain ill all the time; you make effort to get better. Otherwise, why would you take medicine etc? Now, the Father says: I liberate you from this illness and sorrow etc. and give you the prize. Maya, Ravan has caused you sorrow. I am called the Creator of the world. Everyone asks: Did God create this world to cause sorrow? However, they would not say that in heaven. There is sorrow here and this is why people ask: Why would God want to create a world of sorrow? Did He not have anything else to do? However, the Father says: This play of happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat has been created. The play of Rama and Ravan is based on Bharat. Bharat is defeated by Ravan and it then becomes victorious over Ravan and belongs to Rama. Shiv Baba is called Rama. You have to mention the names of Rama and Shiva in order to explain. Shiv Baba is the Master, that is, He is the Lord of the children. He makes you into the masters of heaven. The inheritance of the Father is the attainment of heaven and there is status within that. Only deities reside in heaven. Achcha, now listen to the praise of the One who creates heaven. (Line from the song) Jagadamba is the bestower of fortune for Bharat. No one knows her. Many people go to the Ambaji Temple. This Baba has also been there many times. He must have gone to the Babulnath and Lakshmi and Narayan Temples many times, but he did not know anything. He was so senseless! Now I have made him so sensible. The title of Jagadamba is so great: The bestower of fortune for Bharat. You should now go to the Ambaji Temple and do service. You should relate the story of Jagadamba’s 84 births. In fact, there are many temples. No one would accept this picture of Mama. Achcha, explain using the image of that Amba and take this song with you. This song is the true Gita for you. There is a lot of service to do but the children who do service have to have honesty. You can take this song to the Jagadamba Temple and explain to them. Jagadamba is also a kumari, a Brahmin. Why has Jagadamba been portrayed with so many arms? Because she has many children who are helpers. This is the Shakti Army. Therefore, they have portrayed her image with many arms. Look at the types of bodies that they show! To show arms as a symbol is easy and it seems right. What would the form be like if they were to show as many legs? Brahma too has been shown with many arms. All of you are his children. Not all of those arms could be shown. Therefore, you kumaris and mothers should become engaged in service. You should create your own fortune. If you go to the Amba Temple and praise this song, so many would go there. You would glorify Baba’s name to such an extent that not even the older Brahma Kumaris could glorify it as much. You little kumaris can perform wonders. Baba is not saying this to just one, but to all the kumaris. Thousands will come and fall at your feet. Not as many would fall at their feet as would fall at your feet. You have to let go of the opinions of society for this. You have to destroy all attachment completely. Some would say: I don’t want to get married at all. I will remain pure and do the service of making Bharat into heaven. Half-kumaris would still have a flaw. As soon as a kumari gets engaged, flaws would start to develop in her. She would be coloured by colourful Maya. Human beings can become whatever they want in this birth. Mama also became as she is in this birth. Those people receive a temporary status, whereas Mama receives a status for 21 births. You too are becoming Narayan from an ordinary man and Lakshmi from an ordinary woman. When you pass fully, you will take a divine birth. They experience temporary happiness, but they also have so many worries in that. We are incognito. We do not have to show anything externally. Those people have external show. That kingdom is like a mirage. It says in the scriptures that Draupadi told someone: The child of a blind person is blind. What you consider to be a kingdom at this time is about to be destroyed. Rivers of blood will flow. When there was partition, there was so much fighting in every home in Pakistan. Now, there will be a lot of fighting even while walking on the streets. So much blood flows everywhere. Can this be called heaven? Is this New Delhi and New Bharat? New Bharat was the land of angels. At this time, the vices are seen everywhere; they are your greatest enemy. The births of Rama and Ravan are only shown in Bharat. The birth of Shiva is not celebrated in foreign lands. It is only celebrated here. You know when Ravan comes. Ravan comes when the day ends and the night begins and that is called the path of sin. It is shown what state the deities reached when they went on to the path of sin. You children should do service. Those who have awakened will awaken others. Baba always has good wishes. He is concerned that Maya doesn’t slap the children. You will not be able to do service if you fall ill. It is Jagadamba, not Lakshmi, who receives the urn of knowledge. Lakshmi was given wealth, which she could donate. However, there are no donations etc. there. Donations are always given to the poor. So, if the kumaris go to the temples and do service in this way, many would come. People would say: “Well done!” to you and fall at your feet. They also have regard for the mothers. When the mothers hear this, they become cheerful. Men have their own intoxication. Baba has explained: This corporeal one is the one who knows the external things. The Lord who resides in him is the Lord of Lords. Krishna is called Lord Krishna. We say that Krishna’s Lord of Lord s is the Supreme Soul. He has been given this building (Brahma). Therefore, this one is both the landlady and the landlord. This one is male as well as female. It is a wonder! Bhog is being offered. Achcha, give everyone’s love and remembrance to Baba. Greetings and salutations are sent with great happiness to the Great Master. This is a system. Just as in the beginning, you used to have visions, so Baba will entertain you in the same way a great deal at the end too. Many children will come to Abu. Those who are here will see what takes place. Achcha.
To the sweetest, beloved, long-lost and now-found children, love, remembrance and good morning from the Mother, the Father, BapDada. The spiritual Father says namaste to the spiritual children.
Night Class: 08/04/68
This is a Godly mission. Those who belonged to the deity religion will come. Christians have a mission to convert others to Christianity. Those who become Christians receive happiness in the Christian dynasty. They receive good money. That is why many convert to Christianity. The people of Bharat cannot give as much money. There is a lot of corruption here. If some people don’t take bribes in their jobs, they are sacked. Children ask the Father what they should do in those conditions. Baba says: Do your work tactfully and put it to good use. Here, everyone calls out to the Father: O come and make us impure ones pure! Liberate us and take us home. The Father will surely take you back home. People do so much devotion in order to go home. It is only when the Father comes that He can take everyone back. There is only the one God. It is not that God will come and speak through everyone. He only comes at the confluence age. You no longer believe those things. Previously, you used to. Now you don’t do devotion. You say: Previously, we used to perform worship. The Father has now come in order to make us into worthy-of-worship deities. You should also explain to the Sikhs. There is the praise that it didn’t take God long to change humans into deities. This praise is of the deities. Deities reside in the golden age. It is now the iron age. The Father gives teachings at the confluence age about how to become elevated human beings. Deities are the highest of all. That is why they are worshipped so much. Those who are worshipped definitely did exist at some time but do not exist now. They understand that that kingdom has now passed. You are now incognito. No one knows that you are going to become the masters of the world. You understand that you are studying and will become that. You have to pay full attention to studying. You have to remember the Father with a lot of love. Baba is making us into the masters of the world, and so why would we not remember Him? However, you also need divine virtues. Achcha.
To the spiritual children, love, remembrance, good night and namaste from the spiritual Father, Bap and Dada.
Essence for dharna:
- Do not make any external show in this world. In order to pass completely, continue to make incognito effort.
- Do not get trapped in this colourful world. Become conquerors of attachment and do the service of glorifying the Father’s name. Awaken everyone’s fortune.
|Blessing:||May you be in a state of happiness and have the fortune of happiness by constantly eating and giving others the nourishment of happiness.
You children have true, imperishable wealth and so you are the wealthiest of all. Even if you only eat dry chappatis, those dry chappatis are filled with the nourishment of happiness. Nothing more is needed. You are the ones who eat the best nourishment, the chappatis of happiness and so you are constantly in a state of happiness. Therefore, constantly stay in this state of happiness so that others who see you also become happy and only then will you be said to be souls who have the fortune of happiness.
|Slogan:||A k nowledge-full person is someone who does not waste a single thought or word.|
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Over 1/3 of Michigan’s 83 Counties Have High COVID-19 Cases
Just when it seemed like things were getting back to normal, COVID-19 cases are rising again in the state of Michigan.
The month of July for me was the most normal I have felt in a year and a half since the initial pandemic began in March of 2020. I spent a weekend at a rock festival, took my son to an amusement park and have not had to wear a mask in quite some time.
While I was on vacation, I did take a look at the news a couple of times on my phone, and noticed cases of COVID-19 rising in Michigan as well as around the country. This new delta variant seems to be moving across the state and nation at a much fast speed than the original strain.
According to MLive, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have announced that more than 1/3 of Michigan's 83 counties have transmission rates ranked high or substantially high. Meaning, we are not out of the coronavirus woods yet.
The 31 Michigan counties who have high cases and are continuing to rise are being asked to wear masks again regardless if you have been vaccinated or not. If you are going to be indoors around people you should wear a mask according to federal health officials.
99.999% of the cases are from people who have not been vaccinated but the delta variant is so strong that some who have been vaccinated can catch COVID-19 but its usually much more mild.
I have no problem wearing a mask, I actually keep them in my car and truck because I have felt that any day now, I may need to go back to wearing one. I think to be extra safe, even though I have been vaccinated, I'm going to go back to wearing a mask in stores and in crowds.
There are a lot of indoor concerts and sporting events that are beginning in September and I believe this is going to be a real test for Michigan and the entire country.
There are six counties in Michigan that have a positivity of 10% of their population. You may want to stay out of Alpena, Branch, Hillsdale, Huron, Kalkaska and Montmorency counties for a while until things calm down there.
Some other counties of concern are Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Cass, Charlevoix, Clinton, Crawford, Delta, Grand Traverse, Ingham, Ionia, Iron, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Livingston, Macomb, Mason, Muskegon, Oakland, Ontonagon, Saginaw, Shiawassee, St. Joseph, Tuscola and Van Buren. These counties are facing substantial transmission rates and continue to rise.
Hopefully more people continue to get vaccinated to help slow these rising transmission rates down. So don't throw those masks away yet, we may be wearing those again sooner than you think.
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ISN'T CHRISTIANITY JUST A CRUTCH THAT MEETS A PERSON'S PSYCHOLOGIAL NEED?
Individuals that ask this question are trying to convince you that you are a weak person psychologically and somehow you are making yourself believe that there is a God when in reality there is not. It is important to remember that the psychologist Sigmund Freud taught that anyone who believed in God was neurotic and needed psychological help. His teaching is the source of this question. How should you respond?
First, explain that man is made up of body, soul, and spirit (1 Thess. 5:23). The real you is a spirit (2 Tim. 4:22) (1 Cor. 6:20). Your soul is reflected in your personality, your emotions, and your will (Heb. 4:12) (Mark 14:34). The Bible declares that before you came to Christ your spirit was dead because of your sins (Eph. 2:1). Paul also declared that those who live in the pleasures of immorality were spiritually dead while they physically lived (1 Tim. 5:6). Therefore, people are alive in body and soul before coming to Christ, but they are spiritually dead being alienated from the life of God (Eph. 4:18).
After explaining these truths then share your personal testimony of how you were dead and searching for real life. Declare how you realized that you were incomplete without your spirit alive. You were two-thirds of a person until you received Christ. I wouldn't call Jesus a crutch to help you walk and live. I’d describe Him a whole new life given to complete you as a person. Those who use crutches are still wounded and broken.
Then turn the concept of a crutch around and address their possible crutches. Explain that those who use alcohol or drugs, those who use people sexually, those who live to obtain material things are all seeking to use a crutch to fill the emptiness within their lives. Jesus isn't a temporary crutch; He is the answer that all mankind is seeking. | <urn:uuid:3f276361-c956-49fb-9dab-5973d10c877f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://covenantkeepers.org/bible-studies/apologetics-studies/55-bible-studies/492-isn-t-christianity-just-a-crutch-that-meets-a-person-s-psychologial-need?tmpl=component&print=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969377 | 476 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Sharing a love of STEM
Since joining DSTG as an Optoelectronics researcher, Lily Taylor has regularly shared her passion for optics and laser physics with primary, high school and university students. However, she noticed a lack of portable, ready-to-use aids for outreach workshops, particularly in relation to the study of light and understanding how light behaves and interacts.
“Optics is such a valuable field of study and research, and I wanted to get students interested and engaged in lasers and optics.”
So armed with a great idea and a can-do attitude, she created a portable laser teaching kit that can be used as a tool for engaging students of all ages in optics.
Prototype generates excitement
An early prototype of Lily’s optical “maze” generated a high level of interest and enjoyment from students, so she investigated what was involved in designing a more permanent solution.
“I took the idea from the prototype and brainstormed what it would take to make a more permanent kit.”
She managed to source funding to turn her idea into a reality and soon had a kit ready to be debuted at the STEM Aboriginal Student Congress earlier this year.
Lily’s laser maze consists of a set of mirrors, a laser and accompanying electronics. Students adjust the mirrors to guide the laser light through the maze. On successful completion of the maze, students trigger an LED to change colour. An acrylic viewing panel ensures the laser is safe for use.
“My kit is not about trying to convince students to study STEM, but allow them to explore their interest and build confidence so that if they decide they want to pursue STEM, they are more likely to feel that it is something they can pursue and achieve.”
Useful addition to workshop toolkit
After trialling the prototype kit at several STEM events, Lily reports that the usual hesitancy of students disappeared and they were excited to try the maze, discuss how to solve it and try to understand why things worked the way that they did.
“Even before the new kit was fabricated, we had received requests for use in a number of events.”
“Coming from a rural background myself, I understand that opportunities to explore interest in STEM outside the classroom are limited. It is my goal to provide opportunities to students so that they can make an informed decision about whether they would like to pursue STEM in the future. “
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Pradeep Mehta and Abhishek Kumar
There is something about our societies that is changing so rapidly, with conversations on the role of state, market and democracies begining to gain traction of late. To begin with, India was not meant to be a market democracy, if the constitutional spirit is anything to go by. 29 years after our independence i.e. in 1976 we felt the need to formally include ‘socialism’ as an explicit reminder in the Preamble to our Constitution. However, it was only 14 years later i.e. in 1991 that we felt the need to change our practice away from that goal and bring about market liberalisation. 28 years since, the world has thrown at us two grand failures – Failure of Socialism and Failure of Capitalism.
A part of the reason of these failures can be attributed to how the state responded to both these principles of running and managing the economy, not just in India but across the globe. And to make things more complex, the Chinese growth model serves as a rude shock to the idea of democracy around the world (speaking strictly in the economic sense).
In short, what we have gathered is that the relationship between markets and democracies have to be crafted carefully rather than assuming that the latter will automatically facilitate the former. This thought, once considered truism, is now under severe scrutiny. Therefore, the role of the state assumes not only unprecedented significance but also calls for a radical overhaul in its capacity to analyse and act.
This is particularly important in light of the following facts:
First, the fundamentals of ‘industrialism’ – premised upon the relationship between factors of production i.e. land, labour, technology and capital – are being challenged world over. In the new economy facilitated by unprecedented technological intervention, this relationship is increasingly being redefined and the search to disrupt drivers of economic inequality is pre-occupying policy discourse globally. In other words, the new economy is rendering some of these factors increasingly redundant in the quest for higher productivity.
It is therefore not surprising that questions about the fundamental structures of economies are gaining traction. India too is no exception. With a burgeoning labour force coupled with challenges of jobless growth, equity and sustainability, these questions are all too important for India as well.
Second, many of the imperatives for growth and development of India like better health, quality education, affordable and reliable electricity, productive and remunerative agriculture, digital and physical connectivity, sustainable urbanisation, Ease of Doing Business and non-vulnerable employment cannot be addressed without the proactive role of subnational entities.
Further, with many a disruptions catalysed by rapid technological change, traditional business models which catered to provisioning of basic necessities are also going through a rapid change. For instance, large scale utilities have started to focus on decentralised models while ‘individual focus’ is gaining supremacy as technology is increasingly facilitating fulfilment of unique demands in almost all spheres of life.
In other words, what we are seeing is a trend towards hyper decentralisation and fragmentation.
Third – the new data economy is bound to challenge the most basic of all things i.e. Freedom. All democracies, regulations and markets around the world are modelled around this concept.
Synonymous with freedom is individual choice. However, with massive amounts of data being collected and processed by big tech corporations which have become larger than nation states in many ways, the fear is that the individual choice could well be shaped and determined by big tech corporations rather than people. With the idea of ‘people’ being challenged, the idea of democracy too stands challenged.
The combination of these three, is perhaps the biggest challenge being faced by us today. Ironically the state is still cast in the old mould and hence slow to react to these challenges.
An evidence of this fact is that we have not yet accorded the due importance to many of these issues. Conversations on inequality, however, have just started to gain traction.
For instance, new ideas like Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Capital are being discussed as new redistribution mechanisms but at best they seem to be avoiding some fundamental questions.
The proponents of these propositions are caught in the merits, demerits and design aspects of these solutions without realising that re-distribution strategies have miserably failed in the past. More importantly, focus on these aspects blurs a more important background i.e. why are we talking about them in the first place.
Therefore, fundamental fault lines in the economy need to be understood. They need to be understood to understand that misallocation in any factor market conditions can lead to misallocations across the chain. In a globalised and hyper connected world, such misallocations would be difficult to rein in within any particular geography. For instance, if ‘capital’ is allowed to make unlimited amount of capital, the end result would be the death of capital itself as other capacities and capabilities would remain stalled. In such a scenario, the means to create new capital would eventually diminish.
Therefore, temptations to continue with business as usual must be resisted. In other words, there is no point in aping the growth models practiced by the developed economies. One must understand that it is exactly those growth models that have gotten us into this logjam.
To put it differently, every time a system fails, stimulus of ‘cheap’ (low interest rates) capital is infused. With money coming in cheap, misallocation is easy and the result is excess of capital and excess of labour. The other side of this problem is stranded capacities and high NPAs, which have been plaguing the Indian banks.
To illustrate, one needs to look back at the investment binge between 2003 and 2012. Nothing short of a bubble, this binge was fuelled by excess global liquidity and easy bank credit. This resulted in the Indian businesses adding massive capacities based on over-optimistic domestic estimates and Chinese demand. But with the global and domestic downturn hitting demand, the excesses of that period meant high NPAs for financial institutions and massive debt distress for big industrial houses.
The question is how does one move forward? In a recent paper titled The High Price of Efficiency, published in the Harvard Business Review, Roger Martin of University of Toronto, offers some interesting arguments.
The gist of those arguments is that instead of market efficiency the focus should be on market resilience. This is because rewards from the efficiency get more and more unequal as the efficiency improves. This leads to ever growing market power to the most efficient competitors. The end result is the Pareto distribution of wealth i.e. a highly skewed and unequal distribution of surpluses generated in the economic activity.
In other words, super-efficient dominant model elevates the risk of catastrophic failure which is the most dangerous in new economies where competitive advantage is often tied to network effects, which gives incumbents a powerful boost.
The solutions therefore, as argued by Martin, must entail polices that limit scale, introduce some friction in the path to efficiency, promote patient capital, and those that create better jobs and teaching for resilience.
These prescriptions have eminent merit and are not de-linked from each other. In fact, they are possible only in combination with each other.
For instance, if competition policies can rein in market domination of a kind that crowds out any competition whatsoever, then a lot many enterprises can be created which can ensure a distributed spread of capital. For the growth of these enterprises, some kind of legitimate trade barriers would be acceptable. Such incentives can be given in lieu of promoting long term capital as its value would be greater than short term capital. In other words, it can lead to creation of companies with long term strategies. Such companies are then most likely to invest in human capital for long term productivity. In other words, they will care for workers who are also consumers of their products and have the capacity to buy them. In a nutshell, they will realise that cheap labour is actually more expensive, and last but not the least teaching for such ethics, which Martin describes as ‘Resilience’, should start at management schools which are currently over obsessed with ‘efficiency’ as the ultimate goal.
It is interesting to note that Martin is not alone in this thought. His basic argument resonates with the view put forth by Joseph Schumpeter, regarded as one of the greatest economists of the 20th century who opined that dynamic capitalism was executed to fail because the very efficiency of capitalistic enterprise would lead to monopolistic structures and the disappearance of the entrepreneur.
Therefore, as a solution he emphasised the importance of ‘innovation’ but one that is a process of industrial mutation, that incessantly revolutionises the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one and incessantly creating a new one. He called it the ‘creative destruction’.
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Announcing Von Humboldt’s Natur Wasser, a spirituous accompaniment to Andrea Wulf’s newest book, The Invention of Nature.
Von Humboldt’s Natur Wasser is a limited edition, 40-proof Tamarind Cordial created right here at Tamworth Distilling and Mercantile. Only 500 bottles were produced, and will be available at talks and dinners with Wulf as well as for purchase in our distillery.
Despite being the most famous scientist of his age, Humboldt has faded into obscurity. His radical vision of nature as a complex and interconnected global force — ‘the web of life’ — totally changed our understanding of our relationship with the natural world. So thorough was this paradigm shift that we take it for granted, rather than crediting Humboldt for his “invention”. His travels and writings inspired many environmentalist thinkers and poets that came after, including Darwin, Wordsworth, Goethe, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau.
A particular anecdote from Humboldt’s South American adventures led to the choice of the unique tamarind flavor. At the end of March of 1800, the explorer and naturalist packed his boat to the brim with tamarind fruit before departing on an expedition through the Venezuelan jungle. Humboldt had learned from the locals that the pod-like fruit of the tamarind could turn unsavory water into a refreshing ‘lemonade’.
We took this story to our distillers, where a quest began that was almost as ambitious as Humboldt’s. An exceptional batch of tamarind fruit was sourced from Thailand, which had sweet smoke and bourbon flavors resulting from the drying process. The flesh of the fruit was infused in our house-made neutral grain spirit, along with lemon zest and golden brown sugar. Finally, like the original ‘jungle river lemonade,’ the spirit was proofed down with sterilized water from the Swift River, which runs just a few feet from the distillery.
This fall, Andrea Wulf will be taking both the story and the spirit on the road for a series of talks and dinners:
September 16 – (Mount Vernon, VA) Talk and book signing at George Washington’s Mount Vernon — Click here to learn more
September 17 – (Philadelphia, PA) Talk and book signing at The American Philosophical Society
September 18 – (Philadelphia, PA) Dinner at Talula’s Daily Secret Supper Club from 6:00-8:00pm — To reserve your seat & a signed copy of The Invention of Nature call 215.592.6555
September 30 – (New York, NY) Talk and book signing, followed by dinner at the New York Academy of Medicine at 8:30pm — Click here to reserve your seat & a signed copy of The Invention of Nature
October 5 – (Boston, MA) Talk and book signing at the Massachusetts Historical Society — Click here to learn more
October 14 – (Washington, DC) Dinner at The Tabard Inn at 7:00pm — Click here to reserve your seat & a signed copy of The Invention of Nature
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Perhaps one of the hardest parts about a low carb diet is limiting the amount of fruit you eat. Most of us have grown up or been taught that eating fruit meant dieting and that you would lose weight if you ate fruit before every meal and for every snack.
Scientific studies have shown us that this isn’t really true. Fruit contains sugar and carbs, just like everything else does. While no one is denying that fruit is an important part of everyone’s diet, there is a reason why Mother Nature made most fruit seasonal and edible for a short period of time.
We are meant to eat a little bit, but not a ton of it all year long.
Regardless of how you might feel about GMO’s, the truth is that fruit today is very, very different from what it was just a few hundred years ago.
Before GMO's were created, man made their own GMO foods by tweaking with plants, splicing them, making hybrids, etcetera, to make fruit softer or sweeter or larger.
Our ancestors, therefore, even when a particular fruit was in season, probably ate very little of it, since it was smaller and not as sweet as what we think of as fruit today.
For example, a watermelon in a painting done in approximately 1645 looks far more like a pomegranate than a modern day watermelon!
Peaches, also, were more the size of cherries, and described as tasting like lentils or slightly salty, according to the Chinese in 4,000 BC.
The biggest change, however, has to be bananas. Bananas were cultivated at least 7,000 years ago. They once had large, hard seeds taking up most of the banana, not the soft, small seeds we find in modern day bananas.
Once you see what fruit used to be, you will have a better understanding of why you should limit how much you consume if you want to eat a healthier, low carb diet.
Banana - Before and after
Carrot - Before and after
Watermelon - Before and after
We can't talk about fruit without mentioning the importance of fiber. Fiber is important to the body for several reasons, including preventing colorectal cancer and having regular bowel movements. Choosing high fiber fruit can help to keep you regular. On average, the average adult female needs about 25 grams of fiber each day and men about 38 grams. Most Americans get only 15 grams each day from the SAD diet.
Make wise fruit choices! The top high fiber fruits are apples, blackberries, pears, raspberries, and bananas.
How much fruit you can eat depends on how many carbs you are limiting yourself to. Fruit contains many nutrients and when you get a sugar craving, fruit is the obvious go-to food; however, not all fruit is created equal.
The good news here is that some fruits with the lowest levels of sugar (and carbs) have the best nutritional value! This is good news for those on a low carb diet.
If you are out shopping and left your phone or list behind, there is a fairly easy way to remember which fruits you should choose. This list goes from least amount of carbs to highest amount of carbs:
If you keep the list above in mind, you should do OK; however, if you want to print out a list to keep with you, the following is a good one. All amounts listed are for 100 grams (about 3.5 ounces):
Of course, this doesn’t mean you can’t eat the following fruits, only that you should watch your portion and eat them accordingly. Again, the following list is for fresh fruit, 100 grams, or 3.5 ounces:
So how much fruit can you eat each day? That would depend on the number of carbohydrates you are allowing yourself daily, the number of carbs you are planning on consuming that day, and which fruit you decide to eat.
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Home Inspections and Home Inspectors are governed by the rules in the New Jersey Administrative Code contained at N.J.A.C. 13:40-15. Our inspections comply with these rules. Licensed inspectors who do not comply with these rules can be subject to discipline. You should note that until December 30, 2005, not all home inspectors in New Jersey are licensed inspectors. Unlicensed inspectors may not have appropriate education, training and insurance, and they may not follow appropriate Standards of Practice.
In addition to the state Standards, our General Home Inspections are based on the Standards of Practice of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI). All of our inspections meet or exceed those standards. Copies of the standard are available directly from ASHI, or contact us and we'll be happy to send you one.
Our inspectors are degreed architects, licensed professional engineers and certified members of ASHI. These credentials are earned through years of training and experience, which assures you that you will receive the best information available about your new home. As is the case with all of our inspection services, Almost Home will never offer to repair any defects identified during our inspections. This avoids any potential conflicts of interest that may occur with contractors performing inspections as a means of generating business.
The general home inspection is a top-to-bottom review of the home's basic workings. It includes reviews of the condition of the roof, walls, floors, doors & windows, interior and exterior finishes, foundations & framing, and the heating, plumbing and electrical systems. A typical inspection lasts 2-3 hours, and we do encourage you to attend the inspection. When you attend the inspection, you have the opportunity to see any potential defects or items of concern, hear the detailed explanation of the issue, and ask any questions that you may have concerning the house.
Click here to take the virtual home inspection tour.
We deliver easy to read, computer generated reports for all of our inspections. Our reports use both a checklist and narrative format to include all the relevant information while making the most important information easy to find. Our reports are available the next business day, and we will be happy to send complementary copies to your attorney if your are interested. State law prohibits us from divulging the information in the report to any other parties unless you authorize us to do so in writing.
A thorough, professional home inspection can give you important information about your new home
Potentially expensive repairs can often be determined prior to your taking possession of the property
You also receive important operating and maintenance tips specific to your home
- General Inspections
A full inspection meeting or exceeding both the New Jersey and the ASHI standards listed above.
- Specific item consultations
A professional opinion on the condition of one or more components of a home, either for prepurchase, insurance, or just for information. Often used to help evaluate contractor's bids for repairs, additions, alterations, etc.
- Pre-Sale Inspections
A full home inspection, as above, but performed for a home seller prior to listing the home. This service can help in determining what items need repairs prior to selling, and can help in properly pricing and marketing a house. Talk with your Realtor about the value of a pre-sale inspection.
- Maintenance Inspections
Periodic inspections of the house and equipment for homeowners who are not completely home-savvy, or for those who just want the extra peace of mind of having the overall condition of their home evaluated periodically. These inspections are valuable in detecting potentially expensive repairs early, before they become serious.
- Historic Homes
We specialize in inspecting historic houses and structures. If your are the owner or buyer of a historic home (or one that's just plain OLD), it is important to have an inspector who both appreciates and understands the technologies and techniques available to the craftspeople and artisans of yesteryear. We can also provide guidance on restoration techniques and help in locating (and managing) skilled contractors when necessary.
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Spina bifida is a congenital malformation of the spinal cord and column that, until recently, was known chiefly as a pediatric disability. Due to advancements in medical, surgical, and rehabilitative care, the number of adults living with spina bifida is increasing.
The UPMC Adult Spina Bifida Clinic provides coordinated care that often begins by working with pediatric specialists to ensure a smooth transition to adult medicine. And, it's the only program in western Pennsylvania specializing in the unique medical needs of adults with spina bifida.
Call 412-232-8903 to make an appointment at the Adult Spina Bifida Clinic at UPMC Mercy.
Call 1-800-533-8762 to make an appointment with a doctor from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
The UPMC Adult Spina Bifida clinic is designated by the Spina Bifida Association as a Clinic Care Partner, meeting all 10 standards identified as best practices to care for individuals with Spina Bifida.
People with spina bifida typically have increased pressure in the brain (hydrocephalus), which is treated by surgical shunting (draining).
Many health issues can accompany spina bifida, such as:
Adults with spina bifida face additional unique challenges related to health and mobility, including:
Treatment for adults with spina bifida varies greatly from that of children. The number of adults living with spina bifida increases almost daily; however, many clinics do not offer specialized treatment beyond pediatrics. As adults with spina bifida age, they encounter the typical effects of aging at a different and more rapid rate. Our clinic, geared specifically towards adults, combines a variety of specialties in order to provide the most comprehensive, up-to-date care for patients with spina bifida.
The UPMC Adult Spina Bifida Clinic offers on-site:
Our treatment team includes:
Other specialists at the Adult Spina Bifida Clinic include:
Patient Assistance Funds are available for Pennsylvania residents with Spina Bifida who qualify. To determine your eligibility, you will need to complete and submit an Income Attestation Form (PDF), which we will provide annually and upon request. If you are approved to use the Patient Assistance Funds, we can reimburse you for purchases and expenses related to your health and well-being. After approval, you can submit receipts for reimbursement via mail:
Darcie Ilg, PA-C
UPMC Mercy, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
1400 Locust Street, Suite G103
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
You can also message Darcie via MyUPMC or call 412-232-8909 for more details and any questions.
Our doctors, nurses, and staff understand that mobility is crucial to an independent lifestyle. They work closely with experts at the UPMC Center for Assistive Technology (CAT) to prescribe assistive devices to help you maintain your mobility and independence.
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