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By Junno Arocho Esteves
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Indifference and hostility can blind Christians from recognizing Jesus in those most in need, Pope Francis said.
"This indifference and hostility can turn into aggression" toward people often marginalized by society, the pope said June 15 during his weekly general audience.
"How many times, when we see so many people on the street — people in need, the sick, those with nothing to eat — we feel bothered. How many times, when we find before us so many refugees and displaced people, we feel bothered. It is a temptation; we all have this, everyone, including myself," he said.
The pope reflected on the Gospel reading of a blind beggar in Jericho whose sight was restored after pleading with Jesus to heal him.
"The people walking in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent, but he kept calling out all the more, ‘Son of David, have pity on me!’" the Gospel reading says.
Those who told the beggar to be quiet, the pope recalled, reproached him "as if he did not have a right to cry out." However, despite his blindness, the poor man "sees with the eyes of faith" and his plea was powerful enough to attract Jesus’ attention.
"Let us also think this, when we found ourselves in awful situations, even sinful situations, how it was Jesus who took our hand and took us out from the margins to the path of salvation," the pope said.
The Gospel reading, he added, teaches Christians that the good news implies placing those excluded at the center and that Jesus’ merciful presence is an opportunity for "those in need of help and consolation" to cry out to him.
"Even in our lives, Jesus passes by. When I notice Jesus passing by, it is an invitation to come close to him, to be a better person, to be a better Christian, to follow Jesus," he said.
Christians are called to follow the path of the blind man who "glorified God" and followed Jesus after being healed, the pope said.
"We are all beggars; we are always in need of salvation. And all of us, every day, need to make this step: from beggars to disciples," he said. "Let us allow ourselves to be called by Jesus, healed by Jesus, forgiven by Jesus and follow him, praising God."
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An urban world
URBAN 20 SEEKS TO COLLABORATE AND ENRICH THE AGENDA OF THE G20 WITH AN URBAN PERSPECTIVE, FOR THAT WE WILL WORK TOGETHER WITH THE BIG CITIES OF THE WORLD
HORACIO RODRIGUEZ LARRETA,
MAYOR OF BUENOS AIRES
MAYOR OF PARIS
IF WE DO NOT IMPLEMENT LOCAL POLICIES, NEITHER THE SDGS NOR THE PARIS AGREEMENT WILL BE REALIZED. UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, ONE COULD SAY THAT THE LAUNCH OF THE U20 INITIATIVE, WHICH ATTEMPTS TO ENGAGE CITIES IN THE G20 PROCESS, WAS INEVITABLE.
GOVERNOR OF TOKYO
IT IS A TESTAMENT TO THIS DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE GLOBAL GROUP OF U20 LEADERS THAT THROUGH THE CRISIS WE CAME TOGETHER, THROUGH ADVERSITY WE ROSE TO THE CHALLENGE AND TOGETHER WE COMMITTED TO IMPROVING THE STATE OF THE WORLD AROUND US, TO CREATE A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR ALL OF OUR CITIZENS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL HUMANKIND.
PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION FOR RIYADH CITY
Global processes need to include cities
Effective global action on issues ranging from the climate emergency, addressing inequality and sustainable economic development requires productive dialogue between the national and the local levels of government. The U20 was launched in 2017 under the leadership of Mayor Larreta of Buenos Aires and Mayor Hidalgo of Paris to bring together mayors from major G20 cities to inform the discussions of national leaders at the G20. The U20 in this sense aims at facilitating lasting engagement between the G20 and cities, raise the profile of urban issues in the G20 agenda, and establish a forum for cities to develop a collective message and perspective to inform G20 negotiations. Prior U20 summits include:
The U20 Communiqué
The main outcome document of the U20 initiative is the U20 communiqué, a written action-oriented document that includes U20 participating cities’ asks and recommendations to national governments handed over to the G20 before the annual G20 Summit.
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Unesco to protect 29 new sites around the world
The unique selections from around the world were announced the beginning of last week at this year's meeting in Doha, Qatar — bringing the number of sites on the Unesco World Heritage List to 1,010. The sessions continue through to today with more sites to potentially be approved.
The latest additions to the list include the Qhapaq Ñan road system, the hand-decorated cave of Pont d'Arc in the Ardèche region of France — which has the earliest known and most preserved figurative drawings in the world, dating back some 32,000 years — and the iconic earthworks of Poverty Point in the Lower Mississippi Valley of Louisiana, a settlement for hunter fisher-gatherers that dates from between 3,700 and 3,200 B.C.
Also added were the first sites from Myanmar, long known as Burma: the Pyu Ancient Cities, the Silk Roads, a trade route that linked regions of China and Asia from the second century B.C. until the 16th century, the Grand Canal in China, which goes back to the fifth century B.C. and many more. | <urn:uuid:09f6db81-387c-4c8b-bc1e-8de438b41b70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buro247.me/lifestyle/news/unesco-protecting-29-new-sites-globally.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951203 | 244 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Визуализация на GPU
GPU rendering makes it possible to use your graphics card for rendering, instead of the CPU. This can speed up rendering because modern GPUs are designed to do quite a lot of number crunching. On the other hand, they also have some limitations in rendering complex scenes, due to more limited memory, and issues with interactivity when using the same graphics card for display and rendering.
To enable GPU rendering, go into the, and select either CUDA, OptiX, HIP, or Metal. Next, you must configure each scene to use GPU rendering in .
Blender supports different technologies to render on the GPU depending on the particular GPU manufacturer and operating system.
With all GPU rendering technologies, Open Shading Language is not supported.
CUDA – NVIDIA
CUDA is supported on Windows and Linux and requires a Nvidia graphics cards with compute capability 3.0 and higher. To make sure your GPU is supported, see the list of Nvidia graphics cards with the compute capabilities and supported graphics cards.
OptiX – NVIDIA
OptiX is supported on Windows and Linux and requires a Nvidia graphics cards with compute capability 5.0 and higher and a driver version of at least 470. To make sure your GPU is supported, see the list of Nvidia graphics cards OptiX works best on RTX graphics cards with hardware ray tracing support (e.g. Turing and above).
HIP – AMD
HIP is supported on Windows and Linux and requires a discrete AMD graphics card with the RDNA architecture or newer and AMD Radeon Software 21.12.1 or AMD Radeon PRO Software 21.Q4 GPU drivers and newer on Windows or the 22.10 / ROCm 5.1 driver for Linux.
Support GPUs include:
AMD Radeon RX 5000 Series
AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series
AMD Radeon Pro W6000 Series
Please refer to AMD’s website for more information about AMD graphics cards and their architectures.
The Clip extension mode in the Узел Image Texture (изображение) is not supported.
Metal – Apple (macOS)
Metal is supported on Apple computers with Apple Silicon or AMD graphics cards. macOS 12.2 is required to use Metal with Apple Silicon while macOS 12.3 is required to use Metal with AMD graphics cards.
MNEE caustics are not supported in Metal.
Часто задаваемые вопросы
Почему Blender перестаёт отвечать во время визуализации?
While a graphics card is rendering, it cannot redraw the user interface, which makes Blender unresponsive. We attempt to avoid this problem by giving back control over to the GPU as often as possible, but a completely smooth interaction cannot be guaranteed, especially on heavy scenes. This is a limitation of graphics cards for which no true solution exists, though we might be able to improve this somewhat in the future.
Если у вас есть возможность, лучше установить более одного GPU и использовать один из них для отображения, а остальные задействовать для визуализации.
Почему сцена, которая визуализируется на центральном процессоре, не визуализируется на видеокарте?
There may be multiple causes, but the most common one is that there is not enough memory on your graphics card. Typically, the GPU can only use the amount of memory that is on the GPU (see Would multiple GPUs increase available memory? for more information). This is usually much smaller than the amount of system memory the CPU can access. With CUDA, OptiX, HIP and Metal devices, if the GPU memory is full Blender will automatically try to use system memory. This has a performance impact, but will usually still result in a faster render than using CPU rendering.
Можно ли для визуализации использовать несколько видеокарт?
Yes, go to, and configure it as you desire.
Могут ли несколько видеокарт увеличить доступную память?
Typically, no, each GPU can only access its own memory, however, some GPUs can share their memory. This is can be enabled with Distributed Memory Across Devices.
What renders faster?
This varies depending on the hardware used. Different technologies also have different compute times depending on the scene tested. For the most up to date information on the performance of different devices, browse the Blender Open Data resource.
Сообщения об ошибках
In case of problems, be sure to install the official graphics drivers from the GPU manufacturers website, or through the package manager on Linux.
Unsupported GNU version
On Linux, depending on your GCC version you might get this error. See the Nvidia CUDA Installation Guide for Linux for a list of supported GCC versions. There are two possible solutions to this error:
- Use an alternate compiler
If you have an older GCC installed that is compatible with the installed CUDA toolkit version, then you can use it instead of the default compiler. This is done by setting the
CYCLES_CUDA_EXTRA_CFLAGSenvironment variable when starting Blender.
Launch Blender from the command line as follows:
CYCLES_CUDA_EXTRA_CFLAGS="-ccbin gcc-x.x" blender
(Substitute the name or path of the compatible GCC compiler).
- Remove compatibility checks
If the above is unsuccessful, delete the following line in
#error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc x.x and up are not supported!
This will allow Cycles to successfully compile the CUDA rendering kernel the first time it attempts to use your GPU for rendering. Once the kernel is built successfully, you can launch Blender as you normally would and the CUDA kernel will still be used for rendering.
CUDA Error: Kernel compilation failed (Ошибка CUDA: Сбой компиляции ядра)
This error may happen if you have a new Nvidia graphics card that is not yet supported by the Blender version and CUDA toolkit you have installed. In this case Blender may try to dynamically build a kernel for your graphics card and fail.
В таком случае вы можете:
Check if the latest Blender version (official or experimental builds) supports your graphics card.
Если вы сами собирали Blender, попробуйте скачать и установить новейший набор инструментов для разработчика CUDA.
Обычным пользователям не требуется устанавливать набор инструментов CUDA, поскольку Blender уже поставляется со скомпилированными ядрами.
Error: Out of memory
This usually means there is not enough memory to store the scene for use by the GPU.
One way to reduce memory usage is by using smaller resolution textures. For example, 8k, 4k, 2k, and 1k image textures take up respectively 256MB, 64MB, 16MB and 4MB of memory.
The Nvidia OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver
If a GPU is used for both display and rendering, Windows has a limit on the time the GPU can do render computations. If you have a particularly heavy scene, Cycles can take up too much GPU time. Reducing Tile Size in the Performance panel may alleviate the issue, but the only real solution is to use separate graphics cards for display and rendering.
Another solution can be to increase the time-out, although this will make the user interface less responsive when rendering heavy scenes. Learn More Here.
CUDA error: Unknown error in cuCtxSynchronize() (Ошибка CUDA: Неизвестная ошибка в cuCtxSynchronize())
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It’s a bit unfair to lump these two story collections in together but I read them almost back to back and, a few weeks later, am struggling to differentiate them in my mind.
A Manual for Cleaning Women and Collected Stories are collections of a life’s worth of short stories by Lucia Berlin and Grace Paley, respectively. Both women are Americans and wrote primarily in the first half of the 20th centuries.While Paley’s stories are set in New York (almost entirely in Brooklyn), Berlin’s roam around the USA, delving into Mexico. They write about the ordinary lives of women, mostly at home, often surrounding their children and their failed relationships. A Canadian comparison might be the stories of Alice Munro, although Munro’s stories end up feeling almost pastoral compared to the crowded apartments of Berlin and Paley.
These story collections have two major things in common. The first is that each author leans heavily on their own life experiences. Berlin seems almost to be writing her own autobiography, often naming characters Lucia or delving into stories of her childhood in mining camps and South America. Her characters often have four sons, like Berlin herself did, and are divorced multiple times.
The second characteristic that I found the two collections to have in common was the recurrence of stories. Characters often popped up again and this made both collections have a larger feel, as the reader follows a woman through her life, watches her children grow, her marriage flourish and wilt, her neighbours age and change. It felt like a small challenge to connect the stories together. While they certainly stand as individual tales, the connections definitely add.
Both Berlin and Paley are excellent story tellers and while they’re overall experience of life as women, wives and mothers in the early 20th century doesn’t echo my own in 2017, there are certainly many familiar moments. I would categorize Berlin’s stories as slightly darker – there was one I stopped reading partway through – but I enjoyed each collection and found both of these women an important addition to modern American writing. | <urn:uuid:ad0063cc-f645-4cf3-958e-271bb1c328ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://karissareadsbooks.com/2017/05/26/book-review-2-short-story-collections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972562 | 431 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The domain name system (DNS) is the phone book of the Internet: it tells computers where to send and retrieve information. Unfortunately, it also accepts any address given to it, no questions asked.
Email servers use DNS to route their messages, which means they’re vulnerable to security issues in the DNS infrastructure. In September 2014 researchers at CMU found email supposed to be sent through Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Gmail servers routing instead through rogue mail servers. Attackers were exploiting a decades-old vulnerability in the Domain Name System (DNS)—it doesn’t check for credentials before accepting an answer.
The solution is a protocol called DNSSEC; it adds a layer of trust on top of DNS by providing authentication. When a DNS resolver is looking for blog.cloudflare.com, the .com name servers help the resolver verify the records returned for cloudflare, and cloudflare helps verify the records returned for blog. The root DNS name servers help verify .com, and information published by the root is vetted by a thorough security procedure, including the Root Signing Ceremony.
DNSSEC creates a secure domain name system by adding cryptographic signatures to existing DNS records. These digital signatures are stored in DNS name servers alongside common record types like A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, etc. By checking its associated signature, you can verify that a requested DNS record comes from its authoritative name server and wasn’t altered en-route, opposed to a fake record injected in a man-in-the-middle attack.
To facilitate signature validation, DNSSEC adds a few new DNS record types:
The interaction between RRSIG, DNSKEY, and DS records, as well as how they add a layer of trust on top of DNS, is what we’ll be talking about in this article.
The first step towards securing a zone with DNSSEC is to group all the records with the same type into a resource record set (RRset). For example, if you have three AAAA records in your zone on the same label (i.e. label.example.com), they would all be bundled into a single AAAA RRset.
It’s actually this full RRset that gets digitally signed, opposed to individual DNS records. Of course, this also means that you must request and validate all of the AAAA records from a zone with the same label instead of validating only one of them.
Each zone in DNSSEC has a zone-signing key pair (ZSK): the private portion of the key digitally signs each RRset in the zone, while the public portion verifies the signature. To enable DNSSEC, a zone operator creates digital signatures for each RRset using the private ZSK and stores them in their name server as RRSIG records. This is like saying, “These are my DNS records, they come from my server, and they should look like this.”
However, these RRSIG records are useless unless DNS resolvers have a way of verifying the signatures. The zone operator also needs to make their public ZSK available by adding it to their name server in a DNSKEY record.
When a DNSSEC resolver requests a particular record type (e.g., AAAA), the name server also returns the corresponding RRSIG. The resolver can then pull the DNSKEY record containing the public ZSK from the name server. Together, the RRset, RRSIG, and public ZSK can validate the response.
If we trust the zone-signing key in the DNSKEY record, we can trust all the records in the zone. But, what if the zone-signing key was compromised? We need a way to validate the public ZSK.
In addition to a zone-signing key, DNSSEC name servers also have a key-signing key (KSK). The KSK validates the DNSKEY record in exactly the same way as our ZSK secured the rest of our RRsets in the previous section: It signs the public ZSK (which is stored in a DNSKEY record), creating an RRSIG for the DNSKEY.
Just like the public ZSK, the name server publishes the public KSK in another DNSKEY record, which gives us the DNSKEY RRset shown above. Both the public KSK and public ZSK are signed by the private KSK. Resolvers can then use the public KSK to validate the public ZSK.
Validation for resolvers now looks like this:
Of course, the DNSKEY RRset and corresponding RRSIG records can be cached, so the DNS name servers aren’t constantly being bombarded with unnecessary requests.
Why do we use separate zone-signing keys and key-signing keys? As we’ll discuss in the next section, it’s difficult to swap out an old or compromised KSK. Changing the ZSK, on the other hand, is much easier. This allows us to use a smaller ZSK without compromising the security of the server, minimizing the amount of data that the server has to send with each response.
We’ve now established trust within our zone, but DNS is a hierarchical system, and zones rarely operate independently. Complicating things further, the key-signing key is signed by itself, which doesn’t provide any additional trust. We need a way to connect the trust in our zone with its parent zone.
DNSSEC introduces a delegation signer (DS) record to allow the transfer of trust from a parent zone to a child zone. A zone operator hashes the DNSKEY record containing the public KSK and gives it to the parent zone to publish as a DS record.
Every time a resolver is referred to a child zone, the parent zone also provides a DS record. This DS record is how resolvers know that the child zone is DNSSEC-enabled. To check the validity of the child zone’s public KSK, the resolver hashes it and compares it to the DS record from the parent. If they match, the resolver can assume that the public KSK hasn’t been tampered with, which means it can trust all of the records in the child zone. This is how a chain of trust is established in DNSSEC.
Note that any change in the KSK also requires a change in the parent zone’s DS record. Changing the DS record is a multi-step process that can end up breaking the zone if it’s performed incorrectly. First, the parent needs to add the new DS record, then they need to wait until the TTL for the original DS record to expire before removing it. This is why it’s much easier to swap out zone-signing keys than key-signing keys.
If you ask DNS for the IP address of a domain that doesn’t exist, it returns an empty answer—there’s no way to explicitly say, “sorry, the zone you requested doesn’t exist.” This is a problem if you want to authenticate the response, since there’s no message to sign. DNSSEC fixes this by adding the NSEC and NSEC3 record types. They both allow for an authenticated denial of existence.
NSEC works by returning the “next secure” record. For example, consider a name server that defines AAAA records for api, blog, and www. If you request a record for store, it would return an NSEC record containing www, meaning there’s no AAAA records between store and www when the records are sorted alphabetically. This effectively tells you that store doesn’t exist. And, since the NSEC record is signed, you can validate its corresponding RRSIG just like any RRset.
Unfortunately, this solution allows anybody to walk through the zone and gather every single record without knowing which ones they’re looking for. This can be a potential security threat if the zone administrator was counting on the contents of the zone being private. You can read more about this problem in DNSSEC: Complexities and Considerations, as well as Cloudflare’s unique solution in DNSSEC Done Right.
Ok, so we have a way to establish trust within a zone and connect it to its parent zone, but how do we trust the DS record? Well, the DS record is signed just like any other RRset, which means it has a corresponding RRSIG in the parent. The whole validation process repeats until we get to the parent’s public KSK. To verify that, we need to go to that parent’s DS record, and on and on we go up the chain of trust.
However, when we finally get to the root DNS zone, we have a problem: there’s no parent DS record to validate against. This is where we get to see a very human side of the global Internet.
In the Root Signing Ceremony, several selected individuals from around the world come together and sign the root DNSKEY RRset in a very public and highly audited way. The ceremony produces an RRSIG record that can be used to verify the root name server’s public KSK and ZSK. Instead of trusting the public KSK because of the parent’s DS record, we assume that it’s valid because we trust the security procedures around accessing the private KSK.
The ability to establish trust between parent and child zones is an integral part of DNSSEC. If any part of the chain is broken, we can’t trust the records we’re requesting because a man-in-the-middle could alter the records and direct us to any IP address they want.
Similar to HTTPS, DNSSEC adds a layer of security by enabling authenticated answers on top of an otherwise insecure protocol. Whereas HTTPS encrypts traffic so nobody on the wire can snoop on your Internet activities, DNSSEC merely signs responses so that forgeries are detectable. DNSSEC provides a solution to a real problem without the need to incorporate encryption.
Cloudflare’s goal is to make it as easy as possible to enable DNSSEC. Right now, customers with Cloudflare paid plans can add DNSSEC to their web properties by flipping a switch to enable DNSSEC and uploading a DS record (which we’ll generate automatically) to their registrar. Learn more about how to get DNSSEC.
We’ve also published an Internet Draft outlining an automated way for registries and registrars to upload DS records on behalf of our customers. This will enable Cloudflare to automatically enable DNSSEC for our entire community. Stay tuned for updates.
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Welcome to Shark Fact Friday, a (mostly) weekly blog post all about unique sharks and what makes them so awesome. This week’s post is about a deep-sea dweller that looks like a living fossil: the sixgill shark.
If your favorite number happens to be six, then have I got the shark for you! The bluntnose sixgill is unique in several ways, but perhaps the most obvious is the fact that this species has six gill slits, while most sharks have only five. The bluntnose sixgill also has six unique looking saw-like teeth on each side of the lower jaw.
The bluntnose sixgill is an extremely large shark, reaching a (whopping) 15 feet, making them the third largest predatory shark in the world. However, the chances of you running into this species are relatively slim. In most parts of the world, this species is considered a deep-water shark, swimming in depths of over 3,000 feet deep. In the Pacific northwest, however, they are commonly found in much shallower water. In fact, they are found so shallow in these locations it is possible to scuba dive with them.
Relatively little is known about the bluntnose sixgill because their preference for deep water makes them especially difficult to study. However, the Seattle Aquarium has been conducting research on them in Puget Sound since 2002. They have found that Puget Sound may be serving as a nursery where pregnant females come to give birth and where their pups may stay for a short time while they grow. They also found that juvenile bluntnose sixgills hang out in groups with their siblings until they are large enough to make it out to the open ocean as adults. A sixgill clique!
Famed shark biologist Dr. Jose Castro has stated that “despite living most of their lives in darkness, sixgill sharks have the largest pineal window that I have ever seen.” What is the pineal window? It’s a light-colored spot on the top of the shark’s head that essentially functions like a third eye. This special part of the head allows up to seven times more light to enter the brain cavity and reach the pineal organ, which is known to be as photosensitive as the retina! The pineal window can be found in many deep-sea sharks, but the exact function in these species is still unknown.
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Colombian President Iván Duque and Craig Faller, head of the Southern Command (Photo: Presidency of Colombia).
Colombia’s role in the already permanent regime change operation against Venezuela is broad and eloquent. Some recent events in that country may be worthy of attention and analysis, however, all this would require a series of further questions to help clarify what is behind these events and where they are headed.
Perhaps the most curious event is the visit of the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, William J. Burns, to that country to participate in a “sensitive” security mission, as part of the cooperation between both countries. The visit follows a telephone conversation between U.S. President Joe Biden and his Colombian counterpart Iván Duque.
Colombia’s ambassador in Washington, Francisco Santos, declined to give further details about Burns’ visit to Bogota. When questioned about the mission, Santos said:
I prefer not to tell you, it is a delicate mission, an important intelligence mission that we managed to coordinate.
He added that the visit of the US official to Colombia was made by a contact, after having had three meetings with the agency and that in those meetings they have told them where they are going and what is happening, so they consider his visit as “very important”.
Smoke around a car bomb?
Another disturbing event is the alleged attack on a base used by the 30th Brigade of the Colombian Army in Cúcuta, 10 km from the Venezuelan border. Without evidence, the Colombian Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, blamed the event on the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) saying: “We reject and repudiate this vile and terrorist act that was intended to attack the soldiers of Colombia”, adding that “Thirty-six people were wounded. Three of them seriously”.
According to official versions, two men drove a white Toyota van to the base after posing as officers and subsequently there were two explosions that, in addition to causing injuries, affected the infrastructure of the military base. Videos on social networks showed what appeared to be U.S. military personnel at the base after the attack.
“Advisors” of the SFAB mission or 1st Security Force and Assistance Brigade attached to the U.S. Army Southern Command remained at the military base at the time of the alleged car bomb attack in Cúcuta (Photo: Cadenanoticias).
According to opinions of ex-officials and journalists there are elements of the version that do not match, some even affirmed that the Army was carrying military explosives of the pendrite type (which does not need a detonator) that were activated.
They also wonder why the irregular groups did not act on other occasions but in the midst of a two-month long day of protests and national strike in which the Duque government has unleashed a repressive wave. The result has been 327 missing persons and 83 homicides, 44 of these with presumed responsibility of the security forces.
Others, such as journalist Gonzalo Guillén, have expressed surprise about details, such as the fact that the car-bomb did not leave any mark on the post next to or on the car behind and that the tires were left intact.
Miracle! The car bomb in Cúcuta did not leave any marks on the pole next to it or on the car behind it.
Bless God! pic.twitter.com/FzGnnF2ya1
– Gonzalo Guillén (@HELIODOPTERO) June 16, 2021
Hence the suspicion has spread that it was a smokescreen to distract from some controversial decisions such as the sinking of the “Zero Tuition” project that would give free education to 140 thousand young Colombians annually, the traditional parties also sank the law that would ban fracking; the basic income project for those most affected by the pandemic and at the same time increased the budget to the Procuraduría, a control entity criticized for the lack of transparency in its contract policy and for political persecution.
According to the blog La Tabla, the ELN assured in a brief communiqué that they had nothing to do with the attack, and furthermore, after the attack, the 11 agents of the SFAB Mission (1st Assistance Brigade and Security Force attached to the Southern Command) of the US Army who remained at the military base were unharmed.
This is a military command that has been advising on-site in the fight against drug trafficking since June 2020. It is comprised of specialists in operations analysis, tactical form and strategy against “destabilizing threats or factors” and comes from the Military Advisors Training Academy at Fort Benning, Georgia. Such a presence has been rejected by the Venezuelan government and different social movements in the continent.
Duque offered a reward of 500 million pesos (133 thousand dollars) for those who provide information on the perpetrators of the “attack” and announced military assistance for the patrolling of Cúcuta, traveled to that city the following night, made a statement on the possible perpetrators of the action and gave an account of the road map to catch those responsible.
The Colombian head of state also announced the creation of a special criminal group, supported by specialized personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, to carry out the investigations. He also announced the creation of a “wall plan” on the border to prevent the possible perpetrators of the attack from fleeing to Venezuela to hide.
Ten days later, attack on the presidential helicopter
Much more disturbing has been the alleged attack on President Iván Duque himself. Last Friday, June 25, the Black Hawk helicopter in which he was traveling was attacked when the president was fulfilling a commitment in the municipality of Sardinata, border zone of Catatumbo in the department of Norte de Santander.
Official sources informed that he was traveling with the ministers of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, of Defense, Diego Molano, and the governor of Norte de Santander, Silvano Serrano, who were attending an event called “Peace with Legality, Sustainable Catatumbo chapter”.
According to reports, the helicopter in question was reportedly hit by six bullets and all crew members completed the trip safely. Minutes after the incident, through a video posted on social networks, the Colombian president described the incident as a “cowardly attack”, stated that he instructed the entire security team to go after those who shot at the aircraft and said that “both the aerial device and the capacity of the aircraft prevented a lethal event from occurring”.
Duque added that “They do not intimidate us with acts of violence or terrorism”, while the Colombian Presidency published a video of the attacked aircraft.
The helicopter in which Colombian President Iván Duque was traveling was attacked this Friday with several shots while landing at the Cúcuta airport, the government denounced. pic.twitter.com/E5sp44rhsK
– RT en Español (@ActualidadRT) June 26, 2021
A few hours after the events, the Colombian authorities published the sketch of two alleged perpetrators of the aggression prepared by the Attorney General’s Office and different police agencies.
The Minister of Defense, Diego Molano, affirmed that both persons fired AK-47 and FAL 7.62 rifles which were found near the area where the attack took place and reported the following day, considered that this was not an isolated attack and that “it is not disjointed from what has been happening throughout the last two months”, since “the attacks to governors’ and mayors’ offices reach their peak with this attack to the president”.
Molano said that “information has been received of a possible criminal drug trafficking alliance between the urban front of the ELN and the dissidences of FARC residual armed group 33”. Local media announced the realization of 102 genetic, ballistic and dactyloscopic criminal studies, 45 judicial interviews and the analysis of 22 cameras with 160 hours of recording by the authorities.
The director of the National Police, General Jorge Luis Vargas, assured from Cúcuta the finding of the aforementioned weapons and affirmed that “of the 20 percussion pods found in the place of the facts, 14 belong to the FAL rifle preliminarily and 6 of them to the AK-47 rifle, according to the preliminary experts of the Police and the Attorney General’s Office”. He added that one of the weapons found has marks of the Venezuelan Armed Forces (sic) and that the shots were fired from a sector adjacent to the air terminal, a neighborhood bearing the same name of the airport: Camilo Daza.
Two rifles found in the vicinity of Camilo Daza airport in Cúcuta, one of them with alleged markings of the “Armed Forces of Venezuela” (sic) (Photo: Archive).
Some analysts have expressed doubts regarding some criminal data provided by the authorities, such as the use of a FAL rifle by guerrilla groups, this type of weaponry was disincorporated by President Hugo Chávez in 2005 and it is well known the guerrillas’ preference for lighter weaponry, including the AK-47.
Others have satirized the fact that none of the shots shown hit the lower part of the fuselage of the aircraft but the upper part.
More analysts have explained the need of the pro-Uribe government to unleash more aggression and instability against Venezuela by making the public believe that Venezuela has attacked them, typical of a false flag operation.
Pointing to Venezuela as a distraction?
Although so far the Casa de Nariño has not accused the Venezuelan government of both incidents, the reflex action of the Duque administration is already known, which always involves pointing the finger at Caracas, without proof, in every negative event that occurs. The seriousness of the alleged recent events has not prevented the president from continuing to participate in public events, and the logical withdrawal and protection required by events of such nature has not been implemented.
The one who did target his own country, without evidence, was the former deputy Juan Guaidó, who wrote in his Twitter account that “the rise of attacks in our brother country is related to access to resources and protection of the narco-guerrillas from the dictatorship in Venezuela”.
There are many questions regarding the motivation of such statement, the most obvious one is whether the spokesman of the pro-US anti-Chavism seeks notoriety after both Biden and Duque have continuously ignored him in the last months. To the point that he was not mentioned in any of the two communiqués derived from the call between the two presidents.
As it was known, last Monday, June 28, Biden offered Duque “his support to face terrorist actions” and, as communicated by the Colombian presidency, “…expressed his concern for the situation in Venezuela and its regional impact, and stressed the importance of seeking an international consensus for free and fair elections”. He also “recognized Colombia’s effort in offering Temporary Protection Status for Venezuelan migrants who have had to leave due to the situation in their country.”
Although Guaidó has reached the end, both in Washington and in Bogota there seems to be a temptation to involve Venezuela, and something is yet to happen. For his part, the former president and operator of the global right, Andres Pastrana, said he is clear that the reasons for the strike in Colombia are not in his country but in the interference of “castrochavismo”.
The conservative politician has stated that there is interference of President Nicolás Maduro in the violence of the protests in Colombia due to the fact that he said in 2019 that “the Bolivarian breeze would arrive in Colombia” and that same year protests took place. He stated at the beginning of last June:
This is a criminal scaffolding that seeks to set Colombia on fire. The enemy of Colombia is not the trade unionists or the students, the enemy of Colombia is Venezuela and its name is Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, all that narco-dictatorship that is in Venezuela.
He has provided as evidence that the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, said that if Colombia messed with Venezuela, they would make war on their territory. He added that Bolivarianism “wants to take Colombia because it is the Jewel in the Crown”.
The Colombian vice-president and foreign minister, backing statements without evidence from the then outgoing president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, tweeted:
We always said that Maduro’s narco-dictatorship has not only generated the greatest humanitarian tragedy for the Venezuelan people, but also intends to export its model to Colombia through its allies and cronies of always. They will not succeed. Colombia is great!!! pic.twitter.com/T183O7r1Mh
– Marta Lucía Ramírez (@mluciaramirez) May 6, 2021
In September 2019, Duque himself delivered a report to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, with photos and information about the alleged presence of several ELN members in Venezuela and also the alleged protection and support of the Bolivarian Government to these guerrillas.
Duque presented at the UN a report accusing Venezuela of being tolerant with irregular groups in his country with up to four errors (Photo: HispanTV).
Subsequently, the local newspaper El Colombiano published a report demonstrating how one of the photos presented by the Colombian president as a part of the “ELN penetration in rural schools in the state of Táchira (in Venezuela) (…) in April 2018”, did not correspond neither to that place nor to the date shown. The aforementioned photo was taken three years earlier, in 2015, in the department of Cauca, southwestern Colombia.
Colombia as an imperial outpost and Venezuela on permanent alert
On the afternoon of July 1, President Maduro warned about the visit of the CIA chief and the actions of the Southern Command stating that “There, in Colombia, the commander of the Southern Command, Craig Faller, was there, and I am told that the director of the CIA in Colombia was there recently, they are working on some secret plan to harm Venezuela”. He assured that some reports reveal it and highlighted that no information about the agenda or the points discussed between the CIA and the Duque administration was published.
The U.S. Southern Command has seven of the more than 70 military bases that the U.S. has in Latin America, is deployed in Colombian territory and is active in the Colombian-Venezuelan border, as demonstrated by information about what happened with the car bomb.
The presence of the U.S. military so close to Venezuela is justified by Colombia and the United States under the pretext of the fight against drug trafficking, however there is no official source that includes their presence in any military base in the department of Norte de Santander.
Since 2009, a Washington-Bogotá agreement was signed by then President Álvaro Uribe and Venezuela denounced it as part of an imperial strategy to retake the hegemony lost in Latin America after the so-called “progressive cycle”. This was the decade in which several leftist and nationalist governments came to power through the ballot box. The aforementioned agreement between Bogota and Washington stipulates that the troops will be stationed in facilities located in departments far from Venezuela.
Uribe’s policy of “democratic security” has been linked to such shady dealings as false positives and false flag operations since its inception. In 2006 a colonel, a major, a captain and a lieutenant of the Colombian Army were accused and tried for committing terrorist attacks in Bogotá with car bombs and a house bomb to be judged as false positives. These events were prior to the second presidential inauguration of Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
The most recent false flag attempt was an attempt to bring in a convoy of trucks with supposed “humanitarian aid” on February 23, 2019, from the same department of Norte de Santander. Seeking to undermine the authority of the constitutional government of President Maduro the cartelized media imposed the narrative of a catastrophe scenario on the border and in the rest of Venezuela.
For its part, the United States has a long history of false flag attacks from the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861) through the blowing up of the battleship USS Maine (Cuba, 1898), Operation Gladio (Italy, 1945-1992), the Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnam, 1964) to the staging of the Seizure of Tripoli’s Green Square (Libya, 2011).
The next steps of Colombia under the auspices of the United States will depend on the stability of the region and the progress of Venezuela in its quest for both national independence and Latin American integration.
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By: Darci Maxwell
It seems that none of us have much time to make our communities a better place with the pressures of work, family, school, etc. But there are ways to get involved in your community quickly and effectively. Each of the tasks below takes thirty minutes or less to complete, so what are you waiting for? Make your community better today!
Bring a trash bag next time you go for a walk in your neighborhood. Throw anything away that you might see: wrappers, papers, bottles, etc. Make sure that you don’t litter yourself when you are out and about.
Be green and recycle! You cannot recycle too much. As this site says “More Recycling is better recycling.” If your community does not have a recycling program, find a way to take your plastic, paper, and glass to a local collections facility.
Save Water and Energy
Help the environment by saving water and energy. Turn off lights when you leave a room, turn off the sink when you are brushing your teeth, take shorter showers, and unplug your electronics when you are not using them. You’ll save a little bit on your utilities as well.
Use Public Transit
Reduce your carbon footprint by using public transportation whenever possible. Find other ways to cut back on your automobile use by biking or walking to nearby places.
Instead of buying goods or services online or at a chain store, go into a local mom and pop store. Your purchase will go directly to helping your community. They often are closer than large stores anyway.
Pay For Someone’s Meal
As you are going through the drive through, tell the person at the window that you would like to pick up the tab of the next person in line. It is a kind gesture that will bring a smile to anyone’s face.
Local grocery stores are constantly running small donation campaigns. You can donate as little as $1 to local charities, including hospitals, boys and girls clubs, make a wish, etc. By saying “Yes” the next time that you are asked “Would you like to donate $1 today to our partner charity?” you are making your community just a little brighter.
Donate Used Books
If you have books around your house that you don’t read any more, consider donating them to a local school, especially if they are child-friendly. Teachers are always looking for inexpensive ways to expand their libraries.
About 38% of Americans can donate blood, but only 8% do. Take some time to save lives by donating a pint of blood. The actual donation takes about ten minutes, but they do prep you before hand, and that whole process takes about an hour and fifteen minutes.
Offer Free Tutoring
Offer your skills to the community by offering free tutoring to schools. Depending on your skill level, you can volunteer in an elementary school, middle school, high school, or even at the local college.
There are many free events happening every day in your community. Go to them. Sponsors and corporations look at the attendance to see if it is worth hosting the event in the future, so your attendance can help make similar events happen. If there is a small entrance fee, it probably goes to hosting the event or will be donated to a local nonprofit.
Get to Know Your Neighbors
Go knock on your neighbor’s door and introduce yourself. Be friendly, and do your best to be a good neighbor. Who knows? You may end up making a life long friend.
Offer to Help
If you see an elderly woman trying to lift groceries into her car, or a neighbor shoveling their driveway, offer to help. You may get turned down, but then again, you may not.
Leave Anonymous Notes
If you’re more of the private type, leave anonymous notes in your community to brighten someone’s day. Too many people leave anonymous hate quotes, so leave an anonymous note of kindness instead. Put a thank you card in your neighbor’s mailbox, leave little notes in books at the library, or place a note on someone’s car in a parking lot. If you are feeling especially generous, leave a gift card with your note.
Attend a Fun Run
There are many different organizations that host 5k races during the spring and summer to raise money for one thing or another. There may be a group raising money for someone’s hospital bill, a local high school raising money for their sports teams, or even a local charity raising money for research. Give yourself an excuse to get back into shape by helping someone in need.
Set a Curfew
If you have teenage kids, setting a curfew can help keep them safe, set boundaries, and give their lives structure. Just make sure that your curfew is reasonable. Every city has a different curfew for teens, so use their curfew to teach them about being a good citizen. According to this blog, it is a good idea to set a curfew for teens, even if they are “good” teens, as it can give them a way out of uncomfortable social situations.
Sign a Petition
Find an online petition for a cause that you support. Add your name to the list. Change.org is a good place to start.
Write Letters to Leaders
Write letters to your governor or congressman to let them know your opinion on a certain subject. Leaders are supposed to vote based on what their community thinks, so make sure that you allow them to make informed decisions!
Call the Police
If you see suspicious activity in your neighborhood, report it. They may be able to stop a crime before it happens. The sooner you report it, the sooner they can take care of the problem. If you live in a sketchy part of town, here are some tips and tricks to help you stay safe.
Did you know that only 42-60% of people eligible to vote cast their ballots? Take a few minutes this November, and every November to vote in your local city and state. If you can, take the time to understand the issues and candidates so that you can make a more educated choice.
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We will continue to work with our growing number of partners to increase awareness of career pathways, increase dual enrollment pathways, and increase the number of industry-certified citizens in an effort to build upon regional investments and job creation.
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Good afternoon; so you are ready for your second excursion. Although we have had several heavy April showers during the morning, the weather has become a little more settled since mid-day, and I don't think we are likely to have any more rain, except perhaps a slight occasional shower. I am glad to see you have put on some good thick boots and leggings, as we shall find the undergrowth rather wet after the morning showers. But with the warm air it will soon dry up if we get no more rain. I keep an extra thick pair of boots for these country rambles and prepare them by rubbing a preparation of oil well in. This helps to keep the wet out and the feet dry. I am glad to hear the plates exposed last week have turned out successfully. Thanks for the print of the Primroses, which has made a very pretty picture, and later on you will be able to make an effective lantern slide from this negative. The other prints I will look at more carefully in the train, as we shall have twenty minutes to spare.
Here we are; look at the Rookery yonder in the trees round the church. The birds are very busy now and I expect most of the nests contain eggs. When you wish to obtain a photograph of their nests you had better do so from terra firrna, using a long focus lens, as trying to obtain one from the trees is not only a difficult but a dangerous task. Rooks are most interesting birds, as you may easily find out for yourself by watching them. On one occasion which came under my notice, a gale had blown down several nests from the trees where they had been built. One nest, however, remained, and the other birds set about rebuilding their nests underneath this one that had stood firm. There were five nests one above the other, and I was able to obtain a photograph of it. I called it " Rook-building up-to-date, in flats! " The five nests in the tree looked, from a distance, just like the figure of a man.
The weather looks better now than it did when we left the town, and we will go to the wood first to-day, because there is a field on the other side of it where the Lapwing nests, and if we are fortunate we may find a clutch of eggs. It is getting late for them, but the first clutches are often taken for the market, as the eggs are considered table delicacies and the early ones fetch big prices. They are known as " Plover's eggs." As we go through the wood let us look at the two nests we found last week. Do you think you can show me where the Pheasant's nest was? Ah! I see you did not note the place carefully enough. It was not here, but about twenty yards further on. I remember it was about half way between the Chaffinch's nest in the hawthorn bush, which stood well out from the other trees, and the old stump with the Primroses round it. Here is the old stump, but the Primroses have lost a good deal of their freshness and would not make such a good picture to-day. I also noted down.there was a birch tree nearly opposite where the nest was and that there was not another one for some distance, so that it could not be mistaken. There is the birch tree just ahead. You must remember things look very different if approached from different directions. Last time we were walking the other way and you do not recognise the place so well. The best plan is to make careful notes in your pocket book of several different points to help in identifying the site when a nest is discovered which you want to find again, or you will often have great difficulty in finding it the second time. Nests, as a rule, are not exposed so openly that they can be found without some amount of searching for, and you must also remember at this time of year the foliage will grow considerably in the space of a week, under the influence of the warm sunshine and showers. Look at the hawthorn bush, beyond, it is now quite green and you cannot see through it like you could last week. If the Chaffinch's nest is still there it is much less likely to be discovered now.
Fig. 46. By the Wayside (Wild Carrot).
Fig. 47. Rhododendron.
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Think about yourself leaving work on a dark, stormy night. You name your house safety system and activate the lights on characteristic. As you pull into the driveway, pre-programmed inside and exterior lights illuminate your approach into your property. For many individuals these questions are troublesome to reply often because when it comes right down to it folks merely have no idea what is necessary for a business safety system. Though every enterprise is totally different, there are some commonalities when it comes to security for all of them.
To have complete peace of thoughts you may need to.
Most individuals interpret being secure and secured by having numerous money in the financial institution, having or acquiring many land properties as they could, saving for a retirement program and investing on private and household health insurances. Some others manifest their security by having a secure, good compensation job, having a effectively nurtured and wholesome family, having a home of their very own and a dependable automotive. Religious and cultural elements can even contribute to one’s safety needs such as by having full faith, self dignity and integrity; and dwelling in a protected and guarded community close to with relations, recognized peers and household.
Actually many insurance corporations require some form of theft prevention system in place earlier than the insurance company will problem a coverage to the corporate. Some insurance corporations require not solely a burglar deterrent system but also a hearth alarm. Corporations that need to shield their enterprise from worker theft must take additional theft prevention measures.
As a result of this can be a foot-in-the-door tactic.
Many people like the idea of getting a silver bullet that mechanically makes their home safer however is this actually the case once you buy a house safety system? Let’s look at what makes up an alarm system and how it prevents theft. There is a dizzying array of choices and worth ranges house security method. My husband, of course, was positive we needed the Cadillac of alarm systems with all the bells and whistles. Since we don’t reside in The White House, I was inclined to go just a little more conservative.
The upside to installing the system your self is you save on an installation fee. The downside is you could discover to late that one thing within the set up is amiss when the system fails to work correctly, and a thief walks away with some of your stuff. That may be prevented by benefiting from the customer support most security firms offer DIY dwelling programs. They’ll often present recommendation and assist if a certain set up proves trickier than the directions indicate. Some firms will even perform a ultimate inspection when the set up is full to ensure the system is working properly. A discount in your householders insurance could rely upon that inspection and certificates.
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Use your brain, stupid!
Being a Millennial doesn’t mean that I can’t write a technophobic rant when I feel like it. Please find below a list of things that you should burden your mind with.
- Calculating 3188 x 15
- Memorizing the password
- Finding directions to that restaurant where you must meet your friend
- Killing boredom while waiting for the bus
- Waking up at 7 am every morning
These tasks all have something in common: we delegate them to machines. Smartphones are so effective and convenient that they have become everyone’s second brain. But what happens to our original brain now that we use it less and less for such jobs? My opinion is that the brain is like a muscle and in order to remain fit and healthy, we must exercise it. Here are a few things that I believe we should keep doing with our own, nature-gifted neural networks.
Calculating 3188 x 15
Of course, you cannot compute this in your head, and neither can I. We are not machines. But you can try to break it up into smaller computable chunks. Of course you’ll make mistakes when doing mental calculation. But then you can check later with your smart-something. The point is, you shouldn’t get used to resorting to your smartphone each time you need to calculate something. You should first try by yourself, use your brain as the default computing “device”, and then fallback to external help if needed.
Memorizing the password
No one likes passwords. For these reasons, we have software to keep them and retrieve them for us, and we are always researching better ways of doing authentication: face recognition, gesture patterns, etc. Heck, why not DNA? I’ll tell you: passwords may suck, but they still have the advantage of not requiring you to entrust personal data to a third party (I would not entrust my fingerprints to Facebook, would you?).
So how to remember passwords? The solution is the same: use your brain. Stop relying on your browser or password keeper to remember it for you. Use your password every day. Even if you don’t need to log out of your favorite website each time you’re done with it, do the effort of logging out, and go through the hassle of typing your password each time you need to log yourself back in. If you type the same password several times a day, I can guarantee you’ll not forget it easily.
Finding your way to a place
As weird as it may sound, there was a time before Google Maps, Tencent Maps and their likes. How did people manage not to get lost back then? Surely, many people and children must have disappeared or gone missing. (
<sarcasm>) And what would tourism be like without apps to tell you what to do and what to see? (
Well, here are a few tips for you to do like homo sapiens in the pre-smartphone era, when you need to find you way to a place:
Draw a map on paper beforehand and take it with you. Be an artist, you can even draw dragons to make it more fun!
Open your lips, move your tongue, and ask a stranger around you. Usually, you’ll always find people ready to help you, unless you are exploring Antarctica.
Just explore, walk around, look at street signs, and keep some landmarks in your mind (e.g. the big 7-11 store at the corner, that weird tree with a hole in it in front of a post office, or any noticeable place).
And the most important: just accept the risk of getting lost. Life is about uncertainty, deal with it.
Writing full sentences
Nowadays technology is always doing its best to assist us when it comes to expressing ourselves. Predictive text input methods let you pick between the 10 best words they think you’ll want to use. Social networks offer quick replies where you only need to select one of several pre-populated responses to save time. Text processors highlight or even automatically correct your mistakes while you’re typing. Chat apps let you choose from hundreds of smileys or stickers to avoid the effort of expressing your feelings with words.
I fear that once we start abandoning the conversation to software, we’ll only be able to produce standard, bland conversations. What’s the point of knowing grammar (or even having a grammar) if the software does it for you?
Disable spell checking. Disable word suggestion. And be creative, be crazy.
“But it’s hard!”
Hardship is a virtue. I believe that mankind evolved out of necessity: it evolved because it had to confront tough situations. But what will happen in a world where everything becomes easy as a piece of cake? Some people may say that technology empowers us, frees us from our limits and helps us tackle new, more interesting challenges. Even if I agree with this, in my opinion, technology has become so convenient that it’s also preventing us from developing and retaining our core skills, at least for lazy people like me. So, for once, let’s make our lives | <urn:uuid:61fc92f0-b85d-429c-9107-53b7d2030541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tanahleng.matthieu-bresson.com/post/use-your-brain-stupid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940608 | 1,125 | 1.867188 | 2 |
In the joy of company development along with branding, going digital ‘s all a buzz. Okay so what can be digital marketing plus how should we apply it to develop all of our corporations?
Digital Marketing Identified
Digital marketing is definitely the advertising along with promotion of companies in addition to their brands by digital media channels channels. Digital press, right now, features websites, sociable media, stereo, television system, mobile phone and in some cases varieties of historically non-digital press just like advertisements plus flow signs. Primarily almost any marketing mass media that is shipped in an electronic form may be known as digital marketing.
That actually leaves exclusively various forms associated with person-to-person (P2P) marketing , print promoting and lead marketing beyond the digital marketing umbrella. Still, art print adverts, direct send, impress lookup directories, advertisements as well as replys are common beginning to go to its digital counterparts. Along with items like URL squeeze pages, QR rules, net banners, online web directories and also written text constraints, traditional marketing and advertising and marketing nearly has always the digital marketing connection.
The reason why a Center on Digital Media channels?
The particular switch to be able to digital media is it being powered by simply marketing businesses, companies in addition to people alike. This ever-increasing demand to indicate quantifiable success creates proceeding digital an aspiration for any digital marketing agency. Almost all digital media channels, including sites, social media in addition to portable advertising and marketing is easier to trace as compared to common marketing marketing including produce advertising.
With regard to companies, quite a few forms of digital promotion are very lower cost. Possessing a web-based position, joining consumers in chats by way of sociable marketing in addition to e-mail marketing usually are inexpensive alternatives to print out marketing along with primary mail. Most of these digital channels are for sale to companies of a typical dimensions, in addition to help even the playing field pertaining to start-ups, small establishments and also separate pros trying to find fresh business.
Intended for individuals, the short tempo associated with life can make digital advertising and marketing the must. Any time people could require goods and services, the days are gone connected with thumbing by way of a phonebook to discover them. At this moment, all of us find each of our mobile phones as well as go to our own pcs regarding replies – and that we see them fast.
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Whatever sizing your small business is – large or small in order to medium-sized business / company (SMB and also SME) – you possibly can effectively advertise your business enterprise through low-cost digital channels. The actual basis of your current marketing initiatives will be your website. Expend prudently inside your web page, plus know that it can do the subsequent:
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Is usually up-to-date and easily navigable
Supplies various programmes regarding consumer communicating
Links for some other marketing work
Our recommendation is that you hire a reliable web development company that’s competent in website design along with internet search engine optimization. Because your websites are the foundation return and forth which usually other digital programs will direct, it needs to be considered one of your own best company investments.
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A little riddle for the occasional listener of contemporary music who, with Silent Echoes and with Tact, is offered two multimedia experiences at the Center Pompidou. What is their main point in common, apart from the technology developed by Ircam? Here, on the terrace at level 5, a sound sculpture extends the activity of a dozen bells of Notre-Dame de Paris well beyond their Gothic base. There, within the museum, an interactive device consists of ringing, through a touch screen, a panoramic view of Paris.
So ? Not the report at work. Passive with the first, produced by the American Bill Fontana, which simply invites you to listen to the continuum obtained by placing seismic accelerometers on ancestral bronze sources. Creative with the second, which consists of manually animating an image and endowing it with a sound reality drawn from teamwork bringing together, among others, a designer (Zoé Aegerter), a photographer (Quentin Chevrier), a composer who touches -à-tout (Georges Aperghis) and two representatives of the young generation keen on electronics (the Turkish Didem Coskunseven and the French Fabien Bourlier).
Each of these projects could be detailed at length. Nothing brings them closer together than their length of accessibility. About a month! A real exhibition of sound, literally and figuratively, which clashes with the one shot habits in force for the creation of contemporary music. In general, when it is not a scenic work – dance or opera –, a small tour and then leaves. With Silent Echoes and Tact, word of mouth (or music criticism) can do its job. Candidates for the discovery of an opus validated by a first reception will not have to wait for a distant and often hypothetical recovery.
Invest all the spaces
If the director of Ircam recognizes that this approach makes it possible to overcome the pitfalls, in particular financial, linked to the concert – to creation within the framework of a single evening -, he considers it above all as a means of “reaching new audiences” and, beyond that, to spread more widely socially. “Musical creation must occupy all possible and imaginable spaces”, believes Frank Madlener. This was also the conviction of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), a visionary in the art-science relationship as much as in overcoming the limits between scholarly conception and popular expression. Reconstructing the famous Polytope de Cluny, fifty years after its construction as part of the Paris Autumn Festival, is therefore a symbolic commitment for the institution founded by Pierre Boulez. Especially since it will be given throughout the festival in the Ircam projection space, which has been closed for work for eight years. “Although designed from the composer’s archives, the Polytope 2022 no longer has anything to do with that of Xenakis,” says Frank Madlener. It’s pure electro, very narrative, resulting from a collective writing, not at all in the tradition of the house. »
A new genre of expression, “narrative” and “collective”, has tended to develop since 2020 at Ircam under the name of “Music-Fictions”. The result of a collaboration between a writer, a director and a composer, this form of high-definition radiophonic theater (immersive listening under an ambisonic dome of 64 loudspeakers) has given rise to seven productions. Two will be premiered this year: Nostalgie 2175, by Anja Hilling (text) and Núria Giménez-Comas (music), and Le Sentiment du monde, by Robert Linhart (text) and Roque Rivas (music). As for the complete “collection”, it will be given for a week, with several sessions for each work, at the T2G-Théâtre de Gennevilliers before touring France. The challenge for Ircam outside the walls that tends to take shape will no longer just be to find new spaces, but to know who will come to live in them. “In the 21st century, that’s the only question that matters!” says Frank Madlener. | <urn:uuid:424f9dcc-3348-45af-91f5-653b9e3e0e16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cryptonewsmag.com/manifeste-musical-creation-challenged-by-new-spaces-and-new-audiences | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945713 | 877 | 1.507813 | 2 |
for the post office file, is there any way to delete out all the historical post offices if they're no longer in service? any way to find the little blue metal usps boxes on street corners?
1) Open the .csv file in MS Excel
2) Click on the top of column C to select the whole column
3) Click on "Data" then "Text to Columns..."
4) Select "Delimited" then hit "Next"
5) In the Delimiters field, click on "other" and in the box next to that, type the left-paren ( character, then click "Next" then "Finish". This will create a 4th column with the text 'historical)' in it.
6) Now select the entire spreadsheet ( the box to the left of the A column and above the line 1 box. This will highlight the entire sheet
7) Click on "Data" then "Sort". In the pop-up sort window choose Sort by Column D then by Column C ( no header row ) then hit OK.
8) This will put all 11,053 entries with the word historical at the top of the sheet in column D.
9) Highlight all 11,053 rows ( this will take awhile ) and then hit "Edit" then "Delete"
10) Save the file and that should be what you're looking for, 11,358 rows of Post Office POIs.
awesome! thanks. so w/o downloading any additional programs, how do i get post offices for southern california, or california in general?
nevermind. i figured it out. opened up the california attractions poi....range was 23-42 and neg (114-124). first sorted by longitude and deleted appropriate cells. Then sorted by latitude and deleted appropriate cells. now i've got a 1235 post office location for california plus a few areas of other surrounding states.
looks like my nuvi 350 has some post offices that this one doesn't...so i'll just use my nuvi.
any way to find the little blue metal usps boxes on street corners?
Blue Metal usps mail boxes
is there an easy way to convert it to poi format? lat/long?
some hard ways are easier than others.
depends on how accurate you want them and how much time you are willing to put into the project.
I don't recommend any method of finding lat long over the other. Although some methods are more accurate than others. That's something each person creating a poi will have to determine for themselves.
I'm sure others will offer their preferred method.
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Believed by the Mayans to be “food for the gods,” nothing chases the demons away quite like chocolate. Chocolate is a form of universal love, from country to country, from earth to space (yes, Russian and American astronauts bring chocolate on every space expedition).
As a dessert flavor, chocolate is preferred by more than 50% of American adults, more than any other flavor. Chocolate can be dark, semi-sweet, bittersweet, or milk.
Additionally, chocolate has 600 flavor compounds, three times as many as wine! Africa produces more than two-thirds of the world’s chocolate, and Cote d’Ivoire alone produces about a third of the world’s supply.
Chocolate syrup was even used as blood in the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic, Psycho.
Quality chocolate should have a smooth and velvety texture, regardless of the cocoa percentage.
Good quality chocolate should also have cocoa liquor, cocoa solid, cocoa mass, or cocoa as its first ingredient.
Keep chocolate away from the refrigerator! Chocolate tends to absorb odors of other foods and keeping it chilled can lead to discolored chocolate. Instead, store chocolate in an air-tight container in a cool, dry place.
The shelf life of most milk chocolate is one year; two years for most dark chocolate.
Cocoa butter can be used as skin cream to help reduce stretch marks and as a moisturizing treatment for dry skin and hair.
Theobromine in cocoa helps harden tooth enamel, making teeth less susceptible to decay.
Many studies have proven that chocolate milk is one of the best post workout drinks since it contains the perfect ratio of carbohydrates to proteins. This drink also helps replenish fluids and electrolytes lost during an intense workout.
Theobromine, a compound found in both caffeine and chocolate, is poisonous to dogs and cats is small doses, but also lethal to humans in large amounts (such as 118 cups of coffee in a day).
Always cut chocolate into small pieces before melting.
Both excess heat and water can cause chocolate to become grainy, making it very difficult to achieve the smooth, creamy texture of melted chocolate.
To temper the chocolate, bring to 115 °F (46 °C) for dark chocolate or 110 °F (43 °C) for milk or white chocolate. Then cool the chocolate to 90 °F (32 °C) for dark chocolate or 87 °F (30 °C) for milk or white chocolate. This will result in chocolate with a smooth, shiny finish.
Dark chocolate (that’s made of at least 70% cocoa) contains even more antioxidants than fruits such as strawberries and acai. These powerful antioxidants fight mental fatigue by increasing the circulation of blood around your body and brain.
Does eating chocolate relax you? It’s not all in your head! Smelling chocolate can increase theta brain waves, which in turn prompts feelings of relaxation.
Cocoa also contains alkaloids such as theobromine, phenethylamine, and caffeine. These have physiological effects on the body and are linked to serotonin levels in the brain. Some research has found that eating moderate amounts of chocolate can lower blood pressure.
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I’ve finally gotten around to creating drive images for using an Asanté Desktop EN/SC (1996 version), SCSI to Ethernet converter with a Macintosh Plus (once I bought a keyboard from Herb Johnson to replace the ones I had that were lost in a move). I have one of the later versions that draw’s it’s power from the SCSI bus, which caused some issues with the Macintosh Plus.
In addition to the applications that I include in my other images, I’ve also pre-installed and pre-configured settings for connecting your Mac Plus to your network via FTP. You can also try to surf the net using a browser, but you will likely only get minimal success.
The images contain all the typical software I include, but I’ve also installed:
- Asanté EN/SC 6.0.4 drivers
- MacTCP 2.06, the last official version from Apple (not installed)
- MacTCP 2.1, an unofficial patched version by Glen Anderson (installed)
- And configured MacTCP 2.1 with some default settings
For the System 6.0.8 images, I also installed:
1. My Asanté Desktop EN/SC adapter
The adapter I have appears to be one of the final releases. The box includes the Asanté adapter, a 25pin cable, a manual (April 1996), and an EtherTalk Installer Version 5.5.4 disk, also copyright 1996. Looking at the Wayback machine, I found it last mentioned on Asante’s site was in 1998, with no mention in 2000, they seemed to stop producing these SCSI adapters sometime in late 1998 or early 1999 and instead focus on internal cards and USB vs. slotless SCSI devices.
The version I have has the following limitations:
- it does not have a port for external power, but instead draws power from the SCSI connection
- it has been assigned SCSI ID 6, and that ID can not be changed
- it terminates the bus and therefore must be the last device in my SCSI chain.
Because of limitation 1, for the Macintosh Plus, I had to include a old external drive* enclosure in my SCSI chain between my Macintosh Plus and my Asanté adapter. The Macintosh Plus doesn’t provide terminator power, which is what I assume powers my Asanté adapter. This would likely impact other systems that lack terminator power. If your Asanté adapter has a port for external power, you will hopefully not have this issue.
Because of limitation 3, I can’t use both my Asanté adapter and my SCSI2SD adapter with my Macintosh Plus at the same time (on internal SCSI), so I instead use a FoppyEMU adapter with a HD20 image (see above, or my downloads page).
* I tried a 100MB zip drive, but it did not seem to provide enough power, so I ended up using an old external hard drive.
2. How I created these images
I did most of the work in Basilisk II, following a process similar to what I use to upgrade one of my images from the minimal system files to the full system files.
2.1. On your modern system
- Basilisk II cannot boot System 6.0.8, so to update my FoppyEMU‘s System 6.0.8 image file, I need to boot from my one of my System 7.5.5 image files.
- I set the 7.5.5 image as the first drive in Basilisk II‘s config settings, my System 6.0.8 image file as the second drive
- I made sure that the “enable my computer” icon is checked
- I boot basilisk (should load System 7.5.5)
- I used the “this PC” icon to access the files on my local PC and copy the needed files on the the System 6.0.8 drive
- Asanté EN/SC 6.0.4 drivers
- MacTCP 2.06, the last official version from Apple
- MacTCP 2.1 by Glen Anderson
- I used Stuff-it Expander 5.5 found in the image utilities folder to uncompressed everything
- I updated the minimal version of System 6.0.8 to the full version
- I them ran the Network Software Installer 1.4.5, making sure I was installing to the “drive” representing my System 6.0.8 image file
- I then exited Basilisk II,
- I then copied the System 6.0.8 image file on to an SD card for use in my FloppyEMU (if you’re using a SCSI2SD you’ll need to raw-write the file vs. just copy)
2.2. On my Macintosh Plus
- Install/connect your bootable FloppyEMU/SCSI2SD/ZipDrive etc.
- Install/connect your Network Card/Adapter (and power own if needed)
- Turn on your Macintosh Plus
- Ran the Asante EtherTalk installer in the network folder for my drive
- Once that is installed I looked in the System 6.0.8 folder, if you see a file called MacTCP, delete it.
- Copy the MacTCP 2.1 file from the network folder in to your System 6.0.8 folder
- Reboot your Macintosh Plus.
3. Default network settings
Modern routers will not recognize the Asante adapter and MacTCP, so they will not automatically do all the work for you (DHCP), instead I had to manually configure everything.
My router uses what I think is the typical configuration for home networks:
- IP Address range: 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255
- DHCP assign range 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.255 (will not automatically assign IPs below 100)
- Subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
- DNS Server, for this tutorial I’m using Googles free DNS server, 18.104.22.168, not that I’ll be surfing the web much with this setup.
- You might have something different, but if you don’t know, feel free to try my defaults first.
My router (which is also my gateway), by default, uses 192.168.1.1 for it’s IP, and, by default, it only assigns 192.168.1.100 and up using DHCP, so I can assign fixed IP addresses using anything other than 1 for numbers below 100. So I decided to use 68 (figure 1) for 68k of course.
On my Macintosh Plus I opened the MacTCP 2.1 control panel (Figure 1)
I next had to change the settings to manual instead of server, and set the sub mask, router address (called gateway in some versions of MacTCP), and set the Domain Name Server information, I used google’s as it’s available to most people (figure 2). Note MacTCP 2.1 is a unofficial patch, and the author has greatly simplified the interface, so this may look different from other guides.
Once you updated your MacTCP settings for your network, reboot your Macintosh Plus
3. Using your network connection
In the network folder on your drive (if you used one of my images), you’ll find and FTP program called Fetch that you can use to transfer files from one of your more modern systems on your network to you Macintosh. I have a windows 10 laptop with FileZilla installed that I use for my server, and add an exception to Windows firewall so that my Macintosh could connect to FileZilla. If there is interest I’ll add some more details on how to setup FileZilla and connect via Fetch. | <urn:uuid:5b71fef8-66ab-4109-b89c-32537f0899b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.savagetaylor.com/2020/05/10/macplus-on-my-network-using-scsi-to-ethernet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.901713 | 1,674 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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RENEWABLE & RECOVERY ENERGY PLANTS
Context & Stakes
In the global context of energy transition, the industrial landscape is changing with the development of numerous technologies, particularly in the field of Renewable and Recovery Energy. The multiplication of installations is accompanied by a diversification of the associated technological risks. Regardless of the type and size of the facility concerned, appropriate monitoring and controls are necessary to properly manage situations and thus avoid incidents that may have consequences for the reputation of an entire sector.
Traceability & Sustainable performance
Production streams, treatments and analyses are compiled in a central document in accordance with the technical regulations; this information is essential to guarantee the traceability and control of facilities over time. The Annual Operating Report brings together all this information and all significant events relating to the operation. It is one of the essential bases for building the relationship of trust required in the context of the operation of an industrial facility. In addition, the Integrity Assurance Plan describes the procedures and monitoring implemented to guarantee both the safety and long-term operation of the site in the common interest of operators, neighbors, financiers and insurers.
Keep records of
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I’m a happy mom, and deeply thankful for all I’ve learned from him as he has pursued majors in Biology and Environmental Studies. The world needs more people like Erik, devoting themselves to researching, restoring, protecting, and wisely stewarding the natural world.
I’m celebrating his success, fittingly, with five books about trees. Such glories, trees.
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever, by H. Joseph Hopkins, illustrated by Jill McElmurry published in 2013 by Beach Lane Books
Kate Sessions grew up in Northern California in the late 1800s, a tree-loving, mud-grubbing girl with a bent for science which was not so common for girls in those days.
In 1883, she moved to San Diego, a desert town whose rusty dustiness was unbroken by trees. Before long, Kate could stand it no longer. Trees were needed, she said, and although no one thought trees would grow there, Kate set about to transform the city park into a shady, tree-filled oasis.
Hunting down trees from around the world that were suitable for this climate, Kate created a magnificent garden now known as Balboa Park. It remains a lush, green haven for the people of San Diego.
This pleasantly-told biography is just right for ages 5 and up. The gouache illustrations are really lovely, full of the beauty and hush and elegance of trees, and the fashions of the 1800s, with a bit of a Miss Rumphius flavor. What a great legacy to leave!
Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World, by Margi Preus, illustrated by Rebecca Gibbon published in 2010 by Christy Ottaviano Books
Trees can live to be so, so, so old.
Which allows for the possibility of becoming known and loved by generations of people, and sometimes becoming legendary.
Here are 14 famous trees, and a short account of their lives. There’s Methuselah, a Bristlecone Pine in California that’s around 4,800 years old, the “oldest known single living organism on earth.” And General Sherman, that famous Sequoia, weighing about three MILLION pounds.
And The Tree of One Hundred Horses in Spain. Perhaps the thickest of all trees. Here we learn the story of how it got its name.
Each of these stories is quite short — just enough to acquaint us with these beauties in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The pages are dominated by Gibbon’s friendly, bold illustrations.
There’s additional info in the final pages telling us more about these and other “champion” trees, along with ideas for how you can help protect trees. It’s an upbeat, intriguing book for early elementary and up.
Big Tree, by Mary and Conrad Buff published in 1946 by The Viking Press
This Newbery Honor title traces the life story of Wawona, a Sequoiah growing in the forests of California.
It’s out of print — the sad fate of so many Honor titles — but worth tracking down for its unusual, storytelling mix of both history and nature lore. Those of you who know Holling Clancy Holling’s books will find a similar flavor here.
The story begins when Wawona is just a tiny seed, “no larger than an ant,” still packed into a tight brown cone on an ancient Sequoiah. When the cone splits, and Wawona is released, he is whirled by the wind to a perfect mound of earth.
We follow Wawona through the years, centuries, and milennia of his life, through storms and forest fires, as Native Americans and then white lumbermen come his way. We learn how magnificently strong he is, as well as the only threat he really cannot withstand. Occasionally an event from history is mentioned so we get a better understanding of just how old this tree is.
Interspersed with the narrations about the tree itself, are a number of stories about various animals living in and near Wawona. There’s a bear who meets his match in Mother Skunk, a couple of bucks fiercely battling for supremacy, chipmunks, owls, golden eagles…and each story contains a nice bit of nature lore.
At 80 pages long, with gorgeous black-and-white illustrations throughout, it would make a nice read-aloud for early-elementary and up. Keep in mind that cruelties are inherent to authentic nature stories, and that’s the case here as well.
My Old Tree, by Patricia Lee Gauch, illustrated by Doris Burn published in 1970 by Coward-McCann, Inc.
Elderly, stately, grand trees. Mighty in girth and height. Broadly spreading branches and hefty limbs.
That’s the kind of trees that just beg to be climbed and lolled in. That’s the kind of tree this boy has in mind for his tree fort and his hoped-for life among blossoms and squirrels and sky.
This story is a quaint pleasure, just the idle thinking of a small boy dreaming of how life in a tree might look. It beckons us with the lovely innocence, the simple non-electronic-ness, the roving outdoorness of a healthy childhood.
I adore Doris Burn’s work, and these soft, nostalgic, retro illustrations are classic Doris Burn. It’s a sweet, vintage read to coax your kids outside and up a tree.
A Tree is Nice, by Janice May Udry, illustrated by Marc Simont published in 1956 by Harper & Row
I’ve featured this book on Orange Marmalade before, but I just couldn’t do a whole list of five about trees without adding this gem.
It’s one of my all-time favorite children’s books. One of those, if-I-had-to-pick-just-10-for-the-desert-island, this-would-be-on-the-list, books. It won the Caldecott way back in 1957, but feels as fresh as if it were written yesterday.
Udry’s charming, unsophisticated, pure reflections of what is so nice about trees, complemented by Marc Simont’s perfect paintings which capture the essence of trees with such splendor I get a pang in my heart. That’s what you get.
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The City of Jackson is getting international recognition for its transparency in financial reporting. The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to the City of Jackson for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019.
The City’s CAFR was judged by an impartial panel to meet the high standards of the program, which includes demonstrating a constructive “spirit of full disclosure” to clearly communicate its financial story and motivate potential users and user groups to read the CAFR. The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant accomplishment by a government and its management.
“This is great for the City as a whole because it improves our bond rating,” said City Manager Jonathan Greene. Bond Ratings are letter grades assigned to bonds that indicates good or bad credit for an entity like the City of Jackson. Having a strong bond rating gives the City opportunities to pay back interest at lower rates. “Our Finance Director Phil Hones and his staff are to thank for this honor. We believe this award will help our residents understand the work we do to make the City’s finances transparent and easy to understand,” Greene said.
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A Hall Effect Rotary Position Sensor
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published February 01, 1991 by SAE International in United States
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Rotary position sensors (RPS) currently are applied widely in engine management systems for throttle position sensing and are being considered for other applications such as drive-by-wire. The potentiometer RPS relies on contact between a resistive element and a wiper and thus has an inherent wear mechanism.
This paper describes a noncontacting RPS which is essentially a drop-in replacement for the present device. A linear output Hall Effect IC is key to achieving the required functionality, but it must be combined with a magnetic actuation scheme which provides a very linear and stable magnetic field as a function of input angle and packaging which provides long life and control of mechanical tolerances. Each of these design elements will be discussed.
|Technical Paper||Development and Validation of a 0.020″ Evaporative Leak Diagnostic System Utilizing Vacuum Decay Methods|
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CitationBicking, R., Wu, G., Murdock, J., Hoy, D. et al., "A Hall Effect Rotary Position Sensor," SAE Technical Paper 910270, 1991, https://doi.org/10.4271/910270.
- Riley, R. E. “High Performance Resistive Position Sensors” SAE Paper # 890302
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The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Nov 14, 2011
Despite dividend levels that once again reached 110 billion dollars, that is, the same as before the recession, large British companies continue to announce wage cuts and other attacks.
The eight largest companies dominating the construction industry, for example, want to impose a wage cut for electricians between 14 and 37%.
The workers of the British subsidiary of Ford Motor have discovered a hidden clause in the contract that will reduce wages of new hires by 20% beginning in April of 2012 and kick them out of the pension plan beginning in 2013.
Other companies have found sneaky ways to cut workers’ wages. The railroad company East Coast, a spin off from a state enterprise to the private sector, employs temp-agency workers, whose wages are 37% lower than workers already working there. A new European Union agreement says temporary workers must be paid the same wage for the same work after 12 weeks. So East Coast will use new job classifications to put one group of workers next to another, doing exactly the same work – at 37% lower wages. It will be no surprise when East Coast decides to keep only the lower paid workers.
Jaguar Land Rover employs 800 temp-agency workers at the minimum wage in its Halewood factory. (The regular workers don’t get all that much more.) Jaguar has proposed that the temp workers voluntarily renounce benefits from the new European agreement, for which they promise to give the first 300 volunteers a guarantee of five days work each week. Others only get part-time work. And at least 200 temp workers will be out the door immediately!
There have been many other such attacks from 2008 to the present, but now we may be seeing a reaction. In London, the electricians in the construction industry organize to block one large work site each week. And at Ford, where the vote is taking place on the new contract, three factories out of seven have already voted against the contract by large majorities.
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Garlic is a good ingredient for dishes. It improves the flavor and gives it a good scent. Garlic comes highly recommended for treating certain ailments. Along with its many benefits accompanies the interest to have it in the garden.
Planting garlic is not a hard nut to crack. If you can get the trick to have a successful garlic plant, you will have access to a lot of health benefits with no costs attached. Garlic gives the immune system a boost and helps to regulate blood pressure. Incorporating it into your diet is tantamount to signing a will with good health.
Some of the best companion plants to grow with garlic are dill, tomatoes, tarragon, roses, carrot, cabbage, fruit trees, kale, broccoli, and potatoes. Garlic has a pungent smell that can help repel some pests in the garden. Do not plant garlic near plants such as beans, carrots, other alliums, asparagus, and parsley, it will stunt their growth.
Garlic doesn’t contribute to human health alone. It also aids the growth of numerous plants. It is advisable to have this plant in your garden if you want to spend less on pest control. Garlic will help deter dangerous pests from destroying your plant. It doesn’t take up so much space in the garden and protects your plants from fungal diseases.
The benefit garlic offers is probably whetting your appetite. Do you want to learn more? Keep your eyes peeled for the companion plants.
7 Best Garlic Companion Plants
Companion Planting helps you spend less on the maintenance of your plant. When Companion Planting is practiced in your garden, pests are repelled, the plant receives a flavor boost, the yield of the plant is increased. Certain plants make other plants perform this way.
Tomato plants are delicate therefore they require monitoring. The spider mite is an example of a pest that can destroy the yield of your tomato. However, garlic which is a natural pest repellent assist in keeping pests at bay thus improving its flavor. The pungent scent of garlic is released into the atmosphere and is responsible for keeping these dangerous insects far away.
This is one of the garden plants that attract varieties of pests. Pests like cabbage maggots, moths, Loopers, worms can cause damage to the leaves of your plant. This should not be a problem for garlic as it will take care of these pests by deterring them.
Potatoes should never be planted alone. There are many plants it can benefit from and garlic is an example of a beneficial plant. Potatoes are vulnerable to blight diseases (fungal) and insect pests. Sulfur is released from the roots of garlic. This is the ‘natural fungicide’ used to get rid of fungal diseases and some pests like the Japanese beetle.
Garlic is also referred to as a “stinking rose” because of the pungent scent it emits. Some flowers also release scents that keep pests far away but Rose is vulnerable to aphids. Aphids can disfigure the petals of your flower but planting garlic will help put aphids in their place. Garlic also assists other flowers like nasturtium to remain pest-free.
Garlic is known to contribute largely to the growth of other plants by helping them repel pests and keeping them free of diseases. Hence, it is used as a companion for other plants. Planting cloves with tarragon changes this fact as garlic is at the receiving end. Tarragon aids the growth of garlic cloves. If you want to have a better yield of cloves, grow it with some tarragon.
This plant is found on the list of companion plants for other crops. Its relationship with garlic is symbiotic as garlic acts as a source of natural repellent while dill on the other hand improves the flavor of your cloves.
Don’t forget that garlic grows best in cool climates. Plants that have similar growing requirements are the best companions to plant together. Carrots will thrive at a cool temperature. Planting garlic and carrots during Fall will help both plants play a symbiotic role. Carrot flies, a major pest of carrots will be kept in their place by cloves of garlic while carrots will also assist in deterring the major pests of garlic.
What Not To Plant With Garlic
Allium plants can hinder the growth of other plants if one isn’t aware of the plants to avoid planting them with. Not all plants will grow well if grow well with garlic. These plants include;
Beans and garlic go well together in your dish but never in the garden. Surprisingly, garlic will affect the growth of your beans plant. This includes all species of beans (bush beans, pole beans).
The best thing to do is plant beans on your patch before you plant garlic. By then, the soil will be enriched with nitrogen and more suitable for planting.
Asparagus and garlic can’t cohabitate in the same garden. Their flavors will mix and that will change the taste of the garlic. The asparagus plant grows every year and can be invasive. Its root grows deep into the floor. Planting garlic with asparagus will disrupt its root system.
Sage should not be found with plants that can affect its roots’ growth. Sage is a woody plant and needs to be grown with a plant that possesses soft roots.
Parsley is a nutrient-hungry plant. Garlic also competes for nutrients to some point. Having both plants on the same soil is setting up your companion planting for disaster. Never situate both plants close to each other as they can affect each other’s growth.
Research hasn’t confirmed if garlic will be of benefit to strawberries. It has been studied that having garlic close to strawberries can help it repel pests and protect it from fungal diseases.
Garlic was observed to reduce the yield of strawberries. That’s much worse than getting infested with pests.
6. Other Alliums
Avoid planting relatives of allium with it. Your harvest will result in a disaster. Just imagine onion maggots on both of your allium plants after you have made plans to sell them. The yield would have been destroyed, time would have been wasted, and you will eventually have to throw them away. Thus, cloves of garlic and other alliums should not be brought close together on the same patch.
Garlic Companion Planting Guide
Here are some tips for companion planting garlic in your garden.
- It is great to get a good area and rich soil for planting your garlic but planting a seed that won’t sprout well will bring your efforts to naught. Make sure to get your seeds from a reliable source and select a good environment to plant
- A depth of 1 inch is enough for your seed
- Garlic cloves grow best during cool climates. It will do best if you plant it in the fall season
- Garlic thrives best on well-drained soil
- To get the best of garlic, expose it to 6-8 hours of direct sunlight
- Plant your cloves on soil that hasn’t accommodated an allium plant
- Replenish the soil with fertilizer, compost, or manure
- Space your plants at least 4 inches apart
- Water your plant often
- Provide your cloves with mulch to conserve their moisture.
What should not be planted near garlic?
Although garlic is a pest repellent and has many companion plants, it should never be found close to some plants. Plants like Sage, beans, other allium plants, strawberries will affect the growth of garlic. If you want your garlic cloves to come out well. Avoid planting it with those plants listed above.
Is garlic a companion plant for tomatoes?
Garlic aids the growth of so many plants and is found on the list of companion plants for other crops. Tomato is subject to dangerous pests and the role of garlic when planted with it is to keep these pests at Bay using its pungent scent.
Can you plant peppers with garlic?
Peppers will have no negative effect on garlic and vice versa. Garlic and pepper will make a good blend in dishes and on the same soil too. Garlic will assist pepper in repelling pests.
Can garlic be planted near onions?
Do not let this thought cross your mind !. Allium plants don’t agree with each other in the same garden. They compete for space and nutrients thereby stunting their growth.
What should I plant before garlic?
Coffee thrives well on rich soil. Rich and fertile soil are recommended for garlic cultivation. The best crop to plant before growing garlic in your garden is Beans. Beans are a good source of compost when it decays and it helps replenish the soil with nitrogen and other essential nutrients.
Are coffee grounds good for garlic?
Coffee grounds are rich in soil nutrients. It is good to plant your garlic on a ground that has accommodated coffee plant provided it is not closely packed.
Can I plant garlic next to Basil?
Basil and garlic are good companions and will do well together on the same soil. Basil is among the list of favorite plants garlic loves to be planted with.
Can I plant lettuce with garlic?
Lettuce is susceptible to numerous pests, aphids being the major pest. Cloves of Garlic help to deter these pests and keep the lettuce leaves pest-free and in good shape.
Garlic is easy to plant. Though their growth can be hindered if planted with the wrong Companion plants.
Take note of its bad companions and keep them at bay. Planting garlic’s favorite plants with it result in a great harvest. Companion planting reduces costs on pest control. Likewise, planting garlic in your garden will help you control pest infestation.
More companion planting guides:
- Cucumber Companion Plants (What Not to Grow With Cucumbers)
- Radish Companion Plants (What Not to Grow Near Radishes)
- Eggplant Companion Plants (What Not To Grow Near Eggplants)
- Corn Companion Plants (What Not To Grow Near Corn)
- Nasturtium Companion Plants (What Not To Grow Near Nasturtiums)
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Drum and Drummer: Your Guide to Buying Drum Sets
By Valerie Farabee
When looking for information about other instruments, you are generally only searching for a single instrument – a guitar, a clarinet, a tuba – and this makes it easier to compare price, quality and brand. A drum set is a horse of a different color. As a set it is made up of component parts, some of which are optional, but how are you to know which ones you need versus which ones are add-ons for when you become super trick at beating those skins? Never fear! Priceonomics, in their infinite wisdom, has put me to the task of helping you suss out the best bang for your buck.
Me & My Drum
A drum set, trap set, or drum kit is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments set up to be played by a single player. Most sets start with four drums: a snare drum, bass drum, and one or more tom-toms. This setup is great for a beginner, and it’s easy to add more drums as you get better, become more interested, and want to play more complex beats. As with most instruments these days, kits are available as electronic or acoustic sets, each with its own list of pros and cons.
Dancing to the Beat of an Electronic Drum
Acoustic or electric? That is the question. An acoustic drum set is the one we are most familiar with, a set with at least the four drums described above requiring no electronic amplification. Let’s consider an electronic drum set for a moment, though. An electronic drum is an electronic synthesizer which mimics the configuration and sound of an acoustic kit.
You can play and hear yourself using headphones, but it will sound to everyone else like you are just smacking the hell out of some practice pads. Note: Purchase silencer pads for your acoustic kit and you have achieved the same effect!
For recording purposes, you can plug directly into a computer without needing or adjusting any of those pesky microphones.
Pre-programmed sound sets. These are fun to have available for performances and recording!
Electronics fail sooner than acoustic hardware. This is something to consider if you don’t want to replace kit after kit.
One must have an amplifier to project the sound when performing with an electronic kit.
They are more expensive than comparable acoustic kits when you consider cost to value.
Consider your recording needs when choosing between an acoustic vs. electric set. As a beginner, you’re not likely to begin recording immediately, and you an acoustic set will help you master the basics. As an advanced beginner, or one who is interested in adding effects, trigger sounds and music samples, an electronic drum kit might be right for you.
More Cowbell, Please
Drums kits are highly modular, and beyond the basic 4 or 5 piece configuration, you can add an assortment of percussive accessories with which to round out your sound. Once you’ve setup your essential drum kit, have fun with an extra bass drum, cymbals, woodblocks, cowbells, claves and more! Create a FrankenDrum by adding electronic sensors to your acoustic drum set for the best of both worlds – this one is for experts, only! Don’t forget a foot pedal for each bass drum – you’ll need at least one – and a drum throne to sit on while playing. Unlike traditional stools, drum thrones swivel and allow you to raise and lower your seat.
And the Beat Goes On….A Rather Expensive Trip
Drums cost money. This is no surprise to anyone, it is in fact the very reason you are perusing the priceonomics guide to drums. You can spend anywhere between $25 – $2500 on a drum kit. Electronic drum kits will cost more than comparable acoustic kits, but might be worth it, depending on your skill level and recording needs. If you are a beginner, try to rent a set for a while to see if you will stick with drumming.
Beginner sets can be purchased for between $50 – $500. You can buy these at Toys R Us and CostCo. These are great for kids 10 and under who are just learning and who can’t yet tell the difference in sound quality between a big-box set and the real thing.
If it looks like drumming is for you, or you can finally hear the difference in quality, splurge on a mid-range set that will get you through a couple of years of heavy practice and will be suitable for when you inevitably start performing. These sets are great for high-school to college age students, and can be purchased for anywhere from $450 – thousands of dollars.
For the pro-status drummer, buy a high grade set starting from $2500 and running into the tens of thousands of dollars. You read that right! If you’re going to be in the industry, buy the best that you can afford. These are highly customizable, from the materials used to the number of pieces included in the set, and a professional savant type will be pleased with the tweaks available at this level.
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Blockchain Cuties debuts on TRON with rare tribute Cutie
Umka says Привет to the TRON Network
Since its integration of the TRON blockchain, players have been working assiduously at creating TRX20-based cuties. At this point in time, there are a few thousand newly created Cuties on TRON. While this is hardly surprising, what is is the fact that a rare tribute Cutie was discovered.
With each generation of breeding between these digital tokens, there are certain rare types players can create.
Depending on the kind of cuties bred, the chances of a rare type can be good, or exceptionally thin. This is where Umka, the recently sired, and very rare Cutie comes into the TRON Chain.
What makes this one particularly interesting is that neither of its ‘parents’ possesses the ‘polar bear’ gene needed to create it.
But what also sets it apart is that it is a super-rare ‘tribute’ cutie; with 30 different types being hidden in the game.
So where does this tribute come from? A classic cartoon from the Soviet Union.
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Are Strawberries A Healthy Snack?
Strawberries are one of the best healthy snack ideas. They’re sweet enough for kids, adults, and grandparents yet pack a powerful antioxidant punch that’s low in calories. This past weekend was Memorial Day and for those of you who aren’t from San Diego, a little north of here within the county limits is a town called Carlsbad. Each spring the town gets put into the spotlight because of its decently size strawberry fields. The owners of the strawberry fields open up their land to the public and make it available for people to come in and hand pick strawberries. I’ve never done it before but my wife has and since we were doing some shopping in the area we decided to go check it out. Turns out – it’s a blast!
A Healthy Snack
I’ve always loved strawberries and whether or not you’re already a healthy individual strawberries hold some excellent nutritional values. They’re also great for anyone who is trying to prevent cancer or anyone who is living life with any number of diseases from diabetes, obesity and being overweight, heart disease, etc.
Nutritional Facts of Strawberries
Let’s start out with the basics. Strawberries are naturally sweet, yet they only have on average of 1.5 to 2 calories per strawberry (1). I’m assuming just one won’t fill you up (nor should it because they’re just so amazing) but assume you have ten, that’s only about twenty calories for a sweet savory snack. Ten strawberries also contains about 100mg of vitamin C – more than the RDA for vitamin C (1). Current RDA for vitamin C is 75mg for females and 90mg for males (2).
For those who aren’t hip on Vitamin C, it’s responsible for a variety of cell functions (what isn’t?), a powerful antioxidant (which helps to prevent cell damage and cancer), immune system booster, and is important for protecting those eyes of yours. Vitamin C is also responsible for collagen formation (a protein structure in your body that helps with bone and blood vessel structure and all connective tissues in your body). Think of collagen as the tissue in your face that keeps your skin elastic, tight, and young looking (3)
More Health Benefits of Strawberries!
In one of our other posts we discussed the differences of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids For more on that read here. One of the main takeaways from that post was the importance of a ratio of getting a near 1:1 ratio of omega-3 to omega-6. Strawberries also contain a small amount of both omega-3 and omega-6. Ten strawberries come pretty darn close to that ratio – 117mg of omega-3 to 162mg of omega-6 (1). All the benefits of omega-3 and omega-6 can be read in the article mentioned above.
One Last Health Benefit To Strawberries
As you’ve read so far, strawberries have numerous important health benefits. One last major health benefit of strawberries is that they contain a certain type of plant steroid called phytosterols. Phytosterols are only found in plants and numerous studies on populations of people show reduced cancer risks amongst people who regularly consume fruit and vegetables (the most common are stomach cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and bladder cancer (1). Phytosterols have MANY benefets (far too many to name here) but the phytosterol specific to strawberries is ellagic acid. That little guy has powerful antioxidant effects and anticancer effects (4).
Now that you’re in the know about the health benefits of strawberries, how will you go about making them into a healthy snack for yourself? Anyone have a good healthy recipe of strawberry shortcake to share?
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3. Hampl, Jeffry S. Wardlaw, Gordon, M. Perspectives in Nutrition. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., 2007. 39-40, 365-367.
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The storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque, on Saturday 8 May coinciding with 27 Ramadan Lailatul Qadr, by Israeli forces and then the brutal aerial bombardment of Gaza for 11 days with dramatic images of demolition of multi storey buildings resulting in the death of more than 250 Palestinians including 66 children shook the conscience of the world with rallies in support of Palestine.
There were a number of rallies in support of Palestinians in all major cities of Australia with calls for a stop to Israel’s illegal acquisition of Palestinian lands, oppression in the occupied territories and total blockade of Gaza, considered as an open prison with people living in a miserable condition.
The ceasefire finally came into effect on Friday 21 May and while it is life as usual for Israelis now, it is time for the people in Gaza to take stock of the dead and high number of injured and start cleaning up the rubble and try rebuilding their houses and life from scratch again.
Israel flaunts UN resolutions on a regular basis and its occupation and confiscation of Palestinian land is unacceptable under International law and according to Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem, Israel is guilty of crime of apartheid with discriminatory policies against the Palestinians.
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Last week, we blogged about two recent studies of Gibson’s that pointed to key predictors of postsecondary STEM success and explored Hispanic students’ exposure to STEM coursework in Texas. In October of 2017, one of those studies attracted the attention of Education Week’s Curriculum Matters blog. The post, titled “Despite Access, Students of Color in Texas Complete Fewer Advanced STEM Classes”, summarizes our work and highlights important questions that our study raises:
“[W]hy [do] fewer students of color complete these classes, despite apparently having access to them[?] Is it a function of different expectations for these students? Not enough support in helping them finish the classes? A lack of counseling? Tracking in high school?”
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There are many artists that defy categorisation, but one of the most difficult to define is, without doubt, Captain Beefheart. Born Don Glen Vliet, with a gravelly and uncompromising voice, his music was a combination of jazz, blues and psychedelic rock, though, due to his genre-defying ability, many refer to his style simply as ‘avant-garde’.
Van Vliet was known to have an explosive temper and somewhat erratic behaviour. His backing group, The Magic Band, was a constantly changing lineup as its members often grew tired of Van Vliet’s treatment of them, which could be quite cruel, according to who you ask.
The music of Captain Beefheart ultimately had poor sales during Van Vliet’s career. Still, he has been credited as an influence by several musicians and artists over the years, including Kurt Cobain, Jack White and Tom Waits. Waits claimed to change his approach to music after listening to Beefheart, particularly on Swordfishtrombones, and once said: “Once you’ve heard Beefheart, it’s hard to wash him out of your clothes. It stains, like coffee or blood.”
Van Vliet started out as Captain Beefheart in 1964 but left the music industry in 1982 to focus on a new career as an expressionist painter. At that point, he was rumoured to be living in near poverty and seclusion in a small house in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, and he had only made roughly 25 public appearances between 1964 and 1970. His move into painting was ultimately a more successful and profitable venture than his music had been.
However, this move into visual art ought not to come as too much of a surprise. The truth is that Don Van Vliet was, in fact, a sculpting child prodigy. He began sculpting just aged three with a particular interest in dinosaurs, fish and mammals. It is said that Van Vliet’s parents had to push dinner under his door as he was so obsessed with his creative endeavours.
At the age of nine, Van Vliet won a children’s sculpting competition at Los Angeles Zoo. He then studied under Agostinho Rodrigues, a local tutor, with whom he performed on a weekly art television show. This exposure, combined with Van Vliet’s undeniable talent, ultimately led to several art scholarship offers at age 13, including one to travel to Europe for six years with tuition fully paid. Sadly, his parents declined this scholarship offer (and many others) because they thought art was too “queer”.
Van Vliet’s parents’ discouragement greatly affected the young artist, and he ultimately gave up his sculpture ambitions. Given his reported talent, though, the Captain Beefheart we know and love today nearly never was.
Van Vliet’s introduction to music coincided with a newfound friendship with Frank Zappa, who he met at Antelope Valley High School as a teenager. The two would spend a lot of time listening to records together in Zappa’s room, and together, they came up with the name Captain Beefheart, though the stories of the name’s origin vary. Zappa would go on to record much of Van Vliet’s future music as Captain Beefheart, including Trout Mask Replica, which many consider to be Beefheart’s greatest work.
So Van Vliet’s artistic career twisted and turned all throughout his life. Julian Schnabel bought one of his paintings in 1985 and he went on showcase his work in a solo exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York.
Of his paintings, Van Vliet has said, “I’m trying to turn myself inside out on the canvas. I’m trying to completely bare what I think at that moment.” At the time of his death in 2010, Van Vliet’s paintings were selling for $40,000 a piece. A truly talented and arguably even genius artist, Van Vliet will now be remembered for his adeptness in several artistic disciplines. | <urn:uuid:16687d5c-05f4-4fb2-8db5-5433d7345d79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/captain-beefheart-child-sculpting-prodigy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985984 | 869 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Life insurance should be an essential part of your overall financial plan. It can be added to your overall asset mix of home, savings, retirement accounts, and other investments to provide for your loved ones when you’re gone.
In honor of September being National Life Insurance Awareness Month, SAFE is here to help you better understand why you should obtain a life insurance policy if you don’t already have one, and re-evaluate your coverage to determine whether it is still sufficient to meet your family’s needs.
SAFE Credit Union has teamed up with myLifeApp to offer a range of whole life and term life insurance options to fit your budget and needs. Let myLifeApp do the comparison shopping for you among multiple insurance providers to select the plan that can give you peace of mind. Find a quote and connect with a life insurance expert through the myLifeApp to the find the coverage that’s right for you.
Now, let’s get to busting some myths about life insurance.
Myth #1: I’m single, and I have no dependents. There’s no reason for me to get life insurance.
Actually, there is good reason for you to have life insurance as a single person. First, every person should have enough funds to cover their funeral costs and end-of-life medical bills. You don’t want to leave your family or executor with a legacy of debt and unpaid bills. Second, purchasing a life insurance policy is a way to be remembered for your generosity. You can choose your favorite cause or charity to be the beneficiary of your death payout, helping improve the lives of others after you’re gone.
Myth #2: I’m a stay-at-home parent who doesn’t earn an income. My partner needs life insurance. I don’t.
The tasks that help your family function will still need to be done even if you suddenly pass on. Your better half may need to pay for cleaning help, a cook, or a nanny — or maybe all three! All that costs money, and that money can come from the insurance payout from a homemaker’s life insurance policy.
Myth #3: Why would I waste my money on an insurance policy when I can invest that same money and earn higher returns?
Are you sitting on millions? Unless you can honestly answer that with a “yes,” you’re better off putting your money somewhere safe with a guaranteed payout — like a life insurance policy. Investments are never 100% safe, and you don’t want to leave your dependents with an iffy source of funds.
Myth #4: Life insurance is too expensive. I can’t afford it!
There are all sorts of options available to make life insurance affordable for most people. A recent Life Happens study revealed that 80% of uninsured people who claimed life insurance was too expensive had overestimated its cost. A 20-year level term policy for a healthy 30-year-old usually falls in the ballpark of $150 a year.1 That’s peanuts compared to the benefits of having life insurance and the security of knowing your loved ones will be taken care of after you’re gone.
Myth #5: I’m too young to worry about life insurance.
Actually, there’s no better time to purchase a life insurance policy than when you’re young and healthy. The premiums are far less expensive for those under age 35, and most people in that stage of life do not have sizable assets to pass on to their dependents. Rates increase as you get older. Most importantly, dependents of the 25-year-old to 35-year-old age group may be too young to be financially independent and will need the death payouts for basic survival.
Myth #6: My children are independent adults. Why would I need life insurance?
It always feels good to provide for your children, regardless of their stage of life. Leaving your children with an inheritance that helps them purchase a home, start a business, or even put some money away for a rainy day will keep you in their thoughts long after you’re gone.
Also, you don’t want to burden your children with funeral expenses and medical bills when they’re grieving. Just the cost of a funeral and burial can top $8,000!2 It’s always best to have these expenses covered before it’s too late.
Myth #7: My job offers a life insurance policy for all employees. If I leave my job, I can always take the policy with me.
Unfortunately, this may be false. Most employer-offered life insurance policies are not portable. If you leave your job, for whatever reason, you may also be leaving your life insurance plan. No one can predict the future, and there’s no way to know you’ll remain at your current workplace forever. That’s why it’s best to purchase a separate life insurance policy, even when your employer provides you with one. Plus, buying your own policy will allow you to choose one that best suits your needs.
It’s never fun to think about what will happen after we’re gone. Taking the time to plan for end-of-life expenses, though, and leaving loved ones with enough to live on when we’ve passed, is the responsible thing to do. Don’t let a life insurance myth keep you from buying a policy!
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Kai Ryssdal: A key Russian politician said this week there’s been no formal ban on U.S adoption of Russian children. There is, though, a new agreement being worked out between the two sides. Last month, a Tennessee woman sent her Russian-born son back to Moscow unaccompanied.
Russia is the number three source of international adoptions for American parents. China has been at the top of that list for years. Beijing is generally assumed to run a clean program — orphanages that are above board and children who’ve actually been abandoned. But a scandal five years ago shook a lot of that confidence. Six orphanages were found to have been buying babies who were then adopted by families from other countries. One of the convicted middlemen in that case is now out of jail. He and his mother spoke to our China correspondent, Marketplace’s Scott Tong.
SCOTT TONG: As Chen Zhijing tells it, her family stumbled into the baby-selling business.
In the late ’90s, she worked at an orphanage in Hunan province, and every so often, she would find a baby abandoned on a street corner, or at a bus stop and bring it to the orphanage.
Chen would get maybe a dollar to cover her travel costs. But then, around the year 2000…
Chen Zhijing: The orphanage asked for more babies. It started paying $120 dollars each. Then $250. Then $500 by 2005.
At that time, China’s international adoption program was booming. In 2005, the government decided to approve more adoption requests than ever before. Nearly 8,000 hopeful families came from the U.S. alone that year. For each baby, an orphanage gets $3,000 from the adopting parents. That’s Chinese policy.
Chen Zhijing’s son, Duan Yueneng, says all that foreign money created a lucrative baby market.
Duan Yueneng: We sold babies to orphanages. Others did, too. They bought them because foreigners wanted them, and then made big profits when the babies were adopted.
To meet the demand, Duan says he enlisted his wife and sisters to locate more babies. They started buying infants from a supplier in Guangdong province 600 miles away. They say this woman systematically collected unwanted babies from local hospitals.
The babies were then transported by train to Hunan. But it all ended in late 2005, when Duan and his family were arrested and convicted on charges of trafficking 85 infants. Duan got five years in jail. He’s just out. His wife got eight years, his sister 15.
Duan shows us court papers, documenting his baby trade: receipts, bank transfers, orphanage logs. They’re consistent with his claim that his family sold far more than 85 infants; he reckons he trafficked 1,000 or more. Duan says the orphanages falsified foreign adoption papers for each of the trafficked babies.
In China, every orphan has a file — listing where it was found, when, and by whom. Duan says in many cases the babies were not found locally, as the adoption papers say. They were bought from far away. The documents we saw indicate at least one went to American parents.
Yueneng: Sometimes the orphanages listed my sister as the finder, or they just put down a fake name. For Americans who adopted babies, let me put it this way: When were the kids really born? Who really found them?
Duan makes no apology for selling babies. The money, he says, encouraged him to deliver kids to orphanages, and to a better life.
Brian Stuy rejects that argument. His company, Research China, investigates Chinese orphans and their history. Stuy says the money orphanages get paid for each adoption invites corruption. Three grand in China, he says, has the buying power equivalent to $40,000 in the States.
BRIAN Stuy: There’s the potential for tremendous dark side activity. People kidnapping kids to bring them to the orphanages. People having babies simply to give them to the orphanages. If the international adoption program was not there, these children probably would not have ended up in the orphanage to begin with.
Stuy says baby selling is systemic in China, and he says it’s still happening today. He just investigated 20 kids from one orphanage, and he says in more than half the cases…
Stuy: The information as it relates to their finding was fabricated. Everything about the origin of the child was fiction.
We got one orphanage director on the phone. She told us she’s willing to pay $150 for a healthy baby girl. Chinese media report at least 88 baby trafficking convictions since the Hunan trial. But many parents and social workers in the U.S. say that trial was an aberration in China’s otherwise clean program.
Chuck Johnson represents adoption agencies at the National Council for Adoption in Washington.
CHUCK Johnson: China is considered one of the premier inter-country adoption programs. They have a very strong system of laws and an extremely involved, authoritative central authority.
Johnson says China’s adoption ministry — the CCAA — investigated the Hunan scandal, and according to its findings…
Johnson: None of the children were adopted by American families.
That seems to conflict with the court documents we saw, which indicate that at least one was. Johnson’s response…
Johnson: I’m not going to comment on that because I have not seen the documents. And also, we’ve had to rely on the investigation completed by the CCAA.
So we tried to contact the CCAA on this. It didn’t respond.
American Cathy Sue Smith in Shanghai sometimes wonders where her adopted daughter was really born. She discovered through DNA matching that her 8-year-old Janna Mae has a biological sister. And here’s the thing: the blood sisters were adopted from different provinces, Hunan and Guangdong. The exact route used by the Duan family trafficking network.
CATHY Sue Smith: It adds to the whole possibility of trafficking.
Smith knows her daughter is not the child court documents show as having been trafficked by Duan. That girl went to another American family. But Smith says she’s not surprised by these goings on. She’s been in China nine years. Long enough, she says, to know rules get bent.
In Hunan, central China, I’m Scott Tong for Marketplace.
RYSSDAL: Scott’s assistant Cecilia Chen helped report that story.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of December 7, 2014, more than 17,942 cases of Ebola have been confirmed. Most of these have been in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone) where almost 6,388 people have died from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
Recently, I attended a lecture at The Commonwealth Medical College, by Shubhra Shetty, MD, Associate Regional Dean of The Commonwealth Medical College and Infectious Disease Specialist and was surprised how much I did not know about EVD. Consequently, with the help of Dr. Shetty, I decided to refute the many “myths” about EVD.
While not restricting travel to the entire continent of Africa, the CDC has issued a strong alert, known as a Level 3 Warning, for US citizens to avoid nonessential travel to those countries in Africa where the outbreak of EVD has been most prevalent; Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Also, a Level 2 Warning has been issued for travel to Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where minor outbreaks have been reported.
Direct physical contact with someone infected with EVD will not necessarily result in the spread of the disease unless there is contact with the body fluids of an infected person. The Ebola virus can only be contracted through contact with body fluids. Body fluids most likely to spread the disease are: infected blood, stool, vomit, breast milk, urine, semen, tears and saliva.
Unless you experience direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person, you cannot contract EVD simply by breathing the same air as someone with the disease. However, if a person with EVD is within close proximity and sneezes in your face, you can contract EVD. Furthermore, infected needles or contact with other objects containing infected body fluids will place you at high risk regardless of your location.
Persons with EVD are only contagious when they have active symptoms. Those who are symptom free and fully recovered from the disease are no longer contagious. Symptoms can appear between 2 and 21 days, however, they usually appear within 7 -10 days. Early symptoms are: fever, muscle ache, headache, and sore throat. It often resembles malaria, typhoid fever or the flu. Later symptoms are: vomiting, diarrhea, internal bleeding and bleeding from the eyes, nose, ears and mouth.
However, there are two exceptions: the virus has been found to be active in semen and breast milk of infected persons for up to three months. Therefore, it is recommended that infected men use a condom and infected women avoid using their breast milk for up to 3 months following infection.
In a laboratory study, scientists discovered that the Ebola virus could survive up to 6 days. However, the study was performed in controlled and ideal conditions. Experts believe that the virus would last for 24 hours in hospital-type settings which utilized proper sanitizing techniques. The good news is household grade bleach has been found to effectively kill the Ebola virus.
Reflexively, the first thought that comes to mind is the fact that EVD is usually fatal, and therefore poses a greater threat to our health than the flu. Furthermore, there is no approved drug to vaccinate or treat EVD as exists for the flu. However, the fact remains that it is very unlikely that you will ever contract EVD. In fact, unless you have traveled to a location where there is an active outbreak or you have been exposed to bodily fluids of someone with active symptoms, your chances of contracting EVD is almost zero.
Scientists feel that African Fruit Bats are natural hosts of the Ebola virus and these bats may have spread EVD to other animals in Africa. When humans handle and/or eat the raw meat from the infected animals, they contract EVD.
Presently, scientists are working on two experimental vaccines. However, they have not been approved for public use because the safety and efficacy of these vaccines has yet to be determined.
While approximately 50% of people with EVD die, survivors develop antibodies which protect them. However, these antibodies offer protection against THAT PARTICULAR STRAIN of Ebola for at least 10 years. It is possible that the survivor could be infected by a different strain of Ebola.
The healthcare workers who contracted EVD in Liberia were treated successfully with an experimental drug called ZMapp. However, ZMapp has not been approved for public use due to the lack of solid scientific evidence to prove its safety and effectiveness. Other studies have found encouraging results when treating EVD by using the serum from survivors.
Medical Contributor: Shubhra Shetty, MD, Associate Regional Dean of The Commonwealth Medical College and Infectious Disease Specialist.
Sources: www.webmd.com; The World Health Organization (WHO), The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Visit your doctor regularly and listen to your body.
Keep moving, eat healthy foods, exercise regularly, and live long and well!
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The recent evolution of technology has raised many ethical and psychological issues especially on the use of electronic gadgets like smartphones to which we have been addicted.
The negative impacts of technology on humans need to be understood so that, we are not manipulated or controlled by these smartphones.
The history of technological addiction is quite long even before the advent of smartphones.
Adam Alter, the author of Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and Business of Keeping Us Hooked has opined that human beings were susceptible to behavioral addiction throughout the history.
However, with the new technologies emerging in recent years has drastically enhanced the tendencies of addiction.
Some of the Key Elements that are causing Addiction to Technology Include
To avoid boredoms, people prefer to chaos over predictability in their daily lives and social media helps in reinforcing this notion.
The increasing usage of videos with the content never stopping on YouTube, Netflix has resulted in addiction of watching videos for just five minutes to 30 minutes without the user even realizing it.
The variable rewards system in Facebook is captivating the audiences or users to always coming back for more thereby resulting in a gambling mentality that is difficult to resist.
The addiction towards achieving new trivial goals drives us towards a dopamine effect with an increased frequency to go for micro victories.
The addiction to technology is potent and as such people with this addiction avoid face to face interaction, spend less time with their family, friends and even risk their lives.
Therefore, the following tips would help us in avoiding addiction to technology such as
Addiction to technology can be avoided through self-awareness. Research done by developer Kevin Holesh through an app called Moment – that allows people to track their day to day screen time on smartphone habits has revealed that people or users of the smartphone have severely underestimated their time spent on mobiles.
On average, we check our phones every six minutes, 150 times a day and the fact is that even when the smartphone is turned off, its presence alone has proven to reduce our cognitive abilities.
Over these two decades, people’s face to face interaction time with friends and family has drastically reduced to 30% and as such majority of smartphone users are in denial mode about the level of distraction caused by these devices.
The addiction towards Facebook, Google is more prominent as both these dominate the digital marketing accounting for 25% of all advertisement sales both online and offline.
So, self-awareness about the time spent on smartphones and website platforms is a way of defeating technology addiction.
Facebook is considered as a major offender of catering to people addiction and primitive tendencies as it is consuming as much time and conscious attention as possible thereby negatively affecting emotional well being.
So, the time has come for Facebook to make serious changes to its business model in the form of abandoning their current advertising models.
There is also need for some federal regulations for Silicon Valley to curtail unhealthy business practices that are leading to technology addiction among the people using social media platforms.
Children and Devices
The smartphone addiction among children has reached alarming proportions with about 40% of children having their own iPad and spending the average time on mobile devices has risen to 860% between 2011 and 2017.
Young children are addicted to the smartphone that is contributing to relationship troubles and unhappiness.
So, the time is ripe to take a right direction towards creating awareness about children addiction towards devices.
Time Well Spent Model
The “Time Well Spent Model” introduced by Tristan Harris – a former employee of Google and an expert on technology addiction is a thoughtful approach to design and alter the way to develop products and business models by IT companies.
Harris along with a few ex-employees of Silicon Valley has launched a project called the Center for Humane Technology to fix the digital attention crisis and create a new model to tackle the technology addiction.
It is important to acknowledge addiction and recognize that children are more vulnerable than anyone and it is time to take control by tracking your smartphone habits.
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An extensive overview of High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure increases with age and as the people reach the middle-ages,
the incidence of high blood pressure increases. Inherent disorders like kidney illness are the
cause of hypertension in children. Although menopause increases the likelihood of females getting
hypertension, males are more prone to have hypertension than females. Talking about USA, Caucasians
and Mexican Americans are on less risk than the natives and African Americans and overall one-third
of the American adults are hypertensive!
To prevent your health being harmed by the high blood pressure, it is highly
recommended that you keep a check on your blood pressure by measuring it recurrently whether you
are feeling fine or not and have medical checkups on a regular basis. This is the most dangerous
aspect of hypertension that the illness is symptomless and most of the affected people only come to
know when a sudden pain starts in various parts of the body and gets the patient with surprise.
Diagnosing the high blood pressure condition:
To diagnose high blood pressure condition, the doctors usually asks the patient
for at least three visits to him and he measure the blood pressure of the patient and if the blood
pressure is found to be higher than 140/90, which is recognized as high blood pressure, for 2 times
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URL Software has developed a system for solid waste collection management, monitoring and reporting.
Barcode labels are affixed to the doors of personal houses, trash cans and vehicles. People who come to your home to collect garbage must scan the barcode. This information will be immediately relayed to the municipal company’s server that records the data. Store complete information logs, including who collected, when collected, from which latitude and longitude, and from which location. Riveting and welding steel plates on large dustbins with laser engraved barcodes.
When the trash can is emptied by the person in charge of the municipal company, the SMS will be delivered to the social secretary / chairman. Therefore, it is direct public participation and fills the gap of actual participation in cases of wrongdoing.
In this way, the company can get online every minute update and roadmap of the complete solid waste collection process. Such an e-government project not only reduces manual workload, but also adds strict monitoring and better workflow.
Attendance, payroll, social, contractor, and trash can reports can be easily generated along with archive logs. All government and related politicians, such as mayor, commissioner, Dai. Commissioners, e-government chiefs, general managers, solid waste contractors, executives, etc. automatically obtain daily reports via email / SMS.
With this system, a better healthy environment can be created through the use of systematic solid waste collection and management methods.
The return on investment of the system is as low as 2 years, and we have already started to contact other municipal companies and got a good response.
We have successfully implemented in GUDA (Gandhi Nagar City Development Authority) and RUDA (Rajkot City Development Authority).
Internationally, we have begun to engage with small countries that are implementing e-government. You can email us at email@example.com to learn more details about the project.
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Why Group Economics is Important for Black Communities
- Group economics is when groups of people have a common economic goal.
- NBA player Andre Iguodala mentioned that group economics is essential to the success of the Black community.
- Group economics is one route that assists with the closing of the racial wealth gap, including the practice of supporting local businesses.
After the brutal and unjust murder of George Floyd, groups in the United States protested on the streets throughout Washington D.C., Minnesota, and other states to protest the inhumane actions portrayed by the police officers. Doing so brought up the opportunity to protest other economic injustices that the black population has faced over countless years.
During the protests, the NBA took the initiative to allow their players to promote social justice messages on their jerseys for the remainder of the 2019-2020 season. Two NBA players, Anthony Tolliver and Andre Iguodala, chose the statement “Group Economics” to be displayed on the back of their jerseys, and here’s why.
What is Group Economics?
Group economics is when groups of people have a common economic goal and work together to achieve it. However, Andre Iguodala mentioned in an interview with USA Today how the system today does not favor minorities, “It’s essentially how systemic oppression doesn’t allow us to buy from our own communities, or get loans to build businesses so we can support ourselves and recycle our dollar.”
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Iguodala points out the favoritism of banks when it comes to giving out loans. Statistics show that a black person is almost twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage refinance than a white person. A white person gets denied a mortgage refinance 17% of the time, whereas a black person has a 30% chance of being rejected.
For example, a Maryland man named Akili Akridge expressed how he was denied his mortgage refinancing option after posting the necessary information on a mortgage marketplace. Although he had all of the requirements for refinancing, he assumes the reason for the rejection was because he disclosed his race. Akili mentioned that the first two lenders who called asked him to reveal his ethnicity. Afterward, they called him back and said they were not looking to refinance a townhouse mortgage, which was the type of house Aklil wished to refinance.
Why is Group Economics Important?
Due to the ongoing pandemic, small businesses have suffered immensely due to less than usual foot traffic and sales. Research shows the buying power amongst African-Americans has reached more than $1 trillion per year. Yet, today, only 2 cents of every dollar is used to fund Black-owned businesses, and the Black dollar only circulates a total of 6 hours before leaving the Black community.
There is a historical timeline of economic injustice among African-Americans that is crippling in building wealth. However, African-Americans have the power to responsibly control their spending and shop at Black-owned businesses to help maintain their economic growth and independence.
Statistics show that when a community consciously promotes practicing group economics, it will improve the quality of life for the population living in those areas. The benefits of group economics are financial independence, promotion of financial literacy, self-sufficiency, business growth, and multi-generational wealth building.
How to Improve Group Economics
Andre Iguodala himself has taken steps to help the Black community achieve their group economics goal. He partnered with investment group Comcast Venture’s Catalyst Fund when he played for the Golden State Warriors. The investment group has been giving money to Black, Latinx, and women entrepreneurs to help fund their business goals.
As Iguodala is making a change on a national scale, here are some ways that you can help improve group economics within your community.
Buy from Local Businesses
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Unlike large corporations with multiple locations, local businesses are usually only one store. Therefore, they thrive on the number of people who walk into their store and purchase their products/services. However, when choosing to buy your everyday items at stores such as Walmart and Target, it becomes increasingly difficult for the local businesses to stay open and provide their services to their community. Choosing to spend your money at local businesses will give them a chance to stay in business and help achieve the group economics goal.
Recommended Read: Why Black Business Month is Great, but Support Year-Round is Better
Promote On Social Media
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If you are dining or shopping at a local Black-owned shop, social media is a great way to show additional support. By tweeting or posting on your Instagram and Snapchat stories, you can show off the stellar product or services and help the business gain more customers. By using the power of social media to help spread the word, the local business will attract more attention, allowing them to increase their revenue and improve group economics.
Leave Positive Reviews Online
You can leave positive reviews on sites such as Google and Yelp!, which will help the local business attract foot traffic from people who live in or visit the area. People who wish to support local businesses but do not know which ones to choose from often use these reviews to find popular local businesses in their area. As a result, leaving excellent reviews about the business can go a long way. Furthermore, by doing your part and leaving reviews, the local companies now have an expanded consumer base, resulting in them being able to earn more money and help achieve the community’s group economic goals.
Unfortunately, statistics show that financial institutions have had discriminatory practices regarding minorities, making it more challenging. However, with organizations and influential individuals like Andre Iguodala as allies, added to the power and opportunity minorities possess in building their communities, group economics makes financial empowerment and generational wealth achievable. Therefore, if financial institutions deny loans for minorities, group economics at work makes it easier for those within underserved communities to still push ahead financially.
What are some other ways the group economics goal can be achieved? Let us know in the comments below.
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History Of the Pony Express
The Sam Macchette Station was erected in 1854 on the Oregon Trail and was used as a Fur Trading Post & Ranch House. From 1860-1861 the station was used as a Pony Express Station. After the Pony Express ended, the station was used as an Overland Trail Stage Station, bunk house, storage house, and dwelling until 1931. In 1931 Mrs. C.A. Williams donated the station to the city of Gothenburg. The city had it moved from its original site to Ehmen Park inside Gothenburg city limits. The station was dedicated to "All Pioneers Who Passed This Way, To Win and Hold the West."
History of the Sam Machette Station
The first rider out of San Francisco and his mount left the Alta Telegraph office just before 4:00 p.m., April 3, 1860. Heading west out of St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3, 1860 was the first pony rider, John Fry.
To perform these services required over 170 relay and home stations, and over 200 employees including station keepers, stock or horse tenders, blacksmiths and cooks.
The Pony Express ceased to operate on October 24, 1861 when the telegraph lines to California were completed bringing to a close the brave and shining saga of the Pony Express as the public knew it.
From its beginning, when it was established and supported by Russell, Majors and Waddell to its end when it was owned by Wells Fargo and Co., the Pony Express was a financial failure. The deficit was over $200,000. But what a glorious failure. What a legacy of storied and shining courage it left for the West.
Stop by the Gothenburg Pony Express Station and learn about the colorful past of the Pony Express and its riders.
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(CNN) -- Residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas face "certain death" if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival, the National Weather Service said Thursday night.
Texans sit in bumper-to-bumper traffic Thursday on a highway from Galveston County into Houston.
The unusually strong wording came in a weather advisory regarding storm surge along the shoreline of Galveston Bay, which could see maximum water levels of 15 to 22 feet, the agency said.
"All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide," the advisory said. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death."
The maximum water level forecasts in nearby areas, including the shoreline of Matagorda Bay and the Gulf-facing coastline from Sargent to High Island, ranged from 5 to 8 feet. But authorities warned that tide levels could begin rising Friday morning along the upper Texas coast and along the shorelines of the bays.
The advisory summoned memories of the language used to describe 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
"Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks ... if not longer," an advisory issued at the time said. "The vast majority of native trees will be snapped or uprooted. Only the heartiest will remain standing."
The Ike advisory follows comes on the heels of similarly urgent messages earlier Thursday from federal authorities, who warned of a "massive storm" that could affect roughly 40 percent of the U.S. Gulf Coast.
"Do not take this storm lightly," Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said Thursday afternoon. "This is not a storm to gamble with. It is large; it is powerful; it carries a lot of water."
Chertoff and representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said their efforts were focused on evacuations as Ike moved northwest at 12 mph across the central Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 100 mph. Track the storm »
Chertoff also urged people not to succumb to "hurricane fatigue," referring to concerns that authorities were overestimating Ike's potential impact.
"Unless you're fatigued with living, I suggest you want to take seriously a storm of this size and scale," he said Thursday.
Houston Mayor Bill White said he's heard that people who live in areas under a mandatory evacuation order say they plan to stay in their homes. He strongly urged against it.
"If you think you want to ride something out, and people are talking about a 20-foot wall of water coming at you, then you better think again," White said.
At 5 p.m. Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said a hurricane warning was in effect between Morgan City, Louisiana, and Baffin Bay, Texas. A warning means hurricane conditions are likely within 24 hours.
Ike's forecast track was through Galveston and the Houston metro area as a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph. Currently a Category 2 storm about 700 miles across, Ike could make landfall near Galveston Island as early as Saturday morning. Watch CNN meteorologists track Hurricane Ike »
At 11 p.m. ET, the National Hurricane Center said hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 115 miles from Ike's center, and tropical storm-force winds extend outward up to 275 miles.
The storm was centered 445 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, and about 340 miles east-southeast of Galveston, and was moving west-northwest at near 10 mph. Watch: National Hurricane center predicts Ike's path »
Roughly 3.5 million people live in the hurricane's potential impact zone, FEMA Administrator David Paulison said Thursday.
In Galveston, Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas told the island's 60,000 people that they should leave. By 7:30 ET, the city had finished evacuating to Austin thousands of residents who needed assistance leaving because of age, disability or lack of reliable transportation.
Mandatory evacuations remained in effect for low-lying coastal areas northeast and southwest of Galveston, in Chambers, Matagorda and Brazoria counties.
Some Brazoria County residents said they didn't want to leave but realized it was in their best interest to do so.
"You don't have a choice when you have kids," Deborah Davis of Freeport told CNN affiliate KPRC-TV in Houston.
Farther inland, about 100,000 residents in low-lying areas surrounding Houston began evacuating Thursday afternoon as Ike headed for the Texas coast, officials said. Watch Gov. Rick Perry warn residents of Ike's potential »
But the remaining 4 million residents were told they could stay home, even as government offices and schools prepared to close Friday in Houston in anticipation of the hurricane.
"We are only evacuating areas subject to a storm surge," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county's chief executive officer. "Yes, we know you will lose electricity. But you're not in danger of losing your life, so stay put."
Ships in port were told to leave, said Port of Houston spokeswoman Linda Whitlock. The area's two major airports, George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby, also halted all commercial flights.
More than 1,300 inmates from the Texas Correctional Institutions Division's Stevenson Unit in Cuero were being evacuated to facilities in Beeville and Kenedy, Perry's office said, and 597 were transferred from the substance abuse Glossbrenner Unit in San Diego, in south Texas, to Dilley.
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With its five exhibitions and 46 aquariums, the OZEANEUM Stralsund invites you on an extraordinary underwater journey beneath the northern seas. Visit Humboldt penguins on the roof terrace, "Niki" the female sand tiger shark in the 2.6-million-litre pool "Open Atlantic" and the giants of the sea - real life replicas of whales.
Dive down without getting wet - that is possible in the OZEANEUM Stralsund. Scientific exhibitions have been combined with breathtaking aquariums. Particularly impressive is the world's largest exhibition on whales with replicas of the sea giants in their original size, e.g. a 26 m long blue whale. In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the "Sea for Children" adventure area invites visitors to play and linger in a dune landscape with a lighthouse slide. On the neighboring roof terrace is a spacious penguin enclosure with a panoramic view of Stralsund's old town.
A unique feature is the thematic route through the northern seas with 50 aquariums, some of them huge. Through the 50 m² panoramic glass of the largest tank, the view opens up to various shark and ray species as well as silvery shimmering shoals of mackerel. In Europe's largest Baltic Sea exhibition, exciting insights into the habitat of grey seals, sea eagles or the tiny plankton await museum guests.
Offers for families:
Audio guide for children
Sea for kids" experience area, multimedia and hands-on stations for children throughout the museum
Free trading cards for searching, learning and playing
Nursing and diaper-changing rooms
Elevators for strollers
Free baby carriers on request
No waiting in line for pregnant women
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Western Australia approaches 2021 in a comparatively favourable position given the disruptions of 2020. It is clear that the State’s isolation domestically and internationally has worked in its favour, drastically reducing the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact; and it's demonstrated that it is possible, despite the odds, to seal off a territory considerably larger than most countries. The easing of State borders will be followed by international ones as Australia’s safety gap to the rest of the world is tested. The likely rollout of various vaccines in the coming year will make that gap narrower in any case.
Significantly, the State has not tipped into recession at any point of the pandemic so far, although hospitality and similar industries were forced to take a haircut during lockdown. The hesitant return to normality in high-density parts of Perth will be with us for a while. Meanwhile, the national restrictions on immigration are beginning to have a negative impact as WA experiences fresh skills shortages and a mini real estate revival.
The year has seen a parallel escalation in trade and security tensions between Australia and its dominant export partner, China. No one is remotely certain which way the relationship will head next, with a former Ambassador to Beijing, Geoff Raby, recently suggesting that China’s leadership has all but given up on Australia. Notwithstanding record production and buoyant prices at present, the prospects are gloomy for mineral and energy exports – South America and Central African sources coming onstream cannot be ignored, and China’s investment in those regions has attracted significant local champions.
"Refreshing our economic competitiveness is central to assuring a prosperous future."Professor Shamit Saggar, Director of the UWA Public Policy Institute
After considerable tension, the electoral dust has now settled on the US Presidency, and early in 2021 an internationalist, bipartisan-minded 46th President will take up the reins. This represents a significant inflexion point for the US across the globe, ending a notably irritable period of isolationist and nationalist policies and rhetoric. American influence as a would-be force for the global rules-based order will be on display, but it would be myopic to believe this reset moment will be either simple or easy to effect.
In the meantime, Canberra must focus on limiting any further points of tension with Beijing and also give a much stronger lead to diversifying the economy post-pandemic. WA’s part in this involves diversifying what its own economy does and creating better international partners and markets that are relatively insulated from geo-political competition between the US and China.
WA will elect a new State Government in 2021, and big choices for the future of the State will be at stake. Investing in a more resilient and future-proof economy will be the main aspect of the debate. Fresh ideas have emerged in recent years to use State funding to establish a new enterprise agency that would both invest and take a stake in new businesses that have been impeded by a market failure. Shared critical minerals processing infrastructure could be a prime candidate. Elsewhere, the State has considerable know-how in stimulating its blue economy and in aquaculture in particular. Underdeveloped regional economies will require a different approach if they are to succeed in attracting and retaining talented workers.
Finally, the expansion of WA’s higher education sector counts as a substantial priority given the high quality of teaching and research facilities and a massive latent international student market across southern and Southeast Asia.
The new economy is one of five core priority areas for the UWA Public Policy Institute in 2021. Refreshing our economic competitiveness is central to assuring a prosperous future. But WA is also facing a number of policy challenges beyond next year. Four stand out, and these constitute the remaining focal points. The State’s new legislation to strengthen environmental protection is one of these, and the task will be to ensure that the policy levers are understood and acted upon by all stakeholders. Another policy area will be a new bill to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage – the importance of which was painfully illustrated earlier this year. Thirdly, the State’s mental health track record suggests that many individuals’ needs are falling between the cracks of existing policies and programs – with the added stressors of a global pandemic presenting only the tip of the iceberg. And finally, some of WA’s democratic institutions and processes appear in need of modernisation to ensure that public understanding and support are not taken for granted.
Each of these policy areas will feature in the UWA Public Policy Institute’s forthcoming report A Public Policy Agenda for WA 2021.
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It’s important to our business that we do our part in reducing our impact on the environment. And although the process is long and ongoing we believe it is our responsibility to make a positive impact on our customers, workforce, and community.
Light Knights is caring for the environment in four main ways:
We Are Carbon Neutral
Umbrella Property Services is now a carbon neutral company. We measured and offset our 2015 greenhouse gas emissions—making us carbon neutral. We chose to offset with Offsetters, Canada’s leading carbon management solutions provider. Their projects are verified and validated by third parties to ensure that the emission reductions are real, additional and permanent—so we know that our contribution is making a difference.
The project that we support is the Quadra Island Forestland Conservation Project. Quadra Island, just off the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, is a popular vacation destination and substantial logging occurs on the island. The project ensures that 418 hectares of forestland along the coastline—previously designated to be logged or converted to vacation homes—is now protected parkland. Because the area joins two existing parks, includes rare second growth Hemlocks, and contains 10 Aboriginal heritage sites and a historical Aboriginal portage route, the BC government has been trying to protect the area for almost 20 years. It was only with the promise of funding from carbon offsets, along with contributions from a diverse group of donors and a land trade, that it was possible for the government to purchase the site.
We’re continuing to work to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and will be offsetting our unavoidable emissions going forward. We’re proud to do business while taking action on climate change.
100% Renewable Natural Gas
With Fortis BC, we are excited to have chosen the option to use 100% renewable natural gas TO HEAT OUR OFFICE and because of that, Fortis BC has designated us as a Green Leader. What is renewable natural gas? When bacteria break down organic waste from sources such as landfill sites, agriculture waste and wastewater from treatment facilities, biogas is created. Working with local BC suppliers, Fortis BC is capturing and purifying this to provide renewable natural gas, a locally produced, carbon neutral energy source.
We’re proud to see this innovation happen in BC. Watch this 4-minute video to see what renewable natural gas is about:
Light Knights is proud to be environmentally friendly and use LEDs which are 80% more energy than incandescent bulbs. (Have incandescent bulbs? We will recycle them for you and upgrade your lights to LED).
LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. An LED light bulb is a solid-state lamp that uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as the source of light. LEDs do not emit light in all directions, and their directional characteristics affect the design of lamps. The efficiency of conversion from electric power to light is generally higher than for incandescent lamps. Since the light output of many types of light-emitting diodes is small compared to incandescent and compact fluorescent lamps, in most applications multiple diodes are assembled.
LED light bulbs are more energy efficient than incandescent lights and this helps bring the annual operating costs of Christmas Lights down. The initial cost for LEDs are more than for incandescent but this higher initial cost is recouped through the annual costs, less breakage, and longer warranty periods.
Incandescent Christmas Lights have been around for a long time and we understand for many people change is difficult however we are encouraging people to adapt to LEDs. The biggest issues we have with incandescent bulbs are: breakage, flickering, bulbs burning out in one season, and energy use. In our effort to improve the environmental impact our business has on the community we no longer supply or install incandescent lights. Let us show you the amazing colours, brightness, and durability our LED Christmas Lights have.
Recycling Program for Zero Waste
Did you know the holiday lighting we use is 100% recyclable? It’s true, and we care about our environment just as much as you. The last thing we all want is more reusable materials in our landfills. So, if it’s time for new lights for your home, we will take away the old ones to be properly broken down and recycled. The copper gets salvaged and reused, plastic is melted and reused and the glass is as well.
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Country name: Worldwide name: Georgia. Self called: Sakartvelo
Capital – Tbilisi.
Official language: Georgian.
Currency: 1 lari = 100 tetri.
Local time: GMT + 4 (no change for winter time)
Internet domain: .ge
International phone code: +995
Land area: 69,7 thousand sq. km.
Highest mountain: Shkhara (5068 m).
Population: 4,371,534 (2002)
Population density – 78 people per 1 sq. km.
Urban population – 56%, rural – 44%.
Nations: Georgians (self name - Kartveli) - 70,1%, Armenians - 8,1%, Russians - 6,3%, Azerbaijani - 5,7%, Ossetians - 3%, Abkhazians - 1,8% (1999).
Religion: Orthodox Christian 75 % (65% - Georgian Orthodox Church, 10% - Russian Orthodox Church), Muslims - 11%, Armenian Gregorian Church 8%.
Average life expectancy: 69 years (men), 78 years (women) (UN)
Major cities: Tbilisi (1.270.00), Kutaisi (243.500), Rustavi (155.100), Batumi (137.900), Sukhumi (122.000 in 1990), Chiatura (70.700), Gori (70.500), Poti (50.100), Zugdidi (52.600), Tskhinvale (42.000 in 1990).
Political division: 9 regions (Kahetia; Shida Kartli; Kvemo Kartli; Mtskheta-Mtianeti; Samtskhe-Dzhavaheti; Imereti; Racha-Lechkhumi, Kvemo Svaneti and Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti ; Guriya; central region of Tbilisi, including ten districts), 2 autonomous republics (Adzharia and Abkhazia).
January 1: New Year
January 7: Christmas (Orthodox)
January 19: Epiphany
March 3: Mother Day
March 8: Women Day
April 9: National Unity Day
Easter (Orthodox) – weekend – Good Friday and next Monday
May 9: Victory Day,
May 12: St. Andrew’s Day
May 26: Independence Day
August 28: the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
October 14: Day of Mtskheta – ancient Georgian capital
November 23: St. George’s Day
Import of foreign currency – no limits
Export of foreign currency – no limits during a year from the date of entrance
Import of national currency – 25,000 lari maximum
Export of national currency – 3,000 lari maximum
Prohibited to import: Weapons, explosives, illegal drugs, literature impeaching state system, some video films.
Prohibited to export: Items of historical and cultural value.
Shkhara – 5068 m.
Janga – 5059 m.
Mkinvartsveri (Kazbek) – 5033 m.
Mtkvari (Kura) – 1364 km.
Tegri – 623 km.
Chorokhi – 438 km.
Paravani – 37,5 sq.km.
Kartsakhi– 26,3 sq.km.
Paliastomi – 18,2 sq.km.
Geography: The greater Caucasus range creates a natural border with Russian Federation in the north. This borderline stretches for 723 km. the border with Turkey is in the southeast, Armenia in the south, Azerbaijan in the east Georgia is washed by the black sea in the west, which forms a 315km (205 mile-long) coast line.
The inter mountain depression to the south of the greater Caucasus encompasses the Kolkheti lowland, inner Kartli, lower Kartli and the Alazani plain. Still further to the south the minor Caucasian ranges rise to the medium height (Meskheti, Shavsheti and other ranges), reaching 2850 m. the southernmost area of the country is covered by the volcanic south Georgian upland (Mt. Didi Abuli 3301 m, its highest peak). The greater Caucasus and the south Georgian upland join with the Likhi range, which at the same time divides Georgia into two contrasting climatic zones: western and eastern Georgia.
Climate: A humid subtropical climate dominants in western Georgia, while eastern Georgia features a transition from subtropical to moderate. The climatic zones are ranging from humid subtropical to the eternal snow and glaciers. The greater Caucasus range moderates local climate by serving as a barrier against cold air from the north.
The mean January temperature varies from -2 degree (Kolkheti) to 3 degree; in August from 23 to 26 degree. In the mean annual precipitation varies from 1000 to 2800 mm, in eastern Georgia from 300 to 600. In mountains the July temperature is 4–6° С, in high mountains in January it could be –10–16° С. | <urn:uuid:e36ae968-7bfe-4bd2-8c87-8bc9be501444> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gudauri.info/about_georgia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.80749 | 1,121 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Niqab and burka ban comes into force in part of Switzerland
First fines handed out in canton of Ticino as duo defy controversial law
Muslim women in a region of Switzerland face large fines for wearing a full-face veil after a ban on burqas and niqabs came into effect last week.
A Swiss woman who converted to Islam and a French-Algerian businessman have already been fined for defying the Ticino canton law, Swiss Info reports. The pair were publicly protesting the ban.
The Italian-speaking region, which is predominantly Roman Catholic, voted in favour of the controversial law in 2013. It allows police to hand out fines of nearly £8,000, according to the Daily Telegraph.
No exceptions will be made for tourists and the Saudi Arabian embassy has already warned Muslim women travelling to the region to respect the law.
Amnesty International described the vote as a "black day for human rights in Ticino" and a recent report accused European governments of "pandering to prejudice" by supporting bans on Islamic dress.
It follows a similar move in France, which in 2011 became the first European country to outlaw the full-face veil. Though hugely controversial, the law was upheld by the European Court of Human Rights.
The veil has become a divisive issue across Europe, with those in favour of a ban arguing that it is oppressive to women and creates a barrier between them and the rest of society.
But human rights organisations describe such laws as religious discrimination and many Muslim women argue it is patronising and offensive to say they are not free to make their own choices.
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THE " FIRE TRIANGLE "
Fire is a very rapid chemical reaction between oxygen and a combustible material, which results in the release of heat,
light, flames, and smoke.
For fire to exist, the following FOUR elements must be present at the same time:
1) Enough oxygen to sustain combustion
2) Enough heat to raise the material to its ignition temperature
3) Some sort of fuel or combustible material
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In this second book in the series, Map of the Soul - Shadow: Our Hidden Self, Dr. Murray Stein explores the dark recesses of our psyche, as well as the shadow images in BTS' latest songs in their album Map of the Soul: 7. The Korean Pop band, BTS, has been taking the world by storm with a series of albums inspired from Dr. Stein's concepts titled Map of the Soul. Dr. Stein has joined them in expressing these same Jungian themes in a companion book series.
The landscape of the soul has many contours and some hidden regions. This book speaks about obscure, typically unacknowledged aspects of the psyche. The shadow may appear initially like an unwanted intruder but those who become acquainted with their shadow discover it to be a vast storehouse of treasures and resources on the journey of self-discovery. Whereas the persona is the part of your personality that is revealed to others, the shadow is the part of your personality that is concealed from others and ourselves. The shadow often declares itself through sudden, often brutal reversals. At the collective level, the shadow proves capable of magnetizing people in the same direction, often with very destructive results. The person intent on living a more full, authentic life will be well served by becoming acquainted with the shadow.
Dr. Stein and the collaborators, Sarah Stein, Steven Buser, and Leonard Cruz, are deeply indebted to BTS, whose world-wide popularity points to their remarkable ability to tap into universal themes that dwell in the collective domain. BTS' music inspired this work and we hope this work will inspire others to explore the deep recesses of their inner life.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: BTS' Interlude: Shadow - A Psychological Reflection
Chapter 2: Further Reflections on the Lyrics of BTS' Map of the Soul: 7
Chapter 3: A Review of the Map of the Soul
Chapter 4: Murray Stein on Shadow
Chapter 5: The Shadow and the Problem of Violence
Chapter 6: "Criminals" The Shadow Bearers of Society
Chapter 7: Heal Yourself, Heal the World
About the Contributors
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- ISBN-13: 9781630518011
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- Publish Date: February 2020
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A young, black female, Makwabe has already conquered the scepticism of industry stalwarts and inspired her peers. Here, Makwabe tells us more about herself, what inspired her to take up a career in agriculture and the barriers she faced as a woman of colour in her industry.
I am an agricultural economist at Amadlelo Agri, meaning I assist the company’s leadership with reviewing and assessing potential new projects’ economic viability and then project implementation.
The company’s production manager and I also constantly look at and provide strategic direction of the company’s financial performance which is key for Amadlelo Agri which operates five dairy farms and is a strategic investor in a macadamia farm, a piggery, and food manufacturing company Dairy Food Group. Amadlelo brings together the communities, the government and investors to unlock opportunities in communal land.
I was born 30 years ago in a small township called Dimbaza in the Eastern Cape, about 11 km northwest of King William's Town. My family then moved to Port Elizabeth when I was slightly older.
I have a degree in agricultural economics obtained from the University of Fort Hare in 2018.
I also have a twin sister: Zovuyo Makwabe. Our parents enrolled us in an agricultural high school, but funny enough, I never studied any agricultural subjects. After completing grade 12, I registered to study financial accounting at the Durban University of Technology. But I soon found out that I didn’t have a passion for accounting so I dropped out in the middle of my first year.
My high school friends convinced me to study something to do with agriculture but not too far from my accounting studies. I have them to thank because they had actually applied for me to study agriculture at the University of Fort Hare. So, I opted for agricultural economics and I fell in love with the course although it was very, very challenging!
I have twin boys aged five, and I enjoy taking them to my farm. It's really funny to see them running after cows and then cry when the cows chase them back.
I have six siblings, four nieces, four nephews who I adore.
I get my passion for animals from my parents. My mom had more than 15 cats at home. And at some point in time we had hamsters, tortoises as well as rabbits, and many, many dogs. So, I can safely say I have always been surrounded by animals.
I never in a million years thought that I would pursue a career in agriculture. I was a top student in Geography and Life Sciences. And at one stage I thought I was either going to be a doctor or a geologist. But I come from a family of farmers that was very well known even back in the days.
While I was at Fort Hare, I kept hearing about my great grandfather, who was also a well-known farmer. I realised that I had big shoes to fill and just how proud I am of I took pride in my heritage and so developed the drive to continue his legacy.
I was discouraged at first because I was a city girl in a sector dominated by males within rural communities. I nonetheless persevered because it could see the value of theoretical studies come alive.
I also used to watch my big brother, who is also an Agricultural Economist, doing research at home for seminars for his work. This became an additional inspirational force for me.
Agriculture is still a male-dominated sector. Generally, women’s views on operational issues are not taken seriously. This really got to me and I got discouraged from pursuing my dream of being a farmer. But I picked myself up, and consulted for Pineapple Farmers Association in Pedi area, on a voluntary basis.
Although I was not getting paid, I interacted with mature and experienced farmers. I actively participated in their meetings, gathering information, improving my knowledge and enabling me to apply what I learned at University.
As a woman – and a young one at that - I stood out like a sore thumb but it did not deter me. Although I was only in my twenties, the farmers realised that I was adding value, saving them money and improving their produce. They began to listen and shared valuable information with me, bolstering my confidence.
I realised that even though formal education is important as it opens doors for you, nothing beats on-field experience. Most of the experienced commercial farmers you come across are white males. I was expecting this and had found a way to deal with it. Fortunately, we also came across white but progressive farmers who were prepared to work with us and more importantly, open doors to access the market.
However, the biggest barrier is one’s own mindset. Many people believe that the agricultural sector will take forever to transform and therefore indirectly discourages you. So, you must be aware of the gender, racial and financial challenges ahead and decide up front that you will overcome them no matter what.
I love water. Every opportunity I get to swim, I jump in headfirst. I also enjoy reading and have been practising my writing skills. Those around me say I am a natural writer and should consider writing a book. Perhaps one day when I have time I will write a book; maybe a novel.
I see myself living on my own farm with cows, horses and goats. etc. I also see myself owning an abattoir and a butchery so that I can sell directly to the community. I am working with my twin sister on this project. So, far things are going so well. And you know what they say about twins, whatever, we touch we double!
We are an entrepreneurial family. My twin sister and her business partners buy written-off and bank-repossessed vehicles and repairs them with her team of mechanics, panel beaters and auto electricians then resells them. We are considering integrating our businesses to have a fuel garage with a retail store that sells produce and meat from our farm.
I have a few side hustles! I buy livestock such as cows, goats and pigs from other farmers and sell them in the marketplace. I offer agricultural consulting services to emerging farmers young and old. And I also have a livestock stokvel which I started with my friends. I have a belief that if there are stokvels for food and money, why can’t we also have livestock one? I saw this gap because it is very challenging to raise money by yourself to buy livestock.
So, we club together and save money. We buy heifers and goats, let them breed and sell them to nearby communities for funerals and traditional events then split the profits.
The constant interaction with many different people fires me up! Some I learn a lot from and others benefit from what I do and the experience I've gained.
One doesn't have to study and have a degree in order to become a successful farmer. You don't need to have a lot of money as well. You can just use what you have, especially communal land which many have in abundance, to get to whatever you want to achieve. You can start with the little resources you have e.g. a home garden to feed your family and sell the excess fresh produce to your neighbours.
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Many past attempts dealt with the problem of documenting, monitoring and managing quality information for weather radar data. Developed in the past few years the idea of Quality Index gains popularity. Proposed by COST-717 framework the concept focuses on Interface Unit consisting of unlimited sets of Quality Indicators not firmly related to the particular type of radar data (radar product). This leads to user-dependent value of Quality Index. The present article tries to define a generalized point of view focusing on combining radar products (data) with their uncertainties, irrespective of the system where the data will be used.
All modern systems based on remote sensing, such as weather radar, can be treated as "production chain" where information flows through successive modules from physical measurement to indirect results. The full process can naturally be divided into steps (chain links) of information flow. Every of the chain links can be described in an universal manner. A description is proposed in this article and is called UTS (Unit of Transformation Step). The appropriate sections are defined, for both: a) data with error estimation and for b) transformation methods (algorithms) with their parameters. Two main reservations have to be done: 1) only physical or mathematical values (data) are processed in the chain and 2) estimation of errors of the data has to be done at each step (chain link). It is natural for the method to inherit knowledge from previous transformation steps, and to keep it together with output data. The presented method gives a mechanism of reaching information about all details in processing chain even if it is not contained in disseminated unit. Definition of file formats etc. for the information dissemination is not in scope of this article.
It has to be underlined that defined method of error documenting does not require the "true" error values. The best subjective error estimation can be still managed by UTS method to improve the value of the disseminated data for the benefit of the users.
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even the most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
René Descartes: Le Discours de la Methode
This chapter describes the basic concepts and terminology of Oracle's distributed database architecture. The chapter includes:
A distributed database is a set of databases stored on multiple computers that typically appears to applications as a single database. Consequently, an application can simultaneously access and modify the data in several databases in a network. Each Oracle database in the system is controlled by its local Oracle server but cooperates to maintain the consistency of the global distributed database. Figure 33-1 illustrates a representative Oracle distributed database system.
A database server is the Oracle software managing a database, and a client is an application that requests information from a server. Each computer in a system is a node. A node in a distributed database system act as a client, a server, or both, depending on the situation. For example, in Figure 33-1, the computer that manages the HQ database is acting as a database server when a statement is issued against its local data (for example, the second statement in each transaction issues a query against the local DEPT table), and is acting as a client when it issues a statement against remote data (for example, the first statement in each transaction is issued against the remote table EMP in the SALES database).
A client can connect directly or indirectly to a database server. In Figure 33-1, when the client application issues the first and third statements for each transaction, the client is connected directly to the intermediate HQ database and indirectly to the SALES database that contains the remote data.
To link the individual databases of a distributed database system, a network is necessary. The following sections explain more about network issues in an Oracle distributed database system.
All Oracle databases in a distributed database system use Oracle's networking software, Net8, to facilitate inter-database communication across a network. Just as Net8 connects clients and servers that operate on different computers of a network, it also allows database servers to communicate across networks to support remote and distributed transactions in a distributed database.
Net8 makes transparent the connectivity that is necessary to transmit SQL requests and receive data for applications that use the system. Net8 takes SQL statements from a client and packages them for transmission to an Oracle server over a supported industry-standard communication protocol or programmatic interfaces. Net8 also takes replies from a server and packages them for transmission back to the appropriate client. Net8 performs all processing independent of an underlying network operating system.
See the Net8 Administrator's Guide for more information about Net8 and its features.
Optionally, an Oracle network can use Oracle Names to provide the system with a global directory service. When an Oracle network supports a distributed database system, you can use Oracle Names servers as a central repositories of information about each database in the system to ease the configuration of distributed database access.
Each database in a distributed database is distinct from all other databases in the system and has its own global database name. Oracle forms a database's global database name by prefixing the database's network domain with the individual database's name. For example, Figure 33-2 illustrates a representative hierarchical arrangement of databases throughout a network.
While several database's can have the same individual name, each database must have a unique global database name. For example, the network domains US.AMERICAS.ACME_AUTO.COM and UK.EUROPE.ACME_AUTO.COM each contain a SALES database.
To facilitate application requests in a distributed database system, Oracle uses database links. A database link defines a one-way communication path from an Oracle database to another database.
Database links are essentially transparent to the users of an Oracle distributed database system, because the name of a database link is the same as the global name of the database to which the link points.
For example, the following SQL statement creates a database link in the local database that describes a path to the remote SALES.US.AMERICAS.ACME_AUTO.COM database.
After creating a database link, applications connected to the local database can access data in the remote SALES.US.AMERICAS.ACME_AUTO.COM database. The next section explains how applications can reference remote schema objects in a distributed database and includes examples of how SQL statements use database links.
Oracle supports several different types of database links. For more information, see Oracle8i Distributed Database Systems.
To resolve application references to schema objects (a process called name resolution) Oracle forms object names using a hierarchical approach. For example, within a single database, Oracle guarantees that each schema has a unique name, and that within a schema, each object has a unique name. As a result, a schema object's name is always unique within the database. Furthermore, Oracle can easily resolve application references to an object's local name.
In a distributed database, a schema object such as a table is accessible to all applications in the system. Oracle simply extends the hierarchical naming model with global database names to effectively create global object names and resolve references to the schema objects in a distributed database system. For example, a query can reference a remote table by specifying its fully qualified name, including the database in which it resides.
To complete the request, the local database server implicitly uses a database link that connects to the remote SALES database.
An Oracle distributed database system can incorporate Oracle databases of different versions. All supported releases of Oracle can participate in a distributed database system. However, the applications that work with the distributed database must understand the functionality that is available at each node in the system.
For example, a distributed database application cannot expect an Oracle7 database to understand the object SQL extensions that are available with Oracle8i.
The terms distributed database and distributed processing are closely related, but have very distinct meanings.
A distributed database is a set of databases stored on multiple computers that appears to applications as a single database.
Distributed processing occurs when an application system distributes its tasks among different computers in a network. For example, a database application typically distributes front-end presentation tasks to client PCs or NCs and allows a back-end database server to manage shared access to a database. Consequently, a distributed database application processing system is more commonly referred to as a "client-server" database application system.
Oracle distributed database systems employ a distributed processing architecture to function. For example, an Oracle server acts as a client when it requests data that another Oracle server manages.
The terms "distributed database" and "database replication" are also closely related, yet different. In a pure distributed database, the system manages a single copy of all data and supporting database objects. Distributed database applications typically use distributed transactions to access both local and remote data and modify the global database in real-time.
This chapter discusses pure distributed databases. See Chapter 34, "Database Replication" for a discussion of replication.
Replication is the process of copying and maintaining database objects in multiple databases that make up a distributed database system. While replication relies on distributed database technology to function, database replication can offer applications benefits that are not possible within a pure distributed database environment.
Most commonly, replication is useful to improve the performance and protect the availability of applications because alternate data access options exist. For example, an application might normally access a local database rather than a remote server to minimize network traffic and achieve maximum performance. Furthermore, the application can continue to function if the local server experiences a failure, but other servers with replicated data remain accessible.
See Oracle8i Replication for more information about Oracle's replication features.
In an Oracle heterogeneous distributed database system at least one of the database systems is a non-Oracle system. To the application, the heterogeneous distributed database system appears as a single, local, Oracle database; the local Oracle server will be able to hide the distribution and heterogeneity of the data. The Oracle server accesses the non-Oracle system using Oracle8i Heterogeneous Services and a non-Oracle system-specific Heterogeneous Services Agent.
Heterogeneous Services is an integrated component within the Oracle8i server and the enabling technology for Oracle's next generation of Open Gateway products. Heterogeneous Services provides the common architecture and administration mechanisms for future Oracle gateway products and other heterogeneous access facilities, while providing upwardly compatible functionality for users of earlier Oracle Open Gateway releases.
For each non-Oracle system that you want to access, Heterogeneous Services requires an agent to access that particular non-Oracle system. The Heterogeneous Services agent communicates with the non-Oracle system, and with the Heterogeneous Services component in the Oracle server. On behalf of the Oracle server, the agent executes SQL, procedure, and transactional requests at the non-Oracle system.
A version 8 Gateway is the Oracle product name for a Heterogeneous Services agent that accesses a non-Oracle system procedurally or using SQL. However, Heterogeneous Services agents will also become available as products other than Oracle Transparent Gateways or Oracle Procedural Gateways. Throughout this guide we will use the more generic term Heterogeneous Services agents. If you purchased an Oracle Open Gateway version 8, you can substitute "Oracle Gateway version 8" for Heterogeneous Services Agent.
See your "Oracle Open Gateway Installation and User's Guide version 8.0" for detailed information on installation and configuration of version 8 gateways.
The features of the Heterogeneous Services include:
When you build applications on top of a distributed database system, there are several issues to consider. The following sections explain how applications access data in a distributed database.
Distributed query optimization is a default Oracle8i feature that reduces the amount of data transfer required between sites when you retrieve data from remote tables referenced in distributed SQL statements.
Distributed query optimization uses Oracle's cost-based optimizer to find or generate SQL expressions that extract only the necessary data from remote tables, process that data at a remote site, and send the results back to the local site for final processing. This reduces the amount of required data transfer, when compared to transferring all the table data to the local site for processing.
Using cost-based optimizer hints, such as DRIVING_SITE, NO_MERGE, and INDEX hints, you can further control where Oracle processes the data and how it accesses the data.
A remote query is a query that selects information from one or more remote tables, all of which reside at the same remote node. For example:
A remote update is an update that modifies data in one or more tables, all of which are located at the same remote node.
A distributed query retrieves information from two or more nodes. For example:
SELECT ename, dname FROM scott.emp e, email@example.com_auto.com d WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno;
A distributed update modifies data on two or more nodes. A distributed update is possible using a PL/SQL subprogram unit, such as a procedure or trigger, that includes two or more remote updates that access data on different nodes. For example:
BEGIN UPDATE firstname.lastname@example.org_auto.com SET loc = 'NEW YORK' WHERE deptno = 10; UPDATE scott.emp SET deptno = 11 WHERE deptno = 10; END;
Statements in the program are sent to the remote nodes, and the execution of it succeeds or fails as a unit.
Developers can code PL/SQL packages and procedures to support applications that work with a distributed database. Applications can make local procedure calls to perform work at the local database and remote procedure calls (RPCs) to perform work at a remote database. When a program calls a remote procedure, the local server passes all procedure parameters to the remote server in the call. For example:
When developing packages and procedures for distributed database systems, developers must code with an understanding of what program units should do at remote locations, and how to return the results to a calling application.
A remote transaction is a transaction that contains one or more remote statements, all of which reference the same remote node. For example:
UPDATE email@example.com_auto.com SET loc = 'NEW YORK' WHERE deptno = 10; UPDATE firstname.lastname@example.org_auto.com SET deptno = 11 WHERE deptno = 10; COMMIT;
A distributed transaction is a transaction that includes one or more statements that, individually or as a group, update data on two or more distinct nodes of a distributed database. For example:
UPDATE email@example.com_auto.com SET loc = 'NEW YORK' WHERE deptno = 10; UPDATE scott.emp SET deptno = 11 WHERE deptno = 10; COMMIT;
A DBMS must guarantee that all statements in a transaction, distributed or non-distributed, either commit or rollback as a unit, so that if the transaction is designed properly, the data in the logical database is always consistent. The effects of an ongoing transaction should be invisible to all other transactions at all nodes; this should be true for transactions that include any type of operation, including queries, updates, or remote procedure calls.
The general mechanisms of transaction control in a non-distributed database are discussed in the Oracle8i Concepts. In a distributed database, Oracle must coordinate transaction control with the same characteristics over a network and maintain data consistency, even if a network or system failure occurs.
Oracle's two-phase commit mechanism guarantees that all database servers participating in a distributed transaction either all commit or all roll back the statements in the transaction. A two-phase commit mechanism also protects implicit DML operations performed by integrity constraints, remote procedure calls, and triggers.
For more information about Oracle's two-phase commit mechanism, see Oracle8i Distributed Database Systems.
With minimal effort, you can make the functionality of an Oracle distributed database system transparent to users that work with the system. The goal of transparency is to make a distributed database system appear as though it is a single Oracle database. Consequently, the system does not burden developers and users of the system with complexities that would otherwise make distributed database application development challenging and detract from user productivity. The following sections explain more about transparency in a distributed database system.
An Oracle distributed database system has features that allow application developers and administrators to hide the physical location of database objects from applications and users. Location transparency exists when a user can universally refer to a database object such as a table, regardless of the node to which an application connects. Location transparency has several benefits, including:
Most typically, administrators and developers use synonyms to establish location transparency for the tables and supporting objects in an application schema. For example, the following statements create synonyms in a database for tables in another, remote database.
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM emp FOR firstname.lastname@example.org_auto.com CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM dept FOR email@example.com_auto.com
Now, rather than access the remote tables with a query such as:
SELECT ename, dname FROM firstname.lastname@example.org_auto.com e, email@example.com_auto.com d WHERE e.deptno = d.deptno;
an application can issue a much simpler query that does not have to account for the location of the remote tables:
In addition to synonyms, developers can also use views and stored procedures to establish location transparency for applications that work in a distributed database system.
Oracle's distributed database architecture also provides query, update, and transaction transparency. For example, standard SQL commands such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE work just as they do in a non-distributed database environment. Additionally, applications control transactions using the standard SQL commands COMMIT, SAVEPOINT, and ROLLBACK--there is no requirement for complex programming or other special operations to provide distributed transaction control.
Each committed transaction has an associated system change number (SCN) to uniquely identify the changes made by the statements within that transaction. In a distributed database, the SCNs of communicating nodes are coordinated when:
Among other benefits, the coordination of SCNs among the nodes of a distributed database system allows global distributed read-consistency at both the statement and transaction level. If necessary, global distributed time-based recovery can also be completed.
Oracle also provide many features to transparently replicate data among the nodes of the system. For more information about Oracle's replication features, see Oracle8i Replication.
Just as there are unique issues to consider when developing applications for an Oracle distributed database system, there are special issues to understand for distributed database administration. The following sections explain the some special topics for managing databases in an Oracle distributed database system.
Site autonomy means that each server participating in a distributed database is administered independently from all other databases, as though each database operates as a non-distributed database.
Although several databases can work together, each database is a distinct, separate repository of data that you manage individually. Some of the benefits of site autonomy in an Oracle distributed database include:
Although Oracle allows you to manage each database in a distributed database system independently, that is not to say that you should ignore the global requirements of the system.
For example, additional user accounts might be necessary in each database are necessary to support the links that you create to facilitate server-to-server connections. The following sections explain more about these particular topics and demonstrate the need for a global perspective of the entire distributed database environment when managing individual nodes in the system.
Oracle supports all of the security features that are available with a non-distributed database environment for distributed database systems, including:
The following sections explain some additional topics to consider when configuring an Oracle distributed database system.
In a distributed database system, you must carefully plan the user accounts and roles that are necessary to support applications using the system.
As you create the database links for the nodes in a distributed database system, determine what user accounts and roles each site needs to support server-to-server connections that use the links.
See Oracle8i Distributed Database Systems for more information about the user accounts that must be available to support different types of database links in the system.
In a distributed environment, users typically require access to many network services. When it's necessary to configure separate authentications for each user to access each network service, security administration can become unwieldy, especially for large systems.
The use of a global authentication service is a common technique for simplifying security management for distributed environments.
In an Oracle client/server or distributed database environment, you have two options to support global authentication for users and roles:
The Oracle Advanced Security option also enables Net8 and related products to use network data encryption and checksumming so that data cannot be read or altered. It protects data from unauthorized viewing by using the RSA Data Security RC4 or the Data Encryption Standard (DES) encryption algorithm.
To ensure that data has not been modified, deleted, or replayed during transmission, the security services of the Oracle Advanced Security option can generate a cryptographically secure message digest and include it with each packet sent across the network.
See the Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide for more information about these and other features of the Oracle Advanced Security option. Also see Getting to Know Oracle8i for information about the features and options that are available with Oracle8i Enterprise Edition.
The database administrator has several choices for tools to use when managing an Oracle distributed database system, as described in the following sections:
Enterprise Manager is Oracle's database administration tool. The graphical component of Enterprise Manager (Enterprise Manager/GUI) allows you to perform database administration tasks with the convenience of a graphical user interface (GUI).
The line mode component of Enterprise Manager provides a line-mode interface.
Enterprise Manager provides administrative functionality via an easy-to-use interface. You can use Enterprise Manager to:
Thus, you can re-execute statements without retyping them, a particularly useful feature if you need to execute lengthy statements repeatedly in a distributed database system.
Currently more than 60 companies produce more than 150 products that help manage Oracle databases and networks, providing a truly open environment.
Besides its network administration capabilities, Oracle Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support allows an Oracle server to be located and queried by any SNMP-based network management system. SNMP is the accepted standard underlying many popular network management systems such as:
Oracle supports client/server environments where clients and servers use different character sets. The character set used by a client is defined by the value of the NLS_LANG parameter for the client session. The character set used by a server is its database character set. Data conversion is done automatically between these character sets if they are different.
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The number ‘13’ has always been surrounded by myths and beliefs. People belonging to different cultures and countries have distinct beliefs regarding this sole number ‘13’.
For some people, this number has marked to be the lucky one while for others it is the epitome of ‘bad luck.’ But among most people, if considered the ratio, the number 13 is believed to bring the worst luck.
The history behind the myth of 13 to be the unlucky one date back to the times of Romans who led lives believing that the number 13 was a symbol of destruction and death.
Norse legends claimed that the thirteenth guest at a banquet is the spirit of evil. The belief of this number to bring bad luck among Christians is often said to come from ‘the Last Supper’ when Jesus Christ sat down with his 12 disciples making a total of 13 people.
Another belief associated with the number 13 is that the first person to leave the dinner table of 13 diners will meet death before the end of the year.
Unlucky Number 13!
- The thirteenth Apollo space mission was called Apollo 13. An accident happened involving Apollo 13 on 13 April 1970, two days after its takeoff at 13:13. There was an explosion on board and spacecraft began to leak oxygen.
- Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Virgin Islands suffered disastrous damage on Friday dated, 13 September 1928, when a hurricane killed 2,000 people causing approximately $25 million in damage.
- There is no building in Paris bearing number 13.
- Italy omits the number 13 from its national lottery.
- Cancellations on trains and planes, reduced business activities, and absenteeism from work on the 13th of every month costs the USA about $1 billion a year.
Lucky Number 13!
- For Mayans and Aztecs of Central America, the number 13 was considered to be 13.
- 13 is traditionally a lucky number in China.
- Buddhists pay homage to 13 Buddhas and the orthodox Jewish prayerbook holds 13 principles of faith.
From these facts, this can be pointed out certainly, that beliefs and myths vary from place to place and people to people. The incidents, coincidences, and accidents make a certain thing to be credited and given the label of ‘lucky one’ or ‘bad luck’.
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From the galaxy of photos taken from the march Michael JordanThis is without a doubt one of the most original. Air Jordan from above, you should have thought about it. It was also necessary to have the technical means to do so. Flying a few meters above the height of a flying man is not easy. However, photographer Walter Eos Jr. launched this challenge in July 1987.
This New York school-trained American has been photographing sporting events since the age of 15 and has just teamed up with a German sports drinks brand for an advertisement. ” They had the idea of taking a tennis player and putting him on a red clay court and photographing him serving from the sky to catch the shadow. I thought this was a hell of a idea ”, recalls the photographer (who did not respond to our requests) for the column ‘My Best Shot’ for The Guardian.
Reproduce the idea, yes. But for which broker? Fortunately, soon after, Sports Illustrated, who he was working with, called him to ask him to go and shoot Michael Jordan for the magazine. Here is the appropriate support. The direction of the small town of Leslie, located on the outskirts of Chicago, where the Bulls star organizes a camp for children.
Basket lowered by 15 cm
The 23-year-old, who just won his first league title (37 points on average!), also won his first dunk a few months ago. Before achieving the double the following year after a legendary duel against Dominic Wilkins. Therefore, his reputation as a fierce profanity is already well established.
On the day of filming, after the first day of taking selfies with his “body”, Walter Eos Jr. faces a dilemma: What outfit will the triple star wear? ” My assistants painted one area of this giant parking lot blue and the other red. If he had been wearing his white uniform, we would have gone to Red Field and this photo would have been called “The Red Dunk”. Michael Jordan finally showed up in his team’s red shirt away. So we are entitled to a “blue dunk”.
Another difficulty is finding a real NBA basket. With a stationary basket that won’t work, you need one on wheels. ” But we didn’t find anything in Chicago! I couldn’t believe it. We had to ship it from St. Louis (Missouri), “Describes a photographer who is clearly equipping himself with a machine to get his shooting angle. Important accuracy, the basket in question has been voluntarily lowered by 15 cm. It is intended for this type of dark image.” It’s much easier this way ”, notes the specialist, and less stressful for the model who will still be jumping towards the circle 15 times for this photo.
Over time, Walter Eos Jr. will realize that this number of dive requests is of significance to the bull star. ” I was like, “We have Gatorade today and they need 15 dives.” And he said, Walter, I’ll give you three. “I can’t work with three!” We ended up agreeing to eight. »
Being a good manager is key in this type of exercise with such personalities. “ The trick to portraying sports stars is to talk to them as a coach. They are so used to being told what to do and knowing nothing about photography, they need guidance. You don’t have much time and they appreciate not wasting their time. “Recalls the 79-year-old who witnessed his goal Cristiano Ronaldo, Serena Williams, Kobe Bryant, Chris Evert, Joe Montana, Arnold Palmer…
The day before the shooting, everything is checked, down to the smallest detail, including in terms of timing. The photo can only be taken between 2 PM and 3 PM, otherwise the player’s shadow will be too long. The shade captured last fits perfectly with the graceful “Air Jordan” gesture. The angle of the image creates a captivating pseudo-mirror effect and multiplies the energy and movement of this immersion. This drop shadow also makes it possible to occupy the space near the trigger. Because yes, this photo is enough to make you dizzy.
Retouch or not?
” I had no idea what I picked up that daycontinues Walter Iooss Jr. Originally I chose another photo from the session, but my photo editor preferred this photo which was probably 1/100th of a second later. eHe had a little more dynamic. In the upper left corner of the original, there was a red terrain border, so I had to crop or retouch it. There is also this crack in the concrete in the middle, should I remove it or not? I was like, You know what? It is part of the picture. »
This sequence also allowed him to get acquainted with the Bulls player, with whom he produced the book “Rare Air”, selling 800,000 copies. Photographer A . describes A great and very smart person “Which on an athletic level,” He was unparalleled in the history of sports “A star is in constant demand as well.” After the Chicago Bulls it was like following the Rolling Stones. »
” But when we took this photo, I had no idea he would become such a legend. It was popular in 1987, but it wasn’t as popular as it became. He once said he thought I couldn’t take a bad picture. But the truth is, no one can take a bad picture of Michael Jordan Beautiful ends Walter Eos Jr.
image credit: Walter Eos Jr. / The Bruce Silverstein Gallery
LeBron James Jason Terry Poster
Derek Rose, the youngest player on the show
Photography anthology Kawhi Leonard
Stephen Curry alone in his own league
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Book challenges and bans are increasing in libraries and schools throughout the United States. To help spread the word about these activities and efforts to combat them by librarians, parents, students, politicians, and concerned citizens, I Love Libraries will highlight several stories each week on the current crisis. This roundup includes reports from Idaho, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, as well as commentary on censorship from a First Amendment scholar. Please share widely.
Library culture wars trickling down to local Idaho politics
Meridian (Idaho) Library District Board of Trustees members watched during their April 20 board meeting as four Meridian residents “served” the board with letters related to potential tort claims. The issues at hand were enforcing a mask mandate, promoting critical race theory, and “disseminating obscene materials,” reports Idaho Press. These types of challenges and library fights are trickling down to the local level and, in Idaho, some Republicans are leading the charge against libraries and their books.
Ohio parents want to ban Butterflies
Milford (Ohio) Exempted Village Schools is reviewing a novel used in 10th-grade English language arts classes after two parents filed complaints, reports Daily Beast. One of the complainants said the book, In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, exposed her child to “an unhealthy view of sexuality, pornography, and most important impeding her religious beliefs.”
Pennsylvania schools have banned books more often than every state but Texas since last summer
Pennsylvania school districts have banned books on 456 occasions over the last nine months, the second-highest total in the US, reports Philly Voice. Central York School District is responsible for 441 of them, but eight other districts banned books between last July and the end of March, according to an analysis from Pen America. Pennsylvania is behind only Texas, where 16 districts instituted 713 book bans.
Twenty-three Virginia school districts have taken books off shelves in past two years
To understand the landscape of book challenges in Virginia, the Richmond Times-Dispatch sent public records requests to each of the state’s 132 public school systems seeking information on books that had been removed or placed under review in the past two school years. Twenty-three school districts confirmed that they had taken at least one book out of circulation for content reasons, while 90 said no books had been brought up for review.
When are book bans unconstitutional? A First Amendment scholar explains
“The United States has become a nation divided over important issues in K-12 education, including which books students should be able to read in public school. Efforts to ban books from school curricula, remove books from libraries, and keep lists of books that some find inappropriate for students are increasing as Americans become more polarized in their views. These types of actions are being called ‘book banning.’ They are also often labeled ‘censorship.’ But the concept of censorship, as well as legal protections against it, are often highly misunderstood,” writes Erica Goldberg, associate professor of law at the University of Dayton, for The Conversation.
Alarmed by the escalating attempts to censor books? Here are five steps you can take now to protect the freedom to read.
- Follow news and social media in your community and state to keep apprised of organizations working to censor library or school materials.
- Show up for library workers at school or library board meetings and speak as a library advocate and community stakeholder who supports a parent’s right to restrict reading materials for their own child but not for allreaders.
- Help provide a safety net for library professionals as they defend intellectual freedom in their communities by giving to the LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund.
- Educate friends, neighbors, and family members about censorship and how it harms communities. Share information from Banned Books Week 2021.
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With Black History month just around the corner, a collaboration is underway–one which is aimed at preserving and sharing past and present African American culture in the Chattanooga area.
The groundbreaking partnership involves the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of History and RISE Chattanooga, a community-based nonprofit organization.
“The faculty, students and staff of the UTC Department of History are thrilled to formalize and expand our collaboration with RISE Chattanooga, a vibrant community partner with shared values and goals,” said Michael Thompson, department head and UC Foundation associate professor.
“Through the mutually beneficial lending of resources, opportunities and expertise, this agreement promises to benefit all members of the UTC and Chattanooga communities and foster a greater appreciation for our city’s rich artistic legacies and Black history.”
UTC’s partnership with RISE, which stands for Responsive Initiatives for Social Empowerment, will combine the history department’s mission and RISE’s pillar of cultural preservation to gather and share the stories of Chattanooga’s historically African American neighborhoods.
Initial plans for the partnership include a revamped walking-tour series, a spring speaker series and continuing research on Chattanooga’s historic neighborhoods and churches.
RISE Chattanooga, an independent minority-led organization focused on community education, performance, and arts and cultural preservation, was initially created in 2011 as Jazzanooga–a day-long festival held in April to honor Jazz History Month.
RISE currently serves thousands of individuals annually through its programs, including a walking tour of the MLK Neighborhood–which features the cultural and music history, historic buildings and public art of the area.
In 2014–when RISE was still known as Jazzanooga–the organization created the MLK Banner Project, which installed biographical banners that highlighted African American artists and performers original to Chattanooga and critical to the cultural movement along the city’s Martin Luther King Boulevard.
“RISE has always prioritized the voices and the needs of our neighbors as we seek to preserve the rich culture of Chattanooga,” said Woodson Carpenter, RISE’s community arts strategist.
“We are excited to have the scholarly expertise of the UTC history department come alongside us as we continue to listen to and tell the stories of Chattanooga.”
Once known as the “Big Nine,” MLK Boulevard (formerly Ninth Street) is the only remaining cohesive area historically associated with Chattanooga African Americans.
Since 1994, the community has been listed on the National Register as an area of great historical significance.
President Gerald Ford officially recognized February as Black History Month (also known as African American History Month) in 1976, calling upon the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”
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Before you know it, the swimming pools will be open, school will be out, and summer will be upon us. Professional photography is a year-round business! Just because the days are warm does not mean that photography backdrops are no longer needed! Summer weather can be just as miserable depending on where you live as winter weather. Nobody wants to go outside in 100+ degree temperatures for a photo shoot. If you live in a humid part of the country, you know how hard it is to keep your subjects looking good in hot muggy weather! So, keep your clients comfortable and your studio booked by using high-quality, made in America photography backdrops! Here are a few more reasons aside from the weather!
Photography Backdrops are Consistent
Have you ever had a client that saw another photo shoot you have done only to want that same look for their session? If you shot that session outdoors, then good luck trying to replicate that look! The sun angles will likely be different, the sky may be lighter or darker, not to mention the foliage. A summer photo backdrop means you have a consistent framework to capture your subjects. No need in rolling the dice with mother nature!
Create the Perfect Color Palette
Your subjects may be a bit temperamental at times. Making your clients happy is a high priority! This is true of any service industry. A large family with many members may only get one chance at being together to capture the perfect photo. Large photo backdrops let you order the color scheme or schemes that best suit their needs. Again, a large group cannot wait for the weather if it does not cooperate. You may as well have a backup plan in place well before their big day.
Capture Summer Holidays
The summer is best known for Independence Day! However, there are many special holidays that are family or individually specific. Summer birthdays for example. Summer backdrops are a great way to capture those special memories with a seasonal flair that nature may not be able to deliver. Not to mention weddings and anniversaries. Summer is wedding season across the country. That means that it is also anniversary season. Do not miss these special moments or leave them to chance. Professional photographers can create a nice additional income catering to anniversary shots!
Trust Quality Photography Backdrops Made in America
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TORREYA STATE PARK perches on the steep, sandy banks of the Apalachicola, where the river twists slowly through the Florida Panhandle toward the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of the most isolated spots in Florida, rich only in plant life and prisons, stupefyingly hot in summer and eerily quiet nearly all year round. Most park visitors are on their way somewhere else, and when Connie Barlow stopped here on a winter day in 1999, she was no exception.
Barlow, trim and now in her fifties, is a writer and naturalist with cropped hair and a childlike air of enthusiasm. She’s given to wandering, and back then she shuttled between a trailer in southern New Mexico and an apartment in New York City. That winter, during a detour to Florida, she paused at the park for a look at its raison d’être — an ancient tree species called Torreya taxifolia, familiarly known as the Florida torreya or, less romantically, stinking cedar. The park lies at the heart of the tree’s tiny range, which stretches little more than twenty miles from the Georgia state line toward the mouth of the Apalachicola. But even at Torreya State Park, Barlow discovered, the Florida torreya is hard to find.
Torreya taxifolia was once a common sight along the Apalachicola, plentiful enough to be cut for Christmas trees, its rot-resistant wood perfect for fence posts. But at some point in the middle of the last century — no one is quite sure when — the trees began to die. Beset by a mysterious disease, overabundant deer, feral hogs, drought, and perhaps a stressful climate, the adult trees were reduced to a handful of mossy trunks, rotting in riverside ravines.
The species persists in Florida as less than a thousand gangly survivors, most only a few feet tall, their trunks no thicker than a child’s wrist, none known to reproduce. Much like the American chestnut, these trees are frozen in preadolescence, knocked back by disease or other adversaries before they grow large enough to set seed. To see their grape-sized seeds, Barlow had to visit the state park offices, where two sit preserved in a jam jar.
Barlow continued her travels that winter but returned to the park a few years later. She tracked down some of the few remaining trees and, in a quiet moment, sat under one of the largest specimens, perhaps ten feet tall. The Florida torreya, even at its healthiest, isn’t an obviously charismatic tree. Its flat needles are scanty; its trunk lacks the grandeur of a redwood or an old-growth fir; when it does manage to produce seeds, the rotting results smell like vomit. In its diminished state, it inspires more pity than awe; to call its spindly limbs a canopy is a sorry joke.
But when Barlow looked up at the branches of the Florida torreya, she made an impulsive commitment to the species. She’d spent years thinking and writing about evolution and ecology, and was aware of the implications of climate change. She decided the species needed to move north, to cooler, less diseased climes. And since it couldn’t move fast enough alone, Barlow would move it herself.
CLIMATE CHANGE IS BEGINNING to make good on its threats, and news of its work is now hard to avoid. Escalating average global temperatures? Check. Rising seas? Check. Plants and animals scampering uphill and toward the poles? Check. Dozens of birds and butterfly species are shifting their ranges to cooler terrain or migrating earlier in the year, each species reacting somewhat differently. Ecological communities, never as stable as we might like to think, are disarticulating in new ways.
Conservationists, in response, have offered more ambitious versions of familiar strategies. Bigger nature reserves. More protected corridors for wildlife migration and movement. More regulations, incentives, and ingenuity in service of greenhouse-gas reductions. But even the most expedient tactics could leave some species — especially those as tightly circumscribed as the Florida torreya — marooned in habitat too hot, dry, wet, or stormy.
What then? Captive breeding without hope of reintroduction is an expensive and indefinite custodial project, an ark with no gangplank. The next option sounds either laughable or desperate: pick up the plants and animals, and carry them to better habitat. Jason McLachlan, an ecologist at the University of Notre Dame, remembers giving a talk in North Carolina about forest responses to climate change. “Someone in the audience said, ‘Why is this a problem? You can just move them,'” he says. “I thought he was just being a smartass.”
It’s an easy idea to caricature. FedEx the polar bears to Antarctica! Airlift the pikas and the orchids! But some scientists take the concept very seriously. Camille Parmesan, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and an authority on the ecological effects of climate change, remembers broaching the subject at an international conservation conference nearly a decade ago. “I said, ‘Look, we need to start thinking about transplanting organisms around these barriers of agricultural land or urban land, and getting them to the next possible suitable habitat as the climate changes,’ and people were horrified — just horrified,” she says. “They said, ‘You can’t do that!'”
But discussion continued among scientists — if mostly in whispers — and in 2004, a graduate student named Brian Keel quietly coined a term for the idea: assisted migration. Not long afterward, Connie Barlow and the Florida torreya shoved the debate into the open.
THE APALACHICOLA RIVER is bordered by a thick layer of sand, in places more than one hundred feet deep, left when the sea retreated some two million years ago. Rain — which fell generously here, exceeding sixty inches each year, until the recent drought — hits the loose, sandy soil and keeps going, seeping downward until layers of clay and limestone stop its vertical progress. The moisture then turns toward the main stem of the river, each trickle pulling a few grains of sand with it, a sabotage from below known as sapping erosion.
Over millennia, sapping erosion has created nearly sheer-walled ravines known as steepheads, their sandy banks held in place by magnolias, pines, and muscular beeches. Found in only a handful of other spots throughout the world, steepheads and the shady forests they cradle now define this stretch of the Apalachicola. To step from the sunny, logging-scarred Apalachicola uplands into a steephead is to enter a darker, wetter, more complicated world, ignored by chainsaws and seemingly hidden from time.
On a humid fall day near the end of hurricane season, David Printiss leads the way over the edge of a steephead, pointing out the faint, narrow path that hairpins down the wall. A few moments after beginning the descent, he crouches in the leaf litter, then turns with a grin. “Introducing Torreya taxifolia!”
The tree is a bundle of pencil-thin stems, the tallest two feet high, ridiculously small in comparison to the mature trees surrounding it, dwarfed even by a single leaf of a nearby needle palm.
Printiss is the manager of this preserve — The Nature Conservancy Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve, just south of Torreya State Park — and he’s proud that the Florida torreya survives in these ravines, even in this almost symbolic state. But he spends most of his time thinking not about the fewer than one hundred Torreya taxifolia on the preserve, but about the landscape surrounding them. Restoring that, he says, is the best way to solve the “Torreya puzzle” and give the tree a chance to thrive.
Printiss has a salt-and-pepper beard, a discreet earring, and a serious demeanor, and he lives here on the preserve with his wife and young daughter. He wears Carhartt work trousers and heavy leather fire boots to the office, and uses both. Each year, he serves as “burn boss” on about twenty prescribed fires, some as large as five hundred acres.
“If I can get fire across the landscape acting in its natural role, I’ve done my job; I’m home,” says Printiss as he drives the soft, sandy roads on the flat preserve uplands. “I’m not saying fire is the answer, but I suspect it’s a large part of the answer.” Restoring fire to the uplands, he says, thins out the overgrown hardwood trees, makes room for the restoration of longleaf pine stands and native grasslands, and brings some filtered sunlight back to the steep ravines where the Florida torreya once grew.
Printiss acknowledges that even if the species were to be revived by these efforts, it could still face the perplexing blight, which attacks the trees by killing the stems and leaving the trees to resprout from their bases. Most surviving Torreya taxifolia, like the one at Printiss’s feet, have withstood multiple onslaughts and are now clusters of genetically identical stems; since the 1960s, only a single tree is known to have set seed. Despite years of study, no researcher has conclusively identified the disease or its source, and some speculate it may even be a suite of diseases.
Since T. taxifolia has separate male and female plants, any trees that managed to persist through adolescence would need the added good fortune of growing near a mate. Only then could the pollen ride the wind to a female tree and produce the species’ distinctively hefty seeds. On top of those difficulties is the Southeast’s record-breaking drought, which shrank water supplies to dangerously low levels last fall, making the oncoming stresses of climate change difficult to ignore.
Yet the suggestion of assisted migration, of planting Torreya taxifolia trees outside these Panhandle steepheads, makes Printiss’s face tighten. Such efforts, he says, threaten to take attention and funding away from the work in the preserve, and make an already bad situation even worse.
“A lot of people just want to let it go up there [in Appalachia] and let it rip,” he says, his voice rising. “They say it’ll act a lot like the northern hemlock, this, that, and the other thing. Yeah, maybe. When it comes to introducing non-native species, we have such overwhelming evidence of good ideas gone bad . . . and this isn’t just the Conservancy’s policy, it’s my personal policy . . . it’s very dangerous tinkering.”
THIS IS THE LONGSTANDING conservation credo: With enough space, money, and knowledge, we can protect natural places and, in many cases, restore them by stitching them back together. But while we’re welcome to restore, redesign is frowned upon; that sort of tinkering crosses an invisible line between humans and capital-N Nature, and risks making things much worse. We’ve good reason to distrust ourselves, after all. Until the 1950s, we thought planting kudzu was a good idea.
But climate change calls all this into question. If rising temperatures and changing weather patterns make restoration difficult or impossible, new brands of meddling may sometimes be the only alternative to extinction. Connie Barlow believes Torreya taxifolia, with its almost absurdly gloomy prospects in its current range, already requires a new strategy — and she welcomes the chance to provide it.
Barlow describes herself as “more interventionist” than many of the scientists and conservationists she encounters, explaining that her background in ecology and evolutionary biology have immersed her in the long time-scales of evolution. “I don’t have a sense of what’s normal,” she says. “I do have a sense of species moving a lot through time.”
Following her first visits to Torreya State Park, Barlow started an e-mail correspondence with botanists, conservationists, and others about the future of the tree. Some, such as paleoecologist Paul Martin, loved the idea of moving T. taxifolia north. The Florida torreya is widely believed to be an ice age relict, “left behind” after the last glacial retreat and very possibly better suited for cooler climates, with or without global warming. So why not return it to the southern Appalachians, where it grew during the Pleistocene? These arguments were countered by an ecologist named Mark Schwartz, who has studied the Florida torreya at the Apalachicola Bluffs preserve since the late 1980s, and remains one of the scant handful of scientists with in-depth knowledge of the species. Schwartz defended the chances for restoration in the species’ present-day range. Before long, the discussion reached an impasse, and the disagreement found an audience.
In a 2004 forum in the now-defunct journal Wild Earth, Barlow and Martin made what might be the first public case for assisted migration. Moving even federally endangered plants like the Florida torreya to more favorable climates, they wrote, was “easy, legal, and cheap,” and Torreya taxifolia, prevented by highways, topography, and its own biology from moving quickly on its own, needed immediate help.
While horticulturists at the Atlanta Botanical Garden have spent years raising Torreya taxifolia in greenhouses and seminatural “potted orchards” in northern Georgia, Barlow and Martin dismissed these efforts, saying that “potted is the botanical equivalent of caged.” They proposed that T. taxifolia be planted on privately owned forest lands in southern Appalachia, easily four hundred miles from the Florida Panhandle. The risk of the slow-growing, problem-prone Florida torreya becoming an invasive weed is vanishingly small, they argued, and in the Appalachian forests, the tree might even take the place of the eastern hemlock, another subcanopy conifer in precipitous decline.
Schwartz, now a professor at the University of California, Davis, responded by acknowledging both the critical situation of the Florida torreya and the possibility of healthier habitat in Appalachia. But he balked at assisted migration for much the same reasons that David Printiss — and many conservationists of all stripes — meet the idea with almost visceral hostility. The Florida torreya is unlikely to become the next kudzu, but the next species on the poleward wagon might very well prove a nasty invasive. And since scientists don’t know precisely what climate change will mean for Torreya taxifolia and other species, conservationists can only make rough predictions about future habitats and future relationships among species. The unknowns are staggering.
If the theory of assisted migration isn’t controversial enough, Schwartz points out, the reality is sure to be even more contentious: while people may be willing to export familiar species to safer habitats, they’re less likely to open their home ecosystems to exotic refugees. “Here in northern California, if we were to ask people whether we can move a salamander that’s going extinct because of climate change into Oregon, people would probably say yes,” Schwartz says. “But if we ask people whether we can introduce a southern California species into a redwood grove for the same reason, they would uniformly say, No way!”
Perhaps the most disturbing implication of assisted migration is that the traditional conservation notion — call it an illusion if you like — of a place to get back to will disappear for good. Yet with or without assisted migration, that pristine place is already slipping out of reach. The demarcation between managed and wild has always been tenuous, defined more by emotion than data, and weakened over decades by the global reach of humankind: acid rain, DDT, PCBs, the traces of Prozac in rivers and streams. Climate change is the most dramatic transgression yet, for its effects range from pole to pole and can’t be fenced in, mopped up, or halted by a National Park Service boundary.
Climate change is altering the wilderness peak, the backyard nature preserve, the wild-and-scenic desert river — all the longstanding conservation victories, the places that not only lend inspiration and solace to the conservation movement, but also prove the wisdom of its tactics. In transforming places once thought protected, in violating hard-fought boundaries, climate change is busting the limits of conservation itself.
THE PASSIONATE CRITICS of assisted migration didn’t stop Connie Barlow, who moved briskly ahead with her plans for the Florida torreya. She created a website called the Torreya Guardians, where she and a handful of amateur horticulturists began to trade information about Torreya taxifolia cultivation in other habitats.
Their vision of the Florida torreya’s future begins in the mountains of north Georgia, where the roads narrow and twist, and travel is measured in time instead of distance. Here Jack Johnston, a sleepy-eyed emergency-room nurse and amateur horticulturist, started growing Florida torreya after meeting Connie Barlow at a dinner in North Carolina. On the steep ground behind his house, on terraces that legend has it were used for growing corn for white lightning in the 1930s, Johnston is cultivating a half-dozen Torreya taxifolia seedlings he bought, legally, from a nursery in South Carolina. Each is about two feet high, five years old, and healthy.
Johnston, whose isolated property is full of other rare plants (“I’m moving all sorts of things north,” he jokes) is pleased by the apparent flexibility of his charges, and nonchalant about the implications of assisted migration. “People have been moving plants around for a long time,” he says. “This idea that we should be territorial about our plants, well, that’s just kind of a provincial attitude.”
The next day, during a long-awaited rainstorm in western North Carolina, Lee Barnes, the de facto lieutenant of the Torreya Guardians, is eager to talk Torreya. “I’m a horticulturist,” he says. “I’m a professional tinkerer.” Barnes, who is no stranger to T. taxifolia — he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the cultivation of the Florida torreya and two other endangered Florida species in the 1980s — has so far collected and distributed about 120 seeds to about a dozen people and gardens north of Georgia, including amateur gardeners in Ohio, New York, England, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Some recipients have reported their successes and failures; some have not.
Barnes’s seed supply comes from a single grove of Torreya taxifolia, which grows not in Florida but about thirty miles from his home in North Carolina. In the 1930s and 1940s, on the grounds of George Vanderbilt’s grand Biltmore Estate, an enterprising head gardener planted seeds he and his botanical accomplices (known as the Azalea Hunters) collected from throughout the Southeast. Today, lines of tourists snake through the vast gardens, but few notice the unassuming, thin-limbed conifers that stand, unmarked, among magnolias, pines, oaks, and redwoods.
Bill Alexander, forest historian for the estate, has lived on these grounds for twenty years, and he walks along the curving path through this cultivated forest, pointing out each Florida torreya in turn. These trees, all apparently free of the disease that scourges the Panhandle populations, were likely planted in the 1930s or 1940s — though perhaps as early as the 1890s — and some graze fifty feet, a height now unimaginable in Florida. Despite freezes and hurricanes, the Florida torreya has done itself proud in North Carolina: one of the trees at Biltmore, Alexander believes, is the second-largest of the species. The largest stands on a farm in northeastern North Carolina, surrounded by rusting farm equipment.
Alexander, who traces his family back to some of the first European settlers in the Biltmore area, is no ecosaboteur, but he likes the democratic, do-it-yourself approach of the Torreya Guardians, and he wants to see the species survive, no matter its longitude and latitude. He says he’ll happily supply seeds to the group as long as the Biltmore trees continue to produce. And if the resulting seedlings establish themselves outside gardens and the manicured grounds of the Biltmore estate? Alexander looks pleased. “Well,” he says, “then I’ll think, ‘By God, we’ve been successful.'”
IN 2007, ecologist Mark Schwartz and two colleagues, Jessica Hellmann and Jason McLachlan, published a paper that modestly proposes a “framework for debate” on assisted migration. While they criticized “maverick, unsupervised translocation efforts,” such as the Torreya Guardians’, for their potential to undermine conservation work and create conflict, they directed their harshest criticism at “the far more ubiquitous ‘business as usual’ scenario that is the current de facto policy.” The three scientists take different stands on the notion of assisted migration. All are cautious, but McLachlan is usually the most skeptical, and Hellmann, a University of Notre Dame ecologist who studies butterflies on the northern end of their range in British Columbia, is the most open to the concept. “It’s incredibly exciting to think that we could come up with a strategy that might help mitigate the impacts of climate change,” she says.
Last fall, to initiate a broader discussion, the three scientists organized a meeting in Davis, California, with other researchers, land managers, environmental groups, and even an environmental ethicist. The Florida torreya isn’t the only species that might benefit from immediate assisted migration. The Quino checkerspot butterfly has blinked out on the southern end of its range, in the Mexican state of Baja California, while the northern end of its range, in Southern California, has been transformed by development. In South Africa and Namibia, rising temperatures on the northern edge of the range of the quiver tree are killing the succulent plants before the species has a chance to shift south.
But assisted migration is in no case a clear solution. Beyond initial concerns about new invasive species and territorial conflicts among conservationists, the meeting in California raised new questions. What if assisted migration is used to justify new habitat destruction? Who decides which species are moved, and who moves them? Isn’t “assisted colonization” a more appropriate name than “assisted migration,” which reminds people of birds on the wing?
Some researchers also worry that continued discussion about the strategy — which most agree is a last resort, likely too expensive and complicated for widespread use — distracts from the more prosaic, immediate duties of conservation and restoration. Brown University ecologist Dov Sax, an invasive-species researcher working on assisted migration, has grander hopes for the conversation. “Conservation has really been built around a static view of the world,” he says. “Given that climate change is going to happen, we need a whole new suite of strategies that could complement the old ones. This could get more people thinking about the other strategies we need.”
DISCUSSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE always seem to end with a dreary litany of required sacrifices, uncomfortable changes that will be demanded of the penitent. There is no doubt that stabilizing the climate will require deep, societywide reforms, some of them costly. But as climate change delivers its inconvenient truths, it also asks us to chuck a persistent and not-very-useful notion: the idea that conservation, and by extension restoration, is about gilt-framed landscapes.
Commitment to particular places and their histories has taken conservation a long way. It gives conservationists ground to stand on, in ways that range from the literal to the spiritual to the political. And restoring these beloved places to past states can restart ecological processes still relevant to the present day. But this sort of restoration works only when the climate is more or less stable — when the past supplies a reasonable facsimile of the future. Restoration ecologists remind us that the most effective restoration focuses not on a given point in the past, but on the revival of clogged or absent natural processes. When climate change makes historical analogues irrelevant, it’s these processes that will help species and systems survive in a new world.
Don Falk, an ecologist at the University of Arizona and the first executive director of the Society for Ecological Restoration, argues that assisted migration is simply another way to impersonate the process of dispersal: its adherents intend to transport species from places humans have made uninhabitable, through places humans have made impassable. Despite its undeniable risks, it may not be as radical as it first seems. It may be just another step in the evolution of conservation.
The job is no longer — if it ever was — to fence off surviving shards of landscape or to try to put everything back the way it used to be. Climate change requires conservationists to husband not a fixed image of a place, but instead the fires, floods, and behaviors that create it, in order to help species and natural systems respond to a host of changes we’re only beginning to understand. Assisted migration is certainly not the right strategy for all species — and given its myriad possible pitfalls, it may not be the right choice for any species. Yet the idea of it, and the discussion it provokes, point toward the future.
Mark Schwartz, for his part, still holds out hope for the recovery of the Florida torreya in Florida, for a small but healthy population of trees in the shady steephead ravines. But each time he visits the Panhandle, he says, he sees fewer and fewer Torreya taxifolia. | <urn:uuid:a7652ddc-35a9-4ae4-9caa-51940d708020> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.orionmagazine.org/article/rescuing-species/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946827 | 5,591 | 2.84375 | 3 |
I regularly hear the phrase “I’m not a therapist/counselor/social worker” in discussions of trauma-informed education and social-emotional learning. This is most often uttered by stressed-out teachers who are rightfully tired of new expectations being placed on their jobs. Indeed, it’s hard to process any implication that teachers should be doing more in a society that underfunds and harshly criticizes schools and teachers,
At the same time, trauma is real and it influences students, educators, and the systems and structures of schooling itself. Because of this, we have a responsibility to be responsive to trauma’s presence. And caring educators everywhere have embraced the movement for trauma-informed schools as a way to accomplish this.
As I’ve said elsewhere, one of the joys of the trauma-informed schools movement is that it’s decentralized. There’s no single authority or curriculum to buy. This means we can make trauma-informed education relevant and authentic in our unique settings. The challenge, of course, is that we don’t always agree on terms. Concepts related to trauma and education can be muddy and cause confusion.
In the spirit of deepening our understanding, let’s tease out some conceptual clarity together. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific, and what the difference means for our role as educators.
Trauma-informed vs trauma-specific
According to a report by DeCandia, Guarino and Clervil from the American Institutes for Research, “trauma-specific services are clinical interventions, whereas trauma-informed care addresses organizational culture and practice.” Let’s unpack this in the context of school.
The phrase trauma-informed in schools refers to the universal and proactive shifts we make across an entire school, informed by our understanding of trauma. While definitions of trauma-informed education vary, most rely on a framework that includes aspects focused on creating safe, collaborative, and connected environments. Trauma-informed education recognizes that all people are impacted by trauma in various ways. Implementation includes classroom-level and school-wide shifts to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of the entire school community in ways that are informed by what we understand about trauma.
In my book I invite readers to ask “how is trauma present in our school?” as a way of seeing and acknowledging the many ways that trauma impacts us. Answering this question allows us to notice not only the impact of trauma on individuals, but also the ways that trauma influences organizational structure and culture, and the history and present concerns of our communities.
As frequent readers may know, I don’t often map my work to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support model (more on that in a minute), but if that’s a helpful frame of reference, trauma-informed approaches would largely fall under “Tier 1.”
Trauma-specific refers to healing modalities that are designed to help a person or a group of people move through trauma. I am intentionally here expanding on the language quoted above which defines trauma-specific as a “clinical intervention.” If we understand trauma through a social model, and specifically include Indigenous perspectives in our understanding, then healing from trauma isn’t purely a clinical or psychiatric pursuit.
Trauma-specific modalities might include: particular forms of therapy that are intended to support trauma survivors, group support, culturally specific healing practices and ceremonies, or wraparound support. Trauma-specific services, interventions, or supports are typically led by a qualified or experienced individual or group, such as a licensed clinician, a community healer or elder, or a faith leader.
In schools, trauma-specific approaches might be used within the greater context of trauma-informed education. For example, all students attend an advisory block that focuses on social-emotional learning, and some students opt into a trauma-specific group facilitated by the school counselor. Trauma-specific services also might occur in a school where trauma-informed education isn’t being implemented on a broader scale. Students might be referred or identified for trauma-specific services that take place inside or outside of school.
Students, teachers, and other members of the school community may also be engaging in trauma-specific work completely outside of school, and they may or may not choose to share any part of that work with school staff. For that reason, I wouldn’t necessarily call trauma-specific approaches a “Tier 2 or 3 intervention” because this erases the many ways students may access trauma-specific services or community. The language of tiers can also erase the fact that teachers and other school staff may need this support as well.
|Whole-school organizational culture and practices||Modality of services and supports|
|Everyone benefits||Identified individuals or groups opt in|
|Everyone can lead and play a part||Led by qualified or experienced individuals or groups (clinicians, healers, etc)|
|Proactive as well as responsive||Responsive|
|Teacher role is to create a safe and supportive environment||Teacher role is to participate by invitation|
|Recognizes that trauma is omnipresent and emphasizes a shared responsibility to mitigate the impact||Can be beneficial for individuals and/or groups seeking specific therapeutic approaches and/or for specific trauma-origins (e.g. natural disaster survivors)|
Why the difference matters
Let’s return to the phrase “but I’m not a therapist.” When we understand the distinction between trauma-informed and trauma-specific practice in schools, it becomes clear that teachers actually don’t need any particular clinical knowledge or expertise in order to implement trauma-informed education. In fact, we become more clear on the fact that teachers actually shouldn’t be leading trauma-specific work.
Teachers aren’t usually trained, licensed, or experienced to lead trauma-specific therapies or approaches. Even if you happen to be both a clinician or healer and a classroom teacher, our professional responsibility requires that we avoid dual roles that could cause confusion on the part of the young people we are trying to support. This means that while teachers may play an important role in the web of community support for a young person, we are not the ones creating, leading, or assessing a child’s healing process from trauma. That means that you, as a teacher, do not need to inquire into a child’s traumatic history, create a clinical or other therapeutic approach, or provide counseling services in order to be trauma-informed.
Teacher roles in trauma-informed vs. trauma-specific approaches
In trauma-informed practice, a teacher’s role is to be part of the proactive community of support for all students, and to participate in the system shifts needed across the school. I write extensively about this in my book Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education. In a trauma-informed school, teachers are mindful of role clarity and boundaries. While we can and should engage in conversations about our own and students’ emotional selves as part of social-emotional learning, we also commit to emotional safety and avoid being “trauma detectives.”
A teacher’s role in trauma-specific supports for students is influenced by a variety of factors, but most of the time, it is to participate when we are invited to do so, following the lead of the person or people coordinating a young person’s plan (including the young person themself). Teachers are not leading the process, but may support the process from within our role. And as we participate in the process, we do not need to know all the details of a person’s traumatic experiences, detailed lists of triggers, or other private information. More relevant is what support is needed and how we can be helpful.
Let’s walk through an example. Scott is a student at Fictional High School (FHS). Scott’s family’s home was destroyed in a recent natural disaster, and his entire family experienced this loss as deeply traumatic. As a family, they make use of a few trauma-specific supports in their community. Scott and his siblings attend a summer camp for kids impacted by natural disasters. Scott’s parents meet monthly with their faith leader to process their emotions and find support in parenting through trauma. And Scott has an individual counselor from the community health center who picks him up after school for therapy every Friday. In their time together, Scott’s counselor has the role of helping Scott to process his trauma and learn coping mechanisms.
As part of their sessions, Scott and his counselor talk about his experience at school. They talk about some of the positive trauma-informed aspects of FHS: teachers use flexible pedagogy like project-based learning, which Scott enjoys. Student mental health is openly and proactively discussed, so Scott feels comfortable letting teachers know when he is having a hard day. And the school board recently revised their attendance policy to be more trauma-informed, so Scott won’t be penalized when his family prioritizes a restful trip to his cousin’s house for a long weekend.
They also talk about what’s stressful: Scott says that he feels overwhelmed by how big and noisy it is as FHS. Since the disaster, he feels overwhelmed during passing time, and the anxiety of the hallways lingers throughout each class.
Scott and his counselor decide that his teachers may be able to help. With the counselor’s support, Scott and his parents meet with some of his teachers. Together, they create a plan for Scott to discreetly leave each class five minutes early so he can avoid the busy passing period. Scott feels supported by this plan and his anxiety during the day decreases.
In this example, Scott’s teachers are participating in a trauma-specific approach at the request of Scott’s counselor, family, and Scott himself. This participation doesn’t require the teachers to know all of the details of Scott’s trauma or to be clinical experts. All it requires is their flexibility, empathy and willingness to actively listen to, believe, and enact the support Scott says he needs.
We need both
As we consider how both trauma-informed and -specific approaches are implemented in our schools, we also must remember that healing from trauma is non-linear and may take a lifetime. Schools may play a role in a person’s healing journey – and/or school may be an unsafe place for students to engage in trauma-specific services. Some people heal from trauma without ever engaging with formal trauma-specific support. While teachers may choose to refer a student for evaluation or connect them with clinicians inside or outside of school, it ultimately has to be a person’s choice whether to engage with trauma support or not. We must respect individual children’s and young people’s choices.
In a school and community’s ecosystem, we need both trauma-informed and trauma-specific approaches. All people, regardless of trauma experience, deserve an environment that is collaborative, community-oriented, and safe – the goals of a trauma-informed approach. And all trauma survivors deserve to have the option of high-quality, accessible, and culturally-responsive care that will help them heal.
As teachers, we don’t need to be therapists or counselors. We do need to affirm our students’ humanity and unapologetically prioritize well-being in our schools. And we need robust, well-funded, and connected systems of support in our communities. When proactive and responsive support is accessible and universal, who knows what healing might be possible?
Thank you to Helen Thomas for her thought partnership in expanding my understanding of Indigenous Knowledge Systems as it relates to this topic, and to Kate Dearth and Rhiannon Kim for offering feedback on a draft of this post. | <urn:uuid:fad01657-7f4d-4930-8d51-fb64ab05aede> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unconditionallearning.org/2022/05/05/im-not-a-therapist-but-i-dont-need-to-be-lets-unpack-trauma-informed-vs-trauma-specific/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955217 | 2,487 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Unless you’re reproductively challenged or looking to shed fat fast, you’ve probably never heard of the HCG hormone. Or the HCG diet for that matter.
Like many diets or pregnancy plans, the HCG “plan” comes with a supplement. That supplement is the HCG injection, and it’s one that you have to give to yourself. It can be pretty intimidating if you’ve never given yourself an injection before, but rest assured that you can easily learn.
If you’re interested in learning how to inject HCG properly and what it’s all about, keep on reading.
The Function of HCG in the Body
Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) is a protein-based hormone that is produced during pregnancy. It’s actually the hormone that lets you know that you’re pregnant. HCG also helps to maintain the production of two other important hormones: Progesterone and estrogen which are essential to the growth of the embryo and fetus during pregnancy.
Despite HCG being nicknamed the “pregnancy hormone”, men also produce small amounts naturally. HCG may also be prescribed to men for certain conditions such as hypogonadism, low testosterone, and to increase sperm count. Women who have trouble becoming pregnant often turn to HCG injections to trigger ovulation.
Adversely, elevated levels of HCG in the blood could also be a sign of one of several cancers. This would include placental, ovarian, and testicular cancer.
The HCG Diet
Aside from boosting testosterone and fertility, HCG injections have also been used to supplement the HCG diet.
The HCG diet involves the intake of 500 calories per day and HCG injections. The diet aims to boost the metabolism and help those who follow it to lose up to two pounds per day—without going hungry.
The very low-fat and low-calorie diet has three phases:
- The Loading Phase: Eating high-fat and high-calorie foods for the first two days while taking HCG injections or supplements
- The Weight-Loss Phase: Eat only 500 calories per day while taking injections or supplements for up to six weeks
- The Maintenance Phase: Stop taking HCG and gradually increase your good intake—avoiding any sugar or starch
During the second phase, you’re only allowed to eat two meals each day. It’s suggested that your meals consist of a lean protein, vegetables, a piece of bread and a piece of fruit. It’s also encouraged that you drink a lot of water.
How to Inject HCG Properly
Whether you’re injecting HCG for weight loss or to boost your fertility, it’s going to take a little training and a good amount of preparation. Typically if you are prescribed HCG by a doctor, they’ll walk you through the process so that you know what to do.
If you aren’t under the guidance of a medical professional, you can read and follow these steps carefully to learn how to inject HCG properly.
Step 1: Preparation
First thing’s first—make sure you have all the right supplies view here.
Once you have all the right supplies, make sure to read the directions before opening anything—the last thing you want to do is risk any contamination. You may also have to mix separate ingredients before injecting, so you want to follow those directions thoroughly.
Make sure your hands are clean. Using an alcohol wipe, clean all the vials (there should be one with water and another with a powder). You’ll have to remove any plastic caps first so you can thoroughly sanitize anything that will have contact with the product and your skin.
The syringe should already have the needle attached to it. Upon opening the syringe packaging, DO NOT remove the plastic cap from the needle until you are ready to mix the medication.
Step 2: Mixing the Medication
Once you are ready to mix, be sure not to touch the needle. If you do, you’ll have to discard it and open another syringe.
When you’re ready, pull the plunger on the syringe back to about 1 cc or 1 ml level. Keeping the plunger at this level, go ahead and insert the needle into the vial of water. Push the plunger back in to allow air into the vial (this will make it easier to withdraw the water).
Now turn the vial upside down with the tip on the needle still inside. Go ahead and withdraw the appropriate amount of the water. Again, make sure you have read the instructions thoroughly.
After you’ve withdrawn your water, you can inject the fluid into the powder vial. Be careful not to let the needle touch anything other than the rubber stopper. Now plunge the water into the powder vial to create the mixture. Discard the needle and syringe.
Step 3: Administration
In accordance to your instructions, select an area for your injection site. Clean the area with an alcohol wipe and let dry.
Intramuscular injections are usually administered via the buttocks. It’s recommended that you divide each cheek of the buttocks into fours and administer the shots in a different quadrant each time. Some are also administered at the top of the thigh.
Now make sure that the medicine has mixed in the vial—DO NOT shake the vial. If necessary, rouse the vial gently. Swab the top of the vial with an alcohol wipe once more.
Unwrap a new syringe and insert the needle into the vial. Turn the bottle upside down and withdraw the required amount of the medication. Give the syringe a light flick or two to remove any air bubbles.
Now use your forefinger and thumb to grasp the skin around the injection site. In of swift motion (like throwing a dart), push the needle all the way into the skin. Before injecting, you’ll want to pull back the plunger slightly to check for blood.
Blood in the syringe indications that you’ve hit a blood vessel. If this is the case then you’ll have to remove the needle, discard the syringe and start over from the beginning. DO NOT reinject the same needle.
If there’s no blood, go ahead and let go of the skin to push the plunger down. Once all the medicine is injected you can remove the needle and dispose of the syringe properly.
Check-in with Your Doctor
Whether you decide to try the HCG diet or think you may need a hormone boost to help with your fertility, it’s always recommended that you speak with your doctor first.
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Contribution of Active Video Game Play to Daily Physical Activity among College Students
- Presented on May 31, 2013
National surveys indicate less than half of college-age students meet physical activity (PA) guidelines (ACHA, 2009). Additionally, 65% of college students are active video game (AVG) players (Jones, 2003). AVGs incorporate PA into game play and could be used to increase PA. A key step in establishing their efficacy as an intervention tool is to quantify the contribution that playing AVGs makes to daily PA.
Purpose The purposes of this study were to: 1) examine the contribution that playing an AVG made to college students’ total PA levels, and 2) compare levels of sedentary activity (SED), light physical activity (LPA), and moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on days when students did and did not play AVGs.
Methods Thirty-eight college students who were experienced video game players participated. Height and weight were assessed by trained assistants according to standardized procedures. PA was assessed using ActiGraph GT3X monitors for a oneweek time period during which AVGs were played. In order to be included in analyses, participants must have worn the monitor for at least eight hours on three weekdays and one weekend day. T-tests were used to examine PA differences between game days and non-game days
Results Participants engaged in 552.5 (sd= 11.0) minutes/day of SED, 200.5 (12.6) of LPA, and 43.8 (3.4) of MVPA. Game play contributed an average of 6.7% (sd= 0.5) to daily LPA and 3.6% (0.8) to daily MVPA on game days, and 6.7% (0.5) to daily LPA and 4.9% (1.2) to daily MVPA for all week days. There were no significant differences between game day and non-game day SED (67.6 ± 1.5 vs. 69.3 ± 1.4%, respectively), LPA (25.7 ± 1.9 vs. 24.8 ± 1.6%) and MVPA (6.7 ± 0.7 vs. 5.9 ± 0.7%).
Conclusion AVGs contributed small amounts of LPA and MVPA to participants’ total daily PA. Favorable but non-significant differences in PA were observed on game days compared to non-game days. Among a less active population, AVGs may generate important changes in PA and SED; further research is required to examine this. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | <urn:uuid:eb3a5861-8b00-4cb5-bbf0-9f5e53a8b03c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://actitrainer.com/research-database/contribution-of-active-video-game-play-to-daily-physical-activity-among-college-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963096 | 587 | 2.6875 | 3 |
An article, published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, evaluated current research on flaxseed and any potential benefits it may have against diabetes and certain cancers.
Flaxseed has been the focus of increased interest in the field of diet and disease research due to the potential health benefits associated with some of its biologically active components: oil containing approximately 59 per cent a-linolenic acid (ALA) and the presence of plant lignan secoisolariciresinol diglycoside (SDG).
The authors, researchers from Canada, England and China, summarized that the health benefits from flaxseed ligans are due to their antioxidant activity, primarily from the hydroxyl radical scavengers and also due to their estrogenic and antiestrogenic compounds and the structural similarity to 17-b-estradiol.
Their paper states that SDG, once ingested, is converted in the colon into active mammalian lignans, enterodiol (END) and enterolactone (ENL) which have shown promise in reducing growth of cancerous tumors, especially hormone-sensitive ones such as those of the breast, endometrium, and prostate.
They concluded that flaxseed lignans could be a significant part of a treatment regimen for cancer based on the large number of small scale studies but they stress that further research is needed in clinical settings to support the role of flaxseed in cancer prevention in human populations.
And they called for further research to be undertaken to assess any potential adverse effects from over consumption of the seed: “More in vivo studies are needed to ascertain the propitious effects of lignans secoisolariciresinol and to see if there are any dangers in possible overdoses.”
Studies (Adlercreutz and others 1992; Saarinen and others 2000) on flaxseed benefits for breast cancer that the authors reviewed showed the presence of flaxseed lignans in MCF-7 tumors and observed lignan binding to estrogen receptors (ER). This suggests, said the reviewers, that the lignan function may be ER-mediated.
“Although the lignans have been shown to be protective against breast cancer, minor structural alterations may influence overall activity (Saarinen and others 2005). Thus, many of the aforementioned benefits might be the results of specific structural features needed for lignans to bind to ER,” they claim.
Evaluating studies looking at flaxseed ligans effect on prostate cancer, the researchers said that lignans enterodiol and enterolactone were believed to be partly responsible for the growth inhibition of 3 human prostate cancer cell lines.
They report that Morton and others (1997) found that higher enterolactone levels in prostatic fluid were associated with populations with a low risk of prostate cancer.
Another small clinical study, note the reviewers, showed that prostate cancer cell proliferation decreased and apoptosis increased in men fed 30 g of flaxseed per day, and they reported that a subsequent study by the same researchers supported the role of flaxseed in combination with a low-fat diet as a means to control prostate growth.
Although not as extensively reviewed, the reviewers also report that flaxseed has been shown to inhibit colon and skin cancers in cell cultures and animal studies that have been conducted in this area.
Low-glycemic-index foods containing soluble fibre may not only prevent certain metabolic ramifications of insulin resistance, but also reduce insulin resistance, noted the authors, citing a study whereby flaxseed was shown to reduce the postprandial blood glucose response in humans.
“A consumption of 50 g/d ground flaxseed by young females over a 4-wk period caused a reduction in blood glucose levels (Cunnane and others 1993). Similar findings were observed in postmenopausal women fed a 40 g/d flaxseed fortification diet (Lemay and others 2002),” they stated.
There has been concern noted over certain components of flaxseed such cyanogenic glycosides, said the reviewers.
The authors stress that cyanogenic glycosides are not exclusive to flaxseed and are found in brassica vegetables and cassava, with many of the health concerns regarding cyanogenic glycosides stemming from studies showing that cassava was toxic to animals and humans.
“Cassava contains significantly more cyanogenic glycosides than flaxseed. Furthermore, the release of hydrogen cyanide from flaxseed would be minimal and below the toxic or lethal dose.
At the recommend daily intake of about 1 to 2 tablespoons, approximately 5 to 10 mg of hydrogen cyanide is released from flaxseed, which is well below the estimated acute toxic dose for an adult of 50 to 60 mg inorganic cyanide and below the 30 to 100 mg/d humans can routinely detoxify,” stress the authors.
They also cite a study from Daun and others (2003) that reported that a person would have to consume 8 cups (1 kg) of ground flaxseed to achieve acute cyanide toxicity.
Source: Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety
Published online ahead of print
Title: Flaxseed Lignans: Source, Biosynthesis, Metabolism, Antioxidant Activity, Bio-Active Components, and Health Benefits
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The Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a serious neuropsychiatric consequence of dietary deficiency, most commonly caused by heavy alcohol consumption. Wernicke's encephalopathy is classically a disorder of acute onset characterised by nystagmus, abducent and conjugate gaze palsies, ataxia of gait, and a global confusional state, occurring together or in various combinations. It is due to deficiency of the B vitamin thiamine (vitamin B1), and was first described by Carl Wernicke in 1881. Sergei Korsakoff gave the first comprehensive account of the amnestic syndrome now known as Korsakoff psychosis in 1887. He described a range of features including delirium, but the disorder came to be characterised by recent memory loss with confabulation but with relative preservation of other intellectual functions. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is now considered to be a unitary disorder comprising acute Wernicke's encephalopathy which proceeds in some people to Korsakoff psychosis. Reference Victor, Adams, Collins and Davis Company1,Reference Thomson, Cook, Guerrini, Sheedy, Harper and Marshall2
A complicating factor in the assessment of Wernicke's encephalopathy is that in up to 90% of patients the pathology may not be associated with the classical clinical triad of confusion, nystagmus and ataxia. Reference Harper, Giles and Finlay-Jones3 The full triad of symptoms is recognised in just 0.05% of all those admitted to hospital, whereas the whole population prevalence of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome based on post-mortem studies in Western countries has been estimated at 1-2%. Reference Torvik4,Reference Harper, Fornes, Duyckaerts, Lecomte and Hauw5 Post-mortem studies of over 25 000 patients in general hospitals from various countries have demonstrated typical lesions of Wernicke's encephalopathy in 1.4% of patients examined, and in those misusing alcohol this figure is as high as 35%. Reference Torvik4-Reference Thomson and Marshall7 Therefore, it has been suggested that a presumptive diagnosis of Wernicke's encephalopathy should be made for any patient with a history of alcohol misuse who may be at risk. This includes anyone showing evidence of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, acute confusion, memory disturbance, unexplained hypotension, hypothermia, coma or unconsciousness. Reference Cook8 Operational criteria for the diagnosis have been proposed, Reference Caine, Halliday, Kril and Harper9 and although they are not yet widely used, they help in distinguishing the problem from other potentially coexisting conditions such as alcohol withdrawal or hepatic encephalopathy.
Untreated, Wernicke's encephalopathy leads to death in up to 20% of cases Reference Harper, Giles and Finlay-Jones3,Reference Harper10 or Korsakoff psychosis in 85% of the survivors. Up to 25% of the latter require long-term institutionalisation. Reference Victor, Adams, Collins and Davis Company1 Furthermore, the incidence of Korsakoff psychosis has been reported to be rising in some parts of the UK. Reference Ramayya and Jauhar11 For the reasons mentioned earlier, it is probable that Wernicke's encephalopathy is largely underdiagnosed, and so any published incidence and prevalence figures are likely to be a considerable underestimate. Prolonged heavy consumption of alcohol leads to thiamine deficiency by several mechanisms, including the replacement of vitamin-containing foods by alcohol, impaired absorption of thiamine from the gut, impairment of storage by the liver, decreased phosphorylation to thiamine pyrophosphate and excessive requirements for the metabolism of alcohol. Reference Butterworth, Kril and Harper12
A new service for working age adults with cognitive impairment was set up in Birmingham in late 2002, and soon received a series of referrals for patients with alcohol dependence and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. These patients had mostly been treated on acute medical or surgical wards, where the diagnosis had been made but the treatment administered was inadequate in either duration or intensity. We wished to improve levels of knowledge about the syndrome among medical and surgical colleagues, and improve the quality of treatment.
The study took place within the University Hospitals Birmingham National Health Service Foundation Trust, which provides adult services to more than half a million people in Birmingham and specialist services to the wider West Midlands region. As Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is commonly missed in routine practice it would have been difficult to assess the prevalence of the condition in all admissions to the Trust's two hospitals, so instead the focus was on patients who had been prescribed a thiamine-containing medicine. These individuals could be readily located using the pharmacy computer system. The project was registered as a clinical audit with the University Hospitals Birmingham audit department.
A data collection form was developed to record potential risk factors for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, using best practice recommendations (summarised in Fig. 1). Reference Cook8,13 An initial audit in May 2003 included all cases identified through computerised pharmacy records where treatment with thiamine or thiamine-containing preparations was prescribed over a period of 6 months (November 2002-April 2003). The case notes were obtained and reviewed, and the risk factors for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and the thiamine treatment regime prescribed were recorded on the form. Treatment was compared with local prescribing guidelines (Fig. 1), themselves based on national recommendations. 13
Between May 2003 and April 2004, an intervention was implemented through the hospital pharmacy service to improve the prophylaxis and treatment of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Each time a thiamine-containing drug was prescribed on the wards the pharmacist gave the prescribing doctor or their team information about best practice in prescribing for the syndrome. Where possible this was done verbally, but in all cases the treatment flowchart (Fig. 1) was attached to the prescription chart. A re-audit was then carried out again exactly a year after the initial audit period (November 2003-April 2004), and the results were compared.
All data were analysed using SPSS version 15.0 for Windows, and differences in continuous variables between the treatment groups were compared by means of independent t-tests for normally distributed continuous variables, Mann-Whitney U-tests for non-normally distributed continuous variables, and χ2-tests for categorical variables; P < 0.05 was considered significant.
Pre-intervention period (November 2002-April 2003)
A total of 201 individuals had received a prescription of either oral or parenteral thiamine. Of these, 148 sets of case notes were obtained and scrutinised (75%). Four cases involved patients with no history of alcohol problems and an alternative cause for thiamine deficiency (e.g. malnutrition secondary to carcinoma), and these individuals were excluded. In the remaining 144 cases, the prescription for thiamine was assumed to be due to alcohol-related deficiency. As shown in Table 1, the majority of the cases were men admitted to hospital as an acute case for non-surgical reasons. Although the routine recording of alcohol consumption and its associated problems was variable, a total of 125 individuals (87%) had a history of alcohol misuse recorded in the case notes.
|Pre-intervention N = 144||Post-intervention N = 195||Significance|
|Mean age, years (range)||54.9 (27–93)||54.1 (20–95)||ns|
|Men, n (%)||112 (78)||148 (76)||n|
|Emergency/A&E admissions, n (%)||116 (84)||156 (89)||ns|
|Under care of physicians, n (%)||124 (87)||157 (81)||ns|
|Under care of surgeons, n (%)||20 (13)||38 (19)||ns|
|History of alcohol misuse recorded, n (%)||125 (87)||159 (82)||ns|
|Current alcohol consumption recorded, n (%)||101 (70)||89 (46)||χ2 = 20.18, d.f. = 1, P < 0.001|
|Median daily alcohol consumption, units||14 (n = 101)||11 (n = 89)||ns|
|Prescribed a benzodiazepine detoxification regime, n (%)||76 (54)||88 (47)||ns|
|Thiamine on admission, n (%)||48 (33)||53 (27)||ns|
|Risk factors for Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome recorded in initial assessment, n (%)|
|Acute confusion||48 (33)||73 (37)||ns|
|Memory disturbance||28 (19)||41 (21)||ns|
|Ocular abnormalities||14 (10)||10 (5)||ns|
|Ataxia||21 (15)||15 (8)||χ2 = 4.14, d.f. = 1, P = 0.04|
|Unexplained hypotension or hypothermia||16 (11)||25 (13)||ns|
|Treatment and prophylaxis, n (%)|
|At least one of the risk factors present, therefore needed treatment||70 (49)||100 (51)||ns|
|Got adequate treatment||1 (1)||10 (5)||χ2 = 5.19, d.f. = 1, P = 0.03|
|Risk factors present that suggested the need for prophylaxis||33 (23)||69 (35)||χ2 = 6.12, d.f. = 1, P = 0.01|
|Got adequate prophylaxis||21 (15)||16 (8)||ns|
|Treatment not required||41 (28)||26 (13)||χ2 = 1.19, d.f. = 1, P = 0.001|
|Route of administration of thiamine, n (%)|
|Oral||87 (60)||144 (74)||χ2 = 8.47, d.f. = 2, P = 0.02|
|Intramuscular||4 (3)||1 (1)|
|Intravenous||53 (37)||50 (26)|
|Mean dose of thiamine prescribed on day 1 of treatment, mg|
|Parenteral||504||697||U = 1067, P = 0.04|
In each case the notes were scrutinised for any mention of the five broad sets of features of Wernicke's encephalopathy on initial assessment. Approximately half of the patients had at least one feature and therefore required active treatment for the disorder (the most common was acute confusion/reduced level of consciousness). If none of these features was present, the case notes were examined for risk factors for Wernicke's encephalopathy (Fig. 1). If any of these factors was present, the patient was recorded as requiring prophylaxis with parenteral thiamine.
The next step was to examine the thiamine treatment regime in each patient. Of the 144 individuals, 87 (60%) received thiamine orally, 4 (3%) intramuscularly, and 53 (37%) intravenously. The mean dose was 307 mg per day (s.d. = 266.2, range 0-1500). When considered according to the best practice flowchart, 70 patients required active treatment but only 1 received the recommended regime. A further 33 patients had risk factors for Wernicke's encephalopathy and required prophylactic treatment, but only 21 received it as recommended. Of the 70 patients who required full treatment, 17 merely received a continuation of the dose of oral thiamine that they were taking before admission, and this was also the case for 12 of the 33 patients requiring prophylaxis.
Post-intervention period (November 2003-April 2004)
A total of 263 individuals had received a prescription of either oral or parenteral thiamine in the second time period of the audit cycle, and 200 sets of case notes were examined (76%). Five cases involved patients with no evidence of alcohol problems, and these were excluded from the analysis, leaving 195 in total. There were no statistical differences between the pre- and post-intervention samples in terms of mean age, the proportion of men, the number of emergency admissions and the balance between medical and surgical cases (Table 1). A history of alcohol misuse was also recorded in a similar proportion of notes, but a significantly lower proportion of post-intervention sample had details of current alcohol consumption.
Just over half of the individuals had at least one feature of Wernicke's encephalopathy (acute confusion/reduced level of consciousness was again the most common one), and therefore required active treatment for the disorder. The only significant difference between the samples pre- and post-intervention was a lower rate of ataxia in the post-intervention group. The re-audit showed a small but significantly higher number of cases where patients received adequate treatment for Wernicke's encephalopathy (1 v. 10, χ2 = 5.19, d.f. = 1, P = 0.03). Although the number of patients that required prophylactic treatment with thiamine was higher post-intervention, fewer got adequate prophylactic treatment. The proportion of individuals receiving thiamine intramuscularly or intravenously was lower after the intervention (27%) than before (40%) (χ2 = 6.88, d.f. = 1, P = 0.009), and the mean dose of thiamine prescribed on day 1 also fell. However, there was a significant increase in the prescribed dose of parenteral thiamine as opposed to oral. Of the 100 individuals requiring full treatment, 23 merely had their admission dose of thiamine continued, as did 22 of the 69 individuals judged as requiring prophylaxis.
These results suggest that treatment for Wernicke's encephalopathy was rarely in line with expert guidelines in an acute medical setting. All the patients whose case notes were reviewed in this audit (a total of 339 in two audit stages) had a history of alcohol misuse and were prescribed thiamine in hospital, most likely in the form of an oral preparation at a dose of 50-100 mg per day. Symptoms suggestive of Wernicke's encephalopathy were present in approximately half of the cases, and yet only 3% received optimum levels of treatment suggested by expert guidelines. Reference Cook, Hallwood and Thomson6 A further 30% of patients had clinical features suggesting that they were at risk of developing Wernicke's encephalopathy, but only a third of these received thiamine replacement therapy as recommended in the guidelines (i.e. in a parenteral form). Reference Thomson and Marshall7 A third were taking oral thiamine at the point of admission to hospital, and this was continued in over half of these patients despite clinical features suggesting that a different approach was necessary. As we assessed symptoms of Wernicke's encaphalopathy by looking at the case notes, it is possible that these figures underestimate the size of the problem. However, it should be noted that although the guidelines were taken from the best evidence available at the time of the study, this was not based on randomised controlled trials Reference Day, Bentham, Callaghan, Kuruvilla and George14 and so may have been contested by some prescribing doctors.
The pharmacy-led intervention to improve levels of awareness of Wernicke's encephalopathy and its treatment was associated with an increase in the number of patients with likely Wernicke's encephalopathy who were adequately treated. However, at the same time the number of patients prescribed prophylactic treatment decreased. Furthermore, there is no way of determining whether the increased level of prescribing in a small subset of individuals had any positive benefits in terms of improved long-term outcome. The size effect was lower than in a similar study conducted with patients undergoing alcohol detoxification in Edinburgh, Reference McIntosh, Kippen, Hutcheson and McIntosh15 but that sample was selected on the basis of starting an alcohol detoxification rather than being in need of thiamine.
This study is in keeping with other research in acute medical settings that suggests doctors need regular reminders of the importance of taking an alcohol history in all cases, Reference Shepherd, London and Alexander16 and the need to be alert to the possibility of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in chronic heavy drinkers. These two factors are likely to interact: if significant alcohol-related neurotoxicity has occurred by the time of admission to hospital, the outcomes may be limited irrespective of an adequate prescription of thiamine. Reference Thomson and Marshall17 Reasons for inadequate treatment of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome have been well documented, and may be based on poor levels of knowledge about the condition. In particular there appeared to be a fundamental misunderstanding about the limited effectiveness of oral preparations of thiamine in individuals with a history of heavy alcohol consumption. Reference Thomson18 There may also continue to be concern over the risks of anaphylaxis associated with parenteral thiamine, despite evidence to suggest that the risks are lower than with other commonly used parenteral medications (e.g. penicillin). Reference Thomson and Cook19 The long-term personal and economic implications of developing Korsakoff psychosis far outweigh these concerns, and the simple, cheap treatment for Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is likely to be extremely cost-effective in the longer term.
These results suggest that all acute hospitals should have clear policy on managing alcohol-related problems in general and the prevention and management of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in particular. Although the syndrome is rare in absolute terms, in those with alcohol misuse or dependence the number of cases is not insignificant and the consequences of not treating a patient correctly could be lifelong. Therefore policies alone are not enough and a system for regular education of both junior doctors and more experienced clinicians in the assessment and management of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is important. Reference Shepherd, London and Alexander16 Hospital pharmacy service can have a key role in the monitoring of prescribing guidelines in this area. With the development of electronic prescribing systems, it should be possible to provide a warning message when thiamine is prescribed, alerting the prescriber to best practice guidelines. However, further work is required to clarify the optimum dosing schedule for treatment and prophylaxis of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. | <urn:uuid:2a96eb80-1c8c-4b2b-837d-214c6aaabd43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/pharmacybased-intervention-in-wernickes-encephalopathy/62EBD10612ACA3F44AA825E4042D43CC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949888 | 3,997 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Soy sauce is among the world’s oldest condiments and has been used in China for over 2,500 years. It is made from fermenting a combination of 打酱油, salt, and enzymes. It is also made artificially via a chemical process called acid hydrolysis.
The ancient individuals of Asian countries maintained meat and seafood by packing them in sodium. The water byproducts that leeched from meat conserved in this way were frequently used as water seasonings for other meals. Within the sixth century, as Buddhism grew to become a lot more extensively practiced, new vegetarian nutritional limitations arrived into trend. These restrictions result in the replacing of various meats spices with vegan alternatives. One such alternative had been a salty paste of fermented cereals, a young precursor of contemporary soy sauce. A Japanese Zen priest discovered this seasoning while studying in The far east and delivered the concept back to Japan, in which he created their own upgrades on the menu. One main change the priest created ended up being to have the paste coming from a blend of whole grains, specifically whole wheat and soy products in equal components. This modification supplied a much more calm taste which increased the taste of other foods without overpowering them.
From the 17th century this menu had become some thing very similar to the soy marinade we realize these days. This development took place mainly due to endeavours through the wife of a warrior of merely one of Japan’s top warlords, Toyotomi Hideyori. In 1615 Hideyori’s castle was overrun by rival troops. Among the warrior’s wives, Maki Shige, survived the siege by fleeing the castle towards the village of Noda. There she discovered the soy products making process and ultimately launched the world’s very first commercial soy sauce brewery. Information in the scrumptious sauce quickly spread around the world, and it has given that been used as a flavoring broker to offer food items a rich, meaty flavor.
These days soy marinade is made by two techniques: the traditional brewing method, or fermentation, as well as the low-brewed method, or chemical substance-hydrolyzation. The fermentation technique takes up to six months to accomplish and outcomes in a translucent, delicately colored broth with well-balanced flavour and aroma. The no-made sauces take only two times to help make and therefore are often opaque with a harsh flavor and chemical substance aroma. Soy marinade has been utilized to boost the flavor profiles of various kinds of foods, such as fowl and meat entrees, soups, noodles, and vegetable entrees. Its wonderful, bitter, salty, and sour preferences include curiosity to flat-tasting processed food. The taste enhancing properties, or umami, in the soy extract are recognized to aid mix and equilibrium preference. The condiment also offers functional preservative aspects in this its acid solution, alcoholic drinks, and sea salt content material aid the prevention of the spoilage of foods.
Soybeans (Glycine optimum) are also known as soya beans, soja legumes, Chinese peas, soy peas, and Manchurian legumes. They have been called the “Master of Legumes” because of their valuable nutritive attributes. Of all beans, soybeans are most affordable in starchy foods and also have the most full and best healthy proteins mix. Also, they are rich in vitamins and minerals, especially calcium fhtjux the mineral magnesium, as well as in Vitamin B. They are cultivated because the daybreak of civilization in The far east and China and had been introduced into the United States in the nineteenth century. In the 1920s and 1930s, soybeans gained popularity inside the You.S. being a foods crop.
Soybeans are brief, hairy pods that contains 2 or 3 seeds which might be small and rounded or bigger and a lot more elongated. Their color varies from yellowish to brown, green, and black color. The selection chosen yellow #2 are most frequently utilized for meals products. These soybeans have their label from your yellow-colored hilum or seed scar tissue which works down the part from the pod. The grades of grain allowed for trading are recognized by the usa Grain Specifications which are given by the U.S. Section of Agriculture. Soybeans are strange in this, unlike other whole grains, most are found in handling or exporting, and never a lot as direct animal nourish. The reason being soybeans include “anti–dietary” aspects that really must be removed from the legumes before they may be of nutritional value to creatures. The soybeans utilized in soy marinade are mashed just before blending these with other substances.
In lots of conventional made quality recipes, whole wheat is mixed in equal components with all the soybeans. Pulverized whole wheat is created portion of the mash along with crushed soy beans. The nonbrewed range will not generally use wheat. Sodium, or sodium chloride, is additional at the start of fermentation at roughly 12-18Per cent of the finished merchandise excess weight. The salt is not only added for taste; it also helps establish the proper substance atmosphere for your lactic acid solution germs and yeast to ferment correctly. Our prime salt attention is additionally required to help safeguard the done product from spoilage. | <urn:uuid:989ce25e-4a39-4580-a809-c46203f16b0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.aastraintecom.com/3176/crucial-scoop-to-consider/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958174 | 1,104 | 2.875 | 3 |
Dutch company EVBox announced a milestone of 100,000 charging points installed (mostly AC and over 1,500 DC fast chargers) in more than 55 countries. Those were commercial, residential, business and public charging points.
The growth of the business is tremendous, considering that in 2015 the total number was at 20,000. The goal is to add at least 900,000 more or a full million by 2025.
"From 2015 to 2019 EVBox grew its total network by 400% in just four years (from 20,000 to 100,000 charging points) and will not stop to provide the infrastructure needed to ensure that sustainable electric transportation will become the norm in the mobility industry in the coming years. To achieve this mission, EVBox has committed to having at least one million EV charging stations, both regular and fast, placed globally by 2025."
From now on, EVBox will plant one tree for every new charging point they install globally. In 2018, already 15,000 were planted.
"As part of the OneChargerOneTree initiative, EVBox will partner up once again with several amazing reforestation partners around the world (including OneTreePlanted) to make this promise a reality. At the beginning of the year, EVBox already acted upon previous promises by planting one tree for every charging station that was sold in 2018. To support local reforestation organizations, EVBox will collaborate with organizations across all continents."
Kristof Vereenooghe, CEO of EVBox said:
"Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. It’s what drives us, our partners and our customers day by day. Last year, we planted 15,000 trees. By achieving this great milestone of 100,000 charging points worldwide, we pledge to plant one tree for every new charging point. Electrifying transport is at the core of what we do, with this initiative we also show just how important it is for us to give back to our planet." | <urn:uuid:473cdd87-8ea6-4bda-b9d0-47dae04dfc41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insideevs.com/news/382657/evbox-100000-installed-charging-points/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958458 | 405 | 1.992188 | 2 |
New York just got another piece of incredible public art. This time it's a 26-foot-tall bronze elephant sculpture designed by Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo. The 15,000 pound wrinkly elephant arrived yesterday, September 15, in Union Square. The talented elephant is balancing upside-down on his long trunk with the help of a steel tube attached to a steel base. Notice the sagging skin, the off-kilter positioning of the huge legs, and the overturned floppy ears. They're all meant to show his gravity-defying position.
Called “Gran Elefandret,” the elephant is meant to resemble a metallic tree. As Barceló told ARTINFO, “A tree looks like an upside-down elephant, and when you touch a tree, it feels like the skin of an elephant. It's an urban work.”
The whimsical piece will be up until May. It is presented by Marlborough Gallery, which represents the artist.
Marlborough Gallery: Website
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Italian - Male
Italian form of Paul. Small.
Nickname for Giuseppe.
Form of Raphael. God has healed.
Italian form of Raymond. Mighty protector.
Nickname for Lorenzo.
Rose. Also the name of a 12th-century Sicilian saint.
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is kokuho rice good
This rice is grown in California but tastes like traditional Japanese Nishiki rice. This makes it high in fiber and nutrients, same as brown rice. Because Nishiki rice can be cooked to be different levels of stickiness, it is excellent for nearly every dish. Learn how your comment data is processed. The good: This food is very low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. Unlike white rice, it is not milled or polished, meaning it keeps its bran and germ layers, which are the parts of a grain of rice that hold the most nutrients. Mix 1 1/2 cups (16 oz / 450g) of the rice with 2 cups (500 ml) of water in a pot. Any price and availability information displayed on Amazon.com at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product. Kokuho Rose Rice® is a proprietary, medium-grain rice grown and sold by Koda Farms of South Dos Palos in the San Joaquin Valley of California since 1963. GABA is an important neurotransmitter that affects your brain and other organs as well as your muscle tone. We absolutely love Han Kuk Mi wild sweet rice. Whole grain rice with bran layer intact, our "genmai" (Japanese for brown rice) is complex and subtly nutty. Tamanishiki rice is a white, short grain rice that is frequently used in many Japanese restaurants and we can see why! Whole Grain Brown Kokuho Rose ®. It is also kosher certified! It’s also just difficult to find a food rice does not compliment! What about Sushi Rice? This select California rice is perfect for daily use in a wide variety of dishes. Secondly, rice is gluten free, meaning anyone with celiac disease or who is gluten free for any other reason can still eat it. White rice is generally considered the most delicious rice but unfortunately, it is the least nutritious. The first is the brown unpolished rice, with the bran left on. Another of our favorite recipes to use Han Kuk Mi wild rice for is chicken wild rice soup. In the past, the amount of rice a Korean family had was the determining factor in their wealth. Rated Amazon’s number one premium rice, we also love Nishiki’s medium grain white rice. The most commonly used type of rice is short grain white rice. They continued developing it and released it for sale in 1963. While not a true Japanese rice, it is commonly used to prepare Japanese cuisine in North America and is a reasonably good to use for sushi. However, it still retains the health benefits that come from the hull of the rice. Another California-grown rice, Kokuho Rose rice has been meticulously bred for absolute perfection as a premium quality sushi and sticky rice. Kokuho rose rice is definitely a premium rice that will easily become part of your go-to ingredients, whether you are making sushi, dessert, or just a side dish! While this may not be an everyday rice, Han Kuk Mi wild sweet rice is absolutely wonderful to make any dish a little extra special in flavor, texture and appearance! My husband eats rice daily and goes through this in about 1 -1/2 months. This hearty soup, filled with veggies and herbs, hits the spot on any chilly winter day or if you’re feeling a little under the weather. The grains nicely oval shaped and adhere well to each other, making it perfect for sushi rolls or rice balls. Some studies have even suggested that GABA rice can be helpful in managing diabetes. We use a Japanese style rice cooking pot. Either way, it’s delicious, healthy and sure to be a crowd-pleaser. The second is a polished, white version with the bran removed. Even if you don’t usually make your own sake, it can be a fun project to try! It is simply what it should be: premium quality, white rice. Due to the way this rice is processed, it does not require rinsing before being cooked. Like brown rice, wild rice is a whole grain since it has the bran, germ and endosperm parts of the rice grain. ‘A party without cake is just a meeting.’ — Julia Child. There’s a reason why Kokuho ® Yellow has long been a favorite in restaurants and in kitchen cupboards – it offers consistently high quality for excellent value. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. All Right Reserved. Fill out the form below to get the latest updates, discounts, and foodie favorite giveaways! This rice is produced by sprouting white rice, which maximizes the flavor and nutrient content of the rice. It is excellent quality and can be used for many different dishes, from rice balls to stuffed rice triangles to sushi. The company bred the rice in the late 1950s through their breeding research. Remove from heat; leave covered and let sit for 15 minutes. Cooking Kokuho Rose on the stove-top yields good results, though not as consistent as those achieved with an electric cooker/steamer. Each variation of rice has a different purpose in Korean cuisine, whether it is a sweeter sticky rice good for dessert or a muted flavored brown rice perfect to mix with veggies as a side dish. One common misconception about brown rice is that it is not as delicious or as sweet as rice, but with Nishiki rice, this is definitely not the case. There are several types of rice in Korean cuisine. Overall, Nishiki rice is an all around winner. Koda Farms was founded in the late 1920s by Keisaburo Koda. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It is sweeter than normal brown rice, like the Nishiki brown rice, and it also has the stickiness of white sticky rice. However, Kan Kuk Mi wild rice is sweeter and more tender than most brown rices. The other most common type of rice is brown rice. Brown rice is also high in fiber and essential fatty acids, all of which are lost during the milling process. It’s also an outstanding side dish when cooked with a little vinegar and garlic and mixed with any veggie. For a brighter version of this soup, try adding a little bit of curry powder! I like the smaller bags of 15 pounds of the rice, which we dump into a large gallon bucket. Great Hawaii Local Rice. This rice is much more nutritious than white rice, but many people do not enjoy the taste as much. White rice is usually the least healthy type of rice, but we love this rice because it is the healthiest white rice available! It is light and fresh and blends well with seasonings, sauces and other dishes because its flavor does not overpower everything else. 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New figures show that 6 percent of non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke at home.
Fathers who smoked when mother’s became pregnant, can make children susceptible to asthma later in life.
– This is both surprising and frightening, said Dr. Anne Kristin Mills Møller Fell of Telemark Hospital in Skien.
She leads a study that was conducted in Telemark for between 16 and 50 years. Of a total of 8,346 non-smokers 504 responded that they are exposed to secondhand smoke at home, wrote the hospital in a statement.
Those reports of respiratory ailments show chronic coughs, coughs with mucus and saliva, and that they often wake up at night because of heavy breathing. These are people who have never smoked themselves, who still get smoking-related ailments.
– This shows us who work with patients with respiratory problems, and it makes a strong impression on us when we meet people who are seriously ill because of someone around them smoking, says Moller Fell.
Meanwhile, a study from the University of Bergen shows that asthma is three times as common among children who have fathers who smoked in their youth, than children of fathers who never smoked. The study included 24,000 children.
– Children of fathers who smoked before conception had over three times higher risk of asthma compared to those who had fathers who have never smoked, says Professor Cecilie Svane at the Centre for International Health, Department of Global Health and Community Medicine at the University of Bergen.
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Common Civil Cases
Breach of Contract
Florida breach of contract occurs when one or more parties fail to perform any term of a contract without a legitimate legal excuse. One of the primary elements for a claim of Breach of Contract is that there must be a valid contract. To create a valid contract there must be an offer, acceptance, and consideration. Often the parties can create these elements through actions that they take that are consistent with the creation of a contract.
Some examples of breach of contract are not paying on time or not paying in full, failure to complete a job, failure to deliver all goods in the contract, delivery of the wrong goods or services, or any other act that shows a failure to complete all or a part of the contract.
The claimant (person brining the breach of contract action), must prove by a preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not) that there
- is a contract,
- a breach of that contract occurred,
- damages resulted from the breach, and
- there are no valid defenses for the breach.
There are many types of contracts and the requirements for each vary by state law. Some contracts are governed by the statute of frauds, which require a writing signed by the party who is in breach. Other contracts have implied terms and / or conditions that are created by the Florida UCC and deal with the sale of goods.
Florida contracts law seeks to put the parties in the position as if the breach had not occurred. Unless there is a statutory justification, or clauses in the contract, attorneys fees may not be recoverable.
Sometimes business relationships and commercial transactions result in disputes in which alternative measures such as negotiation or mediation are not possible. Under such conditions, litigation may become your only option, and you will need the assistance of an experienced corporate lawyer.
Commercial litigation may include:
- Breaches of contract
- Non-competition issues
- Interference with business relationships
- Employment disputes
- Consumer protection issues
- Business dissolutions
- Breach of fiduciary duty
- Partnership Disputes
A non-compete agreement ensures that one party to the contract, typically an employee, agrees not to seek or engage in a similar profession or trade that is in competition against another party, typically the employer. Such agreements have the effect of preventing an employee from using confidential information about its former employer such as trade secrets, internal office practices, client lists or marketing plans to gain competitive advantage with a new employer. Non-compete agreements may be a vital method of protecting your business’s interests.
Small claims often involve disputes between individuals or an individual making a claim against a business. Such claims may involve money or other types of property, and typically involve any amount that is under $5,000. Whether you are a business seeking payment for goods or services provided, or an employee who is owed wages, our attorneys are here to help you. It may be possible to resolve the dispute without the matter resulting in litigation, for example, having a civil lawyer write a letter demanding payment. In the event that litigation is required, our business attorneys are fully-prepared to represent you in seeking what you are rightfully owed. | <urn:uuid:eb81b394-6a53-4225-b2d6-3c42cb251337> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usechris.com/civil-litigation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953571 | 669 | 1.875 | 2 |
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a therapy that uses radiofrequency waves to deliver heat to targeted nerve tissues. This can help reduce chronic pain symptoms that are associated with various conditions by destroying, or ablating, the nerve to the painful area. It is usually used on nerves that will eventually grow back, so many people will periodically repeat the procedure.
Common areas to have an RFA are the facet joints in the neck and low back. This may be performed after a positive diagnostic medial branch block to the facet joints. This procedure may give relief of facet joint pain for 6 months, and it may be easily repeated if the pain returns. | <urn:uuid:3d89c949-f23b-4d13-a6ff-52991969d60f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ntxspineandpain.com/contents/treatments/radiofrequency-ablation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958697 | 131 | 1.695313 | 2 |
During this magical time of year, your home is transformed into a holiday wonderland. Your perfect Christmas tree takes pride of place in the front window, fresh greenery adorns the mantle, and a decadent feast will soon grace your table. But, some of the holiday’s most enjoyable pleasures can quickly turn dangerous for your mischievous pet. As your furry friend watches you decorate, bake, and prepare for the festivities, they are likely thinking about how they could enjoy your newly transformed home—and it’s not by lying angelically by the fireplace. Put yourself in your pet’s paws to see how your holiday swag could lead to a pet emergency, and follow our tips to keep your furry friend safe.
Christmas tree catastrophes
You’ve probably seen adorable pictures of kittens peering between Christmas tree branches, as they scale the tree like a personal pine-scented climbing tower. But, your cat knocking the tree over, and perhaps being injured in the process, is anything but cute. Follow these tips to prevent your pet from toppling the tree, or getting into other mischief:
- Tree — Secure your tree in a sturdy stand, and anchor it to the ceiling or windowsill with heavy fishing line or wire. Also, consider surrounding the tree with a pet gate to prevent temptation.
- Tree stand — Cover the tree stand to prevent your pet from drinking water contaminated with chemicals, fertilizers, bacteria, and mold.
- Ornaments — Hang breakable ornaments and salt dough creations, which can cause salt toxicity if eaten, on higher branches where your pet cannot knock them off.
- Tinsel — Leave off the tinsel, since cats love to eat the shiny strands, which can cause an intestinal blockage.
- Cords — Tuck all electrical cords out of sight, where puppies and kittens cannot chew them.
Holiday feast fiascos
Your pet will be drooling along with your guests as the table is piled with holiday favorites. But, sharing your feast with your pet may give them more than a full belly—it could lead to toxicity or pancreatitis. Many human foods are toxic to pets, including:
- Onions, garlic, shallots, and chives
- Raw yeast dough
- Sugar-free foods containing xylitol
- Grapes and raisins
- Macadamia nuts
High-fat foods may not be toxic, but they can inflame your pet’s pancreas, leading to vomiting, abdominal pain, and dehydration. If you want your pet to enjoy the holidays by your side, instead of in the hospital, avoid sharing rich foods, such as turkey, ham, buttery mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Your pet may be drawn to the woodsy scent of your fresh table centerpiece or pine garland. Cats, in particular, love fresh plants, and often eat leaves, flowers, and stems. Unfortunately, many holiday favorites are toxic to pets, and can cause toxicity with signs ranging from mild vomiting to life-threatening kidney failure. Lilies are the most dangerous, as they are extremely toxic to cats, and eating a small amount of any part of the plant, including pollen, can be deadly. Other toxic holiday plants include:
Although poinsettias can irritate a pet’s mouth and gastrointestinal tract, they are not truly toxic, and ingestion is unlikely to lead to serious problems.
Your holiday gathering may be dialed back this year, but a celebration with only a few family members can become chaotic and loud, especially if children or eggnog are involved. Being toted around by kids or having a toddler pull their tail can leave the most well-behaved pet on edge, and your normally laid-back pet may bite a guest, or dart through an open door. If your pet isn’t much of a party animal, let them relax in a back room with cozy blankets, a special treat, and soft music to drown out party noise. Also, ensure your pet’s collar and name tag are secure, and their microchip information is up to date, in case they do escape. If your pet does not have a microchip, our Groves Veterinary Clinic team can place one during a quick office visit.
We hope you have a safe and healthy holiday season with your two-and four-legged family members. But, if your pet goes dumpster diving in the holiday leftovers, nibbles on your centerpiece, or cuts their paw on a broken ornament, we’re here to help with all your little angel’s holiday mishaps—give us a call. | <urn:uuid:5a498d84-d983-4d92-8e96-3acae0965d8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grovesvetclinic.com/holiday-pet-hazards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930445 | 996 | 2.078125 | 2 |
A new study has determined that mining-related forest loss caused roughly 10 percent of all Amazon deforestation between 2005 and 2015. That’s a much higher number than expected, and it highlights how damage from mining spreads far beyond the confines of leases granted by the Brazilian government.
According to the University of Vermont-led research, published in Nature Communications, up to 90 percent of deforestation related to mining occurred outside of government-granted lease areas, in some cases extending as far as 43.5 miles (70 km) beyond a mine’s official borders. Overall, mining-related deforestation was 12 times greater outside mine lease boundaries than within them.
This off-site deforestation was driven by affiliated developments, including new roads, railways, airports and housing often built by mining companies in search of new sources of natural resources, such as iron ore and bauxite. With this infrastructure in place, further forest degradation can take place as agricultural enterprises—the leading cause of Amazonian forest loss—find it easier to move into newly accessible areas.
This type of mining-driven deforestation is far from unique to Brazil, and as the problem increases in significance and adverse impacts grow, the authors assert that better environmental assessments and licensing must be implemented for both on- and off-lease sources of deforestation. Currently, environmental assessments do not reliably include off-lease areas.
Even as deforestation in Brazil has slowed by some 80% since 2005 due to policy intervention and changing economic conditions, according to the study, the Brazilian government has been under fire for considering legislation to ease environmental regulations and open up more mining in protected and indigenous areas.
Gillian Galford of UVM’s Gund Institute and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, who worked on the study, told Earther that over the last decade there’s been a major focus on restricting land development for pasture and soybean agriculture in the Amazon, and while deforestation rates dropped significantly, they never reached zero. She said her colleagues wanted to help a simple the question: where is the rest of the deforestation coming from?
The researchers tracked landscape alterations around the Amazon’s 50 largest active mines over for a decade starting in 2005, using deforestation data from Brazil’s Space Agency (INPE) to reach their conclusions. The below video gives an overview of their approach.
“The conventional wisdom is that the footprint of mining is actually fairly small, and this shows that the actual impacts are much greater than expected,” she said. “This is somewhat of a paradigm shift in how we think,” Galford said, emphasizing how most of the focus has been on limiting clear-cutting related to agricultural enterprises including farmland for meat exports. Brazil is the world’s top exporter of meat products.
According to the INPE, deforestation in Brazil increased in almost 30 percent between August 2015 and 2016, in large part due to the loosening of some of the country’s environmental regulations. However in the year since, stepped up enforcement and better monitoring systems appear to have improved the situation and stemmed losses.
Galford said one partial solution could be for mining companies to purchase conservation offsets in different parts of the forest or sponsor other conservation activities.
Gregory Asner, a professor of Earth System Science at Stanford who wasn’t involved in the study, told Earther that while he’s known mining to be a major source of deforestation—as well as local pollution—he’s glad scientists are systematically documenting it in the Brazilian Amazon.
As far as ways to curtail the damage, Asner said more protected areas and more involvement by and respect for indigenous peoples are necessary.
“Governance reforms alone will not slow deforestation or forest degradation,” he said. “That is a fallacy that needs to end.”
Asner has been working for years to document deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, where forest loss related to mining is also a critical concern amongst conservationists and scientists.
David Pearson, a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University who did not participate in the study, told Earther that he’s watched “hundreds of square miles of pristine forest in Madre de Dios, Peru, turn into a quagmire of orange chemicals and moonscape destruction in the last 15 years.”
Pearson said the international community has let this problem get too far, and that calls for action are failing to motivate the powers that be.
“I don’t hear the appropriate alarm bells going off as this type of chemical poisoning and destruction is so extensive any plan for forest recovery is beyond difficult,” he said. “The positive economic rewards of gold are powerful, but if we can emphasize the negative economic impacts of this destructive extraction process that affect us all, perhaps we can increase the volume of the alarm bells that should already have been ringing loudly.” | <urn:uuid:98d83cf7-284b-4eca-b166-024c85cc216f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gizmodo.com/amazon-mining-devastation-spreads-far-beyond-leased-are-1819620532 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957065 | 1,014 | 3.25 | 3 |
Beowulf: A New Translation
Author: Maria Dahvana Headley
Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian
Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Holiday List.
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife
"Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand." —Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker
"The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale." —Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today
Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf—and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world—there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us.
A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history—Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation.
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05 Apr Selfhood on the Edge: African Photography at the Indian Ocean Crossroads Professor
Sandy Prita Meier (Art History, Wayne State University)
Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM
Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the port cities of the Swahili coast have been nodes of global connectivity for over two millennia. Beginning in the nineteenth century, however, Western imperialism radically reconfigured East Africaʼs social, political and cultural networks. This talk explores the fundamental role of photography in remaking Swahili logics of personhood. It considers how the photograph, through its very materiality, circulated in and out of various registers of meaning in order to question normative ideas about the politics of globalism.
Sponsored by the Department of Black Studies, Center for Black Studies Research, Mbanefo Foundation Research Fund, African Studies Research Focus Group, the Department of English Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative, and the IHC. | <urn:uuid:8d4f07cc-dfc6-4863-9605-7e9c992cffc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/selfhood-on-the-edge-african-photography-at-the-indian-ocean-crossroads-professor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.898567 | 208 | 1.765625 | 2 |
New eBook Released Helps Parents Homeschool a Child with Dyslexia
May 10, 2012
Writer and homeschooling mother Kerry Jones, in collaboration with Time4Learning.com, has released a new eBook aimed at parents who are homeschooling a child with dyslexia. “Successfully Homeschooling a Child with Dyslexia” comes from the 12 years of experience Jones had homeschooling her own son with dyslexia. Dyslexia, also called Developmental Reading Disorder (DRD), is a broad term covering many types of difficulties with information processing, leading to reading, writing, and spelling problems.
Parents who have chosen to educate their children at home can often feel overwhelmed when they discover that one or more of their children has a learning challenge. Jones alleviates parents concerns and encourages them by sharing her successes with her own son. She’s proof that homeschooling a child with dyslexia is not only possible, but can often be the very best choice for a child.
“Every child is different, but there is no better teacher student ratio than the one-to-one attention a child receives by learning at home,” attests Mrs. Jones. “And I’ve come to realize that you don’t have to have a degree in special education to help a child with dyslexia. You simply have to have knowledge of the resources available, knowledge of how your child best learns, and the desire to help.”
Jones lays out many of those available resources and other topics within the pages of the eBook, such as:
Recognizing your child’s learning style
Dealing with the emotions and feelings related to having (or parenting a child with) dyslexia
Reading and writing intervention programs
Reading therapists or dyslexia specialists
The dyslexia eBook deals with how a homeschooling parent can help a child in their own home, but also provides information on what outside help is available. “Successfully Homeschooling Your Child with Dyslexia” also includes an appendix linking to many of the most helpful resources, websites, and tools on the Web.
In addition, Jones shares her experiences using the Time4Learning online homeschool curriculum and how it was a wonderful fit for her son who is a visual learner. She appreciated the fact that Time4Learning was multimedia-based and interactive, and that it tracked progress for each child and provided assistive on-board tools to help children with learning disabilities.
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A little bit of conflict is not necessarily a bad thing, Father James Hewes told the 80 people who’d gathered at St. John School in Clyde the evening of March 11.
Differences among humans have been present since the creation, when God made man and woman, he said. God values this diversity, but differences often lead to conflict.
“It’s inherent in the way we were created. Differences involve conflict,” said Father Hewes, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Clyde and St. Patrick Parish in Savannah. “The key is how you resolve the conflict or transform it.”
“Transforming Conflict/Finding Reconciliation” was the title of the presentation Father Hewes gave with Dr. Terry O’Brien, a marriage and family therapist from the Syracuse area. Their talk was the seventh in the Family Education Program, a series of monthly presentations sponsored by St. John the Evangelist and St. Patrick parishes.
Sometimes conflict is inevitable, O’Brien and Father Hewes told those gathered at the presentation. In Matthew 10:34-39, Jesus even foresaw conflict ahead for his followers, Father Hewes said.
“No, I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. I came to set sons against their fathers, daughters against their mothers, daughters-in-law against their mothers-in-law,” the passage reads.
God is present even in conflict, O’Brien and Father Hewes noted. Nonetheless, Jesus did call his followers to try to resolve conflict and gave them the tools to do so, Father Hewes said. In Matthew 18:15-17 Jesus tells his followers to always try to solve a conflict by first confronting those who wronged them.
“But do it privately, just between yourselves. If he listens to you, you have won your brother back,” the passage reads. “But if he will not listen to you, take one or two other persons with you.”
This is somewhat similar to seeking the help of a trusted family member, friend or mediator, Father Hewes said. The goal is to settle the conflict on the most basic level as possible and keep it within the church community, he added. If neither of these approaches worked, however, Jesus recommended treating the other party as a tax collector or a Gentile.
“How did Jesus treat tax collectors and Gentiles but with compassion and by always leaving the door open for them,” Father Hewes said. “For Jesus knew it is not conflict per se, but the denial of the dignity and infinite worth of the person that lays the foundation for destructive conflict.”
When a conflict is destructive, each party is blaming the other for the conflict, instead of trying to solve the original problem, he added. Each person involved is channeling creative energy into defending himself or herself and attacking the other party, rather than finding a solution that would satisfy both parties. They see their respective positions as irreconcilable, and refuse to look at the problem objectively.
“Conflict gets destructive when people get stuck. It escalates. It goes from you and I sharing a common problem to you being the problem,” Father Hewes said.
Some postures and actions — like crossing your arms, rolling your eyes or raising your voice — also can escalate conflict and turn it into something destructive, O’Brien told the audience.
To illustrate their point, Father Hewes shared the example of a fictional couple trying to plan their honeymoon. The bride wanted to go to Florida, but the groom wanted to go to New York City. The couple tried to compromise by honeymooning in West Virginia, since it was geographically in the middle, but neither was really happy there. The bride resented the groom for being stubborn, while the groom resented the bride for never wanting to do things he liked, Father Hewes said.
Instead of being upset with each other, the couple could have broken down the problem and explored the reasons behind their desired honeymoon destinations, he said. The bride may have realized that she didn’t necessarily need to go Florida, but she did want to go somewhere warm where she could lay on the beach. The groom may have realized that he didn’t necessarily need to go to the Big Apple, but he wanted to go to a large city where he could take in a ball game and a few shows, he said.
Once the pair understood this, they could have chosen a spot — such as Los Angeles — that would satisfy them both, he said.
Transforming a conflict is different than simply finding a solution to a given disagreement or situation, Father Hewes said. When someone transforms a conflict, he or she digs down to find the root cause of the conflict and work from there. Without doing so, the conflict will just keep springing up in different forms, because the situation has not been reconciled, he said.
“When we’re transforming conflict, we’re trying to bring an attitudinal change to the situation. Resolving it is part of it, but conflict transformation looks at how this may be part of a bigger, systematic problem,” Father Hewes said.
For example, if he bought a lawn mower that was defective, the company might settle with him and give him $1,000, Father Hewes said. This would solve his own conflict, but if there were dozens of other defective lawn mowers, his conflict is part of a much larger problem, and simply paying him won’t solve that problem.
The audience seemed to eagerly grasp the concepts the presenters talked about, Father Hewes said.
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Malcolm Arnold: Padstow Lifeboat
Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, England in October 1921. He took up playing the trumpet at age 12, and after studying and practising intensely for five years, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. Whilst at RCM, Arnold studied both composition, with Gordon Jacob, and trumpet studies with Ernest Hall. Although primarily remembered as a composer, for the first part of his musical career, Arnold focused on being a trumpeter. He was principal trumpet for the London Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other London-based ensembles.
By age 30, Arnold devoted most of his time to composition. Known for his ‘light British music’, Arnold’s composition style is heavily influenced by folk melodies, which resonate in his English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and Cornish dance suites. As well as concert overtures and dances, Arnold is also remembered for his film music and more “serious” symphonic works. He has penned over one hundred film scores including: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Hobson’s Choice (1954), The Key (1958), Africa Texas Style (1967) and David Copperfield (1969). Arnold also won an Ivor Novello Award for his score for the 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
He often took influence from jazz, folk and composers such as Hector Berlioz and Gustav Mahler. Throughout his musical career, Arnold worked with a variety of well-renowned musicians such as Benny Goodman, Julian Lloyd Webber and Larry Adler. As well as this, he also won a plethora of honours and awards for his services to music, including a CBE in 1993. In October of each year there is an annual Malcolm Arnold festival held in Northampton, which celebrates Arnold’s life and music.
All was not always well throughout his life, however. Around the middle of his life, Arnold had built a negative reputation of himself due to his general unpleasantness. He was often drunk and “highly promiscuous” and in 1961 he divorced his first wife, with his second also taking a court order out against him after their divorce. After the second divorce, Arnold became depressive and attempted suicide twice.
In 1978 he was an in-patient in the psychiatric ward at the Royal Free Hospital, London. After being treated on and off for alcoholism and depression, Arnold overcame them and lived until 2006, with Anthony Day being his carer from the 1980s. Arnold died in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on 23rd September 2006, after a fatal chest infection. That same day, his final work, The Three Musketeers, was premiered in Bradford by the Northern Ballet.
Composed in 1967 when Arnold was residing in St Merryn, Cornwall, Padstow Lifeboat remains a very popular march for brass bands. A new boathouse and slipway had been commissioned at Trevose Head new Padstow in October 1967, therefore Padstow Lifeboat was written to commemorate the official inauguration.
The main premise of the piece is a foghorn that interrupts the lively march:
“The Padstow Lifeboat has a long and distinguished record. The new lifeboat station is near Trevose lighthouse, whose foghorn varies in pitch between middle C and D. For the sake of musical unity, it remains at D throughout the march.”
Packed with churning waves and the famous foghorn, the march is packed full of fun musical tricks from Arnold. The march opens with a tumultuous theme that is answered by the foghorn. As the upper band leads with the march theme, players from the lower band add to the foghorn sound. The quick changes between very loud and soft dynamics creates a buzz around the march. The sea-inspired central melody is joyful and is decorated by dancing solo and soprano cornets.
As the band begin to reprise the opening theme a perilous section breaks out that showcases brash sounds, loud bass sections and sliding trombones. The music is then brought back with the help of the bass drum. A quick reprise of the main march theme leads the band to the triumphant conclusion of this popular march.
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IoT Change Catalyst
The Internet of Things, or IoT, continues to break new ground. Although there are still many things to be worked out, there is no doubt it will create new opportunities and enable value propositions previously unimaginable.
So I was please when Garrick Stanford from RS Components sent me an infographic looking at the way the Internet of Things will drive change. Here is his introduction.
‘Sometime ago we discussed exactly what the internet of things is
. Well here we’re going to take a closer look at how it is going to change your life
– and how that has started already. More and more technology and everyday devices and tools are now connected to the internet – think about your phone and TV, for instance. But here we’ll examine how the amount of connected devices that we use is going to hugely increase and how that will affect our lives.’
IoT Infographic on Change
The one things we can be sure of is that this is but the start.
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The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale–Revised (RAADS–R) is a self-report questionnaire designed to identify adult autistics who “escape diagnosis” due to a subclinical level presentation.
|Authors:||Riva Ariella Ritvo et al.|
|Seminal paper:||The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R): A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults: An International Validation Study (Ritvo et al., 2011)|
|Seminal paper:||A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autism and Asperger’s Disorder in Adults (RAADS): A Pilot Study (Ritvo et al., 2008)|
Take the test here:
Who the test is designed for
- Adults (age 16+) with ASD level 1 or subclinical autism.
- Adults with IQ in the normal range (IQ >=80).A Scale to Assist the Diagnosis of Autism and Asperger’s Disorder in Adults (RAADS): A Pilot Study (Ritvo et al., 2008)
Versions & translations
The RAADS–R has been translated into Swedish, and was also available in most languages through Google Translate. But as of 13 January 2022, it seems the online RAADS–R tests have been taken down. As far as we know, we are currently the only ones who host the RAADS–R online, albeit in English only.
Taking the test
The RAADS–R is a self-report instrument. However, the authors mention that a clinician might help a participant interpret items if they have difficulty understanding the question.
The test assesses developmental symptoms correlating with the three DSM-5 diagnostic categories (Language, Social relatedness, Sensory–motor) as well as a fourth subscale, Circumscribed interests. It consists of 80 statements, giving you 4 choices for each statement:
- True now and when I was young
- True now only
- True only when I was younger than 16
- Never true
If you decide to take the test, please consider the Discussion section below.
- Scoring range: 0–240
- Threshold score: 65↑
- 65+ you are likely autistic (no neurotypical scored above 64 in the research)
- <65 you are likely not autistic (97% chance of not being autistic)
You can take the test using two methods:
- Paper-based if you want documentation of your answers (you can find the scoring key at the bottom of the PDF)
The scoring of most of the statements (63) is as follows:
- True now and when I was young (3 points)
- True now only (2 points)
- True only when I was younger than 16 (1 point)
- Never true (0 points)
However, the point value is reversed for the 17 so-called normative questions:The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R): A scale to assist the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults: An international validation study (Ritvo et al., 2011)
- True now and when I was young (0 points)
- True now only (1 point)
- True only when I was younger than 16 (2 points)
- Never true (3 points)
Below you can see an example of the first 3 questions, the first of which (denoted by an asterisk) is normative and thus has reversed scoring.
The language subscale is made up of 7 statements. The focus of these statements is on:
- Movie talk: Friends notice you’ve heard something new because you start using the word or phrase regularly.
- Small talk: A light conversation about unimportant things that people make during social interactions—instead of topics that are actually interesting and fun to talk about.
- Being literal: Having challenges when ‘what is said’ language does not match ‘what is meant’ language.
The social relatedness subscale is made up of 39 statements. The focus of these statements is on:
- Mentalization: Challenges with understanding what others are thinking or feeling.
- Mutual interests: Preferring to be with people with whom you share interests.
- Outsider: Being considered ‘different’.
- Bluntness: Being called rude; or that you have asked embarrassing questions; or pointed out when others have made an error.
- Dialectical reciprocity: Challenges knowing when it is your turn to talk, in a conversation or on the phone.
- Emotional reciprocity: Difficulty knowing when a person is flirting with you.
- Auditory processing issues: Challenges talking with several people at the same time.
- Object permanence: Not missing people when they’re absent.
- Maintaining relationships: Challenges making or keeping friends.
- Nonverbal communication: Challenges understanding body language.
- Mimicry/imitation: Copying others’ behaviour to fit in.
- Camouflaging: Hiding your automatic behaviours to fit in with others.
The sensory–motor subscale is made up of 20 statements. The focus of these statements is on:
- Voice volume challenges: Talking very loud, not loud enough, or significant fluctuations between the two.
- Voice differences: Speaking monotone, like a child, or in silly voices.
- Motor control issues: Clumsiness and being uncoordinated.
- Sensory: Sensory stimulation that doesn’t bother others can be painful and overwhelming. The experience can differ significantly at various times or be context-dependent. You may get anxious when overstimulated.
The circumscribed interests subscale is made up of 14 statements. The focus of these statements is on:
- Details preference: focuses on details before the big picture, but can do both.
- Upset when the unexpected occurs: A dislike of someone changing your routine—this does not mean that you stick to your own routine, just that you dislike someone else changing YOUR routine.
- Special interests: Speaking about them, having them…
The table below shows the average total scores and subscores for people taking the RAADS-R online, divided by autistic people, suspected autistic people, and non-autistic people (neurotypicals).
Average RAADS-R scores
|Total score||Language||Social |
|Autism threshold |
|Suspected autistic |
|Suspected autistic |
You might ask, “If the threshold score is 65, and no neurotypicals scored higher than 64 in the research, then why are the average neurotypical scores above 80?” Excellent question!
The answer is in how the data is being collected. The table above is based on people taking the RAADS–R online, which for research purposes starts with the question as to whether you are diagnosed with autism, suspect you’re autistic, or are not autistic. But some people that answered the latter will—contrary to their own expectations—end up scoring in the autistic range. Due to this misattribution, their scores get counted as neurotypical scores despite scoring in the autistic range, thus skewing the results.
In other words, the average neurotypical scores as reported by the online RAADS–R (on Aspietests.org) are almost certainly too high. The average scores you can find in the research literature are more reliable, given that they use genuine neurotypicals as a control group. In the article below, you can find a table with average scores that I have taken from the research literature.
Because the table with average scores is based on skewed data, let me also present the mean scores from Ritvo’s seminal paper:The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R): A scale to assist the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults: An international validation study (Ritvo et al., 2011)
Mean RAADS–R scores
|Mean total||Range||Language||Social |
|Autistic spectrum (n = 66)||133.83||44–227||11.08||67.89||32.82||28.11|
|Asperger (n = 135)||—||—||10.06||65.07||28.96||27.44|
|Controls (n = 276)||25.95||0–65||1.86||9.24||5.26||5.03|
The RAADS–R is a reliable instrument to assist the diagnosis of autistic adults.The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R): A scale to assist the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults: An international validation study (Ritvo et al., 2011)
- No neurotypical who took the test scored above the autism threshold.
- Only 3% of the autistic group did not score over 65.
- Test–retest reliability was high, particularly for the autistic group.Table 7 – Test-retest data statistical analysis | The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R): A scale to assist the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in adults: An international validation study (Ritvo et al., 2011)
Here is how the RAADS–R measures up:
|Sensitivity||97%||Test’s ability to identify positive results|
|Specificity||100%||Test’s ability to identify negative results|
|Concurrent validity||96%||Test’s validity compared with ADOS Module 4, SRS|
|Test–retest reliability||.987||Test’s agreement between results of successive measurements|
A total RAADS–R score of 65 or higher is consistent with the diagnosis of autism and supports a clinician’s diagnosis. However, if there is a difference between the clinician’s diagnosis and the RAADS–R diagnostic assignment, the clinician’s diagnosis should take precedent. This is because symptoms may be revealed only during an interview.
Also, the RAADS–R standardization study reported that many autism subjects, particularly those in their late teens and early twenties, failed to acknowledge the presence of symptoms that their families said were present and which were readily observed by the diagnostician.The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS–R)
Dr. Natalie Engelbrecht:
The test has been validated and cited in the medical literature numerous times. However, as both an autistic and a psychotherapist, I have some concerns with the RAADS–R:
- Quite a few of the statements are not actually characteristic of autism and are likely going to be experienced as demeaning (e.g. I am NEVER a compassionate type of person).
- A few questions are characteristic of alexithymia rather than autism (e.g. the ones on lack of compassion and empathy). While alexithymia correlates strongly with autism, it should not be confused with autism itself.
- Two-thirds of autistic adults were incorrectly identified by clinicians when they used this test, despite the fact that the test has strong validity.Examining the Diagnostic Validity of Autism Measures Among Adults in an Outpatient Clinic Sample (Conner, Cramer, & McGonigle, 2019) I suspect the reason for this is that the normative questions that indicate what we ought to be like are outdated. I contacted Dr. Ritvo regarding this, but she has declined to respond.
My test results are above. And it did identify me as autistic, which I am. The test is based on the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for autismDiagnostic Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder | CDC which views us as having deficits, deficits, deficits!
I find many of the questions insensitive and lacking in understanding about what is normative in regards to autistics. The test claims that a clinician ‘ought’ to see the following characteristics if a person is autistic:
- A lack of compassion
- A dislike of close friendships
- Monotonous speech
- An inability to manage small talk.
Of the 80 statements in the RAADS–R, the following 17 are normative. And remember, according to the RAADS–R, ‘never true’ gives the highest score (3) for these statements. Statements that are unlikely to be ‘never true’ for most autistic people, are in bold.
- 1. I am a sympathetic person
- 6. I can “put myself in other people’s shoes”
- 11. I miss my best friends or family when we are apart for a long time.
- 18. I understand when friends need to be comforted.
- 23. Meeting new people is usually easy for me.
- 26. I like having a conversation with several people, for instance around a dinner table, at school, or at work.
- 33. I speak with a normal rhythm.
- 37. I am an understanding type of person.
- 43. I like to talk things over with my friends.
- 47. I feel very comfortable dating or being in social situations with others.
- 48. I try to be as helpful as I can when other people tell me their personal problems.
- 53. I am considered a compassionate type of person.
- 58. I can chat and make small talk with people.
- 62. I usually speak in a normal tone.
- 68. I can tell when someone says one thing but means something else.
- 72. I enjoy spending time eating and talking with my family and friends.
- 77. I like to have close friends.
These descriptions are so lacking in nuance and are not at all representative of who I am. This is probably my least favourite autism test for that reason alone.
A significant percentage of the statements are nearly impossible for me to answer or, have no appropriate answer. It feels like throwing a dart at times; no choice is accurate, just slightly more or less accurate.
That said, the test has a close to 100% success rate in differentiating autism from non-autism, despite these limitations.
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Curevac's first corona vaccine project failed
Photo: Martin Wagner / IMAGO
The biotech company Curevac has sued the vaccine manufacturer Biontech before the Düsseldorf Regional Court.
The company from Tübingen sees its patents being infringed by the competitor from Mainz, which was successful in the pandemic.
The lawsuit is directed against Biontech and two subsidiaries, Curevac announced.
Accordingly, “fair compensation” is required for the violation of a number of its intellectual property rights, which were used in the manufacture and sale of the Covid 19 vaccine Comirnaty by Biontech and its US partner Pfizer.
According to Curevac, the company has long been aware of the alleged infringement of its patents.
»At the peak of the pandemic, none of us would have thought of pointing out the patent infringement.
Now that there is better control over the pandemic, we think it is the right time, "said a Curevac spokeswoman.
According to the statement, however, "the rights to intellectual property must be recognized and respected in the form of fair remuneration" - also in order to be able to invest in the "further development of mRNA technology and new classes of life-saving drugs".
No injunction sought - vaccine can continue to be produced
The company said it was about asserting the “intellectual property rights from more than two decades of pioneering work in mRNA technology” that contributed to the development of corona vaccines.
Biontech has not yet commented on the allegations.
The district court also did not comment on the matter.
Curevac was considered one of the great hopes in the development of a Covid-19 vaccine, but suffered a serious setback because its own vaccine did not work as well as hoped - the project was stopped.
The company then lost massively in value on the stock exchange.
The Tübingen-based company is now working on an improved drug together with the British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline - while Biontech and Pfizer continue to generate billions in sales with their vaccine.
However, the Tübingen-based company emphasized that it is not planning any injunctions that could impede the production, sale or distribution of Comirnaty.
Such a move could have disrupted the ongoing vaccination campaign.
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Hunters of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have spotted an object that looks strangely like a coffin on the Martian surface.
In the video posted on YouTube, spotting the alien coffin is difficult to view at first but a closer inspection reveals the intriguing anomaly, the Inquisitr reported.
“This stone object looks like a coffin,” researcher Scott Waring of the UFO Sightings Daily was quoted as saying.
It looks to be about one metre across and a foot-and-a-half high.
According to Waring, the object may simply be a stone formation but wonders if NASA could turn the Curiosity rover around and take a closer look at the “coffin”. | <urn:uuid:4089c031-5203-4a76-900f-0e16e2b1efe4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.avenewz.com.au/is-there-an-alien-coffin-on-the-red-planet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91405 | 146 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Pinellas County launches new sustainability and resiliency planning process, website
Pinellas County launched a new sustainability and resiliency website this week to share the County’s current and upcoming sustainability and resiliency efforts and offer residents ideas for how they can make a difference in their community. The site can be found at
The launch of the new website comes as the County recently began developing its first comprehensive Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan (SRAP) to address the unique geographical, environmental, social, economic, and climate challenges of Florida’s most densely populated county.
Scheduled for completion in March 2022, the Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan will guide Pinellas County governmental policies and programs, as well as external community services.
The development of the action plan, led by consultant VHB, will include a greenhouse gas inventory to measure the carbon footprint of County operations as well as unincorporated Pinellas County communities. The process will also include an internal review of programs and policies, and public outreach through surveys and a community stakeholder advisory group.
Amid growing concerns about sea-level rise and other climate change impacts, Pinellas County has expanded its focus on sustainability and resiliency in recent years. Some highlights of the County’s actions include:
Creating the County’s first Sustainability & Resiliency Coordinator position in 2019
County leadership in the
Tampa Bay Regional Resiliency Coalition
An administrative directive to integrate resiliency, including sea-level rise analysis, into all future capital improvement projects
Co-founding the Pinellas Sustainability and Resilience Network, an informal partnership of local government officials and 10 municipalities that are implementing sustainability and resiliency programs
Publishing the County’s first comprehensive
progress report on its sustainability and resiliency efforts
Duke Energy Florida’s Clean Energy Connection Program later this year to offset 40 percent of the County’s energy consumption through solar power generation starting in 2024
A quarter of Pinellas County’s land lies in the Coastal High Hazard Area, an area that is considered particularly vulnerable to the effects of coastal flooding from tropical storm events. Pinellas County has seen nearly eight inches of sea-level rise since 1946, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Seventy-six percent of Pinellas County residents consider sea-level rise a concern to them, according to the 2020 Pinellas County Citizen Values survey. | <urn:uuid:e68c5d4c-893e-4677-bb22-ff45b622561e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tampabay.wateratlas.usf.edu/news/details/19852/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.923387 | 537 | 2.015625 | 2 |
People Living Near Industrial Hog Farms See Higher Risk Of Diseases
Do large-scale hog farms make their neighbors sick? A new study from Duke University researchers show residents who live close to industrial hog farms have a higher risk of potentially deadly diseases.
Communities in areas with a higher density of hogs see more kidney disease, anemia and sepsis. There is also a greater risk of infant mortality and lower birth weight in these communities. This new study, published in the North Carolina Medical Journal, does not prove that pollutants on hog farms are the cause for these illnesses, but it shows a strong correlation and raises questions about the secondary effects of factory farming.
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A Woman Judge
Jinsuk is bullied by her husband Gyusik, who feels inferior to her social status as a judge, and by her mother-in-law, who sympathizes with him and misunderstands her. Despite the harassment, she remains faithful to her job as her judge and fulfills her duties as a wife and daughter-in-law. When her mother-in-law appears in court on suspicion of murder, Jinsuk takes up her defense to acquit her and leads a happy family.
* This film will be screened with Women with a camera of the Korean Cinema "Hommage: SHIN Su-won and Korean Women Directors" section. (Code 261, 625)
* The screening code 436 would only include A Woman Judge and there will be a Cinema Class after the screening.
* Source: Korean Film Archive
This is the debut film by Hong Eunwon who is the second female director in Korea. Jinsuk passes the bar exam and becomes a judge for the first time in Korea. She marries the son of the family Chae. However, all in the family get jealous of her high social status except her father-in-law. The film is based on the true story of the first woman judge, Hwang Yoonseok who died mysteriously in 1961 but it draws a different trajectory from what actually happened. Although it comes to an unexpected end, it marks a meaningful point considering the conservative patriarchal society back then. The film has even a sense of duty when Jinsuk says to a woman judge of younger age who complains about the hard work, “We should make efforts together to enhance the women’s social status rather than complaining about the individuals’ temporary hardships and barriers.” [MOON Seok]
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Definitions for penthouse
ˈpɛntˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzpent·house
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word penthouse.
an apartment located on the top floors of a building
An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.
An apartment or suite on the top floor of a tall building, especially one that is expensive or luxurious.
Any of the sloping roofs at the side of a real tennis court.
Etymology: From pentiz, from apendiz, ultimately from a suffixed form of appendo.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
A shed hanging out aslope from the main wall.
Etymology: pent, from pente, Fr. and house.
This is the penthouse under which Lorenzo desir’d us to make a stand. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his penthouse lid. William Shakespeare.
The Turks lurking under their penthouse, laboured with mattocks to dig up the foundation of the wall. Richard Knolles.
A blow was received by riding under a penthouse. Richard Wiseman.
Those defensive engines, made by the Romans into the form of penthouses to cover the assailants from the weapons of the besieged, would he presently batter in pieces with stones and blocks. John Wilkins.
My penthouse eye-brows and my shaggy beard
Offend your sight; but these are manly signs. Dryden.
The chill rain
Drops from some penthouse on her wretched head. Nicholas Rowe.
a shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively
Etymology: [A corruption of pentice.]
Penthouse, a men's magazine founded by Bob Guccione, combines urban lifestyle articles and softcore pornographic pictorials that, in the 1990s, evolved into hardcore. Penthouse is owned by FriendFinder Network, formerly known as General Media, Inc. whose parent company was Penthouse International Inc. prior to chapter 11 restructuring. Although Guccione was American, the magazine was founded in 1965 in the United Kingdom, but beginning in September 1969 was sold in the United States as well. At the height of his success, Guccione, who died in 2010, was considered to be one of the richest men in the United States. He was once listed in the Forbes 400 ranking of wealthiest people. An April 2002 New York Times article reported Guccione as saying that Penthouse grossed $3.5 billion to $4 billion over the 30-year life of the company, with net income of almost half a billion dollars.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
pent′hows, n. a shed projecting from or adjoining a main building: a protection from the weather over a door or a window: anything resembling a penthouse.—v.t. to provide with a penthouse, shelter by means of a shed sloping from a wall, or anything similar. [A corr. of pentice, which is from Fr. appentis—L. appendicium, an appendage.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
A shed hanging forward in a sloping direction from the main wall of a place.
The numerical value of penthouse in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
The numerical value of penthouse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
When I married the jazz man I lived at The Palace, I never took the garbage out. When I married the airline captain I lived in a penthouse and on Park Avenue, I never took the garbage out. When I married the former Hitler Youth I lived in a 150 year old farm house, with a barn, playhouse, water pump and a magnolia tree, I never took the garbage out. Now that I am an 80 year old widow, I live in an apartment overlooking blooming magnolia trees, a garden, a gazebo and, if I stretch my neck - as far as I can see, I am convinced I'm in Paris, at last I take the garbage out every day
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Industry wide, overall print magazine sales are in decline. You see evidence of it everywhere you look. I hardly ever see someone reading an actual newspaper or magazine on the train in the morning anymore, not that I ever saw someone reading an issue of Penthouse during their morning commute, but you get the idea.
It’s very troubling, these are two well-respected people killed in their penthouse apartment.
We’ve got overseas people coming to see it, we have people in India who know that [Indian media billionaire] Subhash Chandra bought a triplex in the building [in 2012] and are eyeing [this penthouse].
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How many hours is S-290?
NWCG S-290 Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior : 32.00 Hours.
What is the S-290?
S-290 Intermediate Wildland Behavior. Designed for personnel desiring to be qualified as any Single Resource Boss or Fire Effects Monitor (FEMO). This classroom-based skills course designed to prepare the prospective fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations.
What are five weather elements that affect wildland fire behavior?
The four critical weather elements that produce extreme fire behavior are low relative humidity, strong surface wind, unstable air, and drought.
Which of the following makes up the three components of wildland fire environment?
Three elements comprise the fire triangle: oxygen, heat, and fuel. These three elements must be present and combined before combustion can occur and continue. The most abundant chemical element on earth is oxygen. Oxygen supports the chemical processes that occur during a wildfire.
How do you become a certified wildland firefighter?
Explore Wildland Fire Careers
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. National.
- Males born after 12/31/59 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Must meet Interagency Fire Program Management (IFPM) qualifications.
- Position requires a Work Capacity Test (WCT)
- Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license.
How do you measure wind speeds above 10 mph with your wind meter?
Observe the ball for one minute to determine the one-minute average wind speed. If the ball stays between 2-9 mph, use the low wind speed scale on the left. If the ball is rising near 10 mph on the left scale, cover the top red stem with your finger and read from the high wind speed scale on the right.
Which are the primary environmental factors affecting intensity quizlet?
What is the fastest spreading part of a fire?
Head of a Fire: The side of the fire having the fastest rate of spread.
Which tool is a combination of hoe and rake?
The McLeod tool
The McLeod tool is a combination of a hoe and a rake and can be used for clearing brush and debris as well as constructing fire lines.
Is 30 too old to be a wildland firefighter?
It’s never too late to become a wildland firefighter and start your career! Whether you’re 30, 35 or even 37, if you’re fit and motivated age shouldn’t be a deterrent.
How long is the intermediate wildland fire behavior course?
Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior, S-290 is a 32 hour course designed to meet the training needs of a Firefighter Type 1 (FFT1) or a Fire Effects Monitor (FEMO) on an incident as outlined in the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1 and the position task books developed for the positions.
Where can I get the s-290 fire management course?
S-290 is available via two delivery methods (online and ILT), either of which is sufficient for student completion. This is a classroom-based skills course designed to prepare the prospective fireline supervisor to undertake safe and effective fire management operations.
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Franz Mark is a German artist, author of several very unusual works in the expressionist style. A painter was born and lived in Germany at the beginning of the last century, for a long time studying at the university could not give him the necessary knowledge, since the emphasis in the educational institution was on naturalism, which did not interest the young artist at all.
Leaving all of it, he goes to Paris, where he gets acquainted with the works of Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, which have a lasting impression on his work and give impetus to action. The trip happened in 1907, and by 1913 the artist had a number of works, including the painting "Foxes", made in a new abstract style.
The central theme of the picture is animals, in this case foxes. For writing, overflows of bright red, dark green and even blue colors were used. The paintings are reminded more of stained glass than the usual painting of artists, the clarity and broken lines are traced and, oddly enough, the real fox faces are guessed in this confusion.
The animals are placed in the center of the canvas, they seemed to be piled up in a pile, playing, or anticipating danger, so the center is made in bright red, while the rest of the space is allocated to other colors, mostly green and yellow. It is clear to everyone that yellow is part of fox fur, so you involuntarily start counting yellow from these flashes of yellow, how many foxes the artist actually depicted, trying to find a few more that are hiding from the spectator's eye.
It is as if the foxes are behind the glass, in the refraction of which a person can observe their amazing life. Unfortunately, the life of the author of the picture ended only 3 years after his writing, in 1916 he, like hundreds of other soldiers of the First World War, died in the battle of Verdun, leaving behind only an indestructible memory in the form of his own works.
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565. There are many different types of natural preservatives. This method is effective against spoilage-causing bacteria however it doesn't eliminate the pathogens such as L. monocytogenes. No Cholesterol, no Trans Fats. Malk is my number one choice for dairy-free milk.The ingredient list is short and easy to understand, including only 3 simple components: filtered water, organic sprouted almonds, and Himalayan salt. The following almond milk containers are nutritionist-approved brands you should stock in your home. Create an account below to get 6 C&EN articles per month, receive newsletters and more - all free. Carrageenan & Gums: Carrageenan is linked to intestinal inflammation and cancer ( 4 ).
0.75 to 1.5%. Saturated fats, which are in cow's milk, contribute to . Per 8-ounce serving: 60 calories, 2.5 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 170 mg sodium, 1 g carbs (1 g fiber, 0 g sugar), 1 g protein.
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So what you get is a nutritious, enjoyable almond mylk, not a sad skim milk alternative. (The recipe also says you can keep it in the . Or strain for a smoother, more commercial-style milk for use in recipes. Distilled water should always be used for making lotion since tap water can have all sorts of ickies lurking in it, but I know a lot of people start off using tap water anyway and I wanted to really test these preservatives, so I used tap water. You can create 40oz of oat milk at the touch of a button.
The 8 best almond milk brands you can buy. Improve this question. Acids, like citrus juice for example, prevent the . RECOMMENDED USAGE: Apply 1-2 pumps of cleanser to damp face. Step 3: Transfer blanched almonds to a bowl, pour FILTERED WATER to immerse, cover and refrigerate.
Given that tigernut horchata is one of the most sensitive milks there are out there, we can figure that the rest of plant milks can be kept for slightly longer. Chop the dry almonds up very finely. Massage cleanser in a circular motion, rinse with warm water. Add extra flavor if desired. The remedy against the use of drugs and late-refrigeration, &c., is to purify and preserve the milk in its natural sterile condition by quickly .
Store the almond milk in an airtight container . 99 ($0.16/Fl Oz) $28.49 with Subscribe & Save discount. 2 cups (280 grams) of soaked almonds. All milk drawn from healthy cows is yielded sterile. Dr. Marc Garnick, a clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, an oncologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of Harvard's Annual Report on Prostate Diseases, warns all of his patients to completely avoid any dietary supplement containing .
1 teaspoon (5 ml) of vanilla extract (optional) Soak the almonds in water overnight and drain before use. 1 serving: 110 calories, 6 g fat (0 g saturated fat), 100 mg sodium, 13 g carbs (2 g fiber, 9 g sugar), 2 g protein. Distilled water should always be used for making lotion since tap water can have all sorts of ickies lurking in it, but I know a lot of people start off using tap water anyway and I wanted to really test these preservatives, so I used tap water. food-preservation vegan soymilk almond-milk. This natural preservative property of honey as an alternative method for storing raw/pasteurized milk was found very encouraging .The results are tabulated and discussed. Better Coffee Creamers: These brands had 5 to 7 bad ingredients, such as phosphate, strange sweeteners, weird substitutes, sugars, and bad kinds of fats. Some of the main issues regarding plant-based beverage stability include sedimentation, flocculation, and fat separation. Blend everything together for another 2-3 minutes, until it is completely smooth and frothy. It contains 4% almonds and a few added nutrients. Chobani: Vanilla Oat Milk. Sodium benzoate the first chemical preservative approved in food products by the FDA.
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It is accepted by Organic Certifying Bodies for use in Certified Organic skincare products. 26. Chemical preservatives are not permitted in any milk products, said dairy researcher Steven Murphy. 6-Pack contains: 6 packs of frozen fresh concentrate, each makes 32 oz of fresh Goodmylk. Some types of milk, such as sweetened condensed milk or canned milk concentrate of whole milk, contain natural sweeteners (usually sucrose) which help prevent spoilage, according to the National Dairy Council. Malk Organic Unsweetened Almond Milk is my personal favorite.. 2.
Califia Farms Half and Half Original. Demanding VIP treatment. There are no preservatives or fillers. Chobani's plain, unsweetened oat milk might have made our list of the best oat milks, but the vanilla variety is, unfortunately, one of the unhealthier oat milks on the market. 25. , an additive derived from red seaweed, is used pretty commonly in shelf-stable nut milks as a thickening and emulsifying agent. You don't need a lot of water, just equal to the oil level in the jar. Salt has been used as a natural preservative since ancient times.
Flavoring Photo by Sarina Raman Browse other questions tagged food-preservation vegan soymilk almond-milk or ask your own question. It is the most commonly used method used for milk preservation by heating the milk at a mild temperature at 57 - 68 C for 15 - 20 seconds and rapidly cooling at <6 C. Natural preservatives such as Grapefruit Seed Extract or Optiphen can be helpful in warding off bacterial growth, but unfortunately are .
No Lactose and Gluten Free. Add your soaked almonds, water, salt, and any additional add-ins (optional) to a high-speed blender and blend until creamy and smooth. Almond milk (Filtered Water, Almonds), Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Locust Bean Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Gellan Gum, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin E Acetate, Zinc Gluconate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12, Vitamin D2. Melt the oils together. There were a couple of different ways that these almond milks made up for the lack of protein in the milk. Built Bar 18 Pack Energy and Protein Bars - 100% Real Chocolate - High in Whey Protein and Fiber - Gluten Free, Natural Flavoring, No Preservatives (Coconut Almond) Brand: Built Brands 4.3 out of 5 stars 3,004 ratings The remedy against the use of drugs and late-refrigeration, &c., is to purify and preserve the milk in its natural sterile condition by quickly . Locust bean gum - what in the world is that? 1. Preservatives can be placed into two different categories, natural and man made. Cooling to 4 C within this period maintains the original quality of the milk and is the method of choice for ensuring good-quality milk for processing . That would leave only organic chemicals that are commonly used as preser. Salt also combats yeast and molds. Note: Naticide boasts a very strong smell. todays video is how to make almond milk at home in just 2 minutes and health benefits of almonds. There are natural preservatives but none that wont affect the taste and or texture of your milk. Only 100% organic, real food ingredients. consistency. This all natural almond. 24. Commercially peanut milk is available under the brand name signs and wonders (USA) and sweet, etc. under 158F (70C) 3 to 8.
Use whole milk to maximize nutrition. And passion for the craft. Low Sodium content. Dl-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate (vitamin E) - Included in some brands of almond milk, this synthetic petroleum derived version of vitamin E has been shown to increase the risk of prostate cancer in healthy men.
KEY SUPERFOODS: Macadamia, Almond, Avocado, Barley Protein. Almonds contain nearly 25% of protein inform of AMP or amandin. Populus Tremuloides Bark Extract. In almond milk, they prevent separation and thicken the drink to hide just how few almonds are in the almond milk. Follow edited Jul 19, 2017 at 14:48. And add the remaining 2.5 cups of water. Beverages with vegetable origins in particular (such as rice and soy milk) tend to have increased fiber and . Thickeners and gums are routinely used in packaged food to improve texture, shelf life, and product aesthetics. You can save the remaining almond pulp for another recipe, or discard.
Taste the milk, and adjust the vanilla, cinnamon, and sweetener to taste. Keep it running for at least 1-2 minutes so you get the most out of your almonds. 4 cups (1 liter) of water.
Not made from Concentrate. Strain the almond milk through a nut-milk bag or cheese cloth, squeezing well to extract the extra liquid. Grab your lab coat. This is because fat and water do not mix. Learn a little more about our Almond Roasted Unsweetened Drink. Other brands used ingredients such as folic acid and selenium, which are aminos that help build proteins. Salt. Add the cinnamon and maple syrup or honey. Almond Milk (Water, Almonds), Cane Sugar, Strawberries, Starch, Pectin, Citrus Fiber, Black Carrot Juice (For Color), Tricalcium Citrate, Locust Bean Gum, Xanthan Gum, Beta Carotene (For Color), Lemon Juice Concentrate, Live Active Cultures: S.Thermophilus, L.Bulgaricus, L.Acidophilus, Bifidobacteria. SIZES AVAILABLE 5.3oz Almond milk has less calorie count in comparison to oats milk. Our goat milk lotion is naturally packed full of vitamins A, D, B1, B6, B12, C, and E. Our goat milk lotion works from the inside out, providing your skin with long lasting moisturization and protection against the elements. (2014) investigated the protein amandin in HPP (high pressure processing) almond milk at 400-600 MPa at various holding times (0-600 s). 3. Some used pea protein, rice protein, casein or whey. Low Saturated Fat content. 75 g water.
Yes, SOAK YOUR ALMONDS INSIDE THE REFRIGERATOR. Store the almond milk in an airtight container . Labels on most almond milk and other alternative milks, such as soy, oat and cashew, advise consuming the product within 7-10 days of opening. Some people are also detected with nut allergies. Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Coffee Creamer Vanilla. It foams beautifully in coffee, because of lower water content and absence of gums that don't foam. Carrageenan is derived from seaweed, and is named after the Caragheen region of Ireland where it was first harvested. The anti-bacterial property and preservative nature of honey has been studied by evaluating the role of hydrogen peroxide in these properties, against bacterial strains isolated and identified from pasteurized milk samples. This oat milk is made with organic and non-GMO ingredients and is gluten-free. 6 g emulsifying wax NF. 19 g sunflower oil. . These compounds are generally used to inhibit various types of microorganisms. Califia Farms Half and Half Vanilla. How To Use: Use up to 1% of your entire formulation. Answer (1 of 3): I would suggest you try low temperature pasteurization instead of adding foreign substances to your soy milk. . This common ingredient, derived from seaweed, is frequently found in almond milk and other dairy or faux-dairy products and is used as a stabilizer and thickening agent. Malk is my number one choice for dairy-free milk.The ingredient list is short and easy to understand, including only 3 simple components: filtered water, organic sprouted almonds, and Himalayan salt. There are probably other brands out there that have removed it as well, Silk is just the brand that I get at my local store. So Good Almond Milk is a plant- based milk and has no gluten or lactose in it. $29. Finest of natural ingredients without chemicals or .
Go lactose-free with choices in peanut, cotton seed, soy and almond, delivered to your doorstep sans preservatives. Carrageenan. removes impurities and make-up. Combine all of the almonds and fresh water in a blender, and blend the almond have broken down and the milk looks creamy. No Preservatives. quick weight loss with almond milk. No preservatives, artificial flavors, or fillers are required. The real red flags here are the foreign-sounding ingredients. If you buy your almond milk, make sure to read the label and avoid any brands that contain carrageenan. Homemade Coconut Milk Shampoo. NATICIDE. Flour, yeast, water, and salt - a traditional loaf of bread only needs four ingredients. It is very effective but significantly more expensive than other preservatives. Packaged almond milk can be watery; Numilk has a natural creaminess. Best Budget: Whole Foods 365 Everyday Value Unsweetened Organic Almond Milk Your body and your wallet will love the. Moreover, it is cholesterol- free and is fortified with vitamins. So Delicious Unsweetened Almondmilk Ingredients: Water, almonds, calcium carbonate, vitamin E acetate, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D2, sea salt, natural flavor, sunflower lecithin, locust bean gum, gellan gum, ascorbic acid So Delicious Unsweetened Almond milk contains approximately 4 almonds per one cup serving. Chemically speaking, it is a sulfate polygalactan which has anticoagulant properties.
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It's the best way to keep them delicious, no sugars or sweeteners required, thank you very much. Remove pot from heat and blend in vanilla. There are natural preservatives but none that wont affect the taste and or texture of your milk. 3. Dry coconut or coconut milk (optional, for flavor). Soak it almost overnight.
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Histories of Political Economy and the African Diaspora
Endorsed by the Business History Conference
Saturday, April 4, 2020, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Type: Paper Session
Tags: African American; Race; Theory and Methodology
This panel brings together scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives (history, political theory, and sociology) to examine the interconnected histories of the African diaspora and political economy. Engaging with the recent turn toward “racial capitalism” as an analytic for understanding the Atlantic and American political-economic system, this panel explores the multiplicity of roles played by peoples of the African diaspora in histories of political economy. From an analysis of the role of enslaved women’s reproductive labor in the emergence of capitalism to an examination of African Americans’ engagements with the politics of international development to a reconsideration of Third Worldism as a critique of racial capitalism, the papers on this panel all speak to the necessity of linking our histories of political economy and our histories of the African diaspora in the Americas.
Mohammed Elnaiem connects the “new histories of capitalism” with Marxist-feminist texts from the 1970s to highlight the centrality of reproduction in the longue durée history of capitalism. Elnaiem argues that placing regimes of reproduction at the center of histories of capitalism and slavery can shed new light on longstanding debates about the emergence of capitalism. He further claims that such close attention to reproduction under slavery is necessary in order to thoroughly “racialize histories of patriarchy” and “engender histories of slavery.”
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Sam Klug each examine linkages between Third Worldist and black internationalist advocacy and structural transformations in global political economy in the post-1945 period. Klug examines African Americans’ engagements with the politics of international development aid. From debates about U.S. foreign aid policy in the late 1940s to debates about the speed and scope of Ghanaian industrialization in the late 1950s, the possibility of colonized territories—especially those in Africa—gaining political sovereignty while remaining in a state of economic dependency loomed large in black internationalist politics. This anticipatory critique of neocolonialism influenced African Americans on both sides of the Cold War divide, supporting multiple, sometimes conflicting political projects in the sphere of development. Burden-Stelly, meanwhile, argues that Third Worldist movements against militarism, U.S. imperialism, and Cold War geopolitics should be understood as critiques of the particular formation of racial capitalism that arose during the Cold War period. She thus casts Third World internationalism as internal to the political economy of the period, calling into question interpretations of the turn to the Third World as an exogenous shock or foreign importation that distracted from other struggles for justice in the United States.
Third World Internationalism as Critique of Racial Capitalism During the Cold War
This paper theorizes “Third World Internationalism” as a critique of racial capitalism in the context of the Cold War. I contend that Third World internationalism included all “nonwhite” persons who shared a common struggle, a common vision, and a common enemy: the conjuncture of North Atlantic (especially U.S.) imperialism, capitalist exploitation, and racism. As a theoretical position and discursive formation, Third World internationalism centered on anti-imperialism, anticolonialism, antiracism, and a challenge to capitalist exploitation. As well, it was a cultural and political enunciation of solidarity in opposition to so-called “Western” universalism, historicism, civilization, and developmentalism. I offer a discussion of Third World internationalism as a multifaceted historical formation at the conjuncture of post–World War II demands for economic redistribution, Cold War competition between capitalism and socialism, and the ascendance of the U.S. military and economic hegemony; as an insurgency of racialized, colonized, and oppressed peoples against white supremacist specifications of geopolitics; and as a “structure of feeling” constituted by struggles for decolonization, political independence, and economic self-determination. I pay particular attention the ways that anti-imperialism, decolonization, and black power insurgencies in the United States foregrounded the political economy of racism and oppression not least because structural lack was not ameliorated for the overwhelming majority of people—the revolutionary masses, the superexploited proletariat, militants engaged in urban rebellion and guerilla warfare—by the nominal gains of civil rights and independence movements. Third Worldist critiques of militarism, nuclear proliferation, Cold War geopolitics, and the denial of sovereignty, I argue, inhered in a broader anticapitalist and antiracist framework.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College
Facing the Neocolonial Future: Black Internationalism and Development Politics from Point Four to Volta
This paper argues that development thought and policy represent important sites through which we can understand the transformation of African Americans’ involvement with global politics from the late 1940s through the end of the 1950s. Black Americans’ engagements with the politics of international development were characterized by what I call an anticipatory critique of neocolonialism. On issues ranging from the Point Four Program in the late 1940s to Kwame Nkrumah’s Volta River dam project in the late 1950s, the possibility of colonized territories—especially those in Africa—gaining political sovereignty while remaining in a state of economic dependency loomed large in black political thought. The anticipatory critique of neocolonialism led in multiple, sometimes conflicting directions in development debates. On one hand, the fear that the United States and European powers would continue to exploit the decolonizing world in the aftermath of formal independence was a prime reason to be suspicious of development projects that called for an influx of Western capital. On the other hand, recognition of the economic weakness of newly independent states could also point toward a desire for development aid, on the grounds that it would help build the state capacity necessary for newly independent nation-states to hold power in the international system. I argue that examining African American engagements with development thought and policy in the years following the Second World War reveals subtle but important shifts in the way African American internationalists conceived of the relationship between economic development and political self-determination.
Sam Klug, Harvard University
Capitalism, Slavery, and Patriarchy
Are capitalism, slavery, and patriarchy separate systems or different facets of the same system? In 1944 Eric Williams published Capitalism and Slavery, aiming to analytically tease out the structural relationship between capitalism and slavery, and how the latter was a precondition for the emergence of the former. Even today there is still a tendency among many historians to caricature his arguments and insist that the “Williams thesis,” which many claim to discredit, can be reduced to his argument concerning the causes of abolition. Regardless, as Greg Grandin himself has insisted, “each generation seems condemned to have to prove the obvious anew: Slavery created the modern world.” This seems to be a growing consensus: New histories of capitalism—award winning publications—and the various center’s for the study of capitalism across the United States attest to the enduring strength of Williams’s argument. Yet, the task at hand is to engender these histories, to find the structural relationship between capitalism, slavery, and patriarchy. In this paper, I argue that the new histories of capitalism should be brought into conversation with Marxist feminist texts that emerged in the 1970s. Furthermore, these should be supplemented with gender histories of slavery. These texts have all challenged the assumption held by many scholars to pay more attention to the evolution of the means and forces of production than to the process of reproduction. Looking at regimes of reproduction over the longue durée, with a particular focus on how black women were expected not only to reproduce a future slave force but often also to reproduce their future overlords, tells us a different story about how capitalism came to emerge. It opens up the avenue to racialize histories of patriarchy and engender histories of slavery. By doing both, and centering black women, it helps us more accurately uncover the human story.
Mohammed Elnaiem, University of Cambridge
Chair and Commentator: Jessica Ann Levy, University of Virginia
Jessica Ann Levy is a historian of American politics, business, and racism. Combining methods from the history of capitalism, urban history, transnational history, and global black studies, her work contributes to scholarly and public debates about American corporate power, governing regimes, and black entrepreneurship, locally and globally.
Levy received her Ph.D. in History from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Her first project, “Black Power, Inc.: Corporatizing Anti-Racist Struggles in the U.S. and Sub-Saharan Africa,” charts the corporatization of the global black freedom struggle starting with Black Power in the 1960s and ending with the international anti-apartheid movement. Whereas other historians have focused on the developments wrought by black activists in the public sphere—public education, and voting, just to name a few—Levy argues for the importance of multinational corporate executives and black entrepreneurs in shaping the post-Jim Crow/post-apartheid world. Drawing on corporate and “movement” archives from the United States and South Africa, Black Power, Inc. reveals the financial and intellectual investments made by multinational corporate executives, black entrepreneurs, and government officials in black empowerment. Defined as private and government programs promoting job-training, community development, and black entrepreneurship, black empowerment increasingly supplanted more radical demands for economic justice in black communities from North Philadelphia to Soweto. As it spread, black empowerment politics intersected and appropriated aspects of black nationalisms, Christian uplift politics, and African “traditionalism.” By centering private capital alongside state power, Black Power, Inc. explains how American business profited from the seeds of political conservatism that blossomed within the global black freedom struggle.
Her work has been featured in the Journal of Urban History (May 2015), the Business History Review (May 2018), as well as the Washington Post, Black Perspectives, and Public Seminar. She is the recipient of the Jefferson Scholars (formerly Miller Center)/Hagley Library Fellowship in Business and Politics, the Doctoral Fellowowship in International Business History from the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., and the George and Sylvia Kagan Fellowship. In addition, her work has been supported with funding from the Atlanta University Center, the Walter E. Reuther Library at Wayne State University, the Johns Hopkins’ Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library at Emory University, and the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library.
She received her M.A. in Social Science from The University of Chicago (2011) and her B.A. in History from Emory University (2008). Before attending Hopkins, she worked at The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history collection.
Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Carleton College
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Assistant Professor and Mellon Faculty Fellow of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is a scholar of Africana philosophy, radical Black political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. She has just completed a co-authored book project with Gerald Horne titled W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. It revises and updates Dr. Horne’s 2009 biography of Du Bois with a new chapter on his continuing significance; sidebars that offer connections to larger social, political, and intellectual phenomena; and an appendix that analyzes key primary documents from Du Bois’s archives. She is currently working on a single-authored manuscript, The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Antiradicalism, Antiblackness, and the U.S. Capitalist State, which develops a political theory, grounded in historical research, of the relationship between Antiblackness and Antiradicalism, two technologies of repression and discipline employed by the U.S. racial capitalist imperialist state. It focuses on four conjunctures: the first Red Scare and the race riots immediately following World War I; the period from 1930-1937, which entailed the formation of the Fish and McCormick-Dickenstein Committees that simultaneously targeted communists and persons agitating for racial equality; the Survey of Racial Conditions in the United States (RACON), FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s World War II covert investigation to uncover Black subversive forces; and the era of McCarthyism (1947-1958), one of the most repressive regimes in U.S. history. She received the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ Alex Willingham Best Political Theory Paper in 2017, and in 2018, Dr. Burden-Stelly became a regular contributor to Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. Her forthcoming and published work appears in journals including Souls: A Critical Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, The CLR James Journal, The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, and Socialism & Democracy.
Presenter: Mohammed Elnaiem, University of Cambridge
Mohammed Elnaiem is a sociology PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying the relationship between capitalism, slavery and patriarchy. He is also doing a case study on the CARICOM reparations commission, studying the Carribean case on why Europe needs to pay for slavery. Mohammed Elnaiem is also Foreign and Domestic Affairs Minister for 400+1, a black liberation organization based in the United States.
Presenter: Sam Klug, Harvard University
Sam Klug is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University, where he studies the intellectual, cultural, and political history of the United States in a global context. His primary interests are in the history of race and imperialism in the twentieth century, African American history, and intellectual history. His dissertation, “Making the Internal Colony: Black Internationalism, Development, and the Politics of Colonial Comparison in the United States, 1940–1975,” examines how the global process of decolonization shaped Americans’ understandings of racial formation, economic development, and citizenship in the twentieth-century United States. This project explores how policymakers and social scientists on the one hand, and black activists and intellectuals involved with anticolonial movements on the other, drew parallels between the U.S. and the decolonizing world between the Second World War and the middle of the 1970s. He has written on the idea of internal colonialism and on the politics of the Moynihan Report for Dissent and on black internationalism for the Society for U.S. Intellectual History blog.
Commentator: Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University
Tejasvi Nagaraja is Postdoctoral Fellow in Global American Studies, at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. He is an interdisciplinary historian with specializations in foreign relations, African American and labor history. He received his PhD in History from New York University. His manuscript is currently titled Soldiers of the American Dream: War Work, Jim Crow and Freedom Movements in the Shadow of U.S. Power. It examines U.S. militarization and globalism, as they were interlinked with economic and racial politics between the New Deal and the Vietnam War. The book explores how U.S. foreign policy’s statecraft from the Second World War into the Korean War and Cold War, was deeply entangled and embattled in relation to domestic social movements. | <urn:uuid:d331a8ee-d544-4fe1-aa11-d49ab9f373ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oah.org/meetings-events/oah20/view-meeting-session/3435 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.920441 | 3,304 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Connacht GAA now taking applications for Provincial Strength & Conditioning Course.
Since the appointment of Cathal Cregg as Provincial Strength and Conditioning Officer by Connacht GAA, a Level 1 Strength & Conditioning Course has been developed. Up to the present time Cathal & the staff at the centre have worked closely with schools, clubs and academy squads throughout Connacht providing assistance in areas such as fitness testing, screening for injury prevention, program design and video analysis.
This course has been developed in order to give coaches an opportunity to gain greater knowledge in the area of physical fitness, or as it has become more commonly known in recent years as strength and conditioning. It allows coaches to increase their understanding of the many aspects associated with strength and conditioning and to be able to safely and correctly implement programs designed from the Connacht GAA Strength and Conditioning staff. A follow on course which is in the process of being developed will allow coaches to develop and safely implement programs.
The first pilot of the course was rolled out in January 2015 with a group of 25 academy coaches from each of the provincial counties in both hurling and football. This course was reviewed and has since been ran with another group of academy coaches and one group of club coaches from each of the 5 provincial counties.
The course is the first of its kind in the GAA in terms of Strength and Conditioning. All the theoretical learning is provided on-line through a specially designed interactive SCORM used through the new GAA e-learning website. This is allowing us to make the most of the coaches’ time and moving away from the traditional gathering to watch a tutor give presentations. The theory side of the course can be done through the GAA e-learning portal at any stage over the designated period of time which can accommodate coach’s personal schedules. For the practical side of the course the coaches come together for practical’s on the various modules and group led discussion. Once the process has been completed the coach must demonstrate competency in the areas covered during the practical sessions.
1. Demands of Gaelic Games (Football and Hurling)
2. Basic Science Theory of Gaelic Games
3. Fitness Testing and Functional Assessment
4. Warm Up and The Recovery Process
5. Conditioning for Gaelic Games
6. Supervision of a Body Weight Resistance Training Program
• Coaches must have completed an Award 1 coaching course
• Must be coaching in their own club
• Application form must be filled out and given to the county games manager by your club coaching, (Places are limited to 12 persons per county).
Closing date for applications is:
• Galway – September 5th
• Leitrim – September 7th
• Sligo – September 14th
• Roscommon – September 21st
• Mayo – September 28th
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Roscommon: Willie Hegarty firstname.lastname@example.org
Sligo: Liam Og Gormley email@example.com
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Award-winning illustrator Robert Ingpen offers his stunning version of another classic: Rudyard Kipling's beloved stories of the boy Mowgli, rescued and raised by tigers in the heart of the jungle. The tales feature such unforgettable creatures such as Bagheera, the graceful black panther; Baloo, the kindly brown bear; and Kaa, the snake with the hypnotic stare. In addition, this timeless collection includes other favorites, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," "The White Seal," and "Toomai of the Elephants."
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865, and his stories, sketches, and poems made him a literary celebrity. Published in 1894, The Jungle Book became a children's classic all over the world, and tales of every kind continued to flow from Kipling's pen, including Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling was the recipient of many honorary degrees and was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907. In 1926 he received the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. Kipling died in 1936. Robert Ingpen began studying illustration and book design at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He was recently honored with Membership of the Order of Australia. In 1986 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen medal for his contribution to children's literature. He lives in Barwon Heads, Australia.
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This ultimate guide on organic sources of calcium fertilizers for plants will help you a lot. You will be able to identify and use organic calcium fertilizers. Calcium plays a very crucial role in the growth of the plants.
According to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov calcium deficiency in soil is rare. And adding lots of calcium fertilizers can actually harm your plants. But, if your soil is deficit in calcium then definitely you need to add. Normally in case of gardening soil gets deficit in calcium. But, on large farm lands it is very rare to find calcium deficit soil.
Only acidic soil or soil with low base saturation have calcium deficiency problem. But calcium in soil of garden pots can get exhausted due to repetitive plantation on the same soil.
Calcium is a secondary primary nutrient among 16 essential plant nutrients. Plant shoots generally have calcium concentration between 0.1 to 5% d. wt. This is the ideal concentration range of calcium in the environment and the plant.
If you are already using vermicompost then you do not need to add any calcium fertilizer. Earthworms have calciferous glands due to which amount of calcium increases in the vermicompost naturally.
So what now?
When to use organic calcium fertilizers in our plants?
In how much amount I should add them?
These questions must be disturbing you. But don’t worry, I am going to solve them all. Generally horticulture crops gets affected due to calcium deficiency. You must have witnessed blossom end rot in tomato, or tip burn and brown heart in leafy vegetables, etc. They are caused due to deficiency of calcium.
Moreover few other deficiency symptoms are:
Bitter pit of apples, cracking in tomato, apples, and cherry. All these are caused due to deficiency of calcium. But wait!
Can calcium become toxic too?
The answer is yes. Excess amount of calcium in the soil can result in poor seed germination and reduced plant growth rate.
That’s why you have to be very smart in adding calcium to the soil. If you are a farmer then get your soil tested. This will help you to determine the actual amount of calcium that you need to add. But if you are a gardener then prefer adding only a little amount of calcium. That too in pots that have vegetable or fruit plants.
Now let’s know and understand about various organic sources of calcium fertilizers for plants. I will describe about each of them in detail. After reading this you will be able to determine the quantity that you need to add.
Organic Sources Of Calcium Fertilizers
The best organic sources of calcium for plants are sea weed, wood ash, egg shells, bone meal, lime, gypsum, etc. You can use any one of them for adding calcium in the soil. Moreover most of them are easily available. And you can even find some of them in your home.
Using sea weed as a fertilizer for adding calcium is really amazing. Sea weed fertilizer not only have calcium but it also have potassium, magnesium, iron, and zinc. The elements are also required by the plants.
According to agfuse.com, sea weed fertilizers gets easily absorbed by the plants. Moreover it also improves the soil, and is safe to use. You can use seaweed fertilizer in the form of liquid spray or solid fertilizer in powdered form.
To use as a foliar spray, dilute it in 1 tablespoon in one litre of water. If you want to use for indoor plants then you have to dilute 1/4 tablespoon in 1 litre of water.
Avoid using seaweed or any other fertilizers during dormancy of plants. However, you can use it to increase seed germination by spraying it on soil after sowing of seeds. During transplantation you can spray this solution on exposed roots to save your plant from transplantation shock.
You can also apply it once during the active growing season of the plant. I love to apply them before flower initiation in the plant. This helps in better fruit formation and quality. Moreover seaweed fertilizers have many other benefits too.
Wood Ash is a wonderful source of potassium and calcium for plants. Moreover application of wood ash also helps in controlling many soil pests and diseases. But there is a condition. Do not add wood ash in soil that have pH 7.0 or more.
You can only add wood ash in the soil that have soil pH ranging from 5.5 to 7.0. Just like lime, adding wood ash also increases alkalinity of the soil. If your soil is little alkaline then adding wood ash can even kill your plants.
You should also avoid adding them in plants such as blueberries that love acidic soil. Generally you can apply 9 Kilograms of wood ash per 1,000 square feet. Apply in the soil that is acidic to increase fertility of the soil and reducing acidity. After applying you can grow neutral pH loving plants.
As a pesticide you can sprinkle wood ash on slugs and snails. This will help to keep them away. To apply you can dust one to two table spoon of wood ash around the base of the plant. Although wood ash adds only a trace amount of calcium.
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Eggshells are also an amazing source of calcium for plants. However to use egg shells as a organic source of calcium fertilizer, you will need lot of egg shells. To make a cup of eggshell powder you should have at least 150 egg shells.
Moreover just like wood ash eggshell fertilizer also alters the pH of the soil. That’s why do not add eggshells powder or as a liquid fertilizer in neutral soil. Consider adding only in acidic soil.
You can use eggshells as a calcium fertilizer in many ways. You can add the powdered form directly in the soil or you can add it in the compost bin. Make sure to remove the yolk portion. Clean the eggshells properly with water and dry before converting in into the powdered form.
You can also use egg shells extract in liquid form. For this you have two methods. You can either use leftover boiled water used for boiling eggs. Or you can soak egg shells in water for 4 to 5 days.
Gypsum is one of the best source of calcium for the plant. Moreover it does not affect pH of the soil. That’s why you can use them in acidic, neutral, as well as alkaline soil. It is also known as lime sulfate. To use gypsum you can dissolve 1 one teaspoon of gypsum in 1 litres of water.
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L/O: Fractions S/C: Adding Mixed Numbers
Children refresh work on to adding two fractions where one or both are mixed numbers or an improper fraction. They will use a method of adding the wholes and then adding the parts. Children will record their answer in its simplest form. Children can still draw models to represent adding fractions.
Model both the methods on the board again for the children, with children completing a couple of examples with their chosen methods in their books.
Go through the PowerPoint on adding mixed numbers with the class. Children to answer questions in partners/small groups and share findings with the class. The children should be encouraged to use their reasoning skills to explain their answers thoroughly.
Children to complete worksheets when they are confident with the skills learnt.
Success Criteria: I can identify and discuss themes and conventions in and across a wide range of writing.
Starter: relative pronouns / clauses. Look at the sentences below. Extend them by adding a relative clause.
Play script analysis
Read the play script extract provided. Discuss the features of a play script and what you have read. Create a colour coded key and annotate the play script with the features. Use the poster provided to recap some of the features of a play script.
Complete a crossword task based from ‘Raider’s Peril’ below:
Success Criteria: To produce good quality research.
We would like you research and make notes on a subject area of your choice. Make sure you choose something that interests you J These notes can be written or typed. You should make at least 10 bullet point notes on your subject area.
Success Criteria: I know the health risks of smoking and can tell you how tobacco affects the lungs, liver and heart.
Key vocabulary: Choices, healthy behaviour, unhealthy behaviour, informed decision, pressure.
Task 1: Complete the smoking quiz. Were you surprised by any of the answers?
Task 2: List the ways you think smoking can affect the body.
Task 3: Look at the Tobacco Industry’s posters. Do you think it is a good advert for smoking? If smokers saw this, would it make them give up smoking? Focus on each part of the body, would you add any others, or mention other vital organs like the liver?
Task 4: Choose one area of the body to do some research about the impact of smoking. Present your findings by making up a song, tell a story, draw a cartoon, or write a short presentation using PowerPoint.
Task 5/plenary: Write a sentence about what you feel about smoking, now that you have seen the facts.
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Develop 1 to 2 minutes at 68F (20C).
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We are committed to listening to the voice of parent carers and working with them to secure good outcomes for children and young people who live in Somerset, with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities.
Through engagement events, surveys and consultations we seek feedback about local services to help us improve them and to make sure they meet the needs of local families. See our Having your voice heard page for more information.
Our local partnership with the Somerset Parent Carer Forum
A local partnership agreement between Somerset Parent Carer Forum, Somerset County Council and Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has been agreed, recognising the forum as the area’s strategic voice for parent carers. Through this, there is parent representation on many SEND workstreams and this means that parents’ voices are at the centre of what we do. When parents and professionals work together, recognising each other’s expert knowledge, informed decisions are made which make the best use of people’s time and money.
Somerset Parent Carer Forum is the independent forum for parents and carers of children with disabilities in Somerset. The Department for Education funds the forum so that Somerset’s parent carers have their say on how services are run and that decisions are made.
Any parent or carer who has or looks after a child or young person (age 0 to 25) with a special educational need and/or disability (SEND) can join and raise issues through the forum. The forum is run by and for parents and carers.
Our engagement work through the Somerset Parent Carer Forum
During 2018 to 19 Somerset County Council is supported in parent-carer engagement through the Somerset Parent Carer Forum
Engagement work this year is expected to include:
- Support with the Local Offer redesign
- Running parent-carer workshops to provide feedback on Local Offer content
- Co-delivering training to SENCos
- Working together to collect parent and carer feedback of SEND provision through the 360 survey
- Advising on the use of plain English for leaflets and letters about SEN, which are aimed at parents
- Representing parents on steering groups (for example, the SEND intervention Board)
- Holding short breaks engagement events
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Members of the United Nations Security Council committee overseeing sanctions against Somalia will visit the area next month in a bid to boost enforcement of the arms embargo.
The two-week trip is slated to begin 12 October and will include experts from all 15 Council members. The group, led by the Chairman of the committee, Ambassador Stefan Tafrov of Bulgaria, plans to visit Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen and, provided that security conditions permit, Somalia itself, according to a news release.
The group is expected to check on the capacity of the States in the region to implement the arms embargo and monitor their land, air and sea boundaries and to encourage them to give the sanctions the force of law in each of their countries.
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Doing Business in Australia Guide
Piper Alderman’s Doing Business in Australia guide provides an overview of the legal and regulatory environment in which organisations doing business in Australia must operate.
In this latest edition of the guide, we outline the key rules, regulations and systems in place in Australia. The guide includes an overview of Australia’s economy, government and legal systems, and then moves on to cover practical issues around business structures, the regulation of business, foreign investment rules, employment systems, taxation, intellectual property and much more.
We also provide a summary of specific areas of interest such as Blockchain & Fintech, Financial Regulation, Energy & Resources sector issues and Therapeutic Goods.
Australia is a land of great natural beauty and boundless opportunity. Despite often turbulent global financial conditions, Australia’s economy continues to be one of the world’s most stable. Sound governance creates certainty for foreign investment and Australia’s skilled workforce, ties to Asia and success in key industries makes Australia a great place for doing business.
If you would like further information about any of the issues covered in this guide, please contact the relevant author of each chapter or another member of Piper Alderman’s national team.
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North American Environmental Field Conference & Expositions
Organized by the The Nielsen Enviro
Organized by the The Nielsen Environmental Field School, 2011 North American Environmental Field Conference & Exposition featured over 100 presentations by the world's leading experts on environmental site characterization, sampling, monitoring & remediation, and 59 indoor & outdoor exhibits of state-of-the-art equipment. This was the North American Environmental Field Conference & Exposition's website for a number of years.
Content is from the site's 2010-2012 archived pages as well as from other outsides sources.
2011 North American Environmental Field Conference & Exposition
11th to 13th January 2011
San Diego, California, United States of America
Join us in the California sunshine in January 2011 for 4 days of interactive indoor and outdoor workshops, conference presentations, field equipment demonstrations, an indoor exhibit hall, an outdoor exhibit area, and several scheduled social events. A wide variety of stakeholders in environmental site characterization, monitoring, sampling and remediation will be represented at this event, including environmental consultants and contractors; Federal, State, tribal, regional, county and local government officials (regulatory and non-regulatory); DOD and DOE environmental staff and contractors; private industry environmental staff (petroleum, chemical, utility, manufacturing, mining, waste disposal, and others); academia and other environmental professionals.
This one-of-a-kind event provides a unique opportunity for environmental professionals from all disciplines - including geologists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, engineers, soil scientists, chemists, biologists, environmental scientists, technicians and others - to interact and learn from some of the top experts, researchers and practitioners in the field of environmental site characterization, monitoring, sampling and remediation.
Highlights of the Event:
The orientation of this event toward practical, hands-on field applications makes this an unmatched educational event that will be remembered by participants for years!
This event will be held at the San Diego Hilton Resort and Spa on Mission Bay, a top-quality 4-diamond meeting facility with sleeping rooms available at a very reasonable conference rate of only $139/night (plus taxes). The hotel will host the entire event, including the conference, indoor workshops, exposition, outdoor workshops and equipment demonstrations.
- A high-energy conference featuring 58 top-quality professional papers on cutting-edge technology used in environmental site characterization, monitoring, sampling and remediation;
- A special session on the Response to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill featuring 9 additional papers describing field sampling, analytical and data analysis programs implemented in response to the spill
- More than 75 hours of indoor workshops on the hottest topics of the day;
- More than 30 hours of hands-on outdoor workshops and field demonstrations featuring the latest field equipment available from the top manufacturers;
- An exposition with 54 indoor and outdoor exhibits; and
- An active social calendar designed to encourage you to network with fellow environmental professionals, create new contacts and make new friends.
About the Host Hotel - A Four-Diamond Beach Resort
Surrounded by more than 4600 acres of pristine beaches and secluded islands, the Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa is situated on 18 acres within Mission Bay Park, an aquatic preserve and natural paradise north of downtown San Diego. The hotel is central to all of San Diego's attractions, including Sea World, the world-famous San Diego Zoo, Old Town, downtown's Gaslamp District, Balboa Park, Mission Beach, Marina Village, Seaport Village and much more. Within a 25-mile drive are attractions and features as diverse as the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Legoland, Viejas Casino, the Torrey Pines Reserve, Fashion Valley Mall, Cabrillo National Monument, Del Mar Racetrack, Solana Beach, and of course, the seals of LaJolla and Scripts Aquarium. Venture further out to find Mount Palomar Observatory, San Clemente, Anza-Borrego State Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Salton Sea and Imperial Valley, Catalina Island and many of southern California's best beaches.
The Hilton is a 4-Diamond beach resort comprising a paradise of palms, sandy bayfronts, a fabulous pool and rooms with private patios and terraces and spectacular bay-front, garden and courtyard views. On-site recreation includes basketball, bicycle and boat/jetski rental, kayaking, sailing, jogging, tennis, snorkeling, waterskiing, windsurfing, beach volleyball, table tennis, and a fully outfitted fitness center featuring men's and women's locker rooms with steam and sauna facilities. Also on hotel property is the popular 7500 square foot Spa Brezza, featuring nine specialty treatment rooms, including classic facial and full body massage services as well as globally inspired therapies such as Indonesian and Thai rituals. And, don't miss dining in the hotel's 4-star restaurant, Acqua, featuring Executive Chef Herman Schafer (recently awarded Top Chef in Southern California) and his exquisite Mediterranean-inspired California Coastal cuisine and an award-winning wine list.
The Hilton is located 6 miles from the San Diego International Airport. The hotel does not run an airport shuttle service, however, a number of commercial airport shuttles and taxi services do operate from the airport.
(Contact your travel agent to receive more information about these services.)
Directions to the hotel from San Diego International Airport/Lindbergh Field:
Take I-5 north to Seaworld Drive, turn left at the top of the exit, turn right onto East Mission Bay Drive. The resort is 3/4 mile on the left.
Don't Want to Drive? Transportation Options to and from the Airport Include:
Super Shuttle $13.00 USD per person (typically)
Taxi $25.00 USD per person (typically)
We look forward to meeting you in San Diego in January 2011!
Things to See and Do in the San Diego Area
The San Diego area has much to offer visitors who are coming into town for several days or longer! Serviced by the large and modern San Diego International Airport/Lindbergh Field, San Diego is an easy and economical travel destination, and is an ideal location to bring your family along while you participate in the field conference and exposition. Spend the weekend before or after the conference enjoying all that the San Diego area has to offer.
San Diego has virtually everything you could ever hope for (and more) in terms of attractions, theme parks, museums, shopping, beach going and sightseeing. The city is well known for its famous San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park -- one of the largest zoos in the world with more than 4,000 animals of more than 800 species, all enclosed within vast botanical plant and orchid gardens. It's on top of the list of tourist destinations in San Diego, and a great place for adults and kids of all ages. Balboa Park has more than 15 museums, including the Air & Space Museum, the Museum of National History, the Ruben H Fleet Science Center, the Minge International Museum, the Model Railroad Museum, the Museum of Art, the Automotive Museum and the WorldBeat Cultural Center.
Downtown features the Gaslamp Quarter, which has something for everyone whether you're interested in fine dining, theater, shopping or sports. Night or day, the Gaslamp is a vibrant place full of things to see. Enjoy the many shops, boutiques, historic buildings, art galleries, restaurants (more than 50 of them) and more. At night, have a quiet cocktail at one of the many luxurious lounges, or get rowdy at a night club. Whether you're looking for jazz, rock & roll, hip hop or country, the Gaslamp has it all.
Amusement parks more your style? Visit Belmont Park, a historic theme park located in the Mission Beach area, and experience its many fun rides and attractions, including the Giant Dipper (a wooden roller coaster that opened in 1925), a Tilt-A-Wheel, a 3-story drop tower, the Liberty Carousel, the Wave House Athletic Club & Bar, and much more. Or try Knotts Berry Farm, America's first theme park, located in Buena Park. It contains 9 roller coasters, 4 waterslides and more on 160 acres of land. And don't miss Legoland, an amusement park located in Carlsbad with more than 50 Lego block themed family rides and attractions.
The San Diego Zoo isn't the only critter-oriented feature in town. Visit Sea World and celebrate the wonders of the sea. Experience Shamu's show and see hundreds of sea creatures and animals. Get up close and personal with dolphins, sharks, Beluga whales, penguins and polar bears. If you're more of a land-lubber, try the Wild Animal Park, featuring a large array of wild and endangered animals in their natural habitats, including species from every continent. Ride a safari or tour-guided caravan and experience close-up encounters with many species.
But don't forget the area's beaches. Whether you like surfing, sailing, biking, kayaking, jetskiing, running, swimming, diving or just a relaxing waterfront walk, you'll never run out of things to do at San Diego's famous beaches. The most popular beaches include Coronado (just across the Bay Bridge from downtown); Imperial Beach (just south of Coronado); Ocean Beach (just a few miles northwest of downtown); Mission Beach and the adjacent Mission Bay Park, the largest man-made aquatic park in the US; Pacific Beach, with Crystal Pier and many shops and bars; LaJolla, known for surfing and seal-watching; Torrey Pines State Beach (well known for its "clothing optional" area and glider port on the cliff overlooking the beach); Del Mar and Solana Beach, home to an upscale surfer-hip community offering many activities for residents and visitors alike.
Other activities are endless in and around San Diego. Hop on a tour bus or the San Diego Trolley and visit Old Town for great Mexican food (or head down to Tijuana for a real Mexican experience); visit Seaport Village, Marina Village or the Mission Valley Mall to shop yourself silly; go scuba diving or snorkeling at La Jolla Cove, rent a sail boat and go whale-watching (December to April), go skydiving, take an eco-tour, or just get away from it all at one of the areas countless parks and wilderness areas east of the city.
The golf enthusiast will enjoy golfing in beautiful weather year-round at one of the more than 4 dozen golf courses in San Diego County. The beer enthusiast can hop on a tour bus and enjoy a day sampling a variety of award-winning beers at some of the many craft breweries in the city. The gambler will have a hard time deciding between which of the largest concentration of Native American casinos in the country to go to. Pechanga Resort & Casino, Viejas Casino, Sycuan Resort & Casino, Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino, Harrah's Rincon Casino & Resort, Golden Acorn Casino, Casino Pauma, Pala Casino & Resort, Valley View Casino and La Posta Casino are all within a 35-mile drive. San Diego's thriving gaming community is rich in culture and recreational fun.
The 2011 North American Environmental Field Conference and Exposition will be held at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Spa on Mission Bay in San Diego, California. The hotel will host the conference, indoor workshops, exposition, outdoor workshops and field equipment demonstrations. The Nielsen Environmental Field School has carefully selected this venue because of its top-quality meeting facilities along with high-quality, reasonably priced sleeping accommodations.
There is NO Other Field-Oriented Conference and Exposition Like This!
If you manufacture or supply environmental equipment, or provide environmental consulting, laboratory or drilling/direct push services, this one-of-a-kind event will be your best opportunity in 2011 to reach hundreds of environmental professionals specifically involved in environmental site characterization, sampling, monitoring and remediation. No other field-oriented event like this one is currently scheduled for the next few years on the west coast. The focus of this event on field applications of the latest environmental equipment ensures attendee interest in vendor activities, including the exposition, workshops and equipment demos. Event promotional materials have been specifically designed to attract key decision makers and equipment users and purchasers from across North America and abroad. Coffee breaks, a welcome reception, a socializer and a luncheon, all scheduled for the exhibit hall, will ensure booth traffic.
This event is being held in response to overwhelming demand by a wide range of stakeholders in environmental site characterization, sampling, monitoring, and remediation including equipment manufacturers and suppliers and service providers just like you. The promotional material for this event will target the market you really want to talk to. More than 120,000 environmental professionals, representing all sectors of the environmental market, will receive promotional materials on this Event. The target audience includes those who do environmental field work, those who supervise field staff or oversee field work, those who use and purchase environmental field equipment and services, and those who use and manipulate field data, and make decisions based on the results of field work. The target attendance for this meeting is between 600 and 700 enthusiastic environmental professionals.
As an exhibitor for this event, not only will you have the ability to talk one-on-one to hundreds of potential customers during the strategically planned exhibit hall hours, but you will have the unique opportunity to show people what your equipment or services can actually do for them in the field (after all, seeing is believing!). Show people how your equipment or services work, and why it is/they are better than that of your competitors. Take advantage of the opportunity to conduct indoor or outdoor workshops and/or outdoor equipment demonstrations. YOU control how much exposure time you get and which forums you use to reach your market. No other Conference or Exposition gives you so many opportunities to actively participate in the event!
Don't Be Disappointed … Secure Your Exhibit Space and Workshop Times TODAY!
Don't settle for exhibiting at meetings that discuss topics of only peripheral interest to your business. Sign up as an exhibitor for this event NOW to be sure you don't miss this unmatched opportunity to reach such a large audience focused on equipment and services for environmental site characterization, sampling, monitoring and remediation!
"As a maker of wind turbine parts, I'm always interested in seeing the newest products, hearing from the makers and shakers, and rubbing shoulders with the hoi polloi in my field. Most of the vendors are well known within the industry, but I was surprised to see so many visitors in Batman t shirts until someone pointed out the a guy dressed in black, selling t shirts out of a bag. He was offering an incredible deal on what looked like quality cotton t's with gorgeous sublimated prints for 10 bucks. He sold out in no time, but we did get to chat. On his phone he showed me MoonAtMidnight.com which is where I could probably buy any specific Batman shirt I was thinking of. He suggested he was doing a guerilla marketing campaign for them, and was soon going to be announced as its new CEO. I really hoping that it's true, but either way I learned of a great source of very cool Batman apparel. And all due to the fact that my interests as a wind turbine manufacturer lead me to an industry event where this Batman moment could make me smile." Oren Snall, Flying Machinery
Exhibit Space Specifications:
Indoor booths are located in the San Diego Hilton Resort and Spa on Mission Bay ballroom; Outdoor equipment spaces, suitable for drilling rigs, mobile labs, direct push rigs, remediation trailers, and other large equipment are in a level paved parking area immediately adjacent to the indoor meeting areas. Security will be provided for all outdoor exhibits during overnight hours.
39 Indoor booth spaces (27 9' x 9' booths; 12 10' x 10' booths) will be available in the main Exhibit Hall. 12 additional spaces will be available in an adjacent room. 15 Outdoor exhibit spaces (15' x 30') will be available. Additional specifications and exhibit information are available in the exhibitor's registration package. But don't delay -- exhibit space for the 2010 event SOLD OUT 3 months before the event -- register today to avoid disappointment.
Showcase Your New Products in Indoor and Outdoor Workshops and Field Equipment Demos:
All companies registered for this event prior to August 23, 2010 have the opportunity to present at least two educational workshops (either Indoor or Outdoor) and two equipment demos as part of their exhibitor registration fee. Exhibitors have found that conducting workshops and equipment demos is a proven way to drive traffic to their exhibits. Companies registering after August 23 will be able to present workshops on an "as event scheduling permits" basis. Workshop titles and descriptions and Equipment Demo descriptions must be submitted to the event coordinator on the workshop/equipment demo form, which will be provided to each Exhibitor following receipt of the Exhibitor Application and Contract, for approval and scheduling. When deciding on the length of a workshop or equipment demo, do not underestimate the amount of time you need to do a thorough job and to accommodate attendee participation and questions.
Please note the following when planning workshops and equipment demos:
Workshops (Indoor or Outdoor) are technical presentations (2 hours Indoors; 1 hour Outdoors) intended to educate attendees on topical subject areas - they are not sales presentations. Workshops should be as unbiased as possible. All workshops must be practically oriented; workshops that include hands-on, interactive sessions are encouraged and will receive preferential placement. Workshops can be presented by company personnel, affiliated personnel, clients/customers or others familiar with your equipment.
Equipment Demos (Outdoor) are technical presentations (30 minutes or 60 minutes) on specific pieces of equipment that should be focused on informing attendees about equipment capabilities, functions, applications and use in the field. Demos that include hands-on, interactive sessions with equipment are encouraged and will receive preferential placement. Equipment demos can be presented by company personnel, affiliated personnel, clients/customers or others who are familiar with your equipment.
Interested in seeing how your company can contribute to the success of this event?
Requests for Exhibitor Packages
Sign up today to join us in San Diego in January 2011! Packages will be sent out via e-mail within 48 hours of receiving your request.Contact Us if you have specific questions about exhibit space availability.
Sponsors for 2011
|American Institute of Hydrology|
|American Institute of Professional Geologists|
|CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Publishers|
|Groundwater Resources Association of California|
|H & P Mobile Geochemistry|
|Schlumberger Water Services|
Exhibitors Already Confirmed for 2011:
Advanced Geosciences, Inc.
Bariod Industrial Drilling Products
Blaine Tech Services
Cognizant Solar Computing
Decagon Devices, Inc.
EON Products, Inc.
Flexible Liner Underground Technologies (FLUTe)
Geotech Environmental Equipment
Gregg Drilling & Testing Inc.
H & P Mobile Geochemistry, Inc.
IAEA Careers - Argonne
Innov-X Systems Inc.
Ion Science Americas LLC
Richard Brady & Associates, Inc.
Schlumberger Water Services
Solinst Canada Ltd.
Thermo Scientific Niton Analyzers
True Blue Technologies, Inc.
US Environmental Protection Agency
WL Gore & Associates, Inc.
The 2012 North American Environmental Field Conferences and Expositions:
NEW for 2012 -- We've Gone Bi-Coastal!! TWO Great Locations
Full Event Schedule for San Diego.
Full Event Schedule for Tampa.
Highlights of the 2012 Events:
This one-of-a-kind event provides attendees with the unique opportunity to learn about the latest cutting-edge environmental field technologies that can be applied to solving today's and tomorrow's environmental problems. Don't just read information posted on a company web site or manufacturer's brochures - learn about the latest technologies from the people who have successfully used them on real projects and from the people who have designed and developed the latest in field equipment and instrumentation. Get your questions answered by the experts AND have the opportunity to see and try out the equipment under real-world field conditions. There is no other event out there that offers environmental professionals this kind of interactive opportunity!
The 4 days of events during this conference and exposition will permit you to attend conference papers, indoor technical workshops, outdoor technical workshops and outdoor equipment demonstrations. In addition, an indoor exhibit hall and an outdoor exhibit area will be open throughout the event, which will allow you to discuss your equipment and service needs on a one-to-one basis with some of the country's leading environmental equipment manufacturers and service providers.
Indoor Conference Platform Paper Presentations
The event features 58, 25-minute presentations given by a hand-selected group of leading experts in the field discussing recently available or unique technology and practices related to environmental site characterization, monitoring, sampling and remediation. An additional 9 conference platform papers on the response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are also featured on the conference program - the first time our industry will hear about the important work being done in the Gulf. LEARN WHAT IS REALLY NEW in the industry from the experts who are developing the leading edge technologies!
A 2-hour keynote session and additional 2-hour morning and 4-hour afternoon session will kick off the conference on day one. Two morning and afternoon conference sessions of 4 hours each, held on the second day of the conference and the third day of the conference, and a final 4-hour session on the morning of day 4 will provide attendees with plenty of opportunities to learn about the latest site characterization, sampling, monitoring and remediation technologies and methods.
Indoor Technical Workshops
Indoor workshops are practically oriented technical presentations designed to educate attendees on topical areas that tie into the theme of the conference and exposition. Indoor workshops are either one, two or four hours in duration and will be held on each of the 4 days of the event. To maximize instructor/attendee interaction, attendance at these indoor workshops is limited to 50 people each.
Outdoor Workshops and Equipment Demonstrations
What would a field conference and exposition be without hands-on practical field sessions? The outdoor workshops and equipment demonstrations provide attendees with the unique opportunity to actually see the latest equipment and technology in action under real field conditions. In many cases, conference attendees will be offered the opportunity to get some hands-on experience using the equipment being discussed. Where else can you do that?? Outdoor workshops are either one or two hours in duration and present an interactive technical discussion of a particular subject area or technology.
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Article published in:Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution
Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani
[Typological Studies in Language 85] 2009
► pp. 23–52
From nominal to clausal morphosyntax
Complexity via expansion
The study of the rise of syntactic complexity, in particular of clause subordination and recursive language structures has more recently become the topic of intense discussion. The present paper builds on the reconstruction of grammatical evolution as proposed in Heine and Kuteva (2007) to present a scenario of how new forms of clause subordination may arise. Taking examples from attested cases of grammatical development as well as using evidence that has become available on grammaticalization in African languages, it is argued that there are two major pathways leading to the emergence of clause subordination: either via the integration of coordinate clauses or via the expansion of existing clauses. The concern of this paper is exclusively with the latter pathway.
Published online: 22 April 2009
Cited by 8 other publications
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Kastner, Itamar, Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler & Svetlana Dachkovsky
Kuteva, Tania, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee
Lee, Wei-Wei & Mathias Jenny
Álvarez González, Albert
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