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The Des Moines River IBA extends from Windom, Cottonwood County,
south through Jackson County to the Minnesota-Iowa border (Figure 1). The vast majority of the IBA lies within
Jackson County, with a small portion in Cottonwood County. Cities in or near the
IBA include Jackson in Jackson County, and Windom in Cottonwood County.
The Des Moines River Valley forms an important corridor of
native habitats through an otherwise heavily cultivated portion of Minnesota. In
the more heavily-forested portion of the IBA, in and around Kilen Woods State
Park and Belmont County Park, bluffs rise 100-200 feet above the river. The Des Moines River is a designated State water
trail, with several designated watercraft campsites. The IBA includes approximately 61 kilometers (38
miles) of the Des Moines River (river miles 0 -38). There are several small lakes within the IBA,
including Boot, Cottonwood, Wolf, and Summit lakes.
<strong>The Des Moines River IBA encompasses a variety
of grassland, wetland, and forest habitat in the prairie portion of
Minnesota. As a result, bird species
diversity is very high for this region of the state. </strong>
The primary threat to this IBA is agricultural
intensification/expansion, as high commodity prices are leading to the loss of many
thousands of acres of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands. Not only will this result in the direct loss
of grassland habitat important to birds, but the indirect detrimental effects
on water quality (e.g., soil erosion and sediment load, contaminants, etc.) in
the Des Moines River and its tributaries, along with other wetlands, will be
significant. Other agricultural
practices such as wetland drainage and pesticide/herbicide use, along with extraction
industries such as gravel mining, are also potential threats in the IBA.
Prescribed burning and/or grazing are important management tools
to maintain quality grassland habitat.
However, grazing is now being considered for the first time (or already
implemented) on state wildlife management areas in Minnesota, although it is
not known which, if any, of the WMAs within the IBA. Any grazing should be closely monitored to
ensure that grassland bird habitat is not negatively impacted.
Much of the important forest habitat in this IBA occurs in
protected areas. However, if done
improperly, selective logging/cutting of mature, closed-canopy deciduous forest
has the potential to negatively impact forest birds. Since the Des Moines River Valley is an
important corridor for migratory birds, any cellular and wind towers built
within or near the IBA have the potential to cause bird mortality.
Invasive and non-native plants/animals are a concern, although
the full extent of the threat is not well known. Invasive plants such as garlic mustard, reed
canary grass, leafy spurge, purple loosestrife, spotted knapweed, buckthorn,
and others, are all potential threats in the IBA. Garlic mustard, in particular, is known to be
a major problem in forests in and around the IBA.
Habitat cover type percentages are from the International
Coalition Land Use Cover 1990. MBS native plant communities must meet criteria for quality, area, lack
of disturbance, and other factors.
Approximately 4,700 acres of native plant communities have been mapped
within the IBA, most of which is either upland deciduous forest (1,919 acres),
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BOOK XXI - Le Morte D'Arthur
How Sir Mordred presumed and took on him to be King of England, and would have married the queen, his father's wife
AS Sir Mordred was ruler of all England, he did do make letters as though that they came from beyond the sea, and the letters specified that King Arthur was slain in battle with Sir Launcelot. Wherefore Sir Mordred made a parliament, and called the lords together, and there he made them to choose him king; and so was he crowned at Canterbury, and held a feast there fifteen days; and afterward he drew him unto Winchester, and there he took the Queen Guenever, and said plainly that he would wed her which was his uncle's wife and his father's wife. And so he made ready for the feast, and a day prefixed that they should be wedded; wherefore Queen Guenever was passing heavy. But she durst not discover her heart, but spake fair, and agreed to Sir Mordred's will. Then she desired of Sir Mordred for to go to London, to buy all manner of things that longed unto the wedding. And because of her fair speech Sir Mordred trusted her well enough, and gave her leave to go. And so when she came to London she took the Tower of London, and suddenly in all haste possible she stuffed it with all manner of victual, and well garnished it with men, and so kept it.
Then when Sir Mordred wist and understood how he was beguiled, he was passing wroth out of measure. And a short tale for to make, he went and laid a mighty siege about the Tower of London, and made many great assaults thereat, and threw many great engines unto them, and shot great guns. But all might not prevail Sir Mordred, for Queen Guenever would never for fair speech nor for foul, would never trust to come in his hands again.
Then came the Bishop of Canterbury, the which was a noble clerk and an holy man, and thus he said to Sir Mordred: Sir, what will ye do? will ye first displease God and sithen shame yourself, and all knighthood? Is not King Arthur your uncle, no farther but your mother's brother, and on her himself King Arthur begat you upon his own sister, therefore how may you wed your father's wife? Sir, said the noble clerk, leave this opinion or I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. Do thou thy worst, said Sir Mordred, wit thou well I shall defy thee. Sir, said the Bishop, and wit you well I shall not fear me to do that me ought to do. Also where ye noise where my lord Arthur is slain, and that is not so, and therefore ye will make a foul work in this land. Peace, thou false priest, said Sir Mordred, for an thou chafe me any more I shall make strike off thy head. So the Bishop departed and did the cursing in the most orgulist wise that might be done. And then Sir Mordredsought the Bishop of Canterbury, for to have slain him. Then the Bishop fled, and took part of his goods with him, and went nigh unto Glastonbury; and there he was as priest hermit in a chapel, and lived in poverty and in holy prayers, for well he understood that mischievous war was at hand.
Then Sir Mordred sought on Queen Guenever by letters and sonds, and by fair means and foul means, for to have her to come out of the Tower of London; but all this availed not, for she answered him shortly, openly and privily, that she had liefer slay herself than to be married with him. Then came word to Sir Mordred that King Arthur had araised the siege for Sir Launcelot, and he was coming homeward with a great host, to be avenged upon Sir Mordred; wherefore Sir Mordredmade write writs to all the barony of this land, and much people drew to him. For then was the common voice among them that with Arthur was none other life but war and strife, and with Sir Mordred was great joy and bliss. Thus was Sir Arthur depraved, and evil said of. And many there were that King Arthur had made up of nought, and given them lands, might not then say him a good word. Lo ye all Englishmen, see ye not what a mischief here was! for he that was the most king and knight of the world, and most loved the fellowship of noble knights, and by him they were all upholden, now might not these Englishmen hold them content with him. Lo thus was the old custom and usage of this land; and also men say that we of this land have not yet lost nor forgotten that custom and usage. Alas, this is a great default of us Englishmen, for there may no thing please us no term. And so fared the people at that time, they were better pleased with Sir Mordred than they were with King Arthur; and much people drew unto Sir Mordred, and said they would abide with him for better and for worse. And so Sir Mordred drew with a great host to Dover, for there he heard say that Sir Arthur would arrive, and so he thought to beat his own father from his lands; and the most part of all England held with Sir Mordred, the people were so new-fangle.
How after that King Arthur had tidings, he returned and came to Dover, where Sir Mordred met him to let his landing; and of the death of Sir Gawaine
AND so as Sir Mordred was at Dover with his host, there came King Arthur with a great navy of ships, and galleys, and carracks. And there was Sir Mordred ready awaiting upon his landing, to let his own father to land upon the land that he was king over. Then there was launching of great boats and small, and full of noble men of arms; and there was much slaughter of gentle knights, and many a full bold baron was laid full low, on both parties. But King Arthur was so courageous that there might no manner of knights let him to land, and his knights fiercely followed him; and so they landed maugre Sir Mordred and all his power, and put Sir Mordred aback, that he fled and all his people.
So when this battle was done, King Arthur let bury his people that were dead. And then was noble Sir Gawaine found in a great boat, lying more than half dead When Sir Arthur wist that Sir Gawaine was laid so low; he went unto him; and there the king made sorrow out of measure, and took Sir Gawaine in his arms, and thrice he there swooned. And then when he awaked, he said: Alas, Sir Gawaine, my sister's son, here now thou liest; the man in the world that I loved most; and now is my joy gone, for now, my nephew Sir Gawaine, I will discover me unto your person: in Sir Launcelot and you I most had my joy, and mine affiance, and now have I lost my joy of you both; wherefore all mine earthly joy is gone from me. Mine uncle King Arthur, said Sir Gawaine, wit you well my death-day is come, and all is through mine own hastiness and wilfulness; for I am smitten upon the old wound the which Sir Launcelotgave me, on the which I feel well I must die; and had Sir Launcelot been with you as he was, this unhappy war had never begun; and of all this am I causer, for Sir Launcelot and his blood, through their prowess, held all your cankered enemies in subjection and daunger. And now, said Sir Gawaine, ye shall miss Sir Launcelot. But alas, I would not accord with him, and therefore, said Sir Gawaine, I pray you, fair uncle, that I may have paper, pen, and ink, that I may write to Sir Launcelot a cedle with mine own hands.
And then when paper and ink was brought, then Gawaine was set up weakly by King Arthur, for he was shriven a little to-fore; and then he wrote thus, as the French book maketh mention: Unto Sir Launcelot, flower of all noble knights that ever I heard of or saw by my days, I, Sir Gawaine, King Lot's son of Orkney, sister's son unto the noble King Arthur, send thee greeting, and let thee have knowledge that the tenth day of May I was smitten upon the old wound that thou gavest me afore the city of Benwick, and through the same wound that thou gavest me I am come to my death-day. And I will that all the world wit, that I, Sir Gawaine, knight of the Table Round, sought my death, and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking; wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Launcelot, to return again unto this realm, and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. And this same day that I wrote this cedle, I was hurt to the death in the same wound, the which I had of thy hand, Sir Launcelot; for of a more nobler man might I not be slain. Also Sir Launcelot, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, make no tarrying, but come over the sea in all haste, that thou mayst with thy noble knights rescue that noble king that made thee knight, that is my lord Arthur; for he is full straitly bestead with a false traitor, that is my half-brother, Sir Mordred; and he hath let crown him king, and would have wedded my lady Queen Guenever, and so had he done had she not put herself in the Tower of London. And so the tenth day of May last past, my lord Arthurand we all landed upon them at Dover; and there we put that false traitor, Sir Mordred, to flight, and there it misfortuned me to be stricken upon thy stroke. And at the date of this letter was written, but two hours and a half afore my death, written with mine own hand, and so subscribed with part of my heart's blood. And I require thee, most famous knight of the world, that thou wilt see my tomb. And then Sir Gawaine wept, and King Arthur wept; and then they swooned both. And when they awaked both, the king made Sir Gawaine to receive his Saviour. And then Sir Gawaine prayed the king for to send for Sir Launcelot, and to cherish him above all other knights.
And so at the hour of noon Sir Gawaine yielded up the spirit; and then the king let inter him in a chapel within Dover Castle; and there yet all men may see the skull of him, and the same wound is seen that Sir Launcelot gave him in battle. Then was it told the king that Sir Mordred had pight a new field upon Barham Down. And upon the morn the king rode thither to him, and there was a great battle betwixt them, and much people was slain on both parties; but at the last Sir Arthur's party stood best, and Sir Mordred and his party fled unto Canterbury.
How after, Sir Gawaine's ghost appeared to King Arthur, and warned him that he should not fight that day
AND then the king let search all the towns for his knights that were slain, and interred them; and salved them with soft salves that so sore were wounded. Then much people drew unto King Arthur . And then they said that Sir Mordred warred upon King Arthur with wrong. And then King Arthur drew him with his host down by the seaside, westward toward Salisbury; and there was a day assigned betwixt King Arthur and Sir Mordred, that they should meet upon a down beside Salisbury, and not far from the seaside; and this day was assigned on a Monday after Trinity Sunday, whereof King Arthur was passing glad, that he might be avenged upon Sir Mordred. Then Sir Mordred araised much people about London, for they of Kent, Southsex, and Surrey, Estsex, and of Southfolk, and of Northfolk, held the most part with Sir Mordred; and many a full noble knight drew unto Sir Mordred and to the king: but they that loved Sir Launcelot drew unto Sir Mordred.
So upon Trinity Sunday at night, King Arthur dreamed a wonderful dream, and that was this: that him seemed he sat upon a chaflet in a chair, and the chair was fast to a wheel, and thereupon sat King Arthur in the richest cloth of gold that might be made; and the king thought there was under him, far from him, an hideous deep black water, and therein were all manner of serpents, and worms, and wild beasts, foul and horrible; and suddenly the king thought the wheel turned up-so-down, and he fell among the serpents, and every beast took him by a limb; and then the king cried as he lay in his bed and slept: Help. And then knights, squires, and yeomen, awaked the king; and then he was so amazed that he wist not where he was; and then he fell a-slumbering again, not sleeping nor thoroughly waking. So the king seemed verily that there came Sir Gawaine unto him with a number of fair ladies with him. And when King Arthur saw him, then he said: Welcome, my sister's son; I weened thou hadst been dead, and now I see thee alive, much am I beholding unto Almighty Jesu. O fair nephew and my sister's son, what be these ladies that hither be come with you? Sir, said Sir Gawaine, all these be ladies for whom I have foughten when I was man living, and all these are those that I did battle for in righteous quarrel; and God hath given them that grace at their great prayer, because I did battle for them, that they should bring me hither unto you: thus much hath God given me leave, for to warn you of your death; for an ye fight as to-morn with Sir Mordred, as ye both have assigned, doubt ye not ye must be slain, and the most part of your people on both parties. And for the great grace and goodness that almighty Jesu hath unto you, and for pity of you, and many more other good men there shall be slain, God hath sent me to you of his special grace, to give you warning that in no wise ye do battle as to-morn, but that ye take a treaty for a month day; and proffer you largely, so as to-morn to be put in a delay. For within a month shall come Sir Launcelot with all his noble knights, and rescue you worshipfully, and slay Sir Mordred, and all that ever will hold with him. Then Sir Gawaine and all the ladies vanished.
And anon the king called upon his knights, squires, and yeomen, and charged them wightly to fetch his noble lords and wise bishops unto him. And when they were come, the king told them his avision, what Sir Gawaine had told him, and warned him that if he fought on the morn he should be slain. Then the king commanded Sir Lucan the Butler, and his brother Sir Bedivere, with two bishops with them, and charged them in any wise, an they might, Take a treaty for a month day with Sir Mordred, and spare not, proffer him lands and goods as much as ye think best. So then they departed, and came to Sir Mordred, where he had a grim host of an hundred thousand men. And there they entreated Sir Mordred long time; and at the last Sir Mordred was agreed for to have Cornwall and Kent, by Arthur's days: after, all England, after the days of King Arthur.
How by misadventure of an adder the battle began, where Mordred was slain, and Arthur hurt to the death
THEN were they condescended that King Arthur and Sir Mordred should meet betwixt both their hosts, and everych of them should bring fourteen persons; and they came with this word unto Arthur. Then said he: I am glad that this is done: and so he went into the field. And when Arthur should depart, he warned all his host that an they see any sword drawn: Look ye come on fiercely, and slay that traitor, Sir Mordred, for I in no wise trust him. In like wise Sir Mordred warned his host that: An ye see any sword drawn, look that ye come on fiercely, and so slay all that ever before you standeth; for in no wise I will not trust for this treaty, for I know well my father will be avenged on me. And so they met as their appointment was, and so they were agreed and accorded thoroughly; and wine was fetched, and they drank. Right soon came an adder out of a little heath bush, and it stung a knight on the foot. And when the knight felt him stung, he looked down and saw the adder, and then he drew his sword to slay the adder, and thought of none other harm. And when the host on both parties saw that sword drawn, then they blew beams, trumpets, and horns, and shouted grimly. And so both hosts dressed them together. And King Arthur took his horse, and said: Alas this unhappy day! and so rode to his party. And Sir Mordred in like wise. And never was there seen a more dolefuller battle in no Christian land; for there was but rushing and riding, foining and striking, and many a grim word was there spoken either to other, and many a deadly stroke. But ever King Arthur rode throughout the battle of Sir Mordred many times, and did full nobly as a noble king should, and at all times he fainted never; and Sir Mordred that day put him in devoir, and in great peril. And thus they fought all the long day, and never stinted till the noble knights were laid to the cold earth; and ever they fought still till it was near night, and by that time was there an hundred thousand laid dead upon the down. Then was Arthurwood wroth out of measure, when he saw his people so slain from him.
Then the king looked about him, and then was he ware, of all his host and of all his good knights, were left no more alive but two knights; that one was Sir Lucan the Butler, and his brother Sir Bedivere, and they were full sore wounded. Jesu mercy, said the king, where are all my noble knights become? Alas that ever I should see this doleful day, for now, said Arthur, I am come to mine end. But would to God that I wist where were that traitor Sir Mordred, that hath caused all this mischief. Then was King Arthur ware where Sir Mordred leaned upon his sword among a great heap of dead men. Now give me my spear, said Arthur unto Sir Lucan, for yonder I have espied the traitor that all this woe hath wrought. Sir, let him be, said Sir Lucan, for he is unhappy; and if ye pass this unhappy day ye shall be right well revenged upon him. Good lord, remember ye of your night's dream, and what the spirit of Sir Gawaine told you this night, yet God of his great goodness hath preserved you hitherto. Therefore, for God's sake, my lord, leave off by this, for blessed be God ye have won the field, for here we be three alive, and with Sir Mordred is none alive; and if ye leave off now this wicked day of destiny is past. Tide me death, betide me life, saith the king, now I see him yonder alone he shall never escape mine hands, for at a better avail shall I never have him. God speed you well, said Sir Bedivere.
Then the king gat his spear in both his hands, and ran toward Sir Mordred, crying: Traitor, now is thy death-day come. And when Sir Mordred heard Sir Arthur, he ran until him with his sword drawn in his hand. And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear, throughout the body, more than a fathom. And when Sir Mordred felt that he had his death wound he thrust himself with the might that he had up to the bur of King Arthur's spear. And right so he smote his father Arthur, with his sword holden in both his hands, on the side of the head, that the sword pierced the helmet and the brain-pan, and therewithal Sir Mordred fell stark dead to the earth; and the noble Arthur fell in a swoon to the earth, and there he swooned ofttimes. And Sir Lucan the Butler and Sir Bedivere ofttimes heaved him up. And so weakly they led him betwixt them both, to a little chapel not far from the seaside. And when the king was there he thought him well eased.
Then heard they people cry in the field. Now go thou, Sir Lucan, said the king, and do me to wit what betokens that noise in the field. So Sir Lucan departed, for he was grievously wounded in many places. And so as he yede, he saw and hearkened by the moonlight, how that pillers and robbers were come into the field, to pill and to rob many a full noble knight of brooches, and beads, of many a good ring, and of many a rich jewel; and who that were not dead all out, there they slew them for their harness and their riches. When Sir Lucan understood this work, he came to the king as soon as he might, and told him all what he had heard and seen. Therefore by my rede, said Sir Lucan, it is best that we bring you to some town. I would it were so, said the king.
How King Arthur commanded to cast his sword Excalibur into the water, and how he was delivered to ladies in a barge
BUT I may not stand, mine head works so. Ah Sir Launcelot, said King Arthur, this day have I sore missed thee: alas, that ever I was against thee, for now have I my death, whereof Sir Gawaine me warned in my dream. Then Sir Lucan took up the king the one part, and Sir Bedivere the other part, and in the lifting the king swooned; and Sir Lucan fell in a swoon with the lift, that the part of his guts fell out of his body, and therewith the noble knight's heart brast. And when the king awoke, he beheld Sir Lucan, how he lay foaming at the mouth, and part of his guts lay at his feet. Alas, said the king, this is to me a full heavy sight, to see this noble duke so die for my sake, for he would have holpen me, that had more need of help than I. Alas, he would not complain him, his heart was so set to help me: now Jesu have mercy upon his soul! Then Sir Bedivere wept for the death of his brother. Leave this mourning and weeping, said the king, for all this will not avail me, for wit thou well an I might live myself, the death of Sir Lucan would grieve me evermore; but my time hieth fast, said the king. Therefore, said Arthur unto Sir Bedivere, take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder water side, and when thou comest there I charge thee throw my sword in that water, and come again and tell me what thou there seest. My lord, said Bedivere, your commandment shall be done, and lightly bring you word again.
So Sir Bedivere departed, and by the way he beheld that noble sword, that the pommel and the haft was all of precious stones; and then he said to himself: If I throw this rich sword in the water, thereof shall never come good, but harm and loss. And then Sir Bedivere hid Excalibur under a tree. And so, as soon as he might, he came again unto the king, and said he had been at the water, and had thrown the sword in the water. What saw thou there? said the king. Sir, he said, I saw nothing but waves and winds. That is untruly said of thee, said the king, therefore go thou lightly again, and do my commandment; as thou art to me lief and dear, spare not, but throw it in. Then Sir Bedivere returned again, and took the sword in his hand; and then him thought sin and shame to throw away that noble sword, and so eft he hid the sword, and returned again, and told to the king that he had been at the water, and done his commandment. What saw thou there? said the king. Sir, he said, I saw nothing but the waters wap and waves wan. Ah, traitor untrue, said King Arthur, now hast thou betrayed me twice. Who would have weened that, thou that hast been to me so lief and dear? and thou art named a noble knight, and would betray me for the richness of the sword. But now go again lightly, for thy long tarrying putteth me in great jeopardy of my life, for I have taken cold. And but if thou do now as I bid thee, if ever I may see thee, I shall slay thee with mine own hands; for thou wouldst for my rich sword see me dead.
Then Sir Bedivere Bedivere, and went to the sword, and lightly took it up, and went to the water side; and there he bound the girdle about the hilts, and then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might; and there came an arm and an hand above the water and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water. So Sir Bediverecame again to the king, and told him what he saw. Alas, said the king, help me hence, for I dread me I have tarried over long. Then Sir Bedivere took the king upon his back, and so went with him to that water side. And when they were at the water side, even fast by the bank hoved a little barge with many fair ladies in it, and among them all was a queen, and all they had black hoods, and all they wept and shrieked when they saw King Arthur. Now put me into the barge, said the king. And so he did softly; and there received him three queens with great mourning; and so they set them down, and in one of their laps King Arthur laid his head. And then that queen said: Ah, dear brother, why have ye tarried so long from me? alas, this wound on your head hath caught over-much cold. And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bediverebeheld all those ladies go from him. Then Sir Bedivere cried: Ah my lord Arthur, what shall become of me, now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? Comfort thyself, said the king, and do as well as thou mayst, for in me is no trust for to trust in; for I will into the vale of Avilion to heal me of my grievous wound: and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul. But ever the queens and ladies wept and shrieked, that it was pity to hear. And as soon as Sir Bedivere had lost the sight of the barge, he wept and wailed, and so took the forest; and so he went all that night, and in the morning he was ware betwixt two holts hoar, of a chapel and an hermitage.
How Sir Bedivere found him on the morrow dead in an hermitage, and how he abode there with the hermit
THEN was Sir Bedivere glad, and thither he went; and when he came into the chapel, he saw where lay an hermit grovelling on all four, there fast by a tomb was new graven. When the hermit saw Sir Bedivere he knew him well, for he was but little to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, that Sir Mordred flemed. Sir, said Bedivere, what man is there interred that ye pray so fast for? Fair son, said the hermit, I wot not verily, but by deeming. But this night, at midnight, here came a number of ladies, and brought hither a dead corpse, and prayed me to bury him; and here they offered an hundred tapers, and they gave me an hundred besants. Alas, said Sir Bedivere, that was my lord King Arthur, that here lieth buried in this chapel. Then Sir Bedivere swooned; and when he awoke he prayed the hermit he might abide with him still there, to live with fasting and prayers. For from hence will I never go, said Sir Bedivere, by my will, but all the days of my life here to pray for my lord Arthur. Ye are welcome to me, said the hermit, for I know ye better than ye ween that I do. Ye are the bold Bedivere, and the full noble duke, Sir Lucan the Butler, was your brother. Then Sir Bedivere told the hermit all as ye have heard to-fore. So there bode Sir Bedivere with the hermit that was to-fore Bishop of Canterbury, and there Sir Bedivere put upon him poor clothes, and served the hermit full lowly in fasting and in prayers.
Thus of Arthur I find never more written in books that be authorised, nor more of the very certainty of his death heard I never read, but thus was he led away in a ship wherein were three queens; that one was King Arthur's sister, Queen Morgan le Fay; the other was the Queen of Northgalis; the third was the Queen of the Waste Lands. Also there was Nimue, the chief lady of the lake, that had wedded Pelleas the good knight; and this lady had done much for King Arthur, for she would never suffer Sir Pelleas to be in no place where he should be in danger of his life; and so he lived to the uttermost of his days with her in great rest. More of the death of King Arthur could I never find, but that ladies brought him to his burials; and such one was buried there, that the hermit bare witness that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury, but yet the hermit knew not in certain that he was verily the body of King Arthur: for this tale Sir Bedivere, knight of the Table Round, made it to be written.
Of the opinion of some men of the death of King Arthur; and how Queen Guenever made her a nun in Almesbury
YET some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. I will not say it shall be so, but rather I will say: here in this world he changed his life. But many men say that there is written upon his tomb this verse: ' Hic jacet Arthurus, Rex quondam, Rexque futurus.' Thus leave I here Sir Bedivere with the hermit, that dwelled that time in a chapel beside Glastonbury, and there was his hermitage. And so they lived in their prayers, and fastings, and great abstinence. And when Queen Guenever understood that King Arthur was slain, and all the noble knights, Sir Mordred and all the remnant, then the queen stole away, and five ladies with her, and so she went to Almesbury; and there she let make herself a nun, and ware white clothes and black, and great penance she took, as ever did sinful lady in this land, and never creature could make her merry; but lived in fasting, prayers, and alms-deeds, that all manner of people marvelled how virtuously she was changed. Now leave we Queen Guenever in Almesbury, a nun in white clothes and black, and there she was Abbess and ruler as reason would; and turn we from her, and speak we of Sir Launcelot du Lake.
How when Sir Lancelot heard of the death of King Arthur, and of Sir Gawaine, and other matters, he came into England
AND when he heard in his country that Sir Mordred was crowned king in England, and made war against King Arthur, his own father, and would let him to land in his own land; also it was told Sir Launcelot how that Sir Mordred had laid siege about the Tower of London, because the queen would not wed him; then was Sir Launcelot wroth out of measure, and said to his kinsmen: Alas, that double traitor Sir Mordred, now me repenteth that ever he escaped my hands, for much shame hath he done unto my lord Arthur; for all I feel by the doleful letter that my lord Sir Gawaine sent me, on whose soul Jesu have mercy that my lord Arthur is full hard bestead. Alas, said Sir Launcelot, that ever I should live to hear that most noble king that made me knight thus to be overset with his subject in his own realm. And this doleful letter that my lord, Sir Gawaine, hath sent me afore his death, praying me to see his tomb, wit you well his doleful words shall never go from mine heart, for he was a full noble knight as ever was born; and in an unhappy hour was I born that ever I should have that unhap to slay first Sir Gawaine, Sir Gaheris the good knight, and mine own friend Sir Gareth, that full noble knight. Alas, I may say I am unhappy, said Sir Launcelot, that ever I should do thus unhappily, and, alas, yet might I never have hap to slay that traitor, Sir Mordred.
Leave your complaints, said Sir Bors, and first revenge you of the death of Sir Gawaine; and it will be well done that ye see Sir Gawaine's tomb, and secondly that ye revenge my lord Arthur, and my lady, Queen Guenever I thank you, said Sir Launcelot, for ever ye will my worship.
Then they made them ready in all the haste that might be, with ships and galleys, with Sir Launcelot and his host to pass into England. And so he passed over the sea till he came to Dover, and there he landed with seven kings, and the number was hideous to behold. Then Sir Launcelot spered of men of Dover where was King Arthur become. Then the people told him how that he was slain, and Sir Mordred and an hundred thousand died on a day; and how Sir Mordred gave King Arthur there the first battle at his landing, and there was good Sir Gawaine slain; and on the morn Sir Mordred fought with the king upon Barham Down, and there the king put Sir Mordred to the worse. Alas, said Sir Launcelot, this is the heaviest tidings that ever came to me. Now, fair sirs, said Sir Launcelot, shew me the tomb of Sir Gawaine. And then certain people of the town brought him into the castle of Dover, and shewed him the tomb. Then Sir Launcelot kneeled down and wept, and prayed heartily for his soul. And that night he made a dole, and all they that would come had as much flesh, fish, wine and ale, and every man and woman had twelve pence, come who would. Thus with his own hand dealt he this money, in a mourning gown; and ever he wept, and prayed them to pray for the soul of Sir Gawaine. And on the morn all the priests and clerks that might be gotten in the country were there, and sang mass of Requiem; and there offered first Sir Launcelot, and he offered an hundred pound; and then the seven kings offered forty pound apiece; and also there was a thousand knights, and each of them offered a pound; and the offering dured from morn till night, and Sir Launcelot lay two nights on his tomb in prayers and weeping.
Then on the third day Sir Launcelot called the kings, dukes, earls, barons, and knights, and said thus: My fair lords, I thank you all of your coming into this country with me, but we came too late, and that shall repent me while I live, but against death may no man rebel. But sithen it is so, said Sir Launcelot, I will myself ride and seek my lady, Queen Guenever, for as I hear say she hath had great pain and much disease; and I heard say that she is fled into the west. Therefore ye all shall abide me here, and but if I come again within fifteen days, then take your ships and your fellowship, and depart into your country, for I will do as I say to you.
THEN came Sir Bors de Ganis, and said: My lord Sir Launcelot, what think ye for to do, now to ride in this realm? wit ye well ye shall find few friends. Be as be may, said Sir Launcelot, keep you still here, for I will forth on my journey, and no man nor child shall go with me. So it was no boot to strive, but he departed and rode westerly, and there he sought a seven or eight days; and at the last he came to a nunnery, and then was Queen Guenever ware of Sir Launcelot as he walked in the cloister. And when she saw him there she swooned thrice, that all the ladies and gentlewomen had work enough to hold the queen up. So when she might speak, she called ladies and gentlewomen to her, and said: Ye marvel, fair ladies, why I make this fare. Truly, she said, it is for the sight of yonder knight that yonder standeth; wherefore I pray you all call him to me.
When Sir Launcelot was brought to her, then she said to all the ladies: Through this man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. Therefore, Sir Launcelot, wit thou well I am set in such a plight to get my soul-heal; and yet I trust through God's grace that after my death to have a sight of the blessed face of Christ, and at domesday to sit on his right side, for as sinful as ever I was are saints in heaven. Therefore, Sir Launcelot, I require thee and beseech thee heartily, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, that thou never see me more in the visage; and I command thee, on God's behalf, that thou forsake my company, and to thy kingdom thou turn again, and keep well thy realm from war and wrack; for as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed; therefore, Sir Launcelot, go to thy realm, and there take thee a wife, and live with her with joy and bliss; and I pray thee heartily, pray for me to our Lord that I may amend my misliving. Now, sweet madam, said Sir Launcelot, would ye that I should now return again unto my country, and there to wed a lady? Nay, madam, wit you well that shall I never do, for I shall never be so false to you of that I have promised; but the same destiny that ye have taken you to, I will take me unto, for to please Jesu, and ever for you I cast me specially to pray. If thou wilt do so, said the queen, hold thy promise, but I may never believe but that thou wilt turn to the world again. Well, madam, said he, ye say as pleaseth you, yet wist you me never false of my promise, and God defend but I should forsake the world as ye have done. For in the quest of the Sangreal I had forsaken the vanities of the world had not your lord been. And if I had done so at that time, with my heart, will, and thought, I had passed all the knights that were in the Sangreal except Sir Galahad, my son. And therefore, lady, sithen ye have taken you to perfection, I must needs take me to perfection, of right. For I take record of God, in you I have had mine earthly joy; and if I had found you now so disposed, I had cast me to have had you into mine own realm.
How Sir Launcelot came to the hermitage where the Archbishop of Canterbury was, and how he took the habit on him
BUT sithen I find you thus disposed, I ensure you faithfully, I will ever take me to penance, and pray while my life lasteth, if I may find any hermit, either gray or white, that will receive me. Wherefore, madam, I pray you kiss me and never no more. Nay, said the queen, that shall I never do, but abstain you from such works: and they departed. But there was never so hard an hearted man but he would have wept to see the dolour that they made; for there was lamentation as they had been stung with spears; and many times they swooned, and the ladies bare the queen to her chamber.
And Sir Launcelot awoke, and went and took his horse, and rode all that day and all night in a forest, weeping. And at the last he was ware of an hermitage and a chapel stood betwixt two cliffs; and then he heard a little bell ring to mass, and thither he rode and alighted, and tied his horse to the gate, and heard mass. And he that sang mass was the Bishop of Canterbury. Both the Bishop and Sir Bedivere knew Sir Launcelot, and they spake together after mass. But when Sir Bedivere had told his tale all whole, Sir Launcelot's heart almost brast for sorrow, and Sir Launcelot threw his arms abroad, and said: Alas, who may trust this world. And then he kneeled down on his knee, and prayed the Bishop to shrive him and assoil him. And then he besought the Bishop that he might be his brother. Then the Bishop said: I will gladly; and there he put an habit upon Sir Launcelot, and there he served God day and night with prayers and fastings.
Thus the great host abode at Dover. And then Sir Lionel took fifteen lords with him, and rode to London to seek Sir Launcelot; and there Sir Lionel was slain and many of his lords. Then Sir Bors de Ganis made the great host for to go home again; and Sir Bors, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, with more other of Sir Launcelot's kin, took on them to ride all England overthwart and endlong, to seek Sir Launcelot. So Sir Bors by fortune rode so long till he came to the same chapel where Sir Launcelot was; and so Sir Bors heard a little bell knell, that rang to mass; and there he alighted and heard mass. And when mass was done, the Bishop Sir Launcelot, and Sir Bedivere, came to Sir Bors. And when Sir Bors saw Sir Launcelot in that manner clothing, then he prayed the Bishop that he might be in the same suit. And so there was an habit put upon him, and there he lived in prayers and fasting. And within half a year, there was come Sir Galihud, Sir Galihodin, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Villiars, Sir Clarras, and Sir Gahalantine. So all these seven noble knights there abode still. And when they saw Sir Launcelot had taken him to such perfection, they had no lust to depart, but took such an habit as he had.
Thus they endured in great penance six year; and then Sir Launcelot took the habit of priesthood of the Bishop, and a twelvemonth he sang mass. And there was none of these other knights but they read in books, and holp for to sing mass, and rang bells, and did bodily all manner of service. And so their horses went where they would, for they took no regard of no worldly riches. For when they saw Sir Launcelot endure such penance, in prayers, and fastings, they took no force what pain they endured, for to see the noblest knight of the world take such abstinence that he waxed full lean. And thus upon a night, there came a vision to Sir Launcelot, and charged him, in remission of his sins, to haste him unto Almesbury: And by then thou come there, thou shalt find Queen Guenever dead. And therefore take thy fellows with thee, and purvey them of an horse bier, and fetch thou the corpse of her, and bury her by her husband, the noble King Arthur. So this avision came to Sir Launcelot thrice in one night.
How Sir Launcelot went with his seven fellows to Almesbury, and found there Queen Guenever dead, whom they brought to Glastonbury
THEN Sir Launcelot rose up or day, and told the hermit. It were well done, said the hermit, that ye made you ready, and that you disobey not the avision. Then Sir Launcelot took his eight fellows with him, and on foot they yede from Glastonbury to Almesbury, the which is little more than thirty mile. And thither they came within two days, for they were weak and feeble to go. And when Sir Launcelot was come to Almesbury within the nunnery, Queen Guenever died but half an hour afore. And the ladies told Sir Launcelot that Queen Guenever told them all or she passed, that Sir Launcelot had been priest near a twelvemonth, And hither he cometh as fast as he may to fetch my corpse; and beside my lord, King Arthur, he shall bury me. Wherefore the queen said in hearing of them all: I beseech Almighty God that I may never have power to see Sir Launcelot with my worldly eyen; and thus, said all the ladies, was ever her prayer these two days, till she was dead. Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed. And so he did all the observance of the service himself, both the dirige, and on the morn he sang mass. And there was ordained an horse bier; and so with an hundred torches ever brenning about the corpse of the queen, and ever Sir Launcelot with his eight fellows went about the horse bier, singing and reading many an holy orison, and frankincense upon the corpse incensed. Thus Sir Launcelot and his eight fellows went on foot from Almesbury unto Glastonbury.
And when they were come to the chapel and the hermitage, there she had a dirige, with great devotion. And on the morn the hermit that sometime was Bishop of Canterbury sang the mass of Requiem with great devotion. And Sir Launcelot was the first that offered, and then also his eight fellows. And then she was wrapped in cered cloth of Raines, from the top to the toe, in thirtyfold, and after she was put in a web of lead, and then in a coffin of marble. And when she was put in the earth Sir Launcelot swooned, and lay long still, while the hermit came and awaked him, and said: Ye be to blame, for ye displease God with such manner of sorrow-making. Truly, said Sir Launcelot, I trust I do not displease God, for He knoweth mine intent. For my sorrow was not, nor is not for any rejoicing of sin, but my sorrow may never have end. For when I remember of her beauty, and of her noblesse, that was both with her king and with her, so when I saw his corpse and her corpse so lie together, truly mine heart would not serve to sustain my careful body. Also when I remember me how by my default, mine orgule and my pride, that they were both laid full low, that were peerless that ever was living of Christian people, wit you well, said Sir Launcelot, this remembered, of their kindness and mine unkindness, sank so to mine heart, that I might not sustain myself. So the French book maketh mention.
How Sir Launcelot began to sicken, and after died, whose body was borne to Joyous Gard for to be buried
THEN Sir Launcelot never after ate but little meat, ne drank, till he was dead. For then he sickened more and more, and dried, and dwined away. For the Bishop nor none of his fellows might not make him to eat, and little he drank, that he was waxen by a cubit shorter than he was, that the people could not know him. For evermore, day and night, he prayed, but sometime he slumbered a broken sleep; ever he was lying grovelling on the tomb of King Arthur and Queen Guenever. And there was no comfort that the Bishop, nor Sir Bors, nor none of his fellows, could make him, it availed not. So within six weeks after, Sir Launcelot fell sick, and lay in his bed; and then he sent for the Bishop that there was hermit, and all his true fellows. Then Sir Launcelot said with dreary steven: Sir Bishop, I pray you give to me all my rites that longeth to a Christian man. It shall not need you, said the hermit and all his fellows, it is but heaviness of your blood, ye shall be well mended by the grace of God to-morn. My fair lords, said Sir Launcelot, wit you well my careful body will into the earth, I have warning more than now I will say; therefore give me my rites. So when he was houseled and anealed, and had all that a Christian man ought to have, he prayed the Bishop that his fellows might bear his body to Joyous Gard. Some men say it was Alnwick, and some men say it was Bamborough. Howbeit, said Sir Launcelot, me repenteth sore, but I made mine avow sometime, that in Joyous Gard I would be buried. And because of breaking of mine avow, I pray you all, lead me thither. Then there was weeping and wringing of hands among his fellows.
So at a season of the night they all went to their beds, for they all lay in one chamber. And so after midnight, against day, the Bishop [that] then was hermit, as he lay in his bed asleep, he fell upon a great laughter. And therewith all the fellowship awoke, and came to the Bishop, and asked him what he ailed. Ah Jesu mercy, said the Bishop, why did ye awake me? I was never in all my life so merry and so well at ease. Wherefore? said Sir Bors. Truly said the Bishop, here was Sir Launcelot with me with mo angels than ever I saw men in one day. And I saw the angels heave up Sir Launcelot unto heaven, and the gates of heaven opened against him. It is but dretching of swevens, said Sir Bors, for I doubt not Sir Launcelot aileth nothing but good. It may well be, said the Bishop; go ye to his bed, and then shall ye prove the sooth. So when Sir Bors and his fellows came to his bed they found him stark dead, and he lay as he had smiled, and the sweetest savour about him that ever they felt.
Then was there weeping and wringing of hands, and the greatest dole they made that ever made men. And on the morn the Bishop did his mass of Requiem, and after, the Bishop and all the nine knights put Sir Launcelot in the same horse bier that Queen Guenever was laid in to-fore that she was buried. And so the Bishop and they all together went with the body of Sir Launcelot daily, till they came to Joyous Gard; and ever they had an hundred torches brenning about him. And so within fifteen days they came to Joyous Gard. And there they laid his corpse in the body of the quire, and sang and read many psalters and prayers over him and about him.
And ever his visage was laid open and naked, that all folks might behold him. For such was the custom in those days, that all men of worship should so lie with open visage till that they were buried. And right thus as they were at their service, there came Sir Ector de Maris, that had seven years sought all England, Scotland, and Wales, seeking his brother, Sir Launcelot.
How Sir Ector found Sir Launcelot his brother dead, and how Constantine reigned next after Arthur; and of the end of this book
AND when Sir Ector heard such noise and light in the quire of Joyous Gard, he alighted and put his horse from him, and came into the quire, and there he saw men sing and weep. And all they knew Sir Ector, but he knew not them. Then went Sir Bors unto Sir Ector, and told him how there lay his brother, Sir Launcelot, dead; and then Sir Ector threw his shield, sword, and helm from him. And when he beheld Sir Launcelot's visage, he fell down in a swoon. And when he waked it were hard any tongue to tell the doleful complaints that he made for his brother. Ah Launcelot, he said, thou were head of all Christian knights, and now I dare say, said Sir Ector, thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand. And thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare shield. And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest. Then there was weeping and dolour out of measure.
Thus they kept Sir Launcelot's corpse aloft fifteen days, and then they buried it with great devotion. And then at leisure they went all with the Bishop of Canterbury to his hermitage, and there they were together more than a month. Then Sir Constantine, that was Sir Cador's son of Cornwall, was chosen king of England. And he was a full noble knight, and worshipfully he ruled this realm. And then this King Constantine sent for the Bishop of Canterbury, for he heard say where he was. And so he was restored unto his Bishopric, and left that hermitage. And Sir Bedivere was there ever still hermit to his life's end. Then Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Gahalantine, Sir Galihud, Sir Galihodin, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Villiars le Valiant, Sir Clarrus of Clermont, all these knights drew them to their countries. Howbeit King Constantine would have had them with him, but they would not abide in this realm. And there they all lived in their countries as holy men. And some English books make mention that they went never out of England after the death of Sir Launcelot, but that was but favour of makers. For the French book maketh mention, and is authorised, that Sir Bors, Sir Ector, Sir Blamore, and Sir Bleoberis, went into the Holy Land thereas Jesu Christ was quick and dead, and anon as they had stablished their lands. For the book saith, so Sir Launcelot commanded them for to do, or ever he passed out of this world. And these four knights did many battles upon the miscreants or Turks. And there they died upon a Good Friday for God's sake.
Here is the end of the book of King Arthur, and of his noble knights of the Round Table, that when they were whole together there was ever an hundred and forty. And here is the end of the death of Arthur. I pray you all, gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance, and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul. For this book was ended the ninth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth, by Sir Thomas Maleore, knight, as Jesu help him for his great might, as he is the servant of Jesu both day and night.
Thus endeth this noble and joyous book entitled Le Morte Darthur. Notwithstanding it treateth of the birth, life, and acts of the said King Arthur, of his noble knights of the Round Table, their marvellous enquests and adventures, the achieving of the Sangreal, and in the end the dolorous death and departing out of this world of them all. Which book was reduced into English by Sir Thomas Malory, knight, as afore is said, and by me divided into twenty-one books, chaptered and emprinted, and finished in the abbey, Westminster, the last day of July the year of our Lord MCCCCLXXX | <urn:uuid:d69b1460-afb0-4e54-805e-c51b1539f79b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mysticrealms.org.uk/malory/book21.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.985203 | 12,530 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Many parents describe the birth of their child as the experience of a lifetime.
As the partner, you can help out in several ways before, during and after childbirth. For the woman giving birth, physical, social and emotional support is priceless toward feeling safe and secure and getting through the birthing process. And all it entails. Providing support to the woman giving birth is a huge matter and not always easy. If it’s the first time, you’re treading on unfamiliar ground. My best advice is: “Hang on, Hold close and Hold dear”. It can be incredibly frustrating to see the person you love in such a vulnerable situation, one that is both painful and requires patience. It’s not uncommon for the partner to worry firstly about how the woman will manage and secondly about how the baby will make it through labor. It is perfectly natural to feel helpless and the question of, “what can I do” arises.
After the baby is been born most women say, “The most important thing was that you were present and by my side. What you did wasn’t as important.” Obviously, most people like to feel needed, that they can do something concrete to help—but again, the most important thing you can do is to be there.
Things you as partner can consider during delivery:
- Determine well in advance what support she will want during labor, what you can do to encourage her, which words will calm and give her strength
- Make sure you’re always there. Be sensitive to her needs, be affirming, supportive and encouraging as delivery advances
- Help her to be as relaxed as possible, both physically and mentally. Suggest a massage, bath, shower and warm wheat pillows, for instance. Say things that help her relax and feel safe
- Help her to find a good breathing pattern. In through the nose and out through the mouth usually creates a good rhythm. Make sure she does not hold her breathe or hyperventilate (can cause a tingling sensation around the mouth and fingers)
- Suggest and help her get into different birthing positions.
- Keep her informed of what is happening. Keep her present and support her so she doesn’t feel afraid. Boost her self-confidence. Tell her things that she likes to hear
- Try different types of massage, depending on which stage of labor she’s in
- Help her to find the rhythm and go with the contractions. Don’t let the contractions come as a surprise
- If she perspires, help her to freshen up by brushing her teeth, giving her a shower or bath, or wiping her off with cold towels. If she’s freezing, a warm shower, something warm to drink or moving around will help. Remind her to drink water and to stock up on energy by eating. Remind her also to empty her bladder every other hour
- If and when she uses nitrous oxide, help her get in sync when the contractions begin and quickly find the right technique
- If things are not working out with the staff, it’s your job to remedy the situation. Ask to replace staff you feel do not work with you. There is always someone else who can step in.
- Continuously keep the midwife informed about what you’ve talked about regarding the delivery. You’re the person who knows her best.
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There's so much to do, see and explore while on holiday in Cornwall.
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Late spring or summer is the best time to tour Cornwall, as the
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shores you’ll discover remnants of its maritime heritage.
There are tiny fishing ports, old smuggler’s inns and sturdy
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From the secluded coves and tree-clad creeks along the county’s
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It’s also an intriguing mix of old and new, where futuristic
greenhouses and world-class galleries meet crumbling mines and ancient
market towns. Although many of the old industries may be gone, there’s
a real buzz in the Cornish air these days – after years of
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Born in New York City in 1947, Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor (Lew Alcindor) was always tall. He was 6 feet 8 inches tall before entering high school, where his team finished with a 79-2 record including a 71-game winning streak. Although NCAA rules prevented freshman from playing during the season, the Alcindor-led freshman team at UCLA beat the varsity team that went on to win the National Championship, beginning a renowned college career that resulted in an unprecedented three consecutive National Championships of his own and an 88-2 record, as well as earning his BA in History. In 1968, Alcindor converted to Islam and in 1969 was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks with the first pick in the NBA draft. In his second year in the league, Alcindor won fist first NBA MVP award, and led the Bucks to their first NBA Championship, where he was named the finals MVP. The day after winning the finals, Alcindor began publicly using his Arabic name, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The same year, he made his first appearance as an actor, on the private eye show "Mannix" (CBS, 1967-1975). In 1975, Abdul-Jabbar was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he was joined, in 1979, by Magic Johnson. The pair ushered in the Lakers basketball dynasty, appearing in the NBA finals 8 times, winning 5. Abdul-Jabbar earned his record sixth NBA MVP award in 1980. Abdul-Jabbar continued to appear occasionally in film and TV; most notably he had a memorable cameo in the classic slapstick comedy "Airplane" (1980). When he retired in 1989 after 20 years in basketball, Abdul-Jabbar was considered the greatest player of all time. After his basketball career, Abdul-Jabbar was a frequent writer and activist for racial equality. In 1986, he published his first novel of History, Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement. He has also co-written a pair books, Mycroft Holmes and Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, which take the famous character on new adventures. Abdul-Jabbar also produced and directed "On the Shoulders of Giants" (2011) about a legendary but overlooked basketball team from 1930s Harlem. In 2018 it was announced that he would add screenwriter to his resume, as he was named as one of the writers on the series reboot of "Veronica Mars" (The CW, 2004-07).
Cast (Feature Film)
Writer (Feature Film)
Misc. Crew (Feature Film)
Cast (TV Mini-Series)
Producer (TV Mini-Series)
Played for four seasons at UCLA, three under famed coach John Wooden
Twice named Player of the Year
Boycotted Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico due to racial discrimination against blacks in the U.S.
Led UCLA Bruins to win over University of Houston in match famously called "the Game of the Century"
First player drafted in the 1969 NBA draft
Named NBA MVP for the first time
Traded to the Los Angeles Lakers
Made film debut opposite Bruce Lee in "Game of Death"; studied Jeet Kune Do martial arts under Lee
Appeared in "Airplane!" as co-pilot Roger Murdock.
Published memoir <i>Giant Steps</i>, co-written with Peter Knobler
Named <i>Sports Illustrated</i> magazine's "Sportsman of the Year"
Made cameo in crime comedy "Fletch"
Announced retirement after 20 years of playing professional basketball
Inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Co-wrote historical book <i>Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement</i> with Alan Steinberg
Served as special assistant coach for the Lakers
Co-wrote documentary feature "On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of"
Statue unveiled in front of Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA
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From: "Simon St.Laurent" <firstname.lastname@example.org>
> I was looking the other day for information about GenCode, but most of
> what I can find describes it as a predecessor to SGML that got folded
> into the main SGML effort.
There is some information in Charles Goldfarb's SGML Handbook p 567.
He says "Many credit the start of the generic coding movement
to ... William Tunnicliffe" (of the GCA) who gave a paper in 1967 on
"the separation of the information contents of documents from their format."
IBM's GML advanced Gencoding: "Instead of a simple tagging scheme however,
GML introduced the concept of a formally defined document type with
an explicit nested element structure."
Goldfarb sees "generic coding" as systems where only the GI
is used for processing (e.g. SCRIBE). He (p10) contrasts this with
generalized markup where there are IDs and secondary
attributes which also can be used. Also, the notion of "rigorous
markup" is not in gencoding (i.e. that you should use a grammar)
One reason for Goldfarb's move from generic coding to generalized
markup was that "unlike (the other pioneers) my chief motivation was
information retrieval, not typesetting."
The Gencoding and GML efforts got together in 1978 to start on SGML.
The first draft of SGML was released in 1980 and subject to 6 years of
review and adoption until the final text of the standard was released.
It also added things like short references (i.e. so that "[" = "<citation"> or
whatever) and the dreaded CONCUR. Dave Peterson made an interesting comment
recently, that SGML DTDs originally used element syntax, but that
it proved so unwieldy they moved to a custom syntax: the road
that RELAX NG compact syntax has taken (and the attempts to make
a nice syntax for WXS) is well-trodden.
> While I'm aware of that contribution, I'm curious what GenCode itself
> was trying to accomplish. My rapidly-fading memory suggests that a
> single tag set was a key (though not accomplished) goal, and someone was
> even speaking of "the shadow of GenCode", though I'm no longer sure in
> what context.
The various papers on Charles' site http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/index.htm
have good information and references. A nice page also is
http://xml.coverpages.org/tunnicliffe.html for a nice obituary
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Bench-to-bedside review: the value of cardiac biomarkers in the intensive care patient.
Crit Care. 2008;12(3):215
Authors: McLean AS, Huang SJ, Salter M
The use of cardiac biomarkers in the intensive care setting is gaining increasing popularity. There are several reasons for this increase: there is now the facility for point-of-care biomarker measurement providing a rapid diagnosis; biomarkers can be used as prognostic tools; biomarkers can be used to guide therapy; and, compared with other methods such as echocardiography, the assays are easier and much more affordable. Two important characteristics of the ideal biomarker are disease specificity and a linear relationship between the serum concentration and disease severity. These characteristics are not present, however, in the majority of biomarkers for cardiac dysfunction currently available. Those clinically useful cardiac biomarkers, which naturally received the most attention, such as troponins and B-type natriuretic peptide, are not as specific as was originally thought. In the intensive care setting, it is important for the user to understand the degree of specificity of these biomarkers and that the interpretation of the results should always be guided by other clinical information. The present review summarizes the available biomarkers for different cardiac conditions. Potential biomarkers under evaluation are also briefly discussed.
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1. Apply sunscreen every day before you go outdoors. Sunscreen is the
closest thing we have to a fountain of youth. It really can slow down skin
aging. It can also help prevent skin cancer. Look for a sunscreen that offers
broad-spectrum protection, SPF 30 (or higher), and water resistance.
2. Don't smoke. Smoking speeds up how quickly your skin ages. If you smoke,
your wounds will also take longer to heal. And research shows that smoking
worsens some skin diseases, including psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa.
3. Use a self-tanner if you like looking tanned. Anytime you tan indoors or
outside, you prematurely age your skin. You also increase your risk of getting
skin cancer. A self-tanner can give you the look you want without the risks. To
keep your skin healthy, you want to protect it from the sun even when using a
4. Use skin care products that match your skin's needs. What's your skin
type — oily, dry, normal, combination, or sensitive? Do you have a skin
condition? Using products formulated for your skin's needs will help your skin
look and feel its best.
5. Resist the urge to scrub your skin clean. If you've been sweating heavily or
have a serious acne flare, it may seem natural to scrub your skin. Don't!
Scrubbing irritates your skin, which can worsen any skin condition, including
6. Wash your face when waking, before bed, and after sweating. Washing
when you wake up removes the dirt and bacteria that settle on your face while
sleeping. Before bed, you want to remove makeup and grime, such as smog,
smoke, or dirt, which may have landed on your skin.
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Hi there, so in this project, I have a project that is using OrbitControls and that should rotate , just like if it’s rotated with left click drag (something like this):
but instead, in this case I would like to use the scroll mouse wheel event to rotate along a certain axis.
In which it brings the second question, as I am actually unsure which position and or axis is to be set. Is it the PerspectiveCamera’s or the PerspectiveCamera’s Position?
Thank you very much!
wheel event is mapped to dolly/zoom and it’s not possible to change this by configuration. So to implement this feature, you have to modify
I’m not sure I understand the difference between “PerspectiveCamera’s” and PerspectiveCamera’s Position. Can you please explain in more detail?
I’ve figured this out!
First of all, nevermind this one.
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One in five people on the national transplant waiting list live in London
We want to let Londoners know that ‘Words Save Lives’ – with an appeal for people in London and surrounding areas to talk openly about organ donation.
5 January 2018
Organ Donation campaign tells Londoners that ‘Words Save Lives’
One in five people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant live in our capital city. That’s why NHS Blood and Transplant wants to let Londoners know that ‘Words Save Lives’ – with an appeal for people in London and surrounding areas to talk openly about organ donation.
Latest figures being released for today’s campaign launch show there are 1,300 people in London on the transplant waiting list* and there are 6,500 people overall on the national transplant waiting list.
There is a particular need for more black and Asian people to talk about donation as organs from people from the same ethnic background are more likely to be a close match and give the best chance of a positive outcome. It’s encouraging to know that the number of people from these communities who have donated in London has more than doubled in the last decade. However, of the 1,300 people in London waiting for a transplant, 811 of those are black or Asian.
30-Year-old Gemma Gayle from Wandsworth, has been suffering from diabetes since she was 11. She received a simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplant last year, after her kidneys failed.
“Finding out you need a transplant is terrifying,” said Gemma. “The idea that you need a major operation to save your life is incredibly scary and quite difficult to come to terms with. Luckily for me, my family, friends and the hospital gave me a lot of support and helped me to come to terms with it. By the time I started dialysis 4 hours a day 3 times a week, I felt awful. I was exhausted all the time, in pain, weak and found it difficult to be active. Instead of weekends out with friends I'd go to bed early on Friday so I could have dialysis early on Saturday morning.
“The wait on the transplant list is nerve wracking because you never know when the phone rings if it will be that call from the hospital telling you a transplant is available.
“Receiving a transplant is an amazing gift and I am so grateful to my donor for allowing me this second opportunity to live a relatively normal life. The fact that my transplant came from someone else’s loss is something that is never far away from my thoughts. I didn't know them, but I will carry a part of them for the rest of my life and for every milestone I manage to reach I will always be eternally grateful.
“It’s been a difficult year with lots of challenges as the transplant settles but also a lot of happiness. I got married this year. Now I feel a lot better than I did before and I'm more able to do things and to travel again.
“It's so important to talk about organ donation and that more people choose to donate. To give somebody else who is still waiting on the list the opportunity to live a normal life.”
Over the last decade, 1,245 people in London have donated their organs after death resulting in 6,110 transplant operations, which saved the lives of thousands of people. However, 798 people in London have died in the last 10 years while waiting for that lifesaving operation.
NHS Blood and Transplant surveys show more than 80%** of people support organ donation but only around 49% of people have ever talked about it.***
Sally Johnson, Director of Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “Thousands of people in London have had a second chance at life thanks to the organ transplants they received. This was only possible thanks to those who put other people first and agreed to organ donation at the most distressing time in their life.
“Sadly almost 800 people in London have died waiting for a transplant in the last 10 years and hundreds more are still waiting every day for a lifesaving organ. People from our black and Asian communities face particularly distressing waits for a transplant: they know that lower donation rates in their own communities mean they often wait longer for a matching organ.
“We really need everyone to discuss organ donation: make sure your family knows that you want to donate if you are ever able to. This will make things much easier for them and reduces the risk of them saying no to life saving donation simply because they don't know what you wanted.
“Talk to your family today, let them know you want to be an organ donor and prove that words really do save lives. A few words now can make an extraordinary difference.”
* Waiting list figures as of November 2017
**NHSBT carries out biannual attitudinal surveys. The fourth wave in 2017, involved 1499 interviews carried out via online self-completion between the 10th and 21st of April 2017. In this wave, 81% of people supported organ donation in principle.
***NHSBT commissioned research specifically on organ donation conversations. The quantitative element comprised a survey of 2656 adults aged 18 years or above in England carried out online by YouGov from 15th to 19th May. 49% of people had had a conversation with a partner or family member about organ donation.
- For additional information contact Pam Pye in the NHS Blood and Transplant Press Office on email@example.com or 0151 268 7205
- Alternatively call the NHSBT Press Office on 01923 367 600 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
- For out of hours enquiries please call: 0117 969 2444
It is quick and easy to join the NHS Organ Donor Register. Visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk or contact our 24 hour a day donor line - 0300 123 23 23.
NHSBT Notes to editors
NHS Blood and Transplant is a joint England and Wales Special Health Authority. We are responsible for ensuring a safe and efficient supply of blood and associated services to the NHS in England. We are also the organ donation organisation for the UK and are responsible for matching and allocating donated organs.
Words save lives, talking to your family about donating your organs when you die could save lives.Let’s talk about it.
1 in 5 people waiting for an organ transplant live in London. Have you made your donation decision?
Almost half of London families declined to donate their relative’s organs. Discuss your decision with your family, so that they can support your choice and you can support theirs.
3 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. Don’t delay, think about organ donation today.
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A woman promoting peace poles was trying to arrange for children in elementary schools to paint their own, and arrange for a couple of larger poles elsewhere in her community. Someone local criticized the effort saying that to passersby the posts do not ring out “Peace” and thought the artist helping them was just trying… Continue reading Explanation to a Friend-of-Peace-Poles
Written by Ken Lambert, our Peace Correspondent in India In India, the history of the Kalinga War is well known. Recently I have been moved by reading more about it and the ruthless ruler who waged it, Ashoka, who went from being one of the cruelest rulers in history to becoming the opposite and promoting… Continue reading Why King Ashoka devoted himself to peace after the Kalinga War
A guy promised he would make my site better. He wrote blogs, and other things, that misrepresent this site. Now I’m trying to figure out how to make them go away.
On Pinterest is a photo of one of my 7-Sided Peace Poles, but linked to someone else’s site. So I put this here so someone could find it with a search if they really wanted to. Above is a 7-sided copper peace pole with the single word “Peace” etched into it many times, rather than… Continue reading 7-Sided Peace Pole
Why not set peace poles in cement? A tree near my front door finally grew too large and was crowding a copper peace pole I had put near my front door seventeen or eighteen years ago. There still is room for the stainless peace pole, but not the copper one. I took it out and… Continue reading Blog – Peace Poles of Stone and Stainless | <urn:uuid:00bd908a-519b-42d2-8458-44e25cd1ce61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peace-pole.com/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971436 | 353 | 1.585938 | 2 |
If you sometimes struggle to remember to brush and floss your teeth, you could be putting your teeth at increased risk of cavities. When an area of tooth decay first starts to develop you might notice a minor change in surface texture of your tooth, increased sensitivity, or slight discoloration of the tooth enamel.
If you have noticed any of these abnormalities with one of your teeth, you should have it examined as soon as possible by our dentist, Dr. Robert Jackson. In some cases of minor tooth decay the dentists might be able to treat the cavity by applying a composite dental filling. This is a special type of dental grade resin that can be shaded to perfectly match the adjacent tooth enamel. Our dentists will explain your numbing options. Once the anesthetic takes effect the dentists will remove all traces of decayed tooth enamel. This will also involve preparing the surface to receive the composite filling material. Then they will shade, apply, and shape the composite material. At that point they will harden each layer of the composite with a special ultraviolet light. This will seamlessly bond the dental filling to the surrounding tooth enamel.
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Spinal Cord Injury Canada
In June, the Accessible Canada Act receives Royal Assent. The new law includes most of the recommendations from the Federal Accessibility Legislation Alliance.
Spinal Cord Injury Canada forms the Federal Accessibility Legislation Alliance where over 100 organizations and thousands of people with a broad range of disabilities collaborate to improve and strengthen Bill C-81 – the proposed Accessible Canada Act.
Spinal Cord Injury Canada leads the Canadian Access and Inclusion Project to present recommendations from people with a broad range of disabilities on what must be included in the legislation that would eventually become the Accessible Canada Act.
Canadian Paraplegic Association changes its name to Spinal Cord Injury Canada to better reflect the people we serve. When our organization was first established, few people with quadriplegia lived more than a few years.
Canadian Paraplegic Association holds its first Chair Leaders event on Parliament Hill that continues for several years.
The Lyndhurst Hospital Board of Directors approves the transfer of the hospital property and assets from the Canadian Paraplegic Association to the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. Assets were valued at $5.4 million.
Canadian Paraplegic Association begins years (until 2007) of international development in many countries including Cuba, Jamaica, Senegal and Guyana.
Douglas Mowat is named a Member of the Order of Canada for his work as a founder of the Canadian Paraplegic Association BC, which he led for 30 years as the Executive Director. He was also the first wheelchair user ever elected to a Canadian legislature and was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1983 to 1991.
Tony Mann, the Executive Director of the Canadian Paraplegic Association Manitoba, is named a Member of the Order of Canada. He was instrumental in the founding of the Western Division.
Donald E. Curren, Nova Scotia's Executive Director, is named a Member of the Order of Canada. Curren was known as "Mr. Paraplegic" because of his participation in the Paralympics, his love of wheelchair sport which he brought to the Atlantic region, and because he designed equipment for people with disabilities.
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario incorporates. The first Executive Director of the Ontario Division is hired in 1980. He was Kirby Rowe, an amazing advocate.Learn More
Dr. Harry Botterell becomes an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Pierre Gariepy, the first Executive Director of CPA Alberta, is named a Member of the Order of Canada.
Canadian Paraplegic Association Newfoundland and Labrador incorporates.
Led by Ken Langford and Andy Clarke, the ground breaks on the 106-bed Lyndhurst Hospital site, with a CPA approved research lab requested by Dr. Botterell.
John Counsell becomes an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Gustave Gingras is promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada. He establishes rehabilitation centres all around the world.
Dr. A.T. Jousse is named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Gustave Gingras, Medical Director of Ste. Anne de Bellevue and Queen Mary Veterans' Hospital in Montreal, is named an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was also a founder of the Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal.
John Counsell becomes a member of the Order of Canada. This is the first year of the award. The motto of the Order is: DESIDERANTES MELIOREM PATRIAM which means: “They desire a better country”.
Ken Langford becomes the Managing Director of the Canadian Paraplegic Association for the next 33 years.
In November 1964, CPA Saskatchewan incorporates. Read their historical corporation papers.Learn More
Canadian Paraplegic Association Alberta is incorporated.
At 8 years old, Edmond Derion is the youngest person to be admitted to Lyndhurst Lodge.
The Nova Scotia Division is founded by Donald E. Curren.
The Atlantic Division of the Canadian Paraplegic Association is established.
Canadian Paraplegic Association closes its office at Maple Leaf Gardens and moves to the newly renovated garage at Lyndhurst Lodge. The Maple Leaf Gardens office was arranged by Board Member Conn Smythe.
The key to Lyndhurst Lodge is handed to John Counsell by representatives of the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Lyndhurst Lodge is transfered to Canadian Paraplegic Association for one dollar.
Opened in 1919, Christie Street Military Hospital in Toronto closes and veterans move to the newly built Sunnybrook Hospital.
The Western Division of the Canadian Paraplegic Association had its first board meeting at Shaughnessy Hospital serving British Columbia and Alberta.
The first group of soldiers at Lyndhurst Lodge thank Dr. Jousse by buying him a car.
The first issue of The Caliper magazine is released.Learn More
The Central Western Division of the Canadian Paraplegic Association was formed at Deer Lodge Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Eastern Division formed in 1946 serving Quebec and Maritimes from Ste. Anne de Bellevue.
On May 10th, the Canadian Paraplegic Association receives its incorporation.
In March, Dr. Albin Jousse is hired as the Medical Director of Lyndhurst Lodge.Learn More
In February, Dr. Harry Botterell returns from No. 1 Neurological Hospital in Basingstoke, England to Toronto, Ontario to be the Chief of Neurosurgery at Christie Street Medical Hospital.
In January, Ken Langford is hit by a dropped high explosive and sustains a spinal cord injury near Wyler, Holland, He returns from the war in November to Christie Street Military Hospital and then on to Lyndhurst Lodge.Learn More
On January 16th, John Counsell, Arthur Hay, Joseph Wrangham, Jack Higman, Douglas Quirt, Edward Higginbottom and Andrew Clarke decide to incorporate the Canadian Paraplegic Association, now known as Spinal Cord Injury Canada.
On New Year's Day, Lyndhurst Lodge is purchased to become the world's first spinal cord injury rehabilitation centre. On January 15th, the first ten soldiers injured in WW II move into Lyndhurst Lodge.Learn More
Frustrated with the lack of information and support regarding his pension, John Counsell works with the Canadian Legion and the Veterans' Associations of Canada to press the government for change, leading to the creation of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
John Counsell moves to Toronto and reacquaints himself with family friend L.M. (Lew) Wood, one of the founders of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, National Society for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism Society.
John Counsell returns to Canada on the ship Lady Nelson. He is sent to the Montreal Neurological Institute. Here he meets Jimmy Darou and Peer Support begins. They become life-long friends.
John Counsell sustains a spinal cord injury on the beach in Dieppe. He is taken to No.1 Basingstoke Neurological Hospital where he meets Dr. Harry Botterell.Learn More
Dr. Botterell, as a Major with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, takes on the task to help other doctors from the Montreal Neurological Institute establish the Canadian Neurological Hospital in Basingstoke, England.
Dr. Harry Botterell travels from Toronto to Montreal to share with the Canadian Medical Association his success in working with patients with paralysis. He establishes himself as an up-and-coming expert in the spinal cord injury field.Learn More
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Dr. Slonges Vivens, grew up economically challenged in Haiti, she was driven to improve her place in life working a nursing home director/owner and mother, working on the forefront of healthcare entrepreneurship for over 40 years. She received her Doctorate from Voorhees College in Denmark, SC. She has lectured all over the United States. She is the author of “A Revelation: Walking Backwards into the Footsteps of St. Solange” and her new book “Girls Can Move Mountains.” Dr. Vivens is the Founder, CEO, and President of Centres D’Etudes Classique de Meyer Fund, USA, a non-profit that provides support and education to more than 300 children a year in Meyer, Jacmel, Haiti.
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Electronic supplementary materials The online edition of this content (doi:10.1186/s13321-014-0049-z) contains supplementary materials, which is open to certified users. the mind cortex and renal glomeruli, communicate COX-2 constitutively . The association between your inhibition of COX-2 in these organs with cardiovascular risk (CVH) was ratified in 2004 and 2005 [7,8]. These results led the united states Food and Medication Company (FDA) to get rofecoxib (Vioxx) and valdecoxib (Bextra) from the marketplace, and to consist of boxed warnings for all those selective COX-2 inhibitors. Higher threat of coronary attack and hypertension are also reported for nonselective NSAIDs, therefore highlighting that cardiovascular risk is probably not related to the amount of COX selectivity . In 2012, Yu exhibited that this cardiovascular risk hails from COX-2 inhibition by selective rather than selective NSAIDs and it is occurring in arteries. 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To day, various studies have already been released with the purpose of better understanding and predicting the strength of COX inhibitors on either COX-1 or COX-2 using molecular docking and QSAR versions [26-30]. Nonetheless, none of them of these research could integrate bioactivity info from multiple mammalian COX in the framework of an individual machine learning model. Considering that the bioactivity information of selective COX inhibitors GSK503 supplier on COX-1 and COX-2 are extremely uncorrelated, therefore showing high selectivity ratios [24,25], just a predictive model qualified on both chemical and the prospective space can concurrently forecast compound strength on the -panel of cyclooxygenases, aswell as to forecast the experience of confirmed compound on the however untested isoform. By doing so, new powerful, selective and secure COX inhibitors could possibly be found out. 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FireHost is a secure cloud company that protects the applications and data of organisations with the most stringent compliance needs in a bid to keep them safe from the latest threats and hacks being deployed by online criminals.
Protecting this data and the reputation of its customers is of paramount importance to FireHost and, to this end, the company claims to have blocked more than 100 million attacks in 2013 alone.
FireHost's IT security teams and partners have compiled a new attack report using real-life data from each and every one of the 100 million+ malicious hack attempts that FireHost blocked over the past year.
The results formed FireHost's Superfecta: Year in review report, a detailed analysis of hacker behaviour and the biggest IT security trends of 2013. We spoke to FireHost founder Chris Drake to find out more.
TechRadar Pro: What's the purpose of this report and why does FireHost publicise the data of its blocked attacks?
Chris Drake: FireHost is in a unique position to deliver both an accurate and comprehensive overview of cybercrime trends and we are working very closely with other leaders and innovative practitioners in the cybersecurity community to track, document and block attacks as soon as we encounter them.
It is one of the major reasons for producing the quarterly Superfecta report. By communicating all known instances of attacks to web applications, we are all able to better understand and respond to threats.
Cyber attacks may seem like random incidents at the time, but when you have the kind of malicious attack data that we have collected over the last year, you can begin to correlate these attack trends with 2013's biggest data breach stories – of which there were many.
TRP: What are the four 'Superfecta' attack types and what makes them so special?
CD: Although our report takes many different types of attack into account, the Superfecta consists of four distinct web-application attack types that we think pose the most serious threat to businesses.
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which he/she is currently authenticated.
Cross-site Scripting (XSS), the insertion of malicious code into webpages in order to manipulate website visitors. It is used by attackers for a range of reasons, from simply interfering with websites to launching phishing attacks against web users.
SQL Injection, the entering of malicious commands into URLs and text fields on websites that happen to be vulnerable, usually in an attempt to steal the contents of databases storing valuable data such as credit card details or usernames and passwords. This attack vector has been associated with many high profile data breaches.
Directory Traversal – A Path Traversal attack aims to access files and directories that are stored outside the web root folder.
TRP: According to your stats, what were the most popular or fastest growing attack types in 2013?
CD: 2013 was the year of Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection, with the first quarter of 2013 setting the tone for what was to come in the next 12 months.
Cross-Site Scripting was the most prevalent Superfecta attack type and it would continue to be so throughout the year, growing in popularity very slightly each quarter. SQL Injection attacks would follow a similar trend, increasing in volume substantially over quarters one, two and three.
TRP: Did you notice any new trends within the hacking community last year that the IT industry should be aware of?
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The AI-driven robot ‘Flippy,’ by Miso Robotics, is marketed as a kitchen assistant, rather than a replacement for professionally-trained teens that ponder the meaning of life — or what their crush looks like naked — while awaiting a kitchen timer’s signal that it’s time to flip the meat.
Flippy features a number of different sensors and cameras to identify food objects on the grill. It knows, for example, that burgers and chicken-like patties cook for a different duration. Once done, the machine expertly lifts the burger off the grill and uses its on-board technology to place it gently on a perfectly-browned bun.
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This term in science we have been learning about animals and their habitats. In class we learnt about grouping animals using their characteristics to classify them using the groups vertebrates or invertebrates.
Vertebrates are animals that have a backbone for example: cheetahs, penguins and polar bears. Whereas invertebrates are animals that don’t have a backbone such as; butterfly, starfish and slug.
We went to hunt for invertebrates in our school ground. As we were hunting, we were thinking about the specimens we were going to look for when locating invertebrates. We found lots of different invertebrates in our school ground including, lots of spiders, worms, slugs and snails. We had to be very careful with them and handle them very carefully as they are small. We used magnifying glasses to identify characteristics. After we carried out our investigation, we went back to class without invertebrate specimen to create a labelled diagram of our invertebrate.
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Chicago White Sox 1959: July 14-27When the Chicago White Sox (47-36, .566) began play on Tuesday, July 14, 1959, they sat in the second place in the American League standings. They trailed the Cleveland Indians (47-34, .580) by one game. Following the conclusion of games on Monday, July 27, 1959, the two teams were tied with 56-40 records.
The White Sox found themselves at Boston's Fenway Park for a three-game series planned for July 14 through July 16. Chicago took two of three against the Red Sox. Billy Pierce won his 10th game of 1959 in the series opener as the White Sox won, 7-3. John Romano belted his third home run of the season. Rain washed out play on Wednesday, so Thursday's matchup became a doubleheader. The White Sox won the first game of the doubleheader, 4-3. Dick Donovan notched his sixth win. With the score tied, 3-3, Sherm Lollar drove in the eventual game-winning run in the seventh inning with a double that plated Jim Landis. Boston won the second game of doubleheader, 5-4. Knotted at 4-4 in the bottom seventh inning, Vic Wertz singled to right and knocked in Marty Keough for the eventual winning run.
Following the series in Boston, the White Sox traveled to Yankee Stadium for four games against the New York Yankees. On Friday, July 17, the South Siders needed all nine innings to manage a 2-0 victory. Early Wynn logged his 12th win after pitching a complete-game shutout. Landis singled with one out and drove home Jim McAnany and Wynn. Wynn retired Norm Siebern, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra to close out the bottom of the ninth. On Saturday, the White Sox heroics happened earlier. Down 1-0 in the top of the fourth, McAnany hit a ground-rule double that scored Al Smith. Bob Shaw followed with a single that scored Billy Goodman. Bob Shaw picked up his ninth win while Don Larsen dropped his fifth. The two teams matched up for a doubleheader on Sunday, July 19. The Yankees claimed both with 6-2, and 6-4 scores. Barry Latman was tagged with his third loss in the opener as Whitey Ford won his 10th. Enos Slaughter finished the game 2-for-4 with four RBI. In the nightcap, Pierce's record dropped to 10-11. Mantle was 2-for-4 with three RBI. He belted his 20th of the season.
After enjoying an off day on July 20, the White Sox welcomed the Red Sox to Comiskey Park. With the score tied, 1-1, in the bottom of the seventh inning, Landis singled to drive home Luis Aparicio. The South Siders won, 2-1. On July 22, the White Sox needed all nine innings to pull off a 5-4 win. With the score tied, 4-4, in the home half of the ninth, Lollar singled off of Murray Wall and drove home Nellie Fox. The White Sox swept the Red Sox out of Chicago with a 5-4 win. The series finale scheduled for July 23 was rained out and would eventually be played on Thursday, August 27.
As the Red Sox left Comiskey Park, the Baltimore Orioles moved in. The four-game series began on July 24 with a 2-1 White Sox win. The Orioles took a 1-0 lead into the eighth inning. Fox's triple in the bottom of the eighth scored McAnany to even the score. Smith's solo home run off of Hoyt Wilhelm in the bottom of the ninth proved to be the game winner. Chicago managed late inning heroics on Friday, but the had even later magic on Saturday. With the game knotted at 2-2 after 16 innings, Harry Simpson singled off of Billy Loes to score pinch runner Sammy Esposito. Turk Lown, who pitched six scoreless innings in relief, earned his seventh win of the season. On Sunday, the two teams split a doubleheader. Chicago claimed the opener, 4-1. Smith finished the game 1-for-4 with three RBI courtesy of an inside-the-park homer off of Arnie Portocarrero. In the nightcap, Milt Pappas blanked the Sox and earned his 11th win of the season. Gene Woodling was 2-for-4 with all four of the game's RBI.
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Massage treatment may be treatment that needs the employment of fingers to manipulate the smooth tissue from the physique. Massage therapy procedures does apply by arms, hand, convenience, control and hip and legs toes or simply a mechanised system. The primary goal of therapeutic massage is usually with the relief of pain or physique pressure. Normally, therapeutic massage has been utilized for centuries to be a restorative therapy and is also getting increasing popularity in the industry.
The purpose of massage treatment is always to present long-term enjoyment reaction. Massage boosts circulation of blood, boosts the lymphatic system drainage is critical, gives physical activation, and boosts ability to move. Once the muscle groups are manipulated during a restorative massage program, it can help to ease muscular pressure. The increased blood circulation and greater lymphatic system drainage provide muscle tissue an increasingly calm result. Therapeutic massage also reduces infection.
anxiety and Stress are often associated with symptoms for instance headaches, chest tightness, lowered intellectual alertness, enhanced soreness building up a tolerance, frustration, and low energy. Stress usually accompanies thoughts of low energy, which include issues concentrating, in order to relax, and inner thoughts of intensive despair. This sense result in website visitors to be a lesser amount of productive and may also trigger illnesses. Accomplishing a state of pleasure result lowers lowers and strain anxiety. Massage has been seen as to be an affordable way to master emotional increase and symptoms bodily negative effects of panic and anxiety.
After a therapeutic massage time, massage experienced counselors implement pressure towards the various parts of our body. Both your hands of the masseuse will normally function the shoulder area, neck and back and thighs. The massage therapist could also use massage therapy ointment, oil and products andFor eachor temperature on these body parts to achieve a desired peace response. These vital natural oils are often picked depending on the persons requirements.
In relation to attaining a peace response, some people purely go with full body immersion by means of rub methods. Other individuals ought to work their way via certain massage therapy ways to obtain a good leisure answer. One of the most favorite and effective relaxation strategies is the Swedish massage. Swedish restorative massage uses slowly, delicate strokes and long, flowing moves to chill your muscle mass and comfortable tissues of your physique. Due to its sluggish, constant rate, this particular restorative massage can be very tranquilizing and pleasurable for all concerned.
A further everyday sort of massage therapy is shiatsu massage treatment. Shiatsu counselors usually usekids finger and give, and hand pressure to assist in treating the different parts of the smooth tissues surrounding the client's physique. This particular massage treatment is normally employed to address sports injuries, like golf knee, tendinitis, bursitis, etcetera. Occasionally, Shiatsu rub experienced counselors likewise use other rub tactics, such as acupressure and Remedial massage, to increase take it easy the customer.
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Therapeutic massage may perhaps seem like a stress-free, fantastic way to strengthen your body loosen up, but usually there are some important things you have to know ahead of having rub. Since restorative massage can loosen up muscle groups and tender tissue, you must not possess a sudden wrenching action in the course of any massage therapy treatment. Should your psychologist can be applied an excessive amount of strain on a massage treatment process, he or she could lead to difficulties for a number of your comfortable tissue, muscle tissues, plantar fascia and bones or structures. You must also be sure that you have the ability to thoroughly long term contract your entire muscle tissue, in addition to your bigger muscular tissues, just before getting any rub. Ultimately, while you are lying down using a family table or perhaps a base while wearing therapeutic massage, it is best to be as nonetheless as it can be to avoid a feasible cases.
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Where we find new old books, chapter 2: a new 15th century fragment joins a fragmentary history
Around a month ago Liza DeBlock (one of our MLitt in Book History students) pulled from the shelf this very interesting book during her regularly scheduled bibliography lab hours:
This third edition of Keckermann’s Systema Logicae was a nice find, with loads of contemporary and 19th century provenance to trace after assembling the bibliographical record (see below); however, as I was peering over her shoulder to check her work I was drawn to the pastedowns (both front and back):
The type, the mis-en-page, the copious abbreviations throughout the text on these fragments immediately threw up incunabula red flags; this had to be leaves from a 15th century book! But, where to begin? There was very little hint on the fragments to tell us what this text might be, no running-titles or even very few un-abbreviated words in the text to try some good old-fashioned keyword searching; the frustrating fact that these two leaves were from the middle of what looked to be quite a long book meant that there was very little to go on. I spent a full afternoon with my Cappelli in-hand pulling out three- and four-word phrases to try to find a possible match for the text which would then help in identifying potential editions. This resulted in absolutely no finds at all; this text was too dense or too obscure for this kind of matching.
My next step was to put a call out for help to Dr Falk Eisermann, Referatsleiter of the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) in Berlin and general incunabula-guru, who immediately got back to me with the supposition that it was probably English and most certainly 15th century, but a very odd type. One of his staff, Martina Nickel, did some quick work and narrowed down the field to only one likely candidate, based on the fact that this was probably English, a 32-line page, inclusive of at least a signature “y” and heavily abbreviated philosophical text: a fragmentary witness of the 1481/2 St Albans printing of Antonius Andreae’s Scriptum in logica sua (GW 1673 & ISTC ia00593500). This was rather exciting news, as St Andrews isn’t exactly flush with 15th century books printed in England; in fact, this discovery would increase our English incunabula holdings by 25%!
This got everyone excited, and the next step was to confirm these two leaves against a complete copy. According to ISTC, the only complete copy of this work recorded is, in a rather quirky turn of history, held at Norwich Public Library (all other copies listed as “fragments” or “imperfect”). Now, this was admittedly a misstep on this bibliographer’s part: had I taken the extra step to check the ESTC record for this book I would have seen that not only is Jesus College, Cambridge’s copy of this work nearly complete (instead of the ISTC red flag of “imperfect”) and that the catalogue record for their copy was exceptionally complete (which was, I later found out, done by Liam Sims, now of the Rare Books Department of the CUL), but that ESTC also linked through to an EEBO scan of the Jesus College copy. However, “hindsight is always 20/20” and all that, I chose to instead get in touch with Norwich Public Library to see if I could find someone sympathetic to my cause and help me get a positive match of our two newly discovered leaves.
After some phone hurdle-jumping, I was finally put in touch with the wonderful Clare Agate who, admittedly very inexperienced when it came to 15th century books, enthusiastically agreed to search their copy for a match to some images I sent along. Again, within a few hours, Clare came back to me to confirm that our leaf y3 matched their leaf exactly, and that our other leaf (now used as a rear paste-down) was the recto of leaf y5. Armed with this knowledge we could now set out to enter our newest incunabula into our online catalogue, and to also record our copy’s individual history into the Material Evidence in Incunabula database (in progress). Here’s a quick canned history of how this book, printed in 1606 in Germany, came to be the vessel in which these very rare leaves have survived:
This third edition of Keckermann’s work was printed in Hanau in 1606. In 1607, a 17 year-old Edward Meetkerke purchased this book, most likely in Oxford, and had it bound there (***update: the emblem stamp in blind used on both boards has been identified by Dr David Rundle @DrDavidRundle as a match to plate xxxiv in David Pearson’s Oxford Bookbinding 1500-1640) and it was at this time that these two 15th century leaves, which had probably been purchased in bulk as waste-paper for packing bindings, were added to this work. This book passed to his son, Adolphus (whose signature “AMetkerke” is found on the back pastedown, or y5 of our new incunabula), who was also an Oxford man. The next clear mark of ownership is the signature of “HL Mansel” on the front pastedown, this being Henry Longueville Mansel, professor in Aristotelean (and other) philosophy at Magdalen College and later dean of St Paul’s; this book very well could have remained in Oxford since its original purchase in 1607.
Mansel’s books were auctioned off by Sotheby’s in 1872, a year after his death, and sure enough (with humongous thanks to Jeremy Dibbell for pointing the way and Julie Blyth at the Library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford for checking their copy of the sale catalogue!) this work can be found at lot 1090, with mention to Meetkerke’s inscription. The final mark of provenance found in this volume is the combination of an old pressmark at the head of the title page (yy17.35) and a faint pencil inscription on the verso of the title page “Pattison 10d”.
At first, I though this mark was too cryptic to decipher, I tried a few searches across authority records and historic pressmarks, but was striking out, until yesterday, by complete chance, Liza happened to pull another book for cataloguing with the same pencil markings but also with a most helpful booklabel of “M. Pattison Linc. Coll. Oxon” and with an embossed book stamp on title page “Mark Pattison Lincolc College Oxon.”, clearly from the collection of Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. With some quick Twitter-based help of Bob McLean (@bob_mclean) and Edmund Brumfitt (@ebrumfitt) a catalogue of the Pattison sale (Sotheby’s, Wilkinson & Hodge 27 July 1885) was found.
How these two 15th century leaves came to survive as waste makes for some intriguing supposition as well. We know that this collection of philosophical works by Antonius Andreae, numbering over 330 leaves, was the longest book printed in St Albans by the “schoolmaster printer” and one of two works on Aristotle issued by the press. It was also posited in 1924 by Charles Henry Ashdown that the press at St Albans not only serviced the needs of the Abbey and School in town, but also the book-needs of the students of Cambridge. Whatever the case, it is clear that this work by Andreae was heavily read and digested by its readers: all copies recorded and seen for this post bear contemporary marks of readership and the extant state of copies (see census below), almost completely fragmentary and having been removed from bindings, illustrates the digestable nature of this particular edition (several later 15th century editions of Andreae’s work were published on the continent, but no others in England). Clearly, at some point in the 16th century, copies of this book were pulped and sold as waste-sheets and made their way into late 16th and 17th century bindings, in which the largest number of witnesses to copies of this unique edition have survived.
In order to obtain a clear picture of the state of all extant copies of the St Albans edition of Scriptum in logica sua, I canvassed the libraries that have reported their holdings to either ISTC or ESTC for images of their fragments, and below is a near-complete census of all extant copies of this edition.
CENSUS of GW 1673 & ISTC ia00593500: Antonius Andreae. Scriptum in logica sua. [St Albans: Schoolmaster Printer, 1481/2]
- Norwich Public Library: Ca32 – only complete copy recorded;
- Jesus College, Cambridge: 3.49 – nearly complete copy, wanting leaves a1 and a3;
- Wadham College, Oxford (unseen): Unknown classmark – apparently nearly complete copy, wanting all of gathering “L”;
- Cambridge University Library: Fragments.3 – 28 leaves, or fragments of leaves, extracted from a binding: leaves z(2,4,5,7), [et](2,4,5,7), [con](2,4,5,7), [3 lines](2,4,5,7), est(2,4,5,7), E(2,7), L(1,2,7,8) and M(1,8);
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique: INC B 396 – fragmentary, 14 leaves only: D1, D3, [D6]; E4, [E5]; F2, F4, [F5], [F7]; G1, G3, [G6]; H2, [H7];
- University of St Andrews: r17 BC40.K4C6 – fragmentary, 2 leaves only: y3 and y5;
- Merton College, Oxford: MER 111.E.29 – fragmentary, removed from a 16th century binding in 1918, 1 leaf only: u5.
The fate of at least three copies of this book, being used as binding waste on later works, hints at the fact that there are surely other leaves and fragments lurking in 16th and 17th century bindings within historic collections, waiting to be identified and perhaps paired up with their long-lost edition-mates.
The importance of the unearthing of this new fragmentary witness of an obscure 15th century book may seem small, but the recording of the presence of another copy of any early printed book has an impact on the perception of how individual copies of an edition circulated and how a work may have risen and fallen out of fashion over the centuries. Cataloguers and bibliographers often do not have the time and resources to identify random pastedown or waste fragments found in the books they are working on; but, if we take the time to ask around, and, with a little help from our friends (cheers, Joe Cocker), we may just find something truly special.
To that end:
The identification of our newly uncovered fragments, and the above census would not have been possible without the support of the wide library and antiquarian bookselling network which made itself available through e-mail and Twitter. Special thanks go to Dr Falk Eisermann and his team (GW), Clare Agate (Norwich Public Library), Dr Emily Dourish and Liam Sims (Cambridge University Library), Dr Julia Walworth (Merton College, Oxford), Karin Pairon (KBR), Julie Blyth (Corpus Christi College, Oxford), Jeremy Dibbell (University of Virginia, @JBD1), Bob McLean (University of Glasgow, @bob_mclean) and Edmund Brumfitt (@ebrumfitt).
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Answer this question: In this current real estate market, is it worth it to buy a home, or is renting more cost-efficient?
Buying a home has different benefits and drawbacks depending on where you are in your journey. Let’s look at the data, and hopefully, it helps you make an informed decision.
You should check out this article from the Wall Street Journal. It’s titled “Is It Better to Rent or Buy? What to Do in a Hot Housing Market,” and I love how it goes into detail about the statistics they present.
It starts with a graph of rent and home prices of different metros from 2019 to February 2022. It compares the single-family rent index and home price index data from CoreLogic.
There are two things I will look for here:
I’m looking for areas that are going to give me a return on my investment if I’m going to rent.
This article is by Will Parker and Nate Rattner, and I think they did a great job.
According to WSJ, “home buyers will need to wait longer for their investments to pay off than they would have before the pandemic.”
If you are in the market looking to buy real estate, consider how long you will be staying in that home, because that will dictate if buying a home is going to be worth it.
“For this analysis, breaking even is when the estimated net costs of having owned that home match the estimated costs of having rented a typical home over the same period,” the article says.
And, since the housing market is on-demand, “a hot housing market has increased the time it takes to break even on the upfront costs of buying a home, after which owning becomes a better financial choice than renting,” according to WSJ.
They presented a graph titled “Years it takes to break even on a median-price home purchase, before the pandemic vs. now.” For most metros on the graph, it takes more years to reach the breakeven point now, than before the pandemic, except for Miami, which is an outlier market.
“In Austin, Texas, for example, a person buying a median-priced home and putting 10% cash down with a 30-year, 5% fixed-rate mortgage, wouldn’t be able to sell the home and break-even for an estimated 5.6 years. That’s up from 3.7 years to break even before the pandemic when compared with the cost of renting over the same period. In Miami, an outlier market where asking rents have risen faster than home prices, it will take less time to break even, moving down from 2.5 years before the pandemic to 2.3 years now,” according to WSJ.
Also, the article says, “The math looks a lot better for homeowners on the other side of the break-even point, however. After eight years of owning in Austin, the buyer at the time of sale would be up to $30,000, compared with renting; after 10 years, $55,000; and after 15 years, nearly $140,000.”
Now, here are a few things I want you to know.
Remember that you need to stay in a home for at least two years if you don’t want to pay some taxes. So, if you are buying a house as your primary residence, and you think you might sell it in less than two years because prices went up so much, maybe you should reconsider. The tax you’ll be paying for a primary residence if you are single is $250,000, and if married, $500,000.
Also, remember that real estate is cyclical and regional. The longer you stay in a home, the more it pays off because you are playing into the cyclical game. According to studies from First American, Redfin, and NAR, the average number of years people stay in their homes is now up 13 years because of the pandemic.
And if you check this graph, it shows the financial cost and benefit to buyers if they sell after a certain number of years, and the number of years it takes to break even.
These are some of the data you need to look for when deciding on whether to buy real estate in an area or not.
“The 10% down payment, which Tomo says is typical of its users, is higher than what many first-time buyers look to pay, especially those who take advantage of Federal Housing Administration financing that allows down payments of as low as 3.5%,” says WSJ.
Here’s the concern though. As prices go up (and it doesn’t seem to be coming down any time soon), and consumers need to pay a little more because of higher interest rates, if anything breaks [in the home] this is what would most likely happen:
“‘If you’re suddenly looking at 40% of your monthly income going into your home payment, and we have inflation at 8.5%…you’re one water heater away from missing a mortgage payment,’ said Rick Sharga, executive vice president of market intelligence at housing research company Attom Data Solutions,” according to the WSJ article.
That’s a little scary, and that’s the thing you have to think of before buying a home.
If you plan to stay there long-term, buying a home is more profitable for you the longer you stay there. I’m talking more than 5.7 to 13 years.
However, “a 30% increase in the rent this past fall was a major motivator in what became a monthslong hunt for a home to buy,” according to WSJ.
A few weeks ago, Fortune released an article called “This is not the 2008 housing bubble all over again—but a little-known metric can tell us when the next crash is coming.”
And this is what it says: “The problem comes when prices get out of line with rents, jumping so high that families can lease similar properties at monthly payments much lower than what they’d shoulder as owners.”
Pinto says, according to that article, that the interplay between rent and home prices is something like this: when houses get too expensive compared to rental properties, more people choose to rent. This raises rental prices [due to demand] and lowers home prices until it reaches a balance.
That’s what we have to pay attention to. The WSJ article is so important because it shows us the breakeven point for owners.
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Two in three of the 950,000 beneficiaries will be women, reinforcing the NMW’s positive role in narrowing the gender pay gap.
The union body also claims the increase in the minimum wage should benefit the public finances by over £100m, with workers paying £58m more in income tax and national insurance and the government saving £44m on tax credits and in-work benefits.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: “The raise is a modest one but it will put extra cash in the pockets of some of the UK’s most low paid workers. The Low Pay Commission was right to withstand pressure from business to freeze the minimum wage during the recession.”
Today’s 1.2% increase in the NMW (from £5.73 to £5.80) will be the tenth increase since it was introduced in April 1998.
Over the last decade the NMW has increased by 61.1%, compared to a 52.1% growth in average earnings and a 34.9% increase in the Retail Price Index (excluding housing costs) over the same period.
Read more about the NMW from XpertHR, including a detailed overview of changes and future developments. Next year the threshold for the adult rate falls from age 22 to 21.
Barber said: “This is a real success for unions in sectors where staff rely on tips. They have campaigned hard for some much-needed transparency in a very murky system.
“It’s vital tipping and payment policy are clear to both workers and consumers.”
For an in-depth look at these and other employment law changes starting today read the Personnel Today employment law changes feature.
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What is the difference between a divorce lawyer and a mediator?
- What is the difference between a divorce lawyer and a mediator?
- 8 Benefits of Mediation
- Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
- The advantages of mediation in settling – family disagreements
- The family mediation procedure
- The advantages of family mediation
- Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
- What Does Mediation Cost?
- Child Mediation London – Resolution Specialists
- Exactly how to Plan for Your Very First Mediation Session
- Are you in urgent need of a MIAM? Look no further! We’ve helped 1000s of satisfied clients
- Family Mediation FAQ
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8 Benefits of Mediation
The procedure of mediation is a directed settlement, which parties attempt to work out a resolution of their dispute, helped by a mediator. Resolving disputes via mediation can save money, eases the court tons and typically it leaves celebrations in a much better frame of mind. There are a variety of other considerable benefits of mediation and also they consist of:
- Greater Control. Mediation raises the control the events have over the resolution. Each party are straight involved in discussing their own agreement and also no settlement can be imposed upon you. In contrast, frustration is often experienced in court where parties have little option but to approve the reasoning made, which they may not be happy with.
- Its personal. Unlike the potential publicity of court procedures, whatever said at the mediation is entirely confidential to the events (unless specifically agreed or else).
- Its voluntary. Any type of party may take out at any time.
- Comfort. The mediation is set up at a venue hassle-free to the parties, that each have their very own area as well as a separate space for joint meetings. The Mediator pays attention to every person’s view, speak with the celebrations independently and also together, leading them in the direction of a settlement.
- Lowered Prices. Generally the expense is significantly lowered in contrast with attempting to work out the matter via court. Conventional litigation is really costly as well as the overall expense is extremely unforeseeable.
- Faster end result. Since mediation can be used very early in a dispute, an agreement can typically be reached quicker than if going after via the courts.
- Assistance. Mediators are trained in dealing with tight spots. The mediator serves as a neutral facilitator and also sustains each party through the procedure.
- Conservation of Relationships. Whether is may be a company or family dispute, conservation of connections can be an essential benefit of mediation. Mediation assists participants concentrate on efficiently communicating with each other rather than attacking each other.
Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
The advantages of mediation in settling – family disagreements
Today notes the end of family mediation week. In this blog site we summaries the mediation procedure as well as, as considered in our historical blog sites, examine the vital advantages of mediation and other approaches of dispute resolution as a means of dealing with the sensible arrangements adhering to splitting up.
The family mediation procedure
Phone call – mediation generally starts with the mediator having a brief preliminary telephone call with each of the parties. The objective of this phone call is to talk to the events concerning the mediation procedure and also consider individually with them whether there are any kind of problems which would certainly mean that mediation is not ideal.
Individual meetings – following the preliminary telephone calls, the mediator will certainly have a meeting with each party separately (this is typically called a Mediation Information Evaluation Fulfilling (MIAM)) to go over the history briefly as well as explain a bit much more concerning the mediation process. The first conferences are personal and so the web content will certainly not be reviewed with the various other celebration.
Joint conference – following the specific conferences, if the parties desire to proceed with mediation, they will certainly arrange a joint session with the mediator. The initial meeting is used to undergo the Agreement to Mediate kind, manage any kind of acting or pressing problems as well as to set the schedule for future sessions.
Further joint meetings – the emphasis of future meetings will depend on the problems the events wish to cover but this will generally include discussion around the arrangements for the youngsters complied with by a review of the events’ economic disclosure and an expedition of possible financial settlement.
In case an agreement is reached, the mediator can record the relevant info and decisions in a number of papers called:
Open Financial Statement- this records the events’ monetary information as laid out in the monetary disclosure provided. This is an open as opposed to without prejudice file.
Memorandum of Understanding- this documents the conversations in mediation and also the overall choices got to. This is a without prejudice document as well as can not be divulged in any kind of court proceedings.
Parenting Plan- this records the arrangements for the youngsters as well as any other issues moms and dads wish to document in regard of the day to day treatment of their youngsters.
Any type of agreement gotten to in mediation is not legally binding up until the events have had independent legal advice on it. As soon as this has taken place, one of the celebration’s legal representatives will typically transform the Memorandum of Understanding into an order which can be lodged at court for approval by a court.
The advantages of family mediation
There are a number of advantages to the mediation procedure, several of which are laid out below. Mediation is wrong for everyone and the mediator as well as a party’s own solicitor will certainly think about any type of problems which may make mediation hard or inappropriate. The benefits include:
The mediator will urge the parties to set the schedule and confirm what they want to cover in mediation. You can resolve matters vital to your own family as well as those which might not or else matter in a court procedure.
Mediation sessions can be arranged for a time and area practical to you and also the mediator. You pick the length of time between sessions and also manage its speed. You won’t need to wait months for the following day as can occur in a court process, as well as just as you can guarantee you each have adequate time to look at economic disclosure and also assess tips made.
Choices got to in mediation can be customized to fit your family. This is in comparison to court enforced choices where the court might not have the power to impose comparable setups or has disliked the subtlety of why a particular pointer might be much better.
When a decision is made together in mediation, it is extra most likely that events will be content with and stick to it. Mediation is developed to advertise communication as well as an on-going co-parenting partnership.
Privacy – mediation is an exclusive as well as personal process which indicates that parties are motivated to be open regarding choices they intend to consider. This typically causes celebrations making suggestions they would certainly hesitate to make in court process. For high profile clients, it is likewise a means of maintaining details of your connection out of the general public eye.
Prices and rate – if effective, mediation can be cheaper and also quicker than court procedures. By establishing the agenda and selecting the number of sessions you have, events have much more control over the process than when they are part of court procedures. The mediator will certainly additionally handle the process and make certain that mediation does not continue if it is ineffective or making matters worse.
Although family mediation has actually remained in emphasis today with #FamilyMediationweek, in ideal cases it can supply an indispensable way of resolving family disagreements properly and also agreeably and it should be something that is motivated all year.
Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
What Does Mediation Cost?
If you are eligible for lawful aid, family mediation will be complimentary. If your companion has legal help for family mediation, you will be charged just for the 2nd and also any type of succeeding mediation sessions- the info and also analysis conference, as well as first mediation session will be totally free for you, too.
If you have to spend for mediation, ask your FMC Registered Mediator what their costs are when you initially call them. You might intend to telephone a couple of local mediators to compare charges, as these can vary.
As an overview, FMC Registered Mediators charge an average of ₤ 140 each per hour for mediation sessions and drafting documentation, yet this will certainly vary depending upon the where in the nation the mediator is based, as well as the sort of issues you require to talk about.
At the very first meeting (frequently called a MIAM), the mediator will certainly let you know if they assume you may get legal help. Mediators who have an agreement to supply Lawful Aid will be able to execute an official evaluation. You can find an FMC Registered Mediator who supplies legal aid by browsing right here.
The mediator will additionally be able to provide you an extra precise quote of just how much mediation is most likely to cost (based on the variety of sessions that the mediator believes that you will certainly require to get to an agreement), and the price of drafting any necessary documents.
Can I obtain legal aid?
If you’re on a reduced revenue, you might be able to get lawful aid to aid spend for several of:
- The Mediation Details & Evaluation Satisfying (MIAM).
- Mediation sessions.
Legal aid in support for mediation.
If your case isn’t ideal for mediation, in some situations you might get legal help for other kind of lawful help.
Legal help may be readily available to one or both of you, and each person will be assessed individually. Even if only one person can get legal aid, the cost for the MIAM and the cost of the initial complete mediation session will be covered for both individuals.
Child Mediation London – Resolution Specialists
Exactly how to Plan for Your Very First Mediation Session
We have actually gone over in this blog whether you must or shouldn’t make use of mediation, what it is, just how it can assist, etc. Let’s presume that you have actually determined to go through with the procedure. Where do you begin? Divorce Mediator Michelle Nix recently shared these 8 points you ought to do before your initial mediation session, and we intend to share them below with you:
- Bring arranged monetary records. This consists of a checklist of your assets, equilibriums of your savings account, retirement funds, etc. For your debts, you need to understand the equilibrium as well as regular monthly payment of each. Bring proof of all accounts and also financial obligations. Try making a spread sheet to keep your assets/debts organized.|For your financial obligations, you need to know the equilibrium as well as monthly payment of each. Bring evidence of all accounts and debts.}
- Obtain your feelings controlled. This is NOT the time to be hurtful, vicious, rude, and so on. A successful mediation will be carried out in one of the most favorable light that both parties can bring.
- Prepare to work out, not suggest. Arguing is not going to get either event anywhere. Allow the mediator assistance you work out.
- You can ask to speak privately with the mediator. If you have problems that you can’t cooperate front of your partner, you have alternatives. Do not let that obtain the best of you, however rather, ask to speak with your mediator individually.
- Select a qualified attorney to advise you. Choose a family divorce lawyer who will certainly have your best interest in mind as well as totally understands your goals is having a brief, cost-effective stress-free divorce procedure.
- Plan a spending plan. If you do not know how much cash you need and also just how much you spend, it will certainly be hard to have a solid understanding of what you’re negotiating for.
- Discover your rights/obligations. Inform on your own on the procedure. Your attorney ought to have the ability to help you in coming to be knowledgeable about what you’re going through as well as what you need to be familiar with.
- Put your issues on the table. You could do this in writing, as a matter of fact, it’s recommended. Even if you’re not wanting to say doesn’t imply you should not include a checklist of points that you strongly believe you should not back down from. | <urn:uuid:b4d6c8e3-1386-4625-a503-50d6246b9629> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capitolfamilymediation.co.uk/what-is-the-difference-between-a-divorce-lawyer-and-a-mediator/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.962485 | 2,597 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Tribute to a US pioneer
J. P. is short for John Peter, and the name Fendt has gone down in American Church history. Today John Peter Fendt would have celebrated his 125th birthday. Here is a portrait in tribute of a pioneer.
His parents had him baptised John Peter. He was born on 3 March 1896 in New York and grew up, as he later wrote, in one of the slums of the city. Poverty and thriftiness were guests in the Fendt home for decades. The parents lived a simple life. They were careful and diligent people, as they had been taught back in Germany, where they had lived and grown-up before emigrating to the New World. In New York the young family lived near Pastor Hoppe’s German Lutheran church. For Mother Fendt it was important that the two boys, Charles and John, receive a good German Sunday School education. Years later they learned that the said pastor, Heinrich Ferdinand Hoppe, had been travelling throughout the country and evangelising as one of the founding Apostles in the early apostolic history of the USA.
A life for the Lord
In 1899 Father Fendt came into contact with some New Apostolic members who encouraged him to attend a divine service. This service obviously impressed him so much that he expressed the wish to become New Apostolic with his whole family. The whole family was sealed on 11 March 1900. Father Fendt was a Priest in the congregation in New York for many years. His son was to follow him soon.
When John Peter was 16 years old, he had made a vow to God. The boys’ mother was seriously ill and, as children often do, the worried son prayed to God and promised that he would dedicate his life to Him if only their mother lived. Their mother recovered and reached the blessed age of 104 years. Her son John kept his promise and faithfully served the Lord. In September 1917 Apostle Friedrich Eduard Mierau ordained him a Deacon for the congregation of New York. Only two years later, he was already a Priest and rector of the newly founded congregation Astoria/New York.
The greatest day
In the meantime, John Peter had gotten married. The couple had two sons and two daughters. One of the sons was John William, who also worked as an Apostle from 1967 to 1996. Until John P. Fendt began to work for the Church full time, he held a senior position at the New York Telephone Company. And then there was his ordination as a Bishop on 17 September 1933 by the then District Apostle John Erb. This day, he reported, was the greatest day of the New Apostolic Church in the USA: about one thousand members had gathered in the Casino Hall at 86th Street. The District Apostle sealed 96 new members and ordained 23 ministers. On the evening of that same day, the District Apostle conducted another service in Philadelphia, which was attended by 300 participants. In that service, 29 souls were sealed and three men were ordained.
Apostle ministry and responsibility
Then came the year 1942: on 22 October 1942 District Apostle John Erb passed away. For the Church in America it was a painful loss. Assistant Chief Apostle Schlaphoff initially took over the reins, but then entrusted the district to Bishop Fendt on 2 July 1944 by mandate of the Chief Apostle. He entrusted him with the Apostle ministry and at the same time appointed him as District Apostle for the Apostle District North America. The months and years to come would prove to be exhausting and involved a great deal of travelling and untiring pastoral care efforts. This would go on for 22 years. He served the Lord faithfully until 1966. He always hoped in God’s help, had true faith in his Sender, and was one with his brothers so that his work was visibly blessed. When he retired on 10 July 1966, he had been a minister in the Church for 49 years. At the time he took over as District Apostle in the USA, the New Apostolic Church counted 6,000 members. At his retirement the membership was 18,000.
A name that will not be forgotten
Twelve years later, on 17 April 1978, the retired District Apostle John P. Fendt passed away after a serious illness. The name Fendt remains unforgettable. John P. Fendt was District Apostle; his son, J. W. Fendt, District Apostle Helper; and his grandson, John W. Fendt Jr., is active as a District Apostle Helper to this day. | <urn:uuid:e4a48e89-f623-4ae3-bf97-94946394d9d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nac.today/en/a/911768 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.98988 | 939 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Peripheral insulin acts on the brain to regulate metabolic functions, in particular decreasing food intake and body weight. This concept has been supported by studies in humans relying on the intranasal route of administration, a method that permits the direct permeation of insulin into the CNS without substantial absorption into the blood stream. We investigated if intranasal insulin administration before nocturnal sleep, a period of reduced metabolic activity and largely absent external stimulation, affects food intake and energy turnover on the subsequent morning. Healthy participants who were either young (16 men and 16 women; mean age ± SEM, 23.68 ± 0.40 years, mean BMI ± SEM, 22.83 ± 0.33 kg/m2) or elderly (10 men, 9 women; 70.79 ± 0.81 years, 25.27 ± 0.60 kg/m2) were intranasally administered intranasal insulin (160 IU) or placebo before a night of regular sleep that was polysomnographically recorded. Blood was repeatedly sampled for the determination of circulating glucose, insulin, leptin and total ghrelin. In the morning, energy expenditure was assessed via indirect calorimetry and subjects were offered a large standardized breakfast buffet from which they could eat ad libitum. Insulin compared to placebo reduced breakfast size by around 110 kcal (1,054.43 ± 50.91 vs. 1,162.36 ± 64.69 kcal, p = 0.0095), in particular decreasing carbohydrate intake (502.70 ± 25.97 vs. 589.82 ± 35.03 kcal, p = 0.0080). This effect was not dependent on sex or age (all p > 0.11). Sleep architecture, blood glucose and hormonal parameters as well as energy expenditure were not or only marginally affected. Results show that intranasal insulin administered to healthy young and elderly humans before sleep exerts a delayed inhibitory effect on energy intake that is not compensated for by changes in energy expenditure. While the exact underlying mechanisms cannot be derived from our data, findings indicate a long-lasting catabolic effect of central nervous insulin delivery that extends across sleep and might be of particular relevance for potential therapeutic applications. | <urn:uuid:9a252769-150a-4123-8631-cec9efcdb02d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.camntech.com/publications/central-nervous-insulin-administration-before-nocturnal-sleep-decreases-breakfast-intake-in-healthy-young-and-elderly-subjects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932238 | 451 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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For exemplar, your customers might book and pay for their tour on-line, using e-commerce platforms. free Independent Travellers ( FIT ) This is a bit of a contentious one, we found 6 slightly different definitions in our search alone ! Regardless of whether the F stands for Free, Foreign or Fully, the underlying definition is the same : FIT ’ south are people who want a bespoke travel guidebook ( this varies from a approximate sketch to fully booked ) and they are not in a group tour. fragmentation globalization has meant that travellers are able to shop around for the cheapest rate and generator their trip from multiple different suppliers. Read more about travel diligence fragmentation here. Famil far from researching everything that there is to know about every destination in the universe, travel agents frequently go on famils. This is a scouting trip ; to be able to give some insider cognition about the destinations they are sending their customers to. 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Inbound Tour Operator A tour operator based in a specific finish country who plans itineraries and organises travel arrangements or conducts tours for travellers based elsewhere. Joint Fare Travellers much want to stop over in a transportation system nation to refresh when taking long-haul flights. The second flight of their travel may be with a unlike airline that fits in with their travel times and needs. The Joint Fare is the menu for both of these flights combined. KK Carrier Confirmed. An abbreviation used when booking airline tickets. Low Season Travel besides called off-peak travel, certain destinations are less democratic during different times of the year ( think of a tropical island in the middle of the showery season ). Often, rates besides drop during these times – see thwart season price
Luxury Tour operator These tour operators work with much high web worth customers who are looking for a luxury holiday for them or their family. Their travel plans may include secret yachts, helicopters or exclusive, VIP experiences – the sky ’ s the specify. markup A supplier may increase their rate at a prison term in which there is a higher demand for their offering. For example, flights and accommodation in a popular finish will increase during school breaks where there are lots of families travelling. market segment Identifying a commercialize segment is an ideal way to make sure that your offer is being marketed to and attracting the right type of customers. This is particularly important for recess tour operators who may specialise in adventure tourism in Canada for under 30 ’ sulfur for example. net income pace The price of the flights, accommodation etc without the agent ’ s commission added. Online Booking System An easy way for customers to koran ( or reserve ) an offer on-line and pick up confirmation without having to go through an agent. Outbound Tour Operator The opposite of an Inbound Tour Operator, an Outbound Tour Operator or OTO typically offers trips to a variety of destinations, some or all of which are not in the country that the enlistment operator is based in. pax Pax is travel industry jargon that refers to the count of passengers ie. 2 pax. It besides extends to the number of guests, diners or participants. Packages An easy and popular way to travel is by buying packages. These frequently include accommodation, travel and some meals. tour operators using Tourwriter can well prepare these packages in advance and get them quick for resale. Learn how. Quickbooks Designed to ease your accounts headaches, Quickbooks is an account software aimed towards belittled and medium size businesses to manage their account and save time. Quickbooks is compatible with Tourwriter, meaning you get a more seamless back-office software summons. Reseller A company who resells and markets tours and activities in a specific area. SEO Search Engine Optimisation refers to the way that you can make certain your web site ranks highly in organic search results – increasing your visibility. Read more about how to make sure your web site is serving you well hera. SSL You may have been to a web site where an alert popped up notifying you that the web site was not dependable – not a great first stamp, good ? The Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL ) is the standard means to reassure your customers that your web site is safe, by creating an code link between your browser and the server. Read more about the importance of SSL certification here. Single Supplement A one append is a surcharge applied to a single person staying in a board normally intended for two or more people. The surcharge normally applies when a room is charged per person and is basically to cover the cost of merely receiving a single payment for a board that they normally get two payments for. Travel/Trade Association Travel associations and communities exist to service those in the locomotion industry who wish to network with, collaborate and be supported by others in the industry. These associations can be recess or broad and often provide fantastic resources and accompaniment to help your business boom ! There are a lot out there but don ’ triiodothyronine worry, we ’ ve got the down-low on travel associations and luxury travel communities for you. tag Time Limit ( TTL ) This is the time terminus ad quem that businesses ( frequently airlines ) give for a ticket to be purchased to avoid cancellations or exhalation of the menu. aim market unfortunately, no one can please everyone. That ’ s why when you are marketing your tour hustler business, it pays to think about who your prey market is – the demographic or type of people you expect to be most concern in your put up. Specialise your business offer to this target grocery store to get more gladden from your selling efforts. Union Pay This is a payment method used chiefly in China, however, Union Pay is besides becoming increasingly available and accepted internationally, opening doors for many chinese tourists to use this payment method acting during their travels. tub From production to consumption, Value Added Tax may be added to products or services each time they are bought or resold for a profit. besides known as goods and services tax, VAT may apply when tours or activities are resold by a jobber. Waitlist ( WL ) Travellers may wish to buy waitlisted tickets in orderliness to save costs. This means that they are placed on a list and will wait to take the position of person who cancels or doesn ’ thyroxine appearance up. The World Travel Market ( WTM ) The World Travel Market is a go event in the travel industry, bringing together all areas of tourism and help occupation connections and emergence. Xero just like Quickbooks, Xero is an account software that many tour operators and travel agents manage and keep track of their fiscal data. Xero is compatible with Tourwriter, meaning you get a more seamless back-office software process. concede management The move over of your extend is the average tax income per unit of sale eg. gross per 1 person ’ mho airline ticket. Yield management involves understanding the times in which your offer is in higher demand and identifying the type of people who would purchase your offer. You can then calculate and manage your expect yield to maximise profit ! Zorbing You may have seen pictures before of adrenalin-junkie tourists hurtling down a hill in a blow-up ball. These balls are called Zorbs and it might seem harebrained but it ’ s a massively popular venture tourism activity. Try it yourself !
Zoning Relating to the rise of ecotourism, some areas are prone to the pressures of tourism and are zoned as such. These zoned areas sometimes limit the number of people allowed at one fourth dimension, or plainly advise tourists about their environmental affect and monitor the damage . | <urn:uuid:aefbcd68-c8a7-4983-a6d8-014cacd12616> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aricantisp.com/j-travel-words-1652382448/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94877 | 2,417 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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Keeping patients informed and involved throughout the care process is vital to improved outcomes. However, many hospitals have yet to identify or develop a nursing workflow process that enhances their patient education strategy.
At SONIFI Health we understand that a hospital’s education plan must suit the hospital’s environment to provide the greatest return. Knowing this, SONIFI health is here to assist your health care team to develop a workflow process that builds on your education strategy.
Our team of Registered Nurses will observe nursing workflow on some of your most complex units and determine the best strategies for successful delivery of your patient education. Our Clinical team will help nurses to organize and incorporate formal teaching into their routine care. This will make nurses’ roles as educators more efficient and free up nurses for more direct patient care. We will analyze best practice approaches and identify needed process changes for patient education and engagement based on your needs. We will also guide your clinical team through their education content selection process and perform content gap analyses if needed. Finally, our team of Registered Nurses will develop a clinical training plan that works for your staff. | <urn:uuid:29d15754-fc35-4b64-98d8-b6a6796ef3a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sonifihealth.com/suggestions-for-workflow-enhancement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950082 | 235 | 1.648438 | 2 |
In South Australia much has been said about so-called ‘secrecy laws’ that are, among other things, intended to protect individuals privacy – no matter whether they be suspected sex offenders (Dillon, October 2018) or accused police officers (Hough & Henson, October 2018). Recently the Attorney-General, Hon. Vicki Chapman has been accused of violating Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) secrecy laws (Langenberg, November 2018; Wills, September 2018).
It is interesting that when police apprehend a suspect there is (with few exceptions) no mandatory suppression of the suspect’s identity, unless he or she is accused of certain sex offences. Yet, if a police officer or other public official is a suspect under investigation by the ICAC for criminal offences it seems his or her identity is suppressed.
All suspects are presumed innocent, so arguably the same standard should apply.
As ICAC public hearings become more common, it will become necessary to review the ‘secrecy’ law, which could negatively impact victims.
It is crucial that victims’ privacy is not sacrificed; rather, victims’ privacy should be a paramount consideration. If a decision, such as the release, publication or other of information is likely to impact a victim then he or she should be consulted and his or her views taken into account.
Similarly important are victims’ rights to know the progress and outcome of an investigation and/or proceedings. This does not, however, necessarily require that victims’ views be made public – unless, of course, they approve.
Such said, transparency is central to public confidence on the integrity of an authority like the ICAC.
Transparency requires processes and decisions be open to public scrutiny. Transparency fosters accountability. Notwithstanding, some processes and decisions should be made in camera (that is in private) but not all.
Having regard for the public interest (which is fundamentally different to interesting among the public), the principles of open justice should prevail unless there are ‘special’ or ‘exceptional’ circumstances, such as harm to the victim. And, certainly victims’ right to privacy should not be jeopardised simply because there is interest among the public.
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Sociology of Cognition: How Do We Know What We Know? SOCIO4126
- Academic Session: 2022-23
- School: School of Social and Political Sciences
- Credits: 20
- Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
- Typically Offered: Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: Yes
- Available to Erasmus Students: Yes
"The nature of social cognition - how we "know about" the social world - is one of the most deceptively obvious problems for sociology. Because we know what we know, we often think we know how and why we know it." (Martin and Desmond, 2010)
It is relatively easy to identify what we know about ourselves, others, our surroundings or a given situation. But what are the processes through which we acquire and/or construct knowledge with which we operate as social actors? To answer this question, the course explores various sources of a) sociological theory and b) empirical social research on what certain groups of people know (also what they believe, what they doubt or reject) and how they know it. Cognition will be discussed in a broad sense as social, cultural, mental, embodied, relational, and emotional.
Since cognition is so closely linked with the knowing subject, the field draws mostly on micro-sociological perspectives and on research done at a human rather than societal scale. Furthermore, the breath of applications of sociological theories of cognition and knowledge can be seen in the examples of practical research which will be discussed in the course. These cover themes from support to overeaters to practices of glass-blowing, and from motivations of tourism to meanings of smell. Given its small-scale focus and its wide applicability, cognitive sociology will encourage you to reflect on mundane events, immediately experienced individually or interpersonally, and to problematise the ways in which they may be relevant in relation to wider social phenomena.
Requirements of Entry
In order to take this course, students need to have met the requirements for entry into the Sociology Honours Programme. This means achieving a grade of 'D' or better in Sociology 1A and 1B and a 'C' or better in Sociology 2A and 2B. Students also have to comply with the College of Social Science regulations for progression to Honours.
An essay analysing at least 3 articles/book chapters from the bibliographical list, including the text presented in the seminar, and identifying a potential line for further empirical research which draws on the sources discussed in the essay (word limit 4000 words).
Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? Not applicable for Honours courses
Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below.
The aims of this course are:
- to introduce students to core theories in the areas of cognitive sociology and the sociology of knowledge;
- to provide them with a critical understanding of the reciprocal relation between individual cognition and supra-individual phenomena;
- to develop students' abilities to assess the strengths and limitations of different theoretical approaches;
- to enable them to apply theories of social cognition covered in the course in a flexible and productive way in empirical analyses.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
• present key issues in the area of cognitive sociology;
• evaluate different sociological views about cognition and meaning making, separately and by comparison with each other;
• define and apply in their arguments concepts such as: collective consciousness, relevance, typification, stock of knowledge, sociation, embodied cognition, habit etc.
•explain the bidirectional relation between individual cognition and social life.
Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits
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The fatal attack on a 2-year-old boy by an alligator at Disney World last year raised questions: How many more gators prowled the waters of the internationally famous theme park, and did officials know about them?
According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, more than 220 of the animals were removed from the location between May 2006 and August 2015. After that 10-year period, the number of captures and removals increased to more than 40 in a single year, June 15, 2015 to June 15, 2016. The child was killed June 14, 2016, and the following year removals more than doubled to 83.
A few days before young Lane Thomas Graves wandered into the white sand Seven Seas Lagoon where his family lounged, six alligators were hauled out of the theme park, four of them six feet or larger. Two days after an 18-hour search finally recovered the child’s remains, five alligators were removed from the property.
In a park where alligators are common, and a state where 1.3 million gators exist and nearly 16,000 were trapped and removed away from properties near humans in just two years, visitors spoke of the paucity of signs warning of their presence.
Disney officials, who responded to Lane’s death with profound remorse and erected more signs warning of unlikely encounters with wildlife, acknowledged that alligators exist on the property, but emphasized that the resort is enormous. Disney World is 40 square miles — roughly the size of San Francisco — and includes a 25,000 acre wilderness conservation area.
The number of alligators seized on the property where canals, lakes and lagoons intersect increased because the company strengthened a plan to keep them out. “In keeping with our strong commitment to safety, we continue to reinforce procedures related to reporting sightings and interactions with wildlife, and work closely with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to remove or relocate certain wildlife from our property,” said Jacquee Wahler, a spokeswoman.
“In the past year, we have reinforced procedures and training with our cast for reporting sightings and interactions with wildlife,” Wahler said, “and expanded our communication to guests on the presence of wildlife.”
Another factor contributes to relatively few alligator warning signs in watery areas throughout Florida, wildlife biologists have said: Unprovoked alligator attacks involving humans are rare in the Florida.
Lane’s parents, Melissa and Matt Graves, who leapt into the lagoon in a failed attempt to free his son from the alligator’s jaws, said shortly after the Lane’s death that they would not sue Disney World. It was deemed an accident.
Walt Disney World President George Kalogridis released a statement in which he vowed the organization would support the family. The Graveses launched the Lane Thomas Foundation, which works to find organ donors. A year after the death, Disney erected a lighthouse statue in the child’s honor, drawing on the foundation’s mission to turn its namesake into a “beacon of hope.”
“It is our hope that through the foundation we will be able to share with others the unimaginable love Lane etched in our hearts,” the family said in a statement.
Legal experts speculated that a lawsuit or court settlement could have been considerable, particularly if Disney officials understood that alligators were a constant presence in its park.
And that much is clear. The state wildlife commission’s spreadsheet shared with The Washington Post shows that four alligators were removed from Disney World in a single day in March last year. Ten days after that, March 14, seven were caught. On May 10, a little more than a month before the fatal attack, trappers removed six alligators from Disney World.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts sought and received a Target Harvest Area permit from the Florida commission that allows it to “work directly with a designated FWC contracted nuisance alligator trapper to remove . . . alligators from the property.” That’s when the captures grew.
The commission removes alligators four feet and longer that pose a threat to people or pets “at no cost,” said a spokeswoman, Katie Purcell. Any trapper who removes the animal can keep it. “In most cases, the alligator is processed for its hide and meat,” Purcell said. Sometimes alligators are sold to a farm or zoo.
The state pays a $30 stipend for each catch, but the meat is how trappers earn money. In Florida, there are plenty of opportunities for an alligator trapper to earn a living. The wildlife commission’s spreadsheet lists golf courses, apartment complexes, community clubs, water ski outlets, schools and yacht clubs as just a few of the places where trappers have hauled away gators.
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eso2017 — Publikim i Organizatës
2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for research with ESO telescopes on Milky Way's supermassive black hole
06 Tetor 2020
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have jointly been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the centre of our galaxy. Genzel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, and his team have conducted observations of Sagittarius A* for nearly 30 years using a fleet of instruments on European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes.
Genzel shares half of the prize with Ghez, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the US, "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", with the other half awarded to Roger Penrose, professor at the University of Oxford in the UK, "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity."
"Congratulations to all three Nobel laureates! We are delighted that the research on the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has been recognised with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. We are proud that the telescopes ESO builds and operates at its observatories in Chile played a key role in this discovery," says ESO's Director General Xavier Barcons. “The work done by Reinhard Genzel with ESO telescopes and by Andrea Ghez with the Keck telescopes in Hawaii has enabled unprecedented insight into Sagittarius A*, which confirmed predictions of Einstein’s general relativity."
ESO has worked in very close collaboration with Genzel and his group for around 30 years. Since the early 1990s, Genzel and his team, in cooperation with ESO, have developed instruments designed to track the orbits of stars in the Sagittarius A* region at the centre of the Milky Way.
They started their campaign in 1992 using the SHARP instrument on ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The team later used extremely sensitive instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Very Large Telescope Interferometer at the Paranal Observatory, namely NACO, SINFONI and later GRAVITY, to continue their study of Sagittarius A*.
In 2008, after 16 years of tracking stars orbiting Sagittarius A*, the team delivered the best empirical evidence that a supermassive black hole exists at the centre of our galaxy. Both Genzel's and Ghez's groups accurately traced the orbit of one star in particular, S2, which reached the closest distance to Sagittarius A* in May 2018. ESO undertook a number of developments and infrastructure upgrades in Paranal to enable accurate measurements of the position and velocity of S2. The team led by Genzel found the light emitted by the star close to the supermassive black hole was stretched to longer wavelengths, an effect known as gravitational redshift, confirming for the first time Einstein’s general relativity near a supermassive black hole. Earlier this year, the team announced they had seen S2 ‘dance’ around the supermassive black hole, showing its orbit is shaped like a rosette, an effect called Schwarzschild precession that was predicted by Einstein.
Genzel and his team are also involved in the development of instruments that will be installed on ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert, which will enable them to probe the environment even closer to the supermassive black hole.
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ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world’s most productive ground-based astronomical observatory by far. It has 16 Member States: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with the host state of Chile and with Australia as a Strategic Partner. ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope and its world-leading Very Large Telescope Interferometer as well as two survey telescopes, VISTA working in the infrared and the visible-light VLT Survey Telescope. Also at Paranal ESO will host and operate the Cherenkov Telescope Array South, the world’s largest and most sensitive gamma-ray observatory. ESO is also a major partner in two facilities on Chajnantor, APEX and ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. And on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope, the ELT, which will become “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.
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''I decided there had to be a better way," says Owen Holman inventor of the Densamatic, an automatic bale density controller manufactured by Hav-Pak, the Company he heads at Corpus Christi, Texas.
"I've field tested it myself for more than 5 years and have had other prototypes operating in various parts of the country for the same length of time. All work very well and have been of great help to the people using them," he told FARM SHOW. "Custom hay balers really like it."
The device virtually eliminates variation in bale density, and the usual broken twine or wire problems resulting from bales being too loose or too tight, explains Holman. He claims the Densamatic will "run circles around hydraulic systems for controlling bale density and costs about half as much." His invention uses air pressure to determine density. Simply turning a valve to change air pressure changes bale density. Air pressure (60 to 70 lbs.) is supplied by portable LP gas tanks.
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Din’s Curse is an motion RPG with multiplayer, 141 class combos, real penalties, and a dynamic world. To get a feel for what an action RPG has to supply consider enjoying among the video games below. I usually consider them as games with stats that the gamers can see and complex stories, however there are games which can be called Motion RPGs by many people that don’t fit into each of those classes.
The sport’s success is owed partly to its efficient replication of the feel of previous successes, together with Far Cry Primal, but additionally to its contemporary story, lovely visuals, strong character acting and robust story telling. That’s still enough roleplaying to earn it the RPG label, although it is shared with the equally vital “action” moniker.
Again, I have nothing in any respect against motion games, and I’ve had fun taking part in via Diablo so far. As soon as the time to perform an motion expired, the game turned again the clock and the participant-monster turn cycle started anew. D3 is an motion journey game, not an motion RPG.
Action RPGs are video games the place the combat is actual time and your abilities as a participant type a large part of how succesful you’re. It seems like some folks do not realize that RPGs in video video games aren’t meant to be similar to tabletop RPGs anymore, which most likely causes confusion.
If aanything, RPG’s are wanting more like Motion-Journey games. As I see it, an RPG is defined as a recreation during which gamers make selections that have everlasting results. In 2000 VR-1 Leisure acquired Satan’s Thumb , whereas at the identical time Psygnosis decided to depart the LAPTOP market to focus their resources on Playstation games. | <urn:uuid:ee2fccb8-89d8-4ffc-8ff2-7b221e5d4612> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://icaenel.com/download-motion-rpg-video-games-for-mac.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.961148 | 376 | 1.5625 | 2 |
I recently discovered the identity of my maternal grandparents. My mother was adopted. She had never seen an image of her parents and was uncertain of their names. When the mystery of their identity was eventually solved and I viewed their faces in a photograph for the first time, I felt immediately connected with them and culturally linked to the past. My reaction was quietly introspective, overtly affirmative, and genuinely positive. I was overcome by immense feelings of joy, healing, and understanding produced by a deep sense of connectedness, belonging, and genealogical closure.
The cognitive knowledge and reactivity in response to those who are familiar to us is heart-rending. Emotional intelligence has a profound influence on our instinctual confirmation of identity. The psychological reactions produced by great works of art, and the feelings they evoke in the viewer, has been the subject of extensive study by artists and psychologists for many centuries. Understanding visual stimuli and the linking of personal memories to what is being viewed suggests that the experience is highly complex. The major neurological stimulus the photographs of my grandparents triggered in my brain were the same passionate, dramatic, and compelling emotions produced by the world’s greatest works of art—the equivalent of the Mona Lisa—deeply profound and eternally remembered.
Photographs are a slice of time and place that will never happen again. The visual images I have of my grandparents are priceless to me. Knowing the historic highlights of the pivotal points in my family’s history is timeless and enduring. Their memory, preserved in the black and white images of their faces that were left behind, creates a nostalgic sense of yesteryear of precious times gone by. My grandmother was an attractive young girl of German heritage who had a fling with a flamboyant Italian man of questionable character. He was a young, prosperous, married man with a family and a notorious reputation, but to those who befriended him, he was a good person. His wife and children and extended family loved him. He was a leader within the Italian community and a respected godfather to many individuals.
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Growing a garden full of healthy plants or vegetables is a rewarding experience. You can enhance that experience by learning more about ways to reduce soil acidity. Maintaining the proper pH levels in your garden will help to optimize the health of your plants.
Understanding the Basics of pH in Soil
The relative alkalinity and acidity in garden soil is expressed with the pH scale. This scale ranges from 1–14. The number 7.0 on the pH scale is considered to be the neutral marker. To reduce the acidity, you need to raise soil pH levels.
You don't need to be a scientist in order to test and adjust the pH levels in soil. Simple kits are available for testing, and making the right adjustments is often a matter of adding amendments to the soil.
Why does pH matter? Can't you grow a simple garden without worrying about lower acidity in soil? Many home garden projects are completed without giving pH levels a single thought. You may be impressed, however, when you take the time to neutralize acidic soil, as your plants will thrive in a way that can surprise you.
When Garden Soil Becomes Too Acidic
Acidity and alkalinity in soil have a direct impact on how your plants absorb important nutrients from garden soil. The failure to fix acidic soil means that your chosen plants could be receiving too little of some nutrients and too much of others.
The great majority of garden plants thrive at pH levels of 6–7.5. You are really shooting for that neutral area, although there are some exceptions. Certain fruits like blueberries need more acidity, and flowers like azaleas can also benefit from high acidity levels.
As the acidity level in your garden soil starts to rise, you will begin to notice that plants have more difficulty thriving. Phosphorus, one of the most important elements found in garden soil, becomes much harder for plants to absorb when acidity is high. It is phosphorus that allows your plants to bloom and develop fruit.
Methods for Neutralizing Acidity in Soil
There are some tried-and-true methods to lower acidity in soil and increase soil pH levels. As always, your results will tend to be better if you are able to make the necessary amendments over time instead of in a rush. Planning will allow you to avoid a situation where you need to raise pH in soil fast.
Depending on the size of your garden project, you may want to begin by testing the soil yourself or having a professional test done. As we mentioned earlier, there are kits available at online retailers for a reasonable price. Conducting the test is a simple matter that you can perform in just minutes.
The results will determine which soil amendment you need to consider. Some amendments can offer greater reduction of acidity. Others are meant to have a lighter impact. Some methods to reduce soil acidity will last for a long time; others will need to be repeated more frequently.
Finally, there are some select methods that will raise pH in soil fast if you need quick results. Just remember that a better plan is to become familiar with the unique makeup of your own garden and consistently manage acidity.
How to Raise the pH Level in Your Garden's Soil
There is one primary method of raising the pH level in soil and thereby reducing the soil's acidity: adding lime to the garden soil. Garden lime is also known as calcium carbonate, and it can be found at most physical or online garden supply stores.
The general rule is to apply about 7 or 8 pounds of lime to each 100 square feet of your garden. This amount of lime will usually raise the pH level by one number. You will need to retest once the lime has been added and allowed time to work.
Another popular amendment is wood ash. If you have an outdoor fire pit, this may be a more cost-effective amendment for you. Just regularly take the ashes from the fire pit and spread them on your garden soil. As with lime, you'll need to test frequently to make sure the proper adjustments have been made.
With a little time and practice, you will be able to monitor the acidity level in your garden soil with ease. You will be amazed at the difference once you’ve achieved proper pH levels and created a healthier environment for your plants.
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Everyone remembers the feeling of falling on the playground and skinning their knee. These wounds, commonly called road rash, tend to be superficial in children who fall from a swing or a bicycle. However, these abrasions are much more severe when a person is traveling at high speeds on a motorcycle.
What Is Road Rash?
Road rash is an unfortunately common motorcycle crash injury. As a rider is thrown from their bike or slides along the road after a crash, their skin scrapes against the pavement, concrete, or gravel. Depending on the severity of the injury, a victim may suffer pain, bleeding, infections, or scarring.
Motorcycle riders and passengers are more likely to suffer road rash than drivers because of their lack of protection in a crash. In a collision, motorcyclists are almost always separated from their bikes, with only a layer of clothing between them and the road. While leathers and other safety clothing can help protect a rider’s skin from road rash, Massachusetts law doesn’t require motorcyclists to wear these garments.
The Different Types and Degrees of Road Rash
Road rash is technically a type of friction burn. Like thermal and chemical burns, the severity of road rash is measured in degrees. A first-degree rash is the least serious, resulting in bruising, redness, scratches, tenderness, and minor bleeding. The majority of first-degree injuries can be treated with first aid.
Anything beyond a first-degree rash is considered a severe injury that needs immediate treatment from a medical professional. If the abrasions are deep, a motorcyclist may need several different types of medical care.
Medical Care a Road Rash Victim May Need
- IV fluids. Emergency care typically involves the administration of intravenous fluids and nutrients to prevent further tissue damage. Shock resuscitation may be necessary to improve circulation and prevent the vital organs from shutting down.
- Wound cleaning and stitches. A doctor may use water or tweezers to clear glass, gravel, and other debris from the wound to avoid infection. Once each site is thoroughly cleaned, it can take several stitches to close the wounds. You may need oral antibiotics to prevent infection, or your wounds may be treated with topical antiseptics and antimicrobial medications.
- Skin grafts. Riders with second or third-degree road rash may see exposed muscles, tendons, bones, or other tissues at the wound site. If the wound is too large to close with stitches or sutures, patients may need skin grafting to cover the area. In skin grafting, a doctor removes the top two layers of skin from another body area and relocates it to grow over the abrasion site.
- Amputation. Cases of third-degree road rash are traumatic, with patients either suffering extreme pain or inability to feel the wound site due to nerve damage. Numbness may accompany road rash after compression (when a biker’s arm or leg is pinned under their bike). If infection sets in or tissue begins to die, doctors may have no choice but to amputate the limb.
Long-Term Complications of Road Rash
A severe road rash injury can result in multiple surgeries, extended hospital stays to combat infection, and months of follow-up care. You may be out of work for several weeks due to the demands of your medical care – and if you suffer permanent effects, you may be unable to go back to work at all.
Road rash on the face, hands, arms, or chest can cause a number of long-lasting problems.
Permanent Results of Road Rash
- Traumatic tattooing. Patients may need painful laser treatments to correct uneven skin pigmentation called traumatic tattooing.
- Permanent scarring. Skin and fat grafting can help replace lost layers of skin, fat, and muscle tissue, but patients can still be left with unsightly or painful scars.
- Disfigurement. The cheeks, chin, nose, and other protrusions can be ground down by the road surface, permanently altering the victim’s appearance. Depending on the extent of the trauma, the patient may need plastic surgery to restore a natural look.
How a Massachusetts Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Can Help
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BMW has halted manufacturing at two German factories. Mercedes is slowing work at its meeting crops. Volkswagen, warning of manufacturing stoppages, is searching for various sources for components.
For greater than a 12 months, the worldwide auto business has struggled with a disastrous scarcity of laptop chips and different very important components that has shrunk manufacturing, slowed deliveries and despatched costs for brand spanking new and used vehicles hovering past attain for thousands and thousands of shoppers.
Now, a brand new issue — Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine — has thrown up yet one more impediment. Critically essential electrical wiring, made in Ukraine, is all of a sudden out of attain. With purchaser demand excessive, supplies scarce and the conflict inflicting new disruptions, car costs are anticipated to move even greater properly into subsequent 12 months.
The conflict’s harm to the auto business has emerged first in Europe. However U.S. manufacturing will possible endure ultimately, too, if Russian exports of metals — from palladium for catalytic converters to nickel for electrical car batteries — are reduce off.
“You solely have to miss one half not to have the ability to make a automobile,” stated Mark Wakefield, co-leader of consulting agency Alix Companions’ world automotive unit. “Any bump within the street turns into both a disruption of manufacturing or a vastly unplanned-for price enhance.”
Provide issues have bedeviled automakers for the reason that pandemic erupted two years in the past, at occasions shuttering factories and inflicting car shortages. The strong restoration that adopted the recession brought on demand for autos to vastly outstrip provide — a mismatch that despatched costs for brand spanking new and used automobiles skyrocketing properly past total excessive inflation.
In the US, the typical value of a brand new car is up 13% previously 12 months, to $45,596, in response to Edmunds.com. Common used costs have surged much more: They’re up 29% to $29,646 as of February.
Earlier than the conflict, S&P International Mobility had predicted that world automakers would construct 84 million automobiles this 12 months and 91 million subsequent 12 months. (By comparability, they constructed 94 million in 2018.) Now it’s forecasting fewer than 82 million in 2022 and 88 million subsequent 12 months.
Mark Fulthorpe, an government director for S&P, is amongst analysts who suppose the provision of recent automobiles in North America and Europe will stay severely tight — and costs excessive — properly into 2023. Compounding the issue, consumers who’re priced out of the new-vehicle market will intensify demand for used autos and hold these costs elevated, too — prohibitively so for a lot of households.
Ultimately, excessive inflation throughout the economic system — for meals, gasoline, hire and different requirements — will possible go away an unlimited variety of odd consumers unable to afford a brand new or used car. Demand would then wane. And so, ultimately, would costs.
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“Till inflationary pressures begin to actually erode shopper and enterprise capabilities,” Fulthorpe stated, “it’s most likely going to imply that those that have the inclination to purchase a brand new car, they’ll be ready to pay high greenback.”
One issue behind the dimming outlook for manufacturing is the shuttering of auto crops in Russia. Final week, French automaker Renault, one of many final automakers which have continued to construct in Russia, stated it might droop manufacturing in Moscow.
The transformation of Ukraine into an embattled conflict zone has damage, too. Wells Fargo estimates that 10% to fifteen% of essential wiring harnesses that provide car manufacturing within the huge European Union had been made in Ukraine. Previously decade, automakers and components corporations invested in Ukrainian factories to restrict prices and acquire proximity to European crops.
The wiring scarcity has slowed factories in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere, main S&P to slash its forecast for worldwide auto manufacturing by 2.6 million automobiles for each this 12 months and subsequent. The shortages may cut back exports of German automobiles to the US and elsewhere.
Wiring harnesses are bundles of wires and connectors which might be distinctive to every mannequin; they can not be simply re-sourced to a different components maker. Regardless of the conflict, harness makers like Aptiv and Leoni have managed to reopen factories sporadically in Western Ukraine. Nonetheless Joseph Massaro, Aptiv’s chief monetary officer, acknowledged that Ukraine “shouldn’t be open for any kind of regular business exercise.”
Aptiv, primarily based in Dublin, is attempting to shift manufacturing to Poland, Romania, Serbia and probably Morocco. However the course of will take as much as six weeks, leaving some automakers wanting components throughout that point.
“Long run,” Massaro informed analysts, “we’ll should assess if and when it is smart to return to Ukraine.”
BMW is attempting to coordinate with its Ukrainian suppliers and is casting a wider web for components. So are Mercedes and Volkswagen.
But discovering various provides could also be subsequent to unimaginable. Most components crops are working near capability, so new work house must be constructed. Corporations would want months to rent extra individuals and add work shifts.
“The coaching course of to deliver up to the mark a brand new workforce — it’s not an in a single day factor,” Fulthorpe stated.
Fulthorpe stated he foresees an additional tightening provide of supplies from each Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of neon, a fuel utilized in lasers that etch circuits onto laptop chips. Most chip makers have a six-month provide; late within the 12 months, they may run quick. That might worsen the chip scarcity, which earlier than the conflict had been delaying manufacturing much more than automakers anticipated.
Likewise, Russia is a key provider of such uncooked supplies as platinum and palladium, utilized in pollution-reducing catalytic converters. Russia additionally produces 10% of the world’s nickel, a vital ingredient in EV batteries.
Mineral provides from Russia haven’t been shut off but. Recycling may assist ease the scarcity. Different international locations could enhance manufacturing. And a few producers have stockpiled the metals.
However Russia is also a giant aluminum producer, and a supply of pig iron, used to make metal. Almost 70% of U.S. pig iron imports come from Russia and Ukraine, Alix Companions says, so steelmakers might want to change to manufacturing from Brazil or use various supplies. Within the meantime, metal costs have rocketed up from $900 a ton a number of weeks in the past to $1,500 now.
To this point, negotiations towards a cease-fire in Ukraine have gone nowhere, and the preventing has raged on. A brand new virus surge in China may reduce into components provides, too. Business analysts say they haven’t any clear thought when components, uncooked supplies and auto manufacturing will move usually.
Even when a deal is negotiated to droop preventing, sanctions towards Russian exports would stay intact till after a last settlement had been reached. Even then, provides wouldn’t begin flowing usually. Fulthorpe stated there can be “additional hangovers due to disruption that may happen within the widespread provide chains.”
Wakefield famous, too, that due to intense pent-up demand for automobiles the world over, even when automakers restore full manufacturing, the method of constructing sufficient automobiles will likely be a protracted one.
When may the world produce an ample sufficient provide of vehicles and vehicles to satisfy demand and hold costs down?
Wakefield doesn’t profess to know.
“We’re in a raising-price surroundings, a (manufacturing)-constrained surroundings,” he stated. “That’s a bizarre factor for the auto business.”
Chan reported from London.
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Meet Lynx’s best friend, Dragonfly Mini! Dragonfly Mini joins Lynx on her journey to welcoming empathy and normalizing her feelings. This cuddly creature offers a loving reminder for children that all our emotions are important, and that they can bravely embrace their sensitivity.
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If your students struggle with sight reading they could be looking at too much of the detail and not enough of the bigger picture. Maybe they’ve so far learnt to read, like I did, memorising mnemonics like Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit or FACE. perhaps they haven’t any other way to read notes. I’ve personally found this method to be quite inefficient, and detrimental in the long run.
During my mission to improve my own poor sight reading skills, I have found that there are 3 essential elements to reading music successfully.
It’s not just about what you SEE written on the stave, it’s also about what you FEEL (or touch) and what you HEAR as you play.
#1. SEEING Music
If we look close enough we can see patterns in music everywhere. Recognising these patterns when sight reading is where the secret to fluency lies. This is about learning to see the whole rather than the individual parts. If your students can do this they will really improve their reading skills.
But first, we’ll need to quickly check off some fundamentals to reading music. This may seem obvious to you but it may not be to your students.
The true name and function of the clefs are often overlooked when learning to read music. But their role in sight reading is crucial and way more useful than just seeing the “right hand” and “left hand” positions on the keyboard.
The treble clef is also known as the G clef because of how the line of the clef is drawn around the note G. It pinpoints on the stave where the Treble G note is.
The bass clef is also known as the F clef because of how it wraps around the note F and encloses it with the two little dots? It pinpoints on the stave where the Bass F note is.
The Treble G and Bass F notes are often called landmark notes, and they will help your students navigate their way around the stave.
Landmark notes are incredibly useful for beginning students. These few specific notes create visually memorable patterns across the stave that help students to remember them.
I’ve mentioned already about Treble G and Bass F. Visually these two notes are located on the 2nd line from the bottom of the treble staff and the 2nd line from the top of the bass staff respectively.
Where it gets interesting is when you notice how the G’s and F’s crosses over to mirroring positions on the alternate clef.
The same mirroring patterns occur more with the notes F and G.
Treble F (bottom space of treble staff) crosses over to the Low F (1st space below the bass staff), while Bass G (top space of bass staff) crosses over to the High G (1st space above the treble staff).
The next series of landmark notes is the note C.
C is like a spotlight that sheds light on our position on the stave in such a clear and beautifully symmetrical way.
Drawing a line through middle C, can you recognise how the C’s on the staves are a mirror image of each other?
Once students can see these patterns the next step is to drill them into their minds in various ways. It’s so much easier for them to remember only three letters and their positions on the stave then every single letter individually.
From here you can read other notes through the interval relationships.
Students are not reliant on remembering each note name as you go, or by reciting the alphabet up and down the lines and spaces on the stave.
The Wonderous Interval
Would you describe intervals as exciting? I would. Their uses in the musical landscape are many and varied. In particular, I’ve found them to be a hugely beneficial tool for improving sight reading.
I’ve talked previously about my journey as a bad sight reader, and how I owe my recovery in part to unlocking the power of intervals in my sight reading. So yeah, I’m a big fan. If you’re already an intervals enthusiast then you know what I’m talking about, but if you’re not just yet, let me tell you what I’ve learnt about how to optimise your student’s sight reading using intervals.
For this, we need to see the interval as a whole and not the notes or steps in between.
Let me explain.
All intervals within an octave have a number (1-8) and a quality (maj/min/aug/dim). For the purposes of sight reading, we focus more on the number rather than the quality.
For a quick visual method of determining an interval’s number, we can use what I like to call the Same and Different rule.
All notes sit on either a space or a line on the stave. The two notes that make up an interval can be described as:
One note appearing on a LINE and the other on a SPACE.
Intervals that are DIFFERENT are represented by EVEN numbers 2, 4, 6, 8
Both notes appearing on TWO LINES or TWO SPACES
Intervals that are the SAME are represented by ODD numbers 1, 3, 5, 7
Once students can see these interval shapes, drilling their recognition of them will be a crucial first step.
#2. HEARING Music
Active listening is an under-utilised skill for sight reading.
Students are often so focused on what they’re seeing that they completely ignore what they’re hearing.
Simply asking them to pay attention to what they’re hearing will make a big difference.
Ask your student, does it sound right? Or is it what you expected to hear? If not, search for the right sound using your ears, and DON’T LOOK DOWN at your hands to check!
Being able to translate the intervals that they’re reading into what they’re hearing really is a must. If they haven’t done much in the way of aural interval training, get them hooked up with an aural training app now and get them practising.
Not training aural skills is a BIG mistake and will hold students back, in more ways than just sight reading.
#3 FEELING Music
The kinesthetic connection between sight, sound and touch is the magic fairy dust that transforms reading notes on a page into an instinctive and natural form of expression. It allows us to get in flow with the music. We can detach from the analytical process and get on with the feeling.
The fastest way to get to this place is to take the focus AWAY from your hands. Put simply don’t look down.
It will be a train wreck at first, but trust me, the more students can do this the better they’ll get at it. Over time and with lots of practice, they’ll start to find their way by feeling the black key groups quickly, by recognising the shape and feel of intervals under their hands, and by improving their spatial awareness of distances across the keyboard.
Gradually, the fingers will learn to read music almost like reading brail. The ears activate because they’re no longer distracted by the hands. Their sight will be transfixed on the score meaning, more accuracy, more fluency, and a greater awareness of what’s coming up.
Top Tips To Start Improving Your Students Sight Reading Today!
#1. Drill the landmark notes. Students may wish to skip this step if they’re already a good note reader. Otherwise, to switch over to a different mode of sight reading might require unlearning what they’ve already learned, especially if there are some bad sight reading habits at play.
#2. Drill interval numbers using the Same and Different Rule.
#3. Get them to STOP LOOKING DOWN!! Allow the wrong notes to come. remind them to keep the pulse going and try to catch up even if it takes several bars. If they’re always looking at the score they less likely to lose their place.
#4. Remind them to always listen. If they recognise a wrong note, they should try to find the right note without looking down.
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Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure
Professor Jody Lynee’ Madeira of the Indiana University School of Law follows the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing to explore whether the families of murder victims obtain closure from an execution. In Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure, Prof. Madeira recounts her wide range of interviews with those who experienced this tragedy first-hand.
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A personalised gift given by a member of the British Royal family to a distinguished member of the British Army 138 years ago goes on auction for the first time at Cheffins
on Thursday 12th December.
The Victorian silver spirit flask was a gift by Albert, Prince of Wales, the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria, to Lieutenant Arthur Lyttleton Annesley (1837-1926).
At the time, Albert Edward had held the title of Prince of Wales longer than any of his predecessors and, when Queen Victoria died, he assumed the throne as King Edward VII.
Made by Thomas Johnson I in 1875, the flask bears the Prince of Waless Coat of Arms between his initials, A and E, and a facsimile engraved message on the back which is dated Sandringham, 1881.
Lieutenant Arthur Lyttleton Annesley had an illustrious career in the British Army and become Commander-in-Chief of Scotland in 1888. He took part in the Siege of Sebastopol in the winter of 1854 and the battle of Chernaya in August 1855 during the Crimean War.
In 1896, he became Colonel of the 12th (Prince of Waless Royal) Lancers, transferring in 1902 to become Colonel of the 11th Hussars.
Steven Collins, head of jewellery, silver and watches at Cheffins Fine Art said: Any item that has such a close connection to the British Royal family is bound to draw a lot of attention worldwide.
The flask itself is not in amazing condition so I have given the piece a modest estimate of £300-£500, but frankly the condition is far less important that the provenance in this case, and Im sure there will be many collectors competing to win this piece of Royal history.
The flask is entered as Lot 631 in the Jewellery, Silver, Watches and Wine Sale, nicknamed this year Clarets & Carats, which starts at 10.00am on Thursday 12th December. The full catalogue can be found on the Cheffins website.
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White is Black, Black is White, Night is Day
People sometimes say that two things are like "night and day" to mean that they are at opposite poles, as far apart as possible. Black and white are supposed to be where they're supposed to be. But actually, the choice is all yours.
Most photographers set their camera on auto-exposure, perhaps not really even fully understanding how to determine correct exposure on their own. No real problem there since cameras today generally seem pretty good at exposure. But what is "correct exposure" anyway? Basically, an image is correctly exposed when it comes out exposed the way you wanted it to. When you think about it, your camera may auto-expose most images the way you would have wanted it to, but the best way to achieve this is if you learn to set exposure for yourself.
I'm not going to discuss how to get the exposure you want. I've written about that before. Instead, I want to focus on the subjective nature of "correct" exposure. It really is up to you. You can expose an image to be as dark or as light as you want. Really.
Imagine a scene, any scene. What does it look like when you close your eyes or turn out the lights? Pretty dark, right? That's what happens when no light gets to do its job. Of course the exact same thing happens with your camera. Images will come out pretty dark if not enough light gets through, whether that be from a small aperture opening, a fast shutter speed, a low ISO setting, or a combination of the above.
This likely doesn't come as a surprise I'm guessing, but the extremes that this makes possible often do surprise. Or even when this isn't the case, photographers generally limit their creative exposure adjustment to minor tweaks, often only those needed to mitigate technical issues such as movement from blowing wind or exposure issues elsewhere in the frame. Rather than dealing with motion blur from the wind, it can make sense to compromise by slightly underexposing so that the shutter doesn't have to be held open any longer than necessary. Rather than living with a burned out sky, a photographer may choose to slightly underexpose, thereby rendering then foreground a tad darker than normal.
The truth though is that you can make just about anything come out exposed any way you want. Even solid white subjects will be rendered as black so long as little or no light reflected off it reaches the camera sensor while the shutter is open. Imagine a photograph shot in a completely dark room or on a moonless night. White becomes black.
But the reverse is also true. Take that white object on a moonless night and leave the shutter open long enough and you will get a white subject to show up after all. But more surprising, were that subject itself black, you can still expose it sufficiently to make even that look white. Black becomes white. So long as even a small amount of light is present, it will eventually build up to create an exposure that renders as white.
It's all up to you. Your camera will likely never do this on auto-exposure. Indeed, it sees everything as neutral gray. You get to see things any way you want to. Not only can you over expose snow slightly to make it show up white instead of gray, you can choose the mood by selecting just how bright you render it. You can turn an otherwise ordinary scene into an iconic silhouette by sufficiently underexposing, provided as well the background is lighter than that subject to provide contrast. You don't need to always strive for images that look the same as your eye sees them. Your eyes automatically adjust exposure just as most modern cameras do by default. But that doesn't make things wrong if images come out lighter or darker than that. It just means you're rending them in a different light. Just like other creative aspects of photography, exposure should be interpreted simply as "average" or "ordinary." Reaching for a wide angle lens or telephoto for creative reasons makes perfect sense. So too should reaching for a non-default exposure.
You can over or under expose intentionally if you so choose. You can make day into night, or night into day. There is no such thing as "correct exposure" apart from whether or not an image comes out exposed the way you want.
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Burial grounds dating back to the sixth century BC are usually taken pretty good care of and considered important national heritage sites – or at least you would have thought so. This wasn’t the case recently in Puglia, where an archaeological site from at least 500 BC was used as an illegal dumping ground. It is reported that 135 tons of dangerous waste – including building materials, disused wagons and other heavy-duty items from the state railways, as well as out-dated pneumatic machines and vehicles was left at three sites near the town of Martina Franca, near Taranto in southern Italy.
Three arrests were made over the weekend by the Italian financial police (Guardia di Finanza), who are investigating the crime. Only one of the three sites where refuse was dumped has been reported to be an archaeological site of considerable importance, but it is thought to cover an area of 16,000 square metres although no further details have yet been released.
Archaeological Sites of Taranto
The Itria Valley, between Taranto and Martina Franca, was part of Magna Grecia from the eighth century BC and there are several important sites and necropolises in the area, including:
- The Triglie archaeological area, which is hugely important for its traces of several different historical periods, including prehistoric (there is a Bronze Age village), Greek (burial chambers, which were also, bizarrely, used as houses during Middle Ages), Roman (there is an aqueduct-hypogeum), and the medieval period (as noted by a tenth century village).
- The Cacciagualani archaeological area, where several objects have been found, including a golden diadem and two rings found in a fourth century BC tomb.
- Amastuola Farm, which is thought to be one of the first Greek settlements in the region, having been colonised by a group of Greeks during the seventh and sixth centuries BC.
That one of the area’s archaeological sites is now under several tons of industrial waste is a shocking reflection of several deep-rooted problems in Italy. It will no doubt raise many questions about the country’s waste disposal problems, as well as organised crime and the protection and funding of heritage sites.
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When you are out riding your bike sometimes you want to stop somewhere and then you realize that you have the problem of where to leave your bike securely especially since most places do not have bike racks. There are a number of alternatives to locking your bike that will help secure your bike against bike thieves. How to lock a bike without a rack?
You will need to get yourself a good quality lock. And then lock your lock to something secure such as a signpost, tree, bench, or secure steel fence. Thieves are opportunistic meaning they are looking for an easy target to steal and are less likely to try and steal a bike that is securely locked to a fence or signpost as it will be too much work for them to free the bike.
In this post, we will go through how to lock a bike without a rack. Let’s get started!
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How To Lock A Bike Without A Rack?
When there is no bike rack available to lock your bike too then you need to find an alternative place to lock your bike. There are a number of steps to help when there is no rack available, these are as follows.
- Get a good quality lock.
- Lock the bike to something secure.
Get A Good Quality Lock
You need to understand no lock will 100% stop a thief from stealing your bike. It will only slow them down or make them think it is not worth the effort.
There are 3 main types of bike locks.
- Chain Lock.
- Cable Lock.
The U-Lock is tough to break and visually is a deterrent but can be awkward to carry and difficult to loop through the frame.
The cable locks are lightweight and easy to carry around but are less secure than solid shackles and links.
The chain locks are tough to break and visually alone is a deterrent. There are heavy and can be hard to carry around with you.
Lock The Bike To Something Secure
Starting off you need to lock the bike in a busy and well-lit place, this is just common sense. If you lock the bike in a poorly lit place where there is no foot traffic. This will give the thieves privacy to break the lock. And if possible try to find a place with security cameras as this is an additional deterrent to thieves.
Also, there is safety in numbers, meaning you should try and lock the bike in places where there are many other bikes. The reason is that other bikers will have poor locks and thieves are mostly opportunists that will make easy targets.
If there is no bike rack available to lock your bike to there are a number of things that you can lock your bike to such as.
- Secure Fence.
- Lamp Poles.
- Street Signs.
- Sucker Rods.
You will find some states and countries have different laws regarding where you lock your bike parking. It is worth checking with local authorities to be on the safe side. The only 100% legal place to park your bike is public bike parking or designated bike parking. The other similar location is in business parks or personal garages.
You will see bikers locking their bike to street signs, this is legal in some places. Some cities enforce strict laws regarding locking the bike to street signs. Although the law allows you to lock your bike at the street signs, you should also be careful to do this.
Also, street signs are not always sturdy enough to support your bike. This can make it easier for the thief to lift the bike easier. Some bikers chain their bike to sucker poles as well. Although it is not 100% legal, it is not wise to do it. The local authority can give you a fine and may also possibly take your bike.
Others also lock their bike in random places likes bus stop signs. Of course, it is illegal and unwise for you to do.
General Tips To Locking Your Bike
When you are out riding on your bike and you need to park your bike somewhere, there is always a risk of your bike being stolen. It’s important to always be wary when parking your bike as there is a chance that it can be stolen.
Here are some tips to reduce the risk of your bike being stolen.
- You need to get a good quality lock. Locks will not stop necessarily thieves but they will deter them.
- The less room the key has to move makes it more difficult it will be for thieves to use their tools to cut the chain.
- Lock your bike to something sturdy.
- Locking and leaving your bike anywhere can be a risk so you need to lock it in a busy area, that has good lighting. These can be the city center, near public places, shopping malls and so on.
- If possible try and lock your bike in an area covered with CCTV. It is more visible because bike thieves do not want to be visible while stealing.
Finally, starting off you need to get yourself a good quality lock. And then lock your lock to something secure such as a signpost, road sign, or a secure steel fence. Remember thieves are opportunistic meaning they are looking for an easy target to steal and are less likely to try and steal a bike that is securely locked to a fence or signpost.
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Individuals with tinnitus describe perceiving a wide variety of sounds including ringing, clicking, hissing, humming, chirping, buzzing, whistling, whooshing, roaring, and/or whirling. These sounds may be present at all times, or they may come and go. The volume, pitch or quality of tinnitus sounds can fluctuate as well. Some people report that their tinnitus is most obvious when outside sounds are low (i.e. during the night). Other individuals describe their tinnitus as loud even in the presence of external sounds or noise, and some describe it as exacerbated by sounds. Tinnitus can affect one ear or both ears. It can also sound like it is inside the head and not in the ears at all.
Patients with head or neck injury may have particularly loud and disturbing tinnitus (Folmer and Griest, 2003). Tinnitus due to neck injury is the most common type of "somatic tinnitus". Somatic tinnitus means that the tinnitus is coming from something other than the inner ear. Tinnitus from a clear cut inner ear disorder frequently changes loudness or pitch when one simply touches the area around the ear. This is thought to be due to somatic modulation of tinnitus. We have encountered patients who have excellent responses to cervical epidural steroids, and in persons who have both severe tinnitus and significant cervical nerve root compression, we think this is worth trying as treatment.
An ultrasound is another test that may be used to aid in the diagnosis of tinnitus. An ultrasound uses reflected high-frequency sound waves and their echoes to create images of structures within the body. An ultrasound can reveal how blood flows within vessels, but is only useful for accessible vessels. It is not helpful for blood vessels within the skull.
Ringing in your ears, hissing, buzzing, roaring - tinnitus can take many forms. The bothersome and uncomfortable noise in your ear varies from one tinnitus sufferer to another. So does the impact of tinnitus on people's lives. Some get used to the never-ending noise in the ear with relative ease, while others are driven to despair. Many ask can tinnitus be cured? Is there a tinnitus remedy?
Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome is another not uncommon cause of pulsatile tinnitus. The superior semicircular canal is one of three canals found in the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear. The vestibular apparatus helps to maintain equilibrium and balance. In this syndrome, a part of the temporal bone that overlies the superior semicircular canal is abnormally thin or absent. Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome can affect both hearing and balance to different degrees.
According to ATA, The American Tinnitus Association, 45 million Americans are struggling with tinnitus. In Germany the “Deutsche Tinnitus-Liga” estimates that 19 million Germans have experienced tinnitus, and that 2,7 million Germans have persistent tinnitus, of which 1 million have very severe tinnitus. The British Tinnitus Association estimates that 10% of the UK population suffers from tinnitus. Read more about the prevalence of tinnitus.
About six percent of the general population has what they consider to be "severe" tinnitus. That is a gigantic number of people ! Tinnitus is more common with advancing age. In a large study of more than 2000 adults aged 50 and above, 30.3% reported having experienced tinnitus, with 48% reporting symptoms in both ears. Tinnitus had been present for at least 6 years in 50% of cases, and most (55%) reported a gradual onset. Tinnitus was described as mildly to extremely annoying by 67%.(Sindhusake et al. 2003)
Ear canal obstructions, infections, injuries or surgeries. This can include ossicle dislocation within the ear that affects hearing or recurring ear infections (like swimmer’s ear) either in the outside or inside of the ear canal (otitis media or otitis externa). Other ear disorders tied to tinnitus include otosclerosis (causes changes to the bones inside the ears), tympanic membrane perforation or labrynthitis (chronic infections or viruses that attack tissue in the ears).
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT uses techniques such as cognitive restructuring and relaxation to change the way patients think about and respond to tinnitus. Patients usually keep a diary and perform "homework" to help build their coping skills. Therapy is generally short-term — for example, weekly sessions for two to six months. A 2010 review of six studies by the Cochrane Collaboration (an international group of health authorities who evaluate randomized trials) found that after CBT, the sound was no less loud, but it was significantly less bothersome, and patients' quality of life improved.
Shore says her therapy isn’t for everyone — at least not yet. So far, she’s only treated patients who have a specific form of tinnitus that changes in intensity or pitch when a person moves certain parts of her body. For example, some tinnitus sufferers find the sound in their ears lessens when they clench their teeth or open their mouths wide. This suggests that some touch inputs can influence the tinnitus, Shore says. (Roughly two-thirds of tinnitus patients have this form of the condition, she adds.)
The exact biological process by which hearing loss is associated with tinnitus is still being investigated by researchers. However, we do know that the loss of certain sound frequencies leads to specific changes in how the brain processes sound. In short, as the brain receives less external stimuli around a specific frequency, it begins to adapt and change. Tinnitus may be the brain’s way of filling in the missing sound frequencies it no longer receives from the auditory system.
A wealth of research has gone into understanding the mechanisms of tinnitus due to the increased concern in our ageing and noise exposed society through the support of organizations such as the Tinnitus Research Institute, the American Tinnitus Association and even the US Department of Defense. This research has helped us to understand not only why and how this phantom percept can develop, but also sheds light on why it may sound like a hiss for one person and a high pitched tone for another.7 In addition, neuroscientists have shown connections between the limbic system (where emotions are processed) and the auditory system; it is not uncommon for tinnitus to increase during times of stress or negative emotions.5 As such, the effective tinnitus treatment strategies should be enjoyable and positive, and should account for the variability in what tinnitus sounds like for each patient.
The treatment group (245 patients) received some elements of standard care (such as a masking device and hearing aid if needed), but also received CBT. The CBT included an extensive educational session, sessions with a clinical psychologist and group treatments involving “psychological education” explaining their condition, cognitive restructuring, exposure techniques, stress relief, applied relaxation and movement therapy.
Other potential sources of the sounds normally associated with tinnitus should be ruled out. For instance, two recognized sources of high-pitched sounds might be electromagnetic fields common in modern wiring and various sound signal transmissions. A common and often misdiagnosed condition that mimics tinnitus is radio frequency (RF) hearing, in which subjects have been tested and found to hear high-pitched transmission frequencies that sound similar to tinnitus.
What does he mean by “ends up in the brain”? Essentially, something that causes even temporary hearing damage — such as exposure to very loud noise or a blow to the head — can change activity patterns in the brain in ways that cause the ringing. Even though some damage or problem in the ear triggered tinnitus to begin with, you continue to hear the sound you do because of a signal from the brain.
Tinnitus is usually described as a ringing in the ears, but it can also sound like clicking, hissing, roaring, or buzzing. Tinnitus involves perceiving sound when no external noise is present. The sound can be very soft or very loud, and high-pitched or low-pitched. Some people hear it in one ear and others hear it in both. People with severe tinnitus may have problems hearing, working, or sleeping.
The important thing to remember about tinnitus is that the brain’s response to these random electrical signals determines whether or not a person is annoyed by their tinnitus or not. Magnetoencephalography (MEG, for short) studies have been used to study tinnitus and the brain. MEG takes advantage of the fact that every time neurons send each other signals, their electric current creates a tiny magnetic field. MEG allows scientists to detect such changing patterns of activity in the brain 100 times per second. These studies indicated tinnitus affects the entire brain and helps with understanding why certain therapies are more effective than others.
One group of 247 patients received standard (usual) care for tinnitus. This included audiological checks, counselling, prescription of a hearing aid if indicated, prescription of a “masker” if requested by the patient (a device that generates neutral sounds to distract from the noise of the tinnitus), and counselling from social workers when required.
Some instances of tinnitus are caused by infections or blockages in the ear, and the tinnitus can disappear once the underlying cause is treated. Frequently, however, tinnitus continues after the underlying condition is treated. In such a case, other therapies -- both conventional and alternative -- may bring significant relief by either decreasing or covering up the unwanted sound. | <urn:uuid:e1d65627-2d60-4cd7-b15c-cfcd0da9f357> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://banishtinnitus.net/garlic-oil-tinnitus-cure-tinnitus-cure-pdf.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943802 | 2,057 | 3.390625 | 3 |
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What did you learn from the record of two years of trial and error that increased productivity by making full use of the Pomodoro technique?
We continued the 'Pomodoro technique ' for more than 2 years to improve work efficiency and productivity by repeating '25 minutes of intensive work' and '5 minutes of break', and recorded all the work time with a dedicated application. People look back on their Pomodoro technique life. It highlights the benefits of the Pomodoro technique, which goes beyond just increasing productivity.
Mehdi Cherti – Improving my productivity using Pomodoro: takeaways after 2 years of practice s
Mehdi Cherti felt the need to be more productive in 2015 when he was in the doctoral program and decided to adopt the Pomodoro technique he knew at the time. You can see what kind of efficiency improvement technique the Pomodoro technique is by looking at the following article in one shot.
'Pomodoro technique' that is effective for completing long hours of work in a short time --GIGAZINE
Mr. Cherti searched for an application for timer management necessary for Pomodoro technique, but he said that he mainly searched for desktop applications instead of mobile applications because he does not use mobile phones very much. However, I couldn't find the app that was right for me, so I am creating my own Pomodoro technique app by referring to the reports on the net. The app created by Cherti is published on GitHub and can be used by anyone.
GitHub --mehdidc / pomodoro: simple command line pomodoro app with visualization of statistics
Cherti tried the Pomodoro technique for about two and a half years from June 2015 to December 2017. It seems that the recorded data is considered to be the 'lower limit of productivity' because there were times when it was not possible to work on schedule, such as when attending a meeting.
For Cherti, it was very difficult to plan the task on time in actually practicing the Pomodoro technique. That said, the Pomodoro technique has helped her to be very productive in that it helps reduce attention to other things and prevents procrastination, even when it's difficult to plan. I feel.
What Cherti understood in practicing the Pomodoro technique was 'not to be obsessed with time.' Generally, the Pomodoro technique is based on a cycle of '25 minutes of concentration' and '5 minutes of break', but it seems that it is better to set the time that you feel comfortable with this time itself, Cherti He seems to have combined various times. From the data aggregated by the app, it was found that '30 minutes' was the easiest to set because Cherti felt comfortable, followed by '60 minutes'.
In addition, Cherti also aggregates working hours by day of the week. The working hours of each day of the week are as shown in the graph below, and you can see that the productive days were 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', and 'Thursday'. Surprisingly, the least productive was 'Friday,' which Cherti believes may be due to the buildup of fatigue and the onset of 'sickness.'
In addition, data on the time of work with the Pomodoro technique show that productivity peaked at 10 am in the morning, then declined after lunch, then peaked again around 4 pm, and after supper. , I found that the maximum peak came around 11:00 pm when I finished the work of the day. Cherti recalls that the reason for the peak at 11 pm is that she often puts on the last spurt to reach her daily goal.
The total number of hours worked by using the Pomodoro technique by month from June 2015 to December 2017 is as follows. According to this, 'October 2016' and 'August 2017' were the most productive, and 'August 2015' and 'August 2016', which took a vacation, had extremely little work time. You can see that. In addition, 'August 2017' was the time when I started writing my doctoral dissertation, and it seems that it was not a vacation.
The boxplot of working hours per day is shown below, with a median of about 6 hours. You can see that there were 25% of the days when they worked less than 4 hours and the days when they worked more than 8 hours.
As mentioned above, Mr. Cherti, who looked back on the Pomodoro technique life for two and a half years with data, concludes that it was 'a wonderful experience.' The reason is that he gradually got used to 'concentrating', which he found difficult when he started working on the Pomodoro technique. He also recalls that the ability to collect statistics about himself was a big win. Being able to graph 'productivity' in daily life helps me understand how my productivity changes and under what conditions it increases compared to measuring the total amount of work time. The Pomodoro technique is extremely effective in that it can be used to predict future work efficiency and adjust behavior according to the plan.
Cherti, who has completed the doctoral course, plans to continue using the Pomodoro technique. In the future, he plans to improve productivity by focusing on new items such as 'planning' and recording the achievement rate of each task.
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The first rainy season downpour in Venezuela’s western region of Portuguesa has fallen and now it’s time to plant corn, a staple in this South American country known for its traditional arepas.
But just like much of Latin America, the race is on to find enough fertilizer for the crops.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 10,000 kilometers away has limited the supply of the key agricultural supplement throughout the region.
Some 80 percent of the 180,000 metric tons of fertilizers used annually in Venezuela are imported, mostly from Russia but also from Ukraine and Belarus, according to the Fedeagro union of agricultural producers.
Western sanctions against Russia and Belarus, as well as Ukraine’s difficulties in exporting while under siege, has left the whole of Latin America scrambling to find replacements.
Russia is the world’s largest exporter of fertilizers with more than 12 percent of the global market, but its sales have been virtually paralyzed by sanctions.
“Thank God we managed to buy Russian fertilizers in business talks in October and November, paid in December and they were able to arrive in February and March,” Celso Fantinel, the Fedeagro president, told AFP.
However, Fantinel said they are still short by about a third of their needs — but the weather waits for no-one, and there is no time to find alternatives.
As it is “we’re producing 30 percent of our capacity” due to Venezuela’s economic crisis that saw the country suffer eight years of recession and four years of hyperinflation, said Ramon Bolotin, president of the PAI independent agricultural producers.
“Even so, there aren’t enough fertilizers for this 30 percent.”
“Chemical fertilizers are essential,” he said, for a country where three percent of the 30 million population works in agriculture “to feed the other 97 percent.”
“We’ll work with what we have … although in some places they will need to underdose.”
– Massive shortage –
For Venezuelan farmers, it is yet another headache in a country already suffering fuel shortages due to the collapse of its vital oil industry.
In Portuguesa, an agricultural region known as Venezuela’s “granary,” petrol station queues stretch for kilometers.
Venezuela’s farming sector was expecting to sow 250,000 hectares of corn, 50,000 of rice, 60,000 of sugarcane and 70,000 of other products such as coffee and cacao, according to Fedeagro.
The fertilizer shortfall is a massive obstacle. One hectare of corn crops can produce 10 tons of harvest, but that figure can fall to as low as three or four tons if the conditions are not right.
The whole of Latin America faces the same issue, particularly its two agricultural giants.
Last year, Brazil imported almost 81 percent of the 40.5 million tons of fertilizer it used, and 20 percent of that came from Russia, according to the government.
Argentina imported 60 percent of its 6.6 million tons, of which 15 percent came from Russia.
Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru are also, to a greater or lesser extent, dependent on Russian fertilizers.
In March, Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso said his government would subsidize fertilizer imports due to the “increase in the price of agricultural materials” sparked by the international crisis.
Horst Hobener, a corn grower in Turen, Portuguesa, told AFP prices have risen 120 percent in a matter of months.
– Alternatives sought –
The collapse of Venezuela’s oil industry has affected the petrochemical industry, which in the past covered the internal demand for fertilizers.
“This has been felt a lot,” said Fedeagro vice-president Osman Quero.
“In the last three years we have been sourcing the fertilizers ourselves” through intermediaries.
Farmers have asked the government to reactivate its petrochemical complex in the northern Carabobo state, which has been semi-paralyzed since 2017.
According to state oil company PDVSA, it has the capacity to produce 150,000 metric tons of nitrogenous and phosphate fertilizers a year.
Russian fertilizers used by farmers in Turen are made up of 10 percent nitrogen, 26 percent phosphorus and 26 percent potassium.
“We have two fundamental ingredients: urea (nitrogen) and phosphorus and we would only need to import potassium chloride,” said Fantinel.
They are exploring other options but the global shortfall has meant many exporters have suspended sales due to their own domestic needs.
Ruben Carrasco from the Lima Chamber of Commerce told AFP that Russia is looking for ways to use third parties such as Norway to return to the market.
“Who knows, maybe next year other alternative sources will be tried,” said Bolotin.
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What I’m trying to say is that this is the time of the year when we go out and get all the fresh produce we can, but we are also taking time to relax and unwind. This is the time of the year when we need to reflect and take stock of how we are making our lives better.
Most of us will probably go to bed early this year. That’s a good thing. The best thing for us to do, though, is to relax and unwind. Take time to read, to take a nap, and to spend time with our friends, family, and pets. And of course, don’t forget to play some games.
All of us will probably get a little stressed about eating too many foods that we can’t pronounce and are not exactly tasty. Or maybe a little stressed about not being able to eat food that we actually like eating. Whatever the reason, our stress probably comes from our bodies craving that which they don’t need, not from eating too much when we should be relaxing or taking a nap.
I know some people will tell you that the stress of not having enough food causes headaches and other symptoms. While they are more likely to be headaches than heart attacks, stress is still a very real issue that is causing at least some of the problems we are having. So, if you are stressed about eating, you should probably avoid eating too many things that you dont really like. You can also avoid eating too much by taking a nap or making sure you sleep enough.
Eating too much can cause weight gain, which is a common problem that people suffer from. Many people try to compensate by eating more than they actually need, so if you are stressed about not having enough food, try to eat less than you think you need.
A lot of people have issues with the way they eat. People don’t realize how bad a big meal can be, and they don’t realize that when they go out to eat they probably aren’t eating enough food. If you eat more than you are comfortable with, you probably don’t get any kind of energy out of that meal. You can eat a lot of food, but if you have a good meal you can eat a lot more without feeling bad about it.
If you eat more than you think you need, you might be depriving yourself of your hunger hormones. That might not sound like much, but the majority of us have some kind of hormone that helps us regulate our energy levels. When we eat more than we are comfortable with, our hormones go into overdrive.
This isn’t a new idea, but we’ve never actually researched it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say that they will eat more than they can, or that they’re going to eat something that’s “too much.
That’s probably why you tend to have trouble with a certain type of stress that can affect your hormones. A diet that’s high in carbs, fat, sugar, and processed foods is one of the first things that tends to cause hormonal issues. If you are eating a diet that is causing you to overeat, then it’s not good for your brain, and is definitely bad for your hormones.
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Traditional IT network security is based on the castle-and-moat concept. In castle-and-moat security, it is hard to obtain access from outside the network, but everyone inside the network is trusted by default. The problem with this approach is that once an attacker gains access to the network, they have free reign over everything inside.
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IPNLF Introduces Sourcing Transparency Platform for Tuna Supply Chains
The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has launched its Sourcing Transparency Platform (STP), an online portal designed to increase transparency in the tuna supply chain.
The STP is exclusive to IPNLF member-companies and aims to improve transparency of pole-and-line, handline, and troll (collectively known as one-by-one) tuna supply chains through public disclosure. Current tools that promote these small-scale tuna fisheries are often too expensive, according to IPNLF. The organization’s aim is to promote these fisheries at no cost to help increase their market access, and to promote responsible business practices of companies and educate consumers on responsible, ethical tuna products. Continue reading here (Source: SeafoodSource).
China’s Expanding Influence in the Pacific
While China’s growing presence in the developing world has stoked fears in Western media, coverage of the country’s quiet but rapid insertion into the affairs of the Pacific Island nations has been scarce. Why is an economic heavyweight like China interested in cultivating ties with the remote and thinly populated island nations of the Pacific Ocean?
The answer is that Beijing views the region as rife with commercial, diplomatic, and geo-strategic opportunities.
One such opportunity is found off the coasts of the islands. The nations of this region possess exclusive economic zones (EEZs) that encompass a combined 19 9 million square kilometers of ocean water. This matters because China’s own fishing areas have been severely depleted from years overfishing and other unsustainable practices. Continue reading here(Source: Asia Times).
80 Percent of Tonga Population Impacted By Eruption and Tsunami
Some 12,000 households have been affected by the volcanic eruption and tsunami that hit the islands of Tonga over the weekend, according to estimates by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In total, about 84,000 people, more than 80 per cent of the population of the South Pacific Kingdom, have been affected by the disaster.
Besides the three fatalities reported earlier in the week, no further deaths have been confirmed. Continue reading here (Source: UN News).
Kiribati and Samoa Implement Rare Lockdowns After Travelers Test Positive
Kiribati and Samoa both implemented COVID-19 lockdowns on Saturday after international arrivals brought the virus with them, a rarity for the remote Pacific island nations.
This is the first pandemic lockdown in Kiribati, which had previously reported only two COVID-19 cases — both were people on a fishing ship in May 2021 who isolated on board. The country reopened its borders to international travel earlier this month for the first time in nearly two years.
Its government announced on Tuesday that 36 out of 54 passengers on a flight from Fiji had tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival, despite being vaccinated and testing negative three times during the pre-departure quarantine period. They were escorted to a quarantine center for further monitoring and testing. One of the frontline workers stationed outside the quarantine center also tested positive. Continue reading here(Source: NPR).
Southeast Asia Attracting Seafood Processing Away From China
As China’s economy continues to evolve and its trade relationship with the U.S. remains strained, it is likely other countries in Southeast Asia will take a larger role in processing seafood, according to a panel of experts at the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference.
Trade relations between the U.S. and China became suddenly more volatile when the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump implemented tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump’s stated goal was to put an end to the significant trade imbalance between the two countries – an imbalance that U.S.-China Business Council President Craig Allen said was nothing new. Continue reading here (Source: SeafoodSource).
Trade-Offs Between Bycatch and Target Catches in Static Versus Dynamic Fishery Closures
The incidental catch of threatened species is still one of the main barriers to fisheries sustainability. What would happen if we closed 30% of the ocean to fishing with the goal of reducing bycatch? Analyzing 15 different fisheries around the globe, we found that under static area management, such as classic no-take marine area closures, observed bycatch could be reduced by 16%. However, under dynamic ocean management based on observed bycatch and closing the same total area but fragmented in smaller areas that can move year to year, that reduction can increase up to 57% at minimal or no loss of target catch. Continue reading here (Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).
Thai Union Donates Almost 4-Million Servings of Human and Pet Food Globally Over Two Years as COVID-19 Support
Thai Union Group PCL has donated almost four million serving of human and pet food around the world, along with COVID-19 supplies and other financial support, in the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.
In 2021 alone, Thai Union donated nearly one million servings of food, and many other COVID-19 supplies globally, as part of its Thai Union Cares program – a key component of the Company’s commitment to Healthy Living and taking care of the human and animal communities where it operates.
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The elephants at the Kulen Elephant Forest have spent most of their lives working in the tourism industry and are enjoying a long-awaited and well-deserved retirement. Here in the forest, they can finally roam free and unburdened. They will rediscover relationships, natural foods they haven’t eaten in years, and receive the best of care.
Our mission is to provide our residents with a happy and comfortable retirement but also to offer a fun, educational approach to elephant conservation and contribute as much as possible to preserving the remaining elephants of Cambodia.
Setting an Example
Retiring the elephants of Angkor is a major transition in Cambodia’s perception of elephants’ roles in society and culture. We hope that this transition will help inspire elephant owners across Cambodia to look more towards the conservation model as a real alternative.
We hope to pioneer a successful breeding programme for Cambodia’s elephants. With so few remaining in isolated pockets, we must strive to protect genetic diversity to combat inbreeding
Visitors will get a chance to learn the very real implications of elephant conservation in Cambodia. We offer an ethical, pragmatic and scientific rationale to the conservation debate, a message that we hope our visitors will understand and spread.
We aim to provide support and assistance whenever possible to the captive elephant community of Cambodia. Whether it be through advising, educating, resource exchange or hosting elephants in need of care; we are ready to lend a helping hand.
Meet the elephants
Meet the team
Olivier has worked as a veterinarian in various parts of Africa, which allowed him to nurture his passion for not only animals but biodiversity in general. As an experienced horticulturist, Olivier also works to support our forestry objectives.
Dr. Ronnachit Rungsri
Dr. Ronnachit Rungsri has decades of experience with over a thousand elephants across Thailand and Laos. He is one of Asia’s finest elephant veterinarians and has dealt with all aspects of elephant care, from routine procedures to artificial insemination. As a university lecturer, Dr. Rungsri is a great educator and a formidable source of information for all things elephant.
For over 20 years, Mr. Oan Kiry has worked with elephants in the temples of Angkor. Today, he uses his talents to smoothly run the Kulen Elephant Forest’s operations and maintain its relationship with the local community.
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Chi Mean. Translating roughly to “miss wealthy” has really developed into the star of KEF.
Fun, curious, and gentle she has really blossomed since moving to the forest. She spends her days with her best friend Chi Ole, but the two couldn’t be more different.
Chi Mean likes to be involved with everything, and is always happy to meet new friends and play all day long. She has a soft spot for our young bull Kham Song but unfortunately is most likely too old to have a baby with him.
Her favorite activity is pulling down the vines that grow in the forest, and kicking car tires in the water.
King of the Jungle.
The eldest bull in the herd but with a history of aggression towards elephants and people, Thorng Kham is usually hanging out in the forest with his two mahouts.
He is quite scared of the ladies when they are in a herd, choosing to just spend quality time with either Chi Tem or Chi Youl alone.
We are hoping that his new home will help him calm down and that he will enjoy the company of all the ladies.
The young bull of the herd, and defiantly a favorite of the ladies.
Kham song enjoys the company of all girls in the herd, but he is particular fond of Chi Mean, IPlock and Chi Chlorb.
He is wary of strangers, and only really trusts his mahouts.
He can be found roaming in the forest with a lady friend close by but with his mahout always around to keep him calm and relaxed.
We hope his love of the ladies will blossom into a successful breeding program in the future.
Itok is still finding it hard to settle in her new home.
She can be easily scared in the forest, and has become very defensive with others in the herd because of this.
She relies heavily on her friend Gomphoy for guidance, and staff at the forest work closely with her to help her relax and feel comfortable in her new home.
A shy and wary elephant, she is often kept away from the herd and strange people as this can upset her.
We hope in the future she will regain her confidence and happily find her place in the herd.
Chi chlorb a once quiet and nervous elephants before moving to the forest, has changed into a confident and dominant girl who knows exactly what she wants.
She is not afraid to rip down trees, or push past other elephants in order to get the foods she loves the most, and can be frequently seen taking the water hose and putting it directly into her mouth.
Choosing to hang out with best friend’s Savath and Chi Tone, Chi Chlorb will instantly be at their sides if one calls, with the three being inseparable.
She is also our potential breeding female, and we hope her relationship with Kham Song will grow and the pair can have a baby.
Chi Youl is the mud queen.
At every opportunity she will cover herself in mud, then find a nice big tree to scratch herself against.
Gentle and friendly with people, especially children, she can be feisty with other elephants, and will do anything to protect her best friend Iplock.
A bit of a drama queen, she can often be heard trumpeting over the slightest disturbance in the forest, startling the herd for no reason.
Chi Ole has become a very calm and quiet girl since arriving to the forest, preferring to watch from a distance than get involved.
Not afraid to let others know when she isn’t happy, you will most likely see her hanging out with her best friend Chi Mean.
After spending most her life with Chi Mean, the pair are inseparable, even sleeping and sharing meals together.
She has developed a special relationship with her mahout after losing her sight in one eye, she relies on him to direct her through the forest.
39 Years Old
Chi Tem is our loudest elephant, and regularly trumpets and calls out to her best friend Chi Tan.
Curious and always hungry, Chi Tem enjoys interacting with visitors and her famous squeak can be heard when she’s happy and excited. Her favorite thing to do, besides eating, is splashing and playing in the water.
She has a special relationship with Chi Tan, and will protect her from the other elephants and help pull down tress for her friend to eat. Her Mahout is famous for his leaf singing abilities and she will happily follow him in the forest while he sings to her.
47 Years Old
Chi Tone has undergone the biggest transformation at the forest.
Before she was quiet, and after being blinded in one eye, became very frustrated and often fighting with other elephants.
But she has blossomed into the matriarch of the herd, when she calls the herd comes running, and now she has the respect of all the elephants.
Now she is curios, playful and LOUD!! Her trumpets can be heard every day, and she is proof that the elephants are enjoying their well awaited retirement.
57 Years Old
Gomphoy is another grandma of the herd, and the only one to have had children. Stubborn and wise, she knows all the best places to find food, but once she has found something tasty she is reluctant to move.
She shares a remarkable likeness to her mahout in both personality and appearance, and the pair have a very strong relationship.
She is still uncertain of her new home, and is slowly adapting to her new life in the forest.
She is wary of the other elephants, choosing to spend most her time with her friend Itok or Kham Song.
37 Years Old
Iplock is our big beauty and roundest of all our elephants due to her love of food.
She is always on a diet but manages to find the sweet fruit within the forest, or entice visitors to feed her more with her charming personality.
She enjoys the company of visitors, especially children and will happily approach anyone to see what food they might have.
Since arriving to the forest she loves to spend her days with her best friend Chi Youl, with the pair enjoying mud baths and rubbing up against trees.
47 Years Old
Savath is our wild child. She loves to be in the wilderness, eating wild foods and hanging out with best friends Chi Chlorb and Chi Tone.
Once a very shy and quiet elephant, who was fearful of strangers, she has relaxed since coming to the forest and come out of her shell.
She enjoys being fed by visitors, and has become very vocal and playful, especially in the water.
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New coronavirus strain found
Covid-fighting antibodies do not protect from a new strain of coronavirus
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Chinese scientists have warned of “a potential bio-safety threat” presented by a new strain of coronavirus, which, subject to mutation, may be passed from animals to humans and cannot be “cross-neutralized” by Covid-targeting antibodies.
The researchers, most of whom come from Wuhan University, “unexpectedly found” that the NeoCoV strain discovered in South Africa and its “close relative,” PDF-2180-CoV, “can efficiently use some types of bat Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and, less favorably, human ACE2 for entry.”
SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified in Wuhan and later caused the Covid-19 pandemic, uses ACE2 to enter the human body, too.
Omicron Covid strain evolved in mice – Chinese study
The preprint, published on the bioRxiv portal, says that infection with a strain, now targeting bats, “could not be cross-neutralized by antibodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 or MERS-CoV.”
Admitting that the nature of NeoCoV “remains enigmatic,” the scientists warn of a “potential bio-safety threat” for humans, “with both high fatality and transmission rate.”
Other recent studies, also conducted by Chinese scientists, have shown that “the progenitor” of the Omicron variant, which caused a new wave of the infections around the world and is now dominant in many countries, “jumped from humans to mice, rapidly accumulated mutations conducive to infecting that host, then jumped back into humans.” | <urn:uuid:2a42ea78-1f8e-4330-80d0-8673fb44f5e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thesisaviewtimes.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=m74&wr_id=1410&page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.929916 | 432 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Episode 91 of Dad Bod Rap Pod, opens with co-host Demone Carter lamenting the state of rap-oriented academia. “I like legit hip-hop books,” he tells his fellow podcasting crew—David Ma and Nate LeBlanc. “There’s a lot of shitty ones.”
Carter continues the banter with an anecdote about the kinds of rap biographies typically found in the young adult section of the public library, where he recently discovered a very short book on Kendrick Lamar.
“It’s the type of book you would read in fourth grade because you had to do a fuckin’ book report,” he quips.
For their part, Ma and LeBlanc, agree. All three are dyed-in-the-wool hip-hop heads who would like to see rap music treated with the respect it deserves. Depending on who you ask, the genre is somewhere between 40 and 50 years old. And given that hip-hop has been a mainstream musical force since at least the late ’70s, there are now three generations of demographically distinct Americans—Gen X-ers, Millennials and Gen Z-ers—who grew up or are now coming of age listening to commercial rap.
“In the music section of any bookstore, there are hundreds of books on rock & roll. … There are like 50 books on John Coltrane,” Ma says. “Scholarly attention to the history of hip-hop is long overdue.”
While there certainly have been serious studies of hip-hop, including author Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop and We Gon’ Be Alright, the Dad Bod Rap Pod is at the vanguard of brainy podcasts focused on the genre.
As it turns out, on this particular episode, Carter is winding up to introduce the author of a forthcoming deep dive into an under-documented chapter of hip-hop history.
Goin’ Off: The Story of the Juice Crew and Cold Chillin’ Records, is by author Ben Merlis, the guest of DBRP episode 91. Featuring a forward by the San Jose-bred DJ and boutique record label owner Peanut Butter Wolf, Goin’ Off will be released later this month as part of the RPM series on historically important independent music labels, published by German record company BMI.
Hip-hop scholars and journalists are common guests on the podcast, which Carter, Ma and LeBlanc have been recording for about two years now. Two weeks ago, on Episode 90, the crew interviewed Shawn Setaro, a senior staff writer for Complex, who has recently been covering the trial of one of hip-hop’s most divisive figures, Tekashi 69.
Ma also uses his connections as a music journalist to secure emcees and DJs. Kool Keith, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Open Mike Eagle and Ant (from Atmosphere) have all been guests on the show.
The podcast grew organically out of conversations the three would have on a regular basis over beers. “We have these sort of nerdy conversations anyways,” Ma says, explaining the show’s inception. “We thought we might as well record.”
As a music writer, Ma’s insights are rounded out by those of Carter—a local rapper who goes by the name Dem One—and LeBlanc, a longtime record collector. Ma and LeBlanc have a history of working together as DJs on the local club circuit; they also co-founded Needle to the Groove Records, the independent record label that they run out of the Needle to the Groove record shop in San Jose (the shop has a separate ownership group). Dad Bod Rap Pod is taped at the shop’s adjacent recording studio.
Moving forward, Ma says he and his collaborators look forward to growing the podcast, which already enjoys a global following and is nearing a milestone—its 100th weekly episode.
In the process, Ma hopes his podcast will further legitimize the academic study of hip-hop music and culture. It only makes sense. Although it took a while for critics to take jazz and rock & roll seriously, eventually fans of every genre grow up and take control of the levers of society.
“We’re at a point where there is dad rap,” Ma says.
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Google Honors International Women’s Day with both a lovely typographic Google Doodle as well as an impressively comprehensive section on Women in Culture featuring female innovators and pioneers in every imaginable subject.
Google Honors International Women’s Day
Today’s Google Doodle, honoring International Women’s Day, might have caught your attention with its fun typography and inspiring quotes- but that’s just the tip of the female iceberg. Their Arts & Culture section is filled with fascinating stories and images of women who have left their mark on our world.
But first, the quotes and typographic art from today’s Google Doodle:
From innovative artists and pioneering scientists, to the women who campaigned for universal suffrage and social equality – Google along with collaborating companies, explore the far-ranging impact women have had on all aspects of culture:
And there’s so much more to explore! Women in Art, Fashion, Space, Action and much much more. This wonderfully vast collection of stories, facts and inspiring quotes about Women in Culture comes from Google, in collaboration with the following companies:
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Metabolic adaptation is real, however the true purpose for failure in a low-calorie food regimen plan is an unsustainable diet that leads to binging. For instance, those that struggle with meals restriction might find it difficult adapting to the alternatives on the paleo eating regimen. Thus, going into too huge of a deficit is unsustainable and negatively impacts one’s well being.
There’s debate whether or not the Paleo Weight loss program is actually healthy or not. But there are a number of that that is merely not true. Palaeolithic diets had been first prompt by Eaton and Konner in 1985ii on the premise that current day continual metabolic problems have resulted from a gene-culture mismatch and the human body’s lack of ability to adapt from Palaeolithic timesiii. Nonetheless, in comparison with the Paleo Weight loss plan, the CSIRO Whole Wellbeing Food regimen has been extensively studied in a variety of teams. Higher-protein diets have been examined in analysis and an area version has been promoted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Analysis Organisation (CSIRO), referred to as the Total Wellbeing Dieti.
Any proof of its advantages is anecdotal. Although some studies seem to help the advantages of the paleo weight-reduction plan, many scientists still imagine we do not yet have sufficient evidence to know whether the consuming strategy is completely wholesome and with out risk. No one knows the lengthy-term results of this weight-reduction plan as a result of no one has researched it to any degree,» Sandon says. It is not likely a brand new idea; as an alternative it is one which’s been recycled via the years, she says. And again, there is no concrete scientific proof that the paleo food plan wards off disease, Sandon says.
The paleo food regimen is likely one of the hottest diets round. For this reason, the Paleo Weight-reduction plan is also known as the caveman food plan, since principally your aim is to eat just like a caveman would have earlier than the introduction of processed meals. The Paleo Weight loss program, short for the Paleolithic Food plan, is basically a food regimen that focuses on eating recent greens, fruits, nuts, proteins, and other naturally occurring meals that hunters and gatherers may have eaten through the «Paleolithic» period.
But we have now solely a smattering of evidence that the neo-paleo weight loss program works as a weight administration software (and a noisy delegation arguing that we should eat less meat to deal with). The weight loss program will also be based on paleo foods, adding in a couple of trendy healthy meals like grass-fed butter and gluten-free grains. And we now have only vague concept of how many people observe the food plan as we speak.
Some fat supply us extra health benefits than others. Beneficial results of consuming a Paleolithic-type weight loss program on traits of the metabolic syndrome: a randomized managed pilot-research. However, dietary fats fats present in food typically performs an enormous function in our total well being, together with satisfying our urge for food – which actually can help with weight upkeep. Fat are a foundational macronutrient in our eating regimen and definitely shouldn’t be condemned. Boers I, Muskiet FA, Berkelaar E, et al.
These foods are great sources of vitamin, and the concept to exclude them because the caveman didn’t eat them and our bodies cannot course of them properly is tough to help without definitive analysis. The sticking level of the Paleo Weight loss program for a lot of dietitians is that it excludes completely wholesome meals, reminiscent of black beans, garbanzo beans, black-eye peas, peanut butter, Greek yogurt, milk, oats, quinoa, and brown rice.
In a single research out of Sweden, following a Paleo weight loss plan for simply five weeks produced a big reduction in blood stress, triglycerides and cholesterol levels in postmenopausal women. One other study showed that the Paleo eating regimen was efficient at growing levels of excellent HDL cholesterol, which strikes by the bloodstream clearing fatty plaque to help stop atherosclerosis.
However what precisely is the paleo weight loss program, the place did it come from, what are its benefits, what foods are allowed on the plan? Allow consultants to clarify. In response to Loren Cordain, Ph.D., the healthiest weight loss plan is one that our ancestors ate 10,000 years in the past – during the Paleolithic period. Additionally, the effectiveness of paleo diets can only be assumed as the scientific proof is restricted.
Another assumption of the Paleo weight-reduction plan is that Paleolithic man was free from the power diseases that plague modern man. The researchers discovered proof of possible or definite atherosclerosis in 34% of mummies and in all 4 geographical populations ( 34 ). In actual fact, there may be some evidence to recommend that Paleolithic man was not free from the chance of chronic illness. ( 34 ) determined the prevalence of atherosclerosis in a pattern of 137 mummies from 4 totally different geographical regions or populations spanning greater than 4,000 years, together with individuals from Egypt, Peru, the Ancestral Puebloans of Southwest America, and the Unangan of the Aleutian Islands. Using computerized tomography scans, Thompson et al.
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Polydopamine/Cysteine surface modified isoporous membranes with self-cleaning properties
Hedhili, Mohamed N.
KAUST DepartmentAdvanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research Center
Chemical Engineering Program
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Online Publication Date2017-02-03
Print Publication Date2017-05
Permanent link to this recordhttp://hdl.handle.net/10754/622842
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AbstractThe major challenge in membrane filtration is fouling which reduces the membrane performance. Fouling is mainly due to the adhesion of foulants on the membrane surfaces. In this work, we studied the fouling behaviour of polystyrene-b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P4VP) isoporous membrane and the mussel inspired polydopamine/L-cysteine isoporous zwitterionic membrane. Polystyrene-b-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PS-b-P4VP) isoporous membranes were fabricated via self-assembly and non-solvent induced phase separation method. Subsequently, the isoporous membrane was modified by a mild mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) coating; the isoporous surface structure and the water flux was retained. Zwitterionic L-cysteine was further anchored on the PDA coated membranes via Michael addition reaction at pH 7 and 50 °C to alleviate their antifouling ability with foulants solution. The membranes were thoroughly characterized using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and zeta potential measurements. Contact angle and dynamic scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements were carried out to examine the hydrophilicity. The pH-responsive behaviour of the modified membrane remains unchanged and antifouling ability after PDA/L-cysteine functionalization was improved. The modified and unmodified isoporous membranes were tested using humic acid and natural organic matter model solutions at 0.5 bar feed pressure.
CitationShevate R, Kumar M, Karunakaran M, Hedhili MN, Peinemann K-V (2017) Polydopamine/Cysteine surface modified isoporous membranes with self-cleaning properties. Journal of Membrane Science. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2017.01.058.
SponsorsThe authors acknowledge the financial support from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.
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Darlamdanda is a village development committee in Palpa District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2389 people living in 469 individual households.
This VDC shares its borders with Khanichhap VDC in the east, Nayar Namtalesh and Chappani VDCs in the south, Yamgha VDC in the west, and Syangja district on the north. The holy place Ramdi on the bank of Kali Gandaki river is located in this VDC. The famous and unique Ramdi-pul (bridge) in the Palpa Syangja section of Siddarath Highway is located here. There are special occasions like haribodhani ekadashi (also called Kattike Thuliekadashi), baishakhe sakranti (Nepali new year) that people from neighbouring VDCs and districts visit here.
Darlamdanda Higher Secondary School is one of the major educational institutions in the area. It was established in 2013 BS (Bikram Sambat) as a primary school. It has been upgraded to higher levels in different steps and now classes run up to 12th grade. This school has a huge impact on the educational life of the people in the remote north of the district headquarter.
The climate in the area is very nice all yeararound. The snowfall is a rare case almost no record so far. It rains heavily in the summer. There is no irrigation facility so farmers have to depend on the rain (monsoon). The climate is very friendly to grow variety of fruits, vegetables, and grains.
This place was also known for the Sani Ukali (short but steeper climbings) on the way from Ramdi to Tansen and the Thuli Ukali (big one) in the neighbouring Chappani VDC. There was a project,around 1991 AD (2047 BS) to improve this historical trekking road from Ramdi to Tansen and some section of this was upgraded nicely. However, the work was not completed. After few years, another project started to provide a roadway from Tansen to Ramdi. This included a very hard work of the local people. By 2008 AD (2065 BS) the first phase of it was completed. Except for heavily raining seasons, there is a transportation service available from Butwal and Tansen to Darlamdanda and neighbouring village development committees.
In Nepali, the name of this place is दर्लमडांडा (and not the दर्लामडांडा as it sounds so from the spelling DARLAMDANDA). The ward number one of Darlamdanda VDC also has the same name Darlamdanda. There is a talestory why the name is darlamdanda, many years ago there were people living with their last name Darlami and geographically the place is a hill/mountain (with meaning डांडा in Nepali language). With this combination the place is now known as दर्लमडांडा. However, majority of the people living in Darlamdanda today have a very different last name (Gaire) compared to the historic last name (Darlami).
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Labradors are one of the most popular dog breeds in the world for a reason – they are lovable! Labs love spending time with their families, going on walks, and playing fetch. They are always happy and ready to please. This article will discuss some of the things that labs love the most!
What are Labs favorite thing to do?
Labs are one of the most popular breeds of dogs; they are incredibly loving and loyal companions. But what do they enjoy doing most? Many Lab owners say their favorite pastime is spending time with their human family.
Labs love nothing more than being included in whatever activity they are doing, whether going for a walk, playing fetch, or just snuggling on the couch. They are also very food-oriented, so treats are always a big hit!
Training is another activity that Labs enjoy, as it provides them with a chance to bond with their owner while learning new things. Ultimately, Labs want to be where their people are and share in the fun – they are man’s best friend.
What makes Labradors happy?
Anyone who has owned a Labrador knows that they are one of the happiest breeds of dog. Labs are known for their cheerful disposition and friendly nature. But what exactly makes them so happy?
One theory is that it has to do with their origins as working dogs. Labradors were originally bred to assist fishers in Newfoundland, and they soon became known for their tireless work ethic and eagerness to please. This innate desire to work hard may have translated into a general feeling of happiness in the breed.
Another possibility is that Labs are grateful for the companionship they receive from their owners.
After all, Labs are known for their loyalty and affection, and they seem to understand that a loving home is something to be treasured. Whatever the reason, there’s no denying that Labradors are some of the happiest dogs around.
Do Labs like to be hugged?
Every Lab is different, just like every person is different. Some Labs may love being hugged, while others may not be as fond of it. The best way to tell if your Lab enjoys being hugged is to watch their body language. If they seem relaxed and comfortable, they’re likely enjoying the affection.
However, if they start squirming or pulling away, it’s best to respect their wishes and give them some space. Remember, your Lab is always the best judge of what makes them happy – so if they’re not a fan of hugging, that’s perfectly okay!
What do Labs need to be happy?
Labs are among the most popular dog breeds, and it’s no wonder why. They are loyal, affectionate, and intelligent dogs that make great companions. But what do Labs need to be happy? First and foremost, they need plenty of exercises.
Labs are high-energy dogs that need to burn off steam daily. A good walk or run is a great way to keep your Lab happy and healthy.
Secondly, Labs need plenty of mental stimulation. They are intelligent dogs that thrive on learning new things. FLabs love using their minds from simple obedience training to more complex tricks; thirdly, Labs need plenty of attention from their humans.
They are social creatures that rely on their owners for companionship and love. So if you’re looking for a happy Lab, be prepared to give them plenty of exercises, mental stimulation, and attention!
Where do Labs like to be pet the most?
One of the best things about Labs is that they are always up for a good belly rub. ITheyoften seems to prefer it when you rub their belly instead of their back.
This is because Labs have a thick coat of fur that can make back rubbing uncomfortable. Belly rubs are also a great way to bond with your Lab, as they are usually very responsive to this type of affection.
In addition to belly rubs, Labs also enjoy being petted on the head and behind the ears. These are areas where they are psusceptible, and they will often close their eyes and lean into your hand when you pet them in these spots. So if you’re looking for a way to show your Lab some love, start with a belly rub or two.
Labs make great pets because they are loyal, intelligent, and loving. They need plenty of exercises, mental stimulation, and attention to be happy, and they enjoy being petted on the head and behind the ears. Belly rubs are also a favorite pastime for Labs! Other than that, Labs just need a good home with people who will love them.
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Erroneous beliefs tend to be infectious – think Malcom Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman books, the ‘10,000 hours rule’ and other old wives’ tales. Erroneous beliefs thrive because they tell us want we want to believe, what makes us feel good – not what is true, because the truth tends to exclude a lot of people, and when you feel excluded you feel bad. No, you cannot be a great mathematician or physicist if your IQ is not high enough, even if you practice a lot. Yeah, truth and biological reality hurts, but there’s no escaping it.
Another book that needs to be thrown onto the pyre of obsolescence is Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, a book that may have been relevant in the pre-internet, pre-QE age – but not anymore. From the Wikipedia summary:
Six Ways to Make People Like You:
-Become genuinely interested in other people.
-Remember that a person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
-Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
-Talk in terms of the other person’s interest.
-Make the other person feel important – and do it sincerely.
Generosity, courteousness, open-mindedness, building rapport, etc – these traits and behaviors seldom seem to win over people online, and I’m highly skeptical that they still work offline in the hyper-competitive, winner-take-all, results-orientated post-2008 economy. I see many, many exceptions, of people whose ‘shtick’ is being a jerk, and these people have throngs of fans. Hell, you see this offline in Hollywood and in corporate America, too, of conceited people getting all the accolades and wealth. Donald Trump, Bill Gates, and Steve Ballmer, to name a few, are notorious for being difficult and dismissive – quite the opposite of Carnegie’s advice – yet they are at the top of their game and respected highly.
So, if Dale Carnegie is wrong, how do you win friends and influence people?
It’s very simple (to explain, not to execute), and embodying this trait will almost certainly guarantee respect, influence, and friends:
You have to be extremely competent. If you are perceived as being very competent, you will win friends and influence people.
You see this over and over again. Bill Gates is very competent. Warren Buffet is competent. Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. Edison, Tesla, Newton, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs are all revered for their competence in the form of intellectual accomplishments, not for being agreeable ‘team players’. The list goes on and on. Competence trumps all, and maybe authenticity helps a little, too. If you try too hard be nice you will be perceived as being a doormat or a pushover, and you will not only fail to win friends and influence people, but you may even be taken advantage of. But can’t you be nice and competent? Of course, but competence, again, is key. Or, maybe, Mr. Carnegie’s advice only works if you’re competent to begin with.
In the NRx sphere, for example, Scott and Jayman are critics of NRx, but they are highly respected by the NRx/alt-right community as authorities on internet subcultures and human biodiversity, respectively. Competence is enough to bridge ideological disagreements. If you’re perceived as being competent, people, especially other competent people, will listen and they will respect your views, knowing that you’re a worthy intellectual opponent who not only challenges their views but open new ones.
But being competent is hard…much harder than merely being a ‘people pleaser’. You you need a lot of knowledge, a deep understanding of things, experience, and probably a high-IQ, which for 95% of the population, by virtue of the Bell Curve, is unobtainable. You’re not going to sell a lot of books or get many speaking engagements selling a message that success is out of reach for the vast majority of people. | <urn:uuid:e4eeada9-6449-4428-9eff-f98a3bfddd9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greyenlightenment.com/2015/08/18/dale-carnegie-is-wrong/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944506 | 894 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Augsburg - half day guided tour
Visit the city of Augsburg, which is one of Germany’s oldest cities, where you will perceive with your eyes, the famous landmarks:
• You'll get to see one of the most famous towers of Augsburg.
• The great gothic structure makes the place unique.
• The magnificent baroque place of Augsburg.
• The famous foundation headed from Greek mythology.
• A ceremonial room of the town.
• A very tall and beautiful tower in the Central District of the town.
• This fountain is one of the three magnificent fountains.
• The beautiful Medical church.
• A Roman Catholic church of the town.
• The world's oldest social housing complex.
Tour timings are flexible and can be amended depending on availability.Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this productPass By:
Rotes Tor, 86150 Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
Visit the Rotes Tor, am rotten which is the famous tower, also known as the red gate. It was renovated in the 20th century.Stop At:
Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra, Augsburg, Ulrichspl. 19, 86150 Augsburg, Germany
Visit the Catholic parish in Augsburg which is originated from the Roman tomb of St. Afra, who was put to death in the year 304. This building is a great example of Gothic architecture in Germany.
Duration: 30 minutesStop At:
Schaezlerpalais, Maximilianstrasse 46, 86150 Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
Thirdly to visit is this place, which is one of the magnificent baroque place in Augsburg. It was originated in 1765. It is widely regarded as the most artistically significant rococo ballroom in Germany.
The building is a registered historic monument declared by the state of Bavaria.
Duration: 30 minutesPass By:
Hercules' Fountain, Maximilianstraße, 86150 Augsburg, Germany
Your next destination will be the Hercules’ fountain, which is the third famous fountain of Augsburg. This was made in the year 1597, which was installed at the current location after 5 years. The bronze sculpture situated there, shows Hercules killing the hydra, a seven-headed monster from Greek mythology.Stop At:
Goldener Saal, Rathausplatz 1, 86150 Augsburg, Germany
Next, you will see is a ceremonial room in the Augsburg town hall, which is famous for its ceiling paintings and the golden wall decoration. It was completed in 1643. In 1944 the town hall and the golden Saal were destroyed by an air raid and was reconstructed after the war.
Duration: 45 minutesPass By:
Perlach Tower, St. Peter am Perlach, 86150 Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
You will be seeing the Perlach Tower, which is a 70 meter tall Perlachturm Tower located in the central District of Augsburg. It was originally built as a watchtower in the 10th century.Pass By:
Augustusbrunnen, Rathausplatz, Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
Your next destination will be the fountain named Augustus Brunnen. It is located in the town hall square. It was cast in the years between 1588-1594.Stop At:
St. Anne's Church, Augsburg, Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
This location is a medieval church building that was originally a part of a monastery. It was built in 1321 and is notable for its elaborate interior decoration.
Duration: 15 minutesStop At:
Dom Hotel Augsburg, Frauentorstraße 8, 86152 Augsburg, Germany
You'll visit the cathedral of Augsburg which is a Roman Catholic church. It was founded in the 11th century, with the 14th-century Gothic additions. Its towers measures about 62 meters high.
Duration: 15 minutesPass By:
Fuggerei, Jakoberstr. 26 At the end of Vorderer Lech, 86152 Augsburg, Bavaria Germany
Last but not least, The Fuggerei is the world's oldest social housing complex which is still in use. This is being named from the Fugger family. This was the place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed. It was founded in the year 1516.
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Rotes Tor, 86161 Augsburg, Germany
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What better way to invest in the future of Crook County than helping our citizens accomplish their goals?
The Crook County Foundation hosts two types of scholarships – Annual Scholarships from contributions that are made each year, and Endowment Funds whose donors wish to establish life-long ‘forever’ scholarships with larger donations generating interest income that is then applied toward scholarships every year.
Thanks to generous donors who support our youth by contributing to CCF’s growing scholarship endowment funds, Crook County Foundation now administers 22 family, individual and business scholarships and has invested over $900,000 to ensure scholarships will be available to Crook County Students forever.
In October 2012, the Foundation announced a large endowment gift from Doris Cutright. Doris lived in Prineville for over 50 years and when she passed away, she wanted to establish a lasting scholarship fund. Doris requested certain criteria for the scholarships, one of those being that each scholarship award amount to $2,500. She also wanted the scholarships to be awarded to current, or former, Crook County graduates wishing to pursue higher education through a four-year college or a trade school. The Foundation, honored to be selected as stewards of her generous gift, has invested the money with the Oregon Community Foundation and anticipate being able to award approximately $25,000 in scholarships per year.
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The extent to which prices for Latvian residential property will depend on the economic situation, The Baltic Course writes.
A reduction in GDP and economic activity will result in lower real estate prices in Latvia in 2020.
This was stated at the webinar of the Latvian Real Estate Association (LANIDA) by the Starlex Investment partner Auseklis Sarkans.
According to him, it is necessary to take into account the inertial response: the economic situation produces a delayed effect on the housing market. A drop in real estate prices in Latvia should be expected in a few months.
At Arco Real Estate, they believe that Latvian real estate prices will decline by 3% at best and by 10% at worst.
“If the world and the Latvian economic situations improve in the summer or in September, the drop in prices in 2020 will be within the range of 3-5%. If the crisis lasts until the end of this year, the prices can fall by as much as 10%. It is absolutely certain that we will not see price increases this year,” said Māris Laukalējs, an Arco Real Estate Board member.
“The segment of serial apartments is likely to experience the greatest price decline,” the expert assumed. “In the Latvian capital, prices for these Soviet-built apartment blocks began to stagnate in the summer of 2019. At the same time, prices for land plots for private development in top locations will remain stable.”
According to Sarkans, the liquidity of real estate objects plays a decisive role. Quality objects remain highly marketable even during the crisis.
Now, the number of real estate transactions in Latvia has decreased due to the wait-and-see attitude of buyers and difficulties in the registration of a purchase (banks and notaries are less accessible, and the Land Register offices are closed). In the future, a decline in the number of transactions will be caused by the economic situation and not the restrictions imposed due to the quarantine.
“The house rental market has also changed,” a Starlex Investment partner Valeriy Kommissarov says. “Owners offer for a short-term rental of 3-4 months quality apartments which they used to lease to tourists through Booking.com and AirBnB. Such apartments can be rented for 300-500 euros per month, excluding utility bill payments.”
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Young Water Dragons Award
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair is the largest celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for young people in the UK. At The Big Bang Fair you will find an award-winning combination of shows, interactive workshops, exhibits and careers information from STEM based companies and professionals.
The Big Bang Competition is a key element of the Fair, recognising and rewarding young people’s achievements in all areas of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), whilst also providing them with the opportunity to build their skills and confidence in project-based work.
During The Big Bang Competition representatives from Future Water Association, Anglian Water & Artesia Consulting present the Young Water Dragons Award to the individual, or team, who from their industry viewpoint, has produced the best water-based project.
Judging 2019’s water themed projects were Jason Tucker – Executive Director with Anglian Water Services, Sarah Rogerson of Artesia Consulting and Alastair Moseley, Head of Future Water Association’s Innovation Hub. All three judges were impressed by the quality of the projects submitted, along with the maturity and creativity of all the young people involved.
The winners of the 2019 Young Water Dragons Award were a team from Hurstpierpoint College with their project – ‘Improving Wastewater Screens’. A detailed study of the mechanical and hydraulic characteristics of screens, including the shape and size, drawing conclusions that will be of significance to the screen manufacturing industry.
Future Water Association and Anglian Water look forward to participating in The Big Bang Fair Competition 2020 and cannot wait to see what industry challenging ideas the bright minds of the UK come up with next.
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The Decimation Of The Osage Nation
Native Americans have been getting forced off their land for a long time. Although Thomas Jefferson promised they shall know the United States as only "friends and benefactors," he forced them from their ancestral home in 1804 after he signed the Louisiana Purchase.
Assured by the government that Kansas territory would belong to the Osage forever, they were soon forced from their new home by white settlers (including the Wilder family of Little House fame) who plundered their burial sites and squatted on their land until they felt little choice but to sell to them.
The Osage finally settled on territory in Oklahoma that most whites found "unfit for cultivation," at least until they found oil underneath those rocks. Then it became attractive to powerful white men who hatched a plot to kill the Osage obtain and obtain mineral rights to the land.
This is the chilling story of the systematic murder of one group of native people. It's the bigger story of how the United States government has betrayed and controlled the sovereignty of a nation of people who lived here first.
This story never seems to end. In 2019, Attorney General William Barr announced a plan to address the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans. I wonder whether anything has changed.
- David Grann - Staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Lost City of Z: Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Denny McAuliffe - Editor at The Washington Post, adjunct professor in journalism at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and the author of The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History
- Jim Gray - Former Principal Chief of the Osage Nation and current Tribal Administrator for the Sac and Fox Nation
Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired August 10, 2017.
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Huawei is expected to deliver next-generation 5G equipment and mobile devices next year, but those products may not reach Australian shores at all. The Chinese company's Australian unit announced on Twitter that the country has banned Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G technology there due to national security concerns.
The ban prevents local mobile carriers in the country from purchasing 5G technology equipment from the Chinese companies. Australia's move worsens Huawei's regulatory woes across the world, with the company and ZTE having been recently blocked from supplying technology to the U.S. government.
In a statement, Australia's government cited concerns that companies under the "extrajudicial directions from a foreign government" may expose the country's network to unauthorized access and security risks. The fear is not without its basis. Organizations and individuals in China are required by law to aid in the government's intelligence efforts, making Huawei's technology a potential instrument of espionage.
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COVID-19 is a warning of how devastating a planetary crisis can be. As we continue to tackle it, our kids face potential waves of new crises – fires, floods, droughts, and global insecurity – due to climate change.
Canada’s federal and provincial governments are putting billions of dollars into economic recovery. How they spend that money is critical to the kind of world our children will grow up in: will it be a healthier, more sustainable, more just society, or will it further entrench the climate destruction and injustices that pre-dated COVID-19?
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Government Schemes to Assist Cancer Patients’ Financial Battle in India
The Best Government Schemes in India to Assist Cancer Patients
Cancer demands a number of costly treatments and therapies from the patient it afflicts. The treatments correspond to the specifics of this disease you may be suffering from. There is a large variety of therapies for cancer sufferers available which include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, to name a few.
However, the cost of availing these treatments are generally on the pricier side. A large chunk of the affected population fall below the poverty line.Consequently, they are unable to seek the services of the best cancer hospital in india.
Spreading Awareness About Cancer Schemes
The national cancer awareness day has been observed since 2014. Yet awareness about cancer still eludes a major section of indian population.
People from lower economic backgrounds cannot access the latest findings and research on various aspects of cancer published in indian journal of cancer. It makes it all the more necessary to disseminate knowledge about various government schemes available for this affliction.
List of Government Schemes
Cancer not only takes a physical and mental toll, but also a heavy financial toll. A very low percentage of Indians have shielded themselves from health insurance. A vast majority of indian citizens still lack proper knowledge about the ways of utilizing government schemes aimed to cover health expenditures.
The following list of government schemes for cancer patients in India will put a rest to the endless financial struggle faced by the families of those suffering from this disease.S. No.Name of the schemeDescription1.Health Minister’s Cancer Patient’s FundThe scheme is offered under Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi. It provides financial relief for cancer patients who live below the Poverty Line.2.State Illness Assistance Fund (SIAF)The scheme provides financial grants to below poverty line patients needing major surgical treatments that may cost up to Rs. 1,50,000 at a government cancer hospital.3.The Health Minister’s Discretionary GrantsUnder the scheme the government offers financial aid to cancer patients in India whose annual income is less than Rs. 1,00,000. Financial assistance covers up to 70% of the total expenses.4.Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)
The scheme provides health cover including cancer insurance to economically disadvantaged sections. It covers all the expenses pertaining to three pre-hospitalisation days and 15 post-hospitalisation days of patients in a cancer hospital.5.The Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS)The scheme is intended for retired Central Government employees and pensioners. It provides compensation for cancer surgical treatments at nominal and revised rates from any cancer hospital. These hospitals can be other than those set up under CGHS6.Cancer Patients Concession for Travel by Air
The government scheme for cancer patients in india is for those residents who are travelling for the same purpose. Discount of upto 50% on basic fare in economy cabin can be availed by them.7.The Chief Minister’s Relief FundThe scheme provides complete financial aid to cancer sufferers from economically deprived sections of the population.
Cancer continues to ravage an alarmingly high number of people. The only visible weapon against it is its early detection, treatment, and consequent prevention. Its treatment requires technologically, advanced equipment and devices. It burdens the financial resources of many families having cancer patients. There is an urgent need to disseminate the right information about the government schemes for cancer patients.
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by Dale Coberly
The bad news is that we have slipped past the day when we could have saved Social Security from ever reporting “short term actuarial insolvency” by raising the payroll tax one tenth of one percent per year (about a dollar per week). This is only sorta bad because it doesn’t really matter . . . sorta. Social Security can still pay ALL promised benefits forever . . . by raising the payroll tax one tenth of one percent per year.
The reason it is sorta bad is that the people who hate Social Security will react to a Trustees Report of “short term actuarial insolvency” as if the world was going to come to a violent end tomorrow and they would lose all their money. “We told you so!” would be their last words. Well, not their last words, unfortunately. They would keep saying it at least every year if not every day, loudly, in the halls of Congress and on a TV station near you. Even the serious and responsible ones.
That’s because at one tenth of one percent per year short term insolvency never goes away; it just gets put back a year every year. Actually, the one tenth percent per year would catch up and “short term insolvency” would go away. But not before the Congress did something stupid and “fixed” Social Security by privatizing it, or by turning it into welfare as we knew it . . . depending on which party gets the votes first.
But the good news is that “short term insolvency” could be made to go away by raising the payroll tax one-and-a-half tenths of one percent per year starting next year. This would be a dollar and a half per week. But the “per year” is misleading. The tax would only need to be raised about every other year for a few years and at increasing intervals after that. This would average less than one tenth of one percent per year until the tax increase stabilizes at a little less than two percent above the current 6.2%
There are many other ways to accomplish essentially the same thing. But this is probably the simplest. It is also the fairest because it spreads the cost more or less evenly over the people who will get the increased benefits from their longer life expectancy. It also avoids creating a large Trust Fund which gives the bad guys so many opportunities for mischief (mostly crying “Social Security is Broke! Flat Bust!”) whenever the Trustees Report says “the Trust Fund may run out of money in seventy-five years or so unless we raise the tax a tenth of a percent or so . . . when wages will be twice as high as they are now.”
Please note, the percent tax goes up, but due to the magic of mathematics and a rising standard of living, you will have more money (real dollars) in your pocket after paying the tax than you have today. AND you will get the “tax” back with interest when you need it most. Without a “means test.”
If we don’t get around to raising the tax one and a half tenths of one percent starting next year (2020), we would still be able to avoid further projections of “short term insolvency” by raising the tax two tenths of a percent by 2021. Again this would be only for a few years, then the tax increases could fall back to one tenth of one percent per year, OR we could continue with the two tenths every other year or so for a few years, and then at decreasing intervals for a few more years until the total tax increase reaches the magic two full percent above what it is today. That would be a sustainable level for as the eye can see into the infinite horizon.
But the really bad news is that you won’t do anything to make Congress understand this, and probably sooner than later they will “fix” Social Security in a way that destroys its value as retirement insurance for workers. REAL insurance. Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America, which used to mean something. | <urn:uuid:17f81d86-0495-4c94-bcbf-03cab3da5677> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://angrybearblog.com/2019/05/social-security-a-little-bad-news-sorta-and-a-little-good-news-sorta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973327 | 873 | 1.71875 | 2 |
11 Ways to Prepare for Your B-School Interview
As you may guess, the purpose of the MBA admissions interview is twofold. First, it gives the AdCom a chance to see a candidate’s personality, leadership qualities, and motivation for pursuing an MBA. Secondly, it also lets applicants tell their own stories beyond the essays and other materials in the application. Once you receive your b-school interview invitation, your focus should be on preparation.
Keep in mind that many schools, such as Dartmouth Tuck and MIT Sloan, pose behavioral questions during the interview. Presenting yourself succinctly can be especially difficult with behavioral questions (“Tell me about a time you…”) because it is natural to launch into a story without much direction. Stay focused on telling your story to demonstrate the qualities you wish schools to see.
Also, if your interview will take place over Zoom or Skype, as is the case for most business schools this cycle, don’t miss this post with additional advice for virtual MBA interviews.
Do these 11 things, and you’ll knock it out of the park on the big day.
- Go into it with confidence.
- Know yourself or the version of yourself that you want to display.
- Cover your weaknesses.
- Build up a broad base of knowledge about business and the world.
- Study the school in-depth, and, if possible, research the person who will interview you, too.
- Practice—and listen to this recent episode of the B-Schooled podcast with Interview Prep Dos and Don’ts
- Dress the part.
- Have a list of stories that you can adapt to various questions ready.
- Keep your answers concise, but always have a lot more to say.
- Stay cool.
- Know what questions to ask.
Finally, wrap up your b-school interview with a sincere thank you for the interviewer’s time. Also, remember to ask for a business card if you haven’t already received one. Send a thank-you note or email within 24 hours. Try to include a memorable detail from your conversation to help the interviewer remember you and reiterate your interest in attending the school.
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I'm not sure about the existence of molecules with bridges through rings. However, there are several publications of synthesis of molecules mimicking wheels and axles (rotaxanes; The “” refers to the number of interlocked components) as one shown below (Ref. 1):
(The diagram is from Reference 1)
This specific molecule (8; an “impossible” rotaxane) represents a macro-cycle with a straight-chain molecule with bulky end groups going through its center. The inclusion of two bulky end groups prevents the straight-chain molecule leaving the macro-cycle (mechanically interlocked) as depicted in the diagram (See Ref. 2 for the total synthesis of the molecule).
Note that Ref. 1 also cited articles for the synthesis of catenanes, which contain two interlocked rings (instead of one axle and one macrocycle). Keep in mind that there are some advanced catenanes and rotaxanes that exist (e.g., catenanes and rotaxanes).
(The structures are from Reference 1)
- Edward A. Neal, Stephen M. Goldup, "Chemical consequences of mechanical bonding in catenanes and rotaxanes: isomerism, modification, catalysis and molecular machines for synthesis," Chem. Commun. 2014, 50(40), 5128-5142 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC47842D).
- Jeffrey S. Hannam, Stephen M. Lacy, David A. Leigh, Carlos G. Saiz, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Sheila G. Stitchell, "Controlled Submolecular Translational Motion in Synthesis: A Mechanically Interlocking Auxiliary," Angew. Chem., Intl. Fd. 2004, 43(25), 3260-3264 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200353606). | <urn:uuid:dd336987-0882-49fb-b4b4-5ba37022eb1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/128488/do-molecules-with-bridges-through-rings-exist | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.852832 | 422 | 2.3125 | 2 |
To improve your round in golf, you can make a game plan in two ways. The first plan involves organizing everything you need to ensure that your game of golf is a success. In order to make this happen, you may book your tee time and select the right equipment and accessories. The second plan involves learning more about the golf course. You can learn the best way to play each hole before you step on the first tee.
If you’re able to organize the time of your play in advance, you can make your game of golf better. You might go with your colleague who gives you a call at 8:00 in the morning. The reason given would be to spare a place on the tee at 9:00. If you go to the game unorganized in this way, your performance and final score might be affected. Now let’s take a look at how you can plan your day of golf and improve your game.
Know your opponents
If you’ve got several golfers playing with you and know the accessible times, book your tee time. Contact your opponents and ask them if you can go ahead and confirm the booking. It’s always a good idea to confirm the presence of players in advance. You certainly wouldn’t want a situation where a player doesn’t turn up.
When you’re playing a competition match against folks that you don’t know, you must do some homework. This would help you in knowing about them as much as you can. You’ll also be able to study certain traits that they have in advance. Let’s say a player follows a strange routine before teeing off. If you know this in advance, you’ll also know how the player would behave before hitting the ball.
There are golfers who prefer playing nine holes. You’ll also come across some who hope for two rounds with lunch in between in a day. The number of holes has a great significance in golf. If you plan your energy for playing 18 holes, having another 9 or 18 might be disastrous. It might affect your performance in the second round as you’ve not prepared for it.
It’s also important that you prepare yourself for the weather. This is especially true in places where the weather can change at any moment during the day.
Check your clothing and equipment
You must select your clothing and accessories to be prepared for the day. Check your equipment well in advance before you play the next round. This would give you sufficient time to re-grip the handle of your golf club or replace any missing items. You can also purchase new balls and tees if necessary.
Know the golf course
Knowing what’s in store for you before leaving the first tee would help you improve your score. This involves understanding more about the conditions of the golf course. It also involves knowing about the locations of pins and how your chipping and driving match with the fairways. Planning ahead for the day of your golf is extremely necessary. This prepares you for all the shocks or surprises that you may face. | <urn:uuid:94019c4e-0c2a-459a-a79a-aa244d76727f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bowiegolf.com/how-to-plan-your-day-of-golf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965068 | 637 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Community, Nonprofits and Businesses sharing Information
Time: January 15, 2017 from 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Location: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Street: 170 Whitney Avenue
City/Town: New Haven
Website or Map: http://peabody.yale.edu/
Phone: (203) 432-3776
Event Type: community, poetry, open, mic
Organized By: Josue Irizarry
Latest Activity: Jan 13, 2017
The Community Poetry Open Mic, a featured event of the Peabody’s MLK Day celebration, gives community members of all ages an opportunity to share their original poetry or song and to speak their minds on issues of justice and injustice.
The first 25 submissions will be accepted. Space is limited.
Original poetry or song must be received at the Museum during business hours, or by mail, no later than Wednesday, January 4, 2017, and be accompanied by a completed registration form.
All participants will receive a T-shirt.
Poem or song must be original.
One poem or song per person.
A completed registration form must be included with your poem or song.
Content must be appropriate and fit the theme of justice and injustice.
If you are selected to participate you will be notified by phone or email.
How to Submit Entries
Participant should mail or deliver entries to:
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
170 Whitney Avenue
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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Antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system, bind to foreign particles in the body such as viruses or bacteria, called antigens. They are crucial diagnostic biomarkers that can inform a quick diagnosis of a medical condition in an individual. Yet measuring specific antibodies (in contrast to simply detecting their presence) remains difficult.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are addressing this challenge by developing technology that can provide fast, easy-to-use antibody quantification for medical testing.
E-DNA scaffold sensors, developed several years ago in chemistry professor Kevin Plaxco’s lab, have previously shown the ability to detect antibodies in small volume samples rapidly and in a single step.
“More recently we have worked hard to demonstrate they can actually have a major impact on the way we detect antibodies,” Claudio Parolo, a former Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral fellow in Plaxco’s lab and recipient of the 2016 Lindros Award for Translating Research to Medical Practice, said in an email.
To further assess the clinical potential of E-DNA sensors, the group tested them on authentic human samples of antibodies diagnostic for HIV. The researchers then compared the performance of the E-DNA scaffold sensors against those of two current gold standard techniques for antibody quantification. Their results are published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering.
One common method of serological testing, which measures the amount of antibodies in the blood, is the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). While it delivers accurate results and can test numerous assays simultaneously, an ELISA takes up to 20 steps to carry out, hours to complete and must be performed by trained personnel using specialized equipment. Another leading technique, the lateral flow assay (LFA) — which is used in home pregnancy tests — is inexpensive, quick and simple to perform in just two steps. Still, LFAs are limited in their ability to measure multiple analytes at once, are qualitative (mostly used for “yes/no” responses) and time-sensitive, as the test must be read in a narrow time window.
Finding a way to combine the advantages offered by each immunoassay platform could enhance serological testing and enable “improved diagnosis within the timeframe of a single visit to the clinic,” according to the paper.
Parolo, the lead author of the study, and the other scientists first established a baseline analytical standard. Using real patient serum samples, some of which were HIV-positive and some HIV-negative, they determined the clinical sensitivity and specificity of ELISAs and LFAs.
The investigators aimed to match the sensitivity and specificity of these techniques in E-DNA scaffold sensors — and in two or fewer steps, in 12 minutes or fewer, in quantitative detail and without a fixed read-out time window.
The performance of the E-DNA scaffold sensors paralleled the performances of ELISAs and LFAs, the study reports. “[The E-DNA sensors] discriminated HIV-positive and HIV-negative as [well as] the other two techniques,” Parolo said.
In fact, the clinical sensitivity of E-DNA sensors exceeded that of LFAs. E-DNA scaffold sensors could also provide quantitative information about antibody levels. Although ELISAs showed better analytical sensitivity limits of antibody detection, the E-DNA sensors delivered similar results for this serum test set — but in minutes and with one step.
The researchers demonstrated the applicability of E-DNA scaffold sensors by detecting HIV-diagnostic antibodies due to a “clinical need” as well as the potential to “give a real contribution to the field of HIV-diagnosis,” according to Parolo. Nonetheless, the platform can be adapted to detect any type of antibody as long as there is a well-defined bioreceptor on the antigen to which it can bind.
“For example we could use it for the detection of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, or for the detection of antibodies produced in response to an allergic reaction, and even for validating the efficiency of a new vaccine,” Parolo said.
He continued, “We are very satisfied with the behavior of our sensors and we believe that they can represent an alternative to current serological tests … Although replacing technologies that have been out there for almost 50 years is not an easy challenge, we will do everything we can to convince people of the huge potential E-DNA scaffold sensors can have on serological studies and diagnostics.”
Now a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Parolo is continuing his work with E-DNA scaffold sensors. His current project intends to consolidate E-DNA sensors in a paper-based microchip.
“I am now trying to combine the E-DNA scaffold sensors into a cheap, environmentally friendly and safe platform made of paper,” he said.
With this, Parolo seeks to help diagnose HIV and syphilis in pregnant women. A precise diagnosis can initiate treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission.
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We are living in an age where convenience trumps quality almost every time; commercially speaking MP3 makes all other music formats look insignificant and lossy streaming is so much bigger than its pricey lossless cousin that most people don’t know there’s an alternative. And more and more folk will pay extra for a product without wires. In a world where everything needs little more than a power connection that’s understandable.Why tether your headphones to anything if you don’t have to? Personally I’ve never been very lucky with Bluetooth, which is the ubiquitous wireless connection for audio devices: the place I review in seems to have a force field that stops it working smoothly and for a long time I was baffled that anyone would put up with such a glitchy format. Then I took the same devices to another place and found they worked seamlessly! But Bluetooth, originally compressed the signal it transmits and was limited to the lossy audio formats like MP3 and AAC, however aptX HD changed that as it offers full 24/48 resolution. This last, like AirPlay and Wi-Fi DLNA, are more likely to get a signal to its destination with the minimum of degradation.
Aurender has entered the wireless speaker market with the S5W, which is supplied with a Wi-Fi transmitter dongle that is specified to be good for lossless audio up to the red book CD standard of 16-bit/44.1kHz. There are wireless audio systems on the market that claim to transmit up to 24-bit/96kHz so the Aurender’s is not a game changer. What makes this speaker really interesting is the other side of the equation: power.
Although the S5W is supplied with inline power supplies and cables for each speaker there is also a large aperture in the back of each speaker that will accept a rechargeable battery. I have to admit I was a bit baffled when I opened one of the boxes and found two batteries for a cordless drill and a charger to match, but then I opened the speaker box and made the connection. The 18V Bosch power tool Li-Ion batteries come supplied with this loudspeaker, but additional batteries and charges can be purchased separately, albeit not from many sources in the UK (they are more common in the US); you can get two additional Bosch batteries and a charger for £163 plus carriage. This unusual approach makes the S5W a truly wireless speaker which is a major bonus for installation and portability: the only drawback is that you need to remember to charge the batteries every so often. Aurender claims up to 50 hours of battery operation but that will depend entirely on how loud you play them; more output means more power usage. There’s a small light on each speaker that turns red if charging is required, it blinks green when disconnected or remains solid green in operation.
The speaker itself has an aluminium cabinet that comes in a variety of anodised finishes. It’s a small but chunky bass reflex design with a rear firing port and a Wi-Fi antenna on the back. The main driver is described as being a four and a half inch (114mm) model but I’m guessing that’s the chassis because the cone is no more than 75mm (three inches) in diameter. It’s a SEAS driver and combines with a ScanSpeak soft dome tweeter. Each driver has its own 50 Watt amplifier onboard and the two are paired by a digital crossover with a 2kHz crossover point. One can presume that the power amps are Class D types for the sake of battery life if nothing else. Users of this speaker will see that the two channels are marked L and R, which is worth noting during set up as channels cannot be reassigned.
The USB dongle supplied with the speakers can be used with mobile phones or tablets so long as an adapter is used, a micro USB example is supplied in the box for Android devices but Apple users will need to shell out for a USB camera kit to hook up their iOS devices. Pairing from both platforms was automatic once the speakers were switched on, where a laptop was marginally even less idiot proof. Here I had to select Aurender in the list of output devices within the system preferences box on a Mac. Things were less smooth when using Audirvana for music replay; the first track played came out at ear bursting level despite the volume being set at a medium position. Luckily you can press pause with your elbow when your fingers are in your ears! Starting with volume at minimum was far less painful but it’s odd that you can turn it up well past 11 without the level getting excessive once everything has settled down. A remote handset is supplied with which you can adjust volume, but given the importance of the task under the circumstances, it’s somewhat vestigial.
Because the S5W is a small speaker, I initially set it up quite close to the wall and after having plugged the appropriate dongle into my Moto G5 Android phone I gave the Aurenders a spin. It didn’t take long for me to realise the rear ports needed a bit more space; 40cm seemed to give a good balance of openness and bass extension in my room. I say bass extension but with a box that’s less than 22cm high and with what must be a 75mm bass cone this is a relative state of affairs; you can buy sound bars with built in ‘subwoofers’ that are smaller but they don’t produce bass as such. The S5W will produce a thump but it’s not doing much below 50Hz, I doubt any speaker of this size would. That doesn’t stop it delivering quite compelling imaging, partly because small boxes have less cabinet area to vibrate and thus they don’t seem to muddy the sound so much. This set up made relaxed but not exactly revealing sounds and got a bit ragged when the level was pushed. This smoothed off with warm up but the speaker is clearly superior to that particular source.
On the Macbook Air things got more interesting, as the transparency level jumped up significantly and the dynamics went with it, I even tried Led Zeppelin’s ‘Immigrant Song’ [Led Zeppelin III, Swansong] and enjoyed the propulsion if not the full power of the piece. The Aurender is pretty good for such a small box; the active operation and the advantages of clean battery power means that it is inherently very capable and the wireless aspect doesn’t seem to undermine that at all. Muddy Waters’ powerful voice on ‘My Home is in the Delta’ [Folk Singer, Chess] loses some of its dynamics but remains strong, the spaciousness of the studio being obvious at the same time. I tested the bass by putting on James Blake’s ‘Limit To Your Love’ [JamesBlake, R&S] with its loud drum machine, and here the higher notes came through albeit without their room shaking power, though the lower ones were very quiet. The Aurender has not been tweaked to give excessive bass for its size, which is a good thing, but you can adjust tone with two buttons on the back should that appeal.
I also tried some orchestral material using Beethoven’s 7th Symphony [Barenboim, Beethoven For All, Decca]. This worked surprisingly well, the speakers throwing up good image scale and delivering enough of the dynamic impact to make the piece compelling. You need to be a little bit sensible with the volume (the tympani made this clear), but this is in a larger than average, well-damped room. I suspect that smaller spaces would be easier to energise. Simpler material such as Doug MacLeod’s ‘Too Many Misses’ Exactly Like This[Reference Recordings] worked a treat. Yhe quality of the recording was obvious and that seemed to enhance the sense of dynamics that this speaker can produce.
Given that you already have a suitable source for these speakers in your pocket they make a good case for their admittedly high price. Using a supplied off-the-shelf high power Bosch power tool battery is a neat touch too, but regardless, Aurender has come up with an impressively wire free speaker system that’s capable of top notch light entertainment wherever you want it.
- Type: two-way, two-driver, bookshelf speaker with active drive, reflex enclosure and wireless operation
- Driver complement: One 25mm ScanSpeak soft dome tweeter; one 114mm mid/bass driver
- Optional power supply: 18V, 6 Ah batteries
- Crossover frequency: 2kHz
- Frequency response: 50Hz–22kHz (-6dB)
- Amplifier output: 50W LF, 50W HF
- Input sensitivity: N/A
- Dimensions without spikes (H×W×D): 220 ×156 ×185mm
- Weight: 5.2kg/each
- Finishes: Dark blue, black, wine red
- Price: £3,200/pair
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Fernando Matthei Aubel is a retired Chilean Air Force General that was part of the military junta that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, after Gustavo Leigh was dismissed on 1978. Before he became a junta member, Matthei was Minister of Health of the military government. He was part of the junta from 1977 to 1989.
In October 1988, Matthei was the first junta member that admitted that the regime had lost a referendum to elect Pinochet for a new eight-year presidential term. Later the same day the government stated that the referendum result would be respected and that the 1980 Constitution path to democracy would be strictly followed. In September, 2005, Matthei admitted in a television program that he "did everything possible so that Argentina would lose" in the 1982 Falklands War with Britain. [*]. His comments and actions can be interpreted as junta's efforts to maintain power and legitimacy in the eyes of the U.S. and the U.K. The post junta Chilean governments have claimed they were not responsible for the actions of the military junta.
Matthei is the father of Chilean senator Evelyn Matthei.
Allegations of human rights violations
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- Made of Stainless Steel + PP
- Cuts eggs, cheese, grapes, vegetables, etc.
- Gives slices in a flash
- Min effort required; kids can use as well
- No sharp blades; safe operation
- Hanging hook present
Isn’t it exciting and mouth-watering to see precisely sliced eggs and cucumbers in the final plates presented by MasterChef contestants? Judges can’t help but praise the appealing garnishing using adjectives that only then can pronounce so smoothly:p
But how do the contestants pull that off?
How do they manage to get each slice so perfect and equal?
It’s the magic of this kitchen gadget – the 2-in-1 Stainless Steel Egg Slicer & Vegetable Cutter. It gives you equal slices of your hard-boiled eggs, cheese, cucumbers and sausages as quickly as lightning.
And the best part – unlike other egg slicers, it can deliver two types of cuts – slices and petals.
What you’ll get:
2 cutters for wider application: The gadget includes two cutters. One is the slicer that cuts your eggs, cucumbers, cheese, boiled potatoes, bananas, mushrooms, hot dogs and kiwi into equal-sized slices while the other is the petal cutter. It cuts the eggplants, egg, or strawberries into petal-shaped pieces. The cutting wires of both blades are made from durable Stainless Steel, so they won’t wear off anytime soon.
Saves precious time: No need to cut your hard-boiled eggs and hot dogs with knives anymore. This metal egg slicer does the chore ever so effectively and quickly. You don’t have to invest minutes now to prepare vegetable/fruit salads and egg sandwiches – the tool will do that job in mere seconds. Become quicker and efficient with your cooking skills.
Requires little effort: Knives are sharp and need some skill level to operate. You can’t have your small kids cut eggs with knives but with this egg slicer tool, you can. The Stainless Steel wires are not sharp at all. And it cuts the eggs with minimal force. Save time in the breakfast preparation process by letting your kids slice their eggs (and other stuff) instead of doing it yourself. | <urn:uuid:c35afd34-a6cb-440d-926c-f82b37c37b81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cupidsock.com/shop/kitchencuration/2-in-1-stainless-steel-egg-slicer-vegetable-cutter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907708 | 487 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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What’s Good?: A Memoir in Fourteen Ingredient
A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins What goes into the making of a chef, a restau?rant, a dish? And if good ingredients make a differ?ence on the plate, what makes them good in the first place? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. “A locavore before the word existed” ( New York Times) , Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional education, and evolution as a chef and restaurant owner through its components–everything from the importance of your relationship with your refrigerator repairman and an account of how a burger killed his restaurant, to his belief in peppers as a perfect food, one that is adaptable to a wide range of cultural tastes and geographic conditions and reminds us to be glad we are alive. Along with these personal stories from a life in restaurants, Hoffman braids in passionately curious explorations into the cultural, historical, and botani?cal backstories of the foods we eat. Beginning with a spring maple sap run and ending with the late-season, frost-defying vegetables, he follows the progress of the seasons and their reflections in his greenmarket favorites, moving ingredient to ingredient through the bounty of the natural world. Hoffman meets with farmers and vendors and unravels the magic of what we eat, deepening every cook’s appreciation for what’s on their kitchen counter. What’s Good a layered, insightful, and utterly enjoyable meal. | <urn:uuid:ae0d079b-5aee-4ffe-b896-aec2ee41068d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://farmersmarketinstitute.org/event/slow-food-santa-fe-hosts-dinner-and-a-book-6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.94265 | 399 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Date of Graduation
Master of Arts in Psychology (MA)
Ana J. Bridges
Second Committee Member
Third Committee Member
attribution theory, ingroup discrimination, internalized racism
Most research addressing racial/ethnic discrimination is focused on instances perpetrated by White people or someone not of the same race or ethnic background as the target (i.e., outgroup discrimination). However, based on theories of ethnic identity development and internalized racism, it is possible for people of color to discriminate against people in their own racial or ethnic group. The current study used a qualitative approach to 1) understand what people of color believe about racism and discrimination broadly and based on the race of the perpetrator, 2) describe under what situations (e.g., race of perpetrator or overtness/subtlety of the act) race-related negative behavior would be attributed to discrimination or racism, and 3) examine emotional responses to ingroup vs. outgroup discrimination. Adults of color in the United States (N = 39; 54% women), with average to high ethnic identity, were interviewed about their experiences with ingroup and outgroup discrimination. Results suggested that: (1) people of color believe that ingroup members can perpetuate racism and act in a discriminatory fashion towards other people of color, (2) racial discrimination through overt and subtle behaviors leads to more dispositional attributions of behavior for White perpetrators compared to more situational attributions of behavior for ingroup perpetrators, and (3) ingroup racial discrimination can lead to more feelings of hurt and betrayal due to its shocking nature compared to the expected nature of White perpetrated racism. The implications of this study suggest that white supremacy is insidious and affects people of color in ways (e.g., internalization of racism) that can lead to the perpetration of racism in their own communities.
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Creating Accessible Performances 101
Recorded On: 06/18/2019
About this Webinar
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990 and yet people with disabilities still do not have full access to cultural events today. This session will explore what accessibility entails and how presenters can move beyond architectural accessibility to programmatic accessibility.
- Participants will gain an awareness of the core issues and principles for presenting accessible cultural events
- Participants will gain an understanding of strategies for making access an integral part of an organization’s mission, programs and outreach.
- Participants will understand how making accessibility a priority creates better experiences for people both with and without disabilities.
Managing Director, Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs
Rhoda Bernard is the Managing Director of the Berklee Institute for Arts Education and Special Needs, a catalyst for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of visual and performing arts education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in government from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Music with academic honors in jazz voice from New England Conservatory. She earned both her Master of Education and Doctor of Education degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Bernard regularly presents research at conferences throughout the United States and abroad, and she provides professional development workshops for educators in local, national, and international forums. Her work has been published in several book chapters and in numerous journals, including Music Educators Journal; Music Education Research; Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education; Mountain Lake Reader; and Arts and Learning Research Journal. Bernard has been honored with the Berklee Urban Service Award (2017), the Boston Conservatory Community Service Award (2011), the Boston Conservatory Faculty/Staff Spirit Award (2007), and the Outstanding Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention (Second Place) from the Arts and Learning Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. A vocalist and pianist who specializes in jazz music and Jewish Music in Yiddish and Hebrew, she performs regularly with a number of klezmer bands and has recorded two CDs with the band Klezamir.
Founding Member and Artistic Director Emerita, AXIS Dance Company
Judith Smith, Founding Member and Artistic Director Emerita of AXIS Dance Company, is one of the world’s driving forces in physically integrated dance. She was born and raised in the mountains of Colorado. Prior to becoming disabled in a car accident at age 17 in 1977, Judith was a champion equestrian. She transferred her passion for riding to dance after discovering contact improvisation in 1983. Judith helped launch AXIS in 1987 and she grew the Company to be the nation’s leading physically integrated dance ensemble. She has left an amazing legacy and vision for the future of AXIS and integrated dance.
Her advocacy and equity work led to the first-ever National Convening on the Future of Physically Integrated Dance in the USA, followed by six regional town halls throughout the country in 2016. This project, supported by the prestigious Doris Duke Charitable Foundation National Project Program, culminated in an extensive report and the launch of the AXIS Artistic Advancement Platform to Advance Artistry, Opportunity and Equity for Dancers with Disabilities. She has been instrumental in the creation of the Dance/USA Disability and Dance Affinity Group and co-chairs the group.
Judith is currently working as an independent consultant in dance and disability. She is an activist for the environment, animals and people with disabilities. She gardens for pollinators, birdwatches, raises butterflies and is involved in thoroughbred racehorse rescue and adaptive carriage driving.
NEA Design for Accessibility -- A Cultural Administrator’s Handbook: https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Design-for-Accessibility.pdf
Light for the World – Disability Inclusion Scorecard: https://lab.light-for-the-world.org/publications/disability-inclusion-score-card/
British Council Disability Arts International: http://www.disabilityartsinternational.org/about-us/
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Amid reports of crackdowns on urban art galleries after the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland last year, the San Diego community must come together and send a message to local leaders that urban art is vital to the identity and success of our city.
To make sustainable advances for the urban art community here, we need to draw from other cities and support local organizations that are already making positive strides.
Santa Cruz has created 100 affordable housing units with The Tannery Arts Center, a project that took nearly 12 years to actualize.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has announced a gutsy executive measure to ensure safety in the city’s unregulated DIY venues, while also protecting their residents from eviction.
And in the epicenter of underground DIY venues, Berlin, Germany, has Club Commission, an organization that has worked to build bridges between urban art communities and city officials to create a healthy synergy when it comes to safety, urban planning and sustainable growth. That group is celebrating its 15th anniversary and involves over 150 active members in the city.
Locally, Greg Strangman and his Community@ projects offer affordable housing where lots of San Diego artists live, and Space 4 Art is working to build permanent affordable live/work space for artists, but I don’t see much of anything being done by county and city leaders to address the issue.
When it comes to affordable housing in San Diego, local artists need all the support and attention they can get. Rent is high and it keeps getting higher. The connections to gentrification and displacement in the urban art community are evident, and it will take political leadership to ensure growth in the city doesn’t completely price out the artists and art spaces that help give San Diego its character.
Justin Navalle is a Normal Heights resident, co-founder of underground artist collective The Deep End, co-founder of West Coast Weekender Festival & Conference and director at Quartyard in East Village. Navalle’s commentary has been edited for style and clarity. See anything in there we should fact check? Tell us what to check out here. | <urn:uuid:a65e32fe-a7bc-481d-9be5-41deb3bd6b14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voiceofsandiego.org/2017/01/30/urban-art-matters-and-local-leaders-should-step-up-to-p/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955999 | 443 | 1.601563 | 2 |
This summer, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took a significant step toward reforming the regulatory framework for the debt collection industry. The focus is fueled in part by the large number of consumer complaints the CFPB receives about the debt collection market — roughly 35% of total complaints. Here are highlights from the recent CFPB proposal:
- Data quality: Collectors would be required to substantiate claims that a consumer owes a debt in order to begin collection
- Communication frequency: Collectors would be limited to six emails, phone calls or mailings per week, including unanswered calls and voice mails
- Waiting period: Reporting a person’s debt would be prohibited unless the collector has communicated directly with the consumer first
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Magnatrol valves are used in a wide range of industries:
Magnatrol manufacture high quality 2-way, normally closed and normally open solenoid valves from 3/8” to 3” in bronze and stainless steel.
Magnatrol’s degreasing and black light testing facility also allows adapted valves to be suitable for cryogenic fluids. These include liquid oxygen (-297°F), liquid argon (-303°F) and liquid nitrogen (-320°F).
Other specialities include valves for steam, brine, sandy well water and gritty coolant.
Clark Cooper is Magnatrol’s specialist valve adaption arm. They produce standard and bespoke valves from ¼” to 2”, operating up to pressures of 15,000 psi.
The specialist valve range complies with European ATEX requirements, and those of the emerging hydrogen dispensing markets. The range is also available in oxygen clean versions.
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Generally feng-shui from the Chinese indicates wind and water. It is considered that the correctly arranged different trifles in the house, in the apartment or offices, are capable of introducing in the dwelling and into the soul peace, calmness and happiness. At the basis of this science lies the concept about the vital energy- in China it’s called “tsi”. And if this energy direct into the correct “river bed”, if we learn to operate it, then it in near future will bring useful “fruits”. And then in your life all would be fixed, and will begin the period of prosperity, abundance and wealth.
From the feng-shui point of view, flowers and plants symbolize life and create positive energy, which helps us to live in happiness and calmness. Experts in this science consider that even the artificial flower is capable positively to influence the state of the soul of man. And if you grow flower with the love, then you will obtain only positive emotions from it.
Room plants – it’s practically nature in the miniature. They symbolize prosperity and health. If we place flower on the window, it will scatter negative harmful energy, while if we place it overhead, where you sleep, then energy of “tsi”, will therapeutically influence for a man.
Therefore it is necessary to arrange the apartment or office very carefully by the flowers. It’s better to settle flowers with rounded leaves. It is considered on feng-shui that if we place the money tree, then it will bring wealth, money and prosperity. But if flowers suddenly began to be ill, thus it’s better to get rid or to take care about them every day, treating them by your heat and concern. | <urn:uuid:a1d89b19-5d11-4798-975c-b8b47a863832> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://flowers-page.com/feng-shui/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.928635 | 372 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Stainless steel chemical tanks
Stainless steel chemical tanks are safe and reliable liquid chemical storage devices. Constructed from 304 or 316 finish grade stainless steel with internal seams back welded and pressure tested. Tanks are meticulously cleaned to remove particles from the steel surface and then passivated, a protective treatment system to prevent corrosion and rust. Liquid accessories are added to these tanks for the trouble-free handling of liquid products.
Stainless steel chemical tanks and reactors used in the chemical industry are often subjected to harsh conditions. Equipment may be subject to large temperature fluctuations while maintaining highly corrosive content and subjecting to high pressure or vacuum. The risk of explosion may also play a role. Therefore, reliability, durability, and safety are always paramount when designing and manufacturing these tanks.
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ACTIVITIES REPORT OF GIRLS EDUCATION SPONSORSHIP 2021, PATIENTS WITH NODDING SYNDROME AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
REPORTING PERIOD 7TH OCT. 2021
The project aims to help dropouts of secondary schools girls through provision of school fees, sanitary towels and mentoring.
As in previous report the girls who are in the project were 20 (twenty). Five (05) of the girls sat for their Ordinary Level Examination in 2020 leaving us with fifteen (15) girls in number but we managed to get another five to replace those who sat “O” Level in 2020 making a total of 20 girls in 2021.
Re-opening of the Schools:
The president declared that the schools will re-open in January 2022. He has given this period for all teachers and students above 18 years to be vaccinated. Therefore, I hope next year things will be normal since there is positive response by the citizens on vaccination.
Gender Based Violence:
As far as GBV is concerned, the lockdown has given a lot of problems such that people are in total poverty as a result there are rampant fighting and divorce in many homes. The group members are rendering door to door counselling in order to address it.
People with Nodding Syndrome:
The patients suffering with nodding syndrome are in total poverty and we lost one of them who passed on in June 2021.
We could not do much about feeding to the nodding patients for all the money sent was finished as captured in the report sent to you.
1. With the pandemic, there is fear that not all the girls may return back to school for some of them might have been impregnated.
2. Pandemic has made home visit very difficult, however those girls who live within the municipal, the mentors could visit theme and give counselling services.
3. GBV being very rampant has created child neglect and divorce in many homes.
4. It has become very difficult to help those patients with nodding syndrome with food since due to funding.
5. Some citizens are still negative on getting vaccination.
1. The schools should open so as to address teenage pregnancy.
2. All citizens should positively accept vaccination in order to reduce death levels which are now becoming high.
3. Donor to give more funds to address issues of school fees, feeding for nodding patients and giving support to victims of gender based violence so that issues of poverty is addressed through giving small capital as start-up capital for small businesses.
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If you think you’d enjoy a position in the healthcare field, LPN Programs in Dallas OR will get you going today!
Many training programs last around 9 months to 2 years and can be taken online or at a training center, and make you qualified to take the Licensed Practical Nurse NCLEX examination used in your state.
What are Requirements for LPN Programs?
Practical nursing course requirements will vary from school to school but will probably have several common requirements. The very first is to satisfy the age requirements and hold a H.S. diploma or equivalent, the third is to have negative test results for any drugs, and finally is to be cleared by a background check.
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There are a number of excellent training programs that you could opt for, but you need to make sure that the LPN programs you want to sign-up for meet specific requirements. The first task in starting up a job as a LPN is to pick which of the outstanding Licensed Practical Nurse schools will help you. Even if you have made up your mind which program or school to enroll in, you still must find out if the training class has the necessary certification with the Oregon State Board. If the program is approved by these groups, you ought to also focus on several other features including:
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- Are there any conditions to join the training program?
Reasons Why Practical Nursing Licensure is Important for You
Pertaining to all prospective Licensed Practical Nurses, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing has emphasized and demanded that nursing license is earned in advance of employment. Also, it’s very important to know that the Nurse Aide Registry has charge of the national nursing registry. Federal registry list and getting a license can help you gain access to better pay and work chances.
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If you’ve experienced toenail fungus, you know that it’s stubborn and doesn’t go away very quickly or easily. But you’ll be glad to know there’s a natural alternative that can help you to be rid of this problem.
First, it’s important to understand some basics about this problem. First, an infection develops when some type of fungus gets below your nails and is able to grow and develop. This growth can cause you to have thick toenails that are also discolored and flaky or crusty.
You can pick up a toenail fungus in a wide variety of places. For example, a swimming pool, locker room shower, or unsanitary pedicure bowl can all be breeding grounds for fungus that can make its way to your feet. Over time, fungus can grow when it’s exposed to a dark, moist environment.
When you’ve been infected, you may start to notice a little spot of white or yellow that develops underneath your nail. Over time, the area gets larger and your nail becomes thicker. This is evidence that the infection is growing.
You may even notice that your toenail begins to separate from its nail bed. At this point you may notice a foul odor and pain when you touch your toenail. This is a major sign that you need to get treatment to take care of the this right away.
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Another option is a natural solution to consider … is made from grapefruit seed extract. You can purchase this extract and apply it directly to the infected nail twice each day for about 60 days. Over time this is a very effective remedy and can get rid of the infection.
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The first thing people notice about a website is its overall design. Because the design is the first thing they see, you want to make sure to make a good impression so they do not leave your site. The tips below can help you avoid this. Pay attention to your background.
Animated GIF backgrounds and complicated patterns on your website can be very distracting to viewers trying to absorb your content. Choose a background that complements your website, and your visitors will find it much easier to read your message.
For every web page that you create, validate it. There a lot of WYSIWYG editors that will add meaningless code to your website design. When using such editors, it’s vital that you validate any code using a validation service. There is a free service available to do this through W3C. Sketch out how your site will be organized through a visual sitemap.
This will help you plan things out much more effectively. By doing this, you can have a clear idea of the way in which your site is coming together. You’ll now have the ability to determine any areas which need improvement or areas that have been neglected. There isn’t anything like a crystal clear vision of your project.
White can be a highly effective color for your background. White puts the focus on the content, making it easier to read. If you are trying to exude a professional tone, a white background lends a trustworthy feeling to your site. Colors, patterns, or other designs are distracting and don’t have a place on a website. It is usually best to keep a simple background.
If you have hired a company to do your web design, be sure to pay them on time. After all, the maintenance of your website is the company’s responsibility. When you are in arrears with them, their obligation to handle issues or upkeep on your site is going to be relieved. Paying them on time will make them feel comfortable and eager to help.
If you feel that advertising will be a valuable asset for your website, then be sure that keep it to a minimum. Having lots of ads can make your site seem unprofessional and spammy. Select the ads that are relevant to your products.
If you are using FileZilla for your file server, you must manually program the quick start menu settings within your domain, username, and the right port. This will allow you to quickly choose your settings from the menu when you log into your server. That is a wonderful time saver.
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A biscuit joiner, also known as a plate joiner, is an electric woodworking tool. It joins two pieces of wood together without staples, nails, or screws. A biscuit joiner uses a small blade (4 inches or 101.6 millimeters) to cut a crescent shaped hole in the opposite edges of two pieces of wood. An oval wooden "biscuit" is covered with glue, placed in the slot, and the two boards are clamped together to form a joint. This simple process creates tight, smooth, and seamless joints. To get the results you want in woodworking, you need to know how to use a biscuit joiner.
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1Align the pieces of wood you want to join.
2Make marks at the places where biscuits will be placed.
- Use as many biscuits as needed to secure the pieces of wood.
3Mark the other piece of wood at the same locations.
- The biscuit process allows some leeway in aligning the pieces of wood, so perfect alignment is unnecessary.
4Use the settings and stops on the biscuit joiner to set the depth of the cut.
5Place the joiner firmly on the pencil markings.
6Turn on the joiner and push it forward to cut a crescent shape into the wood.
- Apply pressure to release the blade, allowing it to cut the wood.
- The joiner's cutting blade will retract while it is idle.
- The crescent shaped slots may be longer and larger the joiner biscuit; this allows a user to better align the joined pieces just before the glued joiner biscuit starts to set.
7Cut slots at each location on each piece of wood.
8Cover each biscuit with wet wood glue or apply glue inside the slots.
9Slip a biscuit into each one of the slots at each location.
10Clamp the two pieces of wood firmly with wood clamps.
- Upon being clamped, the compressed biscuit will expand to fill the crescent shaped slot and create a strong bond between the two pieces as it dries.
11Wipe away any excess glue before it dries.
12Clean the joiner according to product directions before storing when not in use.
Because they are made of compressed wood, biscuits need to be stored in tight dry containers, or they will absorb moisture and swell.
Practice placing your components before gluing to make sure everything fits.
The biscuit is usually made of compressed wood.
- If the joiner is burning or smoking the wood in the slots, it is time to sharpen or replace the blade.
- Wear goggles and a dust mask when working with a biscuit joiner.
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- Wood glue
- Wood clamps
- Biscuits come in three sizes:
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Lower Back Pain and Sciatica
Lower back pain is a common ailment, and most people can expect to suffer some form of it at some point in their lives. Usually it is triggered by everyday activities, but also can be aggravated by accidents. Typically, symptoms of lower back pain signal that the structure of your lower back (the muscles, joints, discs and vertebrae) has weakened over time and has decreased in stability and functionality. This compromised structure cannot support your spine adequately, causing pain and loss of movement.
Sciatica is nerve pain resulting from irritation of the sciatic nerve, which is the largest nerve in the body. Pain is usually felt from the lower back and buttock to behind the thigh, and radiates below the knee. There are many reasons why the sciatic nerve can become irritated; most commonly, sciatica is the result of a lumbar disk herniation directly pressing on the nerve. Other causes of sciatica include irritation of the nerve from spasms, stenosis, and inflammation.
Chiropractic care can provide effective means of targeting the lower back. Chiropractic interventions that have proven effective include spinal manipulation, Cox Flexion-Distraction, Active Release Therapy, and Graston technique.
A herniated, slipped, ruptured, or bulging disc refers to the damaging of the tissue that separates the vertebral bones of the spinal column. These small, spongy, structures are natural shock absorbers for the spine, but are vulnerable to strain and injury. When a disc is damaged, it may bulge or break open, resulting in a herniated disc.
The herniated disc may create pressure against one or more of the spinal nerves, which can cause pain, weakness or numbness. The severity of symptoms generally depends on the location and size of the herniation. If the disc herniation is extremely large, it can press on spinal nerves on both sides of the body, resulting in severe pain and weakness of the lower extremities. Herniated discs can occur in any part of the spine, but are most common in the lower back (lumbar spine). Some happen in the neck (cervical spine) and, more rarely, in the upper back (thoracic spine).
Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Disc Disease
Spinal stenosis refers to the narrowing of the central spinal canal. It is most commonly the result of degeneration arthritis of the discs between the vertebrae, which causes compression of the spinal cord therefore causing back and leg pain. This most commonly occurs in the lower back, but can also occur in the neck and less frequently in the upper back. Symptoms of spinal stenosis depend on the location of the irritated nerves. When the stenosis occurs in the neck, it may cause unusual sensations in the arms, poor leg function and possibly incontinence. When the lower back is affected, the classic symptom is pain that radiates down both legs while walking, and is alleviated with rest.
Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) refers to the gradual deterioration of the disc between the vertebrae. It is part of the natural aging process, and can also occur as a result of injury. While generally painless in its early stages, degeneration of the disc tissue makes the disc more susceptible to herniation, causing local pain, muscle spasms and inflammation in the affected area. Any level of the spine can be affected by disc degeneration.
Effective conservative treatment options for both spinal stenosis and DDD include chiropractic interventions such as manual chiropractic treatments and Cox Flexion-Distraction. Rehabilitation such as isolated spinal stabilization can be especially helpful with regaining normal function and improving your ability to perform daily activities.
From head to toe, the human body consists of working parts that have the tendency to become injured, break down from overuse, cause pain and require attention. These conditions may require attention including chiropractic care and rehabilitation which can be helpful in relieving these painful conditions.
Headaches, while not usually an indicator of serious illness, are a major cause of pain and suffering, lost work, and doctor visits. If a patient suffers from debilitating headaches, chiropractic care may offer drug-free relief from their symptoms.
Most headaches originate in the muscles (tension headaches), joints (cervicogenic), blood vessels (migraines) or sinuses, are a result of systemic conditions such as low blood sugar or a fever. Numerous studies have examined the efficacy of chiropractic manipulation for reducing the severity of some types of headaches. A recent study from the Duke University evidence based practice center found that chiropractic spinal manipulation was superior to other manual treatments, resulted in more sustained improvement for cervicogenic headaches and had significantly fewer side effects and offered longer lasting relief of tension-type headaches than commonly prescribed medicines.
Neck and Arm Pain
The area of the neck, from the base of the head to the top of the shoulders, is a common source of pain. Neck pain is often caused by strain or injury such as a fall, or whiplash suffered in an automobile accident. It can limit movement of the head and back, cause muscle spasms and swelling of the neck joints. Chiropractic care (such as manual chiropractic treatments, Active Release Therapy and Cox Flexion-Distraction) are all effective means of targeting neck and arm pain, relief for these symptoms and help speed recovery.
Automobile and Work-Related Injuries
If you have sustained injuries as a result of an automobile accident, suffered a personal injury or have been hurt on the job, prompt access to rehabilitative care may be essential for full recovery. The office of Drs. Abrams, Piazza and Julewicz specializes in treating these injuries by utilizing numerous techniques and tools to provide relief for both traumatic injuries and chronic conditions.
If a patient has been injured at work, they should contact their supervisor and inform them of the accident. If a patient is injured in an auto accident, they should contact their insurance company and inform them of the accident. Upon contact, they will provide the patient with the necessary paperwork to document their injury. It is important to be evaluated by a healthcare professional as soon as possible following a work-related or auto accident. This will minimize any long-term effects caused by the accident.
The doctors at the office of Drs. Abrams, Piazza and Julewicz understand the sensitive nature of these types of injuries, and are committed to working with our patients toward their complete recovery.
Pre-Natal and Post-Natal Conditions
Chiropractic care can offer safe and effective relief for many unique health challenges faced by pregnant women. The American Pregnancy Association recommends chiropractic care during pregnancy for controlling symptoms of nausea; reducing the time of labor and delivery, and the potential for cesarean delivery; relieving back, neck and joint pain; and for maintaining the expectant mother’s overall health and comfort.
Repetitive Overuse Injuries
Repetitive overuse Injuries, whether the result of occupational demands, poor posture, past injury or athletic activities, can take a toll on your body. Chronic soft-tissue stress from repetitive motion can cause your body to produce tough, dense scar tissue that can impair joint function and alter movement patterns. Signs of a possible overuse injury are pain, decreased range of motion, loss of strength and numbness and weakness if nerves are involved. Usually, these injuries have components of soft-tissue dysfunction, joint dysfunction and movement pattern dysfunctions, which all must be assessed and addressed to fully resolve the condition.
Exercise, while highly encouraged for its health benefits, can also be a cause of repetitive overuse injuries. For example, running and cycling can cause repetitive stress to your entire body. Stabbing pain that persists, or a mild discomfort that becomes severe, are signals that something is wrong and should be examined.
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Armada is the first naval wargame in an unrelated series of real-time wargames with isometric perspective by Peter Turcan. Unfortunately, it is also the most obscure due to much more limited distribution than his previous games. As veteran wargamer observes in his concise capsule review of the game: "[Armada is] a British product... [that] covered the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) by a motley crew of English adventurers, opportunists and patriots. Using a "commander viewpoint" and typed-in commands, it was somewhat difficult to learn the basic system, but it presented a unique perspective." Overall, Armada is an interesting application of ground-based game engine used in Borodino 1812 to naval battles, but probably still too "dry" and clumsy for an average wargamer. Still, the second Turcan game based on this system, Dreadnoughts, improves over this spiritual predecessor in many ways, so you might want to check that one out.
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From 3 May, Australians aged 50 or older are eligible to receive their Covid-19 vaccine from special respiratory clinics or mass vaccination hubs in some states. Appointments with selected GPs are available from 17 May.
Last week’s Guardian Essential poll shows that many people over 50 are hesitant to get vaccinated, particularly with the AstraZeneca vaccine earmarked for them. That’s mostly due to reports of very rare, but serious, blood clots that can develop after vaccination.
So it’s understandable why people want to know about any safety issues and how they relate to age. It’s also natural to want to know how well the vaccine works to protect people over 50.
Here’s what we know about this safe and effective vaccine from clinical trials and about 136 countries using it so far.
When researchers pooled the results from four large trials – including about 8,600 vaccinated people and a similar number of unvaccinated persons – there were 81% fewer Covid-19 cases in vaccinated people than in unvaccinated ones. No one who got the vaccine was admitted to hospital due to Covid-19.
While the studies haven’t been designed specifically to look at efficacy in distinct age groups yet, there is good evidence the AstraZeneca vaccine protects both the elderly and younger adults from Covid-19. In clinical trials, adults aged 18 to 55 and those older than 55 had similar immune responses.
When it comes to protecting people from serious disease, there’s good news again. We have data from England and Scotland that one dose of it reduces Covid-19 hospitalisations by 80% to 88% in the elderly, similar to that of the Pfizer vaccine (88% to 91%).
Based on our understanding of how vaccines work (generally, vaccines are more effective in younger adults), it’s safe to assume the vaccine is at least 80% effective in preventing severe Covid-19 in people over 50.
New variants of Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, affect the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine, but only slightly for the B.1.1.7 strain (the UK variant). It’s about 70% effective against this strain, compared with about 82% for the original strain.
But there have been some concerns about protection against the B.1.351 strain (the South African variant). This is because the AstraZeneca vaccine provides less protection against mild Covid-19 disease in people infected with it.
We still need more long-term data to say for certain whether the vaccine prevents transmission of Covid-19.
Preliminary UK research provides some welcome news. Researchers looked at more than 365,000 households and nearly one million contacts of Covid-19 cases. They found the vaccine reduced transmission from people vaccinated with one dose by 40-50%. This is great news in terms of slowing the spread of the disease.
Both clinical trials and real-world data confirm the AstraZeneca vaccine has a good safety profile similar to other vaccines commonly used in Australia.
Side-effects are common and are mostly mild to moderate, with few recipients needing medical attention. The most common are reactions at the injection site, fatigue, headache and muscle pain. These occur in half to three-quarters of people under 55 after their first dose, and are less common in older people. The side-effects generally start within 24 hours and last around one or two days, and indicate your immune system is working.
In Australia, data from the AusVaxSafety vaccine surveillance system shows about 22% of people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine missed a day or more of work or studies as they were unwell. Fewer than 2% needed to see a doctor.
Serious reactions to the vaccine have been very rare, one of which includes thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which is on everyone’s mind right now.
This is a very rare condition in which blood clots (thrombosis) and low levels of platelets (thrombocytopenia) occur four to 28 days after receiving the vaccine. This can lead to disability and 20% to 25% of people with these clots die.
About six in every million people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine develop the condition. And it tends to be more common in people under 50. Other than younger age, there are no other risk factors for these clots we know of yet.
The risk-benefit analysis for Australians right now differs depending on the amount of Covid in the community, your age and the availability of alternative vaccines.
Based on a small amount of data so far, the risk of these blood clots after the AstraZeneca vaccine for people aged 50 to 59 is about 0.4 per 100,000 and for those aged 60-69, 0.2 per 100,000.
But the risk of getting severe Covid-19 or the risk of admission into intensive care from Covid-19 is much higher for the over-50s – nearly tenfold higher than the risk of clots after the vaccine.
It’s about 6.5 per 100,000 people aged 50 to 59 and 7.0 per 100,000 for people aged 60 to 69, based on data from Victoria’s second wave in July 2020. There are different risk-benefit calculations for different scenarios.
Australia has almost no disease in the community. But this could change very quickly if there are new outbreaks. We also have no alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine for most people over 50 (more Pfizer vaccine is not available until the last quarter of 2021). So balancing the risks and benefits of the vaccine is extremely challenging. People may not perceive their risk of Covid-19 as high enough to warrant vaccination and are preferring to wait, perhaps six months or more until other vaccines are available.
But the potential benefits of the vaccine go far beyond what we’ve already mentioned. Vaccination will contribute to the prevention of long Covid (symptoms that linger for months) as well as increased ability to move around freely in society, including being able to attend large events. Vaccination will help us avoid lockdowns or school closures, allow us to travel overseas and return to normal life.
You can use the government’s vaccine eligibility tracker to check whether you can receive your Covid vaccine from today, and to make an appointment.
This will give you details of the state- and territory-run vaccination clinics near you that are open from today (not all are taking appointments for the over 50s yet). From 17 May, you can receive your vaccine at some GP clinics.
Two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are needed for best protection, preferably 12 weeks apart.
• Meru Sheel is an epidemiologist and senior research fellow at the Australian National University. Cyra Patel is a PhD candidate at the ANU; Margie Danchin is a paediatrician at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital and associate professor and clinician scientist at the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
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Autumn makes me think of leaves colored orange and amber and red, of the smell of cinnamon and nutmeg wafting from a range of desserts… and of states vying for top honors in the annual state ranking of energy efficiency policies and progress.
The leaves are mostly done, and the desserts are in my belly. But the latest ranking from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy is out and available, and ready for sampling. It’s always a beautiful sight and a tasty treat.
Energy efficiency – Why and how?
Energy efficiency is already one of the main tools we use for meeting new energy demand. Why it makes sense as a tool is clear, as the new report says:
[Energy efficiency] creates jobs, not only directly for manufacturers and service providers, but also indirectly in other sectors by saving energy and freeing up funds to support the local economy. Efficiency also reduces pollution, strengthens community and grid resilience, promotes equity, and improves health.
The annual scorecard “ranks states on their efficiency policies and programs, not only assessing performance but also documenting best practices and recognizing leadership.” ACEEE does that by looking at a range of metrics that are shaped by each state’s efforts:
- Utility and public benefits programs and policies
- Transportation policies
- Building energy codes and compliance
- Combined heat and power (CHP) policies
- State government–led initiatives around energy efficiency
- Appliance and equipment standards
Who’s on top?
The highlighted states include some familiar faces plus a few new ones. The top states were the same in 2017 as in 2016, and highlighted the strong focus on efficiency in certain parts of the country:
- Massachusetts took the top spot for the seventh straight year, and stood alone at the top (after tying with California for 2016 honors). Northeast states also took third (Rhode Island), fourth (Vermont), sixth (Connecticut), and seventh (New York).
- The West Coast states garnered high marks, too, taking second (California), fifth (Oregon), and seventh (Washington).
- The Midwest also made a good showing, at ninth (Minnesota) and eleventh (Illinois and Michigan, tied).
ACEEE makes a point of calling out some “most improved” states, too, and this year that brought in states from other parts of the country:
- Idaho was the most most improved, jumping up seven spots and landing it in the middle of the pack—its best performance, says ACEEE, since 2012—due to investments in “demand-side management”, increased adoption of electric vehicles, and building energy code improvements.
- Florida gained three spots in part due to its work on energy efficiency for the state’s farmers.
- Its work to strengthen building energy codes in the state helped Virginia move up four notches.
How do states take it to the next level?
No state got a perfect score, ACEEE points out, so every state has room for improvement. Fortunately, they offer a few tips on how to make that happen:
- Establish and adequately fund an energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) or similar energy savings target.
- Adopt policies to encourage and strengthen utility programs designed for low-income customers, and work with utilities and regulators to recognize the nonenergy benefits of such programs.
- Adopt updated, more stringent building energy codes, improve code compliance, and involve efficiency program administrators in code support.
- Adopt California tailpipe emission standards and set quantitative targets for reducing VMT [vehicle miles travelled].
- Treat cost-effective and efficient CHP [combined heat and power] as an energy efficiency resource equivalent to other forms of energy efficiency.
- Expand state-led efforts—and make them visible.
- Explore and promote innovative financing mechanisms to leverage private capital and lower the up-front costs of energy efficiency measures.
But we’re making progress, and leading states are demonstrating what a powerful resource energy efficiency is.
And with a federal administration that seems determined to move backward on clean air and water by propping up coal, and backward on climate action, that state action on clean energy is more important now than ever.
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An article published on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website has called for the world to transition to “green energy,” insisting that it is the key to protecting democracy.
In the article, Colorado State University economics professor Edward Barbier claims the world is facing two global crises of climate change and the decline of democracy. In order to sustain global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit), he said the world must take immediate action and reduce carbon emissions, which includes the increased use of green energy technologies.
Barbier compared data from 83 countries classified as “advanced,” “emerging market,” and “developing” to make the case that the nations that have taken steps toward green energy are “largely free and democratic.” In contrast, countries that are not taking enough steps toward the green transition are “typically less free and more autocratic,” he claimed.
But the WEF article’s suggestion that cutting down fossil fuel consumption will help with pollution and climate change contradicts actual data on U.S. emissions.
Problems With Green Agenda
After President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he pushed forward several green energy policies to reduce the use of fossil fuels, but America’s carbon emissions actually increased in 2021 after declining for 10 years.
Some explain the emissions increase by attributing it to the economy opening up after the COVID-19 pandemic.
But others have pointed out that the United States increased its use of coal under the Biden administration because of Biden’s hostile attitude toward the oil and gas industry, which has led to high prices and underinvestment in new production and pipelines.
As of mid-June 2022, America’s oil refining capacity had fallen by 800,000 barrels per day. Half the refineries that closed did so as they were being converted for renewable fuel production.
Canadian leaders have also taken notice of the energy crisis.
At a press conference on March 11, Sonya Savage, energy minister for Alberta, Canada, noted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine had exposed the weakness of America’s energy policy. For the past decades, Western democracies have focused on climate change and carbon emission reductions without considering energy security, she said.
This “failed North American energy strategy” has now put the United States and Canada in a position where it is difficult to raise or even maintain domestic energy production, she said. In contrast, Russia can ramp up production without having to stick to any environmental standards.
This essentially results in the “transfer of production of oil and gas from North America to places like Russia,” Savage said.
Barbier pointed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting energy crisis to support his argument that countries not aiming for a low-carbon economy could be at “greater economic peril.”
He recommends that industrialized nations should phase out tax breaks for fossil fuels, impose higher taxes on “carbon-intensive” imports from other countries, and reform fossil fuel markets to fund green investments and innovation.
If these steps were to be implemented, it would drive up fossil fuel prices and, as a result, increase gas and energy prices.
Dutch Farmers Fight WEF Mandates
The current situation in the Netherlands between the Dutch government and Dutch farmers also appears to contradict Barbier’s claim about green environmental policies leading to more freedom.
In an attempt to reduce nitrogen output to meet emissions goals in line with the World Economic Forum’s recommendations, the Dutch government announced plans that would require farmers in some areas to reduce their nitrogen output by 95 percent and cull livestock herds, resulting in the mass slaughter of animals and significant destruction of farming operations.
Farmers who don’t cooperate with the mandate face having their farmland confiscated by the government, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (pdf).
The Netherlands is the second-largest food exporter in the world.
Farmers and truckers in the Netherlands have staged major protests over the environmental mandates, shutting down food distribution centers and airports in an effort to force the government to reverse the mandates. | <urn:uuid:64a50e76-9bf1-4bd1-86c5-00982f996369> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theepochtimes.com/people-should-pay-more-for-gas-to-save-democracy-world-economic-forum_4596346.html?utm_source=ai&utm_medium=search | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950624 | 862 | 2.453125 | 2 |
- In order to be able to generate decision recommendations for train scheduling, reinforcement learning is to be applied.
- As a basis for the training of RL models, a realistic, track-focused simulation of train traffic is to be created. SUMO is to be used as the simulation software
- Track plan data and timetable must be translated into a format that can be used for the simulation. The resulting track graph should represent the actual location and position of the operating points
- Understanding structure and documentation of the data formats used
- Evaluation of the realism of the simulation based on simulated times and distances using target data
- Modular software structure to allow the use of different data sources (e.g. timetable) or simulation tools
- Realistic simulation that can be used to generate states for reinforcement learning
- Python package for parsing the infrastructure description and generating the track graph for the simulation
- Python package for parsing the RailML timetable and generating route files for the simulation
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