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The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Title. - To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. "The servant of the Lord" occurs nowhere else in a title, except in Psalms 18:1-50: It relates to the subject of the psalm: the dignity of David as the divinely-commissioned "servant of the Lord" gives authority to his words, because he speaks them not as his own, but as God's words, whose Spirit moves him (2 Samuel 23:1). Psalms 36:1-12. The transgression of the wicked fills David's heart with pain (Psalms 36:1-4); his consolation in God's infinite mercy, faithfulness, righteousness, and loving-kindness; herein the children of men, by trusting, find shelter, satisfaction, light, and life (Psalms 36:5-9); consequent prayer for God's continued loving-kindness: its answer in the overthrow of the proud workers of iniquity (Psalms 36:10-12).
The transgression ... saith within my heart. "The transgression of the wicked" is personified. The Psalmist, in his inmost heart, painfully feels that "the transgression of the wicked" speaks as the wicked man's oracle. The Hebrew for "saith" [ nª'um (H5002)] is always used of an inspired utterance (Proverbs 30:1; 2 Samuel 23:1; Numbers 24:3). Translate, therefore, 'speaketh as his oracle.' The wicked man does not say so by word of month; but his transgression, which he hugs to himself as his own [the Hebrew preposition lª- implies how entirely transgression belongs to him], palpably speaks as the only utterance which he regards as oracular.
Thus the contrast to the parallel second clause is, Transgression is their divine oracle, for the fear of God they have not before their eyes. "Within my heart" expresses the Psalmist's heartfelt emotion, in contrast to the wicked man's daring apathy, marked by the parallel "before his eyes." Not only has he no fear of God in his heart, but even in directing his conduct outwardly, he sets no fear of Him before his eyes. There is a contrast also to '(the inspired psalm) OF lª- David, the servant of the Lord.' The wicked is the servant of his own transgression, which is the only inspired utterance that he regards; but the inspiration is that of Satan, the spirit of evil (2 Thessalonians 2:9). The description applies to the man of sin, the final incarnation of 'the mystery of transgression' or 'iniquity,' which has been long at work (2 Thessalonians 2:3-10). He shall "sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." Compare also 'the, mouth of the little horn speaking great things,' Daniel 7:8; the king who 'shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods' (Daniel 11:36). The wicked listen to the suggestions of sin as the Word of God. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Ethiopic, Arabic, Syriac, and one manuscript of Kennicott and two of DeRossi, read 'in HIS heart' [ libow (H3820)], for 'in MY heart' [ libiy (H3820)]. So Psalms 14:1, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God;" also Psalms 10:6; Psalms 10:11. Also, 'in his heart' here corresponds to "before his eyes," and "of his mouth" (Psalms 36:3). But the difficulty of the English version reading makes it less likely to be an interpolation. 'His heart' is a natural correction of transcribers.
(That there is) no fear ... Omit "that;" see the preceding note.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
For he flattereth ... be found to be hateful - rather, 'in respect to lª- the finding of his sin, (and) in respect to lª- the hating of it.' Compare on the phrase 'finding of sin,' Genesis 44:16; Numbers 32:23. By self-flatteries be stifles all thoughts of God's justice finding out his sin and punishing it as its hateful character demands. His skill and success in evading temporal punishment leads him to the self-deluding notion that he will escape eternal punishment. This estimate is made "in his own eyes;" for he judges only "after the sight of his eyes" (Isaiah 11:3), since "there is no fear of God before his eyes" (Psalms 36:1). Compare Deuteronomy 29:19, on which this passage rests, "Lest ... when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart."
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
He hath left off - instead of leaving off the self-destroying folly of sin (Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 4:22; Psalms 14:1-2).
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
He deviseth ... his bed - even there, where one lies down for sleep, he cannot be quiet from restless plans of evil.
In a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil. His positive sins flow from his negative disobedience to God's direct precepts. Our safety against great sins is to set ourselves 'in a good way,' and to "abhor that which is evil." Compare Romans 12:9.
Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
The second strophe. The consolation which the pious have in God's inexhaustible mercy, faithfulness, righteousness, and loving-kindness.
Thy mercy ... the heavens - rising far above the haughty impiety of the wicked, who try, like the Babel-builders, to raise the edifice of their pride to "reach unto heaven" (Genesis 11:4; Psalms 73:9: cf. Psalms 57:10). Like the divine pillar of cloud and fire, the goodness of Yahweh so rises aloft above the earth as to be "in the heavens." God's goodness and faithfulness to His people are infinitely above the reach of human malice to counteract. Therefore the Lord's people are inviolably safe, in spite of all the arrogant, restless, and God-despising enmity of their foes.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Thy righteousness ... the great mountains - literally 'the mountains of God.' The righteousness of God is that whereby He recompenses every man according to his works, awarding salvation to the righteous, and destruction to the wicked. This stands immovable as the mountains, which no earthly power can shake and displace. This "righteousness" is an additional guarantee of security to His trusting people, besides His "mercy" and His "faithfulness" (Psalms 36:5). Another future of the comparison is the 'greatness' and height of the mountains. Standing prominent, and towering above the surrounding country, the mountains direct the beholder's thoughts naturally to the pre-eminent greatness of God, raised so infinitely above every creature. Therefore they are called 'the mountains of God:' just as the cedars, the stateliest among the trees, are called 'the cedars of God,' (Psalms 80:10, margin)
Thy judgments are a great deep - (Job 11:7-8; Romans 11:33). His "judgments" are His judicial dealings in the moral government of the world, whereby He confounds the wicked and vindicates the good at last. His providence wonderfully cooperates with His "righteousness" for this end (Isaiah 28:29). The idea is that of an ocean, immeasurable in vastness as well as depth. The same Hebrew ( tªhowm (H8415)) is used of the flood in Noah's days (Genesis 7:11), "the great deep," or abyss.
Preservest man and beast. The preservation of the 'beasts' implies that He who cares for the humblest of His creatures will much more care for His immortal creature, man, especially for His saints (Matthew 10:29-31). The reference to the flood may here still be sustained (cf. Psalms 29:10; Psalms 32:6). God then showed His 'preserving' love for the beasts as well as for man. Shall not He whose glory it is that He 'preserves man and beast' now preserve His own people from their malicious foes?
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
How excellent ... O God! - Hebrew, yaaqaar (H3368), 'how precious,' etc.; like some costly treasure. David has here "God" ( 'Elohiym (H430)) instead of 'Lord,' or Yahweh (H3068), because the contrast is between God and man in general. How infinite is the interval between God and man! Yet the "loving-kindness" (Hebrew, chacdªkaa (H2617), goodness) of God bridges over the gulf, and enables frail man to have in God a never-failing shelter, (Psalms 8:1-9.)
The children of men ... shadow of thy wings. "The children of men" is the generic term for mankind. The class meant is the godly. "The shadow," in hot regions, is the natural term for protection. "Thy wings" is a figure from a mother-bird sheltering, with zealous solicitude, her young brood under her feathers (Deuteronomy 32:11; Matthew 23:37; Psalms 17:8).
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
They shall be abundantly satisfied ... - literally, They shall be watered; or, as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Septuagint, They shall be made drunk with. The Arabic has saturated with. Those filled with the Spirit seemed like persons elated with wine (Acts 2:13-17; Ephesians 5:18). The fatness of God's house is its rich spiritual provision of divine ordinances for the refreshment of His people. These dwell with Him in spirit already in His heavenly sanctuary, sustained by the Divine Householder with richest viands. Hereafter they shall in person feed upon the fruit of the tree of life, in the midst of the paradise of God, and drink of the "pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb" (Revelation 22:1-2; Revelation 2:7; Psalms 16:11; cf. Genesis 2:10, to which the allusion is here; Job 20:17; John 4:13-14; Ezekiel 47:1; Zechariah 14:8).
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
For with thee is the fountain of life. No wonder that in thy house, and in thy presence, there are abundant streams, and a full 'river of pleasures' for thy people to 'drink of,' for "with thee is the fountain of life" itself, including the fullness of happiness, without which existence is death, not life (Psalms 16:11; Deuteronomy 30:20). No malice of foes can rob of life and blessedness these who have access to God, "the Fountain" of both (cf. Psalms 23:5).
In thy light ... "Light" is a figure for 'salvation.' (Psalms 27:1). Through the salvation which is wholly in thee (Psalms 35:3), we shall see salvation (Job 29:3).
Having depicted the malice of the wicked foe, and the fullness of life which the godly have in God, he grounds on the contrast the prayer following, that God would save His people and himself from the proud enemy, and confidently anticipates the downfall of the latter.
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
O continue thy loving-kindness ... that know thee - literally, 'draw out at length [ mªshok (H4900)] thy loving-kindness' (cf. Psalms 85:5, the same Hebrew). They alone "know" God who love Him, and keep His commandments (1 John 2:3; 1 John 4:8; cf. Jeremiah 22:16; Titus 1:16).
Thy righteousness ... - note, Psalms 36:6. It is 'a righteous thing with God' to award "rest" to "the upright in heart" who are now "troubled," and "tribulation" to their troublers (2 Thessalonians 1:5-7).
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Let not the foot of pride ... against me - so as suddenly to tread me down. "Come upon" implies a surprise, an one taken in a net (Psalms 35:7-8). The wicked foes are represented as "pride" itself embodied. Compare Jeremiah 51:23; Jeremiah 51:31.
Let not the hand ... remove me - from my land, which is thy land. David had been forced to flee before Saul and Absalom successively (2 Kings 21:8). Or rather, as in Psalms 11:1, note, the removing is not one of mere position, but 'let not the wicked supplant me from my firm spiritual standing.' As the foot treads down, so the hand 'removes.'
There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
There ... of iniquity fallen ... In spirit he, by faith, sees his foes already vanquished by the power of prayer, though to the world they seemed in the height of their prosperity. He points to them "there," as if before the eye. Compare Psalms 18:38; Proverbs 24:16, which marks, as here, the contrast between the falls of the godly and of the wicked: "A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked shall fall into mischief" (are destroyed finally).
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The North Laine: A Visual Essay
by Chris Yuill
Robert Gordon University
Sociological Research Online, 17 (1) 4
Received: 2 Nov 2011 Accepted: 20 Dec 2011 Published: 28 Feb 2012
The North Laine in Brighton provides a useful case study in exploring different ways of experiencing and imagining urban life. The area possess many distinctive street forms and supports counter-cultural lifestyles, which emphasise environmentalism and alternative forms of capitalism, such as cooperative and collective organisation of the workplace. Drawing on the ideas and theories of Henri Lefebvre the essay focuses on (1) the various social and historical process that have conditioned and influenced the development of the area and (2) the various social power relations that have both sustained the area, allowing it to develop into its current format, and in turn question its future. A visual methodological approach is used to present the data and to convey the distinctive aesthetic of The North Laine.
Keywords: Visual Sociology, Urban Village, Urban, Glocalization, Brighton
1.1 The North Laine is an urban village and cultural quarter situated in the English south-coast town of Brighton. As the images above and the video walkthroughs below indicate The North Laine, as an instance of urban space, displays a highly distinctive and colourful aesthetic style. Many of the shops and retail outlets in The North Laine also offer some form of alternatives to mainstream capitalism and high-street retail, by selling products that are concerned with environmentalism, vegetarianism or fair-trade; or where the business has been founded as a worker's cooperative. A further note of distinction is provided by the many colourful large-scale instances of street art and murals that are situated throughout the area. The combination of the idiosyncratic shop fronts, the alternative consumerism and the street art make this an area that is both countercultural and cool.
1.2 What I wish to specifically tackle in this paper are two interrelated issues. The first is how The North Laines as an urban space comes into being, identifying the necessary conditions for the development of its unique spatial aura. The second is concerned with how the The North Laines as an example of a vernacular idiosyncratic local space can maintain its identity in relation to the wider and deeper global social and spatial processes. Tackling these themes will provide further insights into how such quarters can come into being in the first place and how the wider and deeper process and forces of globalization play out in a distinct locality. The main point I shall be arguing at this stage in the paper is for a subtle and nuanced approach to globalization as it pertains to urban space that understands the process to be more than a monolithic one-way street, but rather one of fusion and blending that can potentially add to the local as opposed to detracting from it. The reason for my decision to focus on one area or community is guided by Crow (2002). He argues that studies of particular places or communities assist in providing valuable empirical insights into wider theoretical debates where novel ideas are generated but are unfortunately supported by a paucity of evidence.
1.3 To meet the ambitions stated above this paper unfolds in the following sections. The first section briefly summarises the wider literature that has explored urban space and issues surrounding urban villages and cultural quarters. After contextualising this paper in the literature, attention turns in the second section to the method that was used to gather data, with an emphasis on discussing the role of the visual in sociology. The third section deals with the history of The North Laine. The focus here falls on both internal and external influences, such as the transition from feudalism to modernity, deindustrialisation and the role of chance. Once the history of the space is laid out, attention then turns to how The North Laine engages with the process of globalization. Finally, a conclusion brings together all the main points.
The Urban Village and Cultural Quarter
There has been a proliferation of writing recently exploring various social, economic and cultural dimensions of what are termed urban villages or cultural quarters. Urban villages are identifiable by offering an urban space that is supposedly rich in historical authenticity, aesthetic difference and provide distinct forms of cultural and economic consumption that cater for particular varieties of cultural capital. It was one of Zukin's (1989
) earlier works on the reordering of New York's SoHo that begins this current interest in urban villages and cultural quarters. In that research Zukin traces how artists were attracted by cheap rents to a former garment manufacturing area in New York that had fallen into disuse. Recent work on urban villages has explored a variety of areas including British examples, such as Nottingham Lace Market (Tiesdall 1995
; Shorthose 2004
), Birmingham's Eastside (Porter & Berder 2007
) Manchester's Northern Quarter (Brown et al 2000
) or global examples, such as Milan's Ticinese quarter (Bovone 2004
). A recent edited collection by Bell and Jayne (2004
) also outlines a number of examples of urban villages in Britain, Australia and the USA. One should however also not forget the rich vein of older material in addition to these more contemporary examples, including such studies as Young and Willmot's (1962
) classic work on Bethnal Green or Gans' (1962
) analysis of Italian-Americans living in Boston's West End.
2.2 Urban villages, as Zukin (1998) points out, have come into being as the city has moved from being a place of production to a place of consumption and identity and are aligned with the post-industrial (if not post-modern city) where an over-arching single identity has given way to a multiple forms of identity within the city. That observation is useful in identifying the macro-processes at play behind the creation of urban villages but the actual creation of an urban village on the micro-level or street-level relies on activity in a particular place that possesses certain economic and cultural resources alongside a particular built environment rich in distinctive buildings and interesting spatial arrangements of buildings, pathways and public spaces (Montgomery 1998, 2003). Shorthose (2004) usefully points to how cultural quarters can be classified as being what he terms 'engineered' or 'vernacular'. As is implied in the name, engineered urban villages are the product and outcome of planning and policy decisions, specifically planned to cater for the new cultural and creative industries. To that extent they can be described as being synthetic attempts to construct order and identity in urban space. Many recent examples of cultural quarters or urban villages in British cities can be deemed to be engineered and come into existence as part of urban regeneration projects.
2.3 The vernacular urban village is the opposite of the engineered, its existence emerging out of the efforts and ambitions of social agents in a particular place and accrues over time gradually transforming that place into a recognizable urban village or cultural quarter. Examples of the vernacular could include the Left Bank in Paris or Soho in London (Montgomery 1998), areas that have evolved over time into a distinctive cultural space. Shorthose (2004: p171) also argues that the vernacular examples of urban villages or cultural quarters posses certain advantages over the engineered by not being aligned to the needs of profit and focused more on self-realization and fulfilling forms of creative labour:
" Given these intrinsic qualities vernacular cultural participation is more intimately connected to an increase in cultural vibrancy , a sense of cultural ownership and authorship, and to better quality of urban life. It offers the possibility of a form of cultural economic production that is much more intimately connected to 'wellbeing' (Hamilton 2003), and which hints at the real possibility of de-alienated work and autonomous creative expression (Fromm 1966; Gorz 1999)."
2.4 Before concluding this overview of the literature there is one caveat to record. First, some of the material cited above comes from academic areas external to sociology. The inclusion of which may be appear to be problematic given that this is intended to be a sociological treatment of the urban space of The North Laines. As May and Perry (May et al. 2005) have noted, however, the study of the urban has for some time been an interdisciplinary endeavour. What sociology brings to the table is a wider range of theoretical tools, such as globalization, and, as Savage et al. (2003) advance, an understanding of how and why the urban relates to wider issues of modernity. Such tools combined with an emphasis on the social are included throughout this work.
A visual ethnographic method was adopted in order to return and gather data for this research. The form of ethnography adopted here mainly involved walking through the various streets or observing social encounters in a style that Wogan (2004
) describes as 'deep hanging out'. The collection of data took place between 2007 and 2011, though mainly in the summer months of 2007 and 2008. A further round of data collection took place in the summer of 2011 to ensure that there had been no major changes to the area in the intervening three years and to gather more video footage. Data was recorded in two ways. First, the conventional notebook, in which I recorded experiences, observations and reactions to what I was encountering. Sometimes these notes were just rapid fragments hastily jotted down hoping to capture a particular observation, other entries were more considered and followed a period of reflection. The second approach involved visual sociology employing a digital camera that had the facility to record both still and video images.
3.2 Using visual techniques offers sociology the possibility of developing a much richer and wider mode of representing, analysing and discussing society, by going beyond what Henny (1986) playfully terms the 'Gutenberg syndrome' in sociology that prioritises the standard form of communication as word-text and is dismissive of other media that can communicate with equal power an analysis of society. In the context of this essay so much of what I interrogate is mediated through visual experience and visual spectacle, and, consequently, raises a distinct challenge. Trying to adequately communicate the visual displays and visual textures in conventional text format would be beyond my literary skills. As the various images embedded into the text illustrate a textual description the ornate and highly artistic streetscapes would be difficult to fully realise and hence an integral element of what the makes the object interesting to study would be lost. As Chaplin (1994 : p 221) rightly insists that with the visual we are required '…to appreciate them for what they document as well as for their visual appearance'. Using a textual descriptive approach would also be difficult to meet the standard stylistic confines of the journal format with the (highly) justifiable restrictions on word-count, thus limiting the scope of analysis and discussion. These points should, however, not be read as claiming any superiority for the visual. The visual may powerfully document elements of social life, such as Salgado's evocative pictures of Brazilian miners labouring in the Serra Pelada (see Strangleman 2004), but the visual cannot provide an analysis or theoretical interpretation by its own presence. An image may speak a thousand words but a thousand or so words are necessary to provide the sociological context and sociological analysis of an image or images. Text, therefore, remains important. Following Chaplin (op cit) once more, it the synthesis of text and visual image that adds bite to the representational and analytical ambitions of the sociological imagination.
3.3 There are qualities about space that the visual ethnographer captures taking a photograph that differ from a tourist doing something similar. As Shields (2004), following Crary (1999), notes '…the gazing observer occupies a location at the intersection between the body and a network of practices, institutional methods and technologies'. So, instead, of the images being taken to record a moment on holiday, for example, they are included to capture an aspect of The North Laine that is in some way sociologically instructive or meaningful. The images, in context of this paper, serve to relate the data that was gathered during the study in addition to providing an illustration of the main features of The North Laine.
3.4 Video also features within this essay, which, as a medium, offers an additional advantage to the many advantages provided by still images when documenting the city: movement. As many classic urban commentators agree the city is about what we do in it, how we traverse the streets and walk along the pavements filtering and absorbing the constant mass of sensations and experiences presented to us by city life. So, for example, Jacobs (1961) points to the centrality of busy interactive streetwalk culture as giving rise to the energy and creativity of urban space. For Simmel (1971) it is each step through the urban environment that propels encounters with new ideas and people; for deCerteau (1988) it is only by walking through the city that one fully appreciates its reality; and for Park (1950: p viii) '… tramping about in cities…' was the best method by which to interrogate urban experience. Movement also features prominently in Lefebvre, especially evident in what he terms spatial archetonics, where the movements of embodied human agents produce, experience and contest the urban. That attempt to capture the embodied moving experience of the city is the reason for the inclusion of the video in this essay. The various clips that can be accessed are of key moments and experiences of The North Laine that provide insights into the unique character of The North Laine as an urban space. By viewing the video some of that experience of being in The North Laine becomes accessible.
3.5 Finally, given the historical element within this paper some limited historical research was undertaken at Brighton Library and at Brighton Museum, with the objective being to identify key moments in the history of the North Laines area. Primary source historical books and documents were identified in consultation with staff in both locations. Research using maps and census data housed in Brighton Museum was also undertaken. Such research requires a whole methodology in itself and therefore only supplementary and illustrative data was sought.
History – what is there now comes from what was…
There are two reasons prompting the historical element of this essay. The first prompt is provided by Montgomery (1998
) who identifies that history and sense of place are essential aspects of a cultural quarter. In many of the examples of urban villages or cultural quarters discussed earlier a strong local history exists that (1) explains why that particular place develops into a cultural quarter and (2) signals the character and identity of place as being different and unique from other places within the same urban context. The second prompt is provided by urban sociologist Lefebvre (1991
), who emphasises that the history of a place is important in understanding the production of that space. Very few spaces emerge from nothing without any provenance, all have lineages and a history that are crucial to the subsequent development of that space, and which in turn exert some form of presence in the present. Or as Lefebvre (1991
: p 228) stated, ' The preconditions of social space have their own particular way of enduring and remaining actual within that space…'. The main lesson that emerges from this historical review of The North Laines is that it fits with Shorthose's description of a vernacular cultural quarter, one that has organically emerged from a range of interrelated factors and events that are discussed below in greater detail.
4.2 Brighton as a whole is an example of what Shields (1991) formulates as being 'a place in the margins', part of the alternative geography of modernity, a site of the carnivalesque, a marker of difference, and a place of permissive licence for otherwise forbidden desires. He also provides a useful historical insight into the various processes and reasons why the small and insignificant fishing village of Brighthelmstone became the vibrant and chic town of Brighton (Shields 1991: Ch 2). The story of this transformation begins with the flamboyant playboy figure of George IV, who founded the myth of Brighton as a place of pleasure when he was Prince Regent, in the late 1700s. Monumentally the Indo-Saracen inspired Royal Pavillion still stands as a reminder of that time. Monuments, such as The Brighton Pavillion, also play a particular spatial role for Lefebvre (1991), as they inform the texture of a space, providing a set of codes and signs as to what that space is about, how it is perceived, conceived and lived. It also records an interpretation of another dimension of space that occurred with the reordering of global space brought about by the expansion of the British Empire. India and the East in Regency England were regarded by certain elements of the bourgeoisie as an exotic and romantic other that was worthy of emulation and respect, a discourse of the Orient that stood in stark contrast with the later Victorian supremacist discourses of Indian backwardness. From an early stage in the creation of The North Laine, the view of the powerful and hegemonic forces (in this case the upper echelons of British court society), was one that created a ludic space where some of the otherwise normal constraints concerning spatial practices and the use space in English society were suspended.
4.3 The popular perception of Brighton, Shields continues, as a place of permission and difference is further advanced by the later creation of the beach as liminal place of recreation allowing for the transgression of Victorian bodily norms with the new fad of sea-bathing necessitating displays of bathers' partially dressed bodies further strengthened Brighton's reputation as somewhere that was different from the staid order of other towns and rival leisure destinations such as Bath. The idea of permission granted by being set from form the restraints of normal everyday-life to break accepted pattern of behaviors is also evident in the (dark) carnival violence of the Mods and Rockers clashes of the 1960s – the historical event captured in Cohen's (1972) classic moral panic work.
4.4 This discourse of permission still pertains today as indicated in the following field note from an observation on The North Laine by a young woman (c.19 years old) working in a coffee shop:
"It's so laid back here. Nobody cares what you get up to." (Field Note June 16th 13.11)
4.5 The main thread that unites all these events in the historical narrative is that Brighton became a site and place where normal social mores and social norms could be – albeit, within certain limits - suspended, and license and permission existed for people to test the boundaries of their own lives free. Brighton emerges then as a place of difference, spectacle and release:
"In an overarching social spatialisation of Britain, the place-myth of Brighton is located in an imaginary geography vis-à-vis the place-myths of other towns and regions which form the contrast which established its reputation as a liminal destination, a social as well as geographical margin, a 'place apart'." (Shields 1991: p112)
4.6 While the above material provided by Shields diligent historical work on Brighton as a place-myth makes clear the origins and developments of the symbolic imaginings and perceptions of Brighton, a further material history needs to be added next in order to establish how the distinctive built-environment of brick, flint, concrete, paint and glass came into being and how the symbolic aspects of license and permission translate into spatial and social practices centered in a specific and distinctive physical space. If we do not consider the actual material basis and construction of a space then we run the risk of lapsing into idealism once more. After all, the question of what is it specifically about this part of Brighton is different as opposed to other districts in the city remains unanswered. In particular how the distinctive tight-street pattern came into being. Such a spatial arrangement in an urban setting is a necessary element throughout Jacobs' (1961) work in creating interesting, creative and vibrant places in which to live. To understand why and how the current built environment came into being, again requires a stepping back in time but one where the focus is on the rise of the built and experiential environment.
4.7 Space is not just an entity, or a void, waiting to be filled, as there is no space outside social relations. It emerges out of various relations and is dynamically reordered, imagined, experienced and materialised in connection with changes in dominant cultural and economic processes occurring in historical time. All space for Lefebvre (1991) is both metaphorically and literally 'up-for-grabs' by capitalism and the shift from feudalism to modernity and the rise of capitalism witnessed a complete reordering of rural and urban space (see also Harvey 1989). Woods (2002) discusses the centrality the transforming of land for capitalist purposes within the wider historic rise of capitalism in Britain. At its peak this process is most vividly witnessed in the enclosing of the commons (though other forces were at play) where the peasantry lost both access to physical land and space but also to the idea and concept of land being open to all and not the private property of a few. In Brighton, however, the large-scale transference of land did not occur as it had in other parts of England. The common land was instead sold off in strips and parcels dictated by ownership and access to the land by individual small-property owners. The open-fields surrounding Brighton followed a common pattern across feudal England of communal ownership consisting of long strips and walkways as indicated in image below. It is this pattern of field ownership that gives rise to the quarter's name of The North Laine. The spelling of Laine is not a 'olde englishe' variant of lane, but rather is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon meaning 'loan' or lease', referring to the open commons that existed throughout Britain during feudalism and to the way in which land was sub-divided into different plots tended by tenant husbandmen (Carder, 1990) In Brighton the fields were divided into furlongs, separated by 'leakways', which acted as pathways between the fields, and then further sub-divided into 'paul-pieces', an eighth of an acre in size. Similar (though with local variation) land holding patterns were eventually ended by the enclosures of the eighteenth century. Private capital and private ownership at this point reordered the symbolic, legal and spatial order of the former common land in the early phases of agricultural capitalism to that of private property. This capture and command - albeit problematic and fraught with contradictions - of space is, as Harvey (1989: 232) notes, fundamental for capitalism and its requirement to 'rationalize spatial organisation into efficient configurations of production'. The common lands were however and unusually not, as mentioned above, enclosed for agricultural purposes in Brighton as happened elsewhere in England. Brighton's main economy in the mid to late 1700s faced out to the sea with farming of secondary importance to fishing. The plots of land were instead sold for housing and light industry. The sale of land was thus in turn determined by the existing feudal field system with plots of land sold in their subdivisions, as and when, they became available. This piecemeal selling off the land laid down the current street pattern that is present today. The relationship is usefully illustrated in the figure below. A parish map of 1792 records the field system around the square shape of the Brighton, bounded by West, North and East Streets. The present street system is becoming visible in the map from c.1820, where the old field-strips are becoming the new streets and lanes.
4.8 In common with other areas within larger urban structures that can be described as cultural quarters, a certain level of 'accident' or unintended consequences pertains in relation to the North Laines coming into being. The unique built environment surviving in part by the dint of chance and historical circumstance. Montgomery (1995, 2005), for example, has noted accident playing a role in the development of the Templebar area of Dublin, where an abandoned attempt to redevelop the area as a bus terminal, resulted in the unintended preservation of series of idiosyncratic old streets that because of both their low rent and aesthetic difference attracted artists, galleries and musicians to live and work there. While traditional parts of Bristol in the city-centre were lost in the 1960s when, as with many other places in the United Kingdom, local authorities embarked upon what was then regarded as being a programme of 'modernisation', introducing Brutalist concrete architecture and new road systems that were constructed out of the spaces left by the demolition of older street layouts. If the recommendations of the 1967 Wilson and Womersley Report had been put into practice, for example, much of the current North Laine would have been flattened to make way for a flyover. Brighton also escaped the heavy bombing during the Blitz in the Second World War that destroyed the city-centre of Southampton, where the Victorian town as a built entity is all but gone and survives mainly in the street plan and in the street names. The vast majority of structures in Southampton that exist today were built form the 1960s onwards, arguably lacking the vernacular distinction afforded by the more traditional designs, which are still evident in Brighton North Laine.
4.9 During the 1960s and 1970s the area underwent its own period of deindustrialization as is common to many cultural quarters. In the classic cultural quarter narrative it is artists, writers and musicians that move into a former industrial area, attracted by the low rents, authenticity and so forth. Here The North Laine differs in that the people who moved into the area were engaged with alternative politics (socialism, anarchism, and environmentalism). The political character of the people that moved into The North Laine was evident in the shops that emerged in this period, examples including The Unicorn Bookshop, Infinity Foods, Solstice Bookshop and the first ever Body Shop. The following extract from a recollection by Paul Bennett who worked in an alternative bookshop captures the move away from the light industry to the new countercultural industries and the reason why they were attracted to the area:
"The North Laine was deeply unfashionable in the 1970s so rents were more reasonable. Our landlord was Murray Gordon, owner of Sammy Gordon's, a trendy, mainly Italian, suit shop in North Street. One of his staff lived upstairs and I think No 28 may have been Murray Gordon's tailors before we took it over." (Paul Bennett 2011: n.p.)
The Global and the Local
4.10 The previous section has explored the genesis of The North Laine identifying the various social processes and plays of chance that have provided the conditions for the current countercultural and cool urban space to come into being. Urban space is never still, however, and is never at the end of its own history. The North Laine, as with anywhere else, should be understood to be in a constant state of flux and transformation. The main engine of change affecting the North Laine today, as with any urban space, is globalization and that is the focus of this section.
4.11 Globalization here is not held to be a one-way street that automatically homogenizes urban space. Globalization can on the contrary hold the potential to offer cultural resources that enhance and further heighten the individuality and distinction of an area. As Sassen (2000, 2001) has notably discussed, urban locations and cities are inextricably bound in with globalization, as places from where processes of globalization originate, whether economically or culturally, or as places that are shaped by globalization. Globalization, then, is something that urban spaces do as well has having done to them. In a recent study on globalization and identity in Manchester, Savage et al (2005), also identified that globalization in an urban context is highly complex and far from being monolithic in its power and effect. They contend that current society is far from making an epochal shift towards a full-scale globalization that negates the local. Instead, what is occurring is that the local and the global are mixing and interrelating in subtle ways that assist in shaping the local context of people's lives. The ability of globalization to perform such a role in The North Laine is already present in the form of Brighton Pavillion and is alluded to in the previous section. A more modern instance of this tendency is evident in the street art (see the images below) that proliferates in The North Laine and that is where the discussion focuses on next.
4.12 In the four intervening years of the two main phases of data collection (2007-2011) the number of murals increased significantly, though murals have been present in the area since the late 1960s with The Unicorn Bookshop being possibly the first example of this practice (Fuller 2011). In 2007 the murals were mainly to be found in Kensington Street, but in the last few years murals can be found in a number of locations within The North Laine. As the image box below highlights the aesthetic style of the various murals differ widely referencing and sourcing American-style graffiti, Japanese Manga, English pastoralist styles, English graffiti artist Banksy or individualistic artistic works. Images are drawn from both global and local sources. Now deceased Black American soul-singer James Brown and Burmese dissident politician Aung San Suu Kyi being obvious examples of global images, while the most obvious examples of local images are provided by reference to Mod culture (see below), which as a subcultural youth group is bound up with the history of Brighton, as the town was one of the locations of the (in)famous Mods and Rockers clashes of the 1960s, as detailed by Cohen. It is often the Vespa scooter, the Mod's favoured mode of transport, that is invoked to act as shorthand for the subculture as a whole.
4.13 Overall, the presence of the forms of global culture discussed above adds to the distinctiveness of The North Laine and do not present any countervailing tendencies. What is important here is that the various examples of street art should not be considered in isolation from both the context in which they are to be found. The instances of street art should rather be understood in how they dialectically interact with other elements of The North Laine, such as the shop frontages, the street pattern and the flint-rubble material that the buildings on which the murals are painted and the historical flow that has allowed The North Laine to come into being. The lived experience, the effect of walking through The North Laine (as illustrated in the video below), is one that is mediated by the fusion and interplay of particular moments of the local and the global resolving themselves in the unique moment that is The North Laine. The work of Benjamin and his concept of aura is of use in expanding on this point further. Even though, he intended the term to apply to art and unique experiences of a particular moment in time, the concept of aura can, as Merrifield (2002) has argued, be applied to urban contexts too. What one finds here is that an urban space emits aura as its totality creates a unique urban spatiality and a set of experiences that are not available elsewhere and it is this particular fusion of global and local images and traditions that are embedded in the tight street system and countercultural shops that generates the aura of The North Laine.
4.14 The street art also provides a useful example of Robertson's (1995) concept of glocalization, which offers a corrective note to counter excessive pronouncements of the tendency for global and local to be abruptly counterpointed against one another without exploring how the two interpenetrate each other creating a specific place that emerges out of local particulars and global universals. Massey (1994) has made a similar point concerning how the most apparently banal of streets that seem on the surface appear locked in a prism of the particular and local, are actually on deeper inspection suffused with global influences.
4.15 The street art may present a moment of 'positive' globalization, where a new local particular emerges from the interweaving of global and local images and traditions. There are also 'negative' examples of globalization occurring with The North Laine and can be noted by the recent arrival chain stores to the area. Their presence chimes with what McGuigan (2011: p7) terms as being 'cool capitalism', a phase in contemporary capitalism that attempts to draw in and valorise counter-cultural symbols and objects, which, in their genesis, were intended to posit an oppositional form (whether weakly or strongly) to capitalism. McGuigan (2011) sees this development as the 'incorporation of disaffection into capitalism itself'. One mechanism (and there are multiple others) of achieving this appropriation of cool, is by physically situating a corporate chain store near or in an areas deemed to be cool, with the intention of gaining cool by association – a process that can be seen to be occurring in streets. Such a process is evident in a development on Jubilee Street (see video and image below) where the buildings are in a modernist universal style where both building materials and design bear no relation to the local vernacular. The development also provides retail units for corporate brands (Starbucks, Pizza Express, Giraffe, and Nandos, for example) that break with the independent culture of The North Laine, in effect forming a 'corporate quarter' in the cultural quarter.
4.16 Care must be taken however not to jump to conclusions about the long-term effects of this development. Thompson (2004) highlights that two different perspectives on brands and the impact they exert on local culture exist within the literature. First, there is the cultural homogeneity perspective that has been advanced by Klein (2000). This perspective holds that brands exert a strong and devastating impact on local vitality resulting in the replacement of local and distinctive cultural vitality with bland corporate. Lineages of the homogeneity approach can be detected in Benjamin's (1999: p215) concept of mechanical reproduction and aura, mentioned earlier, where one of the impulses of capitalist modernity is to mass-produce cultural experiences, where, "By making many reproductions it subsitutes a plurality of copies for a unique existence". Benjamin talks specifically of art, but the notion of sameness and reproduction can be rolled out to also include urban experiences generally Starbucks usefully provides an example of this mechanical reproduction. As Ritzer (2008) has noted in his Starbuckisization thesis, both the actual aesthetic and build of Starbucks coffee shops are uniformly similar the world over as are the experiences one encounters, with their theatrical but manufactured aura of 'cool' and faux-bohemianism.
4.17 The homogeneity approach contrasts with the heterogeneity approach as advanced by Miller et al. (1998). This anthropological interpretation of shopping and urban commercial space indicates something more complex occurring in terms of how globalization is interpreted and received. The presence of international brands within a locality is here not a zero-sum game where all is collapse into the same bland corporate horizon but instead the presence of produces a highly varied local field for local social actors to both interpret and, importantly, to perform their identities. What the brand stores add is both a symbolic and material presence that can inform and reinforce oppositional ideologies to multi-nationals. So, instead of local people being instantly beguiled into the corporate experience they may find their anti-corporate convictions strengthened. The end result being the local coffee shops, for example, thriving as more people make a statement by choosing to take their custom to such places and avoid the corporate 'homogenizers' such as Starbucks.
4.18 In the North Laine, it is hard currently to make a call as to which perspective is analytically more robust in understanding the impact of the 'corporate quarter' within the cultural quarter: the reason being that the moment of the contradiction is still being played out. On one hand, the streets around exhibit very strong instances of a cultural homogenization. The local built vernacular is absent, giving way to a modernist design that could belong in any contemporary global city or town. There are no local stores but instead a variety of brand chain-stores that are common to most British high streets. This process of flux must be underlined as change is always immanent, and what is there is one moment is not necessarily there the next. Lefebvre (1991: p 49 – 53) brings attention to how capital creates what he terms 'abstract space' (a spatial adaptation from the Marxian theory of abstract labour), where over time all space can be disembeded from its specific history, losing its distinctiveness and falling prey to the super-signification of capitalism with its own set of symbols and signs. Abstract space, however, is a process and one that while immensely powerful is not guaranteed always to succeed in its own terms. Lefebvre also points to 'differential space' coming into being, a space that, while lacking the various economic, ideological and symbolic power, of abstract space, nevertheless can arise to confront and subvert the colonizing impulses of capital. Key to achieving this aim of differential space are the '…energies of groups capable of subverting homogeneous space for their own purposes', whose actions create a '… theatricalized or dramatized space' (Lefebvre 1991: p 391). So both abstract space, in the form of universal building styles, and differential space, in the form of the theatrical murals and shop fronts, are simultaneously present. Which one will 'win out' is yet to be decided, but currently they provide a tension that produces the space of The North Laine.
The focus in this paper has fallen on how The North Laine, an example of an urban village or cultural quarter, came into being as a vernacular, countercultural and cool local space, and how contemporary forces and process of globalization are engaging with that space today. In understanding the genesis of the space, some familiar patterns that are common with the wider literature were evident here. The North Laine shares the close-knit street layout, the distinctive culture, a sense of history and distinguishing buildings that appear in other urban villages. It also emerges from a period of postindustrial decline and residential disuse following that period of decline. There are, however, several important and crucial differences. The area in which The North Laine stands contained elements that from the historical beginning of the building of Brighton in early modernity affords difference. The main element being that Brighton as a whole was construed to be somewhere that was outside the usual norms and boundaries (both geographical and moral) of other English towns and cities. This key element then laid down in the symbolic and cultural order of the area providing the cultural resources of experimentation and permissive license. Other elements that separate The North Laines from other cultural quarters include the particular way that Brighton underwent the transition from feudalism and into capitalist modernity.
5.2 All urban space is dynamic and in a constant process of becoming and the North Laine is no different. The main motor for change and movement in this space is one common to all urban spaces: globalization. What this study revealed was that the effects of globalization are far from being wholly negative. The street art, as the prime example, displays how global cultural influences can meld with local symbols and contexts that further heighten and nuance a sense of the local. The particular array of styles, the form of the buildings that the murals are painted on, the way in which they are encountered walking through particular streets could only happen in The North Laine. There is a further nuance, however, parallel to the glocalization of the street art there also exists the standardizing and homogenizing presence of large-scale corporate concerns.
5.3 The North Laine shares many of the classic elements of an urban village or cultural quarter: it possesses, for instance, the idiosyncratic buildings, the tight street pattern, the cultural use of space emerging out of a period of deindustrialisation. It does, however display distinct characteristics that afford the area with further distinction. The designation of Brighton as a place of escape and emotional excitement adds a historical sense of permission and license to be different that still arguably pervades The North Laine today. The people attracted to The North Laine in its decline also differed from the artists that are commonly attracted to similar areas offering cheap housing and an interesting place to live. Their motivations were political and this alternative political tradition adds a different dimension to the area.
5.4 From inspecting the history, The North Laine qualifies as a vernacular space that has developed organically over time. This does not mean that everything about it is essentially local. The influence of globalization is present, but not necessarily negative. A distinct fusion of the local and the global is present, notably in the street art, which adds to the sense of the unique local, though the effect of the increasing presence of multi-national chain stores in the area may exert changes that could potentially destabilize and reorder the area.
5.5 Overall, this essay on The North Laine provides further insights into the formation of cultural quarters or urban villages by highlighting the interrelationship of local historical forces and global processes. The street art in particular providing a useful example of how the local and the global form a moment of glocalization. Whether or not The North Laine continues as a distinctive area is yet to be seen, but as with other examples of urban villages and vernacular cultural quarters it indicates one way that urban space could be: small-scale and emerging out of the activities, beliefs and traditions of the people who live there as opposed to the planned, impersonal disenchanted corporate spaces that are also evident in many urban spaces.
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Trains filled with rush-hour passengers were sent to investigate reports of smoke pouring from a Washington Metro subway car last year that killed a commuter inside a tunnel near one of the city’s busiest stations, federal safety investigators concluded on Tuesday.
The National Transportation Safety Board was sharply critical of the Washington-area transit agency’s handling of the debacle in January 2015, the most serious in a string of mechanical, operational and managerial failures that have plagued the nation’s second-busiest subway system.
It cited a host of system-wide failures found by transportation investigators, prompting area House members to call the panel’s findings “appalling” and warn that Metro shortcomings have left constituents “concerned, worried and frustrated.”
Investigators also found that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority did not follow its own policy by halting all train service during the incident aboard a Yellow Line train at the L’Enfant Plaza station. Instead, 56 trains were in operation systemwide from the time smoke was reported until the incident was over, investigators reported.
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We have increasingly become a ‘consumer society’ and alongside that we have become more wasteful. Our shopping habits are no longer based just on ‘need’ and instead the phrase ‘retail therapy’ was coined to capture the idea that we can in some way buy ‘happiness’. The resulting items sit in our homes, some never used, eaten or worn before being discarded as waste. We hear the term ‘throw-away society’; where it is easier to replace something than repair it.
By swapping ‘retail therapy’ for other activities, we both consume and waste less. We will lower our carbon emissions and save money. When we go shopping we go into battle with a marketing machine which is geared towards persuading us to buy more things and in ever greater quantities. We need to learn how to ‘just say no’ to tempting deals and promotions, and flashy, tailored advertisements.
Green Fact: The carbon footprint of a T shirt is equivalent to powering your home for 2-3 days; a wool suit is equivalent to up to a month’s energy to power your home.
Green Fact: British and American households throw out a THIRD of the food they buy!
Food is one such area where waste levels have rocketed. The top reasons for throwing food away in the UK were found to be:
74% of people didn’t write a shopping list
35% didn’t plan their meals
24% didn’t know what was in the fridge before they went to the supermarket
With a little pre-planning before the weekly shop, we could all significantly reduce our food waste. With 2.6 million slices of bread thrown away every day in London alone, it’s high time we did!
When we waste food, we also waste water, as a significant amount is required to grow and produce food. It takes 100 buckets of water to produce a loaf of bread, 54 buckets to produce just one chicken breast and six buckets to produce a potato, so when you throw this food away, the water is wasted alongside the produce, causing an even greater environmental impact.
Changing How We Shop
Remember to ‘change how you shop, not what you’ve got’. If you already own something then it’s best to continue using or keep it rather than replace it because it isn’t eco-friendly.
Making some simple changes to how we shop will have a huge impact environmentally. Here are some suggestions:
One of the biggest impacts you can have on your carbon footprint can be achieved by reducing the amount you consume.
- ZZZ Buy less. Opting for a simpler life and buying only those high quality items that will last is better in the long term.
- £££ Make your own and grow your own. Making your own is generally cheaper, healthier and better for the planet. From bread, yoghurt and cakes to household cleaning products, making your own reduces both use of synthetic chemicals and wasteful excess packaging.
Home prepared meals are better than highly processed and packaged foods, which often have a larger carbon footprint.
Make your own cleaning products from natural household ingredients - see our ‘Homemade Cleaning Products Guide’ information.
Grow your own vegetables and salad.
Make your own clothes and gifts.
Planning your shopping ensures you only buy what you need.
Try following these tips:
- £££ Plan your meals. Only buy the fresh food you need.
- £££ Make a shopping list. 'Arming yourself’ with a shopping list and sticking to it helps ensure you only buy the items you need. When you are tempted to buy ‘off-list’ ask yourself: “Do I really need this?”. You didn't think you did before you entered the shop.
- Beware of offers. ‘Buy one get one free’ offers, particularly on fresh produce, encourage us to buy food that we will struggle to use and end up wasting.
- £££ Buy dry foods in bulk and shop locally and more often for fresh food. Bulk buying of dry foods with long shelf lives leads to less journeys, less packaging and is generally cheaper overall. Shopping locally and more often for fresh foods, either on foot or by bicycle means you are less likely to overbuy and have food go to waste. These habits also carry the added benefit of supporting local independent businesses.
- ZZZ Consolidate internet shopping orders. Each order requires a van to make a trip to your delivery address. Placing a single order and opting out of next day delivery will reduce the number of van journeys made.
- £££ Reusable shopping bags. Take your own reusable shopping bags so you don’t use plastic carrier bags. As your plastic ‘bags for life’ fail, try replacing them with hessian or canvas bags and look after these so they last. Many textile alternatives can be washed and reused again and again.
- Reusable cotton produce bags. Take reusable cotton bags for fresh food rather than using the shop’s plastic bags when buying loose fruit and veg. To find where you can buy these go to the Eco Shops section of the New Leaf Company Directory.
- Reusable containers for meats, dry foods and liquids. A ‘zero waste’ shop allows you to take containers to refill with shampoo, conditioner, cleaning and washing products, and dried foods such as pasta and pulses - see the Food Cupboard section in the New Leaf Company Directory to find your local zero waste shop, shops operating refill schemes and retailers who are happy for you to bring your own containers.
When you are shopping there is often a myriad of choices, so try to choose well and swap products that have a significant impact on the environment for more environmentally friendly ones by following these tips:
- Opt for eco products and buy from environmentally responsible and sustainable companies.
- Choose ‘A-rated' products for energy use when you buy household appliances and light bulbs.
- Choose organic foods. Over 320 pesticides can routinely be used in non-organic farming. Organic farmers are permitted to use just 15 pesticides, derived from natural ingredients including citronella and clove oil, but only under very restricted circumstances. Because organic farms don't rely on potentially harmful chemicals and pesticides, they have healthier soils and support over 75% more plant species - thereby supporting more wildlife. Look for organic products certified by the Soil Association.
- Buy ‘FSC certified’ wood, charcoal and paper, which comes from sustainably managed forestry.
- Soil Association endorsement. Look for cleaning and beauty products which have been certified by the Soil Association. These contain natural ingredients and reduce the use of chemicals and pollutants, which affect our air and water quality. Wilko has a competitively priced range of ‘eco’ cleaning products.
- Buy products made from recycled materials. Recycled paper products might include stationery, toilet and kitchen roll. Try sustainable loo roll in recyclable packaging such as ‘Who Gives A Crap’ or Ecoleaf - see the Household section in the New Leaf Company Directory. Look out for household products like brushes and buckets made from recycled plastic. Try Weaver Green for fabrics and textiles made from recycled plastic. Silent Night Eco Comfort range of mattresses feature a layer made from recycled plastic bottles and sustainable fibres.
- Avoid free plastic gifts like the ones in Macdonald's Happy Meals and Kinder Eggs. These cheap plastic toys can’t be recycled and will only offer short-lived fun and soon end up in the bin.
Palm oil is used in our foods, cosmetics, cleaning products, and fuels. The demand for palm oil has led to the destruction of huge tracts of rainforest which have been bulldozed and torched to make room for plantations.
Green Fact: In 2015, Indonesia temporarily surpassed the USA in greenhouse emissions due to deforestation for palm oil plantations.
Try to avoid products containing palm oil or ensure the palm oil is sustainably sourced. Look for the symbols for 'Palm Oil Free' and 'Sustainably Sourced Palm Oil' products.
See the Health & Beauty section of the New Leaf Company Directory for shops selling palm oil free toiletries.
Palm oil has many guises.
It is also listed in ingredients as PKO Palm Kernel Oil, PHPO Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oil, FP(K)O Fractionated Palm Oil, OPKO Organic Palm Kernal Oil, Palmitate, Palmate, Sodium Laureth Sulphates, Sodium dodecyl Sulphate, Elaeis Guineensisi, Glyceryl Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Stearic Acid, Steareth-2, Steareth-20, Sodium Lauryl Sulphate, Sodium lauryl sulfoacetate, Hydrated palm glycerides, Sodium isostearoyl lactylate, cetyl palmitate and acetyl palmitate.
Try to replace plastic products with non-plastic alternatives.
- Wipes. Most wipes including baby wipes, make-up removal face wipes and household cleaning wipes contain plastic, so the best solution is to stop using them and opt for reusable alternatives such as cotton cloths and flannels.
If you have to buy wipes choose ones marked ‘biodegradable’ like Detail’s New Green wipes which are made from 100% biodegradable plant fibres, or Cheeky Wipes for babies.
See the Baby and Eco Shops sections of the New Leaf Company Directory.
- £££ Female sanitary products. It's estimated that the average woman throws away 90-130kg of disposable sanitary items in her life.
Changes you can make:
Avoid plastic applicators at all costs.
Choose products that don’t require an applicator to reduce waste.
Consider switching to alternative sanitary products such as period pants, reusable pads and menstrual cups. Find out more by reading The Independent's Review for World Menstrual Hygiene Day and visit the Health & Beauty section of the New Leaf Company Directory.
- £££ Nappies. An estimated 3 BILLION nappies are thrown away every year. About 25% of a disposable nappy is plastic which ends up being incinerated and contributing to carbon emissions.
Instead of disposables consider switching to reusable cloth nappies or eco disposables for when you are away from home.
Reusable nappies are better for the environment, provided you wash them on a full load, using an eco cycle and don’t tumble dry.
Using cloth nappies and washing them yourself can save up to £200 per year.
Winchester NCT runs a 'Nappy Library' which allows you to trial a range of reusable nappies.
You can buy second hand nappies and pass them on when you’ve finished with them.
‘Urine only nappies’ can be washed at low temperatures with your general laundry.
See the Baby section of the New Leaf Company Directory.
- Other swaps:
'Sponges'. Change from plastic washing-up sponges to natural luffas or coconut fibre scouring pads - available from Ethical Superstore and Ecoliving, among others.
Dishcloths. Choose washable dishcloths rather than plastic disposables like ‘J cloths’.
Razors. Buy a safety razor that will last for years - check out The Independent's Review of Safety Razors for recommendations. Choose bamboo disposable razors over plastic.
Dental. Buy a bamboo toothbrush and floss, and eco replacement electric toothbrush heads that are part of a return and recycle programme.
Film. Ditch clingfilm and store food in wax cloths, jars and either reuse plastic tubs you already own or use glass or stainless steel containers.
See the 'Eco Shops' section of the New Leaf Company Directory to explore retailers offering these products.
The less packaging the better. Energy has been used in the production of the packaging and will also be used in any recycling process.
£££ Don’t buy bottled water. Use a refillable water bottle and drink tap water instead.
Green Fact: Bottled water can cost up to 500 times more than tap water.
Swaps you can make:
- Choose loose produce rather than pre-packaged. You both avoid unnecessary packaging and only buy the amount you need, reducing food waste.
- Choose milk in reusable glass bottles rather than plastic. You can have milk delivered in reusable bottles from ‘Milk and More’.
- Buy one bottle of cordial and then dilute with tap water rather than purchasing multiple bottles of flavoured water.
- Choose solid soap, shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser and deodorant bars over liquid products in plastic bottles.
See the 'Eco Shops' section of the New Leaf Company Directory to find retailers offering these products.
Buy locally produced food
- Foods produced locally will have travelled fewer miles and as a result have a lower carbon footprint.
- Imported foods will have a higher carbon footprint, particularly if the food has been flown in rather than transported by sea.
- Food with a short shelf life like salad, asparagus, soft fruit, tomatoes, will have been transported by air in refrigerated conditions and have a very high carbon footprint.
Naturally encased fruits which can be allowed to ripen such as melons and bananas are transported by ship and have a lower carbon footprint than soft fruits transported by air.
- British rather than South American beef. All beef has a high carbon footprint but the worst is meat produced in South America where farming is driving destruction of the rainforest. Its also likely to have been raised on processed feed rather than grass, which adds to its carbon footprint.
- Consider ordering an organic veg box (you can select UK only) if you can’t find these options easily locally.
See the Fresh Food section of the New Leaf Company Directory.
Buy seasonal food
Try to eat food that is in season. Even UK foods can have a high carbon footprint where produced outside its natural season if gas or electricity has been employed for heating and lighting greenhouses. Check our UK Seasonal Calendar.
Textile production is one of the most polluting industries, second only to oil; producing 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year. Approximately 8% of man-made CO2 emissions are produced by the fashion industry. That’s more than aviation and shipping combined.
We are buying more, and each garment is being worn less before it is thrown away. Synthetic fabrics are cheaper and it is estimated that we are buying 60% more garments per year than we were in 2000.
Synthetic fabrics such as polyester, nylon and acrylics are produced from crude oil and produce much higher emissions from their production than natural materials. Even cotton production has a significant carbon footprint as it is a thirsty crop, using large amounts of water. It is estimated that 10,000 litres of water is used to produce one pair of jeans.
There are limited recycling options for textiles to recover reusable fibres. It has been estimated that less than 1% of material used to produce clothing is recycled within the clothing industry, with around 13% recycled for use in other areas.
The global footwear industry emits 700 million tonnes of CO2 a year.
Green Fact: Globally, nearly three-fifths of clothing end up in an incinerator or landfill site within a year of being made.
- Avoid fast fashion and only buy what you need. It is better to buy fewer, better quality clothes that will last longer.
You can check the sustainability ratings of clothing brands via the app ‘Good on You’.
- £££ Buy vintage and second hand clothing from vintage and charity shops.
- Recycled materials. Buy clothes made from recycled materials.
- Rent clothes for special occasions rather than buying.
- Choose natural fibres which have a lower carbon footprint, over synthetic materials. Synthetic materials also shed millions of plastic microparticles when they are worn and washed. These contribute to pollution of our air, water and food chain.
- £££ Make your own clothes and re-fashion items.
See the Clothes section of the New Leaf Company Directory.
Home Furnishings & Appliances
- £££ Furniture. Buy second hand and upcycled furniture rather than new, or have a go at giving old furniture a new lease of life yourself. As well as saving money, you can end up with a unique piece of better quality furniture. You don’t have to complete the entire project yourself; you might be confident with sanding and painting and choose to leave the reupholstering to an expert. To find out more read this useful article.
Car boot sales, local ads, Facebook Buy & Sell pages and Ebay are all good places to find second hand furniture and pieces for a project!
- Appliances. When buying appliances check energy efficiency ratings and try to opt for the highest rating. Another factor to consider is a product’s 'sustainability’. The consumer guide ‘Which Best Buy’ is introducing sustainability to its product assessments, providing information on recyclability of packaging and ease of repair. This helps you avoid cheaply produced products will soon need to be replaced and identify a quality product that can be routinely repaired and will last.
Consider purchasing a reconditioned or second hand appliance if possible. This can save you money and extends the life of an item that considerable energy and materials have gone into the manufacture.
Gifts & Presents
The marketing machine shifts into a higher gear around seasonal events like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, and Christmas, and we often feel compelled to buy things that people simply don’t need.
- £££ Try running a ‘Secret Santa’ amongst the adults in your family. Agree the budget between you. You will end up buying and receiving less unwanted gifts and the one item you receive is more likely to be of use to you than a number of smaller gifts.
- Dedicating a tree is a great gift that will help create greener and healthier places for people to enjoy for generations to come. You can dedicate a tree to celebrate the birth of a baby, a birthday or anniversary, or in memory of a loved one. You can select your preferred region of the UK and prices start from £6.99. You receive a Tree Dedication Certificate which includes the person’s name and your message to them.
- Adopt an orangutan. Orangutans have declined by around 50% in the last 60 years. Make a regular monthly donation and in return receive a cuddly orangutan toy, fact pack, bookmark and stickers. Your donation helps the World Wildlife Fund monitor orangutans in Borneo and help create protected areas of rainforest, as well as other vital work around the world.
- Twin your Loo. By donating £60 to twin your toilet, you help fund a project in a poor community that will enable families to build a basic toilet, have access to clean water and learn about hygiene – a vital combination that saves lives. In return you receive a certificate to display – showing a photograph of your overseas toilet twin and GPS coordinates so you can look up your twin’s location on Google Maps!
- Gift an experience. Gifting tickets for a family day out or a trip to the cinema is gifting precious family time with lasting memories.
- Eco friendly gifts made from natural products or recycled materials.
Here are some of our gift suggestions:
A vegetarian or plant-based cookbook
A biodegradable phone case
Clothes or accessories made from textile waste
A bamboo reusable razor
A bag or purse made from recycled material
- Wrapping paper. Many wrapping papers contain plastic and can’t be recycled. Use the ‘Crinkle Test’ to see if the product contains plastic. Scrunch the paper and if it springs back into its original shape it contains plastic. Choose wrapping paper that is FSC certified and doesn’t contain plastic or metal as this paper can be recycled - or try alternatives such as recyclable packing paper with reusable ribbon or pretty recycled/vintage fabrics.
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How much screen time is good for kids? Parents who use the “anytime, anything, anyplace” approach essentially do not set limits on their children’s use of video games and other digital media. These parents often subscribe to the importance of learning from digital media. They observe their children developing an expertise in not just video games, but also in electronic devices in general, as well as developing a facility with learning anything new of an electronic nature. They hear their children freely discussing their strategies and problem-solving skills when playing video games, and they often note how their children appear to be happy and content when engaged with digital technologies. (These parents often allow their children to have video games, consoles, television, and computers in their children’s rooms.)
Many parents take a hands-off approach to their children’s involvement with video games and other digital media. Some may lack the time and energy to monitor their children’s involvement with digital media. However, others see their children’s involvement with digital technologies as being a preparation for their future activities and are not overly concerned with the portrayal of violence or other inappropriate content found in some video-game play. The majority of parents who take this hands-off approach consciously choose it, and they have conversations with their children about viewing inappropriate material on the Internet, cyber bullying, and overly-graphic representations of violence.
Parents who take this approach are apt to over-extol the virtues of digital media for learning and developing 21st century skills. Typically, they view video game violence as taking place on the screen and not having a negative impact upon the child who views it. They may choose to expose their infants to early learning videos and give their toddlers an iPad to play with to help them learn letters, numbers, and shapes prior to the age of 2.
Cautions for these parents include the need to ensure that infants and toddlers engage in a variety of hands-on, sensory-motor activities that include touching, smelling, and experiencing nature. Most recent studies suggest that prior to the age of 2, children get very little from involvement in digital media, and that it serves to substitute for more “nutritious” activities that would be better for them. As kids get older, children who spend a disproportionate amount of time involved with video games and other digital media learn a variety of 21st century skills, but they may lose out in opportunities that involve physical activity, artistic pursuits, and face-to-face social interactions.
While I am not a big advocate of the anytime, anything, anyplace approach, it speaks to certain realities that we experience as parents today. I recall a situation in which my youngest son, who was then 12 years old, wanted me to buy him the game Halo. It was a mature game, rated M, and I told him I did not feel it was appropriate for him to play. At that point he stated, “Dad, I play it at Zack’s house all the time, so what’s the difference?” This was a great opportunity for a discussion about values. Eventually, I let him get the game at the age of 14 (which I still did not like), and then at the age of 16 allowed him to take a television and his video-game console into his bedroom. Interestingly, at the age of 17 he moved all of these things out of his room so that he would more readily play less of immersive games such as Skyrim, which he is playing now.
Should you choose to take the anytime, anything, anyplace approach to your children’s digital-media use, we have some suggestions:
- Hands off should not mean no monitoring, as children benefit from having some types of limits set with them. It should instead mean a discussion about appropriate and inappropriate digital-media activity and the importance of self-monitoring.
- The best way to know what your kids are doing is to join them. If you choose to take an anytime, anything, anyplace approach, make sure you spend time playing games, social networking, or watching videos with your kids.
- Anytime, anything, anyplace is a poor strategy for younger children. While children can learn an incredible amount from apps, educational television, and websites built for preschoolers, they learn best if you are sitting there with them and processing what they are doing.
- Find ways to encourage learning opportunities with your children’s digital-media use. Share a great website that you recently viewed or try a new app that’s helped you develope organizational or planning skills.
- Encourage children to engage in a variety of digital-media activities. While there are very clear problem-solving, planning, and social skills that one can develop while playing a game such as World of Warcraft, there is only so much to learn from any one game. Using a variety of games and other digital media expands the types of skills and learning opportunities for your child.
Who is it good for?
The anytime, anything, anyplace approach, when applied intentionally rather than due to parents’ lack of involvement or capacity to monitor a child, may be appropriate for a variety of children. Again, we strongly advise against this approach with younger children.
- Healthy, well-functioning teenagers. Part of being a teenager is learning to self-regulate and make good decisions. When teens leave home to live on their own or go to college, they will have the anytime, anything, anyplace model available and will need to use self-control and good decision-making. Teenagers need to make good choices about substance use, risk-taking behavior, and making efforts in school. Those who display the capacity to make good decisions in these areas are likely to make similar decisions in their digital-media involvement.
- Children who do not become overly-engaged in digital media, and who are busy with other activities. These children are less likely to get overly immersed in digital media to the exclusion of other activities. It may be adequate to have discussions about appropriate as opposed to inappropriate use of digital media with them.
- Children who want to prove to their skeptical parents that their digital media use is not interfering with their academic performance or their social/emotional development. For these children/teenagers (we suggest waiting at least until preteens for this strategy) it is best to give them a set amount of time such as a school semester to prove themselves. Make sure that you set this up as a trial period with the expectation that regular discussions about how it is working will be included. | <urn:uuid:91703a3a-f094-47dd-bd2a-1b00c36b7d6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learningworksforkids.com/2012/06/anytime-anything-anyplace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972657 | 1,354 | 3.59375 | 4 |
These tools enable grantmakers to manage, classify and derive insights about their grantmaking activities. But as grantmakers become better equipped to measure the impact of their funding programs, the need for their applicants to become more data driven increases.
To meet this need, Our Community’s Innovation Lab has also created free online resources, workshops and events to build the data capacity of not-for-profit organisations that apply for grants.
These resources include a step-by-step guide, Data Projects from Go to Whoa!, that helps organisations to scope and deliver successful data projects.
The guide is designed to be used with Developing Data Capability in Your Not-for-Profit, a framework for using data.
The guide incorporates lessons distilled from the Innovation Lab’s work with Australian not-for-profits and from various research projects:
- the Grants in Australia survey
- the ICDA Not-for-Profit Governance Roadmap
- the Who Gives? analysis of GiveNow donor preferences
- Funding to LGBTIQ+ causes in Australia, a report by Our Community and GiveOUT
- data collaborations with not-for-profits TaskForce Community Agency and Berry Street.
SmartyGrants trainer David Bradley says that when grant applicants employ evidence-based practices, grantmakers can better measure the impact and effectiveness of their programs.
“Building that capacity will allow you to have a lot more confidence in the data that you’re reporting on,” Mr Bradley says.
“We’d like to be able to support not-for-profit organisations to be able to provide the best data and then that flow-on for the grantmaker will mean that when you’re looking at your SmartyGrants reports or you’re looking at your widgets – so the effectiveness of programs – you’ll have a lot more confidence that the data you’re reporting on is accurate and rigorous.”
The Innovation Lab was recently recognised for its work with not-for-profits at the Connecting Up Not-for-Profit Technology Awards and the Social Impact Measurement Network Australia (SIMNA) Awards.
Jump to the 30-minute mark of this SmartyGrants webinar to learn how applicants can gain insights into the programs and services they are delivering on your behalf. The webinar also incorporates demonstrations of SmartyGrants features such as CLASSIE.
Contact the Innovation Lab team at firstname.lastname@example.org
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9/11 Garden of Reflection Memorial
In a single moment, the events of September 11, 2001 changed the lives of every American.
The Garden of Reflection 9/11 Memorial, situated in Memorial Park in Lower Makefield Township, was created to remember and honor loved ones lost on that tragic day.
Originally proposed as a memorial to honor the nine Lower Makefield victims, the memorial grew to include the 18 Bucks County victims and, ultimately, all 2,973 victims of 9/11. In the months that followed the attacks, a dedicated committee formed of people who lost loved ones. After years of fundraising and construction, the Memorial opened with a dedication ceremony in 2006.
Designed by Yardley architect Liuba Lashchyk, the entrance to the memorial is lined with maples followed by a high-flying American flag. The tear shaped forecourt displays real fragments from the ruins of the World Trade Center. The names of the 2,973 victims are engraved in glass along the beautiful Remembrance Walk. Maple trees representing the Bucks County residents lost in the attacks are at the outer circle of the memorial, while the forty-two lights along the Spiral Walk represent the forty-two Pennsylvania children who lost a parent that day. Following the path, the memorial leads to a reflecting pool encircled by a railing with the names of the Bucks County victims etched in glass.
The Garden of Reflection Memorial stands as a timeless monument to the memories of the victims of 9/11, while displaying how strong the human spirit can be when faced with adversity.
At 7 p.m. on 9/11/14, the Memorial will host a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony which offers an opportunity to reflect, remember and honor all who were lost on September 11, 2001. More details about this event can be found here.
Have you visited the memorial? Share your experience with us in the comments below or tweet us @VisitBucksPA.
Each Wednesday, the Tourism guide features a guest column from Visit Bucks County, the official tourism promotion agency of Bucks County. Get the inside scoop here on what the agency is up to and a peek at some exciting, local tourism-related events, promotions and activities for visitors and locals. For more information on VBC activities call 1-800-836-BUCKS, visit its website,Facebook page or stop by the Bucks County Visitor Center located at 3207 Street Road in Bensalem during business hours. | <urn:uuid:e23a13a3-816d-4bb7-b612-18bdfd6d9f4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/lifestyle/2014/09/10/9-11-garden-reflection-memorial/17488744007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940915 | 506 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Moon* ♒ Aquarius
Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1889".
The Full Moon this days is the Buck of July 2037.
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
The Moon is 14 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 464 of Meeus index or 1417 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 10 minutes. It is 26 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.4°.
10 days after point of perigee on 15 July 2037 at 16:48 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 July 2037 at 12:33 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 395 598 km (245 813 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 394 km (251 900 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 17:23 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 10 August 2037 at 01:40 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
1 day since the previous standstill on 25 July 2037 at 08:44 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.355°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.369° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 August 2037 at 21:01 in ♋ Cancer.
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Nettsider med emneord «Networks»
This paper considers the Commission's use of national regulatory agencies in implementation of EU law. On the basis of a case study of the IMPEL network, an informal forum of coordination between national environmental authorities, it is argued that such networks may enhance effectiveness as well as inter-institutional conflict on EU and national level.
This paper takes a look as so far undocumented relationships between EU agencies and the Commission. Drawing on new data sources the paper shows how EU agencies might have become parts of Commission departments' portfolios, indicating centralization of EU executive power.
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A gifted world champion singer from the Cote First Nation, near Kamsack, Sask., who is known across North America for his voice and his unique talent of composing music has died – shattering hearts across powwow country.
On June 19, 34-year-old Nathan “Rikishi” Pelly died in hospital as a result of kidney and liver failure and a lung infection. He was surrounded by family and close friends in the intensive care unit at Saskatoon RUH where he fought for more than two weeks to stay.
“It’s been very hard. We feel like … he was gone too soon,” said Pelly’s younger brother, Dallas. “What we believe is that he was a gift gifted to us from the Creator. His gift was his medicine which was his songs.”
Despite being in a hospital bed, Pelly made every attempt to make his family laugh during his final weeks. Not only was he known for his music, many remember his contagious humor.
“He was trying to make the nurses laugh,” said Pelly. “He made us laugh. That’s just the person he was.”
Pelly’s ability to make powwow and round dance hits will live on for years to come. He won three championships performing at the Gathering of Nations – North America’s largest powwow located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“When he was in school, he said, ‘I’m going to be a world-class powwow singer, just watch,’” said Pelly. “He made his way … he was a really renowned singer and he was also an accomplished musician.”
He was first inspired to sing by his mentor, Max Bear. His talents only grew from there and it didn’t take long for many to recognize him as an authentic singer and composer.
Throughout his life, Pelly sang with numerous drum groups such as Flying Eagle singers, Rock Hill, Cree Confederation, Midnight Express, Young Bear, Battle Hill and Wild Horse to name a few.
The life lived with his powwow family will be cherish by many, as Pelly leaves behind an everlasting legacy through his music.
“He was gifted (with) a voice to heal people. He was a young ceremony man that helped with the elders,” said Jackson Tahuka, powwow brother.
“He had a calling to this way of life … everywhere he went, he sang 110 per cent. Everywhere he went, he put his heart and soul into his music. He sang his own music to change people, to give them life.”
Pelly will be taken home to his final resting place at Cote First Nation with a wake and funeral June 21-22.
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Undergraduate - Unit
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- First semester 2017 (Day)
This unit is the first in a sequence of two biomedical science units that provides foundation knowledge of human anatomy and physiology relevant for allied health professions.
This unit develops skills in the critical evaluation of evidence and promotes an awareness of the changing nature of medical knowledge.
The major themes of study are the structural levels of body organisation, communication via the nervous and endocrine systems, the reproductive system and early stages of human development. Topics include the chemical and cellular basis of human life; integration of body functions and homeostasis; the structure and function of the integumentary system; the nervous system; the endocrine system; and the reproductive system.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Identify levels of structural organisation within the body and discuss how primary tissue types cooperate to form organ systems using integumentary system as an example;
- Describe and explain homeostatic control mechanisms and how they maintain conditions in the internal environment necessary for optimal organ system function;
- Outline the structure and function of the nervous and endocrine systems, and explain how they facilitate the integration of organ system function and homeostasis;
- Synthesise the processes of gametogenesis and fertilisation in the context of male and female reproductive structures;
- Analyse and interpret data utilising an evidenced-based approach to understand patient symptoms.
- Weekly online tests (MCQ) (10%)
- Mid-semester exam (MCQ) (45 minutes) (20%)
- Laboratory test (1 hour) (25%)
- Examination (MCQ/SAQ) (2 hours) (45%) (Hurdle)
Hurdle: Students must pass the Examination to pass the unit. You are also required to attend all scheduled unit tutorials and practical sessions unless documentary evidence (such as a medical certificate, relevant death notice, etc.) is provided. Minimum attendance requirement of 80% to pass the unit.
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The museum is housed in a sixteenth-century hospice, the Ospitale Santo Spirito. Standing within the original town boundaries, the building is important not only architecturally but also because it has preserved the only example of porticoes connected to the street that survive in Castell’Arquato. In 1272 the Confraternity of the Santo Spirito applied for permission to convert a house it owned in the town into a hospice, to shelter and accommodate the pilgrims who in those days used to travel along the Via Francigena to Rome. The final deed was drawn up by the notary Guglielmo Di Scipione on 12th January 1275. In the early twelfth century a loggia was added consisting of a portico with three arches in terracotta below and supporting a loggia with slender stone columns on which rested a wooden lintel. The interior contains interesting frescoes in the vault of the main hall, which has retained its original configuration, and a fine coffered ceiling that adorns the chamber with the fireplace. The portico offers an impressive panoramic view of the plain stretching as far as the Po.
The civic Giuseppe Cortesi Geological Museum of Castell’Arquato was formally established in 1961. On that date the civic collection of fossils, formed in the early decades of the twentieth century and placed in the room housing the municipal archives in the Palazzo Pretorio, was given its own independent premises in the Torrione Farnesiano in the middle of the ancient town.
The development of the collections, and especially the acquisition of new finds of cetaceans discovered nearby, brought out the need to find more suitable premises in the historic building of the Ospitale Santo Spirito, where the museum was moved in 1991 and which became its permanent home.
The architectural complex of the hospital, a hospice for pilgrims travelling to Rome in the Middle Ages, is characterized by a loggia that overlooks the valley and by large rooms, including an auditorium with a sixteenth-century polychrome wooden ceiling
Though this is a local institution, the museum is also well known outside Italy because it preserves the remains of the abundant fossil fauna of the Piacenzian stratotype. The museum houses a rich documentation of the geological history of the Po basin. Outstanding among the collections are those of the local fossil molluscs and in particular the Vittorio Pighi collection, consisting of more than two thousand specimens of considerable interest both scientifically and aesthetically, and the historic Odoardo Bagatti collection made early in the last century by a lawyer from Cremona, who also endowed it with a substantial number of photographic plates and slides he had taken.
Also of particular importance are the remains of whales and dolphins found in the last decades of the twentieth century on the eroded hillsides that surround the ancient medieval town of Castell’Arquato. Here the tradition of research has its roots in the late eighteenth century with the work of Giuseppe Cortesi, after whom the museum is named. Notable among the finds of cetaceans is the fossil of a whale from Monte Falcone found in 1936, the skull of a baleen whale excavated in 1983 in the calanchi (eroded gulleys) of Rio Carbonaro, and several other skeletal parts recovered in the course of subsequent excavations carried out on behalf of the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Emilia Romagna in collaboration with groups of paleontophiles. Of particular interest are the skeletal parts of some vertebrates from the Quaternary (rhinoceroses, bears, bovids and proboscidea) discovered since 2009 along the Arda Torrent and now on display in a room of their own.
An introductory room enables visitors to follow the principal stages of the evolutionary history of life on earth through an exhibition of various particularly significant finds from all over the world displayed in geo-chronological order.
It continues with the fossils of the local Pliocene, the theme of the central gallery of the museum, and finally passes to the room which displays the remains of the large mammals that lived in the primitive Po valley: elephants, hippos, deer and bison create a frame for the first evidence of human presence in the area.
The many exhibits include the largest wooden sculpture in Europe depicting a whale (10 meters long) in the act of rising from the water. Right whales and baleen whales are not only weight, length, and morphological characteristics: they are above all a great movement on the surface and in the endless depths of the sea; to represent this in the museum the Milanese sculptor Giorgio Rastelli has “frozen” the whale’s movement in all its forms. In this colossal work art interacts with science to enhance our knowledge of the world around us.
Among its auxiliary sectors the museum has an auditorium equipped with multimedia and video facilities available to the public and school groups. This space regularly hosts temporary nature exhibitions, cultural events and travel presentations documenting little-known aspects of certain geographical areas of the planet. In this respect, in collaboration with the Albert De Lapparent Geological Institute in Paris (IGAL), the museum has organized surveys of Ladakh (1987 and 2001), Tibet (1990) and the Urals (1992).
An important offshoot of the museum is the Environmental Education Center (CEA), which occupies in special premises adjacent to the museum. It plays a major role as an indispensable link between the museum and protected areas. It has a small teachinglaboratory and a room in which schoolchildren of all levels can study topics related to the area. The CEA publishes a series of Environmental Education notebooks (titles already issued include: “Fossils”, “Flora and Landscape”, “Mammals of the Quaternary Period in the Po Valley”, “Geology and Viticulture”).
Since the late eighteenth century, the fossil record of the “Pliocene Sea” was brought to light in the clay and sandy soils of the eastern Apennines of Piacenza, and in particular along the steep walls of the calanchi and in incisions made by small streams in the valleys of the Nure, Chiavenna, Arda and Ongina. But already three centuries before this, Leonardo da Vinci, who first recognized the organic origin of fossils, saw the shells collected in the Piacenza area while he was in Milan, working on the equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza. His reference to these fossils, which he called nicchi, is shown in the celebrated Leicester Codex:
“In the mountains of Parma and Piacenza a great multitude of worm-eaten shells and corals can be seen, still joined to the stones, which I had the opportunity to see when I was living in Milan and working on the great horse. A large bag of them, some in an excellent state of preservation, was brought to my studio by some peasants.”
The first to understand the true importance to these remains were some landowners of the Val d'Arda. They began to gather large numbers of fragments of shells and bones in the vicinity of the villages of Lugagnano and Castell’Arquato and so created the first collections.
But the scholar who contributed most to the research and knowledge of the local Pliocene was Giuseppe Cortesi, adviser to the court of Piacenza and later honorary professor of Geology at the University of Parma. He became so engrossed by the search that he hired observers to supervise the region and alert him if skeletal fragments emerged. He soon succeeded in amassing a collection not only of shells but also the remains of rhinoceroses, elephants and above all dolphins and whales.
The numerous fossil skeletons collected by Cortesi before 1809 were purchased by the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom and later moved to the Natural History Museum of Milan but lost during World War II. The material gathered by the naturalist after 1809 was purchased by the government of Parma in 1841 for the Cabinet of Natural History at the University, which later also acquired the fossil skeletons of other cetaceans found on the Piacenza hills from another local researcher, Giovanni Podestà of Castell’Arquato.
The importance and great variety of fossil specimens, especially with regard to malacology, on various occasions aroused the interest of scholars, including Giovanni Battista Brocchi. In his “Conchiologia fossile subapennina” (1814) he published his collection (one of the most famous of the European Tertiary period), which is now in the Natural History Museum of Milan and contains numerous items from Castell’Arquato.
Georges Cuvier was also interested in the fossils found in Val Chiavenna and Valdarda, personally visiting Cortesi’s collection and mentioning it in his works.
The interest in the discoveries made in the Piacenza area during this period was heightened by the fact that most of the local collections were sold abroad and this helped disseminate the fossils of the Val d'Arda to the major European museums and stirred the interest in this location among scholars from various countries.
In 1858 the Swiss scientist Carl Mayer developed a geological plan which takes its name from the province of Piacenza: the Piacenzian (Piacenzische Stufe) used to indicate the “blue clay” (Blue Mergel), of which the Val d'Arda is the most typical zone. Subsequently, in 1865, Lorenzo Pareto suggested taking as the “type section” of the Piacenzian the succession of strata outcropping on the left bank of the Arda Torrent between the towns of Lugagnano and Castell’Arquato.
Recently the scientific community has returned to the concept of the Piacenzian to redefine its time limits (the term is used to indicate land of marine origin between 3.5 and 2.5 million years old) and above all proposing to reuse as the basis of comparison that part of the stratotype that lies between Monte Giogo and Castell’Arquato, where the faunal associations clearly document the “extinctions” caused by the climatic deterioration that accompanied the formation of the Arctic ice caps.
The extraordinary abundance of fossil remains in these sediments and their excellent state of preservation provide a particularly significant basis of study for those who are interested in issues bound up with the evolution of the population of the Mediterranean basin and above all the faunal changes that accompanied its environmental development.
The work of the Geological Museum is not confined to the museum premises. The fossil remains of the Pliocene sea can be seen directly in the ground close to the medieval town. To protect this natural heritage, in 1995 the Emilia Romagna Region instituted the Piacenzian Geological Nature Reserve, which brings together the most significant paleontological areas of the stratotype, comprising the area of the foothills and hills of the Val Vezzeno, Val Chero, Val Chiavenna, Val d’Arda and Val d’Ongina, and extending to the east as far as the boundary of the Regional River Park of the Stirone: these two protected areas have been recently unified to create the Park of the Stirone and the Piacenzian.
Together with the Piacenzian Geological Reserve, the Geological Museum has initiated a program of educational encounters in the territory which are termed “Green Classrooms”: guided tours and internships that make it possible to gain experience working in the museum and in the fossil-bearing areas with specialists in various fields of the natural sciences.
The Reserve consists of 9 separate stations located in the municipalities of Castell’Arquato, Lugagnano, Gropparello, Vernasca and Carpaneto. The feature that makes it unique in the protected areas of the region is that it has been established for the protection of the outcroppings of sedimentary rocks known to the international scientific community as the typical areas of the Piacenzian. In addition to outcroppings of palaeontological interest, the various stations preserve the cliffs, calanchi, chasms and shady valley bottoms of great value as landscapes and nature . The stations of the reserve are:
1 - Rio Rosello between Sariano and Gropparello
2 - Val Chero, the wall on the left-bank at Badagnano
3 - The calanchi of Rio Carbonari (Municipality of Lugagnano)
4 - The sinkhole near Osteria di Montezago (Municipality of Lugagnano)
5 - Calanchi of Rio Stramonte south of Diolo
6 - Bed of the Arda Torrente downstream from the bridge of Castell’Arquato (this station is used permanently by the Geological Museum for holding Green Classrooms).
7 - Calanchi on the slopes of Monte Giogo on the left bank of the Arda Torrent
8 - Calanchi on the slopes of Monte Padova and Monte Falcone on the left bank of the Arda Torrent
9 - Calanchi on the left bank of the Ongina Torrent and the hills of Monte La Ciocca
The process that led to the formation of the Apennines began about 35 million years ago, when Corsica and Sardinia split off from the southern part of what is now France and began to rotate anticlockwise. With the emergence of the mountain range of the Apennines, the central and northern Mediterranean found itself divided in two: a palaeo-Tyrrhenian part in the west and a palaeo-Adriatic part in the east. The palaeo-Adriatic region was continued into a vast gulf that stretched into what is now the Po Valley and came to include almost the whole of Piedmont. Between about 10 and 3 million years ago (hence between the Miocene and Pliocene), this great gulf was occupied by fairly shallow seas that enjoyed a warm climate. These waters contained dolphins, whales, sirenids and fish, many of which were tropical or subtropical in affinity, together with hundreds of species of molluscs, crabs and other invertebrates.
The cetaceans of this gulf included the whales (shown by a skeleton preserved in Reggio Emilia and various fragments preserved in Modena), fin whales (the skull from Rio Carbonari is one example, but others are preserved in Parma, Bologna, Salsomaggiore Terme, Vignola and Asti), grey whales (a skeleton is preserved in Turin) and various species of dolphins (Castell’Arquato, Salsomaggiore Terme, Torino).
For a long time after its formation the Mediterranean was a large gulf in the Atlantic characterized by the presence of extensive coral reefs, until 5.6 million years ago (in the late Messinian), when the connections with the ocean were drastically reduced due to the collision of Africa with Spain and the occurrence of a regressive event, recorded globally, due to the formation of the Arctic ice cap.
The lowering of the sea level led to the emergence of vast continental areas among which there remained small lakes with a restricted circulation in which were deposited in successive phases the lime, anhydrites and potassium salts that currently constitute the “Chalk Vein” which traverses Emilia-Romagna and which gives rise to springs of sulphurous water (the spa area of Bacedasco, characterized by the presence of these springs, is just a few miles from Castell’Arquato).
About 500,000 years later (5 million years ago) communications with the Atlantic were re-established and the normal marine conditions were restored, as documented by the disappearance of the freshwater species and the arrival of purely marine organisms including some species that are indicators of cold, deep water (such as ostracods and corals), and numerous new species of molluscs, arthropods, fish and cetaceans.
This event represents the concept historically used to define the base of the Pliocene. From this moment on, the Po basin, which until then had followed the events in the Mediterranean, began its own history, which culminated in the course of about 4.5 million years with its infill by the recurrent flooding of the River Po and its tributaries and the final emergence of dry land.
The Pliocene transgressive event was followed by a new phase of tectonic compression that led to the lifting of the margin of the Apennines and the Po basin where the adjacent seabed were piling up millions and millions of cubic meters of debris carried by the rivers. These deposits gave rise to a powerful marine sedimentary succession characterized by the presence of two major regressive cycles (Lower Pliocene cycle and Upper Pliocene cycle, locally related to the Lugagnano Formation and the Castell’Arquato Formation), alternating with lesser cycles, the effects of which were sometimes amplified or attenuated by the intense local tectonics of the various sectors of the Apennines.
During the Pliocene the current Po Valley was thus occupied by the waters of the Adriatic Sea, which extended as far as the slopes of the Alps. The unique geographical location of this gulf favoured the proliferation of marine life with a well-diversified fauna and the presence of several species of cetaceans (Odontocetes such as dolphins and Mystecetes such as whales). In the Early Pliocene the environmental conditions were much the same as those found in the eastern Mediterranean with a climate similar to that of Crete, Cyprus or Lebanon.
In the Pleistocene (about 1.6 million years ago) the sea finally retreated from the Castell’Arquato area, as is well documented by the increased frequency of lagoon or continental deposits in the marine sedimentary successions (as in the case of the Arda Torrent). The Plio-Pleistocene boundary is marked macroscopically in the whole Mediterranean basin by a sharp climatic deterioration that led to the disappearance of the last organisms with sub-tropical affinities and the appearance of organisms typical of a cold or cold-temperate climate (Nordic guests) such as the bivalve ocean quahog (Arctica islandica).
About 800,000 years ago, the sea finally abandoned these zones and the vast land areas of the newly formed Po Valley were colonized by elephants, hippos and rhinoceroses whose ancestors migrated from Africa to Europe across the natural bridges that formed during the “salinity crisis” in the Messinian.
In the Quaternary the climatic deterioration already begun in the Pliocene became more acute. Temperate phases (interglacials) alternated with intense glacial phases during which the snowline gradually moved towards lower latitudes. During the interglacial periods the climate was milder and the average temperatures higher. These climatic changes were matched by corresponding changes in the flora and fauna: the warm-temperate faunal associations typically characterized by the presence of deer, and an abundance of hippos, elephants and rhinoceroses, alternated with colder climatic associations characterized by red deer, chamois and ibex.
The fossil record of the “Pliocene Sea” has been brought to light since the late eighteenth century along the steep cliffs and gullies and the small watercourses cut into the rocks between the Torrente Nure and Torrente Arda.
Among the first scholars to make a decisive contribution to exploring and understanding Pliocene Piacenza was Giuseppe Cortesi, a counsellor at the court of law in Piacenza, and later honorary professor of Geology at the University of Parma. His fascination with the relics of the past in this area led him to collect important finds of shells, rhinoceroses, elephants, dolphins and whales. In addition to the first documented discovery of the remains of a whale, which occurred in 1793, Cortesi also had the merit of describing his finds in detail in his “Geological Essays on the States of Parma and Piacenza”, published in 1819. On Cortesi’s death there was a sharp decline in research, except for the activity of Giovanni Podestà, who collected fossils and in 1842 discovered the remains of a dolphin and a whale. In 1886 the discoveries were resumed with finds of several vertebrae in the Burrone del Gallo, under Monte Pulgnasco at Montezago. In late 1895 the remains of a delphinoid were found in Rio Stramonte by the Pallastrelli brothers of Castell’Arquato. Two years later, in the vicinity of Bacedasco the remains of a Burtinopsis similis were brought to light, and in January 1899, again in Rio Stramonte, various skeletal parts belonging to a whale were recovered. These were the last discoveries of the nineteenth century and attracted the interest of the leading palaeontologists of the period. They included Cuvier, Brandt, Van Beneden and the Italians Strobel, Capellini, Del Prato and Simonelli.
The early decades of the twentieth century were not particularly rich in finds of the remains of cetaceans and other fossil vertebrates. There were only sporadic finds of vertebrae and ribs until 1934. In that year Dr. Antonino Menozzi discovered the remains of a large whale in the calanchi (eroded hillsides) of Monte Falcone, near the medieval village. The complex work of recovery lasted almost two years and brought to the light, in addition to the spine, a large number of ribs and the left shoulder blade and jaw. To record the exceptional discovery the Istituto Luce made a short documentary that was screened in cinemas around the country. After this no significant remains of cetaceans were found until April 1983, when the fossil skull of Balaenoptera acutorostrata came to light almost complete and very well preserved, in the calanchi overlooking Rio dei Carbonari. The discovery was made by Roberto and Piero Volpi and Luigi Rusconi during one of their periodic searches for fossils in the calanchi near the village of Tabiano di Lugagnano. In 1986, skeletal parts of fin whales were found in the calanchi of Bacedasco and near Chiavenna Rocchetta. Also in Val Chiavenna, along the eroded incisions of the Rio Stramonte, a dolphin skull came to light in 1991. The last major discovery dates from 2009: the skeleton of a dolphin, found in the village of Torrazza di Montezago by Paolo Umili and Paolo Evangelista.
- 1793 - dolphin – hills of Torrazza, the right of Rio Stramonte - Giuseppe Cortesi
- 1794 - dolphin - Vigoleno - discoverer unknown
- 1804 - cetacean - Montezago - Giuseppe Cortesi
- 1804 - delphinoid - Montezago, near the Torrente Chero - Giuseppe Cortesi
- 1806 - fin whale - eastern flank of Mount Pulgnasco - Giuseppe Cortesi
- 1815 - humpback whale - Montezago - Giuseppe Cortesi
- 1816 – fin whale - stream flowing from Montezago to the Torrente Chiavenna - Giuseppe Cortesi
- Date uncertain - cetacean - probably Torrazzo di Castell’Arquato - Giuseppe Cortesi
- Date uncertain - cetacean - unknown location - Giuseppe Cortesi
- Date uncertain - cetacean - Monte Falcone - Giovanni Podestà
- 1842 - dolphin - Monte Giogo - Giovanni Podestà
- 1875 - fin whale - close to Castell’Arquato - Giovanni Podestà
- 1886 - cetacean - Monte Pulgnasco (Burrone del Gallo) - discoverer unknown
- 1895 - dolphin - Rio Stramonte - Pallastrelli Brothers
- 1897 - fin whale - Rio della Baina, Costa dei Martani, Bacedasco - discoverer unknown
- 1899 - whale - Rio Stramonte - discoverer unknown
- 1934 - cetacean - Monte Falcone - Antonio Menozzi
- 1968 - dolphin - Monte Giogo, slope of Val Chiavenna - Bruno Sichel
- 1983 - fin whale - Rio Carbonai, Tabiano di Lugagnano - Roberto and Piero Volpi, Luigi Rusconi
- 1986 - fin whale - Bacedasco - Carlo Cavalli
- 1986 - cetacean - Prato Ottesola - Stefano Boiardi
- 1991 - dolphin - Rio Stramonte - Giampiero Migliorini
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Swans with lead poisoning
Q: I hope you can answer this question. I work at a wildlife rehabilitation center, and on countless occasions, we have had many swans dying of lead poisoning with symptoms that humans show.
Could this be happening for the birds, too? I only ask these questions because a lot of them are suffering – geese and swans.
If you can offer any insight on some type of treatment or help, I would greatly appreciate it, and so will the birds. Thanks!
A: Yes, you are correct. Any animal exposed to artificial toxins, especially toxic metals and non-degradable chemicals, will get sick, just like a human.
More and more animals are developing our “human“ diseases. Since we are the cause, it is up to us to try to cure them using natural methods; otherwise, they become “guinea pigs” and “drug” junkies dependent on the vet pharmaceutical companies to stay alive.
So, I would introduce the natural clays for them to eat (French Green clay or montmorillinite clay), add plenty of fresh water, keep their pH balanced, and add a digestive aide through introducing the natural foods that assist with digestion – for example, birds use stones to digest, berries, and fruits like papaya and pineapple, lemons and limes, grapefruits, etc.
Please keep me posted on your progress. Can you have an environmental engineer assess the environment in order to identify the source and to restore its naturally balanced state.
Or is it too late? Has human development completely taken all of nature away?
Q: I’m reading about cell food. Sounds wonderful, but the Sloan-Kettering people say it is ‘unproven‘, and claim that the literature put out by the commercial cell food companies is ‘just jargon.‘
I know that there is a big difference between mainstream JAMA-style, medical science and holistic alternatives.
I see it as the difference between the “sickness industry” and the “health movement.” I am all too familiar with health scams of one sort or another, too.
What can you say about cell food? To me, it looks “unproven, but promising.” So, why aren’t more labs and clinics testing it?
A: Actually all food is cell food because all food provides the nutrients the body needs to carry to your cells for food.
The micro-algae such as Spirulina and Chlorella are very specific and very healthy for your cells to uptake because they contain elemental properties particularly nourishing to the body.
So, if you are eating “real” food and are digesting properly, if your body pH is balanced, and your water stores are saturating every cell in your body, then all food is cell food.
If a company has created a vitamin supplement to feed your cells, then more than likely they have a “freeze-dried” food full of vitamins to supply a more potent and deliverable food source to your body cells. I don’t see anything wrong with this concept, but it can be done, and should be done, naturally through eating 75% raw foods with each meal and properly digesting your food.
Make sense? I think trying to replicate cell food in the lab is redundant if you eat right. So, I agree that the “marketing” of many large mass-marketing food suppliers would rather sell a cheap product than an expensive high-quality food supplement, and that the micro-algae are not cheap, but they are powerfully good.
Wow, this was a long-winded reply., but it was a great question, though. I hope I did it justice!
Vaccinations – to get them or not to get them?
Q: I have a question about vaccinations. My son is about to turn 4 (in August) and will be getting his shots at his yearly doctor’s visit.
He has had some speech problems, and my mother thinks it is due to him getting his shots. Well, I am very nervous about him getting MORE shots at his next well-check-up. I am worried it will set him back even more; he has made a lot of progress in his speech with the help of a speech therapist and his Daddy working with him.
I’ve heard there are ways to legally get out of getting their shots, and I’m wondering what your opinion/advice is on this matter. Are there such things as vaccines with no mercury, and are they any better?
A: Good question and a hard decision these days. Several decades ago, vaccinations were more homeopathic and were the ‘real thing.’ Now, they are a moneymaking business, first, and prevention, second. Today, vaccines are not homeopathic and filled with fillers to stretch profits and to force the body into circulating the vaccine rather than rejecting it.
I would tell your doctor that you are connecting his speech difficulties with his inoculations, and if your son gets worse, he could be held liable. This should make him think about the cause and effect a bit more.
Then, I would request a MSDS sheet on all the ingredients within the shot, and request a homeopathic inoculation. The doctor will make less profit off a more expensive vaccine, but let’s hope quality vaccines are still available.
Another suggestion: split the doses. Have your son get the inoculation in two one-half doses at two separate times, which may help his body react safer.
If you choose not to complete his shots, then you will have a battle with the public schools, but not with most private schools. You can, also, ask your doctor to write a script stating that your son is in danger of adverse reactions with the completion of his inoculations, and this will permit him into the public schools without completing them.
For me, personally, I am not a fan of vaccinations before 2 years old, which is when the brain has completed formation. And if a child, the research shows typically boys, has a reaction to a vaccine, then I am passionate about stopping ALL future vaccines.
This former FDA doctor is a point of contact for opting out of the inoculations: Dr. Horowitz 1-888-508-4787.
Good luck and all the best to you and your precious little one.
Exposure to mold
Q: I need some assistance about our family’s exposure to a toxic mold.
A: Mold is a living microorganism that must be removed from its source in your house, school, or work before you can begin to remove it from your body.
Removing mold may be expensive, but you must remove it and repair the damage to the building it is growing in. Then, it is critical to detox for as long as the symptoms remain, but you can remove the mold from within your body by using a detox program, as many people have done.
Digestive enzymes are important when removing mold because the enzymes “digest” the protein in the mold.
Niacin is important because B3 removes the spores from your bloodstream.
Vitamin C is important to remove mold from your body’s water stores because the water in your body saturates every cell, unless you are dehydrated.
I would download my free 10 Steps to Detoxification eBook and follow it like a workbook and health manual. I also highly recommend Hulda Clark’s parasite detox program, which includes removing mold spores.
1) Remove the source
2) Detox your body
This should make a huge difference.
Good luck, and let me know if you have any more questions.
Q: I have been studying pregnenolone and am considering taking the natural form produced by Dr. Young of Young Essential Oils.
I had a stem cell transplant in June due to Stage 3 multiple myelomas. I seem to be recovering nicely, but I have some neuropathy and apparently some arthritis in my fingers and weakness in my legs.
I had two outbreaks of shingles prior to my detox program. I am currently doing the detox program using Young Essential Oils products. I have good communication with my open-minded oncologist, and also have a board-certified MD friend who is acting as my “wellness coach” (my idea) to monitor my supplements.
I do my own non-medical health endeavors (like yoga, etc.) After reading your article on pregnenolone, I would appreciate your input on the use of pregnenolone in my particular situation.
I had been healthy most of my adult life until after menopause. It was after menopause that I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. I am 58. My accupuncturist, as well as my “wellness coach“, mentioned that hormones might be therapeutic.
I have never taken HRT as it was against my better judgment when my gynecologist tried to press HRT on me. My blood counts are normal at this point, and my IgM protein is now a normal 48, down from 4800. I would also appreciate your opinion on essential oils. I have been using them for about one week now. Thank you.
A: Well, this can be tricky.
Since pregnenolone is converted from cholesterol into progesterone, all the estrogens, testosterone, DHEA, and cortisol, I am not sure you want to elevate all of these hormones at this time, because some estrogens can stimulate cancer.
I think it would be prudent to have a hormone test done to see what these levels are before you increase them. You might just need progesterone only, which is the most common hormone that is low in a cancerous situation.
Plus, you might have an unknown toxin at the root of your cancer. Over the years, my research based on the hair analysis show that most bone/bone marrow cancers are rooted to parasites. The threat of your cancer returning may not go away if you do not detox any and all possible causes. This can secure peace of mind while stopping chronic exposure.
I hope this helps. Let me know what you decide to do. Keep up the good work searching for more natural alternatives.
Wishing you well,
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Let’s get into the nitty-gritty and first explain how heat can impact your electric vehicle:
When explaining how to manage your electric vehicle in hot weather, and with the previous effects in mind, it’s best to split our tips into two categories – maintaining range and protecting your EV’s battery.
So, let’s get started!
Most electric vehicles nowadays will have Eco-Mode, a nifty feature that helps to conserve your mileage by reducing the energy spent on other functions that tend to zap your charge behind the scenes, such as air conditioning. Additionally, this crafty feature can help with aggressive accelerating, dulling the accelerator responses and helping conserve precious charge.
Preconditioning is a popular feature for warming your electric vehicle’s interior in cold weather (as stated in our blog here); however, it is also beneficial during the summer. If your EV has the preconditioning feature, you can remotely pre-cool your car’s cabin before you enter your vehicle. Not only does this help your range by adjusting your EV to its optimal temperature, so it’s not working harder throughout the day, but it also ensures a more comfortable and sweat-free driving experience. It will even save you time as you can set your EV to precondition ahead of your journey, ensuring no time wasting when it comes to blasting aircon or de-misting your windows – a win-win solution! Tesla is one of the most common electric vehicles with this feature, and you can even set it up remotely via the app, meaning you don’t have to leave the house!
Electric vehicle batteries are heavy, so when coupled with excess luggage, more energy will be used to transport the additional weight. With this in mind, we recommend packing light during summer drives to best preserve your range.
The easiest and most obvious (although potentially most important tip!) is to avoid parking in direct sunlight. Instead, opt to park in a shady spot. Whether this is under a tree, garage, or anywhere for that matter, just as long as your EV is out of the sun for prolonged lengths of time (and legally parked!), it will help to stop your battery from overheating (and will help maximise range too as your EV won’t utilise essential energy on cooling it down!).
Industry experts state that keeping your charge between 20%-80% should be the norm in order to conserve good battery health, but it is especially vital during hot temperatures. Just like mobile phones, the longer you charge, the hotter the battery gets, and if you mix this with the sunny weather, it’s a recipe for an unhappy battery (not to mention the increased risk of faster battery degradation).
As mentioned previously, if you charge your electric vehicle for long periods, your battery can overheat, and even though rapid charging decreases the length of time needed for charging, the high kW rate will raise the temperature of your EV battery significantly. Therefore, the general rule of thumb is to stick to 7kW fast charging during these hot conditions and avoid rapid charging stations. By this, we mean either utilising a fast public charger or your home electric vehicle charger, as they are usually rated at a maximum of 7.4kW. Want to learn more about the different charging speeds? Read our blog here.
If you find yourself in desperate need of a rapid charger, you can still use one. However, we recommend avoiding charging during the hottest times of the day and only top up your EV (don’t fully charge!).
Your electric vehicle battery will be hot from the previous drive, so it’s best to avoid charging it straight away (especially if your charger is in direct sunlight!). The best time to charge your electric vehicle is overnight or early morning when the temperature drops. Plus, charging will be cheaper since you aren’t topping up during peak times!
Most EVs benefit from thermal management systems, so if your electric vehicle is plugged in to charge, it will regulate your battery’s temperature without draining it. Moreover, keeping your charger plugged in at home helps with the preconditioning feature, as even though you have set your EV to cool, your charge won’t decrease due to the constant flow of electricity from the supply. Although, it might be wise to set your electric vehicle to stop charging once it gets to 80% to support battery health. But don’t fret; your electric car won’t overcharge if left plugged in due to their intelligent and advanced systems, meaning no increase in electricity bill!
Whilst this is technically not a tip, summer is the best time to take advantage of free solar energy. Not only will charging with a solar electric vehicle charger decrease your electricity bills, but it will also help to save the planet. Some of our best-selling solar EV chargers include the Hypervolt Home 2.0 and the EVE Seven, which come solar-ready (you do not have to purchase solar as an additional add-on).
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This type of electric charger has it's own cable to charge your car.
This type of electric charger requires a seperate cable to charge your car.
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We lay SWA cable laid at 600mm deep, with a protective cable warning tape laid 150mm above the cable. These are laid on a sand or sifted sand soil bed then backfilled.
We position overhead cables at a minimum height of 3.5m and are run along a catenary wire. The cable run should not be accessible to vehicles.
Our instant price is fixed if it falls within our standard installation package plus any additions that you have selected (extra cabling for example). This package covers the majority of homes in the UK. Before we undertake your installation we will carry out a digital survey to check that nothing has been missed. After reviewing the survey results some additional work may be required in order to complete your installation safely and to the required standards. If this is the case, we will contact you well before the installation date and advise the cost of any required work. You can then continue with your installation, or alternatively we will refund you in full if you do not want to proceed.
Included in our standard installation is :
• Fitting of a single phase charge point to a brick or plaster wall or other suitable permanent structure
• Up to 10 metres of cable, run and neatly clipped to the wall between the electricity supply meter / distribution board and the charge point.
• Routing of the cable through a drilled hole in a wall up to 500mm (20 inches) thick if this is needed.
• The fitting and testing of electrical connections and protections required for the charge point.
• An additional three way consumer unit, if required
• Installation of a Type A RCBO in an RCBO enclosure
• Up to 3 metres of plastic trunking to conceal interior wiring.
• An O-pen earth protection device if the charge point requires it. (This is NOT an earth rod)
• Up to 4 hours of labour from your installer to complete the work.
• Electrical testing of the whole installation.
• Handover and setup of the charge point and any app that may be needed.
Not included in our standard installation (additional work) :
• Where the installation requires additional cabling over and above the amount you have told us about.
• Upgrade/replacement of the main incoming supply fuse where the local DNO (eg Northern Powergrid) would need to attend site.
• If the charge point is to be mounted on a post/pedestal rather than an existing wall and where you have not selected a post as an extra cost option in your order.
• Installation of a charge point to a three phase supply.
• Where gas and water mains bonding (earthing) is not in place at your property. If this is not in place, additional work would be required before installation of the charge point.
• Any groundwork that has not been selected during the order process.
What else you need to know :
• On the day of installation, please ensure that the area around your consumer unit (fuse box), incoming electricity supply meter and proposed charge point location (including where the cable is expected to be run) is clear and free of obstructions.
• We will need your WiFi password as part of the installation process in order to connect your charge point to the internet. Please have this available for the installer. Details will not be kept.
• The charge point must be on your own designated off road parking.
• The charger will be fixed in line with current guidelines at a height where it cannot be hit by a vehicle.
• Our installers are not able to enter loft spaces; lift floorboards or flooring; take apart any furniture of work above a height of 2m. If you anticipate that any of this may be required, then please contact us and we can discuss in more detail and provide you with a quotation.
• Should there be extreme weather conditions our installers may not be able to continue with you installation if it is not safe to do so (for example flooding). They will always do their best to complete the work where they can.
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Species: White-footed Fox | Location: Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, Gujarat, India
The white-footed fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla), also known as the desert fox, is a small, Asiatic subspecies of the red fox which occurs throughout most of the northwestern Indian subcontinent, Pakistan's desert districts from Rawalpindi to Rajasthan and Kutch in India, Baluchistan, southern Iran, and Iraq. It is mostly found on sand-hills or in the broad sandy beds of semi-dry rivers, and only very rarely in fields, and then in the vicinity of sandy tracts.
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Named Rare Book Collections
In addition to the general rare book collection, the University Library acquires books from individual collectors and builds collections relating to certain topics. The books in these named collections and all other rare books can be found in the Library Catalog. These books cannot be checked out and must be read in Chicago in the Special Collections and University Archives reading rooms in Richard J. Daley Library or in Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago.
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The primary focus of the Rare Books Section at the Daley Library in Chicago is the political, social, architectural and literary history of Chicago. We also have collections that pertain to military history, Native American culture and the Caribbean.
- The Jane Addams Personal Library Collection contains more than 200 volumes from Addams’ personal library at the Hull-House settlement house.
- Atlantic Slave Trade Collection consists of over 300 years of legal, religious and secular publications documenting the Atlantic slave trade, including works issuing from Spain, France, Portugal, England, Africa, and the Americas.
- The Mary Hastings Bradley book collection contains over 1,500 works from the personal library of this Chicago socialite, adventurer, author, and big game hunter. Bradley’s bibliography includes On the Gorilla Trail (1922), Incident in Berlin (1944), and Murder in the Family (1951). Her Alice in Jungleland (1927), and Alice in Elephantland (1929) are about her daughter, Alice Bradley Sheldon. Sheldon wrote award-winning science fiction under the pen name James Tiptree, Jr.
- The Burnham and Hammond Architectural Library collection reveals the sources and inspirations of this prominent Chicago architectural firm of Daniel Burnham, Jr., Hubert Burnham, and C. Herrick Hammond, whose commissions include exhibit halls and ethnic villages at the Century of Progress World’s Fair of 1933 and 1934, and the Carbide and Carbon Building.
- The Buslik Caribbean Book Collection gathers together late-20th century literature published in or written about the Caribbean.
- The H.D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies contains almost 1,000 volumes of English language literature and non-fiction by Caribbean authors. The works in this collection are generally first editions, published in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.
- The Richard F. Casper Military Research Collection of around 2,000 titles includes materials on the American Revolution, World War I and World War II, and the American medical corps and service academies, literary works and military biographies plus first editions of works by C. S. Forester, Bruce Catton, John Hersey, and Sir Winston Churchill are among the treasures.
- The Ernst Cassirer Collection consists of over 1,000 volumes from the German philosopher’s personal library. It includes books about philosophy and literature, mostly in German.
- The Chicago Prefire (1871) Imprints Collection contains almost 500 items published in Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871.
- The Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana consists of more than 6,000 items including printed books, periodicals, maps, prints, and manuscripts relating to the history of Chicago. This collection, amassed by Mr. Gutter beginning in 1948 was acquired by the UIC Library in 1982 and is the foundation for the Daley Library’s Rare Book Collection.
- The Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Collection of American Indian Literature consists of more than 1,500 items produced by and about Native Americans. The collection contains works of literature, drama, and poetry in all editions and formats including monographs, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, videotapes, and audiotapes.
- The Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Collection contains approximately 600 volumes from the architect’s personal library. It includes works about art and architecture, science, history, ethics, and philosophy, primarily in English and German.
- The Political and Social Activism Pamphlet Collection totals around 11,000 pamphlets, published nationally and internationally between the mid-19th and late-20th centuries, and covering such topics as trade unionism, race relations, and left and right-wing political movements.
- The Caryl Seidenberg Collection consists of artist books created by book artist, author, and publisher Caryl Seidenberg.
- The Ellen Gates Starr Bookbinding Collection contains 21 examples of Starr’s work as a master bookbinder. Starr (who co-founded the Hull-House settlement with Jane Addams) learned the art of hand bookbinding in England in 1897 from master craftsman T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. When Starr returned to Chicago in 1898, she set up the Hull-House bookbindery where she practiced her craft and taught others the art of bookbindery.
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At Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago, the strengths of the Rare Books Section are neurology, urology, dermatology, and the history of medicine. We also hold collections of early anatomies, herbals, pharmacopeias, and formularies.
- The Percival Bailey Collection consists of more than 600 rare and important works in neurology and psychiatry. A printed, annotated catalog, A Catalog of the Percival Bailey Collection of Neurology & Psychiatry, compiled by Alexander M. Cain, lists all publications in the collection.
- The William C. Beck Collection consists of 52 rare books on anatomy, surgery and other aspects of medicine. William C. Beck, a surgeon and book collector, was the son of Carl Beck, a member of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
- The Chicago Prefire (1871) Medical Imprints Collection contains health-related items published in Chicago before the Great Fire of 1871. A printed, annotated catalog, A Catalog of Prefire Chicago Imprints (1844-1871), compiled by Edward P. Rich, D.D.S., lists the publications in the collection.
- The Francis J. Gerty Collection includes a wide range of material on the history of medicine, concentrating on Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois medical history.
- The Joseph H. Kiefer Collection contains rare books in urology, surgery, and general medicine published before the Twentieth century, focusing on the subjects of bladder stones, venereal diseases, and the history of uroscopy. The collection also includes works about human sexuality, medical history, medical biography, and art and humor in medicine. A printed, annotated catalog, The Joseph H. Kiefer Catalog of History of Urology of Medicine, compiled by Richard Y. Meier, lists all publications in the collection.
- The Lloyd M. Nyhus Collection contains a wide range of material on the history of medicine. The collection focuses on surgery, particularly the fields of gastroenterology and herniology. Professor Nyhus was Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine from 1967 until 1988. Four of his over 100 monographs received special honors: three editions of Mastery of Surgery, three editions of Surgery of the Stomach and Duodenum, five editions of Hernia, and nine editions of Manual of Surgical Therapeutics. These titles along with works by other prominent surgeons over the last century comprise the majority of the collection.
- The Public Health Pamphlet Collection contains over 200 public health-related publications published both nationally and locally, primarily from the 20th century. The collection has items pertaining to topics such as hygiene, communicable diseases, nutrition, and family planning, among others.
- The Alex S. Tulsky, M.D., History of Medicine Collection consists of rare and historical works on women’s health, particularly pregnancy, childbirth, surgery, and fertility.
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- Health Sciences books compiled from the HathiTrust Digital Library
- Rare books contributed to the Internet Archive by the UIC Library
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Nevertheless, I will keep moving on, trying to do what I can. In case anyone out there is unaware, we are experiencing a rather serious drought. While backpacking in the Hoover Wilderness west of Bridgeport, CA, we really saw no evidence of it. The lakes were, for the most part, nearly full, and streams were flowing.
|Lane Lake near Leavitt Meadow|
|Lane Lake on morning we hiked out of back country.|
This was in contrast to our trip last year that started at Mono Creek Trailhead near Lake Thomas A. Edison.
|Dust blows from dry lake bottom of Lake Thomas A. Edison in September 2013.|
|Not much need for the boats. (Sept. 2013)|
Furthermore, it is hard to believe that there is a serious drought when driving past farmland that is being irrigated with overhead sprinklers mid-day in very hot, windy conditions. Does 30% of that water even reach the roots of our precious food crops? Still, I believe the Governor, our city officials, and Metropolitan Water District. We are in trouble and we can ignore it if we choose, but it will be at a cost.
This Saturday I will be speaking at the 2014 Native Plant Symposium, Saving Water, Creating Beauty with California Native Plants, of the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of California Native Plant Society. I will be presenting a slideshow with pictures of native plant gardens, including the good and the bad, peak flower season and the dry, hot, sleepy days of the rest of the year. Other symposium topics include drip irrigation, designing garden meadows, soil and compost, native sages, and permaculture techniques for drought conditions.
If Santa Clara Valley is too far away for you Southern Californians, don’t miss the Autumn Garden Party at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden’s Grow Native Nursery at Veteran’s Garden on LA’s westside. Carol Bornstein, Director of the Natural History Museum‘s Nature Gardens and co-author of California Native Plants for the Garden and Reimagining the California Lawn “will discuss ideas on replacing your lawn with beautiful, resilient California native plants.” Later, Nicholas Hummingbird will share his knowledge of traditional and medicinal uses of native plants. There will be music, hard-to-find plants, and lots of people who share your passion for California native plants.
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Michelle Obama is turning to a new ally in her campaign to improve girls' education and career opportunities around the world: Arab men.
She's just begun a seven-day tour in Qatar and Jordan focusing on changing cultural beliefs obstructing girls' education, and she's petitioning men there to stand up for gender equity in education.
“Today, to all of the men here, I want to be very clear. We need you,” Mrs. Obama told the crowd at Qatar's World Innovation Summit for Education, or WISE, an annual conference on improving education and opportunities for children around the world. “As fathers, as husbands and simply as human beings, this is your struggle, too.”
Obama is taking her White House-sponsored Let Girls Learn initiative to the region with a series of speeches, school visits, and high-profile meetings targeting the stigmas and stereotypes that hinder girls' education.
"Solving our girls' education is definitely about resources, but it is also about attitudes and beliefs," she said, according to the Associated Press. "It's about whether parents think their daughters are as worthy of an education as their sons. It's about whether our societies cling to outdated laws and traditions that oppress and exclude women or whether their views of women are as full citizens entitled to equal rights."
"If we truly want to get girls into our classrooms, then we need to have an honest conversation about how we view and treat women in our societies," she continued. "And this conversation needs to happen in every country on this planet, including my own."
Obama arrived in Doha, Qatar, on Monday to promote Let Girls Learn. On Tuesday, she visited a US Air Force base with comedian Conan O'Brien, and on Wednesday she was scheduled to visit a school in Jordan, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development, that Syrian refugees now attend.
She kicked off her trip with a moving op-ed in the Atlantic explaining the barriers to girls' education, starting with the fact that an estimated 62 million girls globally do not attend school.
Conflicts also impede education. According to WISE, conflicts in the Middle East deprive more than 13 million children of schooling.
As part of Let Girls Learn, Obama has worked to fund community girls’ education projects, educate girls in conflict zones, and address issues like poverty and HIV that keep girls out of school. Now, she's focusing on encouraging cultural beliefs that support girls' education.
In her Qatar speech, Obama said cultural shifts can happen – as they have in the US – and when they do, create a powerful ripple effect that can lead to even more cultural and political progress for women.
"Girls who are educated marry later, have lower rates of infant and maternal mortality, and are more likely to immunize their children and less likely to contract HIV. Educated girls also earn higher salaries – 15 to 25 percent more for each additional year of secondary school – and studies have shown that sending more girls to school can boost an entire country’s GDP," she wrote in her Atlantic essay.
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Distance Education in India
The Indian distance education systemhas witnessed a tremendous change lately. E-learning has fast emerged asa preferred means of getting a degree/diploma. Studentsquickly got connected to the web-world. It was only a matter of time before learning from the comforts of your home could become a reality. Also, government initiatives along with innovative technology facilitated the education providers to overcome all the physical boundaries and impart knowledge in every corner.
Studying at your own convenience
Whether you are a working professional or a student who does not have the time to go a traditional college, distance learning universities are the saviours. These universities offer a gamut of distance education programmes in the fields of Management, Technology, Marketing, Human Resource, Media to name a few. Getting to learn these courses from the comfort of your home is a dream come true for many.
These programmesoffer everything that you get from an affiliated university. They offer you a diploma, study material, regular assessmentsand exams.
An affordable choice for everyone
Distance education has helped ensure that every learning enthusiastin the country can now pursue a legitimate programme of their choice without having to spend lakhs on it. You could be an aspiring engineer who wishes to get into the field of aeronautics in a small town of Himachal Pradesh and you can still do that with distance education. This kind of flexibility was unheard off just 10 or 15 years ago. It is now a reality and universities offering distance education have made it possible.
India of the future
To be at par with the economic growth in the global, the country still needs to increase the number of student enrollment in higher education. This can be achieved through the development of distance education in the country. With increasing reach of the internet, innovative technology, and multimedia it is now possible for every student in the country to take up distance learning. Distance education universities are continuously involved in the development of their programmes and experiencing high demand of more innovative ones.
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At the 11th hour, on the 11 Day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was signed that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I, bringing about peace that had not been felt for several years. Today Armistice Day is no longer about celebrating peace, but it is about remembering those who died in the conflict. On 11 November we use the name Remembrance Day and mark it with ceremonies to remember the Canadian men and women who have lost their lives in war in defence of our freedom. Since confederation approximately 111, 000 Canadian soldiers have died in wars and many more injured. The sacrifices were not in vain and the rights they fought for are outlined in our 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedom. Because of their willingness to stand against oppression we have the freedom to pray whenever we want, read scripture, gather to worship, and tell others about Jesus. These freedoms allow us to enjoy and share the blessings God has given us.
However, since the beginning, there has been an enemy trying to destroy our freedom and the might of all the armies on the earth can never conquer it. Scripture tells us “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” Ephesians 6: 12. Only the sacrifice of Jesus could free us from the grip of Satan’s influence over our mindset. Jesus died to liberate everyone from the worldly or ego-based mindset that separates us from God and that affects our faith in his power and authority over the physical, emotional and financial negativity of life.
On Remembrance Day the bugle call draws people together to reflect on war sacrifices. Bugles had been part of military life and were used to signal daily events that occurred in a soldier’s life – they sounded when it was time to get up, go to bed, time to eat and so on. They were also used in battle to signal movement. Trumpets are symbols of strength in the bible and they are sounded when something significant is about to happen. The book of Revelation reminds us that Christ will return to the earth and bring about peace. We will know that He comes at the sound of the trumpet. Revelations Chapter 8-11 speaks about the 7 Trumpets that will announce the end of time. The first six trumpets are used to serve as a wakeup call to the sinners on Earth and a call to repentance. Each trumpet blast brings with it a plague of a more disastrous nature than the one before it. The seventh trumpet does not bring a plague with it. Rather, it is sounded so that glory is given to God and His kingdom is announced.
On 11 November we remember the sacrifices of those men and women who went to war so that we could have the freedoms we have today. However, their sacrifices are in vain if we do not accept the freedoms given to us by Jesus’ sacrifice. The freedom to make choices that affect our lives, the lives of our families and our community and the freedom of choice that affects our eternity. The freedoms earned by our military can be taken away from us by our government or a foreign aggressor, but the freedom Jesus gave us over sin can never be taken from us.
When you hear the bugle call this Remembrance Day, remember our fallen soldiers and the battle they fought for us. But also remember Jesus’ sacrifice grants us the freedom to choose victory over the oppressive and destructive nature of sin, freedom from falling to temptation and making poor choices that destroy families, marriages, and communities. Jesus’ sacrifice freed us for hopelessness and offered joy and peace of mind. Let’s honour the sacrifices of our military by accepting the gift of Jesus. | <urn:uuid:312b6536-443f-49eb-9080-e284ae1033f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mcf-canada.ca/we-remember/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970602 | 771 | 3.5 | 4 |
What is it?
"National Talk Like a Pirate Day" began in 1995 when a couple of guys, John Baur and Mark Summers, created a day dedicated to speaking the pirate lingo.
After celebrating the day on September 19 for seven years, renowned columnist Dave Barry wrote a piece about the slightly strange annual event last year.
Thus..."National Talk Like a Pirate Day " turned international.
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Four out of five people expect Facebook to have another data privacy issue this year
People are becoming more aware of the need to protect their data online, not just because of the rate of cybercriminal activity, but also because large organizations are frequently being careless with the data they hold.
A new survey of 1,000 people from OpenVPN reveals that four out of five people are expecting Facebook to face at least one more data privacy issue in the next year. In addition 71 percent say recent scandals have somewhat or severely negatively affected their view on Facebook, while 37 percent trust tech giants less now because they don’t think the companies have properly addressed the data privacy problems.
There is a worrying level of ignorance though. One in four respondents say they haven't heard of Cambridge Analytica, the AWS server leak or the Onavo Protect VPN being pushed off the app store at all.
Of those who had heard of the Onavo Protect VPN, 57 percent had used the app themselves, but 64 percent now use a paid VPN instead due to the scandals surrounding it
There has been an overall shift in attitudes to social media too, 36 percent of employers have blocked social media altogether or limited employees' access as a direct result of data privacy controversies. Also 34 percent of respondents have thought about quitting one or more social media sites as a direct result of the controversies.
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Employee motivation in the workplace seems to be a problem nowadays.
A study on employee engagement has found that 70% of employees are disengaged at work. For a manager whose success depends on the productivity of their employees, these statistics don’t exactly inspire confidence.
The chances are that your employees are counting down the minutes until they can shut down their computers and call it a day. That’s quite the opposite of the vision you have for dedicated, passionate employees who will stop at no ends to guarantee the success of your company.
Research from the University of California found that demotivated employees are 31% less productive, are 3x less creative and 87% more likely to quit than motivated employees.
And it gets worse:
It was calculated that every unmotivated employee costs the business an estimated $2246 a year. Now, imagine your company employs over a hundred people, out of which 70% dislike their job… That’s a LOT of money they’re losing.
The question is: if 70% of all employees say they are disengaged and unmotivated at work, then what the heck are managers doing that terribly wrong?
Managers use outdated employee motivation tactics
Many managers still believe that bonuses and additional pay are the only ways to make workers more productive and committed to the work. However, it’s been found that there are situations when monetary reinforcements are not the best tactic to use when motivating your team members.
The famous ”Duncker’s candle problem” experiment conducted by the Canadian professor Sam Glucksberg shows when monetary reinforcements work, and when they don’t:
Two groups of people were given the same task – to fix and light a candle to a wall and make sure that no wax drips on the table. To do so, both groups were given these materials: a candle, a book of matches, and a box of thumbtacks.
With the same materials at hand, one group was given an infinite amount of time to find the solution, while the second group was offered a monetary bonus if they find the solution within a certain time frame.
The solution of the problem required creative use of the materials and, quite literally, thinking outside the box:
Though, the most unexpected part of the experiment was not the answer to the problem. It was the fact that the group that was offered financial incentives consistently finished the task slower than the group given unlimited time.
The experiment showed that monetary rewards, together with limited time resources, increases stress levels and shuts down the creative thinking and problem-solving areas of the brain. Similarly, when employees are offered bonuses based on their performance results within a certain period of time, they become more tense, too focused on the ”carrot” and less creative.
However, this is not where the story ends:
The professor conducted the same experiment again, yet this time, two groups were given thumbtacks and matches outside of their boxes:
Now it was clear that the box is a part of the materials and can be used to complete the task. And this time the group offered financial incentives completed the task much faster than the group given unlimited time.
Monetary reinforcements may not be the best motivation tactic for knowledge workers, especially in positions that require creative problem-solving.
The experiment showed that creative tasks require more freedom for success, whereas financial incentives are fine for jobs with straight-forward and obvious tasks.
The answer to engaging employees – intrinsic motivation
As opposed to extrinsic motivators, such as bonuses, and the fear of being fired, intrinsic motivation is based on taking pleasure in an activity, rather working towards an external reward. Only when a worker is personally interested in the result, he or she can work at the highest potential.
In fact, a survey conducted by BNET found that 29% of workers are motivated by doing something meaningful. In comparison, money motivated 25% of those surveyed, while recognition motivated 17%.
Blake Mycoskie of Toms shoes sees how meaningful his daily work is. Something that spurs him on daily. What you get from intrinsically motivated employees is well worth the effort. Companies that fall in the top 10% with most engaged employees surpass 72% of their competition based on earnings. Additionally, companies with engaged employees also see lower employee turnover rates.
Increasing employee retention rate is a big deal when you think how much it costs for the company to hire and train new team members.
Studies predict replacing an employee costs the company 6 to 9 months’ salary on average. That is, if you must to replace a manager making $40k a year, you should be ready to invest up to $30k in recruiting and training the new employee.
How to motivate your employees: from the experience of DeskTime
Here at DeskTime (a time tracking and productivity app), employees are motivated in various ways, and most of them have nothing to do with money and bonuses.
Flexible work-time gives employees a sense of freedom
At DeskTime, everyone may arrive to work as late as 11 AM, while still working an 8-hour work day. This rule allows night owls to start work later when they feel the most energized and productive. Because really – there is no use of a person in the office who acts and still is half asleep at 8 AM.
Besides, allowing employees to arrive by 11 AM lets people be more flexible with their time. For example, employees can use their mornings for other things that are important to them, like taking kids to school, morning appointments, or whatever else it may be.
Adequate pay creates a feeling of appreciation
Money may not buy you happiness, but it is a vital factor to ensure a basic level of life. That is why money can directly affect productivity: once the employee need not think about their material existence, he or she can focus on the job at hand.
Your task as an employer is to compensate your employees enough, so they don’t have to worry about paying the rent, groceries, etc. This will result in a less stressful environment and will banish thoughts of leaving for a better job, or resentment for the work they’re doing.
Flat organization gives employees voice
Here at DeskTime, any employee can pitch their business ideas to the founders. If they like the idea, the project can be developed and the employee can have equity options. Talk about motivation!
Due to the flat organizational structure, employees are free to share their ideas and suggestions openly. That way, everyone feel they have an impact on the bottom line of the business, which makes them more motivated, engaged and interested in the company’s growth.
Giving your employees voice and chance to share their opinion on core decisions lets them feel more valued and invested in the success of the company. Our experience shows that a company can greatly benefit from the feedback and unique ideas employees often come up with.
Help your people learn and grow
Some companies bring in lecturers to ensure the education of their employees. Google is an excellent example of this, with their Talks at Google, which bring in inspiring speakers to foster innovation.
Here at DeskTime, we do it too – every month, a well-known person is invited to the office to talk about a topic of their choice. For example, we’ve had a DJ who talked about how they choose music played on the radio (it’s psychology!), a wedding manager who shared her biggest failures and weirdest wedding stories, and even a cardiologist who gave tips on how to stay healthy.
As you see, the lectures are not always work or even industry-related. Instead, their goal is to inspire people and widen their perspectives in their work and personal life.
The best part?
Such lectures cost nothing or very little for the company since the speakers are often happy to share their stories.
Invest in creating an office a place employees want to be
A significant part of your day (a third, in fact!) is spent in the office. Creating a friendly environment and making it a place you and your employees want to be is a factor that shouldn’t be ignored.
At DeskTime, teamwork, mutual understanding, and a feeling of joy are taken seriously. Therefore, there are specially designed spaces for people to hang out in a free atmosphere. For example, we’ve got a summer terrace where employees can take a break, or stay longer on a Friday night to party together.
Additionally, the management regularly organizes different team building activities like corporate birthday parties, Christmas parties, boating events, board game nights and more. All those team activities allow people to get to know each other better, help new team members open up and fit in the team, and when back in the office – work better together.
Here are 26 awesome ideas to improve your office and make it a better place to work.
More ways to motivate your employees
Yes, there are even more ways you can make sure your employees are motivated and productive every day:
- Create self-esteem incentives. That might be empowering employees by putting them in charge of an important project or presentation, or giving them the opportunity to train in another department. As a result, your employees will feel that their skills, and themselves personally, are valued by the company.
- Streamline expectations. When assigning a project, define a clear primary goal. If you add other minor goals, make sure that they don’t detract from the original purpose.
- Define employee roles. Provide clear communication to your employees regarding what you expect them to do, and what they can expect other people to do. Therefore, your employees will work on their individual roles more competently and will know who to turn to when they need information or help in a specific area.
- Use an internal communication system. Regardless of the scale of your business, it’s fundamental that you provide your team with adequate online communication tools such as instant messaging and project management resources. This will enable them to remain connected and informed immediately of any project updates or changes, no matter where they are located within the framework of your business.
- Provide constructive and meaningful feedback on a regular basis. Aim to offer regular and helpful feedback to employees in a way that encourages them to work harder, rather than criticize them and reduce their motivation. Your feedback doesn’t always have to be positive, but it does always need to be constructive. Always seek to encourage employees; if they have not achieved a goal, show them methods in which they could improve.
Final words: motivate your employees like it’s 2019
The clear majority of us are knowledge workers. In fact, the USA counts close to 38% of the workforce into the category of knowledge work. And as shown by the experiment and proven in our own experience, simple carrot and stick motivation isn’t enough anymore for knowledge workers.
So, what should companies do instead?
Companies today should rethink the methods they use to engage their employees and use intrinsic motivators with their team. That is, managers should focus on employees’ growth, professional challenges, personal fulfillment, and work-life balance.
Now it’s your turn – let us know what your office uses for motivation in the comments below!
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V-22 Aerial Tanker Variant on Tap for 2018 | Israel’s Sea-based Iron Dome Intercepts Salvos in Test | Saab Premiers First of Three Gripen E’sMay 19, 2016 00:50 UTC
- The Navy’s V-22 Osprey program has set 2018 for the deployment of the aerial tanker variant of the USMC’s MV-22B. Once the new capability is installed, it will be possible for the air combat element of a Marine Expeditionary Unit to refuel in air its F-35 Lightning II strike fighters and CH-53 heavy-lift helicopters, and eventually even other V-22s may be a possibility. This capability will extend the reach of the amphibious ready groups for strike and assault missions.
- Raytheon’s SeaRam anti-ship defense system has undergone its most rigorous testing in recent US Navy testing. Targets successfully engaged involved two supersonic missiles flying in complex, evasive maneuvers which the system successfully took down with the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 missiles. The SeaRAM is an upgrade of Phalanx Block 1B and it swaps out the gatling gun with an 11-round Rolling Airframe Missile guide.
- A collaboration between MIT and Lockheed Martin engineers is to focus on the innovations needed to enable generation-after-next autonomous systems. The signed agreement was formalized during a ceremony at the campus last Friday and provides a multi-year framework between MIT and Lockheed Martin for collaborative research, exchange of visiting scientists, support of student Undergraduate Research Opportunities, fellowships, and internships at Lockheed Martin. Dr. Padraig Moloney, who spearheaded the new initiative, stated “We’re confident that our relationship and collaboration in these technical areas will influence the fields of autonomy and robotics for the next 15-20 years.”
Middle East North Africa
- On Wednesday, Israel claimed that it had successfully intercepted a test salvo of shore-launched short-range rockets with a new sea-based version of the Iron Dome. The testing took place two week ago on board the force’s INS Lahav Sa’ar-5 corvette-class surface vessel which has had the IAI/Elta developed Adir radar and Rafael-developed Iron Dome integrated on board. It remains unclear, however, what types of threats the system engaged.
- Austria’s Diamond Aircraft has announced the maiden flight of its DART-450 (Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer). The aircraft is a first all-carbon fiber tandem, 2-seat civilian and military trainer with a sidestick and pneumatic ejection seats. Powering the DART-450 is the Ivchenko-Progress/Motor Sich AI-450S turboprop engine, a 5-blade MT propeller, and a GARMIN avionic system, giving the trainer a top speed of 250kts.
- Saab rolled out the first of its three Gripen E fighters yesterday, with the test fighter to be handed over to the flight test department this summer. The unveiling comes three years before the first of at least 96 production models are to be delivered to the governments of Brazil and Sweden. Saab expects that between 400-450 Gripen E models could be produced over the life of the program.
- MBDA has been awarded a $600 million UK MoD contract for futher development of the Spear 3 missile. The missile is described as the sister weapon to MBDA’s Brimstone already in service with the RAF, in use in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State militants. Already, the Spear 3 has been test-fired from a Typhoon aircraft but the contract will allow MBDA to develop the missile for use with the controversial F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
- Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha became the first chief to fly the indigenous HAL Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter in a short sortie on Tuesday. Raha’s flight came during a visit to meet team LCA in Bengalaru which involved the inauguration of the Tejas’ painting hanger. The only other top IAF officer to have flown the LCA was Deputy chief of Air Staff Air Marshal SBP Sinha, in September 2014.
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The weather is finally getting colder, which means many of us are turning our furnaces on for the first time in months. It’s important to have your furnace checked by an HVAC professional on a bi-annual basis, but you’re bound to run into furnace troubles no matter how well you take care of your HVAC system. Here are a few things you can do to troubleshoot your furnace problems before resorting to calling a professional.
Check Your Thermostat
First, play around with your thermostat settings. Make sure it’s set to the ‘heat’ mode and that the temperature is where you want it, just in case somebody else in the home adjusted it. If the temperature is correct, turn it up a couple of degrees and see if that makes a difference.
If your thermostat is battery-powered, now is a great time to replace the batteries. A thermostat with a dead battery won’t be able to connect with your furnace, so take them out and put new ones in to see if it changes anything.
Check the Fuse Box
It’s possible that you’ve just blown a fuse and your furnace isn’t receiving power. Check the circuit breaker, or fuse box, and locate the ‘furnace’ switch. If your fuse box switches aren’t labelled, check for any switch facing the opposite direction of all the other switches and flip it back where it belongs.
Change the Filter
Not only does your furnace filter keep your indoor air clean, but it’s also specially designed to allow proper air flow. When your filter gets too dirty, it can cause air quality issues and overheat your furnace, causing it to shut off. That’s why it’s important to make sure your furnace filter gets changed on a regular basis, at least every 30-90 days. Check your furnace filter by taking it out and holding it up to the light. If you can’t see through the filter anymore, it’s time for a replacement. Be sure to check your filter’s size and strength so you can get the right one for your furnace.
Look for Gas Leaks
A more serious explanation for your furnace problems is a gas leak. Carefully check your valve to see if it somehow got turned off. It’s important to call an HVAC professional immediately if you smell gas. Gas leaks are a potentially dangerous issue that are best handled by an experienced HVAC technician.
Quality HVAC Services with Ellis AC
If these troubleshooting tips don’t work for your furnace, or if you suspect a bigger issue with your HVAC system, the experienced HVAC technicians at Ellis AC are always happy to help. We offer stellar HVAC maintenance, repairs, and replacements at prices you can afford, and our team always values the satisfaction of our clients above all else. When we’re done working on your system, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about what you can do to give it a longer lifespan and get the most out of it. Call or visit our website for more information or a free quote on our HVAC services today! | <urn:uuid:d3fe669c-fa1a-487d-b06a-cb151753188d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ellisac.com/how-to-troubleshoot-problems-with-your-furnace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.929938 | 677 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Deconstruct to reconstruct seeks to use a modern benefit principle theory that will allow tax authorities to tax companies in the digital economy, assuring they pay taxes in the countries in which they operate. The emergence of a new business models such as app stores, online advertising, cloud computing, participative network platforms, high-speed trading, and online payment services has reshaped the global economy and made it difficult for tax authorities to determine what and where to tax. Technologies in the new digital economy make it possible for companies to operate in countries without being physically present. While companies such as Netflix, Google, and AirBnB provide services and earn profits in different countries, tax loopholes and intricate tax planning enable them to pay little-to-no taxes in many of these countries. For example, Netflix earned more than US$100 billion in Colombia in 2016, but it did not pay any direct or indirect taxes in the country. The absence of a specific tax or legal rule that targets digital companies has prevented Colombian tax authorities from taxing Netflix or any other company of the sort. Many tax authorities around the world have similar experiences. | <urn:uuid:d76d24f8-2114-4a84-a3b6-4b6384a46d0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tienda.uniandes.edu.co/es/libros/deconstructtoreconstructisitpossibletotaxthedigitaleconomy-detail/askquestion?tmpl=component | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.95995 | 225 | 2.578125 | 3 |
This is an update of the original Cochrane review first published in Issue 1, 2003, and previously updated in 2009, 2012 and 2014. Chronic pain, defined as pain that recurs or persists for more than three months, is common in childhood. Chronic pain can affect nearly every aspect of daily life and is associated with disability, anxiety, and depressive symptoms.
The aim of this review was to update the published evidence on the efficacy of psychological treatments for chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents.The primary objective of this updated review was to determine any effect of psychological therapy on the clinical outcomes of pain intensity and disability for chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents compared with active treatment, waiting-list, or treatment-as-usual care.The secondary objective was to examine the impact of psychological therapies on children's depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms, and determine adverse events.
Searches were undertaken of CENTRAL, MEDLINE, MEDLINE in Process, Embase, and PsycINFO databases. We searched for further RCTs in the references of all identified studies, meta-analyses, and reviews, and trial registry databases. The most recent search was conducted in May 2018.
RCTs with at least 10 participants in each arm post-treatment comparing psychological therapies with active treatment, treatment-as-usual, or waiting-list control for children or adolescents with recurrent or chronic pain were eligible for inclusion. We excluded trials conducted remotely via the Internet.
We analysed included studies and we assessed quality of outcomes. We combined all treatments into one class named 'psychological treatments'. We separated the trials by the number of participants that were included in each arm; trials with > 20 participants per arm versus trials with < 20 participants per arm. We split pain conditions into headache and mixed chronic pain conditions. We assessed the impact of both conditions on four outcomes: pain, disability, depression, and anxiety. We extracted data at two time points; post-treatment (immediately or the earliest data available following end of treatment) and at follow-up (between three and 12 months post-treatment).
We identified 10 new studies (an additional 869 participants) in the updated search. The review thus included a total of 47 studies, with 2884 children and adolescents completing treatment (mean age 12.65 years, SD 2.21 years). Twenty-three studies addressed treatments for headache (including migraine); 10 for abdominal pain; two studies treated participants with either a primary diagnosis of abdominal pain or irritable bowel syndrome, two studies treated adolescents with fibromyalgia, two studies included adolescents with temporomandibular disorders, three were for the treatment of pain associated with sickle cell disease, and two studies treated adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease. Finally, three studies included adolescents with mixed pain conditions. Overall, we judged the included studies to be at unclear or high risk of bias.Children with headache painWe found that psychological therapies reduced pain frequency post-treatment for children and adolescents with headaches (risk ratio (RR) 2.35, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.67 to 3.30, P < 0.01, number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) = 2.86), but these effects were not maintained at follow-up. We did not find a beneficial effect of psychological therapies on reducing disability in young people post-treatment (SMD -0.26, 95% CI -0.56 to 0.03), but we did find a beneficial effect in a small number of studies at follow-up (SMD -0.34, 95% CI -0.54 to -0.15). We found no beneficial effect of psychological interventions on depression or anxiety symptoms.Children with mixed pain conditionsWe found that psychological therapies reduced pain intensity post-treatment for children and adolescents with mixed pain conditions (SMD -0.43, 95% CI -0.67 to -0.19, P < 0.01), but these effects were not maintained at follow-up. We did find beneficial effects of psychological therapies on reducing disability for young people with mixed pain conditions post-treatment (SMD -0.34, 95% CI -0.54 to -0.15) and at follow-up (SMD -0.27, 95% CI -0.49 to -0.06). We found no beneficial effect of psychological interventions on depression symptoms. In contrast, we found a beneficial effect on anxiety at post-treatment in children with mixed pain conditions (SMD -0.16, 95% CI -0.29 to -0.03), but this was not maintained at follow-up.Across all pain conditions, we found that adverse events were reported in seven trials, of which two studies reported adverse events that were study-related.Quality of evidenceWe found the quality of evidence for all outcomes to be low or very low, mostly downgraded for unexplained heterogeneity, limitations in study design, imprecise and sparse data, or suspicion of publication bias. This means our confidence in the effect estimate is limited: the true effect may be substantially different from the estimate of the effect, or we have very little confidence in the effect estimate; or the true effect is likely to be substantially different from the estimate of effect.
Psychological treatments delivered predominantly face-to-face might be effective for reducing pain outcomes for children and adolescents with headache or other chronic pain conditions post-treatment. However, there were no effects at follow-up. Psychological therapies were also beneficial for reducing disability in children with mixed chronic pain conditions at post-treatment and follow-up, and for children with headache at follow-up. We found no beneficial effect of therapies for improving depression or anxiety. The conclusions of this update replicate and add to those of a previous version of the review which found that psychological therapies were effective in reducing pain frequency/intensity for children with headache and mixed chronic pain conditions post-treatment. | <urn:uuid:3b0160ec-af2c-4aef-8f1d-3352efc8bc0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cochrane.altmetric.com/details/49024075 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.949861 | 1,206 | 2.28125 | 2 |
International migration is frequently discussed in terms of development. We often hear that there are some 214 million international migrants, and that one in seven people is a migrant when internal mobility is included.
According to the World Bank, these migrants will send more than half a billion US dollars in remittances this year, the lion’s share going to developing countries. Yet beyond the numbers lies a complex and messy reality, one that calls for urgent policy responses at all levels of government.
From the deaths of migrants crossing the desert in Niger, to reports of migrant abuse in the Middle East, to the portability of social protection rights, the IS Academy Final Conference, held by UNU-MERIT and its School of Governance from 22-24 January 2014, delved deeper into the complex relationships between migration and development. Click here to see the fruit of this conference, including a policy brief and a series of videos. | <urn:uuid:4ca1530d-9d4e-45a0-be93-075f52d57fcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://migration.unu.edu/news/news/watching-a-world-in-motion-new-policy-brief.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.948661 | 196 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Alan Graham was born on August 27, 1924 in Engeland. He was in the Royal Air Force.
During his training in June 1944 in Hixon, he met Barbara Kent. She was working in Stafford and was a member of the Woman's Auxiliary Air Force (women that served the RAF). She was 21 years at the time.
Barbara Kent (photo: Rudy Kenis)
On October 21, 1944 the young couple got married. Unfortunately they could only spend a few weeks together as a married couple.
Graham started his training in N°1 AGS (Air Gunner Scheme) in Pembrey on April 9, 1944. At the end of this training the following remark was noted: "... a relatively slow student that would get better results if he would work harder...".
In July 1944 he was trained as MUG (Mid Upper Gunner) at 30 OTU in Seighford (Hixon).
In August he changed to tail gunner and replaced Sergeant Silcock who originally was the tail gunner in the crew.
After his marriage Graham went training in Ingham for a few days before being transferred to Lindholm on December 1, 1944, joining his final crew.
On January 1, 1945 he and the crew moved to the 460th Squadron in Binbrook. He did his first operational flight over Germany on January 16, 1945. During this flight he shot a FW190!
Graham made his final flight on February 20-21, 1945, a flight to Dortmund which ended in the fatal crash in Linkhout. He was only 21 years old.
Lest we forget...
Grave in Hasselt 2015 (photo: Nick Lieten)
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North Logan, Utah - Ophir Photonics, global leader in precision laser measurement equipment and a Newport Corporation brand, today announced the 100K-W Laser Power Meter, the newest addition to the company's line of very high power laser sensors.
The first commercial sensor for measuring very high power 100kW lasers, the 100K-W meter is designed for fiber lasers used in industrial material processing, such as thermal ablation, heavy-section welding, and metal forming, as well as military directed-energy applications.
The portable meter features a unique design that allows measurement of very high power, near infrared, Nd:YAG and fiber lasers. NADEX Laser R&D Center recently successfully tested the 100K-W at up to 100,000 Watts on a fiber laser mounted on a robot arm.
"Measurement and control of a laser's power is the only way to achieve reproducible results, especially for those operating at very high powers," said Ephraim Greenfield, CTO, Ophir Photonics. "The 100K-W power meter measures laser power at an unprecedented four (4) times the power of any other commercial laser meter, including Ophir's own 30K-W Laser Power Meter. It is designed to measure very high power lasers to ensure precision in cutting and directed energy applications."
The 100K-W Laser Power Meter measures high power beams at a distance past the focal spot of the laser or, alternatively, at a distance from the diverging fiber output where the beam has expanded to about 100mm diameter.
A reflective cone in the meter deflects the laser beam onto the inner circumference of the sensor. This increases the radiated area and reduces the power density to manageable levels. As the cone dissipates the beam, it captures over 99% of the radiation, minimizing safety hazards. The response time of the 100K-W is less than 1 minute, a fraction of the time required by custom, non-commercial systems.
Unlike other high power measurement systems, the 100K-W Laser Power Meter is a compact, portable unit. It consists of a beam dump with overall dimensions of about 50cm diameter x 50cm deep, and a water flow power measurement unit of 11x15x34cm. The meter connects to a PC via RS-232 and is provided with software that displays and graphs the power and water flow rate. A smart connector output displays power readings on any of Ophir's smart displays.
About Ophir Photonics
With over 30 years of experience, Ophir Photonics, a Newport Corporation brand, provides a complete line of instrumentation including power and energy meters, beam profilers, spectrum analyzers, and goniometric radiometers. Dedicated to continuous innovation in laser measurement, the company holds a number of patents, including the award-winning BeamTrack power/position/size meters and Spiricon's Ultracal™, the baseline correction algorithm that helped establish the ISO 11146-3 standard for beam measurement accuracy. The Photon family of products includes NanoScan scanning-slit technology, which is capable of measuring beam sizeand position to sub-micron resolution.
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The murders of the indigenous defender Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips attracted the world’s gazes to the region of the Javari Valley, in the west of Amazonas. The second largest indigenous land in Brazil is home to the largest number of isolated populations in the world and has two National Indian Foundation […]
Reporter at InfoAmazonia in the PlenaMata project, Leandro was editor-in-chief of the Página 20.Net portal and reporter at the print newspaper Página 20 and the ContilNet Notícias website. He also worked as communication director at the Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre, at the Biblioteca da Floresta and at the Fundação de Cultura Garibaldi Brasil. Leandro holds a degree in Social Communication with a major in Journalism from the Federal University of Acre (Ufac). | <urn:uuid:e09100ab-2e8b-4177-804f-d17fdfb044a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infoamazonia.org/en/author/leandro-chaves/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.905776 | 190 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The Office of Facility Services has begun a project to systematically convert the entire campus form fluorescent to LED lighting. We believe this is a logical and responsible step to lower our carbon footprint, be more environmentally responsible by removing mercury-containing lighting devices, and reduce energy consumption by more than 50 percent while providing an increased light output per fixture and longer bulb life expectancy.
We are starting the conversion with O’Shea Hall, Seton Hall, and the library. During the conversion process, we expect minimal to no inconveniences to students and employees, with an estimated time of conversion of 15-20 minutes per fixture. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we undertake this necessary project. | <urn:uuid:7ec4886a-5d67-44a7-8396-832adb72ece3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailypost.niagara.edu/lighting-conversion-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.914719 | 142 | 2.0625 | 2 |
ARMs are easier to qualify for than fixed-rate loans, but you can get 30-year loan terms for both. An ARM might be better for you if you plan on staying in your home for a short period of time, interest rates are high or you want to use the savings in interest rate to pay down the principal on your loan.
Considering this, do ARM loans go down?
An adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) is a loan with an interest rate that changes. … Your payments may not go down much, or at all—even if interest rates go down. See page 11. You could end up owing more money than you borrowed— even if you make all your payments on time.
Also to know is, how do you qualify for an ARM mortgage?
What You’ll Need To Qualify For An ARM
- A minimum 5% down payment.
- A minimum FICO® Score of 620.
- A debt-to-income ratio (DTI) of no more than 50%. …
- A maximum loan-to-value ratio (LTV) of 95%
Is a 7 year ARM a good idea?
When to consider a 7/1 ARM
A 7/1 ARM is a good option if you intend to live in your new house for less than seven years or plan to refinance your home within the same timeframe. An ARM tends to have lower initial rates than a fixed-rate loan, so you can take advantage of the lower payment for the introductory period.
ARMs are best if you plan to move or pay off the loan before the introductory rate expires. If you’re confident you’ll relocate or pay off your mortgage in 10 years or less, an adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM, may be the best home loan option for you.
A 10-year ARM is an adjustable-rate mortgage. It is fixed for the first 10 years and adjustable for 20 years. It has a 30-year loan term just like a 30-year fixed. But is subject to annual rate adjustments after the first 10 years.
1. Lower rates help you build equity faster. The obvious advantage of an adjustable-rate mortgage is that they carry lower interest rates during the fixed period of the loan. … The smart thing to do might be to take out a 5/1 ARM but make monthly payments as if it were a 30-year fixed mortgage.
Why does it take 30 years to pay off $150,000 loan, even though you pay $1000 a month? … Even though the principal would be paid off in just over 10 years, it costs the bank a lot of money fund the loan. The rest of the loan is paid out in interest.
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Details for AMD’s upcoming range of Vega powered graphics cards have started to emerge, with the top dog, the Radeon Instinct MI25 outperforming Nvidia’s Pascal powered Titan X graphics cards handily in certain applications, and crushing Maxwell without issue.
Currently, there are three distinct versions of the MI range, the MI6, MI8 and finally, the MI25. These numbers aren’t just random, but actually, represent the amount of TFLOPS of performance each card is capable of outputting.
Starting with the MI6, the card is ‘passively cooled’ and puts out about 5.7 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, has 224 GB/s memory bandwidth and appears to be powered by Polaris 10, squeezing under the 150W TDP mark.
Next, we have the MI8, which bumps up the FP32 performance to 8.2 TFLOPS, with 512 GB/s memory bandwidth and Small Form Factor compliant (but isn’t passively cooled). This accelerator operates at 175W TDP.
Finally, we have the Vega 10 powered MI25, which puts out 12.5 TFLOPS of FP32 performance, or 25 TFLOPS of FP16 (half precision) performance. Unlike its smaller brothers, it has High Bandwidth memory and controller and has a TDP of about 300W.
So AMD is really focusing a lot of the MI25’s marketing around its FP16 performance, which isn’t surprising given FP16 performance is not only higher (great for PR) but also FP16 is sufficiently accurate for deep-learning, machine learning and many other HPC tasks.
We’ve talked quite extensively about FP16 vs FP32 in part one of our PlayStation 4 Pro analysis, and we’d encourage you to read it over if you want more info on how this might benefit games (assuming AMD push this technology onto their gaming focus graphics cards… which is pretty likely).
It’s worth noting that these aren’t ‘graphics cards’ in the way you and I might think of them, they lack video outputs. You can instead think of them as co-processors for the system to offload tasks onto.
There’s also no much information regarding the Stream Processor and clock speed configuration of the Vega-based MI25. For example, currently, GCN (Graphic Core Next) architectures from AMD feature 64 Stream Processors per Compute Unit, thus a 36 CU RX 480 sports 2,304 Stream Processors.
Whether AMD has kept this configuration for Vega or not (I suspect it’s likely they have, but we’ll need to wait for official confirmation) and what clock speeds they’re running the MI25 remains a bit of a mystery.
Remember, that Polaris 10 runs at 1,266 MHZ as a standard, so we can likely assume higher clocks for Vega (given rumors). Assuming 4,096 Stream Processors, AMD would need to hit just over 1,500Mhz for the GPU to reach 12.5 TFLOPS of FP32 performance. We can calculate this with 4096 * 2 ops per clock * clock speed.
Regardless, the performance of the card is impressive – assuming AMD’s performance numbers are to be believed. Even the Pascal-based Titan X is around 70 percent slower than the MI25 in DeepBench GEMM… an impressive achievement.
AMD are also keen to boast about how their new graphics accelerators (Radeon Instinct) will run with the Zen based Naples, with high-speed network fabric and low latency being the key. Impressively, up to 120 Radeon Insinct MI25’s can be plopped together, putting out up to 3 PetaFlops of performance. I think the answer here is that yes, it probably could do a spiffy job at running Crisis.
Interestingly, all of this information closely resembles previous ‘leaks’ telling us that Vega 10 will indeed sport performance of about 12 TFLOPS (FP32), with dual configurations of the card doubling this (so 24TFLOPS).
Finally, a chart has popped up on ChipHell forum – though there is a lot of questions regarding the validity of its accuracy. Essentially it lots various GPUs from both Nvidia and AMD with their respective performance. Graphics Card, Architecture, Process, Stream processors, Clock speed, Memory type, Memory Bus Width, RAM clock speed, VRAM, Performance, TDP and finally Actual TDP.
The reason this chart hasn’t been given its own article or pride of place in this article is due to how skeptical I am of its accuracy. I personally believe it is either a fake or someone has created it as a prediction and then this chart was picked up by other websites. A few things concerning me include that it lists the GTX 1080 Ti and also the 500 series from AMD, where there is very little information on either.
For instance, the closest we have concerning the specs of the GTX 1080 Ti is that it will sport the same core as the Titan X Pascal, but with fewer CUDA cores and 10GB VRAM. Estimates back in November of this year, peg the card with between 44 and 52 SM units.
As for the 500 series from AMD – there’s multiple possibilities, including the RX500 series using the Vega 11 line of cards, or perhaps something a little different. A few days ago we’d spotted Polaris XT2, Polaris 12 and Vega listed in Mac drivers, so how the first two architectures fit into all of this is a little puzzling.
I’ll save further speculation for this article, because with the upcoming New Horizon event taking place tomorrow, there’s a chance a lot of these questions will be answered.
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Rachel Siegel reported on the front page of today's Washington Post that, "Inflation soared in June, continuing to climb at the fastest pace in 40 years across many sectors of…
Today’s update looks briefly at farmland values in the United States, with a specific focus on a recent report from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) that examined farmland values from 2000 to 2016. The ERS report noted that, “The value of farm real estate accounts for over 80 percent of the value of farm-sector assets and is an important indicator of the sector.”
On Wednesday, ERS released a report (“Farmland Values, Land Ownership, and Returns to Farmland, 200-2016,” by Christopher Burns, Nigel Key, Sarah Tulman, Allison Borchers, and Jeremy Weber) which stated that, “Economic theory suggests that farmland values will change in response to changes in the underlying factors that support them, namely, returns to farmland. One measure of returns to farmland is net cash farm income per acre, or the net return that an acre of farmland generates.”
Net cash farm income has dropped 36 percent since its peak in 2012
“Values for both cropland and pastureland, two major uses for farmland, increased substantially in 2004-14, nearly doubling in real, or inflation-adjusted, terms.”
Wednesday’s report noted, “But national trends in U.S. cropland and pastureland values can disguise regional variation in land values, which can result from differences in soil quality, annual rainfall, and proximity of urban areas, among other factors.”
In 2016, the most valuable land was cropland in the Corn Belt, at an average of $6,710 per acre.
More specifically on regional differences in farmland values, the ERS authors explained, “In 2003-08, cropland appreciated almost uniformly across the regions. However, in 2009-14, cropland appreciation was mostly concentrated in four regions: the Northern Plains, Corn Belt, Lake States, and Delta States. This was largely due to increases in commodity prices for grain and oilseed crops.”
More recently, the report indicated that, “In 2015 and 2016, net cash farm income fell from its 2013 peak. The primary factors driving lower net cash farm income are lower commodity prices and lower cash receipts. As expectations for future net cash farm income have been adjusted downward, land value appreciation has moderated and even declined. The Northern Plains and Corn Belt, which had high levels of cropland value appreciation in 2009-14, had low to negative growth from 2015 to 2016, reflecting the drop in cash grain and oilseed prices.”
In a closer look at farmland returns, last week’s report stated, “If farmland prices are supported by current farmland returns and interest rates, the capitalized value—or price-to-value (PTV) ratio—should be around 1.0. A PTV ratio higher than 1.0 suggests that current income does not support land values.”
“The PTV ratio hit an all-time low of about 0.5 in 2012, driven by large cash returns to farmland caused by high commodity prices. However, with the drop in net cash farm income between 2014 and 2016, the ratio has climbed back toward 1.0.”
The ERS authors pointed out that, “The importance of interest rates to cropland values can also be seen using this measure. If 10-year Treasury note rates are fixed at the 2000 level (6 percent), the cropland PTV ratios stay above 1.0 in 2000-2016.
This indicates that current returns would not have supported farmland values during this period without falling interest rates. As a result, future increases in interest rates could lead to a decline in farmland values.
The ERS report also discussed issues associated with cash rents and pointed out that, “As with farmland values, cash rents for cropland vary considerably depending on the region…[I]n 2016, the most expensive region was the Pacific, at $245 per acre per year; the least expensive was the Southern Plains, at $37 per acre. Cash rents changed dramatically in certain regions in 2000-2016. Cash rents in the Lake States, Northern Plains, and Corn Belt increased the most during this period. In fact, cash rents in the Corn Belt increased 52 percent (in inflation-adjusted dollars) from 2004 to 2014.”
The report added that, “Evidence of cash rental value declines lagging behind declines in operator returns also has been documented in Illinois and elsewhere, suggesting that if farmland values decline, cash rents will adjust downward more slowly, potentially adding more financial stress to farms that cash rent large portions of their operated acres. Similarly, upward adjustments in cash rents will lag behind land value increases.”
After a closer examination of the effect of changing land values on farm household wealth, borrowing, land ownership, and farm size; and a look at the potential impacts of government policy on future farmland values, the ERS report stated that, “Future trends in farmland values will depend on net cash returns to farmland, interest rates, and agricultural policy.
A small increase in interest rates is likely to cause farmland values to decline by increasing borrowing costs and increasing the opportunity cost of alternative investments, all else equal.
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I fear that at my particular judgment, I will see with perfect clarity that far too often, I was “far too easily pleased” and settled for something other than and therefore less than Christ.
If you could pick one sentence that you would rejoice to hear, what would it be?
“Congratulations! You hit the lottery!”
“You are cancer-free.”
“Your child has come back to the Faith.”
How about this one?
“Truly, I tell you, this day you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)
During November, the Church asks us to pray for our beloved dead, and to think upon the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. Last week, I wrote a meditation on death; now let’s look at the Church’s teaching on one’s “particular judgment,” that is, when, as soon as one’s soul leaves the body, one stands before Christ the Judge to give an account of one’s life.
As I write this, I see that according to “How Long Have I Been Alive For?” since I was born, there have passed 20,895 days. (That weighs in at over 500,000 hours, or over 30,000,000 minutes, or over 1.8 billion seconds.) I don’t remember most of them. But I will have to stand before Christ and account for each one of them.
As I write this, I’m packing up for my third move in a year. Jesuits move a lot. (We’re taught: “The only true home for a Jesuit is the road.”) As I pack things up and give other things away, I remember how so often this year I’ve looked at an object and wondered why I’ve been carrying it with me for so long. I look at objects that once meant so much to me, and now I let them go—often gladly, sometimes sadly, and, in a few cases, with regret that I had held onto it all.
When I stand before Christ the Judge, I will undergo a similar process. For every moment of my life, for every act of commission or omission, for every act of decision or indecision, for every choice for or against love, I will give an account—without excuses, without obfuscation, and with clarity about love, betrayal, graces accepted, opportunities missed. I will look at moments of my life, and akin to what I do while packing for a move, I fear that I will have to ask myself, “Why did I ever hold onto that?”
I fear too that at my judgment, I will look at all of the moments of my life, including the ones that I had forgotten, and recall these words of C.S. Lewis:
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
I fear that at my particular judgment, I will see with perfect clarity that far too often (and even once is too often!) I was “far too easily pleased” and settled for something other than and therefore less than Christ.
10 Hopeful quotes about death from the saints
I fear too that at my particular judgment, I will recall these words of Our Blessed Lord:
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God” (John 3:19-21).
As I write this, knowing that I must have more days behind me than ahead of me, knowing that I have accumulated regrets, and knowing that my only hope is the merciful Christ, how ought I to spend whatever time remains to me?
- I must renew my commitments to prayer, fasting, and penance.
- I must fearlessly and stubbornly ask for the grace to banish from my life anything unworthy of my Christian dignity.
- I must re-order my life around Christ’s commandments to love God and to love my neighbor.
- I must urge others to do the same.
And what about you? How will you spend the remaining time allotted to you? How will you prepare to give an account of your life?
Friends, let’s urge each other on, to cultivate, as St. Thomas Aquinas says, a holy fear, a filial fear, a fear that dreads to offend the one who is loved. And let’s continue to pray for the holy souls in Purgatory, whose time of purification is not yet at an end.
When I write next, I will speak of the glories of Heaven. Until then, let’s keep each other in prayer.
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Most group homes in California are poised to embrace mandated changes to the way they administer services under a new law if they want to continue providing care to children and youth in foster care.
But for one residential facility in Los Angeles County, business will continue as usual—with locked doors and restraints to keep the state’s most traumatized foster youth from harming themselves, their peers and staff.
As California has moved toward deinstitutionalization in the last generation, the state still relies on a special class of facilities designed to meet the needs of severely emotionally disturbed children. Under Assembly Bill (AB) 403, recently signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, lawmakers and advocates have lauded the opportunity to transform the scope of residential facilities for foster youth, supported by an increasing body of research that has tracked the negative impact of long-term stays in group homes. But as the heralded law changes incentives and standards for residential care, the highest-needs children in foster care continue to face waiting lists and uncertain futures under so-called congregate-care reform.
Located in Torrance, a mid-size town south of Los Angeles, Star View Adolescent Center is one of only two secure residential facilities in California, also known as community treatment facilities (CTFs). Originally designed as an alternative to out-of-state placements and the state’s psychiatric hospitals, CTFs provide mental health treatment to children ages 12 to 18 who are deemed seriously emotionally disturbed.
Nearly all of these children are involved with the child-welfare and juvenile-justice systems in California and have a history of severe abuse and trauma. The most common diagnoses include bipolar disorders, serious depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, along with substance abuse issues.
Youth in residential care at Star View also attend South Bay High School on campus, a learning institution that’s only open to the 40 youth in the program as well as the 16 youth who reside at the psychiatric health facility that’s part of the campus. The population is predominately female and is drawn from across the state, though most come from Los Angeles County through contracts with that county’s Department of Children and Family Services. About 30 percent of the youth have endured commercial sexual exploitation.
But Star View is unlike other group homes in California designed to handle foster youth with the greatest mental health needs. All foster youth at Star View are confined behind locked doors, and the staff is authorized to use restraints and seclusion, though state law mandates that such measures must be overseen by a psychiatrist and a registered nurse.
CTFs initially faced an uncertain future under AB 403, though a late amendment of the bill preserved the place of CTFs in congregate-care reform. But the all-important question of whether the state will allocate adequate money to support the rising costs of meeting the intensive needs of this extremely needy population remain.
Like group homes in the state, the Community Care Licensing Department of the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) oversees CTFs. All group homes are categorized into a series of 14 levels based on the type of care and services provided. The highest level is 14, reserved for children with severe emotional and developmental issues.
But the CTFs are off the scale, according to administrators at Star View.
“The children who come to us usually have had services at all different levels, typically multiple treatment failures and placement changes,” said Kent Dunlap, senior vice president of operations for Stars Behavioral Health Group, the organization that oversees Star View. “This is the last and highest level of care available.”
Dunlap says that the psychiatric facility offers a unique opportunity to help many of the youth in the CTF. Instead of the disruptions caused by being moved from a residential treatment program into a psychiatric hospital, youth are able to preserve their treatment team and continue classes at the South Bay High School.
But even as Star View has provided some stability for many disturbed children, its future is far from certain in the face of a continuing philosophical shift in the way California thinks about children’s mental health.
A Wave of Deinstitutionalization
Fifty miles north of Los Angeles lies a stark reminder of the last time California attempted a broad-based change to the way it administered mental-health services to children in a residential setting.
For more than 60 years, the massive Camarillo State Hospital housed the largest children’s mental health unit in the state, an imposing monument to old-fashioned institutional care. Since closing in 1997, the state shifted the population to smaller psychiatric hospitals and boosted wraparound services in an effort to bring more children back into the community. Wraparound services are individualized intensive services designed to support children in the community, often after school or at home during evenings and weekends.
By 2008, the last children in residential psychiatric care in California departed from the state-operated Metropolitan Hospital in Norwalk, Calif.
For some like Carroll Schroeder, director of the executive director of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services, the CTFs offer a potential look at the how the residential care options could be structured in the wake of the state’s congregate-care reform.
Under AB 403, existing high-level group homes will be forced to transition into short-term residential treatment centers (STRTCs), programs with new licensing standards that would provide temporary services rather than long-term residential placements for children who can’t be kept safely with families. Keeping children and youth in the community as much as possible is the underlying goal of changes suggested by AB 403.
“CTFs have always been a prototype for STRTCs,” said Schroeder. Though the use of restraints and locked doors are reminiscent of the old-school practices at state hospitals, CTFs have been promoted as a result of wraparound services designed to move children back into either a lower-level group home or, if possible, with relatives.
Success outlined in the congregate-care reforms of AB 403 place an emphasis on avoiding extended placements in residential treatment facilities, not necessarily the quality of care provided.
“It’s all based on there being a home-based option available to them, going back to parents, or family members or foster parents,” Schroeder said.
At the CTFs, most children stay for about nine months, though it depends on the individual case. Over time, Dunlap of Star View says children are staying for shorter periods, something he attributes to the state’s emphasis on providing intensive services to youth at home.
“Now we have a larger number of children going to a community setting,” Dunlap said. “ I would attribute that to having better services in the community with wraparound [services]. We’ve also done a better job of finding family supports—finding relatives and connecting with them to find a way to support a child to be with a family in the community.”
An Increase in Higher-Needs Youth
But even as more children are returning to a community-based setting than 10 years ago, Star View has also seen a shift in the population it serves.
Star View Administrator Natalie Spiteri has been at the agency for 10 years. Before that, she spent eight years at a similar facility. She says that she has seen a marked change in the composition of youth at the group home.
“Over my career at Star View, seeing about 56 kids at any given time, we used to have maybe one or two kids who are really challenging,” she said. “Now its more like 10. It’s become a much more acute setting. The kids are much more challenging.”
Spiteri recalled one of these children, a youth who constantly ripped out her eyebrows and toenails and would swallow batteries as a result of severe trauma caused by abuse. Though 16 years old, the teen acted more like a toddler and required nearly constant monitoring. Cases like these are very hard to place in the community, and speak to the potential difficulties in achieving the sweeping goals of recently passed AB 403.
Part of the issue lies with the high cost of intensive services provided by facilities like Star View and the fact that group homes serve a need that is becoming increasingly difficult for many counties across California to provide.
“Nobody likes the idea of a kid raised in a group home,” Spiteri said. “But there are still some children who are not equipped to do that without intensive services. The need is there. We’re at full capacity with a waiting list, so there’s still a need for these services.”
“Their counties are saying, we don’t have the facilities, we don’t have the resources, we don’t have the programs, you do. Can you please help us?”
Contributing to the problem is the fact that, in recent years, several CTFs have closed, leaving Star View as the only facility in the state for foster youth dealing with severe emotional disturbances. The facility has contracts with more than 20 counties across the state to take children when there is space. Typically 15 of the 56 slots at Star View are claimed by kids from counties across the state; the rest originate from Los Angeles County.
In 2011, a CTF in Contra Costa County operated by Seneca Family of Agencies (formerly Seneca Center) closed, followed by another one run by Seneca in San Francisco. Stars Behavioral Health Group also shuttered a CTF located in Santa Clara County in 2008.
“They’re complicated, they’re a regulatory nightmare, it’s hard to find good staff, and they’re expensive,” said administrator Spiteri of CTFs.
Dunlap sees the closure of the Santa Clara facility as an overlooked success story of California’s push toward bringing children back into the community. But with a continued demand for services plus the high cost of providing intensive services, the future of CTFs is being squeezed by the state’s funding system.
CTFs qualify for the level 14 rate, which amounts to nearly $9,700 a month per child, plus a $2,500 monthly supplement available to CTFs. But while the level 14 rate sees cost-of-living increases every year thanks to a 2009 federal lawsuit, the CTF supplement has remained frozen for nearly 15 years.
Dunlap says the discussion over finances is a critical element that has been left out of discussions around congregate-care reform.
“There’s an expectation of minimizing the use of group homes but there hasn’t been the funding to make that happen,” he said.
Working out the cost of rates for CTFs and their ability to stay in business are one of many issues left to figure out in the coming year. Legislators and state agencies are beginning the laborious process of providing details of the sweeping changes laid out in AB 403. Gov. Brown’s budget allocates $9.6 million to support and recruit resource families, but funding for other parts of congregate-care reform still remains unknown.
The Future of Services Aimed at High-Needs Foster Youth
As congregate-care reform moves forward, the pressures and successes of CTFs are a potential cause for concern about the way that foster youth with the greatest mental health needs may be moving through the new system.
Many counties place children with serious mental-health needs at a lower-level group home and bounce them around until a better placement is available at a higher levels, a practice that Schroeder says will have to change under the new congregate-care reform.
“There is an increased need for those higher-level programs simply because you’re not going to have the safety valve of just letting kids just languish or go through a revolving door at the lower-level programs,” Schroeder said.
A critical part of the discussion is what will happen with attempts to move children from the highest-level of services at CTFs and at higher-level group homes (levels 12 to 14). AB 403 specifies that temporary stays in the new type of facilities (STRTCs) for high-needs youth will be followed by placements with resource families—residential arrangements that will be able to safely meet the needs of youth in the community.
However, California has experienced continued difficulty in recruiting these type of families. As the state makes a reliance on resource families the linchpin of its new congregate-care strategy, this could increase the pressure to find solutions for high-needs children, according to Schroeder.
“That’s going to be a big question: if the lower level [group home] kids suck up all the home-based family care options, where are the other [high-level] kids going to go?” he said. “Then you can’t figure out what to do with the kids on the higher end to bring them down.”
Dunlap of Star View says that the new reforms are built on the premise that shorter stays in congregate care and more time spent in the community will lead to cost savings that can be re-invested in additional resources to support community-based care.
But many questions remain as the state imagines the future of congregate care without an exact idea of how it’s going to get there. Dunlap welcomes a discussion about the better options and alternatives for highly traumatized foster youth, though he remains circumspect about the path forward for the state’s most vulnerable children.
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1 “In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of Dawid and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) for sin and for uncleanness.
2 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot), “that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, ‘You shalt not live; for you speakest lies in the name of יהוה.’ And his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive.
5 But he shall say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.’
6 And one shall say unto him, ‘What are these wounds in your hands?’ Then he shall answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man that is My fellow,” saith יהוה of hosts (YHWH Tsevaot). “Smite the Shepherd (Roeh), and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn Mine hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land,” saith יהוה, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein:
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My name, and I will hear them; I will say, ‘This is My people’; and they shall say, ‘יהוה is my God (Elohim).’” | <urn:uuid:c7e0fb2c-0b0a-4498-a556-7c4dc6da8f45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://yhwhsacredscriptures.org/zechariah-13/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.972527 | 504 | 1.671875 | 2 |
n. an abnormal drive or desire to travel that involves spending beyond one’s means and sacrificing job, partner, or security in the lust for new experiences. People with dromomania not only feel more alive when traveling but also start planning their next trip as soon as they arrive home.
Wanderlust may reflect an intense urge for self-development by experiencing the unknown, confronting unforeseen challenges, getting to know unfamiliar cultures, ways of life and behaviours or may be driven by the desire to escape and leave behind depressive feelings of guilt, and has been linked to bipolar disorder in …
A strong desire to travel is called wanderlust. … The Germans call the strong urge for travel wanderlust, literally a desire for wandering.
Wanderlust is a lust for wandering. The word comes from German, in which wandern means “to hike or roam about,” and Lust means “pleasure or delight.”
Dromomania was a historical psychiatric diagnosis whose primary symptom was uncontrollable urge to walk or wander. Dromomania has also been referred to as travelling fugue. Non-clinically, the term has come to be used to describe a desire for frequent traveling or wanderlust.
They have what specialists call ‘an abnormal impulse to travel’ also known as Dromomania. … Studies have shown that people who spend their money on experiences, such as travel tend to be happier in their life.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishaq‧ua‧hol‧ic /ˌækwəˈhɒlɪk◂ $ -ˈhɒː-/ noun [uncountable] humorous informal someone who drinks a lot of water every day → see also alcoholic2.
Vacations are often associated with positive emotional experiences. Wanderlust, a personality trait characterized by a strong desire to travel, is likely to be related with these positive emotional experiences.
Sometimes we experience wanderlust because we want to get away from the familiar, and travel represents the best way to do it. If you’re feeling the urge to pack up your life and run to somewhere else, there are good scientific reasons for that sensation, from a need for novelty to a potential genetic “push”.
They gave us the word “wanderlust”, after all, which combines the German words wandern, meaning to “wander”, and lust, or “desire”. It’s a word so provocative to English speakers with a yen to see the world that we’ve borrowed it from the German and have taken it as our own.
Hodophilia — which comes from the ancient Greek for hodos, or journey, and “philia,” meaning love or affection — is simply the love of travel. And a hodophile is someone who is “afflicted” with hodophilia, to which I plead guilty — some would say in the extreme.
The Science of Wanderlust
Brein says that he’s known people so desperate to continue traveling that they’ve ended up in foreign prisons after engaging in illegal activity to fund their journeys. Yet, only a tiny fraction of travelers he’s encountered actually have an impulse-control addiction reminiscent of dromomania.
You might consider neophile or neophiliac. The OED defines neophilia as: neophilia /niːəˈfɪlɪə/. Love for, or great interest in, what is new; a love of novelty. So neoˈphiliac, a person characterized by neophilia; also neoˈphili(a)c a.; neˈophily.
The definition of a gallivanter is a person who goes off or travels around in search of amusement, fun or adventure. A person who leaves his job and travels around Europe in search of fun and adventure is an example of a gallivanter. noun.
What is a thalassophile? A person who loves and is magnetically attracted to the ocean and the sea. … The word “thalassophile” derives from the Greek terms thalassa, meaning sea, and phile or philos, a person or thing having a fondness for a specified thing.
Definition of heliophile
: one attracted or adapted to sunlight heliophiles flocking to the beach specifically : an aquatic alga adapted to attain maximum exposure to sunlight.
Serendipity is a noun, coined in the middle of the 18th century by author Horace Walpole (he took it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip). The adjective form is serendipitous, and the adverb is serendipitously. A serendipitist is “one who finds valuable or agreeable things not sought for.”
“Fernweh” is a German word for “farsickness,” the opposite of homesickness. … There’s a German word for it: fernweh. It comes from fern (meaning “far”) and weh (defined as “pain,” “misery” or “woe”). Fernweh, then, is “farsickness” or a “longing for far-off places,” especially those you’ve not yet visited.
As a noun meaning “a desire to go to far away places”, practically identical to wanderlust, it represents a notion similar to that of a mental disorder, so you can use it like other nouns of sickness: “I have a headache, and I have fernweh. I need to get out the house.”
Did you know there is a gene related to those with a thirst for travel and adventure? Cutting-edge research shows DRD4-7R, nicknamed the “wanderlust” gene, impacts your dopamine levels and thus impacts your tolerance for risk taking, and possibly shapes other behaviours and motivations common to travel lovers.
A strong impulse or longing to travel.
Nemophilist: a person who loves or is fond of woods or forests.
Sun lust can be defined as travelling in search of sunshine/Adventure activities/Outdoor activities whereas wanderlust is the desire to travel far away and too many different places to explore those places.
Definition of selenophile
: a plant that when growing in a seleniferous soil tends to take up selenium in quantities greater than can be explained on a basis of chance.
astrophile (plural astrophiles) One who loves stars or astronomy.
Examples of Hodophile in a sentence
“A total hodophile, she spent her free time seeing as much of the world as she could.” “The odometer on a hodophile’s car may shock you — the miles add up when you’re constantly on the road.” If you’ve got wanderlust, you also qualify as a hodophile.
It’s like a drug addiction – a positive one, though! Travel arouses this indescribable feeling inside you, and satisfies your body with this excited tingling. … It’s this freedom and feeling that anything is possible – so addictive! Every trip makes your longing for travel even stronger for your next trips.
I know people who can go travelling for months and sometimes years without feeling the burnout. … But, what I have realized in the last few months is that there is such a thing as travelling too much and having too many new experiences. Call it travel overload, burnout or whatever you will.
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I couldn’t believe what I had just heard! Hands 1)cupped around his mouth so his words wouldn’t travel to the ears of eavesdroppers, and 2)flipping his head from shoulder to shoulder to ensure no one would be privy to his 3)divulgence, David repeated his whispered announcement: “I have $500 saved.”
This wouldn’t be such a shock if it weren’t for the fact that David is a 4)mentally challenged adult. Where on earth did he get that kind of money? He pulled me aside and answered my unspoken question, so excited that his words tumbled 5)pell-mell off his lips, faster and faster until I could barely keep up with his stream of consciousness. Eventually I got the gist of his monologue.
When he was a little boy he had made weekly trips with his mother to a local department store. He was 6)mesmerized by the window displays and eagerly stood with his nose pressed against the glass until his breath clouded his view. Then came the display which would change his and many other lives 30 years later. It was a 7)Victor Five Victrola, the kind that needed to be wound by hand before placing the needle on the record, the machine which 8)bore the symbol of a black and white dog, ear 9)cocked to its side. Not missing a beat, he 10)expounded on a history lesson about 11)Columbia Records and their music machines, information 12)gleaned from his trips to the library. There was nothing he didn’t know about that golden age of music.
His mother died, and he eventually was able to live independently, supervised by an agency. It was through the agency that he obtained work, cleaning toilets of public facilities five nights a week. Every week he 13)squirreled away his paycheck, never forgetting the Victrola. He was on a mission to find and buy a 14)phonograph like the one he had once admired through plate glass.
Visibly exhausted from revealing his secret, David paused long enough to pull out a 15)tattered 16)Polaroid photo from his back pocket. He lovingly waved it in front of my eyes and proclaimed, “There it is! Victor Five!” He had found the object of his desire exhibited at a museum and had been faithfully visiting it every chance he could get. The colored piece of paper was a constant reminder of his goal.
I 17)tucked away his confession into the back of my mind, only to dust it off when I wandered into one of my favorite antique shops a few months later. In the back of the shop, tacked in the corner of a bulletin board over the owner’s desk, was a Polaroid picture just like the one David had shown me. I hastily inquired as to why it was there and unknowingly opened the door to a personal witnessing of the triumph of the human spirit.
David had gone to every antique shop in the city and had left a picture of his beloved Victrola with each of the shopkeepers. If any one of them was to come across a Victor Five he wanted to buy it. Rain or shine, the owner at Century Antiques counted on David to stop at his 18)Waterbury store at least twice a month to check on the success of his quest. He hadn’t put any effort into looking because he honestly didn’t think David had the money for such an expensive piece. After all, David was, well, not “like us.” Didn’t he know that it was next to impossible to find that particular antique? But, being a kindhearted soul, the dealer had 19)taken a liking to David and posted his Polaroid.
I commanded him to take the mission seriously. If David was short of the required amount for the purchase, I knew it wouldn’t be impossible to find enough people to 20)chip in to make up the difference. There was a core group of people in our church who were fond of him and would dig into their pockets to help him reach his goal.
It took some time, but the antique shop came through with 21)flying colors. For months, the owner’s son, Chip, had made phone call after phone call in the tri-state area and eventually 22)struck it rich. A Victor Five had been found! He personally drove to the source, brought the machine back to his shop, and called me with the news. “I can’t believe it. It’s a miracle that I found one in such beautiful shape, or that I found one at all!” The cost to David? Not a 23)nickel more than what it had cost the dealer.
The profit for the dealer? The pure joy of seeing David when he 24)flung open the door to the shop, stopping speechless in front of the phonograph, clapping his hands together in prayer, and looking up to heaven and saying, “Thank you, thank you for my Victor Five.”
So, if you drive down the street past David’s apartment, you will most probably hear music.
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The Byzantine and Christian Museum develops collaborations with Greek and international organizations involved in culture, education and other spheres.
It currently collaborates with:
• The central and regional services of the Hellenic ministries of Culture and Tourism and Education, Long Life Learning and Religious Affairs.
• The Greek section of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the Council’s Committee for Education and Cultural Action (CECA).
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• Museums, cultural institutions, and organizations which specialize in facing the problems of a range of social groups.
• Universities and other educational institutions.
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There has been a lot of talk about how your digital life exists forever. Often talk about the persistence of your digital trail comes with a warning that you should watch what you post. The reasoning goes that if you are careful with what you post, there will be no evidence of your character that can be used against you in the future.
What we misunderstand is that actions in the pre-digital era carried the same impact as they do now, we just couldn’t trace it as well. In a pre-digital world, men treated women without respect, but you never saw it on Instagram. Now you can track someone’s values and respect for others by what they like and follow. In a pre-digital world, you wouldn’t see pictures of the drunk college parties, but the impact of your bad choices that ruined lives could linger forever.
You must not assume that just because you aren’t posting your actions, your activities don’t have a long-term effect. Specifically, your words are forever. Your voice can build people up and can tear people down. A word of encouragement can get someone to the next level at the right time. Your words are forever, even if they aren’t captured for people to see them forever.
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The DHS announced a national standard of care for in-custody immigrant children and families as part of new rule implementing the Flores Settlement Agreement.
A new rule implementing the Flores Settlement Agreement establishes a national standard of care for all children and families in Government custody. The national standard of care in part aims to ensure all children are to be universally treated with dignity, respect, and special concern, in concert with American values, according to the announcement given by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security McAleenan on August 21, 2019. (Read the full announcement regarding the new rule here)
The rule is part of the Trump Administration’s efforts to improve the quality of the U.S. immigration system, as well as to address the crisis at the Southern Border. President Trump addressed the final rule by discussing the loopholes in the existing Flores Settlement Agreement,
“To help protect children from abuse, and stop this illegal flow, we must close these loopholes. This is an urgent humanitarian necessity.” – President Donald J. Trump regarding the new rule implementing the Flores Settlement Agreement.
The loopholes he refers to are those that have,
“… generally forced the Government to release alien families into the country after just 20 days, incentivizing illegal entry, add[ed] to the growing backlog in immigration courts, and often delay[ed] immigration proceedings by many years.” (See the announcement by Acting Secretary McAleenan).
The rule focuses on four elements overall, and retains parts of the original Flores Settlement Agreement. The implementation of a national standard of care is only one of the four elements of the new rule.
National Standard of Care
The national standard of care implemented under the new rule aims to ensure all children and families in the Government’s custody are treated by certain standards, namely, universal treatment of/with dignity, respect, and special concern.
Family Residential Centers
In line with the national standard of care, Secretary McAleenan described housing units dubbed Family Resident Centers, or FRCs, where children and families are temporarily housed while in Government custody/care, as part of plans to ensure living environments are appropriate for family/children’s well-being.
The new final rule closes the legal loophole(s) President Trump is referring to above that were created by a 2015 reinterpretation of the original 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement, which “sets out nationwide policy for the detention, release, and treatment of minors in the custody of the INS.” (See the 2015 reinterpretation of the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement here)
Integrity of U.S. Immigration System
Next, the rule aims to reduce the incentives for illegal immigration by closing the loopholes created by the 2015 reinterpretation. Acting Secretary McAleenan believes these loopholes are mostly responsible for the current crisis at the Southwest Border, and for damaging the integrity of the U.S. immigration system/the legal framework for immigrating to the United States.
Finally, the new rule focuses on protecting children by disincentivizing their exploitation under the immediately pre-existing legal framework. The acting DHS Secretary noted examples of children as young as four years old being exploited for immigration purposes in the announcement.
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Wrist Curls (Dumbbell)
- Sit on a flat bench, and lean forward.
- Grasp a dumbbell with an underhand grip (i.e. palm up) and rest your forearm on either the bench or your knee.
- Using your wrist alone (i.e. wrist motion alone), curl the weight upward, exhaling throughout the movement.
- Slowly lower the weight as low as is comfortable, inhaling throughout the movement.
- Repeat steps 3-4 for as many repetitions as are desired, and then repeat with your opposite arm.
Note that although the movement of this exercise is slight, the difficultly and burn can be substantial. Take care not to hyperextend the wrists. To help avoid hyperextension, keep some tension present at the bottom of the movement. In other words, do not let the wrists completely relax.
Although dumbbells can be used for this exercise, it is recommended that one first tries this exercise with a barbell because dumbbells are awkward and generally less effective. Advanced lifters may choose to use dumbbells if their wrists are already quite strong and/or they would like the ability to self-spot (if one performs this exercise a single arm at a time).
Proper stretching should be performed prior to performing this exercise.
Forearm exercises, in general, pose a high risk for wrist strains/sprains and other related problems. To help avoid problems of this sort be sure to practice strict form and use lighter weights at least until a strong comfort level is achieved. Forearms are like calves in that they can perform a rather high amount of repetitions and still acquire the desired result, whether it be overall strength or mass. | <urn:uuid:1a3cc22d-e0c9-4386-a434-6be6d9f3ad28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chunkfitness.com/exercises/arm-exercises/forearm-exercises/wrist-curls-dumbbell | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.949537 | 357 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Pupils from the Centre Obert take a catamaran trip along the Roses coastline to get to know the marine environament.
The children of the Roses Open Center visited the Port of Roses on May 31, where they took part in a catamaran trip to get to know the Roses coastline. A total of 15 students, accompanied by family members, teachers and social workers from the center, were able to enjoy the experience and get to know Cap de Creus from the sea and its marine environment, through the explanations of the president of Port Roses, Montse Mindan.
The activity is part of the training, information and awareness-raising plan that Port de Roses is carrying out within the framework of the Blue Flag, EMAS and ISO 14001 certificates. This year, the plan has also programmed with the Open Center a training on food waste, given to students last March with the environmental education cooperative La Copa.
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What is the torque for a front axle nut?
Also, in almost all cases, use a new axle nut. with no more than 15 to 20 ft. lbs. of torque while rotating the wheel to make sure the bearings are seated.
Do you need to replace axle nut?
How important to replace axle nut with a new one every time you remove it? Official Ford service procedure states that if you have to remove an axle nut, you should discard it and replace it with a brand-new one.
Which way does an axle nut turn?
The threads are normal; i.e., turn counter-clockwise to loosen. The trick: Get yourself a 5-foot long piece of 1″ cast iron pipe to use as a breaker bar. Just slide it over your ratchet handle. That sucker is on there good and the bar will be bending when you’re trying to break it loose.
How do you measure axle nut size?
Place the end of a measuring tape on one of the flat sides of the nut’s outer perimeter. Stretch the tape measure across the nut’s diameter to the flat-side directly across from the one your pulling from. If the nut is metric, count the number of lines on the tape measure to find the measurement.
What size nut does a 7/16 wrench fit?
What’s the next size up from 9 16?Bolt DiameterWrench Size (Standard)Wrench Size (Metric)7/16″5/8″16mm1/2″3/4″19mm9/21mm5/8″m
Are all axle nuts the same size?
Re: common axle nut sizes They are both about the same size, though. If you need me to, I can get you the measurements on both my nuts and my “axle” later on this evening.
How do I know if my nut is metric or standard?
SAE nuts, bolts and screws are measured by their thread count, or TPI (threads per inch) and their length. Metric fasteners are measured by length and pitch, or the distance between threads.
How do you know if a screw is metric?
Fastener manufacturers identify the size of a metric fastener differently than an SAE fastener. As an example, a metric fastener size is: M12 x 2. This means that the major diameter of the threads is 12mm and that the thread pitch is 2mm (there are 2mm between threads).
What does m8 1.25 bolt mean?
For metric fasteners, you will see a M8 x 1.25 or an M8 x 1. For thread pitch, the distance between two points is the second number meaning the higher the number the fewer threads there are. This means the M8 x 1.25 is the coarse threading and the M8 x 1 is the fine thread.
How do you identify a fastener?
As a general rule, the length of fasteners is measured from the surface of the material, to the end of the fastener. For fasteners where the head usually sits above the surface such as hex bolts and pan head screws, the measurement is from directly under the head to the end of the fastener.
What is another word for fastener?
How can you tell the difference between metric and imperial bolts?
Telling the difference between a metric and imperial bolt is easy. If the bolt has lines on the head its standard or imperial. If the bolt has numbers on the head then its metric. These markings indicate how strong the bolt is they call this tensile strength.
What are special fasteners?
Special fasteners are a bolt used under industrial circumstances to hold pieces heavy weight industrial components together under extreme pressure. These screws are made out of materials highly resistant to corrosion. This is necessary because of the type of equipment they are expected to hold together.
What is considered a fastener?
Fasteners are hardware devices that mechanically join objects together and can include bolts, screws, nails and more. Knowing the correct types of fasteners will make your projects run more smoothly and be more secure.
Is a bolt a fastener?
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The year 1960 marks the point of departure for Edgar Reitz's twenty-five-hour movie Die zweite Heimat (The Second Homeland), which tries to reconstruct ten years of German history from the selective perspective of young avant-garde artists in Munich. In contrast to critics who claim that the music in Die zweite Heimat functions merely as a “quid pro quo” for Reitz's film aesthetic, I intend to illustrate the highly independent role of music, which does not simply coincide with the medium of film but occupies a distinct position within the decade's sociopolitical landscape. The compositional diversity of the heterogeneous styles and programs presents a music-historical panorama that comprises dodecaphonic, aleatory, bruitist, phonetic, music-theatrical, and electronic music along with classical works and art songs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this regard Die zweite Heimat fills a gap left open in German literature since Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus by presenting a fictional portrayal of music's history after World War II.
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Ulrich Schönherr; Out of Tune: Music, Postwar Politics, and Edgar Reitz's Die zweite Heimat. New German Critique 1 August 2010; 37 (2 (110)): 107–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2010-007
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Commercial and political interests in mineral and natural resources have shaped the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo with devastating consequences for its people, wildlife, and environment. Will a new concession with China be diferent?
If the gorillas inhabiting the Kahuzi Biega National Park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a World Heritage site and ecological sanctuary, could read, the bible may have come handy. Not the bible of God, mind you, but that of the free marketers religion.
– The Wall Street Journal.
Then, sitting among the rare and inimitable forested landscape, they might have come across an article detailing the efforts of multinational Bechtel, a company as infamous for its engineering and construction services as the intelligence they have supplied to the CIA and US government. As reported by Robert Block (Wall Street Journal, October 1997), Bechtel has helped map – free of charge – ‘the most complete mineralogical and geographical data of the former Zaire ever assembled, information worth a fortune to any prospective mining or oil firm.’
This inventory not only ‘commissioned and paid for US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite studies of the country for infrared maps of its mineral potential,’ but also peeled back the skin of the forest and highlands to reveal its finite riches, chiefly coltan – the same magic dust used to develop the technologies underpinning the modernity of high-tech civilisat ion. Given that 80 per cent of the world’s coltan was located in Africa, and 82 per cent in the DRC, putting friends in high places remained a crucial tentacle of foreign policy.
In a report entitled, ‘The Business of War in the DRC‘, research analyst for the World Policy Institute, Dena Montague, has shown how Bechtel executive Robert Stewart quickly became an important advisor and travelling companion of Laurent-Désiré Kabila (president of DRC 1997-2001), a friend of the US as opposed to the ousted notorious dictator, Mobutu Sese Mobutu, who had been a friend of France despite the US$400 million peddled by the US government during the Cold War.
According to hearings instituted by US Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, in 2001 on ending the conflict in the Congo, the company also provided intelligence, reconnaissance and satellite data to track Mobutu’s troops. Montague’s report has also shown t hat under Kabila, American Mineral Fields, a small mining operation headed by Mike McMurrough, a close friend to Bill Clinton, secured a US$1 billion deal in May 1997, negotiated soon after Kabila’s army occupied Goma. US Special Forces, for instance, were spotted alongside Rwandan troops.
The gorillas would have seen this, but few remain. These days, almost 90 per cent of the Kahuzi Biega National Park is exploited by loggers, miners and settlers. Everything that lives is designated in ‘red zones,’ awash with weapons and subject to some sort of extractive violence or commercial trade – whether the bush meat trade, at times using pygmies as guides for professions hunters, or the illicit trade in minerals. Yet in the DRC, the resource-rich fragmented underbelly of Central Africa and home to an estimated US$24 trillion in known mineral resources, the only gorilla that stands a chance of winning is the 800 pound gorilla – so named in Africa for the Internationa l Monetary Fund (IMF).
The thrust of the IMF’s external intervention in the DRC’s political economy was evident as late as 2007, when, according to Congolese finance minister Athanase Matenda Kyelu, the state’s draft budget of US$2.4 billion (a similar value in gold is looted annually) was more or less formulated in line with the IMF’s agendas. This ensured that much as 50 per cent of state budget was earmarked for debt repayment – US$13.5 billion contracted by former French- backed dictator Mobutu, in the name of development.
Among these lenders were two primary institutions: The IMF and World Bank. When the National Assembly acted against the IMF’s order by pushing up portions of the budget allocated for services on 14 June 2007, the IMF maximised pressure on select persons within the government to intervene. On 23 June – four days prior to the successful amendment – Congolese newspaper Le Potentiel reported that Kyelu ‘expected the Senate to amend the 2007 draft budget, in order to meet, in particular, the requirements of external partners, one of which being the IMF.’
What did the IMF – who, in conjunction with World Bank were, according to the Jubilee Debt Campaign, on the receiving end of some US$560 billion (in debt servicing of an outstanding US$2.9 trillion, 2006) – eviscerate from the state budget? Part of the ‘reform’ process imagining away unnecessary and excessive costs included education, infrastructure, police services and healthcare. For every one dollar expended on healthcare, four dollars were sent North via the ‘debt sustainability’ programme of the World Bank and IMF.
In 2006, Professor Stanis Wembonyama, director of the main hospital in Lubumbashi, revealed to the BBC, ‘The hospital did not have a single thermometer, armed robbers had set up their base in some of the buildings and there was human excrement everywhere. Doctors and nurses had not been paid for five years.’ This, he stated, was an improvement from ‘how things were.’ For the DRC, possessing a landmass equivalent to that of Western Europe, the issue of medical care and food is critical: Of the near six million people considered collateral damage during the war, more than 90 per cent died from disease and lack of food, often deliberately deprived.
The DRC’s killing fields, the veiny patterns criss-crossing the East bordering Uganda and Rwanda, directly correspond to the billions in looted mineral resources, namely coltan, cobalt, gold and diamonds in addition to illegally logged timber, wildlife and human trafficking. More recently, the IMF’s intervention – to promote debt sustainability – has been the renegotiation of the September 2007 ‘development- for-resources’ Sino-Congolese deal, previously worth US$9 billion (with an estimated US$50 billion in minerals, chiefly cobalt ripe for the taking).
Known as the ‘deal of the century,’ the two parties would exchange no actual funds, operatin g instead via China’s preferred ‘Africa policy,’ i.e.: The barter system where 32 per cent of shares would be held by the DRC’s state-owned mine, Gecamines, and 66 per cent by the Chinese, through three state-owned industries, including China’s policy bank China Exim (loans of which are not backed by the Chinese state, but are still subject to approval by the Ministry of Commerce).
A report in the Inter Press Service (28 October 2009) details how exploitation, primarily from new concessions, save for portions of Katanga Mining Ltd (reimbursed), would see US$3 billion in revenues from the tax exempt Sino-Congolese joint venture, Socomins, used to repay investment, and Gecamines providing US$100 million to finance operating and employment concerns. The following phase of the contract stipulated that 66 per cent of the profit would finance China’s infrastructural works – realised through China Railway En gineering Company (CREC) and Sinohydro, a company specialising in hydroelectric and hydraulic engineering projects.
The cost of the projects will be determined in-house, potentially leaving the door open to corporate mispricing. The remaining 34 per cent of profits will be divided among shareholders. In the event that the mines are not as profitable as imagined, China has secured the rights to further mineral concessions. According to the September agreement, China retains the right to extract 626,619 tons of cobalt and 10.6 million tons of copper from the Katanga region, which is part of the copperbelt extending from Angola through to the DRC and Zambia.
China Exim’s loans will pass exclusively through Chinese hands, circumventing the possibility of illicit flight on the part of the Congolese state. Congolese President Joseph Kabila, son of former DRC President Laurent Kabila, described the deal as crucial to the development of the DRC, stating: ‘The Chinese banks are prepared to finance our Five Works (water, electricity, education, health, and transport). For the first time in our history, the Congolese will really feel what all that copper, cobalt and nickel is good for.’ These works include 145 health centres, 20,000 council flats, 31 hospitals, 49 water distribution centres as well as expanded water supplies, four universities and a parliament building.
China has also pledged to build 4,000 kilometres of tarred road (prior to Chinese activities, just 200 kilometres existed) in addition to 3,200 kilometres of railway systems). Approximately 50 per cent of loans from China Exim were directed toward the continent, incentivising South- South trade and investment. For this reason, in addition to the necessity of a counterweight, China’s potential as a developing-country investor levels the playing field, shifting investment goals from ‘returns’ to that of ‘access.’ (Africa’s biggest investors however – at 20 per cent – are other African nations.) How well did the DRC and ‘system d’ regions – resource-rich regions located on the peripheries – fare under the conventional system?
The nature of the consequences differs from region to region. For instance, the East’s extractive violence rooted in the exploitation of coltan – a crucial component in the multi-trillion dollar world of high-tech goodies, from mobile phones to rocket shields – vastly differs from that of the industrial logging belt adjacent to the Congo River, where the bulk of timber is allegedly headed for Europe and China, as in the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and other heavily-forested regions. But coltan exploitation and the violence that sparked following the 1994 spillover of Hutu refugees driven from Rwanda by the Rwandan Patriotic Front is almost strictly linked to the commercial and geopolitical sphere commonly known as the ‘West.’
‘They aren’t here in the Congo to chase us, like they pretend. I have seen the gold and coltan mining they do here, we see how they rob the population. These are the reasons for their being here,’ stated an Interhamwe soldier to the ‘Report of UN Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the DRC‘ in 2002. According to this UN report, ’60-70 per cent of the coltan exported from eastern DRC was mined ‘under the direct surveillance’ of the Rwandan army,’ while more than 85 multinationals were involved.
‘Many international corporations, such as Banro-Resources Corporation, Geologistics Hannover, Rwasibo-Butera, Eagleswings, Veen, Soger, Afrimex, Cogecom, Ventro Star, Raremet, Finiming Ltd, Union Transport, Specialty Metal, and Finconcorde, among others, have imported coltan from the DRC via Rwanda for use in Europe, Asia and the US,’ stated Dena Montague, a researcher with the World Policy Institute.
Though 80 per cent of the world’s coltan is located in Africa, with 82 per cent of this found in the DRC (specifically in the ‘red zone’ controlled by the Rwandan army or, alternately, Rwandan-backed militias), the fluidity informing the legal and illegal nature of coltan largely depends on whether or not the ‘magic mud’ – named so for its close proximity to the surface – is purchased via legal entities abroad, and often, through ‘legally licensed’ comptoirs based in the Kivus and Goma.
In the case of coltan, the tentacles interlocking multinationals which geostrategically control the resources extends to stages one (exploration), two (detection) and five (treatment and commercialisation). Rwandan brokers are largely responsible for overseeing stages three (extraction, overseeing the extraction of coltan) and four (transportation). Some mines, such as the Nairobi mine, clearly refer to destination, while the bulk of coltan is processed through Kigali , the capital of Rwanda, en route to the ports of Mombassa, Kenya, or Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Previously services such as SDV-Transitra, then, or Russian Antonovs, much later were used to ferry the goods to Kampala, Nairobi or Kigali.
According to the UN report, ‘In November 2000 in Kigali, the Panel was told that the illegal exploitation of resources and the financial gains of [the Rwandan Patriotic Army] RPA were justified as the repayment for the security that Rwanda provides…’ Halliburton subsidiary, Brown & Root, aided the process by building bases along the Congolese/Rwandan border where the Rwandan army trained.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) training, since the late 1970s, was provided by the US via Fort Kansas while Paul Kagame (the current President of Rwanda) and other elites constituted crucial elements of Uganda’s army (with Kagame becoming Director of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in the same year that Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni became president of the country).
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) would later claim that Uganda’s damage to the Eastern DRC was the equivalent of US$6-10 billion. According to the UN report, ‘The illegal exploitation of natural resources is facilitated by the administrative structures established by Uganda and Rwanda. Those countries’ leaders directly and indirectly appointed regional governors or local authorities or, more commonly, appointed or confirmed Congolese in these positions. With minor exceptions, the objective of [its] military activity is to secure access to mining sites or ensure a supply of captive labour.’
Circuitous routes included Museveni’s brother who operated three services flying resources out of the DRC and into Rwanda and Belgium airline SABENA operating between Kigali and Amsterdam. SABENA suspended operations, revealed researcher John Katunga, following the release of the UN’s report, only to be replaced by Martinair. A previous UN report documented as many as 64 planes leaving mineral-rich regions in an ordinary day.
Multinationals like Nokia at the time proclaimed to receive no coltan from the region. Yet, according to a revealing statement made by Nokia’s Communications Manager in 2001, ‘All you can do is ask, and if they say no, we believe it.’ Not much has changed. However, the process of certifying and fingerprinting resources is only difficult because of the lack of genuine political will and the commercial interests involved.
The truth appears to be that entities like Cabot, the second largest processor of its type (guided by Sam Bodman, former Secretary of Energy under Bush), and HC Starck, producing 50 per cent of the world’s tantalum stocks in 2001, cannot be monitored due to regulatory vacuums undermining any plausible pretences of accountability and tra nsparency. A Starck press release merely asserts: ‘These trading companies have confirmed that HC Starck is not being supplied with material from the crisis areas of central Africa.’
For the DRC, ‘controlled’ by a fragmented and incoherent state, politically and physically distant from exploited territories, the situation – described by the 2002 UN Report as ‘the systematic and systemic exploitation of the DRC done in the name of resources’ – implies that humans born ‘rich’ in the DRC, are fast becoming as much an endangered species as the gorillas, elephants and other magnificent creatures gunned. Outside and alongside the DRC, in the contiguous world inhabited by ‘everyone else,’ accessorising life with mobile phones and computers and Sony PlayStations, we have become unwitting players in the system; spectators to a nation devoured by the terribly respectable white collar criminals, and their minions, rendering the DRC a large prison without walls, and the ‘unregulated’ free market, a religion of economic mercenaries. After half a century of prayer, the DRC has made into the desired image – a resource-rich bargain bin, open for business.
*This article first appeared in The Thinker (Volume 12, 2010).
*Khadija Sharife is a journalist and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Civil Society based in South Africa.
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The Net is one more terrific source of details about recipes. A search on YumYum.com will raise over 20,000 dishes. This site permits you to search for a certain food and also classification. You can likewise browse by key phrase. There are a number of publications committed to this topic. If you are trying to find a details sort of recipe, there is an online data source for it. There more than ten million dishes in YumYum, and you can select one or all of them. | <urn:uuid:9fba85df-d647-4377-84d0-fc623e8d0bc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://venusianskills.com/2022/02/12/right-heres-what-no-one-tells-you-around-food-recipes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966585 | 1,228 | 2.625 | 3 |
There's often much more to products than what meets the eye, that is especially the case with high-end makeup brands such as Sephora. With Sephora promo codes, it's no surprise how these can help women in more ways than one. Making their prices more affordable to the online community of shoppers isn't their only goal, a survey carried out to study the reason of cosmetic usage showed that only 3 in 5 women preferred them to enhance their beauty. For others, the motive of cosmetic usage was much more sensitive than simply looks. Also avail kohls 30 off fatwallet from findmepromos.com
The higher purpose
While there may be one too Sephora promotions that may come about, the real reason behind such cosmetics and their brands are considered when analysing the customer base. Most cosmetics are used to hide away the knacks and scars on the skin, blemishes that might sometimes be considered as terms opposite to beauty. However, what the more surprising factors of the study was that more than helping women embrace beauty, it also helped women with a lot of other problems as well.
Cosmetic brand promo codes were used to signify women dealing with:
Mental health problems
With a better sense of beauty and image, women dealing with depression are able to overcome their problem even if it's just a little bit. Makeup products, especially those availed through Discount codes helped women to accept themselves and feel more confident in their own skin.
While the statistics may have lowered, there are still many women who face the problem of domestic violence. Sephora promos aid those women by providing concealers, foundations, eyeliners and a number of various products in order to help them face the ordeal. The better they are able to cover up the scars, the fewer reminders are left for them to face.
In essence, it can be seen that brands like Sephora, not only provide a solution for skin problems; however, they are more therapeutic than people might often believe. Cosmetics act more as a beacon of hope and will continue to do so, as long as they do not end up harming the skin instead. | <urn:uuid:3a292918-d8dd-4762-92f5-7962d851816e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theodysseyonline.com/does-cosmetic-help-women-dealing-with-domestic-violence | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975213 | 443 | 1.625 | 2 |
Riddled throughout employment law, there are a number of
instances where small employers are put in a special, advantageous position.
However, as employment law in this country has developed on a piecemeal basis,
these instances are inconsistent in the way they are applied. What is clear,
though, is that exemptions for small employers are under attack in certain
areas. As it is rarely done, it might be useful for small employers to see the
types of exemptions and advantages that currently exist for them.
The current advantages
There is a legal obligation on all employers to specify any
applicable disciplinary rules or refer employees to a reasonably accessible
document containing them. Similarly, there is a rule that employers should
specify how a grievance can be made. Currently, these rules do not apply to
employers who, together with any associated employer, employ fewer than 20
people. This rule will become obsolete once the new provisions relating to
statutory disciplinary and dismissal procedures, and statutory grievance
procedures, set out in the Employment Act 2002, come into force next year.
The provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 do
not apply to an employer who has fewer than 15 employees. In this instance, it
does not include employees of an associated employer, according to the case
law. The Government has already signalled it will remove the threshold
altogether during 2004.
Employers with less than five employees are relieved from
the duty to record health and safety arrangements and having health and safety
policy statements in writing.
The new mandatory trade union recognition procedures apply
only to employers which, taken with any associated employer, employ either at
least 21 workers on the day on which a request for which recognition is
received, or have employed an average of at least 21 workers in the 13
In the world of maternity law, employers are given statutory
protection for certain dismissals taking place if it, together with any
associated employer, does not employ more than five employees. Small employers
also are entitled to a higher recoupment in respect of statutory maternity pay.
The rules relating to the mandatory establishment of
European works councils have a high threshold of 1,000 employees in at least
two member states of the EEA with at least 150 in each of at least two of those
member states. Similarly, the new laws on national works councils will apply to
employers with 50 or more employees, or workplaces with 20 or more employees
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Version 1.1 (2002-10-17)
This document describes the design of the web interface to the QC1 database which enables complete browsing of QC1 tables and parameters. This is called expert mode, in contrast to the browser for QC1 items which has more limited but more user-friendly capabilities.
The interface is called qc1_browse. It has:
The definition tables are divided into three parts:
This interface is created from scratch by a script which reads from the format description table (e.g. uves_bias) the relevant information into a template page.
The format description table has the columns sort_flag and keyword_typewhich are used for user-controlled sorting of the keys. sort_flag is an integer number which can be assigned in any user-defined order. keyword_type has the three values gen/qc1/ins which are used to fill the three keywords sections:
General keywords: keyword_type gen; default choice: plot_flag = XD
QC1 keywords: keyword_type qc1; default choice: plot_flag = YD
Instrument keywords: keyword_type ins; default choices: plot_flag = F
The HTML page is constructed in the following way:
1. Keyword tables : select buttons with field_name, field_type, description; selected and sorted by sort_flag.
Range in time: select boxes; "from" and "to"; default values should be: "from" = today minus three months, "to" = today. Format is YYYY-MM-DD.
Format options: radio buttons; ascii (default) and formatted html.
buttons for "search" and "reset". Buttons "markAll" and "unmarkAll" on top.
The example page uves_bias_browse.html illustrates the concept and the design.
The present status of the 'real-world' tool can be checked under http://arcdev/bin/qc1_cgi?action=qc1_browse_table&table=uves_bias
comments to <email@example.com>
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“I haven’t read it,” said Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.).
“We’re still looking,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
“I’m not going to comment on how I’m going to vote until I see the bill – if it gets a vote,” said Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.).
The reality is that senators have little trouble understanding what the bill does: it repeals the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 and requires states to give “full faith and credit” to any marriage between two people, regardless of “the gender, race, ethnicity, or national origin of such persons” – reflecting the action the Supreme Court took in the 2015 Oberfell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriages nationwide.
The complicated part is the politics: despite the fact that 7 out of 10 Americans endorse gay marriage, the issue remains tense for Republicans. They still see the religious right as a key part of their electoral coalition, and they fear being pressured by Democrats into pointing out what some of them see as a purely speculative threat to same-sex marriage rights across the board. national when Republicans would much rather speak. on rising inflation and a slowing economy.
House passes protection for same-sex, interracial marriages with bipartisan support
“Most of our members are going to say, why are we having this vote right now when nobody’s talking about it?” said Sen. John Thune (RS.D.), the GOP leader in Senate No. 2. “It looks like the Democrats are using it as a distraction.”
But in the eyes of Democrats, enshrining same-sex marriage in federal law has become much more than a political stunt with the Supreme Court’s decision last month striking down the constitutional right to abortion that has been in place since Roe vs. Wade decision 49 years ago. Like interracial and same-sex marriage rights, the federal abortion right was grounded in the constitutional theory of substantive due process that recognizes “unenumerated” rights such as the right to privacy.
While the court’s review opinion last month held that the abortion ruling should not “cast doubt on precedents that do not relate to abortion”, a concurring opinion by Judge Clarence Thomas did precisely that. this – calling on the high court to ‘reconsider all of this’. substantial due process precedents of the Court”, including Oberefell and Griswold v. Connecticutwhich protected access to contraception, and Lawrence v. Texaswho struck down state sodomy laws.
“We are in the post-deer world, where marriage equality, contraceptive freedoms — everything is on the table as far as the Supreme Court is concerned,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). “And this issue in particular is on the blacklist of the right-wing majority. So as inconceivable as overthrowing deer was just a year ago, this one must be considered endangered.
A handful of Senate Republicans have already indicated they agree with the effort, including Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Thom Tillis (NC). A fifth Republican, Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.), said last week he had “no reason to oppose” the measure, while also accusing Democrats of “creating a state of fear over a question to further divide Americans for their political gain.”
That’s five more Republicans than Democrats’ sustained efforts earlier this year to codify deer before the Supreme Court decision. But the Democrats will need at least 10 people to join them in the filibuster.
Amid GOP support, Senate Democrats see hope for same-sex marriage vote
Dozens of Republicans are expected to oppose the measure if it comes to a vote. Among those who said Tuesday they would not hesitate to vote “no” was Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), who said in a statement that the bill was “an attempt by the Democrats to score political points by manufacturing hysteria and panic, in addition to intensifying their ongoing attacks on the Court.
But many simply do not take a stand. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) leads the wait-and-see parade, telling reporters Tuesday that he would continue to keep his powder dry until Senate Majority Leader Charles E Schumer (DN.Y.) schedules a vote. Asked about his position on the bill, McConnell said, “I will not comment on it until the matter is raised in the Senate.”
That posture has been comfortable for many Republicans this week: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of McConnell’s leadership team, said she “hears both sides on the issue” and remains undecided. “I’ll see if it comes up and then I’ll make a decision,” Sen. Richard Burr (RN.C.) said, while Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) declined to state his position. , noting, “I don’t know if we’re voting on this or not.”
Behind the scenes, these senators are solicited by some of their colleagues, including Collins, Portman and Tillis, as well as the two Democratic senators who are openly members of the LGBTQ community, Tammy Baldwin (Wis.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona). ).
“We’re just trying to work through it,” Tillis said. “At the end of the day, the members have to make their own decisions, but in my opinion, this is very different from the bill that Senator Schumer introduced to codify Roe vs. Wade. … This is a sincere codification of current law.
Republicans, meanwhile, are under pressure from elements of their political coalition who are urging them to strongly oppose the bill. A letter sent Tuesday to McConnell, signed by leaders of the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Alliance Defending Freedom and dozens of other social conservative organizations and institutions, said the measure would “endanger believers and would have the effect of “silencing those who hold the long-held belief that marriage between a man and a woman is essential to human flourishing.
“It has little to do with protecting rights; its text betrays an intent to stigmatize and take away rights — especially those belonging to people of faith,” said the letter, which was first reported by Politics.
The religious right’s biggest ally in its quest to stop the bill moving forward could be an impending legislative pile-up in the Senate, as well as a series of health-related absences that could prevent the Senate from bringing together the 60 votes needed to defeat a buccaneer. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) is recovering from hip replacement surgery, while Murkowski and Sen. Joe Manchin III (DW.Va.) tested positive for the coronavirus in recent days.
“We’re working very hard to get 10 Republican senators,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday. “Between that and the illnesses, we’re not there yet.” He did not list the same-sex marriage bill among his top priorities for action before the Senate begins its summer recess next week, instead listing bills aimed at boosting investment in research. and development, reduce prescription drug prices and improve veterans’ health care.
Baldwin said Tuesday that the bill was “getting more support every day” but absences were a concern.
“We will when we have the votes and the time,” she said, adding, “I wouldn’t be surprised if we have a lot more at the end. [than those who are] make a public commitment at this stage.
But Democrats’ insistence on waiting for enough GOP support to hold a vote amid Republicans’ reluctance to publicly pass the legislation has created a Catch-22 for now. “My guess is that it definitely won’t happen until they’re convinced they have 10 Republicans,” said Thune, who has opposed same-sex marriage in the past but hasn’t taken a position on the law on respect for marriage.
“I think a number of them are hoping it will go away,” Blumenthal said, recounting his own conversations with Republicans. “But when things get bumpy…I think if you put it down today it would pass. What I hear is, ‘You know, our base is tough on this, but how can we challenge history?’ ” | <urn:uuid:97457c35-2087-464a-bfd6-d40556d4c0b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cowleylawofficesllc.com/republicans-remain-silent-as-senate-pushes-for-same-sex-marriage-vote/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961308 | 1,818 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Angelia is a Greek Goddess and the Daughter of Zeus and Hera. She is the Goddess of Peaceful Death, Goddess of Thieves, and the Goddess of the Fields of Asphodel. When she was young, she stole all of her mother, Hera's, anointments and gave them to Europe. This angered her mother, and Angelia fled Olympus. She hid among the mourners of a funeral caravan and grew to respect the duties of the Underworld. Therefore, she traveled to the Underworld and swore herself into the service of Hades. She became the Overseer of the Fields of Asphodel and one of the generals of the Army of Hades. | <urn:uuid:8fcdecbb-297d-4abd-844c-014d98711459> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://100gamesvictorfanficstories.fandom.com/wiki/Angelia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957284 | 136 | 1.523438 | 2 |
It’s easy to label urban farming as the solution to serious societal problems like food deserts, economic development, and obesity. But not all urban farming is alike. Some methods are bound to be more successful, profitable, and impactful than others. The question is which ones are giving cities the “biggest bang for their buck,” so to speak, and which ones are more good for morale?
The answer to this question is complicated. Urban agriculture in U.S. cities is evolving to include operations on a wide spectrum that ranges from small-scale community gardens to high-tech aquaponic and vertical farms.
In its report “Sustainable Urban Agriculture: Confirming Viable Scenarios for Production,” the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority identified three broad categories that encapsulate agricultural efforts in most urban areas: land-based operations, rooftop agriculture, and controlled environment agriculture.
More info: http://sustainablecitiescollective.com/seedstock/1023231/urban-agriculture-what-s-really-making-mark | <urn:uuid:04128700-fc7f-404d-b827-3f7a51c9756e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agricolturaurbana.com/2014/12/10/urban-agriculture-whats-really-making-a-mark/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.930486 | 225 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Dipped in Honey & Buried Alive?
More than 2300 years ago, a man named Kalanos poured fuel over his body, stood voluntarily upon a pyre, and set himself aflame. The last words he spoke to his grief-stricken companion were, "We shall meet in Babylon." In conclusion, rumours of Alexander the Great's death may have been exaggerated.
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.LETTER File Extension
What is a LETTER file?
File named dead.letter that is sometimes created on Unix-based systems when email cannot be sent; may be created because the destination address is wrong or because the recipient refuses to accept the email.
The dead.letter files can be deleted safely. However, if there are further problems sending mail, then the file may be recreated. Therefore, you may have to investigate further to locate why the mail is not being sent.
NOTE: The dead.letter file can be created by the Unix sendmail program. Also, it is sometimes created when invoking the sendmail program with the PHP mail() function. | <urn:uuid:93407616-dd06-45ad-81e2-17ae41fe8a1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fileinfo.com/extension/letter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954694 | 137 | 2.875 | 3 |
Every day of your life, it is important to take the time to “smell the roses” — to appreciate the experiences that lead to happiness. This is part of being truly happy.
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”Ansel Adams
Happiness is a state of mind. It starts with accepting where you are, knowing where you are going and planning to enjoy every moment along the way. You know how to be happy, and feel that you have enough time or money or love or whatever you need to achieve your goals. And just feeling that you have enough of everything means that you do indeed have enough.Read More | <urn:uuid:2f52ef46-0cff-4704-8096-e2f9d66dd9c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://velasargentinas.com/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976718 | 141 | 1.875 | 2 |
The guide is now 52 pages long and we recommend instructors schedule at least 3 sessions for future classes. This manual represents a more comprehensive classroom resource to match the online course Oasis Connections Guide to Online Safety and the cybercrime prevention videos we have produced over the past several years. These topics are of great interest to our members as they are constantly bombarded with emails, texts, and robocalls. And, it is available in Spanish!
Cybercrime is an ongoing and growing threat to Oasis participants and the participants served by our partner organizations. Cybercrime education and prevention will continue to be a primary focus for Connections in the future. If you’d like to see additional topics included in this manual, or if there are other related topics you’d like us to address, drop us a line and let us know. | <urn:uuid:7c6dc621-cf6f-44e5-8759-6fcded747280> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://connections.oasisnet.org/the-connections-safety-course-updated-expanded-and-renamed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.940795 | 171 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Dynamic Angular Petrissage as Treatment for Axillary Web Syndrome Occurring after Surgery for Breast Cancer: a Case Report [Research Perch]
Posted:Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Listen in as we discuss “Dynamic Angular Petrissage as Treatment for Axillary Web Syndrome Occurring after Surgery for Breast Cancer: a Case Report.” Dr. Jerrilyn Cambron and Ruth Werner walk through the implications of the article and how it might inform practice and enable therapists to better serve their clients.
This article is published in the Foundation’s open-access, peer-reviewed journal, the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (IJTMB). You can view the full article here.
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• Are there things in the developed approach that were missing when it was being tested?
• How would you test your favorite approach to a common problem?
• In looking at the specialty of oncology massage, what cautions or concerns might you have for this protocol with other cancer patients?
• Are there other conditions for the Dynamic Angular Petrissage for Axillary Web Syndrome technique where you think it might be useful?
• What other questions do you have about this reports or technique? | <urn:uuid:1cb4fabf-53db-4d0c-94ba-9addf0bb9a0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://massagetherapyfoundation.org/dynamic-angular-petrissage-treatment-axillary-web-syndrome-occurring-surgery-breast-cancer-case-report/?platform=hootsuite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.916883 | 276 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Exercise (yeah, I'm throwing in the exercise card) not Keto Primal Review only burns calories and builds muscle that burns more calories, but it relaxes you. Exercise is a great stress-reliever. When it comes to the subject of weight loss UK Health Public Health Minister, Anne Milton, has a no-nonsense attitude to a problem which is causing such an increasing strain on medical resources in Britain.
Ms Milton's idea is that if British health providers in the National Health Service forget about political correctness and called their overweight patients "fat" instead of "obese", maybe it would spur (or shame?) more people to lose weight. In an interview with the BBC in July 2010, Anne Milton suggested the term "fat" was more likely to motivate people into losing weight and stressed the importance of people taking personal responsibility for their lifestyles. Confirming that she was speaking from a purely personal point of view, Ms Milton said: "If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried (than) if I think I am fat."
Naturally, these comments have not gone down well with the health experts who say that the word "fat" could stigmatize those who are overweight. But this fails to address what is fast becoming a major crisis in the uk, where sedentary western culture and the availability and inexpensiveness of foods high in calories and low in nutrition is creating an epidemic of obesity.
At the latest figures, approximately 46% of men in England and 32% of women are overweight (BMI of 25-30 kg/m2), and an additional 17% of men and 21% of women are obese (BMI of more than 30 kg/m2 ). Also, overweight and obesity increase with age - about 28% of English men and 27% of women aged 16-24 are overweight or obese but this rises to 76% of men and 68% of women aged 55-64. And the trends are increasing - the percentage of adults who are obese has approximately doubled since the mid-1980's. | <urn:uuid:870f0f78-5dcb-476a-a19a-f4cfe3c9f0db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.vanguardngr.com/profiles/blogs/learn-about-eca-30-products | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.97234 | 429 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The words inclusion and diversity are resonating in society more and more. In movies, adverts, at school, at work. These terms are suddenly gaining in popularity... If you want to participate in a survey to map the corporate reality in these areas, scroll down or click the button "Go to link"
At inmetric we believe that every person has the right to live and work in an environment where they feel appreciated, fully acknowledged, and safe. In an environment where they can flourish and achieve their potential whilst remaining true to themselves.
It is long known that characteristics as gender, sexual orientation, nationality and others do not affect or limit one's abilities and potential. On the contrary, it turns out that a diverse and inclusive environment provides many benefits both for employers and employees.
At the company level, we are talking about a good reputation, a larger talent pool to choose from, higher profit, and a decrease in a fluctuation of employees. Furthermore, each of these benefits brings other partial advantages.
For example, decreased fluctuation of employees means that one work position is occupied by the same person for a more extended time, enabling them to become an expert in their field. And in the case of their career growth, valuable know-how still remains within the company. Moreover, the conditions for creating functional and cohesive work teams are improved, as the team members trust one another, can rely on each other and feel comfortable in their team. All of this supports a positive work atmosphere, another motivating factor that positively influences employee performance. And last but not least, the overall hiring costs are reduced.
At the employee level, the benefits include better well-being, increased satisfaction, motivation, productivity, work in an enjoyable environment and stress reduction.
As was said, we see the importance of drawing attention to diversity in the workplace, and we perceive it as happening more and more. To what extent and in which direction – we have set ourselves a goal to find out.
In collaboration with the team BE-ID human, we have decided to launch a diversity survey. The aim is to determine the current status of Slovak and Czech companies in the field of diversity in the areas of sex, gender, culture, age, social roles, sexual orientation and other characteristics. We also aim to find room for improvement and assist the employers in creating a diverse and accepting environment, offering knowledge about this topic and otherwise improving this domain.
The survey is being carried out in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Any firm residing in either of these countries can take part – whether it is a parent company, a subsidiary, or a branch of a foreign company. Data collection takes place from January 2022 until July 2022.
Data for each company should be filled out by a single person (HR manager, Specialist, CEO, a person in charge of the diversity and inclusion topic in the given company, etc.). They can participate by clicking on one of the links below, automatically redirecting them to our survey. Then, all left is to fill out the form and click send.
In such a case, get in touch with us via the contact form below to share the results with you. We know the results will be meaningful and applicable in many areas. Whether you want to get an overview about this topic in the Slovak and Czech context, compare the situation in your company with others, identify the weak spots or actively devote resources to this topic, realistic data will be of great help to you.
Processed outcomes from our diversity survey will be available in October 2022. | <urn:uuid:bf9c2a23-c059-45ae-b312-11e82d324e58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inmetric.in/diversity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955069 | 719 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Safety is of the first importance in the discharge of duty.
Obediance to the rules is essential to safety.
To enter or remain in the service is an assurance of willingness to obey the rules.
The service demands the faithful, intelligent and courteous discharge of duty.
To obtain promotion, ability must be shown for greater responsibility.
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Baking cakes is more wasteful than you realize. A real baker will always know how much is gone to waste, and it breaks most of their hearts. But what if you could use all those leftovers for something better later on?
Well, here’s the catch: The cake batter and trimmings wasted might be leftover, but they’re still edible food. So, you can easily put them to good use.
That is why we put together 11 ways you can creatively reuse your leftover cake batter and trimmings. You can use them pretty easily and get the job done. I mean, who doesn’t like some extra delicacies, right?
So, without waiting any further, let’s jump right into it, shall we?
11 Creative Ways to Use Your Leftover Cake Batter & Trimmings
We have put together 11 creative ways you can take care of the leftovers from your baking endeavors. So, let’s get started. Here goes:
1. Keep It in the Freezer & Use It Later
The first thing you can do is just store the leftover batter in the freezer. You can use this batter later in the future when you actually need it.
Suppose you wake up in the middle of the night craving some cakes. With the batter in the freezer, all you have to do is warm it up, pour it and bake it to perfection. Sounds tasty, doesn’t it?
Well, this is as useful as it is tasty. The batter will remain good to cook for a long time, provided that it is frozen, so that’d be your best bet with this. It can also help you prepare; in case a surprise guest appears out of nowhere or when you just need some comfort food to end the day.
So, just set the batter aside and shove it into the freezer. Wake it up when the time’s right. Now, let’s check out the next one.
2. Bake the Leftover Batter Now
Another thing that you can do is just bake another smaller cake with the leftover batter. We mean, two cakes are better than one, right?
You can even experiment with this cake since you really don’t have anything to lose. So, go on and get loose on the whole thing because you can! You can even add in some extra flavors and see how they’d taste. So, just make sure that you are making complete use of what you have.
Now that this one is done, let’s check out the next one on our list, shall we?
3. Make Some Cake Waffles!
Who’s up for some cake waffles?! Well, you can definitely make some cake waffles with the batter left. The cake can be dessert for the night. But it can also be your breakfast for the next morning if you can use your leftover batter properly.
All you have to do is pour your batter into a waffle iron and bake it the way you would bake a regular waffle. And Bam! Your cake waffles are all ready to be introduced to your mouth.
And that was all about cake waffles. The next one is pretty interesting. So, let’s check that out.
4. Make a Milkshake Out of the Batter
Okay, this one’s especially for the kids. You can easily whip up some milkshake using the cake batter leftover, and it’d be delicious as hell as well.
All you have to do is pour the batter into the blender along with some milk. Then add in a few scoops of ice cream and a banana to add in more flavor.
If you want it to be thick, you can also add in some cream. Then blend the whole thing together in the blender. Once done, pour the milkshake into the glass and enjoy it with some chocolate shavings on top.
Let’s check out the next one. You’re in for a surprise.
5. Make Some Cupcakes
You can also try throwing the extra batter into some paper liners to make cupcakes. These cupcakes would work as a great decoration beside your cake.
It’d be the perfect thing to serve, especially when kids are around. They can just grab one when they are hungry, rather than ruining the cake before it’s cut.
The cupcakes also work as small samples of your cake. Since the actual cake takes some time to ready up, you can taste one of these cupcakes to understand how the actual cake tastes.
That was all about the batter. Next up, we’ll move on to cake trimmings.
6. Whip Up a Batch of Cake Pops
Want to turn your trimmings into delicious treats? Well, we got you covered. You can just make some cake pops out of them and get snacking. The process of making the pops is also fairly easy.
Start by placing the scraps from your cake into a mixer that has a paddle attachment. Then add in a bit of frosting and mix the whole thing until it blends completely.
Scoop it up with an ice cream scooper and mold the balls yourself. Then stick lollipop sticks into each ball and freeze them. Once the freezing is done, your cake pops are good to go.
7. Can We Get Some Cake Shooters
Cake Shooters are an amazing drink before enjoying the cake, and it can be made using any cake scraps. So, how do you make it? Well, here’s how:
Take some of the scraps and crumble them onto the bottom of a glass. Then add some fresh fruits and top it off with a scoop of frosting. Repeat the whole thing until your container is full.
And that makes our cake shooters. Now, let’s move on.
8. Put the Leftover Trimmings on Ice Cream
Leftover cake trimmings make for amazing toppings. So, we can use them easily to make our ice cream tastier.
Just take the trimmings and crumble them over some ice cream. That should do the trick. Now, you’ll have a dessert worth fighting for.
Let’s check out what the next one stores for us.
9. Cake Bread Pudding Sounds Nice
Who doesn’t love pudding, right? Well, you can make some using the cake trimmings if you have a good amount of it in your hands.
All you have to do is follow any bread pudding recipe and replace the bread with cake trimmings. And you’re good to go.
10. Make a Milkshake Out of the Leftover Trimmings
A while ago, we mentioned that you could make a killer milkshake with leftover cake batter. But now we’re telling you that you can do the same with cake trimming. The drill’s pretty much the same, blend the cake trimmings with some milk and ice cream and get going.
11. How About Some Petit Fours, Mademoiselle?
If you have a big chunk of cake for cake scraps, take a cookie cutter and cut out small cakes. Then whip up a ganache using chocolate chips and heavy cream. Use the ganache on your cake circles, and now you have some petit fours for yourself.
That wraps the whole thing up.
Those were all creative ways to use your leftover cake batter and trimmings that we had to offer. Now, we hope that this was as useful as we wanted it to be.
We tried to put the whole thing in the easiest way possible, keeping your comfort in mind. So, we hope you’ll take all this from us and make some great use of your leftover trimmings and cake batter.
With all that said, we’d love some feedback from you. So, if you think we left something out or there’s something you’d want us to cover for you, please contact us.
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Ancient Mayan Culture
The ancient Mayan civilization was situated in what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and a part of Honduras. There are still descendants of the ancient Mayans living in the same area and in the same manner as their ancestors. Some still live in villages farming in the old way and attempting to maintain the ancient customs. Others have moved to cities and work in modern business.
The members of Mayan families typically lived together in the same village. Boys went to work in the fields with their fathers and girls stayed with their mothers to learn to cook, spin, weave and take care of the home. Mayan women were expert potters. Each household had its own farm plot outside the village and usually a small garden at their house. There was a communal farm in which all families contributed. The communal farm was there to supplement any shortages so that no one would go hungry. They had a large central building for meetings, feasts and other gatherings of the entire community.
The ancient Mayans thought crossed eyes were beautiful and hung little balls of resin between young children’s eyes to promote or coach them cross-eyed. A flat forehead and large nose was considered beautiful. Parents put wooden frames on their babies’ heads to flatten the forehead. The nobility often wore large clay molds over their noses to make their noses look bigger and often wore jeweled nose studs. Both men and women painted their bodies and tattoos were popular. Mayans practiced dentistry repairing cavities with inlaid jade, turquoise and iron. They often filed their teeth into points and filled the gaps with jade to enhance their beauty.
The ancient Mayans were an advanced society. Their greatest intellectual achievement was the development of a system of writing using glyphs. Many of their ancient writings remain today in the form of stone posts called stelae with important events engraved on them in the plazas of their ancient cities.
All the buildings in Mayan cities were made of native stone, either limestone or volcanic stone. Every city had a grand plaza where the important temples and palaces of the nobility were built. The rest of the city spread out from the grand plaza. Most ordinary people lived in villages surrounding the city where they did the farming and produced all the goods for the entire population.
Mayan artifacts have shown archaeologists how they articulated their culture. They wrote books telling their history and built great palaces and temples. Their remaining statues, carvings and paintings reveal their history. The Maya were quite sophisticated for their time. They created an accurate 365 day calendar which proved the European calendar to be inaccurate, they had compasses and developed an advanced numeric system and glyphic writing. Their society dates back to 3200 B.C. Archaeologists continue to find ancient cities and artifacts of the Mayas mainly in the jungles of Guatemala revealing more and more about these noble Americans.
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As the summer tourist season approaches and Western Europe’s Covid-19 crisis continues to subside, leaders across the continent are deciding whether and how to lift the border restrictions that they imposed amid a flurry of emergency measures in March. The European Commission has urged its members to coordinate their reopening, but a patchwork of strategies has emerged. Some countries — Italy and Germany among them — are reopening earlier and more widely. Others — like Switzerland, Denmark and the Baltic States — are proceeding more slowly, opting for “travel bubbles” or bespoke lists of countries whose citizens will be allowed entry.
Both approaches have drawn criticism. Bubbles or corridors risk creating confusion and could be seen as discriminatory, say some European observers. But opening up borders among countries where the epidemiological situations are vastly different risks triggering an increase in cases, a scenario that officials are determined to avoid. Indeed, all of the announced plans for reopening have come with an important caveat: If Covid-19 cases start to tick back up, then borders could again be forced to close.
“We need to be sure that a summer tourist season won’t come at the high price of a second wave of infections,” Heiko Maas, Germany’s foreign minister, said in May. “So there will be no ‘normal’ summer holiday this year. Whether the Baltic or the Mediterranean — the social distancing and hygiene rules will apply everywhere,” he said.
For American tourists, Europe will remain off limits this summer, with a few exceptions. Portugal is currently allowing entry to United States citizens without a quarantine requirement. Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Belarus are also open to U.S. citizens, but require a two-week quarantine. Americans and other non-European Union nationals may be able to visit Iceland from June 15, but all visitors will be subject to a Covid-19 test upon arrival. Other European nations remain closed to visitors coming from across the Atlantic.
Italy — which has Europe’s second-highest Covid-19 death toll, after Britain — has jumped ahead of its neighbors in welcoming back tourists, lifting border restrictions on visitors arriving from European countries as of June 3. The next major date in the continent’s reopening calendar will be June 15, when Germany and Belgium will allow entry to all E.U. nationals, as well as Britons and citizens of nations like Iceland, Norway and Switzerland that are within Europe but outside the E.U. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe of France has indicated that France will do the same, allowing quarantine-free travel for European visitors as of June 15. (However, starting on June 8, France will ask British visitors to complete a voluntary 14-day self-quarantine.)
The June 15 border openings will be like a “D-Day” for tourism in Europe, Italy’s foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio, told the Italian broadcaster RAI. He added that Germans account for a significant share of Italy’s visitors, especially for high-end travel. The tourism sector accounts for 13 percent of Italy’s gross domestic product.
“We must salvage what we can salvage from the summer to help our hoteliers and entrepreneurs,” Mr. Di Maio said.
Bubbles and bespoke lists
While Italy, Germany and France are planning to open up widely, other European nations are proceeding more cautiously, drawing up selective lists of countries from which travel will be allowed, or establishing “travel bubbles” along the lines of the one being considered by Australia and New Zealand.
Spain, one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe, is waiting until July to lift most of its travel restrictions. At that point, the country plans to open up to visitors arriving from a list of nations where the epidemic is under control, according to Manuel Muñiz, the Spanish government’s State Secretary for Global Spain. That list hasn’t been finalized, Mr. Muñiz said in an interview, but it will probably include most European nations, and could be expanded to a select group of countries from outside the region. (The country’s land borders with neighboring France and Portugal are due to reopen on June 22.) He added that Spain has asked the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for specific guidance on how the country should draw up its list.
“When you talk to epidemiologists, what they tell you is that if you have these two containers with equivalent amount of Covid risk, it’s almost irrelevant if there are transfers of movement of people from one place to the other,” said Mr. Muñiz. He added that tourist destinations need to be able to do four things in order to welcome visitors safely: Track the virus’s spread; test anyone with symptoms; trace the contacts of those who test positive; and treat those who fall ill.
“When countries open needs to be fundamentally linked to how the disease is performing there, and whether those capabilities are in place,” Mr. Muñiz said.
Spain’s plan is just one example of a more tailored approach to reopening. On May 15, three Baltic States — Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania — began allowing free movement across their mutual borders, effectively establishing the first travel bubble in Europe. (Lithuania has since opened up to quarantine-free travel from 24 European nations, including France and Italy, but not Spain or Sweden.)
Hungary and Slovenia created their own bubble later in May, while Croatia has begun allowing entry to nationals of 10 European nations, including Germany and Austria, but not hard-hit France, Italy or Spain. On June 15, Switzerland plans to open its borders with Austria, Germany and France, but not Italy, its neighbor to the south. On the same date, Denmark will reopen to visitors from Germany, Norway and Iceland, but only for stays of six nights or more, none of which can be in Copenhagen.
Also on June 15, the Netherlands will begin allowing entry to nationals of 12 European nations, including Belgium, Germany and Italy, but not France, Spain or Britain.
Greece, where tourism accounts for nearly a quarter of the gross national product, is casting a broader net, extending its bubble to passport holders from a bespoke list of 29 nations. Many of those are in Europe, but the list also includes China, Japan, Israel, New Zealand and a handful of other countries where authorities deemed the health situation under control; the United States is not on the list. (Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority has since clarified that some arriving passengers may still be subject to quarantine requirements or mandatory Covid-19 testing.)
Portugal, however, is currently allowing flights from the United States, as well as Canada, Brazil and many European countries. Meanwhile, Britain remains open to visitors from anywhere in the world, although anyone arriving after June 8 will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days or risk a £1,000 ($1,240) fine. The Republic of Ireland also remains open, but with a two-week quarantine requirement.
This patchwork of reopening strategies is chaotic and will ultimately undermine European tourism, said Eduardo Santander, the executive director of the European Travel Commission, an association of national tourism organizations in Europe.
“I think that creating corridors, bubbles, bilateral agreements between countries only creates more confusion and frustration for the end consumer,” Mr. Santander said. He added that his organization has been lobbying for a harmonized return of travel and tourism across Europe.
“The information that is out there is so fragmented; it’s also so confusing,” he said, adding that freedom of movement is a pillar of European identity. “It’s not about cutting a deal with your neighboring country,” he added. “We cannot create these kind of competitive advantages and disadvantages.”
The European Commission, which has published a package of guidelines and recommendations on the resumption of travel and tourism in Europe, is building a website that will serve as a “one-stop shop” for anyone looking for the latest information on border restrictions within the bloc. A spokeswoman for the commission said that the site should be up and running by mid-June. In the meantime, she recommended that potential travelers check the government website of their desired destination to find the latest rules.
Waiting to see
In many European countries — especially those along the Mediterranean coast — renewing the flow of tourists will be critical to keeping national economies afloat. But it’s not yet clear how many people will be willing to cross a border for their summer vacations.
“We don’t have tourism anymore. Corona has taken it all,” said Marjan Dasic, the manager of Tarsa, a popular restaurant in Rijeka, a Croatian seaside city that was selected as one of Europe’s cultural capitals for 2020.
Normally, you would have to call at least a year in advance to reserve a table at the restaurant, which can seat up to 200 people and welcomes tourists from across Europe and beyond, Mr. Dasic said. The restaurant reopened in May after two months of closure, “but it’s like we didn’t open, because no one is coming,” Mr. Dasic said, adding that another month without customers will force the restaurant to close for good.
In France, the mountain resort of Chamonix is preparing for a quieter summer than usual. Major events like mountain races, climbing competitions and music festivals have been canceled, but the area’s trails will be open for hiking and mountain biking, and cable cars will be operating with new hygiene measures in place.
Claire Burnet, a spokeswoman for the Chamonix tourist office, predicted that tourists would come to the mountains to avoid the crowds one might find at the beach or in a city.
“We are pretty optimistic, especially for the French market,” Burnet said. “For the European market, we’re waiting to see.”
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Amazon said Friday it'll begin delivering packages to residents of College Station, Texas, later this year, the second location in the United States for its Prime Air delivery service and the latest in an expansion of the technology that emerged this week.
College Station, about 80 miles northwest of Houston, is home to Texas A&M University, which has a drone research program that's already several years old. The e-commerce giant in June also announced plans to begin drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, near Sacramento.
Amazon helped kick off the drone delivery idea with the 2013 announcement of Prime Air. But abundant challenges slowed the technology's arrival: safety, regulatory approval, autonomous navigation, bad weather, cost, and finding a good way to hand off packages.
Now drone delivery is picking up, promising one-hour delivery times for thousands of items in Amazon's warehouses and other options from drone delivery rivals. This week, Zipline announced medical package delivery plans near Tacoma, Washington, and Alphabet's Wing debuted new drone designs for larger and smaller packages. With partner DroneUp, Walmart expects to deliver packages via drone in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah and Virginia for a $4 delivery fee. UPS, Flytrex, Manna and others also are delivering packages around the world.
After testing many models, Amazon settled on drones that use a hexagonal design and take off vertically. They tilt in flight so some struts of the hexagonal frame become wings that generate lift and improve range. They fly 400 feet above the ground at speeds up to 50 mph carrying packages up to 5 pounds.
Amazon's drones have a 15km range -- about 9 miles.
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University of Otago research psychologist Jesse Bering has explored the dark experiences of being suicidal, in his new book: A Very Human Ending, how suicide haunts our species.
Associate Professor Bering, Director of Otago’s Centre for Science Communication, says in writing the book on this sensitive subject, his intention was to capture the experience of being suicidal.
“This is not a book about suicide prevention, per se. It is about understanding the mind-set of a suicidal person, and ideally helping people gain self-perspective of what can be incredibly grim experiences and thoughts, before acting on them,” says Associate Professor Bering.
At times drawing on first-person testimony involving his own suicidal thoughts as a teenager, Associate Professor Bering also combines analysis from interviews with experts and case studies with an array of people who have been suicidal.
“I think for someone affected by suicidal thoughts, this book can figuratively ‘hold their hand’ through those dark times, and hopefully provide knowledge and understanding around the processes going on in their brain. If people can be better equipped to understand and deal with these thoughts, then hopefully they’re less likely to choose the last resort – suicide,” Associate Professor Bering says.
For example, to show how specific cognitive factors (such as an altered sense of time) afflict the suicidal mind, Associate Professor Bering shares in the book excerpts from the many heartrending emails he received from readers in response to a 2010 article he wrote for Scientific American.
One of the major concerns Associate Professor Bering had in choosing to write and publish A Very Human Ending was the issue of contagion – the notion that talking about suicide can prompt people to consider it as an option. Bering dedicated an entire chapter of the book to contagion, and feels it is better to talk about and try to understand suicide instead of locking away rational discussion about it.
“My stance is that if people are aware of how contagion works, when they find themselves in a dark place they will be better equipped to deal with the processes that are going on in their mind,” he adds.
A Very Human Ending was published by Penguin Random House publishers on 23 August 2018, with first release into the United Kingdom and the US release (University of Chicago Press) planned for November 2018. The synopsis of the book is below.
A Very Human Ending synopsis:
'This book touches on some deep questions relevant to us all... A fascinating, thoughtful, unflinching meditation on one of the most intriguing and curious aspects of the human condition.' - Dr Frank Tallis
Why do people want to kill themselves? Despite the prevalence of suicide in the developed world, it's a question most of us fail to ask. On hearing news of a suicide we are devastated, but overwhelmingly we feel disbelief.
In A Very Human Ending, research psychologist Jesse Bering lifts the lid on this taboo subject, examining the suicidal mindset from the inside out to reveal the subtle tricks the mind can play when we're easy emotional prey. In raising challenging questions Bering tests our contradictory superstitions about the act itself.
Combining cutting-edge research with investigative journalism and first-person testimony, Bering also addresses the history of suicide and its evolutionary inheritance to offer a personal, accessible, yet scientifically sound examination of why we are the only species on earth that deliberately ends its own life.
This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries. Read more
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Mutagenesis induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) in Salmonella TA 1530 was inhibited by ascorbate. Inhibition of MNNG-induced mutagenesis resulted from a reaction between ascorbate and MNNG that led to consumption of MNNG. The rate of this reaction was considerably enhanced by catalytic amounts of Cu(ll) and Fe(lll). No direct reaction between DMN and ascorbate was detectable, but relatively high concentrations of Cu(il) enhanced inhibition of DMN-induced mutagenesis by ascorbate. Added protein reduced the effectiveness of Cu(ll) as a catalyst of the reaction between ascorbate and MNNG, which suggested that the microsomal protein necessary to activate DMN, may reduce the concentration of free Cu(ll) and thereby lower its catalytic efficiency. Mutagenesis by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea was not inhibited by ascorbate.
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Objectives: To evaluate the effects of this EMR surveillance on sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock outcomes in patients admitted to a medical telemetry unit, including length of hospital stay, patient discharge and mortality. Methods: A retrospective review of pre- and post-implementation of a pilot electronic medical record (EMR) sepsis surveillance. Results: Implementing EMR sepsis surveillance significantly improved home discharge (49.0% versus 25.3%, p<.05) and reduced hospital mortality (1.0% versus 9.3%, p<.05). Although there was no difference in the length of hospital stay for the whole group, patients in the surveillance group who triggered an alert on the EMR surveillance had a decreased length of hospital stay compared to those without an alert (7.2±4.2 versus 11.6±9.4 days, p<.05). Conclusion: These results offer promising evidence that the use of an EMR sepsis surveillance alert could decrease the ravishing effects of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock by early identification and treatment.
- Electronic medical record
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- Sepsis surveillance
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An escrow account plays an important part in mortgage transactions. Essentially, escrow is considered to be money, securities or property that is handled by a neutral third party. For the most part, escrow is generally used during real estate transactions. The neutral third party managing the account is considered an escrow agent. The escrow agent holds on to assets during the time that the two parties are working through finalizing a deal. An escrow agent is generally a real estate agent, real estate attorney or escrow company.
When a buyer decides to make an offer on a particular property, the buyer is expected to back up the offer by putting up some cash once the seller decides to accept the buyers offer. When a buyer sends an offer to purchase a piece of property, the offer also states the buyer’s intent to purchase the property after certain conditions being met.
From a seller’s perspective, some of these conditions include the buyer being able to secure a mortgage loan. In the conditions it may state that there may be a delay if the buyer must first sell an existing property to pay off the current mortgage before obtaining another loan. Other conditions may be that the buyer insists that certain repairs must be completed first.
Once both parties agree on the conditions outlined, then the cash is given to an escrow agent and placed in a separate account. If the conditions required are met then the money will go to the seller. However, if the conditions haven’t been met then the money goes back to the buyer. The neutral third party is necessary to help prevent any disagreements and lawsuit on who will receive the escrow money. Also keep in mind that there is an escrow fee for the services of the escrow agent.
In some cases, the escrow money is used by mortgage companies to ensure proper payments of property tax and homeowner’s insurance. This is when 1/12 of the cost of annual property tax and homeowner’s insurance premiums are added on to the monthly mortgage payment. Again, this is to ensure that those two important aspects to buying a home get paid.
If a homeowner fails to pay the annual property tax then the government has the right to seize the home to sell in order to pay off the taxes owed. This may leave the mortgage company in a tight spot. Therefore the escrow money is used to ensure that the taxes are paid and the mortgage company isn’t out thousands of dollars.
Mortgage companies are also concerned with homeowner’s insurance. Anything can happen from natural disasters such as flooding and tornadoes to the home catching on fire. Having the extra money go into escrow each month will help cover the cost of the homeowner’s insurance premiums. If the property goes without insurance and a disaster occurs, once again this can cost a mortgage company thousands of dollars.
Having the mortgage company pay the cost of homeowner’s insurance and property taxes makes with escrow money, makes it easier on the homeowner. If the rates go up, the mortgage company may ask the buyer to pay the difference or raise the monthly mortgage payment the following year to cover the extra expense. Each year the homeowner will receive a statement of the money placed in an escrow account and how it was used.
A downside to mortgage company escrow accounts is that if the lender decides to change servicing agents. This may result in the property taxes and homeowner’s insurance premium going unpaid or being paid late. For the most part the buyer is oblivious to the problem until the moment it occurs. This can be frustrating and very time-consuming to get sorted out.
So as you can see setting up escrow accounts are important in mortgage transactions. Whether it is an agreement between the buyer and seller or extra money each month to make sure the two important bills to owning a home gets paid, having an escrow account is actually helpful to the buyer as well as the seller or mortgage company. | <urn:uuid:e239d0c8-e750-4e72-bc0d-f5e36db3b7b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiantiger.org/the-importance-of-escrow-accounts-in-mortgage-transactions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.948957 | 801 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, has announced an ambitious €50 million master plan to transform nearby Boboli Gardens over eight years. The Boboli 2030 program includes 40 projects aimed at protecting the park from the devastating effects of climate change and making it more energy efficient, accessible and attractive. Highlights include the creation of three refreshment areas, restoration of statues and a new high-tech storage facility for what is, according to the Uffizi Gallery, the world’s largest collection of historic tapestries and tapestries.
Part of the Uffizi Gallery network, the park was designed by the Medici family from the 16th century and established the Italian garden style that became the model for European courts. The 33-hectare site behind the Pitti Palace includes monumental fountains, frescoed grottos and around 300 statues from the Classical, Renaissance and Baroque periods. About half of the projects included in the program have recently been completed, are in the final stages or are partially funded and will start shortly. The other half is completely new.
Details of the program were announced Monday, as staff inaugurated the park’s newly renovated 18th-century coffeehouse. According to the museum, funds that have not yet been allocated are mainly generated by ticket sales. “Our concrete promise can be realized in the next eight years and will be realized,” said Eike Schmidt, director of the museum, in a press statement. “Our goal is not only to bring the Boboli back to the glory days of the Medici and Lorena dynasties, but to go further and make it the best open museum in the world.”
“Fast and strong measures” have been developed to relieve cultural heritage from the “suffering and burdens” of climate change, the statement said. These include a planned fire protection system in the Amphitheater and Prato delle Colonne – wooded areas that could be hit by wildfires during extremely hot or dry periods – and a recent project to identify and secure unstable trees. “Extreme weather is becoming part of a trend,” said a spokesman for the Uffizi Gallery The art newspaper. “Every time there’s a storm, we have to close the parks because a tree falls.”
Many of the initiatives strengthen the eco-friendliness of the park, such as B. A recent €2.4 million project to equip the park with an energy-efficient lighting system, advanced video surveillance and a PA system for announcements and alarms. In another forthcoming project, the neoclassical Pagliere building will be transformed into an 800m² space for temporary exhibitions and as a repository for part of the rich Uffizi collection of 16th-18th century tapestries. It is heated and cooled with a €1 million geothermal system.
Other current projects include the introduction of 300 signposts and maps to improve navigability and the renovation of the iconic coffee house – a rare example of Rococo architecture in Tuscany – built by Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, in of Tuscany 1770s. In October, the Austro-Hungarian-style building reopens as a café after 20 years of closure.
Two other refreshment points will be created in the Prato dei Castagni and in the neoclassical Pagliere, while 3.5 million euros have been allocated for the restoration of the park’s sculptures and the replacement of the sculptures most at risk of weathering with copies. “A walk through the gardens will be an enlightening experience and an opportunity for spiritual growth,” promises Schmidt. | <urn:uuid:192231b7-6b5f-4928-979c-a64a92348ca0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mcafeeloginz.com/the-uffizi-gallery-announces-a-e50-million-project-to-restore-the-boboli-gardens-to-their-former-medici-era-glory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.949883 | 773 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Dental Veneers are not only solutions for dental disorders – they can also improve your smile and boost your confidence. Porcelain veneers are thin shells that are placed over your existing teeth. This is one way to quickly get the beautiful smile that you deserve and Quality Dentistry in Downey can help. We are your Downey dentist when it comes to veneers and all your other dental needs!
Veneers and Laminates are a thin shell of porcelain or resin that is bonded to the surface of the teeth. This can change their shape, shade, and position to improve the cosmetics of your teeth and smile. They are also used to replace and restore any lost tooth structure where indicated.
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TEMPLE, TX — Twice a month, the Tiny Hooves Rescue and Petting Zoo visits the William R. Courtney Texas State Veterans Home in Temple for animal therapy.
The residents get to hug on, cuddle and hold animals like bunnies, guinea pigs and kittens.
Those involved call the experience "beneficial."
"Just by helping them with their attitude, them seeing an animal that's familiar in their past.. It just puts a little light in their day and gives them something to look forward to and makes them happy," said Shelby Michalewicz, owner, Tiny Hooves Rescue and Petting.
The program began at the beginning of the year, and so far they said it has been a success.
Tiny Hooves uses volunteers for the program, and they are in need of more help.
Volunteers help transport animals and assist during visits.
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BY SCOTT MORGANROTH
Due to the overwhelming response and popularity of her four-part series of the Life and Times of Puerto Rico debating of Statehood and becoming No. 51, I feel a certain obligation to complete Gladys Echevarria's (Puerto Rican Pistol) Mission and talk about the Best Athletes that have represented this island.
But there is no way that I couldn't write this blog without two humorous points.
First of all, my mother is anything but a history buff when she wanted to know if Gladys needed papers to be in this country; have no fear ma, she's legal.
Second, when Gladys and I played tennis for the first time, she admitted after spending more time outside of the court chasing the balls she hit over the fence, that this isn't her sport. While I certainly didn't expect to be hitting tennis balls with legend Chris Evert, a few nice volley's would have been nice. But to her credit, week two was better and there hasn't been a week three yet. I would find out in later weeks that archery and swimming were not her bag, but she definitely is looking to make amends playing baseball.
With that said, Puerto Rico's Baseball's history has a tremendous amount of exposure for the island.
Before the Montreal Expos moved to Washington and became the Nationals, they played some of their home games in Puerto Rico.
The Baseball Hall of Fame is now the proud home of a pair of legends.
Here is my list of players and I encourage feedback if I've omitted some of the most notables.
1) Roberto Clemente---There will never be a player bigger then him. I have always believed that his No. 21 uniform should be retired by MLB because of his off the field humanitarian efforts that saw him get killed in an aviation accident in 1972 at the age of 38. He played all of his 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, led them to two World Series titles, had 3000 hits, was a 15-time All-Star, won 12-Gold Gloves, is the first Latin Player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and due to his tragic death bypassed the five-year waiting period to be elected. There is a stadium complex named after him in Puerto Rico.
2) Roberto Alomar--- was elected to the Hall of Fame in his second year of eligibility with 90% of the votes. The 43-year old is a lifetime .300 hitter, compiled 2,724 hits, 474 stolen bases, is a 12-time All-Star, has 10 Gold Gloves and is a two-time World Series Champion for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1992 and 1993. Need I say more.
3) Bernie Williams---played his entire career with the New York Yankees and amassed 2,336 hits. While he may never get inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the 42-year old will get his plaque into Yankee Stadium's Monument Park. He played there from 1991-2006 and is a five-time All-Star and led the Bronx Bombers to four World Series titles. He was invited to play for Puerto Rico in the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
4) Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez---is a 39-year old Future Hall of Famer and also played on the 2009 World Baseball Classic team with Williams. He is a lifetime .297 hitter, has 311 home runs, is a 14-time All-Star, has won 13 Gold Gloves and as of May 25, 2011 has amassed 2,832 hits. The current Washington National has won a World Series with the Florida Marlins and also appeared in the Fall Classic with the Detroit Tigers. On June 17, 2009, Rodriguez set the MLB record by catching his 2,227 game and passed Carlton Fisk.
5) Carlos Beltran---is one of the most exciting players and at 34-years old is still going strong with the New York Mets in his 14th season. The right fielder has a lifetime .282 average with 288 homers, 289 stolen bases, is a five-time All-Star, has won three Gold Gloves and won the American League Rookie of the Year Award in 1999 with the Kansas City Royals.
6) Carlos Delgado---holds the All-Time Home Run and RBI records among Puerto Rican Players with 473 and 1,512 respectively. The retired 38-year-old first baseman left the major leagues with 2,035 games played, a .280 average and 2,038 hits.
7) Alex Rios---of the Chicago White Sox played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. Compared to the other players in this story, time will tell if the center fielder ever achieves the incredible success that they all have. But at 30-years old and now in his eighth season, thus far he's a two-time All-Star that has played in 1,050 games, has amassed 1,107 hits, 109 home runs, 505 RBI, has 155 stolen bases and is a .278 hitter. Rios has a combination of power and speed.
8) Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez---is the most colorful character of these Puerto Rican athletes and instead of swinging a bat, he swings a golf club. The 75-year old is the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. He has 38 Pro Wins, including eight on the PGA Tour and 22 on the Senior PGA Tour. His best finish at a major tournament was at the 1981 U.S. Open when he finished tied for sixth place.
9) Hector "Macho" Camacho---was not only known for his mouth but also his hands. Now 49-years old, he competed in 87 fights, won 79, lost five and had three draws. He held the following titles: WBC Super Featherweight, WBC Lightweight, and on two occasions the WBO Light Welterweight. My most vivid memories of Camacho was when he was featured on CBS with legendary announcers Tim Ryan and the late Gil Clancy calling his fights.
10) Felix "Tito" Trinidad---is considered is one of the best fighters in Puerto Rico's history. In 2000, he was named Ring Magazines Fighter of the Year. During his career, the 38-year-old fought 45 times, won 42, 35 came by knockout and had three losses. He held the following championships: IBF Welterweight Title, WBC Welterweight, WBA Super Welterweight, IBF Junior Middleweight and WBA Middleweight Championship. Now that's versatility!
This is an interesting group of athletes and as I did the research for this, it's safe to say that while Golf and Boxing have always been American Favorites, The USA and Puerto Rico can both say that Baseball is their common Pastime as well.
Scott Morganroth can be reached at email@example.com and his blog can be seen at http://www.scottsports33.com/.
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It appears to have been a challenging year for the Queen after losing her beloved corgi Willow, and now farewelling Whisper, the last remaining corgi in the royal household.
Last April, the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, farewelled the last of her surviving Royal corgis, Willow. Willow was a descendent of Susan, Queen Elizabeth II's first corgi given to her by her father on her 18th birthday.
Now, the Queen of England has said farewell to the last of her remaining corgis, ending the nearly century-long love affair with the dogs, and for which were synonymous with the Queen.
Whisper was 12 years old.
Whisper adopted by the Queen
In 2016, Whisper's former owner, Bill Fenwick passed away. Mr Fenwick was a gamekeeper at the monarch's country retreat, Sandringham House in Norfolk. His wife, known as the "keeper of the Queen's corgis" would look after the dogs while the Queen was away on royal tours.
Having known Whisper through her stays at Sandringham, the Queen decided to take the sweet-natured Pembroke Welsh Corgi under her wing.
The two quickly became close with Whisper seen trotting alongside the monarch from room to room at Buckingham Palace, even attending meetings with various dignitaries.
It has been reported that the Queen was deeply saddened by the loss of her faithful friend.
A lover of Corgis since 1933
The Queen's love of the Pembroke Welsh Corgi has seen her own more than 30 of the breed since her 18th birthday (she has been surrounded by corgis since she was six years old). In fact, several generations of the Queen's beloved Susan were bred by the monarch.
It has been said that the Queen's dogs are allowed free roam of Buckingham Palace and all misbehaviours are forgiven by the monarch. Such is the Queen's love for the animal, they are even immortalised in paintings with the sovereign.
In more recent times, it has been reported that the Queen would not adopt any additional dogs to replace those that had died as she did not want to leave them behind when she dies.
The queen remains in the company of her two dorgies, Candy and Vulcan. They were bred from one of the Queen's corgis and a dachshund named Pipkin belonging to her sister Princess Margaret.
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Oxford University’s LIFE project has launched a new set of app-based training scenarios that help healthcare workers in Africa safely manage and treat cases of children with suspected covid-19
6th July 2020, Oxford, UK and Nairobi, Kenya
Life-saving Instruction for Emergencies (LIFE) is a smartphone-based virtual learning platform that allows healthcare workers to access high quality medical training in low-resource settings. Developed by doctors, nurses and researchers at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP) in Kenya and the University of Oxford, the platform has now launched new training scenarios to help healthcare workers in Africa safely deliver care to children with suspected covid-19.
LIFE allows healthcare workers to enter a realistic 3D virtual hospital on their own smartphones, allowing them to train anywhere, anytime. In low-resource settings such as Kenya, access to simulation training can be difficult and expensive, so using their own smartphones to train could enable more healthcare workers to receive the high-quality training they need to save lives.
Neonatal resuscitation training delivered through the LIFE smartphone app has been rolled out to more than 5,000 healthcare workers through partnerships with medical and nursing schools and professional organisations such as the Kenya Paediatric Association and the Nursing Council of Kenya. This new update to the LIFE app adds three new training scenarios on the management of children with suspected covid-19.
Conrad Wanyama, a nurse from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme who led the development of the covid-19 clinical content, said:
“We have used official WHO guidance to develop a highly engaging training app for healthcare workers in Africa. The covid-19 scenarios use 3D animations and videos to show how to follow correct infection control procedures to safely and effectively manage children who are suspected of having covid-19.”
Dr Chris Paton, the lead researcher for LIFE from the University of Oxford, commented:
“Smartphones are now very commonly used by healthcare workers in Africa. After downloading the app for free to their phones, healthcare workers can now train anywhere that is convenient and learn the key steps they need to know to save lives in emergencies.”
Tuti Ng’ang’a, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, studied the effect of LIFE on healthcare workers’ learning gains. He said:
“There is a considerable learning gain between the first two rounds of learning for healthcare workers that use the LIFE app. My research showed that new approaches to adaptive feedback linked to how healthcare workers spaced their learning could improve learning gains further.”
Tuti’s research has just been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research: https://www.jmir.org/2020/7/e17100/
For further details, images and videos, or requests for interview, please contact:
Cynthia Mauncho, Head of Communication, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust, Research Programme
T: +254780547440 | E: firstname.lastname@example.org
Claire-Lise Kessler, Communications & information officer, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
T: +44 (0)1865 612 900 | E: email@example.com
LIFE Project, Oxford
Dr Chris Paton, Group Head for Global Health Informatics at the Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University
Notes to Editors
Life-saving Instruction for Emergences (LIFE) is a virtual reality and smartphone app delivering medical training through mobile and VR platforms. The platform was initially developed by clinicians and researchers at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and the University of Oxford, and its development has been supported by HTC, Oxford University Innovation, GCRF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, Saving Lives at Birth and Médecins Sans Frontières.
LIFE is available to download for free from http://www.oxlifeproject.org for smartphones or search for “Life-saving Instruction for Emergencies” on the Google Play Store.
Follow the LIFE project on twitter @oxlifeproject.org
About the University of Oxford
The Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford is a collection of research groups permanently based in Oxford, in Africa (Kenya, Uganda and DRC) and in Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and Nepal). Aiming to tackle infectious diseases, from malaria, TB and HIV to neglected tropical diseases and emerging infections, our research ranges from clinical studies to behavioural sciences, with capacity building integral to all of our activities.
Oxford University has been placed number 1 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for the fourth year running, and at the heart of this success is our ground-breaking research and innovation.
Oxford is world-famous for research excellence and home to some of the most talented people from across the globe. Our work helps the lives of millions, solving real-world problems through a huge network of partnerships and collaborations. The breadth and interdisciplinary nature of our research sparks imaginative and inventive insights and solutions.
Through its research commercialisation arm, Oxford University Innovation, Oxford is the highest university patent filer in the UK and is ranked first in the UK for university spinouts, having created more than 170 new companies since 1988. Over a third of these companies have been created in the past three years.
About the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a device or software application that monitors a network for malicious activity or policy violations. Any malicious activity or violation is typically reported or collected centrally using a security information and event management system. Some IDS’s are capable of responding to detected intrusion upon discovery. These are classified as intrusion prevention systems (IPS).
IDS Detection Types
There is a wide array of IDS, ranging from antivirus software to tiered monitoring systems that follow the traffic of an entire network. The most common classifications are:
- Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS): A system that analyzes incoming network traffic.
- Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS): A system that monitors important operating system files.
There is also subset of IDS types. The most common variants are based on signature detection and anomaly detection.
- Signature-based: Signature-based IDS detects possible threats by looking for specific patterns, such as byte sequences in network traffic, or known malicious instruction sequences used by malware. This terminology originates from antivirus software, which refers to these detected patterns as signatures. Although signature-based IDS can easily detect known attacks, it is impossible to detect new attacks, for which no pattern is available.
- Anomaly-based: a newer technology designed to detect and adapt to unknown attacks, primarily due to the explosion of malware. This detection method uses machine learning to create a defined model of trustworthy activity, and then compare new behavior against this trust model. While this approach enables the detection of previously unknown attacks, it can suffer from false positives: previously unknown legitimate activity can accidentally be classified as malicious.
IDS Usage in Networks
When placed at a strategic point or points within a network to monitor traffic to and from all devices on the network, an IDS will perform an analysis of passing traffic, and match the traffic that is passed on the subnets to the library of known attacks. Once an attack is identified, or abnormal behavior is sensed, the alert can be sent to the administrator.
Being aware of the techniques available to cyber criminals who are trying to breach a secure network can help IT departments understand how IDS systems can be tricked into not missing actionable threats:
- Fragmentation: Sending fragmented packets allow the attacker to stay under the radar, bypassing the detection system's ability to detect the attack signature.
- Avoiding defaults: A port utilized by a protocol does not always provide an indication to the protocol that’s being transported. If an attacker had reconfigured it to use a different port, the IDS may not be able to detect the presence of a trojan.
- Coordinated, low-bandwidth attacks: coordinating a scan among numerous attackers, or even allocating various ports or hosts to different attackers. This makes it difficult for the IDS to correlate the captured packets and deduce that a network scan is in progress.
- Address spoofing/proxying: attackers can obscure the source of the attack by using poorly secured or incorrectly configured proxy servers to bounce an attack. If the source is spoofed and bounced by a server, it makes it very difficult to detect.
- Pattern change evasion: IDS rely on pattern matching to detect attacks. By making slight adjust to the attack architecture, detection can be avoided.
Modern networked business environments require a high level of security to ensure safe and trusted communication of information between various organizations. An intrusion detection system acts as an adaptable safeguard technology for system security after traditional technologies fail. Cyber attacks will only become more sophisticated, so it is important that protection technologies adapt along with their threats.
How Barracuda Can Help
Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls have elevated beyond the tradition intrusion detection systems generally used by today's less advanced firewalls. The Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) of the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall strongly enhances network security by providing complete and comprehensive real-time network protection against a broad range of network threats. In addition, all Barracuda CloudGen Firewall models can apply IPS/IDS to SSL encrypted web traffic using the standard 'trusted man-in-the-middle' approach.
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On a recent Sunday afternoon, I made my way to the launch of the illustrated children’s book, Soumela and the Magic Kemenche by Dean Kalimniou. It was a cold day, a long drive, and my thoughts were drifting through a sea of disparate memories. I reminisced about the literally hundreds of book launches that I had attended over the last 40 years and how very much Australia’s Greek Diaspora had taken the basic premise of such an event and made it its own. Our book launches are celebrations, with long trestle tables laden with delectable sweet and savory treats, music is often incorporated in some way, there are presentations by dignitaries and large audience numbers. I knew that this launch would be enjoyable, but my every instinct told me that it would also be memorable – and I was right.
What immediately struck me, as I walked into the venue, was the intergenerational nature of those in attendance. There were many of our first-generation elders, many of us middle-aged second-generation sons and daughters, and many third-and fourth-generation grandchildren. I had not seen such a generational mix since the late, great Ekaterini Mpaloukas’ book launch of her children’s book, Zorro – and that was 16 years ago! I hope that this trend continues as including our littlest members in our community’s events is surely an important way to ensure that they actually get to hear our stories in all their variation and complexity.
The official launch was preceded by a number of fine introductory comments. Cathy Alexopoulos, the President of the Greek-Australian Cultural League, once again proved her dexterity in leadership by extending a warm, inclusive greeting to everyone, but most particularly to the children in the audience. Well-versed in the organisation of such events, she pointed out the undeniably crucial role the League has played in the promotion of writers and artists. Because of her prominent community role in steering the Cultural League for over two decades, it is easy to forget that she was a highly successful educator in another life.
The President of the Greek Community, Bill Papastergiadis, spoke – in fluent Greek – of issues ranging from the relevance of the book being launched in terms of his own family’s experience, through to the trauma of intergenerational conflict and its enduring impact. The Consul General of Greece in Melbourne, Emmanuel Kakavelakis, echoed these sentiments. Bishop Evmenios spoke beautifully about the imperative of our focussing on third- and fourth-generation offspring and the efforts that the church is going to in terms of adaptability. It bears pointing here that it was St Andrews Orthodox Press that edited and published the book, and for that they merit singular praise.
Soumela and the Magic Kemenche was launched by Panagiota Stavridou, a current teacher within the Greek Community’s language schools. Her address was heartfelt and interactive. She invited participation from the audience at certain points and included readings by children, by Jana Horn and Dean Kalimniou’s daughter, Helene, who inspired her father to put pen to paper in the first place. There was also a moving rendition of the text by 3XY radio’s Rena Frangioudakis, that reminded us all as to why she has ruled the Greek language airways for over 40 years. Ms Stavridou had visual representations in terms of adolescents standing next to her in traditional Pontian dress, while a young man – Kostas Kostidis – played the kamenche intermittently to haunting effect.
The book itself is a retelling of the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontus through a story centred on the experiences of a young girl called Soumela. It is infused with elements of magical realism, the essence of which is well-captured by the delightful illustrations of Stephanos Eleftheriadis. The faces of the children recall manga images thereby denoting a universality that such intercultural influences facilitate.
From the opening sentence it is clear that Kalimniou is an accomplished narrator, well-versed in the subtleties of stories that are passed down from one generation to the next: “a long, long time ago, long before the stories that we all know were first told, there was a little girl.” When war breaks out, the mother implores her beloved daughter to seek safety in the darkness of the forest. From there the little girl’s odyssey continues on to the Monastery ‘at the top of the mountain’ where she meets the old man with the magic komenche and its hypnotic sounds.
This is a publication that would be an asset to anyone teaching Modern Greek, particularly in the primary levels, although the bilingual text lends itself to fruitful analyses at higher levels as well. There are explanatory notes at the end where the historical details that inform the story are outlined. The focus on young protagonists and their fate in times of war, shines a spotlight on the heartbreaking reality of child refugees throughout the ages. The author gives voice to this in his dedication, “to all the mulberry stained children all over the world.” May Soumela and the Magic Kemenche travel well and widely – it richly deserves to do so!
Dr Konstandina Dounis teaches within the Faculty of Education at Monash University and facilitates academic educational programmes as part of the Monash Education Academy. Her latest publication is the translation into English of Litsa Nikolopoulou-Gogas’ memoir, Moments of Truth published by Australian Scholarly Publishing (2022). | <urn:uuid:3cbf0de1-49cd-4d09-8e86-c7ad364bacec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neoskosmos.com/en/2022/06/01/dialogue/opinion/childrens-book-launch-an-inspiration-for-community-cultural-activity-across-generations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971174 | 1,174 | 1.578125 | 2 |
39km (20 miles) SE of Naples
The beautiful Sorrento peninsula has been tempting travelers ever since Ulysses was forced to fill the ears of his sailors with wax and to tie himself to the mast of his ship to avoid the alluring call of the Sirens. Today, the pull of the sea and imposing rock-bound coast remain as compelling as they were in Homer’s day. Graceful old Sorrento is a lovely place, perched high atop a cliff gazing across the sea toward the isle of Capri. The spectacular but nerve-racking Amalfi Drive heads vertiginously east, clinging to cliffs and rounding one bend after another until it comes to Positano, a tile-domed village hugging a near-vertical rock, then to Amalfi, a little seaside town that was once the center of a powerful maritime republic.
As transporting as the green hillsides and azure seas are, as much as the scent of lemon and frangipani entices, be warned. The charms of Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast are no secret. American writer John Steinbeck let the cat out of the bag half a century ago when he wrote about a trip down the coast, “Flaming like a meteor we hit the coast, a road, high, high above the blue sea, that hooked and corkscrewed on the edge of nothing . . . . We didn't see much of the road. In the back seat my wife and I lay clutched in each other's arms, weeping hysterically.” He was fortunate—today, in the summer, you’ll be lucky to be moving at all, so crowded is the coast road. You’ll do yourself a favor to save the pleasure of a visit for the early spring or fall, before and after the summer crowds, and even then accept the fact that you will not have this slice of paradise to yourself. | <urn:uuid:0729ea16-9dd7-4493-83f4-4513eddefa4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.frommers.com/destinations/sorrento | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963215 | 404 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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Naphill and Walters Ash School
At NWAS it is our intent that the curriculum meets the needs of all our pupils. It is our Intent that our children use and show the 5Rs in their learning and personal skills, and as they get older they do so more and more. Many of our Foundation subjects are taught as topics making meaningful links. Where possible, English is linked to topics so as to provide a purpose for writing and for the children to use their knowledge in a written form.
Planning ensures what is covered meets National Curriculum requirements and that work follows on from unit to unit over time. However, we do have many children who join throughout the Key Stages so our curriculum allows for their learning needs to be met. No child is disadvantaged if they did not do a prior topic. Where possible, links to previous learning are made so new children have some context for what they are doing.
Our curriculum is broad and balanced; we try to give all children the opportunity to have experiences that enhance their learning through trips and visitors to school. At the heart of our curriculum is a focus on reading. We know that being able to decode and comprehend is key to our children’s success. Phonics teaching in Yr R and KS1 ensures that children have a good base to build their reading skills on; where we identify children need extra support the school puts it in place.
It is also our intent that what we teach meets the needs of the children as global citizens; we approach social issues openly and encourage the children to become aware of what is going on around them.
As well as the skills/attributes the 5Rs give the children we have sequenced our topics and subjects so that there is not just progress in knowledge but in skills too.
Why decided on this? We felt that skills and the 5Rs underpin everything we should be doing with our children. Due to our mobility, children who arrive from abroad, even other schools from within England will come with different subject knowledge. When with us if we can ensure the skills progress then whenever they leave us they can take those with them. We would hope that they can then apply these to whatever setting they go to.
This is even the case for our children who are with us all the way through; we send to most secondary schools in our wider area and so we know each of those will have a different approach to languages, music, even the core subjects. We have to ensure our children are ready for their secondary education and again, as well as knowledge it will be skills and the 5Rs that will give them a solid base to move forwards.
The teachers have worked together to plan the subjects for their year group; all staff have reviewed those plans to ensure progression and coverage. Teachers have reviewed plans before and during Covid 19 have ensured, as far as possible, that the curriculum did not ‘narrow.’
Teachers are able to adapt some subjects e.g. PSHE and esafety when something beyond school occurs so the children are supported in all aspects of their learning. The teachers and senior leaders are constantly aware of the need to ensure that what we teach is meaningful.
Our curriculum does not stand still.
All pupils access all subjects and if they need extra support in key areas it is put in place in a variety of ways.
The aim is that when a child leaves us, at no matter what stage, they are ready for their next school. We want our children to show the 5Rs in everything that they do both academic and personal. Impact is more than results: it is about enjoyment and engagement, a willingness to learn and succeed.
5Rs and the Curriculum
Reflect – we want our children to be able to take time and reflect on what they have learnt. Reflecting on ‘learning’ is essential to be a good ‘learner.’ We also give our children time to reflect on their behaviour so that they can see the impact of their actions.
Responsibility – we encourage our children to take responsibility for all aspects of their school life, from looking after their belongings to having the correct equipment to trying hard in lessons.
Resourcefulness – we want our children to be independent people; they will need to be resourceful and this starts here at school. They should be able to find the correct equipment; think ahead to what they will need. Many will leave us and go to a number of different schools so they have to be able to think about what they need as they move on.
Reasoning – our children have to be able to think through what they have done and why they have done it; this links closely to being able to reflect. We help our children to see the links between their work and why they need to do certain things. We also look at the impact of their actions and experiences and guide them through what has happened, and why.
Resilience – above all, our children have to be resilient: they live in a constantly changing world and to succeed they need to be resilient. They have to accept things will go wrong; they will find somethings harder than others; there will be subjects they are not so keen on but they still have to do their best and make their own improvements.
Our intent for the 5RS is that they are evident in planning and teaching. We want our children to be able to take these onto whichever school they go to. These, combined with a good, broad knowledge base will allow them to succeed in the next stage of their education. | <urn:uuid:1b77e959-210a-4c7c-b657-acb5a19ce1c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naphillandwaltersashschool.co.uk/our-school/curriculum-overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.980395 | 1,164 | 3.015625 | 3 |
North Korea celebrated the birthday of its founding leader on Friday, state media reported, but mystery surrounded when a military parade — at which the regime may unveil new weapons — might happen.
Known as the Day of the Sun in the nuclear-armed North, the April 15 birthday of the late Kim Il Sung — grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un — is one of the most important dates in Pyongyang’s political calendar.
There has been a steady drumbeat of celebratory coverage in state media leading up to the day, including commemorative stamps, light festivals, dance parties and floral tributes.
“I came to see the lighting festival with my daughter. Looking at it today, it’s really cool. The most impressive thing in particular is this one that says ‘self-reliance’,” Ri Bom Chol, a 40-year-old doctor, told an AFP reporter in Pyongyang.
The anniversary celebrations come three weeks after North Korea staged its largest intercontinental ballistic missile test ever — the first time Kim’s most powerful weapons had been fired at full range since 2017.
That test was the culmination of a record-breaking blitz of sanctions-busting launches this year and signalled an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range and nuclear tests.
Analysts along with South Korean and US officials had widely expected Pyongyang to mark April 15 with a military parade to unveil new weaponry, or even a test of the country’s banned nuclear weapons.
But there was no mention Friday in state media of any such event. The official KCTV reported only that there would be a “grand performance” Friday evening, followed by fireworks.
Seoul-based specialist site NK News said its sources in the North heard helicopters and jets flying low over Pyongyang very early Friday, hinting at a military parade.
But an analysis of satellite imagery later Friday suggested no parade had taken place, the site added.
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Another expert said it now seemed likely Pyongyang’s main military parade would be held on April 25 — the anniversary of the founding of the North Korean army.
“Since the two anniversaries are just 10 days apart, it seems a bit difficult to hold a parade on both occasions,” Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies, told AFP.
On previous anniversaries, Pyongyang has broadcast footage of military parades on state TV many hours after the events were held, and not flagged them in advance in official newspapers.
Seoul military officials said they had no immediate information to share on a possible parade in Pyongyang, but the unification ministry said it was “closely monitoring” the situation.
Kim Il Sung died in 1994 but is the country’s “eternal president”, and his preserved body lies in state in a red-lit chamber at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the outskirts of the capital.
North Koreans are taught from birth to revere Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, and all adults wear badges depicting one or both men.
“As the days go by the yearning for the great leader is growing,” Ri Gwang Hyok, 33, told an AFP reporter in Pyongyang as they visited statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
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Language brokering is a prevalent phenomenon in ethnic minority immigrant populations. Although accruing evidence points to the beneficial impacts of healthy role identity development, research investigating the formation of a language broker role identity in language brokering adolescents is lacking in the literature. In a sample of 604 Latinx adolescents (54.3% female; Mage at Time 1 = 12.41, SD = .97), structured equation modeling was conducted with maternal warmth and hostility examined as antecedents and adolescents’ life meaning as a mediator for language broker role identities. Results revealed that life meaning mediated the positive association from maternal warmth to language broker role identity. However, the negative association from maternal hostility to language broker role identity was no longer significant when accounting for maternal warmth. Corroborating extant findings, reciprocal relations were observed between maternal parenting practices, life meaning and language broker role identity. The results attest to the importance of investigating culturally specific role identity development in immigrant populations and demonstrates the role of maternal parenting practices in affecting adolescents’ role identity formation, albeit with contrasting gender effects. | <urn:uuid:b96aebd1-8a4d-4d3e-a259-ecd360f2c325> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mijn.bsl.nl/parenting-and-centrality-the-role-of-life-meaning-as-a-mediator-/16309044 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.92703 | 219 | 1.75 | 2 |
Tritium vs fiber optic sights, both are well sought-after choices. However, the question is, which one works for you? That’s why you must know the difference between tritium sights and fiber optic sights to serve the best for your ideal purpose. So let’s delve into the details quickly.
When it comes to choosing the sight for guns, everyone has their own opinion. If you didn’t know, defensive gun sights have a long history dating back to the 1400s. So coming back, even though both tritium and fiber optic sights can line up the shots perfectly in their unique way, you should be able to choose the one that’s right for you.
Fiber optic sights have aiming points installed with fiber optic material, typically glass or plastic, that absorbs and transmits light to help align your sight towards the target. They work best in the daylight when the sun shines bright. They also glow in low-light situations and can be used for indoor shooting games.
Fiber optic sights have a clear advantage over other types of sights because they need light to become bright. They are also easier to use in low-light conditions, and due to their ability to be seen from a distance, they can help with greater accuracy. Moreover, they are easy to use and are the best when it comes to rapid shooting. Usually, most manufacturers offer a green front dot and two red rear dots to distinguish and enhance the visibility of sights. However, you can change them all red or all green depending on your preference.
● Good accuracy
● Works best in daylight and low-light
● Low cost
● They are fragile
● Not ideal for poor lighting
Tritium sights, commonly called night sights or tritium night sights, are widely used in duty pistols with iron sights. They appear as white dots in the daylight and glow during the night (glow in the dark, green color). Tritium glows on its own. To be precise, it does not need any external light source to illuminate it. So tritium sights are all you need for no-light conditions (but obviously, your target should be in light for you to see). To best explain, if you are all alone on a night (dark night), doomed, and all you have is a tritium sight pistol, you already are a winner. Even though tritium is great for night time use, it has a less than stellar daytime performance. They're not the best option during daylight hours and don't work well in bright sunlight. Nowadays, many manufacturers provide guns with tritium sights, but if you don’t have one, you can install tritium vials with the help of a gunsmith. Keep in mind that high-quality vials last for about ten years. Find out more about trinium here.
● Works best in complete darkness or poor lighting
● Naturally green, which is easy on the eyes
● The glow is unnoticeable at daylight
● Low-grade tritium does not glow bright
● Good quality tritium is expensive
Both tritium and fiber optic sights help your aim. But which one makes a better option for you depends on your lifestyle and why you use them. Precisely, whether you use them for self-defense, competition, or for your job requirements and whether it’s daytime or night determines the best one for you. Some guns come with both fiber optic and tritium sights to overcome the limitations of each.
I switched to a fiber front and black rear sight on my concealed carry. I am able to see the sight picture clearly at night, even under low light conditions.
The Tritium gas tube is easy to view in daylight or in low light conditions because of its glowing color that matches the brightness of your surroundings. The Fiber Optic Sights have a thinner profile compared to other types of sights which makes it easier for them not only fit in most standard handguards, but also in wider handguards.
Final Words- If you use handguns mainly at night or if your work involves traveling late at night, tritium sights are the most desirable choice. Otherwise, fiber optic sights are the best options as they work great both in bright and low lights. However, the choice is yours.
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And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Mark 2:27
Interesting concept, Lord!
The Sabbath, the last day of a Jewish week, is a day of rest from work for the people. Unfortunately, however, the people being misled by the Pharisees lost the understanding of what rest really is.
Jesus, in correcting the Pharisees, stated that rest was made for man and not man for rest. In other words, the Sabbath is a gift, not an imposing tradition to be kept like a leash or yoke on the neck.
Jesus preached man’s freedom to enjoy what God has freely given as against what the Pharisees preached, that man should struggle for what God has given. The Pharisees had a labor mentality. Jesus had a rest mentality.
Remember that in Christ Jesus, God the Father has called you into one huge Sabbath. Endeavor to enjoy yourself in it. Don’t have a labor mentality no matter what you do or go through. Have a rest mentality.
God has not created you for the rest He has made available; instead, he made the rest for you. So come into the things of God, considering all He has done for you. Work in God from a mindset of rest. Approach life like everything has been prepared for you already. Don’t let the pharisee mindset get you down.
Rest is for you. Don’t sweat to achieve it. Receive it.
Father, it is Your Word that gives me comfort and hope. Help me to let Your words sink deep into my soul. May I trust your promises to be true no matter what my circumstances may be. May I be blessed with peace of mind and rest. I trust You, O God. Thank You for answering my prayers. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. | <urn:uuid:0d1a8c36-3462-4191-ae01-75f0133675cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://womanofgod.com/mark-2-27/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.963189 | 401 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Necessity: Poems 1996-2006 by Barry Hill
papertiger media, 2007
The lines below, part of the long poem 'Canto 1: Ice', go some way towards representing the tension that exists within Barry Hill's fifth collection of poetry. Written over ten years, some of the poems in Necessity: Poems 1996-2006 are political poems, some are spiritual poems, some are nature poems; many are all three. Necessity gives no easy answers and is difficult to categorise because it reads as a record of its creator's confusion, passions and ambitions. These things are never easy to codify, especially through poetry, an art form that, at its best, subverts the literal and reveals the subterranean:
Don't tell me all poetry is political
when rain is not the lake
any more than the river
the ocean, the ocean
sky. OK, Sky.
Although Hill is an award-winning poet, and The Australian newspaper's poetry editor, he is possibly better known for his prose. Hill's biography of linguist T. G. H. Strehlow won Victorian and NSW Premier's Awards, the National Biography Award and the Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Award among other prizes. An Overland essay, 'The Mood We're In: circa Australia Day 2004', received the 2004 Victorian Premier's Alfred Deakin Award for Best Essay. His fiction, travel writing and histories have also been widely recognised.
Throughout Hill's writing life, however, poetry has been a constant companion and compulsion. 'I've always written poetry,' Hill has said on the publisher's website in reference to this latest collection, 'but the task of finishing long prose projects has often prevented me from sending them out. In Necessity I've pulled together the poems that have helped me stay sane – politically – over the last ten years or so.'
Politics, and Hill's dialectical relationship with political engagement, certainly lies at the heart of many of the fifty-odd poems included in Necessity. References to the legacy of numerous political struggles and thinkers from the past can be found here. Many of the poems also seem to have emerged from Hill's attempts to make sense of historical and political narratives. In 'Poland', for example
I walk into the shape
of an idea, ease the tired foot
into its straps, only to slip
on the cobbles
end up in the ditch.
Start again. Think more.
The book opens with a recollection of the poet's father's funeral. It is a Union burial; the 'solid pack' surrounding the grave suggests the poet's cultural and political background. The theme of collective, working-class politics becomes a motif as Necessity's scope widens.
In the second poem the image of a young tradesman waiting for a train provokes spirals of memory, imagination and questioning. Although there is a resolution to this poem, with the poet passing through the city's 'putrid petrochemical parade' to his wife and home by the sea, Necessity is just getting started and the reader understands that this is going to be an obsessively roaming exploration of politics, history, philosophy and family.
The fifteen poems that make up the 'Gramsci in Prison' sequence are complex, carefully-rendered pieces that contain most of the themes found throughout the collection. Drawing extensively on letters written by the famous communist author and politician after his arrest under the Mussolini regime, the poems are both intense and tender. In places the Gramsci poems explore fatherhood and the experience of being a son, themes that repeatedly animate Necessity. Together they are an imaginative testament to Antonio Gramsci's resilience in the face of sensory deprivation, torture and depression. In 'Ravings (Turi, summer, 1933)', for example:
Over the Alps,
the glass is shattering –
just outside his window
out of hearing
he is toothless
vertebrae eaten away –
filing away my nerves
History, its subliminal roar
as he tries to forgive himself
I have lost all capacity for rational reaction
Thematically and stylistically, the Gramsci poems are among the book's most effective. Elsewhere, some of the poems are structured in fairly regular two, three or four line stanzas. But many more feature surprising line breaks and a register that necessitates successive readings to grasp both meaning and rhythm.
At first, some of the enjambment and diction appeared frustratingly solipsistic. Indeed, there are poems in this collection that explore the frustration of searching for words to express thought. But listening to Hill read from Necessity at its Melbourne Writer's Festival launch, I was struck by the alternating weariness and vigour with which he pronounced his lines. Hearing the poems read in this way sent me back to the book, and to a new understanding of the honesty of its content – its density and sparseness – and the integrity of the content's influence on form.
Yet, while Necessity has deservedly been praised for its intellectual scope, Hill is often at his most vivid (and most accessible) when he concentrates on placing image on image to portray an event, as in 'Shelley's Casa Magni, Lerici':
A stolid cargo ship squats
on the horizon. Flagging it
here on shore, the cypress pines
await the evening air, the sea
mist, the furling of umbrellas.
In the poems set in Italy and India particularly, a fascination with the minutiae of the physical world illustrates the poet's discovery of a space beyond his dialectics. Accumulated political rhetoric ('I'm up to my knees in slogans,/peeling flesh off polemic,/flicking bones off the verandah') and 'the rosaries of analysis' have been transcended, although politics has not been abandoned. In the later poems the poet finds contentment in the observance and recording of his surroundings. The final poem in the collection shows the poet returning to a Buddhist temple in Darjeeling, weary from his travels but seemingly revitalised.
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The Clark Center, began with the inspiration of Alvin Ailey in 1959 and closed its doors in 1989. From 1959-89, The Clark Center for the Performing Arts became a haven for black dancers who, at that time, did not have ample opportunity to study or have access to quality teaching and rehearsal space. The Center provided dancers the opportunity to study technique, choreography and explore their talents. Clark Center NYC is dedicated to preserving the history and continuing the legacy of The Clark Center for the Performing Arts.
On September 28, Clark Center NYC will begin a weeklong residency at City College Center for the Arts. The residency, which will pay tribute to the legendary Clark Center for the Performing Arts, will include master classes, a panel discussion, and two nights of performances of From the Horse’s Mouth, Oct. 1 and 2. All events will take place at Aaron Davis Hall.
With participation by more than 20 Clark Center alumni including Carmen de Lavallade, Loretta Abbott, Meredith Monk, and Sheila Rohan, the From the Horse’s Mouth production will feature a unique blend of movement, storytelling and supportive visual imagery to bring memories of The Clark Center for the Performing Arts vividly to life.
Tina Croll, co-creator and director of From the Horse’s Mouth, and Jill Williams, Director of Clark Center NYC, sat down recently to answer some questions The Dance Enthusiast posed about the upcoming tribute performances. Here are excerpts from the conversation sent in as a POSTCARD TO THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST.
THE DANCE ENTHUSIAST: Tina, tell us about the “Horses Mouth” concept, and a bit about how you and Jill Williams got together. How did From the Horse’s Mouth wind up working with Clark Center NYC?
TINA CROLL: Jamie Cunningham and I started From the Horse’s Mouth in 1998, wanting to allow our amazing dancer friends a format where they could express themselves verbally as well as physically. The stories they shared were a major part of their lives. The From the Horse’s Mouth concept became like a living history, revealing the inner life of dance.
JILL WILLIAMS: About three years ago, as Clark Center NYC was trying to establish our 'footprint', Clark Center choreographer Sandra Burton and I approached Tina and Jamie about doing this project. I had just seen a performance of FTHM and thought it was a great vehicle to begin to share the Clark Center story. Since that first meeting, Clark Center NYC has made itself known on various levels, with programs, panel discussions and archival projects. Check this link to see what we’ve been up to: See Clark Center NYC's website
TDE: How did you and Jamie Cunningham originate From the Horses Mouth? The concept? Describe your first performance? When did you know you hit onto something great?
TINA: Jamie and I were sharing a program of our work old and new, and then decided we really should do something together. We wanted to include our wonderful dancer friends, but needed to create a simple structure for performance, to be learned in just a few rehearsals, because everyone is always so busy. So we created a format where dancers could express themselves with personal stories (limit, two minutes!), memories and anecdotes. The stories they tell are a major part of FTHM.
Our first performance was at Joyce Soho in 1998, with twelve dancers in each performance. The cast changed each night. Participants included Pat Catterson, H.T. Chen, Yoshiko Chuma, Ze’eva Cohen, Jane Comfort, Terry Creach, Carmen de Lavallade, Stuart Hodes, Deborah Jowitt, Elizabeth Keen, Sharon Kinney, Stephan Koplowitz, Muriel Manings, Jim Martin, Wendy Perron, Kathryn Posin, Sara Rudner, Sally Silvers, Gus Solomons Jr., Linda Tarnay, and Cathryn Williams.
We knew after the first performance that we’d hit on something great. There were huge cheers and a standing ovation at every performance. The audience loved hearing the stories, and being able to get to know the dancers personally--to see the “real” person behind those gorgeous dance moves!
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TDE: What do you love about this work? How many groups have you and Jamie put into this format and for how many years have you done so?
TINA: Jamie and I LOVE LOVE doing this piece. We love getting to know a new group of dancers and hearing their stories. Over 1,000 dancers have performed in From the Horse’s Mouth over the past 17 years.
TDE: We love the whimsy of the concept and find that it is very “dance enthusiastic'” in its spirit, i.e. sharing the important individual/personal stories in the dance world. What have been some of your favorite stories-- ones that surprised you, or touched you?
TINA: Two of my favorites are Jason Samuels Smith and Pablo Ruvalcaba--here’s a video of that performance (see below). There really were so many wonderful stories over the years…
TDE: Why is it important for us today to focus on the history of the Clark Center for the Performing Arts? What does it mean to you to be part of Clark Center NYC, and what are your goals for the organization in the future? What is it that we can take away and learn from it?
JILL: Those of us who were affiliated with Clark Center (between 1959 -1989) knew that our affiliation with the Center--as students, teachers, choreographers, dancers--was special. Clark Center for the Performing Arts was a dance studio (with incredible faculty), producers of emerging companies (many who continue to impact the dance world) and a community.
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This week marks National Hygiene Week – a week which aims to highlight the very real problem of hygiene poverty across the UK.
An estimated 14m people in the UK are said to be facing hygiene poverty – being unable to access the basic items needed to keep clean, be they shower gel or soap, toothbrushes or sanitary protection.
And in light of the coronavirus pandemic, the situation is only going to get worse.
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What is National Hygiene Week?
National Hygiene Week, which runs from September 14-20, brings hygiene poverty into focus through events and challenges aimed at raising awareness of the issue.
The campaign is run by The Hygiene Bank, a charity which was founded by Lizzy Hall after seeing the Ken Loach movie I, Daniel and realising that those living in poverty would be struggling to afford the basics of hygiene as well as other essentials such as food..
“It’s not right that keeping clean should be a luxury or a privilege for anyone in our society. Hygiene poverty exists, closer to home than you think, and it’s unjust,” says Lizzy.
‘Those who don’t have the means to access hygiene products can be held back from fully participating and contributing to society. It can lead to a crippling lack of confidence and leave those affected feeling isolated, excluded, shamed, bullied and humiliated. It impacts mental and physical health and reduces opportunities for education, training or employment.’
What does The Hygiene Bank do?
The Hygiene Bank provides essential hygiene and personal care products to those living in poverty.
The charity collects new, unused and in-date toiletries, hygiene basics, beauty, personal care and cleaning essentials, which are then distributed to those most in need.
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The charity’s mission is ‘to bring communities together to tackle hygiene poverty by providing essential products to those of us locked in poverty.’
You can find out more at their website – where you can also find details of where and how you can donate.
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Typical applications of the FFT I/O are to create a spectrum analyzer to examine the frequency response of a system or to examine the harmonic distortion in a system.
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The Fast Fourier Transform treats the input signal as if it was a periodical signal. In other words, it assumes the signal is an infinitely long series of repetitions of the record. In practice, mostly the record does not contain an integer number of cycles of the signal. Therefore, if the end of the record is connected to the beginning, a discontinuity will arise, which results in extra frequency components in the resulting spectrum. This effect is called spectral leakage.
To minimize the effect of spectral leakage, the input record of the FFT can be multiplied with a Window. This is called windowing. Several windows can be chosen in the menu of the FFT I/O, which all basically perform the same action: they make the edges of the record smoother to make the discontinuities smaller. In most cases, the Blackman-Harris window will give the best results. However, if your data contains an integer number of cycles, the rectangle (no windowing) window will give the best result. The following window functions are available for the FFT-block:
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Measurement data range
The data range over which the FFT is calculated can be set to one of the following settings:
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- Pre samples only: Use only the pre samples to perform the FFT calculation.
Limit data size to powers of 2
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Enabling the setting Limit data size to powers of 2 will make the FFT I/O use the faster algorithm, where the largest possible "power of 2" amount of samples from the selected data range is used. When the setting is disabled, the full selected data range is used.
Common properties and actions
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