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Catholic Education: Distinctive and Inclusive
Springer Science & Business Media, 2001 M10 31 - 231 páginas
How coherent is the claim that Catholic education is both distinctive and inclusive? This question, so crucial, both for the adequate articulation of a raison d'être for Catholic schools all over the world and also for the promotion of their healthy functioning, has not hitherto been addressed critically. Here it receives penetrating analysis and constructive resolution in a comprehensive treatment that integrates theological, philosophical and educational perspectives. The argument draws on wide-ranging scholarship, offering new insights into the relevance for Catholic education of thinkers whose work has been relatively neglected. The advance in understanding of how distinctiveness relates to inclusiveness is underpinned by the author's lengthy experience of teaching and leadership in Catholic schools; it is further informed by his extended and continuing dialogue with Catholic educators at all levels and in many different countries.
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Natural gas, electricity prices fall for Slovenian households in Q4
Average natural gas prices for household consumers in Slovenia decreased by 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, while electricity prices for household consumers decreased by 8%, figures from the Ljubljana-based Central Statistical Bureau (SURS) showed on Friday.
The average natural gas price for household consumers in Slovenia in the fourth quarter of 2020 was EUR 0.05/kWh (kilowatt-hour), which is a 4% decrease over the previous quarter.
The average natural gas price without value-added tax (VAT) for non-household consumers in the fourth quarter of 2020 was EUR 0.03/kWh, which is a 9% increase over the previous quarter. Meanwhile, the average electricity price for household consumers in Q4 was EUR 0.16/kWh, which is an 8% decrease over the previous quarter.
The average electricity price without VAT for non-household consumers stayed the same at EUR 0.09/kWh. In the first half of 2020 natural gas price with all taxes for household consumers in Slovenia (20 - 200 gigajoule (GJ) or 5,5 56 - 55,556 kWh of annual consumption) represented 89% of the EU-27 average. For non-household consumers the natural gas price without VAT (10,000–100,000 GJ or 2,777,778 - 27,777,778 kWh of annual consumption) represented 94% of the EU-27 average.
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Families entering the U.S. illegally are being separated, and U.S. Rep. John Katko is among those who are criticizing the Trump administration’s policy.
Despite President Donald Trump’s claim that Democrats are to blame, the policy his administration implemented calls for children to be separated from their parents if they are caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials believe the policy will reduce the number of immigrants entering the country illegally.
But bipartisan members of Congress who have visited the border recently have criticized the “zero-tolerance” policy. Media reports have shown children being held in chain-linked cages.
“We must keep our borders secure, however, we must do so in a humane way that preserves family unity and keeps young children safe,” Katko, R-Camillus, said in a statement. “I urge the administration to prioritize these principles in enforcing the laws of this country.”
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Such is the importance of the work and legacy of the late Bryan Sykes, I thought I would turn my appreciation for his investigations into a trilogy. On November 1, 2013, the U.K.’’s Channel 4 put out a press release that outlined the facts concerning a new documentary the channel was about to air on Zana, one which, finally, was about to lay the matter to rest. It read, in part: “Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, has carried out DNA tests on saliva samples taken from descendants of Zana – a so-called ‘wild woman’ captured in the late 19th century in southern Russia, who local people believe was an ‘Almasty.’ Professor Sykes’ research (part of a worldwide analysis of alleged Bigfoot samples), has yielded a remarkable result: that Zana’s ancestry was 100% Sub-Saharan African and that she was most probably a slave brought to the region by the ruling Ottomans.”
The story is nowhere over yet: “His findings feature in a new Channel 4 documentary series, Bigfoot Files (November 3rd), presented by Mark Evans, who is on a global quest to unlock the real story of Bigfoot. Zana’s story is extraordinary. She is said to have been captured in the forests of Abkhazia, a remote part of Russia’s Caucasus region, in the 1870s. Imprisoned, it’s said, for two decades by a local landowner, she was described by eyewitnesses as being ‘very big, strong, her whole body covered with hair’. Chillingly, Zana had four children with local men. Russia’s ‘Almasty Hunters’ have been obsessed with her story for over half a century and have always believed that Zana could be a surviving Neanderthal, the human-like species that is thought to have died out tens of thousands of years ago.”
Channel 4 continued, and explained the background to Professor Sykes’ work and conclusions: “To answer the riddle and establish what species she belonged to, Professor Sykes has tested samples from six of Zana’s living descendants. He has also recovered DNA from a tooth taken from the skull of one of her sons, Khwit. Such work is highly specialized and Sykes was the first geneticist ever to extract DNA from ancient bone. The results are complex and fascinating. First, they show that Zana was, in fact, no more Neanderthal than many of the rest of modern humans. When the Neanderthal genome was sequenced in 2010 it became clear that Europeans and Asians contain around 2 to 4% of Neanderthal DNA; almost certainly the result of interbreeding.
“‘But the big surprise in Sykes’ results was that Zana’s DNA is not Caucasian at all, but African. Khwit’s tooth sample confirms her maternal African ancestry and the saliva tests on the six living descendants show that they all contain African DNA in the right proportions for Zana to have been genetically 100% sub-Saharan African. The most obvious solution that springs to mind is that Zana or her ancestors were brought from Africa to Abkhazia as slaves, when it was part of the slave trading Ottoman Empire, to work as servants or laborers,’ says Professor Sykes. ‘While the Russians ended slavery when they took over the region in the late 1850s, some Africans remained behind. Was Zana one of them, who was living wild in the forest when she was captured?’”
It was an entirely valid question. As Channel 4 rightly noted, however: “That theory would not explain her extraordinary features, described by reliable eyewitnesses. The amazing story, and the attendant, astounding discoveries of Professor Sykes were far from over. An even more sensational discovery was made, as Channel 4 highlighted: ‘Having carefully studied the skull of Zana’s son, Khwit, Professor Sykes believes there are some unusual morphological skull features – such as very wide eye sockets, an elevated brow ridge and what appears to be an additional bone at the back of the skull – that could suggest ancient, as opposed to modern, human origins. And Sykes has raised the bold theoretical possibility that Zana could be a remnant of an earlier human migration out of Africa, perhaps tens of thousands, of years ago. If correct, Zana could be evidence of a hitherto unknown human ‘tribe,’ dating from a distant time when the human species was still evolving and whose ancestors were forced into remote regions, like the Caucasus mountains, by later waves of modern humans coming out of Africa.”
Zana may not have been an Almasty or a surviving Neanderthal, but the astonishing conclusion that she may well have originated with “a hitherto unknown human ‘tribe’” most assuredly leaves the door open for the possibility of other, “hitherto unknown” humans inhabiting the wilder parts of the planet – and, maybe, some of them are more ape-like than human. | <urn:uuid:ec875eed-f62d-4172-92ac-c5bfec927336> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truthuncoveredtv.com/index.php/2020/12/23/a-trilogy-of-importance-more-about-bryan-sykes-and-wild-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.975343 | 1,077 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Cities continue to grow in population and the number of individuals living in urban areas keeps rising unceasingly. Together with the population, pollution and resource exploitation are also growing, which puts sustainability at the heart of the future development of large urban centers. Combating pollution and reducing the overall environmental impact of big cities is vital when planning metropolitan upgrading measures. Urban forestation programs bring green back to cities, reduce pollution, and improve city dwellers’ quality of life, while defending biodiversity of metropolitan areas, and it may become a true and proper route to sustainable growth.
The term “urban forestation” refers to the planning and development of new and existing green urban and suburban areas, making nature a protagonist in this landscape. There are numerous options for increasing green spaces: for example, it is possible to create public or private metropolitan woods, vegetable gardens, tree-lined streets, public parks, as well as green roofs and facades. Creating green and flowery areas also allows the bees to be brought back to the city, which play a fundamental role in the prosperity of the flora.
However, no such project could reach its goal without scalability and a systematic and well-planned long-term programming to minimize urban emissions and dramatically improve residents’ quality of life.
According to a report by the UN’s International Resource Panel, which is part of the UN’s Environment Program (Unep), by 2050, up to 2.5 billion people will have moved to cities, resulting in a 125% increase in natural resource usage. We cannot ignore the reality that a metropolitan area contains resources and energy, which are eventually returned to the environment as waste, pollution, and land consumption. Even though they only account for a few percentage points of the global area, they are responsible for more than 70% of greenhouse gas emissions, 60% of energy consumption (ESPAS), and local temperature rises due to the urban heat island effect. The closer to urban centers, the more vegetation cover decreases and soil sealing increases, causing urban forests to become critical to the protection of urban soils and the associated biodiversity. Urban forests, in fact, store nearly as much carbon per hectare (178 tonnes C per ha) as tropical forests (190 tonnes C per ha), indicating that their contribution to carbon storage is significant (Wilkes et al., 2018).
Many governments and municipalities are already recognizing the importance of this issue and are mobilizing in order to develop effective plans and policies for urban development. In fact, there are programs and bands predisposed to finance and incentivize urban forestation projects, demonstrating how crucial it is now to promote such initiatives.
Urban reforestation is happening!
UrbanShift is a GEF-funded program based in Washington DC helping more than 20 communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America embrace integrated urban development approaches, resulting in more efficient, resilient, and inclusive urban areas. Their planning methods go across traditional municipal sectors and take advantage of the many benefits that nature-based solutions and the circular economy have to offer. They also support progressive land use, low-carbon transportation, and community-focused projects in order to reach the goal of healthier communities, valued and protected ecosystems and neutralized carbon emissions.
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To Build Trust as a Leader, Inspire With Words Backed by Action
In Braveheart, Mel Gibson’s character (William Wallace) cries “Alba gu bràth" as he and his men forge boldly into battle. The Gaelic phrase, which means roughly "Scotland forever,” gave the troops something to rally around and inspired them to remember why they were fighting. Such a rallying cry is useful in the battle of day-to-day business as well because it brings commitment, emotion and grit to the team’s goals.
But there’s one big, fat catch. Imagine the troops geared up for battle, ready to bare their bums and risk their lives, but William Wallace at home sipping a pint. Not only would the movie never have been made, but the people never would’ve followed. Leaders must be involved for initiatives to gain traction. They must believe what they’re teaching and eat their own dog food. (I’ll explain.)
Think about the areas in your life that generate the most passion and commitment from you. For me, it’s the belief that I create my own success. I believe it so wholeheartedly that I never accept an excuse or victim mindset from myself, my kids or my employees. This belief is tied to my own experiences, and I have personal stories to support it. I can’t expect my team to buy in to this concept if I don’t believe it for myself.
A strong belief brings emotion with it. Emotion is necessary to create buy-in. Think about it: Your favorite movies are the ones that make you cry, or laugh, or want to throw your popcorn at the screen. Emotion makes us care. When we care, we can ask our team to care without compromising our integrity. This positions the team to reach the company’s goals.
Let’s face it: We all get tired sometimes and can lose sight of our goals or lose faith in even our strongest beliefs. This is equally true in the office. A strong company needs grit to hang on to the beliefs when they need them most.
By walking the walk, you will inspire your team at the beginning of the journey and will also spur them to action when the momentum slows. This is where you have to eat your own dog food. This saying is accredited to Microsoft, who originally used it to refer to software companies using their own development tools. Over three decades later, this vivid image describes any area where you must practice what you preach. If you truly believe in your product, you will use it in your own life and business.
So rally your troops. Remind them why they work the long hours or pursue a client or try new strategies yet again. Your rallying cry will bring commitment, emotion and grit, but only if you lead out front by your actions, not only by your words. Believe your own message. Enjoy your own dog food.
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After 27 years of convincing you to fill your closet with his ever-popular fashion footwear, designer Steve Madden is hoping he can persuade you to do something else: Believe in second chances.
The shoe mogul was on hand at the iPic Theater Thursday night for the New York premiere of his documentary “Maddman: The Steve Madden Story.” Directed by Ben Patterson, the film chronicles Madden’s early life and the tumultuous (nearly) three decades — and counting — he has spent as the creative force behind his multibillion-dollar eponymous firm. Madden’s drug addiction, marriage to and divorce from his company’s first employee, Wendy Ballew, and two-year stint in prison for securities fraud and money laundering make for a compelling tale that is sure to create new context for shoe lovers who have donned the designer’s popular wares for years without knowing his story.
But Madden is hoping the film sends a very specific message to a certain kind of viewer.
“There are some people in my mind that I’m hoping this film reaches — I have a prototype of a person,” Madden told Footwear News when the publication caught up with him ahead of Thursday’s premiere. “They’re like 25-year-old guys — could be women, too — who are idiots and are on the wrong track in their life and people are giving up on them. I’ve seen people give up because people give up on [them] and it makes [them] give up, too. It’s about second chances — don’t quit before the miracle because life is very difficult. It can be wonderful, but it can also be [tough], and you have to be able to deal with that.”
Seven years in the making, the film — available for rental and purchase on Amazon and iTunes today — features cameos from fashion industry veterans and editors including Lord & Taylor president Liz Rodbell and FN editor-in-chief Michael Atmore.
“It’s out now, but it was really supposed to be out a while ago — it just took forever to make,” Madden said of the project, noting that his portrayal in the Academy Award-nominated film “The Wolf of Wall Street” in 2013 was among the factors motivating him to tell his own story. “There were two thoughts behind getting [my documentary] out: ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ happened, and I wanted to get my story out while I could remember it.” | <urn:uuid:937c2bd1-b836-449f-9f45-487b533ab2d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://footwearnews.com/2017/influencers/power-players/steve-madden-movie-documentary-life-hacks-462540/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976386 | 537 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Some Unanswered Questions in the Development of Norms Regarding Cyber-Enabled Disinformation: A Provocation
No nation, no matter how powerful, can unilaterally address the problem of adversarial information flows through technology, domestic law, regulation, military force, education, or any combination of these means. Some form of international cooperation is thus likely to be necessary to make progress on this problem, and international law is one important vehicle for promoting cooperation among nations and combating the worst forms of human (and other) behavior. Nonetheless, many aspects of present-day international law are not up to many challenges posed by digital dissemination of disinformation. These aspects include adequate definitions of disinformation; the operational and legal differences between foreign and domestic spreaders of disinformation; the cumulative effect of many small unfriendly but legal actions; and the applicability of international law and norms to the behavior and conduct of the platform companies that carry large volumes of disinformation. This talk will offer some framing comments and then open up for an interactive discussion. | <urn:uuid:a95f17be-c92e-4c62-abf3-8c83162744cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehaguecybernorms.nl/conference-2021-speakers/herb-lin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.932779 | 201 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Note 5 - Loss Per Share
|9 Months Ended|
Sep. 30, 2021
|Notes to Financial Statements|
|Earnings Per Share [Text Block]||
Basic loss per share is calculated by dividing net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of common shares. Diluted loss per share reflects additional common shares that would have been outstanding if dilutive potential common shares had been issued. Potential common shares that may be issued by the Company include convertible preferred stock, options and warrants.
Diluted loss per common share for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 excludes the effects of 1,685,104 and 1,521,844 common share equivalents, respectively, since such inclusion would be anti-dilutive. The excluded shares consist of common shares issuable upon exercise of outstanding stock options and warrants.
The Company’s unvested restricted stock awards contain nonforfeitable rights to dividends or dividend equivalents, whether paid or unpaid (referred to as “participating securities”). Therefore, the unvested restricted stock awards are required to be included in the number of shares outstanding for both basic and diluted earnings per share calculations. However, due to our loss from continuing operations, 38,333 and 60,000 shares of unvested restricted stock for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, were excluded in determining basic and diluted loss per share from operations because such inclusion would be anti-dilutive.
The entire disclosure for earnings per share.
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Some years before I was born, my parents lived in Michigan City, Indiana. But this was only briefly–before too long, they ended up in Valparaiso, the town I grew up in. Since 1970, Michigan City’s population has fallen by a quarter, while Valparaiso’s has increased by a third. Today Valparaiso has more people than Michigan City does, and nearby Chesterton’s population has doubled its 1970 level. Another nearby town, LaPorte, has stagnated:
Why do Valparaiso and Chesterton grow while Michigan City and LaPorte decline or stagnate? I’ve been thinking about it, and I have a theory. | <urn:uuid:d6476a84-4cb8-4eef-a798-b962c9336f5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://benjaminstudebaker.com/tag/mitch-daniels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.971734 | 148 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Heavy metal (iron) removal from landfill eachate by using two-stage constructed wetlands planted with Limnocharis flava and Eichhornia crassipes
(Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), 2009-08-03)
The main purpose of this study was to treat heavy metal present in landfill leachate by the use of two-stage constructed wetland and planted with Limnocharis flava and Eichhornia crassipes. This study also examine the ...
Study on the performance of subsurface flow and free water surface constructed wetland for landfill leachate treatment
(Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 2009-06-01)
The potential to expand the use of constructed wetlands to the treatment of leachate beyond the more general treatment of wastewaters is relevant in today's context. It also an environmental friendly approach to remove ...
Application of SSF-FWS constructed wetland system for landfill leachate treatment
(Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 2009-06-02)
Health problems and environmental pollutions are often related to inadequate landfill leachate treatment. Proper collection, treatment and disposal of leachate are necessary to promote better environment and healthful ... | <urn:uuid:e1655879-f5b8-4106-9a8c-e0dcf46e67ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/handle/123456789/39917/discover?filtertype=subject&filter_relational_operator=equals&filter=Constructed+wetland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.880308 | 275 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Floating Banjarmasin market
Banjarmasin city and full-flowing wide river, is the capital of South Kalimantan. Thanks to its location – the confluence of the Barito and Martapura, it attracts many tourists. Sometimes it is called the River City. There are frequent floods, so most of the buildings built on stilts.
Weekday residents Banjarmasin usually begins early in the morning on the floating market. If guests have a desire to be in the center of commercial activity, it is better to try to get there early. You can get there in about twenty minutes by small boat, going down the river. All kinds of vegetables, fruits and a variety of other products are sold directly from small boats, lined up along the edge of the water surface. On the shore there are several cafes, where you can enjoying a cup of coffee to wait for the floating by the boat with the right products or to cook a delicious meal.
For the majority of European tourists floating market is considered to be nonsense, but in Asia this kind of trade is quite widespread. Due to the fact that is not always possible to organize a «dry» landline market in brisk trade routes, local residents are forced to accept non-standard solutions. The result is water shopping arcade, where the boats are counters. Customers who do not have their boats, can easily be left without fresh food.
Floating boat market since time immemorial has arisen on Cuyp River is one of the five largest floating markets of Southeast Asia. It works market from 5 to 9 in the morning. At this time, the inhabitants of the villages lying near the offer for sale of exotic fish and vegetables, household items and crafts of local artists.
Banjarmasin market is so unusual that effortlessly locals and without advertising has become one of the main attractions of the city. Because of this traders were able to make extra money by purchasing tourist souvenirs here. But the main income still get traders are still implementing seafood, fruits and vegetables. | <urn:uuid:f8ea3998-08d9-4c1f-981f-3bb27da8c505> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://set-travel.com/ru/asia/en_asia_interesting-places/9579-floating-banjarmasin-market | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.964886 | 416 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Google seems to be experimenting with a new method to manage open tabs on Chrome. This is currently available in the Canary version of Chrome. The new method is called “Tab Strips” and it is a scrollable carousel of tabs thumbnails.
How Chrome Tab Strips Work
“Tab Strips” opens up a scrolling list of tab thumbnails above Chrome’s address bar aka Omnibox. You can click any of these thumbnails to go to those tabs. You can also close or open a new tab from the tab strip.
Flags to Enable
Here are the flags that you will need to enable to test this feature:
After enabling these flags, restart Chrome to start using Tab Strips. To open the tab strip, click the up arrow next to the new tab + icon on the top-right corner of Chrome.
This will open the tab strips menu. Click on any tab thumbnail to go to that tab. You can also close any open tab using the X icon on the thumbnail. Tab Grouping does not seem to work on this UI yet.
You can also visit chrome://tab-strips to see the tab strip.
The tab strips UI takes up a lot of space on the screen. However, it can be handy for a situation where you will need to see a snapshot of all your open tabs while working on any other open tab.
There have been a lot of code change requests for this new tab management interface. The work seems to be far from complete.
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Continuous integration is the first step toward a completely automated development, deployment and operations pipeline. It helps to mitigate integration issues, and catch known issues early via automated testing. If you're new to continuous integration, this course is a great place to start. We'll explore the various tools, technologies, and vocabularies surrounding the continuous integration ecosystem, as well as introduce you to the key tools of the trade that will enable you to get a headstart in your burgeoning DevOps career.
You will gain the following skills by completing this course:
- How to set up your development environment
- How version control works
- How to begin implementing testing in your environment
- The why and how of database schema migrations
- What Jenkins is and why you should care
You should take this course if you are:
- A newcomer to the DevOps or cloud world
- Looking to upgrade your skills from a conventional software development career
This Course Includes
- Expert-guided lectures about continuous integration
- 57 minutes of high-definition video
- Solid foundational knowledge for your explorations into DevOps
What You'll Learn
|Video Lecture||What You'll Learn|
|What Is CI?||What continuous integration is and why it matters.|
Creating a Development Environment
|How to set up your development environment.|
|Version Control||How version control interacts with the CI process.|
|Testing||How to mechanize your testing with CI.|
|Database Schema Changes||How to implement and run database schema changes.|
|Introduction to Jenkins||An overview of Jenkins and how to utilize it within your CI process.|
If you have thoughts or suggestions for this course, please contact Cloud Academy at email@example.com.
Welcome back to Introduction to Continuous Integration. I'm Ben Lambert and I'll be your instructor for this lecture.
In this lecture, we'll take a look at some general ways to handle database schema changes and how we can automate those changes. If you're going to automate building and testing that means for a lot of applications, you're gonna need some way to handle database changes. By the end of this lecture, you'll have an idea of the challenge that schema migrations pose and some methods to deal with them.
I mentioned previously that ideally your unit test will not hit an actual database and instead will use some form of a fake implementation. However, this isn't always possible. Sometimes you'll need an actual database for any number of reasons. And while unit tests may not typically hit the database, other tests such as security audits may.
So here's the problem we're trying to solve. When writing or changing code for an application, often times the database will need to change to support that code. This could be in the form of a new column, maybe to store something like the date a user last logged in, or it could be a new table, a column rename or something along these lines.
When you make a change in code that depends on changes to your database schema, you need to be able to test those changes. That means you need to be able to apply the schema changes to any databases that are used for testing, and eventually, for production. There are different ways of handling this. However, I like using an ORM with schema migration tools. And ORM is an object-relational mapper, which means it allows you to represent your database with classes in your code. Using an ORM, you can keep your logic in code and have it versioned. And by having schema migrations in code as well, you get the same benefit.
Most platforms offer some method for turning schema changes into code. For .NET, Entity Framework allows for Code First Migrations. For Java, you could use Hibernate and Flyway. For Ruby, assuming you're using Rails, you have the functionality built into Active Record. For Python, if you're using Django, then the ORM and migrations are built in. If you're using Python but not Django you could use SQLAlchemy and Alembic. Now, I'm not gonna go through every language. Rather, this is just to show that most modern programming languages have some sort of library to handle schema migrations in code.
So an ORM and schema migrations are a good start but it needs to be paired with a strategy for ensuring that we can continuously deliver and mitigate the risk of breaking things. So what does that strategy look like? First, your database should be versioned. The tools I mentioned earlier handle this for you by creating some sort of migrations table that will track what changes have been applied already. Next, each schema change should be its own migration. A migration filled with several changes makes it difficult to isolate problems should they arise during the migration process.
Next, changes should be non-destructive. As an example, instead of renaming columns, add a new column, populate it with data from the old one and have your code continue to read the old column but write to both. Once you've confirmed that the database changes were successful and that the data is being written successfully, then you can edit the application to use the new column. And once everything looks good you can remove the old one.
Next, we need to ensure that newly created columns use sane default. What I mean by this is if you have a new non-nullable column in an existing table with data in it already, you need to first make sure that you set a value for all existing records before changing it to non-nullable.
Let's check on an example with Django. We're going to covert a full name field into two columns, a first name and a last name. Here in the user interface, you can see that we have this full name field, but that's it. So next, in code, I'm going to add these two fields, first name and last name. And then I'm going to run the command to actually make the migration. Next I'm going to apply the migrations with the migrate command and now if we look at the user interface again, we have two new fields, but they're empty. Next, I'll ad an empty migration and it's going to serve as our entry point to populate the first and last name field. So I'm gonna run the Make Migration command to add an empty migration. And now I'm gonna paste my pre-written code into this migration. Now once I run my migration, and if we look back at the user interface, you're going to see that it's populated our new columns.
So doing it this way, should something have gone wrong during the migration process, we can keep our code running because we didn't actually remove anything just yet. Now this is just the beginning. Once you have your database changes under version control, you can roll forwards and back. You'll start seeing ways to improve the process as you go. Some will be generic ways that apply to all and others will be non-generic ways that are specific to your code base.
Alright, in this lecture we learned that database schema changes can introduce challenges when you need to keep a code base in sync with that database. We learned that using an ORM and schema migration tools can help to mitigate that challenge.
In our next lecture, we're going to take a look at an actual Continuous Integration pipeline using Jenkins, a popular CI tool.
Alright, let's get started.
Ben Lambert is a software engineer and was previously the lead author for DevOps and Microsoft Azure training content at Cloud Academy. His courses and learning paths covered Cloud Ecosystem technologies such as DC/OS, configuration management tools, and containers. As a software engineer, Ben’s experience includes building highly available web and mobile apps. When he’s not building software, he’s hiking, camping, or creating video games. | <urn:uuid:ca32c020-797a-444d-a0df-87009c9c7c31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudacademy.com/course/introduction-to-continuous-integration/database-schema-changes/?context_resource=lp&context_id=18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.93601 | 1,660 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The history of modern artillery spans thousand of years, with the earliest and most primitive types of artillery being the ballista and the catapult. Continual innovation resulted in massive, complex weapons – like the Russian Great Mortar of Moscow - and then a gradual return to the smaller, more mobile artillery pieces we are familiar with today.
On 1 September 1905, by General Order 200, the Royal Canadian Field Artillery became the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery - support cavalry rather than infantry. The Regiment served honourably during the Boer War, at the battles of Mafeking, Faber’s Putt, Belfast Station and Leliefontein. The Regiment continued to serve its country during the First and Second World Wars and the Korean Conflict. It was at Vimy Ridge in 1917 that the Regiment truly shone.
By the morning of 9 April 1917, more than a million rounds, with a total weight of 50,000 tons, had battered the German positions. The Second World War saw great developments in the technology of artillery and ballistics, with Canadian gunners playing a role in the advancements. These advancements included the development of the discarding sabot anti-tank round, and fire control, voice procedure and fire planning.
Since Korea, the Regiment has continued to deploy on UN and NATO operations overseas, and has continued its long affiliation with Petawawa, a tradition started over 100 years ago, when the first gunners traveled from Kingston for summer militia training. In August 2006, “E” Battery deployed to Afghanistan. While they recognize the seriousness of the deployment, the gunners of “E” Battery are looking forward to doing what they have been trained to do – firing the big guns. We wish them well, a safe deployment and a speedy return!
Garrison Petawawa maintains a small artillery collection. Most material resides at the Royal Canadian Artillery Museum in Shilo, Manitoba. Our Museums are particularly interested in obtaining material directly related to the early years of Camp Petawawa as summer training camp. | <urn:uuid:8378f54c-4aac-4034-96ce-3bfbddaf8e18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://petawawamuseums.org/index.php/petcollection/2rcha | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.957775 | 414 | 3.1875 | 3 |
April 23, 2020
Comments submitted on behalf of Protect Our Water Jackson Hole, Wyoming Outdoor Council, and the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance on the proposed revisions to Teton County’s small wastewater facility (SWF) regulations. The existing SWF regulations were adopted by the Teton County Board of County Commissioners on July 6, 2010. Amendments to WY Department of Environmental Quality regulations governing wastewater facilities necessitate revisions to the county’s regulations. Overall, although the proposed revisions contain a number of requirements likely to achieve environmental benefits, they lack many basic safeguards recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its Voluntary National Guidelines for Management of Onsite and Clustered (Decentralized) Wastewater Treatment Systems. The threat of significant impacts to both ground and surface water from a proliferation of residential septic systems in Teton County highlights a need for bold and decisive action to better protect public health and the environment in Teton County. | <urn:uuid:480e4572-8519-48c0-b486-3afeabdd2e58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://protectourwaterjh.org/resources/comments-on-proposed-revisions-to-teton-county-small-wastewater-facility-regulations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.938725 | 193 | 2.375 | 2 |
Everything - A Full-Stack Web Developer Should Know
How difficult our lives would have been without the Internet! Within a fraction of seconds, we get the answers to our most difficult questions. The rapid advancement of technology has made it possible to access the internet anywhere through a plethora of means. The websites that we use in our day-to-day life are built by web developers and website designers. It is through the hard work of these dedicated, talented professionals that we are able to access various websites and extract desired information. They indeed are the ‘lifeblood’ of the internet.
The job of a web developer is vital, thus they possess multitudinous skills depending upon what needs to be developed. There are different types of developers like a mobile developers, and game developers. The core developers are the front end and the back end, developers. All these developers possess certain special skill sets.
The summation of both front end and back end is a full stack web developer. To know more about them, read on.
Who is a Full-Stack Web Developer?
As wisely quoted by ‘Eric An’ in his blog in ‘Career Foundry’, “ A full stack web developer has all the keys to the house, there is no door that you cannot open.” A full-stack web developer is someone who is able to work on both the front-end and back-end sections of an application. Front-end generally refers to the portion of an application the user will interact with, and the back-end handles the logic, database interactions, server configuration, etc.
What should a good Full-Stack Web Developer know?
There are few skills a full-stack developer should possess:
Front End skills :
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) – This is the skeleton of a website.
- CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) – This language is used for describing the presentation of a document written in HTML.
Back End skills:
- Php (Hypertext Preprocessor): A widely used server-side scripting language
- Python: A general – purpose versatile programming language.
- Node.js – This programming language runs on various platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc.)
- MySQL (Structured Query Language) – It is an open source relational database management system.
It’s also good to know how to work directly with a Linux server. In addition, a full stack web developer should also learn to use some additional tools such as:
- Git Version Control- It is an open source version control system.
- GulpJS – It is a streaming build system, by using node’s streams file manipulation is all done in memory, and a file isn’t written until you tell it to do so.
It takes years of rich practical experience to earn their laurels as good full stack developers.
Looks like your cup of tea? If not, you may like to change your mind and enlighten yourself by being a part of Full Stack Developer courses. In addition to this, you can also watch the Full Stack Developer tutorials. | <urn:uuid:f0b5217b-8296-4a51-af2c-34dc6364761a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.imarticus.org/everything-a-full-stack-web-developer-should-know-full-stack-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.915421 | 662 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Term 3 is always an exciting and busy term for us in the library as we celebrate many amazing events with lots of new resources.
To assist our school community in locating and finding the best resources we have a step by step guide on using the Library catalogue which can be found on our ASMS portal page by clicking on the following links here and here.
Our upcoming events are for Term 3 are:
- 12-21 August – National Science Week –“More to glass than meets the eye”
- 21-27 August – Book Week – “Dreaming with eyes open”
- 12-1 September – International Science Fair @ ASMS
NEW BOOKS just arrived and need READERS!
We have lots of new and exciting titles which are now available to be borrowed from Level 3, ASMS Library (next to the library office), come in and check them out! Below is just a snippet…
Next newsletter we will announce the 2022 Winners of the Older Reader’s Category In the Children’s Book Council Of Australia. | <urn:uuid:48faeaa1-abb8-46f8-9eb3-14454832de52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asms.sa.edu.au/newsletter/whats-new-in-the-asms-library-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.950074 | 217 | 1.695313 | 2 |
New research by the University of Connecticut showed that the fast-food industry in 2019 spent around $5 billion on advertising, mainly targeting Black and Hispanic youth.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the study examined how prolonged exposure to fast-food marketing raises young people’s preferences for its consumption, in which practically many of its foods are high in calories and saturated fat.
“The study analyzed 2019 Nielsen data covering advertising spending and TV advertising exposure for 274 fast-food restaurants, including detailed analyses of the 27 top fast-food advertisers with the highest annual advertising spending and/or that targeted TV advertising to children, Hispanic, and/or Black consumers,” according to the study’s authors.
“The Rudd Center produces annual FACTS reports on the state of food and beverage advertising aimed at children, teens and Black and Hispanic youth. This study is a follow up to the Rudd Center’s 2013 Fast-Food FACTS report.”
The 2019 Nielsen data unveiled that children aged 2-5 consumed an average of 830 television ads showing fast food over the span of one year. Children aged 6-11, however, viewed 787 ads and adolescents viewed close to 800 ads.
“The authors of the study make recommendations on concrete steps fast-food restaurants can take to limit such marketing, such as expanding voluntary industry self-regulation to restrict unhealthy food advertising to children up to age 14 at a minimum, discontinuing ads for regular menu items on children’s TV channels and ending disproportionately high marketing to Hispanic and Black youth,” a news release states.
“They also offer suggestions for actions that federal, state and local governments can take such as creating nutrition standards for kids’ meals and eliminating unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children as a tax-deductible expense.” | <urn:uuid:a4c6eac4-a9f3-47c0-a8dc-7e6843ae4ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mentaldaily.com/article/2021/06/fast-food-companies-are-spending-billions-on-ads-targeting-black-and-hispanic-youth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.93707 | 377 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Monday, July 21, 2008
FPGA frequency counter code.
An FPGA project that does something useful: implements a frequency counter using the Xilinx Spartan 3AN development board. Basically consists of two counters and the AX8 uC core. The first counter generates a 1 Hz timing signal from the on-board 50 MHz crystal oscillator, and the second counter counts the signal under test. The AX8 core runs a simple program that reads the count value and formats it for display on the LCD.
The attached image is counting the frequency of a VEX RC transmitter using a 75.97 MHz crystal. The measured count is 75.971459 MHz, which is within 0.002% of the expected value. The development board uses an xtal oscillator marked AGXO-751L 50.000 A. I found a datasheet at www.inysa.es indicating that A versions are 100ppm, or 0.01%, so the measured value is well inside the tolerances.
I'll be posting the code when I get it ready. | <urn:uuid:3507edc1-e30b-4a38-be05-1fe80f68478b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sensicomm.blogspot.com/2008/07/fpga-frequency-counter-code.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.887106 | 222 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Implicature and Presupposition of Japanese Conversation in 'Minna no Nihongo Volume II' (A Pragmatic Study)
- https://doi.org/10.2991/klua-18.2018.22How to use a DOI?
- conversation, apanese, implicature, pragmatics, presupposition
This study aims at describing the implicature and presupposition that occur in Japanese conversation in Minna no Nihongo Volume II. This study employs qualitative descriptive approach which will disclose the implicature and presupposition that occur in Japanese conversation in Minna no Nihongo Volume II. This study utilizes Minna no Nihongo Volume II book as the source of data, in which several conversations from chapter 26 until 50 is taken as the data. The data is gathered by 1) investigating all conversations in each chapter; 2) identifying the implicature and presupposition of the conversation in each chapter; and 3) classifying the types of implicature and presupposition in each chapter. After obtaining the data, it is analyzed by 1) describing the conversational implicature in each chapter, and 2) describing the presupposition of each conversation in each chapter.
- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
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How to Get the Most out of UWorld Questions for the USMLE
- May 08, 2015
Why should you bother studying all of these UWorld questions for your respective Step exams? I mean there are literally thousands of them; multiple iterations on the same list of topics that you need to master! What’s the point?
After all, these are literally thousands of questions you will NOT see on your own respective Step exam. That’s scary!
Also, it seems like there are an infinite number of topics that need to be memorized and categorized into arbitrary lists and tables.
So how do you take something that seems endless and use a learning tool like UWorld to make sense of it all?
UWorld is essentially core content that you WILL be tested on during your test day, but in the context of clinically relevant cases that focus on the need to know high yield concepts. Each question is designed to test a different aspect of some clinical topic.
For example, the topic of sickle cell anemia can be cloaked in hundreds of different ways leading to many iterations of questions. Consider the vignette that starts with a 9 year old male with sickle cell anemia who presents with chest pain, a new lung infiltrate on chest x-ray, and pulse oximetry of 91%, concerning for acute chest syndrome. What is the main take away concept here? Is it the acute chest syndrome or the sickle cell anemia; well it is actually both but really the umbrella topic to know here is sickle cell anemia and HOW it is tested.
Imagine how multi-step questions can be constructed just from this simple case scenario (not so simple though for the real life patient).
- What is the most likely diagnosis?
- What is the best next step?
- Which focus more on the acute chest syndrome component?
- Or more basic science questions focusing more on the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia, the inheritance patterns, etc.
The point is that each time you do a question in UWorld, you should be identifying the REAL topic that is being tested and anticipating how that specific question you are sweating through can be altered to cover the different aspects of that topic. (You also want to avoid these 5 mistakes.)
So if you are working on a sickle cell anemia question that sounds like the most likely diagnosis of acute chest syndrome and your best next step is admission with empiric antibiotics, do not forget to review as many other sickle cell anemia topics as you can WHILE you are doing the question.
What is the benefit of this?
The main benefit is that now YOU are the test writer; you start thinking like a test writer, and therefore you will be less surprised come test day when you encounter a whole new batch of test questions. This allows you to integrate across multiple questions and disciplines which will ultimately prep you very well for test day. So spend more time on each question; don’t just read the explanation and move on to the next, pause and think a bit more about the question you just completed.
Think about several questions back in your block and how that prior question was similar and/or different to the current question. This may take longer, so start early! The time you invest now in each question will serve you well on your test day.
Let’s apply this to a question and break it down:
The answer to this question is A. ECG. This patient is a 65 year old male with multiple medical comorbidities; he has diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease and he is presenting with chest pain that is typical of an acute coronary syndrome. The best next step would be to obtain an ECG to see if he has ST segment elevations on the ECG which would determine if goes emergently to the cath lab or if he is initially managed medically. The other options are important tests to get for someone with chest pain, but not all of these tests are required for someone with chest pain. The cardiac troponin can be negative initially with someone having an acute myocardial infarction even if the ECG is positive and that is why the best initial test is the ECG.
This question is also a great branch-point to review other topics related to this vignette (as is our previous question breakdown post). For example, while our main focus in this question is to arrive at the best answer in this scenario, and to correctly reason why this is the answer and why the other options are not, we can also take this opportunity to review other high yield topics mentioned in this vignette.
Hypertension = review of basic science, physiology and pathophysiology of blood pressure. Corollary and integrative questions relating to the topic of blood pressure, high blood pressure, the different causes of blood pressure, its management.
Diabetes = review basic science, physiology and pathophysiology of diabetes, its complications, and its management.
Do this with each disease mentioned in the medical history.
The medications listed in the case are also an opportunity to review their mechanisms of action, uses, side effects, and relevant diagrams that are frequently asked of them.
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Residential Ventilation Systems
Our advice to homeowners across New Zealand
If you are currently buying or building a house, we know how exciting (and stressful) this time is for you!
There are so many things to consider …kitchen bench surfaces, appliances, wall colours, tile, carpet … the list goes on. Chances are, your top priority is to create a healthy environment for your family.
Recently, there has been an increased focus on homes, old and new, being well insulated and airtight in order to increase energy savings and – more importantly – protect against asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
But are well-insulated, airtight homes enough to satisfy today’s discerning homebuyer?
In addition to good insulation it is vital for homes to be well ventilated. This prevents excess moisture from building up. Showers, unflued gas heaters, cooking and even breathing create moisture and dampness. Condensation is the visible symptom of unhealthy air in homes.
The Kiwi climate, often cold and wet in winter, makes it impractical to open doors and windows all year long. This is where a residential ventilation system can help!
So … what does a home ventilation system actually do and why would I include one in my new build?
You would be surprised by the amount of moisture a new home can produce even before occupants commence creating moisture by cooking, showering and even breathing! Concrete slabs contain several thousand litres of water and can take an average of one month per 25mm of slab thickness to dry completely, that’s a lot of moisture to combat.
Home ventilation systems use fans to move air into the house, providing continuous ventilation regardless of the weather. This helps to maintain air quality and remove moisture from everyday living activities. Well designed and installed residential ventilation systems deliver required air replacement continuously and independently of weather conditions, while taking temperature into account. Some also measure humidity, which is handy as moisture can be measured and controlled more accurately.
Massey University research shows that residential ventilation systems reduce fungal spores, moisture and carbon dioxide, making a home drier and healthier. Occupants experience fewer headaches, sneezing and eye irritations. Drier homes can also be heated more effectively and are more durable.
Whole house positive pressure ventilation & heat recovery systems
Keeping your home warm during the chilly NZ winters can feel like an ongoing battle. Since dry air is easier to heat, the first step is to reduce any sources of dampness and ensure you have good insulation in place.
Still noticing issues with condensation and ventilation? Then it’s time to install a residential ventilation system that will help to keep your entire house warm and dry. Without proper ventilation, the damp air naturally produced in your home (through cooking, cleaning and showering) can lead to condensation, mould, hazardous airborne particles and health complications for your family.
There are two types of residential ventilation system to consider:
Positive pressure ventilation systems
These systems (which are most commonly used in New Zealand) draw fresher, drier air into the home from either the roof cavity or outside. This air is then passed through a high efficiency filter and introduced into the home. This introduced air forces out the moist, stale air that causes condensation, mould and mildew.
Balanced pressure heat/energy exchanger ventilation systems
These systems use the energy the household has paid for, say to heat from the lounge, and pass it through an advanced heat or energy recovery converter. It then tempers the fresh, dry air from outside before moving it to rooms that need it most. Balanced pressure systems (also known as heat recovery systems) are especially suited to modern airtight homes or those homes in the colder parts of New Zealand, assuming the property already has adequate heating, insulation and is built to modern building standards.
Since this system works via an air-to-air heat exchanger that transfers heat from the inside air to the air coming in from outside, it is most effective for airtight homes, as more of the heat can be recovered and utilised.
Which system is best for your home?
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Serious aviation safety concerns about 5G wireless networks scheduled to go live in early December have prompted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to issue a serious warning to airlines, Fox Business reported.
The FFA, an aviation safety regulatory agency, plans to warn pilots and airlines through a special bulletin it is preparing about the potential interference of the 5G system on the ground on certain automated functions implemented in the cockpit system, which pilots use to prevent accidents, whether due to bad weather, in-flight collisions, etc.
According to the regulatory agency, if commercial pilots cannot use these safety features, airlines will be forced to “drastically reduce aviation operational capacity,” as there would be flight cancellations, delays, and diversions in more than 40 U.S. metropolitan areas where the towers are located.
The FAA’s Bradley Mims said in a letter dated Oct. 6 that the agency shares “the deep concern about the potential impact to aviation safety resulting from interference to radar altimeter performance from 5G network operations in the C band.”
Technical experts in the U.S. aviation industry are concerned that some frequencies used for 5G service (pointedly the C-band of radio frequencies between 3.7 and 4.2 gigahertz) will interfere with radar altimeters, which measure the distance between the aircraft and the ground.
Aviation safety regulators have been in a long-running dispute with telecommunications regulators over the issue, with the latter rejecting the safety concerns raised.
Officials at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency that regulates the commercial use of radio waves, and the telecommunications industry argue that there is insufficient evidence to support the claim that the 5G network will interfere with aviation.
An FCC spokeswoman said the telecom regulator remains committed to ensuring aviation safety “while moving forward with the deployment of new technologies that support American business and consumer needs.”
Meredith Attwell Baker, president of CTIA, a wireless technology trade group that nucleates AT&T Inc, Verizon, and T-Mobile U.S. Inc, said 5G networks could use C-band spectrum, are secure, and are already being used in 40 countries.
“Any delay in activating this spectrum puts U.S. competitiveness at risk and jeopardizes our ability to ensure global 5G leadership,” it said in a statement.
But for the FFA, the potential interference is a genuine concern for flight safety and airline economics.
Regarding a longer-term solution, the aviation industry posits that retrofitting some altimeters with “out-of-band filters” might be possible, but it would take years, and “many thousands of civil aircraft are likely to be impacted.” | <urn:uuid:583da41c-d0dc-4ae3-a0af-2de61df1c762> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebl.com/us-news/5g-antennas-could-cause-plane-crashes-warns-federal-aviation-administration.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931896 | 566 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Danny Danon has come a long way since his activist days. His new book Israel: The Will to Prevail briefly mentions one of his first headline grabbing moments, when he helped reclaim Jewish property in Jerusalem with a small group of young activist members of a group called Yershalayim Shelanu (Our Jerusalem).
For the full interview with MK Danny Danon, download Reality Bytes with Josh Hasten by clicking here.
Danon's book covers contemporary issues, such as the Mava Marmara flotilla incident, but also gives extensive historical background information on how the situation got to where it is today. He also writes about US-Israeli relations.
"Israel should do what is good for Israel, period," Danon stated on Israel National Radio. "We must learn from history that we must make our own decisions in the long run." Danon gave the example of Israel's 1981 bombing of the nuclear reactor in Iraq. The incident was initially condemned, but later praised following the 1991 Gulf War.
One of the most attention-getting aspects of the book is Danon's "three-state-solution", which he calls "a new paradigm for peace."
"Enough with the two-state-solution. Land-for-peace is over," Danon said. "We don't want a Palestinian State. We need to apply Israeli sovereignty over all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. It's been about 20 years since the Oslo Accords. That's finished and now we're ready for new ideas."
The three states of which Danon speaks are Israel, Egypt and Jordan. "If you go to the Arab-populated cities in Judea and Samaria, you will hear them speaking like they do in Jordan," he said. Danon asserted that the Arab population of Judea and Samaria have Jordanian accents and often travel to and from Jordan.
"It's the same with the Arabs of Gaza and their connection to Egypt," he stated.
Born in Israel, Danon served as a shaliach (overseas councilor) for the Betar Zionist Youth Movement in the 1990s in Florida. He later achieved other leadership positions, such as being voted Chairman of the World Likud Organization. He was elected to Knesset in 2009.
For the full interview with Member of Knesset Danny Danon on Israel-American relations and a three-state-solution, click here.
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Bass lessons at Castlerock Music Academy, Rock! Bass is a very important part of any band. So here at Castlerock we strive to make our bassists the best we can. We work from a number of books to help teach any student from any age the very important fundamentals required to be a good bass player, and can teach you a range of different playing techniques to suit different styles of music. We teach you songs that you want to learn and the techniques and theory behind it.
We can also put you through A.M.E.B and Trinity Rockschool exams, and help you be as prepared as possible for it. Castlerock has retained a 100% pass rate for the last 10 years.
Once we feel you’re ready we can also help get you into a band through our highly successful and ever growing School of Rock programme, where we put children into bands, based on age and musical interest, and teach them how to write original songs, perform on stage, and how to communicate in a band situation. | <urn:uuid:20c9e280-5c5e-4020-ac4c-05d656a355c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://castlerockmusic.com.au/bass/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966473 | 218 | 1.726563 | 2 |
|20 April 2000|
NZ In Unique Position For Peace Brokering
New Zealanders have a unique position of potential in the world when it comes to the prevention of conflict and the brokering of peace, says Christchurchs Mayor, Garry Moore.
Globally New Zealand was accepted as a small, brave nation that produced superb soldiers, he said when addressing the Citizens ANZAC service in the Christchurch Cathedral on 25 April.
"My hope is that in the future we can become known as the nation of warriors for peace. That we can move on from our new world-wide status as skilled peacekeepers to take a more active role in damping the flames of war before they catch alight," Mr Moore said.
No nation on earth doubted New Zealands toughness or resolve. "I think that makes us potentially a potent weapon for peace. Our families have all paid the price one way or another. I think a future as peacemakers would be a superb way to remember that price."
It was too easy to get lost in the enormity of what happened to our people in times of war and to overlook the most important thing of all: the human lives of those remembered here today, he said.
It had been a wonderful change to Anzac Day in recent years to see that it had not been the children of World War Two servicemen and women but generally the grandchildren who had been given gift of that sense of connection.
"I believe we are bearing witness to a very powerful unfolding of the fulfillment of the dearest hope of those who part in the wars of last century that we would not forget," Mr Moore said.
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NATO’s Air Power has been of utmost importance to the Alliance since its inception. Time and time again, NATO and the Alliance nations have turned to Air Power as their first, and in some cases only, military response option. Air Power, now coupled with Space Power, continues to demonstrate its unprecedented value. It provides the widest variety of response options against a range of threats, crises or disasters; to safeguard our populations and enable NATO operations.
Despite its unprecedented value, NATO nations have and continue to drastically reduce their Air Power capabilities. This trend began at the end of the Cold War and continues at an alarmingly increasing rate. The near-term cessation of Afghanistan operations, combined with the on-going financial crisis, makes it certain that Air & Space (A&S) Power capabilities will be under heavy scrutiny and most likely further reduced. Although everybody talks about money, this is not the key problem in NATO. European NATO members collectively spend about € 240 billion annually on defence, second in the world after the United States. The problem is that the money is spent wrongly. The sovereignty paradigm prevents the nations from really making steps forward in multinational cooperation. Smart Defence will never lead to effective solutions as long as this sovereignty issue is not solved. The key to success of Smart Defence is therefore Smart Politics. This can create the A&S Power (as well as Land and Naval) capabilities NATO needs to execute its mission.
I am delighted to introduce the 17th edition of the JAPCC Journal which contains two specific articles that expand on the Pooling and Sharing issues I raise above (page 54 and 74); I urge you to read them. But we start this edition with an interview with Major General Finn Kristian Hannestad, Chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force (page 6); who says that Norway’s unique situation allows it to continue investing in future technologies, such as the F-35A. Along the ‘future Air Power’ theme, Dr. Holger Mey (page 24) stresses the importance of Air Power in Afghanistan and how it will be even more important in the future. Dr. Dolf Bos (page 68) also elaborates on the importance of Air Power in future conflicts; specifically stating that fixed-wing combat aircraft should be the emphasis for NATO. I am especially grateful for their contributions in support of Air Power.
Air Commodore Paddy Teakle (page 58) offers a stimulating approach to economic austerity, laying out his concept of military momentum; arguing that velocity is as important as mass in the momentum equation. He ties this to Command and Control, which he says is the key to identifying and setting the velocity vector. Also, in this edition, we dedicate a special five-article section on Space; specifically showcasing the Schriever Wargame 2012 (SW 12) International (pages 33–53) with various first-hand accounts. Other articles cover topics from HIP, HIND and NH90 Helicopters to the Alliance Ground Surveillance programme, fighter training and a NATO Air Advisor capability. I would like to thank all the authors for their valuable contributions.
A.A.H. (Tom) de Bok
Air Commodore, NE AF
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Imports of tropical hardwood products slumped in
After US imports hit a number of post-pandemic highs in
August, imports of tropical hardwood and related products
retreated in September, including some dramatic losses in
Imports of sawn tropical hardwood fell 30% in September,
while imports of wooden furniture fell 18%, and imports
of tropical hardwood veneer plunged 60%. Moulding and
flooring imports also fell slightly.
Sawn tropical hardwood imports tumble again
US imports of sawn tropical hardwood fell sharply for a
second straight month, declining by 30% in September.
The 6,407 cubic meters imported in September represents
the lowest volume imported since February and a far cry
from the more than 12,000 cubic meters imported in July.
Imports from Brazil were down 73% while imports from
Ecuador and Ghana both fell 62%.
Imports of Virola, Balsa, Sapelli, and Mahogany all
dipped sharply, falling from very strong summer volume.
Despite seeing its weakest month in more than three years
in September, Virola imports remain ahead of last year by
25% year to date. September Mahogany imports, while
down from August, still more than quadrupled September
2020 volume and are up 171% year to date over last year.
Balsa imports in September, however, were less than a
third of their September 2020 volume and are down 19%
year to date.
Ipe and Jatoba imports, which beginning this year are no
longer counted as part of the tropical hardwood totals in
the official US government figures, were mixed in
September. Ipe imports rose 31% in September and are
down 1% year to date versus 2020 volume, while Jatoba
imports fell 4% in September but are up 56% year to date.
If we count these two woods, September US sawn tropical
hardwood imports fell by only 13% in September and are
up 21% year to date.
Canadian imports of sawn tropical hardwood fell for the
fifth straight month in September. Monthly imports
declined 24% as imports from Cameroon, Indonesia, and
Malaysia all fell sharply. Even with the continued decline,
total imports are up 8% year to date through August.
Hardwood plywood imports cool, but remain at
US imports of hardwood plywood fell 7% in September
but remain at a high pace historically. The import volume
of 305,281 cubic meters is nearly 50% above that of the
previous September, keeping year-to-date volume up 34%
over 2020. While imports from Malaysia, Indonesia,
China, and Ecuador all declined in September, imports
from each of these countries are outpacing 2020 volume
year to date. Imports from Vietnam jumped 59% in
September, reaching its highest monthly level on record.
Veneer imports fall to record low
US imports of tropical hardwood veneer fell for the third
straight month, plunging 60% in September after a 12%
decrease in August. Monthly imports fell below US$1
million for the first time since we began tracking the
category five years ago.
Imports from China and India were non-existent and
imports from Italy fell by more than 99%.
While these imports historically tend to recede in
September, this decline was an outlier. The historically
poor month was 30% less than imports from last
September, pushing 2021 imports for the year behind 2020
totals by 4%.
Hardwood flooring imports pull back
US imports of hardwood flooring saw a modest retreat in
September, falling 3%but still to a level still 35% higher
than the previous September. A 265% increase in imports
from Vietnam made up for sharp decreases in imports
from Indonesia, Malaysia, and China. Imports from
Indonesia were the lowest since February and are down
51% year to date. Overall hardwood flooring imports are
up 39% year to date.
Imports of assembled flooring panels fell by 16% in
September, ending six months of continuous growth.
While imports from Canada and Indonesia both grew by
around 25%, imports from China, Vietnam and Thailand
all fell around 35%.
Imports from Brazil dropped by 54% but are still up nearly
500% year to date. Year-to-date imports are up sharply
from nearly all trading partners except Canada. Imports
from Canada are only up 2% year to date compared with
overall imports which are ahead 59% year to date.
However, all year-to-date numbers should be viewed as
inflated as the USDA added two additional categories to
the Assembled Flooring Panels category in May.
Moulding imports stay near post-pandemic record
US imports of hardwood moulding remained flat in
September falling less than 1% from the previous month to
stay at a level not seen since 2018. Imports from China fell
11% but came in more than 40% higher than the previous
However, imports from China are still down 50% year to
date. Imports from Malaysia made up for the loss, gaining
43% in September to be ahead 44% year to date. Overall
US imports of hardwood moulding are up 23% year to
date over 2020.
Wooden furniture imports fell below US$2 billion in
US imports of wooden furniture fell by 18% in September,
dropping to their lowest level since February. Imports fell
to US$1.85 billion in September, only the second time this
year a month was below US$2 billion and the first time
this year a monthly total was below that of the previous
Imports from Vietnam were down 35% while imports
from Indonesia and Malaysia were both down 13%.
Overall, US wooden furniture imports have been strong all
year and remain up 46% year to date with imports from all
major trading partners up at least 10% for the year so far.
Cabinet sales showed gains in August
According to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers
Association¡¯s (KCMA) monthly ¡®Trend of Business
Survey¡¯ participating cabinet manufacturers reported an
increase in overall cabinet sales of 5.5% in
August, up 8.0% compared with August 2020. Custom
sales were up 5.7%, semi-custom sales increased 2.1% and
stock sales rose 7.5%.
Year-to-date sales remain strong across the board. Overall
cabinet sales are up 16.9% when compared to the same
period in 2020. Custom sales up 20.4%, semi-custom sales
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Last week we began our series in the book of Romans. Before we get into this week’s text, I want to remind you that the “book” of Romans is actually a letter, written by Paul, to the church in Rome. It was not divided into chapters and verses, and Paul never intended for a sentence or two to be pulled from the entirety of his letter and used to clobber people. This week, we travel through some verses that have been used to harm others. We must resist that temptation.
I want to begin with the final verses we studied last week: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes…for in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” (1:16-17)
And this reminder:
Salvation = That which comes from, and is, our Savior’s life that has saved-and now lives in-us; the balm that promotes healing and leads to wholeness.
Righteousness = Dikaiosýnē; equity (of character or act). The “equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively):—just, meet, right(-eous).”… “used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God.” (Strong’s concordance)
And from our Sermon on the Mount series: Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Love your neighbor as yourself, and do to others what you would have them do to you.
Continuing with the last becoming first theme, I’m going to begin with the final verse from this week’s passage…
Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? (2:4 NLT)
Right before Paul talks about the kindness of God that leads us to repentance (changing the way we think), he lists a number of behaviors and attitudes that separate us from God. That list includes: sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. It includes backstabbers, haters of God, the insolent, proud, and boastful. Also, those who invent new ways of sinning, and disobey their parents, refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy... do whatever shameful things their hearts desired...they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles…women turned… to have sex with each other, the men… burned with lust for each other, also people wouldn’t worship God or even give him thanks; and some began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like … (From Romans 1: 21-31) That’s quite the list, don’t you think? Everything from gossip to promiscuity is listed. I find myself on this list and I’m going to make the assumption that you find yourselves on it as well.
And just in case we’re tempted to try to evaluate which shortcomings are most offensive and which are least, Paul writes: You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things. And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things. Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God’s judgment when you do the same things?
If these verses frustrate you and you’re ready to give up–remember that this is the bad news part of the letter…but don’t lose hope, the next verse is:
Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you?… Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to lead you to repentance? (Romans 2:1-4)
Last week we looked at Romans 1:1-16 which includes Pauls motivation for his ministry: Love obligates me to preach to everyone, to those who are among the elite and those who are among the outcasts, to those who are wise and educated as well as to those who are foolish and unlearned. (14 TPT) And, through him (Jesus) we received grace and apostleship (v.5)… Notice, again, that Paul lists grace first. That’s important. A ministry of Jesus that’s not immersed in the grace we have received can quickly transfer into a ministry of law that becomes mean.
I’m so tempted to jump ahead in this letter and not leave us in the bad news. I want to head into the territory of Paul’s message that includes: God loves us all exactly as we are–no one is condemned in Christ Jesus, we are all saved by grace and not by our behavior… and we’ll get there.
But for today, remember that Paul is writing one letter. It’s not divided into chapters and verses. Paul is a trained lawyer and in the “bad news” section he is setting up his argument, that ALL of us truly are a mess–we’re all in this together–so that when we get to the lavishness of God’s grace, we’ll realize how beautiful God is and fall deeply in love with God.
So, the bad news of today’s message: We (humanity) have rejected God as the center of it all. We were created to revolve around God, but we’ve exchanged that for revolving around ourselves. We worship ourselves, we worship created things (in our consumeristic society this is a real battleground). Our thinking is skewed. God allows us to make our own choices, and God allows us to reap the consequences of our own choices, but God never stops loving us. God never stops expressing kindness toward us. God never gives up on us.
One more quick thought before I pass the baton to Laura–Romans 1:18 says, But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Ouch! In the NLT translation, there is a footnote after the word wickedness which says “Or who, by their wickedness, prevent the truth from being known.“ God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who prevent the truth from being known. That little footnote gives this verse a completely new context.
As I ponder that footnote, I ponder what truth we prevent from being known. Could it be the truth that God is love. God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son…God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.?
Could it be people like the Pharisees to whom Jesus said: What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces...?(Mt. 23:13)
Do we do that? Do we try to determine who is in and who is out?
As we continue to work our way through this letter, let’s humbly admit our own shortcomings, face our own bad news and our need for grace. Let’s be committed to offering grace and demonstrating God’s kindness to those around us. Let’s not make it hard for people to know they are welcome in the Kingdom of Heaven exactly as they are. Let’s not be the reason that people don’t know the truth of how extravagantly they are loved by God. Let’s make it easy for people to enter in…
Like Luanne, I am so tempted to jump ahead in this letter, knowing that what is coming changes everything about what we think Paul is saying here. I actually planned to do just that–to take us into Romans chapters 3 and 5, and highlight all the good, beautiful news that Paul’s about to share–until I re-read Luanne’s portion. Sometimes we need to wrestle a thing through when what we really want to do is rush past the conflict it creates in our minds and hearts. This week’s focus is on the bad news, so I’ll choose to stay here, in the discomfort these verses create within me.
I want to highlight something Pastor John mentioned on Sunday. He told us about the Polish astronomer, Copernicus, whose assertion in the 1500s that the earth was not the center of the universe challenged everything he and his contemporaries believed about how the universe worked. There were discoveries that hadn’t yet been made, exploration yet to come that would turn things upside down.
Why does that story matter for us as we look at this week’s passage? Because sometimes we come to scripture assuming we know what it means, the one right way to interpret these words that were recorded thousands of years ago in a different culture and time; words that have passed through many different language translations and interpreters’ modifications. We don’t always know what we think we know–Can we agree together to stay humble enough to invite the Spirit to breathe fresh life into our minds and hearts as we consider these hard passages–and all passages–of scripture? Are we willing to see it from a different perspective? I hope so. There is so much to learn, so much to explore… It’s one of the things I love most about our God, the mystery and wonder and vastness of who he is. There’s always something new I haven’t seen before–and learning more about him and his love never gets old. My prayer is that each of us will desire to go deeper, to explore what’s below the surface as we read.
There are parts of this passage that are hard for me, verses that make me pause and ask some questions, because they don’t seem to line up with the character of God revealed in Jesus. It’s important to pause and ask the questions. Because God’s character doesn’t change. He is love. His disposition toward all of his sons and daughters is kindness and grace. All the time. He doesn’t relate to us through condemnation, shame, guilt, or vengeance. We sometimes project those things onto God and make assumptions about how he feels about us–and passages like the one we’re looking at this week can help us build a case for that if we’re not careful.
But as Luanne reminded us, the “book” and “chapters” of Romans is a letter to a people living in Rome at a specific time in history. She wrote last week that it is, “One letter, bathed in grace, bathed in equity, bathed in inclusion, bathed in the transforming power of the Holy Spirit–bathed in God’s unconditional love.” It is essential that we hold tightly to the overall theme that Paul himself told us in the very beginning of this letter he was writing about as we pick up different verses throughout the letter. Sometimes we do the opposite–we grab onto a verse here and there with a white-knuckled grip and let go of the context in which the words are written.
With all of that said, let’s take a moment to explore the “wrath” that Paul brings up in this passage. Verse 18 begins with, “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven. . .”
But… Paul is writing this letter post-cross, right? Hadn’t Jesus already absorbed all of our sin and violence on the cross and come back from Hades, after setting its captives free, holding the keys to death itself? Is Paul saying that God has wrath to pour out on humanity even though Jesus already conquered sin and death for the world? That doesn’t make sense… So let’s look a little deeper…
As Luanne wrote above, Paul is making a case, and this week we don’t get to see beyond the prosecution’s case against all of humanity. We’ll get there soon, but for now, there’s a long list of things that appear to separate us from God and cause his wrath to be revealed. But, what if wrath doesn’t mean what we’ve always thought it means? What if God’s nature really is love, and we’ve misunderstood this wrath thing? I’m not writing as someone who knows the right answers. This passage brings up so many questions within me as I read it. But what if we considered a different perspective and asked God to grow our understanding? Can we do that together?
In the book A More Christlike God, A More Beautiful Gospel, Brad Jersak offers this regarding wrath:
“Literal human ‘wrath’ combines emotional anger with violent retribution. We describe ‘the wages of sin’ (self-destructive consequences) as ‘the wrath of God’ because we infer sin’s consequences as God’s reaction. In actuality, biblical wrath is a metaphor. It signifies the intrinsic consequences of our refusal to live in the mercies of God.”
Whether we agree fully with this assertion or not, I think it’s worth considering.
With this working definition of wrath, let’s look at the first passage in Ephesians 2:
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. . . gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:1, 3-5, my emphasis)
Our sin made us all ‘deserving of wrath’–of the intrinsic consequences of turning away from the mercy and love of God–and that wrath led us all the way to death. But… because of his love, God came to us again–all the way around to where we stood with our backs to him, arms crossed in defiance–and stood facing us in the person of Jesus, who conquered death by his life and now holds the keys to every grave. It’s so beautiful.
Later in this same book, the author says:
“Paul clarifies throughout Romans 1, what had been described in the narrative as active wrath is in fact a metaphor. He defines ‘wrath’ three times as the ‘giving over’ (God’s consent) of people to their own self-destructive trajectories–even when the shrapnel of our actions accrues collateral damage on others.”
This makes sense to me. God doesn’t actively lead us into–or hand us over to–evil, destructive ways. But as the Giver of free-will, he allows us to choose for ourselves who we will serve. When we choose to live in the inexhaustible mercies and grace of God, we don’t experience ‘the wages of sin’. When we choose to step away from the flow of mercy and choose to live for ourselves–make ‘me’ the center of the universe–there are consequences. Harm is done to ourselves and to others.
Luanne explained the same concept this way:
“We (humanity) have rejected God as the center of it all. We were created to revolve around God, but we’ve exchanged that for revolving around ourselves. . . Our thinking is skewed. God allows us to make our own choices, and God allows us to reap the consequences of our own choices. . .”
So, when Paul–called by some the “Apostle of Grace”–lists the things that God “gave them over” to, he is telling his readers that there are intrinsic consequences to choosing to live a self-centered life. Outside of the flow of God’s mercies (which he never shuts off, but we can choose to live in ignorance of) we find ourselves on a path that leads us to indulge in all kinds of excesses. He writes of the evils that result from selfishness, and includes sexual indulgences that are unnatural to how a person is designed. I do want to note that throughout his list, Paul is not identifying a specific community or group–he is writing an exhaustive list of the consequences of choosing a self-focused, self-indulgent life that doesn’t exhibit the kingdom principles of loving God and loving others.
Finally, as we’ve written about so many times before, we need to be aware of our own filters as we read scripture, and commit to reading everything through the lens of Jesus. Even the writings of Paul, as brilliant and wise and stirring as they are, must be read through a Jesus lens. Does our understanding of a particular passage line up with the nature of God revealed in Jesus? Do our filters line up with kingdom values and the way of self-giving love modeled by Jesus? Do we have an agenda as we read certain parts of our Bibles? Are we searching for something that will back up our positions and personal convictions? Or are we bringing everything back to the good news of Jesus? He is the foundation of our faith. He is the perfect Word who was with God and was God from the beginning, through whom all things were made. (John 1:1-3, paraphrased)
As I close, I’ll say again, I don’t have the answers. I’m wrestling through things I don’t understand, as we all are. What Luanne and I hope to do in this space is dig in and give all of us space to explore what’s buried in the depths. Ultimately, our hearts are totally captured by Jesus and his kingdom, and our desire is to learn and grow into kingdom people who carry his heart to the world around us. What we write here evidences our wrestle, our processes, as we journey with Jesus. We hope you will dig in and do your own exploring, trusting the Spirit as your guide. There is much to be found if we’re willing to learn and listen and grow.
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The second De Haven was launched 9 January 1944 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Miss H. N. De Haven, sponsor of the first De Haven; and commissioned 31 March 1944, Commander J. B. Dimmick in command
De Haven escorted Ranger, (CV-4) from Norfolk to Pearl Harbor, arriving 3 August 1944. She screened a convoy to Eniwetok between 16 and 30 August, and returned to Eniwetok 5 October. A week later she got underway for Ulithi to join TF 38.- Operating from this base she screened the fast carriers striking Luzon in support of the invasion of Leyte during November and December. In coordination with the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, the force hit Formosa, Luzon, Camranh Bay, Hong Kong, Hainan, and Okinawa in a score of strikes extending from 30 December 1944 to 26 January 1945.
On 10 February 1945 De Haven sortied from Ulithi with TF 58, to prepare for the invasion of Iwo Jima, striking the Japanese mainland as well as the Nansei Shoto, and then providing fire support for the invading troops. Returning to Ulithi 4 March, she sailed 10 days later to screen air strikes on Kyushu, Japan, prior to the invasion of Okinawa. Until 13 June she screened the carriers and gave fire support at Okinawa. On 1 July she sailed from Leyte with TF 38 for the final air strikes and bombardments on the Japanese homeland which continued until the end of the war. Present in Tokyo Bay 2 September for the signing of the surrender, De Haven sailed on 20 September for the States, arriving at San Francisco 15 October.
Between 1 February 1946 and 3 February 1947, De Haven served in the Western Pacific, joining the 7th Fleet in operations off the coast of China, and patrolling off the Japanese coast. She operated along the west coast through 1948 and 1949 and on 1 May 1950 cleared San Diego for another tour of duty in the western Pacific, arriving at Yokosuka the last day of May.
When the Communists invaded South Korea 25 June 1950, De Haven was assigned to patrol off the Korean coast. She screened the Norwegian ship Reinholt evacuating American dependents from Inchon to Yokosuka, patrolled on the blockade; bombarded shore targets, acted as lifeguard and communications linking ship for air strikes against Pyongyang and Haeju, and provided call fire support for United Nations troops. On 13 and 14 September she stood up a treacherous channel to anchor a scant 800 yards from Wolmi-Do and pour fire into the concealed gun emplacements in preparation for the bold assault on Inchon. De Haven provided gunfire support for the successful landings the following day, and for her part in this daring action was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation.
Returning to Blockade duty 25 September 1950 De Haven dispersed a Communist force attempting to ambush a Korean Army unit, aided the mined Brush (DD-745) and escorted her to Sasebo, and provided fire support for a British Commando raid on 6 and 7 October. She cleared Yokosuka 1 November for San Diego, arriving 18 November.
During De Haven's second tour of Korean duty from 18 June 1951 to 17 February 1952 she served primarily on blockade patrol. After an overhaul and local operations at San Diego, she sailed from Long Beach 16 September 1952 to serve as flagship for ships on patrol in the ChongJin-Songjin-Chaho area until 18 November. After patrol duty with TF 77, she returned to Korean waters for duty with TF 95 on patrol off Wonsan Harbor, supporting the minesweeping operations there from 12 to 18 February. She got underway from ,Sasebo 22 March for Long Beach, arriving 9 April.
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Periods of Chinese History
The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove (zhulin qixian 竹林七賢) were a distinguished group of scholars during the Wei 曹魏 (220-265)
and Jin 晉 (265-420) periods that were known for their extraordinary lifestyle and their love of discussions. The "Worthies" were:
Their philosophy was deeply influenced by the Daoist book Zhuangzi 莊子 with its relativist theory and negligence of worldly matters. They often met in the bamboo grove near Shanyang 山陽 (modern Xiuwu 修武, Henan) held banquets and discussed their worldview.|
The seven thinkers made a clear distance to the events at the court, where the ruling family Cao had bloody fights against the powerful family Sima 司馬, that would eventually overthrow the Cao-Wei and found the Jin dynasty. A lot of intellectuals and courtiers fell victim to the fight for power: Cao Shuang 曹爽, He Yan 何晏, Ding Mi 丁謐, Deng Yang 鄧颺, Bi Gui 畢軌, Li Sheng 李勝, Li Feng 李豐 and Xiahou Xuan 夏侯玄, because they were loyal supporters of the family Wei. There is no wonder that many intellectuals escaped from the court and preferred private life of scholarship to the dangerous business in the administration. Parallel to the physical withdrawal from court affair, these intellectuals ceased to believe that Confucianism with its system of social obligations was a solution to the contemporary decay of state and society. They preferred the escapism of Zhuangzi and Laozi 老子 in the shape of the philosophy of the so-called "School of the Mystery" (xuanxue 玄學), which believed that a mysterious "nothing" (wu 無, i.e. the Dao) was a guiding principle behind all things. The Seven Worthies did not follow a common philosophy, but each individual had his own ideas about the world and so enabled a discussion with the others. Practically all of them occupied, at least nominally, posts in the central government administration.
The personal philosophies of the Seven Worthies can be characterized in the following way: Ji Kang, Ruan Ji, Liu Ling and Ruan Xian were adherents of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and were of the opinion that the traditional style of learning was useless in face of the need to return to nature. Shan Tao and Wang Rong were also influenced by Daoism, but also clung to some aspects of Confucian learning. The same is true for Xiang Xiu, who was probably the one among the Seven Worthies who was most following the traditional path of Confucian learning.
Their political attitudes ranged from loyalty to the Cao-Wei dynasty, as with Ji Kang, Ruan Ji and Liu Ling, who refused to serve the Jin dynasty, to Shan Tao and Wang Rong who held titles under the Jin, but never served in their offices. Xiang Xiu retired from office when Ji Kang was executed. In the end, the philosophy of the Seven Worthies did not allow them to actively participate in administrative affairs or even in the process of policy making.
Most of the Seven Worthies were also known for their literary skills. Ruan Ji is famous for his five-syllable poems in the collection Yonghuai 詠懷 and his rhapsodies in the collection Shou Shanyang fu 首陽山賦, Ji Kang for his poetry in the collection Youfen shi 幽憤詩, and his prose essays like Guan-Cai lun 管蔡論, Yangshenlun 養生論, Sheng wu ai le lun 聲無哀樂論, and Yu Shan Juyuan juejiao wen 與山巨源絕交書. Xiang Xiu was very strong in writing rhapsodies, the most famous of which is Sijiu fu 思舊賦. Liu Ling has written an ode to wine, the Jiude song 酒德頌, whose style and spirit is very close to Ruan Ji's Daren xiansheng zhuan 大人先生傳. Ruan Xian was a famous musician who created a special type of moon lute that was later called ruanxian. Shan Tao and Wang Rong were not very distinguished writers.
Seen from the personal character, the vulgar Shan Tao and the greedy Wang Rong may barely be compared with the five others. Ruan Ji was probably the most pure, upright and honest of the Seven Worthies. He often lamented that there were no heroes any more in his time, left the town and wandered around, only to return, weeping and full of sorrows. Ruan Ji never said a bad word about anyone, nor praised he any other people. Often enough he drowned his dolours in wine.
Ji Kang was known as a person with a very straight and direct character, who did not only express his feelings, but also did not hesitate to criticize others. It is said that he did not love to bath and was therefore was of a very repugnant appearance. Sometimes he even did not want to stand up when urinating. His companionship was nevertheless enjoyed by the other because he was a very knowledgeable person and an excellent zither player. When he was condemned to the death penalty, 3,000 students of the National University (taixue 太學) submitted a memorial to the regent Sima Zhao 司馬昭 asking to pardon him, as the most skilled musician of his time. Yet the potentate declined. In face of his death, Ji Kang wrote the poem Guangling san 廣陵散. Liu Ling was China's oldest known alcoholic. Wine was his name, as it is said, and when he drunk, one hu 斛 (a volume measure) or five dou 斗 were just sufficient to appease him. He slept naked, and when laughed at, he said that the sky was his cover, and the room his trousers, and asked, why his guest dared entering his trousers?
Sources: Xu Gongchi 徐公持 (1986), "Zhulin xiqian 竹林七賢", in Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo wenxue 中國文學 (Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe), Vol. 2, p. 1311. ● Li Zhonghua 李中華 (1992), "Zhulin xiqian 竹林七賢", in Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo lishi 中國歷史 (Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe), Vol. 3, p. 1613. ● Zhou Shengwei 周聖偉 (1998), "Zhulin qixian 竹林七賢", in Zhang Dainian 張岱年 (ed.), Zhongguo wenshi baike 中國文史百科 (Hangzhou: Zhejiang remin chubanshe), Vol. 2, p. 1017.
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This is a great question indeed. You see, if you are a user of marijuana, whether you’re doing it for medical reasons or not, you will want to make sure that you’re going to get every single piece of information possible in order for you to make sure that you’re only going to be using this particular product the right way.
It Can Be Addictive
First and foremost, yes, marijuana can be quite addictive and it can definitely clog your mind. This is one of the main reasons as to why it is illegal in many different countries. However, that does not necessarily mean that, it is about product. On the contrary, it has actually proven to be a good product and it does have some medical purposes that can help you a lot.
However, if you do not make sure that you control the amount marijuana you’re using on a daily basis there is a pretty good chance that you might actually get addicted. If you do get addicted to marijuana it is basically like getting addicted to smokes or food. Eventually, it will be very bad for your health and you’re definitely going to struggle a lot in order for you to be able to get rid of the problem.
Control The Use
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Imagine you are a bird and you weigh about 30 grams. Every year as the days start to shorten over your home in the Arctic Circle, you eat so much your weight nearly doubles. Then the urge kicks in to fly and fly and you head south. The fatty reserves stand you in good stead for your incredible flight to Australia. But when you arrive off the east coast and swing across the Hunter River you can’t find your second home. It is now a coal terminal.
For Red-necked Stints and other species this is a real story.
There are three giant coal terminals at the mouth of the Hunter River. The construction of these sites would have destroyed significant bird habitat. Now the coal industry wants to build a fourth coal loader, known as T4. More than 200 species of birds either live in or migrate through the Hunter estuaries.
Yesterday I flew by helicopter over the proposed site with Hunter Bird Observers Club president and ecologist Mick Roderick. It was a very informative trip, but I found it disturbing to contemplate the massive environmental damage that would occur if the fourth coal terminal was built.
On the north and west side of the existing coal terminals there is extensive habitat. This is the second home of the tiny shore bird, the Red-necked stint, that makes the annual trek I described above.
Hundreds of thousands of birds migrate to Australia and many head for the Hunter Estuary Wetlands, located just a few kilometres from the heart of Newcastle. Significant areas are listed under the international treaty known as the Ramsar Convention, and Birdlife International has designated it an IBA - Important Bird Area. The Hunter Estuary is widely recognised as being the most important migratory shorebird site in NSW.
The area earmarked for T4 was not included when the Ramsar listing was made, but this was for political reasons only and it remains significant bird habitat that well and truly meets the criteria necessary for Ramsar-listing. Furthermore, the Australian government has contractual obligations with China, Japan and Korea to protect migratory shorebirds and their habitat.
The Labor government also needs to comply with the Bonn Convention for the protection of migratory wild animals and its own Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
The loss of more feeding and nesting sites (for resident shorebirds) in the Hunter Estuary will hasten the already alarming decrease in the number of shore and wading birds in this area.
In the 1970s it was estimated 10,000 birds migrated here each year. That number is now down to 3,000 and if this downward trend continues it is estimated that by 2025 there will be virtually no birds migrating to this region and many species will be locally extinct (in the most important habitat in the state).
Our helicopter ride allowed us to closely inspect Swan Pond and Deep Pond, where bird habitat will be destroyed if T4 is built. This area is an Important Bird Area because the swamps and estuary support the endangered Australasian Bittern and over one per cent of the world populations of Chestnut Teal, Straw-necked Ibis, Red-necked Avocet, Eastern Curlew, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and sometimes Latham's Snipe.
Another important asset that Deep Pond provides is as a drought refuge for waterfowl. Because it is the only fresh water swamp in the estuary, it is used by a different suite of bird species to those that use the tidal areas. This is the case because it rarely dries out and so provides a reliable area of habitat that is used by birds that are often associated with inland habitats, such as the Pink-eared Duck and the threatened Freckled and Blue-billed Ducks.
T4 was referred to the Federal Department of the Environment in June 2011 and Minister Tony Burke's office was originally expecting to make a decision this month. This decision is now delayed while the NSW government’s Planning Assessment Commission finalise their consideration.
This process is already compromised. The Hunter Bird Observers Club in their submission on T4 pointed out that information on the offset site for migratory shorebirds was not publicly available prior to the deadline for submissions. The offsets have still not been disclosed.
Offsets are a planning instrument that supposedly protects other land if a project such as T4 damages local biodiversity. They have become increasingly discredited as nothing more than a publicity stunt used by Labor and Coalition governments to approve unpopular developments.
Right now the authorities are working out how they manage this project, which is under increasing public scrutiny due to adverse climate change and local health impacts as well as the loss of biodiversity.
The answer is simple - don’t approve another coal loader for Newcastle Port, already the world’s biggest coal port.
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Singh, Raghuvir (2008) Influence of cold rolling on sensitization and intergranular stress corrosion cracking of AISI 304 aged at 500 °C. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 206 (1-3). pp. 286-293.
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Sensitization and intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) behavior of deformed AISI 304 prior to aging at temperature 500 °C were investigated. Sensitization was evaluated by double loop electrochemical potentio-kinetic reactivation method and IGSCC studies were carried out using slow strain rate tests in polythionic acid (PTA). The degree of sensitization (DOS) obtained for undeformed specimens was very low as compared to that of deformed prior to sensitization. The undeformed, sensitized AISI 304 was resistant to IGSCC in PTA solution. The specimens deformed by 20 and 40% reduction in thickness were undergone IGSCC (brittle cracking). The deformation >40% prevented the IGSCC, even though the % DOS was significantly high.
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Place both pieces of fabric right sides together with the 9″ (long side) of the fabric horizontally on your mat. Using a marking tool, draw a notch 1″ in on both the left and right sides of your fabric, on the wrong side.
Sew along this seam with a 4/8″ seam allowance but with two different seams allowances. Begin with a regular stitch length up to the mark you made (this will mean you sew regular stitch length for 1″), then switch to a basting stitch length until you reach the next mark, for the final 1″ of the seam return to the regular stitch length. Press open your seam with an iron.
Place the zipper face down on the seam with the zipper running directly over the seam. The zipper should lay 1″ from the beginning and end of the seam such that the beginning and end of the actual zipper (not the zipper twill tape but the actual working zipper parts) are laying over the portion of the seam sewn with a basting stitch. Use scotch tape to hold the zipper it in place. You will be sewing right over the tape.
To put in the zipper, switch to a zipper foot on your machine and sew, with a regular stitch length, along both sides of the zipper’s twill tape. Be sure to leave enough distance from the zipper teeth that you can sew a straight stitch taking into account the bulk of the zipper head.
Once you have sewn in the zipper, remove the tape.
Open up the zipper about 2/3rds of the way.
We will be using a french seam method to finish up the zipper pouch. Begin by placing the two pieces of fabric wrong sides together, pin the three remaining sides in place and sew with a 2/8″ seam allowance
Trim the seam allowance to around 1/8″ but be careful not to trim any stitches!
Turn the zipper pouch inside out and iron down the sides. You are going to make one final stitch along the three side you have just sewn. It will enclose all the raw edges inside the stitch. That is why you want your sides to be flat and without bulk.
Once you have sewn the rest of the three sides, you can return and sew the remaining bit. This will make it easier because the sewing machine can stitch over bulky parts (such as the twill tape of the zipper, in our case) when it can come at it from the other direction and doesn’t have to start a stitch where there is lots of bulk.
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Back to school again, finally! After a two-year pandemic break from in-person learning, London Rare Book School (LRBS) was back in session face-to-face this summer with multiple course offerings over two weeks. And it was fantastic! Centered at Senate House Library at the University of London, field trips and site visits (“object lessons”) took students to other venues throughout London including the British Library, Wellcome Library, St. Bride’s Foundation and more.
Week one courses included Art & Science: The Art of Natural History Illustration, European Bookbinding, Marginalia in Books, The Medieval Book, Provenance in Books, and my course The Printed Book in Europe 1455-2000. Week two included The Early Modern Book in England, English Bookbinding, An Introduction to Book Collecting and Book Cultures, and The Modern Rare Book Trade. I have taken several of these courses in prior years and highly recommend any and all!
Each course consisted of 13 seminars over five days, thus you could only take one course per week. Intermixed with the lectures were “object lessons,” which provided a hands-on opportunity to examine the materials discussed. It is these “object lessons” that lead to the field trips and site visits to the many specialized libraries and museums found in London. | <urn:uuid:dc3a89f0-bf8e-4b60-a5c7-00fecff2141c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/post/lrbs2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.958344 | 280 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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There are a number of burial plots for just one family in Scotland and Leckine is one of them. Situated on the land that belonged to the MacLarens of Ardveich for centuries it has been the burial ground for generations that lived in the area around Lochearnhead.
Leckine burial ground is not easy to find, it can be accessed through a small wooden gate in between a row of modernised cottages, Earnknowe. Once past the houses, you enter the burial plot through a gate.
Leckine is well cared for by the owner of one of the houses that hide ist existence. An earlier caretaker, a local builder called William Angus, was the only person not of MacLaren origin that ever was buried in this small enclosure.
The site is close to Loch Earn and the remains of the old railway between Lochearnhead and St. Filllans. MacLarens have been buried here since the late 17th century, the oldest gravestone on site is about 100 years younger.
The Clan still owns the site and a few more modern graves can be found within the surrounding dry-stone walls; around a dozen gravestones, not more.
One day, legend has it, a storm interrupted proceedings as a Clan Chief was to be laid to his final rest. the journey to the graveyard could not be undertaken. The Chief was the first to be buried in Leckine, others followed.
„There is no documentary evidence to support this, which came word-of-mouth from Miss Margaret McLaren, who was the last member of the McLaren Clan to be buried at Leckine in 1993. A document within the papers of the Earl of Breadalbane in the National Archives of Scotland is a letter to the Earl asking permission to repair the burial ground, which is described as having been, ‘constantly used for that purpose for 100 years back and upwards’.“ (1)
Apparently even within this small enclosure for one clan there were certain assigned areas for the different branches of the clan according to a 19th century map.
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30 Jul Crannogs in Ireland….get to know the language !
Crannogs are man-made , usually circular , lake islands.
They consist of piles of stones as a foundation, covered by brushwood and earth, and with palisades enclosing one or more houses.
Modern examples at Craggaunowen (County Clare) and the National heritage Park at Ferrycarrig (County Wexford) show what crannogs would originally have looked like.
Probably Bronze Age in origin, crannogs were still used in Ireland as late as the 1600s.
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Social media users have shared an image falsely claiming that it is proof that the moon landing was staged.
The photograph shows three astronauts without helmets on what appears to be the moon’s surface.
The text under the image reads: “So these guys on the moon took a moment to take of their helmets for this pic.”
One user who shared the image via Twitter said: “On the "moon" without space helmets on. NASA is such a joke” (here).
The image is not proof that the moon landing was staged, however. The photograph was taken at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a training exerciseon Feb. 19, 1972 (here).
The photograph is viewable on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) website with a caption that reads: “The crew of Apollo 16 pose during a training exercise at the Kennedy Space Center. Shown left to right are Lunar Module Pilot Charles M. Duke, Commander John W. Young, and Command Module Pilot Thomas K. Mattingly II (NASA Photo 72-H-249)” (here).
The Apollo 16 mission launched on April 16, 1972, where Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke collected 209 pounds of samples over three moonwalks (here).
False. An image of three astronauts without helmets is not proof that the moon landing was staged. The photograph was taken during a training exercise at Kennedy Space Center in February 1972.
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Hogwarts has a very different threat profile to regular schools. It faces a lot of security challenges and risks that aren’t usually relevant. This mandates additional security measures that don’t or can’t apply to a Muggle school.
Let’s break down some of the additional protections:
Muggle-repelling charms. When Professor Binns is telling the history of Hogwarts, he says:
“You all know, of course, that Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago — the precise date is uncertain — by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age. The four school Houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.”
— Chamber of Secrets, chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
This remains an issue in the present day. This is not a problem for Muggle schools, who usually want as many people as possible to have seen and heard of them.
Unplottability. When discussing foreign schools, Hermione explains:
“There’s traditionally been a lot of rivalry between all the magic schools. Durmstrang and Beauxbatons like to conceal their whereabouts so nobody can steal their secrets.”
— Goblet of Fire, chapter 11 (Aboard the Hogwarts Express)
Hogwarts has lots of unusual magic – the Room of Requirement, the moving staircases, the ceiling in the Great Hall – that might be of interest to third parties. Unplottability makes it harder for these people to find the castle.
Ban on apparition and a controlled Floo network. Allow people outside the castle to apparate in or enter via Floo is a massive security hole. It’s very likely this would give direct access to student areas, such as dormitories or houses. You can understand why people would be nervous about allowing this degree of access.
Teleportation does not exist and therefore is not a threat to regular schools. Simple border protections (“a guard on the door”) are enough to keep out ne’er-do-wells. That doesn’t work if somebody can go straight past the border guard.
Internal apparition is bad for students. Okay, so you’re not allowed to appartate in. Could you apparate out? Or around the castle?
Apparating out is verboten because it would allow students to leave the castle without permission (more on that shortly).
Apparating around is dangerous, because an inexperienced student could easily splinch and do themselves a serious injury. That’s why it’s only allowed under carefully controlled and monitored circumstances, such as the apparition lessons. It would also be a rule-breaker’s dream, because they can get away from the scene of a crime in seconds. Imagine the pranks you could pull with instant teleportation.
Restricting student movement. This one isn’t so unusual. Hogwarts is a boarding school, and a lot of boarding schools impose similar restrictions on students leaving the school. Quoting from the Wikipedia article:
Pupils generally need permission to go outside defined school bounds; they may be allowed to travel off-campus at certain times.
Edit: Fine, let’s address dark wizards as well. There are – and have always been, and probably always will be – nefarious actors in the magical community. No different to the Muggle world.
Hogwarts is the bottleneck for British magical education, which would make it a big target for dark wizards. Plenty of reasons for this:
All the children of significant people go here. Whether you’re an Auror, or politician, or senior banker at Gringotts, whoever – if your children are magical, they go to Hogwarts. Kidnapping or hurting Hogwarts students would be an easy way to get lots of political leverage.
In the Muggle world, children of Prime Ministers or Presidents often get enhanced security at school. The magical world is no different, except it’s provided by default because there’s such a concentration of targetable children.
Pretty much every magical child in Britain goes through Hogwarts. Killing chunks of the student population would dry up the pipeline for future Aurors and Ministry officials.
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The ANZAED (eating disorders management) Conference 2018
Those who know me will realise that I am one of those geeks who loves going to conferences and learning new things, just because I love learning new things. Every year I check out what new developments are out there to help me work more effectively with people who are suffering from anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating, and of course, emotional eating. This year’s eating disorder management conference was a particularly good one for me, especially because it took place in Sydney so I got to catch up with all my old friends from Wesley and RPA Hospitals. ANZAED stands for the Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders, by the way. Now, a few months later on, I’m taking a moment to reflect on a few tidbits of knowledge that were discussed which leaped out at me at the time.
#1: Self-compassion is the new eating disorder treatment buzzword
It was suggested that self-compassion could be considered to be “the opposite” of an eating disorder… which breaks down into being the opposite of… well, a lot of things, including self-criticism and shame. There’s no two ways about it, managing an eating disorder would be such a different experience in the absence of such strong negative and self-critical thoughts as many of my clients have. This goes for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. Clearly this concept is more in the domain of the eating disorder psychologists than with dietitians such as myself (although I have a psychology background and a lingering keen interest in the area). I really like the idea of people focussing in treatment not upon just eating and food (which are symptoms) but upon building up positive capacity within the self (the underlying cause). Ultimately, this is about building up a person so they have lessen the need to control food intake.
#2: Up to 70% of adolescents are dissatisfied with their body
Let’s be blunt: this statistic suggests that it’s unusual not to have body dissatisfaction. It’s a shocking statistic, and I’m sure some other studies have found lower rates, but still, what an eye-opener! First of all, doesn’t it just show you how pervasive the images and beliefs about the so-called “ideal” body shape have become, that it’s only a minority of young people who feel happy with how they look?! We need to be promoting the development of healthy attitudes towards food and bodes in children and adolescents so we can make it less likely they go on to develop an eating disorder.
The moral of the story here is: the body ideal being sold isn’t one which people naturally have, otherwise this statistic would not stand!
nb: any parents reading this, please take a look at my post on raising-body positive kids. Let’s not take any chances on this!
#3: Never give up on treating anorexia nervosa if people want help
I admit that this one was a little unexpected for me, but wonderfully so. One of the speakers at the conference had a lived experience of anorexia nervosa, which she had recovered from after living with it for around 20 years. I wonder if the people around her even believed she could change after all that time? I wonder if she believed it? What struck me most of all was how grateful she was to her treatment team, who didn’t give up on her over that time. I think sometimes as health professionals working in this area we make the mistake of assuming a person with a long-standing eating disorder is not motivated to change. The message here was that she had been motivated to change – she just didn’t have the capacity to do so for many years. There’s a key, crucial difference between those two statements. As she remained in touch with her care team, it meant that when she finally did develop the internal reserves and capacity to change, everything was in place to capitalise upon that and make it happen.
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Why Does My Xmas Tree Smell?
Just having a real tree doesn't guarantee your Christmas tree will smell Christmas-y! The fragrance of the tree depends primarily on two factors. The first is the health and hydration level of the tree. A freshly cut tree is typically more fragrant than one that was cut some time ago.
Why does my Christmas tree smell bad after I cut it down?
1. You haven't refreshed the cut on your tree trunk Your Christmas tree is still alive for a while after it's been cut down, and it will try to heal the cut in its trunk by sealing it off with resin.
What to do if your Christmas tree stinks?
I always add sugar to the water when I water the tree. The tree can and will definitely omit an odor before it turns brown, so don't rule out that it's dying, especially if you've had it since Thanksgiving. Do you have a blue spruce? We always get a douglas fir, and it starts to smell bad when it's dying.
Why does my Turkey Tree have a foul smell?
While it's not a common problem, it's possible that contaminants and/or bacteria in the water can lead to a foul odor. The easiest remedy to try is to remove the offending water and replace it, leaving the tree in the stand throughout the process. Remove the water from the stand using a turkey baster or a wet/dry shop vac with a narrow nozzle.
What happens if you bring your Christmas tree in too early?
You brought your tree in too early A Christmas tree begins the dying process almost as soon as it's brought indoors – a sad fact, but it is a fact. And a tree that's dying is going to stop taking in water (cue the bad smell coming from the water).
The smell of urine can be eliminated by using hydrogen peroxide, vinegar, and baking soda. The alcohol in alcohol-based mouthwashes also neutralizes the odor of urine. Does vinegar remove urine odor? Yes, Vinegar is one of the most common household items that people use to remove urine odors from clothing and other fabrics in general.
Propane itself does not have a smell; it is odorless. If you smell something coming from your propane tank, it is most likely the additive included within the solution. This additive is included in the solution to provide a warning system for the user. The odor only happens when something is wrong, and so it should be given special attention.
First, remember that not all wounds smell bad, instead it is common for injuries not to give off any odor at all. Whether it's an injury from trauma or a blow, a wound or scar from surgery, a wound with stitches or whatever type of wound, it shouldn't smell bad. If you do smell a foul odor, also known as malodor, ...
Many relatively minor issues can cause a smell behind the ears. These include: seborrheic dermatitis, a type of eczema. poor hygiene. piercing infections. yeast infections. cut or injury infections. In most cases, a smell behind the ears is not a sign of a serious problem.
Vinegar neutralizes urine smell Vinegar is great at removing the smell of pet urine from all kinds of surfaces. That's because urine contains ammonia, bacteria, hormones, nitrogen, and uric acid, according to Pet Poo Skiddoo, and soap cannot break down these chemicals—but vinegar does.
Although male and female cats will mark with urine, it's most common in un-neutered male cats. Intact males, or Tom cats, have an unmistakable odor that is very strong and pungent. Neutering the cat will remove the odor and, often, reduce the motivation for spraying. Approximately 10 percent of male cats will continue to spray urine after they're neutered, but the urine should not have the same malodorous smell.
One of the most common reasons to smell a skunk-like odor in your home is that you have some produce that has gone bad. Garlic tends to be one of the worst culprits when it comes to odor. If your garlic is starting to sprout and take a new form, chances are it can smell a bit like a skunk.
In fact, rats have such a good sense of smell, that they’ll be able to detect the presence of food inside your home, even if they’re still outside. Incredibly, scientists also believe that rats can use their sense of smell to detect changes in the weather. If the temperature drops, thanks to the unique structure of their nose ...
How do you get creosote smell out of your house? Sprinkle baking soda over the affected piece of furniture or carpet. Let the baking soda sit for at least two hours. The baking soda will absorb the creosote smell from the item.
This orchid has beautiful white flowers that are said to smell of a strong freesia or lily-of-the-valley scent. Cymbidium Golden Elf: This is a Cymbidium hybrid that produces beautiful yellow flowers and give off a lemony scent. Maxillaria tenuifolia: Commonly known as “Coconut Pie Orchid” and its tiny blooms smell deliciously like coconut.
What is the nicest smell? Fresh Air. Fresh air sums up all the smells I like: rain, earth, flowers, pines trees (Piney wood east texan here), meadows full of Indian paintbrush and black-eyed Susans, blue sky, among other things. Vanilla. Coffee. Barbecue.
If you smoke, brushing, flossing, gargling with mouthwash and using a tongue cleaner after each cigarette is the best way to remove odor. Brushing your teeth after each cigarette will also help reduce the staining that tar and nicotine can cause on your teeth.
The infected piercing site emits a foul smell due to bacteria thriving in the area. The foul odor is a clear indication that you should visit your doctor immediately. If you do not, the gangrene or infection may spread throughout your body. This condition could be fatal to your health.
A Smoke Buddy is a portable filter that eliminates the smell of smoke. Use it when you’re around other people to reduce their exposure to secondhand smoke. Although you can keep the Smoke Buddy dry and free of debris, you cannot clean the filter.
When people have wounds in various parts of the body, some may notice that they actually emit a foul smell. Depending on the wound depth, healing stage, or medicines used these wounds may actually have different odors. The odor emitted by wounds may also be caused by a variety of reasons. One basic reason is dead tissue.
Can Febreze get rid of urine smell? Clean the area with a towel or paper towel.Use soap and water.Use a sanitizing liquid.Use a black light.Use a wet vac with lukewarm water.Mix baking soda, peroxide and dish detergent.Vinegar.Homemade spray.More ...
Having smelly feet — also known medically as bromodosis — isn’t necessarily something that you should be concerned about. Foot odor is often caused when bacteria on your feet, shoes, and socks mixes with your sweat. This can produce an unpleasant smelling acid byproduct.
Several reasons can make your daughter’s hair smell even after washing it: from bad washing habits to the products she uses. It can also be due to scalp problems or other health issues. Even eating habits influence hormones and hair. The good news is that you can learn what to do in each case!
Sprinkle Baking Soda Baking soda is non-toxic, which means that it is perfectly safe for use with cats and in their litter trays. In fact, it is added to some commercial cat litters with the sole purpose of naturally and gently getting rid of bad smells. Baking soda does not mask odors, but actually neutralizes many of the acidic smells.
It’s sometimes called K2, mamba, or spice. Synthetic marijuana is not related to the cannabis plant. It’s not regulated, and really could contain any kind of chemical. Because of this, there’s no standardized synthetic weed smell. Marijuana gives off a distinctly skunky, strong odor. | <urn:uuid:c96b31a4-4a96-4600-8837-f59819dac7d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://validsense.com/525258/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943862 | 1,737 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Use the shapefile directly. You can do this easily with the
sf packages, and read the shape in an object. For both packages you need to provide
dsn - the data source, which in the case of a shapefile is the directory, and
layer - which is the shapefile name, minus extension:
# Read SHAPEFILE.shp from the current working directory (".")
shape <- readOGR(dsn = ".", layer = "SHAPEFILE")
shape <- read_sf(dsn = ".", layer = "SHAPEFILE")
(For rgdal, in OSX or Linux you can't use the '~' shorthand for the home directory as the data source (
dsn) directory - otherwise you'll get an unhelpful "Cannot open data source" message. The
sf package doesn't have this limitation, among some other advantages.)
This will give you an object which is a Spatial*DataFrame (points, lines or polygons) - the fields of the attribute table are then accessible to you in the same way as an ordinary dataframe, i.e.
shape$ID for the ID column.
If you want to use the ASCII file you imported, then you should simply convert the text (character) x and y fields to numbers, e.g.:
shape$x <- as.numeric(as.character(shape$x))
shape$y <- as.numeric(as.character(shape$y))
coordinates(shape) <- ~x + y
Edit 2015-01-18: note that rgdal is a bit better than maptools (which I initially suggested here), primarily because it reads and writes projection information automatically.
- the nested
as.numeric(as.character()) functions - if your ASCII text was read as a factor (likely), this ensures that you get the numeric values instead of the factor levels.
sf have confusing ways of accessing different file and database types (e.g. for a GPX file, the dsn is the filename, and layers the individual components such as waypoints, trackpoints, etc), and careful reading of online examples is needed. | <urn:uuid:16fbd044-4a6c-4eef-b342-6338ddf21c2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/19064/opening-shapefile-in-r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.853221 | 486 | 3.15625 | 3 |
A MOTOR Neurone Disease sufferer from Stratford has written a book to help children understand the challenges of ‘being different’.
Shakespeare Hospice patient Stuart Heath is also donating all proceeds from sales of his lavishly-illustrated children’s book Olive to the Shottery-based hospice.
The book, for children aged between eight and 12, is based on the true and moving story of Olive, an extraordinary puppy who was born disabled.
The book tells the tale of a clever, strong and determined Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy and her poignant journey, from discovering that she’s unlike her brothers and sisters, to how she learns to cope with her condition. Olive learns from watching the humans around her and uses this knowledge to shape her life and deal with how others treat her.
The heart-warming story was inspired by a real dog born with the brain condition Cerebellar Ataxia. Olive’s original owner was advised to have her put to sleep, but after meeting her, Stuart’s brother, Duncan, fell in love at first sight, and he embarked on a mission to give her a safe and loving home.
Five years later, Olive is a thriving, happy dog who is dearly loved by Duncan and his family.
Former solider Stuart, who was taken ill three year ago, says that his illness, although devastating, allowed him to explore other avenues, including fulfilling his life-long ambition of writing a children’s book.
The 54 year-old said: “Disability is a difficult subject for children to understand, but hopefully Olive’s story will help them see it from a different and more positive perspective.
“I want them to realise that it’s important to treat disabled people with respect and as equals.”
Stuart, who worked as a management consultant after being medically discharged from the army after 12 years serving as an officer,
dedicated the book to his nieces Celyn and Tirion, to all the staff at The Shakespeare Hospice, and to Olive.
Clare Stead, registered general nurse at the hospice, said: “Stuart is a much loved and admired patient here. He is always positive and smiling. We are deeply touched by his book dedication and immensely grateful for his generous offer of donating sales to the hospice.”
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Despite having been a part of the India power T&D for over 50 years, lack of awareness and expertise of utilities, have left monopoles as yet obscured.
Domestic price competitions affects product quality
India has a strong base of over 500 transformer industries with an overall capacity of 1,000 GVA per annum. The contribution for discoms/utilities is about 50 per cent while rest is catering to the export market.
Can address both space And aesthetics issues in smart cities
Developed power sector markets like North America and Europe have been using monopoles since 1960s. However BEL had set-up the first world-class, state-of-the-art galvanized steel structure manufacturing unit in India at MIDC Ranjangaon, near Pune in 2002
Factors like space And aesthetics important for replacement
As far as need for replacement of existing T&D tower with monopole is concerned, it depends on the factors like space and aesthetic requirement for monopoles to be installed in developing urban areas. And for rural area it will be a requirement where RoW problems exist, especially in agriculture lands and land requirement for transmission along the highways.
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Beijing Climate Center (the National Climate Center of China Meteorological Administration) has the obligations to deliver climate service for neighboring and surrounding countries in Asia and international climate community. Beijing Climate Center organizes and coordinates research efforts on regional climate, operational predictions and climate a...
- Monitor and diagnose global atmospheric and ocean conditions, especially in East Asia, as well as significant climate events (e.g. ENSO);
- Provide global climate predictions and impact assessments at monthly, seasonal and inter-annual timescales, particularly in East Asia;
- Carry out research on global and regional climate change, detection development of regional climate scenarios and response strategy options;
- Strengthen collaborations between National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) on related observation, communication and computing networks for data collection and exchange;
- Provide climate data base and archiving services;
- Provide relevant climate products services such as interpretation, evaluation, processing, detection and issue etc.
Call for Papers
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Disclaimer: I won a copy via a Librarything giveaway.
I suppose I could just say that I was reading this on the way back from work and when I looked up, somehow, the trolley had gotten to one stop from mine without me knowing. It was that absorbing. Gilio-Whitaker makes what might have been a somewhat dull topic and engages the reader.
But I suppose you want more than that.
When I mentioned I was reading this book to my friend who teaches in the Urban Studies department and who has worked one various community environmental projects, he admitted he wasn’t sure about the term environmental justice. He believes that justice somewhat confuses the issue and prefers the term morality.
In the opening section of the book, Gilio-Whitaker does take the time to defend what she means by environmental justice as well as statistics that show the impact on minority groups. Donald Trump JR’s inane comment aside, if you have read anything about cities and neighborhoods, you must know the truth of those statements. Gilio-Whitaker then separates Indigenous populations from other minority groups because, quite correctly, she deals with the issues of being dispossessed, broken treaties, and so on.
What is more important is that for those not of Indigenous heritage or lack of knowledge, she clearly shows not only differences in belief systems, but also how Indigenous populations are more closely tied to the environmental – an environmental that they manipulated long before the arrival of European settlers. The section of the book that traces the history of the environmental movement as well as the development of national parks tying it to the issues of racism and white supremacy.
There is a very good discussion about the devices used to terminate and move Indigenous populations – slavery, starvation far more than dieses. Particularly gutting wrenching is when the Federal government decided who and who wasn’t an Indigenous tribe, allowing them to take away even more and wrecking more destruction upon the culture.
Gilio-Whitaker set out and wrote a good about environmental justice and the Indigenous population, but she also damns the education system in American that does not go into depth about the injustices committed to Indigenous populations. Most schools just mention the land stealing. But there is so much more.
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Riding, Corey S. – Effects of old nest material on occupancy and reuse of artificial burrows, and breeding dispersal by Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) in southwestern Idaho
This thesis comprises two chapters describing my investigations of the breeding ecology of burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) in southwestern Idaho.
The first chapter details two experimental studies where I examined the effects of old nest material, primarily mammal dung, on the occupancy and reuse of artificial burrows by burrowing owls in 2004 and 2005. For burrows that owls had not used previously for nesting, adding material from actual nests did not induce occupancy. Thus, old nest material does not appear to function as a cue for burrow suitability. Removing old material from burrows that owls had used for nesting in the previous year caused a decrease in reuse rates, but it had no effect on the level of ectoparasitism or reproductive performance (e.g., number of young fledged or body condition of owlets). While the presence of old material does not seem to increase the owls‟ fitness, it may help owls locate specific burrows (for which they have public information) when returning from migration.
The second chapter consists of an observational study, where I used data collected during a long-term study of burrowing owls (1994-2007) to address questions about breeding dispersal, or the movement between breeding sites. I examined the percent frequency of owls dispersing and the distance they dispersed, and I compared those to published results from other burrowing owl populations. Additionally, I assessed the effects of sex, productivity, age, mate quality, site quality (as measured by four indices), and level of ectoparasitism on breeding dispersal likelihood and distance. The percentage of owls dispersing (78%; 67 of 86) was greater than previously reported for any owl species. The mean distance owls moved (834.6 m ± 98) was slightly greater than reported distances for most other burrowing owl populations. With the exception of mate quality and two site quality metrics (burrow productivity and proportional occupation), all factors had support for an important relationship with dispersal likelihood. Owls were more likely to disperse if they failed to fledge young, were female, were young, nested farther from agriculture, had closer nesting neighbors, and had lower levels of ectoparasitism. Ectoparasitism and distance to nearest neighbor had inverse rather than the expected direct relationships. Age and one index of site quality were the only predictors with strong relationships to dispersal distance; young owls and owls nesting farther from other owls dispersed longer distances. Sex was somewhat important to distance dispersed, with females moving farther. The factors that most influence breeding dispersal behavior in burrowing owls appear to vary among populations.
- Riding, Corey S. and Belthoff, James R.. (2015). “Removal of Old Nest Material Decreases Reuse of Artificial Burrows by Burrowing Owls”. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 39(3), 521-528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wsb.552 | <urn:uuid:c8c8017d-195c-4332-a849-75a1cba097f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.boisestate.edu/raptorresearchcenter/riding-corey-s-effects-of-old-nest-material-on-occupancy-and-reuse-of-artificial-burrows-and-breeding-dispersal-by-burrowing-owls-athene-cunicularia-in-southwestern-idaho-2010/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.948642 | 672 | 2.234375 | 2 |
John Henry Tunstall
In 1872 England’s John Henry Tunstall Sr. dispatched his son John Henry Jr. to look into declining profits at Turner, Beeton and Tunstall, a large dry goods store located on Victoria’s Wharf Street.
John Henry enjoyed the expanse of the new country and often rode out to the deserted Gold Stream mining camp. After meeting a sheep rancher named Kimberly, John Henry decided to take up sheep ranching in California. On February 18, 1876, he left Victoria aboard the steamer City of Panama.
Sheep ranching did not pan out so Tunstall moved to Lincoln County, New Mexico in November 1876. There, with partner Alexander McSween, he opened a general store then bought a cattle ranch.
Billy the Kid .
Tunstall’s arrival sparked a bitter conflict with James Dolan who operated a dry goods monopoly in the county. Each rallied lawmen, businessmen, ranch hands, and criminal gangs to their respective sides. The Dolan faction allied itself with Lincoln County’s Sheriff and the Jesse Evans Gang. The Tunstall-McSween faction, known as the Regulators, included a young cowboy named William Henry McCarty, later known as William H. Bonney or “Billy the Kid”.
The ambush killing of Tunstall by the Evans Gang sparked several months of back-and-forth revenge killings that climaxed in a five-day gunfight and siege known as the Battle of Lincoln. Pat Garrett, elected County Sheriff in 1880, quelled the hostilities, hunted down Billy the Kid, killing him and two other former Regulators.
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Wheels 2 Work
Wheels 2 Work, an initiative managed by Shropshire Rural Communities Charity, has been awarded £6,800 for an 18 month project aimed at helping people get into or keep work by solving their transport problems.
Wheels 2 Work started life in 1997 to help people in Shropshire find affordable & flexible transport to work, particularly young people looking for work for the first time, those returning to work after a long period, or working for a low wage. Wheels 2 Work started loaning out mopeds and quickly grew in size and scope, inspiring schemes nationwide. They currently offer low cost scooter, electric bike or push bike loans along with transport advice and support with car maintenance to help people find or keep employment.
The 18 month projects that Three Parishes Big Local has funded will enable Wheels 2 Work to provide intensive support to residents of the Three Parishes Big Local area. More information about the scheme and how to apply is available on the Shropshire RCC website www.shropshire-rcc.org.uk or by telephoning 01743 360641. | <urn:uuid:5ebee1b6-6fc4-498e-9404-68a7e75a037c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://big-local.org/projects/wheels-2-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.943833 | 231 | 1.5 | 2 |
If you’re a long-time Windows user, it can be intimidating to switch over to a Mac. You’re probably worried about learning a new operating system, as well as losing all your data. However, with the Migration Assistant app from Apple, it’s easy to transfer important data from your Windows computer to the Mac. With Apple recently updating some of its Mac models with its very own M1 chip, it’s an exciting time to move over to the Mac.
What Data Can You Transfer?
While Migration Assistant does facilitate the move to the Mac from your Windows computer, there are some limitations regarding what you can bring over. Here is a list of content that you can bring to the Mac.
Email, contacts, and calendar information are moved based on which version of Windows you’re using, as well as which accounts you have. For example, if you’re using Outlook, Windows Live Mail, or Windows Mail, your IMAP, POP, and messages will be moved to the Mail app on your Mac. Please note that Migration Assistant does not support 64-bit versions of Outlook. You can manually migrate Mail, Contacts, or Calendars from Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016 by signing in and entering the content on your Mac manually. Also, Migration Assistant transfers only the Mail or Contacts data that belong to the logged-in Windows user. To transfer data from another user account, you’ll have to log into that Windows account and use Migration Assistant. Keep in mind that every time you migrate, your Mac creates a new user account.
Bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Safari, Windows, and Firefox will move to Safari. Your web browser homepage also moves to Safari. Some system settings can also transfer over, including language and location settings, as well as custom desktop wallpapers, to System Preferences. Photos move to your home folder. You can import them to Photos on your Mac. Regarding your iTunes media, music goes to the Apple Music app, videos go to the Apple TV app, podcasts go to the Apple Podcasts app, and audiobooks go to the Apple Books app.
Before you migrate over to your new Mac, there are a few steps you need to take to ensure your data is safely and securely transferred. First, you’ll want to make sure your Windows software is up to date. Migration Assistant works with Windows 7 and later, so make sure your Windows is updated to the latest version. Second, you need to know the username and password of an administrator account on the Windows computer you’re planning to transfer over to Mac. For most people, this will just be their own account. However, if you share your Windows computer with someone else, you’ll have to check if your account has administrative privileges.
You should also make sure the hard drive of your Windows computer does not have any issues. Simply run the Command Prompt and type “chkdsk” and then press Enter. If the utility reports any problems, you should type the following: “chkdsk drive: /F” where drive is the letter that represents your Windows startup disk, such as C: or D:. Press Enter and when prompted, type “Y” and restart your Windows computer. You should repeat this process until the check disk utility reports no issues. If the utility can’t fix every issue it finds, you might need to have your Windows computer looked at by a certified technician before you migrate your data to your Mac. If you’re using Microsoft OneDrive on your Windows computer, you’ll need to follow Microsoft’s instructions for uninstalling OneDrive before migrating. You can reinstall OneDrive after the migration is done.
Connect your Windows computer and your Mac to the same network. You can do this via your home Wi-Fi network. You can also connect your Windows computer and Mac with a single Ethernet cable to create a direct network connection. Please be aware that some Mac models do not have an Ethernet LAN jack and will require an Ethernet adapter (sold separately).
The Migration Process
You’ll have to download Migration Assistant on the Windows computer you’re planning to migrate from. Make sure you have the appropriate version, which is based on the macOS version of your Mac. You should only download Migration Assistant directly from Apple’s official website. After you have the correct Migration Assistant installed, quit any open Windows apps to avoid complications.
Open Migration Assistant on your Windows computer. Start up your Mac and Setup Assistant should automatically open the first time you boot up your Mac. If you’ve already set up your Mac beforehand, you can find Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.
Follow the onscreen prompts on your Mac until you get to the migration section. Select the option to transfer your information “From a Windows PC,” then click Continue. When asked, enter an administrator username and password. Click Continue to close any other open apps.
In the migration window on your Mac, select your Windows computer from the list of available computers. Wait until both your Windows computer and your Mac display the same passcode. Migration Assistant will have your Mac scan the drives on your Windows computer to build a list of information to migrate. When the scan is complete, select the content you want to migrate to your Mac and click Continue.
The migration window allows you to watch the progress, as well as the estimated time remaining on the Windows computer and the Mac. When the migration is complete, this window will let you know.
After the Move
When the migration process is complete, close Migration Assistant on your Windows computer. Then log in to the new user account on your Mac. Please be aware that the first time you log in to a user account that was migrated from your Windows computer, you’ll be asked to set a password. You can use the same password that you used on your PC, but it will probably be a good idea to create a new password.
After you’ve logged in to the user account that you migrated, you should authorize your computer for iTunes Store purchases. It is important to authorize before you sync or play content downloaded from the iTunes Store to ensure you have full access to everything you purchased.
Here are some tips if you are having issues migrating your data over to Mac:
- Quit all open apps on your Windows computer, and then try migrating your content again.
- If your Windows computer doesn’t show up in the Setup Assistant or Migration Assistant window on your Mac, make sure both computers are connected to the same network. You can create a network by connecting a single Ethernet cable between your Windows computer and Mac. You should also check to see if your firewall is blocking the connection, and turn it off. Don’t forget to turn it back on after your migration.
- If the Migration Assistant app doesn’t open on your Windows computer, you should try turning off any antivirus software, which may prevent the app from opening. Again, don’t forget to turn your antivirus back on after the migration process.
- If the migration process is still not working for you, you can try to use an external drive or file sharing to manually copy important data over to your Mac. Please note that this process will be more tedious and take longer.
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We see articles floating around like air. They’re ahead of us, behind us and all around us. Some claim to cure cancer, some to awaken your spiritual being. All say they are based on Science. It isn’t uncommon to see headlines starting with “NASA Confirmed” or “Scientists Say”. And we innocent humans read those articles and mostly believe them. There are articles that show diet fads, fat burners, super foods and miracle cures everywhere. We’ve been fed with so much of it that it has become very difficult to distinguish real from fake science.
Therefore, we have decided to lead you out of the darkness. We’ve had it up to here with the fake science circulating everywhere and don’t want any of our readers to be caught up in any of that nonsense. So, whenever you feel the need to distinguish real from fake science, ask yourselves these 7 questions:
1. What is the Source?
Whenever you come across some ground-breaking claims, ask yourself: Is the person claiming an expert? Or are they speaking on behalf of someone else? Maybe they are part of a distributed marketing scam. Are they using a Website or magazine or newspaper ad that looks too sciencey or newsy? Maybe it’s really only one giant advertisement meant to make you think it’s journalism. Google isn’t too far away, a few clicks and you’ll get to know if the claims are legit or just an empty vessel making too much noise.
2. What is the Agenda?
You always need to know the agenda of the claimers. If it’s a scientific paper, look at the funding sources. If not, it’s best you stay highly skeptical. Does the entity making the claims benefit from it? Maybe they’re telling you that something is wrong with you. Something that you didn’t even realize existed in the first place? Then they’re trying to sell you a cure for it. It reminds me of a handwriting specialist that once came to my school. He almost convinced everyone that handwriting could reflect one’s personality and was willing to help us “improve it” for a “small fee”.
3. What type of Language is used?
Does the thing you’re reading or watching use emotional words or exclamation points? Does it use language that sounds highly technical (amino acids! enzymes! toxins!) or full of jargon? Maybe if you look closely they are really meaningless in the scientific sense? If you’re not sure, Google is still near. Sometimes, the words can be used purposely to be misinterpreted so you can’t distinguish real from fake science. Always be on the lookout for sciencey-ness. Albert Einstein once pointed out, if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well. If there’s a lot of jargon and science terms to convince you of some hoax, they probably don’t know what they’re talking about, either.
4. Does it have Testimonials?
Be very, very suspicious if you see a lot of testimonials but no evidence of efficacy. Anyone, just anyone, can write a testimonial and put it on a Website. Recently I came across a weight loss pill fad being sold in our very own city. There is no study or evidence the pill works. Yet, the seller has been posting testimonials all over the place. And mostly with before and after photographs. The before where the person is wearing a very heavy saree, slouchy posture and the after in skinny jeans and fitting tops with a great posture. So look closely before you buy into the fads.
5. Is it exclusive?
It has been thousands of years since people are practicing science and medicine. There are millions currently doing it. Ideally, new findings arise out of existing knowledge, intensive research and involve the contributions of numerous people. It is unheard of that a new therapy or invention emerges completely new without a solid existing scientific background to explain how it works. Much less likely that only one person figures it out, magically. Certainly, something like that wouldn’t just suddenly appear one night on an infomercial, even leaving out the news. Watch out for words like “proprietary”, “revolutionary” and “secret.” These terms are proof that the thing on stake has no history of scientific study.
If the article starts with “Doctors don’t want you to know” or “the government has been hiding this information for years,” stay clear. Think about it, why wouldn’t the millions of doctors in the world want you to know about something that might improve your health? Doctors aren’t a monolithic entity in an enormous white coat making collective decisions about you any more than the government is some detached nonliving institution making robotic collective decisions. They’re all individuals, and in general, they do want you to know.
7. Does it involve many bodily disorders or illnesses?
Does the claim confirm about some serious damage to many body systems? Does it claim you’ll receive widespread therapeutic benefit to many body systems or a range of unrelated disorders? We’ve all seen such claims. This will cure cancer, allergies, that puts an end to ADHD, and autism. The claims are just irrational. We all know how much they’re against vaccines, because, apparently in their belief they cause autism. But it is an unstudied, stupid assumption. And to talk about something that circulates all around my Facebook Newsfeed these days. To distinguish real from fake science, just look at it this way: If Garlic prevented cancer, not one of us Nepalis would have it. After all, we consume it multiple times a day.
Now that you know how to distinguish real from fake science, never let yourself get caught up between the two. Pseudoscience is everywhere, and in the age of Internet, it’s even stronger. Just don’t believe everything you see or hear. After all, running a Google search isn’t that difficult. And you’ll know if what you just read is actually legit.
It is all the more important in our country, for Nepal is the “हल्लाई हल्ला को देश”. So much that the Nepali word “Guff” has made its way to the Oxford Dictionary and into the English Language.
Finally, stay safe of fake science, stay learned. Make sure you look things up before circulating it. Wait, look them up even before you think of believing anything.
Stay skeptical, stay smart.
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J&J Recalls Some Sunscreens Due to Benzene Traces. Why Is It A Problem?
Johnson & Johnson is recalling five of its sunscreen products after benzene, a cancer-causing chemical was detected in some of the samples, according to reports.
The affected products are:
-Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen
-4 Neutrogena sunscreen versions: Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, CoolDry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Invisible Daily Defense aerosol sunscreen and UltraSheer aerosol sunscreen.
The company said that consumers should stop using the products immediately and that it’s working to get all lots of the five products removed from store shelves.
This comes after a report in May this year said dozens of popular sunscreen products were contaminated with benzene.
What Is Benzine? Why Is It a Concern?
Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen, a substance that could potentially cause cancer depending on the level and extent of exposure.
Benzene is a colorless, flammable liquid with a sweet odor. It evaporates quickly when exposed to air, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Benzene is formed from natural processes, such as volcanoes and forest fires, but most exposure to benzene results from human activities.
J&J said that benzene is not an ingredient in its sunscreen products, but is is investigating how the chemical got into them.
However, daily exposure to benzene in these aerosol sunscreen products at the levels detected would not be expected to cause adverse health consequences, the company added.
How bad is Benzene?
Benzene's effects differ based on whether a person accidentally inhales, ingests or is exposed via skin and clothing.
Exposure to benzene liquid or vapor can irritate the skin, eyes, and throat. Skin exposure to benzene can result in redness and blisters.
According to the CDC, people who breathe in high levels of benzene may develop the following signs and symptoms within minutes to several hours:
Rapid or irregular heartbeat
Death (at very high levels)
Consuming foods or fluids contaminated with high levels of benzene can cause vomiting, stomach irritation, dizziness, rapid heart rate, among other things.
What Are the Long-Term Effects?
The long-term exposure, meaning exposure of a year or more, to the chemical harms causes harmful effects on the bone marrow and can cause a decrease in red blood cells, leading to anemia.
It can also cause excessive bleeding and can affect the immune system, increasing the chance for infection.
There is also some evidence that it might harm reproductive organs, and cause irregular menstrual periods and shrinkage of ovaries.
Long-term exposure to high levels of benzene in the air can cause leukemia, cancer of the blood-forming organs, according to the The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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Do you think digital assets are for you? I guess you must have come across the most popular Cyber Threat And Bitcoins. Most people came to know about the popular digital asset in recent months during the lockdown. Since most of the traditional assets are not performing well in 2020, they explored it as an alternative investment option.
However, many people don’t understand how it works and what are the risks involved. If you also don’t know about them, this guide is for you. You can easily invest in Bitcoin through Bitcoin Power ™ official website
Guide to Bitcoin
This beginner’s guide includes the following topics about Bitcoin and cyberthreats:
- Bitcoin Basics.
- How Bitcoin Works?
- Cyber Threat And Bitcoins.
Bitcoin is a virtual currency, and it was created in the year 2009 to democratize the financial system. However, nobody knows the real identity of the founder because the person or group behind it didn’t reveal their names. Although there are new cryptocurrencies developed after Bitcoin, it has remained as the top digital currencies since its inception.
Initially, everyone thought it was a scam and disbelieved it, but today the number of people adopting Bitcoin has grown. However, there are many contradictory arguments going on about it on the internet even today. Now, take a look at how Bitcoin works and whether it can be a global currency in the future.
How Bitcoin Works?
Blockchain is the technology that drives Bitcoin. It’s a public ledger that works on the principle of decentralization. That means the transactions in this network are possible without a central authority like any bank or financial institution.
It has a close resemblance with the BitTorrent protocol. You must have heard of torrent sites; how do they work? Users share digital content through an online platform among themselves. Similarly, Bitcoin also works in the same way with some added security features known as cryptographic encryption. Next, we will understand Blockchain Technology and cryptographic encryption.
It’s considered the most innovative technology after the internet. The technology is a public record that verifies every transaction with timestamps and adds them to a block. The blocks are then added to a chain, which is encrypted end-to-end with cryptography.
So far, cryptographic encryption is the most secure form of encoding data. It uses a 256-bit key to encrypt data, which makes it the strongest security feature in the world. Theoretically, it’s impossible for a hacker to decrypt the key as it requires a lot of computing work. Now, let’s understand what’s the correlation between Cyber Threat And Bitcoins.
Cyber Threat And Bitcoins
Although the decentralization feature has many potential benefits, it can also be its downfall. Due to decentralization and anonymity, users can send money to anyone without revealing their identity, which opened a way for cybercriminals.
In wire transfer, money needs to be transferred from one user to another user between the bank accounts. On the other hand, Bitcoin transfer can be automated, and fraudsters can gain profits from it.
For instance, a hacker can hack the server of a large-scale wallet where users store their digital assets and demand some amount in exchange. The hacker may demand Bitcoins to different crypto wallets and for releasing the data. The hacker will only send you the codes which can decrypt your files after receiving the amount.
So, it’s one of the major challenges in the Bitcoin network which can be eliminated with proper regulation. If the government and financial institutions work towards the adoption of cryptocurrencies and building a secure infrastructure, Bitcoin can be a global currency in the future.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a relatively good piece of legislation. It frees up funds for industry and increases the amount of income that the average American worker takes home. However, because our tax code is a strange and byzantine creature, full of obscure clauses written in legalese that make even the most abstruse tractates of the Talmud seem readily understandable by comparison — the bill contained a disappointing-yet-unsurprising handful of flaws, most of which can be attributed to ineptitude rather than malevolence. Section 199A contains one such flaw and it should be duly addressed in the impending omnibus bill, which is expected to tackle a variety of similar issues.
Section 199A was introduced into our tax code in 2004 in order to give manufacturers a tax deduction compliant with World Trade Organization law. Despite plans to remove it from the code, after a round of intense forceful lobbying, Section 199A was added into the 2017 bill. The purpose of Section 199A is to ensure that, in addition to large corporations, farmers would enjoy a tax decrease through the “pass through” business entities that many farmers use.
Pass through entities are unique in that their profits are taxed at a rate commensurate with their owners’ income and corresponding individual tax rates. The tax rates on these businesses, however, were high — topping off over 40 percent. These tax rates rightly paralleled those of their corporate competitors. Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included legislation that would cut corporate tax rates, legislators sensibly tried to reduce the tax burden on these businesses as well.
Legislators hastily devised a new deduction within Section 199A, exempting about 20% of pass through entities’ income from federal income taxes, which would put pass through entities approximately on par with their corporate competitors. However, the difficult thing was making that exemption available for all business operations — without extending that advantage to only high-income workers who also received tax cuts in the bill.
Under the initial drafts of the legislation, farmers were considered eligible for the pass through deduction on their income. However, legislators tried to ensure that all farmers, including farmers in agricultural cooperatives, got the new 20% deduction. Inadvertently, the precise wording of the legislation gave a unique advantage to farmers that sold their products through cooperatives: a type of business entity, much like an Israeli Kibbutz, involving several farmers who pool their resources and efforts in the course of their labors.
As it stands, section 199A warps the market for agricultural goods in favor of cooperatives. Farmers are currently eligible to deduct one fifth of the amount they sell through cooperatives, but if they sell privately, they are only eligible to deduct the same proportion of their net profit after figuring in costs — a difference which can easily add up to hundreds of thousands.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), who shepherded the provision into the tax bill, said he hopes a fix could be passed soon. In that vein, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a press release saying, “…the unintended consequences of the current language disadvantage the independent operators…The federal tax code should not pick winners and losers in the marketplace.” According to recent reports, a tentative deal regarding the provision has been made.
It’s fortunate that the situation isn’t worse. The temptation to defend Sec. 199A and instantly curry the favor of virtually all farmers within cooperatives must be overwhelming. Thankfully, none have done so, and hopefully none will.
What should be done, however, is to follow through and make sure that legislation, which corrects this and other unintentional mistakes of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is introduced in the omnibus bill later this month. After that’s done, legislators should look back at this episode as a lesson in the inherent disadvantages of a hulking tax code riddled with language so obtuse that often its own authors are at a loss as to its meaning. | <urn:uuid:0e56c775-50b1-4956-905d-b40c99a777e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spectator.org/mysteries-of-the-tax-code/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.976001 | 822 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Kids who eat well-rounded meals typically don’t need to take vitamin supplements. However, there’s one vitamin you might consider adding to your children’s diet — vitamin D.
A sufficient amount of vitamin D helps children’s bones grow and strengthen, and helps support wellness, according to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Yet kids don’t always get enough vitamin D, which our bodies gain from food and sunlight.
What foods have vitamin D?
Only a few foods are naturally chock-full of vitamin D, including cod-liver oil, egg yolks, salmon, sardines, tuna and shiitake mushrooms, the Philadelphia hospital says. But how many kids do you know who love most of those foods?
Fortunately, many foods are fortified with vitamin D, including breakfast cereal, orange juice, yogurt and milk, the American Academy of Pediatrics points out. The organization adds, though, that milk alone won’t supply enough vitamin D for children. Furthermore, not all milk is fortified with vitamin D.
Vitamin D from the sun
Aside from food, kids get vitamin D by basking in sunlight for brief periods.
From April through the end of October, just 15 to 30 minutes outdoors at midday can produce enough vitamin D for your children if their hands and faces are exposed, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says.
But during the fall and winter, when many of us spend less time outdoors and UV light is weaker, the sun’s rays might be inadequate vitamin D factories, the hospital says. Therefore, you might need to supplement your child’s diet with vitamin D during this time of year.
Also, keep in mind that applying sunblock to a child’s skin can decrease their skin’s ability to generate vitamin D, the Mayo Clinic notes.
How do you know if your child is getting enough sunlight?
Oregon State University’s Lining Pauling Institute recommends doing the shadow test. If your child’s shadow is the same height or shorter than they are, there’s enough sun to make vitamin D. But if the shadow is longer than your child, there’s probably not enough sun to produce vitamin D.
How much vitamin D for kids?
Most children’s multivitamins — in chewable and liquid form — contain 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D, which is the recommended daily allowance set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for children at least 1 year old, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says. By the way, teens who are finished growing still need as much vitamin D as younger kids do, according to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For kids up to age 1, the suggested amount of vitamin D per day is 400 IU. The American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes these recommendations for infants:
- Breastfed and partially breastfed infants should get a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU in the first few days of their lives.
- Non-breastfed infants who drink less than 32 ounces per day of vitamin D-fortified formula or milk should get a daily supplement of 400 IU of vitamin D.
Children who are obese, who rarely go outdoors, who wear clothing that covers most of their skin or who have dark skin might need to be given vitamin supplements year-round to adequately boost their vitamin D intake, according to the Philadelphia hospital.
Kids with darker skin might experience vitamin D deficiencies because the pigment in their skin blocks sunlight, leading to lower production of the vitamin than their lighter-skinned counterparts, the Johns Hopkins hospital explains. Darker-skinned kids who are at greater risk include those from African, Latino, Asian and Middle Eastern backgrounds.
In addition, the pediatricians’ group says, kids taking certain medications and coping with chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis might require higher doses of vitamin D. Some medications and chronic diseases can diminish the body’s ability to absorb nutrients like vitamin D, the Johns Hopkins hospital says.
Can your child get too much vitamin D?
Yes, it’s possible to essentially overdose on vitamin D. In fact, extreme levels of vitamin D from food and supplements can be toxic. Possible consequences of too much vitamin D include kidney stones and heart rhythm problems, Johns Hopkins says.
Among the symptoms of too much vitamin D are:
- Poor appetite
- Weight loss
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Coaxing kids to do some household chores is a chore by itself!
How many times the mom has to nag before finally giving up and putting the clothes/toys/books (the list goes on….) away herself! High five, if you all been there, done that! I feel the only solution is to make the mundane household chores fun for the little ones; then the work does not seem like work and it becomes a part of play. Fair enough??!
My 5 and 3 year olds are like most boys of this age – super active boys (Phewww!) and admist all the playing, fighting, and more playing they often forget or ignore the things are to be done by them…so this DIY mom thought to make a little something to make the whole ‘helping out’ activity fun and interesting.
Letting the kids do simple and age appropriate chores in the house is very important and I feel, its ‘Never too early and never too late to start’!
The Internet is filled with these DIYs and so getting the inspiration was not difficult at all – got mine from here.
I just made one chore list just to see how it turned out…so I made it for my 3 year old little fella who is yet to master the art of reading. I kept the different chores in pictures so he can easily understand.
Things you’ll need:
- Old/New cookie tray – I bought mine from a baking shop (S$7)
- Magnets – I bought 2 packs of 40mm size (about 12)- (S$2 each)
- Washi tape of coordinated colours
- Double sided tape
- Hot glue and gun / E6000
- Decoration items – I used buttons, sequins, and stickers
- Chores Printable – I collected pictures from internet and formatted them with circles on a Word document; you can download mine from here if you like: Chore sheet for non-readers
- 1 cardstock for printing
- Cello Tape or Laminating machine
I first printed out the Chores Printable on a cardstock and cut along the black lines into a circle (not proud of the crooked cutting, but who cares?). I don’t have a laminator, so I tried the ‘oldie but still goldie’ method of using a transparent tape to laminate the circles. Trim around the edges to make it neater.
Tip: Use a cutting mat underneath when putting the tape on the pictures, it easily come off when done.
Once done, use the double sided tape to stick the laminated cutouts onto the magnets.
There you have it, so simple and easy.
You can order the magnets with pictures off Etsy or Amazon though if short on time or need a better, more professional look: Link is here.
Now its time to jazz up the otherwise plain jane cookie tray. I didn’t spray paint it. Being a thrifty mom, I plan to use the tray later for baking purposes. Used lots of washi tapes, stickers and buttons to give it a snazzy look.
I personalized it by using some stickers for his name. This gives a sense of pride and encouragement once the kids finish all the chores for the day.
Decorating the board / sheet can be totally as per the decor of the room, kid’s preferences or simply the items available to you. I am always for re-using and re-purposing whatever I have because ultimately the basic idea is to create something unique and helpful. It needn’t be exactly what you see on pinterest but something that will serve the purpose.
So let the summer holiday fun begin,
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"public" key generation (was: default Cipher and Pubkey algo)
Huels, Ralf KSV
Fri Mar 9 08:44:02 2001
Georg Wilckens wrote:
> Hmm.. I find the following set for my key:
> S3 S1 S2
> So we have CAST5, IDEA and 3DES as cipher-algorithm. Strange enough,
> since gpg doesn't support IDEA, IIRC.
Obviously, it wasn't created with GnuPG.
> The key was generated by a german publisher last year at the CeBIT in
> Hanover; do you think I need to make some changes?
If you're paranoid, you might consider creating an entirely new key, anyway.
While I appreciate Heise's effort to promote use of cryptography and
obtained their certificate myself, I still find it odd that they introduce
new users to PGP with what must be considered a severe breach of
(Note to everyone unfamiliar with the "c't crypto-Kampagne":
the publishers of german computer magazine "c't" install a floppy-only
"glass" computer in their booth at the CeBIT fair and give visitors
opportunity to create key pairs on that machine. They also check ID
in order to certify these or other public keys. German readers will
find information on http://www.heise.de/ct/pgpCA/).
Now, while I have _no_ specific reason to suspect that the "glass" computer
is anything but what the Heise people claim, I still think it's not a
good idea to create your key pair in public.
The Heise people will gladly certify a public key that you created on your
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Back when NASA released Curiosity’s first self-portrait from the surface of Mars, there was a surprisingly large number of people who doubted the veracity of the image. Most of these doubts revolved around the 7-foot robotic arm that captured the photo, but which isn’t actually visible. As with the Moon landing photos, there were conspiracy theorists who claimed that the self-portrait was actually shot here on Earth. “It’s impossible to shoot a photo and not have your arm visible,” the tinfoil-hat-wearing fruitcakes decried. “A third party must’ve taken the photo… or it’s CGI!”
NASA, which is rightfully rather proud of its ability to land a one-ton rover on another planet after a 352-million-mile journey, seemingly took these attacks to heart and has now published information about how the self-portrait was taken.
As we originally reported, the self-portrait is a mosaic of 55 images captured by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), which sits on the end of Curiosity’s 7-foot robotic arm. These 55 images were taken in such a way that the arm was mostly out of shot — and where that wasn’t possible, data from other images (other angles) was used to fill in the gaps.
As you can see in the animation above, the moves that MAHLI makes as it traverses Curiosity are very exact. According to National Geographic, these movements were planned out last year by none other than James Cameron, and Michael Malin and Michael Ravine of MSSS, the company that manufactured Curiosity’s cameras. “Actually, there weren’t that many images with the arm in them because of how we positioned the arm,” Ravine explains. “It’s like if you hold a camera out in front of you with your elbow crooked and shoot—what you’ll probably get is your face and top of your body including your shoulder, but most of your arm is out of the frame.”
The exact movements to shoot all 55 images were then programmed into NASA’s Rover Sequencing and Visualization Program (RSVP), and then tested on the Curiosity’s stunt double — the Vehicle System Test Bed at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena (pictured above). Before trying out new maneuvers, just as an extra precaution, NASA generally tests them on the VSTB first. Finally, to take the actual self-portrait on Mars, NASA simply presses “play” in RSVP, transmitting the commands to NASA’s Deep Space Network antennae, which squirts them across 200 million miles of deep space to the rover.
In other news, Curiosity has now reached the region of Glenelg, and is powering along to Yellowknife Bay, where the rover will hopefully try out its percussive hammer for the first time (by drilling into an interesting rock). The photo below was taken at Shaler, where Curiosity briefly stopped to take some photos and other scientific measurements. Curiosity will likely spend a few weeks/months in the Glenelg region before turning south to Mount Sharp — the final destination of the rover’s primary mission. | <urn:uuid:6ce8fb11-5a38-46f4-ae0c-0ac04e25295e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143244-nasa-combats-the-conspiracy-theorists-how-curiosity-took-a-self-portrait-on-mars | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954515 | 680 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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The poem is in first person, a very young chimney sweeper is exposing the evils of chimney sweeping as a part of the cruelties created by sudden increase in wealth. The poem was used as a broadsheet or propaganda against the evil of Chimney Sweeping.
William Blake Here is a pair of poems more familiar than many I've presented here in the monthly "Classic Poem" feature—familiar, maybe, yet with an unsettling quality that seems inexhaustible.
As in much of William Blake's writing, what I may think I know, he manages to make me wonder if I really do know. Eliot who has a way of parodying himself even while making wise observations. The truth in Eliot's remark, for me, has to do not simply with Blake's indictment of conventional churches, governments, artists but with his general, metaphysical defiance toward customary ways of understanding the universe.
The "unpleasantness of great poetry," as exemplified by Blake, is rooted in a seductively beautiful process of unbalancing and disrupting.
Great poetry gives us elaborately attractive constructions of architecture or music or landscape—while preventing us from settling comfortably into this new and engaging structure, cadence, or terrain.
I can think to myself that the poem in Songs of Innocence is more powerful than the one in Songs of Experience, because the Innocence characters—both the "I" who speaks and "little Tom Dacre"—provide, in their heartbreaking extremes of acceptance, the more devastating indictment of social and economic arrangements that sell and buy children, sending them to do crippling, fatal labor.
Advertisement By that light, the Experience poem entitled "The Chimney Sweeper," explicit and accusatory, can seem a lesser work of art. The Innocence poem is implicit and ironic. Its delusional or deceptive Angel with a bright key exposes religion as exploiting the credulous children, rather than protecting them or rescuing them.
The profoundly, utterly "innocent" speaker provides a subversive drama. But that judgment is unsettled by second thoughts: Does the irony of the Innocence poem affect me all the more—does it penetrate without seeming heavy?
And doesn't that, too, bring another, significant note of dramatic outrage? Or, to put it the question more in terms of subject matter, both poems dramatize the way religion, government, and custom collaborate in social arrangements that impose cruel treatment on some people while enhancing the lives of others for example, by cleaning their chimneys.
Does the naked, declarative quality of the Experience poem sharpen my understanding of the Innocence poem? Does the pairing hold back or forbid my understanding's tendency to become self-congratulatory or pleasantly resolved?
It is in the nature of William Blake's genius to make such questions not just literary but moral. There's little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head That curled like a lamb's back, was shaved: You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes.
Jan 22, · This is a review of the two versions of the poem "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake. It is an in-depth analysis of the two poems as well as how they relate to each regardbouddhiste.coms: 1. Sep 14, · William Blake's two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper" create art by keeping us uncomfortable. As you've probably guessed by now, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence, like "The Chimney Sweeper," are about the ways in which childhood innocence is destroyed, taken away, or ruined by mean old adults. For Blake, innocence is, in many ways, a total joke.
Post your questions and comments on the work, and he'll respond and participate. You can also browse "Fray" discussions of previous classic poems.After introducing us to Tom, he relates a very strange dream that Tom had one night (it involved chimney sweepers in coffins, angels, flying, and a few other bizarre things).
The poem concludes with Tom and the speaker waking up . Sep 14, · William Blake's two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper" create art by keeping us uncomfortable.
As you've probably guessed by now, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence, like "The Chimney Sweeper," are about the ways in which childhood innocence is destroyed, taken away, or ruined by mean old adults.
For Blake, innocence is, in many ways, a total joke. Sep 14, · William Blake's two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper" create art by keeping us uncomfortable.
The Chimney Sweeper: When my mother died I was very young By William Blake About this Poet In his Life of William Blake () Alexander Gilchrist warned his readers that Blake "neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels; himself 'a divine.
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What is it about the allure of an indoor bicycle to a ten-year-old who climbs on and giggles while he pedals as fast as he can? Or an elliptical that causes an 8-year-old to step up and turn the tension to high just to see if she can make it move? Why do kids find sheer joy in exercise equipment when adults look upon the same with complete dread?
The Switzerland based company Holodia is striving to bring back the kid in all of us and replace the work, in workout with fun by introducing virtual reality, gaming, and a bit of artificial intelligence to indoor exercise. Holodia is part of a growing trend in the digital health market known as Fittech that includes wearables, apps, subscriptions, and gym equipment. The Fittech market has exploded during the past year as gyms were forced to shut their doors during the pandemic leaving fitness freaks desperately searching for a routine that would help them to reach goals, compete, and have some fun.
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In Brazil, a three-day initiative reaches out to people who usually lack media options.
Published on: 10-26-2020
A special weekend of evangelistic programs in Brazil reached out to scores of hearing-impaired people who have experienced more significant challenges than usual since the beginning of social isolation measures. The special weekend took place in the Rio de Janeiro area from October 9 to 11, 2020.
An Additional Burden
Social isolation has changed the routine of many people. For the hearing-impaired, however, to adapt to the new reality has seemed more challenging. While many people resort to digital platforms for work and entertainment, it isn’t easy for the hearing-impaired to find content available in Libras, the Brazilian sign language.
According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, close to 10 million people in Brazil have some hearing impairment, about 5 percent of the population. Despite that fact, most Brazilians can’t communicate using Libras. It is the reason many deaf people depend on lip-reading.
Elvira Espírito Santo, from Rio de Janeiro, is deaf and has faced this kind of challenge.
“Everyone’s life was affected because of the pandemic. People were told to distance themselves from other people, and for us, our options are very limited,” she said. “I felt as if I were isolating myself from God.”
To somehow counter this sense of helplessness, Adventist media in Brazil have introduced updates to provide greater inclusion, such as adding an interpreter in Week of Prayer programs and services promoted by TV Novo Tempo. Shows are increasingly including sign-language interpreters, leaders reported.
Intending to assist the hearing-impaired, Adventist Ministry to the Deaf, through the Adventist Church’s regional offices in southern Rio de Janeiro, offered its first special weekend for the hearing impaired. The three-day series of online evangelism was delivered entirely using Libras, with translation into Portuguese.
“At the end of the weekend, everyone somehow involved in this ministry — the hearing-impaired, volunteers, interpreters, and family members — were impacted and felt a stronger desire to meet and worship God even under the current circumstances,” said Espírito Santo. “What the ministry did this weekend was to connect us to a network in a way that helped us to see that God is the One who unites us.”
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Does your diet contain enough vitamin B12? When I analysed a typical week of meals, I realised that our diets weren’t balanced and we were neglecting a lot of the foods rich in the vitamins we need. This had to change, especially as we are all at home at the moment, so I set about trying to find ways to incorporate more of the foods we need in our everyday life.
This recipe features lean pork plus sweetcorn, tomatoes (in the passata), onions and lettuce plus the toppings of sour cream and cheese for some dairy. Plus, it uses store cupboard ingredients and you can also swap out many of them — for example instead of smoked paprika, you can use regular paprika or chilli powder, hot sauce or black pepper (add carefully because of the kick!) — or even leave them out. You can make your own barbecue sauce using ketchup, sugar and vinegar (just search online). And while we have these with a fun side salad, they’re great with practically any vegetable you have in the kitchen on the side.
Vitamin B12 & Our Diet
Looking at our diet, it was clear to see that we should be eating more meat, which is a natural source of vitamin B12. With adults needing around 1.5 micrograms of B12 a day, it was concerning that our diet contained little of the products rich in this vitamin.
Pork is a source of four essential vitamins and minerals that help the immune system to work normally. These include vitamin B6, vitamin B12, zinc and selenium. Pork also provides five essential vitamins that help reduce tiredness and fatigue. These are Niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, riboflavin and pantothenic acid.
I wanted to create a simple midweek meal that was also balanced – perfect for the whole family so we could sit down and enjoy it together. Dinner time is the ideal moment to come together and unpack our days. The trouble was Henry has a slight aversion to vegetables or salad, so I knew if I suddenly changed up the menu, I was likely to be met with resistance. It was important for me to be able to incorporate more balanced meals rich in all of the vitamins and minerals our bodies need so I needed to come up with a way to get Henry excited by food.
Lean Pork Lettuce Wraps
Now if you told me a few months ago, my son would be not only eating a recipe with lettuce in the title but actually declaring it his “favourite meal ever” I think I might have fainted. This recipe is simple and easy, and you can modify the ingredients to include whatever you have to hand.
I wanted to use pork in my recipe. and the great reasons for this are:
- Pork is a source of vitamin B12
- Vitamin B12 helps energy production in the body
- Vitamin B12 helps the nervous system work normally
- Vitamin B12 helps red blood cell formation
- Vitamin B12 helps the immune system work normally
- Vitamin B12 helps reduce tiredness and fatigue
- Not only can some cuts of pork be lean, like medallions, but it’s naturally rich in protein, low in salt and provides ten vitamins and minerals that contribute towards good health and wellbeing. These are: thiamin (vitamin B1), niacin (vitamin B3), vitamins B6 and B12, riboflavin, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, selenium and pantothenic acid.
Recreating this recipe is super simple and easy. You will need:
- 500g of lean pork mince (5% fat)
- ½ a red onion chopped finely
- 2 peppers chopped into small chunks (if you have a fussy eater cut them smaller)
- 2 heaped tbsp of sweetcorn
- 2 tsp smoked paprika
- 2 tsp ground cumin
- 300ml of passata
- 2 tbsp of BBQ sauce
- 4tbsp of water
- Pinch of salt & pepper
**If you can’t find peppers or sweetcorn, try courgettes or aubergine instead)
For the wraps:
- Little gem lettuce (although any lettuce will work)
- Grated cheese
- Sour cream
The great thing about this recipe is that you can use whatever you have to hand. Raid the fridge for bits to throw in, and you can even use frozen sweetcorn and peppers if you don’t have fresh to hand!
How to Make it:
- Fry the onion in a pan for five minutes until soft. You don’t need a lot of oil, and personally, I use a spray oil but if you don’t have this, just go sparingly.
- Add the chopped peppers, sweetcorn, spices and a pinch of salt and pepper and fry for a further minute.
- Add and fry the mince until brown.
- Stir in the passata, BBQ sauce and water.
- Increase the heat until bubbling then simmer, so the sauce reduces, coating the meat.
- Serve mixture in lettuce wraps adding cheese, sour cream and salsa if you choose.
Henry loves this meal because it’s quite interactive. He can make up his own wrap, choosing to add a bit of cheese and some sour cream, and it makes mealtimes fun. You can, of course, use a regular wrap or taco shell but lettuce wraps are great because they don’t go soggy and even my fussy eight-year-old says he can’t tell it’s lettuce!!
Do you have any favourite recipes using pork that you’d recommend? I’d love more suggestions!
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92 x 67 cm
"Edvard Munchs painting Despair is dominated by a strong emotional pitch. In the foreground is a well-dressed man with bowed head, facing a sombre, mountainous landscape. The red sky and the narrow bridge railing are familiar from the composition for Munch’s most famous painting, The Scream. Munch often made several versions of his most significant motifs. The painting Despair, which is in the Thiel collection, launched a whole series of angst paintings. While working on it, he wrote in his diary, 'I was walking down the road with two friends – the sun was setting. – I felt a waft of melancholia – Suddenly the sky turned red. I stopped, leant against the railing, tired to death [...] – I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed a great, infinite scream through nature' The artist’s emotional turmoil arises in the altercation with the natural setting, and then colors his experience of the landscape, in a way that appears to dissolve the line between outer and inner life."
Text: Patrik Steorn
Sick Mood at Sunset
Signed by artist: "E. Munch 1892"
Purchased in Stockholm.
Art Collection -> Paintings
Thielska Galleriet. Utkast till katalog över måleri, skulptur, grafik / Draft for catalogue over painting, sculpture, prints, 1929
Brita Linde, Ernest Thiel och hans konstgalleri, Stockholm, Alb. Bonniers boktryckeri, 1969
Ulf Linde, Arne Eggum, Edvard Munch och Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, Atlantis, 2007
Hans-Martin Frydenberg Flaatten, Edvard Munch : måneskinn i Åsgårdstrand, Oslo, Sem Stenersen, 2013
Otto Selén, Edvard Munch : Livets dans, Helsingfors, Didrichsens konstmuseum, 2014
Øystein Ustvedt, Trond Aslaksby, Peter Cripps, Edvard Munch : Det syke barn : historien om et mesterverk, The sick child : the story of a masterpiece, Oslo, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, 2009
Annie Bardon, Arne Eggum, Timo Huusko, Gerd Woll, Munch og Warnemünde : 1907-1908, Oslo, Labyrinth Press, 1999
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Paroxetine hydrochloride is an orally administered psychotropic drug. It is the hydrochloride salt of a phenylpiperidine compound identified chemically as (-)-trans-4R-(4'-fluorophenyl)-3S-[(3',4'-methylenedioxyphenoxy) methyl] piperidine hydrochloride hemihydrate and has the empirical formula of C19H20FNO3•HCl•1/2H2O. The molecular weight is 374.8 (329.4 as free base). The structural formula of paroxetine hydrochloride is:Paroxetine hydrochloride, USP is an odorless, off-white powder, having a melting point range of 120° to 138°C and a solubility of 5.4 mg/mL in water.
Tablets: Each film-coated tablet contains paroxetine hydrochloride equivalent to paroxetine as follows: 10 mg–beige to light brown (scored); 20 mg– beige to light brown (scored); 30 mg– beige to light brown, 40 mg– beige to light brown . Inactive ingredients consist of hypromellose, glyceryl behenate, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide, polyethylene glycols, iron oxide yellow and iron oxide red.The 10 mg and 20 mg strength tablets are functionally scored, each can be split into two halves.
Absorption and Distribution: Paroxetine is equally bioavailable from the oral suspension and tablet.Paroxetine hydrochloride is completely absorbed after oral dosing of a solution of the hydrochloride salt. In a study in which normal male subjects (n = 15) received 30 mg tablets daily for 30 days, steady-state paroxetine concentrations were achieved by approximately 10 days for most subjects, although it may take substantially longer in an occasional patient. At steady state, mean values of Cmax, Tmax, Cmin, and T½ were 61.7 ng/mL (CV 45%), 5.2 hr. (CV 10%), 30.7 ng/mL (CV 67%), and 21.0 hours (CV 32%), respectively. The steady-state Cmax and Cmin values were about 6 and 14 times what would be predicted from single-dose studies. Steady-state drug exposure based on AUC0-24 was about 8 times greater than would have been predicted from single-dose data in these subjects. The excess accumulation is a consequence of the fact that 1 of the enzymes that metabolizes paroxetine is readily saturable.The effects of food on the bioavailability of paroxetine were studied in subjects administered a single dose with and without food. AUC was only slightly increased (6%) when drug was administered with food but the Cmax was 29% greater, while the time to reach peak plasma concentration decreased from 6.4 hours post-dosing to 4.9 hours.Paroxetine distributes throughout the body, including the CNS, with only 1% remaining in the plasma. Approximately 95% and 93% of paroxetine is bound to plasma protein at 100 ng/mL and 400 ng/mL, respectively. Under clinical conditions, paroxetine concentrations would normally be less than 400 ng/mL. Paroxetine does not alter the in vitro protein binding of phenytoin or warfarin.
Metabolism and Excretion: The mean elimination half-life is approximately 21 hours (CV 32%) after oral dosing of 30 mg tablets daily for 30 days of Paroxetine Tablets. In steady-state dose proportionality studies involving elderly and nonelderly patients, at doses of 20 mg to 40 mg daily for the elderly and 20 mg to 50 mg daily for the nonelderly, some nonlinearity was observed in both populations, again reflecting a saturable metabolic pathway. In comparison to Cmin values after 20 mg daily, values after 40 mg daily were only about 2 to 3 times greater than doubled.Paroxetine is extensively metabolized after oral administration. The principal metabolites are polar and conjugated products of oxidation and methylation, which are readily cleared. Conjugates with glucuronic acid and sulfate predominate, and major metabolites have been isolated and identified. Data indicate that the metabolites have no more than 1/50 the potency of the parent compound at inhibiting serotonin uptake. The metabolism of paroxetine is accomplished in part by CYP2D6. Saturation of this enzyme at clinical doses appears to account for the nonlinearity of paroxetine kinetics with increasing dose and increasing duration of treatment. The role of this enzyme in paroxetine metabolism also suggests potential drug-drug interactions (see PRECAUTIONS: Drugs Metabolized by CYP2D6).Approximately 64% of a 30-mg oral solution dose of paroxetine was excreted in the urine with 2% as the parent compound and 62% as metabolites over a 10-day post-dosing period. About 36% was excreted in the feces (probably via the bile), mostly as metabolites and less than 1% as the parent compound over the 10-day post-dosing period.
Elderly Patients: In a multiple-dose study in the elderly at daily paroxetine doses of 20 mg, 30 mg, and 40 mg, Cmin concentrations were about 70% to 80% greater than the respective Cmin concentrations in nonelderly subjects. Therefore the initial dosage in the elderly should be reduced (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Major Depressive Disorder: The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets as a treatment for major depressive disorder has been established in 6 placebo-controlled studies of patients with major depressive disorder (aged 18 to 73). In these studies, Paroxetine Tablets were shown to be significantly more effective than placebo in treating major depressive disorder by at least 2 of the following measures: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), the Hamilton depressed mood item, and the Clinical Global Impression (CGI)-Severity of Illness. Paroxetine Tablets were significantly better than placebo in improvement of the HDRS sub-factor scores, including the depressed mood item, sleep disturbance factor, and anxiety factor.A study of outpatients with major depressive disorder who had responded to Paroxetine Tablets (HDRS total score <8) during an initial 8-week open-treatment phase and were then randomized to continuation on Paroxetine Tablets or placebo for 1 year demonstrated a significantly lower relapse rate for patients taking Paroxetine Tablets (15%) compared to those on placebo (39%). Effectiveness was similar for male and female patients.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was demonstrated in two 12-week multicenter placebo-controlled studies of adult outpatients (Studies 1 and 2). Patients in all studies had moderate to severe OCD (DSM-IIIR) with mean baseline ratings on the Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (YBOCS) total score ranging from 23 to 26. Study 1, a dose-range finding study where patients were treated with fixed doses of 20 mg, 40 mg, or 60 mg of paroxetine/day demonstrated that daily doses of paroxetine 40 mg and 60 mg are effective in the treatment of OCD. Patients receiving doses of 40 mg and 60 mg paroxetine experienced a mean reduction of approximately 6 and 7 points, respectively, on the YBOCS total score which was significantly greater than the approximate 4-point reduction at 20 mg and a 3-point reduction in the placebo-treated patients. Study 2 was a flexible-dose study comparing paroxetine (20 mg to 60 mg daily) with clomipramine (25 mg to 250 mg daily). In this study, patients receiving paroxetine experienced a mean reduction of approximately 7 points on the YBOCS total score, which was significantly greater than the mean reduction of approximately 4 points in placebo-treated patients.The following table provides the outcome classification by treatment group on Global Improvement items of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scale for Study 1. Outcome Classification (%) on CGI-Global Improvement Item for Completers in Study 1Outcome ClassificationPlacebo(n = 74)Paroxetine Tablets20 mg(n = 75) Paroxetine Tablets40 mg(n = 66)Paroxetine Tablets 60 mg(n = 66)Worse14%7%7%3%No Change44%35%22%19%Minimally Improved24%33%29%34%Much Improved11%18%22%24%Very Much Improved7%7%20%20%Subgroup analyses did not indicate that there were any differences in treatment outcomes as a function of age or gender.The long-term maintenance effects of Paroxetine Tablets in OCD were demonstrated in a long-term extension to Study 1. Patients who were responders on paroxetine during the 3-month double-blind phase and a 6-month extension on open-label paroxetine (20 mg/day to 60 mg/day) were randomized to either paroxetine or placebo in a 6-month double-blind relapse prevention phase. Patients randomized to paroxetine were significantly less likely to relapse than comparably treated patients who were randomized to placebo.
Panic Disorder: The effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of panic disorder was demonstrated in three 10- to 12-week multicenter, placebo-controlled studies of adult outpatients (Studies 1-3). Patients in all studies had panic disorder (DSM-IIIR), with or without agoraphobia. In these studies, Paroxetine Tablets were shown to be significantly more effective than placebo in treating panic disorder by at least 2 out of 3 measures of panic attack frequency and on the Clinical Global Impression Severity of Illness score.Study 1 was a 10-week dose-range finding study; patients were treated with fixed paroxetine doses of 10 mg/day, 20 mg/day, or 40 mg/day or placebo. A significant difference from placebo was observed only for the 40 mg/day group. At endpoint, 76% of patients receiving paroxetine 40 mg/day were free of panic attacks, compared to 44% of placebo-treated patients.Study 2 was a 12-week flexible-dose study comparing paroxetine (10 mg to 60 mg daily) and placebo. At endpoint, 51% of paroxetine patients were free of panic attacks compared to 32% of placebo-treated patients.Study 3 was a 12-week flexible-dose study comparing paroxetine (10 mg to 60 mg daily) to placebo in patients concurrently receiving standardized cognitive behavioral therapy. At endpoint, 33% of the paroxetine-treated patients showed a reduction to 0 or 1 panic attacks compared to 14% of placebo patients.In both Studies 2 and 3, the mean paroxetine dose for completers at endpoint was approximately 40 mg/day of paroxetine.Long-term maintenance effects of Paroxetine Tablets in panic disorder were demonstrated in an extension to Study 1. Patients who were responders during the 10-week double-blind phase and during a 3-month double-blind extension phase were randomized to either paroxetine (10 mg/day, 20 mg/day, or 40 mg/day) or placebo in a 3-month double-blind relapse prevention phase. Patients randomized to paroxetine were significantly less likely to relapse than comparably treated patients who were randomized to placebo.Subgroup analyses did not indicate that there were any differences in treatment outcomes as a function of age or gender.
Social Anxiety Disorder: The effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of social anxiety disorder was demonstrated in three 12-week, multicenter, placebo-controlled studies (Studies 1, 2, and 3) of adult outpatients with social anxiety disorder (DSM-IV). In these studies, the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets compared to placebo was evaluated on the basis of (1) the proportion of responders, as defined by a Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Improvement score of 1 (very much improved) or 2 (much improved), and (2) change from baseline in the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS).Studies 1 and 2 were flexible-dose studies comparing paroxetine (20 mg to 50 mg daily) and placebo. Paroxetine demonstrated statistically significant superiority over placebo on both the CGI Improvement responder criterion and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). In Study 1, for patients who completed to week 12, 69% of paroxetine-treated patients compared to 29% of placebo-treated patients were CGI Improvement responders. In Study 2, CGI Improvement responders were 77% and 42% for the paroxetine- and placebo-treated patients, respectively.Study 3 was a 12-week study comparing fixed paroxetine doses of 20 mg/day, 40 mg/day, or 60 mg/day with placebo. Paroxetine 20 mg was demonstrated to be significantly superior to placebo on both the LSAS Total Score and the CGI Improvement responder criterion; there were trends for superiority over placebo for the 40 mg/day and 60 mg/day dose groups. There was no indication in this study of any additional benefit for doses higher than 20 mg/day.Subgroup analyses generally did not indicate differences in treatment outcomes as a function of age, race, or gender.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) was demonstrated in two 8-week, multicenter, placebo-controlled studies (Studies 1 and 2) of adult outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (DSM-IV).Study 1 was an 8-week study comparing fixed paroxetine doses of 20 mg/day or 40 mg/day with placebo. Doses of 20 mg or 40 mg of Paroxetine Tablets were both demonstrated to be significantly superior to placebo on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) total score. There was not sufficient evidence in this study to suggest a greater benefit for the 40 mg/day dose compared to the 20 mg/day dose.Study 2 was a flexible-dose study comparing paroxetine (20 mg to 50 mg daily) and placebo. Paroxetine Tablets demonstrated statistically significant superiority over placebo on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) total score. A third study, also flexible-dose comparing paroxetine (20 mg to 50 mg daily), did not demonstrate statistically significant superiority of Paroxetine Tablets over placebo on the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) total score, the primary outcome.Subgroup analyses did not indicate differences in treatment outcomes as a function of race or gender. There were insufficient elderly patients to conduct subgroup analyses on the basis of age.In a longer-term trial, 566 patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, who had responded during a single-blind, 8-week acute treatment phase with 20 mg/day to 50 mg/day of Paroxetine Tablets, were randomized to continuation of Paroxetine Tablets at their same dose, or to placebo, for up to 24 weeks of observation for relapse. Response during the single-blind phase was defined by having a decrease of ≥2 points compared to baseline on the CGI-Severity of Illness scale, to a score of ≤3. Relapse during the double-blind phase was defined as an increase of ≥2 points compared to baseline on the CGI-Severity of Illness scale to a score of ≥4, or withdrawal due to lack of efficacy. Patients receiving continued Paroxetine Tablets experienced a significantly lower relapse rate over the subsequent 24 weeks compared to those receiving placebo.
Major Depressive Disorder: Paroxetine Tablets are indicated for the treatment of major depressive disorder.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of a major depressive episode was established in 6-week controlled trials of outpatients whose diagnoses corresponded most closely to the DSM-III category of major depressive disorder (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). A major depressive episode implies a prominent and relatively persistent depressed or dysphoric mood that usually interferes with daily functioning (nearly every day for at least 2 weeks); it should include at least 4 of the following 8 symptoms: Change in appetite, change in sleep, psychomotor agitation or retardation, loss of interest in usual activities or decrease in sexual drive, increased fatigue, feelings of guilt or worthlessness, slowed thinking or impaired concentration, and a suicide attempt or suicidal ideation. The effects of Paroxetine Tablets in hospitalized depressed patients have not been adequately studied.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets in maintaining a response in major depressive disorder for up to 1 year was demonstrated in a placebo-controlled trial (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Nevertheless, the physician who elects to use Paroxetine Tablets for extended periods should periodically re-evaluate the long-term usefulness of the drug for the individual patient.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Paroxetine Tablets are indicated for the treatment of obsessions and compulsions in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) as defined in the DSM-IV. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time-consuming, or significantly interfere with social or occupational functioning.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets was established in two 12-week trials with obsessive compulsive outpatients whose diagnoses corresponded most closely to the DSM-IIIR category of obsessive compulsive disorder (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Obsessive compulsive disorder is characterized by recurrent and persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses, or images (obsessions) that are ego-dystonic and/or repetitive, purposeful, and intentional behaviors (compulsions) that are recognized by the person as excessive or unreasonable.Long-term maintenance of efficacy was demonstrated in a 6-month relapse prevention trial. In this trial, patients assigned to paroxetine showed a lower relapse rate compared to patients on placebo (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Nevertheless, the physician who elects to use Paroxetine Tablets for extended periods should periodically re-evaluate the long-term usefulness of the drug for the individual patient (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Panic Disorder: Paroxetine Tablets are indicated for the treatment of panic disorder, with or without agoraphobia, as defined in DSM-IV. Panic disorder is characterized by the occurrence of unexpected panic attacks and associated concern about having additional attacks, worry about the implications or consequences of the attacks, and/or a significant change in behavior related to the attacks.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets was established in three 10- to 12-week trials in panic disorder patients whose diagnoses corresponded to the DSM-IIIR category of panic disorder (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials).Panic disorder (DSM-IV) is characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks, i.e., a discrete period of intense fear or discomfort in which 4 (or more) of the following symptoms develop abruptly and reach a peak within 10 minutes: (1) palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate; (2) sweating; (3) trembling or shaking; (4) sensations of shortness of breath or smothering; (5) feeling of choking; (6) chest pain or discomfort; (7) nausea or abdominal distress; (8) feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint; (9) derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself); (10) fear of losing control; (11) fear of dying; (12) paresthesias (numbness or tingling sensations); (13) chills or hot flushes.Long-term maintenance of efficacy was demonstrated in a 3-month relapse prevention trial. In this trial, patients with panic disorder assigned to paroxetine demonstrated a lower relapse rate compared to patients on placebo (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Nevertheless, the physician who prescribes Paroxetine Tablets for extended periods should periodically re-evaluate the long-term usefulness of the drug for the individual patient (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Social Anxiety Disorder: Paroxetine Tablets are indicated for the treatment of social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, as defined in DSM-IV (300.23). Social anxiety disorder is characterized by a marked and persistent fear of 1 or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people or to possible scrutiny by others. Exposure to the feared situation almost invariably provokes anxiety, which may approach the intensity of a panic attack. The feared situations are avoided or endured with intense anxiety or distress. The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared situation(s) interferes significantly with the person's normal routine, occupational or academic functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobias. Lesser degrees of performance anxiety or shyness generally do not require psychopharmacological treatment.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets was established in three 12-week trials in adult patients with social anxiety disorder (DSM-IV). Paroxetine Tablets have not been studied in children or adolescents with social phobia (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials).The effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in long-term treatment of social anxiety disorder, i.e., for more than 12 weeks, has not been systematically evaluated in adequate and well-controlled trials. Therefore, the physician who elects to prescribe Paroxetine Tablets for extended periods should periodically reevaluate the long-term usefulness of the drug for the individual patient (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Paroxetine Tablets are indicated for the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), as defined in DSM-IV. Anxiety or tension associated with the stress of everyday life usually does not require treatment with an anxiolytic.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of GAD was established in two 8-week placebo-controlled trials in adults with GAD. Paroxetine Tablets have not been studied in children or adolescents with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Generalized Anxiety Disorder (DSM-IV) is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation) that is persistent for at least 6 months and which the person finds difficult to control. It must be associated with at least 3 of the following 6 symptoms: Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge, being easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating or mind going blank, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance.The efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets in maintaining a response in patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder, who responded during an 8-week acute treatment phase while taking Paroxetine Tablets and were then observed for relapse during a period of up to 24 weeks, was demonstrated in a placebo-controlled trial (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Nevertheless, the physician who elects to use Paroxetine Tablets for extended periods should periodically re-evaluate the long-term usefulness of the drug for the individual patient (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
- Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk: Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), both adult and pediatric, may experience worsening of their depression and/or the emergence of suicidal ideation and behavior (suicidality) or unusual changes in behavior, whether or not they are taking antidepressant medications, and this risk may persist until significant remission occurs. Suicide is a known risk of depression and certain other psychiatric disorders, and these disorders themselves are the strongest predictors of suicide. There has been a long-standing concern, however, that antidepressants may have a role in inducing worsening of depression and the emergence of suicidality in certain patients during the early phases of treatment. Pooled analyses of short-term placebo-controlled trials of antidepressant drugs (SSRIs and others) showed that these drugs increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults (ages 18-24) with major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24; there was a reduction with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults aged 65 and older.The pooled analyses of placebo-controlled trials in children and adolescents with MDD, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), or other psychiatric disorders included a total of 24 short-term trials of 9 antidepressant drugs in over 4,400 patients. The pooled analyses of placebo-controlled trials in adults with MDD or other psychiatric disorders included a total of 295 short-term trials (median duration of 2 months) of 11 antidepressant drugs in over 77,000 patients. There was considerable variation in risk of suicidality among drugs, but a tendency toward an increase in the younger patients for almost all drugs studied. There were differences in absolute risk of suicidality across the different indications, with the highest incidence in MDD. The risk differences (drug vs placebo), however, were relatively stable within age strata and across indications. These risk differences (drug-placebo difference in the number of cases of suicidality per 1,000 patients treated) are provided in Table 1.Table 1Age Range Drug-Placebo Difference in Number of Cases of Suicidality per 1,000 Patients TreatedIncreases Compared to Placebo<18 14 additional cases18-24 5 additional cases Decreases Compared to Placebo 25-64 1 fewer case≥65 6 fewer casesNo suicides occurred in any of the pediatric trials. There were suicides in the adult trials, but the number was not sufficient to reach any conclusion about drug effect on suicide.It is unknown whether the suicidality risk extends to longer-term use, i.e., beyond several months. However, there is substantial evidence from placebo-controlled maintenance trials in adults with depression that the use of antidepressants can delay the recurrence of depression.All patients being treated with antidepressants for any indication should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality, and unusual changes in behavior, especially during the initial few months of a course of drug therapy, or at times of dose changes, either increases or decreases.The following symptoms, anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, and mania, have been reported in adult and pediatric patients being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder as well as for other indications, both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric. Although a causal link between the emergence of such symptoms and either the worsening of depression and/or the emergence of suicidal impulses has not been established, there is concern that such symptoms may represent precursors to emerging suicidality.Consideration should be given to changing the therapeutic regimen, including possibly discontinuing the medication, in patients whose depression is persistently worse, or who are experiencing emergent suicidality or symptoms that might be precursors to worsening depression or suicidality, especially if these symptoms are severe, abrupt in onset, or were not part of the patient's presenting symptoms.If the decision has been made to discontinue treatment, medication should be tapered, as rapidly as is feasible, but with recognition that abrupt discontinuation can be associated with certain symptoms (see PRECAUTIONS and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets, for a description of the risks of discontinuation of Paroxetine Tablets).Families and caregivers of patients being treated with antidepressants for major depressive disorder or other indications, both psychiatric and nonpsychiatric, should be alerted about the need to monitor patients for the emergence of agitation, irritability, unusual changes in behavior, and the other symptoms described above, as well as the emergence of suicidality, and to report such symptoms immediately to healthcare providers. Such monitoring should include daily observation by families and caregivers. Prescriptions for Paroxetine Tablets should be written for the smallest quantity of tablets consistent with good patient management, in order to reduce the risk of overdose.
Screening Patients for Bipolar Disorder: A major depressive episode may be the initial presentation of bipolar disorder. It is generally believed (though not established in controlled trials) that treating such an episode with an antidepressant alone may increase the likelihood of precipitation of a mixed/manic episode in patients at risk for bipolar disorder. Whether any of the symptoms described above represent such a conversion is unknown. However, prior to initiating treatment with an antidepressant, patients with depressive symptoms should be adequately screened to determine if they are at risk for bipolar disorder; such screening should include a detailed psychiatric history, including a family history of suicide, bipolar disorder, and depression. It should be noted that Paroxetine Tablets are not approved for use in treating bipolar depression.
Serotonin Syndrome: The development of a potentially life-threatening serotonin syndrome has been reported with SNRIs and SSRIs, including Paroxetine Tablets, alone but particularly with concomitant use of other serotonergic drugs (including triptans, tricyclic antidepressants, fentanyl, lithium, tramadol, tryptophan, buspirone, amphetamines, and St. John’s Wort) and with drugs that impair metabolism of serotonin (in particular, MAOIs, both those intended to treat psychiatric disorders and also others, such as linezolid and intravenous methylene blue).Serotonin syndrome symptoms may include mental status changes (e.g., agitation, hallucinations, delirium and coma), autonomic instability (e.g., tachycardia, labile blood pressure, dizziness, diaphoresis, flushing, hyperthermia), neuromuscular symptoms (e.g., tremor, rigidity, myoclonus, hyperreflexia, incoordination), seizures, and/or gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea). Patients should be monitored for the emergence of serotonin syndrome.The concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with MAOIs intended to treat psychiatric disorders is contraindicated. Paroxetine Tablets should also not be started in a patient who is being treated with MAOIs such as linezolid or intravenous methylene blue. All reports with methylene blue that provided information on the route of administration involved intravenous administration in the dose range of 1 mg/kg to 8 mg/kg. No reports involved the administration of methylene blue by other routes (such as oral tablets or local tissue injection) or at lower doses. There may be circumstances when it is necessary to initiate treatment with an MAOI such as linezolid or intravenous methylene blue in a patient taking Paroxetine Tablets. Paroxetine Tablets should be discontinued before initiating treatment with the MAOI (see CONTRAINDICATIONS and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).If concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with certain other serotonergic drugs, i.e., triptans, tricyclic antidepressants, fentanyl, lithium, tramadol, buspirone, tryptophan, amphetamines, and St. John’s Wort is clinically warranted, be aware of a potential increased risk for serotonin syndrome, particularly during treatment initiation and dose increases.Treatment with Paroxetine Tablets and any concomitant serotonergic agents should be discontinued immediately if the above events occur and supportive symptomatic treatment should be initiated.Angle-Closure Glaucoma: The pupillary dilation that occurs following use of many antidepressant drugs including Paroxetine Tablets may trigger an angle closure attack in a patient with anatomically narrow angles who does not have a patent iridectomy.
Potential Interaction With Thioridazine: Thioridazine administration alone produces prolongation of the QTc interval, which is associated with serious ventricular arrhythmias, such as torsade de pointes–type arrhythmias, and sudden death. This effect appears to be dose related.An in vivo study suggests that drugs which inhibit CYP2D6, such as paroxetine, will elevate plasma levels of thioridazine. Therefore, it is recommended that paroxetine not be used in combination with thioridazine (see CONTRAINDICATIONS and PRECAUTIONS).
Animal Findings: Reproduction studies were performed at doses up to 50 mg/kg/day in rats and 6 mg/kg/day in rabbits administered during organogenesis. These doses are approximately 8 (rat) and 2 (rabbit) times the maximum recommended human dose (MRHD) on an mg/m2 basis. These studies have revealed no evidence of teratogenic effects. However, in rats, there was an increase in pup deaths during the first 4 days of lactation when dosing occurred during the last trimester of gestation and continued throughout lactation. This effect occurred at a dose of 1 mg/kg/day or approximately one-sixth of the MRHD on an mg/m2 basis. The no-effect dose for rat pup mortality was not determined. The cause of these deaths is not known.
Seizures: During premarketing testing, seizures occurred in 0.1% of patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets, a rate similar to that associated with other drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder. Paroxetine Tablets should be used cautiously in patients with a history of seizures. It should be discontinued in any patient who develops seizures.
- Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets: Recent clinical trials supporting the various approved indications for Paroxetine Tablets employed a taper-phase regimen, rather than an abrupt discontinuation of treatment. The taper-phase regimen used in GAD clinical trials involved an incremental decrease in the daily dose by 10 mg/day at weekly intervals. When a daily dose of 20 mg/day was reached, patients were continued on this dose for 1 week before treatment was stopped.With this regimen in those studies, the following adverse events were reported at an incidence of 2% or greater for Paroxetine Tablets and were at least twice that reported for placebo: Abnormal dreams, paresthesia, and dizziness. In the majority of patients, these events were mild to moderate and were self-limiting and did not require medical intervention.During marketing of Paroxetine Tablets and other SSRIs and SNRIs, there have been spontaneous reports of adverse events occurring upon the discontinuation of these drugs (particularly when abrupt), including the following: Dysphoric mood, irritability, agitation, dizziness, sensory disturbances (e.g., paresthesias such as electric shock sensations and tinnitus), anxiety, confusion, headache, lethargy, emotional lability, insomnia, and hypomania. While these events are generally self-limiting, there have been reports of serious discontinuation symptoms.Patients should be monitored for these symptoms when discontinuing treatment with Paroxetine Tablets. A gradual reduction in the dose rather than abrupt cessation is recommended whenever possible. If intolerable symptoms occur following a decrease in the dose or upon discontinuation of treatment, then resuming the previously prescribed dose may be considered. Subsequently, the physician may continue decreasing the dose but at a more gradual rate (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION). See also PRECAUTIONS: Pediatric Use, for adverse events reported upon discontinuation of treatment with Paroxetine Tablets in pediatric patients.
Tamoxifen: Some studies have shown that the efficacy of tamoxifen, as measured by the risk of breast cancer relapse/mortality, may be reduced when co-prescribed with paroxetine as a result of paroxetine’s irreversible inhibition of CYP2D6 (see Drug Interactions). However, other studies have failed to demonstrate such a risk. It is uncertain whether the coadministration of paroxetine and tamoxifen has a significant adverse effect on the efficacy of tamoxifen. One study suggests that the risk may increase with longer duration of coadministration. When tamoxifen is used for the treatment or prevention of breast cancer, prescribers should consider using an alternative antidepressant with little or no CYP2D6 inhibition.
Akathisia: The use of paroxetine or other SSRIs has been associated with the development of akathisia, which is characterized by an inner sense of restlessness and psychomotor agitation such as an inability to sit or stand still usually associated with subjective distress. This is most likely to occur within the first few weeks of treatment.
Hyponatremia: Hyponatremia may occur as a result of treatment with SSRIs and SNRIs, including Paroxetine Tablets. In many cases, this hyponatremia appears to be the result of the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH). Cases with serum sodium lower than 110 mmol/L have been reported. Elderly patients may be at greater risk of developing hyponatremia with SSRIs and SNRIs. Also, patients taking diuretics or who are otherwise volume depleted may be at greater risk (see PRECAUTIONS: Geriatric Use). Discontinuation of Paroxetine Tablets should be considered in patients with symptomatic hyponatremia and appropriate medical intervention should be instituted.Signs and symptoms of hyponatremia include headache, difficulty concentrating, memory impairment, confusion, weakness, and unsteadiness, which may lead to falls. Signs and symptoms associated with more severe and/or acute cases have included hallucination, syncope, seizure, coma, respiratory arrest, and death.
Abnormal Bleeding: SSRIs and SNRIs, including paroxetine, may increase the risk of bleeding events. Concomitant use of aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, warfarin, and other anticoagulants may add to this risk. Case reports and epidemiological studies (case-control and cohort design) have demonstrated an association between use of drugs that interfere with serotonin reuptake and the occurrence of gastrointestinal bleeding. Bleeding events related to SSRIs and SNRIs use have ranged from ecchymoses, hematomas, epistaxis, and petechiae to life-threatening hemorrhages. Patients should be cautioned about the risk of bleeding associated with the concomitant use of paroxetine and NSAIDs, aspirin, or other drugs that affect coagulation.
Bone Fracture: Epidemiological studies on bone fracture risk following exposure to some antidepressants, including SSRIs, have reported an association between antidepressant treatment and fractures. There are multiple possible causes for this observation and it is unknown to what extent fracture risk is directly attributable to SSRI treatment. The possibility of a pathological fracture, that is, a fracture produced by minimal trauma in a patient with decreased bone mineral density, should be considered in patients treated with paroxetine who present with unexplained bone pain, point tenderness, swelling, or bruising.
Use in Patients With Concomitant Illness: Clinical experience with Paroxetine Tablets in patients with certain concomitant systemic illness is limited. Caution is advisable in using Paroxetine Tablets in patients with diseases or conditions that could affect metabolism or hemodynamic responses.As with other SSRIs, mydriasis has been infrequently reported in premarketing studies with Paroxetine Tablets. A few cases of acute angle closure glaucoma associated with paroxetine therapy have been reported in the literature. As mydriasis can cause acute angle closure in patients with narrow angle glaucoma, caution should be used when Paroxetine Tablets are prescribed for patients with narrow angle glaucoma.Paroxetine Tablets have not been evaluated or used to any appreciable extent in patients with a recent history of myocardial infarction or unstable heart disease. Patients with these diagnoses were excluded from clinical studies during the product’s premarket testing. Evaluation of electrocardiograms of 682 patients who received Paroxetine Tablets in double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, however, did not indicate that Paroxetine Tablets are associated with the development of significant ECG abnormalities. Similarly, Paroxetine Tablets do not cause any clinically important changes in heart rate or blood pressure.Increased plasma concentrations of paroxetine occur in patients with severe renal impairment (creatinine clearance <30 mL/min.) or severe hepatic impairment. A lower starting dose should be used in such patients (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk: Patients, their families, and their caregivers should be encouraged to be alert to the emergence of anxiety, agitation, panic attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility, aggressiveness, impulsivity, akathisia (psychomotor restlessness), hypomania, mania, other unusual changes in behavior, worsening of depression, and suicidal ideation, especially early during antidepressant treatment and when the dose is adjusted up or down. Families and caregivers of patients should be advised to look for the emergence of such symptoms on a day-to-day basis, since changes may be abrupt. Such symptoms should be reported to the patient’s prescriber or health professional, especially if they are severe, abrupt in onset, or were not part of the patient’s presenting symptoms. Symptoms such as these may be associated with an increased risk for suicidal thinking and behavior and indicate a need for very close monitoring and possibly changes in the medication.
Drugs That Interfere With Hemostasis (e.g., NSAIDs, Aspirin, and Warfarin): Patients should be cautioned about the concomitant use of paroxetine and NSAIDs, aspirin, warfarin, or other drugs that affect coagulation since combined use of psychotropic drugs that interfere with serotonin reuptake and these agents has been associated with an increased risk of bleeding.
Interference With Cognitive and Motor Performance: Any psychoactive drug may impair judgment, thinking, or motor skills. Although in controlled studies Paroxetine Tablets have not been shown to impair psychomotor performance, patients should be cautioned about operating hazardous machinery, including automobiles, until they are reasonably certain that therapy with Paroxetine Tablets does not affect their ability to engage in such activities.
Completing Course of Therapy: While patients may notice improvement with treatment with Paroxetine Tablets in 1 to 4 weeks, they should be advised to continue therapy as directed.
Concomitant Medication: Patients should be advised to inform their physician if they are taking, or plan to take, any prescription or over-the-counter drugs, since there is a potential for interactions.
Alcohol: Although Paroxetine Tablets have not been shown to increase the impairment of mental and motor skills caused by alcohol, patients should be advised to avoid alcohol while taking Paroxetine Tablets.
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors: See CONTRAINDICATIONS and WARNINGS.
Pimozide: In a controlled study of healthy volunteers, after Paroxetine Tablets were titrated to 60 mg daily, co-administration of a single dose of 2 mg pimozide was associated with mean increases in pimozide AUC of 151% and Cmax of 62%, compared to pimozide administered alone. The increase in pimozide AUC and Cmax is due to the CYP2D6 inhibitory properties of paroxetine. Due to the narrow therapeutic index of pimozide and its known ability to prolong the QT interval, concomitant use of pimozide and Paroxetine Tablets is contraindicated (see CONTRAINDICATIONS).
Serotonergic Drugs: Based on the mechanism of action of SNRIs and SSRIs, including paroxetine hydrochloride, and the potential for serotonin syndrome, caution is advised when Paroxetine Tablets are coadministered with other drugs that may affect the serotonergic neurotransmitter systems, such as triptans, lithium, fentanyl, tramadol, amphetamines, or St. John's Wort (see WARNINGS: Serotonin Syndrome). The concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with MAOIs (including linezolid and intravenous methylene blue) is contraindicated (see CONTRAINDICATIONS). The concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with other SSRIs, SNRIs or tryptophan is not recommended (see PRECAUTIONS: Drug Interactions: Tryptophan).
Thioridazine: See CONTRAINDICATIONS and WARNINGS.
Warfarin: Preliminary data suggest that there may be a pharmacodynamic interaction (that causes an increased bleeding diathesis in the face of unaltered prothrombin time) between paroxetine and warfarin. Since there is little clinical experience, the concomitant administration of Paroxetine Tablets and warfarin should be undertaken with caution (see PRECAUTIONS: Drugs That Interfere With Hemostasis).
Triptans: There have been rare postmarketing reports of serotonin syndrome with the use of an SSRI and a triptan. If concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with a triptan is clinically warranted, careful observation of the patient is advised, particularly during treatment initiation and dose increases (see WARNINGS: Serotonin Syndrome).
Drugs Affecting Hepatic Metabolism: The metabolism and pharmacokinetics of paroxetine may be affected by the induction or inhibition of drug-metabolizing enzymes.
Cimetidine: Cimetidine inhibits many cytochrome P450 (oxidative) enzymes. In a study where Paroxetine Tablets (30 mg once daily) were dosed orally for 4 weeks, steady-state plasma concentrations of paroxetine were increased by approximately 50% during coadministration with oral cimetidine (300 mg three times daily) for the final week. Therefore, when these drugs are administered concurrently, dosage adjustment of Paroxetine Tablets after the 20-mg starting dose should be guided by clinical effect. The effect of paroxetine on cimetidine’s pharmacokinetics was not studied.
Phenobarbital: Phenobarbital induces many cytochrome P450 (oxidative) enzymes. When a single oral 30-mg dose of Paroxetine Tablets was administered at phenobarbital steady state (100 mg once daily for 14 days), paroxetine AUC and T½ were reduced (by an average of 25% and 38%, respectively) compared to paroxetine administered alone. The effect of paroxetine on phenobarbital pharmacokinetics was not studied. Since Paroxetine Tablets exhibit nonlinear pharmacokinetics, the results of this study may not address the case where the 2 drugs are both being chronically dosed. No initial dosage adjustment of Paroxetine Tablets is considered necessary when coadministered with phenobarbital; any subsequent adjustment should be guided by clinical effect.
Phenytoin: When a single oral 30-mg dose of Paroxetine Tablets was administered at phenytoin steady state (300 mg once daily for 14 days), paroxetine AUC and T½ were reduced (by an average of 50% and 35%, respectively) compared to Paroxetine Tablets administered alone. In a separate study, when a single oral 300-mg dose of phenytoin was administered at paroxetine steady state (30 mg once daily for 14 days), phenytoin AUC was slightly reduced (12% on average) compared to phenytoin administered alone. Since both drugs exhibit nonlinear pharmacokinetics, the above studies may not address the case where the 2 drugs are both being chronically dosed. No initial dosage adjustments are considered necessary when these drugs are coadministered; any subsequent adjustments should be guided by clinical effect (see ADVERSE REACTIONS: Postmarketing Reports).
Drugs Metabolized by CYP2D6: Many drugs, including most drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder (paroxetine, other SSRIs and many tricyclics), are metabolized by the cytochrome P450 isozyme CYP2D6. Like other agents that are metabolized by CYP2D6, paroxetine may significantly inhibit the activity of this isozyme. In most patients (>90%), this CYP2D6 isozyme is saturated early during dosing with Paroxetine Tablets. In 1 study, daily dosing of Paroxetine Tablets (20 mg once daily) under steady-state conditions increased single dose desipramine (100 mg) Cmax, AUC, and T½ by an average of approximately 2-, 5-, and 3- fold, respectively. Concomitant use of paroxetine with risperidone, a CYP2D6 substrate has also been evaluated. In 1 study, daily dosing of paroxetine 20 mg in patients stabilized on risperidone (4 mg/day to 8 mg/day) increased mean plasma concentrations of risperidone approximately 4-fold, decreased 9-hydroxyrisperidone concentrations approximately 10%, and increased concentrations of the active moiety (the sum of risperidone plus 9-hydroxyrisperidone) approximately 1.4-fold. The effect of paroxetine on the pharmacokinetics of atomoxetine has been evaluated when both drugs were at steady state. In healthy volunteers who were extensive metabolizers of CYP2D6, paroxetine 20 mg daily was given in combination with 20 mg atomoxetine every 12 hours. This resulted in increases in steady state atomoxetine AUC values that were 6- to 8-fold greater and in atomoxetine Cmax values that were 3- to 4-fold greater than when atomoxetine was given alone. Dosage adjustment of atomoxetine may be necessary and it is recommended that atomoxetine be initiated at a reduced dose when it is given with paroxetine.Concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with other drugs metabolized by cytochrome CYP2D6 has not been formally studied but may require lower doses than usually prescribed for either Paroxetine Tablets or the other drug. Therefore, coadministration of Paroxetine Tablets with other drugs that are metabolized by this isozyme, including certain drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder (e.g., nortriptyline, amitriptyline, imipramine, desipramine, and fluoxetine), phenothiazines, risperidone, and Type 1C antiarrhythmics (e.g., propafenone, flecainide, and encainide), or that inhibit this enzyme (e.g., quinidine), should be approached with caution.However, due to the risk of serious ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death potentially associated with elevated plasma levels of thioridazine, paroxetine and thioridazine should not be coadministered (see CONTRAINDICATIONS and WARNINGS). Tamoxifen is a pro-drug requiring metabolic activation by CYP2D6. Inhibition of CYP2D6 by paroxetine may lead to reduced plasma concentrations of an active metabolite (endoxifen) and hence reduced efficacy of tamoxifen (see PRECAUTIONS).At steady state, when the CYP2D6 pathway is essentially saturated, paroxetine clearance is governed by alternative P450 isozymes that, unlike CYP2D6, show no evidence of saturation (see PRECAUTIONS: Tricyclic Antidepressants [TCAs]).
Drugs Metabolized by Cytochrome CYP3A4: An in vivo interaction study involving the coadministration under steady-state conditions of paroxetine and terfenadine, a substrate for cytochrome CYP3A4, revealed no effect of paroxetine on terfenadine pharmacokinetics. In addition, in vitro studies have shown ketoconazole, a potent inhibitor of CYP3A4 activity, to be at least 100 times more potent than paroxetine as an inhibitor of the metabolism of several substrates for this enzyme, including terfenadine, astemizole, cisapride, triazolam, and cyclosporine. Based on the assumption that the relationship between paroxetine’s in vitro Ki and its lack of effect on terfenadine’s in vivo clearance predicts its effect on other CYP3A4 substrates, paroxetine’s extent of inhibition of CYP3A4 activity is not likely to be of clinical significance.
Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs): Caution is indicated in the coadministration of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) with Paroxetine Tablets, because paroxetine may inhibit TCA metabolism. Plasma TCA concentrations may need to be monitored, and the dose of TCA may need to be reduced, if a TCA is coadministered with Paroxetine Tablets (see PRECAUTIONS: Drugs Metabolized by Cytochrome CYP2D6).
- Drugs Highly Bound to Plasma Protein: Because paroxetine is highly bound to plasma protein, administration of Paroxetine Tablets to a patient taking another drug that is highly protein bound may cause increased free concentrations of the other drug, potentially resulting in adverse events. Conversely, adverse effects could result from displacement of paroxetine by other highly bound drugs.
- Drugs That Interfere With Hemostasis (e.g., NSAIDs, Aspirin, and Warfarin): Serotonin release by platelets plays an important role in hemostasis. Epidemiological studies of the case-control and cohort design that have demonstrated an association between use of psychotropic drugs that interfere with serotonin reuptake and the occurrence of upper gastrointestinal bleeding have also shown that concurrent use of an NSAID or aspirin may potentiate this risk of bleeding. Altered anticoagulant effects, including increased bleeding, have been reported when SSRIs or SNRIs are coadministered with warfarin. Patients receiving warfarin therapy should be carefully monitored when paroxetine is initiated or discontinued.
Lithium: A multiple-dose study has shown that there is no pharmacokinetic interaction between Paroxetine Tablets and lithium carbonate. However, due to the potential for serotonin syndrome, caution is advised when Paroxetine Tablets are coadministered with lithium.
Digoxin: The steady-state pharmacokinetics of paroxetine was not altered when administered with digoxin at steady state. Mean digoxin AUC at steady state decreased by 15% in the presence of paroxetine. Since there is little clinical experience, the concurrent administration of paroxetine and digoxin should be undertaken with caution.
Diazepam: Under steady-state conditions, diazepam does not appear to affect paroxetine kinetics. The effects of paroxetine on diazepam were not evaluated.
Procyclidine: Daily oral dosing of Paroxetine Tablets (30 mg once daily) increased steady-state AUC0-24, Cmax, and Cmin values of procyclidine (5 mg oral once daily) by 35%, 37%, and 67%, respectively, compared to procyclidine alone at steady state. If anticholinergic effects are seen, the dose of procyclidine should be reduced.
Beta-Blockers: In a study where propranolol (80 mg twice daily) was dosed orally for 18 days, the established steady-state plasma concentrations of propranolol were unaltered during coadministration with Paroxetine Tablets (30 mg once daily) for the final 10 days. The effects of propranolol on paroxetine have not been evaluated (see ADVERSE REACTIONS: Postmarketing Reports).
Theophylline: Reports of elevated theophylline levels associated with treatment with Paroxetine Tablets have been reported. While this interaction has not been formally studied, it is recommended that theophylline levels be monitored when these drugs are concurrently administered.
Fosamprenavir/Ritonavir: Co-administration of fosamprenavir/ritonavir with paroxetine significantly decreased plasma levels of paroxetine. Any dose adjustment should be guided by clinical effect (tolerability and efficacy).
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT): There are no clinical studies of the combined use of ECT and Paroxetine Tablets.
Impairment of Fertility: Some clinical studies have shown that SSRIs (including paroxetine) may affect sperm quality during SSRI treatment, which may affect fertility in some men.A reduced pregnancy rate was found in reproduction studies in rats at a dose of paroxetine of 15 mg/kg/day, which is 2.9 times the MRHD for major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder and GAD or 2.4 times the MRHD for OCD on a mg/m2 basis. Irreversible lesions occurred in the reproductive tract of male rats after dosing in toxicity studies for 2 to 52 weeks. These lesions consisted of vacuolation of epididymal tubular epithelium at 50 mg/kg/day and atrophic changes in the seminiferous tubules of the testes with arrested spermatogenesis at 25 mg/kg/day (9.8 and 4.9 times the MRHD for major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder, and GAD; 8.2 and 4.1 times the MRHD for OCD and PD on a mg/m2 basis).
Associated With Discontinuation of Treatment: Twenty percent (1,199/6,145) of patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets in worldwide clinical trials in major depressive disorder and 16.1% (84/522), 11.8% (64/542), 9.4% (44/469) and 10.7% (79/735) of patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets in worldwide trials in social anxiety disorder, OCD, panic disorder and GAD, respectively, discontinued treatment due to an adverse event. The most common events (≥1%) associated with discontinuation and considered to be drug related (i.e., those events associated with dropout at a rate approximately twice or greater for Paroxetine Tablets compared to placebo) included the following: Major Depressive DisorderOCDPanic DisorderSocial Anxiety DisorderGeneralized Anxiety DisorderParoxetine TabletsPlaceboParoxetine TabletsPlaceboParoxetine TabletsPlaceboParoxetine TabletsPlaceboParoxetine TabletsPlaceboCNS Somnolence2.3%0.7%- 1.9%0.3%3.4%0.3%2.0%0.2%Insomnia--1.7%0%1.3%0.3%3.1%0% Agitation1.1%0.5%- Tremor1.1%0.3%- 1.7%0% Anxiety--- 1.1%0% Dizziness--1.5%0% 1.9%0%1.0%0.2%Gastrointestinal Constipation- 1.1%0% Nausea3.2%1.1%1.9%0%3.2%1.2%4.0%0.3%2.0%0.2%Diarrhea1.0%0.3%- Dry mouth1.0%0.3%- Vomiting1.0%0.3%- 1.0%0% Flatulence 1.0%0.3% Other Asthenia1.6%0.4%1.9%0.4% 2.5%0.6%1.8%0.2%Abnormal ejaculationIncidence corrected for gender.1.6%0%2.1%0% 4.9%0.6%2.5%0.5%Sweating1.0%0.3%- 1.1%0%1.1%0.2%Impotence- 1.5%0% Libido Decreased 1.0%0% Where numbers are not provided the incidence of the adverse events in patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets was not >1% or was not greater than or equal to 2 times the incidence of placebo.
Commonly Observed Adverse Events: Major Depressive Disorder: The most commonly observed adverse events associated with the use of paroxetine (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for Paroxetine Tablets at least twice that for placebo, derived from Table 2) were: Asthenia, sweating, nausea, decreased appetite, somnolence, dizziness, insomnia, tremor, nervousness, ejaculatory disturbance, and other male genital disorders.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The most commonly observed adverse events associated with the use of paroxetine (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for Paroxetine Tablets at least twice that of placebo, derived from Table 3) were: Nausea, dry mouth, decreased appetite, constipation, dizziness, somnolence, tremor, sweating, impotence, and abnormal ejaculation.
Panic Disorder: The most commonly observed adverse events associated with the use of paroxetine (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for Paroxetine Tablets at least twice that for placebo, derived from Table 3) were: Asthenia, sweating, decreased appetite, libido decreased, tremor, abnormal ejaculation, female genital disorders, and impotence.
Social Anxiety Disorder: The most commonly observed adverse events associated with the use of paroxetine (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for Paroxetine Tablets at least twice that for placebo, derived from Table 3) were: Sweating, nausea, dry mouth, constipation, decreased appetite, somnolence, tremor, libido decreased, yawn, abnormal ejaculation, female genital disorders, and impotence.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The most commonly observed adverse events associated with the use of paroxetine (incidence of 5% or greater and incidence for Paroxetine Tablets at least twice that for placebo, derived from Table 4) were: Asthenia, infection, constipation, decreased appetite, dry mouth, nausea, libido decreased, somnolence, tremor, sweating, and abnormal ejaculation.
Incidence in Controlled Clinical Trials: The prescriber should be aware that the figures in the tables following cannot be used to predict the incidence of side effects in the course of usual medical practice where patient characteristics and other factors differ from those that prevailed in the clinical trials. Similarly, the cited frequencies cannot be compared with figures obtained from other clinical investigations involving different treatments, uses, and investigators. The cited figures, however, do provide the prescribing physician with some basis for estimating the relative contribution of drug and nondrug factors to the side effect incidence rate in the populations studied.
Major Depressive Disorder: Table 2 enumerates adverse events that occurred at an incidence of 1% or more among paroxetine-treated patients who participated in short-term (6-week) placebo-controlled trials in which patients were dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 50 mg/day. Reported adverse events were classified using a standard COSTART-based Dictionary terminology.Table 2. Treatment-Emergent Adverse Experience Incidence in Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials for Major Depressive DisorderEvents reported by at least 1% of patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets are included, except the following events which had an incidence on placebo ≥ Paroxetine Tablets: Abdominal pain, agitation, back pain, chest pain, CNS stimulation, fever, increased appetite, myoclonus, pharyngitis, postural hypotension, respiratory disorder (includes mostly “cold symptoms” or “URI”), trauma, and vomiting.Body System Preferred Term Paroxetine TabletsPlacebo (n = 421)(n = 421)Body as a Whole Headache 18% 17% Asthenia 15% 6% Cardiovascular Palpitation 3% 1% Vasodilation 3% 1% Dermatologic Sweating 11% 2% Rash 2% 1% Gastrointestinal Nausea 26% 9% Dry Mouth 18% 12% Constipation 14% 9% Diarrhea 12% 8% Decreased Appetite 6% 2% Flatulence 4% 2% Oropharynx DisorderIncludes mostly “lump in throat” and “tightness in throat.”2% 0% Dyspepsia 2% 1% Musculoskeletal Myopathy 2% 1% Myalgia 2% 1% Myasthenia 1% 0% Nervous System Somnolence 23% 9% Dizziness 13% 6% Insomnia 13% 6% Tremor 8% 2% Nervousness 5% 3% Anxiety 5% 3% Paresthesia 4% 2% Libido Decreased 3% 0% Drugged Feeling 2% 1% Confusion 1% 0% Respiration Yawn 4% 0% Special Senses Blurred Vision 4% 1% Taste Perversion 2% 0% Urogenital System Ejaculatory DisturbancePercentage corrected for gender.,Mostly “ejaculatory delay.”13% 0% Other Male Genital Disorders,Includes “anorgasmia,” “erectile difficulties,” “delayed ejaculation/orgasm,” and “sexual dysfunction,” and “impotence.”10% 0% Urinary Frequency 3% 1% Urination DisorderIncludes mostly “difficulty with micturition” and “urinary hesitancy.”3% 0% Female Genital Disorders,Includes mostly “anorgasmia” and “difficulty reaching climax/orgasm.”2% 0%
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Social Anxiety Disorder: Table 3 enumerates adverse events that occurred at a frequency of 2% or more among OCD patients on Paroxetine Tablets who participated in placebo-controlled trials of 12-weeks duration in which patients were dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 60 mg/day or among patients with panic disorder on Paroxetine Tablets who participated in placebo-controlled trials of 10- to 12-weeks duration in which patients were dosed in a range of 10 mg/day to 60 mg/day or among patients with social anxiety disorder on Paroxetine Tablets who participated in placebo-controlled trials of 12-weeks duration in which patients were dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 50 mg/day.Table 3. Treatment-Emergent Adverse Experience Incidence in Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Social Anxiety DisorderEvents reported by at least 2% of OCD, panic disorder, and social anxiety disorder in patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets are included, except the following events which had an incidence on placebo ≥ Paroxetine Tablets: [OCD]: Abdominal pain, agitation, anxiety, back pain, cough increased, depression, headache, hyperkinesia, infection, paresthesia, pharyngitis, respiratory disorder, rhinitis, and sinusitis. [panic disorder]: Abnormal dreams, abnormal vision, chest pain, cough increased, depersonalization, depression, dysmenorrhea, dyspepsia, flu syndrome, headache, infection, myalgia, nervousness, palpitation, paresthesia, pharyngitis, rash, respiratory disorder, sinusitis, taste perversion, trauma, urination impaired, and vasodilation. [social anxiety disorder]: Abdominal pain, depression, headache, infection, respiratory disorder, and sinusitis. ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorderPanic DisorderSocial Anxiety DisorderBody SystemPreferred TermParoxetine Tablets(n = 542)Placebo(n = 542)Paroxetine Tablets(n = 469)Placebo(n = 324)Paroxetine Tablets(n = 425)Placebo(n = 339)Body as a WholeAsthenia22%14%14%5%22%14%Abdominal Pain——4%3%——Chest Pain3%2%————Back Pain——3%2%——Chills2%1%2%1%——Trauma————3%1%CardiovascularVasodilation4%1%————Palpitation2%0%————DermatologicSweating9%3%14%6%9%2%Rash3%2%————GastrointestinalNausea23%10%23%17%25%7%Dry Mouth18%9%18%11%9%3%Constipation16%6%8%5%5%2%Diarrhea10%10%12%7%9%6%Decreased Appetite9%3%7%3%8%2%Dyspepsia————4%2%Flatulence————4%2%Increased Appetite4%3%2%1%——Vomiting————2%1%MusculoskeletalMyalgia————4%3%Nervous SystemInsomnia24%13%18%10%21%16%Somnolence24%7%19%11%22%5%Dizziness12%6%14%10%11%7%Tremor11%1%9%1%9%1%Nervousness9%8%——8%7%Libido Decreased7%4%9%1%12%1%Agitation——5%4%3%1%Anxiety——5%4%5%4%Abnormal Dreams4%1%————Concentration Impaired3%2%——4%1%Depersonalization3%0%————Myoclonus3%0%3%2%2%1%Amnesia2%1%————Respiratory SystemRhinitis——3%0%——Pharyngitis————4%2%Yawn————5%1%Special SensesAbnormal Vision4%2%——4%1%Taste Perversion2%0%————Urogenital SystemAbnormal EjaculationPercentage corrected for gender.23%1%21%1%28%1%Dysmenorrhea————5%4%Female Genital Disorder3%0%9%1%9%1%Impotence8%1%5%0%5%1%Urinary Frequency3%1%2%0%——Urination Impaired3%0%————Urinary Tract Infection2%1%2%1%——
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Table 4 enumerates adverse events that occurred at a frequency of 2% or more among GAD patients on Paroxetine Tablets who participated in placebo-controlled trials of 8-weeks duration in which patients were dosed in a range of 10 mg/day to 50 mg/day. Table 4. Treatment-Emergent Adverse Experience Incidence in Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials for Generalized AnxietyEvents reported by at least 2% of GAD in patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets are included, except the following events which had an incidence on placebo ≥ Paroxetine Tablets [GAD]: Abdominal pain, back pain, trauma, dyspepsia, myalgia, and pharyngitis.Generalized Anxiety DisorderBody SystemPreferred TermParoxetine Tablets(n = 735)Placebo(n = 529)Body as a WholeAsthenia14%6%Headache17%14%Infection6%3%Abdominal PainTraumaCardiovascularVasodilation3%1%DermatologicSweating6%2%GastrointestinalNausea20%5%Dry Mouth11%5%Constipation10%2%Diarrhea9%7%Decreased Appetite5%1%Vomiting3%2%Dyspepsia——Nervous SystemInsomnia11%8%Somnolence15%5%Dizziness6%5%Tremor5%1%Nervousness4%3%Libido Decreased9%2%Abnormal DreamsRespiratory SystemRespiratory Disorder7%5%Sinusitis4%3%Yawn4%—Special SensesAbnormal Vision2%1%Urogenital SystemAbnormal EjaculationPercentage corrected for gender.25%2%Female Genital Disorder4%1%Impotence4%3%
- Dose Dependency of Adverse Events: A comparison of adverse event rates in a fixed-dose study comparing 10 mg/day, 20 mg/day, 30 mg/day, and 40 mg/day of Paroxetine Tablets with placebo in the treatment of major depressive disorder revealed a clear dose dependency for some of the more common adverse events associated with use of Paroxetine Tablets, as shown in Table 5:Table 5. Treatment-Emergent Adverse Experience Incidence in a Dose-Comparison Trial in the Treatment of Major Depressive DisorderRule for including adverse events in table: Incidence at least 5% for 1 of paroxetine groups and ≥ twice the placebo incidence for at least 1 paroxetine group.Body System/Preferred Term PlaceboParoxetine Tablets n = 5110 mgn = 10220 mgn = 10430 mgn = 10140 mgn = 102 Body as a Whole Asthenia0.0%2.9%10.6%13.9%12.7%DermatologySweating2.0%1.0%6.7%8.9%11.8%GastrointestinalConstipation5.9%4.9%7.7%9.9%12.7%Decreased Appetite2.0%2.0%5.8%4.0%4.9%Diarrhea7.8%9.8%19.2%7.9%14.7%Dry Mouth2.0%10.8%18.3%15.8%20.6%Nausea13.7%14.7%26.9%34.7%36.3%Nervous SystemAnxiety0.0%2.0%5.8%5.9%5.9%Dizziness3.9%6.9%6.7%8.9%12.7%Nervousness0.0%5.9%5.8%4.0%2.9%Paresthesia0.0%2.9%1.0%5.0%5.9%Somnolence7.8%12.7%18.3%20.8%21.6%Tremor0.0%0.0%7.7%7.9%14.7%Special SensesBlurred Vision2.0%2.9%2.9%2.0%7.8%Urogenital System Abnormal Ejaculation0.0%5.8%6.5%10.6%13.0%Impotence0.0%1.9%4.3%6.4%1.9%Male Genital Disorders0.0%3.8%8.7%6.4%3.7%In a fixed-dose study comparing placebo and 20 mg, 40 mg, and 60 mg of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of OCD, there was no clear relationship between adverse events and the dose of Paroxetine Tablets to which patients were assigned. No new adverse events were observed in the group treated with 60 mg of Paroxetine Tablets compared to any of the other treatment groups.In a fixed-dose study comparing placebo and 10 mg, 20 mg, and 40 mg of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of panic disorder, there was no clear relationship between adverse events and the dose of Paroxetine Tablets to which patients were assigned, except for asthenia, dry mouth, anxiety, libido decreased, tremor, and abnormal ejaculation. In flexible-dose studies, no new adverse events were observed in patients receiving 60 mg of Paroxetine Tablets compared to any of the other treatment groups.In a fixed-dose study comparing placebo and 20 mg, 40 mg, and 60 mg of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of social anxiety disorder, for most of the adverse events, there was no clear relationship between adverse events and the dose of Paroxetine Tablets to which patients were assigned.In a fixed-dose study comparing placebo and 20 mg and 40 mg of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, for most of the adverse events, there was no clear relationship between adverse events and the dose of Paroxetine Tablets to which patients were assigned, except for the following adverse events: Asthenia, constipation, and abnormal ejaculation.
- Adaptation to Certain Adverse Events: Over a 4- to 6-week period, there was evidence of adaptation to some adverse events with continued therapy (e.g., nausea and dizziness), but less to other effects (e.g., dry mouth, somnolence, and asthenia).
- Male and Female Sexual Dysfunction With SSRIs: Although changes in sexual desire, sexual performance, and sexual satisfaction often occur as manifestations of a psychiatric disorder, they may also be a consequence of pharmacologic treatment. In particular, some evidence suggests that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can cause such untoward sexual experiences.Reliable estimates of the incidence and severity of untoward experiences involving sexual desire, performance, and satisfaction are difficult to obtain, however, in part because patients and physicians may be reluctant to discuss them. Accordingly, estimates of the incidence of untoward sexual experience and performance cited in product labeling, are likely to underestimate their actual incidence.In placebo-controlled clinical trials involving more than 3,200 patients, the ranges for the reported incidence of sexual side effects in males and females with major depressive disorder, OCD, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and GAD are displayed in Table 6.Table 6. Incidence of Sexual Adverse Events in Controlled Clinical TrialsParoxetine TabletsPlacebon (males) 14461042 Decreased Libido6-15%0-5% Ejaculatory Disturbance13-28%0-2% Impotence2-9%0-3%n (females) 18221340 Decreased Libido0-9%0-2% Orgasmic Disturbance2-9%0-1%There are no adequate and well-controlled studies examining sexual dysfunction with paroxetine treatment.Paroxetine treatment has been associated with several cases of priapism. In those cases with a known outcome, patients recovered without sequelae.While it is difficult to know the precise risk of sexual dysfunction associated with the use of SSRIs, physicians should routinely inquire about such possible side effects.
- Weight and Vital Sign Changes: Significant weight loss may be an undesirable result of treatment with Paroxetine Tablets for some patients but, on average, patients in controlled trials had minimal (about 1 pound) weight loss versus smaller changes on placebo and active control. No significant changes in vital signs (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, pulse and temperature) were observed in patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets in controlled clinical trials.
- ECG Changes: In an analysis of ECGs obtained in 682 patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets and 415 patients treated with placebo in controlled clinical trials, no clinically significant changes were seen in the ECGs of either group.
- Liver Function Tests: In placebo-controlled clinical trials, patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets exhibited abnormal values on liver function tests at no greater rate than that seen in placebo-treated patients. In particular, the Paroxetine Tablets-versus-placebo comparisons for alkaline phosphatase, SGOT, SGPT, and bilirubin revealed no differences in the percentage of patients with marked abnormalities.
- Hallucinations: In pooled clinical trials of immediate-release paroxetine hydrochloride, hallucinations were observed in 22 of 9089 patients receiving drug and 4 of 3187 patients receiving placebo.
- Other Events Observed During the Premarketing Evaluation of Paroxetine Tablets: During its premarketing assessment in major depressive disorder, multiple doses of Paroxetine Tablets were administered to 6,145 patients in phase 2 and 3 studies. The conditions and duration of exposure to Paroxetine Tablets varied greatly and included (in overlapping categories) open and double-blind studies, uncontrolled and controlled studies, inpatient and outpatient studies, and fixed-dose, and titration studies. During premarketing clinical trials in OCD, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder 542, 469, 522 and 735 patients, respectively, received multiple doses of Paroxetine Tablets. Untoward events associated with this exposure were recorded by clinical investigators using terminology of their own choosing. Consequently, it is not possible to provide a meaningful estimate of the proportion of individuals experiencing adverse events without first grouping similar types of untoward events into a smaller number of standardized event categories.In the tabulations that follow, reported adverse events were classified using a standard COSTART-based Dictionary terminology. The frequencies presented, therefore, represent the proportion of the 9,089 patients exposed to multiple doses of Paroxetine Tablets who experienced an event of the type cited on at least 1 occasion while receiving Paroxetine Tablets. All reported events are included except those already listed in Tables 2 to 5, those reported in terms so general as to be uninformative and those events where a drug cause was remote. It is important to emphasize that although the events reported occurred during treatment with paroxetine, they were not necessarily caused by it.Events are further categorized by body system and listed in order of decreasing frequency according to the following definitions: Frequent adverse events are those occurring on 1 or more occasions in at least 1/100 patients (only those not already listed in the tabulated results from placebo-controlled trials appear in this listing); infrequent adverse events are those occurring in 1/100 to 1/1,000 patients; rare events are those occurring in fewer than 1/1,000 patients. Events of major clinical importance are also described in the PRECAUTIONS section.
Body as a Whole: Infrequent: Allergic reaction, chills, face edema, malaise, neck pain; rare: Adrenergic syndrome, cellulitis, moniliasis, neck rigidity, pelvic pain, peritonitis, sepsis, ulcer.
Cardiovascular System: Frequent: Hypertension, tachycardia; infrequent: Bradycardia, hematoma, hypotension, migraine, postural hypotension, syncope; rare: Angina pectoris, arrhythmia nodal, atrial fibrillation, bundle branch block, cerebral ischemia, cerebrovascular accident, congestive heart failure, heart block, low cardiac output, myocardial infarct, myocardial ischemia, pallor, phlebitis, pulmonary embolus, supraventricular extrasystoles, thrombophlebitis, thrombosis, varicose vein, vascular headache, ventricular extrasystoles.
Digestive System: Infrequent: Bruxism, colitis, dysphagia, eructation, gastritis, gastroenteritis, gingivitis, glossitis, increased salivation, liver function tests abnormal, rectal hemorrhage, ulcerative stomatitis; rare: Aphthous stomatitis, bloody diarrhea, bulimia, cardiospasm, cholelithiasis, duodenitis, enteritis, esophagitis, fecal impactions, fecal incontinence, gum hemorrhage, hematemesis, hepatitis, ileitis, ileus, intestinal obstruction, jaundice, melena, mouth ulceration, peptic ulcer, salivary gland enlargement, sialadenitis, stomach ulcer, stomatitis, tongue discoloration, tongue edema, tooth caries.
Endocrine System: Rare: Diabetes mellitus, goiter, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, thyroiditis.
Hemic and Lymphatic Systems: Infrequent: Anemia, leukopenia, lymphadenopathy, purpura; rare: Abnormal erythrocytes, basophilia, bleeding time increased, eosinophilia, hypochromic anemia, iron deficiency anemia, leukocytosis, lymphedema, abnormal lymphocytes, lymphocytosis, microcytic anemia, monocytosis, normocytic anemia, thrombocythemia, thrombocytopenia.
Metabolic and Nutritional: Frequent: Weight gain; infrequent: Edema, peripheral edema, SGOT increased, SGPT increased, thirst, weight loss; rare: Alkaline phosphatase increased, bilirubinemia, BUN increased, creatinine phosphokinase increased, dehydration, gamma globulins increased, gout, hypercalcemia, hypercholesteremia, hyperglycemia, hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia, hypokalemia, hyponatremia, ketosis, lactic dehydrogenase increased, non-protein nitrogen (NPN) increased.
Musculoskeletal System: Frequent: Arthralgia; infrequent: Arthritis, arthrosis; rare: Bursitis, myositis, osteoporosis, generalized spasm, tenosynovitis, tetany.
Nervous System: Frequent: Emotional lability, vertigo; infrequent: Abnormal thinking, alcohol abuse, ataxia, dystonia, dyskinesia, euphoria, hallucinations, hostility, hypertonia, hypesthesia, hypokinesia, incoordination, lack of emotion, libido increased, manic reaction, neurosis, paralysis, paranoid reaction; rare: Abnormal gait, akinesia, antisocial reaction, aphasia, choreoathetosis, circumoral paresthesias, convulsion, delirium, delusions, diplopia, drug dependence, dysarthria, extrapyramidal syndrome, fasciculations, grand mal convulsion, hyperalgesia, hysteria, manic-depressive reaction, meningitis, myelitis, neuralgia, neuropathy, nystagmus, peripheral neuritis, psychotic depression, psychosis, reflexes decreased, reflexes increased, stupor, torticollis, trismus, withdrawal syndrome.
Respiratory System: Infrequent: Asthma, bronchitis, dyspnea, epistaxis, hyperventilation, pneumonia, respiratory flu; rare: Emphysema, hemoptysis, hiccups, lung fibrosis, pulmonary edema, sputum increased, stridor, voice alteration.
Skin and Appendages: Frequent: Pruritus; infrequent: Acne, alopecia, contact dermatitis, dry skin, ecchymosis, eczema, herpes simplex, photosensitivity, urticaria; rare: Angioedema, erythema nodosum, erythema multiforme, exfoliative dermatitis, fungal dermatitis, furunculosis; herpes zoster, hirsutism, maculopapular rash, seborrhea, skin discoloration, skin hypertrophy, skin ulcer, sweating decreased, vesiculobullous rash.
Special Senses: Frequent: Tinnitus; infrequent: Abnormality of accommodation, conjunctivitis, ear pain, eye pain, keratoconjunctivitis, mydriasis, otitis media; rare: Amblyopia, anisocoria, blepharitis, cataract, conjunctival edema, corneal ulcer, deafness, exophthalmos, eye hemorrhage, glaucoma, hyperacusis, night blindness, otitis externa, parosmia, photophobia, ptosis, retinal hemorrhage, taste loss, visual field defect.
Urogenital System: Infrequent: Amenorrhea, breast pain, cystitis, dysuria, hematuria, menorrhagia, nocturia, polyuria, pyuria, urinary incontinence, urinary retention, urinary urgency, vaginitis; rare: Abortion, breast atrophy, breast enlargement, endometrial disorder, epididymitis, female lactation, fibrocystic breast, kidney calculus, kidney pain, leukorrhea, mastitis, metrorrhagia, nephritis, oliguria, salpingitis, urethritis, urinary casts, uterine spasm, urolith, vaginal hemorrhage, vaginal moniliasis.
Postmarketing Reports: Voluntary reports of adverse events in patients taking Paroxetine Tablets that have been received since market introduction and not listed above that may have no causal relationship with the drug include acute pancreatitis, elevated liver function tests (the most severe cases were deaths due to liver necrosis, and grossly elevated transaminases associated with severe liver dysfunction), Guillain-Barré syndrome, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, priapism, syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion, symptoms suggestive of prolactinemia and galactorrhea; extrapyramidal symptoms which have included akathisia, bradykinesia, cogwheel rigidity, dystonia, hypertonia, oculogyric crisis which has been associated with concomitant use of pimozide; tremor and trismus; status epilepticus, acute renal failure, pulmonary hypertension, allergic alveolitis, anaphylaxis, eclampsia, laryngismus, optic neuritis, porphyria, restless legs syndrome (RLS), ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia (including torsade de pointes), thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, events related to impaired hematopoiesis (including aplastic anemia, pancytopenia, bone marrow aplasia, and agranulocytosis), vasculitic syndromes (such as Henoch-Schönlein purpura), and premature birth in pregnant women. There has been a case report of an elevated phenytoin level after 4 weeks of Paroxetine Tablets and phenytoin coadministration. There has been a case report of severe hypotension when Paroxetine Tablets were added to chronic metoprolol treatment.
Controlled Substance Class: Paroxetine hydrochloride is not a controlled substance.
Physical and Psychologic Dependence: Paroxetine Tablets have not been systematically studied in animals or humans for its potential for abuse, tolerance or physical dependence. While the clinical trials did not reveal any tendency for any drug-seeking behavior, these observations were not systematic and it is not possible to predict on the basis of this limited experience the extent to which a CNS-active drug will be misused, diverted, and/or abused once marketed. Consequently, patients should be evaluated carefully for history of drug abuse, and such patients should be observed closely for signs of misuse or abuse of Paroxetine Tablets (e.g., development of tolerance, incrementations of dose, drug-seeking behavior).
Human Experience: Since the introduction of Paroxetine Tablets in the United States, 342 spontaneous cases of deliberate or accidental overdosage during paroxetine treatment have been reported worldwide (circa 1999). These include overdoses with paroxetine alone and in combination with other substances. Of these, 48 cases were fatal and of the fatalities, 17 appeared to involve paroxetine alone. Eight fatal cases that documented the amount of paroxetine ingested were generally confounded by the ingestion of other drugs or alcohol or the presence of significant comorbid conditions. Of 145 non-fatal cases with known outcome, most recovered without sequelae. The largest known ingestion involved 2,000 mg of paroxetine (33 times the maximum recommended daily dose) in a patient who recovered.Commonly reported adverse events associated with paroxetine overdosage include somnolence, coma, nausea, tremor, tachycardia, confusion, vomiting, and dizziness. Other notable signs and symptoms observed with overdoses involving paroxetine (alone or with other substances) include mydriasis, convulsions (including status epilepticus), ventricular dysrhythmias (including torsade de pointes), hypertension, aggressive reactions, syncope, hypotension, stupor, bradycardia, dystonia, rhabdomyolysis, symptoms of hepatic dysfunction (including hepatic failure, hepatic necrosis, jaundice, hepatitis, and hepatic steatosis), serotonin syndrome, manic reactions, myoclonus, acute renal failure, and urinary retention.
- Overdosage Management: No specific antidotes for paroxetine are known. Treatment should consist of those general measures employed in the management of overdosage with any drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder.Ensure an adequate airway, oxygenation, and ventilation. Monitor cardiac rhythm and vital signs. General supportive and symptomatic measures are also recommended. Induction of emesis is not recommended. Due to the large volume of distribution of this drug, forced diuresis, dialysis, hemoperfusion, or exchange transfusion are unlikely to be of benefit.A specific caution involves patients who are taking or have recently taken paroxetine who might ingest excessive quantities of a tricyclic antidepressant. In such a case, accumulation of the parent tricyclic and/or an active metabolite may increase the possibility of clinically significant sequelae and extend the time needed for close medical observation (see PRECAUTIONS: Drugs Metabolized by Cytochrome CYP2D6).In managing overdosage, consider the possibility of multiple drug involvement. The physician should consider contacting a poison control center for additional information on the treatment of any overdose. Telephone numbers for certified poison control centers are listed in the Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR).
- Major Depressive Disorder: Usual Initial Dosage: Paroxetine Tablets should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. The recommended initial dose is 20 mg/day. Patients were dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 50 mg/day in the clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of major depressive disorder. As with all drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder, the full effect may be delayed. Some patients not responding to a 20-mg dose may benefit from dose increases, in 10-mg/day increments, up to a maximum of 50 mg/day. Dose changes should occur at intervals of at least 1 week.
- Maintenance Therapy: There is no body of evidence available to answer the question of how long the patient treated with Paroxetine Tablets should remain on it. It is generally agreed that acute episodes of major depressive disorder require several months or longer of sustained pharmacologic therapy. Whether the dose needed to induce remission is identical to the dose needed to maintain and/or sustain euthymia is unknown.Systematic evaluation of the efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets has shown that efficacy is maintained for periods of up to 1 year with doses that averaged about 30 mg.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Usual Initial Dosage: Paroxetine Tablets should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. The recommended dose of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of OCD is 40 mg daily. Patients should be started on 20 mg/day and the dose can be increased in 10-mg/day increments. Dose changes should occur at intervals of at least 1 week. Patients were dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 60 mg/day in the clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of OCD. The maximum dosage should not exceed 60 mg/day.
- Maintenance Therapy: Long-term maintenance of efficacy was demonstrated in a 6-month relapse prevention trial. In this trial, patients with OCD assigned to paroxetine demonstrated a lower relapse rate compared to patients on placebo (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). OCD is a chronic condition, and it is reasonable to consider continuation for a responding patient. Dosage adjustments should be made to maintain the patient on the lowest effective dosage, and patients should be periodically reassessed to determine the need for continued treatment.
Panic Disorder: Usual Initial Dosage: Paroxetine Tablets should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. The target dose of Paroxetine Tablets in the treatment of panic disorder is 40 mg/day. Patients should be started on 10 mg/day. Dose changes should occur in 10-mg/day increments and at intervals of at least 1 week. Patients were dosed in a range of 10 mg/day to 60 mg/day in the clinical trials demonstrating the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets. The maximum dosage should not exceed 60 mg/day.
- Maintenance Therapy: Long-term maintenance of efficacy was demonstrated in a 3-month relapse prevention trial. In this trial, patients with panic disorder assigned to paroxetine demonstrated a lower relapse rate compared to patients on placebo (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Panic disorder is a chronic condition, and it is reasonable to consider continuation for a responding patient. Dosage adjustments should be made to maintain the patient on the lowest effective dosage, and patients should be periodically reassessed to determine the need for continued treatment.
Social Anxiety Disorder: Usual Initial Dosage: Paroxetine Tablets should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. The recommended and initial dosage is 20 mg/day. In clinical trials the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets was demonstrated in patients dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 60 mg/day. While the safety of Paroxetine Tablets has been evaluated in patients with social anxiety disorder at doses up to 60 mg/day, available information does not suggest any additional benefit for doses above 20 mg/day (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials).
- Maintenance Therapy: There is no body of evidence available to answer the question of how long the patient treated with Paroxetine Tablets should remain on it. Although the efficacy of Paroxetine Tablets beyond 12 weeks of dosing has not been demonstrated in controlled clinical trials, social anxiety disorder is recognized as a chronic condition, and it is reasonable to consider continuation of treatment for a responding patient. Dosage adjustments should be made to maintain the patient on the lowest effective dosage, and patients should be periodically reassessed to determine the need for continued treatment.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Usual Initial Dosage: Paroxetine Tablets should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. In clinical trials the effectiveness of Paroxetine Tablets was demonstrated in patients dosed in a range of 20 mg/day to 50 mg/day. The recommended starting dosage and the established effective dosage is 20 mg/day. There is not sufficient evidence to suggest a greater benefit to doses higher than 20 mg/day. Dose changes should occur in 10 mg/day increments and at intervals of at least 1 week.
Maintenance Therapy: Systematic evaluation of continuing Paroxetine Tablets for periods of up to 24 weeks in patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder who had responded while taking Paroxetine Tablets during an 8-week acute treatment phase has demonstrated a benefit of such maintenance (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: Clinical Trials). Nevertheless, patients should be periodically reassessed to determine the need for maintenance treatment.
Special Populations: Treatment of Pregnant Women During the Third Trimester: Neonates exposed to Paroxetine Tablets and other SSRIs or SNRIs, late in the third trimester have developed complications requiring prolonged hospitalization, respiratory support, and tube feeding (see WARNINGS: Usage in Pregnancy). When treating pregnant women with paroxetine during the third trimester, the physician should carefully consider the potential risks and benefits of treatment.
- Dosage for Elderly or Debilitated Patients, and Patients With Severe Renal or Hepatic Impairment: The recommended initial dose is 10 mg/day for elderly patients, debilitated patients, and/or patients with severe renal or hepatic impairment. Increases may be made if indicated. Dosage should not exceed 40 mg/day.
- Switching a Patient to or From a Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (MAOI) Intended to Treat Psychiatric Disorders: At least 14 days should elapse between discontinuation of an MAOI intended to treat psychiatric disorders and initiation of therapy with Paroxetine Tablets. Conversely, at least 14 days should be allowed after stopping Paroxetine Tablets before starting an MAOI intended to treat psychiatric disorders (see CONTRAINDICATIONS).
- Use of Paroxetine Tablets With Other MAOIs Such as Linezolid or Methylene Blue: Do not start Paroxetine Tablets in a patient who is being treated with linezolid or intravenous methylene blue because there is increased risk of serotonin syndrome. In a patient who requires more urgent treatment of a psychiatric condition, other interventions, including hospitalization, should be considered (see CONTRAINDICATIONS). In some cases, a patient already receiving therapy with Paroxetine Tablets may require urgent treatment with linezolid or intravenous methylene blue. If acceptable alternatives to linezolid or intravenous methylene blue treatment are not available and the potential benefits of linezolid or intravenous methylene blue treatment are judged to outweigh the risks of serotonin syndrome in a particular patient, Paroxetine Tablets should be stopped promptly, and linezolid or intravenous methylene blue can be administered. The patient should be monitored for symptoms of serotonin syndrome for 2 weeks or until 24 hours after the last dose of linezolid or intravenous methylene blue, whichever comes first. Therapy with Paroxetine Tablets may be resumed 24 hours after the last dose of linezolid or intravenous methylene blue (see WARNINGS).The risk of administering methylene blue by non-intravenous routes (such as oral tablets or by local injection) or in intravenous doses much lower than 1 mg/kg with Paroxetine Tablets is unclear. The clinician should, nevertheless, be aware of the possibility of emergent symptoms of serotonin syndrome with such use (see WARNINGS).
- Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets: Symptoms associated with discontinuation of Paroxetine Tablets have been reported (see PRECAUTIONS: Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets). Patients should be monitored for these symptoms when discontinuing treatment, regardless of the indication for which Paroxetine Tablets are being prescribed. A gradual reduction in the dose rather than abrupt cessation is recommended whenever possible. If intolerable symptoms occur following a decrease in the dose or upon discontinuation of treatment, then resuming the previously prescribed dose may be considered. Subsequently, the physician may continue decreasing the dose but at a more gradual rate.
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Pharmacodynamics: The efficacy of paroxetine in the treatment of major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder (PD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is presumed to be linked to potentiation of serotonergic activity in the central nervous system resulting from inhibition of neuronal reuptake of serotonin (5-hydroxy-tryptamine, 5-HT). Studies at clinically relevant doses in humans have demonstrated that paroxetine blocks the uptake of serotonin into human platelets. In vitro studies in animals also suggest that paroxetine is a potent and highly selective inhibitor of neuronal serotonin reuptake and has only very weak effects on norepinephrine and dopamine neuronal reuptake. In vitro radioligand binding studies indicate that paroxetine has little affinity for muscarinic, alpha1-, alpha2-, beta-adrenergic-, dopamine (D2-, 5-HT1-, 5-HT2-, and histamine (H1)-receptors; antagonism of muscarinic, histaminergic, and alpha1- receptors has been associated with various anticholinergic, sedative, and cardiovascular effects for other psychotropic drugs.Because the relative potencies of paroxetine’s major metabolites are at most 1/50 of the parent compound, they are essentially inactive.
Pharmacokinetics: Paroxetine hydrochloride is completely absorbed after oral dosing of a solution of the hydrochloride salt. The mean elimination half-life is approximately 21 hours (CV 32%) after oral dosing of 30 mg tablets of Paroxetine Tablets daily for 30 days. Paroxetine is extensively metabolized and the metabolites are considered to be inactive. Nonlinearity in pharmacokinetics is observed with increasing doses. Paroxetine metabolism is mediated in part by CYP2D6, and the metabolites are primarily excreted in the urine and to some extent in the feces. Pharmacokinetic behavior of paroxetine has not been evaluated in subjects who are deficient in CYP2D6 (poor metabolizers).In a meta-analysis of paroxetine from 4 studies done in healthy volunteers following multiple dosing of 20 mg/day to 40 mg/day, males did not exhibit a significantly lower Cmax or AUC than females.
- Other Clinical Pharmacology Information: Specific Populations: Renal and Liver Disease: Increased plasma concentrations of paroxetine occur in subjects with renal and hepatic impairment. The mean plasma concentrations in patients with creatinine clearance below 30 mL/min. were approximately 4 times greater than seen in normal volunteers. Patients with creatinine clearance of 30 mL/min to 60 mL/min. and patients with hepatic functional impairment had about a 2-fold increase in plasma concentrations (AUC, Cmax).The initial dosage should therefore be reduced in patients with severe renal or hepatic impairment, and upward titration, if necessary, should be at increased intervals (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
- Drug-Drug Interactions: In vitro drug interaction studies reveal that paroxetine inhibits CYP2D6. Clinical drug interaction studies have been performed with substrates of CYP2D6 and show that paroxetine can inhibit the metabolism of drugs metabolized by CYP2D6 including desipramine, risperidone, and atomoxetine (see PRECAUTIONS: Drug Interactions).
- Drug Interactions: Tryptophan: As with other serotonin reuptake inhibitors, an interaction between paroxetine and tryptophan may occur when they are coadministered. Adverse experiences, consisting primarily of headache, nausea, sweating, and dizziness, have been reported when tryptophan was administered to patients taking Paroxetine Tablets. Consequently, concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets with tryptophan is not recommended (see WARNINGS: Serotonin Syndrome).
The use of MAOIs intended to treat psychiatric disorders with Paroxetine Tablets or within 14 days of stopping treatment with Paroxetine Tablets is contraindicated because of an increased risk of serotonin syndrome. The use of Paroxetine Tablets within 14 days of stopping an MAOI intended to treat psychiatric disorders is also contraindicated (see WARNINGS and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).Starting Paroxetine Tablets in a patient who is being treated with MAOIs such as linezolid or intravenous methylene blue is also contraindicated because of an increased risk of serotonin syndrome (see WARNINGS and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).Concomitant use with thioridazine is contraindicated (see WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS).Concomitant use in patients taking pimozide is contraindicated (see PRECAUTIONS).Paroxetine Tablets are contraindicated in patients with a hypersensitivity to paroxetine or any of the inactive ingredients in Paroxetine Tablets.
- Usage in Pregnancy: Teratogenic Effects: Epidemiological studies have shown that infants exposed to paroxetine in the first trimester of pregnancy have an increased risk of congenital malformations, particularly cardiovascular malformations. The findings from these studies are summarized below: •A study based on Swedish national registry data demonstrated that infants exposed to paroxetine during pregnancy (n = 815) had an increased risk of cardiovascular malformations (2% risk in paroxetine-exposed infants) compared to the entire registry population (1% risk), for an odds ratio (OR) of 1.8 (95% confidence interval 1.1 to 2.8). No increase in the risk of overall congenital malformations was seen in the paroxetine-exposed infants. The cardiac malformations in the paroxetine-exposed infants were primarily ventricular septal defects (VSDs) and atrial septal defects (ASDs). Septal defects range in severity from those that resolve spontaneously to those which require surgery. •A separate retrospective cohort study from the United States (United Healthcare data) evaluated 5,956 infants of mothers dispensed antidepressants during the first trimester (n = 815 for paroxetine). This study showed a trend towards an increased risk for cardiovascular malformations for paroxetine (risk of 1.5%) compared to other antidepressants (risk of 1%), for an OR of 1.5 (95% confidence interval 0.8 to 2.9). Of the 12 paroxetine-exposed infants with cardiovascular malformations, 9 had VSDs. This study also suggested an increased risk of overall major congenital malformations including cardiovascular defects for paroxetine (4% risk) compared to other (2% risk) antidepressants (OR 1.8; 95% confidence interval 1.2 to 2.8). •Two large case-control studies using separate databases, each with >9,000 birth defect cases and >4,000 controls, found that maternal use of paroxetine during the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of right ventricular outflow tract obstructions. In one study the odds ratio was 2.5 (95% confidence interval, 1.0 to 6.0, 7 exposed infants) and in the other study the odds ratio was 3.3 (95% confidence interval, 1.3 to 8.8, 6 exposed infants). Other studies have found varying results as to whether there was an increased risk of overall, cardiovascular, or specific congenital malformations. A meta-analysis of epidemiological data over a 16-year period (1992 to 2008) on first trimester paroxetine use in pregnancy and congenital malformations included the above-noted studies in addition to others (n = 17 studies that included overall malformations and n = 14 studies that included cardiovascular malformations; n = 20 distinct studies). While subject to limitations, this meta-analysis suggested an increased occurrence of cardiovascular malformations (prevalence odds ratio [POR] 1.5; 95% confidence interval 1.2 to 1.9) and overall malformations (POR 1.2; 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 1.4) with paroxetine use during the first trimester. It was not possible in this meta-analysis to determine the extent to which the observed prevalence of cardiovascular malformations might have contributed to that of overall malformations, nor was it possible to determine whether any specific types of cardiovascular malformations might have contributed to the observed prevalence of all cardiovascular malformations. If a patient becomes pregnant while taking paroxetine, she should be advised of the potential harm to the fetus. Unless the benefits of paroxetine to the mother justify continuing treatment, consideration should be given to either discontinuing paroxetine therapy or switching to another antidepressant (see PRECAUTIONS: Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets). For women who intend to become pregnant or are in their first trimester of pregnancy, paroxetine should only be initiated after consideration of the other available treatment options.
Nonteratogenic Effects: Neonates exposed to Paroxetine Tablets and other SSRIs or serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), late in the third trimester have developed complications requiring prolonged hospitalization, respiratory support, and tube feeding. Such complications can arise immediately upon delivery. Reported clinical findings have included respiratory distress, cyanosis, apnea, seizures, temperature instability, feeding difficulty, vomiting, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, hypertonia, hyperreflexia, tremor, jitteriness, irritability, and constant crying. These features are consistent with either a direct toxic effect of SSRIs and SNRIs or, possibly, a drug discontinuation syndrome. It should be noted that, in some cases, the clinical picture is consistent with serotonin syndrome (see WARNINGS: Serotonin Syndrome). Infants exposed to SSRIs in pregnancy may have an increased risk for persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN). PPHN occurs in 1 – 2 per 1,000 live births in the general population and is associated with substantial neonatal morbidity and mortality. Several recent epidemiologic studies suggest a positive statistical association between SSRI use (including Paroxetine Tablets) in pregnancy and PPHN. Other studies do not show a significant statistical association.Physicians should also note the results of a prospective longitudinal study of 201 pregnant women with a history of major depression, who were either on antidepressants or had received antidepressants less than 12 weeks prior to their last menstrual period, and were in remission. Women who discontinued antidepressant medication during pregnancy showed a significant increase in relapse of their major depression compared to those women who remained on antidepressant medication throughout pregnancy.When treating a pregnant woman with Paroxetine Tablets, the physician should carefully consider both the potential risks of taking an SSRI, along with the established benefits of treating depression with an antidepressant. This decision can only be made on a case by case basis (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION and ADVERSE REACTIONS: Postmarketing Reports).
- General: Activation of Mania/Hypomania: During premarketing testing, hypomania or mania occurred in approximately 1.0% of unipolar patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets compared to 1.1% of active-control and 0.3% of placebo-treated unipolar patients. In a subset of patients classified as bipolar, the rate of manic episodes was 2.2% for Paroxetine Tablets and 11.6% for the combined active-control groups. As with all drugs effective in the treatment of major depressive disorder, Paroxetine Tablets should be used cautiously in patients with a history of mania.
Information For Patients
Information for Patients: Paroxetine Tablets should not be chewed or crushed, and should be swallowed whole.Patients should be cautioned about the risk of serotonin syndrome with the concomitant use of Paroxetine Tablets and triptans, tramadol, or other serotonergic agents.Patients should be advised that taking Paroxetine Tablets can cause mild pupillary dilation, which in susceptible individuals, can lead to an episode of angle closure glaucoma. Pre-existing glaucoma is almost always open-angle glaucoma because angle closure glaucoma, when diagnosed, can be treated definitively with iridectomy. Open-angle glaucoma is not a risk factor for angle closure glaucoma. Patients may wish to be examined to determine whether they are susceptible to angle closure, and have a prophylactic procedure (e.g., iridectomy), if they are susceptible.Prescribers or other health professionals should inform patients, their families, and their caregivers about the benefits and risks associated with treatment with Paroxetine Tablets and should counsel them in its appropriate use. A patient Medication Guide is available for Paroxetine Tablets. The prescriber or health professional should instruct patients, their families, and their caregivers to read the Medication Guide and should assist them in understanding its contents. Patients should be given the opportunity to discuss the contents of the Medication Guide and to obtain answers to any questions they may have. The complete text of the Medication Guide is reprinted at the end of this document.Patients should be advised of the following issues and asked to alert their prescriber if these occur while taking Paroxetine Tablets.
Pregnancy: Patients should be advised to notify their physician if they become pregnant or intend to become pregnant during therapy (see WARNINGS: Usage in Pregnancy: Teratogenic Effects and Nonteratogenic Effects).
Pregnancy: Pregnancy Category D. See WARNINGS: Usage in Pregnancy: Teratogenic Effects and Nonteratogenic Effects.
Nursing: Patients should be advised to notify their physician if they are breastfeeding an infant (see PRECAUTIONS: Nursing Mothers).
Nursing Mothers: Like many other drugs, paroxetine is secreted in human milk, and caution should be exercised when Paroxetine Tablets are administered to a nursing woman.
Laboratory Tests: There are no specific laboratory tests recommended.
Alcohol: Although Paroxetine Tablets do not increase the impairment of mental and motor skills caused by alcohol, patients should be advised to avoid alcohol while taking Paroxetine Tablets.
Carcinogenesis & Mutagenesis & Impairment Of Fertility
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility: Carcinogenesis: Two-year carcinogenicity studies were conducted in rodents given paroxetine in the diet at 1 mg/kg/day, 5 mg/kg/day, and 25 mg/kg/day (mice) and 1 mg/kg/day, 5 mg/kg/day, and 20 mg/kg/day (rats). These doses are up to 2.4 (mouse) and 3.9 (rat) times the MRHD for major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder and GAD on a mg/m2 basis. Because the MRHD for major depressive disorder is slightly less than that for OCD (50 mg versus 60 mg), the doses used in these carcinogenicity studies were only 2.0 (mouse) and 3.2 (rat) times the MRHD for OCD. There was a significantly greater number of male rats in the high-dose group with reticulum cell sarcomas (1/100, 0/50, 0/50, and 4/50 for control, low-, middle-, and high-dose groups, respectively) and a significantly increased linear trend across dose groups for the occurrence of lymphoreticular tumors in male rats. Female rats were not affected. Although there was a dose-related increase in the number of tumors in mice, there was no drug-related increase in the number of mice with tumors. The relevance of these findings to humans is unknown.
Mutagenesis: Paroxetine produced no genotoxic effects in a battery of 5 in vitro and 2 in vivo assays that included the following: Bacterial mutation assay, mouse lymphoma mutation assay, unscheduled DNA synthesis assay, and tests for cytogenetic aberrations in vivo in mouse bone marrow and in vitro in human lymphocytes and in a dominant lethal test in rats.
Labor & Delivery
Labor and Delivery: The effect of paroxetine on labor and delivery in humans is unknown.
Pediatric Use: Safety and effectiveness in the pediatric population have not been established (see BOX WARNING and WARNINGS: Clinical Worsening and Suicide Risk). Three placebo-controlled trials in 752 pediatric patients with MDD have been conducted with Paroxetine Tablets, and the data were not sufficient to support a claim for use in pediatric patients. Anyone considering the use of Paroxetine Tablets in a child or adolescent must balance the potential risks with the clinical need. Decreased appetite and weight loss have been observed in association with the use of SSRIs. Consequently, regular monitoring of weight and growth should be performed in children and adolescents treated with an SSRI such as Paroxetine Tablets.In placebo-controlled clinical trials conducted with pediatric patients, the following adverse events were reported in at least 2% of pediatric patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets and occurred at a rate at least twice that for pediatric patients receiving placebo: emotional lability (including self-harm, suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide, crying, and mood fluctuations), hostility, decreased appetite, tremor, sweating, hyperkinesia, and agitation.Events reported upon discontinuation of treatment with Paroxetine Tablets in the pediatric clinical trials that included a taper phase regimen, which occurred in at least 2% of patients who received Paroxetine Tablets and which occurred at a rate at least twice that of placebo, were: emotional lability (including suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, mood changes, and tearfulness), nervousness, dizziness, nausea, and abdominal pain (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION: Discontinuation of Treatment With Paroxetine Tablets).
Geriatric Use: SSRIs and SNRIs, including Paroxetine Tablets, have been associated with cases of clinically significant hyponatremia in elderly patients, who may be at greater risk for this adverse event (see PRECAUTIONS: Hyponatremia). In worldwide premarketing clinical trials with Paroxetine Tablets, 17% of patients treated with Paroxetine Tablets (approximately 700) were 65 years of age or older. Pharmacokinetic studies revealed a decreased clearance in the elderly, and a lower starting dose is recommended; there were, however, no overall differences in the adverse event profile between elderly and younger patients, and effectiveness was similar in younger and older patients (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
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- Paroxetine Tablets USP(PA-rox-eh-tine)Read the Medication Guide that comes with Paroxetine Tablets before you start taking it and each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This Medication Guide does not take the place of talking to your healthcare provider about your medical condition or treatment. Talk with your healthcare provider if there is something you do not understand or want to learn more about.What is the most important information I should know about Paroxetine Tablets? Paroxetine Tablets and other antidepressant medicines may cause serious side effects, including: 1. Suicidal thoughts or actions: •Paroxetine Tablets and other antidepressant medicines may increase suicidal thoughts or actions in some children, teenagers, or young adults within the first few months of treatment or when the dose is changed. •Depression or other serious mental illnesses are the most important causes of suicidal thoughts or actions. •Watch for these changes and call your healthcare provider right away if you notice: •New or sudden changes in mood, behavior, actions, thoughts, or feelings, especially if severe. •Pay particular attention to such changes when Paroxetine Tablets are started or when the dose is changed. Keep all follow-up visits with your healthcare provider and call between visits if you are worried about symptoms.Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms, or call 911 if an emergency, especially if they are new, worse, or worry you: •attempts to commit suicide •acting on dangerous impulses •acting aggressive or violent •thoughts about suicide or dying •new or worse depression •new or worse anxiety or panic attacks •feeling agitated, restless, angry, or irritable •trouble sleeping •an increase in activity or talking more than what is normal for you •other unusual changes in behavior or moodCall your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the following symptoms, or call 911 if an emergency. Paroxetine Tablets may be associated with these serious side effects:2. Serotonin Syndrome or Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome-like reactions. This condition can be life-threatening and may include:1.agitation, hallucinations, coma, or other changes in mental status2.coordination problems or muscle twitching (overactive reflexes)3.racing heartbeat, high or low blood pressure 4.sweating or fever 5.nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea6.muscle rigidity3. Visual problems1.eye pain2.changes in vision3.swelling or redness in or around the eyeOnly some people are at risk for these problems. You may want to undergo an eye examination to see if you are at risk and receive preventative treatment if you are.4. Severe allergic reactions: 1.trouble breathing2.swelling of the face, tongue, eyes, or mouth3.rash, itchy welts (hives), or blisters, alone or with fever or joint pain 5. Abnormal bleeding: Paroxetine Tablets and other antidepressant medicines may increase your risk of bleeding or bruising, especially if you take the blood thinner warfarin (Coumadin"®", Jantoven"®"), a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs, like ibuprofen or naproxen), or aspirin. 6. Seizures or convulsions 7. Manic episodes:1.greatly increased energy2.severe trouble sleeping 3.racing thoughts 4.reckless behavior 5.unusually grand ideas 6.excessive happiness or irritability7.talking more or faster than usual 8. Changes in appetite or weight. Children and adolescents should have height and weight monitored during treatment. 9. Low salt (sodium) levels in the blood. Elderly people may be at greater risk for this. Symptoms may include: 1.headache 2.weakness or feeling unsteady 3.confusion, problems concentrating or thinking, or memory problemsDo not stop Paroxetine Tablets without first talking to your healthcare provider. Stopping Paroxetine Tablets too quickly may cause serious symptoms including: 1.anxiety, irritability, high or low mood, feeling restless, or changes in sleep habits 2.headache, sweating, nausea, dizziness 3.electric shock-like sensations, shaking, confusion What are Paroxetine Tablets?Paroxetine Tablets are prescription medicines used to treat depression. It is important to talk with your healthcare provider about the risks of treating depression and also the risks of not treating it. You should discuss all treatment choices with your healthcare provider. Paroxetine Tablets are also used to treat: 1.Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) 2.Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) 3.Panic Disorder 4.Social Anxiety Disorder 5.Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Talk to your healthcare provider if you do not think that your condition is getting better with treatment using Paroxetine Tablets. Who should not take Paroxetine Tablets? Do not take Paroxetine Tablets if you: 1.are allergic to paroxetine or any of the ingredients in Paroxetine Tablets. See the end of this Medication Guide for a complete list of ingredients in Paroxetine Tablets.2.take a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if you take an MAOI, including the antibiotic linezolid. 1.Do not take an MAOI within 2 weeks of stopping Paroxetine Tablets unless directed to do so by your physician. 2.Do not start Paroxetine Tablets if you stopped taking an MAOI in the last 2 weeks unless directed to do so by your physician. 3.People who take Paroxetine Tablets close in time to an MAOI may have serious or even life-threatening side effects. Get medical help right away if you have any of these symptoms:1.high fever 2.uncontrolled muscle spasms 3.stiff muscles 4.rapid changes in heart rate or blood pressure 5.confusion6.loss of consciousness (pass out) 4.take MELLARIL®* (thioridazine). Do not take MELLARIL®* together with Paroxetine Tablets because this can cause serious heart rhythm problems or sudden death. 5.take the antipsychotic medicine pimozide (ORAP®*) because this can cause serious heart problems. What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking Paroxetine Tablets? Ask if you are not sure. Before starting Paroxetine Tablets, tell your healthcare provider if you: 6.are pregnant, may be pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. There is a possibility that Paroxetine Tablets may harm your unborn baby, including an increased risk of birth defects, particularly heart defects. Other risks may include a serious condition in which there is not enough oxygen in the baby’s blood. Your baby may also have certain other symptoms shortly after birth. Premature births have also been reported in some women who used Paroxetine Tablets during pregnancy. 7.are breastfeeding. Paroxetine passes into your milk. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby while taking Paroxetine Tablets. 8.are taking certain drugs such as: 7.triptans used to treat migraine headache 8.other antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, or lithium) or antipsychotics 9.drugs that affect serotonin, such as lithium, tramadol, tryptophan, St. John’s wort 10.certain drugs used to treat irregular heart beats 11.certain drugs used to treat schizophrenia 12.certain drugs used to treat HIV infection13.certain drugs that affect the blood, such as warfarin, aspirin, and ibuprofen 14.certain drugs used to treat epilepsy 15.atomoxetine16.cimetidine17.fentanyl 18.metoprolol 19.pimozide20.procyclidine21.tamoxifen9.have liver problems 10.have kidney problems 11.have heart problems 12.have or had seizures or convulsions 13.have bipolar disorder or mania 14.have low sodium levels in your blood 15.have a history of a stroke 16.have high blood pressure 17.have or had bleeding problems 18.have glaucoma (high pressure in the eye) Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Paroxetine Tablets and some medicines may interact with each other, may not work as well, or may cause serious side effects. Your healthcare provider or pharmacist can tell you if it is safe to take Paroxetine Tablets with your other medicines. Do not start or stop any medicine while taking Paroxetine Tablets without talking to your healthcare provider first. If you take Paroxetine Tablets, you should not take any other medicines that contain paroxetine, including paroxetine extended-release tablets and PEXEVA®* (paroxetine mesylate).How should I take Paroxetine Tablets? 1.Take Paroxetine Tablets exactly as prescribed. Your healthcare provider may need to change the dose of Paroxetine Tablets until it is the right dose for you.2.Paroxetine Tablets may be taken with or without food. 3.If you miss a dose of Paroxetine Tablets, take the missed dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and take your next dose at the regular time. Do not take two doses of Paroxetine Tablets at the same time. 4.If you take too many Paroxetine Tablets call your healthcare provider or poison control center right away, or get emergency treatment. 5.Do not stop taking Paroxetine Tablets suddenly without talking to your doctor (unless you have symptoms of a severe allergic reaction). If you need to stop taking Paroxetine Tablets, your healthcare provider can tell you how to safely stop taking it. What should I avoid while taking Paroxetine Tablets? Paroxetine Tablets can cause sleepiness or may affect your ability to make decisions, think clearly, or react quickly. You should not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how Paroxetine Tablets affect you. Do not drink alcohol while using Paroxetine Tablets. What are possible side effects of Paroxetine Tablets? Paroxetine Tablets may cause serious side effects, including all of those described in the section entitled “What is the most important information I should know about Paroxetine Tablets?”Common possible side effects in people who take Paroxetine Tablets include:1.nausea 2.sleepiness3.weakness4.dizziness5.feeling anxious or trouble sleeping 6.sexual problems 7.sweating8.shaking 9.not feeling hungry 10.dry mouth 11.constipation12.infection 13.yawningTell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of Paroxetine Tablets. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.CALL YOUR DOCTOR FOR MEDICAL ADVICE ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS. YOU MAY REPORT SIDE EFFECTS TO SOLCO HEALTHCARE US, LLC AT 1-866-257-2597 OR TO THE FDA AT 1-800-FDA1088 or 1-800-332-1088. How should I store Paroxetine Tablets? 1.Store Paroxetine Tablets at 20° to 25°C (68° to 77°F). [See USP Controlled Room Temperature].2.Keep Paroxetine Tablets away from light. 3.Keep bottle of Paroxetine Tablets closed tightly. Keep Paroxetine Tablets and all medicines out of the reach of children. General information about Paroxetine Tablets Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. Do not use Paroxetine Tablets for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give Paroxetine Tablets to other people, even if they have the same condition. It may harm them. This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information about Paroxetine Tablets. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You may ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about Paroxetine Tablets that is written for healthcare professionals.What are the ingredients in Paroxetine Tablets? 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August 6, 2019/Comments Off on Who Can Enter the Kingdom of God
My son grabbed a book from the “Leave a Book, Take a Book” library. Mine Craft Zombies. I thumbed through and read, “Rotting flesh falling off.”
Um. Nope. Not this one.
So, I asked him in a teacher voice, “Is choosing to read a book you know your parents would disapprove of honoring your father and mother? Is it following Jesus? What do you think?”
He turned defensive. We played verbal tennis and he blurted out, “So, what do I have to do to go to heaven? I go to church. I believe. Why can’t I just do what I want?”
Scripture is true. “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved,” (Acts 16:31) Then why does it matter what my son chooses to read—or do—or say?
One of the scariest passages in the Bible for me is found in Matthew Chapter 7. Jesus taught the disciples. The crowds and religious leaders also listened. He basically told them that not everyone who seems like they serve God—even to the point of performing miraculous signs of the kingdom—will actually enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
THEN WHO CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven—only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’” (Matt. 7:21-23)
THE TENSION OF FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
Somehow, I wanted to express to my son and his adolescent faith that although we are saved by faith—the kind of faith that saves is the kind of faith that obeys.
DEMONS BELIEVE, BUT WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
The demons declared who Jesus is. “Suddenly they shouted, ‘What do you have to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’”i(Matt. 8:29).
So they saw Jesus and proclaimed who He is, but the demons did not submit their lives in obedience to God. Jesus’ power and authority cast the demons out of the man and into the pigs. Jesus’ power and the demon’s obedience are two different things.
GOOD DEEDS WILL NOT GET US INTO THE KINGDOM
Jesus also speaks out about the religious leaders in his day who think that by following all the rules—and doing all the things—they will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
But even they cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven by following all the good deed and church checklists (Matt. 23:13).
If the Old Testament law couldn’t even save anyone, so that Jesus needed to come to fulfill the law (He is the perfect sacrifice dying once—for all) then our religious checklists can’t save us either.
FAITH THAT SAVES IS FAITH THAT OBEYS
Back to one of the scariest Bible passages: Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus is not saying that our good works save us (otherwise the religious leaders have that in the bag).
What He is saying—is those that do the will of God will enter.
SO—WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD WORKS AND THE WILL OF GOD? AREN’T THEY THE SAME THING?
That’s the tricky part: they can look the same.
You can have good works without saving faith—but you cannot have saving faith without the natural expression of good works.
A flower is going to bloom.
A river is going to flow.
And those who believe in Jesus, are going to follow Him—and He leads us into good works. (Ephesians 2:10)
FAITH THAT OBEYS IS FAITH FROM THE HEART
“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your HEART that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9
Will reading about rotting flesh falling off the faces of zombies keep my son out of the Kingdom of Heaven? Of course not. But it will keep him coming to me in the middle of the night unable to sleep.
So, I picked up my verbal racket and the ball and tapped it back with a gentle question:
“Do you think believing in God and not following Him makes sense? If we know that Jesus told the disciples to ‘Follow Me’ and not just ‘Believe in Me’, then what do you think you should do about reading books you know don’t honor God with your mind?”
He slid the book back on the shelf.
WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
When we believe in Jesus from the heart, the Holy Spirit lives inside of us and guides us into all things good—including the will of God.
WHAT DOES YOUR NEXT STEP LOOK LIKE?
Maybe your first step is simply telling God: I believe in You, Jesus. Now, please help me to follow You.
And then do the next thing you think honors God.
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February 4th, 2021
Podcasting/US History/English 3
There’s a terrific book by an old friend about what it means to be an adjunct, Fight for your Long Day. That life — traveling place to place, not having a secure position, working on the whim of a Dean — is a hard life. While I’m an adjunct (actually my formal title is Lecturer B), I’m not dependent on that position. And I do it to study with terrific undergrads and maybe inspire a few of them to come work with me in urban schools.
But most high school rosters, particularly at places where the schedule moves or cascades, will have a long day. Thursday is my tough day this year, where I’m teaching the entire day straight. And I teach three different classes on Thursdays: Intro to podcasting, American History, and English Three. The variety is a good thing; shifting gears three times, not so much. By the time I get to English Three, I’m usually a bit punch drunk and have to make sure nothing inappropriate comes out of my mouth.
Podcasting has been an awesome course this year. The kids have created some cool pieces. I’m not an audio engineer, much as I’d like to be one, but teaching technical skills over zoom to kids using five or six different audio editing programs, some web-based and some software, isn’t easy. Or fun. Or feasible. If I can finish the year with a few cool downloads, it’ll be a success. Right now we’re finishing up this idea of transitions and we’ll eventually have something I’ll publish here.
American history was next. I’m working to set the stage, to set up an assessment that’s still unformed, even if I had a great idea while walking for what this will eventually look like. We had a good conversation about the different ways one pursues truth as an individual and how historians do it. Then we turned to the uses of truth and compared these two paragraphs:
Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, its diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day. The seeds of all that were planted long before our official birth date, in 1776, when the men known as our founders formally declared independence from Britain. (1619 project introduction).
The declared purpose of the President’s Advisory 1776 Commission is to “enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding of the United States in 1776 and to strive to form a more perfect Union.” This requires a restoration of American education, which can only be grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.” And a rediscovery of our shared identity rooted in our founding principles is the path to a renewed American unity and a confident American future. (1776 Presidential Commission, hyperlink no longer exists.)
The prompt on this Jamboard was to consider how each of these projects envisioned truth and the pursuit of truth.
This person is looking at the impact and the roots of what America is. They are looking through a lens of why we are the way that we are, and that's where the truth lies.
They want to look at truth more as a tool almost, something to unify and inspire the future. They look at the past as events to learn about to inspire the future, less like causes more like inspiration.
(Both from J.).
Onto English Three where I continued to launch our reading of Gatsby. We processed their understandings of the American Dream. As they’re going to start reading this weekend, I wanted to set up the opening line. (I also had to explain that the first chapter is the waiting room on a roller coaster — anxiety and confusion and uncertainty — and the next two chapters will be the click-click on the way to the top. Then the novel takes off. I don’t know… there’s a trickiness to this first chapter, I think, and I have to help them get started and remind them that they’ll be coming back to this chapter as the book goes on.).
Anyway, this activity turned out well: first line of the novel followed by by bits of advice offered to water stream by their elders.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
Look at your mistakes as a learning opportunity
put your money in your sock so if someone steals your bag you won't be broke
everyone looks better with lipstick
nobody is meant to complete you
nothing is free
There is no right choice in life. It's all a trade-off. Just depends how much you get screwed over.
don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good
there’s always going to be people that you don’t like in life
have a safe for your money but only put half in. hide the rest in random places so if you're robbed you wont be broke
Keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle for the full duration of the ride
it takes two to tangle
holding grudges is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die
cross the street like the cars are trying to hit you.
Always look at both sides of the story
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Standard 1 — History
Students trace the historical periods, places, people, events, and movements that have led to the development of Indiana as a state.
American Indians and the Arrival of Europeans to 1770
4.1.2 Identify and describe historic Native American Indian groups that lived in Indiana at the time of early European exploration, including ways these groups adapted to and interacted with the physical environment.
Examples: Miami, Shawnee, Potawatomi and Lenape (Delaware)
The American Revolution and the Indiana Territory: 1770s to 1816
4.1.3 Explain the importance of the Revolutionary War and other key events and people that influenced the development of Indiana as a state.
4.1.4 Summarize and explain the significance of key documents in Indiana’s development from a United States territory to statehood.
Statehood: 1816 to 1851
4.1.5 Identify and explain the causes of the removal of Native American Indian groups in the state and their resettlement during the 1830s
4.1.6 Explain how key individuals and events influenced the early growth and development of Indiana.
Chronological Thinking, Historical Comprehension, Analysis and Interpretation, Research
4.1.15 Create and interpret timelines that show relationships among people, events, and movements in the history of Indiana.
Examples: Immigration patterns such as the settlement of the French and Germans
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When you are just starting out in the world of business, there are a lot of things that you might want to focus on, in order to ensure that the business is likely to succeed now and far into the future. As it happens, there are a lot of areas that these will generally cover. In particular, if you are keen to give your business the best possible start, you’ll want to make sure that you are focusing on some of the following. These are all vital areas to cover, so it’s important that you are not overlooking them at all.
Put A Lot Of Effort Into Planning
One of the most important things here is to make sure that you are putting a lot of time and effort into the planning stage of your business. So even long before you have technically got anything in place, you are already well aware of how your business will be run, what your interim and long-term goals are, and so on. Good planning is probably the number one factor that separates successful businesses from unsuccessful ones, so that is the kind of thing that you are going to want to bear in mind here.
Develop An Online Presence
Most of your efforts in marketing these days are going to go into developing an online presence, so this is something that you are definitely going to need to focus on as best as you can. There are a few fundamental ways in which you can do this – from using professional web designers to ensure that you have a great website, to developing a following on social media platforms that align with your identified demographics. These kinds of steps will really help to ensure that your business is getting off the ground in the right way.
Hire A Fantastic Team
The people who work in your business are obviously another hugely important part of all this, so it’s a good idea to make sure that you are hiring only the very best right from the start of your business’ life. If you surround yourself with a fantastic team, that is always going to be one of the very best ways to ensure that you are able to achieve whatever you want with your business, and it will make the day to day job a lot easier for you as well. Be sure to have a rigorous recruitment process so you end up with only the best people.
Source Lots Of Funding
Of course, every business needs to have a decent amount of funding if it is going to be able to do whatever you are hoping for, so this is the kind of thing that you will need to think about as well as you can. Securing plenty of funding is going to mean that you are empowered to do whatever you need to do, so that’s something that you are going to want to think about here. If you can do this, you’ll find it makes a difference. | <urn:uuid:ed43afff-145f-46c1-b521-abe7eb5bec9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sovereignmagazine.co.uk/2022/07/12/4-ways-to-give-your-business-the-best-possible-start/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.978889 | 571 | 1.59375 | 2 |
We’re looking for a few awesome schools to join the new Drone Racing league in North East, and North West Ohio school districts!
If you are a teacher drone enthusiast, or if you are looking to add some more opportunities for your students in learning, racing, or working on drones, then this league is for you.
How much space do you need to host?
A basketball court size racing area is ideal. Also needed are two additional nearby spaces; one for drone teams to store supplies and work on drones, and another location to run the Expo event. Two classrooms near a gym would likely work.
How Do You Time Races?
Stopwatches - each event should solicit volunteers to run timing stations. Using a stopwatch is a simple, cheap and effective timing method.
Should a timing system (chip or rfid style) become available, this can be used with a stopwatch backup.
What do you mean by Expo?
The expo component of a race hosting day should include some kind of learning component, designated by the host. This could include some information on careers in drones or related industries, engineering or design challenges, learning about flight, meet and greet with professionals in the industry or related careers, modding workshops, hands-on demos, new tech presentations by vendors, videos, presentations, skill building, or anything else that provides a learning opportunity for the participants - while they are not actively racing or competing.
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Here you can read notes i made when speaking at church a few years ago! It looks at why names are important, particularly the name of JESUS:
Names are important– they reveal:
NAME means and speaks of renown, fame, memorial, character, marking, branding. Your name ‘marks’ you
Proverbs 22:1 – A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches
- Exodus 3:13-15
Then Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the People of Israel and I tell them, ‘The God of your fathers sent me to you’; and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ What do I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I-AM-WHO-I-AM. Tell the People of Israel, ‘I-AM sent me to you.’”
15 God continued with Moses: “This is what you’re to say to the Israelites: ‘God, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.’ This has always been my name, and this is how I always will be known.
God told Moses His name (remember: God is trinity – father, son and holy spirit so for God to reveal his name is for father, son and holy spirit to reveal their name). I AM-a divine name, declaring the character and attributes of God. YAHWEH/JEHOVA/LORD variations of the name I AM.
It means ‘to be’-He can be all we need him to be
God is. He has always existed and always will…he is, not he has been or he will be!
- John 12:12-15
The next day the huge crowd that had arrived for the Feast heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem. They broke off palm branches and went out to meet him. And they cheered: Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in God’s name! Yes! The King of Israel!
Jesus got a young donkey and rode it, just as the Scripture has it: No fear, Daughter Zion:
See how your king comes, riding a donkey’s colt.
The word used here for name speaks of Jesus’ rank, authority, reputation, and who he was representative of– Jesus came in the name of God – a representative of who God is. Jesus had huge authority. He had both earthly and heavenly reputation. They didn’t say ‘blessed is this man!’…they recognised the power he had by being connected to the name of God. To walk in the name of the Lord carries responsibility. We have responsibility to be God’s representative on earth now through the power of the Holy Spirit, just as Jesus did then. We are identified by the name of the Lord. We are identified as belonging to the one true God because of the name of Jesus (religions have no trouble with the word GOD but mention JESUS and we are in trouble!)
- Only given the name Jesus on earth – Name for God the son is the Word.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He existed in the beginning with God. 3 God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. 4 The Word gave life to everything that was created, and his life brought light to everyone. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it
We refer to God the son as Jesus but this was His earthly name. His original name is the Word and he will return as the Word. (research logos – Bible is written word (logos), Jesus is the living logos, Holy Spirit gives the spoken logos)
Matthew 1v21 And she will bring forth a son, and you shall call his name JESUS, foe he will save his people from their sins
(God told Joseph in a dream to call the baby Jesus). Jesus’ name was ordained before time. God stepped into time to let Joseph know what he was to be called because his name was vital. JESUS means “Yahweh is Salvation” or “He shall save”, representing salvation to humanity.
The name given to the Word, the name Jesus -a name above every name. Highly exalted.
- For Christians, the name of Jesus Christ is the most wonderful and most powerful name in existence.
In Psalm 72, although King David was writing about his son, Solomon, he also speaks prophetically of Jesus. Verse 17 says, “His name shall endure forever; His name shall continue as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in Him; All nations shall call Him blessed
Believing in Jesus is one thing, to believe in his name is another. It is to rest in all he says he is. Trusting him to fulfil his promises even when it’s tough. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.” (1 John 5:13)
Believeing in his name is salvation! Adopted into his family – John 1:12. No other name brings salvation – Acts 4:12
Salvation = deliverance, preservation, soundness, rescue, general well-being, prosperity. These are for now, not just in heaven
“For whosoever shall call upon THE NAME OF THE LORD shall be saved” (Rom. 10:13).
- Called to hold fast to his name – Rev 2:13 –It will pull us through persecution. When everything material is taken from us, the only worthy thing to cling to is His name – it encompasses his whole being. Holding fast to His name establishes our faith as we trust in him to overcome. His name symbolises victory over all life can throw at us!
- Christians have been given the power of attorney. Legally, power of attorney is the authority to act in another person’s behalf, at their request. It is authorization given by Jesus permitting Christians to take action on his behalf.
“And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” (John 14:13,14)
“Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16:23, 24)
“For where two or three are gathered together in MY NAME, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt. 18:20).
“And these signs shall follow them that believe; In MY NAME shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:17)
Prayer offered up in the name of Jesus that is in line with his will, carries his weight and authority behind it
Not a magic word. The power is not even in saying words, but in understanding and believing all that the name of Jesus signifies. His name represents all of His finished work on the cross, fulfilling God’s plan of redemption and salvation, victory over sin, death, and over the devil’s entire realm. When the name of Jesus Christ is invoked(used/raised), it carries all of the power and distinction God gave to it. God raised Jesus from the dead, elevated Him to His right hand, and gave Jesus a name above “every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” (Ephesians 1:21)
- Must be born again to use his name though (7 sons of sceva) Acts 19:11-17
11 God gave Paul the power to perform unusual miracles. 12 When handkerchiefs or aprons that had merely touched his skin were placed on sick people, they were healed of their diseases, and evil spirits were expelled.
13 A group of Jews was traveling from town to town casting out evil spirits. They tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus in their incantation, saying, “I command you in the name of Jesus, whom Paul preaches, to come out!” 14 Seven sons of Sceva, a leading priest, were doing this. 15 But one time when they tried it, the evil spirit replied, “I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you?” 16 Then the man with the evil spirit leaped on them, overpowered them, and attacked them with such violence that they fled from the house, naked and battered.
17 The story of what happened spread quickly all through Ephesus, to Jews and Greeks alike. A solemn fear descended on the city, and the name of the Lord Jesus was greatly honored. 18 Many who became believers confessed their sinful practices. 19 A number of them who had been practicing sorcery brought their incantation books and burned them at a public bonfire. The value of the books was fifty thousand pieces of silver (fifty thousand days wages…several million dollars…) 20 So the message about the Lord spread widely and had a powerful effect.
The seven sons of the high priest Sceva were not in relationship with Jesus. If they had been, they could have used Jesus’ name in freeing people from demonic activity and the spirits would have had no choice but to obey because of the power and authority of the name of Jesus. Because they weren’t, the spirits overcame them. The name of the Lord became feared and honoured. People had seen first hand the realm in which the name of Jesus operated.
- His name will bring suffering –John 15:20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you
The more we choose to walk and be identified by the name Jesus, the more we will come across opposition
- One day all will know his name. Jesus Christ is Lord. Unable to deny it! Even those who scoffed at us
“God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth.” (Philippians 2:9, 10)
- Name brings forgiveness of sins through repentance. On the day of Pentecost, the people were deeply moved after Peter’s powerful sermon, and asked, “What do we do?” Peter answered, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38)
- Name brings wholeness and healing. “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in THE NAME OF THE LORD” (James 5:14)
Acts 3 Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; 3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. 4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.” 5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11 Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed. 12 So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. 14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all……….(cut out some verses)
Acts 4 Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
5 And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, 6 as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: 9 If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, 10 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’[e] 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus. 14 And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 saying, “What shall we do to these men? For, indeed, that a notable miracle has been done through them is evident to all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But so that it spreads no further among the people, let us severely threaten them, that from now on they speak to no man in this name.”
18 So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” 21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way of punishing them, because of the people, since they all glorified God for what had been done. 22 For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
The name of Jesus was banned! They could see that by his name people were made whole.
It is by faith in this name above all names, the name of Jesus Christ, that people are saved, set free from bondage, healed of sicknesses and diseases, and made whole. There is no other name under heaven more powerful or more significant, and this is something we can have complete confidence in. When we ask/command something in the name of Jesus, the answer is given immediately…we may not always see it immediately but the answer has been delivered.
- The enemy knows and understands the power of names, most especially the name Jesus. He trembles at the name Jesus.
Matthew 8:28-31 They landed in the country of the Gadarenes and were met by two madmen, victims of demons, coming out of the cemetery. The men had terrorized the region for so long that no one considered it safe to walk down that stretch of road anymore. Seeing Jesus, the madmen screamed out, “What business do you have giving us a hard time? You’re the Son of God! You weren’t supposed to show up here yet!” Off in the distance a herd of pigs was browsing and rooting. The evil spirits begged Jesus, “If you kick us out of these men, let us live in the pigs.”
The devils trembled at the presence of Jesus. They still tremble at the name of Jesus
- The name of Jesus is a strong refuge.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous run into it, and are safe – Proverbs 18:10
The power in the name provides protection, covering for them that believe in it. When you call His name in time of danger, Jesus quickly shields you
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I enjoy living a “Life of the Imagination.” The phrase itself came to me at some point several years ago, popping into my consciousness and immediately embraced as something that describes me, at least when I’m at my best.
What does it mean? It’s about letting your creativity flow, allowing yourself to be whimsical and fanciful, and noticing (and being amused by) those little fun quirky moments that arise in life.
Everyday life in the mainstream culture doesn’t encourage us to live this way. We’re “all business” much of the time, doing our work, taking care of practical needs, keeping our heads down, and getting things checked off the to-do list.
Our leisure time is often filled with things that come from other peoples’ imaginations – movies, music, and TV shows that are no doubt entertaining, but aren’t an expression of our own essence. Advertisements urge us to go shopping in order to be happy.
So how do we shift out of this serious, boring mode and encourage ourselves to use our imaginations? I like to think of my imaginative aspects as part of my fae self.
Here are some ideas for encouraging your faerie spirit:
- Play games that bring out your imaginative powers. Role-playing games like D&D are great for this. If that’s not your cup of tea, how about I Spy, Charades, or 20 Questions? For a real workout, hang out with some young kids and play imagination games with them for an hour or two.
- Be mischievous! With kindness in mind, play benevolent tricks on your family and friends. Make up and share new jokes or tongue twisters. Write silly poetry. Draw cartoons on your friends’ white board or grocery list. Post goofy sayings on their Facebook wall.
- Dress to express your unique self. I adore the fashion statements that many preteen kids make, many of which have nothing to do with the latest trends. Add some accessories or combine colors in new ways, just for fun. Or go all-out with your own “look.” If people stare, smile and give them the peace sign!
- Connect with others who allow their unique selves to shine. Our society encourages us to try and keep up with the proverbial Joneses, but aren’t the most interesting people the ones who are a bit, well, strange? Encourage them to keep it up!
- Look for odd coincidences and synchronicities, and say thanks to the Universe for them. If you see something that is strange, fun, and unusual, take a picture or describe it to a friend. For extra credit, create your own!
- Laugh out loud for no good reason. Dance in the grocery store. Speak in made-up languages. Or whatever feels right!
- Get away from your usual routines. BlackLion and I are about to head off for a long-awaited vacation in the tropics. We’ll be playing and imagining our way through the next week – and along with swimsuits, we’ve packed notebooks and art supplies! Time off, and away, is vital, especially for creative types like you and me. Maybe it’s a playful vacation, a transformational retreat, or even a long-weekend road trip.
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Everyone wants to spoil their pets and that often means giving them people food instead of the usual pet food. The problem with people food is that it can be deadly to your pet. Most adult cats are actually lactose intolerant, which means giving them milk gives them diarrhea and a stomach ache while also dehydrating them at the same time.
Avoid bones because they can splinter and get stuck in your pet’s throat. Surprisingly, onions can be fatal to cats because it breaks down their red blood cells. When in doubt, it’s safer not to feed your pet people food and save the people food for yourself. your pet won’t be happy about that, but it’s better to have an unhappy pet than a sick one. | <urn:uuid:8a6f2bb9-c2e8-42bf-b898-5963cb9dc206> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://catdailynews.com/2014/12/people-food-pets-shouldnt-eat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.965228 | 156 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Sleeping with a cold can be taxing. You struggle to find the most workable breathing dynamics and sleeping position for your cold. Yet, quality sleep is vital for recovery since it gives your immune system enough time to heal.
Remedies for sleeping with a cold are taking a hot drink before bed and using a nasal decongestant. Others include taking a hot shower, turning on a humidifier, using a sinus flash, and taking cough medicine.
Thankfully, you can still get a good night's sleep even with a cold. Finding remedies for the symptoms such as a runny nose, sneezing, fever, headaches, nose congestion, and itchiness promotes sleep.
Here are eleven effective remedies to help you get to sleep with a cold:
Taking Hot Drinks and Beverages
A hot drink sixty to ninety minutes before sleep decongests your nasal openings while soothing your sore throat. It does so by loosening the secretions in your sinuses and chest, promoting the ease of their expulsion. Such then promotes ease of breathing and makes you sleep better.
We advise taking decaffeinated tea plus a spoonful of honey. Taking this leads to relaxation, ease of breathing, and fighting infections. Some of the teas you could take are chamomile, ginger, and peppermint teas.
However, taking hot soup or hot water with lemon, ginger, and honey yields similar results if you dislike tea. You could also take a low-sodium broth.
Use a Sinus Flush
Also known as a saline nasal rinse, a sinus flash uses salt water flushing to decongest your nasal openings. Clearing out germs and mucus allows someone with a cold to breathe easily, leading to quality sleep.
Follow the following steps to do a sinus flash:
Step One: Prepare your Saline Rinse
Use distilled water, boiled and cooled water, or sterile water for your rinse. Avoid tap water since it could contain harmful organisms that could trigger further infections.
Add three teaspoonfuls of iodine-free salt to your jar containing a cup of clean water. Proceed to add one teaspoonful of baking soda, then stir. Now, transfer your solution to a squeeze bottle.
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Step Two: Lean Over Your Sink
Position your head sideways as though you are trying to align your forehead and chin. Doing this will prevent your saline rinse from dripping into your mouth.
Step Three: Insert the Nozzle of the Squeeze Bottle into The Upper Nostril
Put the nozzle of the squeeze bottle containing the solution into the upper nostril. Such will allow it to come out via your lower nostril.
Step Four: Repeat
Tilt the head in the opposite direction and spray the saline solution into your upper nostril. The solution will drain out via the now lower nostril.
Before doing a nasal rinse, ensure that you do not have medical conditions that could discourage the flash. Also, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discourages sinus flashes in children under two unless pediatrician-approved.
Turn on your Humidifier
A humidifier adds moisture to the air, soothing your sinuses and helping you breathe better. Even though studies show that humidifiers do not treat colds, it improves breathing, leading to better sleep.
For best results, use distilled water or purified water. We also encourage cleaning the humidifier and changing the water daily to promote good hygiene.
Consider a Salve or Vapor Rub
Topical application of a medicated ointment to your neck or chest aids with nasal decongestion, improving breathing, and sleep. The main ingredients of a vapor rub include eucalyptus oil, camphor, and menthol.
Apply the vapor rub on the throat or chest only. Avoid applying it inside your nostrils since it could get absorbed into your body or cause irritation. We advise prior patch testing on your skin to test for the possibility of irritation.
Take a Hot Bath or Hot Shower
The steam that accumulates in your bathroom during a hot shower or hot bath decongests your nasal passage. It does this by thinning out and draining the sinuses' mucus, promoting ease of breathing. In addition, taking a hot shower is an ideal way of relaxing your body, nerves, and muscles before bed.
You can improve the whole shower experience by incorporating aromatherapy into it. For instance, adding eucalyptus or peppermint oil relaxes your nerves, leading to nasal decongestion.
However, we discourage scalding-hot water as it can be dangerous and uncomfortable. Also, keeping your bathroom door closed allows for steam accumulation.
Dedicated Steam Inhalations
While steam from a hot shower or bath helps, having dedicated steam inhalations work better at opening the nasal passages. To prepare steam inhalations, boil water and add a few drops of menthol or eucalyptus oil. Cover yourself with a blanket and stoop over the basin containing the water forming an umbrella. Ensure that no steam escapes.
Since there is no escape from the steam, you inhale the steam and then decongest your nasal passages.
Practice Side-sleeping with a Raised Head
Finding the ideal sleeping position and neck angling helps one to breathe better and easier. For instance, sleeping on your back could lead to difficulty breathing and choking since it worsens the congestion.
We advise sleeping on your side with one or two pillows propping your head. Also, position your head, so it tilts downwards, not upwards. It will lower the mucus buildup in your throat, making you breathe easier.
While it is essential to raise your head, avoid using too firm pillows with very high lofts. Sleeping on such may cause joint and neck pains, making sleeping harder and more uncomfortable. Since quality sleep or rest is essential in treating a cold, ensure that your pillow is comfortable and supportive.
Use a Nasal Decongestant
Nasal decongestants are fast, easy, and effective ways of opening up congested nasal passages. They relieve the swollen tissue found in your nose, hence decreasing mucus production. Such then decongests your nasal passage, leading to improved breathing, which then helps you sleep better.
You can find nasal decongestants in most drugstores that give Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. These come in pill form (Pseudoephedrine), nasal spray (Afrin), or drop forms.
Most nasal decongestants work immediately, while some could take up to thirty minutes for you to feel relief. For instance, Afrin begins working immediately, while Pseudoephedrine starts working within fifteen minutes. Nasal decongestants are ideal for sleeping since their effects last up to twelve hours.
However, doctors do not recommend it for children below three years old. They also discourage its extensive use since it could recoil the cold symptoms, worsening your situation.
Avoid Consumption of Alcohol Before Bed
Taking alcohol before bed might help you feel tired and sleepy, which most think helps with sleeping with a cold. However, it dehydrates your body, making it difficult for your body to recover from the cold.
Instead, sip warm water to hydrate and decongest your nasal passages for easier breathing.
Take Nighttime Cold Medicine
Cold medicine relieves symptoms or side effects of the cold, such as coughs, headaches, and body aches. Expectorants like Mucinex help loosen the mucus in your lungs, making it easier to cough out. Alternatively, antitussives like Robitussin DM overpowers coughing, leading to better sleep.
If you are experiencing ache and fever-related symptoms like headache and ear pain, use a Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). Such include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen. However, if you are going for OTC drugs, get the proper prescription to avoid symptom rebound.
Cool Your Bedroom
Cooling your bedroom during sleep helps you sleep better with a cold. Keep your room temperature at about 60 degrees and sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit. However, avoid lowering the temperatures too much to shivering since it will worsen the cold.
Quality rest is essential when dealing with a cold. If you struggle to sleep with a cold, look for remedies like steam inhalations, hot drinks, or OTC nasal decongestants. These will help you sleep better while combating the cold and its side effects.
Feruza is a mom and a blogger. She had a neck pain for 15 years, which made her interested in everything about pillows.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is or so the old adage goes. It is a phrase intended to inject a healthy dose of skepticism into the person on the receiving end of the advice before they make a rash decision.
The advice is as true today as it was in its earliest mentions, which according to the website The Phrase Finder was as early as 1580.
For students, or adults, looking to supplement their income either with a part-time job or full-time employment there are people who want to take advantage of the desire to get rich quick.
How do you avoid getting scammed by a job that makes you pay more than you’ll earn? Here are some quick tips from the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission that will help you avoid the job scam.
Red Flag 1. The cold contact.
Who initiated the job offer contact? Did you reply to an ad or did you get an email seemingly out of the blue from someone promising you a big payday?
Kitt Letcher is the president and CEO of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Central Oklahoma. She said some legitimate job recruiters do reach out to potential job candidates through sites like Indeed and LinkedIn, but an unsolicited job offer should be the first thing that makes you look a little closer at the situation.
Also beware if the pitch to you is for a “previously undisclosed” federal job warns the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) website about job scams. All federal jobs are posted online and all that information is freely available to the public. “Don’t believe anyone who promises you a federal or postal job,” the site added.
Red Flag 2. Sticking to a script.
Are you able to have a meaningful conversation with someone who calls you about a job or are you able to schedule a face-to-face meeting about a potential job?
“If you are not able to have the one-on-one conversation with them they either have poor communication skills or they have to stick to a script,” Letcher said. Before taking a job you should be able to meet with the company in person, or have some sort of meaningful personal interaction as compared to just an email exchange.
Red Flag 3. Paying to get the job.
If a job requires you to put up money before you are paid, beware. This can take many forms, sometimes, according to the BBB, job scams require the purchasing of training materials or certifications before a person is hired.
“After you pay, the job doesn’t materialize,” explains the Federal Trade Commission website about job scams, “Employers and employment firms shouldn’t ask you to pay for the promise of a job.”
Red Flag 4. Too much information.
When you get hired for a job, you need to provide a lot of personal information to ensure your taxes are calculated and the employment paperwork is completed correctly. However, the BBB warns much of this personal information is not, and should not, be required before you are hired.
The FTC website adds this advice is applicable to avoid many scams. “Don’t give out your credit card or bank account information over the phone to a company unless you’re familiar with them and have agreed to pay for something.”
Red Flag 5. Can you find them?
Where is the office located for the job you are being offered? Letcher said even legitimate remote work opportunities are connected to a physical location. Do not just rely on an address listed on a job advertisement.
“Even if you are working remotely on something like data entry, you should still be able to find a physical office location,” Letcher said.
The BBB warned job scammers often use addresses that sound like real locations, but are in fact mail boxes at shipping stores. Another common tactic is to use well known addresses for office buildings, even though the office does not exist.
For Oklahoma City, that sometimes includes addresses linked to downtown towers which contain multiple officers. Letcher said you should do what her staff did to a caller who wanted to get his business accredited by the BBB and claimed a downtown address. The BBB employee asked “What does the Devon Tower look like this morning.” Letcher said the man responded that he could not see the tower from anywhere around his building, when in fact the address was directly across the street.
When the BBB identifies a job scam they add it to the real-time scam tracker on the agency’s website Letcher said. The agency also includes information not just about the specific company, but also information about the owners or principals in the company. Collecting this information creates a trail of information in case the same people try to change a company name but keep pulling the same scam.
How do you find a legitimate job? Try looking local. Letcher said starting your job search at local companies where you can visit office headquarters or meet with people in person is a great way to avoid being scammed.
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The Victorian Cemetery by Sarah Rutherford A5, 64pp,
The Victorian period has been described as the ‘Great Age of Death’. The customs of death, notably burial and mourning were taken very seriously and elaborate rituals of commemoration were part of everyone’s lives. As demand grew for hygenic and dignified burial places, the humble parish graveyard – unable to cope – was joined by a newcomer to the landscape, the garden cemetery. The book tells the story of Victorian cemeteries in their many guises, of the variation in their size, design, planting and monuments, and how most of them survive to this day. Some having been neglected, take on a gloomy Gothic character, while others remain an oasis of rest and contemplation. Some of the cemeteries included are:- St. Bartholomew’s Cemetery Exeter, Highgate London, Gravesend in Kent & Armos Vale, Bristol Brockwood Cemetery near Woking and Horoforth Cemetery Leeds. Well illustrated with over 100 photos of graves, cemetery plots, mausoleums, graveyards & gravestones. There is also a list of cemeteries in the counties of England and web sites to visit. | <urn:uuid:f9645ade-4687-4e4d-b065-a7c3986c38e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mlfhs-online-shop.myshopify.com/products/7032 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.970283 | 258 | 3.046875 | 3 |
The National Taxation Bureau of the Northern Area (NTBNA), Ministry of Finance recently received a question from Mr. A regarding the seizure of his recent salary income by the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency for his insufficient payment of year 2009 individual income tax. Mr. A asks, since it is over the 5-year tax collection period, is he not required to pay it anymore?
NTBNA explains that according to Article 23 of the Tax Collection Act, the period for collection of a specific tax shall be five years commencing from the date following the expiration date of the period for payment of said tax.
Any uncollected tax which has been forwarded to the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency for compulsory execution shall be effective for 5 years commencing from the date following the expiration date of the period for tax collection. The period of execution, starting on a date within the five-year period, may remain effective for a period of five more years after the end of the five-year period. Besides that, where the forwarding of a request for compulsory execution is held in abeyance under Article 39 or the collection of tax is suspended under other acts, the duration of such temporary deferral or suspension of execution of taxation shall be excluded or deducted from the period for tax collection.
NTBNA further explains that the assessment decision made by the tax collection authority on Mr. A’s year 2009 individual income tax was that he had additional amount of tax to be levied. The tax assessment and the tax payment notices were sent to Mr. A legally and the expiration date of the period for payment was April 25, 2011. Mr. A failed to make full payment of the additional tax levied before the expiration date and did not file an application for recheck. As a result, the tax collection authority forwarded the uncollected tax to the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency for compulsory execution. The branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency then sent a payment notice to Mr. A, informing him to report his property status. Mr. A claimed that he had no property or income to pay the tax. The tax collection authority then found that Mr. A worked in Company A and he had salary income from it, so it informed the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency to issue an execution decree to Company A for seizing Mr. A’s salary income and the tax was completely collected. According to the Tax Collection Act mentioned above, commencing from the date following the expiration date of the period for payment of tax, the expiration date of the collection period for the tax in this case was April 25, 2016. The uncollected tax was forwarded to the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency for compulsory enforcement before the expiration date of the collection period and the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency started the execution procedure before April 25, 2021, so the period for pursuing the uncollected tax could be extended to April 24, 2026.
NTBNA would like to remind taxpayers to make full payment of the uncollected tax as soon as possible. Don’t mistakenly think that the uncollected tax no longer needs to be paid after dragging for a few years. As long as the tax collection authority finds the property or income of the tax defaulter, it will inform the branch of Administrative Enforcement Agency to launch the compulsory enforcement procedure, so tax defaulters should not take any chances. For those who still have further questions, please dial the toll-free service number 0800-000321 for inquiries. | <urn:uuid:6cf28246-b7fd-41cc-a047-f4463bff2310> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mof.gov.tw/Eng/singlehtml/f48d641f159a4866b1d31c0916fbcc71?cntId=fd418722477c4e89bf05eb3b182ed9ac | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968688 | 703 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Search Engine Optimisation – SEO
Comprehensive work undertaken on a consultancy basis with the sole aim of improving the performance of your website in major search engines such as Google.
A website needs visitors otherwise it is not a very useful entity. Unless people know your web address then most people will find your website by searching on a search engine. Often searchers know what information they are seeking but not always the name of the website that contains it. For example if some one wanted information on ‘wind-up radios’ then they would “google” that phrase. If your website features ‘wind-up radios’ then your hope would be that Google will list your website on it’s first page of search results. This is where SEO comes in.
The approach from Jon Stanton is different to many seo companies in that there are no false promises, just dedication to the task in hand.
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Last month, when 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai was shot and wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan, the world responded with outrage. That she was simply defending her right to an education made the event even more astounding. Her almost superhuman courage represents the face of an entire generation of girls around the world who struggle against extraordinary odds to get an education. Malala's struggle is at once unique and ubiquitous.
Most girls in the developing world are not shot on a school bus. Yet they continue to face high barriers that keep them from school and make education an uphill struggle. Women still comprise two thirds of the world's illiterate. But over the last few decades, research has shown that girls and their families accrue significant benefits when they are educated. Just one extra year of schooling beyond the average boosts a girl's eventual wages by 10 percent to 20 percent, and women who are educated are more likely to have healthy children. Low- and middle-income countries where women are under-educated compared with men pay a significant price: about $92 billion a year in economic loss, according to Plan International.
But when girls do go to school, they're often stymied by their second-class status in society. School itself can be dangerous for girls. They run the risk of being attacked, sexually assaulted or abducted on the way to and from school and of being victimized by teachers, school staff or classmates. Parents then pull their daughters out, not wanting to risk further violence, while those girls who stay have a hard time learning when they fear for their safety.
Curricula, teachers and schools are not set up for girls to succeed: Most teachers in developing countries are male, since there are not enough educated women available to teach. Deep gender bias in the larger society is reflected in the classroom in teaching methods, grading and curricula. Very often, schools do not have separate restrooms for girls, leading them to drop out when they reach puberty.
When money is tight at home, boys almost always come first: Families struggling to afford school fees, uniforms and transportation view girls' education as a privilege. Girls who have traditionally helped their mothers to care for younger siblings, cook or work the farm often finish hours of chores after school, pushing study into the night, with little or no electricity.
Despite all this, today there are millions more girls in school than ever before. It's not an accident: donor agencies and the aid community, as well as many national governments, have made girls' education a major priority over the last few decades. But this also reflects a sea change in attitudes around the world as families and communities begin to understand and feel the benefits of educating girls.
Perhaps the biggest unsung hero of Malala's story is her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who founded the Khushal Public School that his daughter attended. Her courage is backed by a parent who fully supports her education in a deeply conservative, Islamic, rural setting. Families like Malala's all over the world are making sacrifices large and small, and often taking major social and economic risks, by sending girls to school.
While it's gratifying to see the unanimous outrage the Malala incident has generated, it's not enough. Will it translate into the political will needed to make real investments to get girls the education that is their due?
Our country's policy in Pakistan is a case in point. If our goal in the region is security, stability and combating extremism, there are few investments better than education, which opens minds and doors to better economic opportunity for girls and their families. Of the more than $1 billion in largely security-related U.S. assistance planned for Pakistan for 2013, just $80 million is planned for education-related projects. Over the last few years, our investments in education for Pakistan have actually declined.
In the post-election congressional budget battles, legislators are under intense pressure to cut assistance dollars focused on education, health and poverty-focused programs to Pakistan and other nations — all of which amount to less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget. This is completely counterproductive and would contribute to making life worse for girls like Malala. The best way to honor her amazing life story is to first recognize the enormous risks that she and other girls take to get to and from school, and then support their efforts to achieve a better life.
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APPLICATION & FUNCTION
Globe valves are primarily used as control valves where throttling or both throttling and shut-off are required. Globe valves can also be used for on-off service; however, because of the design, a pressure drop becomes inherent. This is generally confined to on-off applications where the valve is normally closed and pressure drop is not important when the valve is open. Normal applications will find the globe valve with the flow and
pressure under the disc. Kelite cast steel globe valves are commonly made in outside screw and yoke designs with full ports (including seat ring) and heavy-duty, conical plug type discs.
BODY & BONNET
The body is full ported and spherical in form. The design utilizes large radiuses which allow for the stresses, flow resistance and turbulence to be kept to a minimum. Valve bonnets are equipped with a backseat bushing.
The valve is normally supplied with the conical plug type disc. The disc rotates freely on the stem and incorporates a differential angle from that on the seat ring. This design provides the maximum assurance of shut off, is less likely to stick in the body seat, and is considered the simplest design for field repair. The disc is held onto the stem utilizing the disc nut and a split-ring disc retainer on 2”–4” in pressure classes 150 and 300.
Larger sizes as well as pressure classes 600 and higher utilize the disc nut and a button head design which is integral with the stem. Bottom guided discs are available.
Seat rings are designed to greatly reduce and/or prevent any turbulence and avoid damages due to corrosion. The seat rings are forged or rolled in one piece and then seal welded and overlaid, if required. After welding and all required heat treating, the seat ring faces are machined, thoroughly cleaned and inspected before leaving for assembly.
As Kelite’s standard, all stems are rotating and rising; however, a non-rotating design is available when specified by the customer. The accuracy in the dimensions and finishes assure a long life with a perfect tightness in the packing area, resulting in lower fugitive emissions. All of our stems are designed with integral backseat features which provide an ultimate seal during packing changes.
The depth of the stuffing box allows for a sufficient amount of packing, which makes the stem seal. GWC’s standard packing arrangement and stuffing box design meets<100 ppm fugitive emission requirements. If specified in the purchase order, lantern rings and/or grease injectors can be
The stem packing is designed and arranged to ensure a maximum seal along the stem during operation or while at position, thus allowing for a greater reduction in fugitive emissions. Our packings are of nonasbestos types.
Kelite Valve can supply any style of packing required by the customer.
The packing gland design is a two-piece self-aligning type. The packing gland has a spherical head that rides within the spherical joint of the gland flange. The packing gland has a shoulder, which restricts the complete entry into the stuffing box bore. This particular design assures a straight compression of the packing as the gland eyebolts are being equally adjusted, without injuring the stem.
The stem nuts on KELITE’s standard rising stem globe valves are threaded into the top of the yoke where they are secured with a ack weld.
Handwheels are designed with a comfortable grip for easy operation. Our valves are also available with gearing, motor actuators or cylinder actuators for the more demanding services.
BOLTS AND NUTS
For normal service conditions, ASTM A194 Class 2H and ASTM A193 Grade B7 nuts and stud bolts are furnished. If specified for high temperature service conditions, ASTM A194 Class 4 and ASTM A193 Grade B16 nuts and stud bolts are furnished. Standard bolting furnished for our stainless steel valves consists of ASTM A194 Class 8 and ASTM A193 Grade B8 nuts and stud bolts.
Kelite Valve can supply any bolting as requested by the customer.
Our standard production covers valves with:
• Flange ends with Raised Face (RF), Flat Face (FF) or Ring Type Joint (RTJ) that conform to B16.5.
• Butt-welding ends (BW) that conform to B16.25.
• All face-to-face/end-to-end dimensions conform to B16.10.
• Other special end connections are supplied according to customer’s requirements.
Accessories such as gear operators, actuators, bypasses, locking devices, chainwheels, extended stems and bonnets for cryogenic service and many others are available to meet the customers requirements.
Technical parameters and characteristics:
|Product description||Casting globe valve|
|Nominal diameter||NPS 2”～24”|
|Operating temperature||-29℃～593℃(the range of service temperature may vary for different materials)|
|Nominal pressure||CLASS 150～2500|
|Material||A216 WCB,WCC; A217 WC6,WC9,C5,C12,C12A,CA15; A351 CF8,CF8M,CF3,CF3M,CF8C,CN3MN,CK3MCUN,CN7M;A352 LCB,LCC; A494 CW-6MC,CU5MCuC,M35-1; A890 4A(CD3MN),5A(CE3MN),6A(CD3MWCuN); ASME B 148 C95800,C95500, etc.|
|Design standard||BS 1873 ,ASME B16.34,GB/T 12235,GB/T 12224|
|Structural length||ASME B16.10,GB/T 12221|
|Connecting end||ASME B16.5,ASME B16.25,GB/T 9113,GB/T 12224|
|Test standard||API 598,ISO 5208,GB/T 26480,GB/T 13927|
|Operation method/td>||Elevating hand wheel, non-elevating hand wheel, bevel gear, motor drive unit, pneumatic drive unit|
|Application fields||For application in fields such as electric power industry, petroleum refining, petrochemical engineering, offshore oil, tap water engineering in urban construction, chemical engineering, etc.|
|Other remarks 1||The sealing faces of valve seat and valve clack are build-up welded with hard alloy to improve the erosion resistance and extend the service life of valve.|
|Other remarks 2||The friction between sealing faces is smaller during opening and closing, facilitating a longer service life.|
|Other remarks 3||The valve clack is of taper, needle, ball and parabola types, and can be used to adjust the flow rate.|
|Other remarks 4||SS+ graphite or metallic seal or pressure self-sealing is adopted between valve body and bonnet for reliable sealing|
|Other remarks 5||Rising stem structure, making the valve switch position be clear at a glance|
|Other remarks 6||The valve stem thread will not come into contact with the medium, so the corrosion of medium to the thread is reduced.|
|Other remarks 7||A certain clearance is provided between valve clack and valve stem. You may adjust it by yourself. The sealing is reliable.|
|Other remarks 8||The valve clack can be machined into parabola, spherical, needle shapes, etc. according to the requirement of customer. It can be used for adjustment (rough adjustment) on pipeline.|
|Other remarks 9||Short stroke is suitable for application at positions subject to frequent opening.|
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In what the president called a “historic understanding”, Iran agreed on Thursday to a framework deal that would dramatically constrain its nuclear program in return for the gradual lifting of economic sanctions.
“This framework is the result of tough, principled diplomacy,” Obama said in his weekly address to the nation. “It’s a good deal – a deal that meets our core objectives, including strict limitations on Iran’s program and cutting off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.”
Under the broad deal, which was negotiated with other world powers, Iran is allowed to keep its nuclear facilities, which it insists are for peaceful uses and which will be subject to enhanced inspections. The deal is not yet final.
Opposition in Washington has been brewing since the start of the talks nearly 18 months ago. But with a final deal in sight, Republicans and some Democrats are demanding a say in the decision to relieve sanctions.
Obama has repeated that the deal will be called off if Iran balks at any stage, saying the deal is not based on “trust” but rather “unprecedented verification”.
On Saturday, former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, a possible presidential candidate in 2016, added his voice to Republican opposition to the deal saying he doubted anything from Iran was verifiable, and criticizing Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama administration over the way the negotiations played out.
“We’re expecting something good from bad people,” he said on CNN.
Huckabee, who has advocated for stronger sanctions against Iran, scoffed that there had been “more pressure” this week for sanctions against Indiana, which was recently forced to clarify a law that activists said allowed businesses to deny services to gay people.
Earlier this week, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who is seen by many to be the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said: “Nothing in the deal described by the administration this afternoon would justify lifting US and international sanctions, which were the product of many years of bipartisan effort. I cannot stand behind such a flawed agreement.”
His brother, President George W Bush, rallied the international community to impose many of the sanctions currently in place.
Since the deal was struck on Thursday, Obama has met several key legislators to sell them on the merits of the deal. The White House has also sought to quell proposed legislation it believes could undermine negotiations.
A bill brought by the Republican chair of the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Corker, would prevent sanctions relief for 60 days, providing Congress space to review the deal, which is due to be completed at the end of June.
Corker – who was not among the 47 Republican signatories of a controversial open letter last month – said his bill would be put to a committee vote on 14 April, giving the Obama administration the two-week Easter recess to persuade Democrats not to support it. Other Republicans are seeking to effectively render the nuclear agreement a treaty requiring ratification by the Senate.
The White House has said Obama will veto Corker’s bill if it passes – a veto could be overridden with a two-thirds majority vote, not an impossibility given the strong sentiments in Congress.
In his Saturday address, the president also sought to paint a picture of the alternatives to a nuclear deal, stressing that an accord reached through diplomatic efforts presented the best opportunity the world had for blunting Iran’s nuclear ambitions and avoiding another military conflict in the Middle East.
The three options, Obama said, were to bomb the nuclear facilities and launch a third war in the Middle East, maintain the status quo and hope for the best, or seek “a robust and verifiable deal like this one that peacefully prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon”.
He insisted the framework would cut off every pathway that Iran could take to a nuclear weapon.
“Our work – this deal – is not yet done,” Obama said. “Diplomacy is painstaking work. Success is not guaranteed. But today we have an historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us.
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Hey, hey the first of May . . . outdoor fishing starts today. Well not really. People can fish outdoors every day of the year if they like. However, beginning in May the number of fishing contests that are held in America explodes. Historically in America May has more fishing contest opportunities than any other month of year. Reasons for this are probably due to the fact that many state legal fishing seasons begin in May, consistent warm weather arrives, many fishing circuits begin their seasons and a host of single event tournaments like opens and memorials take place.
Beginning in May and running through August, every state in America will have a fishing contest held within its boundaries. While most of the fishing tournaments are tied to organizations with their own defined seasons with weekly or monthly events, there are many other opportunities for individuals to sign up for and participate in a fishing event. These can be one day or a weekend event or even others that run for as long as a week or a month.
The most popular type of these annual single events are memorials or charities that started and whose proceeds go to support their favorite cause like cancer research. They are usually held every year close to the same date as on “the second Saturday in June” so people can easily remember to attend. Others are community run events that offer more than just a fishing contest and run by a club, a chamber of commerce, a city, a county, or a state run “Governor’s Cup.”
Major holidays like Memorial Day, Moher’s Day, Father’s Day, and the 4th of July are popular times that fishing contests are held. Some of the most prestigious or well-known state events have Shootout, Rodeo, Challenge or A-Rama in their name. One of the most unusual tournaments that has gained quite a following is the Okie Noodling Tournament that began over 20 years ago. Today it is a weekend festival offering concerts, a cornhole tournament and other fun family activities like eating and watermelon rolling contests. Many others are similar like “Catfish Days” in Trempealeau, WI. They have parades, Queens, serve food and beverages and offer activities for all members of a family.
Once May arrives fishing season begins in earnest with a full slate of fun fishing activities held through August and beyond. Now is the time to plan to attend one near you. Find them all on AmericanFishingContests.com. | <urn:uuid:6b5bb7b0-a0c6-4776-8743-2ac6410ba2b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.americanfishingcontests.com/fishing-season-begins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.975342 | 506 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Our environment has a way of impacting our mood, both positively and negatively. More times than not, we find ourselves in an unpleasant environment that does more harm than good. If you spend a majority of our time in these unpleasant environments and don’t expose yourself to nature, you don’t allow your mind, body, and soul an opportunity to breathe.
Research continues to support nature as a way of healing and finding a balance between the emotions we encounter everyday. When we constantly live in those unpleasant environments, they eventually consume our lives and cause us to lose that sense of purpose.
The Effects of an Unpleasant Environment
Unpleasant environments can be a result of many things, whether it be what you’re seeing, what you’re hearing, or physically experiencing at any given moment. These environments result in built-up anxiety and stress, affecting our ability to be ourselves around others.
We try to avoid these environments, but they seem to follow us everywhere. Everything’s moving a-mile-a-minute, chaos everywhere we turn, people getting angry in that corner, people over here rushing through life. It’s like an airport, just constantly going with no break.
Eventually, our body and mind respond to it. Our heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, muscles tense up, immune system weakens — we begin to crack.
What if I were to tell you there’s a way to find that balance and give yourself that break you so desperately need.
Expose Yourself To Nature: Ease the Mind and Body
I want you to think about your dream vacation for a second. That vacation you’ve always wanted to take — the two-week long, drama-free, worry-free vacation. What are you envisioning?
Are you at your work desk? Are you at your home? Are you in the depths of Time Square? Probably not…
You’re probably nestled away on some island or beach surrounded by nothing, but palm trees, sand, bright blue waters, and nature.
Nature heals us. When you expose yourself to nature: it reverses our high blood pressure, increased heart rate, stress levels, and muscle tension. It gives us that moment to breath and find peace in the chaos we encounter. It improves our mood, our well-being, and vitality.
Less Screen Time, More Nature Time
We find nature interesting. There’s so much out there to see, hear, smell, even touch. Nature seems limitless and allows us to train our minds to act the same way. Research even shows that we don’t need to necessarily be out in nature to feel the effects.
Simply looking at a photograph or having a garden at your house can prove beneficial to your well-being. That means you can spend less time on your cell phones, televisions, computers, and other electronic devices and spend more time connecting with nature.
Depriving yourself of nature is depriving yourself of true happiness and mental clarity. It not only brings us closer to ourselves, but can help us open up to those around us. More nature in our surroundings can have a lasting effect on everybody involved.
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What you need to know about Canine Flu
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DOG FLU
You can get the flu but did you know your dog can as well? It’s called canine influenza (CIV) – or dog flu – and cases of it have been popping up all over the country. In fact, canine influenza has impacted dogs in more than half the country – just since March 2015 – and new cases are being diagnosed every week. It’s made dogs sick (some very ill) and some dogs have died as a result of CIV. Many reported cases occurred in healthy dogs between 1 and 7 years of age.
As a pet owner, here’s what you need to know. There are two strains of canine influenza present in the dog population – H3N8 and H3N2, the latter is an Asian strain of CIV and is brand new in the United States.
A dog may shed CIV H3N2 for up to 24 days, which means the dog is contagious and spreading the disease during that time period. As a result, the infection can spread quickly among social dogs in inner cities, doggie daycares, boarding facilities, dog parks, sporting and show events and any location where dogs commingle. H3N2 is also incredibly contagious. It can be spread easily by direct contact with infected dogs (sniffing, licking, nuzzling), through the air (coughing, barking or sneezing), and by contact with contaminated objects such as dog bowls and clothing.
Protect Your Dog
- To prevent the spread of disease, wash your hands with soap and water or disinfect them with an alcohol-based hand sanitizer after contact with dogs.
- Dog owners whose dogs are coughing or showing other signs of respiratory disease should not participate in activities where other dogs can be exposed to the virus.
- Consider vaccination against both strains of CIV based on your dog’s lifestyle and risk factors.
If you answer yes to one or more of the questions below, your dog is at greater risk for contracting canine influenza.
Does your dog:
o Visit doggie day care?
o Board at a boarding facility or pet hotel?
o Attend training classes?
o Play at dog parks?
o Participate in dog-friendly events?
o Attend dog shows or sporting events?
o Often greet other dogs during walks?
Signs of CIV Call your veterinarian immediately if your dog has the following symptoms:
Discharge from the nose or eyes
Loss of appetite
Lethargy/lack of energy
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Click on the file under “Materials” to download the PDF from the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Read the text and then complete the quiz below.
Purpose: To evaluate long-term effects of yttrium-90 (90Y) transarterial radioembolization (TARE) for unresectable hepatic metastases of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of 93 patients (47 women, 46 men; mean age 59 y) who underwent resin-based 90Y TARE was performed. Variables associated with overall survival were analyzed using univariate and multivariate models. Changes in serologic values and imaging characteristics were assessed with long-term follow-up.
Results: Unilobar TARE was performed in 48 patients, and staged bilobar TARE was performed in 45 patients. In multivariate analysis, ascites (P 1⁄4 .002) and extrahepatic metastases (P 1⁄4 .038) at baseline were associated with poor survival. Among 52 patients who had> 1 year of follow-up, significant increases in alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, and alanine aminotransferase were observed; however, only 4 patients experienced grade 3 serologic toxicities. Imaging signs of cirrhosis-like morphology and portal hypertension were observed in 15 of 52 patients, more frequently in patients treated with bilobar TARE compared with unilobar TARE. Patients treated with bilobar TARE exhibited significantly increased hepatobiliary enzymes and decreased platelet count. Sustained increases in liver enzymes were observed in patients with > 4 years of follow-up. No radioembolization-related liver failure or grade 4 toxicity was observed.
Conclusions: 90Y radioembolization using resin microspheres demonstrated a high safety profile for NET liver metastases, with low-grade, although sustained, long-term liver toxicity evident > 4 years after treatment. Bilobar treatment suggested a trend for treatment-related portal hypertension. Ongoing research will help define parameters for optimizing durable safety and efficacy of radioembolization in this setting.
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It is likely that you or someone you know has at least considered adding an adult child as joint owner to real estate, bank accounts, or investments. This is a popular topic at my estate planning seminars. A common motivation is to avoid estate administration tax on death (which I will refer to in this article as “probate tax”). Another reason may be to simplify the administration and management of the account or property in the case of physical limitations or mental incapacity by the parent. In some cases it is the intention of the parent to “gift” the joint asset to the surviving adult child by “right of survivorship” upon their death. Although these reasons may seem logical, it is important to be aware of the potential risks and associated costs of joint asset ownership, which may far outweigh the benefits.
PROBATE TAX & NEW REGULATIONS
First, a brief explanation of probate tax: In Ontario, probate tax is $5 per $1,000 on the first $50,000, and $15 per $1,000 on the value of the deceased’s assets exceeding $50,000. Regulations under the Estate Administration Tax Act, Ontario set out the guidelines for determining which assets and values are to be used in this calculation. It is important to seek guidance from your lawyer in interpreting these rules. The purpose of obtaining probate, known as a “Certificate of Appointment of Estate Trustee”, and when it is required, is a separate topic.
Recent Court decisions and the new Regulations make it increasingly challenging for a parent to transfer joint assets to an adult child by right of survivorship without being subject to probate tax. In a nutshell, in order to avoid probate tax the parent must properly document and confirm their intention that the jointly held asset pass directly to the surviving adult child outside of their estate without being subject to probate tax. Documenting this properly will require the assistance of a lawyer, and may necessitate a specially drafted Will.
LOSS OF CONTROL
Most people are not aware that if they add an adult child as a joint owner to real estate it is possible for the co-owner child to sell, transfer, or mortgage their part-interest in the property without the knowledge or consent of the parent. On the other hand, if the parent ever intends to sell or mortgage the entire property, the parent will require the consent of the co-owner child, who could refuse. Also, the co-owner child may not be approved as a co-borrower, due to poor credit or other issues, if the parent needs to mortgage the property. I refer to these risks as “loss of control,” and they can, in certain circumstances, have an extremely negative impact on the parent.
There may also be income tax consequences to transferring assets such as real estate to an adult child as joint tenant. The Income Tax Act, Canada may deem the addition of an adult child (even if intended as a “gift”) as a transfer at fair market value and capital gains taxes may apply. Advice should always be sought from a chartered accountant before deciding to proceed with such a property transfer.
CLAIMS FROM CREDITORS & OTHERS
Adding an adult child as a joint owner may expose the assets to claims from creditors or the spouse of the adult child. Even if the child does not currently have creditor issues, an unforeseen job setback, economic downturn, business failure, undisclosed gambling issue, motor vehicle accident, or lawsuit could expose the assets to claims from the child’s creditors. A breakdown of the child’s marriage could result in the former spouse claiming an interest in the joint assets. The cost of successfully defending these claims may be significant.
FAMILY TENSION & BACKLASH
Another consideration is the potential tension that may be created by a parent who adds only one or some, but not all, of their children as joint owner. If the other children inheriting under their parent’s Will feel that they were not treated fairly or equally based on the transfer of joint assets to the other child by right of survivorship, this could result in a breakdown of the relationship between family members. Even worse, this could result in a lawsuit in which the benefiting joint owner child may be required to defend claims from the remaining children, which may also result in legal and Court costs being assessed against the parent’s Estate.
You can see why it is so important to obtain legal advice before deciding whether or not to add an adult child as joint owner to an asset. If you do decide to do so, thoroughly and properly documenting your intentions is critical. It may be more appropriate to use a trust or to update your Wills and Power of Attorney documents in order to achieve your ultimate goals. In many situations, taking the “easy route” of joint asset ownership actually results in greater risks and costs, which can far outweigh the benefits of any probate tax avoidance or other objectives that the parent may have had initially.
Jason P. Mallory, H.B.A., J.D.
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Jim O'Neill will be speaking at WIRED Health 2016 on 29 April in London. From helping humans live longer to understanding the brain, WIRED Health will hear from the innovators transforming this critical sector.
The news that bacteria had started to become resistant to last-resort antibiotic colistin came as a blow to healthcare professionals at the end of 2015. The discovery means that certain bugs that cause gut, urinary and blood infections in humans can become "pan-resistant" and defeat all currently-available antibiotics. "It's a huge problem and it's really concerning," Jim O'Neill, the former Goldman Sachs chief economist credited with coining the BRIC acronym (for Brazil, Russia, India and China), told WIRED UK.
The economist and current Commercial Secretary to the Treasury has now turned his attention to a new set of letters: AMR – antimicrobial resistance. "I can't think of any other global problems where there is a possibility that 10 million people will be dying each year by 2050," he says.
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The Founder/President of Felix King Foundation, Ambassador Felix King has given widows across Nigerian another reason to smile as he launches a new initiative tagged Widows Economic Progress Meetings (WeProgress) with $500,000.
Turning disadvantaged widows into small business owners
The WeProgress is wired to turn disadvantaged widows into small business owners.
The WeProgress project is a pan-Nigeria program and it is targeted at disadvantaged widows in communities where widows’ maltreatment is still prevalent
The project will directly empower over 5,400widows in its 2018/19 project calendar year in a 380 cooperative meeting groups’ format.
Having recorded massive successes in WEFARM project, Skill acquisition and empowerment programs, Educational program for children of widows, welfare initiative and healthcare program for widows in Edo, Lagos and Ogun States, Felix King Foundation has decided to collapse the aforementioned initiative into WeProgress project.
According to the founder of the foundation, today, over 90 percent of these women struggle to own small business and are denied access to capital.
“WeProgress will help disadvantaged widows and active poor rural women in Nigeria communities gain access to capital they need to build their small businesses,” he said adding that “So that they too can contribute to the prosperity of their families and that of their communities”.
In today’s Nigeria, women are made to face several responsibilities such as provision of shelter, foods, medical care, education and many more after the demise of their husbands. This sometimes results to their children dropping out of schools, high mortality rate among this class of Nigerians and in some cases resulting to a very bleak future.
The rural based program has encouraged participants to form a meeting group of 10 to 20 women, appoint their meeting group representatives, get a verification letter from the recognised Community Head and register their group at www.felixkingfoundation.com/weprogress.
And once the group is certified, the foundation will give a business rotational grant to themeeting group with the community Head acting as patron.
On how the grant will be disbursed, Ambassador King said, this project is a woman-help-woman scheme.
According to him “Beneficiaries are expected to contribute 40per cent of their initial capital grant received from the Foundation in a year to the purse of the meeting group for four new women, who initially did not make the meeting group and two women in 6 months.”
When queried on the contribution of the 20 percent by beneficiaries, Amb. King said “The 20per cent contribution from members will be extended to new members that will be nominated by the meeting group to benefit.”
For instance, he said, “If 10 people are in a meeting group and received ₦50,000 each, they are expected to contribute ₦10,000 each to the purse of the meeting group which will amount to ₦100,000 within 6 months period.
“This ₦100,000 will be given to 2 new members as nominated by the meeting group. And at the end of 12 months, a 10 membership group meeting will grow to 14 members,” he said.
Speaking on the endowment of the project, the President said the project is an initial $500,000 start-up study project; however we have committed $250,000 to this project for initial take off and hope to inject another $250,000 for expansion in the course of program.
To qualify for the program, one must be a disadvantaged widow or a very poor active rural woman in Nigeria with a single mother status, who will be identified by community heads and chiefs.
Today, Felix King Foundation has positioned it self at the fore front of advocating for the better living condition of widows across Nigeria and to end the maltreatment meted out to these women after the death of their husbands.
“Our disadvantaged widows today, do not need our pity nor our tears, what they need is support and help to enable them overcome the challenges widowhood has thrown at them and Weprogress will not only prosper our widows, but it will help prosper their communities”. He said.
In his words “Today, I am excited to announce that we are giving our disadvantaged widows yet another reason to smile with our widows economic progress initiative (WEPROGRESS)
“These women deserve to live with dignity and in prosperity. Because widowhood is not a crime and no woman deserves to suffer for the death of her husband, he stated.
Our disadvantaged widows need no pity nor are tears. All they need is support and help from us and no woman should be denied the opportunity to unlock her potentials”. He concluded.
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Last year, there were also reports that the group of experts at RBI is examining the possibility of a fiat cryptocurrency Lakshmi coin, which would become an alternative to the Indian rupee (INR) for digital transactions. The central bank is also reportedly developing a blockchain platform of its own to enable and support multiple commercial banking applications in the country. It has already determined various areas in banking, financial and registry services ripe for blockchain implementation.
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